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Exhibit
10.2
$165,000,000
SECOND LIEN CREDIT
AGREEMENT
Dated as of June 14,
2007
among
GOLDEN NUGGET,
INC.,
as Borrower,
the Lenders referred to
herein,
WACHOVIA BANK, NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION,
as Administrative Agent and
Collateral Agent,
and
BANK OF AMERICA,
N.A.,
as Syndication
Agent,
WACHOVIA CAPITAL MARKETS,
LLC,
as Sole Lead Arranger and
Sole Bookrunner
Cahill Gordon &
Reindel LLP
80 Pine
Street
New York, New York
10005
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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| ARTICLE I |
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| DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING
TERMS |
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SECTION 1.01.
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Certain
Defined Terms |
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SECTION 1.02.
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Computation of Time Periods; Other Definitional
Provisions |
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SECTION 1.03.
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Accounting Terms |
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| ARTICLE II |
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| AMOUNTS AND TERMS OF THE
ADVANCES |
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SECTION 2.01.
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The
Advances |
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SECTION 2.02.
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Making
the Advances |
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SECTION 2.03.
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[Reserved] |
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SECTION 2.04.
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Repayment
of Advances |
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SECTION 2.05.
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[Reserved] |
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SECTION 2.06.
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Prepayments |
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SECTION 2.07.
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Interest |
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SECTION 2.08.
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Agents’ Fees |
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SECTION 2.09.
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Conversion of Advances |
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28 |
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SECTION 2.10.
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Increased
Costs, Etc. |
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28 |
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SECTION 2.11.
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Payments
and Computations |
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SECTION 2.12.
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Taxes |
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SECTION 2.13.
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Sharing
of Payments, Etc. |
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SECTION 2.14.
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Use of
Proceeds |
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35 |
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SECTION 2.15.
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Defaulting Lenders |
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SECTION 2.16.
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Evidence
of Debt |
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| ARTICLE III |
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| CONDITIONS OF LENDING |
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SECTION 3.01.
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Conditions Precedent to the Extension of Credit |
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SECTION 3.02.
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[Reserved] |
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SECTION 3.03.
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[Reserved] |
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SECTION 3.04.
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[Reserved] |
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| ARTICLE IV |
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| REPRESENTATIONS AND
WARRANTIES |
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SECTION 4.01.
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Representations and Warranties of the Loan Parties |
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SECTION 4.02.
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Survival
of Representations and Warranties, Etc. |
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| ARTICLE V |
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| COVENANTS OF THE LOAN
PARTIES |
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SECTION 5.01.
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Affirmative Covenants |
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SECTION 5.02.
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Negative
Covenants |
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SECTION 5.03.
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Reporting
Requirements |
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SECTION 5.04.
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Financial
Covenants |
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| ARTICLE VI |
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| EVENTS OF DEFAULT |
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SECTION 6.01.
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Events of
Default |
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SECTION 6.02.
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[Reserved] |
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SECTION 6.03.
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Borrower’s Right to Cure |
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SECTION 6.04.
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Parent
Capital Contribution. . |
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| ARTICLE VII |
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| THE AGENTS, ETC. |
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SECTION 7.01.
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Authorization and Action |
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SECTION 7.02.
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Agents’ Reliance, Etc. |
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SECTION 7.03.
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Wachovia
and Affiliates |
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SECTION 7.04.
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Lender
Credit Decision |
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SECTION 7.05.
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Indemnification |
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SECTION 7.06.
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Successor
Agents |
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SECTION 7.07.
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Administrative Agent May File Proofs of Claim |
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SECTION 7.08.
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Collateral and Guaranty Matters |
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SECTION 7.09.
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Other
Agents, Etc. |
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SECTION 7.10.
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Appointment of Supplemental Collateral Agents |
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| ARTICLE VIII |
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| MISCELLANEOUS |
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SECTION 8.01.
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Amendments, Etc. |
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SECTION 8.02.
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Notices,
Etc. |
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SECTION 8.03.
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No
Waiver; Remedies; Entire Agreement |
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SECTION 8.04.
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Costs and
Expenses |
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SECTION 8.05.
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Right of
Set-off |
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SECTION 8.06.
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Binding
Effect |
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SECTION 8.07.
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Successors and Assigns; Participations |
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SECTION 8.08.
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Execution
in Counterparts |
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SECTION 8.09.
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[Reserved] |
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SECTION 8.10.
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Confidentiality |
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SECTION 8.11.
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Release
of Collateral, Etc. |
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84 |
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SECTION 8.12.
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Patriot
Act Notice |
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SECTION 8.13.
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Gaming
Authorities |
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SECTION 8.14.
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[Intentionally Omitted]. |
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SECTION 8.15.
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No
Advisory or Fiduciary Responsibility |
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SECTION 8.16.
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Jurisdiction, Etc. |
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SECTION 8.17.
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GOVERNING
LAW |
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SECTION 8.18.
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WAIVER OF
JURY TRIAL |
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SCHEDULES
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Schedule I
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Commitments and Applicable Lending Offices |
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Schedule 3.01(a)(xvii)
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Mortgaged
Real Property |
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Schedule 4.01(b)
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Subsidiaries |
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Schedule 4.01(u)
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Surviving
Debt |
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Schedule 4.01(w)
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Liens |
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Schedule 4.01(y)
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Investments |
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Schedule 4.01(aa)
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Material
Contracts |
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Schedule 4.01(bb)
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Collective Bargaining Agreements |
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Schedule 4.01(dd)
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Pending
Litigation |
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Schedule 4.01(ll)
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Gaming
Matters |
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Schedule 5.01(u)
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Post-Closing Matters |
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Schedule 5.02(c)(i)
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Investments in Subsidiaries |
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Schedule 5.02(h)(B)
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Transactions with Affiliates |
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| EXHIBITS |
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Exhibit A
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Form of
Note |
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Exhibit B-1
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Form of
Notice of Borrowing |
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Exhibit B-2
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Form of
Notice of Prepayment |
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Exhibit C
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Form of
Assignment and Acceptance |
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Exhibit D
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Form of
Security Agreement |
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Exhibit E
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Form of
Guaranty |
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Exhibit F
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[Reserved] |
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Exhibit G
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[Reserved] |
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Exhibit H
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Form of
Mortgage |
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Exhibit I
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Form of
Compliance Certificate |
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Exhibit J
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Form of
Perfection Certificate |
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Exhibit K
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Form of
Intercreditor Agreement |
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SECOND LIEN CREDIT
AGREEMENT
SECOND LIEN CREDIT
AGREEMENT dated as of June 14, 2007 among GOLDEN
NUGGET, INC. , a Nevada corporation (the “
Borrower ”), each lender from time to time
party hereto (collectively, the “ Lenders
” and individually, a “ Lender ”),
WACHOVIA BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION (“
Wachovia ”), as Administrative Agent and
Collateral Agent, and BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. , as syndication
agent, and WACHOVIA CAPITAL MARKETS, LLC (“
WCM ”), as sole bookrunner and sole lead
arranger.
PRELIMINARY
STATEMENTS:
(1) The Borrower desires to
obtain from the Lenders (such capitalized term, and all other
capitalized terms used in these Preliminary Statements without
definition, to have the meanings specified in Section 1.01
below) financings (collectively, the “
Financings ”) in an aggregate principal amount
of $165,000,000, in a seven and a half year Second Lien Term
Facility, the proceeds of which, together with the proceeds of the
First Lien Term Loan Facility to be entered by the Borrower on the
Closing Date, will be used for (i) the payment of a one-time
dividend (the “ Dividend ”) to its parent
Landry’s Restaurants, Inc. (the “ Parent
”) or a designated Subsidiary of Parent (as defined herein)
and (ii) the refinancing (the “
Refinancing ” and, together with the Dividend,
the “ Transactions ”) in full on the
Closing Date of certain of the Existing Debt.
(2) The Lenders have
indicated their willingness to provide the Financings, but only on
and subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement,
including the granting of the Collateral pursuant to the Collateral
Documents and the making of the guarantees pursuant to the
Guaranties.
NOW, THEREFORE, in
consideration of the premises and of the mutual covenants and
agreements contained herein, the parties hereto hereby agree as
follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING
TERMS
SECTION 1.01. Certain
Defined Terms . As used in this Agreement, the following terms
shall have the following meanings (such meanings to be equally
applicable to both the singular and plural forms of the terms
defined):
“ Administrative
Agent ” means Wachovia, in its capacity as
Administrative Agent hereunder or any successor thereto appointed
pursuant to Section 7.06.
“ Administrative
Agent’s Account ” means the account of the
Administrative Agent maintained by the Administrative Agent at its
office at 301 South College Street, Charlotte, North Carolina,
28288, Attention: Agency Services, and designated by the
Administrative Agent to the Lenders as the “Administrative
Agent’s Account” or such other account for such purpose
as the Administrative Agent shall specify in writing to the
Lenders.
“ Administrative
Questionnaire ” means an Administrative Questionnaire
in a form supplied by the Administrative Agent.
“ Advance
” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.01(a).
“
Affiliate ” means, as to any Person, any other
Person that, directly or indirectly, controls, is controlled by or
is under common control with such Person or is a director or
executive officer of such Person. For purposes of this definition,
the term “control” (including the terms
“controlling”, “controlled by” and
“under common control with”) of a Person means the
possession, direct or indirect, of the power to vote 10% or more of
the Voting Interests of such Person or to direct or cause the
direction of the management and policies of such Person, whether
through the ownership of Voting Interests, by contract or
otherwise.
“ Agents
” means the Administrative Agent and the Collateral
Agent.
“
Agreement ” means this Second Lien Credit
Agreement, as amended.
“ Agreement
Value ” means, for each Hedge Agreement, on any date
of determination, an amount equal to all obligations thereunder
(including the amount of any termination payments that would
payable on such date if the Hedge Agreement were
terminated).
“ Applicable
Law ” means all applicable provisions of
constitutions, laws, statutes, ordinances, rules, treaties,
regulations, permits, licenses, approvals, interpretations and
orders of courts or Governmental Authorities and all orders and
decrees of all courts and arbitrators.
“ Applicable
Lending Office ” means, with respect to each Lender,
such Lender’s Domestic Lending Office in the case of a Base
Rate Advance and such Lender’s Eurodollar Lending Office in
the case of a Eurodollar Rate Advance.
“ Applicable
Margin ” means, in respect of the Term Facility,
(i) 2.00% per annum for Base Rate Advances and
(ii) 3.25% per annum for Eurodollar Rate
Advances.
“ Appropriate
Lender ” means, at any time, a Lender that has a
Commitment with respect to the Facility at such time.
“ Approved
Fund ” means any Fund that is administered or managed
by (a) a Lender, (b) an Affiliate of a Lender or
(c) an entity or an Affiliate of an entity that administers or
manages a Lender.
“
Arranger ” means WCM in its capacity as sole
lead arranger and sole bookrunner.
“ Asset
Disposition ” means the disposition of any or all of
the assets (including, without limitation, the Equity Interests of
a Subsidiary or any ownership interest in a joint venture) of any
Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof whether by sale, lease,
transfer or otherwise, in a single transaction, or in a series of
related transactions, excluding any Asset Disposition of the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries permitted pursuant to
Section 5.02(e)(i), (ii) and (iv). The term “Asset
Disposition” shall not include any Equity
Issuance.
“ Assignment and
Acceptance ” means an assignment and acceptance
entered into by a Lender and an Eligible Assignee, and accepted by
the Administrative Agent, in accordance with Section 8.07 and
in substantially the form of Exhibit C hereto or as
otherwise approved by the Administrative Agent.
“ Bankruptcy
Law ” means any proceeding of the type referred to in
Section 6.01(s) or Title 11, U.S. Code, or any similar
foreign, federal or state law for the relief of debtors.
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“ Base
Rate ” means a fluctuating interest rate per annum in
effect from time to time, which rate per annum shall at all times
be equal to the higher of:
(a) the rate of interest
established by Wachovia in Charlotte, North Carolina, from time to
time, as its prime rate for dollars loaned in the United States of
America; and
(b) 1 / 2 of 1% per annum above the Federal Funds
Rate.
The Base Rate is an index
rate and is not necessarily intended to be the lowest or best rate
of interest charged to other customers in connection with
extensions of credit or to other banks. Any change in the Base Rate
due to change in prime rate or Federal Funds Rate shall be
effective on the date of such change, as the case may
be.
“ Base Rate
Advance ” means an Advance that bears interest as
provided in Section 2.07(a)(i).
“
Borrower ” has the meaning specified in the
recital of parties to this Agreement.
“
Borrower’s Account ” means the account of
the Borrower maintained by the Borrower with the Administrative
Agent at its office at 301 South College Street, Charlotte, North
Carolina 28288, and designated between the Borrower and the
Administrative Agent as the “Borrower’s Account”,
or such other account for such purpose as the Borrower shall
specify in writing to the Administrative Agent.
“
Borrowing ” means a borrowing consisting of
simultaneous Advances of the same Type made by the Lenders or
conversion or rollover of outstanding Borrowings at the end of the
Interest Period.
“ Business
Day ” means a day of the year on which banks are not
required or authorized by law to close in New York, New York or
Charlotte, North Carolina and, if the applicable Business Day
relates to any Eurodollar Rate Advances, on which dealings are
carried on in the London interbank market.
