Up to U.S. $500,000,000 LOAN AND SERVICING AGREEMENT Dated as of November 6, 2024 among APCF FUNDING SPV LLC, as the Borrower ANTARES PRIVATE CREDIT FUND, as the Transferor ANTARES PRIVATE CREDIT FUND, as the Servicer MORGAN STANLEY SENIOR FUNDING,...

Exhibit (K)(7)

Up to U.S. $500,000,000

LOAN AND SERVICING AGREEMENT

Dated as of November 6, 2024

among

APCF FUNDING SPV LLC,

as the Borrower

ANTARES PRIVATE CREDIT FUND,

as the Transferor

ANTARES PRIVATE CREDIT FUND,

as the Servicer

▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ SENIOR FUNDING, INC.,

as the Administrative Agent

EACH OF THE LENDERS FROM TIME TO TIME PARTY HERETO,

as the Lenders

U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

as the Collateral Agent

and

U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

as the Account Bank and the Collateral Custodian

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This LOAN AND SERVICING AGREEMENT is made as of November 6, 2024, among:

(1)APCF FUNDING SPV LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, as the Borrower (as defined below);

(2)ANTARES PRIVATE CREDIT FUND, a Delaware statutory trust, as the Servicer (as defined below) and as the Transferor (as defined below);

(3)EACH OF THE LENDERS FROM TIME TO TIME PARTY HERETO, as a Lender (as defined below);

(4)▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ SENIOR FUNDING, INC., as the Administrative Agent (as defined below);

(5)U.S. BANK TRUST COMPANY, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as the Collateral Agent (as defined below); and

(6)U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as the Account Bank (as defined below) and the Collateral Custodian (as defined below).

RECITALS

WHEREAS, the Borrower has requested that the Lenders make available to the Borrower a revolving loan facility in the maximum principal amount of up to the Facility Amount (as defined below), the proceeds of which shall be used by the Borrower to primarily fund the purchase of certain Eligible Loan Assets (as defined below);

WHEREAS, the Borrower is willing to grant to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties (as defined below), a lien on and security interest in the Collateral (as defined below) to secure the payment in full of the Obligations (as defined below);

WHEREAS, the Lenders are willing to extend financing to the Borrower on the terms and conditions set forth herein;

WHEREAS, the Borrower also desires to retain the Servicer to perform certain servicing functions related to the Collateral on the terms and conditions set forth herein; and

WHEREAS, the Servicer desires to perform certain servicing functions related to the Collateral on the terms and conditions set forth herein.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the foregoing and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and adequacy of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto, intending to be legally bound, hereby agree as follows:

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ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS

Section 1.01Certain Defined Terms.

(a)Certain capitalized terms used throughout this Agreement are defined above or in this Section 1.01.

(b)As used in this Agreement and the exhibits and schedules hereto (each of which is hereby incorporated herein and made a part hereof), the following terms shall have the following meanings (such meanings to be equally applicable to both the singular and plural forms of the terms defined):

“1940 Act” means the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

“Account Bank” means U.S. Bank National Association, in its capacity as the “Account Bank” pursuant to each Control Agreement.

“Action” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 8.04.

“Additional Amount” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 2.11(a).

“Additional Lender Percentage” means, as of any date of determination, the percentage corresponding to the Diversity Score of the Eligible Loan Assets included in the Collateral as of such date, as set forth below:

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“Adjusted Borrowing Value” means, on any date of determination, for any Eligible Loan Asset, an amount equal to (x) the Assigned Value of such Eligible Loan Asset at such time multiplied by (y) the Outstanding Balance of such Eligible Loan Asset at such time. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (i) the Adjusted Borrowing Value of any Loan Asset that is no longer an Eligible Loan Asset at such time shall be zero and (ii) the Adjusted Borrowing Value of any portion of any Eligible Loan Asset that constitutes an Excess Concentration Amount shall be zero.

“Adjusted Term ▇▇▇▇▇” means, for purposes of any calculation, the rate per annum equal to (a) Term ▇▇▇▇▇ for such calculation plus (b) the Term ▇▇▇▇▇ Adjustment.

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“Administrative Agent” means ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Senior Funding, Inc., in its capacity as administrative agent for the Lenders, together with its successors and assigns, including any successor appointed pursuant to Article IX.

“Administrative Agent Fee Letter” means that certain fee letter agreement that shall be entered into between the Borrower and the Administrative Agent in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, as amended, modified, supplemented, restated or replaced from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof.

“Administrative Expense Cap” means, for any Payment Date, a per annum amount equal to $450,000.

“Administrative Expenses” means the following fees and expenses (including indemnity amounts due to the Collateral Agent, the Collateral Custodian and the Account Bank) due or accrued with respect to any Payment Date, payable first on a pro rata basis to:  (a) the Collateral Agent, for payment of accrued Collateral Agent Fees and Collateral Agent Expenses, (b) the Collateral Custodian, for payment of accrued Collateral Custodian Fees and Collateral Custodian Expenses and (c) the Account Bank, for any fees or other amounts owing to it under the Transaction Documents; and then second to (d) any other service providers (including, without limitation, legal, accounting, tax, audit and other service providers) of the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower for any fees or expenses in connection with services performed for the Borrower or such Subsidiary.

“Advance” means each loan advanced in each applicable Eligible Currency by the Lenders to the Borrower on an Advance Date pursuant to Article II.

“Advance Date” means, with respect to any Advance, the date on which funds are made available to the Borrower in accordance with Section 2.02.

“Advance Rate” means, (i) with respect to an Eligible Loan Asset that is not a Specified Loan Asset, as determined as of the related Approval Notice for such Eligible Loan Asset, the percentage determined by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion, subject to a maximum advance rate as set forth in the Advance Rate Matrix based on the applicable loan type of such Eligible Loan Asset, as set forth in such Approval Notice and (ii) with respect to any Specified Loan Asset, the corresponding percentage for the type of Loan Asset (such type to be determined as of the Cut-Off Date for such Loan Asset) set forth below:

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such Eligible Loan asset or any other reason provided to the Administrative Agent and the Administrative Agent may increase such Advance at any time in its sole discretion.

“Advance Rate Matrix” means (i) with respect to any Liquid Credit Loan Asset, the Advance Rate Matrix (Liquid Credit) and (ii) with respect to any Private Credit Loan Asset, the Advance Rate Matrix (Private Credit).

“Advance Rate Matrix (Liquid Credit)” means the following matrix:

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“Advance Rate Matrix (Private Credit)” means the following matrix:

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“Advances Outstanding” means, on any date of determination, the sum of the aggregate principal amount in Dollars or the Dollar Equivalent, as determined by the Administrative Agent using the Spot Rate, of all Advances outstanding on such date, after giving effect to all repayments of Advances and the making of new Advances on such date; provided that the principal amounts of Advances Outstanding shall not be reduced by any Available Collections or other amounts if at any time such Available Collections or other amounts are rescinded or must be returned for any reason; provided, further, that for purposes of the determination of Yield and in connection with any reduction pursuant to Section 2.16 or any payments made in accordance with Section 2.04, “Advances Outstanding” shall refer only to Advances outstanding in the applicable Eligible Currency.

“Affected Financial Institution” means (a) any EEA Financial Institution or (b) any UK Financial Institution.

“Affected Party” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 2.10(a).

“Affiliate” means, when used with respect to a Person, any other Person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by or is under common control with such Person. For the purposes of this definition, “control,” when used with

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respect to any specified Person, means the power to vote more than 50% of the voting securities of such Person or to direct the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise; and the terms “controlling” and “controlled” have meanings correlative to the foregoing; provided that (i) the term Affiliate shall not include any Affiliate relationship that may exist solely as a result of direct or indirect ownership of, or control by, a common financial sponsor, (ii) the Canada Pension Plan Investment Board and any entity controlled by it that is not a subsidiary of Antares Holdings LP shall not be deemed to be an Affiliate of the Borrower, the Transferor, the Servicer, Antares Holdings LP, Antares Capital Advisers LLC, or any of their respective Subsidiaries, and (iii) no Person shall be deemed to be controlled by or under common control with the Servicer or the Borrower due solely to such entity being managed or advised by the BDC Adviser, Antares Capital Advisers LLC or any of their respective affiliates, and the Borrower and the Servicer shall not be deemed to be controlled by or under common control with the BDC Adviser, Antares Capital Advisers LLC or any of their respective affiliates due solely to the BDC Adviser, Antares Capital Advisers LLC or any of their respective affiliates managing or advising the Borrower or the Servicer.

“Affiliate Sale Limit” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 2.07(e).

“Aggregate Adjusted Borrowing Value” means, as of any date of determination, an amount equal to the sum of the Adjusted Borrowing Values of all Eligible Loan Assets included as part of the Collateral on such date, after giving effect to all Eligible Loan Assets added to and removed from the Collateral on such date.

“Aggregate Unfunded Exposure Amount” means, as of any date of determination, the sum of the Unfunded Exposure Amounts of all Delayed Draw Loan Assets or Revolving Loans, as applicable, included in the Collateral on such date.

“Aggregate Unfunded Exposure Equity Amount” means, as of any date of determination, the sum of the Unfunded Exposure Equity Amounts of all Delayed Draw Loan Assets or Revolving Loans, as applicable, included in the Collateral on such date.

“Agreement” means this Loan and Servicing Agreement, as the same may be amended, modified, supplemented, restated or replaced from time to time in accordance with the terms hereof.

“Amended PIK Loan Asset” means (i) any Eligible Loan Asset in respect of which the Underlying Instruments have been amended since the Cut-Off Date to allow such Eligible Loan Asset to become a PIK Loan Asset with a Minimum Cash Spread of less than 2.0% or (ii) any Eligible Loan Asset that was a PIK Loan Asset as of the related Cut-Off Date in respect of which the Underlying Instruments have been amended since the Cut-Off Date to allow such PIK Loan Asset to have a Minimum Cash Spread of less than 2.0%.

“Amortization Period” means the period commencing on the Commitment Termination Date and ending on the Collection Date; provided that in the event the Revolving Period is reinstated following the Commitment Termination Date pursuant to the proviso to the definition of “Revolving Period,” the Amortization Period will automatically and without further

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action be tolled and will commence again on the subsequent occurrence of the Commitment Termination Date.

“Anti-Corruption Laws” means, collectively, solely to the extent applicable to the Borrower, the Servicer or the Transferor, (a) the U.S. Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, (b) the UK Bribery Act 2010, and (c) any other applicable law, regulation, order, decree or directive having the force of law and relating to bribery or corruption.

“Anti-Money Laundering Laws” means laws, regulations and sanctions, state and federal, criminal and civil that, solely to the extent applicable to the Borrower, the Servicer or the Transferor: (a) limit the use of and/or seek the forfeiture of proceeds from illegal transactions; (b) require identification and documentation of the parties with whom a financial institution conducts business; or (c) are designed to disrupt the flow of funds to terrorist organizations.  Such laws, regulations and sanctions shall be deemed to include applicable financial recordkeeping and reporting requirements of the Currency and Foreign Transactions Reporting Act of 1970, as amended, the Bank Secrecy Act, as amended by the Patriot Act, and the Money Laundering Control Act of 1986. including the laws relating to prevention and detection of money laundering under 18 USC Section 1956 and 1957.

“Applicable Law” means for any Person, all existing and future laws, rules, regulations, to the extent applicable to such Person or its property or assets, all statutes, treaties, codes, ordinances, permits, certificates, orders, licenses of and interpretations by any Governmental Authority applicable to such Person and applicable judgments, decrees, injunctions, writs, awards or orders of any court, arbitrator or other administrative, judicial, or quasi-judicial tribunal or agency of competent jurisdiction.

“Applicable Margin” means the percentage determined in accordance with the following formula, as of the day that is two (2) Business Days prior to the first day of the related Remittance Period:

Applicable Margin = (AML x Percentage_L) + (AMP x Percentage_P) where:

AML = 1.65%;

AMP = 1.90%;

Percentage_L = the lesser of: (x) COA_L/COA_AAG and (y) 35%;

Percentage_P = 100% - Percentage_L; and

COA_L = the Aggregate Principal Balance of all Liquid Credit Loans;

COA_AAG = the Aggregate Principal Balance of all Eligible Loan Assets;

provided that, at any time during the existence of an Event of Default or after the automatic occurrence or declaration of the Facility Maturity Date, the Applicable Margin shall be increased by an additional 2.00% per annum.

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“Approval Notice” means, with respect to any Eligible Loan Asset (other than a Specified Loan Asset), the written notice, which may be distributed via email, in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit A, evidencing, among other things the approval by the Administrative Agent, in its sole and absolute discretion, of the acquisition or origination, as applicable, of such Eligible Loan Asset by the Borrower.

“Approved Broker/Dealer” means any of Bank of America/▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇; Barclays Bank plc; BMO Bank, N.A.; BNP Paribas, Citibank, N.A.; Citizens Bank, N.A.; Deutsche Bank AG; ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ & Co.; HSBC; ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ LLC; JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.; ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ & Co. LLC; MUFG Bank, Ltd.; Natixis Bank; Nomura; Royal Bank of Canada; The Royal Bank of Scotland; Scotiabank; Société Générale S.A.; UBS AG; TD Securities; Truist Securities; ▇▇▇▇▇ Fargo Bank, National Association; and any of their respective Affiliates.

“Approved Valuation Firm” means each of (a) Lincoln Partners Advisors LLC, (b) Valuation Research Corporation, (c) ▇▇▇▇▇ Inc., (d) ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇ Financial Advisors, Inc. and (e) any other nationally recognized accounting firm or valuation firm, in each case, approved by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.

“Assigned Documents” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 2.12(b).

“Assigned Value” means (i) with respect to any Liquid Credit Loan Asset, its Assigned Value (Liquid Credit) and (ii) with respect to any Private Credit Loan Asset, its Assigned Value (Private Credit).

“Assigned Value (Liquid Credit)” means, with respect to each Eligible Loan Asset, as of any date of determination and expressed as a percentage of the Outstanding Balance of such Eligible Loan Asset, the lowest of (a) the Purchase Price of such Eligible Loan Asset or (b) the par amount of such Eligible Loan Asset, in each case, as of the related Cut-Off Date and subject to the following terms:

(i)Upon the occurrence of any Value Adjustment Event of the type described in clause (b), clause (c), clause (d) or clause (g) of the definition thereof with respect to such Liquid Credit Loan Asset and the Administrative Agent has observed, in the two (2) consecutive Business Days prior to such occurrence, Same Day Pricing with a minimum quote depth of two (2) with respect to such Liquid Credit Loan Asset, the Assigned Value (Liquid Credit) of such Liquid Credit Loan Asset will be the Market Value.

(ii)Upon the occurrence of any Value Adjustment Event of the type described in clause (b), clause (c) or clause (d) of the definition thereof with respect to such Liquid Credit Loan Asset and the Administrative Agent has observed, in the two (2) consecutive Business Days prior to such occurrence, Same Day Pricing with a quote depth of less than two (2) with respect to such Liquid Credit Loan Asset, the then-current Assigned Value (Liquid Credit) of such Liquid Credit Loan Asset will, automatically and without further action by the Administrative Agent, be reduced to 50%; provided, that if the Administrative Agent or any of its Affiliates owns such Liquid Credit Asset Loan for its own account, such Market

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Value determined pursuant to this clause (ii) shall be consistent with the valuation of such Liquid Credit Loan Asset by the Administrative Agent or its Affiliate, as the case may be, for its own account.

(iii)Upon the occurrence of any Value Adjustment Event of the type described in clause (g) or clause (h) (so long as no other Value Adjustment Event has occurred), and the Administrative Agent has observed, in the two (2) consecutive Business Days prior to such occurrence, Same Day Pricing with a quote depth of less than two (2) with respect to such Liquid Credit Loan Asset, the Assigned Value (Liquid Credit) of such Liquid Credit Loan Asset may be amended by the Administrative Agent pursuant to the definition of Market Value.

(iv)The Assigned Value (Liquid Credit) of any Liquid Credit Loan Asset that no longer satisfies the Eligibility Criteria (after giving effect to the first proviso set forth in the lead-in paragraph to Schedule II) shall be zero.

The Administrative Agent shall notify the Servicer of any change effected by the Administrative Agent of the Assigned Value (Liquid Credit) of any Loan Asset.

“Assigned Value (Private Credit)” means an amount (expressed as a percentage of par) equal to (I) with respect to any Private Credit Loan Asset originated within one hundred and twenty (120) days of its sale or contribution to the Borrower, (A) if the origination price thereof was equal to or greater than 97% of par, the par amount thereof and (B) otherwise, the origination price thereof (not to exceed 100% of par) and (II) with respect to any other Private Credit Loan Asset, the lowest of (a) the Purchase Price of such Eligible Loan Asset, (b) the fair market value assigned on the Borrower’s books and records as of the related Cut-Off Date, (c) the value (expressed as a percentage of the principal balance of such Eligible Loan Asset) assigned by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion, or (d) the par amount of such Eligible Loan Asset, in each case, as of the related Cut-Off Date; provided that the foregoing clauses (I) and (II) shall be subject to the following terms:

(i)Unless a lower value applies in accordance with clauses (a) through (d) of this definition set forth above, if a Value Adjustment Event of the type described in clause (b), clause (c), clause (d), clause (e) (but only to the extent failure to deliver the quarterly or annual financial statements required to be delivered therein exceeds the quarterly or annual reporting deadlines set forth therein by more than thirty (30) days, provided, if the applicable financial statements are subsequently delivered and no other Value Adjustment Event has occurred with respect to such Loan Asset, the Assigned Value of such Loan Asset shall revert to the Assigned Value of such Loan Asset in effect immediately preceding the occurrence of the Value Adjustment Event of the type described in clause (e)) or clause (i) of the definition thereof with respect to such Loan Asset occurs, the then-current Assigned Value (Private Credit) thereof may be amended by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion, which may be zero, at any time and from time to time following such occurrence; provided that until the Administrative Agent has made such determination and provided notice thereof to

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the Borrower, the Assigned Value (Private Credit) of the related Eligible Loan Asset will be 50%.

(ii)Unless a lower value applies in accordance with clauses (a) through (d) of this definition set forth above, upon the occurrence of a Value Adjustment Event other than as described in sub-clause (i) above in respect of any Eligible Loan Asset, the then-current Assigned Value (Private Credit) thereof may be amended by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion one time following such occurrence; provided that, for any Eligible Loan Asset whose Assigned Value was decreased due to the occurrence of a Value Adjustment Event described in this sub-clause (ii), the Administrative Agent may further amend, once following each occurrence of the following sub-clauses (1) or (2), the Assigned Value of such Eligible Loan Asset if the Administrative Agent determines in its sole discretion that: (1) if the applicable Value Adjustment Event was due to the occurrence of any event described in clause (a) of the definition thereof, the underlying Obligor has experienced deterioration in the Cash Interest Coverage Ratio, Total Leverage Ratio (or Senior Leverage Ratio with respect to First Lien Loans) or Debt-to-Recurring Revenue Ratio since the immediately preceding amendment in the Assigned Value or (2) if the applicable Value Adjustment Event was due to any other Value Adjustment Event applicable to this sub-clause (ii), (A) the underlying Obligor has experienced an adverse change in financial condition, management or business operations or (B) there has been a change in the creditworthiness of the underlying Obligor (including continued deterioration).

(iii)The Borrower may dispute an Assigned Value (Private Credit) amended by the Administrative Agent pursuant to sub-clause (ii) above pursuant to the following provisions:

(A)The Borrower may (I) either (1) no later than five (5) Business Days after the Administrative Agent adjusts the Assigned Value, obtain two or more Third-Party Bids or (2) no later than five (5) Business Days after the Administrative Agent adjusts the Assigned Value, obtain same day bid side pricing from Loan Pricing Corp. or IHS Markit Ltd. (or such other pricing service approved by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion) (“Same Day Pricing”) with a minimum quote depth of two (2), in each case at its own expense or (II) obtain, at its own expense, a valuation from an Approved Valuation Firm. If the Borrower obtains two or more Third-Party Bids pursuant to sub-clause (I)(1) above, then the average of such Third-Party Bids shall be treated as the amended Assigned Value (Private Credit), if the Borrower obtains Same Day Pricing pursuant to sub-clause (I)(2) above, then such pricing shall be treated as the amended Assigned Value (Private Credit), and if the Borrower obtains a valuation pursuant to sub-clause (II) above, then such valuation shall be treated as the amended Assigned Value (Private Credit).

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or a valuation that satisfies the requirements set forth in sub-clause (A)(II) above, the Assigned Value (Private Credit) adjusted by the Administrative Agent pursuant to clause (ii) above shall remain the Assigned Value (Private Credit).

(C)If the Assigned Value (Private Credit) is disputed pursuant to sub-clause (A)(II) above, then the Administrative Agent may at its own expense obtain a valuation from an alternative Approved Valuation Firm and the average of such valuation and the valuation provided by the Borrower pursuant to sub-clause (A)(II) above shall constitute the amended Assigned Value (Private Credit) upon delivery of a copy of such valuation to the Borrower and the Servicer.

(D)If the Borrower disputes the adjusted Assigned Value (Private Credit) pursuant to sub-clause (A) above, the Assigned Value (Private Credit) adjusted by the Administrative Agent pursuant to clause (ii) above shall remain the Assigned Value (Private Credit), until the Assigned Value (Private Credit) is adjusted pursuant to sub-clause (A) above or, if applicable, until the Assigned Value (Private Credit) is adjusted pursuant to sub-cause (C) above.

(iv)Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, if a Private Credit Loan Asset no longer satisfies the Eligibility Criteria (after giving effect to the first proviso set forth in the lead-in paragraph to Schedule II), its Assigned Value (Private Credit) shall be zero.

The Borrower may request that the Assigned Value (Private Credit) be increased by the Administrative Agent for any Eligible Loan Asset due to a change in the fair market value or any other reason provided to the Administrative Agent and the Administrative Agent may increase such Assigned Value (Private Credit) at any time in its sole discretion; provided that such Assigned Value (Private Credit) may not increase above 100% of the Purchase Price of such Loan Asset.

The Administrative Agent shall notify the Servicer of any change effected by the Administrative Agent of the Assigned Value (Private Credit) of any Loan Asset.

“Assignment and Acceptance” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 12.04(a).

“AUD” means the lawful currency of the Australia.

“AUD Advance” means an Advance denominated in AUD.

“Availability” means, as of any date of determination, an amount equal to the excess, if any, of (a) the Borrowing Base over (b) the Advances Outstanding on such day; provided that at all times on and after the earlier to occur of the Commitment Termination Date or the Facility Maturity Date, the Availability shall be zero; provided further that in the event the Revolving Period is reinstated following the Commitment Termination Date pursuant to the

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proviso to the definition of “Revolving Period,” the Availability will automatically and without further action be reinstated without regard to the foregoing proviso.

“Available Collections” means the sum of all Interest Collections and all Principal Collections received with respect to the Collateral; provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, “Available Collections” shall not include amounts on deposit in the Unfunded Exposure Account that do not represent proceeds of Permitted Investments.

“Available Tenor” means, as of any date of determination and with respect to the then-current Benchmark, any tenor for such Benchmark or payment period for interest calculated with reference to such Benchmark, as applicable, that is or may be used for determining the length of a Remittance Period pursuant to this Agreement as of such date.

“Bail-In Action” means the exercise of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by the applicable Resolution Authority in respect of any liability of an Affected Financial Institution.

“Bail-In Legislation” means (a) with respect to any EEA Member Country implementing Article 55 of Directive 2014/59/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union, the implementing law, regulation, rule or requirement for such EEA Member Country from time to time which is described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule and (b) with respect to the United Kingdom, Part I of the United Kingdom Banking Act 2009 (as amended from time to time) and any other law, regulation or rule applicable in the United Kingdom relating to the resolution of unsound or failing banks, investment firms or other financial institutions or their affiliates (other than through liquidation, administration or other insolvency proceedings).

“Bankruptcy Code” means Title 11, United States Code, 11 U.S.C. §§ 101 et seq., as amended from time to time.

“Bankruptcy Event” means an event that shall be deemed to have occurred with respect to a Person if either:

(i)a case or other proceeding shall be commenced, without the application or consent of such Person, in any court, seeking the liquidation, reorganization, debt arrangement, dissolution, winding up, or composition or readjustment of debts of such Person, the appointment of a trustee, receiver, custodian, liquidator, assignee, sequestrator or the like for such Person or all or substantially all of its assets, or any similar action with respect to such Person under any law relating to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, winding up or composition or adjustment of debts, and such case or proceeding shall continue undismissed, or unstayed and in effect, for a period of sixty (60) consecutive days; or an order for relief in respect of such Person shall be entered in an involuntary case under the federal bankruptcy laws or other similar laws now or hereafter in effect; or

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appointment of or taking possession by a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, custodian, sequestrator (or other similar official) for such Person or all or substantially all of its assets, or shall make any general assignment for the benefit of creditors, or shall fail to, or admit in writing its inability to, pay its debts generally as they become due, or, if a corporation or similar entity, its board of directors or members shall vote to implement any of the foregoing.

“Bankruptcy Laws” means the Bankruptcy Code and all other applicable liquidation, conservatorship, bankruptcy, moratorium, rearrangement, receivership, insolvency, reorganization, suspension of payments, or similar debtor relief laws from time to time in effect affecting the rights of creditors generally.

“Bankruptcy Proceeding” means any case, action or proceeding before any court or other Governmental Authority relating to any Bankruptcy Event.

“Basel III” means, with respect to any Affected Party, any rule, regulation or guideline applicable to such Affected Party and arising directly or indirectly from (a) any of the following documents prepared by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision of the Bank of International Settlements:  (i) Basel III:  International Framework for Liquidity Risk Measurement, Standards and Monitoring (December 2010), (ii) Basel III:  A Global Regulatory Framework for More Resilient Banks and Banking Systems (June 2011), (iii) Basel III:  The Liquidity Coverage Ratio and Liquidity Risk Monitoring Tools (January 2013), or (iv) any document supplementing, clarifying or otherwise relating to any of the foregoing, or (b) any accord, treaty, statute, law, rule, regulation, guideline or pronouncement (whether or not having the force of law) of any governmental authority implementing, furthering or complementing any of the principles set forth in the foregoing documents of strengthening capital and liquidity, in each case as from time to time amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, “Basel III” shall include Part 6 of the European Union regulation 575/2013 on prudential requirements for credit institutions and investment firms (the “CRR”) and any law, regulation, standard, guideline, directive or other publication supplementing or otherwise modifying the CRR.

“BBSW” means, for any date of determination, with respect to any AUD Advance (or portion thereof), the rate per annum (carried out to the fifth decimal place) equal to the rate determined by the Administrative Agent to be the offered rate that appears on the Reuters Screen BBSW Page (or any applicable successor or substitute page providing rate quotations comparable to those currently provided on such page of such service) at approximately 11:00 a.m. (Sydney time) two (2) Business Days prior to the beginning of such Remittance Period for deposits in AUD with a term equivalent to one month; provided that if such rate is not available at any such time for any reason, “BBSW” with respect to any AUD Advance shall be the rate at which AUD deposits of AUD5,000,000 and for a one-month maturity are offered by the principal Sydney office of any bank (which may be the Administrative Agent) reasonably selected by the Administrative Agent in immediately available funds at approximately 11:00 a.m. (Sydney time) on the applicable day (or, if such day is not a Business Day, on the immediately preceding Business Day); provided, further that, in the event that the rate as so determined above shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for purposes of this Agreement. BBSW shall always be determined by the Administrative Agent, and such determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error.

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“BDC Adviser” means Antares Capital Credit Advisers LLC or any Affiliate thereof succeeding to the role of external investment adviser to the Transferor in accordance with the organizational documents of the Transferor.

“Benchmark” means with respect to (a) Dollar Advances, the Benchmark (Dollar), (b) with respect to AUD Advances, BBSW, (c) CAD Advances, the Canadian Benchmark, (d) Euro Advances, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, (e) GBP Advances, Daily Simple ▇▇▇▇▇ or (f) JPY Advances, the reference rate terms pursuant to Schedule VII.

“Benchmark (Dollar)” means, initially, Term SOFR; provided that, if a Benchmark Transition Event and the Benchmark Replacement Date have occurred with respect to Term SOFR or the then-current Benchmark (Dollar), then “Benchmark (Dollar)” means the applicable Benchmark Replacement (Dollar) to the extent that such Benchmark Replacement (Dollar) has replaced such prior benchmark rate pursuant to Section 12.01(c); provided, further, that, in the event that the rate resulting from the sum of any Benchmark (Dollar) plus, if applicable, the Benchmark Replacement Adjustment shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for purposes of this Agreement.

“Benchmark Replacement (Dollar)” means, for any Available Tenor, the first alternative set forth in the order below that can be determined by the Administrative Agent on the applicable Benchmark Replacement Date:

(1)the sum of: (a) Daily Simple SOFR and (b) the applicable Benchmark Replacement Adjustment; or

(2)the sum of: (a) the alternate rate of interest that has been selected by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower as the replacement for the then-current Benchmark (Dollar) for the applicable Corresponding Tenor giving due consideration to (i) any selection or recommendation of a replacement benchmark rate or the mechanism for determining such a rate by the Relevant Governmental Body or (ii) any industry-accepted rate of interest as a replacement for the then-current Benchmark (Dollar) for U.S. dollar denominated secured financings or securitizations relating to the relevant asset class and (b) the Benchmark Replacement Adjustment.

If at any time the Benchmark Replacement (Dollar) as determined pursuant to clause (1) or (2) of this definition would be less than the Floor, the Benchmark Replacement (Dollar) will be deemed to be the Floor for the purposes of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents.

“Benchmark Replacement Adjustment” means with respect to any replacement of the then-current Benchmark with an Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement, the spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment (which may be a positive or negative value or zero), that has been selected by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower giving due consideration to (a) any selection or recommendation of a spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, for the replacement of such Benchmark with the applicable Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement by the Relevant Governmental Body or (b) any industry-accepted spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, for the replacement of the then-current Benchmark with the applicable Unadjusted

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Benchmark Replacement for U.S. dollar denominated secured financing or securitization transactions relating to the relevant asset class.

“Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes” means, with respect to either the use or administration of Term SOFR or the use, administration, adoption or implementation of any Benchmark Replacement (Dollar), any technical, administrative or operational changes (including but not limited to changes to the definition of “Business Day,” the definition of “Remittance Period,” the definition of “Determination Date,” the definition of “U.S. Government Securities Business Day,” timing and frequency of determining rates and making payments of interest, timing of borrowing requests or prepayment, conversion or continuation notices, the applicability and length of lookback periods, the applicability of breakage provisions, and other technical, administrative or operational matters) that the Administrative Agent decides, with the consent of the Borrower, may be appropriate to reflect the adoption and implementation of any such rate or to permit the use and administration thereof by the Administrative Agent in a manner substantially consistent with market practice (or, if the Administrative Agent decides that adoption of any portion of such market practice is not administratively feasible or if the Administrative Agent determines that no market practice for the administration of any such rate exists, in such other manner of administration as the Administrative Agent decides, which in the case of Term SOFR shall be with the consent of the Borrower, is reasonably necessary in connection with the administration of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents).

“Benchmark Replacement Date” means the earliest to occur of the following events with respect to the then-current Benchmark (Dollar):

For the avoidance of doubt, the “Benchmark Replacement Date” will be deemed to have occurred in the case of clause (1) or (2) with respect to any Benchmark upon the occurrence of the applicable event or events set forth therein with respect to all then-current Available Tenors of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof).

“Benchmark Transition Event” means the occurrence of one or more of the following events with respect to the then-current Benchmark (solely with respect to a Benchmark Replacement (Dollar)):

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indefinitely, provided that, at the time of such statement or publication, there is no successor administrator that will continue to provide any Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or such component thereof);

For the avoidance of doubt, a “Benchmark Transition Event” will be deemed to have occurred with respect to any Benchmark if a public statement or publication of information set forth above has occurred with respect to each then-current Available Tenor of such Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof).

“Beneficial Ownership Certification” means a certification regarding beneficial ownership required by the Beneficial Ownership Regulation.

“Beneficial Ownership Regulation” means 31 C.F.R. §1010.230.

“Benefit Plan Investor” means a “benefit plan investor” as defined in Department of Labor regulation 29 C.F.R. Section 2510.3-101, as modified by Section 3(42) of ERISA, and includes an employee benefit plan that is subject to the fiduciary responsibility provisions of Title I of ERISA, a plan that is subject to Section 4975 of the Code, and an entity the underlying assets of which are deemed to include plan assets.

“Borrower” means APCF Funding SPV LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, together with its permitted successors and assigns in such capacity.

“Borrower Certificate of Formation” means the Certificate of Formation of the Borrower, dated November 6, 2024, as amended, modified, supplemented, restated or replaced from time to time.

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“Borrower Consent” means the action by written consent of the manager, dated November 6, 2024, in each case, as amended, modified, supplemented, restated or replaced from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof.

“Borrower LLC Agreement” means the limited liability company agreement of the Borrower, dated November 6, 2024, as amended, modified, supplemented, restated or replaced from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof.

“Borrowing Base” means, collectively, the Borrowing Base (Aggregate), the Borrowing Base (AUD), the Borrowing Base (CAD), the Borrowing Base (Dollar), the Borrowing Base (EUR), the Borrowing Base (GBP) and the Borrowing Base (JPY).

“Borrowing Base (Aggregate)” means, as of any date of determination, an amount calculated in Dollars (and converted to Dollars, if necessary, by the Servicer using the Spot Rate) equal to the lowest of:

(i)the sum of (a) the product of (x) the lower of (1) the Weighted Average Advance Rate for all Eligible Loan Assets as of such date and (2) the Maximum Portfolio Advance Rate as of such date, multiplied by (y) the Aggregate Adjusted Borrowing Value as of such date, plus (b) the amount on deposit in the Principal Collection Subaccount as of such date, plus (c) the amount on deposit in the Unfunded Exposure Account as of such date minus (d) the Unfunded Exposure Equity Amount as of such date; or

(ii)the sum of (a) the Facility Amount, plus (b) the amount on deposit in the Unfunded Exposure Account as of such date minus (c) the aggregate Unfunded Exposure Equity Amount as of such date.

“Borrowing Base (AUD)” means, on any date of determination, an amount calculated in AUD equal to the sum of (i)(x) from the Closing Date until the twelve month anniversary of the Closing Date, the aggregate Purchase Prices of all Eligible Loan Assets denominated in AUD (including any such Eligible Loan Assets to be funded or acquired by the Borrower on such date of determination) and (y) thereafter, the Aggregate Adjusted Borrowing Value of all Eligible Loan Assets denominated in AUD (including any such Eligible Loan Assets to be funded or acquired by the Borrower on such date of determination), plus (ii) the Principal Collections and Permitted Investments made with Principal Collections denominated in AUD on deposit in the Collection Account.

“Borrowing Base (CAD)” means, on any date of determination, an amount calculated in CAD equal to the sum of (i)(x) from the Closing Date until the twelve month anniversary of the Closing Date, the aggregate Purchase Prices of all Eligible Loan Assets denominated in CAD (including any such Eligible Loan Assets to be funded or acquired by the Borrower on such date of determination) and (y) thereafter, the Aggregate Adjusted Borrowing Value of all Eligible Loan Assets denominated in CAD (including any such Eligible Loan Assets to be funded or acquired by the Borrower on such date of determination), plus (ii) the Principal Collections and Permitted Investments made with Principal Collections denominated in CAD on deposit in the Collection Account.

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“Borrowing Base (Dollar)” means, on any date of determination, an amount calculated in Dollars equal to the sum of (a) the product of (i) the lower of (x) 10.0% plus the Weighted Average Advance Rate for all Eligible Loan Assets denominated in Dollars as of such date (and in any case not to exceed 75.0%) and (y) 5.0% plus the Maximum Portfolio Advance Rate as of such date, multiplied by (ii) the Aggregate Adjusted Borrowing Value of all Eligible Loan Assets denominated in Dollars (including any such Eligible Loan Assets to be funded or acquired by the Borrower on such date of determination), plus (b) the Principal Collections and Permitted Investments made with Principal Collections denominated in Dollars on deposit in the Collection Account.

“Borrowing Base (EUR)” means, on any date of determination, an amount calculated in EUR equal to the sum of (i)(x) from the Closing Date until the twelve month anniversary of the Closing Date, the aggregate Purchase Prices of all Eligible Loan Assets denominated in EUR (including any such Eligible Loan Assets to be funded or acquired by the Borrower on such date of determination) and (y) thereafter, the Aggregate Adjusted Borrowing Value of all Eligible Loan Assets denominated in EUR (including any such Eligible Loan Assets to be funded or acquired by the Borrower on such date of determination), plus (ii) the Principal Collections and Permitted Investments made with Principal Collections denominated in EUR on deposit in the Collection Account.

“Borrowing Base (GBP)” means, on any date of determination, an amount calculated in GBP equal to the sum of (i)(x) from the Closing Date until the twelve month anniversary of the Closing Date, the aggregate Purchase Prices of all Eligible Loan Assets denominated in GBP (including any such Eligible Loan Assets to be funded or acquired by the Borrower on such date of determination) and (y) thereafter, the Aggregate Adjusted Borrowing Value of all Eligible Loan Assets denominated in GBP (including any such Eligible Loan Assets to be funded or acquired by the Borrower on such date of determination), plus (ii) the Principal Collections and Permitted Investments made with Principal Collections denominated in GBP on deposit in the Collection Account.

“Borrowing Base (JPY)” means, on any date of determination, an amount calculated in JPY equal to the sum of (i)(x) from the Closing Date until the twelve month anniversary of the Closing Date, the aggregate Purchase Prices of all Eligible Loan Assets denominated in JPY (including any such Eligible Loan Assets to be funded or acquired by the Borrower on such date of determination) and (y) thereafter, the Aggregate Adjusted Borrowing Value of all Eligible Loan Assets denominated in JPY (including any such Eligible Loan Assets to be funded or acquired by the Borrower on such date of determination), plus (ii) the Principal Collections and Permitted Investments made with Principal Collections denominated in JPY on deposit in the Collection Account.

“Borrowing Base Certificate” means a certificate prepared by the Servicer setting forth the calculation of the Borrowing Base as of the applicable date of determination, substantially in the form of Exhibit B hereto.

“Borrowing Base Deficiency” means a condition occurring on any day on which the Borrowing Base Test (Aggregate) is failing.

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“Borrowing Base Test” means a test that will be satisfied at any time if (i) Advances Outstanding (converting all amounts not denominated in Dollars to Dollars at the Spot Rate) are less than or equal to the Borrowing Base (Aggregate) at such time, (ii) if Advances Outstanding which are denominated in AUD are less than or equal to the Borrowing Base (AUD) at such time, (iii) if Advances Outstanding which are denominated in CAD are less than or equal to the Borrowing Base (CAD) at such time, (iv) if Advances Outstanding which are denominated in Dollars are less than or equal to the Borrowing Base (Dollar) at such time, (v) if Advances Outstanding which are denominated in EUR are less than or equal to the Borrowing Base (EUR) at such time, (vi) if Advances Outstanding which are denominated in GBP are less than or equal to the Borrowing Base (GBP) at such time or (vii) if Advances Outstanding which are denominated in JPY are less than or equal to the Borrowing Base (JPY) at such time.

“Borrowing Base Test (Aggregate)” means a test that will be satisfied at any time if Advances Outstanding (converting all amounts not denominated in Dollars to Dollars at the Spot Rate) are less than or equal to the Borrowing Base (Aggregate) at such time.

“Breakage Fee” means, for Advances Outstanding which are repaid (in whole or in part) on any date other than a Payment Date, the breakage costs, if any, related to such repayment, based upon the assumption that the applicable Lender funded its loan commitment in the applicable London interbank offered rate or the euro interbank offered rate market (or, to the extent a different Benchmark applies, such Benchmark) and using any reasonable attribution or averaging methods which the Lender deems appropriate and practical, it hereby being understood that the amount of any loss, costs or expense payable by the Borrower to any Lender as Breakage Fee shall be determined in the respective Lender’s reasonable discretion and shall be conclusive absent manifest error.

“Bridge Loan” means any loan that (a) is unsecured and incurred in connection with a merger, acquisition, consolidation or sale of all or substantially all of the assets of a person or similar transaction and (b) by its terms, is required to be repaid within one (1) year of the incurrence thereof with proceeds from additional borrowings or other refinancings.

“Broadly Syndicated Loan” means any Loan Asset as of the related Cut-Off Date that is a syndicated commercial loan with (a) an original tranche size of $250,000,000 or greater (without consideration of any reductions thereof from scheduled or unscheduled amortization payments), (b) EBITDA of $75,000,000 or greater, (c) a public issuer credit rating by S&P or a public corporate family rating by ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ and (d) Same Day Pricing with a minimum quote depth of at least two (2) or, for Loan Assets that do not meet the requirements of clauses (a), (b), (c) or (d), as otherwise designated by the Administrative Agent on a name-by-name basis in the applicable Approval Notice.  The Borrower may request that any Loan Asset that satisfies the foregoing definition of “Broadly Syndicated Loan” be classified as a Private Credit Loan Asset, subject to the approval of the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion.

“Business Day” means a day of the year other than (a) Saturday or a Sunday or (b) any other day (x) on which commercial banks in (i) New York, New York or (ii) solely with respect to actions to be taken by the Collateral Agent, Collateral Custodian or Account Bank in accordance with any of the Transaction Documents, Charlotte, North Carolina, Florence, South Carolina or any other city in which the corporate trust office of the Collateral Agent, Collateral

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Custodian or Account Bank, as applicable, is located are authorized or required by applicable law, regulation or executive order to close or (y) (i) with respect to any provisions relating to Euro Advances or any provisions relating to the transfer, calculation or conversion of amounts denominated in Euros, on which banks are not open for dealings in Euro deposits in the Euro-zone interbank market, (ii) with respect to any provisions relating to CAD Advances or any provisions relating to the transfer, calculation or conversion of amounts denominated in CAD, on which banks are not open for dealings in CAD deposits in Toronto, Canada, (iii) with respect to any provisions relating to AUD Advances or any provisions relating to the transfer, calculation or conversion of amounts denominated in AUD, on which banks are not open for dealings in AUD deposits in Sydney, Australia or (iv) with respect to any provisions relating to JPY Advances or any provisions relating to the transfer, calculation or conversion of amounts denominated in JPY, on which banks are not open for dealings in JPY deposits in Tokyo, Japan, or (z) with respect to the calculation of Daily Simple ▇▇▇▇▇, a day on which banks are closed for general business in London, United Kingdom.

“CAD” means the lawful currency of Canada.

“CAD Advance” means an Advance denominated in CAD.

“Canadian Available Tenor” means, as of any date of determination and with respect to the then-current Canadian Benchmark, as applicable, (x) if the then-current Canadian Benchmark is a term rate, any tenor for such Canadian Benchmark that is or may be used for determining the length of a Remittance Period or (y) otherwise, any payment period for Yield calculated with reference to such Canadian Benchmark, as applicable, pursuant to this Agreement as of such date.

“Canadian Benchmark” means, initially, Adjusted Term ▇▇▇▇▇; provided that if a Canadian Benchmark Transition Event has occurred with respect to the Term ▇▇▇▇▇ Reference Rate or the then-current Canadian Benchmark, then "Canadian Benchmark" means the applicable Canadian Benchmark Replacement to the extent that such Canadian Benchmark Replacement has replaced such prior Canadian Benchmark pursuant to Section 12.01(e).

“Canadian Benchmark Conforming Changes” means, with respect to either the use or administration of Adjusted Term ▇▇▇▇▇ or the use, administration, adoption or implementation of any Canadian Benchmark Replacement, any technical, administrative or operational changes (including but not limited to changes to the definition of "Business Day," the definition of "Remittance Period," timing and frequency of determining rates and making payments of interest, timing of borrowing requests or prepayment, conversion or continuation notices, the applicability and length of lookback periods, the applicability of breakage provisions, and other technical, administrative or operational matters) that the Administrative Agent decides, with the consent of the Borrower, may be appropriate to reflect the adoption and implementation of any such Canadian Benchmark Replacement or to permit the use and administration thereof by the Administrative Agent in a manner substantially consistent with market practice (or, if the Administrative Agent decides that adoption of any portion of such market practice is not administratively feasible or if the Administrative Agent determines that no market practice for the administration of any such Canadian Benchmark Replacement exists, in such other manner of administration as the Administrative Agent decides, which in the case of Term ▇▇▇▇▇ shall be

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with the consent of the Borrower, which in the case of Term ▇▇▇▇▇ shall be with the consent of the Borrower, is reasonably necessary in connection with the administration of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents).

“Canadian Benchmark Replacement” means, with respect to any Canadian Benchmark Transition Event:

(a)where a Canadian Benchmark Transition Event has occurred with respect to the Term ▇▇▇▇▇ Reference Rate, Daily Compounded ▇▇▇▇▇; and

(b)where a Canadian Benchmark Transition Event has occurred with respect to a Canadian Benchmark other than the Term ▇▇▇▇▇ Reference Rate, the sum of (i) the alternate benchmark rate that has been selected by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower giving due consideration to (A) any selection or recommendation of a replacement benchmark rate or the mechanism for determining such a rate by the Relevant Governmental Body or (B) any evolving or then-prevailing market convention for determining a benchmark rate as a replacement to the then-current Canadian Benchmark for Dollar-denominated syndicated credit facilities and (ii) the related Canadian Benchmark Replacement Adjustment.

If the Canadian Benchmark Replacement as determined pursuant to clause (a) or (b) above would be less than the Floor, the Canadian Benchmark Replacement will be deemed to be the Floor for the purposes of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents.

“Canadian Benchmark Replacement Adjustment” means, with respect to any replacement of the then-current Canadian Benchmark with a Canadian Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement, the spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment (which may be a positive or negative value or zero) that has been selected by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower giving due consideration to (a) any selection or recommendation of a spread adjustment, or method of calculating or determining such spread adjustment, for the replacement of such Canadian Benchmark with the applicable Canadian Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement by the Relevant Governmental Body or (b) any evolving or then-prevailing market convention for determining a spread adjustment, or method for calculating or determining such spread adjustment, for the replacement of such Canadian Benchmark with the applicable Canadian Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement for Dollar-denominated syndicated credit facilities at such time.

“Canadian Benchmark Replacement Date” means a date and time determined by the Administrative Agent, which date shall be no later than the earliest to occur of the following events with respect to the then-current Canadian Benchmark:

(a)in the case of clause (a) or (b) of the definition of “Canadian Benchmark Transition Event,” the later of (i) the date of the public statement or publication of information referenced therein and (ii) the date on which the administrator of such Canadian Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) permanently or indefinitely ceases to provide all Canadian Available Tenors of such Canadian Benchmark (or such component thereof); or

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(b)in the case of clause (c) of the definition of "Canadian Benchmark Transition Event," the first date on which such Canadian Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) has been determined and announced by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Canadian Benchmark (or such component thereof) to be non-representative; provided that such non-representativeness will be determined by reference to the most recent statement or publication referenced in clause (c) and even if any Canadian Available Tenor of such Canadian Benchmark (or such component thereof) continues to be provided on such date.

For the avoidance of doubt, the "Canadian Benchmark Replacement Date" will be deemed to have occurred in the case of clause (a) or (b) with respect to any Canadian Benchmark upon the occurrence of the applicable event or events set forth therein with respect to all then-current Canadian Available Tenors of such Canadian Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof).

“Canadian Benchmark Transition Event” means the occurrence of one or more of the following events with respect to the then-current Canadian Benchmark:

(a)a public statement or publication of information by or on behalf of the administrator of such Canadian Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) announcing that such administrator has ceased or will cease to provide all Canadian Available Tenors of such Canadian Benchmark (or such component thereof), permanently or indefinitely; provided that, at the time of such statement or publication, there is no successor administrator that will continue to provide any Canadian Available Tenor of such Canadian Benchmark (or such component thereof);

(b)a public statement or publication of information by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Canadian Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof), the Bank of Canada, an insolvency official with jurisdiction over the administrator for such Canadian Benchmark (or such component), a resolution authority with jurisdiction over the administrator for such Canadian Benchmark (or such component) or a court or an entity with similar insolvency or resolution authority over the administrator for such Canadian Benchmark (or such component), which states that the administrator of such Canadian Benchmark (or such component) has ceased or will cease to provide all Canadian Available Tenors of such Canadian Benchmark (or such component thereof) permanently or indefinitely; provided that, at the time of such statement or publication, there is no successor administrator that will continue to provide any Canadian Available Tenor of such Canadian Benchmark (or such component thereof); or

(c)a public statement or publication of information by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of such Canadian Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) announcing that all Canadian Available Tenors of such Canadian Benchmark (or such component thereof) are not, or as of a specified future date will not be, representative.

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For the avoidance of doubt, a “Canadian Benchmark Transition Event” will be deemed to have occurred with respect to any Canadian Benchmark if a public statement or publication of information set forth above has occurred with respect to each then-current Canadian Available Tenor of such Canadian Benchmark (or the published component used in the calculation thereof).

