EXHIBIT 10.2
GUARANTEE AGREEMENT
dated
as of
May 5, 2006,
among
CMP
SUSQUEHANNA RADIO HOLDINGS CORP.,
CMP
SUSQUEHANNA CORP.,
THE
SUBSIDIARIES OF CMP SUSQUEHANNA CORP.
IDENTIFIED HEREIN
and
DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS,
as
Administrative Agent
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Definitions |
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Section 1.01. |
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Credit Agreement |
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Section 1.02. |
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Other Defined Terms |
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| ARTICLE II Guarantee |
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Section 2.01. |
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Guarantee |
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Section 2.02. |
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Guarantee of Payment |
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No Limitations |
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Reinstatement |
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Agreement To Pay; Subrogation |
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Information |
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Section 3.01. |
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Indemnity and Subrogation |
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Contribution and Subrogation |
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Subordination |
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Miscellaneous |
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Notices |
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Waivers; Amendment |
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Administrative Agent’s Fees and
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Agreement |
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Severability |
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Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Consent
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WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL |
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Headings |
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Termination or Release |
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Limitation on Guaranteed
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Schedule 1 |
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Subsidiary Roles |
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| EXHIBITS |
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Exhibit 1 |
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- Form
of Guarantee Supplement |
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GUARANTEE AGREEMENT dated as of
May 5, 2006 among CMP SUSQUEHANNA RADIO HOLDINGS CORP.
(“ Holdings ”), CMP SUSQUEHANNA CORP. (the
“ Borrower ”), the Subsidiaries of the Borrower
identified herein and DEUTSCHE BANK TRUST COMPANY AMERICAS, as
Administrative Agent.
Reference is made to the Credit
Agreement dated as of May 5, 2006 (as amended, restated,
supplemented and/or otherwise modified from time to time, the
“ Credit Agreement ”), among the Borrower,
Holdings, Deutsche Bank Trust Company Americas, as Administrative
Agent, Swing Line Lender and an L/C Issuer, each Lender from time
to time party thereto, UBS Securities LLC, as Syndication Agent,
and Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated and
Goldman Sachs Credit Partners L.P., as Co-Documentation
Agents.
The Lenders have agreed to extend
credit to the Borrower subject to the terms and conditions set
forth in the Credit Agreement, the Hedge Banks have agreed to enter
into and/or maintain one or more Secured Hedge Agreements on the
terms and conditions set forth therein and the Cash Management
Banks have agreed to provide and/or maintain Cash Management
Services on the terms and conditions agreed upon by the Borrower or
the respective Restricted Subsidiary and such Cash Management Bank.
The obligations of the Lenders to extend such credit, the
obligation of the Hedge Banks to enter into and/or maintain such
Secured Hedge Agreements and the obligation of the Cash Management
Banks to provide and/or maintain Cash Management Services are, in
each case, conditioned upon, among other things, the execution and
delivery of this Agreement by each Guarantor. Holdings, the
Borrower and the Subsidiary Parties are affiliates of one another,
will derive substantial benefits from (i) the extensions of
credit to the Borrower pursuant to the Credit Agreement,
(ii) the entering into and/or maintaining by the Hedge Banks
of Secured Hedge Agreements with the Borrower and/or one or more of
its Restricted Subsidiaries and (iii) the providing and/or
maintaining of Cash Management Services by the Cash Management
Banks to the Borrower and/or one or more of its Restricted
Subsidiaries, and are willing to execute and deliver this Agreement
in order to induce the Lenders to extend such credit, the Hedge
Banks to enter into and/or maintain such Secured Hedge Agreements
and the Cash Management Banks to provide and/or maintain such Cash
Management Services.
Accordingly, in consideration of the
foregoing and other benefits accruing to each Guarantor, the
receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, each
Guarantor hereby makes the following representations and warranties
to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties
and hereby covenants and agrees with each other Guarantor and the
Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties as
follows:
ARTICLE I
Definitions
Section 1.01. Credit
Agreement . (a) Capitalized terms used in this Agreement
and not otherwise defined herein have the meanings specified in the
Credit Agreement.
(b) The rules of construction
specified in Article I of the Credit Agreement also apply to
this Agreement.
Section 1.02. Other Defined
Terms . As used in this Agreement, the following terms have the
meanings specified below:
“ Agreement ”
means this Guarantee Agreement.
“ Credit Agreement
” has the meaning assigned to such term in the preliminary
statement of this Agreement.
“ FCC ” means the
Federal Communications Commission.
