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Exhibit
10.18
EXECUTION
COPY
$2,155,000,000
SENIOR UNSECURED PIK
ELECTION BRIDGE LOAN CREDIT AGREEMENT
Dated as of
February 4, 2008
among
SERAFINA ACQUISITION
LIMITED,
as the Initial
Borrower
to be assigned to and
assumed by
INTELSAT (BERMUDA),
LTD.,
as Borrower
The Several
LENDERS
from Time to Time Parties
Hereto
CREDIT SUISSE, CAYMAN
ISLANDS BRANCH
as Administrative
Agent
BANC OF AMERICA BRIDGE
LLC,
as Syndication
Agent
MORGAN STANLEY SENIOR
FUNDING, INC.
as Documentation
Agent
and
CREDIT SUISSE SECURITIES
(USA) LLC,
BANC OF AMERICA SECURITIES
LLC and
MORGAN STANLEY SENIOR
FUNDING, INC.,
as Joint Lead Arrangers
and Joint Bookrunners
Cahill Gordon &
Reindel LLP
Eighty Pine
Street
New York, New York
10005
TABLE OF
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SECTION 1.
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DEFINITIONS
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1.1.
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Defined Terms
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SECTION 2.
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AMOUNT AND TERMS OF CREDIT
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48 |
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2.1.
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Commitments
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48 |
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2.2.
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Minimum Amount of Each
Borrowing
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49 |
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2.3.
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Notice of Borrowing
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49 |
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2.4.
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Disbursement of Funds
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2.5.
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Repayment of Loans; Evidence of
Debt
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2.6.
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Continuations
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2.7.
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Pro Rata Borrowings
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51 |
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2.8.
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Interest
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2.9.
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Interest Periods
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2.10.
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Increased Costs, Illegality,
etc
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2.11.
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Compensation
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2.12.
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Change of Lending Office
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2.13.
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Notice of Certain Costs
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SECTION 3.
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EXTENSION AND EXCHANGE
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3.1.
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Extension of Facility
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3.2.
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Execution of Exchange Note
Indenture
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3.3.
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Option to Exchange Loans or Extended
Term Loans for Exchange Notes
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3.4.
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No Registration Rights with Respect to
Exchange Notes
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59 |
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SECTION 4.
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FEES; COMMITMENTS
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59 |
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4.1.
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Fees
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59 |
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4.2.
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Mandatory Termination of
Commitments
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60 |
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SECTION 5.
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PAYMENTS
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5.1.
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Voluntary Prepayments
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60 |
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5.2.
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Mandatory Prepayments
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60 |
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5.3.
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Method and Place of Payment
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62 |
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5.4.
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Net Payments
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63 |
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5.5.
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Computations of Interest and
Fees
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5.6.
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Limit on Rate of Interest
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SECTION 6.
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CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO INITIAL
BORROWING ON THE CLOSING DATE
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6.1.
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Executed Counterparts to this
Agreement
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6.2.
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Representations and
Warranties
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6.3.
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[Reserved]
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6.4.
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Other Conditions Precedent
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6.5.
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Limitation on Conditions
Precedent
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SECTION 7.
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[RESERVED]
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SECTION 8.
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REPRESENTATIONS, WARRANTIES AND
AGREEMENTS
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67 |
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8.1.
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Corporate Status
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8.2.
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Corporate Power and Authority;
Enforceability of Credit Documents
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68 |
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8.3.
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No Violation
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68 |
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8.4.
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Litigation
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8.5.
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Margin Regulations
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8.6.
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[Reserved]
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68 |
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8.7.
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Investment Company Act
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8.8.
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True and Complete Disclosure
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8.9.
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Financial Condition; Financial
Statements; No Material Adverse Change
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8.10.
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Tax Returns and Payments
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8.11.
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Compliance With ERISA
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8.12.
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Subsidiaries
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8.13.
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Patents, etc
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8.14.
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Environmental Laws
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8.15.
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Properties
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8.16.
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Solvency
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SECTION 9.
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AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS
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9.1.
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Reports and Other Information
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9.2.
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[Reserved]
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73 |
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9.3.
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Maintenance of Insurance
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9.4.
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Payment of Taxes
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9.5.
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Consolidated Corporate
Franchises
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75 |
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9.6.
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Compliance with Statutes, Regulations,
etc
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9.7.
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ERISA
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9.8.
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Maintenance of Properties
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9.9.
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The Transactions
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9.10.
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[Reserved]
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9.11.
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[Reserved]
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9.12.
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Use of Proceeds
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9.13.
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[Reserved]
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9.14.
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Further Instruments and Acts
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9.15.
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[Reserved]
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9.16.
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Intelsat General Corporation
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9.17.
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Refinancing Of Loans
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SECTION 10.
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NEGATIVE COVENANTS
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10.1.
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Limitation on Incurrence of Indebtedness
and Issuance of Disqualified Stock and Preferred Stock
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10.2.
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Limitation on Restricted
Payments
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10.3.
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Dividend and Other Payment Restrictions
Affecting Subsidiaries
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10.4.
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Asset Sales
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10.5.
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Transactions With Affiliates
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10.6.
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Change Of Control
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10.7.
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Future Guarantors
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10.8.
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Liens
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10.9.
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Suspension of Covenants
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10.10.
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When Borrower May Merge or Transfer
Assets
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10.11.
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Successor Company Substituted
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SECTION 11.
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[RESERVED]
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106 |
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SECTION 12.
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EVENTS OF DEFAULT
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106 |
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12.1.
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Events of Default
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12.2.
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Acceleration
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108 |
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12.3.
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Other Remedies
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108 |
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12.4.
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Waiver of Past Defaults
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109 |
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12.5.
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Control by Majority
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109 |
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12.6.
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Limitation on Suits
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109 |
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12.7.
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Rights of the Lenders to Receive
Payment
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110 |
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12.8.
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Priorities
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110 |
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SECTION 13.
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THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
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13.1.
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Appointment
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110 |
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13.2.
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Delegation of Duties
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110 |
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13.3.
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Exculpatory Provisions
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110 |
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13.4.
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Reliance by Administrative
Agent
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111 |
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13.5.
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Notice of Default
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13.6.
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Non-Reliance on Administrative Agent and
Other Lenders
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112 |
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13.7.
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Indemnification
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112 |
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13.8.
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Administrative Agent in its Individual
Capacity
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112 |
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13.9.
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Successor Agent
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113 |
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13.10.
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Withholding Tax
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113 |
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SECTION 14.
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MISCELLANEOUS
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14.1.
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Amendments and Waivers
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113 |
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14.2.
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Notices
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115 |
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14.3.
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No Waiver; Cumulative
Remedies
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116 |
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14.4.
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Survival of Representations and
Warranties
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14.5.
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Payment of Expenses and Taxes
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14.6.
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Successors And Assigns; Participations
And Assignments
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117 |
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14.7.
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Replacements of Lenders Under Certain
Circumstances
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121 |
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14.8.
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Adjustments; Set-Off
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122 |
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14.9.
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Counterparts
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123 |
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14.10.
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Severability
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14.11.
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Integration
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123 |
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14.12.
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GOVERNING LAW
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123 |
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14.13.
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Submission to Jurisdiction; Consent to
Service; Waivers
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123 |
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14.14.
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Acknowledgments
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124 |
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14.15.
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WAIVERS OF JURY TRIAL
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124 |
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14.16.
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Confidentiality
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125 |
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14.17.
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[Reserved]
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125 |
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14.18.
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USA Patriot Act
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125 |
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14.19.
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Conversion Of Currencies
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125 |
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SCHEDULES
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Schedule 1.1(a) Commitments and Addresses of Lenders
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EXHIBITS
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Exhibit A-1
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Form of
Exchange Notice |
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Exhibit A-2
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Form of
Guarantee |
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Exhibit A-3
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Form of
Assumption Agreement |
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Exhibit A-4
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Form of
PIK Election Notice |
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Exhibit B-1
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Form of
Legal Opinion of Latham & Watkins LLP |
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Exhibit B-2
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Form of
Legal Opinion of Bermuda Counsel |
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Exhibit B-3
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Form of
Legal Opinion of Regulatory Counsel |
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Exhibit C
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Form of
Closing Certificate |
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Exhibit D
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Form of
Assignment and Acceptance |
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Exhibit E
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Form of
Promissory Note |
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Exhibit F
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Form of
Notice of Borrowing |
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Exhibit G
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Offering
Memorandum |
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Exhibit H
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Form of
Description of Notes for Exchange Notes and Take-Out
Securities |
iv
SENIOR UNSECURED PIK ELECTION
BRIDGE LOAN CREDIT AGREEMENT, dated as of February 4, 2008 (as
amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to
time, this “ Agreement ”), among SERAFINA
ACQUISITION LIMITED (the “ Initial Borrower ”),
the lending institutions from time to time parties hereto (each a
“ Lender ” and, collectively, the “
Lenders ”), CREDIT SUISSE, CAYMAN ISLANDS BRANCH, as
Administrative Agent, BANC OF AMERICA BRIDGE LLC, as Syndication
Agent, MORGAN STANLEY SENIOR FUNDING, INC., as Documentation Agent,
and CREDIT SUISSE SECURITIES (USA) LLC, BANC OF AMERICA SECURITIES
LLC and MORGAN STANLEY SENIOR FUNDING, INC., as Joint Lead
Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners (such terms and each other
capitalized term used but not defined in this introductory
statement and recitals having the meaning provided in
Section 1).
WHEREAS, the Initial Borrower
intends to acquire Intelsat Holdings pursuant to the terms of the
Transaction Agreement (the “ Acquisition
”);
WHEREAS, in connection with
the Acquisition, the Initial Borrower intended to offer and issue
(i) $2,805,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of its Senior
Notes and (ii) $2,155,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of
its Senior PIK Notes in the Notes Offering generating gross
proceeds of $4,960,000,000;
WHEREAS, in connection with
the Acquisition, the Initial Borrower, Joint Lead Arrangers, Agents
and Lenders have mutually agreed that, in lieu of the Notes
Offering and the issuance of the Notes, the Initial Borrower and
the Lenders will enter into this Agreement and a credit agreement
with respect to Senior Bridge Loans and the Borrower will borrow
Loans hereunder and Senior Bridge Loans thereunder in an aggregate
principal amount equal to the gross proceeds expected from the
issuance of the Notes, or such lesser amount as the Initial
Borrower shall determine in its sole discretion;
WHEREAS, in connection with
the Acquisition, the Initial Borrower intends to undertake the
Serafina Assignment as soon as practicable after consummation of
the Acquisition and the Intelsat Bermuda Transfer, with the effect
that Intelsat Bermuda will become the Borrower for all purposes of
this Agreement;
WHEREAS, after the Closing
Date, Intelsat Jackson intends to make an offer to prepay loans
outstanding under the Intelsat Jackson Unsecured Credit Agreement
in accordance with its terms, and to repay all Loans thereunder
held by persons that accept such offer pursuant to its terms, such
repayment to be funded with the proceeds of a committed debt
facility to be funded upon consummation of such offer to prepay
loans;
WHEREAS, after the Closing
Date, various subsidiaries of the Borrower intend to make a Change
of Control Offer with respect to each series of their respective
Existing Notes that requires that such an offer be made pursuant to
its terms, and to accept and pay for all Existing Notes that are
tendered for purchase in such Change of Control Offers pursuant to
their terms, such purchase to be funded with the proceeds of one or
more committed debt facilities to be funded upon consummation of
the applicable Change of Control Offers; and
WHEREAS, in connection with
the Acquisition, each of Intelsat Sub Holdco and Intelsat Corp will
either (1) prior to the Closing Date, obtain consents from the
requisite lenders under its respective Credit Agreement to amend
the provisions thereof so that the consummation of the Transactions
will not result in a default thereunder, together with such other
amendments as the Borrower and the Agents deem reasonable and
appropriate, or (2) contemporaneous with the consummation of
the Acquisition, refinance the debt facilities under its respective
Credit Agreement with a new senior secured credit facilities on
substantially identical terms as the respective existing Credit
Agreement.
NOW, THEREFORE, in
consideration of the premises and the respective representations,
warranties, covenants and agreements set forth herein, the parties
hereto hereby agree as follows:
SECTION 1.
DEFINITIONS.
1.1. Defined Terms
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(a) As used herein, the
following terms shall have the meanings specified in this
Section 1.1 (it being understood that defined terms in this
Agreement shall include in the singular number the plural and in
the plural the singular):
“ Acquired
Indebtedness ” shall mean, with respect to any specified
Person:
(1) Indebtedness of any other
Person existing at the time such other Person is merged with or
into or becomes a Restricted Subsidiary of such specified Person,
and
(2) Indebtedness secured by a
Lien encumbering any asset acquired by such specified Person, in
each case, other than Indebtedness Incurred as consideration in, in
contemplation of, or to provide all or any portion of the funds or
credit support utilized to consummate, the transaction or series of
related transactions pursuant to which such Restricted Subsidiary
became a Restricted Subsidiary or was otherwise acquired by such
Person, or such asset was acquired by such Person, as
applicable.
“ Acquisition
” shall mean the transactions pursuant to which the Initial
Borrower became the owner of all of the outstanding share capital
of Intelsat Holdings pursuant to the Transaction
Agreement.
“ Acquisition
Documents ” shall mean the Transaction Agreement, the
Credit Agreements, the indenture governing the Notes (to the extent
applicable), the Specified Intercompany Agreements, the agreements
or documents entered into in connection with the backstop financing
commitments as a result of the Change of Control Offers and, in
each case, any other document entered into in connection therewith,
in each case as amended, supplemented or modified from time to
time.
“ Adjusted
EBITDA ” shall mean, with respect to any Person for any
period, the Consolidated Net Income of such Person for such period
plus, without duplication, to the extent the same was deducted in
calculating Consolidated Net Income:
(1) Consolidated Taxes;
plus
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(2) Consolidated Interest
Expense; provided that any interest expense set forth in
clause (4) of the definition of Consolidated Interest Expense
shall be included in the calculation of Adjusted EBITDA solely for
purposes of calculating Cumulative Credit, unless the same was
deducted in calculating Consolidated Net Income;
plus
(3) Consolidated Non-cash
Charges; plus
(4) the amount of any
restructuring charges or expenses (which, for the avoidance of
doubt, shall include retention, severance, systems establishment
costs, facility closure costs, leasehold termination costs or
excess pension charges); plus
(5) (a) the amount of
any fees or expenses incurred or paid in such period for transition
services related to satellites or other assets or businesses
acquired and (b) the amount of management, monitoring,
consulting and advisory fees and related expenses paid to the
Sponsors or any other Permitted Holder (or any accruals relating to
such fees and related expenses) during such period, provided
that such amount pursuant to subclause (b) shall not exceed in
any four-quarter period the greater of (x) $12.5 million and
(y) 1.25% of Adjusted EBITDA of such Person and its Restricted
Subsidiaries; plus
(6) reversals of allowance
for customer credits, including any amounts receivable for such
period in connection with contracts that are attributable to Globo
Comunicações e Participações, Ltda.’s
involvement in arrangements with Sky Multi-Country Partners;
plus
(7) collections on
investments in sales-type leases during such period, to the extent
not otherwise included in Consolidated Net Income for such period;
plus
(8) lease-back expenses net
of deferred gains; less , without duplication,
(9) any gross profit (loss)
on sales-type leases included in Consolidated Net Income for such
period; and
(10) non-cash items
increasing Consolidated Net Income for such period (excluding any
items which represent the reversal of any accrual of, or cash
reserve for, anticipated cash charges in any prior period and any
items for which cash was received in any prior period).
“ Administrative
Agent ” shall mean Credit Suisse, Caymans Island Branch,
in its capacity as the administrative agent for the Lenders under
this Agreement and the other Credit Documents, until a successor
replaces it in accordance with Section 13.9, and thereafter
means such successor.
“ Administrative
Agent’s Office ” shall mean in respect of all
Credit Events for the account of the Borrower, the office of the
Administrative Agent located at Eleven Madison Avenue, New York,
New York 10010, United States of America, or such other office as
the Administrative Agent may hereafter designate in writing as such
to the other parties hereto.
“ administrative
questionnaire ” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 14.6(b).
