EXHIBIT 10(a)(6)
$300,000,000
CREDIT AGREEMENT
DATED AS OF NOVEMBER 4, 2005
AMONG
EDO CORPORATION
AS BORROWER
AND
THE LENDERS AND ISSUERS PARTY HERETO
AND
CITICORP USA, INC.
AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
AND
WACHOVIA BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
AS SYNDICATION AGENT
AND
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.
AS DOCUMENTATION AGENT
* * *
CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC.
AND
WACHOVIA CAPITAL MARKETS LLC
AS JOINT LEAD ARRANGERS AND JOINT BOOK RUNNERS
WEIL, GOTSHAL & ▇▇▇▇▇▇ LLP
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▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇
CREDIT AGREEMENT, dated as of November 4, 2005, among EDO
CORPORATION, a New York corporation (the "Borrower"), the Lenders (as defined
below), the Issuers (as defined below), CITICORP USA, INC. ("Citicorp"), as
administrative agent for the Lenders and the Issuers (in such capacity, and as
agent for the Secured Parties under the Collateral Documents, the
"Administrative Agent"), WACHOVIA BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as syndication
agent (in such capacity, the "Syndication Agent"), and BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as
documentation agent (in such capacity, the "Documentation Agent").
W I T N E S S E T H
WHEREAS, the Borrower has requested that the Lenders and Issuers
make available for the purposes specified in this Agreement, a revolving credit
and letter of credit facility; and
WHEREAS, the Lenders and Issuers are willing to make available to
the Borrower such revolving credit and letter of credit facility upon the terms
and subject to the conditions set forth herein;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the covenants
and agreements contained herein, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS, INTERPRETATION AND ACCOUNTING TERMS
SECTION 1.1 DEFINED TERMS
As used in this Agreement, the following terms have the following
meanings (such meanings to be equally applicable to both the singular and plural
forms of the terms defined):
"Account" has the meaning given to such term in the UCC.
"Administrative Agent" has the meaning specified in the preamble to
this Agreement.
"Affected Lender" has the meaning specified in Section 2.17
(Substitution of Lenders).
"Affiliate" means, with respect to any Person, any other Person
directly or indirectly controlling or that is controlled by or is under common
control with such Person, each officer, director, general partner or
joint-venturer of such Person, and each Person that is the beneficial owner of
10% or more of any class of Voting Stock of such Person. For the purposes of
this definition, "control" means the possession of the power to direct or cause
the direction of the management and policies of such Person, whether through the
ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise.
"Agent Affiliate" has the meaning specified in Section 10.3 (Posting
of Approved Electronic Communications).
"Agents" means, collectively, the Administrative Agent, the
Syndication Agent and the Documentation Agent.
"Agreement" means this Credit Agreement.
"Applicable Lending Office" means, with respect to each Lender, its
Domestic Lending Office in the case of a Base Rate Loan, and its Eurodollar
Lending Office in the case of a Eurodollar Rate Loan. "Applicable Margin" means
(a) during the period commencing on the Closing Date and ending one Business Day
after the receipt by the Administrative Agent of the Financial Statements for
the first Fiscal Quarter ending after the Closing Date required to be delivered
pursuant to Section 6.1(a) or (b) (Financial Statements), as applicable, with
respect to (i) Revolving Loans and Swing Loans maintained as Base Rate Loans, a
rate equal to 0.50% per annum and (ii) Revolving Loans maintained as Eurodollar
Rate Loans, a rate equal to 1.50% per annum and (b) thereafter, as of any date
of determination, a per annum rate equal to the rate set forth below opposite
the applicable type of Loan and the then applicable Leverage Ratio (determined
on the last day of the most recent Fiscal Quarter for which Financial Statements
have been delivered pursuant to Section 6.1(a) or (b) (Financial Statements))
set forth below:
LEVERAGE RATIO BASE RATE LOANS EURODOLLAR RATE LOANS
------------------------------------------------------------ --------------- ---------------------
Greater than or equal to 3.0 to 1.0 1.00% 2.00%
Less than 3.0 to 1.0 and equal to or greater than 2.0 to 1.0 0.75% 1.75%
Less than 2.0 to 1.0 and equal to or greater than 1.5 to 1.0 0.50% 1.50%
Less than 1.5 to 1.0 and equal to or greater than 1.0 to 1.0 0.25% 1.25%
Less than 1.0 to 1.0 0.00 1.00%
Changes in the Applicable Margin resulting from a change in the Leverage Ratio
on the last day of any subsequent Fiscal Quarter shall become effective as to
all Revolving Loans and Swing Loans upon delivery by the Borrower to the
Administrative Agent of new Financial Statements pursuant to Section 6.1(a) or
(b) (Financial Statements), as applicable. Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary set forth in this Agreement (including the then effective Leverage
Ratio), if an Event of Default exists or the Borrower shall fail to deliver such
Financial Statements within any of the time periods specified in Section 6.1(a)
or (b) (Financial Statements), the Applicable Margin from and including the 46th
day after the end of such Fiscal Quarter or the 91st day after the end of such
Fiscal Year, as the case may be, to but not including the date the Borrower
delivers to the Administrative Agent such Financial Statements shall equal the
highest possible Applicable Margin provided for by this definition.
"Applicable Unused Commitment Fee Rate" means 0.25% per annum.
"Approved Electronic Communications" means each notice, demand,
communication, information, document and other material that any Loan Party is
obligated to, or otherwise chooses to, provide to the Administrative Agent
pursuant to any Loan Document or the transactions contemplated therein,
including (a) any supplement to the Guaranty, any joinder to the Pledge and
Security Agreement and any other written Contractual Obligation delivered or
required to be delivered in respect of any Loan Document or the transactions
contemplated therein and (b) any Financial Statement, financial and other
report, notice, request, certificate and other information material; provided,
however, that, "Approved Electronic Communication" shall
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exclude (i) any Notice of Borrowing, Letter of Credit Request, Swing Loan
Request, Notice of Conversion or Continuation, and any other notice, demand,
communication, information, document and other material relating to a request
for a new, or a conversion of an existing, Borrowing, (ii) any notice pursuant
to Section 2.8 (Optional Prepayments) and Section 2.9 (Mandatory Prepayments)
and any other notice relating to the payment of any principal or other amount
due under any Loan Document prior to the scheduled date therefor, (iii) all
notices of any Default or Event of Default and (iv) any notice, demand,
communication, information, document and other material required to be delivered
to satisfy any of the conditions set forth in Article III (Conditions To Loans
And Letters Of Credit) or Section 2.4(a) (Letters of Credit) or any other
condition to any Borrowing or other extension of credit hereunder or any
condition precedent to the effectiveness of this Agreement.
"Approved Electronic Platform" has the meaning specified in Section
10.3 (Posting of Approved Electronic Communications).
"Approved Fund" means any Fund that is advised or managed by (a) a
Lender, (b) an Affiliate of a Lender or (c) an entity or Affiliate of an entity
that administers or manages a Lender.
"Arrangers" means CGMI and Wachovia Capital Markets LLC, in their
capacity as joint lead arrangers and joint book runners.
"Asset Sale" has the meaning specified in Section 8.4 (Sale of
Assets).
"Assignment and Acceptance" means an assignment and acceptance
entered into by a Lender and an Eligible Assignee, and accepted by the
Administrative Agent, in substantially the form of Exhibit A (Form of Assignment
and Acceptance).
"Available Credit" means, at any time, (a) the then effective
Revolving Credit Commitments minus (b) the aggregate Revolving Credit
Outstandings at such time.
"Bankruptcy Code" means title 11, United States Code.
"Base Rate" means, for any period, a fluctuating interest rate per
annum as shall be in effect from time to time, which rate per annum shall be
equal at all times to the highest of the following:
(a) the rate of interest announced publicly by Citibank in New York,
New York, from time to time, as Citibank's base rate;
(b) the sum (adjusted to the nearest 0.25% or, if there is no
nearest 0.25%, to the next higher 0.25%) of (i) 0.5% per annum, (ii) the
rate per annum obtained by dividing (A) the latest three-week moving
average of secondary market morning offering rates in the United States
for three-month certificates of deposit of major United States money
market banks, such three-week moving average being determined weekly on
each Monday (or, if any such day is not a Business Day, on the next
succeeding Business Day) for the three-week period ending on the previous
Friday by Citibank on the basis of such rates reported by certificate of
deposit dealers to and published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York
or, if such publication shall be suspended or terminated, on the basis of
quotations for such rates received by Citibank from three New York
certificate of
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deposit dealers of recognized standing selected by Citibank, by (B)
a percentage equal to 100% minus the average of the daily percentages
specified during such three-week period by the Federal Reserve Board for
determining the maximum reserve requirement (including any emergency,
supplemental or other marginal reserve requirement) for Citibank in
respect of liabilities consisting of or including (among other
liabilities) three-month U.S. dollar nonpersonal time deposits in the
United States and (iii) the average during such three-week period of the
maximum annual assessment rates estimated by Citibank for determining the
then current annual assessment payable by Citibank to the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation (or any successor) for insuring Dollar deposits in
the United States; and
(c) 0.5% per annum plus the Federal Funds Rate.
"Base Rate Loan" means any Swing Loan or any other Loan during any
period in which it bears interest based on the Base Rate.
"Borrower" has the meaning specified in the preamble to this
Agreement.
"Borrower Common Stock" means the common stock, par value $1.00 per
share, of the Borrower.
"Borrower's Accountants" means Ernst & Young LLP or other
independent nationally-recognized public accountants acceptable to the
Administrative Agent.
"Borrowing" means a borrowing of Revolving Loans made on the same
day by the Revolving Credit Lenders ratably according to their respective
Revolving Credit Commitments.
"Business Day" means a day of the year on which banks are not
required or authorized to close in New York City and, if the applicable Business
Day relates to notices, determinations, fundings and payments in connection with
the Eurodollar Rate or any Eurodollar Rate Loans, a day on which dealings in
Dollar deposits are also carried on in the London interbank market.
"Capital Expenditures" means, for any Person for any period, the
aggregate of amounts that would be reflected as additions to property, plant or
equipment on a Consolidated balance sheet of such Person and its Subsidiaries,
excluding interest capitalized during construction.
"Capital Lease" means, with respect to any Person, any lease of, or
other arrangement conveying the right to use, property by such Person as lessee
that would be accounted for as a capital lease on a balance sheet of such Person
prepared in conformity with GAAP.
"Capital Lease Obligations" means, with respect to any Person, the
capitalized amount of all Consolidated obligations of such Person or any of its
Subsidiaries under Capital Leases.
"Cash Collateral Account" means any Deposit Account or Securities
Account that is (a) established by the Administrative Agent from time to time in
its sole discretion to
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receive cash and Cash Equivalents (or purchase cash or Cash Equivalents with
funds received) from the Loan Parties or Persons acting on their behalf pursuant
to the Loan Documents, (b) with such depositaries and securities intermediaries
as the Administrative Agent may determine in its sole discretion, (c) in the
name of the Administrative Agent (although such account may also have words
referring to the Borrower and the account's purpose), (d) under the control of
the Administrative Agent and (e) in the case of a Securities Account, with
respect to which the Administrative Agent shall be the Entitlement Holder and
the only Person authorized to give Entitlement Orders with respect thereto.
"Cash Equivalents" means (a) securities issued or fully guaranteed
or insured by the United States federal government or any agency thereof, (b)
certificates of deposit, eurodollar time deposits, overnight bank deposits and
bankers' acceptances of any commercial bank organized under the laws of the
United States, any state thereof, the District of Columbia, any foreign bank, or
its branches or agencies (fully protected against currency fluctuations) that,
at the time of acquisition, are rated at least "A-1" by S&P or "P-1" by ▇▇▇▇▇'▇,
(c) commercial paper of an issuer rated at least "A-1" by S&P or "P-1" by
▇▇▇▇▇'▇ and (d) shares of any money market fund that (i) has at least 95% of its
assets invested continuously in the types of investments referred to in clauses
(a), (b) and (c) above, (ii) has net assets in excess of $500,000,000 and (iii)
is rated at least "A-1" by S&P or "P-1" by ▇▇▇▇▇'▇; provided, however, that the
maturities of all obligations of the type specified in clauses (a), (b) and (c)
above shall not exceed 180 days.
"Cash Interest Expense" means, with respect to any Person for any
period, the Interest Expense of such Person for such period less the Non-Cash
Interest Expense of such Person for such period.
"Cash Management Document" means any certificate, agreement or other
document executed by any Loan Party in respect of the Cash Management
Obligations of any Loan Party.
"Cash Management Obligation" means, as applied to any Person, any
direct or indirect liability, contingent or otherwise, of such Person in respect
of cash management services (including treasury, depository, overdraft, credit
or debit card, electronic funds transfer and other cash management arrangements)
provided by the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any Affiliate of any of
them, including obligations for the payment of fees, interest, charges,
expenses, attorneys' fees and disbursements in connection therewith.
"CGMI" means Citigroup Global Markets Inc.
"Change of Control" means the occurrence of any of the following:
(a) any person or group of persons (within the meaning of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended), other than the ESOP, shall have acquired
beneficial ownership (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 of the Securities and
Exchange Commission under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended) of
35% or more of the issued and outstanding Voting Stock of the Borrower or (b)
during any period of twelve consecutive calendar months, individuals who, at the
beginning of such period, constituted the board of directors of the Borrower
(together with any new directors whose election by the board of directors of the
Borrower or whose nomination for election by the stockholders of the Borrower
was approved by a vote of more than 50% of the directors then still in office
who either were directors at the beginning of such period or whose elections or
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nomination for election was previously so approved) cease for any reason other
than death or disability to constitute a majority of the directors then in
office.
"Citibank" means Citibank, N.A., a national banking association.
"Citicorp" has the meaning specified in the preamble to this
Agreement.
"Closing Date" means the date on which the conditions precedent set
forth in Section 3.1 (Conditions Precedent to Initial Loans and Letters of
Credit) shall have been satisfied (or waived in accordance with Section 11.1
(Amendments, Waivers, Etc.)), which date is November 4, 2005.
"Code" means the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as currently
amended.
"Collateral" means all property and interests in property and
proceeds thereof now owned or hereafter acquired by any Loan Party in or upon
which a Lien is granted under any Collateral Document.
"Collateral Documents" means the Pledge and Security Agreement and
any other document executed and delivered by a Loan Party granting a Lien on any
of its property to secure payment of the Secured Obligations.
"Compliance Certificate" has the meaning specified in Section 6.1(c)
(Financial Statements).
"Consolidated" means, with respect to any Person, the consolidation
of accounts of such Person and its Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP.
"Consolidated Assets" means, at the date of any determination
thereof, the total assets of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as set forth on a
Consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for their most
recently completed Fiscal Quarter, prepared in accordance with GAAP.
"Consolidated Current Assets" means, with respect to any Person at
any date, the total Consolidated current assets (other than cash and Cash
Equivalents) of such Person and its Subsidiaries at such date.
"Consolidated Current Liabilities" means, with respect to any Person
at any date, all liabilities of such Person and its Subsidiaries at such date
that should be classified as current liabilities on a Consolidated balance sheet
of such Person and its Subsidiaries, but excluding, in the case of the Borrower
the sum of (a) the principal amount of any current portion of long-term
Indebtedness of the type specified in clauses (a), (b), (d), (e), (f) and (h) of
the definition of "Indebtedness" and non-contingent obligations of the type
specified in clause (c) of such definition and (b) (without duplication of
clause (a) above) the then outstanding principal amount of the Revolving Loans.
"Consolidated Net Income" means, for any Person, for any period, the
Consolidated net income (or loss) of such Person and its Subsidiaries for such
period; provided, however, that (a) the net income of any other Person in which
such Person or one of its Subsidiaries has a joint interest with a third party
(which interest does not cause the net income of
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such other Person to be Consolidated into the net income of such Person) shall
be included only to the extent of the amount of dividends or distributions paid
to such Person or Subsidiary, (b) the net income of any Subsidiary of such
Person that is subject to any restriction or limitation on the payment of
dividends or the making of other distributions shall be excluded to the extent
of such restriction or limitation and (c) extraordinary gains and losses and any
one-time increase or decrease to net income that is required to be recorded
because of the adoption of new accounting policies, practices or standards
required by GAAP shall be excluded.
"Consolidated Senior Secured Indebtedness" means, at any time, an
amount equal to the sum, without duplication, of (a) all Obligations and (b) any
Indebtedness secured by Liens permitted pursuant to Section 8.2(b), (c), (d),
(e) and (g) (Liens, etc.).
"Constituent Documents" means, with respect to any Person, (a) the
articles of incorporation, certificate of incorporation, constitution or
certificate of formation (or the equivalent organizational documents) of such
Person, (b) the by-laws or operating agreement (or the equivalent governing
documents) of such Person and (c) any document setting forth the designation,
amount or relative rights, limitations and preferences of any class or series of
such Person's Stock.
"Contaminant" means any material, substance or waste that is
classified, regulated or otherwise characterized under any Environmental Law as
hazardous, toxic, a contaminant or a pollutant or by other words of similar
meaning or regulatory effect, including any petroleum or petroleum-derived
substance or waste, asbestos and polychlorinated biphenyls.
"Contractual Obligation" of any Person means any obligation,
agreement, undertaking or similar provision of any Security issued by such
Person or of any agreement, undertaking, contract, lease, indenture, mortgage,
deed of trust or other instrument (excluding a Loan Document) to which such
Person is a party or by which it or any of its property is bound or to which any
of its property is subject.
"Corporate Chart" means a corporate organizational chart, list or
other similar document in each case in form reasonably acceptable to the
Administrative Agent and setting forth, for each Person that is a Loan Party,
that is subject to Section 7.11 (Additional Collateral and Guaranties) or that
is a Subsidiary of any of them, (a) the full legal name of such Person (and any
trade name, fictitious name or other name such Person may have had or operated
under), (b) the jurisdiction of organization, the organizational number (if any)
and the tax identification number (if any) of such Person, (c) the location of
such Person's chief executive office (or sole place of business) and (d) the
number of shares of each class of such Person's Stock authorized (if
applicable), the number outstanding as of the date of delivery and the number
and percentage of such outstanding shares for each such class owned (directly or
indirectly) by any Loan Party or any Subsidiary of any of them.
"Customary Permitted Liens" means, with respect to any Person, any
of the following Liens:
(a) Liens with respect to the payment of taxes, assessments or
governmental charges in each case that are not yet due or that are being
contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and with respect to
which adequate reserves or other appropriate provisions are being
maintained to the extent required by GAAP;
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(b) Liens of landlords arising by statute and liens of suppliers,
mechanics, carriers, materialmen, warehousemen or workmen and other
similar Liens, in each case (i) imposed by law or arising in the ordinary
course of business, (ii) for amounts not yet due or that are being
contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and (iii) with respect
to which adequate reserves or other appropriate provisions are being
maintained to the extent required by GAAP;
(c) deposits made in the ordinary course of business in connection
with workers' compensation, unemployment insurance or other types of
social security benefits or to secure the performance of bids, tenders,
sales, contracts (other than for the repayment of borrowed money) and
surety, appeal, customs or performance bonds;
(d) encumbrances arising by reason of zoning restrictions,
easements, licenses, reservations, covenants, rights-of-way, utility
easements, building restrictions and other similar encumbrances on the use
of real property not materially detracting from the value of such real
property or not materially interfering with the ordinary conduct of the
business conducted and proposed to be conducted at such real property;
(e) encumbrances arising under leases or subleases of real property
that do not, in the aggregate, materially detract from the value of such
real property or interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business
conducted and proposed to be conducted at such real property;
(f) licenses of Intellectual Property (as defined in the Pledge and
Security Agreement) in the ordinary course of business that do not, in the
aggregate, interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business conducted
and proposed to be conducted by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries;
(g) financing statements with respect to a lessor's rights in and to
personal property leased to such Person in the ordinary course of such
Person's business other than through a Capital Lease; and
(h) Liens incurred or deposits to secure the performance of tenders,
bids, trade contracts, leases, statutory obligations, surety, performance
and appeal bonds, and other obligations of similar nature incurred in the
ordinary course of business including liens on works in progress,
inventory and unfinished goods securing progress payments received under
contracts with third parties.
"Debt Issuance" means the incurrence of any Indebtedness by the
Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, other than any Indebtedness permitted under
Section 8.1 (Indebtedness) as in effect on the date of this Agreement.
"Default" means any event that, with the passing of time or the
giving of notice or both, would become an Event of Default.
"Deposit Account" has the meaning given to such term in the UCC.
"Documentation Agent" has the meaning specified in the preamble to
this Agreement.
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"Dollars" and the sign "$" each mean the lawful money of the United
States of America.
"Domestic Lending Office" means, with respect to any Lender, the
office of such Lender specified as its "Domestic Lending Office" opposite its
name on Schedule II (Applicable Lending Offices and Addresses for Notices) or on
the Assignment and Acceptance by which it became a Lender or such other office
of such Lender as such Lender may from time to time specify to the Borrower and
the Administrative Agent.
"Domestic Person" means any "United States person" under and as
defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code.
"Domestic Subsidiary" means any Subsidiary of the Borrower organized
under the laws of any state of the United States of America or the District of
Columbia.
"EBITDA" means, with respect to any Person for any period, (a)
Consolidated Net Income of such Person for such period plus (b) the sum of, in
each case to the extent included in the calculation of such Consolidated Net
Income but without duplication, (i) any provision for income taxes, (ii)
Interest Expense, (iii) loss from extraordinary items, (iv) depreciation,
depletion and amortization expenses and (v) all other non-cash charges and
non-cash losses for such period, including non-cash expenses pertaining to the
ESOP and pension plans maintained by the Borrower, minus (c) the sum of, in each
case to the extent included in the calculation of such Consolidated Net Income
but without duplication, (i) any credit for income tax, (ii) interest income,
(iii) gains from extraordinary items for such period, (iv) any aggregate net
gain (but not any aggregate net loss) from the sale, exchange or other
disposition of capital assets by such Person and (v) any other non-cash gains or
other items which have been added in determining Consolidated Net Income.
"Eligible Assignee" means (a) a Lender or an Affiliate or Approved
Fund of any Lender, (b) a commercial bank having total assets in excess of
$5,000,000,000, (c) a finance company, insurance company or any other financial
institution or Fund, in each case reasonably acceptable to the Administrative
Agent and regularly engaged in making, purchasing or investing in loans and
having a net worth, determined in accordance with GAAP, in excess of
$250,000,000 (or, to the extent net worth is less than such amount, a finance
company, insurance company, other financial institution or Fund, reasonably
acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower) or (d) a savings and
loan association or savings bank organized under the laws of the United States
or any State thereof having a net worth, determined in accordance with GAAP, in
excess of $250,000,000.
"Entitlement Holder" has the meaning given to such term in the UCC.
"Entitlement Order" has the meaning given to such term in the UCC.
"Environmental Laws" means all applicable Requirements of Law now or
hereafter in effect and as amended or supplemented from time to time, relating
to pollution or the regulation and protection of human or animal health, safety,
the environment or natural resources, including the Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980, as amended (42 U.S.C. Section
9601 et seq.); the Hazardous Material Transportation Act, as amended (49 U.S.C.
Section 5101 et seq.); the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act,
as amended (7 U.S.C. Section 136 et seq.); the Resource Conservation and
Recovery Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. Section
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6901 et seq.); the Toxic Substance Control Act, as amended (15 U.S.C. Section
2601 et seq.); the Clean Air Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. Section 7401 et seq.);
the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, as amended (33 U.S.C. Section 1251 et
seq.); the Occupational Safety and Health Act, as amended (29 U.S.C. Section 651
et seq.); the Safe Drinking Water Act, as amended (42 U.S.C. Section
300f et seq.); and each of their state and local counterparts or equivalents and
any environmental transfer of ownership notification or approval statute,
including the Industrial Site Recovery Act (N.J. Stat. ▇▇▇. Section 13:1K-6 et
seq.).
"Environmental Liabilities and Costs" means, with respect to any
Person, all liabilities, obligations, responsibilities, Remedial Actions,
losses, damages, punitive damages, consequential damages, treble damages, costs
and expenses (including all fees, disbursements and expenses of counsel, experts
and consultants and costs of investigation and feasibility studies), fines,
penalties, sanctions and interest incurred as a result of any claim or demand by
any other Person, whether based in contract, tort, implied or express warranty,
strict liability, criminal or civil statute and whether arising under any
Environmental Law, Permit, order or agreement with any Governmental Authority or
other Person, in each case relating to any environmental, health or safety
condition or to any Release or threatened Release and resulting from the past,
present or future operations of, or ownership of property by, such Person or any
of its Subsidiaries.
"Environmental Lien" means any Lien in favor of any Governmental
Authority for Environmental Liabilities and Costs.
"Equipment" has the meaning given to such term in the UCC.
"ERISA" means the United States Employee Retirement Income Security
Act of 1974.
"ERISA Affiliate" means any trade or business (whether or not
incorporated) under common control or treated as a single employer with the
Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries within the meaning of Section 414(b), (c),
(m) or (o) of the Code.
"ERISA Event" means (a) a reportable event described in Section
4043(b) or 4043(c)(1), (2), (3), (5), (6), (8) or (9) of ERISA with respect to a
Title IV Plan or a Multiemployer Plan, (b) the withdrawal of the Borrower, any
of its Subsidiaries or any ERISA Affiliate from a Title IV Plan subject to
Section 4063 of ERISA during a plan year in which it was a substantial employer,
as defined in Section 4001(a)(2) of ERISA, (c) the complete or partial
withdrawal of the Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries or any ERISA Affiliate from
any Multiemployer Plan, (d) notice of reorganization or insolvency of a
Multiemployer Plan, (e) the filing of a notice of intent to terminate a Title IV
Plan or the treatment of a plan amendment as a termination under Section 4041 of
ERISA, (f) the institution of proceedings to terminate a Title IV Plan or
Multiemployer Plan by the PBGC, (g) the failure to make any required
contribution to a Title IV Plan or Multiemployer Plan, (h) the imposition of a
lien under Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA on the Borrower or
any of its Subsidiaries or any ERISA Affiliate or (i) any other event or
condition that might reasonably be expected to constitute grounds under Section
4042 of ERISA for the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to
administer, any Title IV Plan or Multiemployer Plan or the imposition of any
liability under Title IV of ERISA, other than for PBGC premiums due but not
delinquent under Section 4007 of ERISA.
"ESOP" shall mean the EDO Corporation Employee Stock Ownership Plan.
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"ESOP Loan" shall mean the loan made by the Borrower to the ESOP on
July 17, 2001 in the original principal amount of $15,839,400.
"ESOP Loan Agreement" shall mean the Loan Agreement, dated as of
July 17, 2001, between the Borrower and GreatBanc Trust Company (as successor
trustee to HSBC Bank USA), and each of the notes, guaranties and other documents
executed in connection therewith.
"Eurocurrency Liabilities" has the meaning assigned to that term in
Regulation D of the Federal Reserve Board.
"Eurodollar Base Rate" means, with respect to any Interest Period
for any Eurodollar Rate Loan, the rate determined by the Administrative Agent to
be the offered rate for deposits in Dollars for the applicable Interest Period
appearing on the Dow ▇▇▇▇▇ Markets Telerate Page 3750 as of 11:00 a.m., London
time, on the second full Business Day next preceding the first day of each
Interest Period. In the event that such rate does not appear on the Dow ▇▇▇▇▇
Markets Telerate Page 3750 (or otherwise on the Dow ▇▇▇▇▇ Markets screen), the
Eurodollar Base Rate for the purposes of this definition shall be the rate of
interest determined by the Administrative Agent to be the rate per annum at
which deposits in Dollars are offered by the principal office of Citibank in
London to major banks in the London interbank market at 11:00 a.m. (London time)
two Business Days before the first day of such Interest Period in an amount
substantially equal to the Eurodollar Rate Loan of Citibank for a period equal
to such Interest Period.
"Eurodollar Lending Office" means, with respect to any Lender, the
office of such Lender specified as its "Eurodollar Lending Office" opposite its
name on Schedule II (Applicable Lending Offices and Addresses for Notices) or on
the Assignment and Acceptance by which it became a Lender (or, if no such office
is specified, its Domestic Lending Office) or such other office of such Lender
as such Lender may from time to time specify to the Borrower and the
Administrative Agent.
"Eurodollar Rate" means, with respect to any Interest Period for any
Eurodollar Rate Loan, an interest rate per annum equal to the rate per annum
obtained by dividing (a) the Eurodollar Base Rate by (b)(i) a percentage equal
to 100% minus (ii) the reserve percentage applicable two Business Days before
the first day of such Interest Period under regulations issued from time to time
by the Federal Reserve Board for determining the maximum reserve requirement
(including any emergency, supplemental or other marginal reserve requirement)
for a member bank of the Federal Reserve System in New York City with respect to
liabilities or assets consisting of or including Eurocurrency Liabilities (or
with respect to any other category of liabilities that includes deposits by
reference to which the Eurodollar Rate is determined) having a term equal to
such Interest Period.
"Eurodollar Rate Loan" means any Loan that, for an Interest Period,
bears interest based on the Eurodollar Rate.
"Event of Default" has the meaning specified in Section 9.1 (Events
of Default).
"Excess Cash Flow" means, for the Borrower for any period, (a)
EBITDA of the Borrower for such period plus (b) the excess, if any, of the
Working Capital of the Borrower at the beginning of such period over the Working
Capital of the Borrower at the end of such period minus (c) the sum of (without
duplication) (i) scheduled and mandatory cash principal and
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interest payments on the Loans during such period and optional cash principal
payments on the Loans during such period (but only, in the case of payment in
respect of Revolving Loans, to the extent that the Revolving Credit Commitments
are permanently reduced by the amount of such payments), (ii) scheduled cash
principal and interest payments made by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries
during such period on other Indebtedness to the extent such other Indebtedness
and payments are permitted by this Agreement, (iii) scheduled payments made by
the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries on Capital Lease Obligations to the
extent such Capital Lease Obligations and payments are permitted by this
Agreement, (iv) Capital Expenditures made by the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries during such period to the extent permitted by this Agreement, (v)
cash tax payments made by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries during such
period and (vi) the excess, if any, of the Working Capital of the Borrower at
the end of such period over the Working Capital of the Borrower at the beginning
of such period.
"Excluded Foreign Subsidiary" means any Subsidiary that is not a
Domestic Subsidiary in respect of which either (a) the pledge of all of the
Stock of such Subsidiary as Collateral to secure payment of the Obligations of
the Borrower, (b) the grant of a Lien on any of its property as Collateral to
secure payment of the Obligations of the Borrower or (c) the guaranteeing by
such Subsidiary of the Obligations of the Borrower, would, in the good faith
judgment of the Borrower, result in adverse tax consequences to the Loan Parties
and their Subsidiaries, taken as a whole; provided, however, that no such
Subsidiary shall be an Excluded Foreign Subsidiary if, with substantially
similar tax consequences, such Subsidiary has entered into Guaranty Obligations
in respect of, such Subsidiary has granted a security interest in any of its
property to secure, or more than 65% of the Stock of such Subsidiary has been
pledged to secure, directly or indirectly, any obligations under any
Indebtedness (other than the Obligations) of any Loan Party.
"Existing Agent" means Citibank, N.A., in its capacity as
administrative agent under the Existing Credit Agreement.
"Existing Convertible Notes" means (i) the Borrower's 5.25%
Convertible Subordinated Notes due 2007 issued pursuant to the Existing
Indenture and (ii) any additional convertible subordinated notes issued by the
Borrower from time to time (whether or not as a renewal, extension, refinancing
or refunding of the Indebtedness referred to in clause (i) of this definition)
that (a) has a scheduled maturity no earlier than after the Scheduled
Termination Date, (b) has covenants, defaults and similar provisions applicable
to such Indebtedness that are no more restrictive, taken as a whole, than the
provisions contained in the Indebtedness referred to in clause (i) of this
definition and do not conflict with the provisions of this Agreement, (c) is
subordinated to the Obligations on terms that are reasonably satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent (it being understood that subordination terms substantially
similar to those applicable to the Indebtedness referred to in clause (i) of
this definition are deemed to be satisfactory), (d) at the time of such issuance
and after giving effect thereto, the Borrower shall be in compliance with the
financial covenants contained in Article V (Financial Covenants) and (e) is
otherwise upon terms and subject to definitive documentation which is in form
and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
"Existing Credit Agreement" means that certain Credit Agreement,
dated as of November 8, 2002, among the Borrower, the institutions party thereto
as lenders and issuing banks and the Existing Agent.
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"Existing Indenture" means the Indenture, dated as of April 2, 2002,
between the Borrower, as issuer, and HSBC Bank USA, as Trustee.
"Facility" means the Revolving Credit Commitments and the provisions
therein related to Revolving Loans, Swing Loans and Letters of Credit.
"Fair Market Value" means (a) with respect to any asset or group of
assets (other than a marketable Security) at any date, the value of the
consideration obtainable in a sale of such asset at such date assuming a sale by
a willing seller to a willing purchaser dealing at arm's length and arranged in
an orderly manner over a reasonable period of time having regard to the nature
and characteristics of such asset, as reasonably determined by the Board of
Directors of the Borrower or, if such asset shall have been the subject of a
relatively contemporaneous appraisal by an independent third party appraiser,
the basic assumptions underlying which have not materially changed since its
date, the value set forth in such appraisal and (b) with respect to any
marketable Security at any date, the closing sale price of such Security on the
Business Day next preceding such date, as appearing in any published list of any
national securities exchange or the NASDAQ Stock Market or, if there is no such
closing sale price of such Security, the final price for the purchase of such
Security at face value quoted on such Business Day by a financial institution of
recognized standing regularly dealing in Securities of such type and selected by
the Administrative Agent.
"Federal Funds Rate" means, for any period, a fluctuating interest
rate per annum equal for each day during such period to the weighted average of
the rates on overnight Federal funds transactions with members of the Federal
Reserve System arranged by Federal funds brokers, as published for such day (or,
if such day is not a Business Day, for the next preceding Business Day) by the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or, if such rate is not so published for any
day that is a Business Day, the average of the quotations for such day on such
transactions received by the Administrative Agent from three Federal funds
brokers of recognized standing selected by it.
"Federal Reserve Board" means the Board of Governors of the United
States Federal Reserve System, or any successor thereto.
"Fee Letter" shall mean the letter dated September 15, 2005,
addressed to the Borrower from CGMI and accepted by the Borrower on September
15, 2005, with respect to certain fees to be paid from time to time to CGMI and
the Administrative Agent.
"Financial Statements" means the financial statements of the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries delivered in accordance with Section 4.4
(Financial Statements) and Section 6.1 (Financial Statements).
"Fiscal Quarter" means each of the three month periods ending on
March 31, June 30, September 30 and December 31.
"Fiscal Year" means the twelve month period ending on December 31.
"Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio" means, with respect to any Person for
any period, the ratio of (a) EBITDA of such Person for such period minus Capital
Expenditures of such Person for such period minus the total federal income tax
liability actually payable by such Person in respect of such period to (b) the
Fixed Charges of such Person for such period.
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"Fixed Charges" means, with respect to any Person for any period,
the sum, determined on a Consolidated basis, of (a) the Cash Interest Expense of
such Person and its Subsidiaries for such period, (b) the principal amount of
Consolidated Indebtedness of such Person and its Subsidiaries having a scheduled
due date during such period and (c) all cash dividends payable by such Person
and its Subsidiaries on Stock in respect of such period to Persons other than
such Person and its Subsidiaries.
"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 and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its
business.
"GAAP" means generally accepted accounting principles in the United
States of America as in effect from time to time set forth in the opinions and
pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board and the American Institute of
Certified Public Accountants and the statements and pronouncements of the
Financial Accounting Standards Board, or in such other statements by such other
entity as may be in general use by significant segments of the accounting
profession, that are applicable to the circumstances as of the date of
determination.
"General Intangible" has the meaning given to such term in the UCC.
"Governmental Authority" means any nation, sovereign or government,
any state or other political subdivision thereof and any entity or authority
exercising executive, legislative, judicial, regulatory or administrative
functions of or pertaining to government, including any central bank or stock
exchange.
"Guarantor" means each Subsidiary of the Borrower party to or that
becomes a party to the Guaranty.
"Guaranty" means the guaranty, in substantially the form of Exhibit
H (Form of Guaranty), executed by the Guarantors.
"Guaranty Obligation" means, as applied to any Person, any direct or
indirect liability, contingent or otherwise, of such Person with respect to any
Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness of the type specified in clause (g) of the
definition thereof) of another Person, if the purpose or intent of such Person
in incurring the Guaranty Obligation is to provide assurance to the obligee of
such Indebtedness that such Indebtedness will be paid or discharged, that any
agreement relating thereto will be complied with, or that any holder of such
Indebtedness will be protected (in whole or in part) against loss in respect
thereof, including (a) the direct or indirect guaranty, endorsement (other than
for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business), co-making,
discounting with recourse or sale with recourse by such Person of Indebtedness
of another Person and (b) any liability of such Person for Indebtedness of
another Person through any agreement (contingent or otherwise) (i) to purchase,
repurchase or otherwise acquire such Indebtedness or any security therefor or to
provide funds for the payment or discharge of such Indebtedness (whether in the
form of a loan, advance, stock purchase, capital contribution or otherwise),
(ii) to maintain the solvency or any balance sheet item, level of income or
financial condition of another Person, (iii) to make take-or-pay or similar
payments, if required, regardless of non-performance by any other party or
parties to an agreement, (iv) to purchase, sell or lease (as lessor or lessee)
property, or to purchase or sell services, primarily for the purpose of enabling
the debtor to make payment of such Indebtedness or to assure the holder of such
Indebtedness against loss or (v) to supply funds to, or in any other manner
invest in, such other Person
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(including to pay for property or services irrespective of whether such property
is received or such services are rendered), if in the case of any agreement
described under clause (b)(i), (ii), (iii), (iv) or (v) above the primary
purpose or intent thereof is to provide assurance that Indebtedness of another
Person will be paid or discharged, that any agreement relating thereto will be
complied with or that any holder of such Indebtedness will be protected (in
whole or in part) against loss in respect thereof. The amount of any Guaranty
Obligation shall be equal to the amount of the Indebtedness so guaranteed or
otherwise supported.
"Hedging Contracts" means all Interest Rate Contracts, foreign
exchange contracts, currency swap or option agreements, forward contracts,
commodity swap, purchase or option agreements, other commodity price hedging
arrangements and all other similar agreements or arrangements designed to alter
the risks of any Person arising from fluctuations in interest rates, currency
values or commodity prices.
"Immaterial Subsidiary" means any Subsidiary of the Borrower that
(i) has less than $100,000 in assets on a Consolidated basis, (ii) is not
engaged in any business activity and (iii) is identified as an "Immaterial
Subsidiary" on Schedule 4.3(b) (Ownership of Subsidiaries). Any Immaterial
Subsidiary that becomes a Guarantor pursuant to Section 7.11(a) shall cease to
be an "Immaterial Subsidiary."
"Incremental Credit Extension Date" has the meaning specified in
Section 2.1(b)(i).
"Incremental Term Loans" has the meaning specified in Section
2.1(b)(i).
"Indebtedness" of any Person means without duplication (a) all
indebtedness of such Person for borrowed money, (b) all obligations of such
Person evidenced by notes, bonds, debentures or similar instruments or that bear
interest, (c) all reimbursement and all obligations with respect to letters of
credit, bankers' acceptances, surety bonds and performance bonds, whether or not
matured, (d) all indebtedness for the deferred purchase price of property or
services, other than trade payables incurred in the ordinary course of business
that are not overdue, (e) all indebtedness of such Person created or arising
under any conditional sale or other title retention agreement with respect to
property acquired by such Person (even though the rights and remedies of the
seller or lender under such agreement in the event of default are limited to
repossession or sale of such property), (f) all Capital Lease Obligations of
such Person and the present value of future rental payments under all synthetic
leases, (g) all Guaranty Obligations of such Person, (h) all obligations of such
Person to purchase, redeem, retire, defease or otherwise acquire for value any
Stock or Stock Equivalents of such Person, valued, in the case of redeemable
preferred stock, at the greater of its voluntary liquidation preference and its
involuntary liquidation preference plus accrued and unpaid dividends, (i) all
payments that such Person would have to make in the event of an early
termination on the date Indebtedness of such Person is being determined in
respect of Hedging Contracts of such Person and (j) all Indebtedness of the type
referred to above secured by (or for which the holder of such Indebtedness has
an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien upon or
in property (including Accounts and General Intangibles) owned by such Person,
even though such Person has not assumed or become liable for the payment of such
Indebtedness.
"Indemnified Matter" has the meaning specified in Section 11.4
(Indemnities).
"Indemnitee" has the meaning specified in Section 11.4
(Indemnities).
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"Interest Expense" means, for any Person for any period, (a)
Consolidated total interest expense of such Person and its Subsidiaries for such
period and including, in any event, interest capitalized during such period and
net costs under Interest Rate Contracts for such period minus (b) Consolidated
net gains of such Person and its Subsidiaries under Interest Rate Contracts for
such period and minus (c) any Consolidated interest income of such Person and
its Subsidiaries for such period.
"Interest Period" means, in the case of any Eurodollar Rate Loan,
(a) initially, the period commencing on the date such Eurodollar Rate Loan is
made or on the date of conversion of a Base Rate Loan to such Eurodollar Rate
Loan and ending one, two, three or six months thereafter, as selected by the
Borrower in its Notice of Borrowing or Notice of Conversion or Continuation
given to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 2.2 (Borrowing Procedures)
or Section 2.11 (Conversion/Continuation Option) and (b) thereafter, if such
Loan is continued, in whole or in part, as a Eurodollar Rate Loan pursuant to
Section 2.11 (Conversion/Continuation Option), a period commencing on the last
day of the immediately preceding Interest Period therefor and ending one, two,
three or six months thereafter, as selected by the Borrower in its Notice of
Conversion or Continuation given to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section
2.11 (Conversion/Continuation Option); provided, however, that with respect to
all Eurodollar Rate Loans prior to the Syndication Completion Date, each such
period shall end seven days after the date of making thereof, conversion thereto
or continuation thereof; provided, further, that all of the foregoing provisions
relating to Interest Periods in respect of Eurodollar Rate Loans are subject to
the following:
(i) if any Interest Period would otherwise end on a day that
is not a Business Day, such Interest Period shall be extended to the next
succeeding Business Day, unless the result of such extension would be to
extend such Interest Period into another calendar month, in which event
such Interest Period shall end on the immediately preceding Business Day;
(ii) any Interest Period that begins on the last Business Day
of a calendar month (or on a day for which there is no numerically
corresponding day in the calendar month at the end of such Interest
Period) shall end on the last Business Day of a calendar month;
(iii) the Borrower may not select any Interest Period that
ends after the date of a scheduled principal payment on the Loans as set
forth in Article II (The Facility) unless, after giving effect to such
selection, the aggregate unpaid principal amount of the Loans for which
Interest Periods end after such scheduled principal payment shall be equal
to or less than the principal amount to which the Loans are required to be
reduced after such scheduled principal payment is made;
(iv) the Borrower may not select any Interest Period in
respect of Loans having an aggregate principal amount of less than
$5,000,000; and
(v) there shall be outstanding at any one time no more than
ten Interest Periods in the aggregate.
"Interest Rate Contracts" means all interest rate swap agreements,
interest rate cap agreements, interest rate collar agreements and interest rate
insurance.
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"Inventory" has the meaning given to such term in the UCC.
"Investment" means, with respect to any Person, (a) any purchase or
other acquisition by such Person of (i) any Security issued by, (ii) a
beneficial interest in any Security issued by, or (iii) any other equity
ownership interest in, any other Person, (b) any purchase by such Person of all
or a significant part of the assets of a business conducted by any other Person,
or all or substantially all of the assets constituting the business of a
division, branch or other unit operation of any other Person, (c) any loan,
advance (other than deposits with financial institutions available for
withdrawal on demand, prepaid expenses, accounts receivable and similar items
made or incurred in the ordinary course of business as presently conducted) or
capital contribution by such Person to any other Person, including all
Indebtedness of any other Person to such Person arising from a sale of property
by such Person other than in the ordinary course of its business, and (d) any
Guaranty Obligation incurred by such Person in respect of Indebtedness of any
other Person.
"IRS" means the Internal Revenue Service of the United States or any
successor thereto.
"Issue" means, with respect to any Letter of Credit, to issue
(including any deemed issuance pursuant to Section 2.4(k) (Letters of Credit)),
extend the expiry of, renew or increase the maximum face amount (including by
deleting or reducing any scheduled decrease in such maximum face amount) of,
such Letter of Credit. The terms "Issued" and "Issuance" shall have a
corresponding meaning.
"Issuer" means each Lender or Affiliate of a Lender that (a) is
listed on the signature pages hereof as an "Issuer" or (b) hereafter becomes an
Issuer with the approval of the Administrative Agent and the Borrower by
agreeing pursuant to an agreement with and in form and substance satisfactory to
the Administrative Agent and the Borrower to be bound by the terms hereof
applicable to Issuers.
"Land" of any Person means all of those plots, pieces or parcels of
land now owned, leased or hereafter acquired or leased or purported to be owned,
leased or hereafter acquired or leased (including, in respect of the Loan
Parties, as reflected in the most recent Financial Statements) by such Person.
"Leases" means, with respect to any Person, all of those leasehold
estates in real property of such Person, as lessee, as such may be amended,
supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
"Lender" means the Swing Loan Lender and each other financial
institution or other entity that (a) is listed on the signature pages hereof as
a "Lender" or (b) from time to time becomes a party hereto by execution of an
Assignment and Acceptance.
"Letter of Credit" means any letter of credit Issued pursuant to
Section 2.4 (Letters of Credit).
"Letter of Credit Commitment" means, with respect to each Issuer,
the commitment of such Issuer to issue Letters of Credit in the aggregate face
amount not to exceed an amount to be agreed between such Issuer and the
Borrower.
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"Letter of Credit Obligations" means, at any time, the aggregate of
all liabilities at such time of the Borrower to all Issuers with respect to
Letters of Credit, whether or not any such liability is contingent, including,
without duplication, the sum of (a) the Reimbursement Obligations at such time
and (b) the Letter of Credit Undrawn Amounts at such time.
"Letter of Credit Reimbursement Agreement" has the meaning specified
in Section 2.4(a) (Letters of Credit).
"Letter of Credit Request" has the meaning specified in Section
2.4(c) (Letters of Credit).
"Letter of Credit Sublimit" means $100,000,000.
"Letter of Credit Undrawn Amounts" means, at any time, the aggregate
undrawn face amount of all Letters of Credit outstanding at such time.
"Leverage Ratio" means, with respect to any Person as of any date,
the ratio of (a) Consolidated Indebtedness of such Person and its Subsidiaries
outstanding as of such date less contingent obligations of the type specified in
clause (c) of the definition of "Indebtedness" to (b) EBITDA for such Person for
the last four Fiscal Quarter period ending on or before such date.
"Lien" means any mortgage, deed of trust, pledge, hypothecation,
assignment, charge, deposit arrangement, encumbrance, lien (statutory or other),
security interest or preference, priority or other security agreement or
preferential arrangement of any kind or nature whatsoever intended to assure
payment of any Indebtedness or the performance of any other obligation,
including any conditional sale or other title retention agreement, the interest
of a lessor under a Capital Lease and any financing lease having substantially
the same economic effect as any of the foregoing, and the filing of any
financing statement under the UCC or comparable law of any jurisdiction naming
the owner of the asset to which such Lien relates as debtor.
"Loan" means any loan made by any Lender pursuant to this Agreement,
including any Incremental Term Loans made pursuant to Section 2.1(b)
(Incremental Credit Extensions).
"Loan Documents" means, collectively, this Agreement, the Revolving
Credit Notes (if any), the Guaranty, the Fee Letter, each Letter of Credit
Reimbursement Agreement, each Hedging Contract between any Loan Party and any
Person that was a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender at the time it entered into
such Hedging Contract, each Cash Management Document, the Collateral Documents
and each certificate, agreement or document executed by a Loan Party and
delivered to the Administrative Agent or any Lender in connection with or
pursuant to any of the foregoing.
"Loan Party" means each of the Borrower, each Guarantor and each
other Subsidiary of the Borrower that executes and delivers a Loan Document.
"Material Adverse Change" means a material adverse change in any of
(a) the condition (financial or otherwise), business, performance, prospects,
operations or properties of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole,
(b) the legality, validity or enforceability of any Loan Document, (c) the
perfection or priority of the Liens granted pursuant to the Collateral
Documents, (d) the ability of the Borrower to repay the Obligations or of the
other Loan Parties to
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perform their respective obligations under the Loan Documents or (e) the rights
and remedies of the Administrative Agent, the Lenders or the Issuers under the
Loan Documents.
"Material Adverse Effect" means an effect that results in or causes,
or could reasonably be expected to result in or cause, a Material Adverse
Change.
"Moody's" means ▇▇▇▇▇'▇ Investors Service, Inc. or any successor
thereto.
"Multiemployer Plan" means a multiemployer plan, as defined in
Section 400l(a)(3) of ERISA, to which the Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries or
any ERISA Affiliate has any obligation or liability, contingent or otherwise.
"Net Cash Proceeds" means proceeds received by the Borrower or any
of its Subsidiaries after the Closing Date in cash or Cash Equivalents from any
(a) Asset Sale (other than an Asset Sale permitted under Section 8.4 (a), (b),
(c), (d), or (e) (Sale of Assets)) net of (i) the reasonable cash costs of sale,
assignment or other disposition, (ii) taxes paid or reasonably estimated to be
payable as a result thereof and (iii) any amount required to be paid or prepaid
on Indebtedness (other than the Obligations) secured by the assets subject to
such Asset Sale, provided, however, that evidence of each of clauses (i), (ii)
and (iii) above is provided to the Administrative Agent in form and substance
satisfactory to it, (b) Property Loss Event or (c) any Debt Issuance, in each
case net of brokers' and advisors' fees and other costs incurred in connection
with such transaction; provided, however, that in the case of this clause (c),
evidence of such costs is provided to the Administrative Agent in form and
substance satisfactory to it.
"Non-Cash Interest Expense" means, with respect to any Person for
any period, the sum of the following amounts to the extent included in the
definition of Interest Expense (a) the amount of debt discount and debt issuance
costs amortized, (b) charges relating to write-ups or write-downs in the book or
carrying value of existing Indebtedness, (c) interest payable in evidences of
Indebtedness or by addition to the principal of the related Indebtedness and (d)
other non-cash interest.
"Non-Consenting Lender" has the meaning specified in Section 11.1(c)
(Amendments, Waivers, Etc.).
"Non-Funding Lender" has the meaning specified in Section 2.2(d)
(Borrowing Procedures).
"Non-U.S. Lender" means each Lender or Issuer (or the Administrative
Agent) that is a Non-U.S. Person.
"Non-U.S. Person" means any Person that is not a Domestic Person.
"Notice of Borrowing" has the meaning specified in Section 2.2(a)
(Borrowing Procedures).
"Notice of Conversion or Continuation" has the meaning specified in
Section 2.11 (Conversion/Continuation Option).
"Obligations" means the Loans, the Letter of Credit Obligations and
all other amounts (including, without limitation, interest accruing after the
maturity of the Loans and
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Obligations and interest accruing after the filing of any petition in
bankruptcy, or the commencement of any insolvency, reorganization or like
proceeding, relating to the Borrower, whether or not a claim for post-filing or
post-petition interest is allowed in such proceeding), obligations, covenants
and duties owing by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent, any Lender, any
Issuer, any Affiliate of any of them or any Indemnitee, of every type and
description (whether by reason of an extension of credit, opening or amendment
of a letter of credit or payment of any draft drawn or other payment thereunder,
loan, guaranty, indemnification, foreign exchange or currency swap transaction,
interest rate hedging transaction or otherwise), present or future, arising
under this Agreement, any other Loan Document (including Cash Management
Documents and Hedging Contracts that are Loan Documents), whether direct or
indirect (including those acquired by assignment), absolute or contingent, due
or to become due, now existing or hereafter arising and however acquired and
whether or not evidenced by any note, guaranty or other instrument or for the
payment of money, including all letter of credit, cash management and other
fees, interest, charges, expenses, attorneys' fees and disbursements, Cash
Management Obligations and other sums chargeable to the Borrower under this
Agreement, any other Loan Document (including Cash Management Documents and
Hedging Contracts that are Loan Documents) and all obligations of the Borrower
under any Loan Document to provide cash collateral for any Letter of Credit
Obligation.
"PBGC" means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation or any
successor thereto.
"Permit" means any permit, approval, authorization, license,
variance or permission required from a Governmental Authority under an
applicable Requirement of Law.
"Permitted Acquisition" means any Proposed Acquisition subject to
the satisfaction of each of the following conditions:
(a) the Administrative Agent shall receive at least five Business
Days' prior written notice of such Proposed Acquisition, which notice
shall include, without limitation, a reasonably detailed description of
such Proposed Acquisition;
(b) such Proposed Acquisition shall only involve assets (i) located
in the United States or with a Fair Market Value, together with all other
Permitted Acquisitions consummated on or prior to the date of consummation
of such Proposed Acquisition, not to exceed 15% of the Borrower's
Consolidated Assets and (ii) comprising a business, or those assets of a
business, of the type engaged in by the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as
of the Closing Date or that are reasonable extensions thereof;
(c) such Proposed Acquisition shall be consensual and shall have
been approved by the Proposed Acquisition Target's board of directors;
(d) at or prior to the closing of such Proposed Acquisition, the
Borrower (or the Subsidiary making such Proposed Acquisition) and the
Proposed Acquisition Target shall have executed such documents and taken
such actions as may be required under Section 7.11 (Additional Collateral
and Guaranties);
(e) the Borrower shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent,
in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and
sufficiently in advance and in any case no later than five Business Days
prior to such Proposed Acquisition, (a) with
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respect to any Proposed Acquisition with a purchase price exceeding
$50,000,000, pro forma Consolidated financial statements (including a
balance sheet and income statement) of the Borrower as of and for the then
most recent four fiscal quarter period ended, giving effect to such
Proposed Acquisition; and (b) such other financial information, financial
analysis, documentation or other information relating to such Proposed
Acquisition as the Administrative Agent or any Lender shall reasonably
request;
(f) on or prior to the date of such Proposed Acquisition, the
Administrative Agent shall have received copies of the acquisition
agreement, related Contractual Obligations and instruments and all
opinions, certificates, lien search results and other documents reasonably
requested by the Administrative Agent; and
(g) at the time of such Proposed Acquisition and after giving effect
thereto, (A) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing or would result therefrom, (B) all representations and
warranties contained in Article IV (Representations and Warranties) and in
the other Loan Documents shall be true and correct in all material
respects, except to the extent such representations and warranties
expressly relate to an earlier date, in which case such representations
and warranties shall have been true and correct in all material respects
as of such earlier date, (C) the Borrower shall be in compliance with the
financial covenants contained in Article V (Financial Covenants) on a Pro
Forma Basis and (D) the sum of (x) the Borrower's unencumbered cash and
Cash Equivalents and (y) the Available Credit shall exceed $40,000,000.