“ Cap
Amount ” shall have the same meaning as “Cap
Amount” in the Intercreditor Agreement.
“ Capital
Expenditures ” means, with respect to any Person for
any period, any expenditure in respect of the purchase or other
acquisition of any fixed or capital asset (excluding normal
replacements and maintenance which are properly charged to current
operations) as determined in accordance with GAAP.
“ Capitalized
Leases ” means all leases that have been or should
be, in accordance with GAAP, recorded as capitalized
leases.
“ CERCLA
” means the Comprehensive Environmental Response,
Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, as amended from time to
time.
“ CERCLIS
” means the Comprehensive Environmental Response,
Compensation and Liability Information System maintained by the
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
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“ Certificate of
Occupancy ” means a temporary or permanent
certificate of occupancy, in either case, for the Hotel Project
issued by the appropriate Governmental Authority, pursuant to
Applicable Law which permanent or temporary certificate of
occupancy shall permit the Hotel Project to be used for its
respective intended purposes and shall be in full force and effect
and, in the case of a temporary certificate of occupancy, if such
temporary certificate of occupancy shall provide for an expiration
date, any items which must be completed in order for such temporary
certificate of occupancy to be renewed or extended shall be
completed no later than 15 days prior to the applicable expiration
date.
“ CFC
” means an entity that is a controlled foreign corporation
under Section 957 of the Internal Revenue Code.
“ Change of
Control ” means the occurrence of any of the
following: (a) any Person or two or more Persons acting in
concert other than any Permitted Holder shall have acquired
beneficial ownership (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 of the
Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934), directly or indirectly, of Voting Interests of the
Borrower (or other securities convertible into such Voting
Interests) representing 40% or more of the combined voting power of
all Voting Interests of the Borrower; or (b) during any period
of up to 24 consecutive months, commencing after the date of this
Agreement, individuals who at the beginning of such 24-month period
were directors of the Borrower shall cease for any reason to
constitute a majority of the board of directors of the Borrower;
(c) any Person or two or more Persons acting in concert other
than any Permitted Holder shall have acquired by contract or
otherwise, or shall have entered into a contract or arrangement
that, upon consummation, will result in its or their acquisition of
control over Voting Interests of the Borrower (or other securities
convertible into such Voting Interests) representing 40% or more of
the combined voting power of all Voting Interests of the Borrower;
or (d) prior to an initial public offering of the
Borrower’s Equity Interests Parent ceases to own 100% of the
Equity Interests of the Borrower, or following an initial public
offering of the Borrower’s Equity Interests Parent ceases to
own more than 50% of the Equity Interests of the
Borrower.
“ Closing
Date ” means the date of this Agreement or such later
Business Day upon which the conditions set forth in
Section 3.01 shall have been satisfied.
“
Collateral ” means all “Collateral”
referred to in the Collateral Documents and all “Mortgaged
Property” or “Trust Property” referred to in each
Mortgage and all other property that is subject to any Lien in
favor of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured
Parties.
“ Collateral
Account ” has the meaning specified in the Security
Agreement.
“ Collateral
Agent ” shall mean Wachovia in its capacity as
collateral agent hereunder.
“ Collateral
Documents ” means the Security Agreement, the
Intellectual Property Security Agreement, the Mortgages, the
Intercreditor Agreement each of the collateral documents,
instruments and agreements delivered pursuant to Sections 3.01,
5.01(l) or (m), and each other agreement that creates or purports
to create a Lien in favor of the Collateral Agent for the benefit
of the Secured Parties.
“
Commitment ” means, with respect to any Lender
at any time, the amount set forth opposite such Lender’s name
on Schedule I hereto under the caption
“Commitment” or, if such Lender has entered into one or
more Assignment and Acceptances, set forth for such Lender in the
Register maintained by the Administrative Agent pursuant to
Section 8.07(d) as such Lender’s
“Commitment”, as such amount may be reduced at or prior
to such time pursuant to Section 2.05.
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“
Completion ” shall have the same meaning as
“Completion” in the First Lien Credit
Agreement.
“ Completion
Certificate ” means a written certificate executed by
the architect, General Contractor and the Lenders’ Consultant
certifying that the applicable Project has been completed in all
material respects (subject to customary punch list items) in
accordance with its Project Plans together with a certificate
executed by a Responsible Officer to that effect.
“ Completion
Date ” shall have the same meaning as
“Completion Date” in the First Lien Credit
Agreement.
“ Compliance
Certificate ” means a certificate of a Financial
Officer substantially in the form of Exhibit I .
“ Confidential
Information ” means information that any Loan Party
furnishes to any Agent or any Lender in a writing designated as
confidential or is known by the Lenders to be material non-public
information, but does not include any such information that is or
becomes generally available to the public or that is or becomes
available to such Agent or such Lender from a source other than the
Loan Parties.
“
Consolidated ” means, when used with reference
to financial statements or financial statement items of any Person,
such statements or items on a consolidated basis in accordance with
applicable principles of consolidation under GAAP.
“ Consolidated
EBITDA ” means, for any period, the sum of (without
duplication) (a) Consolidated Net Income or Consolidated Net
Loss, as the case may be, for such period plus (b) the
sum of (i) Consolidated Interest Expense, (ii) income and
franchise taxes, (iii) depreciation expense,
(iv) amortization expense, (v) extraordinary losses,
(vi) one time costs related to the Refinancing, including
without limitation tender premiums, and (vii) non-cash items,
in each case, which were deducted in determining Consolidated Net
Income or Consolidated Net Loss, as the case may be, of the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries on a Consolidated basis for such
period minus (c) to the extent included in determining
Consolidated Net Income or Consolidated Net Loss, as the case may
be, of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries on a Consolidated basis
for such period, (i) non-cash gains, (ii) gains arising
from asset dispositions not in the ordinary course of business and
(iii) non-cash gains under Hedge Agreements. The historical
Consolidated EBITDA for the relevant measurement period of entities
(A) that are acquired by the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries after the Closing Date as permitted under the Loan
Documents will be included in the calculation of Consolidated
EBITDA for the entire period of determination on a pro forma basis
(determined in accordance with adjustments reasonably agreed by the
Administrative Agent based on demonstrated cost savings and
excluding extraordinary items) and (B) that are disposed of by
the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries after the Closing Date for
the entire period of determination following such disposition, in
each case, will be excluded in the calculation of Consolidated
EBITDA; provided that, in the case of entities that are
acquired by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries after the
Closing Date, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders are
furnished with audited financial statements, or if audited
financial statements are not available, other financial statements
reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the Required
Lenders, of such entities (or if the acquisition is of a division
or branch of a larger business or a group of businesses, the
audited financial statements, or if audited financial statements
are not available, other financial statements reasonably acceptable
to the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders, of such
larger business or group of businesses, so long as the individual
activities of the acquired entity are clearly reflected in such
financial statements, together with a certificate certifying that
the Borrower has reviewed the historical financial statements of
the division or branch and that they reflect proper divisional
accounting in relation to the large business or group of
businesses), reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent
and the Required Lenders in all respects, confirming such
historical results.
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“ Consolidated
Interest Expense ” means, with respect to the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries for any period, the gross interest
expense (including, without limitation, interest expense
attributable to Capital Leases and all net payment obligations
pursuant to Hedge Agreements and excluding non-cash amortization of
loan costs) of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, all determined
for such period on a Consolidated basis, without duplication, in
accordance with GAAP.
“ Consolidated
Net Income ” and “ Consolidated Net
Loss ” mean, with respect to the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries, for any period of determination, the net income (or
loss) of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for such period,
determined on a Consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP;
provided that there shall be excluded from Consolidated Net
Income (a) the net income (or loss) of any Person (other than
a Subsidiary which shall be subject to clause (c) below), in
which the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries has a joint interest
with a third party, except to the extent such net income is
actually paid in cash to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries by
dividend or other distribution during such period, (b) the net
income (or loss) of any Person accrued prior to the date it becomes
a Subsidiary of such Person or is merged into or consolidated with
such Person or any of its Subsidiaries or that Person’s
assets are acquired by such Person or any of its Subsidiaries
except to the extent included pursuant to the foregoing clause (a),
(c) the net income (if positive) of any Subsidiary to the
extent that the declaration or payment of dividends or similar
distributions by such Subsidiary to the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries of such net income (i) is not at the time
permitted by operation of the terms of its charter or any
agreement, instrument, judgment, decree, order, statute rule or
governmental regulation applicable to such Subsidiary or
(ii) would be subject to any taxes payable on such dividends
or distributions, and (d) cash and non-cash losses related to
The Fremont Street Experience Limited Liability Company in an
amount not to exceed $2,500,000 in the aggregate in any fiscal
year.
“ Construction
Contracts ” means any and all contracts, written or
oral, between the Borrower, any applicable Loan Party and any
contractor and any subcontractor and between any of the foregoing
and any other Person (including, without limitation, any architect
or engineer) relating in any way to the construction of the Hotel
Project, including the performing of labor or the furnishing of
standard or specially fabricated materials in connection therewith
or the preparation or furnishing of any drawings, renderings,
plans, design documents or other related items for the design,
architecture or construction of the Hotel Project.
“ Contingent
Obligation ” means, with respect to any Person, any
obligation or arrangement of such Person to guarantee or intended
to guarantee any Debt, leases, dividends or other payment
obligations (“ primary obligations ”) of
any other Person (the “ primary obligor
”) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, including,
without limitation, (a) the direct or indirect guarantee,
endorsement (other than for collection or deposit in the ordinary
course of business), co making, discounting with recourse or sale
with recourse by such Person of the obligation of a primary
obligor, (b) the obligation to make take-or-pay or similar
payments, if required, regardless of nonperformance by any other
party or parties to an agreement or (c) any obligation of such
Person, whether or not contingent, (i) to purchase any such
primary obligation or any property constituting direct or indirect
security therefor, (ii) to advance or supply funds
(A) for the purchase or payment of any such primary obligation
or (B) to maintain working capital or equity capital of the
primary obligor or otherwise to maintain the net worth or solvency
of the primary obligor, (iii) to purchase property, assets,
securities or services primarily for the purpose of assuring the
owner of any such primary obligation of the ability of the primary
obligor to make payment of such primary obligation or
(iv) otherwise to assure or hold harmless the holder of such
primary obligation against loss in respect thereof. The amount of
any Contingent Obligation shall be deemed to be an
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amount equal to the stated or
determinable amount of the primary obligation in respect of which
such Contingent Obligation is made (or, if less, the maximum amount
of such primary obligation for which such Person may be liable
pursuant to the terms of the instrument evidencing such Contingent
Obligation) or, if not stated or determinable, the maximum
reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof (assuming such
Person is required to perform thereunder), as determined by such
Person in good faith.
“
Conversion ”, “ Convert
” and “ Converted ” each refer to a
conversion of Advances of one Type into Advances of the other Type
pursuant to Section 2.09 or 2.10.
“ Cure
Amount ” has the meaning set forth in
Section 6.03.
“ Debt
” means, with respect to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries at
any date without duplication, the sum of the following calculated
in accordance with GAAP: (a) all liabilities, obligations and
indebtedness of such Person for borrowed money, (b) all
obligations of such Person for the deferred purchase price of
property or services (other than trade payables not overdue by more
than 90 days incurred in the ordinary course of such Person’s
business), (c) all indebtedness of such Person evidenced by
notes, bonds, debentures or other similar instruments, (d) all
obligations of such Person created or arising under any conditional
sale or other title retention agreement with respect to property
acquired by such Person (even though the rights and remedies of the
seller or lender under such agreement in the event of default are
limited to repossession or sale of such property), (e) all
obligations of such Person as lessee under Capitalized Leases,
(f) all obligations of such Person under acceptance, letters
of credit or other similar arrangements or credit support
facilities, (g) all obligations of such Person to purchase,
redeem, retire, defease or otherwise make any payment in respect of
any Equity Interests in such Person or any other Person or any
warrants, rights or options to acquire such Equity Interests,
valued, in the case of Redeemable Preferred Interests, at the
greater of its voluntary or involuntary liquidation preference
plus accrued and unpaid dividends, (h) all Contingent
Obligations (other than Contingent Obligations with respect to
underlying payment obligations for leases and other obligations
that are incurred in the ordinary course of business and are
otherwise not prohibited by the terms of this Agreement) and Off
Balance Sheet Obligations of such Person and (i) all
indebtedness and other payment obligations referred to in clauses
(a) through (h) above of another Person secured by (or
for which the holder of such Debt has an existing right, contingent
or otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien on property (including,
without limitation, accounts and contract rights) owned by such
Person, even though such Person has not assumed or become liable
for the payment of such Debt or other payment
obligations.
“ Debt for
Borrowed Money ” of any Person means, at any date of
determination, all items that, in accordance with GAAP, would be
classified as indebtedness for borrowed money on a Consolidated
balance sheet of such Person at such date but excluding any
intercompany debt between the Loan Parties.
“ Debt
Issuance ” shall mean the issuance of any Debt for
borrowed money by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries,
excluding any Equity Issuance, any issuance of Equity Interests of
the Borrower or Subsidiaries to Parent or any Loan Party, or any
Debt of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries permitted to be incurred
pursuant to Section 5.02(a).