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“ Affiliate
” of any specified Person means any other Person directly or
indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct or indirect
common control with such specified Person. For purposes of this
definition, “control” (including, with correlative
meanings, the terms “controlling,” “controlled
by” and “under common control with”), as used
with respect to any Person, means the possession, directly or
indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the
management or policies of such Person, whether through the
ownership of voting securities, by agreement or
otherwise.
“ Agents ”
shall mean each Joint Lead Arranger, the Administrative Agent, the
Syndication Agent and the Documentation Agent.
“ Agreement
” shall mean this Senior Unsecured PIK Election Bridge Loan
Credit Agreement, as the same may be amended, supplemented or
otherwise modified from time to time.
“ Agreement
Currency ” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 14.19(b).
“ Approved Fund
” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 14.6.
“ Asset Sale
” shall mean:
(1) the sale, conveyance,
transfer or other disposition (whether in a single transaction or a
series of related transactions) of property or assets (including by
way of a Sale/Leaseback Transaction) of the Borrower or any
Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower (each referred to in this
definition as a “disposition”) or
(2) the issuance or sale of
Equity Interests (other than directors’ qualifying shares or
shares or interests required to be held by foreign nationals) of
any Restricted Subsidiary (other than to the Borrower or another
Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower) (whether in a single
transaction or a series of related transactions), in each case
other than:
(a) a disposition of Cash
Equivalents or Investment Grade Securities or obsolete or worn out
property or equipment in the ordinary course of business (including
the sale or leasing (including by way of sales-type lease) of
transponders or transponder capacity and the leasing or licensing
of teleports);
(b) the disposition of all or
substantially all of the assets of the Borrower in a manner
permitted pursuant to Section 10.10 or any disposition that
constitutes a Change of Control;
(c) any Restricted Payment or
Permitted Investment that is permitted to be made, and is made,
under Section 10.2;
(d) any disposition of assets
or issuance or sale of Equity Interests of any Restricted
Subsidiary with an aggregate Fair Market Value of less than $50.0
million;
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(e) any disposition of
property or assets or the issuance of securities by a Restricted
Subsidiary of the Borrower to the Borrower or by the Borrower or a
Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower to a Restricted Subsidiary of
the Borrower;
(f) any exchange of assets
for assets (including a combination of assets and Cash Equivalents)
of reasonably comparable or greater market value or usefulness to
the business of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries as a
whole, as determined in good faith by the Borrower, which in the
event of an exchange of assets with a Fair Market Value in excess
of (1) $50.0 million shall be evidenced by an Officers’
Certificate, and (2) $100.0 million shall be set forth in a
resolution approved in good faith by at least a majority of the
Board of Directors of the Borrower;
(g) foreclosures on assets or
property of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries;
(h) any sale of Equity
Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an
Unrestricted Subsidiary;
(i) any disposition of
inventory or other assets (including transponders, transponder
capacity and teleports) in the ordinary course of
business;
(j) the lease, assignment or
sublease of any real or personal property in the ordinary course of
business;
(k) a sale of accounts
receivable (including in respect of sales-type leases) and related
assets (including contract rights) of the type specified in the
definition of “Receivables Financing” to a Receivables
Subsidiary in a Qualified Receivables Financing or in factoring or
similar transactions;
(l) a transfer of accounts
receivable and related assets of the type specified in the
definition of “Receivables Financing” (or a fractional
undivided interest therein) by a Receivables Subsidiary in a
Qualified Receivables Financing;
(m) the grant in the ordinary
course of business of any license of patents, trademarks, know-how
and any other intellectual property;
(n) any Event of
Loss;
(o) any sale or other
disposition of assets or property in connection with a Specified
Sale/Leaseback Transaction;
(p) any sale of an Excluded
Satellite; provided that for purposes of this clause
(p) of this definition of Asset Sale, references in the
definition of Excluded Satellite to $75.0 million shall be deemed
to be $50.0 million; and provided ,
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further , that any
cash and Cash Equivalents received in connection with the sale of
an Excluded Satellite shall be treated as Net Proceeds of an Asset
Sale and shall be applied as provided for in Sections 5.2(b) and
10.4;
(q) any disposition of
assets, equity or property of the Borrower or any Restricted
Subsidiary of the Borrower pursuant to the Specified Intercompany
Agreements; and
(r) any disposition of assets
in connection with the Transactions.
“ Assignment and
Acceptance ” shall mean an assignment and acceptance
substantially in the form of Exhibit D hereto.
“ Authorized
Officer ” shall mean the President, the Chief Financial
Officer, the Treasurer, the Controller or any other senior officer
of the Borrower designated as such in writing to the Administrative
Agent by the Borrower.
“ Bank
Indebtedness ” shall mean any and all amounts payable
under or in respect of any Credit Agreement or any other Senior
Credit Documents, as amended, restated, supplemented, waived,
replaced, restructured, repaid, refunded, refinanced or otherwise
modified from time to time (including after termination of any
Credit Agreement), including principal, premium (if any), interest
(including interest accruing on or after the filing of any petition
in bankruptcy or for reorganization relating to the Borrower
whether or not a claim for post-filing interest is allowed in such
proceedings), fees, charges, expenses, reimbursement obligations,
guarantees and all other amounts payable thereunder or in respect
thereof.
“ Board ”
shall mean the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of
the United States (or any successor).
“ Board of
Directors ” means as to any Person, the board of
directors or managers, as applicable, of such Person (or, if such
Person is a partnership, the board of directors or other governing
body of the general partner of such Person) or any duly authorized
committee thereof.
“ Borrower
” shall mean the Initial Borrower (and not any of its
Subsidiaries) prior to the Serafina Assignment and Intelsat Bermuda
(and not any of its Subsidiaries) after giving effect to the
Serafina Assignment.
“ Borrowing
” shall mean and include the incurrence of the Loans on the
Closing Date.
“ Business Day
” shall mean (i) for all purposes other than as covered
by clause (ii) below, any day excluding Saturday, Sunday and
any day that shall be in The City of New York a legal holiday or a
day on which banking institutions are authorized by law or other
governmental actions to close and (ii) with respect to all
notices and determinations in connection with, and payments of
principal and interest on, LIBOR Loans, any day which is a Business
Day described in clause (i) above and which is also a day for
trading by and between banks in U.S. dollar deposits in the New
York or London interbank eurodollar market.
“ Capital Stock
” shall mean:
(1) in the case of a
corporation or a company, corporate stock or shares;
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(2) in the case of an
association or business entity, any and all shares, interests,
participations, rights or other equivalents (however designated) of
corporate stock;
(3) in the case of a
partnership or limited liability company, partnership or membership
interests (whether general or limited); and
(4) any other interest or
participation that confers on a Person the right to receive a share
of the profits and losses of, or distributions of assets of, the
issuing Person.
“ Capitalized Lease
Obligation ” shall mean, at the time any determination
thereof is to be made, the amount of the liability in respect of a
capital lease that would at such time be required to be capitalized
and reflected as a liability on a balance sheet (excluding the
footnotes thereto) in accordance with GAAP.
“ Cash Contribution
Amount ” shall mean the aggregate amount of cash
contributions made to the capital of the Borrower or any Guarantor
described in the definition of “ Contribution
Indebtedness .”
“ Cash
Equivalents ” shall mean:
(1) U.S. dollars, pounds
sterling, euros, national currency of any participating member
state in the European Union or, in the case of any Foreign
Subsidiary that is a Restricted Subsidiary, such local currencies
held by it from time to time in the ordinary course of
business;
(2) securities issued or
directly and fully guaranteed or insured by the government of the
United States or any country that is a member of the European Union
or any agency or instrumentality thereof, in each case with
maturities not exceeding two years from the date of
acquisition;
(3) certificates of deposit,
time deposits and eurodollar time deposits with maturities of one
year or less from the date of acquisition, bankers’
acceptances, in each case with maturities not exceeding one year,
and overnight bank deposits, in each case with any commercial bank
having capital and surplus in excess of $250 million, or the
foreign currency equivalent thereof, and whose long-term debt is
rated “A” or the equivalent thereof by Moody’s or
S&P (or reasonably equivalent ratings of another
internationally recognized ratings agency);
(4) repurchase obligations
for underlying securities of the types described in clauses
(2) and (3) above entered into with any financial
institution meeting the qualifications specified in clause
(3) above;
(5) commercial paper issued
by a corporation (other than an Affiliate of the Borrower) rated at
least “A-1” or the equivalent thereof by Moody’s
or S&P (or reasonably equivalent ratings of another
internationally recognized ratings agency) and in each case
maturing within one year after the date of acquisition;
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(6) readily marketable direct
obligations issued by any state of the United States of America or
any political subdivision thereof having one of the two highest
rating categories obtainable from either Moody’s or S&P
(or reasonably equivalent ratings of another internationally
recognized ratings agency) in each case with maturities not
exceeding two years from the date of acquisition;
(7) Indebtedness issued by
Persons (other than the Sponsors or any of their Affiliates) with a
rating of “A” or higher from S&P or
“A-2” or higher from Moody’s (or reasonably
equivalent ratings of another internationally recognized ratings
agency) in each case with maturities not exceeding two years from
the date of acquisition; and
(8) investment funds
investing at least 95% of their assets in securities of the types
described in clauses (1) through (7) above.
“ Change of
Control ” shall mean:
(1) the sale, lease or
transfer, in one or a series of related transactions, of all or
substantially all the assets of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries,
taken as a whole, to a Person other than any of the Permitted
Holders, and other than any transaction in compliance with
Section 10.10 and 10.11 where the Successor Company is a
Wholly Owned Subsidiary of a Parent of the Borrower; or
(2) the Borrower becomes
aware (by way of a report or any other filing pursuant to
Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act, proxy, vote, written notice
or otherwise) of 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 any of the Permitted Holders, in a single
transaction or in a related series of transactions, by way of
merger, amalgamation, 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 voting power of the Voting Stock of the
Borrower or any Parent of the Borrower.
Notwithstanding the
foregoing, none of (i) the Transactions (and any related
change in the composition of the Board of Directors of Holdings in
connection therewith), (ii) any Specified Merger/Transfer
Transaction, or (iii) any Subsidiary Transfer Transaction,
shall constitute a Change of Control.
“ Change of Control
Offer ” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 5.2(a).
“ Change of Control
Offers ” shall mean (i) each offer to purchase
outstanding notes of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries pursuant to
the indentures governing such series of notes and (ii) the
offer to repay outstanding loans pursuant to the Intelsat Jackson
Unsecured Credit Agreement, under which, in each case, the
Acquisition would result in a “change of control” as
defined in such agreement.
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“ Closing Date
” shall mean February 4, 2008.
“ Code ”
shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time
to time, and the regulations promulgated and rulings issued
thereunder. Section references to the Code are to the Code, as in
effect at the Closing Date, and any subsequent provisions of the
Code, amendatory thereof, supplemental thereto or substituted
therefor.
“ Commitment
Letter ” shall mean the Commitment Letter dated
June 19, 2007 by and among the Borrower and the arrangers,
agents and lenders party thereto, as amended by that certain
Amendment to Commitment Letter, Fee Letter and Engagement Letter
agreement dated as of February 4, 2008, as further amended or
supplemented from time to time.
“ Commitments
” shall mean, with respect to each Lender, such
Lender’s Commitment set forth opposite its name on Schedule
1.1(a). The aggregate amount of all Commitments hereunder is
$2,155,000,000.
“ Confidential
Information ” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 14.16.
“ Consolidated
Interest Expense ” shall mean, with respect to any Person
for any period, the sum, without duplication, of:
(1) consolidated interest
expense of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such
period, to the extent such expense was deducted in computing
Consolidated Net Income (including amortization of original issue
discount, the interest component of Capitalized Lease Obligations,
and net payments and receipts (if any) pursuant to interest rate
Hedging Obligations and excluding amortization of deferred
financing fees, expensing of any bridge or other financing fees and
any interest under Satellite Purchase Agreements);
(2) consolidated capitalized
interest of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such
period, whether paid or accrued;
(3) commissions, discounts,
yield and other fees and charges Incurred in connection with any
Receivables Financing which are payable to Persons other than such
Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries; and
(4) with respect to any
Person, consolidated interest expense of any Parent of such Person
for such period with respect to the Existing Intelsat Notes or any
refinancing thereof to the extent cash interest is paid thereon
pursuant to Section 10.2(b)(xiii)(C); less interest income for
such period; provided that for purposes of calculating
Consolidated Interest Expense, no effect shall be given to the
effect of any purchase accounting adjustments in connection with
the Transactions; provided , further , that for
purposes of calculating Consolidated Interest Expense, no effect
shall be given to the discount and/or premium resulting from the
bifurcation of derivatives under Statement of Financial Accounting
Standards No. 133 and related interpretations as a result of
the terms of the Indebtedness to which such Consolidated Interest
Expense relates.
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“ Consolidated Net
Income ” shall mean, with respect to any Person for any
period, the aggregate of the Net Income of such Person and its
Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, on a consolidated basis;
provided , however , that:
(1) any net after-tax
extraordinary or nonrecurring or unusual gains or losses (less all
fees and expenses relating thereto), or income or expense or charge
(including, without limitation, any severance, relocation or other
restructuring costs) and fees, expenses or charges related to any
offering of equity interests, Investment, acquisition, disposition,
recapitalization or Indebtedness permitted to be Incurred by this
Agreement (in each case, whether or not successful), including any
such fees, expenses, charges or change in control payments related
to the Transactions, in each case, shall be excluded;
(2) any increase in
amortization or depreciation or any one-time non-cash charges
resulting from purchase accounting in connection with the
Transactions or any acquisition shall be excluded;
(3) the Net Income for such
period shall not include the cumulative effect of a change in
accounting principles during such period;
(4) any net after-tax income
or loss from discontinued operations and any net after-tax gains or
losses on disposal of discontinued operations shall be
excluded;
(5) any net after-tax gains
or losses (less all fees and expenses or charges relating thereto)
attributable to business dispositions or asset dispositions other
than in the ordinary course of business (as determined in good
faith by the Board of Directors of the Borrower) shall be
excluded;
(6) any net after-tax gains
or losses (less all fees and expenses or charges relating thereto)
attributable to the early extinguishment of indebtedness shall be
excluded;
(7) the Net Income for such
period of any Person that is not a Subsidiary of such Person, or is
an Unrestricted Subsidiary, or that is accounted for by the equity
method of accounting, shall be excluded; provided that
Consolidated Net Income of the referent Person shall be increased
by 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 Restricted Subsidiary thereof in respect of such
period;
(8) solely for the purpose of
determining the amount of Cumulative Credit, the Net Income for
such period of any Restricted Subsidiary (other than any Subsidiary
Guarantor) shall be excluded to the extent that the declaration or
payment of dividends or similar distributions by such Restricted
Subsidiary of its Net Income is not at the date of determination
permitted by the operation of the terms of any agreement applicable
to such Restricted Subsidiary, unless (x) such restrictions
with respect to the payment of dividends or similar distributions
have been legally waived or (y) such restriction is
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permitted by
Section 10.3; provided that the Consolidated Net Income
of such Person shall be increased by the amount of dividends or
other distributions or other payments actually paid in cash (or
converted into cash) by any such Restricted Subsidiary to such
Person, to the extent not already included therein;
(9) (a) any non-cash
impairment charge or asset write-off resulting from the application
of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 142 and
144, and the amortization of intangibles arising pursuant to
No. 141, shall be excluded and (b) the effects of
adjustments in any line item in such Person’s consolidated
financial statements required or permitted by the Financial
Accounting Standards Board Statement Nos. 141 and 142 resulting
from the application of purchase accounting, net of taxes, shall be
excluded;
(10) any non-cash expenses
realized or resulting from employee benefit plans or
post-employment benefit plans, grants of stock appreciation or
similar rights, stock options or other rights to officers,
directors and employees of such Person or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries shall be excluded;
(11) any (a) severance
or relocation costs or expenses, (b) one-time non-cash
compensation charges, (c) solely for purposes of calculating
the Debt to Adjusted EBITDA Ratio, the costs and expenses related
to employment of terminated employees, (d) costs or expenses
realized in connection with, resulting from or in anticipation of
the Transactions or (e) costs or expenses realized in
connection with or resulting from stock appreciation or similar
rights, stock options or other rights of officers, directors and
employees, in each case of such Person or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries, shall be excluded;
(12) accruals and reserves
that are established within twelve months after the Closing Date
and that are so required to be established in accordance with GAAP
shall be excluded;
(13) (a)(i) the non-cash
portion of “straight-line” rent expense shall be
excluded and (ii) the cash portion of
“straight-line” rent expense which exceeds the amount
expensed in respect of such rent expense shall be included and
(b) non-cash gains, losses, income and expenses resulting from
fair value accounting required by Statement of Financial Accounting
Standards No. 133 and related interpretations shall be
excluded;
(14) an amount equal to the
amount of tax distributions actually made to the holders of Capital
Stock of such Person or any Parent of such Person in respect of
such period in accordance with Section 10.2(b)(xii) shall be
included as though such amounts had been paid as income taxes
directly by such Person for such period;
(15) any net loss resulting
from currency exchange risk Hedging Obligations shall be
excluded;
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(16) any reserves for
long-term receivables and sales type lease adjustments, including
customer-related long-term receivables evaluated as uncollectible
shall be excluded;
(17) non-operating expenses,
including transaction related fees and expenses related to
acquisitions and due diligence for acquisitions shall be excluded;
and
(18) minority interest
expenses (less cash dividends actually paid to the holders of such
minority interests) shall be excluded.