“Canadian Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement” means the applicable Canadian Benchmark Replacement excluding the related Canadian Benchmark Replacement Adjustment.

“Capital Lease Obligations” means, with respect to any entity, the obligations of such entity to pay rent or other amounts under any lease of (or other arrangement conveying the right to use) real or personal property, or a combination thereof, which obligations are required to be classified and accounted for as capital leases on a balance sheet of such entity under GAAP, and the amount of such obligations shall be the capitalized amount thereof determined in accordance with GAAP.

“Cash Interest Coverage Ratio” means, with respect to any Loan Asset (other than a Recurring Revenue Loan) for any period, the meaning of “Interest Coverage Ratio” or any comparable definition in the Underlying Instruments for such Loan Asset, and in the case that “Interest Coverage Ratio” or such comparable definition is not defined in such Underlying Instruments, the ratio of (a) EBITDA for the applicable test period, to (b) cash interest for the applicable test period, as calculated by the Servicer in accordance with the Servicing Standard using information from and calculations consistent with the relevant compliance statements and financial reporting packages provided by the relevant Obligor as per the requirements of the related Underlying Instruments.

“Change in Law” means the occurrence, after the date of this Agreement, of any of the following:  (a) the adoption or taking effect of any law, rule, regulation or treaty, (b) any change in any law, rule, regulation or treaty or in the administration, interpretation, implementation or application thereof by any Governmental Authority, (c) the making or issuance of any request, rule, guideline or directive (whether or not having the force of law) by any Governmental Authority or (d) any change in any generally accepted accounting principles or regulatory accounting principles and affecting the application of any law, rule, regulation or treaty referred to in clause (a) or (b) above; provided that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (x) the ▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, rules, regulations, guidelines or directives promulgated thereunder or issued in connection therewith and (y) all law, requests, rules, regulations, guidelines or directives promulgated by the Bank for International Settlements, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (or any successor or similar authority) or the United States or foreign regulatory authorities, in each case pursuant to Basel III, shall in each case be deemed to be a “Change in Law,” regardless of the date enacted, adopted or issued.

“Change of Control” means an event that shall be deemed to have occurred if any of the following occur:

(a)the Transferor at any time for any reason ceases to own, directly or indirectly, 100% of the Equity Interests of the Borrower;

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(b)the BDC Adviser or a Qualified BDC Affiliate ceases to be the investment adviser to, and otherwise control the investment management and investment policies of, the Transferor; or

(c)the dissolution, termination or liquidation, in whole or in part, transfer or other disposition, in each case, of all or substantially all of the assets of the Borrower, the Transferor or the Servicer, as applicable.

For the avoidance of doubt, the Closing Date Restructuring shall not be a Change of Control.

“CLO” means a collateralized loan obligation transaction, the proceeds of which are utilized to repay all or a portion of the Obligations owing by the Borrower hereunder.

“Closing Date” means November 6, 2024.

“Closing Date Member” means APCF Equity Holdings LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.

“Closing Date Restructuring” means a series of transactions expected to be entered into on or shortly after the Closing Date effecting the transfer of the Equity Interests of the Borrower by the Closing Date Member to Antares Private Credit Fund and the election by the Transferor to be registered as a “business development company” within the meaning of the 1940 Act.

“Code” means the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

“Collateral” means all right, title, and interest (whether now owned or hereafter acquired or arising, and wherever located) of the Borrower in, to and under all accounts, cash and currency, chattel paper, tangible chattel paper, electronic chattel paper, copyrights, copyright licenses, equipment, fixtures, contract rights, general intangibles, instruments, certificates of deposit, certificated securities, uncertificated securities, financial assets, securities entitlements, commercial tort claims, deposit accounts, inventory, investment property, letter-of-credit rights, software, supporting obligations, accessions, or other property of the Borrower, including, all right, title and interest of the Borrower in the following (in each case excluding the Retained Interest and the Excluded Amounts):

(i)the Loan Assets, and all monies due or to become due in payment under such Loan Assets on and after the related Cut-Off Date, including, but not limited to, all Available Collections;

(ii)the Related Asset with respect to the Loan Assets referred to in clause (i) above;

(iii)the Controlled Accounts and all Permitted Investments purchased with funds on deposit in the Controlled Accounts;

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(v)the Sale and Contribution Agreement; and

(vi)all income and Proceeds of the foregoing.

“Collateral Agent” means U.S. Bank Trust Company, National Association, not in its individual capacity, but solely as collateral agent pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, together with its successor and assigns in such capacity.

“Collateral Agent and Collateral Custodian Fee Letter” means the Collateral Agent and Collateral Custodian Fee Letter, dated as of October 22, 2024, between the Collateral Agent, the Collateral Custodian, the Account Bank and the Borrower as such letter may be amended, modified, supplemented, restated or replaced from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof.

“Collateral Agent Expenses” means the expenses set forth in the Collateral Agent and Collateral Custodian Fee Letter and any other accrued and unpaid expenses (including attorneys’ fees, costs and expenses) and indemnity amounts payable by the Borrower to the Collateral Agent under the Transaction Documents.

“Collateral Agent Fees” means the fees due to the Collateral Agent pursuant to the Collateral Agent and Collateral Custodian Fee Letter.

“Collateral Agent Termination Notice” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 10.05.

“Collateral Custodian” means U.S. Bank National Association, not in its individual capacity, but solely as collateral custodian pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, together with its successors and assigns in such capacity.

“Collateral Custodian Expenses” means the expenses set forth in the Collateral Agent and Collateral Custodian Fee Letter and any other accrued and unpaid expenses (including attorneys’ fees, costs and expenses) and indemnity amounts payable by the Borrower to the Collateral Custodian under the Transaction Documents.

“Collateral Custodian Fees” means the fees due to the Collateral Custodian pursuant to the Collateral Agent and Collateral Custodian Fee Letter.

“Collateral Custodian Termination Notice” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 11.05.

“Collateral Database” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 10.02(b)(iv).

“Collateral Quality Tests” means (a) the Weighted Average Spread Test and (b) the Weighted Average Life Test.

“Collection Account” means the collective reference to the accounts identified as collection accounts, in the name of the Borrower subject to the lien and control of the Collateral

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Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties, and each subaccount that may be established from time to time, including those identified as interest collection subaccounts or identified as principal collection subaccounts, as applicable; provided that the funds deposited therein (including any interest and earnings thereon) from time to time shall constitute the property and assets of the Borrower, and the Borrower shall be solely liable for any Taxes payable with respect to the Collection Account.

“Collection Date” means the date on which the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Advances Outstanding have been repaid in full and all Yield and Fees and all other Obligations (other than unmatured contingent obligations for which no claim has been made) have been paid in full, and the Borrower shall have no further right to request any additional Advances.

“Commitment” means with respect to each Lender, (i) during the Revolving Period, the amount set forth opposite such Lender’s name on Annex A hereto (as such amount may be revised from time to time) or the amount set forth as such Lender’s “Commitment” on the Assignment and Acceptance relating to such Lender, as applicable, and (ii) during the Amortization Period, such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the aggregate Advances Outstanding, in each case, as such amount may be increased or reduced pursuant to Section 2.16.

“Commitment Termination Date” means the earliest to occur of (a) the date that is three (3) years after the Closing Date and (b) the Facility Maturity Date.

“Concentration Denominator” means (a) during the Ramp-Up Period only, the greater of (i) the Target Portfolio Amount and (ii) the sum of the Adjusted Borrowing Values (without giving effect to clause (ii) of the definition thereof) of all Eligible Loan Assets included as part of the Collateral on such date, plus amounts on deposit in the Principal Collection Subaccount, plus amounts on deposit in the Unfunded Exposure Account, and (b) thereafter, the sum of the Adjusted Borrowing Values (without giving effect to clause (ii) of the definition thereof) of all Eligible Loan Assets included as part of the Collateral on such date, plus amounts on deposit in the Principal Collection Subaccount, plus amounts on deposit in the Unfunded Exposure Account.

“Concentration Limitations” means, for the purposes of determining the Excess Concentration Amount:

(a)not more than 3.0% of the Concentration Denominator may consist of Eligible Loan Assets that are issued by a single Obligor and its Affiliates, in each case except that:

(i)up to 5.0% of the Concentration Denominator may consist of Eligible Loan Assets issued by each of two (2) Obligors and their respective Affiliates (provided that all Eligible Loan Assets that are issued by the two (2) largest Obligors are First Lien Loans and not in a Specified Industry); and

(ii)in addition to the Obligors included in clause (i) above, up to 3.5% of the Concentration Denominator may consist of Eligible Loan Assets issued by each of three (3) Obligors and their respective Affiliates;

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(b)not more than 15.0% of the Concentration Denominator may consist of Eligible Loan Assets that are issued by Obligors that belong to any single Industry Classification, except that:

(i)up to 20.0% of the Concentration Denominator may consist of Eligible Loan Assets issued by Obligors that belong to the largest Industry Classification;

(ii)up to 17.5% of the Concentration Denominator may consist of Eligible Loan Assets issued by Obligors that belong to the second largest Industry Classification; and

(iii)up to 17.5% of the Concentration Denominator may consist of Eligible Loan Assets issued by Obligors that belong to the third largest Industry Classification;

(iv)notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this clause (b):

(A)not more than 5.0% of the Concentration Denominator may consist of Eligible Loan Assets issued by Obligors that belong to any single Specified Industry; and

(B)not more than 15.0% of the Concentration Denominator may consist of Eligible Loan Assets issued by Obligors that belong to Specified Industries in the aggregate;

(c)not more than 20.0% of the Concentration Denominator may consist of Eligible Loan Assets that are Unfunded Exposure Amounts related to Delayed Draw Loan Assets and Revolving Loans in the aggregate;

(d)not more than 10.0% of the Concentration Denominator may consist of Eligible Loan Assets that are FLLO Loans;

(e)not more than 5.0% of the Concentration Denominator may consist of Eligible Loan Assets that are Second Lien Loans;

(f)not more than 5.0% of the Concentration Denominator may consist of Eligible Loan Assets that are fixed rate Loan Assets;

(g)not more than 20.0% of the Concentration Denominator may consist of Eligible Loan Assets that are Cov-Lite Loan Assets issued by any Obligor that has a most recently reported EBITDA as of the Cut-Off Date of less than $75,000,000;

(h)not more than 35.0% of the Concentration Denominator may consist of Eligible Loan Assets with a Senior Leverage Ratio of greater than 6.50:1.00 as of the Cut-off Date (or greater than 7.00:1.00 as of the Cut-off Date with respect to the “Software” Industry Classification);

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(i)not more than (i) from the Closing Date until the twelve month anniversary of the Closing Date, 25.0% and (ii) thereafter, 35.0% of the Concentration Denominator may consist of Eligible Loan Assets that are denominated in an Eligible Currency other than Dollars;

(j)not more than 35.0% of the Concentration Denominator may consist of Eligible Loan Assets that are domiciled in an Eligible Country other than the United States;

(k)not more than 10.0% of the Concentration Denominator may consist of Eligible Loan Assets that are Recurring Revenue Loans;

(l)not more than 17.5% of the Concentration Denominator may consist of Eligible Loan Assets that are PIK Loan Assets (other than any PIK Loan Asset that has a Minimum Cash Spread of at least 3.5% and such spread is payable at least quarterly);

(m)not more than 7.5% of the Concentration Denominator may consist of Eligible Loan Assets that are Amended PIK Loan Assets;

(n)not more than 15.0% of the Concentration Denominator may consist of Eligible Loan Assets other than Recurring Revenue Loans that are issued by an Obligor that has an EBITDA of less than $25,000,000 and greater than or equal to $10,000,000 as of the Cut-off Date; and

(o)not more than 35.0% of the Concentration Denominator may consist of Eligible Loan Assets that are Broadly Syndicated Loans.

“Constituent Documents” means in respect of any Person, the certificate or articles of formation, incorporation or organization, the limited liability company agreement, operating agreement, partnership agreement, joint venture agreement or other applicable agreement of formation or organization (or equivalent or comparable constituent documents), articles of association and other organizational documents and by-laws and any certificate of incorporation, certificate of formation, certificate of limited partnership and other agreement, similar instrument filed or made in connection with its formation or organization, in each case, as the same may be amended, modified, supplemented, restated or replaced from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof. For the avoidance of doubt, the “Constituent Documents” of the Borrower include, the Borrower Consent, the Borrower Certificate of Formation and the Borrower LLC Agreement.

“Control Agreement” means that certain Control Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, among the Borrower, the Servicer, the Account Bank, the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent, as such agreement may be amended, modified, supplemented, restated or replaced from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof.

“Controlled Accounts” means the Collection Account, each Eligible Currency Account and the Unfunded Exposure Account.

“▇▇▇▇▇” means the Canadian Overnight Repo Rate Average administered and published by the Bank of Canada (or any successor administrator).

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“Corresponding Tenor” with respect to any Available Tenor means, as applicable, either a tenor (including overnight) or an interest payment period having approximately the same length (disregarding business day adjustment) as such Available Tenor.

“Cov-Lite Loan Asset” means a Loan Asset with respect to which the related Obligor is not subject to financial covenants; provided that a Loan Asset shall not constitute a Cov-Lite Loan Asset if (a) the Underlying Instruments require the obligor thereunder to comply with one or more Maintenance Covenants (regardless of whether compliance with one or more Incurrence Covenants is otherwise required by the Underlying Instruments) or (b) the Underlying Instruments contain a cross-default provision to, or such Loan Asset is pari passu with, or subordinated to, another loan of the Obligor that requires the Obligor to comply with one or more financial covenants or Maintenance Covenants (including covenants that apply only upon the funding of any portion of such loan, whether or not then funded).

“Credit Risk Loan” means a Loan Asset that is not a Defaulted Loan but which has, in the Borrower’s or the Servicer’s reasonable judgment (exercised in accordance with the Servicing Standard), a significant risk of declining in credit quality and, with lapse of time, becoming a Defaulted Loan.

“Cut-Off Date” means, with respect to each Loan Asset (or any portion thereof), the date such Loan Asset (or such portion) is committed to be acquired by the Borrower and, in the case of any Delayed Draw Loan Asset or Revolving Loan, irrespective of the dates or numbers of draws thereunder subsequent to the date such Loan Asset is committed to be acquired by the Borrower.

“Daily Compounded ▇▇▇▇▇” means, for any day, ▇▇▇▇▇ with interest accruing on a compounded daily basis, with the methodology and conventions for this rate (which will include compounding in arrears with a lookback) being established by the Administrative Agent in accordance with the methodology and conventions for this rate selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body for determining compounded ▇▇▇▇▇ for business loans; provided that if the Administrative Agent decides that any such convention is not administratively feasible for the Administrative Agent, then the Administrative Agent may establish another convention in its reasonable discretion; provided, further, that if the administrator has not provided or published CORRA and a Canadian Benchmark Replacement Date with respect to ▇▇▇▇▇ has not occurred, then, in respect of any day for which ▇▇▇▇▇ is required, references to ▇▇▇▇▇ will be deemed to be references to the last provided or published ▇▇▇▇▇; provider, further, that if Daily Compounded ▇▇▇▇▇ as so determined shall be less than the Floor, then Daily Compounded ▇▇▇▇▇ shall be deemed to be the Floor.

“Daily Simple SOFR” means, for any day, SOFR, with the conventions for this rate (which may include a lookback) being established by the Administrative Agent in accordance with the conventions for this rate selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body for determining “Daily Simple SOFR” for business loans at such times; provided that, if the Administrative Agent decides that any such convention is not administratively feasible, then the Administrative Agent may establish another convention in its reasonable discretion.

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“Daily Simple ▇▇▇▇▇” means, for any day (a “▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ Day”), a rate per annum equal to, for any Obligations, interest, fees, commissions or other amounts denominated in, or calculated with respect to, GBP, ▇▇▇▇▇ for the day (such day, a “▇▇▇▇▇ Determination Day”) that is five (5) Business Days prior to (x) if such ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ Day is a Business Day, such ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ Day or (y) if such ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ Day is not a Business Day, the Business Day immediately preceding such ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇, in each case, as such ▇▇▇▇▇ is published by the ▇▇▇▇▇ Administrator on the ▇▇▇▇▇ Administrator’s Website by 12:00 p.m. (London, United Kingdom time). If by 5:00 p.m. (London, United Kingdom time) on the second (2nd) Business Day immediately following the ▇▇▇▇▇ Determination Day, ▇▇▇▇▇ in respect of such ▇▇▇▇▇ Determination Day has not been published on the ▇▇▇▇▇ Administrator’s Website and a ▇▇▇▇▇ Replacement Date has not occurred, then the ▇▇▇▇▇ for such ▇▇▇▇▇ Determination Day will be the ▇▇▇▇▇ as published in respect of the first (1st) preceding Business Day for which such ▇▇▇▇▇ was published on the ▇▇▇▇▇ Administrator’s Website; provided that any ▇▇▇▇▇ determined pursuant to this sentence shall be utilized for purposes of calculating Daily Simple ▇▇▇▇▇ for no more than three (3) consecutive ▇▇▇▇▇ Rate Days; provided, further, that any calculation of Daily Simple ▇▇▇▇▇ shall be rounded to four decimal places and if that rate is less than zero, the Daily Simple ▇▇▇▇▇ shall be deemed to be zero.  Any change in Daily Simple ▇▇▇▇▇ due to a change in the ▇▇▇▇▇ shall be effective from and including the effective date of such change in the ▇▇▇▇▇ without notice to the Borrower.

“Debt-to-Recurring-Revenue Ratio” means, with respect to any Loan Asset that is a Recurring Revenue Loan for any period, the meaning of “Debt-to-Recurring Revenue Ratio” or any comparable definition in the Underlying Instruments for each Loan Asset, and in any case that “Debt-to-Recurring Revenue Ratio” or such comparable definition is not defined in such Underlying Instruments, the ratio of (a) Indebtedness of the related Obligor less Unrestricted Cash, to (b) Recurring Revenue, as calculated by the Servicer in accordance with the Servicing Standard using information from and calculations consistent with the relevant compliance statements and financial reporting packages provided by the relevant Obligor as per the requirements of the related Underlying Instruments; provided that, in the event of a lack of any such information necessary to calculate the Debt-to-Recurring Revenue Ratio, the Debt-to-Recurring Revenue Ratio shall be a ratio calculated by the Servicer in accordance with the Servicing Standard.

“Defaulted Loan” means any Loan Asset as to which any one of the following events has occurred:

(a)(i) an Obligor payment default in respect of any Scheduled Payment occurs under such Loan Asset that continues and has not been cured after giving effect to any grace period applicable thereto or (ii) a Responsible Officer of the Servicer or the Borrower has received written notice or has actual knowledge that a default (other than with respect to a breach of any financial covenants unless such financial covenants are required to meet the Eligibility Criteria) has occurred under the Underlying Instruments and any applicable grace period has expired and the holders of such Loan Asset have accelerated the repayment of the Loan Asset (but only until such acceleration has been rescinded) in the manner provided in the Underlying Instruments;

(b)a Bankruptcy Event with respect to the related Obligor;

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(c)a Responsible Officer of the Servicer or the Borrower has actual knowledge (without any duty to make inquiry) of any payment default in respect of principal, interest and/or contractually obligated unutilized/commitment fees (as applicable) occurs under any other senior or pari passu obligation for borrowed money of the related Obligor that continues and has not been cured after giving effect to any grace period applicable thereto, but in no event more than five (5) Business Days, after the applicable due date under the related agreement (including in respect of the acceleration of the debt under the applicable agreement) and such senior or pari passu obligation is (a) either a full recourse obligation of the Obligor or secured by the same collateral securing such Loan Asset and (b) in an amount (whether separately or in the aggregate) in excess of $250,000;

(d)a Responsible Officer of the Servicer or the Borrower has actual knowledge (without any duty to make inquiry) that such Loan Asset has (x) a rating by S&P of “CC” or below or “SD” or (y) a ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ probability of default rating (as published by ▇▇▇▇▇’▇) of “D” or “LD” or, in each case, had such ratings before they were withdrawn by S&P or ▇▇▇▇▇’▇, as applicable;

(e)a Responsible Officer of the Servicer or the Borrower has actual knowledge that such Loan Asset is pari passu or junior in right of payment as to the payment of principal and/or interest to another debt obligation of the same Obligor which has (i) a rating by S&P of “CC” or below or “SD” or (ii) a ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ probability of default rating (as published by ▇▇▇▇▇’▇) of “D” or “LD,” and in each case such other debt obligation remains outstanding (provided that both the Loan Asset and such other debt obligation are full recourse obligations of the applicable Obligor), and in either case and such senior or pari passu obligation is (a) either a full recourse obligation of the Obligor or secured by the same collateral securing such Loan Asset and (b) in an amount (whether separately or in the aggregate) in excess of $250,000; or

(f)the Servicer determines that all or a material portion of such Loan Asset is uncollectible or otherwise places it on non-accrual status in accordance with the policies and procedures of the Servicer and the Servicing Standard.

“Defaulting Lender” means any Lender that:  (i) has failed to fund any of its obligations to make Advances within two (2) Business Days following the applicable Advance Date, (ii) has notified the Administrative Agent or the Borrower that it does not intend to comply with such funding obligations or has made a public statement to that effect with respect to such funding obligations hereunder or under other agreements in which it commits to extend credit, (iii) has, for two (2) or more Business Days, failed, in good faith, to confirm in writing to the Administrative Agent, in response to a written request of the Administrative Agent, that it will comply with its funding obligations hereunder, (iv) has, or has a direct or indirect parent company that has, become subject to a Bankruptcy Event or (v) has become the subject of a Bail-In Action.

“Delayed Draw Loan Asset” means a Loan Asset that is fully committed on the initial funding date of such Loan Asset and is required to be fully funded in one or more installments on draw dates, but which does not permit the re-borrowing of any amounts previously repaid by the Obligor; provided that any such Loan Asset will only be considered a Delayed Draw Loan Asset for so long as any commitments by the Borrower to make advances to the related

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Obligor remain in effect and only with respect to any portion that constitutes such a commitment to make advances.

“Determination Date” means the date that is eight (8) Business Days prior to any Reporting Date.

“DIP Loan” means any Loan Asset (a) with respect to which the related Obligor is a debtor-in-possession as defined under the Bankruptcy Code, (b) which has the priority allowed pursuant to Section 364 of the Bankruptcy Code and (c) the terms of which have been approved by a court of competent jurisdiction.

“Disbursement Request” means a disbursement request from the Borrower to the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent in the form attached hereto as Exhibit C in connection with a disbursement request from the Unfunded Exposure Account in accordance with Section 2.04(d) or a disbursement request from the Principal Collection Subaccount in accordance with Section 2.18, as applicable.

“Discretionary Sale” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 2.07(a).

“Discretionary Trading Limit” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 2.07(e).

“Disqualified Institution” means any financial institution, fund or Person that, in each case is primarily engaged in the business of originating middle market loans; provided that, in no event shall the term "Disqualified Institution" include any commercial bank, investment bank, insurance company or pension fund.

“Diversity Score” means, as of any day, a single number that indicates collateral concentration in terms of both issuer and industry concentration, calculated as set forth in Schedule V hereto, as such Schedule V may be updated at the mutual agreement of the Administrative Agent and the Borrower to reflect any revisions to such criteria published by the Global Industry Classification Standard.

“Dollar Advance” means an Advance denominated in Dollars.

“Dollar Equivalent” means, (a) for any amount denominated in Dollars, such amount and (b) for any amount denominated in any other currency, (i) with respect to any amount relating to an Advance or other amounts due under this Agreement, the equivalent amount thereof in Dollars as determined by the Administrative Agent at such time on the basis of the current spot rate determined by the Administrative Agent in a commercially reasonable manner using the current spot rate and (ii) with respect to any amount relating to any Loan Asset, the equivalent amount thereof in Dollars determined by the Servicer using the Spot Rate.

“Dollars” means, and the conventional “$” signifies, the lawful currency of the United States of America.

“EBITDA” means, with respect to any period and any Loan Asset other than a Recurring Revenue Loan, the meaning of “EBITDA,” “Adjusted EBITDA” or any comparable

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definition in the Underlying Instruments for such Loan Asset (together with all add-backs and exclusions as designated in such Underlying Instruments) (or, in the case of a Loan Asset for which the Underlying Instruments have not been executed, as set forth in the relevant marketing materials or financial model in respect of such Loan Asset, until the first period after the Underlying Instruments have been executed, or as otherwise determined in good faith by the Servicer in accordance with the Servicing Standard), and in any case that “EBITDA,” “Adjusted EBITDA” or such comparable definition is not defined in such Underlying Instruments or marketing materials or financial model, an amount, for the principal Obligor on such Loan Asset and any of its parents that are obligated as guarantor or co-borrower pursuant to the Underlying Instruments and any of their respective Subsidiaries for such Loan Asset (determined in good faith by the Servicer in accordance with the Servicing Standard on a consolidated basis without duplication in accordance with GAAP (and also on a pro forma basis as determined in good faith by the Servicer in accordance with the Servicing Standard in case of any acquisitions)) equal to earnings from continuing operations for such period plus, in each case to the extent deducted in determining earnings from continuing operations for such period, interest expense, income taxes, depreciation and amortization for such period, including amortization of intangibles (including, but not limited to, goodwill, financing fees and other capitalized costs), other non-cash charges and organization costs, extraordinary, one-time and/or non-recurring losses or charges, any other customary add-backs for similarly situated obligors the Servicer deems to be appropriate in accordance with the Servicing Standard and any other item the Servicer and the Administrative Agent mutually deem to be appropriate).

“EBITDA Adjustments” means, with respect to any Loan Asset, as identified in the related Underlying Instrument and calculated as of the date on which such Underlying Instrument was executed (such calculation shall include any unrealized “runrate” earnings or cost savings (excluding adjustments to owner’s or management compensation) and expected revenue or unrealized cost synergies (excluding adjustments to owner’s or management compensation) and any other adjustments as determined by the Servicer in accordance with the Servicing Standard) or, if the meaning of “runrate,” “cost savings,” “synergies,” “expected revenue” or any comparable definitions in the Underlying Instrument for such Loan Asset were amended or modified, calculated as of the date on which such underlying amendment was executed, the sum of:

(a)unrealized "runrate" earnings or cost savings (excluding adjustments to owner's or management compensation); and

(b)expected revenue or unrealized cost synergies (excluding adjustments to owner's or management compensation).

“EBITDA Adjustments Percentage” means, a fraction, expressed as a percentage, equal to (x) EBITDA Adjustments, divided by (y) closing date adjusted EBITDA (as defined in or calculated pursuant to the related Underlying Instrument).  For uncapped EBITDA Adjustments, the EBITDA Adjustments Percentage shall be deemed to be greater than 40%.

“EEA Financial Institution” means (a) any credit institution or investment firm established in any EEA Member Country which is subject to the supervision of an EEA Resolution Authority, (b) any entity established in an EEA Member Country which is a parent of an institution described in clause (a) of this definition, or (c) any financial institution established in an EEA

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Member Country which is a subsidiary of an institution described in clauses (a) or (b) of this definition and is subject to consolidated supervision with its parent.

“EEA Member Country” means any of the member states of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.

“EEA Resolution Authority” means any public administrative authority or any person entrusted with public administrative authority of any EEA Member Country (including any delegee) having responsibility for the resolution of any EEA Financial Institution.

“Effective Advance Rate” means, as of any date of determination, (a) the aggregate principal amount of all Advances Outstanding on such date divided by (b) the sum of (i) the Aggregate Adjusted Borrowing Value on such date plus (ii) the amount of Principal Collections on deposit in the Principal Collection Subaccount on such date minus (iii) the Aggregate Unfunded Exposure Equity Amount on such date plus (iv) the amount on deposit in the Unfunded Exposure Account on such date.

“Effective Spread” means, as of any date of determination, with respect to any (i) floating rate Eligible Loan Asset the current per annum rate at which it pays interest minus the Benchmark applicable during the Remittance Period in which such date of determination occurs and (ii) fixed rate Eligible Loan Asset, the interest rate for such Loan Asset minus the Benchmark applicable during the Remittance Period in which such date of determination occurs; provided, that, in each case, with respect to the funded portion of any commitment under any Delayed Draw Loan Asset or Revolving Loan, as applicable, the Effective Spread means the current per annum rate at which it pays interest minus the Benchmark applicable during the Remittance Period in which such date of determination occurs.

“Eligibility Criteria” has the meaning assigned to that term in Schedule II hereto.

“Eligible Country” has the meaning assigned to that term in Schedule II hereto.

“Eligible Currency” means AUDs, CADs, Euros, GBPs, JPYs and Dollars.

“Eligible Currency Accounts” means the segregated accounts designated as “[CURRENCY] Eligible Currency Account” in the name of the Borrower subject to the Lien of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties, including any sub account thereof; provided that the funds deposited therein (including any interest and earnings thereon) from time to time shall constitute the property and assets of the Borrower, and the Borrower shall be solely liable for any Taxes payable with respect to each Eligible Currency Account.  For the avoidance of doubt, there shall be one Eligible Currency Account (which shall constitute a collective reference in each case to one or more accounts, including a principal collection account, interest collection account and unfunded exposure account, for each Eligible Currency, and may include any subaccounts as may be necessary or convenient for the administration of this Agreement) for each Eligible Currency other than Dollars with respect to the Borrower.

“Eligible Loan Asset” means, as of any date of determination, a Loan Asset in respect of which the criteria set forth in Schedule II hereto is satisfied as of such date.

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“Equity Cure Notice” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.06(c).

“Equity Cushion” means, with respect to any Obligor and as calculated by the Servicer, the pro forma ratio of (a) the equity of such Obligor to (b) the total capitalization of such Obligor, determined as of the related Cut-Off Date.

“Equity Interests” means, with respect to any Person, its equity ownership interests, its common stock and any other capital stock or other equity ownership units of such Person authorized from time to time, and any other shares, options, interests, participations or other equivalents (however designated) of or in such Person, whether voting or nonvoting, including common stock, options, warrants, preferred stock, phantom stock, membership units (common or preferred), partnership interests, stock appreciation rights, membership unit appreciation rights, convertible notes or debentures, stock purchase rights, membership unit purchase rights and all securities convertible, exercisable or exchangeable, in whole or in part, into any one or more of the foregoing.

“Equity Security” means (a) any equity security or any other security that is not eligible for purchase by the Borrower as an Eligible Loan Asset, (b) any security purchased as part of a “unit” with an Eligible Loan Asset and that itself is not eligible for purchase by the Borrower as an Eligible Loan Asset, and (c) any obligation that, at the time of commitment to acquire such obligation, was eligible for purchase by the Borrower as an Eligible Loan Asset but that, as of any subsequent date of determination, no longer is eligible for purchase by the Borrower as an Eligible Loan Asset, for so long as such obligation fails to satisfy such requirements.

“ERISA” means the United States Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to time.

“ERISA Affiliate” means (a) any corporation that is a member of the same controlled group of corporations (within the meaning of Section 414(b) of the Code) as the relevant Person, (b) a trade or business (whether or not incorporated) under common control (within the meaning of Section 414(c) of the Code) with that Person, or (c) solely for purposes of Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code, a member of the same affiliated service group (within the meaning of Section 414(m) of the Code) as, or that otherwise is aggregated under Section 414(o) of the Code with, that Person, any corporation described in clause (a) above or any trade or business described in clause (b) above.

“ERISA Event” means (a) with respect to a Pension Plan, any of the events set forth in Section 4043(c) of ERISA or the regulations issued thereunder, other than events for which the thirty (30) day notice period has been waived; (b) a withdrawal by the Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates from a Pension 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) or a cessation of operations that is treated as a termination under Section 4062(e) of ERISA; (c) the failure to satisfy the minimum funding standards (within the meaning of Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA), whether or not waived, with respect to a Pension Plan; (d) the failure to make any required contribution to a Multiemployer Plan; (e) the incurrence by the Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates of any liability under Title IV of ERISA with respect to a complete or partial withdrawal by the Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates from a Multiemployer Plan, written notification of

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the Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates concerning the imposition of any withdrawal liability, as such term is defined in Part I of Subtitle E of Title IV of ERISA, as a result of a complete or partial withdrawal from a Multiemployer Plan or written notification that a Multiemployer Plan is insolvent within the meaning of Title IV of ERISA or in “endangered” or “critical” status (within the meaning of Section 432 of the Code or Section 305 of ERISA); (f) the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan under Section 4042 of ERISA ; (g) the filing under Section 4041(c) of ERISA of a notice of intent to terminate a Pension Plan, the termination under Section 4041 or Section 4041A of ERISA, or the receipt by the Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates from the PBGC of any notice relating to the intention to terminate a Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan; (h) the imposition of any liability under Title IV of ERISA with respect to the termination of any Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan, other than for the payment of plan contributions or PBGC premiums due but not delinquent under Section 4007 of ERISA, upon the Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates; or (i) the occurrence on a non-exempt prohibited transaction (within the meaning of Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code) with respect to an employee benefit plan within the meaning of Section 3(3) of ERISA sponsored or maintained by the Borrower which could reasonably be expect to result in liability to the Borrower.

“EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule” means the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule published by the Loan Market Association (or any successor person), as in effect from time to time.

“EURIBOR” means, for any day during a Remittance Period, with respect to any Euro Advance (or portion thereof), the rate per annum (carried out to the fifth decimal place) equal to the rate determined by the Administrative Agent to be the offered rate that appears on the page of the Reuters Screen (or any applicable successor page) at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, on such day that displays an average European Money Markets Institute Settlement Rate (such page currently being EURIBOR01) for deposits in Euros with a term equivalent to one month; provided that if such rate is not available at any such time for any reason, then “EURIBOR” with respect to any Advance shall be the rate at which Euro deposits of €5,000,000 and for a three-month maturity are offered by the principal London office of the Administrative Agent or the principal London office of any bank reasonably selected by the Administrative Agent in immediately available funds in the Euro-zone interbank market at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, on the applicable day (or, if such day is not a Business Day, on the immediately preceding Business Day); provided, further, that, in the event that the rate as so determined above shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed to be zero for purposes of this Agreement. ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ shall always be determined by the Administrative Agent, and such determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error.

“Euro” means the lawful currency of the Member States of the European Union that have adopted and retain the single currency in accordance with the treaty establishing the European Community, as amended from time to time; provided that if any member state or states ceases to have such single currency as its lawful currency (such member state(s) being the “Exiting State(s)”), such term shall mean the single currency adopted and retained as the lawful currency of the remaining member states and shall not include any successor currency introduced by the Exiting State(s).

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“Euro Advance” means an Advance denominated in Euro.

“Event of Default” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 7.01.

“Excepted Persons” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 12.12(a).

“Excess Concentration Amount” means, as of any date of determination, with respect to any Eligible Loan Asset included in the Collateral, the amount by which the Adjusted Borrowing Value (without giving effect to clause (ii) of the definition thereof) of such Eligible Loan Asset exceeds any applicable Concentration Limitations, to be calculated by the Servicer without duplication, after giving effect to any sales, purchases or substitutions of Loan Assets as of such date and using a methodology agreed in advance of the date of this Agreement between the Borrower and the Administrative Agent.

“Exchange Act” means the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.

“Excluded Amounts” means (a) any amount received in the Collection Account with respect to any Loan Asset included as part of the Collateral, which amount is attributable to the payment of any Tax, fee or other charge imposed by any Governmental Authority on such Loan Asset or on any Related Collateral and (b) any amount received in the Collection Account or other Controlled Account representing (i) a reimbursement of insurance premiums, (ii) any escrows relating to Taxes, insurance and other amounts in connection with Loan Assets which are held in an escrow account for the benefit of the Obligor and the secured party pursuant to escrow arrangements under the Underlying Instruments, (iii) amounts received in the Collection Account with respect to any Loan Asset retransferred or substituted for upon the occurrence of a Warranty Breach Event or that is otherwise replaced by a Substitute Eligible Loan Asset, or that is otherwise sold or transferred by the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.07, to the extent such amount is attributable to a time after the effective date of such replacement or sale, (iv) any interest accruing on a Loan Asset prior to the related Cut-Off Date that was not purchased by the Borrower and is for the account of the Person from whom the Borrower purchased such Loan Asset, and (v) amounts deposited into the Collection Account in error.

“Excluded Taxes” means (a) Taxes imposed on or measured by the Recipient’s net income (however denominated), franchise Taxes imposed on the Recipient, and branch profits Taxes imposed on the Recipient, in each case, (i) by the jurisdiction (or any political subdivision thereof) under the laws of which such Recipient is organized or in which its principal office is located or, in the case of any Lender, in which its applicable lending office is located or (ii) as the result of any other present or former connection between such Recipient and the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (other than connections arising from such Recipient having executed, delivered, become a party to, performed its obligations under, received payments under, received or perfected a security interest under, engaged in any other transaction pursuant to or enforced any Transaction Document, or sold or assigned an interest in any Transaction Document), (b) in the case of any Lender, U.S. federal withholding Taxes imposed on amounts payable to or for the account of such Lender pursuant to a law in effect on the date on which (i) such Lender becomes a party hereto or (ii) such Lender changes its lending office, except in each case to the extent that, pursuant to Section 2.11, amounts with respect to such Taxes were payable either to such ▇▇▇▇▇▇’s

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assignor immediately before such Lender became a party hereto or to such Lender immediately before it changed its lending office, (c) Taxes attributable to such Recipient’s failure to comply with Section 2.11(g), and (d) any withholding Taxes imposed under FATCA.

“Exercise Notice” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 7.03.

“Exercise Notice Purchase Price” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 7.03.

“Facility Amount” means the aggregate Commitments as then in effect, which on the Closing Date shall be $500,000,000, as such amount may be increased pursuant to Section 2.20 or reduced pursuant to Section 2.16(b); provided that, at all times during the Amortization Period, the Facility Amount shall mean the aggregate Advances Outstanding at such time.

“Facility Maturity Date” means the earliest of (a) the Business Day designated by the Borrower to the Lender pursuant to Section 2.16(b) to terminate this Agreement, (b) the Stated Maturity or (c) the date on which the Facility Maturity Date is declared (or is deemed to have occurred automatically) pursuant to Section 7.01.

“FATCA” means Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code (or any amended or successor versions of Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code that are substantively comparable and not materially more onerous to comply with), as of the date of this Agreement, and any current or future regulations or official interpretations thereof, any agreement entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b)(1) of the Code (or any amended or successor version described above).

“Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Website” means the website of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York at ▇▇▇▇://▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇▇, or any successor source.

“Fees” means (a) the Unused Fee, (b) the fees payable to the Administrative Agent pursuant to the terms of the Administrative Agent Fee Letter and (c) the fees payable to each Lender pursuant to the terms of any Lender Fee Letter.

“Financial Asset” has the meaning specified in Section 8-102(a)(9) of the UCC.

“First Lien Loan” means any Loan Asset (a) that is secured by a valid and perfected first priority Lien on substantially all of the Obligor’s assets constituting Related Collateral, subject to any Permitted Working Capital Facilities and any expressly permitted Liens under the Underlying Instrument for such Loan Asset or such comparable definition if “permitted liens” is not defined therein, (b) that provides that the payment obligation of the Obligor on such Loan Asset is either senior to, or pari passu with, and is not (and cannot by its terms become) subordinate in right of payment to all other Indebtedness of such Obligor, (c) for which Liens on the Related Collateral securing any other outstanding Indebtedness of the Obligor (excluding Permitted Working Capital Facilities and expressly permitted Liens described in clause (a) above but including Liens securing Second Lien Loans) are expressly subject to and contractually or structurally subordinate to the priority Liens securing such First Lien Loan, (d) that the Servicer determines in accordance with the Servicing Standard that the value (or the enterprise value) of the Related Collateral securing the Loan Asset on or about the time of origination equals or exceeds the Outstanding Balance of the Loan Asset plus the aggregate outstanding balances of all other

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Indebtedness of equal seniority secured by the same Related Collateral, and (e) that is not a Second Lien Loan,  Recurring Revenue Loan or FLLO Loan.

“FLLO Loan” means any Loan Asset that satisfies all of the requirements set forth in the definition of “First Lien Loan” (without regard to clause (e) of the definition thereof) except that, at any time prior to and/or after an event of default under the Underlying Instrument, such Loan Asset will be paid after one or more tranches of First Lien Loans issued by the Obligor have been paid in full in accordance with a specified waterfall or other priority of payments as specified in the Underlying Instrument, an agreement among lenders or other applicable agreement; provided that any Loan Asset that would otherwise be a FLLO Loan hereunder but for which (i) (x) the “first out” committed amount of the Obligor (inclusive of any Permitted Working Capital Facility) to (y) EBITDA of the Obligor is less than 1.50:1.00 as of the Cut-Off Date, and (ii) the quotient of the committed balance of the “first out” portion (inclusive of any Permitted Working Capital Facility) to the total committed balance of the first lien position is less than or equal to 25% as of the Cut-Off Date, such Loan Asset shall be designated as a First Lien Loan. For the avoidance of doubt, a Loan Asset that would be a First Lien Loan, except for the presence of a working capital facility that is not a Permitted Working Capital Facility as a result of not complying with clause (c) of the definition thereof, shall be a FLLO Loan.

“Floor” means, for any transaction under this Agreement, the benchmark rate floor (which shall not be less than zero), if any, provided for in this Agreement with respect to any Benchmark as determined for such transaction.

“Foreign Plan” means any employee benefit plan, program, policy, arrangement or agreement maintained or contributed to or by, or entered into with, the Borrower with respect to employees outside the United States.

“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles as in effect from time to time in the United States.

“GBP” means the lawful currency of the United Kingdom.

“GBP Advance” means an Advance denominated in GBP.

“Governmental Authority” means, with respect to any Person, any nation or government, any state or other political subdivision thereof, any central bank (or similar monetary or regulatory authority) thereof, any body or entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative functions of or pertaining to government and any court or arbitrator having jurisdiction over such Person.

“Governmental Plan” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 4.01(x).

“Grant” or “Granted” means to grant, bargain, sell, convey, assign, transfer, mortgage, pledge, create and grant a security interest in and right of setoff against, deposit, set over and confirm. A Grant of the Collateral, or of any other instrument, shall include all rights, powers and options (but none of the obligations) of the granting party thereunder, including (solely after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default) the immediate continuing right to claim for, collect, receive and receipt for principal and interest payments in respect of the

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Collateral, and all other monies payable thereunder, to give and receive notices and other communications, to make waivers or other agreements, to exercise all rights and options, to bring proceedings in the name of the granting party or otherwise, and generally to do and receive anything that the granting party is or may be entitled to do or receive thereunder or with respect thereto.

“Hague Convention” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 6.04(e).

“Increased Amount Date” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 2.20(a).

“Increased Costs” means any amounts required to be paid by the Borrower to an Affected Party pursuant to Section 2.10.

“Increasing Lender” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 2.20(a).

“Incurrence Covenant” means a covenant by any Obligor to comply with one or more financial covenants only upon the occurrence of certain actions of such Obligor, including a debt issuance, dividend payment, share purchase, merger, acquisition or divestiture.

“Indebtedness” means:

(a)with respect to any Obligor under any Loan Asset, the meaning of “Indebtedness” or any comparable definition in the Underlying Instrument for each such Loan Asset, and in any case that “Indebtedness” or such comparable definition is not defined in such Underlying Instrument, without duplication, (i) all obligations of such entity for borrowed money or with respect to deposits or advances of any kind, (ii) all obligations of such entity evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or similar instruments, (iii) all obligations of such entity under conditional sale or other title retention agreements relating to property acquired by such entity, (iv) all obligations of such entity in respect of the deferred purchase price of property or services (excluding current accounts payable incurred in the ordinary course of business), (v) all indebtedness of others secured by (or for which the holder of such indebtedness has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien on property owned or acquired by such entity, whether or not the indebtedness secured thereby has been assumed, (vi) all guarantees by such entity of indebtedness of others, (vii) all Capital Lease Obligations of such entity, (viii) all obligations, contingent or otherwise, of such entity as an account party in respect of letters of credit and letters of guaranty and (ix) all obligations, contingent or otherwise, of such entity in respect of bankers’ acceptances, but in each case expressly excluding (to the extent not included in the definition of “Indebtedness” or any comparable definition in the Underlying Instrument or included in the calculation of Senior Leverage Ratio or Total Leverage Ratio and, in the case of clauses (A) through (K), only in the case of the underlying Related Assets), (A) letters of credit, to the extent undrawn or otherwise cash collateralized, bankers’ acceptances and surety bonds, whether or not matured (unless such indebtedness constitutes drawn and unreimbursed amounts), (B) the principal balance (including capitalized interest if applicable) of holdco notes, seller notes and convertible notes that constitute subordinated indebtedness, (C) earn-outs and similar deferred purchase price, but only so long as such earn-outs and similar deferred purchase price

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remain contingent in nature or, if no longer contingent in nature, does not remain past due for more than ten (10) Business Days following the due date therefor, (D) working capital and similar purchase price adjustments in connection with acquisitions not prohibited hereunder, (E) royalty payments made in the ordinary course of business in respect of licenses (to the extent such licenses are otherwise permitted), (F) accruals for payroll and other non-interest bearing liabilities incurred in the ordinary course of business, (G) deferred rent obligations, (H) all indebtedness 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), (I) all obligations of such Person under commodity purchase or option agreements or other commodity price hedging arrangements, in each case whether contingent or matured, (J) all obligations of such Person under any foreign exchange contract, currency swap agreement, interest rate swap, cap or collar agreement or other similar agreement or arrangement designed to alter the risks of that Person arising from fluctuations in currency values or interest rates, in each case whether contingent or matured, and (K) all obligations of such Person to purchase, redeem, retire, defease or otherwise make any payment in respect of any disqualified stock in such Person or any other Person, valued, in the case of redeemable preferred interests, at the greater of its voluntary or involuntary liquidation preference plus accrued and unpaid dividends; and

(b)for all other purposes, with respect to any Person at any date, (i) all obligations of such Person for borrowed money or with respect to deposits or advances of any kind, (ii) all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or similar instruments, (iii) all obligations of such Person under conditional sale or other title retention agreements relating to property acquired by such Person, (iv) all obligations of such Person in respect of the deferred purchase price of property or services (excluding current accounts payable incurred in the ordinary course of business), (v) all indebtedness of others secured by (or for which the holder of such indebtedness has an existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien on property owned or acquired by such Person, whether or not the indebtedness secured thereby has been assumed, (vi) all guarantees by such Person of indebtedness of others, (vii) all Capital Lease Obligations of such Person, (viii) all obligations, contingent or otherwise, of such Person as an account party in respect of letters of credit and letters of guaranty and (ix) all obligations, contingent or otherwise, of such Person in respect of bankers’ acceptances, but expressly excluding any obligation of such Person to fund any Loan Asset constituting a Delayed Draw Loan Asset or a Revolving Loan, as applicable.

“Indemnified Amounts” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 8.01.

“Indemnified Party” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 8.01.

“Indemnified Taxes” means (a) Taxes, other than Excluded Taxes, imposed on or with respect to any payment made by or on account of any obligation of the Borrower under any Transaction Document and (b) to the extent not otherwise described in clause (a), Other Taxes.

“Indemnifying Party” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 8.04.

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“Independent Manager” means a natural person who, (a) for the five (5)-year period prior to his or her appointment as Independent Manager, has not been, and during the continuation of his or her service as Independent Manager is not:  (i) an employee, director, stockholder, member, manager, partner or officer of the Borrower or any of its respective Affiliates (other than his or her service as an Independent Manager of the Borrower or other Affiliates of the Borrower or the Transferor that are structured to be “bankruptcy remote”); (ii) a creditor, supplier or service provider of the Borrower or any of its Affiliates (other than his or her service as an Independent Manager of the Borrower or other Affiliates of the Borrower or the Transferor that are structured to be “bankruptcy remote”); or (iii) any member of the immediate family of a person described in sub-clause (i) or sub-clause (ii) of this clause (a), and (b) has (i) prior experience as an Independent Manager for a corporation or limited liability company whose charter documents required the unanimous consent of all Independent Managers thereof before such corporation or limited liability company could consent to the institution of bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings against it or could file a petition seeking relief under any applicable federal or state law relating to bankruptcy and (ii) at least three (3) years of employment experience with one or more entities that provide, in the ordinary course of their respective businesses, advisory, management or placement services to issuers of secured or securitized structured finance instruments, agreements or securities.

“Indorsement” has the meaning specified in Section 8-102(a)(11) of the UCC, and “Indorsed” has a corresponding meaning.

“Industry Classification” means any of the industry categories set forth in Schedule VI hereto, including any modifications that may be made thereto or additional categories that may be subsequently established by reference to the Global Industry Classification Standard codes; provided that the Administrative Agent has provided its prior written consent to any such modification or additional category.

“Instrument” has the meaning specified in Section 9-102(a)(47) of the UCC.

“Insurance Policy” means, with respect to any Loan Asset, an insurance policy covering liability and physical damage to, or loss of, the Related Collateral.

“Interest Collection Subaccount” means the collective reference to the sub-accounts of the Collection Account identified as interest collection subaccounts into which Interest Collections shall be segregated.

