THIRD AMENDMENT AGREEMENT
Exhibit 10.1
THIRD AMENDMENT AGREEMENT
This THIRD AMENDMENT AGREEMENT (this “Amendment”) is made as of the 1st day of October, 2025 among:
WHEREAS, the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders are parties to that certain Credit and Security Agreement, dated as of November 27, 2018 (as amended and as the same may from time to time be further amended, restated or otherwise modified, the “Credit Agreement”);
WHEREAS, each capitalized term used herein and defined in the Credit Agreement, but not otherwise defined herein, shall have the meaning given such term in the Credit Agreement;
WHEREAS, the Borrowers desire to increase the Maximum Revolving Amount by an aggregate amount of One Hundred Million Dollars ($100,000,000) through a partial exercise of the accordion feature set forth in Section 2.10(b) of the Credit Agreement (the “Partial Exercise of Accordion”);
WHEREAS, the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders desire to amend the Credit Agreement to (i) effectuate the Partial Exercise of Accordion and (ii) modify certain provisions thereof and add certain provisions thereto;
WHEREAS, unless otherwise specifically provided herein, the provisions of the Credit Agreement revised herein are amended effective as of the date of this Amendment;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and of the mutual covenants herein and for other valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders agree as follows:
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JURY TRIAL WAIVER. THE BORROWERS, THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND THE LENDERS, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, EACH HEREBY WAIVES ANY RIGHT TO HAVE A JURY PARTICIPATE IN RESOLVING ANY DISPUTE, WHETHER SOUNDING IN CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, AMONG THE BORROWERS, THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND THE LENDERS, OR ANY THEREOF, ARISING OUT OF, IN CONNECTION WITH, RELATED TO, OR INCIDENTAL TO THE RELATIONSHIP ESTABLISHED AMONG THEM IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AMENDMENT OR ANY NOTE OR OTHER INSTRUMENT, DOCUMENT OR AGREEMENT EXECUTED OR DELIVERED IN CONNECTION HEREWITH OR THE TRANSACTIONS RELATED THERETO.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed and delivered this Amendment as of the date first set forth above.
UNIVERSAL MANAGEMENT SERVICES, INC. UNIVERSAL LOGISTICS SOLUTIONS INTERNATIONAL, INC. |
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UNIVERSAL CAPACITY SOLUTIONS, LLC DECO LOGISTICS, INC. FORE TRANSPORTATION, INC. ▇▇▇▇▇ LOGISTICS, LLC LOGISTICS INSIGHT CORP. UNIVERSAL INTERMODAL SERVICES, INC. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇’S CARTAGE, INC. ROADRUNNER INTERMODAL SERVICES, LLC SOUTHERN COUNTIES EXPRESS, INC. SPECIALIZED RAIL SERVICE, INC. UNIVERSAL FUEL SALES LLC WESTPORT AXLE CO., LLC WESTPORT MACHINING, LLC PARSEC, LLC UNIVERSCAL LLC UNIVERSCAROLINA LLC UNIVERSMICHIGAN LLC UNIVERSNEVADA LLC UNIVERSTEXAS LLC
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/s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. Golematis Violeta V. Golematis Authorized Signatory |
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KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION |
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The Huntington National Bank |
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Comerica Bank |
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Citibank, N.A. |
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First Horizon Bank |
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Fifth Third Bank |
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Flagstar Bank, N.A. |
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BMO Bank N.A. successor in interest to bank of the West |
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First Merchants Bank |
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GUARANTOR ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT
The undersigned consent and agree to and acknowledge the terms of the foregoing Third Amendment Agreement. The undersigned further agree that the obligations of the undersigned pursuant to the Guaranty of Payment executed by the undersigned are hereby ratified and shall remain in full force and effect and be unaffected hereby. The undersigned hereby waive and release the Administrative Agent and the Lenders and their respective directors, officers, employees, attorneys, affiliates and subsidiaries from any and all claims, offsets, defenses and counterclaims of any kind or nature, absolute and contingent, of which the undersigned are aware or should be aware, such waiver and release being with full knowledge and understanding of the circumstances and effect thereof and after having consulted legal counsel with respect thereto.
JURY TRIAL WAIVER. THE UNDERSIGNED, TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, HEREBY WAIVER ANY RIGHT TO HAVE A JURY PARTICIPATE IN RESOLVING ANY DISPUTE, WHETHER SOUNDING IN CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, AMONG THE BORROWERS, THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT, THE LENDERS AND THE UNDERSIGNED, OR ANY THEREOF, ARISING OUT OF, IN CONNECTION WITH, RELATED TO, OR INCIDENTAL TO THE RELATIONSHIP ESTABLISHED AMONG THEM IN CONNECTION WITH THIS GUARANTOR ACKNOWLEDGMENT AND AGREEMENT, THE AMENDMENT OR ANY NOTE OR OTHER INSTRUMENT, DOCUMENT OR AGREEMENT EXECUTED OR DELIVERED IN CONNECTION HEREWITH OR THE TRANSACTIONS RELATED THERETO.
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UNIVERSAL DEDICATED OF ARLINGTON, TX LLC UNIVERSAL DEDICATED OF FORT ▇▇▇▇▇, IN LLC UNIVERSAL DEDICATED OF ROMULUS, MI LLC UNIVERSAL DEDICATED OF DETROIT, MI LLC UNIVERSAL DEDICATED OF NEBRASKA & WISCONSIN LLC UNIVERSAL DEDICATED OF SMYRNA, TN LLC By:/s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. Golematis Violeta ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Authorized (Bank) Signer UNIVERSAL AGGREGATE, LLC UNIVERSAL DEDICATED OF GREER, SC LLC BIG WHEELS LLC By:/s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Authorized Signatory TIGRE CARGA EQUIPOS, S. DE ▇.▇. DE C.V. LOGISTICS INSIGHT CORPORATION, S. DE ▇.▇. DE ▇.▇. ▇▇:/s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Fitzpatrick Legal Representative |
APA HOLDINGS LLC AQUARIUS FINANCIAL, INC. CENTRAL CAL TRANSPORTATION, LLC DIVERSIFIED CONTRACT SERVICES, INC. LGSI EQUIPMENT OF INDIANA, LLC LINC LOGISTICS LLC LINC OF MICHIGAN, LLC MORGAN SOUTHERN, INC. PURCHASED TRANSPORTATION SERVICES, LLC UNIVERSAL ON-DEMAND, INC. UNIVERSAL REMANUFACTURING CO., LLC UT RENT A CAR, INC. UTS REALTY, LLC UTSI FINANCE, INC. WANDO TRUCKING, LLC WESTPORT MACHINING HOLDINGS, INC. ULH PROPERTIES OF CALIFORNIA, LLC TIGER MEXICO HOLDINGS I, LLC TIGER MEXICO HOLDINGS II, LLC UT HOLDINGS LLC OB LEASING, LLC By:/s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Treasurer
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EXHIBIT A
TO THIRD AMENDMENT AGREEMENT
Conformed Credit Agreement reflecting changes pursuant to
SecondThird Amendment Agreement, dated as of April 5October 1, 20242025
CREDIT AND SECURITY AGREEMENT
among
UNIVERSAL MANAGEMENT SERVICES, INC.
THE OTHER BORROWERS NAMED HEREIN
as Borrowers
THE LENDERS NAMED HEREIN
as Lenders
and
KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
as Administrative Agent, Swing Line Lender and Issuing Lender
KEYBANC CAPITAL MARKETS, INC.
as Joint Lead Arranger and Joint Book Runner
THE HUNTINGTON NATIONAL BANK
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
as Joint Lead Arranger, Joint Book Runner and Co-Syndication Agent
COMERICA BANK
As Documentation Agent
dated as of
November 27, 2018
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ARTICLE I. |
DEFINITIONS |
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Section 1.1. |
Definitions |
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Section 1.2. |
Accounting Terms |
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Section 1.3. |
Terms Generally |
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Section 1.4. |
Divisions |
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Section 1.5. |
Rates |
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ARTICLE II. |
AMOUNT AND TERMS OF CREDIT |
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Section 2.1. |
Amount and Nature of Credit |
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Section 2.2. |
Revolving Credit Commitment |
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Section 2.3. |
[Reserved] |
5149 |
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Section 2.4. |
Interest |
5149 |
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Section 2.5. |
Evidence of Indebtedness |
5250 |
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Section 2.6. |
Notice of Loans and Credit Events; Funding of Loans |
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Section 2.7. |
Payment on Loans and Other Obligations |
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Section 2.8. |
Prepayment |
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Section 2.9. |
Commitment and Other Fees |
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Section 2.10. |
Modifications to Commitment |
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Section 2.11. |
Computation of Interest and Fees |
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Section 2.12. |
Mandatory Payments |
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Section 2.13. |
Cash Collateral |
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Section 2.14. |
Liability of Borrowers |
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Section 2.15. |
Extension of Commitment Period |
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Section 2.16. |
Addition of a Borrower |
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ARTICLE III. |
INCREASED COSTS; ILLEGALITY; INABILITY TO DETERMINE RATES; TAXES |
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Section 3.1. |
Requirements of Law |
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Section 3.2. |
Taxes |
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Section 3.3. |
Breakage Compensation |
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Section 3.4. |
Change of Lending Office |
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Section 3.5. |
SOFR Rate Lending Unlawful; Inability to Determine Rate |
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Section 3.6. |
Replacement of Lenders |
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Section 3.7. |
Discretion of Lenders as to Manner of Funding |
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Section 3.8. |
Permanent Inability to Determine Rate; Benchmark Replacement |
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ARTICLE IV. |
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT |
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Section 4.1. |
Conditions to Each Credit Event |
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Section 4.2. |
Conditions to the First Credit Event |
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Section 4.3. |
Post-Closing Conditions |
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ARTICLE V. |
COVENANTS |
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Section 5.1. |
Insurance |
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Section 5.2. |
Money Obligations |
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Section 5.3. |
Financial Statements and Information |
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Section 5.4. |
Financial Records |
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Section 5.5. |
Franchises; Change in Business |
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Section 5.6. |
ERISA Pension and Benefit Plan Compliance |
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Section 5.7. |
Financial Covenants |
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Section 5.8. |
Borrowing |
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Section 5.9. |
Liens |
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Section 5.10. |
Regulations T, U and X |
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Section 5.11. |
Investments, Loans and Guaranties |
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Section 5.12. |
Merger and Sale of Assets |
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Section 5.13. |
Acquisitions |
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Section 5.14. |
Notice |
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Section 5.15. |
Restricted Payments |
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Section 5.16. |
Environmental Compliance |
9087 |
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Section 5.17. |
Affiliate Transactions |
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Section 5.18. |
Use of Proceeds |
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Section 5.19. |
Corporate Names and Locations of Collateral |
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Section 5.20. |
Subsidiary Guaranties, Security Documents and Pledge of Stock or Other Ownership Interest |
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Section 5.21. |
Collateral |
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Section 5.22. |
Property Acquired Subsequent to the Closing Date and Right to Take Additional Collateral |
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Section 5.23. |
Restrictive Agreements |
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Section 5.24. |
Guaranty Under Material Indebtedness Agreement |
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Section 5.25. |
Subordinated Debt Documents |
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Section 5.26. |
Senior Ranking |
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Section 5.27. |
Amendment of Organizational Documents |
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Section 5.28. |
Fiscal Year of Borrowers |
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Section 5.29. |
Banking Relationship |
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Section 5.30. |
Compliance with Laws |
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Section 5.31. |
Beneficial Ownership |
94 |
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Section 5.32. |
Further Assurances |
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Section 5.33. |
Negative Pledge of the Stock of UDOT Subsidiary; Activities of UDOT Subsidiary |
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ARTICLE VI. |
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES |
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Section 6.1. |
Corporate Existence; Subsidiaries; Foreign Qualification |
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Section 6.2. |
Corporate Authority |
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Section 6.3. |
Compliance with Laws and Contracts |
96 |
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Section 6.4. |
Litigation and Administrative Proceedings |
96 |
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Section 6.5. |
Title to Assets |
97 |
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Section 6.6. |
Liens and Security Interests |
97 |
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Section 6.7. |
Tax Returns |
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Section 6.8. |
Environmental Laws |
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Section 6.9. |
Locations |
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Section 6.10. |
Continued Business |
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Section 6.11. |
Employee Benefits Plans |
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Section 6.12. |
Consents or Approvals |
99 |
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Section 6.13. |
Solvency |
99 |
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Section 6.14. |
Financial Statements |
99 |
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Section 6.15. |
Regulations |
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Section 6.16. |
Material Agreements |
100 |
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Section 6.17. |
Intellectual Property |
100 |
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Section 6.18. |
Insurance |
100 |
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Section 6.19. |
Deposit Accounts and Securities Accounts |
100 |
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Section 6.20. |
Accurate and Complete Statements |
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Section 6.21. |
Investment Company; Other Restrictions |
101 |
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Section 6.22. |
Subordinated Debt Documents |
101 |
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Section 6.23. |
Beneficial Ownership |
101 |
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Section 6.24. |
Defaults |
101 |
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ARTICLE VII. |
SECURITY |
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Section 7.1. |
Security Interest in Collateral |
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Section 7.2. |
Collections and Receipt of Proceeds by Borrowers |
101 |
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Section 7.3. |
Collections and Receipt of Proceeds by Administrative Agent |
102 |
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Section 7.4. |
Administrative Agent’s Authority Under Pledged Notes |
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Section 7.5. |
Commercial Tort Claims |
104 |
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Section 7.6. |
Use of Inventory and Equipment |
104 |
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ARTICLE VIII. |
EVENTS OF DEFAULT |
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Section 8.1. |
Payments |
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Section 8.2. |
Special Covenants |
105 |
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Section 8.3. |
Other Covenants |
105 |
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Section 8.4. |
Representations and Warranties |
105 |
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Section 8.5. |
Cross Default |
105 |
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Section 8.6. |
ERISA Default |
106 |
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Section 8.7. |
Change in Control |
106 |
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Section 8.8. |
Judgments |
106 |
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Section 8.9. |
Security |
106 |
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Section 8.10. |
Validity of Loan Documents |
106 |
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Section 8.11. |
Solvency |
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ARTICLE IX. |
REMEDIES UPON DEFAULT |
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Section 9.1. |
Optional Defaults |
108 |
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Section 9.2. |
Automatic Defaults |
108 |
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Section 9.3. |
Letters of Credit |
108 |
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Section 9.4. |
Offsets |
109 |
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Section 9.5. |
Equalization Provisions |
109 |
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Section 9.6. |
Collateral |
110 |
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Section 9.7. |
Other Remedies |
110 |
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Section 9.8. |
Application of Proceeds |
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ARTICLE X. |
THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT |
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Section 10.1. |
Appointment and Authorization |
112 |
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Section 10.2. |
Note Holders |
113 |
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Section 10.3. |
Consultation With Counsel |
113 |
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Section 10.4. |
Documents |
113 |
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Section 10.5. |
Administrative Agent and Affiliates |
113 |
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Section 10.6. |
Knowledge or Notice of Default |
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Section 10.7. |
Action by Administrative Agent |
114 |
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Section 10.8. |
Release of Collateral or Guarantor of Payment |
114 |
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Section 10.9. |
Delegation of Duties |
114 |
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Section 10.10. |
Indemnification of Administrative Agent |
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Section 10.11. |
Successor Administrative Agent |
115 |
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Section 10.12. |
Issuing Lender |
119115 |
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Section 10.13. |
Swing Line Lender |
116 |
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Section 10.14. |
Administrative Agent May File Proofs of Claim |
116 |
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Section 10.15. |
No Reliance on Administrative Agent’s Customer Identification Program |
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Section 10.16. |
Other Agents |
117 |
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Section 10.17. |
Platform |
117 |
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Section 10.18. |
Acknowledgements Regarding Erroneous Payments |
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ARTICLE XI. |
MISCELLANEOUS |
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Section 11.1. |
Lenders’ Independent Investigation |
120 |
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Section 11.2. |
No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies |
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Section 11.3. |
Amendments, Waivers and Consents |
121 |
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Section 11.4. |
Notices |
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Section 11.5. |
Costs, Expenses and Documentary Taxes |
123 |
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Section 11.6. |
Indemnification |
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Section 11.7. |
Obligations Several; No Fiduciary Obligations |
124 |
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Section 11.8. |
Execution in Counterparts |
128124 |
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Section 11.9. |
Successors and Assigns |
124 |
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Section 11.10. |
Defaulting Lenders |
134130 |
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Section 11.11. |
Patriot Act Notice |
137133 |
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Section 11.12. |
Severability of Provisions; Captions; Attachments |
133 |
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Section 11.13. |
Investment Purpose |
133 |
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Section 11.14. |
Entire Agreement |
133 |
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Section 11.15. |
Limitations on Liability of the Issuing Lender |
134 |
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Section 11.16. |
General Limitation of Liability |
134 |
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Section 11.17. |
No Duty |
134 |
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Section 11.18. |
Legal Representation of Parties |
135 |
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Section 11.19. |
Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-In of Affected Financial Institutions |
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Section 11.20. |
Certain ERISA Matters |
135 |
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Section 11.21. |
Acknowledgement Regarding Any Supported QFCs |
136 |
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Section 11.22. |
Governing Law; Submission to Jurisdiction |
137 |
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Section 11.23. |
Judgment Currency |
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Jury Trial Waiver |
Signature Page 1 |
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Exhibit A |
Form of Revolving Credit Note |
Exhibit B |
Form of Swing Line Note |
Exhibit C |
Reserved |
Exhibit D |
Form of Notice of Loan |
Exhibit E |
Form of Compliance Certificate |
Exhibit F |
Form of Assignment and Assumption Agreement |
Exhibit G‑1 |
Form of U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate (For Foreign Lenders That Are Not Partnerships For U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes) |
Exhibit G‑2 |
Form of U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate (For Foreign Participants That Are Not Partnerships For U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes) |
Exhibit G‑3 |
Form of U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate (For Foreign Participants That Are Partnerships For U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes) |
Exhibit G‑4 |
Form of U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate (For Foreign Lenders That Are Partnerships For U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes) |
Schedule 1 |
Commitments of Lenders |
Schedule 2 |
Borrowers |
Schedule 3 |
Guarantors of Payment |
Schedule 4 |
Pledged Securities |
Schedule 5.8 |
Indebtedness |
Schedule 5.9 |
Liens |
Schedule 5.11 |
Permitted Investments |
Schedule 6.1 |
Corporate Existence; Subsidiaries; Foreign Qualification |
Schedule 6.4 |
Litigation and Administrative Proceedings |
Schedule 6.5 |
Real Estate Owned by the Credit Parties |
Schedule 6.9 |
Locations |
Schedule 6.11 |
Employee Benefits Plans |
Schedule 6.16 |
Material Agreements |
Schedule 6.17 |
Intellectual Property |
Schedule 6.18 |
Insurance |
Schedule 6.19 |
Deposit Accounts and Securities Accounts |
Schedule 7.4 |
Pledged Notes |
Schedule 7.5 |
Commercial Tort Claims |
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This CREDIT AND SECURITY AGREEMENT (as the same may from time to time be amended, restated or otherwise modified, this “Agreement”) is made effective as of the 27th day of November, 2018 among:
WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS, the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders desire to contract for the establishment of credits in the aggregate principal amounts hereinafter set forth, to be made available to the Borrowers upon the terms and subject to the conditions hereinafter set forth;
NOW, THEREFORE, it is mutually agreed as follows:
ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS
Section 1.1. Definitions. As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth below:
“Account” means an account, as that term is defined in the U.C.C.
“Account Debtor” means an account debtor, as that term is defined in the U.C.C., or any other Person obligated to pay all or any part of an Account in any manner and includes (without limitation) any Guarantor thereof.
“Acquisition” means any transaction or series of related transactions for the purpose of or resulting, directly or indirectly, in (a) the acquisition of all or substantially all of the assets of any Person (other than a Company), or any business or division of any Person (other than a Company), (b) the acquisition of in excess of fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding capital stock (or other equity interest) of any Person (other than a Company), or (c) the acquisition of another Person (other than a Company) by a merger, amalgamation or consolidation or any other combination with such Person.
“Additional Commitment” means that term as defined in Section 2.10(b)(i) hereof.
“Additional Lender” means an Eligible Assignee that shall become a Lender during the Commitment Increase Period pursuant to Section 2.10(b) hereof.
“Additional Lender Assumption Agreement” means an additional lender assumption agreement, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, wherein an Additional Lender shall become a Lender.
“Additional Lender Assumption Effective Date” means that term as defined in Section 2.10(b)(ii) hereof.
“Adjusted Daily Simple SOFR” means with respect to a Daily Simple SOFR Loan, the greater of (a) the sum of (i) Daily Simple SOFR and (ii) the SOFR Index Adjustment, and (b) the Floor.
“Adjusted Term SOFR ” means for any Available Tenor and Interest Period with respect to a SOFR Loan, the greater of (a) the sum of (i) Term SOFR for such Available Tenor or Interest Period, and (ii) the SOFR Index Adjustment and (b) the Floor.
“Administrative Agent” means that term as defined in the first paragraph of this Agreement.
“Administrative Agent Fee Letter” means the Administrative Agent Fee Letter between the Administrative Borrower and the Administrative Agent, dated as of the Closing Date, as the same may from time to time be amended, restated or otherwise modified.
“Administrative Borrower” means Universal Management.
“Advantage” means any payment (whether made voluntarily or involuntarily, by offset of any deposit or other indebtedness or otherwise) received by any Lender, in respect of the Obligations, if such payment results in that Lender having less than its pro rata share (based upon its Commitment Percentage) of the Obligations then outstanding.
“Affected Financial Institution” means (a) any EEA Financial Institution or (b) any UK Financial Institution.
“Affiliate” means, with respect to a specified Person, another Person that directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, Controls or is Controlled by or is under common Control with the Person specified.
“Affiliated Lender” means, collectively, any Affiliate of a Borrower (other than a Borrower or a Guarantor of Payment).
“Agent Parties” means that term as defined in Section 10.17(b) hereof.
“Agreement” means that term as defined in the first paragraph of this agreement.
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“Anti-Corruption Laws” means all laws, rules, and regulations of any jurisdiction applicable to the Companies from time to time concerning or relating to bribery or corruption (including, without limitation, the Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 (FCPA) (15 U.S.C. § 78dd-1, et seq.), as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder, and the Corruption of Foreign Public Officials Act (S.C. 1998, c. 34), as amended, and the rules and regulations thereunder).
“APA” means APA Holdings, LLC, an Illinois limited liability company.
“Applicable Commitment Fee Rate” means:
Leverage Ratio |
Applicable Commitment Fee Rate |
Greater than 3.00 to 1.00 |
30.00 basis points |
Greater than 2.50 to 1.00 but less than or equal to 3.00 to 1.00 |
25.00 basis points |
Greater than 1.50 to 1.00 but less than or equal to 2.50 to 1.00 |
20.00 basis points |
Less than or equal to 1.50 to 1.00 |
15.00 basis points |
The first date on which the Applicable Commitment Fee Rate is subject to change is December 1, 2022. After December 1, 2022, changes to the Applicable Commitment Fee Rate shall be effective on the first day of each calendar month following the date upon which the Administrative Agent should have received, pursuant to Section 5.3(c) hereof, the Compliance Certificate. The above pricing matrix does not modify or waive, in any respect, the requirements of Section 5.7 hereof, the rights of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders to charge the Default Rate, or the rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders pursuant to Articles VIII and IX hereof. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (i) during any period when the Borrowers shall have failed to timely deliver the Combined financial statements pursuant to Section 5.3(a) or (b) hereof, or the Compliance Certificate pursuant to Section 5.3(c) hereof, until such time as the appropriate Combined financial statements and Compliance Certificate are delivered, the Applicable Commitment Fee Rate shall, at the election of the Administrative Agent (which may be retroactively effective), be the highest rate per annum indicated in the above pricing grid regardless of the Leverage Ratio at such time, and (ii) in the event that any financial information or certification provided to the Administrative Agent in the Compliance Certificate is shown to be inaccurate (regardless of whether this Agreement or the Commitment is in effect when such inaccuracy is discovered), and such inaccuracy, if corrected, would have led to the application of a higher Applicable Commitment Fee Rate for any period (an “Applicable Commitment Fee Period”) than the Applicable Commitment Fee Rate applied for such Applicable Commitment Fee Period, then (A) the Borrowers shall promptly deliver to the Administrative Agent a corrected
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Compliance Certificate for such Applicable Commitment Fee Period, (B) the Applicable Commitment Fee Rate shall be determined based on such corrected Compliance Certificate, and (C) the Borrowers shall, upon notice from the Administrative Agent, promptly pay, to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, the accrued additional fees owing as a result of such increased Applicable Commitment Fee Rate for such Applicable Commitment Fee Period; provided that if such inaccuracy, if corrected, would have led to the application of a higher Applicable Commitment Fee Rate for one or more periods and a lower Applicable Commitment Fee Rate for one or more other periods, then the amount payable by Borrowers shall be based upon the excess, if any, of the amount of fees that should have been paid for all applicable periods over the amount of fees actually paid for such periods.
