Exhibit 10.1
EXECUTION COPY
AMENDMENT NO. 2 TO
REVOLVING CREDIT AND TERM LOAN
AGREEMENT
This Amendment No. 2 dated as
of May 29, 2009 to the Revolving Credit and Term Loan
Agreement (this “ Amendment No. 2 ”), is
entered into among Atlas Pipeline Partners, L.P., a Delaware
limited partnership (“ Borrower ”), the
Subsidiaries of the Borrower identified as “Guarantors”
on the signature pages hereto (the “ Guarantors
”), the Lenders signatory hereto and Wachovia Bank, National
Association, in its capacity as administrative agent for the
Lenders (in such capacity, the “ Administrative Agent
”) and amends the Revolving Credit and Term Loan Agreement
dated as of July 27, 2007 (as amended by Amendment No. 1
and Agreement dated as of June 12, 2008 and as amended,
supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “
Credit Agreement ”) entered into among the Borrower,
the Guarantors named therein, the institutions from time to time
party thereto as Lenders (the “ Lenders ”), the
Administrative Agent and the other agents and arrangers named
therein. Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined
herein shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Credit
Agreement.
W I T N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS, Section 12.04 of the
Credit Agreement provides that the Credit Agreement may be amended,
modified and waived from time to time;
WHEREAS, the Borrower and Atlas
Pipeline Operating Partnership, L.P. (“ APL Operating
”) have entered into a Formation and Exchange Agreement dated
as of March 31, 2009 by and between Williams Field Services
Group, LLC (“ WFSG ”), Williams Laurel Mountain,
the Borrower, APL Operating and APL Laurel Mountain, LLC providing
for contribution by the Borrower to Laurel Mountain Midstream, LLC,
a Delaware limited liability company (“ Laurel
Mountain ”), the joint venture formed by the Borrower and
WFSG of the natural gas gathering and transportation business and
the natural gas liquids extraction business conducted utilizing the
natural gas gathering system located in eastern Ohio, western New
York, northern West Virginia and western Pennsylvania and the
liquids extraction facility located in McKean County, Pennsylvania
(the “ Appalachian Business ”), in exchange for
a cash payment to a subsidiary of the Borrower of $90 million and
the issuance to such subsidiary of the Borrower of (x) a 49%
interest in Laurel Mountain and (y) preferred distribution
rights with respect to payments made by WFSG or a subsidiary
thereof on account of the $25.5 million promissory note to be
issued by such subsidiary of WFSG and guaranteed by WSFG to Laurel
Mountain as part of WFSG’s capital contribution to Laurel
Mountain (the “ LM Preferred Interest
”);
WHEREAS, the Borrower desires to
amend the Credit Agreement to permit the sale of the Appalachian
Business to Laurel Mountain;
WHEREAS, the Borrower has requested
that the Administrative Agent and the Lenders agree to amend the
Credit Agreement in certain other respects as set forth
herein;
WHEREAS, subject to certain
conditions, the Required Lenders are willing to agree to the
amendments set forth in Section 1 hereof relating to the
Credit Agreement;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of
the premises and for other good and valuable consideration (the
receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged), the
parties hereto hereby agree as follows:
Section 1. Amendment to
Credit Agreement
(a) Amendments to
Section 1.02 of the Credit Agreement .
Section 1.02 of the Credit Agreement is hereby amended
as follows:
(i) The definition of “
Adjusted LIBOR ” is hereby amended by inserting the
following immediately after “Interest Period” and
immediately prior to “.”:
; provided that
notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Adjusted LIBOR Rate for any
Interest Period as so calculated shall be less than 2.00% per
annum, the Adjusted LIBOR Rate shall be deemed to be 2.00% per
annum.”
(ii) The definition of “
Applicable Margin ” is hereby amended and restated as
follows:
“ Applicable
Margin means (i) prior to the Amendment No. 2
Effective Date, “Applicable Margin as defined in this
Agreement prior to giving effect to Amendment No. 2 and
(ii) on and after the Amendment No. 2 Effective Date,
with respect to Term Loans and Revolver Loans, (x) if the
Leverage Ratio is less than 7.0 to 1, 4.75% for LIBOR Loans and
3.75% for Base Rate Loans and (y) if otherwise, 5.75% for
LIBOR Loans and 4.75% for Base Rate Loans.”
