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FIFTH AMENDMENT TO FOURTH AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT

Loan Agreement

FIFTH AMENDMENT TO FOURTH AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT | Document Parties: CREDIT ACCEPTANCE CORP | BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. | BMO CAPITAL MARKETS FINANCING, INC | Comerica Bank | FIFTH THIRD BANK | NATIONAL CITY BANK | RBS CITIZENS, NA You are currently viewing:
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CREDIT ACCEPTANCE CORP | BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. | BMO CAPITAL MARKETS FINANCING, INC | Comerica Bank | FIFTH THIRD BANK | NATIONAL CITY BANK | RBS CITIZENS, NA

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Title: FIFTH AMENDMENT TO FOURTH AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT
Governing Law: Michigan     Date: 10/31/2008
Industry: Consumer Financial Services     Sector: Financial

FIFTH AMENDMENT TO FOURTH AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT, Parties: credit acceptance corp , bank of america  n.a. , bmo capital markets financing  inc , comerica bank , fifth third bank , national city bank , rbs citizens  na
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Exhibit 4(f)(117)

Execution Version

FIFTH AMENDMENT
TO
FOURTH AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT

     This Fifth Amendment to Fourth Amended and Restated Credit Agreement (“Fifth Amendment”) is made as of July 31, 2008 by and among Credit Acceptance Corporation, a Michigan corporation (“Company”), Comerica Bank and the other banks signatory hereto (individually, a “Bank” and collectively, the “Banks”) and Comerica Bank, as administrative agent for the Banks (in such capacity, “Agent”).

RECITALS

     A. Company, Agent and the Banks entered into that certain Fourth Amended and Restated Credit Acceptance Corporation Credit Agreement dated as of February 7, 2006 (as amended by First Amendment dated September 20, 2006, Second Amendment dated January 19, 2007, Third Amendment dated June 14, 2007, Fourth Amendment dated as of January 25, 2008, and as may be further amended or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”) under which the Banks renewed and extended (or committed to extend) credit to the Company, as set forth therein.

     B. The Company has requested that Agent and the Banks agree to certain amendments to the Credit Agreement and Agent and the Banks are willing to do so, but only on the terms and conditions set forth in this Fifth Amendment.

      NOW, THEREFORE , Company, Agent and the Banks agree:

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Section 1 of the Credit Agreement is hereby amended by adding or amending and restating (in their entirety), as the case may be, the following specified definitions, as follows:

 

 

 

 

 

“Domestic Reinsurance Subsidiary” shall mean VSC Re Company, a District of Columbia corporation.

 

 

 

 

 

“Future Debt” shall mean Debt evidenced by Long Term Notes; provided that the aggregate principal amount of all such Debt outstanding at any time from and after the date hereof shall not exceed Three Hundred Million Dollars ($300,000,000); and provided further that, at the time any such Debt is incurred, the Funding Conditions have been satisfied. For the purposes of this definition, “Long Term Notes” shall mean unsecured or secured non-revolving promissory notes to be issued by the Company, which Debt shall have a term extending at least beyond the Revolving Credit Maturity Date then in effect, have an amortization schedule not greater than level amortization to maturity (but with no principal payments required for a period of at least 12 months) and have no requirement for mandatory early repayment except (x) upon default, (y)

 


 

 

 

following a change in control or (z) following the sale of any material portion of the assets of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, to the extent of the proceeds of such sale.