“ Default
” means any Event of Default or any event that would
constitute an Event of Default but for the passage of time or the
requirement that notice be given or both.
“ Default
Interest ” has the meaning set forth in
Section 2.07(b).
“ Defaulting
Lender ” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.15.
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“ Discharge
Conditions ” shall have the same meaning as
“Discharge of First Lien Obligations” in the
Intercreditor Agreement.
“ Disqualified
Stock ” means any capital stock that, by its terms
(or by the terms of any security into which it is convertible, or
for which it is exchangeable, in each case at the option of the
holder thereof), or upon the happening of any event, matures or is
mandatorily redeemable, pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or
otherwise, or redeemable at the option of the holder thereof, in
whole or in part, on or prior to the date that is one year after
the Termination Date. Notwithstanding the preceding sentence, any
Equity Interests that would constitute Disqualified Stock solely
because the holders thereof have the right to require the Borrower
to repurchase such capital stock upon the occurrence of a change of
control or an asset sale shall not constitute Disqualified Stock if
the terms of such capital stock provide that the Borrower may not
repurchase or redeem any such capital stock pursuant to such
provisions unless such repurchase or redemption complies with
Section 5.02. The term “Disqualified Stock” shall
also include any options, warrants or other rights that are
convertible into Disqualified Stock or that are redeemable at the
option of the holder, or required to be redeemed, prior to the date
that is one year after the Termination Date.
“ Distribution
Amount ” means the sum of, without duplication,
(i) 50% of cumulative Consolidated Net Income of the Borrower
since the Closing Date or if such Consolidated Net Income is of a
deficit, 100% of such deficit, plus (ii) Parent
Qualified Contributions (excluding Parent Qualified Contributions
applied toward the Cure Amount and excludes Parent Qualified
Contributions used to consummate a Permitted Acquisition) after the
Closing Date to a Loan Party not otherwise prohibited by this
Agreement, minus (iii) the dollar amount of Restricted
Payments made pursuant to Section 5.02(f)(iv), plus
(iv) $10,000,000.
“
Dividend ” has the meaning specified in the
Preliminary Statements.
“ Domestic
Lending Office ” means, with respect to any Lender,
the office of such Lender specified as its “Domestic Lending
Office” opposite its name on Schedule I hereto or in
the Assignment and Acceptance pursuant to which it became a Lender,
as the case may be, or such other office of such Lender as such
Lender may from time to time specify to the Borrower and the
Administrative Agent.
“ Eligible
Assignee ” means (a) a Lender; (b) an
Affiliate of a Lender; (c) an Approved Fund; (d) a
commercial bank organized under the laws of the United States, or
any State thereof, and having total assets in excess of $5 billion;
(e) a finance company, insurance company or other financial
institution or fund (whether a corporation, partnership, trust or
other entity) that is engaged in making, purchasing or otherwise
investing in commercial loans in the ordinary course and having
total assets in excess of $100,000,000; and (f) any other
Person (other than a natural person) approved by (i) the
Administrative Agent and (ii) the Borrower (which approval not
to be unreasonably withheld or delayed); provided that the
Borrower shall not have any approval rights in connection with any
of the foregoing (x) if an Event of Default shall have
occurred and be continuing or (y) to the extent determined by
the Administrative Agent to be reasonably necessary to achieve a
successful initial syndication of the Commitments hereunder.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, “Eligible Assignee”
shall not include the Borrower or any of the Borrower’s
Subsidiaries or Affiliates or any Person found unsuitable under any
Gaming Laws.
“ Employee
Benefit Plan ” means any employee benefit plan within
the meaning of Section 3(3) of ERISA which (a) is
maintained for employees of any Credit Party or any ERISA Affiliate
or (b) has at any time within the preceding six (6) years
been maintained for the employees of any Credit Party or any
current or former ERISA Affiliate.
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“ Environmental
Action ” means any action, suit, demand, demand
letter, claim, notice of non compliance or violation, notice of
liability or potential liability, investigation, proceeding,
consent order or consent agreement relating in any way to any
Environmental Law, any Environmental Permit or Hazardous Material
or arising from alleged injury or threat to health, safety or the
environment, including, without limitation, (a) by any
governmental or regulatory authority for enforcement, cleanup,
removal, response, remedial or other actions or damages and
(b) by any governmental or regulatory authority or third party
for damages, contribution, indemnification, cost recovery,
compensation or injunctive relief.
“ Environmental
Law ” means any Federal, state, local or foreign
statute, law, ordinance, rule, regulation, code, order, writ,
judgment, injunction, decree or judicial or agency interpretation,
policy or guidance relating to pollution or protection of the
environment, health, safety or natural resources, including,
without limitation, those relating to the use, handling,
transportation, treatment, storage, disposal, release or discharge
of Hazardous Materials.
“ Environmental
Permit ” means any permit, approval, identification
number, license or other authorization required under any
Environmental Law.
“ Equity
Interests ” means, with respect to any Person, shares
of capital stock of (or other ownership or profit interests in)
such Person, warrants, options or other rights for the purchase or
other acquisition from such Person of shares of capital stock of
(or other ownership or profit interests in) such Person, securities
convertible into or exchangeable for shares of capital stock of (or
other ownership or profit interests in) such Person or warrants,
rights or options for the purchase or other acquisition from such
Person of such shares (or such other interests), and other
ownership or profit interests in such Person (including, without
limitation, partnership, member or trust interests therein),
whether voting or nonvoting, and whether or not such shares,
warrants, options, rights or other interests are authorized or
otherwise existing on any date of determination.
“ Equity
Issuance ” means any issuance by the Borrower or any
Subsidiary to any Person which is not the Parent or a Loan Party of
(a) shares of its Equity Interests, (b) any shares of its
Equity Interests pursuant to the exercise of options or warrants or
(c) any shares of its Equity Interests pursuant to the
conversion of any debt securities to equity. The term “Equity
Issuance” shall not include (i) any Asset Disposition or
(ii) any Debt Issuance.
“ ERISA
” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974,
as amended from time to time, and the regulations promulgated and
rulings issued thereunder.
“ ERISA
Affiliate ” means any Person that for purposes of
Title IV of ERISA is a member of the controlled group of any Loan
Party, or under common control with any Loan Party, within the
meaning of Section 414 of the Internal Revenue
Code.
“ ERISA
Event ” means (a) unless the applicable 30 day
notice requirement with respect to such event has been waived by
the PBGC, (i) the occurrence of a reportable event, within the
meaning of Section 4043 of ERISA, with respect to any Plan or
(ii) the requirements of Section 4043(b) of ERISA apply
with respect to a contributing sponsor, as defined in
Section 4001(a)(13) of ERISA, of a Plan, and an event
described in paragraph (9), (10), (11), (12) or (13) of
Section 4043(c) of ERISA is reasonably expected to occur with
respect to such Plan within the following 30 days; (b) the
application for a minimum funding waiver with respect to a Plan;
(c) the provision by the administrator of any Plan of a notice
of intent to terminate such Plan, pursuant to
Section 4041(a)(2) of ERISA (including any such notice with
respect to a plan amendment referred to in Section 4041(e) of
ERISA); (d) the cessation of operations at a facility of any
Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate in the circumstances described in
Section 4062(e) of
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ERISA; (e) the withdrawal by any
Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate from a Multiple Employer Plan
during a plan year for which it was a substantial employer, as
defined in Section 4001(a)(2) of ERISA; (f) the
conditions for imposition of a lien under Section 302(f) of
ERISA shall have been met with respect to any Plan; (g) the
adoption of an amendment to a Plan requiring the provision of
security to such Plan pursuant to Section 307 of ERISA; or
(h) the institution by the PBGC of proceedings to terminate a
Plan pursuant to Section 4042 of ERISA, or the occurrence of
any event or condition described in Section 4042 of ERISA that
constitutes grounds for the termination of, or the appointment of a
trustee to administer, such Plan.
“ Eurocurrency
Liabilities ” has the meaning specified in Regulation
D of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, as in
effect from time to time.
“ Eurodollar
Lending Office ” means, with respect to any Lender,
the office of such Lender specified as its “Eurodollar
Lending Office” opposite its name on Schedule I hereto
or in the Assignment and Acceptance pursuant to which it became a
Lender (or, if no such office is specified, its Domestic Lending
Office), or such other office of such Lender as such Lender may
from time to time specify to the Borrower and the Administrative
Agent.
“ Eurodollar
Rate ” means a rate per annum (rounded upwards, if
necessary, to the next higher 1/100th of 1%) determined by the
Administrative Agent pursuant to the following formula:
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“ Eurodollar Rate
Advance ” means an Advance that bears interest as
provided in Section 2.07(a)(ii).
“ Eurodollar
Reserve Percentage ” for any Interest Period for all
Eurodollar Rate Advances comprising part of the same Borrowing
means the reserve percentage applicable two Business Days before
the first day of such Interest Period under regulations issued from
time to time by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System (or any successor) for determining the maximum reserve
requirement (including, without limitation, any emergency,
supplemental or other marginal reserve requirement) for a member
bank of the Federal Reserve System in New York City with respect to
liabilities or assets consisting of or including Eurocurrency
Liabilities (or with respect to any other category of liabilities
that includes deposits by reference to which the interest rate on
Eurodollar Rate Advances is determined) having a term equal to such
Interest Period.
“ Events of
Default ” has the meaning specified in
Section 6.01.
“ Excess Cash
Flow ” means, for any period of determination, the
sum of the following determined on a Consolidated basis, without
duplication, in accordance with GAAP: (a) Consolidated EBITDA
of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for such period minus
(b) the sum of the cash amounts expended during such period
for (i) expenditures made in connection with any acquisition
permitted under Section 5.02(c)(iii) and to the extent not
funded by Debt or equity, (ii) Investments made under other
clauses of Section 5.02(c) to the extent not funded by Debt or
equity, (iii) Restricted Payments made under
Section 5.02(f), (iv) Capital Expenditures,
(v) Consolidated Interest Expense, (vi) taxes paid in
cash during such period with respect to income of the Borrower and
its Subsidiaries on a Consolidated basis, and (vii) regularly
scheduled and optional repayments or optional prepayments made with
respect to principal on outstanding Debt (other than revolving
Debt), as the case may be, of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries,
plus or minus , as the case may be, any changes in
working capital of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for such
period.
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“ Existing
Debt ” means Debt of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries outstanding immediately before the occurrence of the
Closing Date, as set forth on Schedule 4.01(v) .
“ Extraordinary
Receipt ” means any cash received by or paid to or
for the account of any Person not in the ordinary course of
business, including, without limitation, pension plan reversions,
proceeds of insurance (including, without limitation, any key man
life insurance but excluding proceeds of business interruption
insurance to the extent such proceeds constitute compensation for
lost earnings), condemnation and casualty awards (and payments in
lieu thereof), indemnity payments and any purchase price adjustment
received in connection with any purchase agreement, but in any
event excluding any tax refund; provided , however ,
that, so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing, an Extraordinary Receipt shall not include cash
receipts received from proceeds of insurance, condemnation awards
(or payments in lieu thereof) or indemnity payments to the extent
that such proceeds, awards or payments (a) do not exceed,
individually or in the aggregate, $5,000,000 or (b) in respect
of loss or damage to equipment, fixed assets or real property are
applied (or in respect of which expenditures were previously
incurred) to replace or repair the equipment, fixed assets or real
property in respect of which such proceeds were received in
accordance with the terms of the Loan Documents.
“
Facility ” means, at any time, the aggregate
amount of the Lenders’ Commitments at such time.
“ FDIC
” means the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, or any
successor thereto.
“ Federal Funds
Rate ” means, for any period, a fluctuating interest
rate per annum equal for each day during such period to the
weighted average of the rates on overnight Federal funds
transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by
Federal funds brokers, as published for such day (or, if such day
is not a Business Day, for the next preceding Business Day) by the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or, if such rate is not so
published for any day that is a Business Day, the average of the
quotations for such day for such transactions received by the
Administrative Agent from three Federal funds brokers of recognized
standing selected by it.
“ Fee
Letter ” means the fee letter dated April 30,
2007, between the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and WCM, as
amended from time to time in accordance with the terms
thereof.
“ Financial
Officer ” of any Person shall mean the chief
financial officer, principal accounting officer, treasurer or
controller of such Person.
“ Financial
Performance Covenants ” means the covenants of the
Borrower set forth in Sections 5.04(a) and (b).
“
Financings ” has the meaning specified in the
Preliminary Statements.
“ FIRREA
” means the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and
Enforcement Act of 1989, as amended.
“ First Lien
Administrative Agent ” means Wachovia as
Administrative Agent under the First Lien Credit Agreement, and any
successor administrative agent thereunder.
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“ First Lien
Credit Agreement ” means the First Lien Credit
Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, by and among the Borrower,
the lenders party thereto and the First Lien Administrative Agent,
as in effect on the date hereof.
“ First Lien Loan
Documents ” means Loan Documents as defined in the
First Lien Credit Agreement.
“ Fiscal
Year ” means a fiscal year of the Borrower and its
Consolidated Subsidiaries ending on December 31 in any
calendar year.
“ Force
Majeure ” means any cause beyond the reasonable
control of the Borrower and occurring without the Borrower’s
fault or negligence, including acts of God, unforeseen Government
restrictions (including the denial or cancellation of license),
wars or insurrections.
