PUBLISHED CUSIP NO. (REVOLVING
FACILITY) 19259TAD6
PUBLISHED CUSIP NO. (TERM FACILITY) [
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AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT
AGREEMENT
Dated as of November 20, 2007
and Amended and Restated as of April 29, 2009
COINSTAR, INC.,
as the Borrower,
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,
as Administrative Agent, Swing Line Lender
and
L/C Issuer,
The Other Lenders Party
Hereto
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK,
N.A. ,
as Syndication Agent
for the Revolving Facility
KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
and
WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.,
as Co-Documentation Agents
for the Revolving Facility
BANC OF AMERICA SECURITIES
LLC
and
J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES INC.,
as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Book Managers
for the Revolving Facility
BANC OF AMERICA SECURITIES
LLC
and
WELLS FARGO BANK, N.A.,
as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Book Managers
for the Term Facility
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Section
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ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING
TERMS
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1
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1
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1.02 Other Interpretive Provisions
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1.06 Letter of Credit Amounts
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ARTICLE II. THE COMMITMENTS AND CREDIT
EXTENSIONS
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2.02 Borrowings, Conversions and Continuations
of Committed Loans
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2.06 Termination or Reduction of
Commitments
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2.10 Computation of Interest and Fees;
Retroactive Adjustments of Applicable Rate
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2.12 Payments Generally; Administrative
Agent’s Clawback
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2.13 Sharing of Payments by Lenders
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2.14 Increase in Term Commitments
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ARTICLE III. TAXES, YIELD PROTECTION AND
ILLEGALITY
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3.03 Inability to Determine Rates
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3.04 Increased Costs; Reserves on Eurodollar
Rate Loans
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3.05 Compensation for Losses
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3.06 Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of
Lenders
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ARTICLE IV. CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO CREDIT
EXTENSIONS
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4.01 Conditions of Initial Credit
Extension
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4.02 Conditions to all Credit
Extensions
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4.03 Effectiveness of Amendment and
Restatement
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ARTICLE V. REPRESENTATIONS AND
WARRANTIES
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5.01 Existence, Qualification and
Power
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5.02 Authorization; No Contravention
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5.03 Governmental Authorization; Other
Consents
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5.05 Financial Statements; No Material Adverse
Effect
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5.08 Ownership of Property; Liens
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5.09 Environmental Compliance
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5.13 Subsidiaries; Equity Interests
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5.14 Margin Regulations; Investment Company
Act
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5.16 Compliance with Laws
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5.17 Taxpayer Identification Number
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5.18 Intellectual Property; Licenses,
Etc
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5.20 Automatic Coin Counting Machines
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5.21 Collateral Documents
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ARTICLE VI. AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS
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6.01 Financial Statements
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6.02 Certificates; Other Information
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6.04 Payment of Obligations
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6.05 Preservation of Existence, Etc
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6.06 Maintenance of Properties
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6.07 Maintenance of Insurance
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6.08 Compliance with Laws
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6.12 Covenant to Guarantee Obligations and Give
Security
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ARTICLE VII. NEGATIVE COVENANTS
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7.07 Change in Nature of Business
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7.08 Transactions with Affiliates
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7.09 Burdensome Agreements
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7.11 Optional Payments of other
Indebtedness
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7.13 Capital Expenditures
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7.15 Amendment of Certain Agreements
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ARTICLE VIII. EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND
REMEDIES
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8.02 Remedies Upon Event of Default
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8.03 Application of Funds
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ARTICLE IX. ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
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9.01 Appointment and Authority
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9.03 Exculpatory Provisions
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9.04 Reliance by Administrative Agent
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9.05 Delegation of Duties
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9.06 Resignation of Administrative
Agent
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9.07 Non-Reliance on Administrative Agent and
Other Lenders
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9.08 No Other Duties, Etc
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9.09 Administrative Agent May File Proofs of
Claim
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9.10 Collateral and Guaranty Matters
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10.02 Notices; Effectiveness; Electronic
Communication
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10.03 No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies
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10.04 Expenses; Indemnity; Damage
Waiver
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10.06 Successors and Assigns
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10.07 Treatment of Certain Information;
Confidentiality
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10.09 Interest Rate Limitation
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10.10 Counterparts; Integration;
Effectiveness
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10.11 Survival of Representations and
Warranties
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10.13 Replacement of Lenders
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10.14 Governing Law; Jurisdiction;
Etc
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10.15 Waiver of Jury Trial
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10.16 No Advisory or Fiduciary
Responsibility
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10.17 USA PATRIOT Act Notice
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S-1
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Existing
Letters of Credit
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Revolving
Commitments and Applicable Percentages
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Term
Commitments
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Litigation
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Environmental
Matters
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Subsidiaries;
Other Equity Investments
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Intellectual
Property Matters
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Existing
Liens
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Existing
Investments
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Existing
Indebtedness
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Administrative
Agent’s Office; Certain Addresses for Notices
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Form
of
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Committed
Revolving Loan Notice
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Committed Term
Loan Notice
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Swing Line Loan
Notice
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Revolving
Note
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Term
Note
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Compliance
Certificate
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Assignment and
Assumption
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Guarantee and
Collateral Agreement
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Opinion
Matters
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AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT
AGREEMENT
This AMENDED AND
RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT (“ Agreement ”) is
entered into as of April 29, 2009, among COINSTAR, INC., a Delaware
corporation (the “ Borrower ”), each lender from
time to time party hereto (collectively, the “ Lenders
” and individually, a “ Lender ”), and
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as Administrative Agent, Swing Line Lender
and L/C Issuer.
The Borrower,
certain of the Lenders, the L/C Issuer, the Swing Line Lender, and
the Administrative Agent have heretofore entered into that certain
Credit Agreement dated as of November 20, 2007 (as heretofore
amended or modified, the “ Original Agreement
”), pursuant to which certain of the Lenders provide
revolving credit loans, the Swing Line Lender provides swing line
loans, and the L/C Issuer issues (and the Lenders purchase
participations in) letters of credit from time to time.
The Borrower has
requested that the Original Agreement be amended in certain
respects and, in order to do so, that the Original Agreement be
amended and restated in its entirety, and the Lenders, the Swing
Line Lender, the L/C Issuer, and the Administrative Agent are
willing to do so on the terms and conditions set forth
herein.
In consideration
of the mutual covenants and agreements herein contained, the
parties hereto covenant and agree that the Original Agreement is
amended, restated, ratified and confirmed to read in its entirety
as follows:
ARTICLE I.
DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS
1.01 Defined
Terms. As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall
have the meanings set forth below:
“
Administrative Agent ” means Bank of America in its
capacity as administrative agent under any of the Loan Documents,
or any successor administrative agent.
“
Administrative Agent’s Fee Letter ” means the
Fee Letter dated October 4, 2007 between the Borrower and the
Administrative Agent.
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Administrative Agent’s Office ” means the
Administrative Agent’s address and, as appropriate, account
as set forth on Schedule 10.02 , or such other address
or account as the Administrative Agent may from time to time notify
to the Borrower and the Lenders.
“
Administrative Questionnaire ” means an Administrative
Questionnaire in a form supplied by the Administrative
Agent.
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Affiliate ” means, with respect to any Person, another
Person that directly, or indirectly through one or more
intermediaries, Controls or is Controlled by or is under common
Control with the Person specified.
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Aggregate Commitments ” means the Aggregate Revolving
Commitments and Aggregate Term Commitments.
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Aggregate Revolving Commitments ” means the
Commitments of the Revolving Lenders.
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Aggregate Term Commitments ” means the Commitments of
the Term Lenders.
“
Agreement ” means this Credit Agreement.
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Amendment and Restatement Effective Date ” means
April 29, 2009.
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Applicable Percentage ” means with respect to any
Revolving Lender at any time, the percentage (carried out to the
ninth decimal place) of the Aggregate Revolving Commitments
represented by such Revolving Lender’s Revolving Commitment
at such time. If the commitment of each Revolving Lender to make
Revolving Loans and the obligation of the L/C Issuer to make L/C
Credit Extensions have been terminated pursuant to
Section 8.02 or if the Aggregate Revolving Commitments
have expired, then the Applicable Percentage of each Revolving
Lender shall be determined based on the Applicable Percentage of
such Revolving Lender most recently in effect, giving effect to any
subsequent assignments. The initial Applicable Percentage of each
Revolving Lender is set forth opposite the name of such Revolving
Lender on Schedule 2.01(a) or in the Assignment and
Assumption pursuant to which such Revolving Lender becomes a party
hereto, as applicable.
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Applicable Rate ” means (a) in respect of the
Revolving Facility, the following percentages per annum, based upon
the Consolidated Leverage Ratio as set forth in the most recent
Compliance Certificate received by the Administrative Agent
pursuant to Section 6.02(b) :
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Pricing
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Consolidated
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Commitment
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Eurodollar
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Letter of
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Base Rate
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Level
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Leverage Ratio
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Fee
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Rate +
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Credit Fee
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1
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£
1.50 to 1.00
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0.50
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2.50
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2.50
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1.50
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2
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>1.50 to 1.00 but
£
2.00 to 1.00
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0.50
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2.75
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2.75
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1.75
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3
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>2.00 to 1.00 but
£
2.50 to 1.00
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0.50
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3.00
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2.00
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>2.50 to 1.00 but
£
3.00 to 1.00
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0.50
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2.25
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>3.00 to 1.00
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0.50
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3.50
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3.50
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2.50
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and (b) in
respect of the Term Facility, the following percentages per annum,
based upon the Consolidated Leverage Ratio as set forth in the most
recent Compliance Certificate received by the Administrative Agent
pursuant to Section 6.02(b) :
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Pricing
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Consolidated
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Eurodollar
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Base Rate
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Level
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Leverage Ratio
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Rate +
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1
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£
1.50 to 1.00
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3.75
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2.75
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2
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>1.50 to 1.00 but
£
2.00 to 1.00
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4.00
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3.00
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3
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>2.00 to 1.00 but
£
2.50 to 1.00
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4.25
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3.25
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>2.50 to 1.00 but
£
3.00 to 1.00
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4.50
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3.50
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5
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>3.00 to 1.00
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4.75
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3.75
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Any increase or
decrease in the Applicable Rate resulting from a change in the
Consolidated Leverage Ratio shall become effective as of the first
Business Day immediately following the date a Compliance
Certificate is delivered pursuant to Section 6.02(b) ;
provided that, if a Compliance Certificate is not delivered
when due in accordance with such Section, then Pricing Level 5
shall apply as of the first Business Day after the date on which
such Compliance Certificate was required to have been delivered
until the first Business Day immediately following the date such
Compliance Certificate is delivered ( provided that, the
foregoing shall not operate as a waiver of any Default or Event of
Default that may exist as a result of the failure to timely deliver
such Compliance Certificate); and provided , further
, that, notwithstanding the Consolidated Leverage Ratio that may be
set forth in any Compliance Certificate delivered prior to such
time, (x) in respect of the Revolving Facility, Pricing Level
1 or 2 shall not apply from the Closing Date until the first
Business Day immediately following the date a Compliance
Certificate is delivered pursuant to Section 6.02(b)
for the fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2008, (y) in
respect of the Revolving Facility, Pricing Level 5 shall apply from
February 12, 2009 until the first Business Day immediately
following the date a Compliance Certificate is delivered pursuant
to Section 6.02(b) for the fiscal quarter ended
March 31, 2009, and (z) in respect of the Term Facility,
Pricing Level 4 shall apply from April 29, 2009 until the
first Business Day immediately following the date a Compliance
Certificate is delivered pursuant to Section 6.02(b)
for the fiscal quarter ended March 31, 2009. Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary contained in this definition, the
determination of the Applicable Rate for any period shall be
subject to the provisions of Section 2.10(b)
.
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Approved Fund ” means any Fund that is administered or
managed by (a) a Lender, (b) an Affiliate of a Lender or
(c) an entity or an Affiliate of an entity that administers or
manages a Lender.
“
Arrangers ” means Banc of America Securities LLC and
J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., in their capacities as joint lead
arrangers and joint book managers.
“
Arrangers’ Fee Letter ” means the Fee Letter
dated October 4, 2007 among the Borrower and the
Arrangers.
“
Assignee Group ” means two or more Eligible Assignees
that are Affiliates of one another or two or more Approved Funds
managed by the same investment advisor.
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Assignment and Assumption ” means an assignment and
assumption entered into by a Lender and an assignee (with the
consent of any party whose consent is required by Section
10.06(b) ), and accepted by the Administrative Agent, in
substantially the form of Exhibit E or any other form
approved by the Administrative Agent.
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Attributable Indebtedness ” means, on any date,
(a) in respect of any capital lease of any Person, the
capitalized amount thereof that would appear on a balance sheet of
such Person prepared as of such date in accordance with GAAP, and
(b) in respect of any Synthetic Lease Obligation, the
capitalized amount of the remaining lease payments under the
relevant lease that would appear on a balance sheet of such Person
prepared as of such date in accordance with GAAP if such lease were
accounted for as a capital lease.
“ Audited
Financial Statements ” means the audited consolidated
balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for the fiscal
year ended December 31, 2008, and the related consolidated
statements of income or operations, shareholders’ equity and
cash flows for such fiscal year of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries, including the notes thereto.
“
Availability Period ” means the period from and
including the Closing Date to the earliest of (a) the Maturity
Date with respect to the Revolving Facility, (b) the date of
termination of the Aggregate Revolving Commitments pursuant to
Section 2.06 , and (c) the date of termination of
the commitment of each Revolving Lender to make Revolving Loans and
of the obligation of the L/C Issuer to make L/C Credit Extensions
pursuant to Section 8.02 .
“ Bank of
America ” means Bank of America, N.A. and its
successors.
“ Base
Rate " means, for any
day, a fluctuating rate per annum equal to the highest of
(a) the Federal Funds Rate plus 1/2 of 1%, (b) the rate
of interest in effect for such day as publicly announced from time
to time by Bank of America as its “prime rate” and
(c) the Eurodollar Rate that would be in effect for a
one-month Interest Period if such Interest Period began and was in
effect on such day (or if such day is not a Business Day, the
immediately preceding Business Day) plus 1%. The “prime
rate” is a rate set by Bank of America based upon various
factors including Bank of America’s costs and desired return,
general economic conditions and other factors, and is used as a
reference point for pricing some loans, which may be priced at,
above, or below such announced rate. Any change in such rate
announced by Bank of America shall take effect at the opening of
business on the day specified in the public announcement of such
change.
