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Exhibit
10.2
Execution
Version
$100,000,000
CREDIT
AGREEMENT
dated as of December 23,
2004,
among
MAGNACHIP SEMICONDUCTOR
S.A.
and
MAGNACHIP SEMICONDUCTOR
FINANCE COMPANY
as
Borrowers,
MAGNACHIP SEMICONDUCTOR
LLC
and
THE OTHER GUARANTORS PARTY
HERETO,
as
Guarantors,
THE LENDERS PARTY
HERETO
and
UBS SECURITIES
LLC,
as Arranger, Bookmanager,
Documentation Agent and Syndication Agent,
and
KOREA EXCHANGE
BANK,
as Issuing
Bank
and
UBS AG, STAMFORD
BRANCH,
as Administrative Agent
and Collateral Agent,
and
UBS LOAN FINANCE
LLC,
as Swingline
Lender
Latham & Watkins
LLP
Sears Tower, Suite
5800
233 South Wacker
Drive
Chicago, Illinois
60606-6401
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
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Section
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Page
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| ARTICLE I |
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| DEFINITIONS |
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| SECTION
1.01 |
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Defined
Terms |
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1 |
| SECTION
1.02 |
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Classification of Loans and Borrowings |
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34 |
| SECTION
1.03 |
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Terms
Generally |
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34 |
| SECTION
1.04 |
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Accounting Terms; GAAP |
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35 |
| SECTION
1.05 |
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Resolution of Drafting Ambiguities |
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35 |
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| ARTICLE II |
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| THE CREDITS |
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| SECTION
2.01 |
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Commitments |
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35 |
| SECTION
2.02 |
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Loans |
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35 |
| SECTION
2.03 |
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Borrowing
Procedure |
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37 |
| SECTION
2.04 |
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Evidence
of Debt; Repayment of Loans |
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37 |
| SECTION
2.05 |
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Fees |
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38 |
| SECTION
2.06 |
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Interest
on Loans |
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39 |
| SECTION
2.07 |
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Termination; Reduction and Suspension of
Commitments |
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40 |
| SECTION
2.08 |
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Interest
Elections |
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40 |
| SECTION
2.09 |
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Optional
and Mandatory Prepayments of Loans. |
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41 |
| SECTION
2.10 |
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Alternate
Rate of Interest |
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44 |
| SECTION
2.11 |
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Yield
Protection |
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44 |
| SECTION
2.12 |
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Breakage
Payments |
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45 |
| SECTION
2.13 |
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Payments
Generally; Pro Rata Treatment; Sharing of Setoffs |
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46 |
| SECTION
2.14 |
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Taxes |
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48 |
| SECTION
2.15 |
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Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders |
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49 |
| SECTION
2.16 |
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Swingline
Loans |
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50 |
| SECTION
2.17 |
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Letters
of Credit |
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51 |
| SECTION
2.18 |
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Increase
in Commitments |
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57 |
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| ARTICLE III |
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| REPRESENTATIONS AND
WARRANTIES |
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| SECTION
3.01 |
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Organization; Powers |
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59 |
| SECTION
3.02 |
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Authorization; Enforceability |
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59 |
| SECTION
3.03 |
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No
Conflicts |
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59 |
| SECTION
3.04 |
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Financial
Statements; Projections |
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60 |
| SECTION
3.05 |
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Properties |
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61 |
| SECTION
3.06 |
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Intellectual Property |
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61 |
| SECTION
3.07 |
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Equity
Interests and Subsidiaries |
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62 |
| SECTION
3.08 |
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Litigation; Compliance with Laws |
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62 |
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Section
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Page
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| SECTION
3.09 |
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Agreements |
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63 |
| SECTION
3.10 |
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Federal
Reserve Regulations |
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63 |
| SECTION
3.11 |
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Investment Company Act; Public Utility Holding Company
Act |
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63 |
| SECTION
3.12 |
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Use of
Proceeds |
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63 |
| SECTION
3.13 |
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Taxes |
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63 |
| SECTION
3.14 |
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No
Material Misstatements |
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63 |
| SECTION
3.15 |
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Labor
Matters |
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64 |
| SECTION
3.16 |
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Solvency |
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64 |
| SECTION
3.17 |
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Employee
Benefit Plans |
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64 |
| SECTION
3.18 |
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Environmental Matters |
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65 |
| SECTION
3.19 |
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Insurance |
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66 |
| SECTION
3.20 |
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Security
Documents |
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66 |
| SECTION
3.21 |
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Anti-Terrorism Law |
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67 |
| SECTION
3.22 |
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Subordination of Senior Subordinated Notes |
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68 |
| SECTION
3.23 |
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UK
Financial Assistance |
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68 |
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| ARTICLE IV |
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| CONDITIONS TO CREDIT
EXTENSIONS |
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| SECTION
4.01 |
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Conditions to Initial Credit Extension |
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68 |
| SECTION
4.02 |
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Conditions to All Credit Extensions |
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74 |
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| ARTICLE V |
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| AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS |
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| SECTION
5.01 |
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Financial
Statements, Reports, etc. |
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75 |
| SECTION
5.02 |
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Litigation and Other Notices |
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78 |
| SECTION
5.03 |
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Existence; Businesses and Properties |
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78 |
| SECTION
5.04 |
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Insurance |
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79 |
| SECTION
5.05 |
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Obligations and Taxes |
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80 |
| SECTION
5.06 |
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Employee
Benefits |
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80 |
| SECTION
5.07 |
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Maintaining Records; Access to Properties and Inspections;
Annual Meetings |
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81 |
| SECTION
5.08 |
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Use of
Proceeds |
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81 |
| SECTION
5.09 |
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Compliance with Environmental Laws; Environmental
Reports |
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81 |
| SECTION
5.10 |
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Additional Collateral; Additional Guarantors |
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82 |
| SECTION
5.11 |
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Security
Interests; Further Assurances |
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83 |
| SECTION
5.12 |
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Information Regarding Collateral |
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84 |
| SECTION
5.13 |
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Post-Closing Collateral Matters |
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84 |
| SECTION
5.14 |
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Affirmative Covenants with Respect to Leases |
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85 |
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| ARTICLE VI |
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| NEGATIVE COVENANTS |
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| SECTION
6.01 |
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Indebtedness |
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85 |
| SECTION
6.02 |
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Liens |
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86 |
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Section
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| SECTION
6.03 |
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Sale and
Leaseback Transactions |
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88 |
| SECTION
6.04 |
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Investment, Loan and Advances |
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88 |
| SECTION
6.05 |
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Mergers
and Consolidations |
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90 |
| SECTION
6.06 |
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Asset
Sales |
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90 |
| SECTION
6.07 |
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Acquisitions |
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91 |
| SECTION
6.08 |
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Dividends |
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91 |
| SECTION
6.09 |
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Transactions with Affiliates |
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92 |
| SECTION
6.10 |
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Financial
Covenants. |
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93 |
| SECTION
6.11 |
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Prepayments of Other Indebtedness; Modifications of
Organizational Documents and Other Documents, etc. |
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94 |
| SECTION
6.12 |
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Limitation on Certain Restrictions on Subsidiaries |
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94 |
| SECTION
6.13 |
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Limitation on Issuance of Capital Stock |
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95 |
| SECTION
6.14 |
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Limitation on Creation of Subsidiaries |
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95 |
| SECTION
6.15 |
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Business |
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95 |
| SECTION
6.16 |
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Limitation on Accounting Changes |
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96 |
| SECTION
6.17 |
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Fiscal
Year |
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96 |
| SECTION
6.18 |
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[Intentionally Omitted] |
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96 |
| SECTION
6.19 |
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No
Further Negative Pledge |
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96 |
| SECTION
6.20 |
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Anti-Terrorism Law; Anti-Money Laundering |
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96 |
| SECTION
6.21 |
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Embargoed
Person |
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97 |
| SECTION
6.22 |
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Limitation on Finance Subsidiary |
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97 |
| SECTION
6.23 |
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Preservation of Claims Under the Korean Opco
Guarantees |
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97 |
| SECTION
6.24 |
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Liens on
Deposit Accounts and Available Cash |
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97 |
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| ARTICLE VII |
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| GUARANTEE |
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| SECTION
7.01 |
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The
Guarantee |
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98 |
| SECTION
7.02 |
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Obligations Unconditional |
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98 |
| SECTION
7.03 |
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Reinstatement |
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99 |
| SECTION
7.04 |
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Subrogation |
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99 |
| SECTION
7.05 |
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Remedies |
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99 |
| SECTION
7.06 |
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Instrument for the Payment of Money |
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100 |
| SECTION
7.07 |
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Continuing Guarantee |
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100 |
| SECTION
7.08 |
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General
Limitation on Guarantee Obligations |
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100 |
| SECTION
7.09 |
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Release
of Guarantors |
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100 |
| SECTION
7.10 |
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Provisions Applicable to Certain Guarantees |
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100 |
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| ARTICLE VIII |
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| EVENTS OF DEFAULT |
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| SECTION
8.01 |
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Events of
Default |
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100 |
| SECTION
8.02 |
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Application of Proceeds |
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103 |
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| ARTICLE IX |
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| THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND THE
COLLATERAL AGENT |
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| SECTION
9.01 |
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Appointment and Authority |
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104 |
| SECTION
9.02 |
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Rights as
a Lender |
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104 |
| SECTION
9.03 |
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Exculpatory Provisions |
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105 |
| SECTION
9.04 |
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Reliance
by Agent |
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105 |
| SECTION
9.05 |
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Delegation of Duties |
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106 |
| SECTION
9.06 |
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Resignation of Agent |
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106 |
| SECTION
9.07 |
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Non-Reliance on Agent and Other Lenders |
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106 |
| SECTION
9.08 |
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No Other
Duties, etc |
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107 |
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| ARTICLE X |
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| MISCELLANEOUS |
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| SECTION
10.01 |
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Notices |
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107 |
| SECTION
10.02 |
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Waivers;
Amendment |
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109 |
| SECTION
10.03 |
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Expenses;
Indemnity; Damage Waiver |
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112 |
| SECTION
10.04 |
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Successors and Assigns. |
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113 |
| SECTION
10.05 |
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Survival
of Agreement |
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116 |
| SECTION
10.06 |
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Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness; Electronic
Execution |
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116 |
| SECTION
10.07 |
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Severability |
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116 |
| SECTION
10.08 |
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Right of
Setoff |
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117 |
| SECTION
10.09 |
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Governing
Law; Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process |
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117 |
| SECTION
10.10 |
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Waiver of
Jury Trial |
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118 |
| SECTION
10.11 |
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Obligations Joint and Several |
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118 |
| SECTION
10.12 |
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Headings |
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118 |
| SECTION
10.13 |
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Treatment
of Certain Information; Confidentiality |
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118 |
| SECTION
10.14 |
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USA
PATRIOT Act Notice |
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119 |
| SECTION
10.15 |
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Interest
Rate Limitation |
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119 |
| SECTION
10.16 |
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Lender
Addendum |
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119 |
| SECTION
10.17 |
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Obligations Absolute |
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119 |
| SECTION
10.18 |
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Judgment
Currency |
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120 |
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| ANNEX |
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| Annex
I |
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Applicable Margin |
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| SCHEDULES |
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| Schedule
1.01(a) |
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Korean
Opco Security Documents |
| Schedule
1.01(b) |
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Material
Indebtedness |
| Schedule
1.01(c) |
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Refinancing Indebtedness to Be Repaid |
| Schedule
1.01(d) |
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Subsidiary Guarantors |
| Schedule
2.17 |
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Existing
Letters of Credit |
| Schedule
3.03 |
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Governmental Approvals; Compliance with Laws |
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| Schedule
3.05(b) |
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Real
Property |
| Schedule
3.06(b) |
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Intellectual Property Registrations |
| Schedule
3.06(c) |
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Violations or Proceedings |
| Schedule
3.07(a) |
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Equity
Interests |
| Schedule
3.07(c) |
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Corporate
Organizational Chart |
| Schedule
3.18 |
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Environmental Matters |
| Schedule
3.19 |
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Insurance |
| Schedule
4.01(g) |
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Local
Counsel |
| Schedule
4.01(n) |
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Intercompany Loan Documents |
| Schedule
4.01(o)(iii) |
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Title
Insurance Amounts |
| Schedule
4.01(r)(i) |
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Korean
Opco Guarantee |
| Schedule
5.13 |
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Post-Closing Matters |
| Schedule
6.01(b) |
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Existing
Indebtedness |
| Schedule
6.02(c) |
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Existing
Liens |
| Schedule
6.04(b) |
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Existing
Investments |
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| EXHIBITS |
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| Exhibit
A |
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Form of
Administrative Questionnaire |
| Exhibit
B |
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Form of
Assignment and Assumption |
| Exhibit
C |
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Form of
Borrowing Request |
| Exhibit
D |
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Form of
Compliance Certificate |
| Exhibit
E |
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Form of
Interest Election Request |
| Exhibit
F |
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Form of
Joinder Agreement |
| Exhibit
G |
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Form of
Landlord Access Agreement |
| Exhibit
H |
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Form of
LC Request |
| Exhibit
I |
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Form of
Lender Addendum |
| Exhibit
J |
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[Intentionally Omitted] |
| Exhibit
K-1 |
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Form of
Revolving Note |
| Exhibit
K-2 |
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Form of
Swingline Note |
| Exhibit
L-1 |
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Form of
Perfection Certificate |
| Exhibit
L-2 |
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Form of
Perfection Certificate Supplement |
| Exhibit
M |
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Form of
Security Agreement |
| Exhibit
N |
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Form of
Opinion of Company Counsel |
| Exhibit
O |
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Form of
Solvency Certificate |
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CREDIT
AGREEMENT
This CREDIT AGREEMENT (this
“ Agreement ”) dated as of December 23, 2004,
among MAGNACHIP SEMICONDUCTOR S.A., a société
anonyme , organized and existing under the laws of the Grand
Duchy of Luxembourg, having its registered office at 10, rue de
Vianden, L-2680 Luxembourg, Grand Duchy of Luxembourg, registered
with the Luxembourg Register of commerce and companies under the
number B 97,483, MAGNACHIP SEMICONDUCTOR FINANCE COMPANY, a
Delaware corporation (collectively, “ Borrowers
”), MAGNACHIP SEMICONDUCTOR LLC, a Delaware limited liability
company (“ Holdings ”), the Subsidiary
Guarantors listed on the signature pages hereto (such term and each
other capitalized term used but not defined herein having the
meaning given to it in Article I ), the Lenders, UBS
SECURITIES LLC, as lead arranger (in such capacity, “
Arranger ”), as documentation agent (in such capacity,
“ Documentation Agent ”) and as syndication
agent (in such capacity, “ Syndication Agent ”),
UBS LOAN FINANCE LLC, as swingline lender (in such capacity,
“ Swingline Lender ”), and KOREA EXCHANGE BANK,
as issuing bank (in such capacity, “ Issuing Bank
”), UBS AG, STAMFORD BRANCH, as administrative agent (in such
capacity, “ Administrative Agent ”) for the
Lenders and as collateral agent (in such capacity, “
Collateral Agent ”) for the Secured Parties and the
Issuing Bank.
WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS, Borrowers have
requested the Lenders to extend credit in the form of Revolving
Loans at any time and from time to time prior to the Revolving
Maturity Date, in an aggregate principal amount at any time
outstanding not in excess of $100,000,000, none of which may be
drawn on the Closing Date.
WHEREAS, Borrowers have
requested the Swingline Lender to make Swingline Loans, at any time
and from time to time prior to the Revolving Maturity Date, in an
aggregate principal amount at any time outstanding not in excess of
$10,000,000.
WHEREAS, Borrowers have
requested the Issuing Bank to issue letters of credit, in an
aggregate face amount at any time outstanding not in excess of
$40,000,000, to support payment obligations incurred in the
ordinary course of business by Borrowers and their
Subsidiaries.
WHEREAS, the proceeds of the
Loans are to be used in accordance with Section 3.12
.
NOW, THEREFORE, the Lenders
are willing to extend such credit to Borrowers and the Issuing Bank
is willing to issue letters of credit for the account of Borrowers
on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein.
Accordingly, the parties hereto agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
SECTION 1.01
Defined Terms . As used in this Agreement, the
following terms shall have the meanings specified below:
“ ABR ”,
when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, is used when such
Loan, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, are bearing interest
at a rate determined by reference to the Alternate Base
Rate.
“ ABR Borrowing
” shall mean a Borrowing comprised of ABR Revolving
Loans.
“ ABR Revolving
Loan ” shall mean any Revolving Loan bearing interest at
a rate determined by reference to the Alternate Base Rate in
accordance with the provisions of Article II .
“ Acquired
Business ” means the System IC division of Hynix
Semiconductor acquired by Korean Opco pursuant to the
Acquisition.
“ Acquisition
” shall mean the purchase of System IC division from Hynix
Semiconductor Inc. by Korean Opco.
“ Acquisition
Consideration ” shall mean the purchase consideration for
any Permitted Acquisition and all other payments by Holdings or any
of its Subsidiaries in exchange for, or as part of, or in
connection with, any Permitted Acquisition, whether paid in cash or
by exchange of Equity Interests or of properties or otherwise and
whether payable at or prior to the consummation of such Permitted
Acquisition or deferred for payment at any future time, whether or
not any such future payment is subject to the occurrence of any
contingency, and includes any and all payments representing the
purchase price and any assumptions of Indebtedness,
“earn-outs” and other agreements to make any payment
the amount of which is, or the terms of payment of which are, in
any respect subject to or contingent upon the revenues, income,
cash flow or profits (or the like) of any person or business;
provided that any such future payment that is subject to a
contingency shall be considered Acquisition Consideration only to
the extent of the reserve, if any, required under GAAP at the time
of such sale to be established in respect thereof by Holdings or
any of its Subsidiaries.
“ Adjusted LIBOR
Rate ” shall mean, with respect to any Eurodollar
Borrowing for any Interest Period, (a) an interest rate per annum
(rounded upward, if necessary, to the nearest 1/100th of 1%)
determined by the Administrative Agent to be equal to the LIBOR
Rate for such Eurodollar Borrowing in effect for such Interest
Period divided by (b) 1 minus the Statutory Reserves (if
any) for such Eurodollar Borrowing for such Interest
Period.
“ Administrative
Agent ” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in
the preamble hereto and includes each other person appointed as the
successor pursuant to Article X .
“ Administrative
Agent Fees ” shall have the meaning assigned to such term
in Section 2.05(b) .
“ Administrative
Questionnaire ” shall mean an Administrative
Questionnaire in substantially the form of Exhibit A
.
“ Affiliate
” shall mean, when used with respect to a specified 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; provided, however , that,
for purposes of Section 6.09 , the term
“Affiliate” shall also include (i) any person that
directly or indirectly owns more than 10% of any class of Equity
Interests of the person specified or (ii) any person that is an
executive officer or director of the person specified.
“ Agents ”
shall mean the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent; and
“ Agent ” shall mean any of them.
“ Agreement
” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the
preamble hereto.
