FIRST AMENDMENT TO LETTER OF CREDIT
FACILITY
THIS FIRST
AMENDMENT TO LETTER OF CREDIT FACILITY (this “ First
Amendment ”), dated as of November 21, 2008, is
entered into among CASH AMERICA INTERNATIONAL, INC., a Texas
corporation (the “ Borrower ”), the lenders
listed on the signature pages hereof as Lenders (the “
Lenders ”), and WELLS FARGO BANK, NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION, as Administrative Agent and L/C Issuer.
A. The
Borrower, the Lenders, the Administrative Agent, and the L/C Issuer
are parties to that certain Letter of Credit Facility, dated as of
June 30, 2008, (said Letter of Credit Facility, as modified
and amended, the “ Letter of Credit Facility ”).
The terms defined in the Letter of Credit Facility and not
otherwise defined herein shall be used herein as defined in the
Letter of Credit Facility.
B. The
Borrower has requested certain amendments to the Letter of Credit
Facility.
C. The
Lenders, the Administrative Agent, and the L/C Issuer hereby agree
to amend the Letter of Credit Facility, subject to the terms and
conditions set forth herein.
NOW, THEREFORE, in
consideration of the covenants, conditions and agreements hereafter
set forth, and for other good and valuable consideration, the
receipt and adequacy of which are all hereby acknowledged, the
Borrower, the Lenders, the L/C Issuer and the Administrative Agent
covenant and agree as follows:
(a)
Section 1.01 of the Letter of Credit Facility is hereby
amended by adding the defined terms “ Defaulting
Lender ”, “ First Amendment Date ”,
and “ Impacted Lender ” thereto in proper
alphabetical order to read as follows:
“
Defaulting Lender ” means any Lender that (a) has
failed to fund any portion of the Revolving Loans or participations
in L/C Obligations required to be funded by it hereunder within one
Business Day of the date required to be funded by it hereunder
unless such failure has been cured, (b) has otherwise failed
to pay over to the Administrative Agent or any other Lender any
other amount required to be paid by it hereunder within one
Business Day of the date when due, unless the subject of a good
faith dispute or unless such failure has been cured, or
(c) has been deemed insolvent or become the subject of a
bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding.
“ First
Amendment Date ” means November 21, 2008.
“
Impacted Lender ” means a Defaulting Lender or a
Lender as to which (a) the L/C Issuer has a good faith belief that
the Lender has defaulted in fulfilling
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its obligations
under one or more other syndicated credit facilities or (b) an
entity that controls the Lender has been deemed insolvent or become
subject to a bankruptcy or other similar proceeding.
(b) The
definition of “ Incorporated Agreement ” is
hereby amended to read as follows:
“
Incorporated Agreement ” means that certain First
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of
February 24, 2005, among the Borrower, each lender from time
to time party thereto, Wells Fargo Bank, National Association, as
Administrative Agent, an L/C Issuer and Swing Line Lender, JPMorgan
Chase Bank, N.A., as Syndication Agent, and U.S. Bank National
Association, KeyBank National Association and Union Bank of
California, N.A., as Co-documentation Agents, as amended by that
certain First Amendment to First Amended and Restated Credit
Agreement, dated as of March 16, 2007, that certain Commitment
Increase Agreement, dated as of February 29, 2008, that
certain Second Amendment to First Amended and Restated Credit
Agreement, dated as of June 30, 2008, and that certain Third
Amendment to First Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as
of November 21, 2008. Unless otherwise specified herein, all
references to the Incorporated Agreement shall mean the
Incorporated Agreement as in effect on the First Amendment Date,
without giving effect to any amendment, supplement or other
modification thereto or thereof after the First Amendment
Date.