“Applicable Margin” means:
Leverage Ratio |
Applicable Basis Points for SOFR Loans |
Applicable Basis Points for Base Rate Loans |
Greater than 3.00 to 1.00 |
200.00 |
100.00 |
Greater than 2.50 to 1.00 but less than or equal to 3.00 to 1.00 |
175.00 |
75.00 |
Greater than 1.50 to 1.00 but less than or equal to 2.50 to 1.00 |
150.00 |
50.00 |
Less than or equal to 1.50 to 1.00 |
125.00 |
25.00 |
The first date on which the Applicable Margin is subject to change is December 1, 2022. After December 1, 2022, changes to the Applicable Margin shall be effective on the first day of each calendar month following the date upon which the Administrative Agent should have received, pursuant to Section 5.3(c) hereof, the Compliance Certificate. The above pricing matrix does not modify or waive, in any respect, the requirements of Section 5.7 hereof, the rights of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders to charge the Default Rate, or the rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders pursuant to Articles VIII and IX hereof. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (i) during any period when the Borrowers shall have failed to timely deliver the Combined financial statements pursuant to Section 5.3(a) or (b) hereof, or the Compliance Certificate pursuant to Section 5.3(c) hereof, until such time as the appropriate Combined financial statements and Compliance Certificate are delivered, the Applicable Margin shall, at the election of the Administrative Agent (which may be retroactively effective), be the highest rate per annum indicated in the above pricing grid for Loans of that type,
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regardless of the Leverage Ratio at such time, and (ii) in the event that any financial information or certification provided to the Administrative Agent in the Compliance Certificate is shown to be inaccurate (regardless of whether this Agreement or the Commitment is in effect when such inaccuracy is discovered), and such inaccuracy, if corrected, would have led to the application of a higher Applicable Margin for any period (an “Applicable Margin Period”) than the Applicable Margin applied for such Applicable Margin Period, then (A) the Borrowers shall promptly deliver to the Administrative Agent a corrected Compliance Certificate for such Applicable Margin Period, (B) the Applicable Margin shall be determined based on such corrected Compliance Certificate, and (C) the Borrowers shall, upon notice from the Administrative Agent, promptly pay to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, the accrued additional interest owing as a result of such increased Applicable Margin for such Applicable Margin Period; provided that, if such inaccuracy, if corrected, would have led to the application of a higher Applicable Margin for one or more periods and a lower Applicable Margin for one or more other periods, then the amount payable by Borrowers shall be based upon the excess, if any, of the amount of interest that should have been paid for all applicable periods over the amount of interest actually paid for such periods.
“Approved Fund” means any Person (other than a natural Person) that is (or will be) engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans, bonds and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its activities that is administered or managed by (a) a Lender, (b) an Affiliate of a Lender, or (c) an entity or an Affiliate of an entity that administers or manages a Lender.
“Assignment Agreement” means an Assignment and Assumption Agreement entered into by a Lender and an Eligible Assignee (with the consent of any party whose consent is required by Section 11.9 hereof), and accepted by the Administrative Agent, in substantially the form of the attached Exhibit F, or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion.
“Attributable Indebtedness” means, as of any date of determination, (a) in respect of any Capitalized Lease Obligations of any Person, the capitalized amount thereof that would appear on a balance sheet of such Person prepared as of such date in accordance with GAAP, (b) in respect of any Synthetic Lease Obligation, the capitalized amount of the remaining lease or similar payments under the relevant lease or other applicable agreement or instrument that would appear on a balance sheet of such Person prepared as of such date in accordance with GAAP if such lease or other agreement or instrument were accounted for as a Capitalized Lease Obligations, and (c) all Synthetic Indebtedness of such Person.
“Authorized Officer” means a Financial Officer or other individual authorized by a Financial Officer in writing (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) to handle certain administrative matters in connection with this Agreement.
“Available Tenor” means, as of any date of determination and with respect to the then-current Benchmark, (a) if such Benchmark is a term rate, any tenor for such Benchmark (or component thereof) that is or may be used for determining the length of an interest period pursuant to this Agreement, or (b) otherwise, any payment period for interest calculated with reference to such Benchmark (or component thereof) that is or may be used for determining any frequency of
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making payments of interest calculated with reference to such Benchmark, in each case, as of such date and not including, for the avoidance of doubt, any tenor for such Benchmark that is then-removed from the definition of “Interest Period” pursuant to Section 3.8(d) hereof.
“Bail-In Action” means the exercise of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by the applicable Resolution Authority in respect of any liability of an Affected Financial Institution.
“Bail-In Legislation” means (a) with respect to any EEA Member Country implementing Article 55 of Directive 2014/59/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union, the implementing law, regulation rule or requirement for such EEA Member Country from time to time that is described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule and (b) with respect to the United Kingdom, Part I of the United Kingdom Banking Act 2009 (as amended from time to time) and any other law, regulation or rule applicable in the United Kingdom relating to the resolution of unsound or failing banks, investment firms or other financial institutions or their affiliates (other than through liquidation, administration or other insolvency proceedings).
“Bank Product Agreements” means those certain cash management services and other agreements entered into from time to time between a Company and the Administrative Agent or a Lender (or an Affiliate of a Lender) in connection with any of the Bank Products.
“Bank Product Obligations” means all obligations, liabilities, contingent reimbursement obligations, fees and expenses owing by a Company to the Administrative Agent or any Lender (or an Affiliate of a Lender) pursuant to or evidenced by the Bank Product Agreements.
“Bank Products” means a service or facility extended to a Company by the Administrative Agent or any Lender (or an Affiliate of a Lender) for (a) credit cards and credit card processing services, (b) debit cards, purchase cards and stored value cards, (c) ACH transactions, and (d) cash management, including controlled disbursement, accounts or services.
“Bankruptcy Code” means Title 11 of the United States Code entitled “Bankruptcy”, as now or hereafter in effect, or any successor thereto, as hereafter amended.
“Base Rate” means, for any day, a fluctuating rate per annum equal to the highest of (a) the Prime Rate, (b) one‑half of one percent (.50%) in excess of the Federal Funds Effective Rate, (c) one percent (1%) in excess of Adjusted Term SOFR for a period of one month (or, if such day is not a Business Day, such rate as calculated on the immediately preceding Business Day), and (d) the Floor. Any change in the Base Rate due to a change in the Prime Rate, the Federal Funds Effective Rate or Adjusted Term SOFR shall be effective from and including the effective date of such change in the Prime Rate, the Federal Funds Effective Rate or Adjusted Term SOFR, respectively.
“Base Rate Loan” means a Revolving Loan described in Section 2.2(a) hereof that shall be denominated in Dollars and on which the Borrowers shall pay interest at the Derived Base Rate.
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“Benchmark” means, initially, with respect to (a) any Daily Simple SOFR Loan, Daily Simple SOFR, and (b) any Term SOFR Loan, Term SOFR; provided that if a Benchmark Transition Event has occurred with respect to the then-current Benchmark, then “Benchmark” means the applicable Benchmark Replacement to the extent that such Benchmark Replacement has replaced such prior benchmark rate pursuant to Section 3.8 hereof.
“Benchmark Replacement” means, with respect to any Benchmark Transition Event for the then-current Benchmark, the sum of: (a) the alternate benchmark rate that has been selected by the Administrative Agent as the replacement for such Benchmark giving due consideration to (i) any selection or recommendation of a replacement benchmark rate or the mechanism for determining such a rate by the Relevant Governmental Body or (ii) any evolving or then-prevailing market convention for determining a benchmark rate as a replacement for such Benchmark for syndicated credit facilities denominated in Dollars at such time and (b) the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment, if any; provided that, if such Benchmark Replacement as so determined would be less than the Floor, such Benchmark Replacement will be deemed to be the Floor for the purposes of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.
“Benchmark Replacement Adjustment” means, with respect to any replacement of any then-current Benchmark with an Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement for any applicable Available Tenor, the spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment (which may be a positive or negative value or zero), if any, that has been selected by the Administrative Agent giving due consideration to (a) any selection or recommendation of a spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, for the replacement of such Benchmark with the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement by the Relevant Governmental Body or (b) any evolving or then-prevailing market convention for determining a spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, for the replacement of such Benchmark with the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement for Dollar denominated syndicated credit facilities.
“Benchmark Replacement Date” means the earlier to occur of the following events with respect to the then-current Benchmark:
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For the avoidance of doubt, the “Benchmark Replacement Date” will be deemed to have occurred in the case of clause (a) or (b) with respect to any Benchmark upon the occurrence of the applicable event or events set forth therein with respect to all then-current Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof).
“Benchmark Transition Event” means, with respect to the then-current Benchmark, the occurrence of one or more of the following events with respect to such Benchmark:
For the avoidance of doubt, a “Benchmark Transition Event” will be deemed to have occurred with respect to any Benchmark if a public statement or publication of information set forth above has occurred with respect to each then-current Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof).
“Benchmark Transition Start Date” means, with respect to any Benchmark, in the case of a Benchmark Transition Event, the earlier of (i) the applicable Benchmark Replacement Date and (ii) if such Benchmark Transition Event is a public statement or publication of information of a prospective event, the ninetieth (90th) day prior to the expected date of such event as of such public statement or publication of information (or if the expected date of such prospective event is fewer than ninety (90) days after such statement or publication, the date of such statement or publication).
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“Benchmark Unavailability Period” means, with respect to any then-current Benchmark, the period (if any) (a) beginning at the time that a Benchmark Replacement Date with respect to such Benchmark pursuant to clauses (a) or (b) of that definition has occurred if, at such time, no Benchmark Replacement has replaced such Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and under any Loan Document in accordance with Section 3.8 hereof and (b) ending at the time that a Benchmark Replacement has replaced such Benchmark for all purposes hereunder and under any Loan Document in accordance with Section 3.8 hereof.
“Beneficial Ownership Certification” means a certification regarding beneficial ownership required by the Beneficial Ownership Regulation.
“Beneficial Ownership Regulation” means 31 C.F.R. § 1010.230.
“Benefit Plan” means any of (a) an “employee benefit plan” (as defined in ERISA) that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (b) a “plan” as defined in and subject to Section 4975 of the Code or (c) any Person whose assets include (for purposes of ERISA Section 3(42) or otherwise for purposes of Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code) the assets of any such “employee benefit plan” or “plan”.
“BHC Act Affiliate” of a party means an “affiliate” (as such term is defined under, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 U.S.C. 1841(k)) of such party.
“BlueOval City Project” means the approximately One Million (1,000,000) square foot logistics warehouse constructed by the Companies for the benefit of Ford Motor Company located on approximately one hundred twelve (112) acres of land in Stanton, Tennessee.
“Borrower” means that term as defined in the first paragraph of this Agreement.
“Borrowers” means that term as defined in the first paragraph of this Agreement.
“Business Day” means (i) any day other than Saturday, Sunday or any other day on which commercial banks in Cleveland, Ohio or New York, New York are authorized or required by law to close and (ii) with respect to any matters relating to SOFR Loans, a SOFR Business Day.
“Capital Distribution” means a payment made, liability incurred or other consideration given by a Company to any Person that is not a Company, (a) for the purchase, acquisition, redemption, repurchase, payment or retirement of any capital stock or other equity interest of such Company, or (b) as a dividend, return of capital or other distribution (other than any stock dividend, stock split or other equity distribution payable only in capital stock or other equity of such Company) in respect of such Company’s capital stock or other equity interest.
“Capitalized Lease Obligations” means the obligations of the Companies to pay rent or other amounts under a lease of (or other agreement conveying the right to use) real and/or personal property, which obligations are required to be classified and accounted for as a capital lease or a finance lease on the balance sheet of such Person under GAAP and, for the purposes of this Agreement, the amount of such obligations shall be the capitalized amount thereof, determined in accordance with GAAP.
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“Cash Collateral Account” means a commercial Deposit Account designated as a “cash collateral account” and maintained by one or more Borrowers with the Administrative Agent, without liability by the Administrative Agent or the Lenders to pay interest thereon, from which account the Administrative Agent, on behalf of the Lenders, shall have the exclusive right to withdraw funds until all of the Secured Obligations are paid in full.
“Cash Collateralize” means to pledge and deposit with or deliver to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Issuing Lender or one or more Lenders, as collateral for the Letter of Credit Exposure or obligations of the Lenders to fund participations in respect of the Letter of Credit Exposure, cash or deposit account balances or, if the Administrative Agent and the Issuing Lender shall agree in their reasonable discretion, other credit support, in each case pursuant to documentation in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Issuing Lender. “Cash Collateral” shall have a meaning analogous to the foregoing and shall include the proceeds of such cash collateral and other credit support.
“Cash Equivalent” means cash equivalent as determined in accordance with GAAP.
“Cash Security” means all cash, instruments, Deposit Accounts, Securities Accounts and Cash Equivalents, in each case whether matured or unmatured, whether collected or in the process of collection, upon which a Company presently has or may hereafter have any claim or interest, wherever located, including but not limited to any of the foregoing that are presently or may hereafter be existing or maintained with, issued by, drawn upon by, or in the possession of the Administrative Agent or any Lender.
“Change in Control” means:
“Change in Law” means the occurrence, after the Closing Date, of any of the following: (a) the adoption or taking effect of any Law, rule, regulation or treaty, (b) any change in any Law, rule, regulation or treaty or in the administration, interpretation, implementation or application thereof by any Governmental Authority, or (c) the making or issuance of any request, rule, guideline or directive (whether or not having the force of law) by any Governmental Authority; provided that, notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (i) the ▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇ Act and all requests, rules, guidelines or directives thereunder, or issued in connection therewith, and (ii) all requests, rules, guidelines or directives promulgated by the Bank for International Settlements, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (or any successor or similar authority) or the United
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States or foreign regulatory authorities, in each case pursuant to Basel III, shall in each case be deemed to be a “Change in Law”, regardless of the date enacted, adopted or issued.
“Closing Date” means the effective date of this Agreement as set forth in the first paragraph of this Agreement.
“Closing Fee Letter” means the Closing Fee Letter between the Administrative Borrower and the Administrative Agent, dated as of the Closing Date.
“Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, together with the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
“Collateral” means (a) all of each Borrower’s existing and future (i) personal property, (ii) Accounts, Investment Property, instruments, contract rights, chattel paper, documents, supporting obligations, letter‑of‑credit rights, Pledged Securities, Pledged Notes, Commercial Tort Claims, General Intangibles, Inventory and Equipment, (iii) funds now or hereafter on deposit in a Cash Collateral Account, and (iv) Cash Security; and (b) Proceeds and products of any of the foregoing; provided that Excluded Property shall not constitute Collateral.
“Collateral Access Agreement” means an agreement, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, pursuant to which a lessor of real property on which Collateral is stored or otherwise located, or a warehouseman, consignor, processor or other bailee of Inventory or other property owned by any Credit Party, acknowledges the Liens of the Administrative Agent and waives (or, if approved by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion, subordinates) any Liens held by such Person on such property, and, if applicable, permits the Administrative Agent access to and use of such property to access, assemble, complete and sell any Collateral stored or otherwise located thereon.
“Combined” means the resultant consolidation and combination of the financial statements of the Universal Group in accordance with GAAP, including principles of consolidation and combination consistent with those applied in preparation of the consolidated financial statements referred to in Section 6.14 hereof.
“Combined Capital Expenditures” means, for any period, the amount of capital expenditures of the Universal Group, as determined on a Combined basis.
“Combined Depreciation and Amortization Charges” means, for any period, the aggregate of all depreciation and amortization charges for fixed assets, leasehold improvements and general intangibles (specifically including goodwill) of the Universal Group for such period, as determined on a Combined basis.
“Combined EBITDA” means, for any period, as determined on a Combined basis:
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provided that, for any period during which an Acquisition permitted hereunder occurs, Combined EBITDA shall be calculated after giving pro forma effect to such Acquisition as if such Acquisition had been completed on the first day of the relevant measuring period, and to include appropriate pro forma adjustments reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and calculated on the same basis as set forth in this definition.
“Combined Fixed Charges” means, for any period, as determined on a Combined basis, the aggregate, without duplication, of (a) Combined Interest Expense, (excluding any interest payments paid on the CTL Financing Indebtedness), and (b) principal payments on Combined Funded Indebtedness (other than (i) optional prepayments of the Revolving Loans and (ii) principal payments and make-whole amounts paid on the CTL Financing Indebtedness), including payments on Capitalized Lease Obligations.
“Combined Funded Indebtedness” means, at any date, all Indebtedness (including, but not limited to, short-term, long-term and Subordinated Indebtedness, if any) of the Universal Group, as determined on a Combined basis.
“Combined Income Tax Expense” means, for any period, all provisions for taxes based on the gross or net income of the Universal Group (including, without limitation, any additions to such taxes, and any penalties and interest with respect thereto), as determined on a Combined basis.
“Combined Interest Expense” means, for any period, the interest expense (including, without limitation, capitalized interest, the “imputed interest” portion of Capitalized Lease Obligations, synthetic leases, asset securitizations, if any, and excluding deferred financing costs) of the Universal Group for such period, as determined on a Combined basis.
“Combined Net Earnings” means, for any period, the net income (loss) of the Universal Group for such period, as determined on a Combined basis.
“Combined Net Worth” means, at any date, the stockholders’ equity of the Universal Group, determined as of such date on a Combined basis.
“Combined Unfunded Capital Expenditures” means, for any period, Combined Capital Expenditures that are not directly financed by the Companies with long-term Indebtedness (other than Revolving Loans) or Capitalized Lease Obligations, as determined on a Combined basis.
“Commercial Tort Claim” means a commercial tort claim, as that term is defined in the U.C.C. (Schedule 7.5 hereto lists all Commercial Tort Claims of the Credit Parties in existence as of the Closing Date.)
“Commitment” means the obligation hereunder of the Lenders, during the Commitment Period, to make Revolving Loans and to participate in Swing Loans and the issuance of Letters of Credit pursuant to the Revolving Credit Commitment.
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“Commitment Increase Period” means the period from the First Amendment Effective Date to the date that is six months prior to the last day of the Commitment Period.
“Commitment Percentage” means, for each Lender, the percentage set forth opposite such ▇▇▇▇▇▇’s name under the column headed “Commitment Percentage”, as listed in Schedule 1 hereto (taking into account any assignments pursuant to Section 11.9 hereof).
“Commitment Period” means the period from the Closing Date to September 30, 2027, or such earlier date on which the Commitment shall have been terminated pursuant to Article IX hereof.
“Commodity Exchange Act” means the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. § 1 et seq.), as amended from time to time, together with the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
“Communications” means, that term as defined in Section 10.17(b) hereof.
“Companies” means all Borrowers and all Guarantors of Payment, and all Subsidiaries thereof.
“Company” means a Borrower, a Guarantor of Payment or any Subsidiary of a Borrower or a Guarantor of Payment.
“Competitor” means any Person who directly competes with any Company in a principal line of business of such Company.
“Compliance Certificate” means a Compliance Certificate in the form of the attached Exhibit E, with attachments contemplated thereunder, each in form and detail reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
“Conforming Changes” means, with respect to either the use or administration of Daily Simple SOFR or Term SOFR, or the use, administration, adoption or implementation of any Benchmark Replacement, any technical, administrative or operational changes (including changes to the definition of “Base Rate,” the definition of “Business Day,” the definition of “SOFR Business Day,” the definition of “Interest Period” or any similar or analogous definition (or the addition of a concept of “interest period”), timing and frequency of determining rates and making payments of interest, timing of borrowing requests or prepayment, conversion or continuation notices, the applicability and length of lookback periods, the applicability of Section 3.3 hereof and other technical, administrative or operational matters) that the Administrative Agent, in consultation with the Borrowers, decides may be reasonably appropriate to reflect the adoption and implementation of any such rate or to permit the use and administration thereof by the Administrative Agent in a manner substantially consistent with market practice (or, if the Administrative Agent decides that adoption of any portion of such market practice is not administratively feasible or if the Administrative Agent determines that no market practice for the administration of any such rate exists, in such other manner of administration as the Administrative Agent, in consultation with the Borrowers, decides is reasonably necessary in connection with the administration of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents).
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“Connection Income Taxes” means Other Connection Taxes that are imposed on or measured by net income (however denominated) or that are franchise Taxes or branch profits Taxes.
“Consolidated” means the resultant consolidation of the financial statements of Parent and its Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP.
“Control” means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of a Person, whether through the ability to exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise. “Controlling” and “Controlled” have meanings correlative thereto.
“Control Agreement” means a Deposit Account Control Agreement or Securities Account Control Agreement.
“Controlled Group” means a Company and each Person required to be aggregated with a Company under Code Section 414(b), (c), (m) or (o).
“Covered Entity” means any of the following:
“Credit Event” means the making by the Lenders of a Loan, the conversion by the Lenders of a Base Rate Loan to a SOFR Loan, the conversion of Term SOFR Loan to a Daily Simple SOFR Loan, the conversion of a Daily Simple SOFR Loan to a Term SOFR Loan, the continuation by the Lenders of a Term SOFR Loan after the end of the applicable Interest Period, the making by the Swing Line Lender of a Swing Loan, or the issuance (or amendment or renewal) by the Issuing Lender of a Letter of Credit.
“Credit Party” means a Borrower or a Guarantor of Payment.
“CTL Financing Indebtedness” means that term as defined in Section 5.8(l) hereof.
“Cure Amount” means, with respect to a Failed Testing Period, the minimum amount that, if added to the calculation of Combined EBITDA for such Failed Testing Period, would have resulted in the Failed Financial Covenant (or Failed Financial Covenants) being equal to the required applicable financial covenant otherwise applicable to such period, as set forth in Section 5.7(a) and (b) hereof.
“Daily Simple SOFR” means, for any day (a “SOFR Rate Day”), a rate per annum (rounded in accordance with the Administrative Agent’s customary practice) equal to SOFR for the day
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(such day, the “SOFR Determination Day”) that is five (5) SOFR Business Days (or such other period as determined by the Administrative Agent based on then prevailing market conventions) prior to (i) if such SOFR Rate Day is a SOFR Business Day, such SOFR Rate Day or (ii) if such SOFR Rate Day is not a SOFR Business Day, the SOFR Business Day immediately preceding such SOFR Rate Day, in each case, as and when SOFR for such SOFR Rate Day is published by the SOFR Administrator on the SOFR Administrator’s Website. If by 5:00 pm (Eastern time) on the second (2nd) SOFR Business Day immediately following any SOFR Determination Day, SOFR in respect of such SOFR Determination Day has not been published on the SOFR Administrator’s Website and a Benchmark Replacement Date with respect to Daily Simple SOFR has not occurred, then SOFR for such SOFR Determination Day will be SOFR as published in respect of the first preceding SOFR Business Day for which such SOFR was published on the SOFR Administrator’s Website; provided, that any SOFR determined pursuant to this sentence shall be utilized for purposes of calculation of Daily Simple SOFR for no more than three (3) consecutive SOFR Rate Days. Any change in Daily Simple SOFR due to a change in SOFR shall be effective from and including the effective date of such change in SOFR without notice to the Borrowers.
“Daily Simple SOFR Loan” means a Revolving Loan described in Section 2.2(a) hereof, in each case on which the Borrowers shall pay interest at the Derived Daily Simple SOFR Rate.
“Debt Fund Affiliate” means an Affiliated Lender that is a bona fide debt fund or an investment vehicle that is primarily engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans, bonds and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of business and with respect to which no Borrower or any Affiliate of a Borrower makes investment decisions or has the power, directly or indirectly, to direct or cause the direction of such Affiliated Lender’s investment decisions.
“Debtor Relief Laws” means the Bankruptcy Code, and all other liquidation, conservatorship, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors, moratorium, rearrangement, receivership, insolvency, reorganization, or similar debtor relief Laws of the United States or other applicable jurisdictions, from time to time in effect.
“Default” means an event or condition that constitutes, or with the lapse of any applicable grace period or the giving of notice or both would constitute, an Event of Default, and that has not been waived by the Required Lenders (or, if required hereunder, all of the Lenders) in writing.
“Default Rate” means (a) with respect to any Loan or other Obligation for which a rate is specified, a rate per annum equal to two percent (2%) in excess of the rate otherwise applicable thereto, and (b) with respect to any other amount, if no rate is specified or available, a rate per annum equal to two percent (2%) in excess of the Derived Base Rate from time to time in effect.
“Default Right” has the meaning assigned to that term in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. §§ 252.81, 47.2 or 382.1, as applicable.
“Defaulting Lender” means, subject to Section 11.10(b) hereof, any Lender that (a) has failed to (i) fund all or any portion of its Loans within two Business Days of the date such Loans or participations in respect of a Letter of Credit were required to be funded hereunder, unless such
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Lender notifies the Administrative Agent and the Administrative Borrower in writing that such failure is the result of such Lender’s determination that one or more conditions precedent to funding (each of which conditions precedent, together with any applicable default, shall be specifically identified in such writing) has not been satisfied, or (ii) pay to the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender, the Swing Line Lender or any other Lender any other amount required to be paid by it hereunder (including in respect of its participation in Letters of Credit or Swing Loans) within two Business Days of the date when due, (b) has notified the Administrative Borrower, the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender or the Swing Line Lender in writing that it does not intend to comply with its funding obligations under this Agreement, or has made a public statement to that effect (unless such writing or public statement relates to such ▇▇▇▇▇▇’s obligation to fund a Loan hereunder and states that such position is based on such ▇▇▇▇▇▇’s determination that a condition precedent to funding (which condition precedent, together with any applicable default, shall be specifically identified in such writing or public statement) cannot be satisfied), (c) has failed, within three Business Days after written request by the Administrative Agent or the Administrative Borrower, to confirm in writing to the Administrative Agent and the Administrative Borrower that it will comply with its prospective funding obligations hereunder (provided that such Lender shall cease to be a Defaulting Lender pursuant to this subpart (c) upon receipt of such written confirmation by the Administrative Agent and the Administrative Borrower), or (d) has, or has a direct or indirect parent company that has, (i) become the subject of a proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law, (ii) had appointed for it a receiver, custodian, conservator, trustee, administrator, assignee for the benefit of creditors or similar Person charged with reorganization or liquidation of its business or assets, including the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other state or federal regulatory authority acting in such a capacity, or (iii) become the subject of a Bail-In Action; provided that, a Lender shall not be a Defaulting Lender solely by virtue of the ownership or acquisition of any equity interest in that Lender, or any direct or indirect parent company thereof, by a Governmental Authority, so long as such ownership interest does not result in or provide such Lender with immunity from the jurisdiction of courts within the United States, or from the enforcement of judgments or writs of attachment on its assets, or permit such Lender (or such Governmental Authority) to reject, repudiate, disavow or disaffirm any contracts or agreements made with such Lender. Any determination by the Administrative Agent that a Lender is a Defaulting Lender under any one or more of subparts (a) through (d) above shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error, and such Lender shall be deemed to be a Defaulting Lender (subject to Section 11.10(b) hereof) upon delivery of written notice of such determination to the Administrative Borrower, the Issuing Lender, the Swing Line Lender and each Lender.
