Exhibit 10.15
Exhibit A to
Consolidation Agreement
RAINBOW CASINO-VICKSBURG
PARTNERSHIP, L.P.
(A Mississippi Limited
Partnership)
THIS SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED
AGREEMENT OF LIMITED PARTNERSHIP, dated as of March 29, 1995 (the
“Agreement”), is entered into by and between United
Gaming Rainbow, a Nevada corporation (“UGR”), as
general partner, and The Rainbow Casino Corporation, a Mississippi
corporation, as limited partner (“RCC” or the
“Limited Partner”).
RECITALS:
A.
RCC, as general partner, and UGR, as limited partner, are partners
in a limited partnership pursuant to the Mississippi Limited
Partnership Act, §§ 74-14-101 et seq . of the
Mississippi Code of 1972, as amended (the “Mississippi
Act”), pursuant to an Amended and Restated Limited
Partnership Agreement dated as of July 16, 1994 (the
“Original Agreement”), which carried forward the
Partnership. UGR and RCC desire to amend and restate the Original
Agreement, pursuant to the Mississippi Act and upon the terms and
conditions set forth in this Agreement, to effect the changes set
forth herein, including without limitation, by UGR being and
becoming the general partner in the Partnership and RCC being and
becoming the Limited Partner.
B.
Pursuant to the Original Agreement, the Partnership issued to UGR
Special Limited Partnership Interests (as defined therein) in the
aggregate amount of $3.25 million, as more particularly provided
therein. Pursuant to the Consolidation Agreement (as defined below)
and as provided in Section 4.04 below, such Special Limited
Partnership Interests shall be cancelled and in exchange therefor
the Partnership is issuing to UGR on the date hereof a Class A Note
(as defined below) in the principal amount of $3.25 million. In
addition, pursuant to the Consolidation Agreement, amounts in
respect of accrued and unpaid royalties payable to UGR, accrued and
unpaid amounts in respect of Distributions (as defined below) in
respect of, and Redemptions (as defined below) of, such Special
Limited Partnership Interests and certain other accrued and unpaid
amounts, through and including the date hereof, in the aggregate
amount of $935,052 (as set forth in Exhibit A hereto), shall
hereafter constitute an obligation of the Partnership which shall
constitute a portion of the indebtedness evidenced by the Class B
Note (as defined below) in the maximum principal amount of $3.5
million issued on the date hereof by the Partnership to
UGR.
C.
The Partnership is also issuing to National Gaming Mississippi,
Inc., a Delaware corporation (“NGM”), a Class B Note in
the maximum principal amount of $2 million pursuant to the
Consolidation Agreement.
AGREEMENT:
The parties agree that the Original
Agreement shall be amended and restated as follows:
Article I: Organizational
Matters
1.01 Formation; Etc .
UGR and RCC hereby agree to continue as partners (sometimes
referred to herein as the “Partners”) in continuation
of the Partnership under the Mississippi Act as described in
Recital A above. On or prior to the date hereof (or within five
business days hereafter), UGR and RCC have caused (or shall cause)
to be filed an amended certificate of limited partnership (a
“Certificate”) in the office of the Secretary of State
of the State of Mississippi reflecting the fact that UGR is the
general partner and RCC is the limited partner in the Partnership.
Failure to effect such filing in a timely manner shall not affect
the Partners’ respective rights or obligations
hereunder.
1.02 Partners .
UGR shall, from and after the date hereof, be the sole
general partner in the Partnership (the “General
Partner”). RCC shall, from and after the date hereof, be the
sole Limited Partner. Each additional Limited Partner, if any, upon
execution and delivery of a counterpart of this Agreement, as
provided for herein, shall become a limited partner in the
Partnership and shall be reflected as such on the books and records
of the Partnership. UGR shall not admit any other Person as a
Partner if the effect thereof is to reduce amounts otherwise
payable to RCC hereunder, as provided herein.
1.03 Documents .
The Partners acknowledge and ratify the filing of each
Certificate by UGR and RCC and, after the execution and delivery of
this Agreement, the General Partner shall cause to be filed such
other certificates or filings as may be required for the operation
of a limited partnership in the State of Mississippi. The General
Partner shall thereafter file any necessary amendments to the
Certificate, and shall otherwise do all things necessary or
appropriate for the maintenance of the Partnership as a limited
partnership under the laws of the State of Mississippi.
1.04 Name . The
Partnership’s name is “Rainbow Casino-Vicksburg
Partnership, L.P.” The Partnership’s business
shall be conducted under the name “Rainbow Casino-Vicksburg
Limited Partnership” or under any other name or names
reasonably deemed advisable by the General Partner from time to
time, including without limitation, the name of the General Partner
or any Affiliate thereof or any trade style or trade names. The
words “Limited Partnership” or letters
“L.P.” shall be included in the name of the Partnership
where necessary to comply with the laws of any jurisdiction that so
requires.