“Interest Collections” means, with respect to any date of determination, without duplication, the sum of:

(a)all payments of interest and delayed compensation (representing compensation for delayed settlement) received in cash by the Borrower during the related Remittance Period on the Loan Assets, including the accrued interest received in connection with a sale thereof during the related Remittance Period;

(b)all principal and interest payments received by the Borrower during the related Remittance Period on Permitted Investments purchased with Interest Collections;

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(c)all upfront fees, anniversary fees, redemption fees, collateral monitoring fees, success fees, termination fees, amendment and waiver fees, late payment fees, ticking fees and all other fees received by the Borrower during the related Remittance Period, except for those fees in connection with the reduction of the Outstanding Balance of the related Loan Asset, as determined by the Servicer with notice to the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent; and

(d)commitment fees and other similar fees received by the Borrower during such Remittance Period in respect of Delayed Draw Loan Assets and Revolving Loans.

“Investment Criteria” means with respect to each Loan Asset acquired by the Borrower, compliance with each of the requirements set forth below:

(a)no Event of Default or Unmatured Event of Default is continuing (other than any acquisition being effected in connection with the cure of any Event of Default or Unmatured Event of Default);

(b)such Loan Asset is an Eligible Loan Asset;

(c)there is no Borrowing Base Deficiency (other than any acquisition being effected in connection with the cure of any Borrowing Base Deficiency);

(d)solely during the Amortization Period, the amounts on deposit in the Unfunded Exposure Account as of such date equal or exceed the aggregate Unfunded Exposure Amount as of such date; and

(e)the Collateral Quality Tests are satisfied or, if not satisfied, would be maintained or improved.

“I/O Notional Loan” means the interest-only loan made available under this Agreement as described in Section 2.01(c), which is comprised of a notional amount equal to the I/O Notional Loan Amount.  For the avoidance of doubt, no holder of any of the I/O Notional Loan shall be deemed to be a “Lender” for the purposes of any voting rights as specified herein.

“I/O Notional Loan Amount” means with respect to any Lender, the amount set forth as such opposite such ▇▇▇▇▇▇’s name on Annex A hereto or that may be assigned to it pursuant to Section 12.04, as such amount may be (a) reduced pursuant to Section 2.16 or (b) increased or reduced automatically to reflect any increase or reduction in the Commitments pursuant to this Agreement.

“I/O Notional Loan Lender Percentage” means, with respect to any Lender, the amount of any percentage set forth as such opposite such ▇▇▇▇▇▇’s name on Annex A hereto or that may be assigned to it pursuant to Section 12.04, in each case as set forth more specifically on a schedule that shall be maintained by the Administrative Agent, updated by the Administrative Agent from time to time, and available upon the Borrower’s request.

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“Joinder Supplement” means an agreement among the Borrower, a Lender and the Administrative Agent (with a copy to the Collateral Agent) in the form of Exhibit M (appropriately completed) delivered in connection with a Person becoming a Lender hereunder after the Closing Date.

“JPY” means the lawful currency of Japan.

“JPY Advance” means an Advance denominated in JPY.

“Lender” means (a) ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ and (b) any Lender, and/or any other Person to whom a Lender assigns any part of its rights and obligations under this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents in accordance with the terms of Section 12.04.

“Lender Fee Letter” means each fee letter agreement that shall be entered into by and among the Borrower, the Servicer, the applicable Lender and/or the Administrative Agent in connection with the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, as amended, modified, supplemented, restated or replaced from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof.

“Lien” means any mortgage or deed of trust, pledge, hypothecation, collateral assignment, deposit arrangement, encumbrance, lien (statutory or other), charge, claim, preference, priority or other security interest or preferential arrangement in the nature of a security interest of any kind or nature whatsoever (including any conditional sale, lease or other title retention agreement, sale subject to a repurchase obligation, any easement, right of way or other encumbrance on title to real property, and any financing lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing) or the filing of or agreement to give any financing statement perfecting a security interest under the UCC or comparable law of any jurisdiction; provided that “Lien” does not include customary restrictions on assignments or transfers thereof on customary and market based terms pursuant to the Underlying Instruments relating to any Loan Asset.

“Liquid Credit Loan Asset” means any Broadly Syndicated Loan that is an Eligible Loan Asset designated as being eligible by the Administrative Agent (other than in the case of Specified Loan Assets (Liquid Credit)) in its reasonable discretion in the applicable Approval Notice.

“Loan Asset” means any commercial loan acquired by the Borrower, but excluding, as applicable, the Retained Interest and Excluded Amounts; provided, however, that to the extent the Borrower acquires more than one position of a commercial loan on separate dates, each such position shall be treated as a single Loan Asset for all purposes hereunder based upon the Cut-Off Date of the most recently acquired position; provided further, that to the extent the Borrower’s undrawn commitments under any Delayed Draw Loan Asset or Revolving Loan has been increased after the acquisition of such Delayed Draw Loan Asset or Revolving Loan by the Borrower (whether through an assignment or an amendment of the Underlying Instrument), such increased commitment shall be treated as a single Delayed Draw Loan Asset or Revolving Loan, as applicable, for all purposes hereunder and under each other Transaction Document based upon the Cut-Off Date of the most recently acquired position.

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“Loan Asset Checklist” means an electronic or hard copy, as applicable, of a checklist delivered by or on behalf of the Borrower to the Collateral Custodian, for each Loan Asset, of all applicable Required Loan Documents to be included within the respective Loan File.

“Loan Asset Schedule” means the Loan Asset Schedule identifying the Loan Assets delivered by the Borrower or Servicer to the Collateral Custodian and the Administrative Agent. Each such schedule shall set forth the applicable information specified on Schedule IV, which shall also be provided to the Collateral Custodian in electronic format acceptable to the Collateral Custodian.

“Loan File” means, with respect to each Loan Asset, a file containing (a) each of the documents and items as set forth on the Loan Asset Checklist with respect to such Loan Asset and (b) duly executed originals (to the extent required by the Servicing Standard).

“Maintenance Covenant” means, as of any date of determination, a covenant by the Obligor of a Loan Asset to comply with one or more financial covenants during each reporting period applicable to such Loan Asset, whether or not any action by, or event relating to, the Obligor occurs after such date of determination; provided that a covenant that otherwise satisfies the definition hereof and only applies when amounts are outstanding under the related Loan Asset shall be a Maintenance Covenant.

“Margin Stock” means “margin stock” as such term is defined in Regulation T, U or X of the Federal Reserve Board.

“Market Value” means, with respect to any Liquid Credit Loan Asset on any date of determination, the value determined by the Administrative Agent, in its sole discretion, on such day to be the midpoint of the “bid” and “ask” prices for such Liquid Credit Loan Asset, either: (i) based on pricing from Loan Pricing Corp. or IHS Markit Ltd. (or such other pricing service approved by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower) with a minimum quote depth of two (2); (ii) if the price cannot be determined pursuant to clause (i), based on recent observable trade data; and (iii) if the price cannot be determined pursuant to either of clauses (i) or (ii), as otherwise determined by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion; provided that if the Administrative Agent or any of its Affiliates owns such Liquid Credit Loan Asset for its own account, such Market Value determined pursuant to this clause (iii) shall be consistent with the valuation of such Liquid Credit Loan Asset by the Administrative Agent or its Affiliate, as the case may be, for its own account.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, so long as such Liquid Credit Loan Asset is not a Defaulted Loan, the Borrower may dispute the Market Value of a Liquid Credit Loan Asset by providing actionable bids from two or more Approved Broker/Dealers not later than 4:00 p.m. on the Business Day after the date on which the Administrative Agent provides notice to the Borrower of the Market Value of such Liquid Credit Loan Asset, in which case the arithmetic average of such bids shall be treated as the Market Value for such Liquid Credit Loan Asset until the Administrative Agent in good faith has determined that the Market Value of such Liquid Credit Loan Asset has changed.

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“Material Adverse Effect” means, with respect to any event or circumstance, a material adverse effect on (a) the business, financial condition, operations, performance, or properties of the Transferor, the Servicer or the Borrower, excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, any change resulting solely from any change in value or performance of all or any part of the Collateral, (b) the validity, enforceability or collectability of this Agreement or any other Transaction Document or the validity, enforceability or collectability of the Loan Assets generally or any material portion of the Loan Assets, (c) the rights and remedies of the Collateral Agent, the Collateral Custodian, the Account Bank, the Administrative Agent, any Lender and the Secured Parties with respect to matters arising under this Agreement or any other Transaction Document, (d) the ability of each of the Borrower, the Transferor and the Servicer to perform their respective obligations under this Agreement or any other Transaction Document, or (e) the status, existence, perfection, priority or enforceability of the Collateral Agent’s lien on the Collateral.

“Material Modification” means any amendment or waiver of, or modification or supplement with respect to, an Underlying Instrument governing an Eligible Loan Asset executed or effected on or after the Cut-Off Date for such Eligible Loan Asset which:

(a)(i) reduces or forgives any or all of the principal amount due (including any amortization payment not described in clause (a)(ii) but excluding any waiver of mandatory repayments from excess cash flow in an amount not to exceed 5% of the principal amount of such Eligible Loan Asset) under such Eligible Loan Asset or (ii) extends or delays the stated maturity date or any scheduled amortization payment for such Eligible Loan Asset, including a Maturity Amendment (other than any extension or delay allowed by the terms of the Underlying Instruments expressly permitted as of the Cut-Off Date); provided that such amendment, waiver, modification or supplement shall not be a Material Modification if solely with respect to clause (ii) hereof, the Servicer shall have certified to the Administrative Agent in writing (including by email) that it reasonably believes that such extension or delay is not due to any deterioration in the credit quality of such Loan Asset or due to the inability to refinance the capital structure of such Loan Asset; provided, further, that no Maturity Amendment shall be allowed for any Eligible Loan Asset with (x) in the case of a First Lien Loan, a Senior Leverage Ratio in excess of 7.50:1.00 and (y) in the case of any Eligible Loan Asset other than a First Lien Loan, a Total Leverage Ratio in excess of 7.50:1.00;

(b)(i) waives one or more interest payments, (ii) permits any interest due in cash to be deferred or capitalized and added to the principal amount of such Eligible Loan Asset (other than any deferral or capitalization already allowed by the terms of the Underlying Instruments of any Eligible Loan Asset that is a PIK Loan Asset as of the Cut-Off Date) or (iii) reduces the amount of interest due (other than any reduction already permitted by the terms of the Underlying Instruments of any Eligible Loan Asset that is a PIK Loan Asset as of the Cut-Off Date); provided that such amendment, waiver, modification or supplement (other than with respect to any Amended PIK Loan Asset) shall not be a Material Modification if, solely with respect to clause (iii) hereof, the Servicer shall have certified to the Administrative Agent in writing (including by email) that it reasonably believes that such extension or delay is not due to any deterioration in the credit quality of such Loan Asset and such Loan Asset is not considered defaulted pursuant to the Servicing Standard;

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(c)contractually or structurally subordinates such Eligible Loan Asset (other than “permitted liens” or any comparable definitions or provisions in the Underlying Instruments related to “permitted liens” for such Eligible Loan Asset), including, without limitation, through the issuance of further debt secured on substantially the same collateral (or a portion thereof) where such incremental debt was not permitted under the terms of such Eligible Loan Asset as at the Cut-Off Date pursuant to permitted baskets or similar;

(d)substitutes, alters or releases the Related Collateral securing such Eligible Loan Asset except as permitted under the applicable Underlying Instruments existing on the Cut-Off Date for such Eligible Loan Asset; or

(e)amends, waives, forbears, supplements or otherwise modifies (i) the meaning of “Senior Leverage Ratio,” “Cash Interest Coverage Ratio,” “Total Leverage Ratio,” “EBITDA,” “Indebtedness,” “Permitted Liens,” “Recurring Revenue,” “Debt-to-Recurring-Revenue Ratio” or any respective comparable definitions in the Underlying Instruments for such Eligible Loan Asset (to the extent such financial covenants or definitions are included in the Underlying Instruments), (ii) any term or provision of such Underlying Instruments directly or indirectly utilized in the calculation of the “Senior Leverage Ratio,” “Cash Interest Coverage Ratio,” “Total Leverage Ratio,” “EBITDA,” “Indebtedness,” “Permitted Liens,” “Recurring Revenue,” “Debt-to-Recurring-Revenue Ratio” or any respective comparable definitions for such Eligible Loan Asset, or (iii) any term or provision directly or indirectly utilized in the calculation of any financial covenant, in the case of either clause (i), (ii) or (iii) above, in a manner that, in the sole discretion of the Administrative Agent, is materially adverse to the value of such Eligible Loan Asset.

“Maturity Amendment” means, any amendment to the Underlying Instruments of any Loan Asset which delays or extends the maturity date for such Loan Asset.

“Maximum Portfolio Advance Rate” means, as of any date of determination, the advance rate corresponding to the Diversity Score of the Eligible Loan Assets included in the Collateral as of such date, as set forth below:

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“Measurement Date” means each of the following dates:  (a) the Closing Date; (b) each Determination Date; (c) the date as of which an Advance is requested; (d) no later than three Business Days after the date as of which the Borrower obtains actual knowledge that the Assigned Value of any Loan Asset has been adjusted; (e) the date as of which a Borrowing Base Deficiency occurs; (f) the date on which any Restricted Junior Payment is made; and (g) the date as of which any Loan Asset is first included in the Borrowing Base.

“Minimum Cash Spread” means, with respect to any PIK Loan Asset (i) which is a floating rate Loan Asset, the minimum contractual required per annum applicable margin (excluding the related benchmark or index rate) at which it must pay interest in cash as set forth in the related Underlying Instruments and (ii) which is a fixed rate Loan Asset, the minimum contractual required per annum rate at which it must pay interest in cash as set forth in the related Underlying Instruments minus the current Benchmark as of any date of determination in the Eligible Currency of such fixed rate Loan Asset.  By way of illustration, if a floating rate Loan Asset bears interest at Term SOFR plus an applicable margin of 6.00% per annum, and the related Obligor has the right to elect to defer or capitalize interest under the Underlying Instrument up to 2.50% of the applicable margin component of such interest for any interest period (plus any required step-up to such applicable margin), then the Minimum Cash Spread with respect to such Loan Asset shall be 3.50% per annum.  By way of further illustration, if a fixed rate Loan Asset that is a PIK Loan Asset bears interest at an applicable fixed rate of 9.00% per annum, the applicable current Benchmark is 3.00% per annum, and the related Obligor has the right to elect to defer or capitalize interest up to 2.50% of such interest for any interest period, then the Minimum Cash Spread with respect to such Loan Asset shall be 3.50% per annum.

“Minimum Utilization” means (a) during the Ramp-Up Period, 0%, (b) on any day following the Ramp-Up Period and prior to the end of the Revolving Period, 65% of the Facility Amount; provided that any New Commitments shall be included in the Facility Amount calculation for this clause (b) twelve (12) months after the related Increased Amount Date, and (c) at all other times, the Advances Outstanding.

“▇▇▇▇▇’▇” means ▇▇▇▇▇’▇ Investors Service, Inc. (or its successors in interest).

“▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇” means ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Bank, N.A., and its successors and assigns.

“Multiemployer Plan” means a “multiemployer plan” as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA to which the applicable Person or any ERISA Affiliate of that Person contributed or had any obligation to contribute, or with respect to which such Person or ERISA Affiliate has any liability (whether actual or contingent) under Title IV of ERISA or under Section 412 of the Code.

“Net Purchased Loan Balance” means, as of any date of determination, an amount equal to (a) the aggregate initial Outstanding Balance of all Transferred Assets (as defined in the Sale and Contribution Agreement) sold and/or contributed to the Borrower by the Transferor under the Sale and Contribution Agreement prior to such date minus (b) the aggregate Outstanding Balance of all such Transferred Assets repurchased by the Transferor or an Affiliate thereof or

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released to the Transferor pursuant to a dividend (excluding any Warranty Breach Loan Assets), in each case, prior to such date.

“New Advance” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 2.20(b).

“New Commitments” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 2.20(a).

“Non-Approval Event” means an event that (a) will be deemed to have occurred if, during the eighteen (18) month period following the Closing Date, the quotient of (i) the number of Loan Assets that are First Lien Loans (other than Specified Loan Assets) submitted by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent for inclusion as Eligible Loan Assets which the Administrative Agent has rejected (provided at least ten such Loan Assets that are First Lien Loans (other than Specified Loan Assets) were submitted for review) divided by (ii) the total number of Loan Assets that are First Lien Loans (other than Specified Loan Assets) submitted by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent for inclusion as Eligible Loan Assets, is 20% or greater and (b) will be continuing until the conditions set forth in clause (a) of this definition are no longer true.

“Non-Consenting Lender” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 2.19(d).

“Noteless Loan” means a Loan Asset with respect to which the Underlying Instruments (a) do not require the Obligor to execute and deliver a promissory note to evidence the Indebtedness created under such Loan Asset or (b) require any holder of the Indebtedness created under such Loan Asset to affirmatively request a promissory note from the related Obligor (and none has been requested with respect to such Loan Asset held by the Borrower).

“Notice of Borrowing” means an irrevocable written notice of borrowing from the Borrower to the Administrative Agent in the form attached hereto as Exhibit D.

“Notice of Exclusive Control” has the meaning given to such term in the Control Agreement.

“Notice of Reduction” means a notice of a reduction of the Advances Outstanding pursuant to Section 2.16, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit E.

“Obligations” means all present and future indebtedness and other liabilities and obligations (howsoever created, arising or evidenced, whether direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, or due or to become due) of the Borrower to the Lenders, the Administrative Agent, the Account Bank, the Secured Parties, the Collateral Agent or the Collateral Custodian arising under this Agreement and/or any other Transaction Document and shall include, all liability for Yield and principal of the Advances Outstanding, all liability for Yield due to the Lenders from time to time in respect of the I/O Notional Loan, Breakage Fees, indemnifications and other amounts due or to become due by the Borrower to the Lenders, the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, the Collateral Custodian, the Secured Parties and the Account Bank under this Agreement and/or any other Transaction Document, including, the Administrative Agent Fee Letter, any Lender Fee Letter, the Collateral Agent and Collateral Custodian Fee Letter, any Prepayment Premium and costs and expenses payable by the Borrower to the Lenders, the Administrative Agent, the Account Bank, the Collateral Agent or the Collateral Custodian,

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including attorneys’ fees, costs and expenses, including interest, fees and other obligations that accrue after the commencement of an insolvency proceeding (in each case whether or not allowed as a claim in such insolvency proceeding).

“Obligor” means, with respect to a Loan Asset, the Person who is obligated to repay such Loan Asset (including, if applicable, a guarantor thereof), and whose assets are primarily relied upon by the Borrower at the time such Loan Asset was originated or purchased by the Borrower as the source of repayment of such Loan Asset.

“Obligor Information” means, (i) with respect to the Obligor of any Private Credit Loan Asset, (a) the legal name and, if available to the Servicer using commercially reasonable efforts, tax identification number of such Obligor, (b) the jurisdiction in which such Obligor is domiciled, organized or incorporated, (c) the audited financial statements for such Obligor for the three (to the extent readily available) prior fiscal years (or such shorter period of time that the Obligor has been in existence), unless the Servicer has notified the Administrative Agent that such audited financial statements are unavailable and the Administrative Agent has, in its sole discretion, waived the requirement to deliver such audited financial statements, (d) the Servicer’s internal credit memorandum with respect to the Obligor and the related Loan Asset, which memo is subject to redactions to protect any confidential information that cannot be shared pursuant to law or contract, (e) any lender presentations and confidential information memorandum received by the Servicer, (f) a company forecast for such Obligor (if available), (g) the Required Loan Documents and (h) details of any banking facilities and the debt maturity schedule of such Obligor so long as this information is generally contained within the Servicer’s internal credit memo and (ii) with respect to the Obligor of any Liquid Credit Loan Asset, (a) the legal name and, if available to the Servicer using commercially reasonable efforts, tax identification number of such Obligor, (b) the jurisdiction in which such Obligor is domiciled, organized or incorporated, (c) the audited financial statements for such Obligor for the two prior fiscal years (or such shorter period of time that the Obligor has been in existence), to the extent reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent and available to the Servicer using commercially reasonable efforts, (d) the most recent lender presentation received by the Servicer, to the extent reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent and available to the Servicer using commercially reasonable efforts and (e) the Required Loan Documents; provided that to the extent any of the above information is subject to confidentiality provisions, and the Servicer notifies the Administrative Agent in writing of such confidentiality obligations, the Administrative Agent agrees to hold such information confidential pursuant to the terms thereof.

“OFAC” means the U.S. Department of Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control.

“Officer’s Certificate” means a certificate signed by a Responsible Officer of any Person.

“Opinion of Counsel” means a customary written opinion of counsel, which opinion and counsel are acceptable to the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion.

“Origination Date” means, with respect to the determination of “Specified Loan Asset,” the later of (i) the date on which the Underlying Instruments were entered into and (ii) the

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date on which additional loan commitments were made available to the related Obligor in connection with the Underlying Instruments.

“Other Taxes” means all present or future stamp, court or documentary, intangible, recording, filing or similar Taxes that arise from any payment made under, from the execution, delivery, performance, enforcement or registration of, from the receipt or perfection of a security interest under, or otherwise with respect to, any Transaction Document.

“Outstanding Balance” means, as of any date of determination, (a) if a Loan Asset is denominated and payable in Dollars, the outstanding principal balance of such Loan Asset as of such date, and (b) if a Loan Asset is denominated and payable in an Eligible Currency other than Dollars, the equivalent in Dollars of the outstanding principal balance of such Loan Asset as of such date, determined by the Servicer using the Spot Rate (or, for purposes of daily reporting by the Collateral Agent, the Spot Rate as determined pursuant to clause (y) of the definition thereof), in each case exclusive of any PIK Interest or accrued interest on such Loan Asset as of such date; provided that, for purposes of calculating the “Outstanding Balance” of any PIK Loan Asset, principal payments received on such Loan Asset shall first be applied to reducing or eliminating any outstanding PIK Interest or accrued interest.

“Pari Passu Provisions” means, in relation to any amount payable pursuant to Section 2.04:

(i)(u) in the case of any item (or items) ranking pari passu denominated in Dollars, the Borrower shall use an amount of Dollars from the Available Collections to make payments in Dollars to meet such item or items, (v) in the case of any item (or items) ranking pari passu denominated in AUD, the Borrower shall use an amount of AUD from the Available Collections to make payments in AUD to meet such item or items, (w) in the case of any item (or items) ranking pari passu denominated in CAD, the Borrower shall use an amount of CAD from the Available Collections to make payments in CAD to meet such item or items, (x) in the case of any item (or items) ranking pari passu denominated in Euro, the Borrower shall use an amount of Euro from the Available Collections to make payments in Euro to meet such item or items, (y) in the case of any item (or items) ranking pari passu denominated in GBP, the Borrower shall use an amount of GBP from the Available Collections to make payments in GBP to meet such item or items and (z) in the case of any item (or items) ranking pari passu denominated in JPY, the Borrower shall use an amount of JPY from the Available Collections to make payments in JPY to meet such item or items;

(ii)(x) if there is an insufficient aggregate amount comprised in the Available Collections to meet any such item (or items) ranking pari passu denominated in Dollars, the Borrower shall exchange a sufficient amount denominated in an Eligible Currency other than Dollars from the Available Collections, if such is available after application of any amounts in such Eligible Currency in respect of any items ranking pari passu subject to and in accordance with Section 2.04, into Dollars at the Spot Rate to meet such item or items, (y) if there is an insufficient aggregate amount comprised in the Available Collections to

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meet any such item (or items) ranking pari passu denominated in an Eligible Currency other than Dollars, the Borrower shall exchange a sufficient amount denominated in Dollars from the Available Collections, if such is available after application of any Dollar amounts in respect of any items ranking pari passu subject to and in accordance with Section 2.04, into such Eligible Currency at the Spot Rate to meet such item or items, or (z) if there is an insufficient aggregate amount comprised in the Available Collections to meet any such item (or items) ranking pari passu denominated in an Eligible Currency other than Dollars, the Borrower shall exchange a sufficient amount denominated in any other Eligible Currency other than such Eligible Currency and Dollars from the Available Collections, if such is available after application of any amounts in the other Eligible Currency in respect of any items ranking pari passu subject to and in accordance with Section 2.04, into such Eligible Currency at the Spot Rate to meet such item or items, in the case of (x), (y) and (z), subject to such exchange being sufficient to pay any remaining item (or items) ranking pari passu denominated in (in the case of (x)) Dollars or (in the case of (y) or (z)) an Eligible Currency other than Dollars, and provided that where such amounts are insufficient, all payments for such item (or items) ranking pari passu shall be made in accordance with clause (iii) below; and

(iii)if there is an insufficient aggregate amount in the Available Collections to meet all items ranking pari passu in full, then the relevant shortfall shall be borne proportionately between such items, and in such circumstances, the Available Collections (determined in Dollars, with amounts in an Eligible Currency other than Dollars converted into Dollars by the Servicer at the Spot Rate) to be applied in respect of such items ranking pari passu shall be applied in respect of such items, pro rata (based on the percentage of the aggregate amount payable in respect of all such items represented by each such item, in each case, determined in Dollars, with amounts in an Eligible Currency other than Dollars converted into Dollars by the Servicer at the Spot Rate).

“Participant Register” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 12.04(e).

“Patriot Act” means the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, P.L. 107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001).

“Payment” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 9.01(k)(i).

“Payment Date” means the 25th calendar day of each calendar month, unless such day is not a Business Day, in which case the following Business Day, commencing in January 2025; provided that the final Payment Date shall occur on the Collection Date.

“Payment Notice” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 9.01(k)(ii).

“PBGC” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation established pursuant to Subtitle A of Title IV of ERISA (or any successor).

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“Pension Plan” means an “employee pension benefit plan” as such term is defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA, other than a Multiemployer Plan, that is subject to Title IV of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code and is sponsored or maintained by the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate of the Borrower or to which the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate of the Borrower contributes or has an obligation to contribute, or has any liability (whether actual or contingent) under Title IV of ERISA or under Section 412 of the Code.

“Permitted Investments” means, as of any date of determination:

(a)direct obligations of, and obligations guaranteed as to full and timely payment by, the United States or any agency or instrumentality of the United States, the obligations of which are backed by the full faith and credit of the United States;

(b)demand or time deposits in, certificates of deposit of, demand notes of, or bankers’ acceptances issued by any depository institution or trust company organized under the laws of the United States or any State thereof (including any federal or state branch or agency of a foreign depository institution or trust company) and subject to supervision and examination by federal and/or state banking authorities (including, if applicable, the Collateral Agent, the Collateral Custodian or the Administrative Agent or any agent thereof acting in its commercial capacity); provided that the short-term unsecured debt obligations of such depository institution or trust company at the time of such investment are rated at least “A-1” by S&P and “P-1” by Moody’s;

(c)commercial paper that (i) is payable in an Eligible Currency and (ii) is rated at least “A-1” by S&P and “P-1” by ▇▇▇▇▇’▇; and

(d)units of money market funds rated in the highest credit rating category by any nationally recognized statistical rating organization, including S&P and Moody’s.

No Permitted Investment shall have an “f,” “r,” “p,” “pi,” “q,” “sf” or “t” subscript affixed to its S&P rating. Any such investment may be made or acquired from or through the Collateral Agent or the Administrative Agent or any of their respective Affiliates, or any entity for whom the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent, the Account Bank, the Collateral Custodian or any of their respective Affiliates provides services and receives compensation (so long as such investment otherwise meets the applicable requirements of the foregoing definition of Permitted Investment at the time of acquisition). The Collateral Agent, the Account Bank and Collateral Custodian shall have no obligation to determine or oversee compliance with the foregoing.

“Permitted Liens” means any of the following as to which no enforcement, collection, execution, levy or foreclosure proceeding shall have been commenced:  (a) Liens for state, municipal or other local Taxes if such Taxes shall not at the time be due and payable or if a Person shall currently be contesting the validity thereof in good faith by appropriate proceedings and with respect to which reserves in accordance with GAAP have been provided on the books of such Person, (b) Liens imposed by law, such as materialmen’s, warehousemen’s, mechanics’, carriers’, workmen’s and repairmen’s Liens and other similar Liens, arising by operation of law in the ordinary course of business for sums that are not overdue or are being contested in good faith and (c) Liens granted pursuant to or by the Transaction Documents.

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“Permitted RIC Distribution” means distributions to the Transferor (from the Collection Account or otherwise) to the extent required to allow the Transferor to make sufficient distributions to qualify as a regulated investment company and to otherwise eliminate federal or state income or excise taxes payable by the Transferor in or with respect to any taxable year of the Transferor (or any calendar year, as relevant); provided that (A) the amount of any such payments made in or with respect to any such taxable year (or calendar year, as relevant) of the Transferor shall not exceed 115% of the amounts that the Borrower would have been required to distribute to the Transferor to: (i) allow the Borrower to satisfy the minimum distribution requirements that would be imposed by Section 852(a) of the Code (or any successor thereto) to maintain its eligibility to be taxed as a regulated investment company for any such taxable year, (ii) reduce to zero for any such taxable year the Borrower’s liability for federal income taxes imposed on (x) its investment company taxable income pursuant to Section 852(b)(1) of the Code (or any successor thereto) and (y) its net capital gain pursuant to Section 852(b)(3) of the Code (or any successor thereto), and (iii) reduce to zero the Borrower’s liability for federal excise taxes for any such calendar year imposed pursuant to Section 4982 of the Code (or any successor thereto), in the case of each of (i), (ii) or (iii), calculated assuming that the Borrower had qualified to be taxed as a RIC under the Code, (B) after the occurrence and during the continuance of a Tier One Default, all such distributions shall be prohibited, and (C) amounts may be distributed pursuant to this definition only to the extent of available Interest Collections and/or Principal Collections and only so long as (x) the Borrowing Base Test (Aggregate) is satisfied immediately prior to and immediately after giving effect to such Permitted RIC Distribution (unless otherwise consented to by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion) and (y) the Borrower gives at least two (2) Business Days’ prior written notice thereof to the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and the Collateral Custodian.  Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, after the occurrence and during the continuation of a Tier Two Event of Default, Permitted RIC Distributions shall be permitted pursuant to Section 2.04(c) from Interest Collections only; provided that no Tier One Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and the amount of Permitted RIC Distributions made in any calendar quarter during the continuation of a Tier Two Event of Default shall not, without the consent in writing by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion and the Required Lenders, exceed the lower of (1) $1,500,000 and (2) one-fourth of the amount permitted under the 115.0% limitation set forth in the foregoing proviso.

“Permitted Working Capital Facility” means, with respect to any Loan Asset, a working capital facility or super senior revolver that is (a) first priority under Applicable Law, (b) in the case of a working capital facility, secured by specified accounts, documents, instruments, chattel paper, letter-of-credit rights, supporting obligations, deposit and investment accounts and (c) for which the ratio of (i) (x) the committed amount of such working capital facility or super senior revolver to (y) the EBITDA of the Obligor is less than or equal to 1.50:1.00 as of the Cut-Off Date and (ii) the quotient of the committed balance of the permitted working capital facility or super senior portion to the total committed balance of the first lien position is less than or equal to 25% as of the Cut-Off Date.

“Person” means an individual, partnership, corporation (including a statutory or business trust), limited liability company, joint stock company, trust, unincorporated association, sole proprietorship, joint venture, government (or any agency or political subdivision thereof) or other entity.

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“PIK Interest” means interest accrued on a Loan Asset that is added to the principal amount of such Loan Asset instead of being paid as cash interest as it accrues.

“PIK Loan Asset” means a Loan Asset which provides for a portion or all of the interest that accrues thereon to be added to the principal amount of such Loan Asset for some period of time prior to such Loan Asset requiring the current cash payment of such previously capitalized interest, which cash payment shall be treated as an Interest Collection at the time it is received.

“Politically Exposed Person” means a natural person currently or formerly entrusted with a senior public role or function (e.g., a senior official in the executive, legislative, military, administrative, or judicial branches of government), an immediate family member of a prominent public figure, a known close associate of a prominent public figure, or any corporation, business or other entity that has been formed by, or for the benefit of, a prominent public figure. Immediate family members include family within one-degree of separation of the prominent public figure (e.g., spouse, parent, sibling, child, step-child, or in-law). Known close associates include those widely- and publicly-known close business colleagues and personal advisors to the prominent public figure, in particular financial advisors or persons acting in a fiduciary capacity.

“Prepayment Premium” means, in the event that this Agreement is terminated or the Facility Amount is permanently reduced, in each case, pursuant to Section 2.16(b) and subject to Section 2.16(d), (a) prior to the one (1) year anniversary of the Closing Date, an amount equal to 0.75%, or (b) on or after the one (1) year anniversary of the Closing Date, but prior to the eighteen (18) month anniversary of the Closing Date, an amount equal to 0.50%, in each case, of either (x) the Facility Amount, in the case of such termination, or (y) the amount of such reduction, in the case of such permanent reduction of the Facility Amount and, in each case, such amounts shall be payable pro rata to each Lender at the time of such termination or such reduction, as applicable.

“Principal Collection Subaccount” means the collective reference to the sub-accounts of the Collection Account identified as principal collection accounts, into which Principal Collections shall be segregated.

“Principal Collections” means with respect to any date of determination, all amounts received by the Borrower during the related Remittance Period that do not constitute Interest Collections and any other amounts that have been designated as Principal Collections pursuant to the terms of this Agreement.

“Private Credit Loan Asset” means any Eligible Loan Asset (other than a Liquid Credit Loan Asset) designated as such by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion in the applicable Approval Notice.

“Pro Rata Share” means, with respect to each Lender, the percentage obtained by dividing the Commitment of such Lender (or, following the termination thereof, the outstanding principal amount of all Advances of such Lender), by the aggregate Commitments of all the Lenders (or, following the termination thereof, the aggregate Advances Outstanding).

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“Proceeds” means, with respect to any property included in the Collateral, all property that is receivable or received when such property is collected, sold, liquidated, foreclosed, exchanged, or otherwise disposed of, whether such disposition is voluntary or involuntary, and includes all rights to payment with respect to such Collateral including any insurance relating thereto.

“Purchase Price” means, with respect to any Loan Asset, an amount (expressed as a percentage of par) equal to the greater of (a) zero and (b) the actual price paid by the Borrower in the applicable Eligible Currency for such Loan Asset; provided that if the actual price paid by the Borrower for such Loan Asset exceeds 100% of par, the Purchase Price shall be deemed to be 100%.

“Qualified BDC Affiliate” means any Affiliate of the BDC Adviser (a) that has the ability and experience to professionally and competently perform duties similar to those imposed upon the Servicer or the investment advisor to the Transferor, as applicable, under this Agreement, (b) that is legally qualified and has the capacity and applicable licenses or other regulatory qualifications to act as Servicer or the investment advisor to the Transferor, as applicable, under this Agreement, (c) for which, as it relates to the investment advisor to the Transferor, the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent have received all “know your customer” documentation and information reasonably and timely requested and (d) that shall assume the obligations of the Servicer or the investment advisor to the Transferor, as applicable.

“Ramp-Up Period” means the period beginning on the Closing Date and ending on the twelve (12)-month anniversary thereof.

“Recipient” means the Administrative Agent and any Lender, as applicable.

“Records” means all documents relating to the Loan Assets, including books, records and other information executed in connection with the origination or acquisition of the Loan Assets or maintained with respect to the Loan Assets and the related Obligors that the Borrower, the Transferor or the Servicer have generated, in which the Borrower has acquired an interest pursuant to the Sale and Contribution Agreement or in which the Borrower or the Transferor have otherwise obtained an interest.

“Recoveries” means, with respect to any Defaulted Loan, the proceeds from the sale of the Related Collateral, the proceeds of any related Insurance Policy, any other recoveries with respect to such Loan Asset (without duplication) or the Related Collateral, and amounts representing late fees and penalties, net of any amounts received that are required under such Loan Asset, as applicable, to be refunded to the related Obligor.

“Recurring Revenue” means, with respect to any Eligible Loan Assets that are Recurring Revenue Loans, the definition of annualized recurring revenue used in the Underlying Instruments for each such Eligible Loan Asset, or any comparable term for “Revenue”, “Recurring Revenue” or “Adjusted Revenue” in the Underlying Instruments for each such Eligible Loan Asset or if there is no such term in the Underlying Instruments, all recurring maintenance, service, support, hosting, subscription and other revenues identified by the Servicer (including, without limitation, software as a service subscription revenue), of the related Obligor and any of its parents

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or Subsidiaries that are obligated with respect to such Eligible Loan Asset pursuant to its Underlying Instruments (determined on a consolidated basis without duplication in accordance with GAAP).

“Recurring Revenue Loan” means an Eligible Loan Asset that is underwritten based on the Recurring Revenue of the Obligor, as determined by the Servicer in accordance with the Servicing Standard and designated as such in the related Approval Notice.

“Reference Time” with respect to any setting of the then-current Benchmark means (1) if such Benchmark is Term SOFR, the time set forth in the definition of Term SOFR and (2) if such Benchmark is not Term SOFR, the time determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with the Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes.

“Register” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 2.13.

“Registered” means a debt obligation that is in registered form for U.S. federal income tax purposes within the meaning of Section 881(c)(2)(B)(i) of the Code and the Treasury regulations promulgated thereunder and that is issued after July 18, 1984; provided that a certificate of interest in a grantor trust shall not be treated as Registered unless each of the obligations or securities held by the trust was issued after that date.

“Related Asset” means, with respect to each Loan Asset, all right, title and interest of the Borrower in and to:

(a)any amounts on deposit in any deposit accounts, cash reserve, collection, custody or lockbox accounts securing the Loan Assets;

(b)all rights with respect to the Loan Assets to which the Transferor and/or the Borrower, as applicable, is entitled as lender under the applicable Underlying Instruments;

(c)the Controlled Accounts, together with all cash and investments in each of the foregoing other than amounts earned on investments therein;

(d)any Related Collateral securing a Loan Asset and all Recoveries related thereto, all payments paid in respect thereof and all monies due or to become due and paid in respect thereof after the applicable Cut-Off Date and all liquidation proceeds;

(e)all Required Loan Documents, the Loan Files related to any Loan Asset, any Records, and the documents, agreements, and instruments included in the Loan Files or Records;

(f)all Insurance Policies with respect to any Loan Asset;

(g)all Liens, guaranties, indemnities, warranties, letters of credit, accounts, bank accounts and property subject thereto from time to time purporting to secure or support payment of any Loan Asset, together with all UCC financing statements, mortgages or similar filings signed or authorized by an Obligor relating thereto;

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(h)all records (including computer records) with respect to the foregoing; and

(i)all collections, income, payments, proceeds and other benefits of each of the foregoing.

“Related Collateral” means, with respect to a Loan Asset, any property or other assets designated and pledged or mortgaged as collateral to secure repayment of such Loan Asset, as applicable, including, mortgaged property and/or a pledge of the stock, membership or other ownership interests in the related Obligor and all Proceeds from any sale or other disposition of such property or other assets.

“Release Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.07(b).

“Relevant Governmental Body” means, as applicable, (a) the Federal Reserve Board or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or a committee officially endorsed or convened by the Federal Reserve Board or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or any successor thereto, or (b) the Bank of Canada, or a committee officially endorsed or convened by the Bank of Canada, or any successor thereto.

“Remittance Period” means, (a) as to the initial Payment Date, the period beginning on, and including, the Closing Date and ending on, and including, the Determination Date immediately preceding such Payment Date and (b) as to any subsequent Payment Date, the period beginning on, and including, the first day after the most recently ended Remittance Period and ending on, and including, the Determination Date immediately preceding such Payment Date, or, with respect to the final Remittance Period, the Collection Date.

“Replacement Servicer” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 6.01(c).

“Reporting Date” means one (1) Business Day prior to the 25th calendar day of each calendar month, commencing in January 2025; provided that, in each case, if such day is not a Business Day then the Reporting Date shall occur on the following Business Day.

“Required Lenders” means (a) so long as ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ is the Administrative Agent, ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ (as a Lender along with any affiliated Lenders hereunder) and (b) the other Lenders, if any, representing, together with ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, an aggregate of at least 50% of the aggregate Commitments of the Lenders then in effect; provided that (i) if at any time there are exactly two unaffiliated non-Defaulting Lenders (counting affiliated Lenders as a single Lender), both such non-Defaulting Lenders shall be required to constitute “Required Lenders” and (ii) the Commitments of any Defaulting Lender shall be disregarded for purposes of determining whether the consent of the Required Lenders has been obtained and such Lender shall not constitute a Required Lender hereunder.

“Required Loan Documents” means, for each Loan Asset, the following documents or instruments, as applicable, all as specified on the related Loan Asset Checklist:

(a)(i) either (x) the original executed promissory note or (y) in the case of a lost note, a paper or electronic copy of the executed underlying promissory note accompanied by an original executed affidavit and indemnity endorsed by the Borrower in

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blank (in each case with respect to clause (x) or clause (y), if applicable, with an unbroken chain of endorsements from each prior holder of such promissory note to the Borrower or in blank or to the Collateral Agent (unless such note is in bearer form, in which case delivery alone shall suffice)), or (ii) if such promissory note is not issued in the name of the Borrower or is a Noteless Loan, a paper or electronic executed copy of each assignment and assumption agreement, transfer document, credit agreement or such other instrument (if and as applicable) relating to such Loan Asset evidencing the assignment of such Loan Asset from any prior third party owner thereof to the Borrower;

(b)paper or electronic copies of the related loan agreement or any other material agreement (as determined by the Servicer in its reasonable discretion), in each case as set forth on the Loan Asset Checklist; and

(c)with respect to any Loan Asset originated by the Transferor and with respect to which the Transferor acts as administrative agent (or in a comparable capacity), either (i) copies of the UCC-1 financing statements, if any, and any related continuation statements, each showing the Obligor, as debtor, and the Transferor or other applicable agent, as secured party, and each with evidence of filing thereon, or (ii) copies of any such financing statements certified by the Servicer to be true and complete copies thereof in instances where the original financing statements have been sent to the appropriate public filing office for filing, in each case, as set forth in the Loan Asset Checklist, in each case only to the extent reasonably requested by the Agent and available to the Servicer (it being understood that neither the Borrower nor the Servicer shall be under any obligation to request such financing statements with respect to any Collateral Obligation for which the Borrower is not also the administrative agent or the collateral agent).

“Resolution Authority” means an EEA Resolution Authority or, with respect to any UK Financial Institution, a UK Resolution Authority.

“Responsible Officer” means (a) with respect to the Borrower or the Servicer, any duly appointed officer or authorized signatory of each of the Borrower (in the case of the Borrower) or the Servicer (in the case of either the Borrower or the Servicer), as applicable, or of the general partner, administrative manager or managing member of each of the Borrower or the Servicer, as applicable, together with any other duly appointed officer or authorized signatory of Antares Capital Credit Advisers LLC (in its roles as investment adviser of the Servicer, and investment manager of the Servicer in the Servicer’s role as sole member of the of the Borrower), in each case who is responsible for the activities of the Borrower or the Servicer hereunder and (b) with respect to any other Person, any duly authorized officer of such Person with direct responsibility for the administration of this Agreement and also, with respect to a particular matter, any other duly authorized officer of such Person to whom such matter is referred because of such officer’s knowledge of and familiarity with the particular subject.

“Restricted Junior Payment” means (whether in cash, securities or other property) (a) any dividend or other distribution, direct or indirect, on account of any class of membership interests of the Borrower now or hereafter outstanding, except a dividend paid solely in interests of that class of membership interests or in any junior class of membership interests of the Borrower; (b) any redemption, retirement, sinking fund or similar payment, purchase or other

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acquisition for value, direct or indirect, of any class of membership interests of the Borrower now or hereafter outstanding, (c) any payment made to redeem, purchase, repurchase or retire, or to obtain the surrender of, any outstanding warrants, options or other rights to acquire membership interests of the Borrower now or hereafter outstanding, and (d) any payment of management fees by the Borrower. For the avoidance of doubt, (x) payments and reimbursements due to the Servicer in accordance with this Agreement or any other Transaction Document do not constitute Restricted Junior Payments, and (y) distributions by the Borrower to holders of its membership interests of Loan Assets or of cash or other proceeds relating thereto which have been substituted by the Borrower in accordance with this Agreement shall not constitute Restricted Junior Payments.

“Retained Interest” means, with respect to any Loan Asset that is transferred to the Borrower, (a) all of the obligations, if any, of the agent(s) under the documentation evidencing such Loan Asset and (b) the applicable portion of the interests, rights and obligations under the documentation evidencing such Loan Asset that relate to such portion(s) of the indebtedness and interest in other obligations that are owned by another lender.

“Revenue” means, with respect to any Eligible Loan Assets that are Recurring Revenue Loans, the definition of annualized recurring revenue used in the Underlying Instruments for each such Eligible Loan Asset, or any comparable term for “Revenue” or “Adjusted Revenue” in the Underlying Instruments for each such Eligible Loan Asset; provided that if there is no such term in the Underlying Instruments, revenue for the related Obligor and any of its parents or Subsidiaries that are obligated with respect to such Eligible Loan Asset pursuant to its Underlying Instruments (determined on a consolidated basis without duplication in accordance with GAAP) for the most recent four fiscal quarter period for which financial statements have been delivered.

“Review Criteria” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 11.02(b)(i).

“Revolving Loan” means a loan that is a line of credit or contains an unfunded commitment arising from an extension of credit to an Obligor, pursuant to the terms of which amounts borrowed may be repaid and subsequently reborrowed; provided that any such Loan Asset will no longer be a Revolving Loan once all commitments by the Borrower to make advances to the related Obligor expire, are terminated or irrevocably reduced to zero.

“Revolving Period” means the period commencing on the Closing Date and ending on the Commitment Termination Date; provided that in the event the Commitment Termination Date has occurred pursuant to clause (c) of the definition of Facility Maturity Date, in the event the applicable Event of Default is waived by the Lenders pursuant to the terms hereof, the Revolving Period will automatically and without further action be reinstated.

“S&P” means S&P Global Ratings, an S&P global business (and any successor or successors thereto).

“Sale and Contribution Agreement” means that certain Sale and Contribution Agreement, dated on or about the Closing Date, between the Transferor, as the seller, and the Borrower, as the purchaser, as amended or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof.

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“Same Day Pricing” has the meaning assigned to that term in the definition of “Assigned Value (Private Credit)”.

“Sanctions” means any financial or economic sanctions administered or enforced by the United States government (including OFAC and the U.S. Department of State), the European Union, His Majesty’s Treasury (United Kingdom) or the United Nations Security Council.

“Scheduled Payment” means each scheduled payment of principal and/or interest required to be made by an Obligor on the related Loan Asset, as adjusted pursuant to the terms of the related Underlying Instruments; provided, however, that for the avoidance of doubt, any payment of principal and/or interest from excess cash flow required or permitted under the applicable Underlying Instruments shall not be treated under any circumstances as Scheduled Payments.

“Second Lien Loan” means any Loan Asset (a) that is secured by a valid and perfected Lien on substantially all of the Obligor’s assets constituting Related Collateral for such Loan Asset, subject only to the prior Lien provided to secure the obligations under a “first lien” or “first lien last out” loan pursuant to typical commercial terms, any Lien under any Permitted Working Capital Facility, and any other expressly permitted Liens under the Underlying Instrument for such Loan Asset, including any “permitted liens” as defined in such Underlying Instrument, or such comparable definition if “permitted liens” is not defined therein, (b) that, except for the express lien priority provisions under the documentation of the “first lien” lenders or the documentation with respect to any Permitted Working Capital Facility, is either senior to, or pari passu with, all other Indebtedness of such Obligor, and (c) that the Servicer determines in accordance with the Servicing Standard that the value of the Related Collateral (or the enterprise value and ability to generate cash flow) on or about the time of origination equals or exceeds the Outstanding Balance of the Loan Asset plus the aggregate outstanding balances of all other Indebtedness of equal or greater seniority secured by the same Related Collateral (including, without limitation, the outstanding principal balance of the “first lien” loan).

“Secured Obligations” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 2.12(a).

“Secured Party” means each of the Administrative Agent, each Lender, each Affected Party, each Indemnified Party, the Collateral Custodian, the Collateral Agent and the Account Bank.

“Senior Leverage Ratio” means, with respect to any Loan Asset or any portion of any Loan Asset (other than a Recurring Revenue Loan), as applicable, for any period, the meaning of “Senior Leverage Ratio” or any comparable definition relating to first lien senior secured (or such applicable lien or applicable level within the capital structure and any other indebtedness senior or pari passu to such lien or such level) indebtedness in the Underlying Instruments for each such Loan Asset (or such other definition as the Borrower and the Administrative Agent shall agree upon in writing (including via email)), and in any case that “Senior Leverage Ratio” or such comparable definition is not defined in such Underlying Instruments, “Senior Leverage Ratio” with respect to such Loan Asset shall, until the Borrower and the Administrative Agent have agreed upon another definition as specified above, mean the ratio of (a) first lien senior secured (in the

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case of any First Lien Loan), first and second lien senior secured (in the case of any Second Lien Loan) or such applicable lien or applicable level within the capital structure and any other Indebtedness senior or pari passu to such lien or such level (in the case of any FLLO Loan) Indebtedness (including FLLO Loans) less Unrestricted Cash and any restricted cash that is subject to a lien in respect of such Indebtedness, in each case, as of the applicable test date, to (b) EBITDA, for the period of four (4) consecutive fiscal quarters most recently ended on or prior to such date, or if the Obligor of such Loan Asset was organized or formed within the previous year, another applicable test period, as calculated by the Servicer in accordance with the Servicing Standard using information from and calculations consistent with the relevant compliance statements and financial reporting packages provided by the relevant Obligor as per the requirements of the related Underlying Instruments.

