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CREDIT AND GUARANTEE AGREEMENT

Guarantee Agreement

CREDIT AND GUARANTEE AGREEMENT | Document Parties: SIRVA INC | ALABAMA, LLC | ALASKA USA VAN LINES, INC | ALLIED ALLIANCE FORWARDING, INC | ALLIED CONTINENTAL FORWARDING, INC | ALLIED DOMESTIC FORWARDING, INC | ALLIED FREIGHT FORWARDING, INC | ALLIED INTERMODAL FORWARDING, INC | ALLIED INTERNATIONAL NA, INC | ALLIED INTERSTATE TRANSPORTATION, INC | ALLIED TRANSCONTINENTAL FORWARDING, INC | ALLIED TRANSPORTATION FORWARDING, INC | ALLIED VAN LINES TERMINAL COMPANY | ALLIED VAN LINES, INC | AMERICAS QUALITY VAN LINES, INC | ANAHEIM MOVING SYSTEMS, INC | ASSET MANAGEMENT INC | AVL TRANSPORTATION, INC | BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. | Battery Park High Yield Long Short Fund Ltd | Battery Park High Yield Master Opportunity Fund Ltd | BLACKPORT CAPITAL FUND LTD | CARTWRIGHT MOVING & STORAGE CO, INC | CARTWRIGHT VAN LINES, INC | CITY STORAGE & TRANSFER, INC | CMS HOLDING, LLC | Commercial Finance Services 1107, LLC | DJK RESIDENTIAL LLC | Eastland CLO, Ltd | EGI-Fund (08-10) Investors, LLC | FEDERAL TRAFFIC SERVICE, INC | FLEET INSURANCE MANAGEMENT, INC | FRONTRUNNER WORLDWIDE, INC | Gleneagles CLO, Ltd | GLOBAL VAN LINES, INC | GLOBAL WORLDWIDE, INC | Grayson CLO, Ltd | GREAT FALLS NORTH AMERICAN, INC | Highland Credit Opportunities CDO, Ltd | Highland Credit Strategies Holding Corporation | Highland Loan Funding V Ltd | Jasper CLO, Ltd | JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NA | Liberty CLO, Ltd | Loan Funding VII, LLC | Longhorn Credit Funding, LLC | LYON VAN LINES, INC | LYON WORLDWIDE SHIPPING, INC | MANUFACTURING SUPPORT SERVICES, LLC | McDonnell Investment Management, LLC | MCDONNELL LOAN OPPORTUNITY LTD | MERIDIAN MOBILITY RESOURCES, INC | MOVE MANAGEMENT SERVICES, INC | NA (UK) GP CORPORATION | NACAL, INC | NAVL LLC | NORAM FORWARDING, INC | NORTH AMERICAN FORWARDING, INC | NORTH AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL HOLDING CORPORATION | NORTH AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL NA, INC | NORTH AMERICAN LOGISTICS, LTD | NORTH AMERICAN VAN LINES, INC | Prospect Street Income Shares, Inc | Red River CLO Ltd | RELOCATION CORPORATION | RELOCATION RISK SOLUTIONS, LLC | You are currently viewing:
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SIRVA INC | ALABAMA, LLC | ALASKA USA VAN LINES, INC | ALLIED ALLIANCE FORWARDING, INC | ALLIED CONTINENTAL FORWARDING, INC | ALLIED DOMESTIC FORWARDING, INC | ALLIED FREIGHT FORWARDING, INC | ALLIED INTERMODAL FORWARDING, INC | ALLIED INTERNATIONAL NA, INC | ALLIED INTERSTATE TRANSPORTATION, INC | ALLIED TRANSCONTINENTAL FORWARDING, INC | ALLIED TRANSPORTATION FORWARDING, INC | ALLIED VAN LINES TERMINAL COMPANY | ALLIED VAN LINES, INC | AMERICAS QUALITY VAN LINES, INC | ANAHEIM MOVING SYSTEMS, INC | ASSET MANAGEMENT INC | AVL TRANSPORTATION, INC | BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. | Battery Park High Yield Long Short Fund Ltd | Battery Park High Yield Master Opportunity Fund Ltd | BLACKPORT CAPITAL FUND LTD | CARTWRIGHT MOVING & STORAGE CO, INC | CARTWRIGHT VAN LINES, INC | CITY STORAGE & TRANSFER, INC | CMS HOLDING, LLC | Commercial Finance Services 1107, LLC | DJK RESIDENTIAL LLC | Eastland CLO, Ltd | EGI-Fund (08-10) Investors, LLC | FEDERAL TRAFFIC SERVICE, INC | FLEET INSURANCE MANAGEMENT, INC | FRONTRUNNER WORLDWIDE, INC | Gleneagles CLO, Ltd | GLOBAL VAN LINES, INC | GLOBAL WORLDWIDE, INC | Grayson CLO, Ltd | GREAT FALLS NORTH AMERICAN, INC | Highland Credit Opportunities CDO, Ltd | Highland Credit Strategies Holding Corporation | Highland Loan Funding V Ltd | Jasper CLO, Ltd | JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, NA | Liberty CLO, Ltd | Loan Funding VII, LLC | Longhorn Credit Funding, LLC | LYON VAN LINES, INC | LYON WORLDWIDE SHIPPING, INC | MANUFACTURING SUPPORT SERVICES, LLC | McDonnell Investment Management, LLC | MCDONNELL LOAN OPPORTUNITY LTD | MERIDIAN MOBILITY RESOURCES, INC | MOVE MANAGEMENT SERVICES, INC | NA (UK) GP CORPORATION | NACAL, INC | NAVL LLC | NORAM FORWARDING, INC | NORTH AMERICAN FORWARDING, INC | NORTH AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL HOLDING CORPORATION | NORTH AMERICAN INTERNATIONAL NA, INC | NORTH AMERICAN LOGISTICS, LTD | NORTH AMERICAN VAN LINES, INC | Prospect Street Income Shares, Inc | Red River CLO Ltd | RELOCATION CORPORATION | RELOCATION RISK SOLUTIONS, LLC |

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Title: CREDIT AND GUARANTEE AGREEMENT
Governing Law: New York     Date: 2/11/2008
Industry: Trucking     Law Firm: Kirkland Ellis     Sector: Transportation

CREDIT AND GUARANTEE AGREEMENT, Parties: sirva inc , alabama  llc , alaska usa van lines  inc , allied alliance forwarding  inc , allied continental forwarding  inc , allied domestic forwarding  inc , allied freight forwarding  inc , allied intermodal forwarding  inc , allied international na  inc , allied interstate transportation  inc , allied transcontinental forwarding  inc , allied transportation forwarding  inc , allied van lines terminal company , allied van lines  inc , americas quality van lines  inc , anaheim moving systems  inc , asset management inc , avl transportation  inc , bank of america  n.a. , battery park high yield long short fund ltd , battery park high yield master opportunity fund ltd , blackport capital fund ltd , cartwright moving & storage co  inc , cartwright van lines  inc , city storage & transfer  inc , cms holding  llc , commercial finance services 1107  llc , djk residential llc , eastland clo  ltd , egi-fund (08-10) investors  llc , federal traffic service  inc , fleet insurance management  inc , frontrunner worldwide  inc , gleneagles clo  ltd , global van lines  inc , global worldwide  inc , grayson clo  ltd , great falls north american  inc , highland credit opportunities cdo  ltd , highland credit strategies holding corporation , highland loan funding v ltd , jasper clo  ltd , jpmorgan chase bank  na , liberty clo  ltd , loan funding vii  llc , longhorn credit funding  llc , lyon van lines  inc , lyon worldwide shipping  inc , manufacturing support services  llc , mcdonnell investment management  llc , mcdonnell loan opportunity ltd , meridian mobility resources  inc , move management services  inc , na (uk) gp corporation , nacal  inc , navl llc , noram forwarding  inc , north american forwarding  inc , north american international holding corporation , north american international na  inc , north american logistics  ltd , north american van lines  inc , prospect street income shares  inc , red river clo ltd , relocation corporation , relocation risk solutions  llc ,
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Exhibit 10.1

 

 

 

 

$150,000,000

 

CREDIT AND GUARANTEE AGREEMENT

 

among

 

SIRVA WORLDWIDE, INC.,

a Debtor and Debtor-in-Possession, as Borrower,

 

SIRVA, INC.,

a Debtor and Debtor-in-Possession, as a Guarantor,

 

THE OTHER GUARANTORS NAMED HEREIN,

Each a Debtor and Debtor-in-Possession

 

and

 

THE SEVERAL LENDERS

FROM TIME TO TIME PARTIES HERETO, and

 

JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,

as administrative agent

 

Dated as of February 6, 2008

 

 

 

 

J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES INC., as

as sole lead arranger and sole bookrunner

 



 

Table of Contents

 

 

Page

 

 

SECTION 1.   DEFINITIONS

2

 

1.1.

Defined Terms

2

 

1.2.

Other Definitional Provisions

23

 

 

 

 

SECTION 2.   AMOUNT AND TERMS OF COMMITMENTS

23

 

2.1.

Revolving Credit Commitments

23

 

2.2.

Procedure for Revolving Credit Borrowing

24

 

2.3.

Termination or Reduction of Revolving Credit Commitments

24

 

2.4.

Term Loans

25

 

2.5.

Term Notes

25

 

2.6.

Procedure for Term Loan Borrowing

25

 

2.7.

Repayment of Loans

25

 

2.8.

Priority and Liens

26

 

2.9.

Payment of Obligations

28

 

2.10.

No Discharge; Survival of Claims

28

 

2.11.

Conversion to Exit Facility Agreement

28

 

 

 

 

SECTION 3.   LETTERS OF CREDIT

29

 

3.1.

L/C Commitment

29

 

3.2.

Procedure for Issuance of Letters of Credit

30

 

3.3.

Fees, Commissions and Other Charges

31

 

3.4.

L/C Participations

31

 

3.5.

Reimbursement Obligation of the Borrower

32

 

3.6.

Obligations Absolute

33

 

3.7.

Letter of Credit Payments

34

 

3.8.

Application

34

 

 

 

 

SECTION 4.   GENERAL PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO LOANS AND LETTERS OF CREDIT

34

 

4.1.

Interest Rates and Payment Dates

34

 

4.2.

Conversion and Continuation Options

35

 

4.3.

Minimum Amounts of Sets

35

 

4.4.

Optional and Mandatory Prepayments and Commitment Reductions

35

 

4.5.

Commitment Fees; Administrative Agent’s Fee; Other Fees

37

 

4.6.

Computation of Interest and Fees

37

 

4.7.

Inability to Determine Interest Rate

38

 

4.8.

Pro Rata Treatment and Payments

38

 

4.9.

Illegality

41

 

4.10.

Requirements of Law

41

 

4.11.

Taxes

42

 

4.12.

Indemnity

47

 

4.13.

Certain Rules Relating to the Payment of Additional Amounts

47

 

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4.14.

Controls on Prepayment if Aggregate Outstanding Revolving Credit Exceeds Aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments

49

 

 

 

 

SECTION 5.   REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

50

 

5.1.

Financial Condition

50

 

5.2.

No Change

51

 

5.3.

Corporate Existence; Compliance with Law

51

 

5.4.

Corporate Power; Authorization; Enforceable Obligations

51

 

5.5.

No Legal Bar

52

 

5.6.

No Material Litigation

52

 

5.7.

No Default

52

 

5.8.

Ownership of Property; Liens

52

 

5.9.

Intellectual Property

53

 

5.10.

Taxes

53

 

5.11.

Federal Regulations

53

 

5.12.

ERISA

54

 

5.13.

Investment Company Act; Other Regulations

54

 

5.14.

Subsidiaries

54

 

5.15.

Environmental Matters

54

 

5.16.

No Material Misstatements

55

 

5.17.

Labor Matters

56

 

5.18.

The Orders

56

 

5.19.

Use of Proceeds

56

 

 

 

 

SECTION 6.   CONDITIONS PRECEDENT

56

 

6.1.

Conditions to Initial Extension of Credit

56

 

6.2.

Conditions to Each Other Extension of Credit

59

 

 

 

 

SECTION 7.   AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS

61

 

7.1.

Financial Statements

61

 

7.2.

Certificates; Other Information

62

 

7.3.

Payment of Obligations

63

 

7.4.

Conduct of Business and Maintenance of Existence

63

 

7.5.

Maintenance of Property; Insurance

64

 

7.6.

Inspection of Property; Books and Records; Discussions

64

 

7.7.

Notices

64

 

7.8.

Environmental Laws

66

 

7.9.

Tax Shelter Regulations

67

 

 

 

 

SECTION 8.   NEGATIVE COVENANTS

67

 

8.1.

Minimum EBITDA

67

 

8.2.

Limitation on Indebtedness

67

 

8.3.

Limitation on Liens

69

 

8.4.

Limitation on Guarantee Obligations

71

 

8.5.

Limitation on Fundamental Changes

73

 

8.6.

Limitation on Sale of Assets

73

 

8.7.

Limitation on Loans and Dividends to Holding

75

 

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8.8.

Limitation on Capital Expenditures

76

 

8.9.

Limitation on Investments, Loans and Advances

76

 

8.10.

Limitations on Certain Acquisitions

78

 

8.11.

Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates

78

 

8.12.

Limitation on Sales and Leasebacks

79

 

8.13.

Limitation on Changes in Fiscal Year

79

 

8.14.

Limitation on Lines of Business; Creation of Subsidiaries

79

 

8.15.

Limitation on Synthetic Purchase Agreements

80

 

8.16.

Limitation on Modifications of Tax Sharing Agreement

80

 

8.17.

Limitations on Currency and Commodity Hedging Transactions

80

 

8.18.

Chapter 11 Claims

80

 

8.19.

Use of Proceeds

80

 

8.20.

Reorganization Plan

80

 

8.21.

Covenants of Holding Companies

81

 

8.22.

Limitation on Negative Pledge Clauses

82

 

 

 

 

SECTION 9.   EVENTS OF DEFAULT

82

 

 

 

 

SECTION 10.   THE Administrative Agent

86

 

10.1.

Appointment

86

 

10.2.

Delegation of Duties

86

 

10.3.

Exculpatory Provisions

87

 

10.4.

Reliance by Administrative Agent

87

 

10.5.

Notice of Default

88

 

10.6.

Acknowledgements and Representations by Lenders

88

 

10.7.

Indemnification

88

 

10.8.

Administrative Agent in its Individual Capacity

89

 

10.9.

Successor Administrative Agent

89

 

 

 

 

SECTION 11.   GUARANTEE

90

 

11.1.

Guarantee

90

 

11.2.

Right of Contribution

90

 

11.3.

No Subrogation

91

 

11.4.

Amendments, etc. with respect to the Obligations

91

 

11.5.

Guarantee Absolute and Unconditional

91

 

11.6.

Reinstatement

92

 

11.7.

Payments

92

 

 

 

 

SECTION 12.   REMEDIES; APPLICATION OF PROCEEDS

92

 

12.1.

Remedies; Obtaining the Collateral Upon Default

92

 

12.2.

Remedies; Disposition of the Collateral

93

 

12.3.

Application of Proceeds

94

 

12.4.

WAIVER OF CLAIMS

95

 

12.5.

Remedies Cumulative

95

 

12.6.

Discontinuance of Proceedings

96

 

 

 

 

SECTION 13.   MISCELLANEOUS

96

 

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Page

 

 

 

13.1.

Amendments and Waivers

96

 

13.2.

Notices

98

 

13.3.

No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies

99

 

13.4.

Survival of Representations and Warranties

99

 

13.5.

Payment of Expenses and Taxes

99

 

13.6.

Successors and Assigns; Participations and Assignments

100

 

13.7.

Adjustments; Set-off

104

 

13.8.

Counterparts

105

 

13.9.

Severability

105

 

13.10.

Integration

105

 

13.11.

GOVERNING LAW

106

 

13.12.

Submission To Jurisdiction; Waivers

106

 

13.13.

Absence of Prejudice to the Pre-petition Lenders with Respect to Matters Before the Bankruptcy Court

106

 

13.14.

Judgment

107

 

13.15.

Acknowledgements

107

 

13.16.

WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL

107

 

13.17.