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“ Alternate Base
Rate ” shall mean, for any day, a rate per annum (rounded
upward, if necessary, to the nearest 1/100th of 1%) equal to the
greater of (a) the Base Rate in effect on such day and (b) the
Federal Funds Effective Rate in effect on such day plus
0.50%. If the Administrative Agent shall have determined (which
determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error) that it is
unable to ascertain the Federal Funds Effective Rate for any
reason, including the inability or failure of the Administrative
Agent to obtain sufficient quotations in accordance with the terms
of the definition thereof, the Alternate Base Rate shall be
determined without regard to clause (b) of the preceding sentence
until the circumstances giving rise to such inability no longer
exist. Any change in the Alternate Base Rate due to a change in the
Base Rate or the Federal Funds Effective Rate shall be effective on
the effective date of such change in the Base Rate or the Federal
Funds Effective Rate, respectively.
“ Alternative
Currency ” shall mean each of Pound Sterling, Euro, Yen,
and each other currency (other than Dollars) that is approved by
the Administrative Agent and the Issuing Bank in their sole
discretion.
“ Alternative
Currency Letter of Credit ” means a Letter of Credit
denominated in an Alternative Currency.
“ Anti-Terrorism
Laws ” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 3.21 .
“ Applicable Fee
” shall mean .50% per annum.
“ Applicable
Margin ” shall mean, for any day, with respect to any
Revolving Loan, the applicable percentage set forth in Annex
I under the appropriate caption.
“ Approved Fund
” shall mean 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.
“ Arranger
” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the
preamble hereto.
“ Asset Sale
” shall mean (a) any conveyance, sale, assignment, transfer
or other disposition (including by way of merger or consolidation,
any lease, sublease, license or sublicense that is in effect a
disposition and any Sale and Leaseback Transaction) of any property
excluding sales of inventory, dispositions of cash equivalents and
Intellectual Property licenses, in each case, in the ordinary
course of business, by Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries and (b)
any issuance or sale of any Equity Interests of any Subsidiary of
Holdings, in each case, to any person other than (i) any Borrower
or (ii) any Subsidiary Guarantor.
“ Assignment and
Assumption ” shall mean an assignment and assumption
entered into by a Lender and an Eligible Assignee (with the consent
of any party whose consent is required by Section 10.04(b)
), and accepted by the Administrative Agent, in substantially the
form of Exhibit B , or any other form approved by the
Administrative Agent.
“ Attributable
Indebtedness ” shall mean, when used with respect to any
Sale and Leaseback Transaction, as at the time of determination,
the present value (discounted at a rate equivalent to
Borrowers’ then-current weighted average cost of funds for
borrowed money as at the time of determination, compounded on a
semi-annual basis) of the total obligations of the lessee for
rental payments during the remaining term of the lease included in
any such Sale and Leaseback Transaction.
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“ Bailee Letter
” shall have the meaning assigned thereto in the Security
Agreement.
“ Base Rate
” shall mean, for any day, a rate per annum that is equal to
the corporate base rate of interest established by the
Administrative Agent from time to time; each change in the Base
Rate shall be effective on the date such change is effective. The
corporate base rate is not necessarily the lowest rate charged by
the Administrative Agent to its customers.
“ Board ”
shall mean the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of
the United States.
“ Board of
Directors ” shall mean, with respect to any person, (i)
in the case of any corporation, the board of directors of such
person, (ii) in the case of any limited liability company, the
board of managers of such person, (iii) in the case of any
partnership, the Board of Directors of the general partner of such
person and (iv) in any other case, the functional equivalent of the
foregoing.
“ Borrowers
” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the
preamble hereto.
“ Borrowing
” shall mean (a) Loans of the same Class and Type, made,
converted or continued on the same date and, in the case of
Eurodollar Loans, as to which a single Interest Period is in
effect, or (b) a Swingline Loan.
“ Borrowing
Request ” shall mean a request by any Borrower in
accordance with the terms of Section 2.03 and substantially
in the form of Exhibit C , or such other form as shall be
approved by the Administrative Agent.
“ Business Day
” shall mean any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other
day on which banks in New York City are authorized or required by
law to close. provided, however , that when used in
connection with a Eurodollar Loan, the term “Business
Day” shall also exclude any day on which banks are not open
for dealings in dollar deposits in the London interbank
market.
“ Capital
Expenditures ” shall mean, for any period, without
duplication, the increase during that period in the gross property,
plant or equipment account in the consolidated balance sheet of
Holdings and its Subsidiaries, determined in accordance with GAAP,
whether such increase is due to purchase of properties for cash or
financed by the incurrence of Indebtedness, but excluding (i)
expenditures made in connection with the replacement, substitution
or restoration of property pursuant to Section 2.09(f) and
(ii) any portion of such increase attributable solely to
acquisitions of property, plant and equipment in Permitted
Acquisitions.
“ Capital Lease
Obligations ” of any person shall mean 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 the amount of such obligations
shall be the capitalized amount thereof determined in accordance
with GAAP.
“ Cash
Equivalents ” shall mean, as to any person, (a) Dollars,
Korean Won, Pound Sterling, Hong Kong dollars, New Taiwan dollars,
Euros and Japanese Yen; (b) securities issued or directly and fully
guaranteed or insured by the United States government, Korean
government, EU member states with a sovereign credit rating of A or
better, the Japanese government, the Taiwan government, the Hong
Kong government, or any agency or instrumentality of any such
government (provided that the full faith and credit of any such
government is pledged in support of those securities) having
maturities of not more
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than one year from the date of
acquisition; (c) Dollar denominated and Korean Won denominated
certificates of deposit, eurodollar time deposits and other similar
instruments in the United States, Hong Kong, Taiwan and Japan with
maturities of one year or less from the date of acquisition,
bankers’ acceptances with maturities not exceeding one year
and overnight bank deposits, in each case, with any Lender or with
any domestic commercial bank having capital and surplus in excess
of $500.0 million and a Thomson Bank Watch Rating of
“B” or better or comparable rating by a comparable
rating agency in the relevant jurisdiction if a Moody’s or
S&P rating is unavailable, (d) repurchase obligations with a
term of not more than seven days for underlying securities of the
types described in clauses (b) and (c) above entered into with any
financial institution meeting the qualifications specified in
clause (c) above; (e) commercial paper having one of the three
highest ratings obtainable from S&P and one of the two highest
ratings obtainable from Moody’s or comparable rating by a
comparable rating agency in the relevant jurisdiction if a
Moody’s or S&P rating is unavailable and, in each case,
maturing within one year after the date of acquisition; and (f)
money market funds at least 95% of the assets of which constitute
Cash Equivalents of the kinds described in clauses (a) through (f)
of this definition.
“ Cash Interest
Expense ” shall mean, for any period, Consolidated
Interest Expense for such period, less the sum of (a)
interest on any debt paid by the increase in the principal amount
of such debt including by issuance of additional debt of such kind,
(b) items described in clause (c) or, other than to the extent paid
in cash, clause (g) of the definition of “Consolidated
Interest Expense” and (c) gross interest income of Holdings
and its Subsidiaries for such period.
“ Casualty Escrow
Account ” shall mean an escrow account pledged to the
Collateral Agent as additional collateral for the Secured
Obligations pursuant to documentation in form and substance
satisfactory to the Collateral Agent.
“ Casualty Event
” shall mean any loss of title or any loss of or damage to or
destruction of, or any condemnation or other taking (including by
any Governmental Authority) of, any property of Holdings or any of
its Subsidiaries. “Casualty Event” shall include but
not be limited to any taking of all or any part of any Real
Property of any person or any part thereof, in or by condemnation
or other eminent domain proceedings pursuant to any Requirement of
Law, or by reason of the temporary requisition of the use or
occupancy of all or any part of any Real Property of any person or
any part thereof by any Governmental Authority, civil or military,
or any settlement in lieu thereof.
“ CERCLA ”
shall mean the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation,
and Liability Act of 1980, as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 9601 et
seq and any implementing regulations.
A “ Change in
Control ” shall be deemed to have occurred if:
(a) Holdings at any time
ceases to own 99% of the Equity Interests of Lux Borrower, 100% of
the Equity Interests of the U.S. Sales Subsidiary or 100% of the
Equity Interests of MagnaChip SA Holdings,
(b) MagnaChip SA Holdings
ceases to own 1 % of the Equity Interests of Lux
Borrower;
(c) Lux Borrower ceases to
own 100% of the Equity Interests of each of Dutch Holdco, MagnaChip
Semiconductor Finance Company or any Foreign Sales
Subsidiary;
(d) Dutch Holdco ceases to
own 100% of the Equity Interests of Korean Opco;
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(e) at any time a change of
control occurs under any Material Indebtedness;
(f) prior to an IPO, (i) the
Permitted Holders cease to own, or to have the power to vote or
direct the voting of, Voting Stock of Holdings representing a
majority of the voting power of the total outstanding Voting Stock
of Holdings or (ii) the Permitted Holders cease to own Equity
Interests representing a majority of the total economic interests
of the Equity Interests of Holdings;
(g) following an IPO, (i) the
Post IPO Permitted Holders shall fail to own, or to have the power
to vote or direct the voting of, Voting Stock of Holdings
representing more than 25% of the voting power of the total
outstanding Voting Stock of Holdings, (ii) the Post IPO Permitted
Holders cease to own Equity Interests representing more than 25% of
the total economic interests of the Equity Interests of Holdings or
(iii) any “person” or “group” (as such
terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act),
other than one or more Permitted Holders, is or becomes the
beneficial owner (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the
Exchange Act, except that for purposes of this clause such 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), directly or indirectly, of Voting Stock
of Holdings representing more than 25% of the voting power of the
total outstanding Voting Stock of Holdings; or
(h) following an IPO, during
any period of two consecutive years, individuals who at the
beginning of such period constituted the Board of Directors of
Holdings (together with any new directors whose election to such
Board of Directors or whose nomination for election was approved by
a vote of a majority of the members of the Board of Directors of
Holdings, which members comprising such majority are then still in
office and were either directors at the beginning of such period or
whose election or nomination for election was previously so
approved) cease for any reason to constitute a majority of the
Board of Directors of Holdings.
For purposes of this
definition, a person shall not be deemed to have beneficial
ownership of Equity Interests subject to a stock purchase
agreement, merger agreement or similar agreement until the
consummation of the transactions contemplated by such
agreement.
“ Change in Law
” shall mean the occurrence, after the date of this
Agreement, of any of the following: (a) the adoption or taking into
effect of any law, treaty, order, policy, rule or regulation, (b)
any change in any law, treaty, order, policy, rule or regulation 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.
“ Charges
” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section
10.15 .
“ Class ,”
when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether
such Loan, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, are Revolving
Loans, Term Loans or Swingline Loans and, when used in reference to
any Commitment, refers to whether such Commitment is a Revolving
Commitment, Term Loan Commitment or Swingline Commitment, in each
case, under this Agreement, as originally in effect or pursuant to
Section 2.18 , of which such Loan, Borrowing or Commitment
shall be a part.
“ Clearing House
” shall mean the means the Seoul Clearing House, an
institution appointed by the Minster of the Ministry of Justice of
Korea pursuant to Article 83 of the Bills of Exchange
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and Promissory Notes Law of Korea and
Article 69 of the Cheques Law of Korea and operated by the Korea
Financial Telecommunications and Clearing Institute for settlement
activities by way of exchange of bills of exchange, promissory
notes and cheques in Korea.
“ Closing Date
” shall mean the date of the initial Credit Extension
hereunder.
“ Code ”
shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time
to time.
“ Collateral
” shall mean, collectively, all of the Security Agreement
Collateral, the Mortgaged Property and all other property wherever
situate of whatever kind and nature subject or purported to be
subject from time to time to a Lien under any Security
Document.
“ Collateral
Agent ” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in
the preamble hereto.
“ Collateral Trust
Agreement ” shall mean that certain Collateral Trust
Agreement dated as of the date hereof by and among the
Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, the Senior Secured
Notes Trustee, Korean Opco and the Collateral Trustee.
“ Collateral
Trustee ” shall mean U.S. Bank National Association, its
successors and assigns.
“ Collateral Trust
Documents ” shall mean the Collateral Trust Agreement and
all other documents executed and delivered in connection therewith
relating to the granting of liens or the issuance of guarantees by
Korean Opco.
“ Commercial Letter
of Credit ” shall mean any letter of credit or similar
instrument issued for the purpose of providing credit support in
connection with the purchase of materials, goods or services by
Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of
their businesses.
“ Commitment
” shall mean, with respect to any Lender, such Lender’s
Revolving Commitment or Swingline Commitment or any Commitment to
make Term Loans of a new Class extended by such Lender as provided
in Section 2.18 .
“ Commitment Fee
” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section
2.05(a) .
“ Companies
” shall mean Holdings and its Subsidiaries; and “
Company ” shall mean any one of them.
“ Compliance
Certificate ” shall mean a certificate of a Financial
Officer substantially in the form of Exhibit D .
“ Consolidated
Amortization Expense ” shall mean, for any period, the
amortization expense of Holdings and its Subsidiaries for such
period, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with
GAAP.
“ Consolidated
Depreciation Expense ” shall mean, for any period, the
depreciation expense of Holdings and its Subsidiaries for such
period, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with
GAAP.
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“ Consolidated
EBITDA ” shall mean, for any period, Consolidated Net
Income for such period, adjusted by (x) adding thereto , in
each case only to the extent (and in the same proportion) deducted
in determining such Consolidated Net Income (and with respect to
the portion of Consolidated Net Income attributable to any
Subsidiary of Holdings only if a corresponding amount would be
permitted at the date of determination to be distributed to a
Borrower by such Subsidiary without prior approval (that has not
been obtained), pursuant to the terms of its Organizational
Documents and all agreements, instruments and Requirements of Law
applicable to such Subsidiary or its equityholders):
(a) Consolidated Interest
Expense for such period,
(b) Consolidated Amortization
Expense for such period,
(c) Consolidated Depreciation
Expense for such period,
(d) Consolidated Tax Expense
for such period plus the amount of any Permitted Tax Distributions
made by Holdings pursuant to Section 6.08(c) ,
(e) costs and expenses
directly incurred in connection with the Transactions in an
aggregate amount not to exceed $26 million, and
(f) the aggregate amount of
all other non-cash charges reducing Consolidated Net Income
(excluding any non-cash charge that results in an accrual of a
reserve for cash charges in any future period) for such period,
and
(y) subtracting therefrom the
aggregate amount of all non-cash items increasing Consolidated Net
Income (other than the accrual of revenue or recording of
receivables in the ordinary course of business) for such
period.
Consolidated EBITDA shall be
calculated on a Pro Forma Basis to give effect to any Permitted
Acquisition and Asset Sales (other than any dispositions in the
ordinary course of business) consummated at any time on or after
the first day of the Test Period thereof as if each such Permitted
Acquisition had been effected on the first day of such period and
as if each such Asset Sale had been consummated on the day prior to
the first day of such period.
For purposes of determining
Consolidated EBITDA for any Test Period that includes the quarterly
periods ending June 30, 2004 or September 30, 2004, the
Consolidated EBITDA for each such quarterly period shall be deemed
to be $99,067,000.
“ Consolidated
Indebtedness ” shall mean, as at any date of
determination, the aggregate amount of all Indebtedness and all LC
Exposure of Holdings and its Subsidiaries, determined on a
consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.
“ Consolidated
Interest Coverage Ratio ” shall mean, for any Test
Period, the ratio of (x) Consolidated EBITDA for such Test Period
to (y) Consolidated Interest Expense for such Test
Period.
“ Consolidated
Interest Coverage Ratio (Excluding CapEx) ” shall mean,
for any Test Period, the ratio of (x) Consolidated EBITDA for such
Test Period minus Capital Expenditures made during such Test
Period to (y) Consolidated Interest Expense for such Test Period.
For purposes of determining Capital Expenditures for the Test
Periods ending on March 31, 2005, June 30, 2005 and September 30,
2005, Capital Expenditures for such Test Periods shall be computed
as follows: (i) for the Test
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Period ending March 31, 2005 Capital
Expenditures shall equal four times the amount of Capital
Expenditures for the period commencing January 1, 2005 and ending
March 31, 2005, (ii) for the Test Period Ending June 30, 2005
Capital Expenditures shall equal two times the amount of Capital
Expenditures for the period commencing January 1, 2005 and ending
June 30, 2005 and (iii) for the Test Period Ending September 30,
2005, Capital Expenditures shall equal one and one-third times the
amount of Capital Expenditures for the period commencing January 1,
2005 and ending September 30, 2005
“ Consolidated
Interest Expense ” shall mean, for any period, the total
consolidated interest expense of Holdings and its Subsidiaries for
such period determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with
GAAP plus , without duplication:
(a) imputed interest on
Capital Lease Obligations and Attributable Indebtedness of Holdings
and its Subsidiaries for such period;
(b) commissions, discounts
and other fees and charges owed by Holdings or any of its
Subsidiaries with respect to letters of credit securing financial
obligations, bankers’ acceptance financing and receivables
financings for such period;
(c) amortization of debt
issuance costs, debt discount or premium and other financing fees
and expenses incurred by any Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries
for such period;
(d) cash contributions to any
employee stock ownership plan or similar trust made by Holdings or
any of its Subsidiaries to the extent such contributions are used
by such plan or trust to pay interest or fees to any person (other
than any Borrower or a Wholly Owned Subsidiary) in connection with
Indebtedness incurred by such plan or trust for such
period;
(e) all interest paid or
payable with respect to discontinued operations of Holdings or any
of its Subsidiaries for such period;
(f) the interest portion of
any deferred payment obligations of Holdings or any of its
Subsidiaries for such period;
(g) all interest on any
Indebtedness of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries of the type
described in clause (f) or (k) of the definition of
“Indebtedness” for such period ;
provided that (a) to the extent
directly related to the Transactions, debt issuance costs, debt
discount or premium and other financing fees and expenses shall be
excluded from the calculation of Consolidated Interest Expense and
(b) Consolidated Interest Expense shall be calculated after giving
effect to Hedging Agreements (including associated costs), but
excluding unrealized gains and losses with respect to Hedging
Agreements.
Consolidated Interest Expense
shall be calculated on a Pro Forma Basis to give effect to any
Indebtedness incurred, assumed or permanently repaid or
extinguished during the relevant Test Period in connection with any
Permitted Acquisitions and Asset Sales (other than any dispositions
in the ordinary course of business) as if such incurrence,
assumption, repayment or extinguishing had been effected on the
first day of such period.
For purposes of determining
Consolidated Interest Expense for the Test Periods ending on March
31, 2005, June 30, 2005 and September 30, 2005, Consolidated
Interest Expense for such Test Periods shall be computed as
follows: (i) for the Test Period ending March 31, 2005 Consolidated
Interest
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Expense shall equal four times the
amount of Consolidated Interest Expense for the period commencing
January 1, 2005 and ending March 31, 2005, (ii) for the Test Period
Ending June 30, 2005 Consolidated Interest Expense shall equal two
times the amount of Consolidated Interest Expense for the period
commencing January 1, 2005 and ending June 30, 2005 and (iii) for
the Test Period Ending September 30, 2005, Consolidated Interest
Expense shall equal one and one-third times the amount of
Consolidated Interest Expense for the period commencing January 1,
2005 and ending September 30, 2005.
Consolidated Interest Expense
for any period shall exclude interest expense for such period with
respect to the Korean Opco Cash Collateralized Acquisition Debt to
the extent of income earned during such period on the cash
collateral posted as security for such Indebtedness.