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1.05 Registered Office:
Principal Office . Unless and until changed by the
General Partner, the registered office of the Partnership in the
State of Mississippi shall be located at 1440 Warrenton Road,
Vicksburg, Mississippi 39180. The principal office of the
Partnership shall be c/o Alliance Gaming Corporation, 4380 Boulder
Highway, Las Vegas, Nevada 89121, or such other place in the United
States as may from time to time be reasonably designated by the
General Partner (provided, that the General Partner shall not
charge any overhead in respect of such office if not maintained at
the Project site, except as reflected in the management fee under
the Management Agreement (as in effect on the date hereof)). The
General Partner shall give prompt written notice of any such change
to the Limited Partner. The Partnership may maintain offices at
such other place or places within or outside the State of
Mississippi as the General Partner deems desirable or
advisable.
1.06 Duration .
The Partnership has commenced operations prior to the date
hereof and shall continue until December 31, 2010, unless earlier
terminated pursuant to Article VII or extended pursuant to Article
V hereof.
1.07 Purposes and
Powers . The Partnership is organized for the object and
purpose of conducting, operating and disposing of the Rainbow
Business, and to engage in all such, activities and transactions as
are reasonably related to or incidental to the foregoing. In the
event that the General Partner proposes to enter into any
transaction or series or related transactions on behalf of the
Partnership that are material to the Rainbow Business with Alliance
Gaming Corporation or any of its Affiliates (other than the
Partnership), the General Partner shall notify the Limited Partner
of such proposed transaction (together with a reasonably detailed
written description thereof), and the Limited Partner shall have
the right to consent (in its reasonable discretion) to the fact
that the economic terms of such transaction are no less favorable
to the Partnership than the terms on which such a transaction would
have been effected with an unaffiliated third party; it being
understood that failure to respond to such General Partner’s
notice within 10 days thereof shall constitute the Limited
Partner’s consent, The Rainbow Business shall not be
conducted by the General Partner other than through the
Partnership. The Partnership may conduct and operate the Rainbow
Business through divisions or other formats, utilizing trade styles
or trade names. The Partnership shall have all powers
necessary or incidental, suitable, desirable or convenient for the
accomplishment of the aforesaid purposes as limited above, alone or
with others, as principal or as agent.
1.08 Power of Attorney
. Subject to Section 1.07 above, the Limited Partner hereby
constitutes and appoints the General Partner and each of its
authorized officers and attorneys-in-fact, with full power of
substitution, as its true and lawful agent and attorney-in-fact,
with full power and authority in its name, place and stead, in a
manner not prohibited by this Agreement, to execute, swear to,
acknowledge, deliver, file and record in the appropriate public
offices all certificates, documents and other instruments that the
General Partner deems necessary or appropriate to form, qualify or
continue the existence or qualification of the Partnership as a
limited partnership in the State of Mississippi. The foregoing
power of attorney is irrevocable and a power coupled with an
interest, and it shall survive and not be affected by the
subsequent death, incompetency, dissolution, bankruptcy
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or termination of the Limited
Partner or the transfer of all or any portion of the Limited
Partner’s Interest and shall extend to the Limited
Partner’s successors and assigns.
1.09 Ownership of
Property . Legal title to all assets, rights and property
(including without limitation, all cash and cash deposits in
whatever form held, including in gaming machines), whether real,
personal or mixed and whether tangible or intangible, acquired by
the Partnership shall be acquired, held, owned and subsequently
conveyed in the name of the Partnership and no Partner,
individually or collectively, shall have any ownership interest in
such partnership properties or any portion thereof. Subject to
Section 1.07 above, (a) the Partnership shall have the power to
acquire, own, lease, sublease, manage, operate, hold, deal in,
control or dispose of any interest in real property constituting
part of the Project and (b) the Partnership shall also have the
power to acquire, own, hold, manage, sell, transfer, convey,
assign, exchange, pledge or otherwise dispose of the stock of or
other interest in any Person, foreign or domestic.
Article II:
Definitions
For the purposes of this Agreement,
the following terms shall have the following meanings:
“Affiliate” of any
Person means any other person Controlled by, Controlling or under
common Control with such first Person, including without
limitation, directors, officers, employees, stockholders and agents
of such first Person or any other Person Controlled by, Controlling
or under common Control with such first Person.
“Control,” “Controlling” or
“Controlled” as to any Person shall mean the
possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause
the direction of the management and/or policies of such Person,
whether through ownership of voting securities or partnership
interests, by agreement or understanding or otherwise.