“ Foreign
Lender ” means any Lender that is organized under the
laws of a jurisdiction other than that in which the Borrower is
resident for tax purposes. For purposes of this definition, the
United States, each State thereof and the District of Columbia
shall be deemed to constitute a single jurisdiction.
“ Fund
” means any Person (other than an individual) that is or will
be engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in
commercial loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary
course.
“ Funded
Debt ” of any Person means Debt in respect of the
Loan Documents and the First Lien Loan Documents, in the case of
the Borrower, and all other Debt for Borrowed Money of such Person
that by its terms matures more than one year after the date of
determination or matures within one year from such date but is
renewable or extendible, at the option of such Person, to a date
more than one year after such date or arises under a revolving
credit or similar agreement that obligates the lender or lenders to
extend credit during a period of more than one year after such
date.
“ GAAP
” has the meaning specified in Section 1.03.
“ Gaming
Authority ” means any agency, authority, board,
bureau, commission, department, office or instrumentality of any
nature whatsoever of the federal government or any state, county,
city or other political subdivision, whether now or hereafter in
existence, or any officer or official thereof, but only to the
extent that such agency, authority, board, bureau, commission,
department, office or instrumentality possesses authority to
regulate any gaming operation owned, managed or operated, or
proposed to be owned, managed or operated, by the Borrower or any
of its Subsidiaries.
“ Gaming
Laws ” means all applicable federal, state and local
laws, rules and regulations pursuant to which Gaming Authorities
possess regulatory, licensing or permit authority over the
ownership or operation of gaming facilities.
“ Gaming
License ” means any finding of suitability,
registration, license, franchise or other approval or authorization
issued by or from any Gaming Authority under Gaming Laws that is
required to own, lease, operate or otherwise conduct or manage the
gaming activities of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries in any state
or jurisdiction in which any Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries
conduct business.
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“ General
Contractor ” means any Person who contracts for the
construction of any entire Project, rather than for a portion of
the work relating thereto and otherwise has the obligation to
retain and pay subcontractors and coordinates the work to be
performed.
“ Governmental
Authority ” means any nation or government, any
state, province, city, municipal entity or other political
subdivision thereof, and any governmental, executive, legislative,
judicial, administrative or regulatory agency, department,
authority, instrumentality, commission, board, bureau or similar
body, whether federal, state, provincial, territorial, local or
foreign.
“ Governmental
Authorization ” means any authorization, approval,
consent, franchise, license, covenant, order, ruling, permit,
certification, exemption, notice, declaration or similar right,
undertaking or other action of, to or by, or any filing,
qualification or registration with, any Governmental
Authority.
“ Governmental
Real Property Disclosure Requirements ” shall mean
any requirement of any Governmental Authority requiring
notification of the buyer, lessee, mortgagee, assignee or other
transferee of any Real Property, facility, establishment or
business, or notification, registration or filing to or with any
Governmental Authority, in connection with the sale, lease,
mortgage, assignment or other transfer (including any transfer of
control) of any Real Property, facility, establishment or business,
of the actual or threatened presence or release or discharge in or
into the Environment, or the use, disposal or handling of Hazardous
Materials on, at, under or near the Real Property, facility,
establishment or business to be sold, leased, mortgaged, assigned
or transferred.
“
Guaranties ” means, collectively, the Guaranty
made by the Guarantors in favor of the Administrative Agent on
behalf of the Lenders, substantially in the form of Exhibit
E , together with each guaranty and guaranty supplement
delivered pursuant to Section 5.01(l) or (m).
“
Guarantors ” means the Subsidiaries of the
Borrower.
“ Hazardous
Materials ” means (a) petroleum or petroleum
products, by-products or breakdown products, radioactive materials,
asbestos-containing materials, polychlorinated biphenyls and radon
gas and (b) any other chemicals, materials or substances
designated, classified or regulated as hazardous or toxic or as a
pollutant or contaminant under any Environmental Law.
“ Hedge
Agreements ” means interest rate, commodity or
currency swap, cap or collar agreements, future or option contracts
and other hedging agreements (including, without limitation, all
“swap agreements” as defined in 11 U.S.C. §
101).
“ Hedge
Bank ” means any Lender or Affiliate of a Lender in
its capacity as a party to a Secured Hedge Agreement and any
counterparty to such Secured Hedge Agreement that was a Lender or
Affiliate of a Lender at the time such Secured Hedge Agreement was
entered into.
“ Hotel
Project ” shall have the same meaning as “Hotel
Project” in the First Lien Credit Agreement.
“ Indemnified
Party ” has the meaning specified in
Section 8.04(b).
“ Information
Memorandum ” means the Confidential Information
Memorandum dated May 2007, used by the Arranger in connection with
the syndication of the Commitments.
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“
Insufficiency ” means, with respect to any
Plan, the amount, if any, by which its benefit liabilities, as
defined in Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA, determined using the
actuarial assumptions used for funding purposes in the most recent
actuarial report prepared for such Plan, exceeds the fair market
value of such Plan’s assets.
“ Insurance and
Condemnation Event ” means the receipt by the
Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries of any cash insurance proceeds
or condemnation award payable by reason of theft, loss, physical
destruction or damage, taking or similar event with respect to any
of their respective property or assets.
“ Intellectual
Property Security Agreement ” has the meaning
specified in Section 3.01(a)(iii).
“ Intercreditor
Agreement ” means the Intercreditor Agreement among
Borrower, Collateral Agent, and the Collateral Agent (as defined
under the First Lien Loan Documents) to be dated the Closing Date
in the form attached hereto as Exhibit K , as in effect on
the date hereof.
“ Interest
Period ” means, for each Eurodollar Rate Advance
comprising part of the same Borrowing, the period commencing on the
date of such Eurodollar Rate Advance or the date of the Conversion
of any Base Rate Advance into such Eurodollar Rate Advance, and
ending on the last day of the period selected by the Borrower
pursuant to the provisions below and, thereafter, each subsequent
period commencing on the last day of the immediately preceding
Interest Period and ending on the last day of the period selected
by the Borrower pursuant to the provisions below. The duration of
each such Interest Period shall be one, two, three or six months
(nine or twelve months if agreed to by all participating lenders),
as the Borrower may, upon notice received by the Administrative
Agent not later than 11:00 A.M. (New York City time) on the third
Business Day prior to the first day of such Interest Period,
select; provided , however , that:
(a) the Borrower may not
select any Interest Period with respect to any Eurodollar Rate
Advance under a Facility that ends after any principal repayment
installment date for such Facility unless, after giving effect to
such selection, the aggregate principal amount of Base Rate
Advances and of Eurodollar Rate Advances having Interest Periods
that end on or prior to such principal repayment installment date
for such Facility shall be at least equal to the aggregate
principal amount of Advances under such Facility due and payable on
or prior to such date;
(b) Interest Periods
commencing on the same date for Eurodollar Rate Advances comprising
part of the same Borrowing shall be of the same
duration;
(c) whenever the last day of
any Interest Period would otherwise occur on a day other than a
Business Day, the last day of such Interest Period shall be
extended to occur on the next succeeding Business Day,
provided , however , that, if such extension would
cause the last day of such Interest Period to occur in the next
following calendar month, the last day of such Interest Period
shall occur on the next preceding Business Day; and
(d) whenever the first day of
any Interest Period occurs on a day of an initial calendar month
for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar
month that succeeds such initial calendar month by the number of
months equal to the number of months in such Interest Period, such
Interest Period shall end on the last Business Day of such
succeeding calendar month.
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“ Internal
Revenue Code ” means the Internal Revenue Code of
1986, as amended from time to time, and the regulations promulgated
and rulings issued thereunder.
“
Investment ” in any Person means any loan or
advance to such Person, any purchase or other acquisition of any
Equity Interests or Debt or the assets comprising a division or
business unit or a substantial part or all of the business of such
Person, any capital contribution to such Person or any other direct
or indirect investment in such Person, including, without
limitation, any acquisition by way of a merger or consolidation (or
similar transaction) and any arrangement pursuant to which the
investor incurs Debt of the types referred to in clause (h) or
(i) of the definition of “Debt” in respect of such
Person.
“ Lenders
” means each Person executing this Agreement as a Lender
(including, without limitation, the Issuing Lender and the
Swingline Lender unless the context otherwise requires) set forth
on the signature pages hereto and each Person that shall become a
Lender hereunder pursuant to Section 8.07
hereunder.
“ Lender’s
Consultant ” shall have the same meaning as
“Lender’s Consultant” in the First Lien Credit
Agreement.
“ Leverage
Ratio ” means, at any date of determination, the
ratio of (a) total Debt for Borrowed Money of the Borrower and
its Subsidiaries as of such date to (b) Consolidated EBITDA of
the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for the period of the four
consecutive fiscal quarters of the Borrower then most recently
ended; provided that for purposes of determining the
Leverage Ratio at any date, such Debt for Borrowed Money shall
include, with respect to any entities acquired by the Borrower or
any of its Subsidiaries after the Closing Date as permitted under
the Loan Documents, the Debt for Borrowed Money of such entities as
of the date of determination.
“ LIBOR
” means the rate of interest per annum determined on the
basis of the rate for deposits in Dollars in minimum amounts of at
least $1,000,000 for a period equal to the applicable Interest
Period which appears on the Reuters Screen LIBOR01 Page at
approximately 11:00 a.m. (London time) two (2) Business Days
prior to the first day of the applicable Interest Period (rounded
upward, if necessary, to the nearest 1/100th of 1%). If, for any
reason, such rate does not appear on Reuters Screen LIBOR01 Page,
then “LIBOR” shall be determined by the Administrative
Agent to be the arithmetic average of the rate per annum at which
deposits in Dollars in minimum amounts of at least $1,000,000 would
be offered by first class banks in the London interbank market to
the Administrative Agent at approximately 11:00 a.m. (London time)
two (2) Business Days prior to the first day of the applicable
Interest Period for a period equal to such Interest Period. Each
calculation by the Administrative Agent of LIBOR shall be
conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest
error.
“ Lien
” means any lien, mortgage, deed of trust, security interest
or other charge or encumbrance of any kind, or any other type of
preferential arrangement, including, without limitation, the lien
or retained security title of a conditional vendor and any
easement, right of way or other encumbrance on title to real
property.
“ Loan
Documents ” means (a) this Agreement,
(b) the Notes, (c) the Collateral Documents, (d) the
Guaranties, (e) the Fee Letter, and (f) any certificate,
letter or other document executed in connection herewith or
therewith or pursuant hereto or thereto, excluding, in each case,
any Secured Hedge Agreement.
“ Loan
Parties ” means the Borrower and the
Guarantors.
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“ Margin
Stock ” has the meaning specified in Regulation
U.
“ Material
Adverse Effect ” means a material adverse effect on
(a) the business, operations, condition, assets or liabilities
of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole,
(b) the ability of any Loan Party to any Loan Documents or any
document related thereto to perform its obligations thereunder or
(c) the validity or enforceability of any Loan Documents or
the rights and remedies of the Lenders.
“ Material
Contract ” means, with respect to any Person, each
contract to which such Person is a party involving aggregate
consideration payable to or by such Person of $5,000,000 or more in
any year or otherwise material to the business, condition
(financial or otherwise), operations, performance or properties of
such Person.
“
Moody’s ” means Moody’s Investors
Service, Inc.
“ Mortgaged
Property ” shall mean each Real Property, if any,
which shall be subject to a Mortgage delivered on or after the
Closing Date pursuant to Section 5.01(l).
“
Mortgages ” has the meaning specified in
Section 3.01(a)(xv).
“ Multiemployer
Plan ” means a multiemployer plan, as defined in
Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA, to which any Loan Party or any
ERISA Affiliate is making or accruing an obligation to make
contributions, or has within any of the preceding five plan years
made or accrued an obligation to make contributions.
“ Multiple
Employer Plan ” means a single employer plan, as
defined in Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA, that (a) is
maintained for employees of any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate
and at least one Person other than the Loan Parties and the ERISA
Affiliates or (b) was so maintained and in respect of which
any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate could have liability under
Section 4064 or 4069 of ERISA in the event such plan has been
or were to be terminated.
“ Net Cash
Proceeds ” means, with respect to (a) any sale,
lease, transfer or other disposition of any asset, (b) the
incurrence or issuance of any Debt, (c) the sale or issuance
of any Equity Interests (including, without limitation, any capital
contribution) by any Person, or (d) any Extraordinary Receipt
received by or paid to or for the account of any Person, the
aggregate amount of cash received from time to time (whether as
initial consideration or through payment or disposition of deferred
consideration) by or on behalf of such Person in connection with
such transaction after deducting therefrom only (without
duplication) (i) reasonable and customary brokerage
commissions, underwriting fees and discounts, legal fees,
finder’s fees and other similar fees, commissions, costs and
expenses directly relating to such transaction, (ii) the
amount of taxes payable in connection with or as a result of such
transaction and (iii) the amount of any Debt secured by a Lien
on such asset that, by the terms of the agreement or instrument
governing such Debt, is required to be repaid upon such
disposition, in each case to the extent, but only to the extent,
that the amounts so deducted are, at the time of receipt of such
cash, actually paid to a Person that is not an Affiliate of such
Person or any Loan Party or any Affiliate of any Loan Party and are
properly attributable to such transaction or to the asset that is
the subject thereof; provided , however , that in the
case of taxes that are deductible under clause (ii) above but
for the fact that, at the time of receipt of such cash, such taxes
have not been actually paid or are not then payable, such Loan
Party or such Subsidiary may deduct an amount (the “
Reserved Amount ”) equal to the amount reserved
in accordance with GAAP for such Loan Party’s or such
Subsidiary’s reasonable estimate of such taxes, other than
taxes for which such Loan Party or such Subsidiary is indemnified,
provided further , however , that,
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at the time such taxes are paid, an
amount equal to the amount, if any, by which the Reserved Amount
for such taxes exceeds the amount of such taxes actually paid shall
constitute “Net Cash Proceeds” of the type for which
such taxes were reserved for all purposes hereunder; provided
further that, so long as no Event of Default has occurred and
is continuing, Net Cash Proceeds shall not include any cash
receipts from any transaction described in clause (a) above to
the extent the proceeds of such cash receipts (individually or in
the aggregate) shall not exceed $1,000,000.
