[FINAL COPY]
AMENDED AND RESTATED
CREDIT AGREEMENT
Dated as of December 9, 2004,
Among
UNIVERSAL CITY DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS, LTD.,
THE LENDERS PARTY HERETO,
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,
as Administrative Agent
and
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,
as Syndication Agent
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▇.▇. ▇▇▇▇▇▇ SECURITIES INC. and
BANC OF AMERICA SECURITIES LLC,
as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners
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FLORIDA DOCUMENTARY STAMP TAX IN THE AMOUNT OF $4,900,000 HAS BEEN PAID IN FULL
TO THE FLORIDA DEPARTMENT OF REVENUE IN CONNECTION WITH THE OBLIGATIONS OF
UNIVERSAL CITY DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS, LTD. (SUCCESSOR-BY-MERGER TO UNIVERSAL CITY
DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS, LP) (THE "BORROWER") UNDER AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT
AGREEMENT DATED AS OF NOVEMBER 5, 1999, AMENDED JULY 25, 2000 (THE "ORIGINAL
CREDIT AGREEMENT"), AMONG THE BORROWER, THE BANKS PARTY THERETO AND JPMORGAN
CHASE BANK, N.A. (FORMERLY KNOWN AS JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, FORMERLY KNOWN AS THE
CHASE MANHATTAN BANK, SUCCESSOR-BY-MERGER TO ▇▇▇▇▇▇ GUARANTY TRUST COMPANY OF
NEW YORK), AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND AS COLLATERAL AGENT, AS FURTHER AMENDED
DECEMBER 19, 2001, MARCH 28, 2002, AND MARCH 28, 2003, AND AS FURTHER AMENDED
FROM TIME TO TIME, AS EVIDENCED ON THAT CERTAIN MORTGAGE, ASSIGNMENT OF LEASES
AND RENTS, SECURITY AGREEMENT AND FIXTURE FILING RECORDED JULY 27, 2000, IN
OFFICIAL RECORDS BOOK 6054, PAGE 320, OF THE PUBLIC RECORDS OF ORANGE COUNTY,
FLORIDA (THE "PUBLIC RECORDS"), AS MODIFIED BY MORTGAGE MODIFICATION, SPREADING
AGREEMENT AND PARTIAL RELEASE OF MORTGAGE DATED AS OF FEBRUARY 20, 2001,
RECORDED ON FEBRUARY 21, 2001, IN THE OFFICIAL RECORDS BOOK 6198, PAGE 4726 OF
THE PUBLIC RECORDS, AS MODIFIED BY AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO MORTGAGE, ASSIGNMENT OF
LEASES AND RENTS, SECURITY AGREEMENT AND FIXTURE FILING DATED AS OF MARCH 28,
2003, RECORDED ON MARCH 28, 2003 IN THE OFFICIAL RECORDS BOOK 6845, PAGE 4755 OF
THE PUBLIC RECORDS AND AS MODIFIED BY AMENDMENT NO. 3 TO MORTGAGE, ASSIGNMENT OF
LEASES AND RENTS, SECURITY AGREEMENT AND FIXTURE FILING DATED AS OF DECEMBER 9,
2004, TO BE RECORDED IN THE PUBLIC RECORD CONTEMPORANEOUSLY WITH THE
EFFECTIVENESS OF THIS INSTRUMENT. THE OBLIGATIONS OF THE BORROWER HEREUNDER ARE
A TRANSMOGRIFICATION OF ITS OBLIGATIONS UNDER THE ORIGINAL CREDIT AGREEMENT.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I Definitions........................................................................3
Section 1.01. Defined Terms......................................................................3
Section 1.02. Terms Generally...................................................................38
ARTICLE II The Credits.......................................................................38
Section 2.01. Commitments.......................................................................38
Section 2.02. Loans and Borrowings..............................................................39
Section 2.03. Requests for Borrowings...........................................................40
Section 2.04. Swingline Loans...................................................................41
Section 2.05. Letters of Credit.................................................................43
Section 2.06. Funding of Borrowings.............................................................49
Section 2.07. Interest Elections................................................................50
Section 2.08. Termination and Reduction of Commitments..........................................51
Section 2.09. Repayment of Loans; Evidence of Debt..............................................52
Section 2.10. Repayment of Term Loans and Revolving Loans.......................................53
Section 2.11. Prepayment of Loans...............................................................54
Section 2.12. Fees..............................................................................54
Section 2.13. Interest..........................................................................56
Section 2.14. Alternate Rate of Interest........................................................57
Section 2.15. Increased Costs...................................................................57
Section 2.16. Break Funding Payments............................................................59
Section 2.17. Taxes.............................................................................59
Section 2.18. Payments Generally; Pro Rata Treatment; Sharing of Set-offs.......................61
Section 2.19. Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders....................................63
Section 2.20. Incremental Term Loans............................................................66
ARTICLE III Representations and Warranties....................................................68
Section 3.01. Organization; Powers..............................................................68
Section 3.02. Authorization.....................................................................68
Section 3.03. Enforceability....................................................................69
Section 3.04. Governmental Approvals............................................................69
Section 3.05. Financial Statements..............................................................69
Section 3.06. No Material Adverse Change or Material Adverse Effect.............................70
Section 3.07. Title to Properties; Possession Under Leases......................................70
Section 3.08. Subsidiaries......................................................................71
Section 3.09. Litigation; Compliance with Laws..................................................71
Section 3.10. Federal Reserve Regulations.......................................................71
Section 3.11. Investment Company Act; Public Utility Holding Company Act........................72
Section 3.12. Use of Proceeds...................................................................72
Section 3.13. Tax Returns.......................................................................72
Section 3.14. No Material Misstatements.........................................................72
Section 3.15. Employee Benefit Plans............................................................73
Section 3.16. Environmental Matters.............................................................73
Section 3.17. Collateral Documents..............................................................74
Section 3.18. Location of Real Property.........................................................75
Section 3.19. Solvency..........................................................................75
Section 3.20. Labor Matters.....................................................................76
Section 3.21. Intellectual Property Rights......................................................76
Section 3.22. Project Documents.................................................................76
ARTICLE IV Conditions of Lending.............................................................77
Section 4.01. All Credit Events.................................................................77
Section 4.02. Effectiveness.....................................................................78
Section 4.03. Effect of Amended Agreement.......................................................80
ARTICLE V Affirmative Covenants.............................................................80
Section 5.01. Existence; Businesses and Properties..............................................81
Section 5.02. Insurance.........................................................................81
Section 5.03. Taxes.............................................................................82
Section 5.04. Financial Statements, Reports, etc................................................83
Section 5.05. Litigation and Other Notices......................................................85
Section 5.06. Compliance with Laws..............................................................86
Section 5.07. Maintaining Records; Access to Properties and Inspections.........................86
Section 5.08. Use of Proceeds...................................................................86
Section 5.09. Compliance with Environmental Laws................................................86
Section 5.10. Further Assurances; Additional Mortgages..........................................87
Section 5.11. Fiscal Year; Accounting...........................................................89
Section 5.12. Maintenance of Ratings............................................................89
ARTICLE VI Negative Covenants................................................................89
Section 6.01. Indebtedness......................................................................89
Section 6.02. Liens.............................................................................92
Section 6.03. Sale and Lease-Back Transactions..................................................95
Section 6.04. Investments, Loans and Advances...................................................95
Section 6.05. Mergers, Consolidations, Sales of Assets and Acquisitions.........................97
Section 6.06. Dividends and Distributions......................................................100
Section 6.07. Transactions with Affiliates.....................................................101
Section 6.08. Business of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries....................................102
Section 6.09. Limitation on Modifications and Prepayments of Indebtedness; Modifications of
Certificate of Incorporation, By-Laws and Certain Other Agreements; etc..........102
Section 6.10. Capital Expenditures.............................................................103
Section 6.11. Interest Coverage Ratio..........................................................104
Section 6.12. Total Leverage Ratio.............................................................104
Section 6.13. Significant Event................................................................104
Section 6.14. Derivatives Obligations..........................................................105
ARTICLE VII Events of Default..........................................................................105
Section 7.01. Events of Default................................................................105
Section 7.02. Immaterial Subsidiaries..........................................................109
Section 7.03. Borrower's Right to Cure.........................................................109
ARTICLE VIII The Agents................................................................................110
Section 8.01. Authorization....................................................................110
Section 8.02. Nature of Duties.................................................................112
Section 8.03. Resignation by the Agents........................................................112
Section 8.04. Each Agent in its Individual Capacity............................................112
Section 8.05. Indemnification..................................................................113
Section 8.06. Lack of Reliance on Agents.......................................................113
Section 8.07. Syndication Agent................................................................113
ARTICLE IX Miscellaneous...............................................................................113
Section 9.01. Notices..........................................................................113
Section 9.02. Survival of Agreement............................................................115
Section 9.03. Binding Effect...................................................................115
Section 9.04. Successors and Assigns...........................................................115
Section 9.05. Expenses; Indemnity..............................................................119
Section 9.06. Right of Set-off.................................................................122
Section 9.07. [Reserved].......................................................................122
Section 9.08. Applicable Law...................................................................122
Section 9.09. Waivers; Amendment...............................................................123
Section 9.10. Interest Rate Limitation.........................................................125
Section 9.11. Entire Agreement.................................................................125
Section 9.12. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL.............................................................125
Section 9.13. Severability.....................................................................126
Section 9.14. Counterparts.....................................................................126
Section 9.15. Headings.........................................................................126
Section 9.16. Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process......................................126
Section 9.17. Confidentiality..................................................................127
Section 9.18. Non-recourse to Partners.........................................................127
Exhibits and Schedules
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Exhibit A Form of Assignment and Acceptance
Exhibit B Form of Subsidiary Guaranty and Security Agreement
Schedule 1.01(b) Mortgaged Properties
Schedule 1.01(c) Project Documents
Schedule 1.01(d) License Agreements
Schedule 1.01(e) Scheduled Affiliate Transactions
Schedule 2.01 Commitments
Schedule 2.04(a) Swingline Commitments
Schedule 3.04 Governmental Approvals
Schedule 3.05 Specified Transaction Documents
Schedule 3.07 Mortgaged Properties Sales
Schedule 3.08(a) Subsidiary State of Jurisdictions
Schedule 3.08(b) Outstanding Agreements or Commitments Relating To Equity Interests
Schedule 3.09 Litigation
Schedule 5.02 Insurance
Schedule 6.01 Existing Indebtedness
Schedule 6.02 Liens
Schedule 6.04 Investments
Schedule 6.09 Existing Contractual Encumbrances
AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT dated
as of December 9, 2004 among UNIVERSAL CITY
DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS, LTD., a Florida limited
partnership (the "Borrower"), the LENDERS party
hereto from time to time, JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
(formerly known as JPMorgan Chase Bank), as
administrative agent (in such capacity, the
"Administrative Agent") and as collateral agent (in
such capacity, the "Collateral Agent") for the
Lenders and BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as syndication
agent (in such capacity, the "Syndication Agent").
Reference is made to (a) the Amended and Restated Credit
Agreement dated as of November 5, 1999 (as amended by Amendment No. 1 dated as
of July 25, 2000 ("Amendment No. 1"), and as further amended as of December 19,
2001, March 28, 2002, and March 28, 2003 and in effect on the date hereof, the
"1999 Credit Agreement"), among the Borrower, the Banks (as defined therein)
party thereto on the date hereof (the "1999 Banks") and the Administrative Agent
in its capacities as administrative agent and collateral agent thereunder (in
such capacity, the "1999 Agent") and (b) the Credit Agreement dated as of March
28, 2003 (as amended and in effect on the date hereof, the "2003 Credit
Agreement" and, together with the 1999 Credit Agreement, the "Existing Credit
Agreements"), among the Borrower, the Banks (as defined therein) party thereto
on the date hereof (the "2003 Banks" and, together with the 1999 Banks, the
"Existing Banks") and the Administrative Agent in its capacities as
administrative agent and collateral agent thereunder (in such capacity, the
"2003 Agent" and, together with the 1999 Agent, the "Existing Agents").
Capitalized terms used but not defined in this preamble are defined in Section
1.01 of this Agreement.
Universal City Florida Holding Co. I and Universal City
Florida Holding Co. II (collectively, "Holdings"), which are the two
partnerships that together own 100% of the Equity Interests in the Borrower,
intend to issue (together with their respective finance subsidiaries, as
co-issuers) notes in an aggregate principal amount of $450,000,000 (such notes,
together with any debt securities issued by Holdings and such co-issuers to
refinance such notes, the "Holdings Notes") in a Rule 144 A offering (the
"Offering"). At the time of the closing of the Offering, the Borrower will make
a cash distribution to Holdings in the approximate amount of $92,000,000 (the
"Cash Payment"). Also, Holdings will make a cash distribution to the holders of
their Equity Interests in the approximate amount of $450,000,000.
The Borrower has requested that the Lenders enter into this
Agreement in order to (a) consolidate, amend and restate the Existing Credit
Agreements and renew and continue the Indebtedness and unused financing
commitments under the Existing Credit Agreements (the "Renewed Debt") in the
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aggregate amount of $596,796,000 (the "Consolidation and Restatement", and
together with the Cash Payment, the "Transactions") and (b) extend credit to the
Borrower hereunder in the aggregate amount of $53,204,000 (the "Credit"),
subject to the terms and conditions herein. The Renewed Debt is to be renewed
and continued hereunder, and the land sales Credit is to be extended hereunder,
in the form of (a) Term Loans on the Restatement Date, in an aggregate principal
amount not in excess of $550,000,000 and (b) Revolving Loans, Swingline Loans
and Letters of Credit from time to time during the Availability Period not in
excess of $100,000,000. In addition, the Borrower may request that Lenders or
Additional Lenders agree to make available, subject to the terms and conditions
herein, Incremental Term Loans from time to time after the Restatement Date in
an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $200,000,000.
In order to effect the Consolidation and Restatement, on and
as of the Restatement Date (a) Renewed Debt held by each Lender that is an
Existing Bank shall be consolidated, renewed and continued under this Agreement
in the form of Term Loans or Revolving Facility Commitments (or combination
thereof), as applicable, in amounts not exceeding such Lender's Term Loan
Commitment or Revolving Facility Commitment, as applicable, and (b) to the
extent the aggregate amount of Renewed Debt exceeds the amount thereof
consolidated, renewed and continued pursuant to clause (a), each Lender shall
acquire such excess Renewed Debt from the Existing Banks by assignments pursuant
to the applicable renewal provisions of the Existing Credit Agreements, in
amounts (taking into account any Renewed Debt of such Lender renewed and
continued under clause (a) above) not exceeding such Lender's Term Loan
Commitment or Revolving Facility Commitment, as applicable, and such Renewed
Debt so acquired by such Lender shall be consolidated, renewed and continued
under this Agreement in the form of Term Loans or Revolving Facility Commitments
(or combination thereof), as applicable. To the extent that Renewed Debt
consists of outstanding loans under the Existing Credit Agreements as of the
Restatement Date, a portion of the amounts funded by the Lenders pursuant to
their respective Term Loan Commitments on the Restatement Date, in an aggregate
amount equal to the excess of the principal amount of such outstanding loans
over the principal amount thereof continued and renewed hereunder pursuant to
clause (a) of the first sentence of this paragraph, shall be paid by the
Administrative Agent to the Existing Agents for the account of the Existing
Banks holding such outstanding loans, as consideration for the assignment
thereof to such Lenders a contemplated by clause (b) of the first sentence of
this paragraph.
The proceeds of the Term Loans (to the extent of amounts not
applied to continue and renew the Renewed Debt consisting of outstanding loans
under the Existing Credit Agreements as contemplated above) will be used by the
Borrower on the Restatement Date solely (i) first, to pay transaction costs
related to the Transactions (the "Transaction Costs") and (ii) second, to make
the Cash
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Payment. The proceeds of Revolving Loans and Swingline Loans will be used by the
Borrower solely for general corporate purposes, provided that the proceeds of
Revolving Loans and Swingline Loans may not be used for the purposes of
financing Transaction Costs or the Cash Payment. Letters of Credit will be used
by the Borrower solely for general corporate purposes.
The Borrower and the Administrative Agent acknowledge that in
connection with Amendment No. 1, Florida documentary stamp tax in the amount of
$4,900,000 was paid to the Florida Department of Revenue and that since such
date, the aggregate principal amount of indebtedness under the Existing Credit
Agreements has not exceeded $1,358,000,000 at any time.
The Lenders are willing to extend credit to the Borrower as
provided above and each Issuing Bank is willing to issue Letters of Credit for
the account of the Borrower, in each case on the terms and subject to the
conditions set forth herein. Accordingly, the parties hereto agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
Definitions
Section 1.01. Defined Terms. As used in this Agreement, the
following terms shall have the meanings specified below:
"ABR Borrowing" shall mean a Borrowing comprised of ABR Loans.
"ABR Loan" shall mean any ABR Term Loan, ABR Revolving Loan or
Swingline Loan.
"ABR Revolving Borrowing" shall mean a Borrowing comprised of ABR
Revolving Loans.
"ABR Revolving Loan" shall mean any Revolving Loan bearing interest at
a rate determined by reference to the Alternate Base Rate in accordance with the
provisions of Article II.
"ABR Term Loan" shall mean any Term Loan bearing interest at a rate
determined by reference to the Alternate Base Rate in accordance with the
provisions of Article II.
"Additional Extensions of Credit" shall have the meaning assigned to
such term in Section 9.09(c).
"Additional Lender" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 2.20.
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"Additional Mortgage" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 5.10(c).
"Adjusted LIBO Rate" shall mean, with respect to any Eurocurrency
Borrowing for any Interest Period, an interest rate per annum (rounded upward,
if necessary, to the next 1/100 of 1%) equal to the product of (a) the LIBO Rate
in effect for such Interest Period and (b) the Statutory Reserve Rate applicable
to such Eurocurrency Borrowing, if any.
"Administrative Agent" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in
the introductory paragraph of this Agreement.
"Administrative Agent Fees" shall have the meaning assigned to such
term in Section 2.12(c).
"Administrative Questionnaire" shall mean, with respect to each Lender,
an administrative questionnaire in the form prepared by the Administrative Agent
and submitted to the Administrative Agent (with a copy to the Borrower) duly
completed by such Lender.
"Affiliate" shall mean, when used with respect to a specified person,
another person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries,
Controls or is Controlled by or is under common Control with the person
specified. Each partner in Holdings and each of their respective Affiliates
shall be deemed an Affiliate of the Borrower.
"Agents" shall mean the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent.
"Agreement" shall mean, collectively, the Existing Credit Agreements,
as consolidated, amended and restated by this Amended Agreement, and as the same
may be further amended and in effect from time to time.
"Alternate Base Rate" shall mean, for any day, a rate per annum equal
to the greater of (a) the Prime Rate in effect on such day and (b) the Federal
Funds Effective Rate in effect on such day plus 1/2 of 1%. If for any reason the
Administrative Agent shall have determined (which determination shall be
conclusive absent manifest error) that it is unable to ascertain the Federal
Funds Effective Rate, including the failure of the Federal Reserve Bank of New
York to publish rates or the inability of the Administrative Agent to obtain
quotations in accordance with the terms thereof, the Alternate Base Rate shall
be determined without regard to clause (b) of the preceding sentence until the
circumstances giving rise to such inability no longer exist. Any change in the
Alternate Base Rate due to a change in the Prime Rate or the Federal Funds
Effective Rate shall be effective on the effective date of such change in the
Prime Rate or the Federal Funds Effective Rate, respectively.
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"Amended Agreement" shall mean this Amended and Restated Credit
Agreement dated as of December 9, 2004.
"Amendment No. 1" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the
preamble to this Agreement.
"Applicable Margin" shall mean, with respect to any Term Loan or
Revolving Loan, the applicable margin per annum set forth below under the
caption "Revolving Loan ABR Spread", "Revolving Loan Eurocurrency Spread", "Term
Loan ABR Spread" or "Term Loan Eurocurrency Spread", as applicable, based upon
the Total Leverage Ratio as of the most recent determination date.
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Revolving
Revolving Loan Term Loan
Loan ABR Eurocurrency Term Loan Eurocurrency
Total Leverage Ratio: Spread Spread ABR Spread Spread
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Category 1
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Greater than or equal to 1.50% 2.50% 1.25% 2.25%
4.50 to 1.00
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Category 2
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Less than 4.50 to 1.00
but greater than or 1.25% 2.25% 1.00% 2.00%
equal to 3.50 to 1.00
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Category 3
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Less than 3.50 to 1.00
but greater than or 1.00% 2.00% 0.75% 1.75%
equal to 3.00 to 1.00
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Category 4
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Less than 3.00 to 1.00
but greater than or 0.75% 1.75% 0.75% 1.75%
equal to 2.50 to 1.00
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Category 5
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Less than 2.50 to 1.00 0.50% 1.50% 0.75% 1.75%
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For purposes of the foregoing,(a) the Total Leverage Ratio shall be determined
as of the end of each fiscal quarter of the Borrower's fiscal year based upon
the consolidated financial information of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries
delivered pursuant to Section 5.04(a) or (b) and (b) each change in the
Applicable Margin resulting from a change in the Total Leverage Ratio shall be
effective during the period commencing on and including the first Business Day
after the date of delivery to the Administrative Agent of such consolidated
financial information indicating such change and ending on the date immediately
preceding the effective date of the next such change, provided that until the
delivery of consolidated financial statements for the Borrower and the
Subsidiaries for the fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2004, the Total Leverage
Ratio shall be deemed to be in Category 2 for purposes of determining the
Applicable Margin; provided further that the Total Leverage Ratio shall be
deemed to be in Category 1 (i) at any time that an Event of Default has occurred
and is continuing or (ii) at
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the option of the Administrative Agent or at the request of the Required
Lenders, if the Borrower fails to deliver the consolidated financial information
required to be delivered pursuant to Section 5.04(a) or (b), during the period
from the expiration of the time for delivery thereof until such consolidated
financial information is delivered.
"Approved Fund" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section
9.04(b).
"Asset Disposition" shall mean any sale, transfer or other disposition
by the Borrower or any of the Subsidiaries to any person other than the Borrower
or any Subsidiary Loan Party of any asset or group of related assets in one or a
series of related transactions, the Net Proceeds from which exceed $5,000,000.
"Assignee Group" means two or more assignees that are Affiliates of one
another or two or more Approved Funds managed by the same investment advisor.
"Assignment and Acceptance" shall mean an assignment and acceptance
entered into by a Lender and an assignee, and accepted by the Administrative
Agent and the Borrower (to the extent required by Section 9.04), in the form of
Exhibit A or such other form as shall be approved by the Administrative Agent.
"Authorized Agent" shall mean any party authorized in a written consent
to execute and deliver the Loan Documents or instruments contemplated therein.
"Authorized Officer" shall mean any of the President, Executive Vice
President, Vice President, Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer or Controller of
the Borrower, or any officer exercising similar functions.
"Availability Period" shall mean the period from and including the
Restatement Date to but excluding the earlier of the Revolving Credit Maturity
Date and the date of termination of the Revolving Facility Commitments.
"Blackstone" shall mean, collectively, Blackstone Capital Partners III
Merchant Banking Fund L.P., a Delaware limited partnership, its Affiliates and
the respective successors of the foregoing.
"Blackstone USE" shall mean Blackstone USE Acquisition Company, L.L.C.,
a Delaware limited liability company, and its successors.
"Board" shall mean the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
of the United States of America.
"Borrower" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the
introductory paragraph of this Agreement.
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"Borrower Partnership Agreement" shall mean Item 1 of Schedule 1.01(c).
"Borrowing" shall mean (a) a group of Loans of a single Type under a
single Facility and made on a single date and, in the case of Eurocurrency
Loans, as to which a single Interest Period is in effect and (b) a Swingline
Loan.
"Borrowing Minimum" shall mean (a) in the case of a Revolving Borrowing
and prepayment of Term Loans, $1,000,000, and (b) in the case of a Swingline
Borrowing, $100,000.
"Borrowing Multiple" shall mean (a) in the case of a Revolving
Borrowing and prepayment of Term Loans, $1,000,000, and (b) in the case of a
Swingline Borrowing, $100,000.
"Borrowing Request" shall mean a request by the Borrower in accordance
with the terms of Section 2.03.
"Business Day" shall mean any day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or
other day on which commercial banks in New York City are authorized or required
by law to remain closed, provided that when used in connection with a
Eurocurrency Loan, the term "Business Day" shall also exclude any day on which
banks are not open for dealings in deposits in Dollars in the London interbank
market.
"Capital Expenditures" shall mean, for any person in respect of any
period, the aggregate of all expenditures incurred by such person during such
period that, in accordance with GAAP, are or should be included in "additions to
property, plant or equipment" or similar items reflected in the statement of
cash flows of such person, provided, however, that Capital Expenditures for the
Borrower and the Subsidiaries shall not include (a) expenditures to the extent
they are made with the proceeds of the issuance of Equity Interests of the
Borrower after the Restatement Date or with funds that would have constituted
Net Proceeds under clause (a) of the definition of the term "Net Proceeds" (but
that will not constitute Net Proceeds as a result of the first proviso to such
clause (a)), (b) expenditures of proceeds of insurance settlements, condemnation
awards and other settlements in respect of lost, destroyed, damaged or condemned
assets, equipment or other property to the extent such expenditures are made to
replace or repair such lost, destroyed, damaged or condemned assets, equipment
or other property or otherwise to acquire, maintain, develop, construct,
improve, upgrade or repair assets or properties useful in the business of the
Borrower and the Subsidiaries within 12 months of receipt of such proceeds, (c)
interest capitalized during such period, (d) expenditures that are accounted for
as capital expenditures of such person and that actually are paid for by a third
party (excluding the Borrower or any subsidiary thereof) and for which neither
the Borrower nor any subsidiary thereof has provided or is required to provide
or incur, directly or indirectly, any consideration or obligation to such third
party or any other person
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(whether before, during or after such period), (e) the book value of any asset
owned by such person prior to or during such period to the extent that such book
value is included as a capital expenditure during such period as a result of
such person reusing or beginning to reuse such asset during such period without
a corresponding expenditure actually having been made in such period, provided
that (i) any expenditure necessary in order to permit such asset to be reused
shall be included as a Capital Expenditure during the period that such
expenditure actually is made and (ii) such book value shall have been included
in Capital Expenditures when such asset was originally acquired if such asset
was originally acquired on or after January 1, 2004 and (f) the purchase price
of equipment purchased during such period to the extent the consideration
therefor consists of any combination of (i) used or surplus equipment traded in
at the time of such purchase and (ii) the proceeds of a substantially concurrent
sale of used or surplus equipment, in each case, in the ordinary course of
business.
"Capital Lease Obligations" of any person shall mean the obligations of
such person 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 person under GAAP
and, for purposes hereof, the amount of such obligations at any time shall be
the amount thereof at such time determined in accordance with GAAP.
"Cash Payment" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the
preamble to this Agreement.
A "Change in Control" shall be deemed to occur upon:
(a) the sale, lease or transfer, in one or a series of related
transactions, of all or substantially all the assets of the Borrower
and the Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, to a person other than one or
more of the Permitted Holders; or
(b) the acquisition by any person or group (within the meaning
of Section 13(d)(3) or Section 14(d)(2) of the Exchange Act, or any
successor provision), including any group acting for the purpose of
acquiring, holding or disposing of securities (within the meaning of
Rule 13d-5(b)(1) under the Exchange Act), other than the Permitted
Holders, in a single transaction or in a related series of
transactions, by way of merger, consolidation or other business
combination or purchase of beneficial ownership (within the meaning of
Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act, or any successor provision), of more
than 50% of the total combined voting power and the combined economic
interests of all Equity Interests of the Borrower.
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"Change in Law" shall mean (a) the adoption of any law, rule or
regulation after the date of this Agreement, (b) any change in law, rule or
regulation or in the interpretation or application thereof by any Governmental
Authority after the date of this Agreement or (c) compliance by any Lender or
Issuing Bank (or, for purposes of Section 2.15(b), by any lending office of such
Lender or by such Lender's or Issuing Bank's holding company, if any) with any
request, guideline or directive (whether or not having the force of law) of any
Governmental Authority made or issued after the date of this Agreement.
"Charges" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 9.10.
"Code" shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from
time to time.
"Collateral" shall mean all the "Collateral" as defined in any
Collateral Document and shall also include the Mortgaged Properties.
"Collateral Agent" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the
introductory paragraph of this Agreement.
"Collateral Documents" shall mean the Mortgages, the Security
Agreement, the Pledge Agreement and each of the security agreements, mortgages
and other instruments and documents executed and delivered pursuant to any of
the foregoing or pursuant to Section 5.10.
"Collateral and Guarantee Requirement" shall mean the requirement that:
(a) on the Restatement Date, the Collateral Agent shall have
received from Holdings, the Borrower and each Subsidiary Loan Party, if
any, a counterpart of an appropriate amendment to the Subordination
Agreement and each Collateral Document reflecting the Transactions, all
in form satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, duly executed and
delivered on behalf of such person;
(b) (i) in the case of any person that is a Subsidiary Loan
Party at the Restatement Date, the Collateral Agent shall have received
from such Subsidiary a counterpart of the Subsidiary Guaranty and
Security Agreement, and (ii) in the case of any person that becomes a
Subsidiary Loan Party after the Restatement Date, the Collateral Agent
shall have received from such Subsidiary a supplement to the Subsidiary
Guaranty and Security Agreement, in the form specified therein, in each
case duly executed and delivered on behalf of such Subsidiary Loan
Party;
(c) all the issued and outstanding Equity Interests (i) of the
Borrower and each Subsidiary directly owned by or on behalf of the
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Borrower or any Subsidiary Loan Party, (ii) of any other person owned
on the Restatement Date directly by or on behalf of the Borrower or any
Subsidiary Loan Party, except to the extent that a pledge of such
Equity Interests would violate applicable law or a legally effective
contractual obligation binding upon such Equity Interests as of the
Restatement Date and for so long as such restriction exists, and (iii)
that are acquired by Holdings (in the case of Equity Interests of the
Borrower), the Borrower or a Subsidiary Loan Party after the
Restatement Date, shall have been pledged pursuant to the Collateral
Documents (provided that in no event shall more than 65% of the issued
and outstanding Equity Interests of any Foreign Subsidiary be pledged
to secure the Obligations), and the Collateral Agent shall have
received all certificates or other instruments (if any) representing
such Equity Interests, together with stock powers or other instruments
of transfer with respect thereto endorsed in blank;
(d) [Reserved];
(e) all documents and instruments, including Uniform
Commercial Code financing statements, required by law or reasonably
requested by the Collateral Agent to be filed, registered or recorded
to create the Liens intended to be created by the Collateral Documents
(in each case, including any supplements thereto) and perfect such
Liens to the extent required by, and with the priority required by, the
Collateral Documents, shall have been filed, registered or recorded or
delivered to the Collateral Agent for filing, registration or the
recording concurrently with, or promptly following, the execution and
delivery of each such Collateral Document;
(f) the Collateral Agent shall have received (i) counterparts
of a Mortgage with respect to each Mortgaged Property duly executed and
delivered by the record owner of such Mortgaged Property, (ii) a policy
or policies of title insurance, paid for by the Borrower, issued by a
nationally recognized title insurance company insuring the Lien of each
such Mortgage as a valid first Lien on the Mortgaged Property described
therein, free of any other Liens except as permitted by Section 6.02
and Liens arising by operation of law, together with such endorsements,
coinsurance and reinsurance as the Collateral Agent may reasonably
request, and (iii) such legal opinions and other documents as the
Collateral Agent may reasonably request with respect to any such
Mortgage or Mortgaged Property, provided that such other documents are
reasonably available to the Borrower and the Subsidiaries without
significant expense;
(g) each Loan Party shall have obtained all consents and
approvals required to be obtained by it in connection with (i) the
execution and
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delivery of all Collateral Documents (or supplements thereto) to which
it is a party and the granting by it of the Liens thereunder and (ii)
the performance of its obligations thereunder; and
(h) on the Restatement Date, the Borrower shall have made all
Intellectual Property Filings necessary to record the Liens granted
under Collateral Documents on all material Recordable Intellectual
Property owned or licensed by it and, subject to Section 7 of the
Security Agreement, the Borrower shall have made all Intellectual
Property Filings necessary to record the Liens granted under Collateral
Documents all material Recordable Intellectual Property owned or
licensed by it on the most recent March 31 or September 30, whichever
is more recent.
"Commitment Fee" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 2.12(a).
"Commitments" shall mean, (a) with respect to any Lender, such Lender's
Revolving Facility Commitment and Term Loan Commitment and (b) with respect to
any Swingline Lender, its Swingline Commitment.
"Consolidated Net Income" means, with respect to any person for any
period, the aggregate of the Net Income of such person and its subsidiaries for
such period, on a consolidated basis; provided, however, that (i) any net
after-tax extraordinary gains or losses (less all fees and expenses relating
thereto) shall be excluded, (ii) any net after-tax gains or losses on disposal
of discontinued operations shall be excluded, (iii) any net after-tax gains or
losses (less all fees and expenses relating thereto) attributable to business
dispositions or asset dispositions other than in the ordinary course of business
(as determined in good faith by the Borrower) shall be excluded, (iv) the Net
Income for such period of any person that is not a subsidiary of such person, or
that is accounted for by the equity method of accounting, shall be included only
to the extent of, the amount of dividends or distributions or other payments
paid in cash (or to the extent converted into cash) to the referent person or a
subsidiary thereof in respect of such period, (v) the Net Income for such period
of any subsidiary of such person shall be excluded to the extent that the
declaration or payment of dividends or similar distributions by such subsidiary
of its Net Income is not at the date of determination permitted without any
prior governmental approval (which has not been obtained) or, directly or
indirectly, by the operation of the terms of its charter or any agreement,
instrument, judgment, decree, order, statute, rule, or governmental regulation
applicable to that subsidiary or its stockholders, unless such restriction with
respect to the payment of dividends or similar distributions has been legally
waived except, and only to the extent of, the amount of dividends or
distributions or other payments paid in cash (or to the extent converted into
cash) to the referent person or a subsidiary thereof in respect of such period;
provided, in determining the Consolidated Net Income of the Borrower, this
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clause (v) shall not apply to any Subsidiary Loan Party if it has satisfied the
Collateral and Guarantee Requirement, (vi) Consolidated Net Income for such
period shall not include the cumulative effect of a change in accounting
principles during such period and (vii) any net after-tax income or loss (less
all fees and expenses or charges relating thereto) attributable to the early
extinguishment of indebtedness shall be excluded.
"Consolidated Total Assets" shall mean, as of any date, the total
assets of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries, determined in accordance with GAAP,
as the same are (or would be) set forth on the consolidated balance sheet of the
Borrower and the Subsidiaries as of such date.
"Consolidation and Restatement" shall have the meaning assigned to such
term in the preamble to this Agreement.
"Control" shall mean the possession, directly or indirectly, of the
power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of a
person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or
otherwise, and "Controlling" and "Controlled" shall have meanings correlative
thereto.
"Credit" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the preamble
to this Agreement.
"Credit Event" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Article
IV.
"Cure Amount" shall have the meaning provided in Section 7.03.
"Cure Right" shall have the meaning provided in Section 7.03.
"Current Assets" shall mean, with respect to the Borrower and the
Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis at any date of determination, all assets
(other than cash and Permitted Investments or other cash equivalents) that
would, in accordance with GAAP, be classified on a consolidated balance sheet of
the Borrower and the Subsidiaries as current assets at such date of
determination, other than amounts related to current or deferred Taxes based on
income or profits.
"Current Liabilities" shall mean, with respect to the Borrower and the
Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis at any date of determination, all
liabilities that would, in accordance with GAAP, be classified on a consolidated
balance sheet of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries as current liabilities at
such date of determination, other than (a) the current portion of any debt or
Capital Lease Obligations, (b) accruals of Interest Expense (excluding Interest
Expense that is past due), (c) accruals for current or deferred Taxes based on
income or profit, (d) accruals, if any, of transaction costs resulting from the
Transactions, (e) accruals
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of any costs or expenses related to (i) severance or termination of employees
related to the Transactions or (ii) bonuses, pension and other post-retirement
benefit obligations (provided that, for purposes of this clause (e), reductions
in Current Liabilities attributable to any reversals of such accruals or
payments made in respect of such accrued costs or expenses shall also be
excluded) and (f) accruals for add-backs to EBITDA included in clauses (a)(v)
through (a)(x) of the definition of such term.
