Exhibit 4.1
Execution
Version
CREDIT
AGREEMENT
Dated as of
September 28,
2007
Among
TRANSOCEAN INC.,
as Borrower,
THE LENDERS PARTIES
HERETO,
GOLDMAN SACHS CREDIT PARTNERS
L.P.,
as Administrative Agent,
LEHMAN COMMERCIAL PAPER
INC.,
as Syndication Agent,
CITIBANK, N.A.,
CALYON
CORPORATE AND INVESTMENT BANK
and
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK,
N.A.,
as Co-Documentation
Agents
GOLDMAN SACHS CREDIT PARTNERS
L.P. ,
and LEHMAN BROTHERS
INC. ,
as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
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Page
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ARTICLE 1.
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DEFINITIONS;
INTERPRETATION.
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1
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Section 1.1.
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Definitions
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1
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Section 1.2.
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Time of Day
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20
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Section 1.3.
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Accounting Terms;
GAAP
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ARTICLE 2.
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THE CREDIT
FACILITY.
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20
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Section 2.1.
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Commitments for
Loans
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20
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Section 2.2.
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Types of
Loans
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20
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Section 2.3.
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Manner of Borrowings;
Continuations and Conversions of Borrowings.
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Section 2.4.
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Interest
Periods
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Section 2.5.
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Funding of
Loans
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Section 2.6.
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Applicable Interest
Rates
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24
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Section 2.7.
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Default Rate
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Section 2.8.
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Repayment of Loans;
Evidence of Debt
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25
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Section 2.9.
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Optional
Prepayments
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26
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Section 2.10.
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Mandatory Prepayments
of Loans and Reduction of Commitments
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27
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Section 2.11.
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Breakage
Fees
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29
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ARTICLE 3.
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FEES AND
PAYMENTS.
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Section 3.1.
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Fees
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Section 3.2.
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Place and Application
of Payments
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Section 3.3.
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Withholding
Taxes
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30
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ARTICLE 4.
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CONDITIONS
PRECEDENT.
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33
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Section 4.1.
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Effective
Date
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Section 4.2.
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Closing Date
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ARTICLE 5.
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REPRESENTATIONS AND
WARRANTIES.
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Section 5.1.
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Corporate
Organization
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Section 5.2.
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Power and Authority;
Validity
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Section 5.3.
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No Violation
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Section 5.4.
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Litigation
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Section 5.5.
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Use of Proceeds; Margin
Regulations
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36
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Section 5.6.
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Investment Company
Act
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Section 5.7.
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True and Complete
Disclosure
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Section 5.8.
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Financial
Statements
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37
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Section 5.9.
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No Closing Date
Material Adverse Change
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37
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Section 5.10.
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Taxes
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Section 5.11.
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Consents
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Section 5.12.
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Insurance
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Section 5.13.
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Intellectual
Property
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Section 5.14.
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Ownership of
Property
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Section 5.15.
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Existing
Indebtedness
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38
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Section 5.16.
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Existing
Liens
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Section 5.17.
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Employee Benefit
Plans
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Section 5.18.
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Patriot Act
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ARTICLE 6.
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COVENANTS.
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40
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Section 6.1.
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Corporate
Existence
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Section 6.2.
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Maintenance
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Section 6.3.
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Taxes
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Section 6.4.
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ERISA
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Section 6.5.
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Insurance
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Section 6.6.
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Financial Reports and
Other Information
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Section 6.7.
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Lender Inspection
Rights
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44
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Section 6.8.
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Conduct of
Business
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45
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Section 6.9.
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Restrictions on
Fundamental Changes
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45
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Section 6.10.
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Liens
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Section 6.11.
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Subsidiary
Indebtedness
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Section 6.12.
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Use of Property and
Facilities; Environmental Laws
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49
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Section 6.13.
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Transactions with
Affiliates
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Section 6.14.
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Sale and Leaseback
Transactions
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Section 6.15.
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Compliance with
Laws
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50
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Section 6.16.
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Leverage
Ratio
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50
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Section 6.17.
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Working Capital
Facility Agreement
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ARTICLE 7.
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EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND
REMEDIES.
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Section 7.1.
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Events of
Default
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Section 7.2.
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Non-Bankruptcy
Defaults
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Section 7.3.
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Bankruptcy
Defaults
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Section 7.4.
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Notice of
Default
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Section 7.5.
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Expenses
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Section 7.6.
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Distribution and
Application of Proceeds
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ARTICLE 8.
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CHANGE IN
CIRCUMSTANCES.
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Section 8.1.
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Change of
Law
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Section 8.2.
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Unavailability of
Deposits or Inability to Ascertain LIBO Rate
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55
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Section 8.3.
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Increased Cost and
Reduced Return
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Section 8.4.
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Lending
Offices
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Section 8.5.
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Discretion of Lender as
to Manner of Funding
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Section 8.6.
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Substitution of
Lender
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ARTICLE 9.
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THE AGENTS.
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Section 9.1.
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Appointment and
Authorization of Administrative Agent and Other Agents
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Section 9.2.
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Rights and
Powers
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Section 9.3.
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Action by
Administrative Agent and the Other Agents
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Section 9.4.
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Consultation with
Experts
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Section 9.5.
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Indemnification
Provisions; Credit Decision
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Section 9.6.
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Indemnity
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Section 9.7.
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Resignation
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Section 9.8.
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Delegation of
Duties
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Section 9.9.
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Withholding
Taxes
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ARTICLE 10
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MISCELLANEOUS
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Section 10.1.
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No Waiver
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Section 10.2.
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Non-Business
Day
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Section 10.3.
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Documentary
Taxes
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Section 10.4.
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Survival of
Representations
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Section 10.5.
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Survival of
Indemnities
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Section 10.6.
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Setoff
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Section 10.7.
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Notices
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Section 10.8.
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Counterparts
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Section 10.9.
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Successors and
Assigns
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Section 10.10.
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Sales and Transfers of
Borrowing and Notes; Participations in Borrowings and
Notes
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Section 10.11.
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Amendments, Waivers and
Consents
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70
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Section 10.12.
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Headings
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Section 10.13.
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Legal Fees, Other Costs
and Indemnification
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Section 10.14.
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Governing Law;
Submission to Jurisdiction; Waiver of Jury Trial
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Section 10.15.
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Confidentiality
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Section 10.16.
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Severability
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Section 10.17.
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Change in Accounting
Principles, Fiscal Year or Tax Laws
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Section 10.18.
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Marshalling; Payments
Set Aside
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Section 10.19.
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Obligations Several;
Independent Nature of Lenders’ Rights
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Section 10.20.
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Final
Agreement
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Section 10.21.
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Officer’s
Certificates
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Section 10.22.
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Effect of Inclusion of
Exceptions
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Section 10.23.
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Electronic Execution of
Assignments
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Section 10.24.
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No Fiduciary
Duty
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Section 10.25.
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Patriot Act
Notice
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Exhibits:
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Exhibit 2.3
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Form of Borrowing
Request
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Exhibit 2.8
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Form of Master
Note
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Exhibit 3.3
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Form of Non-Bank
Certificate
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Exhibit 4.1A
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Form of Opinion of
Baker Botts LLP
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Exhibit 4.1B
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Form of Opinion of Eric
B. Brown
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Exhibit 4.1C
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Form of Opinion of
Walkers
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Exhibit 6.6
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Form of Compliance
Certificate
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Exhibit 6.11
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Form of Subsidiary
Guaranty
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Exhibit
10.10
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Form of Assignment
Agreement
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Schedules:
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Schedule 5.4
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Litigation
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Schedule
5.15
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Existing
Indebtedness
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Schedule
5.16
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Existing
Liens
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Schedule
6.13
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Transactions with
Affiliates
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CREDIT AGREEMENT
THIS CREDIT
AGREEMENT ,
dated as of September 28, 2007, among TRANSOCEAN INC., an exempted
company incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands, the
lenders from time to time parties hereto (each a “
Lender ” and collectively, the “ Lenders
”), GOLDMAN SACHS CREDIT PARTNERS L.P. (“ GSCP
”), as administrative agent for the Lenders, LEHMAN
COMMERCIAL PAPER INC., as Syndication Agent, CITIBANK, N.A., CALYON
CORPORATE AND INVESTMENT BANK and JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as
Co-Documentation Agents, and GSCP and LEHMAN BROTHERS INC., as
Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners (in such capacities, the
“ Arrangers ”).
WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS, the Borrower and GlobalSantaFe Corporation, an exempted
company incorporated under the laws of the Cayman Islands (“
GSF ”), are parties to the Merger Agreement pursuant
to which GSF and Transocean Worldwide Inc., a wholly-owned
Subsidiary of the Borrower (“ Merger Sub ”),
intend to merge together by way of scheme of arrangement qualifying
as an amalgamation (the “ Merger ”) with Merger
Sub as the surviving entity following the Merger;
WHEREAS, immediately prior to the Merger and in connection with a
reclassification of the Borrower’s existing issued and
outstanding ordinary shares pursuant to a scheme of arrangement in
accordance with the terms of the Merger Agreement (the “
Reclassification ”), each existing issued and
outstanding ordinary share of the Borrower will be reclassified as,
and converted into (subject to adjustment as provided in the Merger
Agreement), 0.6996 ordinary shares of the Borrower and $33.03 in
cash (such cash, in the aggregate for all such ordinary shares, the
“ Borrower Cash Consideration ”) and in
connection with the Merger, existing shareholders of GSF will
receive ordinary shares of the Borrower (after giving effect to the
Reclassification) and certain cash consideration (the “
GSF Cash Consideration ” and, together with the
Borrower Cash Consideration, the “ Merger Cash
Consideration ”);
WHEREAS, the Borrower has requested that the
Lenders extend in its favor term loans in the aggregate principal
amount of $15,000,000,000, the proceeds of which will be used
to finance the Merger Cash Consideration and to pay costs, fees and
expenses incurred in connection with the Transactions;
and
WHEREAS, the Lenders are willing to make such
term loans available to the Borrower on the terms and subject to
the conditions and requirements hereinafter set forth;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the
premises and of the mutual covenants herein contained, the parties
hereto agree as follows:
ARTICLE 1.
DEFINITIONS;
INTERPRETATION.
Section
1.1.
Definitions . Unless otherwise defined herein,
including the preamble, recitals, exhibits and schedules hereto,
the following terms shall have the following meanings, which
meanings shall be equally applicable to both the singular and
plural forms of such terms:
1
“ Adjusted LIBOR ” means,
for any Borrowing of Eurocurrency Loans for any Interest Period, a
rate per annum determined in accordance with the following formula
(and rounded upward to the next whole multiple of 1/100 of
1%):
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Adjusted LIBOR =
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LIBO Rate for such Interest Period
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1.00 – Statutory Reserve Rate
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“ Administrative Agent ”
means GSCP, acting in its capacity as administrative agent for the
Lenders, and any successor Administrative Agent appointed hereunder
pursuant to Section 9.7.
“ Administrative Agent’s
Principal Office ” means the Administrative Agent’s
address as set forth in Section 10.7, or such other office or
office of a third party or sub-agent, as appropriate, as the
Administrative Agent may from time to time designate in writing to
the Borrower and each Lender.
“ Administrative Questionnaire
” means, with respect to each Lender, an administrative
questionnaire in the form prepared by the Administrative Agent and
submitted to the Administrative Agent duly completed by such
Lender.
“ Agents ” means the
Administrative Agent, the Syndication Agent and each Arranger,
collectively.
“ Agreement ” means this
Credit Agreement, and all schedules and exhibits thereto, in each
case as the same may be amended, restated and supplemented from
time to time.
“ Angola Debt ” means the
Indebtedness described under the heading “Angola Debt”
on Schedule 5.15 hereto, which Indebtedness shall be used to
finance the construction and mobilization of a drill ship intended
to operate in Angola.
