SENIOR SECURED TERM LOAN
AGREEMENT
DATED AS OF MARCH 10,
2008
GOLDENBOY ACQUISITION
CORP.,
KEYBANK NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION,
THE OTHER LENDERS WHICH ARE PARTIES
TO THIS AGREEMENT
OTHER LENDERS THAT MAY
BECOME
PARTIES TO THIS
AGREEMENT,
KEYBANK NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION,
WACHOVIA BANK, NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION
BRANCH BANKING AND TRUST
COMPANY,
AS CO-DOCUMENTATION
AGENTS
KEYBANC CAPITAL MARKETS,
AS SOLE LEAD ARRANGER AND SOLE BOOK MANAGER
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DEFINITIONS AND
RULES OF INTERPRETATION
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§1.1
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Definitions
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§1.2
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Rules of
Interpretation
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THE CREDIT
FACILITY
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§2.1
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Loans
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§2.2
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Interest on
Loans
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§2.3
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Funds for
Loans
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§2.4
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Use of
Proceeds
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§2.5
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Extension of
Maturity Date
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REPAYMENT OF
THE LOANS
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§3.1
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Stated
Maturity
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§3.2
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Mandatory
Prepayments
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§3.3
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Optional
Prepayments
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§3.4
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Partial
Prepayments
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§3.5
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Effect of
Prepayments
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CERTAIN GENERAL
PROVISIONS
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§4.1
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Conversion
Options
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§4.2
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Fees
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§4.3
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Funds for
Payments
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§4.4
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Computations
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§4.5
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Suspension of
LIBOR Rate Loans
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§4.6
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Illegality
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§4.7
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Additional
Interest
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§4.8
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Additional
Costs, Etc
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§4.9
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Capital
Adequacy
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§4.10
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Breakage
Costs
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§4.11
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Default
Interest
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§4.12
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Certificate
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§4.13
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Limitation on
Interest
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§4.14
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Certain
Provisions Relating to Increased Costs
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COLLATERAL
SECURITY
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§5.1
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Collateral
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§5.2
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Additional
Guarantors
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§5.3
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Release of
Collateral and Guarantors
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REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES
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§6.1
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Corporate
Authority, Etc
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§6.2
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Governmental
Approvals
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§6.3
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Title to
Properties; Etc
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§6.4
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Financial
Statements
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§6.5
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No Material
Changes
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§6.6
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Franchises,
Patents, Copyrights, Etc
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§6.7
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Litigation
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§6.8
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No Material
Adverse Contracts, Etc
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§6.9
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Compliance with
Other Instruments, Laws, Etc
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§6.10
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Tax
Status
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§6.11
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No Event of
Default
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§6.12
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Investment
Company Act
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§6.13
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Absence of
Liens
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§6.14
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Labor
Matters
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§6.15
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Setoff,
Etc
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§6.16
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Certain
Transactions
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§6.17
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Employee
Benefit Plans
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§6.18
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Disclosure
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§6.19
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Trade Name;
Place of Business
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§6.20
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Regulations T,
U and X
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§6.21
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Environmental
Matters
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§6.22
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Subsidiaries;
Organizational Structure
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§6.23
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Contracts,
Subcontracts, Etc
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§6.24
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Property
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§6.25
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Brokers
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§6.26
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Other
Debt
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§6.27
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Solvency
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§6.28
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No Bankruptcy
Filing
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§6.29
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No Fraudulent
Intent
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§6.30
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Transaction in
Best Interests of Borrower; Consideration
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§6.31
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Contribution
Agreement
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§6.32
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OFAC
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§6.33
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No Prohibited
Transaction
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AFFIRMATIVE
COVENANTS
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§7.1
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Punctual
Payment
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§7.2
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Maintenance of
Office
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§7.3
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Records and
Accounts
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§7.4
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Financial
Statements, Certificates and Information
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§7.5
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Notices
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§7.6
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Existence;
Maintenance of Properties
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§7.7
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Insurance
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§7.8
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Taxes;
Liens
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§7.9
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Inspection of
Properties and Books
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§7.10
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Compliance with
Laws, Contracts, Licenses, and Permits
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§7.11
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Further
Assurances
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§7.12
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Acquisition of
Interest Rate Protection
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§7.13
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Business
Operations
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§7.14
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Distributions
of Income to the Borrower
