Exhibit
10.01
EXECUTION
COPY
______________________________________________________________________________
$80,000,000
SENIOR SECURED
SUPERPRIORITY
PRIMING DEBTOR-IN-POSSESSION CREDIT AGREEMENT
Dated as of March 11,
2009
Among
MILACRON INC.,
as Debtor and Debtor-in-Possession
as Borrower
and the
GUARANTORS PARTY
HERETO,
as Debtors and Debtors in Possession under Chapter 11 of the
U.S. Bankruptcy Code
and
DDJ CAPITAL MANAGEMENT,
LLC
as Administrative Agent
and
AVENUE INVESTMENTS,
L.P.
and
CERTAIN AFFILIATES OF DDJ CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC
as Initial Lenders
______________________________________________________________________________
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TABLE OF
CONTENTS
Page
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS
Section 1.01
Certain Defined
Terms
2
Section 1.02
Computation of Time
Periods
25
Section 1.03
Accounting
Terms
25
ARTICLE II
AMOUNTS OF THE ADVANCES
Section 2.01
The Advances
26
Section 2.02
Making the
Advances
27
Section 2.03
[INTENTIONALLY
OMITTED]
28
Section 2.04
Repayment of
Advances
28
Section 2.05
Termination or Reduction
of Commitments
28
Section 2.06
Prepayments
28
Section 2.07
Interest
29
Section 2.08
Fees
29
Section 2.09
Conversion of
Advances
29
Section 2.10
Increased Costs,
Etc
30
Section 2.11
Payments and
Computations
31
Section 2.12
Taxes
32
Section 2.13
Sharing of Payments,
Etc
34
Section 2.14
Use of
Proceeds
35
Section 2.15
Defaulting
Lenders
35
Section 2.16
Evidence of
Debt
37
Section 2.17
Priority and
Liens
38
Section 2.18
Payment of
Obligations
38
Section 2.19
No Discharge:
Survival of Claims
38
Section 2.20
Replacement of Certain
Lenders
38
Section 2.21
Waiver of Priming
Rights
39
Section 2.22
Release
39
ARTICLE III
CONDITIONS TO EFFECTIVENESS
Section 3.01
Conditions Precedent to
Effectiveness
40
Section 3.02
Conditions Precedent to
Each Borrowing
43
Section 3.03
Conditions Precedent to
the availability of Final Order Commitment Amount
44
Section 3.04
Determinations Under
Sections 3.01 and 3.03
44
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ARTICLE IV
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
Section 4.01
Representations and
Warranties of the Loan Parties
44
ARTICLE V
COVENANTS OF THE LOAN PARTIES
Section 5.01
Affirmative
Covenants
48
Section 5.02
Negative
Covenants
53
Section 5.03
Reporting
Requirements
58
Section 5.04
Total Disbursements
Covenant
61
ARTICLE VI
EVENTS OF DEFAULT
Section 6.01
Events of
Default
61
ARTICLE VII
THE AGENTS
Section 7.01
Appointment and
Authorization of the Administrative Agent
65
Section 7.02
Delegation of
Duties
65
Section 7.03
Liability of
Agent
65
Section 7.04
Reliance by
Agent
66
Section 7.05
Notice of
Default
66
Section 7.06
Credit Decision;
Disclosure of Information by Agent
66
Section 7.07
Indemnification of
Agent
67
Section 7.08
Agent in Its Individual
Capacity
67
Section 7.09
Successor
Agent
67
Section 7.10
Proofs of
Claim
68
Section 7.11
Collateral and Guaranty
Matters
69
Section 7.12
Quebec
Security
69
ARTICLE VIII
SUBSIDIARY GUARANTY
Section 8.01
Subsidiary
Guaranty
70
Section 8.02
Guaranty
Absolute
70
Section 8.03
Waivers and
Acknowledgments
71
Section 8.04
Subrogation
71
Section 8.05
Additional
Guarantors
72
Section 8.06
Continuing Guarantee;
Assignments
72
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Section 8.07
No Reliance
72
Section 8.08
Indemnification
73
Section 8.09
Parallel Debt
Obligations
73
ARTICLE IX
SECURITY
Section 9.01
Grant of
Security
74
Section 9.02
Further
Assurances
77
Section 9.03
Rights of Lender;
Limitations on Lenders’ Obligations
78
Section 9.04
Covenants of the Loan
Parties with Respect to Collateral
79
Section 9.05
Performance by Agent of
the Loan Parties’ Obligations
82
Section 9.06
The Administrative
Agent’s Duties
82
Section 9.07
Remedies
83
Section 9.08
Modifications
84
Section 9.09
Release;
Termination
85
Section 9.10
Non-U.S. Loan
Party
86
ARTICLE X
MISCELLANEOUS
Section 10.01
Amendments,
Etc
86
Section 10.02
Notices, Etc
87
Section 10.03
No Waiver;
Remedies
88
Section 10.04
Costs, Fees and
Expenses
88
Section 10.05
Right of
Set-off
90
Section 10.06
Binding
Effect
90
Section 10.07
Successors and
Assigns
90
Section 10.08
Execution in
Counterparts
93
Section 10.09
Confidentiality; Press
Releases and Related Matters
93
Section 10.10
Patriot Act
Notice
94
Section 10.11
Jurisdiction,
Etc
94
Section 10.12
Governing Law
94
Section 10.13
Waiver of Jury
Trial
94
Section 10.14
DIP Intercreditor
Agreement
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SCHEDULES
Schedule I
-
Commitments and
Applicable Lending Offices
Schedule II
-
Intellectual
Property
Schedule III
-
Material IP
Agreements
Schedule IV
-
Initial Pledged
Equity
Schedule V
-
Initial Pledged
Debt
Schedule 1.01(b)
-
Material Intellectual
Property
Schedule 4.01
-
Equity Investments;
Subsidiaries
Schedule 4.01(h)
-
Disclosures
Schedule 4.01(l)
-
Environmental
Matters
Schedule 5.01(n)(iii)
-
Post-Closing
Matters
Schedule
5.02(a)
-
Existing
Liens
Schedule
5.02(b)
-
Existing
Debt
Schedule
5.02(c)
-
Existing
Guarantee Obligations
Schedule
5.02(g)
-
Existing
Investments
EXHIBITS
Exhibit A
-
Form of Note
Exhibit B
Form of Notice of
Borrowing
Exhibit C
Form of Assignment and
Acceptance
Exhibit D-1
-
Form of Opinion of
Dinsmore & Shohl
Exhibit D-2
-
Form
of In-House Legal Opinion
Exhibit E-1
-
U.S. Interim DIP
Order
Exhibit E-2
-
Canadian Recognition
Order
Exhibit F
[Reserved]
Exhibit G
-
Form of Guaranty
Supplement
Exhibit H
-
Canadian Security
Agreement
Exhibit I
-
DIP Intercreditor
Agreement
Exhibit J
-
Form
of Market Disruption Notice
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SENIOR SECURED
SUPERPRIORITY PRIMING
DEBTOR-IN-POSSESSION CREDIT AGREEMENT
SENIOR SECURED
SUPERPRIORITY DEBTOR-IN-POSSESSION CREDIT AGREEMENT (THIS “
Agreement ”) dated as of March 11, 2009 among MILACRON
INC., a Delaware corporation and a debtor and debtor-in-possession
in a case pending under chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code (as
hereinafter defined) (“ Milacron ” or “
Borrower ”), and each U.S. Subsidiary signatory hereto
(each, a “ U.S. Guarantor ”, and, collectively,
together with any person that becomes a Guarantor hereunder
pursuant to Section 8.05, the “ U.S. Guarantors
”), Milacron Canada Ltd., a corporation formed under the laws
of the Province of Ontario (the “C anadian Cuarantor
”), Milacron Capital Holdings BV (the “ Dutch
Guarantor ” and, together with the U.S. Guarantors and
the Canadian Guarantor, the “ Guarantors ”),
each of which is a debtor and debtor-in-possession in a case
pending under Chapter 11 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, DDJ
CAPITAL MANAGEMENT, LLC, (“ DDJ ”), in its
capacity as administrative agent (or any successor or sub-agent
appointed pursuant to Article VII, the “A
dministrative Agent ”) for the lenders and the other
Secured Parties (each as hereinafter defined), AVENUE INVESTMENTS,
L.P. (“A venue ”), the Affiliates of DDJ listed
on the signature pages hereto (collectively, the “ DDJ
Funds ” and, together with Avenue the “I nitial
Lenders ”) and the other banks, financial institutions
and other institutions lenders party from time to time party hereto
(each, a “ Lender ”, and collectively with the
initial lenders and any other person that becomes a Lender
hereunder pursuant to Section 10.07, the “L
enders ”).
PRELIMINARY
STATEMENTS
1.
On March 10, 2009 (the
“ Petition Date ”), the Borrower and each of the
Guarantors filed voluntary petitions in the United States
Bankruptcy Court for the Southern District of Ohio (the “
U.S. Bankruptcy Court ”) for relief, and commenced
proceedings (the “ U.S. Cases ”) under
Chapter 11 of Title 11 of the United States Code (11 U.S.C.
§§ 101 et seq. ; the “ U.S.
Bankruptcy Code ”) and have continued in the possession
of their assets and in the management of their businesses pursuant
to Sections 1107 and 1108 of the U.S. Bankruptcy
Code.
2.
On or the next day
following the Petition Date, the Canadian Guarantor will commence a
recognition proceeding (the “ CCAA Case ” and,
together with the U.S. Cases, the “ Cases ”) in
the Ontario Superior Court of Justice (Commercial List) (the
“ Canadian Bankruptcy Court ” and, together with
the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, the “ Bankruptcy Courts
”) under Section 18.6 of the Companies’ Creditors
Arrangement Act (Canada) (the “ CCAA ” and,
together with the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, the “ Bankruptcy
Codes ”).
3.
In connection with the
Cases, the Borrower has requested that the Initial Lenders provide
to the Borrower a senior secured superpriority priming multi-draw
debtor in possession credit facility (the “ Facility
”) in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed
$80,000,000.
4.
To provide guarantees
and security for the repayment of the advances under the Facility
and the payment of the other obligations of the Borrower hereunder
and under the other Loan Documents (as hereinafter defined), the
Borrower and the Guarantors, as the case may be, will provide to
the Administrative Agent and the Lenders (a) a guaranty from
each of the Guarantors of the due and punctual payment of the
obligations of the Borrower hereunder, and (b) the claims and
liens described in Section 2.17 of this Agreement.
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of
the premises and of the mutual covenants and agreements contained
herein, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:
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ARTICLE
1
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):
“ ABL Priority
Collateral ” has the meaning set forth in the DIP
Intercreditor Agreement.
“ Account
Collateral ” has the meaning specified in
Section 9.01(f).
“ Accounts
” has the meaning set forth in the UCC or, in the case of the
Canadian Guarantor, in the PPSA.
“
Administrative Agent ” has the meaning specified in
the recital of parties to this Agreement.
“
Administrative Agent’s Account ” means the
account of the Administrative Agent maintained by the
Administrative Agent with The Bank of New York Mellon and
identified to the Borrower and the Lenders from time to
time.
“
Administration Charge ” means a court-ordered charge
in favor of (i) RSM Richter Inc. in its capacity as
information officer, (ii) counsel to the information officer
and (iii) counsel to the Borrower and the U.S. Guarantors and
the Canadian Guarantor, in the amount of Cdn$150,000, granted
pursuant to the Canadian Recognition Order.
“ 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 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 direct or cause the
direction of the management and policies of such Person, whether
through the ownership of Voting Stock, by contract or
otherwise.
“
After-Acquired Intellectual Property ” has the meaning
specified in Section 9.04(e)(iii).
“
Agent-Related Persons ” means, the Administrative
Agent, together with its respective Affiliates, and the officers,
directors, employees, agents and attorneys-in-fact of the
Administrative Agent and its Affiliates. For the avoidance of
doubt, The Bank of New York Mellon acting as a sub-agent of the
Administrative Agent for certain purposes hereunder shall
constitute an Agent-Related Person for all purposes under this
Agreement.
“ Agreement
Value ” means, for each Hedge Agreement, on any date of
determination, an amount equal to: (a) in the case of a
Hedge Agreement documented pursuant to the Master Agreement
(Multicurrency-Cross Border) published by the International Swap
and Derivatives Association, Inc. (the “ Master
Agreement ”), the amount, if any, that would be payable
by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries to its counterparty to
such Hedge Agreement, as if (a) in the case of a Hedge
Agreement traded on an exchange, the mark-to-market value of such
Hedge Agreement, which will be the unrealized loss or gain on such
Hedge Agreement to the Loan Party
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or Subsidiary of a Loan
Party to such Hedge Agreement based on the settlement price of such
Hedge Agreement on such date of determination; or (b) in all
other cases, the mark-to-market value of such Hedge Agreement,
which will be the unrealized loss or gain on such Hedge Agreement
to the Loan Party or Subsidiary of a Loan Party to such Hedge
Agreement determined as the amount, if any, by which (i) the
present value of the future cash flows to be paid by such Loan
Party or Subsidiary exceeds (ii) the present value of the
future cash flows to be received by such Loan Party or Subsidiary
pursuant to such Hedge Agreement; capitalized terms used and not
otherwise defined in this definition shall have the respective
meanings set forth in the above described Master
Agreement
“ Alternate
Base Rate ” means, at any time a Eurodollar Rate Market
Disruption Event has occurred and is continuing, a fluctuating
interest rate per annum in effect from time to time, which rate per
annum shall at all times be equal to the highest of:
(a)
½ of 1% per
annum above the Federal Funds Rate;
(b)
5.00%; and
(c)
the Alternate
Eurodollar Rate for an Interest Period of one month in effect on
such day plus 1%.