“ Consolidated Net
Income ” shall mean, for any period, the consolidated net
income (or loss) of Holdings and its Subsidiaries determined on a
consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP; provided that
there shall be excluded from such net income (to the extent
otherwise included therein), without duplication:
(a) the net income (or loss)
of any person (other than a Subsidiary of Holdings) in which any
person other than Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries has an
ownership interest, except to the extent that cash in an amount
equal to any such income has actually been received by such
Borrower or (subject to clause (b) below) such Subsidiary during
such period;
(b) the net income of any
Subsidiary of Holdings during such period to the extent that the
declaration or payment of dividends or similar distributions by
such Subsidiary of that income is not permitted by operation of the
terms of its Organizational Documents or any agreement, instrument
or Requirement of Law applicable to that Subsidiary during such
period, except that Borrowers’ equity in net loss of any such
Subsidiary for such period shall be included in determining
Consolidated Net Income;
(c) any gain (or loss),
together with any related provisions for taxes on any such gain (or
the tax effect of any such loss), realized during such period by
Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries upon any Asset Sale (other than
any dispositions in the ordinary course of business) by any
Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries;
(d) gains and losses due
solely to fluctuations in currency values and the related tax
effects determined in accordance with GAAP for such
period;
(e) unrealized gains and
losses with respect to Hedging Obligations for such period;
and
(f) any extraordinary gain
(or extraordinary loss), together with any related provision for
taxes on any such gain (or the tax effect of any such loss),
recorded or recognized by Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries
during such period.
For purposes of this
definition of “Consolidated Net Income,” Consolidated
Net Income shall be reduced (to the extent not already reduced
thereby) by the amount of any Permitted Tax Distributions made by
Holdings pursuant to Section 6.08(c) .
“ Consolidated Tax
Expense ” shall mean, for any period, the tax expense of
Holdings and its Subsidiaries, for such period, determined on a
consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.
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“ Contested
Collateral Lien Conditions ” shall mean, with respect to
any Permitted Lien of the type described in clauses (a), (b), (e)
and (f) of Section 6.02 , the following
conditions:
(a) Borrowers shall cause any
proceeding instituted contesting such Lien to stay the sale or
forfeiture of any portion of the Collateral on account of such
Lien;
(b) at the option and at the
request of the Administrative Agent, to the extent such Lien is in
an amount in excess of $3,000,000, the appropriate Loan Party shall
maintain cash reserves in an amount sufficient to pay and discharge
such Lien and the Administrative Agent’s reasonable estimate
of all interest and penalties related thereto; and
(c) such Lien shall in all
respects be subject and subordinate in priority to the Lien and
security interest created and evidenced by the Security Documents,
except if and to the extent that the Requirement of Law creating,
permitting or authorizing such Lien provides that such Lien is or
must be superior to the Lien and security interest created and
evidenced by the Security Documents.
“ Contingent
Obligation ” shall mean, as to any person, any
obligation, agreement, understanding or arrangement of such person
guaranteeing or intended to guarantee any Indebtedness, leases,
dividends or other obligations (“ primary obligations
”) of any other person (the “ primary obligor
”) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, including
any obligation of such person, whether or not contingent, (a) to
purchase any such primary obligation or any property constituting
direct or indirect security therefor; (b) to advance or supply
funds (i) for the purchase or payment of any such primary
obligation or (ii) to maintain working capital or equity capital of
the primary obligor or otherwise to maintain the net worth or
solvency of the primary obligor; (c) to purchase property,
securities or services primarily for the purpose of assuring the
owner of any such primary obligation of the ability of the primary
obligor to make payment of such primary obligation; (d) with
respect to bankers’ acceptances, letters of credit and
similar credit arrangements, until a reimbursement obligation
arises (which reimbursement obligation shall constitute
Indebtedness); or (e) otherwise to assure or hold harmless the
holder of such primary obligation against loss in respect thereof;
provided, however , that the term “Contingent
Obligation” shall not include endorsements of instruments for
deposit or collection in the ordinary course of business or any
product warranties. The amount of any Contingent Obligation shall
be deemed to be an amount equal to the stated or determinable
amount of the primary obligation in respect of which such
Contingent Obligation is made (or, if less, the maximum amount of
such primary obligation for which such person may be liable,
whether singly or jointly, pursuant to the terms of the instrument
evidencing such Contingent Obligation) or, if not stated or
determinable, the maximum reasonably anticipated liability in
respect thereof (assuming such person is required to perform
thereunder) as determined by such person in good faith.
“ Control
” shall mean 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 ownership of voting
securities, by contract or otherwise, and the terms “
Controlling ” and “ Controlled ”
shall have meanings correlative thereto.
“ Controlled
Investment Affiliate ” means, as to any person, any other
person which directly or indirectly is in Control of, is Controlled
by, or is under common Control with, such person and is organized
by such person (or any person Controlling such person) primarily
for making equity or debt investments in Holdings or other
portfolio companies.
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“ Credit
Extension ” shall mean, as the context may require, (i)
the making of a Loan by a Lender or (ii) the issuance of any Letter
of Credit, or the amendment, extension or renewal of any existing
Letter of Credit, by the Issuing Bank.
“ CRPL ”
shall mean the Corporate Restructuring Promotion Law of Korea (Law
Number 06504 (enacted in 2001)) and all regulations, rules and
decrees promulgated under the CRPL and any successor statute or
law.
“ Debt Issuance
” shall mean the incurrence by Holdings or any of its
Subsidiaries of any Indebtedness after the Closing Date (other than
as permitted by Section 6.01 ).
“ Debt Service
” shall mean, for any period, Cash Interest Expense for such
period plus scheduled principal amortization of all Indebtedness
for such period.
“ Default
” shall mean any event, occurrence or condition which is, or
upon notice, lapse of time or both would constitute, an Event of
Default.
“ Default Rate
” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section
2.06(c) .
“ Disqualified
Capital Stock ” shall mean any Equity Interest which, by
its terms (or by the terms of any security into which it is
convertible or for which it is exchangeable), or upon the happening
of any event, (a) matures (excluding any maturity as the result of
an optional redemption by the issuer thereof) or is mandatorily
redeemable, pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise, or
is redeemable at the option of the holder thereof, in whole or in
part, on or prior to the first anniversary of the Revolving
Maturity Date, (b) is convertible into or exchangeable (unless at
the sole option of the issuer thereof) for (i) debt securities or
(ii) any Equity Interests referred to in (a) above, in each case at
any time on or prior to the first anniversary of the Revolving
Maturity Date, or (c) contains any repurchase obligation which may
come into effect prior to payment in full of all Obligations;
provided, however , that any Equity Interests that would not
constitute Disqualified Capital Stock but for provisions thereof
giving holders thereof (or the holders of any security into or for
which such Equity Interests is convertible, exchangeable or
exercisable) the right to require the issuer thereof to redeem such
Equity Interests upon the occurrence of a change in control or an
asset sale occurring prior to the first anniversary of the
Revolving Maturity Date shall not constitute Disqualified Capital
Stock if such Equity Interests provide that the issuer thereof will
not redeem any such Equity Interests pursuant to such provisions
prior to the repayment in full of the Obligations.
“ Dividend
” with respect to any person shall mean that such person has
declared or paid a dividend or returned any equity capital to the
holders of its Equity Interests or authorized or made any other
distribution, payment or delivery of property (other than Qualified
Capital Stock of such person) or cash to the holders of its Equity
Interests as such, or redeemed, retired, purchased or otherwise
acquired, directly or indirectly, for consideration any of its
Equity Interests outstanding (or any options or warrants issued by
such person with respect to its Equity Interests), or set aside any
funds for any of the foregoing purposes, or shall have permitted
any of its Subsidiaries to purchase or otherwise acquire for
consideration any of the Equity Interests of such person
outstanding (or any options or warrants issued by such person with
respect to its Equity Interests). Without limiting the foregoing,
“Dividends” with respect to any person shall also
include all payments made or required to be made by such person
with respect to any stock appreciation rights, plans, equity
incentive or achievement plans or any similar plans or setting
aside of any funds for the foregoing purposes.
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“ Documentation
Agent ” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in
the preamble hereto.
“ Dutch Holdco
” shall mean MagnaChip Semiconductor B.V., a Dutch privately
held limited liability company.
“ Dollars
” or “ $ ” shall mean lawful money of the
United States.
“ Dollar
Equivalent ” means, at any time, (a) with respect to any
amount denominated in Dollars, such amount, and (b) with respect to
any amount denominated in any Alternative Currency, the equivalent
amount thereof in Dollars as determined by the Administrative Agent
or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, at such time on the basis
of the Spot Rate (determined in respect of the most recent
Revaluation Date) for the purchase of Dollars with such Alternative
Currency.
“ Eligible
Assignee ” shall mean (a) if the assignment does not
include assignment of a Revolving Commitment, (i) any Lender, (ii)
an Affiliate of any Lender, (iii) an Approved Fund and (iv) any
other person approved by the Administrative Agent and Borrowers
(each such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) and
(b) if the assignment includes assignment of a Revolving
Commitment, (i) any Revolving Lender, (ii) an Affiliate of any
Revolving Lender, (iii) an Approved Fund of a Revolving Lender and
(iv) any other person approved by the Administrative Agent, the
Issuing Bank, the Swingline Lender and Borrowers (each such
approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed);
provided that in the case of each of clauses (i) and (ii),
(x) no approval of any Borrower shall be required during the
continuance of a Default and (y) ”Eligible Assignee”
shall not include any Borrower or any of its Affiliates or
Subsidiaries or any natural person.
“ Embargoed
Person ” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 6.21 .
“ Environment
” shall mean ambient air, surface water and groundwater
(including potable water, navigable water and wetlands), the land
surface and subsurface strata, natural resources, the workplace,
and any other area or medium in any Environmental Law.
“ Environmental
Claim ” shall mean any claim, notice, demand, order,
action, suit, proceeding or other communication alleging liability
for an obligation with respect to any investigation, remediation,
removal, cleanup, response, corrective action, damages to natural
resources, personal injury, property damage, fines, penalties or
other costs resulting from, related to or arising out of (i) the
presence, Release or threatened Release in or into the Environment
of Hazardous Material at any location or (ii) any violation or
alleged violation of any Environmental Law, and shall include any
claim seeking damages, contribution, indemnification, cost
recovery, compensation or injunctive relief resulting from, related
to or arising out of the presence, Release or threatened Release of
Hazardous Material or alleged injury or threat of injury to health,
safety or the Environment.
“ Environmental
Law ” shall mean any and all applicable present and
future treaties, laws, statutes, ordinances, regulations, rules,
decrees, orders, judgments, consent orders, consent decrees, code
or other binding requirements, and the common law, in any
jurisdiction relating to protection of public health or the
Environment, the Release or threatened Release of Hazardous
Material, natural resources or natural resource damages, or
occupational safety or health.
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“ Environmental
Permit ” shall mean any permit, license, approval,
registration, notification, exemption, consent or other
authorization required in any jurisdiction by or from a
Governmental Authority under Environmental Law.
“ Equity
Interest ” shall mean, with respect to any person, any
and all shares, interests, participations or other equivalents,
including membership interests (however designated, whether voting
or nonvoting), of equity of such person, including, if such person
is a partnership, partnership interests (whether general or
limited) and any other interest or participation that confers on a
person the right to receive a share of the profits and losses of,
or distributions of property of, such partnership, whether
outstanding on the date hereof or issued after the Closing Date,
but excluding debt securities convertible or exchangeable into such
equity.
“ Equity
Issuance ” shall mean, without duplication, (i) any
issuance or sale by Holdings after the Closing Date of any Equity
Interests in Holdings (including any Equity Interests issued upon
exercise of any warrant or option) or any warrants or options to
purchase Equity Interests or (ii) any contribution to the capital
of Holdings.
“ ERISA ”
shall mean the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as
the same may be amended from time to time.
“ ERISA
Affiliate ” shall mean, with respect to any person, any
trade or business (whether or not incorporated) that, together with
such person, is treated as a single employer under Section 414 of
the Code.
“ ERISA Event
” shall mean (a) any “reportable event,” as
defined in Section 4043 of ERISA or the regulations issued
thereunder, with respect to a Plan (other than an event for which
the 30-day notice period is waived by regulation); (b) the
existence with respect to any Plan of an “accumulated funding
deficiency” (as defined in Section 412 of the Code or Section
302 of ERISA), whether or not waived; (c) the failure to make by
its due date a required installment under Section 412(m) of the
Code with respect to any Plan or the failure to make any required
contribution to a Multiemployer Plan; (d) the filing pursuant to
Section 412(d) of the Code or Section 303(d) of ERISA of an
application for a waiver of the minimum funding standard with
respect to any Plan; (e) the incurrence by any Company or any of
its ERISA Affiliates of any liability under Title IV of ERISA with
respect to the termination of any Plan; (f) the receipt by any
Company or any of its ERISA Affiliates from the PBGC or a plan
administrator of any notice relating to the intention to terminate
any Plan or Plans or to appoint a trustee to administer any Plan,
or the occurrence of any event or condition which could reasonably
be expected to constitute grounds under ERISA for the termination
of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any Plan; (g)
the incurrence by any Company or any of its ERISA Affiliates of any
liability with respect to the withdrawal from any Plan or
Multiemployer Plan; (h) the receipt by any Company or its ERISA
Affiliates of any notice, concerning the imposition of Withdrawal
Liability or a determination that a Multiemployer Plan is, or is
expected to be, insolvent or in reorganization, within the meaning
of Title IV of ERISA; (i) the “substantial cessation of
operations” within the meaning of Section 4062(e) of ERISA
with respect to a Plan; (j) the making of any amendment to any Plan
which could result in the imposition of a lien or the posting of a
bond or other security; and (k) the occurrence of a nonexempt
prohibited transaction (within the meaning of Section 4975 of the
Code or Section 406 of ERISA) which could reasonably be expected to
result in liability to any Company.
“ Eurodollar
Borrowing ” shall mean a Borrowing comprised of
Eurodollar Revolving Loans.
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“ Eurodollar
Revolving Borrowing ” shall mean a Borrowing comprised of
Eurodollar Revolving Loans.
“ Eurodollar
Revolving Loan ” shall mean any Revolving Loan bearing
interest at a rate determined by reference to the Adjusted LIBOR
Rate in accordance with the provisions of Article II
.
“ Event of
Default ” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 8.01 .
“ Excess Amount
” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section
2.09(h) .
“ Exchange Act
” shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended.
“ Excluded Taxes
” shall mean, with respect to the Administrative Agent, any
Lender, the Issuing Bank or any other recipient of any payment to
be made by or on account of any obligation of any Borrower
hereunder, (a) taxes imposed on or measured by its overall net
income (however denominated), franchise taxes imposed on it (in
lieu of net income taxes) and branch profits taxes imposed on it,
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 and (b) any Luxembourg
federal withholding tax that is imposed on amounts payable to any
Lender at the time such Lender becomes a party hereto (or
designates a new lending office) or is attributable to such
Lender’s failure to comply with Section 2.14(e) ,
except to the extent that such 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 Borrower with
respect to such withholding tax pursuant to Section 2.14(a)
; provided that this clause (b) shall not apply to any Tax
imposed on a Lender in connection with an interest or participation
in any Loan or other obligation that such Lender was required to
acquire pursuant to Section 2.13(c) .
“ Executive
Order ” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 3.22 .
“ Existing Letters
of Credit ” shall mean the letters of credit issued prior
to the Closing Date and set forth on Schedule 2.17.
“ Existing Lien
” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section
6.02(c) .
“ Federal Funds
Effective Rate ” shall mean, for any day, the weighted
average of the rates on overnight federal funds transactions with
members of the Federal Reserve System of the United States arranged
by federal funds brokers, as published on the next succeeding
Business Day by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or, if such
rate is not so published for any day that is a Business Day, the
average of the quotations for the day for such transactions
received by the Administrative Agent from three federal funds
brokers of recognized standing selected by it.
“ Fee Letter
” shall mean the confidential Fee Letter, dated December 23,
2004, among Holdings, UBS Loan Finance LLC and UBS Securities
LLC.
“ Fees ”
shall mean the Commitment Fees, the Administrative Agent Fees, the
LC Participation Fees and the Fronting Fees.
“ Finance
Subsidiary ” shall mean MagnaChip Semiconductor Finance
Company, a Delaware limited liability company.
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“ Financial
Officer ” of any person shall mean the chief financial
officer, principal accounting officer, treasurer or controller of
such person.
“ FIRREA ”
shall mean the Federal Institutions Reform, Recovery and
Enforcement Act of 1989, as amended.
“ Foreign Plan
” shall mean any employee benefit plan, program, policy,
arrangement or agreement maintained or contributed to by any
Company with respect to employees employed outside the United
States.
“ Foreign Sales
Subsidiaries ” means each of the Sales Subsidiaries other
than the US Sales Subsidiary.
“ Foreign
Subsidiary ” shall mean a Subsidiary that is organized
under the laws of a jurisdiction other than the United States or
any state thereof or the District of Columbia.
“ Fronting Fee
” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section
2.05(c) .
“ Fund ”
shall mean any 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
business.
“ GAAP ”
shall mean generally accepted accounting principles in the United
States applied on a consistent basis.
“ Governmental
Authority ” shall mean the government of the United
States of America or any other nation, or of any political
subdivision thereof, whether state, provincial 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) in any
jurisdiction.
“ Governmental Real
Property Disclosure Requirements ” shall mean any
Requirement of Law of any Governmental Authority requiring
notification of the buyer, lessee, mortgagee, assignee or other
transferee of any Real Property, facility, establishment or
business, or notification, registration or filing to or with any
Governmental Authority, in connection with the sale, lease,
mortgage, assignment or other transfer (including any transfer of
control) of any Real Property, facility, establishment or business,
of the actual or threatened presence or Release in or into the
Environment, or the use, disposal or handling of Hazardous Material
on, at, under or near the Real Property, facility, establishment or
business to be sold, leased, mortgaged, assigned or
transferred.
“ Guaranteed
Obligations ” shall have the meaning assigned to such
term in Section 7.01 .
“ Guarantees
” shall mean the guarantees issued pursuant to Article
VII by Holdings and the Subsidiary Guarantors and the Korean
Opco Bank Guarantee.
“ Guarantors
” shall mean Holdings and the Subsidiary
Guarantors.
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“ Hazardous
Materials ” shall mean the following: hazardous
substances; hazardous wastes; polychlorinated biphenyls (“
PCBs ”) or any substance or compound containing PCBs;
asbestos or any asbestos-containing materials in any form or
condition; radon or any other radioactive materials including any
source, special nuclear or by-product material; petroleum, crude
oil or any fraction thereof; and any other pollutant or contaminant
or chemicals, wastes, materials, compounds, constituents or
substances, subject to regulation or which can give rise to
liability under any Environmental Laws.
“ Hedging
Agreement ” shall mean any swap, cap, collar, forward
purchase or similar agreements or arrangements dealing with
interest rates, currency exchange rates or commodity prices, either
generally or under specific contingencies.
“ Hedging
Obligations ” shall mean obligations under or with
respect to Hedging Agreements.
“ Holdings
” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in the
preamble hereto.
“ Hynix Related
Account Debtors ” means Hynix Semiconductor Inc. and each
of its Subsidiaries that is an account debtor with respect to any
Hynix Related Receivable.
“ Hynix Related
Receivables ” means any “accounts” as defined
in the New York UCC owing to any of the Companies by and Hynix
Related Account Debtors,
“ Increase Effective
Date ” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 2.18(a) .