“Deposit Account” means a deposit account, as that term is defined in the U.C.C.
“Deposit Account Control Agreement” means each Deposit Account Control Agreement (or similar agreement with respect to a Deposit Account) among a Credit Party, the Administrative Agent and a depository institution, to be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, as the same may from time to time be amended, restated or otherwise modified.
“Derived Base Rate” means a rate per annum equal to the sum of the Applicable Margin (from time to time in effect) for Base Rate Loans plus the Base Rate.
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“Derived Daily Simple SOFR Rate” means a rate per annum equal to the sum of the Applicable Margin (from time to time in effect) for SOFR Loans plus Adjusted Daily Simple SOFR.
“Derived Term SOFR Rate” means a rate per annum equal to the sum of the Applicable Margin (from time to time in effect) for SOFR Loans plus Adjusted Term SOFR for the applicable Interest Period therefor.
“Disqualified Equity Interest” means any Equity Interest that, by its terms (or the terms of any security or other Equity Interests into which it is convertible or for which it is exchangeable), or upon the happening of any event or condition (a) matures or is mandatorily redeemable (other than solely for Equity Interests that are not Disqualified Equity Interests), pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise (except as a result of a change of control or asset sale so long as any rights of the holders thereof upon the occurrence of a change of control or asset sale event shall be subject to the prior repayment in full of the Loans and all other Obligations that are accrued and payable and the termination of the Commitment), (b) is redeemable at the option of the holder thereof (other than solely for Equity Interests which are not Disqualified Equity Interests), in whole or in part, (c) provides for scheduled payments of dividends in cash (other than, in the case of limited liability companies, limited partnerships and other entities that are pass‑through entities for tax purposes, for taxes attributable to the operations of the business) prior to the time that the Obligations are paid in full in cash (other than contingent indemnification obligations to the extent no claim giving rise thereto has been asserted), or (d) is or becomes convertible into or exchangeable for Indebtedness or any other Equity Interests that would constitute Disqualified Equity Interests, in each case, prior to the date that is ninety-one days after the last day of the Commitment Period; provided that if such Equity Interests are issued pursuant to a plan for the benefit of employees of a Borrower or any Subsidiary or by any such plan to such employees, such Equity Interests shall not constitute Disqualified Equity Interests solely because they may be required to be repurchased by a Borrower or its Subsidiaries in order to satisfy applicable statutory or regulatory obligations or as a result of such employee’s termination, death or disability.
“Disqualified Institution” means, on any date, any Person that is (a) designated by the Administrative Borrower, by written notice delivered to the Administrative Agent on or prior to the Closing Date, as a (i) disqualified institution or (ii) Competitor or (b) clearly identifiable, solely on the basis of such Person’s name, as an Affiliate of any Person referred to in clause (a)(i) or (a)(ii) above; provided, however, Disqualified Institutions shall (A) exclude any Person that the Administrative Borrower has designated as no longer being a Disqualified Institution by written notice delivered to the Administrative Agent from time to time and (B) include any Person that is added as a Competitor, pursuant to a written supplement to the list of Competitors that are Disqualified Institutions, that is delivered by the Administrative Borrower after the date hereof to the Administrative Agent. Such supplement shall become effective three (3) Business Days after the date that such written supplement is delivered to the Administrative Agent, but which shall not apply retroactively to disqualify any Persons that have previously acquired an assignment or participation interest in the Loans and/or Commitments as permitted herein.
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“▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇ Act” means the ▇▇▇▇–▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (Pub.L. 111-203, H.R. 4173) signed into law on July 21, 2010, as amended from time to time.
“Dollar” or the $ sign means lawful currency of the United States.
“Domestic Company” means a Borrower, a Domestic Guarantor of Payment or a Domestic Subsidiary of Parent.
“Domestic Credit Party” means a Borrower or a Domestic Guarantor of Payment.
“Domestic Guarantor of Payment” means each of the Subsidiaries of Parent designated a “Domestic Guarantor of Payment” on Schedule 3 hereto, and any other Domestic Subsidiary of Parent that shall execute and deliver a Guaranty of Payment (or Guaranty of Payment Joinder) to the Administrative Agent subsequent to the Closing Date.
“Domestic Subsidiary” means a Subsidiary that is not a Foreign Subsidiary.
“EEA Financial Institution” means (a) any credit institution or investment firm established in any EEA Member Country which is subject to the supervision of an EEA Resolution Authority, (b) any entity established in an EEA Member Country which is a parent of an institution described in subpart (a) of this definition, or (c) any financial institution established in an EEA Member Country that is a subsidiary of an institution described in subparts (a) or (b) of this definition and is subject to consolidated supervision with its parent.
“EEA Member Country” means any of the member states of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.
“EEA Resolution Authority” means any public administrative authority or any person entrusted with public administrative authority of any EEA Member Country (including any delegee) having responsibility for the resolution of any EEA Financial Institution.
“Eligible Assignee” means any Person that meets the requirements to be an assignee under Section 11.9(b)(iii), (v) and (vi) hereof (subject to such consents, if any, as may be required under Section 11.9 (b)(iii) hereof).
“Environmental Laws” means all provisions of law (including the common law), statutes, ordinances, codes, rules, guidelines, policies, procedures, orders-in-council, regulations, permits, licenses, judgments, writs, injunctions, decrees, orders, authorizations, certificates, approvals, registrations, awards and standards promulgated by a Governmental Authority or by any court, agency, instrumentality, regulatory authority or commission of any of the foregoing concerning environmental health or safety and protection of natural resources, or regulation of the discharge of substances into, the environment.
“Environmental Permits” means all permits, licenses, authorizations, certificates, approvals or registrations required by any Governmental Authority under any Environmental Laws.
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“Equipment” means equipment, as that term is defined in the U.C.C.
“Equity Interests” means, as to any Person, all of the shares of capital stock of (or other ownership or profit interests in) such Person, all of the warrants, options or other rights for the purchase or acquisition from such Person of shares of capital stock of (or other ownership or profit interests in) such Person, all of the securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of capital stock of (or other ownership or profit interests in) such Person or warrants, rights or options for the purchase or acquisition from such Person of such shares (or such other interests), and all of the other ownership or profit interests in such Person (including partnership, member or trust interests therein), whether voting or nonvoting, and whether or not such shares, warrants, options, rights or other interests are outstanding on any date of determination.
“ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to time, and the regulations promulgated pursuant thereto.
“ERISA Event” means (a) the existence of a condition or event with respect to an ERISA Plan that presents a risk of the imposition of an excise tax or any other liability on a Company or of the imposition of a Lien on the assets of a Company; (b) the engagement by a Company in a non-exempt “prohibited transaction” (as defined under ERISA Section 406 or Code Section 4975) or a breach of a fiduciary duty under ERISA that could result in liability to a Company; (c) the application by a Controlled Group member for a waiver from the minimum funding requirements of Code Section 412 or ERISA Section 302 or a Controlled Group member is required to provide security under Code Section 412(c)(4) or ERISA Section 302(c)(4); (d) the occurrence of a Reportable Event with respect to any Pension Plan as to which notice is required to be provided to the PBGC; (e) the withdrawal by a Controlled Group member from a Multiemployer Plan in a “complete withdrawal” or a “partial withdrawal” (as such terms are defined in ERISA Sections 4203 and 4205, respectively); (f) the occurrence of a Multiemployer Plan being in endangered or critical status, as defined in Section 432 of the Code; (g) the failure of an ERISA Plan (and any related trust) that is intended to be qualified under Code Sections 401 and 501 to be so qualified or the failure of any “cash or deferred arrangement” under any such ERISA Plan to meet the requirements of Code Section 401(k); (h) the taking by the PBGC of any steps to terminate a Pension Plan or appoint a trustee to administer a Pension Plan, or the taking by a Controlled Group member of any steps to terminate a Pension Plan; (i) the failure by a Controlled Group member or an ERISA Plan to satisfy any material requirements of law applicable to an ERISA Plan; (j) the commencement, existence or threatening of a claim, action, suit, audit or investigation with respect to an ERISA Plan, other than a routine claim for benefits; or (k) any incurrence by or any expectation of the incurrence by a Controlled Group member of any liability for post-retirement benefits under any Welfare Plan, other than as required by ERISA Section 601, et. seq. or Code Section 4980B.
“ERISA Plan” means an “employee benefit plan” (within the meaning of ERISA Section 3(3)) that a Controlled Group member at any time sponsors, maintains, contributes to, has liability with respect to or has an obligation to contribute to such plan.
“Erroneous Payment Subrogation Rights” means that term as defined in Section 10.18(d) hereof.
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“EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule” means the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule published by the Loan Market Association (or any successor entity), as in effect from time to time.
“Event of Default” means an event or condition that shall constitute an event of default as defined in Article VIII hereof.
“Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
“Excluded Accounts” means (i) any Deposit Account established, maintained and used solely for the purpose of funding payroll accounts, employee benefit accounts, trust accounts, escrow accounts, and other similar types of fiduciary accounts and (ii) accounts with respect to which the aggregate amount on deposit, collectively for all such accounts described in this clause (ii), does not exceed Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000) at any time.
“Excluded Property” means, collectively, (a) all leasehold real property and all owned real property, (b) any property and assets the pledge of which would require governmental consent, approval, license or authorization or is otherwise prohibited by applicable law, (c) all foreign intellectual property and any “intent-to-use” trademark applications prior to the filing of a “Statement of Use” or “Amendment to Allege Use” with respect thereto, to the extent, if any, that, and solely during the period, if any, in which, the grant of a security interest therein would impair the validity or enforceability of such intent-to-use trademark application under applicable federal law, (d) any asset if the granting of a security interest in such asset would be prohibited by enforceable anti-assignment provisions of contracts or applicable law or with respect to any assets to the extent such a pledge would violate the terms of any contract with respect to such assets (in each case, after giving effect to the applicable anti-assignment provisions of the U.C.C. or other applicable law) or would trigger termination pursuant to any “change of control” or similar provision of such contract, (e) Equipment and other hard assets which serve as collateral for purchase money indebtedness or Capitalized Lease Obligations, (f) Excluded Accounts, (g) any equipment financing or leasing agreement to which LGSI is a party, and any of such Credit Party’s rights or interests in property that constitutes collateral thereunder, and (h) any mortgage financing or loan agreement to which UTSI, UTS, or APA is a party, and any of such Credit Party’s rights or interests in property that constitutes collateral thereunder; provided that “Excluded Property” shall not include any Proceeds, products, substitutions or replacements of Excluded Property (unless such Proceeds, products, substitutions or replacements would otherwise constitute Excluded Property).
“Excluded Subsidiary” means (a) until the date that the UACL Credit Facility is terminated and paid in full, the UACL Subsidiaries, and (b) so long as the Borrowers and the UDOT Subsidiary remain in compliance with Section 5.33 hereof, the UDOT Subsidiary.
“Excluded Swap Obligations” means, with respect to any Credit Party, any Swap Obligation if, and to the extent that, all or a portion of the guarantee of such Credit Party of, or the grant by such Credit Party of a security interest to secure, such Swap Obligation (or any guarantee thereof) is or becomes illegal under the Commodity Exchange Act or any rule, regulation or order of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (or the application or official interpretation of any thereof) by virtue of such Credit Party’s failure to constitute an “eligible contract participant” as defined in the Commodity Exchange Act (determined after giving effect to any “keepwell, support
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or other agreement” for the benefit of such Credit Party and any and all guarantees of such Credit Party’s Swap Obligations by other Credit Parties), at the time such guarantee or grant of security interest of such Credit Party becomes, or would become, effective with respect to such Swap Obligation. If a Swap Obligation arises under a master agreement governing more than one swap, such exclusion shall apply only to the portion of such Swap Obligation that is attributable to swaps for which such guarantee or security interest is, or becomes, illegal.
“Excluded Taxes” means, with respect to a Recipient, any of the following Taxes imposed on or with respect to such Recipient or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to such Recipient, (a) Taxes imposed on or measured by net income (however denominated), franchise Taxes, and branch profits Taxes, in each case, (i) imposed as a result of such Recipient being organized under the laws of, or having its principal office located in, or, in the case of any Lender, having its applicable lending office located in, the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (or any political subdivision thereof), or (ii) that are Other Connection Taxes; (b) in the case of a Lender, U.S. federal withholding Taxes (including for the avoidance of doubt, Taxes due under Section 871(a) and 881(a) of the Code) imposed on amounts payable to or for the account of such Lender with respect to an applicable interest in a Loan or Commitment pursuant to a law in effect on the date on which (i) such Lender acquires such interest in the Loan or Commitment (other than pursuant to an assignment request by the Administrative Borrower under Sections 3.6 or 11.3(c) hereof); or (ii) such Lender changes its lending office, except in each case to the extent that, pursuant to Section 3.2 hereof, amounts with respect to such Taxes were payable either to such ▇▇▇▇▇▇’s assignor immediately before such Lender became a party hereto, or to such Lender immediately before it changed its lending office; (c) Taxes attributable to such Recipient’s failure to comply with Section 3.2(e) hereof; and (d) any U.S. federal withholding Taxes imposed with respect to such Recipient pursuant to FATCA.
“Failed Financial Covenant” means that term as defined in Section 5.7(c) hereof.
“Failed Testing Period” means that term as defined in Section 5.7(c) hereof.
“FATCA” means Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code, as amended from time to time, and any current or future regulations or official interpretations thereof and any agreements entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b)(1) of the Code, any intergovernmental agreement entered into in connection with the implementation of such sections of the Code, and any fiscal or regulatory legislation, rules, or practices adopted pursuant to such intergovernmental agreement.
“Federal Funds Effective Rate” means, for any day, the rate per annum (rounded in accordance with the Administrative Agent’s customary practices) announced by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (or any successor) on such day as being the weighted average of the rates on overnight federal funds transactions arranged by federal funds brokers on the previous trading day, as computed and announced by such Federal Reserve Bank (or any successor) in substantially the same manner as such Federal Reserve Bank computes and announces the weighted average it refers to as the “Federal Funds Effective Rate” as of the Closing Date.
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“Financial Officer” means any of the following officers: chief executive officer, president, chief financial officer or treasurer. Unless otherwise qualified, all references to a Financial Officer in this Agreement shall refer to a Financial Officer of the Administrative Borrower.
“First Amendment Effective Date” means September 30, 2022.
“Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio” means, as determined for the most recently completed four fiscal quarters of the Universal Group, on a Combined basis, the ratio of (a) the total of (i) Combined EBITDA, minus (ii) Capital Distributions (other than tax distributions included in cash tax expense), minus (iii) Combined Unfunded Capital Expenditures (other than up to Fifty Million Dollars ($50,000,000) in the aggregate during any consecutive four-quarter period related to real estate and supercenter capital expenditures), minus (iv) Combined Income Tax Expense paid in cash; to (b) Combined Fixed Charges.
“Floor” means a rate of interest equal to zero percent (0.00%) per annum.
“Foreign Benefit Plan” means each material plan, fund, program or policy established under the law of a jurisdiction other than the United States (or a state or local government thereof), whether formal or informal, funded or unfunded, insured or uninsured, providing employee benefits, including medical, hospital care, dental, sickness, accident, disability, life insurance, pension, retirement or savings benefits, under which one or more Companies have any liability with respect to any employee or former employee, but excluding any Foreign Pension Plan.
“Foreign Guarantor of Payment” means each of the Subsidiaries of Parent designated a “Foreign Guarantor of Payment” on Schedule 3 hereto, and any other Foreign Subsidiary of Parent that shall execute and deliver a Guaranty of Payment (and all applicable Security Documents) to the Administrative Agent subsequent to the Closing Date.
“Foreign Lender” means (a) with respect to a Borrower that is a U.S. Person, a Lender that is not a U.S. Person, and (b) with respect to a Borrower that is not a U.S. Person, a Lender that is resident or organized under the laws of a jurisdiction other than that in which such Borrower is resident for tax purposes.
“Foreign Pension Plan” means a pension plan required to be registered under the law of a jurisdiction other than the United States (or a state or local government thereof), that is maintained or contributed to by one or more Companies for their employees or former employees.
“Foreign Subsidiary” means a Subsidiary that is organized under the laws of any jurisdiction other than the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia.
“Fronting Exposure” means, at any time there is a Defaulting Lender, (a) with respect to the Issuing Lender, such Defaulting Lender’s outstanding Letter of Credit Exposure (to the extent of such Defaulting Lender’s Commitment Percentage of the Revolving Credit Commitment) with respect to Letters of Credit issued by the Issuing Lender, other than Letter of Credit Exposure as to which such Defaulting Lender’s participation obligation has been reallocated to other Lenders or Cash Collateralized in accordance with the terms hereof; and (b) with respect to the Swing Line Lender, such Defaulting Lender’s Swing Line Exposure (to the extent of such Defaulting Lender’s Commitment Percentage of the Revolving Credit Commitment) made by such Swing Line Lender,
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other than Swing Loans as to which such Defaulting Lender’s participation obligation has been reallocated to other Lenders.
“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States as then in effect, which shall include the official interpretations thereof by the Financial Accounting Standards Board, applied on a basis consistent with the past accounting practices and procedures of Parent.
“General Intangibles” means (a) general intangibles, as that term is defined in the U.C.C.; and (b) choses in action, causes of action, intellectual property, customer lists, corporate or other business records, inventions, designs, patents, patent applications, service marks, registrations, trade names, trademarks, copyrights, licenses, goodwill, computer software, rights to indemnification and tax refunds.
“Governmental Authority” means the government of the United States or any other nation, or of any political subdivision thereof, whether state or local, and any agency, department, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, central bank or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to government (including any supra-national bodies such as the European Union or the European Central Bank).
“Guarantee” means, as to any Person, (a) any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of such Person guaranteeing or having the economic effect of guaranteeing any Indebtedness or other obligation payable or performable by another Person (the “primary obligor”) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, and including any obligation of such Person, direct or indirect, (i) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Indebtedness or other obligation, (ii) to purchase or lease property, securities or services for the purpose of assuring the obligee in respect of such Indebtedness or other obligation of the payment or performance of such Indebtedness or other obligation, (iii) to maintain working capital, equity capital or any other financial statement condition or liquidity or level of income or cash flow of the primary obligor so as to enable the primary obligor to pay such Indebtedness or other obligation or (iv) entered into for the purpose of assuring in any other manner the obligee in respect of such Indebtedness or other obligation of the payment or performance thereof or to protect such obligee against loss in respect thereof (in whole or in part) or (b) any Lien on any assets of such Person securing any Indebtedness or other obligation of any other Person, whether or not such Indebtedness or other obligation is assumed by such Person (or any right, contingent or otherwise, of any holder of such Indebtedness to obtain any such Lien); provided that the term “Guarantee” shall not include endorsements for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business. The amount of any Guarantee shall be deemed to be an amount equal to the stated or determinable amount of the related primary obligation, or portion thereof, in respect of which such Guarantee is made or, if not stated or determinable, the maximum reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof as determined by the guaranteeing Person in good faith. The term “Guarantee” as a verb has a corresponding meaning.
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“Guarantor” means a Person that shall have pledged its credit or property in any manner for the payment or other performance of the indebtedness, contract or other obligation of another and includes (without limitation) any guarantor (whether of payment or of collection), surety, co-maker, endorser or Person that shall have agreed conditionally or otherwise to make any purchase, loan or investment in order thereby to enable another to prevent or correct a default of any kind.
“Guarantor of Payment” means a Domestic Guarantor of Payment or Foreign Guarantor of Payment, and any other Person that shall execute and deliver a Guaranty of Payment (or Guaranty of Payment Joinder) to the Administrative Agent subsequent to the Closing Date.
“Guaranty of Payment” means each Guaranty of Payment executed and delivered in connection with this Agreement by one or more Guarantors of Payment, as the same may from time to time be amended, restated or otherwise modified.
“Guaranty of Payment Joinder” means each Guaranty of Payment ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, executed and delivered by a Guarantor of Payment for the purpose of adding such Guarantor of Payment as a party to a previously executed Guaranty of Payment.
“Hedge Agreement” means any (a) hedge agreement, interest rate swap, basis swap agreement, cap, collar or floor agreement, or other interest rate management device entered into by a Company with any Person in connection with any Indebtedness of such Company, or (b) currency swap agreement, forward currency purchase agreement or similar arrangement or agreement designed to protect against fluctuations in currency exchange rates entered into by a Company.
“Immaterial Subsidiary” means, as of any date of determination, any direct or indirect Subsidiary of Parent that has been designated by the Administrative Borrower to the Administrative Agent in writing (and not redesignated as a Material Subsidiary as provided below) as an “Immaterial Subsidiary;” provided that (a) for purposes of this Agreement, at no time shall (i) the total assets of any Immaterial Subsidiary equal or exceed two percent (2%) of Combined total assets as of the end of the most recently completed four fiscal quarter period, (ii) the total assets of all Immaterial Subsidiaries equal or exceed, in the aggregate, five percent (5%) of Combined total assets as of the end of the most recently completed four fiscal quarter period, or (iii) all Immaterial Subsidiaries, in the aggregate, represent more than five percent (5%) of Combined EBITDA as of the end of the most recently completed four fiscal quarter period, (b) the Administrative Borrower shall not designate any new Immaterial Subsidiary if such designation would not comply with the provisions set forth in clause (a) above, (c) if the total assets of all Subsidiaries so designated by the Administrative Borrower as “Immaterial Subsidiaries” (and not redesignated as “Material Subsidiaries”) shall at any time exceed the limits set forth in clause (a)(ii) above, then the Administrative Borrower shall redesignate one or more Immaterial Subsidiaries as Material Subsidiaries such that, as a result thereof, the total assets of all Subsidiaries still designated as “Immaterial Subsidiaries” do not exceed such limits; and provided, further, that the Administrative Borrower may designate and re-designate a Subsidiary of Parent as an Immaterial Subsidiary at any time, subject to the terms set forth in this definition. Notwithstanding the foregoing, for any determination made as of or prior to the date any Person becomes an indirect or direct Subsidiary of Parent, such determination and designation shall be
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made based on financial statements provided by or on behalf of such Person in connection with the acquisition by Parent of such Person or such Person’s assets.
“Indebtedness” means, as to any Person at a particular time, without duplication, all of the following, whether or not included as indebtedness or liabilities in accordance with GAAP:
For all purposes hereof, the Indebtedness of any Person shall include the Indebtedness of any partnership or joint venture (other than a joint venture that is itself a corporation or limited liability company) in which such Person is a general partner or a joint venturer, unless such Indebtedness is expressly made non-recourse to such Person. The amount of any net obligation under any Swap Contract on any date shall be deemed to be the Swap Termination Value thereof as of such date. The amount of any Indebtedness of any Person for purposes of clause (e) that is expressly made non-recourse or limited-recourse (limited solely to the assets securing such Indebtedness) to such Person shall be deemed to be equal to the lesser of (i) the aggregate principal amount of such Indebtedness and (ii) the fair market value of the property encumbered thereby as determined by such Person in good faith.
“Indemnified Taxes” means (a) Taxes, other than Excluded Taxes, imposed on or with respect to any payment made by or on account of any obligation of any Credit Party under any Loan Document, and (b) to the extent not otherwise described in the foregoing subpart (a), Other Taxes.
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“Intellectual Property Security Agreement” means each Intellectual Property Security Agreement (and each document of similar import creating a Lien under the laws of a jurisdiction located outside of the United States), executed and delivered by a Credit Party, wherein such Credit Party, as the case may be, has granted to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, a security interest in all intellectual property owned by such Credit Party, as the same may from time to time be amended, restated or otherwise modified.
“Intercompany Subordination Agreement” means that certain Subordination Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, among Parent, the Credit Parties and the Administrative Agent, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
“Interest Adjustment Date” means the last day of each Interest Period.
“Interest Payment Date” means (a) with respect to any Base Rate Loan (other than a Swing Loan) or any Daily Simple SOFR Loan, each Regularly Scheduled Payment Date, (b) with respect to any Term SOFR Loan, the last day of each Interest Period therefor and, in the case of any Interest Period of more than three months’ duration, each day prior to the last day of such Interest Period that occurs at three month intervals after the first day of such Interest Period, and (c) with respect to any Swing Loan, the day that such Loan is required to be repaid.
“Interest Period” means, with respect to each Term SOFR Loan, a period of one, three or six months as selected by the Administrative Borrower; provided, however, that (a) the initial Interest Period for any Term SOFR Loan shall commence on the date of such Loan (the date of a Loan resulting from a conversion or continuation shall be the date of such conversion or continuation) and each Interest Period occurring thereafter in respect of such Loan shall commence on the first day after the last day of the next preceding Interest Period; (b) if any Interest Period begins on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month at the end of such Interest Period, such Interest Period shall end on the last Business Day of such calendar month; (c) if any Interest Period would otherwise expire on a day that is not a Business Day, such Interest Period shall expire on the next succeeding Business Day; provided, however, that if any Interest Period would otherwise expire on a day that is not a Business Day but is a day of the month after which no further Business Day occurs in such month, such Interest Period shall expire on the next preceding Business Day; (d) no Interest Period for any Term SOFR Loan may be selected that would end after the last day of the Commitment Period; and (e) if, upon the expiration of any Interest Period, the Borrowers have failed to (or may not) elect a new Interest Period to be applicable to the respective Term SOFR Loan as provided above, the Borrowers shall be deemed to have elected to convert such Loan to a Base Rate Loan effective as of the expiration date of such current Interest Period.
“Inventory” means inventory, as that term is defined in the U.C.C.
“Investment Property” means investment property, as that term is defined in the U.C.C., unless the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in another jurisdiction would govern the perfection and priority of a security interest in investment property, and, in such case, “investment property” shall be defined in accordance with the law of that jurisdiction as in effect from time to time.