 

 

 

 

 

“Permitted Securitization(s)” shall mean each transfer or encumbrance (each a “disposition”) of (I) specific Dealer Loan Pools (and any interest in and lien on the Installment Contracts, motor vehicles, and other rights and financial assets relating thereto) or specific Purchased Contracts (and any interest in and lien on motor vehicles and other rights and financial assets relating thereto), or (II) the trust certificate issued to evidence the residual interest in Dealer Loan Pools or Purchased Contracts and other financial assets transferred or encumbered pursuant to a prior Permitted Securitization, in each case by the Company or one or more of its Subsidiaries to one or more Special Purpose Subsidiaries or, in the case of a Securitization Transaction described in Clause (II) of this definition (a “Bridge Securitization”), from one Special Purpose Subsidiary to another Special Purpose Subsidiary, conducted in accordance with the following requirements:

(a) Each disposition in clause (I) shall identify with reasonable certainty the specific Dealer Loan Pools or Purchased Contracts, as applicable, covered by such disposition; and (x) such Dealer Loan Pools or Purchased Contracts shall have performance and other characteristics so that the quality of such Dealer Loan Pools or Purchased Contracts, as the case may be, is comparable to, but not materially better than, the overall quality of the Company’s Dealer Loan Pools or Purchased Contracts, as applicable, as determined in good faith by the Company in its reasonable discretion or (y) with respect to any such assets assigned to an uncapped Dealer Loan Pool subsequent to such Dealer Loan Pool becoming a Securitized Pool in conformity with the standards set forth in clause (x) of this subparagraph (a), the assets covered by such dispositions were assigned to such Dealer Loan Pool in the order such assets were originated and without the exercise of any discretion by the Company;

(b) Both before and after giving effect to such disposition (and taking into account any reduction in the Indebtedness with the proceeds of such disposition as required hereunder), the Company shall be in compliance with the Borrowing Base Limitation, and, in the case of any disposition to an uncapped Securitized Pool, none of the assets covered by such disposition were included, prior to such disposition, in the most recent Borrowing Base Certificate delivered to Agent under Section 7.3(d) or in an updated Borrowing Base Certificate delivered to Agent under Section 7.3(m) or otherwise at the discretion of the Company;

(c) Each such Securitization Transaction shall be structured on the basis of the issuance of Debt or other similar securities by one or more Special Purpose Subsidiaries which Debt or other securities shall be without recourse to Company and its other Subsidiaries, except to the extent of normal and customary representations and warranties given as of the date of each such disposition, and not as continuing representations and warranties, and otherwise on normal and customary terms and conditions for comparable asset based securitization transactions, which may include Cleanup Call provisions (it being understood that, for purposes of this subparagraph (c), the terms and conditions

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governing Securitization Transactions made by the Company prior to the date of this Agreement or, if later, the date of the most recent amendment to this Agreement entered into by the Company, Agent and the requisite Banks, shall be deemed to have been made on normal and customary terms and conditions for comparable Securitization Transactions);

(d) Concurrently with each such disposition (except for dispositions to an uncapped Securitized Pool whether or not pursuant to a revolving, expansion or relending feature included in a Prior Securitization (for purposes of this definition, a “Revolving Feature”), in each case to the extent that no disposition proceeds are available as a result of such dispositions for application hereunder), the net proceeds of such disposition (net of customary third party transaction fees and expenses and, if applicable, after applying the proceeds of such disposition to repay any Debt to which the related financial assets are subject and which is secured by a Lien on such financial assets, or otherwise as permitted by the Intercreditor Agreement):

shall be applied to reduce the principal balance outstanding under the Revolving Credit (to the extent then outstanding, and including the aggregate amount of drawings made under any Letter of Credit for which the Agent has not received full payment) by the amount of such net proceeds, subject to the right to reborrow in accordance with this Agreement;

provided, however, that to the extent that, on the date any reduction of the principal balance outstanding under the Revolving Credit shall be required under this clause (d), the Indebtedness under the Revolving Credit is being carried, in whole or in part, at the Eurodollar-based Rate and no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Company may, after prepaying that portion of the Indebtedness then carried at the Prime-based Rate, deposit the amount of such required principal reductions in a cash collateral account to be held by the Agent, for and on behalf of the Banks (which shall be an interest-bearing account), on such terms and conditions as are reasonably acceptable to Agent and the Majority Banks and, subject to the terms and conditions of such cash collateral account, sums on deposit therein shall be applied (until exhausted) to reduce the principal balance of the Revolving Credit on the last day of each Interest Period attributable to the applicable Eurodollar-based Advances of the Revolving Credit; and provided further that Agent and the Banks acknowledge that any proceeds of any such Debt incurred pursuant to a Permitted Securitization remaining after the application of such proceeds as required by this clause (d) may be held or invested in Permitted Investments or otherwise invested or applied in any manner not prohibited by this Agreement; and

(e) Both immediately before and after such disposition, no Default or Event of Default (whether or not related to such disposition) has occurred and is continuing.