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NEGATIVE
COVENANTS
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§8.1
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Restrictions on
Indebtedness
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§8.2
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Restrictions on
Liens, Etc
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§8.3
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Restrictions on
Investments
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§8.4
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Merger,
Consolidation
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§8.5
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Compliance with
Environmental Laws
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§8.6
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Distributions
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§8.7
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Asset
Sales
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§8.8
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Restriction on
Prepayment of Indebtedness
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§8.9
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Modifications
to Certain Agreements
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51
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§8.10
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Derivatives
Contracts
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§8.11
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Transactions
with Affiliates
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§8.12
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Equity
Pledges
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§8.13
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Subordinated
Debt
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§8.14
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Parent
Restrictions
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§8.15
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Compliance with
Covenants in Senior Revolving Loan Agreement
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§8.16
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More
Restrictive Agreements
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FINANCIAL
COVENANTS
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§9.1
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Minimum
Adjusted Consolidated EBITDA
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§9.2
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Consolidated
Senior Indebtedness to Adjusted Consolidated EBITDA
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§9.3
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Consolidated
Total Indebtedness to Adjusted Consolidated EBITDA
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§9.4
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Adjusted
Consolidated EBITDA to Consolidated Fixed Charges
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CLOSING
CONDITIONS
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§10.1
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Loan
Documents
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§10.2
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Certified
Copies of Organizational Documents
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§10.3
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Resolutions
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§10.4
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Incumbency
Certificate; Authorized Signers
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§10.5
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Opinion of
Counsel
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§10.6
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Payment of
Fees
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§10.7
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Acquisition;
Acquisition Documents
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§10.8
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Performance; No
Default
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§10.9
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Representations
and Warranties
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§10.10
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Proceedings and
Documents
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§10.11
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Compliance
Certificate
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§10.12
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Interest
Hedge
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§10.13
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Consents
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§10.14
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Senior
Revolving Loan
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§10.15
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Existing MEA
Loan Agreement
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§10.16
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Contribution
Agreement
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§10.17
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Solvency
Certificate
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§10.18
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Intercreditor
Agreement
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§10.19
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Other
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EVENTS OF
DEFAULT; ACCELERATION; ETC
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§11.1
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Events of
Default and Acceleration
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§11.2
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Certain Cure
Periods; Limitation of Cure Periods
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§11.3
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Termination of
Commitments
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§11.4
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Remedies
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§11.5
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Distribution of
Collateral Proceeds
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SETOFF
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THE
AGENT
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61
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§13.1
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Authorization
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61
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§13.2
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Employees and
Agents
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§13.3
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No
Liability
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§13.4
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No
Representations
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§13.5
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Payments
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§13.6
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Holders of
Notes
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§13.7
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Indemnity
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§13.8
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Agent as
Lender
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§13.9
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Resignation
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§13.10
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Duties in the
Case of Enforcement
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64
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§13.11
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Reliance on
Hedge Provider
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65
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§13.12
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Bankruptcy
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65
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§13.13
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Reliance by
Agent
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§13.14
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Approvals
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§13.15
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Borrower Not
Beneficiary
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§13.16
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Intercreditor
Agreement
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EXPENSES
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INDEMNIFICATION
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SURVIVAL OF
COVENANTS, ETC
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ASSIGNMENT AND
PARTICIPATION
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§17.1
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Conditions to
Assignment by Lenders
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§17.2
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Register
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69
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§17.3
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New
Notes
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69
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§17.4
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Participations
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70
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§17.5
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Pledge by
Lender
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70
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§17.6
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No Assignment
by Borrower
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70
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§17.7
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Disclosure
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SENIOR SECURED TERM LOAN
AGREEMENT
THIS SENIOR
SECURED TERM LOAN AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) is
made as of the 10th day of March, 2008, by and among GOLDENBOY
ACQUISITION CORP. , a Wisconsin corporation
(“Borrower”), COGDELL SPENCER, INC. , a Maryland
corporation (“Parent”), KEYBANK NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION (“KeyBank”), the other lending
institutions which are parties to this Agreement as
“Lenders”, and the other lending institutions that may
become parties hereto pursuant to §17 (together with KeyBank,
the “Lenders”), KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION ,
as Agent for the Lenders (the “Agent”), and KEYBANC
CAPITAL MARKETS , as Sole Lead Arranger and Sole Book
Manager.
