Exhibit 4.6
Credit
Agreement
$250,000,000 INITIAL AGGREGATE COMMITMENTS
DATED
AS OF MARCH 19, 2008
AMONG
WEATHERFORD INTERNATIONAL LTD.
AS
BORROWER,
WEATHERFORD INTERNATIONAL, INC.,
AS GUARANTOR
DEUTSCHE BANK AG CAYMAN ISLANDS BRANCH
AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT,
AND
WILLIAM STREET LLC
AS SYNDICATION AGENT,
MERRILL LYNCH BANK USA
AS DOCUMENTATION AGENT,
THE
LENDERS PARTY HERETO,
AND
DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC.
AS BOOKRUNNER AND LEAD ARRANGER
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I
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DEFINITIONS;
ACCOUNTING TERMS; INTERPRETATION
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SECTION 1.01.
Definitions
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SECTION 1.02.
Types of Borrowings
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SECTION 1.03.
Accounting Terms; Changes in GAAP
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SECTION 1.04.
Interpretation
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ARTICLE II
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COMMITMENTS;
LOANS
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SECTION 2.01.
Loans
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SECTION 2.02.
Requests for Borrowings
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SECTION 2.03.
Funding of Borrowings
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SECTION 2.04.
Interest Elections
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SECTION 2.05.
Termination and Reduction of Commitments
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SECTION 2.06.
Repayment of Loans; Evidence of Debt
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SECTION 2.07.
Prepayment of Loans
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SECTION 2.08.
Fees
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SECTION 2.09.
Interest
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SECTION 2.10.
Alternate Rate of Interest
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SECTION 2.11.
Increased Costs
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SECTION 2.12.
Break Funding Payments
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SECTION 2.13.
Agreement to Defer Exercise of Right of Contribution, Etc.
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SECTION 2.14.
Extension of Maturity Date
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SECTION 2.15.
Increase in Commitments
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SECTION 2.16.
Currency Fluctuation
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ARTICLE III
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LETTERS OF
CREDIT
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SECTION 3.01.
Letters of Credit
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ARTICLE IV
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PAYMENTS; PRO RATA
TREATMENT; TAXES
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SECTION 4.01.
Payments Generally; Pro Rata Treatment; Sharing of Set-offs
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SECTION 4.02.
Taxes
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SECTION 4.03.
Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders; Replacement of
Issuing Bank
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ARTICLE V
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CONDITIONS
PRECEDENT
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SECTION 5.01.
Conditions Precedent to the Effective Date
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SECTION 5.02.
Conditions Precedent to All Credit Events
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SECTION 5.03.
Delivery of Documents
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ARTICLE VI
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REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES
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SECTION 6.01.
Organization and Qualification
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SECTION 6.02.
Authorization, Validity, Etc.
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SECTION 6.03.
Governmental Consents, Etc.
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SECTION 6.04. No
Breach or Violation of Law or Agreements
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SECTION 6.05.
Litigation
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SECTION 6.06.
Information; Financial Statements
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SECTION 6.07.
Investment Company Act; Sanctions; Etc.
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SECTION 6.08.
ERISA
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SECTION 6.09. Tax
Returns and Payments
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SECTION 6.10.
Requirements of Law
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SECTION 6.11. No
Default
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ARTICLE VII
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AFFIRMATIVE
COVENANTS
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SECTION 7.01.
Information Covenants
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SECTION 7.02.
Books, Records and Inspections
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SECTION 7.03.
Insurance
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SECTION 7.04.
Payment of Taxes and other Claims
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SECTION 7.05.
Existence
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SECTION 7.06.
ERISA Information and Compliance
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SECTION 7.07.
Purpose of Letters of Credit and Loans
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ARTICLE VIII
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NEGATIVE
COVENANTS
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SECTION 8.01.
Material Change in Business
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SECTION 8.02.
Consolidation, Merger, or Sale of Assets, Etc.
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SECTION 8.03.
Liens
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SECTION 8.04.
Indebtedness
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SECTION 8.05.
Ownership of WII
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SECTION 8.06.
Financial Covenant
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SECTION 8.07.
Limitation on Transactions with Affiliates
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SECTION 8.08.
Restrictions on Subsidiary Dividends
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ARTICLE IX
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EVENTS OF DEFAULT
AND REMEDIES
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SECTION 9.01.
Events of Default and Remedies
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SECTION 9.02.
Right of Setoff
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SECTION 9.03.
Other Remedies
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SECTION 9.04.
Application of Moneys During Continuation of Event of Default
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ARTICLE X
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ADMINISTRATIVE
AGENT
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ARTICLE XI
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GUARANTY
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SECTION 11.01.
Guaranty
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SECTION 11.02.
Continuing Guaranty
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SECTION 11.03.
Effect of Debtor Relief Laws
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SECTION 11.04.
Waiver
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SECTION 11.05.
Agreement to Defer Exercise of Subrogation
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SECTION 11.06.
Full Force and Effect
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SECTION 11.07.
Guaranty Fall-Away
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ARTICLE XII
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MISCELLANEOUS
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SECTION 12.01.
Waiver; Amendments; Joinder; Removal of Certain Borrowers
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SECTION 12.02.
Notices
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SECTION 12.03.
Expenses, Etc.
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SECTION 12.04.
Indemnity
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SECTION 12.05.
Successors and Assigns
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SECTION 12.06.
Confidentiality
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SECTION 12.07.
Survival
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SECTION 12.08.
Governing Law
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SECTION 12.09.
Independence of Covenants
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SECTION 12.10.
Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness
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SECTION 12.11.
Severability
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SECTION 12.12.
Conflicts Between This Agreement and the Other Loan Documents
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SECTION 12.13.
Headings
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SECTION 12.14.
Limitation of Interest
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SECTION 12.15.
Submission to Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process
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SECTION 12.16.
Waiver of Jury Trial
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SECTION 12.17.
Judgment Currency
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SECTION 12.18. USA
Patriot Act
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SECTION 12.19. No
Fiduciary Duty
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EXHIBITS
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EXHIBIT A
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Form of Assignment and
Assumption |
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EXHIBIT B-1
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Form of Borrowing Request |
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EXHIBIT B-2
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Form of Letter of Credit
Request |
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EXHIBIT C
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Form of Interest Election
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EXHIBIT D
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Form of Promissory Note |
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EXHIBIT E
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Form of Notice of Commitment
Increase |
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EXHIBIT F
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Form of Compliance
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EXHIBIT G
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Form of Joinder Agreement |
SCHEDULES
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SCHEDULE 1.01
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SCHEDULE 2.01
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Commitments |
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CREDIT AGREEMENT
THIS CREDIT AGREEMENT, dated as of
March 19, 2008, is among:
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Weatherford International Ltd., a Bermuda exempted company
(“ WIL ”), and together with WIL and any other
Persons from time to time becoming Borrowers hereunder pursuant to
Section 12.01(c) , but excluding any Persons who from
time to time cease to be Borrowers hereunder pursuant to
Section 12.01(d) , collectively, the “
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Weatherford International, Inc., a Delaware corporation
(“ WII ” or the “ Guarantor
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Deutsche Bank AG Cayman Islands Branch, individually as a
Lender and as administrative agent for the other Lenders (in such
latter capacity together with any other Person that becomes the
Administrative Agent pursuant to Article X , the
“ Administrative Agent ”); and |
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the banks and other financial institutions listed on the
signature pages hereof under the caption “ Lenders
” (together with each other Person that becomes a Lender
pursuant to Section 12.05 , collectively, the “
Lenders ”). |
NOW THEREFORE, the parties hereto
agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS; ACCOUNTING TERMS; INTERPRETATION
SECTION 1.01. Definitions . As
used in this Agreement the following terms shall have the following
meanings:
“ ABR ”, when used
in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether such Loan,
or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, are bearing interest at a
rate determined by reference to the Alternate Base Rate.
“ Adjusted LIBO Rate
” means, with respect to any Eurocurrency Borrowing for any
Interest Period, an interest rate per annum (rounded upwards, if
necessary, to the next 1/100 of 1%) equal to (a) the LIBO Rate
for such Interest Period multiplied by (b) the Statutory
Reserve Rate.
“ Administrative Agent
” has the meaning specified in paragraph (c) on page
one.
“ Administrative
Questionnaire ” means an Administrative Questionnaire in
a form supplied by the Administrative Agent.
“ Affiliate ”
means, with respect to any Person, any other Person that, directly
or indirectly, controls, is controlled by or is under direct or
indirect common control with, such Person. For the purposes of this
definition, “control” (including, with correlative
meanings, the terms “controlling” and
“controlled”), when used with respect to any Person,
means the power to
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the management and policies of such Person, directly or indirectly,
whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or
otherwise.
“ Agreement ”
means this Credit Agreement, as it may from time to time be further
amended, modified, restated or supplemented.
“ Alternate Base Rate
” means, for any day, a rate per annum equal to the greatest
of (a) the Prime Rate in effect on such day, (b) the Base
CD Rate in effect on such day plus 1% and (c) the Federal
Funds Effective Rate in effect on such day plus 1 / 2 of 1%. If the Administrative Agent shall
have determined (which determination shall be presumed correct
absent manifest error) that it is unable to ascertain the Federal
Funds Effective Rate for any reason, including the inability or
failure of the Administrative Agent to obtain sufficient quotations
in accordance with the terms of the definition thereof, the
Alternate Base Rate shall be determined without regard to clause
(c) of the preceding sentence until the circumstances giving
rise to such inability no longer exist. Any change in the Alternate
Base Rate due to a change in the Prime Rate, the Base CD Rate or
the Federal Funds Effective Rate shall be effective from and
including the effective date of such change in the Prime Rate, the
Base CD Rate or the Federal Funds Effective Rate,
respectively.
“ Applicable Margin
” means the per annum rate of interest set forth in the
definition of Applicable Rate under the heading “Applicable
Margin”, based upon the ratings by Moody’s and S&P,
respectively, applicable on such date to the Index Debt.
“ Applicable Percentage
” means, with respect to any Lender, the percentage of the
total Commitments represented by such Lender’s Commitment. If
the Commitments have terminated or expired, the Applicable
Percentages shall be determined based upon the Commitments most
recently in effect, giving effect to any assignments.
“ Applicable Rate
” means, for any day, with respect to any Eurocurrency Loan,
or with respect to the facility fees payable hereunder, as the case
may be, the applicable rate per annum set forth below under the
captions “Facility Fee” or “Applicable
Margin”, as the case may be, based upon the ratings by
Moody’s and S&P, respectively, applicable on such date to
the Index Debt:
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Performance Level
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.060 |
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.190 |
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Performance Level
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.080 |
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.270 |
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.090 |
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.410 |
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Performance Level
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.110 |
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.590 |
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provided that for each day on which the total Revolving
Credit Exposures of all Lenders exceeds 50% of the total
Commitments, (a) if the ratings established or deemed to have
been established by Moody’s and S&P for the Index Debt on
such day shall fall within Performance
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Level I,
Performance Level II or Performance Level III, the Applicable
Margin on such day shall be increased by 0.05% and (b) if the
ratings established or deemed to have been established by
Moody’s and S&P for the Index Debt on such day shall fall
within Performance Level IV or Performance Level V, the Applicable
Margin on such day shall be increased by 0.10%.
For purposes of the foregoing,
(i) if either Moody’s or S&P shall not have in
effect a rating for the Index Debt (other than by reason of the
circumstances referred to in the last sentence of this definition),
then such rating agency shall be deemed to have established the
same rating as the rating agency that has in effect a rating for
the Index Debt; (ii) if the ratings established or deemed to
have been established by Moody’s and S&P for the Index
Debt shall fall within different Performance Levels, the Applicable
Rate shall be based on the higher of the two ratings unless one of
the two ratings is two or more Performance Levels lower than the
other, in which case the Applicable Rate shall be determined by
reference to the Performance Level next below that of the higher of
the two ratings; and (iii) if the ratings established or
deemed to have been established by Moody’s and S&P for
the Index Debt shall be changed (other than as a result of a change
in the rating system of Moody’s or S&P), such change
shall be effective as of the date on which it is first announced by
the applicable rating agency, irrespective of when or whether
notice of such change shall have been furnished by WIL to the
Administrative Agent and the Lenders. Each change in the Applicable
Rate shall apply during the period commencing on the effective date
of such change and ending on the date immediately preceding the
effective date of the next such change. If the rating system of
Moody’s or S&P shall change, or if either such rating
agency shall cease to be in the business of rating corporate debt
obligations, WIL and the Lenders shall negotiate in good faith to
amend this definition to reflect such changed rating system or the
unavailability of ratings from such rating agency and, pending the
effectiveness of any such amendment, the Applicable Rate shall be
determined by reference to the rating most recently in effect prior
to such change or cessation.
“ Approved Fund ”
has the meaning specified in Section 12.05 .