"Current Universal Fees" shall mean Universal Fees accruing after March
31, 2004.
"Debt Service" shall mean, for any period, Interest Expense for such
period plus scheduled principal amortization of Total Borrower Debt for such
period (whether or not such payments are made).
"Default" shall mean any event or condition that upon notice, lapse of
time or both would constitute an Event of Default.
"Defaulting Lender" shall mean any Lender with respect to which a
Lender Default is in effect.
"Deferred Universal Fees" shall mean Universal Fees which are not
Current Universal Fees.
"Derivatives Obligations" of any person shall mean all obligations of
such person in respect of any rate swap transaction, basis swap, forward rate
transaction, commodity swap, commodity option, equity or equity index swap,
equity or equity index option, bond option, interest rate option, foreign
exchange transaction, cap transaction, floor transaction, collar transaction,
currency swap transaction, cross-currency rate swap transaction, currency option
or any other similar transaction (including any option with respect to any of
the foregoing transactions) or any combination of the foregoing transactions.
Derivatives Obligations incurred for bona fide hedging purposes are not
Investments.
"Dollars" or "$" shall mean lawful money of the United States of
America.
"Early Maturity Date" shall mean (i) December 1, 2009, if the Senior
Notes shall not have been refinanced or repaid in full prior to such date, or
(ii) January 1, 2010, if the Holdings Notes shall not have been refinanced or
repaid in full prior to such date; provided that in the case of any such
refinancing, the Indebtedness resulting from such refinancing must mature no
earlier than 180 days after the date that is six and one half years after the
Restatement Date and, in the case of any such refinancing of Holdings Notes, the
issuer or issuers of any such refinancing Indebtedness shall not be the Borrower
or a Subsidiary and in
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case of any refinancing of Senior Notes the issuer or issuers of such
refinancing Indebtedness shall be the same as the Senior Notes.
"EBITDA" shall (subject to adjustment as provided in Sections 6.13 and
7.03) mean, with respect to the Borrower and the Subsidiaries on a consolidated
basis for any period, the Consolidated Net Income of the Borrower and the
Subsidiaries for such period
plus (a) the sum of (in each case without duplication and to
the extent the respective amounts described in subclauses (i) through
(x) (but not (xi)) of this clause (a) reduced such Consolidated Net
Income for the respective period for which EBITDA is being determined)
(i) provision for Taxes based on income or profits of the Borrower and
the Subsidiaries (including state, franchise and similar Taxes) for
such period, (ii) interest expense of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries
for such period (as reported in accordance with GAAP), (iii)
depreciation and amortization expense of the Borrower and the
Subsidiaries for such period, (iv) any fees, expenses or charges
related to any equity offering, investment or acquisition permitted
hereunder or occurring prior to the Restatement Date, any
recapitalization permitted hereunder or any Indebtedness permitted to
be incurred hereunder (whether or not successful) and fees, expenses or
charges or any accruals relating to such payments related to the
Transactions, (v) any other noncash charges in relation to the
Transactions or any acquisition or investment (but excluding any such
charge that requires an accrual of a cash reserve for anticipated cash
charges for any future period), (vi) [reserved], (vii) noncash
exchange, translation or performance losses relating to any Derivatives
Obligation, (viii) any expense relating to defined benefits pension or
post-retirement benefit plans, (ix) noncash charges for the impairment
of intangibles and other assets (but excluding any such charge that (A)
relates to current assets or (B) requires an accrual of a cash reserve
for anticipated cash charges for any future period), (x) restructuring
charges; provided that (A) with respect to each such restructuring
charge, the Borrower shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent
an officer's certificate specifying and quantifying such charge and
stating that such charge is a restructuring charge and (B) the
aggregate amount of restructuring charges that are not non-cash charges
that may be added back pursuant to this clause (x) shall not exceed
$20,000,000 (provided that, for purposes of subclauses (v), (vii), (ix)
and (x) of this clause (a), any noncash charges, expenses or losses
shall be treated as cash charges or losses in any subsequent period
during which cash disbursements attributable thereto are made), and
(xi) for purposes only of determining EBITDA for any period that
includes the fiscal quarter of the Borrower ended September 26, 2004,
$17,500,000 (such amount representing an adjustment to account for the
impact of hurricanes in the fiscal year ending December 31, 2004),
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minus (b) the sum of (in each case without duplication and to
the extent the respective amounts described in subclauses (i) through
(iii) and (v) of this clause (b) increased such Consolidated Net Income
for the respective period for which EBITDA is being determined) (i) the
amount of any minority interest income, except to the extent received
in cash (or plus the amount of any minority interest loss), (ii)
noncash exchange, translation or performance gains relating to any
Derivatives Obligation, (iii) any income relating to defined benefits
pension or post-retirement benefit plans, (iv) any cash payment
relating to defined benefits pension or post-retirement benefit plans
and (v) noncash items increasing Consolidated Net Income of the
Borrower and the Subsidiaries for such period (but excluding any such
items (A) in respect of which cash was received in a prior period or
will be received in a future period or (B) which represent the reversal
of any accrual of, or cash reserve for, anticipated cash charges in any
prior period).
"environment" shall mean ambient air, surface water and groundwater
(including potable water, navigable water and wetlands), the land surface or
subsurface strata.
"Environmental Laws" shall mean all applicable laws (including common
law), rules, regulations, codes, ordinances, orders, decrees, judgments,
injunctions, notices or legally binding agreements issued, promulgated or
entered into by any Governmental Authority, relating in any way to the
protection of the environment, preservation or reclamation of natural resources,
the management, Release or threatened Release of, or exposure to, any Hazardous
Material or to health and safety matters (to the extent relating to the Release
of or exposure to Hazardous Materials).
"Environmental Liability" shall mean any liability, claim, action,
suit, judgment or order, contingent or otherwise (including any damages, costs,
fines, penalties or indemnities), relating to, resulting from or based upon (a)
compliance or non-compliance with any Environmental Law, (b) the generation,
use, handling, transportation, storage, treatment or disposal of any Hazardous
Materials, (c) exposure to any Hazardous Materials, (d) the Release or
threatened Release of any Hazardous Materials, or (e) any contract or other
agreement pursuant to which liability is assumed or imposed with respect to any
of the foregoing.
"Equity Interests" of any person shall mean any and all shares,
interests, rights to purchase, warrants, options, participations or other
equivalents of or interests in (however designated) equity of such person,
including any preferred stock, any limited or general partnership interest and
any limited liability company membership interest.
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"ERISA" shall mean the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974,
as the same may be amended from time to time.
"ERISA Affiliate" shall mean any trade or business (whether or not
incorporated) that, together with the Borrower or any Subsidiary, is treated as
a single employer under Section 414(b) or (c) of the Code, or, solely for
purposes of Section 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the Code, is treated as a
single employer under Section 414 of the Code.
"ERISA Event" shall mean (a) any Reportable Event; (b) the existence
with respect to any Plan of an "accumulated funding deficiency" (as defined in
Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA), whether or not waived; (c) the
incurrence by the Borrower, a Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate of any liability
under Title IV of ERISA with respect to the termination of any Plan; (d) the
receipt by the Borrower, a Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate from the PBGC or a
plan administrator of any notice relating to an intention to terminate any Plan
or to appoint a trustee to administer any Plan under Section 4042 of ERISA; (e)
the incurrence by the Borrower, a Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate of any
liability with respect to the withdrawal or partial withdrawal from any Plan or
Multiemployer Plan; or (f) the receipt by the Borrower, a Subsidiary or any
ERISA Affiliate of any notice, or the receipt by any Multiemployer Plan from the
Borrower, a Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate of any notice, concerning the
imposition of Withdrawal Liability or a determination that a Multiemployer Plan
is, or is expected to be, insolvent or in reorganization, within the meaning of
Title IV of ERISA.
"Eurocurrency Borrowing" shall mean a Borrowing comprised of
Eurocurrency Loans.
"Eurocurrency Loan" shall mean any Eurocurrency Term Loan or
Eurocurrency Revolving Loan.
"Eurocurrency Revolving Borrowing" shall mean a Borrowing comprised of
Eurocurrency Revolving Loans.
"Eurocurrency Revolving Loan" shall mean any Revolving Loan bearing
interest at a rate determined by reference to the Adjusted LIBO Rate in
accordance with the provisions of Article II.
"Eurocurrency Term Loan" shall mean any Term Loan bearing interest at a
rate determined by reference to the Adjusted LIBO Rate in accordance with the
provisions of Article II.
"Event of Default" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 7.01.
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"Excess Cash Flow" shall mean, with respect to the Borrower and the
Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis for any Excess Cash Flow Period, EBITDA of
the Borrower and the Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis for such Excess Cash
Flow Period (including any EBITDA arising through the operation of Section
7.03(a)(i)),
minus, without duplication, (a) Debt Service for such Excess
Cash Flow Period, (b) (i) any voluntary prepayments of Term Loans
during such Excess Cash Flow Period, (ii) any permanent voluntary
reductions during such Excess Cash Flow Period of Revolving Facility
Commitments to the extent that an equal amount of Revolving Loans was
simultaneously repaid and (iii) any voluntary prepayment permitted
hereunder of term Indebtedness and any permanent voluntary reduction of
revolving Indebtedness to the extent that an equal amount of revolving
Indebtedness was simultaneously repaid during such Excess Cash Flow
Period to the extent not financed, or intended to be financed, using
the proceeds of the incurrence of Indebtedness, so long as the amount
of such prepayment is not already reflected in Debt Service, (c) (i)
Capital Expenditures by the Borrower and the Subsidiaries on a
consolidated basis during such Excess Cash Flow Period (excluding
Capital Expenditures made in such Excess Cash Flow Period but deducted
in the prior Excess Cash Flow Period pursuant to a certificate
contemplated by the following clause (d)) that are paid or payable in
cash and (ii) the aggregate consideration paid in cash during such
Excess Cash Flow Period in respect of Investments permitted hereunder
(less any amounts received in respect thereof as a return of capital),
(d) Capital Expenditures that the Borrower or any Subsidiary shall,
during such Excess Cash Flow Period, become obligated to make but that
are not made during such Excess Cash Flow Period, provided that the
Borrower shall deliver a certificate to the Administrative Agent not
later than 90 days after the end of such Excess Cash Flow Period,
signed by an Authorized Officer of the Borrower and certifying that
such Capital Expenditures and the delivery of the related equipment
will be made in the following Excess Cash Flow Period, (e) Taxes paid
in cash by the Borrower and the Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis,
and Restricted Payments paid in cash by the Borrower pursuant to
Section 6.06(d), in each case, during such Excess Cash Flow Period or
that will be paid within six months after the close of such Excess Cash
Flow Period (provided that any amount so deducted that will be paid
after the close of such Excess Cash Flow Period shall not be deducted
again in a subsequent Excess Cash Flow Period), (f) an amount equal to
any increase in Working Capital of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries
for such Excess Cash Flow Period, (g) [reserved], (h) cash expenditures
made in respect of Derivatives Obligations during such Excess Cash Flow
Period, to the extent not reflected in the computation of EBITDA or
Interest Expense, (i)
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without duplication of amounts referred to in clause (a) or (e) above,
Restricted Payments paid in cash by the Borrower during such Excess
Cash Flow Period, in each case in accordance with Section 6.06, (j)
amounts paid in cash during such Excess Cash Flow Period on account of
(x) items that were accounted for as noncash reductions of Net Income
in determining Consolidated Net Income or as noncash reductions of the
Consolidated Net Income of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries in a prior
Excess Cash Flow Period and (y) reserves or accruals established in
purchase accounting, (k) extraordinary special charges or any
nonrecurring loss paid in cash during such Excess Cash Flow Period, (l)
to the extent not deducted in the computation of Net Proceeds in
respect of any asset disposition or condemnation giving rise thereto,
the amount of any mandatory prepayment of Indebtedness (other than
Indebtedness created hereunder or under any other Loan Document),
together with any interest, premium or penalties required to be paid
(and actually paid) in connection therewith, (m) the amount, if any, by
which consolidated long-term deferred revenues of the Borrower and the
Subsidiaries decreased during such Excess Cash Flow Period, (n) the
amount related to items that were added to or not deducted from Net
Income in calculating Consolidated Net Income or were added to or not
deducted from Consolidated Net Income in calculating EBITDA to the
extent such items represented a cash payment, or an accrual for a cash
payment, by the Borrower and the Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis
during such Excess Cash Flow Period, and (o) the amount of minority
interest expense added to Consolidated Net Income in calculating EBITDA
for such Excess Cash Flow Period,
plus, without duplication, (q) an amount equal to any decrease
in Working Capital for such Excess Cash Flow Period, (r) all proceeds
received during such Excess Cash Flow Period of Capital Lease
Obligations, purchase money Indebtedness, Sale and Lease-Back
Transactions pursuant to Section 6.03 and any other Indebtedness, in
each case to the extent used to finance any Capital Expenditure (other
than Indebtedness under this Agreement to the extent there is no
corresponding deduction to Excess Cash Flow above in respect of the use
of such Borrowings), (s) all amounts referred to in clause (c) above to
the extent funded with the proceeds of the issuance of Equity Interests
of, or capital contributions to, the Borrower after the Restatement
Date (to the extent not previously used to prepay Indebtedness (other
than Revolving Loans or Swingline Loans), make any investment or
capital expenditure or otherwise for any purpose resulting in a
deduction to Excess Cash Flow in any prior Excess Cash Flow Period) or
any amount that would have constituted Net Proceeds under clause (a) of
the definition of the term "Net Proceeds" if not so spent, in each case
to the extent there is a
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corresponding deduction from Excess Cash Flow above, (t) to the extent
any permitted Capital Expenditures and the corresponding delivery of
equipment referred to in clause (d) above do not occur in the Excess
Cash Flow Period of the Borrower specified in the certificate of the
Borrower provided pursuant to clause (d) above, the amount of such
Capital Expenditures that were not so made in the Excess Cash Flow
Period of the Borrower specified in such certificates, (u) cash
payments received in respect of Derivatives Obligations during such
Excess Cash Flow Period to the extent (i) not included in the
computation of EBITDA or (ii) such payments do not reduce Interest
Expense, (v) any extraordinary or nonrecurring gain realized in cash
during such Excess Cash Flow Period (except to the extent such gain
consists of Net Proceeds subject to Section 2.11(c)), (w) to the extent
deducted in the computation of EBITDA, cash interest income, (x) the
amount, if any, by which consolidated long-term deferred revenues of
the Borrower and the Subsidiaries increased during such Excess Cash
Flow Period, (y) the amount related to items that were deducted from
Consolidated Net Income in calculating EBITDA to the extent such items
represented cash received by the Borrower and the Subsidiaries on a
consolidated basis during such Excess Cash Flow Period and are not Net
Proceeds and (z) the amount of minority interest income deducted from
Consolidated Net Income in calculating EBITDA for such Excess Cash Flow
Period.
"Excess Cash Flow Period" shall mean each fiscal year of the Borrower
ended on or after December 31, 2005.
"Exchange Act" shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended.
"Excluded Taxes" shall mean, with respect to the Agents, any Lender,
any Issuing Bank or any other recipient of any payment to be made by or on
account of any obligation of the Borrower hereunder, (a) income or franchise
taxes imposed on (or measured by) its net income by the United States of
America, or by the jurisdiction 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, (b) any branch
profits taxes imposed by the United States of America or any similar tax imposed
by any other jurisdiction described in clause (a) above and (c) in the case of a
Foreign Lender (other than an assignee pursuant to a request by the Borrower
under Section 2.19(b)), any withholding tax that is in effect and would apply to
amounts payable hereunder to such Foreign Lender at the time such Foreign Lender
becomes a party to this Agreement (or designates a new lending office) or is
attributable to such Foreign Lender's failure to comply with Section 2.17(e),
except to the extent that such Foreign Lender (or its assignor, if any) was
entitled, at the time of designation of a new lending office
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(or assignment), to receive additional amounts from the Borrower with respect to
any withholding tax pursuant to Section 2.17(a).
"Existing Agents" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the
preamble to this Agreement.
"Existing Banks" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the
preamble to this Agreement.
"Existing Credit Agreements" shall have the meaning assigned to such
term in the preamble to this Agreement.
"Facility" shall mean the respective facility and Commitments utilized
in making Loans and credit extensions hereunder, it being understood that as of
the Restatement Date there are two Facilities, i.e., the Term Loan Facility and
the Revolving Facility.
"Federal Funds Effective Rate" shall mean, for any day, the weighted
average (rounded upward, if necessary, to the next 1/100 of 1%) of the rates on
overnight Federal funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System
arranged by Federal funds brokers, as published on the next succeeding Business
Day by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or, if such rate is not so
published for any day which is a Business Day, the average (rounded upward, if
necessary, to the next 1/100 of 1%) of the quotations for the day of such
transactions received by the Administrative Agent from three Federal funds
brokers of recognized standing selected by it.
"Fees" shall mean the Commitment Fees, the L/C Participation Fees, the
Issuing Bank Fees and the Administrative Agent Fees.
"Financial Performance Covenants" shall mean the covenants of the
Borrower set forth in Sections 6.11 and 6.12.
"Foreign Lender" shall mean any Lender that is organized under the laws
of a jurisdiction other than that in which the Borrower is located. For purposes
of this definition, the United States of America, each State thereof and the
District of Columbia shall be deemed to constitute a single jurisdiction.
"Foreign Subsidiary" shall mean any Subsidiary that is incorporated or
organized under the laws of any jurisdiction other than the United States of
America, any State thereof or the District of Columbia.
"FQE" means fiscal quarter end, and when used in conjunction with a
specified month means the last day of the fiscal quarter ending on or about the
last day of such month (e.g., "FQE 6/05" means the last day of the fiscal
quarter ending on or about June 30, 2005).
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"GAAP" shall mean generally accepted accounting principles in effect
from time to time in the United States.
"Governmental Authority" shall mean any federal, state, local or
foreign court or governmental agency, authority, instrumentality or regulatory
body.
"Guarantee" of or by any person (the "guarantor") shall mean (a) any
obligation, contingent or otherwise, of the guarantor guaranteeing or having the
economic effect of guaranteeing any Indebtedness or other obligation of any
other person (the "primary obligor") in any manner, whether directly or
indirectly, and including any obligation of the guarantor, direct or indirect,
(i) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment
of) such Indebtedness or other obligation or to purchase (or to advance or
supply funds for the purchase of) any security for the payment of such
Indebtedness or other obligation, (ii) to purchase or lease property, securities
or services for the purpose of assuring the owner of such Indebtedness or other
obligation of the payment thereof, (iii) to maintain working capital, equity
capital or any other financial statement condition or liquidity of the primary
obligor so as to enable the primary obligor to pay such Indebtedness or other
obligation, (iv) entered into for the purpose of assuring in any other manner
the holders of such Indebtedness or other obligation of the payment thereof or
to protect such holders against loss in respect thereof (in whole or in part) or
(v) as an account party in respect of any letter of credit or letter of guaranty
issued to support such Indebtedness or other obligation, or (b) any Lien on any
assets of the guarantor securing any Indebtedness (or any existing right,
contingent or otherwise, of the holder of Indebtedness to be secured by such a
Lien) of any other person, whether or not such Indebtedness or other obligation
is assumed by the guarantor; provided, however, that the term "Guarantee" shall
not include endorsements for collection or deposit, in either case in the
ordinary course of business, or customary and reasonable indemnity obligations
in effect on the Restatement Date or entered into in connection with any
acquisition or disposition of assets permitted under this Agreement. The amount
of any Guarantee shall be deemed to be an amount equal to the stated or
determinable amount of the primary obligation in respect of which such Guarantee
is made or, if not stated or determinable, the maximum reasonably anticipated
liability in respect thereof as determined by the relevant Person in good faith.
"Hazardous Materials" shall mean all explosive, radioactive, hazardous
or toxic substances, wastes or other pollutants, including petroleum and
petroleum byproducts and distillates, asbestos or asbestos containing materials,
polychlorinated biphenyls, radon gas, infectious or medical wastes and all other
substances or wastes of any nature regulated pursuant to any Environmental Law.
"Holdings" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the preamble
hereto.
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"Holdings Notes" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the
preamble hereto.
"Hypothetical Income Tax" shall mean, with respect to any fiscal year
of the Borrower, the product of (i) the sum of the highest federal, state, local
and foreign tax rates (taking into consideration special rates, e.g., capital
gains) applicable to partners of Blackstone USE on the last day of such fiscal
year and (ii) the amount of taxable income or gain of the Borrower.
"Incremental Amendment" has the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 2.20.
"Incremental Facility Closing Date" shall have the meaning assigned to
such term in Section 2.20.
"Incremental Term Loan" has the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 2.20.
"Incremental Term Loan Borrowing" shall mean a Borrowing comprised of
Incremental Term Loans.
"Indebtedness" of any person shall mean, without duplication, (a) all
obligations of such person for borrowed money (except, for purposes of the Total
Leverage Ratio, Subordinated Debt), (b) all obligations of such person evidenced
by bonds, debentures, notes or similar instruments, (c) all obligations of such
person under conditional sale or other title retention agreements relating to
property or assets purchased by such person, (d) all obligations of such person
issued or assumed as the deferred purchase price of property or services (other
than (i) current trade liabilities and current intercompany liabilities (but not
any refinancings, extensions, renewals or replacements thereof except such
refinancings, extensions, renewals or replacements thereof that are themselves
current trade liabilities or current intercompany liabilities) incurred in the
ordinary course of business and maturing within 365 days after the incurrence
thereof, (ii) obligations of such person in respect of Universal Fees, (iii)
customary retentions, holdbacks and similar obligations arising under
construction and similar contracts which are not intended as a method of
financing the goods or services provided under such contracts and (iv) accrued
and unpaid ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Fees), (e) all Guarantees by such person of Indebtedness of
others (except, for purposes of the Total Leverage Ratio, any such Indebtedness
which would be excluded if a direct obligation of such person), (f) all Capital
Lease Obligations of such person, (g) [reserved], (h) the principal component of
all obligations, contingent or otherwise, of such person as an account party in
respect of letters of credit and (i) the principal component of all obligations
of such person in respect of bankers' acceptances. The Indebtedness of any
person shall include the Indebtedness of any partnership in which such person is
a general partner, other
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than to the extent that the instrument or agreement evidencing such Indebtedness
expressly limits the liability of such person in respect thereof.
"Indemnified Taxes" shall mean Taxes other than Excluded Taxes.
"Indemnitee" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section
9.05(b).
"Information" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section
3.14.
"Information Memorandum" shall mean the Confidential Information
Memorandum dated November 2004, as modified or supplemented in writing prior to
the Restatement Date.
"Intellectual Property Filings" shall mean the "Intellectual Property
Filings" as defined in the Security Agreement.
"Intellectual Property Rights" has the meaning specified in Section
3.21.
"Interest Coverage Ratio" shall have the meaning assigned to such term
in Section 6.11.
"Interest Election Request" shall mean a request by the Borrower to
convert or continue a Term Borrowing or Revolving Borrowing in accordance with
Section 2.07.
"Interest Expense" shall mean, with respect to any period, the sum of
(a) the gross interest expense of Holdings, the Borrower and the Subsidiaries
for such period on a consolidated basis, excluding (i) the amortization of debt
discounts and (ii) the amortization of all fees and related debt issuance costs
(including fees with respect to Derivatives Obligations) payable in connection
with the incurrence of Indebtedness to the extent included in interest expense
but including (iii) the portion of any payments or accruals with respect to
Capital Lease Obligations allocable to interest expense and (b) capitalized
interest of Holdings, the Borrower and the Subsidiaries. For purposes of the
foregoing, gross interest expense (x) shall be determined after giving effect to
any net payments made or received by Holdings, the Borrower and the Subsidiaries
with respect to Derivatives Obligations but (y) shall exclude, to the extent
otherwise reflected therein, any interest expense resulting from "▇▇▇▇ to
market" accounting for Derivatives Obligations.
"Interest Payment Date" shall mean, (a) with respect to any
Eurocurrency Loan, the last day of the Interest Period applicable to the
Borrowing of which such Loan is a part and, in the case of a Eurocurrency
Borrowing with an Interest Period of more than three months' duration, each day
that would have been an
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Interest Payment Date had successive Interest Periods of three months' duration
been applicable to such Borrowing and, in addition, the date of any refinancing
or conversion of such Borrowing with or to a Borrowing of a different Type, (b)
with respect to any ABR Loan, the last day of each calendar quarter and (c) with
respect to any Swingline Loan, the day that such Swingline Loan is required to
be repaid pursuant to Section 2.09(a).
"Interest Period" shall mean, as to any Eurocurrency Borrowing, the
period commencing on the date of such Borrowing or on the last day of the
immediately preceding Interest Period applicable to such Borrowing, as
applicable, and ending on (i) the numerically corresponding day (or, if there is
no numerically corresponding day, on the last day) in the calendar month that is
1, 2, 3 or 6 months thereafter (or 9 or 12 months, if at the time of the
relevant Borrowing, all participating Lenders make interest periods of such
length available), as the Borrower may elect, except that prior to the earlier
of (x) 30 days after the Restatement Date and (y) the date on which the
Administrative Agent has notified the Borrower that the initial syndication of
the Term Loans has been completed, all Interest Periods shall end on the day
that is seven days from (and including) the first day of such Interest Period or
(ii) the date any Eurocurrency Borrowing is converted to an ABR Borrowing in
accordance with Section 2.07 or repaid or prepaid in accordance with Section
2.09, 2.10 or 2.11 provided, however, that if any Interest Period would end on a
day other than a Business Day, such Interest Period shall be extended to the
next succeeding Business Day unless such next succeeding Business Day would fall
in the next calendar month, in which case such Interest Period shall end on the
next preceding Business Day. Interest shall accrue from and including the first
day of an Interest Period to but excluding the last day of such Interest Period.
"Investment" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section
6.04.
"Islands Theme Park" means the "Universal's Islands of Adventure" theme
park located in Orlando, Florida owned and operated by the Borrower.
"Issuing Bank" shall mean JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. and each other
Issuing Bank designated pursuant to Section 2.05(k), in each case in its
capacity as an issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder, and its successors in such
capacity as provided in Section 2.05(i). An Issuing Bank may, in its discretion,
arrange for one or more Letters of Credit to be issued by Affiliates of such
Issuing Bank, in which case the term "Issuing Bank" shall include any such
Affiliate with respect to Letters of Credit issued by such Affiliate.
"Issuing Bank Fees" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 2.12(b).
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"knowledge" shall mean, with respect to any person as of any date of
determination, that one or more of the Authorized Officers of such person in
fact know as of that date, or in the exercise of reasonable diligence under the
circumstances should have known, of the relevant facts and "known" and "knows
of" shall have corresponding meanings.
"L/C Disbursement" shall mean a payment or disbursement made by an
Issuing Bank pursuant to a Letter of Credit.
"L/C Participation Fee" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 2.12(b).
"Lender" shall mean each financial institution listed on Schedule 2.01,
as well as any person that becomes a "Lender" hereunder pursuant to Section 9.04
or pursuant to an Incremental Amendment.
"Lender Default" shall mean (a) the refusal (which has not been
retracted) of a Lender to make available its portion of any Borrowing, to
acquire participations in a Swingline Loan pursuant to Section 2.04 or to fund
its portion of any unreimbursed payment under Section 2.05(e), in each case to
the extent such Lender is obligated to do so by this Agreement, or (b) a
Lender's having notified in writing the Borrower and/or the Administrative Agent
that it does not intend to comply with its obligations under Section 2.04, 2.05
or 2.06.
"Letter of Credit" shall mean any letter of credit issued pursuant to
this Agreement.
"LIBO Rate" shall mean, with respect to any Eurocurrency Borrowing for
any Interest Period, the rate appearing on Page 3750 of the Dow ▇▇▇▇▇ Market
Service (or on any successor or substitute page of such service, or any
successor or substitute for such service, providing rate quotations comparable
to those currently provided on such page of such service, as determined by the
Administrative Agent from time to time for purposes of providing quotations of
interest rates applicable to Dollar deposits in the London interbank market) at
approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two Business Days prior to the
commencement of such Interest Period, as the rate for dollar deposits with a
maturity comparable to such Interest Period. In the event that such rate is not
available at such time for any reason, then the "LIBO Rate" with respect to such
Eurocurrency Borrowing for such Interest Period shall be the average (rounding
upward, if necessary, to the next 1/100 of 1%) of the respective interest rates
per annum at which deposits in the currency of such Borrowing are offered for
such Interest Period to major banks in the London interbank market by JPMorgan
Chase Bank, N.A. at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two Business Days
prior to the commencement of such Interest Period.
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"License Agreements" shall mean the agreements listed on Schedule
1.01(d) hereto, as such Schedule 1.01(d) may be amended or supplemented from
time to time by the Borrower in a writing delivered to the Administrative Agent.
"Lien" shall mean, with respect to any asset, (a) any mortgage, deed of
trust, lien, hypothecation, pledge, encumbrance, charge or security interest in
or on such asset, (b) the interest of a vendor or a lessor under any conditional
sale agreement, capital lease or title retention agreement (or any financing
lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing)
relating to such asset and (c) in the case of securities, any purchase option,
call or similar right of a person that is not a Loan Party with respect to such
securities (excluding any such option, call or similar right with respect to any
security held by the Borrower or a Subsidiary in a joint venture that is not a
Subsidiary, or by the holder of an Equity Interest in such joint venture, in
respect of such security).
"Loan Documents" shall mean this Agreement, the Subordination
Agreement, the Pledge Agreement, the Security Agreement, the Subsidiary Guaranty
and Security Agreement and, on and after the date on which the same are executed
and delivered, any other Collateral Documents.
"Loan Parties" shall mean the Borrower and the Subsidiary Loan Parties.
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"Loans" shall mean the Term Loans, the Incremental Term Loans, the
Revolving Loans and the Swingline Loans.
"Majority Lenders" of any Facility shall mean, at any time, Lenders
under such Facility having Loans and unused Commitments representing more than
50% of the sum of all Loans outstanding under such Facility and unused
Commitments under such Facility at such time.
"Margin Stock" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in
Regulation U.
"Margaritaville" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in
Schedule 6.04.
"Material Adverse Effect" shall mean the existence of events,
conditions and/or contingencies that have had or are reasonably likely to have
(a) a materially adverse effect on the business, operations, properties, assets
or financial condition of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries, taken as a whole,
(b) a material impairment of the ability of the Borrower or any of the
Subsidiaries to perform any of its material obligations under any Loan Document
to which it is or will be a party or to consummate the Transactions or (c) an
impairment of the validity or enforceability of any material provision of, or a
material impairment of the material rights, remedies or benefits available to
the Lenders, any Issuing
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Bank, the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent under, any Loan Document.
"Material Indebtedness" shall mean Indebtedness (other than Loans and
Letters of Credit) or Derivative Obligations of Holdings or any one or more of
the Loan Parties in an aggregate principal amount exceeding $20,000,000. For
purposes of determining Material Indebtedness, the "principal amount" of the
obligations of any person in respect of any Derivatives Obligations at any time
will be the maximum aggregate amount (after giving effect to any netting
agreements) that such person would be required to pay if such Derivatives
Obligations were terminated at such time.
"Maximum Rate" shall have the meaning provided in Section 9.10.
"Moody's" shall mean ▇▇▇▇▇'▇ Investors Service, Inc.
"Mortgaged Properties" shall mean, initially, the owned real properties
of the Loan Parties set forth on Schedule 1.01(b) and includes each other parcel
of owned real property and improvements thereto with respect to which an
Additional Mortgage is granted.
"Mortgages" shall mean the mortgages, deeds of trust, assignments of
leases and rents and other Collateral Documents delivered with respect to
Mortgaged Properties prior to the Restatement Date or pursuant to Section 5.10.
"Multiemployer Plan" shall mean a multiemployer plan as defined in
Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA to which the Borrower, Holdings or any ERISA
Affiliate (other than one considered an ERISA Affiliate only pursuant to
sub-Section (m) or (o) of Code Section 414) is making or accruing an obligation
to make contributions, or has within any of the preceding five plan years made
or accrued an obligation to make contributions.
"Net Income" means, with respect to any person, the net income (loss)
of such person, determined in accordance with GAAP and before any reduction in
respect of preferred stock dividends.
"Net Proceeds" shall mean (a) 100% of the cash proceeds actually
received by the Borrower or any of the Wholly Owned Subsidiaries (including any
cash payment received by way of deferred payment of principal pursuant to a note
or installment receivable or purchase price adjustment receivable or otherwise
and including casualty insurance settlements and condemnation awards, but only
as and when received) from any loss, damage, destruction or condemnation of, or
any sale, transfer or other disposition (including any sale and leaseback of
assets and any mortgage or lease of real property) to any person of any asset or
assets of the Borrower or any of the Subsidiaries (other than those
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pursuant to ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ ▇.▇▇(▇), (▇), (▇), (▇), (▇), (▇), (▇), (▇) or (k)), net of
(i) attorneys' fees, accountants' fees, investment banking fees, survey costs,
title insurance premiums, and related search and recording charges, transfer
Taxes, deed or mortgage recording Taxes, required debt payments and required
payments of other obligations relating to the applicable asset (other than
pursuant hereto), other customary expenses and brokerage, consultant and other
customary fees actually incurred in connection therewith and (ii) Taxes paid or
payable as a result thereof, provided that, if no Event of Default exists and
the Borrower shall deliver a certificate of an Authorized Officer of the
Borrower to the Administrative Agent promptly following receipt of any such
proceeds setting forth the Borrower's intention to use all or any portion of
such proceeds, to acquire, maintain, develop, construct, improve, upgrade or
repair assets useful in the business of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries, or
make investments pursuant to Section 6.04(p), in each case within 12 months of
such receipt, such proceeds or portion shall not constitute Net Proceeds except
to the extent not so used within such 12-month period, and provided further that
(x) no proceeds realized in a single transaction or series of related
transactions shall constitute Net Proceeds unless such proceeds shall exceed
$5,000,000 and (y) no proceeds shall constitute Net Proceeds in any fiscal year
until the aggregate amount of all such proceeds in such fiscal year shall exceed
$10,000,000, and (b) 100% of the cash proceeds from the incurrence, issuance or
sale by the Borrower or any of the Subsidiaries of any Indebtedness (other than
Indebtedness permitted pursuant to Section 6.01), net of all Taxes and fees
(including investment banking fees), commissions, costs and other expenses, in
each case incurred in connection with such issuance or sale. For purposes of
calculating the amount of Net Proceeds, fees, commissions and other costs and
expenses payable to Holdings or the Borrower or any Subsidiary of either of them
shall be disregarded.
"Obligations" shall mean all amounts owing to any of the Agents or any
Lender pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
"Offering" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the preamble
to this Agreement.
"Other Taxes" means any and all present or future stamp or documentary
taxes or any other excise or property taxes, charges or similar levies arising
from any payment made hereunder or from the execution, delivery or enforcement
of, or otherwise with respect to, the Loan Documents.
"Participant" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section
9.04(c).
"PBGC" shall mean the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation referred to
and defined in ERISA.
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"Perfection Certificate" shall have the meaning assigned to such term
in the Security Agreement.
"Permitted Cure Security" means Equity Interests of the Borrower having
no mandatory redemption, repurchase or similar requirements prior to 180 days
after the latest of the Term Loan Maturity Date and the final maturity of any
Incremental Term Loan, and upon which all dividends or distributions (if any)
shall be payable solely in additional Equity Interests satisfying the foregoing
criteria.
"Permitted Holder" shall mean Blackstone, Universal and any Person in
which Blackstone and Universal collectively own at least 75% of the outstanding
Equity Interest.