“ Alternate
Base Rate Advance ” means an Advance that bears interest
at a rate based on the Alternate Base Rate. Other than in
respect of the applicable rate in respect of the Base Rate, all
Alternate Base Rate Advances will be deemed to be Base Rate
Advances for all other purposes of this Agreement.
“ Alternate
Eurodollar Rate” means, for any date of determination, a
rate per annum equal to the Eurodollar Rate plus, if the TED Spread
as of 11:00 am, New York City time, on the applicable Business Day
is (a) less than 1.50%, a rate per annum equal to 0.00%,
(b) equal to or greater than 1.50% but less than or equal to
3.00%, a rate per annum equal to 1.00% and (c) if greater than
3.00%, a rate per annum equal to 2.00%.
“ 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 the case of a Eurodollar Rate Advance
or a Base Rate Advance, 15.00% per annum.
“ 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.
“ Asset
Purchase Agreement ” has the meaning set forth in
Section 5.01(p)(i).
“ Asset
Sale ” means any sale, lease, transfer or other
disposition of property or series of related sales, leases,
transfers or other dispositions of property by the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries that yields Net Cash Proceeds to the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries (valued at the initial principal amount thereof in the
case of non-cash proceeds consisting of notes or other debt
securities and valued at fair market value in the case of other
non-cash proceeds).
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“ 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 10.07 and
in substantially the form of Exhibit C hereto.
“
Availability ” means at any time the excess of
(a) the total amount of the Commitment over (b) the
Advances outstanding at such time.
“ Avoidance
Actions ” shall mean any and all claims or causes of
action arising under Chapter 5 (other than Section 506(c)) or
Section 724(a) of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code to avoid transfers,
preserve or transfer liens or otherwise recover property of the
estate. “Avoidance Actions” do not include claims or
causes of action pursuant to Section 549 of the Bankruptcy Code and
the proceeds thereof, to the extent the transfer avoided was of an
asset otherwise constituting the Collateral.
“ Bankruptcy
Codes ” has the meaning specified in the Preliminary
Statements.
“ Bankruptcy
Courts ” has the meaning specified in the Preliminary
Statements.
“ 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)
½ of 1% per
annum above the Federal Funds Rate; and
(b)
5.00%.
“ Base Rate
Market Disruption Event ” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.10.
“ BIA
” means the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act
(Canada).
“ Bid
Procedures Motions ” has the meaning specified in
Section 5.01(p).
“ Bid
Procedures Orders ” has the meaning specified in
Section 5.01(p).
“ 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 and specified in writing to the
Administrative Agent from time to time; provided that such account
shall be maintained with the Administrative Agent or a Lender or
will be the subject of the account control agreement listed on
Schedule 5.01(n)(iii), which will create a valid perfected first
priority security interest in such account in favor of the
Administrative Agent for the ratable benefit of the Secured
Parties.
“
Borrowing ” means a borrowing consisting of
simultaneous Advances made by the Lenders.
“ Business
Day ” means a day of the year on which banks are not
required or authorized by law to close in New York City and,
if the applicable Business Day relates to any Eurodollar Rate
Advances, on which dealings are carried on in the London interbank
market.
“ Canadian
Bankruptcy Court ” has the meaning specified in the
Preliminary Statements.
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“ Canadian
CCAA Orders ” means collectively the Canadian Recognition
Order, the Canadian DIP Recognition Order and the Canadian Second
DIP Recognition Order.
“ Canadian DIP
Recognition Order ” means a recognition order made by the
Canadian Bankruptcy Court pursuant to section 18.6 of the
CCAA, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Required
Lenders, recognizing and giving full force and effect to the U.S.
Interim DIP Order;
“ Canadian
Guarantor ” has the meaning set forth in the recitals of
parties to this Agreement.
“ Canadian
Pension Plans ” means each plan which is a
“registered pension plan” (as defined in
Section 248(1) of the ITA) in Canada, established, maintained
or contributed to by any Loan Party for its employees or former
employees, and shall not mean the Canadian Pension Plan that is
maintained by the Government of Canada.
“ Canadian
Benefit Plans ” means all material employee benefit plans
of any nature or kind whatsoever that are not Canadian Pension
Plans and are maintained or contributed to by any Loan Party having
employees in Canada.
“ Canadian
Recognition Order ” means a certified copy of the
recognition order made by the Canadian Bankruptcy Court pursuant to
section 18.6 of the CCAA in substantially the form of Exhibit
E-2.
“ Canadian
Second DIP Recognition Order ” means a recognition order
made by the Canadian Bankruptcy Court pursuant to section 18.6
of the CCAA, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the
Required Lenders recognizing and giving full force and effect to
the U.S. Final DIP Order.
“ Canadian
Security Agreement ” means the Security Agreement dated
as of the date hereof attached as Exhibit H hereto by and
among Milacron Canada and the Administrative Agent, in form and
substance reasonably satisfactory to the Required
Lenders.
“ Capital
Expenditures ” means, for any Person for any period, the
sum (without duplication) of all expenditures made, directly or
indirectly, by such Person or any of its Subsidiaries during such
period for equipment, fixed assets, real property or improvements,
or for replacements or substitutions therefor or additions thereto,
that have been or should be, in accordance with GAAP, reflected as
additions to property, plant or equipment on a Consolidated balance
sheet of such Person.
“ Capitalized
Leases ” means all leases that have been or should be, in
accordance with GAAP, recorded as capitalized leases.
“
Carve-Out ” means the sum of (a) accrued but
unpaid professional fees and expenses of the Loan Parties and the
Committee and the amount of Administration Charge, solely to the
extent such fees and expenses (and in the case of the
Administration Charge, the fees and expenses claimed thereon) are
consistent with the Thirteen Week Forecast, were incurred prior to
the occurrence of an Event of Default (but after the later of
(i) 50 days prior to the date of the occurrence of the
Event of Default and (ii) the date of filing of the last fee
application (of the applicable professional) prior to such Event of
Default), and are allowed by the applicable
Bankruptcy Court and
(b) accrued but unpaid professional fees and expenses incurred by the
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Loan Parties and the
Committee (to the extent consistent with the Thirteen Week
Forecast) in the Cases after an Event of Default (that is not cured
or waived) in an aggregate amount not to exceed $1,500,000, which
amount will (i) be inclusive of the amount of the Administration
Charge and (ii) also be used for payment of approved professional
fees for any Bankruptcy Court appointed Chapter 7 trustee, or
similar trustee or receiver in the CCAA Case, (c) fees payable
to the Office of the United States Trustee pursuant to 28 U.S.C.
§ 1930 and to the clerk of the U.S. Bankruptcy Court, provided
that “Carve-Out” shall not include (i) any other
claims that are or may be senior to or pari passu with the claims
described in this definition or (ii) any claims related to the
investigation of, preparation for, or commencement or prosecution
of, any claims or proceedings against (1) Administrative Agent
or the Lenders, or their claims or security interests in or Liens
on, the Collateral, whether under this Agreement or any other Loan
Document or (2) the Senior Secured Noteholders or the
Indenture Trustee under the Senior Secured Notes Indenture or their
claims or security interests in connection with the Senior Secured
Notes Indenture or any of the documents or instruments entered into
in connection therewith. For greater certainty, there shall
be only a single Carve-Out in the amount set forth above from the
Collateral and Liens thereon securing the Facility and the GECC DIP
Facility.
“ Cases
” has the meaning specified in the Preliminary
Statements.
“ Cash
Equivalents ” means (a marketable direct obligations
issued or unconditionally guaranteed by the United States
Government or issued by any agency thereof and backed by the full
faith and credit of the United States, in each case, maturing
within six months from the date of acquisition thereof; (b)
commercial paper, maturing not more than 270 days after the
date of issue rated P-1 by Moody’s or A-1 by Standard &
Poor’s; (c) certificates of deposit maturing not more
than 270 days after the date of issue, issued by commercial
banking institutions and money market or demand deposit accounts
maintained at commercial banking institutions, each of which is a
member of the Federal Reserve System and has a combined capital and
surplus and undivided profits of not less than $500,000,000;
(d) repurchase agreements having maturities of not more than
90 days from the date of acquisition which are entered into
with major money center banks included in the commercial banking
institutions described in clause (c) above and which are
secured by readily marketable direct obligations of the United
States Government or any agency thereof, (e) money market
accounts maintained with mutual funds having assets in excess of
$2,500,000,000; and (f) tax exempt securities rated A or
higher by Moody’s or A+ or higher by Standard &
Poor’s.
“ CCAA
” has the meaning specified in the Preliminary
Statements.
“ CCAA
Case ” has the meaning specified in the Preliminary
Statements.
“ Change of
Control ” means any of the following: (a) any
person or group of persons (within the meaning of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934,) shall have acquired beneficial ownership
(within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 promulgated by the
Securities and Exchange Commission under the Securities Exchange
Act of 1934,) of 49% or more of the issued and outstanding Equity
Interests of the Borrower having the right to vote for the election
of directors of the Borrower under ordinary circumstances; or
(b) during any period of twenty-four consecutive calendar
months, individuals who at the beginning of such period constituted
the Board of Directors of the Borrower (together with any new
directors whose election by the Board of Directors of the Borrower
or whose nomination for election by the stockholders of the
Borrower was approved by a vote of at least a majority of the
directors then still in office who either were directors at the
beginning of such period or whose election or nomination for
election
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was previously so
approved) cease for any reason other than death or disability to
constitute a majority of the directors then in office.
“
Collateral ” means all “Collateral”
referred to in the Collateral Documents and all other property that
is or is intended to be subject to any Lien in favor of the
Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties.
It being understood that “Collateral” shall not
include any Avoidance Actions until the entry of the U.S. Final DIP
Order, and upon entry of such U.S. Final DIP Order,
“Collateral” shall include any Avoidance Actions as
provided in the U.S. Final DIP Order.
“ Collateral
Documents ” means, collectively, the provisions of
Article IX of this Agreement, the Canadian Security Agreement,
the Quebec Security Documents, the DIP Financing Order and any
other agreement that creates or purports to create a Lien in favor
of the Administrative 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 Assignments and
Assignments, set forth for such Lender in the Register maintained
by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 10.07(d) as
such Lender’s “Commitment”, as such amount may be
reduced at or prior to such time pursuant to Section 2.05.
As of the Effective Date, the aggregate principal amount of
the Commitments is $80,000,000.
“ Commitment
Letter ” means the commitment letter dated as of March
10, 2009 by and among the Initial Lenders and the
Borrower.
“
Committee ” means the official committee of unsecured
creditors, if any, formed in the U.S. Cases.
“ Computer
Software ” has the meaning specified in
Section 9.01(g)(iv).
“ Confidential
Information ” means any and all material non-public
information delivered or made available by any Loan Party or any
Subsidiary relating to any Loan Party or any Subsidiary or their
respective businesses, other than any such information that is or
has been made available publicly by a Loan Party or any
Subsidiary.
“
Consolidated ” refers to the consolidation of accounts
in accordance with GAAP.
“
Conversion ”, “ Convert ” and
“ Converted ” each refers to the conversion of
Advances from one Type to Advances of the other Type.
“
Copyrights ” has the meaning specified in
Section 9.01(g)(iii).
“ Credit
Bid ” means the “credit bid” (pursuant to
section 363(k) of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code) of (a) any of the
Secured Obligations owing to the Lenders under the Loan Documents
and/or (b) the secured obligations owing to the Lenders under the
Senior Secured Notes Indenture (clauses (a) and (b) collectively,
the “ Outstanding Obligations ”) in connection
with the purchase of the Debtors’ assets, which may be
consummated pursuant to a transaction structure where all, or a
portion of, the Outstanding Obligations are exchanged for Equity
Interests or debt instruments in Newco, in the sole discretion of
the Required Lenders.
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“ DDJ
” has the meaning specified in the preamble.
“ DDJ
Funds ” has the meaning specified in the
preamble.
“ Debt
” of any Person means, without duplication, (a) all
indebtedness of such Person for borrowed money, (b) all
indebtedness of such Person for the deferred purchase price of
property or services (other than trade payables incurred in the
ordinary course of such Person’s business), (c) all
obligations of such Person evidenced by notes, bonds, debentures or
other similar instruments, (d) all indebtedness 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 acceptances, letter of credit or
similar facilities, (g) all mandatory obligations of such
Person to purchase, redeem, retire, defease or otherwise make any
payment in cash 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 obligations of such Person in respect of Hedge
Agreements, valued at the Agreement Value thereof, (i) all
Guarantee Obligations and Synthetic Debt of such Person and
(j) all indebtedness and other payment Obligations referred to
in clauses (a) through (i) 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 indebtedness or
other payment Obligations.
“ Debtors
” means each of the Borrowers and the Guarantors.
“ Debtor
Relief Laws ” means the U.S. Bankruptcy Code, the CCAA,
the BIA and all other liquidation, conservatorship, bankruptcy,
assignment for the benefit of creditors, moratorium, rearrangement,
receivership, insolvency, reorganization, or similar debtor relief
laws of the United States or other applicable jurisdictions from
time to time in effect and affecting the rights of creditors
generally.