“ Base
Rate Committed Loan ” means a Committed Loan that is a
Base Rate Loan.
“ Base
Rate Loan ” means a Loan that bears interest based on the
Base Rate.
“
Borrower ” has the meaning specified in the
introductory paragraph hereto.
“
Borrower Materials ” has the meaning specified in
Section 6.02 .
“
Borrowing ” means a Committed Borrowing or a Swing
Line Borrowing, as the context may require.
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Business Day ” means any day other than a Saturday,
Sunday or other day on which commercial banks are authorized to
close under the Laws of, or are in fact closed in, the state where
the Administrative Agent’s Office is located and, if such day
relates to any Eurodollar Rate Loan, means any such day on which
dealings in Dollar deposits are conducted by and between banks in
the London interbank eurodollar market.
“ Capital
Lease Obligations ” means, as to any Person, the
obligations of such Person to pay rent or other amounts under any
lease of (or other arrangement conveying the right to use) real or
personal property, or a combination thereof, which obligations are
required to be classified and accounted for as capital leases on a
balance sheet of such Person under GAAP and, for the purposes of
this Agreement, the amount of such obligations at any time shall be
the capitalized amount thereof at such time determined in
accordance with GAAP.
“ Cash
Collateralize ” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.03(g) .
“ Cash
Management Agreement ” means any agreement to provide
cash management services, including treasury, depository,
overdraft, credit or debit card, electronic funds transfer,
automated clearinghouse and other cash management arrangements made
or entered into at any time, or in effect at any time, whether
directly or indirectly, and whether as a result of assignment or
transfer or otherwise, between the Borrower or any Subsidiary and
any Cash Management Bank.
“ Cash
Management Bank ” means a Lender or Affiliate of a Lender
that is a party to a Cash Management Agreement, in its capacity as
party to such Cash Management Agreement; provided , however
that if such Person ceases to be a Lender or an Affiliate of a
Lender, such Person shall no longer be a “Cash Management
Bank.”
“ Change
in Law ” means the occurrence, after the date of this
Agreement, of any of the following: (a) the adoption or taking
effect of any law, rule, regulation or treaty, (b) any change
in any law, rule, regulation or treaty or in the administration,
interpretation or application thereof by any Governmental Authority
or (c) the making or issuance of any request, guideline or
directive (whether or not having the force of law) by any
Governmental Authority.
“ Change
of Control ” means an event or series of events by
which:
(a) any
“person” or “group” (as such terms are used
in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934,
but excluding any employee benefit plan of such person or its
subsidiaries, and any person or entity acting in its capacity as
trustee, agent or other fiduciary or administrator of any such
plan) becomes the “beneficial owner” (as defined in
Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, except that a person or group shall be deemed to have
“beneficial ownership” of all securities that such
person or group has the right to acquire, whether such right is
exercisable immediately or only after the passage of time (such
right, an “ option right ”)), directly or
indirectly, of more than 35% of the equity securities of the
Borrower entitled to vote for members of the board of directors or
equivalent governing body of the Borrower on a fully-diluted basis
(and taking into account all such securities that such person or
group has the right to acquire pursuant to any option
right);
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(b) during any
period of 24 consecutive months, a majority of the members of the
board of directors or other equivalent governing body of the
Borrower cease to be composed of individuals (i) who were
members of that board or equivalent governing body on the first day
of such period, (ii) whose election or nomination to that
board or equivalent governing body was approved by individuals
referred to in clause (i) above constituting at the time of
such election or nomination at least a majority of that board or
equivalent governing body or (iii) whose election or
nomination to that board or other equivalent governing body was
approved by individuals referred to in clauses (i) and
(ii) above constituting at the time of such election or
nomination at least a majority of that board or equivalent
governing body; or
(c) a
“Change of Control” (or any other defined term having a
similar purpose) as defined in any agreement pursuant to which
Indebtedness permitted by Section 7.03(h) in a
principal amount of at least $50,000,000 may be issued.
“ Closing
Date ” means the first date all the conditions precedent
in Section 4.01 were satisfied or waived in accordance with
Section 10.01 , which was November 20,
2007.
“
Code ” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended and in effect from time to time.
“
Coinstar Installation Agreements ” means any and all
contracts, agreements or other arrangements of the Borrower or any
Subsidiary concerning the placement or operation of automated coin
counting machines in a supermarket or other retail location of a
third party and the payments to such third party in connection
therewith.
“
Collateral ” means all of the “
Collateral ” and “ Mortgaged Property
” referred to in the Collateral Documents and all of the
other property that is or is intended under the terms of the
Collateral Documents to be subject to Liens in favor of the
Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured
Parties.
“
Collateral Documents ” means, collectively, the
Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, any Mortgages, each of the
documents delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant to
Section 6.12 , and each of the other agreements, instruments
or documents that creates or purports to create a Lien in favor of
the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured
Parties.
“
Commitment ” means a Term Commitment or a Revolving
Commitment, as the context may require.
“
Committed Borrowing ” means a borrowing consisting of
simultaneous Committed Loans of the same Type and, in the case of
Eurodollar Rate Loans, having the same Interest Period made by the
applicable Lenders pursuant to Section 2.01(a) or
2.01(b) , as applicable.
“
Committed Loan ” means a Committed Revolving Loan or
Committed Term Loan, as the context may require.
“
Committed Loan Notice ” means a notice of (a) a
Committed Borrowing, (b) a conversion of Committed Loans from
one Type to the other, or (c) a continuation of
Eurodollar
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Rate Loans,
pursuant to Section 2.02(a) , which, if in writing,
shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A-1 or
A-2 , as applicable.
“
Committed Revolving Loan ” has the meaning specified
in Section 2.01(a) .
“
Committed Term Loan ” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.01(b) .
“
Compliance Certificate ” means a certificate
substantially in the form of Exhibit D .
“
Consolidated EBITDA ” means, for any period,
Consolidated Net Income for such period plus , without
duplication and to the extent reflected as a charge in the
statement of such Consolidated Net Income for such period, the sum
of (a) income tax expense, (b) interest expense,
amortization or writeoff of debt discount and debt issuance costs
and commissions, discounts and other fees and charges associated
with Indebtedness (including the Loans), (c) depreciation and
amortization expense (including, but not limited to, those with
respect to any Placement Fee), (d) amortization of intangibles
(including, but not limited to, goodwill) and organization costs,
(e) non-cash expenses resulting from the grant of stock options to
employees of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries pursuant to
the required treatment of such stock options under GAAP,
(f) any non-cash expenses or losses (including, without
limitation, any non-consolidated, non-cash equity interest losses
in joint ventures) and (g) any extraordinary losses under GAAP
(including, whether or not otherwise includable as a separate item
in the statement of such Consolidated Net Income for such period,
losses on the sales of assets outside of the ordinary course of
business) and minus , without duplication (a) to the
extent included in the statement of such Consolidated Net Income
for such period, the sum of (i) interest income, (ii) any
extraordinary income or gains under GAAP (including, whether or not
otherwise includable as a separate item in the statement of such
Consolidated Net Income for such period, gains on the sales of
assets outside of the ordinary course of business) and
(iii) income tax credits (to the extent not netted from income
tax expense) and (b) any cash payments made during such period
in respect of items described in clause (f) above subsequent
to the fiscal quarter in which the relevant non-cash expenses or
losses were reflected as a charge in the statement of Consolidated
Net Income, all as determined on a consolidated basis. For the
purposes of calculating Consolidated EBITDA for any period of four
consecutive fiscal quarters (each, a “ Reference
Period ”) pursuant to any determination of the
Consolidated Leverage Ratio, (i) if at any time during such
Reference Period the Borrower or any Subsidiary shall have made any
Material Disposition, the Consolidated EBITDA for such Reference
Period shall be reduced by an amount equal to the Consolidated
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 Consolidated EBITDA (if
negative) attributable thereto for such Reference Period and
(ii) notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in
clause (a) of the definition of Consolidated Net Income, if
during such Reference Period the Borrower or any Subsidiary shall
have made a Material Acquisition, Consolidated EBITDA for such
Reference Period shall be calculated after giving pro
forma effect thereto as if such Material Acquisition
occurred on the first day of such Reference Period. As used in this
definition, “Material Acquisition” means any
acquisition of property or series of related acquisitions of
property that (a) 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
(b) involves the payment of consideration by the Borrower and
its Subsidiaries in excess of the Threshold Amount; and
“Material Disposition” means any
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Disposition of
property or series of related Dispositions of property that yields
gross proceeds to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in excess
of $10,000,000.
“
Consolidated Interest Coverage Ratio ” means, as of
any date of determination, the ratio of (a) Consolidated
EBITDA for the period of the four prior fiscal quarters ending on
such date to (b) Consolidated Interest Expense for such
period.
“
Consolidated Interest Expense ” means, for any period,
total cash interest expense (including that attributable to Capital
Lease Obligations) of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for such
period with respect to all outstanding Indebtedness of the Borrower
and its Subsidiaries (including all commissions, discounts and
other fees and charges owed with respect to letters of credit and
bankers’ acceptance financing and net costs under Swap
Contracts (excluding any costs and payments necessary in order to
terminate any Swap Contract) in respect of interest rates to the
extent such net costs are allocable to such period in accordance
with GAAP).
“
Consolidated Leverage Ratio ” means, as of any date of
determination, the ratio of (a) Consolidated Total Debt as of such
date to (b) Consolidated EBITDA for the period of the four
fiscal quarters most recently ended.
“
Consolidated Net Income ” means, for any period, the
consolidated net income (or loss) of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with
GAAP; provided that there shall be excluded (a) the
income (or deficit) of any Person accrued prior to the date it
becomes a Subsidiary of the Borrower or is merged into or
consolidated with the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries,
(b) the income (or deficit) of any Person (other than a
Subsidiary of the Borrower) in which the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries has an ownership interest, except to the extent that
any such income is actually received by the Borrower or such
Subsidiary in the form of cash dividends or similar cash
distributions and (c) the undistributed earnings of any
Subsidiary of the Borrower to the extent that the declaration or
payment of dividends or similar distributions by such Subsidiary is
not at the time permitted by the terms of any Contractual
Obligation (other than under any Loan Document) or Law applicable
to such Subsidiary.
“
Consolidated Total Debt ” means, at any date, the
aggregate principal amount of all Indebtedness of the Borrower and
its Subsidiaries at such date, determined on a consolidated basis
in accordance with GAAP, but in any event, excluding obligations
for undrawn amounts under outstanding letters of credit and
contingent reimbursement obligations under surety bonds.
“
Contractual Obligation ” means, as to any Person, any
provision of any security issued by such Person or of any
agreement, instrument or other undertaking to which such Person is
a party or by which it or any of its property is bound.
“
Control ” means the possession, directly or
indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the
management or policies of a Person, whether through the ability to
exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise. “
Controlling ” and “ Controlled ”
have meanings correlative thereto.
“ Credit
Extension ” means each of the following: (a) a
Borrowing and (b) an L/C Credit Extension.
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“ Debtor
Relief Laws ” means the Bankruptcy Code of the United
States, and all other liquidation, conservatorship, bankruptcy,
assignment for the benefit of creditors, moratorium, rearrangement,
receivership, insolvency, reorganization, or similar debtor relief
Laws of the United States or other applicable jurisdictions from
time to time in effect and affecting the rights of creditors
generally.
“
Default ” means any event or condition that
constitutes an Event of Default or that, with the giving of any
notice, the passage of time, or both, would be an Event of
Default.
“ Default
Rate ” means (a) when used with respect to
Obligations other than Letter of Credit Fees, an interest rate
equal to (i) the Base Rate plus (ii) the
Applicable Rate, if any, applicable to Base Rate Loans plus
(iii) 2% per annum; provided , however , that
with respect to a Eurodollar Rate Loan, the Default Rate shall be
an interest rate equal to the interest rate (including any
Applicable Rate) otherwise applicable to such Loan plus 2% per
annum, and (b) when used with respect to Letter of Credit
Fees, a rate equal to the Applicable Rate plus 2% per
annum.
“
Defaulting Lender ” means any Lender that (a) has
failed to fund any portion of the Committed Loans, participations
in L/C Obligations or participations in Swing Line Loans 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.
“
Disposition ” or “ Dispose ” means
the sale, transfer, or other disposition (including any sale and
leaseback transaction, but excluding any license or operating
lease) of any property by any Person, including any sale,
assignment, transfer or other disposal, with or without recourse,
of any notes or accounts receivable or any rights and claims
associated therewith.
“
Dollar ” and “ $ ” mean lawful
money of the United States.
“
Domestic Subsidiary ” means any Subsidiary that is
organized under the laws of any political subdivision of the United
States.
“
Eligible Assignee ” means any Person that meets the
requirements to be an assignee under
Section 10.06(b)(iii) , (v) and (vi)
(subject to such consents, if any, as may be required under
Section 10.06(b)(iii) ).
“
Eligible Cash Equivalents ” means any of the following
types of Investments:
(a) readily
marketable obligations issued or directly and fully guaranteed or
insured by the United States of America or any agency or
instrumentality thereof having maturities of not more than
360 days from the date of acquisition thereof; provided
that the full faith and credit of the United States of America is
pledged in support thereof;
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(b) time deposits
with, or insured certificates of deposit or bankers’
acceptances of, any commercial bank that (i)(A) is a Lender or
(B) is organized under the laws of the United States of
America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia or is the
principal banking subsidiary of a bank holding company organized
under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof
or the District of Columbia, and is a member of the Federal Reserve
System, (ii) issues (or the parent of which issues) commercial
paper rated as described in clause (c) of this definition
and (iii) has combined capital and surplus of at least
$1,000,000,000, in each case with maturities of not more than
90 days from the date of acquisition thereof;
(c) commercial
paper issued by any Person organized under the laws of any state of
the United States of America and rated at least
“Prime-1” (or the then equivalent grade) by
Moody’s or at least “A-1” (or the then equivalent
grade) by S&P, in each case with maturities of not more than
180 days from the date of acquisition thereof; and
(d) Investments,
classified in accordance with GAAP as current assets of the
Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, in money market investment
programs registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, which
are administered by financial institutions that have the highest
rating obtainable from either Moody’s Investors Service, Inc.
or Standard & Poors Ratings Group, and the portfolios of which
are limited solely to Investments of the character, quality and
maturity described in clauses (a) , (b) and
(c) of this definition.