"Permitted Investments" shall mean: (a) direct obligations of the
United States of America or any agency thereof or obligations guaranteed by the
United States of America or any agency thereof; (b) time deposit accounts,
certificates of deposit and money market deposits maturing within 180 days of
the date of acquisition thereof issued by a bank or trust company that is
organized under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof
whose long-term debt, or whose parent holding company's long-term debt, is rated
A (or the equivalent rating) or higher by at least one nationally recognized
statistical rating organization (as defined in Rule 436 under the Securities
Act); (c) repurchase obligations with a term of not more than 30 days for
underlying securities of the types described in clause (a) above entered into
with a bank meeting the qualifications described in clause (b) above; (d)
commercial paper, maturing not more than one year after the date of acquisition,
issued by a corporation (other than an Affiliate of the Borrower, except for
General Electric Company or General Electric Capital Corporation, to the extent
either would constitute an Affiliate of the Borrower) organized and in existence
under the laws of the United States of America with a rating at the time as of
which any investment therein is made of P-1 (or higher) according to ▇▇▇▇▇'▇, or
A-1 (or higher) according to S&P; (e) securities with maturities of one year or
less from the date of acquisition issued or fully guaranteed by any State,
commonwealth or territory of the United States of America, or by any political
subdivision or taxing authority thereof, and rated at least A by S&P or A by
▇▇▇▇▇'▇; (f) shares of mutual funds whose investment guidelines restrict 90% of
such funds' investments to those satisfying the provisions of clauses (a)
through (e) above; (g) money market funds that (i) comply with the criteria set
forth in Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended, (ii)
are rated AAA by S&P and Aaa by ▇▇▇▇▇'▇ and (iii) have portfolio assets of at
least $5,000,000,000; and (h) time deposit accounts, certificates of deposit and
money market deposits in an aggregate face amount not in excess of 1% of the
total assets of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis, as
of the end of the Borrower's most recently completed fiscal year.
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"Permitted Liens" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the
Security Agreement.
"person" shall mean any natural person, corporation, business trust,
joint venture, association, company, partnership, limited liability company or
government, individual or family trust, or any agency or political subdivision
thereof.
"Personal Property Collateral" shall have the meaning assigned to such
term in the Security Agreement.
"Plan" shall mean any employee pension benefit plan (other than a
Multiemployer Plan) subject to the provisions of Title IV or Section 302 of
ERISA or Section 412 of the Code and in respect of which Holdings, the Borrower,
any Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate is (or, if such plan were terminated,
would under Section 4069 of ERISA be deemed to be) an "employer" as defined in
Section 3(5) of ERISA.
"Pledge Agreement" means the Amended and Restated Pledge Agreement
dated as of January 6, 2000 among the Borrower, all of the Pledgors listed on
the signature pages thereof, and the Collateral Agent.
"primary obligor" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the
definition of the term Guarantee.
"Prime Rate" shall mean the rate of interest per annum publicly
announced from time to time by the Administrative Agent as its prime rate in
effect at its principal office in New York City; each change in the Prime Rate
shall be effective on the date such change is publicly announced as being
effective.
"Project Documents" shall mean all agreements listed in Schedule
1.01(c).
"Projections" shall mean the projections of the Borrower and the
Subsidiaries included in the Information Memorandum and any other projections
and any forward-looking statements of such entities furnished to the Lenders or
the Administrative Agent by or on behalf of the Borrower or a Subsidiary prior
to the Restatement Date.
"Recordable Intellectual Property" shall have the meaning assigned to
such term in the Security Agreement.
"Register" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section
9.04(b).
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"Regulation U" shall mean Regulation U of the Board as from time to
time in effect and all official rulings and interpretations thereunder or
thereof.
"Regulation X" shall mean Regulation X of the Board as from time to
time in effect and all official rulings and interpretations thereunder or
thereof.
"Related Parties" means, with respect to any specified person, such
person's Affiliates and the respective directors, officers, employees, agents
and advisors of such person and such person's Affiliates.
"Release" shall mean any release, spill, emission, leaking, dumping,
injection, pouring, deposit, disposal, discharge, dispersal, leaching or
migration into or through the environment or within or upon any building,
structure, facility or fixture.
"Remaining Present Value" shall mean, as of any date with respect to
any lease, the present value as of such date of the scheduled future lease
payments with respect to such lease, determined with a discount rate equal to a
market rate of interest for such lease reasonably determined at the time such
lease was entered into.
"Renewed Debt" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the
preamble to this Agreement.
"Reportable Event" shall mean any reportable event as defined in
Section 4043(c) of ERISA or the regulations issued thereunder, other than those
events as to which the 30-day notice period referred to in Section 4043(c) of
ERISA has been waived, with respect to a Plan (other than a Plan maintained by
an ERISA Affiliate that is considered an ERISA Affiliate only pursuant to
sub-Section (m) or (o) of Section 414 of the Code).
"Required Lenders" shall mean, at any time, Lenders having (a) Loans
(other than Swingline Loans) outstanding, (b) Revolving L/C Exposures, (c)
Swingline Exposures and (d) unused Revolving Facility Commitments (excluding
Commitments to make Swingline Loans) that, taken together, represent more than
50% of the sum of (w) all Loans (other than Swingline Loans) outstanding, (x)
Revolving L/C Exposures, (y) Swingline Exposures and (z) unused Revolving
Facility Commitments (excluding commitments to make Swingline Loans) at such
time. The Loans, Revolving L/C Exposures, Swingline Exposures and unused
Revolving Facility Commitment of any Defaulting Lender shall be disregarded in
determining Required Lenders at any time.
"Restatement Date" shall mean the date on which the conditions
specified in Section 4.01 and 4.02 are satisfied (or waived in accordance with
Section 9.09).
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"Restricted Payments" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 6.06.
"Revolving Borrowing" shall mean a Borrowing comprised of Revolving
Loans.
"Revolving Credit Exposure" shall mean, at any time, the sum of (a) the
aggregate principal amount of the Revolving Loans outstanding at such time, (b)
the Swingline Exposure at such time and (c) the Revolving L/C Exposure at such
time. The Revolving Credit Exposure of any Lender at any time shall be such
Lender's Revolving Facility Percentage of the Revolving Credit Exposure at such
time.
"Revolving Credit Maturity Date" shall mean the earlier of (i) the date
that is six years after the Restatement Date and (ii) if applicable, the Early
Maturity Date, or in either case if such date is not a Business Day, the
Business Day immediately preceding such date.
"Revolving Facility" shall mean the Revolving Facility Commitments and
the extensions of credit made hereunder by the Revolving Facility Lenders.
"Revolving Facility Commitment" shall mean, with respect to each
Revolving Facility Lender, the commitment of such Revolving Facility Lender to
make Revolving Loans pursuant to Section 2.01, expressed as an amount
representing the maximum aggregate permitted amount of such Lender's Revolving
Credit Exposure hereunder, as such commitment may be (a) reduced from time to
time pursuant to Section 2.08 and (b) reduced or increased from time to time
pursuant to (i) assignments by or to such Lender pursuant to Section 2.19(c) or
9.04 or (ii) Section 2.20. The initial amount of each Revolving Facility
Lender's Revolving Facility Commitment is set forth on Schedule 2.01, or in the
Assignment and Acceptance or the Incremental Amendment pursuant to which such
Revolving Facility Lender shall have assumed or provided its Revolving Facility
Commitment, as applicable. The aggregate amount of the Revolving Facility
Commitments on the date hereof is $100,000,000.
"Revolving Facility Lender" shall mean a Lender with a Revolving
Facility Commitment or with outstanding Revolving Loans.
"Revolving Facility Percentage" shall mean, with respect to any
Revolving Facility Lender, the percentage of the Total Revolving Facility
Commitment represented by such Lender's Revolving Facility Commitment. If the
Revolving Facility Commitments have terminated or expired, the Revolving
Facility Percentages shall be determined based upon the Revolving Facility
Commitments most recently in effect, giving effect to any assignments pursuant
to Section 9.04.
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"Revolving L/C Exposure" shall mean at any time the sum of (a) the
aggregate undrawn amount of all Letters of Credit outstanding at such time and
(b) the aggregate principal amount of all L/C Disbursements that have not yet
been reimbursed at such time. The Revolving L/C Exposure of any Revolving
Facility Lender at any time shall mean its Revolving Facility Percentage of the
aggregate Revolving L/C Exposure at such time.
"Revolving Loans" shall mean the revolving loans made by the Lenders to
the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.01(b).
"Sale and Lease-Back Transaction" shall have the meaning assigned to
such term in Section 6.03.
"S&P" shall mean Standard & Poor's, a division of The ▇▇▇▇▇▇-▇▇▇▇
Companies, Inc.
"Scheduled Affiliate Transactions" shall mean transactions and
agreements described in Schedule 1.01(e) hereto.
"SEC" shall mean the Securities and Exchange Commission or any
successor thereto.
"Secured Parties" shall mean the "Secured Parties" as defined in the
Security Agreement.
"Securities Act" shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
"Security Agreement" shall mean the Security Agreement dated as of July
27, 2000 between the Borrower and the Collateral Agent.
"Senior Notes" shall mean the Borrowers 11 3/4 % Senior Notes due 2010.
"▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Fees" means consulting fees payable in respect of the
Borrower's Theme Parks pursuant to the consulting agreement identified in Item 6
of Schedule 1.01(c) in an amount not exceeding the amount provided for in such
agreement as in effect on November 13, 1995.
"Statutory Reserve Rate" shall mean a fraction (expressed as a
decimal), the numerator of which is the number one and the denominator of which
is the number one minus the aggregate of the maximum reserve percentages
(including any marginal, special, emergency or supplemental reserves) expressed
as a decimal established by the Board to which the bank serving as the
Administrative Agent is subject with respect to the Adjusted LIBO Rate, for
eurocurrency funding (currently referred to as "Eurocurrency Liabilities" in
Regulation D of the Board). Such reserve percentages shall include those imposed
pursuant to such Regulation D. Eurocurrency Loans shall be deemed to constitute
eurocurrency
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funding and to be subject to such reserve requirements without benefit of or
credit for proration, exemptions or offsets that may be available from time to
time to any Lender under such Regulation D or any comparable regulation. The
Statutory Reserve Rate shall be adjusted automatically on and as of the
effective date of any change in any reserve percentage.
"Studio Theme Park" shall mean the "Universal Studios Florida" theme
park located in Orlando, Florida owned and operated by the Borrower.
"Subordinated Debt" shall have the meaning set forth in the
Subordination Agreement.
"Subordinated Intercompany Debt" shall have the meaning assigned to
such term in Section 6.01(d).
"Subordination Agreement" means the Amended and Restated Subordination
Agreement dated as of January 6, 2000, among Universal Studios, Inc., Universal
City Property Management Company, Universal City Property Management II LLC,
Universal City Florida Holding Co. I, Universal City Florida Holding Co. II,
Blackstone UTP Capital Partners L.P., Blackstone UTP Capital Partners A L.P.,
Blackstone UTP Offshore Capital Partners L.P., Blackstone Family Media
Partnership III L.P., Vivendi Universal Entertainment LLLP and such other
Persons party thereto pursuant to the terms thereof, and the Borrower and the
Administrative Agent.
"subsidiary" shall mean, with respect to any person (herein referred to
as the "parent"), any corporation, partnership, association or other business
entity (a) of which securities or other ownership interests representing more
than 50% of the equity or more than 50% of the ordinary voting power or more
than 50% of the general partnership interests are, at the time any determination
is being made, directly or indirectly, owned, Controlled or held by the parent
or one or more subsidiaries of the parent or by the parent and one or more
subsidiaries of the parent or (b) that is treated for financial reporting
purposes as a consolidated entity in the parent's annual audited consolidated
financial statements prepared in accordance with GAAP.
"Subsidiary" shall mean a subsidiary of the Borrower.
"Subsidiary Guaranty and Security Agreement" shall mean a Subsidiary
Guaranty and Security Agreement, substantially in the form of Exhibit B, among
the Borrower, each Subsidiary Loan Party and the Collateral Agent.
"Subsidiary Loan Party" shall mean each Wholly Owned Subsidiary that is
not a Foreign Subsidiary, but shall not include UCDP Finance, Inc. so long as
UCDP Finance, Inc. has no assets and conducts no operations (in each case, other
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than de minimis assets or operations) other than acting as co-issuer of the
Senior Notes (or refinancings thereof) or other debt securities of which the
Borrower is a co-issuer.
"Swingline Borrowing" shall mean a Borrowing comprised of Swingline
Loans.
"Swingline Borrowing Request" shall mean a request by a Borrower
substantially in the form of Exhibit C-2.
"Swingline Commitment" shall mean, with respect to each Swingline
Lender, the commitment of such Swingline Lender to make Swingline Loans pursuant
to Section 2.04. The amount of each Swingline Lender's Swingline Commitment on
the date hereof is set forth on Schedule 2.04(a). The aggregate amount of the
Swingline Commitments on the date hereof is $10,000,000.
"Swingline Exposure" shall mean at any time the aggregate principal
amount of all outstanding Swingline Borrowings at such time. The Swingline
Exposure of any Revolving Facility Lender at any time shall mean its Revolving
Facility Percentage of the aggregate Swingline Exposure at such time.
"Swingline Lender" shall mean a Lender with a Swingline Commitment or
outstanding Swingline Loans.
"Swingline Loans" shall mean the swingline loans made to the Borrower
pursuant to Section 2.04.
"Syndication Agent" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the
introductory paragraph of this Agreement.
"Taxes" shall mean any and all present or future taxes, levies,
imposts, duties (including stamp duties), deductions, charges (including ad
valorem charges) or withholdings imposed by any Governmental Authority.
"Term Borrowing" shall mean a Borrowing comprised of Term Loans.
"Term Loan Commitment" shall mean, with respect to each Lender, the
commitment of such Lender to make Term Loans hereunder as set forth in Section
2.01. The initial amount of each Lender's Term Loan Commitment is set forth on
Schedule 2.01 or in the Assignment and Acceptance pursuant to which such Lender
shall have assumed its Term Loan Commitment, as applicable. The aggregate amount
of the Term Loan Commitments on the date hereof is $550,000,000.
"Term Loan Facility" shall mean the Term Loan Commitments and the Term
Loans made hereunder.
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"Term Loan Installment Date" shall have the meaning assigned to such
term in Section 2.10(a).
"Term Loan Maturity Date" shall mean the earlier of (i) the date that
is six and one-half years after the Restatement Date or (ii) if applicable, the
Early Maturity Date, or if either such date is not a Business Day, the Business
Day immediately preceding such date.
"Term Loans" shall mean the term loans made by the Lenders to the
Borrower pursuant to Section 2.01(a). Each Term Loan shall be a Eurocurrency
Term Loan or an ABR Term Loan.
"Test Period" shall mean, on any date of determination, the period of
four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Borrower then last ended (taken as one
accounting period).
"Theme Parks" means the Islands Theme Park and the Studio Theme Park
(including the Borrower's operation currently conducted through the "City Walk"
joint venture).
"Total Borrower Debt" at any date shall mean (a) the sum of (without
duplication), all Indebtedness consisting of Capital Lease Obligations,
Indebtedness for borrowed money (other than letters of credit to the extent
undrawn) and Indebtedness in respect of the deferred purchase price of property
or services, in each case of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries determined on a
consolidated basis on such date minus (b) the lesser of (i) $60,000,000 and (ii)
the amount of cash and Permitted Investments of the Borrower and the Subsidiary
Loan Parties on such date that are not restricted in any manner as to their use
(other than restrictions under Indebtedness included in clause (a) above).
"Total Leverage Ratio" shall mean, on any date, the ratio of (a) Total
Borrower Debt as of such date to (b) EBITDA for the period of four consecutive
fiscal quarters of the Borrower most recently ended as of such date, all
determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.
"Total Revolving Facility Commitment" shall mean, at any time, the
total Revolving Facility Commitments, as in effect at such time.
"Transaction Costs" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the
preamble to this Agreement.
"Transactions" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the
preamble to this Agreement.
"Type", when used in respect of any Loan or Borrowing, shall refer to
the Rate by reference to which interest on such Loan or on the Loans comprising
such
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Borrowing is determined. For purposes hereof, the term "Rate" shall include the
Adjusted LIBO Rate and the Alternate Base Rate.
"UCC" shall mean the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect from time to
time in the State of New York.
"Universal" shall mean Vivendi Universal Entertainment LLLP, a Delaware
limited liability limited partnership, and its Affiliates.
"Universal Fees" means the fees payable to Universal or an Affiliate of
Universal by the Borrower pursuant to the terms of the Borrower Partnership
Agreement.
"USA Patriot Act" means the Uniting and Strengthening America by
Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA
Patriot Act) Act of 2001.
"Wholly Owned Subsidiary" of any person means a subsidiary of such
person, all of the Equity Interests of which (other than directors' qualifying
shares or nominee or other similar shares required pursuant to applicable law)
are owned by such person or another Wholly Owned Subsidiary of such person.
Unless the context otherwise indicates, all references herein to a "Wholly Owned
Subsidiary" are references to a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Borrower.
"Withdrawal Liability" shall mean liability to a Multiemployer Plan as
a result of a complete or partial withdrawal from such Multiemployer Plan, as
such terms are defined in Part I of Subtitle E of Title IV of ERISA.
"Working Capital" shall mean, with respect to the Borrower and the
Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis at any date of determination, Current
Assets at such date of determination minus Current Liabilities at such date of
determination, provided that, for purposes of calculating Excess Cash Flow,
increases or decreases in Working Capital shall be calculated without regard to
any changes in Current Assets or Current Liabilities as a result of the effects
of purchase accounting.
"1999 Agent" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the
preamble of this Agreement.
"1999 Banks" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the
preamble of this Agreement.
"1999 Credit Agreement" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in
the preamble of this Agreement.
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"2003 Agent" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the
preamble of this Agreement.
"2003 Banks" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the
preamble of this Agreement.
"2003 Credit Agreement" shall have the meaning assigned to such term in
the preamble of this Agreement.
Section 1.02. Terms Generally. The definitions set forth or
referred to in Section 1.01 shall apply equally to both the singular and plural
forms of the terms defined. Whenever the context may require, any pronoun shall
include the corresponding masculine, feminine and neuter forms. The words
"include", "includes" and "including" shall be deemed to be followed by the
phrase "without limitation". All references herein to Articles, Sections,
Exhibits and Schedules shall be deemed references to Articles and Sections of,
and Exhibits and Schedules to, this Agreement unless the context shall otherwise
require. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, any reference in this
Agreement to any agreement or contract are to such agreement or contract as
amended, modified, or supplemented from time to time in accordance with the
terms hereof and thereof. References to any person include the successors and
assigns of such person. References "from" or "through" any date mean, unless
otherwise specified, "from and including" or "through and including",
respectively. 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 effective
until such notice shall have been withdrawn or such provision amended in
accordance herewith.
ARTICLE II
The Credits
Section 2.01. Commitments. Subject to the terms and conditions set
forth herein in order to effect the Consolidation and Restatement and renew the
Renewed Debt that is to be renewed and continued hereunder, and to extend the
Credit to be extended hereunder, each Lender agrees to make (or renew and
continue) a Term Loan denominated in Dollars to the Borrower on the
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Restatement Date in a principal amount not exceeding such Lender's Term Loan
Commitment and to make Revolving Loans denominated in Dollars to the Borrower
from time to time during the Availability Period in an aggregate principal
amount that will not result in (i) such Lender's Revolving Credit Exposure
exceeding such Lender's Revolving Facility Commitment or (ii) the Revolving
Credit Exposure exceeding the Total Revolving Facility Commitment, provided that
no Loans may be made under the Revolving Facility on the Restatement Date.
Within the foregoing limits and subject to the terms and conditions set forth
herein, the Borrower may borrow, prepay and reborrow Revolving Loans. Amounts
repaid or prepaid in respect of Term Loans may not be reborrowed.
Section 2.02. Loans and Borrowings. Each Loan shall be made as
part of a Borrowing consisting of Loans under the same Facility and of the same
Type made by the Lenders ratably in accordance with their respective Commitments
under the applicable Facility (or, in the case of Swingline Loans, in accordance
with their respective Swingline Commitments). The failure of any Lender to make
any Loan required to be made by it shall not relieve any other Lender of its
obligations hereunder, provided that the Commitments of the Lenders are several
and no Lender shall be responsible for any other Lender's failure to make Loans
as required.
(b) Subject to Section 2.14, each Borrowing (other than a
Swingline Borrowing) shall be comprised entirely of ABR Loans or
Eurocurrency Loans as the Borrower may request in accordance herewith.
Each Swingline Borrowing shall be an ABR Borrowing. Each Lender at its
option may make any ABR Loan or Eurocurrency Loan by causing any
domestic or foreign branch or Affiliate of such Lender to make such
Loan, provided that any exercise of such option shall not affect the
obligation of the Borrower to repay such Loan in accordance with the
terms of this Agreement and such Lender shall not be entitled to any
amounts payable under Section 2.15 or 2.17 solely in respect of
increased costs resulting from such exercise.
(c) At the commencement of each Interest Period for any
Eurocurrency Revolving Borrowing, such Borrowing shall be in an
aggregate amount that is an integral multiple of the Borrowing Multiple
and not less than the Borrowing Minimum. At the time that each ABR
Revolving Borrowing is made, such Borrowing shall be in an aggregate
amount that is an integral multiple of the Borrowing Multiple and not
less than the Borrowing Minimum, provided that an ABR Revolving
Borrowing may be in an aggregate amount that is equal to the entire
unused balance of the Revolving Facility Commitments or that is
required to finance the reimbursement of (i) an L/C Disbursement as
contemplated by Section 2.05(e) or (ii) a Swingline Loan as
contemplated by Section
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2.09. Each Swingline Borrowing shall be in an amount that is an
integral multiple of the Borrowing Multiple and not less than the
Borrowing Minimum. Borrowings of more than one Type and under more than
one Facility may be outstanding at the same time, provided that there
shall not at any time be more than a total of 15 Eurocurrency
Borrowings outstanding under all of the Facilities combined.
(d) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, the
Borrower shall not be entitled to request, or to elect to convert or
continue, any Borrowing if the Interest Period requested with respect
thereto would end after the Revolving Credit Maturity Date or Term Loan
Maturity Date, as applicable.
Section 2.03. Requests for Borrowings. To request a Revolving
Borrowing, Term Borrowing or Incremental Term Loan Borrowing, the Borrower shall
notify the Administrative Agent of such request by telephone (a) in the case of
a Eurocurrency Borrowing, not later than 2:00 p.m., New York City time, three
Business Days before the date of the proposed Borrowing or (b) in the case of an
ABR Borrowing, not later than 2:00 p.m., New York City time, one Business Day
before the date of the proposed Borrowing, provided that any such notice of an
ABR Revolving Borrowing to finance the reimbursement of an L/C Disbursement as
contemplated by Section 2.05(e) may be given not later than 10:00 a.m., New York
City time, on the date of the proposed Borrowing. Each such telephonic Borrowing
Request shall be irrevocable and shall be confirmed promptly by hand delivery or
telecopy to the Administrative Agent of a written Borrowing Request in a form
approved by the Administrative Agent and signed by the Borrower. Each such
telephonic and written Borrowing Request shall specify the following information
in compliance with Section 2.02:
(i) whether the requested Borrowing is to be a Revolving
Borrowing, Term Borrowing or Incremental Term Loan Borrowing.
(ii) the aggregate amount of the requested Borrowing;
(iii) the date of such Borrowing, which shall be a Business Day;
(iv) whether such Borrowing is to be an ABR Borrowing or a
Eurocurrency Borrowing;
(v) in the case of a Eurocurrency Borrowing, the initial Interest
Period to be applicable thereto, which shall be a period contemplated
by clause (a) of the definition of the term "Interest Period"; and
(vi) the location and number of the Borrower's account to which
funds are to be disbursed.
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If no election as to the Type of Borrowing is specified, then the requested
Borrowing shall be an ABR Borrowing. If no Interest Period is specified with
respect to any requested Eurocurrency Borrowing, then the Borrower shall be
deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one month's duration. Promptly
following receipt of a Borrowing Request in accordance with this Section, the
Administrative Agent shall advise each Lender of the details thereof and of the
amount of such Lender's Loan to be made as part of the requested Borrowing.
Section 2.04. Swingline Loans. (a) Subject to the terms and
conditions set forth herein, each Swingline Lender agrees to make Swingline
Loans to the Borrower from time to time during the Availability Period, in an
aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding that will not result in (i)
the aggregate principal amount of outstanding Swingline Loans made by such
Swingline Lender exceeding such Swingline Lender's Swingline Commitment or (ii)
the Revolving Credit Exposure exceeding the Total Revolving Facility Commitment,
provided that no Swingline Lender shall be required to make a Swingline Loan to
refinance an outstanding Swingline Borrowing. Within the foregoing limits and
subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Borrower may borrow,
prepay and reborrow Swingline Loans.
(b) To request a Swingline Borrowing, the Borrower shall notify
the Administrative Agent of such request by telephone (confirmed by a
Swingline Borrowing Request by telecopy), not later than 1:00 p.m., New
York City time, on the day of a proposed Swingline Borrowing. Each such
notice and Swingline Borrowing Request shall be irrevocable and shall
specify (i) the requested date (which shall be a Business Day) and (ii)
the amount of the requested Swingline Borrowing. The Administrative
Agent shall promptly advise each Swingline Lender of any such notice
received from the Borrower and the amount of such Swingline Lender's
Swingline Loan to be made as part of the requested Swingline Borrowing.
Each Swingline Lender shall make each Swingline Loan to be made by it
hereunder in accordance with Section 2.02(a) on the proposed date
thereof by wire transfer of immediately available funds by 3:00 p.m.,
New York City time, to the account of the Administrative Agent most
recently designated by it for such purpose by notice to the Swingline
Lenders. The Administrative Agent will make such Swingline Loans
available to the Borrower by promptly crediting the amounts so
received, in like funds, to the general deposit account of the Borrower
with the Administrative Agent (or, in the case of a Swingline Borrowing
made to finance the reimbursement of an L/C Disbursement as provided in
Section 2.05(e), by remittance to the applicable Issuing Bank).
(c) A Swingline Lender may by written notice given to the
Administrative Agent (and to the other Swingline Lenders) not later
than 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on any Business Day require the
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Revolving Facility Lenders to acquire participations on such Business
Day in all or a portion of the outstanding Swingline Loans made by it.
Such notice shall specify the aggregate amount of such Swingline Loans
in which the Revolving Facility Lenders will participate. Promptly upon
receipt of such notice, the Administrative Agent will give notice
thereof to each such Lender, specifying in such notice such Lender's
Revolving Facility Percentage of such Swingline Loan or Loans. Each
Revolving Facility Lender hereby absolutely and unconditionally agrees,
upon receipt of notice as provided above, to pay to the Administrative
Agent, for the account of the applicable Swingline Lender, such
Revolving Facility Lender's Revolving Facility Percentage of such
Swingline Loan or Loans. Each Revolving Facility Lender acknowledges
and agrees that its respective obligation to acquire participations in
Swingline Loans pursuant to this paragraph is absolute and
unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance whatsoever,
including the occurrence and continuance of a Default or reduction or
termination of the Commitments, and that each such payment shall be
made without any offset, abatement, withholding or reduction
whatsoever. Each Revolving Facility Lender shall comply with its
obligation under this paragraph by wire transfer of immediately
available funds, in the same manner as provided in Section 2.06 with
respect to Loans made by such Revolving Credit Lender (and Section 2.06
shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to the payment obligations of the
Lenders), and the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to the
applicable Swingline Lender the amounts so received by it from the
Revolving Facility Lenders. The Administrative Agent shall notify the
Borrower of any participations in any Swingline Loan acquired pursuant
to this paragraph (c), and thereafter payments in respect of such
Swingline Loan shall be made to the Administrative Agent and not to the
applicable Swingline Lender. Any amounts received by a Swingline Lender
from the Borrower (or other party on behalf of the Borrower) in respect
of a Swingline Loan after receipt by such Swingline Lender of the
proceeds of a sale of participations therein shall be promptly remitted
to the Administrative Agent; any such amounts received by the
Administrative Agent shall be promptly remitted by the Administrative
Agent to the Revolving Facility Lenders that shall have made their
payments pursuant to this paragraph and to such Swingline Lender, as
their interests may appear, provided that any such payment so remitted
shall be repaid to such Swingline Lender or to the Administrative
Agent, as applicable, if and to the extent such payment is required to
be refunded to the Borrower for any reason. The purchase of
participations in a Swingline Loan pursuant to this paragraph shall not
relieve the Borrower of any default in the payment thereof.
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Section 2.05. Letters of Credit. General. Subject to the terms and
conditions set forth herein, the Borrower may request the issuance of Letters of
Credit for its own account, in a form reasonably acceptable to the applicable
Issuing Bank, at any time and from time to time during the Availability Period
and prior to the date that is five Business Days prior to the Revolving Credit
Maturity Date. In the event of any inconsistency between the terms and
conditions of this Agreement and the terms and conditions of any form of letter
of credit application or other agreement submitted by the Borrower to, or
entered into by the Borrower with, an Issuing Bank relating to any Letter of
Credit, the terms and conditions of this Agreement shall control.
(b) Notice of Issuance, Amendment, Renewal, Extension; Certain
Conditions. To request the issuance of a Letter of Credit (or the
amendment, renewal (other than an automatic renewal in accordance with
paragraph (c) of this Section) or extension of an outstanding Letter of
Credit), the Borrower shall hand deliver or telecopy (or transmit by
electronic communication, if arrangements for doing so have been
approved by the applicable Issuing Bank) to the applicable Issuing Bank
and the Administrative Agent (reasonably in advance of the requested
date of issuance, amendment, renewal or extension) a notice requesting
the issuance of a Letter of Credit, or identifying the Letter of Credit
to be amended, renewed or extended, and specifying the date of
issuance, amendment, renewal or extension (which shall be a Business
Day), the date on which such Letter of Credit is to expire (which shall
comply with paragraph (c) of this Section), the amount of such Letter
of Credit, the name and address of the beneficiary thereof and such
other information as shall be necessary to issue, amend, renew or
extend such Letter of Credit. If requested by the applicable Issuing
Bank, the Borrower also shall submit a letter of credit application on
such Issuing Bank's standard form in connection with any request for a
Letter of Credit. A Letter of Credit shall be issued, amended, renewed
or extended only if (and upon issuance, amendment, renewal or extension
of each Letter of Credit the Borrower shall be deemed to represent and
warrant that), after giving effect to such issuance, amendment, renewal
or extension (i) the Revolving L/C Exposure shall not exceed
$10,000,000 and (ii) the Revolving Credit Exposure shall not exceed the
Total Revolving Facility Commitment.
(c) Expiration Date. Each Letter of Credit shall expire at or
prior to the close of business on the earlier of (i) the date one year
after the date of the issuance of such Letter of Credit (or, in the
case of any renewal or extension thereof, one year after such renewal
or extension) and (ii) the date that is five Business Days prior to the
Revolving Credit Maturity Date, provided that any Letter of Credit with
a one-year tenor may provide for the automatic renewal thereof for
additional one-year periods (which,
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in no event, shall extend beyond the date referred to in clause (ii) of
this paragraph (c)).
(d) Participations. By the issuance of a Letter of Credit (or an
amendment to a Letter of Credit increasing the amount thereof) and
without any further action on the part of the applicable Issuing Bank
or the Revolving Facility Lenders, such Issuing Bank hereby grants to
each Revolving Facility Lender, and each Revolving Facility Lender
hereby acquires from such Issuing Bank, a participation in such Letter
of Credit equal to such Revolving Facility Lender's Revolving Facility
Percentage of the aggregate amount available to be drawn under such
Letter of Credit. In consideration and in furtherance of the foregoing,
each Revolving Facility Lender hereby absolutely and unconditionally
agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent in Dollars, for the account
of the applicable Issuing Bank, such Revolving Facility Lender's
Revolving Facility Percentage of each L/C Disbursement made by such
Issuing Bank and, in each case, not reimbursed by the Borrower on the
date due as provided in paragraph (e) of this Section, or of any
reimbursement payment required to be refunded to the Borrower for any
reason. Each Revolving Facility Lender acknowledges and agrees that its
obligation to acquire participations pursuant to this paragraph in
respect of Letters of Credit is absolute and unconditional and shall
not be affected by any circumstance whatsoever, including any
amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit or the
occurrence and continuance of a Default or reduction or termination of
the Commitments, and that each such payment shall be made without any
offset, abatement, withholding or reduction whatsoever.
(e) Reimbursement. If the applicable Issuing Bank shall make any
L/C Disbursement in respect of a Letter of Credit, the Borrower shall
reimburse such L/C Disbursement by paying to the Administrative Agent
an amount equal to such L/C Disbursement in Dollars, not later than
5:00 p.m., New York City time, on the Business Day immediately
following the date the Borrower receives notice under paragraph (g) of
this Section of such L/C Disbursement, provided that the Borrower may,
subject to the conditions to borrowing set forth herein, request in
accordance with Section 2.03 or 2.04 that such payment be financed with
an ABR Revolving Borrowing or a Swingline Borrowing, as applicable, in
an equivalent amount and, to the extent so financed, the Borrower's
obligation to make such payment shall be discharged and replaced by the
resulting ABR Revolving Borrowing or Swingline Borrowing. If the
Borrower fails to reimburse any L/C Disbursement when due, then the
Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the applicable Issuing Bank
and each other Revolving Facility Lender of the applicable L/C
Disbursement, the payment then due from the Borrower in respect thereof
and such Lender's Revolving Facility Percentage thereof. Within one
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Business Day following receipt of such notice, each Revolving Facility
Lender shall pay to the Administrative Agent in Dollars its Revolving
Facility Percentage of the payment then due from the Borrower in the
same manner as provided in Section 2.06 with respect to Loans made by
such Lender (and Section 2.06 shall apply, mutatis mutandis, to the
payment obligations of the Revolving Facility Lenders), and the
Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to the applicable Issuing Bank
in Dollars the amounts so received by it from the Revolving Facility
Lenders. Promptly following receipt by the Administrative Agent of any
payment from the Borrower pursuant to this paragraph, the
Administrative Agent shall distribute such payment to the applicable
Issuing Bank or, to the extent that Revolving Facility Lenders have
made payments pursuant to this paragraph to reimburse such Issuing
Bank, then to such Lenders and such Issuing Bank as their interests may
appear. Any payment made by a Revolving Facility Lender pursuant to
this paragraph to reimburse an Issuing Bank for any L/C Disbursement
(other than the funding of an ABR Revolving Loan or a Swingline
Borrowing as contemplated above) shall not constitute a Loan and shall
not relieve the Borrower of its obligation to reimburse such L/C
Disbursement.
(f) Obligations Absolute. The obligation of the Borrower to
reimburse L/C Disbursements as provided in paragraph (e) of this
Section shall be absolute, unconditional and irrevocable, and shall be
performed strictly in accordance with the terms of this Agreement under
any and all circumstances whatsoever and irrespective of (i) any lack
of validity or enforceability of any Letter of Credit or this
Agreement, or any term or provision therein, (ii) any draft or other
document presented under a Letter of Credit proving to be forged,
fraudulent or invalid in any respect or any statement therein being
untrue or inaccurate in any respect, (iii) payment by the applicable
Issuing Bank under a Letter of Credit against presentation of a draft
or other document that does not comply with the terms of such Letter of
Credit or (iv) any other event or circumstance whatsoever, whether or
not similar to any of the foregoing, that might, but for the provisions
of this Section, constitute a legal or equitable discharge of, or
provide a right of setoff against, the Borrower's obligations
hereunder. Neither the Administrative Agent, the Lenders nor any
Issuing Bank, nor any of their Related Parties, shall have any
liability or responsibility by reason of or in connection with the
issuance or transfer of any Letter of Credit or any payment or failure
to make any payment thereunder (irrespective of any of the
circumstances referred to in the preceding sentence), or any error,
omission, interruption, loss or delay in transmission or delivery of
any draft, notice or other communication under or relating to any
Letter of Credit (including any document required to make a drawing
thereunder), any error in interpretation of technical terms
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or any consequence arising from causes beyond the control of such
Issuing Bank, provided that the foregoing shall not be construed to
excuse the applicable Issuing Bank from liability to the Borrower to
the extent of any direct damages (as opposed to consequential damages,
claims in respect of which are hereby waived by the Borrower to the
extent permitted by applicable law) suffered by the Borrower that are
caused by (i) such Issuing Bank's failure to exercise care when
determining whether drafts and other documents presented under a Letter
of Credit comply with the terms thereof or (ii) such Issuing Bank's
refusal to issue a Letter of Credit in accordance with the terms of
this Agreement. The parties hereto expressly agree that, in the absence
of gross negligence or wilful misconduct on the part of the applicable
Issuing Bank, such Issuing Bank shall be deemed to have exercised care
in each such determination and each refusal to issue a Letter of
Credit. In furtherance of the foregoing and without limiting the
generality thereof, the parties agree that, with respect to documents
presented which appear on their face to be in substantial compliance
with the terms of a Letter of Credit, the applicable Issuing Bank may,
in its sole discretion, either accept and make payment upon such
documents without responsibility for further investigation, regardless
of any notice or information to the contrary, or refuse to accept and
make payment upon such documents if such documents are not in strict
compliance with the terms of such Letter of Credit.