Notwithstanding the
foregoing, for the purpose of Section 10.2 only, there shall
be excluded from the calculation of Consolidated Net Income any
dividends, repayments of loans or advances or other transfers of
assets from Unrestricted Subsidiaries to such Person or a
Restricted Subsidiary of such Person in respect of or that
originally constituted Restricted Investments to the extent such
dividends, repayments or transfers increase the amount of
Restricted Payments permitted under Section 10.2 pursuant to
clause (5) or (6) of the definition of “Cumulative
Credit.”
“ Consolidated
Non-cash Charges ” shall mean, with respect to any Person
for any period, the aggregate depreciation, amortization,
impairment, compensation, rent and other non-cash expenses of such
Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period on a
consolidated basis and otherwise determined in accordance with
GAAP, but excluding (i) any such charge which consists of or
requires an accrual of, or cash reserve for, anticipated cash
charges for any future period and (ii) the non-cash impact of
recording the change in fair value of any embedded derivatives
under Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 133 and
related interpretations as a result of the terms of any agreement
or instrument to which such Consolidated Non-Cash Charges
relate.
“ Consolidated
Taxes ” shall mean, with respect to any Person and its
Restricted Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis for any period,
provision for taxes based on income, profits or capital, including,
without limitation, state franchise and similar taxes, withholding
taxes paid or accrued and including an amount equal to the amount
of tax distributions actually made to the holders of Capital Stock
of such Person or any Parent of such Person in respect of such
period in accordance with Section 10.2(b)(xii) which shall be
included as though such amounts had been paid as income taxes
directly by such Person.
“ Consolidated Total
Indebtedness ” shall mean, as at any date of
determination, an amount equal to the sum of (1) the aggregate
amount of all outstanding Indebtedness of such Person and its
Restricted Subsidiaries and (2) the aggregate amount of all
outstanding Disqualified Stock of such Person and all Preferred
Stock of its Restricted Subsidiaries, with the amount of such
Disqualified Stock and Preferred Stock equal to the greater of
their respective voluntary or involuntary liquidation preferences
and maximum fixed repurchase prices, in each case determined on a
consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.
For purposes hereof, the
“ maximum fixed repurchase price ” of any
Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock that does not have a fixed
price shall be calculated in accordance with the terms of such
Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock as if such Disqualified Stock
or Preferred Stock
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were purchased on any date on which
Consolidated Total Indebtedness shall be required to be determined
pursuant to this Agreement, and if such price is based upon, or
measured by, the fair market value of such Disqualified Stock or
Preferred Stock, such fair market value shall be determined
reasonably and in good faith by the Board of Directors of the
Borrower.
“ Contingent
Obligations ” shall mean, with respect to any Person, any
obligation of such Person guaranteeing any leases, dividends or
other obligations that do not constitute Indebtedness (“
primary obligations ”) of any other Person (the
“ primary obligor ”) in any manner, whether
directly or indirectly, including, without limitation, any
obligation of such Person, whether or not contingent:
(1) to purchase any such
primary obligation or any property constituting direct or indirect
security therefor;
(2) to advance or supply
funds:
(a) for the purchase or
payment of any such primary obligation; or
(b) to maintain working
capital or equity capital of the primary obligor or otherwise to
maintain the net worth or solvency of the primary obligor;
or
(3) to purchase property,
securities or services primarily for the purpose of assuring the
owner of any such primary obligation of the ability of the primary
obligor to make payment of such primary obligation against loss in
respect thereof.
“ Contribution
Indebtedness ” shall mean Indebtedness of the Borrower or
any Restricted Subsidiary in an aggregate principal amount not
greater than twice the aggregate amount of cash contributions
(other than Excluded Contributions) made (without duplication) to
the capital of the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary after
February 4, 2008 (other than any cash contributions in
connection with the Transactions), provided that (1) if
the aggregate principal amount of such Contribution Indebtedness is
greater than the aggregate amount of such cash contributions to the
capital of the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as
applicable, the amount in excess shall be Indebtedness (other than
Secured Indebtedness) that ranks subordinate to the Loans with a
Stated Maturity later than the Stated Maturity of the Extended Term
Loans, and (2) such Contribution Indebtedness (a) is
Incurred within 210 days after the making of such cash
contributions and (b) is so designated as Contribution
Indebtedness pursuant to an Officers’ Certificate on the date
of Incurrence thereof.
“ Credit
Agreements ” shall mean the Intelsat Credit Agreement and
the Intelsat Corp Credit Agreement.
“ Credit
Documents ” shall mean this Agreement, any promissory
notes issued by the Borrower hereunder and any Guarantees, if
applicable.
“ Credit Event
” shall mean and include the making of a Loan.
“ Cumulative
Credit ” shall mean the sum of (without
duplication):
(1) cumulative Adjusted
EBITDA of the Borrower for the period (taken as one accounting
period) from and after January 1, 2008 to the end of the
Borrower’s most recently ended fiscal quarter for which
internal financial statements are available at the time of such
Restricted Payment (or, in the case such Adjusted EBITDA for such
period is a negative, minus the amount by which cumulative Adjusted
EBITDA is less than zero), plus
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(2) 100% of the aggregate net
proceeds, including cash and the Fair Market Value (as determined
in accordance with the next succeeding sentence) of property other
than cash, received by the Borrower after February 4, 2008
from the issue or sale of Equity Interests of the Borrower or any
Parent of the Borrower (excluding (without duplication) Refunding
Capital Stock, Designated Preferred Stock, Excluded Contributions,
Disqualified Stock and the Cash Contribution Amount), including
Equity Interests issued upon conversion of Indebtedness or upon
exercise of warrants or options (other than an issuance or sale to
a Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower or an employee stock
ownership plan or trust established by the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries), plus
(3) 100% of the aggregate
amount of contributions to the capital of the Borrower received in
cash and the Fair Market Value (as determined in accordance with
the next succeeding sentence) of property other than cash after
February 4, 2008 (other than Excluded Contributions, Refunding
Capital Stock, Designated Preferred Stock, Disqualified Stock and
the Cash Contribution Amount), plus
(4) the principal amount of
any Indebtedness, or the liquidation preference or maximum fixed
repurchase price, as the case may be, of any Disqualified Stock, of
the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary thereof issued after
February 4, 2008 (other than Indebtedness or Disqualified
Stock issued to a Restricted Subsidiary) which has been converted
into or exchanged for Equity Interests in the Borrower or any
Parent of the Borrower (other than Disqualified Stock),
plus
(5) 100% of the aggregate
amount received by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in
cash and the Fair Market Value (as determined in accordance with
the next succeeding sentence) of property other than cash received
by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary from:
(A) the sale or other
disposition (other than to the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary
of the Borrower) of Restricted Investments made by the Borrower and
its Restricted Subsidiaries and from repurchases and redemptions of
such Restricted Investments from the Borrower and its Restricted
Subsidiaries by any Person (other than the Borrower or any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries) and from repayments of loans or advances
which constituted Restricted Investments (other than in each case
to the extent that the Restricted Investment was made pursuant to
Section 10.2(b)(vii) or (x)),
(B) the sale (other than to
the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower) of the
Capital Stock of an Unrestricted Subsidiary or
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(C) a distribution, dividend
or other payment from an Unrestricted Subsidiary,
plus
(6) in the event any
Unrestricted Subsidiary of the Borrower has been redesignated as a
Restricted Subsidiary or has been merged, consolidated or
amalgamated with or into, or transfers or conveys its assets to, or
is liquidated into, the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary of the
Borrower, the Fair Market Value (as determined in accordance with
the next succeeding sentence) of the Investments of the Borrower in
such Unrestricted Subsidiary at the time of such redesignation,
combination or transfer (or of the assets transferred or conveyed,
as applicable) (other than in each case to the extent that the
designation of such Subsidiary as an Unrestricted Subsidiary was
made pursuant to Section 10.2(b)(vii) or (x) or
constituted a Permitted Investment).
The Fair Market Value of property other
than cash covered by clauses (2), (3), (4), (5) and
(6) above shall be determined in good faith by the Borrower
and
(A) in the event of property
with a Fair Market Value in excess of $50.0 million, shall be set
forth in an Officers’ Certificate or
(B) in the event of property
with a Fair Market Value in excess of $100.0 million, shall be set
forth in a resolution approved by at least a majority of the Board
of Directors of the Borrower.
“ Cumulative
Interest Expense ” shall mean, in respect of any
Restricted Payment, the sum of the aggregate amount of Consolidated
Interest Expense of the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries
for the period from and after January 1, 2008 to the end of
the Borrower’s most recently ended fiscal quarter for which
internal financial statements are available and immediately
preceding the proposed Restricted Payment.
“ Debt to Adjusted
EBITDA Ratio ” shall mean, with respect to any Person for
any period, the ratio of (i) Consolidated Total Indebtedness
as of the date of calculation (the “ Calculation Date
”) to (ii) Adjusted EBITDA of such Person for the four
consecutive fiscal quarters immediately preceding such Calculation
Date. In the event that such Person or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries Incurs or redeems any Indebtedness (other than in the
case of revolving credit borrowings, in which case interest expense
shall be computed based upon the average daily balance of such
Indebtedness during the applicable period) or issues or redeems
Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock subsequent to the
commencement of the period for which the Debt to Adjusted EBITDA
Ratio is being calculated but prior to the Calculation Date, then
the Debt to Adjusted EBITDA Ratio shall be calculated giving pro
forma effect to such Incurrence or redemption of Indebtedness, or
such issuance or redemption of Disqualified Stock or Preferred
Stock, as if the same had occurred at the beginning of the
applicable four-quarter period.
For purposes of making the
computation referred to above, Investments, acquisitions,
dispositions, mergers, amalgamations, consolidations and
discontinued operations (as determined in accordance with GAAP), in
each case with respect to an operating unit of a business, and
other operational changes that such Person or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries has both
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determined to make and made after
January 28, 2005 and during the four-quarter reference period
or subsequent to such reference period and on or prior to or
simultaneously with the Calculation Date shall be calculated on a
pro forma basis assuming that all such Investments, acquisitions,
dispositions, mergers, amalgamations, consolidations, discontinued
operations and other operational changes (and the change of any
associated fixed charge obligations and the change in Adjusted
EBITDA resulting therefrom) had occurred on the first day of the
four-quarter reference period. If since the beginning of such
period any Person that subsequently became a Restricted Subsidiary
or was merged with or into such Person or any Restricted Subsidiary
since the beginning of such period shall have made any Investment,
acquisition, disposition, merger, amalgamation, consolidation,
discontinued operation or operational change, in each case with
respect to an operating unit of a business, that would have
required adjustment pursuant to this definition, then the Debt to
Adjusted EBITDA Ratio shall be calculated giving pro forma effect
thereto for such period as if such Investment, acquisition,
disposition, discontinued operation, merger, amalgamation,
consolidation or operational change had occurred at the beginning
of the applicable four-quarter period.
For purposes of this
definition, whenever pro forma effect is to be given to any
transaction, the pro forma calculations shall be made in good faith
by a responsible financial or accounting officer of the Borrower.
If any Indebtedness bears a floating rate of interest and is being
given pro forma effect, the interest on such Indebtedness shall be
calculated as if the rate in effect on the Calculation Date had
been the applicable rate for the entire period (taking into account
any Hedging Obligations applicable to such Indebtedness if such
Hedging Obligation has a remaining term in excess of 12 months).
Interest on a Capitalized Lease Obligation shall be deemed to
accrue at an interest rate reasonably determined by a responsible
financial or accounting officer of the Borrower to be the rate of
interest implicit in such Capitalized Lease Obligation in
accordance with GAAP. For purposes of making the computation
referred to above, interest on any Indebtedness under a revolving
credit facility computed on a pro forma basis shall be computed
based upon the average daily balance of such Indebtedness during
the applicable period. Interest on Indebtedness that may optionally
be determined at an interest rate based upon a factor of a prime or
similar rate, a eurocurrency interbank offered rate, or other rate,
shall be deemed to have been based upon the rate actually chosen,
or, if none, then based upon such optional rate chosen as the
Borrower may designate. Any such pro forma calculation may include
adjustments appropriate, in the reasonable determination of the
Borrower as set forth in an Officers’ Certificate, to
reflect, among other things, (1) operating expense reductions
and other operating improvements or synergies reasonably expected
to result from any acquisition, amalgamation, merger or operational
change (including, to the extent applicable, from the Transactions)
and (2) all adjustments used in connection with the
calculation of “New Bermuda Adjusted EBITDA” as set
forth in footnote 4 to the “Summary Historical and Pro Forma
Consolidated Financial Data” under “Offering Memorandum
Summary” in the Offering Memorandum to the extent such
adjustments, without duplication, continue to be applicable to such
four-quarter period.
“ Default
” shall mean any event which is, or after notice or passage
of time or both would be, an Event of Default.
“ Defaulting
Lender ” shall mean any Lender with respect to which a
Lender Default is in effect.
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“ Designated
Non-cash Consideration ” shall mean the Fair Market Value
of non-cash consideration received by the Borrower or one of its
Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with an Asset Sale that is so
designated as Designated Non-cash Consideration pursuant to an
Officers’ Certificate, setting forth the basis of such
valuation, less the amount of Cash Equivalents received in
connection with a subsequent sale of such Designated Non-cash
Consideration.
“ Designated
Preferred Stock ” shall mean Preferred Stock of the
Borrower, its Restricted Subsidiaries or any Parent of the Borrower
or its Restricted Subsidiaries, as applicable (other than
Disqualified Stock), that is issued for cash (other than to the
Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries or an employee stock ownership
plan or trust established by the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries) and is so designated as Designated Preferred Stock,
pursuant to an Officers’ Certificate, on the issuance date
thereof, the cash proceeds of which are excluded from the
calculation set forth in the definition of “Cumulative
Credit.”
“ Disqualified
Stock ” shall mean, with respect to any Person, any
Capital Stock of such Person which, by its terms (or by the terms
of any security into which it is convertible or for which it is
redeemable or exchangeable), or upon the happening of any
event:
(1) matures or is mandatorily
redeemable, pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise
(other than as a result of a change of control or asset sale;
provided that the relevant asset sale or change of control
provisions, taken as a whole, are no more favorable in any material
respect to holders of such Capital Stock than the asset sale and
change of control provisions applicable to the Extended Term Loans
and any purchase requirement triggered thereby may not become
operative until compliance with the asset sale and change of
control provisions applicable to the Extended Term Loans (including
the purchase of any notes tendered pursuant thereto)),
(2) is convertible or
exchangeable for Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock, or
(3) is redeemable at the
option of the holder thereof, in whole or in part, in each case
prior to 91 days after the Extended Maturity Date; provided
, however , that only the portion of Capital Stock which so
matures or is mandatorily redeemable, is so convertible or
exchangeable or is so redeemable at the option of the holder
thereof prior to such date shall be deemed to be Disqualified
Stock; provided , further , however , that if
such Capital Stock is issued to any employee or to any plan for the
benefit of employees of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries or by any
such plan to such employees, such Capital Stock shall not
constitute Disqualified Stock solely because it may be required to
be repurchased by the Borrower in order to satisfy applicable
statutory or regulatory obligations or as a result of such
employee’s termination, death or disability; provided
, further , that any class of Capital Stock of such Person
that by its terms authorizes such Person to satisfy its obligations
thereunder by delivery of Capital Stock that is not Disqualified
Stock shall not be deemed to be Disqualified Stock.