Confidentiality

108

 

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 SCHEDULES

 

 

 

 

 

A

 

Notices

 

B

 

List of Guarantors

 

C

 

Existing Letters of Credit

 

D

 

Designated Foreign Currencies

 

5.2

 

Material Adverse Effect Disclosure

 

5.4

 

Consents Required

 

5.6

 

Litigation

 

5.8

 

Real Property

 

5.9

 

Intellectual Property Claims

 

5.15

 

Subsidiaries

 

6.1(d)

 

Lien Searches

 

8.2(d)

 

Permitted Indebtedness

 

8.3(j)

 

Permitted Liens

 

8.4(a)

 

Permitted Guarantee Obligations

 

8.9(c)

 

Permitted Investments

 

8.11(v)

 

Permitted Transactions with Affiliates

 

 

 

 

 EXHIBITS

 

 

 

 

 

 

A-1

 

Form of Revolving Credit Note

 

A-2

 

Form of Term Note

 

B

 

Form of Interim Order

 

C

 

Exit Facility Term Sheet

 

D-1

 

Form of Opinion of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, Special Counsel to the Loan Parties

 

D-2

 

Form of Opinion of Eryk J. Spytek, In-house Counsel to the Loan Parties

 

E

 

Form of U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate

 

F

 

Form of Assignment and Acceptance

 

G

 

Assumption Agreement

 

H

 

Form of Borrowing Certificate

 

I

 

Form of Closing Certificate

 

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CREDIT AND GUARANTEE AGREEMENT (the “ Agreement ”), dated as of February 6, 2008, among (i) SIRVA WORLDWIDE, INC., a Delaware corporation (the “ Borrower ”), which is a debtor and debtor-in-possession in a case pending under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, (ii) SIRVA, INC., a Delaware corporation (“ Holding ”), and each of the direct and indirect domestic Subsidiaries of Holding designated as a Guarantor on Schedule B hereto (such Subsidiaries, collectively with Holding, the “ Guarantors ” and together with the Borrower and Holding, the “ Debtors ” and each a “ Debtor ”), each of which Guarantors is a debtor and a debtor-in-possession in a case pending under Chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code (the cases of the Borrower and the Guarantors, each a “ Case ” and, collectively, the “ Cases ”), (iii) the several banks and other financial institutions from time to time parties to this Agreement (as further defined in subsection 1.1, the “ Lenders ”), and (iv) JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., (“ JPMCB ”), as administrative agent for the Lenders hereunder (in such capacity, the “ Administrative Agent ”).

 

INTRODUCTORY STATEMENT:

 

On February 5, 2008 (the “ Petition Date ”), the Debtors filed voluntary petitions with the Bankruptcy Court (such term and other capitalized terms used in this Introductory Statement being used with the meanings given to such terms in subsection 1.1) initiating the Cases and have continued in the possession of their assets and in the management of their businesses pursuant to Bankruptcy Code Sections 1107 and 1108.

 

Pursuant to this Agreement and the Orders, the Lenders are making available to the Borrower a $150,000,000 debtor-in-possession facility consisting of (i) a term loan in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $65,000,000, and (ii) a revolving loan in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $85,000,000, including a letter of credit facility in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $60,000,000 (in each case, subject to mandatory and optional reductions in accordance with subsection 4.4), all of the Borrower’s obligations under which are guaranteed by the Guarantors, and that is automatically convertible to an exit facility upon the satisfaction (or waiver) of certain conditions, all of the Borrower’s obligations under each of which are guaranteed by the Guarantors.

 

The proceeds of the Loans and the Letters of Credit will be used to repay certain indebtedness outstanding on the Petition Date and to provide working capital for, and for other general corporate purposes of, the Loan Parties, in all cases subject to the terms of this Agreement and the Orders.

 

To provide guarantees for the repayment of the Loans, the reimbursement of any draft drawn under the Letters of Credit and the payment of the other Obligations of the Debtors hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, the Debtors are providing to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, pursuant to this Agreement and the Orders, the following (each as more fully described herein):

 

(a)           a guarantee from each of the Guarantors of the due and punctual payment and performance of the Obligations of the Borrower hereunder and under the Notes;

 



 

(b)           with respect to the Obligations of the Loan Parties hereunder, an allowed administrative expense claim entitled to the benefits of Bankruptcy Code Section 364(c)(1) in each of the Cases, having a superpriority over any and all administrative expenses of the kind specified in Bankruptcy Code Sections 503(b) or 507(b);

 

(c)           pursuant to Bankruptcy Code Section 364(c)(2) a perfected first priority (subject to permitted exceptions) lien on all present and after-acquired property of the Debtors not subject to a lien on the Petition Date;

 

(d)           pursuant to Bankruptcy Code Section 364(c)(3) a perfected junior lien on, and security interest in, all present and after-acquired property of the Debtors that is otherwise subject to a valid and perfected lien on the Petition Date (other than to secure the Prepetition Credit Facility Obligations) or a valid lien perfected (but not granted) after the Petition Date to the extent such post-Petition Date perfection in respect of a pre-Petition Date claim is expressly permitted under the Bankruptcy Code; and

 

(e)           pursuant to Bankruptcy Code Section 364(d)(1) a perfected first priority (subject to permitted exceptions), senior priming lien on (x) all present and after-acquired property of the Debtors that is subject to a lien on the Petition Date to secure the Prepetition Credit Facility Obligations and (y) all present and after-acquired assets that are presently subject to liens that are junior to the liens that secure the Prepetition Credit Facility Obligations.

 

All of the claims and the Liens granted hereunder and pursuant to the Orders in the Cases to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall be subject to the Carve Out and the Permitted Liens, but in each case only to the extent provided in subsection 2.8 and the Orders.

 

Accordingly, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:

 

SECTION 1.   DEFINITIONS

 

1.1.          Defined Terms .  As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the following meanings:

 

ABR ”:  for any day, a rate per annum (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/16 of 1%) equal to the greater of (a) the Prime Rate in effect on such day and (b) the Federal Funds Effective Rate in effect on such day plus 1/2 of 1%.  For purposes hereof:  “ Prime Rate ” shall mean the rate of interest per annum publicly announced from time to time by JPMCB as its prime rate in effect at its principal office in New York City (the Prime Rate not being intended to be the lowest rate of interest charged by JPMCB in connection with extensions of credit to debtors); and “ Federal Funds Effective Rate ” shall mean, for any day, the weighted average of the rates on overnight federal funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by federal funds brokers, as published on the next succeeding Business Day by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or, if such rate is not so published for any day which is a Business Day, the average 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.  Any change in the ABR due to a change in the Prime Rate or the Federal Funds Effective Rate

 

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shall be effective as of the opening of business on the effective day of such change in the Prime Rate or the Federal Funds Effective Rate, respectively.

 

ABR Loans ”:  Loans the rate of interest applicable to which is based upon the ABR.

 

Acceleration ”:  as defined in subsection 9(e).

 

Accounts ”:  as defined in the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in the State of New York from time to time; and, with respect to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, all such Accounts of such Persons, whether now existing or existing in the future, including, without limitation, (a) all accounts receivable of such Person (whether or not specifically listed on schedules furnished to the Administrative Agent), including, without limitation, all accounts created by or arising from all of such Person’s sales of goods or rendition of services made under any of its trade names, or through any of its divisions, (b) all unpaid rights of such Person (including rescission, replevin, reclamation and stopping in transit) relating to the foregoing or arising therefrom, (c) all rights to any goods represented by any of the foregoing, including, without limitation, returned or repossessed goods, (d) all reserves and credit balances held by such Person with respect to any such accounts receivable of any obligors, (e) all letters of credit, guarantees or collateral for any of the foregoing and (f) all insurance policies or rights relating to any of the foregoing.

 

Administrative Agent ”:  as defined in the Preamble hereto.

 

Affiliate ”:  as to any Person, any other Person (other than a Subsidiary) which, directly or indirectly, is in control of, is controlled by, or is under common control with, such Person.  For purposes of this definition, “control” of a Person means the power, directly or indirectly, either to (a) vote 20% or more of the securities having ordinary voting power for the election of directors of such Person or (b) direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of such Person, whether by contract or otherwise.

 

Aggregate Outstanding Revolving Credit ”:  as to any Revolving Credit Lender at any time, an amount equal to the sum of (a) the aggregate principal amount of all Revolving Credit Loans made by such Revolving Credit Lender then outstanding and (b) such Revolving Credit Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment Percentage of the L/C Obligations then outstanding.

 

Agreement ”:  this Credit Agreement, as amended, supplemented, waived or otherwise modified from time to time.

 

Applicable Margin ”:  as applied to any given type of Loans, (a) with respect to ABR Loans, 5.5% per annum and (b) with respect to Eurodollar Loans, 6.5% per annum.

 

Application ”:  an application, in such form as the Issuing Lender may specify from time to time, requesting the Issuing Lender to open a Letter of Credit.

 

Approved Fund ”:  as defined in subsection 13.6(b).

 

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Asset Sale ”:  any sale, issuance, conveyance, transfer, lease or other disposition (a “ Disposition ”) by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, in one or a series of related transactions, of any real or personal, tangible or intangible, property (including, without limitation, Capital Stock) of the Borrower or such Subsidiary to any Person (other than to the Borrower or any of its Wholly Owned Subsidiaries) which yields gross proceeds to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (valued at the initial principal amount thereof in the case of non-cash proceeds consisting of notes or other debt securities and valued at fair market value in the case of other non-cash proceeds) in excess of $250,000, provided that the term Asset Sale shall not include any Disposition by any Insurance Subsidiary of its property in the ordinary course of conducting its insurance business.

 

Alternative Financing ” as defined in Section 2.11.

 

Assignee ”:  as defined in subsection 13.6(b).

 

Assignment and Acceptance ”:  an Assignment and Acceptance, substantially in the form of Exhibit F.

 

Assumption Agreement ”:  the supplement to the Guarantee substantially in the form of Exhibit G attached hereto.

 

Available Revolving Credit Commitment ”:  as to any Revolving Credit Lender at any time, an amount equal to the excess, if any, of (a) the amount of such Revolving Credit Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment at such time over (b) the sum of (i) the aggregate unpaid principal amount at such time of all Revolving Credit Loans made by such Revolving Credit Lender, and (ii) an amount equal to such Revolving Credit Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment Percentage of the outstanding L/C Obligations at such time; collectively, as to all the Lenders, the “ Available Revolving Credit Commitments ”.

 

Bankruptcy Code ”:  the Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978, as heretofore and hereafter amended, and codified as 11 U.S.C. §§101 et seq.

 

Bankruptcy Court ”:  the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of New York, or any other court having jurisdiction over the Cases from time to time.

 

Board ”:  the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System.

 

Borrower ”:  as defined in the Preamble hereto.

 

Borrowing Date ”:  any Business Day specified in a notice pursuant to subsection 2.2, 2.6 or 3.2 as a date on which the Borrower requests the Lenders to make Loans hereunder or the Issuing Lender to issue Letters of Credit hereunder.

 

Budget ”:  the cash flow projections of the Loan Parties, showing anticipated cash receipts and disbursements on a rolling thirteen- week basis for the period from the Petition Date through July 31, 2008 (with any period outside of the 13 week period

 

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reflected in a monthly summary), in a form reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and as thereafter updated in accordance with subsection 6.1(p).

 

 “ Business Day ”:  a day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in New York, New York are authorized or required by law to close, except that, when used in connection with a Eurodollar Loan, “Business Day” shall mean any Business Day on which dealings in Dollars between banks may be carried on in London, England and New York, New York.

 

Capital Expenditures ”:  with respect to any Person for any period, the sum of the aggregate of all expenditures by such Person and its consolidated Subsidiaries during such period (exclusive of expenditures made for Investments permitted by subsection 8.9) which, in accordance with GAAP, are or should be included in “capital expenditures” and are reflected in the consolidated statement of cash flows of such Person for such period.

 

Capital Stock ”:  any and all shares, interests, participations or other equivalents (however designated) of capital stock of a corporation, any and all equivalent ownership interests in a Person (other than a corporation) and any and all warrants or options to purchase any of the foregoing.

 

Carve Out ”:  the meaning set forth in subsection 2.8(a).

 

Cases ”:  the meaning set forth in the preamble to this Agreement.

 

Cash Collateral ”:  the meaning set forth in Section 363(a) of the Bankruptcy Code.

 

Cash Equivalents ”:  (a) securities issued or fully guaranteed or insured by the United States Government or any agency or instrumentality thereof, (b) time deposits, certificates of deposit or bankers’ acceptances of (i) any Lender or (ii) any commercial bank having capital and surplus in excess of $500,000,000 and the commercial paper of the holding company of which is rated at least A-2 or the equivalent thereof by Standard & Poor’s Ratings Group (a division of The McGraw Hill Companies Inc.) or any successor rating agency (“ S&P ”) or at least P-2 or the equivalent thereof by Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. or any successor rating agency (“ Moody’s ”) (or if at such time neither is issuing ratings, then a comparable rating of such other nationally recognized rating agency as shall be approved by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable judgment), (c) commercial paper rated at least A-2 or the equivalent thereof by S&P or at least P-2 or the equivalent thereof by Moody’s (or if at such time neither is issuing ratings, then a comparable rating of such other nationally recognized rating agency as shall be approved by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable judgment), (d) investments in money market funds complying with the risk limiting conditions of Rule 2a-7 or any successor rule of the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Investment Company Act, and (e) investments similar to any of the foregoing denominated in foreign currencies approved by the board of directors of the Borrower, in each case provided in clauses (a), (b), (c) and (e) above only, maturing within twelve months after the date of acquisition.

 

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Cash Management Banks ”: the collective reference to National City Bank, LaSalle Bank and Harris Bank.

 

Change of Control ”:  (a) the acquisition of ownership, directly or indirectly, beneficially or of record, by any Person or group (within the meaning of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 and the rules of the Securities and Exchange Commission thereunder as in effect on the date hereof) of shares representing more than 50% of the aggregate ordinary voting power represented by the issued and outstanding capital stock of Holding, or (b) the occupation of a majority of the seats (other than vacant seats) on the Board of Directors of Holding by Persons who were neither (i) nominated by the Board of Directors of Holding nor (ii) appointed by directors so nominated.

 

Closing Date ”:  the date on which all the conditions precedent set forth in subsection 6.1 shall be satisfied or waived, which date is February 6, 2008.

 

Code ”:  the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time.

 

Collateral ”:  all property of the Loan Parties, now owned or hereafter acquired, as more particularly described in the Orders.

 

Commercial Letter of Credit ”:  as defined in subsection 3.1(a).

 

Commitment ”:  as to any Lender, the sum of the Term Loan Commitment and the Revolving Credit Commitment of such Lender.

 

Commonly Controlled Entity ”:  an entity, whether or not incorporated, which is under common control with the Borrower within the meaning of Section 4001 of ERISA or is part of a group which includes the Borrower and which is treated as a single employer under Section 414 of the Code.

 

Conduit Lender ”:  any special purpose corporation organized and administered by any Lender for the purpose of making Loans otherwise required to be made by such Lender and designated by such Lender in a written instrument delivered to the Administrative Agent (a copy of which shall be provided by the Administrative Agent to the Borrower on request); provided that the designation by any Lender of a Conduit Lender shall not relieve the designating Lender of any of its obligations under this Agreement, including, without limitation, its obligation to fund a Loan if, for any reason, its Conduit Lender fails to fund any such Loan, and the designating Lender (and not the Conduit Lender) shall have the sole right and responsibility to deliver all consents and waivers required or requested under this Agreement with respect to its Conduit Lender, and provided , further , that no Conduit Lender shall (a) be entitled to receive any greater amount pursuant to any provision of this Agreement, including without limitation subsection 4.10, 4.11, 4.12 or 13.5, than the designating Lender would have been entitled to receive in respect of the extensions of credit made by such Conduit Lender if such designating Lender had not designated such Conduit Lender hereunder, (b) be deemed to have any Term Loan Commitment or Revolving Credit Commitment or (c) be designated if such designation would otherwise increase the costs of any Facility to the Borrower.

 

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Confirmation Order ”:  an order of the Bankruptcy Court confirming the Reorganization Plan.

 

Consolidated Net Income ”:  for any period, net income of Holding and its consolidated Subsidiaries for such period, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.

 

Contractual Obligation ”:  as to any Person, any provision of any material security issued by such Person or of any material agreement, instrument or other undertaking to which such Person is a party or by which it or any of its property is bound.

 

Conversion Date ”:  the date upon which the conditions to effectiveness of the Exit Facility Agreement set forth therein shall have been satisfied or waived.

 

CRS Holding ”:  SIRVA Relocation, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Borrower.

 

Debtors ”:  as defined in the Preamble.

 

Default ”:  any of the events specified in Section 9, whether or not any requirement for the giving of notice (other than, in the case of subsection 9(e), a Default Notice), the lapse of time, or both, or any other condition specified in Section 9, has been satisfied.

 

Default Notice ”:  as defined in subsection 9(e).