“ Assessment Rate
” means, for any day, the annual assessment rate in effect on
such day that is payable by a member of the Bank Insurance Fund
classified as “ well-capitalized ” and within
supervisory subgroup “ B ” (or a comparable
successor risk classification) within the meaning of 12 C.F.R.
Part 327 (or any successor provision) to the Federal Deposit
Insurance Corporation for insurance by such Corporation of time
deposits made in dollars at the offices of such member in the
United States; provided that if, as a result of any change
in any law, rule or regulation, it is no longer possible to
determine the Assessment Rate as aforesaid, then the Assessment
Rate shall be such annual rate as shall be determined by the
Administrative Agent to be representative of the cost of such
insurance to the Lenders.
“ Assignment and
Assumption ” means an assignment and assumption entered
into by a Lender and an assignee (with the consent of any party
whose consent is required by Section 12.05 ) and accepted by
the Administrative Agent, in the form of Exhibit A
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“ Assurance ”
means, as to any Person, any guaranty or other contingent liability
of such Person (other than any endorsement for collection or
deposit in the ordinary course of business) or obligations as an
account party in respect of letters of credit, direct or indirect,
with respect to any obligation of another Person, through an
agreement or otherwise, including (a) any other
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endorsement or discount with recourse or undertaking substantially
equivalent to or having economic effect similar to a guarantee in
respect of any such obligation and (b) any agreement
(i) to purchase, or to advance or supply funds for the payment
or purchase of, any such obligation, (ii) to purchase securities or
to purchase, sell or lease property (whether as lessee or lessor),
products, materials or supplies, or transportation or services, in
respect of enabling such other Person to pay any such obligation or
to assure the owner thereof against loss regardless of the delivery
or non-delivery of the securities, property, products, materials or
supplies, or transportation or services or (iii) to make any
loan, advance or capital contribution to or other investment in, or
to otherwise provide funds to or for, such other Person in respect
of enabling such Person to satisfy any obligation (including any
liability for a dividend, stock liquidation payment or expense) or
to assure a minimum equity, working capital or other balance sheet
condition in respect of any such obligation. The amount of any
Assurance shall be an amount equal to the lesser of the stated or
determinable amount of the primary obligation in respect of which
such Assurance is made or, if not stated or determinable, the
maximum reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof
(assuming such Person is required to perform thereunder) as
determined by such Person in good faith.
“ Australian Dollar
Sublimit ” means, at any time, an amount equal to the
product of (a) the aggregate amount of the Commitments at such time
multiplied by (b) a fraction, the numerator of
which is $16,000,000 and the denominator of which is
$250,000,000.
“ Australian Dollars
” means the lawful currency of Australia.
“ Availability Period
” means, for each Lender, the period from the Effective Date
to the earlier of the Maturity Date and the date of termination of
the Commitments.
“ Bankruptcy Code
” means the United States Bankruptcy Code, as the same may be
amended and together with any successor statutes.
“ Base CD Rate ”
means the sum of (a) the Three-Month Secondary CD Rate
multiplied by the Statutory Reserve Rate plus (b) the
Assessment Rate.
“ Board ” means
the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United
States (or any successor).
“ Board of Directors
” means, with respect to any Person, the board of directors
(or other governing body) of such Person (or of its
(managing) general partner or managing member, as the case may
be), or any committee thereof duly authorized to act on behalf of
such board of directors (or other governing body).
“ Borrowers ” has
the meaning specified in paragraph (a) on page one.
“ Borrowing ”
means Loans of the same Type, made, converted or continued on the
same date and, in the case of Eurocurrency Loans, denominated in a
single Currency and as to which a single Interest Period is in
effect.
“ Borrowing Minimum
” means (a) in the case of a Eurocurrency Borrowing
denominated in Dollars, $2,000,000 and (b) in the case of a
Eurocurrency Borrowing denominated in any
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Optional
Currency, the smallest amount of such Optional Currency that has a
Dollar Equivalent equal to or in excess of $2,000,000.
“ Borrowing Multiple
” means (a) in the case of a Eurocurrency Borrowing
denominated in Dollars, $1,000,000 and (b) in the case of a
Eurocurrency Borrowing denominated in any Optional Currency, the
smallest amount of such Optional Currency that has a Dollar
Equivalent equal to or in excess of $1,000,000.
“ Borrowing Request
” means a request by a Borrower for a Loan in accordance with
Section 2.02 , which, if in writing, shall be
substantially in the form of Exhibit B-1 .
“ Business Day ”
means any day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which
commercial banks in New York City are authorized or required by law
to remain closed; provided that, when used in connection
with a Eurocurrency Loan, the term “ Business Day
” shall also exclude any day on which banks are not open for
dealings in Dollar deposits or deposits in any Optional Currency,
as applicable, in the London interbank market.
“ Canadian Dollar
Sublimit ” means, at any time, an amount equal to the
product of (a) the aggregate amount of the Commitments at such time
multiplied by (b) a fraction, the numerator of
which is $33,000,000 and the denominator of which is
$250,000,000.
“ Canadian Dollars
” means the lawful currency of Canada.
“ Capital Lease ”
means, as to any Person, any lease in respect of which the rental
obligation of such Person constitutes a Capitalized Lease
Obligation.
“ Capital Stock ”
means, with respect to any Person, any and all shares, interests,
rights to purchase, warrants, options, participations or other
equivalents (however designated) of such Person’s equity,
including all common stock and preferred stock, common shares and
preference shares, any limited or general partnership interest and
any limited liability company membership.
“ Capitalized Lease
Obligation ” means, with respect to any Person, the
obligation of such Person to pay rent or other amounts under a
lease of (or other agreement conveying the right to use) real or
personal property that is required to be classified and accounted
for as a capital lease obligation on a balance sheet of such Person
under GAAP and, for purposes of this Agreement, the amount of such
obligation at any date shall be the capitalized amount thereof at
such date, determined in accordance with GAAP.
“ Change of Control
” means an event or series of events by which (a) in the
case of WIL (i) any “ person ” (as such
term is used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act as in
effect on the Effective Date) or related persons constituting a
“ group ” (as such term is used in Rule 13d-5
under the Exchange Act in effect on the Effective Date) is or
becomes the “beneficial owner” (as defined in
Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act, as in effect on
the Effective Date, except that a person or such group shall be
deemed to have “ beneficial ownership ” of all
shares that any such person or such group has the right to acquire
without condition, other than the passage of time, whether such
right is exercisable immediately or only after the passage of
time), directly or indirectly, of 50% or more of the total voting
power of the Voting Stock of WIL, except as a result of a
Redomestication in which the Persons who were the
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shareholders of WIL immediately prior to such Redomestication
continue to own, directly or indirectly, 100% of the issued and
outstanding Capital Stock of each class of WIL; (ii) the
shareholders of WIL approve any plan of liquidation, winding up or
dissolution of WIL, except in connection with a Redomestication of
WIL; (iii) WIL conveys, transfers or leases all or
substantially all of its assets to any Person except in connection
with a Redomestication of WIL; or (iv) during any period of
twelve consecutive months, individuals who, at the beginning of
such period, constituted the Board of Directors of WIL (together
with any new directors whose appointment or election by such Board
of Directors or whose nomination for election by the shareholders
of WIL, as applicable, was approved by a vote of not less than a
majority of the directors then still in office who were either
directors at the beginning of such period or whose appointment,
election or nomination for election was previously so approved)
cease for any reason to constitute a majority of the Board of
Directors of WIL then in office, but excluding from the foregoing
clause any change in the composition or membership of the Board of
Directors of WIL resulting (i) from a Redomestication of WIL
or (ii) from the addition thereto or removal therefrom of
directors in connection with WIL’s compliance with the United
States Sarbanes Oxley Act of 2002 or the rules and regulations of
any stock exchange on which WIL’s securities are listed,
pursuant to the recommendation of WIL’s legal counsel,
(b) in the case of WII, except in a transaction permitted by
Section 8.02 , the Persons who are the shareholders of
WII immediately prior to a transaction cease to own, after giving
effect to such transaction, directly or indirectly, 100% of the
issued and outstanding Capital Stock of each class of WII, or
(c) in the case of HOC (to the extent it becomes a Borrower),
except in a transaction permitted by Section 8.02 , WIL
or the New Parent ceases to own, after giving effect to such
transaction, directly or indirectly, 100% of the issued and
outstanding Capital Stock of each class of HOC.
“ Change of Control
Event ” means (a) the execution of any definitive
agreement which when fully performed by the parties thereto, would
result in a Change of Control; or (b) the commencement of a
tender offer pursuant to Section 14(d) of the Exchange Act that
would result in a Change of Control if completed.
“ Change in Law ”
means (a) the adoption of any law, rule or regulation after
the date of this Agreement, (b) any change in any law, rule or
regulation or in the interpretation or application thereof by any
Governmental Authority after the date of this Agreement or (c)
compliance by any Lender or the Issuing Bank (or, for purposes of
Section 2.11(b) , by any lending office of such Lender
or by such Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s holding
company, if any) with any request, guideline or directive (whether
or not having the force of law) of any Governmental Authority made
or issued after the date of this Agreement.
“ Charges ” has
the meaning specified in Section 12.14 .
“ CI Lender ” has
the meaning specified in Section 2.15 .
“ Code ” means the
United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, from time
to time, and the regulations promulgated thereunder.
“ Commitment ”
means, with respect to each Lender, the commitment of such Lender
to make Loans and to acquire participations in Letters of Credit
hereunder, in an aggregate principal amount at any one time
outstanding not to exceed the amount set forth opposite such
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Lender’s name on Schedule 2.01 , or in the
Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender shall have
assumed its Commitment, as applicable, as such amount may be
(a) reduced from time to time pursuant to
Section 2.05 , (b) increased from time to time
pursuant to Section 2.15 and (c) reduced or
increased from time to time pursuant to assignments by or to such
Lender pursuant to Section 12.05 . The initial
aggregate amount of the Lenders’ Commitments is
$250,000,000.
“ Commitment Increase
” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15
.
“ Commitment Increase
Effective Date ” has the meaning specified in Section
2.15 .
“ Commitment Percentage
” means, as to any Lender, the percentage equivalent of a
fraction, the numerator of which is the amount of such
Lender’s Commitment, and the denominator of which is the
aggregate amount of the Commitments of all Lenders.
“ Communications ”
has the meaning specified in Section 12.02 .
“ consolidated ”
means any Person whose financial condition and results of
operations are required in accordance with GAAP to be shown on a
consolidated basis with the financial condition and results of
operations of WIL.
“ Consolidated
Indebtedness ” means, for any Person, at the date of any
determination thereof, Indebtedness of such Person and its
consolidated Subsidiaries (other than Interest Rate Risk
Indebtedness, Derivatives Obligations, and contingent obligations
in respect of letters of credit) determined on a consolidated basis
in accordance with GAAP.
“ Credit Event ”
means the making of any Loan or the issuance of any Letter of
Credit pursuant hereto.
“ Currency ” means
Dollars or any Optional Currency.
“ Default ” means
the occurrence of any event which with the giving of notice or the
passage of time or both would become an Event of Default.
“ Derivatives
Obligations ” means, as to any Person, all obligations of
such Person in respect of any swap transaction, forward rate
transaction, commodity swap, commodity option, interest rate
option, foreign exchange transaction, cap transaction, floor
transaction, collar transaction, currency swap transaction,
cross-currency rate swap transaction, currency option or any other
similar transaction (including any option with respect to any of
the foregoing transactions) or any combination of the foregoing
transactions, entered into in the ordinary course of business of
such Person for the purpose of hedging and not for speculative
purposes.
“ Deutsche Bank ”
means Deutsche Bank AG Cayman Islands Branch.
“ Dollar Equivalent
” means, on any date of determination, (a) with respect
to any amount denominated in Dollars, such amount and (b) with
respect to any amount denominated in an Optional Currency, the
equivalent in Dollars of such amount determined by the
Administrative Agent in accordance with normal banking industry
practice using the Exchange Rate on such
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date of
determination. In making any determination of the Dollar Equivalent
(for purposes of calculating the amount of Loans to be borrowed
from the respective Lenders on any date or for any other purpose),
the Administrative Agent shall use the relevant Exchange Rate in
effect on the date on which any Borrower delivers a Borrowing
Request for Loans or on such other date on which a Dollar
Equivalent is required to be determined pursuant to the provisions
of this Agreement. As appropriate, amounts specified herein as
amounts in Dollars shall be or include any relevant Dollar
Equivalent amount.
“ Dollars ”,
“ dollars ” and “ $ ” means
the lawful currency of the United States of America.
“ domestic ”
means, when used with respect to a Subsidiary of a Person, a
Subsidiary organized under the laws of any State of the United
States or the District of Columbia.
“ Effective Date ”
means the date on which the conditions set forth in Section
5.01 are first satisfied or waived.
“ ERISA ” means
the United States Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974,
as amended from time to time, and all rules, regulations, rulings
and interpretations adopted by the U.S. Department of Labor
thereunder.