"Permitted Debt" has the meaning specified in Section 8.1(k).
"Person" means an individual, partnership, corporation (including a
business trust), joint stock company, estate, trust, limited liability company,
unincorporated association, joint venture or other entity or a Governmental
Authority.
"Pledge and Security Agreement" means an agreement, in substantially
the form of Exhibit I (Form of Pledge and Security Agreement), executed by the
Borrower and each Guarantor.
"Pledged Debt Instruments" has the meaning specified in the Pledge
and Security Agreement.
"Pledged Stock" has the meaning specified in the Pledge and Security
Agreement.
"Proceeds" has the meaning given to such term in the UCC.
"Pro Forma Basis" means, with respect to any determination for any
period, that such determination shall be made giving pro forma effect to each
acquisition consummated during such period, together with all transactions
relating thereto consummated during such period (including any incurrence,
assumption, refinancing or repayment of Indebtedness), as if such acquisition
and related transactions had been consummated on the first day of such period,
in each case based on historical results accounted for in accordance with GAAP
and, to the extent applicable, reasonable assumptions that are specified in
details in the relevant Compliance
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Certificate, Financial Statement or other document provided to the
Administrative Agent or any Lender in connection herewith in accordance with
Regulation S-X of the Securities Act of 1933.
"Projections" means those financial projections dated September 21,
2005 covering the fiscal years ending in 2005 through 2009 inclusive, to be
delivered to the Lenders by the Borrower.
"Property Loss Event" means (a) any loss of or damage to property of
the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries that results in the receipt by such
Person of proceeds of insurance exceeding $3,000,000 (individually or in the
aggregate) or (b) any taking of property of the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries that results in the receipt by such Person of a compensation
payment in respect thereof in excess of $3,000,000 (individually or in the
aggregate).
"Proposed Acquisition" means the proposed acquisition by the
Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries of all or substantially all of the assets or
Stock of any Proposed Acquisition Target, or the merger of any Proposed
Acquisition Target with or into the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower
(and, in the case of a merger with the Borrower, with the Borrower being the
surviving corporation).
"Proposed Acquisition Target" means any Person or any operating
division thereof subject to a Proposed Acquisition.
"Purchasing Lender" has the meaning specified in Section
11.7 (Sharing of Payments, Etc.).
"Ratable Portion" or (other than in the expression "equally and
ratably") "ratably" means, with respect to any Lender the percentage obtained by
dividing (a) the Revolving Credit Commitment of such Lender by (b) the aggregate
Revolving Credit Commitments of all Lenders (or, at any time after the Revolving
Credit Termination Date, the percentage obtained by dividing the aggregate
outstanding principal balance of the Revolving Credit Outstandings owing to such
Lender by the aggregate outstanding principal balance of the Revolving Credit
Outstandings owing to all Lenders).
"Real Property" of any Person means the Land of such Person,
together with the right, title and interest of such Person, if any, in and to
the streets, the Land lying in the bed of any streets, roads or avenues, opened
or proposed, in front of, the air space and development rights pertaining to the
Land and the right to use such air space and development rights, all rights of
way, privileges, liberties, tenements, hereditaments and appurtenances belonging
or in any way appertaining thereto, all fixtures, all easements now or hereafter
benefiting the Land and all royalties and rights appertaining to the use and
enjoyment of the Land, including all alley, vault, drainage, mineral, water, oil
and gas rights, together with all of the buildings and other improvements now or
hereafter erected on the Land and any fixtures appurtenant thereto.
"Register" has the meaning specified in Section 2.7(b) (Section
2.7).
"Reimbursement Date" has the meaning specified in Section 2.4(h)
(Letters of Credit).
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"Reimbursement Obligations" means, as and when matured, the
obligation of the Borrower to pay, on the date payment is made or scheduled to
be made to the beneficiary under each such Letter of Credit (or at such other
date as may be specified in the applicable Letter of Credit Reimbursement
Agreement) and in the currency drawn (or in such other currency as may be
specified in the applicable Letter of Credit Reimbursement Agreement), all
amounts of each draft and other requests for payments drawn under Letters of
Credit, and all other matured reimbursement or repayment obligations of the
Borrower to any Issuer with respect to amounts drawn under Letters of Credit.
"Reinvestment Deferred Amount" means, with respect to any Net Cash
Proceeds of any Reinvestment Event, the portion of such Net Cash Proceeds
subject to a Reinvestment Notice.
"Reinvestment Event" means any Asset Sale or Property Loss Event in
respect of which the Borrower has delivered a Reinvestment Notice.
"Reinvestment Notice" means a written notice executed by a
Responsible Officer of the Borrower stating that no Default or Event of Default
has occurred and is continuing and that the Borrower (directly or indirectly
through one of its Subsidiaries) intends and expects to use all or a specified
portion of the Net Cash Proceeds of an Asset Sale or Property Loss Event to
acquire replacement assets useful in its or one of its Subsidiaries' businesses
or, in the case of a Property Loss Event, to effect repairs.
"Reinvestment Prepayment Amount" means, with respect to any Net Cash
Proceeds of any Reinvestment Event, the Reinvestment Deferred Amount for such
Net Cash Proceeds less any amount expended or required to be expended pursuant
to a Contractual Obligation entered into prior to the relevant Reinvestment
Prepayment Date for such Net Cash Proceeds to acquire, to the extent otherwise
permitted hereunder, replacement assets useful in the business of the Borrower
or any of its Subsidiaries or, in the case of a Property Loss Event, to effect
repairs.
"Reinvestment Prepayment Date" means, with respect to any Net Cash
Proceeds of any Reinvestment Event, the earlier of (a) the date occurring 180
days after such Reinvestment Event and (b) the date that is five Business Days
after the date on which the Borrower shall have notified the Administrative
Agent of the Borrower's determination not to acquire replacement assets useful
in the Borrower's or a Subsidiary's business (or, in the case of a Property Loss
Event, not to effect repairs) with all or any portion of the relevant
Reinvestment Deferred Amount for such Net Cash Proceeds.
"Release" means, with respect to any Person, any release, spill,
emission, leaking, pumping, injection, deposit, disposal, discharge, dispersal,
leaching or migration, in each case, of any Contaminant into the indoor or
outdoor environment or into or out of any property owned, leased or operated by
such Person, including the movement of Contaminants through or in the air, soil,
surface water, ground water or property.
"Remedial Action" means all actions required to (a) clean up,
remove, treat or in any other way address any Contaminant in the indoor or
outdoor environment, (b) prevent the Release or threat of Release or minimize
the further Release so that a Contaminant does not migrate or endanger or
threaten to endanger public health or welfare or the indoor or outdoor
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environment or (c) perform pre-remedial studies and investigations and
post-remedial monitoring and care.
"Requirement of Law" means, with respect to any Person, the common
law and all federal, state, local and foreign laws, treaties, rules and
regulations, orders, judgments, decrees and other determinations of any
Governmental Authority or arbitrator, applicable to or binding upon such Person
or any of its property or to which such Person or any of its property is
subject.
"Requisite Lenders" means, collectively, Lenders having more than
fifty percent (50%) of the aggregate outstanding amount of the Revolving Credit
Commitments or, after the Revolving Credit Termination Date, more than fifty
percent (50%) of the aggregate Revolving Credit Outstandings. A Non-Funding
Lender shall not be included in the calculation of "Requisite Lenders."
"Responsible Officer" means, with respect to any Person, any of the
principal executive officers, managing members or general partners of such
Person but, in any event, with respect to financial matters, the chief financial
officer, treasurer or controller of such Person.
"Restricted Payment" means (a) any dividend, distribution or any
other payment whether direct or indirect, on account of any Stock or Stock
Equivalent of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries now or hereafter
outstanding and (b) any redemption, retirement, sinking fund or similar payment,
purchase or other acquisition for value, direct or indirect, of any Stock or
Stock Equivalent of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries now or hereafter
outstanding.
"Revolving Credit Commitment" means, with respect to each Revolving
Credit Lender, the commitment of such Revolving Credit Lender to make Revolving
Loans and acquire interests in other Revolving Credit Outstandings in the
aggregate principal amount outstanding not to exceed the amount set forth
opposite such Revolving Credit Lender's name on Schedule I (Revolving Credit
Commitments) under the caption "Revolving Credit Commitments" as amended to
reflect each Assignment and Acceptance executed by such Revolving Credit Lender
and as such amount may be reduced pursuant to this Agreement, and each
additional commitment by a Lender that is included as part of a Revolving Credit
Commitment Increase.
"Revolving Credit Commitment Increase" has the meaning specified in
Section 2.1(b)(i).
"Revolving Credit Lender" means each Lender that (a) has a Revolving
Credit Commitment, (b) holds a Revolving Loan or (c) participates in any Letter
of Credit.
"Revolving Credit Note" means a promissory note of the Borrower
payable to the order of any Revolving Credit Lender in a principal amount equal
to the amount of such Revolving Credit Lender's Revolving Credit Commitment
evidencing the aggregate Indebtedness of the Borrower to such Revolving Credit
Lender resulting from the Revolving Loans owing to such Revolving Credit Lender.
"Revolving Credit Outstandings" means, at any particular time, the
sum of (a) the principal amount of the Revolving Loans outstanding at such time,
(b) the Letter of Credit Obligations outstanding at such time and (c) the
principal amount of the Swing Loans outstanding at such time.
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"Revolving Credit Termination Date" shall mean the earliest of (a)
the Scheduled Termination Date, (b) the date of termination of all of the
Revolving Credit Commitments pursuant to Section 2.5 (Reduction and Termination
of the Revolving Credit Commitments), (c) the date on which the Obligations
become due and payable pursuant to Section 9.2 (Remedies) and (d) October 15,
2006 if, on or before October 15, 2006, the Existing Convertible Notes referred
to in clause (i) of the definition thereof are not (i) repaid or refinanced in
full with additional Existing Convertible Notes otherwise permitted pursuant to
Section 8.1(j) (Indebtedness), (ii) repaid or refinanced in full with
Indebtedness otherwise permitted pursuant to Section 8.1(k) (Indebtedness),
(iii) repaid or refinanced in full in cash, (iv) repaid or refinanced in full
with proceeds of the Loans or (v) converted in full into equity of the Borrower
pursuant to the terms thereof.
"Revolving Loan" has the meaning specified in Section 2.1 (The
Commitment).
"S&P" means Standard & Poor's Rating Services and any successor
thereto.
"▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇ Act" means the United States ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇ Act of
2002.
"Scheduled Termination Date" means the fifth anniversary of the
Closing Date.
"Secured Obligations" means, in the case of the Borrower, the
Obligations, and, in the case of any other Loan Party, the obligations of such
Loan Party under the Guaranty and the other Loan Documents to which it is a
party.
"Secured Parties" means the Lenders, the Issuers, the Administrative
Agent and any other holder of any Secured Obligation.
"Securities Account" has the meaning given to such term in the UCC.
"Security" means any Stock, Stock Equivalent, voting trust
certificate, bond, debenture, note or other evidence of Indebtedness, whether
secured, unsecured, convertible or subordinated, or any certificate of interest,
share or participation in, any temporary or interim certificate for the purchase
or acquisition of, or any right to subscribe to, purchase or acquire, any of the
foregoing, but shall not include any evidence of the Obligations.
"Selling Lender" has the meaning specified in Section 11.7 (Sharing
of Payments, Etc.).
"Senior Secured Leverage Ratio" means, with respect to any Person as
of any date, the ratio of (a) Consolidated Senior Secured Indebtedness of such
Person and its Subsidiaries outstanding as of such date to (b) EBITDA for such
Person for the last four Fiscal Quarter period ending on or before such date.
"Solvent" means, with respect to any Person as of any date of
determination, that, as of such date, (a) the value of the assets of such Person
(both at fair value and present fair saleable value) is greater than the total
amount of liabilities (including contingent and unliquidated liabilities) of
such Person, (b) such Person generally is able to pay all liabilities of such
Person as such liabilities mature and (c) such Person does not have unreasonably
small capital. In computing the amount of contingent or unliquidated liabilities
at any time, such liabilities shall be computed at the amount that, in light of
all the facts and circumstances existing
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at such time, represents the amount that can reasonably be expected to become an
actual or matured liability.
"Special Purpose Vehicle" means any special purpose funding vehicle
identified as such in writing by any Lender to the Administrative Agent.
"Stock" means shares of capital stock (whether denominated as common
stock or preferred stock), beneficial, partnership or membership interests,
participations or other equivalents (regardless of how designated) of or in a
corporation, partnership, limited liability company or equivalent entity,
whether voting or non-voting.
"Stock Equivalents" means all securities convertible into or
exchangeable for Stock and all warrants, options or other rights to purchase or
subscribe for any Stock, whether or not presently convertible, exchangeable or
exercisable.
"Subsidiary" means, with respect to any Person, any corporation,
partnership, limited liability company or other business entity of which an
aggregate of 50% or more of the outstanding Voting Stock is, at the time,
directly or indirectly, owned or controlled by such Person or one or more
Subsidiaries of such Person.
"Substitute Institution" has the meaning specified in Section 2.17
(Substitution of Lenders).
"Substitution Notice" has the meaning specified in Section 2.17
(Substitution of Lenders).
"Swing Loan" has the meaning specified in Section 2.3 (Swing Loans).
"Swing Loan Lender" means Citicorp or any other Revolving Credit
Lender that becomes the Administrative Agent or agrees, with the approval of the
Administrative Agent and the Borrower, to act as the Swing Loan Lender
hereunder, in each case in its capacity as the Swing Loan Lender hereunder.
"Swing Loan Request" has the meaning specified in Section 2.3(b)
(Swing Loans).
"Swing Loan Sublimit" means $20,000,000.
"Syndication Agent" has the meaning specified in the preamble to
this Agreement.
"Syndication Completion Date" means the earlier to occur of (a) the
30th day following the Closing Date and (b) the date upon which CGMI determines
in its sole discretion that the primary syndication of the Revolving Credit
Commitments has been completed.
"Tax Affiliate" means, with respect to any Person, (a) any
Subsidiary of such Person and (b) any Affiliate of such Person with which such
Person files or is eligible to file consolidated, combined or unitary tax
returns.
"Tax Return" has the meaning specified in Section 4.8(a) (Taxes).
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"Taxes" has the meaning specified in Section 2.16(a) (Taxes).
"Title IV Plan" means a pension plan, other than a Multiemployer
Plan, covered by Title IV of ERISA and to which the Borrower, any of its
Subsidiaries or any ERISA Affiliate has any obligation or liability, contingent
or otherwise.
"UCC" has the meaning specified in the Pledge and Security
Agreement.
"Unfunded Pension Liability" means, with respect to the Borrower or
any of its Subsidiaries at any time, the sum of (a) the amount, if any, by which
the present value of all accrued benefits under each Title IV Plan (other than
any Title IV Plan subject to Section 4063 of ERISA) exceeds the fair market
value of all assets of such Title IV Plan allocable to such benefits in
accordance with Title IV of ERISA, as determined as of the most recent valuation
date for such Title IV Plan using the actuarial assumptions in effect under such
Title IV Plan, (b) the aggregate amount of withdrawal liability that could be
assessed under Section 4063 with respect to each Title IV Plan subject to such
section, separately calculated for each such Title IV Plan as of its most recent
valuation date and (c) for a period of five years following a transaction
reasonably likely to be covered by Section 4069 of ERISA, the liabilities
(whether or not accrued) that could be avoided by the Borrower, any of its
Subsidiaries or any ERISA Affiliate as a result of such transaction.
"Unused Commitment Fee" has the meaning specified in Section 2.12(a)
(Fees).
"U.S. Lender" means each Lender or Issuer (or the Administrative
Agent) that is a Domestic Person.
"Voting Stock" means Stock of any Person having ordinary power to
vote in the election of members of the board of directors, managers, trustees or
other controlling Persons, of such Person (irrespective of whether, at the time,
Stock of any other class or classes of such entity shall have or might have
voting power by reason of the happening of any contingency).
"Wholly-Owned Subsidiary" of any Person means any Subsidiary of such
Person, all of the Stock of which (other than director's qualifying shares, as
may be required by law) is owned by such Person, either directly or indirectly
through one or more Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries of such Person.
"Withdrawal Liability" means, with respect to the Borrower or any of
its Subsidiaries at any time, the aggregate liability incurred (whether or not
assessed) with respect to all Multiemployer Plans pursuant to Section 4201 of
ERISA or for increases in contributions required to be made pursuant to Section
4243 of ERISA.
"Working Capital" means, for any Person at any date, the amount, if
any, by which the Consolidated Current Assets of such Person at such date
exceeds the Consolidated Current Liabilities of such Person at such date.
SECTION 1.2 COMPUTATION OF TIME PERIODS
In this Agreement, in the computation of periods of time from a
specified date to a later specified date, the word "from" means "from and
including" and the words "to" and "until" each mean "to but excluding" and the
word "through" means "to and including."
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SECTION 1.3 ACCOUNTING TERMS AND PRINCIPLES
(a) Except as set forth below, all accounting terms not specifically
defined herein shall be construed in conformity with GAAP and all accounting
determinations required to be made pursuant hereto (including for purpose of
measuring compliance with Article V (Financial Covenants) shall, unless
expressly otherwise provided herein, be made in conformity with GAAP.
(b) If any change in the accounting principles used in the
preparation of the most recent Financial Statements referred to in Section 6.1
(Financial Statements) is hereafter required or permitted by the rules,
regulations, pronouncements and opinions of the Financial Accounting Standards
Board or the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (or any
successors thereto) and such change is adopted by the Borrower with the
agreement of the Borrower's Accountants and results in a change in any of the
calculations required by Article V (Financial Covenants) or VIII (Negative
Covenants) that would not have resulted had such accounting change not occurred,
the parties hereto agree to enter into negotiations in order to amend such
provisions so as to equitably reflect such change such that the criteria for
evaluating compliance with such covenants by the Borrower shall be the same
after such change as if such change had not been made; provided, however, that
no change in GAAP that would affect a calculation that measures compliance with
any covenant contained in Article V (Financial Covenants) or VIII (Negative
Covenants) shall be given effect until such provisions are amended to reflect
such changes in GAAP.
(c) For purposes of making all financial calculations to determine
compliance with Article V (Financial Covenants), all components of such
calculations shall be adjusted to include or exclude, as the case may be,
without duplication, such components of such calculations attributable to any
business or assets that have been acquired or disposed of in accordance with
this Agreement by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (including through
Permitted Acquisitions) after the first day of the applicable period of
determination and prior to the end of such period, as determined in good faith
by the Borrower on a Pro Forma Basis.
SECTION 1.4 CONVERSION OF FOREIGN CURRENCIES; ROUNDING OFF
(a) Dollar Equivalents. If any amount required to be determined
hereunder is denominated in a currency other than Dollars, the Administrative
Agent shall determine the Dollar equivalent thereof using any method of
determination it deems appropriate, and such determination by the Administrative
Agent shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The Administrative Agent may,
but shall not be obligated to, rely on any determination made by any Loan Party
in any document delivered to the Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent
may determine or redetermine the Dollar equivalent of any amount on any date
either in its own discretion or upon the request of any Lender or Issuer.
(b) Rounding-Off. The Administrative Agent may set up appropriate
rounding off mechanisms or otherwise round-off amounts hereunder to the nearest
higher or lower amount in whole Dollar or cent to ensure amounts owing by any
party hereunder or that otherwise need to be calculated or converted hereunder
are expressed in whole Dollars or in whole cents, as may be necessary or
appropriate.
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SECTION 1.5 CERTAIN TERMS
(a) The terms "herein," "hereof," "hereto" and "hereunder" and
similar terms refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular
Article, Section, subsection or clause in, this Agreement.
(b) Unless otherwise expressly indicated herein, (i) references in
this Agreement to an Exhibit, Schedule, Article, Section, clause or sub-clause
refer to the appropriate Exhibit or Schedule to, or Article, Section, clause or
sub-clause in this Agreement and (ii) the words "above" and "below", when
following a reference to a clause or a sub-clause of any Loan Document, refer to
a clause or sub-clause within, respectively, the same Section or clause.
(c) Each agreement defined in this Article I shall include all
appendices, exhibits and schedules thereto. Unless the prior written consent of
the Requisite Lenders is required hereunder for an amendment, restatement,
supplement or other modification to any such agreement and such consent is not
obtained, references in this Agreement to such agreement shall be to such
agreement as so amended, restated, supplemented or modified.
(d) References in this Agreement to any statute shall be to such
statute as amended or modified from time to time and to any successor
legislation thereto, in each case as in effect at the time any such reference is
operative.
(e) The term "including" when used in any Loan Document means
"including without limitation" except when used in the computation of time
periods.
(f) The terms "Lender," "Issuer" and "Administrative Agent" include,
without limitation, their respective successors.
(g) Upon the appointment of any successor Administrative Agent
pursuant to Section 10.7 (Successor Administrative Agent), references to
Citicorp in Section 10.4 (The Agents Individually) and to Citibank in the
definitions of Base Rate and Eurodollar Rate shall be deemed to refer to the
financial institution then acting as the Administrative Agent or one of its
Affiliates if it so designates.
ARTICLE II
THE FACILITY
SECTION 2.1 THE COMMITMENTS
(a) Revolving Credit Commitments. On the terms and subject to the
conditions contained in this Agreement, each Revolving Credit Lender severally
agrees to make loans in Dollars (each a "Revolving Loan") to the Borrower from
time to time on any Business Day during the period from the date hereof until
the Revolving Credit Termination Date in an aggregate principal amount at any
time outstanding for all such loans by such Revolving Credit Lender not to
exceed such Revolving Credit Lender's Revolving Credit Commitment; provided,
however, that at no time shall any Revolving Credit Lender be obligated to make
a Revolving Loan in excess of such Revolving Credit Lender's Ratable Portion of
the Available Credit. Within the limits of the Revolving Credit Commitment of
each Revolving Credit Lender, amounts of Revolving Loans repaid may be
reborrowed under this Section 2.1.
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(b) Incremental Credit Extensions. (i) The Borrower may from time to
time after the Effective Date, with the consent of the Administrative Agent,
request one or more increases in the Revolving Credit Commitments (each, a
"Revolving Credit Commitment Increase") or one or more tranches of term loans
(the "Incremental Term Loans"); provided, however, that (A) the aggregate amount
of all Incremental Term Loans and Revolving Credit Commitment Increases shall
not exceed $100,000,000, (B) no Incremental Term Loans or Revolving Credit
Commitment Increases shall be requested later than one year prior to the
Scheduled Termination Date and (C) each Incremental Term Loan and Revolving
Credit Commitment Increase shall be in an amount not less than $25,000,000.
Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to obligate the Administrative
Agent, any other Agent, any Arranger or any Lender to negotiate for, solicit,
provide or commit to provide any Incremental Term Loans or any Revolving Credit
Commitment Increase. The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Lender
of each proposed Incremental Term Loan and Revolving Credit Commitment Increase
and of the proposed terms and conditions therefor agreed between the Borrower
and the Administrative Agent. Each such Lender (and each of their Affiliates and
Approved Funds) may, in its sole discretion, commit to participate in such
Incremental Term Loans and Revolving Credit Commitment Increases by forwarding
its commitment therefor to the Administrative Agent in form and substance
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent shall
allocate, in its sole discretion but in amounts not to exceed for each such
Lender the commitment received from such Lender, Affiliate or Approved Fund, the
Incremental Term Loan commitments or Revolving Credit Commitment Increase
commitments to be made as part of such Incremental Term Loans or Revolving
Credit Commitment Increase, respectively, to the Lenders from which it has
received such written commitments. If the Administrative Agent does not receive
enough commitments from existing Lenders or their Affiliates or Approved Funds,
it may, after consultation with the Borrower, allocate to Eligible Assignees any
excess of the proposed amount of such Incremental Term Loans or Revolving Credit
Commitment Increase agreed with the Borrower over the aggregate amounts of the
commitments received from existing Lenders or their Affiliates or Approved
Funds. Each Incremental Term Loan and Revolving Credit Commitment Increase shall
become effective on a date agreed by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent
(each, an "Incremental Credit Extension Date"), which shall be in any case on or
after the date of satisfaction of the conditions precedent set forth in Section
3.4. The Administrative Agent shall notify the Lenders and the Borrower, on or
before 1:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Business Day following an
Incremental Credit Extension Date of the effectiveness of an Incremental Term
Loan or Revolving Credit Commitment Increase, as applicable, and shall record in
the Register all applicable additional information in respect of such
Incremental Term Loans or Revolving Credit Commitment Increase.
(ii) The Incremental Term Loans (A) shall rank pari passu in
right of payment with the Revolving Loans and all other Incremental Term
Loans, (B) shall not have a final maturity earlier than the Scheduled
Termination Date (but may have amortization up to 10% of the principal
amount thereof each year prior to such date), (C) the applicable margin
with respect to such Incremental Term Loans shall be at market rates for
companies with credit ratings, financial profiles and capital structures
comparable to that of the Borrower; provided, however, that (x) if the
final maturity date for such Incremental Term Loans is on the Scheduled
Termination Date and the pricing (including fees, interest and original
issue discount) for such Incremental Term Loans exceeds the Applicable
Margin for the Revolving Loans, then the Applicable Margin for such
Revolving Loans will be increased to equal such pricing and (y) if the
final maturity
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date for such Incremental Term Loans is after the Scheduled Termination
Date and the pricing (including fees, interest and original issue
discount) for such Incremental Term Loans exceeds the Applicable Margin
for the Revolving Loans by more than 0.25%, then the Applicable Margin for
such Revolving Loans will be increased to an amount equal such pricing
minus 0.25%, (D) shall require mandatory prepayments from annual Excess
Cash Flow of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on terms, and subject to a
Leverage Ratio-based grid, to be determined by the Administrative Agent
and (E) except for any differences permitted hereby, the Incremental Term
Loans shall have the same terms and conditions as the Revolving Loans.
(iii) (A) The commitments under each Revolving Credit
Commitment Increase shall be deemed for all purposes part of the Revolving
Credit Commitments, (B) each Lender or Eligible Assignee participating in
such Revolving Credit Commitment Increase shall become a Revolving Credit
Lender with respect to the Revolving Credit Commitments and all matters
relating thereto and (C) the commitments under each Revolving Credit
Commitment Increase shall have the same terms and conditions as the
Revolving Credit Commitments. On the Incremental Credit Extension Date for
any Revolving Credit Commitment Increase, each Lender or Eligible Assignee
participating in such Revolving Credit Commitment Increase shall purchase
and assume from each existing Revolving Credit Lender having Revolving
Loans and participations in Letters of Credit and Swing Loans outstanding
on such Incremental Credit Extension Date, without recourse or warranty,
an undivided interest and participation, to the extent of such Lender's
Ratable Portion of the new Revolving Credit Commitments (after giving
effect to such Revolving Credit Commitment Increase), in the aggregate
outstanding Revolving Loans and participations in Letters of Credit and
Swing Loans, so as to ensure that, on the Incremental Credit Extension
Date after giving effect to such Revolving Credit Commitment Increase,
each Revolving Lender is owed only its Ratable Portion of the Revolving
Loans and participations in Letters of Credit and Swing Loans outstanding
on such Incremental Credit Extension Date.
SECTION 2.2 BORROWING PROCEDURES
(a) Each Borrowing shall be made on notice given by the Borrower to
the Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 a.m. (New York time) (i) one
Business Day, in the case of a Borrowing of Base Rate Loans and (ii) three
Business Days, in the case of a Borrowing of Eurodollar Rate Loans, prior to the
date of the proposed Borrowing. Each such notice shall be in substantially the
form of Exhibit C (Form of Notice of Borrowing) (a "Notice of Borrowing"),
specifying, (A) the date of such proposed Borrowing, (B) the aggregate amount of
such proposed Borrowing, (C) whether any portion of the proposed Borrowing will
be of Base Rate Loans or Eurodollar Rate Loans and (D) for each Eurodollar Rate
Loan, the initial Interest Period or Periods thereof. Loans shall be made as
Base Rate Loans unless, subject to Section 2.14 (Special Provisions Governing
Eurodollar Rate Loans), the Notice of Borrowing specifies that all or a portion
thereof shall be Eurodollar Rate Loans; provided, however, that all Borrowings
on the Closing Date shall be Base Rate Loans. Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary contained in Section 2.3(a) (Swing Loans), if any Notice of Borrowing
requests a Borrowing of Base Rate Loans, the Administrative Agent may make a
Swing Loan available to the Borrower in an aggregate amount not to exceed such
proposed Borrowing, and the aggregate amount of the corresponding proposed
Borrowing shall be reduced accordingly by the principal amount of such Swing
Loan. Each Borrowing shall be in an aggregate amount of not less than $2,000,000
in the
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case of any Eurodollar Rate Loan or $1,000,000 in the case of any Base Rate
Loan, or, in each case, an integral multiple of $500,000 in excess thereof.
(b) The Administrative Agent shall give to each Lender prompt notice
of the Administrative Agent's receipt of a Notice of Borrowing and, if
Eurodollar Rate Loans are properly requested in such Notice of Borrowing, the
applicable interest rate determined pursuant to Section 2.14(a) (Determination
of Interest Rate). Each Lender shall, before 11:00 am. (New York time) on the
date of the proposed Borrowing, make available to the Administrative Agent at
its address referred to in Section 11.8 (Notices, Etc.), in immediately
available funds, such Lender's Ratable Portion of such proposed Borrowing. Upon
fulfillment (or due waiver in accordance with Section 11.1 (Amendments, Waivers,
Etc.)) (i) on the Closing Date, of the applicable conditions set forth Section
3.1 (Conditions Precedent to Initial Loans and Letters of Credit) and (ii) at
any time (including the Closing Date), of the applicable conditions set forth in
Section 3.2 (Conditions Precedent to Each Loan and Letter of Credit), and after
the Administrative Agent's receipt of such funds, the Administrative Agent shall
make such funds available to the Borrower.
(c) Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from
a Lender prior to the date of any proposed Borrowing that such Lender will not
make available to the Administrative Agent such Lender's Ratable Portion of such
Borrowing (or any portion thereof), the Administrative Agent may assume that
such Lender has made such Ratable Portion available to the Administrative Agent
on the date of such Borrowing in accordance with this Section 2.2 and the
Administrative Agent may, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to
the Borrower on such date a corresponding amount. If and to the extent that such
Lender shall not have so made such Ratable Portion available to the
Administrative Agent, such Lender and the Borrower severally agree to repay to
the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such corresponding amount together
with interest thereon, for each day from the date such amount is made available
to the Borrower until the date such amount is repaid to the Administrative
Agent, at (i) in the case of the Borrower, the interest rate applicable at the
time to the Loans comprising such Borrowing and (ii) in the case of such Lender,
the Federal Funds Rate for the first Business Day and thereafter at the interest
rate applicable at the time to the Loans comprising such Borrowing. If such
Lender shall repay to the Administrative Agent such corresponding amount, such
corresponding amount so repaid shall constitute such Lender's Loan as part of
such Borrowing for purposes of this Agreement. If the Borrower shall repay to
the Administrative Agent such corresponding amount, such payment shall not
relieve such Lender of any obligation it may have hereunder to the Borrower.
(d) The failure of any Lender to make on the date specified any Loan
or any payment required by it (such Lender being a "Non-Funding Lender"),
including any payment in respect of its participation in Swing Loans and Letter
of Credit Obligations, shall not relieve any other Lender of its obligations to
make such Loan or payment on such date but no such other Lender shall be
responsible for the failure of any Non-Funding Lender to make a Loan or payment
required under this Agreement.
SECTION 2.3 SWING LOANS
(a) On the terms and subject to the conditions contained in this
Agreement, the Swing Loan Lender may, in its sole discretion, make, in Dollars,
loans (each a "Swing Loan") otherwise available to the Borrower under the
Revolving Credit Facility from time to time on any Business Day during the
period from the date hereof until the Revolving Credit Termination Date
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in an aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding (together with the
aggregate outstanding principal amount of any other Loan made by the Swing Loan
Lender hereunder in its capacity as a Lender or the Swing Loan Lender) not to
exceed the Swing Loan Sublimit; provided, however, that at no time shall the
Swing Loan Lender make any Swing Loan to the extent that, after giving effect to
such Swing Loan, the aggregate Revolving Credit Outstandings would exceed the
Revolving Credit Commitments in effect at such time. Each Swing Loan shall be a
Base Rate Loan and must be repaid in full within seven days after its making or,
if sooner, upon any Revolving Credit Borrowing hereunder and shall in any event
mature no later than the Revolving Credit Termination Date. Within the limits
set forth in the first sentence of this clause (a), amounts of Swing Loans
repaid may be reborrowed under this clause (a).
(b) In order to request a Swing Loan, the Borrower shall telecopy
(or forward by electronic mail or similar means) to the Administrative Agent a
duly completed request in substantially the form of Exhibit D (Form of Swing
Loan Request), setting forth the requested amount and date of such Swing Loan (a
"Swing Loan Request"), to be received by the Administrative Agent not later than
1:00 p.m. (New York time) on the day of the proposed borrowing. The
Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the Swing Loan Lender of the details
of the requested Swing Loan. Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Swing
Loan Lender may make a Swing Loan available to the Administrative Agent and, in
turn, the Administrative Agent shall make such amounts available to the Borrower
on the date of the relevant Swing Loan Request. The Swing Loan Lender shall not
make any Swing Loan in the period commencing on the first Business Day after it
receives written notice from the Administrative Agent or any Revolving Credit
Lender that one or more of the conditions precedent contained in Section 3.2
(Conditions Precedent to Each Loan and Letter of Credit) shall not on such date
be satisfied, and ending when such conditions are satisfied. The Swing Loan
Lender shall not otherwise be required to determine that, or take notice
whether, the conditions precedent set forth in Section 3.2 (Conditions Precedent
to Each Loan and Letter of Credit) have been satisfied in connection with the
making of any Swing Loan.
(c) The Swing Loan Lender shall notify the Administrative Agent in
writing (which writing may be a telecopy or electronic mail) weekly, by no later
than 10:00 a.m. (New York time) on the first Business Day of each week, of the
aggregate principal amount of its Swing Loans then outstanding.
(d) The Swing Loan Lender may demand at any time that each Revolving
Credit Lender pay to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the Swing Loan
Lender, in the manner provided in clause (e) below, such Revolving Credit
Lender's Ratable Portion of all or a portion of the outstanding Swing Loans,
which demand shall be made through the Administrative Agent, shall be in writing
and shall specify the outstanding principal amount of Swing Loans demanded to be
paid.
(e) The Administrative Agent shall forward each notice referred to
in clause (c) above and each demand referred to in clause (d) above to each
Revolving Credit Lender on the day such notice or such demand is received by the
Administrative Agent (except that any such notice or demand received by the
Administrative Agent after 2:00 p.m. (New York time) on any Business Day or any
such demand received on a day that is not a Business Day shall not be required
to be forwarded to the Revolving Credit Lenders by the Administrative Agent
until the next succeeding Business Day), together with a statement prepared by
the Administrative Agent specifying the amount of each Revolving Credit Lender's
Ratable Portion of the aggregate principal amount of the Swing Loans stated to
be outstanding in such notice or
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demanded to be paid pursuant to such demand, and, notwithstanding whether or not
the conditions precedent set forth in Section 3.2 (Conditions Precedent to Each
Loan and Letter of Credit) and 2.1(a) (The Commitments) shall have been
satisfied (which conditions precedent the Revolving Credit Lenders hereby
irrevocably waive), each Revolving Credit Lender shall, before 11:00 a.m. (New
York time) on the Business Day next succeeding the date of such Revolving Credit
Lender's receipt of such notice or demand, make available to the Administrative
Agent, in immediately available funds, for the account of the Swing Loan Lender,
the amount specified in such statement. Upon such payment by a Revolving Credit
Lender, such Revolving Credit Lender shall, except as provided in clause (f)
below, be deemed to have made a Revolving Loan to the Borrower. The
Administrative Agent shall use such funds to repay the Swing Loans to the Swing
Loan Lender. To the extent that any Revolving Credit Lender fails to make such
payment available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Swing Loan
Lender, the Borrower shall repay such Swing Loan on demand.
(f) Upon the occurrence of a Default under Section 9.1(f) (Events of
Default), each Revolving Credit Lender shall acquire, without recourse or
warranty, an undivided participation in each Swing Loan otherwise required to be
repaid by such Revolving Credit Lender pursuant to clause (e) above, which
participation shall be in a principal amount equal to such Revolving Credit
Lender's Ratable Portion of such Swing Loan, by paying to the Swing Loan Lender
on the date on which such Revolving Credit Lender would otherwise have been
required to make a payment in respect of such Swing Loan pursuant to clause (e)
above, in immediately available funds, an amount equal to such Revolving Credit
Lender's Ratable Portion of such Swing Loan. If all or part of such amount is
not in fact made available by such Revolving Credit Lender to the Swing Loan
Lender on such date, the Swing Loan Lender shall be entitled to recover any such
unpaid amount on demand from such Revolving Credit Lender together with interest
accrued from such date at the Federal Funds Rate for the first Business Day
after such payment was due and thereafter at the rate of interest then
applicable to Base Rate Loans.
(g) From and after the date on which any Revolving Credit Lender (i)
is deemed to have made a Revolving Loan pursuant to clause (e) above with
respect to any Swing Loan or (ii) purchases an undivided participation interest
in a Swing Loan pursuant to clause (f) above, the Swing Loan Lender shall
promptly distribute to such Revolving Credit Lender such Revolving Credit
Lender's Ratable Portion of all payments of principal of and interest received
by the Swing Loan Lender on account of such Swing Loan other than those received
from a Revolving Credit Lender pursuant to clause (e) or (f) above.
SECTION 2.4 LETTERS OF CREDIT
(a) On the terms and subject to the conditions contained in this
Agreement, each Issuer agrees to Issue at the request of the Borrower and for
the account of the Borrower one or more Letters of Credit from time to time on
any Business Day during the period commencing on the Closing Date and ending on
the earlier of the Revolving Credit Termination Date and 30 days prior to the
Scheduled Termination Date; provided, however, that no Issuer shall be under any
obligation to Issue (and, upon the occurrence of any of the events described in
clauses (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), and (vi)(A) below, shall not Issue) any Letter
of Credit upon the occurrence of any of the following:
(i) any order, judgment or decree of any Governmental
Authority or arbitrator shall purport by its terms to enjoin or restrain
such Issuer from Issuing such Letter of Credit or any Requirement of Law
applicable to such Issuer or any request or
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directive (whether or not having the force of law) from any Governmental
Authority with jurisdiction over such Issuer shall prohibit, or request
that such Issuer refrain from, the Issuance of letters of credit generally
or such Letter of Credit in particular or shall impose upon such Issuer
with respect to such Letter of Credit any restriction or reserve or
capital requirement (for which such Issuer is not otherwise compensated
pursuant to Sections 2.14, 2.15 or 2.16) not in effect on the date of this
Agreement or result in any unreimbursed loss, cost or expense that was not
applicable, in effect or known to such Issuer as of the date of this
Agreement and that such Issuer in good ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ material to it;
(ii) such Issuer shall have received any written notice of the
type described in clause (d) below;
(iii) after giving effect to the Issuance of such Letter of
Credit, the aggregate Revolving Credit Outstandings would exceed the
aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments in effect at such time;
(iv) after giving effect to the Issuance of such Letter of
Credit, the sum of (A) the Letter of Credit Undrawn Amounts at such time
and (B) the Reimbursement Obligations at such time exceeds the Letter of
Credit Sublimit;
(v) such Letter of Credit is requested to be denominated in
any currency other than Dollars;
(vi) (A) any fees due in connection with a requested Issuance
have not been paid, (B) such Letter of Credit is requested to be Issued in
a form that is not acceptable to such Issuer or (C) the Issuer for such
Letter of Credit shall not have received, in form and substance reasonably
acceptable to it and, if applicable, duly executed by such Borrower,
applications, agreements and other documentation (collectively, a "Letter
of Credit Reimbursement Agreement") such Issuer generally employs in the
ordinary course of its business for the Issuance of letters of credit of
the type of such Letter of Credit; or
(vii) after giving effect to the Issuance of such Letter of
Credit, the sum of (A) the Letter of Credit Undrawn Amounts at such time
with respect to all Letters of Credit issued by such Issuer and (B) the
Reimbursement Obligations at such time with respect to all Letters of
Credit issued by such Issuer exceeds such Issuer's Letter of Credit
Commitment.
None of the Revolving Credit Lenders (other than the Issuers in their capacity
as such) shall have any obligation to Issue any Letter of Credit.
(b) Each Letter of Credit shall have a term to be agreed between the
Borrower and the applicable Issuer; provided, however, that in no event shall
the final expiration date of any Letter of Credit be less than 30 days prior to
the Scheduled Termination Date (except to the extent provisions have been made
to cash collateralize such Letters of Credit on terms satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent and the applicable Issuer).
(c) In connection with the Issuance of each Letter of Credit, the
Borrower shall give the relevant Issuer and the Administrative Agent at least
two Business Days' prior
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written notice, in substantially the form of Exhibit E (Form of Letter of Credit
Request) (or in such other written or electronic form as is acceptable to the
Issuer), of the requested Issuance of such Letter of Credit (a "Letter of Credit
Request"). Such notice shall be irrevocable and shall specify the Issuer of such
Letter of Credit, the face amount of the Letter of Credit requested (which shall
not be less than an amount to be agreed between the Borrower and the applicable
Issuer), the date of Issuance of such requested Letter of Credit, the date on
which such Letter of Credit is to expire (which date shall be a Business Day)
and, in the case of an issuance, the Person for whose benefit the requested
Letter of Credit is to be issued. Such notice, to be effective, must be received
by the relevant Issuer and the Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 a.m.
(New York time) on the second Business Day prior to the requested Issuance of
such Letter of Credit.
(d) Subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in this
Section 2.4, the relevant Issuer shall, on the requested date, Issue a Letter of
Credit on behalf of the Borrower in accordance with such Issuer's usual and
customary business practices. No Issuer shall Issue any Letter of Credit in the
period commencing on the first Business Day after it receives written notice
from any Revolving Credit Lender that one or more of the conditions precedent
contained in Section 3.2 (Conditions Precedent to Each Loan and Letter of
Credit) or clause (a) above (other than those conditions set forth in clauses
(a)(i), (a)(vi)(B) and (C) above and, to the extent such clause relates to fees
owing to the Issuer of such Letter of Credit and its Affiliates, clause
(a)(vi)(A) above) are not on such date satisfied or duly waived and ending when
such conditions are satisfied or duly waived. No Issuer shall otherwise be
required to determine that, or take notice whether, the conditions precedent set
forth in Section 3.2 (Conditions Precedent to Each Loan and Letter of Credit)
have been satisfied in connection with the Issuance of any Letter of Credit.
(e) The Borrower agrees that, if requested by the Issuer of any
Letter of Credit, it shall execute a Letter of Credit Reimbursement Agreement in
respect to any Letter of Credit Issued hereunder. In the event of any conflict
between the terms of any Letter of Credit Reimbursement Agreement and this
Agreement, the terms of this Agreement shall govern.
(f) Each Issuer shall comply with the following:
(i) give the Administrative Agent written notice (or
telephonic notice confirmed promptly thereafter in writing), which writing
may be a telecopy or electronic mail, of the Issuance of any Letter of
Credit Issued by it, of all drawings under any Letter of Credit Issued by
it and of the payment (or the failure to pay when due) by the Borrower of
any Reimbursement Obligation when due (which notice the Administrative
Agent shall promptly transmit by telecopy, electronic mail or similar
transmission to each Revolving Credit Lender);
(ii) upon the request of any Revolving Credit Lender, furnish
to such Revolving Credit Lender copies of any Letter of Credit
Reimbursement Agreement to which such Issuer is a party and such other
documentation as may reasonably be requested by such Revolving Credit
Lender; and
(iii) no later than 10 Business Days following the last day of
each calendar month, provide to the Administrative Agent (and the
Administrative Agent shall provide a copy to each Revolving Credit Lender
requesting the same) and the Borrower with a schedule of Letters of Credit
issued by it, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent, setting forth the aggregate Letter of Credit
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Obligations, in each case outstanding at the end of each month and any
information requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent relating
thereto.
(g) Immediately upon the issuance by an Issuer of a Letter of Credit
in accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement, such Issuer shall
be deemed to have sold and transferred to each Revolving Credit Lender, and each
Revolving Credit Lender shall be deemed irrevocably and unconditionally to have
purchased and received from such Issuer, without recourse or warranty, an
undivided interest and participation, to the extent of such Revolving Credit
Lender's Ratable Portion of the Revolving Credit Commitments, in such Letter of
Credit and the obligations of the Borrower with respect thereto (including all
Letter of Credit Obligations with respect thereto) and any security therefor and
guaranty pertaining thereto.
(h) The Borrower agrees to pay to the Issuer of any Letter of Credit
the amount of all Reimbursement Obligations owing to such Issuer under any
Letter of Credit issued for its account no later than the date that is the next
succeeding Business Day after the Borrower receives written notice from such
Issuer that payment has been made under such Letter of Credit (the
"Reimbursement Date"), irrespective of any claim, set-off, defense or other
right that the Borrower may have at any time against such Issuer or any other
Person. In the event that any Issuer makes any payment under any Letter of
Credit and the Borrower shall not have repaid such amount to such Issuer
pursuant to this clause (h) or any such payment by the Borrower is rescinded or
set aside for any reason, such Reimbursement Obligation shall be payable on
demand with interest thereon computed (i) from the date on which such
Reimbursement Obligation arose to the Reimbursement Date, at the rate of
interest applicable during such period to Revolving Loans that are Base Rate
Loans and (ii) from the Reimbursement Date until the date of repayment in full,
at the rate of interest applicable during such period to past due Revolving
Loans that are Base Rate Loans, and such Issuer shall promptly notify the
Administrative Agent, which shall promptly notify each Revolving Credit Lender
of such failure, and each Revolving Credit Lender shall promptly and
unconditionally pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuer
the amount of such Revolving Credit Lender's Ratable Portion of such payment in
immediately available Dollars. If the Administrative Agent so notifies such
Revolving Credit Lender prior to 11:00 a.m. (New York time) on any Business Day,
such Revolving Credit Lender shall make available to the Administrative Agent
for the account of such Issuer its Ratable Portion of the amount of such payment
on such Business Day in immediately available funds. Upon such payment by a
Revolving Credit Lender, such Revolving Credit Lender shall, except during the
continuance of a Default or Event of Default under Section 9.1(f) (Events of
Default) and notwithstanding whether or not the conditions precedent set forth
in Section 3.2 (Conditions Precedent to Each Loan and Letter of Credit) shall
have been satisfied (which conditions precedent the Revolving Credit Lenders
hereby irrevocably waive), be deemed to have made a Revolving Loan to the
Borrower in the principal amount of such payment. Whenever any Issuer receives
from the Borrower a payment of a Reimbursement Obligation as to which the
Administrative Agent has received for the account of such Issuer any payment
from a Revolving Credit Lender pursuant to this clause (h), such Issuer shall
pay over to the Administrative Agent any amount received in excess of such
Reimbursement Obligation and, upon receipt of such amount, the Administrative
Agent shall promptly pay over to each Revolving Credit Lender, in immediately
available funds, an amount equal to such Revolving Credit Lender's Ratable
Portion of the amount of such payment adjusted, if necessary, to reflect the
respective amounts the Revolving Credit Lenders have paid in respect of such
Reimbursement Obligation.
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(i) If and to the extent such Revolving Credit Lender shall not have
so made its Ratable Portion of the amount of the payment required by clause (h)
above available to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuer, such
Revolving Credit Lender agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the
account of such Issuer forthwith on demand any such unpaid amount together with
interest thereon, for the first Business Day after payment was first due at the
Federal Funds Rate and, thereafter, until such amount is repaid to the
Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuer, at a rate per annum equal
to the rate applicable to Base Rate Loans under the Facility.
(j) The Borrower's obligation to pay each Reimbursement Obligation
and the obligations of the Revolving Credit Lenders to make payments to the
Administrative Agent for the account of the Issuers with respect to Letters of
Credit shall be absolute, unconditional and irrevocable and shall be performed
strictly in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, under any and all
circumstances whatsoever, including the occurrence of any Default or Event of
Default, and irrespective of any of the following:
(i) any lack of validity or enforceability of any Letter of
Credit or any Loan Document, or any term or provision therein;
(ii) any amendment or waiver of or any consent to departure
from all or any of the provisions of any Letter of Credit or any Loan
Document;
(iii) the existence of any claim, set-off, defense or other
right that the Borrower, any other party guaranteeing, or otherwise
obligated with, the Borrower, any Subsidiary or other Affiliate thereof or
any other Person may at any time have against the beneficiary under any
Letter of Credit, any Issuer, the Administrative Agent or any Lender or
any other Person, whether in connection with this Agreement, any other
Loan Document or any other related or unrelated agreement or transaction;
(iv) any draft or other document presented under a Letter of
Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any
respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any
respect;
(v) payment by the Issuer under a Letter of Credit against
presentation of a draft or other document that does not comply with the
terms of such Letter of Credit; and
(vi) any other act or omission to act or delay of any kind of
the Issuer, the Lenders, the Administrative Agent or any other Person or
any other event or circumstance whatsoever, whether or not similar to any
of the foregoing, that might, but for the provisions of this Section 2.4,
constitute a legal or equitable discharge of the Borrower's obligations
hereunder.
Any action taken or omitted to be taken by the relevant Issuer under or in
connection with any Letter of Credit, if taken or omitted in the absence of
gross negligence or willful misconduct, shall not result in any liability of
such Issuer to the Borrower or any Lender. In determining whether drafts and
other documents presented under a Letter of Credit comply with the terms
thereof, the Issuer may accept documents that appear on their face to be in
order, without responsibility for further investigation, regardless of any
notice or information to the contrary and, in making any payment under any
Letter of Credit, the Issuer may rely exclusively on the
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documents presented to it under such Letter of Credit as to any and all matters
set forth therein, including reliance on the amount of any draft presented under
such Letter of Credit, whether or not the amount due to the beneficiary
thereunder equals the amount of such draft and whether or not any document
presented pursuant to such Letter of Credit proves to be insufficient in any
respect, if such document on its face appears to be in order, and whether or not
any other statement or any other document presented pursuant to such Letter of
Credit proves to be forged or invalid or any statement therein proves to be
inaccurate or untrue in any respect whatsoever, and any noncompliance in any
immaterial respect of the documents presented under such Letter of Credit with
the terms thereof shall, in each case, be deemed not to constitute willful
misconduct or gross negligence of the Issuer.
(k) Schedule 2.4 (Existing Letters of Credit) contains a schedule of
certain letters of credit issued prior to the Closing Date for the account of
the Borrower. On the Closing Date (i) such letters of credit, to the extent
outstanding, shall be automatically and without further action by the parties
thereto converted to Letters of Credit issued pursuant to this Section 2.4 for
the account of the Borrower and subject to the provisions hereof, and for this
purpose the fees specified in Section 2.12(b) (Fees) shall be payable (in
substitution for any fees set forth in the applicable letter of credit
reimbursement agreements or applications relating to such letters of credit) as
if such letters of credit had been issued on the Closing Date, (ii) the issuers
of such Letters of Credit shall be deemed to be "Issuers" hereunder solely for
the purpose of maintaining such letters of credit, for purposes of Section
2.16(f) relating to the obligation to provide the appropriate forms,
certificates and statements to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent and any
updates required by Section 2.16(f) and for purposes of Section 2.7 relating to
the entries to be made in the Register, (iii) the face amount of such letters of
credit shall be included in the calculation of Letter of Credit Obligations and
(iv) all liabilities of the Borrower with respect to such letters of credit
shall constitute Obligations. No letter of credit converted in accordance with
this clause (k) shall be amended, extended or renewed without the prior written
consent of the Administrative Agent.
SECTION 2.5 REDUCTION AND TERMINATION OF THE REVOLVING CREDIT
COMMITMENTS
The Borrower may, upon at least three Business Days' prior notice to
the Administrative Agent, terminate in whole or reduce in part ratably the
unused portions of the respective Revolving Credit Commitments of the Revolving
Credit Lenders; provided, however, that each partial reduction shall be in an
aggregate amount of not less than $5,000,000 or an integral multiple of
$1,000,000 in excess thereof.
SECTION 2.6 REPAYMENT OF LOANS
The Borrower promises to repay the entire unpaid principal amount of
the Revolving Loans and the Swing Loans on the Revolving Credit Termination Date
or earlier, if otherwise required by the terms hereof.
SECTION 2.7 EVIDENCE OF DEBT
(a) Each Lender shall maintain in accordance with its usual practice
an account or accounts evidencing Indebtedness of the Borrower to such Lender
resulting from each Loan of such Lender from time to time, including the amounts
of principal and interest payable and paid to such Lender from time to time
under this Agreement.
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(b) (i) The Administrative Agent, acting as agent of the
Borrower solely for the purpose of maintaining a register, such that the
Loans or Reimbursement Obligations shall be in "registered form" within
the meaning of Sections 163(f), 871(h)(2) and 881(c)(2) of the Code and
any related regulations (or any successor provisions of the Code or such
regulations), shall establish and maintain at its address referred to in
Section 11.8 (Notices, Etc.) a record of ownership (the "Register") in
which the Administrative Agent agrees to register by book entry the
Administrative Agent's, each Lender's and each Issuer's interest in each
Loan, each Letter of Credit and each Reimbursement Obligation, and in the
right to receive any payments hereunder and any assignment of any such
interest or rights. In addition, the Administrative Agent, acting as agent
of the Borrower solely for the purpose of maintaining a register, such
that the Loans or Reimbursement Obligations shall be in "registered form"
within the meaning of Sections 163(f), 871(h)(2) and 881(c)(2) of the Code
and any related regulations (or any successor provisions of the Code or
such regulations), shall establish and maintain accounts in the Register
in accordance with its usual practice in which it shall record (i) the
names and addresses of the Lenders and the Issuers, (ii) the Revolving
Credit Commitments of each Lender from time to time, (iii) the amount of
each Loan made and, if a Eurodollar Rate Loan, the Interest Period
applicable thereto, (iv) the amount of any principal or interest due and
payable, and paid, by the Borrower to, or for the account of, each Lender
hereunder, (v) the amount that is due and payable, and paid, by the
Borrower to, or for the account of, each Issuer, including the amount of
Letter Credit Obligations (specifying the amount of any Reimbursement
Obligations) due and payable to an Issuer, and (vi) the amount of any sum
received by the Administrative Agent hereunder from the Borrower, whether
such sum constitutes principal or interest (and the type of Loan to which
it applies), fees, expenses or other amounts due under the Loan Documents
and each Lender's and Issuer's, as the case may be, share thereof, if
applicable.