“ Applicable Margin ” means,
for any day, at such times as a rating (either express or implied)
by S&P and Moody’s is in effect on the Borrower’s
non-credit enhanced senior unsecured long-term debt, the percentage
per annum set forth opposite such debt rating:
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The
Applicable Margin will be determined based upon the highest rating
issued by S&P and Moody’s. If such highest ratings
differ (i) by one rating, the higher of such ratings will apply to
determine the Applicable Margin, (ii) by two ratings, the rating
which falls between such ratings will apply to determine the
Applicable Margin, or (iii) by more than two ratings, the rating
which is one level above the lower of such highest rating will
apply to determine the Applicable Margin. If only one such
rating is issued by S&P or Moody’s, the Applicable Margin
will be determined by such rating. The Borrower shall give
written notice to the Administrative Agent of any changes to such
ratings, within three (3) Business Days thereof, and any change to
the Applicable Margin shall be effective on the date of the
relevant change. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the
Borrower shall at any time fail to have in effect any such rating
on the Borrower’s non-credit enhanced senior unsecured
long-term debt, the Borrower shall seek and obtain (if not already
in effect), within thirty (30) days after such rating first ceases
to be in effect, a corporate credit rating or a bank loan rating
from Moody’s and/or S&P (or if neither Moody’s nor
S&P issues such types of ratings or ratings comparable thereto,
from another nationally recognized rating agency approved by each
of the Borrower and the Administrative Agent), and the Applicable
Margin shall thereafter be based on such ratings in the same manner
as provided herein with respect to the Borrower’s senior
unsecured long-term debt rating (with the Applicable Margin in
effect prior to the issuance of such corporate credit rating or
bank loan rating being the same as the Applicable Margin in effect
at the time the senior unsecured long-term debt rating ceases to be
in effect).
“ Approved Electronic
Communications ” means any notice, demand, communication,
information, document or other material that the Borrower provides
to Administrative Agent pursuant to any Credit Document or the
transactions contemplated therein which is distributed to the
Agents or to the Lenders by means of electronic communications
pursuant to Section 10.7(b).
“ Arrangers” has the meaning
assigned to such term in the preamble.
“ Asset Sale ”
means a sale, lease or
sub-lease (as lessor or sublessor), sale and leaseback, assignment,
conveyance, exclusive license (as licensor or sublicensor),
transfer or other disposition to, or any exchange of property with,
any Person (other than the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries), in
one transaction or a series of transactions, of all or any part of
the Borrower’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ businesses,
assets or properties of any kind, whether real, personal, or mixed
and whether tangible or intangible, whether now owned or hereafter
acquired, leased or licensed, including the equity interests of any
of the Borrower’s Subsidiaries, in each case after the
Closing Date, other than (i) inventory (or other assets) sold,
leased (including by way of charter) or licensed out in the
ordinary course of business (including, in each case, pursuant to
drilling contracts) (excluding any such sales, leases or licenses
out by operations or divisions discontinued or to be discontinued),
and (ii) sales, leases, sub-leases, sale and leasebacks,
charters (bareboat or otherwise), assignments, conveyances,
exclusive licenses, transfers, or other dispositions, or any
exchanges of property, or licenses out of other assets for
aggregate consideration of less than $750,000,000
for all such
sales, leases, sub-leases,
sale and leasebacks, charters, assignments, conveyances, transfers,
dispositions, exchanges of property or licenses after the Closing
Date.
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“ Assignment Agreement ”
means an agreement in substantially the form of Exhibit
10.10 whereby a Lender conveys part or all of its Commitment or
Loans to another Person that is, or thereupon becomes, a Lender, or
increases its Commitments or outstanding Loans, pursuant to Section
10.10.
“ Assignment Effective Date
” has the
meaning assigned to such term in Section 10.9.
“ Base Rate ” means, for any
day, a rate per annum equal to the greater of (i) the Prime Rate in
effect on such day and (ii) the Federal Funds Effective Rate in
effect on such day plus
½ of 1%. Any change in the Base Rate due to a change in
the Prime Rate or the Federal Funds Effective Rate shall be
effective on the effective day of such change in the Prime Rate or
the Federal Funds Effective Rate, respectively.
“ Base Rate Loan ” means a
Loan bearing interest prior to maturity at the rate specified in
Section 2.6(a).
“ Borrower ” means
Transocean Inc., an exempted company incorporated under the laws of
the Cayman Islands, and its successors.
“ Borrower Cash Consideration
” has the meaning assigned to such term in the
recitals.
“ Borrowing ” means any
extension of credit of the same Type made by the Lenders on the
same date by way of Loans having a single Interest Period,
including any Borrowing advanced, continued or converted. A
Borrowing is (i) “ advanced ” on the day the
Lenders advance funds comprising such Borrowing to the Borrower,
(ii) “ continued ” (in the case of Eurocurrency
Loans) on the date a new Interest Period commences for such
Borrowing, and (iii) “ converted ” when such
Borrowing is changed from one Type of Loan to the other, in each
case as requested by the Borrower pursuant to Section
2.3.
“ Borrowing Request ” has
the meaning assigned to such term in Section 2.3(a).
“ Business Day ” means (i)
any day other than a Saturday or Sunday on which banks are not
authorized or required to close in New York, New York and, (ii) if
the applicable Business Day relates to the advance or continuation
of, conversion into, or payment on a Eurocurrency Borrowing, then
the term “ Business Day ” means any day which is
a Business Day described in clause (i) and which is also a day for
trading by and between banks in Dollar deposits in the London
interbank market.
“ Capitalized Lease Obligations
” means, for any Person, the aggregate amount of such
Person’s liabilities under all leases of real or personal
property (or any interest therein) which is required to be
capitalized on the balance sheet of such Person as determined in
accordance with GAAP.
“ Closing Date ” means the
date on which the conditions specified in Section 4.2 are satisfied
(or waived in accordance with Section 10.11), which date shall be
on or before July 21, 2008.
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“ Closing Date Material Adverse
Effect ” means any fact, circumstance, event, change,
effect or occurrence that, individually or in the aggregate, with
all other facts, circumstances, events, changes, effects or
occurrences, has had or would be reasonably likely to have a
material adverse effect on the assets, properties, business,
results of operation or condition (financial or otherwise) of the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or that would be
reasonably likely to prevent or materially delay or materially
impair the ability of the Borrower to perform its obligations under
the Merger Agreement or to consummate the Merger, the
Reclassification or the other transactions contemplated by the
Merger Agreement, but shall not include (i) facts, circumstances,
events, changes, effects or occurrences generally affecting the
drilling services industry or the economy or the financial or
securities markets in the United States or elsewhere in the world,
including any regulatory or political conditions or developments,
or any outbreak or escalation of hostilities, declared or
undeclared acts of war, terrorism or insurrection, except to the
extent any fact, circumstance, event, change, effect or occurrence
relative to other comparable industry participants materially
disproportionately impacts the assets, properties, business,
results of operation or condition (financial or otherwise) of the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, (ii) facts,
circumstances, events, changes, effects or occurrences to the
extent directly resulting from the announcement of the execution of
the Merger Agreement or the consummation of the transactions
contemplated thereby (without diminishing the effect of any
representations or warranties herein), (iii) fluctuations in the
price or trading volume of the ordinary shares of the Borrower;
provided, that the exception in this clause (iii) shall not
prevent or otherwise affect a determination that any fact,
circumstance, event, change, effect or occurrence underlying such
fluctuation has resulted in, or contributed to, a Closing Date
Material Adverse Effect with respect to the Borrower, (iv) facts,
circumstances, events, changes, effects or occurrences to the
extent resulting from any changes in any applicable law, rule, regulation, code,
governmental determination, order, treaty, convention, governmental
certification requirement or other public limitation, U.S. or
non-U.S., or in
GAAP (or the interpretation thereof) after the date of the Merger
Agreement, (v) facts, circumstances, events, changes, effects or
occurrences to the extent resulting from any legal proceedings made
or brought by any of the current or former shareholders of the
Borrower or GSF (on their own behalf or on behalf of the Borrower
or GSF, respectively) arising out of or related to the Merger
Agreement or any of the transactions contemplated thereby or (vi)
any failure by the Borrower or GSF to meet any published analyst
estimates or expectations of the Borrower’s or GSF’s
respective revenue, earnings or other financial performance or
results of operations for any period or any failure by the Borrower
or GSF to meet their respective internal budgets, plans or
forecasts of its revenues, earnings or other financial performance
or results of operations; provided, that
the exception in this
clause (vi) shall not prevent or otherwise affect a determination
that any fact, circumstance, event, change, effect or occurrence
underlying such failure has resulted in, or contributed to, a
Closing Date Material Adverse Effect with respect to the Borrower
or GSF, as applicable.
“ Code ” means the Internal
Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and any successor
thereto.
“ Co-Documentation Agent ”
means, collectively, Citibank, N.A., Calyon Corporate and Investment
Bank and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., in their capacities as
co-documentation agents for the Lenders; provided ,
however , that no such Co-Documentation Agent shall have any
duties, responsibilities, or obligations hereunder in such
capacity.
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“ Commitment ” means,
relative to any Lender, such Lender’s obligations to make
Loans pursuant to (a) Section 2.1, in the amount and percentage set
forth below such Lender’s signature block hereto or (b)
Section 10.10, in the applicable Assignment Agreement, in each case
as the same may be reduced from time to time pursuant to terms
hereof (including, without limitation, Section 2.10). The
original aggregate amount of the Commitments as of the Effective
Date is $15,000,000,000.
“ Compliance Certificate ”
means a certificate in the form of Exhibit 6.6 .
“ Confidential Information
Memorandum ” means the Confidential Information
Memorandum of the Borrower dated July, 2007, as the same may be
amended, restated and supplemented from time to time and
distributed to the Lenders prior to the Effective Date.
“ Consolidated
EBITDA ” means, for the Borrower and its Subsidiaries,
for any period, the sum, determined on a consolidated basis, of (i)
operating income plus ,
(ii) without duplication, and to the extent reflected as a charge
in the calculation (or determination) of such operating income for
such period, the sum of (a) depreciation, depletion and
amortization expense and (b) other non-cash charges reducing
operating income for such period (excluding any such non-cash
charge to the extent that it represents an accrual or reserve for
potential cash charge in any future period or amortization of a
prepaid cash charge that was paid in a prior period), less (iii) other non-cash gains
increasing operating income for such period (excluding any such
non-cash gain to the extent it represents the reversal of an
accrual or reserve for potential cash gain in any prior period), in
each case determined in accordance with GAAP for such period; it
being understood and agreed that, with respect to any period prior
to the Merger, Consolidated EBITDA shall be calculated with respect
to such period on a pro forma basis using the historical
consolidated financial statements of GSF and its Subsidiaries and
the consolidated financial statements of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries (excluding GSF and its Subsidiaries) which shall be
reformulated as if the Merger had been consummated at the beginning
of such period.
“ Consolidated Indebtedness
” means all Indebtedness of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries
that would be reflected on a consolidated balance sheet of such
Persons prepared in accordance with GAAP.
“ Consolidated Net Assets ”
means, as of any date of determination, an amount equal to the
aggregate book value of the assets of the Borrower, its
Subsidiaries and, to the extent of the equity interest of the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries therein, SPVs at such time,
less the current
liabilities of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, all as determined
on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP based on the most
recent quarterly or annual consolidated financial statements of the
Borrower referred to in Section 5.8 or delivered (or publicly
filed) as provided in Section 6.6(a), as the case may
be.
“ Consolidated Tangible Net Worth
” means, as of any date of determination, consolidated
shareholders equity of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries determined
in accordance with GAAP but excluding the effect on shareholders
equity of cumulative foreign exchange translation adjustments, and
less the net book amount
of all assets of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries that would be
classified as intangible assets on the consolidated balance sheet
of the Borrower as of
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such date prepared in accordance with
GAAP. For purposes of this definition, SPVs shall be
accounted for pursuant to the equity method of
accounting.