“
Environmental Laws ” means any and all Federal, state,
local, and foreign statutes, laws, regulations, ordinances, rules,
judgments, orders, decrees, permits, concessions, grants,
franchises, licenses, agreements or governmental restrictions
relating to pollution and the protection of the environment or the
release of any materials into the environment, including those
related to hazardous substances or wastes, air emissions and
discharges to waste or public systems.
“
Environmental Liability ” means any liability,
contingent or otherwise (including any liability for damages, costs
of environmental remediation, fines, penalties or indemnities), of
the Borrower, any other Loan Party or any of their respective
Subsidiaries directly or indirectly resulting from or based upon
(a) violation of any Environmental Law, (b) the
generation, use, handling, transportation, storage, treatment or
disposal of any Hazardous Materials, (c) exposure to any
Hazardous Materials, (d) the release or threatened release of
any Hazardous Materials into the environment or (e) any
contract, agreement or other consensual arrangement pursuant to
which liability is assumed or imposed with respect to any of the
foregoing.
“ Equity
Interests ” means, with respect to any Person, all of the
shares of capital stock of (or other ownership or profit interests
in) such Person, all of the warrants, options or other rights for
the purchase or acquisition from such Person of shares of capital
stock of (or other ownership or profit interests in) such Person,
all of the securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares
of capital stock of (or other ownership or profit interests in)
such Person or warrants, rights or options for the purchase or
acquisition from such Person of such shares (or such other
interests), and all of the other ownership or profit interests in
such Person (including partnership, member
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or trust
interests therein), whether voting or nonvoting, and whether or not
such shares, warrants, options, rights or other interests are
outstanding on any date of determination.
“
ERISA ” means the Employee Retirement Income Security
Act of 1974, as amended and in effect from time to time.
“ ERISA
Affiliate ” means any trade or business (whether or not
incorporated) under common control with the Borrower within the
meaning of Section 414(b) or (c) of the Code (and Sections
414(m) and (o) of the Code for purposes of provisions relating
to Section 412 of the Code).
“ ERISA
Event ” means (a) a Reportable Event with respect to
a Pension Plan; (b) a withdrawal by the Borrower or any ERISA
Affiliate from a Pension Plan subject to Section 4063 of ERISA
during a plan year in which it was a substantial employer (as
defined in Section 4001(a)(2) of ERISA) or a cessation of
operations that is treated as such a withdrawal under Section
4062(e) of ERISA; (c) a complete or partial withdrawal by the
Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate from a Multiemployer Plan or
notification that a Multiemployer Plan is in reorganization within
the meaning of Section 4241 of ERISA; (d) the filing of a
notice of intent to terminate, the treatment of a Plan amendment as
a termination under Section 4041 or 4041A of ERISA, or the
commencement of proceedings by the PBGC to terminate a Pension Plan
or Multiemployer Plan; (e) an event or condition which
constitutes grounds under Section 4042 of ERISA for the
termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any
Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan; or (f) the imposition of
any liability under Title IV of ERISA, other than for PBGC premiums
due but not delinquent under Section 4007 of ERISA, upon the
Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate.
“
Eurodollar Rate ” means, for any Interest Period with
respect to a Eurodollar Rate Loan, the rate per annum equal to the
British Bankers Association LIBOR Rate (“ BBA LIBOR
”), as published by Reuters (or other commercially available
source providing quotations of BBA LIBOR as designated by the
Administrative Agent from time to time) at approximately
11:00 a.m., London time, two Business Days prior to the
commencement of such Interest Period, for Dollar deposits (for
delivery on the first day of such Interest Period) with a term
equivalent to such Interest Period. If such rate is not available
at such time for any reason, then the “Eurodollar Rate”
for such Interest Period shall be the rate per annum determined by
the Administrative Agent to be the rate at which deposits in
Dollars for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period in
same day funds in the approximate amount of the Eurodollar Rate
Loan being made, continued or converted by Bank of America and with
a term equivalent to such Interest Period would be offered by Bank
of America’s London Branch to major banks in the London
interbank eurodollar market at their request at approximately
11:00 a.m. (London time) two Business Days prior to the
commencement of such Interest Period.
“
Eurodollar Rate Loan ” means a Committed Loan that
bears interest at a rate based on the Eurodollar Rate.
“ Event
of Default ” has the meaning specified in
Section 8.01 .
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“
Excluded Foreign Subsidiary ” means any Foreign
Subsidiary in respect of which either (a) the pledge of all of
the Equity Interests of such Subsidiary as Collateral or
(b) the guaranteeing by such Subsidiary of the Obligations
could reasonably be expected to result in adverse tax consequences
to the Borrower.
“
Excluded Property ” means (a) money not in the
possession of the Administrative Agent (other than proceeds of any
of the Collateral) and (b) Equity Interests of any Loan Party
in a Subsidiary that is not wholly-owned by Loan
Parties.
“
Excluded Taxes ” means, with respect to the
Administrative Agent, any Lender, the L/C Issuer or any other
recipient of any payment to be made by or on account of any
obligation of the Borrower hereunder, (a) taxes imposed on or
measured by its overall net income (however denominated), and
franchise taxes imposed on it (in lieu of net income taxes), by the
jurisdiction (or any political subdivision thereof) under the laws
of which such recipient is organized or in which its principal
office is located or, in the case of any Lender, in which its
applicable Lending Office is located, (b) any branch profits
taxes imposed by the United States or any similar tax imposed by
any other jurisdiction in which the Borrower is located and
(c) in the case of a Foreign Lender (other than an assignee
pursuant to a request by the Borrower under Section 10.13 ),
any withholding tax that is imposed on amounts payable to such
Foreign Lender at the time such Foreign Lender becomes a party
hereto (or designates a new Lending Office) or is attributable to
such Foreign Lender’s failure or inability (other than as a
result of a Change in Law) to comply with
Section 3.01(e) , except to the extent that such
Foreign Lender (or its assignor, if any) was entitled, at the time
of designation of a new Lending Office (or assignment), to receive
additional amounts from the Borrower with respect to such
withholding tax pursuant to Section 3.01(a)
.
“
Existing Credit Agreement ” means that certain Credit
Agreement dated as of July 7, 2004, among the Borrower,
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as administrative agent, and a syndicate
of lenders, as amended.
“
Existing Letters of Credit ” means the Letters of
Credit issued under the Existing Credit Agreement (if any)
described on Schedule 1.01 .
“
Facility ” means the Term Facility or the Revolving
Facility, as the context may require.
“ Federal
Funds Rate ” means, for any day, the rate per annum equal
to the weighted average of the rates on overnight Federal funds
transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by
Federal funds brokers on such day, as published by the Federal
Reserve Bank of New York on the Business Day next succeeding such
day; provided that (a) if such day is not a Business
Day, the Federal Funds Rate for such day shall be such rate on such
transactions on the next preceding Business Day as so published on
the next succeeding Business Day, and (b) if no such rate is
so published on such next succeeding Business Day, the Federal
Funds Rate for such day shall be the average rate (rounded upward,
if necessary, to a whole multiple of 1/100 of 1%) charged to Bank
of America on such day on such transactions as determined by the
Administrative Agent.
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“ Fee
Letters ” means, collectively, the Administrative
Agent’s Fee Letter and the Arrangers’ Fee
Letter.
“ Foreign
Lender ” means any Lender that is organized under the
laws of a jurisdiction other than that in which the Borrower is
resident for tax purposes. For purposes of this definition, the
United States, each State thereof and the District of Columbia
shall be deemed to constitute a single jurisdiction.
“ Foreign
Subsidiary ” means any Subsidiary of the Borrower that is
not a Domestic Subsidiary.
“ FRB
” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System
of the United States.
“
Fund ” means any Person (other than a natural person)
that is (or will be) engaged in making, purchasing, holding or
otherwise investing in commercial loans and similar extensions of
credit in the ordinary course of its activities.
“
GAAP ” means generally accepted accounting principles
in the United States set forth in the opinions and pronouncements
of the Accounting Principles Board and the American Institute of
Certified Public Accountants and statements and pronouncements of
the Financial Accounting Standards Board or such other principles
as may be approved by a significant segment of the accounting
profession in the United States, that are applicable to the
circumstances as of the date of determination, consistently
applied.
“
Governmental Authority ” means the government of the
United States or any other nation, or of any political subdivision
thereof, whether state or local, and any agency, authority,
instrumentality, regulatory body, court, central bank or other
entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing,
regulatory or administrative powers or functions of or pertaining
to government (including any supra-national bodies such as the
European Union or the European Central Bank).
“
GroupEx ” means GroupEx Financial Corporation, a
Delaware corporation.
“
Guarantee ” means, as to any Person, (a) any
obligation, contingent or otherwise, of such Person guaranteeing or
having the economic effect of guaranteeing any Indebtedness or
other obligation payable or performable by another Person (the
“primary obligor”) in any manner, whether directly or
indirectly, and including any obligation of such Person, direct or
indirect, (i) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds
for the purchase or payment of) such Indebtedness or other
obligation, (ii) to purchase or lease property, securities or
services for the purpose of assuring the obligee in respect of such
Indebtedness or other obligation of the payment or performance of
such Indebtedness or other obligation, (iii) to maintain
working capital, equity capital or any other financial statement
condition or liquidity or level of income or cash flow of the
primary obligor so as to enable the primary obligor to pay such
Indebtedness or other obligation, or (iv) entered into for the
purpose of assuring in any other manner the obligee in respect of
such Indebtedness or other obligation of the payment or performance
thereof or to protect such obligee against loss in respect thereof
(in whole or in part), or (b) any Lien on any assets of such
Person securing any Indebtedness or other obligation of any other
Person, whether
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or not such
Indebtedness or other obligation is assumed by such Person (or any
right, contingent or otherwise, of any holder of such Indebtedness
to obtain any such Lien). The amount of any Guarantee shall be
deemed to be an amount equal to the stated or determinable
outstanding amount of the related primary obligation, or portion
thereof, in respect of which such Guarantee is made or, if not
stated or determinable, the maximum reasonably anticipated
liability in respect thereof as determined by the guaranteeing
Person in good faith. The term “Guarantee” as a verb
has a corresponding meaning.
“
Guarantee and Collateral Agreement ” means the
Guarantee and Collateral Agreement made by Borrower and the
Guarantors in favor of the Administrative Agent and the Secured
Parties, substantially in the form of Exhibit F
.
“
Guarantors ” means, collectively, all material
wholly-owned Subsidiaries (other than Excluded Foreign
Subsidiaries) of the Borrower that are parties to the Guarantee and
Collateral Agreement.
“
Hazardous Materials ” means all explosive or
radioactive substances or wastes and all hazardous or toxic
substances, wastes or other pollutants, including petroleum or
petroleum distillates, asbestos or asbestos-containing materials,
polychlorinated biphenyls, radon gas, infectious or medical wastes
and all other substances or wastes of any nature regulated pursuant
to any Environmental Law.
“
Impacted Lender ” means a Defaulting Lender or a
Lender (a) as to which an entity that controls such Lender has
become insolvent or become subject to a bankruptcy or other similar
proceeding or (b) which has defaulted in fulfilling, and
continues to remain in default in fulfilling, its obligations under
one or more other credit facilities.
“
Increase Effective Date ” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.14 .
“
Indebtedness ” means, as to any Person at a particular
time, without duplication, all of the following, whether or not
included as indebtedness or liabilities in accordance with
GAAP:
(a) all
obligations of such Person for borrowed money and all obligations
of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes, loan
agreements or other similar instruments;
(b) all direct or
contingent obligations of such Person arising under letters of
credit (including standby and commercial), bankers’
acceptances, bank guaranties, surety bonds and similar
instruments;
(c) net
obligations of such Person under all Swap Contracts;
(d) all
obligations of such Person to pay the deferred purchase price of
property or services (other than trade accounts payable in the
ordinary course of business);
(e) indebtedness
(excluding prepaid interest thereon) secured by a Lien on property
owned or being purchased by such Person (including indebtedness
arising under
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conditional
sales or other title retention agreements), whether or not such
indebtedness shall have been assumed by such Person or is limited
in recourse;
(f) capital leases
and Synthetic Lease Obligations;
(g) all
obligations of such Person to purchase, redeem, retire, defease or
otherwise make any payment in respect of any Equity Interest in
such Person or any other Person, valued, in the case of a
redeemable preferred interest, at the greater of its voluntary or
involuntary liquidation preference plus accrued and unpaid
dividends; and
(h) all Guarantees
of such Person in respect of any of the foregoing.
For all purposes
hereof, the Indebtedness of any Person shall include the
Indebtedness of any general partnership or limited partnership or
joint venture (other than a joint venture that is itself a
corporation or limited liability company) in which such Person is a
general partner or a joint venturer, unless such Indebtedness is
non-recourse to such Person by contract or operation of law. The
amount of any net obligation under any Swap Contract on any date
shall be deemed to be the Swap Termination Value thereof as of such
date. The amount of any capital lease or Synthetic Lease Obligation
as of any date shall be deemed to be the amount of Attributable
Indebtedness in respect thereof as of such date.
“
Indemnified Taxes ” means Taxes other than Excluded
Taxes.
“
Indemnitees ” has the meaning specified in
Section 10.04(b) .
“
Information ” has the meaning specified in
Section 10.07 .
“
Interest Payment Date ” means, (a) as to any Loan
other than a Base Rate Loan, the last day of each Interest Period
applicable to such Loan and the applicable Maturity Date;
provided , however , that if any Interest Period for
a Eurodollar Rate Loan exceeds three months, the respective dates
that fall every three months after the beginning of such Interest
Period shall also be Interest Payment Dates; and (b) as to any
Base Rate Loan (including a Swing Line Loan), the last Business Day
of each March, June, September and December and the applicable
Maturity Date.