“ Increase
Joinder ” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 2.18(c) .
“ Indebtedness
” of any person shall mean, without duplication, (a) all
obligations of such person for borrowed money or advances; (b) all
obligations of such person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or
similar instruments; (c) all obligations of such person upon which
interest charges are customarily paid or accrued; (d) all
obligations of such person under conditional sale or other title
retention agreements relating to property purchased by such person;
(e) all obligations of such person issued or assumed as the
deferred purchase price of property or services (excluding trade
accounts payable and accrued obligations incurred in the ordinary
course of business on normal trade terms and, unless subject to a
good faith dispute, not overdue by more than 90 days; (f) all
Indebtedness of others secured by any Lien on property owned or
acquired by such person, whether or not the obligations secured
thereby have been assumed, but limited to the fair market value of
such property; (g) all Capital Lease Obligations, Purchase Money
Obligations and synthetic lease obligations of such person; (h) all
Hedging Obligations to the extent required to be reflected on a
balance sheet of such person; (i) all Attributable Indebtedness of
such person; (j) all obligations of such person for the
reimbursement of any obligor in respect of letters of credit,
letters of guaranty, bankers’ acceptances and similar credit
transactions; and (k) all Contingent Obligations of such person in
respect of Indebtedness or obligations of others of the kinds
referred to in clauses (a) through (j) above. The Indebtedness of
any person shall include the Indebtedness of any other entity
(including any partnership in which such person is a general
partner) to the extent such person is liable therefor as a result
of such person’s ownership interest in or other relationship
with such entity, except (other than in the case of general partner
liability) to the extent that terms of such Indebtedness expressly
provide that such person is not liable therefor.
“ Indemnified
Taxes ” shall mean all Taxes other than Excluded
Taxes.
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“ Indemnitee
” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section
10.03(b) .
“ Information
” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section
10.13 .
“ Insurance
Policies ” shall mean the insurance policies and
coverages required to be maintained by each Loan Party which is an
owner of Mortgaged Property with respect to the applicable
Mortgaged Property pursuant to Section 5.04 and all renewals
and extensions thereof.
“ Insurance
Requirements ” shall mean, collectively, all provisions
of the Insurance Policies, all requirements of the issuer of any of
the Insurance Policies and all orders, rules, regulations and any
other requirements of the National Board of Fire Underwriters (or
any other body exercising similar functions) binding upon each Loan
Party which is an owner of Mortgaged Property and applicable to the
Mortgaged Property or any use or condition thereof.
“ Intellectual
Property ” shall mean collectively, all rights,
privileges relating to intellectual property, whether arising under
United States, state, multinational or foreign laws or otherwise,
including, without limitation, copyrights, patents, trademarks,
service-marks, trade names, domain names, technology, proprietary
information, know-how and processes, recipes, formulas, trade
secrets, all applications for registration or issuance of any of
the foregoing, and all rights to sue at law or in equity for any
past, present or future infringement or other impairment thereof,
including the right to receive all proceeds and damages
therefrom.
“ Intercompany Loan
Document ” shall mean each of the intercompany loan
agreements existing as of the Closing Date (after giving effect to
the repayments thereof contemplated in connection with the
Transactions), and listed on Schedule 4.01(n) hereto,
together with any future intercompany loan agreement, note or other
instrument evidencing, or governing the terms of, any extension of
credit by any Loan Party to Holdings or any of its
Subsidiaries.
“ Intercreditor
Agreement ” shall mean the Intercreditor Agreement dated
as of the date hereof by and among the Administrative Agent, the
Collateral Trustee, the Senior Secured Noted Collateral Trustee,
the Senior Secured Notes Trustee and each of the
Companies.
“ Interest Election
Request ” shall mean a request by any Borrower to convert
or continue a Revolving Borrowing in accordance with Section
2.08(b) , substantially in the form of Exhibit E
.
“ Interest Payment
Date ” shall mean (a) with respect to any ABR Revolving
Loan (including Swingline Loans), the last Business Day of each
March, June, September and December to occur during any period in
which such Loan is outstanding, (b) with respect to any Eurodollar
Revolving Loan, the last day of the Interest Period applicable to
the Borrowing of which such Loan is a part and, in the case of a
Eurodollar Revolving Loan with an Interest Period of more than
three months’ duration, each day prior to the last day of
such Interest Period that occurs at intervals of three
months’ duration after the first day of such Interest Period,
and (c) with respect to any Revolving Loan or Swingline Loan, the
Revolving Maturity Date or such earlier date on which the Revolving
Commitments are terminated, as the case may be.
“ Interest
Period ” shall mean, with respect to any Eurodollar
Borrowing, the period commencing on the date of such Borrowing and
ending on the numerically corresponding day in the calendar month
that is one, two, three or six months (or, if each affected Lender
so agrees, nine months) thereafter, as any Borrower may elect;
provided that (a) if any Interest Period would end on a day
other
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than a Business Day, such Interest
Period shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless
such next succeeding Business Day would fall in the next calendar
month, in which case such Interest Period shall end on the next
preceding Business Day, and (b) any Interest Period that commences
on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which
there is no numerically corresponding day in the last calendar
month of such Interest Period) shall end on the last Business Day
of the last calendar month of such Interest Period. For purposes
hereof, the date of a Borrowing initially shall be the date on
which such Borrowing is made and thereafter shall be the effective
date of the most recent conversion or continuation of such
Borrowing; provided, however , that an Interest Period shall
be limited to the extent required under Section 2.02(e)
.
“ Investments
” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section
6.04 .
“ IPO ”
shall mean the first underwritten public offering by Holdings of
its Equity Interests after the Closing Date pursuant to a
registration statement filed with the Securities and Exchange
Commission in accordance with the Securities Act.
“ Issuing Bank
” shall mean, as the context may require, (a) Korea Exchange
Bank, in its capacity as issuer of Letters of Credit issued by it,
including, without limitation, each of the Existing Letters of
Credit; (b) any other Lender that may become an Issuing Bank
pursuant to Sections 2.17(j) and (k) in its capacity
as issuer of Letters of Credit issued by such Lender; or (c)
collectively, all of the foregoing.
“ Joinder
Agreement ” shall mean a joinder agreement substantially
in the form of Exhibit F .
“ Judgment
Currency ” shall have the meaning assigned to such term
in Section 10.18(a) .
“ Judgment Currency
Conversion Date ” shall have the meaning assigned to such
term in Section 10.18(a) .
“ Korean Opco
” shall mean MagnaChip Semiconductor Ltd., a Korean yuhan
hoesa .
“ Korean Opco Bank
Guarantee ” shall have the meaning assigned to such term
in Section 4.01(r)(i) .
“ Korean Opco Cash
Collateralized Acquisition Debt ” means the portion of
Indebtedness incurred by Korean Opco in connection with the
Acquisition originally owing to non-Korean lenders which has been
purchased from such lenders by Korea Exchange Bank and which shall
remain outstanding and be cash collateralized in full promptly
after the Closing Date with proceeds of the Senior Secured
Notes.
“ Korean Opco Loan
Documents ” shall mean the Korean Opco Bank Guarantee,
the Korean Opco Security Documents, and all other documents
executed and delivered with respect thereto.
“ Korean Opco
Security Documents ” shall mean each of the documents
executed by Korean Opco granting liens and/or security interests in
each of its assets in favor of the Collateral Trustee as security
for the obligations of Korean Opco under the Korean Opco Guarantee
and all documents and other instruments related, directly or
indirectly, thereto (including, without limitation, such documents
and instruments set forth on Schedule 1.01(a) ).
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“ Korean Opco Senior
Secured Notes Guarantee ” shall mean the guarantee
contained in the Senior Secured Notes Indenture by Korean Opco in
favor of the Senior Secured Notes Trustee guaranteeing the
repayment of the Senior Secured Notes.
“ Landlord Access
Agreement ” shall mean a Landlord Access Agreement,
substantially in the form of Exhibit G , or such other form
as may reasonably be acceptable to the Administrative
Agent.
“ LC Commitment
” shall mean the commitment of the Issuing Bank to issue
Letters of Credit pursuant to Section 2.17 . The amount of
the LC Commitment shall initially be $40,000,000, but in no event
exceed the Revolving Commitment.
“ LC
Disbursement ” shall mean a payment or disbursement made
by the Issuing Bank pursuant to a Letter of Credit.
“ LC Exposure
” shall mean at any time the sum of (a) the Dollar Equivalent
of the aggregate undrawn amount of all outstanding Letters of
Credit at such time plus (b) the Dollar Equivalent of the
aggregate principal amount of all Reimbursement Obligations
outstanding at such time. The LC Exposure of any Revolving Lender
at any time shall mean its Pro Rata Percentage of the aggregate LC
Exposure at such time.
“ LC Participation
Fee ” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 2.05(c) .
“ LC Request
” shall mean a request by any Borrower in accordance with the
terms of Section 2.17(b) and substantially in the form of
Exhibit H , or such other form as shall be approved by the
Administrative Agent.
“ Leases ”
shall mean any and all leases, subleases, tenancies, options,
concession agreements, rental agreements, occupancy agreements,
franchise agreements, access agreements and any other agreements
(including all amendments, extensions, replacements, renewals,
modifications and/or guarantees thereof), whether or not of record
and whether now in existence or hereafter entered into, affecting
the use or occupancy of all or any portion of any Real
Property.
“ Lender
Addendum ” shall mean with respect to any Lender on the
Closing Date, a lender addendum in the form of Exhibit I ,
to be executed and delivered by such Lender on the Closing Date as
provided in Section 10.16 .
“ Lenders
” shall mean (a) the financial institutions that have become
a party hereto pursuant to a Lender Addendum and (b) any financial
institution that has become a party hereto pursuant to an
Assignment and Assumption, other than, in each case, any such
financial institution that has ceased to be a party hereto pursuant
to an Assignment and Assumption. Unless the context clearly
indicates otherwise, the term “Lenders” shall include
the Swingline Lender.
“ Letter of
Credit ” shall mean any (i) Standby Letter of Credit and
(ii) Commercial Letter of Credit, in each case, issued or to be
issued by an Issuing Bank for the account of any Borrower pursuant
to Section 2.17 , including, without limitation, each
Existing Letter of Credit.
“ Letter of Credit
Expiration Date ” shall mean the date which is fifteen
days prior to the Revolving Maturity Date.
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“ LIBOR Rate
” shall mean, with respect to any Eurodollar Borrowing for
any Interest Period, the rate per annum determined by the
Administrative Agent to be the arithmetic mean (rounded upward, if
necessary, to the nearest 1/100th of 1%) of the offered rates for
deposits in dollars with a term comparable to such Interest Period
that appears on the Telerate British Bankers Assoc. Interest
Settlement Rates Page (as defined below) at approximately 11:00
a.m., London, England time, on the second full Business Day
preceding the first day of such Interest Period; provided,
however , that (i) if no comparable term for an Interest Period
is available, the LIBOR Rate shall be determined using the weighted
average of the offered rates for the two terms most nearly
corresponding to such Interest Period and (ii) if there shall at
any time no longer exist a Telerate British Bankers Assoc. Interest
Settlement Rates Page, “LIBOR Rate” shall mean, with
respect to each day during each Interest Period pertaining to
Eurodollar Borrowings comprising part of the same Borrowing, the
rate per annum equal to the rate at which the Administrative Agent
is offered deposits in dollars at approximately 11:00 a.m., London,
England time, two Business Days prior to the first day of such
Interest Period in the London interbank market for delivery on the
first day of such Interest Period for the number of days comprised
therein and in an amount comparable to its portion of the amount of
such Eurodollar Borrowing to be outstanding during such Interest
Period. “ Telerate British Bankers Assoc. Interest
Settlement Rates Page ” shall mean the display designated
as Page 3750 on the Telerate System Incorporated Service (or such
other page as may replace such page on such service for the purpose
of displaying the rates at which dollar deposits are offered by
leading banks in the London interbank deposit market).
“ Lien ”
shall mean, with respect to any property, (a) any mortgage, deed of
trust, lien, pledge, encumbrance, claim, charge, assignment,
hypothecation, security interest or encumbrance of any kind or any
arrangement to provide priority or preference or any filing of any
financing statement under the UCC or any other similar notice of
lien under any similar notice or recording statute of any
Governmental Authority, including any easement, right-of-way or
other encumbrance on title to Real Property, in each of the
foregoing cases whether voluntary or imposed by law, and any
agreement to give any of the foregoing; (b) the interest of a
vendor or a lessor under any conditional sale agreement, capital
lease or title retention agreement (or any financing lease having
substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing)
relating to such property; and (c) in the case of securities, any
purchase option, call or similar right of a third party with
respect to such securities.
“ Loan Documents
” shall mean this Agreement, the Letters of Credit, the Notes
(if any), the Security Documents, the Collateral Trust Documents,
the Intercreditor Agreement, the Korean Opco Loan Documents and,
solely for purposes of paragraph (e) of Section 8.01 , the
Fee Letter.
“ Loan Parties
” shall mean Holdings, Borrowers and the Subsidiary
Guarantors.
“ Loans ”
shall mean, as the context may require, a Revolving Loan, a
Swingline Loan for a Term Loan.
“ Lux Borrower
” shall mean MagnaChip Semiconductor S.A., a Luxembourg
corporation.
“ MagnaChip SA
Holdings ” shall mean MagnaChip Semiconductor SA Holdings
LLC, a Delaware limited liability company.
“ Management
Services Agreements ” shall mean, collectively (i) that
certain Advisory Agreement dated October 6, 2004 by and between
Holdings, MagnaChip Semiconductor, Ltd. and CVC Management LLC;
(ii) that certain Advisory Agreement dated October 6, 2004 by and
between Holdings,
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MagnaChip Semiconductor, Ltd. and CVC
Capital Partners Asia Limited and (iii) that certain Advisory
Agreement dated October 6, 2004 by and between Holdings, MagnaChip
Semiconductor, Ltd. and Francisco Partners Management,
LLC.
“ Margin Stock
” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Regulation
U.
“ Material Adverse
Effect ” shall mean (a) a material adverse effect on the
business, property, results of operations, prospects or condition,
financial or otherwise, of Borrowers and their Subsidiaries, taken
as a whole, or Holdings and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole; (b)
material impairment of the ability of the Loan Parties to perform
any of their obligations under any Loan Document; (c) material
impairment of the rights of or benefits or remedies available to
the Lenders or the Collateral Agent under any Loan Document; or (d)
a material adverse effect on the Collateral or the Liens in favor
of the Collateral Agent (for its benefit and for the benefit of the
other Secured Parties) on the Collateral or the priority of such
Liens.
“ Material
Indebtedness ” shall mean (a) the Indebtedness set forth
on Schedule 1.01(b) and (b) any other Indebtedness (other
than the Loans and Letters of Credit) or Hedging Obligations of
Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries in an aggregate outstanding
principal amount exceeding $3.0 million. For purposes of
determining Material Indebtedness, the “principal
amount” in respect of any Hedging Obligations of any Loan
Party at any time shall be the maximum aggregate amount (giving
effect to any netting agreements) that such Loan Party would be
required to pay if the related Hedging Agreement were terminated at
such time.
“ Maximum Rate
” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section
10.15 .
“ Mortgage
” shall mean an agreement, including, but not limited to, a
mortgage, deed of trust or any other document, creating and
evidencing a Lien on a Mortgaged Property, which shall reasonably
satisfactory to the Collateral Agent and include such provisions as
shall be necessary to conform such document to applicable local or
foreign law or as shall be customary under applicable local or
foreign law.
“ Mortgaged
Property ” shall mean (a) all Real Property securing all
or any portion of the Secured Obligations or any obligations of
Korean Opco under the Korean Opco Loan Documents and (b) each Real
Property, if any, which shall be subject to a Mortgage delivered
after the Closing Date pursuant to Section 5.10(c)
.
“ Multiemployer
Plan ” shall mean a multiemployer plan within the meaning
of Section 4001(a)(3) or Section 3(37) of ERISA (a) to which any
Company or any ERISA Affiliate is then making or accruing an
obligation to make contributions; (b) to which any Company or any
ERISA Affiliate has within the preceding five plan years made
contributions; or (c) with respect to which any Company could incur
liability.
“ Net Cash
Proceeds ” shall mean:
(d) with respect to any Asset
Sale (other than any issuance or sale of Equity Interests), the
cash proceeds received by Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries
(including cash proceeds subsequently received (as and when
received by Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries) in respect of
non-cash consideration initially received) net of (i) selling
expenses (including reasonable brokers’ fees or commissions,
legal, accounting and other professional and transactional fees,
transfer
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and similar taxes and
Borrowers’ good faith estimate of income taxes paid or
payable in connection with such sale); (ii) amounts provided as a
reserve, in accordance with GAAP, against (x) any liabilities under
any indemnification obligations associated with such Asset Sale or
(y) any other liabilities retained by Holdings or any of its
Subsidiaries associated with the properties sold in such Asset Sale
( provided that, to the extent and at the time any such
amounts are released from such reserve, such amounts shall
constitute Net Cash Proceeds); (iii) Borrowers’ good faith
estimate of payments required to be made with respect to unassumed
liabilities relating to the properties sold within 90 days of such
Asset Sale ( provided that, to the extent such cash proceeds
are not used to make payments in respect of such unassumed
liabilities within 90 days of such Asset Sale, such cash proceeds
shall constitute Net Cash Proceeds); and (iv) the principal amount,
premium or penalty, if any, interest and other amounts on any
Indebtedness for borrowed money which is secured by a Lien on the
properties sold in such Asset Sale (so long as such Lien was
permitted to encumber such properties under the Loan Documents at
the time of such sale) and which is repaid with such proceeds
(other than any such Indebtedness assumed by the purchaser of such
properties);
(e) with respect to any Debt
Issuance, any Equity Issuance or any other issuance or sale of
Equity Interests by Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries, the cash
proceeds thereof, net of customary fees, commissions, costs and
other expenses incurred in connection therewith; and
(f) with respect to any
Casualty Event, the cash insurance proceeds, condemnation awards
and other compensation received in respect thereof, net of all
reasonable costs and expenses incurred in connection with the
collection of such proceeds, awards or other compensation in
respect of such Casualty Event.
“ Non Guarantor
Subsidiaries ” means each Subsidiary of Holdings that is
not a Subsidiary Guarantor.
“ Non-Reinvested
Asset Sale Proceeds ” shall have the meaning assigned to
such term in Section 2.09(c).
“ Non-Reinvested
Casualty Proceeds ” shall have the meaning assigned to
such term in Section 2.09(f) .
“ Non-Reinvested
Proceeds ” shall mean, collectively, the Non-Reinvested
Asset Sale Proceeds and the Non-Reinvested Casualty
Proceeds.
“ Notes ”
shall mean any notes evidencing the Revolving Loans or Swingline
Loans issued pursuant to this Agreement, if any, substantially in
the form of Exhibit K-1 or K-2 .
“ Notes Offering
Memorandum ” shall mean that certain Offering Memorandum
dated as of December 16, 2004, relating to the issuance of the
Senior Secured Notes and the Senior Subordinated Notes.
“ Obligation
Currency ” shall have the meaning assigned to such term
in Section 10.18(a) .
