E XHIBIT 10.1
OMNIBUS ASSUMPTION AND ASSIGNMENT
AGREEMENT
THIS OMNIBUS ASSUMPTION AND
ASSIGNMENT AGREEMENT (this “ AGREEMENT ”), dated
as of October 6, 2009, is among ARCH CHEMICALS RECEIVABLES
CORP., a Delaware corporation (the “ Seller ”),
ARCH CHEMICALS, INC., a Virginia corporation, individually (“
Arch ”) and, as servicer (in such capacity, the
“ Servicer ”, and together with the Seller, the
“ Seller Parties ”), THREE PILLARS FUNDING LLC,
a Delaware corporation (“ TPF ”), SUNTRUST
ROBINSON HUMPHREY, INC. (F/K/A SUNTRUST CAPITAL MARKETS, INC.), a
Tennessee corporation, as administrator (the “ Existing
Administrator ”) MARKET STREET FUNDING LLC, a Delaware
limited liability company (“ Market Street ”),
and PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, a national banking association
(“ PNC ”), as successor administrator (the
“ Successor Administrator ”), and acknowledged
and agreed to by ARCH TREATMENT TECHNOLOGIES, INC., a Virginia
corporation, ARCH WOOD PROTECTION, INC., a Delaware corporation,
and ARCH PERSONAL CARE PRODUCTS, L.P., a New Jersey limited
partnership (collectively, the “ Subsidiary
Originators ”).
BACKGROUND
The Seller, TPF, the Servicer and
the Existing Administrator are parties to that certain Receivables
Purchase Agreement dated as of June 27, 2005 (as amended,
restated, supplemented or otherwise modified prior to giving effect
to any amendment on the date hereof, the “ Receivables
Purchase Agreement ”). Capitalized terms used and not
otherwise defined herein have the respective meaning assigned to
such terms in the Receivables Purchase Agreement.
WHEREAS, TPF and the Existing
Administrator each desires to transfer all of its right, title,
interest and obligations in, to and under the Receivables Purchase
Agreement and the Receivable Interest to Market Street and the
Successor Administrator, as applicable, and each of Market Street
and the Successor Administrator, as applicable, desires to purchase
and assume all of the TPF’s and the Existing
Administrator’s, as applicable, right, title, interest and
obligations in, to and under the Receivables Purchase Agreement and
the Receivable Interest and to become party to the Receivables
Purchase Agreement.
NOW, THEREFORE, for good and
valuable consideration the receipt and sufficiency of which is
hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto hereby agree as
follows:
SECTION 1. Representations and
Warranties . The Seller desires that each of TPF and the
Existing Administrator transfer, as applicable, all of its right,
title, interest and obligations in, to and under the Receivable
Purchase Agreement, the Receivable Interest, all related property
and Invested Amount and that Market Street becomes a party to the
Receivables Purchase Agreement and the Successor Administrator
becomes the Administrator under the Receivables Purchase Agreement
and upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein.
Each of TPF and the Existing Administrator agrees to transfer, as
applicable, all of its right, title, interest and obligations in,
to and under the Receivables Purchase Agreement, the Receivable
Interest, all related property and the Invested Amount (the “
Transfer ”) on and as of October 6, 2009
(the
“ Closing Date ”). Market
Street and the Successor Administrator, as applicable, agree to
purchase and assume, all of TPF’s and the Existing
Administrator’s, as applicable, right, title, interest and
obligations in, to under the Receivables Purchase Agreement, the
Receivable Interest, all related property and Invested Amount and
Market Street agrees to become a party to the Receivables Purchase
Agreement and the Successor Administrator agrees to become the
Administrator under the Receivables Purchase Agreement. Market
Street and the Successor Administrator shall not be a party to the
Receivables Purchase Agreement for any purpose before the
effectiveness of this Agreement, and immediately after the
effectiveness of this Agreement and the Transfer, Market Street and
the Successor Administrator and the other parties to the
Receivables Purchase Agreement shall amend and restate the
Receivables Purchase Agreement pursuant to the terms of that
certain Amended and Restated Receivables Purchase Agreement, dated
as of October 6, 2009 (the “ Amended and Restated
Receivables Purchase Agreement ”).