WHEREAS ,
Borrower, Parent, Cogdell Spencer, LP, a Delaware limited
partnership (“Operating Partnership”), MEA Holdings,
Inc. (“Holdings”), Marshall Erdman & Associates,
Inc., Marshall Erdman Development, LLC and the “Seller
Representative” referred to therein have entered into that
certain Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of January 23,
2008 (including all exhibits, annexes and schedules thereto or
referred to therein, as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified
in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, the
“Acquisition Agreement”);
WHEREAS ,
pursuant to the terms of the Acquisition Agreement, Borrower will
merge with and into Holdings, Holdings will be the surviving entity
(the “Merger”), and Holdings will succeed to all rights
and obligations of Borrower by operation of law, and all references
herein and in the other Loan Documents to the terms
“Borrower” shall thereupon be deemed to be references
to Holdings as the surviving entity of the Merger;
WHEREAS ,
Borrower has requested that the Lenders provide a term loan
facility to Borrower; and
WHEREAS ,
the Agent and the Lenders are willing to provide such term loan
facility to Borrower on and subject to the terms and conditions set
forth herein;
NOW,
THEREFORE , in consideration of the recitals herein and mutual
covenants and agreements contained herein, the parties hereto
hereby covenant and agree as follows:
§1.
DEFINITIONS AND RULES OF INTERPRETATION.
§1.1
Definitions . The following terms shall have the meanings
set forth in this §l or elsewhere in the provisions of this
Agreement referred to below:
Acknowledgments . The Acknowledgments executed by a
Subsidiary Guarantor in favor of the Agent, acknowledging the
pledge of Equity Interests in such Subsidiary Guarantor to Agent,
such Acknowledgments to be substantially in the form attached
hereto as Exhibit E , as the same may be modified,
amended or restated.
Acquisition . The acquisition by Parent, through the
Borrower, of Holdings and its Subsidiaries, for a total acquisition
cost not in excess of Two Hundred Fifty-Three Million
Dollars
($253,000,000.00) and otherwise in accordance with the terms and
conditions of the Acquisition Agreement.
Acquisition
Agreement . As defined in the recitals hereto.
Acquisition
Documents . The Acquisition Agreement and all other documents,
instruments or agreements now or hereafter executed or delivered by
or on behalf of the Parent, the Borrower or any of their respective
Subsidiaries in connection therewith, as amended, supplemented or
otherwise modified in accordance with this Agreement.
Additional
Guarantor . Each additional Subsidiary of Borrower which
becomes a Subsidiary Guarantor pursuant to §5.2.
Adjusted
Consolidated EBITDA . On any date of determination, the sum of
(a) the Consolidated EBITDA for the four (4) fiscal
quarters most recently ended plus (b) (i) investor
management fees paid to private equity majority shareholders (Lubar
& Co. and Baird Capital Partners) prior to the Acquisition;
(ii) salary and benefits paid to prior owner, Timothy Erdman
prior to the Acquisition; (iii) expenses related to the grant
of stock options prior to the Acquisition; (iv) expenses
related to employee severance payments made prior to the
Acquisition; (v) expenses related to insurance settlement
payments associated with the Cleveland Clinic that were made prior
to the Acquisition; (vi) expenses related to the planning and
design of Marshall Erdman & Associates, Inc.’s corporate
headquarters (One Erdman Place) incurred prior to the Acquisition;
(vii) transaction fees, legal fees, bonuses to MEA management,
and other expenses incurred as a result of the Acquisition and paid
in accordance with the Acquisition Agreement; and
(viii) expenses of the Parent and its Subsidiaries allocated
to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries that, prior to the
Acquisition, were not expenses of the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries, to the extent such expenses referred to in this
clause (viii) are in an amount not in excess of seventy-five
percent (75%) of the general and administrative expenses of Parent
and its Subsidiaries as reflected on the consolidated financial
statements of Parent and its Subsidiaries and a Compliance
Certificate, delivered in accordance with §7.4.