 

Designated Foreign Currencies ”:  the currencies set forth on Schedule D and any other available and freely convertible foreign currency selected by the Borrower and approved by the Administrative Agent and all of the Revolving Credit Lenders in accordance with subsection 13.1(b).

 

Disclosure Statement ”:  the Disclosure Statement, dated as of January 28, 2008, distributed to certain holders of claims (as defined in Section 101(5) of the Bankruptcy Code) against the Debtors.

 

Disinterested Director ”:  as defined in subsection 8.11.

 

Disposition ”:  as defined in the definition of the term “Asset Sale” in this subsection 1.1.

 

Dollar Equivalent ”:  with respect to any amount in respect of any Letter of Credit denominated in any Designated Foreign Currency, at any date of determination thereof, an amount in Dollars equivalent to such amount calculated on the basis of the Spot Rate of Exchange.

 

Dollars ” and “ $ ”:  dollars in lawful currency of the United States of America.

 

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Domestic Subsidiary ”:  any Subsidiary of the Borrower which is not a Foreign Subsidiary.

 

EBITDA ”:  for any period, Consolidated Net Income for such period adjusted to exclude the following items (without duplication) of income or expense to the extent that such items are included in the calculation of Consolidated Net Income: (a) interest expense, net (excluding any interest expense or interest income included in operating income or loss), (b) total income tax expense, (c) depreciation expense (d) the expense associated with amortization of intangible and other assets (including amortization or other expense recognition of any costs associated with asset write-ups in accordance with APB Nos. 16 and 17) (e) income and/or loss from discontinued operations, (f) gains and/or losses on the sale of assets (excluding the sale of operating assets in the normal course of business), (g) gains/losses from the extinguishment of liabilities, (h) non-cash long-term asset impairment charges, and (i) up to $13,000,000 of fees, costs and expenses related to the restructuring efforts of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, including the Cases. For the purposes of calculating EBITDA for any month (each such month, a “ Reference Period ”), if at any time during such Reference Period the  Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries shall have made any Material Disposition, the EBITDA for such Reference Period shall be reduced by an amount equal to the EBITDA (if positive) attributable to the property that is the subject of such Material Disposition for such Reference Period or increased by an amount equal to the EBITDA (if negative) attributable thereto for such Reference Period. As used in this definition, “ Material Disposition ” means any Disposition of property or series of related Dispositions of property that (x) constitutes assets comprising all or substantially all of an operating unit of a business or constitutes all or substantially all of the common stock of a Person and (y) yields gross proceeds to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in excess of $1,000,000.

 

Effective Date ”: as defined in the Reorganization Plan.

 

Employee Relocation Business ”:  the business of providing relocation services including home sale and purchase assistance, management of tenant responsibilities and other services to corporations that assist employees in their relocation needs, and other business related thereto.

 

Environmental Costs ”:  any and all costs or expenses (including, without limitation, attorney’s and consultant’s fees, investigation and laboratory fees, response costs, court costs and litigation expenses, fines, penalties, damages, settlement payments, judgments and awards), of whatever kind or nature, known or unknown, contingent or otherwise, arising out of, or in any way relating to, any violation of, noncompliance with or liability under any Environmental Laws or any orders, requirements, demands, or investigations of any person related to any Environmental Laws.  Environmental Costs include any and all of the foregoing, without regard to whether they arise out of or are related to any past, pending or threatened proceeding of any kind.

 

Environmental Laws ”:  any and all foreign, Federal, state, local or municipal laws, rules, orders, regulations, statutes, ordinances, codes, decrees, requirements of any

 

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Governmental Authority properly promulgated and having the force and effect of law or other Requirements of Law (including, without limitation, common law) regulating, relating to or imposing liability or standards of conduct concerning protection of human health or the environment, as now or at any relevant time hereafter are or at any relevant time have been, in effect.

 

Environmental Permits ”: any and all permits, licenses, registrations, notifications, exemptions and any other authorization required under any Environmental Law.

 

ERC ”:  Executive Relocation Corporation, a Michigan corporation.

 

ERISA ”:  the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to time.

 

Eurocurrency Reserve Requirements ”:  for any day as applied to a Eurodollar Loan, the aggregate (without duplication) of the rates (expressed as a decimal fraction) of reserve requirements in effect on such day (including, without limitation, basic, supplemental, marginal and emergency reserves under any regulations of the Board or other Governmental Authority having jurisdiction with respect thereto) dealing with reserve requirements prescribed for eurocurrency funding (currently referred to as “Eurocurrency Liabilities” in Regulation D of the Board) maintained by a member bank of the Federal Reserve System.

 

Eurodollar Base Rate ”:  with respect to each day during each Interest Period pertaining to a Eurodollar Loan, the rate per annum determined by the Administrative Agent to be the arithmetic mean (rounded to the nearest 1/100th of 1%) of the offered rates for deposits in Dollars with a term comparable to such Interest Period that appears on the Telerate British Bankers Assoc. Interest Settlement Rates Page (as defined below) at approximately 11:00 A.M., London time, on the second full Business Day preceding the first day of such Interest Period; provided , however , that if there shall at any time no longer exist a Telerate British Bankers Assoc. Interest Settlement Rates Page, “Eurodollar Base Rate” shall mean, with respect to each day during each Interest Period pertaining to a Eurodollar Loan, the rate per annum equal to the rate at which JPMCB is offered deposits in Dollars at or about 10:00 A.M., New York City time, two Business Days prior to the beginning of such Interest Period in the interbank eurodollar market where the eurodollar and foreign currency and exchange operations are then being conducted for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period for the number of days comprised therein and in an amount comparable to the amount of its Eurodollar Loan to be outstanding during such Interest Period.  “ Telerate British Bankers Assoc. Interest Settlement Rates Page ” shall mean the display designated as Page 3750 (or such other page on which any Designated Foreign Currency then appears) on the Telerate System (or such other page as may replace such page on such service for the purpose of displaying the rates at which Dollar deposits are offered by leading banks in the London interbank deposit market).

 

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Eurodollar Loans ”:  Loans the rate of interest applicable to which is based upon the Eurodollar Rate.

 

Eurodollar Rate ”:  with respect to each day during each Interest Period pertaining to a Eurodollar Loan, a rate per annum determined for such day in accordance with the following formula (rounded upward to the nearest 1/100th of 1%):

 

Eurodollar Base Rate

1.00 - Eurocurrency Reserve Requirements

 

Event of Default ”:  any of the events specified in Section 9, provided that any requirement for the giving of notice, the lapse of time, or both, or any other condition, has been satisfied.

 

Exchange Act ”:  the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended from time to time.

 

Existing Issuing Lender ”:  JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., in its capacity as issuer of the Existing Letters of Credit.

 

Existing Letters of Credit ”:  the letters of credit described on Schedule C outstanding as of the Petition Date and issued under the Prepetition Credit Facility.

 

Exit Facility Agreement ”:  the Credit and Guarantee Agreement having terms substantially as those set forth in the term sheet attached hereto as Exhibit C, as such agreement becomes effective pursuant to subsection 2.11, as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time with the consent of the Administrative Agent.

 

Extension of Credit ”:  as to any Lender, the making of a Loan by such Lender or the issuance of, or participation in, a Letter of Credit by such Lender.

 

Facility ”:  each of (a) the Term Loan Commitments and the Term Loans made thereunder, and (b) the Revolving Credit Commitments and the Extensions of Credit made thereunder.

 

Federal Funds Effective Rate ”:  as defined in the definition of the term “ABR” in this subsection 1.1.

 

Final Order ”:  an order of the Bankruptcy Court entered in the Cases, in substantially the form of the Interim Order, with such modifications thereto as are reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

 

Financing Lease ”:  any lease of property, real or personal, the obligations of the lessee in respect of which are required in accordance with GAAP to be capitalized on a balance sheet of the lessee.

 

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Foreign Backstop Letters of Credit ”:  any Standby Letter of Credit issued to any Person for the account of the Borrower to provide credit support for Indebtedness of any Foreign Subsidiary to such Person which is permitted under subsection 8.2.

 

Foreign Subsidiary ”:  any Subsidiary of the Borrower which is organized and existing under the laws of any jurisdiction outside of the United States of America or that is a Foreign Subsidiary Holdco.

 

Foreign Subsidiary Holdco ”:  North American International Holding Corporation, a Delaware corporation, and any other Subsidiary of the Borrower that has no material assets other than securities of one or more Foreign Subsidiaries, and other assets relating to an ownership interest in any such securities or Subsidiaries.

 

Former Plan ”:  any employee benefit plan in respect of which the Borrower or a Commonly Controlled Entity has engaged in a transaction described in Section 4069 or Section 4212(c) of ERISA.

 

GAAP ”:  with respect to the covenants contained in subsections 8.1 and 8.8 and all defined terms relating thereto, generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America in effect on the Closing Date, and, for all other purposes under this Agreement, generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America in effect from time to time.

 

Governmental Authority ”:  any nation or government, any state or other political subdivision thereof and any entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, regulatory or administrative functions of or pertaining to government, including, without limitation, the European Union.

 

Guarantee Obligation ”:  as to any Person (the “ guaranteeing person ”), any obligation of (a) the guaranteeing person or (b) another Person (including, without limitation, any bank under any letter of credit) to induce the creation of which the guaranteeing person has issued a reimbursement, counterindemnity or similar obligation, in either case guaranteeing or in effect guaranteeing any Indebtedness, leases, dividends or other obligations (the “ primary obligations ”) of any other third Person (the “ primary obligor ”) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, including, without limitation, any such obligation of the guaranteeing person, whether or not contingent, (i) to purchase any such primary obligation or any property constituting direct or indirect security therefor, (ii) 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, (iii) 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 or (iv) otherwise to assure or hold harmless the owner of any such primary obligation against loss in respect thereof; provided , however , that the term Guarantee Obligation shall not include (x) endorsements of instruments for deposit or collection in the ordinary course of business or (y) the obligations of any Insurance Subsidiary pursuant to insurance policies issued by such Insurance Subsidiary in the

 

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ordinary course of its insurance business.  The amount of any Guarantee Obligation of any guaranteeing person shall be deemed to be the lower of (a) an amount equal to the stated or determinable amount of the primary obligation in respect of which such Guarantee Obligation is made and (b) the maximum amount for which such guaranteeing person may be liable pursuant to the terms of the instrument embodying such Guarantee Obligation, unless such primary obligation and the maximum amount for which such guaranteeing person may be liable are not stated or determinable, in which case the amount of such Guarantee Obligation shall be such guaranteeing person’s maximum reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof as determined by the Borrower in good faith.

 

Guarantees ”:  the collective reference to the guarantees hereby delivered to the Administrative Agent (a copy of which will be provided to each Lender) or delivered pursuant to an executed Assumption Agreement guaranteeing the obligations and liabilities of the Borrower hereunder, under any Permitted Hedging Arrangement entered into with any Lender or any affiliate thereof, under any cash management services provided by any Lender or any affiliate thereof, under any Notes and/or under any of the other Loan Documents.

 

Guarantors ”:  as defined in the Preamble.

 

Holding ”:  as defined in the Preamble hereto.

 

Holding Companies ”:  the collective reference to Holding, CMS Holding, LLC and RS Acquisition Holding, LLC.

 

Indebtedness ”:  of any Person at any date, (a) all indebtedness of such Person for borrowed money or for the deferred purchase price of property or services (other than trade liabilities incurred in the ordinary course of business and payable in accordance with customary practices), (b) any other indebtedness of such Person which is evidenced by a note, bond, debenture or similar instrument, (c) all obligations of such Person under Financing Leases, (d) all obligations of such Person in respect of bankers’ acceptances issued or created for the account of such Person, (e) for purposes of subsection 8.2 and subsection 9(e) only, all obligations of such Person in respect of interest rate protection agreements, interest rate futures, interest rate options, interest rate caps and any other interest rate hedge arrangements and (f) all indebtedness or obligations of the types referred to in the preceding clauses (a) through (e) to the extent secured by any Lien on any property owned by such Person even though such Person has not assumed or otherwise become liable for the payment thereof. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event shall “Indebtedness” include (i) obligations of CRS Holding, SRHL, any of their respective Subsidiaries or any other Subsidiary of the Borrower primarily engaged in the Employee Relocation Business to make payments under or with respect to mortgage notes payable in the ordinary course of business in connection with the provision of relocation services or (ii) such mortgage notes

 

Insolvency ”:  with respect to any Multiemployer Plan, the condition that such Plan is insolvent within the meaning of Section 4245 of ERISA.

 

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Insolvent ”:  pertaining to a condition of Insolvency.

 

Insurance Subsidiaries ”:  the collective reference to any Subsidiaries of the Borrower engaged solely in the business of underwriting insurance or reinsurance and related activities.

 

Intellectual Property ”:  as defined in subsection 5.9.

 

Interest Payment Date ”:  (a) as to any ABR Loan, the last day of each month to occur while such Loan is outstanding, and the final maturity date of such Loan, (b) as to any Eurodollar Loan having an Interest Period of three months or less, (i) each day which is one month, or a whole multiple thereof, after the first day of such Interest Period and (ii) the last day of such Interest Period.

 

Interest Period ”:  with respect to any Eurodollar Loan:

 

(a)            initially, the period commencing on the borrowing or conversion date, as the case may be, with respect to such Eurodollar Loan and ending one or three  months thereafter, as selected by the Borrower in its notice of borrowing or notice of conversion, as the case may be, given with respect thereto; and

 

(b)            thereafter, each period commencing on the last day of the next preceding Interest Period applicable to such Eurodollar Loan and ending one or three months thereafter, as selected by the Borrower by irrevocable notice to the Administrative Agent not less than three Business Days prior to the last day of the then current Interest Period with respect thereto;

 

provided that all of the foregoing provisions relating to Interest Periods are subject to the following:

 

(i)             if any Interest Period would otherwise end on a day that is not a Business Day, such Interest Period shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless the result of such extension would be to carry such Interest Period into another calendar month in which event such Interest Period shall end on the immediately preceding Business Day;

 

(ii)            (A) in the case of the Revolving Credit Loans, any Interest Period that would otherwise extend beyond the Termination Date shall (for all purposes other than subsection 4.12) end on the Termination Date and (B) in the case of the Term Loans, any Interest Period that would otherwise extend beyond the Maturity Date shall (for all purposes other than subsection 4.12) end on the Maturity Date;

 

(iii)           any Interest Period that begins on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month at the end of such Interest Period) shall end on the last Business Day of a calendar month; and

 

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(iv)           the Borrower shall select Interest Periods so as not to require a scheduled payment of any Eurodollar Loan during an Interest Period for such Loan.

 

Interest Rate Protection Agreement ”:  any interest rate protection agreement, interest rate future, interest rate option, interest rate cap or collar or other interest rate hedge arrangement and with (a) any Lender or any affiliate of any Lender or any such lender, or (b) any financial institution reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent, to or under which the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries is or becomes a party or a beneficiary.

 

Interim Order ”:  an order of the Bankruptcy Court entered in the Cases granting interim approval of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and granting the Liens and Superpriority Claims described in the Introductory Statement in favor of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, substantially in the form of Exhibit B hereto, or otherwise in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

 

Inventory ”:  as defined in the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in the State of New York from time to time; and, with respect to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, all such Inventory of the Borrower and such Subsidiaries, including, without limitation:  (a) all goods, wares and merchandise held for sale or lease and (b) all goods returned or repossessed by the Borrower or such Subsidiaries.

 

Investment Company Act ”:  the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended from time to time.

 

Investments ”:  as defined in subsection 8.9.

 

Issuing Lender ”:  the Administrative Agent or any affiliate thereof, in its capacity as issuer of any Letter of Credit.

 

JPMCB ”:  JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A.

 

JPMorgan ”:  J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.

 

L/C Fee Payment Date ”:  with respect to any Letter of Credit, the last day of each month to occur after the date of issuance thereof to and including the first such day to occur on or after the date of expiry thereof.

 

L/C Obligations ”:  at any time, an amount equal to the sum of (a) the aggregate then undrawn and unexpired amount of the then outstanding Letters of Credit (including, without limitation, in the case of outstanding Letters of Credit in any Designated Foreign Currency, the Dollar Equivalent of the aggregate then undrawn and unexpired amount thereof) and (b) the aggregate amount of drawings under Letters of Credit which have not then been reimbursed pursuant to subsection 3.5(a) (including, without limitation, in the case of Letters of Credit in any Designated Foreign Currency, the Dollar Equivalent of the unreimbursed aggregate amount of drawings thereunder, to the extent that such amount has not been converted into Dollars in accordance with subsection 3.5(a)).