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“IRS” means the United States Internal Revenue Service.
“Issuing Lender” means, as to any Letter of Credit transaction hereunder, the Administrative Agent as issuer of the Letter of Credit, or, in the event that the Administrative Agent either shall be unable to issue or the Administrative Agent shall agree that another Revolving Lender may issue, a Letter of Credit, such other Revolving Lender as shall be acceptable to the Administrative Agent and shall agree to issue the Letter of Credit in its own name, but in each instance on behalf of the Revolving Lenders.
“KeyBank” means KeyBank National Association, and its successors and assigns.
“Laws” means, collectively, all international, foreign, federal, state and local statutes, treaties, rules, guidelines, regulations, ordinances, codes and administrative or judicial precedents or authorities, including the interpretation or administration thereof by any Governmental Authority charged with the enforcement, interpretation or administration thereof, and all applicable administrative orders, directed duties, requests, licenses, authorizations and permits of, and agreements with, any Governmental Authority, in each case whether or not having the force of law.
“Lender” means that term as defined in the first paragraph of this Agreement and, as the context requires, shall include the Issuing Lender and the Swing Line Lender.
“Letter of Credit” means a commercial documentary letter of credit or standby letter of credit that shall be issued by the Issuing Lender for the account of a Borrower or a Domestic Guarantor of Payment, including amendments thereto, if any, and shall have an expiration date no later than one year after its date of issuance (provided that such Letter of Credit may provide for the renewal thereof for additional one year periods).
“Letter of Credit Commitment” means the commitment of the Issuing Lender, on behalf of the Revolving Lenders, to issue Letters of Credit in an aggregate face amount of up to Fifteen Million Dollars ($15,000,000).
“Letter of Credit Exposure” means, at any time, the sum of (a) the aggregate undrawn amount of all issued and outstanding Letters of Credit, and (b) the aggregate of the draws made on Letters of Credit that have not been reimbursed by the Borrowers or converted to a Revolving Loan pursuant to Section 2.2(b)(v) hereof.
“Letter of Credit Fee” means, with respect to any Letter of Credit, for any day, an amount equal to (a) the undrawn portion of the face amount of such Letter of Credit, multiplied by (b) the Applicable Margin for SOFR Loans in effect on such day divided by three hundred sixty (360).
“Leverage Ratio” means, as determined on a Combined basis, the ratio of (a) Net Indebtedness (as of the last day of the most recently completed fiscal quarter of the Universal Group); to (b) Combined EBITDA (for the most recently completed four fiscal quarters of the Universal Group).
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“Leverage Ratio Step-Up Period” means a four consecutive fiscal quarter period of the Universal Group that meets the following criteria: (a) an Acquisition permitted hereunder shall have occurred during the first fiscal quarter of such period, and (b) on or prior to the last day of the first fiscal quarter of such period, the Administrative Borrower shall have designated such period a “Leverage Ratio Step-Up Period” pursuant to a written notice to the Administrative Agent (and the Administrative Agent shall notify the Lenders of such notice promptly after receipt thereof from the Administrative Borrower); provided that (i) the designation of a Leverage Ratio Step-Up Period shall be available to the Borrowers only after the Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall have received, with respect to such Acquisition, (A) the historical financial statements of the target entity of such Acquisition, and (B) pro forma financial statements of the Companies accompanied by a certificate of a Financial Officer showing pro forma compliance with Section 5.7 hereof, both before and after (assuming implementation of the Leverage Ratio Step-Up Period) giving effect to such Acquisition, and (ii) the Administrative Borrower, on behalf of the Borrowers shall request no more than one Leverage Ratio Step-Up Period during the Commitment Period.
“LGSI” means LGSI Equipment of Indiana, LLC, an Indiana limited liability company.
“Lien” means any mortgage, deed of trust, security interest, lien (statutory or other), charge, assignment, hypothecation, encumbrance on, pledge or deposit of, or conditional sale, lease (other than Operating Leases), sale with a right of redemption or other title retention agreement and any capitalized lease with respect to any property (real or personal) or asset.
“Liquidity Amount” means, at any time, the sum of (a) the Revolving Credit Availability; plus (b) all unencumbered (other than any Lien in favor of the Administrative Agent), unrestricted cash and Cash Equivalents on hand of the Domestic Credit Parties held in the United States.
“Loan” means a Revolving Loan or a Swing Loan.
“Loan Documents” means, collectively, this Agreement, each Note, each Guaranty of Payment, each Guaranty of Payment Joinder, all documentation relating to each Letter of Credit, the Intercompany Subordination Agreement, each Security Document, the Administrative Agent Fee Letter and the Closing Fee Letter, as any of the foregoing may from time to time be amended, restated or otherwise modified or replaced, and any other agreement delivered pursuant thereto.
“Material Adverse Effect” means a material adverse effect on (a) the business, assets, liabilities (actual or contingent), operations or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Borrowers taken as a whole, (b) the business, assets, liabilities (actual or contingent), operations or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Credit Parties taken as a whole, (c) the rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent or the Lenders under any Loan Document, (d) the ability of the Credit Parties (taken as a whole) to perform their obligations under any Loan Document to which it is a party, or (e) the legality, validity, binding effect or enforceability against any Credit Party of any Loan Document to which it is a party.
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“Material Credit Party” means a Borrower, LGSI, UTSI, or any other Guarantor of Payment that shall represent more than five percent (5%) of Combined EBITDA.
“Material Indebtedness Agreement” means any debt instrument, lease (capital, operating or otherwise), guaranty, contract, agreement or other arrangement evidencing or entered into in connection with any Indebtedness of any Company or the Companies equal to or in excess of the amount of Twenty Million Dollars ($20,000,000).
“Material Recovery Event” means (a) any casualty loss in respect of collateral securing the Secured Obligations of a Credit Party covered by casualty insurance, and (b) any compulsory transfer or taking under threat of compulsory transfer of any collateral securing the Secured Obligations of a Credit Party by any Governmental Authority; provided that, in the case of either subpart (a) or (b) hereof, the proceeds received by the Companies from such loss, transfer or taking exceeds One Million Dollars ($1,000,000).
“Material Subsidiary” means, at any date of determination, each Subsidiary of Parent that is not an Immaterial Subsidiary (but including, in any case, any Subsidiary that has been designated as a Material Subsidiary as provided in, or has been designated as an Immaterial Subsidiary in a manner that does not comply with, the definition of “Immaterial Subsidiary”).
“Maximum Rate” means that term as defined in Section 2.4(e) hereof.
“Maximum Revolving Amount” means FourFive Hundred Million Dollars ($400,000,000500,000,000), as such amount may be increased pursuant to Section 2.10(b) hereof or reduced pursuant to Section 2.10(a) hereof.
“MFS Entities” means any business entity which has at least a majority of its voting Equity Interests owned, directly or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, by the Moroun Family Shareholders.
“Minimum Collateral Amount” means, at any time, (a) with respect to Cash Collateral consisting of cash or deposit account balances, an amount equal to one hundred three percent (103%) of the Fronting Exposure of the Issuing Lender with respect to Letters of Credit issued and outstanding at such time, and (b) otherwise, an amount determined by the Administrative Agent and the Issuing Lender in their reasonable discretion.
“▇▇▇▇▇’▇” means ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Investors Service, Inc., and any successor to such company.
“Moroun Family Shareholders” means ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇ and any Person who meets the definition of a “Family Member” of ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇ under Rule 5605(a)(2) of the Nasdaq Listing Rules, including their respective estates and trusts for their respective benefit or for the benefit of their respective spouses and/or lineal descendants.
“Multiemployer Plan” means a Pension Plan that is subject to the requirements of Subtitle E of Title IV of ERISA.
“Net Cash Proceeds” means (a) with respect to any sale or other disposition by any Person, the amount of cash received (directly or indirectly) from time to time (whether as initial
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consideration or through the payment or disposition of deferred consideration) by or on behalf of such Person, in connection therewith after deducting therefrom only (i) the amount of any Indebtedness secured by any Lien permitted by Section 5.9 on any asset (other than Indebtedness assumed by the purchaser of such asset) which is required to be, and is, repaid in connection with such sale or other disposition (other than Indebtedness under this Agreement), (ii) reasonable fees and expenses related thereto incurred by such Person in connection therewith, including without limitation, all legal, investment banking, underwriting, brokerage and accounting and other professional fees, sales commissions and disbursements, (iii) transfer taxes paid to any taxing authorities by such Person in connection therewith, (iv) net income taxes to be paid in connection with such sale or other disposition (after taking into account any tax credits or deductions and any tax sharing arrangements), and (v) any reserve established in accordance with GAAP against (A) any liabilities under any indemnification obligations, earnout obligations or purchase price adjustments associated with such sale or other disposition or (B) any other liabilities retained or payable by such Person associated with such sale or other disposition, (b) with respect to the issuance or incurrence of any Indebtedness by any Person, the aggregate amount of cash received from time to time (whether as initial consideration or through the payment or disposition of deferred consideration) by or on behalf of such Person in connection therewith, after deducting therefrom only (i) reasonable fees and expenses related thereto incurred by such Person in connection therewith including without limitation, all customary underwriting commissions and legal, investment banking, underwriting, brokerage and accounting and other professional fees, sales commissions and disbursements incurred in connection with such incurrence or issuance and (ii) transfer taxes paid by such Person in connection therewith; and (c) with respect to any proceeds from a Material Recovery Event received by any Person, the amount of any insurance proceeds or condemnation awards received in connection with such Material Recovery Event after deducting therefrom only (i) reasonable fees and expenses and expenses thereof (including, without limitation, any legal or other professional fees)), (ii) any proceeds or awards required to be paid to a creditor (other than the Lenders) which holds a first priority Lien permitted by Section 5.9 on the property which is the subject of such event or to other parties having superior rights to such proceeds, awards or payments and any money actually applied to repair or reconstruct the damaged property or property affected by the condemnation or taking, and (iii) any taxes payable by such Person on account of such insurance proceeds or condemnation award, actually paid, assessed or estimated by such Person (in good faith) to be payable within the next twelve (12) months in cash in connection with such event.
“Net Indebtedness” means, at any time, the excess, if any, of (a) Combined Funded Indebtedness as of such date (excluding amounts owing in connection with Parent Intercompany Loans and the CTL Financing Indebtedness), minus (b) the Unrestricted Domestic Cash Amount as of such date; provided, however, that, notwithstanding the actual amount of the Unrestricted Domestic Cash Amount, no more than Twenty Million Dollars ($20,000,000) of the Unrestricted Domestic Cash Amount may be used to calculate Net Indebtedness.
“Non‑Consenting Lender” means that term as defined in Section 11.3(c) hereof.
“Non-Debt Fund Affiliate” means an Affiliated Lender that is not a Debt Fund Affiliate.
“Non-Defaulting Lender” means, at any time, each Lender that is not a Defaulting Lender at such time.
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“Note” means a Revolving Credit Note, or the Swing Line Note, or any other promissory note delivered pursuant to this Agreement.
“Notice of Loan” means a Notice of Loan in the form of the attached Exhibit D.
“Obligations” means, collectively, (a) all Indebtedness and other obligations now owing or hereafter incurred by one or more Borrowers to the Administrative Agent, the Swing Line Lender, the Issuing Lender, or any Lender pursuant to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents (including any Erroneous Payment Subrogation Rights), and includes the principal of and interest on all Loans, and all obligations of the Borrowers or any other Credit Party pursuant to Letters of Credit; (b) each extension, renewal, consolidation or refinancing of any of the foregoing, in whole or in part; (c) the commitment and other fees, and any prepayment fees, payable pursuant to this Agreement or any other Loan Document; (d) all fees and charges in connection with Letters of Credit; (e) every other liability, now or hereafter owing to the Administrative Agent or any Lender by any Company pursuant to this Agreement or any other Loan Document, including, without limitation, interest and fees that accrue after the commencement by or against any Credit Party or any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Laws naming such Person as the debtor in such proceeding, regardless of whether such interest and fees are allowed claims in such proceeding; and (f) all Related Expenses; provided that Obligations of a Credit Party shall not include Excluded Swap Obligations owing from such Credit Party.
“Operating Leases” means, subject to Section 1.2(c) hereof, all real or personal property leases under which any Company is bound or obligated as a lessee or sublessee and which, under GAAP, are not required to be capitalized on a balance sheet of such Company; provided that Operating Leases shall not include any such lease under which any Company is also bound as the lessor or sublessor.
“Organizational Documents” means, with respect to any Person (other than an individual), such Person’s Articles (Certificate) of Incorporation, operating agreement or equivalent formation documents, and Regulations (Bylaws), or equivalent governing documents, and any amendments to any of the foregoing.
“Other Connection Taxes” means, with respect to any Recipient, Taxes imposed as a result of a present or former connection between such Recipient and the jurisdiction imposing such Taxes (other than connections arising from such Recipient having executed, delivered, become a party to, performed its obligations under, received payments under, received or perfected a security interest under, engaged in any other transaction pursuant to or enforced any Loan Document, or sold or assigned an interest in any Loan, Letter of Credit or any Loan Document).
“Other Taxes” means all present or future stamp, court or documentary, intangible, recording, filing or similar Taxes that arise from any payment made hereunder or under any other Loan Document, or from the execution, delivery, performance, or enforcement or registration of, from the receipt or perfection of a security interest under, or otherwise with respect to, this Agreement or any other Loan Document, except any such Taxes that are Other Connection Taxes
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imposed with respect to an assignment (other than an assignment made pursuant to Section 3.6 or 11.3(c) hereof).
“Parent” means Universal Logistics Holdings, Inc., a Michigan corporation.
“Parent Intercompany Loans” means that term as defined in Section 5.8(e) hereof.
“Participant” means that term as defined in Section 11.9(d) hereof.
“Participant Register” means that term as defined in Section 11.9(d) hereof.
“Patriot Act” means the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, USA Patriot Act, Title III of Pub. L. 107-56, signed into law October 26, 2001, as amended from time to time.
“PBGC” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation, and its successor.
“Pension Plan” means an ERISA Plan that is a “pension plan” (within the meaning of ERISA Section 3(2)).
“Person” means any individual, sole proprietorship, partnership, limited partnership, joint venture, unincorporated organization, company, corporation, limited liability company, unlimited liability company, institution, trust, estate, Governmental Authority or any other entity.
“Platform” means Debt Domain, Intralinks, Syndtrak or a substantially similar electronic transmission system selected by the Administrative Agent.
“Pledge Agreement” means each of the Pledge Agreements (and each document of similar import creating a Lien under the laws of a jurisdiction located outside of the United States), relating to the Pledged Securities, executed and delivered by Parent, a Borrower or a Guarantor of Payment, as applicable, in favor of the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, as the same may from time to time be amended, restated or otherwise modified.
“Pledged Notes” means the promissory notes payable to a Credit Party, as described on Schedule 7.4 hereto, and any additional or future promissory notes that may hereafter from time to time be payable to one or more Credit Parties.
“Pledged Securities” means all of the Equity Interests of a direct Subsidiary of Parent or a Credit Party, whether now owned or hereafter acquired or created, and all proceeds thereof; provided that Pledged Securities shall exclude (a) shares of capital stock or other Equity Interests of (i) any Foreign Subsidiary that is not a first-tier Foreign Subsidiary and (ii) the UDOT Subsidiary, and (b) shares of voting capital stock or other voting Equity Interests in any first-tier Foreign Subsidiary in excess of sixty-five percent (65%) of the total outstanding shares of voting capital stock or other voting Equity Interest of such first-tier Foreign Subsidiary; provided that the foregoing exclusion shall not apply with respect to the Equity Interests of a Foreign Guarantor of Payment. (Schedule 4 hereto lists, as of the Closing Date, all of the Pledged Securities.)
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“Prime Rate” means the interest rate established from time to time by the Administrative Agent as the Administrative Agent’s prime rate, whether or not such rate shall be publicly announced; the Prime Rate may not be the lowest interest rate charged by the Administrative Agent for commercial or other extensions of credit. Each change in the Prime Rate shall be effective immediately from and after such change.
“Proceeds” means (a) proceeds, as that term is defined in the U.C.C., and any other proceeds, and (b) whatever is received upon the sale, exchange, collection or other disposition of Collateral or proceeds, whether cash or non-cash. Cash proceeds include, without limitation, moneys, checks and Deposit Accounts. Proceeds include, without limitation, any Account arising when the right to payment is earned under a contract right, any insurance payable by reason of loss or damage to the Collateral, and any return or unearned premium upon any cancellation of insurance. Except as expressly authorized in this Agreement, the right of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders to Proceeds specifically set forth herein, or indicated in any financing statement, shall never constitute an express or implied authorization on the part of the Administrative Agent or any Lender to a Company’s sale, exchange, collection or other disposition of any or all of the collateral securing the Secured Obligations.
“PTE” means a prohibited transaction class exemption issued by the United States Department of Labor, as any such exemption may be amended from time to time.
“QFC” has the meaning assigned to the term “qualified financial contract” in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 U.S.C. 5390(c)(8)(D).
“Recipient” means, as applicable (a) the Administrative Agent, (b) any Lender, or (c) the Issuing Lender.
“Register” means that term as described in Section 11.9(c) hereof.
“Regularly Scheduled Payment Date” means the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December of each year.
“Related Expenses” means any and all reasonable documented and out‑of‑pocket costs, liabilities and expenses (including, without limitation, losses, damages, penalties, claims, actions, attorneys’ fees, legal expenses, judgments, suits and disbursements) (a) incurred by the Administrative Agent, or imposed upon or asserted against the Administrative Agent or any Lender, in any attempt by the Administrative Agent and the Lenders to (i) obtain, preserve, perfect or enforce any Loan Document or any security interest evidenced by any Loan Document; (ii) obtain payment, performance or observance of any and all of the Secured Obligations; or (iii) maintain, insure, audit, collect, preserve, repossess or dispose of any of the collateral securing the Secured Obligations or any part thereof, including, without limitation, costs and expenses for appraisals, assessments and audits of any Credit Party or any such collateral; or (b) incidental or related to subpart (a) above, including, without limitation, interest thereupon from the date incurred, imposed or asserted until paid at the Default Rate; provided that the Administrative Agent’s counsel fees and expenses shall be limited to reasonable and documented out-of-pocket attorneys’ fees of one firm of counsel and additional counsel required to accommodate conflicts of interest and a single local counsel in each appropriate jurisdiction (which may include a single
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special counsel acting in multiple jurisdictions and, to the extent required by the subject matter, one specialist counsel for each specialized area of law in each appropriate jurisdiction).
“Related Parties” means, with respect to any Person, such Person’s Affiliates and the partners, directors, officers, employees, agents, trustees, administrators, managers, advisors and representatives of such Person and of such Person’s Affiliates.
“Related Writing” means each Loan Document and any other assignment, mortgage, security agreement, guaranty agreement, subordination agreement, financial statement, audit report or other writing furnished by any Credit Party, or any of its officers, to the Administrative Agent or the Lenders pursuant to or otherwise in connection with this Agreement; provided that no Bank Product Agreement or Hedge Agreement shall constitute a Related Writing hereunder.
“Relevant Governmental Body” means the Federal Reserve Board or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or a committee officially endorsed or convened by the Federal Reserve Board or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or any successor thereto.
“Reportable Event” means any of the events described in Section 4043 of ERISA other than events for which the thirty (30) day notice period has been waived by the PBGC.
“Required Lenders” means the holders of more than fifty percent (50%), based upon each Lender’s Commitment Percentage, of an amount (the “Total Amount”) equal to (a) during the Commitment Period, the Maximum Revolving Amount, or (b) after the Commitment Period, the Revolving Credit Exposure; provided that (i) the portion of the Total Amount held or deemed to be held by any Defaulting Lender shall be excluded for purposes of making a determination of Required Lenders, and (ii) if there shall be two or more unaffiliated Lenders (that are not Defaulting Lenders), Required Lenders shall constitute at least two unaffiliated Lenders.
“Resolution Authority” means an EEA Resolution Authority or, with respect to any UK Financial Institution, a UK Resolution Authority.
“Restricted Payment” means, with respect to any Company, (a) any Capital Distribution, (b) any amount paid by such Company in repayment, redemption, retirement or repurchase, directly or indirectly, of any Subordinated Indebtedness, or (c) any amount paid by such Company in respect of any management, consulting or other similar arrangement with any equity holder (other than a Company) of a Company or an Affiliate of a Company.
“Revolving Credit Availability” means, at any time, the amount equal to the Revolving Credit Commitment minus the Revolving Credit Exposure.
“Revolving Credit Commitment” means the obligation hereunder, during the Commitment Period, of (a) the Revolving Lenders (and each Revolving Lender) to make Revolving Loans, (b) the Issuing Lender to issue and each Revolving Lender to participate in, Letters of Credit pursuant to the Letter of Credit Commitment, and (c) the Swing Line Lender to make, and each Revolving Lender to participate in, Swing Loans pursuant to the Swing Line Commitment; up to an aggregate principal amount outstanding at any time equal to the Maximum Revolving Amount.
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“Revolving Credit Exposure” means, at any time, the sum of (a) the aggregate principal amount of all Revolving Loans outstanding, (b) the Swing Line Exposure, and (c) the Letter of Credit Exposure.
“Revolving Credit Note” means a Revolving Credit Note, in the form of the attached Exhibit A, executed and delivered pursuant to Section 2.5(a) hereof.
“Revolving Lender” means a Lender with a percentage of the Revolving Credit Commitment as set forth on Schedule 1 hereto, or that acquires a percentage of the Revolving Credit Commitment pursuant to Section 2.10(b), 3.6 or 11.9 hereof.
“Revolving Loan” means a loan made to the Borrowers by the Revolving Lenders in accordance with Section 2.2(a) hereof.
“Sales Agent Advances” means loans, advances and other investments by a Credit Party in or to a Sales Agent.
“Sales Agents” means commissioned agents or agencies and business entities formed by commissioned agents or agencies which provide goods or services to a Credit Party in connection with the transportation of goods.
“Sanctioned Country” means any country or territory (a) which is itself the subject or target of any Sanctions or (b) located, organized or resident in a country or territory that is the subject of Sanctions (including, without limitation, the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic, the so-called Luhansk People’s Republic or any other Covered Region of Ukraine identified pursuant to Executive Order 14065, Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea and Syria).
“Sanctions” means any sanctions administered or enforced from time to time by (a) the U.S. government, including those administered by the U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control or the U.S. Department of State or (b) the United Nations Security Council, the European Union or Her Majesty’s Treasury of the United Kingdom, or other relevant sanctions authorities.
“Secured Obligations” means, collectively, (a) the Obligations, (b) all obligations and liabilities of the Companies owing to a Lender (or an entity that is an Affiliate of a then existing Lender) under Hedge Agreements, and (c) the Bank Product Obligations owing to a Lender (or an entity that is an Affiliate of a then existing Lender) under Bank Product Agreements; provided that Secured Obligations of a Credit Party shall not include Excluded Swap Obligations owing from such Credit Party.
“Securities Account” means a securities account, as that term is defined in the U.C.C.
“Securities Account Control Agreement” means each Securities Account Control Agreement (or similar agreement with respect to a Securities Account) among a Credit Party, the Administrative Agent and a Securities Intermediary, to be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, as the same may from time to time be amended, restated or otherwise modified.
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“Securities Intermediary” means a clearing corporation or a Person, including, without limitation, a bank or broker, that in the ordinary course of its business maintains Securities Accounts for others and is acting in that capacity.
“Security Agreement” means each Security Agreement (and each document of similar import creating a Lien under the laws of a jurisdiction located outside of the United States), executed and delivered by one or more Guarantors of Payment in favor of the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, as the same may from time to time be amended, restated or otherwise modified.
“Security Agreement Joinder” means each Security Agreement ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, executed and delivered by a Guarantor of Payment for the purpose of adding such Guarantor of Payment as a party to a previously executed Security Agreement.
“Security Document” means each Security Agreement, each Security Agreement Joinder, each Pledge Agreement, each Intellectual Property Security Agreement, each Collateral Access Agreement, each Control Agreement, and each document of similar import creating or perfecting a Lien under the laws of a jurisdiction located outside of the United States, and each other agreement executed or provided to the Administrative Agent in connection with any of the foregoing, as any of the foregoing may from time to time be amended, restated or otherwise modified or replaced.
“SOFR” means a rate equal to the secured overnight financing rate as administered by the SOFR Administrator.
“SOFR Administrator” means the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (or a successor administrator of the secured overnight financing rate).
“SOFR Administrator’s Website” means the website of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, currently at ▇▇▇▇://▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇, or any successor source for the secured overnight financing rate identified as such by the SOFR Administrator from time to time.
“SOFR Business Day” means any day except for (i) a Saturday, (ii) a Sunday or (iii) a day on which the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association recommends that the fixed income departments of its members be closed for the entire day for purposes of trading in United States government securities.
“SOFR Index Adjustment” means a percentage per annum equal to one-tenth of one percent (0.10%).
“SOFR Loan” means a Daily Simple SOFR Loan or a Term SOFR Loan.
“Standard & Poor’s” means S&P Global Ratings, a business unit of Standard & Poor’s Financial Services LLC, a subsidiary of S&P Global Inc., and any successor thereto.
“Subordinated Debt Documents” means each subordinated promissory note or agreement issued by a Credit Party to Parent, and each other promissory note, instrument and agreement executed in connection therewith.
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“Subordinated Indebtedness” means Indebtedness that shall have been subordinated (by written terms or written agreement being, in either case, in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, including pursuant to the Intercompany Subordination Agreement) in favor of the prior payment in full of the Obligations.