“ Default
” means any Event of Default or any event that would
constitute an Event of Default but for the requirement that notice
be given or time elapse or both.
“ Defaulted
Advance ” means, with respect to any Lender at any time,
the portion of any Advance required to be made by such Lender to
the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.01 or 2.02 at or prior to
such time which has not been made by such Lender or by the
Administrative Agent for the account of such Lender pursuant to
Section 2.02(e) as of such time. In the event that a
portion of a Defaulted Advance shall be deemed made pursuant to
Section 2.15(a), the remaining portion of such Defaulted
Advance shall be considered a Defaulted Advance originally required
to be made pursuant to Section 2.01 on the same date as the
Defaulted Advance so deemed made in part.
“ Defaulted
Amount ” means, with respect to any Lender at any time,
any amount required to be paid by such Lender to the Administrative
Agent or any other Lender hereunder or under any other Loan
Document at or prior to such time which has not been so paid as of
such time, including, without limitation, any amount required to be
paid by such Lender to (a) the
Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 2.02(e) to reimburse the Administrative Agent
for the
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amount of any Advance
made by the Administrative Agent for the account of such Lender,
(d) any other Lender pursuant to Section 2.13 to purchase
any participation in Advances owing to such other Lender and
(e) the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 7.07 to
reimburse the Administrative Agent for such Lender’s ratable
share of any amount required to be paid by the Lenders to the
Administrative Agent as provided therein. In the event that a
portion of a Defaulted Amount shall be deemed paid pursuant to
Section 2.15(b), the remaining portion of such Defaulted
Amount shall be considered a Defaulted Amount originally required
to be paid hereunder or under any other Loan Document on the same
date as the Defaulted Amount so deemed paid in part.
“ Defaulting
Lender ” means, at any time, any Lender that, at such
time, (a) owes a Defaulted Advance or a Defaulted Amount or
(b) shall take any action or be the subject of any action or
proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law.
“ DIP ABL
Agent ” means General Electric Capital Corporation, in
its capacity as administrative agent under the GECC DIP
Facility.
“ DIP ABL
Lenders ” means “Lenders” as defined under
the GECC DIP Credit Agreement.
“ DIP
Budget ” means the Interim DIP Budget together with the
Final DIP Budget.
“ DIP
Financing Order ” means, collectively the U.S. Interim
DIP Order, the U.S. Final DIP Order and the Canadian CCAA
Orders.
“ DIP
Intercreditor Agreement ” means the DIP Intercreditor
Agreement dated as of the date hereof attached as Exhibit I hereto
by and among the DIP ABL Agent, the Administrative Agent and the
Loan Parties.
“ DIP
Participation Period ” means the period commencing on the
date the U.S. Interim DIP Order is entered and ending on the date
that is five days prior to the commencement of the final hearing
before the U.S. Bankruptcy Court to approve the
Facility.
“ 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.
“ Dutch
Guarantor ” has the meaning specified in the recitals of
parties.
“ Dutch Pledge
Agreement ” means the deed of pledge entered into in
accordance with Schedule 5.01(n)(iii) evidencing the pledge by the
Borrower of its shares in the Dutch Guarantor in favor of the
Administrative Agent for the ratable benefit of the Secured
Parties.
“ Effective
Date ” means the date on which this Agreement shall
become effective pursuant to Section 3.01.
“ Eligible
Assignee ” means (i) an Initial Lender; (ii) an
Affiliate of an Initial Lender; (iii) an Approved Fund of an
Initial Lender; (iv) during the DIP Participation Period, a
Noteholder and (v) any other Person (other
than an individual) approved by
the Required
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Lenders; provided
, however , that neither any Loan Party nor any Affiliate of
a Loan Party shall qualify as an Eligible Assignee under this
definition.
“ Enforcement
Notice ” has the meaning set forth in the DIP Financing
Order.
“
Environmental Action ” means any action, suit, written
demand, demand letter, written claim, written notice of
noncompliance 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, any Hazardous Material, or arising from
alleged injury or threat to public or employee health or safety, as
such relates to exposure to Hazardous Material, or to 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 applicable federal,
state, local or foreign statute, law, ordinance, rule, regulation,
code, order, writ, judgment, injunction or decree, or judicial or
agency interpretation, relating to pollution or protection of the
environment, public or employee health or safety, as such relates
to exposure to Hazardous Material, 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.
“
Equipment ” has the meaning specified in the
UCC.
“ 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 on any
date of determination.
“ 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(b), (c), (m) or (o) of the Internal
Revenue Code.
“ ERISA
Event ” means (a) (i) the occurrence of a
reportable event, within the meaning of Section 4043 of ERISA,
with respect to any ERISA Plan unless the 30-day notice requirement
with respect to such event has been waived by the PBGC or
(ii) the requirements of subsection (1) of
Section 4043(b) of ERISA (without regard to
subsection (2) of such Section) are met with respect to a
contributing sponsor, as defined in Section 4001(a)(13) of
ERISA, of an ERISA 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 ERISA Plan within the following
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30 days; (b) the
application for a minimum funding waiver with respect to an ERISA
Plan; (c) the provision by the administrator of any ERISA Plan
of a notice of intent to terminate such ERISA 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 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 ERISA Plan (for plan years beginning
in 2007 or earlier); or (g) the institution by the PBGC of
proceedings to terminate an ERISA 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 ERISA Plan. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
after the commencement of the Cases, the failure of a Loan Party or
any ERISA Affiliate to (x) make any contribution required under
Section 412 of the Internal Revenue Code, (y) the distress
termination of the Milacron Retirement Plan pursuant to section
4041 of ERISA or (x) the institution and/or completion of
proceedings by the PBGC to terminate the Milacron Retirement Plan
pursuant to section 4042 of ERISA shall not constitute an ERISA
Event.
“ ERISA
Plan ” means a Single Employer Plan or a Multiple
Employer Plan.
“ 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, 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.
“ Eurodollar
Rate ” means, for any Interest Period for all Eurodollar
Rate Advances comprising part of the same Borrowing, an interest
rate per annum equal to the higher of (a) rate per annum obtained
by dividing (i) the rate per annum (rounded upwards, if
necessary, to the nearest 1/100 of 1%) appearing on Telerate
Page 3750 (or any successor page) as the London interbank
offered rate for deposits in U.S. dollars at 11:00 A.M.
(London time) two Business Days before the first day of such
Interest Period for a period equal to such Interest Period (
provided that, if for any reason such rate is not available,
the term “Eurodollar Rate” shall mean, for any Interest
Period for all Eurodollar Rate Advances comprising part of the same
Borrowing, the rate per annum (rounded upwards, if necessary, to
the nearest 1/100 of 1%) appearing on Reuters Screen LIBO Page as
the London interbank offered rate for deposits in Dollars at
approximately 11:00 A.M. (London time) two Business Days prior
to the first day of such Interest Period for a term comparable to
such Interest Period); provided , however , if more
than one rate is specified on Reuters Screen LIBO Page, the
applicable rate shall be the arithmetic mean of all such rates) by
(ii) a percentage equal to 100% minus the Eurodollar Rate
Reserve Percentage for such Interest Period and (b)
4.00%.
“ Eurodollar
Rate Advance ” means an Advance that bears interest as
provided in Section 2.07(a)(ii).
“ Eurodollar
Rate Market Disruption Event ” has the meaning specified
in Section 2.10(a).
“ Eurodollar
Rate 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
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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.
“ Excluded
Property ” means property constituting withholdings
required under any law (including but not limited to federal, state
and local income, payroll and trust fund taxes and insurance
payments of any nature, whether imposed on the employer or employee
or otherwise) from any amounts due to any employee of a Loan Party,
and any withholdings from an employee considered a “plan
asset” under Title I of ERISA and any assets of the Canadian
Guarantor that do not constitute “Collateral” under the
Senior Secured Notes Indenture.
“ Facility
” has the meaning specified in the preliminary
statements.
“ 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.
“ Final DIP
Budget ” means the updated Interim DIP Budget delivered
by the Borrower prior to or in connection with the entry of the
Final DIP Order.
“ Final DIP
Order ” means the Canadian Second DIP Recognition Order
together with the U.S. Final DIP Order.
“ First Day
Orders ” means all orders entered by the U.S. Bankruptcy
Court on the Petition Date or within five Business Days of the
Petition Date or based on motions filed on the Petition Date, each
such First Day Order being in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to the Initial Lenders.
“ Fiscal
Year ” means a fiscal year of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries ending on December 31.
“ Foreign
Subsidiary ” means, at any time, any of the direct or
indirect Subsidiaries of the Borrower that are organized outside of
the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of
Columbia at such time.
“ Fund
” means any Person (other than a natural person) 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 of its business.
“ GAAP
” has the meaning specified in Section 1.02.
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“ GECC DIP
Credit Agreement ” means the Debtor in Possession Credit
Agreement dated as of the date hereof by and among the DIP ABL
Agent, the other financial institutions from time to time party
thereto, the Debtors and the other parties listed on the signature
pages thereto.
“ GECC DIP
Facility ” means the asset based revolving credit
facility provided by GECC and the other DIP ABL Lenders under the
GECC DIP Credit Agreement in an aggregate principal amount not to
exceed $55,000,000.
“ General
Intangibles ” has the meaning specified in the
UCC.
“ Governmental
Authority ” means any nation or government, any state or
other political subdivision thereof, and any agency, department or
other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial,
regulatory or administrative functions of or pertaining to
government.
“ Granting
Lender ” has the meaning specified in
Section 10.07(k).
“ Guarantee
Obligation ” means, with respect to any Person, any
Obligation or arrangement of such Person to guarantee or intended
to guarantee any Debt (“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 primary 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 Guarantee
Obligation shall be deemed to be an amount equal to the stated or
determinable amount of the primary obligation in respect of which
such Guarantee 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 Guarantee
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.
“ Guaranteed
Obligations ” has the meaning specified in
Section 8.01.
“
Guarantor ” has the meaning specified in the recital
of parties to this Agreement.
“ Guaranty
” has the meaning specified in Section 8.01.
“ Guaranty
Supplement ” has the meaning specified in
Section 8.05.
“ Hazardous
Materials ” means (a) petroleum or petroleum
products, by-products or breakdown products, radioactive materials,
asbestos-containing materials, polychlorinated biphenyls, mold and
radon gas and (b) any other chemicals, materials or substances
designated,
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classified or regulated
as hazardous, toxic or words of similar import under any
Environmental Law.
“ Hedge
Agreements ” means interest rate swap, cap or collar
agreements, interest rate future or option contracts, currency swap
agreements, currency future or option contracts and other hedging
agreements.
“ Indemnified
Liabilities ” has the meaning specified in
Section 10.04(b).
“
Indemnitees ” has the meaning specified in
Section 10.04(b).
“ Indenture
Trustee ” means U.S. Bank National Association, as
indenture trustee under the Senior Secured Notes
Indenture.
“ Initial
Borrowing ” has the meaning set forth in Section
2.01(b).
“ Initial
Lenders ” has the meaning specified in the recital of
parties to this Agreement.
“ Initial
Pledged Debt ” means Debt in existence on the Petition
Date which is evidenced by a promissory note payable to a Loan
Party by a third party with a principal face amount in excess of
$100,000 as listed opposite such Loan Party’s name on and as
otherwise described in Schedule V hereto.
“ Initial
Pledged Equity ” means the shares of stock and other
Equity Interests in any Subsidiary of a Loan Party as set forth
opposite each Loan Party’s name on and as otherwise described
in Schedule IV hereto.
“
Insufficiency ” means, with respect to any ERISA Plan,
the amount, if any, of its unfunded benefit liabilities, as defined
in Section 4001(a)(18) of ERISA.
“ Intellectual
Property ” has the meaning specified in
Section 9.01(g).
“ Intellectual
Property Collateral ” shall mean all Material
Intellectual Property.
“ 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 one month period and, thereafter,
each subsequent one month period commencing on the last day of the
immediately preceding Interest Period and ending on the last day of
the one month period; provided , however ,
that:
(a)
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
(b)
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
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number of months in such
Interest Period, such Interest Period shall end on the last
Business Day of such succeeding calendar month.
“ Interim DIP
Budget ” means a 13-week forecast delivered to the
Initial Lenders, detailing on a weekly basis for such period the
Borrower’s anticipated income statement, balance sheet and
cash flow statement, each on a Consolidated basis for the Borrower
and its Subsidiaries, together with a written set of assumptions
supporting such statements.
“ Interim DIP
Order ” means the Canadian DIP Recognition Order together
with the U.S. Interim DIP Order.
“ Interim DIP
Order Commitment Amount ” means $40,000,000 (of which
$20,000,000 shall constitute a portion of the Roll-Up Reserve);
provided that prior to the entry by the Canadian Bankruptcy
Court of the Canadian DIP Recognition Order, no more than
$30,000,000 shall be made available to the Borrower.
“ Internal
Revenue Code ” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986,
as amended from time to time, and the regulations promulgated and
rulings issued thereunder.
“
Inventory ” has the meaning specified in the UCC or,
in the case of the Canadian Guarantor, in the PPSA.