 

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L/C Participants ”:  the collective reference to all the Revolving Credit Lenders other than the Issuing Lender.

 

Lenders ”:  the several banks and other financial institutions from time to time parties to this Agreement.

 

Letters of Credit ”:  as defined in subsection 3.1(a).

 

Lien ”:  any mortgage, pledge, hypothecation, assignment, security deposit arrangement, encumbrance, lien (statutory or other), charge or other security interest or any preference, priority or other security agreement or preferential arrangement of any kind or nature whatsoever (including, without limitation, any conditional sale or other title retention agreement and any Financing Lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing).

 

Loan ”:  a Revolving Credit Loan or a Term Loan, as the context shall require; collectively, the “ Loans ”.

 

Loan Documents ”:  this Agreement, any Notes, and the Applications, each as amended, supplemented, waived or otherwise modified from time to time.

 

Loan Parties ”:  the Borrower, Holding, the other Guarantors and each other Subsidiary of Holding that is a party to a Loan Document; individually, a “ Loan Party ”.

 

Local Agents ”:  those independently owned local moving and storage companies that have entered into certain contractual arrangements with the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries to provide customers with local sales, packing or warehousing services and/or a portion of the hauling services required to support the operations of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, or any combination of such services.

 

Material Adverse Effect ”:  a material adverse effect on (a) the business, operations, assets or financial condition of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or of Holding and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or (b) the validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, taken as a whole, or (c) the rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders under the Loan Documents, taken as a whole.

 

Materials of Environmental Concern ”:  any gasoline or petroleum (including, without limitation, crude oil or any fraction thereof) or petroleum products or any hazardous or toxic substances or materials or wastes defined or regulated as such in or under or which may give rise to liability under any applicable Environmental Law, including, without limitation, asbestos, polychlorinated biphenyls and urea-formaldehyde insulation.

 

Material Subsidiary ”:  the collective reference to any Subsidiary of the Borrower that had (a) total revenues of more than $1,000,000 during the most recently completed period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Borrower or (b) total assets of more than $500,000 as of the last day of such period.

 

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Maturity Date ”:  June 30, 2008.

 

Moody’s ”:  as defined in the definition of “Cash Equivalents” in this subsection 1.1.

 

Multiemployer Plan ”:  a Plan which is a multiemployer plan as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA.

 

Net Cash Proceeds ”:  with respect to any Asset Sale, any Recovery Event, the issuance of any debt securities or any borrowings by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (other than issuances and borrowings permitted pursuant to subsection 8.2, except as otherwise specified), an amount equal to the gross proceeds in cash and Cash Equivalents of such Asset Sale, Recovery Event, issuance or borrowing, net of (a) reasonable attorneys’ fees, accountants’ fees, brokerage, consultant and other customary fees, underwriting commissions and other reasonable fees and expenses actually incurred in connection with such Asset Sale, Recovery Event, issuance or borrowing, (b) taxes paid or reasonably estimated to be payable as a result thereof, (c) appropriate amounts provided or to be provided by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries as a reserve, in accordance with GAAP, with respect to any liabilities associated with such Asset Sale or Recovery Event and retained by the Borrower or any such Subsidiary after such Asset Sale or Recovery Event and other appropriate amounts to be used by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries to discharge or pay on a current basis any other liabilities associated with such Asset Sale or Recovery Event and (d) in the case of a sale, Recovery Event of or involving an asset subject to a Lien securing any Indebtedness, payments made and installment payments required to be made to repay such Indebtedness, including, without limitation, payments in respect of principal, interest and prepayment premiums and penalties.

 

Non-Excluded Taxes ”:  as defined in subsection 4.11.

 

Notes ”:  the collective reference to the Revolving Credit Notes and the Term Notes.

 

Obligations ”:  (a) the principal of and interest on the Loans and the Notes and the Letters of Credit outstanding, and (b) the fees and all other present and future, fixed or contingent, obligations and liabilities (monetary or otherwise) of the Loan Parties to the Lenders, each Issuing Lender and the Administrative Agent under the Loan Documents, including without limitation, all costs and expenses payable pursuant to subsection 13.5, (c) the obligations and liabilities of the Borrower under any Permitted Hedging Arrangement entered into by the Borrower and any Lender or affiliate thereof, and (d) the obligations and liabilities of the Borrower under any cash management services provided by any Lender or affiliate thereof.

 

Orders ”:  the collective reference to the Interim Order and the Final Order.

 

Owner/Operators ”:  individuals who are retained by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries as independent contractors and who own and drive their own tractors on behalf of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries.

 

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Participants ”:  as defined in subsection 13.6(c).

 

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

 

Permitted Hedging Arrangement ”:  as defined in subsection 8.17.

 

Permitted Liens ”:  Liens permitted by subsection 8.3.

 

Person ”:  an individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company, business trust, joint stock company, trust, unincorporated association, joint venture, Governmental Authority or other entity of whatever nature.

 

Petition Date ”:  as defined in the Introductory Statement.

 

Plan ”:  at a particular time, any employee benefit plan which is covered by ERISA and in respect of which the Borrower or a Commonly Controlled Entity is an “employer” as defined in Section 3(5) of ERISA.

 

Prepetition Credit Facility ”:  the Credit Agreement, dated as of December 1, 2003, as amended  through the Petition Date, among the Borrower, the foreign subsidiary borrowers party thereto, the Prepetition Credit Facility Lender, the Prepetition Credit Facility Agent and the other agents party thereto.

 

Prepetition Credit Facility Agent ”:  JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., in its capacity as administrative agent under the Prepetition Credit Facility.

 

Prepetition Credit Facility Lenders ”:  the several banks and other financial institutions and entities from time to time parties to the Prepetition Credit Facility.

 

Prepetition Credit Facility Obligations ”:  all of the Loan Parties’ obligations incurred under, pursuant to or in connection with the Prepetition Credit Facility and all of the collateral and ancillary documents executed and delivered in connection therewith.

 

Prepetition Secured Parties ”:  the Prepetition Credit Facility Agent and the Prepetition Credit Facility Lenders.

 

Prime Rate ”:  as defined in the definition of the term “ABR” in this subsection 1.1.

 

Pro Forma Balance Sheet ”:  as defined in subsection 5.1(b).

 

Prohibited Claim ”:  any action or objection with respect to (a) claims of the Prepetition Secured Parties against the Loan Parties or the Liens which secure the Prepetition Credit Facility Obligations, (b) the Superpriority Claims or Liens granted to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders pursuant to subsections 2.8(a), (b), or (c) the Superpriority Claims or Liens granted to the Prepetition Secured Parties pursuant to subsection 2.8(c).

 

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Recovery Event ”:  any settlement of or payment in respect of any property or casualty insurance claim or any condemnation proceeding relating to any asset of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries giving rise to Net Cash Proceeds to the Borrower or such Subsidiary, as the case may be, in excess of $250,000, to the extent that such settlement or payment does not constitute reimbursement or compensation for amounts previously paid or to be paid by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in respect of any loss, casualty or condemnation.

 

Register ”:  as defined in subsection 13.6(b).

 

Regulation D ”:  Regulation D of the Board as in effect from time to time.

 

Regulation T ”:  Regulation T of the Board as in effect from time to time.

 

Regulation U ”:  Regulation U of the Board as in effect from time to time.

 

Regulation X ”:  Regulation X of the Board as in effect from time to time.

 

Reimbursement Obligations ”:  the obligation of the Borrower to reimburse the Issuing Lender pursuant to subsection 3.5(a) for amounts drawn under Letters of Credit.

 

Reinvested Amount ”:  with respect to any Recovery Event, that portion of the Net Cash Proceeds thereof as shall, according to a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower delivered to the Administrative Agent within 30 days of such Recovery Event, be used to repair or replace the asset that was the subject of such Recovery Event within 180 days of the receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds with respect to any such Recovery Event; provided that (a) any Net Cash Proceeds of such Recovery Event shall be immediately (i) deposited in a cash collateral account established at JPMCB to be held as collateral in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Lenders on terms reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and shall remain on deposit in such cash collateral account until such certificate of a Responsible Officer is delivered to the Administrative Agent or (ii) used to make a prepayment of the Revolving Credit Loans in accordance with subsection 4.4(a); provided that, notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, the Borrower may not request any Extension of Credit under the Revolving Credit Commitments that would reduce the aggregate amount of the Available Revolving Credit Commitments to an amount that is less than the amount of any such prepayment until such certificate of a Responsible Officer is delivered to the Administrative Agent and (b) any Net Cash Proceeds not so reinvested by the date required pursuant to the terms of this definition shall be utilized on such day to prepay the Loans pursuant to subsection 4.4(c).

 

Relocation SPV Financing ”:  means the financing of (a) purchases of residential properties, fixtures and related assets (including the funding of the full purchase price of such residential properties, fixtures and assets (including the pay-off of any existing mortgage thereon), (b) the funding of advances to employees of customers in respect of the equity value of residential properties, fixtures and assets of such employees), and (c) other ordinary course Employee Relocation Business activities of CRS Holding, SRHL, ERC, any of their respective Subsidiaries or any other Subsidiary of the Borrower

 

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engaged in the Employee Relocation Business, in each case by a special-purpose Subsidiary of Holding that is not a Subsidiary of the Borrower or an unaffiliated third party (the “ Relocation SPV ”), provided that (a) the lender of any Indebtedness of any borrower or obligor with respect to such financing shall not have any recourse to Holding or any Loan Party for payment of such Indebtedness, (b) such Indebtedness shall not be secured by any property or assets of Holding or any Loan Party other than property or assets the Disposition of which is permitted under clause (x) of subsection 8.6(a) and (c) such financing shall be upon terms and pursuant to documentation (as amended, supplemented, extended, renewed or replaced from time to time) in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, as evidenced by its written approval thereof (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld).

 

Reorganization ”:  with respect to any Multiemployer Plan, the condition that such plan is in reorganization within the meaning of Section 4241 of ERISA.

 

Reorganization Plan ”:  the Debtors’ Joint Plan of Reorganization under chapter 11 of the Bankruptcy Code, substantially in the form attached to the Disclosure Statement, together with changes thereto acceptable to the Administrative Agent.

 

Reportable Event ”:  any of the events set forth in Section 4043(c) of ERISA, other than those events as to which the thirty day notice period is waived pursuant to the Regulations promulgated under Section 4043 of ERISA.

 

Required Lenders ”:  at any time, Lenders the Total Credit Percentages of which aggregate greater than 50%.

 

Requirement of Law ”:  as to any Person, the certificate of incorporation and by-laws or other organizational or governing documents of such Person, and any law, statute, ordinance, code, decree, 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 material property or to which such Person or any of its material property is subject, including, without limitation, laws, ordinances and regulations pertaining to zoning, occupancy and subdivision of real properties; provided that the foregoing shall not apply to any non-binding recommendation of any Governmental Authority.

 

Responsible Officer ”:  as to any Person, any of the following officers of such Person:  (a) the chief executive officer or the president of such Person and, with respect to financial matters, the chief financial officer, chief restructuring officer, the treasurer or the controller of such Person, (b) any vice president of such Person or, with respect to financial matters, any assistant treasurer or assistant controller of such Person, who has been designated in writing to the Administrative Agent as a Responsible Officer by such chief executive officer or president of such Person or, with respect to financial matters, such chief financial officer of such Person, (c) with respect to subsection 7.7 and without limiting the foregoing, the general counsel of such Person and (d) with respect to ERISA matters, the senior vice president - human resources (or substantial equivalent) of such Person.

 

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Revolving Credit Commitment ”:  as to any Revolving Credit Lender, its obligation to make Revolving Credit Loans to, and/or issue or participate in Letters of Credit issued on behalf of, the Borrower in an aggregate amount not to exceed at any one time outstanding the amount agreed to by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and such Lender, or, in the case of any Lender that is an Assignee, the amount of the assigning Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment assigned to such Assignee pursuant to subsection 13.6(b) (in each case as such amount may be adjusted from time to time as provided herein); collectively, as to all the Revolving Credit Lenders, the “ Revolving Credit Commitments ”.  The original amount of the aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments of the Revolving Credit Lenders is $85,000,000.

 

Revolving Credit Commitment Percentage ”:  as to any Revolving Credit Lender, the percentage of the aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments constituted by its Revolving Credit Commitment (or, if the Revolving Credit Commitments have terminated or expired, the percentage which (a) the sum of (i) such Lender’s then outstanding Revolving Credit Loans plus (ii) such Lender’s interests in the aggregate L/C Obligations then outstanding then constitutes of (b) the sum of (i) the aggregate Revolving Credit Loans of all the Revolving Credit Lenders then outstanding plus (ii) the aggregate L/C Obligations then outstanding).

 

Revolving Credit Commitment Period ”:  the period from and including the Closing Date to but not including the Termination Date, or such earlier date as the Revolving Credit Commitments shall terminate as provided herein.

 

Revolving Credit Lender ”:  any Lender having a Revolving Credit Commitment hereunder and/or a Revolving Credit Loan outstanding hereunder.

 

Revolving Credit Loans ”:  as defined in subsection 2.1(a).

 

Revolving Credit Note ”:  as defined in subsection 2.1(c).

 

S&P ”:  as defined in the definition of “Cash Equivalents” in this subsection 1.1.

 

Securities Act ”:  the Securities Act of 1933, as amended from time to time.

 

Securitization ” as defined in Section 2.11.

 

Set ”:  the collective reference to Eurodollar Loans, the then current Interest Periods with respect to all of which begin on the same date and end on the same later date (whether or not such Loans shall originally have been made on the same day).

 

Single Employer Plan ”:  any Plan which is covered by Title IV of ERISA, but which is not a Multiemployer Plan.

 

Spot Rate of Exchange ”:  with respect to any Designated Foreign Currency, at any date of determination thereof, the spot rate of exchange in London that appears on the display page applicable to such Designated Foreign Currency on the Telerate System (or such other page as may replace such page for the purpose of displaying the spot rate of

 

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exchange in London); provided that if there shall at any time no longer exist such a page, the spot rate of exchange shall be determined by reference to another similar rate publishing service selected by the Administrative Agent and, if no such similar rate publishing service is available, by reference to the published rate of the Administrative Agent in effect at such date for similar commercial transactions.

 

SRHL ”:  SIRVA Relocation Holdings Limited, a company organized under the laws of England and Wales.

 

Standby Letter of Credit ”:  as defined in subsection 3.1(a).

 

Sterling ”:  British pounds sterling.

 

Subsidiary ”:  as to any Person, a corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other entity (a) of which shares of stock or other ownership interests having ordinary voting power (other than stock or such other ownership interests having such power only by reason of the happening of a contingency) to elect a majority of the board of directors or other managers of such corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other entity are at the time owned by such Person, or (b) the management of which is otherwise controlled, directly or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, or both, by such Person and, in the case of this clause (b), which is treated as a consolidated subsidiary for accounting purposes.  Unless otherwise qualified, all references to a “Subsidiary” or to “Subsidiaries” in this Agreement shall refer to a Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of the Borrower.

 

Superpriority Claim ”:  a claim against any Loan Party in any of the Cases which is an administrative expense claim having priority over any or all administrative expenses of the kind specified in Sections 503(b) or 507(b) of the Bankruptcy Code, including a claim pursuant to Section 364(c)(1) of the Bankruptcy Code.

 

Synthetic Purchase Agreement ”:  any agreement pursuant to which the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries is or may become obligated to make any payment (except as otherwise permitted by this Agreement) to any third party (other than the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries) in connection with the purchase or the notional purchase by such third party or any Affiliate thereof from a Person other than the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries of any Capital Stock of Holding.

 

Tax Sharing Agreement ”:  the Tax Sharing Agreement, dated as of December 1, 2003, among Holding, the Borrower and certain other Subsidiaries of Holding, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, as amended through the date hereof and as the same may be further amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance with subsection 8.16.

 

Term Loan Commitment ”:  as to any Lender, the obligation of such Lender, if any, to make a Term Loan to the Borrower hereunder in a principal amount not to exceed the amount agreed to by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and such Lender.  The original aggregate amount of the Term Loan Commitments is $65,000,000.

 

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Term Loan Lender ”:  each Lender which has a Term Loan Commitment or which has a Term Loan outstanding hereunder.

 

Term Loan Percentage ”:  as to any Term Loan Lender at any time, the percentage which such Lender’s Term Loan Commitment constitutes of the aggregate Term Loan Commitment (or, at any time after the Closing Date, the percentage which such Lender’s Term Loans then outstanding constitutes of the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans then outstanding).

 

Term Loans ”:  as defined in subsection 2.4 hereof.