“Senior Servicing Fee” means the fee payable to the Servicer on each Payment Date in arrears in respect of each Remittance Period, which fee shall be equal to the product of (a) 0.25% per annum, (b) the daily average Outstanding Balance of all Eligible Loan Assets during such Remittance Period and (c) the actual number of days in such Remittance Period, divided by 360; provided that, in the sole discretion of the Servicer, the Servicer may, from time to time, waive all or any portion of the Senior Servicing Fee payable on any Payment Date.

“Servicer” means, as of any date of determination, the Person then authorized, pursuant to Section 6.01 to service, administer, and collect on the Loan Assets and exercise rights and remedies in respect of the same.

“Servicer Default” means the occurrence of any one or more of the following events:

(a)any failure by the Servicer to make any payment, transfer or deposit into the Collection Account (including with respect to bifurcation and remittance of Interest Collections and Principal Collections), as required by any Transaction Documents, which continues unremedied for a period of three (3) Business Days (or five (5) Business Days if such failure is due to an administrative or technical issue that is beyond the Servicer’s reasonable control);

(b)(i) the failure of the Servicer to make any payment when due (after giving effect to any related grace period) under one or more agreements for borrowed money to which it is a party in an aggregate amount in excess of $25,000,000, individually or in the aggregate or (ii) the occurrence of any event or condition that has resulted in the acceleration of such recourse debt, whether or not waived;

(c)any failure by the Servicer to deliver any required Servicing Report on or before the date such report is required to be made or given under the terms of this Agreement, which continues unremedied for a period of five (5) Business Days after the earlier to occur of (x) the date on which written notice thereof is received by a Responsible Officer of the Servicer or (y) the date on which a Responsible Officer of the Servicer acquires knowledge thereof; provided that the grace period shall not be applicable if such delivery after the due date shall prevent the Collateral Agent from making payments in accordance with Section 2.04;

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(d)any Change of Control with respect to the Servicer, or (unless otherwise permitted under this Agreement) any merger of the Servicer into another Person (where the Servicer is not a surviving entity);

(e)any assignment of the Servicer’s role as “Servicer” hereunder in violation of Section 6.01 of this Agreement to any Person other than the BDC Adviser or a Qualified BDC Affiliate without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent (acting at the direction of the Required Lenders, each in its sole and absolute discretion);

(f)any representation, warranty or certification made by the Servicer (in each case, solely in its capacity as Servicer) in any Transaction Document or in any certificate delivered pursuant to any Transaction Document shall prove to have been incorrect when made, which incorrect representation, warranty or statement has a material and adverse effect on (1) the validity, enforceability or collectability of any other Transaction Document or (2) the rights and remedies of any Secured Party with respect to matters arising under this Agreement or any other Transaction Document and, in each case, the same continues unremedied for a period of 30 days after the earlier to occur of (x) the date on which written notice thereof is given to the Servicer or (y) the date on which a Responsible Officer of the Servicer acquires knowledge thereof;

(g)except as otherwise provided in this definition of “Servicer Default,” any failure in any material respect on the part of the Servicer (in each case, solely in its capacity as Servicer) duly to (i) observe or perform any other covenants or agreements of the Servicer set forth in this Agreement or the other Transaction Documents to which the Servicer is a party or (ii) comply with the Servicing Standard regarding the servicing of the Collateral, and, in each case, the same continues unremedied for a period of thirty (30) days (if such failure can be remedied) after the earlier to occur of (x) the date on which written notice of such failure is given or (y) the date on which the Servicer acquires knowledge thereof;

(h)a Bankruptcy Event shall occur with respect to the Servicer;

(i)(i) the rendering of one or more judgments, decrees or orders by a court or arbitrator of competent jurisdiction for the payment of money in excess individually or in the aggregate of $25,000,000 against the Servicer, and the Servicer shall not have either (a) discharged or provided for the discharge of any such judgment, decree or order in accordance with its terms or (b) perfected a timely appeal of such judgment, decree or order and caused the execution of same to be stayed during the pendency of the appeal; or (ii) any action shall be legally taken by a judgment creditor to attach or levy upon any assets of the Servicer to enforce any such judgment;

(j)an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;

(k)the Facility Maturity Date is declared (or is deemed to have occurred automatically) pursuant to Section 7.01; or

(l)following the Closing Date Restructuring, the Servicer ceases to be a “business development company” within the meaning of the 1940 Act.

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“Servicer ERISA Event” means (a) with respect to a Pension Plan, any of the events set forth in Section 4043(c) of ERISA or the regulations issued thereunder, other than events for which the thirty (30) day notice period has been waived; (b) a withdrawal by the Servicer or any of its ERISA Affiliates from a Pension 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) or a cessation of operations that is treated as a termination under Section 4062(e) of ERISA; (c) the failure to satisfy the minimum funding standards (within the meaning of Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA), whether or not waived, with respect to a Pension Plan; (d) the failure to make any required contribution to a Multiemployer Plan; (e) the incurrence by the Servicer or any of its ERISA Affiliates of any liability under Title IV of ERISA with respect to a complete or partial withdrawal by the Servicer or any of its ERISA Affiliates from a Multiemployer Plan, written notification of the Servicer or any of its ERISA Affiliates concerning the imposition of any withdrawal liability, as such term is defined in Part I of Subtitle E of Title IV of ERISA, as a result of a complete or partial withdrawal from a Multiemployer Plan or written notification that a Multiemployer Plan is insolvent within the meaning of Title IV of ERISA or in “endangered” or “critical” status (within the meaning of Section 432 of the Code or Section 305 of ERISA); (f)  the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan under Section 4042 of ERISA; (g) the filing under Section 4041(c) of ERISA of a notice of intent to terminate a Pension Plan, the termination under Section 4041 or Section 4041A of ERISA, or the receipt by the Servicer or any of its ERISA Affiliates from the PBGC of any notice relating to the intention to terminate a Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan; (h) the imposition of any liability under Title IV of ERISA with respect to the termination of any Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan, other than for the payment of plan contributions or PBGC premiums due but not delinquent under Section 4007 of ERISA, upon the Servicer or any of its ERISA Affiliates; or (i) the occurrence on a non-exempt prohibited transaction (within the meaning of Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code) with respect to an employee benefit plan within the meaning of Section 3(3) of ERISA sponsored or maintained by the Servicer which could reasonably be expect to result in liability to the Servicer.

“Servicer Pension Plan” means an “employee pension benefit plan” as such term is defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA, other than a Multiemployer Plan, that is subject to Title IV of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code and is sponsored or maintained by the Servicer or any ERISA Affiliate of the Servicer or to which the Servicer or any ERISA Affiliate of the Servicer contributes or has an obligation to contribute, or has any liability (whether actual or contingent) under Title IV of ERISA or under Section 412 of the Code.

“Servicer Removal Notice” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 6.01(b).

“Servicer’s Certificate” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 6.08(c).

“Servicing Report” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 6.08(b).

“Servicing Standard” means, with respect to any Loan Asset, to service and administer such Loan Asset on behalf of the Secured Parties (including in respect of any exercise of discretion) with reasonable care (i) using a similar degree of care, skill and attention as it employs with respect to similar collateral that which the Servicer exercises with respect to

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comparable assets and/or portfolios that such Person manages for itself and others having similar investment objectives and restrictions and (ii) to the extent not inconsistent with clause (i), applying the Servicer’s customary standards, policies and procedures.

“Side Letter” means that certain Side Letter, dated as of the Closing Date, by the Administrative Agent and accepted and agreed to by the Borrower and ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Bank, N.A., as Lender.

“Similar Law” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 4.01(x).

“SOFR” with respect to any day means the secured overnight financing rate published for such day by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, as the administrator of the benchmark, (or a successor administrator) on the Federal Reserve Bank of New York’s Website.

“SOFR Advance” means an Advance that bears interest at a rate based on Term SOFR.

“Solvent” means, as to any Person as of any date of determination, having a state of affairs such that all of the following conditions are met:  (a) the fair value of the property of such Person is greater than the amount of such Person’s liabilities (including disputed, contingent and unliquidated liabilities) as such value is established and liabilities evaluated for purposes of Section 101(32) of the Bankruptcy Code; (b) the present fair saleable value of the property of such Person in an orderly liquidation of such Person is not less than the amount that will be required to pay the probable liability of such Person on its debts and other liabilities as they become absolute and matured; (c) such Person is able to realize upon its property and pay its debts and other liabilities (including disputed, contingent and unliquidated liabilities) as they mature in the normal course of business; (d) such Person does not intend to, and does not believe that it will, incur debts or liabilities beyond such Person’s ability to pay as such debts and liabilities mature; and (e) such Person is not engaged in a business or a transaction, and does not propose to engage in a business or a transaction, for which such Person’s property assets would constitute unreasonably small capital.

“▇▇▇▇▇” means, with respect to any Business Day, a rate per annum equal to the Sterling Overnight Index Average for such Business Day published by the ▇▇▇▇▇ Administrator on the ▇▇▇▇▇ Administrator’s Website.

“▇▇▇▇▇ Administrator” means the Bank of England (or any successor administrator of the Sterling Overnight Index Average).

“▇▇▇▇▇ Administrator’s Website” means the Bank of England’s website, currently at ▇▇▇▇://▇▇▇.▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇.▇▇.▇▇, or any successor source for the Sterling Overnight Index Average identified as such by the ▇▇▇▇▇ Administrator from time to time.

“▇▇▇▇▇ Determination Day” has the meaning assigned to that term in the definition of “Daily Simple ▇▇▇▇▇.”

“▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ Day” has the meaning assigned to that term in the definition of “Daily Simple ▇▇▇▇▇.”

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“▇▇▇▇▇ Replacement Date” means the earliest to occur of the following events with respect to Daily Simple ▇▇▇▇▇:

(a)the later of (i) the date of the public statement or publication of information referenced therein and (ii) the date on which the administrator of Daily Simple ▇▇▇▇▇ (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) permanently or indefinitely ceases to provide all Available Tenors of Daily Simple ▇▇▇▇▇ (or such component thereof); or

(b)the first date on which Daily Simple ▇▇▇▇▇ (or the published component used in the calculation thereof) has been determined and announced by the regulatory supervisor for the administrator of Daily Simple ▇▇▇▇▇ (or such component thereof) to be no longer representative; provided, that such non-representativeness will be determined by reference to the most recent statement or publication and even if any Available Tenor of Daily Simple ▇▇▇▇▇ (or such component thereof) continues to be provided on such date.

For the avoidance of doubt, (A) if the event giving rise to the ▇▇▇▇▇ Replacement Date for Daily Simple ▇▇▇▇▇ occurs on the same day as, but earlier than, the ▇▇▇▇▇ Determination Day in respect of any determination, the ▇▇▇▇▇ Replacement Date will be deemed to have occurred prior to the ▇▇▇▇▇ Determination Day for Daily Simple ▇▇▇▇▇ and for such determination and (B) the “▇▇▇▇▇ Replacement Date” will be deemed to have occurred in the case of clauses (a) or (b) with respect to Daily Simple ▇▇▇▇▇ upon the occurrence of the applicable event or events set forth therein with respect to all then-current Available Tenors of Daily Simple ▇▇▇▇▇ (or the published component used in the calculation thereof).

“Specified Borrowing Base Deficiency” means a Borrowing Base Deficiency (i) that occurs solely as a result of a reduction in Assigned Value and (ii) the amount of which is less than the product of (a) 5.0% multiplied by (b) the Borrowing Base immediately prior to such reduction in Assigned Value; provided that, if (x) the Effective Advance Rate is greater than 70.0% or (y) the Diversity Score is less than 10, at the occurrence of such Borrowing Base Deficiency, then such Borrowing Base Deficiency shall not constitute a Specified Borrowing Base Deficiency.

“Specified Industries” means (i) the “Oil, Gas & Consumable Fuels” Industry Classification, (ii) the “Broadline Retail” and “Specialty Retail” Industry Classifications in the aggregate and (iii) the “Publishing” sub-industry of the “Media” Industry Classification.

“Specified Loan Asset” means (i) with respect to any Liquid Credit Loan Asset, any Eligible Loan Asset that satisfies the conditions set forth in “Specified Loan Asset (Liquid Credit)” as of the applicable Cut-Off Date and (ii) with respect to any Private Credit Loan Asset, any Eligible Loan Asset that satisfies the conditions set forth in “Specified Loan Asset (Private Credit)” as of the applicable Cut-Off Date.

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“Spot Rate” means, as of any date of determination, with respect to the conversion of any Eligible Currency (other than Dollars), (x) for an actual currency exchange, the applicable currency Dollar spot rate obtained by the Servicer through customary banking channels including the Collateral Agent’s own banking facilities or (y) for all other purposes, the applicable currency Dollar spot rate that appeared on the Bloomberg screen for such currency (A) if such date is a Determination Date, at the end of such date or (B) otherwise, at the end of the immediately preceding Business Day; provided that, solely with respect to the calculation of the Unused Fee on each day for the related Remittance Period and for the calculation in clause (b) of the definition of “Yield”, the Advances Outstanding in any Eligible Currency other than Dollars shall be converted

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at the foreign currency-dollar spot rate that appeared on the Bloomberg screen for such Eligible Currency as of the Determination Date immediately preceding such day.

“State” means one of the fifty states of the United States or the District of Columbia.

“Stated Maturity” means the date that is five (5) years after the Closing Date.

“Structured Finance Obligation” means any obligation of a special purpose vehicle secured directly by, referenced to, or representing ownership of, a pool of receivables or other assets, including collateralized debt obligations and single asset repackages.

“Subordinated Servicing Fee” means the fee payable to the Servicer on each Payment Date in arrears in respect of each Remittance Period, which fee shall be equal to the product of (a) 0.50% per annum, (b) the daily average Outstanding Balance of all Eligible Loan Assets during such Remittance Period and (c) the actual number of days in such Remittance Period, divided by 360; provided that, in the sole discretion of the Servicer, the Servicer may, from time to time, waive all or any portion of the Subordinated Servicing Fee payable on any Payment Date.

“Subsidiary” means with respect to a Person, a corporation, partnership or other entity of which shares of stock or other ownership interests having ordinary voting power (other than stock or such other ownership interests having such power only by reason of the happening of a contingency) to elect a majority of the board of directors or other managers of such corporation, partnership or other entity are at the time owned, or the management of which is otherwise controlled, directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, or both, by such Person provided that “Subsidiary” shall not include any Person that constitutes an investment held by the Borrower in the ordinary course of business and that is not consolidated on the financial statements of the Borrower under GAAP.

“Substitute Eligible Loan Asset” means each Eligible Loan Asset Granted by the Borrower to the Collateral Agent, on behalf of the Secured Parties, pursuant to Section 2.07(b)(ii).

“Synthetic Security” means a security or swap transaction that has payments associated with either payments of interest and/or principal on a reference obligation or the credit performance of a reference obligation.

“Target Portfolio Amount” means the amount equal to the quotient of the Facility Amount divided by the Maximum Portfolio Advance Rate corresponding to the highest Diversity Score.

“Tax Expense Cap” means, for any Payment Date, a per annum amount equal to $100,000.

“Taxes” means any present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, withholdings (including backup withholding), charges, assessments or fees of any nature (including interest, penalties, and additions thereto) that are imposed by any Governmental Authority.

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“Term ▇▇▇▇▇” means, for any calculation with respect to the Term ▇▇▇▇▇ Reference Rate for a tenor of one (1) month (such day, the “Term ▇▇▇▇▇ Determination Day”) that is two (2) Business Days prior to the first day of such tenor, as such rate is published by the Term ▇▇▇▇▇ Administrator; provided, however, that if as of 1:00 p.m. (Toronto time) on any Term ▇▇▇▇▇ Determination Day the Term ▇▇▇▇▇ Reference Rate for such tenor has not been published by the Term ▇▇▇▇▇ Administrator and a Canadian Benchmark Replacement Date with respect to the Term ▇▇▇▇▇ Reference Rate has not occurred, then Term ▇▇▇▇▇ will be the Term ▇▇▇▇▇ Reference Rate for such tenor as published by the Term ▇▇▇▇▇ Administrator on the first preceding Business Day for which such Term ▇▇▇▇▇ Reference Rate for such tenor was published by the Term ▇▇▇▇▇ Administrator so long as such first preceding Business Day is not more than three (3) Business Days prior to such Term ▇▇▇▇▇ Determination Day; provided, further, that if Term ▇▇▇▇▇ shall ever be less than the Floor, then Term ▇▇▇▇▇ shall be deemed to be the Floor.

“Term ▇▇▇▇▇ Adjustment” means a percentage equal to 0% (zero basis points).

“Term ▇▇▇▇▇ Administrator” means Candeal Benchmark Administration Services Inc., TSX Inc., or any successor administrator.

“Term ▇▇▇▇▇ Determination Day” has the meaning assigned to that term in the definition of “Term ▇▇▇▇▇” in this Section 1.01.

“Term ▇▇▇▇▇ Reference Rate” means the forward-looking term rate based on ▇▇▇▇▇.

“Term SOFR” means, with respect to any SOFR Advance for any day during a Remittance Period, the Term SOFR Reference Rate for a tenor of one (1) month on such day, as such rate is published by the Term SOFR Administrator at 6:00 a.m. on the Term SOFR Determination Date for such Remittance Period; provided, however, that if as of 5:00 p.m. on the Term SOFR Determination Date the Term SOFR Reference Rate for the foregoing tenor has not been published by the Term SOFR Administrator and a Benchmark Replacement Date with respect to the Term SOFR Reference Rate has not occurred, then Term SOFR will be the Term SOFR Reference Rate for such tenor as published by the Term SOFR Administrator on the first preceding U.S. Government Securities Business Day for which such Term SOFR Reference Rate for such tenor was published by the Term SOFR Administrator; provided that if Term SOFR as so determined shall ever be less than zero, then Term SOFR shall be deemed to be zero for purposes of this Agreement.

“Term SOFR Administrator” means CME Group Benchmark Administration Limited (CBA) (or a successor administrator of the Term SOFR Reference Rate selected by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion).

“Term SOFR Determination Date” means, with respect to each Remittance Period, the day that is two (2) Business Days prior to the first day of such Remittance Period.

“Term SOFR Reference Rate” means the forward-looking term rate based on SOFR.

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“Termination/Reduction Notice” means each notice required to be delivered by the Borrower in respect of any termination of this Agreement or any permanent reduction of the Facility Amount, in the form of Exhibit F.

“Tier One Default” means any event that, if it continues uncured, will, with lapse of time or notice or lapse of time and notice, constitute a Tier One Event of Default.

“Tier One Event of Default” means any Event of Default pursuant to Section 7.01(a), Section 7.01(b), Section 7.01(c), Section 7.01(d) (solely as it applies to the Borrower), Section 7.01(f), Section 7.01(i) or Section 7.01(k).

“Tier Two Event of Default” means any Event of Default that is not a Tier One Event of Default.

“Third-Party Bid” means any actionable bid from any Approved Broker/Dealer for the full principal amount of the Loan Asset.

“Total Borrower Capitalization” means, on any date of determination, the sum of (a) the aggregate Outstanding Balance of all Loan Assets plus (b) the aggregate amount on deposit in the Principal Collection Subaccount.

“Total Leverage Ratio” means, with respect to any Loan Asset or any portion of any Loan Asset (other than a Recurring Revenue Loan) for any period, the meaning of “Total Leverage Ratio” or any comparable definition in the Underlying Instruments for each such Loan Asset (or such other definition as the Borrower and the Administrative Agent shall agree upon in writing (including via email)), and in any case that “Total Leverage Ratio” or such comparable definition is not defined in such Underlying Instruments, “Total Leverage Ratio” with respect to such Loan Asset shall, until the Borrower and the Administrative Agent have agreed upon another definition as specified above, mean the ratio of (a) Indebtedness less Unrestricted Cash and any restricted cash that is subject to a lien in respect of such Indebtedness, in each case, as of the applicable test date, to (b) EBITDA, for the period of four (4) consecutive fiscal quarters most recently ended on or prior to such date, or if the Obligor of such Loan Asset was organized or formed within the previous year, another applicable test period, as calculated by the Servicer in accordance with the Servicing Standard using information from and calculations consistent with the relevant compliance statements and financial reporting packages provided by the relevant Obligor as per the requirements of the related Underlying Instruments.

“Transaction Documents” means this Agreement, any Assignment and Acceptance, the Sale and Contribution Agreement, the Control Agreement, the Side Letter, the Administrative Agent Fee Letter, the Collateral Agent and Collateral Custodian Fee Letter, each Lender Fee Letter and each document, instrument or agreement related to any of the foregoing, specifically excluding from the foregoing, however, Underlying Instruments delivered by the Borrower or the Servicer in connection with this Agreement.

“Transferor” means Antares Private Credit Fund, in its capacity as the Transferor hereunder and as the seller under the Sale and Contribution Agreement, together with its successors and assigns in such capacity.

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“U.S. Government Securities Business Day” means any day except for (a) a Saturday, (b) a Sunday or (c) a day on which the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association recommends that the fixed income departments of its members be closed for the entire day for purposes of trading in United States government securities.

“U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 2.11(g)(i)(c).

“UCC” means the Uniform Commercial Code as from time to time in effect in the specified jurisdiction.

“UK Financial Institution” means any BRRD Undertaking (as such term is defined under the PRA Rulebook (as amended from time to time) promulgated by the United Kingdom Prudential Regulation Authority) or any person falling within IFPRU 11.6 of the FCA Handbook (as amended from time to time) promulgated by the United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority, which includes certain credit institutions and investment firms, and certain affiliates of such credit institutions or investment firms.

“UK Resolution Authority” means the Bank of England or any other public administrative authority having responsibility for the resolution of any UK Financial Institution.

“Unadjusted Benchmark Replacement” means the applicable Benchmark Replacement (Dollar) excluding the related Benchmark Replacement Adjustment.

“Underlying Instruments” means the loan agreement, credit agreement or other agreement pursuant to which a Loan Asset has been issued or created and each other agreement that governs the terms of or secures the obligations represented by such Loan Asset or of which the holders of such Loan Asset are the beneficiaries.

“Unfunded Exposure Account” means the collective reference to the account identified as unfunded exposure accounts, in the name of the Borrower subject to the lien and control of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties; provided that the funds deposited therein (including any interest and earnings thereon) from time to time shall constitute the property and assets of the Borrower and the Borrower shall be solely liable for any Taxes payable with respect to the Unfunded Exposure Account.

“Unfunded Exposure Amount” means, as of any date of determination, with respect to a Delayed Draw Loan Asset or a Revolving Loan, as applicable, an amount equal to the aggregate amount of all unfunded commitments associated with such Loan Asset as of such date.

“Unfunded Exposure Amount Shortfall” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 2.02(f).

“Unfunded Exposure Equity Amount” means, on any date of determination during the Amortization Period, the Aggregate Unfunded Exposure Amount, and otherwise, an amount equal to, for all Eligible Loan Assets which have any unfunded commitments, the aggregate sum of the difference of (a) the Unfunded Exposure Amount for each such Eligible Loan Asset minus (b) the product of (x) the Assigned Value for each such Eligible Loan Asset, (y) the Unfunded

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Exposure Amount for each such Eligible Loan Asset and (z) the Advance Rate for each such Eligible Loan Asset.

“United States” means the United States of America.

“United States Tax Person” means a “United States person” as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code.

“Unmatured Event of Default” means any event that, if it continues uncured, will, with lapse of time, notice or lapse of time and notice, constitute an Event of Default.

“Unrestricted Cash” means, (a) with respect to any Loan Asset, the meaning of “Unrestricted Cash” or any comparable definition in the Underlying Instruments for the applicable Loan Asset and (b) in any case that “Unrestricted Cash” or such comparable definition is not defined in such Underlying Instruments or otherwise as applicable in this Agreement, cash and cash equivalents of the applicable Person available for use for general corporate purposes and not held in any reserve account or legally or contractually restricted for any particular purposes or uses.

“Unused Fee” has the meaning assigned to that term in Section 2.09.

“Unused Fee Rate” means a rate equal to (i)(a) from the Closing Date until the six month anniversary of the Closing Date, 0.25% per annum and (b) thereafter, 0.50% per annum and (ii)(a) from any Increased Amount Date until the six month anniversary of the Increased Amount Date, 0.25% per annum and (b) thereafter, 0.50% per annum.

“Value Adjustment Event” means, with respect to any Loan Asset, the occurrence of any one or more of the following events after the related Cut-Off Date:

(a)(i) with respect to any Loan Asset, the Cash Interest Coverage Ratio with respect to such Loan Asset as of the most recent date reported under the Underlying Instrument decreases either (x) to less than 1.15:1.00 or (y) (A) to less than 1.50:1.00 and (B) by more than 20.0% from the Cash Interest Coverage Ratio as calculated on the applicable Cut-Off Date; (ii) with respect to any Loan Asset, (x) the Total Leverage Ratio (or Senior Leverage Ratio with respect to First Lien Loans) with respect to such Loan Asset on any date reported under the Underlying Instrument is greater than 4.00:1.00 and increases by more than 1.00:1.00 from the same Total Leverage Ratio (or Senior Leverage Ratio with respect to First Lien Loans) as calculated on the applicable Cut-Off Date or the date on which the last Value Adjustment Event pursuant to this clause (ii); or (iii) in the case of any Recurring Revenue Loan, the Debt-to-Recurring-Revenue Ratio with respect to such Loan Asset on any date reported under the Underlying Instrument increases by more than the lower of (1) 15.0% and (2) 0.25:1.00 from the Debt-to-Recurring-Revenue Ratio calculated on the applicable Cut-Off Date;

(b)an Obligor payment default of principal, interest and/or contractually obligated unutilized/commitment fees (as applicable) occurs under such Loan Asset that continues and has not been cured after giving effect to any grace period applicable thereto,

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but in no event more than five (5) Business Days, after the applicable due date under the related Underlying Instruments;

(c)any payment default occurs under any other senior or pari passu obligation for borrowed money of the related Obligor and has not been cured after giving effect to any grace period applicable thereto, but in no event more than five (5) Business Days, after the applicable due date;

(d)(i) a Bankruptcy Event with respect to the related Obligor (after giving effect to any applicable grace or cure period thereunder) or (ii) the relevant Obligor, as determined by the Servicer in accordance with the Servicing Standard, completes a formal restructuring, including a debt-for-equity swap;

(e)the related Obligor fails to deliver to the Borrower or the Servicer any quarterly or annual financial reporting information (i) as required by the Underlying Instruments of such Loan Asset (after giving effect to any applicable grace or cure period thereunder) and (ii) with a frequency of at least quarterly, but which shall in no case exceed ninety (90) days after the end of each quarter and one hundred and fifty (150) days after the end of each fiscal year (subject to any additional extension of the reporting deadlines consented to by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion);

(f)the occurrence of a Material Modification with respect to such Loan Asset that is not waived or approved by the Administrative Agent;

(g)solely with respect to Liquid Credit Loan Assets, the Market Value of such Liquid Credit Loan Asset is below 90%;

(h)solely with respect to any Liquid Credit Loan Asset, the quote depth is less than two (2) for two (2) consecutive days and the Borrower fails to provide at least two (2) Third-Party Bids within such time period;

(i)the Servicer determines that all or a material portion of such Loan Asset is uncollectible or otherwise places it on non-accrual status in accordance with the policies and procedures of the Servicer and the Servicing Standard; or

(j)with respect to any Loan Asset, any additional “Value Adjustment Event” described in the related Approval Notice (executed by the Borrower and Administrative Agent), the absence of which would cause the Administrative Agent to reject such Eligible Loan Asset.

“Warranty Breach Event” means, as to any Loan Asset, (a)(1) the discovery that, as of the related Cut-Off Date, such Loan Asset did not satisfy the definition of “Eligible Loan Asset” or there otherwise existed a breach of any representation or warranty relating to such Loan Asset or (2) the Borrower fails to satisfy Section 3.04(b) with respect to such Loan Asset and (b) such breach under clause (a)(1) occurs or was continuing on the date of the conveyance of such Loan Asset and such breach under clause (a)(2) occurs or was continuing on the date such documents were required to be provided under this Agreement.

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“Warranty Breach Loan Asset” means any Loan Asset with respect to which a Warranty Breach Event has occurred.

“Weighted Average Advance Rate” means, as of any date of determination with respect to all Eligible Loan Assets included in the Aggregate Adjusted Borrowing Value, the number obtained by (a) summing the products obtained by multiplying (i) the Advance Rate of each Eligible Loan Asset by (ii) such Eligible Loan Asset’s Adjusted Borrowing Value and dividing (b) such sum by the Aggregate Adjusted Borrowing Value.

“Weighted Average Life” means, as of any date of determination, the number obtained by (a) for each Eligible Loan Asset (other than a Defaulted Loan), multiplying the amount of each scheduled distribution of principal to be paid after such determination date by the number of years (rounded to the nearest hundredth) from such determination date until such scheduled distribution of principal is due; (b) summing all of the products calculated pursuant to clause (a) above; and (c) dividing the sum calculated pursuant to clause (b) above by the sum of all scheduled distributions of principal due on all the Eligible Loan Assets (other than Defaulted Loans) as of such determination date.

“Weighted Average Life Test” means a test that will be satisfied on any date of determination if the Weighted Average Life of all Eligible Loan Assets as of such date is less than or equal to the greater of (a) zero and (b) 8 minus (i) the quotient of (A) the number of full calendar quarters elapsed from the one-year anniversary of the Closing Date through such date of determination divided by (B) 4.

“Weighted Average Spread” means, as of any date of determination, a fraction (expressed as a percentage) obtained by (a) multiplying the Outstanding Balance of each Eligible Loan Asset (excluding, in the case of any Delayed Draw Loan Asset or Revolving Loan, as applicable, the unfunded portion of the commitment thereunder) (other than a Defaulted Loan) included in the Collateral as of such date by its Effective Spread, (b) multiplying the unfunded portion of the commitment of each Delayed Draw Loan Asset or Revolving Loan (other than a Defaulted Loan) included in the Collateral as of such date by the commitment fee then in effect for such Delayed Draw Loan Asset or Revolving Loan on such date, (c) summing the amounts determined pursuant to clauses (a) and (b), and (d) dividing the sum determined pursuant to clause (c) above by the aggregate Outstanding Balance of all Eligible Loan Assets (excluding the unfunded portions of all Delayed Draw Loan Assets and Revolving Loans, as applicable) (other than a Defaulted Loan) included in the Collateral as of such date.

“Weighted Average Spread Test” means a test that will be satisfied on any date of determination if the Weighted Average Spread is greater than or equal to 3.25%.

“Write-Down and Conversion Powers” means (a) with respect to any EEA Resolution Authority, the write-down and conversion powers of such EEA Resolution Authority from time to time under the Bail-In Legislation for the applicable EEA Member Country, which write-down and conversion powers are described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule and (b) with respect to the United Kingdom, any powers of the applicable Resolution Authority under the Bail-In Legislation to cancel, reduce, modify or change the form of a liability of any UK Financial Institution or any contract or instrument under which that liability arises, to

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convert all or part of that liability into shares, securities or obligations of that person or any other person, to provide that any such contract or instrument is to have effect as if a right had been exercised under it or to suspend any obligation in respect of that liability or any of the powers under that Bail-In Legislation that are related to or ancillary to any of those powers.

“Yield” means the sum of the following, payable on each Payment Date:

(a)with respect to Advances:

(i)with respect to any previously ended Remittance Period and each Eligible Currency, the sum for each day in such Remittance Period of amounts determined in accordance with the following formula (but only to the extent that such amounts were not previously paid to the Lenders):

YR x L

D

where:YR=the Yield Rate applicable to such Advance on such day during such Remittance Period;

L=the outstanding principal amount of such Advance on such day; and

D=360 or, to the extent that the Yield Rate is the Benchmark Replacement (Dollar), the number of days in the accounting year applicable to such Benchmark Replacement (Dollar);

plus

(ii)with respect to any previously ended Remittance Period and each Eligible Currency, the sum of amounts determined in accordance with the following formula (but only to the extent that such amounts were not previously paid to the Lenders):

(AM x L) x N

D

where:AM=the Applicable Margin applicable on such day;

L=the greater of (a) the Minimum Utilization minus the Advances Outstanding on such day, and (b) 0; and

N=the actual number of days in such Remittance Period; and

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(b)with respect to the I/O Notional Loan, with respect to any previously ended Remittance Period and each Eligible Currency, the sum for each day in such Remittance Period of amounts determined in accordance with the following formula (but only to the extent that such amounts were not previously paid to the Lenders):

YR x L

D

where:YR=the Yield Rate applicable on such day;

L=the I/O Notional Loan Amount on the I/O Notional Loan on such day; and

D=360 or, to the extent that the Yield Rate is the Benchmark Replacement (Dollar), the number of days in the accounting year applicable to such Benchmark Replacement (Dollar);

provided that (i) no provision of this Agreement shall require the payment or permit the collection of Yield in excess of the maximum permitted by Applicable Law and (ii) Yield shall not be considered paid by any distribution if at any time such distribution is later required to be rescinded by the Lender to the Borrower or any other Person for any reason including, such distribution becoming void or otherwise avoidable under any statutory provision or common law or equitable action, including, any provision of the Bankruptcy Code.

“Yield Rate” means, (i) for any Advance in any Eligible Currency, as of any date of determination during any Remittance Period applicable to such Advance, an interest rate per annum equal to the Benchmark for such date plus the Applicable Margin and (ii) with respect to the I/O Notional Loan, the I/O Rate.

“Zero-Coupon Obligation” means any loan that, at the time of purchase, does not by its terms provide for the payment of cash interest.

Section 1.02Other Terms.

(a)All capitalized terms used which are not specifically defined shall have the meanings provided in Article 9 of the UCC in effect on the date hereof to the extent the same are used or defined therein.

(b)Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all terms of an accounting or financial nature shall be construed in accordance with GAAP, as in effect from time to time; provided that, if the Borrower notifies the Administrative Agent that the Borrower requests an amendment to any provision hereof to eliminate the effect of any change occurring after the date hereof in GAAP or in the application thereof on the operation of such provision (or if the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower that the Required Lenders request an amendment to any provision hereof for such purpose), regardless of whether any such notice is given before or after such change in GAAP or in the application thereof, then such provision shall be interpreted on the basis of GAAP as in effect and applied immediately before such change shall have become

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effective until such notice shall have been withdrawn or such provision amended in accordance herewith.

Section 1.03Computation of Time Periods. Unless otherwise stated in this Agreement, in the computation of a period 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.”

Section 1.04Interpretation.

In each Transaction Document, unless a contrary intention appears:

(a)The definitions of terms herein shall apply equally to the singular and plural forms of the terms defined.

(b)Whenever the context may require, any pronoun shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine and neuter forms.

(c)The words “include,” “includes” and “including” shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase “without limitation.”

(d)The word “will” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect as the word “shall.”

(e)The word “law” shall be construed as referring to all statutes, rules, regulations, codes and other laws (including official rulings and interpretations thereunder having the force of law or with which affected Persons customarily comply), and all judgments, orders and decrees, of all Governmental Authorities.

(f)Unless the context requires otherwise (i) any definition of or reference to any agreement, instrument or other document herein shall be construed as referring to such agreement, instrument or other document as amended, modified, supplemented, restated or replaced from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof (subject to any restrictions on such amendments, modifications, supplements, restatements or replacements set forth herein), (ii) any definition of or reference to any statute, rule or regulation shall be construed as referring thereto as from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified (including by succession of comparable successor laws), (iii) any reference herein to any Person shall be construed to include such Person’s successors and assigns (subject to any restrictions on assignment set forth herein) and, in the case of any Governmental Authority, any other Governmental Authority that shall have succeeded to any or all functions thereof, (iv) the words “herein,” “hereof” and “hereunder,” and words of similar import, shall be construed to refer to this Agreement in its entirety and not to any particular provision hereof, (v) all references herein to Articles, Sections, Exhibits, Annexes and Schedules shall be construed to refer to Articles and Sections of, and Exhibits, Annexes and Schedules to, this Agreement and (vi) the words “asset” and “property” shall be construed to have the same meaning and effect and to refer to any and all tangible and intangible assets and properties, including cash, securities, accounts and contract rights.

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(g)Unless expressly stated otherwise, any decision, consent, approval or waiver to be made at the discretion of the Administrative Agent (or any Lender) shall be in its sole discretion.

(h)All calculations required to be made hereunder with respect to the Loan Assets and the Borrowing Base shall be made on a trade date basis.

(i)Reference to any time means New York, New York time (unless expressly specified otherwise).

(j)Any reference to “close of business” means 5:00 p.m., New York, New York time.

(k)For purposes of this Agreement, an Event of Default or Servicer Default shall be deemed to be continuing until it is waived in accordance with Section 12.01(a).

(l)If any date for compliance with the terms or conditions of any Transaction Document falls due on a day which is not a Business Day, then such due date shall be deemed to be the immediately following Business Day.

(m)For all purposes of this Agreement with respect to the calculation of EBITDA, Cash Interest Coverage Ratio, Debt-to-Recurring-Revenue Ratio, Revenue, Senior Leverage Ratio or Total Leverage Ratio at any time, each such calculation shall be made utilizing the most recent financial information and calculations for the testing period required to be reported pursuant to the Underlying Instruments of the Obligors received by the Borrower (or the Servicer on its behalf) or, if no such period is provided for therein, (i) for Obligors delivering monthly financing statements, each period of the last twelve (12) consecutive reported calendar months, and (ii) for Obligors delivering quarterly financing statements each period of the last four (4) consecutive reported fiscal quarters of the principal Obligor on such Loan Asset; provided that, with respect to any Loan Asset for which the relevant test period is not provided for in the applicable Underlying Instruments, if an Obligor is a newly-formed entity as to which twelve (12) consecutive calendar months or four (4) consecutive fiscal quarters have not yet elapsed, the testing period shall initially include the period from the date of formation of such Obligor to the end of the most recent calendar month or fiscal quarter, as applicable, for which financial results are available divided by a fraction, the numerator of which is the number of months or quarters included in such calculation and the denominator of which is twelve or four, as applicable, as calculated by the Servicer in good faith using information from and calculations consistent with the relevant compliance statements and financial reporting packages provided by the relevant Obligor; provided, further, that notwithstanding any of the foregoing, for all purposes of this Agreement requiring the calculation of EBITDA, Cash Interest Coverage Ratio, Debt-to-Recurring-Revenue Ratio, Senior Leverage Ratio or Total Leverage Ratio, or any related financial information, each such calculation shall be made on the first day of each fiscal quarter utilizing the most recent financial information of the Obligors received by the Borrower at least 15 days prior to such date and such calculation shall be deemed to remain the same for each day of such fiscal quarter; provided, further, that to the extent that the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower that it has become aware of new quarterly financial information received by the Borrower at any time during such 15-day period (or thereafter upon the receipt of any financial

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information that was required to have been delivered prior to such 15-day period pursuant to the terms of the related Underlying Instruments), the Administrative Agent may request that the Borrower update the aforementioned financial calculations utilizing such new quarterly financial information within a reasonable time period following receipt of such request.

(n)Any reference to “execute”, “executed”, “sign” or “signed” or any other like term shall refer to execution by any form of signature acceptable to the Administrative Agent, Collateral Agent and the Collateral Custodian, whether manual, PDF or DocuSign. Each party hereto shall be entitled to conclusively rely upon, and shall have no liability with respect to, any scanned, or photocopied manual signature, or other electronic signature, of any other party and shall have no duty to investigate, confirm or otherwise verify the validity or authenticity thereof.

Section 1.05Rates. The Administrative Agent does not warrant or accept responsibility for, and shall not have any liability with respect to (a) the continuation of, administration of, submission of, calculation of or any other matter related to the Term SOFR Reference Rate, Term SOFR, Term ▇▇▇▇▇ Reference Rate, Term ▇▇▇▇▇, Adjusted Term ▇▇▇▇▇, or any component definition thereof or rates referred to in the definition thereof, or any alternative, successor or replacement rate thereto (including any Benchmark Replacement (Dollar) or Canadian Benchmark Replacement), including whether the composition or characteristics of any such alternative, successor or replacement rate (including any Benchmark Replacement (Dollar) or any Canadian Benchmark Replacement) will be similar to, or produce the same value or economic equivalence of, or have the same volume or liquidity as, the Term SOFR Reference Rate, Term SOFR, Term ▇▇▇▇▇ Reference Rate, Term ▇▇▇▇▇, Adjusted Term ▇▇▇▇▇ or any other Benchmark or Canadian Benchmark prior to its discontinuance or unavailability, or (b) the effect, implementation or composition of any Benchmark Replacement Conforming Changes or Canadian Benchmark Replacement.  The Administrative Agent and its affiliates or other related entities may engage in transactions that affect the calculation of the Term SOFR Reference Rate, Term SOFR, Term ▇▇▇▇▇ Reference Rate, Term ▇▇▇▇▇, Adjusted Term ▇▇▇▇▇, any alternative, successor or replacement rate (including any Benchmark Replacement (Dollar) or Canadian Benchmark Replacement) or any relevant adjustments thereto, in each case, in a manner adverse to the Borrower.  The Administrative Agent may select information sources or services in its reasonable discretion to ascertain the Term SOFR Reference Rate, Term SOFR, Term ▇▇▇▇▇ Reference Rate, Term ▇▇▇▇▇, Adjusted Term ▇▇▇▇▇ or any other Benchmark or Canadian Benchmark, in each case pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, and shall have no liability to the Borrower, any Lender or any other person or entity for damages of any kind, including direct or indirect, special, punitive, incidental or consequential damages, costs, losses or expenses (whether in tort, contract or otherwise and whether at law or in equity), for any error or calculation of any such rate (or component thereof) provided by any such information source or service.

Section 1.06Currency Conversion.

For purposes of (i) complying with any requirement of this Agreement stated in Dollars and (ii) calculating any ratio or other test set forth in this Agreement (except for the Borrowing Base (AUD), the Borrowing Base (CAD), the Borrowing Base (EUR), the Borrowing Base (GBP) and the Borrowing Base (JPY)), the amount of any Loan Asset denominated in an Eligible Currency other than Dollars shall be deemed to be the Dollar Equivalent of such amount of such Eligible Currency.

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ARTICLE II

THE FACILITY

Section 2.01Advances; I/O Notional Loan.

(a)Advances. On the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, from time to time from the Closing Date until the end of the Revolving Period, the Borrower (or the Servicer on behalf of the Borrower) may request that the Lenders make Advances secured by the Collateral, in an aggregate amount up to the Availability as of such date, to the Borrower for the purposes permitted herein. Under no circumstances shall any Lender be required to make any Advance if after giving effect to such Advance and the addition to the Collateral of the Eligible Loan Assets being acquired by the Borrower using the proceeds of such Advance, (i) an Event of Default exists or would result therefrom or an Unmatured Event of Default exists or would result therefrom or (ii) a Borrowing Base Deficiency exists or would result therefrom (and, as applicable for each such Eligible Currency, Advances Outstanding shall exceed any of the Borrowing Base (AUD), the Borrowing Base (CAD), the Borrowing Base (Dollar), the Borrowing Base (EUR), the Borrowing Base (GBP) or the Borrowing Base (JPY)). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, no Lender shall be obligated to provide the Borrower with aggregate funds in connection with an Advance that would exceed such ▇▇▇▇▇▇’s unused Commitment then in effect.

(b)Promissory Note. Upon the request of any Lender, the Borrower shall promptly execute and deliver to such Lender a promissory note of the Borrower (in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion) evidencing (i) the Advances of such Lender with appropriate insertions as to the date and principal amount or (ii) the I/O Notional Loan of such Lender, with appropriate insertions as to the date and interest amount, not to exceed the I/O Notional Loan Amount allocable to such Lender. For the avoidance of doubt, any note delivered in connection with an I/O Notional Loan shall be a zero principal balance note.

(c)I/O Notional Loans.  For the purposes of calculating the accrued interest under the I/O Notional Loan, the Borrower and Lenders hereby agree that on the Closing Date, a loan with a principal amount equal to the I/O Notional Loan Amount shall be deemed to have been advanced to the Borrower by the applicable Lenders under the I/O Notional Loan, and any increase or any decrease, if any, of the I/O Notional Loan Amount of the I/O Notional Loans shall be allocated ratably to those Lenders who are the holders of the I/O Notional Loan, solely to the extent that the aggregate Commitments are increased or decreased.  No amounts will actually be advanced by any Lender to the Borrower in respect of the I/O Notional Loan and no amount shall be owed by the Borrower to any Lender with respect to such I/O Notional Loan (other than in respect of Yield at the I/O Rate).  The amount of interest payable to a Lender in respect of the I/O Notional Loan shall be calculated with respect to such Lender’s I/O Notional Loan Lender Percentage.

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Section 2.02Procedure for Advances.

(a)During the Revolving Period, the Lenders will make Advances on any Business Day at the request of the Borrower, subject to and in accordance with the terms and conditions of Sections 2.01 and 2.02 and subject to the provisions of Article III hereof.

(b)For each Advance, the Borrower shall deliver a written notice in the form of a Notice of Borrowing to the Administrative Agent and each Lender, with a copy to the Collateral Agent and the Collateral Custodian, no later than 2:00 p.m. (i) at least one (1) Business Day before the proposed Advance Date for Dollar Advances, (ii) at least two (2) Business Days before the Business Day on which the Advance is to be made for CAD Advances, Euro Advances and GBP Advances or (iii) at least three (3) Business Days before the Business Day on which the Advance is to be made for AUD Advances and JPY Advances; provided that, if such Notice of Borrowing is delivered later than 2:00 p.m. on such Business Day, in the case of Dollar Advances, such Notice of Borrowing shall be deemed to have been received on the following Business Day. Each Notice of Borrowing shall include a duly completed Borrowing Base Certificate (updated to the date such Advance is requested and giving pro forma effect to the Advance requested and the use of the proceeds thereof) and an updated Loan Asset Schedule, and shall specify:

(i)the proposed aggregate amount of such Advance; provided that the amount of such Advance must be at least equal to the Dollar Equivalent of $500,000 in such Eligible Currency;

(ii)the proposed date of such Advance;

(iii)a representation that all conditions precedent for an Advance described in Article III hereof have been satisfied;

(iv)the amount of cash, if any, that will be funded by the Transferor into the Unfunded Exposure Account in connection with any Delayed Draw Loan Asset or Revolving Loan, as applicable, funded by such Advance, if applicable;

(v)whether such Advance should be remitted to the Principal Collection Subaccount or the Unfunded Exposure Account; and

(vi)the proposed Eligible Currency of such Advance.

Any Notice of Borrowing pursuant to this Section 2.02 shall be irrevocable and binding on the Borrower; provided, that, any Notice of Borrowing that is conditioned upon the effectiveness of other transactions may be revoked or delayed by the Borrower (or the Servicer on behalf of the Borrower) no later than 2:00 p.m. on the proposed date of such Advance if such other transactions fail to become effective (and, for the avoidance of doubt, the Borrower shall be liable for any breakage or other reasonable and documented out of pocket costs incurred by the Administrative Agent or any Lender in connection with such revocation or delay).

On the date of each Advance, upon satisfaction of the applicable conditions set forth in Article III, each Lender shall, in accordance with the Notice of Borrowing, either make available to the Borrower, no later than 4:00 p.m. on such date (and amounts received after 4:00 p.m. will

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be deemed to have been received the following Business Day), (x) an amount equal to such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of such Advance, for deposit by the Collateral Agent into the Principal Collection Subaccount or (y) an amount equal to such Lender’s Pro Rata Share of such Advance, for deposit by the Collateral Agent into the Unfunded Exposure Account, as applicable. For the avoidance of doubt, each Advance and related increase in the Advances Outstanding shall be allocated ratably to each Lender in accordance with their respective Lender’s Pro Rata Share as in effect before such increase. Any Lender which fails to remit its Pro Rata Share in connection with any Advance in accordance with this Section 2.02 shall constitute a Defaulting Lender, and the Borrower shall have all rights available to the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.19.

(c)Each Advance shall bear interest at the applicable Yield Rate.

(d)Subject to Section 2.16 and the other terms, conditions, provisions and limitations set forth herein (including, the payment of the Prepayment Premium, as applicable), the Borrower may borrow, repay or prepay and reborrow Advances without any penalty, fee or premium on and after the Closing Date and prior to the end of the Revolving Period.