“
Investment ” means, with respect to any Person,
(a) any direct or indirect purchase or other acquisition
(whether for cash, securities, property, services or otherwise) by
such Person of, or of a beneficial interest in, any Equity
Interests or Debt of any other Person, (b) any direct or
indirect purchase or other acquisition (whether for cash,
securities, property, services or otherwise) by such Person of all
or substantially all of the property and assets of any other Person
or of any division, branch or other unit of operation of any other
Person, (c) any direct or indirect loan, advance, other
extension of credit or capital contribution by such Person to, or
any other investment by such Person in, any other Person
(including, without limitation, any arrangement pursuant to which
the investor incurs indebtedness of the types referred to in
clause (i) or (j) of the definition of “ Debt
” set forth in this Section 1.01 in respect of such
other Person) and (d) any written agreement to make any
Investment.
“ ITA
” means the Income Tax Act (Canada), as the same may, from
time to time, be in effect.
“ IP
Agreements ” has the meaning specified in
Section 9.01(g)(viii).
“ Lenders
” has the meaning specified in the recital of parties to this
Agreement.
“ Lien
” means any mortgage, deed of trust, pledge, lien (statutory
or otherwise), security interest, charge (including a court-ordered
charge) or other encumbrance or security or preferential
arrangement of any nature, including, without limitation, any
conditional sale or title retention arrangement, any Capital Lease
and any assignment, deposit arrangement or financing lease intended
as, or having the effect of, security.
“ Lloyds
Facility ” is defined in Section 3.01(f).
“ Loan
Documents ” means (i) this Agreement, (ii) the
Notes, if any, (iii) the Collateral Documents,
(iv) the DIP Intercreditor
Agreement and (v) any other document,
agreement or
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instrument executed and
delivered by a Loan Party in connection with the Facility, in each
case as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to
time in accordance with the terms thereof.
“ Loan
Parties ” means, collectively, the Borrower and the
Guarantors.
“ Margin
Stock ” has the meaning specified in
Regulation U.
“ Market
Disruption Event ” means any event, condition or
circumstance pursuant to which the Required Lenders have provided a
Market Disruption Notice pursuant to
Section 2.10(a).
“ Market
Disruption Notice ” means a notice substantially in the
form of Exhibit J hereto appropriately completed and delivered
to the Administrative Agent by not later than 2:00 pm New York City
time on the next succeeding Business Day following delivery by the
Administrative Agent of a notice pursuant to Section 2.02 of
receipt by the Administrative Agent of a Notice of
Borrowing.
“ Material
Adverse Effect ” means a material adverse effect on any
of (i) the operations, business, assets, properties, condition
(financial or otherwise) or liabilities of the Loan Parties taken
as a whole, (ii) the ability of any Loan Party to perform any
of its obligations under any Loan Document to which it is a party,
(iii) the legality, validity or enforceability of this
Agreement or any other Loan Document, (iv) the rights and
remedies of Administrative Agent or any Lender under any Loan
Document, or (v) the validity, perfection or priority of any
and all Liens in favor of Agent for the benefit of Agent and the
Lenders on any of the Collateral with an aggregate fair market
value in excess of $3,000,000; provided however that the
commencement of the Cases shall not, in and of its self, be deemed
or constitute or give rise to a Material Adverse Effect.
“ Material
Intellectual Property ” means the Intellectual Property
set forth on Schedule 1.01(b).
“ Maturity
Date ” means the earliest to occur of
(a) 180 days after the Petition Date; (b) the
effective date of any Reorganization Plan or plan of liquidation or
a plan of compromise or arrangement of any Debtor; (c) the
date on which a conversion of the Cases pursuant to Chapter 7
of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code occurs or the date of termination of
the CCAA Case or appointment of an interim receiver, receiver or
receiver and manager, or commencement of any proceeding under the
BIA or any other similar process in the CCAA Case; (d) the
date on which the acceleration of the Advances and the termination
of the Commitments with respect to the Facility occurs in
accordance with the terms of the Loan Documents, (e) the date
on which all obligations outstanding under the Facility are paid in
full, (f) the date of consummation of the transactions
contemplated under the Bid Procedures Orders and (g) the date
on which all Obligations in respect of the GECC DIP Facility mature
or terminate.
“ Merge
” means for any Person to liquidate or dissolve, consolidate
or amalgamate with, or merge into or with, any other Person, or
purchase or otherwise acquire all or substantially all of the
assets of any Person (or any division thereof).
“ Milacron
Assurance ” means Milacron Assurance Ltd., a Bermuda
company.
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“ Milacron
Canada ” means Milacron Canada Ltd., a corporation
organized under the laws of Ontario.
“ Milacron
Retirement Plan ” means the defined benefit pension plan
sponsored by the Borrower for the benefit of certain of its
employees and the employees of its ERISA Affiliates and referred to
the Borrowers annual filings as Plan Number 001.
“
Moody’s ” means Moody’s Investor Services,
Inc.
“
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:
(a)
with respect to any
Asset Sale or Recovery Event, the excess, if any, of (i) the
sum of cash and Cash Equivalents received in connection with such
Asset Sale or Recovery Event (including any cash or Cash
Equivalents received by way of deferred payment pursuant to, or by
monetization of, a note receivable or otherwise, but only as and
when so received) over (ii) the sum of (A) the principal
amount of any Debt (other than Debt under the Loan Documents) that
is secured by any such asset and that is required to be repaid in
connection with such Asset Sale or Recovery Event, (B) the
reasonable and customary out-of-pocket costs, fees (including
investment banking fees), commissions, premiums and expenses
actually paid by the Borrower or its Subsidiaries, and
(C) federal, state, provincial, foreign and local taxes
reasonably estimated (on a Consolidated basis) to be actually
payable within the current or the immediately succeeding tax year
as a result of any gain recognized in connection therewith;
and
(b)
with respect to the
sale or issuance of any Equity Interests by any Loan Party or any
of its Subsidiaries, or the incurrence or issuance of any Debt by
any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, the excess of
(i) the sum of the cash and Cash Equivalents received in
connection with such transaction over (ii) the underwriting
discounts and commissions, and other reasonable out-of-pocket fees
and expenses, incurred by such Loan Party or such Subsidiary in
connection therewith.
“ Newco
” means a newly formed entity (or entities), formed at the
direction of the Sponsors, for purposes of consummating the
transactions contemplated under the Asset Purchase
Agreement.
“ Non-Loan
Party ” means any Subsidiary of a Loan Party that is not
a Loan Party.
“ Non-U.S.
Loan Documents ” means the Canadian Security Agreement,
the Quebec Security Documents and the Dutch Pledge
Agreement.
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“ Non-U.S.
Loan Party ” means the Canadian Guarantor and the Dutch
Guarantor.
“ 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 indebtedness of the Borrower to such Lender
resulting from the Advance made by such Lender.
“
Noteholder ” means any holder of Senior Secured Notes
(other than the Initial Lenders) that constitutes an
“accredited investor” as defined in Rule 501 of the
Securities Act of 1933.
“ Notice of
Borrowing ” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.02(a).
“ Notice of
Default ” has the meaning specified in
Section 7.05.
“
Obligation ” means, with respect to any Person, any
payment, performance or other obligation of such Person of any
kind, including, without limitation, any liability of such Person
on any claim, whether or not the right of any creditor to payment
in respect of such claim is reduced to judgment, liquidated,
unliquidated, fixed, contingent, matured, disputed, undisputed,
legal, equitable, secured or unsecured, and whether or not such
claim is discharged, stayed or otherwise affected by any proceeding
under any Debtor Relief Law. Without limiting the generality
of the foregoing, the Obligations of the Loan Parties under the
Loan Documents include (a) the obligation to pay principal,
interest, charges, expenses, fees, reasonable attorneys’ fees
and disbursements, indemnities and other amounts payable by any
Loan Party under any Loan Document and (b) the obligation of
any 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.
“ Other
Taxes ” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.12(b).
“ Outstanding
Amount ” means with respect to Advances on any date, the
aggregate outstanding principal amount thereof after giving effect
to any borrowings and prepayments or repayments of Advances, as the
case may be, occurring on such date.
“ Patents
” has the meaning specified in
Section 9.01(g)(i).
“ PBGC
” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation (or any
successor).
“ Permitted
Asset Sales ” means the sales of certain assets of the
Loan Parties as agreed in writing prior to the date hereof between
the Borrower and the Initial Lenders.
“ Permitted
Intercompany Debt ” (i) (a) Debt of any Loan Party
to any other Loan Party or (b) Debt of any Foreign Subsidiary to a
Loan Party, in each case to the extent such Debt is
(A) evidenced by a promissory note with terms and provisions
reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent,
(B) promptly pledged to the Administrative Agent hereunder,
(C) on subordination provisions acceptable to the
Administrative Agent and (D) solely in the case of any Debt of a
Foreign Subsidiary to a Loan Party, up to an amount not to exceed,
when aggregated with any Investments permitted under Section
5.02(g)(viii), $3,500,000 (provided that notwithstanding the
foregoing, the aggregate amount of Debt permitted to be incurred
under this clause (i)(b) shall not exceed $500,000 without the
prior written consent of the Required Lenders) during the term of
this Agreement and the proceeds of such Debt are to be applied by
such Foreign Subsidiary in accordance with the DIP Budget;
(ii) Debt of any Non-Loan Party to another Non-Loan Party that
does not exceed $250,000 (iii) unsecured Debt of any Loan
Party
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owing to any Foreign
Subsidiary resulting from loans or advances made by a Foreign
Subsidiary to a Loan Party, to the extent such Debt is on
subordination provisions acceptable to the Administrative Agent;
(iv) unsecured Debt of the Borrower owing to Milacron
Assurance in connection with the self-insurance program of the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries to the extent such Debt (A) is
evidenced by a promissory note with terms and provisions reasonably
acceptable to Agent, (B) is subject to subordination provisions
acceptable to the Administrative Agent, (C) will not be repaid in
amounts in excess of the amounts necessary to pay the obligations
of Milacron Assurance under the self-insurance program for the
benefit of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries permitted under
Section 5.01(c) and (D) to the extent repaid by the Borrower to
Milacron Assurance for Milacron Assurance to make available to a
Foreign Subsidiary in respect of such self-insurance program, will
result, prior to or concurrently with such repayment, in Foreign
Subsidiaries remitting, transferring or otherwise repatriating
funds to a Loan Party in an aggregate U.S. dollar amount equal to
the amount repaid by the Borrower for such purpose; and (v) Debt of
any Foreign Subsidiary owing to any Loan Party existing as of the
Effective Date and listed on Schedule 5.02(b).
“ Permitted
Liens ” means:
(a)
Liens for taxes,
assessments and governmental charges the payment of which is not
required under Section 5.01(b);
(b)
Liens imposed by law
(other than any such Lien imposed pursuant to
Section 401(a)(29) or 412(n) of the Internal Revenue Code or
by ERISA), such as carriers’, warehousemen’s,
mechanics’, materialmen’s and other similar Liens
arising in the ordinary course of business and securing obligations
(other than Debt for borrowed money) that are not overdue by more
than 30 days or are being contested in good faith and by
appropriate proceedings promptly initiated and diligently
conducted, and a reserve or other appropriate provision, if any, as
shall be required by GAAP shall have been made therefor;
(c)
deposits and pledges of
cash securing (i) obligations incurred in respect of
workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance, automobile
liability or other forms of governmental insurance or benefits,
(ii) the performance of bids, tenders, leases, contracts
(other than for the payment of money) and statutory obligations,
(iii) obligations on surety or appeal bonds, but only to the
extent such deposits or pledges are made or otherwise arise in the
ordinary course of business and secure obligations not past due, or
(iv) obligations to suppliers and service providers (including
lessors in respect of operating leases) of the Loan Parties made in
the ordinary course of business and securing obligations not past
due, to the extent the aggregate amount of all such cash deposited
or pledged at any time does not exceed $2,000,000;
(d)
easements, zoning
restrictions, rights of way, survey exceptions, leases and
subleases and similar encumbrances on real property and minor
irregularities in the title thereto that do not (x) secure
obligations for the payment of money or (y) materially impair
the value of such property or its use by any Loan Party or any of
its Subsidiaries in the normal conduct of such Person’s
business;
(e)
Liens securing Debt
permitted by Section 5.02(b)(viii), and Liens permitted under
clause (h) of the definition of Permitted Liens under the GECC
DIP Credit Agreement;
(f)
Liens of landlords
arising under real property leases to the extent such Liens arise
in the ordinary course of business and do not secure any past due
obligation for the payment of money;
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(g)
bankers’ Liens
with respect to depository account arrangements entered into in the
ordinary course of business securing obligations not past due;
and
(h)
Liens in favor of any
Loan Party in the assets or property of a Subsidiary of the
Borrower that is not a Loan Party.
“ 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.
“ Petition
Date ” has the meaning specified in Preliminary
Statement.
“ Pledged
Collateral ” means, collectively, (i) the Initial
Pledged Equity, (ii) the Initial Pledged Debt,
(iii) Pledged Equity which is (x) all Equity Interests in
any domestic Subsidiary of a Loan Party other than the Initial
Pledged Equity that is acquired after the Petition Date or
(y) all Equity Interests in any third party entities owned by
any Loan Party, (iv) Pledged Debt (other than the Initial
Pledged Debt) which has a face principal amount which arises after
the Petition Date and (v) any Pledged Investment Property
(other than an Equity Interest), subject in the case of each to the
limitations and exclusions set forth in this Agreement.
“ Pledged
Debt ” has the meaning specified in
Section 9.01(e)(iv).
“ Pledged
Equity ” has the meaning specified in
Section 9.01(e)(iii).