 

Term Note ”:  as defined in subsection 2.5 hereof.

 

Termination Date ”:  the earliest to occur of (a) the Maturity Date, (b) 30 days after entry of the Interim Order if the Final Order has not been entered prior thereto, (c) the acceleration of the Loans and the termination of the Commitments in accordance with the terms hereof and (d) if the Conversion Date does not occur simultaneously therewith, the Effective Date.

 

Total Credit Percentage ”:  as to any Lender at any time, the percentage of the aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments (or, in the case of the termination or expiration of the Revolving Credit Commitments, the Aggregate Outstanding Revolving Credit of the Lenders) and aggregate outstanding Term Loans of the Lenders, then constituted by such Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment (or, in the case of the termination or expiration of the Revolving Credit Commitments, such Lender’s Aggregate Outstanding Revolving Credit) and outstanding Term Loans.

 

Transferee ”:  any Participant or Assignee.

 

Type ”:  as to any Loan, its nature as an ABR Loan or a Eurodollar Loan.

 

Underfunding ”:  the excess of the present value of all accrued benefits under a Plan (based on those assumptions used to fund such Plan), determined as of the most recent annual valuation date, over the value of the assets of such Plan allocable to such accrued benefits.

 

Uniform Customs ”:  the Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits (1993 Revision), International Chamber of Commerce Publication No. 500, as the same may be amended from time to time.

 

U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate ”:  as defined in subsection 4.11(b).

 

Wholly Owned Subsidiary ”:  as to any Person, any Subsidiary of such Person of which such Person owns, directly or indirectly through one or more Wholly Owned Subsidiaries, all of the Capital Stock of such Subsidiary other than directors qualifying shares or shares held by nominees.

 

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1.2.           Other Definitional Provisions  (a)  Unless otherwise specified therein, all terms defined in this Agreement shall have the defined meanings when used in any Notes, any other Loan Document or any certificate or other document made or delivered pursuant hereto.

 

(b)            As used herein and in any Notes and any other Loan Document, and any certificate or other document made or delivered pursuant hereto or thereto, accounting terms relating to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries not defined in subsection 1.1 and accounting terms partly defined in subsection 1.1, to the extent not defined, shall have the respective meanings given to them under GAAP.

 

(c)            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, subsection, Schedule and Exhibit references are to this Agreement unless otherwise specified.  The phrase “the date hereof” and phrases of similar import when used in this Agreement shall refer to February 6, 2008.

 

(d)            The meanings given to terms defined herein shall be equally applicable to both the singular and plural forms of such terms.

 

SECTION 2.   AMOUNT AND TERMS OF COMMITMENTS

 

2.1.           Revolving Credit Commitments  (a)   Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, each Revolving Credit Lender severally agrees to make revolving credit loans (“ Revolving Credit Loans ”) to the Borrower from time to time during the Revolving Credit Commitment Period in an aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding which, when added to such Revolving Credit Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment Percentage of the then outstanding L/C Obligations, does not exceed the amount of such Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment then in effect.  During the Revolving Credit Commitment Period the Borrower may use the Revolving Credit Commitments by borrowing, prepaying the Revolving Credit Loans in whole or in part, and reborrowing, all in accordance with the terms and conditions hereof.

 

(b)            The Revolving Credit Loans shall be made in Dollars and may from time to time be (i) Eurodollar Loans, (ii) ABR Loans or (iii) a combination thereof, as determined by the Borrower and notified to the Administrative Agent in accordance with subsections 2.2 and 4.2, provided that no Revolving Credit Loan shall be made as a Eurodollar Loan after the day that is one month prior to the Termination Date.

 

(c)            The Borrower agrees that, upon the request to the Administrative Agent by any Revolving Credit Lender made on or prior to the Closing Date or in connection with any assignment pursuant to subsection 13.6(b), in order to evidence such Lender’s Revolving Credit Loans the Borrower will execute and deliver to such Lender a promissory note substantially in the form of Exhibit A-1, with appropriate insertions as to payee, date and principal amount (each, as amended, supplemented, replaced or otherwise modified from time to time, a “ Revolving Credit Note ”), payable to the order of such Lender and in a principal amount equal to the aggregate unpaid principal amount of all Revolving Credit Loans made by such Lender to the Borrower.  Each Revolving Credit Note shall (i) be dated the Closing Date, (ii) be stated to

 

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mature on the Termination Date and (iii) provide for the payment of interest in accordance with subsection 4.1.

 

2.2.           Procedure for Revolving Credit Borrowing   The Borrower may borrow under the Revolving Credit Commitments during the Revolving Credit Commitment Period on any Business Day, provided that the Borrower shall give the Administrative Agent irrevocable notice (which notice must be received by the Administrative Agent prior to (a) 12:30 P.M., New York City time, at least three Business Days prior to the requested Borrowing Date, if all or any part of the requested Revolving Credit Loans are to be initially Eurodollar Loans or (b) 12:30 P.M., New York City time, at least one Business Day prior to the requested Borrowing Date, otherwise) specifying (i) the amount to be borrowed, (ii) the requested Borrowing Date, (iii) whether the borrowing is to be of Eurodollar Loans, ABR Loans or a combination thereof and (iv) if the borrowing is to be entirely or partly of Eurodollar Loans, the respective amounts of each such Type of Loan, the respective lengths of the initial Interest Periods therefor.  Each borrowing under the Revolving Credit Commitments shall be in an amount equal to (x) in the case of ABR Loans, except any ABR Loan to be used solely to pay a like amount of outstanding Reimbursement Obligations, $2,000,000 or a whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof (or, if the then Available Revolving Credit Commitments are (A) less than $2,000,000, $1,000,000 or a whole multiple thereof or (B) less than $1,000,000, such lesser amount) and (y) in the case of Eurodollar Loans, $5,000,000 or a whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof.  Upon receipt of any such notice from the Borrower, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Revolving Credit Lender thereof.  Subject to the satisfaction of the conditions precedent specified in subsection 6.2, each Revolving Credit Lender will make the amount of its pro rata share of each borrowing of Revolving Credit Loans available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Borrower at the office of the Administrative Agent specified in subsection 13.2 prior to 12:30 P.M., New York City time, or at such other office of the Administrative Agent or at such other time as to which the Administrative Agent shall notify such Revolving Credit Lender and the Borrower reasonably in advance of the Borrowing Date with respect thereto, on the Borrowing Date requested by the Borrower in Dollars and in funds immediately available to the Administrative Agent.  Such borrowing will then be made available to the Borrower by the Administrative Agent crediting the account of the Borrower on the books of such office with the aggregate of the amounts made available to the Administrative Agent by the Revolving Credit Lenders and in like funds as received by the Administrative Agent.

 

2.3.           Termination or Reduction of Revolving Credit Commitments   The Borrower shall have the right, upon not less than three Business Days’ notice to the Administrative Agent (which will promptly notify the Lenders thereof), to terminate the Revolving Credit Commitments or, from time to time, to reduce the amount of the Revolving Credit Commitments; provided that no such termination or reduction shall be permitted if, after giving effect thereto and to any prepayments of the Revolving Credit Loans made on the effective date thereof, the aggregate principal amount of the Revolving Credit Loans then outstanding, when added to the then outstanding L/C Obligations, would exceed the Revolving Credit Commitments then in effect.  Any such reduction shall be in an amount equal to $1,000,000 or a whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof and shall reduce permanently the Revolving Credit Commitments then in effect.

 

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2.4.          Term Loans .  Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, each Term Loan Lender severally agrees to make a term loan (collectively, the “ Term Loans ”) to the Borrower on the Closing Date in a principal amount not to exceed the amount of such Lender’s Term Loan Commitment agreed to by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and such Lender. The Term Loans may from time to time be (x) Eurodollar Loans, (y) ABR Loans or (z) a combination thereof, as determined by the Borrower and notified to the Administrative Agent in accordance with subsections 2.6 and 4.2.

 

2.5.          Term Notes .  The Borrower agrees that, upon the request to the Administrative Agent by any Term Loan Lender, in order to evidence such Lender’s Term Loan, the Borrower will execute and deliver to such Lender a promissory note substantially in the form of Exhibit A-2 (each, as amended, supplemented, replaced or otherwise modified from time to time, a “ Term Note ”), with appropriate insertions therein as to payee, date and principal amount, payable to the order of such Term Loan Lender and in a principal amount equal to the lesser of (a) the amount set of such Lender’s Term Loan Commitment and (b) the unpaid principal amount of the Term Loans made by such Term Loan Lender to the Borrower.  Each Term Note shall (i) be dated the Closing Date, (ii) be payable as provided in subsection 2.7(a) and (iii) provide for the payment of interest in accordance with subsection 4.1.

 

2.6.          Procedure for Term Loan Borrowing .  The Borrower shall give the Administrative Agent irrevocable notice (which notice must be received by the Administrative Agent prior to 12:30 P.M., New York City time), at least (a) three Business Days prior to the Closing Date if all or any part of the Term Loans are to be initially Eurodollar Loans or (b) one Business Day prior to the Closing Date, in all other cases, requesting that the Term Loan Lenders make the Term Loans on the Closing Date and specifying (i) the amount to be borrowed, (ii) whether the Term Loans are to be initially Eurodollar Loans, ABR Loans or a combination thereof and (iii) if the Term Loans are to be entirely or partly Eurodollar Loans, the respective amounts of each such Type of Loan and the respective lengths of the initial Interest Periods therefor.  Upon receipt of such notice the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Term Loan Lender thereof.  Each Term Loan Lender will make the amount of its pro rata share of the Term Loans available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Borrower at the office of the Administrative Agent specified in subsection 13.2 prior to 12:30 P.M., New York City time, on the Closing Date in Dollars and in funds immediately available to the Administrative Agent.  The Administrative Agent shall on such date credit the account of the Borrower on the books of such office of the Administrative Agent with the aggregate of the amounts made available to the Administrative Agent by the Term Loan Lenders and in like funds as received by the Administrative Agent.

 

2.7.          Repayment of Loans .  (a)  The Borrower hereby unconditionally promises to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of (i) each Revolving Credit Lender, the then unpaid principal amount of each Revolving Credit Loan of such Lender, on the Termination Date (or such earlier date on which the Revolving Credit Loans become due and payable pursuant to Section 9); and (ii) each Term Loan Lender, the then unpaid principal amount of the Term Loans of such Lender, on the Termination Date (or such earlier date on which the Term Loans become due and payable pursuant to Section 9).  The Borrower hereby further agrees to pay interest on the unpaid principal amount of the Loans from time to time outstanding from the date hereof until payment in full thereof at the rates per annum, and on the dates, set forth in subsection 4.1.

 

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(b)           Each Lender shall maintain in accordance with its usual practice an account or accounts evidencing indebtedness of the Borrower to such Lender resulting from each Loan of such Lender from time to time, including, without limitation, the amounts of principal and interest payable and paid to such Lender from time to time under this Agreement.

 

(c)           The Administrative Agent shall maintain the Register pursuant to subsection 13.6(b), and a subaccount therein for each Lender, in which shall be recorded (i) the amount of each Loan made hereunder, the Type thereof and each Interest Period, if any, applicable thereto, (ii) the amount of any principal or interest due and payable or to become due and payable from the Borrower to each Lender hereunder and (iii) both the amount of any sum received by the Administrative Agent hereunder from the Borrower and each Lender’s share thereof.

 

(d)           The entries made in the Register and the accounts of each Lender maintained pursuant to subsection 2.7(b) shall, to the extent permitted by applicable law, be prima facie evidence of the existence and amounts of the obligations of the Borrower therein recorded; provided , however , that the failure of any Lender or the Administrative Agent to maintain the Register or any such account, or any error therein, shall not in any manner affect the obligation of the Borrower to repay (with applicable interest) the Loans made to the Borrower by such Lender in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.

 

2.8.          Priority and Liens .  (a)  The Loan Parties hereby covenant, represent and warrant that, upon entry of the Interim Order (and the Final Order, as applicable), the Obligations of the Loan Parties hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, (i) pursuant to Section 364(c)(1) of the Bankruptcy Code, shall at all times constitute allowed Superpriority Claims, (ii) pursuant to Section 364(c)(2) of the Bankruptcy Code, shall be secured by a perfected first priority Lien on all Collateral, including without limitation, all cash maintained in any Cash Collateral account for Letters of Credit and any direct investments of the funds contained therein, that is otherwise not encumbered by a valid and perfected Lien as of the Petition Date, (iii) pursuant to Section 364(c)(3) of the Bankruptcy Code, shall be secured by a perfected junior Lien upon all Collateral that is subject to valid, perfected and non-avoidable Liens in existence on the Petition Date or valid Liens perfected (other than to secure the Prepetition Credit Facility Obligations) (but not granted) thereafter to the extent such post-Petition Date perfection in respect of a pre-Petition Date claim is expressly permitted under the Bankruptcy Code, and (iv) pursuant to Section 364(d)(1) of the Bankruptcy Code, shall be secured by a perfected first priority priming Lien upon all Collateral (x) that is subject to a valid Lien or security interest in effect on the Petition Date to secure the Prepetition Credit Facility Obligations, (y) that is subject to a Lien granted after the Petition Date to provide adequate protection in respect of the Prepetition Credit Facility Obligations or (z) that is presently subject to a valid Lien in effect on the Petition Date that is junior to the Liens that secure the Prepetition Credit Facility Obligations, subject and subordinate in each case with respect to subclauses (i) through (iv) above, only to the Carve Out, provided that (i) following the Termination Date amounts in any Letter of Credit Cash Collateral account shall not be subject to the Carve Out and (ii) in the event of a liquidation of the Debtors’ estates the amount of the Carve Out shall be funded into a segregated account prior to the making of the distributions.  For purposes hereof, the “ Carve Out ” shall mean (A) all fees required to be paid to the Clerk of the Bankruptcy Court and to the Office of the United States Trustee under section 1930(a) of title 28 of the United States Code, (B) fees and expenses

 

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incurred by a trustee under section 726(b) of the Bankruptcy Code, and (C) following receipt of notice by the Administrative Agent after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, the payment of accrued and unpaid professional fees and expenses incurred by the Debtors and any statutory committee appointed in the Cases and allowed by the Court, in an aggregate amount not exceeding $5 million (plus all unpaid professional fees and expenses allowed by the Bankruptcy Court that were incurred prior to the giving of notice by the Administrative Agent of the occurrence of such Event of Default), provided that (x) the Carve Out shall not be available to pay any such professional fees and expenses incurred in connection with the initiation or prosecution of any Prohibited Claims or the initiation or prosecution of any claims, causes of action, adversary proceedings or other litigation against the Administrative Agent, the Lenders, the Prepetition Credit Facility Lenders or the Prepetition Credit Facility Agent and (y) so long as an Event of Default shall not have occurred and be continuing, the Carve Out shall not be reduced by the payment of fees and expenses allowed by Bankrupty Court and payable under Sections 328, 330 and 331 of the Bankruptcy Code. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the Carve Out shall not be used to commence or prosecute (but up to $50,000 may be used to investigate) any Prohibited Claim.

 

(b)           As to all Collateral, including without limitation, all cash, Cash Equivalents and real property the title to which is held by any Loan Party, or the possession of which is held by any Loan Party in the form of a leasehold interest, each Loan Party hereby assigns and conveys as security, grants a security interest in, hypothecates, mortgages, pledges and sets over unto the Administrative Agent all of the right, title and interest of the Borrower and such Guarantor in all of such Collateral, including without limitation, all cash, Cash Equivalents and owned real property and in all such leasehold interests, together in each case with all of the right, title and interest of the Borrower and such Guarantor in and to all buildings, improvements, and fixtures related thereto, any lease or sublease thereof, all general intangibles relating thereto (except for any “intent to use” trademark applications for which a statement of use has not been filed and accepted by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, solely to the extent that the grant of a Lien or security interest in such applications would result in cancellation or voiding of same) and all proceeds thereof.  The Borrower and each Guarantor acknowledges that, pursuant to the Orders, the Liens granted in favor of the Administrative Agent (on behalf of the Lenders) in all of the Collateral shall be perfected without the recordation of any Uniform Commercial Code financing statements, notices of Lien or other instruments of mortgage or assignment.  The Borrower and each Guarantor further agrees that (a) the Administrative Agent shall have the rights and remedies set forth in Section 12 in respect of the Collateral and (b) if requested by the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and each of the Guarantors shall enter into separate security agreements, pledge agreements and fee and leasehold mortgages with respect to such Collateral on terms reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

 

(c)           Each Loan Party acknowledges and agrees that the Prepetition Secured Parties shall receive (a) as adequate protection for, and to the extent of, any diminution in the value of the Prepetition Secured Parties’ respective interests in their collateral whether resulting from the imposition of the automatic stay, the priming described in subsection 2.8(a) above, the use of the Prepetition Secured Parties’ cash collateral or the use, sale, lease, depreciation, decline in market price or other diminution in value of the Prepetition Secured Parties’ collateral (i) on the first Business Day of each calendar month beginning with March 1, 2008, the monthly payment of an amount calculated at the Eurodollar Rate plus 350 basis points on all amounts

 

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outstanding under the Prepetition Credit Facility for the preceding month, (ii) a Superpriority Claim junior only to the Superpriority Claim granted to (A) the Administrative Agent and the Lenders and (B) the Cash Management Banks; and (iii) a replacement Lien on the Collateral having a priority immediately junior to the priming and other Liens granted in favor of (A) the Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereunder and under the other Loan Documents and (B) the Cash Management Banks; the Orders (subject and subordinate, in the case of clauses (ii) and (iii) above, to the Carve Out and valid and perfected Liens which are senior (after giving effect to the Orders) to the Liens granted to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders pursuant to the Orders and (b) as further adequate protection, the payment on a current basis of the reasonable fees and expenses (including, but not limited to, the reasonable fees and disbursements of one counsel and third-party consultants, including financial consultants, appraisers and auditors) incurred by the agents under the Prepetition Credit Facility (including any unpaid prepetition fees and expenses) and the continuation of the payment on a current basis of the administration and letter of credit fees, if any, that are provided for thereunder.