(e)The obligation of each Lender to remit its Pro Rata Share of any Advance shall be several from that of each other Lender and the failure of any Lender to so make such amount available to the Borrower shall not relieve any other Lender of its obligation hereunder.

(f)Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein (including, without limitation, the existence of an Unmatured Event of Default or a Borrowing Base Deficiency), if, on the last day of the Revolving Period, the amount on deposit in the Unfunded Exposure Account is less than the Aggregate Unfunded Exposure Amount, the Borrower shall be deemed to have requested an Advance in the amount of such shortfall (the “Unfunded Exposure Amount Shortfall”) and each Lender shall fund its Pro Rata Share of such Unfunded Exposure Amount Shortfall in accordance with Section 2.02(b), notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein (including, without limitation, the Borrower’s failure to satisfy any of the conditions precedent set forth in Section 3.02) other than an Event of Default.

Section 2.03Determination of Yield. The Administrative Agent shall determine the Yield, incorporating into such determination the calculation of the Applicable Margin provided by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent, in respect of all Advances and the I/O Notional Loan (including unpaid Yield related thereto, if any, due and payable on a prior Payment Date) to be paid by the Borrower on each Payment Date for the related Remittance Period and shall advise the Servicer and the Collateral Agent thereof on or prior to the fifth (5th) Business Day prior to such Payment Date.

Section 2.04Remittance Procedures. The Servicer shall instruct the Collateral Agent by delivery of the Servicing Report and, if the Servicer fails to do so, the Administrative Agent may instruct the Collateral Agent, to apply funds on deposit in the Controlled Accounts, subject to Pari Passu Provisions, as described in this Section 2.04; provided that, at any time after delivery of a Notice of Exclusive Control, the Administrative Agent shall instruct the Collateral Agent to apply funds on deposit in the Controlled Accounts as described in this Section 2.04.

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(a)Interest Payments prior to an Event of Default. In the absence of a continuing Event of Default and prior to the occurrence of the Facility Maturity Date, on each Payment Date, the Collateral Agent shall (as directed pursuant to the first paragraph of this Section 2.04) transfer Interest Collections held by the Account Bank in the Collection Account to the following Persons in the following amounts, calculated as of the most recent Determination Date, and priority:

(i)to the payment of Taxes, registration and filing fees then due and owing by the Borrower that are attributable solely to the operations of the Borrower; provided that the aggregate amounts payable under this clause (i) shall not exceed the Tax Expense Cap;

(ii)to the payment of accrued and unpaid Administrative Expenses; provided that the aggregate amounts payable under this clause (ii) shall not exceed the Administrative Expense Cap;

(iii)to the extent not waived by the Servicer, to the Servicer, in payment in full of all accrued and unpaid Senior Servicing Fees;

(iv)pro rata, in accordance with the amounts due under this clause (iv), to each Lender, all Yield, the Unused Fee and any Breakage Fees that are accrued and unpaid as of the last day of the related Remittance Period;

(v)pro rata, to each Lender and the Administrative Agent, as applicable, all Indemnified Amounts payable by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent or any Lender under the Transaction Documents;

(vi)to pay the Advances Outstanding to the extent necessary to eliminate any outstanding Borrowing Base Deficiency;

(vii)after the end of the Revolving Period, to the Unfunded Exposure Account in an amount necessary to cause the amount on deposit in the Unfunded Exposure Account to equal the Aggregate Unfunded Exposure Amount;

(viii)to pay the Advances Outstanding, together with any applicable Prepayment Premium, in connection with any complete refinancing or termination of this Agreement in accordance with Section 2.16(b), until paid in full;

(ix)to make any Permitted RIC Distributions (subject to the limitations on the use of Interest Collections and Principal Collections set forth herein);

(x)pro rata, to each Lender and the Administrative Agent, as applicable, all accrued and unpaid fees, expenses (including attorneys’ fees, costs and expenses) and Increased Costs payable by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent or any Lender under the Transaction Documents;

(xi)to the payment of any Administrative Expenses, to the extent not paid pursuant to clause (ii) above due to the limitation contained therein;

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(xii)to pay to the Servicer, all reasonable expenses incurred in connection with the performance of its duties under the Transaction Documents;

(xiii)to the Servicer, in payment in full of all accrued and unpaid Subordinated Servicing Fees;

(xiv)to pay to the Approved Valuation Firm all accrued and unpaid fees and expenses; and

(xv)so long as no Unmatured Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, to the Borrower, any remaining amounts as Interest Collections, which may be distributed to the Transferor or otherwise applied at the Borrower’s discretion.

(b)Principal Payments prior to an Event of Default. In the absence of a continuing Event of Default and prior to the occurrence of the Facility Maturity Date, on each Payment Date the Collateral Agent shall (as directed pursuant to the first paragraph of this Section 2.04) transfer Principal Collections held by the Account Bank in the Collection Account to the following Persons in the following amounts, calculated as of the most recent Determination Date, and priority:

(i)to pay amounts due under Section 2.04(a)(i) through 2.04(a)(vii), to the extent not paid thereunder;

(ii)during the Revolving Period, in the Servicer’s discretion, to be deposited into the Collection Account as Principal Collections for reinvestment in Eligible Loan Assets;

(iii)during the Amortization Period, to repay the Advances Outstanding in an amount equal to the product of the (A) Principal Collections held by the Account Bank in the Collection Account and (B) the Weighted Average Advance Rate and, second, to repay the Advances Outstanding in an amount equal to the product of the (A) Principal Collections held by the Account Bank in the Collection Account and (B) the Additional Lender Percentage;

(iv)to make any Permitted RIC Distributions (subject to the limitations on the use of Interest Collections and Principal Collections set forth herein);

(v)to pay amounts due under Section 2.04(a)(x), to the extent not paid thereunder;

(vi)to the payment of any Administrative Expenses, to the extent not paid pursuant to clause (i);

(vii)to pay amounts due under Section 2.04(a)(xii) to the extent not paid thereunder;

(viii)to pay amounts due under Section 2.04(a)(xiii) to the extent not paid thereunder;

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(ix)to pay amounts due under Section 2.04(a)(xiv) to the extent not paid thereunder; and

(x)so long as no Unmatured Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, to the Borrower any remaining amounts as Principal Collections, which may be distributed to the Transferor at the Borrower’s discretion.

(c)Payment on and after the occurrence of an Event of Default. If an Event of Default exists and, in any case, after the declaration, or automatic occurrence, of the Facility Maturity Date, on each Business Day thereafter the Collateral Agent shall (as directed pursuant to the first paragraph of this Section 2.04) transfer collected funds held by the Account Bank in the Collection Account to the following Persons in the following amounts, calculated as of the prior Business Day, and priority:

(i)to the payment of Taxes, registration and filing fees then due and owing by the Borrower that are attributable solely to the operations of the Borrower; provided that the aggregate amounts payable under this clause (i) shall not exceed the Tax Expense Cap;

(ii)to the payment of accrued and unpaid Administrative Expenses;

(iii)to the Servicer, in payment in full of all accrued and unpaid Senior Servicing Fees;

(iv)pro rata, in accordance with the amounts due under this clause (iv), to each Lender, all Yield, the Unused Fee and any Breakage Fees that are accrued and unpaid as of the last day of the related Remittance Period;

(v)pro rata, to each Lender and the Administrative Agent, as applicable, all Indemnified Amounts payable by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent or any Lender under the Transaction Documents;

(vi)after the occurrence and during the continuation of a Tier Two Event of Default, to make any Permitted RIC Distributions (subject to the limitations on the use of Interest Collections set forth herein);

(vii)to pay the Advances Outstanding, and any applicable Prepayment Premium, until paid in full;

(viii)pro rata, to each Lender and the Administrative Agent, as applicable, all accrued and unpaid fees, expenses (including attorneys’ fees, costs and expenses) and Increased Costs payable by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent or any Lender under the Transaction Documents;

(ix)to the payment of any Administrative Expenses, to the extent not paid pursuant to clause (ii) above due to the limitation contained therein;

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(x)to the Servicer, in payment in full of all accrued and unpaid Senior Servicing Fees to the extent not paid pursuant to clause (iii) above due to the limitation contained therein;

(xi)to the Servicer, all reasonable expenses incurred in connection with the performance of its duties under the Transaction Documents;

(xii)to the Servicer, in payment in full of all accrued and unpaid Subordinated Servicing Fees;

(xiii)to pay to the Approved Valuation Firm all accrued and unpaid fees and expenses; and

(xiv)to the Borrower, any remaining amounts.

(d)Unfunded Exposure Account; Delayed Draw Loan Assets; Revolving Loans. On or before the Cut-Off Date of any Delayed Draw Loan Asset or Revolving Loan, the Borrower shall deposit into the Unfunded Exposure Account an amount equal to the Unfunded Exposure Equity Amount of such Delayed Draw Loan Asset or Revolving Loan, as applicable, by making a Disbursement Request from the Principal Collection Subaccount in accordance with Section 2.18, by depositing the proceeds of a capital contribution from the Transferor, and/or a Notice of Borrowing for an Advance in accordance with Section 2.02; provided that, no such deposit into the Unfunded Exposure Account shall be required if the Unfunded Exposure Equity Amount with respect to such Loan Asset shall not create a Borrowing Base Deficiency. Funds on deposit in the Unfunded Exposure Account as of any date of determination may be withdrawn to fund draw requests of the relevant Obligors under any Delayed Draw Loan Asset or Revolving Loan. Any such draw request made by an Obligor, along with wiring instructions for the applicable Obligor, shall be forwarded by the Borrower or the Servicer to the Collateral Agent (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) in the form of a Disbursement Request, and the Collateral Agent shall instruct the Account Bank to fund such draw request in accordance with the Disbursement Request. As of any date of determination, the Servicer (or, after delivery of a Notice of Exclusive Control, the Administrative Agent) may cause any amounts on deposit in the Unfunded Exposure Account that exceed (i) prior to the end of the Revolving Period, the aggregate of all Unfunded Exposure Equity Amounts and (ii) during the Amortization Period, the Aggregate Unfunded Exposure Amount, to be deposited into the Principal Collection Subaccount as Principal Collections.

(e)Insufficiency of Funds. The parties hereby agree that if the funds on deposit in the Collection Account are insufficient to pay any amounts due and payable on a Payment Date or otherwise, the Borrower shall nevertheless remain responsible for, and shall pay when due, all amounts payable under this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents in accordance with the terms of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents. The parties further agree that amounts that may be distributed to the Borrower or the holders of any Equity Interest in the Borrower are fully subordinated and junior to the Obligations of the Borrower to the Secured Parties, pursuant to the priorities of payment set forth in this Section 2.04; provided that amounts distributed to the Servicer are subordinated and junior to the Obligations of the Borrower to the Secured Parties to the extent set forth in the priorities of payment set forth in Section 2.04(a), (b) and (c). In the event the Borrower is subject to a Bankruptcy Event, any claim that the Borrower

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or the holders of any Equity Interest in the Borrower may have with respect to the such distributions shall, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein and notwithstanding any objection to, or rescission of, such filing, be fully subordinate in right of payment to the Obligations of the Borrower to the Secured Parties. The foregoing sentence and the provisions of Section 2.04 shall constitute a “subordination agreement” within the meaning of Section 510(a) of the Bankruptcy Code. The Borrower and the Transferor hereby agree that they may only receive distributions from amounts available pursuant to Sections 2.04(a)(xv), 2.04(b)(x), 2.04(c)(xiv) and Section 5.02(m).

(f)Repayment of Obligations. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the Borrower shall repay the Advances Outstanding, all accrued and unpaid Yield, any Breakage Fees, Increased Costs, all accrued and unpaid costs and expenses of the Administrative Agent and Lenders in accordance with the Transaction Documents and all other Obligations (other than unmatured contingent indemnification obligations) in full on the Facility Maturity Date.

(g)Conversion. The Servicer shall, pursuant to Section 2.17(f), instruct the Collateral Agent, no later than the date immediately preceding each Payment Date and subject to the Pari Passu Provisions, to convert amounts on deposit in the applicable Collection Account into each Eligible Currency (pro rata based on available amounts from each other Eligible Currency, unless otherwise directed in writing by the Servicer) using the Spot Rate to the extent necessary to make payments required in each Eligible Currency pursuant to Section 2.04(a), Section 2.04(b) and Section 2.04(c). All risk and expense incident to such conversion is the responsibility of the Borrower, and the Collateral Agent shall have (x) no responsibility for fluctuations in exchange rates affecting any Interest Collections or Principal Collections or conversion thereof and (y) to the extent it complies in a non-grossly negligent manner with the instructions provided by the Servicer pursuant to the Servicing Standard, no liability for any losses incurred or resulting from the rates obtained in such foreign exchange transactions.

Section 2.05Instructions to the Collateral Agent and the Account Bank. All instructions and directions given to the Collateral Agent or the Account Bank by the Servicer, the Borrower or the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 2.04 shall be in writing (including instructions and directions transmitted to the Collateral Agent or the Account Bank by email), and such written instructions and directions shall be delivered with a written certification that such instructions and directions are in compliance with the provisions of Section 2.04. The Servicer and the Borrower shall immediately transmit to the Administrative Agent by email a copy of all instructions and directions given to the Collateral Agent or the Account Bank by such party pursuant to Section 2.04. The Administrative Agent shall promptly transmit to the Servicer and the Borrower by email a copy of all instructions and directions given to the Collateral Agent or the Account Bank by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 2.04. If either the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent disagrees with the computation of any amounts to be paid or deposited by the Borrower or the Servicer under Section 2.04 or otherwise pursuant to this Agreement, or upon their respective instructions, it shall so notify the Borrower, the Servicer and the Collateral Agent or the Administrative Agent, as applicable, in writing and in reasonable detail to identify the specific disagreement. If such disagreement cannot be resolved within two (2) Business Days, the determination of the Administrative Agent as to such amounts shall be conclusive and binding on the parties hereto absent manifest error. In the event the Collateral Agent

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or the Account Bank receives instructions from the Servicer or the Borrower which conflict with any instructions received from the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or the Account Bank, as applicable, shall rely on and follow the instructions given by the Administrative Agent; provided, that the Collateral Agent or the Account Bank, as applicable, shall promptly provide notification to the Servicer and the Borrower of such conflicting instructions; provided further that any such failure on the part of the Collateral Agent or Account Bank to deliver such notice shall not render such action by the Collateral Agent or Account Bank invalid.

Section 2.06Borrowing Base Deficiency Payments.

(a)In addition to any other obligation of the Borrower to cure any Borrowing Base Deficiency pursuant to the terms of this Agreement, if, on any day prior to the Collection Date, any Borrowing Base Deficiency exists, then, subject to clause (d) below and the Side Letter, the Borrower shall eliminate such Borrowing Base Deficiency in its entirety within three (3) Business Days of the earlier of knowledge or receipt of written notice of such Borrowing Base Deficiency by effecting one or more (or any combination thereof) of the following actions in order to eliminate such Borrowing Base Deficiency as of such date of determination:  (i) deposit cash in Dollars into the Principal Collection Subaccount, (ii) repay Advances Outstanding (together with any Breakage Fees in respect of the amount so prepaid), (iii) to the extent such sales, in conjunction with other actions, would eliminate such Borrowing Base Deficiency, sell Loan Assets in accordance with Section 2.07, (iv) subject to the approval of the Administrative Agent (other than in the case of Specified Loan Assets), in its sole discretion, Grant additional Eligible Loan Assets and/or (v) deliver an Equity Cure Notice (subject to the requirements set forth in Section 2.06(c)).

(b)No later than 2:00 p.m. on the Business Day prior to the proposed repayment of Advances Outstanding or Grant of additional Eligible Loan Assets pursuant to Section 2.06(a), the Borrower (or the Servicer on its behalf) shall deliver (i) to the Administrative Agent (with a copy to the Collateral Agent and the Collateral Custodian) notice of such repayment or Grant and a duly completed Borrowing Base Certificate, updated to the date such repayment or Grant is being made and giving pro forma effect to such repayment or Grant, and (ii) to the Administrative Agent, if applicable, a description of any Eligible Loan Asset and each Obligor of such Eligible Loan Asset to be Granted and an updated Loan Asset Schedule. Any notice pertaining to any repayment or any Grant pursuant to this Section 2.06 shall be irrevocable.

(c)The Borrower may cure a Borrowing Base Deficiency pursuant to Section 2.06(a)(v) by delivering a notice to the Administrative Agent within three (3) Business Days after such Borrowing Base Deficiency (such notice, an "Equity Cure Notice") and subject to the following requirements:

(i)such Equity Cure Notice sets forth evidence substantially in the form of Exhibit Q and reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent that (A) the Transferor has unrestricted access to capital in an aggregate amount sufficient to cure such Borrowing Base Deficiency; (B) the Transferor has sufficient cash on hand in an aggregate amount sufficient to cure such Borrowing Base Deficiency and (C) the Transferor intends to contribute such funds to the Borrower; and

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(ii)the amount necessary to cure such Borrowing Base Deficiency is contributed from the Transferor to the Borrower in immediately available funds, and such amount shall be applied by the Borrower to eliminate such Borrowing Base Deficiency, in each case, within twelve (12) Business Days of the date such Equity Cure Notice is delivered to the Administrative Agent.

(d)On any day prior to the Facility Maturity Date, if a Specified Borrowing Base Deficiency exists, the Borrower shall eliminate such Specified Borrowing Base Deficiency in its entirety within thirty (30) calendar days of the occurrence of such Specified Borrowing Base Deficiency by effecting one or more (or any combination thereof) of the following actions in order to eliminate such Specified Borrowing Base Deficiency as of such date of determination: (i) deposit cash in Dollars into the Principal Collection Subaccount, (ii) repay Advances Outstanding (together with any Breakage Fees in respect of the amount so prepaid) (including in the case of a Specified Borrowing Base Deficiency pursuant to clause (ii) of the definition thereof, repaying Advances in the applicable currency in which the Borrowing Base Test is not satisfied), (iii) (x) subject to the approval of the Administrative Agent (other than in the case of Specified Loan Assets), in its sole discretion, Grant additional Eligible Loan Assets and/or (y) Grant additional Eligible Loan Assets that are Specified Loan Assets and/or (iv) to the extent such sales, in conjunction with other actions, eliminated such Borrowing Base Deficiency, sell Loan Assets in accordance with Section 2.07.

(e)On any day prior to the Facility Maturity Date, if a Borrowing Base Deficiency that is not a Specified Borrowing Base Deficiency exists, and within the timeframe set forth in clause (a) above the Borrower reduces the amount of such Borrowing Base Deficiency pursuant to any of the actions specified in clause (a) such that it meets the definition of “Specified Borrowing Base Deficiency,” then the provisions of clause (d) shall apply and the Borrower shall be permitted to eliminate the remainder of such Borrowing Base Deficiency within the timeframe permitted and as otherwise provided in clause (d) as if it were a Specified Borrowing Base Deficiency for all purposes hereunder.

Section 2.07Sale of Loan Assets; Affiliate Transactions.

(a)Discretionary Sales. The Borrower shall be permitted to sell Loan Assets to Persons, including the Transferor and Affiliates of the Transferor, from time to time prior to the declaration or automatic occurrence of the Facility Maturity Date (such sale, a “Discretionary Sale”); provided that (i) the proceeds of such sale shall be deposited into the Collection Account to be applied in accordance with the terms hereof, (ii) any sale to the Transferor or an Affiliate of the Transferor meets the requirements set forth in Section 2.07(d) below, (iii) after giving effect to any such sale and any other sales conducted substantially concurrently therewith, no Borrowing Base Deficiency shall exist; provided that in the event a Borrowing Base Deficiency shall have existed immediately prior to giving effect to such Discretionary Sale, the Borrower may (x) with the written consent of the Administrative Agent effect a Discretionary Sale so long as, immediately after giving effect to such Discretionary Sale and any other action taken pursuant to Section 2.06 substantially contemporaneous therewith, such Borrowing Base Deficiency is reduced or (y) without the consent of the Administrative Agent, effect a Discretionary Sale so long as, immediately after giving effect to such Discretionary Sale and any other action taken pursuant to Section 2.06 substantially contemporaneous therewith, such Borrowing Base Deficiency will be

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cured, (iv) no event has occurred, or would result from such sale, which constitutes an Event of Default and no event has occurred and is continuing (other than a Borrowing Base Deficiency for which the sale is being made to reduce or eliminate pursuant to clause (iii) above), or would result from such sale, which constitutes an Unmatured Event of Default, and (v) after giving effect to any such sale, the Collateral Quality Tests are satisfied or, if not satisfied, would be maintained or improved.

(b)Repurchase or Substitution of Warranty Breach Loan Assets. If on any day a Loan Asset is (or becomes) a Warranty Breach Loan Asset, no later than thirty (30) calendar days following the earlier of knowledge by the Borrower of such Loan Asset becoming a Warranty Breach Loan Asset or receipt by the Borrower from the Administrative Agent or the Servicer of written notice thereof, in the event the Borrower is not able to cause the underlying failure to be cured by the end of such thirty (30) calendar day period, the Borrower shall either:

(i)make a deposit in the applicable Eligible Currency to the Collection Account (for allocation pursuant to Section 2.04) in immediately available funds in an amount equal to the Purchase Price (calculated without giving effect to the proviso in the definition thereof) of such Loan Asset, multiplied by (ii) the Outstanding Balance; provided that the deposit of such funds into the Collection Account may result from the sale of such Warranty Breach Loan Asset pursuant to Section 2.07(a); or

(ii)substitute for such Warranty Breach Loan Asset a Substitute Eligible Loan Asset;

provided that the Borrower shall not be required to comply with Section 2.07(b)(i) or (b)(ii) if no Borrowing Base Deficiency exists or would occur as a result of such Loan Asset being or becoming a Warranty Breach Loan Asset or the Administrative Agent waives compliance in its sole discretion.

Upon confirmation of the deposit of the amounts set forth in Section 2.07(b)(i) into the Collection Account or the delivery by the Borrower of a Substitute Eligible Loan Asset for each Warranty Breach Loan Asset pursuant to Section 2.07(b)(ii) (the date of such confirmation or delivery, the “Release Date”), and other than with respect to the proviso set forth immediately above in Section 2.07(b), such Warranty Breach Loan Asset and Related Asset shall be removed from the Collateral and, as applicable, the Substitute Eligible Loan Asset and Related Asset shall be included in the Collateral. On the Release Date of each Warranty Breach Loan Asset, the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, shall automatically and without further action be deemed to release to the Borrower, without recourse, representation or warranty, all the right, title and interest and any Lien of the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties in, to and under the Warranty Breach Loan Asset and any Related Asset and all future monies due or to become due with respect thereto.

(c)Conditions to Sales, Substitutions and Repurchases. Any sales, substitutions or repurchases effected pursuant to Sections 2.07(a), or 2.07(b) shall be subject to the satisfaction of the following conditions (as certified in writing to the Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent by the Borrower):

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(i)the Borrower shall deliver a Borrowing Base Certificate and an updated Loan Asset Schedule to the Administrative Agent in connection with such sale, substitution or repurchase;

(ii)the Borrower shall deliver a list of all Loan Assets to be sold, substituted or repurchased;

(iii)no selection procedures adverse to the interests of the Administrative Agent or the Lenders were knowingly utilized by the Borrower in the selection of the Loan Assets to be sold, repurchased or substituted;

(iv)the Borrower shall (A) with respect to sales and repurchases, give one (1) Business Day’s notice of such sale or repurchase to the Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent and (B) with respect to substitutions, have received an Approval Notice (for each Loan Asset (other than a Specified Loan Asset) added to the Collateral on the related Cut-Off Date);

(v)the Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of any amount to be deposited into the Collection Account in connection with any sale, substitution or repurchase;

(vi)the representations and warranties contained in Sections 4.01, 4.02 and 4.03 hereof shall continue to be correct in all material respects (or, in the case of any representation and warranty that is already qualified by materiality, in all respects), except to the extent relating to an earlier date;

(vii)any repayment of Advances Outstanding in connection with any sale, substitution or repurchase of Loan Assets hereunder shall comply with the requirements set forth in Section 2.16; and

(viii)the Borrower and the Servicer (on behalf of the Borrower) shall agree to pay the reasonable and documented out-of-pocket legal fees and expenses of the Administrative Agent, each Lender, Collateral Agent and the Collateral Custodian in connection with any such sale, substitution or repurchase (including, but not limited to, expenses incurred in connection with the release of the Lien of the Collateral Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties in the Loan Asset in connection with such sale, substitution or repurchase).

(d)Affiliate Transactions. The Transferor (or an Affiliate thereof) shall not reacquire from the Borrower and the Borrower shall not transfer to the Transferor or to Affiliates of the Transferor, and none of the Transferor nor any Affiliates thereof will have a right or obligation to purchase, the Loan Assets of the Borrower without complying with the following requirements: (i) any such transactions shall be at arm’s-length, (ii) all such sales must be at a price for each Loan Asset at least equal to the fair market value as determined by the Servicer in accordance with the Servicing Standard and (iii) after giving effect to such sale, no Borrowing Base Deficiency shall exist.

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(i)The Outstanding Balance of all Loan Assets (other than Warranty Breach Loan Assets) sold pursuant to Section 2.07(a) during the preceding period of twelve (12) calendar months (or for the first twelve (12) calendar months after the Closing Date, during the period commencing on the Closing Date), after giving effect to such substitution or sale, shall not be greater than 30% of the average of the Total Borrower Capitalization (or such greater percentage as agreed to by the Administrative Agent (acting at the direction of the Required Lenders, each in its sole discretion)) as of the first day of such twelve (12) calendar month period (or as of the Closing Date, as the case may be) and the applicable date of determination (such limit, the “Discretionary Trading Limit”); provided that any Loan Asset sold to any collateralized loan obligation undertaken by the Servicer or an Affiliate thereof (directly or indirectly) shall be excluded from the numerator in the foregoing thresholds so long as such Loan Asset is sold on arm’s-length terms for fair market value as determined by the Servicer in accordance with the Servicing Standard and (x) for which ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Asset Funding, Inc. or an Affiliate thereof acts as an underwriter or placement agent or (y) consented to in writing by the Administrative Agent. The Outstanding Balance of all Transferred Assets sold pursuant to Section 2.07(a) to the Transferor or an Affiliate thereof at all times following the Closing Date, together with the Outstanding Balance of any Transferred Assets distributed to the Transferor as a Restricted Junior Payment pursuant to Section 5.02(m), after giving effect to such sale, shall not be greater than 20% of the Net Purchased Loan Balance as of the applicable date of determination (such limit, the “Affiliate Sale Limit”). Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Borrower shall be permitted to sell or transfer (x) in each case subject to the Affiliate Sale Limit but not subject to the Discretionary Trading Limit, (A) any Defaulted Loan, (B) any Loan Asset that has an Assigned Value of zero (including Loan Assets that are not Eligible Loan Assets), (C) any Broadly Syndicated Loan, (D) any Credit Risk Loan, (E) any Loan Asset whose Assigned Value was subject to automatic valuation after the occurrence of any Value Adjustment Event or (F) any Loan Asset whose Assigned Value was disputed by the Borrower pursuant to Assigned Value (Private Credit) or Market Value and (y) without regard to the Discretionary Trading Limit or the Affiliate Sale Limit, (A) any Margin Stock, (B) any Equity Security to Persons other than Affiliates of the Transferor pursuant to Section 2.07(a) at any time, (C) any sale to a collateralized loan obligation or other account owned or managed by the Transferor, the BDC Advisor or their Affiliates that is in compliance with the proviso to the first sentence of this Section 2.07(e)(i), or (D) any sale of a Loan subject to a workout, restructuring or other amendment that the Servicer determines in accordance with the Servicing Standard will be ineligible for the Borrower to participate in; provided that, during the continuance of an Event of Default, the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent shall be required for any such sale.

(ii)Any Loan Asset that has been sold pursuant to Section 2.07(a) or substituted pursuant to Section 2.07(b) shall be subject to the following additional requirements if subsequently reacquired hereunder as a Specified Loan Asset:

(A)if, immediately prior to such sale, substitution or release, such Loan Asset is subject to a Value Adjustment Event, (i) if such Value Adjustment Event has been cured prior to the repurchase date, such repurchase shall not require the consent of the Administrative Agent; provided, that the Advance Rate with respect to such Loan Asset, and each calculation to be made as of the applicable Cut-Off

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Date pursuant to the definitions of “Advance Rate” and “Value Adjustment Event”, shall instead be determined as of the date of such sale, substitution or release (and not as of the actual Cut-Off Date for such repurchase), and (ii) if such Value Adjustment Event has not been cured, such repurchase shall be subject to the prior consent of the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion and the Advance Rate with respect to such Loan Asset, and each calculation pursuant to the definitions of “Advance Rate” and “Value Adjustment Event”, shall be determined as of the Cut-Off Date for such repurchase; and

(B)if, immediately prior to such sale, substitution or release, such Loan Asset is not subject to a Value Adjustment Event, (i) if such repurchase is consummated within ninety (90) days of the date of such sale, substitution or release, such repurchase shall not require the consent of the Administrative Agent; provided, that the Advance Rate with respect to such Loan Asset and each calculation to be made as of the applicable Cut-Off Date pursuant to the definitions of “Advance Rate” and “Value Adjustment Event” shall instead be determined as of the date such Loan Asset was sold, substituted or released (and not as of the actual Cut-Off Date for such repurchase), and (ii) if such repurchase is consummated more than ninety (90) days from the date of such sale, substitution or release, then the Advance Rate with respect to such Loan Asset, and each calculation pursuant to the definitions of “Advance Rate” and “Value Adjustment Event”, shall be determined as of the Cut-Off Date for such repurchase.

(f)Optional Sales of Loan Assets in connection with a CLO.

(i)Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in clauses (a) through (e) of this Section 2.07 (including the Affiliate Sale Limit or the Discretionary Trading Limit) on any Business Day, the Borrower shall have the right to prepay all or a portion of the Advances then outstanding and require the Collateral Agent to release its security interest and Lien on the related Loan Assets and Related Assets in connection with a CLO, subject to the following terms and conditions (unless otherwise waived in the Administrative Agent’s discretion):

(A)the Borrower shall have given the Administrative Agent (with a copy to the Collateral Agent and the Collateral Custodian) at least two (2) Business Days’ written notice prior to the pricing of the related CLO (or such shorter period as agreed to by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion) of its intent to effect a CLO and the principal amount of the Advances to be prepaid in connection therewith, and shall provide the Administrative Agent with all information reasonably required by it to release the related Lien;

(B)unless a CLO is to be effected on a Payment Date (in which case the relevant calculations with respect to such CLO shall be reflected on the applicable Servicing Report), the Servicer shall deliver to the Administrative Agent (A) an updated Borrowing Base Certificate, together with evidence to the reasonable satisfaction of the Administrative Agent (which evidence may consist solely of a certificate from the Servicer) that the Borrower shall have sufficient funds on the

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related date of the CLO to effect such CLO in accordance with this Agreement, which funds may come from the proceeds of transfers of the Loan Assets and Related Assets in connection with such CLO, and (B) a list of all Loan Assets to be sold in connection with such CLO;

(C)no selection procedures intended to be adverse to the interests of the Administrative Agent or the Lenders shall be knowingly utilized by the Borrower in the selection of the Loan Assets to be transferred in connection with such CLO;

(D)(x) the CLO shall have acquired all of the Loan Assets in a transaction in which the Borrower makes no representations, warranties or covenants and provides no indemnification for the benefit of any other party (other than those which are customarily made or provided in connection with the sale of assets of such type) and (y) any transfers of any such Loan Assets from the Borrower to the CLO, the Transferor or any of its Affiliates shall be conducted on an arm's length basis and at a price no less than its fair market value as determined by the Servicer in accordance with the Servicing Standard;

(E)on the related date of the CLO, the Borrower shall provide a certificate to the Administrative Agent representing that, on a pro forma basis after giving effect to such CLO, (x) no Unmatured Event of Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or shall occur as a result of such transfer of Loan Assets to the CLO and (y) no Borrowing Base Deficiency exists; and

(F)on the date of such CLO, an amount at least equal to the principal amount of the Advances to be prepaid in connection with such CLO will be deposited directly into the Collection Account.

(ii)In connection with any CLO, following deposit of the net proceeds from such CLO into the Collection Account, the Collateral Agent shall be deemed to release and transfer to the Borrower without recourse, representation or warranty all of the right, title and interest of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties in, to and under such Loan Asset(s) and Related Asset(s) subject to such CLO and such portion of the Collateral subject to such CLO shall be released from the Lien hereunder.

(iii)The Borrower hereby agrees to pay the reasonable and documented outside counsel legal fees, charges and disbursements and out-of-pocket expenses of counsel for each of the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and the Collateral Custodian in connection with any CLO (including, but not limited to, reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses incurred in connection with the release of the Lien of the Collateral Agent, on behalf of the Secured Parties, in the Collateral in connection with such CLO).

(iv)In connection with any CLO, the Collateral Agent shall, at the sole expense of the Borrower, execute such instruments of release with respect to the portion of the Collateral subject to such CLO to the Borrower, in recordable form if necessary, as the Borrower may reasonably request.

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Section 2.08Payments and Computations, Etc.

(a)All amounts to be paid or deposited by the Borrower or the Servicer hereunder shall be paid or deposited in accordance with the terms hereof no later than 5:30 p.m. on the day when due in Dollars or in such other Eligible Currency in immediately available funds to the Collection Account or such other account as is designated by the Administrative Agent. Any Obligation hereunder shall not be reduced by any distribution of any portion of Available Collections if at any time such distribution is rescinded or required to be returned by any Lender to the Borrower or any other Person for any reason. Each Advance and I/O Notional Loan shall accrue interest at the applicable Yield Rate for its Eligible Currency for each day during each applicable Remittance Period. All computations of interest and all computations with respect to the Yield and the Yield Rate shall be computed on the basis of a year of three hundred and sixty (360) days and the actual number of days elapsed; provided that with respect to GBP Advances, such computations shall be computed on the basis of a year of three hundred and sixty-five (365) days and the actual number of days elapsed. Each Advance shall accrue interest at the Yield Rate for each day beginning on, and including, the Advance Date with respect to such Advance and ending on, but excluding, the date such Advance is repaid in full.  Yield on the I/O Notional Loan due on each Payment Date shall be equal to the applicable interest due thereon with respect to each such Payment Date, which I/O Notional Loan shall accrue interest at the Yield Rate for each day during the Remittance Period.

(b)Whenever any payment hereunder shall be stated to be due on a day other than a Business Day, such payment shall be made on the next succeeding Business Day, and such extension of time shall in such case be included in the computation of payment of Yield or any fee payable hereunder, as the case may be. To the extent that Available Collections are insufficient on any Payment Date to satisfy the full amount of any Increased Costs pursuant to Section 2.04(a)(x) and Section 2.04(b)(v), such unpaid amounts shall remain due and owing and shall be payable on the next succeeding Payment Date until repaid in full.

(c)If any Advance requested by the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.02 is not for any reason whatsoever, except as a result of the gross negligence or willful misconduct of, or failure to fund such Advance on the part of, the Administrative Agent or the Lenders, made or effectuated, as the case may be, on the date specified therefor, the Borrower shall indemnify such Lender against any loss, cost or expense incurred by such Lender related thereto, including, any loss (including cost of funds and reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses), cost or expense incurred by reason of the liquidation or reemployment of deposits or other funds acquired by such Lender to fund Advances or maintain the Advances. Any such Lender shall provide to the Borrower documentation setting forth the amounts of any loss, cost or expense referred to in the previous sentence, such documentation to be conclusive absent manifest error.

(d)For the avoidance of doubt, the Borrower shall not be obligated to pay or repay any amounts in respect of the I/O Notional Loan other than interest in accordance with Section 2.01 and Section 2.04, as applicable.

Section 2.09Unused Fee. The Borrower shall pay, in accordance with Section 2.04, pro rata to each Lender, an unused fee (the “Unused Fee”) payable in arrears for each Remittance Period, equal to the sum of the products for each day during such Remittance Period

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of (a) one divided by three hundred and sixty (360), (b) the applicable Unused Fee Rate and (c) the positive difference, if any, of the Facility Amount (or, after any Increased Amount Date, the aggregate amount of such increase) less the greater of (i) the Advances Outstanding on such date and (ii) the Minimum Utilization.

Section 2.10Increased Costs; Capital Adequacy; Compensation for Losses.

(a)If any Change in Law shall:

(i)impose, modify or deem applicable any reserve, special deposit, assessment, fee, tax, insurance charge, liquidity or similar requirement (including any compulsory loan requirement, insurance charge or other assessment) against assets of, deposits with or for the account of, or credit extended by, any of the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any Affiliate, participant, successor or assign thereof (each of which shall be an “Affected Party”);

(ii)impose on any Affected Party or the London or other applicable offshore interbank market (or, to the extent a different Benchmark applies, the market for such Benchmark) any other condition, cost or expense (other than Taxes) affecting this Agreement or Advances or participation therein or the obligation or right of any Lender to make Advances hereunder;

(iii)change the amount of capital maintained or required or requested or directed to be maintained by any Affected Party; or

(iv)change the rate for, or the manner in which the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (or a successor thereto) assesses, deposit insurance premiums or similar charges;

and the result of any of the foregoing shall be to increase the cost to or impose a cost upon such Affected Party of funding or making or maintaining any Advance or of maintaining its obligation to make any such Advance or otherwise performing its obligations under the Transaction Documents or to increase the cost to such Affected Party or to reduce the amount of any sum received or receivable by such Affected Party, whether of principal, interest or otherwise or to require any payment calculated by reference to the amount of interest or loans received or held by such Affected Party, then on each Payment Date pursuant to Section 2.04 the Borrower will pay to such Affected Party such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Affected Party for such additional costs incurred or reduction suffered.

(b)If any Affected Party determines that any Change in Law regarding capital or liquidity requirements has or would have the effect of reducing the rate of return on such Affected Party’s capital or on the capital of Affected Party’s holding company, if any, as a consequence of this Agreement or the Advances made by such Affected Party to a level below that which such Affected Party or Affected Party’s holding company could have achieved but for such Change in Law (taking into consideration such Affected Party’s policies and the policies of such Affected Party’s holding company with respect to capital adequacy and liquidity), then from time to time on each Payment Date pursuant to Section 2.04 the Borrower will pay to such Affected

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Party such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Affected Party or Affected Party’s holding company for any such reduction suffered.

(c)A certificate of an Affected Party providing an explanation of the applicable Change in Law, confirmation from such Affected Party that such Affected Party is making similar demands from borrowers in loan arrangements that are similar in nature to this Agreement and setting forth in reasonable detail the basis for and the computations of the amount or amounts necessary to compensate such Affected Party or its holding company, as the case may be, as specified in clause (a) or (b) of this Section 2.10 shall be delivered to the Borrower and shall be conclusive absent manifest error. In determining any amount provided for in this Section 2.10, the Affected Party may use any reasonable averaging and attribution methods. The Borrower shall pay such Affected Party the amount shown as due on any such certificate on the Payment Date following receipt thereof.

(d)Failure or delay on the part of any Affected Party to demand compensation pursuant to this Section 2.10 shall not constitute a waiver of any Affected Party’s right to demand such compensation; provided that the Borrower shall not be required to compensate any Affected Party pursuant to this Section 2.10 for any increased costs or reductions incurred more than one hundred and eighty (180) days prior to the date that such Affected Party notifies the Borrower of the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions and of such Affected Party’s intention to claim compensation therefor; provided, further, that, if the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions is retroactive, then the one hundred and eighty (180)-day period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof.

(e)Compensation for Losses.  In the event of (i) the payment of any principal of any SOFR Advance other than on the last day of the Remittance Period applicable thereto (including as a result of an Event of Default), (b) the conversion of any SOFR Advance other than on the last day of the Remittance Period applicable thereto (including as a result of an Event of Default), or (c) the failure to borrow, convert, continue or prepay any SOFR Advance on the date specified in any notice delivered pursuant hereto, then, in any such event, if any Lender requests such compensation under this Section 2.10 the Borrower shall compensate each Lender for any loss, cost and expense attributable to such event, including any loss, cost or expense arising from the liquidation or redeployment of funds or from any fees payable.  A certificate of any Lender setting forth any amount or amounts that such Lender is entitled to receive pursuant to this Section 2.10(f) shall be delivered to the Borrower and shall be conclusive absent manifest error.  The Borrower shall pay such Lender the amount shown as due on any such certificate in accordance with the priority of payments set forth in Section 2.04.

Section 2.11Taxes.

(a)Any and all payments made by the Borrower or made by the Servicer on behalf of the Borrower under this Agreement will be made free and clear of and without deduction or withholding for or on account of any Taxes. If any Taxes are required by Applicable Law to be withheld from any amounts payable to any Recipient, then the applicable withholding agent shall be entitled to make such deduction or withholding and shall timely pay the full amount deducted or withheld to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with Applicable Law and, if such Tax is an Indemnified Tax, then the amount payable by the Borrower to such Person will be

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increased as necessary (the amount of such increase, the “Additional Amount”) such that every net payment made under this Agreement after withholding or deduction for or on account of any Taxes (including, any Taxes on such increase) is not less than the amount that would have been paid had no such deduction or withholding been made.

(b)The Borrower or Servicer shall timely pay to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with Applicable Law, or at the option of the Administrative Agent or a Lender timely reimburse it for the payment of, any Other Taxes.

(c)The Borrower, the Servicer and the Transferor shall pay (i) with respect to the Borrower, on the Payment Date pertaining to the Remittance Period in which such cost is incurred and (ii) with respect to the Servicer and the Transferor, on demand, in each case, any and all stamp, sales, excise and other Taxes and fees payable or determined to be payable to any Governmental Authority in connection with the execution, delivery, filing and recording of this Agreement, the other Transaction Documents or any other document providing liquidity support, credit enhancement or other similar support to the Lenders in connection with this Agreement or the funding or maintenance of Advances hereunder.

(d)The Borrower will indemnify, from funds available to it pursuant to Section 2.04 (and to the extent the funds available for indemnification provided by the Borrower is insufficient the Servicer, on behalf of the Borrower, will indemnify) each Recipient for the full amount of Indemnified Taxes (including Indemnified Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section 2.11) payable or paid by such Person or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to such Recipient and any liability (including penalties, interest and expenses) arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. All payments in respect of this indemnification shall be made within ten (10) days from the date a written demand therefor is delivered to the Borrower. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to the Borrower by a Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), or by the Administrative Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of a Lender, shall be conclusive absent manifest error.

(e)Each Lender shall severally indemnify the Administrative Agent, within ten (10) days after demand therefor, for (i) any Indemnified Taxes attributable to such Lender (but only to the extent that the Borrower has not already indemnified the Administrative Agent for such Indemnified Taxes and without limiting the obligation of the Borrower to do so), and (ii) any Excluded Taxes attributable to such Lender, in each case, that are payable or paid by the Administrative Agent in connection with any Transaction Document, and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to any Lender by the Administrative Agent shall be conclusive absent manifest error. Each Lender hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent to set off and apply any and all amounts at any time owing to such Lender under any Transaction Document or otherwise payable by the Administrative Agent to the Lender from any other source against any amount due to the Administrative Agent under this Section 2.11(e).

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(f)Within thirty (30) days after the date of any payment by the Borrower or by the Servicer on behalf of the Borrower of any Taxes, the Borrower or the Servicer, as applicable, will furnish to the Administrative Agent at the applicable address set forth on this Agreement, appropriate evidence of payment thereof.

(g)Any Lender that is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of withholding Tax with respect to payments made under any Transaction Document shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, at the time or times reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, such properly completed and executed documentation reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as will permit such payments to be made without withholding or at a reduced rate of withholding. In addition, any Lender, if reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, shall deliver such other documentation prescribed by Applicable Law or reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as will enable the Borrower or the Administrative Agent to determine whether or not such Lender is subject to backup withholding or information reporting requirements. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the preceding two sentences, the completion, execution and submission of such documentation (other than such documentation set forth in Section 2.11(g)(i), (ii) and (iii)) shall not be required if in the Lender’s reasonable judgment such completion, execution or submission would subject such Lender to any material unreimbursed cost or expense or would materially prejudice the legal or commercial position of such Lender. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing:

(i)If any Lender is not a United States Tax Person, such Lender shall deliver to the Borrower, to the extent legally entitled to do so, with a copy to the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent, on or prior to the date such Lender becomes a party to this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon reasonable request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent), whichever of the following is applicable:

▇.▇▇ the case of a Lender claiming the benefits of an income tax treaty to which the United States is a party (x) with respect to payments of interest under any Transaction Document, executed copies of IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. federal withholding Tax pursuant to the “interest” article of such tax treaty and (y) with respect to any other applicable payments under any Transaction Document, IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. federal withholding Tax pursuant to the “business profits” or “other income” article of such tax treaty;

b.executed copies of IRS Form W-8ECI;

▇.▇▇ the case of a Lender claiming the benefits of the exemption for portfolio interest under Section 881(c) of the Code, (x) a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit L-1 to the effect that such Lender is not a “bank” within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, a “10 percent shareholder” of the Borrower within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(B) of the Code, or a “controlled foreign corporation” described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code (a “U.S. Tax

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Compliance Certificate”) and (y) executed copies of IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E; or

▇.▇▇ the extent a Lender is not the beneficial owner, executed copies of IRS Form W-8IMY, accompanied by IRS Form W-8ECI, IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E, a U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit L-2 or Exhibit L-3, IRS Form W-9, and/or other certification documents from each beneficial owner, as applicable; provided that if the Lender is a partnership and one or more direct or indirect partners of such Lender are claiming the portfolio interest exemption, such Lender may provide a U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit L-4 on behalf of each such direct and indirect partner;

(ii)If a Lender is a United States Tax Person, such Lender shall deliver to the Borrower, with a copy to the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent, on or prior to the date such Lender becomes a party to this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon reasonable request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent), two (or such other number as may from time to time be prescribed by Applicable Law) duly completed copies of IRS Form W-9 certifying that such Lender is exempt from U.S. federal backup withholding tax.

(iii)If a payment made to a Lender under any Transaction Document would be subject to U.S. federal withholding Tax imposed by FATCA if such Lender were to fail to comply with the applicable reporting requirements of FATCA (including those contained in Section 1471(b) or 1472(b) of the Code, as applicable), such Lender shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (with a copy to the Collateral Agent) at the time or times prescribed by Applicable Law and at such time or times reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent such documentation prescribed by Applicable Law (including as prescribed by Section 1471(b)(3)(C)(i) of the Code) and such additional documentation reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as may be necessary for the Borrower and the Administrative Agent to comply with their obligations under FATCA and to determine that such Lender has complied with such ▇▇▇▇▇▇’s obligations under FATCA or to determine the amount to deduct and withhold from such payment. Solely for purposes of this clause (iii), “FATCA” shall include any amendments made to FATCA after the date of this Agreement.

(iv)If any Lender is not a United States Tax Person, such Lender shall, to the extent it is legally entitled to do so, deliver to the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent (in such number of copies as shall be requested by the recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent), executed copies of any other form prescribed by Applicable Law as a basis for claiming exemption from or a reduction in U.S. federal withholding Tax, duly completed, together with such supplementary documentation as may be prescribed by applicable law to permit the Borrower or the Administrative Agent to determine the withholding or deduction required to be made.

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(v)Each Lender agrees that if any form or certification it previously delivered pursuant to this Section 2.11(g) expires or becomes obsolete or inaccurate in any respect, it shall update such form or certification or promptly notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent in writing of its legal inability to do so.

(h)Unless required by Applicable Law, at no time shall the Administrative Agent have any obligation to file for or otherwise pursue on behalf of a Lender, or have any obligation to pay to any Lender, any refund of Taxes withheld or deducted from funds paid for the account of such Lender, as the case may be. If any party determines, in its sole discretion exercised in good faith, that it has received a refund of any Indemnified Taxes as to which it has been indemnified or paid Additional Amounts pursuant to this Section 2.11, it shall pay to the indemnifying party an amount equal to such refund (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made or Additional Amounts paid under this Section 2.11 with respect to the Indemnified Taxes giving rise to such refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses (including Taxes) of such indemnified party and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental Authority with respect to such refund). Such indemnifying party, upon the request of such indemnified party, shall repay to such indemnified party the amount paid over pursuant to this Section 2.11(h) (plus any penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental Authority) in the event that such indemnified party is required to repay such refund to such Governmental Authority. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.11(h), in no event will the indemnified party by required to pay any amount to any indemnifying party pursuant to this Section 2.11(h) the payment of which would place the indemnified party in a less favorable net after-Tax position that the indemnified party would have been in if the indemnification payments or Additional Amounts giving rise to such refund had never been paid. This paragraph shall not be construed to require any indemnified party to make available its Tax returns (or any other information relating to its Taxes that it deems confidential) to the indemnifying party or any other Person.

(i)Each party’s obligations under this Section 2.11 shall survive the resignation or replacement of the Administrative Agent or any assignment of rights by, or the replacement of, a Lender, the termination of the Commitments and the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all obligations under any Transaction Document.