Affected
Lender . See §4.15.
Affiliate
. An Affiliate, as applied to any Person, shall mean another Person
that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries,
Controls, or is Controlled by, or is under common Control with, the
Person specified.
Agent .
KeyBank National Association, acting as administrative agent for
the Lenders, and its successors and assigns.
Agent’s
Head Office . The Agent’s head office located at 127
Public Square, Cleveland, Ohio 44114-1306, or at such other
location as the Agent may designate from time to time by notice to
the Borrower and the Lenders.
Agent’s
Special Counsel . McKenna Long & Aldridge LLP or such other
counsel as selected by Agent.
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Agreement
. This Senior Secured Term Loan Agreement, including the
Schedules and Exhibits hereto.
Agreement
Regarding Fees . See §4.2.
Applicable
Margin . On any date, the Applicable Margin set forth below
based on the ratio of the Consolidated Total Indebtedness of
Borrower to the Adjusted Consolidated EBITDA of
Borrower:
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Applicable Margin shall be at Pricing Level 2. The Applicable
Margin shall not be adjusted based upon such ratio, if at all,
until the first (1 st )
day of the first (1 st )
month following the delivery by Borrower to the Agent of the
Compliance Certificate at the end of a calendar quarter. In the
event that Borrower shall fail to deliver to the Agent a quarterly
Compliance Certificate on or before the date required by
§7.4(c), then without limiting any other rights of the Agent
and the Lenders under this Agreement, the Applicable Margin shall
be at Pricing Level 2 until such failure is cured within any
applicable cure period, in which event the Applicable Margin shall
adjust, if necessary, on the first (1 st )
day of the first (1 st )
month following receipt of such Compliance Certificate.
If the
consolidated financial statements of Borrower and its Subsidiaries
are revised, restated or otherwise adjusted, and as a result
thereof the Applicable Margin was calculated at a level which
resulted in lower pricing for any period, the Borrower shall within
five (5) Business Days of such determination pay to Agent for
the account of the Lenders the amount of the excess that should
have been paid for such period.
Arranger .
KeyBanc Capital Markets or any successor.
Assignment and
Acceptance Agreement . See §17.1.
Assignment of
Hedge . An Assignment of Hedge Agreement by the Borrower to the
Agent for the benefit of the Lenders, as the same may be modified
and amended, pursuant to which the Interest Hedge described in
§7.12 is pledged as security for the Obligations, and any
financing statements that may be delivered in connection therewith,
such assignment to be in form and substance satisfactory to
Agent.
Pledge
Agreement . The Pledge Agreement dated as of even date herewith
executed by Borrower and Holdings in favor of Agent.
Authorized
Officer . Any of the following Persons: Frank C. Spencer,
Charles M. Handy, and such other Persons as Borrower shall
designate in a written notice to Agent.
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Balance Sheet
Date . December 31, 2007.
Bankruptcy
Code . Title 11, U.S.C.A., as amended from time to time or any
successor statute thereto.
Base Rate
. The greater of (a) the fluctuating annual rate of interest
announced from time to time by the Agent at the Agent’s Head
Office as its “prime rate” or (b) one half of one
percent (0.5%) above the Federal Funds Effective Rate. The Base
Rate is a reference rate and does not necessarily represent the
lowest or best rate being charged to any customer. Any change in
the rate of interest payable hereunder resulting from a change in
the Base Rate shall become effective as of the opening of business
on the day on which such change in the Base Rate becomes effective,
without notice or demand of any kind.