“ Documentation
Agent ” shall mean Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.,
in its capacity as documentation agent under this Agreement and the
other Credit Documents.
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“ Dollar
Equivalent ” shall mean, on any date of determination,
(a) with respect to any amount denominated in Dollars, such
amount, and (b) with respect to any amount denominated in any
Foreign Currency, the equivalent in Dollars of such amount,
determined by the Administrative Agent using the applicable
Exchange Rate.
“ Dollars
” and “ $ ” shall mean dollars in lawful
currency of the United States of America.
“ Employee Transfer
Agreement ” shall mean the intercompany agreement
regarding the transfer of substantially all of the employees of
Intelsat Global Service Corporation to Intelsat Corp, dated as of
July 3, 2006, between Intelsat Global Service Corporation and
Intelsat Corp, as amended from time to time ( provided that
no such amendment materially affects the ability of the Borrower to
make anticipated principal or interest payments on the
Loans).
“ Environmental
Claims ” shall mean any and all actions, suits, orders,
decrees, demands, demand letters, claims, liens, notices of
noncompliance, violation or potential responsibility or
investigation (other than internal reports prepared by Holdings,
the Borrower or any of the Subsidiaries (a) in the ordinary
course of such Person’s business or (b) as required in
connection with a financing transaction or an acquisition or
disposition of real estate) or proceedings relating in any way to
any Environmental Law or any permit issued, or any approval given,
under any such Environmental Law (hereinafter, “
Claims ”), including, without limitation, (i) any
and all Claims by governmental or regulatory authorities for
enforcement, cleanup, removal, response, remedial or other actions
or damages pursuant to any applicable Environmental Law and
(ii) any and all Claims by any third party seeking damages,
contribution, indemnification, cost recovery, compensation or
injunctive relief relating to the presence, release or threatened
release of Hazardous Materials or arising from alleged injury or
threat of injury to health or safety (to the extent relating to
human exposure to Hazardous Materials), or the environment
including, without limitation, ambient air, surface water,
ground-water, land surface and subsurface strata and natural
resources such as wetlands.
“ Environmental
Law ” shall mean any applicable Federal, state, foreign
or local statute, law, rule, regulation, ordinance, code and rule
of common law now or hereafter in effect and in each case as
amended, and any binding judicial or administrative interpretation
thereof, including any binding judicial or administrative order,
consent decree or judgment, relating to the protection of
environment, including, without limitation, ambient air, surface
water, groundwater, land surface and subsurface strata and natural
resources such as wetlands, or human health or safety (to the
extent relating to human exposure to Hazardous Materials), or
Hazardous Materials.
“ Equity
Interests ” shall mean Capital Stock and all warrants,
options or other rights to acquire Capital Stock (but excluding any
debt security that is convertible into, or exchangeable for,
Capital Stock).
“ ERISA ”
shall mean the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as
amended from time to time. Section references to ERISA are to ERISA
as in effect at the Closing Date and any subsequent provisions of
ERISA amendatory thereof, supplemental thereto or substituted
therefor.
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“ ERISA
Affiliate ” shall mean each person (as defined in
Section 3(9) of ERISA) that together with the Borrower or a
Subsidiary would be deemed to be a “single employer”
within the meaning of 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.
“ Event of
Default ” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 12.
“ Event of Loss
” shall mean any event that results in the Borrower or its
Restricted Subsidiaries receiving proceeds from any insurance
covering any Satellite, or in the event that the Borrower or any of
its Restricted Subsidiaries receives proceeds from any insurance
maintained for it by any Satellite Manufacturer or any launch
provider covering any of such Satellites.
“ Event of Loss
Proceeds ” shall mean, with respect to any proceeds from
any Event of Loss, all Satellite insurance proceeds received by the
Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with
such Event of Loss, after
(1) provision for all income
or other taxes measured by or resulting from such Event of
Loss,
(2) payment of all reasonable
legal, accounting and other reasonable fees and expenses related to
such Event of Loss,
(3) payment of amounts
required to be applied to the repayment of Indebtedness secured by
a Lien on the Satellite that is the subject of such Event of
Loss,
(4) provision for payments to
Persons who own an interest in the Satellite (including any
transponder thereon) in accordance with the terms of the
agreement(s) governing the ownership of such interest by such
Person (other than provision for payments to insurance carriers
required to be made based on projected future revenues expected to
be generated from such Satellite in the good faith determination of
the Borrower as evidenced by an Officers’ Certificate),
and
(5) deduction of appropriate
amounts to be provided by the Borrower or such Restricted
Subsidiary as a reserve, in accordance with GAAP, against any
liabilities associated with the Satellite that was the subject of
the Event of Loss.
“ Exchange Act
” shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended,
and the rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated
thereunder.
“ Exchange Note
Indenture ” shall mean the indenture with respect to the
Exchange Notes in a form to be agreed and executed in accordance
with Section 3.2.
“ Exchange Note
Trustee ” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 3.2.
“ Exchange Notes
” shall mean any senior unsecured notes of the Borrower due
on the ninth year anniversary of the Closing Date, issued under the
Exchange Note Indenture in exchange for an equal principal amount
of Loans on the Initial Maturity Date or an equal principal amount
of Extended Maturity Loans thereafter, in each case pursuant to
Section 3.3(a).
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“ Exchange Rate
” shall mean, on any day with respect to any Foreign
Currency, the rate at which such Foreign Currency may be exchanged
into Dollars, as set forth at approximately 11:00 a.m. (London
time) on such day on the Reuters World Currency Page for such
Foreign Currency; in the event that such rate does not appear on
any Reuters World Currency Page, the Exchange Rate shall be
determined by reference to such other publicly available service
for displaying exchange rates as may be agreed upon by the
Administrative Agent and the Borrower, or, in the absence of such
agreement, such Exchange Rate shall instead be the arithmetic
average of the spot rates of exchange of the Administrative Agent
in the market where its foreign currency exchange operations in
respect of such Foreign Currency are then being conducted, at or
about 10:00 a.m. (New York City time) on such date for the purchase
of Dollars for delivery two Business Days later.
“ Excluded
Contributions ” shall mean the Cash Equivalents or other
assets (valued at their Fair Market Value as determined by the
Borrower in good faith) received by the Borrower after
February 4, 2008 from:
(1) contributions to its
common equity capital, and
(2) the sale (other than to a
Subsidiary of the Borrower or pursuant to any management equity
plan or stock option plan or any other management or employee
benefit plan or agreement of the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries) of Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock and
Designated Preferred Stock) of the Borrower, in each case
designated as Excluded Contributions pursuant to an Officers’
Certificate executed by an Officer of the Borrower, which are
excluded from the calculation set forth in the definition of the
term “Cumulative Credit.”
“ Excluded
Satellite ” shall mean any Satellite (or, if the entire
Satellite is not owned by the Borrower or any Restricted
Subsidiary, as the case may be, the portion of the Satellite it
owns or for which it has risk of loss) (i) that is not
expected or intended, in the good faith determination of the
Borrower, to earn revenue from the operation of such Satellite (or
portion, as applicable) in excess of $75.0 million for the
immediately succeeding 12-month calendar period or (ii) that
has a net book value not in excess of $200.0 million or
(iii) that (1) the procurement of In-Orbit Insurance
therefor in the amounts and on the terms required by
Section 9.3 would not be available for a price that is, and on
other terms and conditions that are, commercially reasonable or
(2) the procurement of such In-Orbit Insurance therefor would
be subject to exclusions or limitations of coverage that would make
the terms of the insurance commercially unreasonable, in either
case, in the good faith determination of the Borrower, or
(iv) for which In-Orbit Contingency Protection is available or
(v) whose primary purpose is to provide In-Orbit Contingency
Protection for the Borrower’s or its Subsidiaries’
Satellites (or portions) and otherwise that is not expected or
intended, in the good faith determination of the Borrower, to earn
revenues from the operation of such Satellite (or portion, as
applicable) in excess of $75.0 million for the immediately
succeeding 12-month calendar period.
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“ Excluded Taxes
” shall mean (a) with respect to the Administrative
Agent or any Lender, net income taxes and franchise taxes (imposed
in lieu of net income taxes) and capital taxes imposed on the
Administrative Agent or any Lender by any jurisdiction as a result
of the Administrative Agent or such Lender being organized in, or
having its principal office of applicable lending office in, such
jurisdiction imposing such tax or any political subdivision or
taxing authority thereof or therein and (b) in the case of a
Foreign Lender, any Tax to the extent attributable to such Foreign
Lender’s failure to comply with
Section 5.4(d).
“ Existing Intelsat
Notes ” means (a) the 5 1 / 4 % Senior Notes
due 2008, (b) the 7 5
/ 8 % Senior Notes due 2012 and (c) the
6 1 /
2 %
Senior Notes due 2013, in each case, of
Holdings.
“ Existing
Subsidiary Notes ” shall mean (a) the 8 1 / 4 % Senior Notes
due 2013 and the 8 5
/ 8 % Senior Notes due 2015, in each case,
of Intelsat Sub Holdco, (b) the 9 1 / 4 % Senior
Discount Notes due 2015 of Intelsat Intermediate Holdco,
(c) the 9 1 / 4 % Senior Notes due 2016, the 11 1 / 4 % Senior Notes
due 2016, the Floating Rate Senior Notes due 2013 and the Floating
Rate Senior Notes due 2015, in each case of Intelsat Jackson (after
giving effect to the Intelsat Bermuda Transfer), and (d) the
Secured 6 7 / 8 % Senior Debentures due 2028, the 9% Senior Notes due
2014, and the 9% Senior Notes due 2016, in each case, of Intelsat
Corp.
“ Extended Maturity
Date ” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 3.1.
“ Extended Term
Loan ” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 3.1; provided that any references to
“Extended Term Loan” shall also include any increases
in principal amount of Extended Term Loans as a payment of PIK
Interest pursuant to Section 2.8.
“ Fair Market
Value ” shall mean, with respect to any asset or
property, the price which could be negotiated in an
arm’s-length, free market transaction, for cash, between a
willing seller and a willing and able buyer, neither of whom is
under undue pressure or compulsion to complete the
transaction.
“ FCC ”
shall mean the Federal Communications Commission or any
governmental authority substituted therefor.
“ FCC Licenses
” shall mean all authorizations, licenses and permits issued
by the FCC to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, under which
the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries is authorized to launch and
operate any of its Satellites or to operate any of its TT&C
Earth Stations (other than authorizations, orders, licenses or
permits that are no longer in effect).
“ Federal Funds
Effective Rate ” shall mean, for any day, the weighted
average of the per annum 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 that is a Business Day, the average 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.
“ Fee Letter
” shall mean the Fee Letter dated June 19, 2007 by and
among the Borrower and the arrangers, agents and lenders party
thereto, as amended by that certain Amendment to Commitment Letter,
Fee Letter and Engagement Letter agreement dated as of
February 4, 2008, as further amended or supplemented from time
to time.
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“ Fees ”
shall mean all amounts payable pursuant to, or referred to in,
Section 4.1.
“ Flow-Through
Entity ” shall mean an entity that is treated as a
partnership not taxable as a corporation, a grantor trust or a
disregarded entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes or subject
to treatment on a comparable basis for purposes of state, local or
foreign tax law.
“ Foreign
Currency ” shall mean Euro and Sterling.
“ Foreign Lender
” shall mean any Lender that is not organized or incorporated
under the laws of Bermuda.
“ Foreign Plan
” shall mean any employee benefit plan, program, fund,
policy, arrangement or agreement maintained or contributed to by
the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries with respect to employees
employed outside the United States.
“ Foreign
Subsidiary ” shall mean a Restricted Subsidiary not
organized or existing under the laws of the United States of
America or any state or territory thereof or the District of
Columbia and any direct or indirect subsidiary of such Restricted
Subsidiary.
“ G2 Transfer
Agreement ” means the Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated
as of July 3, 2006, among Intelsat General Corporation, G2
Satellite Solutions Corporation and Intelsat Corp, as amended from
time to time (provided that no such amendment materially affects
the ability of the Borrower to make anticipated principal or
interest payments on the Loans), and the other agreements entered
into in connection therewith on or prior to July 3,
2006.
“ GAAP ”
shall mean generally accepted accounting principles set forth in
the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board
of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and
statements and pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards
Board or in such other statements by such other entity as have been
approved by a significant segment of the accounting profession,
which are in effect on January 28, 2005. For the purposes of
this Agreement, the term “ consolidated ” with
respect to any Person shall mean such Person consolidated with its
Restricted Subsidiaries, and shall not include any Unrestricted
Subsidiary, but the interest of such Person in an Unrestricted
Subsidiary will be accounted for as an Investment.
“ Government
Business Subsidiary ” shall mean any Restricted
Subsidiary of the Borrower, including Intelsat General Corporation
for so long as it is a Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower, that
(i) is engaged primarily in the business of providing services
to customers similar to the services provided on the Closing Date
by Intelsat General Corporation and services or activities that are
reasonably similar thereto or a reasonable extension, development
or expansion thereof, or is complementary, incidental, ancillary or
related thereto and (ii) is subject to the Proxy Agreement or
a substantially similar agreement substantially restricting the
Borrower’s control of such Restricted Subsidiary.
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“ Governmental
Authority ” shall mean any nation or government, any
state, province, territory or other political subdivision thereof,
and any entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial,
regulatory or administrative functions of or pertaining to
government.
“ guarantee
” shall mean a guarantee (other than by endorsement of
negotiable instruments for collection in the ordinary course of
business), direct or indirect, in any manner (including, without
limitation, letters of credit and reimbursement agreements in
respect thereof), of all or any part of any Indebtedness or other
obligations.
“ Guarantee
” shall mean any guarantee of the obligations of the Borrower
under this Agreement by any Person in accordance with the
provisions hereof, if any. This Agreement has no requirement that
any Person Guarantee the Notes on the Closing Date.
“ Guarantor
” shall mean any Person that Incurs a Guarantee;
provided that upon the release or discharge of such Person
from its Guarantee in accordance with this Agreement, such Person
ceases to be a Guarantor. As of the Closing Date, there will be no
Guarantors; nor is there any requirement that any Person Guarantee
the Notes on the Closing Date.
“ Hazardous
Materials ” shall mean (a) any petroleum or
petroleum products, radioactive materials, friable asbestos, urea
formaldehyde foam insulation, transformers or other equipment that
contain dielectric fluid containing regulated levels of
polychlorinated biphenyls, and radon gas; (b) any chemicals,
materials or substances defined as or included in the definition of
“hazardous substances,” “hazardous waste,”
“hazardous materials,” “extremely hazardous
waste,” “restricted hazardous waste,”
“toxic substances,” “toxic pollutants,”
“contaminants” or “pollutants,” or words of
similar import, under any applicable Environmental Law; and
(c) any other chemical, material or substance, which is
prohibited, limited or regulated by any Environmental
Law.
“ Hedging
Obligations ” shall mean, with respect to any Person, the
obligations of such Person under:
(1) currency exchange or
interest rate swap agreements, cap agreements and collar
agreements; and
(2) other agreements or
arrangements designed to protect such Person against fluctuations
in currency exchange or interest rates.
“ Holdings
” shall mean Intelsat, Ltd., until a successor replaces it
and, thereafter, means the successor.
“ Incur ”
shall mean issue, assume, guarantee, incur or otherwise become
liable for; provided , however , that any
Indebtedness or Capital Stock of a Person existing at the time such
Person becomes a Subsidiary (whether by merger, amalgamation,
consolidation, acquisition or otherwise) shall be deemed to be
Incurred by such Person at the time it becomes a
Subsidiary.