(j)If at any time the Borrower shall be liable for the payment of any Additional Amounts in accordance with this Section 2.11, then the Borrower shall have the option to terminate this Agreement (in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.16(b)); provided that such option to terminate shall in no event relieve the Borrower of paying any amounts owing pursuant to this Section 2.11 in accordance with the terms hereof; provided, further, that in no event shall the Borrower incur any prepayment premium or penalty in connection with any termination of this Agreement pursuant to this clause (j).

Section 2.12Grant of a Security Interest; Collateral Assignment of Agreements.

(a)To secure the prompt, complete and indefeasible payment in full when due, whether by lapse of time, acceleration or otherwise, of the Obligations and the performance by the Borrower of all of the covenants and obligations to be performed by it pursuant to this Agreement and each other Transaction Document, whether now or hereafter existing, due or to become due, direct or indirect, or absolute or contingent (collectively, the “Secured Obligations”), the Borrower

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hereby (i) collaterally assigns and pledges to the Collateral Agent, on behalf of the Secured Parties and (ii) Grants a security interest to the Collateral Agent, on behalf of the Secured Parties, in all of the Borrower’s right, title and interest in, to and under (but none of the obligations under) all of the Collateral, whether now existing or hereafter arising or acquired by the Borrower, and wherever the same may be located. For the avoidance of doubt, the Collateral shall not include any Excluded Amounts, and the Borrower does not hereby assign, pledge or Grant a security interest in any such amounts. Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, (x) the Borrower shall remain liable under the Collateral to the extent set forth therein to perform all of its duties and obligations thereunder to the same extent as if this Agreement had not been executed, (y) the exercise by the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, of any of its rights in the Collateral shall not release the Borrower from any of its duties or obligations under the Collateral, and (z) none of the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, any Lender nor any Secured Party shall have any obligations or liability under the Collateral by reason of this Agreement, nor shall the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, any Lender nor any Secured Party be obligated to perform any of the obligations or duties of the Borrower thereunder or to take any action to collect or enforce any claim for payment assigned hereunder.

The foregoing Grant shall, for the purpose of determining the property subject to the Lien of this Agreement, be deemed to include any securities and any investments Granted to the Collateral Agent by or on behalf of the Borrower, whether or not such securities or investments satisfy the criteria set forth in the definitions of “Eligible Loan Asset” or “Permitted Investments,” as the case may be.

(b)As security for the Secured Obligations, the Borrower hereby collaterally assigns to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, all of the Borrower’s right and title to and interest in, to and under (but not any obligations under) the Sale and Contribution Agreement (and any UCC financing statements filed under or in connection therewith), the Underlying Instruments related to each Loan Asset, all other agreements, documents and instruments evidencing, securing or guarantying any Loan Asset and all other agreements, documents and instruments related to any of the foregoing but excluding any Excluded Amounts or Retained Interest (the “Assigned Documents”). In furtherance and not in limitation of the foregoing, the Borrower hereby collaterally assigns to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, its right to indemnification under the Sale and Contribution Agreement. The Borrower confirms that until the Collection Date the Collateral Agent (at the direction of the Administrative Agent) on behalf of the Secured Parties shall have the sole right to enforce the Borrower’s rights and remedies under the Sale and Contribution Agreement and any UCC financing statements filed under or in connection therewith for the benefit of the Secured Parties.

The parties hereto agree that such collateral assignment to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, shall terminate upon the Collection Date.

Section 2.13Evidence of Debt. The Administrative Agent shall maintain, solely for this purpose as a non-fiduciary agent of the Borrower, at its address referred to in Section 12.02 a copy of each Assignment and Acceptance and participation agreement delivered to and accepted by it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses and interests of the Lenders (including principal amounts and stated interest on the Advances or stated interest on the I/O Notional Loan, as applicable) (the “Register”). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive and

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binding for all purposes, absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and each Lender shall treat each person whose name is recorded in the Register as a Lender under this Agreement for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower or any Lender at any reasonable time during business hours and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice. No Advance or I/O Notional Loan hereunder shall be assigned or sold, in whole or in part without registering such assignment or sale on the Register.  Failure to make any such recordation, or any error in such recordation, however, shall not affect Borrower’s obligations in respect of any Advance and the I/O Notional Loan.

Section 2.14Release of Loan Assets. The Lien granted and created pursuant to this Agreement shall be automatically released with the respect to the following:  (a) any Loan Asset (and the Related Asset) sold or substituted in accordance with the applicable provisions of Section 2.07, (b) any Loan Asset (and the Related Asset) with respect to which all amounts have been paid in full by the related Obligor and deposited in the Collection Account and (c) the entire Collateral following the Collection Date. The Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, shall after the deposit by the Servicer of the proceeds of such Loan Asset into the Collection Account (or as otherwise at the direction of the Administrative Agent), at the sole direction and expense of the Servicer and the Borrower, execute such documents and instruments of release as may be prepared by the Servicer on behalf of the Borrower, and the Servicer shall give notice of such release to the Collateral Custodian (in the form of Exhibit J), and the Collateral Agent shall take other such actions as shall reasonably be requested by the Borrower to effect such release of the Lien created pursuant to this Agreement. Upon receiving such notification by the Collateral Agent as described in the immediately preceding sentence, if applicable, the Collateral Custodian shall deliver the Required Loan Documents to the Borrower.

Section 2.15Treatment of Amounts Received by the Borrower. Amounts received by the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.07 on account of Loan Assets shall be treated as payments of Principal Collections or Interest Collections, as applicable, on Loan Assets hereunder.

Section 2.16Prepayment; Termination; Reduction.

(a)Except as expressly permitted or required herein, including any repayment necessary to cure a Borrowing Base Deficiency or any automatic prepayment pursuant to Section 2.04, Advances Outstanding in any Eligible Currency may only be prepaid in whole or in part at the option of the Borrower at any time by delivering a Notice of Reduction (which notice shall include a Borrowing Base Certificate) to the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent at least one (1) Business Day prior to such prepayment; provided that any prepayment of Advances in an Eligible Currency other than Dollars shall be made by converting such prepayment into the applicable Eligible Currency at the Spot Rate to the extent sufficient funds have not been remitted in such Eligible Currency. Upon any prepayment, the Borrower shall also pay in full all accrued and unpaid Yield, any Breakage Fees, Increased Costs and all accrued and unpaid costs and expenses of the Administrative Agent and Lenders required to be paid pursuant to Section 12.07 related to such prepayment; provided that no reduction in part of Advances Outstanding shall be given effect unless no event has occurred or would result from such prepayment which would constitute an Event of Default or an Unmatured Event of Default. The Administrative Agent shall apply amounts received from the Borrower pursuant to this Section 2.16(a) to the payment of any Breakage Fees and to the pro rata reduction of the Advances Outstanding. Each prepayment by

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the Borrower of Advances denominated in an Eligible Currency shall be made with such Eligible Currency.  Any notice relating to any repayment pursuant to this Section 2.16(a) shall be irrevocable; provided, that, any notice of repayment that is conditioned upon the effectiveness of other transactions may be revoked or delayed by the Borrower (or the Servicer on behalf of the Borrower) no later than 12:00 p.m. on the proposed date of such repayment if such other transactions fail to become effective (and, for the avoidance of doubt, the Borrower shall be liable for any breakage or other reasonable and documented out of pocket costs incurred by the Administrative Agent or any Lender in connection with such revocation or delay).

(b)The Borrower may, at its option and upon three (3) Business Days’ prior written notice of such termination or permanent reduction in the form of Exhibit F to the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent, either (i) terminate this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents upon payment in full of all Advances Outstanding, all accrued and unpaid Yield and Fees, any Breakage Fees, Increased Costs, all accrued and unpaid costs and expenses of the Administrative Agent and Lenders, payment of the Prepayment Premium pro rata to each Lender and payment of all other Obligations (other than unmatured contingent indemnification obligations), or (ii) permanently reduce in part the Facility Amount upon payment in full of all accrued and unpaid Yield and Unused Fees (pro rata with respect to the portion of the Facility Amount so reduced), any Breakage Fees, Increased Costs, all accrued and unpaid costs and expenses of the Administrative Agent and Lenders and the Prepayment Premium pro rata to each Lender. Any Termination/Reduction Notice relating to any reduction or termination pursuant to this Section 2.16(b) shall be revocable at any time. The Commitment of each Lender shall be reduced by an amount equal to its Pro Rata Share (prior to giving effect to any reduction of Commitments hereunder) of the aggregate amount of any reduction under this Section 2.16(b). The I/O Notional Loan Amount shall be reduced by the same amount of any reduction of Commitments under this Section 2.16(b).

(c)The Borrower hereby acknowledges and agrees that the Prepayment Premium constitutes additional consideration for the Lenders to enter into this Agreement.

(d)Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, no Prepayment Premium shall be due and payable in any of the following circumstances: (i) if a Non-Approval Event has occurred and is continuing, (ii) in connection with any prepayment or termination occurring after the expiration of the Revolving Period, (iii) if at any time the Borrower shall be liable for the payment of any additional amounts in accordance with Section 2.10, (iv) if ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Senior Funding Inc. or an Affiliate thereof is no longer the Administrative Agent, (iv) as it applies to any amounts paid to a particular Lender, such Lender becoming a Defaulting Lender or such Lender being replaced in accordance with Section 2.19, (v) any reduction of the Commitment in connection with a CLO or (vi) any reduction in the Commitments in connection with a refinancing (in whole or in part) of the revolving loan facility under this Agreement (excluding any refinancing effected through a CLO) with the consent of the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion.

Section 2.17Collections and Allocations.

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same to the Interest Collection Subaccount and the Principal Collection Subaccount, respectively, in each case based upon information and data received from the Borrower, the Servicer, or the related bank agent, obligor, or financial information reporting or other third-party sources. The Servicer shall comply with its obligations specified in Section 5.03(o). If, notwithstanding such compliance, the Servicer receives any collections directly, the Servicer shall transfer, or cause to be transferred, any such collections received directly by it (if any) to the Collection Account by the close of business within two (2) Business Days after such Interest Collections and Principal Collections are received; provided that the Servicer shall identify to the Collateral Agent any collections received directly by the Servicer as being on account of Interest Collections or Principal Collections. The Collateral Agent shall further provide to the Servicer a statement as to the amount of Interest Collections and Principal Collections on deposit in the Interest Collection Subaccount and the Principal Collection Subaccount no later than three (3) Business Days after each Determination Date for inclusion in the Servicing Report delivered pursuant to Section 6.08(b). It is understood and agreed that the Servicer shall assist the Collateral Agent in the identification of the aforementioned Interest Collections and Principal Collections for deposit into the appropriate accounts.

(b)Within two (2) Business Days of the Cut-Off Date with respect to any Loan Asset, the Servicer will (i) deposit or will cause the Borrower to deposit into the Collection Account all Available Collections denominated in Dollars received in respect of Eligible Loan Assets being transferred to and included as part of the Collateral on such date and (ii) deposit or will cause the Borrower to deposit into the applicable Eligible Currency Account all Available Collections not denominated in Dollars received in respect of Eligible Loan Assets being transferred to and included as part of the Collateral on such date.  The Servicer may, on any date, instruct the Account Bank to convert funds on deposit in any or all Eligible Currency Accounts into Dollars using the Spot Rate. Such converted funds shall then be transferred into the Collection Account.

(c)With the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent (a copy of which will be provided by the Servicer to the Collateral Agent), the Servicer may withdraw from the Collection Account any deposits thereto constituting Excluded Amounts if the Servicer has, prior to such withdrawal and consent, delivered to the Administrative Agent a report setting forth the calculation of such Excluded Amounts in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent in their reasonable discretion; provided that prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default, no such consent shall be required.

(d)Prior to the delivery of a Notice of Exclusive Control, the Servicer shall, pursuant to written instruction (which may be in the form of standing instructions), direct the Collateral Agent to invest, or cause the investment of, funds on deposit in the Controlled Accounts in Permitted Investments, from the date of this Agreement until the Collection Date. Absent any such written instruction, such funds shall not be invested. A Permitted Investment acquired with funds deposited in any Controlled Account shall mature not later than the Business Day immediately preceding any Payment Date (unless such Permitted Investment is issued by U.S. Bank National Association or one or more of its Affiliates in its capacity as a banking institution, in which case such Permitted Investment may mature on such Payment Date), and shall not be sold or disposed of prior to its maturity unless the Servicer determines there is a substantial risk of material deterioration of such Permitted Investment, in its commercially reasonable discretion. All

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such Permitted Investments shall be registered in the name of the Account Bank or its nominee for the benefit of the Collateral Agent. All income and gain realized from any such investment, as well as any interest earned on deposits in any Controlled Account shall be distributed in accordance with the provisions of Article II hereof. The Borrower shall deposit in the Collection Account or the Unfunded Exposure Account, as the case may be (with respect to investments made hereunder of funds held therein), an amount equal to the amount of any actual loss incurred, in respect of any such investment, immediately upon realization of such loss. None of the Account Bank, the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent or any Lender shall be liable for the amount of any loss incurred, in respect of any investment, or lack of investment, of funds held in any Controlled Account. The parties hereto acknowledge that the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent, a Lender or any of their respective Affiliates may receive compensation with respect to the Permitted Investments.

(e)Until the Collection Date, neither the Borrower nor the Servicer shall have any rights of direction or withdrawal, with respect to amounts held in any Controlled Account, except to the extent explicitly set forth in Section 2.04, Section 2.17(c) or Section 2.18.

(f)Eligible Currency.

(i)Subject to the Pari Passu Provisions, any and all payments made by the Borrower under the Transaction Documents shall be made in the applicable Eligible Currency, as follows: (A) repayment of Advances in an Eligible Currency other than Dollars shall be made in the corresponding Eligible Currency, and (B) payment of interest on the Advances in an Eligible Currency other than Dollars shall be made in the corresponding Eligible Currency.  Each party hereto agrees that the Available Collections and all such other amounts described in Section 2.04(a), Section 2.04(b) and Section 2.04(c) shall be applied in accordance with the priority of payments set forth in Section 2.04(a), Section 2.04(b) and Section 2.04(c). The Lenders and the Administrative Agent hereby instruct the Collateral Agent to apply the Available Collections and all such other amounts described in Section 2.04(a), Section 2.04(b) and Section 2.04(c) in accordance with Section 2.04(a), Section 2.04(b) and Section 2.04(c); provided that such payments shall be subject to availability of such funds pursuant to Section 2.04(a), Section 2.04(b) and Section 2.04(c).

(ii)The Servicer shall instruct the Collateral Agent, on the Determination Date immediately preceding each Payment Date, to convert amounts on deposit in the Collection Account into each Eligible Currency to the extent necessary to make payments pursuant to Section 2.04(a), Section 2.04(b) and Section 2.04(c), as applicable (as determined by the Servicer using the Spot Rate).

(iii)Any Available Collections on deposit in the Principal Collection Subaccount denominated in an Eligible Currency may be converted by the Servicer into another Eligible Currency on any Business Day (other than a Payment Date) using the Spot Rate so long as (A) no Borrowing Base Deficiency exists after giving effect to such conversion and the Servicer shall deliver a duly completed Borrowing Base Certificate evidencing the same, and (B) the converted amounts are used solely for purposes of acquiring a Loan denominated in such other Eligible Currency pursuant to Section 2.18,

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making a prepayment of the Advances hereunder or paying an expense of the Borrower denominated in such Eligible Currency.  The Servicer shall provide no less than one (1) Business Day’s prior written notice to the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent of any such conversion.

Section 2.18Reinvestment of Principal Collections and Interest Collections.

On the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth as certified in writing to the Collateral Agent and the Administrative Agent, prior to the end of the Revolving Period, the Servicer may, to the extent of (x) any Principal Collections on deposit in the Principal Collection Subaccount or (y) if after giving effect to such withdrawal, the Borrower is able to make all required payments pursuant to Section 2.04 on the next Payment Date on a pro forma basis, any Interest Collections in the Interest Collection Subaccount:

(a)direct the Collateral Agent to withdraw such funds for the purpose of reinvesting in additional Eligible Loan Assets to be Granted hereunder; provided that the following conditions are satisfied:

(i)all conditions precedent set forth in Section 3.02 and Section 3.04 have been satisfied; and

(ii)delivery of a Disbursement Request and a Borrowing Base Certificate, each executed by the Borrower and a Responsible Officer of the Servicer; or

(b)direct the Collateral Agent to withdraw such funds for the purpose of making payments in respect of the Advances Outstanding in the applicable Eligible Currency at such time in accordance with and subject to the terms of Section 2.16.

Upon the satisfaction of the applicable conditions set forth in this Section 2.18 (as certified by the Borrower to the Collateral Agent and the Administrative Agent), the Servicer or, after the delivery of a Notice of Exclusive Control which has not been revoked, the Collateral Agent (acting at the instruction of the Administrative Agent), will instruct the Account Bank to release funds from the Principal Collection Subaccount or Interest Collection Subaccount, as applicable, as directed by the Servicer in an amount not to exceed the lesser of (x) the amount requested by the Servicer for reinvestment or repayment and (y) the amount on deposit in the Principal Collection Subaccount or Interest Collection Subaccount, as applicable, on such day.

Section 2.19Defaulting Lenders.

(a)Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, if any Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, then the portion of the Advance funded by such Defaulting Lender shall not be included in determining whether Required Lenders have taken or may take any action hereunder and the Defaulting Lender shall not be included in determining whether all Lenders have taken or may have taken any action hereunder; provided that any waiver, amendment or modification requiring the consent of all Lenders which affects such Defaulting Lender differently than other affected Lenders or Lenders shall require the consent of such Defaulting Lender, as applicable.

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(b)In the event that the Administrative Agent, and, so long as no Event of Default exists, the Borrower determines (such determination not to be unreasonably withheld) that a Defaulting Lender has adequately remedied all matters that caused such Lender to be a Defaulting Lender, such Lender will cease to be a Defaulting Lender and the provisions of clause (a) above shall, from and after such determination, cease to be of further force or effect with respect to such ▇▇▇▇▇▇; provided that no change hereunder from Defaulting Lender to a non-Defaulting Lender will constitute a waiver or release of any claim of any party hereunder arising from such ▇▇▇▇▇▇ having been a Defaulting Lender.

(c)Replacement of a Lender.

(i)If any Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender or a Non-Consenting Lender, requests reimbursement, payment or compensation under Section 2.10 or requires the Borrower to pay any Indemnified Taxes under Section 2.11, then the Borrower may, at its sole expense and effort, upon not less than five (5) Business Days advance notice to the Administrative Agent and (if different) the related Lender, (x) require such Lender to assign and delegate, without recourse (in accordance with and subject to the restrictions contained in Section 12.04), all of its respective interests, rights and obligations under this Agreement to an assignee that shall assume such obligations (which assignee may be another Lender if a Lender accepts such assignment); provided that (A) the Borrower shall have received the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent with respect to any assignee that is not already a Lender hereunder, which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld and shall not be required if the Administrative Agent (or any Affiliate thereof) is the Lender being replaced hereunder, (B) the assignee shall not be an Affiliate of any of the Borrower, the Servicer or the Transferor, (C) such assigning Lender shall have received payment of an amount equal to all outstanding Advances funded or maintained by such Lender, together with all accrued interest thereon and all accrued Fees, and (D) in the case of any such assignment resulting from a Lender becoming a Non-Consenting Lender, the applicable assignee shall have agreed to, and shall be sufficient (together with all other consenting Lenders) to cause the adoption of, the applicable consent, waiver or amendment of the Transaction Documents or (y) terminate the Commitment of such Lender and repay all Obligations of the Borrower owing to such Lender relating to the portion of the Advance held by such Lender as of such termination date, without the payment of any penalty, fee or premium. A Lender shall not be required to make any such assignment and delegation if, prior thereto, as a result of a waiver by such Lender or otherwise, the circumstances entitling the Borrower to require such assignment and delegation cease to exist.

(ii)Any Lender being replaced pursuant to Section 2.19(c)(i) above shall execute and deliver an Assignment and Acceptance with respect to such Lender’s applicable Commitment and outstanding portion of the Advance funded by such Lender. Pursuant to such Assignment and Acceptance, (A) the assignee Lender shall acquire all or a portion, as the case may be, of the assigning Lender’s Commitment and outstanding portion of the Advance and (B) all obligations of the Borrower owing to the assigning Lender relating to the Advance and Commitments so assigned shall be paid in full by the assignee Lender to such assigning Lender concurrently with such Assignment and Acceptance, the assignee Lender shall become a Lender hereunder and under each of the Transaction Documents and the assigning Lender shall cease to constitute a Lender

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hereunder with respect to such assigned portion of the Advance and Commitments, except with respect to indemnification provisions under this Agreement, which shall survive as to such assigning Lender. In connection with any such replacement, if any such Non-Consenting Lender or Defaulting Lender does not execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent a duly executed Assignment and Acceptance reflecting such replacement within three (3) Business Days of the date on which the assignee Lender executes and delivers such Assignment and Acceptance to such Non-Consenting Lender or Defaulting Lender, then such Non-Consenting Lender or Defaulting Lender shall be deemed to have executed and delivered such Assignment and Acceptance without any action on the part of the Non-Consenting Lender or Defaulting Lender.

(d)In the event that the Borrower or the Administrative Agent has requested any consent, waiver or amendment by any Lender or the Lenders to any matter pursuant to this Agreement, and such consent, waiver or amendment in question requires the agreement of all affected Lenders, the Lenders or the Required Lenders, then any Lender who does not agree to such consent, waiver or amendment within five (5) Business Days’ written notice to such Lender that such amendment has been agreed to by the Required Lenders shall be deemed a “Non-Consenting Lender.” For the avoidance of doubt, (x) Non-Consenting Lender shall not include any Lender that abstains from voting on any consent, waiver or amendment if the vote of such Lender would not be required in order for such consent, waiver or amendment to be approved pursuant to this Agreement, and (y) if the Administrative Agent is also a Lender, any failure of the Administrative Agent, acting in its capacity as Administrative Agent, to grant any consent, waiver or amendment shall not result in the Administrative Agent, acting in its capacity as a Lender, being deemed to be a Non-Consenting Lender. In the event that the Administrative Agent in its individual capacity is a Non-Consenting Lender and the Borrower has replaced the Administrative Agent in its capacity as a Non-Consenting Lender pursuant to this Section 2.19, then the Borrower shall have the right to remove and replace the Administrative Agent in accordance with Section 9.01(h).

Section 2.20Incremental Facilities.

(a)The Borrower may, by written notice to the Administrative Agent and each Lender (with a copy to the Collateral Agent), request, prior to the last day of the Revolving Period, an increase to the existing Commitments (any such increase, the “New Commitments”) and the sum of the existing Commitments and any New Commitments shall not exceed $1,000,000,000 in the aggregate.  Each such notice shall specify (i) the amount of the New Commitment, (ii) the date (each, an “Increased Amount Date”) on which the Borrower proposes that the New Commitments shall be effective and approved in writing by the Administrative Agent and (iii) the identity of each Lender or other Person (each, an “Increasing Lender”) to whom the Borrower proposes any portion of such New Commitments be allocated and the amounts of such allocations (if then known).  Such New Commitments shall become effective as of such Increased Amount Date if the Administrative Agent and each Lender whose Commitment is being increased thereby has consented thereto in their respective sole discretion and subject to any internal approvals; provided that (A) no Unmatured Event of Default, Event of Default or Borrowing Base Deficiency shall exist on such Increased Amount Date before or after giving effect to such New Commitments; (B) the New Commitments shall be effected pursuant to an Assignment and Acceptance for each existing Lender (if applicable), or one or more Joinder Supplements for any new Lender executed and delivered by the Borrower, such new Lender and the Administrative Agent, and each of which

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shall be recorded in the Register; (C) the Borrower shall pay any applicable required fees in connection with the New Commitments; (D) the Borrower shall deliver or cause to be delivered any legal opinions or other customary closing documents (substantially consistent with the documents set forth in Section 3.01) reasonably requested by Administrative Agent or an Increasing Lender in connection with any such transaction; and (E) the effectiveness of any allocation of New Commitments to a non-Lender shall be subject to (i) the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent and (ii) the Collateral Agent’s receipt of all documentation necessary for purposes of compliance with the applicable “know your customer” requirements under the Patriot Act or other applicable Anti-Money Laundering Laws.

(b)On any Increased Amount Date on which New Commitments are effected, subject to the satisfaction of the foregoing terms and conditions, (i) each of the existing Lenders shall assign to each of the Increasing Lenders, and each of the Increasing Lenders shall purchase from each of the existing Lenders, at the principal amount thereof (together with accrued interest), such interests in the Advances Outstanding on such Increased Amount Date as shall be necessary in order that, after giving effect to all such assignments and purchases, such Advances will be held by existing Lenders and Increasing Lenders ratably in accordance with their Commitments after giving effect to the addition of such New Commitments to the Commitments, (ii) each New Commitment shall be deemed, for all purposes, a Commitment and each Advance made thereunder (a “New Advance”) shall be deemed, for all purposes, an Advance and (iii) each new Lender shall become a Lender with respect to the Commitments and all matters relating thereto.

(c)The Administrative Agent shall notify the Lenders promptly upon receipt of the Borrower’s notice of each Increased Amount Date and in respect thereof (i) the New Commitments and the Increasing Lenders and (ii) in the case of each notice to any Lender, the respective interests in such ▇▇▇▇▇▇’s Advances, in each case subject to the assignments contemplated by this Section 2.20.

(d)The terms and provisions of the New Advances shall be identical to the Advances.  Each Assignment and Acceptance or each Joinder Supplement, as applicable, may, without the consent of any other Lenders, effect such amendments to this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents as may be necessary or appropriate, in the opinion of the Administrative Agent, and consented to by the Borrower (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld), to effect the provisions of this Section 2.20. The effectiveness of any New Commitments shall be conditioned upon any such amendment being entered into by the parties hereto.

ARTICLE III

CONDITIONS PRECEDENT

Section 3.01Conditions Precedent to Effectiveness.

(a)This Agreement shall be effective upon satisfaction of the conditions precedent that:

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registrations) required to be done and performed and to have happened prior to the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and all related Transaction Documents and to constitute the same legal, valid and binding obligations, enforceable in accordance with their respective terms, shall have been done and performed and shall have happened in due and strict compliance with all Applicable Law;

(ii)in the reasonable judgment of the Administrative Agent, there has not been (x) any change in Applicable Law which adversely affects any Lender’s or the Administrative Agent’s ability to enter into the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents or (y) any Material Adverse Effect or material disruption in the financial, banking or commercial loan or capital markets generally;

(iii)any and all information submitted to each Lender and the Administrative Agent by the Borrower, the Transferor or the Servicer or any of their Affiliates is true, accurate and complete in all material respects and not misleading in any material respect;

(iv)each Lender shall have received all documentation and other information requested by such Lender in its reasonable discretion and/or required by regulatory authorities with respect to the Borrower, the Transferor and the Servicer under applicable “know your customer” and Anti-Money Laundering Laws, including, the Patriot Act, all in form and substance satisfactory to each Lender;

(v)the Borrower shall deliver a Beneficial Ownership Certification;

(vi)the Administrative Agent shall have received on or before the date of such effectiveness the items listed in Schedule I hereto, each in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and each Lender;

(vii)the results of the Administrative Agent’s financial, legal, tax and accounting due diligence relating to the Transferor, the Borrower, the Servicer, the Eligible Loan Assets and the transactions contemplated hereunder are reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent;

(viii)the Borrower shall have paid in full all fees then required to be paid thereby, including all fees required hereunder and under the applicable Lender Fee Letters, the Administrative Agent Fee Letter and the Collateral Agent and Collateral Custodian Fee Letter and shall have reimbursed the Lenders, the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Custodian, the Account Bank and the Collateral Agent for all fees, costs and expenses of closing the transactions contemplated hereunder and under the other Transaction Documents, including the attorney fees and any other legal and document preparation costs incurred by the Lenders and the Administrative Agent; and

(ix)with respect to any Advance to be made on the Closing Date, the Lenders and the Administrative Agent shall have received a Notice of Borrowing with respect to such Advance demonstrating that immediately after the making of such initial Advance, the Borrowing Base Test shall be satisfied.

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(b)By its execution and delivery of this Agreement, each of the Borrower and the Servicer hereby certifies that each of the conditions precedent to the effectiveness of this Agreement set forth in this Section 3.01 (other than such conditions precedent subject to the judgment or satisfaction of the Administrative Agent or any Lender) have been satisfied.

Section 3.02Conditions Precedent to All Advances. Each Advance to the Borrower from the Lenders shall be subject to the further conditions precedent that:

(a)On the Advance Date of such Advance, the following statements shall be true and correct, and the Borrower by accepting any amount of such Advance shall be deemed to have certified that:

(i)the Servicer (on behalf of the Borrower) shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent and each Lender (with a copy to the Collateral Custodian and the Collateral Agent), no later than 10:00 a.m. (i) on the proposed Advance Date for Dollar Advances or (ii) at least two (2) Business Days before the Business Day on which the Advance is to be made for any Eligible Currency other than Dollars:  (A) a Notice of Borrowing and an Officer’s Certificate (which may be included as part of the Notice of Borrowing) computed as of the proposed Advance Date after giving effect thereto and, if applicable, to the purchase by the Borrower of the Eligible Loan Assets to be purchased by it on such Advance Date, representing and warranting that the Investment Criteria are satisfied on the date on which the Borrower (or the Servicer on its behalf) commits to purchase such Eligible Loan Asset (and after giving effect to such commitment), (B) a Borrowing Base Certificate and (C) a Loan Asset Schedule;

(ii)immediately after the making of such Advance on the applicable Advance Date, (i) the Borrowing Base Test (Aggregate) is satisfied and (ii) the applicable part of the Borrowing Base Test related to any Eligible Currency is satisfied;

(iii)the representations and warranties contained in Sections 4.01, 4.02 and 4.03 are true and correct in all material respects (or, in the case of any representation or warranty that is already qualified by materiality, in all respects), and there exists no material breach of any covenant contained in Sections 5.01, 5.02, 5.03 and 5.04 before and after giving effect to the Advance to take place on such Advance Date and to the application of proceeds therefrom, on and as of such day as though made on and as of such date (other than any representation and warranty that is made as of a specific date);

(iv)unless in either case such Unmatured Event of Default or Event of Default would be cured by the making of such Advance and the acquisition of any investment or investments to be made with the proceeds thereof and for which an Approval Notice has been submitted, no Event of Default has occurred, or would result from such Advance, and no Unmatured Event of Default exists or would result from such Advance;

(v)no event has occurred and is continuing, or would result from such Advance, which constitutes a Servicer Default or any event which, if it continues uncured, will, with notice or lapse of time, constitute a Servicer Default;

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(vi)since the later of the Closing Date or the date of the last financial statements (or the last day of the period covered by such financial statements) delivered pursuant to Section 6.08(d), there has been no Material Adverse Effect;

(vii)no Liens exist in respect of Taxes (other than Permitted Liens) which are prior to the lien of the Collateral Agent on the Eligible Loan Assets to be Granted on such Advance Date;

(viii)all terms and conditions of the Sale and Contribution Agreement required to be satisfied in connection with the assignment of each Eligible Loan Asset being Granted hereunder on such Advance Date (and the Related Asset related thereto), including, the perfection of the Borrower’s interests therein, shall have been satisfied in full, and all filings (including, UCC filings) required to be made by any Person and all actions required to be taken or performed by any Person in any jurisdiction to give the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a first priority perfected security interest (subject only to Permitted Liens) in the Collateral, including such Eligible Loan Assets and the Related Asset and the proceeds thereof shall have been made, taken or performed;

(ix)if a Loan Asset is to be acquired with the proceeds of such Advance it is an Eligible Loan Asset as of the funding date, taking into account any Eligibility Criteria waivers consented to by the Administrative Agent; and

(x)(A) with respect to Eligible Loan Assets purchased with Advances, such Advance shall be denominated in the same Eligible Currency as such Loan Asset, (B) with respect to Eligible Loan Assets purchased with available Principal Collections, such Principal Collections shall be denominated in the same Eligible Currency (or converted to such Eligible Currency pursuant to Section 2.17(f)(iii)) as the Loan Asset acquired in connection with such reinvestment and (C) with respect to any substitution pursuant to Section 2.07(a), the Loan Asset sold in connection with such substitution shall be denominated in the same Eligible Currency as the Loan Asset acquired in connection with such substitution.

(b)The Borrower shall have provided a request for an Approval Notice for each Loan Asset (other than a Specified Loan Asset), if any, intended to be included in the Collateral in connection with the applicable Advance Date (and such information in respect of each such Loan Asset that is requested by the Administrative Agent) no later than 12:00 p.m. (i) at least one (1) Business Day before the proposed Advance Date for Dollar Advances, (ii) at least two (2) Business Days before the Business Day on which the Advance is to be made for CAD Advances, Euro Advances and GBP Advances or (iii) at least three (3) Business Days before the Business Day on which the Advance is to be made for AUD Advances and JPY Advances. The Administrative Agent shall have provided an Approval Notice to the Borrower for each of the Eligible Loan Assets (other than Specified Loan Assets) identified in the applicable Loan Asset Schedule for inclusion in the Collateral on the applicable Advance Date.

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enjoin, the making of such Advances by any Lender or the proposed Grant of Eligible Loan Assets in accordance with the provisions hereof.

(d)The proposed Advance Date shall take place during the Revolving Period.

(e)The Borrower shall have paid in full all fees then required to be paid, including all fees required hereunder and under the applicable Lender Fee Letters, the Administrative Agent Fee Letter and the Collateral Agent and Collateral Custodian Fee Letter.

(f)With respect to an Advance in an Eligible Currency other than Dollars, (i) the Administrative Agent shall have received evidence that each Eligible Currency Account has been established pursuant to Section 6.04(e) within a sufficient amount of time prior to the Advance Date (as determined by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion) to allow the Administrative Agent and each Lender to conduct call-back controls and verify the information with respect to the Eligible Currency Accounts and (ii) the Collateral Agent has obtained Control with respect to the Eligible Currency Accounts in accordance with the terms of the Control Agreement.

(g)With respect to all Advances after the initial Advance, the Closing Date Restructuring shall have been completed.

Section 3.03Advances Do Not Constitute a Waiver. No Advance made hereunder shall constitute a waiver of any condition to any Lender’s obligation to make such an Advance unless such waiver is in writing and executed by such ▇▇▇▇▇▇.

Section 3.04Conditions to Acquisition of Loan Assets. Each Grant of an additional Eligible Loan Asset pursuant to Section 2.06, a Substitute Eligible Loan Asset pursuant to Section 2.07(b), an additional Eligible Loan Asset pursuant to Section 2.18 or any other Grant of a Loan Asset hereunder shall be subject to the further conditions precedent that (as certified to the Collateral Agent by the Borrower):

(a)the Servicer (on behalf of the Borrower) shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent and each Lender (with a copy to the Collateral Custodian and the Collateral Agent) no later than 5:00 p.m. on the date that is one (1) Business Day prior to the related Cut-Off Date:  (i) a Borrowing Base Certificate and (ii) a Loan Asset Schedule;

(b)the Borrower shall have delivered to the Collateral Custodian (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), not later than five (5) Business Days after the related Cut-Off Date, the Loan Asset Checklist and the Required Loan Documents;

(c)with respect to Eligible Loan Assets purchased with Advances and available Principal Collections, the Investment Criteria are satisfied on the date on which the Borrower (or the Servicer on its behalf) commits to purchase such Eligible Loan Asset (and after giving effect to such commitment);

(d)no Liens exist in respect of Taxes (other than Permitted Liens) which are prior to the lien of the Collateral Agent on the Eligible Loan Assets to be Granted on such Cut-Off Date;

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(e)all terms and conditions of the Sale and Contribution Agreement required to be satisfied in connection with the assignment of each Eligible Loan Asset being Granted hereunder on such Cut-Off Date (and the Related Asset), including, the perfection of the Borrower’s interests therein, shall have been satisfied in full, and all filings (including, UCC filings) required to be made by any Person and all actions required to be taken or performed by any Person in any jurisdiction to give the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a first priority perfected security interest (subject only to Permitted Liens) in such Eligible Loan Assets and the Related Asset and the proceeds thereof shall have been made, taken or performed;

(f)the Administrative Agent shall have provided an Approval Notice to the Borrower for each of the Eligible Loan Assets (other than Specified Loan Assets) identified in the applicable Loan Asset Schedule for inclusion in the Collateral on the applicable Cut-Off Date;

(g)no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, or would result from such Grant, and no Unmatured Event of Default would result from such Grant (other than, with respect to any Grant of an Eligible Loan Asset necessary to cure a Borrowing Base Deficiency in accordance with Section 2.06, an Unmatured Event of Default arising solely pursuant to such Borrowing Base Deficiency); and

(h)the representations and warranties contained in Sections 4.01, 4.02 and 4.03 are true and correct in all material respects, and there exists no breach of any covenant contained in Sections 5.01, 5.02, 5.03 and 5.04 before and after giving effect to the Grant to take place on such Cut-Off Date, on and as of such day as though made on and as of such date (other than any representation and warranty that is made as of a specific date).

ARTICLE IV

REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

Section 4.01Representations and Warranties of the Borrower. The Borrower hereby represents and warrants, as of each Measurement Date described in clauses (a), (b), (c) and (f) of the definition thereof and as of each other date provided under this Agreement or the other Transaction Documents on which such representations and warranties are required to be (or deemed to be) made (unless a specific date is specified below):

(a)Organization, Good Standing and Due Qualification. The Borrower (i) is duly organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its organization or incorporation (as relevant), (ii) has the power and all licenses necessary to own its assets and to transact the business in which it is engaged and to enter into and perform its obligations pursuant to this Agreement and (iii) is duly qualified and in good standing under the laws of each jurisdiction where the transaction of such business, its ownership of the Loan Assets and the Collateral and the entering into and performance of its obligations pursuant to this Agreement requires such qualification, except, in the cases of clauses (ii) and (iii), as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

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and each of the Transaction Documents to which it is a party and all of the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby, and has taken all necessary action to authorize the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and each of the Transaction Documents to which it is a party, and to grant to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a first priority perfected security interest in the Collateral on the terms and conditions of this Agreement, subject only to Permitted Liens.

(c)Binding Obligation. This Agreement and each of the Transaction Documents to which the Borrower is a party constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Borrower, enforceable against it in accordance with their respective terms, except as the enforceability hereof and thereof may be limited by Bankruptcy Laws and by general principles of equity (whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law).

(d)All Consents Required. No consent of any other party and no consent, license, approval or authorization of, or registration or declaration with, any Governmental Authority, bureau or agency is required in connection with the execution, delivery or performance by the Borrower of this Agreement or any Transaction Document to which it is a party or the validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any such Transaction Document or the Loan Assets or the transfer of an ownership interest or security interest in such Loan Assets, other than such as have been met or obtained and are in full force and effect except where the failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(e)No Violation. The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party and all other agreements and instruments executed and delivered or to be executed and delivered pursuant hereto or thereto in connection with the Grant of the Collateral will not (i) create any Lien on the Collateral other than Permitted Liens or (ii) violate any Applicable Law or the Constituent Documents of the Borrower or (iii) violate any contract or other agreement to which the Borrower is a party or by which the Borrower or any property or assets of the Borrower may be bound.

(f)No Proceedings. There is no litigation or administrative proceeding or investigation pending or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, threatened against the Borrower or any properties of the Borrower, before any Governmental Authority (i) asserting the invalidity of this Agreement or any other Transaction Document to which the Borrower is a party, (ii) seeking to prevent the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any other Transaction Document to which the Borrower is a party or (iii) seeking any determination or ruling that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(g)Selection Procedures. In selecting the Loan Assets to be Granted pursuant to this Agreement, no selection procedures were knowingly employed which are intended to be adverse to the interests of the Lenders.

(h)Bulk Sales. The Grant of the security interest in the Collateral by the Borrower to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, pursuant to this Agreement, is in the ordinary course of business for the Borrower and is not subject to the bulk transfer or any similar statutory provisions in effect in any applicable jurisdiction.

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(i)Grant of Collateral. The Borrower has good and marketable title to all of the Collateral. The Borrower has taken all actions necessary to perfect its interest in the Collateral transferred by the Transferor. Except as otherwise expressly permitted by the terms of this Agreement, no item of Collateral has been sold, transferred, assigned or pledged by the Borrower to any Person, other than as contemplated by Article II and the Grant of such Collateral to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, pursuant to the terms of this Agreement.

(j)Indebtedness. The Borrower has no Indebtedness, secured or unsecured, direct or contingent (including guaranteeing any obligation), other than (i) Indebtedness incurred under the terms of the Transaction Documents, (ii) obligations to fund Delayed Draw Loan Assets and Revolving Loans and (iii) Indebtedness incurred pursuant to certain ordinary business expenses arising pursuant to the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents.

(k)Sole Purpose. The Borrower has been formed solely for the purpose of engaging in transactions of the types contemplated by this Agreement, and has not engaged in any business activity other than the negotiation, execution and to the extent applicable, performance of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents.

(l)No Injunctions. No injunction, writ, restraining order or other order of any nature adversely affects the Borrower’s performance of its obligations under this Agreement or any Transaction Document to which the Borrower is a party.

(m)Taxes. The Borrower has filed or caused to be filed (on a consolidated basis or otherwise) on a timely basis all income and other material tax returns (including, all federal and all material foreign, state, local and other tax returns) required to be filed by it under Applicable Law, is not liable for Taxes payable by any other Person and has paid or made adequate provisions for the payment of all Taxes, assessments and other governmental charges due and payable from the Borrower except for those Taxes being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and in respect of which it has established reserves in accordance with GAAP on its books. No Tax lien (other than a Permitted Lien) or similar adverse claim has been filed, and no claim is being asserted, with respect to any such Tax, assessment or other governmental charge. Any Taxes, fees and other governmental charges due and payable by the Borrower in connection with the execution and delivery of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents and the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby have been paid or shall have been paid if and when due.

(n)Location. The Borrower’s location (within the meaning of Article 9 of the UCC) is Delaware. The chief executive office of the Borrower (and the location of the Borrower’s records regarding the Collateral (other than those delivered to the Collateral Custodian)) is located at the address set forth in Section 12.02 (or at such other address as shall be designated by such party in a written notice to the other parties hereto).

(o)Tradenames. The Borrower has not changed its name since its formation and does not have tradenames, fictitious names, assumed names or “doing business as” names under which it has done or is doing business.

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(p)Solvency. The Borrower is not the subject of any Bankruptcy Proceedings or Bankruptcy Event. The Borrower is Solvent, and the transactions under this Agreement and any other Transaction Document to which the Borrower is a party do not and will not render the Borrower not Solvent. The Borrower is paying its debts as they become due (subject to any applicable grace period); and the Borrower, after giving effect to the transactions contemplated hereby, will have adequate capital to conduct its business.

(q)No Subsidiaries. The Borrower has no Subsidiaries.

(r)Value Given. The Borrower has given fair consideration and reasonably equivalent value to the Transferor (which may be in the form of an increase in the value of the membership interests of the Borrower held by the Transferor) in exchange for the purchase of any Loan Assets (or any number of them) from the Transferor pursuant to the Sale and Contribution Agreement. No such transfer has been made for or on account of an antecedent debt owed by the Borrower to the Transferor and no such transfer is or may be voidable or subject to avoidance under any section of the Bankruptcy Code.

(s)Reports Accurate. All Servicer’s Certificates, Servicing Reports, Notices of Borrowing, Borrowing Base Certificates and other written or electronic information, exhibits, financial statements, documents, books, records or reports furnished by the Borrower (or the Servicer on its behalf) to the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, the Lenders or the Collateral Custodian in connection with the Transaction Documents (other than projections, pro forma financial information forward looking information, general economic data or industry information and, with respect to information prepared by the Borrower or an Affiliate or agent thereof for internal use or consideration, statements as to, or the failure to make a statement as to, the value of, collectibility of, prospects of or potential risks or benefits associated with such loan or the related Obligor) are, as of their date, taken as a whole, accurate, true and correct in all material respects, and no such document or certificate contains any material misstatement of fact or omits to state a material fact or any fact necessary to make the statements contained therein not misleading; provided that, solely with respect to written or electronic factual information which was provided from an Obligor with respect to a Loan Asset, such information need only be accurate, true and correct to the knowledge of the Borrower. Any projections, pro forma financial information, forward-looking information, general economic data or industry information (including, with respect to information prepared by the Borrower or an Affiliate or agent thereof for internal use or consideration, statements as to, or the failure to make a statement as to, the value of, collectability of, prospects of or potential risks or benefits associated with a Loan Asset or the related Obligor) provided by or on behalf of the Borrower were prepared in good faith based on assumptions believed by the Borrower to be reasonable at the time so prepared.

(t)Exchange Act Compliance; Regulations T, U and X. No portion of the proceeds of any Advance shall be used in any manner that causes such Advance or the application of such proceeds to violate Regulation U or Regulation X of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

(u)No Adverse Agreements. The Borrower is not party to any agreement adversely affecting the rights of the Borrower to make, or cause to be made, the grant of the security interest in the Collateral contemplated by the Grant.

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(v)Event of Default/Unmatured Event of Default. No event has occurred and is continuing which constitutes an Event of Default or an Unmatured Event of Default (other than any Event of Default or Unmatured Event of Default which has previously been disclosed to the Administrative Agent as such).

(w)Servicing Standard. Each of the Loan Assets was underwritten or acquired and is being serviced in conformance with the Servicing Standard and the standard underwriting, credit, collection, operating and reporting procedures and systems of the Servicer or the Transferor.

(x)ERISA.

(i)The present value of all benefits vested under each Pension Plan does not exceed the value of the assets of the Pension Plan allocable to such vested benefits (based on the value of such assets as of the last annual valuation date) determined in accordance with the assumptions used for funding such Pension Plan pursuant to Sections 412 and 430 of the Code. No ERISA Event has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur, that, in the aggregate, would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

(ii)Each Foreign Plan is in compliance in all material respects with its terms and with the requirements of any and all Applicable Laws, statutes, rules, regulations and orders and has been maintained, where required, in good standing with applicable regulatory authorities. Except as could not, in the aggregate, subject the Borrower to any material tax, penalty or other liability:  (i) all contributions required to be made with respect to a Foreign Plan have been timely made; (ii) the Borrower has not incurred any obligations in connection with the termination of, or withdrawal from, any Foreign Plan; and (iii) the present value of the accrued benefit liabilities (whether or not vested) under each Foreign Plan, determined as of the end of the Borrower’s most recently ended fiscal year on the basis of reasonable actuarial assumptions, did not exceed the current value of the assets of such Foreign Plan allocable to such benefit liabilities.

(iii)The Borrower (a) is not a Benefit Plan Investor and (b) is not a “governmental plan” within the meaning of Section 3(32) of ERISA (“Governmental Plan”), and the entering into and performance of this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby are not prohibited under state statutes regulating investments of and fiduciary obligations with respect to Governmental Plans or state statutes that impose prohibitions similar to those contained in Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code (“Similar Law”).

(y)[Reserved].

(z)Broker/Dealer. The Borrower is not a broker/dealer or subject to the Securities Investor Protection Act of 1970, as amended.

(aa)Instructions to Obligors. The Collection Account is the only account to which Obligors, agent banks or administrative agents on the Loan Assets have been instructed by the Borrower, or the Servicer on the Borrower’s behalf, to send Principal Collections and Interest Collections on the Collateral. The Borrower has not granted any Person other than the Collateral Agent, on behalf of the Secured Parties, a Lien on the Collection Account.

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(bb)Investment Company Act. The Borrower is not required to register as an “investment company” under the provisions of the 1940 Act.

(cc)Compliance with Law. The Borrower (i) has complied in all material respects with all Applicable Law to which it may be subject and (ii) is not in violation of any order of any Governmental Authority or other board or tribunal. The Borrower has not received any notice that it is not in compliance in any respect with any of the requirements of the foregoing. The Borrower has maintained in all material respects all records required to be maintained by any applicable Governmental Authority.

(dd)Collections. The Borrower acknowledges that all Available Collections received by it or its Affiliates with respect to the Collateral Granted hereunder are held and shall be held in trust for the benefit of the Collateral Agent, on behalf of the Secured Parties until deposited into the Collection Account within two (2) Business Days after receipt as required herein.

(ee)Set-Off, etc. No Loan Asset in the Collateral has been compromised, adjusted, extended, satisfied, subordinated, rescinded, set-off or modified by the Borrower, the Transferor or the Obligor thereof, and no Loan Asset in the Collateral is subject to compromise, adjustment, extension, satisfaction, subordination, rescission, set-off, counterclaim, defense, abatement, suspension, deferment, deduction, reduction, termination or modification, whether arising out of transactions concerning the Collateral or otherwise, by the Borrower, the Transferor or the Obligor with respect thereto, except, in each case, for amendments, extensions and modifications, if any, to such Collateral otherwise permitted pursuant to Section 6.04(a) of this Agreement and in accordance with the Servicing Standard.

(ff)[Reserved].

(gg)[Reserved].

(hh)Anti-Terrorism; OFAC; Anti-Corruption.