Each of the Seller Parties hereby
represents and warrants to Market Street and the Successor
Administrator as of the date hereof, as follows:
(i) the representations and
warranties of such Seller Party contained in
Section 5.1 of the Receivables Purchase Agreement are
true and correct in all material respects on and as the date of the
Transfer as though made on and as of such date (except for
representations and warranties which apply as to an earlier date,
in which case such representations and warranties shall be true and
correct as of such earlier date);
(ii) no event has occurred and is
continuing, or would result from the Transfer, that constitutes a
Amortization Event or Unmatured Amortization Event; and
(iii) the Facility Termination Date
has not occurred.
SECTION 2. Transfer and
Assumption of Purchases; Assignment of Receivable Interest
.
(a) For effect on the Closing Date,
TPF hereby transfers and assigns to Market Street, and Market
Street hereby accepts and assumes TPF’s obligation to fund
Purchases through issuance of Commercial Paper or a Liquidity
Funding pursuant to the terms of the Receivables Purchase Agreement
up to the Purchase Limit. Following such transfer to and assumption
by Market Street, TPF shall no longer have an obligation to fund a
Purchase pursuant to the terms of Receivables Purchase
Agreement.
(b) Upon receipt of the amount
described in Section 5(c) below on the Closing Date,
TPF hereby sells and assigns to Market Street without recourse and
without representation or warranty (except that it is the sole
owner of and has good and marketable title to the portion of
Receivable Interest being transferred hereunder, free of any
Adverse Claim created by it), and Market Street hereby purchases
and assumes TPF’s interest in and to the Receivable Interest,
the Invested Amount related thereto and that portion of TPF’s
other rights and obligations under the Receivables Purchase
Agreement as of the Closing Date, equal to the
following:
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Purchase Limit for Market Street:
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$
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40,000,000
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Invested Amount allocable to Receivables
Interest assigned to Market Street:
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$
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0.00
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TPF’s remaining Invested
Amount:
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$
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0.00
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SECTION 3. Assignment of Security
Interest under Transaction Documents . The Existing
Administrator hereby assigns to the Successor Administrator, for
the benefit of Market Street, all of its right, title, interest and
obligations, in to and under all security interests granted or
otherwise assigned to the Existing Administrator under the
Transaction Documents. The Seller, Arch and the Subsidiary
Originators hereby acknowledge such assignment and authorize the
Successor Administrator to take all such actions, including,
without limitation, the filing of financing statements or financing
statements assignments and amendments reasonably necessary to
evidence such assignment or to perfect the security interests
assigned to the Successor Administrator under this
Agreement.
SECTION 4. Omnibus Assignment
. TPF and the Existing Administrator, as applicable, hereby assigns
all of its right, title, interest and obligations, in to and under
the Transaction Documents (including each Collection Account
Agreement) to Market Street and the Successor Administrator, as
applicable. Each of the Seller, Arch, the Servicer and the
Subsidiary Originators hereby consents to such
assignment.
SECTION 5. Effect of Assignment
and Assumption .
(a) Subject to the satisfaction of
the conditions set forth herein, upon execution and delivery of
this Agreement by the Seller, the Servicer, TPF, Market Street, the
Existing Administrator and the Successor Administrator, the
acknowledgment to the transactions contemplated hereby by the
Subsidiary Originators, and receipt by the Successor Administrator
of counterparts of this Agreement (whether by facsimile or
otherwise) executed by each of the parties hereto, from and after
the Closing Date, each of Market Street and the Successor
Administrator shall become a party to, and have the rights and
obligations of TPF and of an Administrator, respectively, under,
the Receivables Purchase Agreement (as may be further amended and
restated on the Closing Date), and each of TPF and the Existing
Administrator, shall relinquish its rights and interest (other that
the right to receive payments and indemnifications which accrued in
favor of TPF and the Existing Administrator prior to but not
including the date hereof) and be released from its obligations
under the Receivables Purchase Agreement. The Fee Letter dated
June 27, 2005, as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise
modified through the date hereof among the Seller, Arch and the
Existing Administrator shall terminate upon the receipt by TPF of
the amounts in Section 5(c) below.
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(b) Market Street and the Successor
Administrator hereby instruct the Servicer to make all payments
from and after the Closing Date in respect of the Receivable
Interest and Invested Amount assigned hereby directly to Market
Street and the Successor Administrator. TPF and Market Street agree
that all CP Costs, Yield, fees and expenses accrued up to, but not
including, the Closing Date are the property of TPF, and not Market
Street. Market Street and the Successor Administrator agree that,
from and after the Closing Date, upon receipt of any such CP Costs,
Yield, fees or expenses a