“ Indebtedness
” shall mean, with respect to any Person:
(1) the principal and premium
(if any) of any indebtedness of such Person, whether or not
contingent, (a) in respect of borrowed money,
(b) evidenced by bonds, notes, debentures or similar
instruments or letters of credit or bankers’ acceptances (or,
without duplication, reimbursement agreements in respect thereof),
(c) representing the deferred and unpaid purchase price of any
property, except any such balance that constitutes a current
account payable, trade payable or similar obligation Incurred,
(d) in respect of Capitalized Lease Obligations, or
(e) representing any Hedging Obligations, if and to the extent
that any of the foregoing indebtedness (other than letters of
credit and Hedging Obligations) would appear as a liability on a
balance sheet (excluding the footnotes thereto) of such Person
prepared in accordance with GAAP;
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(2) to the extent not
otherwise included, any obligation of such Person to be liable for,
or to pay, as obligor, guarantor or otherwise, the Indebtedness of
another Person (other than by endorsement of negotiable instruments
for collection in the ordinary course of business);
(3) to the extent not
otherwise included, Indebtedness of another Person secured by a
Lien on any asset owned by such Person (whether or not such
Indebtedness is assumed by such Person); provided ,
however , that the amount of such Indebtedness will be the
lesser of: (a) the Fair Market Value of such asset at such
date of determination, and (b) the amount of such Indebtedness
of such other Person; and
(4) to the extent not
otherwise included, with respect to the Borrower and its Restricted
Subsidiaries, the amount then outstanding (i.e., advanced, and
received by, and available for use by, the Borrower or any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries) under any Receivables Financing (as set
forth in the books and records of the Borrower or any Restricted
Subsidiary and confirmed by the agent, trustee or other
representative of the institution or group providing such
Receivables Financing);
provided , however , that
notwithstanding the foregoing, Indebtedness shall be deemed not to
include (1) Contingent Obligations incurred in the ordinary
course of business and not in respect of borrowed money;
(2) deferred or prepaid revenues; (3) purchase price
holdbacks in respect of a portion of the purchase price of an asset
to satisfy warranty or other unperformed obligations of the
respective seller; (4) obligations to make payments to one or
more insurers under satellite insurance policies in respect of
premiums or the requirement to remit to such insurer(s) a portion
of the future revenue generated by a satellite which has been
declared a constructive total loss, in each case in accordance with
the terms of the insurance policies relating thereto;
(5) Obligations under or in respect of any Qualified
Receivables Financing; or (6) any obligations to make progress
or incentive payments or risk money payments under any satellite
manufacturing contract or to make payments under satellite launch
contracts in respect of launch services provided thereunder, in
each case, to the extent not overdue by more than 90
days.
Notwithstanding anything in
this Agreement, Indebtedness shall not include, and shall be
calculated without giving effect to, the effects of Statement of
Financial Accounting Standards No. 133 and related
interpretations to the extent such effects would otherwise increase
or decrease an amount of Indebtedness for any purpose under this
Agreement as a result of accounting for any embedded derivatives
created by the terms of such Indebtedness; and any
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such amounts that would have constituted
Indebtedness under this Agreement but for the application of this
sentence shall not be deemed an Incurrence of Indebtedness under
this Agreement.
“ Indemnified
Taxes ” shall mean all Taxes (other than Excluded Taxes)
and Other Taxes.
“ Independent
Financial Advisor ” shall mean an accounting, appraisal
or investment banking firm or consultant to Persons engaged in a
Similar Business, in each case of nationally recognized standing
that is, in the good faith determination of the Borrower, qualified
to perform the task for which it has been engaged.
“ Initial
Lenders ” shall mean Credit Suisse, Cayman Islands
Branch, Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., and Banc of America
Bridge LLC.
“ Initial Loan
” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 2.1;
provided that any references to “Initial Loan”
shall also include any increases in principal amount of Initial
Loans as a payment of PIK Interest pursuant to
Section 2.8.
“ Initial Maturity
Date ” shall mean the one-year anniversary of the Closing
Date.
“ In-Orbit
Contingency Protection ” shall mean transponder capacity
that, in the good faith determination of the Borrower, is available
on a contingency basis by the Borrower or its Subsidiaries,
directly or by another satellite operator pursuant to a contractual
arrangement, to accommodate the transfer of traffic representing at
least 25% of the revenue-generating capacity with respect to any
Satellite (or, if the entire Satellite is not owned by the Borrower
or any Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, the portion of
the Satellite it owns or for which it has risk of loss) that may
suffer actual or constructive total loss and that meets or exceeds
the contractual performance specifications for the transponders
that had been utilized by such traffic; it being understood that
the Satellite (or portion, as applicable) shall be deemed to be
insured for a percentage of the Satellite’s (or applicable
portion’s) net book value for which In-Orbit Contingency
Protection is available.
“ In-Orbit
Insurance ” shall mean, with respect to any Satellite
(or, if the entire Satellite is not owned by the Borrower or any
Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be, the portion of the
Satellite it owns or for which it has risk of loss), insurance
(subject to a right of co-insurance in an amount up to $150.0
million) or other contractual arrangement providing for coverage
against the risk of loss of or damage to such Satellite (or
portion, as applicable) attaching upon the expiration of the launch
insurance therefor (or, if launch insurance is not procured, upon
the initial completion of in-orbit testing) and attaching, during
the commercial in-orbit service of such Satellite (or portion, as
applicable), upon the expiration of the immediately preceding
corresponding policy or other contractual arrangement, as the case
may be, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this
Agreement.
“ Intelsat
Bermuda ” shall mean Intelsat (Bermuda), Ltd., until a
successor replaces it, and thereafter means such
successor.
“ Intelsat Bermuda
Loan ” means the intercompany loans by Intelsat Bermuda
to PanAmSat Holdco to fund the payment of a portion of the purchase
price of the acquisition of PanAmSat Holdco and to fund the
purchase of the 10 3
/ 8 % Senior Discount Notes due 2014 of
PanAmSat Holdco and, in each case, fees and expenses related
thereto.
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“ Intelsat Bermuda
Transfer ” shall mean the transfer by Intelsat Bermuda of
all of its assets (other than the capital stock of Intelsat
Jackson) and all of its liabilities and obligations to Intelsat
Jackson.
“ Intelsat Corp
” shall mean Intelsat Corporation (formerly PanAmSat
Corporation), until a successor replaces it, and thereafter means
such successor.
“ Intelsat Corp
Credit Agreement ” means (i) the amended and
restated credit agreement entered into on July 3, 2006, among
Intelsat Corp, the financial institutions named therein and
Citicorp USA, Inc., as Administrative Agent, and the guarantees
thereof provided by certain subsidiaries of Intelsat Corp, as
amended, restated, supplemented, waived, replaced (whether or not
upon termination, and whether with the original lenders or
otherwise), restructured, repaid, refunded, refinanced or otherwise
modified from time to time, including any one or more agreements or
indentures extending the maturity thereof, refinancing, replacing
or otherwise restructuring all or any portion of the Indebtedness
under such agreement or agreements or indenture or indentures or
any successor or replacement agreement or agreements or indenture
or indentures or increasing the amount loaned or issued thereunder
or altering the maturity thereof, and (ii) whether or not the
credit agreement referred to in clause (i) remains
outstanding, if designated by the Borrower to be included in the
definition of “Intelsat Corp Credit Agreement,” one or
more (A) debt facilities or commercial paper facilities
providing for revolving credit loans, term loans, receivables
financing (including through the sale of receivables to lenders or
to special purpose entities formed to borrow from lenders against
such receivables) or letters of credit, (B) debt securities,
indentures or other forms of debt financing (including convertible
or exchangeable debt instruments or bank guarantees or
bankers’ acceptances), or (C) instruments or agreements
evidencing any other Indebtedness, in each case, with the same or
different borrowers or issuers and, in each case, as amended,
supplemented, modified, extended, restructured, renewed,
refinanced, restated, replaced or refunded in whole or in part from
time to time.
“ Intelsat Corp
Refinancing ” means the borrowing by Intelsat Corp of
$150.0 million in aggregate principal amount pursuant to a new term
loan under the Intelsat Corp Credit Agreement, the proceeds of
which are used to refinance borrowings under the revolving facility
of the Intelsat Corp Credit Agreement outstanding on the Closing
Date that were drawn to pay at maturity the 6 3 / 8 % Senior Secured
Notes due 2008.
“ Intelsat Credit
Agreement ” means (i) the credit agreement entered
into on July 3, 2006, among Intelsat Sub Holdco, Intelsat
Intermediate Holdco, the financial institutions named therein and
Citicorp USA, Inc., as Administrative Agent, and the guarantees
thereof provided by certain subsidiaries of Intelsat Sub Holdco, as
amended, restated, supplemented, waived, replaced (whether or not
upon termination, and whether with the original lenders or
otherwise), restructured, repaid, refunded, refinanced or otherwise
modified from time to time, including any one or more agreements or
indentures extending the maturity thereof, refinancing, replacing
or otherwise restructuring all or any portion of the Indebtedness
under such agreement or agreements or indenture or indentures or
any successor or replacement agreement or agreements
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or indenture or indentures or increasing
the amount loaned or issued thereunder or altering the maturity
thereof and (ii) whether or not the credit agreement referred
to in clause (i) remains outstanding, if designated by the
Borrower to be included in the definition of “Intelsat Credit
Agreement,” one or more (A) debt facilities or
commercial paper facilities, providing for revolving credit loans,
term loans, receivables financing (including through the sale of
receivables to lenders or to special purpose entities formed to
borrow from lenders against such receivables) or letters of credit,
(B) debt securities, indentures or other forms of debt
financing (including convertible or exchangeable debt instruments
or bank guarantees or bankers’ acceptances), or
(C) instruments or agreements evidencing any other
Indebtedness, in each case, with the same or different borrowers or
issuers and, in each case, as amended, supplemented, modified,
extended, restructured, renewed, refinanced, restated, replaced or
refunded in whole or in part from time to time.
“ Intelsat
Holdings ” shall mean Intelsat Holdings, Ltd., a Bermuda
company, until a successor replaces it, and thereafter means such
successor.
“ Intelsat
Intermediate Holdco ” means Intelsat Intermediate Holding
Company, Ltd., until a successor replaces it, and thereafter means
such successor.
“ Intelsat
Jackson ” means Intelsat Jackson Holdings, Ltd., until a
successor replaces it, and thereafter means such
successor.
“ Intelsat Jackson
Unsecured Credit Agreement ” means (i) the senior
unsecured credit agreement entered into on February 2, 2007
among Intelsat Bermuda (to be assumed by Intelsat Jackson as part
of the Intelsat Bermuda Transfer), Holdings, the financial
institutions named therein and Bank of America, N.A., as
administrative agent, and the guarantees thereof provided by
Intelsat Sub Holdco and certain subsidiaries of Intelsat Sub
Holdco, as amended, restated, supplemented, waived, replaced
(whether or not upon termination, and whether with the original
lenders or otherwise), restructured, repaid, refunded, refinanced
or otherwise modified from time to time, including any one or more
agreements or indentures extending the maturity thereof,
refinancing, replacing or otherwise restructuring all or any
portion of the Indebtedness under such agreement or agreements or
indenture or indentures or any successor or replacement agreement
or agreements or indenture or indentures or increasing the amount
loaned or issued thereunder or altering the maturity thereof and
(ii) whether or not the credit agreement referred to in clause
(i) remains outstanding, if designated by the Borrower to be
included in the definition of “Intelsat Jackson Unsecured
Credit Agreement,” one or more (A) debt facilities or
commercial paper facilities, providing for revolving credit loans,
term loans, receivables financing (including through the sale of
receivables to lenders or to special purpose entities formed to
borrow from lenders against such receivables) or letters of credit,
(B) debt securities, indentures or other forms of debt
financing (including convertible or exchangeable debt instruments
or bank guarantees or bankers’ acceptances), or
(C) instruments or agreements evidencing any other
Indebtedness, in each case, with the same or different borrowers or
issuers and, in each case, as amended, supplemented, modified,
extended, restructured, renewed, refinanced, restated, replaced or
refunded in whole or in part from time to time.
“ Intelsat Sub
Holdco ” means Intelsat Subsidiary Holding Company, Ltd.,
until a successor replaces it, and thereafter means such
successor.
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“ Interest
Period ” shall mean, with respect to any Loan, the
interest period applicable thereto, as determined pursuant to
Section 2.9.
“ Investment Grade
Rating ” means a rating equal to or higher than Baa3 (or
equivalent) by Moody’s or BBB- (or equivalent) by S&P, or
an equivalent rating by any other Rating Agency.
“ Investment Grade
Securities ” means:
(1) securities issued or
directly and fully guaranteed or insured by the U.S. government or
any agency or instrumentality thereof (other than Cash
Equivalents),
(2) securities that have an
Investment Grade Rating, but excluding any debt securities or loans
or advances between and among the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries,
(3) investments in any fund
that invests exclusively in investments of the type described in
clauses (1) and (2) which fund may also hold immaterial
amounts of cash pending investment and/or distribution,
and
(4) corresponding instruments
in countries other than the United States customarily utilized for
high quality investments and in each case with maturities not
exceeding two years from the date of acquisition.
“ Investments
” shall mean, with respect to any Person, all investments by
such Person in other Persons (including Affiliates) in the form of
loans (including guarantees), advances or capital contributions
(excluding accounts receivable, trade credit and advances to
customers and commission, travel and similar advances to officers,
employees and consultants made in the ordinary course of business),
purchases or other acquisitions for consideration of Indebtedness,
Equity Interests or other securities issued by any other Person and
investments that are required by GAAP to be classified on the
balance sheet of the Borrower in the same manner as the other
investments included in this definition to the extent such
transactions involve the transfer of cash or other property. For
purposes of the definition of “Unrestricted Subsidiary”
and Section 10.2:
(1) “Investments”
shall include the portion (proportionate to the Borrower’s
equity interest in such Subsidiary) of the Fair Market Value of the
net assets of a Subsidiary of the Borrower at the time that such
Subsidiary is designated an Unrestricted Subsidiary;
provided , however , that upon a redesignation of
such Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary, the Borrower shall be
deemed to continue to have a permanent “Investment” in
an Unrestricted Subsidiary equal to an amount (if positive) equal
to:
(a) the Borrower’s
“Investment” in such Subsidiary at the time of such
redesignation less
(b) the portion
(proportionate to the Borrower’s equity interest in such
Subsidiary) of the Fair Market Value of the net assets of such
Subsidiary at the time of such redesignation; and
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(2) any property transferred
to or from an Unrestricted Subsidiary shall be valued at its Fair
Market Value at the time of such transfer, in each case as
determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of the
Borrower.
“ Joint Lead
Arrangers ” shall mean Credit Suisse Securities (USA)
LLC, Banc of America Securities LLC and Morgan Stanley Senior
Funding, Inc., in their respective capacity as joint lead arrangers
and joint bookrunners with respect to the Senior PIK Bridge
Facility.
“ Joint Venture
” shall mean any Person, other than an individual or a
Subsidiary of the Borrower, (i) in which the Borrower or a
Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower holds or acquires an
ownership interest (whether by way of Capital Stock or otherwise)
and (ii) which is engaged in a Similar Business.
“ Judgment
Currency ” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 14.19(b).
“ Lender ”
shall have the meaning provided in the preamble to this
Agreement.
“ Lender Default
” shall mean (a) the failure (which has not been cured)
of a Lender to make available its portion of any Borrowing or
(b) a Lender having notified the Administrative Agent and/or
the Borrower that it does not intend to comply with the obligations
under Section 2.1.
“ LIBOR Loan
” shall mean any Loan bearing interest at a per annum
rate equal to the LIBOR Rate plus the LIBOR Margin.
“ LIBOR Margin
” shall mean 475 basis points; provided that the LIBOR
Margin will increase by (i) an additional 50 basis points on
the date that is six month from the Closing Date and (ii) a
further additional 50 basis points for each additional consecutive
three-month period thereafter so long as any amount under the Loans
or Extended Term Loans remains outstanding.
“ LIBOR Rate
” shall mean, for any Interest Period with respect to a LIBOR
Loan, the rate per annum equal to the British Bankers Association
LIBOR Rate (“ BBA LIBOR ”), as published by
Reuters (or other commercially available source providing
quotations of BBA LIBOR as designated by the Administrative Agent
from time to time) at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two
Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period,
for Dollar deposits (for delivery on the first day of such Interest
Period) with a term equivalent to such Interest Period. If such
rate is not available at such time for any reason, then the “
LIBOR Rate ” for such Interest Period shall be the
rate per annum determined by the Administrative Agent to be the
rate at which deposits in Dollars for delivery on the first day of
such Interest Period in same day funds in the approximate amount of
the LIBOR Loan being made or continued by the Administrative Agent
and with a term equivalent to such Interest Period would be offered
by the Administrative Agent’s London branch to major banks in
the London interbank eurodollar market at their request at
approximately 11:00 a.m. (London time) two Business Days prior to
the commencement of such Interest Period.