“ Non-Consenting
Lender ” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.10(f).
“ Note
” means a promissory note of the Borrower payable to the
order of any Lender, in substantially the form of Exhibit A
hereto, evidencing the Debt of the Borrower to such Lender
resulting from the Advance made by such Lender, as amended,
endorsed or replaced.
“ Notice of
Borrowing ” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.02(a).
“ Notice of
Issuance ” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.03(a).
“ Notice of
Prepayment ” has the meaning assigned thereto in
Section 2.06(a).
“ NPL
” means the National Priorities List under CERCLA.
“
Obligation ” means, with respect to any Loan
Party under any and all of the Loan Documents, (a) the
obligation to pay principal, interest, reimbursement amounts,
charges, expenses, fees, attorneys’ fees and disbursements,
indemnities and other amounts payable by such Loan Party under any
Loan Document and (b) the obligation of such Loan Party to
reimburse any amount in respect of any of the foregoing that any
Lender, in its sole discretion, may elect to pay or advance on
behalf of such Loan Party.
“ Off Balance
Sheet Obligation ” means, with respect to any Person,
any obligation of such Person under a synthetic lease, tax
retention operating lease, off-balance sheet loan or similar
off-balance sheet financing classified as an operating lease in
accordance with GAAP, if such obligations would give rise to a
claim against such Person in a proceeding referred to in
Section 6.01(f).
“ Other
Taxes ” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.12(b).
“ Parent
” has the meaning specified in the Preliminary
Statements.
“ Parent
Qualified Contributions ” means the amount of Net
Cash Proceeds actually received by the Borrower or any Guarantor
from the issuance of any Equity Interests (excluding Disqualified
Stock), and any capital contribution from Parent in respect
thereof.
“ Patriot
Act ” means the Uniting and Strengthening America by
Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct
Terrorism Act of 2001, Pub. L. 107-56, signed into law
October 26, 2001.
“ PBGC
” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (or any
successor).
“ Perfection
Certificate ” means a perfection certificate,
executed by the Loan Parties substantially in the form of
Exhibit J .
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“ Permitted
Acquisition ” means any investment by the Borrower or
any Subsidiary in the form of acquisitions of all or substantially
all of the business or a line of business (whether by the
acquisition of capital stock, assets or any combination thereof) of
any other Person if each such acquisition meets all of the
following requirements:
(a) no less than ten
(10) Business Days prior to the proposed closing date of such
acquisition, the Borrower shall have delivered written notice of
such acquisition to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, which
notice shall include the proposed closing date of such
acquisition;
(b) such acquisition shall
not be hostile;
(c) the Person or business to
be acquired shall be in a substantially similar line of business as
the Borrower and its Subsidiaries pursuant to
Section 5.02(1);
(d) if such transaction is a
merger or consolidation, the Borrower or a Subsidiary shall be the
surviving Person and no Change of Control shall have been effected
thereby;
(e) the Borrower shall have
delivered to the Administrative Agent such documents reasonably
requested by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders
(through the Administrative Agent) pursuant to Section 5.01(l)
to be delivered at the time required pursuant to
Section 5.01(1);
(f) no later than five
(5) Business Days prior to the proposed closing date of such
acquisition, the Borrower shall have delivered to the
Administrative Agent and the Lenders a Compliance Certificate for
the most recent fiscal quarter end preceding such acquisition
demonstrating, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory
thereto, pro forma compliance (as of the date of the acquisition
and after giving effect thereto and any Extensions of Credit made
or to be made in connection therewith) with each covenant contained
in Section 5.04;
(g) no later than five
(5) Business Days prior to the proposed closing date of such
acquisition the Borrower, to the extent requested by the
Administrative Agent, shall have delivered to the Administrative
Agent promptly upon the finalization thereof copies of
substantially final Permitted Acquisition Documents;
(h) no Event of Default shall
have occurred and be continuing both before and after giving effect
to such acquisition;
(i) the Borrower shall have
obtained the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent and
the Required Lenders prior to the consummation of such acquisition
if (A) the Permitted Acquisition Consideration for any such
acquisition (or series of related acquisitions), together with all
other acquisitions consummated during the previous twelve
(12) month period, and (B) the Permitted Acquisition
Consideration for all acquisitions (or series of related
acquisitions), together with all other acquisitions consummated
during the term of this Agreement exceeds $100,000,000 in the
aggregate; and
(j) the Borrower shall
provide such other documents and other information available to it
as may be reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent or the
Required Lenders (through the Administrative Agent) in connection
with the consummation of the acquisition no later than ten
(10) days prior to the acquisition.
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“ Permitted
Acquisition Consideration ” means the aggregate
amount of the purchase price (including, but not limited to, any
assumed debt, earn-outs (valued at the maximum amount payable
thereunder), deferred payments, or Equity Interests of the
Borrower, net of the applicable acquired company’s cash
(including investments of the type described in
Section 5.02(c)(vi)) balance as shown on its most recent
financial statements delivered in connection with the applicable
Permitted Acquisition) to be paid on a singular basis in connection
with any applicable Permitted Acquisition as set forth in the
applicable Permitted Acquisition Documents executed by the Borrower
or any of its Subsidiaries in order to consummate the applicable
Permitted Acquisition.
“ Permitted
Acquisition Documents ” means, with respect to any
acquisition proposed by the Borrower or any Subsidiary, final
copies or substantially final drafts if not executed at the
required time of delivery of the purchase agreement, sale
agreement, merger agreement or other agreement evidencing such
acquisition, including, without limitation, all legal opinions and
each other document executed, delivered, contemplated by or
prepared in connection therewith and any amendment, modification or
supplement to any of the foregoing.
“ Permitted
Holder ” means Tilman J. Fertitta and his estate,
spouse and lineal descendants, and the legal representatives of any
of the foregoing, and the trustees of any bona fide trusts of which
any of the foregoing are the sole beneficiaries and grantors, or
any corporation, limited partnership, limited liability company or
similar entity, all of the Voting Interests of which are owned by
any of the foregoing.
“ Permitted
Liens ” means the Liens permitted pursuant to
Section 5.02(b).
“ Person
” means an individual, partnership, corporation (including a
business trust), limited liability company, joint stock company,
trust, unincorporated association, joint venture or other entity,
or a government or any political subdivision or agency
thereof.
“ Plan
” means a Single Employer Plan or a Multiple Employer
Plan.
“ Pledged
Debt ” has the meaning specified in the Security
Agreement.
“ Pledged
Equity ” has the meaning specified in the Security
Agreement.
“ Preferred
Interests ” means, with respect to any Person, Equity
Interests issued by such Person that are entitled to a preference
or priority over any other Equity Interests issued by such Person
upon any distribution of such Person’s property and assets,
whether by dividend or upon liquidation.
“ Project
” shall have the same meaning as “Project” in the
First Lien Credit Agreement.
“ Project
Budgets ” shall have the same meaning as
“Project Budgets” in the First Lien Credit
Agreement.
“ Project
Construction Schedules ” shall have the same meaning
as “Project Construction Schedules” in the First Lien
Credit Agreement.
“ Project
Cost ” shall have the same meaning as “Project
Cost” in the First Lien Credit Agreement.
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“ Project
Plans ” shall have the same meaning as “Project
Plans” in the First Lien Credit Agreement.
“ Real
Property ” shall mean, collectively, all right, title
and interest (including any leasehold, mineral or other estate) in
and to any and all parcels of or interests in real property owned,
leased or operated by any Person, whether by lease, license or
other means, together with, in each case, all easements,
hereditaments and appurtenances relating thereto, all improvements
and appurtenant fixtures and equipment, all general intangibles and
contract rights and other property and rights incidental to the
ownership, lease or operation thereof.
“
Redeemable ” means, with respect to any Equity
Interest, any Debt or any other right or obligation, any such
Equity Interest, Debt, right or obligation that (a) the issuer
has undertaken to redeem at a fixed or determinable date or dates,
whether by operation of a sinking fund or otherwise, or upon the
occurrence of a condition not solely within the control of the
issuer or (b) is redeemable at the option of the
holder.
“
Refinancing ” has the meaning specified in the
Preliminary Statements.
“
Register ” has the meaning specified in
Section 8.07(c).
“ Regulation
U ” means Regulation U of the Board of Governors of
the Federal Reserve System, as in effect from time to
time.
“ Related
Parties ” means, with respect to any Person, such
Person’s Affiliates and the directors, officers, employees,
agents and advisors of such Person and of such Person’s
Affiliates.
“ Required
Lenders ” means, at any time, Lenders owed or holding
at least a majority in interest of the aggregate principal amount
of the Advances outstanding at such time; provided ,
however , that if any Lender making Advances shall be a
Defaulting Lender at such time, there shall be excluded from the
determination of Required Lenders at such time the aggregate
principal amount of the Advances owing to such Lender (in its
capacity as a Lender) and outstanding at such time.
“ Responsible
Officer ” means the chief executive officer,
president, chief financial officer, chief administrative officer,
treasurer or assistant treasurer of a Loan Party. Any document
delivered hereunder that is signed by a Responsible Officer of a
Loan Party shall be conclusively presumed to have been authorized
by all necessary corporate, partnership and/or other action on the
part of such Loan Party and such Responsible Officer shall be
conclusively presumed to have acted on behalf of such Loan
Party.
“ Restricted
Payment ” has the meaning specified in
Section 5.02(f).
“ S&P
” means Standard & Poor’s, a division of The
McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
“
Sale-and-Leaseback Transaction ” has the
meaning specified in Section 5.02(r).
“ Secured Hedge
Agreement ” means any Hedge Agreement permitted by
Article V that is entered into by and between any Loan Party and
any Hedge Bank and that is secured by the Collateral
Documents.
“ Secured
Obligations ” means, collectively, the “Secured
Obligations” defined in Section 2 of the Security
Agreement.
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“ Secured
Parties ” means the Agents, the Lenders, the
Indemnified Parties and the Hedge Banks.
“ Securities
Act ” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended,
and the rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
“ Security
Agreement ” has the meaning specified in
Section 3.01(a)(ii).
“ Single Employer
Plan ” means a single employer plan, as defined in
Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA, that (a) is maintained for
employees of any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate and no Person
other than the Loan Parties and the ERISA Affiliates or
(b) was so maintained and in respect of which any Loan Party
or any ERISA Affiliate could have liability under Section 4069
of ERISA in the event such plan has been or were to be
terminated.
“ Solvent
” and “ Solvency ” mean, with
respect to any Person on a particular date, that on such date
(a) the fair value of the property of such Person is greater
than the total amount of liabilities, including, without
limitation, contingent liabilities, of such Person, (b) the
present fair saleable value of the assets of such Person is not
less than the amount that will be required to pay the probable
liability of such Person on its debts as they become absolute and
matured, (c) such Person does not intend to, and does not
believe that it will, incur debts or liabilities beyond such
Person’s ability to pay such debts and liabilities as they
mature and (d) such Person is not engaged in business or a
transaction, and is not about to engage in business or a
transaction, for which such Person’s property would
constitute an unreasonably small capital. The amount of contingent
liabilities at any time shall be computed as the amount that, in
the light of all the facts and circumstances existing at such time,
represents the amount that can reasonably be expected to become an
actual or matured liability.
“ Subordinated
Debt ” means the collective reference to any Debt of
the Borrower or any Subsidiary subordinated in right and time of
payment to the Obligations and containing such other terms and
conditions, in each case as are reasonably satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent.
“
Subsidiary ” of any Person means any
corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited liability company,
trust or estate of which (or in which) more than 50% of
(a) the issued and outstanding capital stock (or membership
interests) having ordinary voting power to elect a majority of the
Board of Directors (or equivalent governing body) of such Person
(irrespective of whether at the time capital stock of any other
class or classes of such Person shall or might have voting power
upon the occurrence of any contingency), (b) the interest in
the capital or profits of such partnership, joint venture or
limited liability company or (c) the beneficial interest in
such trust or estate is at the time directly or indirectly owned or
controlled by such Person, by such Person and one or more of its
other Subsidiaries or by one or more of such Person’s other
Subsidiaries. For the avoidance of doubt, The Freemont Street
Experience Limited Liability Company is not a Subsidiary of any
Loan Party.
“ Supplemental
Collateral Agent ” has the meaning specified in
Section 7.10(a).