“ Guarantee Agreement
Supplement ” means an instrument substantially in the
form of Exhibit I hereto.
“ Guaranteed Obligations
” mean the “Obligations” as defined in the Credit
Agreement.
“ Guaranteed Party
” means Holdings, the Borrower, each Subsidiary Guarantor and
each Restricted Subsidiary of the Borrower party to any Secured
Hedge Agreement.
“ Guarantor ”
means each of Holdings, the Borrower and each Subsidiary
Party.
“ Secured Credit
Document ” shall mean each Loan Document, each Secured
Hedge Agreement and any agreement evidencing any Cash Management
Obligation.
“ Secured Parties
” means, collectively, the Administrative Agent, the
Colateral Agent, the Lenders, the Hedge Banks the Cash Management
Banks, the Supplemental Administrative Agent and each co-agent or
sub-agent appointed by the Administrative Agent from time to time
pursuant to Section 9.01(c) of the Credit Agreement.
“ Subsidiary Parties
” means (a) the Restricted Subsidiaries identified on
Schedule I and (b) each other Restricted Subsidiary that
becomes a party to this Agreement as a Subsidiary Party after the
Closing Date.
ARTICLE II
Guarantee
Section 2.01. Guarantee .
Each Guarantor irrevocably, absolutely and unconditionally
guarantees, jointly with the other Guarantors and severally, as a
primary obligor and not merely as a surety, the due and punctual
payment and performance of the Guaranteed Obligations, in each
case, whether such Guaranteed Obligations are now existing or
hereafter incurred under, arising out of or in connection with any
Secured Credit Document. Each of the Guarantors further agrees that
the Guaranteed Obligations may be extended, increased or renewed,
in whole or in part, without notice to, or further assent from such
Guarantor, and that such Guarantor will remain bound upon its
guarantee notwithstanding any extension, increase or renewal of any
Guaranteed Obligation. Each of the Guarantors waives presentment
to, demand of payment from, and protest to, the applicable
Guaranteed Party or any
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other
Loan Party of any of the Guaranteed Obligations, and also waives
notice of acceptance of its guarantee and notice of protest for
nonpayment.
Section 2.02. Guarantee of
Payment . Each of the Guarantors further agrees that its
guarantee hereunder constitutes a guarantee of payment when due and
not of collection, and waives any right to require that any resort
be had by the Administrative Agent or any other Secured Party to
any security held for the payment of the Guaranteed Obligations, or
to any balance of any deposit account or credit on the books of the
Administrative Agent or any other Secured Party in favor of any
Guaranteed Party or any other Person.
Section 2.03. No
Limitations . (a) Except for termination of a
Guarantor’s obligations hereunder as expressly provided in
Section 4.13, the obligations of each Guarantor hereunder
shall not be subject to any reduction, limitation, impairment or
termination for any reason, including any claim of waiver, release,
surrender, alteration or compromise, and shall not be subject to
any defense or set-off, counterclaim, recoupment or termination
whatsoever by reason of the invalidity, illegality or
unenforceability of the Guaranteed Obligations, or otherwise.
Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the obligations
of each Guarantor hereunder shall not be discharged or impaired or
otherwise affected by (i) the failure of the Administrative
Agent or any other Secured Party to assert any claim or demand or
to enforce any right or remedy under the provisions of any Secured
Credit Document or otherwise; (ii) any rescission, waiver,
amendment or modification of, or any release from any of the terms
or provisions of, any Secured Credit Document or any other
agreement, including with respect to any other Guarantor under this
Agreement; (iii) the release of any security held by the
Collateral Agent (as defined in the Security Agreement) or any
other Secured Party for the Guaranteed Obligations; (iv) any
default, failure or delay, willful or otherwise, in the performance
of the Guaranteed Obligations; or (v) any other act or omission
that may or might in any manner or to any extent vary the risk of
any Guarantor or otherwise operate as a discharge of any Guarantor
as a matter of law or equity (other than the indefeasible payment
in full in cash of all the Guaranteed Obligations). Each Guarantor
expressly authorizes the applicable Secured Parties to take and
hold security for the payment and performance of the Guaranteed
Obligations, to exchange, waive or release any or all such security
(with or without consideration), to enforce or apply such security
and direct the order and manner of any sale thereof in their sole
discretion or to release or substitute any one or more other
guarantors or obligors upon or in respect of the Guaranteed
Obligations all without affecting the obligations of any Guarantor
hereunder.