“Subsidiary” means, with respect to any Person, (a) a corporation more than fifty percent (50%) of the Voting Power of which is owned, directly or indirectly, by such Person or by one or more other subsidiaries of such Person or by such Person and one or more subsidiaries of such Person, (b) a partnership, limited liability company or unlimited liability company of which such Person, one or more other subsidiaries of such Person or such Person and one or more subsidiaries of such Person, directly or indirectly, is a general partner or managing member, as the case may be, or otherwise has an ownership interest greater than fifty percent (50%) of all of the ownership interests in such partnership, limited liability company or unlimited liability company, or (c) any other Person (other than a corporation, partnership, limited liability company or unlimited liability company) in which such Person, one or more other subsidiaries of such Person or such Person and one or more subsidiaries of such Person, directly or indirectly, has at least a majority interest in the Voting Power or the power to elect or direct the election of a majority of directors or other governing body of such Person.
“Supporting Letter of Credit” means a standby letter of credit, in form and substance satisfactory to the Issuing Lender, issued by an issuer satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Issuing Lender.
“Swap Contract” means (a) any and all rate swap transactions, basis swaps, credit derivative transactions, forward rate transactions, commodity swaps, commodity options, forward commodity contracts, equity or equity index swaps or options, bond or bond price or bond index swaps or options or forward bond or forward bond price or forward bond index transactions, interest rate options, forward foreign exchange transactions, cap transactions, floor transactions, collar transactions, currency swap transactions, cross-currency rate swap transactions, currency options, spot contracts, or any other similar transactions or any combination of any of the foregoing (including any options to enter into any of the foregoing), whether or not any such transaction is governed by or subject to any master agreement, and (b) any and all transactions of any kind, and the related confirmations, that are subject to the terms and conditions of, or governed by, any form of master agreement published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc., any International Foreign Exchange Master Agreement, or any other master agreement (any such master agreement, together with any related schedules, a “Master Agreement”), including any such obligations or liabilities under any Master Agreement.
“Swap Obligations” means, with respect to any Company, any obligation to pay or perform under any agreement, contract or transaction that constitutes a “swap” within the meaning of section 1a(47) of the Commodity Exchange Act.
“Swap Termination Value” means, as to any one or more Swap Contracts, after taking into account the effect of any legally enforceable netting agreement relating to such Swap Contracts, (a) for any date on or after the date such Swap Contracts have been closed out and termination value(s) determined in accordance therewith, such termination value(s), and (b) for any date prior to the date referenced in clause (a), the amount(s) determined as the mark-to-market value(s) for
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such Swap Contracts, as determined based upon one or more mid-market or other readily available quotations provided by any recognized dealer in such Swap Contracts (which may include a Lender or any Affiliate of a Lender).
“Swing Line Commitment” means the commitment of the Swing Line Lender to make Swing Loans to the Borrowers, on a discretionary basis, up to the aggregate amount at any time outstanding of Twenty Million Dollars ($20,000,000).
“Swing Line Exposure” means, at any time, the aggregate principal amount of all Swing Loans outstanding.
“Swing Line Lender” means KeyBank, as holder of the Swing Line Commitment.
“Swing Line Note” means the Swing Line Note, in the form of the attached Exhibit B, executed and delivered pursuant to Section 2.5(b) hereof.
“Swing Loan” means a loan that shall be denominated in Dollars made to the Borrowers by the Swing Line Lender under the Swing Line Commitment, in accordance with Section 2.2(c) hereof.
“Swing Loan Maturity Date” means, with respect to any Swing Loan, the earliest of (a) thirty (30) days after the date such Swing Loan is made, (b) demand by the Swing Line Lender, or (c) the last day of the Commitment Period.
“Synthetic Indebtedness” means, with respect to any Person as of any date of determination thereof, all obligations of such Person in respect of transactions entered into by such Person that are intended to function primarily as a borrowing of funds (including, any minority interest transactions that function primarily as a borrowing) but are not otherwise included in the definition of “Indebtedness” or as a liability on the consolidated balance sheet of such Person and its Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP.
“Synthetic Lease Obligation” means the monetary obligation of a Person under (a) a so-called synthetic, off-balance sheet or tax retention lease or (b) an agreement for the use or possession of property creating obligations that do not appear on the balance sheet of such Person but, upon the insolvency or bankruptcy of such Person, would be characterized as the indebtedness of such Person (without regard to accounting treatment).
“Taxes” means all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, withholdings (including backup withholding), assessments, fees or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority, including any interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable thereto.
“Term SOFR” means for any calculation with respect to a Term SOFR Loan, the Term SOFR Reference Rate for a tenor comparable to the applicable Interest Period on the day (such day, the “Lookback Day”) that is two SOFR Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest Period (and rounded in accordance with the Administrative Agent’s customary practice), as such rate is published by the Term SOFR Administrator; provided, however, that if as of 5:00 p.m. (Eastern Time) on any Lookback Day the Term SOFR Reference Rate for the applicable tenor has not been published by the Term SOFR Administrator and a Benchmark Replacement Date with
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respect to the Term SOFR Reference Rate has not occurred, then Term SOFR will be the Term SOFR Reference Rate for such tenor as published by the Term SOFR Administrator on the first preceding SOFR Business Day for which such Term SOFR Reference Rate for such tenor was published by the Term SOFR Administrator so long as such first preceding SOFR Business Day is not more than three SOFR Business Days prior to such Lookback Day, and for any calculation with respect to a Base Rate Loan, the Term SOFR Reference Rate for a tenor of one month on the day that is two SOFR Business Days prior to the date the Base Rate is determined, subject to the proviso provided above.
“Term SOFR Administrator” means CME Group Benchmark Administration Ltd. (or a successor administrator of the Term SOFR Reference Rate, as selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion).
“Term SOFR Loan” means a Revolving Loan described in Section 2.2(a) hereof, in each case on which the Borrowers shall pay interest at the Derived Term SOFR Rate.
“Term SOFR Reference Rate” means the forward-looking term rate based on SOFR.
“Third Amendment Effective Date” means October 1, 2025.
“Trade Date” means that term as defined in Section 11.9(g)(i) hereof.
“UACL Credit Facility” means that certain Credit and Security Agreement, dated as of September 30, 2022, by and among certain of the UACL Subsidiaries as borrowers, the lenders party thereto and KeyBank National Association as the administrative agent, and the other loan documents entered into in connection therewith.
“UACL Subsidiaries” means Universal Capacity Solutions Holdings, Inc., a Michigan corporation, and each of its Subsidiaries.
“U.C.C.” means the Uniform Commercial Code, as in effect from time to time in the State of New York; provided that, if perfection or the effect of perfection or non-perfection or the priority of any security interest in any Collateral is governed by the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in a jurisdiction other than the State of New York, “U.C.C.” means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect from time to time in such other jurisdiction for purposes of the provisions hereof relating to such perfection, effect of perfection or non-perfection or priority.
“U.C.C. Financing Statement” means a financing statement filed or to be filed in accordance with the Uniform Commercial Code, as in effect from time to time, in the relevant state or states.
“UDOT Subsidiary” means UDOT CTL-Funding, LLC, a Tennessee limited liability company, which entity is a wholly-owned direct subsidiary of Universal Development of Tennessee, LLC,
“UK Financial Institution” means any BRRD Undertaking (as such term is defined under the PRA Rulebook (as amended form time to time) promulgated by the United Kingdom Prudential Regulation Authority) or any person falling within IFPRU 11.6 of the FCA Handbook (as amended
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from time to time) promulgated by the United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority, which includes certain credit institutions and investment firms, and certain affiliates of such credit institutions or investment firms.
“UK Resolution Authority” means the Bank of England or any other public administrative authority having responsibility for the resolution of any UK Financial Institution.
“Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement” means the applicable Benchmark Replacement excluding the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment.
“U.S. Person” means any Person that is a “United States Person” as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code.
“U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate” means that term as defined in Section 3.2(e) hereof.
“United States” or “U.S.” means the United States of America.
“Universal Group” means Parent and its Subsidiaries, excluding the UACLExcluded Subsidiaries; provided that in the event Immaterial Subsidiaries, Parent and Foreign Subsidiaries, collectively, represent more than five percent (5%) of Combined EBITDA, “Universal Group” means the Borrowers and the Guarantors of Payment under this Agreement.
“Universal Management” means that term as defined in the first paragraph of this Agreement.
“Unrestricted Domestic Cash Amount” means, at any date, that portion of a Borrower’s or a Domestic Guarantor of Payment’s aggregate cash and Cash Equivalents that is on deposit with one or more Lenders and that is not encumbered by or subject to any Lien (other than in favor of the Administrative Agent), setoff (other than ordinary course setoff rights of a depository bank arising under a bank depository agreement for customary fees, charges and other account-related expenses due to such depository bank thereunder), counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other right in favor of any Person.
“UTS” means UTS Realty, LLC, a Michigan limited liability company.
“UTSI” means UTSI Finance, Inc., a Michigan corporation.
“Voting Power” means, with respect to any Person, the exclusive ability to control, through the ownership of shares of capital stock, partnership interests, membership interests or otherwise, the election of members of the board of directors or other similar governing body of such Person. The holding of a designated percentage of Voting Power of a Person means the ownership of shares of capital stock, partnership interests, membership interests or other interests of such Person sufficient to control exclusively the election of that percentage of the members of the board of directors or similar governing body of such Person.
“Welfare Plan” means an ERISA Plan that is a “welfare plan” within the meaning of ERISA Section 3(l).
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“Write‑Down and Conversion Powers” means, (a) with respect to any EEA Resolution Authority, the write-down and conversion powers of such EEA Resolution Authority from time to time under the Bail-In Legislation for the applicable EEA Member Country, which write-down and conversion powers are described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule, and (b) with respect to the United Kingdom, any powers of the applicable Resolution Authority under the Bail-In Legislation to cancel, reduce, modify or change the form of a liability of any UK Financial Institution or any contract or instrument under which that liability arises, to convert all or part of that liability into shares, securities or obligations of that person or any other person, to provide that any such contract or instrument is to have effect as if a right had been exercised under it or to suspend any obligation in respect of that liability or any of the powers under that Bail-In Legislation that are related to or ancillary to any of those powers.
Section 1.2. Accounting Terms.
Section 1.3. Terms Generally. The foregoing definitions shall be applicable to the singular and plural forms of the foregoing defined terms. Unless otherwise defined in this Article I, terms that are defined in the U.C.C. are used herein as so defined.
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Section 1.4. Divisions. For all purposes under the Loan Documents, in connection with any division or plan of division under Delaware law (or any comparable event under a different jurisdiction’s laws): (a) if any asset, right, obligation or liability of any Person becomes the asset, right, obligation or liability of a different Person, then it shall be deemed to have been transferred from the original Person to the subsequent Person, and (b) if any new Person comes into existence, such new Person shall be deemed to have been organized on the first date of its existence by the holders of its equity interests at such time.
Section 1.5. Rates. The interest rate on Loans denominated in Dollars may be determined by reference to a benchmark rate that is, or may in the future become, the subject of regulatory reform or cessation. The Administrative Agent does not warrant or accept responsibility for, and shall not have any liability with respect to (a) the continuation of, administration of, submission of, calculation of or any other matter related to the Base Rate, Daily Simple SOFR, Adjusted Daily Simple SOFR, the Term SOFR Reference Rate, Adjusted Term SOFR or Term SOFR, or any component definition thereof or rates referred to in the definition thereof, or any alternative, successor or replacement rate thereto (including any Benchmark Replacement), including whether the composition or characteristics of any such alternative, successor or replacement rate (including any Benchmark Replacement) will be similar to, or produce the same value or economic equivalence of, or have the same volume or liquidity as, the Base Rate, Daily Simple SOFR, Adjusted Daily Simple SOFR, the Term SOFR Reference Rate, Adjusted Term SOFR or Term SOFR or any other Benchmark prior to its discontinuance or unavailability, or (b) the effect, implementation or composition of any Conforming Changes. The Administrative Agent and its affiliates or other related entities may engage in transactions that affect the calculation of the Base Rate, Daily Simple SOFR, Adjusted Daily Simple SOFR, the Term SOFR Reference Rate, Adjusted Term SOFR or Term SOFR, any alternative, successor or replacement rate (including any Benchmark Replacement) or any relevant adjustments thereto, in each case, in a manner adverse to the Borrowers. The Administrative Agent may select information sources or services in its reasonable discretion to ascertain the Base Rate, Daily Simple SOFR, Adjusted Daily Simple SOFR, the Term SOFR Reference Rate, Adjusted Term SOFR or Term SOFR or any other Benchmark, in each case pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, and shall have no liability to the Borrowers, any Lender or any other person or entity for damages of any kind, including direct or indirect, special, punitive, incidental or consequential damages, costs, losses or expenses (whether in tort, contract or otherwise and whether at law or in equity), for any error or calculation of any such rate (or component thereof) provided by any such information source or service. The Administrative Agent will, in keeping with industry practice, continue using its current rounding practices in connection with the Base Rate, Daily Simple SOFR, Adjusted Daily Simple SOFR, the Term SOFR Reference Rate, Adjusted Term SOFR or Term SOFR. In connection with the use or administration of Daily Simple SOFR and Term SOFR, the Administrative Agent will have the right to make Conforming Changes from time to time and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, any amendments implementing such Conforming Changes will become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement or any other Loan Document. The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Administrative Borrower and the Lenders of the effectiveness of any Conforming Changes in connection with the use or administration of Daily Simple SOFR and Term SOFR.
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ARTICLE II. AMOUNT AND TERMS OF CREDIT
Section 2.1. Amount and Nature of Credit.
Section 2.2. Revolving Credit Commitment.
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Section 2.3. [Reserved].
Section 2.4. Interest.
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Section 2.5. Evidence of Indebtedness.
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Section 2.6. Notice of Loans and Credit Events; Funding of Loans.
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Section 2.7. Payment on Loans and Other Obligations.
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Section 2.8. Prepayment.
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Section 2.9. Commitment and Other Fees.
Section 2.10. Modifications to Commitment.
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Section 2.11. Computation of Interest and Fees. With the exception of Base Rate Loans, interest on Loans, Letter of Credit fees, Related Expenses and commitment and other fees and charges hereunder shall be computed on the basis of a year having three hundred sixty (360) days and calculated for the actual number of days elapsed. With respect to Base Rate Loans, interest shall be computed on the basis of a year having three hundred sixty-five (365) days or three hundred sixty-six (366) days, as the case may be, and calculated for the actual number of days elapsed.
Section 2.12. Mandatory Payments.
Section 2.13. Cash Collateral. At any time that there shall exist a Defaulting Lender, within one Business Day following the written request of the Administrative Agent or the Issuing Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), the Borrowers shall Cash Collateralize the Issuing Lender’s Fronting Exposure with respect to such Defaulting Lender (determined after giving effect to Section 11.10(a)(iv) hereof and any Cash Collateral provided by such Defaulting Lender) in an amount not less than the Minimum Collateral Amount.
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Section 2.14. Liability of Borrowers.
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Section 2.15. Extension of Commitment Period.
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Section 2.16. Addition of a Borrower. At the request of the Administrative Borrower (with at least seven days prior written notice to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders), a Domestic Subsidiary, the equity interests of which are one hundred percent (100%) owned, directly or indirectly, by Parent may become a Borrower hereunder, provided that all of the following requirements shall have been met to the satisfaction of the Administrative Agent:
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ARTICLE III. INCREASED COSTS; ILLEGALITY; INABILITY TO DETERMINE RATES; TAXES
Section 3.1. Requirements of Law.
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and the result of any of the foregoing is to increase the cost to such Lender of making, converting into, continuing or maintaining Loans or issuing or participating in Letters of Credit, or to reduce any amount receivable hereunder in respect thereof, then, in any such case, the Borrowers shall pay to such Lender, promptly after receipt of a written request therefor, any additional amounts necessary to compensate such Lender for such increased cost or reduced amount receivable. If any Lender becomes entitled to claim any additional amounts pursuant to this subsection (a), such Lender shall promptly notify the Administrative Borrower (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) of the event with reasonable detail by reason of which it has become so entitled.
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Section 3.3. Breakage Compensation. The Borrowers shall compensate each Lender upon its written request (which request shall set forth the detailed basis for requesting and the method of calculating such compensation), for all reasonable losses, costs, expenses and liabilities (including, without limitation, any loss, cost, expense or liability incurred by reason of the liquidation or reemployment of deposits or other funds required by such Lender to fund its SOFR Loans) which such Lender may sustain in connection with any of the following: (a) if for any reason (other than a default by such Lender or the Administrative Agent) a borrowing of a SOFR Loans does not occur on a date specified therefor in a Notice of Loan or a continuation or conversion (whether or not withdrawn by a Borrower or deemed withdrawn pursuant to Section 3.5 hereof); (b) if any repayment, prepayment, conversion or continuation of any SOFR Loan occurs on a date that is not the last day of an Interest Period applicable thereto; (c) if any prepayment of any of its SOFR Loans is not made on any date specified in a notice of prepayment given by the Borrowers; (d) as a result of an assignment by a Lender of any SOFR Loan other than on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto pursuant to a request by the Borrower pursuant to Section 3.5 hereof or (e) as a consequence of (i) any other default by the Borrowers to repay or prepay any SOFR Loans when required by the terms of this Agreement or (ii) an election made pursuant to Section 3.5 hereof. The written request of any Lender setting forth any amount or amounts that such Lender is entitled to receive pursuant to this Section 3.3 shall be delivered to the Administrative Borrower, together with a reasonably detailed calculation and description of
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such amounts, and shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The Borrowers shall pay such Lender the amount shown as due on any such request within ten (10) days after receipt thereof.
Section 3.4. Change of Lending Office. Each Lender agrees that, upon the occurrence of any event giving rise to the operation of Section 3.1 or 3.2(a) or 3.2(c) hereof with respect to such Lender, it will, if requested by the Administrative Borrower, use reasonable efforts (subject to overall policy considerations of such Lender) to designate (or assign to) another lending office (or an Affiliate of such Lender, if practical for such Lender) for any Loans affected by such event with the object of avoiding the consequences of such event; provided, that such designation is made on terms that, in the sole judgment of such Lender, cause such Lender and its lending office(s) to suffer no economic, legal or regulatory disadvantage; and provided, further, that nothing in this Section 3.4 shall affect or postpone any of the obligations of any Borrower or the rights of any Lender pursuant to Section 3.1, 3.2(a) or 3.2(c) hereof.
Section 3.5. SOFR Rate Lending Unlawful; Inability to Determine Rate.
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Section 3.6. Replacement of Lenders. The Administrative Borrower shall be permitted to replace any Lender that requests reimbursement for amounts owing pursuant to Section 3.1, 3.2(a) or 3.2(c) hereof, or asserts its inability to make a SOFR Loan pursuant to Section 3.5 hereof; provided that (a) such replacement does not conflict with any Law, (b) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of such replacement, (c) prior to any such replacement, such Lender shall have taken no action under Section 3.4 hereof so as to eliminate the continued need for payment of amounts owing pursuant to Section 3.1, 3.2(a) or 3.2(c) hereof or, if it has taken any action, such request has still been made, (d) the replacement financial institution shall purchase, at par, all Loans and other amounts owing to such replaced Lender on or prior to the date of replacement and assume all commitments and obligations of such replaced Lender, (e) the Borrowers shall be liable to such replaced Lender under Section 3.3 hereof if any Term SOFR Loan owing to such replaced Lender shall be purchased other than on the last day of the Interest Period relating thereto, (f) the replacement Lender, if not already a Lender, shall be satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, (g) the replaced Lender shall be obligated to make such replacement in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.9 hereof (provided that the Borrowers (or the succeeding Lender, if such Lender is willing) shall be obligated to pay the assignment fee referred to therein), and (h) until such time as such replacement shall be consummated, the Borrowers shall pay all additional amounts (if any) required pursuant to Section 3.1 3.2(a) or 3.2(c) hereof, as the case may be; provided that a Lender shall not be required to make any such assignment if, prior
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thereto, as a result of a waiver by such Lender or otherwise, the circumstances entitling the Borrowers to replace such Lender cease to apply.
Section 3.7. Discretion of Lenders as to Manner of Funding. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, each Lender shall be entitled to fund and maintain its funding of all or any part of such Lender’s Loans in any manner such Lender deems to be appropriate; it being understood, however, that for the purposes of this Agreement all determinations hereunder shall be made as if such Lender had actually funded and maintained each Term SOFR Loan during the applicable Interest Period for such Loan through the purchase of deposits having a maturity corresponding to such Interest Period and bearing an interest rate equal to Adjusted Term SOFR for such Interest Period.
Section 3.8. Permanent Inability to Determine Rate; Benchmark Replacement.
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ARTICLE IV. CONDITIONS PRECEDENT
Section 4.1. Conditions to Each Credit Event. The obligation of the Lenders, the Issuing Lender and the Swing Line Lender to participate in any Credit Event shall be conditioned, in the case of each Credit Event, upon the following:
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Each request by the Administrative Borrower or any other Borrower for a Credit Event shall be deemed to be a representation and warranty by the Borrowers as of the date of such request as to the satisfaction of the conditions precedent specified in subsections (c) and (d) above. Notwithstanding the failure to satisfy the conditions precedent set forth in this Section 4.1, unless otherwise directed by the Required Lenders, the Administrative Agent may, but shall have no obligation to, continue to make Loans, and the Issuing Lender may, but shall have no obligation to, issue, amend, renew or extend, or cause to be issued, amended, renewed or extended, any Letter of Credit for the ratable account and risk of the Lenders from time to time, if the Administrative Agent believes that making such Loans or issuing, amending, renewing or extending, or causing the issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of, any such Letter of Credit is in the best interests of the Lenders.
Section 4.2. Conditions to the First Credit Event. The Borrowers shall cause the following conditions to be satisfied on or prior to the Closing Date. The obligation of the Lenders, the Issuing Lender and the Swing Line Lender to participate in the first Credit Event is subject to the Borrowers satisfying each of the following conditions prior to or concurrently with such Credit Event:
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Section 4.3. Post-Closing ConditionsSection. On or before each of the dates specified in this Section 4.3 (unless a longer period is agreed to in writing by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion), the Borrowers shall satisfy each of the following items specified in the subsections below:
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ARTICLE V. COVENANTS
Section 5.1. Insurance. Each Credit Party shall at all times maintain insurance upon its Inventory, Equipment and other personal and real property (including, if applicable, insurance required by the National Flood Insurance Reform Act of 1994) in such form, written by such companies, in such amounts, for such periods, and against such risks as may be reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent, with provisions reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent for, with respect to Credit Parties, payment of all losses thereunder to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, and such Credit Party as their interests may appear (with lender’s loss payable and additional insured endorsements, as appropriate, in favor of the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders), and, if required by the Administrative Agent during the occurrence of an Event of Default, the Borrowers shall deposit the policies with the Administrative Agent. Any such policies of insurance shall provide for no fewer than thirty (30) days prior (or ten (10) days in the case of non-payment) written notice of cancellation to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders. Any sums received by the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, in payment of insurance losses, returns, or unearned premiums under the policies may, at the option of the Administrative Agent, be applied upon the Obligations whether or not the same is then due and payable, or may be delivered to the Companies for the purpose of replacing, repairing, or restoring the insured property. The Administrative Agent is hereby authorized to act as attorney-in-fact for the Credit Parties, after the occurrence of an Event of Default, in obtaining, adjusting, settling and canceling such insurance and indorsing any drafts. In the event of failure to provide such insurance as herein provided, the Administrative Agent may, at its option, provide such insurance and the Borrowers shall pay to the Administrative Agent, upon demand, the cost thereof. Should the Borrowers fail to pay such sum to the Administrative Agent upon demand, interest shall accrue thereon, from the date of demand until paid in full, at the Default Rate. Within ten (10) days of the Administrative Agent’s written request, the Borrowers shall furnish to the Administrative Agent such information about the insurance of the Credit Parties as the Administrative Agent may from time to time reasonably request, which information shall be prepared in form and detail reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and certified by a Financial Officer.
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Section 5.2. Money Obligations. Each Credit Party shall pay in full (a) prior in each case to the date when penalties would attach, all taxes, assessments and governmental charges and levies (except only those so long as and to the extent that the same shall be contested in good faith by appropriate and timely proceedings and for which adequate provisions have been established in accordance with GAAP) for which it may be or become liable or to which any or all of its properties may be or become subject; (b) in the case of each Domestic Company, all of its material wage obligations to its employees in compliance with the Fair Labor Standards Act (29 U.S.C. §§ 206‑207) or any comparable provisions, and, in the case of each Foreign Guarantor of Payment, those obligations under foreign Laws with respect to employee source deductions, obligations and employer obligations to its employees; and (c) all of its other material obligations calling for the payment of money (except only those so long as and to the extent that the same shall be contested in good faith and for which adequate provisions have been established in accordance with GAAP) before such payment becomes overdue.
Section 5.3. Financial Statements and Information.
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Section 5.4. Financial Records. Each Company shall at all times maintain true and complete in all material respects records and books of account, including, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, appropriate provisions for possible losses and liabilities, all in accordance with GAAP, and at all reasonable times (during normal business hours and, other than after the occurrence of an Event of Default, upon reasonable notice to such Company) permit the Administrative Agent or any Lender, or any representative of the Administrative Agent or such Lender, to examine such Company’s books and records and to make excerpts therefrom and transcripts thereof.
Section 5.5. Franchises; Change in Business.
Section 5.6. ERISA Pension and Benefit Plan Compliance.
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Section 5.7. Financial Covenants.
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Section 5.8. Borrowing. No Company shall create, incur or have outstanding any Indebtedness of any kind; provided that this Section 5.8 shall not apply to the following:
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Section 5.9. Liens. No Company shall create, assume or suffer to exist (upon the happening of a contingency or otherwise) any Lien upon any of its property or assets, whether now owned or hereafter acquired; provided that this Section 5.9 shall not apply to the following:
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No Company shall enter into any contract or agreement (other than a contract or agreement entered into in connection with the purchase or lease of fixed assets that prohibits Liens on such fixed assets) that would prohibit the Administrative Agent or the Lenders from acquiring a security interest, mortgage or other Lien on, or a collateral assignment of, any of the property or assets of such Company.