Base Rate
Loans . Loans bearing interest calculated by reference to the
Base Rate.
Borrower .
As defined in the preamble hereto.
Breakage
Costs . The cost to any Lender of re-employing funds bearing
interest at LIBOR, actually incurred (or reasonably expected to be
actually incurred) in connection with (i) any payment of any
portion of the Loans bearing interest at LIBOR prior to the
termination of any applicable Interest Period, (ii) the
conversion of a LIBOR Rate Loan to any other applicable interest
rate on a date other than the last day of the relevant Interest
Period, or (iii) the failure of Borrower to draw down, on the
first day of the applicable Interest Period, any amount as to which
Borrower has elected a LIBOR Rate Loan.
Business
Day . Any day on which banking institutions located in the same
city and State as the Agent’s Head Office are located are
open for the transaction of banking business and, in the case of
LIBOR Rate Loans, which also is a LIBOR Business Day.
Capitalized
Lease . A lease under which the discounted future rental
payment obligations of the lessee or the obligor are required to be
capitalized on the balance sheet of such Person in accordance with
GAAP.
Cash
Equivalents . As of any date, (i) securities issued or
directly and fully guaranteed or insured by the United States
government or any agency or instrumentality thereof having
maturities of not more than one year from such date, (ii) time
deposits and certificates of deposits having maturities of not more
than one year from such date and issued by any domestic commercial
bank having, (A) senior long term unsecured debt rated at
least A or the equivalent thereof by S&P or A2 or the
equivalent thereof by Moody’s and (B) capital and
surplus in excess of $100,000,000.00, (iii) commercial paper
rated at least A-1 or the equivalent thereof by S&P or P-1 or
the equivalent thereof by Moody’s and in either case maturing
within one hundred twenty (120) days from such date, and
(iv) shares of any money market mutual fund rated at least AAA
or the equivalent thereof by S&P or at least Aaa or the
equivalent thereof by Moody’s.
Cash
Management Documents . The Cash Management Agreement dated as
of even date herewith between the Borrower and the Agent, and each
other document, instrument and agreement now or hereafter executed
or delivered by or on behalf of the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries in connection therewith.
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CERCLA .
The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and
Liability Act of 1980 (codified in scattered sections of 26 U.S.C.;
33 U.S.C.; 42 U.S.C. and 42 U.S.C. §9601 et seq.), and its
state and local equivalents, and regulations promulgated
thereunder, and amendments and successors to such statutes and
regulations, as may be enacted and promulgated from time to
time.
Change of
Control . A Change of Control shall exist upon the occurrence
of any of the following:
(a) any
Person (including a Person’s Affiliates and associates) or
group (as that term is understood under Section 13(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange
Act”) and the rules and regulations thereunder) shall have
acquired beneficial ownership (within the meaning of
Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act) of a percentage (based on
voting power, in the event different classes of stock shall have
different voting powers) of the voting stock of Parent equal to at
least thirty-three percent (33%);
(b) as
of any date a majority of the Board of Directors or Trustees (the
“Board”) of Parent consists of individuals who were not
either (i) directors or trustees of Parent as of the
corresponding date of the previous year, or (ii) selected or
nominated to become directors or trustees by the Board of Parent of
which a majority consisted of individuals described in clause
(b)(i) above, or (iii) selected or nominated to become
directors or trustees by the Board of Parent of which a majority
consisted of individuals described in clause (b)(i) above and
individuals described in clause (b)(ii), above (excluding, in the
case of both clause (b)(ii) and clause (b)(iii), any individual
whose initial nomination for, or assumption of office as, a member
of the Board of Parent occurs as a result of an actual or
threatened solicitation of proxies or consents for the election or
removal of one or more directors or trustees by any person or group
other than a solicitation for the election of one or more directors
by or on behalf of the Board); or
(c) the
Borrower or Parent consolidates with, is acquired by, or merges
into or with any Person (other than a merger permitted by
§8.4); or
(d) Parent
fails to own, directly or indirectly, at least one-hundred percent
(100%) of the economic, voting and beneficial interests in CS
Business Trust I or CS Business Trust II; or
(e) Parent
or CS Business Trust I shall fail to be the sole general partner of
Operating Partnership; or
(f) Operating
Partnership fails to own, directly or indirectly, at least one
hundred percent (100%) of the economic, voting and beneficial
interest of Borrower; or
(g) the
Borrower fails to own, directly or indirectly, free of any lien,
encumbrance or other adverse claim (other than any lien in favor of
the Agent), at least one hundred percent (100%) of the economic,
voting and beneficial interest of each Subsidiary Guarantor
(subject to the terms of §5.3 regarding the release of
Subsidiary Guarantors); or
(h) if
any three (3) of Scott A. Ransom, Brian L Happ, William L.