“ Pledged
Investment Property ” has the meaning specified in
Section 9.01(e)(v).
“ PPSA
” means Personal Property Security Act (Ontario) or any
successor statute or similar legislation of any other Canadian
jurisdictions.
“ Pre-Petition
ABL Security Agreement ” means the Security Agreement as
defined in the Pre-Petition Credit Agreement.
“ Pre-Petition
Agent ” means General Electric Capital Corporation in its
capacity as administrative agent under the Pre-Petition Credit
Agreement.
“ Pre-Petition
Credit Agreement ” means that certain credit agreement
dated as of December 16, 2006 by and among the Borrower, the
Pre-Petition Agent and the other parties thereto, which may be
amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to
time.
“ Pre-Petition
Payment ” means a payment (by way of adequate protection
or otherwise) of principal or interest or otherwise on account of
any pre-petition Debt or trade payables or other pre-petition
“claims” (as defined in section 101(5) of the U.S.
Bankruptcy Code ) against the Borrower or any Guarantor.
“ Pre-Petition
Secured Indebtedness ” means all indebtedness and other
Obligations of the Borrower and the Guarantors that are secured
pursuant to the (a) Pre-Petition ABL Security Agreement and
(b) the Senior Secured Notes Security Documents.
“ 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
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Person upon any
distribution of such Person’s property and assets, whether by
dividend or upon liquidation.
“ Prepayment
Premium ” means an amount equal to 5% of the principal
amount of the Advances being prepaid at the time of any such
prepayment.
“ Priority
Collateral ” means, following satisfaction by the Loan
Parties of the conditions set forth in Section 3.03, the
Collateral securing the Facility on a first priority basis (subject
solely to unavoidable pre-petition Liens and Liens permitted under
Section 5.02(a), the DIP Intercreditor Agreement and the
Carve-Out).
“ Pro Rata
Share ” of any amount means, with respect to any Lender
at any time, the product of such amount times a fraction the
numerator of which is the amount of such Lender’s Commitment
(or, if the Commitments shall have been terminated pursuant to
Section 2.05 or 6.01, such Lender’s Commitment as in
effect immediately prior to such termination) under the Facility at
such time and the denominator of which is the amount of the
Facility at such time (or, if the Commitments shall have been
terminated pursuant to Section 2.05 or 6.01, the amount of the
Facility as in effect immediately prior to such
termination).
“ Professional
Fees ” means legal, appraisal, financing, consulting, and
other advisor fees incurred in connection with the Cases, the
transactions contemplated in the Bid Procedures Orders and this
Agreement.
“ Quebec
Security Documents ” means (i) first-ranking deed(s) of
hypothec against the moveable property described therein charging
the right, title and interest of the applicable Loan Party in such
property as security for the payment of debentures issued
thereunder (collectively, the “ Deed of Hypothec
”); (ii) debenture(s) issued pursuant to the Deed of Hypothec
in favour of the Administrative Agent; and (iii) a pledge of
debenture agreement entered into in favour of the Administrative
Agent and the Lenders in respect of each debenture issued pursuant
to the Deed of Hypothec.
“ Real
Property Collateral ” has the meaning specified in
Section 9.01(h).
“ Recovery
Event ” means any settlement of or payment in respect of
any property or casualty insurance claim or any condemnation
proceeding relating to any asset of the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries.
“
Redeemable ” means, with respect to any Equity
Interest, Debt or other right or Obligation, any such 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.
“ Register
” has the meaning specified in
Section 10.07(d).
“ Regulation
U ” means Regulation U of the Board of Governors of
the Federal Reserve System, as in effect from time to
time.
“ Related
Contracts ” has the meaning specified in
Section 9.01(c).
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“
Reorganization Plan ” shall mean a Chapter 11
plan of reorganization or a plan of compromise or arrangement under
the CCAA in any of the Cases of the Borrower or a
Guarantor.
“ Required
Lenders ” means, at any time, Lenders holding Commitments
representing not less than 65% of the aggregate amount of the
Commitments; provided that so long as (a) Avenue holds no
less than ##% of the Commitments and ##% of the then outstanding
Senior Secured Notes and (b) the DDJ Funds collectively hold no
less than ##% of the Commitments and ##% of the then outstanding
Senior Secured Notes, then Avenue and the DDJ Funds shall
constitute “Required Lenders” hereunder.
“ Responsible
Officer ” means the chief executive officer, president,
chief financial officer or treasurer of a Loan Party. Any
document delivered hereunder or under any other Loan Document 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 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.
“
Restructuring Support Agreement ” means the
restructuring support agreement dated as of March 10, 2009 by and
among the Debtors and the Initial Lenders, in form and substance
reasonably satisfactory to the Initial Lenders..
“ Roll-Up
” has the meaning set forth in
Section 2.01(c).
“ Roll-Up
Advance ” has the meaning set forth in
Section 2.01(c).
“
Roll-Up Order ” means an order of the U.S. Bankruptcy
Court in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Required
Lenders approving a Roll-Up in the amount equal to
$12,500,000.
“ Roll-Up
Reserve ” means an amount equal to 50% of the
Commitments, which portion of the Commitments is reserved for
purposes of consummating the Roll-Up.
“ S&P
” means Standard & Poor’s, a division of The
Mc-Graw Hill Companies, Inc.
“ SEC
” means the Securities and Exchange Commission or any
governmental authority succeeding to any of its principal
functions.
“ Secured
Obligation ” has the meaning specified in
Section 9.01.
“ Secured
Parties ” means the Administrative Agent and the
Lenders.
“ Security
Collateral ” has the meaning specified in
Section 9.01(e).
“ Senior
Secured Exchange Notes ” means the 11-½% senior
secured notes of Milacron, due May 15, 2011, issued in an
exchange offer pursuant to the Senior Secured Notes
Indenture.
“ Senior
Secured Notes ” means the 11-½% senior secured
notes of Milacron, due 2011, in an aggregate principal amount of
$225,000,000 issued pursuant to the Senior Secured Notes Indenture
and the Senior Secured Exchange Notes.
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“ Senior
Secured Notes Indenture ” means the Indenture, dated as
of May 26, 2004, by and among U.S. Bank National Association,
as trustee, Milacron Escrow Corporation, as issuer, which was
merged with and into Milacron, and the guarantors party thereto, as
may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to
time in accordance with the terms thereof.
“ Senior
Secured Notes Security Documents ” means all security
agreements, pledge agreements, collateral assignments, mortgages,
collateral agency agreements, control agreements, deeds of trust or
other grants or transfers for security executed and delivered by
Milacron Escrow Corporation, which was merged with and into
Milacron, any guarantor of the Senior Secured Notes or any
Subsidiary of Milacron Escrow Corporation, which was merged with
and into Milacron, creating a Lien upon “Collateral”
(as such term is defined in the Senior Secured Notes Indenture) in
favor of the Senior Secured Notes Collateral Agent, as applicable,
in each case, as amended, modified, renewed, restated or replaced,
in whole or in part, from time to time, in accordance with its
terms.
“ 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.
“ SPC
” has the meaning specified in
Section 10.07(k).
“ Sponsors
” means the Initial Lenders and their respective Affiliates
as well as certain of the other Lenders and their respective
Affiliates that will purchase certain assets of the Debtors in
accordance with the Bid Procedures Orders.
“ Subagent
” has the meaning specified in
Section 9.06(b).
“ Subsequent
Interim Borrowing ” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.01(b) .
“
Subsidiary ” means, with respect to any Person,
(a) any corporation of which an aggregate of more than 50% of
the outstanding Equity Interests having ordinary voting power to
elect a majority of the Board of Directors of such corporation
(irrespective of whether, at the time, Equity Interests of any
other class or classes of such corporation shall have or might have
voting power by reason of the happening of any contingency) is at
the time, directly or indirectly, owned legally or beneficially by
such Person or one or more Subsidiaries of such Person, or with
respect to which any such Person has the right to vote or designate
the vote of 50% or more of such Equity Interests whether by proxy,
agreement, operation of law or otherwise, and (b) any
partnership or limited liability company in which such Person
and/or one or more Subsidiaries of such Person shall have an
interest (whether in the form of voting or participation in profits
or capital contribution) of more than 50%. Unless the context
otherwise requires, each reference to a Subsidiary shall be a
reference to a Subsidiary of a Borrower.
“
Superpriority Claim ” shall mean a claim against the
Debtors in any of the Cases that is a superpriority administrative
expense claim having priority over any or all administrative
expenses and other claims of the kind specified in or otherwise
arising or ordered (i) with respect to the U.S. Cases, under
any Sections of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code (including, without
limitation, Sections 105, 326, 328, 330, 331, 503(b), 507(a),
507(b), 546(c) and/or 726 thereof), or (ii) with respect to
the CCAA Case pursuant to the Canadian CCAA Orders, whether or not
such claim or
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expenses may become
secured by a judgment lien or other non-consensual lien, levy or
attachment.
“ Synthetic
Debt ” means, with respect to any Person as of any date
of determination thereof, all Obligations of such Person in respect
of transactions entered into by such Person that are intended to
function primarily as a borrowing of funds (including, without
limitation, any minority interest transactions that function
primarily as a borrowing) but are not otherwise included in the
definition of “Debt” or as a liability on the
consolidated balance sheet of such Person and its Subsidiaries in
accordance with GAAP.
“ Taxes
” has the meaning specified in
Section 2.12(a).
“ TED
Spread ” means, at any time, the difference between the
London interbank offered rate for an interest period of three
months and the rate applicable to United States Treasury bills
having a maturity of three months (rounded upwards, if necessary,
to the nearest 1/100 of 1%) at such time as shown on the page
“TEDSP:IND” on the Bloomberg terminal (or any successor
or substitute page for such service or any successor or substitute
for such service providing such quotation or comparable quotation
in respect of the TED Spread), as determined by the Administrative
Agent from time to time for purposes of providing an equivalent
quotation under this definition as of such time.
“ Termination
Date ” means the earliest to occur of (i) the
Maturity Date, (ii) the effective date of a Reorganization
Plan or plan of liquidation or a plan of compromise or arrangement
and (iii) the date of termination in whole of the Commitments
pursuant to Section 2.05 or 6.01.
“ Thirteen
Week Forecast ” has the meaning set forth in
Section 5.03(f).
“ Trade
Secrets ” has the meaning specified in
Section 9.01(g)(v).
“
Trademarks ” has the meaning specified in
Section 9.01(g)(ii).
“ Transaction
Documents ” means the Loan Documents, the Asset Purchase
Agreement, the Restructuring Support Agreement and the other
documents entered into in connection with the transactions
contemplated under the Restructuring Support Agreement or the Asset
Purchase Agreement.
“ 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; provided that, if
perfection or the effect of perfection or non-perfection or the
priority of any security interest in any Collateral is governed by
the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in a jurisdiction other
than the State of New York, “UCC” means the Uniform
Commercial Code as in effect from time to time in such other
jurisdiction for purposes of the provisions hereof relating to such
perfection, effect of perfection or non-perfection or
priority.
“ Unused
Commitment ” means, with respect to any Lender at any
time (a) such Lender’s Commitment at such time
minus (b) the aggregate principal amount of all
Advances made by such Lender (in its capacity as a
Lender).
“ U.S.
Bankruptcy Code ” means is defined in the recitals of
parties.
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“ U.S.
Bankruptcy Court ” has the meaning specified in the
Preliminary Statements and means the United States District Court
for the Southern District of Ohio when such court is exercising
direct jurisdiction over the U.S. Cases.
“ U.S.
Cases ” has the meaning specified in the Preliminary
Statements.
“ U.S. Final
DIP Order ” means, collectively, the order of the U.S.
Bankruptcy Court entered in the U.S. Cases after a final hearing
under Rule 4001(c)(2) of the Federal Rules of Bankruptcy
Procedure or such other procedures as approved by the U.S.
Bankruptcy Court which order shall be reasonably satisfactory
in form and substance to Administrative Agent and the Required
Lenders, and from which no appeal or motion to reconsider has been
timely filed and such order in any respect is not the subject of a
stay pending appeal (unless Administrative Agent and the Required
Lenders waive such requirement), together with all extensions,
modifications and amendments thereto, in form and substance
satisfactory to Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders,
which, among other matters but not by way of limitation, authorizes
the Loan Parties to obtain credit, incur (or guaranty)
Indebtedness, and grant Liens under this Agreement and the other
Loan Documents, as the case may be, and provides for the
Administrative Agent’s and the Lenders’ Superpriority
Claims.
“ U.S.
Guarantors ” has the meaning specified in the recitals of
parties.
“ U.S. Interim
DIP Order ” means a certified copy of an order entered by
the U.S. Bankruptcy Court in substantially the form of
Exhibit E-1.
“ U.S.
Subsidiary ” means each Subsidiary of the Borrower
organized under the laws of the United States.
“ Voting
Stock ” means capital stock issued by a corporation, or
equivalent 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.
“ Welfare
Plan ” means a welfare plan, as defined in
Section 3(1) of ERISA, that is maintained for employees of any
Loan Party or in respect of which any Loan Party could have
liability.
“ Withdrawal
Liability ” has the meaning specified in Part I of
Subtitle E of Title IV of ERISA.
Section 1.02
Computation of Time
Periods .
In this Agreement 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”.
Section 1.03
Accounting
Terms .
All accounting terms not specifically defined herein shall be
construed in accordance with generally accepted accounting
principles consistent with those applied in the preparation of the
financial statements referred to in Section 4.01(f) (“
GAAP ”).