“ ERISA Affiliate
” means (a) all members of a controlled group of
corporations and all trades or businesses (whether or not
incorporated) under common control which, together with WIL, are
treated as a single employer under Section 414 of the Code and
(b) any Subsidiary of any of the Obligors.
“ Euro ” means the
euro referred to in Council Regulation (EC) No. 1103/97
dated June 17, 1997, passed by the council of the European Union,
or, if different, the then lawful currency of the member states of
the European Union that participate in the third stage of economic
and monetary union.
“ Euro Sublimit ”
means, at any time, an amount equal to the product of (a) the
aggregate amount of the Commitments at such time multiplied
by (b) a fraction, the numerator of which is
$66,000,000 and the denominator of which is $250,000,000.
“ Eurocurrency ”,
when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether
such Loan, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, are bearing
interest at a rate determined by reference to the Adjusted LIBO
Rate.
“ Event of Default
” shall have the meaning specified in
Article IX.
“ Exchange Act”
means the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as
amended.
“ Exchange Rate ”
shall mean, with respect to any Optional Currency on a particular
date, the rate at which such Optional Currency may be exchanged
into Dollars, as set forth at 11:00 a.m., London time, on such date
on the applicable Reuters currency page with respect to such
Optional Currency. If such rate does not appear on the applicable
Reuters currency page, the Exchange Rate with respect to such
Optional Currency shall be determined by reference to such other
publicly available service for displaying exchange rates as may be
agreed upon by the
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Administrative Agent and the Borrowers or, in the absence of such
agreement, such Exchange Rate shall instead be the spot rate of
exchange of the Administrative Agent in the London Interbank market
or other market where its foreign currency exchange operations in
respect of such Optional Currency are then being conducted, at or
about 11:00 a.m., London time, at such date for the purchase
of Dollars with such Optional Currency, for delivery two Business
Days later; provided that if at the time of any such
determination, for any reason, no such spot rate is being quoted,
the Administrative Agent may use any reasonable method it deems
appropriate to determine such rate, and such determination shall be
presumed correct absent manifest error.
“ Excluded Taxes ”
means, with respect to the Administrative Agent, any Lender, the
Issuing Bank or any other recipient of any payment to be made by or
on account of any obligation of any Borrower hereunder,
(a) income or franchise taxes imposed on (or measured by) its
net income by the United States of America, or by the jurisdiction
under the laws of which such recipient is organized or in which its
principal office is located or, in the case of any Lender, in which
its applicable lending office is located, (b) any branch
profits taxes imposed by the United States of America or any
similar tax imposed by any other jurisdiction in which a Borrower,
the Administrative Agent, any Lender, the Issuing Bank or any other
such recipient is located, (c) in the case of a Foreign Lender
(other than an assignee pursuant to an assignment required by WIL
under Section 4.03(b) ), any withholding tax that is
imposed on amounts payable to such Foreign Lender at the time such
Foreign Lender becomes a party to this Agreement (or designates a
new lending office) or would have been so imposed if a Borrower
were a United States corporation, or is attributable to such
Foreign Lender’s failure to comply with
Section 4.02(c) or 4.02(e) , except to the
extent that such Foreign Lender (or its assignor, if any) was
entitled, at the time of designation of a new lending office (or
assignment), to receive additional amounts from such Borrower with
respect to such withholding tax pursuant to
Section 4.02(a) and (d) in the case of any Lender
that becomes a party to this Agreement after the date hereof (or
designates a new lending office after the date hereof) without the
prior written consent of WIL pursuant to Section 12.05
(other than (i) a Lender that becomes a party to this
Agreement or designates a new lending office when an Event of
Default has occurred and is continuing, (ii) a Lender that
designates a new lending office after the date hereof pursuant to
Section 4.03(a) , (iii) an assignee pursuant to an
assignment by a Lender under Section 4.03(a) ,
(iv) an assignee pursuant to an assignment required by WIL
under Section 4.03(b) and (v) a Lender that
becomes party to this Agreement as a result of an assignment by a
Lender or a Lender that designates a new lending office, if such
assignment or designation is necessary for the applicable Lender to
make a Loan denominated in any Optional Currency upon the request
of a Borrower for Loans in such Optional Currency pursuant to
Section 2.02 ), any withholding tax that is imposed on
amounts payable to such Lender pursuant to this Agreement (and
including any additional withholding tax that is imposed on amounts
payable to such Lender as a result of a change in treaty, law or
regulation).
“ Extension Effective
Date ” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.14 .
“ Facility Fee Rate
” means the per annum rate of interest set forth under the
heading “ Facility Fee ”, in the definition of
Applicable Rate, based upon the ratings by Moody’s and
S&P, respectively, applicable on such date to the Index
Debt.
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“ Federal Funds Effective
Rate ” means, for any day, the weighted average (rounded
upwards, if necessary, to the next 1/100 of 1%) of the rates on
overnight Federal funds transactions with members of the Federal
Reserve System arranged by Federal funds brokers, as published on
the next succeeding Business Day by the Federal Reserve Bank of New
York, or, if such rate is not so published for any day that is a
Business Day, the average (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the
next 1/100 of 1%) of the quotations for such day for such
transactions received by the Administrative Agent from three
Federal funds brokers of recognized standing selected by it.
“ foreign ” means,
when used with respect to a Subsidiary of any Person, a Subsidiary
of such Person organized under the laws of any jurisdiction other
than a State of the United States or the District of
Columbia.
“ Foreign Lender ”
means any Lender that is organized under the laws of a jurisdiction
other than the United States of America or any State thereof.
“ GAAP ” means
generally accepted accounting principles as in effect from time to
time as set forth in the opinions, statements and pronouncements of
the Accounting Principles Board of the American Institute of
Certified Public Accountants and the Financial Accounting Standards
Board.
“ Governmental Authority
” means any governmental authority of the United States of
America, any State of the United States, Bermuda, the Republic of
Hungary or of any other foreign jurisdiction and any political
subdivision of any of the foregoing, and any central bank, agency,
department, commission, board, bureau, court or other tribunal
having or lawfully asserting jurisdiction over the Administrative
Agent, any Lender, any Obligor or their respective
properties.
“ Guaranteed Obligations
” has the meaning specified in Section 11.01
.
“ Guarantor ” has
the meaning specified in paragraph (b) on page one.
“ Guaranty ” means
the guaranty contained in Article XI .
“ HOC ” means
Weatherford Liquidity Management Hungary Limited Liability Company
a Hungarian limited liability company.
“ Indebtedness ”
means (without duplication), with respect to any Person,
(a) any liability of such Person (i) for borrowed money
(whether or not the recourse of the lender is to the whole of the
assets of such Person or only to a portion thereof), or under any
reimbursement obligation relating to a letter of credit,
bankers’ acceptance or note purchase facility, (ii) evidenced
by a bond, note, debenture or similar instrument, (iii) for
the balance deferred and unpaid of the purchase price for any
property or any obligation upon which interest charges are
customarily paid (except for trade payables arising in the ordinary
course of business), or (iv) for the payment of money relating to
the principal portion of any Capitalized Lease Obligation;
(b) any obligation of any Person secured by (or for which the
holder of such obligation has an existing right, contingent or
otherwise, to be secured by) a consensual Lien on property owned or
acquired, whether or not any obligation secured thereby has been
assumed, by such Person; (c) all net
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obligations of such Person as of the date of a required calculation
of any Derivatives Obligations; (d) all Assurances of such
Person of the Indebtedness of any other Person of the type referred
to in clause (a) or (c) ; (e) Interest Rate Risk
Indebtedness of such Person; and (f) any amendment, supplement,
modification, deferral, renewal, extension or refunding of any
liability of the types referred to above.
“ Indemnified Taxes
” means any Taxes other than Excluded Taxes and Other
Taxes.
“ Indemnitee ” has
the meaning specified in Section 12.04 .
“ Index Debt ”
means senior, unsecured, long-term indebtedness for borrowed money
of WIL that is not guaranteed by any other Person (other than WII)
or subject to any other credit enhancement.
“ Interest Election
Request ” means a request by a Borrower to convert or
continue a Loan in accordance with Section 2.04 ,
which, if in writing, shall be substantially in the form of
Exhibit C .
“ Interest Payment Date
” means (a) with respect to any ABR Borrowing, 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 a 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 (or, with the consent of each Lender, nine
or twelve months) thereafter, as a Borrower may elect;
provided that (i) if any Interest Period would end on a
day other than a Business Day, such Interest Period shall be
extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless such next
succeeding Business Day would fall in the next calendar month, in
which case such Interest Period shall end on the next preceding
Business Day and (ii) any Interest Period pertaining to a
Eurocurrency Borrowing that commences on the last Business Day of a
calendar month (or on a day for which there is no numerically
corresponding day in the last calendar month of such Interest
Period) shall end on the last Business Day of the last calendar
month of such Interest Period. For purposes hereof, the date of a
Borrowing initially shall be the date on which such Borrowing is
made and, in the case of a Loan, thereafter shall be the effective
date of the most recent conversion or continuation of such
Borrowing.
“ Interest Rate Risk
Indebtedness ” means, with respect to any Person, all
obligations and Indebtedness of such Person with respect to the
program for the hedging of interest rate risk provided for in any
interest rate swap agreement, interest rate cap agreement, interest
rate collar agreement or similar arrangement entered into by such
Person for the purpose of reducing its exposure to interest rate
fluctuations and not for speculative purposes, approved in writing
by the Administrative Agent (such approval not to be unreasonably
withheld), as it may from time to time be amended, modified,
restated or supplemented.
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“ ISDA ” means the
International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc.
“ Issuing Bank ”
means Deutsche Bank AG Cayman Islands Branch, in its capacity as
the issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder, and its successors in
such capacity as provided in Section 3.01(i) . The
Issuing Bank may, in its discretion, arrange for one or more
Letters of Credit to be issued by Affiliates of the Issuing Bank,
in which case the term “Issuing Bank” shall include any
such Affiliate with respect to Letters of Credit issued by such
Affiliate.
“ LC Disbursement
” means a payment made by the Issuing Bank pursuant to a
Letter of Credit.
“ LC Exposure ”
means, at any time, the sum of (a) the aggregate undrawn
amount of all outstanding Letters of Credit at such time
plus (b) the aggregate amount of all LC Disbursements
that have not yet been reimbursed by or on behalf of the Borrowers
at such time. The LC Exposure of any Lender at any time shall be
its Applicable Percentage of the total LC Exposure at such
time.
“ Lenders ” means
the Persons listed in Schedule 1.01 and any other
Person that shall have become a party hereto pursuant to an
Assignment and Assumption, other than any such Person that ceases
to be a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and
Assumption.
“ Letter of Credit
” means any letter of credit issued pursuant to this
Agreement.
“ Letter of Credit
Request ” means a request by a Borrower for the issuance,
amendment, renewal or extension of a Letter of Credit in accordance
with Section 3.01 , which shall be substantially in the
form of Exhibit B-2 .
“ LIBO Rate ”
means, for any Interest Period with respect to a Eurocurrency Loan,
the Applicable Margin from time to time in effect plus the
applicable British Bankers’ Association London interbank
offered rate for deposits in the relevant currency for such
Eurocurrency Loan, as reported by any generally recognized
financial information service as of 11:00 a.m. (London time)
two Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest Period,
and having a maturity equal to such Interest Period,
provided that if no such British Bankers’ Association
London interbank offered rate is available to the Administrative
Agent, the applicable LIBO Rate for such Interest Period shall
instead be the rate at which deposits in the relevant currency and
in immediately available funds are offered to first class banks in
the London interbank market by the Reference Bank at
11:00 a.m. (London time) two Business Days before the first
day of such Interest Period and for a period equal to such Interest
Period and in amounts substantially equal to the amount of the
requested Eurocurrency Loan of the Reference Bank comprising a part
of such Borrowing.
“ Lien ” means any
lien, mortgage, pledge, assignment (including any assignment of
rights to receive payments of money), security interest, charge or
encumbrance of any kind including any conditional sale or other
title retention agreement or any lease (excluding, however, any
lease that is not a Capital Lease) in the nature thereof (whether
voluntary or involuntary and whether imposed or created by
operation of law or otherwise), and any agreement to give a lien,
mortgage, pledge, assignment (including any assignment of rights to
receive payments of money), security interest, charge or other
encumbrance of any kind; provided that “Lien”
shall
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not
include or cover (i) setoff rights and other standard
arrangements for netting payment obligations in the settlement of
obligations, arising under ISDA standard documents or otherwise
customary in swap or hedging transactions; and (ii) setoff
rights of banks party to Derivative Obligations which rights arise
in the ordinary course of customary banking relationships.
“ Loan ” means a
loan made pursuant to Section 2.01 .