“ License
Subsidiary ” shall mean one or more wholly-owned
Restricted Subsidiaries of the Borrower (i) that holds, was
formed for the purpose of holding or is designated to hold FCC
Licenses for the launch and operation of Satellites or for the
operation of any TT&C Earth
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Station (other than any FCC License held
by Intelsat General Corporation or any of its Subsidiaries) and
(ii) all of the shares of capital stock and other ownership
interests of which are held directly by the Borrower or a
Subsidiary Guarantor.
“ Lien ”
shall mean, with respect to any asset, any mortgage, lien, pledge,
charge, security interest or encumbrance of any kind in respect of
such asset, whether or not filed, recorded or otherwise perfected
under applicable law (including any conditional sale or other title
retention agreement, any lease in the nature thereof, any other
agreement to give a security interest and any filing of or
agreement to give any financing statement under the Uniform
Commercial Code (or equivalent statutes) of any jurisdiction);
provided that in no event shall an operating lease be deemed
to constitute a Lien.
“ Loan ”
shall mean each Initial Loan and each Extended Term
Loan.
“ Lockheed Note
” shall mean the $20.0 million note, dated November 25,
2002 from Intelsat Global Service Corporation to COMSAT
Corporation.
“ Mandatory Offer
Election Time ” means, with respect to any Mandatory
Prepayment Offer, noon, New York time, on the Business Day next
preceding the prepayment date with respect to such Mandatory
Prepayment Offer.
“ Mandatory
Prepayment Offer ” refers to any offer to prepay Loans
that the Borrower is required to make pursuant to any of clauses
(a) or (b) of Section 5.2.
“ Marketing
Period ” means the period of time (a) commencing on
the six month anniversary of the Closing Date and (b) ending
on (i) the first anniversary of the Closing Date or
(ii) to the extent the Borrower has elected the Shelf Option
and such shelf registration statement has been declared effective
by the SEC and remains effective at such time, the third
anniversary of the Closing Date.
“ Master
Intercompany Services Agreement ” shall mean the Master
Intercompany Services Agreement, dated as of July 3, 2006,
among the Borrower and certain direct and indirect Parent companies
and Subsidiaries of the Borrower, and the other parties thereto, as
amended from time to time ( provided that no such amendment
materially affects the ability of the Borrower to make anticipated
principal or interest payments on the Loans).
“ Material Adverse
Change ” shall mean any event or circumstance which has
resulted or is reasonably likely to result in a material adverse
change in the business, assets, operations, properties or financial
condition of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole or
that would materially adversely affect the ability of the Borrower
to perform its obligations under this Agreement or any of the other
Credit Documents.
“ Material Adverse
Effect ” shall mean a circumstance or condition affecting
the business, assets, operations, properties or financial condition
of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, that would
materially adversely affect (a) the ability of the Borrower to
perform its obligations under this Agreement or any of the other
Credit Documents or (b) the rights and remedies of the
Administrative Agent and the Lenders under this Agreement or any of
the other Credit Documents; provided that the Transactions
shall not, in and of themselves or in the aggregate, constitute a
Material Adverse Effect.
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“ Material
Subsidiary ” shall mean, at any date of determination,
(1) any Subsidiary that is a guarantor under and in respect of
the Intelsat Jackson 9 1
/ 4 % Guaranteed Senior Notes due 2016
(after giving effect to the Intelsat Bermuda Transfer) and
(2) any other Significant Subsidiary of the Borrower (after
giving effect to the Transactions); provided that no
Government Business Subsidiary (including Intelsat General and its
Subsidiaries) shall be deemed a Material
Subsidiary.
“ Moody’s
” shall mean Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. or any
successor to the rating agency business thereof.
“ 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 the aggregate cash proceeds received by the
Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in respect of any
Asset Sale, including, without limitation, any cash received in
respect of or upon the sale or other disposition of any Designated
Non-cash Consideration received in any Asset Sale, net of the
direct costs relating to such Asset Sale and the sale or
disposition of such Designated Non-cash Consideration (including,
without limitation, legal, accounting and investment banking fees,
and brokerage and sales commissions), and any relocation expenses
Incurred as a result thereof, taxes paid or payable as a result
thereof (after taking into account any available tax credits or
deductions and any tax sharing arrangements related thereto),
amounts required to be applied to the repayment of principal,
premium (if any) and interest on Indebtedness required (other than
pursuant to Section 10.4(b)) to be paid as a result of such
transaction (including to obtain any consent therefor), and any
deduction of appropriate amounts to be provided by the Borrower as
a reserve in accordance with GAAP against any liabilities
associated with the asset disposed of in such transaction and
retained by the Borrower after such sale or other disposition
thereof, including, without limitation, pension and other
post-employment benefit liabilities and liabilities related to
environmental matters or against any indemnification obligations
associated with such transaction.
“ Net Transponder
Capacity ” shall mean the aggregate transponder capacity
for all in-orbit transponders then owned by the Borrower and its
Restricted Subsidiaries.
“ Non-Consenting
Lender ” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 14.7.
“ Non-Defaulting
Lender ” shall mean and include each Lender other than a
Defaulting Lender.
“ Notes ”
shall mean the Senior Notes and the Senior PIK Notes.
“ Notes Offering
” shall mean the Rule 144A or other private placement of the
Notes.
“ Obligations
” shall mean any principal, interest, penalties, fees,
indemnifications, reimbursements (including, without limitation,
reimbursement obligations with respect to letters of credit and
bankers’ acceptances), damages and other liabilities payable
under the documentation governing any Indebtedness.
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“ Offering
Memorandum ” shall mean the preliminary confidential
offering memorandum of the Borrower dated January 11, 2008, in
connection with the Notes Offering, attached as Exhibit G
hereto.
“ Officer
” shall mean the Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive
Officer, Chief Financial Officer, President, any Executive Vice
President, Senior Vice President or Vice President, the Treasurer
or the Secretary of the Borrower, any Parent of the Borrower or any
of the Borrower’s Restricted Subsidiaries.
“ Officers’
Certificate ” shall mean a certificate signed on behalf
of the Borrower by two Officers of the Borrower, any Parent of the
Borrower or any of the Borrower’s Restricted Subsidiaries,
one of whom must be the principal executive officer, the principal
financial officer, the treasurer or the principal accounting
officer of the Borrower, any Parent of the Borrower or any of the
Borrower’s Restricted Subsidiaries, that meets the
requirements set forth in this Agreement.
“ Other Taxes
” shall mean any and all present or future stamp, documentary
or any other excise, property or similar taxes (including interest,
fines, penalties, additions to tax and related expenses with regard
thereto) arising directly from any payment made or required to be
made under this Agreement or any other Credit Document or from the
execution or delivery of, registration or enforcement of,
consummation or administration of, or otherwise with respect to,
this Agreement or any other Credit Document.
“ PanAmSat
Holdco ” means Intelsat Holding Corporation (formerly
PanAmSat Holding Corporation), until a successor replaces it, and
thereafter means such successor.
“ Parent ”
shall mean, with respect to any Person, any direct or indirect
parent company of such Person.
“ Pari Passu
Indebtedness ” shall mean:
(1) with respect to the
Borrower, the Loans and any Indebtedness which ranks pari passu in
right of payment with the Loans; and
(2) with respect to any
Guarantor, its Guarantee and any Indebtedness which ranks pari
passu in right of payment with such Guarantor’s
Guarantee.
“ Participant
” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 14.6(c)(i).
“ PBGC ”
shall mean the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation established
pursuant to Section 4002 of ERISA, or any successor
thereto.
“ Permitted Debt
” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 10.1.
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“ Permitted
Holders ” shall mean, at any time, the Sponsors. Any
person or group whose acquisition of beneficial ownership
constitutes a Change of Control in respect of which a Change of
Control Offer is made in accordance with the requirements of this
Agreement will thereafter, together with its Affiliates, constitute
an additional Permitted Holder.
“ Permitted
Investments ” shall mean:
(1) any Investment in the
Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary;
(2) any Investment in Cash
Equivalents or Investment Grade Securities;
(3) any Investment by the
Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower in a Person
that is primarily engaged in a Similar Business if as a result of
such Investment (a) such Person becomes a Restricted
Subsidiary of the Borrower, or (b) such Person, in one
transaction or a series of related transactions, is merged,
consolidated or amalgamated with or into, or transfers or conveys
all or substantially all of its assets to, or is liquidated into,
the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower;
(4) any Investment in
securities or other assets not constituting Cash Equivalents and
received in connection with an Asset Sale made pursuant to the
provisions of Section 10.4 or any other disposition of assets
not constituting an Asset Sale;
(5) any Investment existing
on the Closing Date and any Investment made pursuant to binding
commitments in effect on the Closing Date;
(6) advances to employees not
in excess of $40.0 million outstanding at any one time in the
aggregate;
(7) any Investment acquired
by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (a) in
exchange for any other Investment or accounts receivable held by
the Borrower or any such Restricted Subsidiary in connection with
or as a result of a bankruptcy, workout, reorganization or
recapitalization of the Borrower of such other Investment or
accounts receivable, or (b) as a result of a foreclosure by
the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries with respect to
any secured Investment or other transfer of title with respect to
any secured Investment in default;
(8) Hedging Obligations
permitted under Section 10.1(b)(x);
(9) [Reserved];
(10) additional Investments
by the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries having an
aggregate Fair Market Value, taken together with all other
Investments made pursuant to this clause (10) that are at that
time outstanding, not to exceed the greater of (x) $350.0
million and (y) 3% of Total Assets of the Borrower at the time
of such Investment (with the Fair Market Value of each Investment
being measured at the time made and without giving effect to
subsequent changes in value); provided , however ,
that if any Investment pursuant to this clause (10) is made in
any Person that is
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not a Restricted Subsidiary
of the Borrower at the date of the making of such Investment and
such Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower after
such date, such Investment shall thereafter be deemed to have been
made pursuant to clause (1) above and shall cease to have been
made pursuant to this clause (10) for so long as such Person
continues to be a Restricted Subsidiary;
(11) loans and advances to
officers, directors and employees for business-related travel
expenses, moving and relocation expenses and other similar
expenses, in each case Incurred in the ordinary course of
business;
(12) Investments the payment
for which consists of Equity Interests of the Borrower or any
Parent of the Borrower (other than Disqualified Stock);
provided , however , that such Equity Interests will
not increase the amount available for Restricted Payments under the
calculation set forth in the definition of the term
“Cumulative Credit”;
(13) any transaction to the
extent it constitutes an Investment that is permitted by and made
in accordance with the provisions of Section 10.5(b) (except
transactions described in clauses (ii)(a), (vi), (vii) and
(xi)(B) of such Section);
(14) Investments consisting
of the licensing or contribution of intellectual property pursuant
to joint marketing arrangements with other Persons;
(15) guarantees not
prohibited by or required pursuant to, as the case may be,
Section 10.1 and 10.7; provided that the proceeds of
the Indebtedness being guaranteed would be applied in a manner that
would otherwise comply with Section 10.2(a) (other than
Section 10.2(a)(iv));
(16) any Investments by
Subsidiaries that are not Restricted Subsidiaries in other
Subsidiaries that are not Restricted Subsidiaries of the
Borrower;
(17) Investments consisting
of purchases and acquisitions of inventory, supplies, materials and
equipment or purchases of contract rights or licenses or leases of
intellectual property in each case in the ordinary course of
business;
(18) any Investment in a
Receivables Subsidiary or any Investment by a Receivables
Subsidiary in any other Person in connection with a Qualified
Receivables Financing, including Investments of funds held in
accounts permitted or required by the arrangements governing such
Qualified Receivables Financing or any related Indebtedness;
provided , however , that any Investment in a
Receivables Subsidiary is in the form of a Purchase Money Note,
contribution of additional receivables or an equity
interest;
(19) Investments resulting
from the receipt of non-cash consideration in a sale of assets or
property that does not constitute an Asset Sale or in an Asset Sale
received in compliance with Sections 5.2(b) and 10.4;
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(20) additional Investments
in Joint Ventures of the Borrower or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries existing on the Closing Date in an aggregate amount
not to exceed $100.0 million outstanding at any one
time;
(21) Investments of a
Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower acquired after the Closing
Date or of an entity merged into, amalgamated with, or consolidated
with a Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower in a transaction that
is not prohibited by Section 10.10 after the Closing Date to
the extent that such Investments were not made in contemplation of
such acquisition, merger, amalgamation or consolidation and were in
existence on the date of such acquisition, merger, amalgamation or
consolidation;
(22) Investments in
Subsidiaries or Joint Ventures formed for the purpose of selling or
leasing transponders or transponder capacity to third-party
customers in the ordinary course of business of the Borrower and
its Restricted Subsidiaries which investments are in the form of
transfers to such Subsidiaries or Joint Ventures for fair market
value transponders or transponder capacity sold or to be sold or
leased or to be leased by such Subsidiaries or Joint Ventures;
provided that all such Investments in Subsidiaries and Joint
Ventures do not exceed 10% of Net Transponder Capacity;
and
(23) any Investment in the
Loans.
“ Permitted
Liens ” shall mean, with respect to any
Person:
(1) pledges or deposits by
such Person under workmen’s compensation laws, unemployment
insurance laws or similar legislation, or good faith deposits in
connection with bids, tenders, contracts (other than for the
payment of Indebtedness) or leases to which such Person is a party,
or deposits to secure public or statutory obligations of such
Person or deposits of cash or U.S. government bonds to secure
surety or appeal bonds to which such Person is a party, or deposits
as security for contested taxes or import duties or for the payment
of rent, in each case Incurred in the ordinary course of
business;
(2) Liens imposed by law,
such as carriers’, warehousemen’s and mechanics’
Liens, in each case for sums not yet due or being contested in good
faith by appropriate proceedings or other Liens arising out of
judgments or awards against such Person with respect to which such
Person shall then be proceeding with an appeal or other proceedings
for review;
(3) Liens for taxes,
assessments or other governmental charges not yet due or payable or
subject to penalties for nonpayment or which are being contested in
good faith by appropriate proceedings;
(4) Liens in favor of issuers
of performance and surety bonds or bid bonds or with respect to
other regulatory requirements or letters of credit issued at the
request of and for the account of such Person in the ordinary
course of its business;
(5) minor survey exceptions,
minor encumbrances, easements or reservations of, or rights of
others for, licenses, rights-of-way, sewers, electric lines,
telegraph and telephone lines and other similar purposes, or zoning
or other restrictions as to the use of
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real properties or Liens
incidental to the conduct of the business of such Person or to the
ownership of its properties which were not Incurred in connection
with Indebtedness and which do not in the aggregate materially
adversely affect the value of said properties or materially impair
their use in the operation of the business of such
Person;
(6)(A) Liens securing an
aggregate principal amount of Pari Passu Indebtedness not to exceed
the greater of (x) the aggregate principal amount of Pari
Passu Indebtedness permitted to be Incurred pursuant to
Section 10.1(b)(i) and (y) the maximum principal amount
of Indebtedness that, as of such date, and after giving effect to
the Incurrence of such Indebtedness and the application of the
proceeds therefrom on such date, would not cause the Secured
Indebtedness Leverage Ratio of the Borrower to exceed 2.50 to 1.00
and (B) Liens securing Indebtedness permitted to be Incurred
pursuant to Section 10.1(b)(ii), (iv) ( provided
that such Liens do not extend to any property or assets that are
not property being purchased, leased, constructed or improved with
the proceeds of such Indebtedness being Incurred pursuant to clause
(iv)), (xii) or (xx) of Section 10.1(b);
provided that in the case of Section 10.1(b)(xx), such
Lien does not extend to the property or assets of the
Borrower;
(7) Liens existing on the
Closing Date;
(8) Liens on assets, property
or shares of stock of a Person at the time such Person becomes a
Subsidiary; provided , however , that such Liens are
not created or Incurred in connection with, or in contemplation of,
such other Person becoming such a Subsidiary; provided ,
further , however , that such Liens may not extend to
any other property owned by the Borrower or any Subsidiary
Guarantor of the Borrower;
(9) Liens on assets or
property at the time the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary of the
Borrower acquired the assets or property, including any acquisition
by means of a merger, amalgamation or consolidation with or into
the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower;
provided , however , that such Liens are not created
or Incurred in connection with, or in contemplation of, such
acquisition; provided , further , however ,
that the Liens may not extend to any other assets or property owned
by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of the
Borrower;
(10) Liens securing
Indebtedness or other obligations of a Restricted Subsidiary owing
to the Borrower or another Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower
permitted to be Incurred in accordance with
Section 10.1;
(11) Liens securing Hedging
Obligations permitted to be Incurred under clause (x) of
Section 10.1(b);
(12) Liens on specific items
of inventory or other goods and proceeds of any Person securing
such Person’s obligations in respect of bankers’
acceptances issued or created for the account of such Person to
facilitate the purchase, shipment or storage of such inventory or
other goods;
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(13) leases and subleases of
real property which do not materially interfere with the ordinary
conduct of the business of the Borrower or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries;
(14) Liens arising from
Uniform Commercial Code financing statement filings regarding
operating leases entered into by the Borrower and its Restricted
Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business;
(15) Liens in favor of the
Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary;
(16) Liens on equipment of
the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary granted in the ordinary
course of business to the Borrower’s client at which such
equipment is located;
(17) Liens on accounts
receivable and related assets of the type specified in the
definition of “Receivables Financing” Incurred in
connection with a Qualified Receivables Financing;
(18) deposits made in the
ordinary course of business to secure liability to insurance
carriers;
(19) Liens on the Equity
Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries;
(20) grants of software and
other technology licenses in the ordinary course of
business;
(21) Liens to secure any
refinancing, refunding, extension, renewal or replacement (or
successive refinancings, refundings, extensions, renewals or
replacements) as a whole, or in part, of any Indebtedness secured
by any Lien referred to in the foregoing clauses (6)(B), (7), (8),
(9), (10), (11) and (15); provided , however ,
that (x) such new Lien shall be limited to all or part of the
same property that secured the original Lien (plus improvements on
such property), and (y) the Indebtedness secured by such Lien
at such time is not increased to any amount greater than the sum of
(A) the outstanding principal amount or, if greater, committed
amount of the Indebtedness described under clauses (6)(B), (7),
(8), (9), (10), (11) and (15) at the time the original
Lien became a Permitted Lien under this Agreement, and (B) an
amount necessary to pay any fees and expenses, including premiums,
related to such refinancing, refunding, extension, renewal or
replacement; and
(22) other Liens securing
obligations Incurred in the ordinary course of business which
obligations do not exceed $100.0 million at any one time
outstanding.