 

2.9.          Payment of Obligations .  Upon the maturity (whether by acceleration or otherwise) of any of the Obligations under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, the Lenders shall be entitled to immediate payment of such Obligations without further application to or order of the Bankruptcy Court.

 

2.10.        No Discharge; Survival of Claims .  The Borrower and each Guarantor agrees that to the extent its Obligations hereunder are not satisfied in full, (a) its Obligations arising hereunder shall not be discharged by the entry of a Confirmation Order (and each Loan Party, pursuant to Section 1141(d)(4) of the Bankruptcy Code, hereby waives any such discharge) and (b) the Superpriority Claim granted to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders pursuant to the Orders and described in subsection 2.8 and the Liens granted to the Administrative Agent pursuant to the Orders and described in subsection 2.8 shall not be affected in any manner by the entry of a Confirmation Order.

 

2.11.        Conversion to Exit Facility Agreement .  Upon (a) the Administrative Agent’s satisfaction that Holding and its Subsidiaries, as applicable, shall have made arrangements satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (i) that either (A) the Relocation SPV Financing with LaSalle Bank, N.A. as agent for the receivables purchase program maintained through SIRVA Relocation Credit, LLC as the same may have been modified prior to the Petition Date (including, without limitation, an amendment to terminate the tranche B commitment thereunder) (the “ Securitization ”), shall be in effect or (B) an alternative Relocation SPV Financing or other source of liquidity, in each case, replacing the Securitization (the “ Alternative Financing ”) shall be in effect, pursuant to terms in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, and (ii) for the operation of the Loan Parties cash management system with the Cash Management Banks (or replacement institutions) following the Effective Date, (b) the delivery by the Borrower to the Administrative of a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower stating that, on and as of the date of the conversion of the facilities provided for herein into the facilities provided for in the Exit Facility Agreement, (x) each of the representations and warranties made by any Loan Party pursuant to this Agreement or any other Loan Document (or in any amendment, modification or supplement hereto or thereto) to which it is a party, and each of the representations and warranties contained in any certificate furnished at any time by or on behalf of any Loan Party pursuant to this Agreement or any other Loan

 

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Document, shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as of such date as if made on and as of such date, except to the extent that such representations and warranties relate to a particular date, in which case such representations and warranties were true and correct in all material respects on and as of such earlier date, and (y) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing on such date or after giving effect to the conversion to be made on such date, and (c) the satisfaction or waiver of the other conditions precedent to effectiveness set forth in the Exit Facility Agreement, then automatically and without any further consent or action required by the Administrative Agent or any Lender:

 

(i)          the Borrower, in its capacity as reorganized SIRVA Worldwide, Inc., Holding, in its capacity as a reorganized Debtor, and each Guarantor, in its capacity as a reorganized Debtor, to the extent such Person is required under the Exit Facility Agreement to continue to be a guarantor thereunder, shall assume all obligations in respect of the Loans hereunder and all other monetary obligations in respect hereof,
 
(ii)         each Loan hereunder shall be continued as a Loan under the Exit Facility Agreement,
 
(iii)        each Lender hereunder shall be a Lender under the Exit Facility Agreement and
 
(iv)        this Agreement shall terminate and be superseded and replaced by, and deemed amended and restated in its entirety in the form of, the Exit Facility Agreement (with such changes and insertions reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower thereto incorporated as necessary to make such technical changes necessary to effectuate the intent of this subsection 2.11), and the Commitments hereunder shall terminate.
 

Notwithstanding the foregoing, all obligations of the Borrower and the Guarantors to the Administrative Agent, the Issuing Lender, and the Lenders under this Agreement and any other Loan Document (except the Exit Facility Agreement) which are expressly stated in this Agreement or such other Loan Document as surviving such agreement’s termination shall, as so specified, survive without prejudice and remain in full force and effect.  Each of the Loan Parties, the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the Issuing Lender shall take such actions and execute and deliver such agreements, instruments or other documents as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request to give effect to the provisions of this subsection 2.11.

 

SECTION 3.   LETTERS OF CREDIT

 

3.1.          L/C Commitment .  (a)           Prior to the Closing Date, the Existing Issuing Lender has issued the Existing Letters of Credit which, from and after the Closing Date, shall, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, constitute Letters of Credit hereunder. Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the Issuing Lender, in reliance on the agreements of the other Revolving Credit Lenders set forth in subsection 3.4(a), agrees to issue letters of credit (the letters of credit issued on and after the Closing Date pursuant to this Section 3, together with the Existing Letters of Credit, collectively, the “ Letters of Credit ”) for the account of the Borrower on any Business Day during the Revolving Credit Commitment Period in such form as may be

 

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approved from time to time by the Issuing Lender; provided that the Issuing Lender shall not issue any Letter of Credit if, after giving effect to such issuance, (i) the sum of the Letters of Credit (other than Foreign Backstop Letters of Credit) and the Dollar Equivalent of the then outstanding L/C Obligations in respect of any Foreign Backstop Letters of Credit would exceed $60,000,000 (it being understood and agreed that the Administrative Agent shall calculate the Dollar Equivalent of the then outstanding L/C Obligations in respect of any Foreign Backstop Letters of Credit on the date on which the Borrower has requested that the Issuing Lender issue a Letter of Credit for purposes of determining compliance with this clause (i)) or (ii) the Aggregate Outstanding Revolving Credit of all the Revolving Credit Lenders would exceed the Revolving Credit Commitments of all the Revolving Credit Lenders then in effect.  Each Letter of Credit shall (i) be denominated in Dollars or, in the case of Foreign Backstop Letters of Credit, in Dollars or any Designated Foreign Currency and shall be either (A) a standby letter of credit issued to support obligations of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, contingent or otherwise, which finance the working capital and business needs of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries incurred in the ordinary course of business (a “ Standby Letter of Credit ”), or (B) a commercial letter of credit in respect of the purchase of goods or services by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business (a “ Commercial Letter of Credit ”), (ii) expire no later than five days prior to the Termination Date and (iii) unless otherwise agreed by the Administrative Agent, expire no later than 365 days after its date of issuance in the case of Standby Letters of Credit, and 180 days after its date of issuance in the case of Commercial Letters of Credit.

 

(b)           Each Letter of Credit shall be subject to the Uniform Customs and, to the extent not inconsistent therewith, the laws of the State of New York.

 

(c)           The Issuing Lender shall not at any time issue any Letter of Credit hereunder if such issuance would conflict with, or cause the Issuing Lender or any L/C Participant to exceed any limits imposed by, any applicable Requirement of Law.

 

3.2.          Procedure for Issuance of Letters of Credit .  The Borrower may from time to time request that the Issuing Lender issue a Letter of Credit by delivering to the Issuing Lender, at its address for notices specified herein, an Application therefor, completed to the reasonable satisfaction of the Issuing Lender, and such other certificates, documents and other papers and information as the Issuing Lender may reasonably request.  Upon receipt of any Application, the Issuing Lender will process such Application and the certificates, documents and other papers and information delivered to it in connection therewith in accordance with its customary procedures and shall promptly issue the Letter of Credit requested thereby (but in no event shall the Issuing Lender be required to issue any Letter of Credit earlier than three Business Days after its receipt of the Application therefor and all such other certificates, documents and other papers and information relating thereto) by issuing the original of such Letter of Credit to the beneficiary thereof or as otherwise may be agreed by the Issuing Lender and the Borrower.  The Issuing Lender shall furnish a copy of such Letter of Credit to the Borrower promptly following the issuance thereof.  The Issuing Lender shall promptly furnish to the Administrative Agent, which shall in turn promptly furnish to the Lenders, notice of the issuance of each Letter of Credit (including the amount thereof).

 

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3.3.          Fees, Commissions and Other Charges .  (a)  The Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the Issuing Lender and the L/C Participants, a letter of credit commission with respect to each Letter of Credit issued for the account of the Borrower, computed for the period from and including the date of issuance of such Letter of Credit to the expiration date of such Letter of Credit (the “ L/C Period ”), computed at a rate per annum equal to the Applicable Margin then in effect for Eurodollar Loans that are Revolving Credit Loans, calculated on the basis of a 365- (or 366-, as the case may be) day year, of the aggregate amount available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit, payable for the L/C Period monthly (without duplication) in arrears on each L/C Fee Payment Date with respect to such Letter of Credit and (if applicable) on the Termination Date or such earlier date as the Revolving Credit Commitments shall terminate as provided herein.  Such commission shall be payable to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Revolving Credit Lenders to be shared ratably among them in accordance with their respective Revolving Credit Commitment Percentages.  The Borrower shall also pay to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the Issuing Lender, a fee equal to 1/4 of 1% per annum of the aggregate amount available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit, payable for the L/C Period monthly (without duplication) in arrears on each L/C Fee Payment Date with respect to such Letter of Credit and (if applicable) on the Termination Date or such other date as the Revolving Credit Commitments shall terminate.  Such commissions and fees shall be nonrefundable.  Such fees and commissions shall be payable in Dollars, notwithstanding that a Letter of Credit may be denominated in any Designated Foreign Currency.  In respect of a Letter of Credit denominated in any Designated Foreign Currency, such fees and commissions shall be converted into Dollars at the Spot Rate of Exchange on the date on which they are paid (or, if such date is not a Business Day, at the Spot Rate of Exchange on the Business Day next preceding such date).

 

(b)           In addition to the foregoing commissions and fees, the Borrower shall pay or reimburse the Issuing Lender for such normal and customary costs and expenses as are incurred or charged by the Issuing Lender in issuing, effecting payment under, amending or otherwise administering any Letter of Credit issued by such Issuing Lender.

 

(c)           The Administrative Agent shall, promptly following its receipt thereof, distribute to the Issuing Lender and the L/C Participants all commissions and fees received by the Administrative Agent for their respective accounts pursuant to this subsection.

 

3.4.          L/C Participations .  (a)  The Issuing Lender irrevocably agrees to grant and hereby grants to each L/C Participant, and, to induce the Issuing Lender to issue Letters of Credit hereunder, each L/C Participant irrevocably agrees to accept and purchase and hereby accepts and purchases from the Issuing Lender, on the terms and conditions hereinafter stated, for such L/C Participant’s own account and risk an undivided interest equal to such L/C Participant’s Revolving Credit Commitment Percentage (determined on the date of issuance of the relevant Letter of Credit) in the Issuing Lender’s obligations and rights under each Letter of Credit issued or continued hereunder and the amount of each draft paid by the Issuing Lender thereunder.  Each L/C Participant unconditionally and irrevocably agrees with the Issuing Lender that, if a draft is paid under any Letter of Credit for which the Issuing Lender is not reimbursed in full by the Borrower in respect of such Letter of Credit in accordance with subsection 3.5(a), such L/C Participant shall pay to the Issuing Lender upon demand (which demand, in the case of any demand made in respect of any draft under a Letter of Credit denominated in any Designated

 

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Foreign Currency, shall not be made prior to the date that the amount of such draft shall be converted into Dollars in accordance with subsection 3.5(a)) at the Issuing Lender’s address for notices specified herein an amount equal to such L/C Participant’s Revolving Credit Commitment Percentage of the amount of such draft, or any part thereof, which is not so reimbursed; provided that nothing in this paragraph shall relieve the Issuing Lender of any liability resulting from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the Issuing Lender, or otherwise affect any defense or other right that any L/C Participant may have as a result of such gross negligence or willful misconduct.

 

(b)           If any amount required to be paid by any L/C Participant to the Issuing Lender on demand by the Issuing Lender pursuant to subsection 3.4(a) in respect of any unreimbursed portion of any payment made by the Issuing Lender under any Letter of Credit is paid to the Issuing Lender within three Business Days after the date such demand is made, such L/C Participant shall pay to the Issuing Lender on demand an amount equal to the product of (i) such amount, times (ii) the daily average Federal Funds Effective Rate during the period from and including the date such payment is required to the date on which such payment is immediately available to the Issuing Lender, times (iii) a fraction the numerator of which is the number of days that elapse during such period and the denominator of which is 360.  If any such amount required to be paid by any L/C Participant pursuant to subsection 3.4(a) is not in fact made available to the Issuing Lender by such L/C Participant within three Business Days after the date such payment is due, the Issuing Lender shall be entitled to recover from such L/C Participant, on demand, such amount with interest thereon calculated from such due date at the rate per annum applicable to ABR Loans that are Revolving Credit Loans.  A certificate of the Issuing Lender submitted to any L/C Participant with respect to any amounts owing under this subsection (which shall include calculations of any such amounts in reasonable detail) shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error.

 

(c)           Whenever, at any time after the Issuing Lender has made payment under any Letter of Credit and has received from any L/C Participant its pro rata share of such payment in accordance with subsection 3.4(a), the Issuing Lender receives any payment related to such Letter of Credit (whether directly from the Borrower in respect of such Letter of Credit or otherwise), or any payment of interest on account thereof, the Issuing Lender will, if such payment is received prior to 1:00 P.M., New York City time, on a Business Day, distribute to such L/C Participant its pro rata share thereof prior to the end of such Business Day and otherwise the Issuing Lender will distribute such payment on the next succeeding Business Day; provided , however , that in the event that any such payment received by the Issuing Lender shall be required to be returned by the Issuing Lender, such L/C Participant shall return to the Issuing Lender the portion thereof previously distributed by the Issuing Lender to it.

 

3.5.          Reimbursement Obligation of the Borrower .  (a)  The Borrower agrees to reimburse the Issuing Lender, upon receipt by the Borrower of notice from the Issuing Lender of the date and amount of a draft presented under any Letter of Credit and paid by the Issuing Lender, for the amount of such draft so paid and any taxes, fees, charges or other costs or expenses reasonably incurred by the Issuing Lender in connection with such payment.  Each such payment shall be made to the Issuing Lender, at its address for notices specified herein in the currency in which such Letter of Credit is denominated (except that, in the case of any Letter of Credit denominated in any Designated Foreign Currency, in the event that such payment is not

 

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made to the Issuing Lender within three Business Days of the date of receipt by the Borrower of such notice, upon notice by the Issuing Lender to the Borrower, such payment shall be made in Dollars, in an amount equal to the Dollar Equivalent of the amount of such payment converted on the date of such notice into Dollars at the Spot Rate of Exchange on such date) and in immediately available funds, on the date on which the Borrower receives such notice, if received prior to 11:00 A.M., New York City time, on a Business Day and otherwise on the next succeeding Business Day.  Any conversion by the Issuing Lender of any payment to be made in respect of any Letter of Credit denominated in any Designated Foreign Currency into Dollars in accordance with this subsection 3.5(a) shall be conclusive and binding upon the Borrower and the Revolving Credit Lenders in the absence of manifest error; provided that upon the request of the Borrower or any Revolving Credit Lender, the Issuing Lender shall provide to the Borrower or Revolving Credit Lender a certificate including reasonably detailed information as to the calculation of such conversion.

 

(b)           Interest shall be payable on any and all amounts remaining unpaid by the Borrower under this subsection (i) from the date the draft presented under the affected Letter of Credit is paid to the date on which the Borrower is required to pay such amounts pursuant to paragraph (a) above at the rate which would then be payable on any outstanding ABR Loans that are Revolving Credit Loans and (ii) thereafter until payment in full at the rate which would be payable on any outstanding ABR Loans that are Revolving Credit Loans which were then overdue.