“
Interest Period ” means, as to each Eurodollar Rate
Loan, the period commencing on the date such Eurodollar Rate Loan
is disbursed or converted to or continued as a Eurodollar Rate Loan
and ending on the date one, two, three or six months thereafter, as
selected by the Borrower in its Committed Loan Notice;
provided that:
(i) any Interest
Period that would otherwise end on a day that is not a Business Day
shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless such
Business Day falls in another calendar month, in which case such
Interest Period shall end on the next preceding Business
Day;
(ii) 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
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month at the
end of such Interest Period) shall end on the last Business Day of
the calendar month at the end of such Interest Period;
and
(iii) no Interest
Period shall extend beyond the applicable Maturity Date.
“
Investment ” means, as to any Person, any direct or
indirect acquisition or investment by such Person, whether by means
of (a) the purchase or other acquisition of capital stock or
other securities of another Person, (b) a loan, advance or
capital contribution to, Guarantee or assumption of debt of, or
purchase or other acquisition of any other debt or equity
participation or interest in, another Person, including any
partnership or joint venture interest in such other Person and any
arrangement pursuant to which the investor Guarantees Indebtedness
of such other Person, or (c) the purchase or other acquisition
(in one transaction or a series of transactions) of assets of
another Person that constitute a business unit. For purposes of
covenant compliance, the amount of any Investment shall be the
amount actually invested, without adjustment for subsequent
increases or decreases in the value of such Investment.
“ IP
Rights ” has the meaning specified in
Section 5.18 .
“ IRS
” means the United States Internal Revenue
Service.
“ ISP
” means, with respect to any Letter of Credit, the
“International Standby Practices 1998” published by the
Institute of International Banking Law & Practice, Inc. (or
such later version thereof as may be in effect at the time of
issuance).
“ Issuer
Documents ” means with respect to any Letter of Credit,
the Letter of Credit Application, and any other document, agreement
and instrument entered into by the L/C Issuer and the Borrower (or
any Subsidiary) or in favor of the L/C Issuer and relating to such
Letter of Credit.
“
Laws ” means, collectively, all international,
foreign, Federal, state and local statutes, treaties, rules,
guidelines, regulations, ordinances, codes and administrative or
judicial precedents or authorities, including the interpretation or
administration thereof by any Governmental Authority charged with
the enforcement, interpretation or administration thereof, and all
applicable administrative orders, directed duties, requests,
licenses, authorizations and permits of, and agreements with, any
Governmental Authority, in each case whether or not having the
force of law.
“ L/C
Advance ” means, with respect to each Revolving Lender,
such Revolving Lender’s funding of its participation in any
L/C Borrowing in accordance with its Applicable
Percentage.
“ L/C
Borrowing ” means an extension of credit resulting from a
drawing under any Letter of Credit which has not been reimbursed on
the date when made or refinanced as a Committed
Borrowing.
“ L/C
Credit Extension ” means, with respect to any Letter of
Credit, the issuance thereof or extension of the expiry date
thereof, or the increase of the amount thereof.
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“ L/C
Issuer ” means Bank of America in its capacity as issuer
of Letters of Credit hereunder, or any successor issuer of Letters
of Credit hereunder; provided that another Lender may be the issuer
of a particular Letter of Credit under the circumstances set forth
in Section 2.02(a)(iii)(B) .
“ L/C
Obligations ” means, as at any date of determination, the
aggregate amount available to be drawn under all outstanding
Letters of Credit plus the aggregate of all Unreimbursed
Amounts, including all L/C Borrowings. For purposes of computing
the amount available to be drawn under any Letter of Credit, the
amount of such Letter of Credit shall be determined in accordance
with Section 1.06 . For all purposes of this Agreement,
if on any date of determination a Letter of Credit has expired by
its terms but any amount may still be drawn thereunder by reason of
the operation of Rule 3.14 of the ISP, such Letter of Credit
shall be deemed to be “outstanding” in the amount so
remaining available to be drawn.
“
Lender ” has the meaning specified in the introductory
paragraph hereto and, as the context requires, means or includes a
Revolving Lender, a Term Lender or the Swing Line
Lender.
“ Lender
Swap Contracts ” means all Swap Contracts made or entered
into at any time, or in effect at any time, whether directly or
indirectly, and whether as a result of assignment or transfer or
otherwise, between the Borrower or any Subsidiary and any Lender
Swap Provider.
“ Lender
Swap Provider ” means any Lender or Affiliate of a Lender
that is a party to a Swap Contract with the Borrower or any
Subsidiary, in its capacity as party to such Swap Contract;
provided , however , that in the event that such
Person ceases to be a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender, such
Person shall no longer be a “Lender Swap
Provider.”
“ Lending
Office ” means, as to any Lender, the office or offices
of such Lender described as such in such Lender’s
Administrative Questionnaire, or such other office or offices as a
Lender may from time to time notify the Borrower and the
Administrative Agent.
“ Letter
of Credit ” means any standby letter of credit issued
hereunder and shall include the Existing Letters of
Credit.
“ Letter
of Credit Application ” means an application and
agreement for the issuance or amendment of a Letter of Credit in
the form from time to time in use by the L/C Issuer.
“ Letter
of Credit Expiration Date ” means the day that is seven
days prior to the Maturity Date then in effect for the Revolving
Facility (or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next preceding
Business Day).
“ Letter
of Credit Fee ” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.03(i) .
“ Letter
of Credit Sublimit ” means an amount equal to
$50,000,000. The Letter of Credit Sublimit is part of, and not in
addition to, the Aggregate Revolving Commitments.
“
Lien ” means any mortgage, pledge, hypothecation,
assignment, deposit arrangement, encumbrance, lien (statutory or
other), charge, or preference, priority or other security interest
or
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preferential
arrangement in the nature of a security interest of any kind or
nature whatsoever (including any conditional sale or other title
retention agreement, any easement, right of way or other
encumbrance on title to real property, and any financing lease
having substantially the same economic effect as any of the
foregoing).
“
Loan ” means an extension of credit by a Lender to the
Borrower under Article II in the form of a Committed Loan or
a Swing Line Loan.
“ Loan
Documents ” means this Agreement, each Note, each Issuer
Document, each Fee Letter, the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement,
and each other Collateral Document.
“ Loan
Parties ” means, collectively, the Borrower and each
Guarantor.
“
Material Adverse Effect ” means (a) a material
adverse change in, or a material adverse effect upon, the
operations, business, assets, properties, condition (financial or
otherwise) or prospects of the Borrower or the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries taken as a whole; (b) a material impairment of the
ability of any Loan Party to perform its obligations under any Loan
Document to which it is a party (other than an adverse change in
the financial condition of one or more Guarantors so long as there
has been no material adverse effect upon the financial condition of
the Borrower or the Borrower and its Subsidiaries taken as a
whole); or (c) a material adverse effect upon the legality,
validity, binding effect or enforceability against any Loan Party
of any Loan Document to which it is a party.
“
Material Subsidiary ” means a Subsidiary (other than
an Excluded Foreign Subsidiary) whose consolidated assets or
revenues as of the end of the most recently ended fiscal year or
for such fiscal year, as the case may be, exceeded 10% of the
consolidated assets or revenues of the Borrower as of the end of
such fiscal year or for such fiscal year, as the case may
be.
“
Maturity Date ” means (a) with respect to the
Revolving Facility, November 20, 2012 and (b) with
respect to the Term Facility, April 29, 2011.
“
Mortgage ” means each of the mortgages and deeds of
trust made by any Loan Party in favor of, or for the benefit of,
the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties,
substantially in a form which is reasonably acceptable to the
Administrative Agent (with such changes thereto as shall be
advisable under the law of the jurisdiction in which such mortgage
or deed of trust is to be recorded).
“
Multiemployer Plan ” means any employee benefit plan
of the type described in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA, to which the
Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate makes or is obligated to make
contributions, or during the preceding five plan years, has made or
been obligated to make contributions.
“
Note ” means a promissory note made by the Borrower in
favor of a Lender evidencing Loans made by such Lender,
substantially in the form of Exhibit C-1 or C-2
, as applicable.
“
Obligations ” means all advances to, and debts,
liabilities, obligations, covenants and duties of, any Loan Party
arising under any Loan Document or otherwise with respect to any
Loan or Letter of Credit, whether direct or indirect (including
those acquired by assumption),
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absolute or
contingent, due or to become due, now existing or hereafter
arising; provided , that all references to the
“ Obligations ” in the Collateral Documents
shall, in addition to the foregoing, also include all present and
future indebtedness, liabilities and obligations of the Borrower or
any Subsidiary pursuant to any Lender Swap Contract or any Cash
Management Agreement; in each case including interest and fees that
accrue after the commencement by or against any Loan Party or any
Affiliate thereof of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Laws
naming such Person as the debtor in such proceeding, regardless of
whether such interest and fees are allowed claims in such
proceeding.
“
Organization Documents ” means, (a) with respect
to any corporation, the certificate or articles of incorporation
and the bylaws (or equivalent or comparable constitutive documents
with respect to any non-U.S. jurisdiction); (b) with respect
to any limited liability company, the certificate or articles of
formation or organization and operating agreement; and
(c) with respect to any partnership, joint venture, trust or
other form of business entity, the partnership, joint venture or
other applicable agreement of formation or organization and any
agreement, instrument, filing or notice with respect thereto filed
in connection with its formation or organization with the
applicable Governmental Authority in the jurisdiction of its
formation or organization and, if applicable, any certificate or
articles of formation or organization of such entity.
“
Original Agreement ” has the meaning specified in the
Preamble hereto.
“ Other
Taxes ” means all present or future stamp or documentary
taxes or any other excise or property taxes, charges or similar
levies arising from any payment made hereunder or under any other
Loan Document or from the execution, delivery or enforcement of, or
otherwise with respect to, this Agreement or any other Loan
Document.
“
Outstanding Amount ” means (i) with respect to
Committed Loans and Swing Line Loans on any date, the aggregate
outstanding principal amount thereof after giving effect to any
borrowings and prepayments or repayments of Committed Loans and
Swing Line Loans, as the case may be, occurring on such date; and
(ii) with respect to any L/C Obligations on any date, the
amount of such L/C Obligations on such date after giving effect to
any L/C Credit Extension occurring on such date and any other
changes in the aggregate amount of the L/C Obligations as of such
date, including as a result of any reimbursements by the Borrower
of Unreimbursed Amounts.
“
Participant ” has the meaning specified in
Section 10.06(d) .
“
PBGC ” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty
Corporation.
“ Pension
Plan ” means any “employee pension benefit
plan” (as such term is defined in Section 3(2) of
ERISA), other than a Multiemployer Plan, that is subject to Title
IV of ERISA and is sponsored or maintained by the Borrower or any
ERISA Affiliate or to which the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate
contributes or has an obligation to contribute, or in the case of a
multiple employer or other plan described in Section 4064(a) of
ERISA, has made contributions at any time during the immediately
preceding five plan years.
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“
Permitted Acquisition ” means an acquisition of all or
substantially all of the assets or of the assets constituting a
line of business or greater than 50% of the Equity Interests of any
Person where (a) no Default or Event of Default shall have
occurred and be continuing on the date such Permitted Acquisition
is consummated, before or after giving effect thereto, (b) the
business acquired (or Person acquired) is principally engaged in
the same line of business (or a business reasonably incidental or
complementary thereto) as the Borrower, (c) for any
acquisition for which the fair market value of the consideration to
be paid (including the amount of any Indebtedness or other
obligations or liabilities assumed or acquired, but excluding any
Equity Interests of the Borrower issued in connection therewith
(other than any Equity Interests that any Loan Party is or, upon
the passage of time or the occurrence of any event, may become
obligated to redeem, purchase, retire, defease or otherwise make
any payment in respect thereof)) exceeds the Threshold Amount, the
Borrower shall have demonstrated to the Administrative Agent
compliance with the covenants set forth in Section 7.12
(i) on a pro forma basis (calculated for the
relevant period set forth in Section 7.12 as of the
date of such acquisition as if such acquisition had occurred on the
first day of the relevant period), for the most recent full fiscal
quarter immediately preceding such consummation date for which the
relevant financial information has been delivered pursuant to
Section 6.01 and (ii) on a projected basis, for
each of the four fiscal quarters following the quarter referred to
in the preceding clause (i) , (d) for any acquisition
for which the fair market value of the consideration to be paid
(including the amount of any Indebtedness or other obligations or
liabilities assumed or acquired, but excluding any Equity Interests
of the Borrower issued in connection therewith (other than any
Equity Interests that any Loan Party is or, upon the passage of
time or the occurrence of any event, may become obligated to
redeem, purchase, retire, defease or otherwise make any payment in
respect thereof)) exceeds the Threshold Amount, the Borrower shall
have delivered to the Administrative Agent for itself and for
distribution to each Lender copies of the most recent audited
financial statements (or if unavailable, the most recent unaudited
financial statements) of the acquired Person together with such
other information that the Administrative Agent may reasonably
request, (e) the fair market value of the consideration paid
(including the amount of any Indebtedness or other obligations or
liabilities assumed or acquired, but excluding any Equity Interests
of the Borrower issued in connection therewith (other than any
Equity Interests that any Loan Party is or, upon the passage of
time or the occurrence of any event, may become obligated to
redeem, purchase, retire, defease or otherwise make any payment in
respect thereof)) in connection with such Permitted Acquisition
together with that for other Permitted Acquisitions during the same
fiscal year of the Borrower (excluding the acquisition of GroupEx),
shall not be in excess of 50% of Consolidated EBITDA for the
previous four fiscal quarters (the “ Annual Permitted
Acquisitions Amount ”); provided that, for any
acquisition for which the fair market value of the consideration to
be paid (including the amount of any Indebtedness or other
obligations or liabilities assumed or acquired, but excluding any
Equity Interests of the Borrower issued in connection therewith
(other than any Equity Interests that any Loan Party is or, upon
the passage of time or the occurrence of any event, may become
obligated to redeem, purchase, retire, defease or otherwise make
any payment in respect thereof)) exceeds the Threshold Amount, a
Responsible Officer of the Borrower shall have delivered to the
Administrative Agent a Pro Forma Compliance Certificate;
provided , further, that the acquisition of GroupEx shall be
deemed to be a Permitted Acquisition but shall not otherwise be
subject to the requirements and limitations of this definition;
provided , further, that for the Borrower’s 2009
fiscal year, an acquisition, or acquisitions, of all or
substantially all of the assets or of the assets constituting
a
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line of
business or of greater than 50% of the Equity Interests of any
Person shall be deemed to be a Permitted Acquisition even if
clauses (c) , (d) , and/or (e) above are not
satisfied, so long as the fair market value of the consideration to
be paid in connection with all such acquisitions (including the
amount of any Indebtedness or other obligations or liabilities
assumed or acquired, but excluding any Equity Interests of the
Borrower issued in connection therewith (other than any Equity
Interests that any Loan Party is or, upon the passage of time or
the occurrence of any event, may become obligated to redeem,
purchase, retire, defease or otherwise make any payment in respect
thereof)) does not exceed $15,000,000 in the aggregate. “Pro
Forma Compliance Certificate” means a certificate to the
Administrative Agent certifying as to the accuracy of clauses
(a) through (e) above and providing a detailed
computation of compliance with clause (c) above.
