€70,000,000 ADDITIONAL FACILITY Q ACCESSION AGREEMENT
Exhibit 4.3
€70,000,000 ADDITIONAL FACILITY Q ACCESSION AGREEMENT
| To: | Toronto Dominion (Texas) LLC as Facility Agent and TD Bank Europe Limited as Security Agent |
| From: | The banks and financial institutions listed in Schedule 1 to this Agreement (the Additional Facility Q Lenders) |
Date: 27 April 2009
UPC Broadband Holding B.V. (formerly known as UPC Distribution Holding B.V) - €1,072,000,000 Term Credit Agreement dated 16 January 2004 as amended from time to time (the Credit Agreement)
| 1. | In this Agreement: |
Additional Facility L Lender means each of the lenders under Facility L.
Facility L means the €830,000,000 redrawable term loan facility made available under the Additional Facility Accession Agreement dated 3 July 2006.
Facility L1 Interest Period means the Interest Period currently selected (as at the date of this Agreement) in respect of the outstanding €385,810,397.55 Advance (the Facility L1 Advance) under Facility L.
Facility L2 Interest Period means the Interest period currently selected (as at the date of this Agreement) in respect of the outstanding €444,189,602.45 Advance (the Facility L2 Advance) under Facility L.
Facility Q means the €70,000,000 redrawable term loan facility made available under this Agreement.
Facility Q Commitment means, in relation to an Additional Facility Q Lender, the amount in Euros set opposite its name under the heading “Facility Q Commitment” in Schedule 1 to the counterpart of this Agreement executed by that Additional Facility Q Lender, to the extent not cancelled, transferred, or reduced under the Credit Agreement.
Facility Q1 Advance means the €32,538,226.30 Advance to be drawn on the Effective Date in accordance with paragraph 12 below.
Facility Q2 Advance means the €37,461,773.70 Advance to be drawn on the Effective Date in accordance with paragraph 12 below.
Majority Facility Q Lenders means Additional Facility Q Lenders the aggregate of whose Facility Q Commitments exceeds 662/3 per cent. of the aggregate of Facility Q Commitments of all Additional Facility Q Lenders.
Total Additional Facility Q Commitment means the aggregate for the time being of the Additional Facility Commitments of each Additional Facility Q Lender under Facility Q.
| 2. | Unless otherwise defined in this Agreement, terms defined in the Credit Agreement shall have the same meaning in this Agreement and a reference to a Clause is a reference to a Clause of the Credit Agreement. The principles of construction set out in Clause 1.2 (Construction) of the Credit Agreement apply to this Agreement as though they were set out in full in this Agreement. |
| 3. | We refer to Clause 2.2 (Additional Facilities) of the Credit Agreement. |
| 4. | This Agreement will take effect on the date on which the Facility Agent notifies UPC Broadband and the Additional Facility Q Lenders that it has received the documents and evidence set out in Schedule 2 to this Agreement, in each case in form and substance satisfactory to it or, as the case may be, the requirement to provide any of such documents or evidence has been waived by the Majority Facility Q Lenders and in the case of the evidence specified at (b) of paragraph 4 (Other documents) of Schedule 2, by all the Facility Q Lenders (the Effective Date). |
| 5. | We, the Additional Facility Q Lenders, agree: |
| (a) | to become party to and to be bound by the terms of the Credit Agreement as Lenders in accordance with Clause 2.2 (Additional Facilities) of the Credit Agreement; and |
| (b) | to become party to the Security Deed as Lenders and to observe, perform and be bound by the terms and provisions of the Security Deed in the capacity of Lenders in accordance with Clause 9.3 (Transfers by Lenders) of the Security Deed. |
| 6. | On the Effective date, each Additional Facility Q Lender declares and represents to the Finance Parties and UPC Broadband that: |
| (a) | it is a Professional Market Party; and |
| (b) | it acknowledges that, as a consequence, it has no benefit from the (creditor) protection under the Dutch Banking Act for non-professional Market Parties. |
| 7. | The Additional Facility Commitment in relation to an Additional Facility Q Lender (for the purpose of the definition of Additional Facility Commitment in Clause 1.1 (Definitions) of the Credit Agreement) is its Facility Q Commitment. |
| 8. | The Availability Period for Facility Q shall be the period from and including the Effective Date up to and including the date falling one month before the Final Maturity Date in respect of Facility Q. |
| 9. | Any interest due in relation to Facility Q will be payable on the last day of each Interest Period in accordance with Clause 8 (Interest) of the Credit Agreement. |
| 10. | Facility Q shall comprise a committed term loan facility which shall (subject to paragraph 11 below) be capable of being reborrowed in relation to any sums that are prepaid in accordance with Clause 7.10(d) (Miscellaneous provision) of the Credit Agreement. |
| 11. | UPC Broadband shall not deliver a Request in relation to Facility Q if as a result of the proposed Request more than 10 Advances under Facility Q would be outstanding. |
| 12. | The first two Advances to be drawn under this Facility Q shall be drawn on the same date (the First Utilisation Date), being the Effective Date and shall be the Facility Q1 Advance and the Facility Q2 Advance respectively. |