“ Loan Documents ”
means, collectively, this Agreement, the Notes, all instruments,
certificates and agreements now or hereafter executed or delivered
by any Obligor to the Administrative Agent or any Lender pursuant
to any of the foregoing or in connection with the Obligations or
any commitment regarding the Obligations, and all amendments,
modifications, renewals, extensions, increases and rearrangements
of, and substitutions for, any of the foregoing.
“ Material Adverse
Effect ” means, relative to any occurrence of whatever
nature (including any adverse determination in any litigation,
arbitration or governmental investigation or proceeding) and after
taking into account actual insurance coverage and effective
indemnification with respect to such occurrence, (a) a
material adverse effect on the financial condition, business or
operations of WIL and its consolidated Subsidiaries taken as a
whole, (b) the impairment of (i) the ability of the Obligors
to collectively perform their payment or other material obligations
hereunder or under the Notes and other Loan Documents or
(ii) the ability of the Administrative Agent or the Lenders to
realize the material benefits intended to be provided by the
Obligors under the Loan Documents or (c) the subjection of the
Administrative Agent or any Lender to any civil or criminal
liability arising in connection with the Loan Documents.
“ Material Subsidiary
” means, at any date, a consolidated Subsidiary the Capital
Stock of which is owned by WIL and/or one or more of its
Subsidiaries and that either (a) has total assets in excess of
5% of the total assets of WIL and its consolidated Subsidiaries, in
each case as determined in accordance with GAAP or (b) has
gross net revenues in excess of 5% of the consolidated gross
revenues of WIL and its consolidated Subsidiaries based, in each
case, on the most recent audited consolidated financial statements
of WIL.
“ Maturity Date ”
means May 2, 2011, and for any Lender agreeing to extend the
Maturity Date pursuant to Section 2.14 , May 2 in each
year thereafter to which the Maturity Date has been extended, but
in no event later than May 2, 2014.
“ Maximum Rate ”
has the meaning set forth in Section 12.14.
“ Moody’s ”
means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc.
“ Multiemployer Plan
” means any plan which is a “multiemployer plan”
(as such term is defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of
ERISA).
“ Net Worth ”
means, for any Person, at the date of any determination thereof, on
a consolidated basis, the sum of (a) the par value or stated
value of its Capital Stock, plus (b) capital in excess of
par or stated value of shares of its Capital Stock, plus (or
minus in the case of a deficit) (c) retained earnings
or accumulated deficit, as the case may be, plus
(d) any other account which, in accordance with GAAP,
constitutes stockholders’ equity, but excluding
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(i) any treasury stock, (ii) non-cash charges incurred in
connection with the Acquisition in an aggregate amount not to
exceed $350,000,000 and (iii) the effects upon net worth
resulting from the translation of foreign currency-denominated
assets into Dollars.
“ New Funds Amount
” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15
.
“ New Parent ” has
the meaning specified in the definition of the term “
Redomestication ”.
“ Non-Extending Lender
” means, with respect to any extension of the Maturity Date
pursuant to Section 2.14 , any Lender that has not
consented to or has been deemed not to have consented to such
extension pursuant to Section 2.14 .
“ Norwegian Kroner
” means the lawful currency of the Kingdom of Norway.
“ Norwegian Kroner
Sublimit ” means, at any time, an amount equal to the
product of (a) the aggregate amount of the Commitments at such time
multiplied by (b) a fraction, the numerator of
which is $16,000,000 and the denominator of which is
$250,000,000.
“ Notes ” has the
meaning specified in Section 2.06(e) .
“ Notice of Commitment
Increase ” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.15 .
“ Obligations ”
means, as at any date of determination thereof, the sum of the
following: (a) the aggregate principal amount of Loans
outstanding hereunder on such date, plus (b) all
reimbursement obligations with respect to then outstanding Letters
of Credit, plus (c) all other outstanding liabilities,
obligations and indebtedness of any Borrower under any Loan
Document on such date.
“ Obligors ” means
WIL, WII (unless the Guaranty has been terminated and not
reinstated pursuant to Section 11.07 ) and each other
Borrower.
“ Optional Currency
” means Australian Dollars, Canadian Dollars, Euros,
Norwegian Kroner or Pounds Sterling, so long as such currency is
freely traded and convertible into Dollars in the London Interbank
market and a Dollar Equivalent thereof can be calculated. If, after
the making of a Loan in an Optional Currency, such Optional
Currency ceases to be lawful currency freely convertible into
Dollars and is replaced by the Euro, thereafter the Optional
Currency for purposes of such Loan shall be the Euro.
“ Other Taxes ”
means any and all present or future stamp or documentary taxes or
any other excise or property taxes, charges or similar levies,
other than Excluded Taxes, arising from any payment made hereunder
or from the execution, delivery or enforcement of, or otherwise
with respect to, this Agreement, but only to the extent that any of
the foregoing is imposed by (i) Bermuda, the Republic of Hungary,
the United States or any other jurisdiction in which any Borrower
is organized or is resident for tax purposes or any other
jurisdiction in which WIL is Redomesticated or is resident for tax
purposes with respect to a Foreign Lender, or (ii) Bermuda, the
Republic of Hungary or any other jurisdiction in which any Borrower
is organized or is resident for tax purposes or any other
jurisdiction (other than the United States) in which WIL is
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Redomesticated or is resident for tax purposes with respect to a
Lender which is not a Foreign Lender.
“ Participant ”
has the meaning specified in Section 12.05(c) .
“ PBGC ” means the
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation or any entity succeeding to
any or all of its functions under ERISA.
“ Performance Level
” means a reference to one of Performance Level I,
Performance Level II, Performance Level III, Performance Level IV
or Performance Level V.
“ Performance Level I
” means, at any date of determination, WIL shall have an
Index Debt rating in effect on such date of A or better by S&P
and A2 or better by Moody’s.
“ Performance Level II
” means, at any date of determination, (a) the
Performance Level does not meet the requirements of Performance
Level I and (b) WIL shall have an Index Debt rating in effect
on such date of A- or better by S&P and A3 or better by
Moody’s.
“ Performance Level III
” means, at any date of determination, (a) the
Performance Level does not meet the requirements of Performance
Level I or Performance Level II and (b) WIL shall have an
Index Debt rating in effect on such date of BBB+ or better by
S&P and Baa1 or better by Moody’s.
“ Performance Level IV
” means, at any date of determination, (a) the
Performance Level does not meet the requirements of Performance
Level I, Performance Level II or Performance Level III and
(b) WIL shall have an Index Debt rating in effect on such date
of BBB or better by S&P and Baa2 or better by
Moody’s.
“ Performance Level V
” means, at any date of determination, the Performance Level
does not meet the requirements of Performance Level I, Performance
Level II, Performance Level III or Performance Level IV.
“ Permitted Liens
” means, without duplication,
(a) Liens, not otherwise permitted
under any other provision of this definition, securing Indebtedness
permitted under this Agreement in an aggregate principal amount at
any time outstanding which does not exceed 12% of WIL’s Net
Worth;
(b) Liens for Taxes or unpaid
utilities not yet delinquent or which are being contested in good
faith by appropriate proceedings; provided that adequate
reserves with respect thereto are maintained on the books of WIL or
its Subsidiaries, as the case may be, in conformity with
GAAP;
(c) carriers’,
warehousemen’s, mechanics’, materialmen’s,
repairmen’s or other like Liens arising in the ordinary
course of business and not overdue for a period of more than
60 days or which are being contested in good faith by
appropriate proceedings and for which adequate reserves have been
made in accordance with GAAP;
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(d) pledges or deposits or deemed
trusts in connection with workers’ compensation, unemployment
insurance, pension, employment or other social security
legislation;
(e) easements, rights-of-way, use
restrictions, minor defects or irregularities in title,
reservations (including reservations in any original grant from any
government of any land or interests therein and statutory
exceptions to title) and other similar encumbrances incurred in the
ordinary course of business which, in the aggregate, are not
substantial in amount and which do not in any case materially
detract from the value of the property subject thereto or
materially interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business of
WIL or any of its Subsidiaries;
(f) judgment and attachment Liens not
giving rise to an Event of Default or Liens created by or existing
from any litigation or legal proceeding that are currently being
contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings, promptly
instituted and diligently conducted, and for which adequate
reserves have been made to the extent required by GAAP;
(g) Liens on the assets of any entity
or asset existing at the time such asset or entity is acquired by
WIL or any of its Subsidiaries, whether by merger, amalgamation,
consolidation, purchase of assets or otherwise; provided
that (i) such Liens are not created, incurred or assumed by
such entity in contemplation of such entity’s being acquired
by WIL or any of its Subsidiaries, (ii) such Liens do not
extend to any other assets of WIL or any of its Subsidiaries and
(iii) the Indebtedness secured by such Liens is permitted
pursuant to this Agreement;
(h) Liens securing Indebtedness of
WIL or its Subsidiaries not prohibited by Section 8.04
incurred to finance the acquisition of fixed or capital assets,
provided that (i) such Liens shall be created not more
than 90 days after the acquisition of such fixed or capital
assets, (ii) such Liens do not at any time encumber any
property other than the property financed by such Indebtedness and
(iii) the Liens are not modified to secure other Indebtedness
and the amount of Indebtedness secured thereby is not
increased;
(i) Liens incurred to secure the
performance of tenders, bids, leases, statutory obligations, surety
and appeal bonds, government contracts, performance and
return-of-money bonds and other obligations of a like nature
incurred in the ordinary course of business (exclusive of
obligations for the payment of borrowed money);
(j) leases or subleases granted to
others not interfering in any material respect with the business of
WIL or any of its Subsidiaries;
(k) Liens to secure obligations
arising from statutory or regulatory requirements;
(l) any interest or title of a lessor
in property subject to any Capitalized Lease Obligation or
operating lease which, in each case, is permitted under this
Agreement;
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(m) Liens in favor of collecting or
payor banks having a right of setoff, revocation, refund or
chargeback with respect to money or instruments of WIL or any of
its Subsidiaries on deposit with or in possession of such bank;
and
(n) any renewal or refinancing of or
substitution for, or any extension or modification of any maturity
date for any Indebtedness secured by, any Lien permitted by any of
the preceding clauses; provided that the debt secured is not
increased nor the Lien extended to any additional assets.
“ Person ” means
any individual, corporation, company, limited or general
partnership, limited liability company, joint venture, association,
joint stock company, trust, unincorporated organization or other
entity, or any Governmental Authority.
“ Plan ” means an
employee pension benefit plan which is covered by Title IV of ERISA
or subject to the minimum funding standards under Section 412
of the Code and is either (a) maintained by WIL or any ERISA
Affiliate for employees of WIL or any ERISA Affiliate or
(b) maintained pursuant to a collective bargaining agreement
or any other arrangement under which more than one employer makes
contributions and to which WIL or any ERISA Affiliate is then
making or accruing an obligation to make contributions or has
within the preceding five plan years made contributions.
“ Pounds Sterling
” means the lawful currency of the United Kingdom.
“ Pounds Sterling
Sublimit ” means, at any time, an amount equal to the
product of (a) the aggregate amount of the Commitments at such time
multiplied by (b) a fraction, the numerator of
which is $66,000,000 and the denominator of which is
$250,000,000.
“ Prime Rate ”
means the rate of interest per annum publicly announced from time
to time by Deutsche Bank as its prime rate in effect at its
principal office in New York City; each change in the Prime Rate
shall be effective from and including the date such change is
publicly announced as being effective.
“ Public Debt Offering
” means the public offering and sale of one or more series of
senior notes of the Borrower, pursuant to the Borrower’s
existing shelf registration statement on Form S-3 (SEC Registration
No. 333-135244), through a syndicate of underwriters for whom
Goldman, Sachs & Co., Deutsche Bank Securities Inc and Merrill
Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated shall act as Joint
Book-Running Managers, which notes shall be in an aggregate
principal amount of not less than $1,500,000,000 and as to which
the due and punctual payment of principal, interest and premium (if
any) shall be unconditionally guaranteed, on a senior unsecured
basis, by the Guarantor.