(ii) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in
this Agreement, the Loans (including the Revolving Credit Notes evidencing
such Loans) and the Reimbursement Obligations are registered obligations
and the right, title, and interest of the Lenders and the Issuers and
their assignees in and to such Loans or Reimbursement Obligations, as the
case may be, shall be transferable only upon notation of such transfer in
the Register. A Revolving Credit Note shall only evidence the Lender's or
a registered assignee's right, title and interest in and to the related
Loan, and in no event is any such Revolving Credit Note to be considered a
bearer instrument or obligation. This Section 2.7(b) and Section 11.2
shall be construed so that the Loans and Reimbursement Obligations are at
all times maintained in "registered form" within the meaning of Sections
163(f), 871(h)(2) and 881(c)(2) of the Code and any related regulations
(or any successor provisions of the Code or such regulations).
(c) The entries made in the Register and in the accounts therein
maintained pursuant to clauses (a) and (b) above shall, to the extent permitted
by applicable law, be prima facie evidence of the existence and amounts of the
obligations recorded therein; provided, however, that the failure of any Lender
or the Administrative Agent to maintain such accounts or any error therein shall
not in any manner affect the obligations of the Borrower to repay the Loans in
accordance with their terms. In addition, the Loan Parties, the Administrative
Agent, the Lenders and the Issuers shall treat each Person whose name is
recorded in the Register as a Lender or as an Issuer, as applicable, for all
purposes of this Agreement. Information contained in the Register with respect
to any Lender or Issuer shall be available for inspection by the
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Borrower, the Administrative Agent, such Lender or such Issuer at any reasonable
time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice.
(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of the Agreement, in the
event that any Lender requests that the Borrower execute and deliver a
promissory note or notes payable to such Lender in order to evidence the
Indebtedness owing to such Lender by the Borrower hereunder, the Borrower shall
promptly execute and deliver a Revolving Credit Note or Revolving Credit Notes
to such Lender evidencing any Revolving Loans of such Lender, substantially in
the form of Exhibit B (Form of Revolving Credit Note).
SECTION 2.8 OPTIONAL PREPAYMENTS
The Borrower may prepay the outstanding principal amount of the
Revolving Loans and Swing Loans in whole or in part at any time; provided,
however, that if any prepayment of any Eurodollar Rate Loan is made by the
Borrower other than on the last day of an Interest Period for such Loan, the
Borrower shall also pay any amount owing pursuant to Section 2.14(e) (Breakage
Costs).
SECTION 2.9 MANDATORY PREPAYMENTS
(a) Upon receipt by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries of Net
Cash Proceeds arising from an Asset Sale or Property Loss Event, the Borrower
shall immediately prepay the Loans (or provide cash collateral in respect of
Letters of Credit) in an amount equal to 100% of such Net Cash Proceeds;
provided, however, that no such prepayment shall be required pursuant to this
clause (a) with respect to any Asset Sale (or series of related Asset Sales) for
Fair Market Value resulting in gross proceeds of less than $100,000. Any such
mandatory prepayment shall be applied in accordance with clause (c) below;
provided, however, that, in the case of any Net Cash Proceeds arising from a
Reinvestment Event, the Borrower shall immediately upon receipt of such Net Cash
Proceeds, at the Borrower's option, deposit an amount equal to 100% of such Net
Cash Proceeds in a Cash Collateral Account or prepay the Loans (or provide cash
collateral in respect of Letters of Credit), which prepayment shall be applied
as provided in clause (c) below, in an amount equal to 100% of such Net Cash
Proceeds.
(b) Upon receipt by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries of Net
Cash Proceeds arising from a Debt Issuance, the Borrower shall immediately
prepay the Loans (or provide cash collateral in respect of Letters of Credit) in
an amount equal to 100% of such Net Cash Proceeds. Any such mandatory prepayment
shall be applied in accordance with clause (c) below.
(c) Subject to the provisions of Section 2.13(g) (Payments and
Computations), any prepayments made by the Borrower required to be applied in
accordance with this clause (c) shall be applied as follows: first, other than
in respect of prepayments made with the Net Cash Proceeds of a Reinvestment
Event, to repay the outstanding principal balance of the Swing Loans until such
Swing Loans shall have been repaid in full; second, to repay the outstanding
principal balance of the Revolving Loans until such Revolving Loans shall have
been paid in full; and then, if an Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing, to provide cash collateral for any Letter of Credit Obligations in
an amount equal to 105% of such Letter of Credit Obligations in the manner set
forth in Section 9.3 (Actions in Respect of Letters of Credit) until all such
Letter of Credit Obligations have been fully cash collateralized in the manner
set
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forth therein. All repayments of Revolving Loans and Swing Loans required to be
made pursuant to this clause (c) shall not result in a permanent reduction of
the Revolving Credit Commitments.
(d) If at any time, the aggregate principal amount of Revolving
Credit Outstandings exceeds the aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments at such
time, the Borrower shall forthwith prepay the Swing Loans first and then the
Revolving Loans then outstanding in an amount equal to such excess. If any such
excess remains after repayment in full of the aggregate outstanding Swing Loans
and Revolving Loans, the Borrower shall provide cash collateral for the Letter
of Credit Obligations in the manner set forth in Section 9.3 (Actions in Respect
of Letters of Credit) in an amount equal to 105% of such excess.
SECTION 2.10 INTEREST
(a) Rate of Interest. All Loans and the outstanding amount of all
other Obligations (other than pursuant to Hedging Contracts that are Loan
Documents, to the extent such Hedging Contracts provide for the accrual of
interest on unpaid obligations) shall bear interest, in the case of Loans, on
the unpaid principal amount thereof from the date such Loans are made and, in
the case of such other Obligations, from the date such other Obligations are due
and payable until, in all cases, paid in full, except as otherwise provided in
clause (c) below, as follows:
(i) if a Base Rate Loan or such other Obligation, at a rate
per annum equal to the sum of (A) the Base Rate as in effect from time to
time and (B) the Applicable Margin for Revolving Loans that are Base Rate
Loans; and
(ii) if a Eurodollar Rate Loan, at a rate per annum equal to
the sum of (A) the Eurodollar Rate determined for the applicable Interest
Period and (B) the Applicable Margin in effect from time to time during
such Eurodollar Interest Period.
(b) Interest Payments. (i) Interest accrued on each Base Rate Loan
(other than Swing Loans) shall be payable in arrears (A) on the first Business
Day of each calendar quarter, commencing on the first such day following the
making of such Base Rate Loan and (B) if not previously paid in full, at
maturity (whether by acceleration or otherwise) of such Base Rate Loan, (ii)
interest accrued on Swing Loans shall be payable in arrears on the first
Business Day of the immediately succeeding calendar quarter, (iii) interest
accrued on each Eurodollar Rate Loan shall be payable in arrears (A) on the last
day of each Interest Period applicable to such Loan and, if such Interest Period
has a duration of more than three months, on each date during such Interest
Period occurring every three months from the first day of such Interest Period,
(B) upon the payment or prepayment thereof in full or in part and (C) if not
previously paid in full, at maturity (whether by acceleration or otherwise) of
such Eurodollar Rate Loan and (iv) interest accrued on the amount of all other
Obligations shall be payable on demand from and after the time such Obligation
becomes due and payable (whether by acceleration or otherwise).
(c) Default Interest. Notwithstanding the rates of interest
specified in clause (a) above or elsewhere herein, effective immediately upon
the occurrence of an Event of Default and for as long thereafter as such Event
of Default shall be continuing, the principal balance of all Loans and the
amount of all other Obligations then due and payable shall bear interest at a
rate that is two percent per annum in excess of the rate of interest applicable
to such Loans or other Obligations from time to time. Such interest shall be
payable on the date that
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would otherwise be applicable to such interest pursuant to cause (b) above or
otherwise on demand.
SECTION 2.11 CONVERSION/CONTINUATION OPTION
(a) The Borrower may elect (i) at any time on any Business Day to
convert Base Rate Loans (other than Swing Loans) or any portion thereof to
Eurodollar Rate Loans and (ii) at the end of any applicable Interest Period, to
convert Eurodollar Rate Loans or any portion thereof into Base Rate Loans or to
continue such Eurodollar Rate Loans or any portion thereof for an additional
Interest Period; provided, however, that the aggregate amount of the Eurodollar
Loans for each Interest Period must be in the amount of at least $2,000,000 or
an integral multiple of $500,000 in excess thereof. Each conversion or
continuation shall be allocated among the Loans of each Lender in accordance
with such Lender's Ratable Portion. Each such election shall be in substantially
the form of Exhibit F (Form of Notice of Conversion or Continuation) (a "Notice
of Conversion or Continuation") and shall be made by giving the Administrative
Agent at least three Business Days' prior written notice specifying (A) the
amount and type of Loan being converted or continued, (B) in the case of a
conversion to or a continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans, the applicable
Interest Period and (C) in the case of a conversion, the date of such
conversion.
(b) The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Lender of
its receipt of a Notice of Conversion or Continuation and of the options
selected therein. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (i) no conversion in whole or
in part of Base Rate Loans to Eurodollar Rate Loans shall be permitted at any
time prior to the Syndication Completion Date and (ii) no conversion in whole or
in part of Base Rate Loans to Eurodollar Rate Loans and no continuation in whole
or in part of Eurodollar Rate Loans upon the expiration of any applicable
Interest Period shall be permitted at any time at which (A) a Default or an
Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or (B) the continuation
of, or conversion into, a Eurodollar Rate Loan would violate any provision of
Section 2.14 (Special Provisions Governing Eurodollar Rate Loans). If, within
the time period required under the terms of this Section 2.11, the
Administrative Agent does not receive a Notice of Conversion or Continuation
from the Borrower containing a permitted election to continue any Eurodollar
Rate Loans for an additional Interest Period or to convert any such Loans, then,
upon the expiration of the applicable Interest Period, such Loans shall be
automatically converted to Base Rate Loans, Each Notice of Conversion or
Continuation shall be irrevocable.
SECTION 2.12 FEES
(a) Unused Commitment Fee. The Borrower agrees to pay in immediately
available Dollars to each Revolving Credit Lender a commitment fee on the actual
daily amount by which the Revolving Credit Commitment of such Revolving Credit
Lender exceeds such Lender's Ratable Portion of the sum of (i) the aggregate
outstanding principal amount of Revolving Loans and (ii) the outstanding amount
of the aggregate Letter of Credit Obligations (the "Unused Commitment Fee") from
the date hereof through the Revolving Credit Termination Date at the Applicable
Unused Commitment Fee Rate, payable in arrears (x) on the first Business Day of
each calendar quarter, commencing on the first such Business Day following the
Closing Date and (y) on the Revolving Credit Termination Date.
(b) Letter of Credit Fees. The Borrower agrees to pay the following
amounts with respect to Letters of Credit issued by any Issuer:
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(i) to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Issuer
of a Letter of Credit, with respect to each Letter of Credit issued by
such Issuer, an issuance fee equal to 0.125% per annum (or such other fee
as may be agreed between the Borrower and the applicable Issuer) of the
maximum undrawn face amount of such Letter of Credit, payable in arrears
(A) on the first Business Day of each calendar quarter, commencing on the
first such Business Day following the issuance of such Letter of Credit
and (B) on the Revolving Credit Termination Date;
(ii) to the Administrative Agent for the ratable benefit of
the Revolving Credit Lenders, with respect to each Letter of Credit, a fee
accruing in Dollars at a rate per annum equal to the Applicable Margin for
Revolving Loans that are Eurodollar Rate Loans on the maximum undrawn face
amount of such Letter of Credit, payable in arrears (A) on the first
Business Day of each calendar quarter, commencing on the first such
Business Day following the issuance of such Letter of Credit and (B) on
the Revolving Credit Termination Date; provided, however, that during the
continuance of an Event of Default, such fee shall be increased by two
percent per annum (instead of, and not in addition to, any increase
pursuant to Section 2.10(c) (Interest)) and shall be payable on demand;
and
(iii) to the Issuer of any Letter of Credit, with respect to
the issuance, amendment or transfer of each Letter of Credit and each
drawing made thereunder, documentary and processing charges in accordance
with such Issuer's standard schedule for such charges in effect at the
time of issuance, amendment, transfer or drawing, as the case may be.
(c) Additional Fees. The Borrower has agreed to pay to the
Administrative Agent and CGMI additional fees, the amount and dates of payment
of which are embodied in the Fee Letter.
SECTION 2.13 PAYMENTS AND COMPUTATIONS
(a) The Borrower shall make each payment hereunder (including fees
and expenses) not later than 12:00 noon (New York time) on the day when due, in
Dollars, to the Administrative Agent at its address referred to in Section 11.8
(Notices, Etc.) in immediately available funds without set-off or counterclaim.
The Administrative Agent shall promptly thereafter cause to be distributed
immediately available funds relating to the payment of principal, interest or
fees to the Lenders, in accordance with the application of payments set forth in
clause (f) or (g) below, as applicable, for the account of their respective
Applicable Lending Offices; provided, however, that amounts payable pursuant to
Section 2.15 (Capital Adequacy), Section 2.16 (Taxes) or Section 2.14(c) or (d)
(Special Provisions Governing Eurodollar Rate Loans) shall be paid only to the
affected Lender or Lenders and amounts payable with respect to Swing Loans shall
be paid only to the Swing Loan Lender. Payments received by the Administrative
Agent after 12:00 noon (New York time) shall be deemed to be received on the
next Business Day.
(b) All computations of interest and of fees shall be made by the
Administrative Agent on the basis of a year of 360 days, in each case for the
actual number of days (including the first day but excluding the last day)
occurring in the period for which such interest and fees are payable. Each
determination by the Administrative Agent of a rate of interest hereunder shall
be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.
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(c) Each payment by the Borrower of any Loan, Reimbursement
Obligation (including interest or fees in respect thereof) and each
reimbursement of various costs, expenses or other Obligation shall be made in
the currency in which such Loan was made, such Letter of Credit issued or such
cost, expense or other Obligation was incurred; provided, however, that (i) the
Letter of Credit Reimbursement Agreement for a Letter of Credit may specify
another currency for the Reimbursement Obligation in respect of such Letter of
Credit and (ii) other than for payments in respect of a Loan or Reimbursement
Obligation, Loan Documents duly executed by the Administrative Agent or any
Hedging Contract may specify other currencies of payment for Obligations created
by or directly related to such Loan Document or Hedging Contract.
(d) Whenever any payment hereunder shall be stated to be due on a
day other than a Business Day, the due date for such payment shall be extended
to the next succeeding Business Day, and such extension of time shall in such
case be included in the computation of payment of interest or fees, as the case
may be; provided, however, that if such extension would cause payment of
interest on or principal of any Eurodollar Rate Loan to be made in the next
calendar month, such payment shall be made on the immediately preceding Business
Day. All repayments of any Revolving Loans shall be applied as follows: first,
to repay such Loans outstanding as Base Rate Loans and then, to repay such Loans
outstanding as Eurodollar Rate Loans, with those Eurodollar Rate Loans having
earlier expiring Eurodollar Interest Periods being repaid prior to those having
later expiring Eurodollar Interest Periods.
(e) Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from
the Borrower to the Lenders prior to the date on which any payment is due
hereunder that the Borrower will not make such payment in full, the
Administrative Agent may assume that the Borrower has made such payment in full
to the Administrative Agent on such date and the Administrative Agent may, in
reliance upon such assumption, cause to be distributed to each Lender on such
due date an amount equal to the amount then due such Lender. If and to the
extent that the Borrower shall not have made such payment in full to the
Administrative Agent, each Lender shall repay to the Administrative Agent
forthwith on demand such amount distributed to such Lender together with
interest thereon (at the Federal Funds Rate for the first Business Day and
thereafter, at the rate applicable to Base Rate Loans) for each day from the
date such amount is distributed to such Lender until the date such Lender repays
such amount to the Administrative Agent.
(f) Except for payments and other amounts received by the
Administrative Agent and applied in accordance with the provisions of clause (g)
below (or required to be applied in accordance with Section 2.9(c) (Mandatory
Prepayments)), all payments and any other amounts received by the Administrative
Agent from or for the benefit of the Borrower shall be applied as follows:
first, to pay principal of, and interest on, any portion of the Loans the
Administrative Agent may have advanced pursuant to the express provisions of
this Agreement on behalf of any Lender, for which the Administrative Agent has
not then been reimbursed by such Lender or the Borrower, second, to pay all
other Obligations then due and payable and third, as the Borrower so designates.
Payments in respect of Swing Loans received by the Administrative Agent shall be
distributed to the Swing Loan Lender; payments in respect of Revolving Loans
received by the Administrative Agent shall be distributed to each Revolving
Credit Lender in accordance with such Lender's Ratable Portion of the Revolving
Credit Commitments; and all payments of fees and all other payments in respect
of any other Obligation shall be allocated among such of the Lenders and Issuers
as are entitled thereto and, for such payments allocated to the Lenders, in
proportion to their respective Ratable Portions.
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(g) The Borrower hereby irrevocably waives the right to direct the
application of any and all payments in respect of the Obligations and any
proceeds of Collateral after the occurrence and during the continuance of an
Event of Default and agrees that, notwithstanding the provisions of Section
2.9(c) (Mandatory Prepayments) and clause (f) above, the Administrative Agent
may, and, upon either (A) the written direction of the Requisite Lenders or (B)
the acceleration of the Obligations pursuant to Section 9.2 (Remedies) shall,
apply all payments in respect of any Obligations and all funds on deposit in any
Cash Collateral Account (including all proceeds arising from a Reinvestment
Event that are held in the Cash Collateral Account pending application of such
proceeds as specified in a Reinvestment Notice) and all other proceeds of
Collateral in the following order:
(i) first, to pay interest on and then principal of any
portion of the Revolving Loans that the Administrative Agent may have
advanced on behalf of any Lender for which the Administrative Agent has
not then been reimbursed by such Lender or the Borrower;
(ii) second, to pay Secured Obligations in respect of any
expense reimbursements or indemnities and Cash Management Obligations then
due to the Administrative Agent;
(iii) third, to pay Secured Obligations in respect of any
expense reimbursements or indemnities and Cash Management Obligations then
due to the Lenders and the Issuers;
(iv) fourth, to pay Secured Obligations in respect of any fees
then due to the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the Issuers;
(v) fifth, to pay interest then due and payable in respect of
the Loans and Reimbursement Obligations;
(vi) sixth, to pay or prepay principal amounts on the Loans
and Reimbursement Obligations and to provide cash collateral for
outstanding Letter of Credit Undrawn Amounts in the manner described in
Section 9.3 (Actions in Respect of Letters of Credit), and to pay Cash
Management Obligations and amounts owing with respect to Hedging
Contracts, ratably to the aggregate principal amount of such Loans,
Reimbursement Obligations and Letter of Credit Undrawn Amounts, Cash
Management Obligations ,and Obligations owing with respect to Hedging
Contracts; and
(vii) seventh, to the ratable payment of all other Secured
Obligations;
provided, however, that if sufficient funds are not available to fund all
payments to be made in respect of any Secured Obligation described in any of
clauses (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (vi) and (vii) above, the available funds
being applied with respect to any such Secured Obligation (unless otherwise
specified in such clause) shall be allocated to the payment of such Secured
Obligation ratably, based on the proportion of the Administrative Agent's and
each Lender's or Issuer's interest in the aggregate outstanding Secured
Obligations described in such clauses; provided, however, that payments that
would otherwise be allocated to the Revolving Credit Lenders shall be allocated
first to repay Swing Loans until such Loans are repaid in full and then to repay
the Revolving Loans. The order of priority set forth in clauses (i), (ii),
(iii), (iv), (v), (vi) and (vii) above may at any time and from time to time be
changed by the agreement of the Requisite
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Lenders without necessity of notice to or consent of or approval by the
Borrower, any Secured Party that is not a Lender or Issuer or by any other
Person that is not a Lender or Issuer. The order of priority set forth in
clauses (i), (ii), (iii) and (iv) above may be changed only with the prior
written consent of the Administrative Agent in addition to that of the Requisite
Lenders.
SECTION 2.14 SPECIAL PROVISIONS GOVERNING EURODOLLAR RATE LOANS
(a) Determination of Interest Rate
The Eurodollar Rate for each Interest Period for Eurodollar Rate
Loans shall be determined by the Administrative Agent pursuant to the procedures
set forth in the definition of "Eurodollar Rate." The Administrative Agent's
determination shall be presumed to be correct absent manifest error and shall be
binding on the Borrower.
(b) Interest Rate Unascertainable, Inadequate or Unfair
In the event that (i) the Administrative Agent determines that
adequate and fair means do not exist for ascertaining the applicable interest
rates by reference to which the Eurodollar Rate then being determined is to be
fixed or (ii) the Requisite Lenders notify the Administrative Agent that the
Eurodollar Rate for any Interest Period will not adequately reflect the cost to
the Lenders of making or maintaining such Loans for such Interest Period, the
Administrative Agent shall forthwith so notify the Borrower and the Lenders,
whereupon each Eurodollar Loan shall automatically, on the last day of the
current Interest Period for such Loan, convert into a Base Rate Loan and the
obligations of the Lenders to make Eurodollar Rate Loans or to convert Base Rate
Loans into Eurodollar Rate Loans shall be suspended until the Administrative
Agent shall notify the Borrower that the Requisite Lenders have determined that
the circumstances causing such suspension no longer exist.
(c) Increased Costs
If at any time any Lender determines that the introduction of, or
any change in or in the interpretation of, any law, treaty or governmental rule,
regulation or order (other than any change by way of imposition or increase of
reserve requirements included in determining the Eurodollar Rate) or the
compliance by such Lender with any guideline, request or directive from any
central bank or other Governmental Authority (whether or not having the force of
law), shall have the effect of increasing the cost to such Lender of agreeing to
make or making, funding or maintaining any Eurodollar Rate Loans, then the
Borrower shall from time to time, upon demand by such Lender (with a copy of
such demand to the Administrative Agent), pay to the Administrative Agent for
the account of such Lender additional amounts sufficient to compensate such
Lender for such increased cost. A certificate as to the amount of such increased
cost, submitted to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent by such Lender,
shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.
(d) Illegality
Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, if any Lender
determines that the introduction of, or any change in or in the interpretation
of, any law, treaty or governmental rule, regulation or order after the date of
this Agreement shall make it unlawful, or any central bank or other Governmental
Authority shall assert that it is unlawful, for any Lender or its Eurodollar
Lending Office to make Eurodollar Rate Loans or to continue to fund or
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maintain Eurodollar Rate Loans, then, on notice thereof and demand therefor by
such Lender to the Borrower through the Administrative Agent, (i) the obligation
of such Lender to make or to continue Eurodollar Rate Loans and to convert Base
Rate Loans into Eurodollar Rate Loans shall be suspended, and each such Lender
shall make a Base Rate Loan as part of any requested Borrowing of Eurodollar
Rate Loans and (ii) if the affected Eurodollar Rate Loans are then outstanding,
the Borrower shall immediately convert each such Loan into a Base Rate Loan. If,
at any time after a Lender gives notice under this clause (d), such Lender
determines that it may lawfully make Eurodollar Rate Loans, such Lender shall
promptly give notice of that determination to the Borrower and the
Administrative Agent, and the Administrative Agent shall promptly transmit the
notice to each other Lender. The Borrower's right to request, and such Lender's
obligation, if any, to make Eurodollar Rate Loans shall thereupon be restored.
(e) Breakage Costs
In addition to all amounts required to be paid by the Borrower
pursuant to Section 2.10 (Interest), the Borrower shall compensate each Lender,
upon demand, for all losses, expenses and liabilities (including any loss or
expense incurred by reason of the liquidation or reemployment of deposits or
other funds acquired by such Lender to fund or maintain such Lender's Eurodollar
Rate Loans to the Borrower but excluding any loss of the Applicable Margin on
the relevant Loans) that such Lender may sustain (i) if for any reason (other
than solely by reason of such Lender being a Non-Funding Lender) a proposed
Borrowing, conversion into or continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans does not
occur on a date specified therefor in a Notice of Borrowing or a Notice of
Conversion or Continuation given by the Borrower or in a telephonic request by
it for borrowing or conversion or continuation or a successive Interest Period
does not commence after notice therefor is given pursuant to Section 2.11
(Conversion/Continuation Option), (ii) if for any reason any Eurodollar Rate
Loan is prepaid (including mandatorily pursuant to Section 2.9 (Mandatory
Prepayments)) on a date that is not the last day of the applicable Interest
Period, (iii) as a consequence of a required conversion of a Eurodollar Rate
Loan to a Base Rate Loan as a result of any of the events indicated in clause
(d) above or (iv) as a consequence of any failure by the Borrower to repay
Eurodollar Rate Loans when required by the terms hereof. The Lender making
demand for such compensation shall deliver to the Borrower concurrently with
such demand a written statement as to such losses, expenses and liabilities, and
this statement shall be conclusive as to the amount of compensation due to such
Lender, absent manifest error.
(f) Limitation of Borrower's Liability
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Borrower shall not be required to
compensate a Lender under clauses (c) or (e) of this Section 2.14 for any costs
incurred by such Lender more than 120 days prior to the date such Lender
demands, or notifies the Borrower of its intention to demand, compensation
therefor.
SECTION 2.15 CAPITAL ADEQUACY
If at any time any Lender determines that (a) the adoption of, or
any change in or in the interpretation of, any law, treaty or governmental rule,
regulation or order after the date of this Agreement regarding capital adequacy,
(b) compliance with any such law, treaty, rule, regulation or order or (c)
compliance with any guideline or request or directive from any central bank or
other Governmental Authority (whether or not having the force of law) shall have
the effect of reducing the rate of return on such Lender's (or any corporation
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Lender's) capital as a consequence of its obligations hereunder or under or in
respect of any Letter of Credit to a level below that which such Lender or such
corporation could have achieved but for such adoption, change, compliance or
interpretation, then, upon demand from time to time by such Lender (with a copy
of such demand to the Administrative Agent), the Borrower shall pay to the
Administrative Agent for the account of such Lender, from time to time as
specified by such Lender, additional amounts sufficient to compensate such
Lender for such reduction. A certificate as to such amounts submitted to the
Borrower and the Administrative Agent by such Lender shall be conclusive and
binding for all purposes absent manifest error. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
the Borrower shall not be required to compensate a Lender under this Section
2.15 for any such reduction incurred by such Lender more than 120 days prior to
the date such Lender demands, or notifies the Borrower of its intention to
demand, compensation therefor.
SECTION 2.16 TAXES
(a) Except as otherwise provided in this Section 2.16, any and all
payments by any Loan Party under each Loan Document shall be made free and clear
of and without deduction for any and all present or future taxes, levies,
imposts, deductions, charges or withholdings, and all liabilities with respect
thereto, excluding (i) in the case of each Lender, each Issuer and the
Administrative Agent (A) taxes measured by its net income, and franchise taxes
imposed on it, and similar taxes imposed by the jurisdiction (or any political
subdivision thereof) under the laws of which such Lender, such Issuer or the
Administrative Agent (as the case may be) is organized and (B) any U.S.
withholding taxes payable with respect to payments under the Loan Documents
under laws (including any statute, treaty or regulation) in effect on the
Closing Date (or, in the case of (x) an Eligible Assignee, the date of the
Assignment and Acceptance, (y) a successor Administrative Agent, the date of the
appointment of such Administrative Agent, and (z) a successor Issuer, the date
such Issuer becomes an Issuer) applicable to such Lender, such Issuer or the
Administrative Agent, as the case may be, but not excluding any U.S. withholding
taxes payable as a result of any change in such laws occurring after the Closing
Date (or the date of such Assignment and Acceptance or the date of such
appointment of such Administrative Agent or the date such Issuer becomes an
Issuer) and (ii) in the case of each Lender or each Issuer, taxes measured by
its net income, and franchise taxes imposed on it as a result of a present or
former connection between such Lender or such Issuer (as the case may be) and
the jurisdiction of the Governmental Authority imposing such tax or any taxing
authority thereof or therein (all such non-excluded taxes, levies, imposts,
deductions, charges, withholdings and liabilities being hereinafter referred to
as "Taxes"). If any Taxes shall be required by law to be deducted from or in
respect of any sum payable under any Loan Document to any Lender, any Issuer or
the Administrative Agent (w) the sum payable shall be increased as may be
necessary so that, after making all required deductions (including deductions
applicable to additional sums payable under this Section 2.16, such Lender, such
Issuer or the Administrative Agent (as the case may be) receives an amount equal
to the sum it would have received had no such deductions been made, (x) the
relevant Loan Party shall make such deductions, (y) the relevant Loan Party
shall pay the full amount deducted to the relevant taxing authority or other
authority in accordance with applicable law and (z) the relevant Loan Party
shall deliver to the Administrative Agent evidence of such payment.
(b) In addition, each Loan Party agrees to pay any present or future
stamp or documentary taxes or any other excise or property taxes, charges or
similar levies of the United States or any political subdivision thereof or any
applicable foreign jurisdiction, and all liabilities with respect thereto, in
each case arising from any payment made under any Loan Document or
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from the execution, delivery or registration of, or otherwise with respect to,
any Loan Document (collectively, "Other Taxes").
(c) Each Loan Party shall, jointly and severally, indemnify each
Lender, each Issuer and the Administrative Agent for the full amount of Taxes
and Other Taxes (including any Taxes and Other Taxes imposed by any jurisdiction
on amounts payable under this Section 2.16) paid by such Lender, such Issuer or
the Administrative Agent (as the case may be) and any liability (including for
penalties, interest and expenses) arising therefrom or with respect thereto,
whether or not such Taxes or Other Taxes were correctly or legally asserted.
This indemnification shall be made within 30 days from the date such Lender,
such Issuer or the Administrative Agent (as the case may be) makes written
demand therefor.
(d) Within 30 days after the date of any payment of Taxes or Other
Taxes by any Loan Party, the Borrower shall furnish to the Administrative Agent,
at its address referred to in Section 11.8 (Notices, Etc.), the original or a
certified copy of a receipt evidencing payment thereof.
(e) Without prejudice to the survival of any other agreement of any
Loan Party hereunder or under the Guaranty, the agreements and obligations of
such Loan Party contained in this Section 2.16 shall survive the payment in full
of the Obligations.
(f) (i) Each Non-U.S. Lender that is entitled to an exemption from
U.S. withholding tax, or that is subject to such tax at a reduced rate
under an applicable tax treaty, shall (v) on or prior to the Closing Date
in the case of each Non-U.S. lender that is a signatory hereto, (w) on or
prior to the date of the Assignment and Acceptance pursuant to which such
Non-U.S. Lender becomes a Lender the date a successor Issuer becomes an
Issuer or the date a successor Administrative Agent becomes the
Administrative Agent hereunder, (x) on or prior to the date on which any
such form or certification expires or becomes obsolete, (y) after the
occurrence of any event requiring a change in the most recent form or
certification previously delivered by it to the Borrower and the
Administrative Agent, and (z) from time to time if requested by the
Borrower or the Administrative Agent, provide the Administrative Agent and
the Borrower with two completed originals of each of the following, as
applicable:
(A) Form W-8ECI (claiming exemption from U.S.
withholding tax because the income is effectively connected with a
U.S. trade or business) or any successor form;
(B) Form W-8BEN (claiming exemption from, or a reduction
of, U.S. withholding tax under an income tax treaty) or any
successor form;
(C) in the case of a Non-U.S. Lender claiming exemption
under Sections 871(h) or 881(c) of the Code, a Form W-8BEN (claiming
exemption from U.S. withholding tax under the portfolio interest
exemption) or any successor form; or
(D) any other applicable form, certificate or document
prescribed by the IRS certifying as to such Non-U.S. Lender's
entitlement to
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such exemption from U.S. withholding tax or reduced rate with
respect to all payments to be made to such Non-U.S. Lender under the
Loan Documents.
Unless the Borrower and the Administrative Agent have received forms or
other documents satisfactory to them indicating that payments under any
Loan Document to or for a Non-U.S. Lender are not subject to U.S.
withholding tax or are subject to such tax at a rate reduced by an
applicable tax treaty, the Loan Parties and the Administrative Agent shall
withhold amounts required to be withheld by applicable Requirements of Law
from such payments at the applicable statutory rate.
(ii) Each U.S. Lender shall (v) on or prior to the Closing
Date in the case of each U.S. Lender that is a signatory hereto, (w) on or
prior to the date of the Assignment and Acceptance pursuant to which such
U.S. Lender becomes a Lender, on or prior to the date a successor Issuer
becomes an Issuer or on or prior to the date a successor Administrative
Agent becomes the Administrative Agent hereunder, (x) on or prior to the
date on which any such form or certification expires or becomes obsolete,
(y) after the occurrence of any event requiring a change in the most
recent form or certification previously delivered by it to the Borrower
and the Administrative Agent, and (z) from time to time if requested by
the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, provide the Administrative Agent
and the Borrower with two completed originals of Form W-9 (certifying that
such U.S. Lender is entitled to an exemption from U.S. backup withholding
tax) or any successor form. Solely for purposes of this Section 2.16(f), a
U.S. Lender shall not include a Lender, an Issuer or an Administrative
Agent that may be treated as an exempt recipient based on the indicators
described in Treasury Regulation section 1.6049-4(c)(1)(ii).
(g) Any Lender claiming any additional amounts payable pursuant to
this Section 2.16 shall use its reasonable efforts (consistent with its internal
policies and Requirements of Law) to change the jurisdiction of its Applicable
Lending Office if the making of such a change would avoid the need for, or
reduce the amount of, any such additional amounts that would be payable or may
thereafter accrue and would not, in the sole determination of such Lender, be
otherwise disadvantageous to such Lender. Additionally, the Borrower shall not
be required to compensate a Lender for any additional amounts payable pursuant
to this Section 2.16 incurred by such Lender more than 120 days prior to the
date such Lender demands, or notifies the Borrower of its intention to demand,
compensation therefor.
SECTION 2.17 SUBSTITUTION OF LENDERS
(a) In the event that (i)(A) any Lender makes a claim under Section
2.14(c) (Increased Costs) or Section 2.15 (Capital Adequacy), (B) it becomes
illegal for any Lender to continue to fund or make any Eurodollar Rate Loan and
such Lender notifies the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.14(d) (Illegality), (C)
any Loan Party is required to make any payment pursuant to Section 2.16 (Taxes)
that is attributable to a particular Lender or (D) any Lender becomes a
Non-Funding Lender, and (ii) in the case of clause (i)(A) above, as a
consequence of increased costs in respect of which such claim is made, the
effective rate of interest payable to such Lender under this Agreement with
respect to its Loans materially exceeds the effective average annual rate of
interest payable to the Requisite Lenders under this Agreement (any such Lender,
an "Affected Lender"), the Borrower may substitute any Lender and, if reasonably
acceptable to the Administrative Agent, any other Eligible Assignee (a
"Substitute Institution") for such Affected Lender hereunder, after delivery of
a written notice (a "Substitution Notice") by
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the Borrower to the Administrative Agent and the Affected Lender within a
reasonable time (in any case not to exceed 90 days) following the occurrence of
any of the events described in clause (i) above that the Borrower intends to
make such substitution; provided, however, that, if more than one Lender claims
increased costs, illegality or right to payment arising from the same act or
condition and such claims are received by the Borrower within 30 days of each
other, then the Borrower may substitute all, but not (except to the extent the
Borrower has already substituted one of such Affected Lenders before the
Borrower's receipt of the other Affected Lenders' claim) less than all, Lenders
making such claims.
(b) If the Substitution Notice was properly issued under this
Section 2.17, the Affected Lender shall sell, and the Substitute Institution
shall purchase, all rights and claims of such Affected Lender under the Loan
Documents and the Substitute Institution shall assume, and the Affected Lender
shall be relieved of, the Affected Lender's Revolving Credit Commitments and all
other prior unperformed obligations of the Affected Lender under the Loan
Documents (other than in respect of any damages (which pursuant to Section 11.5,
do not include exemplary or punitive damages, to the extent permitted by
applicable law) in respect of any such unperformed obligations). Such purchase
and sale (and the corresponding assignment of all rights and claims hereunder)
shall be recorded in the Register maintained by the Administrative Agent and
shall be effective on (and not earlier than) the later of (i) the receipt by the
Affected Lender of its Ratable Portion of the Revolving Credit Outstandings
together with any other Obligations owing to it, (ii) the receipt by the
Administrative Agent of an agreement in form and substance satisfactory to it
and the Borrower whereby the Substitute Institution shall agree to be bound by
the terms hereof and (iii) the payment in full to the Affected Lender in cash of
all fees, unreimbursed costs and expenses and indemnities accrued and unpaid
through such effective date. Upon the effectiveness of such sale, purchase and
assumption, the Substitute Institution shall become a "Lender" hereunder for all
purposes of this Agreement having a Revolving Credit Commitment in the amount of
such Affected Lender's Revolving Credit Commitment assumed by it and such
Revolving Credit Commitment of the Affected Lender shall be terminated;
provided, however, that all indemnities under the Loan Documents shall continue
in favor of such Affected Lender.
(c) Each Lender agrees that, if it becomes an Affected Lender and
its rights and claims are assigned hereunder to a Substitute Institution
pursuant to this Section 2.17, it shall execute and deliver to the
Administrative Agent an Assignment and Acceptance to evidence such assignment,
together with any Revolving Credit Note (if such Loans are evidenced by a
Revolving Credit Note) evidencing the Loans subject to such Assignment and
Acceptance; provided, however, that the failure of any Affected Lender to
execute an Assignment and Acceptance shall not render such assignment invalid.
ARTICLE III
CONDITIONS TO LOANS AND LETTERS OF CREDIT
SECTION 3.1 CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO INITIAL LOANS AND LETTERS OF
CREDIT
The obligation of each Lender to make the Loans requested to be made
by it on the Closing Date and the obligation of each Issuer to Issue Letters of
Credit on the Closing Date is subject to the satisfaction or due waiver in
accordance with Section 11.1 (Amendments, Waivers, Etc.) of each of the
following conditions precedent:
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(a) Certain Documents. The Administrative Agent shall have received
on or prior to the Closing Date each of the following (except as otherwise
provided in Section 7.13 (Post-Closing Matters)), each dated the Closing Date
unless otherwise indicated or agreed to by the Administrative Agent, in form and
substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and in sufficient copies for
each Lender:
(i) this Agreement, duly executed and delivered by the
Borrower and, for the account of each Lender requesting the same, a
Revolving Credit Note of the Borrower conforming to the requirements set
forth herein;
(ii) the Guaranty, duly executed by each Guarantor;
(iii) the Pledge and Security Agreement, duly executed by the
Borrower and each Guarantor, together with each of the following:
(A) evidence satisfactory to the Administrative Agent
that, upon the filing and recording of instruments delivered at the
Closing, the Administrative Agent (for the benefit of the Secured
Parties) shall have a valid and perfected first priority security
interest in the Collateral, including (x) such documents duly
executed by each Loan Party as the Administrative Agent may request
with respect to the perfection of its security interests in the
Collateral (including financing statements under the UCC, patent,
trademark and copyright security agreements suitable for filing with
the Patent and Trademark Office or the Copyright Office, as the case
may be, and other applicable documents under the laws of any
jurisdiction with respect to the perfection of Liens created by the
Pledge and Security Agreement) and (y) copies of UCC search reports
as of a recent date listing all effective financing statements that
name any Loan Party as debtor, together with copies of such
financing statements, none of which shall cover the Collateral
except for those that shall be terminated on the Closing Date or are
otherwise permitted hereunder;
(B) all certificates, instruments and other documents
representing all Pledged Stock being pledged pursuant to such Pledge
and Security Agreement and stock powers for such certificates,
instruments and other documents executed in blank; and
(C) all instruments representing Pledged Debt
Instruments being pledged pursuant to such Pledge and Security
Agreement duly endorsed in favor of the Administrative Agent or in
blank;
(iv) a favorable opinion of Dechert LLP, counsel to the Loan
Parties, in substantially the form of Exhibit G (Form of Opinion of
counsel for the Loan Parties), addressed to the Administrative Agent, the
Lenders and the Issuers and addressing such other matters as any Lender
through the Administrative Agent may reasonably request;
(v) a copy of the articles or certificate of incorporation (or
equivalent Constituent Document) of each Loan Party, certified as of a
recent date by the Secretary of State of the state of organization of such
Loan Party, together with certificates of such official attesting to the
good standing of each such Loan Party;
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(vi) a certificate of the Secretary or an Assistant Secretary
of each Loan Party certifying (A) the names and true signatures of each
officer of such Loan Party that has been authorized to execute and deliver
any Loan Document or other document required hereunder to be executed and
delivered by or on behalf of such Loan Party, (B) the by-laws (or
equivalent Constituent Document) of such Loan Party as in effect on the
date of such certification, (C) the resolutions of such Loan Party's Board
of Directors (or equivalent governing body) approving and authorizing the
execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents to which it is a party and (D) that there have been no changes
in the certificate of incorporation (or equivalent Constituent Document)
of such Loan Party from the certificate of incorporation (or equivalent
Constituent Document) delivered pursuant to clause (v) above;
(vii) a certificate of the Chief Financial Officer of the
Borrower, stating that the Loan Parties, taken as a whole, are Solvent
after giving effect to the initial Loans and Letters of Credit, the
application of the proceeds thereof in accordance with Section 7.9
(Application of Proceeds) and the payment of all estimated legal,
accounting and other fees related hereto and thereto;
(viii) a certificate of a Responsible Officer to the effect
that (A) the condition set forth in Section 3.2(b) (Conditions Precedent
to Each Loan and Letter of Credit) has been satisfied and (B) no
litigation has been commenced against any Loan Party or any of its
Subsidiaries that would have a Material Adverse Effect;
(ix) evidence satisfactory to the Administrative Agent that
the insurance policies required by Section 7.5 (Maintenance of Insurance)
and any Collateral Document are in full force and effect, together with,
unless otherwise agreed by the Administrative Agent, endorsements naming
the Administrative Agent, on behalf of the Secured Parties, as an
additional insured or loss payee under all insurance policies to be
maintained with respect to the properties of the Borrower and each other
Loan Party; and
(x) such other certificates, documents, agreements and
information respecting any Loan Party as any Lender through the
Administrative Agent may reasonably request.
(b) Fee and Expenses Paid. There shall have been paid to the
Administrative Agent, for the account of the Administrative Agent and the
Lenders, as applicable, all fees and expenses (including reasonable fees and
expenses of counsel) due and payable on or before the Closing Date (including
all such fees described in the Fee Letter).
(c) Refinancing of Existing Credit Agreement. (i) All obligations
under the Existing Credit Agreement shall have been repaid in full, (ii) the
Existing Credit Agreement and all Loan Documents (as defined therein) shall have
been terminated on terms satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and (iii) the
Administrative Agent shall have received a payoff letter duly executed and
delivered by the Borrower and the Existing Agent or other evidence of such
termination in each case in form and substance satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent.
(d) Consents, Etc. Each of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries shall
have received all consents and authorizations required pursuant to any material
Contractual Obligation with any other Person and shall have obtained all Permits
of, and effected all notices to and
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filings with, any Governmental Authority, in each case, as may be necessary to
allow each of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries lawfully (i) to execute, deliver
and perform, in all material respects, their respective obligations hereunder
and under the Loan Documents to which each of them, respectively, is, or shall
be, a party and each other agreement or instrument to be executed and delivered
by each of them, respectively, pursuant thereto or in connection therewith and
(ii) to create and perfect the Liens on the Collateral to be owned by each of
them in the manner and for the purpose contemplated by the Loan Documents.
SECTION 3.2 CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO EACH LOAN AND LETTER OF CREDIT
The obligation of each Lender on any date (including the Closing
Date) to make any Loan and of each Issuer on any date (including the Closing
Date) to Issue any Letter of Credit is subject to the satisfaction of each of
the following conditions precedent:
(a) Request for Borrowing or Issuance of Letter of Credit. With
respect to any Loan, the Administrative Agent shall have received a duly
executed Notice of Borrowing (or, in the case of Swing Loans, a duly executed
Swing Loan Request), and, with respect to any Letter of Credit, the
Administrative Agent and the applicable Issuer shall have received a duly
executed Letter of Credit Request.
(b) Representations and Warranties; No Defaults. The following
statements shall be true on the date of such Loan or Issuance, both before and
after giving effect thereto and, in the case of any Loan, to the application of
the proceeds thereof:
(i) the representations and warranties set forth in Article IV
(Representations and Warranties) and in the other Loan Documents shall be
true and correct on and as of the Closing Date and shall be true and
correct in all material respects on and as of any such date after the
Closing Date with the same effect as though made on and as of such date,
except to the extent such representations and warranties expressly relate
to an earlier date, in which case such representations and warranties
shall have been true and correct in all material respects as of such
earlier date; and
(ii) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing.
(c) No Legal Impediments. The making of the Loans or the Issuance of
such Letter of Credit on such date does not violate any Requirement of Law on
the date of or immediately following such Loan or Issuance of such Letter of
Credit and is not enjoined, temporarily, preliminarily or permanently.
(d) Additional Matters. The Administrative Agent shall have received
such additional documents, information and materials as any Lender, through the
Administrative Agent, may reasonably request; provided, however, that the
Administrative Agent acknowledges that certain documents, information or
materials may not be delivered to it as a result of confidentiality or security
restrictions upon the distribution of such documents, information or materials.
Each submission by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent of a Notice of
Borrowing or a Swing Loan Request and the acceptance by the Borrower of the
proceeds of each Loan requested therein, and each submission by the Borrower to
an Issuer of a Letter of Credit Request, and the
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Issuance of each Letter of Credit requested therein, shall be deemed to
constitute a representation and warranty by the Borrower as to the matters
specified in clause (b) above on the date of the making of such Loan or the
Issuance of such Letter of Credit.
SECTION 3.3 DETERMINATIONS OF INITIAL BORROWING CONDITIONS
For purposes of determining compliance with the conditions specified
in Section 3.1 (Conditions Precedent to Initial Loans and Letters of Credit),
each Lender shall be deemed to have consented to, approved, accepted or be
satisfied with, each document or other matter required thereunder to be
consented to or approved by or acceptable or satisfactory to the Lenders unless
an officer of the Administrative Agent responsible for the transactions
contemplated by the Loan Documents shall have received notice from such Lender
prior to the initial Borrowing, borrowing of Swing Loans or Issuance or deemed
Issuance hereunder specifying its objection thereto and such Lender shall not
have made available to the Administrative Agent such Lender's Ratable Portion of
such Borrowing or Swing Loans.
SECTION 3.4 CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO EACH INCREMENTAL CREDIT
EXTENSION DATE
Each Incremental Term Loan and each Revolving Credit Commitment
Increase shall not become effective prior to the satisfaction of all of the
following conditions precedent:
(a) The Administrative Agent shall have received on or prior to the
Incremental Credit Extension Date each of the following, each dated as of such
Incremental Credit Extension Date unless otherwise indicated or agreed to by the
Administrative Agent and each in form and substance satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent:
(i) written commitments duly executed by existing Lenders (or
their Affiliates or Approved Funds) or Eligible Assignees in an aggregate
amount equal to the amount of the proposed Incremental Term Loan or
Revolving Credit Commitment Increase (as agreed between the Borrower and
the Administrative Agent but in any case not to exceed, in the aggregate,
the maximum amount set forth in Section 2.1(b)) and, in the case of each
such Eligible Assignee that is not an existing Lender, an assumption
agreement in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent
and duly executed by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and such
Eligible Assignee;
(ii) an amendment to this Agreement (including to Schedule I),
effective as of such Incremental Credit Extension Date and executed by the
Borrower and the Administrative Agent, to the extent necessary to
implement terms and conditions of such Incremental Term Loan or Revolving
Credit Commitment Increase as agreed by the Borrower and the
Administrative Agent;
(iii) certified copies of resolutions of the Board of
Directors of the Borrower and each Guarantor approving the consummation of
such Incremental Term Loan or Revolving Credit Commitment Increase and the
execution, delivery and performance of the corresponding amendments to
this Agreement and the other documents to be executed in connection
therewith;
(iv) a favorable opinion of counsel for the Borrower and each
Guarantor, addressed to the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the
Issuers and in
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form and substance and from counsel reasonably satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent; and
(v) such other documents as the Administrative Agent may
reasonably request or as any Lender participating in such Incremental Term
Loan or Revolving Credit Commitment Increase may require as a condition to
its commitment therein.
(b) The Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate from
a Responsible Officer of the Borrower, certifying that on the Incremental Credit
Extension Date and immediately after giving effect to the Incremental Term Loans
or Revolving Credit Commitment Increase, as applicable, the Borrower shall be in
compliance with the financial covenants contained in Article V, in each case
determined on a pro forma basis after giving effect to such Incremental Term
Loans or Revolving Credit Commitment Increase, as applicable, as of the last day
of the most recently ended fiscal quarter of the Borrower for which financial
statements have been delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Sections
5.1(a) or (b), as applicable, in each case in form and substance and with
supporting documentation reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
(c) There shall have been paid to the Administrative Agent, for the
account of itself and the Lenders, as applicable, all fees and expenses
(including reasonable fees and expenses of counsel) due and payable on or before
such Incremental Credit Extension Date.
(d) The conditions precedent set forth in Section 3.2 shall have
been satisfied both before and after giving effect to such Incremental Term
Loans or Revolving Credit Commitment Increase.
(e) Such Incremental Term Loans or Revolving Credit Commitment
Increase shall have been made on the terms and conditions set forth in Section
2.1(b).
ARTICLE IV
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
To induce the Lenders, the Issuers and the Administrative Agent to
enter into this Agreement, the Borrower represents and warrants each of the
following to the Lenders, the Issuers and the Administrative Agent, on and as of
the Closing Date and the making of the Loans and the other financial
accommodations on the Closing Date and on and as of each date as required by
Section 3.2(b)(i) (Conditions Precedent to Each Loan and Letter of Credit):
SECTION 4.1 CORPORATE EXISTENCE; COMPLIANCE WITH LAW
Each of the Borrower and the Borrower's Subsidiaries (a) is duly
organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the
jurisdiction of its organization, (b) is duly qualified to do business as a
foreign entity and in good standing under the laws of each jurisdiction where
such qualification is necessary, except where the failure to be so qualified or
in good standing would not, in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect,
(c) has all requisite corporate (or equivalent) power and authority and the
legal right to own, pledge, mortgage and operate its properties, to lease the
property it operates under lease and to conduct its business as now or currently
proposed to be conducted, (d) is in compliance with its Constituent Documents,
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(e) is in compliance with all applicable Requirements of Law except where the
failure to be in compliance would not, in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse
Effect and (f) has all necessary Permits from or by, has made all necessary
filings with, and has given all necessary notices to, each Governmental
Authority having jurisdiction, to the extent required for such ownership,
operation and conduct, except for Permits or filings that can be obtained or
made by the taking of ministerial action to secure the grant or transfer thereof
or the failure to obtain or make would not, in the aggregate, have a Material
Adverse Effect.
SECTION 4.2 CORPORATE POWER; AUTHORIZATION; ENFORCEABLE OBLIGATIONS
(a) The execution, delivery and performance by each Loan Party of
the Loan Documents to which it is a party and the consummation of the
transactions contemplated thereby:
(i) are within such Loan Party's corporate, limited liability
company, partnership or other powers;
(ii) have been or, at the time of delivery thereof pursuant to
Article III (Conditions To Loans And Letters Of Credit) will have been
duly authorized by all necessary action, including the consent of
shareholders, partners and members where required;
(iii) do not and will not (A) contravene or violate such Loan
Party's or any of its Subsidiaries' respective Constituent Documents, (B)
violate any other Requirement of Law applicable to such Loan Party
(including Regulations T, U and X of the Federal Reserve Board), or any
order or decree of any Governmental Authority or arbitrator applicable to
such Loan Party, (C) conflict with or result in the breach of, or
constitute a default under, or result in or permit the termination or
acceleration of, any material Contractual Obligation of such Loan Party or
any of its Subsidiaries or (D) result in the creation or imposition of any
Lien upon any property of such Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries,
other than those in favor of the Secured Parties pursuant to the
Collateral Documents; and
(iv) do not require the consent of, authorization by, approval
of, notice to, or filing or registration with, any Governmental Authority
or any other Person, other than those listed on Schedule 4.2 (Consents)
and that have been or will be, prior to the Closing Date, obtained or
made, copies of which have been or will be delivered to the Administrative
Agent pursuant to Section 3.1 (Conditions Precedent to Initial Loans and
Letters of Credit), and each of which on the Closing Date will be in full
force and effect and, with respect to the Collateral, filings required to
perfect the Liens created by the Collateral Documents.
(b) This Agreement has been, and each of the other Loan Documents
will have been upon delivery thereof pursuant to the terms of this Agreement,
duly executed and delivered by each Loan Party party thereto. This Agreement is,
and the other Loan Documents will be, when delivered hereunder, the legal, valid
and binding obligation of each Loan Party party thereto, enforceable against
such Loan Party in accordance with its terms.
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SECTION 4.3 OWNERSHIP OF BORROWER; SUBSIDIARIES
(a) As of the date hereof, the authorized capital stock of the
Borrower consists of 50,000,000 shares of common stock, par value $1.00 per
share, of which 20,204,111 shares are issued and outstanding. All of the
outstanding capital stock of the Borrower has been validly issued, is fully paid
and non-assessable. As of the date hereof, there are no agreements or
understandings to which the Borrower is a party with respect to the voting, sale
or transfer of any shares of Stock of the Borrower or any agreement restricting
the transfer or hypothecation of any such shares. Schedule 4.3(a) (Borrower
Information) sets forth as of the date hereof the name, address of principal
place of business and taxpayer identification number of the Borrower.
(b) Set forth on Schedule 4.3(b) (Ownership of Subsidiaries) is a
complete and accurate list showing, as of the Closing Date, all Subsidiaries of
the Borrower and, as to each such Subsidiary, the jurisdiction of its
organization, the number of shares of each class of Stock authorized (if
applicable), the number outstanding on the Closing Date and the number and
percentage of the outstanding shares of each such class owned (directly or
indirectly) by the Borrower, and separately identifying each Immaterial
Subsidiary. No Stock of any Subsidiary of the Borrower is subject to any
outstanding option, warrant, right of conversion or purchase of any similar
right. All of the outstanding Stock of each Subsidiary of the Borrower owned
(directly or indirectly) by the Borrower has been validly issued, is fully paid
and non-assessable (to the extent applicable) and is owned by the Borrower or a
Subsidiary of the Borrower, free and clear of all Liens (other than the Lien in
favor of the Secured Parties created pursuant to the Pledge and Security
Agreement), options, warrants, rights of conversion or purchase or any similar
rights. Neither the Borrower nor any such Subsidiary is a party to, or has
knowledge of, any agreement restricting the transfer or hypothecation of any
Stock of any such Subsidiary, other than the Loan Documents. The Borrower does
not own or hold, directly or indirectly, any Stock of any Person other than such
Subsidiaries and Investments permitted by Section 8.3 (Investments). No
Immaterial Subsidiary has more than $100,000 in assets on a Consolidated basis,
or is engaged in any business activity.