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ARTICLE II
AMOUNTS OF THE ADVANCES
Section 2.01
The
Advances .
(a) The Advances . Each Lender severally
agrees, on the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth, to make
an advance to the Borrower (an “ Advance ”) on
any Business Day during the period from the Effective Date until
the Termination Date (i) in an amount for each such Advance
not to exceed such Lender’s Unused Commitment at such time
and (ii) in an aggregate amount for all such Advances not to
exceed such Lender’s ratable portion (based on the aggregate
amount of the Unused Commitments at such time) of the Availability
at such time; provided that (x) prior to the entry of
the Final DIP Order, the aggregate principal amount of all Advances
outstanding at such time shall not exceed the Interim DIP Order
Commitment Amount and (y) after entry of the Final DIP Order,
the aggregate principal amount of all Advances outstanding at such
time shall not exceed the total amount of the
Commitment.
(b)
Borrowings .
(i)
Upon entry of the U.S.
Interim DIP Order, the Borrowing shall be in an aggregate principal
amount not to exceed $15,000,000 (the “ Initial
Borrowing ”) and with respect to the subsequent Borrowing
to occur after entry of the U.S. Interim DIP Order and prior to the
entry of the U.S. Final DIP Order, such Borrowing shall be in an
aggregate principal amount not to exceed $5,000,000 (the “
Subsequent Interim Borrowing ”) and, in each case,
such Borrowing shall consist of Advances made simultaneously by the
Lenders under the Facility ratably according to the Lenders’
Commitments under the Facility; provided that no more than
one Borrowing may occur in any week and no more than two Borrowings
may occur prior to the entry of the Final DIP Order.
(ii)
Upon entry of the U.S.
Final DIP Order, each Borrowing shall be in an aggregate principal
amount no less than $1,000,000 but no more than $5,000,000 (other
than with respect to the first Borrowing to occur after entry of
the U.S. Final DIP Order, in which case such Borrowing may be in an
aggregate principal amount not to exceed $10,000,000) made
simultaneously by the Lenders under the Facility ratably according
to the Lender’s Commitments under the Facility;
provided that no more than one Borrowing may occur in any
week and no more than ten Borrowing may occur during the term of
this Agreement.
For the avoidance of
doubt, the aggregate principal amount of each Borrowing referred to
in this clause (b) shall be made exclusive of the amount of the
Roll-Up Reserve.
(c)
Roll-Up
Advances .
Except as set forth in the proviso below, in connection with
each Borrowing referred to clause (b) above (the “
Requested Borrowing ”), an Advance shall be deemed to
be made to the Borrower as an Advance under
Section 2.01(a) in an amount equal to the amount of the
Requested Borrowing (such deemed Advance, a “ Roll-Up
Advance ”) and such Roll-Up Advance shall be
simultaneously used out of the Roll-Up Reserve by the Lenders as a
pro rata purchase by the Borrower, on a dollar for dollar basis, at
par value plus accrued interest at the default rate under the
Senior Secured Notes Indenture of the applicable amount of Senior
Secured Notes beneficially owned (directly or indirectly) by the
Lenders or their Affiliates (each such purchase being, a “
Roll-Up ”); provided that (x) in the case of the
Roll-Up Advance to occur in connection with the Initial Borrowing,
(A) $7,500,000 shall be applied to consummate the Roll-Up on the
date the U.S. Interim DIP Order is entered and (B) $7,500,000 shall
be applied to consummate the Roll-Up on the date the Roll-Up Order
is entered and (y) in the case of the Roll-Up Advance to occur in
connection with the Subsequent Interim Borrowing, $5,000,000 shall
be applied to consummate the Roll-Up at the time of such Subsequent
Interim
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Borrowing (
provided however in the event the Subsequent Interim
Borrowing occurs prior to the date on which the Roll-Up Order is
entered, the Roll-Up Advance with respect thereto will occur upon
entry of the Roll-Up Order)
For the avoidance of
doubt, each Roll-Up Advance shall constitute an Advance for all
purposes under the Loan Documents.
Section 2.02
Making the
Advances .
(a) Each Borrowing shall be made on notice, given not
later than 11:00 A.M. (New York City time) on (x) in the
case of the Initial Borrowing, one Business Day and (y) each other
Borrowing, the third Business Day prior to the date of the proposed
Borrowing by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent, which shall
give to each Lender prompt notice thereof by telex or telecopier.
Each such notice of a Borrowing (a “ Notice of
Borrowing ”) shall be by telephone, confirmed immediately
in writing, or telex or telecopier, in substantially the form of
Exhibit B hereto, specifying therein the requested (i) date of
such Borrowing, (ii) the Type of Advances comprising such
Borrowing and (iii) the aggregate amount of such Borrowing.
Each Lender shall, before 11:00 A.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 of such Lender and the other Lenders.
After the Administrative Agent’s receipt of such funds
and upon fulfillment of the applicable conditions set forth in
Article III, the Administrative Agent will make such funds
available to the Borrower by depositing such funds into the
Borrower’s Account (other than with respect to the Initial
Borrowing, which shall be paid directly to GECC) or such other
account as the Borrower shall request.
(b)
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 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 actual loss
(excluding 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.
(c)
Unless the
Administrative Agent shall have received notice from any Lender
prior to the date of any Borrowing 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.
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
of this Agreement.
(d)
The failure of any
Lender to make the Advance to be made by it shall not relieve any
other Lender of its obligation, if any, hereunder to make its
Advance or make available on the date of
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such Borrowing, but no
Lender shall be responsible for the failure of any other Lender to
make the Advance to be made by it.
Section 2.03
[INTENTIONALLY
OMITTED]
Section 2.04
Repayment of
Advances .
The Borrower shall repay to the Administrative Agent for the
ratable account of the Lenders on the Termination Date the
aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Advances then
outstanding.
Section 2.05
Termination or
Reduction of Commitments . (a) Optional .
The Borrower may, upon at least two Business Days’
notice to the Administrative Agent, terminate in whole or reduce in
part the Unused Commitments; provided , however ,
that each partial reduction shall be in an aggregate amount of
$500,000 or an integral multiple of $100,000 in excess
thereof.
(b)
Mandatory
.
(a) Upon the
making of an Advance pursuant to Section 2.01, the Commitments
shall be automatically and permanently reduced by the amount of
such Advance, (b) on each date on which a prepayment of
Advances is required under Section 2.06(b), the Commitments
shall be automatically and permanently reduced by an amount equal
to the amount of such prepayment and (c) on the Termination
Date, the Commitments shall be automatically and permanently
reduced to zero.
(c)
Application of
Commitment Reductions . Upon each reduction of the
Unused Commitments pursuant to this Section 2.05, the
Commitment of each of the Lenders shall be reduced by such
Lender’s Pro Rata Share of the amount by which the Unused
Commitments are reduced in accordance with the Lenders’
respective Commitments.
Section 2.06
Prepayments . (a) Optional .
The Borrower may, upon at least one Business Day’s
notice to the Administrative Agent received not later than 11:00
A.M. (New York, New York time) 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 Advances, in whole or ratably in part, together
with accrued interest to the date of such prepayment on the
aggregate principal amount prepaid plus the Prepayment Premium;
provided , however , that each partial prepayment
shall be in an aggregate principal amount of $500,000 or an
integral multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof or, if less, the
aggregate outstanding principal amount of any Advance.
(b)
Mandatory
.
(i)
The Borrower shall,
within five Business Days after the date of receipt of any Net Cash
Proceeds by any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries in connection
with any Asset Sales or Recovery Events, or in connection with any
sale or issuance of any Equity Interests by any Loan Party or any
of its Subsidiaries, or the incurrence or issuance of any Debt by
any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries, prepay an aggregate
principal amount of the Advances comprising part of the same
Borrowings equal to such Net Cash Proceeds together with accrued
interest to the date of such prepayment on the principal amount
prepaid plus the Prepayment Premium; provided that no prepayment
shall be required under this clause (i) with respect to Net
Cash Proceeds received from Asset Sales of less than $500,000 in
the aggregate during the term of this Agreement.
(ii)
The Borrower shall, on
each Business Day, if applicable, prepay an aggregate principal
amount of the Advances comprising part of the same Borrowings in an
amount equal to the amount by which the sum of (x) the aggregate
principal amount of the Advances then outstanding exceeds (y)
(i) prior to the entry of the U.S. Final DIP Order, the
Interim DIP Order Commitment Amount and (ii) after entry of
the U.S. Final DIP Order, the total amount of the Commitment.
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Section 2.07
Interest
. (a)
Scheduled Interest . The Borrower shall pay interest
on 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
monthly on the first Business Day of each month during such
periods.
(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 Business Day of such
Interest Period.
(b)
Default
Interest .
Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of
Default the Borrower shall pay interest on (i) the unpaid
principal amount of each Advance owing to each Lender, payable in
arrears on the dates referred to in clause (a) above and on
demand, 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 (a) and (ii) to the fullest extent
permitted by law, the amount of any interest, fee or other amount
payable hereunder that is not paid when due, from the date such
amount shall be due until such amount shall be paid in full,
payable in arrears on the date such amount shall be paid in full
and on demand, at a rate per annum equal at all times to 2% per
annum above the rate per annum required to be paid on Advances
pursuant to clause (a)(i) above.
(c)
Notice of Interest
Rate .
Promptly after receipt of a Notice of Borrowing pursuant to
Section 2.02(a), the Administrative Agent shall give notice to
the Borrower and each Lender of the interest rate determined by the
Administrative Agent for purposes of clause (a)
above.
Section 2.08
Fees
. (a)
Un-Used Line Fee . (i) The Borrower shall pay to
the Administrative Agent for the account of the Lenders an un-used
line fee, from the date hereof in the case of each such Initial
Lender and from the effective date specified in the Assignment and
Acceptance pursuant to which it became a Lender in the case of each
other such Lender until the Termination Date, payable in arrears on
the Effective Date, thereafter monthly on the first day of each
month and on the Termination Date, at the rate of 3% per annum on
the average daily unused portion of the Unused Commitment of such
Lender (excluding the amount of the Roll-Up Reserve);
provided , however , that no un-used line fee shall
accrue on any of the Commitments of a Defaulting Lender so long as
such Lender shall be a Defaulting Lender.
(b)
Initial Lender
Fees .
The Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the
account of the Initial Lenders (and their respective Affiliates)
such other fees as may be from time to time agreed among the
Borrower and the Initial Lenders (and their respective
Affiliates).
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 Section 2.10, Convert all or any
portion of the Advances of one Type comprising the same Borrowing
into Advances of the other Type; provided , however ,
that any Conversion of Eurodollar Rate Advances into Base Rate
Advances shall be made only on the last day of an Interest Period
for such Eurodollar Rate Advances, any Conversion of Base Rate
Advances into Eurodollar Rate Advances shall be in an amount not
less than $1,000,000, no Conversion of any Advances shall result in
more separate Borrowings than
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permitted under
Section 2.02(c) and each Conversion of Advances comprising
part of the same Borrowing shall be made ratably among the Lenders
in accordance with their Commitments. Each such notice of
Conversion shall, within the restrictions specified above, specify
(i) the date of such Conversion and (ii) the Advances to
be Converted. Each notice of Conversion shall be irrevocable
and binding on the Borrower.
(b)
Mandatory
.
(i)
On the date on which
the aggregate unpaid principal amount of Eurodollar Rate Advances
comprising any Borrowing shall be reduced, by payment or prepayment
or otherwise, to less than $1,000,000 such Advances shall, at the
end of the applicable Interest Period, automatically Convert into
Base Rate Advances.
(ii)
Upon the occurrence and
during the continuance of any Event of Default, (x) each
Eurodollar Rate Advance will automatically, on the last day of the
then existing Interest Period therefor, Convert into a Base Rate
Advance and (y) the obligation of the Lenders to make, or to
Convert Advances into, Eurodollar Rate Advances 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 Advances (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; provided ,
however , that a Lender claiming additional amounts under
this Section 2.10(a) agrees to 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 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. 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.
If (x) by 2:00 pm New
York City Time on the date immediately succeeding notice by the
Administrative Agent to the Lenders of receipt of a Notice of
Borrowing in respect of a Eurodollar Rate Advance, the
Administrative Agent receives Market Disruption Notices from the
Required Lenders notifying the Administrative Agent and the
Borrower that (i) for any reason adequate and reasonable means
do not exist for determining the Eurodollar Rate for an Interest
Period with respect to any Eurodollar Rate Advance, (ii) the
Eurodollar Rate for an Interest Period with respect to any
Eurodollar Rate Advance does not adequately and fairly reflect the
cost to such Lenders of funding such Advance as determined by such
Lender in good faith or (iii) Dollar deposits are not being
offered to banks in the London interbank eurodollar market for the
applicable amount and the Interest Period of such Eurodollar Rate
Advance (the events described in clauses (i) through
(iii) being a “ Eurodollar Rate Market Disruption
Event ”); or (y) by 2:00 pm New York City Time on the
date immediately succeeding notice by the Administrative Agent to
the Lenders of receipt of a Notice of Borrowing from the Borrower
in respect of a Base Rate Advance, the Administrative Agent
receives Market Disruption Notices from the Required Lenders
notifying the Administrative Agent and the Borrower that (i) for
any reason adequate and
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reasonable means do not
exist for determining the Base Rate for an Interest Period with
respect to any Base Rate Advance or (ii) the Base Rate for an
Interest Period with respect to any Base Rate Advance does not
adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders of funding
such Advance as determined by such Lender in good faith (the
foregoing clauses (i) and (ii), being a “ Base Rate Market
Disruption Event ”); then (A) such Borrowings or Advances
shall be made as and (B) any outstanding Base Rate Advances or
Eurodollar Rate Advances shall be converted to, Alternate Base Rate
Advances effective as of the next Business Day following receipt of
such Market Disruption Notice. Until the Required Lenders have
withdrawn such Market Disruption Notices (or the Eurodollar Rate
Market Disruption Event or Base Rate Market Disruption Event is
deemed to be no longer effective), no further Base Rate Advances
shall be made as such, but instead as Alternate Base Rate Advances.