Section 5.10. Regulations T, U and X. No Company shall take any action that would result in any non‑compliance of the Loans or Letters of Credit with Regulations T, U or X, or any other applicable regulation, of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.
Section 5.11. Investments, Loans and Guaranties. No Company shall (a) create, acquire or hold any Subsidiary, (b) make or hold any investment in any stocks, bonds or securities of any kind, (c) be or become a party to any joint venture or other partnership, (d) make or keep outstanding any advance or loan to any Person, or (e) be or become a Guarantor of any kind (other than a Guarantor of Payment under the Loan Documents); provided that this Section 5.11 shall not apply to the following:
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For purposes of this Section 5.11, the amount of any investment in equity interests shall be based upon the initial amount invested and shall not include any appreciation in value or return on such investment.
Section 5.12. Merger and Sale of Assets. No Company shall merge, amalgamate or consolidate with any other Person, or sell, lease or transfer or otherwise dispose of any assets to any Person other than in the ordinary course of business, except that, if no Default or Event of Default shall then exist or immediately thereafter shall begin to exist:
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Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein or in any other Loan Document, no Company will consummate any “Division” (as defined in Section 18-217 of the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act) or similar organizational change that may hereafter be permitted under any applicable statute of Delaware or any other jurisdiction unless the Required Lenders shall have expressly consented to any such action in writing.
Section 5.13. Acquisitions. No Company shall effect an Acquisition; provided that a Company may effect any Acquisition so long as:
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Section 5.14. Notice. Each Borrower shall cause a Financial Officer of such Borrower to promptly notify the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, in writing, whenever any of the following shall occur:
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Section 5.15. Restricted Payments. No Company shall make or commit itself to make any Restricted Payment at any time, except that:
Section 5.16. Environmental Compliance. Each Domestic Company and Foreign Guarantor of Payment shall comply in all material respects with any and all applicable Environmental Laws and Environmental Permits including, without limitation, all Environmental Laws in jurisdictions in which such Domestic Company or Foreign Guarantor of Payment owns or operates a facility or site, arranges for disposal or treatment of hazardous substances, solid waste or other wastes, accepts for transport any hazardous substances, solid waste or other wastes or holds any interest in real property or otherwise. The Administrative Borrower shall furnish to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, promptly after receipt thereof, a copy of any notice any Domestic Company or Foreign Guarantor of Payment may receive from any Governmental Authority or private Person, or otherwise, that any material litigation or proceeding pertaining to any environmental, health or safety matter has been filed or is threatened against such Domestic Company or Foreign Guarantor of Payment , any real property in which such Domestic Company or Foreign Guarantor of Payment holds any interest or any past or present operation of such Domestic Company or Foreign Guarantor of Payment. No Domestic Company or Foreign Guarantor of Payment shall release or dispose of hazardous waste, solid waste or other wastes on, under or to any real property in which any Domestic Company holds any ownership interest or performs any of its operations, in violation of any Environmental Law. As used in this Section 5.16, “litigation or proceeding” means any demand, claim, notice, suit, suit in equity action, administrative action, investigation or inquiry whether brought by any Governmental Authority or private Person, or otherwise. Each Borrower shall defend, indemnify and hold the Administrative Agent and the Lenders harmless against all costs, expenses, claims, damages, penalties and liabilities of every kind or nature whatsoever (including attorneys’ fees) arising out of or resulting from the noncompliance of any Domestic Company or Foreign Guarantor of Payment with any Environmental Law. Such indemnification shall survive any termination of this Agreement.
Section 5.17. Affiliate Transactions. No Company shall, directly or indirectly, purchase, acquire or lease any property from, or sell, transfer or lease any property to, or otherwise enter into any transaction or deal with, any Affiliate (other than a Credit Party), except for (i) transactions among Credit Parties which are not expressly prohibited by the terms of this Agreement and which are in the ordinary course of business, (ii) payment by Companies of Restricted Payments permitted under Section 5.15 hereof, (iii) transactions disclosed to the Administrative Agent in writing which are in the ordinary course of business, on an arm’s-length basis on terms and
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conditions no less favorable than terms and conditions which would have been obtainable from a Person other than an Affiliate, (iv) transactions with ▇.▇.▇. Transportation, Inc. and the MFS Entities which are in the Ordinary Course of Business, on an arm’s-length basis on terms and conditions no less favorable than terms and conditions which would have been obtainable from a Person other than an Affiliate, and (v) payment of annual management fees in an aggregate amount not to exceed three percent (3%) of gross revenue per year so long as (i) no Default or Event of Default shall then exist or, after giving pro forma effect to such disposition, thereafter shall begin to exist, and (ii) the Borrowers shall be in pro forma compliance with the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio (as set forth in Section 5.7(b) hereof) both before and after giving pro forma effect to such payment.
Section 5.18. Use of Proceeds. The Borrowers’ use of the proceeds of the Loans shall be for working capital and other general corporate purposes of the Companies, for the refinancing of existing Indebtedness, and for Acquisitions permitted hereunder. The Borrowers will not, directly or indirectly, use the proceeds of the Loans, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any Subsidiary, Affiliate, joint venture partner or other Person, (a) (i) to fund any activities or business of or with any Person, or in any country or territory, that, at the time of such funding, is, or whose government is, a Sanctioned Country, or (ii) in any other manner that would result in a violation of Sanctions by any Person (including any Person participating in the Loans, whether as underwriter, advisor, investor, or otherwise); or (b) in furtherance of an offer, payment, promise to pay, or authorization of the payment or giving of money, or anything else of value, to any Person in violation of Anti-Corruption Laws. The Borrowers shall cause all of the net proceeds of the CTL Financing Indebtedness to be used (concurrently upon the incurrence thereof) to (i) first, repay in full all outstanding indebtedness and other obligations owing under the UACL Credit Facility, and (ii) second, make a prepayment on the outstanding Revolving Loans.
Section 5.19. Corporate Names and Locations of Collateral. No Credit Party shall (a) change its corporate name, or (b) change its state, province or other jurisdiction, or form of organization, or extend or continue its existence in or to any other jurisdiction (other than its jurisdiction of organization at the date of this Agreement); unless, in each case, the Administrative Borrower shall have provided the Administrative Agent with at least thirty (30) days (or such lesser period of time as the Administrative Agent may agree in its reasonable discretion) prior written notice thereof. The Administrative Borrower shall also provide the Administrative Agent with at least thirty (30) days (or such lesser period of time as the Administrative Agent may agree in its reasonable discretion) prior written notification of (i) any change in any location where any Credit Party’s Inventory or Equipment is maintained, and any new locations where any Credit Party’s Inventory or Equipment is to be maintained; provided that, for purposes of the foregoing, rolling stock or other mobile Equipment shall not be deemed to be “maintained” in a location when in transit in the ordinary course of business, nor shall rolling stock or other mobile Equipment be deemed “maintained” in a location where it is temporarily located for repairs or maintenance; (ii) any change in the location of the office where any Credit Party’s records pertaining to its Accounts are kept; (iii) the location of any new places of business and the changing or closing of any of its existing places of business; and (iv) any change in the location of any Credit Party’s chief executive office. In the event of any of the foregoing or if otherwise deemed appropriate by the Administrative Agent, the Administrative Agent is hereby authorized to file new U.C.C. Financing Statements describing the Collateral and otherwise in form and substance sufficient for recordation wherever necessary or appropriate, as determined in the Administrative Agent’s sole discretion, to
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perfect or continue perfected the security interest of the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, in the Collateral. The Borrowers shall pay all filing and recording fees and taxes in connection with the filing or recordation of such U.C.C. Financing Statements and security interests and shall promptly reimburse the Administrative Agent therefor if the Administrative Agent pays the same. Such amounts not so paid or reimbursed shall be Related Expenses hereunder.
Section 5.20. Subsidiary Guaranties, Security Documents and Pledge of Stock or Other Ownership Interest.
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Section 5.21. Collateral. Each Credit Party shall:
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Each Credit Party hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent, on behalf of the Lenders, to file U.C.C. Financing Statements or other appropriate notices with respect to the Collateral. If the aggregate value of the Inventory or Equipment of the Credit Parties (excluding LGSI) for which certificates of title or applications for title are issued or outstanding exceeds Ten Million Dollars ($10,000,000), the Borrowers or the applicable Credit Parties shall, at the written request of the Administrative Agent, promptly (i) execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent a short form security agreement, prepared by the Administrative Agent and in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, and (ii) deliver such certificates or applications to the Administrative Agent bearing the correct name of the applicable Borrower or Credit Party, and cause the interest of the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, to be properly noted thereon. Each Credit Party hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent or the Administrative Agent’s designated agent (but without obligation by the Administrative Agent to do so) to incur Related Expenses (whether prior to, upon, or subsequent to any Default or Event of Default), and the Borrowers shall promptly repay, reimburse, and indemnify the Administrative Agent and the Lenders for any and all Related Expenses. If any Credit Party fails to keep and maintain its Equipment in good operating condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted, the Administrative Agent may (but shall not be required to) so maintain or repair all or any part of such Credit Party’s Equipment and the cost thereof shall be a Related Expense. All Related Expenses are payable to the Administrative Agent upon demand therefor; the Administrative Agent may, at its option, debit Related Expenses directly to any Deposit Account of a Company located at the Administrative Agent or the Revolving Loans.
Section 5.22. Property Acquired Subsequent to the Closing Date and Right to Take Additional Collateral. The Borrowers shall provide the Administrative Agent with prompt written notice with respect to any personal property (other than in the ordinary course of business and excluding Accounts, Inventory, Equipment and General Intangibles and other property acquired in the ordinary course of business) acquired by any Credit Party subsequent to the Closing Date. In addition to any other right that the Administrative Agent and the Lenders may have pursuant to this Agreement or otherwise, upon written request of the Administrative Agent, whenever made, the Borrowers shall, and shall cause each Guarantor of Payment to, grant to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, as additional security for the Secured Obligations, a first Lien on any personal property of each Borrower and Guarantor of Payment (other than for leased
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equipment or equipment subject to a purchase money security interest in which the lessor or purchase money lender of such equipment holds a first priority security interest, in which case, if the property is not otherwise Excluded Property, the Administrative Agent shall have the right to obtain a security interest junior only to such lessor or purchase money lender), including, without limitation, such property acquired subsequent to the Closing Date, in which the Administrative Agent does not have a first priority Lien. The Borrowers agree, within ten (10) days after the date of such written request, to secure all of the Secured Obligations by delivering to the Administrative Agent security agreements, intellectual property security agreements, pledge agreements, mortgages (or deeds of trust, if applicable) or other documents, instruments or agreements or such thereof as the Administrative Agent may require. The Borrowers shall pay all recordation, legal and other expenses in connection therewith. With respect to property of a Foreign Guarantor of Payment, if the execution and delivery of any agreement or taking of any action in connection with the foregoing under the laws of the applicable foreign jurisdiction is impractical or cost prohibitive, in the reasonable judgment of the Administrative Agent, after consultation with the Administrative Borrower, then the Administrative Agent may elect to forego requiring the applicable Credit Parties from executing and delivering any such agreement or the taking of any such action.
Section 5.23. Restrictive Agreements. Except as set forth in this Agreement, the Borrowers shall not, and shall not permit any of their Domestic Subsidiaries or any Foreign Guarantor of Payment to, directly or indirectly, create or otherwise cause or suffer to exist or become effective any encumbrance or restriction on the ability of any Domestic Subsidiary or Foreign Guarantor of Payment to (a) make, directly or indirectly, any dividend or other capital distribution to any Company, (b) make, directly or indirectly, loans or advances or capital contributions to any Company or (c) transfer, directly or indirectly, any of the properties or assets of such Domestic Subsidiary or Foreign Guarantor of Payment to any Company; except for such encumbrances or restrictions existing under or by reason of (i) applicable Law, (ii) customary non-assignment provisions in leases or other agreements entered in the ordinary course of business and consistent with past practices, or (iii) customary restrictions in security agreements or mortgages securing Indebtedness, or capital leases, of a Company to the extent such restrictions shall only restrict the transfer of the property subject to such security agreement, mortgage or lease.
Section 5.24. Guaranty Under Material Indebtedness Agreement. No Domestic Subsidiary of a Borrower (other than the UDOT Subsidiary) shall be or become a primary obligor or Guarantor of the Indebtedness incurred pursuant to any Material Indebtedness Agreement unless such Domestic Subsidiary of a Borrower shall also be a Guarantor of Payment under this Agreement prior to or concurrently therewith.
Section 5.25. Subordinated Debt Documents. The Borrowers shall not, without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent, amend, restate, supplement or otherwise modify any of the Subordinated Debt Documents to the extent that such amendment, restatement, supplement or modification is not permitted under the Intercompany Subordination Agreement.
Section 5.26. Senior Ranking. The Indebtedness under the Subordinated Debt Documents shall, and the Borrowers shall take all necessary action to ensure that the Indebtedness under the Subordinated Debt Documents shall, at all times, be subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations.
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Section 5.27. Amendment of Organizational Documents. Without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent, no Domestic Company or Foreign Guarantor of Payment shall amend its Organizational Documents in any manner materially adverse to the Lenders.
Section 5.28. Fiscal Year of Borrowers. No Borrower shall change the date of its fiscal year-end without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent. As of the Closing Date, the fiscal year end of each Borrower is December 31 of each year.
Section 5.29. Banking Relationship. Until payment in full of the Obligations (other than contingent indemnification obligations to the extent no claim giving rise thereto has been asserted), each Borrower shall maintain its primary banking and depository relationship with the Administrative Agent.
Section 5.30. Compliance with Laws. The Borrowers shall, and shall cause each other Domestic Company to, comply in all material respects with all Laws, rules, regulations, orders, writs, judgments, injunctions, decrees or awards to which they are subject, including, without limitation, all Environmental Laws, Anti-Corruption Laws and applicable Sanctions. The Borrowers shall cause the Foreign Subsidiaries of Parent to comply in all material respects with all Laws, rules, regulations, orders, writs, judgments, injunctions, decrees or awards to which they are subject, including, without limitation, all Environmental Laws, except where a failure to so comply would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. The Borrowers shall cause the Foreign Subsidiaries of Parent to comply in all material respects with Anti-Corruption Laws and applicable Sanctions. The Borrowers shall maintain in effect and enforce such policies and procedures as it has determined to be reasonably necessary to ensure compliance by the Companies and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents with Anti-Corruption Laws and applicable Sanctions.
Section 5.31. Beneficial Ownership. The Borrowers shall provide to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders: (a) confirmation of the accuracy of the information set forth in the most recent Beneficial Ownership Certification provided to the Administrative Agent and Lenders, promptly following any request therefor (or an updated Beneficial Ownership Certification if applicable); (b) a new Beneficial Ownership Certification, in form and substance acceptable to the Administrative Agent and each Lenders, when the individual(s) to be identified as a Beneficial Owner have changed; and (c) such other KYC Information reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent or any Lender.
Section 5.32. Further Assurances. The Borrowers shall, and shall cause each other Credit Party to, promptly upon request by the Administrative Agent, or the Required Lenders through the Administrative Agent, (a) correct any material defect or error that may be discovered in any Loan Document or in the execution, acknowledgment, filing or recordation thereof, and (b) do, execute, acknowledge, deliver, record, re-record, file, re-file, register and re-register any and all such further acts, deeds, certificates, assurances and other instruments as the Administrative Agent, or the Required Lenders through the Administrative Agent, may reasonably require from time to time in order to carry out more effectively the purposes of the Loan Documents.
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Section 5.33. Negative Pledge of the Stock of UDOT Subsidiary; Activities of UDOT Subsidiary. Neither Parent nor any Company shall suffer or permit any Lien to exist upon the capital stock or other equity interest issued by the UDOT Subsidiary. During the term of this Agreement, the UDOT Subsidiary (a) shall have no assets other than (i) its leasehold property interest in the BlueOval City Project, and (ii) rights and assets incidental to the conduct of the activities permitted pursuant the following subsection (b); and (b) shall conduct no activities other than those consistent with the sole purpose of serving as a special purpose entity existing to (1) hold a leasehold property interest in the BlueOval City Project, (2) exist as the debtor under the CTL Financing Indebtedness, (3) operate as a counterparty to the BlueOval City Project agreements, and (4) any other applicable activities directly related to the foregoing subparts (1)‑(3).
ARTICLE VI. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
Section 6.1. Corporate Existence; Subsidiaries; Foreign Qualification. Each Domestic Company and Foreign Guarantor of Payment is duly organized, validly existing and in good standing (or comparable concept in the applicable jurisdiction) under the Laws of its state or jurisdiction of incorporation or organization, and is duly qualified and authorized to do business and is in good standing (or comparable concept in the applicable jurisdiction) as a foreign entity in the jurisdictions set forth opposite its name on Schedule 6.1 hereto, which are all of the states or jurisdictions where the character of its property or its business activities makes such qualification necessary, except where a failure to so qualify would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Schedule 6.1 hereto sets forth, as of the Closing Date, each Borrower and each Subsidiary (and whether such Subsidiary is an Immaterial Subsidiary or an Excluded Subsidiary), its state (or jurisdiction) of formation, its relationship to the Borrowers, including the percentage of each class of stock or other equity interest owned by a Credit Party or the percentage of stock (or other equity interest) owned by a Credit Party or the percentage of stock (or other equity interest) owned by a Credit Party, each Person that owns the stock or other equity interest of each Company, its tax identification number, the location of its chief executive office and its principal place of business. Except as set forth on Schedule 6.1 hereto, each Borrower, directly or indirectly, owns all of the equity interests of each of its Subsidiaries.
Section 6.2. Corporate Authority. Each Credit Party has the right and power and is duly authorized and empowered to enter into, execute and deliver the Loan Documents to which it is a party and to perform and observe the provisions of the Loan Documents. The Loan Documents to which each Credit Party is a party have been duly authorized and approved by such Credit Party’s board of directors or other governing body, as applicable, and are the legal, valid and binding obligations of such Credit Party, enforceable against such Credit Party in accordance with their respective terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by any applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium or similar Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally. The execution, delivery and performance of the Loan Documents do not conflict with, result in a breach in any of the provisions of, constitute a default under, or result in the creation of a Lien (other than Liens permitted under Section 5.9 hereof) upon any assets or property of any Credit Party under the provisions of, such Credit Party’s Organizational Documents or any material agreement to which such Credit Party is a party.
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Section 6.3. Compliance with Laws and Contracts. Each Company:
Section 6.4. Litigation and Administrative Proceedings. Except as disclosed on Schedule 6.4 hereto and for matters disclosed by Parent on its periodic public filings, there are (a) no lawsuits, actions, investigations, examinations or other proceedings pending or threatened against any Company, or in respect of which any Company may have any liability, in any court or before or by any Governmental Authority, arbitration board, or other tribunal that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (b) no orders, writs, injunctions, judgments, or decrees of any court or Governmental Authority to which any Company is a party or by which the property or assets of any Company are bound that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, and (c) no grievances, disputes, or controversies outstanding with any union or other organization of the employees of any Company, or threats of work stoppage, strike, or pending demands for collective bargaining, that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
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Section 6.5. Title to Assets. Each Credit Party has good title to and ownership of all property it purports to own, which property is free and clear of all Liens, except those permitted under Section 5.9 hereof. As of the Closing Date, the Credit Parties own the real estate listed on Schedule 6.5 hereto.
Section 6.6. Liens and Security Interests. On and after the Closing Date, except for Liens permitted pursuant to Section 5.9 hereof, (a) there is and will be no U.C.C. Financing Statement or similar notice of Lien outstanding covering any personal property of any Credit Party; (b) there is and will be no mortgage or charge outstanding covering any real property of any Credit Party; and (c) no real or personal property of any Credit Party is subject to any Lien of any kind. The Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, upon the filing of the U.C.C. Financing Statements and taking such other actions necessary to perfect its Lien against collateral of the corresponding type as authorized hereunder will have a valid and enforceable first Lien on the collateral securing the Secured Obligations to the extent such Lien may be perfected by the filing of a U.C.C. Financing Statement. No Credit Party has entered into any contract or agreement (other than a contract or agreement entered into in connection with the purchase or lease of fixed assets that prohibits Liens on such fixed assets) that exists on or after the Closing Date that would prohibit the Administrative Agent or the Lenders from acquiring a Lien on, or a collateral assignment of, any of the property or assets of any Credit Party.
Section 6.7. Tax Returns. All federal, state and local tax returns and other material reports required by law to be filed in respect of the income, business, properties and employees of each Domestic Company and Foreign Guarantor of Payment have been timely filed and all taxes, assessments, fees and other governmental charges that are due and payable have been paid prior to delinquency, except as otherwise permitted herein. The provision for taxes on the books of each Domestic Company and Foreign Guarantor of Payment is adequate for all years not closed by applicable statutes and for the current fiscal year.
Section 6.8. Environmental Laws. Each Domestic Company and Foreign Guarantor of Payment is in compliance in all material respects with all applicable Environmental Laws, including, without limitation, all applicable Environmental Laws in all jurisdictions in which any Domestic Company or Foreign Guarantor of Payment owns or operates, or has owned or operated, a facility or site, arranges or has arranged for disposal or treatment of hazardous substances, solid waste or other wastes, accepts or has accepted for transport any hazardous substances, solid waste or other wastes or holds or has held any interest in real property or otherwise. No litigation or proceeding arising under, relating to or in connection with any Environmental Law or Environmental Permit is pending or, to the best knowledge of each Domestic Company and Foreign Guarantor of Payment, threatened, against any Domestic Company or Foreign Guarantor of Payment, any real property in which any Domestic Company or Foreign Guarantor of Payment holds or has held an interest or any present operation of any Domestic Company or Foreign Guarantor of Payment. No release, threatened release or disposal of hazardous waste, solid waste or other wastes is occurring, or has occurred (other than those that are currently being remediated in accordance with Environmental Laws), on, under or to any real property in which any Domestic Company holds any interest or performs any of its operations, in violation of any Environmental Law. As used in this Section 6.8, “litigation or proceeding” means any demand, claim, notice, suit, suit in equity, action, administrative action, investigation or inquiry whether brought by any Governmental Authority or private Person, or otherwise.
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Section 6.9. Locations. As of the Closing Date, the Credit Parties have places of business or maintain their Accounts, Inventory and Equipment at the locations (including third party locations) set forth on Schedule 6.9 hereto, and each Credit Party’s chief executive office is set forth on Schedule 6.9 hereto. Schedule 6.9 hereto further specifies whether each location, as of the Closing Date, (a) is owned by the Credit Parties, or (b) is leased by a Credit Party from a third party, and, if leased by a Credit Party from a third party, if a Collateral Access Agreement has been requested. As of the Closing Date, Schedule 6.9 hereto correctly identifies the name and address of each third party location where assets of the Credit Parties are located.
Section 6.10. Continued Business. There exists no actual, pending, or, to each Borrower’s knowledge, any threatened termination, cancellation or limitation of, or any modification or change in the business relationship of any Domestic Company or Foreign Guarantor of Payment and any customer or supplier, or any group of customers or suppliers, whose purchases or supplies, individually or in the aggregate, are material to the business of any Company, and there exists no present condition or state of facts or circumstances that would have a Material Adverse Effect or prevent a Domestic Company or Foreign Guarantor of Payment from conducting such business or the transactions contemplated by this Agreement in substantially the same manner in which it was previously conducted.
Section 6.11. Employee Benefits Plans.
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Section 6.12. Consents or Approvals. No consent, approval or authorization of, or filing, registration or qualification with, any Governmental Authority or any other Person is required to be obtained or completed by any Credit Party in connection with the execution, delivery or performance of any of the Loan Documents, that has not already been obtained or completed.
Section 6.13. Solvency. The Borrowers (taken as a whole) have received consideration that is the reasonably equivalent value of the obligations and liabilities that the Borrowers (taken as a whole) have incurred to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders. The Borrowers (taken as a whole) are not insolvent as defined in any applicable state, federal or relevant foreign statute, nor will the Borrowers (taken as a whole) be rendered insolvent by the execution and delivery of the Loan Documents to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders. The Borrowers (taken as a whole) are not engaged or about to engage in any business or transaction for which the assets retained by them are or will be an unreasonably small amount of capital, taking into consideration the obligations to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders under the Loan Documents. The Borrowers (taken as a whole) do not intend to, nor do they believe that they will, incur debts beyond their ability (taken as a whole) to pay such debts as they mature.
Section 6.14. Financial Statements. The (a) audited Consolidated balance sheet of the Parent for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, and the related audited Consolidated statements of income and cash flows of Parent for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2021, and (b) unaudited Consolidated balance sheet of Parent for the fiscal quarter ended July 2, 2022, and the related unaudited Consolidated statements of income and cash flows of the Parent for the fiscal quarter ended July 2, 2022, furnished to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, are true and complete in all material respects, have been prepared in accordance with GAAP, and fairly present in all material respects the financial condition of the Companies as of the dates of such financial statements and the results of their operations for the periods then ending. Since the dates of such statements, there has been no material adverse change in the Credit Parties’ (taken as a whole)
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financial condition, properties or business or any change in any Credit Party’s accounting procedures.
Section 6.15. Regulations. No Company is engaged principally or as one of its important activities, in the business of extending credit for the purpose of purchasing or carrying any “margin stock” (within the meaning of Regulation U of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States). Neither the granting of any Loan (or any conversion thereof) or Letter of Credit nor the use of the proceeds of any Loan or Letter of Credit will violate, or be inconsistent with, the provisions of Regulation T, U or X or any other Regulation of such Board of Governors.