“Alliance Agreements”
shall mean the Basic Agreement dated as of October 28, 1993 among
Alliance Gaming Corporation (formerly known as United Gaming,
Inc.), The Rainbow Casino Corporation, John A. Barrett. Jr. and
Leigh Seippel, as amended to date by agreements among such Persons
and certain other Persons, including by the Consolidation
Agreement.
“Allowed Deductions”
shall mean deductions from Net Cash Flow consisting of:
(i) NGM and/or HFS royalties
and interest and principal in respect of the HFS Financing
Agreements, each as provided for in the HFS Financing Agreements as
presently in effect;
(ii) interest and principal in
respect of the existing obligations of the Partnership to
International Game Technology, Inc. or any of its affiliates, as
presently in effect;
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(iii) interest and principal
in respect of existing obligations to the Partnership to Kossens,
Inc. or any of its affiliates, as presently in effect;
(iv) interest and principal in
respect of the Class A Note issued by the Partnership on the date
hereof to UGR in the maximum principal amount of $3.25 million; it
being understood that from and after the date hereof no further
royalty shall accrue in respect of any Special Limited Partnership
Interests or under the Alliance Agreements in any circumstance, the
maximum principal amount of Class A Notes to be given effect for
purposes of computation of the Net Cash Flow from which the RCC
Interest is payable being $3.25 million; and
(v) interest and principal in
respect of the Class B Notes issued by the Partnership on the date
hereof to UGR and NGM in the amounts of $3.5 million and $2
million, respectively; such Class B Notes being for purposes of
funding Permitted Capital Expenditures in the aggregate of up to
but not in excess of $5.5 million, such that the maximum principal
amount of the Class B Notes for purposes of computation of Net Cash
Flow from which the RCC Interest is payable being $5.5 million or
such lesser amount as shall have been funded in respect of such
Class B Notes, in conformity with the terms of this Agreement and
the Consolidation Agreement.
In calculating Allowed Deductions it
is agreed that the General Partner is authorized to amend the terms
of the indebtedness and other items in clauses (i) through (v)
above or to obtain substitute, replacement or additional financing
in respect of the Project, each, in the General Partner’s
sole discretion; provided, that, notwithstanding any such action or
any other recapitalization of the Partnership, or any other action
of the Partnership or the General Partner, the RCC Interest shall
continue to be calculated solely based upon Net Cash Flow
calculated based on the provisions set out above in this
definition, throughout the term of the RCC Interest and based on a
maximum aggregate principal amount of Notes of $8.75 million to be
repaid in accordance with their terms, as provided
herein.
“Class A Note” shall
mean the Class A Note issued by the Partnership to UGR on the date
hereof in accordance with Section 4.04 hereof in the maximum
principal amount of $3.25 million.
“Class B Note” shall
mean each of the Class B Notes issued by the Partnership to UGR and
NGM on the date hereof in accordance with Section 4.04 hereof in
the maximum principal amounts of $3.5 million and $2 million,
respectively. The Class B Notes shall accrue interest on and the
principal amounts thereunder shall be repayable solely based upon
the amounts funded or deemed funded by UGR and NGM hereunder and
under the Consolidation Agreement. As of the date hereof, the
Partnership has incurred indebtedness to (and such amounts shall be
deemed funded by) (a) UGR in the amounts of $935,052 in respect of
accrued and unpaid amounts described on Exhibit A hereto and
$651,999.92 as provided in Section 2(b) of the Consolidation
Agreement and (b) NGM in the amount of $651,999.92 as provided in
the Consolidation Agreement. The Class B Notes shall be subject to
the final sentence of Section 3.04 hereof.
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“Code” shall mean the
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, or any successor statute
or statutes thereto.
“Consolidation
Agreement” shall mean the Consolidation Agreement dated as of
the date hereof among RCC, NGM, HFS Gaming Corp., a Delaware
corporation. Alliance Gaming Corporation, UGR and, as to certain
matters, John A. Barrett, Jr., Leigh Seippel, Rainbow Development
Corporation, a Mississippi corporation, and National Gaining Corp.,
a Delaware corporation, and Doyle &
Bachman, a law partnership.
“EBITDAR” shall mean
earnings from the Project, before giving effect to depreciation,
amortization, interest and principal payments (including payments
of interest on and principal of the HFS Financing Agreements to HFS
or NGM or any of their respective Affiliates and payments of
interest on and principal of the Notes), royalties payable to HFS,
capital expenditures, and federal, state and local taxes (provided
that such taxes are not paid by the Partnership)(but after giving
effect to specifically gaming-related taxes, which shall constitute
a deduction from earnings of the Partnership), all as determined in
accordance with generally accepted accounting principles,
consistently applied.