“
Person ” means any natural person, corporation,
limited liability company, trust, joint venture, association,
company, partnership, Governmental Authority or other
entity.
“
Placement Fees ” means the upfront fees paid by the
Borrower to certain vendors in consideration for the placement of
its coin-operated amusement vending equipment at the retail
locations owned or operated by such vendors.
“
Plan ” means any “employee benefit plan”
(as such term is defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) established
by the Borrower or, with respect to any such plan that is subject
to Section 412 of the Code or Title IV of ERISA, any ERISA
Affiliate.
“
Platform ” has the meaning specified in
Section 6.02 .
“ Public
Lender ” has the meaning specified in
Section 6.02 .
“
Redbox ” means Redbox Automated Retail, LLC, a
Delaware limited liability company.
“
Register ” has the meaning specified in
Section 10.06(c) .
“ Related
Parties ” means, with respect to any Person, such
Person’s Affiliates and the partners, directors, officers,
employees, agents and advisors of such Person and of such
Person’s Affiliates.
“
Reportable Event ” means any of the events set forth
in Section 4043(c) of ERISA, other than events for which the
30 day notice period has been waived.
“ Request
for Credit Extension ” means (a) with respect to a
Borrowing, conversion or continuation of Committed Loans, a
Committed Loan Notice, (b) with respect to an L/C Credit
Extension, a Letter of Credit Application, and (c) with
respect to a Swing Line Loan, a Swing Line Loan Notice.
“
Required Lenders ” means, as of any date of
determination, Lenders having more than 50% of the Aggregate
Commitments or, if the commitment of each Lender to make Loans and
the obligation of the L/C Issuer to make L/C Credit Extensions have
been terminated pursuant to Section 8.02 , Lenders
holding in the aggregate more than 50% of the Total Outstandings
(with the aggregate amount of each Lender’s risk
participation and funded participation in L/C
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Obligations and
Swing Line Loans being deemed “held” by such Lender for
purposes of this definition); provided that the Commitment
of, and the portion of the Total Outstandings held or deemed held
by, any Defaulting Lender shall be excluded for purposes of making
a determination of Required Lenders.
“
Responsible Officer ” means the chief executive
officer, president, chief financial officer, treasurer or assistant
treasurer of a Loan Party. Any document delivered hereunder that is
signed by a Responsible Officer of a Loan Party shall be
conclusively presumed to have been authorized by all necessary
corporate, partnership and/or other action on the part of such Loan
Party and such Responsible Officer shall be conclusively presumed
to have acted on behalf of such Loan Party.
“
Restricted Payment ” means any dividend or other
distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property) with
respect to any capital stock or other Equity Interest of the
Borrower or any Subsidiary, or any payment (whether in cash,
securities or other property), including any sinking fund or
similar deposit, on account of the purchase, redemption,
retirement, acquisition, cancellation or termination of any such
capital stock or other Equity Interest, or on account of any return
of capital to the Borrower’s stockholders, partners or
members (or the equivalent Person thereof).
“
Revolving Commitment ” means as to each Revolving
Lender, its obligation to (a) make Committed Revolving Loans
to the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.01(a) ,
(b) purchase participations in L/C Obligations, and
(c) purchase participations in Swing Line Loans, in an
aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding not to
exceed the amount set forth opposite such Lender’s name on
Schedule 2.01(a) under the caption “Revolving
Commitment” or opposite such caption in the Assignment and
Assumption pursuant to which such Revolving Lender becomes a party
hereto, as applicable, as such amount may be adjusted from time to
time in accordance with this Agreement.
“
Revolving Facility ” means, at any time, the aggregate
amount of the Revolving Lenders’ Revolving Commitments at
such time or, if the Revolving Lenders’ Revolving Commitments
have been terminated pursuant to Section 8.02 , the
Total Outstandings under the Revolving Facility at such
time.
“
Revolving Lender ” means, at any time, any Lender that
has a Revolving Commitment at such time or, if such Revolving
Commitment has been terminated pursuant to Section 8.02
, any Lender that holds Total Outstandings under the Revolving
Facility (with such Lender’s risk participations and funded
participations in L/C Obligations and Swing Line Loans being deemed
“held” by such Lender for purposes of this
definition).
“ Risk
Participation Cash Collateral ” means, with respect to
any Letter of Credit, the pledge and deposit with or delivery to
the Administrative Agent of, for the benefit of the L/C Issuer, as
collateral, cash or deposit account balances in an amount equal to
(a) the Applicable Percentage of each Impacted Lender times
(b) the amount available to be drawn under such Letter of
Credit, pursuant to documentation in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the L/C Issuer (which
documents are hereby consented to by the Lenders).
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“ SEC
” means the Securities and Exchange Commission, or any
Governmental Authority succeeding to any of its principal
functions.
“ Secured
Parties ” means, collectively, the Administrative Agent,
the Lenders, the L/C Issuer, the Lender Swap Providers, the Cash
Management Banks and the other Persons the Obligations owing to
which are or are purported to be secured by the Collateral under
the terms of the Collateral Documents.
“
Solvent ” and “ Solvency ” mean,
with respect to any Person on any date of determination, that on
such date (a) the fair value of the property of such Person is
greater than the total amount of liabilities, including contingent
liabilities, of such Person, (b) the present fair salable
value of the assets of such Person is not less than the amount that
will be required to pay the probable liability of such Person on
its debts as they become absolute and matured, (c) such Person does
not intend to, and does not believe that it will, incur debts or
liabilities beyond such Person’s ability to pay such debts
and liabilities as they mature, (d) such Person is not engaged
in business or a transaction, and is not about to engage in
business or a transaction, for which such Person’s property
would constitute an unreasonably small capital, and (e) such
Person is able to pay its debts and liabilities, contingent
obligations and other commitments as they mature in the ordinary
course of business. The amount of contingent liabilities at any
time shall be computed as the amount that, in the light of all the
facts and circumstances existing at such time, represents the
amount that can reasonably be expected to become an actual or
matured liability, taking into account rights of contribution,
subrogation and reimbursement with respect to such contingent
liabilities.
“
Subsidiary ” of a Person means a corporation,
partnership, joint venture, limited liability company or other
business entity of which a majority of the shares of securities or
other interests having ordinary voting power for the election of
directors or other governing body (other than securities or
interests having such power only by reason of the happening of a
contingency) are at the time beneficially owned, or the management
of which is otherwise controlled, directly, or indirectly through
one or more intermediaries, or both, by such Person. Unless
otherwise specified, all references herein to a
“Subsidiary” or to “Subsidiaries” shall
refer to a Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of the Borrower.
“ Swap
Contract ” means (a) any and all rate swap
transactions, basis swaps, credit derivative transactions, forward
rate transactions, commodity swaps, commodity options, forward
commodity contracts, equity or equity index swaps or options, bond
or bond price or bond index swaps or options or forward bond or
forward bond price or forward bond index transactions, interest
rate options, forward foreign exchange transactions, cap
transactions, floor transactions, collar transactions, currency
swap transactions, cross-currency rate swap transactions, currency
options, spot contracts, or any other similar transactions or any
combination of any of the foregoing (including any options to enter
into any of the foregoing), whether or not any such transaction is
governed by or subject to any master agreement, and (b) any
and all transactions of any kind, and the related confirmations,
which are subject to the terms and conditions of, or governed by,
any form of master agreement published by the International Swaps
and Derivatives Association, Inc., any International Foreign
Exchange Master Agreement, or any other master agreement (any such
master agreement, together with any related schedules,
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a “
Master Agreement ”), including any such obligations or
liabilities under any Master Agreement.
“ Swap
Termination Value ” means, in respect of any one or more
Swap Contracts, after taking into account the effect of any legally
enforceable netting agreement relating to such Swap Contracts,
(a) for any date on or after the date such Swap Contracts have
been closed out and termination value(s) determined in accordance
therewith, such termination value(s), and (b) for any date
prior to the date referenced in clause (a), the amount(s)
determined as the mark-to-market value(s) for such Swap Contracts,
as determined based upon one or more mid-market or other readily
available quotations provided by any recognized dealer in such Swap
Contracts (which may include a Lender or any Affiliate of a
Lender).
“ Swing
Line Borrowing ” means a borrowing of a Swing Line Loan
pursuant to Section 2.04 .
“ Swing
Line Lender ” means Bank of America in its capacity as
provider of Swing Line Loans, or any successor swing line lender
hereunder.
“ Swing
Line Loan ” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.04(a) .
“ Swing
Line Loan Notice ” means a notice of a Swing Line
Borrowing pursuant to Section 2.04(b) , which, if in
writing, shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit B
.
“ Swing
Line Sublimit ” means an amount equal to the lesser of
(a) $25,000,000 and (b) the Aggregate Revolving Commitments. The
Swing Line Sublimit is part of, and not in addition to, the
Aggregate Revolving Commitments.
“
Synthetic Lease Obligation ” means the monetary
obligation of a Person under (a) a so-called synthetic,
off-balance sheet or tax retention lease, or (b) an agreement
for the use or possession of property creating obligations that do
not appear on the balance sheet of such Person but which, upon the
insolvency or bankruptcy of such Person, would be characterized as
the indebtedness of such Person (without regard to accounting
treatment).
“
Taxes ” means all present or future taxes, levies,
imposts, duties, deductions, withholdings, assessments, fees or
other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority, including any
interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable
thereto.
“ Term
Commitment ” means, as to each Term Lender, its
obligation to make a Committed Term Loan to the Borrower pursuant
to Section 2.01(b) in a principal amount not to exceed
the amount set forth opposite such Term Lender’s name on
Schedule 2.01(b) under the caption “Term
Commitment”, as such amount may be adjusted from time to time
in accordance with this Agreement.
“ Term
Facility ” means, at any time, (a) on or prior to
the Amendment and Restatement Effective Date, the aggregate amount
of the Term Commitments at such time and (b) thereafter, the
aggregate principal amount of the Committed Term Loans of all Term
Lenders outstanding at such time.
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“ Term
Lender ” means (a) at any time on or prior to the
Amendment and Restatement Effective Date, any Lender that has a
Term Commitment at such time and (b) at any time after the
Amendment and Restatement Effective Date, any Lender that holds
Committed Term Loans at such time.
“
Threshold Amount ” means $15,000,000.
“ Total
Outstandings ” means (a) in respect of the Revolving
Facility, the aggregate Outstanding Amount of all Committed
Revolving Loans, all Swing Line Loans and all L/C Obligations and
(b) in respect of the Term Facility, the aggregate Outstanding
Amount of all Committed Term Loans.
“
Type ” means, with respect to a Committed Loan, its
character as a Base Rate Loan or a Eurodollar Rate Loan.
“ UCC
” means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in the State
of New York; provided that, if perfection or the effect of
perfection or non-perfection or the priority of any security
interest in any Collateral is governed by the Uniform Commercial
Code as in effect in a jurisdiction other than the State of New
York, “ UCC ” means the Uniform Commercial Code
as in effect from time to time in such other jurisdiction for
purposes of the provisions hereof relating to such perfection,
effect of perfection or non-perfection or priority.
“
Unfunded Pension Liability ” means the excess of a
Pension Plan’s benefit liabilities under
Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA, over the current value of that
Pension Plan’s assets, determined in accordance with the
assumptions used for funding the Pension Plan pursuant to Section
412 of the Code for the applicable plan year.
“ United
States ” and “ U.S. ” mean the United
States of America.
“
Unreimbursed Amount ” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.03(c)(i) .
1.02 Other
Interpretive Provisions. With reference to this Agreement and
each other Loan Document, unless otherwise specified herein or in
such other Loan Document:
(a) The
definitions of terms herein shall apply equally to the singular and
plural forms of the terms defined. Whenever the context may
require, any pronoun shall include the corresponding masculine,
feminine and neuter forms. The words “ include
,” “ includes ” and “
including ” shall be deemed to be followed by the
phrase “without limitation.” The word “
will ” shall be construed to have the same meaning and
effect as the word “ shall .” Unless the context
requires otherwise, (i) any definition of or reference to any
agreement, instrument or other document (including any Organization
Document) shall be construed as referring to such agreement,
instrument or other document as from time to time amended,
supplemented or otherwise modified (subject to any restrictions on
such amendments, supplements or modifications set forth herein or
in any other Loan Document), (ii) any reference herein to any
Person shall be construed to include such Person’s successors
and assigns, (iii) the words “ herein ,”
“ hereof ” and “ hereunder ,”
and words of similar import when used in any Loan Document, shall
be construed to refer to such Loan Document in its entirety and not
to any particular provision thereof, (iv) all
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references in a
Loan Document to Articles, Sections, Exhibits and Schedules shall
be construed to refer to Articles and Sections of, and Exhibits and
Schedules to, the Loan Document in which such references appear,
(v) any reference to any law shall include all statutory and
regulatory provisions consolidating, amending, replacing or
interpreting such law and any reference to any law or regulation
shall, unless otherwise specified, refer to such law or regulation
as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time,
(vi) the words “ asset ” and “
property ” shall be construed to have the same meaning
and effect and to refer to any and all tangible and intangible
assets and properties, including cash, securities, accounts and
contract rights and (viii) any reference to any currency or
amount shall be a reference to the lawful currency of the United
States or amount of such currency, as the case may be.