(iii) The definition of “
Commitment Fee Percentage ” is hereby amended and
restated as follows:
“ Commitment Fee
Percentage means (i) prior to the Amendment No. 2
Effective Date, shall mean “Commitment Fee Percentage”
as defined in this Agreement prior to giving effect to Amendment
No. 2 and (ii) on and after the Amendment No. 2
Effective Date, 0.50%”
(iv) The definition of “
Consolidated EBITDA ” is hereby amended and restated
as follows (with changes highlighted by underlining insertions and
strikethrough text to mark deletions):
“ Consolidated
EBITDA means, for any trailing twelve-month period, the sum
of (i) Consolidated Net Income for such period, plus
without duplication (ii) the following expenses or charges to
the extent deducted from Consolidated Net Income in such period:
interest, income taxes, depreciation, depletion, amortization,
non-cash compensation on long-term incentive plans, extraordinary,
unusual or non-recurring charges relating to premiums or penalties
paid to counterparties, in connection with the breakage,
termination or unwinding of Hedging Agreements to the extent such
charges are financed with or paid for out of proceeds of an Equity
Offering by the Borrower and other non-cash charges (other than a
non-cash charge resulting from an accrual of a reserve for any cash
charge in any future period) to Consolidated Net Income including
non-cash losses resulting from mark to market accounting of Hedging
Agreements, plus without duplication (iii) the amount
of dividends or distributions (other than a LM Preferred Interest
Distribution Setoff) received in cash by the Borrower and its
Consolidated Subsidiaries from Laurel Mountain, minus
without duplication (iv) non-cash credits to Consolidated Net
Income including non cash gains resulting from mark to market
accounting of Hedging Agreements. For purposes of this Agreement,
Consolidated EBITDA shall be adjusted on a pro forma basis, in a
manner reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent, to
include, as of the first day of any applicable period, the
historical financial results of any acquisition permitted by
Section 9.03(i) closed during such period and
exclude, as of the first day of any applicable period, without
duplication,
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the Consolidated EBITDA attributable
to (i) assets divested by the Borrower; (ii) to the
extent funded with the Net Cash Proceeds from an Equity Offering,
losses (in an amount not to exceed the Net Cash Proceeds from such
Equity Offering) resulting from the termination or unwinding of
Hedging Agreements of the type described in Section 9.07(a)
and (iii) the after-tax effect of income (loss) from the early
extinguishment of and the interest payments made on Debt
extinguished, in each case, occurring during such period or
subsequent thereto but on or prior to the date of determination of
Consolidated EBITDA; provided that the Consolidated EBITDA
attributable to (I) the Appalachian Business; the NOARK
Entities and the Sweetwater Gas Processing Plant located in Beckham
County, Oklahoma, (II) termination or unwinding prior to
March 31, 2009 of Hedging Agreements of the type described in
Section 9.07(a) and (III) the after-tax effect of income
(loss) from the early extinguishment of Debt prior to
March 31, 2009 shall be included.”
(v) The definition of “
Consolidated Interest Expense ” is hereby amended and
restated as follows (with changes highlighted by underlining
insertions and strikethrough text to mark deletions):
Consolidated Interest
Expense means with
respect to such Person and its Consolidated Subsidiaries, for any
period, the aggregate cash interest payments made or required to be
made for such Person and its Consolidated Subsidiaries on a
consolidated basis for such period; provided , that
(i) Consolidated Interest Expense for the fiscal quarter
ending December 31, 2007 shall be calculated by annualizing
the Consolidated Interest Expense for such fiscal quarter,
(ii) Consolidated Interest Expense for the fiscal quarter
ending March 31, 2008 shall be calculated by annualizing the
Consolidated Interest Expense for such fiscal quarter and the
previous fiscal quarter; (iii) Consolidated Interest Expense
for fiscal quarter ending June 30, 2008 shall be calculated by
annualizing the Consolidated Interest Expense for such fiscal
quarter and the two (2) previous fiscal quarters and
(iv) Consolidated Interest Expense shall exclude historical
cash interest payments made with respect to Loans that are prepaid
in such period with the Net Cash Proceeds of a Disposition
permitted under Section 9.17(f) ;
provided that Consolidated Interest Expense for the fiscal
quarter ended March 31, 2009 and the fiscal quarter ended
June 30, 2009 shall include historical cash interest payments
made with respect to Loans that were prepaid with the Net Cash
Proceeds of the Dispositions of the Appalachian Business; the NOARK
Entities and the Sweetwater Gas Processing Plant located in Beckham
County, Oklahoma.