“ Person ”
shall mean any individual, corporation, partnership, limited
liability company, Joint Venture, association, joint-stock company,
trust, unincorporated organization, government or any agency or
political subdivision thereof or any other entity.
“ PIK Interest
” shall mean the payment-in-kind of interest in respect of
(a) the Loans by increasing the outstanding principal amount
thereof or by issuing additional Loans, (b) the
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Exchange Notes by increasing the
outstanding principal amount thereof or by issuing additional
Exchange Notes or (c) the Senior PIK Notes by increasing the
outstanding principal amount thereof or by issuing additional
Senior PIK Notes.
“ Plan ”
shall mean any multiemployer or single-employer plan, as defined in
Section 4001 of ERISA and subject to Title IV of ERISA, that
is or was within any of the preceding six plan years maintained or
contributed to by (or to which there is or was an obligation to
contribute or to make payments to) the Borrower, a Subsidiary or an
ERISA Affiliate.
“ Preferred
Stock ” shall mean any Equity Interest with preferential
right of payment of dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or
winding up.
“ Presumed Tax
Rate ” shall mean the highest effective marginal
statutory combined U.S. federal, state and local income tax rate
prescribed for an individual residing in New York City (taking into
account (i) the deductibility of state and local income taxes
for U.S. federal income tax purposes, assuming the limitation of
Section 68(a)(2) of the Code applies and taking into account
any impact of Section 68(f) of the Code, and (ii) the
character (long-term or short-term capital gain, dividend income or
other ordinary income) of the applicable income).
“ Purchase Money
Note ” shall mean a promissory note of a Receivables
Subsidiary evidencing a line of credit, which may be irrevocable,
from the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower to a
Receivables Subsidiary in connection with a Qualified Receivables
Financing, which note is intended to finance that portion of the
purchase price that is not paid by cash or a contribution of
equity.
“ Put Loans
” shall mean to all Loans (or portions thereof) held by
Lenders that have notified the Administrative Agent in writing of
such Lenders’ elections (and that have not subsequently
validly withdrawn such elections) to require all or a portion of
such Loans to be prepaid in any Mandatory Prepayment Offer in
accordance with Section 5.2(c).
“ Qualified
Receivables Financing ” shall mean any Receivables
Financing of a Receivables Subsidiary that meets the following
conditions:
(1) the Board of Directors of
the Borrower shall have determined in good faith that such
Qualified Receivables Financing (including financing terms,
covenants, termination events and other provisions) is in the
aggregate economically fair and reasonable to the Borrower and the
Receivables Subsidiary,
(2) all sales of accounts
receivable and related assets to the Receivables Subsidiary are
made at Fair Market Value (as determined in good faith by the
Borrower), and
(3) the financing terms,
covenants, termination events and other provisions thereof shall be
market terms (as determined in good faith by the Borrower) and may
include Standard Securitization Undertakings.
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The grant of a security
interest in any accounts receivable of the Borrower or any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries (other than a Receivables Subsidiary) to
secure Bank Indebtedness shall not be deemed a Qualified
Receivables Financing.
“ Rating Agency
” shall mean (1) each of Moody’s and S&P and
(2) if Moody’s or S&P ceases to rate the Loans for
reasons outside of the Borrower’s control, a
“nationally recognized statistical rating organization”
within the meaning of Rule 15c3-1(c)(2)(vi)(F) under the Exchange
Act selected by the Borrower or any Parent of the Borrower as a
replacement agency for Moody’s or S&P, as the case may
be.
“ Real Estate
” shall mean land, buildings and improvements owned or leased
by the Borrower or any of the Subsidiaries, but excluding all
operating fixtures and equipment, whether or not incorporated into
improvements.
“ Receivables
Fees ” shall mean distributions or payments made directly
or by means of discounts with respect to any participation interest
issued or sold in connection with, and other fees paid to a Person
that is not a Restricted Subsidiary in connection with, any
Receivables Financing.
“ Receivables
Financing ” shall mean any transaction or series of
transactions that may be entered into by the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries pursuant to which the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries may sell, convey or otherwise transfer to (a) a
Receivables Subsidiary (in the case of a transfer by the Borrower
or any of its Subsidiaries), and (b) any other Person (in the
case of a transfer by a Receivables Subsidiary), or may grant a
security interest in, any accounts receivable (whether now existing
or arising in the future) of the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries, and any assets related thereto including, without
limitation, all collateral securing such accounts receivable, all
contracts and all guarantees or other obligations in respect of
such accounts receivable, proceeds of such accounts receivable and
other assets which are customarily transferred or in respect of
which security interests are customarily granted in connection with
asset securitization transactions involving accounts receivable and
any Hedging Obligations entered into by the Borrower or any such
Subsidiary in connection with such accounts receivable.
“ Receivables
Repurchase Obligation ” shall mean any obligation of a
seller of receivables in a Qualified Receivables Financing to
repurchase receivables arising as a result of a breach of a
representation, warranty or covenant or otherwise, including as a
result of a receivable or portion thereof becoming subject to any
asserted defense, dispute, off-set or counterclaim of any kind as a
result of any action taken by, any failure to take action by or any
other event relating to the seller.
“ Receivables
Subsidiary ” shall mean a Wholly Owned Restricted
Subsidiary of the Borrower (or another Person formed for the
purposes of engaging in a Qualified Receivables Financing with the
Borrower in which the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower
makes an Investment and to which the Borrower or any Subsidiary of
the Borrower transfers accounts receivable and related assets)
which engages in no activities other than in connection with the
financing of accounts receivable of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries, all proceeds thereof and all rights (contractual or
other), collateral and other assets relating thereto, and any
business or activities incidental or related to such business, and
which is designated by the Board of Directors of the Borrower (as
provided below) as a Receivables Subsidiary and:
(a) no portion of the
Indebtedness or any other obligations (contingent or otherwise) of
which (i) is guaranteed by the Borrower or any other
Subsidiary of the Borrower (excluding guarantees of obligations
(other than the principal of, and interest on, Indebtedness)
pursuant to Standard Securitization Undertakings), (ii) is
recourse to or obligates the Borrower or any other Subsidiary of
the Borrower in any way other than pursuant to Standard
Securitization Undertakings or (iii) subjects any property or
asset of the Borrower or any other Subsidiary of the Borrower,
directly or indirectly, contingently or otherwise, to the
satisfaction thereof, other than pursuant to Standard
Securitization Undertakings,
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(b) with which neither the
Borrower nor any other Subsidiary of the Borrower has any material
contract, agreement, arrangement or understanding other than on
terms which the Borrower reasonably believes to be no less
favorable to the Borrower or such Subsidiary than those that might
be obtained at the time from Persons that are not Affiliates of the
Borrower, and
(c) to which neither the
Borrower nor any other Subsidiary of the Borrower has any
obligation to maintain or preserve such entity’s financial
condition or cause such entity to achieve certain levels of
operating results.
Any such designation by the
Board of Directors of the Borrower shall be evidenced to the
Administrative Agent by providing the Administrative Agent with a
certified copy of the resolution of the Board of Directors of the
Borrower giving effect to such designation and certificate of an
Authorized Officer certifying that such designation complied with
the foregoing conditions.
“ Refinancings
” means, collectively, the use of a portion of the net
proceeds of the Loans hereunder, together with cash on hand, to
(i) redeem all of the outstanding Intelsat Jackson (after
giving effect to the Intelsat Bermuda Transfer) Floating Rate
Senior Notes due 2013 and Floating Rate Senior Notes due 2015 and
(ii) redeem or otherwise satisfy and discharge all of the
outstanding Holdings 5 1
/ 4 % Senior Notes due
2008.
“ Register
” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 14.6(b)(iv).
“ Regulation D
” shall mean Regulation D of the Board as from time to time
in effect and any successor to all or a portion thereof
establishing reserve requirements.
“ Regulation T
” shall mean Regulation T of the Board as from time to time
in effect and any successor to all or a portion thereof
establishing margin requirements.
“ Regulation U
” shall mean Regulation U of the Board as from time to time
in effect and any successor to all or a portion thereof
establishing margin requirements.
“ Regulation X
” shall mean Regulation X of the Board as from time to time
in effect and any successor to all or a portion thereof
establishing margin requirements.
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“ Reportable
Event ” shall mean an event described in
Section 4043 of ERISA and the regulations
thereunder.
“ Required
Lenders ” shall mean, at any date, Non-Defaulting Lenders
having or holding a majority of the outstanding principal amount of
the Loans (excluding Loans held by Defaulting Lenders) at such
date.
“ Requirement of
Law ” shall mean, as to any Person, the Certificate of
Incorporation and by-laws or other organizational or governing
documents of such Person, and any law, treaty, rule or regulation
or determination of an arbitrator or a court or other Governmental
Authority, in each case applicable to or binding upon such Person
or any of its property or assets or to which such Person or any of
its property or assets is subject.
“ Restricted
Investment ” shall mean an Investment other than a
Permitted Investment.
“ Restricted
Subsidiary ” shall mean, with respect to any Person, any
Subsidiary of such Person other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary of
such Person. Unless otherwise indicated in this Agreement, all
references to Restricted Subsidiaries shall mean Restricted
Subsidiaries of the Borrower.
“ S&P
” shall mean Standard & Poor’s Ratings Group
or any successor to the rating agency business thereof.
“ Sale/Leaseback
Transaction ” shall mean an arrangement relating to
property now owned or hereafter acquired by the Borrower or a
Restricted Subsidiary whereby the Borrower or a Restricted
Subsidiary transfers such property to a Person and the Borrower or
such Restricted Subsidiary leases it from such Person, other than
leases between the Borrower and a Restricted Subsidiary of the
Borrower or between Restricted Subsidiaries of the
Borrower.
“ Satellite
” shall mean any satellite owned by the Borrower or any of
its Restricted Subsidiaries and any satellite purchased by the
Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries pursuant to the
terms of a Satellite Purchase Agreement, whether such satellite is
in the process of manufacture, has been delivered for launch or is
in orbit (whether or not in operational service).
“ Satellite
Manufacturer ” shall mean, with respect to any Satellite,
the prime contractor and manufacturer of such Satellite.
“ Satellite Purchase
Agreement ” shall mean, with respect to any Satellite,
the agreement between the applicable Satellite Purchaser and the
applicable Satellite Manufacturer relating to the manufacture,
testing and delivery of such Satellite.
“ Satellite
Purchaser ” shall mean the Borrower or Restricted
Subsidiary that is a party to a Satellite Purchase
Agreement.
“ SEC ”
shall mean the Securities and Exchange Commission or any successor
thereto.
“ Secured
Indebtedness ” shall mean any Indebtedness secured by a
Lien.
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“ Secured
Indebtedness Leverage Ratio ” shall mean, with respect to
any Person, at any date the ratio of (i) Secured Indebtedness
of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries as of such date of
calculation (determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with
GAAP) to (ii) Adjusted EBITDA of such Person for the four full
fiscal quarters for which internal financial statements are
available immediately preceding such date on which such additional
Indebtedness is Incurred. In the event that such Person or any of
its Restricted Subsidiaries Incurs or redeems any Indebtedness
subsequent to the commencement of the period for which the Secured
Indebtedness Leverage Ratio is being calculated but prior to the
event for which the calculation of the Secured Indebtedness
Leverage Ratio is made (the “ Secured Leverage Calculation
Date ”), then the Secured Indebtedness Leverage Ratio
shall be calculated giving pro forma effect to such Incurrence or
redemption of Indebtedness as if the same had occurred at the
beginning of the applicable four-quarter period.
For purposes of making the
computation referred to above, Investments, acquisitions,
dispositions, mergers, amalgamations, consolidations and
discontinued operations (as determined in accordance with GAAP), in
each case with respect to an operating unit of a business, and
other operational changes that such Person or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries has both determined to make and made after
January 28, 2005 and during the four-quarter reference period
or subsequent to such reference period and on or prior to or
simultaneously with the Secured Leverage Calculation Date shall be
calculated on a pro forma basis assuming that all such Investments,
acquisitions, dispositions, mergers, consolidations, discontinued
operations and other operational changes (and the change in
Adjusted EBITDA resulting therefrom) had occurred on the first day
of the four-quarter reference period. If since the beginning of
such period any Person that subsequently became a Restricted
Subsidiary or was merged with or into such Person or any Restricted
Subsidiary since the beginning of such period shall have made any
Investment, acquisition, disposition, merger, amalgamation,
consolidation, discontinued operation or operational change, in
each case with respect to an operating unit of a business, that
would have required adjustment pursuant to this definition, then
the Secured Indebtedness Leverage Ratio shall be calculated giving
pro forma effect thereto for such period as if such Investment,
acquisition, disposition, discontinued operation, merger,
consolidation or operational change had occurred at the beginning
of the applicable four-quarter period.
For purposes of this
definition, whenever pro forma effect is to be given to any
transaction, the pro forma calculations shall be made in good faith
by a responsible financial or accounting officer of the Borrower.
Any such pro forma calculation may include adjustments appropriate,
in the reasonable determination of the Borrower as set forth in an
Officers’ Certificate, to reflect, among other things,
(1) operating expense reductions and other operating
improvements or synergies reasonably expected to result from any
acquisition, merger or operational change (including, to the extent
applicable, from the Transactions) and (2) all adjustments
used in connection with the calculation of “New Bermuda
Adjusted EBITDA” as set forth in footnote 4 to the
“Summary Historical and Pro Forma Consolidated Financial
Data” under “Offering Memorandum Summary” in the
Offering Memorandum to the extent such adjustments, without
duplication, continue to be applicable to such four-quarter
period.