SECTION 4.4 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
(a) The Consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries as at December 31, 2004, and the related Consolidated statements of
income, retained earnings and cash flows of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries
for the fiscal year then ended, certified by Ernst & Young LLP, and the
Consolidated balance sheets of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as at June 30,
2005, and the related Consolidated statements of income, retained earnings and
cash flows of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for the six months then ended,
copies of which have been furnished to each Lender, fairly present in all
material respects, subject, in the case of said balance sheets as at June 30,
2005, and said statements of income, retained earnings and cash flows for the
months then ended, to the absence of footnote disclosure and normal recurring
year-end audit adjustments, the Consolidated financial condition of the Borrower
and its Subsidiaries as at such dates and the Consolidated results of the
operations of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for the period ended on such
dates, all in conformity with GAAP.
(b) None of the Borrower or any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries has
any material obligation, contingent liability or liability for taxes, long-term
leases or unusual forward or long-term commitment that is not reflected in the
Financial Statements referred to in clause (a) above or in the notes thereto and
not otherwise permitted by this Agreement.
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(c) The Projections have been prepared by the Borrower in light of
the past operations of its business, and reflect projections for the five year
period beginning on the Closing Date, on a quarter by quarter basis for the
first four quarters after the Closing Date and on a year by year basis
thereafter. The Projections are based upon estimates and assumptions stated
therein, all of which the Borrower believes to be reasonable and fair in light
of current conditions and current facts known to the Borrower and, as of the
Closing Date, reflect the Borrower's good faith and reasonable estimates of the
future financial performance of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries and of the
other information projected therein for the periods set forth therein.
(d) The unaudited Consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries, a copy of which has been furnished to each Lender, has been
prepared as of June 30, 2005, reflects as of such date, on a Pro Forma Basis,
the Consolidated financial condition of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, and
the assumptions expressed therein were reasonable based on the information
available to the Borrower at the time so furnished and on the Closing Date.
SECTION 4.5 MATERIAL ADVERSE CHANGE
Since December 31, 2004, there has been no Material Adverse Change
and there have been no events or developments that, in the aggregate, have had a
Material Adverse Effect.
SECTION 4.6 SOLVENCY
Both before and after giving effect to (a) the Loans and Letter of
Credit Obligations to be made or extended on the Closing Date or such other date
as Loans and Letter of Credit Obligations requested hereunder are made or
extended, (b) the disbursement of the proceeds of such Loans pursuant to the
instructions of the Borrower, and (c) the payment and accrual of all transaction
costs in connection with the foregoing, each Loan Party is Solvent.
SECTION 4.7 LITIGATION
There are no pending or, to the knowledge of the Borrower,
threatened actions, investigations or proceedings affecting the Borrower or any
of its Subsidiaries before any court, Governmental Authority or arbitrator other
than those that, in the aggregate, would not have a Material Adverse Effect. The
performance of any action by any Loan Party required or contemplated by any Loan
Document is not restrained or enjoined (either temporarily, preliminarily or
permanently).
SECTION 4.8 TAXES
(a) All federal, state, local and foreign income and franchise and
other tax returns, reports and statements (collectively, the "Tax Returns")
required to be filed by the Borrower or any of its Tax Affiliates have been
filed with the appropriate Governmental Authorities in all jurisdictions in
which such Tax Returns are required to be filed, except where the failure to so
file such Tax Returns would not reasonably be likely to have a Material Adverse
Effect or where extensions for such filings have been properly requested, all
such Tax Returns are true and correct in all material respects, and all taxes,
charges and other impositions reflected therein or otherwise due and payable
have been paid prior to the date on which any fine, penalty, interest, late
charge or loss may be added thereto for non-payment thereof except where
contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings if adequate reserves
therefor have been established on the books of the Borrower or such Tax
Affiliate in conformity with GAAP. Except for those
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that, in the aggregate, are not reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse
Effect, no Tax Return is under audit or examination by any Governmental
Authority and no notice of such an audit or examination or any assertion of any
claim for Taxes has been given or made by any Governmental Authority. Proper and
accurate amounts have been withheld by the Borrower and each of its Tax
Affiliates from their respective employees for all periods in full and complete
compliance with the tax, social security and unemployment withholding provisions
of applicable Requirements of Law and such withholdings have been timely paid to
the respective Governmental Authorities, except for where the failure to
withhold or to timely pay such withholdings would not reasonably be likely to
have a Material Adverse Effect.
(b) Except for those that, in the aggregate, are not reasonably
likely to have a Material Adverse Effect, none of the Borrower or any of its Tax
Affiliates has (i) executed or filed with the IRS or any other Governmental
Authority any agreement or other document extending, or having the effect of
extending, the period for the filing of any Tax Return or the assessment or
collection of any charges, (ii) incurred any obligation under any tax sharing
agreement or arrangement other than those of which the Administrative Agent has
received a copy prior to the date hereof or (iii) been a member of an
affiliated, combined or unitary group other than the group of which the Borrower
(or its Tax Affiliate) is the common parent.
SECTION 4.9 FULL DISCLOSURE
The information prepared or furnished by or on behalf of the
Borrower in connection with this Agreement or the consummation of the
transactions contemplated hereunder does not contain any untrue statement of a
material fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements
contained therein or herein not misleading as of the date made. All facts known
to the Borrower and material to an understanding of the financial condition,
business, properties or prospects of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries taken as
one enterprise have been disclosed to the Lenders or otherwise have been
disclosed in public filings of the Borrower accessible to the Administrative
Agent as provided in Section 6.4 (SEC Filings, Press Releases). The projections
and pro forma financial information contained in the materials referenced above
are based upon good faith estimates and assumptions believed by management of
the Borrower to be reasonable at the time made, it being recognized by the
Lenders that such financial information as it relates to future events is not to
be viewed as fact and that actual results during the period or periods covered
by such financial information may differ from the projected results set forth
therein by a material amount.
SECTION 4.10 MARGIN REGULATIONS
The Borrower is not engaged in the business of extending credit for
the purpose of purchasing or carrying margin stock (within the meaning of
Regulation U of the Federal Reserve Board), and no proceeds of any Loan will be
used to purchase or carry any such margin stock or to extend credit to others
for the purpose of purchasing or carrying any such margin stock in contravention
of Regulation T, U or X of the Federal Reserve Board.
SECTION 4.11 NO BURDENSOME RESTRICTIONS; NO DEFAULTS
(a) None of the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower (i) is a
party to any Contractual Obligation the compliance with one or more of which
would have, in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect or the performance of
which by any thereof, either unconditionally or upon the happening of an event,
would result in the creation of a Lien (other
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than a Lien permitted under Section 8.2 (Liens, Etc.)) on the assets of any
thereof or (ii) is subject to one or more charter or corporate restrictions that
would, in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.
(b) None of the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower is in
default under or with respect to any Contractual Obligation owed by it and, to
the knowledge of the Borrower, no other party is in default under or with
respect to any Contractual Obligation owed to any Loan Party or to any
Subsidiary of any Loan Party, other than, in either case, those defaults that,
in the aggregate, would not have a Material Adverse Effect.
(c) No Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.
(d) To the best knowledge of the Borrower, there are no Requirements
of Law applicable to any Loan Party or any Subsidiary of any Loan Party the
compliance with which by such Loan Party or such Subsidiary, as the case may be,
would, in the aggregate, have a Material Adverse Effect.
SECTION 4.12 INVESTMENT COMPANY ACT; PUBLIC UTILITY HOLDING COMPANY
ACT
None of the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower is (a) an
"investment company" or an "affiliated person" of, or "promoter" or "principal
underwriter" for, an "investment company," as such terms are defined in the
Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended or (b) a "holding company" or an
"affiliate" of a "holding company" or a "subsidiary company" of a "holding
company," as each such term is defined and used in the Public Utility Holding
Company Act of 1935, as amended.
SECTION 4.13 USE OF PROCEEDS
The proceeds of the Loans and the Letters of Credit are being used
by the Borrower (and, to the extent distributed to them by the Borrower, each
other Loan Party) solely (a) to refinance all Indebtedness and other obligations
outstanding under the Existing Credit Agreement, (b) to refinance the Existing
Convertible Notes and for the payment of related transaction costs, fees and
expenses, (c) for the payment of transaction costs, fees and expenses incurred
in connection with this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby and
(d) for working capital and general corporate purposes (including, without
limitation, Permitted Acquisitions).
SECTION 4.14 INSURANCE
All policies of insurance of any kind or nature of the Borrower or
any of its Subsidiaries, including policies of life, fire, theft, product
liability, public liability, property damage, other casualty, employee fidelity,
workers' compensation and employee health and welfare insurance, are in full
force and effect and are of a nature and provide such coverage as is sufficient
and as is customarily carried by businesses of the size and character of such
Person. In the past five years, none of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries
has been refused insurance for any material coverage for which it had applied or
had any policy of insurance terminated (other than at its request).
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SECTION 4.15 LABOR MATTERS
(a) There are no strikes, work stoppages, slowdowns or lockouts
pending or threatened against or involving the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries, other than those that, in the aggregate, would not have a Material
Adverse Effect.
(b) There are no unfair labor practices, grievances, complaints or
arbitrations pending, or, to the Borrower's knowledge, threatened, against or
involving the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, nor are there any
arbitrations or grievances threatened involving the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries, other than those that, in the aggregate, would not have a Material
Adverse Effect.
(c) Except as set forth on Schedule 4.15 (Labor Matters), as of the
Closing Date, there is no collective bargaining agreement covering any employee
of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries.
(d) Schedule 4.15 (Labor Matters) sets forth, as of the date hereof,
all material consulting agreements, executive employment agreements, executive
compensation plans, deferred compensation agreements, employee stock purchase
and stock option plans and severance plans of the Borrower and any of its
Subsidiaries.
SECTION 4.16 ERISA
(a) Schedule 4.16 (List of Plans) separately identifies as of the
date hereof all Title IV Plans, all Multiemployer Plans and all of the employee
benefit plans within the meaning of Section 3(3) of ERISA to which the Borrower
or any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries has any obligation or liability,
contingent or otherwise.
(b) Each employee benefit plan of the Borrower or any of the
Borrower's Subsidiaries intended to qualify under Section 401 of the Code does
so qualify, and any trust created thereunder is exempt from tax under the
provisions of Section 501 of the Code, except where such failures, in the
aggregate, would not have a Material Adverse Effect.
(c) Each Title IV Plan is in compliance in all material respects
with applicable provisions of ERISA, the Code and other Requirements of Law
except for noncompliances that, in the aggregate, would not have a Material
Adverse Effect.
(d) There has been no, nor is there reasonably expected to occur,
any ERISA Event other than those that, in the aggregate, would not have a
Material Adverse Effect.
(e) Except to the extent set forth on Schedule 4.16 (List of Plans),
none of the Borrower, any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries or any ERISA Affiliate
would have any Withdrawal Liability as a result of a complete withdrawal as of
the date hereof from any Multiemployer Plan.
SECTION 4.17 ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS
(a) The operations of the Borrower and each of its Subsidiaries have
been and are in compliance with all Environmental Laws, including obtaining and
complying with all
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required environmental, health and safety Permits, other than non-compliances
that, in the aggregate, would not have a Material Adverse Effect.
(b) None of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or any Real
Property currently or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, previously owned,
operated or leased by or for the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries is subject
to any pending or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, threatened, claim, order,
agreement, notice of violation, notice of potential liability or is the subject
of any pending or threatened proceeding or governmental investigation under or
pursuant to Environmental Laws other than those that, in the aggregate, are not
reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(c) None of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries is a treatment,
storage or disposal facility requiring a Permit under the Resource Conservation
and Recovery Act, 42 U.S.C. Section 6901 et seq., the regulations thereunder or
any state analog.
(d) There are no facts, circumstances or conditions arising out of
or relating to the operations or ownership of the Borrower or of Real Property
owned, operated or leased by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries that are
required to be included in, but are not included in the financial information
furnished to the Lenders other than those that, in the aggregate, would not have
a reasonable likelihood of having a Material Adverse Effect.
(e) As of the date hereof, no Environmental Lien has attached to any
property of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries and, to the knowledge of the
Borrower, no facts, circumstances or conditions exist that could reasonably be
expected to result in any such Lien attaching to any such property.
SECTION 4.18 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
The Borrower and its Subsidiaries own or license or otherwise have
the right to use all licenses, permits, patents, patent applications,
trademarks, trademark applications, service marks, trade names, copyrights,
copyright applications, Internet domain names, franchises, authorizations and
other intellectual property rights (including all Intellectual Property as
defined in the Pledge and Security Agreement) that are necessary for the
operations of their respective businesses, without, to the Borrower's knowledge,
infringement upon or conflict with the rights of any other Person with respect
thereto, including all trade names associated with any private label brands of
the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries. To the Borrower's knowledge, no
license, permit, patent, patent application, trademark, trademark application,
service ▇▇▇▇, trade name, copyright, copyright application, Internet domain
name, franchise, authorization, other intellectual property right (including all
"Intellectual Property" as defined in the Pledge and Security Agreement), slogan
or other advertising device, product, process, method, substance, part or
component, or other material now employed, or now contemplated to be employed,
by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (i) infringes upon or conflicts with
any rights owned by any other Person, and (ii) no claim or litigation regarding
any of the foregoing is pending or threatened, which in the case of clauses (i)
or (ii) would have a Material Adverse Effect.
SECTION 4.19 TITLE; REAL PROPERTY
(a) Each of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries has good and
marketable title to, or valid leasehold interests in, all Real Property and good
title to all personal property, in each case that is purported to be owned or
leased by it, including those reflected on the most recent
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Financial Statements delivered by the Borrower, and none of such properties and
assets is subject to any Lien, except Liens permitted under Section 8.2 (Liens,
Etc.). The Borrower and its Subsidiaries have received all deeds, assignments,
waivers, consents, non-disturbance and recognition or similar agreements, bills
of sale and other documents in respect of, and have duly effected all
recordings, filings and other actions necessary to establish, protect and
perfect, the Borrower's and its Subsidiaries' right, title and interest in and
to all such property, except where the failure to do so would not have a
Material Adverse Effect.
(b) Set forth on Schedule 4.19 (Real Property) is a complete and
accurate list of all Real Property of each Loan Party and its Subsidiaries and
showing, as of the Closing Date, the current street address (including, where
applicable, county, state and other relevant jurisdictions), record owner and,
where applicable, lessee thereof.
(c) Except for properties described as leased by the Borrower and
its Subsidiaries on Schedule 4.19 (Real Property), as of the Closing Date, no
Loan Party nor any of its Subsidiaries owns or holds, or is obligated under or a
party to, any lease, option, right of first refusal or other contractual right
to purchase, acquire, sell, assign, dispose of or lease any Real Property of
such Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries.
(d) As of the Closing Date, no portion of any Real Property of any
Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries has suffered any material damage by fire
or other casualty loss that has not heretofore been completely repaired and
restored to its original condition. No portion of any Real Property of any Loan
Party or any of its Subsidiaries is located in a special flood hazard area as
designated by any federal Governmental Authority.
(e) All Permits required to have been issued or appropriate to
enable all Real Property of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries to be
lawfully occupied and used for all of the purposes for which they are currently
occupied and used have been lawfully issued and are in full force and effect,
other than those that, in the aggregate, would not have a Material Adverse
Effect.
(f) None of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries has received any
notice, or has any knowledge, of any pending, threatened or contemplated
condemnation proceeding affecting any Real Property of the Borrower or any of
its Subsidiaries or any part thereof, except those that, in the aggregate, would
not have a Material Adverse Effect.
SECTION 4.20 RELATED DOCUMENTS
(a) The Obligations constitute "Senior Debt" as defined in the
Existing Indenture.
ARTICLE V
FINANCIAL COVENANTS
The Borrower agrees with the Lenders, the Issuers and the
Administrative Agent to each of the following as long as any Obligation or any
Revolving Credit Commitment remains outstanding and, in each case, unless the
Requisite Lenders otherwise consent in writing:
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SECTION 5.1 MAXIMUM LEVERAGE RATIO
The Borrower shall maintain, on the last day of each Fiscal Quarter,
a Leverage Ratio of not more than 3.50 to 1.00.
SECTION 5.2 MINIMUM FIXED CHARGE COVERAGE RATIO
The Borrower shall maintain a Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio, as
determined as of the last day of each Fiscal Quarter, for the four Fiscal
Quarters ending on such day, of at least 2.00 to 1.00.
SECTION 5.3 MAXIMUM SENIOR SECURED LEVERAGE RATIO
If the proceeds of the Loans are used to refinance any Existing
Convertible Notes, the Borrower shall maintain, on the last day of each Fiscal
Quarter, a Senior Secured Leverage Ratio of not more than 2.25 to 1.00;
provided; however, that if, thereafter, the Borrower repays the outstanding
Loans in an amount equal to the amount of Loans used to refinance such Existing
Convertible Notes with proceeds of Indebtedness permitted under Section 8.1(k),
this Section 5.3 will no longer apply.
ARTICLE VI
REPORTING COVENANTS
The Borrower agrees with the Lenders, the Issuers and the
Administrative Agent to each of the following, as long as any Obligation or any
Revolving Credit Commitment remains outstanding and, in each case, unless the
Requisite Lenders otherwise consent in writing:
SECTION 6.1 FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
The Borrower shall furnish to the Administrative Agent (with
sufficient copies for each of the Lenders) each of the following:
(a) Quarterly Reports. Within 45 days after the end of each Fiscal
Quarter of each Fiscal Year, financial information regarding the Borrower and
its Subsidiaries consisting of Consolidated unaudited balance sheets as of the
close of such quarter and the related statements of income and cash flow for
such quarter and that portion of the Fiscal Year ending as of the close of such
quarter, setting forth in comparative form the figures for the corresponding
period in the prior year and the figures contained in the Projections or, if
applicable, the latest business plan provided pursuant to clause (e) below for
the current Fiscal Year, in each case certified by a Responsible Officer of the
Borrower as fairly presenting in all material respects the Consolidated
financial position of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as at the dates
indicated and the results of their operations and cash flow for the periods
indicated in accordance with GAAP (subject to the absence of footnote disclosure
and normal year-end audit adjustments); provided however, that delivery within
the time period specified above of a Form 10-Q of the Borrower that is in
compliance with all applicable Requirements of Law and the other requirements of
this clause (a) shall satisfy the delivery requirements of this clause (a).
(b) Annual Reports. Within 90 days after the end of each Fiscal
Year, financial information regarding the Borrower and its Subsidiaries
consisting of Consolidated
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balance sheets of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as of the end of such year
and related statements of income and cash flows of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries for such Fiscal Year, all prepared in conformity with GAAP and
certified, in the case of such Consolidated Financial Statements, without
qualification as to the scope of the audit or as to the Borrower being a going
concern by the Borrower's Accountants, together with the report of such
accounting firm stating that (i) such Financial Statements fairly present in all
material respects the Consolidated financial position of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries as at the dates indicated and the results of their operations and
cash flow for the periods indicated in conformity with GAAP applied on a basis
consistent with prior years (except for changes with which the Borrower's
Accountants shall concur and that shall have been disclosed in the notes to the
Financial Statements) and (ii) the examination by the Borrower's Accountants in
connection with such Consolidated Financial Statements has been made in
accordance with generally accepted auditing standards; provided however, that
delivery within the time period specified above of a Form 10-K of the Borrower
that is in compliance with all applicable Requirements of Law and the other
requirements of this clause (b) shall satisfy the delivery requirements of this
clause (b).
(c) Compliance Certificate. Together with each delivery of any
Financial Statement pursuant to clause (a) or (b) above, a certificate of a
Responsible Officer of the Borrower (each, a "Compliance Certificate") (i)
showing in reasonable detail the calculations used in demonstrating compliance
with each of the financial covenants contained in Article V (Financial
Covenants) that is tested on a quarterly basis and (ii) stating that no Default
or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or, if a Default or an Event
of Default has occurred and is continuing, stating the nature thereof and the
action that the Borrower proposes to take with respect thereto.
(d) Corporate Chart and Other Collateral Updates. Together with each
delivery of any Financial Statement pursuant to clause (a) or (b) above, (i) a
certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower certifying that the
Corporate Chart attached thereto (or the last Corporate Chart delivered pursuant
to this clause (d) is true, correct, complete and current as of the date of such
Financial Statement and (ii) a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the
Borrower in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent that all
certificates, statements, updates and other documents (including updated
schedules) required to be delivered pursuant to the Pledge and Security
Agreement by any Loan Party in the preceding Fiscal Quarter or Fiscal Year, as
applicable, have been delivered thereunder (or such delivery requirement was
otherwise duly waived or extended). The reporting requirements set forth in this
clause (d) are in addition to, and are not intended to and shall not replace or
otherwise modify, any obligation of any Loan Party under any Loan Document
(including other notice or reporting requirements). Compliance with the
reporting obligations in this clause (d) shall only provide notice to the
Administrative Agent and shall not, by itself, modify any obligation of any Loan
Party under any Loan Document, update any Schedule to this Agreement or any
schedule to any other Loan Document or cure, or otherwise modify in any way, any
failure to comply with any covenant, or any breach of any representation or
warranty, contained in any Loan Document or any other Default or Event of
Default.
(e) Business Plan. Not later than 60 days after the end of each
Fiscal Year, and containing substantially the types of financial information
contained in the Projections, (i) the annual business plan of the Borrower and
its Subsidiaries for the next succeeding Fiscal Year approved by the Board of
Directors of the Borrower, and (ii) forecasts prepared by management of the
Borrower for each of the succeeding Fiscal Years through the Fiscal Year in
which the
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Revolving Credit Termination Date is scheduled to occur, including, in each
instance described in clause (ii) above, (x) a projected year-end Consolidated
balance sheet and income statement and statement of cash flows and (y) a
statement of all of the material assumptions on which such forecasts are based.
(f) Management Letters, Etc. Within five Business Days after receipt
thereof by any Loan Party, copies of each management letter, exception report or
similar letter or report received by such Loan Party from its independent
certified public accountants (including the Borrower's Accountants).
(g) Job Status Report. On or prior to the 20th day of each calendar
quarter, a "job status report" substantially in the form previously provided to
the Lenders, certified by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower and current as
of the last Business Day of the preceding calendar quarter.
SECTION 6.2 DEFAULT NOTICES
As soon as practicable, and in any event within five Business Days
after a Responsible Officer of any Loan Party has actual knowledge of the
existence of any Default, Event of Default or other event having had a Material
Adverse Effect or having any reasonable likelihood of causing or resulting in a
Material Adverse Change, the Borrower shall give the Administrative Agent notice
specifying the nature of such Default or Event of Default or other event,
including the anticipated effect thereof, which notice, if given by telephone,
shall be promptly confirmed in writing on the next Business Day.
SECTION 6.3 LITIGATION
Promptly after the commencement thereof, the Borrower shall give the
Administrative Agent written notice of the commencement of all actions, suits
and proceedings before any domestic or foreign Governmental Authority or
arbitrator affecting the Borrower or any of Subsidiary of the Borrower that (i)
seeks injunctive or similar relief or (ii) in the reasonable judgment of the
Borrower, exposes the Borrower or such Subsidiary to liability that, if
adversely determined, would have a Material Adverse Effect.
SECTION 6.4 SEC FILINGS; PRESS RELEASES
Promptly after the sending or filing thereof, the Borrower shall
send the Administrative Agent notice of all reports and registration statements
that the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries files with the Securities and
Exchange Commission and, to the extent not publicly available on the Securities
and Exchange Commission's ▇▇▇▇▇ database, copies thereof. Promptly after the
sending or filing thereof, the Borrower shall send the Administrative Agent
copies of (a) all reports that the Borrower sends to its security holders
generally, (b) all reports and registration statements that the Borrower or any
of its Subsidiaries files with any national or foreign securities exchange or
the National Association of Securities Dealers, Inc., (c) all press releases and
(d) all other statements concerning material changes or developments in the
business of such Loan Party made available by any Loan Party to the public or
any other creditor.
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SECTION 6.5 LABOR RELATIONS
Promptly after becoming aware of the same, the Borrower shall give
the Administrative Agent written notice of (a) any material labor dispute to
which the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries is or may become a party,
including any strikes, lockouts or other disputes relating to any of such
Person's plants and other facilities, and (b) any Worker Adjustment and
Retraining Notification Act or related liability incurred with respect to the
closing of any plant or other facility of any such Person.
SECTION 6.6 TAX RETURNS
Upon the request of any Lender, through the Administrative Agent,
the Borrower shall provide copies of all federal, state, local and foreign tax
returns and reports filed by the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower in
respect of taxes measured by income (excluding sales, use and like taxes).
SECTION 6.7 INSURANCE
As soon as is practicable and in any event within 90 days after the
end of each Fiscal Year, the Borrower shall furnish the Administrative Agent (in
sufficient copies for each of the Lenders) with (a) a report in form and
substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders outlining all
material insurance coverage maintained as of the date of such report by the
Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower and the duration of such coverage and
(b) an insurance broker's statement that all premiums then due and payable with
respect to such coverage have been paid and confirming, with respect to any
insurance maintained by the Borrower or any Loan Party, that the Administrative
Agent has been named as loss payee or additional insured, as applicable.
SECTION 6.8 ERISA MATTERS
The Borrower shall furnish the Administrative Agent (with sufficient
copies for each of the Lenders) each of the following: (a) promptly after the
Borrower, any Subsidiary of the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate knows or has
reason to know that any ERISA Event has occurred, written notice describing such
event;
(b) promptly after the Borrower, any Subsidiary of the Borrower or
any ERISA Affiliate knows or has reason to know that a request for a minimum
funding waiver under Section 412 of the Code has been filed with respect to any
Title IV Plan or Multiemployer Plan, a written statement of a Responsible
Officer of the Borrower describing such ERISA Event or waiver request and the
action, if any, the Borrower, its Subsidiaries and ERISA Affiliates propose to
take with respect thereto and a copy of any notice filed with the PBGC or the
IRS pertaining thereto;
(c) promptly after the date that the Borrower, any Subsidiary of the
Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate files a notice of intent to terminate any Title
IV Plan, if such termination would require material additional contributions in
order to be considered a standard termination within the meaning of Section
4041(b) of ERISA, a copy of each notice; and
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(d) promptly after becoming aware of the same, the Borrower shall
give the Administrative Agent written notice of any default in any payment on
the ESOP Loan.
SECTION 6.9 ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS
The Borrower shall provide the Administrative Agent promptly after
the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower learning of any of the following,
written notice of each of the following:
(a) that any Loan Party is or may be liable to any Person as a
result of a Release or threatened Release that could reasonably be expected to
subject such Loan Party to Environmental Liabilities and Costs in excess of
$1,000,000;
(b) the receipt by any Loan Party of notification that any real or
personal property of such Loan Party is or is reasonably likely to be subject to
any Environmental Lien;
(c) the receipt by any Loan Party of any notice of violation of or
potential liability under, or knowledge by such Loan Party that there exists a
condition that could reasonably be expected to result in a violation of or
liability under, any Environmental Law, except for violations and liabilities
the consequence of which, in the aggregate, would not be reasonably likely to
subject the Loan Parties collectively to Environmental Liabilities and Costs in
excess of $1,000,000;
(d) the commencement of any judicial or administrative proceeding or
investigation alleging a violation of or liability under any Environmental Law,
that, in the aggregate, if adversely determined, would have a reasonable
likelihood of subjecting the Loan Parties collectively to Environmental
Liabilities and Costs in excess of $1,000,000;
(e) any proposed acquisition of stock, assets or real estate, any
proposed leasing of property or any other action by any Loan Party or any of its
Subsidiaries, other than those the consequences of which, in the aggregate, have
reasonable likelihood of subjecting the Loan Parties collectively to
Environmental Liabilities and Costs not in excess of $1,000,000;
(f) any proposed action by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries
or, to the knowledge of any Loan Party, any proposed change in Environmental
Laws that, in the aggregate, have a reasonable likelihood of requiring the Loan
Parties to obtain additional environmental, health or safety Permits or make
additional capital improvements to obtain compliance with Environmental Laws
that, in the aggregate, would have cost $1,000,000 or more or that shall subject
the Loan Parties to additional Environmental Liabilities and Costs in excess of
$1,000,000; and
(g) upon written request by any Lender through the Administrative
Agent, a report providing an update of the status of any environmental, health
or safety compliance, hazard or liability issue identified in any notice or
report delivered pursuant to this Agreement.
SECTION 6.10 CUSTOMER CONTRACTS
Promptly after any Loan Party becoming aware of the same, the
Borrower shall give the Administrative Agent written notice of any cancellation,
termination or loss of any Contractual Obligation in favor of any Loan Party or
other customer arrangement, in each case
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representing more than 5% of the net revenue of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries for any 12 month period.
SECTION 6.11 OTHER INFORMATION
The Borrower shall provide the Administrative Agent or any Lender
with such other information respecting the business, properties, condition,
financial or otherwise, or operations of the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the
Borrower as the Administrative Agent or such Lender through the Administrative
Agent may from time to time reasonably request.
ARTICLE VII
AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS
The Borrower agrees with the Lenders, the Issuers and the
Administrative Agent to each of the following, as long as any Obligation or any
Revolving Credit Commitment remains outstanding and, in each case, unless the
Requisite Lenders otherwise consent in writing:
SECTION 7.1 PRESERVATION OF CORPORATE EXISTENCE, ETC.
The Borrower shall, and shall cause each Subsidiary of the Borrower
to, preserve and maintain its legal existence, rights (charter and statutory)
and franchises, except as permitted by Sections 8.4 (Sale of Assets) and 8.7
(Restriction on Fundamental Changes; Permitted Acquisitions).
SECTION 7.2 COMPLIANCE WITH LAWS, ETC.
The Borrower shall, and shall cause each Subsidiary of the Borrower
to, comply with all applicable Requirements of Law, Contractual Obligations and
Permits, except where the failure so to comply would not, in the aggregate, have
a Material Adverse Effect.
SECTION 7.3 CONDUCT OF BUSINESS
The Borrower shall, and shall cause each Subsidiary of the Borrower
to, (a) conduct its business in the ordinary course and consistent with past
practice; provided, that businesses reasonably related to the current business
of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries will be permitted, and (b) use its
reasonable efforts, in the ordinary course and consistent with past practice, to
preserve its business and the goodwill and business of the customers,
advertisers, suppliers and others having business relations with the Borrower or
any of its Subsidiaries, except in each case where the failure to comply with
the covenants in each of clauses (a) and (b) above would not, in the aggregate,
have a Material Adverse Effect.
SECTION 7.4 PAYMENT OF TAXES, ETC.
The Borrower shall, and shall cause each Subsidiary of the Borrower
to, pay and discharge before the same shall become delinquent, all lawful
governmental claims, taxes, assessments, charges and levies, except where
contested in good faith, by proper proceedings and adequate reserves therefor
have been established on the books of the Borrower or the appropriate Subsidiary
in conformity with GAAP.
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SECTION 7.5 MAINTENANCE OF INSURANCE
The Borrower shall (a) maintain for itself, and shall cause to be
maintained for each Subsidiary of the Borrower, insurance with responsible and
reputable insurance companies or associations in such amounts and covering such
risks as is usually carried by companies engaged in similar businesses and
owning similar properties in the same general areas in which the Borrower or
such Subsidiary operates, and such other insurance as may be reasonably
requested by the Requisite Lenders, and, in any event, all insurance required by
any Collateral Documents and (b) cause all such insurance relating to any Loan
Party to name the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties as
additional insured or loss payee, as appropriate, and to provide that no
cancellation, material addition in amount or material change in coverage shall
be effective until after 30 days' written notice thereof to the Administrative
Agent.
SECTION 7.6 ACCESS
The Borrower shall, and shall cause each Subsidiary of the Borrower
to, from time to time permit the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, or any
agents or representatives thereof, within two Business Days after written
notification of the same (except that during the continuance of an Event of
Default, no such notice shall be required) during normal business hours to (a)
examine and make copies of and abstracts from the records and books of account
of the Borrower and each Subsidiary of the Borrower, (b) visit the properties of
the Borrower and each Subsidiary of the Borrower, (c) discuss the affairs,
finances and accounts of the Borrower and each Subsidiary of the Borrower with
any of their respective officers or directors and (d) communicate directly with
any of its certified public accountants (including the Borrower's Accountants).
The Borrower shall authorize its certified public accountants (including the
Borrower's Accountants), and shall cause the certified public accountants of any
Subsidiary of the Borrower, if any, to disclose to the Administrative Agent or
any Lender any and all financial statements and other information of any kind,
as the Administrative Agent or any Lender reasonably requests and that such
accountants may have with respect to the business, financial condition, results
of operations or other affairs of the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the
Borrower.
SECTION 7.7 KEEPING OF BOOKS
The Borrower shall, and shall cause each Subsidiary of the Borrower
to keep, proper books of record and account, in which full and correct entries
shall be made in conformity with GAAP of all financial transactions and the
assets and business of the Borrower and each such Subsidiary.
SECTION 7.8 MAINTENANCE OF PROPERTIES, ETC.
The Borrower shall, and shall cause each Subsidiary of the Borrower
to, maintain and preserve (a) in good working order and condition all of its
properties necessary in the conduct of its business, (b) all rights, permits,
licenses, approvals and privileges (including all Permits) used or useful or
necessary in the conduct of its business and (c) all registered patents,
trademarks, trade names, copyrights and service marks with respect to its
business, except where failure to so maintain and preserve the items set forth
in clauses (a), (b) and (c) above would not, in the aggregate, have a Material
Adverse Effect.
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SECTION 7.9 APPLICATION OF PROCEEDS
The Borrower (and, to the extent distributed to them by the
Borrower, each Loan Party) shall use the entire amount of the proceeds of the
Loans as provided in Section 4.13 (Use of Proceeds).
SECTION 7.10 ENVIRONMENTAL
The Borrower shall, and shall cause each Subsidiary of the Borrower
to, comply in all material respects with Environmental Laws and, without
limiting the foregoing, the Borrower shall, at its sole cost and expense, upon
receipt of any notification or otherwise obtaining knowledge of any Release or
other event that has any reasonable likelihood of having a Material Adverse
Effect, (a) conduct, or pay for consultants to conduct, tests or assessments of
environmental conditions at such operations or properties, including the
investigation and testing of subsurface conditions and (b) take such Remedial
Action and undertake such investigation or other action as required by
Environmental Laws or any Governmental Authority or as is appropriate and
consistent with good business practice to address the Release or event and
otherwise ensure material compliance with Environmental Laws.
SECTION 7.11 ADDITIONAL COLLATERAL AND GUARANTIES
To the extent not delivered to the Administrative Agent on or before
the Closing Date (including in respect of after-acquired property and Persons
that become Subsidiaries of any Loan Party after the Closing Date), the Borrower
agrees promptly to do, or cause each Subsidiary (other than any Immaterial
Subsidiary) of the Borrower to do, each of the following, unless otherwise
agreed by the Administrative Agent:
(a) deliver to the Administrative Agent such duly executed
supplements and amendments to the Guaranty (or, in the case of any Subsidiary of
any Loan Party that is not a Domestic Subsidiary or that holds shares in any
Person that is not a Domestic Subsidiary, foreign guarantees and related
documents), in each case in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent and as the Administrative Agent deems necessary or
advisable in order to ensure that each Subsidiary of each Loan Party guaranties,
as primary obligor and not as surety, the full and punctual payment when due of
the Obligations or any part thereof; provided, however, in no event shall any
Excluded Foreign Subsidiary or Immaterial Subsidiary be required to guaranty the
payment of the Obligations, unless (x) the Borrower and the Administrative Agent
otherwise agree, (y) in the case of any Excluded Foreign Subsidiary, such
Excluded Foreign Subsidiary has entered into Guaranty Obligations in respect of
other Indebtedness of the Borrower having substantially similar tax consequences
and (z) in the case of any Immaterial Subsidiary, such Immaterial Subsidiary has
entered into Guaranty Obligations in respect of other Indebtedness of the
Borrower;
(b) deliver to the Administrative Agent such duly-executed joinder
and amendments to the Pledge and Security Agreement and, if applicable, other
Collateral Documents (or, in the case of any such Subsidiary of any Loan Party
that is not a Domestic Subsidiary or that holds shares in any Person that is not
a Domestic Subsidiary, foreign charges, pledges, security agreements and other
Collateral Documents), in each case in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and as the Administrative Agent deems
necessary or advisable in order to (i) effectively grant to the Administrative
Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a valid, perfected and
enforceable first-priority security interest in the Stock and
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Stock Equivalents and other debt Securities owned by any Loan Party, and (ii)
effectively grant to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured
Parties, a valid, perfected and enforceable first-priority security interest in
all property interests and other assets of any Loan Party; provided, however, in
no event shall (x) any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, individually or
collectively, be required to pledge in excess of 65% of the outstanding Voting
Stock of any Excluded Foreign Subsidiary or (y) any assets of any Excluded
Foreign Subsidiary be required to be pledged, unless the Borrower and the
Administrative Agent otherwise agree;
(c) deliver to the Administrative Agent all certificates,
instruments and other documents representing all Pledged Stock, Pledged Debt
Instruments and all other Stock, Stock Equivalents and other debt Securities
being pledged pursuant to the joinders, amendments and foreign agreements
executed pursuant to clause (b) above, together with (i) in the case of
certificated Pledged Stock and other certificated Stock and Stock Equivalents,
undated stock powers endorsed in blank and (ii) in the case of Pledged Debt
Instruments and other certificated debt Securities, endorsed in blank, in each
case executed and delivered by a Responsible Officer of such Loan Party or such
Subsidiary thereof, as the case may be;
(d) to take such other actions necessary or advisable to ensure the
validity or continuing validity of the guaranties required to be given pursuant
to clause (a) above or to create, maintain or perfect the security interest
required to be granted pursuant to clause (b) above, including the filing of UCC
financing statements in such jurisdictions as may be required by the Collateral
Documents or by law or as may be reasonably requested by the Administrative
Agent;
(e) if requested by the Administrative Agent, deliver to the
Administrative Agent legal opinions relating to the matters described above,
which opinions shall be in form and substance, and from counsel, reasonably
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
SECTION 7.12 REAL PROPERTY
(a) The Borrower shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to,
(i) comply in all material respects with all of their respective obligations
under all of their respective Leases now or hereafter held respectively by them,
including the Leases set forth on Schedule 4.19 (Real Property), (ii) not
modify, amend, cancel, extend or otherwise change in any manner any term,
covenant or condition of any such Lease if such change would have a Material
Adverse Effect or would materially adversely affect the interests of the Secured
Parties under the Loan Documents or in the Collateral, (iii) not assign or
sublet any other Lease if such assignment or sublet would have a Material
Adverse Effect and (iv) provide the Administrative Agent with a copy of each
notice of default under any Lease received by the Borrower or any Subsidiary of
the Borrower immediately upon receipt thereof and deliver to the Administrative
Agent a copy of each notice of default sent by the Borrower or any Subsidiary of
the Borrower under any Lease simultaneously with its delivery of such notice
under such Lease, in each case if such default could reasonably be expected to
have a Material Adverse Effect.
(b) At least five Business Days prior to (i) entering into any Lease
(other than a renewal of an existing Lease) for the principal place of business
and chief executive office of the Borrower or any other Guarantor or any other
Lease (including any renewal) in which the annual rental payments are
anticipated to equal or exceed $1,000,000 or (ii) acquiring any material owned
Real Property, the Borrower shall, and shall cause such Guarantor to, provide
the Administrative Agent written notice thereof.
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SECTION 7.13 POST-CLOSING MATTERS
The Borrower shall, and shall cause each of its Subsidiaries to,
deliver each of the documents, instruments and agreements and take each of the
actions set forth on Schedule 7.13 within the time periods set forth on such
Schedule.
ARTICLE VIII
NEGATIVE COVENANTS
The Borrower agrees with the Lenders, the Issuers and the
Administrative Agent to each of the following, as long as any Obligation or any
Revolving Credit Commitment remains outstanding and, in each case, unless the
Requisite Lenders otherwise consent in writing:
SECTION 8.1 INDEBTEDNESS
The Borrower shall not, nor shall it permit any Subsidiary of the
Borrower to, directly or indirectly create, incur, assume or otherwise become or
remain directly or indirectly liable with respect to any Indebtedness except for
the following:
(a) the Secured Obligations (other than in respect of Hedging
Contracts not permitted to be incurred pursuant to clause (i) below) and
Guaranty Obligations in respect thereto;
(b) Indebtedness existing on the date of this Agreement and
disclosed on Schedule 8.1 (Existing Indebtedness);
(c) Guaranty Obligations incurred by the Borrower or any Guarantor
in respect of Indebtedness of the Borrower or any Guarantor that is otherwise
permitted by this Section 8.1 (other than clause (a) above);
(d) Capital Lease Obligations and purchase money Indebtedness
incurred by the Borrower or a Subsidiary of the Borrower to finance the
acquisition of fixed assets; provided, however, that the aggregate outstanding
principal amount of all such Capital Lease Obligations and purchase money
Indebtedness shall not exceed $15,000,000 at any time;
(e) Renewals, extensions, refinancings and refundings of
Indebtedness permitted by clause (b) or (d) of this Section or this clause (e);
provided, however, that (i) any such renewal, extension, refinancing or
refunding is in an aggregate principal amount not greater than the principal
amount of, and is on terms no less favorable to the Borrower or any Subsidiary
of the Borrower obligated thereunder, including as to weighted average maturity
and final maturity, than the Indebtedness being renewed, extended, refinanced or
refunded and (ii) any such renewal, extension, refinancing or refunding is not
secured by any property or any Lien other than those securing such Indebtedness
being renewed, extended, refinanced or refunded;
(f) a sale and leaseback transaction permitted pursuant to Section
8.15(b) (Operating Leases; Sale/Leasebacks), to the extent such transaction
would constitute Indebtedness;
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(g) Indebtedness arising from intercompany loans (i) from the
Borrower to any Guarantor, (ii) from any Guarantor to the Borrower or any other
Guarantor or (iii) from the Borrower or any Guarantor to any Subsidiary of the
Borrower that is not a Guarantor; provided, however, that, in the case of this
clause (iii), the Investment in such intercompany loan to such Subsidiary is
permitted under Section 8.3 (Investments);
(h) Indebtedness arising under any performance or surety bond
entered into in the ordinary course of business;
(i) Obligations under Hedging Contracts permitted under Section 8.16
(No Speculative Transactions);
(j) the Existing Convertible Notes; provided, however, that the
aggregate outstanding principal amount of all such Existing Convertible Notes
shall not exceed $175,000,000 at any time;
(k) unsecured and/or subordinated Indebtedness of Borrower (all such
Indebtedness permitted to be incurred pursuant to this clause (k) being
"Permitted Debt"); provided, however, that (i) at the time of incurring such
Permitted Debt and after giving effect thereto, the Borrower shall be in
compliance with the financial covenants contained in Article V (Financial
Covenants), (ii) if the Permitted Debt is subordinated Indebtedness, the
subordination terms thereof shall be reasonably satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent (it being understood that subordination terms substantially
similar to those applicable to the Existing Convertible Notes referred to in
clause (i) of the definition thereof are deemed to be satisfactory), (iii) such
Permitted Debt has a scheduled maturity no earlier than the date that is 180
days after the Scheduled Termination Date and (iv) the other terms of such
Permitted Debt shall be reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent;
(l) Indebtedness arising from honoring by a bank or other financial
institution of a check draft or similar instrument against insufficient funds;
provided that such Indebtedness is outstanding no more than two Business Days;
(m) Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness for borrowed money) owed
to (including obligations in respect of letters of credit for the benefit of)
any Person providing worker's compensation, health, disability or other employee
benefits or property, casualty or liability insurance to the Borrower or any
Subsidiary of the Borrower pursuant to reimbursement or indemnification
obligations to such Person;
(n) Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness for borrowed money)
arising from agreements of the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower
providing for indemnification, adjustment or purchase price or similar
obligations, in each case, incurred in connection with the disposition of any
business, assets or a Subsidiary, other than Guaranty Obligations incurred by
any Person acquiring all or any portion of such business, assets or such
Subsidiary for the purpose of financing such acquisition; and
(o) Indebtedness not otherwise permitted under this Section 8.1;
provided, however, that the aggregate outstanding principal amount of all such
Indebtedness shall not exceed $5,000,000 at any time.
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SECTION 8.2 LIENS, ETC.
The Borrower shall not, nor shall it permit any Subsidiary of the
Borrower to, create or suffer to exist, any Lien upon or with respect to any of
their respective properties or assets, whether now owned or hereafter acquired,
or assign, or permit any of its Subsidiaries to assign, any right to receive
income, except for the following:
(a) Liens created pursuant to the Loan Documents;
(b) Liens existing on the date of this Agreement and disclosed on
Schedule 8.2 (Existing Liens);
(c) Customary Permitted Liens on the assets of the Borrower and the
Borrower's Subsidiaries;
(d) purchase money Liens granted by the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries (including the interest of a lessor under a Capital Lease and
purchase money Liens to which any property is subject at the time, on or after
the date hereof, of the Borrower's or such Subsidiary's acquisition thereof)
securing Indebtedness permitted under Section 8.1(d) (Indebtedness) and limited
in each case to the property purchased with the proceeds of such purchase money
Indebtedness or subject to such Capital Lease;
(e) any Lien securing the renewal, extension, refinancing or
refunding of any Indebtedness secured by any Lien permitted by clause (b) or (d)
above or this clause (e) without any change in the assets subject to such Lien
and to the extent such renewal, extension, refinancing or refunding is permitted
by Section 8.1(e) (Indebtedness);
(f) Liens in favor of lessors securing operating leases or, to the
extent such transactions create a Lien hereunder, sale and leaseback
transactions, in each case to the extent such operating leases or sale and
leaseback transactions are permitted hereunder;
(g) Liens resulting from operation of law with respect to any
judgments, awards or orders not resulting in an Event of Default under Section
9.1 (Events of Default); and
(h) Liens not otherwise permitted by the foregoing clauses of this
Section 8.2 securing obligations or other liabilities of any Loan Party;
provided, however, that the aggregate outstanding amount of all such obligations
and liabilities shall not exceed $2,500,000 at any time.
SECTION 8.3 INVESTMENTS
The Borrower shall not, nor shall it permit any Subsidiary of the
Borrower to make or maintain, directly or indirectly, any Investment except for
the following:
(a) Investments existing on the date of this Agreement and disclosed
on Schedule 8.3 (Existing Investments);
(b) Investments in cash and Cash Equivalents;
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(c) Investments in payment intangibles, chattel paper (each as
defined in the UCC) and Accounts, notes receivable and similar items arising or
acquired in the ordinary course of business consistent with the past practice of
the Borrower and its Subsidiaries;
(d) Investments received in settlement of amounts due to the
Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower effected in the ordinary course of
business;
(e) Investments by (i) the Borrower in any Guarantor or any
Guarantor in the Borrower or any other Guarantor, (ii) any Subsidiary of the
Borrower that is not a Guarantor in the Borrower or any other Subsidiary of the
Borrower or (iii) the Borrower or any Guarantor in a Subsidiary that is not a
Guarantor; provided, however, that the aggregate outstanding amount of all
Investments permitted pursuant to this clause (iii) shall not exceed $15,000,000
at any time;
(f) Investments by the Borrower or any Guarantor in connection with
a Permitted Acquisition;
(g) loans or advances to employees of the Borrower or any
Subsidiaries of the Borrower in the ordinary course of business as presently
conducted other than any loans or advances that would be in violation of Section
402 of the ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇ Act; provided, however, that the aggregate principal
amount of all loans and advances permitted pursuant to this clause (g) shall not
exceed $1,500,000 at any time;
(h) Guaranty Obligations permitted by Section 8.1 (Indebtedness);
(i) (i) the ESOP Loan and (ii) contributions or loans by the
Borrower to the ESOP to permit the ESOP to immediately purchase Borrower Common
Stock in an aggregate purchase price equal to the amount of such loan or
contribution; provided, however, that the aggregate amount of contributions and
loans to the ESOP pursuant to this clause (ii) in any fiscal year of the
Borrower shall not exceed $5,000,000;
(j) Investments in Hedging Contracts not prohibited by Section 8.16
(No Speculative Transactions); and
(k) Investments not otherwise permitted hereby in an aggregate
outstanding amount at any time not to exceed $7,500,000; provided, however, that
the amount of any Investment shall be the original cost of such Investment plus
the cost of all additions thereto, without any adjustments for increases or
decreases in value, or write-ups, write-downs or write-offs with respect
thereto.
SECTION 8.4 SALE OF ASSETS
The Borrower shall not, nor shall it permit any Subsidiary of the
Borrower to, sell, convey, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of, any of their
respective assets or any interest therein (including the sale or factoring at
maturity or collection of any accounts) to any Person, or permit or suffer any
other Person to acquire any interest in any of their respective assets, or issue
or sell any shares of their Stock or any Stock Equivalents (any such disposition
being an "Asset Sale"), except for the following:
(a) the sale or disposition of Cash Equivalents or Inventory, in
each case in the ordinary course of business;
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(b) the sale or disposition of property or assets that have become
obsolete or are replaced in the ordinary course of business;
(c) (i) a true lease or sublease of Real Property not constituting
Indebtedness and not constituting a sale and leaseback transaction and (ii) a
sale of assets pursuant to a sale and leaseback transaction, in each case as
permitted under Section 8.15 (Operating Leases; Sale/Leasebacks);
(d) assignments and licenses of intellectual property of the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business;
(e) any Asset Sale to the Borrower or any Guarantor; and
(f) as long as no Default or Event of Default is continuing or would
result therefrom, any other Asset Sale for Fair Market Value, payable in cash or
Cash Equivalents upon such sale; provided, however, that with respect to any
such Asset Sale pursuant to this clause (f), (i) the aggregate consideration
received during any Fiscal Year for all such Asset Sales shall not exceed
$10,000,000 and (ii) an amount equal to all Net Cash Proceeds of such Asset Sale
are applied to the payment of the Obligations as set forth in, and to the extent
required by, Section 2.9 (Mandatory Prepayments).
SECTION 8.5 RESTRICTED PAYMENTS
The Borrower shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries
to, directly or indirectly, declare, order, pay, make or set apart any sum for
any Restricted Payment except for the following:
(a) Restricted Payments by any Subsidiary of the Borrower to the
Borrower or any Guarantor;
(b) dividends and distributions declared and paid on the Borrower
Common Stock and payable only in Borrower Common Stock;
(c) dividends and distributions declared and paid by the Borrower on
the outstanding Borrower Common Stock for any Fiscal Quarter in an amount not to
exceed 50% of Consolidated Net Income of the Borrower for the immediately
preceding Fiscal Quarter;
(d) the Borrower may make contributions to the ESOP from time to
time not to exceed an amount equal to the next scheduled payment of principal
and interest then due pursuant to the ESOP Loan Agreement on the original
principal amount borrowed under the ESOP Loan;
(e) the Borrower may redeem or repurchase shares of Borrower Common
Stock (or options to purchase Borrower Common Stock) from officers, employees
and directors of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (or their estates) upon
the death, permanent disability, retirement or termination of employment of any
such Person or otherwise in accordance with any stock option plan or any
employee stock ownership plan maintained by the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries; provided, however, that the aggregate purchase price paid with
respect to all repurchases of Borrower Common Stock pursuant to this clause (e)
in any fiscal year of the Borrower shall not exceed $1,500,000; and
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(f) the prepayment of the Existing Convertible Notes to the extent
permitted by Section 8.6;
provided, however, that the Restricted Payments described in clause (c), (d) and
(e) above shall not be permitted if either (i) an Event of Default or Default
shall have occurred and be continuing at the date of declaration or payment
thereof or would result therefrom or (ii) such Restricted Payment is prohibited
under the terms of any Indebtedness (other than the Obligations) of the Borrower
or any of its Subsidiaries.
SECTION 8.6 PREPAYMENT AND CANCELLATION OF INDEBTEDNESS
(a) The Borrower shall not, nor shall it permit any Subsidiary of
the Borrower to, cancel any claim or Indebtedness owed to any of them except (i)
in the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice and (ii) in
respect of intercompany Indebtedness among the Borrower and the Guarantors.
(b) The Borrower shall not, nor shall it permit any Subsidiary of
the Borrower to, prepay, redeem, purchase, defease or otherwise satisfy prior to
the scheduled maturity thereof in any manner, or make any payment in violation
of any subordination terms of, any Indebtedness; provided, however, that the
Borrower and each Subsidiary of the Borrower may (i) prepay the Obligations in
accordance with the terms of this Agreement, (ii) make regularly scheduled or
otherwise required repayments or redemptions of Indebtedness, (iii) prepay
Indebtedness under the Existing Credit Agreement with the proceeds of the
initial Borrowings hereunder, (iv) prepay any Indebtedness payable to the
Borrower by any of its Subsidiaries, (v) renew, extend, refinance and refund
Indebtedness, as long as such renewal, extension, refinancing or refunding is
permitted under Section 8.1(e) (Indebtedness), and (vi) prepay the Existing
Convertible Notes; provided, however, that, with respect to this clause (vi), at
the time of such prepayment and after giving effect thereto, the sum of (A) the
Borrower's unencumbered cash and Cash Equivalents and (B) the Available Credit
shall exceed $50,000,000.
SECTION 8.7 RESTRICTION ON FUNDAMENTAL CHANGES; PERMITTED
ACQUISITIONS
The Borrower shall not, nor shall it permit any Subsidiary of the
Borrower to, (a) except in connection with a Permitted Acquisition, (i) merge
with any Person, (ii) consolidate with any Person, (iii) acquire all or
substantially all of the Stock or Stock Equivalents of any Person or (iv)
acquire all or substantially all of the assets of any Person or all or
substantially all of the assets constituting the business of a division, branch
or other unit operation of any Person, (b) enter into any joint venture or
partnership with any Person or (c) acquire or create any Subsidiary unless,
after giving effect to such creation or acquisition, such Subsidiary is a
Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of the Borrower, the Borrower is in compliance with
Section 7.11 (Additional Collateral and Guaranties) and the Investment in such
Subsidiary is permitted under Section 8.3(c) (Investments).
SECTION 8.8 CHANGE IN NATURE OF BUSINESS
The Borrower shall not, and shall not permit any of its Subsidiaries
to, make any material change in the nature or conduct of its business as carried
on at the date hereof, whether in connection with a Permitted Acquisition or
otherwise.