(g) Disbursement Procedures. The applicable Issuing Bank shall,
promptly following its receipt thereof, examine all documents
purporting to represent a demand for payment under a Letter of Credit.
Such Issuing Bank shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent and
the Borrower by telephone (confirmed by telecopy) of such demand for
payment and whether such Issuing Bank has made or will make a L/C
Disbursement thereunder, provided that any failure to give or delay in
giving such notice shall not relieve the Borrower of its obligation to
reimburse such Issuing Bank and the Revolving Facility Lenders with
respect to any such L/C Disbursement.
(h) Interim Interest. If an Issuing Bank shall make any L/C
Disbursement, then, unless the Borrower shall reimburse such L/C
Disbursement in full on the date such L/C Disbursement is made, the
unpaid amount thereof shall bear interest, for each day from and
including the date such L/C Disbursement is made to but excluding the
date that the Borrower reimburses such L/C Disbursement, at the rate
per annum then applicable to ABR Revolving Loans, provided that, if
such L/C Disbursement is not reimbursed by the Borrower when due
pursuant to paragraph (e) of this Section, then Section 2.13(c) shall
apply. Interest accrued pursuant to this paragraph shall be for the
account of the applicable Issuing Bank, except that interest accrued on
and after the date
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of payment by any Revolving Facility Lender pursuant to paragraph (e)
of this Section to reimburse such Issuing Bank shall be for the account
of such Revolving Facility Lender to the extent of such payment.
(i) Replacement of an Issuing Bank. An Issuing Bank may be
replaced at any time by written agreement among the Borrower, the
Administrative Agent, the replaced Issuing Bank and the successor
Issuing Bank. The Administrative Agent shall notify the Lenders of any
such replacement of an Issuing Bank. At the time any such replacement
shall become effective, the Borrower shall pay all unpaid fees accrued
for the account of the replaced Issuing Bank pursuant to Section 2.12.
From and after the effective date of any such replacement, (i) the
successor Issuing Bank shall have all the rights and obligations of the
replaced Issuing Bank under this Agreement with respect to Letters of
Credit to be issued thereafter and (ii) references herein to the term
"Issuing Bank" shall be deemed to refer to such successor or to any
previous Issuing Bank, or to such successor and all previous Issuing
Banks, as the context shall require. After the replacement of an
Issuing Bank hereunder, the replaced Issuing Bank shall remain a party
hereto and shall continue to have all the rights and obligations of
such Issuing Bank under this Agreement with respect to Letters of
Credit issued by it prior to such replacement but shall not be required
to issue additional Letters of Credit.
(j) Cash Collateralization. If any Event of Default shall occur
and be continuing, (i) in the case of an Event of Default described in
Section 7.01(h) or (i), on the Business Day or (ii) in the case of any
other Event of Default, on the third Business Day, in each case,
following the date on which the Borrower receives notice from the
Administrative Agent (or, if the maturity of the Loans has been
accelerated, Revolving Facility Lenders with Revolving L/C Exposure
representing greater than 50% of the total Revolving L/C Exposure)
demanding the deposit of cash collateral pursuant to this paragraph,
the Borrower shall deposit in an account with the Administrative Agent,
in the name of the Administrative Agent and for the benefit of the
Lenders, an amount in Dollars in cash equal to the Revolving L/C
Exposure as of such date plus any accrued and unpaid interest thereon,
provided that upon the occurrence of any Event of Default with respect
to the Borrower described in clause (h) or (i) of Section 7.01, the
obligation to deposit such cash collateral shall become effective
immediately, and such deposit shall become immediately due and payable
in Dollars, without demand or other notice of any kind. The Borrower
also shall deposit cash collateral pursuant to this paragraph as and to
the extent required by Section 2.11(b). Each such deposit pursuant to
this paragraph or pursuant to Section 2.11(b) shall be held by the
Administrative Agent as collateral for the payment and performance of
the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement. The
Administrative
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Agent shall have exclusive dominion and control, including the
exclusive right of withdrawal, over such account. Other than any
interest earned on the investment of such deposits, which investments
shall be made at the option and sole discretion of (i) for so long as
an Event of Default shall be continuing, the Administrative Agent and
(ii) at any other time, the Borrower, in each case, in Permitted
Investments and at the risk and expense of the Borrower, such deposits
shall not bear interest. Interest or profits, if any, on such
investments shall accumulate in such account. Moneys in such account
shall be applied by the Administrative Agent to reimburse each Issuing
Bank for L/C Disbursements for which such Issuing Bank has not been
reimbursed and, to the extent not so applied, shall be held for the
satisfaction of the reimbursement obligations of the Borrower for the
Revolving L/C Exposure at such time or, if the maturity of the Loans
has been accelerated (but subject to the consent of Revolving Facility
Lenders with Revolving L/C Exposure representing greater than 50% of
the total Revolving L/C Exposure), be applied to satisfy other
obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement. If the Borrower is
required to provide an amount of cash collateral hereunder as a result
of the occurrence of an Event of Default, such amount (to the extent
not applied as aforesaid) shall be returned to the Borrower within
three Business Days after all Events of Default have been cured or
waived. If the Borrower is required to provide an amount of cash
collateral hereunder pursuant to Section 2.11(b), such amount (to the
extent not applied as aforesaid) shall be returned to the Borrower as
and to the extent that, after giving effect to such return, the
Borrower would remain in compliance with Section 2.11(b) and no Event
of Default shall have occurred and be continuing.
(k) Additional Issuing Banks. From time to time, the Borrower may
by notice to the Administrative Agent designate up to three Lenders (in
addition to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.) that agree (in their sole
discretion) to act in such capacity and are reasonably satisfactory to
the Administrative Agent as Issuing Banks. Each such additional Issuing
Bank shall execute a counterpart of this Agreement upon the approval of
the Administrative Agent (which approval shall not be unreasonably
withheld) and shall thereafter be an Issuing Bank hereunder for all
purposes.
(l) Reporting. Unless otherwise requested by the Administrative
Agent, each Issuing Bank shall report in writing to the Administrative
Agent (i) on the first Business Day of each week and the first Business
Day of each fiscal quarter, the aggregate face amount of Letters of
Credit issued by it and outstanding as of the last Business Day of the
preceding week or the preceding fiscal quarter, as applicable, (ii) on
or prior to each Business Day on which such Issuing Bank expects to
issue, amend, renew
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or extend any Letter of Credit, the date of such issuance, amendment,
renewal or extension, and the aggregate face amount of the Letters of
Credit to be issued, amended, renewed or extended by it and outstanding
after giving effect to such issuance, amendment, renewal or extension
occurred (and whether the amount thereof changed), (iii) on each
Business Day on which such Issuing Bank makes any L/C Disbursement, the
date of such L/C Disbursement and the amount of such L/C Disbursement
and (iv) on any other Business Day, such other information as the
Administrative Agent shall reasonably request.
Section 2.06. Funding of Borrowings. (a) Each Lender shall make
each Loan to be made by it hereunder on the proposed date thereof by wire
transfer of immediately available funds by 1:00 p.m., New York City time, to the
account of the Administrative Agent most recently designated by it for such
purpose by notice to the Lenders, provided that Swingline Loans shall be made as
provided in Section 2.04. The Administrative Agent will make such Loans
available to the Borrower by promptly crediting the amounts so received, in like
funds, to an account of the Borrower maintained with the Administrative Agent in
New York City and designated by the Borrower in the applicable Borrowing
Request, provided that ABR Revolving Loans and Swingline Borrowings made to
finance the reimbursement of a L/C Disbursement and reimbursements as provided
in Section 2.05(e) shall be remitted by the Administrative Agent to the
applicable Issuing Bank.
(b) Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice
from a Lender prior to the proposed date of any Borrowing or, in the
case of an ABR Borrowing, prior to noon New York City time on the
proposed date of such ABR Borrowing, that such Lender will not make
available to the Administrative Agent such Lender's share of such
Borrowing, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender has
made such share available on such date in accordance with paragraph (a)
of this Section and may, in reliance upon such assumption, make
available to the Borrower a corresponding amount. In such event, if a
Lender has not in fact made its share of the applicable Borrowing
available to the Administrative Agent, then the applicable Lender and
the Borrower severally agree to pay to the Administrative Agent
forthwith on demand (without duplication) such corresponding amount
with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such
amount is made available to the Borrower to but excluding the date of
payment to the Administrative Agent, at (i) in the case of such Lender,
the greater of the Federal Funds Effective Rate and a rate determined
by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules
on interbank compensation or (ii) in the case of the Borrower, the
interest rate applicable to ABR Loans. If such Lender pays such amount
to the Administrative Agent, then such amount shall constitute such
Lender's Loan included in such Borrowing.
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Section 2.07. Interest Elections. (a) Each Borrowing initially
shall be of the Type specified in the applicable Borrowing Request and, in the
case of a Eurocurrency Borrowing, shall have an initial Interest Period as
specified in such Borrowing Request. Thereafter, the Borrower may elect to
convert such Borrowing to a different Type or to continue such Borrowing and, in
the case of a Eurocurrency Borrowing, may elect Interest Periods therefor, all
as provided in this Section. The Borrower may elect different options with
respect to different portions of the affected Borrowing, in which case each such
portion shall be allocated ratably among the Lenders holding the Loans
comprising such Borrowing, and the Loans comprising each such portion shall be
considered a separate Borrowing. This Section shall not apply to Swingline
Borrowings, which may not be converted or continued.
(b) To make an election pursuant to this Section, the Borrower
shall notify the Administrative Agent of such election by telephone by
the time that a Borrowing Request would be required under Section 2.03
if the Borrower were requesting a Borrowing of the Type resulting from
such election to be made on the effective date of such election. Each
such telephonic Interest Election Request shall be irrevocable and
shall be confirmed promptly by hand delivery or telecopy to the
Administrative Agent of a written Interest Election Request in a form
approved by the Administrative Agent and signed by the Borrower.
(c) Each telephonic and written Interest Election Request shall
specify the following information in compliance with Section 2.02:
(i) the Borrowing to which such Interest Election Request applies
and, if different options are being elected with respect to different
portions thereof, the portions thereof to be allocated to each
resulting Borrowing (in which case the information to be specified
pursuant to clauses (iii) and (iv) below shall be specified for each
resulting Borrowing);
(ii) the effective date of the election made pursuant to such
Interest Election Request, which shall be a Business Day;
(iii) whether the resulting Borrowing is to be an ABR Borrowing or
a Eurocurrency Borrowing; and
(iv) if the resulting Borrowing is a Eurocurrency Borrowing, the
Interest Period to be applicable thereto after giving effect to such
election, which shall be a period contemplated by clause (a) of the
definition of the term "Interest Period".
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If any such Interest Election Request requests a Eurocurrency Borrowing but does
not specify an Interest Period, then the Borrower shall be deemed to have
selected an Interest Period of one month's duration.
(d) Promptly following receipt of an Interest Election Request,
the Administrative Agent shall advise each Lender to which such
Interest Election Request relates of the details thereof and of such
Lender's portion of each resulting Borrowing.
(e) If the Borrower fails to deliver a timely Interest Election
Request with respect to a Eurocurrency Borrowing prior to the end of
the Interest Period applicable thereto, then, unless such Borrowing is
repaid as provided herein, at the end of such Interest Period such
Borrowing shall be converted to an ABR Borrowing. Notwithstanding any
contrary provision hereof, if an Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing and the Administrative Agent, at the written request
(including a request through electronic means) of the Required Lenders,
so notifies the Borrower, then, so long as an Event of Default is
continuing (i) no outstanding Borrowing may be converted to or
continued as a Eurocurrency Borrowing and (ii) unless repaid, each
Eurocurrency Borrowing shall be converted to an ABR Borrowing at the
end of the Interest Period applicable thereto.
Section 2.08. Termination and Reduction of Commitments. (a) Unless
previously terminated, (i) the Term Loan Commitments shall terminate at 5:00
p.m., New York City time, on the Restatement Date and (ii) the Revolving
Facility Commitments shall terminate on the Revolving Credit Maturity Date.
(b) The Borrower may at any time terminate, or from time to time
reduce, the Commitments under any Facility, provided that (i) each
reduction of the Commitments under any Facility shall be in an amount
that is an integral multiple of $1,000,000 and not less than $5,000,000
(or, if less, the remaining amount of the Revolving Facility
Commitments) and (ii) the Borrower shall not terminate or reduce the
Revolving Facility Commitments if, after giving effect to any
concurrent prepayment of the Revolving Loans in accordance with Section
2.11, the Revolving Credit Exposure would exceed the Total Revolving
Facility Commitment.
(c) The Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent of any
election to terminate or reduce the Revolving Facility Commitments
under paragraph (b) of this Section at least three Business Days prior
to the effective date of such termination or reduction, specifying such
election and the effective date thereof. Promptly following receipt of
any notice, the Administrative Agent shall advise the applicable
Lenders of the contents thereof. Each notice delivered by the Borrower
pursuant to this Section shall be irrevocable, provided that a notice
of termination of the
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Revolving Facility Commitments delivered by the Borrower may state that
such notice is conditioned upon the effectiveness of other credit
facilities, in which case such notice may be revoked by the Borrower
(by notice to the Administrative Agent on or prior to the specified
effective date) if such condition is not satisfied. Any termination or
reduction of the Commitments shall be permanent. Each reduction of the
Commitments under any Facility shall be made ratably among the Lenders
in accordance with their respective Commitments under such Facility.
Section 2.09. Repayment of Loans; Evidence of Debt. The Borrower
hereby unconditionally promises to pay (i) to the Administrative Agent for the
account of each Revolving Facility Lender the then unpaid principal amount of
each Revolving Loan to the Borrower on the Revolving Credit Maturity Date, (ii)
to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender the then unpaid
principal amount of each Term Loan of such Lender as provided in Section 2.10
and (iii) to the Swingline Lender the then unpaid principal amount of each
Swingline Loan on the earlier of the Revolving Credit Maturity Date and the
first date after such Swingline Loan is made that is the 15th or last day of a
calendar month and is at least five Business Days after such Swingline Loan is
made, provided that on each date that a Revolving Borrowing is made by the
Borrower, the Borrower shall repay all Swingline Loans outstanding on the date
that such Revolving Borrowing was requested.
(b) Each Lender shall maintain in accordance with its usual
practice an account or accounts evidencing the indebtedness of the
Borrower to such Lender resulting from each Loan made by such Lender,
including the amounts of principal and interest payable and paid to
such Lender from time to time hereunder.
(c) The Administrative Agent shall maintain accounts in which it
shall record (i) the amount of each Loan made hereunder, the Facility
and Type thereof and the Interest Period (if any) applicable thereto,
(ii) the amount of any principal or interest due and payable or to
become due and payable from the Borrower to each Lender hereunder and
(iii) any amount received by the Administrative Agent hereunder for the
account of the Lenders and each Lender's share thereof.
(d) The entries made in the accounts maintained pursuant to
paragraph (b) or (c) of this Section shall be prima facie evidence of
the existence and amounts of the obligations recorded therein, provided
that the failure of any Lender or the Administrative Agent to maintain
such accounts or any error therein shall not in any manner affect the
obligation of the Borrower to repay the Loans in accordance with the
terms of this Agreement.
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(e) Any Lender may request that Loans made by it be evidenced by a
promissory note. In such event, the Borrower shall prepare, execute and
deliver to such Lender a promissory note payable to the order of such
Lender (or, if requested by such Lender, to such Lender and its
registered assigns) and in a form approved by the Administrative Agent.
Thereafter, the Loans evidenced by such promissory note and interest
thereon shall at all times (including after assignment pursuant to
Section 9.04) be represented by one or more promissory notes in such
form payable to the order of the payee named therein (or, if such
promissory note is a registered note, to such payee and its registered
assigns).
Section 2.10. Repayment of Term Loans and Revolving Loans. Subject
to adjustment pursuant to paragraph (c) of this Section, the Borrower shall
repay Term Borrowings on each March 31, June 30, September 30 and December 31
prior to the Term Loan Maturity Date, commencing March 31, 2005 (each such date
being referred to as a "Term Loan Installment Date") in an aggregate principal
amount equal to 0.25% of the aggregate principal amount of the Term Loans made
on the Restatement Date.
(b) To the extent not previously paid, all Term Loans shall be due
and payable on the Term Loan Maturity Date and all Revolving Loans and
Swingline Loans shall be due and payable on the Revolving Maturity
Date.
(c) Prepayments made pursuant to Section 2.11 shall be applied to
each Term Borrowing, (A) in the case of prepayments made pursuant to
Section 2.11(a) or Section 2.11(d), to reduce scheduled amortization
payments under paragraphs (a) and (b) above as directed by the Borrower
and (B) in the case of prepayments made pursuant to Section 2.11(c),
(1) to reduce in order of maturity the scheduled amortization payments
under paragraphs (a) and (b) above occurring within the 12-month period
after the date of such payment in respect of such Term Borrowing and
(2) thereafter, to reduce on a pro rata basis (based on the amount of
such amortization payments) the remaining scheduled amortization
payments in respect of such Term Borrowing.
(d) Prior to any repayment of any Borrowing under any Facility
hereunder, the Borrower shall select the Borrowing or Borrowings under
the applicable Facility to be repaid and shall notify the
Administrative Agent by telephone (confirmed by telecopy) of such
selection not later than 2:00 p.m., New York City time, (i) in the case
of an ABR Borrowing, one Business Day before the scheduled date of such
repayment and (ii) in the case of a Eurocurrency Borrowing, three
Business Days before the scheduled date of such repayment. Each
repayment of a Borrowing shall be applied ratably to the Loans included
in the repaid Borrowing.
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Section 2.11. Prepayment of Loans. The Borrower shall have the
right at any time and from time to time to prepay any Borrowing in whole or in
part, without premium or penalty (but subject to Section 2.16), in an aggregate
principal amount that is an integral multiple of the Borrowing Multiple and not
less than the Borrowing Minimum or, if less, the amount outstanding, subject to
prior notice in accordance with Section 2.10(d).
(b) In the event and on such occasion that the Revolving Credit
Exposure exceeds the Total Revolving Facility Commitment, the Borrower
shall prepay Revolving Borrowings or Swingline Borrowings (or, if no
such Borrowings are outstanding, deposit cash collateral in an account
with the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 2.05(j)) in an
aggregate amount equal to the amount by which the Revolving Credit
Exposure exceeds the Total Revolving Facility Commitment.
(c) The Borrower shall apply all Net Proceeds promptly upon (and
in any event within five Business Days of) receipt thereof to prepay
Term Borrowings.
(d) Not later than 90 days after the end of each Excess Cash Flow
Period, the Borrower shall calculate Excess Cash Flow for such Excess
Cash Flow Period and shall apply an amount equal to 50% of such Excess
Cash Flow to prepay Term Borrowings in accordance with Section 2.10.
Not later than the date on which the Borrower is required to deliver
financial statements with respect to the end of each Excess Cash Flow
Period under Section 5.04(a), the Borrower will deliver to the
Administrative Agent a certificate signed by an Authorized Officer of
the Borrower setting forth the amount, if any, of the Excess Cash Flow
for such Excess Cash Flow Period and the calculation thereof in detail
reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent. Notwithstanding
the foregoing, the Borrower shall not be required to make any such
prepayment or to deliver any such certificate if the Total Leverage
Ratio as of the end of such Excess Cash Flow Period does not exceed the
applicable ratio specified in the table below:
Excess Cash Flow Period Ending: Ratio:
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12/31/2005 4.25 to 1.00
12/31/2006 4.00 to 1.00
Each fiscal year end thereafter 3.75 to 1.00
Section 2.12. Fees. The Borrower agrees to pay to each Lender
(other than any Defaulting Lender), through the Administrative Agent, 10
Business Days after the last day of March, June, September and December in each
year, and three Business Days after the date on which the Revolving Facility
Commitments of all the Lenders shall be terminated as provided herein, a
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commitment fee (a "Commitment Fee") on the daily unused amount of the Revolving
Facility Commitment of such Lender during the preceding quarter (or other period
commencing with the Restatement Date or ending with the date on which the
Revolving Facility Commitment of such Lender shall be terminated) at a rate
equal to 0.50% per annum. All Commitment Fees shall be computed on the basis of
the actual number of days elapsed in a year of 360 days. For the purpose of
calculating any Lender's Commitment Fee, the outstanding Swingline Loans during
the period for which such Lender's Commitment Fee is calculated shall be deemed
to be zero. The Commitment Fee due to each Lender shall commence to accrue on
the Restatement Date and shall cease to accrue on the date on which the
Revolving Facility Commitment of such Lender shall be terminated as provided
herein.
(b) The Borrower from time to time agrees to pay (i) to each
Revolving Facility Lender (other than any Defaulting Lender), through
the Administrative Agent, 10 Business Days after the last day of March,
June, September and December of each year and three Business Days after
the date on which the Revolving Facility Commitments of all the Lenders
shall be terminated as provided herein, a fee (an "L/C Participation
Fee") on such Lender's Revolving Facility Percentage of the daily
aggregate Revolving L/C Exposure (excluding the portion thereof
attributable to unreimbursed L/C Disbursements), during the preceding
quarter (or shorter period commencing with the date hereof or ending
with the Revolving Credit Maturity Date or the date on which the
Revolving Facility Commitments shall be terminated) at the rate per
annum equal to the Applicable Margin for Eurocurrency Revolving
Borrowings effective for each day in such period and (ii) to each
Issuing Bank, for its own account, (x) three Business Days after the
last day of March, June, September and December of each year and three
Business Days after the date on which the Revolving Facility
Commitments of all the Lenders shall be terminated as provided herein,
a fronting fee in respect of each Letter of Credit issued by such
Issuing Bank for the period from and including the date of issuance of
such Letter of Credit to and including the termination of such Letter
of Credit, computed at a rate per annum separately agreed upon between
the Borrower and such Issuing Bank of the daily average stated amount
of such Letter of Credit, plus (y) in connection with the issuance,
amendment or transfer of any such Letter of Credit or any L/C
Disbursement thereunder, such Issuing Bank's customary documentary and
processing charges (collectively, "Issuing Bank Fees"). All L/C
Participation Fees and Issuing Bank Fees that are payable on a per
annum basis shall be computed on the basis of the actual number of days
elapsed in a year of 360 days.
(c) The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent, for
the account of the Administrative Agent, the fees set forth in the
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Administrative Agent Fee Letter dated as of November 22, 2004, as
amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to
time, at the times specified therein (the "Administrative Agent Fees").
(d) All Fees shall be paid on the dates due, in immediately
available funds, to the Administrative Agent for distribution, if and
as appropriate, among the Lenders, except that Issuing Bank Fees shall
be paid directly to the applicable Issuing Banks. Once paid, none of
the Fees shall be refundable under any circumstances.
Section 2.13. Interest. (a) The Loans comprising each ABR
Borrowing (including each Swingline Loan) shall bear interest at the Alternate
Base Rate plus the Applicable Margin.
(b) The Loans comprising each Eurocurrency Borrowing shall bear
interest at the Adjusted LIBO Rate for the Interest Period in effect
for such Borrowing plus the Applicable Margin.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, if any principal of or interest
on any Loan or any Fees or other amount payable by the Borrower
hereunder is not paid when due, whether at stated maturity, upon
acceleration or otherwise, such overdue amount shall bear interest,
after as well as before judgment, at a rate per annum equal to (i) in
the case of overdue principal of any Loan, 2% plus the rate otherwise
applicable to such Loan as provided in the preceding paragraphs of this
Section or (ii) in the case of any other amount, 2% plus the rate
applicable to ABR Revolving Loans as provided in paragraph (a) of this
Section, provided that this paragraph (c) shall not apply to any Event
of Default that has been waived by the Lenders pursuant to Section
9.09.
(d) Accrued interest on each Loan shall be payable in arrears (i)
on each Interest Payment Date for such Loan, (ii) in the case of
Revolving Loans, upon termination of the Revolving Facility
Commitments, (iii) in the case of the Term Loans, on the Term Loan
Maturity Date, provided that (A) interest accrued pursuant to paragraph
(c) of this Section shall be payable on demand, (B) in the event of any
repayment or prepayment of any Loan (other than a prepayment of an ABR
Revolving Loan prior to the end of the Availability Period), accrued
interest on the principal amount repaid or prepaid shall be payable on
the date of such repayment or prepayment and (C) in the event of any
conversion of any Eurocurrency Loan prior to the end of the current
Interest Period therefor, accrued interest on such Loan shall be
payable on the effective date of such conversion.
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(e) All interest hereunder shall be computed on the basis of a
year of 360 days, except that interest computed by reference to the
Alternate Base Rate at times when the Alternate Base Rate is based on
the Prime Rate shall be computed on the basis of a year of 365 days (or
366 days in a leap year), and in each case shall be payable for the
actual number of days elapsed (including the first day but excluding
the last day). The applicable Alternate Base Rate, Adjusted LIBO Rate
or LIBO Rate shall be determined by the Administrative Agent, and such
determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
Section 2.14. Alternate Rate of Interest. If prior to the
commencement of any Interest Period for a Eurocurrency Borrowing:
(a) the Administrative Agent determines (which determination shall
be conclusive absent manifest error) that adequate and reasonable means
do not exist for ascertaining the Adjusted LIBO Rate or the LIBO Rate,
as applicable, for such Interest Period; or
(b) the Administrative Agent is advised by the Required Lenders
that the Adjusted LIBO Rate or the LIBO Rate, as applicable, for such
Interest Period will not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such
Lenders of making or maintaining their Loans included in such Borrowing
for such Interest Period;
then the Administrative Agent shall give notice thereof to the Borrower and the
Lenders by telephone or telecopy as promptly as practicable thereafter and,
until the Administrative Agent notifies the Borrower and the Lenders that the
circumstances giving rise to such notice no longer exist, (i) any Interest
Election Request that requests the conversion of any Borrowing to, or
continuation of any Borrowing as, a Eurocurrency Borrowing shall be ineffective
and such Borrowing shall be converted to or continued as an ABR Borrowing on the
last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto and (ii) if any Borrowing
Request requests a Eurocurrency Borrowing, such Borrowing shall be made as an
ABR Borrowing.
Section 2.15. Increased Costs. (a) If any Change in Law shall:
(i) impose, modify or deem applicable any reserve, special deposit
or similar requirement against assets of, deposits with or for the
account of, or credit extended by, any Lender (except any such reserve
requirement reflected in the Adjusted LIBO Rate) or Issuing Bank; or
(ii) impose on any Lender or Issuing Bank or the London interbank
market any other condition affecting this Agreement or Eurocurrency
Loans made by such Lender or any Letter of Credit or participation
therein;
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and the result of any of the foregoing shall be to increase the cost to such
Lender of making or maintaining any Eurocurrency Loan (or of maintaining its
obligation to make any such Loan) or to increase the cost to such Lender or
Issuing Bank of participating in, issuing or maintaining any Letter of Credit or
to reduce the amount of any sum received or receivable by such Lender or Issuing
Bank hereunder (whether of principal, interest or otherwise), in each case other
than as a result of the imposition of any Taxes, then the Borrower will pay to
such Lender or Issuing Bank, as applicable, such additional amount or amounts as
will compensate such Lender or Issuing Bank, as applicable, for such additional
costs incurred or reduction suffered.
(b) If any Lender or Issuing Bank determines that any Change in
Law regarding capital requirements has or would have the effect of
reducing the rate of return on such Lender's or Issuing Bank's capital
or on the capital of such Lender's or Issuing Bank's holding company,
if any, as a consequence of this Agreement or the Loans made by, or
participations in Letters of Credit held by, such Lender, or the
Letters of Credit issued by such Issuing Bank, to a level below that
which such Lender or such Issuing Bank or such Lender's or such Issuing
Bank's holding company could have achieved but for such Change in Law
(taking into consideration such Lender's or such Issuing Bank's
policies and the policies of such Lender's or such Issuing Bank's
holding company with respect to capital adequacy), then from time to
time the Borrower shall pay to such Lender or such Issuing Bank, as
applicable, such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such
Lender or such Issuing Bank or such Lender's or such Issuing Bank's
holding company for any such reduction suffered.
(c) A certificate of a Lender or an Issuing Bank setting forth the
amount or amounts necessary to compensate such Lender or Issuing Bank
or its holding company, as applicable, as specified in paragraph (a) or
(b) of this Section shall be delivered to the Borrower and shall be
conclusive absent manifest error. The Borrower shall pay such Lender or
Issuing Bank, as applicable, the amount shown as due on any such
certificate within 15 days after receipt thereof.
(d) Promptly after any Lender or any Issuing Bank has determined
that it will make a request for increased compensation pursuant to this
Section 2.15, such Lender or Issuing Bank shall notify the Borrower
thereof. Failure or delay on the part of any Lender or Issuing Bank to
demand compensation pursuant to this Section shall not constitute a
waiver of such Lender's or Issuing Bank's right to demand such
compensation, provided that the Borrower shall not be required to
compensate a Lender or an Issuing Bank pursuant to this Section for any
increased costs or reductions incurred more than 180 days prior to the
date
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that such Lender or Issuing Bank, as applicable, notifies the Borrower
of the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions
and of such Lender's or Issuing Bank'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 180-day
period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of
retroactive effect thereof.
Section 2.16. Break Funding Payments. In the event of (a) the
payment of any principal of any Eurocurrency Loan other than on the last day of
an Interest Period applicable thereto (including as a result of an Event of
Default), (b) the conversion of any Eurocurrency Loan other than on the last day
of the Interest Period applicable thereto, (c) the failure to borrow, convert,
continue or prepay any Eurocurrency Loan on the date specified in any notice
delivered pursuant hereto or (d) the assignment of any Eurocurrency Loan other
than on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto as a result of a
request by the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.19, then, in any such event, the
Borrower shall compensate each Lender for the loss, cost and expense
attributable to such event. In the case of a Eurocurrency Loan, such loss, cost
or expense to any Lender shall be deemed to be the amount determined by such
Lender to be the excess, if any, of (i) the amount of interest which would have
accrued on the principal amount of such Loan had such event not occurred, at the
Adjusted LIBO Rate that would have been applicable to such Loan, for the period
from the date of such event to the last day of the then current Interest Period
therefor (or, in the case of a failure to borrow, convert or continue a
Eurocurrency Loan, for the period that would have been the Interest Period for
such Loan), over (ii) the amount of interest which would accrue on such
principal amount for such period at the interest rate which such Lender would
bid were it to bid, at the commencement of such period, for deposits in Dollars
of a comparable amount and period from other banks in the eurodollar market. A
certificate of any Lender setting forth any amount or amounts that such Lender
is entitled to receive pursuant to this Section 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 within 15 days after
receipt thereof.
Section 2.17. Taxes. Any and all payments by or on account of any
obligation of the Borrower hereunder shall be made free and clear of and without
deduction for any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes, provided that if the
Borrower shall be required to deduct any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes from
such payments, then (i) the sum payable shall be increased as necessary so that
after making all required deductions (including deductions applicable to
additional sums payable under this Section) any Agent, Lender or Issuing Bank,
as applicable, receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no
such deductions been made, (ii) the Borrower shall make such deductions and
(iii) the Borrower shall pay the full amount deducted to the relevant
Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law.
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(b) In addition, the Borrower shall pay any Other Taxes to the
relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law.
(c) The Borrower shall indemnify the Agents, each Lender and each
Issuing Bank, within 10 days after written demand therefor, for the
full amount of any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes paid by such Agent,
Lender or Issuing Bank, as applicable, on or with respect to any
payment by or on account of any obligation of the Borrower hereunder
(including Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes imposed or asserted on or
attributable to amounts payable under this Section) and any penalties,
interest and reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect
thereto, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes were
correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental
Authority. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability
executed in good faith and delivered to the Borrower by a Lender or an
Issuing Bank, or by the Administrative Agent on its own behalf, on
behalf of another Agent or on behalf of a Lender or an Issuing Bank,
shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The Administrative Agent,
Lender or Issuing Bank, as applicable, shall notify the Borrower within
180 days after it becomes aware of the incurrence of Indemnified Taxes
or Other Taxes. The Borrower shall not have any obligation to indemnify
the Administrative Agent, Lender or Issuing Bank, as applicable, for
any interest or penalties to the extent that such interest or penalties
is attributable to the failure of such Administrative Agent, Lender or
Issuing Bank, as applicable, to comply with the foregoing sentence.
(d) As soon as reasonably practicable after any payment of
Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes by the Borrower to a Governmental
Authority, the Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent the
original or a certified copy of a receipt issued by such Governmental
Authority or other written confirmation reasonably satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent that payment has been made.
(e) Any Foreign Lender that is entitled to an exemption from or
reduction of withholding Tax under the law of the jurisdiction in which
the Borrower is located, or any treaty to which such jurisdiction is a
party, with respect to payments under this Agreement shall deliver to
the Borrower (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), on or prior to
the time that such Foreign Lender becomes a party to this Agreement or
becomes entitled to an exemption from or reduction of such Tax, such
properly completed and executed documentation prescribed by applicable
law or reasonably requested by the Borrower as will permit such
payments to be made without withholding or at a reduced rate. Such
documentation shall include two duly completed copies of (i) United
States Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN or W-8ECI (as applicable to
it), or (ii) in
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the case of a Lender that is claiming an exemption from United States
federal withholding tax under Section 871(h) or 881(c) of the Code with
respect to payments of "portfolio interest", (A) a United States
Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN and (B) a certificate of the
Non-U.S. Lender to the effect that such Lender is not (1) a "bank" for
purposes of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, (2) a 10% shareholder
(within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(B) of the Code) of the
Borrower or any Subsidiary or (3) a controlled foreign corporation
related to the Borrower or any Subsidiary (within the meaning of
Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code). In addition, each Foreign Lender
shall deliver such documentation (or any other documentation adopted by
the U.S. taxing authorities for such purpose) promptly upon the
obsolescence or invalidity of any documentation previously delivered by
such Foreign Lender. Each Foreign Lender shall promptly notify the
Borrower at any time the Foreign Lender determines that it is no longer
in a position to provide any previously delivered documentation to the
Borrower.
(f) If an Agent or a Lender determines, in its sole discretion,
that it has received a refund of any Taxes or Other Taxes as to which
it has been indemnified by the Borrower or with respect to which the
Borrower has paid additional amounts pursuant to this Section 2.17, it
shall pay over such refund to the Borrower (but only to the extent of
indemnity payments made, or additional amounts paid, by the Borrower
under this Section 2.17 with respect to the Taxes or Other Taxes giving
rise to such refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses of such Agent
or such Lender and without interest (other than any interest paid by
the relevant Governmental Authority with respect to such refund),
provided that the Borrower, upon the request of such Agent or such
Lender, agrees to repay the amount paid over to the Borrower (plus any
penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant
Governmental Authority) to such Agent or such Lender in the event such
Agent or such Lender is required to repay such refund to such
Governmental Authority. This Section shall not be construed to require
any Agent or any Lender to make available its Tax returns (or any other
information relating to its Taxes which it deems confidential) to the
Borrower or any other person.
Section 2.18. Payments Generally; Pro Rata Treatment; Sharing of
Set-offs. (a) Unless otherwise specified, the Borrower shall make each payment
required to be made by it hereunder (whether of principal, interest, fees or
reimbursement of L/C Disbursements, or of amounts payable under Section 2.15,
2.16 or 2.17 or otherwise) prior to 1:00 p.m., New York City time, on the date
when due, in immediately available funds, without set-off or counterclaim. Any
amounts received after such time on any date may, in the discretion of the
Administrative Agent, be deemed to have been received on the next succeeding
Business Day for purposes of calculating interest thereon. All such payments
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shall be made to the Administrative Agent to the applicable account designated
to the Borrower by the Administrative Agent, except payments to be made directly
to the applicable Issuing Bank or the applicable Swingline Lender as expressly
provided herein and except that payments pursuant to Sections 2.15, 2.16, 2.17,
2.20 and 9.05 shall be made directly to the persons entitled thereto. The
Administrative Agent shall distribute any such payments received by it for the
account of any other person to the appropriate recipient promptly following
receipt thereof. If any payment hereunder shall be due on a day that is not a
Business Day, the date for payment shall be extended to the next succeeding
Business Day, and, in the case of any payment accruing interest, interest
thereon shall be payable for the period of such extension. All payments
hereunder shall be made in Dollars. Any payment required to be made by the
Administrative Agent hereunder shall be deemed to have been made by the time
required if the Administrative Agent shall, at or before such time, have taken
the necessary steps to make such payment in accordance with the regulations or
operating procedures of the clearing or settlement system used by the
Administrative Agent to make such payment.