(c) The
definition of “ Voting Percentage ” in
Section 1.01 of the Letter of Credit Facility is hereby
amended and restated to read as follows:
“ Voting
Percentage ” means, as to any Lender, (a) at any
time when the Commitments are in effect, such Lender’s Pro
Rata Share and (b) at any time after the termination of the
Commitments, the percentage (carried out to the ninth decimal
place) which (i) the sum of (A) the Outstanding Amount of
such Lender’s Revolving Loans, plus (B) such
Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the Outstanding Amount of L/C
Obligations, then constitutes of (ii) the Outstanding Amount
of all Revolving Loans and L/C Obligations; provided ,
however, that if any Lender is a Defaulting Lender, such
Lender’s Voting Percentage shall be deemed to be zero, and
the respective Pro Rata Shares and Voting Percentages of the other
Lenders shall be recomputed for purposes of this definition and the
definition of “Required Lenders” without regard to such
Defaulting Lender’s Commitment or the outstanding amount of
its Revolving Loans and L/C Advances, as the case may
be.
(d)
Section 2.03(a)(ii) of the Letter of Credit Facility is
hereby amended and restated as follows:
(ii) No L/C Issuer
shall be under any obligation to issue any Letter of Credit
if:
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(A) any order,
judgment or decree of any Governmental Authority or arbitrator
shall by its terms purport to enjoin or restrain such L/C Issuer
from issuing such Letter of Credit, or any Law applicable to such
L/C Issuer or any request or directive (whether or not having the
force of law) from any Governmental Authority with jurisdiction
over such L/C Issuer shall prohibit, or request that such L/C
Issuer refrain from, the issuance of letters of credit generally or
such Letter of Credit in particular or shall impose upon such L/C
Issuer with respect to such Letter of Credit any restriction,
reserve or capital requirement (for which such L/C Issuer is not
otherwise compensated hereunder) not in effect on the Closing Date,
or shall impose upon such L/C Issuer any unreimbursed loss, cost or
expense which was not applicable on the Closing Date and which such
L/C Issuer in good faith deems material to it;
(B) subject to
Section 2.03(b)(iii) hereof, the expiry date of such
requested Letter of Credit would occur after the Letter of Credit
Expiration Date, unless all the Lenders have approved such expiry
date;
(C) such Letter of
Credit is to be denominated in a currency other than Dollars;
or
(D) a default of
any Lender’s obligations to fund under Section 2.03(c)
exists or any Lender is at such time an Impacted Lender hereunder,
unless the L/C Issuer has entered into arrangements satisfactory to
the L/C Issuer with the Borrower or such Lender to eliminate the
L/C Issuer’s risk with respect to such Lender.
(e)
Section 2.10 of the Letter of Credit Facility is hereby
amended and restated as follows:
2.10 Sharing
of Payments. If, other than as expressly provided elsewhere
herein, any Lender shall obtain on account of any Revolving Loans
made by it, or the participations in L/C Obligations held by it,
any payment (whether voluntary, involuntary, through the exercise
of any right of set-off, or otherwise) in excess of its ratable
share (or other share contemplated hereunder) thereof, such Lender
shall immediately (a) notify the Administrative Agent of such
fact, and (b) purchase from the other Lenders such participations
in the Revolving Loans made by them and/or such subparticipations
in the participations in L/C Obligations held by them, as the case
may be, as shall be necessary to cause such purchasing Lender to
share the excess payment in respect of such Revolving Loan or such
participations, as the case may be, pro rata with each of them;
provided , however , that (i) if all or any
portion of such excess payment is thereafter recovered from the
purchasing Lender, such purchase shall to that extent be rescinded
and each other Lender shall repay to the purchasing Lender the
purchase price paid therefore, together with an amount equal to
such
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paying
Lender’s ratable share (according to the proportion of
(x) the amount of such paying Lender’s required
repayment to (y) the total amount so recovered from the
purchasing Lender) of any interest or other amount paid or payable
by the purchasing Lender in respect of the total amount so
recovered and (ii) the provisions of this Section shall not be
construed to apply to (x) any payment made by the Borrower
purs
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