Each Market Disruption Event shall be deemed to be no longer
effective as of the date which is 30 days after such Alternate
Base Rate Advances are made; provided , that nothing
contained herein shall in any way affect any Lender’s right
to provide any additional Market Disruption Notices (including for
purposes of extending an existing Market Disruption Notice) as
provided for herein.
(b)
Notwithstanding any
other provision of this Agreement, if the introduction 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 will
automatically, upon such demand, Convert into a Base Rate Advance
and (ii) the obligation of the 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.
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 (except as otherwise
provided in Section 2.15), not later than 11:00 A.M. (New
York, New York time) on the day when due (or, in the case of
payments made by a Guarantor pursuant to Section 8.01, on the
date of demand therefor) in U.S. dollars to the Administrative
Agent at the Administrative Agent’s Account in same day
funds. 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 Lender, to such Lenders 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 10.07(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.
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(b)
If the Administrative
Agent receives funds for application to the Obligations under the
Loan Documents under circumstances for which the Loan Documents do
not specify the Advances to which, or the manner in which, such
funds are to be applied, the Administrative Agent may, but shall
not be obligated to, elect to distribute such funds to each Lender
ratably in accordance with such Lender’s proportionate share
of the principal amount of all outstanding Advances, in repayment
or prepayment of such of the outstanding Advances or other
Obligations owed to such Lender, and for application to such
principal installments, as the Administrative Agent shall
direct.
(c)
The Borrower hereby
authorizes each Lender, 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
against any or all of the Borrower’s accounts with such
Lender any amount so due. Each of the Lenders hereby agrees
to notify the Borrower promptly after any such setoff and
application shall be made by such Lender; provided ,
however , that the failure to give such notice shall not
affect the validity of such charge.
(d)
All computations of
interest based on the Base Rate and of 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.
(e)
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
commitment fee, 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.
(f)
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.
Section 2.12
Taxes
. (a) Except
as otherwise provided herein, any and all payments by any Loan
Party to or for the account of any Lender or the Administrative
Agent hereunder or under 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 the
Administrative Agent, (x) taxes, levies, imposts, deductions,
charges or withholdings that are imposed on or measured by its
overall net income and franchise taxes imposed in lieu thereof by
the United States or by the state or foreign jurisdiction or any
political subdivision thereof under the laws of which such Lender
or the Administrative Agent, as the case may be, is organized or,
in the case of each Lender, such Lender’s Applicable Lending
Office is located or (y) any
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branch profit taxes
imposed by the United States of America (all such non-excluded
taxes, levies, imposts, deductions, charges, withholdings 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 other Loan
Document to any Lender or the Administrative Agent, subject to
Section 2.12(f), (i) the sum payable by such Loan Party
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 the
Administrative 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 taxing authority or other authority in accordance with
applicable law.
(b)
In addition, each 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 other Loan Documents or from the execution,
delivery or registration of, performance under, or otherwise with
respect to, this Agreement or the other Loan Documents (hereinafter
referred to as “ Other Taxes ”).
(c)
Except as otherwise
provided herein, the Loan Parties shall indemnify each Lender and
the Administrative Agent for and hold them harmless against the
full amount of Taxes and Other Taxes imposed on or paid by such
Lender or the Administrative 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 the Administrative Agent (as the case may be) makes
written demand therefor, which written demand shall be accompanied
by copies of the applicable documentation evidencing the amount of
such taxes.
(d)
Within 30 days
after the date of any payment of Taxes, the appropriate Loan Party
shall furnish to the Administrative Agent, at its address referred
to in Section 10.02, 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 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
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 Initial 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 Borrower with two original
properly completed Internal Revenue Service Forms W-8BEN,
W-8IMY or W-8ECI, (in the case of a Lender that has certified in
writing to the Administrative Agent that it is not (i) a
“bank” (within the meaning of 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 any Loan Party 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 other Loan Documents or, in the case of a Lender
that has
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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 Lender
first becomes a party to this Agreement indicate a United States
interest withholding tax rate in excess of zero, withholding tax at
such rate shall be considered excluded from Taxes unless and until
such Lender provides the appropriate forms certifying that a lesser
rate applies, whereupon withholding tax at such lesser rate only
shall be considered excluded from Taxes for periods governed by
such forms; provided , however , that if, at the
effective date of the Assignment and Acceptance pursuant to which a
Lender becomes a party to this Agreement, the Lender assignor was
entitled to payments under subsection (a) of this
Section 2.12 in respect of United States withholding tax with
respect to interest paid at such date, then, to such extent, the
term Taxes shall include (in addition to withholding taxes that may
be imposed in the future or other amounts otherwise includable in
Taxes) United States withholding tax, if any, applicable with
respect to the Lender assignee on such date. If any form or
document referred to in this subsection (e) requires the
disclosure of information, other than information necessary to
compute the tax payable and information required on the date hereof
by Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN, W-8IMY, W-8ECI or any
successor, or the related certificate described above, that the
applicable Lender reasonably considers to be confidential, such
Lender shall give notice thereof to the Borrower and shall not be
obligated to include in such form or document such confidential
information.
(f)
For any period with
respect to which a Lender has failed to provide the Borrower with
the appropriate form, certificate or other document described in
subsection (e) above (other than if such failure is due to a
change in law, or in the interpretation or application thereof,
occurring after the date on which a form, certificate or other
document originally was required to be provided or if such form,
certificate or other document otherwise is not required under
subsection (e) above), such Lender shall not be entitled to
increased payment or indemnification under subsection (a) or
(c) of this Section 2.12 with respect to taxes imposed by the
United States by reason of such failure; provided ,
however , that should a Lender become subject to taxes
because of its failure to deliver a form, certificate or other
document required hereunder, the Loan Parties shall take such steps
as such Lender shall reasonably request to assist such Lender to
recover such taxes.
(g)
If any Lender
determines, in its sole discretion, that it has actually and
finally realized by reason of the refund of any Taxes paid or
reimbursed by any Loan Party pursuant to subsection (a) or (c)
above in respect of payments under the Loan Documents, a current
monetary benefit that it would otherwise not have obtained, and
that would result in the total payments under this
Section 2.12 exceeding the amount needed to make such Lender
whole, such Lender shall pay to the Borrower or other Loan Party,
as the case may be, with reasonable promptness following the date
on which it actually realizes such benefit, an amount equal to the
lesser of the amount of such benefit or the amount of such excess,
net of all out-of-pocket expenses in securing such
refund.
Section 2.13
Sharing of Payments,
Etc .
If any Lender shall obtain at any time any payment, whether
voluntary, involuntary, through the exercise of any right of
set-off, or otherwise (other than pursuant to Section 2.10,
2.12, 10.04 or 10.07), (a) on account of Obligations due and
payable to such Lender hereunder and under the Notes at such time
in excess of its ratable share (according to the proportion of
(i) the amount of such Obligations due and payable to such
Lender at such time (other than pursuant to Section 2.10,
2.12, 10.04 or 10.07) to (ii) the aggregate amount of the
Obligations due and payable to all Lenders hereunder and under the
Notes at such time) of payments on account of the Obligations due
and payable to all Lenders hereunder and under the Notes at such
time obtained by all the Lenders at such time or (b) on
account of Obligations owing (but not due and payable) to such
Lender hereunder and under the Notes at such time (other than
pursuant to Section 2.10, 2.12, 10.04 or 10.07) in excess of
its ratable share (according to the proportion of (i) the
amount of such Obligations owing to such Lender at such time (other
than pursuant to Section 2.10, 2.12, 10.04 or 10.07) to
(ii) the aggregate amount of the Obligations owing (but not
due and payable) to all Lenders hereunder and under the
Notes
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at such time) of
payments on account of the Obligations owing (but not due and
payable) to all Lenders hereunder and under the Notes at such time
obtained by all of the Lenders at such time, such Lender shall
forthwith purchase from the other Lenders such participations in
the Obligations due and payable or owing to them, as the case may
be, as shall be necessary to cause such purchasing Lender to share
the excess payment ratably with each of them; provided ,
however , that, if all or any portion of such excess payment
is thereafter recovered from such purchasing Lender, such purchase
from each other Lender shall be rescinded and such other Lender
shall repay to the purchasing Lender the purchase price to the
extent of such Lender’s ratable share (according to the
proportion of (i) the purchase price paid to such Lender to
(ii) the aggregate purchase price paid to all Lenders) of such
recovery together with an amount equal to such Lender’s
ratable share (according to the proportion of (i) the amount
of such other Lender’s required repayment to (ii) the
total amount so recovered from the purchasing Lender) of any
interest or other amount paid or payable by the purchasing Lender
in respect of the total amount so recovered. The Borrower
agrees that any Lender so purchasing a participation from another
Lender pursuant to this Section 2.13 may, to the fullest
extent permitted by law, exercise all its rights of payment
(including the right of set-off) with respect to such participation
as fully as if such Lender were the direct creditor of the Borrower
in the amount of such participation.
Section 2.14
Use of
Proceeds .
The proceeds of the Advances shall only be utilized
to:
(a)
in the case of the
proceeds from the Initial Borrowing, (i) to paydown a portion of
the Obligations outstanding under the GECC DIP Facility in an
aggregate amount not to exceed the amount of the Initial Borrowing
and (ii) to pay fees and expenses as set forth in Section
3.01(e) ; and
(b)
in the case of proceeds
other than as set forth in clause (a), to provide financing for the
Borrower’s and its Subsidiaries’ working capital
expenditures and other general corporate purposes of the Loan
Parties in each case to be used in a manner consistent with the
applicable DIP Budget and for consummating the Roll-Up;
provided , however , that (i) no amounts shall
be paid pursuant to this Section 2.14 for fees and
disbursements incurred by any Loan Party in connection with any
assertion or prosecution of claims or causes of action against the
Administrative Agent or any Lender, including, without limitation,
(x) any objection to, the contesting in any manner of, or the
raising of any defenses to, the validity, perfection, priority or
enforceability of the Obligations under this Agreement or the
Administrative Agent’s Liens upon the Collateral, or
(y) any other rights or interest of the Administrative Agent
or the Lenders under the Loan Documents but not including
assertions or prosecutions of claims and causes of action arising
from an Agent’s or a Lender’s failure to perform
hereunder and (ii) in the case of any Pre-Petition Payments,
such Pre-Petition Payments shall be made in accordance with the
First Day Orders and the terms hereof and the DIP Financing Order
or with the prior written consent of the Required Lenders;
provided that such First Day Orders are in form and
substance reasonably satisfactory to the Initial Lenders and such
First Day Orders may not be modified, amended, stayed, varied or
set aside without the prior consent of the Required Lenders (except
to take into account any grammatical or typographical
errors).
Section 2.15
Defaulting
Lenders .
(a) In the event that, at any time, (i) any Lender
shall be a Defaulting Lender, (ii) such Defaulting Lender
shall owe a Defaulted Advance to the Borrower and (iii) the
Borrower shall be required to make any payment hereunder or under
any other Loan Document to or for the account of such Defaulting
Lender, then the Borrower may, to the fullest extent permitted by
applicable law, set off and otherwise apply the Obligation of the
Borrower to make such payment to or for the account of such
Defaulting Lender against the obligation of such Defaulting Lender
to make such Defaulted Advance. In the event that, on any
date, the Borrower shall so set off and otherwise apply its
obligation to make any such payment against the obligation of such
Defaulting Lender
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to make any such
Defaulted Advance on or prior to such date, the amount so set off
and otherwise applied by the Borrower shall constitute for all
purposes of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents an Advance
by such Defaulting Lender made on the date under the Facility
pursuant to which such Defaulted Advance was originally required to
have been made pursuant to Section 2.01. Such Advance
shall be considered, for all purposes of this Agreement, to
comprise part of the Borrowing in connection with which such
Defaulted Advance was originally required to have been made
pursuant to Section 2.01, even if the other Advances
comprising such Borrowing shall be Eurodollar Rate Advances on the
date such Advance is deemed to be made pursuant to this
subsection (a). The Borrower shall notify the
Administrative Agent at any time the Borrower exercises its right
of set-off pursuant to this subsection (a) and shall set forth
in such notice (A) the name of the Defaulting Lender and the
Defaulted Advance required to be made by such Defaulting Lender and
(B) the amount set off and otherwise applied in respect of
such Defaulted Advance pursuant to this subsection (a).
Any portion of such payment otherwise required to be made by
the Borrower to or for the account of such Defaulting Lender which
is paid by the Borrower, after giving effect to the amount set off
and otherwise applied by the Borrower pursuant to this
subsection (a), shall be applied by the Administrative Agent
as specified in subsection (b) or (c) of this
Section 2.15.