“ Obligations
” shall mean (a) obligations of Borrowers and the other Loan
Parties from time to time arising under or in respect of the due
and punctual payment of (i) the principal of and premium, if any,
and interest (including interest accruing during the pendency of
any bankruptcy, insolvency,
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receivership or other similar
proceeding, regardless of whether allowed or allowable in such
proceeding) on the Loans, when and as due, whether at maturity, by
acceleration, upon one or more dates set for prepayment or
otherwise, (ii) each payment required to be made by Borrowers and
the other Loan Parties under this Agreement in respect of any
Letter of Credit, when and as due, including payments in respect of
Reimbursement Obligations, interest thereon and obligations to
provide cash collateral and (iii) all other monetary obligations,
including fees, costs, expenses and indemnities, whether primary,
secondary, direct, contingent, fixed or otherwise (including
monetary obligations incurred during the pendency of any
bankruptcy, insolvency, receivership or other similar proceeding,
regardless of whether allowed or allowable in such proceeding), of
Borrowers and the other Loan Parties under this Agreement and the
other Loan Documents, (b) the due and punctual performance of all
covenants, agreements, obligations and liabilities of Borrowers and
the other Loan Parties under or pursuant to this Agreement and the
other Loan Documents and (c) the due and punctual payment and
performance of all obligations in respect of overdrafts and related
liabilities owed to any Lender, any Affiliate of a Lender, the
Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent arising from treasury,
depositary and cash management services or in connection with any
automated clearinghouse transfer of funds.
“ OFAC ”
shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.21
.
“ Officers’
Certificate ” shall mean a certificate executed by the
chairman of the Board of Directors (if an officer), the chief
executive officer or the president and one of the Financial
Officers, each in his or her official (and not individual)
capacity.
“ Organizational
Documents ” shall mean, with respect to any person, (i)
in the case of any corporation, the certificate of incorporation
and by-laws (or similar documents) of such person, (ii) in the case
of any limited liability company, the certificate of formation and
operating agreement (or similar documents) of such person, (iii) in
the case of any limited partnership, the certificate of formation
and limited partnership agreement (or similar documents) of such
person, (iv) in the case of any general partnership, the
partnership agreement (or similar document) of such person and (v)
in any other case, the functional equivalent of the
foregoing.
“ Other Taxes
” shall mean 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.
“ Participant
” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section
10.04(d) .
“ PBGC ”
shall mean the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation referred to and
defined in ERISA.
“ Perfection
Certificate ” shall mean a certificate in the form of
Exhibit L-1 or any other form approved by the Collateral
Agent, as the same shall be supplemented from time to time by a
Perfection Certificate Supplement or otherwise.
“ Perfection
Certificate Supplement ” shall mean a certificate
supplement in the form of Exhibit L-2 or any other form
approved by the Collateral Agent.
“ Permitted
Acquisition ” shall mean any transaction or series of
related transactions for the direct or indirect (a) acquisition of
all or substantially all of the property of any person, or of any
business
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or division of any person; (b)
acquisition of in excess of 50% of the Equity Interests of any
person, and otherwise causing such person to become a Subsidiary of
such person; or (c) merger or consolidation or any other
combination with any person, if each of the following conditions is
met:
(i) no Default then exists or
would result therefrom;
(ii) after giving effect to
such transaction on a Pro Forma Basis, Borrowers shall be in
compliance with all covenants set forth in Section 6.10 as
of the most recent Test Period (assuming, for purposes of
Section 6.10 , that such transaction, and all other
Permitted Acquisitions consummated since the first day of the
relevant Test Period for each of the financial covenants set forth
in Section 6.10 ending on or prior to the date of such
transaction, had occurred on the first day of such relevant Test
Period),
(iii) no Company shall, in
connection with any such transaction, assume or remain liable with
respect to any Indebtedness or other liability (including any
material tax or ERISA liability) of the related seller or the
business, person or properties acquired, except (A) to the extent
permitted under Section 6.01 and (B) obligations not
constituting Indebtedness incurred in the ordinary course of
business and necessary or desirable to the continued operation of
the underlying properties, and any other such liabilities or
obligations not permitted to be assumed or otherwise supported by
any Company hereunder shall be paid in full or released as to the
business, persons or properties being so acquired on or before the
consummation of such acquisition;
(iv) the person or business
to be acquired shall be, or shall be engaged in, a business of the
type that Borrowers and their Subsidiaries are permitted to be
engaged in under Section 6.15 and the property acquired in
connection with any such transaction shall be made subject to the
Lien of the Security Documents (to the extent permitted by
applicable law) and shall be free and clear of any Liens, other
than Permitted Collateral Liens;
(v) the Board of Directors of
the person to be acquired shall not have indicated publicly its
opposition to the consummation of such acquisition (which
opposition has not been publicly withdrawn);
(vi) all transactions in
connection therewith shall be consummated in accordance with all
applicable Requirements of Law;
(vii) with respect to any
transaction involving Acquisition Consideration of more than $25.0
million, unless the Administrative Agent shall otherwise agree,
Borrowers shall have provided the Administrative Agent and the
Lenders with (A) historical financial statements for the last three
fiscal years (or, if less, the number of years since formation) of
the person or business to be acquired (audited if available without
undue cost or delay) and unaudited financial statements thereof for
the most recent interim period which are available, (B) reasonably
detailed projections for the succeeding five years pertaining to
the person or business to be acquired and updated projections for
Borrowers after giving effect to such transaction, (C) a reasonably
detailed description of all material information relating thereto
and copies of all material documentation pertaining to such
transaction, and (D) all such other information and data relating
to such transaction or the person or business to be acquired as may
be reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent or the Required
Lenders;
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(viii) at least 10 Business
Days prior to the proposed date of consummation of the transaction,
Borrowers shall have delivered to the Agents and the Lenders an
Officers’ Certificate certifying that (A) such transaction
complies with this definition (which shall have attached thereto
reasonably detailed backup data and calculations showing such
compliance), and (B) such transaction could not reasonably be
expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect; and
(ix) the Acquisition
Consideration for such acquisition shall not exceed $25.0 million,
and the aggregate amount of the Acquisition Consideration for all
Permitted Acquisitions since the Closing Date shall not exceed
$100.0 million; provided that any Equity Interests
constituting all or a portion of such Acquisition Consideration
shall not have a cash dividend requirement on or prior to the
Revolving Maturity Date.
“ Permitted
Collateral Liens ” means (i) Contested Liens (as defined
in the Security Agreement), (ii) the Liens described in clauses
(a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f), (g), (h), (j), (k), (l), (m) and (n)
of Section 6.02 and (iii) in the case of Mortgaged Property,
“Permitted Collateral Liens” shall mean the Liens
described in clauses (a), (b), (d), (e), (g) and (l) of Section
6.02 , and (iii) for the first ten (10) Business Days after the
Closing Date, Liens in existence on the Closing Date securing the
Korean Opco Cash Collateralized Acquisition Debt.
“ Permitted
Holders ” shall mean (a) each Sponsor, (b) its Controlled
Investment Affiliates and (c) and such person’s Related
Parties.
“ Permitted
Liens ” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 6.02 .
“ Permitted Tax
Distributions ” means, for so long as Holdings is treated
as a partnership for U.S. federal income tax purposes, payments in
respect of tax liabilities of Holdings’ investors arising
from direct or indirect ownership of Holdings’ equity
interests. Permitted Tax Distributions shall be calculated by
reference to the amount of Holdings’ and its
Subsidiaries’ income determined to be an amount required to
be included in income under section 951 of the Code times 35%. A
nationally recognized accounting firm chosen by Holdings shall
determine the amount of Permitted Tax Distributions.
“ person ”
shall mean any natural person, corporation, limited liability
company, trust, joint venture, association, company, partnership,
Governmental Authority or other entity.
“ Plan ”
shall mean any employee pension benefit plan (other than a
Multiemployer Plan) subject to the provisions of Title IV of ERISA
or Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA which is
maintained or contributed to by any Company or its ERISA Affiliate
or with respect to which any Company could incur liability
(including under Section 4069 of ERISA).
“ Post IPO Permitted
Holders ” shall mean (a) each Sponsor, (b) its Controlled
Investment Affiliates and (c) and such person’s Post IPO
Related Parties.
“ Post IPO
Principals ” shall mean:
(1) (A) Francisco Partners,
L.P. (“FP”), any FP fund or co-investment partnership,
(B) any general partner of any FP fund or co-investment partnership
(collectively, an “FP Partner”), and any corporation,
partnership or other entity that is an Affiliate of any FP Partner
(collectively “FP Affiliates”), (C) any managing
director, general partner, director, officer or employee of an FP
fund, and FP Partner or any FP Affiliate, or any spouse, lineal
descendant, sibling, parent, heir, executor, administrator,
testamentary
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trustee, legatee or beneficiary of any
of the foregoing persons described in this clause (C)
(collectively, “FP Associates”) and (D) any trust, the
beneficiaries of which, any charitable trust, the grantor of which,
or any corporation, limited liability company or partnership, the
stockholders, members or general or limited partners of which
include only FP, FP Partners, FP Affiliates, FP Associates, their
spouses or their lineal descendants;
(2) (A) Citigroup Venture
Capital Equity Partners, L.P. (“CVC”), CVC/SSB Employee
Fund, L.P., CVC Executive Fund LLC, Natasha Foundation, Citigroup
Venture Capital Ltd., any CVC fund or co-investment partnership,
Citigroup, any affiliate of Citigroup or any general partner of any
CVC fund or co-investment partnership (collectively, a “CVC
Partner”), and any corporation, partnership or other entity
that is an Affiliate of Citigroup or any CVC Partner (collectively
“CVC Affiliates”), (B) any managing director, general
partner, director, officer or employee of any CVC fund, any CVC
Partner or any CVC Affiliate, or any spouse, lineal descendant,
sibling, parent, heir, executor, administrator, testamentary
trustee, legatee or beneficiary of any of the foregoing persons
described in this clause (B) (collectively, “CVC
Associates”) and (C) any trust, the beneficiaries of which,
any charitable trust, the grantor of which, or any corporation,
limited liability company or partnership, the stockholders, members
or general or limited partners of which include only CVC, CVC
Partners, CVC Affiliates, CVC Associates, their spouses or their
lineal descendants;
(3) (A) CVC Capital Partners
Asia II Limited ( “CVC Asia Pacific”), CVC Capital
Partners Asia Pacific LP, Asia Investors LLC, any CVC Asia Pacific
fund or co-investment partnership, or any general partner of any
CVC Asia Pacific fund or co-investment partnership (collectively, a
“CVC Asia Pacific Partner”), and any corporation,
partnership or other entity that is an Affiliate of any CVC Asia
Pacific Partner (collectively “CVC Asia Pacific
Affiliates”), (B) any managing director, general partner,
director, officer or employee of any CVC Asia Pacific fund, any CVC
Asia Pacific Partner or any CVC Asia Pacific Affiliate, or any
spouse, lineal descendant, sibling, parent, heir, executor,
administrator, testamentary trustee, legatee or beneficiary of any
of the foregoing persons described in this clause (B)
(collectively, “CVC Asia Pacific Associates”) and (C)
any trust, the beneficiaries of which, any charitable trust, the
grantor of which, or any corporation, limited liability company or
partnership, the stockholders, members of general or limited
partners of which include only CVC Asia Pacific, CVC Asia Pacific
Partners, CVC Asia Pacific Affiliates, CVC Asia Pacific Associates,
their spouses or their lineal descendants; and
(4) officers and directors of
Holdings or its Subsidiaries on the Closing Date.
“ Post IPO Related
Parties ” shall mean with respect to any person (i) any
controlling stockholder, 80% (or more) Subsidiary, or immediate
family member (in the case of an individual) or any Post IPO
Principal; or (ii) any trust corporation, partnership, limited
liability company or other entity, the beneficiaries, stockholders,
partners, members, owners or persons beneficially holding an 80% or
more controlling interest of which any one or more Post IPO
Principals and/or such other persons referred to in the immediately
preceding clause (i).
“ Preferred
Stock ” shall mean, with respect to any person, any and
all preferred or preference Equity Interests (however designated)
of such person whether now outstanding or issued after the Closing
Date.
“ Preferred Stock
Issuance ” shall mean the issuance or sale by Holdings or
any of its Subsidiaries of any Preferred Stock after the Closing
Date (other than as permitted by Section 6.01 ).
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“ Premises
” shall have the meaning assigned thereto in the applicable
Mortgage.
“ Pro Forma
Basis ” shall mean on a basis in accordance with GAAP and
Regulation S-X and otherwise reasonably satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent.
“ Pro Rata
Percentage ” of any Revolving Lender at any time shall
mean the percentage of the total Revolving Commitments of all
Revolving Lenders represented by such Lender’s Revolving
Commitment.
“ property
” shall mean any right, title or interest in or to property,
undertaking or assets of any kind whatsoever, wherever situate,
whether real, personal or mixed and whether tangible or intangible
and including Equity Interests or other ownership interests of any
person and whether now in existence or owned or hereafter entered
into or acquired, including all Real Property.
“ Property Material
Adverse Effect ” shall have the meaning assigned thereto
in the Mortgage.
“ Purchase Money
Obligation ” shall mean, for any person, the obligations
of such person in respect of Indebtedness (including Capital Lease
Obligations) incurred for the purpose of financing all or any part
of the purchase price of any property (including Equity Interests
of any person) or the cost of installation, construction or
improvement of any property and any refinancing thereof;
provided, however , that (i) such Indebtedness is incurred
within one year after such acquisition of such property by such
person and (ii) the amount of such Indebtedness does not exceed
100% of the cost of such acquisition, installation, construction or
improvement, as the case may be.
“ Qualified Capital
Stock ” of any person shall mean any Equity Interests of
such person that are not Disqualified Capital Stock.
“ Real Property
” shall mean, collectively, all right, title and interest
(including any leasehold, mineral or other estate) in and to any
and all parcels of or interests in real property owned, leased or
operated by any person, whether by lease, license or other means,
together with, in each case, all easements, hereditaments and
appurtenances relating thereto, all improvements and appurtenant
fixtures and equipment, all general intangibles and contract rights
and other property and rights incidental to the ownership, lease or
operation thereof.
“ Refinancing
” shall mean the repayment in full and the termination of any
commitment to make extensions of credit under all of the
outstanding indebtedness of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries
listed on Schedule 1.01(c) .
“ Register
” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section
10.04(c) .
“ Regulation D
” shall mean Regulation D of the Board as from time to time
in effect and all official rulings and interpretations thereunder
or thereof.
“ Regulation S-X
” shall mean Regulation S-X promulgated under the Securities
Act.
“ Regulation T
” shall mean Regulation T of the Board as from time to time
in effect and all official rulings and interpretations thereunder
or thereof.
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“ Regulation U
” shall mean Regulation U of the Board as from time to time
in effect and all official rulings and interpretations thereunder
or thereof.
“ Regulation X
” shall mean Regulation X of the Board as from time to time
in effect and all official rulings and interpretations thereunder
or thereof.
“ Reimbursement
Obligations ” shall mean Borrowers’ obligations
under Section 2.17(e) to reimburse LC
Disbursements.
“ Related
Parties ” shall mean, 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.
“ Release
” shall mean any spilling, leaking, seepage, pumping,
pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping,
leaching, dumping, disposing, depositing, dispersing, emanating or
migrating of any Hazardous Material in, into, onto or through the
Environment.
“ Required
Lenders ” shall mean (i) at any time that any one Lender
has more than 33 1/3% of the sum of all Loans, outstanding LC
Exposure and unused Revolving Commitments and there are three or
more Lenders, three or more Lenders who in the aggregate have more
than 50% of the sum of all Loans outstanding, LC Exposure and
unused Revolving Commitments and (ii) at all other times, Lenders
having more than 50% of the sum of all Loans outstanding, LC
Exposure and unused Revolving Commitments.
“ Requirements of
Law ” shall mean, collectively, any and all requirements
of any Governmental Authority including any and all laws,
judgments, orders, decrees, ordinances, rules, regulations,
statutes or case law in any jurisdiction.
“ Response
” shall mean (a) ”response” as such term is
defined in CERCLA, 42 U.S.C. § 9601(24), and (b) all other
actions required by any Governmental Authority or voluntarily
undertaken to (i) clean up, remove, treat, abate or in any other
way address any Hazardous Material in the Environment; (ii) prevent
the Release or threat of Release, or minimize the further Release,
of any Hazardous Material; or (iii) perform studies and
investigations in connection with, or as a precondition to, or to
determine the necessity of the activities described in, clause (i)
or (ii) above.
“ Responsible
Officer ” of any person shall mean any executive officer
or Financial Officer of such person and any other officer or
similar official thereof with responsibility for the administration
of the obligations of such person in respect of this
Agreement.
“ Revolving
Availability Period ” shall mean the period from and
including the Closing Date to but excluding the earlier of (i) the
Business Day preceding the Revolving Maturity Date and (ii) the
date of termination of the Revolving Commitments.
“ Revolving
Borrowing ” shall mean a Borrowing comprised of Revolving
Loans.
“ Revolving
Commitment ” shall mean, with respect to each Lender, the
commitment, if any, of such Lender to make Revolving Loans
hereunder up to the amount set forth on Schedule I to the Lender
Addendum executed and delivered by such Lender or by an Increase
Joinder, or in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such
Lender assumed its Revolving Commitment, as applicable, as the same
may be (a) reduced from time to time pursuant to Section
2.07 and (b) reduced or increased
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from time to time pursuant to
assignments by or to such Lender pursuant to Section 10.04 .
The aggregate amount of the Lenders’ Revolving Commitments on
the Closing Date is $100 million.
“ Revolving
Exposure ” shall mean, with respect to any Lender at any
time, the aggregate principal amount at such time of all
outstanding Revolving Loans of such Lender, plus the
aggregate amount at such time of such Lender’s LC Exposure,
plus the aggregate amount at such of such Lender’s
Swingline Exposure.
“ Revolving
Lender ” shall mean a Lender with a Revolving
Commitment.
“ Revolving Loan
” shall mean a Loan made by the Lenders to Borrowers pursuant
to Section 2.02(b) . Each Revolving Loan shall either be an
ABR Revolving Loan or a Eurodollar Revolving Loan.
“ Revolving Maturity
Date ” shall mean December 22, 2009.
“ Sale and Leaseback
Transaction ” has the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 6.03 .
“ Sales
Subsidiaries ” shall mean, collectively, (i) MagnaChip
Semiconductor, Inc., a Delaware corporation, (ii) MagnaChip
Semiconductor Limited, a company incorporated in England and Wales
with registered number 05232381, (iii) MagnaChip Semiconductor
Ltd., a Japan company, (iv) MagnaChip Semiconductor Ltd. a Hong
Kong company and (v) MagnaChip Semiconductor Ltd., a Taiwan
company.
“ Sarbanes-Oxley
Act ” shall mean the United States Sarbanes-Oxley Act of
2002, as amended, and all rules and regulations promulgated
thereunder.
“ Secured
Obligations ” shall mean the Obligations and the due and
punctual payment and performance of all obligations of Borrowers
and the other Loan Parties under each Hedging Agreement entered
into with any counterparty that is a Secured Party.
“ Secured
Parties ” shall mean, collectively, the Administrative
Agent, the Collateral Agent, the Collateral Trustee, each other
Agent, the Lenders and each party to a Hedging Agreement relating
to the Loans if at the date of entering into such Hedging Agreement
such person was a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender and such
person executes and delivers to the Administrative Agent a letter
agreement in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the
Administrative Agent pursuant to which such person (i) appoints the
Collateral Agent as its agent under the applicable Loan Documents
and (ii) agrees to be bound by the provisions of Sections
10.03 and 10.09 .