“ Redomestication
” means:
(a) any amalgamation, merger,
conversion or consolidation of WIL or WII with or into any other
Person, or of any other Person with or into WIL or WII, or the sale
or other disposition (other than by lease) of all or substantially
all of its assets by WIL or WII to any other Person,
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(b) any continuation,
discontinuation, amalgamation, merger, conversion, consolidation or
domestication or similar action with respect to WIL or WII pursuant
to the law of the jurisdiction of its organization and of any other
jurisdiction, or
(c) the formation of a Person that
becomes, as part of the transaction, the owner of 100% of the
Capital Stock of WIL (the “ New Parent ”),
if as a
result thereof
(x) in the case of any action
specified in clause (a) , the entity that is the surviving,
resulting or continuing Person in such merger, amalgamation,
conversion or consolidation, or the transferee in such sale or
other disposition,
(y) in the case of any action
specified in clause (b) , the entity that constituted such
Obligor, immediately prior thereto (but disregarding for this
purpose any change in its jurisdiction of organization), or
(z) in the case of any action
specified in clause (c) , the New Parent
(in any
such case the “ Surviving Person ”) is a
corporation or other entity, validly incorporated or formed and
existing in good standing (to the extent the concept of good
standing is applicable) under the laws of Delaware or another State
of the United States or under the laws of the United Kingdom, The
Kingdom of the Netherlands or (with the consent of the Required
Lenders, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld) under the
laws of any other jurisdiction, whose Capital Stock of each class
issued and outstanding immediately following such action, and
giving effect thereto, shall be beneficially owned by the same
Persons, in the same percentages, as was the Capital Stock of the
entity constituting WIL immediately prior thereto and, if the
Surviving Person is WII or the New Parent, the Surviving Person
continues to be owned, directly or indirectly, 100% by Persons who
were shareholders of WIL immediately prior to such transaction and
the Surviving Person shall have delivered to the Administrative
Agent (i) a certificate to the effect that, both before and
after giving effect to such transaction, no Default or Event of
Default exists, (ii) an opinion, reasonably satisfactory in
form, scope and substance to the Administrative Agent, of counsel
reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, addressing
such matters in connection with the Redomestication as the
Administrative Agent or any Lender may reasonably request, and
(iii) if the Surviving Person is the New Parent, a guaranty of
the Obligations in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to
the Administrative Agent.
“ Reducing Percentage
Lender ” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.15 .
“ Reduction Amount
” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15
.
“ Reference Bank ”
means Deutsche Bank.
“ Register ” has
the meaning specified in Section 12.05(b)(iv) .
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“ Regulation D
” means Regulation D of the Board (respecting reserve
requirements), as the same is from time to time in effect, and all
official rulings and interpretations thereunder or thereof.
“ Regulation T
” means Regulation T of the Board (respecting eligible
securities and margin requirements), as the same is from time to
time in effect, and all official rulings and interpretations
thereunder or thereof.
“ Regulation U
” means Regulation U of the Board (respecting margin
credit extended by banks), as the same is from time to time in
effect, and all official rulings and interpretations thereunder or
thereof.
“ Regulation X
” means Regulation X of the Board (respecting borrowers
who obtain margin credit), as the same is from time to time in
effect, and all official rulings and interpretations thereunder or
thereof.
“ Related Parties
” means, with respect to any specified Person, such
Person’s Affiliates and the respective directors, officers,
employees, agents and advisors of such Person and such
Person’s Affiliates.
“ Reportable Event
” means an event described in Section 4043(c) of ERISA with
respect to a Plan as to which the 30-day notice requirement has not
been waived by the PBGC.
“ Required Lenders
” means, at any time, Lenders having Revolving Credit
Exposures and unused Commitments representing (x) at any time
that there are three or fewer Lenders that are not Affiliates of
any other Lender, at least 70% and (y) at any time that there
are four or more Lenders that are not Affiliates of any other
Lender, at least fifty-one percent (51%), of the sum of the total
Revolving Credit Exposures and unused Commitments at such
time.
“ Requirement of Law
” means, as to any Person, any law, treaty, rule or
regulation or determination of an arbitrator or a court or other
Governmental Authority, in each case applicable to or binding upon
such Person or any of its property or to which such Person or any
of its property is subject.
“ Responsible Officer
” means, with respect to any Obligor, the president, the
chief financial officer, the controller or any vice president of
such Obligor, or an individual specifically authorized by the Board
of Directors of such Obligor to sign on behalf of such
Obligor.
“ Revaluation Date
” means each of the following: (i) each date of a
Borrowing of a Eurocurrency Loan denominated in an Optional
Currency, (ii) each date of a continuation of a Eurocurrency
Loan denominated in an Optional Currency, and (iii) such
additional dates as the Administrative Agent shall determine or the
Required Lenders shall reasonably require as a result of money or
capital markets conditions or the occurrence and continuation of an
Event of Default.
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“ Revolving Credit
Exposure ” means, with respect to any Lender at any time,
the sum of the Dollar Equivalent of the outstanding principal
amount of such Lender’s Loans and its LC Exposure at such
time.
“ S&P ” means
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Group, a division of
McGraw-Hill, Inc.
“ Specified Debt ”
means any obligation created or assumed by any Person for the
repayment of money borrowed and any purchase money obligation
created or assumed by such Person and any guarantee of the
foregoing.
“ Statutory Reserve Rate
” means with respect to any currency, a fraction (expressed
as a decimal), the numerator of which is the number one and the
denominator of which is the number one minus the aggregate of the
maximum reserve, liquid asset or similar percentages (including any
marginal, special, emergency or supplemental reserves) expressed as
a decimal established by any Governmental Authority of the United
States or of the jurisdiction of such currency or any jurisdiction
in which Loans in such currency are made to which banks in such
jurisdiction are subject for any category of deposits or
liabilities customarily used to fund loans in such currency or by
reference to which interest rates applicable to loans in such
currency are determined. Such reserve, liquid asset or similar
percentages shall include those imposed pursuant to
Regulation D. Eurocurrency Loans shall be deemed to constitute
eurocurrency funding and to be subject to such reserve requirements
without benefit of or credit for proration, exemptions or offsets
that may be available from time to time to any Lender under
Regulation D or any other applicable law, rule or regulation.
The Statutory Reserve Rate shall be adjusted automatically on and
as of the effective date of any change in any reserve
percentage.
“ Subsidiary ” of
a Person means (a) a company or corporation a majority of
whose Voting Stock is at the time, directly or indirectly, owned by
such Person, by one or more subsidiaries of such Person or by such
Person and one or more subsidiaries of such Person, (b) a
partnership in which such Person or a subsidiary of such Person is,
at the date of determination, a general or limited partner of such
partnership, but only if such Person or its subsidiary is entitled
to receive more than 50% of the assets of such partnership upon its
dissolution, or (c) any other Person (other than a corporation
or partnership) in which such Person, directly or indirectly, at
the date of determination thereof, has (i) at least a majority
ownership interest or (ii) the power to elect or direct the
election of a majority of the directors or other governing body of
such Person. Unless the context otherwise clearly requires,
references in this Agreement to a “Subsidiary” or the
“Subsidiaries” refer to a Subsidiary or the
Subsidiaries of WIL.
“ Taxes ” means
any and all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties,
deductions, charges or withholdings imposed by any Governmental
Authority.
“ Three-Month Secondary CD
Rate ” means, for any day, the secondary market rate for
three-month certificates of deposit reported as being in effect on
such day (or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next preceding
Business Day) by the Board through the public information telephone
line of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York (which rate will,
under the current practices of the Board, be published in Federal
Reserve Statistical Release H.15(519) during the week following
such day) or, if such rate is not so reported on such day or such
next preceding Business Day, the average of the secondary market
quotations for three-month certificates of
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deposit
of major money center banks in New York City received at
approximately 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on such day (or,
if such day is not a Business Day, on the next preceding Business
Day) by the Administrative Agent from three negotiable certificate
of deposit dealers of recognized standing selected by it.
“ Total Capitalization
” means, for any Person, at the date of determination
thereof, the sum of (a) Consolidated Indebtedness of such
Person plus (b) Net Worth of such Person.
“ Type ”, when
used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether the
rate of interest on such Loan, or on the Loans comprising such
Borrowing, is determined by reference to the Adjusted LIBO Rate or
the Alternate Base Rate.
“ Voting Stock ”
means, with respect to any Person, securities of any class or
classes of Capital Stock in such Person entitling holders thereof
(whether at all times or only so long as no senior class of stock
has voting power by reason of any contingency) to vote in the
election of members of the Board of Directors or other governing
body of such Person.
“ Wholly-Owned
Subsidiary ” of a Person means a Subsidiary of which all
issued and outstanding Capital Stock (excluding directors’
qualifying shares or similar jurisdictional requirements) is
directly or indirectly owned by such Person.
“ WII ” has the
meaning specified in paragraph (b) on page one.
“ WIL ” has the
meaning specified in paragraph (a) on page one.
SECTION 1.02. Types of
Borrowings . Borrowings hereunder are distinguished by
“Type” and the Currency in which each is denominated.
The “Type” of a Loan refers to the determination
whether such Loan is a part of a Loan bearing interest at the
Adjusted LIBO Rate or at the Alternate Base Rate.
SECTION 1.03. Accounting Terms;
Changes in GAAP . All accounting and financial terms used
herein and not otherwise defined herein and the compliance with
each covenant contained herein which relates to financial matters
shall be determined in accordance with GAAP applied on a consistent
basis, except to the extent that a deviation therefrom is expressly
stated. Should there be a change in GAAP from that in effect on the
Effective Date, such that the defined terms set forth in
Section 1.01 or the covenants set forth in
Article VIII would then be calculated in a different
manner or with different components or would render the same not
meaningful criteria for evaluating the matters contemplated to be
evidenced by such covenants, (a) WIL and the Lenders agree,
within the 60-day period following any such change, to negotiate in
good faith and enter into an amendment to this Agreement in order
to conform the defined terms set forth in Section 1.01
or the covenants set forth in Article VIII , or both,
in such respects as shall reasonably be deemed necessary by the
Required Lenders so that the criteria for evaluating the matters
contemplated to be evidenced by such covenants are substantially
the same criteria as were effective prior to any such change in
GAAP, and (b) the Obligors shall be deemed to be in compliance
with such covenants during the 60-day period following any such
change, or until the earlier date of execution of such amendment,
if and to the extent that the Obligors would have been in
compliance therewith under GAAP as in effect immediately prior to
such change.
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SECTION 1.04. Interpretation .
(a) In this Agreement, unless a clear contrary intention
appears:
(i) the singular number includes the
plural number and vice versa ;
(ii) reference to any gender includes
each other gender;
(iii) the words “herein,”
“hereof” and “hereunder” and other words of
similar import refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any
particular Article, Section or other subdivision;
(iv) unless the context indicates
otherwise, reference to any Person includes such Person’s
successors and assigns but, if applicable, only if such successors
and assigns are permitted by this Agreement, including any Person
that becomes a successor to WIL or WII as a result of a
Redomestication, and reference to a Person in a particular capacity
excludes such Person in any other capacity or individually,
provided that nothing in this clause (iv) is intended
to authorize any assignment not otherwise permitted by this
Agreement;
(v) except as expressly provided to
the contrary herein, reference to any agreement, document or
instrument (including this Agreement) means such agreement,
document or instrument as amended, supplemented or modified and in
effect from time to time in accordance with the terms thereof and,
if applicable, the terms hereof, and reference to any Note or other
note includes any note issued pursuant hereto in extension or
renewal thereof and in substitution or replacement therefor;
(vi) unless the context indicates
otherwise, reference to any Article, Section, Schedule or Exhibit
means such Article or Section hereof or such Schedule or Exhibit
hereto;
(vii) the word
“including” (and with correlative meaning
“include”) means including, without limiting the
generality of any description preceding such term;
(viii) with respect to the
determination of any period of time, except as expressly provided
to the contrary, the word “from” means “from and
including” and the word “to” means “to but
excluding”;
(ix) reference to any law, rule or
regulation means such as amended, modified, codified or reenacted,
in whole or in part, and in effect from time to time.
(b) The Article and Section
headings herein and in the Table of Contents are for convenience
only and shall not affect the construction hereof.
(c) No provision of this
Agreement shall be interpreted or construed against any Person
solely because that Person or its legal representative drafted such
provision.
(d) Unless otherwise specified
herein, (i) all dollar amounts expressed herein shall refer to
Dollars and (ii) for purposes of calculating compliance with
the terms of this Agreement
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and the
other Loan Documents (including for purposes of calculating
compliance with the covenants), each obligation or calculation
shall be converted to its Dollar Equivalent.
(e) The Administrative Agent
shall determine the Exchange Rates as of each Revaluation Date to
be used for calculating Dollar Equivalent amounts in respect of
Borrowings denominated in Optional Currencies. Such Exchange Rates
shall become effective as of such Revaluation Date and shall be the
Exchange Rates employed in converting any amounts between the
applicable currencies until the next Revaluation Date to occur.
Except for purposes of financial statements delivered by Obligors
hereunder or calculating financial covenants hereunder or except as
otherwise provided herein, the applicable amount of any currency
(other than Dollars) for purposes of the Loan Documents shall be
such Dollar Equivalent amount as so determined by the
Administrative Agent.
ARTICLE II
COMMITMENTS; LOANS
SECTION 2.01. Loans .