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SECTION 8.9 TRANSACTIONS WITH AFFILIATES
The Borrower shall not, nor shall it permit any Subsidiary of the
Borrower to, except as otherwise expressly permitted herein, do any of the
following: (a) make any Investment in an Affiliate of the Borrower that is not a
Subsidiary of the Borrower, (b) transfer, sell, lease, assign or otherwise
dispose of any asset to any Affiliate of the Borrower that is not a Subsidiary
of the Borrower, (c) merge into or consolidate with or purchase or acquire
assets from any Affiliate of the Borrower that is not a Subsidiary of the
Borrower, (d) repay any Indebtedness to any Affiliate of the Borrower that is
not a Subsidiary of the Borrower or (e) enter into any other transaction
directly or indirectly with or for the benefit of any Affiliate of the Borrower
that is not a Guarantor (including guaranties and assumptions of obligations of
any such Affiliate), except for, in the case of this clause (e), (i)
transactions in the ordinary course of business on a basis no less favorable to
the Borrower or, as the case may be, such Subsidiary thereof as would be
obtained in a comparable arm's length transaction with a Person not an Affiliate
thereof and (ii) salaries and other director or employee compensation to
officers or directors of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries commensurate
with then current compensation levels; provided, however, that the provisions of
this Section 8.9 shall not apply to the transactions contemplated by the ESOP
which are consummated in accordance with the terms of the ESOP and otherwise
permitted pursuant to this Agreement.
SECTION 8.10 LIMITATIONS ON RESTRICTIONS ON SUBSIDIARY
DISTRIBUTIONS; NO NEW NEGATIVE PLEDGE
Except pursuant to the Loan Documents, any agreements governing
purchase money Indebtedness or Capital Lease Obligations permitted by Section
8.1(b), (d) or (e) (Indebtedness) (in the case of agreements permitted by such
clauses, any prohibition or limitation shall only be effective against the
assets financed thereby) and any agreements governing Permitted Debt or
Subordinated Debt, the Borrower shall not, and shall not permit any of its
Subsidiaries to, (a) agree to enter into or suffer to exist or become effective
any consensual encumbrance or restriction of any kind on the ability of such
Subsidiary to pay dividends or make any other distribution or transfer of funds
or assets or make loans or advances to or other Investments in, or pay any
Indebtedness owed to, the Borrower or any other Subsidiary of the Borrower or
(b) enter into or suffer to exist or become effective any agreement prohibiting
or limiting the ability of the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower to
create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien upon any of its property,
assets or revenues, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, to secure the
Obligations, including any agreement requiring any other Indebtedness or
Contractual Obligation to be equally and ratably secured with the Obligations.
SECTION 8.11 MODIFICATION OF CONSTITUENT DOCUMENTS
The Borrower shall not, nor shall it permit any Subsidiary of the
Borrower to, change its capital structure (including in the terms of its
outstanding Stock) or otherwise amend its Constituent Documents, except for
changes and amendments that do not materially adversely affect the interests of
the Secured Parties under the Loan Documents or in the Collateral.
SECTION 8.12 MODIFICATION OF DEBT AGREEMENTS
The Borrower shall not, nor shall it permit any Subsidiary of the
Borrower to, change or amend the terms of the Existing Convertible Notes, the
ESOP Loan or any Permitted Debt (or any indenture or agreement or other material
document entered into in connection
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therewith) if the effect of such amendment is to (a) increase the interest rate
on such Existing Convertible Notes, the ESOP Loan or Permitted Debt, (b) change
the dates upon which payments of principal or interest are due on such Existing
Convertible Notes, the ESOP Loan or Permitted Debt other than to extend such
dates, (c) change any default or event of default other than to delete or make
less restrictive any default provision therein, or add any covenant with respect
to such Existing Convertible Notes, the ESOP Loan or Permitted Debt, (d) change
the subordination provisions of such Existing Convertible Notes, the ESOP Loan
or Permitted Debt, (e) change the redemption or prepayment provisions of such
Existing Convertible Notes, the ESOP Loan or Permitted Debt other than to extend
the dates therefor or to reduce the premiums payable in connection therewith or
(f) change or amend any other term if such change or amendment would materially
increase the obligations of the obligor or confer additional material rights to
the holder of such Existing Convertible Notes, the ESOP Loan or Permitted Debt
that materially adversely affects the interests of the Secured Parties under the
Loan Documents or in the Collateral.
SECTION 8.13 ACCOUNTING CHANGES; FISCAL YEAR
The Borrower shall not, nor shall it permit any Subsidiary of the
Borrower to, change its (a) accounting treatment and reporting practices or tax
reporting treatment in any material respect, except as required by GAAP or any
Requirement of Law and disclosed to the Lenders and the Administrative Agent or
(b) fiscal year.
SECTION 8.14 MARGIN REGULATIONS
The Borrower shall not, nor shall it permit any Subsidiary of the
Borrower to, use all or any portion of the proceeds of any credit extended
hereunder to purchase or carry margin stock (within the meaning of Regulation U
of the Federal Reserve Board) in contravention of Regulation U of the Federal
Reserve Board.
SECTION 8.15 OPERATING LEASES; SALE/LEASEBACKS
(a) The Borrower shall not, nor shall it permit any Subsidiary of
the Borrower to, become or remain liable as lessee or guarantor or other surety
with respect to any operating lease, unless the aggregate amount of all rents
paid or accrued under all such operating leases shall not exceed $30,000,000 in
any Fiscal Year.
(b) The Borrower shall not, nor shall it permit any Subsidiary of
the Borrower to, enter into any sale and leaseback transaction if, after giving
effect to such sale and leaseback transaction, the aggregate Fair Market Value
of all properties covered by sale and leaseback transactions would exceed
$15,000,000.
SECTION 8.16 NO SPECULATIVE TRANSACTIONS
The Borrower shall not, nor shall it permit any Subsidiary of the
Borrower to, engage in any speculative transaction or in any transaction
involving Hedging Contracts except for Hedging Contracts with Lenders or
Affiliates of Lenders for the sole purpose of hedging in the normal course of
business and consistent with industry practices.
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SECTION 8.17 COMPLIANCE WITH ERISA
The Borrower shall not, nor shall it permit any Subsidiary of the
Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate to, cause or permit to occur, (a) an event that
could result in the imposition of a Lien under Section 412 of the Code or
Section 302 or 4068 of ERISA or (b) ERISA Events that would have a Material
Adverse Effect in the aggregate.
ARTICLE IX
EVENTS OF DEFAULT
SECTION 9.1 EVENTS OF DEFAULT
Each of the following events shall be an Event of Default:
(a) the Borrower shall fail to pay any principal of any Loan or any
Reimbursement Obligation when the same becomes due and payable; or
(b) the Borrower shall fail to pay any interest on any Loan, any fee
under any of the Loan Documents or any other Obligation (other than one referred
to in clause (a) above) and such non-payment continues for a period of three
Business Days after the due date therefor; or
(c) any representation or warranty made or deemed made by any Loan
Party in any Loan Document or by any Loan Party (or any of its officers) in
connection with any Loan Document shall prove to have been incorrect in any
material respect when made or deemed made; or
(d) any Loan Party shall fail to perform or observe (i) any term,
covenant or agreement contained in Article V (Financial Covenants), Section 6.1
(Financial Statements), 6.2 (Default Notices), 7.1 (Preservation of Corporate
Existence, Etc.), 7.6 (Access), 7.9 (Application of Proceeds), or 7.11
(Additional Collateral and Guaranties), or Article VIII (Negative Covenants) or
(ii) any other term, covenant or agreement contained in this Agreement or in any
other Loan Document if such failure under this clause (ii) shall remain
unremedied for 15 days after the earlier of (A) the date on which a Responsible
Officer of the Borrower becomes aware of such failure and (B) the date on which
written notice thereof shall have been given to the Borrower by the
Administrative Agent or any Lender; or
(e) (i) the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower shall fail to
make any payment on any Indebtedness of the Borrower or any such Subsidiary
(other than the Obligations) or any Guaranty Obligation in respect of
Indebtedness of any other Person, and, in each case, such failure relates to
Indebtedness having a principal amount of $3,000,000 or more, when the same
becomes due and payable (whether by scheduled maturity, required prepayment,
acceleration, demand or otherwise), (ii) any other event shall occur or
condition shall exist under any agreement or instrument relating to any such
Indebtedness, if the effect of such event or condition is to accelerate, or to
permit the acceleration of, the maturity of such Indebtedness or (iii) any such
Indebtedness shall become or be declared to be due and payable, or be required
to be prepaid or repurchased (other than by a regularly scheduled required
prepayment), prior to the stated maturity thereof; or
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(f) (i) the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower shall
generally not pay its debts as such debts become due, shall admit in writing its
inability to pay its debts generally or shall make a general assignment for the
benefit of creditors, (ii) any proceeding shall be instituted by or against the
Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower seeking to adjudicate it a bankrupt
or insolvent, or seeking liquidation, winding up, reorganization, arrangement,
adjustment, protection, relief or composition of it or its debts, under any
Requirement of Law relating to bankruptcy, insolvency or reorganization or
relief of debtors, or seeking the entry of an order for relief or the
appointment of a custodian, receiver, trustee or other similar official for it
or for any substantial part of its property; provided, however, that, in the
case of any such proceedings instituted against the Borrower or any Subsidiary
of the Borrower (but not instituted by the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the
Borrower) either such proceedings shall remain undismissed or unstayed for a
period of 30 days or more or any action sought in such proceedings shall occur
or (iii) the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower shall take any corporate
action to authorize any action set forth in clauses (i) and (ii) above; or
(g) one or more judgments or orders (or other similar process)
involving, in the case of money judgments, an aggregate amount in excess of
$3,000,000, to the extent not covered by insurance, shall be rendered against
one or more of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries and either (i) enforcement
proceedings shall have been commenced by any creditor upon such judgment or
order or (ii) there shall be any period of 30 consecutive days during which a
stay of enforcement of such judgment or order, by reason of a pending appeal or
otherwise, shall not be in effect; or
(h) an ERISA Event shall occur and the amount of all liabilities and
deficiencies resulting therefrom, whether or not assessed, exceeds $3,000,000 in
the aggregate; or
(i) any provision of any Loan Document after delivery thereof shall
for any reason fail or cease to be valid and binding on, or enforceable against,
any Loan Party party thereto, or any Loan Party shall so state in writing; or
(j) any Collateral Document shall for any reason fail or cease to
create a valid and enforceable Lien on any Collateral purported to be covered
thereby or, except as permitted by the Loan Documents, such Lien shall fail or
cease to be a perfected and first priority Lien, or any Loan Party shall so
state in writing; or
(k) there shall occur any Change of Control; or
(l) one or more of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries of the Borrower
shall have entered into one or more consent or settlement decrees or agreements
or similar arrangements with a Governmental Authority or one or more judgments,
orders, decrees or similar actions shall have been entered against one or more
of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries of the Borrower based on or arising from
the violation of or pursuant to any Environmental Law, or the generation,
storage, transportation, treatment, disposal or Release of any Contaminant and,
in connection with all the foregoing, the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the
Borrower is likely to incur Environmental Liabilities and Costs in excess of
$3,000,000 in the aggregate that were not reflected in the Projections or the
Financial Statements delivered pursuant to Section 4.4 (Financial Statements)
prior to the date hereof.
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SECTION 9.2 REMEDIES
During the continuance of any Event of Default, the Administrative
Agent (a) may, and, at the request of the Requisite Lenders, shall, by notice to
the Borrower declare that all or any portion of the Revolving Credit Commitments
be terminated, whereupon the obligation of each Lender to make any Loan and each
Issuer to Issue any Letter of Credit shall immediately terminate and (b) may
and, at the request of the Requisite Lenders, shall, by notice to the Borrower,
declare the Loans, all interest thereon and all other amounts and Obligations
payable under this Agreement to be forthwith due and payable, whereupon the
Loans, all such interest and all such amounts and Obligations shall become and
be forthwith due and payable, without presentment, demand, protest or further
notice of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived by the Borrower;
provided, however, that upon the occurrence of the Events of Default specified
in Section 9.1(f) (Events of Default), (x) the Revolving Credit Commitments of
each Lender to make Loans and the commitments of each Lender and Issuer to Issue
or participate in Letters of Credit shall each automatically be terminated and
(y) the Loans, all such interest and all such amounts and Obligations shall
automatically become and be due and payable, without presentment, demand,
protest or any notice of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived by
the Borrower. In addition to the remedies set forth above, the Administrative
Agent may exercise any remedies provided for by the Collateral Documents in
accordance with the terms thereof or any other remedies provided by applicable
law.
SECTION 9.3 ACTIONS IN RESPECT OF LETTERS OF CREDIT
At any time (i) upon the Revolving Credit Termination Date, (ii)
after the Revolving Credit Termination Date when the aggregate funds on deposit
in Cash Collateral Accounts shall be less than 105% of the Letter of Credit
Obligations or (iii) as may be required by Section 2.9(c) or (d) (Mandatory
Prepayments), the Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent in immediately
available funds at the Administrative Agent's office referred to in Section 11.8
(Notices, Etc.), for deposit in a Cash Collateral Account, (x) in the case of
clauses (i) and (ii) above, the amount required to that, after such payment, the
aggregate funds on deposit in the Cash Collateral Accounts equals or exceeds
105% of the sum of all outstanding Letter of Credit Obligations and (y) in the
case of clause (iii) above, the amount required by Section 2.9(c) or (d)
(Mandatory Prepayments). The Administrative Agent may, from time to time after
funds are deposited in any Cash Collateral Account, apply funds then held in
such Cash Collateral Account to the payment of any amounts, in accordance with
Section 2.9(c) or (d) (Mandatory Prepayments) and Section 2.13(g) (Payments and
Computations), as shall have become or shall become due and payable by the
Borrower to the Issuers or Lenders in respect of the Letter of Credit
Obligations. The Administrative Agent shall promptly give written notice of any
such application; provided, however, that the failure to give such written
notice shall not invalidate any such application.
SECTION 9.4 RESCISSION
If at any time after termination of the Revolving Credit Commitments
or acceleration of the maturity of the Loans, the Borrower shall pay all arrears
of interest and all payments on account of principal of the Loans and
Reimbursement Obligations that shall have become due otherwise than by
acceleration (with interest on principal and, to the extent permitted by law, on
overdue interest, at the rates specified herein) and all Events of Default and
Defaults (other than non-payment of principal of and accrued interest on the
Loans due and payable solely by virtue of acceleration) shall be remedied or
waived pursuant to Section 11.1 (Amendments,
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Waivers, Etc.), then upon the written consent of the Requisite Lenders and
written notice to the Borrower, the termination of the Revolving Credit
Commitments or the acceleration and their consequences may be rescinded and
annulled; provided, however, that such action shall not affect any subsequent
Event of Default or Default or impair any right or remedy consequent thereon.
The provisions of the preceding sentence are intended merely to bind the Lenders
and the Issuers to a decision that may be made at the election of the Requisite
Lenders, and such provisions are not intended to benefit the Borrower and do not
give the Borrower the right to require the Lenders to rescind or annul any
acceleration hereunder, even if the conditions set forth herein are met.
ARTICLE X
THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT; THE AGENTS
SECTION 10.1 AUTHORIZATION AND ACTION
(a) Each Lender and each Issuer hereby appoints Citicorp as the
Administrative Agent hereunder and each Lender and each Issuer authorizes the
Administrative Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to exercise
such powers under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as are delegated
to the Administrative Agent under such agreements and to exercise such powers as
are reasonably incidental thereto. Without limiting the foregoing, each Lender
and each Issuer hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent to execute and
deliver, and to perform its obligations under, each of the Loan Documents to
which the Administrative Agent is a party, to exercise all rights, powers and
remedies that the Administrative Agent may have under such Loan Documents and,
in the case of the Collateral Documents, to act as agent for the Lenders,
Issuers and the other Secured Parties under such Collateral Documents.
(b) As to any matters not expressly provided for by this Agreement
and the other Loan Documents (including enforcement or collection), the
Administrative Agent shall not be required to exercise any discretion or take
any action, but shall be required to act or to refrain from acting (and shall be
fully protected in so acting or refraining from acting) upon the instructions of
the Requisite Lenders, and such instructions shall be binding upon all Lenders
and each Issuer; provided, however, that the Administrative Agent shall not be
required to take any action that (i) the Administrative Agent in good faith
believes exposes it to personal liability unless the Administrative Agent
receives an indemnification satisfactory to it from the Lenders and the Issuers
with respect to such action or (ii) is contrary to this Agreement or applicable
law. The Administrative Agent agrees to give to each Lender and each Issuer
prompt notice of each notice given to it by any Loan Party pursuant to the terms
of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents.
(c) In performing its functions and duties hereunder and under the
other Loan Documents, the Administrative Agent is acting solely on behalf of the
Lenders and the Issuers except to the limited extent provided in Section 2.7(b),
and its duties are entirely administrative in nature. The Administrative Agent
does not assume and shall not be deemed to have assumed any obligation other
than as expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents or any other
relationship as the agent, fiduciary or trustee of or for any Lender, Issuer or
holder of any other Obligation. The Administrative Agent may perform any of its
duties under any Loan Document by or through its agents or employees.
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(d) The Arrangers, the Syndication Agent and the Documentation Agent
shall have no obligations or duties whatsoever in such capacity under this
Agreement or any other Loan Document and shall incur no liability hereunder or
thereunder in such capacity.
SECTION 10.2 ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT'S RELIANCE, ETC.
None of the Administrative Agent, any of its Affiliates or any of
their respective directors, officers, agents or employees shall be liable for
any action taken or omitted to be taken by it, him, her or them under or in
connection with this Agreement or the other Loan Documents, except for its, his,
her or their own gross negligence or willful misconduct. Without limiting the
foregoing, the Administrative Agent (a) may treat the payee of any Revolving
Credit Note as its holder until such Revolving Credit Note has been assigned in
accordance with Section 11.2(e) (Assignments and Participations), (b) may rely
on the Register to the extent set forth in Section 2.7 (Evidence of Debt), (c)
may consult with legal counsel (including counsel to the Borrower or any other
Loan Party), independent public accountants and other experts selected by it and
shall not be liable for any action taken or omitted to be taken in good faith by
it in accordance with the advice of such counsel, accountants or experts, (d)
makes no warranty or representation to any Lender or Issuer and shall not be
responsible to any Lender or Issuer for any statements, warranties or
representations made by or on behalf of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries
in or in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document, (e) shall
not have any duty to ascertain or to inquire either as to the performance or
observance of any term, covenant or condition of this Agreement or any other
Loan Document, as to the financial condition of any Loan Party or as to the
existence or possible existence of any Default or Event of Default, (f) shall
not be responsible to any Lender or Issuer for the due execution, legality,
validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of, or the
attachment, perfection or priority of any Lien created or purported to be
created under or in connection with, this Agreement, any other Loan Document or
any other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto or thereto and (g)
shall incur no liability under or in respect of this Agreement or any other Loan
Document by acting upon any notice, consent, certificate or other instrument or
writing (which writing may be a telecopy or electronic mail) or any telephone
message believed by it to be genuine and signed or sent by the proper party or
parties.
SECTION 10.3 POSTING OF APPROVED ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS
(a) Each of the Lenders, the Issuers and the Borrower agree, and the
Borrower shall cause each Guarantor to agree, that the Administrative Agent may,
but shall not be obligated to, make the Approved Electronic Communications
available to the Lenders and Issuers by posting such Approved Electronic
Communications on IntraLinks(TM) or a substantially similar electronic platform
chosen by the Administrative Agent to be its electronic transmission system (the
"Approved Electronic Platform").
(b) Although the Approved Electronic Platform and its primary web
portal are secured with generally-applicable security procedures and policies
implemented or modified by the Administrative Agent from time to time
(including, as of the Closing Date, a dual firewall and a User ID/Password
Authorization System) and the Approved Electronic Platform is secured through a
single-user-per-deal authorization method whereby each user may access the
Approved Electronic Platform only on a deal-by-deal basis, each of the Lenders,
the Issuers, and the Borrower acknowledges and agrees, and the Borrower shall
cause each Guarantor to acknowledge and agree, that the distribution of material
through an electronic medium is not necessarily secure and that there are
confidentiality and other risks associated with such
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distribution. In consideration for the convenience and other benefits afforded
by such distribution and for the other consideration provided hereunder, the
receipt and sufficiency of which is hereby acknowledged, each of the Lenders,
the Issuers and the Borrower hereby approves, and the Borrower shall cause each
Guarantor to approve, distribution of the Approved Electronic Communications
through the Approved Electronic Platform and understands and assumes, and the
Borrower shall cause each Guarantor to understand and assume, the risks of such
distribution.
(c) THE APPROVED ELECTRONIC PLATFORM AND THE APPROVED ELECTRONIC
COMMUNICATIONS ARE PROVIDED "AS IS" AND "AS AVAILABLE". NONE OF THE
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT OR ANY OF ITS AFFILIATES OR ANY OF THEIR RESPECTIVE
OFFICERS, DIRECTORS, EMPLOYEES, AGENTS, ADVISORS OR REPRESENTATIVES (THE "AGENT
AFFILIATES") WARRANT THE ACCURACY, ADEQUACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE APPROVED
ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS OR THE APPROVED ELECTRONIC PLATFORM AND EACH EXPRESSLY
DISCLAIMS LIABILITY FOR ERRORS OR OMISSIONS IN THE APPROVED ELECTRONIC PLATFORM
AND THE APPROVED ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS. NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS,
IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING, WITHOUT LIMITATION, ANY WARRANTY OF
MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD
PARTY RIGHTS OR FREEDOM FROM VIRUSES OR OTHER CODE DEFECTS, IS MADE BY THE AGENT
AFFILIATES IN CONNECTION WITH THE APPROVED ELECTRONIC PLATFORM OR THE APPROVED
ELECTRONIC COMMUNICATIONS.
(d) Each of the Lenders, the Issuers and the Borrower agree, and the
Borrower shall cause each Guarantor to agree, that the Administrative Agent may,
but (except as may be required by applicable law) shall not be obligated to,
store the Approved Electronic Communications on the Approved Electronic Platform
in accordance with the Administrative Agent's generally-applicable document
retention procedures and policies.
SECTION 10.4 THE AGENTS INDIVIDUALLY
With respect to its Ratable Portion, each Agent shall have and may
exercise the same rights and powers hereunder and is subject to the same
obligations and liabilities as and to the extent set forth herein for any other
Lender. The terms "Lenders", "Revolving Credit Lenders", "Requisite Lenders" and
any similar terms shall, unless the context clearly otherwise indicates,
include, without limitation, each Agent in its individual capacity as a Lender,
a Revolving Credit Lender or as one of the Requisite Lenders. Each Agent and
each of its Affiliates may accept deposits from, lend money to, and generally
engage in any kind of banking, trust or other business with, any Loan Party as
if such Agent were not acting as an Agent.
SECTION 10.5 LENDER CREDIT DECISION
Each Lender and each Issuer acknowledges that it shall,
independently and without reliance upon any Agent or any other Lender conduct
its own independent investigation of the financial condition and affairs of the
Borrower and each other Loan Party in connection with the making and continuance
of the Loans and with the issuance of the Letters of Credit. Each Lender and
each Issuer also acknowledges that it shall, independently and without reliance
upon any Agent or any other Lender and based on such documents and information
as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit
decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement and other Loan
Documents.
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SECTION 10.6 INDEMNIFICATION
Each Lender agrees to indemnify the Administrative Agent and each of
its Affiliates, and each of their respective directors, officers, employees,
agents and advisors (to the extent not reimbursed by the Borrower), from and
against such Lender's aggregate Ratable Portion of any and all liabilities,
obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs,
expenses and disbursements (including fees, expenses and disbursements of
financial and legal advisors) of any kind or nature whatsoever that may be
imposed on, incurred by, or asserted against, the Administrative Agent or any of
its Affiliates, directors, officers, employees, agents and advisors in any way
relating to or arising out of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents or any
action taken or omitted by the Administrative Agent under this Agreement or the
other Loan Documents; provided, however, that no Lender shall be liable for any
portion of such liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions,
judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements resulting from the
Administrative Agent's or such Affiliate's gross negligence or willful
misconduct. Without limiting the foregoing, each Lender agrees to reimburse the
Administrative Agent promptly upon demand for its ratable share of any
out-of-pocket expenses (including fees, expenses and disbursements of financial
and legal advisors) incurred by the Administrative Agent in connection with the
preparation, execution, delivery, administration, modification, amendment or
enforcement (whether through negotiations, legal proceedings or otherwise) of,
or legal advice in respect of its rights or responsibilities under, this
Agreement or the other Loan Documents, to the extent that the Administrative
Agent is not reimbursed for such expenses by the Borrower or another Loan Party.
SECTION 10.7 SUCCESSOR ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
The Administrative Agent may resign at any time by giving written
notice thereof to the Lenders and the Borrower. Upon any such resignation, the
Requisite Lenders shall have the right to appoint a successor Administrative
Agent. If no successor Administrative Agent shall have been so appointed by the
Requisite Lenders, and shall have accepted such appointment, within 30 days
after the retiring Administrative Agent's giving of notice of resignation, then
the retiring Administrative Agent may, on behalf of the Lenders, appoint a
successor Administrative Agent, selected from among the Lenders. In either case,
such appointment shall be subject to the prior written approval of the Borrower
(which approval may not be unreasonably withheld and shall not be required upon
the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default). Upon the
acceptance of any appointment as Administrative Agent by a successor
Administrative Agent, such successor Administrative Agent shall succeed to, and
become vested with, all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the
retiring Administrative Agent, and the retiring Administrative Agent shall be
discharged from its duties and obligations under this Agreement and the other
Loan Documents. Prior to any retiring Administrative Agent's resignation
hereunder as Administrative Agent, the retiring Administrative Agent shall take
such action as may be reasonably necessary to assign to the successor
Administrative Agent its rights as Administrative Agent under the Loan
Documents. After such resignation, the retiring Administrative Agent shall
continue to have the benefit of this Article X as to any actions taken or
omitted to be taken by it while it was Administrative Agent under this Agreement
and the other Loan Documents.
SECTION 10.8 CONCERNING THE COLLATERAL AND THE COLLATERAL DOCUMENTS
(a) Each Lender and each Issuer agrees that any action taken by the
Administrative Agent or the Requisite Lenders (or, where required by the express
terms of this
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Agreement, a greater proportion of the Lenders) in accordance with the
provisions of this Agreement or of the other Loan Documents, and the exercise by
the Administrative Agent or the Requisite Lenders (or, where so required, such
greater proportion) of the powers set forth herein or therein, together with
such other powers as are reasonably incidental thereto, shall be authorized and
binding upon all of the Lenders, Issuers and other Secured Parties. Without
limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Administrative Agent shall have
the sole and exclusive right and authority to (i) act as the disbursing and
collecting agent for the Lenders and the Issuers with respect to all payments
and collections arising in connection herewith and with the Collateral
Documents, (ii) execute and deliver each Collateral Document and accept delivery
of each such agreement delivered by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries,
(iii) act as collateral agent for the Lenders, the Issuers and the other Secured
Parties for purposes of the perfection of all security interests and Liens
created by such agreements and all other purposes stated therein, provided,
however, that the Administrative Agent hereby appoints, authorizes and directs
each Lender and Issuer to act as collateral sub-agent for the Administrative
Agent, the Lenders and the Issuers for purposes of the perfection of all
security interests and Liens with respect to the Collateral, including any
Deposit Accounts maintained by a Loan Party with, and cash and Cash Equivalents
held by, such Lender or such Issuer, (iv) manage, supervise and otherwise deal
with the Collateral, (v) take such action as is necessary or desirable to
maintain the perfection and priority of the security interests and Liens created
or purported to be created by the Collateral Documents and (vi) except as may be
otherwise specifically restricted by the terms hereof or of any other Loan
Document, exercise all remedies given to the Administrative Agent, the Lenders,
the Issuers and the other Secured Parties with respect to the Collateral under
the Loan Documents relating thereto, applicable law or otherwise.
(b) Each of the Lenders and the Issuers hereby consents to the
release and hereby directs, in accordance with the terms hereof, the
Administrative Agent to release (or, in the case of clause (ii) below, release
or subordinate) any Lien held by the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the
Lenders and the Issuers against any of the following:
(i) all of the Collateral and all Loan Parties, upon
termination of the Revolving Credit Commitments and payment and
satisfaction in full of all Loans, all Reimbursement Obligations and all
other Obligations that the Administrative Agent has been notified in
writing are then due and payable (and, in respect of contingent Letter of
Credit Obligations, with respect to which cash collateral has been
deposited or a back-up letter of credit has been issued, in either case in
the appropriate currency and on terms satisfactory to the Administrative
Agent and the applicable Issuers);
(ii) any assets that are subject to a Lien permitted by
Section 8.2(d) or (e) (Liens, Etc.); and
(iii) any part of the Collateral sold or disposed of by a Loan
Party if such sale or disposition is permitted by this Agreement (or
permitted pursuant to a waiver of or consent to a transaction otherwise
prohibited by this Agreement).
Each of the Lenders and the Issuers hereby directs the Administrative Agent to
execute and deliver or file such termination and partial release statements and
do such other things as are necessary to release Liens to be released pursuant
to this Section 10.8 promptly upon the effectiveness of any such release.
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SECTION 10.9 COLLATERAL MATTERS RELATING TO RELATED OBLIGATIONS
The benefit of the Loan Documents and of the provisions of this
Agreement relating to the Collateral shall extend to and be available in respect
of any Secured Obligation arising under any Hedging Contract or Cash Management
Obligation or that is otherwise owed to Persons other than the Administrative
Agent, the Lenders and the Issuers (collectively, "Related Obligations") solely
on the condition and understanding, as among the Administrative Agent and all
Secured Parties, that (a) the Related Obligations shall be entitled to the
benefit of the Loan Documents and the Collateral to the extent expressly set
forth in this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and to such extent the
Administrative Agent shall hold, and have the right and power to act with
respect to, the Guaranty and the Collateral on behalf of and as agent for the
holders of the Related Obligations, but the Administrative Agent is otherwise
acting solely as agent for the Lenders and the Issuers and shall have no
fiduciary duty, duty of loyalty, duty of care, duty of disclosure or other
obligation whatsoever to any holder of Related Obligations, (b) all matters,
acts and omissions relating in any manner to the Guaranty, the Collateral, or
the omission, creation, perfection, priority, abandonment or release of any
Lien, shall be governed solely by the provisions of this Agreement and the other
Loan Documents and no separate Lien, right, power or remedy shall arise or exist
in favor of any Secured Party under any separate instrument or agreement or in
respect of any Related Obligation, (c) each Secured Party shall be bound by all
actions taken or omitted, in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement
and the other Loan Documents, by the Administrative Agent and the Requisite
Lenders, each of whom shall be entitled to act at its sole discretion and
exclusively in its own interest given its own Revolving Credit Commitments and
its own interest in the Loans, Letter of Credit Obligations and other
Obligations to it arising under this Agreement or the other Loan Documents,
without any duty or liability to any other Secured Party or as to any Related
Obligation and without regard to whether any Related Obligation remains
outstanding or is deprived of the benefit of the Collateral or becomes unsecured
or is otherwise affected or put in jeopardy thereby, (d) no holder of Related
Obligations and no other Secured Party (except the Administrative Agent, the
Lenders and the Issuers, to the extent set forth in this Agreement) shall have
any right to be notified of, or to direct, require or be heard with respect to,
any action taken or omitted in respect of the Collateral or under this Agreement
or the Loan Documents and (e) no holder of any Related Obligation shall exercise
any right of setoff, banker's lien or similar right except to the extent
provided in Section 11.6 (Right of Set-off) and then only to the extent such
right is exercised in compliance with Section 11.7 (Sharing of Payments, Etc.).
ARTICLE XI
MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 11.1 AMENDMENTS, WAIVERS, ETC.
(a) No amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any
other Loan Document nor consent to any departure by any Loan Party therefrom
shall in any event be effective unless the same shall be in writing and (x) in
the case of any such waiver or consent, signed by the Requisite Lenders (or by
the Administrative Agent with the consent of the Requisite Lenders) and (y) in
the case of any other amendment, by the Requisite Lenders (or by the
Administrative Agent with the consent of the Requisite Lenders) and the
Borrower, and then any such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the
specific instance and for the specific purpose for which given; provided,
however, that no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless
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in writing and signed by each Lender directly affected thereby, in addition to
the Requisite Lenders (or the Administrative Agent with the consent thereof), do
any of the following:
(i) waive any condition specified in Section 3.1 (Conditions
Precedent to Initial Loans and Letters of Credit) or 3.2(b) (Conditions
Precedent to Each Loan and Letter of Credit), except with respect to a
condition based upon another provision hereof, the waiver of which
requires only the concurrence of the Requisite Lenders and, in the case of
the conditions specified in Section 3.1 (Conditions Precedent to Initial
Loans and Letters of Credit), subject to the provisions of Section 3.3
(Determinations of Initial Borrowing Conditions);
(ii) increase the Revolving Credit Commitment of such Lender
or subject such Lender to any additional obligation;
(iii) extend the scheduled final maturity of any Loan owing to
such Lender, or waive, reduce or postpone any scheduled date fixed for the
payment or reduction of principal or interest of any such Loan or fees
owing to such Lender (it being understood that Section 2.9 (Mandatory
Prepayments) does not provide for scheduled dates fixed for payment) or
for the reduction of such Lender's Revolving Credit Commitment;
(iv) reduce, or release the Borrower from its obligations to
repay, the principal amount of any Loan or Reimbursement Obligation owing
to such Lender (other than by the payment or prepayment thereof);
(v) reduce the rate of interest on any Loan or Reimbursement
Obligation outstanding and owing to such Lender or any fee payable
hereunder to such Lender (it being understood that the waiver of default
interest shall not constitute a reduction of the rate of interest);
(vi) expressly subordinate any of the Secured Obligations or
any Liens securing the Secured Obligations;
(vii) postpone any scheduled date fixed for payment of
interest or fees owing to such Lender or waive any such payment;
(viii) change the aggregate Ratable Portions of Lenders
required for any or all Lenders to take any action hereunder;
(ix) release all or substantially all of the Collateral except
as provided in Section 10.8(b) (Concerning the Collateral and the
Collateral Documents) or release the Borrower from its payment obligation
to such Lender under this Agreement or the Revolving Credit Notes owing to
such Lender (if any) or release any Guarantor from its obligations under
the Guaranty except in connection with the sale or other disposition of a
Guarantor (or all or substantially all of the assets thereof) permitted by
this Agreement (or permitted pursuant to a waiver or consent of a
transaction otherwise prohibited by this Agreement); or
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(x) amend Section 10.8(b) (Concerning the Collateral and the
Collateral Documents), Section 11.7 (Sharing of Payments, Etc.), this
Section 11.1 or either definition of the terms "Requisite Lenders" or
"Ratable Portion";
and provided, further, (x) no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in
writing and signed by any Special Purpose Vehicle that has been granted an
option pursuant to Section 11.2(e) (Assignments and Participations), affect the
grant or nature of such option or the right or duties of such Special Purpose
Vehicle hereunder, (y) no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing
and signed by the Administrative Agent in addition to the Lenders required above
to take such action, affect the rights or duties of the Administrative Agent
under this Agreement or the other Loan Documents and (z) no amendment, waiver or
consent shall, unless in writing and signed by the Swing Loan Lender in addition
to the Lenders required above to take such action, affect the rights or duties
of the Swing Loan Lender under this Agreement or the other Loan Documents; and
provided, further, that the Administrative Agent may, with the consent of the
Borrower, amend, modify or supplement this Agreement to cure any ambiguity,
omission, defect or inconsistency, so long as such amendment, modification or
supplement does not adversely affect the rights of any Lender or any Issuer; and
provided, further, that the Borrower and the Administrative Agent may enter into
any amendment necessary to implement the terms of a Revolving Credit Commitment
Increase or Incremental Term Loans in accordance with the terms of this
Agreement without the consent of any Lender.
(b) The Administrative Agent may, but shall have no obligation to,
with the written concurrence of any Lender, execute amendments, modifications,
waivers or consents on behalf of such Lender. Any waiver or consent shall be
effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which
it was given. No notice to or demand on the Borrower in any case shall entitle
the Borrower to any other or further notice or demand in similar or other
circumstances.
(c) If, in connection with any proposed amendment, modification,
waiver or termination requiring the consent of all Revolving Credit Lenders, the
consent of Requisite Lenders is obtained but the consent of any Revolving Credit
Lender whose consent is required is not obtained (any such Lender whose consent
is not obtained as described in this Section 11.1 being referred to as a
"Non-Consenting Lender"), then, as long as the Lender acting as the
Administrative Agent is not a Non-Consenting Lender, at the Borrower's request,
an Eligible Assignee acceptable to the Administrative Agent shall have the right
with the Administrative Agent's consent and in the Administrative Agent's sole
discretion (but shall have no obligation) to purchase from such Non-Consenting
Lender, and such Non-Consenting Lender agrees that it shall, upon the
Administrative Agent's request, sell and assign to the Lender acting as the
Administrative Agent or such Eligible Assignee, all of the Revolving Credit
Commitments and Revolving Credit Outstandings of such Non-Consenting Lender for
an amount equal to the principal balance of all such Revolving Loans held by the
Non-Consenting Lender and all accrued and unpaid interest and fees with respect
thereto through the date of sale; provided, however, that such purchase and sale
shall be recorded in the Register maintained by the Administrative Agent and not
be effective until (x) the Administrative Agent shall have received from such
Eligible Assignee an agreement in form and substance satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent and the Borrower whereby such Eligible Assignee shall agree
to be bound by the terms hereof and (y) such Non-Consenting Lender shall have
received payments of all Revolving Loans held by it and all accrued and unpaid
interest and fees with respect thereto through the date of the sale. Each Lender
agrees that, if it becomes a Non-Consenting Lender, it
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shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent an Assignment and
Acceptance to evidence such sale and purchase and shall deliver to the
Administrative Agent any Revolving Credit Note (if the assigning Lender's Loans
are evidenced by Revolving Credit Notes) subject to such Assignment and
Acceptance; provided, however, that the failure of any Non-Consenting Lender to
execute an Assignment and Acceptance shall not render such sale and purchase
(and the corresponding assignment) invalid and such assignment shall be recorded
in the Register.
SECTION 11.2 ASSIGNMENTS AND PARTICIPATIONS
(a) Each Lender may sell, transfer, negotiate or assign to one or
more Eligible Assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations hereunder
(including all of its rights and obligations with respect to the Revolving
Loans, the Swing Loans and the Letters of Credit); provided, however, that (i)
if any such assignment shall be of the assigning Lender's Revolving Credit
Outstandings and Revolving Credit Commitments, such assignment shall cover the
same percentage of such Lender's Revolving Credit Outstandings and Revolving
Credit Commitment, (ii) the aggregate amount being assigned pursuant to each
such assignment (determined as of the date of the Assignment and Acceptance with
respect to such assignment) shall in no event (if less than the Assignor's
entire interest) be less than $5,000,000 or an integral multiple of $1,000,000
in excess thereof (or, in the case of Incremental Term Loans, $1,000,000 or an
integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof), except, in either case, (A)
with the consent of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent or (B) if such
assignment is being made to a Lender or an Affiliate or Approved Fund of such
Lender, and (iii) if such Eligible Assignee is not, prior to the date of such
assignment, a Lender or an Affiliate or Approved Fund of a Lender, such
assignment shall be subject to the prior consent of the Administrative Agent and
the Borrower (which consents shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed); and
provided, further, that, notwithstanding any other provision of this Section
11.2, the consent of the Borrower shall not be required (x) for any assignment
occurring when any Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing and
(y) for any assignment by any Affiliate of the Administrative Agent made prior
to the Syndication Completion Date of its Revolving Credit Commitments held on
the Closing Date.
(b) The parties to each such assignment shall execute and deliver to
the Administrative Agent, for its acceptance and recording in the Register, an
Assignment and Acceptance, together with any Revolving Credit Note (if the
assigning Lender's Loans are evidenced by a Revolving Credit Note) subject to
such assignment. Upon the execution, delivery, acceptance and recording in the
Register of any Assignment and Acceptance and, other than in respect of
assignments made pursuant to Section 2.17 (Substitution of Lenders) and Section
11.1(c) (Amendments, Waivers, Etc.), the receipt by the Administrative Agent
from the assignee of an assignment fee in the amount of $3,500 from and after
the effective date specified in such Assignment and Acceptance, (i) the assignee
thereunder shall become a party hereto and, to the extent that rights and
obligations under the Loan Documents have been assigned to such assignee
pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a
Lender, and if such Lender were an Issuer, of such Issuer hereunder and
thereunder, and (ii) the Revolving Credit Notes (if any) corresponding to the
Loans assigned thereby shall be transferred to such assignee by notation in the
Register and (iii) the assignor thereunder shall, to the extent that rights and
obligations under this Agreement have been assigned by it pursuant to such
Assignment and Acceptance, relinquish its rights (except for those surviving the
payment in full of the Obligations) and be released from its obligations under
the Loan Documents, other than those relating to events or circumstances
occurring prior to such assignment (and, in the case of
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an Assignment and Acceptance covering all or the remaining portion of an
assigning Lender's rights and obligations under the Loan Documents, such Lender
shall cease to be a party hereto).
(c) The Administrative Agent shall maintain at its address referred
to in Section 11.8 (Notices, Etc.) a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance
delivered to and accepted by it and shall record in the Register the names and
addresses of the Lenders and Issuers and the principal amount of the Loans and
Reimbursement Obligations owing to each Lender from time to time and the
Revolving Credit Commitments of each Lender. Any assignment pursuant to this
Section 11.2 shall not be effective until such assignment is recorded in the
Register.
(d) Upon its receipt of an Assignment and Acceptance executed by an
assigning Lender and an assignee, the Administrative Agent shall, if such
Assignment and Acceptance has been completed, (i) accept such Assignment and
Acceptance, (ii) record or cause to be recorded the information contained
therein in the Register and (iii) give prompt notice thereof to the Borrower.
Within five Business Days after its receipt of such notice, the Borrower, at its
own expense, shall, if requested by such assignee, execute and deliver to the
Administrative Agent new Revolving Credit Notes to the order of such assignee in
an amount equal to the Revolving Credit Commitments and Loans assumed by it
pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance and, if the assigning Lender has
surrendered any Revolving Credit Note for exchange in connection with the
assignment and has retained Revolving Credit Commitments or Loans hereunder, new
Revolving Credit Notes to the order of the assigning Lender in an amount equal
to the Revolving Credit Commitments and Loans retained by it hereunder. Such new
Revolving Credit Notes shall be dated the same date as the surrendered Revolving
Credit Notes and be in substantially the form of Exhibit B (Form of Revolving
Credit Note).
(e) In addition to the other assignment rights provided in this
Section 11.2, each Lender may do each of the following:
(i) grant to a Special Purpose Vehicle the option to make all
or any part of any Loan that such Lender would otherwise be required to
make hereunder and the exercise of such option by any such Special Purpose
Vehicle and the making of Loans pursuant thereto shall satisfy (once and
to the extent that such Loans are made) the obligation of such Lender to
make such Loans thereunder; provided, however, that (x) nothing herein
shall constitute a commitment or an offer to commit by such a Special
Purpose Vehicle to make Loans hereunder and no such Special Purpose
Vehicle shall be liable for any indemnity or other Obligation (other than
the making of Loans for which such Special Purpose Vehicle shall have
exercised an option, and then only in accordance with the relevant option
agreement) and (y) such Lender's obligations under the Loan Documents
shall remain unchanged, such Lender shall remain responsible to the other
parties for the performance of its obligations under the terms of this
Agreement and shall remain the holder of the Obligations for all purposes
hereunder; and
(ii) assign, as collateral or otherwise, any of its rights
under this Agreement, whether now owned or hereafter acquired (including
rights to payments of principal or interest on the Loans), to (A) without
notice to or consent of the Administrative Agent or the Borrower, any
Federal Reserve Bank (pursuant to Regulation A of the Federal Reserve
Board) and (B) without consent of the Administrative Agent or the
Borrower, (1) any holder of, or trustee for the benefit of, the holders of
such Lender's Securities and (2) any Special Purpose Vehicle to which such
Lender has granted an option pursuant to clause (i) above;
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provided, however, that no such assignment or grant shall release such Lender
from any of its obligations hereunder except as expressly provided in clause (i)
above and except, in the case of a subsequent foreclosure pursuant to an
assignment as collateral, if such foreclosure is made in compliance with the
other provisions of this Section 11.2 other than this clause (e) or clause (f)
below. Each party hereto acknowledges and agrees that, prior to the date that is
one year and one day after the payment in full of all outstanding commercial
paper or other senior debt of any such Special Purpose Vehicle, such party shall
not institute against, or join any other Person in instituting against, any
Special Purpose Vehicle that has been granted an option pursuant to this clause
(e) any bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency or liquidation proceeding (such
agreement shall survive the payment in full of the Obligations). The terms of
the designation of, or assignment to, such Special Purpose Vehicle shall not
restrict such Lender's ability to, or grant such Special Purpose Vehicle the
right to, consent to any amendment or waiver to this Agreement or any other Loan
Document or to the departure by the Borrower from any provision of this
Agreement or any other Loan Document without the consent of such Special Purpose
Vehicle except, as long as the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, Issuers and
other Secured Parties shall continue to, and shall be entitled to continue to,
deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender's
obligations under this Agreement, to the extent any such consent would reduce
the principal amount of, or the rate of interest on, any Obligations, amend this
clause (e) or postpone any scheduled date of payment of such principal or
interest. Each Special Purpose Vehicle shall be entitled to the benefits of
Sections 2.15 (Capital Adequacy) and 2.16 (Taxes) and of 2.14(d) (Illegality) as
if it were such Lender; provided, however, that anything herein to the contrary
notwithstanding, no Borrower shall, at any time, be obligated to make under
Section 2.15 (Capital Adequacy), 2.16 (Taxes) or 2.14(d) (Illegality) to any
such Special Purpose Vehicle and any such Lender any payment in excess of the
amount the Borrower would have been obligated to pay to such Lender in respect
of such interest if such Special Purpose Vehicle had not been assigned the
rights of such Lender hereunder; and provided, further, that such Special
Purpose Vehicle shall have no direct right to enforce any of the terms of this
Agreement against the Borrower, the Administrative Agent or the other Lenders.
(f) Each Lender may sell participations to one or more Persons in or
to all or a portion of its rights and obligations under the Loan Documents
(including all its rights and obligations with respect to the Revolving Loans
and Letters of Credit). The terms of such participation shall not, in any event,
require the participant's consent to any amendments, waivers or other
modifications of any provision of any Loan Documents, the consent to any
departure by any Loan Party therefrom, or to the exercising or refraining from
exercising any powers or rights such Lender may have under or in respect of the
Loan Documents (including the right to enforce the obligations of the Loan
Parties), except if any such amendment, waiver or other modification or consent
would (i) reduce the amount, or postpone any date fixed for, any amount (whether
of principal, interest or fees) payable to such participant under the Loan
Documents, to which such participant would otherwise be entitled under such
participation or (ii) result in the release of all or substantially all of the
Collateral other than in accordance with Section 10.8(b) (Concerning the
Collateral and the Collateral Documents). In the event of the sale of any
participation by any Lender, (w) such Lender's obligations under the Loan
Documents shall remain unchanged, (x) such Lender shall remain solely
responsible to the other parties for the performance of such obligations, (y)
such Lender shall remain the holder of such Obligations for all purposes of this
Agreement and (z) the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the other Lenders
shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with
such Lender's rights and obligations under this Agreement. Each participant
shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 2.15 (Capital Adequacy) and 2.16
(Taxes) and of 2.14(d) (Illegality) as if it were a Lender;
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provided, however, that anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, the
Borrower shall not, at any time, be obligated to make under Section 2.15
(Capital Adequacy), 2.16 (Taxes) or 2.14(d) (Illegality) to the participants in
the rights and obligations of any Lender (together with such Lender) any payment
in excess of the amount the Borrower would have been obligated to pay to such
Lender in respect of such interest had such participation not been sold; and
provided, further, that such participant in the rights and obligations of such
Lender shall have no direct right to enforce any of the terms of this Agreement
against the Borrower, the Administrative Agent or the other Lenders.
(g) Any Issuer may at any time assign its rights and obligations
hereunder to any other Lender by an instrument in form and substance
satisfactory to the Borrower, the Administrative Agent, such Issuer and such
Lender, subject to the provisions of Section 2.7(b) (Evidence of Debt) relating
to notations of transfer in the Register. If any Issuer ceases to be a Lender
hereunder by virtue of any assignment made pursuant to this Section 11.2, then,
as of the effective date of such cessation, such Issuer's obligations to Issue
Letters of Credit pursuant to Section 2.4 (Letters of Credit) shall terminate
and such Issuer shall be an Issuer hereunder only with respect to outstanding
Letters of Credit issued prior to such date.
SECTION 11.3 COSTS AND EXPENSES
(a) The Borrower agrees upon demand to pay, or reimburse the
Administrative Agent for, all of the Administrative Agent's reasonable internal
and external audit, legal, appraisal, valuation, filing, document duplication
and reproduction and investigation expenses and for all other reasonable
out-of-pocket costs and expenses of every type and nature (including the
reasonable fees, expenses and disbursements of the Administrative Agent's
counsel, Weil, Gotshal & ▇▇▇▇▇▇ LLP, local legal counsel, auditors, accountants,
appraisers, printers, insurance and environmental advisors, and other
consultants and agents) incurred by the Administrative Agent in connection with
any of the following: (i) the Administrative Agent's audit and investigation of
the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in connection with the preparation,
negotiation or execution of any Loan Document or the Administrative Agent's
periodic audits of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, as the case may be,
(ii) the preparation, negotiation, execution or interpretation of this Agreement
(including, without limitation, the satisfaction or attempted satisfaction of
any condition set forth in Article III (Conditions To Loans And Letters Of
Credit)), any Loan Document or any proposal letter or commitment letter issued
in connection therewith, or the making of the Loans hereunder, (iii) the
creation, perfection or protection of the Liens under any Loan Document
(including any reasonable fees, disbursements and expenses for local counsel in
various jurisdictions), (iv) the ongoing administration of this Agreement and
the Loans, including consultation with attorneys in connection therewith and
with respect to the Administrative Agent's rights and responsibilities hereunder
and under the other Loan Documents, (v) the protection, collection or
enforcement of any Obligation or the enforcement of any Loan Document, (vi) the
commencement, defense or intervention in any court proceeding relating in any
way to the Obligations, any Loan Party, any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries, this
Agreement or any other Loan Document, (vii) the response to, and preparation
for, any subpoena or request for document production with which the
Administrative Agent is served or deposition or other proceeding in which the
Administrative Agent is called to testify, in each case, relating in any way to
the Obligations, any Loan Party, any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries, this
Agreement or any other Loan Document or (viii) any amendment, consent, waiver,
assignment, restatement, or supplement to any Loan Document or the preparation,
negotiation and execution of the same.
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(b) The Borrower further agrees to pay or reimburse the
Administrative Agent and each of the Lenders and Issuers upon demand for all
out-of-pocket costs and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees
(including allocated costs of internal counsel and costs of settlement),
incurred by the Administrative Agent, such Lenders or such Issuers in connection
with any of the following: (i) in enforcing any Loan Document or Obligation or
any security therefor or exercising or enforcing any other right or remedy
available by reason of an Event of Default, (ii) in connection with any
refinancing or restructuring of the credit arrangements provided hereunder in
the nature of a "work-out" or in any insolvency or bankruptcy proceeding, (iii)
in commencing, defending or intervening in any litigation or in filing a
petition, complaint, answer, motion or other pleadings in any legal proceeding
relating to the Obligations, any Loan Party, any of the Borrower's Subsidiaries
and related to or arising out of the transactions contemplated hereby or by any
other Loan Document or (iv) in taking any other action in or with respect to any
suit or proceeding (bankruptcy or otherwise) described in clause (i), (ii) or
(iii) above.
SECTION 11.4 INDEMNITIES
(a) The Borrower agrees to indemnify and hold harmless each Agent,
Arranger, Lender and Issuer (including each Person obligated on a Hedging
Contract that is a Loan Document if such Person was a Lender or Issuer at the
time of it entered into such Hedging Contract) and each of their respective
Affiliates, and each of the directors, officers, employees, agents, trustees,
representatives, attorneys, consultants and advisors of or to any of the
foregoing (including those retained in connection with the satisfaction or
attempted satisfaction of any condition set forth in Article III (Conditions To
Loans And Letters Of Credit) (each such Person being an "Indemnitee") from and
against any and all claims, damages, liabilities, obligations, losses,
penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, disbursements and expenses, joint
or several, of any kind or nature (including fees, disbursements and expenses of
financial and legal advisors to any such Indemnitee) that may be imposed on,
incurred by or asserted against any such Indemnitee in connection with or
arising out of any investigation, litigation or proceeding, whether or not such
investigation, litigation or proceeding is brought by any such indemnitee or any
of its directors, security holders or creditors or any such Indemnitee,
director, security holder or creditor is a party thereto, whether direct,
indirect, or consequential and whether based on any federal, state or local law
or other statutory regulation, securities or commercial law or regulation, or
under common law or in equity, or on contract, tort or otherwise, in any manner
relating to or arising out of this Agreement, any other Loan Document, any
Obligation, any Letter of Credit, or any act, event or transaction related or
attendant to any thereof, or the use or intended use of the proceeds of the
Loans or Letters of Credit or in connection with any investigation of any
potential matter covered hereby (collectively, the "Indemnified Matters");
provided, however, that the Borrower shall not have any liability under this
Section 11.4 to an Indemnitee with respect to any Indemnified Matter that has
resulted primarily from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of that
Indemnitee, as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final
non-appealable judgment or order. Without limiting the foregoing, "Indemnified
Matters" include (i) all Environmental Liabilities and Costs arising from or
connected with the past, present or future operations of the Borrower or any of
its Subsidiaries involving any property subject to a Collateral Document, or
damage to real or personal property or natural resources or harm or injury
alleged to have resulted from any Release of Contaminants on, upon or into such
property or any contiguous real estate, (ii) any costs or liabilities incurred
in connection with any Remedial Action concerning the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries, (iii) any costs or liabilities incurred in connection with any
Environmental Lien and (iv) any costs or liabilities incurred in connection
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with any other matter under any Environmental Law, including the Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980 (49 U.S.C.
Section 9601 et seq.) and applicable state property transfer laws, whether, with
respect to any such matter, such Indemnitee is a mortgagee pursuant to any
leasehold mortgage, a mortgagee in possession, the successor in interest to the
Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, or the owner, lessee or operator of any
property of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries by virtue of foreclosure,
except, with respect to those matters referred to in clauses (i), (ii), (iii)
and (iv) above, to the extent (x) incurred following foreclosure by the
Administrative Agent, any Lender or any Issuer, or the Administrative Agent, any
Lender or any Issuer having become the successor in interest to the Borrower or
any of its Subsidiaries and (y) attributable solely to acts of the
Administrative Agent, such Lender or such Issuer or any agent on behalf of the
Administrative Agent, such Lender or such Issuer.