In connection with each Permitted Securitization to be conducted hereunder, as applicable, the Company shall provide the following:

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(i) in the case of the proposed execution of the initial Securitization Documents for a new Securitization Transaction, to the Agent and the Banks (x) not less than five (5) Business Days prior to the date of consummation thereof (or such lesser period as approved by Agent), proposed drafts of the material Securitization Documents covering the applicable Securitization Transaction, including without limitation the proposed form of the release of financial assets, and any related exhibits or schedules, to be contributed thereto (“Form of Release”) and (y) within twenty (20) Business Days following the consummation thereof, executed copies of such Securitization Documents, including, if applicable, a summary of any material changes from the draft documents delivered to Agent and the Banks prior thereto;

(ii) for each disposition of financial assets (subject to clause (iii), below) after the Company’s delivery of Securitization Documents to the Agent in accordance with the immediately preceding clause (i) (including the first disposition under a new Securitization Transaction), to the Agent, not less than three (3) Business Days (the “Notice Period”) prior to the proposed transfer of such financial assets pursuant to the applicable Securitization Transaction (or such lesser period as approved by Agent), written notice that the Company intends to make a disposition of financial assets (identifying the applicable Securitization Transaction, and the approximate amount of financial assets to be transferred), accompanied by a certification:

     (x) that the applicable Securitization Transaction (and related dispositions) will constitute a Permitted Securitization hereunder,

     (y) that the applicable Securitization Documents remain in effect substantially in the form previously furnished to Agent (or identifying any material changes, and attaching any material amendment, supplement or other modification previously entered into in respect of such Prior Securitization), and

     (z) that, after giving effect to such disposition, it will be in compliance with the Borrowing Base Limitation and either (A) none of the assets covered by such disposition were included in the most recent quarterly Borrowing Base Certificate delivered to Agent under Section 7.3(d) hereof prior to such disposition or (B) a new Borrowing Base Certificate (and any supporting information reasonably required by Agent) dated as of the proposed date of the applicable disposition and, based on projected information, giving effect to such disposition and confirming compliance with the Borrowing Base Limitation, is attached to such certificate;

whereupon, unless Agent has notified Company that the requirements for a Permitted Securitization have not been satisfied with respect to such Securitization Transaction prior to the expiration of the Notice Period, the financial assets covered by such disposition which had been originated prior to the date of such release may be transferred by the Company pursuant to the applicable Permitted Securitization and the Company shall be authorized to

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execute and deliver and/or file, as the case may be, appropriate releases of such financial assets using the Form of Release previously furnished to Agent, and shall promptly deliver a copy of such release (and all exhibits and schedules thereto) to Agent;

(iii) Notwithstanding the provisions of the immediately preceding clause (ii) of this post-amble, in the case of a disposition of assets to an uncapped Securitized Pool previously transferred pursuant to a Prior Securitization, no prior notice from Company to Agent shall be required under such clause and, subject to the requirements set forth in clauses (a) through (e) of this definition, all such financial assets (whether originated before or after the date of the transfer of the uncapped Securitized Pool), shall be released and the Lien of the Security Agreement shall be deemed not to have attached to any such assets when the Company or any of its Subsidiaries subsequently acquires rights in, to or under such assets and such assets are transferred to an uncapped Securitized Pool. Furthermore, in the case of the transfer of financial assets from a Prior Securitization to a new Securitization Transaction or by one Special Purpose Subsidiary to another pursuant to a Bridge S


 
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