Section 6.16. Material Agreements. Except as disclosed on Schedule 6.16 hereto, as of the Closing Date, no Company is a party to any (a) debt instrument (excluding the Loan Documents); (b) lease (capital, operating or otherwise), whether as lessee or lessor thereunder; (c) contract, commitment, agreement, or other arrangement involving the purchase or sale of any inventory by it, or the license of any right to or by it; (d) contract, commitment, agreement, or other arrangement with any of its “Affiliates” (as such term is defined in the Exchange Act) other than a Company; (e) management or employment contract or contract for personal services with any of its Affiliates that is not otherwise terminable at will or on less than ninety (90) days’ notice without liability; (f) collective bargaining agreement; or (g) other contract, agreement, understanding, or arrangement with a third party; that, as to subparts (a) through (g), above, if violated, breached, or terminated for any reason, would have or would be reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 6.17. Intellectual Property. Each Credit Party owns, or has the right to use, all of the patents, patent applications, industrial designs, designs, trademarks, service marks, copyrights and licenses, and rights with respect to the foregoing, necessary for the conduct of its business without any known conflict with the rights of others. Schedule 6.17 hereto sets forth all federally registered patents, trademarks, copyrights, service marks and license agreements owned by each Credit Party as of the Closing Date.
Section 6.18. Insurance. Each Credit Party maintains with financially sound and reputable insurers insurance with coverage (including, if applicable, flood insurance on all mortgaged property that is in a Special Flood Hazard Zone, from such providers, on such terms and in such amounts as required by the Flood Disaster Protection Act as amended from time to time or as otherwise required by the Administrative Agent) and limits as required by law. Schedule 6.18 hereto sets forth all insurance carried by the Credit Parties on the Closing Date, setting forth in detail the amount and type of such insurance.
Section 6.19. Deposit Accounts and Securities Accounts. Schedule 6.19 hereto lists all banks, other financial institutions and Securities Intermediaries at which any Credit Party maintains Deposit Accounts or Securities Accounts as of the Closing Date, and Schedule 6.19 hereto correctly identifies the name, address and telephone number of each such financial institution or Securities Intermediary, the name in which the account is held, a description of the purpose of the account, and the complete account number therefor.
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Section 6.20. Accurate and Complete Statements. Neither the Loan Documents nor any written statement made by any Company in connection with any of the Loan Documents contains any untrue statement of a material fact or omits to state a material fact necessary to make the statements contained therein or in the Loan Documents not misleading. After due inquiry by the Borrowers, there is no known fact that any Company has not disclosed to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders that has or is likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 6.21. Investment Company; Other Restrictions. No Company is (a) an “investment company” or a company “controlled” by an “investment company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, or (b) subject to any foreign, federal, state or local statute or regulation limiting its ability to incur Indebtedness.
Section 6.22. Subordinated Debt Documents. No “default” or “event of default” (as each term is defined in any Subordinated Debt Document), or event with which the passage of time or the giving of notice, or both, would cause a default or event of default exists, nor will exist immediately after the granting of any Loan or the issuance of any Letter of Credit under this Agreement.
Section 6.23. Beneficial Ownership. As of the Closing Date, the information included in the Beneficial Ownership Certification, if applicable, is true and correct in all respects.
Section 6.24. Defaults. No Default or Event of Default exists, nor will any begin to exist immediately after the execution and delivery hereof.
ARTICLE VII. SECURITY
Section 7.1. Security Interest in CollateralSection 7.1. Security Interest in Collateral. In consideration of and as security for the full and complete payment of all of the Secured Obligations, each Borrower hereby grants to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders (and Affiliates thereof that hold Secured Obligations), a security interest in the Collateral.
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Section 7.3. Collections and Receipt of Proceeds by Administrative Agent. Each Credit Party hereby constitutes and appoints the Administrative Agent, or the Administrative Agent’s designated agent, as such ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇’s attorney-in-fact to exercise, at any time, during the continuance of an Event of Default, all or any of the following powers which, being coupled with an interest, shall be irrevocable until the complete and full payment of all of the Secured Obligations (other than contingent indemnification obligations to the extent no claim giving rise thereto has been asserted):
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Section 7.4. Administrative Agent’s Authority Under Pledged Notes. For the better protection of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereunder, each Credit Party, as appropriate, has executed (or will execute, with respect to future Pledged Notes) an appropriate endorsement on (or separate from) each Pledged Note and has deposited (or will deposit, with respect to future Pledged Notes) such Pledged Note with the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders. Such Credit Party irrevocably authorizes and empowers the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, to, during the continuance of an Event of Default, (a) ask for, demand, collect and receive all payments of principal of and interest on the Pledged Notes; (b) compromise and settle any dispute arising in respect of the foregoing; (c) execute and deliver vouchers, receipts and acquittances in full discharge of the foregoing; (d) exercise, in the Administrative Agent’s discretion, any right, power or privilege granted to the holder of any Pledged Note by the provisions thereof including, without limitation, the right to demand security or to waive any default thereunder; (e) endorse such Credit Party’s name to each check or other writing received by the Administrative Agent as a payment or other proceeds of or otherwise in connection with any Pledged Note; (f) enforce delivery and payment of the principal and/or interest on the Pledged Notes, in each case by suit or otherwise as the Administrative Agent may desire; and (g) enforce the security, if any, for the Pledged Notes by instituting foreclosure proceedings, by conducting public or other sales or otherwise, and to take all other steps as the Administrative Agent, in its discretion, may deem advisable in connection with the forgoing; provided, however, that nothing contained or implied herein or elsewhere shall obligate the Administrative Agent to institute any action, suit or proceeding or to make or do any other act or thing contemplated by this Section 7.4 or prohibit the Administrative Agent from settling, withdrawing or dismissing any action, suit or proceeding or require the Administrative Agent to preserve any other right of any kind in respect of the Pledged Notes and the security, if any, therefor.
Section 7.5. Commercial Tort Claims. If any Credit Party shall at any time hold or acquire a Commercial Tort Claim in excess of Five Million Dollars ($5,000,000), such Credit Party shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent thereof in a writing signed by such Credit Party, that sets forth the details thereof and grants to the Administrative Agent (for the benefit of the Lenders) a Lien thereon and on the Proceeds thereof, all upon the terms of this Agreement, with such writing to be prepared by and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
Section 7.6. Use of Inventory and Equipment. Until the exercise by the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders of their rights under Article IX hereof, each Credit Party may (a) retain possession of and use its Inventory and Equipment in any lawful manner not inconsistent with this Agreement or with the terms, conditions, or provisions of any policy of insurance thereon; (b) sell or lease its Inventory in the ordinary course of business or as otherwise permitted by this Agreement; and (c) use and consume any raw materials or supplies, the use and consumption of which are necessary in order to carry on such Credit Party’s business.
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ARTICLE VIII. EVENTS OF DEFAULT
Any of the following specified events shall constitute an Event of Default (each an “Event of Default”):
Section 8.1. Payments. If (a) the interest on any Loan, any commitment or other fee, or any other Obligation not listed in subpart (b) hereof, shall not be paid in full when due and payable or within three (3) Business Days thereafter, or (b) the principal of any Loan, any reimbursement obligation under any Letter of Credit that has been drawn, or any amount owing pursuant to Section 2.12 hereof shall not be paid in full when due and payable.
Section 8.2. Special Covenants. If any Company shall fail or omit to perform and observe Section 5.7, 5.8, 5.9, 5.11, 5.12, 5.13, 5.15, 5.24, 5.25, 5.26, or 5.27 or 5.33, hereof.
Section 8.3. Other Covenants.
Section 8.4. Representations and Warranties. If any representation, warranty or statement made in or pursuant to this Agreement or any other Related Writing or any other material information furnished by any Company in writing to the Administrative Agent or the Lenders, or any thereof, shall be false or erroneous in any material respect when made or deemed made (except that such materiality qualifier shall not be applicable to any representations and warranties that already are qualified or modified by materiality or Material Adverse Effect in the text thereof).
Section 8.5. Cross Default.
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Section 8.6. ERISA Default. The occurrence of one or more ERISA Events that (a) the Required Lenders determine could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, or (b) results in a Lien on any of the assets of any Domestic Company.
Section 8.7. Change in Control. If any Change in Control shall occur.
Section 8.8. Judgments. There is entered against any Material Credit Party a final judgment or order for the payment of money by a court of competent jurisdiction, that remains unpaid or unstayed and undischarged for a period (during which execution shall not be effectively stayed) of thirty (30) days after the date on which the right to appeal has expired, provided that such occurrence shall constitute an Event of Default only if the aggregate of all such judgments for all such Material Credit Parties, shall exceed Ten Million Dollars ($10,000,000) (less any amount that will be covered by the proceeds of insurance and is not subject to dispute by the insurance provider).
Section 8.9. Security. If any Lien granted in this Agreement or any other Loan Document in favor of the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders, shall be determined to be (a) void, voidable or invalid, or is subordinated or not otherwise given the priority contemplated by this Agreement and the Borrowers have (or the appropriate Credit Party has) failed to promptly execute appropriate documents to correct such matters, or (b) unperfected as to any material amount of Collateral (as determined by the Administrative Agent, in its reasonable discretion) and the Borrowers have (or the appropriate Credit Party has) failed to promptly execute appropriate documents to correct such matters.
Section 8.10. Validity of Loan Documents. If (a) any material provision of any Loan Document, in the sole opinion of the Administrative Agent, shall at any time cease to be valid, binding and enforceable against any Credit Party, and any Borrower (or the appropriate Credit Party) has failed to promptly execute appropriate documents to correct such matters; (b) the validity, binding effect or enforceability of any Loan Document against any Credit Party shall be contested by any Credit Party; (c) any Credit Party shall deny that it has any or further liability or obligation under any Loan Document; or (d) any Loan Document shall be terminated, invalidated or set aside, or be declared ineffective or inoperative or in any way cease to give or provide to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders the benefits purported to be created thereby, and the Borrowers (or the appropriate Credit Party) have failed to promptly execute appropriate documents to correct such matters.
Section 8.11. Solvency. If any Material Credit Party (other than an Immaterial Subsidiary) shall (a) except as permitted pursuant to Section 5.12 hereof, discontinue business; (b) generally not pay its debts as such debts become due; (c) make a general assignment for the benefit of creditors; (d) apply for or consent to the appointment of an interim receiver, a receiver, a receiver and manager, an administrator, a sequestrator, a monitor, a custodian, a trustee, an interim trustee, a liquidator, an agent or any other similar official of all or a substantial part of its assets or of such
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Material Credit Party; (e) be adjudicated a debtor or insolvent or have entered against it an order for relief under the Bankruptcy Code, or under any other bankruptcy insolvency, liquidation, winding-up, corporate or similar statute or Law, foreign, federal, state or provincial, in any applicable jurisdiction, now or hereafter existing, as any of the foregoing may be amended from time to time, or other applicable statute for jurisdictions outside of the United States, as the case may be; (f) file a voluntary petition under the Bankruptcy Code or seek relief under any bankruptcy or insolvency or analogous Law in any jurisdiction outside of the United States, or file a proposal or notice of intention to file such petition; (g) have an involuntary proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code filed against it and the same shall not be controverted within ten (10) days, or shall continue undismissed for a period of sixty (60) days from commencement of such proceeding or case; (h) file a petition, an answer, an application or a proposal seeking reorganization or an arrangement with creditors or seeking to take advantage of any other Law (whether federal, provincial or state, or, if applicable, other jurisdiction) relating to relief of debtors, or admit (by answer, by default or otherwise) the material allegations of a petition filed against it in any bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency or other proceeding (whether federal, provincial or state, or, if applicable, other jurisdiction) relating to relief of debtors; (i) suffer or permit to continue unstayed and in effect for sixty (60) consecutive days any judgment, decree or order entered by a court of competent jurisdiction, that approves a petition or an application or a proposal seeking its reorganization or appoints an interim receiver, a receiver and manager, an administrator, custodian, trustee, interim trustee or liquidator of all or a substantial part of its assets, or of such Material Credit Party; (j) have an administrative receiver appointed over the whole or substantially the whole of its assets, or of such Material Credit Party; (k) have assets, the value of which is less than its liabilities (taking into account prospective and contingent liabilities, and rights of contribution from other Persons); or (l) have a moratorium declared in respect of any of its Indebtedness, or any analogous procedure or step is taken in any jurisdiction.
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ARTICLE IX. REMEDIES UPON DEFAULT
Notwithstanding any contrary provision or inference herein or elsewhere:
Section 9.1. Optional Defaults. If any Event of Default referred to in Section 8.1, 8.2, 8.3, 8.4, 8.5, 8.6, 8.7, 8.8, 8.9 or 8.10 hereof shall occur, the Administrative Agent may, with the consent of the Required Lenders, and shall, at the written request of the Required Lenders, give written notice to the Borrowers to:
Section 9.2. Automatic Defaults. If any Event of Default referred to in Section 8.11 hereof shall occur:
Section 9.3. Letters of Credit. If the maturity of the Obligations shall be accelerated pursuant to Section 9.1 or 9.2 hereof, the Borrowers shall immediately deposit with the Administrative Agent, as security for the obligations of the Borrowers and any Guarantor of Payment to reimburse the Administrative Agent and the Revolving Lenders for any then outstanding Letters of Credit, either cash or a Supporting Letter of Credit, which, in each case, is (a) in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%) of the sum of the aggregate undrawn balance of any then outstanding Letters of Credit, and (b) is free and clear of all rights and claims of third parties. The Administrative Agent and the Lenders are hereby authorized, at their option, to withdraw (with respect to the cash) or draw (with respect to the Supporting Letter of Credit) any and all such amounts from any deposit balances then owing by any Lender (or any Affiliate of such Lender, wherever located) to or for the credit or account of the Borrowers or any Guarantor of Payment, as security for the obligations of the Borrowers and any Guarantor of Payment to reimburse the Administrative Agent and the Revolving Lenders for any then outstanding Letters of Credit.
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Section 9.4. Offsets. If there shall occur or exist any Event of Default referred to in Section 8.11 hereof or if the maturity of the Obligations is accelerated pursuant to Section 9.1 or 9.2 hereof, each Lender shall have the right, to the extent permitted by applicable Law, at any time to set off against, and to appropriate and apply toward the payment of, any and all of the Obligations then owing by the Borrowers or a Guarantor of Payment to such Lender (including, without limitation, any participation purchased or to be purchased pursuant to Section 2.2(b), 2.2(c) or 9.5 hereof), whether or not the same shall then have matured, any and all deposit (general or special) balances and all other indebtedness then held or owing by such Lender (including, without limitation, by branches and agencies or any Affiliate of such Lender, wherever located) to or for the credit or account of any Borrower or Guarantor of Payment, all without notice to or demand upon any Borrower or any other Person, all such notices and demands being hereby expressly waived by each Borrower. Each Lender agrees to notify the Administrative Borrower and the Administrative Agent promptly after any such set off and application (provided that the failure to give such notice shall not affect the validity of such set off and application). In the event that any Defaulting Lender shall exercise any such right of setoff, (a) all amounts so set off shall be paid over immediately to the Administrative Agent for further application in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.10 hereof and, pending such payment, shall be segregated by such Defaulting Lender from its other funds and deemed held in trust for the benefit of the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender, and the Lenders, and (b) the Defaulting Lender shall provide promptly to the Administrative Agent a statement describing in reasonable detail the Obligations owing to such Defaulting Lender as to which it exercised such right of setoff. The rights of each Lender, the Issuing Lender and their respective Affiliates under this Section 9.4 are in addition to other rights and remedies (including other rights of setoff) that such Lender, such Issuing Lender or their respective Affiliates may have.
Section 9.5. Equalization Provisions. Each Lender agrees with the other Lenders that, if such Lender at any time shall obtain any Advantage over the other Lenders or any thereof determined in respect of the Obligations (including Swing Loans and Letters of Credit but excluding amounts under Article III hereof) then outstanding, such Lender shall purchase from the other Lenders, for cash and at par, such additional participation in the Obligations as shall be necessary to nullify the Advantage in respect of the Obligations. If any such Advantage resulting in the purchase of an additional participation as aforesaid shall be recovered in whole or in part from the Lender receiving the Advantage, each such purchase shall be rescinded, and the purchase price restored (but without interest unless the Lender receiving the Advantage is required to pay interest on the Advantage to the Person recovering the Advantage from such Lender) ratably to the extent of the recovery. Each Lender further agrees with the other Lenders that, if it at any time shall receive any payment for or on behalf of a Borrower on any Indebtedness owing by such Borrower to that Lender (whether by voluntary payment, by realization upon security, by reason of offset of any deposit or other Indebtedness, by counterclaim or cross action, by enforcement of any right under any Loan Document, or otherwise), it shall apply such payment first to any and all Obligations owing by such Borrower to that Lender pursuant to this Agreement (including, without limitation, any participation purchased or to be purchased pursuant to this Section 9.5 or any other section of this Agreement). Each Credit Party agrees that any Lender so purchasing a participation from the other Lenders, or any thereof, pursuant to this Section 9.5 may exercise all of its rights of payment (including the right of set‑off) with respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender were a direct creditor of such Credit Party in the amount of such participation.
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Section 9.6. Collateral. The Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall at all times have the rights and remedies of a secured party under the U.C.C., in addition to the rights and remedies of a secured party provided elsewhere within this Agreement, in any other Related Writing executed by any Borrower or otherwise provided in law or equity. Upon the occurrence of an Event of Default and at all times thereafter, the Administrative Agent may require the Borrowers to assemble the collateral securing the Secured Obligations, which each Borrower agrees to do, and make it available to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders at a reasonably convenient place to be designated by the Administrative Agent. To the extent permitted by applicable Law, the Administrative Agent may, with or without notice to or demand upon such Borrower and with or without the aid of legal process, make use of such force as may be necessary to enter any premises where such collateral, or any thereof, may be found and to take possession thereof (including anything found in or on such collateral that is not specifically described in this Agreement, each of which findings shall be considered to be an accession to and a part of such collateral) and for that purpose may pursue such collateral wherever the same may be found, without liability for trespass or damage caused thereby to such Borrower. After any delivery or taking of possession of the collateral securing the Secured Obligations, or any portion thereof, pursuant to this Agreement, then, with or without resort to any Borrower personally or any other Person or property, all of which each Borrower hereby waives, to the extent permitted by applicable Law, and upon such terms and in such manner as the Administrative Agent may deem advisable, the Administrative Agent, in its discretion, may sell, assign, transfer and deliver any of such collateral at any time, or from time to time. No prior notice need be given to any Borrower or to any other Person in the case of any sale of such collateral that the Administrative Agent determines to be perishable or to be declining speedily in value or that is customarily sold in any recognized market, but in any other case the Administrative Agent shall give the Borrowers not fewer than ten (10) days prior notice of either the time and place of any public sale of such collateral or of the time after which any private sale or other intended disposition thereof is to be made. To the extent permitted by applicable Law, each Borrower waives advertisement of any such sale and (except to the extent specifically required by the preceding sentence) waives notice of any kind in respect of any such sale. At any such public sale, the Administrative Agent or the Lenders may purchase such collateral, or any part thereof, free from any right of redemption, all of which rights each Borrower hereby waives and releases. After deducting all Related Expenses, and after paying all claims, if any, secured by ▇▇▇▇▇ having precedence over this Agreement, the Administrative Agent may apply the net proceeds of each such sale to or toward the payment of the Secured Obligations, whether or not then due, in such order and by such division as the Administrative Agent, in its sole discretion, may deem advisable. Any excess, to the extent permitted by law, shall be paid to the Borrowers, and each Borrower shall remain liable for any deficiency. In addition, the Administrative Agent shall at all times have the right to obtain new appraisals of any Borrower or any collateral securing the Secured Obligations, the cost of which shall be paid by the Borrowers.
Section 9.7. Other Remedies. The remedies in this Article IX are in addition to, and not in limitation of, any other right, power, privilege, or remedy, either in law, in equity, or otherwise, to which the Lenders may be entitled. The Administrative Agent shall exercise the rights under this Article IX and all other collection efforts on behalf of the Lenders and no Lender shall act independently with respect thereto, except as otherwise specifically set forth in this Agreement. In addition, the Administrative Agent shall be entitled to exercise remedies, pursuant to the Loan Documents, against collateral securing the Secured Obligations, on behalf of any Affiliate of a
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Lender that holds Secured Obligations, and no Affiliate of a Lender shall act independently with respect thereto, except as otherwise specifically set forth in this Agreement.
Section 9.8. Application of Proceeds.
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Each Lender hereby agrees to promptly provide all information reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent regarding any Bank Product Obligations owing to such Lender (or Affiliate of such Lender) or any Hedge Agreement entered into by a Company with such Lender (or Affiliate of such Lender), and each such Lender, on behalf of itself and any of its Affiliates, hereby agrees to promptly provide notice to the Administrative Agent upon such Lender (or any of its Affiliates) entering into any such Hedge Agreement or cash management services agreement.
ARTICLE X. THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
The Lenders authorize ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ and ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ hereby agrees to act as agent for the Lenders in respect of this Agreement upon the terms and conditions set forth elsewhere in this Agreement, and upon the following terms and conditions:
Section 10.1. Appointment and Authorization.
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Section 10.2. Note Holders. The Administrative Agent may treat the payee of any Note as the holder thereof (or, if there is no Note, the holder of the interest as reflected on the books and records of the Administrative Agent) until written notice of transfer shall have been filed with the Administrative Agent, signed by such payee and in form satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (such transfer to have been made in accordance with Section 11.9 hereof).
Section 10.3. Consultation With Counsel. The Administrative Agent may consult with legal counsel selected by the Administrative Agent and shall not be liable for any action taken or suffered in good faith by the Administrative Agent in accordance with the opinion of such counsel.
Section 10.4. Documents. The Administrative Agent shall not be under any duty to examine into or pass upon the validity, effectiveness, genuineness or value of any Loan Document or any other Related Writing furnished pursuant hereto or in connection herewith or the value of any collateral obtained hereunder, and the Administrative Agent shall be entitled to assume that the same are valid, effective and genuine and what they purport to be.
Section 10.5. Administrative Agent and Affiliates. KeyBank and its Affiliates may make loans to, issue letters of credit for the account of, accept deposits from, acquire equity interests in and generally engage in any kind of banking, trust, financial advisory, underwriting or other business with the Companies and any of their Affiliates as though KeyBank were not the Administrative Agent hereunder and without notice to or consent of any Lender. Each Lender acknowledges that, pursuant to such activities, KeyBank or any of its Affiliates may receive information regarding any Company or any Affiliate (including information that may be subject to confidentiality obligations in favor of such Company or such Company’s Affiliate) and acknowledge that the Administrative Agent shall be under no obligation to provide such information to other Lenders. With respect to Loans and Letters of Credit (if any), KeyBank and its Affiliates shall have the same rights and powers under this Agreement as any other Lender and may exercise the same as though KeyBank were not the Administrative Agent, and the terms “Lender” and “Lenders” include KeyBank and its Affiliates, to the extent applicable, in their individual capacities.
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Section 10.6. Knowledge or Notice of Default. The Administrative Agent shall not be deemed to have knowledge or notice of the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default unless the Administrative Agent has received written notice from a Lender or the Administrative Borrower referring to this Agreement, describing such Default or Event of Default and stating that such notice is a “notice of default”. In the event that the Administrative Agent receives such a notice, the Administrative Agent shall give notice thereof to the Lenders. The Administrative Agent shall take such action with respect to such Default or Event of Default as shall be reasonably directed by the Required Lenders (or, if so specified by this Agreement, all Lenders); provided that, unless and until the Administrative Agent shall have received such directions, the Administrative Agent may (but shall not be obligated to) take such action, or refrain from taking such action, with respect to such Default or Event of Default as it shall deem advisable, in its discretion, for the protection of the interests of the Lenders.
Section 10.7. Action by Administrative Agent. Subject to the other terms and conditions hereof, so long as the Administrative Agent shall be entitled, pursuant to Section 10.6 hereof, to assume that no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Administrative Agent shall be entitled to use its discretion with respect to exercising or refraining from exercising any rights that may be vested in it by, or with respect to taking or refraining from taking any action or actions that it may be able to take under or in respect of, this Agreement. The Administrative Agent shall incur no liability under or in respect of this Agreement by acting upon any notice, certificate, warranty or other paper or instrument believed by it to be genuine or authentic or to be signed by the proper party or parties, or with respect to anything that it may do or refrain from doing in the reasonable exercise of its judgment, or that may seem to it to be necessary or desirable in the premises. Without limiting the foregoing, no Lender shall have any right of action whatsoever against the Administrative Agent as a result of the Administrative Agent’s acting or refraining from acting hereunder in accordance with the instructions of the Required ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.
Section 10.8. Release of Collateral or Guarantor of Payment. In the event of a merger, transfer of assets or other transaction permitted pursuant to Section 5.12 hereof (or otherwise permitted pursuant to this Agreement) where the proceeds of such merger, transfer or other transaction are applied in accordance with the terms of this Agreement to the extent required to be so applied, or in the event of a merger, consolidation, dissolution or similar event, permitted pursuant to this Agreement, the Administrative Agent, at the request and expense of the Borrowers, is hereby authorized by the Lenders to (a) release the relevant Collateral from this Agreement or any other Loan Document, (b) release a Guarantor of Payment in connection with such permitted transfer or event, and (c) duly assign, transfer and deliver to the affected Person (without recourse and without any representation or warranty) such Collateral as is then (or has been) so transferred or released and as may be in the possession of the Administrative Agent and has not theretofore been released pursuant to this Agreement.
Section 10.9. Delegation of Duties. The Administrative Agent may execute any of its duties under this Agreement or any other Loan Document by or through agents, employees or attorneys‑in‑fact and shall be entitled to advice of counsel and other consultants or experts concerning all matters pertaining to such duties. The Administrative Agent shall not be responsible for the negligence or misconduct of any agent or attorney‑in‑fact that it selects in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct, as determined by a final and non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction.