(i)None of the Borrower nor any of its Affiliates is a Person that is, or is owned or controlled by one or more Persons that is, (x) the subject of any Sanctions or (y) located, organized or resident in a country or territory that is, or whose government is, the subject of comprehensive territorial Sanctions (including, without limitation, Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the so-called Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic).

(ii)The Borrower is not (x) is a Politically Exposed Person or (y) a foreign shell bank. For purposes of the forgoing, “foreign shell bank” means a bank that does not maintain a physical presence in any country and is not subject to inspection by a banking authority.

(iii)No part of the proceeds of any Advance will be used by the Borrower or any of its Affiliates, or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, permitted to be used by any other Person (in each case, directly or indirectly including by an Obligor), or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any Person, (x) to fund any

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activities or business of or with any Person, that, at the time of such funding, is the subject of Sanctions, (y) to fund or facilitate any money laundering or terrorist financing activities, or (z) in any other manner that would cause or result in a violation of any Anti-Corruption Laws, Anti-Money Laundering Laws or Sanctions by any Person (including any party to this Agreement).

(iv)No Collateral or any portion thereof is or will consist of funds, assets or other property or interests in property that is blocked or frozen pursuant to any Sanctions.

(v)The Borrower acknowledges by executing this Agreement that the Lenders (or the Administrative Agent on their behalf) have notified the Borrower that, pursuant to the requirements of the Patriot Act, each Lender is required to obtain, verify and record such information as may be necessary to identify the Borrower or any Person owning twenty-five percent (25%) or more of the direct or indirect Equity Interests of the Borrower (including the name and address of such Person) in accordance with the Patriot Act.

(vi)The Borrower and its Subsidiaries and Affiliates have instituted and maintained or are subject to, and will continue to maintain or be subject to, policies and procedures reasonably designed to promote and achieve compliance with the Anti-Corruption Laws, the Anti-Money Laundering Laws, Sanctions and with the representations and warranties contained herein.

(ii)[Reserved].

(jj)[Reserved].

(kk)Security Interest.

(i)This Agreement creates a valid and continuing security interest (as defined in the applicable UCC) in the Collateral in favor of the Collateral Agent, on behalf of the Secured Parties, which security interest is prior to all other Liens (except for Permitted Liens), and is enforceable as such against creditors of and purchasers from the Borrower;

(ii)the Collateral is comprised of “instruments,” “security entitlements,” “general intangibles,” “accounts,” “certificated securities,” “uncertificated securities,” “securities accounts,” “deposit accounts,” “supporting obligations” or “insurance” (each as defined in the applicable UCC) and/or such other category of collateral under the applicable UCC as to which the Borrower has complied with its obligations under this Section 4.01(kk);

(iii)with respect to Collateral that constitute “security entitlements”:

a.all of such security entitlements have been credited to one of the Controlled Accounts and the securities intermediary for each Controlled Account has agreed to treat all assets credited to such Controlled Account as “financial assets” within the meaning of the applicable UCC;

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b.the Borrower has taken all steps necessary to cause the securities intermediary to identify in its records the Borrower, subject to the Lien of the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, as the Person having a security entitlement against the securities intermediary in each of the Controlled Accounts; and

c.the Controlled Accounts are not in the name of any Person other than the Borrower, subject to the lien of the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties. The securities intermediary of any Controlled Account which is a “securities account” under the UCC has agreed to comply with the entitlement orders and instructions of the Borrower, the Servicer and the Collateral Agent (acting at the direction of the Administrative Agent) in accordance with the Transaction Documents, including causing cash to be invested in Permitted Investments; provided that, upon the delivery of a Notice of Exclusive Control by the Collateral Agent (acting at the direction of the Administrative Agent), the securities intermediary has agreed to only follow the entitlement orders and instructions of the Collateral Agent, on behalf of the Secured Parties, including with respect to the investment of cash in Permitted Investments;

(iv)all Controlled Accounts constitute “securities accounts” or “deposit accounts” as defined in the applicable UCC;

(v)with respect to any Controlled Account which constitutes a “deposit account” as defined in the applicable UCC, the Borrower, the Account Bank and the Collateral Agent, on behalf of the Secured Parties, have entered into an account control agreement which permits the Collateral Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties to direct disposition of the funds in such deposit account without further consent of the Borrower;

(vi)the Borrower owns and has good and marketable title to (or, with respect to assets securing any Loan Assets, a valid security interest in) the Collateral free and clear of any Lien (other than Permitted Liens) of any Person;

(vii)the Borrower has received all consents and approvals required by the terms of any Loan Asset to the granting of a security interest in the Loan Assets hereunder to the Collateral Agent, on behalf of the Secured Parties;

(viii)the Borrower has authorized the filing of all appropriate financing statements in the proper filing office in the appropriate jurisdictions under Applicable Law in order to perfect the security interest in the Collateral and that portion of the Loan Assets in which a security interest may be perfected by filing granted to the Collateral Agent, on behalf of the Secured Parties, under this Agreement;

(ix)other than as expressly permitted by the terms of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents, the security interest granted to the Collateral Agent, on behalf of the Secured Parties, pursuant to this Agreement, and any lien in favor of the Account Bank pursuant to a Control Agreement, the Borrower has not pledged, assigned, sold, granted a security interest in or otherwise conveyed any of the Collateral. The

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Borrower has not authorized the filing of and is not aware of any financing statements against the Borrower that include a description of collateral covering the Collateral other than any financing statement (A) relating to the security interests granted to the Borrower under the Sale and Contribution Agreement, or (B) that has been terminated and/or fully and validly assigned to the Collateral Agent on or prior to the Closing Date. The Borrower is not aware of the filing of any judgment or Tax lien filings against the Borrower;

(x)other than in the case of Noteless Loans, all original executed copies of each underlying promissory note that constitute or evidence each Loan Asset have been, or subject to the delivery requirements contained herein, will be delivered to the Collateral Custodian;

(xi)other than in the case of Noteless Loans, the Borrower has received, or subject to the delivery requirements contained herein will receive, a written acknowledgment from the Collateral Custodian that the Collateral Custodian, as the bailee of the Collateral Agent, is holding the underlying promissory notes that constitute or evidence the Loan Assets solely on behalf of and for the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties; provided that the acknowledgement of the Collateral Custodian set forth in Section 11.11 may serve as such acknowledgement;

(xii)none of the underlying promissory notes (if any) that constitute or evidence the Loan Assets has any marks or notations indicating that they have been pledged, assigned or otherwise conveyed to any Person other than the Collateral Agent, on behalf of the Secured Parties;

(xiii)with respect to any Collateral that constitutes a “certificated security,” such certificated security has been delivered to the Collateral Agent or the Account Bank on its behalf, on behalf of the Secured Parties and, if in registered form, has been specially Indorsed to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, or in blank by an effective Indorsement or has been registered in the name of the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, upon original issue or registration of transfer by the Borrower of such certificated security; and

(xiv)with respect to any Collateral that constitutes an “uncertificated security,” that the Borrower shall cause the issuer of such uncertificated security to register the Collateral Agent, on behalf of the Secured Parties, as the registered owner of such uncertificated security.

(ll)Borrower LLC Agreement in Effect. The Borrower LLC Agreement remains in full force and effect and there exists no breach of, default under, or threatened breach of, the Borrower LLC Agreement by the Borrower or the Transferor that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(mm)Beneficial Ownership Certification. As of the Closing Date, the information included in the Beneficial Ownership Certification is true and correct in all respects.

Section 4.02Representations and Warranties of the Borrower Relating to this Agreement and the Collateral. The Borrower hereby represents and warrants, as of the Closing

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Date, as of each applicable Cut-Off Date (solely with respect to the relevant Loan Assets being pledged as of such Cut-Off Date), as of each Measurement Date described in clauses (a), (b), (c) and (f) of the definition thereof and as of each other date provided under this Agreement or the other Transaction Documents on which such representations and warranties are required to be (or deemed to be) made:

(a)Valid Transfer and Security Interest. This Agreement constitutes a grant of a security interest in all of the Collateral to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, which is a valid and first priority perfected security interest in the Collateral and in that portion of the Collateral in which a security interest may be perfected by filing subject only to Permitted Liens. No Person claiming through or under Borrower shall have any claim to or interest in the Controlled Accounts.

(b)Eligibility of Collateral. (i) The Loan Asset Schedule, and the information contained in each Notice of Borrowing, is an accurate and complete listing of all the Loan Assets contained in the Collateral as of the related Cut-Off Date and the information contained therein with respect to the identity of such item of Collateral and the amounts owing thereunder is true and correct in all material respects as of the related Cut-Off Date, (ii) each Loan Asset designated on any Borrowing Base Certificate as an Eligible Loan Asset and each Loan Asset included as an Eligible Loan Asset in any calculation of Borrowing Base or Borrowing Base Deficiency is an Eligible Loan Asset, (iii) with respect to each Loan Asset included as an Eligible Loan Asset, the Investment Criteria were satisfied on the date on which the Borrower (or the Servicer on its behalf) committed to purchase such Eligible Loan Asset (and after giving effect to such commitment), and (iv) with respect to each item of Collateral, all consents, licenses, approvals or authorizations of or registrations or declarations of any Governmental Authority or any Person required to be obtained, effected or given by the Borrower in connection with the transfer of a security interest in each item of Collateral to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, have been duly obtained, effected or given and are in full force and effect.

(c)No Fraud. Each Loan Asset was originated without any fraud or misrepresentation by the Transferor or, to the best of the Borrower’s knowledge, on the part of the Obligor.

Section 4.03Representations and Warranties of the Servicer. The Servicer hereby represents and warrants, as of each Measurement Date described in clauses (a), (b), (c) and (f) of the definition thereof and as of each other date provided under this Agreement or the other Transaction Documents on which such representations and warranties are required to be (or deemed to be) made:

(a)Organization and Good Standing. The Servicer has been duly organized and is validly existing as a statutory trust in good standing under the laws of the State of Delaware, with all requisite trust power and authority to own or lease its properties and to conduct its business as such business is presently conducted and to enter into and perform its obligations pursuant to this Agreement.

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and approvals in all jurisdictions in which the ownership or lease of its property and or the conduct of its business requires such qualification, licenses or approvals, except as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(c)Power and Authority; Due Authorization; Execution and Delivery. The Servicer (i) has all necessary power, authority and legal right to (a) execute and deliver this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party and (b) carry out the terms of the Transaction Documents to which it is a party, and (ii) has duly authorized by all necessary trust action the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party. This Agreement and each other Transaction Document to which the Servicer is a party have been duly executed and delivered by the Servicer.

(d)Binding Obligation. This Agreement and each other Transaction Document to which the Servicer is a party constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Servicer enforceable against the Servicer in accordance with its respective terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by Bankruptcy Laws and general principles of equity (whether considered in a suit at law or in equity).

(e)No Violation. The consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a party and the fulfillment of the terms hereof and thereof will not in any material respect (i) conflict with, result in any breach of any of the terms and provisions of, or constitute (with or without notice or lapse of time or both) a default under, the Servicer’s Constituent Documents or any contractual obligation of the Servicer, (ii) result in the creation or imposition of any Lien upon any of the Servicer’s properties pursuant to the terms of any contractual obligation, other than this Agreement and Permitted Liens, or (iii) violate any Applicable Law.

(f)No Proceedings. There is no litigation, proceeding or investigation pending or, to the knowledge of the Servicer, threatened against the Servicer, before any Governmental Authority (i) asserting the invalidity of this Agreement or any other Transaction Document to which the Servicer is a party, (ii) seeking to prevent the consummation of any of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any other Transaction Document to which the Servicer is a party or (iii) seeking any determination or ruling that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(g)All Consents Required. All approvals, authorizations, consents, orders, licenses or other actions of any Person or of any Governmental Authority (if any) required for the due execution, delivery and performance by the Servicer of this Agreement and any other Transaction Document to which the Servicer is a party have been obtained, other than where the failure to do so would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(h)Reports Accurate. All Servicer’s Certificates, Servicing Report, Notices of Borrowing, Borrowing Base Certificates and other written or electronic information, exhibits, financial statements, documents, books, records or reports furnished by the Servicer to the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, the Lenders or the Collateral Custodian in connection with the Transaction Documents (other than projections, pro forma financial information forward looking information, general economic data or industry information and, with respect to

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information prepared by the Servicer or an Affiliate or agent thereof for internal use or consideration, statements as to, or the failure to make a statement as to, the value of, collectibility of, prospects of or potential risks or benefits associated with such loan or the related Obligor) are, as of their date, taken as a whole, accurate, true and correct in all material respects and no such document or certificate contains any material misstatement of fact or omits to state a material fact or any fact necessary to make the statements contained therein not misleading; provided that, solely with respect to written or electronic factual information which was provided from an Obligor with respect to a Loan Asset, such information need only be accurate, true and correct to the knowledge of the Servicer. Any projections, pro forma financial information, forward-looking information, general economic data or industry information (including, with respect to information prepared by the Servicer or an Affiliate or agent thereof for internal use or consideration, statements as to, or the failure to make a statement as to, the value of, collectability of, prospects of or potential risks or benefits associated with a Loan Asset or the related Obligor) provided by or on behalf of the Servicer were prepared in good faith based on assumptions believed by the Servicer to be reasonable at the time so prepared.

(i)Servicing Standard. The Servicer has complied in all material respects with the Servicing Standard with regard to the servicing of the Loan Assets.

(j)Collections. The Servicer acknowledges that all Available Collections received by it or its Affiliates with respect to the Collateral transferred or Granted hereunder are held and shall be held in trust for the benefit of the Secured Parties until deposited into the Collection Account within two (2) Business Days from receipt as required herein.

(k)Solvency. The Servicer is not the subject of any Bankruptcy Proceedings or Bankruptcy Event. The transactions under this Agreement and any other Transaction Document to which the Servicer is a party do not and will not render the Servicer not Solvent.

(l)Taxes. The Servicer has filed or caused to be filed on a timely basis all income and other material tax returns that are required to be filed by it under Applicable Law (subject to any extensions to file properly obtained by the same) and is not liable for Taxes payable by any other Person. The Servicer has paid or made adequate provisions for the payment of all Taxes and all assessments made against it or any of its property (other than any amount of Tax the validity of which is currently being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and with respect to which reserves in accordance with GAAP have been provided on the books of the Servicer), and no Tax lien (other than a Permitted Lien) has been filed and no claim is being asserted, with respect to any such Tax, assessment or other charge.

(m)Exchange Act Compliance; Regulations T, U and X. No portion of the proceeds of any Advance shall be used in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, that causes such Advance or the application of such proceeds to violate Regulation U or Regulation X of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve.

(n)Security Interest. The Servicer will take all steps necessary to ensure that the Borrower has granted a security interest (as defined in the UCC) to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, in the Collateral, which is enforceable in accordance with Applicable Law upon execution and delivery of this Agreement and such security interest is a valid

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and first priority perfected security interest in the Loan Assets and that portion of the Collateral in which a security interest may be perfected by filing (except for any Permitted Liens). All filings (including, such UCC filings) as are necessary for the perfection of the Secured Parties’ security interest in the Loan Assets and that portion of the Collateral in which a security interest may be perfected by filing have been (or prior to the applicable Advance will be) made.

(o)ERISA. The Servicer neither sponsors nor maintains any Servicer Pension Plan. No Servicer ERISA Event has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur that, in the aggregate, would reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

(p)Anti-Terrorism; OFAC; Anti-Corruption.

(i)None of the Servicer nor any of its Affiliates is, or is owned or controlled by one or more Persons that is, (x) the subject of any Sanctions, or (y) located, organized or resident in a country or territory that is, or whose government is, the subject of comprehensive territorial Sanctions (including, without limitation, Crimea, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Syria, and the so-called Donetsk People's Republic and the Luhansk People's Republic).

(ii)The Servicer is not (x) is a Politically Exposed Person, immediate family member of a Politically Exposed Person or close associate of a Politically Exposed Person; or (y) a foreign shell bank. For purposes of the forgoing, “foreign shell bank” means a bank that does not maintain a physical presence in any country and is not subject to inspection by a banking authority.

(iii)No part of the proceeds of any Advance will be used by the Servicer or any of its Affiliates, or, to the knowledge of the Servicer, permitted to be used by any other Person (in each case, directly or indirectly including by an Obligor), nor will the Servicer or any of its Affiliates lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any Person, (x) to fund any activities or business of or with any Person or in any country or territory, that, at the time of such funding, is, or whose government is, the subject of Sanctions, (y) to fund or facilitate any money laundering or terrorist financing activities, or (z) in any other manner that would cause or result in a violation of any Anti-Corruption Laws, Anti-Money Laundering Laws or Sanctions by any Person (including any party to this Agreement).

(iv)No Collateral or any portion thereof is or will consist of funds, assets or other property or interests in property that is blocked or frozen pursuant to any Sanctions.

(v)The Servicer acknowledges by executing this Agreement that Lenders (or the Administrative Agent on their behalf) have notified the Servicer that, pursuant to the requirements of the Patriot Act, each Lender is required to obtain, verify and record such information as may be necessary to identify the Servicer or any Person owning twenty-five percent (25%) or more of the direct or indirect Equity Interests of the Servicer (including the name and address of such Person) in accordance with the Patriot Act.

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promote and achieve compliance with the Anti-Corruption Laws, the Anti-Money Laundering Laws, Sanctions and with the representations and warranties contained herein.

(q)[Reserved].

(r)No Injunctions. No injunction, writ, restraining order or other order of any nature adversely affects the Servicer’s performance of its obligations under this Agreement or any Transaction Document to which the Servicer is a party.

(s)Instructions to Obligors. The Collection Account is the only account to which Obligors, agent banks or administrative agents on the Loan Assets have been instructed by the Servicer on the Borrower’s behalf to send Principal Collections and Interest Collections on the Collateral.

(t)[Reserved].

(u)Servicer Default. No event has occurred which constitutes a Servicer Default (other than any Servicer Default which has previously been disclosed to the Administrative Agent as such).

(v)Broker/Dealer. The Servicer is not a broker/dealer or subject to the Securities Investor Protection Act of 1970, as amended.

(w)Compliance with Applicable Law. The Servicer has complied in all material respects with all Applicable Law to which it may be subject.

Section 4.04Representations and Warranties of the Collateral Agent. The Collateral Agent in its individual capacity and as Collateral Agent represents and warrants as follows:

(a)Organization; Power and Authority. It is a duly organized and validly existing national banking association in good standing under the laws of the United States. It has full corporate power, authority and legal right to execute, deliver and perform its obligations as Collateral Agent under this Agreement.

(b)Due Authorization. The execution and delivery of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions provided for herein have been duly authorized by all necessary association action on its part, either in its individual capacity or as Collateral Agent, as the case may be.

(c)No Conflict. The execution and delivery of this Agreement, the performance of the transactions contemplated hereby to be performed by it and the fulfillment of the terms hereof applicable to it will not conflict with, result in any breach of its articles of incorporation or bylaws or any of the terms and provisions of, or constitute (with or without notice or lapse of time or both) a default under any indenture, contract, agreement, mortgage, deed of trust, or other instrument to which the Collateral Agent is a party or by which it or any of its property is bound.

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(d)No Violation. The execution and delivery of this Agreement, the performance of the transactions contemplated hereby to be performed by it and the fulfillment of the terms hereof applicable to it will not conflict with or violate, in any respect, any Applicable Law.

(e)All Consents Required. All approvals, authorizations, consents, orders or other actions of any Person or Governmental Authority applicable to the Collateral Agent, required in connection with the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the performance by the Collateral Agent of the transactions contemplated hereby to be performed by it and the fulfillment by the Collateral Agent of the terms hereof applicable to it have been obtained.

(f)Validity, Etc. This Agreement constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Collateral Agent, enforceable against the Collateral Agent in accordance with its terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by applicable Bankruptcy Laws and general principles of equity (whether considered in a suit at law or in equity).

Section 4.05Representations and Warranties of the Collateral Custodian. The Collateral Custodian in its individual capacity and as Collateral Custodian represents and warrants as follows:

(a)Organization; Power and Authority. It is a duly organized and validly existing national banking association in good standing under the laws of the United States. It has full corporate power, authority and legal right to execute, deliver and perform its obligations as Collateral Custodian under this Agreement.

(b)Due Authorization. The execution and delivery of this Agreement and the consummation of the transactions provided for herein have been duly authorized by all necessary association action on its part, either in its individual capacity or as Collateral Custodian, as the case may be.

(c)No Conflict. The execution and delivery of this Agreement, the performance of the transactions contemplated hereby to be performed by it and the fulfillment of the terms hereof applicable to it will not conflict with, result in any breach of its articles of incorporation or bylaws or any of the terms and provisions of, or constitute (with or without notice or lapse of time or both) a default under any indenture, contract, agreement, mortgage, deed of trust, or other instrument to which the Collateral Custodian is a party or by which it or any of its property is bound.

(d)No Violation. The execution and delivery of this Agreement, the performance of the transactions contemplated hereby to be performed by it and the fulfillment of the terms hereof applicable to it will not conflict with or violate, in any respect, any Applicable Law.

(e)All Consents Required. All approvals, authorizations, consents, orders or other actions of any Person or Governmental Authority applicable to the Collateral Custodian, required in connection with the execution and delivery of this Agreement, the performance by the Collateral Custodian of the transactions contemplated hereby to be performed by it and the fulfillment by the Collateral Custodian of the terms hereof applicable to it have been obtained.

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(f)Validity, Etc. This Agreement constitutes the legal, valid and binding obligation of the Collateral Custodian, enforceable against the Collateral Custodian in accordance with its terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by applicable Bankruptcy Laws and general principles of equity (whether considered in a suit at law or in equity).

ARTICLE V

GENERAL COVENANTS

Section 5.01Affirmative Covenants of the Borrower.

From the Closing Date until the Collection Date:

(a)Organizational Procedures and Scope of Business. The Borrower will observe all organizational procedures required by its Constituent Documents in all material respects and the laws of its jurisdiction of formation. Without limiting the foregoing, the Borrower will limit the scope of its business to:  (i) (x) originating Investments (as defined in the Borrower LLC Agreement), (y) acquiring Permitted Investments or (z) acquiring Investments by means of purchase from the Transferor; (ii) entering into this Agreement and borrowing Advances under this Agreement, and entering into all other documents required, appropriate or otherwise incident thereto or with respect to any similar credit documentation (including, without limitation, any Transaction Document), and granting liens and security interests in respect of the Investments and certain other collateral of the Borrower and the proceeds thereof pursuant to this Agreement, for the purpose of financing in part the acquisition of Investments; (iii) acquiring Securities (as defined in the Borrower LLC Agreement) solely in conjunction with or as a result of the purchase of Secured Debt (as defined in the Borrower LLC Agreement); (iv) owning, administrating, exercising rights and remedies with respect to, and disposing of the Secured Debt, Permitted Investments, other Investments and Securities as provided hereunder, including sales (by assignment or participation) of the Secured Debt, Permitted Investments, other Investments and Securities (including to other affiliates of the Borrower in accordance with the terms hereof); (v) activities which are necessary, suitable or convenient to accomplish the foregoing or are incidental thereto or connected therewith; and (vi) such other activities as may be required in connection with the acquisition, modification, renegotiation and disposition of the Investments and the other collateral items related thereto and distributions to the Transferor.

(b)Special Purpose Entity Requirements. The Borrower will at all times:  (i)  maintain at least one (1) Independent Manager; (ii) maintain its own separate books and records and bank accounts; (iii) hold itself out to the public and all other Persons as a legal entity separate from the Transferor and any other Person; (iv) file its own tax returns, if any, as may be required under Applicable Law, to the extent it is (A) not part of a consolidated group filing a consolidated return or returns or (B) not treated as a division for tax purposes of another taxpayer, and pay any Taxes so required to be paid under Applicable Law in accordance with the terms of this Agreement; (v) not commingle its assets with assets of any other Person; (vi) conduct its business in its own name and strictly comply with all organizational formalities to maintain its separate existence; (vii) maintain separate financial statements, except to the extent that the Borrower’s financial and operating results are consolidated with those of the Transferor in consolidated financial statements; provided that appropriate notation shall be made on such

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consolidated financial statements to indicate the separateness of the Borrower from such Affiliate and to indicate that the Borrower’s assets and credit are not available to satisfy the debts and other obligations of such Affiliate or any other Person; (viii) pay its own liabilities only out of its own funds; (ix) maintain an arm’s-length relationship with its Affiliates and not enter into any transaction with an Affiliate except on commercially reasonable terms similar to those available to unaffiliated parties in an arm’s length transaction (except for capital contributions or capital distributions permitted under the terms and conditions of the Borrower’s organizational document and properly reflected on the books and records of the Borrower); (x) pay the salaries of its own employees, if any; (xi) not hold out its credit or assets as being available to satisfy the obligations of others; (xii) allocate fairly and reasonably any overhead for shared office space; (xiii) to the extent used, use separate stationery, invoices and checks; (xiv) except as expressly permitted by this Agreement, not pledge its assets as security for the obligations of any other Person; (xv) correct any known misunderstanding regarding its separate identity; (xvi) maintain adequate capital in light of its contemplated business purpose transactions and liabilities and pay its operating expenses and liabilities from its own assets; (xvii) cause the managers, officers, agents and other representatives of the Borrower to act at all times with respect to the Borrower consistently and in furtherance of the foregoing and in the best interests of the Borrower; (xviii) not acquire the obligations or any securities of its Affiliates, other than Equity Interests in Borrower Subsidiaries; (xix) where necessary, obtain proper authorization from its manager for limited liability company action; (xx) not engage in any dissolution, liquidation, consolidation or merger and not divide or permit any division of the Borrower; (xxi) not own any asset or property other than Collateral and incidental personal property necessary for the ownership of Collateral and (xxii) not incur, create or assume any indebtedness other than as expressly permitted under this Agreement.

(c)Preservation of Company Existence. The Borrower will preserve and maintain its limited liability company existence in good standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of formation and will promptly obtain and thereafter maintain qualifications to do business as a foreign limited liability company in any other state in which it does business and in which it is required to so qualify under Applicable Law.

(d)Compliance with Legal Opinions. The Borrower shall take all other actions necessary to maintain the accuracy of the factual assumptions set forth in the legal opinions of Dechert LLP, as special counsel to the Borrower, issued in connection with the Sale and Contribution Agreement and relating to the issues of substantive consolidation and true sale of the Loan Assets.

(e)Deposit of Collections. The Borrower shall promptly (but in no event later than two (2) Business Days after receipt) deposit or cause to be deposited into the Collection Account (or, with respect to assets denominated in an Eligible Currency other than Dollars, the applicable Eligible Currency Account) any and all Available Collections received by the Borrower, the Servicer or any of their Affiliates.

(f)Disclosure of Purchase Price. The Borrower shall disclose to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders the purchase price for each Loan Asset proposed to be acquired by the Borrower.

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(g)Obligor Defaults and Bankruptcy Events. The Borrower shall give, or shall cause the Servicer to give, notice to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders (with a copy to the Collateral Agent) within five (5) Business Days of the Borrower’s knowledge of the occurrence of any payment default by an Obligor under any Loan Asset, any Bankruptcy Event with respect to any Obligor under any Loan Asset or any acceleration of the obligations owed by any Obligor under any Loan Asset.

(h)Required Loan Documents. The Borrower shall deliver to the Collateral Custodian a hard copy or electronic copy of the Required Loan Documents and the Loan Asset Checklist pertaining to each Loan Asset as required pursuant to Section 3.04(b).

(i)Taxes. The Borrower will file or cause to be filed its tax returns, if any, and pay any and all federal and other Taxes imposed on it or its property as required by the Transaction Documents (except as contemplated in Section 4.01(m)).

(j)Notice of Event of Default. The Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and each Lender of the occurrence of any Event of Default under this Agreement promptly upon, and in any event within three (3) Business Days of the earlier of notice or a Responsible Officer having obtained knowledge of such event. In addition, no later than three (3) Business Days following the earlier of notice or a Responsible Officer having obtained knowledge of the occurrence of any Event of Default or Unmatured Event of Default, the Borrower will provide to the Administrative Agent and each Lender a written statement of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower setting forth the details of such event and the action that the Borrower proposes to take with respect thereto.

(k)[Reserved].

(l)[Reserved].

(m)Notice of Auditors’ Management Letters. The Borrower shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent and each Lender (with a copy to the Collateral Agent) after the receipt of any auditors’ management letters received by the Borrower or by its accountants.

(n)Notice of Breaches of Representations and Warranties under this Agreement. The Borrower shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and each Lender if any representation or warranty set forth in Section 4.01 or Section 4.02 was incorrect at the time it was given or deemed to have been given and at the same time deliver to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders a written notice setting forth in reasonable detail the nature of such facts and circumstances.

(o)Notice of Breaches of Representations and Warranties under the Sale and Contribution Agreement. The Borrower confirms and agrees that the Borrower will, upon receipt of notice or discovery thereof, promptly send to the Administrative Agent, each Lender and the Collateral Agent a notice of (i) any breach of any representation, warranty, agreement or covenant under the Sale and Contribution Agreement or (ii) any event or occurrence that, upon notice, or upon the passage of time or both, would constitute such a breach.

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(p)Notice of Proceedings. The Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and each Lender, as soon as possible and in any event within five (5) Business Days, after the Borrower receives notice or obtains knowledge thereof, of any settlement of, material judgment (including a material judgment with respect to the liability phase of a bifurcated trial) in or commencement of any material labor controversy, material litigation, material action, material suit or material proceeding before any court or governmental department, commission, board, bureau, agency or instrumentality, domestic or foreign, affecting the Collateral, the Transaction Documents, the Collateral Agent’s security interest in the Collateral, or the Borrower.

(q)Notice of ERISA Events. The Borrower shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and each Lender (i) in the event that a Lien is imposed on any asset of the Borrower with respect to any Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan or (ii) in the event any ERISA Event occurs.

(r)Notice of Benefit Plan Investor Status or Prohibited Transaction. The Borrower shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and each Lender in the event the Borrower becomes a Benefit Plan Investor, in the event the entering into and performance of this Agreement or any transaction contemplated hereby become prohibited under state statutes regulating investments of and fiduciary obligations with respect to Governmental Plans or under Similar Law, or in the event the Borrower has knowledge that this Agreement or any transaction contemplated hereby will constitute or result in a non-exempt prohibited transaction under Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code.

(s)Notice of Accounting Changes. Promptly and in any event within five (5) Business Days after the effective date thereof, the Borrower will provide to the Administrative Agent and each Lender notice of any material change in the accounting policies of the Borrower; provided that any change of the accounting policies of the Transferor which are made available via ▇▇▇▇▇, or any successor system of the Securities Exchange Commission, in the Transferor’s quarterly report on Form 10-Q and annual report on Form 10-K, shall be deemed delivered to the Administrative Agent and each Lender on the date such documents are made so available.

(t)Additional Documents. The Borrower shall provide the Administrative Agent and each Lender with (i) copies of such documents as the Administrative Agent or any Lender may reasonably request evidencing the truthfulness of the representations set forth in this Agreement and available to the Borrower without undue burden or expense, other than such documents which may not be disclosed without violation of any Applicable Law or contractually binding confidentiality restrictions (except that it agrees to use all reasonable efforts to cause such confidentiality restrictions to be removed, it being understood that the requesting party may be required to sign a confidentiality or non-reliance agreement or other similar agreement as a condition to any such disclosure), or (ii) information and documentation reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent or any Lender for purposes of compliance with the applicable “know your customer” requirements under the Patriot Act or other applicable Anti-Money Laundering Laws.

(u)Protection of Security Interest. With respect to the Collateral acquired by the Borrower, the Borrower will (i) if such Collateral is acquired from the Transferor or its Affiliates, acquire such Collateral pursuant to and in accordance with the terms of the Sale and

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Contribution Agreement, (ii) (at the expense of the Borrower) take all action necessary to perfect, protect and more fully evidence the Borrower’s ownership of such Collateral free and clear of any Lien other than the Lien created hereunder and Permitted Liens, including, (A) with respect to the Loan Assets and that portion of the Collateral in which a security interest may be perfected by filing, filing and maintaining (at the expense of the Borrower), effective financing statements against the Transferor in all necessary or appropriate filing offices, (including any amendments thereto or assignments thereof) and filing continuation statements, amendments or assignments with respect thereto in such filing offices, (including any amendments thereto or assignments thereof) and (B) executing or causing to be executed such other instruments or notices as may be necessary or appropriate, (iii) (at the expense of the Borrower) take all action necessary to cause a valid, subsisting and enforceable first priority perfected security interest, subject only to Permitted Liens, to exist in favor of the Collateral Agent (for the benefit of the Secured Parties) in the Borrower’s interests in all of the Collateral being Granted hereunder including the filing of a UCC financing statement in the applicable jurisdiction adequately describing the Collateral (which may include an “all asset” filing), and naming the Borrower as debtor and the Collateral Agent as the secured party, and filing continuation statements, amendments or assignments with respect thereto in such filing offices, (including any amendments thereto or assignments thereof), (iv) permit the Administrative Agent or any Lender or their respective agents or representatives to visit the offices of the Borrower during normal office hours and upon reasonable advance notice examine and make copies of all documents, books, records and other information concerning the Collateral and discuss matters related thereto with any of the officers or employees of the Borrower having knowledge of such matters (provided that not more than one such inspection shall be permitted during any calendar year unless an Event of Default shall have occurred, and such visit shall be consolidated with any visit, inspection or audit under Section 5.03(d), 5.03(r), 6.11 or Section 11.10), and (v) take all additional action that the Administrative Agent, any Lender or the Collateral Agent may reasonably request to perfect, protect and more fully evidence the respective first priority perfected security interests of the parties to this Agreement in the Collateral, or to enable the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent to exercise or enforce any of their respective rights hereunder.

(v)Liens. The Borrower will promptly notify the Administrative Agent and the Lenders of the existence of any Lien on the Collateral (other than Permitted Liens) and the Borrower shall defend the right, title and interest of the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, in, to and under the Collateral against all claims of third parties.

(w)Other Documents. At any time from time to time upon prior written request of the Administrative Agent or any Lender, at the sole expense of the Borrower, the Borrower will promptly and duly execute and deliver such further instruments and documents (to the extent reasonably available to or reasonably obtainable by the Borrower) and take such further actions as the Administrative Agent or any Lender may reasonably request for the purposes of obtaining or preserving the full benefits of this Agreement including the first priority security interest in the Collateral (subject only to ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇) granted hereunder and of the rights and powers herein granted (including, among other things, authorizing the filing of such UCC financing statements as the Administrative Agent may request).

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federal securities laws), and Borrower shall do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and maintain in full force and effect its legal existence, and all licenses material to its business.

(y)Proper Records. The Borrower shall at all times keep proper books of records and accounts in which full, true and correct entries shall be made of its transactions in accordance with GAAP and set aside on its books from its earning for each fiscal year all such proper reserves in accordance with GAAP.

(z)Satisfaction of Obligations. The Borrower shall pay, discharge or otherwise satisfy at or before maturity or before they become delinquent, as the case may be, all its obligations of whatever nature, except where the amount or validity thereof is currently being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and reserves with respect thereto have been provided on the books of the Borrower or where failure to pay, discharge or otherwise satisfy such obligations would not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. Nothing in this Section 5.01(z) shall be construed to limit the Borrower’s obligation to pay, discharge or otherwise satisfy the Obligations.

(aa)Payment of Taxes. The Borrower shall pay and discharge all federal and other material Taxes, levies, liens (other than Permitted Liens) and other charges on it or its assets and on the Collateral that, in each case, in any manner would create any lien or charge upon the Collateral, except for any such Taxes as are being appropriately contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted and with respect to which adequate reserves have been provided in accordance with GAAP.

(bb)Tax Treatment. The Borrower, the Transferor and the Lenders shall treat the Advances advanced hereunder as indebtedness of the Borrower for U.S. federal income tax purposes and to file any and all tax forms in a manner consistent therewith.

(cc)Maintenance of Records. The Borrower will maintain records with respect to the Collateral and the conduct and operation of its business with no less a degree of prudence than if the Collateral were held by the Borrower for its own account and will furnish the Administrative Agent and each Lender, upon the reasonable request by the Administrative Agent and so long as the Administrative Agent and Lenders agree to customary confidentiality restrictions, information with respect to the Collateral and the conduct and operation of its business.

(dd)[Reserved].

(ee)[Reserved].

(ff)Continuation Statements. The Borrower shall, not earlier than six months and not later than three months prior to the fifth anniversary of the date of filing of the financing statement referred to in Schedule I hereto or any other financing statement filed pursuant to this Agreement or in connection with any Advance hereunder, unless the Collection Date shall have occurred:

(i)authorize and deliver and file or cause to be filed an appropriate continuation statement with respect to such financing statement; and

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(ii)deliver or cause to be delivered to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders an opinion of the counsel for the Borrower, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, confirming and updating the opinion delivered pursuant to Schedule I with respect to perfection and otherwise to the effect that the security interest hereunder continues to be an enforceable and perfected security interest, subject to no other Liens of record except as provided herein or otherwise permitted hereunder, which opinion may contain usual and customary assumptions, limitations and exceptions.

(gg)Disregarded Entity. The Borrower will be disregarded as an entity separate from its owner pursuant to Treasury Regulation Section 301.7701-3(b)(ii), and neither the Borrower nor any other Person on its behalf shall make an election to be treated as other than an entity disregarded from its owner under Treasury Regulation Section 301.7701-3(c).

(hh)Anti-Terrorism; OFAC; Anti-Corruption. Each of the representations and warranties set out in sub-clauses (i) through (vi) (inclusive) of Section 4.01(hh) shall be deemed herein restated and, mutatis mutandis, construed as covenants made and given under this Section 5.01.

(ii)Notices; Material Information, etc. The Borrower shall, within five (5) Business Days after filing, provide to the Administrative Agent written notification of the filing of any litigation against the Borrower or the Transferor which, if a judgment were to be obtained by the plaintiff, would result in the occurrence of an Event of Default or otherwise cause a Material Adverse Effect.

(jj)Other Reporting. The Borrower shall provide the Administrative Agent and each Lender, simultaneously with delivery to the Transferor, copies of all other financial statements, appraisal reports, notices, and other matters at any time or from time to time prepared by the Borrower and furnished to the Transferor, including, without limitation, any notice of default, notice of election or exercise of any rights or remedies under any the Borrower LLC Agreement, and any notice relating in any way to the misconduct of the Borrower or the Servicer. In respect of the foregoing, the Borrower shall disseminate such information to the Administrative Agent and each Lender either through mailings, email delivery or by posting such information on its website and giving the Administrative Agent and each Lender access thereto.

(kk)Other Information. The Borrower shall deliver, (i) promptly following the Administrative Agent’s request, in any event within ten (10) Business Days (or such later time as agreed to by the Administrative Agent) of such request, such other information, financial or otherwise, reasonably available to or reasonably obtainable by the Borrower with respect to the Borrower and the Collateral, as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request from time to time, subject to any applicable confidentiality requirements under law or contract and (ii) promptly following any change (but in no event later than ten (10) Business Days after such change) in the information provided in the Beneficial Ownership Certification that would result in a change to the list of beneficial owners identified in parts (c) or (d) of such certification.

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Section 5.02Negative Covenants of the Borrower.

From the Closing Date until the Collection Date:

(a)Special Purpose Entity Requirements. Except as otherwise permitted by this Agreement, the Borrower shall not (i) guarantee any obligation of any Person, including any Affiliate; (ii) engage, directly or indirectly, in any business, other than the actions required or permitted to be performed under the Transaction Documents; (iii) incur, create or assume any Indebtedness, other than Indebtedness incurred under the Transaction Documents; (iv) make or permit to remain outstanding any loan or advance to, or own or acquire any stock or securities of, any Person, except that the Borrower may invest in those Loan Assets and other investments permitted under the Transaction Documents, may make any advance required or expressly permitted to be made pursuant to any provisions of the Transaction Documents and permit the same to remain outstanding in accordance with such provisions, and may receive securities in connection with any workout, restructuring or bankruptcy; (v) fail to pay its debts and liabilities from its assets when due; (vi) to the fullest extent permitted by law, engage in any dissolution, liquidation, consolidation, merger, sale or other transfer of any of its assets outside the ordinary course of the Borrower’s business other than such activities as are expressly permitted pursuant to this Agreement; (vii) create, form or otherwise acquire any Subsidiaries other than Borrower Subsidiaries; or (viii) release, sell, transfer, convey or assign any Loan Asset unless in accordance with the Transaction Documents.

(b)Requirements for Material Actions. The Borrower shall not fail to provide (and at all times the Borrower’s organizational documents shall reflect) that the unanimous consent of all managers (including the consent of the Independent Manager(s)) is required for the Borrower to (i) file any insolvency, or reorganization case or proceeding, (ii) institute proceedings to have the Borrower be adjudicated bankrupt or insolvent, (iii) institute proceedings under any applicable insolvency law, (iv) seek any relief under any law relating to relief from debts or the protection of debtors, (v) consent to the filing or institution of bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings against the Borrower, (vi) file a petition seeking, or consent to, reorganization or relief with respect to the Borrower under any applicable federal or state law relating to bankruptcy or insolvency, (vii) seek or consent to the appointment of a receiver, liquidator, assignee, trustee, sequestrator, custodian, or any similar official of or for the Borrower, or a substantial part of its property, (viii) make any assignment for the benefit of its creditors, (ix) admit in writing its inability to pay its debts generally as they become due, or (x) take any action in furtherance of any of the foregoing.

(c)Protection of Title. The Borrower shall not take any action which would directly or indirectly impair or adversely affect the Borrower’s title to the Collateral.

(d)Transfer Limitations. The Borrower shall not transfer, assign, convey, grant, bargain, sell, set over, deliver or otherwise dispose of, or pledge or hypothecate, directly or indirectly, any interest in the Collateral to any person other than the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties, or engage in financing transactions or similar transactions with respect to the Collateral with any person other than the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, in each case, except as otherwise expressly permitted by the terms of this Agreement.

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(e)Liens. The Borrower shall not create, incur or permit to exist any Lien in or on any of the Collateral subject to the security interest granted by the Borrower pursuant to this Agreement (and, in the event the transfer of any Related Asset pursuant to the Sale and Contribution Agreement is treated as a financing and not as a sale, the Lien on such Related Assets in favor of the Collateral Agent as assignee of the Borrower pursuant to the Sale and Contribution Agreement), other than Permitted Liens.

(f)Organizational Documents. The Borrower shall not amend, modify or terminate any of the Constituent Documents of the Borrower in any manner that could reasonably be expected to be materially adverse to the Lenders (as determined by the Borrower in its reasonable discretion) without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent (acting at the direction of the Required Lenders, each in its sole and absolute discretion).

(g)Merger, Acquisitions, Sales, etc. The Borrower shall not change its organizational structure, enter into any transaction of merger or consolidation or amalgamation, or asset sale (other than pursuant to Section 2.07), or liquidate, wind up or dissolve itself (or suffer any liquidation, winding up or dissolution) without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent (which shall, in the case of any merger, consolidation, amalgamation, liquidation, winding-up or dissolution, act at the direction of the Required Lenders, each in its sole and absolute discretion).

(h)Use of Proceeds. The Borrower shall not use the proceeds of any Advance other than (i) to finance the origination of Eligible Loan Assets or the purchase by the Borrower, on a “true sale” basis, of Eligible Loan Assets, (ii) to pay fees and expenses in connection with the transactions contemplated under this Agreement, (iii) to meet the funding obligations of Delayed Draw Loan Assets and Revolving Loans and/or fund the Unfunded Exposure Account in order to establish reserves for unfunded commitments of Delayed Draw Loan Assets and Revolving Loans included in the Collateral or (iv) to distribute such proceeds to the Transferor.  The Borrower will not purchase any Loan Asset from any Affiliate of ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Bank, N.A. with the proceeds of any Advance made by ▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Bank, N.A. in its capacity as a Lender; provided that the unintentional violation of this provision shall not constitute an Event of Default so long as the Servicer, on behalf of the Borrower, uses commercially reasonable efforts to cancel any trade which it determines to be in violation of this covenant prior to the date of settlement of such trade or promptly dispose of any such Loan Asset upon obtaining knowledge of such affiliation.

(i)Limited Assets. The Borrower shall not hold or own any assets that are not part of the Collateral.

(j)Tax Treatment. The Borrower shall not elect to be treated as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes and shall take all reasonable steps necessary to avoid being treated as a corporation for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

(k)[Reserved].

(l)Sale and Contribution Agreement. The Borrower will not amend, modify, waive or terminate any provision of the Sale and Contribution Agreement without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent.

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(m)Restricted Junior Payments. The Borrower shall not make any Restricted Junior Payment, except that, so long as the Facility Maturity Date has not been declared or automatically occurred and no Event of Default or Unmatured Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result therefrom, (A) the Borrower may declare and make Restricted Junior Payments to the holders of its membership interests (x) on any day during the Revolving Period of Loan Assets and from Interest Collections, Principal Collections or proceeds of any Advance (excluding any such amounts needed such to settle the acquisition of any Eligible Loan Assets) so long as, as certified to the Administrative Agent in writing by the Borrower and the Servicer (with a copy to the Collateral Agent), to their knowledge and based upon the most current information then available to them (in each case both before and immediately after such distribution): (i) in the case of Interest Collections, Principal Collections and proceeds of Advances, the amounts remaining on deposit in the Collection Account, together with amounts reasonably expected to be received on the Loan Assets prior to the next Determination Date shall be sufficient to pay all payments required to be made on the next Payment Date pursuant to Section 2.04(a)(i)-(xiv) and Section 2.04(b)(i)-(ix); (ii) in the case of the Loan Assets that are Transferred Assets, subject to the Affiliate Sale Limit (excluding from the limitation in this clause (ii) any Loan Assets transferred to a CLO); and (iii) no Borrowing Base Deficiency shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom, and (y) on any Payment Date, from amounts available pursuant to Sections 2.04(a)(xv), 2.04(b)(x) and 2.04(c)(xiv) and (B) following the Closing Date Restructuring, the Borrower may make Permitted RIC Distributions on any Business Day so long as, as certified to the Administrative Agent in writing by the Borrower and the Servicer, to their knowledge and based upon the most current information then available to them (in each case both before and immediately after such distribution), the amounts remaining on deposit in the Collection Account, together with amounts reasonably expected to be received on the Loan Assets prior to the next Determination Date shall be sufficient to pay all payments required to be made on the next Payment Date pursuant to Section 2.04(a)(i)-(xiv) and Section 2.04(b)(i)-(ix). Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, following the Closing Date Restructuring, Permitted RIC Distributions shall be permitted hereunder subject at all times to the limitations expressly permitted under the definition of “Permitted RIC Distribution” and subject to each of the limitations and conditions set forth therein; provided that after the occurrence and during the continuation of a Tier Two Event of Default Permitted RIC Distributions may be made only pursuant to Section 2.04(c).

(n)ERISA Matters. The Borrower will not (i) take, and will exercise its best efforts not to permit any ERISA Affiliate to take, any action that could reasonably be expected to result in an ERISA Event that, in the aggregate, could result in a Material Adverse Effect, or (ii) take, and will exercise its best efforts not to permit any ERISA Affiliate to take, any action that could result in the imposition of a Lien on any asset of the Borrower with respect to any Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan that in either case, alone or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect or otherwise limit the Transferor in the performance of its duties hereunder. The Borrower will not become a Benefit Plan Investor.

(o)Instructions to Obligors. The Borrower will not make any change, or permit the Servicer to make any change, in its instructions to Obligors, agent banks or administrative agents on the Loan Assets regarding payments to be made with respect to the Collateral to the Collection Account (or, with respect to assets denominated in an Eligible Currency other than

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Dollars, the applicable Eligible Currency Account), unless the Administrative Agent has consented to such change.

(p)Change of Jurisdiction, Location, Names or Location of Loan Files. The Borrower shall not change the jurisdiction of its formation, make any change to its corporate name or use any tradenames, fictitious names, assumed names, “doing business as” names or other names unless, prior to the effective date of any such change in the jurisdiction of its formation, name change or use, the Borrower receives prior written consent from the Administrative Agent of such change and delivers to the Administrative Agent such financing statements as the Administrative Agent may request to reflect such name change or use, together with such Opinions of Counsel and other documents and instruments as the Administrative Agent may request in connection therewith. The Borrower will not change the location of its chief executive office unless prior to the effective date of any such change of location, the Borrower notifies the Administrative Agent of such change of location in writing. The Borrower will not move, or consent to the Collateral Custodian or the Servicer moving, the Loan Files from the location thereof on the Closing Date, unless the Administrative Agent shall consent to such move in writing and the Servicer shall provide the Administrative Agent with such Opinions of Counsel and other documents and instruments as the Administrative Agent may request in connection therewith.

Section 5.03Affirmative Covenants of the Servicer.