“ Securities Act
” shall mean the Securities Act of 1933.
“ Securities
Collateral ” shall have the meaning assigned to such term
in the Security Agreement, together with all other certificated
Equity Interests, note or other instruments pledged pursuant to any
of the Security Documents.
“ Security
Agreement ” shall mean a Security Agreement substantially
in the form of Exhibit M among certain of the Loan Parties
and Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured
Parties.
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“ Security Agreement
Collateral ” shall mean all property pledged or granted
as collateral pursuant to the Security Agreement delivered (a) on
the Closing Date or (b) thereafter pursuant to Section 5.11
.
“ Security
Documents ” shall mean the Security Agreement, the
Mortgages, the Korean Opco Security Documents and each other
security document or pledge agreement delivered in accordance with
applicable local or foreign law to grant a valid, perfected
security interest in any property as collateral for the Secured
Obligations and/or Guaranteed Obligations, and all UCC or other
financing statements or instruments of perfection required by this
Agreement, the Security Agreement, any Mortgage, the Korean Opco
Security Documents or any other such security document or pledge
agreement to be filed with respect to the security interests in
property and fixtures created pursuant to the Security Agreement,
any Mortgage or the Korean Opco Security Documents and any other
document or instrument utilized to pledge, assign, charge or grant
or purport to pledge, assign, charge or grant a security interest
or lien under the laws of any jurisdiction on any property as
collateral for the Secured Obligations.
“ Senior Secured
Fixed Rate Notes ” shall mean Borrowers’ 6 7/8%
Second Priority Senior Secured Notes due 2011 issued pursuant to
the Senior Secured Notes Indenture in an aggregate principal amount
not to exceed $200,000,000, and any registered notes issued by
Borrowers in exchange for, and as contemplated by, such notes with
substantially identical terms as such notes.
“ Senior Secured
Floating Rate Notes ” shall mean Borrowers’
Floating Rate Second Priority Senior Secured Notes due 2011 issued
pursuant to the Senior Secured Notes Indenture in an aggregate
principal amount not to exceed $300,000,000 and any registered
notes issued by Borrowers in exchange for, and as contemplated by,
such notes with substantially identical terms as such
notes.
“ Senior Secured
Note Documents ” shall mean the Senior Secured Notes, the
Senior Secured Notes Indenture, the Senior Secured Note Guarantees
and all other documents executed and delivered with respect to the
Senior Secured Notes or the Senior Secured Notes
Indenture.
“ Senior Secured
Note Guarantees ” shall mean the guarantees of Holdings
and certain of the Subsidiary Guarantors pursuant to the Senior
Secured Notes Indenture and the Korean Opco Senior Secured Notes
Guarantee.
“ Senior Secured
Notes ” shall mean the Senior Secured Fixed Rate Notes
and the Senior Secured Floating Rate Notes.
“ Senior Secured
Notes Indenture ” shall mean any indenture, note purchase
agreement or other agreement pursuant to which the Senior Secured
Notes are issued as in effect on the date hereof and thereafter
amended from time to time subject to the requirements of this
Agreement.
“ Senior Secured
Notes Trustee ” shall mean The Bank of New York, as
trustee, and its successors and assigns.
“ Senior
Subordinated Note Documents ” shall mean the Senior
Subordinated Notes, the Senior Subordinated Note Indenture, the
Senior Subordinated Note Guarantees and all other documents
executed and delivered with respect to the Senior Subordinated
Notes or the Senior Subordinated Note Indenture.
“ Senior
Subordinated Note Guarantees ” shall mean the guarantees
of Holdings and certain of the Subsidiary Guarantors pursuant to
the Senior Subordinated Notes Indenture.
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“ Senior
Subordinated Notes ” shall mean Borrower’s 8%
Senior Subordinated Notes due 2014 issued pursuant to the Senior
Subordinated Note Indenture in an aggregate principal amount not to
exceed $250,000,000 and any registered notes issued by Borrower in
exchange for, and as contemplated by, such notes with substantially
identical terms as such notes.
“ Senior
Subordinated Notes Indenture ” shall mean any indenture,
note purchase agreement or other agreement pursuant to which the
Senior Subordinated Notes are issued as in effect on the date
hereof and thereafter amended from time to time subject to the
requirements of this Agreement.
“ Sponsors
” shall mean, collectively (i) CVC Management LLC; (ii) CVC
Capital Partners Asia Limited; and (iii) Francisco Partners
Management, LLC.
“ Spot Rate
” for a currency means the rate determined by the
Administrative Agent or the Issuing Bank, as applicable, to be the
rate quoted by the Person acting in such capacity as the spot rate
for the purchase by such Person of such currency with another
currency through its principal foreign exchange trading office at
approximately 10:00 a.m. on the date as of which the foreign
exchange computation is made; provided that the
Administrative Agent or the Issuing Bank may obtain such spot rate
from another financial institution designated by the Administrative
Agent or the Issuing Bank if the Person acting in such capacity
does not have as of the date of determination a spot buying rate
for any such currency.
“ Standby Letter of
Credit ” shall mean any standby letter of credit or
similar instrument issued for general corporate
purposes.
“ Statutory
Reserves ” shall mean for any Interest Period for any
Eurodollar Borrowing, the average maximum rate at which reserves
(including any marginal, supplemental or emergency reserves) are
required to be maintained during such Interest Period under
Regulation D by member banks of the United States Federal Reserve
System in New York City with deposits exceeding one billion dollars
against “Eurocurrency liabilities” (as such term is
used in Regulation D).
“ Subordinated
Indebtedness ” shall mean Indebtedness of any Borrower or
any Guarantor that is by its terms subordinated in right of payment
to the Obligations of such Borrower and such Guarantor, as
applicable, including, without limitation, the Senior Subordinated
Notes.
“ Subsidiary
” shall mean, with respect to any person (the “
parent ”) at any date, (i) any person the accounts of
which would be consolidated with those of the parent in the
parent’s consolidated financial statements if such financial
statements were prepared in accordance with GAAP as of such date,
(ii) any other corporation, limited liability company, association
or other business entity of which securities or other ownership
interests representing more than 50% of the voting power of all
Equity Interests entitled (without regard to the occurrence of any
contingency) to vote in the election of the Board of Directors
thereof are, as of such date, owned, controlled or held by the
parent and/or one or more subsidiaries of the parent, (iii) any
partnership (a) the sole general partner or the managing general
partner of which is the parent and/or one or more subsidiaries of
the parent or (b) the only general partners of which are the parent
and/or one or more subsidiaries of the parent and (iv) any other
person that is otherwise Controlled by the parent and/or one or
more subsidiaries of the parent. Unless the context requires
otherwise, “Subsidiary” refers to a Subsidiary of any
Borrower.
“ Subsidiary
Guarantor ” shall mean each Subsidiary listed on
Schedule 1.01(d) , Korean Opco, and each other Subsidiary
that is or becomes a party to this Agreement pursuant to Section
5.11 .
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“ Survey ”
shall mean a survey of any Mortgaged Property (and all improvements
thereon) which is (a) (i) prepared by a surveyor or engineer
licensed to perform surveys in the jurisdiction where such
Mortgaged Property is located, (ii) dated (or redated) not earlier
than six months prior to the date of delivery thereof and (b)
otherwise in form and substance substantially satisfactory to the
Collateral Agent.
“ Swingline
Commitment ” shall mean the commitment of the Swingline
Lender to make loans pursuant to Section 2.16 , as the same
may be reduced from time to time pursuant to Section 2.07 or
Section 2.16 . The amount of the Swingline Commitment shall
initially be $10.0 million, but in no event exceed the Revolving
Commitment.
“ Swingline
Exposure ” shall mean at any time the aggregate principal
amount at such time of all outstanding Swingline Loans. The
Swingline Exposure of any Revolving Lender at any time shall equal
its Pro Rata Percentage of the aggregate Swingline Exposure at such
time.
“ Swingline
Lender ” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in
the preamble hereto.
“ Swingline Loan
” shall mean any loan made by the Swingline Lender pursuant
to Section 2.16 .
“ Syndication
Agent ” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in
the preamble hereto.
“ Tax Return
” shall mean all returns, statements, filings, attachments
and other documents or certifications required to be filed in
respect of Taxes.
“ Taxes ”
shall mean all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties,
registration or stamp duties, deductions, withholdings,
assessments, fees or other charges imposed by any Governmental
Authority, including any interest, additions to tax or penalties
applicable thereto.
“ Term Loan
” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section
2.18(c)(i) .
“ Term Loan
Commitments ” shall have the meaning assigned to such
term in Section 2.18(a) .
“ Test Period
” shall mean, at any time, the four consecutive fiscal
quarters of Borrowers (or its predecessor) then last
ended.
“ Title Company
” shall mean any title insurance company as shall be retained
by Borrowers and reasonably acceptable to the Administrative
Agent.
“ Title Policy
” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section
4.01(o)(iii) .
“ Total Assets
” shall mean the total amount of all assets of a person,
determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP as shown
on such person’s most recent balance sheet.
“ Total Leverage
Ratio ” shall mean, at any date of determination, the
ratio of Consolidated Indebtedness on such date to Consolidated
EBITDA for the Test Period then most recently ended.
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“ Transaction
Documents ” shall mean the Loan Documents, Senior Secured
Note Documents, the Senior Subordinated Note Documents, Collateral
Trust Documents and the Korean Opco Loan Documents.
“ Transactions
” shall mean, collectively, the transactions to occur on or
prior to the Closing Date pursuant to the Transaction Documents,
including (a) the execution, delivery and performance of the Loan
Documents and the initial borrowings hereunder; (b) the
Refinancing; (c) the execution, delivery and performance of the
Senior Secured Note Documents and the issuance of the Senior
Secured Notes thereunder; (d) the execution, delivery and
performance of the Collateral Trust Documents; (e) the execution,
delivery and performance of the Korean Opco Loan Documents; and (f)
the payment of all fees and expenses to be paid on or prior to the
Closing Date and owing in connection with the foregoing.
“ Transferred
Guarantor ” shall have the meaning assigned to such term
in Section 7.09 .
“ Type ,”
when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether
the rate of interest on such Loan, or on the Loans comprising such
Borrowing, is determined by reference to the Adjusted LIBOR Rate or
the Alternate Base Rate.
“ UCC ”
shall mean the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect from time to
time (except as otherwise specified) in any applicable state or
jurisdiction.
“ UK Sales
Subsidiary ” shall mean MagnaChip Semiconductor Limited,
a company incorporated in England and Wales with registered number
05232381.
“ United States
” shall mean the United States of America.
“ U.S. Sales
Subsidiary ” shall mean MagnaChip Semiconductor, Inc., a
Delaware corporation.
“ Voting Stock
” shall mean, with respect to any person, any class or
classes of Equity Interests pursuant to which the holders thereof
have the general voting power under ordinary circumstances to elect
at least a majority of the Board of Directors of such
person.
“ Wholly Owned
Subsidiary ” shall mean, as to any person, (a) any
corporation 100% of whose capital stock (other than
directors’ qualifying shares) is at the time owned by such
person and/or one or more Wholly Owned Subsidiaries of such person
and (b) any partnership, association, joint venture, limited
liability company or other entity in which such person and/or one
or more Wholly Owned Subsidiaries of such person have a 100% equity
interest at such time.
“ Withdrawal
Liability ” shall mean liability to a Multiemployer Plan
as a result of a complete or partial withdrawal from such
Multiemployer Plan, as such terms are defined in Part I of Subtitle
E of Title IV of ERISA.
SECTION 1.02
Classification of Loans and Borrowings . For purposes
of this Agreement, Loans may be classified and referred to by Class
( e.g ., a “Revolving Loan”) or by Type (
e.g ., a “Eurodollar Revolving Loan”) or by
Class and Type ( e.g ., a “Eurodollar Revolving
Loan”). Borrowings also may be classified and referred to by
Type ( e.g ., a “Eurodollar
Borrowing”).
SECTION 1.03
Terms Generally . The definitions of terms herein
shall apply equally to the singular and plural forms of the terms
defined. Whenever the context may require, any
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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 (a) any definition of or reference to any Loan Document,
agreement, instrument or other document herein 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), (b) any reference herein to any
person shall be construed to include such person’s successors
and assigns, (c) the words “herein,”
“hereof” and “hereunder,” and words of
similar import, shall be construed to refer to this Agreement in
its entirety and not to any particular provision hereof, (d) all
references herein to Articles, Sections, Exhibits and Schedules
shall be construed to refer to Articles and Sections of, and
Exhibits and Schedules to, this Agreement, (e) any reference to any
law or regulation herein shall refer to such law or regulation as
amended, modified or supplemented from time to time, (f) 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 (g) “on,”
when used with respect to the Mortgaged Property or any property
adjacent to the Mortgaged Property, means “on, in, under,
above or about.”
SECTION 1.04
Accounting Terms; GAAP . Except as otherwise
expressly provided herein, all financial statements to be delivered
pursuant to this Agreement shall be prepared in accordance with
GAAP as in effect from time to time and all terms of an accounting
or financial nature shall be construed and interpreted in
accordance with GAAP, as in effect on the date hereof unless
otherwise agreed to by Borrowers and the Required
Lenders.
SECTION 1.05
Resolution of Drafting Ambiguities . Each Loan Party
acknowledges and agrees that it was represented by counsel in
connection with the execution and delivery of the Loan Documents to
which it is a party, that it and its counsel reviewed and
participated in the preparation and negotiation hereof and thereof
and that any rule of construction to the effect that ambiguities
are to be resolved against the drafting party shall not be employed
in the interpretation hereof or thereof.
ARTICLE II
THE CREDITS
SECTION 2.01
Commitments . Subject to the terms and conditions and
relying upon the representations and warranties herein set forth,
each Lender agrees, severally and not jointly, to make Revolving
Loans to Borrowers, at any time and from time to time on or after
the Closing Date until the earlier of the Revolving Maturity Date
and the termination of the Revolving Commitment of such Lender in
accordance with the terms hereof, in an aggregate principal amount
at any time outstanding that will not result in such Lender’s
Revolving Exposure exceeding such Lender’s Revolving
Commitment. Within the limits set forth above and subject to the
terms, conditions and limitations set forth herein, Borrowers may
borrow, pay or prepay and reborrow Revolving Loans.
SECTION 2.02
Loans .
(a) Each Loan (other than
Swingline Loans) shall be made as part of a Borrowing consisting of
Loans made by the Lenders ratably in accordance with their
applicable Commitments; provided that the failure of any
Lender to make its Loan shall not in itself relieve any other
Lender of its obligation
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to lend hereunder (it being understood,
however, that no Lender shall be responsible for the failure of any
other Lender to make any Loan required to be made by such other
Lender). Except for Loans deemed made pursuant to Section
2.17(e)(ii) , (x) ABR Revolving Loans comprising any Borrowing
shall be in an aggregate principal amount that is (i) an integral
multiple of $1.0 million and not less than $5.0 million or (ii)
equal to the remaining available balance of the applicable
Commitments and (y) the Eurodollar Revolving Loans comprising any
Borrowing shall be in an aggregate principal amount that is (i) an
integral multiple of $1.0 million and not less than $5.0 million or
(ii) equal to the remaining available balance of the
Commitments.
(b) Subject to Sections
2.11 and 2.12 , each Borrowing shall be comprised
entirely of ABR Revolving Loans or Eurodollar Revolving Loans as
any Borrower may request pursuant to Section 2.03 . Each
Lender may at its option make any Eurodollar Revolving Loan by
causing any domestic or foreign branch or Affiliate of such Lender
to make such Loan; provided that any exercise of such option
shall not affect the obligation of Borrowers to repay such Loan in
accordance with the terms of this Agreement. Borrowings of more
than one Type may be outstanding at the same time; provided
that Borrowers shall not be entitled to request any Borrowing that,
if made, would result in more than five Eurodollar Borrowings
outstanding hereunder at any one time. For purposes of the
foregoing, Borrowings having different Interest Periods, regardless
of whether they commence on the same date, shall be considered
separate Borrowings.
(c) Except with respect to
Loans deemed made pursuant to Section 2.17(e)(ii) , each
Lender shall make each Loan to be made by it hereunder on the
proposed date thereof by wire transfer of immediately available
funds to such account in New York City as the Administrative Agent
may designate not later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, and
the Administrative Agent shall promptly credit the amounts so
received to an account as directed by any Borrower in the
applicable Borrowing Request maintained with the Administrative
Agent or, if a Borrowing shall not occur on such date because any
condition precedent herein specified shall not have been met,
return the amounts so received to the respective
Lenders.
(d) Unless the Administrative
Agent shall have received notice from a Lender prior to the date of
any Borrowing that such Lender will not make available to the
Administrative Agent such Lender’s portion of such Borrowing,
the Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender has made such
portion available to the Administrative Agent on the date of such
Borrowing in accordance with paragraph (c) above, and the
Administrative Agent may, in reliance upon such assumption, make
available to Borrowers on such date a corresponding amount. If the
Administrative Agent shall have so made funds available, then, to
the extent that such Lender shall not have made such portion
available to the Administrative Agent, each of such Lender and
Borrowers severally agrees to repay to the Administrative Agent
forthwith on demand such corresponding amount together with
interest thereon, for each day from the date such amount is made
available to Borrowers until the date such amount is repaid to the
Administrative Agent at (i) in the case of Borrowers, the interest
rate applicable at the time to the Loans comprising such Borrowing
and (ii) in the case of such Lender, the greater of the Federal
Funds Effective Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative
Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank
compensation. If such Lender shall repay to the Administrative
Agent such corresponding amount, such amount shall constitute such
Lender’s Loan as part of such Borrowing for purposes of this
Agreement, and Borrowers’ obligation to repay the
Administrative Agent such corresponding amount pursuant to this
Section 2.02(d) shall cease.
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(e) Notwithstanding any other
provision of this Agreement, none of the Borrowers shall be
entitled to request, or to elect to convert or continue, any
Borrowing if the Interest Period requested with respect thereto
would end after the Revolving Maturity Date.
SECTION 2.03
Borrowing Procedure . To request a Revolving
Borrowing a Borrower shall deliver, by hand delivery or telecopier,
a duly completed and executed Borrowing Request to the
Administrative Agent (i) in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing, not
later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, three Business Days
before the date of the proposed Borrowing or (ii) in the case of an
ABR Borrowing, not later than 9:00 a.m., New York City time, on the
date of the proposed Borrowing. Each Borrowing Request shall be
irrevocable and shall specify the following information in
compliance with Section 2.02 :
(a) the aggregate amount of
such Borrowing;
(b) the date of such
Borrowing, which shall be a Business Day;
(c) whether such Borrowing is
to be an ABR Borrowing or a Eurodollar Borrowing;
(d) in the case of a
Eurodollar Borrowing, the initial Interest Period to be applicable
thereto, which shall be a period contemplated by the definition of
the term “Interest Period”;
(e) the location and number
of such Borrower’s account to which funds are to be
disbursed, which shall comply with the requirements of Section
2.02(c) ; and
(f) that the conditions set
forth in Sections 4.02(b)-(d) have been satisfied as of the
date of the notice.
