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