(a) Subject
to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Lender agrees to
make Loans to the Borrowers, in Dollars or any Optional Currency,
from time to time during the Availability Period in an aggregate
principal amount that shall not result in (i) such
Lender’s Revolving Credit Exposure exceeding such
Lender’s Commitment, (ii) the sum of the total Revolving
Credit Exposures of all Lenders exceeding the total Commitments,
(iii) the sum of the total Revolving Credit Exposures of all
Lenders in respect of Loans denominated in Australian Dollars
exceeding the Australian Dollar Sublimit, (iv) the sum of the
total Revolving Credit Exposures of all Lenders in respect of Loans
denominated in Canadian Dollars exceeding the Canadian Dollar
Sublimit, (v) the sum of the total Revolving Credit Exposures
of all Lenders in respect of Loans denominated in Euros exceeding
the Euro Sublimit, (vi) the sum of the total Revolving Credit
Exposures of all Lenders in respect of Loans denominated in
Norwegian Kroner exceeding the Norwegian Kroner Sublimit or (vii)
the sum of the total Revolving Credit Exposures of all Lenders in
respect of Loans denominated in Pounds Sterling exceeding the
Pounds Sterling Sublimit. Within the foregoing limits and subject
to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Borrowers may
borrow, prepay and reborrow Loans.
(b) Each
Loan shall be made as part of a Borrowing consisting of Loans made
by the Lenders ratably in accordance with their respective
Commitments. The failure of any Lender to make any Loan required to
be made by it shall not relieve any other Lender of its obligations
hereunder; provided that the Commitments of the Lenders are
several and no Lender shall be responsible for any other
Lender’s failure to make Loans as required.
(c)
Subject to Section 2.10 , each Borrowing shall be
comprised entirely of ABR Loans or Eurocurrency Loans as a Borrower
may request in accordance herewith. Eurocurrency Loans may be
denominated in Dollars or in an Optional Currency. All Loans
denominated in an Optional Currency must be Eurocurrency Loans.
Each Lender at its option may make any Eurocurrency Loan by causing
any domestic or foreign branch or Affiliate of such Lender to make
such Loan; provided that any exercise of such option shall
not affect the
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joint
and several obligation of the Borrowers to repay such Loan in
accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
(d) At
the commencement of each Interest Period for any Eurocurrency
Borrowing, such Borrowing shall be in an aggregate amount that is
an integral multiple of the Borrowing Multiple and not less than
the Borrowing Minimum. At the time that each ABR Borrowing is made,
such ABR Borrowing shall be in an aggregate amount that is an
integral multiple of $500,000 and not less than $1,000,000;
provided that an ABR Borrowing may be in an aggregate amount
that is equal to the entire unused balance of the total Commitments
or that is required to finance the reimbursement of an LC
Disbursement as contemplated by Section 3.01(e) .
Borrowings of more than one Type may be outstanding at the same
time; provided that there shall not at any time be more than
a total of seven Eurocurrency Borrowings outstanding.
(e) Notwithstanding
any other provision of this Agreement, no Borrower shall be
entitled to request, or to elect to convert or continue, any
Borrowing if the Interest Period requested with respect thereto
would end after the Maturity Date.
SECTION 2.02. Requests for
Borrowings . To request a Borrowing, a Borrower shall notify
the Administrative Agent (and the Administrative Agent shall
promptly thereafter notify the Lenders) of such request by
telephone (a) in the case of a Eurocurrency Borrowing, not
later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, three Business Days
before the date of the proposed Borrowing or (b) in the case
of an ABR Borrowing, not later than 11:00 a.m., New York City
time, on the date of the proposed Borrowing; provided that
any such notice of an ABR Borrowing to finance the reimbursement of
an LC Disbursement as contemplated by Section 3.01(e)
may be given not later than 10:00 a.m., New York City time, on the
date of the proposed Borrowing. Each such telephonic Borrowing
Request shall be irrevocable and shall be confirmed promptly by
hand delivery or telecopy to the Administrative Agent of a written
Borrowing Request signed by the Borrower requesting the Borrowing.
Each such telephonic and written Borrowing Request shall specify
the following information in compliance with
Section 2.01 :
(i) the aggregate amount of the
requested Borrowing;
(ii) the date of such Borrowing,
which shall be a Business Day;
(iii) whether such Borrowing is to be
an ABR Borrowing or a Eurocurrency Borrowing;
(iv) in the case of a Eurocurrency
Borrowing, the applicable Currency in which such Borrowing is to be
made;
(v) in the case of a Eurocurrency
Borrowing, the initial Interest Period to be applicable thereto,
which shall be a period contemplated by the definition of the term
“Interest Period”; and
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(vi) the location and number of the
account of the requesting Borrower to which funds are to be
disbursed, which shall comply with the requirements of
Section 2.03 .
If no
election as to the Type of Borrowing is specified, then the
requested Borrowing shall be an ABR Borrowing. If no Currency is
specified with respect to any requested Eurocurrency Borrowing,
then the requesting Borrower shall be deemed to have requested that
such Eurocurrency Borrowing be made in Dollars. If no Interest
Period is specified with respect to any requested Eurocurrency
Borrowing, then the requesting Borrower shall be deemed to have
selected an Interest Period of one month’s duration. Promptly
following receipt of a Borrowing Request in accordance with this
Section, the Administrative Agent shall advise each Lender of the
details thereof and of the amount of, and applicable Currency of,
such Lender’s Loan to be made as part of the requested
Borrowing.
SECTION 2.03. Funding of
Borrowings .
(a) Each
Lender shall make each Loan to be made by it hereunder on the
proposed date thereof by wire transfer of immediately available
funds in the applicable Currency (i) by 12:00 noon, New York
City time, in the case of a Borrowing consisting of Eurocurrency
Loans, and (ii) by 1:00 p.m., New York City time, in the case
of a Borrowing consisting of ABR Loans, to the account of the
Administrative Agent most recently designated by it for such
purpose by notice to the Lenders. The Administrative Agent shall
make such Loans available to the requesting Borrower by promptly
crediting the amounts so received in like funds to an account of
such Borrower maintained with the Administrative Agent in New York,
New York and designated by such Borrower in the applicable
Borrowing Request; provided that an ABR Borrowing made to
finance the reimbursement of an LC Disbursement as provided in
Section 3.01(e) shall be remitted by the Administrative
Agent to the Issuing Bank.
(b)
Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from a
Lender prior to the proposed date of any Borrowing of Eurocurrency
Loans (or, in the case of any Borrowing of ABR Loans, prior to
12:00 noon, New York City time, on the date of such Borrowing) that
such Lender shall not make available to the Administrative Agent
such Lender’s share of such Borrowing, the Administrative
Agent may assume that such Lender has made such share available on
such date in accordance with paragraph (a) of this Section
and may, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the
requesting Borrower a corresponding amount. In such event, if a
Lender has not in fact made its share of the applicable Borrowing
available to the Administrative Agent, then the Borrowers, jointly
and severally, and the applicable Lender severally agree to pay to
the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such corresponding
amount with interest thereon, for each day from and including the
date such amount is made available to the requesting Borrower to
but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at
(i) in the case of such Lender, the greater of (A) the
Federal Funds Effective Rate, in the case of Loans denominated in
Dollars, and the rate reasonably determined by the Administrative
Agent to be the cost to it of funding such amount, in the case of
Loans denominated in an Optional Currency, and (B) a rate
determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking
industry rules on interbank compensation or (ii) in the case
of the Borrowers, the interest rate applicable to ABR Borrowings,
in the case of Loans denominated in Dollars, and the interest rate
applicable to such Borrowing, in the case of Loans denominated
in
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any
other currency. If such Lender pays such amount to the
Administrative Agent, then such amount shall constitute such
Lender’s Loan included in such Borrowing.
SECTION 2.04. Interest
Elections .
(a) Each
Borrowing initially shall be of the Type specified in the
applicable Borrowing Request and, in the case of a Eurocurrency
Borrowing, shall have an initial Interest Period and shall be
denominated in such Currency, in each case as specified in such
Borrowing Request. Thereafter, a Borrower may elect to convert such
Borrowing to a different Type or to continue such Borrowing and, in
the case of a Eurocurrency Borrowing, may elect Interest Periods
and Currencies therefor, all as provided in this Section. A
Borrower may elect different options with respect to different
portions of the affected Borrowing, in which case each such portion
shall be allocated ratably among the Lenders holding the Loans
comprising such Borrowing, and the Loans comprising each such
portion shall be considered a separate Borrowing.
(b) To
make an election pursuant to this Section, a Borrower shall notify
the Administrative Agent of such election by telephone by the time
that a Borrowing Request would be required under
Section 2.02 if such Borrower were requesting a
Borrowing of the Type and Currency resulting from such election to
be made on the effective date of such election. Each such
telephonic Interest Election Request shall be irrevocable and shall
be confirmed promptly by hand delivery or telecopy to the
Administrative Agent of a written Interest Election Request in a
form approved by the Administrative Agent and signed by such
Borrower. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section, no
Borrower shall be permitted to change the currency of any
Borrowing.
(c) Each
telephonic and written Interest Election Request shall specify the
following information in compliance with Section 2.02
:
(i) the Borrowing to which such
Interest Election Request applies and, if different options are
being elected with respect to different portions thereof, the
portions thereof to be allocated to each resulting Borrowing (in
which case the information to be specified pursuant to clauses
(iii) and (iv) below shall be specified for each
resulting Borrowing);
(ii) the effective date of the
election made pursuant to such Interest Election Request, which
shall be a Business Day;
(iii) whether the resulting Borrowing
is to be an ABR Borrowing or a Eurocurrency Borrowing; and
(iv) if the resulting Borrowing is a
Eurocurrency Borrowing, the Interest Period to be applicable
thereto after giving effect to such election, which shall be a
period contemplated by the definition of the term “
Interest Period ”.
If any
such Interest Election Request requests a Eurocurrency Borrowing
but does not specify an Interest Period, then the Borrower making
such Interest Election Request shall be deemed to have selected an
Interest Period of one month’s duration.
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(d) Promptly
following receipt of an Interest Election Request, the
Administrative Agent shall advise each Lender of the details
thereof and of such Lender’s portion of each resulting
Borrowing.
(e) If
a Borrower fails to deliver a timely Interest Election Request with
respect to a Eurocurrency Borrowing prior to the end of the
Interest Period applicable thereto, then, unless such Borrowing is
repaid as provided herein, at the end of such Interest Period such
Borrowing shall (i) in the case of a Borrowing denominated in
Dollars, be converted to an ABR Borrowing and (ii) in the case
of a Borrowing denominated in an Optional Currency, be converted to
an ABR Borrowing (denominated in Dollars) in an amount equal to the
Dollar Equivalent of such Eurocurrency Borrowing on the last day of
such Interest Period. Notwithstanding any contrary provision
hereof, if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing and
the Administrative Agent, at the request of the Required Lenders,
so notifies WIL, then, so long as an Event of Default is continuing
(1) no outstanding Borrowing may be converted to or continued
as a Eurocurrency Borrowing and (2) unless repaid, each
Eurocurrency Borrowing shall at the end of the Interest Period
applicable thereto (A) in the case of a Borrowing denominated in
Dollars, be converted to an ABR Borrowing, and (B) in the case
of a Borrowing denominated in an Optional Currency, be converted to
an ABR Borrowing (denominated in Dollars) in an amount equal to the
Dollar Equivalent of such Eurocurrency Borrowing on the last day of
such Interest Period.
SECTION 2.05. Termination and
Reduction of Commitments .
(a) Unless
previously terminated, the Commitments shall terminate on the
Maturity Date.
(b) WIL
may at any time terminate, or from time to time reduce, the
Commitments; provided that (i) each reduction of the
Commitments shall be in an amount that is an integral multiple of
$1,000,000 and not less than $5,000,000 and (ii) WIL shall not
terminate or reduce the Commitments if, after giving effect to any
concurrent prepayment of the Loans in accordance with Section
2.07 , the Revolving Credit Exposures would exceed the total
Commitments.
(c) WIL
shall notify the Administrative Agent of any election to terminate
or reduce the Commitments under paragraph (b) of this
Section at least three Business Days prior to the effective date of
such termination or reduction, specifying such election and the
effective date thereof. Promptly following receipt of any notice,
the Administrative Agent shall advise the Lenders of the contents
thereof. Each notice delivered by WIL pursuant to this Section
shall be irrevocable; provided that a notice of termination
of the Commitments delivered by WIL may state that such notice is
conditioned upon the effectiveness of other credit facilities, in
which case such notice may be revoked by WIL (by notice to the
Administrative Agent on or prior to the specified effective date)
if such condition is not satisfied. Any termination or reduction of
the Commitments shall be permanent. Each reduction of the
Commitments shall be made ratably among the Lenders in accordance
with their respective Commitments, and each such reduction of each
such Lender’s Commitment shall be applied to the reduction of
such Lender’s commitment to make Loans and acquire LC
Exposure in the same proportion as each such commitment bears to
such Lender’s total Commitment immediately prior to such
reduction.
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SECTION 2.06. Repayment of Loans;
Evidence of Debt .
(a) The
Borrowers hereby jointly and severally and unconditionally promise
to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender
the then unpaid principal amount of each Loan on the Maturity
Date.