(vi) The definition of “
Debt ” is hereby amended by inserting the following at
the end of clause (v) immediately after “such
Property” and before “;”:
“excluding however
(y) oil and gas leases or rights of way acquired in the
ordinary course of business solely with respect to the right to
maintain flow lines or gathering lines or sales lines across the
lands subject thereto, and (z) equipment leases in the
ordinary course of business for (i) gathering and processing
of Hydrocarbons gathered and transported through the Pipelines or
processed, treated or handled in the Pipeline Properties and
(ii) office equipment, in each case to the extent such leases
are properly accounted for under GAAP as operating leases and not
capital leases or as part of a sale leaseback
transaction.”
(vii) The definition of “
Increase Effective Date ” is hereby deleted in its
entirety.
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(viii) The definition of “
Incremental Loan ” is hereby deleted in its
entirety.
(ix) The definition of “
Incremental Loan Commitment ” is hereby deleted in its
entirety
(x) The definition of “
Incremental Loan Maturity Date ” is hereby deleted in
its entirety.
(xi) The definition of “
Increase Joinder ” is hereby deleted in its
entirety
(xii) The definition of “
Mortgages ” is hereby amended and restated as
follows:
“ Mortgages
” means each of the Open-Ended Mortgages described or
referred to in Exhibit D hereto and any additional mortgages, deeds
of trust, security agreements and financing statements or other
Security Instruments necessary and appropriate to create and
perfect a mortgage Lien in any additional Pipeline Properties
acquired by any Obligor as contemplated by Section 8.09(a)
hereof”.
(xiii) The definition of “
Pro Forma Cost Savings ” is hereby deleted in its
entirety.
(xiv) The definition of “
Revolver Facility ” is hereby amended by deleting the
words “or increased pursuant to
Section 2.12(a).”
(xv) The definition of “
Specified Acquisition Period ” is hereby deleted in
its entirety.
(xvi) The following definitions
shall be added in alphabetical order to read as follows:
AHD Preferred Equity
Investment shall mean
the Class B Member Interest issued by a wholly-owned subsidiary of
Atlas Pipeline Holdings, L.P. to the Borrower in exchange for cash
consideration of $15 million.
Amendment
No. 2 shall mean
that certain Amendment No. 2 to the Credit Agreement dated as
of the Amendment No. 2 Effective Date among the Borrower, the
Guarantors, the Lenders and Administrative Agent.
Amendment No. 2 Effective
Date shall mean the
date on which each of the conditions precedent to the effectiveness
of Amendment No. 2 shall have been satisfied or waived by the
Administrative Agent.
Appalachian
Business has the
meaning given to such term in the Laurel Mountain Formation and
Exchange Agreement.
Appalachian Business
Investment means the
acquisition by the Borrower and its Consolidated Subsidiaries of
(x) a 49% interest in Laurel Mountain and (y) the LM
Preferred Interest as part of the consideration in exchange for the
contribution by the Borrower and its Consolidated Subsidiaries of
the Appalachian Business to Laurel Mountain.
Appalachian
Disposition means the
sale of the Appalachian Business.
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Available Cash
shall mean, as at any date of
determination, the total amount classified as cash and cash
equivalents on a consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its
Consolidated Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP less amounts
classified as restricted cash.
Capital Assets
shall mean, with respect to any
person, all equipment, fixed assets and real Property or
improvements of such Person, or replacements or substitutions
therefor or additions thereto, that, in accordance with GAAP, have
been or should be reflected as additions to property, plant or
equipment on the balance sheet of such Person.
Capital
Expenditures shall
mean, for any period, without duplication, all expenditures
(including, without limitation, expenditures related to maintenance
and repairs) made directly or indirectly by the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries during such period for Capital Assets (whether paid in
cash or other consideration or financed by the incurrence of Debt),
but excluding (i) any portion of the increase in Capital
Assets attributable solely to acquisitions of property, plant and
equipment permitted by Section 9.03(i) ;
(ii) the Appalachian Business Investment,
(iii) additional investments by the Borrower and its
Consolidated Subsidiaries permitted by
Section 9.03(g)(ii) , and (iv) any LM
Preferred Interest Distribution Setoff amounts.
Consolidated Senior Secured
Funded Debt shall
mean, as at any date of determination, Consolidated Funded Debt
that is not Subordinated Debt and that is secured by a Lien on any
assets of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries.