Peel, Jr., Charles M. Handy and Frank Spencer shall cease to be
active on a daily basis in the management
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of Parent or
the Borrower whether due to death, disability or otherwise,
provided that, it shall not be a “Change of Control” if
a replacement executive of comparable experience and reasonably
satisfactory to the Agent shall have been retained within three
(3) months of such event.
Closing
Date . The date of this Agreement.
Code . The
Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
Collateral
. All of the property, rights and interests of the Borrower and
each Guarantor which are subject to the security interests,
security title, liens and mortgages created by the Security
Documents.
Commitment
. With respect to each Lender, the Term Loan Commitment of such
Lender.
Commitment
Percentage . With respect to each Lender, the percentage set
forth on Schedule 1 hereto as such Lender’s
percentage of the Total Commitment, as the same may be changed from
time to time in accordance with the terms of this
Agreement.
Compliance
Certificate . See §7.4(c).
Consolidated . With reference to any term defined herein,
that term as applied to the accounts of a Person and its
Subsidiaries, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with
GAAP.
Consolidated
EBITDA . With respect to any period, an amount equal to the
EBITDA of Borrower and its Subsidiaries for such period determined
on a Consolidated basis.
Consolidated
Fixed Charges . For any period, the sum of
(a) Consolidated Interest Expense for such period, plus
(b) all regularly scheduled principal payments made with
respect to Indebtedness of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries during
such period, other than any balloon, bullet or similar principal
payment which repays such Indebtedness in full, plus
(c) all Preferred Distributions for such period. Such
Person’s Equity Percentage in the Fixed Charges of its
Unconsolidated Affiliates shall be included in the determination of
Fixed Charges.
Consolidated
Interest Expense . For any period, without duplication,
(a) total Interest Expense of Borrower and its Subsidiaries
determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP for such
period, plus (b) such Person’s Equity Percentage
of Interest Expense of its Unconsolidated Affiliates for such
period.
Consolidated
Senior Indebtedness . Consolidated Total Indebtedness
less Subordinated Debt of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries
on a Consolidated basis (including, without duplication, such
Person’s Equity Percentage of the Subordinated Debt of its
Unconsolidated Affiliates).
Consolidated
Total Indebtedness . All indebtedness of Borrower and its
Subsidiaries determined on a Consolidated basis and all
Indebtedness of Borrower and its Subsidiaries determined on a
Consolidated basis, whether or not so classified. Consolidated
Total
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Indebtedness
shall include (without duplication), such Person’s Equity
Percentage of the foregoing of its Unconsolidated
Affiliates.
Construction
Work . The portion of the design and construction work, whether
performed by general contractor or a subcontractor, consisting of
the provision of labor, materials, equipment and services in
connection with the construction of a Project.
Contract .
Any design/build, construction or similar agreement to which the
Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries is a party as general
contractor, project manager or similar role, together with all
other related agreements, instruments and documents relating to the
design and/or construction of a Project, including any related
Subcontract, and any and all amendments, supplements or other
modifications thereto in accordance with the terms of this
Agreement.