“ Controlling Affiliate ”
means, for any Person, (i) any other Person that directly or
indirectly through one or more intermediaries controls, or is under
common control with, such Person, and (ii) any other Person owning
beneficially or controlling ten percent (10%) or more of the equity
interests having ordinary voting power for the election of
directors of such Person. As used in this definition, “
control ” means the power, directly or indirectly, to
direct or cause the direction of management or policies of a Person
(through ownership of voting securities or other equity interests,
by contract or otherwise).
“ Credit Documents ” means
this Agreement, the Notes and any Subsidiary Guaranties in effect
from time to time.
“ Currency Rate Protection
Agreement ” means any foreign currency exchange and
future agreements, arrangements and options designed to protect
against fluctuations in currency exchange rates.
“ Default ” means any event
or condition the occurrence of which would, with the passage of
time or the giving of notice, or both, constitute an Event of
Default.
“ Dollar ” and “
U.S. Dollar ” and the sign “ $ ”
mean lawful money of the United States of America.
“ Dollar Equivalent ” means,
on any date of determination (i) with respect to any amount in U.S.
Dollars, such amount, and (ii) with respect to any amount in any
currency other than U.S. Dollars, the equivalent in U.S. Dollars of
such amount, determined by the Administrative Agent using the
applicable Exchange Rate with respect to such currency at the time
in effect on such date of determination.
“ Effective Date ” has the
meaning assigned to such term in Section 4.1.
“ Effective Date Representations
” means each of the representations and warranties made by
the Borrower as set forth in (i) Sections 5.1, 5.2, 5.3(c) (solely
with respect to the execution and delivery of the Credit
Agreement), 5.6 and 5.18, in each case solely with respect to the
Borrower and (ii) Sections 5.3(a) (solely with respect to the
execution and delivery of the Credit Agreement) and 5.5(b), in each
case with respect to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries.
“ Employee Benefit Plan ”
means any “employee benefit plan” as defined in Section
3(3) of ERISA which is or was sponsored, maintained or contributed
to by, or required to be contributed to by, the Borrower, any of
its Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA
Affiliates.
“ Environmental Claims ”
means any and all administrative, regulatory or judicial actions,
suits, demands, demand letters, claims, liens, notices of
non-compliance or violation, investigations or proceedings relating
to any Environmental Law or any permit issued under any
Environmental Law (“ Claims ”), including,
without limitation, (i) any and all Claims by governmental or
regulatory authorities for enforcement, cleanup, removal, response,
remedial or
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other actions or damages pursuant to any
applicable Environmental Law, and (ii) any and all Claims by any
third party seeking damages, contribution, indemnification, cost
recovery, compensation or injunctive relief resulting from
Hazardous Materials or arising from alleged injury or threat of
injury to the environment.
“ Environmental Law ” means
any federal, state or local statute, law, rule, regulation,
ordinance, code, policy or rule of common law now or hereafter in
effect, including any judicial or administrative order, consent,
decree or judgment, relating to the environment.
“ ERISA ” means the Employee
Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, and any
successor thereto.
“ ERISA Affiliate ” means,
as applied to any Person, (i) any corporation which is a
member of a controlled group of corporations within the meaning of
Section 414(b) of the Code of which that Person is a member; (ii)
any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) which is a
member of a group of trades or businesses under common control
within the meaning of Section 414(c) of the Code of which that
Person is a member; and (iii) any member of an affiliated service
group within the meaning of Section 414(m) or (o) of the Code of
which that Person, any corporation described in clause (i) above or
any trade or business described in clause (ii) above is a
member. Any former ERISA Affiliate of the Borrower or any of
its Subsidiaries shall continue to be considered an ERISA Affiliate
of the Borrower or any such Subsidiary within the meaning of this
definition with respect to the period such entity was an ERISA
Affiliate of the Borrower or such Subsidiary and with respect to
liabilities arising after such period for which the Borrower or
such Subsidiary could be liable under the Code or ERISA.
“ ERISA Event ” means (i) a
“reportable event” within the meaning of Section 4043
of ERISA and the regulations issued thereunder with respect to any
Pension Plan (excluding those for which the provision for 30-day
notice to the PBGC has been waived by regulation); (ii) the failure
to meet the minimum funding standard of Section 412 of the Code
with respect to any Pension Plan (whether or not waived in
accordance with Section 412(d) of the Code) or the failure to make
by its due date a required installment under Section 412(m) of the
Code with respect to any Pension Plan or the failure to make any
required contribution to a Multiemployer Plan; (iii) the provision
by the administrator of any Pension Plan pursuant to Section
4041(a)(2) of ERISA of a notice of intent to terminate such plan in
a distress termination described in Section 4041(c) of ERISA; (iv)
the withdrawal by the Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries or any of
their respective ERISA Affiliates from any Pension Plan with two or
more contributing sponsors or the termination of any such Pension
Plan resulting in liability to the Borrower, any of its
Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates pursuant
to Section 4063 or 4064 of ERISA; (v) the institution by the PBGC
of proceedings to terminate any Pension Plan, or the occurrence of
any event or condition which might constitute grounds under ERISA
for the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to
administer, any Pension Plan; (vi) the imposition of liability on
the Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective
ERISA Affiliates pursuant to Section 4062(e) or 4069 of ERISA or by
reason of the application of Section 4212(c) of ERISA; (vii) the
withdrawal of the Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries or any of their
respective ERISA Affiliates in a complete or partial withdrawal
(within the meaning of Sections 4203 and 4205 of ERISA) from any
Multiemployer Plan if there is any potential liability therefor, or
the receipt by the Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries or any of
their respective
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ERISA Affiliates of notice from any
Multiemployer Plan that it is in reorganization or insolvency
pursuant to Section 4241 or 4245 of ERISA, or that it intends to
terminate or has terminated under Section 4041A or 4042 of ERISA;
(viii) the occurrence of an act or omission which could give rise
to the imposition on the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries of
fines, penalties, taxes or related charges under Chapter 43 of the
Code or under Section 409, Section 502(c), (i) or (l), or Section
4071 of ERISA in respect of any Employee Benefit Plan; (ix) the
assertion of a material claim (other than routine claims for
benefits) against any Employee Benefit Plan other than a
Multiemployer Plan or the assets thereof, or against the Borrower,
any of its Subsidiaries or any of their respective ERISA Affiliates
in connection with any Employee Benefit Plan; (x) receipt from the
U.S. Internal Revenue Service of notice of the failure of any
Pension Plan (or any other Employee Benefit Plan intended to be
qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code) to qualify under
Section 401(a) of the Code, or the failure of any trust forming
part of any Pension Plan to qualify for exemption from taxation
under Section 501(a) of the Code; or (xi) the imposition of a Lien
pursuant to Section 401(a)(29) or 412(n) of the Code or pursuant to
ERISA with respect to any Pension Plan.
“ Eurocurrency ”, when used
in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, means such Loan, or the
Loans comprising such Borrowing, shall bear interest at a rate
determined by reference to Adjusted LIBOR and the Applicable
Margin.
“ Eurocurrency Loan ” means
a Loan bearing interest before maturity at the rate specified in
Section 2.6(b).
“ Event of Default ” means
any of the events or circumstances specified in Section
7.1.
“ Existing Indebtedness ”
means Indebtedness and other obligations outstanding under
that certain Revolving Credit Agreement, dated as of August 15,
2006, among GSF, the lenders from time to time parties thereto,
Citibank, N.A., as swingline lender and administrative agent, Wells
Fargo Bank, N.A., as syndication agent, Bank of America, N.A., HSBC
Bank USA, National Association and The Royal Bank of Scotland plc,
as co-documentation agents, and Citibank, N.A. and Wells Fargo
Bank, N.A., as issuing banks of letters of credit
thereunder.
“ Exchange Rate ” means on
any day, with respect to any currency other than U.S. Dollars, the
rate at which such currency may be exchanged into U.S. Dollars, as
set forth at approximately 11:00 A.M. on such day on the applicable
page of the Bloomberg Service reporting the exchange rates for such
currency. In the event such exchange rate does not appear on
the applicable page of such service, the Exchange Rate shall be
determined by reference to such other publicly available services
for displaying currency exchange rates as may be agreed upon by the
Administrative Agent and the Borrower or, in the absence of such
agreement, such Exchange Rate shall instead be determined by the
Administrative Agent based on current market spot rates,
provided that if at the time of any such determination, for
any reason, no such spot rate is being quoted, the Administrative
Agent, after consultation with the Borrower, may use any reasonable
method it deems appropriate to determine such rate, and such
determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
“ Federal Funds Effective Rate
” means for
any day, the rate per annum (expressed, as a decimal, rounded
upwards, if necessary, to the next higher 1/100 of 1%) equal to the
weighted
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average of the rates on overnight Federal funds
transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by
Federal funds brokers on such day, as published by the Federal
Reserve Bank of New York on the Business Day next succeeding such
day; provided , (i) if such day is not a Business Day, the
Federal Funds Effective Rate for such day shall be such rate on
such transactions on the next preceding Business Day as so
published on the next succeeding Business Day, and (ii) if no such
rate is so published on such next succeeding Business Day, the
Federal Funds Effective Rate for such day shall be the average rate
charged to the Administrative Agent, in its capacity as a
Lender, on such day on such transactions as determined by the
Administrative Agent.
“ Fee Letter ” means that
certain Fee Letter dated as of July 21, 2007, by and among the
Borrower, GSF, the Arrangers, the Syndication Agent and Lehman
Brothers Commercial Bank, as modified from time to time.
“ Foreign Plan ” means any
pension, profit sharing, deferred compensation, or other employee
benefit plan, program or arrangement maintained by any foreign
Subsidiary of the Borrower which, under applicable local law, is
required to be funded through a trust or other funding vehicle, but
shall not include any benefit provided by a foreign government or
its agencies.
“ Former Subsidiary ” means
TODCO, a Subsidiary of the Borrower prior to the Closing Date and
which is no longer a Subsidiary of the Borrower on the Closing
Date.
“ GAAP ” means generally
accepted accounting principles from time to time in effect as set
forth in the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting
Principles Board of the American Institute of Certified Public
Accountants and the statements and pronouncements of the Financial
Accounting Standards Board or in such other statements, opinions
and pronouncements by such other entity as may be approved by a
significant segment of the U.S. accounting profession.
“ Governmental Authority ”
means the government of the United States of America, any other
nation or any political subdivision thereof, whether state or
local, and any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body,
court, central bank or other entity exercising executive,
legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or administrative powers
or functions of or pertaining to government.
“ GSCP” has the meaning
assigned to such term in the preamble.
“ GSF ” has the meaning
assigned to such term in the recitals.
“ GSF Cash Consideration ”
has the meaning assigned to such term in the recitals.
“ Guarantor ” means any
Subsidiary of the Borrower required to execute and deliver a
Subsidiary Guaranty hereunder pursuant to Section 6.11, in each
case unless and until the relevant Subsidiary Guaranty is released
pursuant to Section 6.11.