(b) If at any time insufficient funds are received by and
available to the Administrative Agent from the Borrower to pay fully
all amounts of principal, unreimbursed L/C Disbursements, interest and
fees then due from the Borrower hereunder, such funds shall be applied
(i) first, towards payment of interest and fees then due from the
Borrower hereunder, ratably among the parties entitled thereto in
accordance with the amounts of interest and fees then due to such
parties, and (ii) second, towards payment of principal and unreimbursed
L/C Disbursements then due from the Borrower hereunder, ratably among
the parties entitled thereto in accordance with the amounts of
principal and unreimbursed L/C Disbursements then due to such parties.
(c) If any Lender shall, by exercising any right of set-off or
counterclaim or otherwise, obtain payment in respect of any principal
of or interest on any of its Term Loans, Revolving Loans or
participations in L/C Disbursements or Swingline Loans resulting in
such Lender receiving payment of a greater proportion of the aggregate
amount of its Term Loans, Revolving Loans and participations in L/C
Disbursements and Swingline Loans and accrued interest thereon than the
proportion received by any other Lender, then the Lender receiving such
greater proportion shall purchase (for cash at face value)
participations in the Term Loans, Revolving Loans and participations in
L/C Disbursements and Swingline Loans of other Lenders to the extent
necessary so that the benefit of all such payments shall be shared by
the Lenders ratably in accordance with the aggregate amount of
principal of and accrued interest on their respective Term Loans,
Revolving Loans and participations in L/C Disbursements and Swingline
Loans, provided that (i) if any such
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participations are purchased and all or any portion of the payment
giving rise thereto is recovered, such participations shall be
rescinded and the purchase price restored to the extent of such
recovery, without interest, and (ii) the provisions of this paragraph
(c) shall not be construed to apply to any payment made by the Borrower
pursuant to and in accordance with the express terms of this Agreement
or any payment obtained by a Lender as consideration for the assignment
of or sale of a participation in any of its Loans or participations in
L/C Disbursements to any assignee or participant, other than to the
Borrower or any Subsidiary thereof (as to which the provisions of this
paragraph (c) shall apply). The Borrower consents to the foregoing and
agrees, to the extent it may effectively do so under applicable law,
that any Lender acquiring a participation pursuant to the foregoing
arrangements may exercise against the Borrower rights of set-off and
counterclaim with respect to such participation as fully as if such
Lender were a direct creditor of the Borrower in the amount of such
participation.
(d) Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice
from the Borrower prior to the date on which any payment is due to the
Administrative Agent for the account of the Lenders or the applicable
Issuing Bank hereunder that the Borrower will not make such payment,
the Administrative Agent may assume that the Borrower has made such
payment on such date in accordance herewith and may, in reliance upon
such assumption, distribute to the Lenders or the applicable Issuing
Bank, as applicable, the amount due. In such event, if the Borrower has
not in fact made such payment, then each of the Lenders or the
applicable Issuing Bank, as applicable, severally agrees to repay to
the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand the amount so distributed
to such Lender or Issuing Bank with interest thereon, for each day from
and including the date such amount is distributed to it to but
excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at the
greater of the Federal Funds Effective Rate and a rate determined by
the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on
interbank compensation.
(e) If any Lender shall fail to make any payment required to be
made by it pursuant to Section 2.04(c), 2.05(d) or (e), 2.06(b) or
2.18(d), then the Administrative Agent may, in its discretion
(notwithstanding any contrary provision hereof), apply any amounts
thereafter received by the Administrative Agent for the account of such
Lender to satisfy such Lender's obligations under such Sections until
all such unsatisfied obligations are fully paid.
Section 2.19. Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders. (a)
If any Lender requests compensation under Section 2.15, or if the Borrower is
required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental
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Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 2.17, then such
Lender shall use reasonable efforts to designate a different lending office for
funding or booking its Loans hereunder or to assign its rights and obligations
hereunder to another of its offices, branches or Affiliates, if, in the
reasonable judgment of such Lender, such designation or assignment (i) would
eliminate or reduce amounts payable pursuant to Section 2.15 or 2.17, as
applicable, in the future and (ii) would not subject such Lender to any material
unreimbursed cost or expense and would not otherwise be disadvantageous to such
Lender in any material respect. The Borrower hereby agrees to pay all reasonable
costs and expenses incurred by any Lender in connection with any such
designation or assignment.
(b) If any Lender requests compensation under Section 2.15, or if
the Borrower is required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or
any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to
Section 2.17, or if any Lender is a Defaulting Lender, then the
Borrower may, at its sole expense and effort, upon notice to such
Lender and the Administrative Agent, require such Lender to assign and
delegate, without recourse (in accordance with and subject to the
restrictions contained in Section 9.04), all its 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 (i) the Borrower shall have received
the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent (and, if a
Revolving Facility Commitment is being assigned, of the Issuing Bank
and the Swingline Lender), which consent shall not unreasonably be
withheld, (ii) such Lender shall have received payment of an amount
equal to the outstanding principal of its Loans and participations in
L/C Disbursements and Swingline Loans, accrued interest thereon,
accrued fees and all other amounts payable to it hereunder, from the
assignee (to the extent of such outstanding principal and accrued
interest and fees) or the Borrower (in the case of all other amounts)
and (iii) in the case of any such assignment resulting from a claim for
compensation under Section 2.15 or payments required to be made
pursuant to Section 2.17, such assignment will result in a reduction in
such compensation or payments. Nothing in this Section 2.19 shall be
deemed to prejudice any rights that the Borrower may have against any
Lender that is a Defaulting Lender.
(c) In the event any Lender refuses to consent to any amendment,
waiver or other modification of any Loan Document requested by the
Borrower that requires the consent of all the Lenders affected and such
amendment, waiver or other modification is consented to by the Required
Lenders, the Borrower may, at its sole expense and effort (including
with respect to the processing and recordation fee referred to in
Section 9.04(b)), upon notice to such Lender and the Administrative
Agent,
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require such Lender to transfer and assign, without recourse (in
accordance with and subject to the restrictions contained in Section
9.04), all its interests, rights and obligations under this Agreement
to an assignee that shall assume such assigned obligations (which
assignee may be another Lender, if a Lender accepts such assignment),
provided that (v) such assignee shall consent to such amendment, waiver
or other modification, (w) such assignment shall not conflict with any
law, rule or regulation or order of any court or other Governmental
Authority having jurisdiction, (x) the Borrower shall have received the
prior written consent of the Administrative Agent (and, if a Revolving
Facility Commitment is being assigned, of the Issuing Bank and the
Swingline Lender), which consent shall not unreasonably be withheld,
(y) the Borrower or such assignee shall have paid to the affected
Lender in immediately available funds an amount equal to the sum of the
principal of and interest accrued to the date of such payment on the
outstanding Loans or L/C Disbursements (and funded participations in
Swingline Loans) of such Lender or the Issuing Bank, respectively, plus
the amount, in immediately available funds, that would be payable to
such Lender that refuses to consent to any such amendment, waiver or
other modification pursuant to Section 2.16 if such Loans had been
repaid on the date of sale, plus all Fees and other amounts accrued for
the account of such Lender hereunder (including any amounts under
Section 2.15 and Section 2.17), and (z) upon the effectiveness of such
assignment, the proposed amendment, waiver or other modification shall
become effective; provided further that, if prior to any such transfer
and assignment such Lender shall consent to the proposed amendment,
waiver or other modification, as the case may be, then such Lender
shall not thereafter be required to make any such transfer and
assignment hereunder. Each Lender hereby grants to the Administrative
Agent an irrevocable power of attorney (which power is coupled with an
interest) to execute and deliver, on behalf of such Lender as assignor,
any Assignment and Acceptance necessary to effectuate any assignment of
such Lender's interests hereunder in the circumstances contemplated by
Section 2.19(b) and this Section 2.19(c).
(d) In connection with a future renewal of the Loans and
Commitments, the Borrower may, by notice to the Administrative Agent,
elect that the procedures in this Section 2.19(d) shall apply. Under
these procedures:
(i) the Borrower shall cause one or more financial institutions
("NEW LENDERS"), who may or may not be Lenders, to pay to the
Administrative Agent for the account of the Lenders other than the New
Lenders ("OLD LENDERS") an amount equal to the aggregate principal
amount of all outstanding Loans (other than Loans, if any, held by the
New Lenders);
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(ii) the Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the
account of the Lenders (including any Lenders which are New Lenders),
an amount equal to all accrued interest, fees and other amounts payable
for the account of the Lenders hereunder, including all amounts which
would be payable pursuant to Section 2.16 in the event of a prepayment
in full of the outstanding Loans on such date;
(iii) upon receipt of such funds by the Administrative Agent from
the New Lenders and the Borrower for the account of the Lenders, (i)
each Old Lender shall be deemed to have assigned ratably to the New
Lenders the outstanding principal balance of such Old Lender's Loans
and the Commitments, if any, of such Old Lender, without recourse or
warranty (except as to absence of adverse claims), notwithstanding any
failure to comply with the procedures specified in Section 9.04, (ii)
each Old Lender shall cease to have any obligation in respect of its
Commitment, if any, (iii) each Old Lender shall cease to be a Lender
for purposes of the Agreement, except that the provisions of the
Sections 2.15, 2.17 and 9.05 shall continue to inure to its benefit,
and (iv) the New Lenders shall be the only Lenders under this
Agreement, holding all outstanding Loans and all Commitments; and
(iv) the Administrative Agent shall promptly distribute to each
Lender its ratable share of the amounts received pursuant to clauses
(a) and (b) above and shall execute all such further documents and
instruments as it reasonably deems necessary to give effect to the
foregoing.
Section 2.20. Incremental Term Loans. The Borrower may at any time
or from time to time after the Restatement Date, by notice to the Administrative
Agent (whereupon the Administrative Agent shall promptly deliver a copy to each
of the Lenders), request one or more additional tranches of term loans (the
"Incremental Term Loans"), provided that (i) both at the time of any such
request and upon the effectiveness of any Incremental Amendment referred to
below, no Default or Event of Default shall exist and at the time that any such
Incremental Term Loan is made (and after giving effect thereto) no Default or
Event of Default shall exist, (ii) the Borrower shall be in compliance with the
Financial Performance Covenants determined on a pro forma basis as of the last
day of the most recently ended fiscal quarter of the Borrower as if such
Incremental Term Loans had been outstanding on the last day of such fiscal
quarter of the Borrower for testing compliance therewith (and, for purposes of
Section 6.11, as if such Incremental Term Loans had been outstanding during the
period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Borrower then ended), (iii)
the Borrower shall have delivered a certificate certifying as to clauses (i) and
(ii) to the Administrative Agent, together with all calculations related thereto
and (iv) after giving effect thereto, the Collateral and Guaranty Requirement
shall have
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been satisfied. Each tranche of Incremental Term Loans shall be in an aggregate
principal amount that is not less than $50,000,000 and be in an integral
multiple of $1,000,000. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the
aggregate amount of the Incremental Term Loans shall not exceed $200,000,000.
The Incremental Term Loans (a) shall rank pari passu in right of payment and of
security with the Revolving Loans and the Term Loans, (b) shall not mature
earlier than the date falling six months after the Term Loan Maturity Date (but
may, subject to clause (c) below, have amortization prior to such date), (c)
shall not have a weighted average life that is shorter than the then-remaining
weighted average life of the Term Loans and (d) except as set forth above, shall
be treated substantially the same as (and in any event no more favorably than)
the Term Loans (in each case, including with respect to mandatory and voluntary
prepayments), provided that (i) the terms and conditions applicable to
Incremental Term Loans maturing after the Term Loan Maturity Date may provide
for material additional or different financial or other covenants or prepayment
requirements applicable only during periods after the Term Loan Maturity Date
and (ii) the Incremental Term Loans may be priced differently than the Term
Loans, provided further that (i) if the Applicable Margin (which, for such
purposes only, shall be deemed to include all upfront or similar fees or
original issue discount payable to all Lenders providing such Incremental Term
Loans) relating to any Incremental Term Loans exceeds the Applicable Margin
(which, for such purposes only, shall be deemed to include all upfront or
similar fees or original issue discount payable to all Lenders providing the
Term Loans) relating to the Term Loans immediately prior to the effectiveness of
the applicable Incremental Amendment by more than 0.25%, the Applicable Margin
relating to the Term Loans shall be adjusted to be equal to the Applicable
Margin (which, for such purposes only, shall be deemed to include all upfront or
similar fees or original issue discount payable to all Lenders providing such
Incremental Term Loans) relating to such Incremental Term Loans minus 0.25%.
Each notice from the Borrower pursuant to this Section shall set forth the
requested amount and proposed terms of the relevant Incremental Term Loans.
Incremental Term Loans may be made by any existing Lender or by any other bank
or other financial institution (any such other bank or other financial
institution being called an "Additional Lender"), provided that the
Administrative Agent shall have consented (such consent not to be unreasonably
withheld) to such Lender's or Additional Lender's making such Incremental Term
Loans if such consent would be required under Section 9.04(b) for an assignment
of Loans to such Lender or Additional Lender. Commitments in respect of
Incremental Term Loans shall become Commitments under this Agreement pursuant to
an amendment (an "Incremental Amendment") to this Agreement and, as appropriate,
the other Loan Documents, executed by the Borrower, each Lender agreeing to
provide such Commitment, if any, each Additional Lender, if any, and the
Administrative Agent. The Incremental Amendment may, without the consent of any
other Lenders, effect such amendments to this Agreement and the other Loan
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Documents as may be necessary or appropriate, in the reasonable opinion of the
Administrative Agent, to effect the provisions of this Section. The
effectiveness of any Incremental Amendment shall be subject to the satisfaction
on the date thereof (each, an "Incremental Facility Closing Date") of each of
the conditions set forth in Section 4.01 (it being understood that all
references to "the date of such Borrowing" in such Section 4.01 shall be deemed
to refer to the effective date of such Incremental Amendment) and such other
conditions as the parties thereto shall agree. No more than four Incremental
Facility Closing Dates may be selected by the Borrower. No Lender shall be
obligated to provide any Incremental Term Loans unless it so agrees.
ARTICLE III
Representations and Warranties
The Borrower represents and warrants to each of the Lenders that:
Section 3.01. Organization; Powers. The Borrower and each of the
Subsidiary Loan Parties (a) is a partnership, limited liability company or
corporation duly organized, validly existing and in good standing (or, if
applicable in a foreign jurisdiction, enjoys the equivalent status under the
laws of any jurisdiction of organization outside the United States) under the
laws of the jurisdiction of its organization, (b) has all requisite power and
authority to own its property and assets and to carry on its business as now
conducted, (c) is qualified to do business in each jurisdiction where such
qualification is required, except where the failure so to qualify could not
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, and (d) has the power
and authority to execute, deliver and perform its obligations under each of the
Loan Documents to which it is or will be a party and, in the case of the
Borrower, to borrow and otherwise obtain credit hereunder.
Section 3.02. Authorization. The execution, delivery and
performance by the Borrower and each of the Subsidiary Loan Parties of each of
the Loan Documents to which it is a party, and the borrowings hereunder and the
transactions forming a part of the Transactions (a) have been duly authorized by
all corporate, stockholder, limited liability company or partnership action
required to be obtained by the Borrower and the Subsidiary Loan Parties and (b)
will not (i) violate (A) any provision of law, statute, rule or regulation, or
of the certificate or articles of incorporation or other constitutive documents
or by-laws of the Borrower or any Subsidiary Loan Party, (B) any applicable
order of any court or any rule, regulation or order of any Governmental
Authority or (C) any provision of any indenture, certificate of designation for
preferred stock, agreement or other instrument to which the Borrower or any
Subsidiary Loan Party is a party or by which any of them or any of their
property is or may be bound, (ii) be in conflict with, result in a breach of or
constitute (alone or with notice or lapse of time or
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both) a default under, give rise to a right of or result in any cancellation or
acceleration of any right or obligation (including any payment) or to a loss of
a material benefit under any such indenture, certificate of designation for
preferred stock, agreement or other instrument, where any such conflict,
violation, breach or default referred to in clause (b)(i) or (b)(ii) of this
Section 3.02, could reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the
aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect, or (iii) result in the creation or
imposition of any Lien upon or with respect to any property or assets now owned
or hereafter acquired by the Borrower or any Subsidiary, other than the Liens
created by the Loan Documents or permitted by this Agreement.
Section 3.03. Enforceability. This Agreement has been duly
executed and delivered by the Borrower and constitutes, and each other Loan
Document when executed and delivered by each Loan Party that is party thereto
will constitute, a legal, valid and binding obligation of such Loan Party
enforceable against each such Loan Party in accordance with its terms, subject
to (i) the effects of bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, reorganization,
fraudulent conveyance or other similar laws affecting creditors' rights
generally, (ii) general principles of equity (regardless of whether such
enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at law) and (iii)
implied covenants of good faith and fair dealing.
Section 3.04. Governmental Approvals. No action, consent or
approval of, registration or filing with or any other action by any Governmental
Authority or any other third party is or will be required in connection with the
Transactions, except for (a) such actions, consents, approvals, registrations or
filings as (i) have been made or obtained and are in full force and effect and
not subject to appeal or, (ii) in the case of actions, consents, approvals,
registrations or filings that are not required to be made or obtained until
immediately prior to consummation of the Transactions, will be made at or prior
to that time or (iii) in the case of actions by the Borrower and the
Subsidiaries or filings or registrations by the Borrower and the Subsidiaries,
in each case that are not required by applicable law to be made prior to the
consummation of the Transactions, will be made when they are so required to be
made (giving effect to any extension periods), (b) such actions, consents and
approvals the failure to be obtained or made which could not reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (c) filings required to perfect or
continue the perfection of security interests created under the Collateral
Documents and (d) filings or other actions listed on Schedule 3.04.
Section 3.05. Financial Statements. (a) The Borrower has
heretofore furnished to the Lenders: (i) an audited consolidated balance sheet
of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries as of December 27, 2003, and the related
audited consolidated statements of operations, changes in partners' equity and
cash flows for the fiscal year then ended, accompanied by the report thereon of
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Ernst & Young LLP, independent certified public accountants, and (ii) the
consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries as at of
September 26, 2004 and the related statements consolidated operations, changes
in partners' equity and cash flows for such fiscal quarter and the portion of
the fiscal year then ended. Such financial statements present fairly the
financial position of the Borrower as at the dates indicated and the results of
their operations and their cash flows for the periods indicated in conformity
with GAAP applied on a consistent basis (subject to normal year-end adjustments
and the absence of footnotes).
(b) Except to the extent reflected or reserved against in the
audited balance sheet of the Borrower as of December 27, 2003 (and the
notes thereto), or otherwise specifically disclosed in this Agreement
or in the Information Memorandum, none of the Borrower or any of the
Subsidiaries have as of the Restatement Date any Guarantee, contingent
liability or liability for Taxes, or any long-term lease or unusual
forward or long-term commitment, including any interest rate or foreign
currency hedging transaction, that individually is material to the
consolidated financial position of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries,
other than (A) those incurred in the ordinary course of business
consistent with past practice, (B) pursuant to the Loan Documents and
(C) pursuant to the documents relating to the Transactions set forth on
Schedule 3.05 to this Agreement.
Section 3.06. No Material Adverse Change or Material Adverse
Effect. Since December 27, 2003, there has been no material adverse change (or
occurrence that is reasonably expected to have a material adverse change) in the
business, operations, properties, assets or financial condition of the Borrower
and the Subsidiaries, taken as a whole.
Section 3.07. Title to Properties; Possession Under Leases. (a)
Each of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries has good and marketable title to, or
valid leasehold interests in, or easements or other property interests in, all
its properties and assets (including all Mortgaged Properties), except for minor
defects in title that do not interfere with its ability to conduct its business
as currently conducted or to utilize such properties and assets for their
intended purposes and except where the failure to have such title could not
reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material
Adverse Effect. All such properties and assets are free and clear of Liens,
other than Liens expressly permitted by Section 6.02 or arising by operation of
law.
(b) [Reserved].
(c) As of the Restatement Date, none of the Borrower and the
Subsidiaries has received any notice of any pending or contemplated
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condemnation proceeding affecting any of the Mortgaged Properties or
any sale or disposition thereof in lieu of condemnation that remains
unresolved as of the Restatement Date.
(d) None of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries is obligated on the
Restatement Date under any right of first refusal, option or other
contractual right to sell, assign or otherwise dispose of any Mortgaged
Property or any interest therein, except as permitted under Section
6.02 or 6.05 or disclosed on Schedule 3.07.
Section 3.08. Subsidiaries.
(a) Schedule 3.08(a) sets forth as of the Restatement Date the
name and jurisdiction of incorporation, formation or organization of
each Subsidiary and, as to each such Subsidiary, the percentage of each
class of Equity Interests owned by the Borrower or by any such
Subsidiary.
(b) As of the Restatement Date, there are no outstanding
subscriptions, options, warrants, calls, rights or other agreements or
commitments of any nature relating to any Equity Interests of the
Borrower or any of the Subsidiaries, except under the Project
Documents, the Loan Documents or as set forth on Schedule 3.08(b).
Section 3.09. Litigation; Compliance with Laws. (a) Except as set
forth on Schedule 3.09, there are no actions, suits or proceedings at law or in
equity or by or before any Governmental Authority or in arbitration now pending
or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, threatened in writing against or affecting
the Borrower or any of the Subsidiaries or any business, property or rights of
any such person (i) that involve any Loan Document or the Transactions or (ii)
as to which an adverse determination is reasonably probable and which, if
adversely determined, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
(b) None of the Borrower, the Subsidiaries and their respective
properties or assets is in violation of (nor will the continued
operation of their material properties and assets as currently
conducted violate) any law, rule or regulation (including any zoning,
building, ordinance, code or approval or any building permit) or any
restriction of record or agreement affecting any Mortgaged Property or
is in default with respect to any judgment, writ, injunction or decree
of any Governmental Authority, where such violation or default could
reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a
Material Adverse Effect.
Section 3.10. Federal Reserve Regulations. (a) None of the
Borrower and the Subsidiaries is engaged principally, or as one of its important
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activities, in the business of extending credit for the purpose of purchasing or
carrying Margin Stock.
(b) No part of the proceeds of any Loan will be used, whether
directly or indirectly, and whether immediately, incidentally or
ultimately, (i) to purchase or carry Margin Stock or to extend credit
to others for the purpose of purchasing or carrying Margin Stock or to
refund indebtedness originally incurred for such purpose, or (ii) for
any purpose that entails a violation of, or that is inconsistent with,
the provisions of the Regulations of the Board, including Regulation U
or Regulation X.
Section 3.11. Investment Company Act; Public Utility Holding
Company Act. None of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries is (a) an "investment
company" as defined in, or subject to regulation under, the Investment Company
Act of 1940, as amended, or (b) a "holding company" as defined in, or subject to
regulation under, the Public Utility Holding Company Act of 1935, as amended.
Section 3.12. Use of Proceeds. The Borrower will use the proceeds
of the Loans (other than Incremental Term Loans) and will request the issuance
of Letters of Credit only for the purposes specified in the preamble to this
Agreement.
Section 3.13. Tax Returns. All United States federal income tax
and other material tax returns and reports of the Borrower and each Subsidiary
required to be filed by it have been filed, and all taxes, assessments, fees and
other governmental charges upon the Borrower or any Subsidiary or upon its
properties, assets, income and franchises which are due and payable have been
paid except for such taxes, assessments, fees or other governmental charges
being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings promptly instituted and
diligently conducted and as to which such reserve or other appropriate
provision, if any, as required in conformity with GAAP shall have been made
therefor.
Section 3.14. No Material Misstatements. (a) All written
information (other than the Projections, estimates and information of a general
economic nature) (the "Information") concerning the Borrower, the Subsidiaries,
the Transactions and any other transactions contemplated hereby included in the
Information Memorandum or otherwise prepared by or on behalf of the Borrower or
its representatives and made available to any Lenders or the Administrative
Agent on or prior to the Restatement Date in connection with the Transactions or
the other transactions contemplated hereby, when taken as a whole, were true and
correct in all material respects as of the date such Information was furnished
to the Administrative Agent and as of the Restatement Date and did not contain
any untrue statement of a material fact as of any such date or omit to state a
material fact necessary in order to make the statements contained therein not
materially misleading in light of the circumstances under which such statements
were made.
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(b) The Projections and estimates and information of a general
economic nature prepared by or on behalf of the Borrower or any of its
representatives and that have been made available to any Lenders or the
Administrative Agent on or prior to the Restatement Date in connection
with the Transactions or the other transactions contemplated hereby
have been prepared in good faith based upon assumptions believed by the
Borrower to be reasonable as of the date thereof, as of the date such
Projections and estimates and information of a general economic nature
were furnished to the Administrative Agent and as of the Restatement
Date (it being understood that such assumptions are based on good faith
estimates with respect to certain items and that the actual amounts of
such items on the Restatement Date are subject to variation).
Section 3.15. Employee Benefit Plans. Each of the Borrower, the
Subsidiaries and the ERISA Affiliates is in compliance with the applicable
provisions of ERISA and the provisions of the Code relating to Plans and the
regulations and published interpretations thereunder, except for such
noncompliance that could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect. No Reportable Event has occurred during the past five years as to which
the Borrower, any Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate was required to file a
report with the PBGC, other than reports that have been filed and reports the
failure of which to file could not reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect. As of the Restatement Date, the excess of the present value of
all benefit liabilities under each Plan of the Borrower, the Subsidiaries and
the ERISA Affiliates (based on those assumptions used to fund such Plan), as of
the last annual valuation date applicable thereto for which a valuation is
available, over the value of the assets of such Plan could not reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, and the excess of the present value
of all benefit liabilities of all underfunded Plans (based on those assumptions
used to fund each such Plan) as of the last annual valuation dates applicable
thereto for which valuations are available, over the value of the assets of all
such underfunded Plans could not reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect. No event has occurred or circumstance exists with respect to any
Multiemployer Plan that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect. None of the Borrower, the Subsidiaries and the ERISA Affiliates has
received any written notification that any Multiemployer Plan is in
reorganization or has been terminated within the meaning of Title IV of ERISA,
or has knowledge that any Multiemployer Plan is reasonably expected to be in
reorganization or to be terminated, where such reorganization or termination has
had or could reasonably be expected to have, through increases in the
contributions required to be made to such Plan or otherwise, a Material Adverse
Effect.
Section 3.16. Environmental Matters. Except for the matters that could
not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material
Adverse Effect, none of the Borrower or the Subsidiaries (i) has failed to
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comply with any Environmental Law or to obtain, maintain or comply with any
permit, license or other approval required under any Environmental Law, (ii) has
become subject to, or responsible for, any Environmental Liability, (iii) has
received written notice of any claim with respect to any Environmental Liability
or (iv) knows of any basis for, or any facts or circumstances that would result
in, any Environmental Liability.
Section 3.17. Collateral Documents. (a) Each of the Pledge
Agreement and the Security Agreement is effective to create in favor of the
Collateral Agent (for the benefit of the Secured Parties) a legal, valid and
enforceable security interest in the Collateral described therein and proceeds
thereof. When UCC financing statements describing the Collateral as set forth in
Exhibit A to the Perfection Certificate have been filed in the offices specified
in Perfection Certificate, the Liens granted by the Borrower under the
Collateral Documents will constitute perfected security interests in the
Personal Property Collateral owned by the Borrower to the extent that a security
interest therein may be perfected by filing pursuant to the UCC, prior to all
Liens of others therein except Permitted Liens.
(b) When, in addition to the filing of such UCC financing
statements, the applicable Intellectual Property Filings have been made
with respect to the Borrower's Recordable Intellectual Property
(including any future filings required pursuant to Sections 4(a) and
7(a) of the Security Agreement), the Liens granted by the Borrower
under the Collateral Documents will constitute perfected security
interests in all right, title and interest of the Borrower in the
Recordable Intellectual Property to the extent that security interests
therein may be perfected by such filings, prior to all Liens of others
therein except Permitted Liens. Except for (i) the filing of such UCC
financing statements, (ii) such Intellectual Property Filings and (iii)
the due recordation of the Mortgages, no registration, recordation or
filing with any governmental body, agency or official is required in
connection with the execution or delivery of the Collateral Documents
or is necessary for the validity or enforceability thereof or for the
perfection or due recordation of the Liens granted by the Borrower
under the Collateral Documents or for the enforcement of such Liens.
(c) The Mortgages are effective to create in favor of the
Collateral Agent (for the benefit of the Secured Parties) a legal,
valid and enforceable Lien on all of the Loan Parties' right, title and
interest in and to the Mortgaged Property thereunder and the proceeds
thereof, and when such Mortgages are filed or recorded in the proper
real estate filing or recording offices, the Collateral Agent (for the
benefit of the Secured Parties) shall have a fully perfected Lien on,
and security interest in, all right, title and interest of the Loan
Parties in such Mortgaged Property
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and, to the extent applicable, subject to Section 9-315 of the Uniform
Commercial Code, the proceeds thereof, in each case prior and superior
in right to any other Person, other than with respect to the rights of
a Person pursuant to Liens expressly permitted by Section 6.02 and
Liens having priority by operation of law.
Section 3.18. Location of Real Property. The Perfection
Certificate lists completely and correctly as of the Restatement Date all real
property that is (a) owned by the Borrower and the Subsidiary Loan Parties and
(b) has an individual fair market value in an amount greater than or equal to
$5,000,000 or is otherwise material to the business of the Borrower and the
Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, and the addresses thereof. As of the Restatement
Date, the Borrower and the Subsidiaries own in fee all the real property set
forth as being owned by them on such Schedule.
Section 3.19. Solvency. (a) As of the Restatement Date,
immediately after giving effect to the Transactions (i) the fair value of the
assets of the Borrower (individually), including Equity Interests in the
Subsidiaries, and the Borrower and the Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, at
a fair valuation, will exceed the debts and liabilities, direct, subordinated,
contingent or otherwise, of the Borrower (individually) and the Borrower and the
Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, respectively; (ii) the present fair
saleable value of the property of the Borrower (individually), including Equity
Interests in the Subsidiaries, and the Borrower and the Subsidiaries on a
consolidated basis will be greater than the amount that will be required to pay
the probable liability of the Borrower (individually) and the Borrower and the
Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, respectively, on their debts and other
liabilities, direct, subordinated, contingent or otherwise, as such debts and
other liabilities become absolute and matured; (iii) the Borrower (individually,
taking into account cash flows that will be available to the Borrower from the
Subsidiaries) and the Borrower and the Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis will
be able to pay their debts and liabilities, direct, subordinated, contingent or
otherwise, as such debts and liabilities become absolute and matured; and (iv)
the Borrower (individually, taking into account capital that the Borrower will
obtain from the Subsidiaries) and the Borrower and the Subsidiaries on a
consolidated basis will not have unreasonably small capital with which to
conduct the businesses in which they are engaged as such businesses are now
conducted and are proposed to be conducted following the Restatement Date.
(b) As of the Restatement Date, the Borrower does not intend to,
or believe that it or any Subsidiary Loan Party will, incur debts
beyond its ability to pay such debts as they mature, taking into
account the timing and amounts of cash to be received by it or any such
subsidiary and the timing and amounts of cash to be payable on or in
respect of its Indebtedness or the Indebtedness of any such Subsidiary
Loan Party.
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Section 3.20. Labor Matters. There are no strikes pending or, to
the knowledge of the Borrower, threatened against the Borrower or any of the
Subsidiaries that, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Except as would not reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, the hours worked and payments made
to employees of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries have not been in violation of
the Fair Labor Standards Act or any other applicable law dealing with such
matters. Except as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect, all payments due from the Borrower or any of the Subsidiaries or for
which any claim may be made against the Borrower or any of the Subsidiaries, on
account of wages and employee health and welfare insurance and other benefits
have been paid or accrued as a liability on the books of the Borrower or such
Subsidiary to the extent required by GAAP.
Section 3.21. Intellectual Property Rights. The Borrower owns or
possesses or holds under valid licenses all material patents, trademarks,
service marks, trade names, copyrights, licenses and other intellectual property
rights (collectively, "Intellectual Property Rights") that are necessary for the
operation of the Theme Parks, and the Borrower is not in violation of any
material provision thereof. To the knowledge of the Borrower, there is no
infringement or claim of infringement by others of any material Intellectual
Property Right of the Borrower as to which an adverse determination is
reasonably probable and which, if adversely determined, could reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Except for the License Agreements,
no other license, assignment or other document is or will be required for the
Borrower to have the right to use the name "Universal" and the "Universal" logo
or is or will be required for the Borrower to use any other Intellectual
Property Rights which are owned or possessed by, or licensed to, Universal or
any Affiliate of Universal and which are necessary for the conduct of the
Borrower's business. The Borrower is not and will not be contractually obligated
to pay any fee, royalty or other amount for the use of any Intellectual Property
Rights covered by the License Agreements other than customary royalties with
respect to sales of merchandise based on such Intellectual Property Rights and
fees, royalties or amounts payable under applicable guild agreements or under
license agreements licensing such Intellectual Property Rights to Universal and
its Affiliates (including reimbursement of amounts paid to third persons by
Universal or its Affiliates in respect of such fees, royalties and other amounts
as provided in the Borrower Partnership Agreement).
Section 3.22. Project Documents. The Project Documents are in full
force and effect and no default exists (or, in the case of parties other than
the Borrower and its Affiliates, is known by the Borrower to exist) in the
performance of any party thereto of any of its obligations thereunder that has
or could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
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ARTICLE IV
Conditions of Lending
The obligations of (a) the Lenders (including the Swingline Lenders) to
make Loans and (b) any Issuing Bank to issue Letters of Credit, increase the
stated amounts of Letters of Credit or postpone the expiration of Letters of
Credit hereunder (each, a "Credit Event") are subject to the satisfaction of the
following conditions:
Section 4.01. All Credit Events. On the date of each Borrowing and
on the date of each issuance, amendment, extension or renewal of a Letter of
Credit:
(a) The Administrative Agent shall have received, in the case of a
Borrowing, a Borrowing Request as required by Section 2.03 (or a
Borrowing Request shall have been deemed given in accordance with the
last paragraph of Section 2.03) or, in the case of the issuance of a
Letter of Credit, the applicable Issuing Bank and the Administrative
Agent shall have received a notice requesting the issuance of such
Letter of Credit as required by Section 2.05(b).
(b) The representations and warranties set forth in Article III
hereof shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as of
the date of such Borrowing or issuance, amendment, extension or renewal
of a Letter of Credit (other than an amendment or renewal of a Letter
of Credit without (i) any increase in the stated amount of such Letter
of Credit or (ii) any postponement of the expiration of all or any
portion of such Letter of Credit), as applicable, with the same effect
as though made on and as of such date, except to the extent such
representations and warranties expressly relate to an earlier date (in
which case such representations and warranties shall be true and
correct in all material respects as of such earlier date).
(c) At the time of and immediately after such Borrowing or
issuance, amendment, extension or renewal of a Letter of Credit (other
than an amendment, extension or renewal of a Letter of Credit without
(i) any increase in the stated amount of such Letter of Credit or (ii)
any postponement of the expiration of all or any portion of such Letter
of Credit), as applicable, no Event of Default or Default shall have
occurred and be continuing.
Each Borrowing and each issuance, amendment, extension or renewal of a Letter of
Credit shall be deemed to constitute a representation and warranty by the
Borrower on the date of such Borrowing, issuance, amendment, extension or
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renewal as applicable, as to the matters specified in paragraphs (b) and (c) of
this Section 4.01.
Section 4.02. Effectiveness. This Amended Agreement will become
effective upon the satisfaction of each of the following conditions:
(a) The Administrative Agent shall have received, on behalf of
itself, the Collateral Agent, the Lenders and each Issuing Bank on the
Restatement Date, a favorable written opinion of (i) Cravath, Swaine &
▇▇▇▇▇ LLP, (ii) the Vice President, Legal Affairs of the Borrower and
(iii) local counsel reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative
Agent, in each case (A) dated the Restatement Date, (B) addressed to
each Issuing Bank on the Restatement Date, the Administrative Agent,
the Collateral Agent and the Lenders and (C) in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and covering such
other matters relating to the Loan Documents and the Transactions as
the Administrative Agent shall reasonably request, and the Borrower
hereby instructs its counsel to deliver such opinions.