Excess Cash
Flow means, for any
Excess Cash Flow Period, the sum of the following determined on a
consolidated basis, without duplication, for the Borrower and its
Consolidated Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP:
(a) Consolidated EBITDA for such period minus
(b) the sum of the following: (i) cash taxes and
Consolidated Interest Expense paid in cash for such period,
(ii) the cash amount of all permitted principal payments made
in respect of Debt during such period, (iii) all Capital
Expenditures made during such period, (iv) the cash amount of
all permitted principal payments made with respect to the Term Loan
Facility and prepayments or repayments of the Revolver Loans to the
extent that the Revolver Commitment is permanently reduced by an
equal amount at the time of such payment, (v) the cash portion
of the purchase price and other reasonable acquisition-related
costs paid by the Borrower for acquisitions permitted by
Section 9.03(i) , (vi) Transaction Costs
during such period, (vii) transaction costs and premiums paid
to purchase options permitted under Section 9.07
and (viii) investments permitted by
Section 9.03(g) (other than investments made
with the LM Preferred Interest Distribution Setoff) and
(p) plus or minus (c) any
increases or decreases in working capital.
Excess Cash Flow
Period shall mean
(i) the period taken as one accounting period from and
including July 1, 2009 and ending on December 31, 2009
and (ii) each fiscal year of Borrower thereafter.
Laurel Mountain
means the joint venture formed by
the Borrower and WFSG pursuant to the Laurel Mountain Formation and
Exchange Agreement.
Laurel Mountain Formation and
Exchange Agreement means that certain Formation and Exchange
Agreement entered into as of March 31, 2009 by and between
WFSG, Williams Laurel Mountain, LLC, the Borrower, APL Operating
and APL Laurel Mountain, LLC, as amended by Amendment No. 1
dated as of April 16, 2009.
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Laurel Mountain LLC
Agreement means that
certain Amended and Restated Limited Liability Company Agreement of
Laurel Mountain by and between Williams Laurel Mountain, LLC and
APL Laurel Mountain, LLC to be entered into upon the sale of the
Appalachian Business.
LM Preferred
Interest means the
preferred distribution rights with respect to payments made by WFSG
or a subsidiary thereof on account of the WFSG Promissory Note
issued to Laurel Mountain as part of WFSG’s capital
contribution to Laurel Mountain.
LM Preferred Interest
Distribution Setoff means any dividend, distribution, cancellation,
contribution of or setoff with respect to the LM Preferred Interest
that is applied to the payment of capital contributions otherwise
payable by the Borrower or any of its Consolidated Subsidiaries to
Laurel Mountain.
Minimum
Liquidity shall mean,
as at any date of determination, the sum of Available Cash and, so
long as at any such date of determination the conditions precedent
set forth in Section 6.02 are satisfied, the Revolver
Availability Amount.
NOARK Entities
means Atlas Arkansas, AAPL2, NOARK,
OGG and OGT.
Revolver Availability
Amount shall mean, as
at any date of determination, the excess of the aggregate of
Revolver Commitments of Revolver Lenders over the aggregate
Revolver Principal Debt of Revolver Lenders.
Senior Secured Leverage
Ratio has the meaning
given to such term in Section 9.12 .
Specified Debt
shall mean Subordinated Debt and any
senior or subordinated unsecured notes.
Transaction
Costs means all
transaction fees, charges and other amounts related to this
Agreement and any future amendments hereof or any acquisition
permitted by Section 9.03(i) or, to the extent
paid to non-Affiliates, any permitted Disposition (including,
without limitation, any financing fees, merger and acquisition
fees, legal fees and expenses, due diligence fees or any other fees
and expenses in connection therewith), all such transaction fees as
approved by the Administrative Agent, such approval not to be
unreasonably withheld.
WFSG
means Williams Field Services Group,
LLC.
WFSG Promissory
Note means that
certain $25.5 million promissory note issued by a subsidiary of
WFSG to Laurel Mountain and guaranteed by WFSG as part of the
consideration in exchange for the contribution by the Borrower and
its Consolidated Subsidiaries of the Appalachian Business to Laurel
Mountain.
(b) Section 2.04(a) of the
Credit Agreement is hereby amended to delete the final two
sentences thereof.
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(c) Section 2.12 of the Credit
Agreement is hereby deleted in its entirety; provided that
it is understood and agreed that such deletion shall not affect the
Revolving Commitments outstanding immediately prior to the
Amendment No. 2 Effective Date (for avoidance of doubt, such
Revolving Commitments include the Incremental Loan Commitments that
were provided by the Lenders party to the Increase Joinder dated
June 27, 2008 among the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and
such Lenders).