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Section 10.10. Indemnification of Administrative Agent. The Lenders agree to indemnify the Administrative Agent (to the extent not reimbursed by the Borrowers) ratably, according to their respective Commitment Percentages, from and against any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses (including attorneys’ fees and expenses) or disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever that may be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against the Administrative Agent in its capacity as agent in any way relating to or arising out of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or any action taken or omitted by the Administrative Agent with respect to this Agreement or any other Loan Document, provided that no Lender shall be liable for any portion of such liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses (including attorneys’ fees and expenses) or disbursements resulting from the Administrative Agent’s gross negligence or willful misconduct, as determined by a final and non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction, or from any action taken or omitted by the Administrative Agent in any capacity other than as agent under this Agreement or any other Loan Document. No action taken in accordance with the directions of the Required Lenders shall be deemed to constitute gross negligence or willful misconduct for purposes of this Section 10.10. The undertaking in this Section 10.10 shall survive repayment of the Loans, cancellation of the Notes, if any, expiration or termination of the Letters of Credit, termination of the Commitment, any foreclosure under, or modification, release or discharge of, any or all of the Loan Documents, termination of this Agreement and the resignation or replacement of the administrative agent.
Section 10.11. Successor Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent may resign as agent hereunder by giving not fewer than thirty (30) days prior written notice to the Administrative Borrower and the Lenders. If the Administrative Agent shall resign under this Agreement, then either (a) the Required Lenders shall appoint from among the Lenders a successor agent for the Lenders (with the consent of the Administrative Borrower so long as an Event of Default does not exist and which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld), or (b) if a successor agent shall not be so appointed and approved within the thirty (30) day period following the Administrative Agent’s notice to the Lenders of its resignation, then the Administrative Agent shall appoint a successor agent that shall serve as agent until such time as the Required ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ appoint a successor agent. If no successor agent has accepted appointment as the Administrative Agent by the date that is thirty (30) days following a retiring Administrative Agent’s notice of resignation, the retiring Administrative Agent’s resignation shall nevertheless thereupon become effective, and the Lenders shall assume and perform all of the duties of the Administrative Agent hereunder until such time, if any, as the Required ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ appoint a successor agent as provided for above. Upon its appointment, such successor agent shall succeed to the rights, powers and duties as agent, and the term “Administrative Agent” means such successor effective upon its appointment, and the former agent’s rights, powers and duties as agent shall be terminated without any other or further act or deed on the part of such former agent or any of the parties to this Agreement. After any retiring Administrative Agent’s resignation as the Administrative Agent, the provisions of this Article X shall inure to its benefit as to any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was the Administrative Agent under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.
Section 10.12. Issuing Lender. The Issuing Lender shall act on behalf of the Revolving Lenders with respect to any Letters of Credit issued by the Issuing Lender and the documents associated therewith. The Issuing Lender shall have all of the benefits and immunities (a) provided to the Administrative Agent in this Article X with respect to any acts taken or omissions suffered
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by the Issuing Lender in connection with the Letters of Credit and the applications and agreements for letters of credit pertaining to such Letters of Credit as fully as if the term “Administrative Agent”, as used in this Article X, included the Issuing Lender with respect to such acts or omissions, and (b) as additionally provided in this Agreement with respect to the Issuing Lender.
Section 10.13. Swing Line Lender. The Swing Line Lender shall act on behalf of the Revolving Lenders with respect to any Swing Loans. The Swing Line Lender shall have all of the benefits and immunities (a) provided to the Administrative Agent in this Article X with respect to any acts taken or omissions suffered by the Swing Line Lender in connection with the Swing Loans as fully as if the term “Administrative Agent”, as used in this Article X, included the Swing Line Lender with respect to such acts or omissions, and (b) as additionally provided in this Agreement with respect to the Swing Line Lender.
Section 10.14. Administrative Agent May File Proofs of Claim. In case of the pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other judicial proceeding relative to any Credit Party, (a) the Administrative Agent (irrespective of whether the principal of any Loan shall then be due and payable as herein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Administrative Agent shall have made any demand on any Borrower) shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise, to (i) file and prove a claim for the whole amount of the principal and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Loans, and all other Obligations that are owing and unpaid and to file such other documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Lenders and the Administrative Agent (including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Lenders and the Administrative Agent and their respective agents and counsel and all other amounts due the Lenders and the Administrative Agent) allowed in such judicial proceedings, and (ii) collect and receive any monies or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same; and (b) any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Lender to make such payments to the Administrative Agent and, in the event that the Administrative Agent shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Lenders, to pay to the Administrative Agent any amount due for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Administrative Agent and its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Administrative Agent. Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to authorize the Administrative Agent to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Lender any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Obligations or the rights of any Lender or to authorize the Administrative Agent to vote in respect of the claim of any Lender in any such proceeding.
Section 10.15. No Reliance on Administrative Agent’s Customer Identification Program. Each Lender acknowledges and agrees that neither such Lender, nor any of its Affiliates, participants or assignees, may rely on the Administrative Agent to carry out such Lender’s or its Affiliate’s, participant’s or assignee’s customer identification program, or other obligations required or imposed under or pursuant to the Patriot Act or the regulations thereunder, including the regulations contained in 31 CFR 103.121 (as hereafter amended or replaced, the “CIP Regulations”), or any other anti‑terrorism Law, including any programs involving any of the following items relating to or in connection with the Borrowers, their respective Affiliates or agents, the Loan Documents or the transactions hereunder: (a) any identity verification procedures,
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(b) any record keeping, (c) any comparisons with government lists, (d) any customer notices, or (e) any other procedures required under the CIP Regulations or such other Laws.
Section 10.16. Other Agents. The Administrative Agent shall have the continuing right from time to time to designate one or more Lenders (or its or their Affiliates) as “syndication agent”, “co-syndication agent”, “documentation agent”, “co-documentation agent”, “book runner”, “lead arranger”, “joint lead arranger”, “arrangers” or other designations for purposes hereof. Any such designation referenced in the previous sentence or listed on the cover of this Agreement shall have no substantive effect, and any such Lender and its Affiliates so referenced or listed shall have no additional powers, duties, responsibilities or liabilities as a result thereof, except in its capacity, as applicable, as the Administrative Agent, a Lender, the Swing Line Lender or the Issuing Lender hereunder.
Section 10.17. Platform.
Section 10.18. Acknowledgements Regarding Erroneous Payments.
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ARTICLE XI. MISCELLANEOUS
Section 11.1. Lenders’ Independent Investigation. Each Lender, by its signature to this Agreement, acknowledges and agrees that the Administrative Agent has made no representation or warranty, express or implied, with respect to the creditworthiness, financial condition, or any other condition of any Company or with respect to the statements contained in any information memorandum furnished in connection herewith or in any other oral or written communication between the Administrative Agent and such Lender. Each Lender represents that it has made and shall continue to make its own independent investigation of the creditworthiness, financial condition and affairs of the Companies in connection with the extension of credit hereunder, and agrees that the Administrative Agent has no duty or responsibility, either initially or on a continuing basis, to provide any Lender with any credit or other information with respect thereto (other than such notices as may be expressly required to be given by the Administrative Agent to the Lenders hereunder), whether coming into its possession before the first Credit Event hereunder or at any time or times thereafter. Each Lender further represents that it has reviewed each of the Loan Documents.
Section 11.2. No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies. No omission or course of dealing on the part of the Administrative Agent, any Lender or the holder of any Note (or, if there is no Note, the holder of the interest as reflected on the books and records of the Administrative Agent) in exercising any right, power or remedy hereunder or under any of the other Loan Documents shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such right, power or remedy preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or remedy hereunder or under any of the Loan Documents. The remedies herein provided are cumulative and in addition to any other rights, powers or privileges held under any of the Loan Documents or by operation of law, by contract or otherwise.
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Section 11.3. Amendments, Waivers and Consents.
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Section 11.4. Notices. All notices, requests, demands and other communications provided for hereunder shall be in writing and, if to a Borrower, mailed or delivered to it, addressed to it at the address of the Administrative Borrower specified on the signature pages of this Agreement, if to the Administrative Agent or a Lender, mailed or delivered to it, addressed to the address of the Administrative Agent or such Lender specified on the signature pages of this Agreement, or, as to each party, at such other address as shall be designated by such party in a written notice to each of the other parties. All notices, statements, requests, demands and other communications provided for hereunder shall be deemed to be given or made when delivered (if received during normal business hours on a Business Day, such Business Day, or otherwise the following Business Day), or two Business Days after being deposited in the mails with postage prepaid by registered or certified mail, addressed as aforesaid, or sent by facsimile or electronic communication, in each case of facsimile or electronic communication with telephonic confirmation of receipt. All notices pursuant to any of the provisions hereof shall not be effective until received. For purposes of Article II hereof, the Administrative Agent shall be entitled to rely on telephonic instructions from
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any person that the Administrative Agent in good faith believes is an Authorized Officer, and the Borrowers shall hold the Administrative Agent and each Lender harmless from any loss, cost or expense resulting from any such reliance.
Section 11.5. Costs, Expenses and Documentary Taxes. The Borrowers agree to pay on demand all reasonable documented out‑of‑pocket costs and expenses of the Administrative Agent and all Related Expenses, including but not limited to (a) syndication, administration, travel and out‑of‑pocket expenses, including but not limited to reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses, of the Administrative Agent in connection with the preparation, negotiation and closing of the Loan Documents and the administration of the Loan Documents, and the collection and disbursement of all funds hereunder and the other instruments and documents to be delivered hereunder, (b) extraordinary expenses of the Administrative Agent in connection with the administration of the Loan Documents and the other instruments and documents to be delivered hereunder, and (c) the reasonable fees and expenses of special counsel for the Administrative Agent, with respect to the foregoing, and of local counsel, if any, who may be retained by said special counsel with respect thereto; provided that the Administrative Agent’s counsel fees and expenses shall be limited to the reasonable and documented out-of-pocket attorneys’ fees of one firm of counsel and additional counsel required to accommodate conflicts of interest and a single local counsel in each appropriate jurisdiction (which may include a single special counsel acting in multiple jurisdictions and, to the extent required by the subject matter, one specialist counsel for each specialized area of law in each appropriate jurisdiction). The Borrowers also agree to pay on demand all reasonable documented out‑of‑pocket costs and expenses (including Related Expenses) of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, including reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses, in connection with the restructuring or enforcement of the Obligations, this Agreement or any other Related Writing; provided that the counsel fees and expenses of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall collectively be limited to the reasonable and documented out-of-pocket attorneys’ fees of one firm of counsel and additional counsel required to accommodate conflicts of interest and a single local counsel in each appropriate jurisdiction (which may include a single special counsel acting in multiple jurisdictions and, to the extent required by the subject matter, one specialist counsel for each specialized area of law in each appropriate jurisdiction). In addition, the Borrowers shall pay any and all stamp, transfer, documentary and other taxes, assessments, charges and fees payable or determined to be payable in connection with the execution and delivery of the Loan Documents, and the other instruments and documents to be delivered hereunder, and agree to hold the Administrative Agent and each Lender harmless from and against any and all liabilities with respect to or resulting from any delay in paying or failure to pay such taxes or fees. All obligations provided for in this Section 11.5 shall survive any termination of this Agreement.
Section 11.6. Indemnification. Each Borrower agrees to defend, indemnify and hold harmless the Administrative Agent and the Lenders (and their respective Affiliates, officers, directors, attorneys, agents and employees) (each an “Indemnitee”) from and against any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses (including attorneys’ fees) or disbursements of any kind or nature whatsoever incurred by or asserted against the Administrative Agent or any Lender in connection with any investigative, administrative or judicial proceeding (whether or not such Lender or the Administrative Agent shall be designated a party thereto) or any other claim by any Person (including any Borrower or any other Credit Party) relating to or arising out of any Loan Document or any actual or proposed use of proceeds of the Loans or any of the Obligations, or any activities of any Company or its
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Affiliates; provided that (a) attorneys’ fees and expenses shall be limited to reasonable and documented out-of-pocket attorneys’ fees of one firm of counsel for all such Indemnitees, taken as a whole, and, if necessary, additional counsel required to accommodate conflicts of interest and a single local counsel in each appropriate jurisdiction (which may include a single special counsel acting in multiple jurisdictions and, to the extent required by the subject matter, one specialist counsel for each specialized area of law in each appropriate jurisdiction) and (b) no Indemnitee shall have the right to be indemnified under this Section 11.6 to the extent any such liability has resulted primarily from (i) the gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee (as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final and non-appealable decision), (ii) a material breach of the Loan Documents by such Indemnitee (as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final and non-appealable decision) or (iii) disputes solely between and among such Indemnitees (other than a dispute against the Administrative Agent in its capacity as such) to the extent such disputes do not arise from any act or omission of a Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries. All obligations provided for in this Section 11.6 shall survive any termination of this Agreement. This Section 11.6 shall not apply to Taxes other than Taxes that represent losses, claims, and damages arising from a non-Tax claim.
Section 11.7. Obligations Several; No Fiduciary Obligations. The obligations of the Lenders hereunder are several and not joint. Nothing contained in this Agreement and no action taken by the Administrative Agent or the Lenders pursuant hereto, shall be deemed to constitute the Administrative Agent or the Lenders a partnership, association, joint venture or other entity. No default by any Lender hereunder shall excuse the other Lenders from any obligation under this Agreement; but no Lender shall have or acquire any additional obligation of any kind by reason of such default. The relationship between the Borrowers and the Lenders with respect to the Loan Documents and the other Related Writings is and shall be solely that of debtors and creditors, respectively, and neither the Administrative Agent nor any Lender shall have any fiduciary obligation toward any Credit Party with respect to any such documents or the transactions contemplated thereby.
Section 11.8. Execution in Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts and by different parties hereto in separate counterparts, and by facsimile or other electronic signature, each of which counterparts when so executed and delivered shall be deemed to be an original and all of which taken together shall constitute but one and the same agreement.
Section 11.9. Successors and Assigns.
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Any agreement or instrument pursuant to which a Lender sells such a participation shall provide that such Lender shall retain the sole right to enforce this Agreement and to approve any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of this Agreement; provided that such agreement or instrument may provide that such Lender will not, without the consent of the Participant, agree to any amendment, modification or waiver with respect to the following (to the extent that it affects such Participant): (i) any increase in the portion of the participation amount of any Participant over the amount thereof then in effect, or any extension of the Commitment Period; or (ii) any reduction of the principal amount of or extension of the time for any payment of principal on any Loan, or the reduction of the rate of interest or extension of the time for payment of interest on any Loan, or the reduction of the commitment fee. The Borrowers agree that each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Article III hereof (subject to the requirements and limitations therein, including the requirements under Section 3.2(e) hereof (it being understood that the documentation required under Section 3.2(e) hereof 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 subsection (b) of this Section 11.9; provided that such Participant (A) agrees to be subject to the provisions of Sections 3.4 and 3.6 hereof as if it were an assignee under subsection (b) of this Section 11.9; and (B) shall not be entitled to receive any greater payment under Article III hereof, 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 in Law that occurs after the Participant acquired the applicable participation. Each Lender that sells a participation agrees, at the Administrative ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇’s request and expense, to use reasonable efforts to cooperate with the Borrowers to effectuate the provisions of Section 3.6 hereof with respect to any Participant. To the extent permitted by law, each Participant also shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 9.4 hereof as though it were a Lender; provided that such Participant agrees to be subject to Section 9.5 hereof as though it were a Lender. 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 (and stated interest) of each Participant’s interest in the Loans or other obligations under the Loan Documents (the “Participant Register”); provided that no Lender shall have any obligation to disclose all or any portion of the Participant Register (including the identity of any Participant or any information relating to a Participant’s interest in any commitments, loans, letters of credit or its other obligations under any Loan Document) to any Person except to the extent that such disclosure is necessary to establish that such commitment, loan, letter of credit or other obligation is in registered form under Section 5f.103-1(c) of the United States Treasury Regulations. The entries in the Participant Register shall be conclusive absent manifest error, and such Lender shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Participant Register as the owner of such participation for all purposes of this Agreement notwithstanding any notice to the contrary. For the avoidance of doubt, the Administrative Agent (in its capacity as Administrative Agent) shall have no responsibility for maintaining a Participant Register.
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Section 11.11. Patriot Act Notice. Each Lender, and the Administrative Agent (for itself and not on behalf of any other party), hereby notifies the Credit Parties that, pursuant to the requirements of the Patriot Act and other applicable “know your customer” and anti‑money laundering rules and regulations, such Lender and the Administrative Agent are required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies the Credit Parties, which information includes the name and address of each of the Credit Parties and other information that will allow such Lender or the Administrative Agent, as applicable, to identify the Credit Parties in accordance with the Patriot Act and other applicable “know your customer” and anti‑money laundering rules and regulations. Each Borrower shall provide, to the extent commercially reasonable, such information and take such actions as are reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent or a Lender in order to assist the Administrative Agent or such Lender in maintaining compliance with the Patriot Act
Section 11.12. Severability of Provisions; Captions; Attachments. Any provision of this Agreement that shall be prohibited or unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating the remaining provisions hereof or affecting the validity or enforceability of such provision in any other jurisdiction. The several captions to sections and subsections herein are inserted for convenience only and shall be ignored in interpreting the provisions of this Agreement. Each schedule or exhibit attached to this Agreement shall be incorporated herein and shall be deemed to be a part hereof.
Section 11.13. Investment Purpose. Each of the Lenders represents and warrants to the Borrowers that such Lender is entering into this Agreement with the present intention of acquiring any Note issued pursuant hereto (or, if there is no Note, the interest as reflected on the books and records of the Administrative Agent) for investment purposes only and not for the purpose of distribution or resale, it being understood, however, that each Lender shall at all times retain full control over the disposition of its assets.
Section 11.14. Entire Agreement. This Agreement, any Note and any other Loan Document or other agreement, document or instrument attached hereto or executed on or as of the Closing Date integrate all of the terms and conditions mentioned herein or incidental hereto and supersede all oral representations and negotiations and prior writings with respect to the subject
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matter hereof (except with respect to any provisions of the Administrative Agent Fee Letter or any commitment letter and fee letter between the Borrowers and KeyBank that by their terms survive the termination of such agreements, in each case, which shall remain in full force and effect after the Closing Date).
Section 11.15. Limitations on Liability of the Issuing Lender. The Borrowers assume all risks of the acts or omissions of any beneficiary or transferee of any Letter of Credit with respect to its use of such Letters of Credit. Neither the Issuing Lender nor any of its officers or directors shall be liable or responsible for (a) the use that may be made of any Letter of Credit or any acts or omissions of any beneficiary or transferee in connection therewith; (b) the validity, sufficiency or genuineness of documents, or of any endorsement thereon, even if such documents should prove to be in any or all respects invalid, insufficient, fraudulent or forged; (c) payment by the Issuing Lender against presentation of documents that do not comply with the terms of a Letter of Credit, including failure of any documents to bear any reference or adequate reference to such Letter of Credit; or (d) any other circumstances whatsoever in making or failing to make payment under any Letter of Credit, except that the account party on such Letter of Credit shall have a claim against the Issuing Lender, and the Issuing Lender shall be liable to such account party, to the extent of any direct, but not consequential, damages suffered by such account party that such account party proves were caused by (i) the Issuing ▇▇▇▇▇▇’s willful misconduct or gross negligence (as determined by a final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction) in determining whether documents presented under a Letter of Credit comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit, or (ii) the Issuing ▇▇▇▇▇▇’s willful failure to make lawful payment under any Letter of Credit after the presentation to it of documentation strictly complying with the terms and conditions of such Letter of Credit. In furtherance and not in limitation of the foregoing, the Issuing Lender may accept documents that appear on their face to be in order, without responsibility for further investigation.
Section 11.16. General Limitation of Liability. No claim may be made by any Credit Party or any other Person against the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender, or any other Lender or the Affiliates, directors, officers, employees, attorneys or agents of any of them for any damages other than actual compensatory damages in respect of any claim for breach of contract or any other theory of liability arising out of or related to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, or any act, omission or event occurring in connection therewith; and the Borrowers, each Lender, the Administrative Agent and the Issuing Lender hereby, to the fullest extent permitted under applicable Law, waive, release and agree not to sue or counterclaim upon any such claim for any special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages, whether or not accrued and whether or not known or suspected to exist in their favor and regardless of whether any Lender, Issuing Lender, or the Administrative Agent has been advised of the likelihood of such loss of damage.
Section 11.17. No Duty. All attorneys, accountants, appraisers, consultants and other professional persons (including the firms or other entities on behalf of which any such Person may act) retained by the Administrative Agent or any Lender with respect to the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents shall have the right to act exclusively in the interest of the Administrative Agent or such Lender, as the case may be, and shall have no duty of disclosure, duty of loyalty, duty of care, or other duty or obligation of any type or nature whatsoever to the Borrowers, any other Companies, or any other Person, with respect to any matters within the scope
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of such representation or related to their activities in connection with such representation. Each Borrower agrees, on behalf of itself and its Subsidiaries, not to assert any claim or counterclaim against any such persons with regard to such matters, all such claims and counterclaims, now existing or hereafter arising, whether known or unknown, foreseen or unforeseeable, being hereby waived, released and forever discharged.
Section 11.18. Legal Representation of Parties. The Loan Documents were negotiated by the parties with the benefit of legal representation and any rule of construction or interpretation otherwise requiring this Agreement or any other Loan Document to be construed or interpreted against any party shall not apply to any construction or interpretation hereof or thereof.
Section 11.19. Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-In of Affected Financial Institutions. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Loan Document or in any other agreement, arrangement or understanding among any such parties, each party hereto acknowledges that any liability of any Affected Financial Institution arising under any Loan Document, to the extent such liability is unsecured, may be subject to the Write-Down and Conversion Powers of the applicable Resolution Authority and agrees and consents to, and acknowledges and agrees to be bound by:
Section 11.20. Certain ERISA Matters.
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Section 11.21. Acknowledgement Regarding Any Supported QFCs. To the extent that the Loan Documents provide support, through a guarantee or otherwise, for Hedge Agreements or any other agreement or instrument that is a QFC (such support, “QFC Credit Support” and each such QFC a “Supported QFC”), the parties acknowledge and agree as follows with respect to the resolution power of the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation under the Federal Deposit Insurance Act and Title II of the ▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act (together with the regulations promulgated thereunder, the “U.S. Special Resolution Regimes”) in respect of such Supported QFC and QFC Credit Support (with the provisions below applicable notwithstanding that the Loan Documents and any Supported QFC may in fact be stated to be
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governed by the laws of the State of New York and/or of the United States or any other state of the United States):
Section 11.22. Governing Law; Submission to Jurisdiction.
Section 11.23. Judgment Currency. If, for the purposes of obtaining judgment in any court, it is necessary to convert a sum due hereunder or any other Loan Document in one currency into another currency, the rate of exchange used shall be that at which in accordance with normal banking procedures the Administrative Agent could purchase the first currency with such other currency on the Business Day preceding that on which final judgment is given. The obligation of the Borrowers in respect of any such sum due from it to the Administrative Agent or any Lender
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hereunder or under the other Loan Documents shall, notwithstanding any judgment in a currency (the “Judgment Currency”) other than that in which such sum is denominated in accordance with the applicable provisions of this Agreement (the “Agreement Currency”), be discharged only to the extent that on the Business Day following receipt by the Administrative Agent or such Lender, as the case may be, of any sum adjudged to be so due in the Judgment Currency, the Administrative Agent or such Lender, as the case may be, may in accordance with normal banking procedures purchase the Agreement Currency with the Judgment Currency. If the amount of the Agreement Currency so purchased is less than the sum originally due to the Administrative Agent or any Lender from the Borrowers in the Agreement Currency, the Borrowers agree, as a separate obligation and notwithstanding any such judgment, to indemnify the Administrative Agent or such Lender, as the case may be, against such loss. If the amount of the Agreement Currency so purchased is greater than the sum originally due to the Administrative Agent or any Lender in such Currency, the Administrative Agent or such Lender, as the case may be, agrees to return the amount of any excess to the Admirative Borrower (or to any other Person who may be entitled thereto under applicable Law).
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JURY TRIAL WAIVER. TO THE EXTENT PERMITTED BY LAW, EACH BORROWER, THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND EACH LENDER WAIVE ANY RIGHT TO HAVE A JURY PARTICIPATE IN RESOLVING ANY DISPUTE, WHETHER SOUNDING IN CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, AMONG THE BORROWERS, THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND THE LENDERS, OR ANY THEREOF, ARISING OUT OF, IN CONNECTION WITH, RELATED TO, OR INCIDENTAL TO THE RELATIONSHIP ESTABLISHED AMONG THEM IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY NOTE OR OTHER INSTRUMENT, DOCUMENT OR AGREEMENT EXECUTED OR DELIVERED IN CONNECTION HEREWITH OR THE TRANSACTIONS RELATED THERETO.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed and delivered this Credit and Security Agreement as of the date first set forth above.
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SCHEDULE 1
COMMITMENTS OF LENDERS
LENDERS |
REVOLVING CREDIT COMMITMENT PERCENTAGE |
REVOLVING CREDIT COMMITMENT AMOUNT |
MAXIMUM AMOUNT |
KeyBank National Association |
20.959183575878% |
$104,795,917.88 |
$104,795,917.88 |
U.S. Bank National Association |
19.306122449796% |
$96,530,612.25 |
$96,530,612.25 |
The Huntington National Bank |
15.306122449796% |
$76,530,612.25 |
$76,530,612.25 |
Comerica Bank |
13.000000098000% |
$65,000,000.49 |
$65,000,000.49 |
Citibank, N.A. |
6.530612242000% |
$32,653,061.21 |
$32,653,061.21 |
First Horizon Bank |
6.122448979918% |
$30,612,244.90 |
$30,612,244.90 |
Fifth Third Bank |
4.897959184000% |
$24,489,795.92 |
$24,489,795.92 |
Flagstar Bank, N.A. |
4.897959184000% |
$24,489,795.92 |
$24,489,795.92 |
BMO Bank N.A. |
4.897959184000% |
$24,489,795.92 |
$24,489,795.92 |
First Merchants Bank |
4.081632652612% |
$20,408,163.26 |
$20,408,163.26 |
Total Commitment Amount |
100% |
$500,000,000.00 |
$500,000,000.00 |
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