(b)
In the event that, at
any time, (i) any Lender shall be a Defaulting Lender,
(ii) such Defaulting Lender shall owe a Defaulted Amount to
the Administrative Agent or any of the other Lenders and
(iii) the Borrower shall make any payment hereunder or under
any other Loan Document to the Administrative Agent for the account
of such Defaulting Lender, then the Administrative Agent may, on
its behalf or on behalf of such other Lenders, as the case may be,
and to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, apply at
such time the amount so paid by the Borrower to or for the account
of such Defaulting Lender to the payment of each such Defaulted
Amount to the extent required to pay such Defaulted Amount.
In the event that the Administrative Agent shall so apply any
such amount to the payment of any such Defaulted Amount on any
date, the amount so applied by the Administrative Agent shall
constitute for all purposes of this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents payment, to such extent, of such Defaulted Amount on such
date. Any such amount so applied by the Administrative Agent
shall be retained by the Administrative Agent or distributed by the
Administrative Agent to such other Lenders, ratably in accordance
with the respective portions of such Defaulted Amounts payable at
such time to the Administrative Agent and such other Lenders and,
if the amount of such payment made by the Borrower shall at such
time be insufficient to pay all Defaulted Amounts owing at such
time to the Administrative Agent and the other Lenders, in the
following order of priority:
(i)
first
, to the Administrative
Agent for any Defaulted Amount then owing to the Administrative
Agent in its capacity as Administrative Agent; and
(ii)
second
, to Lenders, ratably in
accordance with such respective Defaulted Amounts then owing to
such other Lenders.
Any portion of such
amount paid by the Borrower for the account of such Defaulting
Lender remaining, after giving effect to the amount applied by the
Administrative Agent pursuant to this subsection (b), shall be
applied by the Administrative Agent as specified in
subsection (c) of this Section 2.15.
(c)
In the event that, at
any time, (i) any Lender shall be a Defaulting Lender,
(ii) such Defaulting Lender shall not owe a Defaulted Advance
or a Defaulted Amount and (iii) the Borrower, the
Administrative Agent or any other Lender shall be required to pay
or distribute any amount hereunder or under any other Loan Document
to or for the account of such Defaulting Lender, then the Borrower
or such other Lender shall pay such amount to the Administrative
Agent to be held by the Administrative Agent, to the fullest extent
permitted by applicable law, in escrow or the Administrative Agent
shall, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, hold in
escrow such amount otherwise held
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by it. Any funds
held by the Administrative Agent in escrow under this
subsection (c) shall be deposited by the Administrative Agent
in an account with The Bank of New York Mellon, in the name and
under the control of the Administrative Agent, but subject to the
provisions of this subsection (c). The terms applicable
to such account, including the rate of interest payable with
respect to the credit balance of such account from time to time,
shall be consistent with standard terms applicable to escrow
accounts maintained with it, except as may otherwise be agreed in
the sole discretion of the Required Lenders. Any interest
credited to such account from time to time shall be held by the
Administrative Agent in escrow under, and applied by the
Administrative Agent from time to time in accordance with the
provisions of, this subsection (c). The Administrative
Agent shall, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law,
apply all funds so held in escrow from time to time to the extent
necessary to make any Advances required to be made by such
Defaulting Lender and to pay any amount payable by such Defaulting
Lender hereunder and under the other Loan Documents to the
Administrative Agent or any other Lender, as and when such Advances
or amounts are required to be made or paid and, if the amount so
held in escrow shall at any time be insufficient to make and pay
all such Advances and amounts required to be made or paid at such
time, in the following order of priority:
(i)
first
, to the Administrative
Agent for any amount then due and payable by such Defaulting Lender
to the Administrative Agent hereunder in its capacity as
Administrative Agent;
(ii)
second
, to any other Lenders
for any amount then due and payable by such Defaulting Lender to
such other Lenders hereunder, ratably in accordance with such
respective amounts then due and payable to such other Lenders;
and
(iii)
third
, to the Borrower for
any Advance then required to be made by such Defaulting Lender
pursuant to a Commitment of such Defaulting Lender.
In the event that any
Lender that is a Defaulting Lender shall, at any time, cease to be
a Defaulting Lender, any funds held by the Administrative Agent in
escrow at such time with respect to such Lender shall be
distributed by the Administrative Agent to such Lender and applied
by such Lender to the Obligations owing to such Lender at such time
under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents ratably in
accordance with the respective amounts of such Obligations
outstanding at such time.
(d)
The rights and remedies
against a Defaulting Lender under this Section 2.15 are in
addition to other rights and remedies that the Borrower may have
against such Defaulting Lender with respect to any Defaulted
Advance and that the Administrative Agent or any Lender may have
against such Defaulting Lender with respect to any Defaulted
Amount.
Section 2.16
Evidence of
Debt .
The Advances made by each Lender shall be evidenced by one or
more accounts or records maintained by such Lender and by the
Administrative Agent in the ordinary course of business. The
accounts or records maintained by the Administrative Agent and each
Lender shall be conclusive absent manifest error of the amount of
the Advances made by the Lenders to the Borrower and the interest
and payments thereon. Any failure to so record or any error
in doing so shall not, however, limit or otherwise affect the
obligation of the Borrower hereunder to pay any amount owing with
respect to the Obligations. In the event of any conflict
between the accounts and records maintained by any Lender and the
accounts and records of the Administrative Agent in respect of such
matters, the accounts and records of the Administrative Agent shall
control in the absence of manifest error. Upon the request of
any Lender made through the Administrative Agent, the Borrower
shall execute and deliver to such Lender (through the
Administrative Agent) a Note, which shall evidence such
Lender’s Advances in addition to such accounts or records.
Each Lender may attach schedules to its Note and endorse
thereon the date, amount and maturity of its Advances and payments
with respect thereto.
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Section 2.17
Priority and
Liens . Each Loan Party
represents, warrants, covenants and agrees that: (a) the
priority of Administrative Agent’s and Lenders’ Liens
on the Collateral owned by the Loan Parties shall be set forth in
the DIP Financing Order; (b) the priority of the Superpriority
Claims granted to Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall be as
set forth in the DIP Financing Order; and (c) Administrative
Agent’s and Lenders’ Liens on the Collateral owned by
the Loan Parties, and Administrative Agent’s and
Lenders’ respective Superpriority Claims under
Sections 364(c)(l) and 364(d) of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code (and
with respect to the CCAA Case, pursuant to the Canadian CCAA
Orders) in respect of the Obligations, shall also have priority
over any claims, including, upon entry of the Final DIP Order,
those arising under Section 506(c) of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code
subject and subordinate only to the extent of the Carve-Out.
Except for the Carve-Out, no costs or expenses of
administration shall be imposed against Administrative Agent,
Lenders or any of the Collateral or the Indenture Trustee and the
Senior Secured Noteholders under the Senior Secured Notes Indenture
or the “Collateral” (as defined in the Senior Secured
Notes Indenture) under Sections 105, 506(c) or 552 of the U.S.
Bankruptcy Code, or otherwise, and the Loan Parties hereby waive
for themselves and on behalf of each of their estates in
bankruptcy, any and all rights under sections 105, 506(c)
(upon entry of the Final DIP Order) or 552, or otherwise, to assert
or impose or seek to assert or impose, any such costs or expenses
of administration against Administrative Agent or the Lenders or
Indenture Trustee and the Senior Secured Noteholders under the
Senior Secured Notes Indenture or the Collateral (as defined in the
Senior Secured Notes Indenture).
Section 2.18
Payment of
Obligations . Subject to the provisions
of Section 6.01 and the DIP Financing Order, upon the maturity
(whether by acceleration or otherwise) of any of the Obligations
under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents of the
Borrower and the Guarantors, the Lenders shall be entitled to
immediate payment of such Obligations without further application
to or order of the applicable Bankruptcy Court.
Section 2.19
No Discharge:
Survival of Claims . The Borrower and each
Guarantor agrees that (i) its obligations hereunder shall not
be discharged by (A) the entry of an order confirming any
Reorganization Plan or plan of liquidation or a plan of compromise
or arrangement (and each of the Borrower and each Guarantor,
pursuant to Section 1141(d)(4) of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code
hereby waives any such discharge), (B) converting any of the
U.S. Cases to a case under chapter 7 of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code;
(C) dismissing any of the U.S. Cases, or (D) terminating
any of the proceedings pursuant to section 18.6 of the CCAA or
the appointment of any monitor, trustee in bankruptcy, interim
receiver, receiver or receiver-manager or similar officer or agent
with respect to the Canadian Subsidiary, (ii) the
Superpriority Claim granted to the Administrative Agent and the
Lenders pursuant to the Interim DIP Order and the Final DIP Order
and described in Section 2.17 and the Liens granted to the
Administrative Agent and the Lenders pursuant to the Interim DIP
Order and the Final DIP Order and described in Section 2.17
shall not be affected in any manner by the entry of any order by
the applicable Bankruptcy Court, including an order confirming any
Reorganization Plan or plan of liquidation or a plan of compromise
or arrangement, and (iii) notwithstanding the terms of any
Reorganization Plan or plan of liquidation or a plan of compromise
or arrangement, its Obligations hereunder and under each other Loan
Document shall be repaid in full in accordance with the terms
hereof and the terms of each other Loan Document, the U.S. Interim
DIP Order, and the Final DIP Order.
Section 2.20
Replacement of
Certain Lenders . In the event a Lender
(“ Affected Lender ”) shall have (i) become
a Defaulting Lender under Section 2.15, (ii) requested
compensation from the Borrowers under Section 2.12 with
respect to Taxes or Other Taxes or with respect to increased costs
or capital or under Section 2.10 or other additional costs
incurred by such Lender which, in any case, are not being incurred
generally by the other Lenders, (iii) delivered a
(x) notice pursuant to Section 2.10(b) claiming that such
Lender is unable to extend Eurodollar Rate Advances to the Borrower
for reasons not generally applicable to the other Lenders or
(y) a Market Disruption Notice pursuant to
Section 2.10(a) or
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(iv) failed to
comply with the directions of the Required Lenders under any of the
Transaction Documents or in connection with the transactions
contemplated therein (including, without limitation, in connection
with a Credit Bid) then, in any case, the Borrower or the
Administrative Agent may make written demand on such Affected
Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent in the case of a
demand by the Borrower and a copy to the Borrower in the case of a
demand by the Administrative Agent) for the Affected Lender to
assign, and such Affected Lender shall use commercially reasonable
efforts to assign pursuant to one or more duly executed Assignments
and Acceptances 5 Business Days after the date of such demand,
to one or more financial institutions that comply with the
provisions of Section 10.07 which the Administrative Agent, as
the case may be, shall have engaged for such purpose (“
Replacement Lender ”), all of such Affected
Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement and the
other Loan Documents (including, without limitation, its Commitment
and all Advances owing to it hereunder) in accordance with
Section 10.07. The Administrative Agent is authorized to
execute one or more of such Assignments and Acceptances as
attorney-in-fact for any Affected Lender failing to execute and
deliver the same within 5 Business Days after the date of such
demand. Further, with respect to such assignment, the
Affected Lender shall have concurrently received, in cash, all
amounts due and owing to the Affected Lender hereunder or under any
other Loan Document; provided that (A) upon such
Affected Lender’s replacement, such Affected Lender shall
cease to be a party hereto but shall continue to be entitled to the
benefits of Sections 2.10 and 10.04, as well as to any fees
accrued for its account hereunder and not yet paid, and shall
continue to be obligated under Section 7.07 with respect to
losses, obligations, liabilities, damages, penalties, actions,
judgments, costs, expenses or disbursements for matters which
occurred prior to the date the Affected Lender is replaced and, in
the case of any such assignment resulting from a Lender that
submitted a Market Disruption Notice, the circumstances giving rise
to the Market Disruption Event do not apply to such Replacement
Lender and (B) in the case of any Lender that is replaced as a
result of its failure to comply with the directions of the Required
Lenders under any of the Transaction Documents or in connection
with the transactions contemplated therein (including, without
limitation, in connection with a Credit Bid), the price pursuant to
which such Lender shall assign the Advances owing to it hereunder
shall be equal to the difference of (a) the aggregate
principal amount at par value of Advances owing to such Lender
minus (b) the sum of (i) an amount equal to 5% of the
aggregate principal amount at par value of Advances owing to such
Lender and (ii) all fees and interest accrued or paid on such
Advances as of the date of replacement.
Section 2.21
Waiver of Priming
Rights .
Upon the Effective Date, except as otherwise provided in the
DIP Financing Order, each Loan Party, on behalf of itself and its
estate, and for so long as any Obligations shall be outstanding,
hereby irrevocably waives any right, pursuant to
Sections 364(c) or 364(d) of the U.S. Bankruptcy Code or
otherwise, to grant any Lien of equal or greater priority to or
than the Liens securing the Obligations; provided
however that this Section 2.21 does not impact or change in
any way the lien priority of the DIP ABL Agent and the lenders
under the GECC DIP Facility with respect to the ABL Priority
Collateral.
Section 2.22
Release
. The Loan Parties
hereby acknowledge effective upon entry of the U.S. Final DIP Order
(or, with respect to the Canadian Guarantor only, the Canadian
Second DIP Recognition Order) and to the extent permitted by the
DIP Financing Order, that Loan Parties have no defense,
counterclaim, offset, recoupment, cross-complaint, claim or demand
of any kind or nature