Contribution
Agreement . That certain Contribution Agreement dated of even
date herewith among the Borrower, the Guarantors and each
Additional Guarantor which may hereafter become a party thereto, as
the same may be modified, amended or ratified from time to
time.
Control .
The possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or
cause the direction of the management or policies of a Person,
whether through the ability to exercise voting power, by contract
or otherwise. “ Controlling ” and “
Controlled ” have meanings correlative
thereto.
Conversion/Continuation Request . A notice given by the
Borrower to the Agent of its election to convert or continue a Loan
in accordance with §4.1.
CS Business
Trust I . CS Business Trust I, a Maryland business trust, the
general partner of Operating Partnership.
CS Business
Trust II . CS Business Trust II, a Maryland business trust, a
limited partner of Operating Partnership.
Default
Rate . See §4.11.
Delinquent
Lender . See §13.5(c).
Derivatives
Contract . Any and all rate swap transactions, basis swaps,
credit derivative transactions, forward rate transactions,
commodity swaps, commodity options, forward commodity contracts,
equity or equity index swaps or options, bond or bond price or bond
index swaps or options or forward bond or forward bond price or
forward bond index transactions, interest rate options, forward
foreign exchange transactions, cap transactions, floor
transactions, collar transactions, currency swap transactions,
cross-currency rate swap transactions, currency options, spot
contracts, or any other similar transactions or any combination of
any of the foregoing (including any options to enter into any of
the foregoing), whether or not any such transaction is governed by
or subject to any master agreement. Not in limitation of the
foregoing, the term “Derivatives Contract” includes any
and all transactions of any kind, and the
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related
confirmations, which are subject to the terms and conditions of, or
governed by, any form of master agreement published by the
International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc., any
International Foreign Exchange Master Agreement, or any other
master agreement, including any such obligations or liabilities
under any such master agreement. Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary, the term “Derivatives Contract” shall not
include rate-lock provisions with respect to long-term mortgage
contracts.
Derivatives
Termination Value . In respect of any one or more Derivatives
Contracts, after taking into account the effect of any legally
enforceable netting agreement relating to such Derivatives
Contracts, (a) for any date on or after the date such
Derivatives Contracts have been closed out and termination value(s)
determined in accordance therewith, such termination value(s), and
(b) for any date prior to the date referenced in clause
(a) the amount(s) determined as the mark-to-market value(s)
for such Derivatives Contracts, as determined based upon one or
more mid-market or other readily available quotations provided by
any recognized dealer in such Derivatives Contracts (which may
include the Agent or any Lender).
Distribution . Any (a) dividend or other distribution,
direct or indirect, on account of any Equity Interest of Parent,
the Borrower, or any of their respective Subsidiaries now or
hereafter outstanding, except a dividend payable solely in Equity
Interests of identical class to the holders of that class;
(b) redemption, conversion, exchange, retirement, sinking fund
or similar payment, purchase or other acquisition for value, direct
or indirect, of any Equity Interest of Parent, the Borrower or any
of their respective Subsidiaries now or hereafter outstanding; and
(c) payment made to retire, or to obtain the surrender of, any
outstanding warrants, options or other rights to acquire any Equity
Interests of Parent, the Borrower, or any of their respective
Subsidiaries now or hereafter outstanding.
Dollars or
$ . Dollars in lawful currency of the United States of
America.
Domestic
Lending Office . Initially, the office of each Lender
designated as such on Schedule 1 hereto; thereafter,
such other office of such Lender, if any, located within the United
States that will be making or maintaining Base Rate
Loans.
Drawdown
Date . The date on which any Loan is made, and the date on
which any Loan which is made prior to the Maturity Date is
converted in accordance with §4.1.
EBITDA .
With respect to a Person for any period (without duplication):
(a) net income (or loss) of such Person for such period
determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP (which
shall include a deduction for bad debt expenses of such Person
consistent with existing practices), exclusive of the following
(but only to the extent included in the determination of such net
income (loss)): (i) non-cash depreciation and amortization
expense; (ii) interest expense; (iii) income tax expense;
(iv) extraordinary or non-recurring gains and losses; (v)
distributions to minority owners; and (vii) one-time non-cash
items approved by Agent; plus (b) such Person’s pro rata
share of EBITDA determined in accordance with clause (a) above
of its Unconsolidated Affiliates.