“ Survey
” shall mean a survey of any Mortgaged Property (and all
improvements thereon) which is (a) (i) prepared by a
surveyor or engineer licensed to perform surveys in the
jurisdiction where such Mortgaged Property is located,
(ii) dated (or redated) not earlier than six months prior to
the date of delivery thereof unless there shall have occurred
within six months prior to such date of delivery any exterior
construction on the site of such Mortgaged Property or any
easement, right of way or other interest in the Mortgaged Property
has been granted or become effective through operation of law or
otherwise with respect to such Mortgaged Property which, in either
case, can be depicted on a survey, in which
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events, as applicable, such survey shall
be dated (or redated) after the completion of such construction or
if such construction shall not have been completed as of such date
of delivery, not earlier than 20 days prior to such date of
delivery, or after the grant or effectiveness of any such easement,
right of way or other interest in the Mortgaged Property,
(iii) certified by the surveyor (in a manner reasonably
acceptable to the Administrative Agent) to the Administrative
Agent, the Collateral Agent and the Title Company,
(iv) complying in all respects with the minimum detail
requirements of the American Land Title Association as such
requirements are in effect on the date of preparation of such
survey and (v) sufficient for the Title Company to remove all
standard survey exceptions from the title insurance policy (or
commitment) relating to such Mortgaged Property and issue the
endorsements of the type required by Section 3.01(xvi) or
(b) otherwise acceptable to the Collateral Agent.
“ Surviving
Debt ” means Debt of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries outstanding immediately before and after giving effect
to the Initial Extension of Credit.
“ Taxes
” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.12(a).
“ Termination
Date ” means the earlier of (A) the payment in
full of the Facility and (B) December 31,
2014.
“ Title
Company ” shall mean any title insurance company as
shall be retained by Borrower and reasonably acceptable to the
Administrative Agent.
“ Title
Policy ” shall have the meaning assigned to such term
in Section 3.01(xvi).
“
Transactions ” has the meaning specified in the
Preliminary Statements.
“ Type
” refers to the distinction between Advances bearing interest
at the Base Rate and Advances bearing interest at the Eurodollar
Rate.
“ UCC
” means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect, from time
to time, in the State of New York.
“ Voting
Interests ” means shares of capital stock issued by a
corporation, or equivalent Equity Interests in any other Person,
the holders of which are ordinarily, in the absence of
contingencies, entitled to vote for the election of directors (or
persons performing similar functions) of such Person, even if the
right so to vote has been suspended by the happening of such a
contingency.
“
Wachovia ” has the meaning specified in the
recital of parties to this Agreement.
“ WCM
” has the meaning specified in the recital of parties to this
Agreement.
“ Withdrawal
Liability ” has the meaning specified in
Section 4201(b) of ERISA.
SECTION 1.02. Computation
of Time Periods; Other Definitional Provisions . In this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents in the computation of
periods of time from a specified date to a later specified date,
the word “ from ” means “from and
including” and the words “ to ” and
“ until ” each mean “to but
excluding”. References in the Loan Documents to any agreement
or contract “ as amended ” shall mean and
be a reference to such agreement or contract as amended, amended
and restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time
in accordance with its terms. All notices shall be required to be
in writing.
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SECTION 1.03. Accounting
Terms . All accounting terms not specifically defined herein
shall be construed in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles in effect from time to time in the United States of
America (“ GAAP ”). If, at any time after
the date of this Agreement, any material change is made to GAAP or
the Borrower’s accounting practices that would affect in any
material respect the determination of compliance with the covenants
set forth in this Agreement, the Borrower shall notify the
Administrative Agent of the change and the Borrower and the
Administrative Agent shall negotiate in good faith to amend such
covenant to restore the Borrower and the Lenders to the position
they occupied before the implementation of such material change in
GAAP or accounting practices; provided that if the Borrower
and the Administrative Agent are unable to reach agreement within
30 days following the implementation of such material change, the
Administrative Agent shall be permitted, acting in good faith, to
make such amendments to the covenants set forth in this Agreement
as it reasonably determines are necessary to restore the Borrower
and the Lenders to the position they occupied prior to the
implementation thereof.
ARTICLE II
AMOUNTS AND TERMS OF THE
ADVANCES
SECTION 2.01. The
Advances . Each Lender severally agrees, on the terms and
conditions hereinafter set forth, to make a single advance (an
“ Advance ”) to the Borrower on the
Closing Date in an amount not to exceed such Lender’s
Commitment at such time. The Borrowing shall consist of Advances
made simultaneously by the Lenders ratably according to their
Commitments. Amounts borrowed under this Section 2.01 and
repaid or prepaid may not be reborrowed.
SECTION 2.02. Making the
Advances .
(a) Each Borrowing shall be
made on notice, given not later than 12:00 noon (New York City
time) on the third Business Day prior to the date of the proposed
Borrowing in the case of a Borrowing consisting of Eurodollar Rate
Advances, or the Business Day of the proposed Borrowing in the case
of a Borrowing consisting of Base Rate Advances, by the Borrower to
the Administrative Agent, which shall give to each Appropriate
Lender prompt notice thereof. Each such notice of a Borrowing (a
“ Notice of Borrowing ”) shall be in
writing or electronic mail or by telephone, confirmed immediately
in writing, or telecopier or electronic communication, in
substantially the form of Exhibit B-1 hereto, specifying
therein the requested (i) date of such Borrowing,
(ii) Type of Advances comprising such Borrowing,
(iii) aggregate amount of such Borrowing and (iv) in the
case of a Borrowing consisting of Eurodollar Rate Advances, initial
Interest Period for each such Advance. Each Appropriate Lender
shall, before 1:00 P.M. (New York City time) on the date of such
Borrowing, make available for the account of its Applicable Lending
Office to the Administrative Agent at the Administrative
Agent’s Account, in same day funds, such Lender’s
ratable portion of such Borrowing in accordance with the respective
Commitments under the applicable Facility of such Lender and the
other Appropriate Lenders. Upon fulfillment of the applicable
conditions set forth in Article III, the Administrative Agent will
make such funds available to the Borrower by crediting the
Borrower’s Account.
(b) [Reserved].
(c) Anything in subsection
(a) above to the contrary notwithstanding, (i) the
Borrower may not select Eurodollar Rate Advances for any Borrowing
if the aggregate amount of such Borrowing is less than $1,000,000
or if the obligation of the Appropriate Lenders to make Eurodollar
Rate Advances shall then be suspended pursuant to Section 2.09
or 2.10 and (ii) the Advances may not be outstanding as part
of more than 8 separate Borrowings with more than 8 different
Interest Periods.
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(d) Each Notice of Borrowing
shall be irrevocable and binding on the Borrower. In the case of
any Borrowing that the related Notice of Borrowing specifies is to
be comprised of Eurodollar Rate Advances, the Borrower shall
indemnify each Appropriate Lender against any loss, cost or expense
incurred by such Lender as a result of any failure to fulfill on or
before the date specified in such Notice of Borrowing for such
Borrowing the applicable conditions set forth in Article III,
including, without limitation, any loss (including loss of
anticipated profits), cost or expense incurred by reason of the
liquidation or reemployment of deposits or other funds acquired by
such Lender to fund the Advance to be made by such Lender as part
of such Borrowing when such Advance, as a result of such failure,
is not made on such date.
(e) Unless the Administrative
Agent shall have received written notice from an Appropriate Lender
prior to the date of any Borrowing under the Facility that such
Lender will not make available to the Administrative Agent such
Lender’s ratable portion of such Borrowing, the
Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender has made such
portion available to the Administrative Agent on the date of such
Borrowing in accordance with subsection (a) of this
Section 2.02 and the Administrative Agent may, in reliance
upon such assumption, make available to the Borrower on such date a
corresponding amount. If and to the extent that such Lender shall
not have so made such ratable portion available to the
Administrative Agent, such Lender and the Borrower severally agree
to repay or pay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand
such corresponding amount and to pay interest thereon, for each day
from the date such amount is made available to the Borrower until
the date such amount is repaid or paid to the Administrative Agent,
at (i) in the case of the Borrower, the interest rate
applicable at such time under Section 2.07 to Advances
comprising such Borrowing and (ii) in the case of such Lender,
the Federal Funds Rate for 3 days, and then the interest rate
applicable at such time under Section 2.07 to Advances
comprising such Borrowing. If such Lender shall pay to the
Administrative Agent such corresponding amount, such amount so paid
shall constitute such Lender’s Advance as part of such
Borrowing for all purposes.
(f) The failure of any Lender
to make the Advance to be made by it as part of any Borrowing shall
not relieve any other Lender of its obligation, if any, hereunder
to make its Advance on the date of such Borrowing, but no Lender
shall be responsible for the failure of any other Lender to make
the Advance to be made by such other Lender on the date of any
Borrowing.
(g) The Administrative Agent
may conclusively rely on the purported genuineness of all
telephonic notices, without any responsibility or liability, except
for its own gross negligence or willful misconduct.
SECTION 2.03. [
Reserved ].
SECTION 2.04. Repayment of
Advances . The Borrower hereby promises to pay and shall repay
to the Administrative Agent the aggregate principal amount of all
Loans outstanding for the ratable account of the Lenders on the
Termination Date.
SECTION 2.05. [
Reserved ].
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SECTION 2.06.
Prepayments .
(a) Optional .
Following the second anniversary of the Closing Date and after the
satisfaction of the Discharge Conditions or as permitted by the
First Lien Credit Agreement, the Borrower may, upon at least three
Business Days’ notice to the Administrative Agent
substantially in the form of Exhibit B-2 (a “
Notice of Prepayment ”) stating the proposed
date and aggregate principal amount of the prepayment, and if such
notice is given the Borrower shall, prepay the outstanding
aggregate principal amount of the Advances comprising part of the
same Borrowing in whole or ratably in part, together with accrued
interest to the date of such prepayment on the aggregate principal
amount prepaid; provided , however , that
(i) each partial prepayment shall be in an aggregate principal
amount of $1,000,000 in the case of Eurodollar Rate Advances and
$1,000,000 in the case of Base Rate Advances, in each case an
integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof and (ii) if
any prepayment of a Eurodollar Rate Advance is made on a date other
than the last day of an Interest Period for such Advance, the
Borrower shall also pay any amounts owing pursuant to
Section 8.04(d); provided that all prepayments made
pursuant to this Section 2.06(a) shall be subject to
(i) following the second anniversary of the Closing Date and
on or prior to the third anniversary of the Closing Date, a
prepayment premium of 2% of the principal amount thereof and
(ii) following the third anniversary of the Closing Date and
on or prior to the fourth anniversary of the Closing Date, a
prepayment premium of 1% of the principal amount thereof. Each such
prepayment of any Term Advances shall be applied ratably to the
installments thereof. Following the fourth anniversary of the
Closing Date, prepayment of the Facility in whole or in part shall
not be subject to any prepayment premium.
(b) Mandatory
.
(A) Debt Issuances .
After the satisfaction of the Discharge Conditions, the Borrower
shall prepay the Advances in the manner set forth in clause
(F) below in amounts equal to one hundred percent
(100%) of the aggregate Net Cash Proceeds from any Debt
Issuance. Such prepayment shall be made within three
(3) Business Days after the date of receipt of Net Cash
Proceeds of any such transaction.
(B) Equity Issuances .
After the satisfaction of the Discharge Conditions, the Borrower
shall prepay the Advances in the manner set forth in clause
(F) below in amounts equal to fifty percent (50%) of the
aggregate Net Cash Proceeds from any Equity Issuance or capital
contribution to any of the Loan Parties other than (i) sales
or issuances of Equity Interests by Borrower or its Subsidiaries as
part of employee benefit plan in existence from time to time or
(ii) conversion to equity of any debt securities in connection
with which a prepayment under Section 2.06(b)(i)(A) has been
made. Such prepayment shall be made within three (3) Business
Days after the date of receipt of Net Cash Proceeds of any such
transaction; provided that, no such prepayment shall be
required hereunder in connection with Net Cash Proceeds received by
the Borrower from a Parent Qualified Contribution made pursuant to
Section 2.06(b)(D), 6.03 or 6.04.
(C) Asset Dispositions
. After the satisfaction of the Discharge Conditions, the Borrower
shall prepay the Advances in the manner set forth in clause
(F) below in amounts equal to one hundred percent
(100%) of the aggregate Net Cash Proceeds from any Asset
Disposition by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries. Such
prepayments shall be made within three (3) Business Days after
receipt of Net Cash Proceeds of any such transaction by the
Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries; provided that no
prepayments shall be required hereunder for (i) aggregate
Asset Dispositions of less than $10,000,000 in any Fiscal Year and
(ii) from Asset Dispositions which is reinvested within one
hundred and eighty (180) days after receipt of such Net Cash
Proceeds by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in similar
replacement assets, or (ii) in connection with Asset
Dispositions permitted pursuant to Section 5.02(e).