(b) All legal matters incident to this Agreement, the borrowings
and extensions of credit hereunder and the other Loan Documents shall
be reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
(c) The Administrative Agent shall have received in the case of
each Loan Party each of the items referred to in clauses (i), (ii),
(iii) and (iv) below: (i) a copy of the certificate or articles of
incorporation, certificate of formation, partnership agreement or
limited liability company agreement, including all amendments thereto,
of each Loan Party, (A) in the case of a corporation, certified as of a
recent date by the Secretary of State (or other similar official) of
the jurisdiction of its organization (or, in the case of a certificate
or articles of incorporation that will not be filed with the Secretary
of State until the Restatement Date, certified in a manner reasonably
acceptable to the Administrative Agent), and a certificate as to the
good standing (to the extent such concept or a similar concept exists
under the laws of such jurisdiction) of each such Loan Party as of a
recent date from such Secretary of State (or other similar official) or
(B) in the case of a partnership or limited liability company,
certified by the Authorized Agent of each such Loan Party or such Loan
Party's general partner or managing member, as applicable; (ii) a
certificate of the Authorized Agent or Authorized Officer of each Loan
Party dated the Restatement Date and certifying (A) that attached
thereto is a true and complete copy of the by-laws (or partnership
agreement, limited liability company agreement or other equivalent
governing documents) of such Loan Party as in effect on the Restatement
Date and, except as disclosed therein, at all times at and after the
time when the
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resolutions described in clause (B) below were adopted, (B) that
attached thereto is a true and complete copy of resolutions duly
adopted by the Board of Directors (or equivalent governing body) of
such Loan Party (or its managing general partner or managing member)
authorizing the execution, delivery and performance of the Loan
Documents to which such person is a party and, in the case of the
Borrower, the borrowings hereunder, and that such resolutions have not
been modified, rescinded or amended and are in full force and effect on
the Restatement Date, (C) that the certificate or articles of
incorporation, certificate of formation, partnership agreement or
limited liability agreement of such Loan Party has not been amended
since the date of the last amendment thereto disclosed pursuant to
clause (i) above (or attaching the form of any amendment since such
date), (D) as to the incumbency and specimen signature of each
Authorized Officer executing any Loan Document or any other document
delivered in connection herewith on behalf of such Loan Party and (E)
as to the absence of any pending proceeding for the dissolution or
liquidation of such Loan Party or, to the knowledge of such person,
threatening the existence of such Loan Party; (iii) a certificate or
attestation of another Authorized Officer as to the incumbency and
specimen signature of the Authorized Agent or Authorized Officer
executing the certificate pursuant to clause (ii) above; and (iv) such
other customary documents as the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and
any Issuing Bank on the Restatement Date may reasonably request.
(d) The Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate of
an Authorized Officer, dated the Restatement Date, confirming
compliance with the conditions precedent set forth in paragraphs (b)
and (c) of Section 4.01.
(e) The Collateral and Guarantee Requirement shall have been
satisfied and the Administrative Agent shall have received a completed
Perfection Certificate dated the Restatement Date and signed by an
Authorized Officer, together with all attachments contemplated thereby,
including the results of a search of the Uniform Commercial Code (or
equivalent) filings made with respect to the Loan Parties in the
jurisdictions contemplated by the Perfection Certificate and copies of
the financing statements (or similar documents) disclosed by such
search and evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent
that the Liens indicated by such financing statements (or similar
documents) are permitted by Section 6.02 or have been or simultaneously
are being released or all documentation necessary to effect such
release has been delivered to the Administrative Agent.
(f) The Administrative Agent shall have received copies of, or an
insurance broker's or agent's certificate as to coverage under, the
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insurance policies required by Section 5.02, each of which policies
shall be endorsed or otherwise amended to include a "standard" or "New
York" lender's loss payable endorsement, in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
(g) The Transactions shall have been consummated or shall be
consummated substantially simultaneously with the initial Credit Event
under this Agreement in a manner consistent with the sources and uses
shown on the pro forma capitalization table dated as of September 26,
2004, provided to the Lenders prior to the date hereof.
(h) All costs, fees, expenses (including reasonable legal fees and
expenses) and other compensation contemplated hereby, payable to the
Lenders and the Agents, shall have been paid to the extent due and
invoiced.
The Administrative Agent (or its counsel) shall have received from each
party hereto either (i) a counterpart of this Agreement signed on behalf of such
party or (ii) written evidence satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (which
may include telecopy transmission of a signed signature page of this Agreement)
that such party has signed a counterpart of this Agreement. The Administrative
Agent shall promptly notify each of the parties hereto of the Restatement Date,
and such notice shall be conclusive and binding on all parties hereto.
Section 4.03. Effect of Amended Agreement. On the Restatement
Date, the Existing Credit Agreements will be consolidated, amended and restated
to read in their entirety as set forth in this Amended Agreement. From and after
the Restatement Date, the rights of the parties to this Agreement shall be
governed by this Amended Agreement; provided that the rights of parties in
respect of periods prior to the Restatement Date shall be governed by the terms
of the Existing Credit Agreements as in effect at the relevant time.
ARTICLE V
Affirmative Covenants
The Borrower covenants and agrees with each Lender that so long as this
Agreement shall remain in effect and until the Commitments have been terminated
and the principal of and interest on each Loan, all Fees and all other expenses
or amounts payable under any Loan Document shall have been paid in full and all
Letters of Credit have been canceled or have expired and all amounts drawn
thereunder have been reimbursed in full, unless the Required Lenders shall
otherwise consent in writing, the Borrower will, and will cause (or, in the case
of non-Wholly Owned Subsidiaries that are not controlled by the Borrower, will
use commercially reasonable efforts to cause) each of the Subsidiaries to:
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Section 5.01. Existence; Businesses and Properties. Do or cause to
be done all things necessary to preserve, renew and keep in full force and
effect its legal existence, except as otherwise expressly permitted under
Section 6.05.
(b) Do or cause to be done all things reasonably necessary to,
except as would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect, (i) obtain, preserve, renew, extend and keep in full force and
effect the permits, franchises, authorizations, patents, trademarks,
service marks, trade names, copyrights, licenses and rights with
respect thereto, and comply with all Laws, in each case reasonably
necessary to the operation of the Theme Parks and (ii) at all times
maintain and preserve all property reasonably necessary to the
operation of the Theme Parks and keep such property in good repair,
working order and condition (ordinary wear and tear excepted) and from
time to time make, or cause to be made, all needful and proper repairs,
renewals, additions, improvements and replacements.
Section 5.02. Insurance. (a) Maintain or cause to be maintained,
insurance, with financially sound and reputable insurers satisfying the criteria
specified on Schedule 5.02. In the event any insurance criteria set forth on
Schedule 5.02 becomes unavailable on commercially reasonable terms, the Lenders
agree to discuss reasonable alternative arrangements with the Borrower;
provided, however, that the insurance criteria set forth on Schedule 5.02 shall
be maintained if the Required Lenders reasonably determine that such insurance
should be maintained.
(b) Cause all such property and casualty insurance policies with
respect to the Mortgaged Properties to be endorsed or otherwise amended
to include a "standard" or "New York" lender's loss payable
endorsement, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent, which endorsement shall
provide that, from and after the Restatement Date, if the insurance
carrier shall have received written notice from the Administrative
Agent or the Collateral Agent of the occurrence of an Event of Default,
the insurance carrier shall pay all proceeds otherwise payable to the
Borrower or the Loan Parties under such policies directly to the
Collateral Agent until the insurance carrier shall have received
written notice from the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent
that no Events of Default are continuing, after which time, the
insurance carrier shall pay all proceeds to the Borrower or other Loan
Parties, as applicable, until receipt by the insurance carrier of
another notice of an Event of Default as provided herein; cause all
such policies to provide that neither the Borrower, the Administrative
Agent, the Collateral Agent nor any other party shall be a coinsurer
thereunder, to provide coverage for replacement cost for the property
if replaced (and
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otherwise depreciated value), and to contain such other provisions as
the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent may reasonably (in
light of a Default or a material development in respect of the insured
Mortgaged Property) require from time to time to protect their
interests; deliver original or certified copies of all such policies or
a certificate of an insurance broker to the Collateral Agent; cause
each such policy to provide that it shall not be canceled, modified or
not renewed upon (i) less than 10 days' prior written notice thereof
with respect to non-payment and (ii) less than 30 days' prior written
notice thereof with respect to any other event by the insurer to the
Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent; deliver to the
Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent, together with delivery
of the quarterly financial statements required pursuant to Section
5.04(b), a copy of a renewal or replacement policy (or other evidence
of renewal of a policy previously delivered to the Administrative Agent
and the Collateral Agent), or insurance certificate with respect
thereto, with respect to each cancellation, modification or non-renewal
of any such policy of insurance that occurred during the most recently
completed fiscal quarter of the Borrower reflected in such financial
statements, together with evidence satisfactory to the Administrative
Agent and the Collateral Agent of payment of the premium therefor. (c)
Notify the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent promptly
whenever any separate insurance concurrent in form or contributing in
the event of loss with that required to be maintained under this
Section 5.02 is taken out by the Borrower or any of the Subsidiaries;
and deliver to the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent a
duplicate original copy of such policy or policies, or an insurance
certificate with respect thereto, together with delivery of the
quarterly financial statements required pursuant to Section 5.04(b).
(d) In connection with the covenants set forth in this Section
5.02, it is understood and agreed that the designation of any form,
type or amount of insurance coverage by the Administrative Agent or the
Collateral Agent under this Section 5.02 shall in no event be deemed a
representation, warranty or advice by the Administrative Agent, the
Collateral Agent or the Lenders that such insurance is adequate for the
purposes of the business of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries or the
protection of their properties.
Section 5.03. Taxes. Pay all taxes, assessments and other
governmental charges imposed upon it or any of its operations or assets or in
respect of any of its franchises, business, income or property before any
penalty or interest accrues thereon, and all claims (including, without
limitation, claims for labor, services, materials and supplies) for sums which
have become due and payable and which by law have or may become a Lien upon any
of its assets,
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prior to the time when any penalty or fine shall be incurred with respect
thereto, other than such taxes, assessments, other governmental charges and
claims as to which the failure to pay, in the aggregate, could not reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; provided that no such charge or
claim need be paid if being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings
promptly instituted and diligently conducted and as to which such reserve or
other appropriate provision, if any, as shall be required in conformity with
GAAP shall have been made therefor.
Section 5.04. Financial Statements, Reports, etc. Furnish to the
Administrative Agent (which will furnish such information promptly to the
Lenders):
(a) promptly when available and in any event within 90 days after
the end of each fiscal year, a consolidated balance sheet and related
statements of operations, comprehensive income (loss), partners' equity
and cash flows showing the financial position of the Borrower and the
Subsidiaries as of the close of such fiscal year and the consolidated
results of their operations during such year, all audited by
independent public accountants of recognized national standing and
accompanied by an opinion of such accountants (which shall not be
qualified in any material respect) to the effect that such consolidated
financial statements fairly present, in all material respects, the
financial position and results of operations of the Borrower and the
Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP (it being
understood that the delivery by the Borrower of Annual Reports on Form
10-K of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries shall satisfy the
requirements of this Section 5.04(a) to the extent such Annual Reports
include the information specified herein);
(b) promptly when available and in any event within 45 days after
the end of each of the first three fiscal quarters of each fiscal year,
an unaudited, condensed, consolidated balance sheet and related
unaudited condensed, consolidated statements of operations and cash
flows (which statements shall be prepared in a manner applicable to
financial statements required by Quarterly Reports filed on Form 10-Q
under the Exchange Act) showing the financial position of the Borrower
and the Subsidiaries as of the close of such fiscal quarter and the
consolidated results of their operations during such fiscal quarter and
the then-elapsed portion of the fiscal year, all certified by an
Authorized Officer of the Borrower, on behalf of the Borrower, as
fairly presenting, in all material respects, the financial position and
results of operations of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries on a
consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP (subject to normal year-end
audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes) (it being understood
that the delivery by the Borrower of Quarterly Reports on Form 10-Q of
the Borrower and its consolidated subsidiaries shall satisfy
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the requirements of this Section 5.04(b) to the extent such Quarterly
Reports include the information specified herein);
(c) (x) concurrently with any delivery of financial statements
under (a) or (b) above, a certificate of an Authorized Officer (A)
stating that the signer has reviewed the terms of this Agreement and
has made, or caused to be made under his supervision, a review in
reasonable detail of the transactions and condition of the Borrower
during the accounting period covered by such financial statements and
that such review has not disclosed the existence at the end of such
accounting period, and that the signer does not have knowledge of the
existence as at the date of the Officer's Certificate, of any condition
or event which constitutes an Event of Default or Default that has
occurred and is existing or, if such an Event of Default or Default is
existing, specifying the nature and extent thereof and any corrective
action taken or proposed to be taken with respect thereto and (B)
setting forth computations in reasonable detail satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent demonstrating compliance with the covenants
contained in Sections 6.10, 6.11 and 6.12 (including computation of the
ratios specified in the latter provisions as of December 31, 2004, in
the case of the initial such certificate), and (y) concurrently with
any delivery of financial statements under (a) above, a certificate of
the accounting firm opining on or certifying such statements stating
whether they obtained knowledge during the course of their examination
of such statements of any Event of Default (which certificate may be
limited to accounting matters and disclaims responsibility for legal
interpretations);
(d) promptly after the same become publicly available, copies of
all periodic and other publicly available reports, proxy statements
and, to the extent requested by the Administrative Agent, other
materials filed by the Borrower or any of the Subsidiaries with the
SEC;
(e) if, as a result of any change in accounting principles and
policies from those as in effect on the date of this Agreement, the
consolidated financial position, results of operations or cash flows
reflected in the consolidated financial statements of the Borrower and
the Subsidiaries delivered pursuant to paragraph (a) or (b) above will
differ in any respect that is material to the Borrower and the
Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, from the consolidated financial
position, results of operations or cash flows, as applicable, that
would have been reflected in the consolidated financial statements that
would have been delivered pursuant to such clauses had no such change
in accounting principles and policies been made, then, together with
the first delivery of financial statements pursuant to paragraph (a)
and (b) above following such change, a schedule prepared by an
Authorized Officer on behalf of the Borrower reconciling
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such changes to what the financial statements would have been without
such changes;
(f) within 60 days after the beginning of each fiscal year, an
operating and capital expenditure budget, in form reasonably
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent prepared by the Borrower for
each of the four fiscal quarters of such fiscal year prepared in
reasonable detail, of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries, accompanied by
the statement of an Authorized Officer to the effect that, to the best
of his knowledge, the budget is a reasonable estimate for the period
covered thereby;
(g) upon the reasonable request of the Administrative Agent,
deliver (no later than 30 days after such request) an updated response
to the Perfection Certificate reflecting all changes since the date of
the information most recently received pursuant to this paragraph (g)
or Section 5.10(e), provided that the Administrative Agent will request
such updated responses no more frequently than annually unless an Event
of Default shall have occurred and is continuing; and
(h) promptly, from time to time, such other information regarding
the operations, business affairs and financial condition of the
Borrower or any of the Subsidiaries, or compliance with the terms of
any Loan Document, as in each case the Administrative Agent may
reasonably request (provided that such information is reasonably
available to, or can reasonably be obtained, calculated or otherwise
prepared by or on behalf of the Borrower).
Section 5.05. Litigation and Other Notices. Furnish to the
Administrative Agent written notice of the following promptly after any
Authorized Officer obtains actual knowledge thereof:
(a) any Event of Default or Default, specifying the nature and
extent thereof and the corrective action (if any) proposed to be taken
with respect thereto;
(b) the filing or commencement of, or any written threat or notice
of intention of any person to file or commence, any action, suit,
investigation or proceeding, whether at law or in equity or by or
before any Governmental Authority, or in arbitration, against the
Borrower or any of the Subsidiaries as to which an adverse
determination is reasonably probable and which, if adversely
determined, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect;
(c) any other event, circumstance or occurrence specific to the
Borrower or any of the Subsidiaries that is not a matter of general
public
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knowledge and that has had, or could reasonably be expected to have, a
Material Adverse Effect;
(d) the occurrence of any ERISA Event that, together with all
other ERISA Events that have occurred, could reasonably be expected to
result in liability of the Borrower, the Subsidiaries and all ERISA
Affiliates in an aggregate amount in excess of $15,000,000; and
(e) any change in the published corporate credit rating of the
Borrower by ▇▇▇▇▇'▇ or S&P or in the outlook therefor, or the
withdrawal of such published rating by ▇▇▇▇▇'▇ or S&P.
Section 5.06. Compliance with Laws. Comply with all laws, rules,
regulations and orders of any Governmental Authority applicable to it or its
property, except where the failure to do so, individually or in the aggregate,
could not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect,
provided that this Section 5.06 shall not apply to Environmental Laws, which are
the subject of Section 5.09, or to laws related to Taxes, which are the subject
of Section 5.03.
Section 5.07. Maintaining Records; Access to Properties and
Inspections. (a) Maintain all relevant financial records in accordance with GAAP
and (b) permit any persons designated by the Agents or, upon the occurrence and
during the continuance of an Event of Default, any Lender to visit and inspect
the financial records and the properties of the Borrower or any of the
Subsidiaries at reasonable times during normal business hours, upon reasonable
prior notice to the Borrower, and as often as reasonably requested and to make
extracts from and copies of such financial records, and permit any persons
designated by the Agents or, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of
an Event of Default, any Lender upon reasonable prior notice to the Borrower to
discuss the affairs, finances and condition of the Borrower or any of the
Subsidiaries with the officers thereof and independent accountants therefor
(subject to reasonable requirements of confidentiality, including requirements
imposed by law or by contract, provided that an officer of the Borrower may
attend any such discussions with such accountants).
Section 5.08. Use of Proceeds. Use the proceeds of the Loans
(other than Incremental Term Loans) and request the issuance of Letters of
Credit only for the purposes set forth in the preamble to this Agreement.
Section 5.09. Compliance with Environmental Laws. Comply, and use
commercially reasonable efforts to cause all lessees and other persons occupying
its properties to comply, with all Environmental Laws applicable to its
operations and properties; and obtain and renew all authorizations and permits
required pursuant to Environmental Law for its operations and properties; and
conduct any removal, cleanup, investigation, remedial action or other response
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with respect to any Hazardous Materials required by Environmental Laws, except
to the extent disputed in good faith with any Governmental Authority or
indemnitor, and except, in each case with respect to this Section 5.09, to the
extent the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have,
individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.
Section 5.10. Further Assurances; Additional Mortgages. (a)
Execute any and all further documents, financing statements, agreements and
instruments, and take all such further actions (including the filing and
recording of financing statements, fixture filings, Mortgages and other
documents), that may be required under any applicable law, or that the
Administrative Agent may reasonably request, to cause the Collateral and
Guarantee Requirement to be and remain satisfied, all at the expense of the Loan
Parties, and provide to the Administrative Agent, from time to time upon
request, evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent as to the
perfection and priority of the Liens created or intended to be created by the
Collateral Documents.
(b) If any asset (including any real property or improvements
thereto or any interest therein) that has an individual fair market
value in an amount greater than $5,000,000 is acquired by the Borrower
or any Subsidiary Loan Party after the Restatement Date or owned by an
entity at the time it becomes a Subsidiary Loan Party (in each case
other than assets constituting Collateral under a Collateral Document
that become subject to the Lien of such Collateral Document upon
acquisition thereof), cause such asset to be subjected to a Lien
securing the Obligations and take, and cause the Subsidiary Loan
Parties to take, such actions as shall be necessary or reasonably
requested by the Administrative Agent to grant and perfect such Liens,
including actions described in paragraph (a) of this Section, all at
the expense of the Loan Parties, subject to paragraph (e) below.
(c) In the case of the Borrower, grant and cause each of the
Subsidiary Loan Parties to grant to the Collateral Agent security
interests and mortgages in such real property of the Borrower or any
such Subsidiary Loan Parties as are not covered by the original
Mortgages, to the extent acquired after the Restatement Date and having
a value at the time of acquisition in excess of $5,000,000 pursuant to
documentation substantially in the form of the Mortgages delivered to
the Collateral Agent on the Restatement Date or in such other form as
is reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent (each, an
"Additional Mortgage") and constituting valid and enforceable perfected
Liens superior to and prior to the rights of all third persons, subject
to no other Liens except as are permitted by Section 6.02 or arising by
operation of law, at the time of perfection thereof, and record or
file, and cause each such Subsidiary Loan Party to record or file, the
Additional Mortgage or instruments related
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thereto in such manner and in such places as is required by law to
establish, perfect, preserve and protect the Liens in favor of the
Collateral Agent required to be granted pursuant to the Additional
Mortgages and pay, and cause each such Subsidiary Loan Party to pay, in
full, all Taxes, fees and other charges payable in connection
therewith, in each case subject to paragraph (e) below.
(d) If any additional direct or indirect subsidiary of the
Borrower is formed or acquired after the Restatement Date, if such
subsidiary is a Subsidiary Loan Party, within ten Business Days after
the date such subsidiary is formed or acquired, notify the
Administrative Agent thereof and, within 20 Business Days after the
date such subsidiary is formed or acquired, cause the Collateral and
Guarantee Requirement to be satisfied with respect to such subsidiary
and with respect to any Equity Interest in or Indebtedness of such
subsidiary owned by or on behalf of any Loan Party.
(e) The Collateral and Guarantee Requirement and the other
provisions of this Section 5.10 need not be satisfied with respect to
(i) any real property held by the Borrower or any Subsidiary Loan Party
as a lessee or sublessee under a lease or sublease, (ii) any Equity
Interests acquired after the Restatement Date pursuant to Section
6.04(p) if, and to the extent that, and for so long as (A) doing so
would violate applicable law or a legally effective contractual
obligation binding on such Equity Interests and (B) such law or
obligation existed at the time of the acquisition thereof and was not
created or made binding on such Equity Interests in contemplation of or
in connection with the acquisition of such Equity Interests (provided
that the foregoing clause (B) shall not apply in the case of a joint
venture, including a joint venture that is a Subsidiary), (iii) any
assets acquired after the Restatement Date, to the extent that, and for
so long as, taking such actions would violate a legally effective
contractual obligation binding on such assets that existed at the time
of the acquisition thereof and was not created or made binding on such
assets in contemplation of or in connection with the acquisition of
such assets, or (iv) any Subsidiary Loan Party or asset with respect to
which the Collateral Agent determines that the cost of the satisfaction
of the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement or the provisions of this
Section 5.10
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with respect thereto exceeds the value of the security afforded thereby
provided that upon the reasonable request of the Collateral Agent, the
Borrower shall, and shall cause any applicable Subsidiary Loan Party
to, use commercially reasonable efforts to have waived or eliminated
any contractual obligation of the types described in clauses (ii) and
(iii) above, other than those set forth in joint venture agreements to
which the Borrower or a Subsidiary Loan Party is party. Furthermore,
the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement and the other provisions of
this Section 5.10 need not be satisfied to the extent of any exclusions
or exceptions expressly set forth in the Collateral Documents.
Section 5.11. Fiscal Year; Accounting. In the case of the
Borrower, cause its fiscal year to end on December 31.
Section 5.12. Maintenance of Ratings. Use its commercially
reasonable efforts to cause each of S&P and ▇▇▇▇▇'▇ to maintain published
corporate credit ratings of the Borrower.
ARTICLE VI
Negative Covenants
The Borrower covenants and agrees with each Lender that, so long as
this Agreement shall remain in effect and until the Commitments have been
terminated and the principal of and interest on each Loan, all Fees and all
other expenses or amounts payable under any Loan Document have been paid in full
and all Letters of Credit have been canceled or have expired and all amounts
drawn thereunder have been reimbursed in full, unless the Required Lenders shall
otherwise consent in writing, the Borrower will not, and will cause (or, in the
case of non-Wholly Owned Subsidiaries that are not controlled by the Borrower,
will use commercially reasonable efforts to cause) the Subsidiaries not to:
Section 6.01. Indebtedness. Incur, create, assume or permit to
exist any Indebtedness (including any Indebtedness incurred on or after the date
of this Agreement), except:
(a) Indebtedness existing on the Restatement Date and set forth on
Schedule 6.01, and any extensions, renewals or replacements of such
Indebtedness, provided that such extending, renewal or replacement
Indebtedness shall not be in a principal amount that exceeds the
Indebtedness being extended, renewed or replaced (plus unpaid accrued
interest and premium thereon and transaction costs associated with such
extension, renewal or replacement) and, in the case of any refinancing
or replacement of the Senior Notes with Indebtedness other than
Incremental Term Loans, shall be unsecured and the average life to
maturity thereof shall be greater than or equal to the then-remaining
average life of the Senior Notes being refinanced or replaced;
(b) Indebtedness created hereunder and under the other Loan
Documents (including Incremental Term Loans incurred in compliance with
Section 2.20);
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(c) Indebtedness owed to (including obligations in respect of
letters of credit for the benefit of) any person providing workers'
compensation, health, disability or other employee benefits or
property, casualty or liability insurance to the Borrower or any
Subsidiary, pursuant to reimbursement or indemnification obligations to
such person, provided that upon the incurrence of Indebtedness with
respect to reimbursement obligations regarding workers' compensation
claims, such obligations are reimbursed not later than 30 days
following such incurrence;
(d) Indebtedness of the Borrower to any Subsidiary and any
Subsidiary to the Borrower or any other Subsidiary, provided that (i)
Indebtedness of the Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties to the
Borrower and the other Loan Parties shall be subject to Section 6.04(d)
and (ii) Indebtedness of the Borrower to any Subsidiary and
Indebtedness of any other Loan Party to any Subsidiary, in either case,
that is not a Subsidiary Loan Party (the "Subordinated Intercompany
Debt") shall be subordinated to the Obligations on terms reasonably
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent;
(e) Indebtedness of the Borrower or the Subsidiaries in respect of
performance bonds, bid bonds, appeal bonds, surety bonds and completion
guarantees and similar obligations, in each case provided in the
ordinary course of business, including those incurred to secure health,
safety and environmental obligations in the ordinary course of business
and any extension, renewal or refinancing thereof to the extent that
the amount of financing Indebtedness is not greater than the amount of
Indebtedness being refinanced (plus unpaid accrued interest and premium
thereon and transaction costs associated with such extension, renewal
or refinancing);
(f) Indebtedness arising from the honoring by a bank or other
financial institution of a check, draft or similar instrument drawn
against insufficient funds in the ordinary course of business or other
cash management services in the ordinary course of business, provided
that such Indebtedness is extinguished within two Business Days of its
incurrence;
(g) [Reserved];
(h) [Reserved];
(i) Capital Lease Obligations incurred by the Borrower or any
Subsidiary in respect of any Sale and Lease-Back Transaction that is
permitted under Section 6.03(a);
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(j) other Indebtedness of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries, in an
aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding pursuant to this
paragraph (j) not in excess of $40,000,000, provided that the aggregate
amount of Indebtedness of all Subsidiaries that are not Subsidiary Loan
Parties outstanding pursuant to this paragraph (j) shall not exceed
$5,000,000;
(k) [Reserved];
(l) Indebtedness arising from agreements of the Borrower or a
Subsidiary providing for indemnification, adjustment of purchase price
or similar obligations, in each case, incurred or assumed in connection
with the disposition of any business, any assets or a Subsidiary, other
than Guarantees of Indebtedness incurred by any person acquiring all or
any portion of such business, assets or a Subsidiary for the purpose of
financing such acquisition;
(m) unsecured Indebtedness of the Borrower and the unsecured
guarantee by any Subsidiary Loan Party of the Borrower's obligations
thereunder, provided that (i) no principal of such Indebtedness shall
have a scheduled payment date, or be subject to a mandatory redemption
or sinking fund obligation, earlier than 180 days after the final
maturity of the Loans (other than mandatory prepayment provisions
having terms no less favorable to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in
any material respect than those contained in the Senior Notes on the
Restatement Date), (ii) the Borrower and the Subsidiaries shall be in
compliance on a pro forma basis at the time of and after giving effect
to the incurrence of any such Indebtedness (and any substantially
concurrent repayment of other Indebtedness), with the financial
covenants contained in Section 6.11 and Section 6.12 (provided that for
purposes of this Section 6.01(a), the otherwise applicable ratio set
forth in Section 6.12 shall be reduced by 0.25 and Section 6.13 shall
not apply) and the Borrower shall have delivered to the Administrative
Agent a certificate of an Authorized Officer of the Borrower to such
effects described in this clause (ii) above setting forth in reasonable
detail the computations necessary to determine such compliance, (iii)
at the time of the incurrence of such Indebtedness and after giving
effect thereto, no Default or Event of Default shall exist or be
continuing, (iv) the documentation governing such Indebtedness contains
customary market terms (including guarantee release terms that are
reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent) and (v) the
covenants and events of default of which are not materially more
restrictive than the covenants and events of default in this Agreement
and do not include any financial maintenance covenants;
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(n) Indebtedness of the Borrower or any Subsidiary supported by a
Letter of Credit, in a principal amount not in excess of the stated
amount of such Letter of Credit;
(o) Indebtedness of the Borrower that is subordinated to the
Obligations of the Borrower pursuant to the Subordination Agreement;
(p) [Reserved]; and
(q) all premium (if any), interest (including post-petition
interest), fees, expenses, charges and additional or contingent
interest on obligations described in paragraphs (a) through (r) above.
Section 6.02. Liens. Create, incur, assume or permit to exist any
Lien (including any Lien incurred on or after the date of this Agreement) on any
property or assets (including stock or other securities of any person) at the
time owned by it or on any income or revenues or rights in respect of any
thereof, except:
(a) Liens on property or assets of the Borrower and the
Subsidiaries, which Liens are existing on the Restatement Date and set
forth on Schedule 6.02 and Liens replacing such Liens, provided that
such Liens shall secure only those obligations that they secure on the
date hereof (and extensions, renewals and replacements of such
obligations in accordance with Section 6.01(a)) and shall not
subsequently apply to any other property or assets of the Borrower or
any Subsidiary;
(b) any Lien created under the Loan Documents or permitted in
respect of any Mortgaged Property by the terms of the applicable
Mortgage;
(c) minor defects and irregularities in title to any real property
which in the aggregated do not impair the fair market value or use of
the real property for the purposes for which it is or may reasonably be
expected to be held;
(d) Liens for Taxes, assessments or other governmental charges or
levies not yet delinquent or that are being contested in compliance
with Section 5.03 or for property Taxes on property that the Borrower
or one of the Subsidiaries has determined to abandon if the sole
recourse for such Tax, assessment, charge, levy or claim is to such
property;
(e) landlord's, carriers', warehousemen's, mechanics',
materialmen's, repairmen's, construction or other like Liens arising in
the ordinary course of business and securing obligations that are not
overdue
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by more than 30 days or that are being contested in good faith by
appropriate proceedings and in respect of which, if applicable, the
Borrower or the relevant Subsidiary shall have set aside on its books
reserves in accordance with GAAP;
(f) pledges and deposits made in the ordinary course of business
in compliance with the Federal Employers Liability Act or any other
workers' compensation, unemployment insurance and other social security
laws or regulations and deposits securing liability to insurance
carriers under insurance or self-insurance arrangements in respect of
such obligations;
(g) deposits to secure the performance of bids, trade and
governmental contracts (other than for Indebtedness), leases (other
than Capital Lease Obligations), statutory obligations, surety and
appeal bonds, performance bonds and other obligations of a like nature
incurred in the ordinary course of business, including those incurred
to secure health, safety and environmental obligations in the ordinary
course of business;
(h) zoning restrictions, easements, trackage rights, leases (other
than Capital Lease Obligations), licenses, special assessments,
rights-of-way, restrictions on use of real property and other similar
encumbrances incurred in the ordinary course of business that, in the
aggregate, do not materially interfere with the ordinary conduct of the
business of the Borrower or any of the Subsidiaries;
(i) Liens arising out of capitalized or operating lease
transactions permitted under Section 6.03(a), so long as such Liens
attach only to the property sold and being leased in such transaction
and any accessions thereto or proceeds thereof and related property;
(j) Liens securing judgments that do not constitute an Event of
Default under Section 7.01(j);
(k) other Liens securing obligations in an amount (or principal
amount, in the case of obligations bearing interest) not exceeding
$40,000,000 at any time;
(l) Liens of the type disclosed by or listed in the title
insurance policies delivered pursuant to Sections 4.02 and 5.10 (if
such types of Liens are reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative
Agent and other than Liens for borrowed money or other Indebtedness)
and any replacement, extension or renewal of any such Lien, provided
that such replacement, extension or renewal Lien shall not cover any
property other than the property that was subject to such Lien prior to
such replacement,
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extension or renewal, provided, further, that with respect to any such
Lien, the Indebtedness and other obligations secured by such
replacement, extension or renewal Lien are permitted by this Agreement;
(m) any interest or title of a lessor under any leases or
subleases entered into by the Borrower or any Subsidiary in the
ordinary course of business;
(n) Liens that are contractual rights of set-off (i) relating to
the establishment of depository relations with banks not given in
connection with the issuance of Indebtedness or (ii) relating to pooled
deposit or sweep accounts of the Borrower or any Subsidiary to permit
satisfaction of overdraft or similar obligations incurred in the
ordinary course of business of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries or
(iii) relating to purchase orders or other agreements entered into with
customers in the ordinary course of business;
(o) Liens arising solely by virtue of any statutory or common law
provision relating to banker's liens, rights of set-off or similar
rights;
(p) licenses of intellectual property granted in a manner
consistent with past practice;
(q) the filing of precautionary Uniform Commercial Code financing
statements in connection with operating leases under which the Borrower
or a Subsidiary is the lessee;
(r) Liens of customs and revenue authorities arising as a matter
of law to secure payment of customs duties in connection with the
importation of goods;
(s) Liens securing obligations in respect of trade-related letters
of credit or trade-related bankers acceptances issued in the ordinary
course of business of the Borrower or the Subsidiaries, in each case
covering the goods (or the documents of title in respect of such goods)
financed by such letters of credit or trade-related bankers acceptances
and the proceeds and products thereof;
(t) Liens securing obligations of the Borrower in respect of the
▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇ Fee; and
(u) any Lien existing on any property or asset prior to the
acquisition thereof by the Borrower or any Subsidiary or existing on
any property or asset of any person that becomes a Subsidiary after the
date hereof prior to the time such person becomes a Subsidiary;
provided that
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(i) such Lien is not created in contemplation of or in connection with
such acquisition or such person becoming a Subsidiary , as the case may
be, (ii) such Lien shall not apply to any other property or assets of
the Borrower or any Subsidiary and (iii) such Lien shall secure only
those obligations which it secures on the date of such acquisition or
the date such person becomes a Subsidiary, as the case may be and
extensions, renewals and replacements thereof that do not increase the
outstanding principal amount thereof.
Section 6.03. Sale and Lease-Back Transactions. Enter into any
arrangement, directly or indirectly, with any person whereby it shall sell or
transfer any property, real or personal, used or useful in its business, whether
now owned or hereafter acquired, and thereafter rent or lease such property or
other property that it intends to use for substantially the same purpose or
purposes as the property being sold or transferred (a "Sale and Lease-Back
Transaction"), provided that a Sale and Lease-Back Transaction shall be
permitted so long as at the time the lease in connection therewith is entered
into, the Remaining Present Value of such lease (together with the Remaining
Present Value at such time of outstanding leases previously entered into under
this clause (a)) would not exceed $10,000,000 or (b) such transaction is made
for cash consideration in an amount not less than the cost of the relevant
property and is consummated within 180 days after the Borrower or the relevant
Subsidiary acquires or completes construction of such property.