 

3.6.          Obligations Absolute .  (a)  Each of the Borrower’s obligations under this Section 3 shall be absolute and unconditional under any and all circumstances and irrespective of any set-off, counterclaim or defense to payment which the Borrower may have or have had against the Issuing Lender, any L/C Participant or any beneficiary of a Letter of Credit, provided that this paragraph shall not relieve the Issuing Lender or any L/C Participant of any liability resulting from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the Issuing Lender or such L/C Participant, or otherwise affect any defense or other right that the Borrower may have as a result of any such gross negligence or willful misconduct.

 

(b)           The Borrower also agrees with the Issuing Lender that the Issuing Lender and the L/C Participants shall not be responsible for, and the Borrower’s Reimbursement Obligations under subsection 3.5(a) shall not be affected by, among other things, the validity or genuineness of documents or of any endorsements thereon, even though such documents shall in fact prove to be invalid, fraudulent or forged, or any dispute between or among the Borrower and any beneficiary of any Letter of Credit or any other party to which such Letter of Credit may be transferred or any claims whatsoever of the Borrower against any beneficiary of such Letter of Credit or any such transferee, provided that this paragraph shall not relieve the Issuing Lender or any L/C Participant of any liability resulting from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the Issuing Lender or such L/C Participant, or otherwise affect any defense or other right that the Borrower may have as a result of any such gross negligence or willful misconduct.

 

(c)           Neither the Issuing Lender nor any L/C Participant shall be liable for any error, omission, interruption or delay in transmission, dispatch or delivery of any message or advice, however transmitted, in connection with any Letter of Credit, except for errors or omissions caused by such Person’s gross negligence or willful misconduct.

 

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(d)           The Borrower agrees that any action taken or omitted by the Issuing Lender under or in connection with any Letter of Credit or the related drafts or documents, if done in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct and in accordance with the standards of care specified in the Uniform Commercial Code of the State of New York, shall be binding on the Borrower and shall not result in any liability of the Issuing Lender or any L/C Participant to the Borrower.

 

3.7.          Letter of Credit Payments .  If any draft shall be presented for payment under any Letter of Credit, the Issuing Lender shall promptly notify the Borrower of the date and amount thereof.  The responsibility of the Issuing Lender to the Borrower in respect of any Letter of Credit in connection with any draft presented for payment under such Letter of Credit shall, in addition to any payment obligation expressly provided for in such Letter of Credit, be limited to determining that the documents (including each draft) delivered under such Letter of Credit in connection with such presentment are in conformity with such Letter of Credit, provided that this paragraph shall not relieve the Issuing Lender of any liability resulting from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the Issuing Lender, or otherwise affect any defense or other right that the Borrower may have as a result of any such gross negligence or willful misconduct.

 

3.8.          Application .  To the extent that any provision of any Application related to any Letter of Credit is inconsistent with the provisions of this Section 3, the provisions of this Section 3 shall apply.

 

SECTION 4.   GENERAL PROVISIONS APPLICABLE TO
LOANS AND LETTERS OF CREDIT

 

4.1.          Interest Rates and Payment Dates .  (a)  Each Eurodollar Loan shall bear interest for each day during each Interest Period with respect thereto at a rate per annum equal to the Eurodollar Rate determined for such day plus the Applicable Margin in effect for such day.

 

(b)           Each ABR Loan shall bear interest for each day that it is outstanding at a rate per annum equal to the ABR for such day plus the Applicable Margin in effect for such day.

 

(c)           If any Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, all outstanding Loans and other Obligations under the Loan Documents shall bear interest at a rate per annum which is (i) in the case of the Loans, the rate that would otherwise be applicable thereto pursuant to the relevant foregoing provisions of this subsection plus 2.00%, (ii) in the case interest, the rate that would be otherwise applicable to principal of the related Loan pursuant to the relevant foregoing provisions of this subsection (other than clause (i) above) plus 2.00% and (iii) in the case of, fees, commissions or other amounts, the rate described in paragraph (b) of this subsection for ABR Loans that are Revolving Credit Loans plus 2.00%, in each case from the date of such non-payment until such amount is paid in full (as well after as before judgment).

 

(d)           Interest shall be payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date, provided that interest accruing pursuant to paragraph (c) of this subsection shall be payable from time to time on demand.

 

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constitute interest under applicable usury laws, whether contracted for, charged, taken, reserved, or received, in connection with the indebtedness evidenced by this Agreement or any Notes, or any other document relating or referring hereto or thereto, now or hereafter existing, shall never exceed under any circumstance whatsoever the maximum amount of interest allowed by applicable usury laws.

 

4.2.          Conversion and Continuation Options .  (a)  The Borrower may elect from time to time to convert outstanding Term Loans and Revolving Credit Loans from Eurodollar Loans to ABR Loans by giving the Administrative Agent at least two Business Days’ prior irrevocable notice of such election, provided that any such conversion of Eurodollar Loans may only be made on the last day of an Interest Period with respect thereto.  The Borrower may elect from time to time to convert outstanding Term Loans and Revolving Credit Loans from ABR Loans to Eurodollar Loans by giving the Administrative Agent at least three Business Days’ prior irrevocable notice of such election.  Any such notice of conversion to Eurodollar Loans shall specify the length of the initial Interest Period or Interest Periods therefor.  Upon receipt of any such notice the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each affected Lender thereof.  All or any part of outstanding Eurodollar Loans and ABR Loans may be converted as provided herein, provided that (i) (unless the Required Lenders otherwise consent) no Loan may be converted into a Eurodollar Loan when any Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and, in the case of any Default, the Administrative Agent has given notice to the Borrower that no such conversions may be made and (ii) no Loan may be converted into a Eurodollar Loan after the date that is one month prior to the Maturity Date.

 

(b)           Any Eurodollar Loan may be continued as such upon the expiration of the then current Interest Period with respect thereto by the Borrower giving notice to the Administrative Agent of the length of the next Interest Period to be applicable to such Loan, determined in accordance with the applicable provisions of the term “Interest Period” set forth in subsection 1.1, provided that no Eurodollar Loan may be continued as such (i) (unless the Required Lenders otherwise consent) when any Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and, in the case of any Default, the Administrative Agent has given notice to the Borrower that no such continuations may be made or (ii) after the date that is one month prior to the Maturity Date, and provided , further , that in the case of Eurodollar Loans made or outstanding in Dollars, if the Borrower shall fail to give any required notice as described above in this paragraph or if such continuation is not permitted pursuant to the preceding proviso such Eurodollar Loans shall be automatically converted to ABR Loans on the last day of such then expiring Interest Period.  Upon receipt of any such notice of continuation pursuant to this subsection 4.2(b), the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each affected Lender thereof.

 

4.3.          Minimum Amounts of Sets .  All borrowings, conversions and continuations of Loans hereunder and all selections of Interest Periods hereunder shall be in such amounts and be made pursuant to such elections so that, after giving effect thereto, the aggregate principal amount of the Eurodollar Loans comprising each Set shall be equal to $5,000,000, or a whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof, and so that there shall not be more than 5 Sets at any one time outstanding.

 

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subject to subsection 4.12, without premium or penalty, upon at least three Business Days’ irrevocable notice by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent (in the case of Eurodollar Loans) or at least one Business Day’s irrevocable notice by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent (in the case of ABR Loans), specifying, in the case of any prepayment of Loans, the date and amount of prepayment and whether the prepayment is (i) of Term Loans or Revolving Credit Loans, or a combination thereof, and (ii) of Eurodollar Loans, ABR Loans or a combination thereof, and, in each case if a combination thereof, the principal amount allocable to each.  Upon the receipt of any such notice the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each affected Lender thereof.  If any such notice is given, the amount specified in such notice shall be due and payable on the date specified therein, together with (if a Eurodollar Loan is prepaid other than at the end of the Interest Period applicable thereto) any amounts payable pursuant to subsection 4.12 and, in the case of prepayments of the Term Loans only, accrued interest to such date on the amount prepaid.  Partial prepayments of the Revolving Credit Loans pursuant to this subsection shall (unless the Borrower otherwise directs) be applied, first , to payment of the Revolving Credit Loans then outstanding, second , to payment of any Reimbursement Obligations then outstanding and, last , to cash collateralize any outstanding L/C Obligation on terms reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.  Partial prepayments pursuant to this subsection 4.4(a) shall be in an aggregate principal amount of $5,000,000 or a whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof, provided that, notwithstanding the foregoing, any Loan may be prepaid in its entirety.

 

(b)           Except as otherwise provided in subsection 4.14, if, at any time during the Revolving Credit Commitment Period, the Aggregate Outstanding Revolving Credit with respect to all of the Revolving Credit Lenders exceeds the aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments then in effect, the Borrower shall, without notice or demand, immediately repay the Revolving Credit Loans in an aggregate principal amount equal to such excess together with interest accrued to the date of such payment or prepayment and any amounts payable under subsection 4.12.  To the extent that after giving effect to any prepayment of the Loans required by the preceding sentence, such Aggregate Outstanding Revolving Credit exceeds the aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments then in effect, the Borrower shall, without notice or demand, immediately cash collateralize the then outstanding L/C Obligations in an amount equal to such excess upon terms reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

 

(c)           If on or after the Closing Date:

 

(i)          the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries shall make an Asset Sale (other than pursuant to clause (i), (ii), (iii), (iv), (v), (ix) or (x) of subsection 8.6(a)), or
 
(ii)         a Recovery Event occurs,
 

then, in each case, the Borrower shall prepay, in accordance with subsection 4.4(d), the Loans and cash collateralize the L/C Obligations in an amount equal to 100% of the Net Cash Proceeds thereof minus any Reinvested Amount, in each such case with such prepayment to be made on the Business Day following the date of receipt of any such Net Cash Proceeds (except that, if any such Net Cash Proceeds are eligible to be reinvested in accordance with the definition of the term “Reinvested Amount” in subsection 1.1 and the Borrower has not elected to reinvest such proceeds, such prepayment to be made on the earlier of (1) the date on which the certificate of a

 

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Responsible Officer of the Borrower to such effect is delivered to the Administrative Agent in accordance with such definition and (2) the last day of the period within which a certificate setting forth such election is required to be delivered in accordance with such definition).  Nothing in this paragraph (c) shall limit the rights of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders set forth in Section 9.

 

(d)           Prepayments pursuant to subsection 4.4(c) shall be applied, first , to prepay Term Loans then outstanding, second , to prepay Revolving Credit Loans then outstanding, third , to pay any Reimbursement Obligations then outstanding and, last , to cash collateralize any outstanding L/C Obligations on terms reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

 

(e)           Amounts prepaid on account of Term Loans pursuant to subsection 4.4(a) or 4.4(c) may not be reborrowed.

 

(f)            The Revolving Credit Commitments shall be permanently reduced by the amount of all prepayments of Revolving Credit Loans, payments of Reimbursement Obligations and cash collateralizations of L/C Obligations, in each case, made under subsection 4.4(b) or 4.4(c).

 

4.5.          Commitment Fees; Administrative Agent’s Fee; Other Fees .  (a)  The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent, for the account of each Revolving Credit Lender, a commitment fee for the period from and including the first day of the Revolving Credit Commitment Period to the Termination Date, computed at the rate of 0.50% per annum on the average daily amount of the Available Revolving Credit Commitment of such Revolving Credit Lender during the period for which payment is made, payable monthly in arrears on the last day of each month and on the Termination Date or such earlier date as the Revolving Credit Commitments shall terminate as provided herein, commencing on March 1, 2008.

 

(b)           The Borrower agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent any fees in the amounts and on the dates previously agreed to in writing by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent in connection with this Agreement.

 

4.6.          Computation of Interest and Fees .  (a)  Interest (other than interest based on the Prime Rate) shall be calculated on the basis of a 360-day year for the actual days elapsed; and commitment fees and interest based on the Prime Rate shall be calculated on the basis of a 365- (or 366-, as the case may be) day year for the actual days elapsed.  The Administrative Agent shall as soon as practicable notify the Borrower and the affected Lenders of each determination of a Eurodollar Rate.  Any change in the interest rate on a Loan resulting from a change in the ABR or the Eurocurrency Reserve Requirements shall become effective as of the opening of business on the day on which such change becomes effective.  The Administrative Agent shall as soon as practicable notify the Borrower and the affected Lenders of the effective date and the amount of each such change in interest rate.

 

(b)           Each determination of an interest rate by the Administrative Agent pursuant to any provision of this Agreement shall be conclusive and binding on the Borrower and the Lenders in the absence of manifest error.  The Administrative Agent shall, at the request of the Borrower or any Lender, deliver to the Borrower or such Lender a statement showing in

 

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reasonable detail the calculations used by the Administrative Agent in determining any interest rate pursuant to subsection 4.1, excluding any Eurodollar Base Rate which is based upon the Telerate British Bankers Assoc. Interest Settlement Rates Page and any ABR which is based upon the Prime Rate.

 

4.7.          Inability to Determine Interest Rate .  If prior to the first day of any Interest Period, the Administrative Agent shall have determined (which determination shall be conclusive and binding upon the Borrower) that, by reason of circumstances affecting the relevant market, adequate and reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining the Eurodollar Rate for such Interest Period, the Administrative Agent shall give telecopy or telephonic notice thereof to the Borrower and the Lenders as soon as practicable thereafter.  If such notice is given (a) any Eurodollar Loans requested to be made on the first day of such Interest Period shall be made as ABR Loans and (b) any Loans that were to have been converted on the first day of such Interest Period to or continued as Eurodollar Loans shall be converted to or continued as ABR Loans.  If any such repayment occurs on a day which is not the last day of the then current Interest Period with respect to such Eurodollar Loan, the Borrower shall pay to each of the Revolving Credit Lenders such amounts, if any, as may be required pursuant to subsection 4.12.  Until such notice has been withdrawn by the Administrative Agent, no further Eurodollar Loans shall be made or continued as such, nor shall the Borrower have the right to convert ABR Loans to Eurodollar Loans.

 

4.8.          Pro Rata Treatment and Payments .   (a)  Each borrowing of Revolving Credit Loans by the Borrower from the Revolving Credit Lenders hereunder shall be made, each payment by the Borrower on account of any commitment fee in respect of the Revolving Credit Commitments hereunder shall be allocated by the Administrative Agent, and any reduction of the Revolving Credit Commitments of the Revolving Credit Lenders shall be allocated by the Administrative Agent, in each case, pro rata according to the relevant Revolving Credit Commitment Percentages of the Revolving Credit Lenders.  Each payment (including each prepayment) by the Borrower on account of principal of and interest on any Revolving Credit Loans shall be allocated by the Administrative Agent pro rata according to the respective outstanding principal amounts of such Revolving Credit Loans then held by the Revolving Credit Lenders.  Each payment (including each prepayment) by the Borrower on account of principal of and interest on any Term Loans shall be allocated by the Administrative Agent pro rata according to the respective outstanding principal amounts of the Term Loans then held by the Term Loan Lenders.  All payments (including prepayments) to be made by the Borrower hereunder, whether on account of principal, interest, fees, Reimbursement Obligations or otherwise, shall be made without set-off or counterclaim or, except as permitted under subsection 4.11, other deduction and shall be made prior to 1:00 P.M., New York City time, on the due date thereof to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the Lenders holding the relevant Loans or the L/C Participants, as the case may be, at the Administrative Agent’s office specified in subsection 13.2, in Dollars or, in the case of L/C Obligations in any Designated Foreign Currency, such Designated Foreign Currency and, whether in Dollars or any Designated Foreign Currency, in immediately available funds.  Payments received by the Administrative Agent after such time shall be deemed to have been received on the next Business Day.  The Administrative Agent shall distribute such payments to such Lenders, if any such payment is received prior to 1:00 P.M., New York City time, on a Business Day, in like funds as received prior to the end of such Business Day and otherwise the Administrative Agent shall distribute such payment to such Lenders on the next succeeding Business Day.  If any payment hereunder (other than payments

 

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on the Eurodollar Loans) becomes due and payable on a day other than a Business Day, the maturity of such payment shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day, and, with respect to payments of principal, interest thereon shall be payable at the then applicable rate during such extension.  If any payment on a Eurodollar Loan becomes due and payable on a day other than a Business Day, the maturity of such payment shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day (and, with respect to payments of principal, interest thereon shall be payable at the then applicable rate during such extension) unless the result of such extension would be to extend such payment into another calendar month, in which event such payment shall be made on the immediately preceding Business Day.