“ Guaranty ” by any Person
means all contractual obligations (other than endorsements in the
ordinary course of business of negotiable instruments for deposit
or collection or similar
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transactions in the ordinary course of
business) of such Person guaranteeing any Indebtedness of any other
Person (the “ primary obligor ”) in any manner,
whether directly or indirectly, including, without limitation, all
obligations incurred through an agreement, contingent or otherwise,
by such Person: (i) to purchase such Indebtedness or to
purchase any property or assets constituting security therefor,
primarily for the purpose of assuring the owner of such
Indebtedness of the ability of the primary obligor to make payment
of such Indebtedness; or (ii) to advance or supply funds (x)
for the purchase or payment of such Indebtedness, or (y) to
maintain working capital or other balance sheet condition, or
otherwise to advance or make available funds for the purchase or
payment of such Indebtedness, in each case primarily for the
purpose of assuring the owner of such Indebtedness of the ability
of the primary obligor to make payment of such Indebtedness; or
(iii) to lease property, or to purchase securities or other
property or services, of the primary obligor, primarily for the
purpose of assuring the owner of such Indebtedness of the ability
of the primary obligor to make payment of such Indebtedness; or
(iv) otherwise to assure the owner of such Indebtedness of the
primary obligor against loss in respect thereof. For the
purpose of all computations made under this Agreement, the amount
of a Guaranty in respect of any Indebtedness shall be deemed to be
equal to the amount that would apply if such Indebtedness was the
direct obligation of such Person rather than the primary obligor
or, if less, the maximum aggregate potential liability of such
Person under the terms of the Guaranty.
“ Hazardous Material ” has
the meaning assigned to the term “Hazardous Substance”
in the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and
Liability Act of 1980, as amended by the Superfund Amendments and
Reauthorization Acts of 1986, and shall also include petroleum,
including crude oil or any fraction thereof, or any other substance
defined, listed or regulated as “ hazardous ” or
“ toxic ” or words with similar meaning and
effect under any Environmental Law applicable to the Borrower or
any of its Subsidiaries.
“ Highest Lawful Rate ”
means the maximum nonusurious interest rate, if any, that any time
or from time to time may be contracted for, taken, reserved,
charged or received on any Loans, under laws applicable to any of
the Lenders which are presently in effect or, to the extent allowed
by applicable law, under such laws which may hereafter be in effect
and which allow a higher maximum nonusurious interest rate than
applicable laws now allow. Determination of the rate of
interest for the purpose of determining whether any Loans are
usurious under all applicable laws shall be made by amortizing,
prorating, allocating, and spreading, in equal parts during the
period of the full stated term of the Loans, all interest at any
time contracted for, taken, reserved, charged or received from the
Borrower in connection with the Loans.
“ Indebtedness ” means, for
any Person, the following obligations of such Person, without
duplication: (i) obligations of such Person for borrowed
money; (ii) obligations of such Person representing the deferred
purchase price of property or services other than accounts payable
and accrued liabilities arising in the ordinary course of business
and other than amounts which are being contested in good faith and
for which reserves in conformity with GAAP have been provided;
(iii) obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, notes, bankers
acceptances, debentures or other similar instruments of such
Person, or obligations of such Person arising, whether absolute or
contingent, out of letters of credit issued for such Person’s
account or pursuant to such Person’s application securing
Indebtedness; (iv) obligations of other Persons, whether or not
assumed, secured by Liens (other than Permitted Liens) upon
property or payable
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out
of the proceeds or production from property now or hereafter owned
or acquired by such Person, but only to the extent of such
property’s fair market value; (v) Capitalized Lease
Obligations of such Person; (vi) obligations under Interest Rate
Protection Agreements and Currency Rate Protection Agreements; and
(vii) obligations of such Person pursuant to a Guaranty of any of
the foregoing obligations of another Person; provided,
however , Indebtedness shall exclude Non-recourse Debt and any
Indebtedness attributable to the mark-to-market treatment of
obligations of the type described in clause (vi) in the definition
of Indebtedness and any actual fair value adjustment arising from
any Interest Rate Protection Agreements and Currency Rate
Protection Agreements that have been cancelled or otherwise
terminated before their scheduled expiration, in each case in
respect of Interest Rate Protection Agreements and Currency Rate
Protection Agreements entered into in the ordinary course of
business and not for investment or speculative purposes. For
purposes of this Agreement, the Indebtedness of any Person shall
include the Indebtedness of any partnership or joint venture to the
extent such Indebtedness is recourse to such Person.
“ Indemnified Taxes ” has
the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.3(a).
“ Indemnified Parties ” has
the meaning assigned to such term in Section 10.13(a).
“ Intercompany Indebtedness
” has the meaning assigned to such term in the definition of
Other Debt Holder.
“ Interest Payment Date ”
means (a) with respect to any Base Rate Loan, the last day of each
March, June, September and December and (b) with respect to any
Eurocurrency 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
Eurocurrency Borrowing 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.
“ Interest Period ” means
with respect to any Eurocurrency 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 thereafter (or if available from each Lender making a
Loan as part of such Borrowing, any other period), in each case as
the Borrower may elect. 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.
“ Interest Rate Protection
Agreement ” means any interest rate swap, interest rate
cap, interest rate collar, or other interest rate hedging agreement
or arrangement designed to protect against fluctuations in interest
rates.
“ Lender ” has the meaning
assigned to such term in the preamble.
“ Lending Office ”
means the
“Lending Office” of such Lender (or a Controlling
Affiliate of such Lender) designated for each Type of Loan in the
Administrative Questionnaire submitted by such Lender or such other
office of such Lender (or a Controlling Affiliate of such Lender)
as such Lender may from time to time specify to the Administrative
Agent and the Borrower as the office by which its Loans of such
Type are to be made and maintained .
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“ Leverage Ratio ” means, at
any date of determination, the ratio of (a) (i) Consolidated
Indebtedness of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as at the end of
the then most recently ended fiscal quarter of the Borrower (which,
if such date is the last day of a fiscal quarter of the Borrower,
shall be such fiscal quarter) minus (ii) unrestricted cash on which
no Lien or restriction whatsoever exists (other than usual and
customary rights of set-off for deposit account fees and expenses
required by financial institutions where such cash is deposited)
and cash deposited in restricted accounts that require the payee of
such Indebtedness to consent to withdrawal thereof and earmarked
for amortization of such Indebtedness (other than the portion
thereof payable against interest) to (b) Consolidated EBITDA for
the then most recently ended fiscal quarter of the Borrower and the
immediately preceding three fiscal quarters.
“ LIBO Rate ”
means, with respect to an
Interest Period for a Eurocurrency Loan, (i) (a) the rate per annum
(rounded to the nearest 1/100 of 1%) equal to the rate determined
by the Administrative Agent to be the offered rate which appears on
the page of the Reuters Screen which displays an average British
Bankers Association Interest Settlement Rate (such page currently
being LIBOR01 page) for deposits (for delivery on the first day of
such period) with a term equivalent to such period in Dollars,
determined as of approximately 11:00 A.M. (London, England time)
two Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest Period
(the “ Interest Rate Determination Date ”), or
(b) in the event the rate referenced in the preceding clause (a)
does not appear on such page or service or if such page or service
shall cease to be available, the rate per annum (rounded to the
nearest 1/100 of 1%) equal to the rate determined by the
Administrative Agent to be the offered rate on such other page or
other service which displays an average British Bankers Association
Interest Settlement Rate for deposits (for delivery on the first
day of such period) with a term equivalent to such period in
Dollars, determined as of approximately 11:00 A.M. (London, England
time) on such Interest Rate Determination Date, or (c) in the event
the rates referenced in the preceding clauses (a) and (b) are not
available, the rate per annum (rounded to the nearest 1/100 of 1%)
equal to the offered quotation rate to first class banks in the
London interbank market by Citibank, N.A. for deposits (for
delivery on the first day of the relevant period) in Dollars of
amounts in same day funds comparable to the principal amount of the
applicable Loan of the Administrative Agent, in its capacity as a
Lender, for which the Adjusted LIBOR is then being determined with
maturities comparable to such period as of approximately 11:00 A.M.
(London, England time) on such Interest Rate Determination
Date.
“ Lien ” means any interest
in any property or asset in favor of a Person other than the owner
of such property or asset and securing an obligation owed to, or a
claim by, such Person, whether such interest is based on the common
law, statute or contract, including, but not limited to, the
security interest lien arising from a mortgage, encumbrance,
pledge, conditional sale, security agreement or trust receipt, or a
lease, consignment or bailment for security purposes.
“ Loan ” and “
Loans ” each have the meaning assigned to each such
term in Section 2.1.
“ Loan Exposure ” means,
with respect to any Lender at any time, such Lender’s
applicable Percentage of the principal amount of the outstanding
Loans (or at any time prior to the making of the Loans, such
Lender’s applicable Percentage of the aggregate
Commitments).
“ Material Adverse Effect ”
means any fact, circumstance, event, change, effect or occurrence
arising after the Closing Date that results in a material adverse
effect on (i) the
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business, assets, operations or condition of
the Borrower and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole, including,
after giving effect to the Transaction, the Merger Sub and its
Subsidiaries; or (ii) the Borrower’s ability to perform any
of its payment obligations under this Agreement or the
Notes.
“ Maturity Date ” means the
earlier of (i) the one-year anniversary of the Closing Date, and
(ii) the date on which the Loans have become due and payable
pursuant to Section 7.2 or 7.3.
“ Merger ” has the meaning
assigned to such term in the recitals.
“ Merger Agreement ” means
that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of July 21,
2007, by and among the Borrower, GSF and Transocean Worldwide Inc.,
as amended from time to time in accordance therewith.
“ Merger Cash Consideration
” has the meaning assigned to such term in the
recitals.
“ Merger Documentation ”
means, collectively, the Merger Agreement and all schedules,
exhibits, annexes and amendments thereto and all other material
documents (including all schedules, exhibits, annexes and
amendments thereto) affecting the terms thereof or entered into in
connection therewith.
“ Merger Sub ” has the
meaning assigned to such term in the recitals.
“ Moody’s ” means
Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. or any successor
thereto.
“ Multiemployer Plan ” means
any Employee Benefit Plan which is a “multiemployer
plan” as defined in Section 3(37) of ERISA.
“ Net Asset Sale Proceeds ”
means, with respect to any Asset Sale, an amount equal to:
(i) cash payments (including any cash received by way of
deferred payment pursuant to, or by monetization of, a note
receivable or otherwise, but only as and when so received) received
by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries from such Asset Sale,
minus (ii) any
bona fide direct fees (including attorney’s fees,
accountants’ fees, investment banking fees, brokerage,
consultant and other customary fees, in each case, incurred in
connection with such Asset Sale), commissions, transfer taxes and
other customary costs and expenses, in each case, incurred in
connection with such Asset Sale, including (a) income or gains taxes paid or payable
by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries as a result of any gain
recognized in connection with such Asset Sale, (b) payment of the
outstanding principal amount of, premium or penalty, if any, and
interest on any Indebtedness (other than the Loans) that is secured
by a Lien on the stock or assets in question and that is required
to be repaid under the terms thereof as a result of such Asset
Sale, (c) amounts provided as a reserve, in accordance with GAAP,
against any liabilities (fixed or contingent) in respect of any
indemnification obligations undertaken by the Borrower or any of
its Subsidiaries or purchase price adjustment associated with such
Asset Sale ( provided that , to the extent and at any time
such amounts are released from such reserve, such amounts shall
constitute Net Asset Sale Proceeds) and (d) any amount required to
be paid to any Person (other than the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries) with a beneficial ownership interest (including such
interest by a holder of a minority interest in the Subsidiary that
has sold such property or assets) in the property or assets to be
sold pursuant to such Asset Sale.