| 13. | (a) The first Interest Period to apply to each of the Facility Q1 Advance and the Facility Q2 Advance will be a period equal to the period running from the First Utilisation Date up to and including: |
| (i) | in the case of the Facility Q1 Advance, the last day of the Facility L1 Interest Period; and |
| (ii) | in the case of the Facility Q2 Advance, the last day of the Facility L2 Interest Period. |
(b) In respect of the first Interest Period only:
| (i) | in the case of the Facility Q1 Advance, EURIBOR shall mean the EURIBOR rate as determined in respect of the Facility L1 Interest Period; and |
| (ii) | in the case of the Facility Q2 Advance, EURIBOR shall mean the EURIBOR rate as determined in respect of the Facility L2 Interest Period. |
| 14. | Advances under Facility Q shall be used for general corporate purposes and working capital purposes, including the repayment or prepayment of existing indebtedness. |
| 15. | The Final Maturity Date in respect of this Facility Q will be the earlier of: |
| (a) | 31 July 2014; and |
| (b) | if by 17 October 2013 (the Relevant Date) being the date falling 90 days prior to the date on which the UPC Holding B.V. issued bonds due 2014 (the Bonds) fall due, those bonds have not been repaid, redeemed or refinanced, the Relevant Date. |
| 16. | The outstanding Advances under Facility Q will be repaid in full on the Final Maturity Date. |
| 17. | The Margin in relation to Facility Q is 2.75 per cent. per annum. |
| 18. | The Borrower in relation to Facility Q is UPC Broadband. |
| 19. | The Borrower shall pay to the Facility Agent for distribution to each Additional Facility Q Lender in accordance with Clause 20.1(b) (Commitment fee) of the Credit Agreement a commitment fee in an amount equal to 0.75 per cent. per annum of the undrawn uncancelled portion of the Total Additional Facility Q Commitment. Such commitment fee shall be calculated and shall accrue on a daily basis and shall be payable on the Effective Date and thereafter quarterly in arrears. |
| 20. | (a) Provided that any upsizing of Facility Q permitted under this paragraph will not breach any term of the Credit Agreement, Facility Q may be upsized by any amount, by the signing of one or more further Additional Facility Q Accession Agreements, that specify (along with the other terms specified therein) UPC Broadband as the sole Borrower and which specify Additional Facility Q Commitments denominated in Euros, to be drawn in Euros, with the same Final Maturity Date and Margin as specified in this Additional Facility Q Accession Agreement. |
| (b) | For the purposes of this paragraph 20, unless otherwise specified, references to Additional Facility Q Lenders and Facility Q Advances shall include Lenders and Advances made under any such further Additional Facility Q Accession Agreement. |
| (c) | If the Borrower so requests, an Interest Period for a Facility Q Advance under any other Additional Facility Q Accession Agreement will end on the same day as the current Interest Period for any other Facility Q Advance denominated in the same currency as that Facility Q Advance. On the last day of those Interest Periods, those Facility Q Advances will be consolidated and treated as one Facility Q Advance. |
| 21. | Each of UPC Broadband and UPC Financing confirms, on behalf of themselves and each other Obligor that the representations and warranties set out in Clause 15 (Representations and Warranties) of the Credit Agreement (with the exception of Clauses 15.6(a) (Consents), 15.10 (Financial condition), 15.12 (Security Interests), 15.13(b) (Litigation and insolvency proceedings), 15.15 (Tax liabilities), 15.16 (Ownership of assets), 15.18 (Works Council), 15.19 (Borrower Group Structure), 15.20 (ERISA), 15.24 (UPC Financing) and 15.25 (Dutch Banking Act)) are true and correct as if made at the Effective Date with reference to the facts and circumstances then existing, and as if each reference to the Finance Documents includes a reference to this Agreement. |
| 22. | UPC Broadband further represents and warrants on the Effective Date that the execution and delivery by it of this Agreement and the performance of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement will not violate any agreement or instrument to which UPC Holding is a party or binding upon UPC Holding or any member of the Borrower Group or any assets of UPC Holding or any member of the Borrower Group’s assets, where such violation would or is reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect. |
| 23. | Each Additional Facility Q Lender confirms to each Finance Party that: |
| (a) | it has made its own independent investigation and assessment of the financial condition and affairs of each Obligor and its related entities in connection with its participation in the Credit Agreement and has not relied on any information provided to it by a Finance Party in connection with any Finance Document; and |
| (b) | it will continue to make its own independent appraisal of the creditworthiness of each Obligor and its related entities while any amount is or may be outstanding under the Credit Agreement or any Additional Facility Commitment is in force. |
| 24. | Each Additional Facility Q Lender agrees to waive the notice period in respect of drawdown requests under Clause 5.1 (Delivery of Request) of the Credit Agreement in respect of the Facility Q1 Advance and the Facility Q2 Advance only. |