 

(b)           Unless the Administrative Agent shall have been notified in writing by any Revolving Credit Lender prior to a borrowing that such Revolving Credit Lender will not make the amount that would constitute its Revolving Credit Commitment Percentage of such borrowing available to the Administrative Agent, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Revolving Credit Lender is making such amount available to the Administrative Agent, and the Administrative Agent may, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the Borrower in respect of such borrowing a corresponding amount.  If such amount is not made available to the Administrative Agent by the required time on the Borrowing Date therefor, such Revolving Credit Lender shall pay to the Administrative Agent, on demand, such amount with interest thereon at a rate equal to the daily average Federal Funds Effective Rate for the period until such Revolving Credit Lender makes such amount immediately available to the Administrative Agent.  A certificate of the Administrative Agent submitted to any Revolving Credit Lender with respect to any amounts owing under this subsection shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error.  If such Revolving Credit Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment Percentage of such borrowing is not made available to the Administrative Agent by such Revolving Credit Lender within three Business Days of such Borrowing Date, the Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower of the failure of such Revolving Credit Lender to make such amount available to the Administrative Agent and the Administrative Agent shall also be entitled to recover such amount with interest thereon at the rate per annum applicable to ABR Loans hereunder, on demand, from the Borrower.

 

(c)           Notwithstanding anything contained in this Agreement:

 

(i)          If at any time a Revolving Credit Lender shall not make a Revolving Credit Loan required to be made by it hereunder (any such Lender, a “ Defaulting Lender ”), the Borrower shall have the right to seek one or more Persons reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower to each become a substitute Revolving Credit Lender and assume all or part of the Revolving Credit Commitment of such Defaulting Lender.  In such event, the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and any such substitute Revolving Credit Lender shall execute and deliver, and such Defaulting Lender shall thereupon be deemed to have executed and delivered, an appropriately completed Assignment and Acceptance to effect such substitution.
 
(ii)         In determining the Required Lenders, any Lender that at the time is a Defaulting Lender (and the Loans and Revolving Credit Commitment of such Defaulting Lender) shall be excluded and disregarded.  No commitment fee shall accrue

 

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for the account of a Defaulting Lender so long as such Lender shall be a Defaulting Lender.

 
(iii)        If at any time the Borrower shall be required to make any payment under any Loan Document to or for the account of a Defaulting Lender, then the Borrower, so long as it is then permitted to borrow Revolving Credit Loans hereunder, may set off and otherwise apply its obligation to make such payment against the obligation of such Defaulting Lender to make such Loan with respect to which there has been a Default. In such event, the amount so set off and otherwise applied shall be deemed to constitute a Revolving Credit Loan by such Defaulting Lender made on the date of such set-off and included within any borrowing of Revolving Credit Loans as the Administrative Agent may reasonably determine.
 
(iv)        If, with respect to any Defaulting Lender, which for the purposes of this subsection 4.8(c)(iv), shall include any Revolving Credit Lender (i) that has commenced any case, proceeding or other action (A) under any existing or future law of any jurisdiction, domestic or foreign, relating to bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or relief of debtors, seeking to have an order for relief entered with respect to it, or seeking to adjudicate it a bankrupt or insolvent, or seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, winding-up, liquidation, dissolution, composition or other relief with respect to it or its debts, or (B) has sought appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian, conservator or other similar official for it or for all or any substantial part of its assets, or having made a general assignment for the benefit of its creditors; or (ii) with respect to which there shall be commenced against such Defaulting Lender any case, proceeding or other action of a nature referred to in clause (i) above which (A) results in the entry of an order for relief or any such adjudication or appointment or (B) remains undismissed, undischarged, unstayed or unbonded for a period of 60 days; or (iii) there shall be commenced against such Defaulting Lender any case, proceeding or other action seeking issuance of a warrant of attachment, execution, distraint or similar process against all or any substantial part of its assets which results in the entry of an order for any such relief which shall not have been vacated, discharged, stayed or bonded pending appeal within 60 days from the entry thereof; or (iv) any Defaulting Lender shall take any corporate action in furtherance of, or indicating its consent to, approval of, or acquiescence in, any of the acts set forth in clause (i), (ii), or (iii) above; or (v) any Defaulting Lender shall be generally unable to, or shall admit in writing its general inability to, pay its debts as they become due; the Borrower shall be required to pay any amount under any Loan Document to or for the account of such Defaulting Lender, then the Borrower, so long as it is then permitted to borrow Revolving Credit Loans hereunder, may satisfy such payment obligation by paying such amount to the Administrative Agent, to be (to the extent permitted by applicable law and to the extent not utilized by the Administrative Agent to satisfy obligations of the Defaulting Lender owing to it) held by the Administrative Agent in escrow pursuant to its standard terms (including as to the earning of interest), and applied (together with any accrued interest) by it from time to time to make any Revolving Credit Loans or other payments as and when required to be made by such Defaulting Lender hereunder.

 

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4.9.          Illegality .  Notwithstanding any other provision herein, if the adoption of or any change in any Requirement of Law or in the interpretation or application thereof occurring after the Closing Date shall make it unlawful for any Lender to make or maintain any Eurodollar Loans (a) such Lender shall promptly give written notice of such circumstances to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (which notice shall be withdrawn whenever such circumstances no longer exist), (b) the commitment of such Lender hereunder to make Eurodollar Loans, continue Eurodollar Loans as such and convert an ABR Loan to a Eurodollar Loan shall forthwith be cancelled and, until such time as it shall no longer be unlawful for such Lender to make or maintain Eurodollar Loans, such Lender shall then have a commitment only to make an ABR Loan when a is requested and (c) such Lender’s Loans then outstanding as Eurodollar Loans, if any, shall be converted automatically to ABR Loans on the respective last days of the then current Interest Periods with respect to such Loans or within such earlier period as required by law. If any such conversion or prepayment of a Eurodollar Loan occurs on a day which is not the  last day of the then current Interest Period with respect thereto, the Borrower shall pay to such Lender such amounts, if any, as may be required pursuant to subsection 4.12.

 

4.10.        Requirements of Law.  (a)  If the adoption of or any change in any Requirement of Law or in the interpretation or application thereof applicable to any Lender, or compliance by any Lender with any request or directive (whether or not having the force of law) from any central bank or other Governmental Authority, in each case made subsequent to the Closing Date (or, if later, the date on which such Lender becomes a Lender):

 

(i)          shall subject such Lender to any tax of any kind whatsoever with respect to any Letter of Credit, any Application or any Eurodollar Loans made or maintained by it or its obligation to make or maintain Eurodollar Loans, or change the basis of taxation of payments to such Lender in respect thereof (except for Non-Excluded Taxes covered by subsection 4.11 (including Non-Excluded Taxes imposed solely by reason of any failure of such Lender to comply with its obligations (if any) under subsection 4.11(b) or 4.11(c) or with respect to fees paid under this Agreement) and changes in taxes measured by or imposed upon the overall net income, or franchise taxes, or taxes measured by or imposed upon overall capital or net worth, or branch taxes (in the case of such capital, net worth or branch taxes, imposed in lieu of such net income tax), of such Lender or its applicable lending office, branch, or any affiliate thereof);
 
(ii)         shall impose, modify or hold applicable any reserve, special deposit, compulsory loan or similar requirement against assets held by, deposits or other liabilities in or for the account of, advances, loans or other extensions of credit by, or any other acquisition of funds by, any office of such Lender which is not otherwise included in the determination of the Eurodollar Rate hereunder; or
 
(iii)        shall impose on such Lender any other condition (excluding any tax of any kind whatsoever);
 

and the result of any of the foregoing is to increase the cost to such Lender, by an amount which such Lender deems to be material, of making, converting into, continuing or maintaining Eurodollar Loans or issuing or participating in Letters of Credit or to reduce any amount receivable hereunder in respect thereof, then, in any such case, upon notice to the Borrower from

 

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such Lender, through the Administrative Agent, in accordance herewith, the Borrower shall promptly pay such Lender, upon its demand, any additional amounts necessary to compensate such Lender for such increased cost or reduced amount receivable with respect to such Eurodollar Loans or Letters of Credit, provided that, in any such case, the Borrower may elect to convert the Eurodollar Loans made by such Lender hereunder to ABR Loans by giving the Administrative Agent at least one Business Day’s notice of such election, in which case the Borrower shall promptly pay to such Lender, upon demand, without duplication, amounts theretofor required to be paid to such Lender pursuant to this subsection 4.10(a) and such amounts, if any, as may be  required pursuant to subsection 4.12. If any Lender becomes entitled to claim any additional amounts pursuant to this subsection, it shall provide prompt notice thereof to the Borrower, through the Administrative Agent, certifying (x) that one of the events described in this paragraph (a) has occurred and describing in reasonable detail the nature of such event, (y) as to the increased cost or reduced amount resulting from such event and (z) as to the additional amount demanded by such Lender and a reasonably detailed explanation of the calculation thereof. Such a certificate as to any additional amounts payable pursuant to this subsection submitted by such Lender, through the Administrative Agent, to the Borrower shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error. This covenant shall survive the termination of this Agreement and the payment of the Loans and all other amounts payable hereunder.

 

(b)           If any Lender shall have determined that the adoption of or any change in any Requirement of Law regarding capital adequacy or in the interpretation or application thereof or compliance by such Lender or any corporation controlling such Lender with any request or directive regarding capital adequacy (whether or not having the force of law) from any Governmental Authority, in each case, made subsequent to the Closing Date (or, if later, the date on which such Lender becomes a Lender), does or shall have the effect of reducing the rate of return on such Lender’s or such corporation’s capital as a consequence of such Lender’s obligations hereunder or under or in respect of any Letter of Credit to a level below that which such Lender or such corporation could have achieved but for such change or compliance (taking into consideration such Lender’s or such corporation’s policies with respect to capital adequacy) by an amount deemed by such Lender to be material, then from time to time, within ten Business Days after submission by such Lender to the Borrower (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) of a written request therefor certifying (x) that one of the events described in this paragraph (b) has occurred and describing in reasonable detail the nature of such event, (y) as to the reduction of the rate of return on capital resulting from such event and (z) as to the additional amount or amounts demanded by such Lender or corporation and a reasonably detailed explanation of the calculation thereof, the Borrower shall pay to such Lender such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or corporation for such reduction. Such a certificate as to any additional amounts payable pursuant to this subsection submitted by such Lender, through the Administrative Agent, to the Borrower shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error. This covenant shall survive the termination of this Agreement and the payment of the Loans and all other amounts payable hereunder.

 

4.11.        Taxes .  (a)  Except as provided below in this subsection, all payments made by the Borrower under this Agreement and any Notes shall be made free and clear of, and without deduction or withholding for or on account of, any present or future income, stamp or other taxes, levies, imposts, duties, charges, fees, deductions or withholdings, now or hereafter imposed, levied, collected, withheld or assessed by any Governmental Authority, excluding taxes

 

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measured by or imposed upon the overall net income (including net income taxes imposed by means of a backup withholding tax) of any Lender or its applicable lending office, or any branch or affiliate thereof, and all franchise  taxes, branch taxes, taxes on doing business or taxes measured by or imposed upon the overall capital or net worth of any Lender or its applicable lending office, or any branch or affiliate thereof, in each case imposed:  (i) by the jurisdiction under the laws of which such Lender, applicable lending office, branch or affiliate is organized or is located, or in which its principal executive office is located, or any nation within which such jurisdiction is located or any political subdivision thereof; or (ii) by reason of any connection between the jurisdiction imposing such tax and such Lender, applicable lending office, branch or affiliate other than a connection arising solely from such Lender having executed, delivered or performed its obligations under, or received payment under or enforced, this Agreement or any Notes. If any such non-excluded taxes, levies, imposts, duties, charges, fees, deductions or withholdings (“ Non-Excluded Taxes ”) are required to be withheld from any amounts payable to the Administrative Agent or any Lender hereunder or under any Notes, the amounts so payable to the Administrative Agent or such Lender shall be increased to the extent necessary to yield to the Administrative Agent or such Lender (after payment of all Non-Excluded Taxes) interest or any such other amounts payable hereunder at the rates or in the amounts specified in this Agreement, provided , however , that the Borrower shall be entitled to deduct and withhold any Non-Excluded Taxes and shall not be required to increase any such amounts payable to any Lender, (x) if such Lender fails to comply with the requirements of paragraph (b) or (c) of this subsection or (y) with respect to any Non-Excluded Taxes imposed in connection with the payment of any fees paid under this Agreement unless such Non-Excluded Taxes are imposed as a result of a change in treaty, law or regulation that occurred after such Lender becomes a Lender hereunder (or, if such Lender is a foreign intermediary or flow-through entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes, after the relevant beneficiary or member of such Lender became such a beneficiary or member, if later). Whenever any Non-Excluded Taxes are payable by the Borrower, as promptly as possible thereafter the Borrower shall send to the Administrative Agent for its own account or for the account of such Lender, as the case may be, a certified copy of an original official receipt received by the Borrower showing payment thereof. If the Borrower fails to pay any Non-Excluded Taxes when due to the appropriate taxing authority or fails to remit to the Administrative Agent the required receipts or other required documentary evidence, the Borrower shall indemnify the Administrative Agent and the Lenders for any incremental taxes, interest or penalties that may become payable by the Administrative Agent or any Lender as a result of any such failure. The agreements in this subsection 4.11 shall survive the termination of this Agreement and the payment of the Loans and all other amounts payable hereunder.

 

(b)                                  Each Lender that is not incorporated under the laws of the United States of America or a state thereof shall:

 

(X)          on or before the date of any payment by the Borrower under this Agreement or any Notes to such Lender, deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (A) two duly completed copies of United States Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN (certifying that it is a resident of the applicable country within the meaning of the income tax treaty between the United States and that country) or Form W-8ECI, or successor applicable form, as the case may be, certifying that it is entitled  to receive all payments under this Agreement and

 

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any Notes without deduction or withholding of any United States federal income taxes and (B) such other forms, documentation or certifications, as the case may be, certifying that it is entitled to an exemption from United States backup withholding tax with respect to payments under this Agreement and any Notes;

 

(i)            deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent two further copies of any such form or certification on or before the date that any such form or certification expires or becomes obsolete and after the occurrence of any event requiring a change in the most recent form or certificate previously delivered by it to the Borrower; and

 

(ii)           obtain such extensions of time for filing and completing such forms or certifications as may reasonably be requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent; or

 

(Y)           in the case of any such Lender that is not a “bank” within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code,

 

(i)            represent to the Borrower (for the benefit of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent) that it is not a bank within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code;

 

(ii)           agree to furnish to the Borrower on or before the date of any payment by the Borrower, with a copy to the Administrative Agent, (A) two certificates substantially in the form of Exhibit E (any such certificate a “ U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate ”) and (B) two accurate and complete original signed copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN, or successor applicable form certifying to such Lender’s legal entitlement at the date of such certificate to an exemption from U.S. withholding tax under the provisions of Section 871(h) or Section 881(c) of the Code with respect to payments to be made under this Agreement and any Notes (and to deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent two further copies of such form or certificate on or before the date it expires or becomes obsolete and after the occurrence of any event requiring a change in the most recently provided form or certificate and, if necessary, obtain any extensions of time reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent for filing and completing such forms or certificates); and

 

(iii)          agree, to the extent legally entitled to do so, upon reasonable request by the Borrower, to provide to the Borrower (for the benefit of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent) such other forms as may be reasonably required in order to establish the legal entitlement of such Lender to an exemption from withholding with respect to payments under this Agreement and any Notes, provided that in determining the  reasonableness of a request under this clause (iii) such Lender shall be entitled to consider the cost (to the extent unreimbursed by the Borrower) which would be imposed on such Lender of complying with such request; or

 

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(Z)           in the case of any such Lender that is a foreign intermediary or flow-through entity for U.S. federal income tax purposes,

 

(i)            on or before the date of any payment by the Borrower under this Agreement or any Notes to such Lender, deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent two accurate and complete original signed copies of United States Internal Revenue Service Form W-8IMY; and

 

(A)                               with respect to each beneficiary or member of such Lender that is a bank within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, on or before the date of any payment by the Borrower under this Agreement or any Notes to such Lender, also deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent  (I) two duly completed copies of United States Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN (certifying that such beneficiary or member is a resident of the applicable country within the meaning of the income tax treaty between the United States and that country), Form W-8ECI or Form W-9, or successor applicable form, as the case may be, in each case certifying that each such beneficiary or member is entitled to receive all payments under this Agreement and any Notes without deduction or withholding of any United States federal income taxes and (II) such oth











































































































 
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