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“ Net Insurance/Condemnation
Proceeds ” means an amount equal to: (i) any cash
payments or proceeds received by the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries (a) under any casualty insurance policy in respect of
a covered loss thereunder or (b) as a result of the taking of any
assets of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries by any Person
pursuant to the power of eminent domain, condemnation or otherwise,
or pursuant to a sale of any such assets to a purchaser with such
power under threat of such a taking, minus (ii) (a) any actual
and reasonable costs incurred by the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries in connection with the adjustment or settlement of any
claims of the Borrower or such Subsidiary in respect thereof,
(b) any bona fide
direct fees (including attorney’s fees, accountants’
fees, investment banking fees, brokerage, consultant and other
customary fees, in each case, incurred in connection with
any sale of such assets as
referred to in clause (i)(b) of this definition ), commissions, transfer taxes and
other customary costs and expenses, in each case, incurred in
connection with any
sale of such assets as referred to in clause (i)(b) of this
definition, including income taxes paid or payable by the Borrower
or any of its Subsidiaries as a result of any gain recognized in
connection therewith, ( c) payment of the
outstanding principal amount of, premium or penalty, if any, and
interest on any Indebtedness (other than the Loans) that is secured
by a Lien on the assets in question and that is required to be
repaid under the terms thereof as a result of any such casualty
event, condemnation or taking provided for in clause (i) of this
definition, and (d) any amount required to be paid to any Person
(other than the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries) with a
beneficial ownership interest (including any such interest by a
holder of a minority interest in the Subsidiary that owned such
property or assets) in the property or assets that are the subject
of any such casualty event, condemnation or taking provided for in
clause (i) of this definition .
“ Nonpublic Information ”
means information which has not been disseminated in a manner
making it available to investors generally, within the meaning of
Regulation FD as promulgated by the SEC under the Securities Act of
1933, as amended, and the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended, as in effect from time to time.
“ Non-recourse Debt ” means
with respect to any Person (i) obligations of such Person against
which the obligee has no recourse to such Person except as to
certain named or described present or future assets or interests of
such Person, and (ii) the obligations of SPVs to the extent
the obligee thereof has no recourse to the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries, except as to certain specified present or future
assets or interests of SPVs.
“ Note ” means any of the
promissory notes of the Borrower defined in
Section 2.8(e).
“ Obligations ” means all
obligations of the Borrower to pay fees, costs and expenses
hereunder, to pay principal and interest on Loans and to pay any
other obligations to the Administrative Agent or any Lender arising
under any Credit Document.
“ Other Debt Holder ” means
any holder of Indebtedness (or any trustee, agent or other
representative on its behalf) under any indenture, loan or credit
agreement, debenture, note or other document evidencing or
governing Indebtedness (other than loans and advances made by (x)
the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries to any other Subsidiary of
the Borrower or (y) any Subsidiary of the Borrower to the Borrower
or any other Subsidiary of the Borrower (such loans and advances,
collectively, “ Intercompany Indebtedness
”)) with an original
principal amount or original commitments in excess of
$500,000,000 incurred, assumed or suffered to exist on
any
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date of determination by the Borrower or any of
its Subsidiaries (including any refinancings thereof), other than
any Lender or Agent under this Agreement.
“ Pacific Drilling Debt ”
means the Indebtedness described under the heading “Pacific
Drilling Debt” on Schedule 5.15 hereto, the proceeds
of which Indebtedness shall be used to finance up to 50% of
any construction and mobilization costs of two
drillships under construction in Korea.
“ Patriot Act ” means the
Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools
Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Pub. L.
107-56, signed into law October 26, 2001, as amended from time to
time.
“ PBGC ” means the Pension
Benefit Guaranty Corporation or any successor thereto.
“ Pension Plan ” means any
Employee Benefit Plan, other than a Multiemployer Plan, which is
subject to Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of
ERISA.
“ Percentage ”
means, for each Lender, as
of any date of determination, the outstanding principal amount of
the Loans of such Lender expressed as a percentage of the total
amount of all Loans outstanding as of such date of
determination ;
provided at any time prior to the making of the Loans, the
Percentage of any Lender shall be equal to such Lender’s
Commitment, in each case subject to any assignments by such Lender
of Commitments or Obligations pursuant to Section 10.10
.
“ Performance Guaranties ”
means all Guaranties of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries
delivered in connection with the construction financing of drill
ships, offshore mobile drilling units or offshore drilling rigs for
which firm drilling contracts have been obtained by the Borrower,
any of its Subsidiaries or a SPV.
“ Performance Letters of Credit
” means all letters of credit for the account of the
Borrower, any Subsidiary or a SPV issued as support for
Non-recourse Debt or a Performance Guaranty.
“ Permitted Business ” has
the meaning assigned to such term in Section 6.8.
“ Permitted Liens ” means
the Liens permitted as described in Section 6.10.
“ Person ” means an
individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company,
association, trust, unincorporated organization or any other entity
or organization, including a government or any agency or political
subdivision thereof.
“ Plan ” means an employee
pension benefit plan covered by Title IV of ERISA or subject to the
minimum funding standards under Section 412 of the Code that is
either (i) maintained by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries,
or (ii) maintained pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement or
any other arrangement under which more than one employer makes
contributions and to which the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries
is then making or accruing an obligation to make contributions or
has within the preceding five (5) plan years made or had an
obligation to make contributions.
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“ Platform ” has the meaning
assigned to such term in Section 6.6.
“ Prime Rate ”
means the rate of interest
quoted in The Wall Street Journal , Money Rates Section as
the Prime Rate (currently defined as the base rate on corporate
loans posted by at least 75% of the nation’s thirty (30)
largest banks), as in effect from time to time. The Prime
Rate is a reference rate and does not necessarily represent the
lowest or best rate actually charged to any customer. Any
Agent or Lender may make commercial loans or other loans at rates
of interest at, above or below the Prime Rate.
“ Public Reports ” means all
documents (including exhibits and any amendments thereto) the
Borrower and/or GSF has filed with the SEC since January 1, 2007
pursuant to Sections 13(a), 14(a) and 15(d) of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
“ Reclassification ” has the
meaning assigned to such term in the recitals.
“ Register ” has the meaning
assigned to such term in Section 2.8(c).
“ Reinvestment Deferred Amount
” means the aggregate Net Asset Sale Proceeds or Net
Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds, as applicable, received by the
Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries that would have been required
to prepay the Loans pursuant to Section 2.10(a) or 2.10(b), as
applicable, but that were not so prepaid as a result of the
delivery of a Reinvestment Notice.
“ Reinvestment Notice ”
means a written notice executed by an authorized officer of the
Borrower stating that no Default or Event of Default has occurred
and is continuing and that the Borrower (directly or through one or
more of its Subsidiaries) intends and expects to use all or a
specified portion of the Net Asset Sale Proceeds or Net
Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds, as applicable, within one year of
receipt thereof to acquire or invest in assets to be used in any
Permitted Business, which investment may include the repair,
restoration or replacement of the applicable assets
thereof.
“ Related Fund ”
means, with respect to any
Lender that is an investment fund, any other investment fund that
invests in commercial loans and that is managed or advised by the
same investment advisor as such Lender or by a Controlling
Affiliate of such investment advisor.
“ Required Lenders ”
means one or more Lenders
having Loan Exposure representing more than 50% of the sum of the
aggregate Loan Exposure of all Lenders.
“ Sale-Leaseback Transaction
” means any arrangement whereby the Borrower or a Subsidiary
shall sell or transfer any property, real or personal, used or
useful in its business, whether now owned or hereafter acquired,
and thereafter rent or lease property that it intends to use for
substantially the same purpose or purposes as the property sold or
transferred; provided, however, Sale-Leaseback Transaction
shall exclude any transaction between (i) the Borrower and any of
its Subsidiaries and (ii) any Subsidiary of the Borrower and any
other Subsidiary of the Borrower.
“ S&P ” means Standard
& Poor’s Ratings Group, a division of The McGraw Hill
Corporation, or any successor thereto.
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“ SEC ” means the United
States Securities and Exchange Commission or any successor
thereto.
“ Significant Subsidiary ”
has the meaning ascribed to it under Regulation S-X promulgated
under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
“ SPV ” means any
Person that is designated by the Borrower as a SPV, provided
that the Borrower shall not designate as a SPV any
Subsidiary that owns, directly or indirectly, any other Subsidiary
that has total assets (including assets of any Subsidiaries of such
other Subsidiary, but excluding any assets that would be eliminated
in consolidation with the Borrower and its Subsidiaries) which
equates to at least five percent (5%) of Total Assets, or that had
net income (including net income of any Subsidiaries of such other
Subsidiary, all before discontinued operations and income or loss
resulting from extraordinary items, but excluding revenues and
expenses that would be eliminated in consolidation with the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries and excluding any loss or gain
resulting from the early extinguishment of Indebtedness) during the
most recently completed fiscal year of the Borrower in excess of
the greater of (i) $1,000,000, and (ii) fifteen percent (15%) of
the net income (before discontinued operations and income or loss
resulting from extraordinary items and excluding any loss or gain
resulting from the early extinguishment of Indebtedness) for the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries, all as determined on a consolidated
basis in accordance with GAAP during such fiscal year of the
Borrower. The Borrower may elect to treat any Subsidiary as a
SPV (provided such Subsidiary would otherwise qualify as such), and
may rescind any such prior election, by giving written notice
thereof to the Administrative Agent specifying the name of such
Subsidiary or SPV, as the case may be, and the effective date of
such election, which shall be a date within sixty (60) days after
the date such notice is given. The election to treat a
particular Person as a SPV may only be made once.
“ Statutory Reserve Rate ”
means, at any time, for any Eurocurrency Loan, the maximum rate,
expressed as a decimal, at which reserves (including any basic
marginal, special, supplemental, emergency or other reserves) are
required to be maintained with respect thereto against
“Eurocurrency liabilities” (as such term is defined in
Regulation D of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System) under regulations issued from time to time by the Board of
Governors of the Federal Reserve System or other applicable banking
regulator. Without limiting the effect of the foregoing, the
Statutory Reserve Rate shall reflect any other reserves required to
be maintained by such member banks with respect to (i) any category
of liabilities which includes deposits by reference to which the
applicable Adjusted LIBOR or any other interest rate of a Loan is
to be determined, or (ii) any category of extensions of credit or
other assets which include Eurocurrency Loans. A Eurocurrency
Loan shall be deemed to constitute Eurocurrency liabilities and as
such shall be deemed subject to reserve requirements without
benefits of credit for proration, exceptions or offsets that may be
available from time to time to the applicable Lender. The
rate of interest on Eurocurrency Loans shall be adjusted
automatically on and as of the effective date of any change in the
Statutory Reserve Rate.
“ Subsidiary ” means, for
any Person, any other Person (other than, except in the context of
Section 6.6(a), a SPV) of which more than fifty percent (50%) of
the outstanding stock or comparable equity interests having
ordinary voting power for the election of the board of directors of
such corporation, any managers of such limited liability company or
similar governing body (irrespective of whether or not at the time
stock or other equity interests of any
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other class or classes of such corporation or
other entity shall have or might have voting power by reason of the
happening of any contingency), is at the time directly or
indirectly owned by such Person or by one or more of its
Subsidiaries.
“ Subsidiary Debt Basket Amount
” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section
6.11(i).
“ Subsidiary Guaranty ”
means any Guaranty of any Subsidiary delivered pursuant to Section
6.11(j).
“ Syndication Agent ” means
Lehman Commercial Paper Inc., acting in its capacity as syndication
agent for the Lenders, provided, however , that the
Syndication Agent shall not have any duties, responsibilities, or
obligations hereunder in such capacity.
“ 364-day Working Capital Facility
Agreement ” means any Working Capital Facility Agreement,
in respect of which the obligations thereunder shall mature within
364 days of the date on which such Working Capital Facility
Agreement became effective.
“ Taxes ” has the meaning
assigned to such term in Section 5.10.
“ Total Assets ” means, as
of any date of determination, the aggregate book value of the
assets of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries determined on a
consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP as of such
date.
“ Transactions ” means
collectively, (a) the Merger and the Reclassification, (b) the
execution, delivery and performance by the Borrower of the Credit
Documents to which it is a party, (c) the initial borrowings
hereunder and the use of proceeds thereof, and (d) any other
transactions related to or entered into in connection with any of
the foregoing.
“ 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 Adjusted LIBOR or the Base
Rate.