(b) In the
computation of periods of time from a specified date to a later
specified date, the word “ from ” means “
from and including ;” the words “ to
” and “ until ” each mean “ to
but excluding ;” and the word “ through
” means “ to and including .”
(c) Section
headings herein and in the other Loan Documents are included for
convenience of reference only and shall not affect the
interpretation of this Agreement or any other Loan
Document.
1.03
Accounting Terms. (a) Generally . All accounting terms
not specifically or completely defined herein shall be construed in
conformity with, and all financial data (including financial ratios
and other financial calculations) required to be submitted pursuant
to this Agreement shall be prepared in conformity with, GAAP
applied on a consistent basis, as in effect from time to time,
applied in a manner consistent with that used in preparing the
Audited Financial Statements, except as otherwise
specifically prescribed herein.
(b)
Changes in GAAP . If at any time any change in GAAP would
affect the computation of any financial ratio or requirement set
forth in any Loan Document, and either the Borrower or the Required
Lenders shall so request, the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and
the Borrower shall negotiate in good faith to amend such ratio or
requirement to preserve the original intent thereof in light of
such change in GAAP (subject to the approval of the Required
Lenders); provided that, until so amended, (i) such
ratio or requirement shall continue to be computed in accordance
with GAAP prior to such change therein and (ii) the Borrower
shall provide to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders financial
statements and other documents required under this Agreement or as
reasonably requested hereunder setting forth a reconciliation
between calculations of such ratio or requirement made before and
after giving effect to such change in GAAP.
1.04
Rounding. Any financial ratios required to be maintained by the
Borrower pursuant to this Agreement shall be calculated by dividing
the appropriate component by the other component, carrying the
result to one place more than the number of places by which such
ratio is expressed herein and rounding the result up or down to the
nearest number (with a rounding-up if there is no nearest
number).
1.05 Times of
Day. Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to times
of day shall be references to Central time (daylight or standard,
as applicable).
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1.06 Letter of
Credit Amounts. Unless otherwise specified herein, the amount
of a Letter of Credit at any time shall be deemed to be the stated
amount of such Letter of Credit in effect at such time;
provided , however , that with respect to any Letter
of Credit that, by its terms or the terms of any Issuer Document
related thereto, provides for one or more automatic increases in
the stated amount thereof, the amount of such Letter of Credit
shall be deemed to be the maximum stated amount of such Letter of
Credit after giving effect to all such increases, whether or not
such maximum stated amount is in effect at such time.
ARTICLE II.
THE COMMITMENTS AND CREDIT EXTENSIONS
2.01 Committed
Loans. (a) Subject to the terms and conditions set forth
herein, each Revolving Lender severally agrees to make loans (each
such loan, a “ Committed Revolving Loan
”) to the Borrower from time to time, on any Business Day
during the Availability Period, in an aggregate amount not to
exceed at any time outstanding the amount of such Revolving
Lender’s Revolving Commitment; provided ,
however , that after giving effect to any Committed
Borrowing, (i) the Total Outstandings in respect of the
Revolving Facility shall not exceed the Aggregate Revolving
Commitments, and (ii) the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the
Committed Revolving Loans of any Revolving Lender, plus such
Revolving Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the Outstanding
Amount of all L/C Obligations, plus such Revolving
Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the Outstanding Amount of
all Swing Line Loans shall not exceed such Revolving Lender’s
Revolving Commitment. Within the limits of each Revolving
Lender’s Revolving Commitment, and subject to the other terms
and conditions hereof, the Borrower may borrow under this
Section 2.01(a) , prepay under Section 2.05
, and reborrow under this Section 2.01(a) . Committed
Revolving Loans may be Base Rate Loans or Eurodollar Rate Loans, as
further provided herein.
(b) Subject
to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Term Lender
severally agrees to make a single loan (a “ Committed Term
Loan ”) to the Borrower on the Amendment and Restatement
Effective Date or on the Increase Effective Date, as applicable, in
an amount not to exceed such Term Lender’s Commitment. Each
Committed Borrowing shall consist of Committed Term Loans made
simultaneously by the applicable Term Lenders. Amounts borrowed
under this Section 2.01(b) and repaid or prepaid may not be
reborrowed. Committed Term Loans may be Base Rate Loans or
Eurodollar Rate Loans as further provided herein.
2.02
Borrowings, Conversions and Continuations of Committed
Loans.
(a) Each
Committed Borrowing, each conversion of Committed Loans from one
Type to the other, and each continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans
shall be made upon the Borrower’s irrevocable notice to the
Administrative Agent, which may be given by telephone. Each such
notice must be received by the Administrative Agent not later than
10:00 a.m. (i) three Business Days prior to the requested
date of any Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of
Eurodollar Rate Loans or of any conversion of Eurodollar Rate Loans
to Base Rate Committed Loans, and (ii) on the requested date
of any Borrowing of Base Rate Committed Loans. Each telephonic
notice by the Borrower pursuant to this Section 2.02(a)
must be confirmed promptly by delivery to the Administrative Agent
of a written Committed Loan Notice, appropriately completed and
signed by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower. Each Borrowing of,
conversion
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to or
continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans shall be in a principal
amount of $2,500,000 or a whole multiple of $500,000 in excess
thereof. Except as provided in Sections 2.03(c) and
2.04(c) , each Borrowing of or conversion to Base Rate
Committed Loans shall be in a principal amount of $500,000 or a
whole multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof. Each Committed Loan
Notice (whether telephonic or written) shall specify (i) whether
the Borrower is requesting a Committed Borrowing, a conversion of
Committed Loans from one Type to the other, or a continuation of
Eurodollar Rate Loans, (ii) the requested date of the
Borrowing, conversion or continuation, as the case may be (which
shall be a Business Day), (iii) the principal amount of Committed
Loans to be borrowed, converted or continued, (iv) the Type of
Committed Loans to be borrowed or to which existing Committed Loans
are to be converted, and (v) if applicable, the duration of
the Interest Period with respect thereto. If the Borrower fails to
specify a Type of Committed Loan in a Committed Loan Notice or if
the Borrower fails to give a timely notice requesting a conversion
or continuation, then the applicable Committed Loans shall be made
as, or converted to, Base Rate Loans. Any such automatic conversion
to Base Rate Loans shall be effective as of the last day of the
Interest Period then in effect with respect to the applicable
Eurodollar Rate Loans. If the Borrower requests a Borrowing of,
conversion to, or continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans in any such
Committed Loan Notice, but fails to specify an Interest Period, it
will be deemed to have specified an Interest Period of one
month.
(b) Following
receipt of a Committed Loan Notice, the Administrative Agent shall
promptly notify each Lender of the amount of its share of the
applicable Committed Loans, and if no timely notice of a conversion
or continuation is provided by the Borrower, the Administrative
Agent shall notify each Lender of the details of any automatic
conversion to Base Rate Loans described in the preceding
subsection. In the case of a Committed Borrowing, each applicable
Lender shall make the amount of its Committed Loan available to the
Administrative Agent in immediately available funds at the
Administrative Agent’s Office not later than 12:00 noon on
the Business Day specified in the applicable Committed Loan Notice.
Upon satisfaction of the applicable conditions set forth in
Section 4.02 (and, if such Borrowing is the initial
Credit Extension, Section 4.01 ), the Administrative Agent
shall make all funds so received available to the Borrower in like
funds as received by the Administrative Agent either by
(i) crediting the account of the Borrower on the books of Bank
of America with the amount of such funds or (ii) wire transfer
of such funds, in each case in accordance with instructions
provided to (and reasonably acceptable to) the Administrative Agent
by the Borrower; provided , however , that, if such
Borrowing is in respect of the Revolving Facility and on the date
the Committed Loan Notice with respect to such Borrowing is given
by the Borrower, there are L/C Borrowings outstanding, then the
proceeds of such Borrowing, first , shall be applied to the
payment in full of any such L/C Borrowings, and second ,
shall be made available to the Borrower as provided
above.
(c) Except as
otherwise provided herein, a Eurodollar Rate Loan may be continued
or converted only on the last day of an Interest Period for such
Eurodollar Rate Loan. During the existence of an Event of Default,
no Loans may be requested as, converted to or continued as
Eurodollar Rate Loans without the consent of the Required
Lenders.
(d) The
Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the Borrower and the
Lenders of the interest rate applicable to any Interest Period for
Eurodollar Rate Loans upon determination of such interest rate. At
any time that Base Rate Loans are outstanding, the
Administrative
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Agent shall
notify the Borrower and the Lenders of any change in Bank of
America’s prime rate used in determining the Base Rate
promptly following the public announcement of such
change.
(e) After
giving effect to all Committed Borrowings, all conversions of
Committed Loans from one Type to the other, and all continuations
of Committed Loans as the same Type, there shall not be more than
10 Interest Periods in effect with respect to Committed Revolving
Loans or more than 5 Interest Periods in effect with respect to
Committed Term Loans.
(a) The
Letter of Credit Commitment .
(i) Subject to the
terms and conditions set forth herein, (A) the L/C Issuer
agrees, in reliance upon the agreements of the Revolving Lenders
set forth in this Section 2.03 , (1) from time to time
on any Business Day during the period from the Closing Date until
the Letter of Credit Expiration Date, to issue Letters of Credit
for the account of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries, and to amend
or extend Letters of Credit previously issued by it, in accordance
with subsection (b) below, and (2) to honor drawings
under the Letters of Credit; and (B) the Revolving Lenders
severally agree to participate in Letters of Credit issued for the
account of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries and any drawings
thereunder; provided that after giving effect to any L/C
Credit Extension with respect to any Letter of Credit, (x) the
Total Outstandings in respect of the Revolving Facility shall not
exceed the Aggregate Revolving Commitments, (y) the aggregate
Outstanding Amount of the Committed Revolving Loans of any
Revolving Lender, plus such Revolving Lender’s
Applicable Percentage of the Outstanding Amount of all L/C
Obligations, plus such Revolving Lender’s Applicable
Percentage of the Outstanding Amount of all Swing Line Loans shall
not exceed such Revolving Lender’s Revolving Commitment, and
(z) the Outstanding Amount of the L/C Obligations shall not
exceed the Letter of Credit Sublimit. Each request by the Borrower
for the issuance or amendment of a Letter of Credit shall be deemed
to be a representation by the Borrower that the L/C Credit
Extension so requested complies with the conditions set forth in
the proviso to the preceding sentence. Within the foregoing limits,
and subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the
Borrower’s ability to obtain Letters of Credit shall be fully
revolving, and accordingly the Borrower may, during the foregoing
period, obtain Letters of Credit to replace Letters of Credit that
have expired or that have been drawn upon and reimbursed. All
Existing Letters of Credit shall be deemed to have been issued
pursuant hereto, and from and after the Closing Date shall be
subject to and governed by the terms and conditions
hereof.
(ii) The L/C
Issuer shall not issue any Letter of Credit, if:
(A) subject to
Section 2.03(b)(iii) , the expiry date of such
requested Letter of Credit would occur more than twelve months
after the date of issuance or last extension, unless the Revolving
Lenders then having more than 50% of the Aggregate Revolving
Commitments have approved such expiry date; or
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(B) the expiry
date of such requested Letter of Credit would occur after the
Letter of Credit Expiration Date, unless all the Revolving Lenders
have approved such expiry date.
(iii) The L/C
Issuer shall not be under any obligation to issue any Letter of
Credit if:
(A) any order,
judgment or decree of any Governmental Authority or arbitrator
shall by its terms purport to enjoin or restrain the L/C Issuer
from issuing such Letter of Credit, or any Law applicable to the
L/C Issuer or any request or directive (whether or not having the
force of law) from any Governmental Authority with jurisdiction
over the L/C Issuer shall prohibit, or request that the L/C Issuer
refrain from, the issuance of letters of credit generally or such
Letter of Credit in particular or shall impose upon the L/C Issuer
with respect to such Letter of Credit any restriction, reserve or
capital requirement (for which the L/C Issuer is not otherwise
compensated hereunder) not in effect on the Closing Date, or shall
impose upon the L/C Issuer any unreimbursed loss, cost or expense
which was not applicable on the Closing Date and which the L/C
Issuer in good faith deems material to it;
(B) the issuance
of such Letter of Credit would violate one or more policies of the
L/C Issuer applicable to letters of credit generally; provided that
another Revolving Lender reasonably acceptable to the
Administrative Agent may, in its sole discretion, agree to issue
such Letter of Credit subject to the other terms and conditions of
this Section 2.03 ;
(C) except as
otherwise agreed by the Administrative Agent and the L/C Issuer,
such Letter of Credit is in an initial stated amount less than
$50,000;
(D) such Letter of
Credit is to be denominated in a currency other than
Dollars;
(E) such Letter of
Credit contains any provisions for automatic reinstatement of the
stated amount after any drawing thereunder; or
(F) a default of
any Revolving Lender’s obligation to fund under Section
2.03(c) exists or any Revolving Lender is an Impacted Lender,
unless the L/C Issuer has entered into arrangements satisfactory to
it (including, without limitation, arrangements for the provision
of Risk Participation Cash Collateral) with the Borrower or such
Revolving Lender to eliminate the L/C Issuer’s risk with
respect to such Revolving Lender; provided, that, if the Borrower
provides Risk Participation Cash Collateral with respect to a
Letter of Credit requested to be issued hereunder, the L/C Issuer
shall not be entitled to rely on this clause as justification for
not issuing such Letter of Credit. To the extent that the Borrower
provides Risk Participation Cash Collateral, the Borrower hereby
grants to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the L/C
Issuer, a security interest in all cash, deposit accounts and all
balances therein and all proceeds of the foregoing
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solely as
security for the purposes described under Section
2.03(c)(ii) hereof. Such Risk Participation Cash Collateral
shall be maintained in blocked, non-interest bearing deposit
accounts with the Administrative Agent; provided that
(1) in the event that any Revolving Lender, on account of whom
such Risk Participation Cash Collateral was delivered, shall no
longer be an Impacted Lender, the Administrative Agent shall return
to the pledgor such portion of Risk Participation Cash Collateral
attributable to such Revolving Lender, (2) in the event that
any Revolving Lender, on account of whom such Risk Participation
Cash Collateral was delivered, shall have its Revolving Commitment
reduced, the Administrative Agent shall return to the pledgor such
portion of the Risk Participation Cash Collateral attributable to
such Revolving Lender in proportion to the amount by which such
Revolving Lender’s Revolving Commitment is so reduced, and
(3) in the event that the applicable Letter of Credit, on
account of which such Risk Participation Cash Collateral was
delivered, expires or is drawn upon, and such drawing has been
reimbursed by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent shall return
to the pledgor such portion of the Risk Participation Cash
Collateral attributable to such expired Letter of Credit or such
reimbursed drawing, as applicable.