(b) To the fullest extent
permitted by applicable law, each Guarantor waives any defense
based on or arising out of any defense of the Borrower of any other
Guaranteed Party or the unenforceability of the Guaranteed
Obligations or any part thereof from any cause, or the cessation
from any cause of the liability of the Borrower or any other
Guaranteed Party, other than the indefeasible payment in full in
cash of all the Guaranteed Obligations. The Administrative Agent
and the other Secured Parties may in accordance with the terms of
the Collateral Documents and subject to any required prior approval
of the FCC, at their election, foreclose on any security held by
one or more of them by one or more judicial or nonjudicial sales,
accept an assignment of any such security in lieu of
foreclosure, compromise or adjust any part of the Guaranteed
Obligations make any other accommodation with the Borrower or any
other Guaranteed Party or exercise any other right or remedy
available to them against the Borrower or any other Guaranteed
Party, without affecting or impairing in any way the
liability
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Guarantor hereunder except to the extent the Guaranteed Obligations
have been fully and indefeasibly paid in full in cash. To the
fullest extent permitted by applicable law, each Guarantor waives
any defense arising out of any such election even though such
election operates, pursuant to applicable law, to impair or to
extinguish any right of reimbursement or subrogation or other right
or remedy of such Guarantor against the Borrower or any other
Guaranteed Party, as the case may be, or any security.
Section 2.04.
Reinstatement . Each of the Guarantors agrees that its
guarantee hereunder shall continue to be effective or be
reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time payment, or any part
thereof, of any Guaranteed Obligation is rescinded or must
otherwise be restored by the Administrative Agent or any other
Secured Party upon the bankruptcy or reorganization of the Borrower
or any other Guaranteed Party or otherwise.
Section 2.05. Agreement To
Pay; Subrogation . In furtherance of the foregoing and not in
limitation of any other right that the Administrative Agent or any
other Secured Party has at law or in equity against any Guarantor
by virtue hereof, upon the failure of the Borrower or any other
Guaranteed Party to pay any Guaranteed Obligation when and as the
same shall become due, whether at maturity, by acceleration, after
notice of prepayment or otherwise, each Guarantor hereby promises
to and will forthwith pay, or cause to be paid, to the
Administrative Agent for distribution to the applicable Secured
Parties in cash the amount of such unpaid Guaranteed Obligation.
Upon payment by any Guarantor of any sums to the Administrative
Agent as provided above, all rights of such Guarantor against the
Borrower or any other Guaranteed Party arising as a result thereof
by way of right of subrogation, contribution, reimbursement,
indemnity or otherwise shall in all respects be subject to
Article III.
Section 2.06. Information
. Each Guarantor assumes all responsibility for being and keeping
itself informed of the Borrower’s and each other Guaranteed
Party’s financial condition and assets, and of all other
circumstances bearing upon the risk of nonpayment of the Guaranteed
Obligations and the nature, scope and extent of the risks that such
Guarantor assumes and incurs hereunder, and agrees that none of the
Administrative Agent or the other Secured Parties will have any
duty to advise such Guarantor of information known to it or any of
them regarding such circumstances or risks.
ARTICLE III
Indemnity, Subrogation and Subordination
Section 3.01. Indemnity and
Subrogation . In addition to all such rights of indemnity and
subrogation as the Guarantors may have under applicable law (but
subject to Section 3.03), each Guaranteed Party agrees that in
the event a payment shall be made by any Guarantor under this
Agreement on account of any Obligation owed directly by such
Guaranteed Party ( i.e. , other than any obligation arising
under this Agreement), such Guaranteed Party shall indemnify such
Guarantor for the full amount of such payment and such Guarantor
shall be subrogated to the rights of the Person to whom such
payment shall have been made to the extent of such payment.