“ Unfunded Vested Liabilities
” means, for any Plan at any time, the amount (if any) by
which the present value of all vested nonforfeitable accrued
benefits under such Plan (determined on the basis of the actuarial
assumptions specified for funding purposes in the most recent
actuarial valuation for such Plan) exceeds the fair market value of
all Plan assets allocable to such benefits, determined as of the
then most recent valuation date for such Plan, but only to the
extent that such excess represents a potential liability of the
Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries to the PBGC or such
Plan.
“ Working Capital Facility
Agreement ” means (i) that certain Revolving Credit
Agreement, dated as of July 8, 2005, among the Borrower, the
lenders from time to time parties thereto, Citibank, N.A., as
administrative agent, Bank of America, N.A., as syndication agent,
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., The Royal Bank of Scotland, plc and
SunTrust Bank, as co-documentation agents, and Bank of America,
N.A., as issuing bank of the letters of credit thereunder or (ii)
any agreement or instrument in respect of the principal working
capital credit facility of the Borrower, the terms of which do not
provide for any scheduled repayment,
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mandatory prepayment or repayment, mandatory
redemption or sinking fund obligation prior to the date that is
ninety days following the Maturity Date, other than customary
offers to purchase or prepay upon a change of control and customary
acceleration rights after an event of default (in the case of
clause (i) and (ii), as the same may be amended, restated, replaced
and supplemented from time to time in accordance therewith and this
Agreement) .
Section
1.2.
Time of Day . Unless otherwise expressly provided, all
references to time of day in this Agreement and the other Credit
Documents shall be references to New York, New York time.
Section
1.3.
Accounting Terms; GAAP . Except as otherwise expressly
provided herein, and subject to the provisions of Section 10.17,
all terms of an accounting or financial nature shall be construed
in accordance with GAAP, as in effect from time to time.
ARTICLE 2.
THE
CREDIT FACILITY.
Section
2.1.
Commitments for Loans . Subject to the terms and
conditions hereof, each Lender severally agrees to make, on the
Closing Date, a term loan (each such term loan, a “
Loan ” and, collectively, the “ Loans
”) to the Borrower in an amount not to exceed such
Lender’s Commitment. The Borrower may make only one
borrowing under the Commitment which shall be on the Closing
Date. Any amount borrowed under this Section 2.1 subsequently
repaid or prepaid may not be reborrowed. Subject to Sections
2.9 and 2.10, all amounts owed hereunder with respect to the Loans
shall be paid in full no later than the Maturity Date. Each
Lender’s Commitment shall terminate immediately and without
further action on the earlier of (x) the Closing Date after giving
effect to the funding of such Lender’s Commitment on such
date and (y) July 21, 2008.
Section
2.2.
Types of Loans . Borrowings of Loans may be
outstanding as either Base Rate Loans or Eurocurrency Loans, as
selected by the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.3. Each
Borrowing of Base Rate Loans shall be in an amount of not less than
$1,000,000 and each Borrowing of Eurocurrency Loans shall be in an
amount of not less than $5,000,000 and in an integral multiple of
$100,000.
Section
2.3.
Manner of Borrowings; Continuations and Conversions of
Borrowings .
(a)
Notice of Borrowings . The Borrower shall give notice
to the Administrative Agent by no later than (i) 12:00 P.M. at
least three (3) Business Days before the Closing Date in the case
of a Borrowing of Eurocurrency Loans or (ii) 12:00 P.M. at least
one (1) Business Day before the Closing Date in the case of a
Borrowing of Base Rate Loans, in either case pursuant to a duly
completed Borrowing Request substantially in the form of Exhibit
2.3 (the “ Borrowing Request ”) executed on
behalf of the Borrower by two of its officers.
(b)
Notice of Continuation or Conversion of Outstanding
Borrowings . The Borrower may from time to time elect to
change or continue the type of interest rate borne by each
Borrowing or, subject to the minimum amount requirements in Section
2.2 for each outstanding Borrowing, a portion thereof, as
follows: (i) if such Borrowing is of Eurocurrency Loans, the
Borrower may continue part or all of such Borrowing as Eurocurrency
Loans for an Interest Period specified by the Borrower or convert
part or all of such Borrowing into Base Rate Loans
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on
the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, or the
Borrower may earlier convert part or all of such Borrowing into
Base Rate Loans so long as it pays the breakage fees and funding
losses provided in Section 2.11; and (ii) if such Borrowing is of
Base Rate Loans, the Borrower may convert all or part of such
Borrowing into Eurocurrency Loans for an Interest Period specified
by the Borrower on any Business Day, in each case pursuant to
notices of continuation or conversion as set forth below. The
Borrower may select multiple Interest Periods for the Eurocurrency
Loans constituting any such particular Borrowing, provided
that at no time shall the number of different Interest Periods
for outstanding Eurocurrency Loans exceed ten (10) (it being
understood for such purposes that (x) Interest Periods of the same
duration, but commencing on different dates, shall be counted as
different Interest Periods, and (y) all Interest Periods commencing
on the same date and of the same duration shall be counted as one
Interest Period regardless of the number of Borrowings or Loans
involved). Notices of the continuation of such Eurocurrency
Loans for an additional Interest Period or of the conversion of
part or all of such Eurocurrency Loans into Base Rate Loans or of
such Base Rate Loans into Eurocurrency Loans must be given by no
later than 12:00 P.M. at least three (3) Business Days with respect
to Eurocurrency Loans before the date of the requested continuation
or conversion. If on any day a Loan is outstanding with
respect to which a Borrowing Request has not been delivered to the
Administrative Agent in accordance with the terms hereof specifying
the applicable basis for determining the rate of interest, then for
that day such Loan shall be a Base Rate Loan.
(c)
Manner of Notice . The Borrower shall give such
notices concerning the advance, continuation, or conversion of a
Borrowing pursuant to this Section 2.3 by telephone or facsimile
(which notice shall be irrevocable once given and, if by telephone,
shall be promptly confirmed in writing) pursuant to a Borrowing
Request which shall specify the date of the requested advance,
continuation or conversion (which shall be a Business Day), the
amount of the requested Borrowing, whether such Borrowing is to be
advanced, continued, or converted, the Type of Loans to comprise
such new, continued or converted Borrowing and, if such Borrowing
is to be comprised of Eurocurrency Loans, the Interest Period
applicable thereto. If the Borrower fails to specify an
Interest Period for any Eurocurrency Loan in the applicable
Borrowing Request, the Borrower shall be deemed to have selected an
Interest Period of one month. The Borrower agrees that the
Administrative Agent may rely on any such telephonic or facsimile
notice given by any Person it in good faith believes is an
authorized representative of the Borrower without the necessity of
independent investigation and that, if any such notice by telephone
conflicts with any written confirmation, such telephonic notice
shall govern if the Administrative Agent has acted in reliance
thereon.
(d)
Notice to the Lenders . The Administrative Agent shall
give prompt telephonic or facsimile notice to each Lender of any
notice received pursuant to this Section 2.3 relating to a
Borrowing. The Administrative Agent shall give notice to the
Borrower and each Lender by like means of the interest rate
applicable to each Borrowing of Eurocurrency Loans (but, if such
notice is given by telephone, the Administrative Agent shall
confirm such rate in writing) promptly after the Administrative
Agent has made such determination.
(e)
Borrower’s Failure to Notify . If the Borrower
fails to give notice pursuant to Section 2.3(b) of the continuation
or conversion of any outstanding principal amount of a Borrowing of
Eurocurrency Loans and has not notified the Administrative Agent by
12:00 P.M. at least three (3) Business Days before the last day of
the Interest Period for any Borrowing of
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Eurocurrency Loans, the Borrower shall be
deemed to have requested the continuation of such Borrowing as a
Eurocurrency Loan with an Interest Period of one (1) month so long
as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or
would occur as a result of such Borrowing. Upon the
occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default, and
upon notice thereof from the Administrative Agent to the Borrower
(i) each Eurocurrency Loan will automatically, on the last day of
the then existing Interest Period therefor, convert into a Base
Rate Loan, and (ii) the obligation of the Lenders to make, continue
or convert Loans into Eurocurrency Loans shall be
suspended.
(f)
Conversion . If the Borrower shall elect to convert
any particular Borrowing pursuant to this Section 2.3 from
one Type of Loan to the other only in part, then, from and after
the date on which such conversion shall be effective, such
particular Borrowing shall, for all purposes of this Agreement
(including, without limitation, for purposes of subsequent
application of this sentence) be deemed to instead constitute two
Borrowings (each originally advanced on the same date as such
particular Borrowing), one comprised of (subject to subsequent
conversion in accordance with this Agreement) Eurocurrency Loans in
an aggregate principal amount equal to the portion of such
Borrowing so elected by the Borrower to be comprised of
Eurocurrency Loans and the second comprised of (subject to
subsequent conversion in accordance with this Agreement) Base Rate
Loans in an aggregate principal amount equal to the portion of such
particular Borrowing so elected by the Borrower to be comprised of
Base Rate Loans. If the Borrower shall elect to have multiple
Interest Periods apply to any such particular Borrowing comprised
of Eurocurrency Loans, then, from and after the date such multiple
Interest Periods commence, such particular Borrowing shall, for all
purposes of this Agreement (including, without limitation, for
purposes of subsequent application of this sentence), be deemed to
constitute a number of separate Borrowings (each originally
commencing on the same date as such particular Borrowing) equal to
the number of, and corresponding to, the different Interest Periods
so selected, each such deemed separate Borrowing corresponding to a
particular selected Interest Period comprised of (subject to
subsequent conversion in accordance with this Agreement)
Eurocurrency Loans in an aggregate principal amount equal to the
portion of such particular Borrowing so elected by the Borrower to
have such Interest Period. This Section 2.3(f) shall be
applied appropriately in the event that the Borrower shall make the
elections described in the two preceding sentences at the same time
with respect to the same particular Borrowing.
Section
2.4.
Interest Periods . As provided in Section 2.3, at the
time of the request, if any, for a Borrowing of Eurocurrency Loans
on the Closing Date, or for the continuation or conversion of any
Borrowing of Eurocurrency Loans, the Borrower shall select the
Interest Period(s) to be applicable to such Loans from among the
available options, subject to the limitations in Section 2.3;
provided, however , that:
(i)
the Borrower may not select an Interest Period that extends beyond
the Maturity Date;
(ii)
whenever the last day of any Interest Period would otherwise be a
day that is not a Business Day, the last day of such Interest
Period shall either be (i) extended to the next succeeding Business
Day, or (ii) in the case of Eurocurrency Loans only,
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reduced to the immediately preceding Business
Day if the next succeeding Business Day is in the next calendar
month; and
(iii)
for purposes of determining an Interest Period, a month means a
period starting on one day in a calendar month and ending on the
numerically corresponding day in the next calendar month;
provided, however , that if there is no such numerically
corresponding day in the month in which an Interest Period is to
end or if an Interest Period begins on the last Business Day of a
calendar month, then in the case of Eurocurrency Loans only, such
Interest Period shall end on the last Business Day of the calendar
month in which such Interest Period is to end.
Section
2.5.
Funding of Loans .
(a)
Disbursement of Loans . Not later than 12:00 P.M. with
respect to Borrowings of Eurocurrency Loans, and 2:00 P.M. with
respect to Base Rate Loans, on the Closing Date, each Lender,
subject to all other provisions hereof, shall make available for
the account of its applicable Lending Office its Loan comprising
its portion of such Borrowing in funds immediately available for
the benefit of the Administrative Agent at the Administrative
Agent’s Principal Office and according to the payment
instructions of the Administrative Agent. The Administrative
Agent shall make the proceeds of each such Borrowing available in
immediately available funds to the Borrower (or as directed in
writing by the Borrower) on such date to such account or accounts
of the Borrower or such other Person as may be designated in
writing by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent by the
Borrower. In the event that any Lender does not make such
amounts available to the Administrative Agent by the time
prescribed above, but such amount is received later that day, such
amount may be credited to the Borrower in the manner described in
the preceding sentence on the next Business Day (with interest on
such amount to begin accruing hereunder on such next Business Day)
provided that acceptance by the Borrower of any such late
amount shall not be deemed a waiver by the Borrower of any rights
it may have against such Lender. No Lender shall be
responsible to the Borrower for any failure by another Lender to
fund its portion of a Borrowing, and no such failure by a Lender
shall relieve any other Lender from its obligation, if any, to fund
its portion of a Borrowing.