(b) Each
Lender shall maintain in accordance with its usual practice an
account or accounts evidencing the indebtedness of the Borrowers to
such Lender resulting from each Loan made by such Lender, including
the amounts of principal and interest payable and paid to such
Lender from time to time hereunder.
(c) The
Administrative Agent shall maintain accounts in which it shall
record (i) the amount of each Loan made hereunder, the Type
thereof and the Interest Period applicable thereto, (ii) the
amount of any principal or interest due and payable or to become
due and payable from each 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.
(d) 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 Borrowers,
jointly and severally, to repay the Loans in accordance with the
terms of this Agreement.
(e) Any
Lender may request that Loans made by it be evidenced by a
promissory note (all of such notes being hereinafter collectively
referred to as the “ Notes ”). In such event,
the Borrowers shall prepare, execute and deliver to such Lender a
promissory note payable, jointly and severally, to the order of
such Lender and in the form of Exhibit D . Thereafter,
the Loans evidenced by such promissory note and interest thereon
shall at all times (including after assignment pursuant to
Section 12.05 ) be represented by one or more Notes in
such form payable to the order of the payee named therein.
SECTION 2.07. Prepayment of
Loans .
(a) The
Borrowers shall have the right at any time and from time to time to
prepay any Borrowing in whole or in part, subject to prior notice
in accordance with paragraph (b) of this Section.
(b) A
Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent by telephone
(promptly confirmed by telecopy) of any prepayment hereunder
(i) in the case of prepayment of a Eurocurrency Borrowing, not
later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, three Business Days
before the date of prepayment, or (ii) in the case of
prepayment of an ABR Borrowing, not later than 11:00 a.m., New
York City time, one Business Day before the date of prepayment.
Each such notice shall be irrevocable and shall specify the
prepayment date and the principal amount of each Borrowing or
portion thereof to be prepaid; provided that, if a notice of
prepayment is given in connection with a conditional notice of
termination of the Commitments as contemplated by
Section 2.05 , then such notice of prepayment may be
revoked if such notice of termination is revoked in accordance with
Section 2.05 . Promptly following receipt of any
such
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notice
relating to a Borrowing, the Administrative Agent shall advise the
Lenders of the contents thereof. Each partial prepayment of any
Borrowing shall be in an amount that would be permitted in the case
of an advance of a Borrowing of the same Type as provided in
Section 2.02 . Each prepayment of a Borrowing shall be
applied ratably to the Loans included in the prepaid Borrowing.
Prepayments shall be accompanied by accrued interest to the extent
required by Section 2.09 . All prepayments under this
Section 2.07(b) shall be subject to
Section 2.12 .
(c) On
the date that a Change of Control of the type described in clause
(a)(iii) of the definition of such term occurs and on the
date that is 15 days after the occurrence of any other type of
Change of Control, the Commitments shall terminate and the
Borrowers (i) jointly and severally, shall prepay the
principal amount of the Loans and all accrued and unpaid interest
thereon in immediately available funds and (ii) deposit in an
account with the Administrative Agent, in the name of the
Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Lenders, an amount in
cash equal to the LC Exposure as of such date plus any accrued and
unpaid interest thereon. Such deposit shall be held by the
Administrative Agent for the payment of LC Exposure. The
Administrative Agent shall have exclusive dominion and control,
including the exclusive right of withdrawal, over such account.
Such deposits shall be invested so as to earn interest at such rate
on overnight deposits as the Administrative Agent may reasonably
obtain, but such investments shall be made at the Borrowers’
risk and expense. Interest or profits, if any, on such investments
shall accumulate in such account. Moneys in such account shall be
applied by the Administrative Agent to reimburse the Issuing Bank
for LC Disbursements for which it has not been reimbursed and, to
the extent not so applied, shall be held for the satisfaction of
the joint and several reimbursement obligations of the Borrowers
for the LC Exposure at such time. Moneys in such account (to the
extent not applied as aforesaid) shall be returned to the
applicable Borrower within three Business Days after all LC
Exposure shall have been reduced to zero.
SECTION 2.08. Fees .
(a) The
Borrowers, jointly and severally, agree to pay to the
Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender a facility fee,
which shall accrue at the Facility Fee Rate on the daily amount of
the Commitment of such Lender (whether used or unused) during the
period from and including the Effective Date to but excluding the
date on which such Lender ceases to have any Revolving Credit
Exposure. Accrued facility fees shall be payable in arrears on the
last day of March, June, September and December of each year and on
the date on which the Commitments terminate, commencing on the
first such date to occur after the date hereof; provided
that any facility fees accruing after the date on which the
Commitments terminate shall be payable on demand. All facility fees
shall be computed on the basis of a year of 365 or 366 days,
as applicable, and shall be payable for the actual number of days
elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last day).
(b) The
Borrowers, jointly and severally, agree to pay (i) to the
Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender a participation
fee with respect to its participations in Letters of Credit, which
shall accrue at the same Applicable Margin used to determine the
interest rate applicable to Eurocurrency Loans on the average daily
amount of such Lender’s LC Exposure (excluding any portion
thereof attributable to unreimbursed LC
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Disbursements) during the period from and including the Effective
Date to but excluding the later of the date on which such
Lender’s Commitment terminates and the date on which such
Lender ceases to have any LC Exposure, and (ii) to the Issuing
Bank a fronting fee, which shall accrue at the rate of .125% per
annum on the average daily amount of the LC Exposure (excluding any
portion thereof attributable to unreimbursed LC Disbursements)
during the period from and including the Effective Date to but
excluding the later of the date of termination of the Commitments
and the date on which there ceases to be any LC Exposure (which
shall in any event be a minimum of $500.00 per annum for each
Letter of Credit), as well as the Issuing Bank’s standard
fees with respect to the issuance, amendment, renewal or extension
of any Letter of Credit or processing of drawings thereunder.
Participation fees and fronting fees accrued through and including
the last day of March, June, September and December of each year
shall be payable in Dollars on the third Business Day following
such last day, commencing on the first such date to occur after the
Effective Date; provided that all such fees shall be payable
on the date on which the Commitments terminate and any such fees
accruing after the date on which the Commitments terminate shall be
payable on demand. Any other fees payable to the Issuing Bank
pursuant to this paragraph shall be payable in Dollars within
10 days after demand. All participation fees and fronting fees
shall be computed on the basis of a year of 365 or 366 days,
as applicable, and shall be payable for the actual number of days
elapsed (including the first day but excluding the last day).
(c) The
Borrowers, jointly and severally, agree to pay to the
Administrative Agent, for its own account, fees payable in the
amounts and at the times separately agreed upon between WIL and the
Administrative Agent.
(d) All
fees payable hereunder shall be paid on the dates due, in
immediately available funds, to the Administrative Agent (or to the
Issuing Bank, in the case of fees payable to it) for distribution,
in the case of facility fees and participation fees, to the
Lenders. Fees paid shall not be refundable under any
circumstances.
SECTION 2.09. Interest .
(a) The
Loans comprising each ABR Borrowing shall bear interest at the
Alternate Base Rate.
(b) The
Loans comprising each Eurocurrency Borrowing shall bear interest at
the Adjusted LIBO Rate for the Interest Period in effect for such
Borrowing.
(c) Interest
on each Loan shall be paid in the Currency in which the principal
amount of such Loan is denominated.
(d) Notwithstanding
the foregoing, if any principal of or interest on any Loan or any
fee or other amount payable by the Borrowers hereunder is not paid
when due, whether at stated maturity, upon acceleration or
otherwise, such overdue amount shall bear interest, after as well
as before judgment, at a rate per annum equal to (i) in the
case of overdue principal of any Loan, 2% plus the rate otherwise
applicable to such Loan as provided in the preceding paragraphs of
this Section or (ii) in the case of any other amount, 2% plus
the rate applicable to ABR Borrowings as provided in paragraph
(a) of this Section.
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(e) Accrued
interest on each Loan shall be payable in arrears on each Interest
Payment Date for such Loan and upon termination of the Commitments;
provided that (i) interest accrued pursuant to
paragraph (d) of this Section shall be payable on demand,
(ii) in the event of any repayment or prepayment of any Loan
(other than a prepayment of an ABR Loan prior to the end of the
Availability Period), accrued interest on the principal amount
repaid or prepaid shall be payable on the date of such repayment or
prepayment and (iii) in the event of any conversion of any
Eurocurrency Loan prior to the end of the current Interest Period
therefor, accrued interest on such Loan shall be payable on the
effective date of such conversion.
(f) All
interest hereunder shall be computed on the basis of a year of
360 days, except that interest computed by reference to the
Alternate Base Rate at times when the Alternate Base Rate is based
on the Prime Rate shall be computed on the basis of a year of
365 days (or 366 days in a leap year), and in each case
shall be payable for the actual number of days elapsed (including
the first day but excluding the last day). The applicable Alternate
Base Rate, Adjusted LIBO Rate or LIBO Rate shall be determined by
the Administrative Agent, and such determination shall be presumed
correct absent manifest error.
SECTION 2.10. Alternate Rate of
Interest . If prior to the commencement of any Interest Period
for a Eurocurrency Borrowing denominated in any Currency:
(a) the
Administrative Agent determines (which determination shall be
presumed correct absent manifest error) that adequate and
reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining the Adjusted LIBO
Rate or the LIBO Rate, as applicable, for such Currency for such
Interest Period; or
(b) the
Administrative Agent is advised by the Required Lenders that the
Adjusted LIBO Rate or the LIBO Rate, as applicable, for such
Interest Period will not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to
such Lenders of making or maintaining their Loans included in such
Borrowing for such Interest Period;
then the
Administrative Agent shall give notice thereof to WIL and the
Lenders by telephone or telecopy as promptly as practicable
thereafter and, until the Administrative Agent notifies WIL and the
Lenders that the circumstances giving rise to such notice no longer
exist, (i) any Interest Election Request that requests the
conversion of any ABR Borrowing to, or continuation of any
Eurocurrency Borrowing as, a Eurocurrency Borrowing in such
Currency shall be ineffective, and, in the case of any request for
the continuation of a Eurocurrency Borrowing, such Eurocurrency
Borrowing shall on the last day of the Interest Period applicable
thereto be converted to (A) in the case of a Eurocurrency
Borrowing denominated in Dollars, an ABR Borrowing or (B) in
the case of a Eurocurrency Borrowing denominated in an Optional
Currency, an ABR Borrowing (denominated in Dollars) in an amount
equal to the Dollar Equivalent of the amount of such Eurocurrency
Borrowing, and (ii) if any Borrowing Request requests a
Eurocurrency Borrowing in such Currency, such Borrowing shall be
made as an ABR Borrowing in an amount equal to the Dollar
Equivalent of the amount of the requested Eurocurrency
Borrowing.
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SECTION 2.11. Increased Costs
.
(a) If any Change in Law shall:
(i) impose, modify or deem applicable
any reserve, special deposit or similar requirement against assets
of, deposits with or for the account of, or credit extended by, any
Lender (except any such reserve requirement reflected in the
Adjusted LIBO Rate) or the Issuing Bank; or
(ii) impose on any Lender or the
Issuing Bank or the London interbank market any other condition
affecting this Agreement or Eurocurrency Loans made by such Lender
or any Letter of Credit or participation therein;
and the
result of any of the foregoing shall be to increase the cost to
such Lender of making or maintaining any Eurocurrency Loan (or of
maintaining its obligation to make any such Loan) or to increase
the cost to such Lender or the Issuing Bank of participating in,
issuing or maintaining any Letter of Credit or to reduce the amount
of any sum received or receivable by such Lender or the Issuing
Bank hereunder (whether of principal, interest or otherwise), then
the Borrowers, jointly and severally, shall pay to such Lender or
the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, such additional amount or
amounts as shall compensate such Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the
case may be, for such additional costs incurred or reduction
suffered.
(b) If
any Lender or the Issuing Bank determines that any Change in Law
regarding capital requirements has or would have the effect of
reducing the rate of return on such Lender’s or the Issuing
Bank’s capital or on the capital of such Lender’s or
the Issuing Bank’s holding company, if any, as a consequence
of this Agreement or the Loans made by, or participations in
Letters of Credit held by, such Lender, or the Letters of Credit
issued by the Issuing Bank, to a level below that which such Lender
or the Issuing Bank or such Lender’s or the Issuing
Bank’s holding company could have achieved but for such
Change in Law (taking into consideration such Lender’s or the
Issuing Bank’s policies and the policies of such
Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s holding company with
respect to capital adequacy), then from time to time the Borrowers,
jointly and severally, shall pay to such Lender or the Issuing
Bank, as the case may be, such additional amount or amounts as
shall compensate such Lender or the Issuing Bank or such
Lender’s or the Issuing Bank’s holding company for any
such reduction suffered.