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(D) Insurance and
Condemnation Events . After the satisfaction of the Discharge
Conditions, the Borrower shall prepay the Advances in the manner
set forth in clause (F) below in amounts equal to one hundred
percent (100%) of the aggregate Net Cash Proceeds from any
Insurance and Condemnation Event by the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries. Such prepayments shall be made within three
(3) Business Days after receipt of Net Cash Proceeds of any
such transaction by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries;
provided that, if no Default or Event of Default has then
occurred and remains continuing, then no such prepayment shall be
required hereunder in connection with Net Cash Proceeds from
Insurance and Condemnation Events received by the Borrower or any
of its Subsidiaries if the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries
commits to reinvest to repair, replace or construct the property
damaged within three hundred sixty-five (365) days (for the
avoidance of doubt the three hundred sixty-five days applies to the
commitment to use the funds and not to the completion of such
reinvestment). Upon making such commitment to reinvest such Net
Cash Proceeds as described above, to the extent that the aggregate
amount of such Net Cash Proceeds exceed $20,000,000, the Borrower
shall remit such excess to the Administrative Agent to be held as
cash collateral for the Obligations hereunder, and thereafter, the
excess Net Cash Proceeds shall be remitted to the Borrower by the
Administrative Agent at such time the Administrative Agent
determines that such Net Cash Proceeds are adequate (when taken
together with any Parent Qualified Contributions agreed to by the
Borrower and any other cash resources reasonably available to
Borrower) to so repair, replace or construct the property damaged
(it being understood that the Administrative Agent shall not
unreasonably withhold or delay its approval).
(E) Excess Cash Flow .
After the satisfaction of the Discharge Conditions or as permitted
by the First Lien Credit Agreement, no later than five
(5) days after the date set forth for delivery of annual
financials pursuant to Section 5.03(b) the Borrower
(commencing after the Completion) shall make mandatory principal
prepayments of the Advances in the manner set forth in clause
(F) below in an amount equal to fifty percent (50%) of
Excess Cash Flow, if any, for such Fiscal Year; provided
that such percentage shall be reduced to twenty-five percent
(25%) if the Leverage Ratio is less than 5.00:1.00 but greater
than or equal to 4.00:1.00, and zero percent (0%) if the Leverage
Ratio is less than 4.00:1.00, in each case based on the most recent
financial statements of the Borrower delivered pursuant to
Section 5.03(b) or (c), as applicable; provided further
that first prepayment pursuant to this Section 2.06 (b)(i)(E)
shall be for the period commencing the first full quarter after
Completion until the end of such Fiscal Year.
(F) Notice; Manner of
Payment . Upon the occurrence of any event triggering the
prepayment requirement under clauses (A) through and including
(E) above, the Borrower shall promptly deliver a Notice of
Prepayment to the Administrative Agent and upon receipt of such
notice, the Administrative Agent shall promptly so notify the
Lenders. Each prepayment of the Advances under this Section shall
be applied to the Facility.
(c) All prepayments under
Section 2.06(b) shall be made together with accrued interest
to the date of such prepayment on the principal amount prepaid,
together with any amounts owing pursuant to Section 8.04(d).
If any payment of Eurodollar Rate Advances otherwise required to be
made under Section 2.06(b) would be made on a day other than
the last day of the applicable Interest Period therefor, the
Borrower may direct the Administrative Agent to (and if so
directed, the Administrative Agent shall) deposit such payment in
the Collateral Account until the last day of the applicable
Interest Period at which time the Administrative Agent shall apply
the amount of such payment to the prepayment of such Advances;
provided , however , that such Advances shall
continue to bear interest as set forth in Section 2.07 until
the last day of the applicable Interest Period therefor.
(d) No prepayment made
pursuant to this Section 2.06, no repayment or acceleration
under this Agreement and no change in the terms hereof shall affect
the obligations of each Loan Party under any Secured Hedge
Agreement, which obligations shall remain in full force and effect
notwithstanding such prepayment, repayment, acceleration or change,
subject to the terms of such Hedge Agreement.
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SECTION 2.07. Interest
.
(a) Scheduled Interest
. The Borrower shall pay interest on the unpaid principal amount of
each Advance owing to each Lender from the date of such Advance
until such principal amount shall be paid in full, at the following
rates per annum:
(i) Base Rate Advances
. During such periods as such Advance is a Base Rate Advance, a
rate per annum equal at all times to the sum of (A) the Base
Rate in effect from time to time plus (B) the
Applicable Margin in effect from time to time, payable in arrears
quarterly on the last day of each March, June, September and
December during such periods and on the date such Base Rate Advance
shall be Converted or paid in full.
(ii) Eurodollar Rate
Advances . During such periods as such Advance is a Eurodollar
Rate Advance, a rate per annum equal at all times during each
Interest Period for such Advance to the sum of (A) the
Eurodollar Rate for such Interest Period for such Advance
plus (B) the Applicable Margin in effect on the first
day of such Interest Period, payable in arrears on the last day of
such Interest Period and, if such Interest Period has a duration of
more than three months, on each day that occurs during such
Interest Period every three months from the first day of such
Interest Period and on the date such Eurodollar Rate Advance shall
be Converted or paid in full.
(b) Default Interest .
Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of
Default, the Administrative Agent, upon the request of the Required
Lenders, shall require that the Borrower pay interest (“
Default Interest ”) on (i) the unpaid
principal amount of each Advance owing to each Lender at a rate per
annum equal at all times to 2% per annum above the rate per
annum required to be paid on such Advance pursuant to clause
(i) or (ii) of Section 2.07(a), as applicable, and
(ii) to the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the
amount of any interest, fee or other amount payable under this
Agreement or any other Loan Document to any Agent or any Lender
that is not paid when due, from the date such amount shall be due
until such amount shall be paid in full, payable at a rate per
annum equal at all times to 2% per annum above the rate per
annum required to be paid, in the case of interest, on the Type of
Advance on which such interest has accrued pursuant to clause
(i) or (ii) of Section 2.07(a), as applicable, and,
in all other cases, on Base Rate Advances pursuant to clause
(i) of Section 2.07(a); provided , however
, that following the acceleration of the Advances, or the giving of
notice by the Administrative Agent to accelerate the Advances,
pursuant to Section 6.01, Default Interest shall accrue and be
payable hereunder whether or not previously required by the
Administrative Agent.
(c) Notice of Interest
Period and Interest Rate . Promptly after receipt of a Notice
of Borrowing pursuant to Section 2.02(a), a notice of
Conversion pursuant to Section 2.09 or a notice of selection
of an Interest Period pursuant to the terms of the definition of
“Interest Period”, the Administrative Agent shall give
notice to the Borrower and each Appropriate Lender of the
applicable Interest Period and the applicable interest rate
determined by the Administrative Agent for purposes of clause
(a)(i) or (a)(ii) above.
SECTION 2.08.
Agents’ Fees . The Borrower shall pay to the Arranger
and the Administrative Agent for their respective own accounts such
fees as may from time to time be agreed between the Borrower and
such Agent.
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SECTION 2.09. Conversion
of Advances .
(a) Optional . The
Borrower may on any Business Day, upon notice given to the
Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 A.M. (New York City time)
on the third Business Day prior to the date of the proposed
Conversion and subject to the provisions of Sections 2.07 and 2.10,
Convert all or any portion of the Borrowings of one Type comprising
the same Borrowing into Borrowings of the other Type;
provided , however , that any Conversion of
Eurodollar Rate Borrowings into Base Rate Borrowings shall be made
only on the last day of an Interest Period for such Eurodollar Rate
Borrowings, any Conversion of Base Rate Borrowings into Eurodollar
Rate Borrowings shall be in an amount not less than the minimum
amount specified in Section 2.02(c), no Conversion of any
Borrowings shall result in more separate Borrowings than permitted
under Section 2.02(c) and each Conversion of Borrowings
comprising part of the same Borrowing under any Facility shall be
made ratably among the Appropriate Lenders in accordance with their
Commitments under such Facility. Each such notice of Conversion
shall, within the restrictions specified above, specify
(i) the date of such Conversion, (ii) the Borrowings to
be Converted and (iii) if such Conversion is into Eurodollar
Rate Borrowings, the duration of the initial Interest Period for
such Borrowings. Each notice of Conversion shall be irrevocable and
binding on the Borrower.
(b) Mandatory . On the
date on which the aggregate unpaid principal amount of Eurodollar
Rate Borrowings comprising any Borrowing shall be reduced, by
payment or prepayment or otherwise, to less than $1,000,000, such
Borrowings shall automatically Convert into Base Rate Borrowings at
the end of the applicable Interest Period.
(i) If the Borrower shall
fail to select the duration of any Interest Period for any
Eurodollar Rate Borrowings in accordance with the provisions
contained in the definition of “Interest Period” in
Section 1.01, the Administrative Agent will forthwith so
notify the Borrower and the Appropriate Lenders, whereupon each
such Eurodollar Rate Borrowing shall automatically, on the last day
of the then existing Interest Period therefor, Convert into a Base
Rate Borrowing.
(ii) Upon the occurrence and
during the continuance of any Default or any Event of Default,
(A) each Eurodollar Rate Borrowing will automatically, on the
last day of the then existing Interest Period therefor, Convert
into a Base Rate Advance and (B) the obligation of the Lenders
to make, or to Convert Borrowings into, Eurodollar Rate Borrowings
shall be suspended.
SECTION 2.10. Increased
Costs, Etc .
(a) If, due to either
(i) the introduction of or any change in or in the
interpretation of any law or regulation or (ii) the compliance
with any guideline or request from any central bank or other
governmental authority (whether or not having the force of law),
there shall be any increase in the cost to any Lender of agreeing
to make or of making, funding or maintaining Eurodollar Rate
Borrowings (excluding, for purposes of this Section 2.10, any
such increased costs resulting from (x) Taxes or Other Taxes
(as to which Section 2.12 shall govern) and (y) changes
in the basis of taxation of overall net income or overall gross
income by the United States or by the foreign jurisdiction or state
under the laws of which such Lender is organized or has its
Applicable Lending Office or any political subdivision thereof),
then the Borrower shall from time to time, upon demand by such
Lender (with a copy of such demand to the Administrative Agent),
pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Lender
additional amounts sufficient to compensate such Lender for such
increased cost incurred by such Lender; provided ,
however , that a Lender claiming additional amounts under
this Section 2.10(a) agrees to (x) use reasonable efforts
(consistent with its internal policy and legal and regulatory
restrictions) to designate a different Applicable Lending Office if
the making of such a designation would avoid the need for, or
reduce the
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amount of, such increased cost that may
thereafter accrue and would not, in the reasonable judgment of such
Lender, be otherwise disadvantageous to such Lender and
(y) promptly notify the Borrower of the circumstances. A
certificate as to the amount of such increased cost, submitted to
the Borrower by such Lender, shall be conclusive and binding for
all purposes, absent manifest error.
(b) [Reserved].
(c) If, with respect to any
Eurodollar Rate Advances under any Facility, Lenders owed at least
51% of the then aggregate unpaid principal amount thereof notify
the Administrative Agent that the Eurodollar Rate for any Interest
Period for such Advances will not adequately reflect the cost to
such Lenders of making, funding or maintaining their Eurodollar
Rate Advances for such Interest Period, the Administrative Agent
shall forthwith so notify the Borrower and the Appropriate Lenders,
whereupon (i) each such Eurodollar Rate Advance under such
Facility will automatically, on the last day of the then existing
Interest Period therefor, Convert into a Base Rate Advance and
(ii) the obligation of the Appropriate Lenders to make, or to
Convert Advances into, Eurodollar Rate Advances shall be suspended
until the Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower that such
Lenders have determined that the circumstances causing such
suspension no longer exist.
(d) Notwithstanding any other
provision of this Agreement, if the introduction or effectiveness
of or any change in or in the interpretation of any law or
regulation shall make it unlawful, or any central bank or other
governmental authority shall assert that it is unlawful, for any
Lender or its Eurodollar Lending Office to perform its obligations
hereunder to make Eurodollar Rate Advances or to continue to fund
or maintain Eurodollar Rate Advances hereunder, then, on notice
thereof and demand therefor by such Lender to the Borrower through
the Administrative Agent, (i) each Eurodollar Rate Advance
under each Facility under which such Lender has a Commitment will
automatically, upon such demand, Convert into a Base Rate Advance
and (ii) the obligation of the Appropriate Lenders to make, or
to Convert Advances into, Eurodollar Rate Advances shall be
suspended until the Administrative Agent shall notify the Borrower
that such Lender has determined that the circumstances causing such
suspension no longer exist; provided , however ,
that, before making any such demand, such Lender agrees to use
reasonable efforts (consistent with its internal policy and legal
and regulatory restrictions) to designate a different Eurodollar
Lending Office if the making of such a designation would allow such
Lender or its Eurodollar Lending Office to continue to perform its
obligations to make Eurodollar Rate Advances or to continue to fund
or maintain Eurodollar Rate Advances and would not, in the judgment
of such Lender, be otherwise disadvantageous to such
Lender.
(e) In the event that any
Lender demands payment of costs or additional amounts pursuant to
Section 2.10 or Section 2.12 or asserts, pursuant to
Section 2.10(d), that it is unlawful for such Lender to make
Eurodollar Rate Advances or becomes a Defaulting Lender then
(subject to such Lender’s right to rescind such demand or
assertion within 10 days after the notice from the Borrower
referred to below) the Borrower may, so long as no Event of Default
has occurred and is continuing and so long as such costs or
additional amounts are materially more than those charged by other
Lenders, upon 20 days’ prior written notice to such Lender
and the Administrative Agent, elect to cause such Lender to assign
its Advances and Commitments in full to one or more Persons
selected by the Borrower so long as (a) each such Person
satisfies the criteria of an Eligible Assignee and is reasonably
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, (b) such Lender
receives payment in full in cash of the outstanding principal
amount of all Advances made by it and all accrued and unpaid
interest thereon and all other amounts due and payable to such
Lender as of the date of such assignment (including, without
limitation, amounts owing pursuant to Sections 2.10, 2.12, 2.15 and
8.04) and (c) each such Lender assignee agrees to accept such
assignment and to assume all obligations of such Lender hereunder
in accordance with Section 8.07.