(b)
Administrative Agent Reliance on Lender Funding .
Unless the Administrative Agent shall have been notified by a
Lender prior to the time at which such Lender is scheduled to make
payment to the Administrative Agent of the proceeds of a Loan
(which notice shall be effective upon receipt) that such Lender
does not intend to make such payment, the Administrative Agent may
assume that such Lender has made such payment when due and in
reliance upon such assumption may (but shall not be required to)
make available to the Borrower the proceeds of the Loan to be made
by such Lender and, if any Lender has not in fact made such payment
to the Administrative Agent, such Lender shall, on demand, pay to
the Administrative Agent the amount made available to the Borrower
attributable to such Lender together with interest thereon for each
day during the period commencing on the date such amount was made
available to the Borrower and ending on (but excluding) the date
such Lender pays such amount to the Administrative Agent at a rate
per annum equal to the Administrative Agent’s cost of funds
for such amount. If such amount is not received from such
Lender by the Administrative Agent immediately upon demand, the
Borrower will, on demand, repay to the Administrative Agent the
proceeds of the Loan attributable to such Lender with interest
thereon at a rate per
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annum equal to the interest rate applicable to
the relevant Loan, but the Borrower will in no event be liable to
pay any amounts otherwise due pursuant to Section 2.11 in respect
of such repayment. Nothing in this subsection shall be deemed
to relieve any Lender from any obligation to fund any Loans
hereunder or to prejudice any rights which the Borrower may have
against any Lender as a result of any default by such Lender
hereunder.
Section
2.6.
Applicable Interest Rates .
(a)
Base Rate Loans . Each Base Rate Loan shall bear
interest (computed on the basis of a 365-day year or 366-day year,
as the case may be, and actual days elapsed excluding the date of
repayment) on the unpaid principal amount thereof from the date
such Loan is made until maturity (whether by acceleration or
otherwise) or the date of conversion to a Eurocurrency Loan, at a
rate per annum equal to the lesser of (i) the Highest Lawful Rate,
or (ii) the Base Rate from time to time in effect. The
Borrower agrees to pay such interest on each Interest Payment Date
for such Loan and at maturity (whether by acceleration or
otherwise).
(b)
Eurocurrency Loans . Each Eurocurrency Loan shall bear
interest (computed on the basis of a 360-day year and actual days
elapsed, excluding the date of repayment) on the unpaid principal
amount thereof from the date such Loan is made until maturity
(whether by acceleration or otherwise) or the date of conversion to
a Base Rate Loan, at a rate per annum equal to the lesser of (i)
the Highest Lawful Rate, or (ii) the sum of Adjusted LIBOR
plus the Applicable
Margin. The Borrower agrees to pay such interest on each
Interest Payment Date for such Eurocurrency Loan and at maturity
(whether by acceleration or otherwise) or the date of conversion to
a Base Rate Loan.
(c)
Rate Determinations . The Administrative Agent shall
determine each interest rate applicable to the Loans hereunder
insofar as such interest rate involves a determination of Base
Rate, Adjusted LIBOR or LIBO Rate, or any applicable default rate
pursuant to Section 2.7, and such determination shall be conclusive
and binding except in the case of the Administrative Agent’s
manifest error or willful misconduct. The Administrative
Agent shall promptly give notice to the Borrower and each Lender of
each determination of Adjusted LIBOR, with respect to each
Eurocurrency Loan.
Section
2.7.
Default Rate . If any payment of principal on any Loan
is not made when due after the expiration of the grace period
therefor provided in Section 7.1(a) (whether by acceleration or
otherwise), such Loan shall bear interest (computed on the basis of
a year of 360, 365 or 366 days, as applicable, and actual days
elapsed) after any such grace period expires until such principal
then due is paid in full, which the Borrower agrees to pay on
demand, at a rate per annum equal to:
(a)
for any Base Rate Loan, the lesser of (i) the Highest Lawful Rate,
or (ii) the sum of two percent (2%) per annum plus the Base Rate from time to time
in effect (but not less than the Base Rate in effect at the time
such payment was due); and
(b)
for any Eurocurrency Loan, the lesser (i) of the Highest Lawful
Rate, or (ii) the sum of two percent (2%) per annum plus the rate of interest in effect
thereon at the time of such default until the end of the Interest
Period for such Loan and, thereafter, at a rate per
annum
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equal to the sum of two percent (2%) per annum
plus the Base Rate from
time to time in effect (but not less than the Base Rate in effect
at the time such payment was due).
It
is the intention of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders to
conform strictly to usury laws applicable to them.
Accordingly, if the transactions contemplated hereby or any Loan or
other Obligation would be usurious as to any of the Lenders under
laws applicable to it (including the laws of the United States of
America and the State of New York or any other jurisdiction whose
laws may be mandatorily applicable to such Lender notwithstanding
the other provisions of this Agreement, the Notes or any other
Credit Document), then, in that event, notwithstanding anything to
the contrary in this Agreement, the Notes or any other Credit
Document, it is agreed as follows: (i) the aggregate of all
consideration which constitutes interest under laws applicable to
such Lender that is contracted for, taken, reserved, charged or
received by such Lender under this Agreement, the Notes or any
other Credit Document or otherwise shall under no circumstances
exceed the Highest Lawful Rate, and any excess shall be credited by
such Lender on the principal amount of the Loans (or, if the
principal amount of the Loans shall have been paid in full,
refunded by such Lender to the Borrower); and (ii) in the event
that the maturity of the Loans is accelerated by reason of an
election of the holder or holders thereof resulting from any Event
of Default hereunder or otherwise, or in the event of any required
or permitted prepayment, then such consideration that constitutes
interest under laws applicable to such Lender may never include
more than the Highest Lawful Rate, and excess interest, if any,
provided for in this Agreement, the Notes, any other Credit
Document or otherwise shall be automatically canceled by such
Lender as of the date of such acceleration or prepayment and, if
theretofore paid, shall be credited by such Lender on the principal
amount of the Loans (or if the principal amount of the Loans shall
have been paid in full, refunded by such Lender to the
Borrower). In the event the Loans are paid in full by the
Borrower prior to the full stated term of the Loans and the
interest received from the actual period of the existence of the
Loans exceeds the Highest Lawful Rate, the Lenders shall refund to
the Borrower the amount of the excess or shall credit the amount of
the excess against amounts owing under the Loans and none of the
Administrative Agent or the Lenders shall be subject to any of the
penalties provided by law for contracting for, taking, reserving,
charging or receiving interest in excess of the Highest Lawful
Rate.
Section
2.8.
Repayment of Loans; Evidence of Debt
. (a). The
Borrower hereby promises to pay to the Administrative Agent for the
account of each Lender, on the Maturity Date, the unpaid amount of
each Loan then outstanding.
(b)
Record of Loans by Lenders . Each Lender shall
maintain in accordance with its usual practice an account or
accounts evidencing the indebtedness of the Borrower to such Lender
resulting from each Loan made by such Lender, including the amounts
of principal and accrued interest payable and paid to such Lender
from time to time hereunder.
(c)
Record of Loans by Administrative Agent . The
Administrative Agent (or its agent or sub-agent appointed by it)
shall maintain a register for the recordation of the names and
addresses of Lenders and the Commitments and Loans of each Lender
from time to time (the “ Register ”). The
Register shall be available for inspection by the Borrower or any
Lender (with respect to any entry relating to such Lender’s
Commitments or Loans) at any reasonable time and from time to time
upon reasonable prior notice. The Administrative Agent shall
record, or
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shall cause to be recorded, in the Register (i)
the amount of each Loan made hereunder, the Type thereof and the
Interest Period applicable thereto, (ii) the amount of any
principal or accrued interest due and payable or to become due and
payable from the Borrower 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 Borrower hereby designates GSCP to serve as the
Borrower’s agent solely for purposes of maintaining the
Register as provided in this Section 2.8, and the Borrower hereby
agrees that, to the extent GSCP serves in such capacity, GSCP and
its officers, directors, employees, agents, sub-agents and
affiliates shall constitute “Indemnified
Parties.”
(d)
Evidence of Obligations . The entries made in the
accounts maintained pursuant to paragraph (b) or (c) of this
Section shall be prima facie evidence of the existence and
amounts of the obligations recorded therein; 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 obligation of the Borrower to repay the Loans in accordance
with the terms of this Agreement.
(e)
Notes . The Loans outstanding to the Borrower from
each Lender shall, at the written request of such Lender, be
evidenced by a promissory note of the Borrower payable to such
Lender in the form of Exhibit 2.8 (Master Note) (each a
“ Note ”). The Borrower agrees to execute
and deliver to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of each
Lender requesting a promissory note as aforesaid, an original of
such promissory note, appropriately completed, to evidence the
respective Loans made by such Lender hereunder.
(f)
Recording of Loans and Payments on Notes . Each holder
of a Note shall record on its books and records or on a schedule to
its appropriate Note (and prior to any transfer of its Notes shall
endorse thereon or on schedules forming a part thereof appropriate
notations to evidence) the amount of each Loan outstanding from it
to the Borrower, all payments of principal and interest and the
principal balance from time to time outstanding thereon, the Type
of such Loan and, if a Eurocurrency Loan the Interest Period and
interest rate applicable thereto. Such record, whether shown
on the books and records of a holder of a Note or on a schedule to
its Note, shall be prima facie evidence as to all such
matters; provided, however , that the failure of any holder
to record any of the foregoing or any error in any such record
shall not limit or otherwise affect the obligation of the Borrower
to repay all Loans outstanding to it hereunder together with
accrued interest thereon. At the request of any holder of a
Note and upon such holder tendering to the Borrower the Note to be
replaced, the Borrower shall furnish a new Note to such holder to
replace any outstanding Note and at such time the first notation
appearing on the schedule on the reverse side of, or attached to,
such new Note shall set forth the aggregate unpaid principal amount
of all Loans, if any, then outstanding thereon.
Section
2.9.
Optional Prepayments . The Borrower shall have the
privilege of prepaying any Base Rate Loans without premium or
penalty at any time in whole or at any time and from time to time
in part (but, if in part, then in an amount which is equal to or
greater than $1,000,000); provided, however , that the
Borrower shall have given notice of such prepayment to the
Administrative Agent no later than 12:00 P.M. on the date of such
prepayment. The Borrower shall have the privilege of
prepaying any Eurocurrency Loans (a) without premium or penalty in
whole or in part (but, if in part, then in an amount which is equal
to or greater than $5,000,000 and in an integral multiple of
$100,000 or such smaller amount as needed to prepay a
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particular Borrowing in full) only on the last
Business Day of an Interest Period for such Loan, and (b) at any
other time without premium or penalty except for the breakage fees
and funding losses that are required to be paid pursuant to Section
2.11; provided, however , that the Borrower shall have given
notice of such prepayment to the Administrative Agent no later than
12:00 P.M. at least three (3) Business Days before the last
Business Day of such Interest Period or the proposed prepayment
date. Any such prepayments shall be made by the payment of
the principal amount to be prepaid and accrued and unpaid interest
thereon to the date of such prepayment. Unless otherwise
specified in writing by the Borrower, optional prepayments shall be
applied to the Loans and other Obligations then outstanding on a
pro rata basis (in accordance with the respective outstanding
principal amounts thereof).
Section
2.10.
Mandatory Prepayments of Loans and Reduction of Commitments
.