(b) The Borrower shall indemnify the Administrative Agent, the
Lenders and each Issuer for, and hold the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and
each Issuer harmless from and against, any and all claims for brokerage
commissions, fees and other compensation made against the Administrative Agent,
the Lenders and the Issuers for any broker, finder or consultant with respect to
any agreement, arrangement or understanding made by or on behalf of any Loan
Party or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with the transactions
contemplated by this Agreement.
(c) The Borrower, at the request of any Indemnitee, shall have the
obligation to defend against any investigation, litigation or proceeding or
requested Remedial Action, in each case contemplated in clause (a) above, and
the Borrower, in any event, may participate in the defense thereof with legal
counsel of the Borrower's choice. In the event that such Indemnitee requests the
Borrower to defend against such investigation, litigation or proceeding or
requested Remedial Action, the Borrower shall promptly do so with counsel
selected by Borrower and reasonably acceptable to such Indemnitee or
Indemnitees. Upon assumption by the Borrower the defense of any such action or
proceeding, the Indemnitee or Indemnitees shall have the right to have legal
counsel of its choice participate in such defense; provided, however, that the
Borrower shall not be liable pursuant to this clause (c) for the fees and
expenses of more than one legal counsel at any time for all Indemnitees unless
(i) such Indemnitee or Indemnitees shall have been advised by legal counsel that
it would not be permissible for one firm to represent one or more Indemnitees
under the applicable standards of professional responsibility or (ii) local
legal counsel is reasonably necessary in order to effectively defend against
such action or proceeding. No action taken by legal counsel chosen by such
Indemnitee in defending against any such investigation, litigation or proceeding
or requested Remedial Action, shall vitiate or in any way impair the Borrower's
obligation and duty hereunder to indemnify and hold harmless such Indemnitee.
(d) The Borrower agrees that any indemnification or other protection
provided to any Indemnitee pursuant to this Agreement (including pursuant to
this Section 11.4) or any other Loan Document shall (i) survive payment in full
of the Obligations and (ii) inure to the benefit of any Person that was at any
time an Indemnitee under this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
SECTION 11.5 LIMITATION OF LIABILITY
(a) The Borrower agrees that no Indemnitee shall have any liability
(whether in contract, tort or otherwise) to any Loan Party or any of their
respective Subsidiaries or any of their respective equity holders or creditors
for or in connection with the transactions contemplated
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hereby and in the other Loan Documents, except to the extent such liability is
determined in a final non-appealable judgment by a court of competent
jurisdiction to have resulted primarily from such Indemnitee's gross negligence
or willful misconduct. In no event, however, shall any Indemnitee be liable on
any theory of liability for any special, indirect, consequential or punitive
damages (including, without limitation, any loss of profits, business or
anticipated savings). The Borrower hereby waives, releases and agrees (for
itself and on behalf of its Subsidiaries) not to ▇▇▇ 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 its favor.
(b) IN NO EVENT SHALL ANY AGENT AFFILIATE HAVE ANY LIABILITY TO ANY
LOAN PARTY, LENDER, ISSUER OR ANY OTHER PERSON FOR DAMAGES OF ANY KIND,
INCLUDING DIRECT OR INDIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES,
LOSSES OR EXPENSES (WHETHER IN TORT OR CONTRACT OR OTHERWISE) ARISING OUT OF ANY
LOAN PARTY OR ANY AGENT AFFILIATE'S TRANSMISSION OF APPROVED ELECTRONIC
COMMUNICATIONS THROUGH THE INTERNET OR ANY USE OF THE APPROVED ELECTRONIC
PLATFORM, EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT SUCH LIABILITY OF ANY AGENT AFFILIATE IS FOUND IN
A FINAL NON-APPEALABLE JUDGMENT BY A COURT OF COMPETENT JURISDICTION TO HAVE
RESULTED PRIMARILY FORM SUCH AGENT AFFILIATE'S GROSS NEGLIGENCE OR WILLFUL
MISCONDUCT.
SECTION 11.6 RIGHT OF SET-OFF
Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of
Default each Lender and each Affiliate of a Lender is hereby authorized at any
time and from time to time, to the fullest extent permitted by law, to set off
and apply any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional
or final) at any time held and other Indebtedness at any time owing by such
Lender or its Affiliates to or for the credit or the account of the Borrower
against any and all of the Obligations now or hereafter existing whether or not
such Lender shall have made any demand under this Agreement or any other Loan
Document and even though such Obligations may be unmatured. Each Lender agrees
promptly to notify the Borrower after any such set-off and application made by
such Lender or its Affiliates; provided, however, that the failure to give such
notice shall not affect the validity of such set-off and application. The rights
of each Lender under this Section 11.6 are in addition to the other rights and
remedies (including other rights of set-off) that such Lender may have.
SECTION 11.7 SHARING OF PAYMENTS, ETC.
(a) If any Lender (directly or through an Affiliate thereof) obtains
any payment (whether voluntary, involuntary, through the exercise of any right
of set-off (including pursuant to Section 11.6 (Right of Set-off)) or otherwise)
of the Loans owing to it, any interest thereon, fees in respect thereof or
amounts due pursuant to Section 11.3 (Costs and Expenses) or 11.4 (Indemnities)
(other than payments pursuant to Section 2.14 (Special Provisions Governing
Eurodollar Rate Loans), 2.15 (Capital Adequacy) or 2.16 (Taxes)) or otherwise
receives any Collateral or any "Proceeds" (as defined in the Pledge and Security
Agreement) of Collateral (other than payments pursuant to Section 2.14 (Special
Provisions Governing Eurodollar Rate Loans), 2.15 (Capital Adequacy) or 2.16
(Taxes)) (in each case, whether voluntary, involuntary, through the exercise of
any right of set-off (including pursuant to Section 11.6 (Right of Set-off)) or
otherwise) in excess of its Ratable Portion of all payments of such Obligations
obtained by all the Lenders, such Lender (a "Purchasing Lender") shall forthwith
purchase from the other
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Lenders (each, a "Selling Lender") such participations in their Loans or other
Obligations as shall be necessary to cause such Purchasing Lender to share the
excess payment ratably with each of them.
(b) If all or any portion of any payment received by a Purchasing
Lender is thereafter recovered from such Purchasing Lender, such purchase from
each Selling Lender shall be rescinded and such Selling Lender shall repay to
the Purchasing Lender the purchase price to the extent of such recovery together
with an amount equal to such Selling Lender's ratable share (according to the
proportion of (i) the amount of such Selling Lender's required repayment in
relation to (ii) the total amount so recovered from the Purchasing Lender) of
any interest or other amount paid or payable by the Purchasing Lender in respect
of the total amount so recovered.
(c) The Borrower agrees that any Purchasing Lender so purchasing a
participation from a Selling Lender pursuant to this Section 11.7 may, to the
fullest extent permitted by law, exercise all its rights of payment (including
the right of set-off) with respect to such participation as fully as if such
Lender were the direct creditor of the Borrower in the amount of such
participation.
SECTION 11.8 NOTICES, ETC.
(a) Addresses for Notices. All notices, demands, requests, consents
and other communications provided for in this Agreement shall be given in
writing, or by any telecommunication device capable of creating a written record
(including electronic mail), and addressed to the party to be notified as
follows:
(i) if to the Borrower:
EDO Corporation
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Attention: Chief Financial Officer
Telecopy no: (▇▇▇) ▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇
E-Mail Address: ▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇▇▇▇@▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇
with a copy to:
EDO Corporation
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Attention: Law Department
Telecopy no: (▇▇▇) ▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇
Email Address: ▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇▇▇▇@▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇
and a further copy to:
Dechert LLP
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Attention: ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇, Esq.
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Telecopy no: (▇▇▇) ▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇
Email Address: ▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇@▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇
(ii) if to any Lender, at its Domestic Lending Office
specified opposite its name on Schedule II (Applicable Lending Offices and
Addresses for Notices) or on the signature page of any applicable
Assignment and Acceptance;
(iii) if to any Issuer, at the address set forth under its
name on Schedule II (Applicable Lending Offices and Addresses for
Notices); and
(iv) if to the Administrative Agent or the Swing Loan Lender:
Citicorp USA, Inc.
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Attention: ▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Telecopy no:(▇▇▇) ▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇
E-Mail Address: ▇▇▇▇.▇.▇▇▇▇▇▇▇@▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇
with a copy to:
Weil, Gotshal & ▇▇▇▇▇▇ LLP
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Attention: ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇
Telecopy no: (▇▇▇) ▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇
E-Mail Address: ▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇▇@▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇
or at such other address as shall be notified in writing (x) in the case of the
Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Swing Loan Lender, to the other
parties and (y) in the case of all other parties, to the Borrower and the
Administrative Agent.
(b) Effectiveness of Notices. All notices, demands, requests,
consents and other communications described in clause (a) above shall be
effective (i) if delivered by hand, including any overnight courier service,
upon personal delivery, (ii) if delivered by mail, when deposited in the mails,
(iii) if delivered by posting to an Approved Electronic Platform (to the extent
permitted by Section 10.3 to be delivered thereunder), an Internet website or a
similar telecommunication device requiring a user prior access to such Approved
Electronic Platform, website or other device (to the extent permitted by Section
10.3 to be delivered thereunder), when such notice, demand, request, consent and
other communication shall have been made generally available on such Approved
Electronic Platform, Internet website or similar device to the class of Person
being notified (regardless of whether any such Person must accomplish, and
whether or not any such Person shall have accomplished, any action prior to
obtaining access to such items, including registration, disclosure of contact
information, compliance with a standard user agreement or undertaking a duty of
confidentiality) and such Person has been notified that such communication has
been posted to the Approved Electronic Platform and (iv) if delivered by
electronic mail or any other telecommunications device, when transmitted to an
electronic mail address (or by another means of electronic delivery) as provided
in clause (a) above; provided, however, that notices and communications to the
Administrative Agent pursuant to Article II (The
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Facility) or Article X (The Administrative Agent) shall not be effective until
received by the Administrative Agent.
(c) Use of Electronic Platform. Notwithstanding clause (a) and (b)
above (unless the Administrative Agent requests that the provisions of clause
(a) and (b) above be followed) and any other provision in this Agreement or any
other Loan Document providing for the delivery of any Approved Electronic
Communication by any other means the Loan Parties shall deliver all Approved
Electronic Communications to the Administrative Agent by properly transmitting
such Approved Electronic Communications in an electronic/soft medium in a format
acceptable to the Administrative Agent to ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇@▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇ or such
other electronic mail address (or similar means of electronic delivery) as the
Administrative Agent may notify the Borrower. Nothing in this clause (c) shall
prejudice the right of the Administrative Agent or any Lender or Issuer to
deliver any Approved Electronic Communication to any Loan Party in any manner
authorized in this Agreement or to request that the Borrower effect delivery in
such manner.
SECTION 11.9 NO WAIVER; REMEDIES
No failure on the part of any Lender, Issuer or the Administrative
Agent to exercise, and no delay in exercising, any right hereunder shall operate
as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such right
preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other
right. The remedies herein provided are cumulative and not exclusive of any
remedies provided by law.
SECTION 11.10 BINDING EFFECT
This Agreement shall become effective when it shall have been
executed by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent and when the
Administrative Agent shall have been notified by each Lender and Issuer that
such Lender or Issuer has executed it and thereafter shall be binding upon and
inure to the benefit of the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and each Lender
and Issuer and, in each case, their respective successors and assigns; provided,
however, that the Borrower shall not have the right to assign its rights
hereunder or any interest herein without the prior written consent of the
Lenders.
SECTION 11.11 GOVERNING LAW
This Agreement and the rights and obligations of the parties hereto
shall be governed by, and construed and interpreted in accordance with, the law
of the State of New York.
SECTION 11.12 SUBMISSION TO JURISDICTION; SERVICE OF PROCESS
(a) Any legal action or proceeding with respect to this Agreement or
any other Loan Document may be brought in the courts of the State of New York
located in the City of New York or of the United States of America for the
Southern District of New York, and, by execution and delivery of this Agreement,
the Borrower hereby accepts for itself and in respect of its property, generally
and unconditionally, the jurisdiction of the aforesaid courts. The parties
hereto hereby irrevocably waive any objection, including any objection to the
laying of venue or based on the grounds of forum non conveniens, that any of
them may now or hereafter have to the bringing of any such action or proceeding
in such respective jurisdictions.
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(b) The Borrower hereby irrevocably consents to the service of any
and all legal process, summons, notices and documents in any suit, action or
proceeding brought in the United States of America arising out of or in
connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document by the mailing (by
registered or certified mail, postage prepaid) or delivering of a copy of such
process to the Borrower at its address specified in Section 11.8 (Notices,
Etc.). The Borrower agrees that a final judgment in any such action or
proceeding shall be conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions by
suit on the judgment or in any other manner provided by law.
(c) Nothing contained in this Section 11.12 shall affect the right
of the Administrative Agent or any Lender to serve process in any other manner
permitted by law or commence legal proceedings or otherwise proceed against the
Borrower or any other Loan Party in any other jurisdiction.
(d) If for the purposes of obtaining judgment in any court it is
necessary to convert a sum due hereunder in Dollars into another currency, the
parties hereto agree, to the fullest extent that they may effectively do so,
that the rate of exchange used shall be that at which in accordance with normal
banking procedures the Administrative Agent could purchase Dollars with such
other currency at the spot rate of exchange quoted by the Administrative Agent
at 11:00 a.m. (New York time) on the Business Day preceding that on which final
judgment is given, for the purchase of Dollars, for delivery two Business Days
thereafter.
SECTION 11.13 WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL
EACH OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT, THE LENDERS, THE ISSUERS AND THE
BORROWER IRREVOCABLY WAIVES TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING WITH
RESPECT TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT.
SECTION 11.14 MARSHALING; PAYMENTS SET ASIDE
None of the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any Issuer shall be
under any obligation to marshal any assets in favor of the Borrower or any other
party or against or in payment of any or all of the Obligations. To the extent
that the Borrower makes a payment or payments to the Administrative Agent, the
Lenders or the Issuers or any such Person receives payment from the proceeds of
the Collateral or exercise their rights of setoff, and such payment or payments
or the proceeds of such enforcement or setoff or any part thereof are
subsequently invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside
or required to be repaid to a trustee, receiver or any other party, then to the
extent of such recovery, the obligation or part thereof originally intended to
be satisfied, and all Liens, right and remedies therefor, shall be revived and
continued in full force and effect as if such payment had not been made or such
enforcement or setoff had not occurred.
SECTION 11.15 SECTION TITLES
The section titles contained in this Agreement are and shall be
without substantive meaning or content of any kind whatsoever and are not a part
of the agreement between the parties hereto, except when used to reference a
section. Any reference to the number of a clause, sub-clause or subsection
hereof immediately followed by a reference in parenthesis to the title of the
Section containing such clause, sub-clause or subsection is a reference to such
clause, sub-clause or subsection and not to the entire Section; provided,
however, that, in case of
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direct conflict between the reference to the title and the reference to the
number of such Section, the reference to the title shall govern absent manifest
error. If any reference to the number of a Section (but not to any clause,
sub-clause or subsection thereof) is followed immediately by a reference in
parenthesis to the title of a Section, the title reference shall govern in case
of direct conflict absent manifest error.
SECTION 11.16 EXECUTION IN COUNTERPARTS
This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts and by
different parties in separate counterparts, each of which when so executed shall
be deemed to be an original and all of which taken together shall constitute one
and the same agreement. Signature pages may be detached from multiple separate
counterparts and attached to a single counterpart so that all signature pages
are attached to the same document. Delivery of an executed signature page of
this Agreement by facsimile transmission, electronic mail or by posting on the
Approved Electronic Platform shall be as effective as delivery of a manually
executed counterpart hereof. A set of the copies of this Agreement signed by all
parties shall be lodged with the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.
SECTION 11.17 ENTIRE AGREEMENT
This Agreement, together with all of the other Loan Documents and
all certificates and documents delivered hereunder or thereunder, embodies the
entire agreement of the parties and supersedes all prior agreements and
understandings relating to the subject matter hereof. In the event of any
conflict between the terms of this Agreement and any other Loan Document, the
terms of this Agreement shall govern.
SECTION 11.18 CONFIDENTIALITY
Each Lender and the Administrative Agent agree to use all reasonable
efforts to keep information obtained by it pursuant hereto and the other Loan
Documents confidential in accordance with such Lender's or the Administrative
Agent's, as the case may be, customary practices and agrees that it shall only
use such information in connection with the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement and not disclose any such information other than (a) to such Lender's
or the Administrative Agent's, as the case may be, Affiliates, employees,
representatives and agents that are or are expected to be involved in the
evaluation of such information in connection with the transactions contemplated
by this Agreement and are advised of the confidential nature of such
information, (b) to the extent such information presently is or hereafter
becomes available to such Lender or the Administrative Agent, as the case may
be, on a non-confidential basis from a source other than the Borrower or any
other Loan Party, (c) to the extent disclosure is required by law, regulation or
judicial order or requested or required by bank regulators or auditors or (d) to
current or prospective assignees, participants and Special Purpose Vehicle
grantees of any option described in Section 11.2(f) (Assignments and
Participations), contractual counterparties in any Hedging Contract permitted
hereunder and to their respective legal or financial advisors, in each case and
to the extent such assignees, participants, grantees or counterparties agree to
be bound by, and to cause their advisors to comply with, the provisions of this
Section 11.18. Notwithstanding any other provision in this Agreement, the
Administrative Agent hereby agrees that the Borrower (and each of its officers,
directors, employees, accountants, attorneys and other advisors) may disclose to
any and all persons, without limitation of any kind, the U.S. tax treatment and
U.S. tax structure of the Facility and the transactions
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contemplated hereby and all materials of any kind (including opinions and other
tax analyses) that are provided to it relating to such U.S. tax treatment and
U.S. tax structure.
SECTION 11.19 USA PATRIOT ACT
Each Lender hereby notifies the Borrower that pursuant to the
requirements of the USA Patriot Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (signed into
law October 26, 2001)) (the "Act"), it is required to obtain, verify and record
information that identifies the Borrower, which information includes the name
and address of the Borrower and other information that will allow such Lender to
identify the Borrower in accordance with the Act.
SECTION 11.20 DESIGNATED SENIOR DEBT
All Obligations shall be "Designated Senior Debt" (or similar term)
for purposes of the Existing Indenture, the Existing Convertible Notes, and any
other subordinated Indebtedness of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries.
[Signature Pages Follow]
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this
Agreement to be executed by their respective officers thereunto duly authorized,
as of the date first above written.
EDO CORPORATION,
as Borrower
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
------------------------------
Name: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: Chief Financial Officer
CITICORP USA, INC.,
as Administrative Agent,
Swing Loan Lender and Lender
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
-----------------------------
Name: ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: Vice President
WACHOVIA BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Syndication Agent and Lender
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇
--------------------------------
Name: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇
Title: Director
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,
as Documentation Agent,Lender and Issuer
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
-----------------------------------
Name: ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: SVP/ Credit Products Officer
PNC BANK, N.A.,
as Lender
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
-----------------------
Name: ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: Vice President
COMMERCE BANK, N.A.,
as Lender
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇
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Name: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇
Title: Vice President
JPMORGANCHASE BANK N.A.,
as Lender
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
----------------------
Name: ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: Vice President
THE GOVERNOR AND COMPANY OF THE
BANK OF IRELAND,
as Lender
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇
----------------------------
Name: ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇
Title: Authorized Signatory
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
----------------------------
Name: ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: Authorized Signatory
BANK LEUMI USA,
as Lender
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇
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Name: ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇
Title: First Vice President
MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS TRUST COMPANY,
as Lender
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇.
-------------------------------
Name: ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇.
Title: Vice President
CITIZENS BANK OF PENNSYLVANIA,
as Lender
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
----------------------
Name: ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: Vice President
KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Lender
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Name: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: Vice President
REGIONS BANK,
as Lender
By: /s/ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Name: ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: Senior Vice President
THE BANK OF NEW YORK,
as Lender
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇.
------------------------------
Name: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇.
Title: Vice President
NATIONAL CITY BANK,
as Lender
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
-------------------------
Name: ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: Senior Vice President
COMERICA BANK,
as Lender
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇
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Name: ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇.▇▇▇▇
Title: Account Officer
SOVEREIGN BANK,
as Lender
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Name: ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: Vice President
UNITED OVERSEAS BANK LIMITED, NEW YORK AGENCY,
as Lender
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇▇ Yew ▇▇▇▇
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Name: ▇▇▇▇▇ Yew ▇▇▇▇
Title: FVP & General Manager
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Name: ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: VP & Deputy General Manager
SOCIETE GENERALE,
as Lender
By: /s/ R.D. ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
----------------------
Name: R.D. ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: Vice President
▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ BANK CO. LTD., NEW YORK AGENCY,
as Lender
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇ Wei
-----------------------------
Name: ▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇ Wei
Title: SVP & General Manager
WESTLB AG, NEW YORK BRANCH,
as Lender
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
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Name: ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
Title: Director
By: /s/ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇, III
--------------------------
Name: ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇, III
Title: Director
TABLE OF CONTENTS
ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS, INTERPRETATION AND ACCOUNTING TERMS.............................................. 1
Section 1.1 Defined Terms......................................................................... 1
Section 1.2 Computation of Time Periods........................................................... 27
Section 1.3 Accounting Terms and Principles....................................................... 28
Section 1.4 Conversion of Foreign Currencies; Rounding Off........................................ 28
Section 1.5 Certain Terms......................................................................... 29
ARTICLE II THE FACILITY.................................................................................. 29
Section 2.1 The Commitments....................................................................... 29
Section 2.2 Borrowing Procedures.................................................................. 31
Section 2.3 Swing Loans........................................................................... 32
Section 2.4 Letters of Credit..................................................................... 34
Section 2.5 Reduction and Termination of the Revolving Credit Commitments......................... 39
Section 2.6 Repayment of Loans.................................................................... 39
Section 2.7 Evidence of Debt...................................................................... 39
Section 2.8 Optional Prepayments.................................................................. 41
Section 2.9 Mandatory Prepayments................................................................. 41
Section 2.10 Interest.............................................................................. 42
Section 2.11 Conversion/Continuation Option........................................................ 43
Section 2.12 Fees.................................................................................. 43
Section 2.13 Payments and Computations............................................................. 44
Section 2.14 Special Provisions Governing Eurodollar Rate Loans.................................... 47
Section 2.15 Capital Adequacy...................................................................... 48
Section 2.16 Taxes................................................................................. 49
Section 2.17 Substitution of Lenders............................................................... 51
ARTICLE III CONDITIONS TO LOANS AND LETTERS OF CREDIT..................................................... 52
Section 3.1 Conditions Precedent to Initial Loans and Letters of Credit........................... 52
Section 3.2 Conditions Precedent to Each Loan and Letter of Credit................................ 55
Section 3.3 Determinations of Initial Borrowing Conditions........................................ 56
Section 3.4 Conditions Precedent to Each Incremental Credit Extension Date........................ 56
ARTICLE IV REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES................................................................ 57
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Section 4.1 Corporate Existence; Compliance with Law.............................................. 57
Section 4.2 Corporate Power; Authorization; Enforceable Obligations............................... 58
Section 4.3 Ownership of Borrower; Subsidiaries................................................... 59
Section 4.4 Financial Statements.................................................................. 59
Section 4.5 Material Adverse Change............................................................... 60
Section 4.6 Solvency.............................................................................. 60
Section 4.7 Litigation............................................................................ 60
Section 4.8 Taxes................................................................................. 60
Section 4.9 Full Disclosure....................................................................... 61
Section 4.10 Margin Regulations.................................................................... 61
Section 4.11 No Burdensome Restrictions; No Defaults............................................... 61
Section 4.12 Investment Company Act; Public Utility Holding Company Act............................ 62
Section 4.13 Use of Proceeds....................................................................... 62
Section 4.14 Insurance............................................................................. 62
Section 4.15 Labor Matters......................................................................... 63
Section 4.16 ERISA................................................................................. 63
Section 4.17 Environmental Matters................................................................. 63
Section 4.18 Intellectual Property................................................................. 64
Section 4.19 Title; Real Property.................................................................. 64
Section 4.20 Related Documents..................................................................... 65
ARTICLE V FINANCIAL COVENANTS........................................................................... 65
Section 5.1 Maximum Leverage Ratio................................................................ 66
Section 5.2 Minimum Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio................................................... 66
Section 5.3 Maximum Senior Secured Leverage Ratio................................................. 66
ARTICLE VI REPORTING COVENANTS........................................................................... 66
Section 6.1 Financial Statements.................................................................. 66
Section 6.2 Default Notices....................................................................... 68
Section 6.3 Litigation............................................................................ 68
Section 6.4 SEC Filings; Press Releases........................................................... 68
Section 6.5 Labor Relations....................................................................... 69
Section 6.6 Tax Returns........................................................................... 69
Section 6.7 Insurance............................................................................. 69
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Section 6.8 ERISA Matters......................................................................... 69
Section 6.9 Environmental Matters................................................................. 70
Section 6.10 Customer Contracts.................................................................... 70
Section 6.11 Other Information..................................................................... 71
ARTICLE VII AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS......................................................................... 71
Section 7.1 Preservation of Corporate Existence, Etc.............................................. 71
Section 7.2 Compliance with Laws, Etc............................................................. 71
Section 7.3 Conduct of Business................................................................... 71
Section 7.4 Payment of Taxes, Etc................................................................. 71
Section 7.5 Maintenance of Insurance.............................................................. 72
Section 7.6 Access................................................................................ 72
Section 7.7 Keeping of Books...................................................................... 72
Section 7.8 Maintenance of Properties, Etc........................................................ 72
Section 7.9 Application of Proceeds............................................................... 73
Section 7.10 Environmental......................................................................... 73
Section 7.11 Additional Collateral and Guaranties.................................................. 73
Section 7.12 Real Property......................................................................... 74
Section 7.13 Post-Closing Matters.................................................................. 75
ARTICLE VIII NEGATIVE COVENANTS............................................................................ 75
Section 8.1 Indebtedness.......................................................................... 75
Section 8.2 Liens, Etc............................................................................ 77
Section 8.3 Investments........................................................................... 77
Section 8.4 Sale of Assets........................................................................ 78
Section 8.5 Restricted Payments................................................................... 79
Section 8.6 Prepayment and Cancellation of Indebtedness........................................... 80
Section 8.7 Restriction on Fundamental Changes; Permitted Acquisitions............................ 80
Section 8.8 Change in Nature of Business.......................................................... 80
Section 8.9 Transactions with Affiliates.......................................................... 81
Section 8.10 Limitations on Restrictions on Subsidiary Distributions; No New Negative Pledge....... 81
Section 8.11 Modification of Constituent Documents................................................. 81
Section 8.12 Modification of Debt Agreements....................................................... 81
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Section 8.13 Accounting Changes; Fiscal Year....................................................... 82
Section 8.14 Margin Regulations.................................................................... 82
Section 8.15 Operating Leases; Sale/Leasebacks..................................................... 82
Section 8.16 No Speculative Transactions........................................................... 82
Section 8.17 Compliance with ERISA................................................................. 83
ARTICLE IX EVENTS OF DEFAULT............................................................................. 83
Section 9.1 Events of Default..................................................................... 83
Section 9.2 Remedies.............................................................................. 85
Section 9.3 Actions in Respect of Letters of Credit............................................... 85
Section 9.4 Rescission............................................................................ 85
ARTICLE X THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT; THE AGENTS.......................................................... 86
Section 10.1 Authorization and Action.............................................................. 86
Section 10.2 Administrative Agent's Reliance, Etc.................................................. 87
Section 10.3 Posting of Approved Electronic Communications......................................... 87
Section 10.4 The Agents Individually............................................................... 88
Section 10.5 Lender Credit Decision................................................................ 88
Section 10.6 Indemnification....................................................................... 89
Section 10.7 Successor Administrative Agent........................................................ 89
Section 10.8 Concerning the Collateral and the Collateral Documents................................ 89
Section 10.9 Collateral Matters Relating to Related Obligations.................................... 91
ARTICLE XI MISCELLANEOUS................................................................................. 91
Section 11.1 Amendments, Waivers, Etc.............................................................. 91
Section 11.2 Assignments and Participations........................................................ 94
Section 11.3 Costs and Expenses.................................................................... 97
Section 11.4 Indemnities........................................................................... 98
Section 11.5 Limitation of Liability............................................................... 99
Section 11.6 Right of Set-off...................................................................... 100
Section 11.7 Sharing of Payments, Etc.............................................................. 100
Section 11.8 Notices, Etc.......................................................................... 101
Section 11.9 No Waiver; Remedies................................................................... 103
Section 11.10 Binding Effect........................................................................ 103
Section 11.11 Governing Law......................................................................... 103
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Section 11.12 Submission to Jurisdiction; Service of Process........................................ 103
Section 11.13 Waiver of Jury Trial.................................................................. 104
Section 11.14 Marshaling; Payments Set Aside........................................................ 104
Section 11.15 Section Titles........................................................................ 104
Section 11.16 Execution in Counterparts............................................................. 105
Section 11.17 Entire Agreement...................................................................... 105
Section 11.18 Confidentiality....................................................................... 105
Section 11.19 USA PATRIOT Act....................................................................... 106
Section 11.20 Designated Senior Debt................................................................ 106
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SCHEDULES
Schedule I - Revolving Credit Commitments
Schedule II - Applicable Lending Offices and Addresses for Notices
Schedule 2.4 - Existing Letters of Credit
Schedule 4.2 - Consents
Schedule 4.3(a) - Borrower Information
Schedule 4.3(b) - Ownership of Subsidiaries
Schedule 4.15 - Labor Matters
Schedule 4.16 - List of Plans
Schedule 4.17 - Environmental Matters
Schedule 4.19 - Real Property
Schedule 7.13 - Post-Closing Matters
Schedule 8.1 - Existing Indebtedness
Schedule 8.2 - Existing Liens
Schedule 8.3 - Existing Investments
EXHIBITS
Exhibit A - Form of Assignment and Acceptance
Exhibit B - Form of Revolving Credit Note
Exhibit C - Form of Notice of Borrowing
Exhibit D - Form of Swing Loan Request
Exhibit E - Form of Letter of Credit Request
Exhibit F - Form of Notice of Conversion or Continuation
Exhibit G - Form of Opinion of counsel for the Loan Parties
Exhibit H - Form of Guaranty
Exhibit I - Form of Pledge and Security Agreement
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SCHEDULE I
REVOLVING CREDIT COMMITMENTS
Provided as an attachment.
SCHEDULE II
APPLICABLE LENDING OFFICES AND ADDRESSES FOR NOTICES
Provided as an attachment.
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LENDER DOMESTIC LENDING OFFICE EURODOLLAR LENDING OFFICE
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The Bank of New York The Bank of New York The Bank of ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇
Attention: ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇ Attention: ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇
Phone: ▇▇▇-▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇ Phone: ▇▇▇-▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇
Fax: ▇▇▇-▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇/6397 Fax: ▇▇▇-▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇/6397
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United Overseas Bank Limited, New United Overseas Bank Limited, New York United Overseas Bank Limited, New York
York Agency Agency Agency
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Attention: ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ Attention: ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇
Phone: ▇▇▇-▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇ Ext. 20 Phone: ▇▇▇-▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇ Ext. 20
Fax: ▇▇▇-▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇ Fax: ▇▇▇-▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇
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▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ Bank Co., Ltd. New ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ Bank Co., Ltd. New York Agency ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ Bank Co., Ltd. New York Agency
York Agency One World Financial Center One World Financial Center
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Attention: ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ Attention: ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇
Phone: ▇▇▇-▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇ Ext. 239 Phone: ▇▇▇-▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇ Ext. 239
Fax: ▇▇▇-▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇ Fax: ▇▇▇-▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇
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SCHEDULE 2.4
EXISTING LETTERS OF CREDIT
Provided as an attachment.
SCHEDULE 4.2
CONSENTS
None.
SCHEDULE 4.3(a)
BORROWER INFORMATION
EDO Corporation
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Tax ID: ▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
SCHEDULE 4.3(b)
OWNERSHIP OF SUBSIDIARIES
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ISSUED AND
JURISDICTION OF OUTSTANDING OWNERSHIP (DIRECT
NAME OF SUBSIDIARY FORMATION AUTHORIZED SHARES SHARES OR INDIRECT) BY EDO
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Darlington, Inc. Delaware 3,000 Common 500 Common 500/100%
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EDO Artisan Inc. New Jersey 88 Common 88 Common 88/100%
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EDO Communications and California 9,000,000 Common 100 100/100%
Countermeasures Systems 500,000
Inc. Preferred
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EDO MBM Technology Limited United Kingdom 5,200,000 5,200,000 5,200,000
Ordinary Shares Ordinary Shares Ordinary Shares
/100%
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EDO MTech Inc. Pennsylvania 1,000 Common 127 Common 127/100%
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EDO Professional Services Virginia 600,000 Class A 379,253 Class A 379,253/100%
Inc. Common 200,000 Common
Class B Common
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EDO Reconnaissance and Delaware 100 Common 100 Common 100/100%
Surveillance Systems, Inc.
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EDO AeroTech Limited United Kingdom 100 Ordinary 100 Ordinary 100/100%
Shares Shares
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EDO Rugged Systems Limited United Kingdom 10,000 1 1/100%
Ordinary Shares Ordinary Share l
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EDO (UK) Limited United Kingdom 250,250 Ordinary 250,250 Ordinary 250,250 Ordinary
Shares Shares Shares
204,750 204,750 204,750 Preferred
Preferred Preferred Ordinary Shares
Ordinary Shares Ordinary Shares /100%
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EDO Western Corporation Utah 3,402 Common 3,388 Common 3,388/100%
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Specialty Plastics, Inc. Louisiana 4,000 Common 1,400 Common 1,400/100%
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EVI Technology LLC Delaware 1,000 Units 1,000 Units 1,000/100%
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Fiber Innovations, Inc Massachusetts 15,000 Common 3,800 Common 3,800/100%
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NAME OF IMMATERIAL
SUBSIDIARY
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Astro Optics California 7,500,000 480,000 100/100%
Laboratories, Inc. Common Common
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EDO Automotive Natural Delaware 1,000 100 Common 100/100%
Gas Inc. Common
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EDO Energy Corporation Delaware 1,000 100 Common 100/100%
Common
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EDO Sports, Inc. Delaware
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EDO International Delaware 1,000 Common 1,000 Common 1,000/100%
Corporation
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EDO Communications and Pending
Countermeasures Systems Dissolution
GMBH
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SCHEDULE 4.15
LABOR MATTERS
1. There are no collective bargaining agreements.
2.
EDO Corporation 1996 Long-Term Incentive Plan
3.
EDO Corporation 2002 Long-Term Incentive Plan
4. Executive Life Insurance Plan Agreements, as amended through January 23,
1990, for 28 employees and retirees
5. Director and Officer Indemnity Agreements between the Company and 24
current Company directors and officers
6.
EDO Corporation Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Plan I effective
January 1, 2004
7. EDO Corporation Nonqualified Deferred Compensation Plan II effective
January 1, 2004
8. EDO Corporation 1997 Non-Employee Director Stock Option Plan
9. EDO Corporation 2002 Non-Employee Director Stock Option Plan
10. EDO Corporation Compensation Plan for Directors
11. Supplemental Executive Retirement Plan, dated July 1, 2001
12. EDO UK Share Incentive Plan
13. Amended and Restated Employment Agreement, dated as of October 1, 2004,
by and between EDO Corporation and ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇
14. Change in Control Agreement dated March 3, 2003, between EDO Corporation
and ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
15. Change in Control Agreement dated March 21, 2003, between EDO
Corporation and ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
16. Change in Control Agreement dated March 25, 2003, between EDO
Corporation and ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇, ▇▇.
17. Change in Control Agreement dated March 21, 2003, between EDO
Corporation and ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇
18. Change in Control Agreement dated March 22, 2003, between EDO
Corporation and ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇
19. Change in Control Agreement dated March 26, 2003, between EDO
Corporation and ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇
20. Change in Control Agreement dated May 1, 2003, between EDO Corporation
and ▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
21. 2004 Restricted Share and Retention Incentive Award Agreement between
EDO Corporation and ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
22. 2004 Restricted Share and Retention Incentive Award Agreement between
EDO Corporation and ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
23. 2004 Restricted Share and Retention Incentive Award Agreement between
EDO Corporation and ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇
24. 2004 Restricted Share and Retention Incentive Award Agreement between
EDO Corporation and ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇
25. 2004 Restricted Share and Retention Incentive Award Agreement between
EDO Corporation and ▇▇▇▇ ▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇
SCHEDULE 4.16
LIST OF PLANS
1. Items 2 - 12 on Schedule 4.15
2. Numerous welfare benefit plans, including plans for vision, dental,
healthcare and other benefits provided to employees of EDO Corporation
and its subsidiaries
SCHEDULE 4.17
ENVIRONMENTAL MATTERS
None.
SCHEDULE 4.19
REAL PROPERTY
Provided as an attachment.
SCHEDULE 7.13
POST-CLOSING MATTERS
1. Within 15 Business Day after the Closing Date, or such later date
acceptable to the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion, the
Administrative Agent shall have received original stock certificates
representing 100% of the issued and outstanding shares of each of (a) EDO MBM
Technology Limited, (b) EDO Aerotech Limited, (c) EDO Rugged Systems Limited and
(d) EDO (UK) Limited, (e) EDO Professional Services, Inc., (f) EDO Artisan, Inc.
and (g) Fiber Innovations, Inc., each with stock transfer forms duly executed in
blank, and a supplement to Schedule 2 to the Pledge and Security Agreement
showing such additional shares.
2. Within 15 Business Days after the Closing Date, or such later date
acceptable to the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion, a stock transfer
form duly executed in blank for the certificates representing the issued and
outstanding shares of Darlington, Inc.
3. Within 15 Business Days after the Closing Date, or such later date
acceptable to the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion, copies of the
articles of incorporation and good standing certificates of (a) EDO MTech, Inc.
certified as of a recent date by the Secretary of State of the Commonwealth of
Pennsylvania, (b) EDO Communications and Countermeasures Systems, Inc. certified
as of a recent date by the Secretary of State of the State of California and (c)
EDO Aerotech Limited, certified as of a recent date by the Registrar of
Companies for England and Wales.
4. Within 15 Business Days after the Closing Date, or such later date
acceptable to the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion, duly executed and
certified copies of the resolutions of the Board of Directors or equivalent
governing body of each of (a) EDO MBM Technology Limited, (b) EDO Aerotech
Limited and (c) EDO Rugged Systems Limited.
5. Within 15 Business Days after the Closing Date, or such later date
acceptable to the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion, Secretary's
Certificates in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative
Agent for (a) EDO MBM Technology Limited, (b) EDO Aerotech Limited and (c) EDO
Rugged Systems Limited.
6. Use commercially reasonable efforts to deliver to the Administrative
Agent file stamped copies of all UCC-3 termination statements filed with respect
to any UCC-1 financing statements naming European American Bank as secured party
and any Loan Party as debtor.
SCHEDULE 8.1
EXISTING INDEBTEDNESS
None.
SCHEDULE 8.2
EXISTING LIENS
None.
SCHEDULE 8.3
EXISTING INVESTMENTS
None.
EXHIBIT A
TO
CREDIT AGREEMENT
FORM OF ASSIGNMENT AND ACCEPTANCE
ASSIGNMENT AND ACCEPTANCE dated as of _________ __, ____ between
[NAME OF ASSIGNOR] (the "Assignor") and [NAME OF ASSIGNEE] (the "Assignee").
Reference is made to the Credit Agreement, dated as of November 4,
2005 (as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified
from time to time, the "Credit Agreement"), among EDO Corporation, a New York
corporation (the "Borrower"), the Lenders and Issuers party thereto, Citicorp
USA, Inc., as administrative agent for the Lenders and Issuers (in such
capacity, the "Administrative Agent"), and the other agents party thereto.
Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein are used herein
as defined in the Credit Agreement.
The Assignor and the Assignee hereby agree as follows:
1. As of the Effective Date (as defined below), the Assignor hereby sells and
assigns to the Assignee, and the Assignee hereby purchases and assumes
from the Assignor, all of the Assignor's rights and obligations under the
Credit Agreement to the extent related to the amounts and percentages
specified on Section 1 of Schedule I hereto.
2. The Assignor (a) represents and warrants that (i) it is the legal and
beneficial owner of the interest being assigned by it hereunder and that
such interest is free and clear of any adverse claim and (ii) it has full
power and authority, and has taken all actions necessary, to execute and
deliver this Assignment and Acceptance and to consummate the transactions
contemplated hereby, (b) makes no representation or warranty and assumes
no responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or
representations made in or in connection with the Credit Agreement or any
other Loan Document or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant
thereto or the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness,
sufficiency or value of the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document,
any other instrument or document furnished pursuant thereto or any
collateral thereunder, (c) makes no representation or warranty and assumes
no responsibility with respect to the financial condition of the Borrower
and any other Loan Party or the performance or observance by the Borrower
and any other Loan Party of any of its obligations under the Credit
Agreement or any other Loan Document or any other instrument or document
furnished pursuant thereto and (iv) attaches the Revolving Credit Note(s),
if any, held by the Assignor and requests that the Administrative Agent
exchange such Revolving Credit Note(s) for [a] new Revolving Credit
Note(s) in accordance with Section 11.2(e) (Assignments and
Participations) of the Credit Agreement.
3. The Assignee (a) agrees that it will, independently and without reliance
upon the Administrative Agent, the Assignor or any other Lender and based
on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the
time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking
action under the Credit Agreement, (b) appoints and authorizes the
Administrative Agent to take such action as agent on its behalf and to
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exercise such powers under the Credit Agreement and the other Loan
Documents as are delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms
thereof, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto,
(c) agrees that it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the
obligations that, by the terms of the Credit Agreement, are required to be
performed by it as a Lender, (d) represents and warrants that it (i) is an
Eligible Assignee and (ii) has full power and authority, and has taken all
actions necessary, to execute and deliver this Assignment and Acceptance
and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby, (e) confirms it
has received such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate
to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Assignment
and Acceptance, (f) specifies as its Domestic Lending Office (and address
for notices) and Eurodollar Lending Office the offices set forth beneath
its name on the signature pages hereof and (g) attaches two properly
completed Forms ▇-▇▇▇▇, ▇-▇▇▇▇ or successor or form prescribed by the
Internal Revenue Service of the United States, certifying that such
Assignee is entitled to receive all payments under the Credit Agreement
and the Notes payable to it without deduction or withholding of any United
States federal income taxes.
4. Following the execution of this Assignment and Acceptance by the Assignor
and the Assignee, it will be delivered to the Administrative Agent
(together with an assignment fee in the amount of $3,500 payable by the
Assignee to the Administrative Agent if required pursuant to Section
11.2(b)(Assignments and Participations)) for acceptance and recording by
the Administrative Agent. The effective date of this Assignment and
Acceptance shall be the effective date specified in Section 2 of Schedule
I hereto (the "Effective Date").
5. Upon such acceptance and recording by the Administrative Agent, then, as
of the Effective Date, (a) the Assignee shall be a party to the Credit
Agreement and, to the extent provided in this Assignment and Acceptance,
have the rights and obligations under the Credit Agreement of a Lender
and, if such Lender were an Issuer, of such Issuer and (b) the Assignor
shall, to the extent provided in this Assignment and Acceptance,
relinquish its rights (except those surviving the payment in full of the
Obligations) and be released from its obligations under the Loan Documents
other than those relating to events or circumstances occurring prior to
the Effective Date.
6. Upon such acceptance and recording by the Administrative Agent, from and
after the Effective Date, the Administrative Agent shall make all payments
under the Loan Documents in respect of the interest assigned hereby (a) to
the Assignee, in the case of amounts accrued with respect to any period on
or after the Effective Date, and (b) to the Assignor, in the case of
amounts accrued with respect to any period prior to the Effective Date.
7. This Assignment and Acceptance shall be governed by, and be construed and
interpreted in accordance with, the law of the State of New York.
8. This Assignment and Acceptance may be executed in any number of
counterparts and by different parties on separate counterparts, each of
which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original and all of which
taken together shall constitute but one and the same agreement. Delivery
of an executed counterpart of this Assignment and Acceptance by telecopier
shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this
Assignment and Acceptance. Delivery of an executed counterpart hereof by
telecopy shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed
counterpart.
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[SIGNATURE PAGES FOLLOW]
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Assignment
and Acceptance to be executed by their respective officers thereunto duly
authorized, as of the date first above written.
[NAME OF ASSIGNOR],
as Assignor
By:
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Name:
Title:
[NAME OF ASSIGNEE]
as Assignee
By:
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Name:
Title:
Domestic Lending Office (and address
for notices):
[Insert Address (including contact name,
fax number and e-mail address)]
Eurodollar Lending Office:
[Insert Address (including contact name,
fax number and e-mail address)]
[SIGNATURE PAGE FOR ASSIGNMENT AND ACCEPTANCE ]
ACCEPTED AND AGREED
this __ day of ______ 20__:
CITICORP USA, INC.,
as Administrative Agent
By:
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Name:
Title:
[EDO CORPORATION](1)
By:
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Name:
Title:
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(1) If required pursuant to Section 11.2 of the Credit Agreement.
[SIGNATURE PAGE FOR ASSIGNMENT AND ACCEPTANCE ]
SCHEDULE I
TO
ASSIGNMENT AND ACCEPTANCE
SECTION 1.
Ratable Portion of Revolving Credit Facility assigned to Assignee: %
_______________
Revolving Credit Commitment assigned to Assignee: $
_______________
Aggregate Outstanding Principal Amount of Revolving
Loans Assigned to Assignee: $
_______________
SECTION 2.
Effective Date: ______ __, 20__
EXHIBIT B
TO
CREDIT AGREEMENT
FORM OF REVOLVING CREDIT NOTE
Lender: [NAME OF LENDER] New York, New York
Principal Amount: [$ ] November __, 2005
_________________
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned, EDO Corporation, a New York
corporation (the "Borrower"), hereby promises to pay to the order of the Lender
set forth above (the "Lender") the Principal Amount set forth above, or, if
less, the aggregate unpaid principal amount of all Revolving Loans (as defined
in the Credit Agreement referred to below) of the Lender to the Borrower,
payable at such times, and in such amounts, as are specified in the Credit
Agreement.
The Borrower promises to pay interest on the unpaid principal amount
of the Revolving Loans from the date made until such principal amount is paid in
full, at such interest rates, and payable at such times, as are specified in the
Credit Agreement.
Both principal and interest are payable in Dollars to Citicorp USA,
Inc., as Administrative Agent, at ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇▇, in immediately available funds.
This Note is one of the Revolving Credit Notes referred to in, and
is entitled to the benefits of, the Credit Agreement, dated as of November 4,
2005 (as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified
from time to time, the "Credit Agreement"), among the Borrower, the Lenders and
Issuers party thereto, Citicorp USA, Inc., as administrative agent for the
Lenders and Issuers (in such capacity, the "Administrative Agent"), and the
other agents party thereto. Capitalized terms used herein and not defined herein
are used herein as defined in the Credit Agreement.
The Credit Agreement, among other things, (a) provides for the
making of Revolving Loans by the Lender to the Borrower in an aggregate amount
not to exceed at any time outstanding the Principal Amount set forth above, the
indebtedness of the Borrower resulting from such Revolving Loans being evidenced
by this Note and (b) contains provisions for acceleration of the maturity of the
unpaid principal amount of this Note upon the happening of certain stated events
and also for prepayments on account of the principal hereof prior to the
maturity hereof upon the terms and conditions therein specified.
This Note is entitled to the benefits of the Guaranty and is secured
as provided in the Collateral Documents.
Demand, diligence, presentment, protest and notice of non-payment
and protest are hereby waived by the Borrower.
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This Note shall be governed by, and construed and interpreted in
accordance with, the law of the State of New York.
[SIGNATURE PAGES FOLLOW]
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Borrower has caused this Note to be executed
and delivered by its duly authorized officer as of the day and year and at the
place set forth above.
EDO CORPORATION
By:
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Name:
Title:
[SIGNATURE PAGE TO REVOLVING CREDIT NOTE]
EXHIBIT C
TO
CREDIT AGREEMENT
FORM OF NOTICE OF BORROWING
CITICORP USA, INC.,
as Administrative Agent under the
Credit Agreement referred to below
▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ _________ __, 20__
Attention:
Re: EDO CORPORATION (the "Borrower")
Reference is made to the Credit Agreement, dated as of November 4,
2005 (as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified
from time to time, the "Credit Agreement"), among the Borrower, the Lenders and
Issuers party thereto, Citicorp USA, Inc., as administrative agent for the
Lenders and Issuers (in such capacity, the "Administrative Agent"), and the
other agents party thereto. Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise
defined herein are used herein as defined in the Credit Agreement.
The Borrower hereby gives you notice, irrevocably, pursuant to
Section 2.2 (Borrowing Procedures) of the Credit Agreement that the undersigned
hereby requests a Borrowing of Revolving Loans under the Credit Agreement and,
in that connection, sets forth below the information relating to such Borrowing
(the "Proposed Borrowing") as required by Section 2.2 (Borrowing Procedures) of
the Credit Agreement:
(a) The date of the Proposed Borrowing is __________ __, 20__ (the
"Funding Date").
(b) The aggregate amount of the Revolving Credit Borrowing is $_____
, of which amount [$_____ consists of Base Rate Loans] [and $_____
consists of Eurodollar Rate Loans having an initial Interest Period of
[one] [two] [three] [six] month[s]].
The undersigned hereby certifies that the following statements are
true on the date hereof and shall be true on the Funding Date both before and
after giving effect to the Proposed Borrowing and to the application of the
proceeds therefrom:
(i) the representations and warranties set forth in Article IV
(Representations and Warranties) of the Credit Agreement and the other
Loan Documents are true and correct [in all material respects](2) on and
as of the Funding Date with the same effect as though made on and as of
such date, except to the extent such representations and
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(2) Insert for any Proposed Borrowing after the Closing Date.
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warranties expressly relate to an earlier date, in which case such
representations and warranties shall have been true and correct in all
material respects as of such date; and
(ii) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing
on the Funding Date.
EDO CORPORATION
By:
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Name:
Title:
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EXHIBIT D
TO
CREDIT AGREEMENT
FORM OF SWING LOAN REQUEST
CITICORP USA, INC.,
as Administrative Agent under the
Credit Agreement referred to below
▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ _________ __, 20__
Attention:
Re: EDO CORPORATION (the "Borrower")
Reference is made to the Credit Agreement, dated as of November 4,
2005 (as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified
from time to time, the "Credit Agreement"), among the Borrower, the Lenders and
Issuers party thereto, Citicorp USA, Inc., as administrative agent for the
Lenders and Issuers (in such capacity, the "Administrative Agent"), and the
other agents party thereto. Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise
defined herein are used herein as defined in the Credit Agreement.
The Borrower hereby gives you notice, irrevocably, pursuant to
Section 2.3 (Swing Loans) of the Credit Agreement that the undersigned hereby
requests that the Swing Loan Lender make Swing Loans available to the Borrower
under the Credit Agreement and, in that connection, sets forth below the
information relating to such Swing Loans (the "Proposed Advance") as required by
Section 2.3 (Swing Loans) of the Credit Agreement:
(a) The date of the Proposed Advance is ________ __, 20__ (the
"Funding Date").
(b) The aggregate amount of the Proposed Advance is $ __________
The undersigned hereby certifies that the following statements are
true on the date hereof and shall be true on the Funding Date both before and
after giving effect to the Proposed Advance and to the application of the
proceeds therefrom:
(i) the representations and warranties set forth in Article IV
(Representations and Warranties) of the Credit Agreement and the other
Loan Documents are true and correct [in all material respects](3) on and
as of the Funding Date with the same effect as though made on and as of
such date, except to the extent such representations and warranties
expressly relate to an earlier date, in which case such representations
and warranties shall have been true and correct in all material respects
as of such date; and
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(3) Insert for any Proposed Advance after the Closing Date.
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(ii) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing
on the Funding Date.
EDO CORPORATION
By:
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Name:
Title:
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EXHIBIT E
TO
CREDIT AGREEMENT
FORM OF LETTER OF CREDIT REQUEST
[NAME OF ISSUER], as an Issuer
under the Credit Agreement referred to below
CITICORP USA, INC.,
as Administrative Agent under the
Credit Agreement referred to below
▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ _________ __, 20__
Attention:
Re: EDO CORPORATION (the "Borrower")
Reference is made to the Credit Agreement, dated as of November 4,
2005 (as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified
from time to time, the "Credit Agreement"), among the Borrower, the Lenders and
Issuers party thereto, Citicorp USA, Inc., as administrative agent for the
Lenders and Issuers (in such capacity, the "Administrative Agent"), and the
other agents party thereto. Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise
defined in this Letter of Credit Request are used herein as defined in the
Credit Agreement.
The Borrower hereby gives you notice, irrevocably, pursuant to
Section 2.4(c) (Letters of Credit) of the Credit Agreement that the undersigned
requests the issuance of a Letter of Credit by [Name of Issuer] in the form of a
[standby] [documentary] letter of credit for the benefit of [Name of
Beneficiary], in the amount of [$________], to be issued on ______ __, 20__ (the
"Issue Date") and having an expiration date of ______ __, 20__.
The form of the requested Letter of Credit is attached hereto.
The undersigned hereby certifies that the following statements are
true on the date hereof and shall be true on the Issue Date both before and
after giving effect thereto:
(a) the representations and warranties set forth in Article IV
(Representations and Warranties) of the Credit Agreement and the other
Loan Documents are true and correct [in all material respects](4) on and
as of the Issue Date with the same effect as though made on and as of such
date, except to the extent such representations and warranties expressly
relate to an earlier date, in which case such representations and
warranties shall have been true and correct in all material respects as of
such date; and
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(4) Insert for any Issue Date after the Closing Date.
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(b) no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing on
the Issue Date.
EDO CORPORATION
By:
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Name:
Title:
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EXHIBIT F
TO
CREDIT AGREEMENT
FORM OF NOTICE OF CONVERSION OR CONTINUATION
CITICORP USA, INC.,
as Administrative Agent under the
Credit Agreement referred to below
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▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ _________ __, 20__
Attention:
Re: EDO CORPORATION (the "Borrower")
Reference is made to the Credit Agreement, dated as of November 4,
2005 (as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified
from time to time, the "Credit Agreement"), among the Borrower, the Lenders and
Issuers party thereto, Citicorp USA, Inc., as administrative agent for the
Lenders and Issuers (in such capacity, the "Administrative Agent"), and the
other agents party thereto. Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise
defined herein are used herein as defined in the Credit Agreement.