If no election as to the Type
of Borrowing is specified, then the requested Borrowing shall be an
ABR Borrowing. If no Interest Period is specified with respect to
any requested Eurodollar Borrowing, then such Borrower shall be
deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one month’s
duration. Promptly following receipt of a Borrowing Request in
accordance with this Section, the Administrative Agent shall advise
each Lender of the details thereof and of the amount of such
Lender’s Loan to be made as part of the requested
Borrowing.
SECTION 2.04 Evidence
of Debt; Repayment of Loans .
(a) Promise to Repay .
Each Borrower hereby unconditionally promises to pay (i) to the
Administrative Agent for the account of each Revolving Lender, the
then unpaid principal amount of each Revolving Loan of such
Revolving Lender on the Revolving Maturity Date and (ii) to the
Swingline Lender, the then unpaid principal amount of each
Swingline Loan on the earlier of the Revolving Maturity Date and
the first date after such Swingline Loan is made that is the 15th
or last day of a calendar month and is at least two Business Days
after such Swingline Loan is made; provided that on each
date that a Revolving Borrowing is made, Borrowers shall repay all
Swingline Loans that were outstanding on the date such Borrowing
was requested.
(b) Lender and
Administrative Agent Records . Each Lender shall maintain in
accordance with its usual practice an account or accounts
evidencing the indebtedness of Borrowers to such Lender resulting
from each Loan made by such Lender from time to time, including the
amounts of principal and interest payable and paid to such Lender
from time to time under this Agreement. The Administrative Agent
shall maintain accounts in which it will record (i) the amount of
each Loan made hereunder,
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the Type and Class thereof and the
Interest Period applicable thereto; (ii) the amount of any
principal or interest due and payable or to become due and payable
from Borrowers to each Lender hereunder; and (iii) the amount of
any sum received by the Administrative Agent hereunder for the
account of the Lenders and each Lender’s share thereof. The
entries made in the accounts maintained pursuant to this paragraph
shall be prima facie evidence of the existence and amounts
of the obligations therein recorded; provided that the
failure of any Lender or the Administrative Agent to maintain such
accounts or any error therein shall not in any manner affect the
obligations of Borrowers to repay the Loans in accordance with
their terms.
(c) Promissory Notes .
Any Lender by written notice to Borrowers (with a copy to the
Administrative Agent) may request that Loans of any Class made by
it be evidenced by a promissory note. In such event, Borrowers
shall prepare, execute and deliver to such Lender a promissory note
payable to the order of such Lender (or, if requested by such
Lender, to such Lender and its registered assigns) in the form of
Exhibit K-1 or K-2 , as the case may be. Thereafter,
the Loans evidenced by such promissory note and interest thereon
shall at all times (including after assignment pursuant to
Section 10.04 ) be represented by one or more promissory
notes in such form payable to the order of the payee named therein
(or, if such promissory note is a registered note, to such payee
and its registered assigns).
SECTION 2.05
Fees .
(a) Commitment Fee .
Borrowers agree to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account
of each Lender a commitment fee (a “ Commitment Fee
”) equal to the Applicable Fee per annum on the average daily
unused amount of each Commitment of such Lender during the period
from and including the date hereof to but excluding the date on
which such Commitment terminates. Accrued Commitment Fees shall be
payable in arrears (A) on the last Business Day of March, June,
September and December of each year, commencing on the first such
date to occur after the date hereof, and (B) on the date on which
such Commitment terminates. Commitment Fees shall be computed on
the basis of a year of 360 days and shall be payable for the actual
number of days elapsed (including the first day but excluding the
last day). For purposes of computing Commitment Fees with respect
to Revolving Commitments, a Revolving Commitment of a Lender shall
be deemed to be used to the extent of the outstanding Revolving
Loans and LC Exposure of such Lender (and the Swingline Exposure of
such Lender shall be disregarded for such purpose). For purposes of
computing the Commitment Fee under this clause (a) , the
portion of the average daily amount of the LC Exposure with respect
to Alternative Currency Letters of Credit, shall be calculated by
multiplying (i) the average daily balance of each Alternative
Currency Letter of Credit (expressed in the currency in which such
Alternative Currency Letter of Credit is denominated) by (ii) the
Spot Rate for each such Alternative Currency in effect on the last
Business Day of such period or by such other reasonable method that
the Administrative deems appropriate.
(b) Administrative Agent
Fees . Borrowers agree to pay to the Administrative Agent, for
its own account, the administrative fees set forth in the Fee
Letter or such other fees payable in the amounts and at the times
separately agreed upon between Borrowers and the Administrative
Agent (the “ Administrative Agent Fees
”).
(c) LC and Fronting
Fees . Borrower agrees to pay (i) to the Administrative Agent
for the account of each Revolving Lender a participation fee
(“ LC Participation Fee ”) with respect to its
participations in Letters of Credit, which shall accrue at a rate
equal to the Applicable Margin from time to time used to determine
the interest rate on Eurodollar Revolving Loans pursuant to
Section 2.06 on the average daily amount of such
Lender’s LC Exposure (excluding any portion thereof
attributable to Reimbursement Obligations) during the period from
and including the Closing Date to but excluding the
later
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of the date on which such Lender’s
Revolving Commitment terminates and the date on which such Lender
ceases to have any LC Exposure, and (ii) to the Issuing Bank a
fronting fee (“ Fronting Fee ”), which shall
accrue at the rate of 0.25% per annum on the average daily amount
of the LC Exposure (excluding any portion thereof attributable to
Reimbursement Obligations) during the period from and including the
Closing Date to but excluding the later of the date of termination
of the Revolving Commitments and the date on which there ceases to
be any LC Exposure, as well as the Issuing Bank’s customary
fees with respect to the issuance, amendment, renewal or extension
of any Letter of Credit or processing of drawings thereunder.
Accrued LC Participation Fees and Fronting Fees shall be payable in
arrears (i) on the last Business Day of March, June, September and
December of each year, commencing on the first such date to occur
after the Closing Date, and (ii) on the date on which the Revolving
Commitments terminate. Any such fees accruing after the date on
which the Revolving Commitments terminate shall be payable on
demand. Any other fees payable to the Issuing Bank pursuant to this
paragraph shall be payable within 10 days after demand therefor.
All LC Participation Fees and Fronting Fees shall be computed on
the basis of a year of 360 days and shall be payable for the actual
number of days elapsed (including the first day but excluding the
last day). For purposes of computing the LC Participation Fee and
the LC Fronting Fee under this clause (c) , the portion of
the average daily amount of the LC Exposure with respect to
Alternative Currency Letters of Credit, shall be calculated by
multiplying (i) the average daily balance of each Alternative
Currency Letter of Credit (expressed in the currency in which such
Alternative Currency Letter of Credit is denominated) by (ii) the
Spot Rate for each such Alternative Currency in effect on the last
Business Day of such period or by such other reasonable method that
the Administrative deems appropriate.
(d) All Fees shall be paid on
the dates due, in immediately available funds, to the
Administrative Agent for distribution, if and as appropriate, among
the Lenders, except that Borrower shall pay the Fronting Fees
directly to the Issuing Bank. Once paid, none of the Fees shall be
refundable under any circumstances.
SECTION 2.06 Interest
on Loans .
(a) ABR Revolving
Loans . Subject to the provisions of Section 2.06(c) ,
the Loans comprising each ABR Borrowing, including each Swingline
Loan, shall bear interest at a rate per annum equal to the
Alternate Base Rate plus the Applicable Margin in effect from time
to time.
(b) Eurodollar Revolving
Loans . Subject to the provisions of Section 2.06(c) ,
the Loans comprising each Eurodollar Borrowing shall bear interest
at a rate per annum equal to the Adjusted LIBOR Rate for the
Interest Period in effect for such Borrowing plus the Applicable
Margin in effect from time to time.
(c) Default Rate .
Notwithstanding the foregoing, during the continuance of an Event
of Default, all Obligations shall, to the extent permitted by
applicable law, bear interest, after as well as before judgment, at
a per annum rate equal to 2% plus the Alternate Base Rate
plus the Applicable Margin (the “ Default Rate
”).
(d) Interest Payment
Dates . Accrued interest on each Loan shall be payable in
arrears on each Interest Payment Date for such Loan;
provided that (i) interest accrued pursuant to Section
2.06(c) shall be payable on demand, (ii) in the event of any
repayment or prepayment of any Loan (other than a prepayment of an
ABR Revolving Loan or a Swingline Loan), accrued interest on the
principal amount repaid or prepaid shall be payable on the date of
such repayment or prepayment and (iii) in
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the event of any conversion of any
Eurodollar Revolving Loan prior to the end of the current Interest
Period therefor, accrued interest on such Loan shall be payable on
the effective date of such conversion.
(e) Interest
Calculation . All interest hereunder shall be computed on the
basis of a year of 360 days, except that interest computed by
reference to the Alternate Base Rate shall be computed on the basis
of a year of 365 days (or 366 days in a leap year), and in each
case shall be payable for the actual number of days elapsed
(including the first day but excluding the last day). The
applicable Alternate Base Rate or Adjusted LIBOR Rate shall be
determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with the
provisions of this Agreement and such determination shall be
conclusive absent manifest error.
SECTION 2.07
Termination; Reduction and Suspension of Commitments
.
(a) Termination of
Commitments . The Revolving Commitments, the Swingline
Commitment and the LC Commitment shall automatically terminate on
the Revolving Maturity Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, all the
Commitments shall automatically terminate at 5:00 p.m., New York
City time, on December 31, 2004, if the initial Credit Extension
shall not have occurred by such time.
(b) Optional Terminations
and Reductions . At its option, Borrowers may at any time
terminate, or from time to time permanently reduce, the Commitments
of any Class; provided that (i) each reduction of the
Commitments of any Class shall be in an amount that is an integral
multiple of $1.0 million and not less than $5.0 million and (ii)
the Revolving Commitments shall not be terminated or reduced if,
after giving effect to any concurrent prepayment of the Revolving
Loans in accordance with Section 2.09 , the aggregate amount
of Revolving Exposures would exceed the aggregate amount of
Revolving Commitments.
(c) Borrowers Notice .
Borrowers shall notify the Administrative Agent in writing of any
election to terminate or reduce the Commitments under Section
2.07(b) at least three Business Days prior to the effective
date of such termination or reduction, specifying such election and
the effective date thereof. Promptly following receipt of any
notice, the Administrative Agent shall advise the Lenders of the
contents thereof. Each notice delivered by Borrowers pursuant to
this Section shall be irrevocable. Any termination or reduction of
the Commitments of any Class shall be permanent. Each reduction of
the Commitments of any Class shall be made ratably among the
Lenders in accordance with their respective Commitments of such
Class.
SECTION 2.08 Interest
Elections .
(a) Generally . Each
Revolving Borrowing initially shall be of the Type specified in the
applicable Borrowing Request and, in the case of a Eurodollar
Borrowing, shall have an initial Interest Period as specified in
such Borrowing Request. Thereafter, any Borrower may elect to
convert such Borrowing to a different Type or to continue such
Borrowing and, in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing, may elect
Interest Periods therefor, all as provided in this Section. Any
Borrower may elect different options with respect to different
portions of the affected Borrowing, in which case each such portion
shall be allocated ratably among the Lenders holding the Loans
comprising such Borrowing, and the Loans comprising each such
portion shall be considered a separate Borrowing. Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary, none of the Borrowers shall be entitled
to request any conversion or continuation that, if made, would
result in more than five Eurodollar Borrowings outstanding
hereunder at any one time. This Section shall not apply to
Swingline Borrowings, which may not be converted or
continued.
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(b) Interest Election
Notice . To make an election pursuant to this Section, a
Borrower shall deliver, by hand delivery or telecopier, a duly
completed and executed Interest Election Request to the
Administrative Agent not later than the time that a Borrowing
Request would be required under Section 2.03 if such
Borrower were requesting a Revolving Borrowing of the Type
resulting from such election to be made on the effective date of
such election. Each Interest Election Request shall be irrevocable.
Each Interest Election Request shall specify the following
information in compliance with Section 2.03 :
(i) the Borrowing to which
such Interest Election Request applies and, if different options
are being elected with respect to different portions thereof, or if
outstanding Borrowings are being combined, allocation to each
resulting Borrowing (in which case the information to be specified
pursuant to clauses (iii) and (iv) below shall be specified for
each resulting Borrowing);
(ii) the effective date of
the election made pursuant to such Interest Election Request, which
shall be a Business Day;
(iii) whether the resulting
Borrowing is to be an ABR Borrowing or a Eurodollar Borrowing;
and
(iv) if the resulting
Borrowing is a Eurodollar Borrowing, the Interest Period to be
applicable thereto after giving effect to such election, which
shall be a period contemplated by the definition of the term
“Interest Period.”
If any such Interest Election
Request requests a Eurodollar Borrowing but does not specify an
Interest Period, then such Borrower shall be deemed to have
selected an Interest Period of one month’s
duration.
Promptly following receipt of
an Interest Election Request, the Administrative Agent shall advise
each Lender of the details thereof and of such Lender’s
portion of each resulting Borrowing.
(c) Automatic Conversion
to ABR Borrowing . If an Interest Election Request with respect
to a Eurodollar Borrowing is not timely delivered prior to the end
of the Interest Period applicable thereto, then, unless such
Borrowing is repaid as provided herein, at the end of such Interest
Period such Borrowing shall be converted to an ABR Borrowing.
Notwithstanding any contrary provision hereof, if an Event of
Default has occurred and is continuing, the Administrative Agent or
the Required Lenders may require, by notice to Borrowers, that (i)
no outstanding Borrowing may be converted to or continued as a
Eurodollar Borrowing and (ii) unless repaid, each Eurodollar
Borrowing shall be converted to an ABR Borrowing at the end of the
Interest Period applicable thereto.
SECTION 2.09
Optional and Mandatory Prepayments of Loans
.
(a) Optional
Prepayments . Borrowers shall have the right at any time and
from time to time to prepay any Borrowing, in whole or in part,
subject to the requirements of this Section 2.09 ;
provided that each partial prepayment shall be in an amount
that is an integral multiple of $1.0 million and not less than $5.0
million.
(b) Revolving Loan
Prepayments .
(i) In the event of the
termination of all the Revolving Commitments, Borrowers shall, on
the date of such termination, repay or prepay all its outstanding
Revolving Borrowings
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and all outstanding Swingline
Loans and replace all outstanding Letters of Credit or cash
collateralize all outstanding Letters of Credit in accordance with
the procedures set forth in Section 2.17(i) .
(ii) In the event of any
partial reduction of the Revolving Commitments, then (x) at or
prior to the effective date of such reduction, the Administrative
Agent shall notify Borrowers and the Revolving Lenders of the sum
of the Revolving Exposures after giving effect thereto and (y) if
the sum of the Revolving Exposures would exceed the aggregate
amount of Revolving Commitments after giving effect to such
reduction, then Borrowers shall, on the date of such reduction,
first , repay or prepay Swingline Loans, second ,
repay or prepay Revolving Borrowings and third , replace
outstanding Letters of Credit or cash collateralize outstanding
Letters of Credit in accordance with the procedures set forth in
Section 2.17(i) , in an aggregate amount sufficient to
eliminate such excess.
(iii) In the event that the
sum of all Lenders’ Revolving Exposures exceeds the Revolving
Commitments then in effect, Borrowers shall, without notice or
demand, immediately first , repay or prepay Revolving
Borrowings, and second , replace outstanding Letters of
Credit or cash collateralize outstanding Letters of Credit in
accordance with the procedures set forth in Section 2.17(i)
, in an aggregate amount sufficient to eliminate such
excess.
(iv) In the event that the
aggregate LC Exposure exceeds the LC Commitment then in effect,
Borrowers shall, without notice or demand, immediately replace
outstanding Letters of Credit or cash collateralize outstanding
Letters of Credit in accordance with the procedures set forth in
Section 2.17(i) , in an aggregate amount sufficient to
eliminate such excess.
(c) Asset Sales . Not
later than three (3) Business Day following the receipt of any Net
Cash Proceeds of any Asset Sale by Holdings or any of its
Subsidiaries, Borrowers shall make prepayments in accordance with
Sections 2.09(h) and (i) in an aggregate amount equal
to 100% of such Net Cash Proceeds; provided that:
(i) no such prepayment shall
be required under this Section 2.09(c)(i) with respect to
(A) any Asset Sale permitted by Section 6.06(a) , (B) the
disposition of property which constitutes a Casualty Event, or (C)
Asset Sales for fair market value resulting in less than $3.0
million in Net Cash Proceeds in any fiscal year; provided
that clause (C) shall not apply in the case of any Asset Sale
described in clause (b) of the definition thereof; and
(ii) so long as no Default
shall then exist or would arise therefrom, such proceeds shall not
be required to be so applied on such date to the extent that
Borrowers shall have delivered an Officers’ Certificate to
the Administrative Agent on or prior to such date stating that such
Net Cash Proceeds are expected to be reinvested in fixed or capital
assets within 360 days following the date of such Asset Sale (which
Officers’ Certificate shall set forth the estimates of the
proceeds to be so expended); provided that if all or any
portion of such Net Cash Proceeds is not so reinvested within such
360-day period, such unused portion ( the “ Non-Reinvested
Asset Sale Proceeds ”) shall be applied on the last day
of such period as a mandatory prepayment as provided in this
Section 2.09(c) ; provided, further , that if the
property subject to such Asset Sale constituted Collateral, then
all property purchased with the Net Cash Proceeds thereof pursuant
to this subsection shall be made subject to the Lien of the
applicable Security Documents in favor of the Collateral Agent, for
its benefit and for the benefit of the other Secured Parties in
accordance with Sections 5.11 and 5.12 .
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(d) [Intentionally
Omitted.]
(e) [Intentionally
Omitted.]
(f) Casualty Events .
Not later than three (3) Business Day following the receipt of any
Net Cash Proceeds from a Casualty Event by Holdings or any of its
Subsidiaries in excess of $3.0 million, Borrowers shall do one or
more of the following with the full amount of such Net Cash
Proceeds: (i) make prepayments of the outstanding Loans or (ii) so
long as no Default shall have occurred and be continuing, deliver
an Officers’ Certificate to the Administrative Agent stating
that such proceeds are expected to be used to repair, replace or
restore the property in respect of which such Net Cash Proceeds
were paid or to reinvest in other fixed or capital assets no later
than 360 days following the date of receipt thereof. To the extent
any property subject to a Casualty Event generating Net Cash
Proceeds in excess of $250,000 constituted Collateral under the
Security Documents, the property so purchased with such Net Cash
Proceeds shall be made subject to the Lien of the applicable
Security Documents in accordance with Sections 5.11 and
5.12 . Any portion of the Net Cash Proceeds that is not used
to so repair, replace or restore the property in respect of which
such Net Cash Proceeds were paid within 360 days after receipt of
such Net Cash Proceeds (the “ Non-Reinvested Casualty
Proceeds ”) shall be applied as a repayment of the
outstanding Loans and a reduction of the Revolving Commitments
pursuant to Section 2.09(h). Repayments of Loans pursuant to clause
(i) shall also reduce the Revolving Commitments.
(g) [Intentionally
Omitted.]
(h) Application of
Prepayments . In the event of any optional or mandatory
prepayment hereunder, the aggregate amount of such prepayment shall
be applied to the Revolving Loans. In addition, any mandatory
prepayments made from or with respect to any Non-Reinvested
Proceeds shall permanently reduce the Revolving Commitments ratably
among the Revolving Lenders in accordance with their applicable
Revolving Commitments.