Section 6.04. Investments, Loans and Advances. Purchase, hold or
acquire (including pursuant to any merger with a person that is not a Wholly
Owned Subsidiary immediately prior to such merger) any Equity Interests,
evidences of indebtedness or other securities of, make or permit to exist any
loans or advances (other than intercompany current liabilities incurred in the
ordinary course of business (x) in connection with cash management operations or
(y) not in connection with a cash loan or advance) to or Guarantees of the
obligations of, or make or permit to exist any investment or any other interest
(including any Equity Interests, indebtedness, securities, loans, advances,
Guarantees, investments or interests purchased, acquired or made on or after the
date of this Agreement) in, any other person (collectively, "Investments"),
except:
(a) Investments (i) existing on the date hereof in the Equity
Interests of the Subsidiaries and by the Borrower or any Subsidiary in
the Borrower or any Subsidiary, provided that Investments made after
the Restatement Date by the Borrower and the Subsidiary Loan Parties
pursuant to clause (ii) of this paragraph (a) in Subsidiaries that are
not Loan Parties may be made in an aggregate amount (valued at the time
of the making thereof and without giving effect to any write-downs or
write-offs thereof), together with outstanding intercompany loans
permitted under Section 6.04(d)(ii) and Guarantees subject to the
proviso to Section
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6.04(k) by Loan Parties of Indebtedness of Subsidiaries that are not
Loan Parties, not to exceed $5,000,000 (plus any return of capital
actually received by the respective investors in respect of Investments
theretofore made by them pursuant to this paragraph (a));
(b) Permitted Investments and Investments that were Permitted
Investments when made;
(c) Investments arising out of the receipt by the Borrower or any
Subsidiary of noncash consideration for the sale of assets permitted
under Section 6.05;
(d) intercompany loans from the Borrower and the Subsidiary Loan
Parties to (i) the Borrower or any Subsidiary Loan Party and
Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties, provided that the aggregate
principal amount of such intercompany loans made after the Restatement
Date pursuant to clause (ii) at any time outstanding (together with
Investments made pursuant to the proviso to Section 6.04(a)(ii) and
Guarantees subject to the proviso to Section 6.04(k) by Loan Parties of
Indebtedness of Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties), not to exceed
$5,000,000;
(e) (i) loans and advances to employees of the Borrower or the
Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business not to exceed
$5,000,000 in the aggregate at any time outstanding and (ii) advances
of payroll payments and expenses to employees in the ordinary course of
business;
(f) accounts receivable arising and trade credit granted in the
ordinary course of business and any securities received in satisfaction
or partial satisfaction thereof from financially troubled account
debtors and any prepayments and other credits made to suppliers in the
ordinary course of business and consistent with past practice;
(g) Derivatives Obligations permitted pursuant to Section 6.14;
(h) Investments existing on the Restatement Date or made pursuant
to commitments existing on the Restatement Date, in each case of the
nature and amount, and in the persons, set forth on Schedule 6.04 plus
additional Investments after the Restatement Date in such Persons in an
aggregate amount (valued at the time of the making thereof, and without
giving effect to any write-downs or write-offs thereof) not to exceed
$25,000,000 at any time outstanding;
(i) Investments resulting from pledges and deposits referred to in
Sections 6.02(f) and (g);
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(j) additional Investments may be made from time to time to the
extent made with proceeds of Equity Interests of or capital
contributions to (excluding proceeds received as a result of the
exercise of Cure Rights pursuant to Section 7.03) the Borrower;
(k) Guarantees constituting Indebtedness permitted by Section
6.01, provided that the aggregate principal amount of the Indebtedness
incurred after the Restatement Date of Subsidiaries that are not Loan
Parties that is Guaranteed by any Loan Party (together with Investments
made pursuant to the proviso to Section 6.04(a)(ii) and intercompany
loans permitted under Section 6.04(d)(ii)) shall not exceed $5,000,000;
(l) the Transactions;
(m) Investments received in connection with the bankruptcy or
reorganization of, or settlement of delinquent accounts and disputes
with or judgments against, customers and suppliers, in each case in the
ordinary course of business;
(n) Investments of a Subsidiary acquired after the Restatement
Date or of a corporation merged into the Borrower or merged into or
consolidated with a Subsidiary in accordance with Section 6.05 after
the Restatement Date to the extent that such Investments were not made
in contemplation of or in connection with such acquisition, merger or
consolidation and were in existence on the date of such acquisition,
merger or consolidation;
(o) Guarantees by the Borrower and the Subsidiaries of leases
(other than Capital Lease Obligations) or of other obligations that do
not constitute Indebtedness, in each case entered into by any
Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business;
(p) other Investments by the Borrower and the Subsidiaries in an
aggregate amount (valued at the time of the making thereof, and without
giving effect to any write-downs or write-offs thereof) not to exceed
$40,000,000 at any time outstanding (plus any returns of capital
actually received by the respective investor in respect of Investments
theretofore made by it pursuant to paragraph (h) above or this
paragraph (p)); and
(q) the Scheduled Affiliate Transactions.
Section 6.05. Mergers, Consolidations, Sales of Assets and
Acquisitions. Merge into or consolidate with any other person, or permit any
other person to merge into or consolidate with it, or sell, transfer, lease or
otherwise dispose of (in one transaction or in a series of transactions) all or
any
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part of its assets (whether now owned or hereafter acquired), or issue, sell,
transfer or otherwise dispose of any Equity Interests of any Subsidiary, or
purchase, lease or otherwise acquire (in one transaction or a series of
transactions) all or any substantial part of the assets of any other person,
except that this Section shall not prohibit:
(a) (i) the purchase and sale of inventory in the ordinary course
of business by the Borrower or any Subsidiary, (ii) the acquisition of
any other asset in the ordinary course of business by the Borrower or
any Subsidiary, (iii) the sale of surplus, obsolete or worn out
equipment or other property in the ordinary course of business by the
Borrower or any Subsidiary, (iv) the sale, lease or other disposition
of land in connection with the development and construction thereof,
(v) inventory, cash, cash equivalents and other cash management
investments, in each case in the ordinary course of business, (vi) the
sale, lease or other disposition of assets in connection with a
Scheduled Affiliate Transaction, or (vii) the sale of Permitted
Investments in the ordinary course of business;
(b) if at the time thereof and immediately after giving effect
thereto no Event of Default or Default shall have occurred and be
continuing, (i) the merger of any Subsidiary into the Borrower in a
transaction in which the Borrower is the surviving entity, (ii) the
merger or consolidation of any Subsidiary into or with any Subsidiary
Loan Party in a transaction in which the surviving or resulting entity
is a Subsidiary Loan Party and, in the case of each of clauses (i) and
(ii), no person other than the Borrower or a Subsidiary Loan Party
receives any consideration that is not permitted by Section 6.04, (iii)
the merger or consolidation of any Subsidiary that is not a Subsidiary
Loan Party into or with any other Subsidiary that is not a Subsidiary
Loan Party, (iv) any merger or consolidation of another person with or
into the Borrower or a Subsidiary if the Borrower or such Subsidiary,
as applicable, is the survivor and such merger or consolidation is
effected in order to purchase the assets of such other person and the
purchase of such assets is permitted hereunder (and such transaction is
treated as a purchase of such assets for purposes of determining
compliance with the other applicable provisions of this Agreement) or
(v) the liquidation or dissolution or change in form of entity of any
Subsidiary (other than the liquidation or dissolution of the Borrower)
if the Borrower or such Subsidiary determines in good faith that such
liquidation or dissolution or change in form of entity is in the best
interests of the Borrower and is not materially disadvantageous to the
Lenders;
(c) sales, transfers, leases or other dispositions to the Borrower
or a Subsidiary (upon voluntary liquidation or otherwise), provided
that any sales, transfers, leases or other dispositions by a Loan Party
to a
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Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party shall be made in compliance with
Sections 6.04 and 6.07;
(d) Sale and Lease-Back Transactions permitted by Section 6.03;
(e) Investments permitted by Section 6.04, Liens permitted by
Section 6.02, dividends, distributions, redemptions, purchases and the
like permitted by Section 6.06 and acquisitions of assets that
constitute Capital Expenditures permitted by Section 6.10;
(f) the sale of defaulted receivables in the ordinary course of
business and not as part of an accounts receivables financing
transaction;
(g) sales, transfers, leases or other dispositions of assets not
otherwise permitted by this Section 6.05, provided that, after giving
effect to each such sale, transfer, lease or other disposition, the
aggregate gross proceeds (including noncash proceeds) of any or all
assets sold, transferred, leased or otherwise disposed of in reliance
upon this paragraph (g) (excluding hotel sites and vacant land) shall
not exceed $100,000,000;
(h) leases entered into (as lessor) in the ordinary course of
business (including hotel site leases);
(i) [Reserved];
(j) licensing and cross-licensing arrangements involving any
technology or other intellectual property of the Borrower or a
Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business; and
(k) without limiting the generality of the foregoing, licensing
arrangements involving any Intellectual Property Rights so long as such
license permits the continued use of such Intellectual Property Rights
by the Borrower in connection with the Theme Parks (to the extent
necessary or desirable in connection therewith) and could not
materially and adversely affect or impair the value to the Borrower of
such Intellectual Property Rights.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained above, (i) no sale, transfer
or other disposition of assets shall be permitted by this Section 6.05 (other
than sales, transfers, leases or other dispositions to Loan Parties pursuant to
paragraph (c) hereof) unless such disposition is for fair market value and (ii)
no sale, transfer or other disposition of assets shall be permitted by paragraph
(a), (d) or (g) of this Section 6.05 unless such disposition is for at least 75%
cash consideration, except that the consideration received for any sale,
transfer or other
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disposition of land pursuant to Section 6.05(a)(iv) or (g) may consist in whole
or in part of Equity Interests in land development ventures.
Section 6.06. Dividends and Distributions. Declare or pay,
directly or indirectly, any dividend or make any other distribution (by
reduction of capital or otherwise), whether in cash, property, securities or a
combination thereof, with respect to any Equity Interests of the Borrower (other
than dividends and distributions on Equity Interests in the Borrower payable
solely by the issuance of additional Equity Interests in the Borrower) or
directly or indirectly redeem, purchase, retire or otherwise acquire for value
(or permit any Subsidiary to purchase or acquire) any of the Equity Interests of
the Borrower or set aside any amount for any such purpose or pay any Deferred
Universal Fees or make any payment with respect to the Subordinated Debt (such
payments, collectively, "Restricted Payments"); provided, however, that:
(a) [Reserved.]
(b) the Borrower may pay any Current Universal Fees;
(c) the Borrower may effect the transactions contemplated by, and
pay the Cash Payment pursuant to, the Transactions;
(d) in respect of any fiscal year or portion thereof during which
the Borrower is a pass-through entity for Federal income tax purposes,
the Borrower may after the close of each fiscal year, make a Restricted
Payment in an aggregate amount equal to its Hypothetical Income Tax in
respect of such fiscal year;
(e) the Borrower may make Restricted Payments the proceeds of
which shall be used by Holdings to pay when due (and required to be
paid in cash), and in aggregate amounts equal to, accrued and unpaid
interest on Indebtedness of Holdings; provided that before and
immediately after giving effect to such payment, (x) no Default under
Section 7.01(b) or (c) shall exist and (y) no other Event of Default
shall exist or would result from such action; provided that in the case
of this clause (y), the Administrative Agent shall have notified the
Borrower of such Event of Default and that such Event of Default shall
prohibit during the continuation of such Event of Default Restricted
Payments pursuant to this paragraph (e); and
(f) the Borrower may make other Restricted Payments so long as, at
the relevant time and after giving effect thereto and to any concurrent
incurrence of Indebtedness, (i) no Default or Event of Default shall
have occurred and be continuing, (ii) the aggregate outstanding
principal amount of Revolving Loans shall not exceed $30,000,000 and
(iii) the
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Total Leverage Ratio shall not exceed the applicable ratio specified in
the table below:
Periods: Ratio:
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Restatement Date through 12/30/2005 4.25 to 1.00
12/31/2005 through 12/30/2006 4.00 to 1.00
12/31/2006 and thereafter 3.75 to 1.00
Section 6.07. Transactions with Affiliates. (a) Sell or transfer
any property or assets to, or purchase or acquire any property or assets from,
or otherwise engage in any other transaction with, any of its Affiliates, unless
such transaction is (i) otherwise permitted (or required) under this Agreement
and (ii) upon terms no less favorable to the Borrower or such Subsidiary, as
applicable, than would be obtained in a comparable arm's-length transaction with
a person that is not an Affiliate, provided that this clause (ii) shall not
apply to the indemnification of directors, officers or employees of the Borrower
and the Subsidiaries in accordance with customary practice.
(b) The foregoing paragraph (a) shall not prohibit, to the extent
otherwise permitted under this Agreement, (i) loans to Affiliates
pursuant to Section 6.04(p), (ii) loans or advances to employees of the
Borrower or any of the Subsidiaries in accordance with Section 6.04(e),
(iii) (A) transactions among the Borrower and the Subsidiary Loan
Parties, (B) transactions among the Subsidiary Loan Parties, (C)
transactions among Subsidiaries that are all not Loan Parties and (D)
transactions between the Borrower or the Subsidiary Loan Parties, on
the one hand, and Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties, on the other
hand, provided that such transactions are on terms no less favorable to
the Borrower and the Subsidiary Loan Parties, as applicable, than would
be obtained in a comparable arm's-length transaction with a person that
is not an Affiliate, in each case otherwise permitted by this
Agreement, (iv) the payment of fees and indemnities to directors,
officers and employees of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries in the
ordinary course of business, (v) [reserved], [reserved], (vii) any
consulting, employment or severance agreements or benefit arrangements
entered into by the Borrower or any of the Subsidiaries in the ordinary
course of business, (viii) Restricted Payments permitted under Section
6.06, (ix) any purchase by any Affiliate of Equity Interests of the
Borrower, or any contribution by any Affiliate to the equity capital of
the Borrower, provided that any Equity Interests of the Borrower
purchased by any Affiliate shall be pledged to the Collateral Agent on
behalf of the Lenders pursuant to the Pledge Agreement, (x) [reserved],
(xi) payment of Universal Fees, subject in the case of Deferred
Universal Fees to Section 6.06, (xii) transactions with Wholly Owned
Subsidiaries for the purchase or sale of services, goods and products
entered into in the ordinary course of business in a manner consistent
with
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past practice, (xiii) any transaction in respect of which the Borrower
delivers to the Administrative Agent (for delivery to the Lenders) a
letter addressed to the Representatives of Holdings or the Borrower or
of the applicable Subsidiary from an accounting, appraisal or
investment banking firm, in each case of nationally recognized standing
that is (A) in the good faith determination of the Borrower qualified
to render such letter and (B) satisfactory to the Administrative Agent,
which letter states that the consideration provided for in such
transaction is fair, from a financial point of view, to the Borrower or
such Subsidiary, as applicable, (xiv) the Transactions, (xv) the
Scheduled Affiliate Transactions or (xvi) the performance of the
Project Documents.
Section 6.08. Business of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries.
Engage at any time in any business or business activity other than, any business
or business activity conducted by the Borrower and the Subsidiaries on the date
hereof and any business or business activities incidental or related thereto, or
any business or activity that is reasonably similar thereto or a reasonable
extension, development or expansion thereof or ancillary thereto.
Section 6.09. Limitation on Modifications and Prepayments of
Indebtedness; Modifications of Certificate of Incorporation, By-Laws and Certain
Other Agreements; etc. (a) Amend or modify in any manner materially adverse to
the Lenders, or grant any waiver or release under or terminate in any manner (if
such granting or termination shall be materially adverse to the Lenders and
other than terminations arising from any liquidation or dissolution of a
Subsidiary permitted pursuant to Section 6.05(b)), the articles or certificate
of incorporation or by-laws or partnership agreement or limited liability
company operating agreement of the Borrower or any of the Subsidiaries, any
Indebtedness issued under Section 6.01(m) or any agreement relating thereto or
any Project Document; provided, however, that the Borrower Partnership Agreement
may be amended to delete Section 19(i) and the fourth paragraph of Section 20(b)
of such agreement.
(b) Make, or agree or offer to pay or make, directly or
indirectly, any payment or other distribution (whether in cash,
securities or other property) of or in respect of principal of or
interest on (i) the Senior Notes, (ii) any Indebtedness incurred under
Section 6.01(m) or (iii) any Indebtedness incurred pursuant to Section
6.01(a) refinancing the Senior Notes in whole or in part or any payment
or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property),
including any sinking fund or similar deposit, on account of the
purchase, redemption, retirement, acquisition, cancellation or
termination of any such Indebtedness, except payments of regularly
scheduled interest and principal payments as and when due in respect
thereof, and other than payments in respect thereof made with the
proceeds of a refinancing thereof permitted hereby or with proceeds of
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equity. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Borrower or any Subsidiary
may purchase or redeem any such Indebtedness if, based on the Total
Leverage Ratio at the relevant time and after giving effect thereto,
the Borrower would be permitted to make a Restricted Payment of at
least $1.00 pursuant to Section 6.06(f); or
(c) Permit any Subsidiary to enter into or allow to remain in
effect any agreement or instrument that by its terms restricts (i) the
payment of dividends or distributions or the making of cash advances by
such Subsidiary to the Borrower or any Subsidiary that is a direct or
indirect parent of such Subsidiary or (ii) the granting of Liens by
such Subsidiary pursuant to the Collateral Documents, in each case
other than those arising under any Loan Document, except, in each case,
restrictions existing by reason of: (A) restrictions imposed by
applicable law; (B) contractual encumbrances or restrictions in effect
on the date hereof under (x) any agreement listed on Schedule 6.09(c)
or (y) any agreements related to any permitted renewal, extension or
refinancing of any agreement listed on Schedule 6.09(c) that does not
expand the scope of any such encumbrance or restriction; (C) any
restriction on a Subsidiary imposed pursuant to an agreement entered
into for the sale or disposition of all or substantially all the Equity
Interests or assets of a Subsidiary pending the closing of such sale or
disposition; (D) customary provisions in joint venture agreements and
other similar agreements applicable to joint ventures entered into in
the ordinary course of business; (E) any restrictions imposed by any
agreement relating to secured Indebtedness permitted by this Agreement
to the extent that such restrictions apply only to the property or
assets securing such Indebtedness; (F) customary provisions contained
in leases or licenses of intellectual property and other similar
agreements entered into in the ordinary course of business; (G)
customary provisions restricting subletting or assignment of any lease
governing a leasehold interest; (H) customary provisions restricting
assignment of any agreement entered into in the ordinary course of
business; or (I) customary restrictions and conditions contained in any
agreement relating to the sale of any asset permitted under Section
6.05 pending the consummation of such sale to the extent such
restrictions and conditions apply only to such asset.
Section 6.10. Capital Expenditures. Permit the Borrower or the
Subsidiaries to make any Capital Expenditure during any fiscal year ending on or
after December 31, 2005, except that:
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(a) During any such fiscal year, the Borrower and the Subsidiaries
may make Capital Expenditures so long as the aggregate amount thereof
does not exceed in any fiscal year the applicable amount set forth
below:
Fiscal Year: Amount:
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Ending 12/31/2005 $75,000,000
Ending 12/31/2006 $85,000,000
Each fiscal year ending thereafter $100,000,000
(b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in
paragraph (a) above, to the extent that the aggregate amount of Capital
Expenditures made by the Borrower and the Subsidiaries in any fiscal
year of the Borrower pursuant to Section 6.10(a) is less than the
amount set forth for such fiscal year, the amount of such difference
may be carried forward and used to make Capital Expenditures in the
next succeeding fiscal year, provided that in any fiscal year, the
first Capital Expenditures shall be deemed to be made pursuant to
paragraph (a) of this Section 6.10.
Section 6.11. Interest Coverage Ratio. Permit the ratio (the
"Interest Coverage Ratio") on the last day of any fiscal quarter occurring in
any period set forth below, for the four quarter period ended as of such day, of
(a) EBITDA to (b) Interest Expense to be less than the ratio set forth below for
such period, subject to Section 6.13:
Fiscal Quarter Ending: Ratio:
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FQE 3/05 through FQE 12/05 1.50 to 1.00
FQE 3/06 through FQE 12/06 1.60 to 1.00
FQE 3/07 and thereafter 1.70 to 1.00
Section 6.12. Total Leverage Ratio. Permit the Total Leverage
Ratio at the last day of any fiscal quarter occurring in any period set forth
below to be in excess of the ratio set forth below for such period, subject to
Section 6.13:
Period: Ratio:
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FQE 3/05 through FQE 3/06 5.00 to 1.00
FQE 6/06 through FQE 12/06 4.50 to 1.00
FQE 3/07 through FQE 12/07 4.25 to 1.00
FQE 3/08 and thereafter 4.00 to 1.00
Section 6.13. Significant Event. In the event that, for any fiscal
quarter ending not later than FQE 12/08 (the "affected quarter"), there is (i) a
12% decrease in attendance at the Theme Parks from the attendance in the
corresponding fiscal quarter of the prior fiscal year (the "prior-year quarter")
and (ii) a major terrorist activity or an armed conflict involving US military
has occurred or is occurring during such fiscal quarter or the immediately
preceding
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fiscal quarter, the Borrower will have the option, exercisable by written notice
to the Lenders through the Administrative Agent not later than seven days
following the end of the affected quarter (the "notice date"), to substitute in
lieu of the EBITDA for the affected quarter (and, if the Borrower so elects and
subject to satisfying the liquidity test described below, the immediately
following fiscal quarter) the EBITDA for the prior-year quarter (and the
immediately following quarter in the prior year) for purposes of calculation of
the Total Leverage Ratio and the Interest Coverage Ratio as at any date for
which such calculation would otherwise include the affected quarter (or the
immediately following quarter). In the event the Borrower exercises this right,
it shall make appropriate representatives available to meet or conduct a
conference call with the Lenders in New York City or Orlando (or another
location mutually determined by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent) not
later than seven days following the notice date to discuss with Lenders the
factors giving rise to such decrease in attendance and their continuing effects,
if any. The right of the Borrower under this Section 6.13 is subject to the
further limitations that (i) such right may be exercised on only one occasion
and (ii) in order to exercise this right with respect to the fiscal quarter
immediately following the affected quarter, the Borrower shall have delivered to
the Lenders through the Administrative Agent a certificate of an Authorized
Officer to the effect that, at the end of the affected quarter it has liquidity
in the form of unrestricted cash balances and undrawn Revolving Commitments in
an aggregate amount of not less than $40,000,000 through working capital
management practices consistent with its past practices and (iii) such
substitution shall not be effective for purposes of determining whether
Restricted Payments or Universal Fees may be paid in accordance with Section
6.06.
Section 6.14. Derivatives Obligations. Enter into any Derivatives
Obligations, other than Derivatives Obligations entered into in the ordinary
course of business to hedge or mitigate risks to which the Borrower or any
Subsidiary is exposed in the conduct of its business or the management of its
liabilities.
ARTICLE VII
Events of Default
Section 7.01. Events of Default. In case of the happening of any
of the following events ("Events of Default"):
(a) any representation or warranty made or deemed made by the
Holdings, Borrower or any other Loan Party in any Loan Document, or any
representation, warranty, statement or information contained in any
report, certificate, financial statement or other instrument furnished
by Holdings or any Loan Party in connection with or pursuant to any
Loan Document, shall prove to have been false or misleading in any
material
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respect when so made, deemed made or furnished by Holdings, the
Borrower or any other Loan Party;
(b) default shall be made in the payment of any principal of any
Loan or the reimbursement with respect to any L/C Disbursement when and
as the same shall become due and payable, whether at the due date
thereof or at a date fixed for prepayment thereof or by acceleration
thereof or otherwise;
(c) default shall be made in the payment of any interest on any
Loan or on any L/C Disbursement or in the payment of any Fee or any
other amount (other than an amount referred to in (b) above) due under
any Loan Document, when and as the same shall become due and payable,
and such default shall continue unremedied for a period of five
Business Days;
(d) default shall be made in the due observance or performance by
the Borrower or any of the Subsidiaries of (i) any covenant, condition
or agreement contained in Section 5.01(a) (with respect to the
Borrower), 5.05(a), 5.08 or Section 5.10(d) or in Article VI (other
than Section 6.11 and Section 6.12) and (ii) any covenant, condition or
agreement contained in Section 6.11 and Section 6.12 as of the end of
any fiscal quarter which shall be continuing at the earliest of (A) the
date of delivery of financial statements for the period ending at the
end of such fiscal quarter pursuant to Section 5.04 and (B) the 60th
day after the end of such fiscal quarter, subject to Section 7.03;
(e) default shall be made in the due observance or performance by
Holdings, the Borrower or any of the Subsidiaries of any covenant,
condition or agreement contained in any Loan Document (other than those
specified in paragraphs (b), (c) and (d) above) and such default shall
continue unremedied for a period of 30 days after notice thereof from
the Administrative Agent to the Borrower;
(f) (i) any event or condition occurs that (A) results in any
Material Indebtedness becoming due prior to its scheduled maturity or
(B) enables or permits (with all applicable grace periods having
expired) the holder or holders of any Material Indebtedness or any
trustee or agent on its or their behalf to cause any Material
Indebtedness to become due, or to require the prepayment, repurchase,
redemption or defeasance thereof, prior to its scheduled maturity or
(ii) Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary shall fail to pay the
principal of any Material Indebtedness at the stated final maturity
thereof, provided that this clause (f) shall not apply to secured
Indebtedness that becomes due as a result of the voluntary sale or
transfer of the property or assets securing such Indebtedness if such
sale or transfer
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is permitted hereunder and under the documents providing for such
Indebtedness;
(g) there shall have occurred a Change in Control;
(h) an involuntary proceeding shall be commenced or an involuntary
petition shall be filed in a court of competent jurisdiction seeking
(i) relief in respect of Holdings, the Borrower or any of the
Subsidiaries, or of a substantial part of the property or assets of
Holdings, the Borrower or any of the Subsidiaries, under Title 11 of
the United States Code, as now constituted or hereafter amended, or any
other federal, state or foreign bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or
similar law, (ii) the appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian,
sequestrator, conservator or similar official for Holdings, the
Borrower or any of the Subsidiaries or for a substantial part of the
property or assets of Holdings, the Borrower or any of the Subsidiaries
or (iii) the winding-up or liquidation of Holdings, the Borrower or any
of the Subsidiaries; and such proceeding or petition shall continue
undismissed for 60 days or an order or decree approving or ordering any
of the foregoing shall be entered;
(i) Holdings, the Borrower or any of the Subsidiaries shall (i)
voluntarily commence any proceeding or file any petition seeking relief
under Title 11 of the United States Code, as now constituted or
hereafter amended, or any other federal, state or foreign bankruptcy,
insolvency, receivership or similar law, (ii) consent to the
institution of, or fail to contest in a timely and appropriate manner,
any proceeding or the filing of any petition described in paragraph (h)
above, (iii) apply for or consent to the appointment of a receiver,
trustee, custodian, sequestrator, conservator or similar official for
Holdings, the Borrower or any of the Subsidiaries or for a substantial
part of the property or assets of Holdings, the Borrower or any of the
Subsidiaries, (iv) file an answer admitting the material allegations of
a petition filed against it in any such proceeding, (v) make a general
assignment for the benefit of creditors or (vi) become unable, admit in
writing its inability or fail generally to pay its debts as they become
due;
(j) the failure by Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary to pay
one or more final judgments aggregating in excess of $20,000,000 (to
the extent not covered by independent third party insurance as to which
the insurer acknowledges coverage), which judgments are not discharged
or effectively waived or stayed for a period of 30 consecutive days, or
any action shall be legally taken by a judgment creditor to levy upon
assets or properties of Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary to
enforce any such judgment;
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(k) (i) a Reportable Event or Reportable Events shall have
occurred with respect to any Plan or a trustee shall be appointed by a
United States district court to administer any Plan, (ii) the PBGC
shall institute proceedings (including giving notice of intent thereof)
to terminate any Plan or Plans, (iii) the Borrower, any Subsidiary or
any ERISA Affiliate shall have been notified by the sponsor of a
Multiemployer Plan that it has incurred or will be assessed Withdrawal
Liability to such Multiemployer Plan and such person does not have
reasonable grounds for contesting such Withdrawal Liability or is not
contesting such Withdrawal Liability in a timely and appropriate
manner, (iv) the Borrower, any Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate shall
have been notified by the sponsor of a Multiemployer Plan that such
Multiemployer Plan is in reorganization or is being terminated, within
the meaning of Title IV of ERISA, (v) the Borrower, any Subsidiary or
any ERISA Affiliate shall engage in any "prohibited transaction" (as
defined in Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code) involving
any Plan or (vi) any other similar event or condition shall occur or
exist with respect to a Plan; and in each case in clauses (i) through
(vi) above, such event or condition, together with all other such
events or conditions, if any, could reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect;
(l) (i) any Loan Document shall for any reason be asserted by
Holdings, the Borrower or any of the Subsidiaries not to be a legal,
valid and binding obligation of any party thereto, (ii) any security
interest purported to be created by any Collateral Document and to
extend to (x) Equity Interests in the Borrower or (y) other assets that
are not immaterial to the Borrower and the Subsidiaries on a
consolidated basis shall cease to be, or shall be asserted by the
Borrower or any other Loan Party not to be, a valid and perfected
security interest (having the priority required by this Agreement or
the relevant Collateral Document) in the securities, assets or
properties covered thereby, except to the extent that any such loss of
perfection or priority results from the failure of the Collateral Agent
to maintain possession of certificates actually delivered to it
representing securities pledged under the Collateral Documents or to
file Uniform Commercial Code continuation statements and except to the
extent that such loss is covered by a lender's title insurance policy
and the Administrative Agent shall be reasonably satisfied with the
credit of such insurer, or (iii) the Guarantees pursuant to the
Collateral Documents by the Subsidiary Loan Parties of any of the
Obligations shall cease to be in full force and effect (other than in
accordance with the terms thereof), or shall be asserted by the
Borrower or any Subsidiary Loan Party not to be in effect or not to be
legal, valid and binding obligations;
then, and in every such event (other than an event with respect to the Borrower
described in paragraph (h) or (i) above), and at any time thereafter during the
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continuance of such event, the Administrative Agent, at the request of the
Required Lenders, shall, by notice to the Borrower, take any or all of the
following actions, at the same or different times: (i) terminate forthwith the
Commitments, (ii) declare the Loans then outstanding to be forthwith due and
payable in whole or in part, whereupon the principal of the Loans so declared to
be due and payable, together with accrued interest thereon and any unpaid
accrued Fees and all other liabilities of the Borrower accrued hereunder and
under any other Loan Document, shall become forthwith due and payable, without
presentment, demand, protest or any other notice of any kind, all of which are
hereby expressly waived by the Borrower, anything contained herein or in any
other Loan Document to the contrary notwithstanding and (iii) demand cash
collateral pursuant to Section 2.05(j); and in any event with respect to the
Borrower described in paragraph (h) or (i) above, the Commitments shall
automatically terminate, the principal of the Loans then outstanding, together
with accrued interest thereon and any unpaid accrued Fees and all other
liabilities of the Borrower accrued hereunder and under any other Loan Document,
shall automatically become due and payable and the Administrative Agent shall be
deemed to have made a demand for cash collateral to the full extent permitted
under Section 2.05(j), without presentment, demand, protest or any other notice
of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived by the Borrower, anything
contained herein or in any other Loan Document to the contrary notwithstanding.
Section 7.02. Immaterial Subsidiaries. Solely for the purposes of
determining whether a Default or Event of Default has occurred under clause(h),
(i) or (j) of Section 7.01, any reference in any such clause to any Subsidiary
shall be deemed not to include any Subsidiary affected by any event or
circumstance referred to in any such clause that did not, as of the last day of
the fiscal quarter of the Borrower most recently ended, have assets with a value
in excess of 3.0% of the Consolidated Total Assets, provided that if it is
necessary to exclude more than one Subsidiary from clause(h), (i) or (j) of
Section 7.01 pursuant to this Section 7.02 in order to avoid a Default or an
Event of Default thereunder, all excluded Subsidiaries shall be considered to be
a single consolidated Subsidiary for purposes of determining whether the
condition specified above is satisfied.Section 7.03. Borrower's Right to Cure.
(a) Financial Performance Covenants. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
contained in Section 7.01, in the event that the Borrower fails to comply with
the requirements of any Financial Performance Covenant, until the expiration of
the 10th Business Day subsequent to the date the certificate calculating such
Financial Performance Covenant is required to be delivered pursuant to Section
5.04(c), the Borrower shall have the right to issue Permitted Cure Securities
for cash or otherwise receive cash contributions to the capital of the Borrower
(collectively, the "Cure Right"), and upon the receipt by Borrower of such cash
(the "Cure Amount") pursuant to the exercise of such Cure Right such Financial
Performance Covenant shall be recalculated giving effect to the following pro
forma adjustments:
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(i) EBITDA shall be increased, solely for the purpose of
determining the existence of a Default or Event of Default under the
Financial Performance Covenants and for purposes of calculating Excess
Cash Flow and not for any other purpose under this Agreement, by an
amount equal to the Cure Amount; and
(ii) If, after giving effect to the foregoing recalculations, the
Borrower shall then be in compliance with the requirements of all
Financial Performance Covenants, the Borrower shall be deemed to have
satisfied the requirements of the Financial Performance Covenants as of
the relevant date of determination with the same effect as though there
had been no failure to comply therewith at such date, and the
applicable breach or default of the Financial Performance Covenants
that had occurred shall be deemed cured for this purposes of the
Agreement.
(b) Limitation on Exercise of Cure Right. Notwithstanding anything
herein to the contrary, (i) in each four-fiscal-quarter period there
shall be at least two fiscal quarters in which the Cure Right is not
exercised, (ii) in each eight-fiscal-quarter period, there shall be a
period of at least four consecutive fiscal quarters during which the
Cure Right is not exercised and (iii) the Cure Amount shall be no
greater than the amount required for purposes of complying with the
Financial Performance Covenants for the most recently completed four
fiscal-quarter period of the Borrower for which financial statements
have been delivered pursuant to Section 5.04.
ARTICLE VIII
The Agents
Section 8.01. Authorization. (a) Each of the Lenders hereby
irrevocably authorizes the Agents to take such actions on behalf of such Lender
and to exercise such powers as are specifically delegated to the Agents by the
terms and provisions hereof and of the other Loan Documents, together with such
actions and powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. The Administrative
Agent is hereby expressly authorized by the Lenders and each Issuing Bank,
without hereby limiting any implied authority, (a) to receive on behalf of the
Lenders and such Issuing Bank all payments of principal of and interest on the
Loans, all payments in respect of L/C Disbursements and all other amounts due to
the Lenders and such Issuing Bank hereunder, and promptly to distribute to each
Lender or such Issuing Bank its proper share of each payment so received; (b) to
give notice on behalf of each of the Lenders of any Event of Default specified
in this Agreement of which the Administrative Agent has actual knowledge
acquired in connection with the performance of its duties as Administrative
Agent hereunder; and (c) to distribute to each Lender copies of all notices,
financial
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statements and other materials delivered by the Borrower pursuant to this
Agreement as received by the Administrative Agent. Without limiting the
generality of the foregoing, the Agents are hereby expressly authorized to
execute any and all documents (including releases) with respect to the
Collateral and the rights of the Secured Parties with respect thereto, as
contemplated by and in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement and the
Collateral Documents. In the event that any party other than the Lenders and the
Agents shall participate in all or any portion of the Collateral pursuant to the
Collateral Documents, all rights and remedies in respect of such Collateral
shall be controlled by the Collateral Agent.
(b) Neither the Agents nor any of their respective directors,
officers, employees or agents shall be liable as such for any action
taken or omitted by any of them except for its or his own gross
negligence or wilful misconduct, or be responsible for any statement,
warranty or representation herein or the contents of any document
delivered in connection herewith, or be required to ascertain or to
make any inquiry concerning the performance or observance by the
Borrower or any other Loan Party of any of the terms, conditions,
covenants or agreements contained in any Loan Document. The Agents
shall not be responsible to the Lenders for the due execution,
genuineness, validity, enforceability or effectiveness of this
Agreement or any other Loan Documents or other instruments or
agreements. The Agents shall in all cases be fully protected in acting,
or refraining from acting, in accordance with written instructions
signed by the Required Lenders and, except as otherwise specifically
provided herein, such instructions and any action or inaction pursuant
thereto shall be binding on all the Lenders. Each Agent shall, in the
absence of knowledge to the contrary, be entitled to rely on any
instrument or document believed by it in good faith to be genuine and
correct and to have been signed or sent by the proper person or
persons. Neither the Agents nor any of their respective directors,
officers, employees or agents shall have any responsibility to the
Borrower or any other Loan Party or any other party hereto on account
of the failure, delay in performance or breach by, or as a result of
information provided by, any Lender or Issuing Bank of any of its
obligations hereunder or to any Lender or Issuing Bank on account of
the failure of or delay in performance or breach by any other Lender or
Issuing Bank or the Borrower or any other Loan Party of any of their
respective obligations hereunder or under any other Loan Document or in
connection herewith or therewith. Each Agent may execute any and all
duties hereunder by or through agents or employees and shall be
entitled to rely upon the advice of legal counsel selected by it with
respect to all matters arising hereunder and shall not be liable for
any action taken or suffered in good faith by it in accordance with the
advice of such counsel.