The Borrower hereby gives you notice, irrevocably, pursuant to
Section 2.11 (Conversion/Continuation Option) of the Credit Agreement that the
undersigned hereby requests a [conversion] [continuation] on ______ __, 20__ of
$____________ in principal amount of presently outstanding Revolving Loans that
are [Base Rate Loans] [Eurodollar Rate Loans] having an Interest Period ending
on ______ __, 20__ [to] [as] [Base Rate][Eurodollar Rate] Loans. [The Interest
Period for such amount requested to be converted to or continued as Eurodollar
Rate Loans is [[one] [two] [three] [six] month[s]].
In connection herewith, the undersigned hereby certifies that no
Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing on the date hereof.
EDO CORPORATION
By:
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Name:
Title:
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EXHIBIT G
TO
CREDIT AGREEMENT
FORM OF OPINION OF COUNSEL FOR THE LOAN PARTIES
PROVIDED AS AN ATTACHMENT
EXECUTION COPY
EXHIBIT H
GUARANTY
GUARANTY, dated as of November 4, 2005 (this "Guaranty"), by each of
the entities listed on the signature pages hereof or that becomes a party hereto
pursuant to Section 24 (Additional Guarantors) hereof (collectively, the
"Guarantors" and individually a "Guarantor"), in favor of the Administrative
Agent, each Lender, each Issuer and each other holder of an Obligation (as each
such term is defined in the Credit Agreement referred to below) (each, a
"Guarantied Party" and, collectively, the "Guarantied Parties").
W I T N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Credit Agreement dated as of November 4,
2005 (together with all appendices, exhibits and schedules thereto and as the
same may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to
time, the "Credit Agreement"; capitalized terms defined therein and used herein
having the meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement) among EDO CORPORATION
(the "Borrower"), the Lenders and Issuers party thereto, Citicorp USA, Inc., as
administrative agent for the Lenders and Issuers (in such capacity, the
"Administrative Agent"), and the other agents party thereto, the Lenders and
Issuers have severally agreed to make extensions of credit to the Borrower upon
the terms and subject to the conditions set forth therein;
WHEREAS, each Guarantor will receive substantial direct and indirect
benefits from the making of the Loans, the issuance of the Letters of Credit and
the granting of the other financial accommodations to the Borrower under the
Credit Agreement; and
WHEREAS, a condition precedent to the obligation of the Lenders and
the Issuers to make their respective extensions of credit to the Borrower under
the Credit Agreement is that the Guarantors shall have executed and delivered
this Guaranty for the benefit of the Guarantied Parties;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises set forth above,
the terms and conditions contained herein, and other good and valuable
consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the
parties hereto hereby agree as follows:
SECTION 1 GUARANTY
(a) To induce the Lenders to make the Loans and the Issuers to
issue Letters of Credit, each Guarantor hereby absolutely, unconditionally and
irrevocably guarantees, jointly with the other Guarantors and severally, as
primary obligor and not merely as surety, the full and punctual payment when due
and in the currency due, whether at stated maturity or earlier, by reason of
acceleration, mandatory prepayment or otherwise in accordance herewith or any
other Loan Document, of all the Obligations, whether or not from time to time
reduced or extinguished or hereafter increased or incurred, whether or not
recovery may be or hereafter may become barred by any statute of limitations,
whether or not enforceable as against the Borrower, whether now or hereafter
existing, and whether due or to become due, including principal, interest
(including interest at the contract rate applicable upon default accrued or
accruing after the commencement of any proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code, or
any applicable provisions of comparable state or foreign law, whether or not
such interest is an allowed claim in such
proceeding), fees and costs of collection. This Guaranty constitutes a guaranty
of payment and not of collection.
(b) Each Guarantor further agrees that, if (i) any payment made by
Borrower or any other Person and applied to the Obligations is at any time
annulled, avoided, set aside, rescinded, invalidated, declared to be fraudulent
or preferential or otherwise required to be refunded or repaid, or (ii) the
proceeds of Collateral are required to be returned by any Guarantied Party to
the Borrower, its estate, trustee, receiver or any other party, including any
Guarantor, under any bankruptcy law, equitable cause or any other Requirement of
Law, then, to the extent of such payment or repayment, any such Guarantor's
liability hereunder (and any Lien or other Collateral securing such liability)
shall be and remain in full force and effect, as fully as if such payment had
never been made. If, prior to any of the foregoing, this Guaranty shall have
been cancelled or surrendered (and if any Lien or other Collateral securing such
Guarantor's liability hereunder shall have been released or terminated by virtue
of such cancellation or surrender), this Guaranty (and such Lien or other
Collateral) shall be reinstated in full force and effect, and such prior
cancellation or surrender shall not diminish, release, discharge, impair or
otherwise affect the obligations of any such Guarantor in respect of the amount
of such payment (or any Lien or other Collateral securing such obligation).
SECTION 2 LIMITATION OF GUARANTY
Any term or provision of this Guaranty or any other Loan Document to
the contrary notwithstanding, the maximum aggregate amount of the Obligations
for which any Guarantor shall be liable shall not exceed the maximum amount for
which such Guarantor can be liable without rendering this Guaranty or any other
Loan Document, as it relates to such Guarantor, subject to avoidance under
applicable law relating to fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent transfer
(including Section 548 of the Bankruptcy Code or any applicable provisions of
comparable state law) (collectively, "Fraudulent Transfer Laws"), in each case
after giving effect (a) to all other liabilities of such Guarantor, contingent
or otherwise, that are relevant under such Fraudulent Transfer Laws
(specifically excluding, however, any liabilities of such Guarantor in respect
of intercompany Indebtedness to the Borrower to the extent that such
Indebtedness would be discharged in an amount equal to the amount paid by such
Guarantor hereunder) and (b) to the value as assets of such Guarantor (as
determined under the applicable provisions of such Fraudulent Transfer Laws) of
any rights to subrogation, contribution, reimbursement, indemnity or similar
rights held by such Guarantor pursuant to (i) applicable Requirements of Law,
(ii) Section 3 (Contribution) of this Guaranty or (iii) any other Contractual
Obligations providing for an equitable allocation among such Guarantor and other
Subsidiaries or Affiliates of the Borrower of obligations arising under this
Guaranty or other guaranties of the Obligations by such parties.
SECTION 3 CONTRIBUTION
To the extent that any Guarantor shall be required hereunder to pay
a portion of the Obligations exceeding the greater of (a) the amount of the
economic benefit actually received by such Guarantor from the Loans and the
other financial accommodations provided to the Borrower under the Loan Documents
and (b) the amount such Guarantor would otherwise have paid if such Guarantor
had paid the aggregate amount of the Obligations (excluding the amount thereof
repaid by the Borrower) in the same proportion as such Guarantor's net worth at
the date enforcement is sought hereunder bears to the aggregate net worth of all
the Guarantors at the date enforcement is sought hereunder, then such Guarantor
shall be reimbursed by such other
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Guarantors for the amount of such excess, pro rata, based on the respective net
worths of such other Guarantors at the date enforcement hereunder is sought.
SECTION 4 AUTHORIZATION; OTHER AGREEMENTS
The Guarantied Parties are hereby authorized, without notice to, or
demand upon, any Guarantor, which notice and demand requirements each are
expressly waived hereby, and without discharging or otherwise affecting the
obligations of such Guarantor hereunder (which obligations shall remain absolute
and unconditional notwithstanding any such action or omission to act), from time
to time, to do each of the following:
(a) supplement, renew, extend, accelerate or otherwise change the
time for payment of, or other terms relating to, the Obligations, or any part of
them, or otherwise modify, amend or change the terms of any promissory note or
other agreement, document or instrument (including the other Loan Documents) now
or hereafter executed by the Borrower and delivered to the Guarantied Parties or
any of them, including any increase or decrease of principal or the rate of
interest thereon;
(b) waive or otherwise consent to noncompliance with any provision
of any instrument evidencing the Obligations, or any part thereof, or any other
instrument or agreement in respect of the Obligations (including the other Loan
Documents) now or hereafter executed by the Borrower and delivered to the
Guarantied Parties or any of them;
(c) accept partial payments on the Obligations;
(d) receive, take and hold additional security or collateral for
the payment of the Obligations or any part of them and exchange, enforce, waive,
substitute, liquidate, terminate, abandon, fail to perfect, subordinate,
transfer, otherwise alter and release any such additional security or
collateral;
(e) settle, release, compromise, collect or otherwise liquidate
the Obligations or accept, substitute, release, exchange or otherwise alter,
affect or impair any security or collateral for the Obligations or any part of
them or any other guaranty therefor, in any manner;
(f) add, release or substitute any one or more other guarantors,
makers or endorsers of the Obligations or any part of them and otherwise deal
with the Borrower or any other guarantor, maker or endorser;
(g) apply to the Obligations any payment or recovery (x) from the
Borrower, from any other guarantor, maker or endorser of the Obligations or any
part of them or (y) from any Guarantor in such order as provided herein, in each
case whether such Obligations are secured or unsecured or guaranteed or not
guaranteed by others;
(h) apply to the Obligations any payment or recovery from any
Guarantor of the Obligations or any sum realized from security furnished by such
Guarantor upon its indebtedness or obligations to the Guarantied Parties or any
of them, in each case whether or not such indebtedness or obligations relate to
the Obligations; and
(i) refund at any time any payment received by any Guarantied
Party in respect of any Obligation, and payment to such Guarantied Party of the
amount so refunded shall
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be fully guaranteed hereby even though prior thereto this Guaranty shall have
been cancelled or surrendered (or any release or termination of any Collateral
by virtue thereof), and such prior cancellation or surrender shall not diminish,
release, discharge, impair or otherwise affect the obligations of any Guarantor
hereunder in respect of the amount so refunded (and any Collateral so released
or terminated shall be reinstated with respect to such obligations);
even if any right of reimbursement or subrogation or other right or remedy of
any Guarantor is extinguished, affected or impaired by any of the foregoing
(including any election of remedies by reason of any judicial, non-judicial or
other proceeding in respect of the Obligations that impairs any subrogation,
reimbursement or other right of such Guarantor).
SECTION 5 GUARANTY ABSOLUTE AND UNCONDITIONAL
Each Guarantor hereby waives any defense of a surety or guarantor or
any other obligor on any obligations arising in connection with or in respect of
any of the following and hereby agrees that its obligations under this Guaranty
are absolute and unconditional and shall not be discharged or otherwise affected
as a result of any of the following:
(a) the invalidity or unenforceability of any of the Borrower's
obligations under the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document or any other
agreement or instrument relating thereto, or any security for, or other guaranty
of the Obligations or any part of them, or the lack of perfection or continuing
perfection or failure of priority of any security for the Obligations or any
part of them;
(b) the absence of any attempt to collect the Obligations or any
part of them from the Borrower or other action to enforce the same;
(c) failure by any Guarantied Party to take any steps to perfect
and maintain any Lien on, or to preserve any rights to, any Collateral;
(d) any Guarantied Party's election, in any proceeding instituted
under chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, of the application of Section
1111(b)(2) of the Bankruptcy Code or any applicable provisions of comparable
state or foreign law;
(e) any borrowing or grant of a Lien by the Borrower, as
debtor-in-possession, or extension of credit, under Section 364 of the
Bankruptcy Code or any applicable provisions of comparable state or foreign law;
(f) the disallowance, under Section 502 of the Bankruptcy Code, of
all or any portion of any Guarantied Party's claim (or claims) for repayment of
the Obligations ;
(g) any use of cash collateral under Section 363 of the Bankruptcy
Code;
(h) any agreement or stipulation as to the provision of adequate
protection in any bankruptcy proceeding;
(i) the avoidance of any Lien in favor of the Guarantied Parties
or any of them for any reason;
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(j) any bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, arrangement,
readjustment of debt, liquidation or dissolution proceeding commenced by or
against the Borrower, any Guarantor or any of the Borrower's other Subsidiaries,
including any discharge of, or bar or stay against collecting, any Obligation
(or any part of them or interest thereon) in or as a result of any such
proceeding;
(k) failure by any Guarantied Party to file or enforce a claim
against the Borrower or its estate in any bankruptcy or insolvency case or
proceeding;
(l) any action taken by any Guarantied Party if such action is
authorized hereby;
(m) any election following the occurrence of an Event of Default
by any Guarantied Party to proceed separately against the personal property
Collateral in accordance with such Guarantied Party's rights under the UCC or,
if the Collateral consists of both personal and real property, to proceed
against such personal and real property in accordance with such Guarantied
Party's rights with respect to such real property;
(n) any change in the corporate structure of the Borrower or any
other Loan Party;
(o) any defense, set-off or counterclaim (other than a defense of
payment or performance) which may at any time be available to or be asserted by
any Guarantor or any other Person against any Guarantied Party;
(p) any Requirement of Law affecting any term of any Guarantor's
obligations under this Guaranty; or
(q) any other circumstance that might otherwise constitute a legal
or equitable discharge or defense of a surety or guarantor or any other obligor
on any obligations, other than the payment in full of the Obligations.
SECTION 6 WAIVERS
Each Guarantor hereby waives diligence, promptness, presentment,
demand for payment or performance and protest and notice of protest, notice of
acceptance and any other notice in respect of the Obligations or any part of
them, and any defense arising by reason of any disability or other defense of
the Borrower (other than payment in full in cash of all Obligations and
termination of all commitments in respect thereof and cash collateralization in
full of all contingent obligations). Each Guarantor shall not, until the
Obligations are irrevocably paid in full and the Revolving Credit Commitments
have been terminated, assert any claim or counterclaim it may have against the
Borrower or set off any of its obligations to the Borrower against any
obligations of the Borrower to it. In connection with the foregoing, each
Guarantor covenants that its obligations hereunder shall not be discharged,
except by complete performance.
SECTION 7 RELIANCE
Each Guarantor hereby assumes responsibility for keeping itself
informed of the financial condition of the Borrower and any endorser and other
guarantor of all or any part of the Obligations, and of all other circumstances
bearing upon the risk of nonpayment of the
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Obligations, or any part thereof, that diligent inquiry would reveal, and each
Guarantor hereby agrees that no Guarantied Party shall have any duty to advise
any Guarantor of information known to it regarding such condition or any such
circumstances. In the event any Guarantied Party, in its sole discretion,
undertakes at any time or from time to time to provide any such information to
any Guarantor, such Guarantied Party shall be under no obligation (a) to
undertake any investigation not a part of its regular business routine, (b) to
disclose any information that such Guarantied Party, pursuant to accepted or
reasonable commercial finance or banking practices, wishes to maintain
confidential or (c) to make any other or future disclosures of such information
or any other information to any Guarantor.
SECTION 8 WAIVER OF SUBROGATION AND CONTRIBUTION RIGHTS
Until the Obligations have been irrevocably paid in full and the
Revolving Credit Commitments have been terminated, the Guarantors shall not
enforce or otherwise exercise any right of subrogation to any of the rights of
the Guarantied Parties or any part of them against the Borrower or any right of
reimbursement or contribution or similar right against the Borrower by reason of
this Agreement or by any payment made by any Guarantor in respect of the
Obligations.
SECTION 9 SUBORDINATION
Each Guarantor hereby agrees that any Indebtedness of the Borrower
now or hereafter owing to any Guarantor, whether heretofore, now or hereafter
created (the "Guarantor Subordinated Debt"), is hereby subordinated to all of
the Obligations and that, except as permitted under Section 8.5 (Restricted
Payments) of the Credit Agreement, the Guarantor Subordinated Debt shall not be
paid in whole or in part until the Obligations have been paid in full and this
Guaranty is terminated and of no further force or effect. No Guarantor shall
accept any payment of or on account of any Guarantor Subordinated Debt at any
time in contravention of the foregoing. Upon the occurrence and during the
continuance of an Event of Default, the Borrower shall pay to the Administrative
Agent any payment of all or any part of the Guarantor Subordinated Debt and any
amount so paid to the Administrative Agent shall be applied to payment of the
Obligations as provided in Section 2.13(f) (Payments and Computations) of the
Credit Agreement. Each payment on the Guarantor Subordinated Debt received in
violation of any of the provisions hereof shall be deemed to have been received
by such Guarantor as trustee for the Guarantied Parties and shall be paid over
to the Administrative Agent immediately on account of the Obligations, but
without otherwise affecting in any manner such Guarantor's liability hereof.
Each Guarantor agrees to file all claims against the Borrower in any bankruptcy
or other proceeding in which the filing of claims is required by law in respect
of any Guarantor Subordinated Debt, and the Administrative Agent shall be
entitled to all of such Guarantor's rights thereunder. If for any reason a
Guarantor fails to file such claim at least ten Business Days prior to the last
date on which such claim should be filed, such Guarantor hereby irrevocably
appoints the Administrative Agent as its true and lawful attorney-in-fact and is
hereby authorized to act as attorney-in-fact in such Guarantor's name to file
such claim or, in the Administrative Agent's discretion, to assign such claim to
and cause proof of claim to be filed in the name of the Administrative Agent or
its nominee. In all such cases, whether in administration, bankruptcy or
otherwise, the person or persons authorized to pay such claim shall pay to the
Administrative Agent the full amount payable on the claim in the proceeding,
and, to the full extent necessary for that purpose, each Guarantor hereby
assigns to the Administrative Agent all of such Guarantor's rights to any
payments or distributions to which such Guarantor otherwise would be entitled.
If
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the amount so paid is greater than such Guarantor's liability hereunder, the
Administrative Agent shall pay the excess amount to the party entitled thereto.
SECTION 10 DEFAULT; REMEDIES
The obligations of each Guarantor hereunder are independent of and
separate from the Obligations. If any Obligation is not paid when due, or upon
any Event of Default hereunder or upon any default by the Borrower as provided
in any other instrument or document evidencing all or any part of the
Obligations, the Administrative Agent may, at its sole election, proceed
directly and at once, without notice, against any Guarantor to collect and
recover the full amount or any portion of the Obligations then due, without
first proceeding against the Borrower or any other guarantor of the Obligations,
or against any Collateral under the Loan Documents or joining the Borrower or
any other guarantor in any proceeding against any Guarantor. At any time after
maturity of the Obligations, the Administrative Agent may (unless the
Obligations have been irrevocably paid in full), without notice to any Guarantor
and regardless of the acceptance of any Collateral for the payment hereof,
appropriate and apply toward the payment of the Obligations (a) any indebtedness
due or to become due from any Guarantied Party to such Guarantor and (b) any
moneys, credits or other property belonging to such Guarantor at any time held
by or coming into the possession of any Guarantied Party or any of its
respective Affiliates.
SECTION 11 IRREVOCABILITY
This Guaranty shall be irrevocable as to the Obligations (or any
part thereof) until the Revolving Credit Commitments have been terminated and
all monetary Obligations then outstanding have been irrevocably repaid in cash,
at which time this Guaranty shall automatically be cancelled. Upon such
cancellation and at the written request of any Guarantor or its successors or
assigns, and at the cost and expense of such Guarantor or its successors or
assigns, the Administrative Agent shall execute in a timely manner a
satisfaction of this Guaranty and such instruments, documents or agreements as
are necessary or desirable to evidence the termination of this Guaranty.
SECTION 12 SETOFF
Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of
Default, each Guarantied Party and each Affiliate of a Guarantied Party may,
without notice to any Guarantor and regardless of the acceptance of any security
or collateral for the payment hereof, appropriate and apply toward the payment
of all or any part of the Obligations (a) any indebtedness due or to become due
from such Guarantied Party or Affiliate to such Guarantor and (b) any moneys,
credits or other property belonging to such Guarantor, at any time held by, or
coming into, the possession of such Guarantied Party or Affiliate.
SECTION 13 NO MARSHALLING
Each Guarantor consents and agrees that no Guarantied Party or
Person acting for or on behalf of any Guarantied Party shall be under any
obligation to marshal any assets in favor of any Guarantor or against or in
payment of any or all of the Obligations.
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SECTION 14 ENFORCEMENT; WAIVERS; AMENDMENTS
(a) No delay on the part of any Guarantied Party in the exercise
of any right or remedy arising under this Guaranty, the Credit Agreement, any
other Loan Document or otherwise with respect to all or any part of the
Obligations, the Collateral or any other guaranty of or security for all or any
part of the Obligations shall operate as a waiver thereof, and no single or
partial exercise by any such Person of any such right or remedy shall preclude
any further exercise thereof. Failure by any Guarantied Party at any time or
times hereafter to require strict performance by the Borrower, any Guarantor,
any other guarantor of all or any part of the Obligations or any other Person of
any provision, warranty, term or condition contained in any Loan Document now or
at any time hereafter executed by any such Persons and delivered to any
Guarantied Party shall not waive, affect or diminish any right of any Guarantied
Party at any time or times hereafter to demand strict performance thereof and
such right shall not be deemed to have been waived by any act (except by a
written instrument pursuant to Section 14(b))or knowledge of any Guarantied
Party, or its respective agents, officers or employees. No waiver of any Event
of Default by any Guarantied Party shall operate as a waiver of any other Event
of Default or the same Event of Default on a future occasion, and no action by
any Guarantied Party permitted hereunder shall in any way affect or impair any
Guarantied Party's rights and remedies or the obligations of any Guarantor under
this Guaranty. Any determination by a court of competent jurisdiction of the
amount of any principal or interest owing by the Borrower to a Guarantied Party
shall be conclusive and binding on each Guarantor irrespective of whether such
Guarantor was a party to the suit or action in which such determination was
made.
(b) None of the terms or provisions of this Guaranty may be
waived, amended, supplemented or otherwise modified except in accordance with
Section 11.1 of the Credit Agreement.
SECTION 15 SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS
This Guaranty shall be binding upon each Guarantor and upon the
successors and assigns of such Guarantors and shall inure to the benefit of the
Guarantied Parties and their respective successors and assigns; all references
herein to the Borrower and to the Guarantors shall be deemed to include their
respective successors and assigns. The successors and assigns of the Guarantors
and the Borrower shall include, without limitation, their respective receivers,
trustees and debtors-in-possession. All references to the singular shall be
deemed to include the plural where the context so requires.
SECTION 16 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES; COVENANTS
Each Guarantor hereby (a) represents and warrants that the
representations and warranties as to it made by the Borrower in Article IV
(Representations and Warranties) of the Credit Agreement are true and correct in
all material respects on each date as required by Section 3.2(b)(i) (Conditions
Precedent to Each Loan and Letter of Credit) of the Credit Agreement and (b)
agrees to take, or refrain from taking, as the case may be, each action
necessary to be taken or not taken, as the case may be, so that no Default or
Event of Default is caused by the failure to take such action or to refrain from
taking such action by such Guarantor.
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SECTION 17 GOVERNING LAW
This Guaranty and the rights and obligations of the parties hereto
shall be governed by, and construed and interpreted in accordance with, the law
of the State of New York.
SECTION 18 SUBMISSION TO JURISDICTION; SERVICE OF PROCESS
(a) Any legal action or proceeding with respect to this Guaranty,
and any other Loan Document, may be brought in the courts of the State of New
York or of the United States of America for the Southern District of New York,
and, by execution and delivery of this Agreement, each Guarantor hereby accepts
for itself and in respect of its property, generally and unconditionally, the
jurisdiction of the aforesaid courts. The parties hereto hereby irrevocably
waive any objection, including any objection to the laying of venue or based on
the grounds of forum non conveniens, that any of them may now or hereafter have
to the bringing of any such action or proceeding in such respective
jurisdictions.
(b) Each Guarantor hereby irrevocably consents to the service of
any and all legal process, summons, notices and documents in any suit, action or
proceeding brought in the United States of America arising out of or in
connection with this Guaranty or any other Loan Document by the mailing (by
registered or certified mail, postage prepaid) or delivering of a copy of such
process to such Guarantor care of the Borrower at the Borrower's address
specified in Section 11.8 (Notices, Etc.) of the Credit Agreement. Each
Guarantor agrees that a final judgment in any such action or proceeding shall be
conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or
in any other manner provided by law.
(c) Nothing contained in this Section 18 (Submission to
Jurisdiction; Service of Process) shall affect the right of the Administrative
Agent or any other Guarantied Party to serve process in any other manner
permitted by law or commence legal proceedings or otherwise proceed against a
Guarantor in any other jurisdiction.
(d) If for the purposes of obtaining judgment in any court it is
necessary to convert a sum due hereunder in Dollars into another currency, the
parties hereto agree, to the fullest extent they may effectively do so, that the
rate of exchange used shall be that at which in accordance with normal banking
procedures the Administrative Agent could purchase Dollars with such other
currency at the spot rate of exchange quoted by the Administrative Agent at
11:00 a.m. (New York time) on the Business Day preceding that on which final
judgment is given, for the purchase of Dollars, for delivery two Business Days
thereafter.
SECTION 19 WAIVER OF JUDICIAL BOND
To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Guarantor
waives the requirement to post any bond that otherwise may be required of any
Guarantied Party in connection with any judicial proceeding to enforce such
Guarantied Party's rights to payment hereunder, security interest in or other
rights to the Collateral or in connection with any other legal or equitable
action or proceeding arising out of, in connection with, or related to this
Guaranty and the Loan Documents to which it is a party.
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SECTION 20 CERTAIN TERMS
The following rules of interpretation shall apply to this Guaranty:
(a) the terms "herein," "hereof," "hereto" and "hereunder" and similar terms
refer to this Guaranty as a whole and not to any particular Article, Section,
subsection or clause in this Guaranty, (b) unless otherwise indicated,
references herein to an Exhibit, Article, Section, subsection or clause refer to
the appropriate Exhibit to, or Article, Section, subsection or clause in this
Guaranty and (c) the term "including" means "including without limitation"
except when used in the computation of time periods.
SECTION 21 WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL
EACH OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT, THE OTHER GUARANTIED PARTIES AND
EACH GUARANTOR IRREVOCABLY WAIVES TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING WITH
RESPECT TO THIS GUARANTY AND ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT.
SECTION 22 NOTICES
Any notice or other communication herein required or permitted shall
be given as provided in Section 11.8 (Notices, Etc.) of the Credit Agreement
and, in the case of any Guarantor, to such Guarantor in care of the Borrower.
SECTION 23 SEVERABILITY
Wherever possible, each provision of this Guaranty shall be
interpreted in such manner as to be effective and valid under applicable law,
but if any provision of this Guaranty shall be prohibited by or invalid under
such law, such provision shall be ineffective to the extent of such prohibition
or invalidity without invalidating the remainder of such provision or the
remaining provisions of this Guaranty.
SECTION 24 ADDITIONAL GUARANTORS
Each of the Guarantors agrees that, if, pursuant to Section 7.11(b)
(Additional Collateral and Guaranties) of the Credit Agreement, the Borrower
shall be required to cause any Subsidiary thereof that is not a Guarantor to
become a Guarantor hereunder, or if for any reason the Borrower desires any such
Subsidiary to become a Guarantor hereunder, such Subsidiary shall execute and
deliver to the Administrative Agent a Guaranty Supplement in substantially the
form of Exhibit A (Guaranty Supplement) attached hereto and shall thereafter for
all purposes be a party hereto and have the same rights, benefits and
obligations as a Guarantor party hereto on the Closing Date.
SECTION 25 COLLATERAL
Each Guarantor hereby acknowledges and agrees that its obligations
under this Guaranty are secured pursuant to the terms and provisions of the
Collateral Documents executed by it in favor of the Administrative Agent, for
the benefit of the Secured Parties, and covenants that it shall not grant any
Lien with respect to its Property in favor, or for the benefit, of any Person
other than the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties
except as otherwise permitted by Section 8.2 (Liens, etc.) of the Credit
Agreement.
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SECTION 26 COSTS AND EXPENSES
In accordance with the provisions of Section 11.3 (Costs and
Expenses) of the Credit Agreement, each Guarantor agrees to pay or reimburse the
Administrative Agent and each of the other Guarantied Parties upon demand for
all out-of-pocket costs and expenses, including reasonable attorneys' fees
(including allocated costs of internal counsel and costs of settlement),
incurred by the Administrative Agent and such other Guarantied Parties in
enforcing this Guaranty against such Guarantor or any security therefor or
exercising or enforcing any other right or remedy available in connection
herewith or therewith.
SECTION 27 WAIVER OF CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES
EACH GUARANTOR HEREBY IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVES, TO THE
MAXIMUM EXTENT NOT PROHIBITED BY LAW, ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO CLAIM OR RECOVER
ANY SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, PUNITIVE OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGE IN ANY LEGAL ACTION OR
PROCEEDING IN RESPECT OF THIS GUARANTY OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT.
SECTION 28 ENTIRE AGREEMENT
This Guaranty, taken together with all of the other Loan Documents
executed and delivered by the Guarantors, represents the entire agreement and
understanding of the parties hereto and supersedes all prior understandings,
written and oral, relating to the subject matter hereof.
SECTION 29 COUNTERPARTS
This Guaranty may be executed by one or more of the parties to this
Guaranty on any number of separate counterparts (including by telecopy), each of
which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original and all of which taken
together shall constitute one and the same agreement. Signature pages may be
detached from multiple counterparts and attached to a single counterpart so that
all signature pages are attached to the same document. Delivery of an executed
counterpart by telecopy shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed
counterpart.
[SIGNATURE PAGES FOLLOW]
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, this Guaranty has been duly executed by the
Guarantors as of the day and year first set forth above.
DARLINGTON INC.
EDO AEROTECH LIMITED (UK)
EDO ARTISAN INC.
EDO COMMUNICATIONS AND
COUNTERMEASURES SYSTEMS INC.
EDO MBM TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
EDO MTECH INC.
EDO PROFESSIONAL SERVICES INC.
EDO RECONNAISSANCE AND SURVEILLANCE
SYSTEMS, INC.
EDO RUGGED SYSTEMS LIMITED
EDO (UK) LIMITED
EDO WESTERN CORPORATION
EVI TECHNOLOGY LLC
FIBER INNOVATIONS, INC.
SPECIALTY PLASTICS, INC.,
By:
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Name:
Title:
ACKNOWLEDGED AND AGREED
as of the date first above written:
CITICORP USA, INC.,
as Administrative Agent
By:
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Name:
Title:
EXHIBIT A
TO
GUARANTY
FORM OF GUARANTY SUPPLEMENT
The undersigned hereby agrees to be bound as a Guarantor for
purposes of the Guaranty, dated as of November 4, 2005 (the "Guaranty"), among
certain Subsidiaries of EDO Corporation listed on the signature pages thereof
and acknowledged by Citicorp USA, Inc., as Administrative Agent, and the
undersigned hereby acknowledges receipt of a copy of the Guaranty. The
undersigned hereby represents and warrants that each of the representations and
warranties contained in Section 16 (Representations and Warranties; Covenants)
of the Guaranty applicable to it is true and correct on and as the date hereof
as if made on and as of such date. Capitalized terms used herein but not defined
herein are used with the meanings given them in the Guaranty.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Guaranty
Supplement to be duly executed and delivered as of_____,_____.
[NAME OF GUARANTOR]
By:
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Name:
Title:
ACKNOWLEDGED AND AGREED
as of the date first above written:
CITICORP USA, INC.,
as Administrative Agent
By:
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Name:
Title:
EXHIBIT I
EXECUTION COPY
PLEDGE AND SECURITY AGREEMENT
DATED AS OF NOVEMBER 4, 2005
AMONG
EDO CORPORATION
AS A GRANTOR
AND
EACH OTHER GRANTOR
FROM TIME TO TIME PARTY HERETO
AND
CITICORP USA, INC.
AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
WEIL, GOTSHAL & ▇▇▇▇▇▇ LLP
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PLEDGE AND SECURITY AGREEMENT, dated as of November 4, 2005, by EDO
CORPORATION (the "Borrower") and each of the other entities listed on the
signature pages hereof or that becomes a party hereto pursuant to Section 7.10
(Additional Grantors) (each a "Grantor" and, collectively, the "Grantors"), in
favor of Citicorp USA, Inc. ("CUSA"), as administrative agent for the Secured
Parties (as defined in the Credit Agreement referred to below) (in such
capacity, the "Administrative Agent").
W I T N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Credit Agreement, dated as of November 4,
2005, (as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified
from time to time, the "Credit Agreement"), among the Borrower, the Lenders and
Issuers party thereto, CUSA, as administrative agent for the Lenders and
Issuers, and the other agents party thereto, the Lenders and the Issuers have
severally agreed to make extensions of credit to the Borrower upon the terms and
subject to the conditions set forth therein;
WHEREAS, the Grantors other than the Borrower are party to the
Guaranty pursuant to which they have guaranteed the Obligations; and
WHEREAS, it is a condition precedent to the obligation of the
Lenders and the Issuers to make their respective extensions of credit to the
Borrower under the Credit Agreement that the Grantors shall have executed and
delivered this Agreement to the Administrative Agent;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and to induce the
Lenders, the Issuers and the Administrative Agent to enter into the Credit
Agreement and to induce the Lenders and the Issuers to make their respective
extensions of credit to the Borrower thereunder, each Grantor hereby agrees with
the Administrative Agent as follows:
ARTICLE I DEFINED TERMS
SECTION 1.1 DEFINITIONS
(a) Unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the Credit
Agreement and used herein have the meanings given to them in the Credit
Agreement.
(b) Terms used herein without definition that are defined in the
UCC have the meanings given to them in the UCC, including the following terms
(which are capitalized herein):
"Account Debtor"
"Accounts"
"Certificated Security"
"Chattel Paper"
"Commercial Tort Claim"
"Commodity Account"
"Deposit Account"
"Documents"
"Entitlement Holder"
"Entitlement Order"
"Equipment"
"Financial Asset"
"General Intangibles"
"Instruments"
"Inventory"
"Investment Property"
"Letter-of-Credit Right"
"Proceeds"
"Securities Account"
"Securities Intermediary"
"Security"
"Security Entitlement"
(c) The following terms shall have the following meanings:
"Additional Pledged Collateral" means any Pledged Collateral
acquired by any Grantor after the date hereof and on which a security interest
is granted pursuant to Section 2.2 (Grant of Security Interest in Collateral),
including, to the extent a security interest is granted thereon pursuant to
Section 2.2 (Grant of Security Interest in Collateral), (i) all Stock and Stock
Equivalents of any Person that are acquired by any Grantor after the date
hereof, together with all certificates, instruments or other documents
representing any of the foregoing and all Security Entitlements of any Grantor
in respect of any of the foregoing, (ii) all additional indebtedness from time
to time owed to any Grantor by any obligor on the Pledged Debt Instruments and
the instruments evidencing such indebtedness and (iii) all interest, cash,
instruments and other property or Proceeds from time to time received,
receivable or otherwise distributed in respect of or in exchange for any of the
foregoing. "Additional Pledged Collateral" may be General Intangibles or
Investment Property.
"Agreement" means this Pledge and Security Agreement.
"Collateral" has the meaning specified in Section 2.1 (Collateral).
"Copyright Licenses" means any written agreement naming any Grantor
as licensor or licensee granting any right under any Copyright, including the
grant of any right to copy, publicly perform, create derivative works,
manufacture, distribute, exploit or sell materials derived from any Copyright.
"Copyrights" means (a) all copyrights arising under the laws of the
United States, any other country or any political subdivision thereof, whether
registered or unregistered and whether published or unpublished, all
registrations and recordings thereof and all applications in connection
therewith, including all registrations, recordings and applications in the
United States Copyright Office or in any foreign counterparts thereof, and (b)
the right to obtain all renewals thereof.
"Excluded Equity" means any Voting Stock in excess of 66% of the
total outstanding Voting Stock of any direct Subsidiary of any Grantor that is a
Non-U.S. Person. For the purposes of this definition, "Voting Stock" means, as
to any issuer, the issued and outstanding shares of each class of capital stock
or other ownership interests of such issuer entitled to vote (within the meaning
of Treasury Regulations Section 1.956-2(c)(2)).
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"Excluded Property" means, collectively, (i) Excluded Equity, (ii)
any permit, lease, license, contract, instrument or other agreement held by any
Grantor that prohibits or requires the consent of any Person other than the
Borrower and its Affiliates as a condition to the creation by such Grantor of a
Lien thereon, or any permit, lease, license contract or other agreement held by
any Grantor to the extent that any Requirement of Law applicable thereto
prohibits the creation of a Lien thereon, but only, in each case, to the extent,
and for so long as, such prohibition is not terminated or rendered unenforceable
or otherwise deemed ineffective by the UCC or any other Requirement of Law and
(iii) Equipment owned by any Grantor that is subject to a purchase money Lien or
a Capital Lease if the contract or other agreement in which such Lien is granted
(or in the documentation providing for such Capital Lease) prohibits or requires
the consent of any Person other than the Borrower and its Affiliates as a
condition to the creation of any other Lien on such Equipment; provided,
however, "Excluded Property" shall not include any Proceeds, substitutions or
replacements of Excluded Property (unless such Proceeds, substitutions or
replacements would constitute Excluded Property).
"Intellectual Property" means, collectively, all rights, priorities
and privileges of any Grantor relating to intellectual property, whether arising
under United States, multinational or foreign laws or otherwise, including
Copyrights, Copyright Licenses, Patents, Patent Licenses, Trademarks, Trademark
Licenses, trade secrets and Internet domain names, and all rights to ▇▇▇ at law
or in equity for any infringement or other impairment thereof, including the
right to receive all proceeds and damages therefrom.
"Intercompany Note" means any promissory note evidencing loans made
by any Grantor or any of its Subsidiaries to any of its Subsidiaries or another
Grantor.
"LLC" means each limited liability company in which a Grantor has an
interest, including those set forth on Schedule 2 (Pledged Collateral).
"LLC Agreement" means each operating agreement with respect to an
LLC, as each agreement has heretofore been, and may hereafter be, amended,
restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
"Material Intellectual Property" means Intellectual Property owned
by or licensed to a Grantor and material to the Grantors' business taken as a
whole.
"Partnership" means each partnership in which a Grantor has an
interest, including those set forth on Schedule 2 (Pledged Collateral).
"Partnership Agreement" means each partnership agreement governing a
Partnership, as each such agreement has heretofore been, and may hereafter be,
amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified.
"Patents" means (a) all letters patent of the United States, any
other country or any political subdivision thereof and all reissues and
extensions thereof, (b) all applications for letters patent of the United States
or any other country and all divisions, continuations and continuations-in-part
thereof and (c) all rights to obtain any reissues or extensions of the
foregoing.
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"Patent License" means all agreements, whether written or oral,
providing for the grant by or to any Grantor of any right to manufacture, have
manufactured, use, import, sell or offer for sale any invention covered in whole
or in part by a Patent.
"Pledged Certificated Stock" means all Certificated Securities and
any other Stock and Stock Equivalent of a Person evidenced by a certificate,
Instrument or other equivalent document, in each case owned by any Grantor,
including all Stock listed on Schedule 2 (Pledged Collateral).
"Pledged Collateral" means, collectively, the Pledged Stock, Pledged
Debt Instruments, any other Investment Property of any Grantor, all chattel
paper, certificates or other instruments representing any of the foregoing and
all Security Entitlements of any Grantor in respect of any of the foregoing.
Pledged Collateral may be General Intangibles or Investment Property.
"Pledged Debt Instruments" means all right, title and interest of
any Grantor in Instruments evidencing any Indebtedness owed to such Grantor,
including all Indebtedness described on Schedule 2 (Pledged Collateral), issued
by the obligors named therein.
"Pledged Stock" means all Pledged Certificated Stock and all Pledged
Uncertificated Stock. For purposes of this Agreement, the term "Pledged Stock"
shall not include any Excluded Equity.
"Pledged Uncertificated Stock" means any Stock or Stock Equivalent
of any Person that is not a Pledged Certificated Stock, including all right,
title and interest of any Grantor as a limited or general partner in any
Partnership or as a member of any LLC and all right, title and interest of any
Grantor in, to and under any Partnership Agreement or LLC Agreement to which it
is a party.
"Receivable" means any right to payment for goods sold, leased,
licensed, assigned or otherwise disposed of, or for services rendered, whether
or not such right arises under a Contractual Obligation or is evidenced by an
Instrument or Chattel Paper, and whether or not it has been earned by
performance (including, without limitation, any Account).
"Securities Act" means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
"Trademark License" means any agreement, whether written or oral,
providing for the grant by or to any Grantor of any right to use any Trademark.
"Trademarks" means (a) all trademarks, trade names, corporate names,
company names, business names, fictitious business names, trade styles, service
marks, logos and other source or business identifiers, and, in each case, all
goodwill associated therewith, whether now existing or hereafter adopted or
acquired, all registrations and recordings thereof and all applications in
connection therewith, in each case whether in the United States Patent and
Trademark Office or in any similar office or agency of the United States, any
State thereof or any other country or any political subdivision thereof, or
otherwise, and all common-law rights related thereto, and (b) the right to
obtain all renewals thereof.
"UCC" means the Uniform Commercial Code as from time to time in
effect in the State of New York; provided, however, that, in the event that, by
reason of mandatory
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provisions of law, any of the attachment, perfection or priority of the
Administrative Agent's and the Secured Parties' 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, the term "UCC" shall mean the
Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in such other jurisdiction for purposes of
the provisions hereof relating to such attachment, perfection or priority and
for purposes of definitions related to such provisions.
"Vehicles" means all vehicles covered by a certificate of title law
of any state.
SECTION 1.2 CERTAIN OTHER TERMS
(a) In this Agreement, in the computation of periods of time from
a specified date to a later specified date, the word "from" means "from and
including" and the words "to" and "until" each mean "to but excluding" and the
word "through" means "to and including."
(b) The terms "herein," "hereof," "hereto" and "hereunder" and
similar terms refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular
Article, Section, subsection or clause in this Agreement.
(c) References herein to an Annex, Schedule, Article, Section,
subsection or clause refer to the appropriate Annex or Schedule to, or Article,
Section, subsection or clause in this Agreement.
(d) The meanings given to terms defined herein shall be equally
applicable to both the singular and plural forms of such terms.
(e) Where the context requires, provisions relating to any
Collateral, when used in relation to a Grantor, shall refer to such Grantor's
Collateral or any relevant part thereof.
(f) Any reference in this Agreement to a Loan Document shall
include all appendices, exhibits and schedules thereto, and, unless specifically
stated otherwise all amendments, restatements, supplements or other
modifications thereto, and as the same may be in effect at any time such
reference becomes operative.
(g) The term "including" means "including without limitation"
except when used in the computation of time periods.
(h) The terms "Lender," "Issuer," "Administrative Agent" and
"Secured Party" include their respective successors.
(i) References in this Agreement to any statute shall be to such
statute as amended or modified and in effect from time to time.
ARTICLE II GRANT OF SECURITY INTEREST
SECTION 2.1 COLLATERAL
For the purposes of this Agreement, all of the following property
now owned or at any time hereafter acquired by a Grantor or in which a Grantor
now has or at any time in the future may acquire any right, title or interests
is collectively referred to as the "Collateral":
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(a) all Accounts;
(b) all Chattel Paper;
(c) all Deposit Accounts;
(d) all Documents;
(e) all Equipment;
(f) all General Intangibles;
(g) all Instruments;
(h) all Inventory;
(i) all Investment Property;
(j) all Letter-of-Credit Rights;
(k) all Vehicles;
(l) the Commercial Tort Claims described on Schedule 7 (Commercial
Tort Claims) and on any supplement thereto received by the Administrative Agent
pursuant to Section 4.9 (Notice of Commercial Tort Claims);
(m) all books and records pertaining to the other property
described in this Section 2.1;
(n) all property of any Grantor held by the Administrative Agent
or any other Secured Party, including all property of every description, in the
possession or custody of or in transit to the Administrative Agent or such
Secured Party for any purpose, including safekeeping, collection or pledge, for
the account of such Grantor or as to which such Grantor may have any right or
power;
(o) all other goods and personal property of such Grantor, whether
tangible or intangible and wherever located; and
(p) to the extent not otherwise included, all Proceeds;
provided, however, that "Collateral" shall not include any Excluded
Property; and provided, further, that if and when any property shall cease to be
Excluded Property, such property shall be deemed at all times from and after the
date hereof to constitute Collateral.
SECTION 2.2 GRANT OF SECURITY INTEREST IN COLLATERAL
Each Grantor, as collateral security for the full, prompt and
complete payment and performance when due (whether at stated maturity, by
acceleration or otherwise) of the Secured Obligations of such Grantor, hereby
mortgages, pledges and hypothecates to the Administrative Agent for the benefit
of the Secured Parties, and grants to the Administrative
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Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties a lien on and security interest in,
all of its right, title and interest in, to and under the Collateral of such
Grantor; provided, however, that, if and when any property that at any time
constituted Excluded Property becomes Collateral, the Administrative Agent shall
have, and at all times from and after the date hereof be deemed to have had, a
security interest in such property.
SECTION 2.3 CASH COLLATERAL ACCOUNTS
The Administrative Agent has established a Deposit Account at
Citibank, N.A., designated as "Citicorp USA, Inc. - EDO Corporation
Concentration Account". Such Deposit Account shall be a Cash Collateral Account.
ARTICLE III REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
To induce the Lenders, the Issuers and the Administrative Agent to
enter into the Credit Agreement, each Grantor hereby represents and warrants
each of the following to the Administrative Agent, the Lenders, the Issuers and
the other Secured Parties:
SECTION 3.1 TITLE; NO OTHER LIENS
Except for the Lien granted to the Administrative Agent pursuant to
this Agreement and the other Liens permitted to exist on the Collateral under
the Credit Agreement, such Grantor (a) is the record and beneficial owner of the
Pledged Collateral pledged by it hereunder constituting Instruments or
Certificated Securities, (b) is the Entitlement Holder of all such Pledged
Collateral constituting Investment Property held in a Securities Account and (c)
has rights in or the power to transfer each other item of Collateral in which a
Lien is granted by it hereunder, free and clear of any other Lien.
SECTION 3.2 PERFECTION AND PRIORITY
The security interest granted pursuant to this Agreement shall
constitute a valid and continuing perfected security interest in favor of the
Administrative Agent in the Collateral for which perfection is governed by the
UCC or filing with the United States Copyright Office upon (i) the completion of
the filings, payment of fees and other actions specified on Schedule 3 (Filings)
(which, in the case of all filings and other documents referred to on such
schedule, have been delivered to the Administrative Agent in completed and duly
executed form), (ii) the delivery to the Administrative Agent of all Collateral
consisting of Instruments and Certificated Securities, in each case properly
endorsed for transfer to the Administrative Agent or in blank and (iii) all
appropriate filings having been made with the United States Copyright Office.
Such security interest shall be prior to all other Liens on the Collateral
except for Customary Permitted Liens having priority over the Administrative
Agent's Lien by operation of law or otherwise as permitted under the Credit
Agreement.
SECTION 3.3 JURISDICTION OF ORGANIZATION; CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICE
Such Grantor's jurisdiction of organization, legal name,
organizational identification number, if any, and the location of such Grantor's
chief executive office or sole place of business, in each case as of the date
hereof, is specified on Schedule 1 (Jurisdiction of Organization; Principal
Executive Office) and such Schedule 1 (Jurisdiction of Organization; Principal
Executive Office) also lists all jurisdictions of incorporation, legal names and
locations
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of such Grantor's chief executive office or sole place of business for the four
months preceding the date hereof.
SECTION 3.4 INVENTORY AND EQUIPMENT
On the date hereof, such Grantor's Inventory and Equipment (other
than mobile goods and Inventory or Equipment in transit) are kept at the
locations listed on Schedule 4 (Location of Inventory and Equipment) and such
Schedule 4 (Location of Inventory and Equipment) also list the locations of such
Inventory and Equipment for the four months preceding the date hereof.
SECTION 3.5 PLEDGED COLLATERAL
(a) The Pledged Stock pledged hereunder by such Grantor is listed
on Schedule 2 (Pledged Collateral) and constitutes that percentage of the issued
and outstanding equity of all classes of each issuer thereof as set forth on
Schedule 2 (Pledged Collateral).
(b) All of the Pledged Stock (other than Pledged Stock in limited
liability companies and partnerships) has been duly authorized, validly issued
and is fully paid and nonassessable.
(c) All Pledged Collateral and, if applicable, any Additional
Pledged Collateral, consisting of Certificated Securities or Instruments has
been delivered to the Administrative Agent in accordance with Section 4.4(a)
(Pledged Collateral).
(d) The Constituent Documents of any Person governing any Pledged
Stock permit that, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of
Default, the Administrative Agent shall be entitled to exercise all of the
rights of the Grantor granting the security interest therein, and that a
transferee or assignee of Stock of such Person shall become a member, partner
or, as the case may be, other holder of such Pledged Stock to the same extent as
the Grantor in such Person entitled to participate in the management of such
Person and, upon the transfer of the entire interest of such Grantor, such
Grantor ceases to be a member, partner or, as the case may be, other holder of
such Pledged Stock.
SECTION 3.6 ACCOUNTS
No amount payable to such Grantor under or in connection with any
Account is evidenced by any Instrument or Chattel Paper that has not been
delivered to the Administrative Agent, properly endorsed for transfer, to the
extent delivery is required by Section 4.4 (Pledged Collateral).
SECTION 3.7 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
(a) Schedule 5 (Intellectual Property) lists all Material
Intellectual Property of such Grantor on the date hereof, separately identifying
that owned by such Grantor and that licensed to such Grantor. The Material
Intellectual Property set forth on Schedule 5 (Intellectual Property) for such
Grantor constitutes all of the intellectual property rights necessary to conduct
its business.
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(b) All Material Intellectual Property set forth on Schedule 5
(Intellectual Property) owned by such Grantor is (i) to the knowledge of such
Grantor, valid, subsisting, unexpired and enforceable, (ii) has not been
adjudged invalid and has not been abandoned and (iii) to the knowledge of such
Grantor, the use thereof in the business of such Grantor does not infringe,
misappropriate, dilute or violate the intellectual property rights of any other
Person.
(c) Except as set forth in Schedule 5 (Intellectual Property),
none of the Material Intellectual Property owned by such Grantor is the subject
of any licensing or franchise agreement pursuant to which such Grantor is the
licensor or franchisor.
(d) No holding, decision or judgment has been rendered by any
Governmental Authority that would limit, cancel or question the validity of, or
such Grantor's rights in, any Material Intellectual Property.
(e) No action or proceeding seeking to limit, cancel or question
the validity of any Material Intellectual Property owned by such Grantor or such
Grantor's ownership interest therein is pending or, to the knowledge of such
Grantor, threatened. There are no material claims, judgments or settlements to
be paid by such Grantor relating to the Material Intellectual Property.
SECTION 3.8 DEPOSIT ACCOUNTS; SECURITIES ACCOUNTS
The only Deposit Accounts or Securities Accounts maintained by any
Grantor on the date hereof are those listed on Schedule 6 (Bank Accounts), which
sets forth such information separately for each Grantor.
SECTION 3.9 COMMERCIAL TORT CLAIMS
The only Commercial Tort Claims of any Grantor existing on the date
hereof in excess of $250,000 (regardless of whether the amount, defendant or
other material facts can be determined and regardless of whether such Commercial
Tort Claim has been asserted, threatened or has otherwise been made known to the
obligee thereof or whether litigation has been commenced for such claims) are
those listed on Schedule 7 (Commercial Tort Claims), which sets forth such
information separately for each Grantor.
ARTICLE IV COVENANTS
Each Grantor agrees with the Administrative Agent to the following,
as long as any Obligation or Revolving Credit Commitment remains outstanding
and, in each case, unless the Requisite Lenders otherwise consent in writing:
SECTION 4.1 GENERALLY
Such Grantor shall (a) not use or permit any Collateral to be used
in violation of (i) any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document,
(ii) any policy of insurance covering the Collateral or (iii) any Requirement of
Law, except, with respect to clause (iii), to the extent such use would not have
a Material Adverse Effect, (b) not enter into any agreement or undertaking
restricting the right or ability of such Grantor or the Administrative Agent to
sell, assign or transfer any Collateral if such restriction would have a
Material Adverse Effect and (c) promptly notify the Administrative Agent of its
entry into any agreement or assumption of
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undertaking that restricts the ability to sell, assign or transfer any
Collateral regardless of whether or not it has a Material Adverse Effect.
SECTION 4.2 MAINTENANCE OF PERFECTED SECURITY INTEREST; FURTHER
DOCUMENTATION
(a) Such Grantor shall maintain the security interest created by
this Agreement as a perfected security interest having at least the priority
described in Section 3.2 (Perfection and Priority) and shall defend such
security interest and such priority against the claims and demands of all
Persons.
(b) Such Grantor shall furnish to the Administrative Agent from
time to time statements and schedules further identifying and describing the
Collateral and such other reports in connection with the Collateral as the
Administrative Agent may reasonably request, all in reasonable detail and in
form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
(c) At any time and from time to time, upon the written request of
the Administrative Agent, and at the sole expense of such Grantor, such Grantor
shall promptly and duly execute and deliver, and have recorded, such further
instruments and documents and take such further action as the Administrative
Agent may reasonably request for the purpose of obtaining or preserving the full
benefits of this Agreement and of the rights and powers herein granted,
including the filing of any financing or continuation statement under the UCC
(or other similar laws) in effect in any jurisdiction with respect to the
security interest created hereby and, if an Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing, the execution and delivery of control agreements in form and
substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent to grant the Administrative
Agent "control" (within the meaning of the UCC) over such Grantor's Deposit
Accounts and Securities Accounts.
SECTION 4.3 CHANGES IN LOCATIONS, NAME, ETC.
(a) Except upon 15 days' prior written notice to the
Administrative Agent and delivery to the Administrative Agent of (i) all
additional financing statements and other documents reasonably requested by the
Administrative Agent to maintain the validity, perfection and priority of the
security interests provided for herein and (ii) if applicable, a written
supplement to Schedule 4 (Location of Inventory and Equipment) showing (A) any
additional locations at which Inventory or Equipment shall be kept or (B) any
changes in any location where Inventory or Equipment shall be kept that would
require the Administrative Agent to take any action to maintain a perfected
security interest in such Collateral, such Grantor shall not do any of the
following:
(i) permit any Inventory or Equipment to be kept at a location
other than those listed on Schedule 4 (Location of Inventory and
Equipment), except for (A) Inventory or Equipment in transit and (B) other
Inventory and Equipment with an aggregate value less than $250,000;
(ii) change its jurisdiction of organization or its location, in
each case from that referred to in Section 3.3 (Jurisdiction of
Organization; Chief Executive Office); or
(iii) change its name, identity or corporate structure to such an
extent that any financing statement filed in connection with this Agreement
would become misleading.
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(b) Such Grantor shall keep and maintain at its own cost and
expense satisfactory and complete records of the Collateral, including a record
of all payments received and all credits granted with respect to the Collateral.