“ Securities Act
” shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the
rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder.
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“ Senior Bridge
Loans ” shall mean up to $2,805,000,000 in aggregate
principal amount of Senior PIK Loans of the Borrower that issued
from time to time (including without limitation in the form of PIK
Interest) pursuant to that certain credit agreement dated the date
hereof among the Borrower, the Joint Lead Arrangers and the
Lenders.
“ Senior Credit
Documents ” shall mean the collective reference to any
Credit Agreement, the notes issued pursuant thereto and the
guarantees thereof, and the collateral documents relating thereto,
as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to
time.
“ Senior Notes
” shall mean the $2,805,000,000 in aggregate principal amount
of Senior Notes due 2017 of the Borrower that were intended to be
issued in the Notes Offering.
“ Senior PIK Bridge
Facility ” means the senior unsecured bridge facility
evidenced by this Agreement, including the Loans
hereunder.
“ Senior PIK
Notes ” shall mean the $2,155,000,000 in aggregate
principal amount of Senior PIK Election Notes due 2017 of the
Borrower that were intended to be issued in the Notes
Offering.
“ Serafina
Assignment ” shall mean the assignment by the Initial
Borrower, immediately following the Intelsat Bermuda Transfer, of
all of its liabilities and obligations with respect to the this
Agreement, the other Credit Documents and the Loans (together with
all other assets, rights, liabilities and obligations that the
Initial Borrower transfers contemporaneously therewith (but which
shall not include the capital stock of Intelsat Holdings)) to
Intelsat Bermuda, and the assumption by Intelsat Bermuda of all
such liabilities and obligations.
“ Serafina
Holdings ” shall mean Serafina Holdings Limited, a
Bermuda exempted company, until a successor replaces it, and
thereafter means such successor.
“ Significant
Subsidiary ” shall mean any Restricted Subsidiary that
would be a “significant subsidiary” of the Borrower
within the meaning of Rule 1-02 under Regulation S-X promulgated by
the SEC or any successor provision.
“ Similar
Business ” shall mean any business or activity of the
Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries currently conducted or proposed
as of the Closing Date, or any business or activity that is
reasonably similar thereto or a reasonable extension, development
or expansion thereof, or is complementary, incidental, ancillary or
related thereto.
“ Solvent
” shall mean that, as of any date of determination, both
(i) (a) the sum of the Borrower’s debt (including
contingent liabilities) does not exceed the present fair saleable
value of the Borrower’s present assets; (b) the
Borrower’s capital is not unreasonably small in relation to
its businesses as contemplated on the Closing Date; and
(c) the Borrower has not incurred and does not intend to
incur, or believe that it will incur, debts including current
obligations beyond its ability to pay such debts as they become due
(whether at maturity or otherwise); and (ii) the Borrower is
“solvent” within the meaning given that term and
similar terms under applicable laws relating to fraudulent
transfers and conveyances. For purposes of this definition, the
amount of any contingent liability at any time shall be computed as
the amount that, in light of all of the facts and circumstances
existing at such time, represents the amount that can
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reasonably be expected to become an
actual or matured liability (irrespective of whether such
contingent liabilities meet the criteria for accrual under
Statement of Financial Accounting Standard No. 5).
“ Specified Existing
Intelsat Corp Notes ” means the 9% Senior Notes due 2014
of Intelsat Corp.
“ Specified
Intercompany Agreements ” shall mean the Master
Intercompany Services Agreement, the Employee Transfer Agreement,
the G2 Transfer Agreement and the agreements or promissory notes
evidencing the Intelsat Bermuda Loan and, in each case, agreements
in connection therewith.
“ Specified
Merger/Transfer Transaction ” shall have the meaning
provided in Section 10.10(a).
“ Specified
Sale/Leaseback Transaction ” shall mean one
Sale/Leaseback Transaction pursuant to which the Borrower or its
Restricted Subsidiaries sell one Satellite and related assets that
is designated as a Specified Sale/Leaseback Transaction pursuant to
an Officers’ Certificate.
“ Sponsors
” shall mean (1) one or more investment funds advised,
managed or controlled by BC Partners Holdings Limited or any
Affiliate thereof, (2) one or more investment funds advised,
managed or controlled by Silver Lake or any Affiliate thereof, and
(3) one or more investment funds advised, managed or
controlled by any of the Persons described in clauses (1) and
(2) of this definition, and, in each case, (whether
individually or as a group) their Affiliates; provided that, for
purposes of determining the fees and expenses that may be added
back pursuant to clause (5)(b) within the definition of
Adjusted EBITDA for any period before the Closing Date, the term
“Sponsor” shall also mean one or more investment funds
advised, managed or controlled by Apax Partners Worldwide, LLP,
Apax Partners, L.P., Apollo Management V, L.P., Madison Dearborn
Partners, LLC or Permira Advisers, LLC or any of their respective
Affiliates.
“ Standard
Securitization Undertakings ” shall mean representations,
warranties, covenants, indemnities and guarantees of performance
entered into by the Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower
which the Borrower has determined in good faith to be customary in
a Receivables Financing including, without limitation, those
relating to the servicing of the assets of a Receivables
Subsidiary, it being understood that any Receivables Repurchase
Obligation shall be deemed to be a Standard Securitization
Undertaking.
“ Stated
Maturity ” shall mean, with respect to any security or
loan, the date specified in such security or loan as the fixed date
on which the final payment of principal of such security or loan is
due and payable, including pursuant to any mandatory redemption
provision (but excluding any provision providing for the repurchase
of such security or loan at the option of the holder or lender
thereof upon the happening of any contingency beyond the control of
the Borrower unless such contingency has occurred).
“ Statutory Reserve
Rate ” shall mean, for any day as applied to any LIBOR
Loan, 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 that are
in
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effect on that day (including any
marginal, special, emergency or supplemental reserves), expressed
as a decimal, as prescribed by the Board and to which the
Administrative Agent is subject, 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. LIBOR Loans shall be
deemed to constitute eurocurrency 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.
“ Subordinated
Indebtedness ” shall mean (a) with respect to the
Borrower, any Indebtedness of the Borrower which is by its terms
subordinated in right of payment to the Loans, and (b) with
respect to any Guarantor, any Indebtedness of such Guarantor which
is by its terms subordinated in right of payment to its
Guarantee.
“ Subsidiary
” shall mean, with respect to any Person, (1) any
corporation, association or other business entity (other than a
partnership, joint venture or limited liability company) of which
more than 50% of the total voting power of shares of Capital Stock
entitled (without regard to the occurrence of any contingency) to
vote in the election of directors, managers or trustees thereof is
at the time of determination owned or controlled, directly or
indirectly, by such Person or one or more of the other Subsidiaries
of such Person or a combination thereof, (2) any partnership,
joint venture or limited liability company of which (x) more
than 50% of the capital accounts, distribution rights, total equity
and voting interests or general and limited partnership interests,
as applicable, are owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by
such Person or one or more of the other Subsidiaries of that Person
or a combination thereof, whether in the form of membership,
general, special or limited partnership interests or otherwise, and
(y) such Person or any Restricted Subsidiary of such Person is
a controlling general partner or otherwise controls such entity and
(3) any Person that is consolidated in the consolidated
financial statements of the specified Person in accordance with
GAAP.
“ Subsidiary
Guarantor ” shall mean each Subsidiary of the Borrower
that is a Guarantor.
“ Subsidiary
Transfer Transactions ” shall mean the transfer of all or
a portion of the equity, assets and liabilities of any of the
Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries between or among any
of the Borrower and/or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries.
“ Syndication
Agent ” shall mean Banc of America Bridge LLC, in its
capacity as syndication agent under this Agreement and the other
Credit Documents.
“ Tax-affected
Investor ” shall mean any holder of capital stock in any
Parent of the Borrower that is subject (or if such holder is a Flow
Through Entity, any partner in which is subject) to a tax regime
(for example, as a United States shareholder within the meaning of
section 951(b) of the Code) that requires such person to recognize
on a current basis taxable income attributable to earnings and
profits of the Borrower, or its Subsidiaries in advance of any
distribution of such earnings and profits.
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“ Taxes ”
shall mean any and all present or future taxes, duties, levies,
imposts, assessments, deductions, withholdings or other similar
charges imposed by any Governmental Authority whether computed on a
separate, consolidated, unitary, combined or other basis and any
and all liabilities (including interest, fines, penalties or
additions to tax) with respect to the foregoing.
“ Total Assets
” means, with respect to any Person, the total consolidated
assets of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries, as shown on
the most recent balance sheet.
“ Transaction
Agreement ” shall mean the Share Purchase Agreement dated
as of June 19, 2007, among Intelsat Holdings, Serafina
Holdings, the Initial Borrower and the other parties thereto, as
amended, supplemented or modified from time to time.
“ Transactions
” shall mean the Acquisition and the transactions related
thereto (including the Intelsat Bermuda Transfer and the Serafina
Assignment and the Change of Control Offers), including as
contemplated by the Acquisition Documents (including any Equity
Interest payments made in connection therewith (whether on the
Closing Date or thereafter)), the issuance of any Notes, amendments
and borrowings made pursuant to the Credit Agreements, the
Refinancings, the Intelsat Corp Refinancing, the transactions
consummated in connection with the offering of the Intelsat Bermuda
Senior Secured Floating Rate Notes due 2015, and the other
transactions in connection with the foregoing.
“ Transferee
” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 14.6(e).
“ TT&C Earth
Station ” shall mean any earth station licensed for
operation by the FCC or by any international, federal, state, local
or foreign court or governmental agency, authority, instrumentality
or regulatory body, authority, agency or commission or legislative
body or other governmental entity outside of the United States used
for the provision of TT&C Services that is owned and operated
by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries.
“ TT&C
Services ” shall mean the provision of tracking,
telemetry and command services for the purposes of operational
control of any Satellite.
“ Unfunded Current
Liability ” of any Plan shall mean the amount, if any, by
which the present value of the accrued benefits under the Plan as
of the close of its most recent plan year, determined in accordance
with Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 87 as in
effect on the Closing Date, based upon the actuarial assumptions
that would be used by the Plan’s actuary in a termination of
the Plan, exceeds the fair market value of the assets allocable
thereto.
“ Unrestricted
Subsidiary ” shall mean:
(1) any Subsidiary of the
Borrower that at the time of determination shall be designated an
Unrestricted Subsidiary by the Board of Directors of such Person in
the manner provided below; and
(2) any Subsidiary of an
Unrestricted Subsidiary.
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The Board of Directors of the
Borrower may designate any Subsidiary of the Borrower (including
any newly acquired or newly formed Subsidiary of the Borrower) to
be an Unrestricted Subsidiary unless such Subsidiary or any of its
Subsidiaries owns any Equity Interests or Indebtedness of, or owns
or holds any Lien on any property of, the Borrower or any other
Subsidiary of the Borrower that is not a Subsidiary of the
Subsidiary to be so designated; provided , however ,
that the Subsidiary to be so designated and its Subsidiaries do not
at the time of designation have and do not thereafter Incur any
Indebtedness pursuant to which the lender has recourse to any of
the assets of the Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries
(other than Equity Interests of Unrestricted Subsidiaries);
provided , further , however , that
either:
(a) the Subsidiary to be so
designated has total consolidated assets of $1,000 or less;
or
(b) if such Subsidiary has
consolidated assets greater than $1,000, then such designation
would be permitted under Section 10.2.
The Board of Directors of the
Borrower may designate any Unrestricted Subsidiary to be a
Restricted Subsidiary; provided , however , that
immediately after giving effect to such designation no Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing and either
(1) the Borrower could Incur $1.00 of additional Indebtedness
pursuant to the Debt to Adjusted EBITDA Ratio test described in
Section 10.1(a) or (2) the Debt to Adjusted EBITDA Ratio
for the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries would be less than
such ratio for the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries
immediately prior to such designation, in each case on a pro forma
basis taking into account such designation.
Any such designation by the
Board of Directors of the Borrower shall be evidenced to the
Administrative Agent by promptly filing with the Administrative
Agent a copy of the resolution of the Board of Directors of the
Borrower giving effect to such designation and an Officers’
Certificate certifying that such designation complied with the
foregoing provisions.
“ U.S. Dollar
Equivalent ” shall mean, with respect to any monetary
amount in a currency other than U.S. Dollars, at any time for the
determination thereof, the amount of U.S. Dollars obtained by
converting such foreign currency involved in such computation into
U.S. Dollars at the spot rate for the purchase of U.S. Dollars with
the applicable foreign currency as quoted by Reuters at
approximately 10:00 A.M. (New York City time) on such date of
determination (or if no such quote is available on such date, on
the immediately preceding Business Day for which such a quote is
available).
“ U.S. Government
Obligations ” shall mean securities that are:
(1) direct obligations of the
United States of America for the timely payment of which its full
faith and credit is pledged, or
(2) obligations of a Person
controlled or supervised by and acting as an agency or
instrumentality of the United States of America the timely payment
of which is unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit
obligation by the United States of America, which, in each case,
are not callable or redeemable at the option of the Borrower
thereof, and shall also include a depository receipt issued by a
bank (as defined
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in Section 3(a)(2) of
the Securities Act) as custodian with respect to any such U.S.
Government Obligations or a specific payment of principal of or
interest on any such U.S. Government Obligations held by such
custodian for the account of the holder of such depository receipt;
provided that (except as required by law) such custodian is
not authorized to make any deduction from the amount payable to the
holder of such depository receipt from any amount received by the
custodian in respect of the U.S. Government Obligations or the
specific payment of principal of or interest on the U.S. Government
Obligations evidenced by such depository receipt.
“ Voting Stock
” of any Person as of any date shall mean the Capital Stock
of such Person that is at the time entitled to vote in the election
of the Board of Directors of such Person.
“ Weighted Average
Life to Maturity ” shall mean, when applied to any
Indebtedness or Disqualified Stock, as the case may be, at any
date, the quotient obtained by dividing (1) the sum of the
products of the number of years from the date of determination to
the date of each successive scheduled principal payment of such
Indebtedness or redemption or similar payment with respect to such
Disqualified Stock multiplied by the amount of such payment, by
(2) the sum of all such payments.
“ Wholly Owned
Restricted Subsidiary ” is any Wholly Owned Subsidiary
that is a Restricted Subsidiary.
“ Wholly Owned
Subsidiary ” of any Person shall mean a Subsidiary of
such Person 100% of the outstanding Capital Stock or other
ownership interests of which (other than directors’
qualifying shares or shares or interests required to be held by
foreign nationals) shall at the time be owned by such Person or by
one or more Wholly Owned Subsidiaries of such Person and one or
more Wholly Owned Subsidiaries of such Person.
The words
“hereof,” “herein” and
“hereunder” and words of similar import when used in
this Agreement shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to
any particular provision of this Agreement, and Section references
are to Sections of this Agreement unless otherwise specified. The
words “include,” “includes” and
“including” shall be deemed to be followed by the
phrase “without limitation.” Each reference to an
agreement or document herein shall mean such agreement or document
as from time to time amended, supplemented or modified in
accordance with its terms, unless expressly stated
otherwise.
SECTION 2. AMOUNT AND
TERMS OF CREDIT.
2.1. Commitments .
Subject to and upon the terms and conditions herein set forth, each
Lender having a Commitment severally agrees to make a loan or loans
(each an “ Initial Loan ”) on the Closing Date
to the Borrower in Dollars, which Initial Loans shall not exceed
for any such Lender the respective Commitment of such Lender and in
the aggregate shall not exceed $2,155,000,000. Such Initial Loans
(i) shall be made on the Closing Date, (ii) except as set
forth herein, shall be incurred and maintained as LIBOR Loans,
(iii) may be repaid or prepaid in accordance with the
provisions hereof, but once repaid or prepaid, may not be
reborrowed, (iv) shall not exceed for any such Lender the
Commitment of such Lender and (v) shall not exceed in the
aggregate the total of all Commitments. On the Initial Maturity
Date, all then unpaid Initial
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Loans shall either (x) be repaid in
full or (y) be automatically extended into Extended Term Loans
in accordance with Section 3.1 with a maturity equal to the
Extended Maturity Date. Upon repayment in full or exchange of all
Loans under this Agreement for Exchange Notes pursuant
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