(iv) The L/C
Issuer shall not amend any Letter of Credit if the L/C Issuer would
not be permitted at such time to issue such Letter of Credit in its
amended form under the terms hereof.
(v) The L/C Issuer
shall be under no obligation to amend any Letter of Credit if (A)
the L/C Issuer would have no obligation at such time to issue such
Letter of Credit in its amended form under the terms hereof, or
(B) the beneficiary of such Letter of Credit does not accept
the proposed amendment to such Letter of Credit.
(vi) The L/C
Issuer shall act on behalf of the Revolving Lenders with respect to
any Letters of Credit issued by it and the documents associated
therewith, and the L/C Issuer shall have all of the benefits and
immunities (A) provided to the Administrative Agent in
Article IX with respect to any acts taken or omissions
suffered by the L/C Issuer in connection with Letters of Credit
issued by it or proposed to be issued by it and Issuer Documents
pertaining to such Letters of Credit as fully as if the term
“Administrative Agent” as used in
Article IX included the L/C Issuer with respect to such
acts or omissions, and (B) as additionally provided herein
with respect to the L/C Issuer.
(b)
Procedures for Issuance and Amendment of Letters of Credit;
Auto-Extension Letters of Credit .
(i) Each Letter of
Credit shall be issued or amended, as the case may be, upon the
request of the Borrower delivered to the L/C Issuer (with a copy to
the Administrative Agent) in the form of a Letter of Credit
Application, appropriately completed and signed by a Responsible
Officer of the Borrower. Such Letter of Credit Application must be
received by the L/C Issuer and the Administrative Agent not later
than 10:00 a.m. at least two Business Days (or such later date
and time as the Administrative Agent and the L/C Issuer may agree
in a particular instance in their sole discretion) prior to the
proposed
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issuance date
or date of amendment, as the case may be. In the case of a request
for an initial issuance of a Letter of Credit, such Letter of
Credit Application shall specify in form and detail satisfactory to
the L/C Issuer: (A) the proposed issuance date of the
requested Letter of Credit (which shall be a Business Day);
(B) the amount thereof; (C) the expiry date thereof;
(D) the name and address of the beneficiary thereof;
(E) the documents to be presented by such beneficiary in case
of any drawing thereunder; (F) the full text of any
certificate to be presented by such beneficiary in case of any
drawing thereunder; (G) the purpose and nature of the
requested Letter of Credit; and (H) such other matters as the
L/C Issuer may reasonably require. In the case of a request for an
amendment of any outstanding Letter of Credit, such Letter of
Credit Application shall specify in form and detail satisfactory to
the L/C Issuer (A) the Letter of Credit to be amended;
(B) the proposed date of amendment thereof (which shall be a
Business Day); (C) the nature of the proposed amendment; and
(D) such other matters as the L/C Issuer may reasonably
require. Additionally, the Borrower shall furnish to the L/C Issuer
and the Administrative Agent such other documents and information
pertaining to such requested Letter of Credit issuance or
amendment, including any Issuer Documents, as the L/C Issuer or the
Administrative Agent may reasonably require.
(ii) Promptly
after receipt of any Letter of Credit Application, the L/C Issuer
will confirm with the Administrative Agent (by telephone or in
writing) that the Administrative Agent has received a copy of such
Letter of Credit Application from the Borrower and, if not, the L/C
Issuer will provide the Administrative Agent with a copy thereof.
Unless the L/C Issuer has received written notice from any
Revolving Lender, the Administrative Agent or any Loan Party, at
least one Business Day prior to the requested date of issuance or
amendment of the applicable Letter of Credit, that one or more
applicable conditions contained in Article IV shall not
then be satisfied, then, subject to the terms and conditions
hereof, the L/C Issuer shall, on the requested date, issue a Letter
of Credit for the account of the Borrower (or the applicable
Subsidiary) or enter into the applicable amendment, as the case may
be, in each case in accordance with the L/C Issuer’s usual
and customary business practices. Immediately upon the issuance of
each Letter of Credit, each Revolving Lender shall be deemed to,
and hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees to, purchase from
the L/C Issuer a risk participation in such Letter of Credit in an
amount equal to the product of such Revolving Lender’s
Applicable Percentage times the amount of such Letter of
Credit.
(iii) If the
Borrower so requests in any applicable Letter of Credit
Application, the L/C Issuer shall issue a Letter of Credit that has
automatic extension provisions (each, an “ Auto-Extension
Letter of Credit ”); provided that (A) any
such Auto-Extension Letter of Credit must permit the L/C Issuer to
prevent any such extension at least once in each twelve-month
period (commencing with the date of issuance of such Letter of
Credit) by giving prior notice to the beneficiary thereof not later
than a day (the “ Non-Extension Notice Date ”)
in each such twelve-month period to be agreed upon at the time such
Letter of Credit is issued and (B) the ultimate expiry date
shall not extend beyond the Letter of Credit Expiration Date.
Unless otherwise directed by the L/C Issuer, the Borrower shall not
be required to make a specific request to the L/C Issuer for any
such extension. Once an Auto-Extension Letter of Credit has been
issued, the Revolving Lenders shall be deemed to have authorized
(but may not require) the L/C Issuer to permit the extension
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such Letter of
Credit at any time to an expiry date not later than the Letter of
Credit Expiration Date; provided , however , that the
L/C Issuer shall not permit any such extension if (A) the L/C
Issuer has determined that it would not be permitted, or would have
no obligation, at such time to issue such Letter of Credit in its
revised form (as extended) under the terms hereof (by reason of the
provisions of clause (ii) or (iii) of
Section 2.03(a) or otherwise), or (B) it has
received notice (which may be by telephone or in writing) on or
before the day that is seven Business Days before the Non-Extension
Notice Date (1) from the Administrative Agent that the
Revolving Lenders then having more than 50% of the Aggregate
Revolving Commitments (or if the commitment of each Revolving
Lender to make Loans and the obligation of the L/C Issuer to make
L/C Credit Extensions have been terminated pursuant to
Section 8.02 , the Revolving Lenders holding in the
aggregate more than 50% of the Total Outstandings in respect of the
Revolving Facility) have elected not to permit such extension or
(2) from the Administrative Agent, any Revolving Lender or the
Borrower that one or more of the applicable conditions specified in
Section 4.02 is not then satisfied, and in each such
case directing the L/C Issuer not to permit such
extension.
(iv) Promptly
after its delivery of any Letter of Credit or any amendment to a
Letter of Credit to an advising bank with respect thereto or to the
beneficiary thereof, the L/C Issuer will also deliver to the
Borrower and the Administrative Agent a true and complete copy of
such Letter of Credit or amendment.
(c)
Drawings and Reimbursements; Funding of Participations
.
(i) Upon receipt
from the beneficiary of any Letter of Credit of any notice of a
drawing under such Letter of Credit, the L/C Issuer shall notify
the Borrower and the Administrative Agent thereof. Not later than
1:00 p.m. on the date of any payment by the L/C Issuer under a
Letter of Credit (each such date, an “ Honor Date
”), the Borrower shall reimburse the L/C Issuer through the
Administrative Agent in an amount equal to the amount of such
drawing. If the Borrower fails to so reimburse the L/C Issuer by
such time, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each
Revolving Lender of the Honor Date, the amount of the unreimbursed
drawing (the “ Unreimbursed Amount ”), and the
amount of such Revolving Lender’s Applicable Percentage
thereof. In such event, the Borrower shall be deemed to have
requested a Committed Borrowing under the Revolving Facility of
Base Rate Loans to be disbursed on the Honor Date in an amount
equal to the Unreimbursed Amount, without regard to the minimum and
multiples specified in Section 2.02 for the principal
amount of Base Rate Loans, but subject to the amount of the
unutilized portion of the Aggregate Revolving Commitments and the
conditions set forth in Section 4.02 (other than the
delivery of a Committed Loan Notice). Any notice given by the L/C
Issuer or the Administrative Agent pursuant to this
Section 2.03(c)(i) may be given by telephone if
immediately confirmed in writing; provided that the lack of
such an immediate confirmation shall not affect the conclusiveness
or binding effect of such notice.
(ii) Each
Revolving Lender (including the Lender acting as L/C Issuer) shall
upon any notice pursuant to Section 2.03(c)(i) make
funds available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the
L/C Issuer at the Administrative Agent’s Office in
an
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amount equal to
its Applicable Percentage of the Unreimbursed Amount not later than
12:00 noon on the Business Day specified in such notice by the
Administrative Agent, whereupon, subject to the provisions of
Section 2.03(c)(iii) , each Revolving Lender that so
makes funds available shall be deemed to have made a Base Rate
Committed Loan to the Borrower in such amount; provided ,
that if any Impacted Lender shall fail to make such funds
available, any Risk Participation Cash Collateral delivered on
account of such Impacted Lender for the respective Letter of Credit
shall be applied by the Administrative Agent to the reimbursement
of the L/C Issuer as required hereunder. The Administrative Agent
shall remit the funds so received to the L/C Issuer. If at any time
after the L/C Issuer has been reimbursed hereunder for any portion
of any Letter of Credit with the proceeds of Risk Participation
Collateral and the Administrative Agent subsequently receives from
the Impacted Lender such Impacted Lender’s L/C Advance (or
portion thereof) in respect of such payment in accordance with this
Section 2.03(c)(ii) , the Administrative Agent shall
distribute to the Borrower the proceeds of such L/C Advance (or
portion thereof) in the same funds as those received by the
Administrative Agent.
(iii) With respect
to any Unreimbursed Amount that is not fully refinanced by a
Committed Borrowing of Base Rate Loans because the conditions set
forth in Section 4.02 cannot be satisfied or for any other
reason, the Borrower shall be deemed to have incurred from the L/C
Issuer an L/C Borrowing in the amount of the Unreimbursed Amount
that is not so refinanced, which L/C Borrowing shall be due and
payable on demand (together with interest) and shall bear interest
at the Default Rate. In such event, each Revolving Lender’s
payment to the Administrative Agent for the account of the L/C
Issuer pursuant to Section 2.03(c)(ii) shall be deemed
payment in respect of its participation in such L/C Borrowing and
shall constitute an L/C Advance from such Revolving Lender in
satisfaction of its participation obligation under this
Section 2.03 .
(iv) Until each
Revolving Lender funds its Committed Revolving Loan or L/C Advance
pursuant to this Section 2.03(c) to reimburse the L/C
Issuer for any amount drawn under any Letter of Credit, interest in
respect of such Revolving Lender’s Applicable Percentage of
such amount shall be solely for the account of the L/C
Issuer.
(v) Each Revolving
Lender’s obligation to make Committed Revolving Loans or L/C
Advances to reimburse the L/C Issuer for amounts drawn under
Letters of Credit, as contemplated by this
Section 2.03(c) , shall be absolute and unconditional
and shall not be affected by any circumstance, including
(A) any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other
right which such Revolving Lender may have against the L/C Issuer,
the Borrower or any other Person for any reason whatsoever;
(B) the occurrence or continuance of a Default, or
(C) any other occurrence, event or condition, whether or not
similar to any of the foregoing; provided , however ,
that each Revolving Lender’s obligation to make Committed
Revolving Loans pursuant to this Section 2.03(c) is subject
to the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 (other than
delivery by the Borrower of a Committed Loan Notice). No such
making of an L/C Advance shall relieve or otherwise impair the
obligation of the Borrower to reimburse the L/C Issuer for the
amount of any payment made by the L/C Issuer under any Letter of
Credit, together with interest as provided herein.
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(vi) If any
Revolving Lender fails to make available to the Administrative
Agent for the account of the L/C Issuer any amount required to be
paid by such Revolving Lender pursuant to the foregoing provisions
of this Section 2.03(c) by the time specified in
Section 2.03(c)(ii) , the L/C Issuer shall be entitled
to recover from such Revolving Lender (acting through the
Administrative Agent), on demand, such amount with interest thereon
for the period from the date such payment is required to the date
on which such payment is immediately available to the L/C Issuer at
a rate per annum equal to the greater of the Federal Funds Rate and
a rate determined by the L/C Issuer in accordance with banking
industry rules on interbank compensation, plus any administrative,
processing or similar fees customarily charged by the L/C Issuer in
connection with the foregoing. If such Revolving Lender pays such
amount (with interest and fees as aforesaid), the amount so paid
shall constitute such Revolving Lender’s Committed Revolving
Loan included in the relevant Committed Borrowing or L/C Advance in
respect of the relevant L/C Borrowing, as the case may be. A
certificate of the L/C Issuer submitted to any Revolving Lender
(through the Administrative Agent) with respect to any amounts
owing under this clause (vi) shall be conclusive absent
manifest error.
(d)
Repayment of Participations .
(i) At any time
after the L/C Issuer has made a payment under any Letter of Credit
and has received from any Revolving Lender such Revolving
Lender’s L/C Advance in respect of such payment in accordance
with Section 2.03(c) , if the Administrative Agent
receives for the account of the L/C Issuer any payment in respect
of the related Unreimbursed Amount or interest thereon (whether
directly from the Borrower or otherwise, including proceeds of Cash
Collateral applied thereto by the Administrative Agent), the
Administrative Agent will distribute to such Revolving Lender its
Applicable Percentage thereof in the same funds as those received
by the Administrative Agent.
(ii) If any
payment received by the Administrative Agent for the account of the
L/C Issuer pursuant to Section 2.03(c)(i) is required
to be returned under any of the circumstances described in
Section 10.05 (including pursuant to any settlement
entered into by the L/C Issuer in its discretion), each Revolving
Lender shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of the
L/C Issuer its Applicable Percentage thereof on demand of the
Administrative Agent, plus interest thereon from the date of such
demand to the date such amount is returned by such Revolving
Lender, at a rate per annum equal to the Federal Funds Rate from
time to time in effect. The obligations of the Revolving Lenders
under this clause shall survive the payment in full of the
Obligations and the termination of this Agreement.