SECTION 4.4 PLEDGED COLLATERAL
(a) Such Grantor shall deliver to the Administrative Agent, all
certificates and Instruments representing or evidencing any Pledged Collateral
(including Additional Pledged Collateral), whether now existing or hereafter
acquired, in suitable form for transfer by delivery or, as applicable,
accompanied by such Grantor's endorsement, where necessary, or duly executed
instruments of transfer or assignment in blank, all in form and substance
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, together, in respect of any Additional
Pledged Collateral, with a Pledge Amendment, duly executed by the Grantor, in
substantially the form of Annex 1 (Form of Pledge Amendment), an acknowledgment
and agreement to a Joinder Agreement duly executed by the Grantor, in
substantially the form in the form of Annex 2 (Form of Joinder Agreement), or
such other documentation acceptable to the Administrative Agent. Such Grantor
authorizes the Administrative Agent to attach each Pledge Amendment to this
Agreement. The Administrative Agent shall have the right, at any time in its
discretion and without notice to the Grantor, to transfer to or to register in
its name or in the name of its nominees any Pledged Collateral. The
Administrative Agent shall have the right at any time to exchange any
certificate or instrument representing or evidencing any Pledged Collateral for
certificates or instruments of smaller or larger denominations.
(b) Except as provided in Article V (Remedial Provisions), such
Grantor shall be entitled to receive all cash dividends paid in respect of the
Pledged Collateral (other than liquidating or distributing dividends) with
respect to the Pledged Collateral. Any sums paid upon or in respect of any
Pledged Collateral upon the liquidation or dissolution of any issuer of any
Pledged Collateral, any distribution of capital made on or in respect of any
Pledged Collateral or any property distributed upon or with respect to any
Pledged Collateral pursuant to the recapitalization or reclassification of the
capital of any issuer of Pledged Collateral or pursuant to the reorganization
thereof shall, unless otherwise subject to a perfected security interest in
favor of the Administrative Agent, be delivered to the Administrative Agent to
be held by it hereunder as additional collateral security for the Secured
Obligations. If any sum of money or property so paid or distributed in respect
of any Pledged Collateral shall be received by such Grantor, such Grantor shall,
until such money or property is paid or delivered to the Administrative Agent,
hold such money or property in trust for the Administrative Agent, segregated
from other funds of such Grantor, as additional security for the Secured
Obligations.
(c) Except as provided in Article V (Remedial Provisions), such
Grantor shall be entitled to exercise all voting, consent and corporate,
partnership, limited liability company and similar rights with respect to the
Pledged Collateral; provided, however, that no vote shall be cast, consent given
or right exercised or other action taken by such Grantor that would impair the
Collateral or result in any violation of any provision of the Credit Agreement,
this Agreement or any other Loan Document or, without prior notice to the
Administrative Agent, enable or permit any issuer of Pledged Collateral to issue
any Stock or other equity Securities of any nature or to issue any other
securities convertible into or granting the right to purchase or exchange for
any Stock or other equity Securities of any nature of any issuer of Pledged
Collateral.
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(d) Such Grantor shall not grant "control" (within the meaning of
such term under Article 9-106 of the UCC) over any Investment Property to any
Person other than the Administrative Agent.
(e) In the case of each Grantor that is an issuer of Pledged
Collateral, such Grantor agrees to be bound by the terms of this Agreement
relating to the Pledged Collateral issued by it and shall comply with such terms
insofar as such terms are applicable to it. In the case of any Grantor that is a
holder of any Stock or Stock Equivalent in any Person that is an issuer of
Pledged Collateral, such Grantor consents to (i) the exercise of the rights
granted to the Administrative Agent hereunder (including those described in
Section 5.3 (Pledged Collateral)), and (ii) the pledge by each other Grantor,
pursuant to the terms hereof, of the Pledged Stock in such Person and to the
transfer of such Pledged Stock to the Administrative Agent or its nominee and to
the substitution of the Administrative Agent or its nominee as a holder of such
Pledged Stock with all the rights, powers and duties of other holders of Pledged
Stock of the same class and, if the Grantor having pledged such Pledged Stock
hereunder had any right, power or duty at the time of such pledge or at the time
of such substitution beyond that of such other holders, with all such additional
rights, powers and duties. Such Grantor agrees to execute and deliver to the
Administrative Agent such certificates, agreements and other documents as may be
necessary to evidence, formalize or otherwise give effect to the consents given
in this clause (e).
(f) Such Grantor shall not, without the consent of the
Administrative Agent, agree to any amendment of any Constituent Document that in
any way adversely affects the perfection of the security interest of the
Administrative Agent in the Pledged Collateral pledged by such Grantor
hereunder, including any amendment electing to treat any membership interest or
partnership interest that is part of the Pledged Collateral as a security under
Section 8-103 of the UCC, or any election to turn any previously uncertificated
Stock that is part of the Pledged Collateral into certificated Stock.
SECTION 4.5 ACCOUNTS
Such Grantor shall not, other than in the ordinary course of
business consistent with its past practice, (i) grant any extension of the time
of payment of any Account, (ii) compromise or settle any Account for less than
the full amount thereof, (iii) release, wholly or partially, any Person liable
for the payment of any Account, (iv) allow any credit or discount on any Account
or (v) amend, supplement or modify any Account in any manner that could
adversely affect the value thereof.
SECTION 4.6 DELIVERY OF INSTRUMENTS AND CHATTEL PAPER
If any amount in excess of $100,000 payable under or in connection
with any Collateral owned by such Grantor shall be or become evidenced by an
Instrument or Chattel Paper, such Grantor shall immediately deliver such
Instrument or Chattel Paper to the Administrative Agent, duly indorsed in a
manner satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, or, if consented to by the
Administrative Agent, shall ▇▇▇▇ all such Instruments and Chattel Paper with the
following legend: "This writing and the obligations evidenced or secured hereby
are subject to the security interest of Citicorp USA, Inc., as Administrative
Agent".
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SECTION 4.7 INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
(a) Such Grantor shall (i) continue to use each Trademark that is
Material Intellectual Property in order to maintain such Trademark in full force
and effect with respect to each class of goods for which such Trademark is
currently used, free from any claim of abandonment for non-use, (ii) maintain as
in the past the quality of products and services offered under such Trademark,
(iii) use such Trademark with the appropriate notice of registration and all
other notices and legends required by applicable Requirements of Law, (iv) not
adopt or use any ▇▇▇▇ that is confusingly similar or a colorable imitation of
such Trademark unless the Administrative Agent shall obtain a perfected security
interest in such ▇▇▇▇ pursuant to this Agreement and (v) not (and not permit any
licensee or sublicensee thereof to) do any act or knowingly omit to do any act
whereby such Trademark (or any goodwill associated therewith) may become
destroyed, invalidated, impaired or harmed in any way. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, no Grantor shall be required to use or maintain any Trademark that,
in its reasonable business judgment, is no longer useful or necessary to such
Grantor's business.
(b) Such Grantor shall not do any act, or omit to do any act,
whereby any Patent that is Material Intellectual Property may become forfeited,
abandoned or dedicated to the public. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Grantor
shall be required to use or maintain any Patent that, in its reasonable business
judgment, is no longer useful or necessary to such Grantor's business.
(c) Such Grantor (i) shall not (and shall not permit any licensee
or sublicensee thereof to) do any act or omit to do any act whereby any portion
of the Copyrights that is Material Intellectual Property may become invalidated
or otherwise impaired and (ii) shall not do any act whereby any portion of the
Copyrights that is Material Intellectual Property may fall into the public
domain. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Grantor shall be required to use or
maintain any Copyright that, in its reasonable business judgment, is no longer
useful or necessary to such Grantor's business.
(d) Such Grantor shall take commercially reasonable steps to
protect the confidentiality of any trade secret that is Material Intellectual
Property.
(e) Such Grantor shall not do any act that knowingly uses any
Material Intellectual Property to infringe, misappropriate, or violate the
intellectual property rights of any other Person.
(f) Such Grantor shall notify the Administrative Agent immediately
if it knows that any application or registration relating to any Material
Intellectual Property is likely to become forfeited, abandoned or dedicated to
the public, or of any adverse determination or development (including the
institution of, or any such determination or development in, any proceeding in
the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the United States Copyright
Office or any court or tribunal in any country) regarding such Grantor's
ownership of, right to use, interest in, or the validity of, any Material
Intellectual Property or such Grantor's right to register the same or to own and
maintain the same.
(g) Whenever such Grantor, either by itself or through any agent,
licensee or designee, shall file an application for the registration of any
Intellectual Property with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, the
United States Copyright Office or any similar office or agency within or outside
the United States or register any Internet domain name, such Grantor
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shall report such filing to the Administrative Agent within five Business Days
after the last day of the fiscal quarter in which such filing occurs. Upon
request of the Administrative Agent, such Grantor shall execute and deliver, and
have recorded, all agreements, instruments, documents and papers as the
Administrative Agent may request to evidence the Administrative Agent's security
interest in any Copyright, Patent, Trademark or Internet domain name and the
goodwill and general intangibles of such Grantor relating thereto or represented
thereby.
(h) Such Grantor shall take all reasonable actions necessary or
requested by the Administrative Agent, including in any proceeding before the
United States Patent and Trademark Office, the United States Copyright Office or
any similar office or agency and any Internet domain name registrar, to maintain
and pursue each application (and to obtain the relevant registration) and to
maintain each registration of any Copyright, Trademark, Patent or Internet
domain name that is Material Intellectual Property, including filing of
applications for renewal, affidavits of use, affidavits of incontestability and
opposition and interference and cancellation proceedings.
(i) In the event that any Material Intellectual Property is or has
been infringed upon or misappropriated or diluted by a third party in any
material respect, such Grantor shall notify the Administrative Agent promptly
after such Grantor learns thereof. Such Grantor shall take appropriate action in
its reasonable judgment under the circumstances in response to such
infringement, misappropriation of dilution, including promptly bringing suit for
infringement, misappropriation or dilution and to recover all damages for such
infringement, misappropriation of dilution, and shall take such other actions
may be appropriate in its reasonable judgment under the circumstances to protect
such Material Intellectual Property.
(j) Unless otherwise agreed to by the Administrative Agent, such
Grantor shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent for filing in (i)
the United States Copyright Office a short-form copyright security agreement
substantially in the form attached hereto as Annex 3 (Form of Short Form
Intellectual Property Security Agreement), (ii) in the United States Patent and
Trademark Office and with the Secretary of State of all appropriate States of
the United States a short-form patent security agreement substantially in the
form attached hereto as Annex 3 (Form of Short Form Intellectual Property
Security Agreement), (iii) the United States Patent and Trademark Office a
short-form trademark security agreement substantially in the form attached
hereto as Annex 3 (Form of Short Form Intellectual Property Security Agreement)
and (iv) with the appropriate Internet domain name registrar, a duly executed
form of assignment of such Internet domain name to the Administrative Agent
(together with appropriate supporting documentation as may be requested by the
Administrative Agent) in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the
Administrative Agent. In the case of clause (iv) above, such Grantor hereby
authorizes the Administrative Agent to file such assignment in such Grantor's
name and to otherwise perform in the name of such Grantor all other necessary
actions to complete such assignment, and each Grantor agrees to perform all
appropriate actions deemed necessary by the Administrative Agent for the
Administrative Agent to ensure such Internet domain name is registered in the
name of the Administrative Agent.
SECTION 4.8 PAYMENT OF OBLIGATIONS
Such Grantor shall pay and discharge or otherwise satisfy at or
before maturity or before they become delinquent, as the case may be, all taxes,
assessments and governmental charges or levies imposed upon the Collateral or in
respect of income or profits therefrom, as well as all claims of any kind
(including claims for labor, materials and supplies) against or with
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respect to the Collateral, except that no such charge need be paid if the amount
or validity thereof is currently being contested in good faith by appropriate
proceedings, reserves in conformity with GAAP with respect thereto have been
provided on the books of such Grantor and such proceedings could not reasonably
be expected to result in the sale, forfeiture or loss of any material portion of
the Collateral or any interest therein.
SECTION 4.9 NOTICE OF COMMERCIAL TORT CLAIMS
Such Grantor agrees that, if it shall acquire any interest in any
Commercial Tort Claim in excess of $250,000 (whether from another Person or
because such Commercial Tort Claim shall have come into existence), (i) such
Grantor shall, immediately upon such acquisition, deliver to the Administrative
Agent, in each case in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent, a notice of the existence and nature of such Commercial
Tort Claim and deliver a supplement to Schedule 7 (Commercial Tort Claims)
containing a specific description of such Commercial Tort Claim, (ii) the
provision of Section 2.1 (Collateral) shall apply to such Commercial Tort Claim
and (iii) such Grantor shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent, in
each case in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative
Agent, any certificate, agreement and other document, and take all other action,
deemed by the Administrative Agent to be reasonably necessary or appropriate for
the Administrative Agent to obtain, on behalf of the Lenders, a first-priority,
perfected security interest in all such Commercial Tort Claims. Any supplement
to Schedule 7 (Commercial Tort Claims) delivered pursuant to this Section 4.9
(Notice of Commercial Tort Claims) shall, after the receipt thereof by the
Administrative Agent, become part of Schedule 7 (Commercial Tort Claims) for all
purposes hereunder other than in respect of representations and warranties made
prior to the date of such receipt.
SECTION 4.10 ASSIGNMENT OF CLAIMS ACT
Upon the reasonable request of the Administrative Agent or after the
occurrence and during the continuance of a Default or an Event of Default, such
Grantor shall take such actions as reasonably requested by the Administrative
Agent to assign the right of payment with respect to each Receivable owing to
such Grantor by a Governmental Authority to the Administrative Agent pursuant to
the Assignment of Claims Act of 1940, as amended, or other applicable
Requirements of Law in order to direct that payments of such Receivables by such
Governmental Authority be made to a Cash Collateral Account.
ARTICLE V REMEDIAL PROVISIONS
SECTION 5.1 CODE AND OTHER REMEDIES
During the continuance of an Event of Default, the Administrative
Agent may exercise, in addition to all other rights and remedies granted to it
in this Agreement and in any other instrument or agreement securing, evidencing
or relating to the Secured Obligations, all rights and remedies of a secured
party under the UCC or any other applicable law. Without limiting the generality
of the foregoing, the Administrative Agent, without demand of performance or
other demand, presentment, protest, advertisement or notice of any kind (except
any notice required by law referred to below) to or upon any Grantor or any
other Person (all and each of which demands, defenses, advertisements and
notices are hereby waived), may in such circumstances forthwith collect,
receive, appropriate and realize upon any Collateral, and may forthwith sell,
lease, assign, give option or options to purchase, or otherwise dispose of and
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deliver any Collateral (or contract to do any of the foregoing), in one or more
parcels at public or private sale or sales, at any exchange, broker's board or
office of the Administrative Agent or any Lender or elsewhere upon such terms
and conditions as it may deem advisable and at such prices as it may deem best,
for cash or on credit or for future delivery without assumption of any credit
risk. The Administrative Agent shall have the right upon any such public sale or
sales, and, to the extent permitted by law, upon any such private sale or sales,
to purchase the whole or any part of the Collateral so sold, free of any right
or equity of redemption in any Grantor, which right or equity is hereby waived
and released. Each Grantor further agrees, at the Administrative Agent's
request, to assemble the Collateral and make it available to the Administrative
Agent at places that the Administrative Agent shall reasonably select, whether
at such Grantor's premises or elsewhere. The Administrative Agent shall apply
the net proceeds of any action taken by it pursuant to this Section 5.1, after
deducting all reasonable costs and expenses of every kind incurred in connection
therewith or incidental to the care or safekeeping of any Collateral or in any
way relating to the Collateral or the rights of the Administrative Agent and any
other Secured Party hereunder, including reasonable attorneys' fees and
disbursements, to the payment in whole or in part of the Secured Obligations, in
such order as the Credit Agreement shall prescribe, and only after such
application and after the payment by the Administrative Agent of any other
amount required by any provision of law, need the Administrative Agent account
for the surplus, if any, to any Grantor. To the extent permitted by applicable
law, each Grantor waives all claims, damages and demands it may acquire against
the Administrative Agent or any other Secured Party arising out of the exercise
by them of any rights hereunder. If any notice of a proposed sale or other
disposition of Collateral shall be required by law, such notice shall be deemed
reasonable and proper if given at least 10 days before such sale or other
disposition.
SECTION 5.2 ACCOUNTS AND PAYMENTS IN RESPECT OF GENERAL INTANGIBLES
(a) In addition to, and not in substitution for, any similar
requirement in the Credit Agreement, if required by the Administrative Agent at
any time during the continuance of an Event of Default, any payment of Accounts
or payment in respect of General Intangibles, when collected by any Grantor,
shall be forthwith (and, in any event, within two Business Days) deposited by
such Grantor in the exact form received, duly indorsed by such Grantor to the
Administrative Agent, in a Cash Collateral Account, subject to withdrawal by the
Administrative Agent as provided in Section 5.4 (Proceeds to be Turned Over To
Administrative Agent). Until so turned over or turned over, such payment shall
be held by such Grantor in trust for the Administrative Agent, segregated from
other funds of such Grantor. Each such deposit of Proceeds of Accounts and
payments in respect of General Intangibles shall be accompanied by a report
identifying in reasonable detail the nature and source of the payments included
in the deposit.
(b) At the Administrative Agent's request, during the continuance
of an Event of Default, each Grantor shall deliver to the Administrative Agent
all original and other documents evidencing, and relating to, the agreements and
transactions that gave rise to the Accounts or payments in respect of General
Intangibles, including all original orders, invoices and shipping receipts;
provided, however, that the Administrative Agent acknowledges that certain
documents, information or materials may not be delivered to it as a result of
confidentiality or security restrictions upon the distribution of such
documents, information or materials.
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(c) The Administrative Agent may, without notice, at any time
during the continuance of an Event of Default, limit or terminate the authority
of a Grantor to collect its Accounts or amounts due under General Intangibles or
any thereof.
(d) The Administrative Agent in its own name or in the name of
others may at any time during the continuance of an Event of Default communicate
with Account Debtors to verify with them to the Administrative Agent's
satisfaction the existence, amount and terms of any Account or amounts due under
any General Intangible.
(e) Upon the request of the Administrative Agent at any time
during the continuance of an Event of Default, each Grantor shall notify Account
Debtors that the Accounts or General Intangibles have been collaterally assigned
to the Administrative Agent and that payments in respect thereof shall be made
directly to the Administrative Agent. In addition, the Administrative Agent may
at any time during the continuance of an Event of Default enforce such Grantor's
rights against such Account Debtors and obligors of General Intangibles.
(f) Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, each Grantor
shall remain liable under each of the Accounts and payments in respect of
General Intangibles to observe and perform all the conditions and obligations to
be observed and performed by it thereunder, all in accordance with the terms of
any agreement giving rise thereto. Neither the Administrative Agent nor any
other Secured Party shall have any obligation or liability under any agreement
giving rise to an Account or a payment in respect of a General Intangible by
reason of or arising out of this Agreement or the receipt by the Administrative
Agent nor any other Secured Party of any payment relating thereto, nor shall the
Administrative Agent nor any other Secured Party be obligated in any manner to
perform any obligation of any Grantor under or pursuant to any agreement giving
rise to an Account or a payment in respect of a General Intangible, to make any
payment, to make any inquiry as to the nature or the sufficiency of any payment
received by it or as to the sufficiency of any performance by any party
thereunder, to present or file any claim, to take any action to enforce any
performance or to collect the payment of any amounts that may have been assigned
to it or to which it may be entitled at any time or times.
SECTION 5.3 PLEDGED COLLATERAL
(a) During the continuance of an Event of Default, upon notice by
the Administrative Agent to the relevant Grantor or Grantors, (i) the
Administrative Agent shall have the right to receive any Proceeds of the Pledged
Collateral and make application thereof to the Obligations in the order set
forth in the Credit Agreement and (ii) the Administrative Agent or its nominee
may exercise (A) any voting, consent, corporate and other right pertaining to
the Pledged Collateral at any meeting of shareholders, partners or members, as
the case may be, of the relevant issuer or issuers of Pledged Collateral or
otherwise and (B) any right of conversion, exchange and subscription and any
other right, privilege or option pertaining to the Pledged Collateral as if it
were the absolute owner thereof (including the right to exchange at its
discretion any of the Pledged Collateral upon the merger, amalgamation,
consolidation, reorganization, recapitalization or other fundamental change in
the corporate structure of any issuer of Pledged Stock, the right to deposit and
deliver any Pledged Collateral with any committee, depositary, transfer agent,
registrar or other designated agency upon such terms and conditions as the
Administrative Agent may determine), all without liability except to account for
property actually received by it; provided, however, that the Administrative
Agent shall have no duty to any Grantor to exercise any such right, privilege or
option and shall not be responsible for any failure to do so or delay in so
doing.
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(b) In order to permit the Administrative Agent to exercise the
voting and other consensual rights that it may be entitled to exercise pursuant
hereto and to receive all dividends and other distributions that it may be
entitled to receive hereunder, (i) each Grantor shall promptly execute and
deliver (or cause to be executed and delivered) to the Administrative Agent all
such proxies, dividend payment orders and other instruments as the
Administrative Agent may from time to time reasonably request and (ii) without
limiting the effect of clause (i) above, such Grantor hereby grants to the
Administrative Agent an irrevocable proxy to vote all or any part of the Pledged
Collateral and to exercise all other rights, powers, privileges and remedies to
which a holder of the Pledged Collateral would be entitled (including giving or
withholding written consents of shareholders, partners or members, as the case
may be, calling special meetings of shareholders, partners or members, as the
case may be, and voting at such meetings), which proxy shall be effective,
automatically and without the necessity of any action (including any transfer of
any Pledged Collateral on the record books of the issuer thereof) by any other
person (including the issuer of such Pledged Collateral or any officer or agent
thereof) during the continuance of an Event of Default and which proxy shall
only terminate upon the payment in full of the Secured Obligations.
(c) Each Grantor hereby expressly authorizes and instructs each
issuer of any Pledged Collateral pledged hereunder by such Grantor to (i) comply
with any instruction received by it from the Administrative Agent in writing
that (A) states that an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and (B)
is otherwise in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, without any other
or further instructions from such Grantor, and each Grantor agrees that such
issuer shall be fully protected in so complying and (ii) unless otherwise
expressly permitted hereby, pay any dividend or other payment with respect to
the Pledged Collateral directly to the Administrative Agent.
SECTION 5.4 PROCEEDS TO BE TURNED OVER TO ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
Unless otherwise expressly provided in the Credit Agreement, all
Proceeds received by the Administrative Agent hereunder in cash or Cash
Equivalents shall be held by the Administrative Agent in a Cash Collateral
Account. All Proceeds while held by the Administrative Agent in a Cash
Collateral Account (or by such Grantor in trust for the Administrative Agent)
shall continue to be held as collateral security for the Secured Obligations and
shall not constitute payment thereof until applied as provided in the Credit
Agreement.
SECTION 5.5 REGISTRATION RIGHTS
(a) If the Administrative Agent shall determine to exercise its
right to sell any the Pledged Collateral pursuant to Section 5.1 (Code and Other
Remedies), and if in the opinion of the Administrative Agent it is necessary or
advisable to have the Pledged Collateral, or any portion thereof to be
registered under the provisions of the Securities Act, the relevant Grantor
shall cause the issuer thereof to (i) execute and deliver, and cause the
directors and officers of such issuer to execute and deliver, all such
instruments and documents, and do or cause to be done all such other acts as may
be, in the opinion of the Administrative Agent, necessary or advisable to
register the Pledged Collateral, or that portion thereof to be sold, under the
provisions of the Securities Act, (ii) use its best efforts to cause the
registration statement relating thereto to become effective and to remain
effective for a period of one year from the date of the first public offering of
the Pledged Collateral, or that portion thereof to be sold and (iii) make all
amendments thereto or to the related prospectus that, in the opinion of the
Administrative Agent, are necessary or advisable, all in conformity with the
requirements of the
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Securities Act and the rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange
Commission applicable thereto. Each Grantor agrees to cause such issuer to
comply with the provisions of the securities or "Blue Sky" laws of any
jurisdiction that the Administrative Agent shall designate and to make available
to its security holders, as soon as practicable, an earnings statement (which
need not be audited) satisfying the provisions of Section 11(a) of the
Securities Act.
(b) Each Grantor recognizes that the Administrative Agent may be
unable to effect a public sale of any Pledged Collateral by reason of certain
prohibitions contained in the Securities Act and applicable state securities
laws or otherwise or may determine that a public sale is impracticable or not
commercially reasonable and, accordingly, may resort to one or more private
sales thereof to a restricted group of purchasers that shall be obliged to
agree, among other things, to acquire such securities for their own account for
investment and not with a view to the distribution or resale thereof. Each
Grantor acknowledges and agrees that any such private sale may result in prices
and other terms less favorable than if such sale were a public sale and,
notwithstanding such circumstances, agrees that any such private sale shall be
deemed to have been made in a commercially reasonable manner. The Administrative
Agent shall be under no obligation to delay a sale of any Pledged Collateral for
the period of time necessary to permit the issuer thereof to register such
securities for public sale under the Securities Act, or under applicable state
securities laws, even if such issuer would agree to do so.
(c) Each Grantor agrees to use its best efforts to do or cause to
be done all such other acts as may be necessary to make such sale or sales of
all or any portion of the Pledged Collateral pursuant to this Section 5.5 valid
and binding and in compliance with all other applicable Requirements of Law.
Each Grantor further agrees that a breach of any covenant contained in this
Section 5.5 will cause irreparable injury to the Administrative Agent and other
Secured Parties, that the Administrative Agent and the other Secured Parties
have no adequate remedy at law in respect of such breach and, as a consequence,
that each and every covenant contained in this Section 5.5 shall be specifically
enforceable against such Grantor, and such Grantor hereby waives and agrees not
to assert any defense against an action for specific performance of such
covenants except for a defense that no Event of Default has occurred under the
Credit Agreement.
SECTION 5.6 DEFICIENCY
Each Grantor shall remain liable for any deficiency if the proceeds
of any sale or other disposition of the Collateral are insufficient to pay the
Secured Obligations and the fees and disbursements of any attorney employed by
the Administrative Agent or any other Secured Party to collect such deficiency.
ARTICLE VI THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
SECTION 6.1 ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT'S APPOINTMENT AS ATTORNEY-IN-FACT
(a) Each Grantor hereby irrevocably constitutes and appoints the
Administrative Agent and any officer or agent thereof, with full power of
substitution, as its true and lawful attorney-in-fact with full irrevocable
power and authority in the place and stead of such Grantor and in the name of
such Grantor or in its own name, for the purpose of carrying out the terms of
this Agreement, to take any appropriate action and to execute any document or
instrument that may be necessary or desirable to accomplish the purposes of this
Agreement, and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, each Grantor
hereby gives the Administrative
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Agent the power and right, on behalf of such Grantor, without notice to or
assent by such Grantor, to do any of the following:
(i) in the name of such Grantor or its own name, or otherwise,
take possession of and indorse and collect any check, draft, note,
acceptance or other instrument for the payment of moneys due under any
Account or General Intangible or with respect to any other Collateral and
file any claim or take any other action or proceeding in any court of law
or equity or otherwise deemed appropriate by the Administrative Agent for
the purpose of collecting any such moneys due under any Account or General
Intangible or with respect to any other Collateral whenever payable;
(ii) in the case of any Intellectual Property, execute and deliver,
and have recorded, any agreement, instrument, document or paper as the
Administrative Agent may request to evidence the Administrative Agent's
security interest in such Intellectual Property and the goodwill and
General Intangibles of such Grantor relating thereto or represented
thereby;
(iii) pay or discharge taxes and Liens levied or placed on or
threatened against the Collateral, effect any repair or pay any insurance
called for by the terms of this Agreement (including all or any part of the
premiums therefor and the costs thereof);
(iv) execute, in connection with any sale provided for in Section
5.1 (Code and Other Remedies) or 5.5 (Registration Rights), any
endorsement, assignment or other instrument of conveyance or transfer with
respect to the Collateral; or
(v) (A) direct any party liable for any payment under any
Collateral to make payment of any moneys due or to become due thereunder
directly to the Administrative Agent or as the Administrative Agent shall
direct, (B) ask or demand for, collect, and receive payment of and receipt
for, any moneys, claims and other amounts due or to become due at any time
in respect of or arising out of any Collateral, (C) sign and indorse any
invoice, freight or express ▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇ of lading, storage or warehouse
receipt, draft against debtors, assignment, verification, notice and other
document in connection with any Collateral, (D) commence and prosecute any
suit, action or proceeding at law or in equity in any court of competent
jurisdiction to collect any Collateral and to enforce any other right in
respect of any Collateral, (E) defend any suit, action or proceeding
brought against such Grantor with respect to any Collateral, (F) settle,
compromise or adjust any such suit, action or proceeding and, in connection
therewith, give such discharges or releases as the Administrative Agent may
deem appropriate, (G) assign any Copyright, Patent or Trademark (along with
the goodwill of the business to which any such Trademark pertains)
throughout the world for such term or terms, on such conditions, and in
such manner as the Administrative Agent shall in its sole discretion
determine, including the execution and filing of any document necessary to
effectuate or record such assignment and (H) generally, sell, transfer,
pledge and make any agreement with respect to or otherwise deal with any
Collateral as fully and completely as though the Administrative Agent were
the absolute owner thereof for all purposes, and do, at the Administrative
Agent's option and such Grantor's expense, at any time, or from time to
time, all acts and things that the Administrative Agent deems necessary to
protect, preserve or realize upon the Collateral and the Administrative
Agent's and the other Secured Parties' security interests therein and to
effect the intent of this Agreement, all as fully and effectively as such
Grantor might do.
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Anything in this clause (a) to the contrary notwithstanding, the Administrative
Agent agrees that it shall not exercise any right under the power of attorney
provided for in this clause (a) unless an Event of Default shall be continuing.
(b) If any Grantor fails to perform or comply with any of its
agreements contained herein, the Administrative Agent, at its option, but
without any obligation so to do, may perform or comply, or otherwise cause
performance or compliance, with such agreement.
(c) The expenses of the Administrative Agent incurred in
connection with actions undertaken as provided in this Section 6.1 shall be
payable by such Grantor to the Administrative Agent on demand.
(d) Each Grantor hereby ratifies all that said attorneys shall
lawfully do or cause to be done by virtue hereof. All powers, authorizations and
agencies contained in this Agreement are coupled with an interest and are
irrevocable until this Agreement is terminated and the security interests
created hereby are released.
SECTION 6.2 DUTY OF ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
The Administrative Agent's sole duty with respect to the custody,
safekeeping and physical preservation of the Collateral in its possession shall
be to deal with it in the same manner as the Administrative Agent deals with
similar property for its own account. Neither the Administrative Agent, any
other Secured Party nor any of their respective officers, directors, employees
or agents shall be liable for failure to demand, collect or realize upon any
Collateral or for any delay in doing so or shall be under any obligation to sell
or otherwise dispose of any Collateral upon the request of any Grantor or any
other Person or to take any other action whatsoever with regard to any
Collateral. The powers conferred on the Administrative Agent hereunder are
solely to protect the Administrative Agent's interest in the Collateral and
shall not impose any duty upon the Administrative Agent or any other Secured
Party to exercise any such powers. The Administrative Agent and the other
Secured Parties shall be accountable only for amounts that they actually receive
as a result of the exercise of such powers, and neither they nor any of their
respective officers, directors, employees or agents shall be responsible to any
Grantor for any act or failure to act hereunder, except for their own gross
negligence or willful misconduct.
SECTION 6.3 AUTHORIZATION OF FINANCING STATEMENTS
Each Grantor authorizes the Administrative Agent and its Affiliates,
counsel and other representatives, at any time and from time to time, to file or
record financing statements, amendments to financing statements, and other
filing or recording documents or instruments with respect to the Collateral in
such form and in such offices as the Administrative Agent reasonably determines
appropriate to perfect the security interests of the Administrative Agent under
this Agreement, and such financing statements and amendments may described the
Collateral covered thereby as "all assets of the debtor", "all personal property
of the debtor" or words of similar effect. Each Grantor hereby also authorizes
the Administrative Agent and its Affiliates, counsel and other representatives,
at any time and from time to time, to file continuation statements with respect
to previously filed financing statements. A photographic or other reproduction
of this Agreement shall be sufficient as a financing statement or other filing
or recording document or instrument for filing or recording in any jurisdiction.
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SECTION 6.4 AUTHORITY OF ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
Each Grantor acknowledges that the rights and responsibilities of
the Administrative Agent under this Agreement with respect to any action taken
by the Administrative Agent or the exercise or non-exercise by the
Administrative Agent of any option, voting right, request, judgment or other
right or remedy provided for herein or resulting or arising out of this
Agreement shall, as between the Administrative Agent and the other Secured
Parties, be governed by the Credit Agreement and by such other agreements with
respect thereto as may exist from time to time among them, but, as between the
Administrative Agent and the Grantors, the Administrative Agent shall be
conclusively presumed to be acting as agent for the Administrative Agent and the
other Secured Parties with full and valid authority so to act or refrain from
acting, and no Grantor shall be under any obligation, or entitlement, to make
any inquiry respecting such authority.
ARTICLE VII MISCELLANEOUS
SECTION 7.1 AMENDMENTS IN WRITING
None of the terms or provisions of this Agreement may be waived,
amended, supplemented or otherwise modified except in accordance with Section
11.1 (Amendments, Waivers, Etc.) of the Credit Agreement; provided, however,
that annexes to this Agreement may be supplemented (but no existing provisions
may be modified and no Collateral may be released) through Pledge Amendments and
Joinder Agreements, in substantially the form of Annex 1 (Form of Pledge
Amendment) and Annex 2 (Form of Joinder Agreement) respectively, in each case
duly executed by the Administrative Agent and each Grantor directly affected
thereby.
SECTION 7.2 NOTICES
All notices, requests and demands to or upon the Administrative
Agent or any Grantor hereunder shall be effected in the manner provided for in
Section 11.8 (Notices, Etc.) of the Credit Agreement; provided, however, that
any such notice, request or demand to or upon any Grantor shall be addressed to
the Borrower's notice address set forth in such Section 11.8.
SECTION 7.3 NO WAIVER BY COURSE OF CONDUCT; CUMULATIVE REMEDIES
Neither the Administrative Agent nor any other Secured Party shall
by any act (except by a written instrument pursuant to Section 7.1 (Amendments
in Writing)), delay, indulgence, omission or otherwise be deemed to have waived
any right or remedy hereunder or to have acquiesced in any Default or Event of
Default. No failure to exercise, nor any delay in exercising, on the part of the
Administrative Agent or any other Secured Party, any right, power or privilege
hereunder shall operate as a waiver thereof. No single or partial exercise of
any right, power or privilege hereunder shall preclude any other or further
exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, power or privilege. A
waiver by the Administrative Agent or any other Secured Party of any right or
remedy hereunder on any one occasion shall not be construed as a bar to any
right or remedy that the Administrative Agent or such other Secured Party would
otherwise have on any future occasion. The rights and remedies herein provided
are cumulative, may be exercised singly or concurrently and are not exclusive of
any other rights or remedies provided by law.
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SECTION 7.4 SUCCESSORS AND ASSIGNS
This Agreement shall be binding upon the successors and assigns of
each Grantor and shall inure to the benefit of the Administrative Agent and each
other Secured Party and their successors and assigns; provided, however, that no
Grantor may assign, transfer or delegate any of its rights or obligations under
this Agreement without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent.
SECTION 7.5 COUNTERPARTS
This Agreement may be executed by one or more of the parties to this
Agreement on any number of separate counterparts (including by telecopy), each
of which when so executed shall be deemed to be an original and all of which
taken together shall constitute one and the same agreement. Signature pages may
be detached from multiple counterparts and attached to a single counterpart so
that all signature pages are attached to the same document. Delivery of an
executed counterpart by telecopy shall be effective as delivery of a manually
executed counterpart.
SECTION 7.6 SEVERABILITY
Any provision of this Agreement that is 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, and any such prohibition or unenforceability in any
jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in any
other jurisdiction.
SECTION 7.7 SECTION HEADINGS
The Article and Section titles contained in this Agreement are, and
shall be, without substantive meaning or content of any kind whatsoever and are
not part of the agreement of the parties hereto.
SECTION 7.8 ENTIRE AGREEMENT
This Agreement together with the other Loan Documents
represents the entire agreement of the parties and supersedes all prior
agreements and understandings relating to the subject matter hereof.
SECTION 7.9 GOVERNING LAW
This Agreement and the rights and obligations of the parties hereto
shall be governed by, and construed and interpreted in accordance with, the law
of the State of New York.
SECTION 7.10 ADDITIONAL GRANTORS
If, pursuant to Section 7.11 (Additional Collateral and Guaranties)
of the Credit Agreement, the Borrower shall be required to cause any Subsidiary
that is not a Grantor to become a Grantor hereunder, such Subsidiary shall
execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent a Joinder Agreement
substantially in the form of Annex 2 (Form of Joinder Agreement)
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and shall thereafter for all purposes be a party hereto and have the same
rights, benefits and obligations as a Grantor party hereto on the Closing Date.
SECTION 7.11 RELEASE OF COLLATERAL
(a) At the time provided in Section 10.8(b)(i) (Concerning the
Collateral and the Collateral Documents) of the Credit Agreement, the Collateral
shall be released from the Lien created hereby and this Agreement and all
obligations (other than those expressly stated to survive such termination) of
the Administrative Agent and each Grantor hereunder shall terminate, all without
delivery of any instrument or performance of any act by any party, and all
rights to the Collateral shall revert to the Grantors. At the request and sole
expense of any Grantor following any such termination, the Administrative Agent
shall deliver to such Grantor any Collateral of such Grantor held by the
Administrative Agent hereunder and execute and deliver to such Grantor such
documents as such Grantor shall reasonably request to evidence such termination.
(b) If the Administrative Agent shall be directed or permitted
pursuant to Section 10.8(b)(ii) or (iii) (Concerning the Collateral and the
Collateral Documents) of the Credit Agreement to release any Lien created hereby
upon any Collateral (including any Collateral sold or disposed of by any Grantor
in a transaction permitted by the Credit Agreement), such Collateral shall be
released from the Lien created hereby to the extent provided under, and subject
to the terms and conditions set forth in, Section 10.8(b)(ii) or (iii)
(Concerning the Collateral and the Collateral Documents) of the Credit
Agreement. In connection therewith, the Administrative Agent, at the request and
sole expense of the Borrower, shall execute and deliver to the Borrower all
releases or other documents reasonably necessary or desirable for the release of
the Lien created hereby on such Collateral. At the request and sole expense of
the Borrower, a Grantor shall be released from its obligations hereunder in the
event that all the capital stock of such Grantor shall be so sold or disposed;
provided, however, that the Borrower shall have delivered to the Administrative
Agent, at least five Business Days prior to the date of the proposed release, a
written request for release identifying the relevant Grantor and the terms of
the sale or other disposition in reasonable detail, including the price thereof
and any expenses in connection therewith, together with a certification by the
Borrower in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent stating
that such transaction is in compliance with the Credit Agreement and the other
Loan Documents.
SECTION 7.12 REINSTATEMENT
Each Grantor further agrees that, if any payment made by any Loan
Party or other Person and applied to the Obligations is at any time annulled,
avoided, set aside, rescinded, invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or
preferential or otherwise required to be refunded or repaid, or the proceeds of
Collateral are required to be returned by any Secured Party to such Loan Party,
its estate, trustee, receiver or any other party, including any Grantor, under
any bankruptcy law, state or federal law, common law or equitable cause, then,
to the extent of such payment or repayment, any Lien or other Collateral
securing such liability shall be and remain in full force and effect, as fully
as if such payment had never been made or, if prior thereto the Lien granted
hereby or other Collateral securing such liability hereunder shall have been
released or terminated by virtue of such cancellation or surrender), such Lien
or other Collateral shall be reinstated in full force and effect, and such prior
cancellation or surrender shall not diminish, release, discharge, impair or
otherwise affect any Lien or other Collateral securing the obligations of any
Grantor in respect of the amount of such payment.
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[SIGNATURE PAGES FOLLOW]
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the undersigned has caused this Pledge
and Security Agreement to be duly executed and delivered as of the date first
above written.
EDO CORPORATION,
as Grantor
By:
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Name:
Title:
DARLINGTON INC.
EDO ARTISAN INC.
EDO COMMUNICATIONS AND COUNTERMEASURES SYSTEMS INC.
EDO MBM TECHNOLOGY LIMITED
EDO MTECH INC.
EDO PROFESSIONAL SERVICES INC.
EDO RECONNAISSANCE AND SURVEILLANCE SYSTEMS, INC.
EDO RUGGED SYSTEMS LIMITED
EDO (UK) LIMITED
EDO WESTERN CORPORATION
EVI TECHNOLOGY LLC
FIBER INNOVATIONS, INC.
SPECIALTY PLASTICS, INC.,
each as Grantor
By:
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Name:
Title:
ACCEPTED AND AGREED
as of the date first above written:
CITICORP USA, INC.,
as Administrative Agent
By:
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Name:
Title:
[SIGNATURE PAGE TO PLEDGE AND SECURITY AGREEMENT]
ANNEX 1
TO
PLEDGE AND SECURITY AGREEMENT
FORM OF PLEDGE AMENDMENT
This PLEDGE AMENDMENT, dated as of __________ __, 20__, is delivered
pursuant to Section 4.4(a) (Pledged Collateral) of the Pledge and Security
Agreement, dated as of November 4, 2005, by EDO CORPORATION (the "Borrower"),
and the Subsidiaries of the Borrower from time to time party thereto as Grantors
in favor of Citicorp USA, Inc., as administrative agent for the Secured Parties
referred to therein (the "Pledge and Security Agreement") and the undersigned
hereby agrees that this Pledge Amendment may be attached to the Pledge and
Security Agreement and that the Pledged Collateral listed on this Pledge
Amendment shall be and become part of the Collateral referred to in the Pledge
and Security Agreement and shall secure all Secured Obligations of the
undersigned. Capitalized terms used herein but not defined herein are used
herein with the meaning given them in the Pledge and Security Agreement.
[GRANTOR]
By:
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Name:
Title:
Pledged Stock
NUMBER OF
SHARES,
UNITS OR
ISSUER CLASS CERTIFICATE NO(S). PAR VALUE INTERESTS
--------- --------------- ------------------ ---------------- -----------------
Pledged Debt Instruments
PRINCIPAL
ISSUER DESCRIPTION OF DEBT CERTIFICATE NO(S). FINAL MATURITY AMOUNT
--------- --------------------- --------------------- ------------------ -----------------
ACKNOWLEDGED AND AGREED
as of the date first above written:
CITICORP USA, INC.,
as Administrative Agent
By:
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Name:
Title:
ANNEX 2
TO
PLEDGE AND SECURITY AGREEMENT
FORM OF JOINDER AGREEMENT
This JOINDER AGREEMENT, dated as of _________ __, 20__, is delivered
pursuant to Section 7.10 (Additional Grantors) of the Pledge and Security
Agreement, dated as of November 4, 2005, by EDO CORPORATION (the "Borrower") and
the Subsidiaries of the Borrower listed on the signature pages thereof in favor
of the Citicorp USA, Inc., as administrative agent for the Secured Parties
referred to therein (the "Pledge and Security Agreement"). Capitalized terms
used herein but not defined herein are used with the meanings given them in the
Pledge and Security Agreement.
By executing and delivering this Joinder Agreement, the undersigned,
as provided in Section 7.10 (Additional Grantors) of the Pledge and Security
Agreement, hereby becomes a party to the Pledge and Security Agreement as a
Grantor thereunder with the same force and effect as if originally named as a
Grantor therein and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, hereby
grants to the Administrative Agent, as collateral security for the full, prompt
and complete payment and performance when due (whether at stated maturity, by
acceleration or otherwise) of the Secured Obligations of the undersigned, hereby
collaterally assigns, mortgages, pledges and hypothecates to the Administrative
Agent and grants to the Administrative Agent a Lien on and security interest in,
all of its right, title and interest in, to and under the Collateral of the
undersigned and expressly assumes all obligations and liabilities of a Grantor
thereunder.
The information set forth in Annex 1-A is hereby added to the
information set forth in Schedules 1 through 6 to the Pledge and Security
Agreement. [By acknowledging and agreeing to this Joinder Agreement, the
undersigned hereby agree that this Joinder Agreement may be attached to the
Pledge and Security Agreement and that the Pledged Collateral listed on Annex
1-A to this Pledge Amendment shall be and become part of the Collateral referred
to in the Pledge and Security Agreement and shall secure all Secured Obligations
of the undersigned.](1)
The undersigned hereby represents and warrants that each of the
representations and warranties contained in Article III (Representations and
Warranties) of the Pledge and Security Agreement applicable to it is true and
correct on and as the date hereof as if made on and as of such date.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Joinder
Agreement to be duly executed and delivered as of the date first above written.
[ADDITIONAL GRANTOR]
By:
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Name:
Title:
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(1) Insert to pledge Stock of the new Subsidiary without doing a Pledge
Amendment.
ACKNOWLEDGED AND AGREED
as of the date first above written:
[EACH GRANTOR PLEDGING
ADDITIONAL COLLATERAL]
By:
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Name:
Title:
CITICORP USA, INC.,
as Administrative Agent
By:
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Name:
Title:
ANNEX 3
TO
PLEDGE AND SECURITY AGREEMENT
FORM OF SHORT FORM INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY SECURITY AGREEMENT
[COPYRIGHT] [PATENT] [TRADEMARK] SECURITY AGREEMENT, dated as of
____ __, 20__, by each of the entities listed on the signature pages hereof or
that becomes a party hereto pursuant to Section 7.10 (Additional Grantors) of
the Security Agreement referred to below (each a "Grantor" and, collectively,
the "Grantors"), in favor of Citicorp USA, Inc. ("CUSA"), as administrative
agent for the Secured Parties (as defined in the Credit Agreement referred to
below) (in such capacity, the "Administrative Agent").
W I T N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS, pursuant to the Credit Agreement, dated as of November 4,
2005 (as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified
from time to time, the "Credit Agreement"), among EDO CORPORATION (the
"Borrower"), the Lenders and Issuers party thereto, CUSA, as administrative
agent for the Lenders and Issuers, and the other agents party thereto, the
Lenders and the Issuers have severally agreed to make extensions of credit to
the Borrower upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth therein;
WHEREAS, the Grantors other than the Borrower are party to the
Guaranty pursuant to which they have guaranteed the Obligations; and
WHEREAS, all the Grantors are party to a Pledge and Security
Agreement of even date herewith in favor of the Administrative Agent (the
"Security Agreement") pursuant to which the Grantors are required to execute and
deliver this [Copyright] [Patent] [Trademark] Security Agreement;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and to induce the
Lenders, the Issuers and the Administrative Agent to enter into the Credit
Agreement and to induce the Lenders and the Issuers to make their respective
extensions of credit to the Borrower thereunder, each Grantor hereby agrees with
the Administrative Agent as follows:
SECTION 1. DEFINED TERMS
Unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the Credit
Agreement or in the Security Agreement and used herein have the meaning given to
them in the Credit Agreement or the Security Agreement.
SECTION 2. GRANT OF SECURITY INTEREST IN [COPYRIGHT] [TRADEMARK]
[PATENT] COLLATERAL
Each Grantor, as collateral security for the full, prompt and
complete payment and performance when due (whether at stated maturity, by
acceleration or otherwise) of the Secured Obligations of such Grantor, hereby
mortgages, pledges and hypothecates to the Administrative Agent for the benefit
of the Secured Parties, and grants to the Administrative Agent for the benefit
of the Secured Parties a lien on and security interest in, all of its right,
title and interest in, to and under the following Collateral of such Grantor
(the "[Copyright] [Patent] [Trademark] Collateral"):
A-3-1
[(a) all of its Copyrights and Copyright Licenses to which it is a
party, including, without limitation, those referred to on Schedule I hereto;
(b) all reissues, continuations or extensions of the foregoing; and
(c) all Proceeds of the foregoing, including, without limitation,
any claim by Grantor against third parties for past, present, future
infringement or dilution of any Copyright or Copyright licensed under any
Copyright License.]
or
[(a) all of its Patents and Patent Licenses to which it is a party,
including, without limitation, those referred to on Schedule I hereto;
(b) all reissues, continuations or extensions of the foregoing; and
(c) all Proceeds of the foregoing, including, without limitation,
any claim by Grantor against third parties for past, present or future
infringement or dilution of any Patent or any Patent licensed under any Patent
License.]
or
[(a) all of its Trademarks and Trademark Licenses to which it is a
party, including, without limitation, those referred to on Schedule I hereto;
(b) all reissues, continuations or extensions of the foregoing;
(c) all goodwill of the business connected with the use of, and
symbolized by, each Trademark and each Trademark License; and
(d) all Proceeds of the foregoing, including, without limitation,
any claim by Grantor against third parties for past, present, future (i)
infringement or dilution of any Trademark or Trademark licensed under any
Trademark License or (ii) injury to the goodwill associated with any Trademark
or any Trademark licensed under any Trademark License.]
SECTION 3. SECURITY AGREEMENT
The security interest granted pursuant to this [Copyright] [Patent]
[Trademark] Security Agreement is granted in conjunction with the security
interest granted to the Administrative Agent pursuant to the Security Agreement
and each Grantor hereby acknowledges and affirms that the rights and remedies of
the Administrative Agent with respect to the security interest in the
[Copyright] [Patent] [Trademark] Collateral made and granted hereby are more
fully set forth in the Security Agreement, the terms and provisions of which are
incorporated by reference herein as if fully set forth herein.
[SIGNATURE PAGES FOLLOW]
A-3-2
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each Grantor has caused this [Copyright]
[Patent] [Trademark] Security Agreement to be executed and delivered by its duly
authorized offer as of the date first set forth above.
Very truly yours,
[GRANTOR],
as Grantor
By:
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Name:
Title:
ACCEPTED AND AGREED
as of the date first above written:
CITICORP USA, INC.,
as Administrative Agent
By:
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Name:
Title:
[SIGNATURE PAGE TO [COPYRIGHT] [PATENT] [TRADEMARK] SECURITY AGREEMENT]
ACKNOWLEDGMENT OF GRANTOR
STATE OF )
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) ss.
COUNTY OF )
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On this ___ day of ________ __, 20__ before me personally appeared
______________________, proved to me on the basis of satisfactory evidence to be
the person who executed the foregoing instrument on behalf of ________________,
who being by me duly sworn did depose and say that he is an authorized officer
of said corporation, that the said instrument was signed on behalf of said
corporation as authorized by its Board of Directors and that he acknowledged
said instrument to be the free act and deed of said corporation.
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Notary Public
[ACKNOWLEDGEMENT OF GRANTOR FOR [COPYRIGHT] [PATENT] [TRADEMARK] SECURITY
AGREEMENT]
SCHEDULE I
TO
[COPYRIGHT] [PATENT] [TRADEMARK] SECURITY AGREEMENT
[COPYRIGHT] [PATENT] [TRADEMARK] REGISTRATIONS
[A. REGISTERED COPYRIGHTS
[Include Copyright Registration Number and Date]
B. COPYRIGHT APPLICATIONS
C. COPYRIGHT LICENSES]
[A. REGISTERED PATENTS
B. PATENT APPLICATIONS
C. PATENT LICENSES]
[A. REGISTERED TRADEMARKS
B. TRADEMARK APPLICATIONS
C. TRADEMARK LICENSES]
[Include complete legal description of agreement (name of agreement,
parties and date)]
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ARTICLE I DEFINED TERMS.........................................................................1
Section 1.1 Definitions..................................................................1
Section 1.2 Certain Other Terms..........................................................5
ARTICLE II GRANT OF SECURITY INTEREST............................................................5
Section 2.1 Collateral...................................................................5
Section 2.2 Grant of Security Interest in Collateral.....................................6
Section 2.3 Cash Collateral Accounts.....................................................7
ARTICLE III REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES........................................................7
Section 3.1 Title; No Other Liens........................................................7
Section 3.2 Perfection and Priority......................................................7
Section 3.3 Jurisdiction of Organization; Chief Executive Office.........................7
Section 3.4 Inventory and Equipment......................................................8
Section 3.5 Pledged Collateral...........................................................8
Section 3.6 Accounts.....................................................................8
Section 3.7 Intellectual Property........................................................9
Section 3.8 Deposit Accounts; Securities Accounts........................................9
Section 3.9 Commercial Tort Claims.......................................................9
ARTICLE IV COVENANTS.............................................................................9
Section 4.1 Generally...................................................................10
Section 4.2 Maintenance of Perfected Security Interest; Further Documentation...........10
Section 4.3 Changes in Locations, Name, Etc.............................................10
Section 4.4 Pledged Collateral..........................................................11
Section 4.5 Accounts....................................................................12
Section 4.6 Delivery of Instruments and Chattel Paper...................................13
Section 4.7 Intellectual Property.......................................................13
Section 4.8 Payment of Obligations......................................................15
Section 4.9 Notice of Commercial Tort Claims............................................15
Section 4.10 Assignment of Claims Act....................................................15
ARTICLE V REMEDIAL PROVISIONS..................................................................16
Section 5.1 Code and Other Remedies.....................................................16
Section 5.2 Accounts and Payments in Respect of General Intangibles.....................16
Section 5.3 Pledged Collateral..........................................................17
Section 5.4 Proceeds to be Turned Over To Administrative Agent..........................18
Section 5.5 Registration Rights.........................................................18
Section 5.6 Deficiency..................................................................19
ARTICLE VI THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT.............................................................20
Section 6.1 Administrative Agent's Appointment as Attorney-in-Fact......................20
Section 6.2 Duty of Administrative Agent................................................21
Section 6.3 Authorization of Financing Statements.......................................22
Section 6.4 Authority of Administrative Agent...........................................22
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ARTICLE VII MISCELLANEOUS........................................................................22
Section 7.1 Amendments in Writing.......................................................22
Section 7.2 Notices.....................................................................22
Section 7.3 No Waiver by Course of Conduct; Cumulative Remedies.........................23
Section 7.4 Successors and Assigns......................................................23
Section 7.5 Counterparts................................................................23
Section 7.6 Severability................................................................23
Section 7.7 Section Headings............................................................23
Section 7.8 Entire Agreement............................................................24
Section 7.9 Governing Law...............................................................24
Section 7.10 Additional Grantors.........................................................24
Section 7.11 Release of Collateral.......................................................24
Section 7.12 Reinstatement...............................................................25
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ANNEXES AND SCHEDULES
Annex 1 Form of Pledge Amendment
Annex 2 Form of Joinder Agreement
Annex 3 Form of Short Form Intellectual Property Security Agreement
Schedule 1 Jurisdiction of Organization; Principal Executive Office
Schedule 2 Pledged Collateral
Schedule 3 Filings
Schedule 4 Location of Inventory and Equipment
Schedule 5 Intellectual Property
Schedule 6 Bank Accounts
Schedule 7 Commercial Tort Claims
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