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(f) If any Lender (such
Lender, a “ Non-Consenting Lender ”) has
failed to consent to a proposed amendment, waiver, discharge or
termination which pursuant to the terms of Section 8.01
requires the consent of all of the Lenders affected and with
respect to which the Required Lenders shall have granted their
consent, then provided no Event of Default then exists, such
Borrower shall have the right to replace such Non-Consenting Lender
and shall have the right to assign all of such Non-Consenting
Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement of such
Non-Consenting Lender (including, without limitation, the Advances
owing to it, its Commitment or Commitments hereunder and the Note
or Notes held by it) to one or more assignees selected by the
Borrower so long as any such assignee satisfies the criteria of an
Eligible Assignee and is reasonably acceptable to the
Administrative Agent (evidenced by prior written consent),
provided that: (a) all Obligations of the Borrower
owing to such Non-Consenting Lender being replaced shall be paid in
full to such Non-Consenting Lender concurrently with such
assignment, and (b) the replacement Lender shall purchase the
foregoing by paying to such Non-Consenting Lender a price equal to
the principal amount thereof plus accrued and unpaid interest and
fees thereon. In connection with any such assignment each Borrower,
Administrative Agent, such Non-Consenting Lender and the
replacement Lender shall otherwise comply with
Section 8.07.
SECTION 2.11. Payments and
Computations .
(a) The Borrower shall make
each payment hereunder and under the Notes, irrespective of any
right of counterclaim or set-off, not later than 12:00 noon (New
York City time) on the day when due in U.S. dollars to the
Administrative Agent at the Administrative Agent’s Account in
same day funds, with payments being received by the Administrative
Agent after such time being deemed to have been received on the
next succeeding Business Day. The Administrative Agent will
promptly thereafter cause like funds to be distributed (i) if
such payment by the Borrower is in respect of principal, interest,
commitment fees or any other Obligation then payable hereunder and
under the Notes to more than one Lenders, to such Lender for the
account of their respective Applicable Lending Offices ratably in
accordance with the amounts of such respective Obligations then
payable to such Lenders and (ii) if such payment by the
Borrower is in respect of any Obligation then payable hereunder to
one Lender, to such Lender for the account of its Applicable
Lending Office, in each case to be applied in accordance with the
terms of this Agreement. Upon its acceptance of an Assignment and
Acceptance and recording of the information contained therein in
the Register pursuant to Section 8.07(d), from and after the
effective date of such Assignment and Acceptance, the
Administrative Agent shall make all payments hereunder and under
the Notes in respect of the interest assigned thereby to the Lender
assignee thereunder, and the parties to such Assignment and
Acceptance shall make all appropriate adjustments in such payments
for periods prior to such effective date directly between
themselves.
(b) The Borrower hereby
authorizes each Lender and each of its Affiliates, if and to the
extent payment owed to such Lender is not made when due hereunder
or, in the case of a Lender, under the Note held by such Lender, to
charge from time to time, to the fullest extent permitted by law,
against any or all of the Borrower’s accounts with such
Lender or such Affiliate any amount so due.
(c) All computations of
interest based on the Base Rate and fees shall be made by the
Administrative Agent on the basis of a year of 365 or 366 days, as
the case may be, and all computations of interest based on the
Eurodollar Rate or the Federal Funds Rate shall be made by the
Administrative Agent on the basis of a year of 360 days, in each
case for the actual number of days (including the first day but
excluding the last day) occurring in the period for which such
interest, fees or commissions are payable. Each determination by
the Administrative Agent of an interest rate, fee or commission
hereunder shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent
manifest error.
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(d) Whenever any payment
hereunder or under the Notes shall be stated to be due on a day
other than a Business Day, such payment shall be made on the next
succeeding Business Day, and such extension of time shall in such
case be included in the computation of payment of interest or
commission, as the case may be; provided , however ,
that, if such extension would cause payment of interest on or
principal of Eurodollar Rate Advances to be made in the next
following calendar month, such payment shall be made on the next
preceding Business Day.
(e) Unless the Administrative
Agent shall have received notice from the Borrower prior to the
date on which any payment is due to any Lender hereunder that the
Borrower will not make such payment in full, the Administrative
Agent may assume that the Borrower has made such payment in full to
the Administrative Agent on such date and the Administrative Agent
may, in reliance upon such assumption, cause to be distributed to
each such Lender on such due date an amount equal to the amount
then due such Lender. If and to the extent the Borrower shall not
have so made such payment in full to the Administrative Agent, each
such Lender shall repay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on
demand such amount distributed to such Lender together with
interest thereon, for each day from the date such amount is
distributed to such Lender until the date such Lender repays such
amount to the Administrative Agent, at the Federal Funds
Rate.
(f) Whenever any payment
received by the Administrative Agent under this Agreement, any of
the other Loan Documents or any Secured Hedge Agreement is
insufficient to pay in full all amounts due and payable to the
Agents, the Lenders and the Hedge Banks under or in respect of this
Agreement, the other Loan Documents and the Secured Hedge
Agreements on any date, such payment shall be distributed by the
Administrative Agent and applied by the Agents and the Lenders in
the following order of priority:
(i) first , to the
payment of all of the fees, indemnification payments, costs and
expenses that are due and payable to the Agents (solely in their
respective capacities as Agents) under or in respect of this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents on such date, ratably based
upon the respective aggregate amounts of all such fees,
indemnification payments, costs and expenses owing to the Agents on
such date;
(ii) second , to the
payment of all of the indemnification payments, costs and expenses
that are due and payable to the Lenders under Section 8.04
hereof, Section 23 of the Security Agreement and any similar
section of any of the other Loan Documents on such date, ratably
based upon the respective aggregate amounts of all such
indemnification payments, costs and expenses owing to the Lenders
on such date;
(iii) third , to the
payment of all of the amounts that are due and payable to the
Administrative Agent and the Lenders under Sections 2.10 and 2.12
hereof on such date, ratably based upon the respective aggregate
amounts thereof owing to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders
on such date;
(iv) fourth , to the
payment of all of the accrued and unpaid interest on the
Obligations of the Borrower under or in respect of the Loan
Documents that is due and payable to the Administrative Agent and
the Lenders under Section 2.07(b) on such date, ratably based
upon the respective aggregate amounts of all such interest owing to
the Administrative Agent and the Lenders on such date;
(v) fifth , to the
payment of all of the accrued and unpaid interest and commissions
on the Advances that are due and payable to the Administrative
Agent and the Lenders under Sections 2.07(a) on such date, ratably
based upon the respective aggregate amounts of all such interest
owing to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders on such
date;
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(vi) sixth , ratably
to (A) the payment of the principal amount of all of the
outstanding Advances that is due and payable to the Administrative
Agent and the Lenders on such date, ratably based upon the
respective aggregate amounts of all such principal owing to the
Administrative Agent and the Lenders on such date and (B) the
payment of all amounts payable under Secured Hedge Agreements on
such date, ratably based upon the respective aggregate amounts of
all such amounts owing to the Hedge Banks on such date;
and
(vii) seventh , to the
payment of all other Obligations of the Loan Parties owing under or
in respect of the Loan Documents that are due and payable to the
Administrative Agent and the other Secured Parties on such date,
ratably based upon the respective aggregate amounts of all such
Obligations owing to the Administrative Agent and the other Secured
Parties on such date.
(g) If the Administrative
Agent receives funds for application to the Obligations of the Loan
Parties under or in respect of the Loan Documents under
circumstances for which the Loan Documents do not specify the
Advances or the Facility to which, or the manner in which, such
funds are to be applied, the Administrative Agent shall distribute
such funds to each of the Lenders in accordance with such
Lender’s pro rata share of the aggregate principal amount of
all Advances outstanding at such time, in repayment or prepayment
of such of the outstanding Advances or other Obligations then owing
to such Lender, and, in the case of the Facility, for application
to such principal repayment installments thereof, as the
Administrative Agent shall direct.
SECTION 2.12. Taxes
.
(a) Any and all payments by
any Loan Party to or for the account of any Lender or any Agent
hereunder or under the Notes or any other Loan Document shall be
made, in accordance with Section 2.11 or the applicable
provisions of such other Loan Document, if any, free and clear of
and without deduction for any and all present or future taxes,
levies, imposts, deductions, charges or withholdings, and all
liabilities with respect thereto, excluding , in the case of
each Lender and each Agent, taxes that are imposed on its overall
net income by the United States and taxes that are imposed on its
overall net income (and franchise taxes imposed in lieu thereof) by
the state or foreign jurisdiction under the laws of which such
Lender or such Agent, as the case may be, is organized or any
political subdivision thereof and, in the case of each Lender,
taxes that are imposed on its overall net income (and franchise
taxes imposed in lieu thereof) by the state or foreign jurisdiction
of such Lender’s Applicable Lending Office or any political
subdivision thereof (all such non excluded taxes, levies, imposts,
deductions, charges, withholdings and liabilities in respect of
payments hereunder or under the Notes being hereinafter referred to
as “ Taxes ”). If any Loan Party shall be
required by law to deduct any Taxes from or in respect of any sum
payable hereunder or under any Note or any other Loan Document to
any Lender or any Agent, (i) the sum payable by the Borrower
shall be increased as may be necessary so that after such Loan
Party and the Administrative Agent have made all required
deductions (including deductions applicable to additional sums
payable under this Section 2.12) such Lender or such Agent, as
the case may be, receives an amount equal to the sum it would have
received had no such deductions been made, (ii) such Loan
Party shall make all such deductions and (iii) such Loan Party
shall pay the full amount deducted to the relevant taxation
authority or other authority in accordance with Applicable
Law.
(b) In addition, a Loan Party
shall pay any present or future stamp, documentary, excise,
property, intangible, mortgage recording or similar taxes, charges
or levies that arise from any payment made by such Loan Party
hereunder or under any Notes, any of the Mortgages or any
other
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Loan Documents or from the execution,
delivery or registration of, performance under, or otherwise with
respect to, this Agreement, the Notes or the other Loan Documents
(hereinafter referred to as “ Other Taxes
”).
(c) The Loan Parties shall
indemnify each Lender and each Agent for and hold them harmless
against the full amount of Taxes and Other Taxes, and for the full
amount of taxes of any kind imposed or asserted by any jurisdiction
on amounts payable under this Section 2.12, imposed on or paid
by such Lender or such Agent (as the case may be) and any liability
(including penalties, additions to tax, interest and expenses)
arising therefrom or with respect thereto. This indemnification
shall be made within 30 days from the date such Lender or such
Agent (as the case may be) makes written demand
therefor.
(d) Within 30 days after the
date of any payment of Taxes directly by a Loan Party, the
appropriate Loan Party shall furnish to the Administrative Agent,
at its address referred to in Section 8.02, the original or a
certified copy of a receipt evidencing such payment, to the extent
such a receipt is issued therefor, or other written proof of
payment thereof that is reasonably satisfactory to the
Administrative Agent. In the case of any payment hereunder or under
the Notes or the other Loan Documents by or on behalf of a Loan
Party through an account or branch outside the United States or by
or on behalf of a Loan Party by a payor that is not a United States
person, if such Loan Party determines that no Taxes are payable in
respect thereof, such Loan Party shall furnish, or shall cause such
payor to furnish, to the Administrative Agent, at such address, an
opinion of counsel acceptable to the Administrative Agent stating
that such payment is exempt from Taxes. For purposes of subsections
(d) and (e) of this Section 2.12, the terms “
United States ” and “ United States
person ” shall have the meanings specified in
Section 7701 of the Internal Revenue Code.
(e) Each Lender organized
under the laws of a jurisdiction outside the United States shall,
on or prior to the date of its execution and delivery of this
Agreement in the case of each Lender and on the date of the
Assignment and Acceptance pursuant to which it becomes a Lender in
the case of each other Lender, and from time to time thereafter as
reasonably requested in writing by the Borrower (but only so long
thereafter as such Lender remains lawfully able to do so), provide
each of the Administrative Agent and the Borrower with two original
Internal Revenue Service Forms W-8BEN or W-8ECI or in the case of a
Lender that has certified in writing to the Administrative Agent
that it is not (i) a “bank” as defined in
Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Internal Revenue Code, (ii) a
10-percent shareholder (within the meaning of
Section 871(h)(3)(B) of the Internal Revenue Code) of the
Borrower or (iii) a controlled foreign corporation related to
the Borrower (within the meaning of Section 864(d)(4) of the
Internal Revenue Code), Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN, as
appropriate, or any successor or other form prescribed by the
Internal Revenue Service, certifying that such Lender is exempt
from or entitled to a reduced rate of United States withholding tax
on payments pursuant to this Agreement or the Notes or any other
Loan Document or, in the case of a Lender that has certified that
it is not a “bank” as described above, certifying that
such Lender is a foreign corporation, partnership, estate or trust.
If the forms provided by a Lender at the time such L
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