From the Closing Date until the Collection Date:

(a)Compliance with Law. The Servicer shall comply with all Applicable Law to which it may be subject, and the Servicer shall do or cause to be done all things necessary to preserve and maintain in full force and effect its legal existence and all licenses material to its business, in each case, except as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(b)Preservation of Company Existence. The Servicer will preserve and maintain its existence, rights, franchises and privileges in the jurisdiction of its formation, and qualify and remain qualified in good standing in each jurisdiction where the failure to preserve and maintain such existence, rights, franchises, privileges and qualification could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(c)Obligations and Compliance with Collateral. The Servicer will duly fulfill and comply in all material respects with all obligations on the part of the Borrower to be fulfilled or complied with under or in connection with the administration of each item of Collateral and will do nothing to impair the rights of the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, or of the Secured Parties in, to and under the Collateral. It is understood and agreed that the Servicer does not hereby assume any obligations of the Borrower in respect of any Advances or assume any responsibility for the performance by the Borrower of any of its obligations hereunder or under any other agreement executed in connection herewith that would be inconsistent with its undertaking as the Servicer or in its capacity as the Transferor under the Sale and Contribution Agreement.

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(d)Keeping of Records and Books of Account.

(i)The Servicer will maintain and implement administrative and operating procedures (including, an ability to recreate records evidencing Collateral in the event of the destruction of the originals thereof), and keep and maintain all documents, books, records and other information necessary or advisable for the collection of all Collateral and the identification of the Collateral.

(ii)Subject to Section 6.11, the Servicer shall permit the Administrative Agent, each Lender or their respective agents or representatives, to visit the offices of the Servicer during normal office hours and upon reasonable advance notice and examine and make copies of all documents, books, records and other information concerning the Collateral and the Servicer’s servicing thereof and discuss matters related thereto with any of the officers or employees of the Servicer having knowledge of such matters (provided that not more than one such inspection shall be permitted during any calendar year unless an Event of Default shall have occurred, and such visit shall be consolidated with any visit, inspection or audit under Section 5.03(r), 6.11 or Section 11.10).

(iii)The Servicer will on or prior to the Closing Date, mark its internal records to reflect the ownership of the Collateral by the Borrower.

(e)Preservation of Security Interest. The Servicer (at the Borrower’s expense) will file such financing and continuation statements and any other documents that may be required by any law or regulation of any Governmental Authority to preserve and protect fully the first priority perfected security interest of the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, in, to and under the Loan Assets and that portion of the Collateral in which a security interest may be perfected by filing.

(f)Events of Default. The Servicer will provide the Administrative Agent and each Lender (with a copy to the Collateral Agent) with prompt written notice of the occurrence of each Event of Default and each Unmatured Event of Default of which the Servicer has knowledge or has received notice. In addition, no later than three (3) Business Days following the Servicer’s knowledge or notice of the occurrence of any Event of Default or Unmatured Event of Default, the Servicer will provide to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent and each Lender a written statement of the Responsible Officer of the Servicer setting forth the details of such event and the action that the Servicer proposes to take with respect thereto.

(g)Closing Date Restructuring. Within ten (10) Business Days of the Closing Date, the Servicer shall cause the Closing Date Restructuring to be completed.

(h)Other. The Servicer will promptly furnish to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent and each Lender, to the extent reasonably available to or reasonably obtainable by the Servicer and subject to any applicable confidentiality requirements under law or contract, such other information, documents, records or reports respecting the Collateral or the condition or operations, financial or otherwise, of the Borrower or the Servicer as the Collateral Agent, any Lender or the Administrative Agent may from time to time reasonably request in order

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to protect the interests of the Administrative Agent, the Lenders, the Collateral Agent or Secured Parties under or as contemplated by this Agreement.

(i)Proceedings Related to the Borrower, the Transferor and the Servicer and the Transaction Documents. The Servicer shall notify the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and each Lender promptly after the Servicer receives notice or obtains knowledge thereof of any settlement of, judgment (including a judgment with respect to the liability phase of a bifurcated trial) in or commencement of any labor controversy, litigation, action, suit or proceeding before any court or governmental department, commission, board, bureau, agency or instrumentality, domestic or foreign, that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect on the Transferor or the Servicer (or any Affiliate thereof that manages the Transferor or the Servicer) or the Transaction Documents. For purposes of this Section 5.03(i), (i) any settlement, judgment, labor controversy, litigation, action, suit or proceeding affecting the Transaction Documents that would reasonably be expected to result in liability in excess of $1,000,000 shall be deemed to be expected to have such a Material Adverse Effect and (ii) any settlement, judgment, labor controversy, litigation, action, suit or proceeding affecting the Servicer or the Transferor that would reasonably be expected to result in liability in excess of $25,000,000 shall be deemed to be expected to have such a Material Adverse Effect.

(j)Deposit of Collections. The Servicer shall promptly (but in no event later than two (2) Business Days after receipt) deposit or cause to be deposited into the Collection Account any and all Available Collections received by the Borrower, the Servicer or any of their Affiliates.

(k)Special Purpose Entity Requirements. At the Borrower’s expense, the Servicer shall take such actions as are necessary to cause the Borrower to be in compliance with the special purpose entity requirements set forth in Sections 5.01(a) and 5.01(b) and 5.02(a) and 5.02(b); provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, the Servicer shall not be required to expend any of its own funds to cause the Borrower to be in compliance with subsection 5.02(a)(v) or subsection 5.01(b)(xvi).

(l)Accounting Changes. As soon as possible and in any event within two (2) Business Days after the effective date thereof, the Servicer will provide to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders notice of any change in the accounting policies of the Servicer; provided that any change of the accounting policies of the Servicer which are made available via ▇▇▇▇▇, or any successor system of the Securities Exchange Commission, in the Transferor’s quarterly report on Form 10-Q and annual report on Form 10-K, shall be deemed delivered to the Administrative Agent and each Lender on the date such documents are made so available.

(m)Proceedings Related to the Collateral. The Servicer shall notify the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and each Lender as soon as possible and in any event within two (2) Business Days after any Responsible Officer of the Servicer receives notice or has actual knowledge of any settlement of, judgment (including a judgment with respect to the liability phase of a bifurcated trial) in or commencement of any labor controversy, litigation, action, suit or proceeding before any court or governmental department, commission, board, bureau, agency or instrumentality, domestic or foreign, that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect on the interests of the Collateral Agent or the Secured Parties in, to and under the Collateral.

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For purposes of this Section 5.03(m), any settlement, judgment, labor controversy, litigation, action, suit or proceeding affecting the Collateral or the Collateral Agent’s or the Secured Parties’ interest in the Collateral in excess of $1,000,000 or more shall be deemed to be expected to have such a Material Adverse Effect.

(n)Compliance with Legal Opinions. The Servicer shall take all other actions necessary to maintain the accuracy of the factual assumptions set forth in the legal opinions of Dechert LLP, as special counsel to the Servicer, issued in connection with the Transaction Documents and relating to the issues of substantive consolidation and true sale of the Loan Assets.

(o)Instructions to Agents and Obligors. Subject to Section 6.04(d), the Servicer shall direct, or shall cause the Transferor to direct, any agent or administrative agent for any Loan Asset to remit all payments and collections with respect to such Loan Asset, and, if applicable, to direct the Obligor with respect to such Loan Asset to remit all such payments and collections with respect to such Loan Asset directly to the Collection Account (or, with respect to assets denominated in an Eligible Currency other than Dollars, the applicable Eligible Currency Account). The Servicer shall take steps consistent with the Servicing Standard to ensure, and shall cause the Transferor to take commercially reasonable steps to ensure, that only funds constituting payments and collections relating to Loan Assets shall be deposited into the Collection Account.

(p)Capacity as Servicer. The Servicer will ensure that, at all times when it is dealing with or in connection with the Loan Assets in its capacity as Servicer, it holds itself out as Servicer, and not in any other capacity.

(q)Notice of Breaches of Representations and Warranties under the Sale and Contribution Agreement. The Servicer confirms and agrees that the Servicer will, upon receipt of notice or discovery thereof, promptly send to the Administrative Agent, each Lender and the Collateral Agent a notice of (i) any breach of any representation, warranty, agreement or covenant under the Sale and Contribution Agreement or (ii) any event or occurrence that, upon notice, or upon the passage of time or both, would constitute such a breach, in each case, promptly upon learning thereof.

(r)Audits. Periodically after the Closing Date, at the discretion of the Administrative Agent and each Lender, the Servicer shall allow the Administrative Agent and each Lender (during normal office hours and, prior to the occurrence of an Event of Default, upon not less than five (5) Business Days’ advance notice) to review the Servicer’s collection and administration of the Collateral in order to assess compliance by the Servicer with the Servicing Standard, as well as with the Transaction Documents, and to conduct an audit of the Collateral and Required Loan Documents in conjunction with such a review (provided that the Administrative Agent and the Lenders collectively may perform not more than one such audit annually, and the Servicer shall not be liable for the costs and expenses of more than one such audit, in any calendar year unless an Event of Default has occurred hereunder, and such audit shall be consolidated with any visit, inspection or audit under Section 5.03(d),  6.11 or 11.10).

(s)Notice of Breaches of Representations and Warranties under this Agreement. The Servicer shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent and the Lenders (with a copy to the Collateral Agent) if any representation or warranty set forth in Section 4.03 was

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incorrect at the time it was given or deemed to have been given and at the same time deliver to the Collateral Agent, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders a written notice setting forth in reasonable detail the nature of such facts and circumstances.

(t)Insurance Policies. The Servicer has caused, and will cause, to be performed any and all acts required to be performed to preserve the rights and remedies of the Collateral Agent and the Secured Parties in any Insurance Policies applicable to Loan Assets (to the extent the Servicer or an Affiliate of the Servicer is the agent or servicer under the applicable Underlying Instruments) including, in each case, any necessary notifications of insurers, assignments of policies or interests therein, and establishments of co-insured, joint loss payee and mortgagee rights in favor of the Collateral Agent and the Secured Parties; provided that, unless the Borrower is the sole lender under such Underlying Instruments, the Servicer shall only take such actions that are customarily taken by or on behalf of a lender in a syndicated loan facility to preserve the rights of such lender.

(u)Disregarded Entity. The Servicer shall cause the Borrower to be disregarded as an entity separate from its owner pursuant to Treasury Regulation Section 301.7701-3(b)(ii) and shall cause that neither the Borrower nor any other Person on its behalf shall make an election to be treated as other than an entity disregarded from its owner under Treasury Regulation Section 301.7701-3(c).

(v)Anti-Terrorism; OFAC; Anti-Corruption. Each of the representations and warranties set out in sub-clauses (i) through (vi) (inclusive) of Section 4.03(p) shall be deemed herein restated and, mutatis mutandis, construed as covenants made and given under this Section 5.03.

(w)Value Adjustment Event. The Servicer will provide the Administrative Agent with prompt written notice (which notice may be made by electronic delivery) of the occurrence of any Value Adjustment Event with respect to any Eligible Loan Asset of which the Servicer has knowledge or has received notice.

Section 5.04Negative Covenants of the Servicer.

From the Closing Date until the Collection Date:

(a)Mergers, Acquisition, Sales, etc. The Servicer will not consolidate with or merge into any other Person or convey or transfer its properties and assets substantially as an entirety to any Person, unless the Servicer is the surviving entity and unless:

(i)the Servicer has delivered to the Administrative Agent and each Lender an Officer’s Certificate and an Opinion of Counsel each stating that any such consolidation, merger, conveyance or transfer and any supplemental agreement executed in connection therewith comply with this Section 5.04 and that all conditions precedent herein provided for relating to such transaction have been complied with and, in the case of the Opinion of Counsel, that such supplemental agreement is legal, valid and binding with respect to the Servicer and such other matters as the Administrative Agent may request;

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(ii)the Servicer shall have delivered notice of such consolidation, merger, conveyance or transfer to the Administrative Agent and each Lender;

(iii)after giving effect thereto, no Event of Default or Servicer Default or event that with notice or lapse of time would constitute either an Event of Default or a Servicer Default shall exist; and

(iv)the Administrative Agent (acting at the direction of the Required Lenders, each in its sole discretion) shall have consented in writing to such consolidation, merger, conveyance or transfer (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed).

(b)Change of Name or Location of Loan Files. The Servicer shall not (x) change its name, move the location of its principal place of business and chief executive office, change the offices where it keeps records concerning the Collateral from the address set forth under its name on the signature pages hereto, or change the jurisdiction of its formation, unless the Servicer has provided prior written notice to the Administrative Agent, or (y) move, or consent to the Collateral Custodian moving, the Required Loan Documents and Loan Files from the location thereof on the initial Advance Date (or relevant date of delivery), unless the Administrative Agent shall consent to such change or move in writing (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed) and the Servicer shall provide the Administrative Agent with such Opinions of Counsel and other documents and instruments as the Administrative Agent may request in connection therewith and has taken all actions required under the UCC of each relevant jurisdiction in order to continue the first priority perfected security interest of the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, in the Collateral.

(c)Change in Payment Instructions to Obligors. The Servicer will not make any change in its instructions to Obligors, agent banks or administrative agents on the Loan Assets regarding payments to be made with respect to the Collateral to the Collection Account, unless the Administrative Agent has consented to such change.

(d)[Reserved].

(e)[Reserved].

(f)Taxable Mortgage Pool Matters. The Servicer will manage the portfolio and advise the Borrower with respect to the purchases from any third party seller so as to not at any time cause the Borrower to be treated as a taxable mortgage pool for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

Section 5.05Affirmative Covenants of the Collateral Agent.

From the Closing Date until the Collection Date:

(a)Compliance with Law. The Collateral Agent will comply in all material respects with all Applicable Law.

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(b)Preservation of Existence. The Collateral Agent will preserve and maintain its existence, rights, franchises and privileges in the jurisdiction of its formation and qualify and remain qualified in good standing in each jurisdiction where failure to preserve and maintain such existence, rights, franchises, privileges and qualification could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

Section 5.06Negative Covenants of the Collateral Agent.

From the Closing Date until the Collection Date, the Collateral Agent will not make any changes to the Collateral Agent Fees without the prior written approval of the Administrative Agent.

Section 5.07Affirmative Covenants of the Collateral Custodian.

From the Closing Date until the Collection Date:

(a)Compliance with Law. The Collateral Custodian will comply in all material respects with all Applicable Law.

(b)Preservation of Existence. The Collateral Custodian will preserve and maintain its existence, rights, franchises and privileges in the jurisdiction of its formation and qualify and remain qualified in good standing in each jurisdiction where failure to preserve and maintain such existence, rights, franchises, privileges and qualification could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

(c)Location of Required Loan Documents. Subject to Article XII of this Agreement, the Required Loan Documents shall remain at all times in the possession of the Collateral Custodian at its address located at ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇ ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, ▇▇▇▇▇, unless notice of a different address is given in accordance with the terms hereof or unless the Administrative Agent agrees to allow certain Required Loan Documents to be released to the Servicer on a temporary basis in accordance with the terms hereof, except as such Required Loan Documents may be released pursuant to the terms of this Agreement.

Section 5.08Negative Covenants of the Collateral Custodian.

From the Closing Date until the Collection Date:

(a)Required Loan Documents. The Collateral Custodian will not dispose of any documents constituting the Required Loan Documents in any manner that is inconsistent with the performance of its obligations as the Collateral Custodian pursuant to this Agreement and will not dispose of any Collateral except as contemplated by this Agreement.

(b)No Changes in Collateral Custodian Fees. The Collateral Custodian will not make any changes to the Collateral Custodian Fees without the prior written approval of the Administrative Agent.

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ARTICLE VI

ADMINISTRATION AND SERVICING OF CONTRACTS

Section 6.01Appointment and Designation of the Servicer.

(a)Initial Servicer. The Borrower hereby appoints Antares Private Credit Fund, pursuant to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, as Servicer, with the authority to service, administer and exercise rights and remedies, on behalf of the Borrower, in respect of the Collateral. Until the Administrative Agent gives Antares Private Credit Fund a Servicer Removal Notice,  Antares Private Credit Fund hereby accepts such appointment and agrees to perform the duties and responsibilities of the Servicer pursuant to the terms hereof. The Servicer and the Borrower hereby acknowledge that the Administrative Agent and the Secured Parties are third party beneficiaries of the obligations undertaken by the Servicer hereunder.

(b)Servicer Removal Notice. The Borrower, the Servicer, each Lender and the Administrative Agent hereby agree that, upon the occurrence of a Servicer Default, the Administrative Agent (acting at the direction of the Required Lenders, each in its sole discretion), by at least five (5) Business Days’ written notice to the Servicer (other than with respect to the occurrence of an Event of Default pursuant to Section 7.01(f), for which no prior written notice shall be required), with a copy to the Collateral Agent (a “Servicer Removal Notice”), which Servicer Removal Notice shall include a statement specifying the reason or reasons for taking such action, may terminate all of the rights, obligations, power and authority of the Servicer under this Agreement. On and after the receipt by the Servicer of a Servicer Removal Notice pursuant to this Section 6.01(b), the Servicer shall continue to perform all servicing functions under this Agreement until the date specified in the Servicer Removal Notice or otherwise specified by the Administrative Agent in writing or, if no such date is specified in such Servicer Removal Notice or otherwise specified by the Administrative Agent, until a date mutually agreed upon by the Servicer and the Administrative Agent and shall be entitled to receive, to the extent of funds available therefor pursuant to Section 2.04, the Senior Servicing Fee and the Subordinated Servicing Fee therefor accrued until such date. After such date, the Servicer agrees that it will terminate its activities as Servicer hereunder in a manner that the Administrative Agent believes will facilitate the transition of the performance of such activities to a successor Servicer, and the successor Servicer shall assume each and all of the Servicer’s obligations to service and administer the Collateral, on the terms and subject to the conditions herein set forth, and the Servicer shall use its best efforts to assist the successor Servicer in assuming such obligations.

(c)Appointment of Replacement Servicer. At any time following the delivery of a Servicer Removal Notice, the Administrative Agent may (acting at the direction of the Required Lenders, each in its sole discretion), appoint a replacement servicer (the “Replacement Servicer”), which appointment shall take effect upon the Replacement Servicer accepting such appointment by a written assumption in a form satisfactory to the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion. Upon the appointment of a Replacement Servicer, the initial Servicer shall have no liability with respect to any action performed by the Replacement Servicer on or after the date that the Replacement Servicer becomes the successor to the Servicer.

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(d)Liabilities and Obligations of Replacement Servicer. Upon its appointment, the Replacement Servicer shall be the successor in all respects to the Servicer with respect to servicing functions under this Agreement and shall be subject to all the responsibilities, duties and liabilities relating thereto placed on the Servicer by the terms and provisions hereof, and all references in this Agreement to the Servicer shall be deemed to refer to the Replacement Servicer; provided that the Replacement Servicer shall have (i) no liability with respect to any action performed by the terminated Servicer prior to the date that the Replacement Servicer becomes the successor to the Servicer or any claim of a third party based on any alleged action or inaction of the terminated Servicer, (ii) no obligation to perform any advancing obligations, if any, of the Servicer unless it elects to in its sole discretion, (iii) no obligation to pay any Taxes required to be paid by the Servicer (provided that the Replacement Servicer shall pay any income Taxes for which it is liable), (iv) no obligation to pay any of the fees and expenses of any other party to the transactions contemplated hereby, and (v) no liability or obligation with respect to any Servicer indemnification obligations of any prior Servicer, including the original Servicer. The indemnification obligations of the Replacement Servicer upon becoming a Replacement Servicer, are expressly limited to those arising on account of its failure to act in good faith and with reasonable care under the circumstances. In addition, the Replacement Servicer shall have no liability relating to the representations and warranties of the Servicer contained in Section 4.03.

(e)Authority and Power. All authority and power granted to the Servicer under this Agreement shall automatically cease and terminate upon termination of this Agreement as to the Servicer and shall pass to and be vested in the Borrower and the Borrower is hereby authorized and empowered to execute and deliver, on behalf of the Servicer, as attorney-in-fact or otherwise, all documents and other instruments, and to do and accomplish all other acts or things necessary or appropriate to effect the purposes of such transfer of servicing rights. The Servicer agrees to cooperate with the Borrower in effecting the termination of the responsibilities and rights of the Servicer to conduct servicing of the Collateral.

(f)Successors. Any Person (i) into which the Servicer may be merged or consolidated in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, (ii) resulting from any merger or consolidation to which the Servicer shall be a party, (iii) acquiring by conveyance, transfer or lease substantially all of the assets of the Servicer, or (iv) succeeding to the business of the Servicer in any of the foregoing cases, shall execute an agreement of assumption to perform every obligation of the Servicer under this Agreement and, whether or not such assumption agreement is executed, shall be the successor to the Servicer under this Agreement without the execution or filing of any paper or any further act on the part of any of the parties to this Agreement, anything in this Agreement to the contrary notwithstanding.  In addition to the foregoing and notwithstanding anything else to the contrary contained in this Agreement, the Servicer may (in its sole discretion) upon reasonable prior written notice to the Administrative Agent (with a copy to the Collateral Agent), at any time and without the consent of any Person, assign all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement to the BDC Adviser or any Qualified BDC Affiliate.

Section 6.02Duties of the Servicer.

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of a Servicer Removal Notice, but subject to the terms of this Agreement (including, Section 6.04), the Servicer has the sole and exclusive authority to make any and all decisions with respect to the Collateral and take or refrain from taking any and all actions with respect to the Collateral. Without limiting the foregoing, the duties of the Servicer shall include the following:

(i)supervising the Collateral, including communicating with Obligors, executing amendments, providing consents and waivers, enforcing and collecting on the Collateral and otherwise managing the Collateral on behalf of the Borrower;

(ii)maintaining all necessary servicing records with respect to the Collateral and providing such reports to the Administrative Agent and each Lender (with a copy to the Collateral Agent and the Collateral Custodian) in respect of the servicing of the Collateral (including information relating to its performance under this Agreement) as may be required hereunder or as the Administrative Agent or any Lender may reasonably request;

(iii)maintaining and implementing administrative and operating procedures (including, an ability to recreate servicing records evidencing the Collateral in the event of the destruction of the originals thereof) and keeping and maintaining all documents, books, records and other information necessary or advisable for the collection of the Collateral;

(iv)promptly delivering to the Administrative Agent, each Lender, the Collateral Agent or the Collateral Custodian, from time to time, such information and servicing records (including information relating to its performance under this Agreement) as the Administrative Agent, each Lender, Collateral Custodian or the Collateral Agent may from time to time request;

(v)identifying each Loan Asset in its internal servicing records to reflect the ownership of such Loan Asset by the Borrower;

(vi)using its best efforts to maintain the perfected security interest of the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, in the Collateral;

(vii)maintaining the Loan File with respect to Loan Assets included as part of the Collateral;

(viii)directing the Collateral Agent to make payments pursuant to the terms of the Servicing Report in accordance with Section 2.04;

(ix)directing the sale or substitution of Collateral in accordance with Section 2.07;

(x)directing the Borrower with respect to the purchase and sale of and payment for the Loan Assets;

(xi)instructing the Obligors and the administrative agents on the Loan Assets to make payments directly into the Collection Account established and maintained with the Collateral Agent;

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(xii)delivering the Loan Files and a Loan Asset Schedule to the Collateral Custodian;

(xiii)preparing and delivering to the Borrower, the Collateral Agent and the Administrative Agent on each Measurement Date (other than a Measurement Date that is a Determination Date) and each Reporting Date, a Borrowing Base Certificate setting forth the calculation of the Borrowing Base as of such Measurement Date or Reporting Date, as applicable; provided that in the case of the Borrowing Base delivered on each Reporting Date, such Borrowing Base shall be calculated as of the Determination Date corresponding to such Reporting Date;

(xiv)directing the Collateral Agent to convert amounts denominated in any Eligible Currency to any other Eligible Currency for any permitted purpose hereunder; and

(xv)complying with such other duties and responsibilities as may be required of the Servicer by this Agreement in accordance with the Servicing Standard.

It is acknowledged and agreed that (x) the Servicer shall perform its servicing duties hereunder only to the extent a lender under the related loan syndication Underlying Instruments has the right to do so and (y) the Servicer may, without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent, execute any of its duties under this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents by or through its subsidiaries, affiliates, agents or attorneys in fact; provided that, it shall remain liable for all such duties as if it performed such duties itself.

(b)Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, the exercise by the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, each Lender and the Secured Parties of their rights hereunder shall not release the Servicer (unless replaced by a Replacement Servicer), the Transferor or the Borrower from any of their duties or responsibilities with respect to the Collateral. The Secured Parties, the Administrative Agent, each Lender and the Collateral Agent shall not have any obligation or liability with respect to any Collateral, nor shall any of them be obligated to perform any of the obligations of the Servicer hereunder, unless one of them becomes a Replacement Servicer hereunder.

(c)Any payment by an Obligor in respect of any indebtedness owed by it to the Transferor or the Borrower shall, except as otherwise specified by such Obligor or otherwise required by contract or law and unless otherwise instructed by the Administrative Agent, be applied as a collection of a payment by such Obligor (starting with the oldest such outstanding payment due, provided such obligation is not on non-accrual) to the extent of any amounts then due and payable thereunder before being applied to any other receivable or other obligation of such Obligor.

Section 6.03Authorization of the Servicer.

(a)Each of the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and each Lender hereby authorizes the Servicer (including any successor thereto) to take any and all steps consistent with the Servicing Standard in its name and on its behalf necessary or desirable in the determination of the Servicer and not inconsistent with the sale of any Collateral by the Transferor to the Borrower under the Sale and Contribution Agreement and, thereafter, the Grant by the Borrower to the

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Collateral Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties hereunder, to collect all amounts due under any and all Collateral, including, endorsing any of their names on checks and other instruments representing Interest Collections and Principal Collections, executing and delivering any and all instruments of satisfaction or cancellation, or of partial or full release or discharge, and all other comparable instruments, with respect to the Collateral and, after the delinquency of any Collateral and to the extent permitted under and in compliance with Applicable Law, to commence proceedings with respect to enforcing payment thereof, to the same extent as the Transferor could have done if it had continued to own such Collateral. The Transferor, the Borrower and the Collateral Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties shall furnish the Servicer (and any successors thereto) with any powers of attorney and other documents necessary or appropriate to enable the Servicer to carry out its servicing and administrative duties hereunder, and shall cooperate with the Servicer to the fullest extent in order to ensure the collectability of the Collateral. In no event shall the Servicer be entitled to make the Secured Parties, the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or any Lender a party to any litigation without such party’s express prior written consent, or to make the Borrower a party to any litigation (other than any routine foreclosure or similar collection procedure) without the Administrative Agent’s consent.

(b)After the declaration of the Facility Maturity Date, at the direction of the Administrative Agent, the Servicer shall take such action as the Administrative Agent may deem necessary or advisable to enforce collection of the Collateral; provided that the Administrative Agent may, at any time that an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, notify any Obligor with respect to any Collateral of the assignment of such Collateral to the Collateral Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties and direct that payments of all amounts due or to become due be made directly to the Administrative Agent or any servicer, collection agent or account designated by the Administrative Agent and, upon such notification and at the expense of the Borrower, the Administrative Agent may enforce collection of any such Collateral, and adjust, settle or compromise the amount or payment thereof.

Section 6.04Collection of Payments; Accounts.

(a)Collection Efforts, Modification of Collateral.

(i)The Servicer will take or cause to be taken all such actions as may be reasonably necessary or advisable to recover all payments called for under the terms and provisions of the Loan Assets included in the Collateral as and when the same become due, all in accordance with the Servicing Standard.

(ii)In the performance of its obligations hereunder, the Borrower (or the Servicer on its behalf) may enter into any amendment or waiver of or supplement to any Underlying Instrument, all in accordance with the Servicing Standard; provided that the prior written consent of the Required Lenders shall be required if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.

(b)Acceleration. The Servicer shall be entitled at its discretion, in accordance with the Servicing Standard, to accelerate or vote to accelerate, as applicable, the maturity of all or any Scheduled Payments and other amounts due under any Loan Asset in the event that such Loan Asset becomes defaulted.

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(c)Taxes and other Amounts. The Servicer will use efforts consistent with the Servicing Standard to collect all payments with respect to amounts due for Taxes, assessments and insurance premiums relating to each Loan Asset to the extent required to be paid to the Borrower for such application under the applicable Underlying Instruments and remit such amounts to the appropriate Governmental Authority or insurer as required by the Underlying Instruments.

(d)Payments to Collection Account. On or before the applicable Cut-Off Date, the Servicer shall have instructed all Obligors and/or the related administrative agent, as applicable, to make all payments in respect of the Collateral in the applicable Eligible Currency directly to the Collection Account; provided that the Servicer is not required to so instruct any Obligor which is solely a guarantor or other surety (or an Obligor that is not designated as the “lead borrower” or another such similar term) unless and until the Servicer calls on the related guaranty or secondary obligation.

(e)Controlled Accounts. Each of the parties hereto hereby agrees that (i) each Controlled Account is intended to be a “securities account” or “deposit account” within the meaning of the UCC and (ii) except as otherwise expressly provided herein and in the Control Agreements, prior to the delivery of a Notice of Exclusive Control, the Borrower, the Servicer and the Collateral Agent (acting at the direction of the Administrative Agent) shall be entitled to exercise the rights that comprise each Financial Asset held in each Controlled Account which is a securities account and have the right to direct the disposition of funds in any Controlled Account which is a deposit account; provided that, after the delivery of a Notice of Exclusive Control, such rights shall be exclusively held by the Collateral Agent (acting at the direction of the Administrative Agent). Each of the parties hereto hereby agrees to cause the securities intermediary that holds any money or other property for the Borrower in a Controlled Account that is a securities account to agree with the parties hereto that (A) the cash and other property (subject to Section 6.04(f) below with respect to any property other than investment property, as defined in Section 9-102(a)(49) of the UCC) is to be treated as a Financial Asset and (B) regardless of any provision in any other agreement, for purposes of the UCC and, to the extent a securities account, for purposes of the Hague Convention on the law applicable to certain rights in respect of securities held with an intermediary (the “Hague Convention”), with respect to the Controlled Accounts, New York shall be deemed to be the Account Bank’s jurisdiction (within the meaning of Section 9-304 of the UCC) and the securities intermediary’s jurisdiction (within the meaning of Section 8-110 of the UCC) and New York shall govern the issues specified in Article 2(1) of the Hague Convention. All securities or other property underlying any Financial Assets credited to the Controlled Accounts in the form of securities or instruments shall be registered in the name of the Account Bank or if in the name of the Borrower or the Collateral Agent, Indorsed to the Account Bank, Indorsed in blank, or credited to another securities account maintained in the name of the Account Bank, and in no case will any Financial Asset credited to the Controlled Accounts be registered in the name of the Borrower, payable to the order of the Borrower or specially Indorsed to the Borrower, except to the extent the foregoing have been specially Indorsed to the Account Bank or Indorsed in blank.

(f)Underlying Instruments. Notwithstanding any term hereof (or any term of the UCC that might otherwise be construed to be applicable to a “securities intermediary” as defined in the UCC) to the contrary, none of the Collateral Agent, the Collateral Custodian nor any securities intermediary shall be under any duty or obligation in connection with the acquisition

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by the Borrower, or the Grant by the Borrower to the Collateral Agent, of any Loan Asset in the nature of a loan or a participation in a loan to examine or evaluate the sufficiency of the documents or instruments delivered to it by or on behalf of the Borrower under the related Underlying Instruments, or otherwise to examine the Underlying Instruments, in order to determine or compel compliance with any applicable requirements of or restrictions on transfer (including any necessary consents). The Collateral Custodian shall hold any Instrument delivered to it evidencing any Loan Asset Granted to the Collateral Agent hereunder as custodial agent for the Collateral Agent in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

(g)Adjustments. If (i) the Servicer makes a deposit into the Collection Account in respect of an Interest Collection or a Principal Collection of a Loan Asset and such Interest Collection or Principal Collection was received by the Servicer in the form of a check that is not honored for any reason or (ii) the Servicer makes a mistake with respect to the amount of any Interest Collection or Principal Collection and deposits an amount that is less than or more than the actual amount of such Interest Collection or Principal Collection, the Servicer shall appropriately adjust the amount subsequently deposited into the Collection Account to reflect such dishonored check or mistake. Any Scheduled Payment in respect of which a dishonored check is received shall be deemed not to have been paid.

Section 6.05Realization Upon Loan Assets. The Servicer may, in its discretion and consistent with the Servicing Standard, foreclose upon or repossess, as applicable, or otherwise comparably convert the ownership of any Related Collateral relating to a Defaulted Loan as to which no satisfactory arrangements can be made for collection of delinquent payments. The Servicer will comply with the Servicing Standard and all material provisions of Applicable Law in realizing upon such Related Collateral, and employ practices and procedures consistent with the Servicing Standard to enforce all obligations of Obligors foreclosing upon, repossessing and causing the sale of such Related Collateral at public or private sale in circumstances other than those described in the preceding sentence. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Servicer may cause the sale of any such Related Collateral to the Servicer or its Affiliates for a purchase price equal to the then fair value thereof as determined by the Servicer in accordance with the Servicing Standard. In any case in which any such Related Collateral has suffered damage, the Servicer will not expend funds in connection with any repair or toward the foreclosure or repossession of such Related Collateral in a manner inconsistent with the Servicing Standard.  The Servicer will remit, or cause to be remitted, to the Collection Account the Recoveries received in connection with the sale or disposition of Related Collateral relating to a Defaulted Loan.

Section 6.06Servicer Compensation. As compensation for its activities hereunder and reimbursement for its expenses, the Servicer shall be entitled to be paid the Senior Servicing Fee and the Subordinated Servicing Fee and reimbursed its reasonable out-of-pocket expenses as provided in Section 2.04.

Section 6.07Payment of Certain Expenses by Servicer. The Servicer will be required to pay all expenses incurred by it in connection with its activities under this Agreement, including fees and disbursements of its independent accountants, Taxes imposed on the Servicer, expenses incurred by the Servicer in connection with payments and reports pursuant to this Agreement, and all other fees and expenses not expressly stated under this Agreement for the account of the Borrower. The Servicer may be reimbursed for any reasonable out-of-pocket

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expenses incurred hereunder (including out-of-pocket expenses paid by the Servicer on behalf of the Borrower), subject to the availability of funds pursuant to Section 2.04.

Section 6.08Reports to the Administrative Agent; Account Statements; Servicer Information.

(a)Borrowing Base Certificate. On each Measurement Date other than a Measurement Date that is a Determination Date, the Borrower (or the Servicer on its behalf) will provide a Borrowing Base Certificate, updated as of such date, to the Administrative Agent and each Lender (with a copy to the Collateral Agent).

(b)Servicing Report. On each Reporting Date, the Collateral Agent (on behalf of the Servicer) will provide to the Borrower, each Lender, the Administrative Agent and the Servicer, a draft monthly statement, based upon information and data received from the Borrower, the Servicer, and any related bank agent, obligor, or financial information reporting or other third-party sources, including (i) a Borrowing Base Certificate (as provided by the Borrower or the Servicer on its behalf), (ii) a Loan Asset Schedule, (iii) a calculation of each Collateral Quality Test, (iv) a list of Loan Assets acquired, sold, substituted or released and (v) if such Reporting Date occurs in a calendar month in which a Payment Date occurs, amounts to be remitted pursuant to Section 2.04 to the applicable parties (which shall include any applicable wiring instructions of the parties receiving payment) (such monthly statement, a “Servicing Report”), with respect to the most recent Determination Date in the case of clauses (i) through (iv), to be signed by a Responsible Officer of the Servicer and the Borrower and substantially in the form of Exhibit H. The Servicer shall use reasonable efforts to review and, to the best of its knowledge, verify the contents of the aforesaid draft Servicing Report.  To the extent any of the information in any draft Servicing Report conflicts with data or calculations in the records of the Servicer, the Servicer shall notify the Collateral Agent of such discrepancy on a timely basis and use reasonable efforts to assist the Collateral Agent in reconciling such discrepancy.  Upon reasonable request by the Collateral Agent, the Servicer further agrees to use reasonable efforts to provide to the Collateral Agent from time to time during the term of this Agreement, on a timely basis, any information in its possession relating to the Loan Assets and any proposed purchases, sales or other dispositions thereof as to enable the Collateral Agent to perform its duties hereunder. Once approved by the Borrower or the Servicer on its behalf (or after delivery of a Notice of Exclusive Control, the Administrative Agent), each Servicing Report shall constitute instructions by the Servicer (or after delivery of a Notice of Exclusive Control, the Administrative Agent) to the Collateral Agent to withdraw on the related Payment Date from the applicable Collection Account and pay or transfer amounts set forth in such report in the manner specified herein. The Servicer shall notify the Administrative Agent on the Reporting Date if the Servicing Report will not be delivered to the Lenders, the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent on such Reporting Date.

(c)Servicer’s Certificate. Together with each annual statement of compliance delivered pursuant to Section 6.09, the Servicer shall submit to the Administrative Agent, each Lender and the Collateral Agent a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit I (a “Servicer’s Certificate”), signed by a Responsible Officer of the Servicer, which shall include a certification by such Responsible Officer that such Responsible Officer does not have knowledge of any Event of Default, Servicer Default or Unmatured Event of Default having occurred.

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(d)Financial Statements. The Servicer will submit to the Administrative Agent, each Lender and the Collateral Agent, (i) within ninety (90) days after the end of each of its first three (3) fiscal quarters of each fiscal year of the Servicer or the Transferor, as applicable, commencing March 31, 2025, unaudited consolidated balance sheet of the Servicer for the most recent fiscal quarter, and the related consolidated statements of income or operations, shareholders’ equity and cash flows for the fiscal quarter ended on that date, and (ii) within one hundred eighty (180) days after the end of each fiscal year, commencing with the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025 (or December 31, 2024, to the extent so prepared), the audited consolidated balance sheet of the Servicer for such fiscal year and the related consolidated statements of income or operations, shareholders’ equity and cash flows, audited by a firm of nationally recognized independent public accountants; provided that the financial statements required to be delivered pursuant to clauses (i) and (ii) which are made available via ▇▇▇▇▇, or any successor system of the Securities Exchange Commission, in the Transferor’s quarterly report on Form 10-Q and annual report on Form 10-K, shall be deemed delivered to the Administrative Agent, each Lender and the Collateral Agent on the date such documents are made so available.

(e)Obligor Financial Statements; Other Reports. With respect to any Private Credit Loan Asset, the Servicer will deliver to the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent, with respect to each Obligor, (i) to the extent received by the Borrower and/or the Servicer pursuant to the related Underlying Instruments, the complete financial reporting package with respect to such Obligor and with respect to each Private Credit Loan Asset for such Obligor (including any financial statements, management discussion and analysis, executed covenant compliance certificates and related covenant calculations with respect to such Obligor and with respect to each Private Credit Loan Asset for such Obligor) provided to the Borrower and/or the Servicer quarterly by such Obligor, which delivery shall be made within 10 Business Days after receipt by the Borrower and/or the Servicer as specified in the Underlying Instruments, (ii) the annual budget (along with subsequent changes thereto) with respect to such Obligor and provided to the Borrower and/or the Servicer by such Obligor, which delivery shall be made within 10 Business Days after receipt by the Borrower and/or the Servicer as specified in the related Underlying Instruments, if any, and (iii)(x) the portfolio update, if any, prepared by the Servicer with respect to each Obligor on a quarterly basis no later than 30 days after it has prepared such portfolio update and (y) all portfolio monitoring and servicing reports, if any, prepared by the Servicer during each calendar quarter with respect to each investment made by the Servicer and/or the Borrower, which delivery of the foregoing reports shall be made no later than 90 days after the end of each calendar quarter and 150 days after the end of each fiscal year; provided that the Servicer’s delivery obligation in this clause (e) may be satisfied by providing the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent with access to the Servicer’s data room containing such Obligor reports within the applicable timeframe set forth above. Upon demand by the Administrative Agent, the Servicer will provide such other information as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request with respect to any Obligor.

(f)Amendments to Loan Assets. The Servicer will deliver to the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the Collateral Custodian a copy of any Material Modification to the Underlying Instruments of any Loan Asset (along with any internal documents prepared by the Servicer and provided to its investment committee in connection with such amendment, restatement, supplement, waiver or other modification) within ten (10) Business Days of the effectiveness of such amendment, restatement, supplement, waiver or other modification;

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provided that the Servicer’s delivery obligation in this clause (f) may be satisfied by providing the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent with access to the Servicer’s data room containing any such copies of any Material Modification and any related documentation within ten (10) Business Days after the effectiveness of such amendment and providing written notice (which notice may be made by electronic delivery) of such Material Modification to the Administrative Agent.

(g)Electronic Format. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, information required to be delivered or submitted to any Secured Party pursuant to Section 5.03(h) and this Article VI shall be deemed satisfied by providing the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent with access to the Servicer’s data room containing any such copies of any such information within the timeframes set forth in Section 5.03(h) and this Article VI.

Section 6.09Annual Statement as to Compliance. The Servicer will provide to the Administrative Agent, each Lender and the Collateral Agent within one hundred fifty (150) days following the end of each fiscal year of the Servicer, commencing with the fiscal year ending on December 31, 2024, a fiscal report signed by a Responsible Officer of the Servicer certifying that (a) a review of the activities of the Servicer, and the Servicer’s performance pursuant to this Agreement, for the fiscal period ending on the last day of such fiscal year has been made under such Person’s supervision and (b) the Servicer has performed or has caused to be performed all of its obligations under this Agreement throughout such year and no Servicer Default has occurred.

Section 6.10Annual Independent Public Accountant’s Servicing Reports. The Servicer will cause a nationally recognized auditing firm (who may also render other services to the Servicer) to furnish to the Administrative Agent, each Lender and the Collateral Agent within one hundred eighty (180) days (or such later date as agreed to by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion), following the end of each fiscal year of the Servicer, commencing with the fiscal year ending on December 31, 2025, a report covering such fiscal year to the effect that such auditors have applied certain agreed-upon procedures (a copy of which procedures are attached hereto as Schedule III, it being understood that the Servicer and the Administrative Agent may provide an updated Schedule III reflecting any further amendments to such Schedule III prior to the issuance of the first such agreed-upon procedures report, a copy of which shall replace the then existing Schedule III) to certain documents and records relating to the Collateral under any Transaction Document, compared the information contained in the Servicing Reports delivered during the period covered by such report with such documents and records and that no matters came to the attention of such auditors that caused them to believe that such servicing was not conducted in compliance with this Article VI, except for such exceptions as such auditors shall believe to be immaterial and such other exceptions as shall be set forth in such statement.

Section 6.11Procedural Review of Loan Assets; Access to Servicer and Servicer’s Records.

(a)Each of the Borrower and the Servicer shall permit both (i) the Administrative Agent (who may be accompanied by any Lender (at its sole discretion)) and (ii) the representatives of the Administrative Agent, each at any time and from time to time as the Administrative Agent shall reasonably request (A) to inspect and make copies of and abstracts from its records relating to the Loan Assets and (B) to visit its properties in connection with the

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collection, processing or servicing of the Loan Assets for the purpose of examining such records, and to discuss matters relating to the Loan Assets or such Person’s performance under this Agreement and the other Transaction Documents with any officer or employee or auditor (if any) of such Person having knowledge of such matters. Each of the Borrower and the Servicer agrees to render to the Administrative Agent such clerical and other assistance as may be reasonably requested with regard to the foregoing; provided, that such assistance and any such visit shall not interfere in any material respect with the Servicer’s business and operations. So long as no Unmatured Event of Default, Event of Default or Servicer Default has occurred and is continuing, such visits and inspections shall occur only (x) one (1) time in each calendar year, (y) upon five (5) Business Days’ prior written notice and (z) during normal business hours. During the existence of an Unmatured Event of Default, an Event of Default or a Servicer Default, there shall be no limit on the timing of such inspections and one (1) Business Day’s prior notice will be required before any inspection.

(b)The Borrower and the Servicer, as applicable, shall provide to the Administrative Agent access to the Loan Assets and all other documents regarding the Loan Assets included as part of the Collateral in its possession, in such cases where the Administrative Agent is required in connection with the enforcement of the rights or interests of the Lenders, or by applicable statutes or regulations, to review such documentation, such access being afforded without charge but only (i) one (1) time in each calendar year, (ii) upon five (5) Business Days’ prior written notice (so long as no Unmatured Event of Default, Event of Default or Servicer Default has occurred and is continuing) and (iii) during normal business hours. During the existence of an Unmatured Event of Default, an Event of Default or a Servicer Default, there shall be no limit on the timing of such inspections and no prior notice will be required before any inspection. From and after the Closing Date and periodically thereafter at the reasonable discretion of the Administrative Agent, the Administrative Agent may review the Borrower’s and the Servicer’s collection and administration of the Loan Assets in order to assess compliance by the Servicer with the Servicer’s written policies and procedures, as well as this Agreement and may conduct an audit of the Loan Assets and Records in conjunction with such review.

(c)The Servicer shall bear the costs and expenses of all audits and inspections permitted by this Section 6.11, (at an annual cost not to exceed $75,000 unless an Event of Default, Unmatured Event of Default or Servicer Default has occurred and is continuing). Neither the Servicer nor the Borrower shall, unless an Event of Default, Unmatured Event of Default or Servicer Default, be required to pay a combined total amount of more than $75,000 in any twelve-month period.

Section 6.12The Servicer Not to Resign. The Servicer shall not resign from the obligations and duties hereby imposed on it except upon the Servicer’s determination that (a) the performance of its duties hereunder is or becomes impermissible under Applicable Law and (b) there is no reasonable action that the Servicer could take to make the performance of its duties hereunder permissible under Applicable Law; provided that the Servicer may assign its obligations hereunder to the BDC Adviser or a Qualified BDC Affiliate notwithstanding such limitation. Any such determination permitting the resignation of the Servicer shall be evidenced as to clause (a) above by an Opinion of Counsel to such effect delivered to the Administrative Agent and each Lender. No such resignation shall become effective until a Replacement Servicer shall have assumed the responsibilities and obligations of the Servicer in accordance with Section 6.02.

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ARTICLE VII

EVENTS OF DEFAULT

Section 7.01Events of Default. If any of the following events (each, an “Event of Default”) shall occur:

(a)a default in the payment when due of (i) any principal of any Advance or (ii) any other amount payable under any Transaction Document by the Borrower, the Servicer or the Transferor, including any Yield, any Unused Fee or any other fee and such failure to pay is not cured within three (3) Business Days after the same becomes due, unless such failure to pay is due to administrative error or omission by any of the Collateral Agent, the Account Bank or the Collateral Custodian, in which case such failure to pay is not cured within five (5) Business Days after such Person receives written notice or has actual knowledge of such administrative error or omission; or

(b)any failure to pay, on the Facility Maturity Date, the outstanding principal of all Advances Outstanding, and all Yield and all Fees accrued and unpaid thereon together with all other Obligations, including, but not limited to, any Prepayment Premium; or

(c)the failure on any Payment Date to disburse amounts in the Collection Account in accordance with Section 2.04 and the same remains unremedied for three (3) Business Days; provided that, in the case of a failure to disburse resulting solely from an administrative error or omission by the Collateral Agent, such default continues unremedied for more than five (5) Business Days after a Responsible Officer of the Collateral Agent receives written notice or has actual knowledge of such administrative error or omission; or

(d)(i) any of the Borrower, the Transferor or the Servicer shall, (x) with respect to the Borrower, fail to pay any principal of, or premium or interest on, any Indebtedness (other than the Obligations) for borrowed money to which it is a party in an aggregate principal amount in excess of $1,000,000 when the same becomes due and payable after taking into account the applicable grace period and (y) with respect to the Transferor, fail to pay any principal of, or premium or interest on, any Indebtedness (other than the Obligations) for borrowed money in excess of $25,000,000 when the same becomes due and payable after the applicable grace period; (ii) any other default by any of the Borrower or the Transferor under any agreement, contract, document or instrument relating to any such Indebtedness or any other event shall occur and shall continue after the applicable grace period, if the effect of such default or event is to accelerate the maturity of such Indebtedness; or (iii) any such Indebtedness for borrowed money described in clause (i) above is in fact declared to be due and payable or required to be prepaid, redeemed, purchased or defeased, or an offer to prepay, redeem, purchase or defease such Indebtedness shall be required to be made, in each case, prior to the stated maturity thereof; or

(e)except as otherwise provided in this definition of “Event of Default,” a default by the Borrower or the Transferor in the performance, or breach, of any other covenant or other agreement of the Borrower or the Transferor in the Transaction Documents (it being understood, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, that the failure to satisfy any Collateral Quality Test is not, in and of itself, an Event of Default and the existence of a Borrowing

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Base Deficiency is not, in and of itself, an Event of Default except to the extent provided in clause (k) immediately below) and the same continues unremedied for a period of 30 days (if such failure can be remedied) after the earlier to occur of (i) the date on which written notice of such failure requiring the same to be remedied shall have been received by the Borrower or the Transferor and (ii) the date on which the Borrower or the Transferor acquires knowledge thereof (other than with respect to Section 5.03(g), as to which no additional grace periods shall apply); or

(f)the occurrence of a Bankruptcy Event relating to the Borrower, the Transferor or the Servicer; or

(g)the occurrence of a Servicer Default; or