(a)
Asset Sales . Following the date of receipt by the
Borrower of any Net Asset Sale Proceeds after the Closing Date, the
Borrower shall, unless a Reinvestment Notice shall have been
delivered to the Administrative Agent in respect thereof, prepay
the Loans in an aggregate amount equal to (x) such Net Asset Sale
Proceeds, such prepayment to be made no later than the 30
th day following the date of receipt by the Borrower of
such Net Asset Sale Proceeds or, (y) if a Reinvestment Notice shall
have been delivered to the Administrative Agent, the excess, if
any, of such Net Asset Sale Proceeds over the Reinvestment Deferred
Amount that the Borrower does not reinvest within one year of
receipt thereof, such prepayment to be made on the first
anniversary of the receipt thereof.
(b)
Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds . Following the date
of receipt by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries of any Net
Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds after the Closing Date, the
Borrower shall, unless a Reinvestment Notice shall have been
delivered to the Administrative Agent in respect thereof, prepay
the Loans in an aggregate amount equal to (x) such Net
Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds, such prepayment to be made no
later than the 30 th day following the date of receipt
by the Borrower of such Net Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds or, (y)
if a Reinvestment Notice shall have been delivered to the
Administrative Agent, the excess, if any, of such Net
Insurance/Condemnation Proceeds over the Reinvestment Deferred
Amount that the Borrower does not reinvest within one year of
receipt thereof, such prepayment to be made on the first
anniversary of the receipt thereof.
(c)
Issuance of Equity Securities . No later than five
Business Days following the date of receipt by the Borrower or any
of its Subsidiaries of any cash proceeds (net of reasonable
attorneys’ fees, investment banking fees, accountants’
fees, underwriting discounts and commissions and other reasonable
customary fees and expenses actually incurred in connection with
the issuance of any equity securities by the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries) from the issuance of any equity securities of the
Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (other than (x) issuances of
equity securities to (A) the Borrower, (B) any of the
Borrower’s Subsidiaries (including Merger Sub and its
Subsidiaries), (C) any Subsidiary that is the survivor of a merger,
consolidation or amalgamation with any of the Borrower’s or
the Merger Sub’s other Subsidiaries as of the Closing Date
and (D) the Former Subsidiary) and (y) pursuant to any compensation
plan or substantially similar arrangement with respect to the
former or existing employees, officers or directors of (A) the
Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, (B) the Merger Sub or any of
its Subsidiaries, (C) the Former Subsidiary or (D) any other entity
that was a
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Subsidiary of the
Borrower or GSF prior to the Closing Date and that is no longer a
Subsidiary of the Borrower or the Merger Sub on the Closing Date)
(i) to the extent such date of receipt occurs on or prior to the
Closing Date, the aggregate amount of the Lenders’
Commitments outstanding on such date shall be automatically and
permanently reduced in an aggregate amount equal to 100% of such
net cash proceeds, such reduction to be allocated among the Lenders
pro rata based on the amount of each such Lender’s
Commitment outstanding on such date, and (ii) to the extent such
date of receipt occurs after the Closing Date, the Borrower shall
prepay the Loans in an aggregate amount equal to 100% of such net
cash proceeds.
(d)
Issuance of Debt . No later than five Business Days
following date of receipt by the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries of any cash proceeds (net of reasonable
attorneys’ fees, investment banking fees, accountants’
fees, underwriting discounts and commissions and other reasonable
customary fees and expenses actually incurred in connection with
the incurrence of any such Indebtedness for borrowed money by the
Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries) from the incurrence of any
Indebtedness for borrowed money of the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries (other than with respect to any (w) Indebtedness
for borrowed money permitted to be incurred pursuant to Section
6.11 (as though such Section were in effect from the Effective
Date) and any Guaranty of the Borrower thereof, (x) Intercompany
Indebtedness, (y) Indebtedness incurred or assumed pursuant to
a Working Capital Facility Agreement (other than any 364-day
Working Capital Facility Agreement) or (z) any refinancings,
replacements or renewals of any Indebtedness of the Borrower, GSF
or any of their respective Subsidiaries outstanding as of the
Effective Date) (i) to the extent such date of receipt occurs on or
prior to the Closing Date, the aggregate amount of the
Lenders’ Commitments outstanding on such date shall be
automatically and permanently reduced in an aggregate amount equal
to 100% of such net cash proceeds, such reduction to be allocated
among the Lenders pro rata based on the amount of each such
Lender’s Commitment outstanding on such date, and (ii) to the
extent such date of receipt occurs after the Closing Date, the
Borrower shall prepay the Loans in an aggregate amount equal to
100% of such net cash proceeds.
(e)
Reductions of Commitment and Prepayment Certificate .
Concurrently with any permanent reductions of the aggregate
Commitments and any prepayment of the Loans pursuant to Sections
2.10(a) through 2.10(d), the Borrower shall deliver to the
Administrative Agent a certificate of an authorized officer
demonstrating the calculation of the amount of the applicable net
proceeds. In the event that the Borrower shall subsequently
determine that the actual net cash amount required to be applied to
the permanent reduction of the aggregate Commitments or prepaid
pursuant to this Section 2.10 exceeded the amount set forth in such
certificate, the aggregate amount of the Commitments shall be
automatically and permanently reduced by the amount of any such
excess or the Borrower shall promptly make an additional prepayment
of the Loans, and the Borrower shall concurrently therewith deliver
to the Administrative Agent a certificate of an authorized officer
demonstrating the derivation of such excess.
(f)
No Premium or Penalty and Application of Prepayments .
Each mandatory prepayment shall be made without premium or penalty
other than the payment of all accrued and unpaid interest on the
Loans prepaid and any applicable breakage fees and funding losses
pursuant to Section 2.11. Any amount required to be paid
pursuant to Sections 2.10(a) through 2.10(d) shall be applied first
to prepay the Base Rate Loans to the full extent thereof
before
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application to the Eurocurrency Loans, in each
case in a manner that minimizes the amount of any payments required
to be made by the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.11.
Section
2.11.
Breakage Fees . If any Lender incurs any loss, cost or
expense (excluding loss of anticipated profits and other indirect
or consequential damages) by reason of the liquidation or
re-employment of deposits or other funds acquired by such Lender to
fund or maintain any Eurocurrency Loan as a result of any of the
following events other than any such occurrence as a result of a
change of circumstance described in Sections 8.1 or 8.2:
(a)
any payment, prepayment or conversion of any such Loan on a date
other than the last day of its Interest Period (whether by
acceleration, mandatory prepayment or otherwise);
(b)
any failure to make a principal payment of any such Loan on the due
date therefor; or
(c)
any failure by the Borrower to borrow, continue or prepay, or
convert to, any such Loan on the date specified in a notice given
pursuant to Section 2.3 (other than by reason of a default of such
Lender),
then the Borrower shall pay to such Lender such
amount as will reimburse such Lender for such loss, cost or
expense. If any Lender makes such a claim for compensation,
it shall provide to the Borrower a certificate executed by an
officer of such Lender setting forth the amount of such loss, cost
or expense in reasonable detail (including an explanation of the
basis for and the computation of such loss, cost or expense) no
later than ninety (90) days after the event giving rise to the
claim for compensation, and the amounts shown on such certificate
shall be prima facie evidence of such Lender’s entitlement
thereto. Within ten (10) days of receipt of such certificate,
the Borrower shall pay directly to such Lender such amount as will
compensate such Lender for such loss, cost or expense as provided
herein, unless such Lender has failed to timely give notice to the
Borrower of such claim for compensation as provided herein, in
which event the Borrower shall not have any obligation to pay such
claim.
ARTICLE 3.
FEES
AND PAYMENTS.
Section
3.1.
Fees . Pursuant to the Fee Letter, the Borrower shall
pay to (i) the Administrative Agent for its own account the fees
agreed to by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent at the time
specified therein and (ii) each Arranger for its own respective
account the fees agreed to by the Borrower and such Arranger at the
times specified therein. All fees payable hereunder shall be
paid on the dates due, in immediately available funds, to the
Administrative Agent or the applicable Arranger, as the case may
be.
Section
3.2.
Place and Application of Payments .
(a)
All payments of principal of and interest on the Loans and all fees
and other amounts payable by the Borrower under the Credit
Documents shall be made by the Borrower to the Administrative
Agent, for the benefit of the Lenders entitled to such payments, in
immediately available funds on the due date thereof no later than
2:00 P.M. to the account at the Administrative Agent’s
Principal Office. Any payments received by the Administrative
Agent from the Borrower after the time specified in the preceding
sentence shall be deemed to have
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been received on the next Business Day.
The Administrative Agent will, on the same day each payment is
received or deemed to have been received in accordance with this
Section 3.2, cause to be distributed like funds to each Lender owed
an Obligation for which such payment was received, pro rata
based on the respective amounts of such type of Obligation then
owing to each Lender.
(b)
If any payment received by the Administrative Agent under any
Credit Document is insufficient to pay in full all amounts then due
and payable to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders under the
Credit Documents, such payment shall be distributed by the
Administrative Agent and applied by the Administrative Agent and
the Lenders in the order set forth in Section 7.6. In
calculating the amount of Obligations owing each Lender other than
for principal and interest on Loans, the Administrative Agent shall
only be required to include such other Obligations that Lenders
have certified to the Administrative Agent in writing are due to
such Lenders.
Section
3.3.
Withholding Taxes .
(a)
Payments Free of Withholding . Except as otherwise
required by law and subject to Section 3.3(b), each payment by the
Borrower to any Lender or Administrative Agent under this Agreement
or any other Credit Document shall be made without withholding for
or on account of any present or future taxes, excluding, in the
case of each Lender and the Administrative Agent, the following
taxes:
(i)
taxes imposed on, based upon, or measured by such Lender’s or
the Administrative Agent’s (as applicable) net income or
profits, and branch profits, franchise and similar taxes imposed on
it in lieu of net income taxes, in each case by or within the
jurisdiction in which the Lender or the Administrative Agent is
organized, the jurisdiction of the Lender’s applicable
lending office, or (in each case) any political subdivision or
taxing authority thereof or therein;
(ii)
taxes imposed on such Lender or the Administrative Agent (as
applicable) as a result of a present or former connection between
the taxing jurisdiction and such Lender or Administrative Agent, or
any affiliate thereof, as the case may be, other than a connection
resulting solely from the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement;
(iii)
taxes imposed as a result of the transfer by such Lender or
Administrative Agent (as applicable) of its interest in this
Agreement or any other Credit Document or a designation by such
Lender or the Administrative Agent (other than pursuant to Section
8.3(c)) of a new Lending Office (other than taxes imposed as a
result of any change in treaty, law or regulation after such
transfer of such Lender’s or the Administrative Agent’s
interest in this Agreement or any other Credit Document or
designation of a new Lending Office, and except to the extent that
such Lender or the Administrative Agent was entitled, at the time
of such transfer or designation, to receive additional amounts from
the Borrower with respect to such taxes);
(iv)
taxes imposed by the United States of America (or any political
subdivision thereof or tax authority therein) upon a Lender or
Administrative Agent
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organized under the laws of a jurisdiction
outside of the United States, except to the extent that such tax is
imposed as a result of any change in applicable law, regulation or
treaty (other than any addition of or change in any
“anti-treaty shopping,” “limitation of
benefits,” or similar provision applicable to a treaty) after
the date hereof, in the case of each Lender or Administrative Agent
originally a party hereto or, in the case of any Purchasing Lender
(as defined in Section 10.10) or other Administrative Agent, after
the date on which it becomes a Lender or Administrative Agent, as
the case may be; or
(v)
taxes which would not have been imposed but for (a) the failure,
other than as a result of any change in applicable law, regulation
or treaty, or in any official application or interpretation thereof
after the date hereof, of any Lender or the Administrative Agent,
as the case may be, to provide (I) the applicable forms described
in Section 3
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