“Event of Withdrawal”
shall mean, with respect to the General Partner, any bankruptcy or
insolvency of the General Partner and the events specified under
§ 79-14-402(a) of the Mississippi Act.
“Gross Gaming Revenues”
shall mean gaming revenues derived from the casino forming a part
of the Project, in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles, consistently applied, i.e., for any applicable period,
the amounts retained by such casino in respect of players’
wagers, less payments to winning players and all applicable gaining
taxes.
“HFS” shall mean
Hospitality Franchise Systems, Inc. or any of its Affiliates (and
shall include NGM or any of its Affiliates); “HPS Financing
Agreements” shall mean the various financing agreements,
marketing and servicing agreements and other documents and
instruments in effect on the date hereof among the Partnership,
either of the Partners (or any of their respective Affiliates) and
HFS or NGM, as amended or supplemented and in effect from time to
time.
“Interest” shall mean,
as to each Partner, all applicable rights of such Partner under
this Agreement.
“Management Agreement”
shall mean the Management Agreement dated as of October 28, 1993
among Mississippi Ventures, Inc., the Partnership, RCC, John A,
Barrett, Jr. and Leigh Seippel, as amended to date.
“Net Cash Flow” shall
mean EBITDAR of the Project, on a freestanding basis, exclusive of
any overhead, service or other charges of the General Partner.
Alliance Gaming Corporation or any Affiliate thereof (other than
the Partnership, as permitted by this Agreement) other than the
Management Fee (as presently in effect and as provided for in
the
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Management Agreement, including any
incentive or performance based management fees), prepared on a
consistently applied generally accepted accounting principles basis
for the Project, less deductions for, but only for Allowed
Deductions.
“Net Income” or
“Net Loss” for any taxable year shall mean the taxable
income or the taxable loss of the Partnership for such taxable year
as determined for U.S. federal income tax purposes.
“Notes” means,
collectively, the Class A Note and me Class B Notes.
“Permitted Capital
Expenditures” shall mean expenditures made by UGR or NGM or
any of their respective Affiliates to or as directed by the
Partnership or otherwise designated by the General Partner (in its
sole discretion) in connection with the Project or the Rainbow
Business, whether from the cash available in or generated by the
Project or from UGR’s or NGM’s or such
Affiliates’ own or borrowed funds, and in each case, whether
or not such expenditures are, in accordance with generally accepted
accounting principles, properly classified as capital expenditures;
provided, that the aggregate amount of such expenditures (including
the amount provided to be expended under the Consolidation
Agreement) shall not have exceeded the difference between $5.5
million and the amount funded on the date hereof in respect of the
Class B Notes (i.e., $2,239,051.84), from and after the date
hereof. Nothing herein shall limit UGR’s ability to fund
additional amounts to the Project so long as such additional
amounts are not evidenced by a Class B Note.
“Person” shall mean any
individual, company, corporation, association; governmental or
quasi-governmental authority or other entity.
“Project” shall mean a
dockside casino, restaurants, concessions and related activities in
Vicksburg, Mississippi (including the contiguous family
entertainment park and hotel).
“Rainbow Business” shall
mean the business and operations heretofore and hereafter conducted
by the Partnership, consisting of the development, ownership and
operation of the Project.
“RCC Interest” shall
mean the Interest of RCC as Limited Partner in the Partnership
calculated as 10% of Net Cash Flow of the Partnership for each
fiscal year of the Partnership from January 1, 1995 through the
term of this Partnership as set forth in Section 1.06 hereof,
subject to earlier termination as provided in Article VII hereof
and to extension of such date as provided in this definition;
provided, that RCC shall be entitled to a 20% share of Net Cash
Flow to the extent (but solely to the extent) allocable on a
straight line proportionate basis to Gross Gaming Revenues in any
fiscal year in excess of $35,000,000 (e.g., if gross gaming
revenues are $38,000,000 and Net Cash Flow is $5,000,000, the RCC
Interest shall be (a) $5,000,000 x 35/38 x 10% plus (b) $55,000,000
x 3/38 x 20%). The term of the RCC Interest shall be for 15 years,
commencing January 1, 1995; provided, that if the RCC Interest does
not produce at least $50,000 per calendar year in actual payments
to RCC, or a compensating payment up to the difference between
$550,000 and the amount of
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the RCC Interest otherwise payable
by the Partnership is not made for such calendar year to RCC, then
the term of the RCC Interest shall be extended for an additional
consecutive 12-month period in each such case.
“Transfer” shall mean
the direct or indirect sale, donation, assignment (as collateral or
otherwise), pledge, hypothecation, encumbrance, transfer or
disposition of any Interest; “Transferor” and
“Transferee” shall have correlative