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Section 8.02. Nature of Duties. The Lenders hereby acknowledge
that no Agent shall be under any duty to take any discretionary action permitted
to be taken by it pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement unless it shall
be requested in writing to do so by the Required Lenders. The Lenders further
acknowledge and agree that so long as an Agent shall make any determination to
be made by it hereunder or under any other Loan Document in good faith, such
Agent shall have no liability in respect of such determination to any person.
Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary elsewhere in this Agreement, the
Administrative Agent shall not have any duties or responsibilities, except those
expressly set forth herein, or any fiduciary relationship with any Lender, and
no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties, obligations or
liabilities shall be read into the Loan Documents or otherwise exist against the
Administrative Agent. Each Lender recognizes and agrees that the Syndication
Agent shall have no duties or responsibilities under this Agreement or any other
Loan Document, or any fiduciary relationship with any Lender, and shall have no
functions, responsibilities, duties, obligations or liabilities for acting as
the Syndication Agent hereunder.
Section 8.03. Resignation by the Agents. Subject to the
appointment and acceptance of a successor Agent as provided below, any Agent may
resign at any time by notifying the Lenders and the Borrower. Upon any such
resignation, the Required Lenders shall have the right to appoint a successor
with the consent of the Borrower (not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed).
If no successor shall have been so appointed by the Required Lenders and
approved by the Borrower and shall have accepted such appointment within 45 days
after the retiring Agent gives notice of its resignation, then the retiring
Agent may, on behalf of the Lenders with the consent of the Borrower (not to be
unreasonably withheld or delayed), appoint a successor Agent which shall be a
bank with an office in New York, New York (or a bank having an Affiliate with
such an office) having a combined capital and surplus that is not less than
$500,000,000 or an Affiliate of any such bank. Upon the acceptance of any
appointment as Agent hereunder by a successor bank, such successor shall succeed
to and become vested with all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the
retiring Agent and the retiring Agent shall be discharged from its duties and
obligations hereunder. After the Agent's resignation hereunder, the provisions
of this Article and Section 9.05 shall continue in effect for its benefit in
respect of any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was acting as
Agent.
Section 8.04. Each Agent in its Individual Capacity. Each Agent in
its individual capacity and not as Agent shall have the same rights and powers
as any other Lender or Issuing Bank and may exercise the same as though it were
not an Agent, and the Agents and their Affiliates may accept deposits from, lend
money to and generally engage in any kind of business with the Borrower or any
of the Subsidiaries or other Affiliates thereof as if it were not an Agent.
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Section 8.05. Indemnification. Each Lender severally agrees (a) to
reimburse the Agents, on demand, in the amount of its pro rata share determined
at the time indemnification is sought hereunder (based on its Commitments
hereunder (or if such Commitments shall have expired or been terminated, in
accordance with the respective principal amounts of its applicable outstanding
Loans or participations in L/C Disbursements and Swingline Loans, as
applicable)) of any reasonable expenses incurred for the benefit of the Lenders
by the Agents, including counsel fees and compensation of agents and employees
paid for services rendered on behalf of the Lenders, which shall not have been
reimbursed by the Borrower and (b) to indemnify and hold harmless each Agent and
any of its directors, officers, employees or agents, on demand, in the amount of
such pro rata share determined at the time indemnification is sought hereunder,
from and against any and all liabilities, Taxes, obligations, losses, damages,
penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any
kind or nature whatsoever that may be imposed on, incurred by or asserted
against it in its capacity as Agent or any of them in any way relating to or
arising out of this Agreement or any other Loan Document or any action taken or
omitted by it or any of them under this Agreement or any other Loan Document, to
the extent the same shall not have been reimbursed by the Borrower, provided
that no Lender shall be liable to an Agent for any portion of such liabilities,
obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs,
expenses or disbursements resulting from the gross negligence or wilful
misconduct of such Agent or any of its directors, officers, employees or agents.
Section 8.06. Lack of Reliance on Agents. Each Lender acknowledges
that it has, independently and without reliance upon the Agents or any Lender
and based on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made
its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Agreement. Each Lender
also acknowledges that it will, independently and without reliance upon the
Agents, any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall
from time to time deem appropriate, continue to make its own decisions in taking
or not taking action under or based upon this Agreement or any other Loan
Document, any related agreement or any document furnished hereunder or
thereunder.
Section 8.07. Syndication Agent. The Syndication Agent, in such
capacity, shall have no duties or responsibilities whatsoever under the Loan
Documents.
ARTICLE IX
Miscellaneous
Section 9.01. Notices. (a) Notices and other communications
provided for herein shall be in writing and shall be delivered by hand or
overnight
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courier service, mailed by certified or registered mail or sent by telecopy, as
follows:
(i) if to the Borrower, to it at the address or telecopy number
set forth on the signature pages hereof;
(ii) if to the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent, to it
at the address or telecopy number set forth on the signature pages
hereof, and
(iii) if to an Issuing Bank other than the Administrative Agent,
to it at the address or telecopy number set forth separately in
writing.
(b) Notices and other communications to the Lenders hereunder may
be delivered or furnished by electronic communications pursuant to
procedures approved by the Administrative Agent, provided that the
foregoing shall not apply to notices pursuant to Article II unless
otherwise agreed by the Administrative Agent and the applicable Lender.
Each of the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and the Borrower
may, in its discretion, agree to accept notices and other
communications to it hereunder by electronic communications pursuant to
procedures approved by it; provided, further, that approval of such
procedures may be limited to particular notices or communications.
(c) All notices and other communications given to any party hereto
in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement shall be deemed to
have been given on the date of receipt if delivered by hand or
overnight courier service, sent by telecopy or (to the extent permitted
by paragraph (b) above) electronic means or on the date five Business
Days after dispatch by certified or registered mail if mailed, in each
case delivered, sent or mailed (properly addressed) to such party as
provided in this Section 9.01 or in accordance with the latest
unrevoked direction from such party given in accordance with this
Section 9.01.
(d) Any party hereto may change its address or telecopy number for
notices and other communications hereunder by notice to the other
parties hereto.
(e) Each Lender hereby notifies the Borrower that pursuant to the
requirements of the USA Patriot Act, such Lender is required to obtain,
verify and record information that identifies the Borrower, which
information includes the name and address of the Borrower and other
information that will allow such Lender to identify the Borrower in
accordance with the USA Patriot Act.
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Section 9.02. Survival of Agreement. All covenants, agreements,
representations and warranties made by the Borrower and the other Loan Parties
herein, in the other Loan Documents and in the certificates or other instruments
prepared or delivered in connection with or pursuant to this Agreement or any
other Loan Document shall be considered to have been relied upon by the Lenders
and each Issuing Bank and shall survive the making by the Lenders of the Loans,
the execution and delivery of the Loan Documents and the issuance of the Letters
of Credit, regardless of any investigation made by such persons or on their
behalf, and shall continue in full force and effect as long as the principal of
or any accrued interest on any Loan or L/C Disbursement or any Fee or any other
amount payable under this Agreement or any other Loan Document is outstanding
and unpaid or any Letter of Credit is outstanding and so long as the Commitments
have not been terminated. Without prejudice to the survival of any other
agreements contained herein, indemnification and reimbursement obligations
contained herein (including pursuant to Sections 2.13(c), 2.15, 2.17 and 9.05)
shall survive the payment in full of the principal and interest hereunder, the
expiration of the Letters of Credit and the termination of the Commitments or
this Agreement.
Section 9.03. Binding Effect. This Agreement shall become
effective when it shall have been executed by the Borrower and the Agents and
when the Administrative Agent shall have received copies hereof that, when taken
together, bear the signatures of each of the other parties hereto, and
thereafter shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the Borrower, each
Issuing Bank, the Agents and each Lender and their respective permitted
successors and assigns.
Section 9.04. Successors and Assigns. (a) The provisions of this
Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto
and their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby (including any
Affiliate of any Issuing Bank that issues any Letter of Credit), except that
other than pursuant to a merger permitted by Section 6.05(b), the Borrower may
not assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder
without the prior written consent of each Lender (and any attempted assignment
or transfer by the Borrower without such consent shall be null and void) and
(ii) no Lender may assign or otherwise transfer its rights or obligations
hereunder except in accordance with this Section. Nothing in this Agreement,
expressed or implied, shall be construed to confer upon any person (other than
the parties hereto, their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby
(including any Affiliate of any Issuing Bank that issues any Letter of Credit),
Participants (to the extent provided in paragraph (c) of this Section) and, to
the extent expressly contemplated hereby, the Related Parties of each of the
Agents, each Issuing Bank and the Lenders) any legal or equitable right, remedy
or claim under or by reason of this Agreement.
(b) (i) Subject to the conditions set forth in paragraph (b)(ii)
below, any Lender may assign to one or more assignees all or a portion
of its
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rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion
of its Commitment and the Loans at the time owing to it) with the prior
written consent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or
delayed) of:
(A) the Borrower, provided that no consent of the Borrower shall
be required for an assignment to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender, an
Approved Fund or, if an Event of Default pursuant to Section 7.01(b),
(c), (h) or (i) has occurred and is continuing, any other assignee
(provided that any liability of the Borrower to an assignee that is an
Approved Fund or Affiliate of the assigning Lender under Section 2.15
or 2.17 shall be limited to the amount, if any, that would have been
payable thereunder by the Borrower in the absence of such assignment);
(B) the Administrative Agent, provided that no consent of the
Administrative Agent shall be required for an assignment of a Term Loan
to an assignee that is a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or Approved
Fund immediately prior to giving effect to such assignment; and
(C) in the case of the assignment of a Revolving Commitment or
Revolving Loan, each Issuing Bank.
(ii) Assignments shall be subject to the following additional
conditions:
(A) except in the case of an assignment to a Lender, an Affiliate
of a Lender or an Approved Fund or an assignment of the entire
remaining amount of the assigning Lender's Commitment, the amount of
the Commitment of the assigning Lender subject to each such assignment
(determined as of the date the Assignment and Acceptance with respect
to such assignment is delivered to the Administrative Agent) shall not
be less than (x) $5,000,000, in the case of Revolving Facility
Commitments (and, except for an assignment of the entire amount of the
assigning Lender's Revolving Facility Commitment, such assigning Lender
shall retain a Revolving Facility Commitment of at least $5,000,000)
and (y) $1,000,000, in the case of Term Loans (and except for an
assignment of the entire amount of the Term Loan of the assigning
Lender, such assigning Lender shall retain Term Loans of at least
$1,000,000), unless each of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent
otherwise consent, provided that no such consent of the Borrower shall
be required if an Event of Default under paragraph (b), (c), (h) or (i)
of Section 7.01 has occurred and is continuing; and provided further
that concurrent assignments of Term Loans to members of an Assignee
Group will be treated as a single assignment for purposes of
determining whether the above minimum amount has been met;
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(B) each partial assignment shall be made as an assignment of a
proportionate part of all the assigning Lender's rights and obligations
under this Agreement, except that this clause (B) shall not be
construed to prohibit the assignment of a proportionate part of all the
assigning Lender's rights and obligations in respect of a single
Facility;
(C) the parties to each assignment shall execute and deliver to
the Administrative Agent an Assignment and Acceptance, together with a
processing and recordation fee of $3,500, provided that only one such
fee shall be payable in the event of simultaneous assignments to or
from two or more Approved Funds with respect to the same Lender;
(D) the assignee, if it shall not be a Lender, shall deliver to
the Administrative Agent an Administrative Questionnaire; and
(E) in the case of an assignment by a Lender to a CLO (as defined
below) managed or administered by such Lender or by an Affiliate of
such Lender, the assigning Lender shall retain the sole right to
approve any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of this
Agreement, provided that the Assignment and Assumption between such
Lender and such CLO may provide that such Lender will not, without the
consent of such CLO, agree to any amendment, modification or waiver
described in the first proviso to Section 9.09(b) that affects such
CLO.
For purposes of this Section 9.04(b), the terms "Approved Fund" and "CLO" have
the following meanings:
"Approved Fund" shall mean (a) with respect to any Lender a CLO managed by such
Lender or by an Affiliate of such Lender and (b) any other fund that invests in
bank loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course and is
managed by a Lender, by an Affiliate of a Lender or by an entity or an Affiliate
of an entity that manages a Lender.
"CLO" means any entity (whether a corporation, partnership, trust or otherwise)
that is engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in bank
loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course and is managed by
a Lender or an Affiliate of such Lender.
(iii) Subject to acceptance and recording thereof pursuant to
paragraph (b)(iv) of this Section, from and after the effective date
specified in each Assignment and Acceptance the assignee thereunder
shall be a party hereto and, to the extent of the interest assigned by
such Assignment and Acceptance, have the rights and obligations of a
Lender under this Agreement, and the assigning Lender thereunder shall,
to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and
Acceptance, be
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released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of
an Assignment and Acceptance covering all of the assigning Lender's
rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to
be a party hereto but shall continue to be entitled to the benefits of
Sections 2.15, 2.16, 2.17 and 9.05). Any assignment or transfer by a
Lender of rights or obligations under this Agreement that does not
comply with this Section 9.04 shall be treated for purposes of this
Agreement as a sale by such Lender of a participation in such rights
and obligations in accordance with paragraph (c) of this Section.
(iv) The Administrative Agent, acting for this purpose as an agent
of the Borrower, shall maintain at one of its offices a copy of each
Assignment and Acceptance delivered to it and a register for the
recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders, and the
Commitment of, and principal amount of the Loans and L/C Disbursements
owing to, each Lender pursuant to the terms hereof from time to time
(the "Register"). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive, and
the Borrower, the Agents, each Issuing Bank and the Lenders may treat
each person whose name is recorded in the Register pursuant to the
terms hereof as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement,
notwithstanding notice to the contrary. The Register shall be available
for inspection by the Borrower, any Issuing Bank and any Lender, at any
reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice.
(v) Upon its receipt of a duly completed Assignment and Acceptance
executed by an assigning Lender and an assignee, the assignee's
completed Administrative Questionnaire (unless the assignee shall
already be a Lender hereunder), the processing and recordation fee
referred to in paragraph (b) of this Section and any written consent to
such assignment required by paragraph (b) of this Section, the
Administrative Agent shall accept such Assignment and Acceptance and
record the information contained therein in the Register. No assignment
shall be effective for purposes of this Agreement unless it has been
recorded in the Register as provided in this paragraph.
(c) (i)Any Lender may, without the consent of the Borrower, the
Administrative Agent, any Issuing Bank or any Swingline Lender, sell
participations to one or more banks or other entities (a "Participant")
in all or a portion of such Lender's rights and obligations under this
Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitment and the Loans
owing to it), provided that (A) such Lender's obligations under this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall remain unchanged, (B) such
Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for
the performance of such obligations and (C) the Borrower, the Agents,
each Issuing Bank and
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the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such
Lender in connection with such Lender's rights and obligations under
this Agreement and the other Loan Documents. Any agreement or
instrument pursuant to which a Lender sells such a participation shall
provide that such Lender shall retain the sole right to enforce this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents and to approve any amendment,
modification or waiver of any provision of this Agreement and the other
Loan Documents, provided that such agreement or instrument may provide
that such Lender will not, without the consent of the Participant,
agree to any amendment, modification or waiver described in Section
9.04(a)(i) or clauses (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v) or (vi) of the first
proviso to Section 9.09(b) that affects such Participant. Subject to
paragraph (c)(ii) of this Section, the Borrower agrees that each
Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 2.15, 2.16
and 2.17 to the same extent as if it were a Lender and had acquired its
interest by assignment pursuant to paragraph (b) of this Section. To
the extent permitted by law, each Participant also shall be entitled to
the benefits of Section 9.06 as though it were a Lender, provided such
Participant agrees to be subject to Section 2.18(c) as though it were a
Lender.
(ii) A Participant shall not be entitled to receive any greater
payment under Section 2.15, 2.16 or 2.17 than the applicable Lender
would have been entitled to receive with respect to the participation
sold to such Participant, unless the sale of the participation to such
Participant is made with the Borrower's prior written consent. A
Participant that would be a Foreign Lender if it were a Lender shall
not be entitled to the benefits of Section 2.17 unless the Borrower is
notified of the participation sold to such Participant and such
Participant agrees, for the benefit of the Borrower, to comply with
Section 2.17(e) as though it were a Lender.
(d) Any Lender may, without the consent of the Administrative
Agent or the Borrower, at any time pledge or assign a security interest
in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement to secure
obligations of such Lender, including any pledge or assignment to
secure obligations to a Federal Reserve Bank, and this Section shall
not apply to any such pledge or assignment of a security interest,
provided that no such pledge or assignment of a security interest shall
release a Lender from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute
any such pledgee or assignee for such Lender as a party hereto.
Section 9.05. Expenses; Indemnity. (a) The Borrower agrees to pay
all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses (including documentary Taxes) incurred by
the Agents in connection with the preparation of this Agreement and the other
Loan Documents, or by the Agents in connection with the syndication of the
Commitments or the administration of this Agreement (including the
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reasonable fees, disbursements and the charges for no more than one counsel in
each jurisdiction where Collateral is located) or in connection with any
amendments, modifications or waivers of the provisions hereof or thereof
(whether or not the transactions hereby contemplated shall be consummated) or
incurred by the Agents or any Lender in connection with the enforcement or
protection of their rights in connection with this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents, in connection with the Loans made or the Letters of Credit issued
hereunder, including the reasonable fees, charges and disbursements of ▇▇▇▇▇
▇▇▇▇ & ▇▇▇▇▇▇▇▇, counsel for the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent,
and, in connection with any such enforcement or protection, the reasonable fees,
charges and disbursements of any other counsel (including the reasonable
allocated costs of internal counsel if a Lender elects to use internal counsel
in lieu of outside counsel) for the Agents, any Issuing Bank or any Lender (but
no more than one such counsel for any Lender); provided that it is understood
that the Borrower shall not, in respect of the legal expenses of the Lenders in
connection with any proceeding or related proceedings in the same jurisdiction,
be liable for the fees and expenses of more than one law firm (in addition to
any local counsel) for all Lenders designated by the Administrative Agent and
that all such fees and expenses shall be reimbursed as they are incurred.
(b) The Borrower agrees to indemnify the Agents, each Issuing
Bank, each Lender and each of their respective directors, trustees,
officers, employees, agents, affiliates and controlling persons (each
such person being called an "Indemnitee") against, and to hold each
Indemnitee harmless from, any and all losses, obligations, penalties,
actions, judgments, suits, costs, claims, damages, liabilities and
related expenses, including reasonable counsel fees, charges and
disbursements, incurred by or asserted against any Indemnitee arising
out of, in any way connected with, or as a result of (i) the execution
or delivery of this Agreement or any other Loan Document or any
agreement or instrument contemplated hereby or thereby, the performance
by the parties hereto and thereto of their respective obligations
thereunder or the consummation of the Transactions and the other
transactions contemplated hereby, (ii) the use of the proceeds of the
Loans or the use of any Letter of Credit or (iii) any claim,
litigation, investigation or proceeding relating to any of the
foregoing, whether or not any Indemnitee is a party thereto, provided
that such indemnity shall not, as to any Indemnitee, be available to
the extent that such losses, obligations, penalties, actions,
judgments, suits, costs, claims, damages, liabilities or related
expenses result primarily from the gross negligence or wilful
misconduct of such Indemnitee (treating, for the purpose set forth in
this clause (iii) only, (x) any Agent and its Related Parties as a
single Indemnitee, (y) any Issuing Bank and its Related Parties as a
single Indemnitee and (z) any Lender and its Related Parties as a
single Indemnitee). Subject to and without limiting the generality of
the
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foregoing sentence, the Borrower agrees to indemnify each Indemnitee
against, and hold each Indemnitee harmless from, any and all losses,
obligations, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, claims,
damages, liabilities and related expenses, including reasonable counsel
or consultant fees, charges and disbursements, incurred by or asserted
against any Indemnitee arising out of, in any way connected with, or as
a result of (A) any Environmental Liability related in any way to the
Borrower or any of the Subsidiaries, or (B) any actual or alleged
presence, Release or threatened Release of Hazardous Materials on any
property currently or formerly owned, leased or operated by any
predecessor of the Borrower or any of the Subsidiaries, provided that
such indemnity shall not, as to any Indemnitee, be available to the
extent that such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or related
expenses are determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by final
and nonappealable judgment to have resulted from the gross negligence
or wilful misconduct of such Indemnitee or any of its Related Parties.
The provisions of this Section 9.05 shall remain operative and in full
force and effect regardless of the expiration of the term of this
Agreement, the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby,
the repayment of any of the Obligations, the invalidity or
unenforceability of any term or provision of this Agreement or any
other Loan Document, or any investigation made by or on behalf of any
Agent, any Issuing Bank or any Lender. All amounts due under this
Section 9.05 shall be payable on written demand therefor.
(c) Unless an Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing, the Borrower shall be entitled to assume the defense of any
action for which indemnification is sought hereunder with counsel of
its choice at its expense (in which case the Borrower shall not
thereafter be responsible for the fees and expenses of any separate
counsel retained by an Indemnitee except as set forth below); provided,
however, that such counsel shall be reasonably satisfactory to each
such Indemnitee. Notwithstanding the Borrower's election to assume the
defense of such action, each Indemnitee shall have the right to employ
separate counsel and to participate in the defense of such action, and
the Borrower shall bear the reasonable fees, costs and expenses of such
separate counsel, if (i) the use of counsel chosen by the Borrower to
represent such Indemnitee would present such counsel with a conflict of
interest; (ii) the actual or potential defendants in, or targets of,
any such action include both the Borrower and such Indemnitee and such
Indemnitee shall have reasonably concluded that there may be legal
defenses available to it that are different from or additional to those
available to the Borrower (in which case the Borrower shall not have
the right to assume the defense of such action on behalf of such
Indemnitee); (iii) the Borrower shall not have employed counsel
reasonably satisfactory to such Indemnitee to represent it within a
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reasonable time after notice of the institution of such action; or (iv)
the Borrower shall authorize in writing such Indemnitee to employ
separate counsel at the Borrower's expense; provided further that the
Borrower shall not enter into any settlement on behalf of any
Indemnitee without the prior written consent of such Indemnitee (which
consent shall not be unreasonably withheld; provided, that the Borrower
acknowledges and agrees that it shall be reasonable for any Indemnitee
to withhold its consent to the entry of any settlement against such
Indemnitee that (i) by its terms or effect is contrary to such
Indemnitee's internal policies and procedures, or (ii) includes an
admission or acknowledgment of any liability or responsibility
whatsoever on the part of such Indemnitee, or any of its directors,
trustees, officers, employees, agents, affiliates and controlling
persons).
(d) The Borrower will not be liable under this Agreement for any
amount paid by an Indemnitee to settle any claims or actions if the
settlement is entered into without the Borrower's consent, which
consent may not be withheld or delayed unless such settlement is
unreasonable in light of such claims or actions against, and defenses
available to, such Indemnitee.
(e) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 9.05,
this Section 9.05 shall not apply to Taxes, it being understood that
the Borrower's only obligations with respect to Taxes shall arise under
Sections 2.15 and 2.17.
Section 9.06. Right of Set-off. If an Event of Default shall have
occurred and be continuing, each Lender and each Issuing Bank is hereby
authorized at any time and from time to time, to the fullest extent permitted by
law, to set off and apply any and all deposits (general or special, time or
demand, provisional or final) at any time held and other indebtedness at any
time owing by such Lender or such Issuing Bank to or for the credit or the
account of the Borrower or any Subsidiary against any of and all the obligations
of the Borrower now or hereafter existing under this Agreement or any other Loan
Document held by such Lender or such Issuing Bank, irrespective of whether or
not such Lender or such Issuing Bank shall have made any demand under this
Agreement or such other Loan Document and although the obligations may be
unmatured. The rights of each Lender and each Issuing Bank under this Section
9.06 are in addition to other rights and remedies (including other rights of
set-off) that such Lender or such Issuing Bank may have.
Section 9.07. [Reserved].
Section 9.08. Applicable Law. THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN
DOCUMENTS (OTHER THAN LETTERS OF CREDIT AND
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AS EXPRESSLY SET FORTH IN OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS) SHALL BE CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE
WITH AND GOVERNED BY THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
Section 9.09. Waivers; Amendment. (a) No failure or delay of the
Agents, any Issuing Bank or any Lender in exercising any right or power
hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall operate as a waiver thereof,
nor shall any single or partial exercise of any such right or power, or any
abandonment or discontinuance of steps to enforce such a right or power,
preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other
right or power. The rights and remedies of the Agents, each Issuing Bank and the
Lenders hereunder and under the other Loan Documents are cumulative and are not
exclusive of any rights or remedies that they would otherwise have. No waiver of
any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document or consent to any
departure by the Borrower or any other Loan Party therefrom shall in any event
be effective unless the same shall be permitted by paragraph (b) below, and then
such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for
the purpose for which given. No notice or demand on the Borrower or any other
Loan Party in any case shall entitle such person to any other or further notice
or demand in similar or other circumstances.
(b) Except as provided in Section 2.20 with respect to an
Incremental Amendment, neither this Agreement nor any other Loan
Document nor any provision hereof or thereof may be waived, amended or
modified except (x) in the case of this Agreement, pursuant to an
agreement or agreements in writing entered into by the Borrower and the
Required Lenders, and (y) in the case of any other Loan Document,
pursuant to an agreement or agreements in writing entered into by each
party thereto and consented to by the Required Lenders; provided,
however, that no such agreement shall (i) decrease or forgive the
principal amount of, or extend the final maturity of, or decrease the
rate of interest on, any Loan or any L/C Disbursement, without the
prior written consent of each Lender directly affected thereby;
provided, that any amendment to the financial covenant definitions in
this Agreement shall not constitute a reduction in the rate of interest
for purposes of this clause (i), (ii) increase or extend the Commitment
of any Lender or decrease or extend the date for payment of the
Commitment Fees or L/C Participation Fees or other fees of any Lender
without the prior written consent of such Lender (it being understood
that waivers or modifications of conditions precedent, covenants,
Defaults or Events of Default or of a mandatory reduction in the
aggregate Commitments shall not constitute an increase of the
Commitments of any Lender), (iii) extend or waive the Revolving
Maturity Date, the Term Loan Maturity Date or any Term Loan Installment
Date (but excluding the Early Maturity Date) or extend any date on
which payment of interest on any Loan or any L/C Disbursement
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is due, without the prior written consent of each Lender adversely
affected thereby, (iv) amend or modify the provisions of Section
2.18(b) or (c) in a manner that would by its terms alter the pro rata
sharing of payments required thereby, or the last sentence of Section
2.08(c) in a manner that would alter the pro rata sharing of commitment
reductions required thereby, in each case, without the prior written
consent of each Lender adversely affected thereby, (v) amend or modify
the provisions of this Section or the definition of "Required Lenders",
"Majority Lenders" or any other provision hereof specifying the number
or percentage of Lenders required to waive, amend or modify any rights
hereunder or make any determination or grant any consent hereunder,
without the prior written consent of each Lender adversely affected
thereby (it being understood that, with the consent of the Required
Lenders, additional extensions of credit pursuant to this Agreement may
be included in the determination of the Required Lenders on
substantially the same basis as the Loans and Commitments are included
on the Restatement Date), (vi) release all or substantially all the
Collateral or release any material Subsidiary Loan Party from its
Guarantee under the Subsidiary Guaranty and Security Agreement unless,
in the case of a Subsidiary Loan Party, all or substantially all the
Equity Interests of such Subsidiary Loan Party is sold or otherwise
disposed of in a transaction permitted by this Agreement, without the
prior written consent of each Lender adversely affected thereby, (vii)
effect any waiver, amendment or modification that by its terms
adversely affects the rights of Lenders participating in any Facility
in respect of payments or collateral differently from the rights of
Lenders participating in other Facilities in respect of payments or
collateral, without the consent of the Majority Lenders participating
in the adversely affected Facility (it being agreed that the Required
Lenders may waive, in whole or in part, any prepayment or Commitment
reduction required by Section 2.11 so long as the application of any
prepayment or Commitment reduction still required to be made is not
changed in a manner that is subject to this clause (vii)) or (viii)
change the relative rights in respect of payments or collateral of the
Lenders participating in different Facilities without the consent of
the Majority Lenders participating in each adversely affected Facility;
provided, further, that no such agreement shall amend, modify or
otherwise affect the rights or duties of an Agent, an Issuing Bank or a
Swingline Lender hereunder without the prior written consent of such
Agent, Issuing Bank or Swingline Lender. Each Lender shall be bound by
any waiver, amendment or modification authorized by this Section 9.09
and any consent by any Lender pursuant to this Section 9.09 shall bind
any assignee of such Lender.
(c) Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Agreement and any other
Loan Document may be amended (or amended and restated) with the
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written consent of the Required Lenders, the Administrative Agent and
each Loan Party party to each relevant Loan Document (x) to add one or
more additional credit facilities to this Agreement and to permit the
extensions of credit from time to time outstanding thereunder and the
accrued interest and fees in respect thereof (collectively, the
"Additional Extensions of Credit") to share ratably in the benefits of
this Agreement and the other Loan Documents with the Term Loans,
Incremental Term Loans and Revolving Loans and the accrued interest and
fees in respect thereof, and any Additional Extensions of Credit that
do not constitute an increase in the Revolving Facility may share
ratably in the application of mandatory prepayments with other Term
Loans and Incremental Term Loans and with preference to Revolving Loans
and (y) to include appropriately the Lenders holding such credit
facilities in any determination of the Required Lenders, Majority
Lenders, Lenders and Revolving Facility Lenders.
Section 9.10. Interest Rate Limitation. Notwithstanding anything
herein to the contrary, if at any time the applicable interest rate, together
with all fees and charges that are treated as interest under applicable law
(collectively, the "Charges"), as provided for herein or in any other document
executed in connection herewith, or otherwise contracted for, charged, received,
taken or reserved by any Lender or any Issuing Bank, shall exceed the maximum
lawful rate (the "Maximum Rate") that may be contracted for, charged, taken,
received or reserved by such Lender in accordance with applicable law, the rate
of interest payable hereunder, together with all Charges payable to such Lender
or such Issuing Bank, shall be limited to the Maximum Rate, provided that such
excess amount shall be paid to such Lender or such Issuing Bank on subsequent
payment dates to the extent not exceeding the legal limitation.
Section 9.11. Entire Agreement. This Agreement, the other Loan
Documents and the agreements regarding certain Fees referred to herein
constitute the entire contract between the parties relative to the subject
matter hereof. Any previous agreement among or representations from the parties
with respect to the subject matter hereof is superseded by this Agreement and
the other Loan Documents. Nothing in this Agreement or in the other Loan
Documents, expressed or implied, is intended to confer upon any party other than
the parties hereto and thereto (and the Indemnitees) any rights, remedies,
obligations or liabilities under or by reason of this Agreement or the other
Loan Documents.
Section 9.12. WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY
WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE
TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN RESPECT OF ANY LITIGATION DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING
OUT OF, UNDER OR IN CONNECTION WITH THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OF THE OTHER LOAN
DOCUMENTS.
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EACH PARTY HERETO (A) CERTIFIES THAT NO REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY
OTHER PARTY HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PARTY WOULD
NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVER AND (B)
ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT AND THE OTHER PARTIES HERETO HAVE BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER
INTO THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS, AS APPLICABLE, BY, AMONG OTHER
THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION 9.12.
Section 9.13. Severability. In the event any one or more of the
provisions contained in this Agreement or in any other Loan Document should be
held invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, the validity, legality
and enforceability of the remaining provisions contained herein and therein
shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby. The parties shall endeavor
in good-faith negotiations to replace the invalid, illegal or unenforceable
provisions with valid provisions the economic effect of which comes as close as
possible to that of the invalid, illegal or unenforceable provisions.
Section 9.14. Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in two
or more counterpart (including facsimile counterparts and counterparts delivered
by other electronic means), each of which shall constitute an original but all
of which, when taken together, shall constitute but one contract, and shall
become effective as provided in Section 9.03.
Section 9.15. Headings. Article and Section headings and the Table
of Contents used herein are for convenience of reference only, are not part of
this Agreement and are not to affect the construction of, or to be taken into
consideration in interpreting, this Agreement.
Section 9.16. Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process. (a) The
Borrower hereby irrevocably and unconditionally submits, for itself and its
property, to the nonexclusive jurisdiction of any New York State court or
federal court of the United States of America sitting in New York City, and any
appellate court from any thereof, in any action or proceeding arising out of or
relating to this Agreement or the other Loan Documents, or for recognition or
enforcement of any judgment, and each of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably
and unconditionally agrees that all claims in respect of any such action or
proceeding may be heard and determined in such New York State court or, to the
extent permitted by law, in such federal court. Each of the parties hereto
agrees that a final judgment in any such action or proceeding shall be
conclusive and may be enforced in other jurisdictions by suit on the judgment or
in any other manner provided by law. Nothing in this Agreement shall affect any
right that any Lender or any Issuing Bank may otherwise have to bring any action
or proceeding
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relating to this Agreement or the other Loan Documents against the Borrower or
any other Loan Party or their properties in the courts of any jurisdiction.
(b) The Borrower hereby irrevocably and unconditionally waives, to
the fullest extent it may legally and effectively do so, any objection
that it may now or hereafter have to the laying of venue of any suit,
action or proceeding arising out of or relating to this Agreement or
the other Loan Documents in any New York State or federal court. Each
of the parties hereto hereby irrevocably waives, to the fullest extent
permitted by law, the defense of an inconvenient forum to the
maintenance of such action or proceeding in any such court.
Section 9.17. Confidentiality. Each of the Lenders, each Issuing
Bank and each of the Agents agrees that it shall maintain in confidence any
information relating to the Borrower and the other Loan Parties furnished to it
by or on behalf of the Borrower or the other Loan Parties (other than
information that (a) has become generally available to the public other than as
a result of a disclosure by such party, (b) has been independently developed by
such Lender, such Issuing Bank or such Agent without violating this Section 9.17
or (c) was available to such Lender, such Issuing Bank or such Agent from a
third party having, to such person's knowledge, no obligations of
confidentiality to the Borrower or any other Loan Party) and shall not reveal
the same other than to its directors, trustees, officers, employees and advisors
with a need to know or to any person that approves or administers the Loans on
behalf of such Lender (so long as each such person shall have been instructed to
keep the same confidential in accordance with this Section 9.17), except: (A) to
the extent necessary to comply with law or any legal process or the requirements
of any self-regulatory agency, Governmental Authority, the National Association
of Insurance Commissioners or of any securities exchange on which securities of
the disclosing party or any Affiliate of the disclosing party are listed or
traded, (B) as part of normal reporting or review procedures to Governmental
Authorities or the National Association of Insurance Commissioners, (C) to its
parent companies, Affiliates or auditors (so long as each such person shall have
been instructed to keep the same confidential in accordance with this Section
9.17), (D) in order to enforce its rights under any Loan Document in a legal
proceeding, (E) to any prospective assignee of, or prospective Participant in,
any of its rights under this Agreement (so long as such person shall have been
instructed to keep the same confidential in accordance with this Section 9.17),
(F) to any direct or indirect contractual counterparty in Derivatives
Obligations or such contractual counterparty's professional advisor (so long as
such contractual counterparty or professional advisor to such contractual
counterparty agrees to be bound by the provisions of this Section) and (G) is
disclosed with the prior written consent of the Borrower.
Section 9.18. Non-recourse to Partners. Except (i) pursuant to the
express terms of the other Loan Documents and (ii) to the extent of any
Restricted Payments made to any partner in violation of Section 6.06, no
recourse shall be
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had for the payment of the principal of or interest on any Loan, or for any
claim based thereon, or otherwise in respect thereof, or with respect to any
other obligation of the Borrower hereunder or under any other Loan Document,
against any past, present or future partner of the Borrower or any partner
thereof, whether by virtue of any statute or rule of law, or by the enforcement
of any assessment or penalty or otherwise, all such liability being expressly
waived and released by the Agents and each Lender.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this
Agreement to be duly executed by their respective authorized officers as of the
day and year first above written.
UNIVERSAL CITY DEVELOPMENT PARTNERS, LTD.
By:
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Name:
Title:
Address:
Universal City Development Partners, Ltd.
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JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
as Administrative Agent, Collateral Agent
and as Issuing Bank
By:
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BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,
as Syndication Agent
By:
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JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as Lender
By:
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BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as Lender
By:
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