(c) A
certificate of a Lender or the Issuing Bank setting forth the
amount or amounts necessary to compensate such Lender or the
Issuing Bank or its holding company, as the case may be, as
specified in paragraph (a) or (b) of this Section,
along with (i) a calculation of such amount or amounts,
(ii) a description of the specific Change in Law that
justifies such amounts due, and (iii) such other pertinent
information related to the foregoing as any Borrower may reasonably
request, shall be delivered to such Borrower and shall be presumed
correct absent manifest error. The Borrowers, jointly and
severally, shall pay such Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the case
may be, the correct amount shown as due on any such certificate
within 10 days after receipt thereof.
(d)
Failure or delay on the part of any Lender or the Issuing Bank to
demand compensation pursuant to this Section shall not constitute a
waiver of such Lender’s or the
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Issuing
Bank’s right to demand such compensation; provided
that no Borrower shall be required to compensate a Lender or the
Issuing Bank pursuant to this Section for any increased costs or
reductions incurred more than 120 days prior to the date that
such Lender or the Issuing Bank, as the case may be, notifies the
Borrowers of the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs
or reductions and of such Lender’s or the Issuing
Bank’s intention to claim compensation therefor; provided
further that, if the Change in Law giving rise to such
increased costs or reductions is retroactive, then the 120-day
period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of
retroactive effect thereof.
SECTION 2.12. Break Funding
Payments . In the event of (a) the payment of any
principal of any Eurocurrency Loan other than on the last day of an
Interest Period applicable thereto (including as a result of an
Event of Default), (b) the conversion of any Eurocurrency Loan
other than on the last day of the Interest Period applicable
thereto, (c) the failure to borrow, convert, continue or
prepay any Eurocurrency Loan on the date specified in any notice
delivered pursuant hereto (regardless of whether such notice may be
revoked under Section 2.07(b) and is revoked in
accordance therewith), or (d) the assignment of any
Eurocurrency Loan other than on the last day of the Interest Period
applicable thereto as a result of an assignment required by WIL
pursuant to Section 4.03(b) , then, in any such event,
the Borrowers, jointly and severally, shall compensate each Lender
for the loss, cost and expense attributable to such event. In the
case of a Eurocurrency Loan, such loss, cost or expense to any
Lender shall be deemed to include an amount determined by such
Lender to be the excess, if any, of (i) the amount of interest
which would have accrued on the principal amount of such Loan had
such event not occurred, at the Adjusted LIBO Rate that would have
been applicable to such Loan, for the period from the date of such
event to the last day of the then current Interest Period therefor
(or, in the case of a failure to borrow, convert or continue, for
the period that would have been the Interest Period for such Loan),
over (ii) the amount of interest which would accrue on such
principal amount for such period at the interest rate which such
Lender would bid were it to bid, at the commencement of such
period, for deposits in the applicable currency of a comparable
amount and period from other banks in the eurocurrency market. A
certificate of any Lender setting forth any amount or amounts that
such Lender is entitled to receive pursuant to this Section shall
be delivered to the Borrowers and shall be presumed correct absent
manifest error, and shall set forth a calculation of such amounts
and such other information as any Borrower may reasonably request.
The Borrowers, jointly and severally, shall pay such Lender the
amount shown as due on any such certificate within 10 days
after receipt thereof.
SECTION 2.13. Agreement to Defer
Exercise of Right of Contribution, Etc. Notwithstanding any
payment or payments made by a Borrower (a “ Paying
Borrower ”) hereunder, or any setoff or application by
the Administrative Agent or any Lender of any security furnished
by, or of any credits or claims against, such Paying Borrower, if
an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, such Paying
Borrower will not assert or exercise any rights of the
Administrative Agent or any Lender or of its own, against any other
Borrower to recover the amount of any such payment, setoff or
application by the Administrative Agent or any Lender, whether by
way of assertion of any claim, or exercise of any remedy or right
of subrogation, reimbursement, exoneration, contribution,
indemnification, participation or otherwise, and whether arising by
contract, by statute, under common law or otherwise, and, if an
Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, such Paying
Borrower shall not have any right to exercise any right of recourse
to or any claim against assets or property of the other
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Borrowers for such amounts, in each case unless and until all of
the Obligations of the Borrowers have been fully and finally
satisfied. If any amount shall be paid to a Paying Borrower by any
other Borrower after payment in full of the Obligations, and the
Obligations shall thereafter be reinstated in whole or in part and
the Administrative Agent or any Lender forced to repay to any
Borrower any sums received in payment of the Obligations, the
obligations of each Borrower hereunder shall be automatically
pro tanto reinstated and such amount shall be held in trust
by the payee thereof for the benefit of the Administrative Agent
and the Lenders and shall forthwith be paid to the Administrative
Agent to be credited and applied to the Obligations, whether
matured or unmatured.
SECTION 2.14. Extension of
Maturity Date .
(a) Not
earlier than 90 days prior to, nor later than 30 days
prior to, each May 2 occurring hereafter, beginning with
May 2, 2011, and on not more than three occasions, WIL may,
upon notice to the Administrative Agent (which shall promptly
notify the Lenders), request a one-year extension of the Maturity
Date then in effect. Prior to the earlier of (i) 30 days
after delivery of such notice by the Administrative Agent to the
Lenders and (ii) three Business Days prior to the then
existing Maturity Date, each Lender shall notify the Administrative
Agent whether or not it consents to such extension (which consent
may be given or withheld in such Lender’s sole and absolute
discretion). Any Lender not responding within the above time period
shall be deemed not to have consented to such extension. The
Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the Borrowers and the
Lenders of the Lenders’ responses.
(b) The
Maturity Date shall be extended only if the Required Lenders
(calculated excluding any Lender in default in its obligation to
fund Loans hereunder and after giving effect to any replacements of
Non-Extending Lenders pursuant to Section 4.03(b) ) have
consented thereto, whereupon the Maturity Date shall be extended to
the date which is one year after the Maturity Date in effect prior
to such extension (such existing Maturity Date, the “
Extension Effective Date ”). The Administrative Agent
shall promptly notify the Lenders of such extension, specifying the
Extension Effective Date and the new Maturity Date. As a condition
precedent to such extension, each Obligor shall deliver to the
Administrative Agent a certificate of such Obligor dated as of the
Extension Effective Date (in sufficient copies for each Lender)
signed by a Responsible Officer of such Obligor (i) certifying
and attaching the resolutions adopted by such Obligor approving or
consenting to such extension and (ii) certifying that
(A) before and after giving effect to such extension, the
representations and warranties contained in Article VI
made by it are true and correct on and as of the Extension
Effective Date, except to the extent that such representations and
warranties specifically refer to an earlier date, (B) as of
the Extension Effective Date, both before and immediately after
giving effect to such extension no Default or Event of Default has
occurred and is continuing, and (C) as of the Extension
Effective Date, there has been no material adverse change, since
the date of the most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K furnished or
deemed furnished to the Administrative Agent and each Lender
pursuant to Section 7.01(b) , in the financial
condition, business or operations of WIL and its Subsidiaries taken
as a whole which could reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect.
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(c) Notwithstanding
any extension of the Maturity Date pursuant to this
Section 2.14 , each Non-Extending Lender that has not
been replaced by another Lender pursuant to Section 4.03
prior to the applicable Extension Effective Date shall continue to
be subject to the Maturity Date in effect prior to giving effect to
such extension (the “ Existing Maturity Date ”),
and references herein to the “Maturity Date”, as to
such Non-Extending Lender, shall be deemed to refer to the Existing
Maturity Date. On the Existing Maturity Date, the Borrowers shall
(i) prepay any Loans outstanding on such date (and pay any
additional amounts required pursuant to Section 2.12 )
to the extent necessary to keep outstanding Loans ratable with any
revised Applicable Percentages of the respective Lenders effective
as of such date and (ii) pay all other obligations accrued or
owing hereunder to each Non-Extending Lender as of the Existing
Maturity Date.
SECTION 2.15. Increase in
Commitments .
(a) Subject
to the terms and conditions set forth herein, WIL shall have the
right, without the consent of the Lenders but with the prior
approval of the Administrative Agent and the Issuing Bank (not to
be unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned), to cause from
time to time an increase in the aggregate Commitments (a “
Commitment Increase ”) by adding to this Agreement one
or more additional financial institutions that are not already
Lenders hereunder and that are reasonably satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent and the Issuing Bank (each a “ CI
Lender ”) or by allowing one or more existing Lenders to
increase their respective Commitments; provided that
(i) no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing
on the effective date of such Commitment Increase, (ii) no
such Commitment Increase shall be in an amount less than
$15,000,000, (iii) no such Commitment Increase shall cause the
aggregate Commitments to exceed $500,000,000, (iv) no
Lender’s Commitment shall be increased without such
Lender’s prior written consent (which consent may be given or
withheld in such Lender’s sole and absolute discretion) and
(v) if, on the effective date of such Commitment Increase, any
Loans have been funded, then the Borrowers shall be obligated to
pay any breakage fees or costs or other amounts owing hereunder in
connection with the breakage or reallocation of such outstanding
Loans.
(b) Any
Commitment Increase must be requested by written notice from WIL to
the Administrative Agent (a “ Notice of Commitment
Increase ”) in the form of Exhibit E attached
hereto and shall be subject to the approval of the Administrative
Agent and the Issuing Bank, such approval not to be unreasonably
withheld, delayed or conditioned. Each such Notice of Commitment
Increase shall specify (i) the proposed effective date of such
Commitment Increase, which date shall be no earlier than five
(5) Business Days after receipt by the Administrative Agent of
such Notice of Commitment Increase, (ii) the amount of the
requested Commitment Increase ( provided that after giving
effect to such requested Commitment Increase, the aggregate
Commitments do not exceed the amount set forth in subparagraph
(a)(iii) above), (iii) the identity of each CI Lender
or Lender that has agreed in writing to increase its Commitment
hereunder, and (iv) the amount of the respective Commitments
of the then existing Lenders and the CI Lenders from and after the
Commitment Increase Effective Date. The Administrative Agent and
the Issuing Bank shall review each Notice of Commitment Increase
and shall notify WIL whether or not the Administrative Agent and
the Issuing Bank approve the proposed Commitment Increase, such
approval not to be unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned.
If the Administrative Agent and the Issuing Bank approve such
Commitment
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Increase, the Administrative Agent and the Issuing Bank shall
execute a counterpart to the Notice of Commitment Increase and such
Commitment Increase shall be effective on the proposed effective
date set forth in such notice (if the Administrative Agent and the
Issuing Bank consented to such Commitment Increase prior to such
proposed date) or on another date as determined by WIL and agreed
to by the Administrative Agent and the Issuing Bank (such date
referred to herein as the “ Commitment Increase Effective
Date ”).
(c) On
each Commitment Increase Effective Date, to the extent that there
are Loans outstanding as of such date, (i) each CI Lender
shall, by wire transfer of immediately available funds, deliver to
the Administrative Agent such CI Lender’s New Funds Amount of
each applicable Currency, which amounts, for each such CI Lender,
shall constitute Loans made by such CI Lender to the Borrowers
pursuant to this Agreement on such Commitment Increase Effective
Date, (ii) the Administrative Agent shall, by wire transfer of
immediately available funds, pay to each Reducing Percentage Lender
its Reduction Amount of each applicable Currency, which amounts,
for each such Reducing Percentage Lender, shall constitute a
prepayment by the Borrowers pursuant to Section 2.07(a) ,
ratably in accordance with the respective principal amounts
thereof, of the principal amounts of all then outstanding Loans of
such Reducing Percentage Lender, and (iii) the Borrowers shall
pay to each Lender any breakage fees or costs or other amounts
owing hereunder in connection with the breakage or reallocation of
any outstanding Loans.
(d) For
purposes of this Section 2.15 and Exhibit E
, the following defined terms shall have the following meanings:
(i) “ New Funds Amount ” means, for any Lender
or CI Lender and for any Currency, the amount equal to the product
of such Lender’s increased Commitment or such CI
Lender’s Commitment (as applicable) represented as a
percentage of the aggregate Commitments after giving effect to the
Commitment Increase, times the aggregate principal amount of the
outstanding Loans denominated in such Currency immediately prior to
giving effect to the Commitment Increase, if any, as of a
Commitment Increase Effective Date (without regard to any increase
in the aggregate principal amount of Loans as a result of
borrowings made after giving effect to the Commitment Increase on
such Commitment Increase Effective Date); (ii) “ Reducing
Percentage Lender ” means each then existing Lender
immediately prior to giving effect to a Commitment Increase that
does not increase its respective Commitment as a result of such
Commitment Increase and whose relative percentage of the aggregate
Commitments shall be reduced after giving effect to such Commitment
Increase; and (iii) “ Reduction Amount ” means,
for any Reducing Percentage Lender and for any Currency, the amount
by which such Reducing Percentage Lender’s outstanding Loans
denominated in such Currency decrease as of a Commitment Increase
Effective Date (without regard to the effect of any borrowings made
on such Commitment Increase Effective Date after giving effect to
the appli
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