(d) Section 3.01(b)(iii) is
hereby amended by deleting it in its entirety and replacing with
the following (with changes highlighted by underlining insertions
and strikethrough text to mark deletions):
“(iii) The Borrower shall
prepay the Loans in the manner set forth in clause (vi) below
in amounts equal to with respect to any Equity Offering
consummated, commenced or announced after March 31, 2009,
(x) on or prior to September 30, 2009, fifty percent
(50%) and (y) thereafter, fifty percent (50%) (or if
the Borrower’s Leverage Ratio is less than 5.0:1.0, 0%) of
the aggregate Net Cash Proceeds from any Equity Offering by or
capital contribution to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries
other than the exercise price on stock options issued as part of
employee compensation. Such prepayment shall be made within five
(5) Business Days after the date of receipt of Net Cash
Proceeds of any such transaction.”
(e) Section 3.01(b)(iv) of the
Credit Agreement is hereby amended by deleting it in its entirety
and replacing with the following (with changes highlighted by
underlining insertions and strikethrough text to mark
deletions):
“(iv) The Borrower shall
prepay the Loans in the manner set forth in clause (vi) below
in amounts equal to one hundred percent (100%) of the
aggregate Net Cash Proceeds from any Disposition by the Borrower or
any of its Subsidiaries. Such prepayments shall be made within five
(5) Business Days after receipt of Net Cash Proceeds of any
such transaction by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries;
provided that, so long as no Default or Event of Default has
occurred and is continuing, no prepayments shall be required
hereunder (A) in connection with (x) up to $135,000,000
of aggregate Net Cash Proceeds in respect of Dispositions
consummated in the fiscal year ended December 31, 2009 and
(y) up to $50,000,000 of aggregate Net Cash Proceeds in
respect of Dispositions consummated in any fiscal year thereafter
from Dispositions (other than any Disposition pursuant to the terms
of the Pioneer Option Agreement) by the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries which is reinvested within three hundred sixty
(360) days after receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds by the
Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in similar replacement assets;
provided that such $50,000,000 basket in this clause
(y) shall not apply with respect to any Disposition if pro
forma for any such Disposition, (A) the Senior Secured
Leverage Ratio would be greater than 3.00 to 1.00 or (B) the
Minimum Liquidity would be less than or equal to $50 million, in
which case the Borrower shall be required to prepay the Loans in
the manner set forth in clause (vi) below in amounts equal to
one hundred percent (100%) of the aggregate Net Cash Proceeds
from any such Disposition by the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries or (B) in connection with Dispositions permitted
pursuant to Section 9.17 (other than
Section 9.17(f) ).”
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(f) Section 3.01(b) is hereby
amended by inserting the following clause (viii) as
follows:
“(viii) No later than five
Business Days after the date on which the financial statements with
respect to each Excess Cash Flow Period are or are required to be
delivered pursuant to Section 8.01(a) (without giving
effect to any grace period applicable thereto), the Borrower shall
promptly deliver a notice of prepayment to the Administrative Agent
and upon receipt of such notice, the Administrative Agent shall
promptly so notify the Lenders. Each prepayment of the Loans under
this clause (viii) shall be applied in the manner set forth in
clause (vi) above and in accordance with the provisions of
Section 2.07 in an aggregate amount equal to the
applicable percentage set forth at the appropriate intersection in
the table set forth below, based on the Leverage Ratio as in effect
from time to time:
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Excess Cash Flow Prepayment Percentage
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³ 5.50 to 1
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100
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%
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³ 5.00 to 1 but <5.50 to 1
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75
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%
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³ 4.00 to 1 but <5.00 to 1
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50
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%
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<4.00 to 1
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0
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%
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provided that, notwithstanding the provisions of
Section 2.07, Revolver Loans required to be repaid with Excess
Cash Flow pursuant to this clause (viii) shall not be
available to be reborrowed and the Revolver Commitment shall be
permanently reduced by the amount of such payment applied to repay
Revolver Loans.”
(g) Section 7.23 of the Credit
Agreement is hereby amended by inserting the words “the
agreements relating to Laurel Mountain, including, without
limitation, the Laurel Mountain LLC Agreement and the Laurel
Mountain Formation and Exchange Agreement and” immediately
after “(“ and immediately preceding the words
“the agreements referenced.”
(h) Section 8.07 of the Credit
Agreement is hereby amended by deleting the words
“Reserved” and replacing them with the
following:
“Section 8.07 Capital
Expenditures and Hedging Strategy Consultant . No later than 45
days after the Amendment No. 2 Effective Date, the Borrower
shall engage, at the Borrower’s expense, a consultant
reasonably acceptable to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent
to conduct a one-time review reasonably satisfactory in scope to
the Administrative Agent of the Capital Expenditures strategy and
the Hedging Agreements strategy of the Borrower and its
Consolidated Subsidiaries. Such consultant shall deliver their
report with respect to such review to the Borrower and to the
Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent shall make such
report available to the Lenders as soon