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Section 3.02. Contribution
and Subrogation . At any time a payment by any Subsidiary Party
in respect of the Guaranteed Obligations is made under this
Agreement that shall not have been fully indemnified as provided in
Section 3.01, the right of contribution of each Subsidiary
Party against each other Subsidiary Party shall be determined as
provided in the immediately succeeding sentence, with the right of
contribution of each Subsidiary Party to be revised and restated as
of each date on which an unreimbursed payment (a “
Relevant Payment ”) is made on the Guaranteed
Obligations under this Agreement. At any time that a Relevant
Payment is made by a Subsidiary Party that results in the aggregate
payments made by such Subsidiary Party in respect of the Guaranteed
Obligations to and including the date of the Relevant Payment
exceeding such Subsidiary Party’s Contribution Percentage (as
defined below) of the aggregate payments made by all Subsidiary
Parties in respect of the Guaranteed Obligations to and including
the date of the Relevant Payment (such excess, the “
Aggregate Excess Amount ”), each such Subsidiary Party
shall have a right of contribution against each other Subsidiary
Party who has made payments in respect of the Guaranteed
Obligations to and including the date of the Relevant Payment in an
aggregate amount less than such other Subsidiary Party’s
Contribution Percentage of the aggregate payments made to and
including the date of the Relevant Payment by all Subsidiary
Parties in respect of the Guaranteed Obligations (the aggregate
amount of such deficit, the “ Aggregate Deficit Amount
”) in an amount equal to (x) a fraction the numerator of
which is the Aggregate Excess Amount of such Subsidiary Party and
the denominator of which is the Aggregate Excess Amount of all
Subsidiary Parties multiplied by (y) the Aggregate Deficit
Amount of such other Subsidiary Party. A Subsidiary Party’s
right of contribution pursuant to the preceding sentences shall
arise at the time of each computation, subject to adjustment to the
time of each computation; provided that all contribution
rights of such Subsidiary Party shall be subject to Section 3.03.
As used in this Section 3.02: (i) each Subsidiary
Party’s “ Contribution Percentage ” shall
mean the percentage obtained by dividing (x) the Adjusted Net
Worth (as defined below) of such Subsidiary Party by (y) the
aggregate Adjusted Net Worth of all Subsidiary Parties;
(ii) the “ Adjusted Net Worth ” of each
Subsidiary Party shall mean the greater of (x) the Net Worth
(as defined below) of such Subsidiary Party and (y) zero; and
(iii) the “ Net Worth ” of each Subsidiary
Party shall mean the amount by which the fair saleable value of
such Subsidiary Party’s assets on the date of any Relevant
Payment exceeds its existing debts and other liabilities (including
contingent liabilities, but without giving effect to any Guaranteed
Obligations arising under this Agreement or any guaranteed
obligations arising under any guaranty of the Senior Subordinated
Notes or any Permitted Refinancing thereof) on such date.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained above, any
Subsidiary Party that is released from this Agreement pursuant to
Section 4.13 hereof shall thereafter have no contribution
obligations, or rights, pursuant to this Section 3.02, and at
the time of any such release, if the released Subsidiary Party had
an Aggregate Excess Amount or an Aggregate Deficit Amount, same
shall be deemed reduced to $0, and the contribution rights and
obligations of the remaining Subsidiary Parties shall be
recalculated on the respective date of release (as otherwise
provided above) based on the payments made hereunder by the
remaining Subsidiary Parties. Each of the Subsidiary Parties
recognizes and acknowledges that the rights to contribution arising
hereunder shall constitute an asset in favor of the party entitled
to such contribution. In this connection, each Subsidiary Party has
the right to waive its contribution right against any other
Subsidiary Party to the extent that after giving effect to such
waiver such Subsidiary Party would remain solvent, in the
determination of the Required Lenders.
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Section 3.03.
Subordination . Notwithstanding any provision of this
Agreement to the contrary, all rights of the Guarantors under
Sections 3.01 and 3.02 and all other rights of indemnity,
contribution or subrogation under applicable law or otherwise shall
be fully subordinated to the indefeasible payment in full in cash
of the Guaranteed Obligations; provided, that if any amount shall
be paid to such Guarantor on account of such subrogation rights at
any time prior to the irrevocable payment in full in cash of all
the Guaranteed Obligations, such amount shall be held in trust for
the benefit of the Secured Parties and shall forthwith be paid to
the Administrative Agent to be credited and applied against the
Guaranteed Obligations, whether matured or unmatured, in accordance
with Section 8.04 of the Credit Agreement. No failure on the
part of the Borrower or any Guarantor to make the payments required
by Sections 3.01 and 3.02 (or any other payments required
under applicable law or otherwise) shall in any respect limit the
obligations and liabilities of any Guarantor with respect to its
obligations hereunder, and each Guarantor shall remain liable for
the full amount of the obligations of such Guarantor
hereunder.
ARTICLE IV
Miscellaneous
Section 4.01. Notices .
All communications and notices hereunder shall (except as otherwise
expressly permitted herein) be in writing and given as provided in
Section 10.02 of the Credit Agreement. All communications and
notices hereunder to any Subsidiary Party shall be given to it in
care of the Borrower as provided in Section 10.02 of the
Credit Agreement.
Section 4.02. Waivers;
Amendment . (a) No failure or delay by the Administrative
Agent, any L/C Issuer or any Lender in e
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