Amounts to be applied
pursuant to this Section 2.09 to the prepayment of Revolving
Loans shall be applied, as applicable, first to reduce outstanding
ABR Revolving Loans, respectively. Any amounts remaining after each
such application shall be applied to prepay Eurodollar Revolving
Loans, as applicable. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the amount
of any prepayment of Loans required under this Section 2.09
shall be in excess of the amount of the ABR Revolving Loans at the
time outstanding (an “ Excess Amount ”), only
the portion of the amount of such prepayment as is equal to the
amount of such outstanding ABR Revolving Loans shall be immediately
prepaid and, at the election of Borrowers, the Excess Amount shall
be either (A) deposited in an escrow account on terms satisfactory
to the Collateral Agent and applied to the prepayment of Eurodollar
Revolving Loans on the last day of the then next-expiring Interest
Period for Eurodollar Revolving Loans; provided that (i)
interest in respect of such Excess Amount shall continue to accrue
thereon at the rate provided hereunder for the Loans which such
Excess Amount is intended to repay until such Excess Amount shall
have been used in full to repay such Loans and (ii) at any time
while an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the
Administrative Agent may, and upon written direction from the
Required Lenders shall, apply any or all proceeds then on deposit
to the payment of such Loans in an amount equal to such Excess
Amount or (B) prepaid immediately, together with any amounts owing
to the Lenders under Section 2.12 .
(i) Notice of
Prepayment . Borrowers shall notify the Administrative Agent
(and, in the case of prepayment of a Swingline Loan, the Swingline
Lender) by written notice of any prepayment hereunder (i) in the
case of prepayment of a Eurodollar Borrowing, not later than 11:00
a.m., New York City time, three Business Days before the date of
prepayment, (ii) in the case of prepayment of an ABR Borrowing, not
later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, one Business Day before
the date of prepayment
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and (iii) in the case of prepayment of a
Swingline Loan, not later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on
the date of prepayment. Each such notice shall be irrevocable;
provided that, if a notice of prepayment is given in
connection with a conditional notice of termination of the
Commitments as contemplated by Section 2.07 , then such
notice of prepayment may be revoked if such termination is revoked
in accordance with Section 2.07 . Each such notice shall
specify the prepayment date, the principal amount of each Borrowing
or portion thereof to be prepaid and, in the case of a mandatory
prepayment, a reasonably detailed calculation of the amount of such
prepayment. Promptly following receipt of any such notice (other
than a notice relating solely to Swingline Loans), the
Administrative Agent shall advise the Lenders of the contents
thereof. Each partial prepayment of any Borrowing shall be in an
amount that would be permitted in the case of a Credit Extension of
the same Type as provided in Section 2.02 , except as
necessary to apply fully the required amount of a mandatory
prepayment. Each prepayment of a Borrowing shall be applied ratably
to the Loans included in the prepaid Borrowing and otherwise in
accordance with this Section 2.09 . Prepayments shall be
accompanied by accrued interest to the extent required by
Section 2.06 .
SECTION 2.10
Alternate Rate of Interest . If prior to the
commencement of any Interest Period for a Eurodollar
Borrowing:
(a) the Administrative Agent
determines (which determination shall be final and conclusive
absent manifest error) that adequate and reasonable means do not
exist for ascertaining the Adjusted LIBOR Rate for such Interest
Period; or
(b) the Administrative Agent
is advised in writing by the Required Lenders that the Adjusted
LIBOR Rate for such Interest Period will not adequately and fairly
reflect the cost to such Lenders of making or maintaining their
Loans included in such Borrowing for such Interest
Period;
then the Administrative Agent shall give
written notice thereof to Borrowers and the Lenders as promptly as
practicable thereafter and, until the Administrative Agent notifies
Borrowers and the Lenders that the circumstances giving rise to
such notice no longer exist, (i) any Interest Election Request that
requests the conversion of any Borrowing to, or continuation of any
Borrowing as, a Eurodollar Borrowing shall be ineffective and (ii)
if any Borrowing Request requests a Eurodollar Borrowing, such
Borrowing shall be made as an ABR Borrowing.
SECTION 2.11
Yield Protection .
(a) Increased Costs
Generally . If any Change in Law shall:
(i) impose, modify or deem
applicable any reserve, special deposit, compulsory loan, insurance
charge or similar requirement against assets of, deposits with or
for the account of, or credit extended or participated in, by any
Lender (except any reserve requirement reflected in the Adjusted
LIBOR Rate) or the Issuing Bank;
(ii) subject any Lender or
the Issuing Bank to any tax of any kind whatsoever with respect to
this Agreement, any Letter of Credit, any participation in a Letter
of Credit or any Eurodollar Revolving Loan made by it, or change
the basis of taxation of payments to such Lender or the Issuing
Bank in respect thereof (except for Indemnified Taxes or Other
Taxes covered by Section 2.14 and the imposition of, or any
change in the rate of, any Excluded Tax payable by such Lender or
the Issuing Bank); or
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(iii) impose on any Lender or
the Issuing Bank or the London interbank market any other
condition, cost or expense affecting this Agreement or Eurodollar
Revolving Loans made by such Lender or any Letter of Credit or
participation therein;
and the result of any of the foregoing
shall be to increase the cost to such Lender of making or
maintaining any Eurodollar Revolving Loan (or of maintaining its
obligation to make any such Loan), or to increase the cost to such
Lender, the Issuing Bank or such Lender’s or the Issuing
Bank’s holding company, if any, of participating in, issuing
or maintaining any Letter of Credit (or of maintaining its
obligation to participate in or to issue any Letter of Credit), or
to reduce the amount of any sum received or receivable by such
Lender or the Issuing Bank hereunder (whether of principal,
interest or any other amount), then, upon request of such Lender or
the Issuing Bank, Borrowers will pay to such Lender or the Issuing
Bank, as the case may be, such additional amount or amounts as will
compensate such Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, for
such additional costs incurred or reduction suffered.
(b) Capital
Requirements . If any Lender or the Issuing Bank determines (in
good faith, but in its sole absolute discretion) that any Change in
Law affecting such Lender or the Issuing Bank or any lending office
of such Lender or such Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s
holding company, if any, regarding capital requirements has or
would have the effect of reducing the rate of return on such
Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s capital or on the
capital of such Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s holding
company, if any, as a consequence of this Agreement, the
Commitments of such Lender or the Loans made by, or participations
in Letters of Credit held by, such Lender, or the Letters of Credit
issued by the Issuing Bank, to a level below that which such Lender
or the Issuing Bank or such Lender’s or the Issuing
Bank’s holding company could have achieved but for such
Change in Law (taking into consideration such Lender’s or the
Issuing Bank’s policies and the policies of such
Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s holding company with
respect to capital adequacy), then from time to time Borrowers will
pay to such Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, such
additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or the
Issuing Bank or such Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s
holding company for any such reduction suffered.
(c) Certificates for
Reimbursement . A certificate of a Lender or the Issuing Bank
setting forth the amount or amounts necessary to compensate such
Lender or the Issuing Bank or its holding company, as the case may
be, as specified in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section
2.11 and delivered to Borrowers shall be conclusive absent
manifest error. Borrowers shall pay such Lender or the Issuing
Bank, as the case may be, the amount shown as due on any such
certificate within 10 days after receipt thereof.
(d) Delay in Requests
. Failure or delay on the part of any Lender or the Issuing Bank to
demand compensation pursuant to this Section 2.11 shall not
constitute a waiver of such Lender’s or the Issuing
Bank’s right to demand such compensation; provided
that Borrowers shall not be required to compensate a Lender or the
Issuing Bank pursuant to this Section for any increased costs
incurred or reductions suffered more than six months prior to the
date that such Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be,
notifies Borrowers of the Change in Law giving rise to such
increased costs or reductions and of such Lender’s or the
Issuing Bank’s intention to claim compensation therefor
(except that, if the Change in Law giving rise to such increased
costs or reductions is retroactive, then the six-month period
referred to above shall be extended to include the period of
retroactive effect thereof) .
SECTION 2.12
Breakage Payments . In the event of (a) the payment
or prepayment, whether optional or mandatory, of any principal of
any Eurodollar Revolving Loan earlier than the last day of an
Interest Period applicable thereto (including as a result of an
Event of Default), (b) the
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conversion of any Eurodollar Revolving
Loan earlier than the last day of the Interest Period applicable
thereto, (c) the failure to borrow, convert, continue or prepay any
Revolving Loan on the date specified in any notice delivered
pursuant hereto or (d) the assignment of any Eurodollar Revolving
Loan earlier than the last day of the Interest Period applicable
thereto as a result of a request by any Borrower pursuant to
Section 2.15(b) , then, in any such event, Borrowers shall
compensate each Lender for the loss, cost and expense attributable
to such event. In the case of a Eurodollar Revolving Loan, such
loss, cost or expense to any Lender shall be deemed to include an
amount determined by such Lender to be the excess, if any, of (i)
the amount of interest which would have accrued on the principal
amount of such Loan had such event not occurred, at the Adjusted
LIBOR Rate that would have been applicable to such Loan, for the
period from the date of such event to the last day of the then
current Interest Period therefor (or, in the case of a failure to
borrow, convert or continue, for the period that would have been
the Interest Period for such Loan), over (ii) the amount of
interest which would accrue on such principal amount for such
period at the interest rate which such Lender would bid were it to
bid, at the commencement of such period, for dollar deposits of a
comparable amount and period from other banks in the Eurodollar
market. A certificate of any Lender setting forth in reasonable
detail any amount or amounts that such Lender is entitled to
receive pursuant to this Section 2.12 shall be delivered to
Borrowers (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) and shall be
conclusive and binding absent manifest error. Borrowers shall pay
such Lender the amount shown as due on any such certificate within
5 days after receipt thereof.
SECTION 2.13
Payments Generally; Pro Rata Treatment; Sharing of
Setoffs .
(a) Payments Generally
. Borrowers shall make each payment required to be made by them
hereunder or under any other Loan Document (whether of principal,
interest, fees or Reimbursement Obligations, or of amounts payable
under Section 2.11 , 2.12 , 2.14 or
10.03 , or otherwise) on or before the time expressly
required hereunder or under such other Loan Document for such
payment (or, if no such time is expressly required, prior to 2:00
p.m., New York City time), on the date when due, in immediately
available funds, without setoff, deduction or counterclaim. Any
amounts received after such time on any date may, in the discretion
of the Administrative Agent, be deemed to have been received on the
next succeeding Business Day for purposes of calculating interest
thereon. All such payments shall be made to the Administrative
Agent at its offices at 677 Washington Boulevard, Stamford,
Connecticut, except payments to be made directly to the Issuing
Bank or Swingline Lender as expressly provided herein and except
that payments pursuant to Sections 2.11 , 2.12 ,
2.14 and 10.03 shall be made directly to the persons
entitled thereto and payments pursuant to other Loan Documents
shall be made to the persons specified therein. The Administrative
Agent shall distribute any such payments received by it for the
account of any other person to the appropriate recipient promptly
following receipt thereof. If any payment under any Loan Document
shall be due on a day that is not a Business Day, unless specified
otherwise, the date for payment shall be extended to the next
succeeding Business Day, and, in the case of any payment accruing
interest, interest thereon shall be payable for the period of such
extension. All payments under each Loan Document shall be made in
dollars, except as expressly specified otherwise.
(b) Insufficient Funds
. If at any time insufficient funds are received by and available
to the Administrative Agent to pay fully all amounts of principal,
Reimbursement Obligations, interest and fees then due hereunder,
such funds shall be applied (i) first , toward payment of
interest and fees then due hereunder, ratably among the parties
entitled thereto in accordance with the amounts of interest and
fees then due to such parties, and (ii) second , toward
payment of principal and Reimbursement Obligations then due
hereunder, ratably among the parties entitled thereto in accordance
with the amounts of principal and Reimbursement Obligations then
due to such parties.
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(c) Sharing of Set-Off
. Subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement, if any
Lender (and/or the Issuing Bank, which shall be deemed a
“Lender” for purposes of this Section 2.13(c) )
shall, by exercising any right of setoff or counterclaim or
otherwise, obtain payment in respect of any principal of or
interest on any of its Loans or other Obligations resulting in such
Lender’s receiving payment of a proportion of the aggregate
amount of its Loans and accrued interest thereon or other
Obligations greater than its pro rata share thereof
as provided herein, then the Lender receiving such greater
proportion shall (a) notify the Administrative Agent of such fact,
and (b) purchase (for cash at face value) participations in the
Loans and such other obligations of the other Lenders, or make such
other adjustments as shall be equitable, so that the benefit of all
such payments shall be shared by the Lenders ratably in accordance
with the aggregate amount of principal of and accrued interest on
their respective Loans and other amounts owing them,
provided that:
(i) if any such
participations are purchased and all or any portion of the payment
giving rise thereto is recovered, such participations shall be
rescinded and the purchase price restored to the extent of such
recovery, without interest; and
(ii) the provisions of this
paragraph shall not be construed to apply to (x) any payment made
by any Borrower pursuant to and in accordance with the express
terms of this Agreement or (y) any payment obtained by a Lender as
consideration for the assignment of or sale of a participation in
any of its Loans or participations in LC Disbursements to any
assignee or participant, other than to any Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries thereof (as to which the provisions of this paragraph
shall apply).
Each Loan Party consents to the
foregoing and agrees, to the extent it may effectively do so under
applicable Requirements of Law, that any Lender acquiring a
participation pursuant to the foregoing arrangements may exercise
against such Loan Party rights of setoff and counterclaim with
respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender were a
direct creditor of such Loan Party in the amount of such
participation. If under applicable bankruptcy, insolvency or any
similar law any Secured Party receives a secured claim in lieu of a
setoff or counterclaim to which this Section 2.13(c)
applies, such Secured Party shall to the extent practicable,
exercise its rights in respect of such secured claim in a manner
consistent with the rights to which the Secured Party is entitled
under this Section 2.13(c ) to share in the benefits of the
recovery of such secured claim.
(d) Borrowers Default
. Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from
any Borrower prior to the date on which any payment is due to the
Administrative Agent for the account of the Lenders or the Issuing
Bank hereunder that such Borrower will not make such payment, the
Administrative Agent may assume that such Borrower has made such
payment on such date in accordance herewith and may, in reliance
upon such assumption, distribute to the Lenders or the Issuing
Bank, as the case may be, the amount due. In such event, if such
Borrower has not in fact made such payment, then each of the
Lenders or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, severally agrees
to repay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand the amount
so distributed to such Lender or the Issuing Bank with interest
thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is
distributed to it to but excluding the date of payment to the
Administrative Agent, at the greater of the Federal Funds Effective
Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in
accordance with banking industry rules on interbank
compensation.
(e) Lender Default .
If any Lender shall fail to make any payment required to be made by
it pursuant to Section 2.02(c) , 2.13(d) ,
2.16(d) , 2.17(d) , 2.17(e) or 10.03(c)
, then the Administrative Agent may, in its discretion
(notwithstanding any contrary provision hereof), apply any
amounts
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thereafter received by the
Administrative Agent for the account of such Lender to satisfy such
Lender’s obligations under such Sections until all such
unsatisfied obligations are fully paid.
SECTION 2.14
Taxes .
(a) Payments Free of
Taxes . Any and all payments by or on account of any obligation
of any Borrower hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall be
made free and clear of and without reduction or withholding for any
Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes; provided that if such
Borrower shall be required by applicable Requirements of Law to
deduct any Indemnified Taxes (including any Other Taxes) from such
payments, then (i) the sum payable shall be increased as necessary
so that after making all required deductions (including deductions
applicable to additional sums payable under this Section) the
Administrative Agent, Lender or Issuing Bank, as the case may be,
receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no
such deductions been made, (ii) such Borrower shall make such
deductions and (iii) such Borrower shall timely pay the full amount
deducted to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with
applicable Requirements of Law.
(b) Payment of Other Taxes
by Borrowers . Without limiting the provisions of paragraph (a)
above, Borrowers shall timely pay any Other Taxes to the relevant
Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable Requirements
of Law.
(c) Indemnification by
Borrowers . Borrowers shall, jointly and severally, indemnify
the Administrative Agent, each Lender and the Issuing Bank, within
10 days after demand therefor, for the full amount of any
Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes (including Indemnified Taxes or
Other Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts
payable under this Section) paid by the Administrative Agent, such
Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, and any penalties,
interest and reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect
thereto, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes were
correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant
Governmental Authority. A certificate as to the amount of such
payment or liability delivered to Borrowers by a Lender or the
Issuing Bank (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), or by the
Administrative Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of a Lender or
the Issuing Bank, shall be conclusive absent manifest
error.
(d) Evidence of
Payments . As soon as practicable after any payment of
Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes by any Borrower to a Governmental
Authority, such Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent
the original or a certified copy of a receipt issued by such
Governmental Authority evidencing such payment, a copy of the
return reporting such payment or other evidence of such payment
reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
(e) Status of Lenders
. Any Lender that is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of
withholding tax under the law of the jurisdiction in which any
Borrower is resident for tax purposes, or any treaty to which such
jurisdiction is a party, with respect to payments hereunder or
under any other Loan Document shall, to the extent it may lawfully
do so, deliver to such Borrower (with a copy to the Administrative
Agent), at the time or times prescribed by applicable Requirements
of Law or reasonably requested by such Borrower or the
Administrative Agent, such properly completed and executed
documentation prescribed by applicable Requirements of Law as will
permit such payments to be made without withholding or at a reduced
rate of withholding. In addition, any Lender, if requested by any
Borrower or the Administrative Agent, shall deliver such other
documentation prescribed by applicable Requirements of Law or
reasonably requested by such Borrower or the Administrative Agent
as will enable such Borrower or the Administrative Agent to
determine whether or not such Lender is subject to backup
withholding or information reporting requirements. Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary in the above
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two sentences, in the case of non-U.S.
withholding taxes the completion, execution and submission of
non-U.S. forms shall not be required if in the Lender’s
judgment such completion, execution or submission would subject
such Lender to any material unreimbursed cost or expense or would
be otherwise disadvantageous to such Lender in any material
respect.
(f) Treatment of Certain
Refunds . If the Administrative Agent, a Lender or the Issuing
Bank determines, in its reasonable discretion, that it has received
a refund of any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes as to which it has
been indemnified by any Borrower or with respect to which any
Borrower has paid additional amounts pursuant to this Section, it
shall pay to such Borrower an amount equal to such refund (but only
to the extent of indemnity payments made, or additional amounts
paid, by such Borrower under this Section with respect to the
Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes giving rise to such refund), net
of all out-of-pocket expenses of the Administrative Agent, such
Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, and without
interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental
Authority with respect to such refund); provided that such
Borrower, upon the request of the Administrative Agent, such Lender
or the Issuing Bank, agrees to repay the amount paid over to such
Borrower (plus any penalties, interest or other charges imposed by
the relevant Governmental Authority) to the Administrative Agent,
such Lender or the Issuing Bank in the event the Administrative
Agent, such Lender or the Issuing Bank is required to repay such
refund to such Governmental Authority. This paragraph shall not be
construed to require the Administrative Agent, any Lender or the
Issuing Bank to make available its tax returns (or any other
information relating to its taxes that it deems confidential) to
any Borrower or any other person. Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary, in no event will any Lender be required to pay any amount
to any Borrower the payment
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