(e)
Obligations Absolute . The obligation of the Borrower to
reimburse the L/C Issuer for each drawing under each Letter of
Credit and to repay each L/C Borrowing shall be absolute,
unconditional and irrevocable, and shall be paid strictly in
accordance with the terms of this Agreement under all
circumstances, including the following:
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(i) any lack of
validity or enforceability of such Letter of Credit, this
Agreement, or any other Loan Document;
(ii) the existence
of any claim, counterclaim, setoff, defense or other right that the
Borrower or any Subsidiary may have at any time against any
beneficiary or any transferee of such Letter of Credit (or any
Person for whom any such beneficiary or any such transferee may be
acting), the L/C Issuer or any other Person, whether in connection
with this Agreement, the transactions contemplated hereby or by
such Letter of Credit or any agreement or instrument relating
thereto, or any unrelated transaction;
(iii) any draft,
demand, certificate or other document presented under such Letter
of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient
in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate
in any respect; or any loss or delay in the transmission or
otherwise of any document required in order to make a drawing under
such Letter of Credit;
(iv) any payment
by the L/C Issuer under such Letter of Credit against presentation
of a draft or certificate that does not strictly comply with the
terms of such Letter of Credit; or any payment made by the L/C
Issuer under such Letter of Credit to any Person purporting to be a
trustee in bankruptcy, debtor-in-possession, assignee for the
benefit of creditors, liquidator, receiver or other representative
of or successor to any beneficiary or any transferee of such Letter
of Credit, including any arising in connection with any proceeding
under any Debtor Relief Law; or
(v) any other
circumstance or happening whatsoever, whether or not similar to any
of the foregoing, including any other circumstance that might
otherwise constitute a defense available to, or a discharge of, the
Borrower or any Subsidiary.
The Borrower shall
promptly examine a copy of each Letter of Credit and each amendment
thereto that is delivered to it and, in the event of any claim of
noncompliance with the Borrower’s instructions or other
irregularity, the Borrower will immediately notify the L/C Issuer.
The Borrower shall be conclusively deemed to have waived any such
claim against the L/C Issuer and its correspondents unless such
notice is given as aforesaid; provided that such
noncompliance is not the result of gross negligence or willful
misconduct on the part of the L/C Issuer.
(f) Role
of L/C Issuer . Each Revolving Lender and the Borrower agree
that, in paying any drawing under a Letter of Credit, the L/C
Issuer shall not have any responsibility to obtain any document
(other than any sight draft, certificates and documents expressly
required by the Letter of Credit) or to ascertain or inquire as to
the validity or accuracy of any such document or the authority of
the Person executing or delivering any such document. None of the
L/C Issuer, the Administrative Agent, any of their respective
Related Parties nor any correspondent, participant or assignee of
the L/C Issuer shall be liable to any Revolving Lender for
(i) any action taken or omitted in connection herewith at the
request or with the approval of the Revolving Lenders or the
Revolving Lenders then having more than 50% of the Aggregate
Revolving Commitments (or if the obligation of the commitment of
each Revolving Lender to make Loans and the obligation of the L/C
Issuer to make L/C Credit Extensions have been
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terminated
pursuant to Section 8.02 , the Revolving Lenders or the
Revolving Lenders holding in the aggregate more than 50% of the
Total Outstandings in respect of the Revolving Facility), as
applicable; (ii) any action taken or omitted in the absence of
gross negligence or willful misconduct; or (iii) the due
execution, effectiveness, validity or enforceability of any
document or instrument related to any Letter of Credit or Issuer
Document. The Borrower hereby assumes all risks of the acts or
omissions of any beneficiary or transferee with respect to its use
of any Letter of Credit; provided , however , that
this assumption is not intended to, and shall not, preclude the
Borrower’s pursuing such rights and remedies as it may have
against the beneficiary or transferee at law or under any other
agreement. None of the L/C Issuer, the Administrative Agent, any of
their respective Related Parties nor any correspondent, participant
or assignee of the L/C Issuer shall be liable or responsible for
any of the matters described in clauses (i) through
(v) of Section 2.03(e) ; provided ,
however , that anything in such clauses to the contrary
notwithstanding, the Borrower may have a claim against the L/C
Issuer, and the L/C Issuer may be liable to the Borrower, to the
extent, but only to the extent, of any direct, as opposed to
consequential or exemplary, damages suffered by the Borrower which
the Borrower proves were caused by the L/C Issuer’s willful
misconduct or gross negligence or the L/C Issuer’s willful
failure to pay under any Letter of Credit after the presentation to
it by the beneficiary of a sight draft and certificate(s) strictly
complying with the terms and conditions of a Letter of Credit. In
furtherance and not in limitation of the foregoing, the L/C Issuer
may accept documents that appear on their face to be in order,
without responsibility for further investigation, regardless of any
notice or information to the contrary, and the L/C Issuer shall not
be responsible for the validity or sufficiency of any instrument
transferring or assigning or purporting to transfer or assign a
Letter of Credit or the rights or benefits thereunder or proceeds
thereof, in whole or in part, which may prove to be invalid or
ineffective for any reason.
(g) Cash
Collateral . Upon the request of the Administrative Agent,
(i) if the L/C Issuer has honored any full or partial drawing
request under any Letter of Credit and such drawing has resulted in
an L/C Borrowing, or (ii) if, as of the Letter of Credit
Expiration Date, any L/C Obligation for any reason remains
outstanding, the Borrower shall, in each case, immediately Cash
Collateralize the then Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations.
Sections 2.05 and 8.02(c) set forth certain
additional requirements to deliver Cash Collateral hereunder. For
purposes of this Section 2.03 ,
Section 2.05 and Section 8.02(c) , “
Cash Collateralize ” means to pledge and deposit with
or deliver to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the L/C
Issuer and the Secured Parties, as collateral for the L/C
Obligations, cash or deposit account balances pursuant to
documentation in form and substance satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent and the L/C Issuer (which documents are hereby
consented to by the Revolving Lenders). Derivatives of such term
have corresponding meanings. The Borrower hereby grants to the
Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the L/C Issuer and the
Secured Parties, a security interest in all such cash, deposit
accounts and all balances therein and all proceeds of the
foregoing. Cash Collateral shall be maintained in blocked, and to
the extent permitted by law, interest bearing, deposit accounts at
Bank of America.
(h)
Applicability of ISP . Unless otherwise expressly agreed by
the L/C Issuer and the Borrower when a Letter of Credit is issued
(including any such agreement applicable to an Existing Letter of
Credit), the rules of the ISP shall apply to each Letter of
Credit.
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(i)
Letter of Credit Fees . The Borrower shall pay to the
Administrative Agent for the account of each Revolving Lender in
accordance with its Applicable Percentage a Letter of Credit fee
(the “ Letter of Credit Fee ”) equal to the
Applicable Rate times the daily amount available to be drawn
under such Letter of Credit. For purposes of computing the daily
amount available to be drawn under any Letter of Credit, the amount
of such Letter of Credit shall be determined in accordance with
Section 1.06 . Letter of Credit Fees shall be
(i) due and payable on the tenth Business Day after the end of
each March, June, September and December, commencing with the first
such date to occur after the issuance of such Letter of Credit, on
the Letter of Credit Expiration Date and thereafter on demand and
(ii) computed on a quarterly basis in arrears. If there is any
change in the Applicable Rate during any quarter, the daily amount
available to be drawn under each Letter of Credit shall be computed
and multiplied by the Applicable Rate separately for each period
during such quarter that such Applicable Rate was in effect.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, upon the
request of the Revolving Lenders then having more than 50% of the
Aggregate Revolving Commitments (or if the commitment of each
Revolving Lender to make Loans and the obligation of the L/C Issuer
to make L/C Credit Extensions have been terminated pursuant to
Section 8.02 , the Revolving Lenders holding in the
aggregate more than 50% of the Total Outstandings in respect of the
Revolving Facility), while any Event of Default exists, all Letter
of Credit Fees shall accrue at the Default Rate.
(j)
Fronting Fee and Documentary and Processing Charges Payable to
L/C Issuer . The Borrower shall pay directly to the L/C Issuer
for its own account a fronting fee with respect to each Letter of
Credit, at the rate per annum specified in the Administrative
Agent’s Fee Letter, computed on the daily amount available to
be drawn under such Letter of Credit on a quarterly basis in
arrears. Such fronting fee shall be due and payable on the tenth
Business Day after the end of each March, June, September and
December in respect of the most recently-ended quarterly period (or
portion thereof, in the case of the first payment), commencing with
the first such date to occur after the issuance of such Letter of
Credit, on the Letter of Credit Expiration Date and thereafter on
demand. For purposes of computing the daily amount available to be
drawn under any Letter of Credit, the amount of such Letter of
Credit shall be determined in accordance with Section 1.06 .
In addition, the Borrower shall pay directly to the L/C Issuer for
its own account the customary issuance, presentation, amendment and
other processing fees, and other standard costs and charges, of the
L/C Issuer relating to letters of credit as from time to time in
effect. Such customary fees and standard costs and charges are due
and payable on demand and are nonrefundable.
(k)
Conflict with Issuer Documents . In the event of any
conflict between the terms hereof and the terms of any Issuer
Document, the terms hereof shall control.
(l)
Letters of Credit Issued for Subsidiaries . Notwithstanding
that a Letter of Credit issued or outstanding hereunder is in
support of any obligations of, or is for the account of, a
Subsidiary, the Borrower shall be obligated to reimburse the L/C
Issuer hereunder for any and all drawings under such Letter of
Credit. The Borrower hereby acknowledges that the issuance of
Letters of Credit for the account of Subsidiaries inures to the
benefit of the Borrower, and that the Borrower’s business
derives substantial benefits from the businesses of such
Subsidiaries.
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(a) The
Swing Line . Subject to the terms and conditions set forth
herein, the Swing Line Lender agrees, in reliance upon the
agreements of the other Revolving Lenders set forth in this
Section 2.04 , to make loans (each such loan, a “
Swing Line Loan ”) to the Borrower from time to time
on any Business Day during the Availability Period in respect of
the Revolving Facility in an aggregate amount not to exceed at any
time outstanding the amount of the Swing Line Sublimit,
notwithstanding the fact that such Swing Line Loans, when
aggregated with the Applicable Percentage of the Outstanding Amount
of Committed Revolving Loans and L/C Obligations of the Lender
acting as Swing Line Lender, may exceed the amount of such
Revolving Lender’s Revolving Commitment; provided ,
however , that should any Revolving Lender become a
Defaulting Lender or an Impacted Lender, all Swing Line Loans shall
be made at the sole and absolute discretion of the Swing Line
Lender, and after giving effect to any Swing Line Loan,
(i) the Total Outstandings shall not exceed the Aggregate
Revolving Commitments, and (ii) the aggregate Outstanding
Amount of the Committed Revolving Loans of any Revolving Lender,
plus such Revolving Lender’s Applicable Percentage of
the Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations, plus such
Revolving Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the Outstanding
Amount of all Swing Line Loans shall not exceed such Revolving
Lender’s Revolving Commitment, and provided ,
further , that the Borrower shall not use the proceeds of
any Swing Line Loan to refinance any outstanding Swing Line Loan.
Within the foregoing limits, and subject to the other terms and
conditions hereof, the Borrower may borrow under this
Section 2.04 , prepay under Section 2.05 ,
and reborrow under this Section 2.04 . Each Swing Line
Loan shall be a Base Rate Loan. Immediately upon the making of a
Swing Line Loan, each Revolving Lender shall be deemed to, and
hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees to, purchase from the
Swing Line Lender a risk participation in such Swing Line Loan in
an amount equal to the product of such Revolving Lender’s
Applicable Percentage times the amount of such Swing Line
Loan.
(b)
Borrowing Procedures . Each Swing Line Borrowing shall be
made upon the Borrower’s irrevocable notice to the Swing Line
Lender and the Administrative Agent, which may be given by
telephone. Each such notice must be received by the Swing Line
Lender and the Administrative Agent not later than 12:00 noon on
the requested borrowing date, and shall specify (i) the amount
to be borrowed, which shall be a minimum of $100,000, and
(ii) the requested borrowing date, which shall be a Business
Day. Each such telephonic notice must be confirmed promptly by
delivery to the Swing Line Lender and the Administrative Agent of a
written Swing Line Loan Notice, appropriately completed and signed
by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower. Promptly after receipt by
the Swing Line Lender of any telephonic Swing Line Loan Notice, the
Swing Line Lender will confirm with the Administrative Agent (by
telephone or in writing) that the Administrative Agent has also
received such Swing Line Loan Notice and, if not, the Swing Line
Lender will notify the Administrative Agent (by telephone or in
writing) of the contents thereof. If the Swing Line Lender is
required or shall elect, as may be the case, to fund a requested
Swing Line Loan, not later than 2:00 p.m. on the borrowing
date specified in such Swing Line Notice, the Swing Line Lender
shall make available to the Borrower at its office by crediting the
account of the Borrower on the books of the Swing Line Lender in an
amount in immediately available funds equal to the amount of such
Swing Line Loan. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Swing Line
Lender is not required, and accordingly elects not to fund a
requested Swing Line Loan for any reason, the Swing Line Lender
shall promptly,
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and in any
event not later than 2:00 p.m. on the borrowing date specified
in such Swing Line Notice, notify the Borrower and the
Administrative Agent of such election.
(c)
Refinancing of Swing Line Loans .
(i) The Swing Line
Lender at any time in its sole and absolute discretion may request,
on behalf of the Borrower (which hereby irrevocably authorizes the
Swing Line Lender to so request on its behalf), that each Revolving
Lender make a Base Rate Committed Loan in an amount equal to such
Revolving Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the amount of
Swing Line Loans then outstanding. Such request shall be made in
writing (which written request shall be deemed to be a Committed
Loan Notice for purposes hereof) and in accordance with the
requirements of Section 2.02 , without regard to the
minimum and multiples specified therein for the principal amount of
Base Rate Loans, but subject to the unutilized portion of the
Aggregate Revolving Commitments and the conditions set forth in
Section 4.02 . The Swing Line Lender shall furnish the
Borrower with a copy of the applicable Committed Loan Notice
promptly after
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