| 25. | The Facility Office and address for notices of each Additional Facility Q Lender for the purposes of Clause 32.2 (Addresses for notices) of the Credit Agreement will be that notified by each Additional Facility Q Lender to the Facility Agent. |
| 26. | This Agreement and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with it are governed by English law. |
| 27. | This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, and by each party on separate counterparts. Each counterpart is an original, but all counterparts shall together constitute one and the same instrument. Delivery of an executed counterpart signature page of this Agreement by e-mail (PDF) or telecopy shall be as effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Agreement. |
SCHEDULE 1
ADDITIONAL FACILITY Q LENDERS AND COMMITMENTS
| Additional Facility Q Lender |
Facility Q Commitment (€) | |
| Fortis Bank (Nederland) N.V. |
35,000,000 | |
| Société Générale |
35,000,000 | |
| Total |
70,000,000 | |
SCHEDULE 2
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT DOCUMENTS
| 1. | Constitutional Documents |
| (a) | A copy of the constitutional documents of each Obligor (other than UPC Financing) and the partnership agreement of UPC Financing or, if the Facility Agent already has a copy, a certificate of an authorised signatory of the relevant Obligor confirming that the copy in the Facility Agent’s possession is still correct, complete and in full force and effect as at a date no earlier than the date of this Agreement. |
| (b) | An extract of the registration of each Obligor established in the Netherlands in the trade register of the Dutch Chamber of Commerce. |
| 2. | Authorisations |
| (a) | A copy of a resolution of the board of managing and, to the extent applicable, board of supervisory directors (or equivalent) and, to the extent that a shareholders’ resolution is required, a copy of the shareholders’ resolution of each Obligor: |
| (i) | approving the terms of and the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and (in the case of UPC Broadband) resolving that it execute the same (and, in the case of the Guarantors and the Charging Entities (as defined in the Security Deed) resolving that it execute the confirmation described at paragraph 4(a) below; and |
| (ii) | (in the case of UPC Broadband) authorising the issuance of a power of attorney to a specified person or persons to execute this Agreement on its behalf and (in the case of the Guarantors and the Charging Entities (as defined in the Security Deed)) authorising the issuance of a power of attorney to a specified person or persons to execute the confirmation described in paragraph 4(a) below. |
| (b) | A specimen of the signature of each person authorised pursuant to its constitutional documents or to the power of attorney referred to in paragraph (a) above to sign this Agreement or the confirmation described in paragraph 4(a) below (as appropriate). |
| (c) | A certificate of an authorised signatory of UPC Broadband, each Guarantor and each Charging Entity certifying that each copy document specified in this Schedule and supplied by UPC Broadband, each Guarantor and each Charging Entity is correct, complete and in full force and effect as at a date no earlier than the date of this Agreement. |
| (d) | A copy of any other authorisation or other document, opinion or assurance which the Facility Agent has notified UPC Broadband is necessary in connection with the entry into and performance of, and the transactions contemplated by, this Agreement or for the validity and enforceability of this Agreement. |
| 3. | Legal opinions |
| (a) | A legal opinion of ▇▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇ LLP, English legal advisers to the Facility Agent, addressed to the Finance Parties. |
| (b) | A legal opinion of ▇▇▇▇▇ & Overy LLP, Dutch legal advisers to the Facility Agent, addressed to the Finance Parties. |
| 4. | Other documents |
| (a) | Confirmation (in writing) from (i) each of the Guarantors that its obligations under Clause 14 (Guarantee) of the Credit Agreement and (ii) each of the Charging Entities (as defined in the Security Deed) that the Security Interests granted to the Beneficiaries pursuant to the Security Documents and its obligations under the Finance Documents, shall continue unaffected and that such obligations extend to the Total Commitments as increased by the addition of Facility Q and that such obligations shall be owed to each Finance Party including the Additional Facility Q Lenders. |
| (b) | In respect of each Additional Facility Q Lender, a Novation Certificate transferring each such lender’s drawn Facility L commitment to Liberty Global Europe BV, duly executed by each party thereto. |
| (c) | The settlement side letter between, amongst others, UPC Broadband, the Additional Facility Q Lenders and the Facility Agent, dated at or around the date of this Agreement. |
SIGNATORIES
TORONTO DOMINION (TEXAS) LLC as Facility Agent
| By: | AUTHORISED SIGNATORY | |
| TD BANK EUROPE LIMITED as Security Agent | ||
| By: | AUTHORISED SIGNATORY | |
| UPC BROADBAND HOLDING B.V. | ||
| By: | AUTHORISED SIGNATORY | |
| UPC FINANCING PARTNERSHIP | ||
| By: | AUTHORISED SIGNATORY | |
| ADDITIONAL FACILITY Q LENDERS | ||
| FORTIS BANK (NEDERLAND) N.V. | ||
| By: | AUTHORISED SIGNATORY | |
| SOCIÉTÉ GÉNÉRALE | ||
| By: | AUTHORISED SIGNATORY | |