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Employee
Benefit Plan . Any employee benefit plan within the meaning of
§3(3) of ERISA that is subject to Title IV of ERISA maintained
or contributed to by either of the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate,
other than a Multiemployer Plan.
Environmental
Laws . Any federal, state or local statute, regulation or
ordinance or any judicial or administrative decree or decision,
whether now existing or hereinafter enacted, promulgated or issued,
with respect to any Hazardous Substances, mold, drinking water,
groundwater, wetlands, landfills, open dumps, storage tanks,
underground storage tanks, solid waste, waste water, storm water
run-off, waste emissions or wells. Without limiting the generality
of the foregoing, the term shall encompass each of the following
statutes and their state and local equivalents, and regulations
promulgated thereunder, and amendments and successors to such
statutes and regulations, as may be enacted and promulgated from
time to time: (i) CERCLA; (ii) the Resource Conservation
and Recovery Act of 1976 (42 U.S.C. §6901 et seq.);
(iii) the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act (49 U.S.C.
§1801 et seq.); (iv) the Toxic Substances Control Act (15
U.S.C. §2061 et seq.); (v) the Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C.
§1251 et seq.); (vi) the Clean Air Act (42 U.S.C.
§7401 et seq.); (vii) the Safe Drinking Water Act (21
U.S.C. §349; 42 U.S.C. §201 and §300f et seq.);
(viii) the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969 (42
U.S.C. §4321); (ix) the Superfund Amendment and
Reauthorization Act of 1986 (codified in scattered sections of 10
U.S.C., 29 U.S.C., 33 U.S.C. and 42 U.S.C.); and (x) Title III
of the Superfund Amendment and Reauthorization Act (40 U.S.C.
§1101 et seq.).
Equity
Interests . With respect to any Person, any share of capital
stock of (or other ownership or profit interests in) such Person,
any warrant, option or other right for the purchase or other
acquisition from such Person of any share of capital stock of (or
other ownership or profit interests in) such Person, any security
convertible into or exchangeable for any share of capital stock of
(or other ownership or profit interests in) such Person or warrant,
right or option for the purchase or other acquisition from such
Person of such shares (or such other interests), and any other
ownership or profit interest in such Person (including, without
limitation, partnership, member or trust interests therein),
whether voting or nonvoting, and whether or not such share,
warrant, option, right or other interest is authorized or otherwise
existing on any date of determination.
Equity
Percentage . The aggregate ownership percentage of the
Borrower, the Guarantors or their respective Subsidiaries in each
Unconsolidated Affiliate.
ERISA .
The Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended and
in effect from time to time.
ERISA
Affiliate . Any Person which is treated as a single employer
with the Borrower, the Guarantors or their respective Subsidiaries
under §414 of the Code.
ERISA
Reportable Event . A reportable event with respect to a
Guaranteed Pension Plan within the meaning of §4043 of ERISA
and the regulations promulgated thereunder as to which the
requirement of notice has not been waived.
Event of
Default . See §11.1.
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Existing MEA
Loan Agreement . That certain Loan Agreement, dated
June 29, 2007, between Holdings, Marshall Erdman &
Associates, Inc. and M&I Marshall & Ilsley Bank.
Extension
Request . See §2.5(a).
Federal Funds
Effective Rate . For any day, the rate per annum (rounded
upward to the nearest one-hundredth of one percent (1/100 of 1%))
announced by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on such day as
being the weighted average of the rates on overnight federal funds
transactions arranged by federal funds brokers on the previous
trading day, as computed and announced by such Federal Reserve Bank
in substantially the same manner as such Federal Reserve Bank
computes and announces the weighted average it refers to as the
“Federal Funds Effective Rate.”
GAAP . The
generally accepted accounting principles in the United States set
forth in the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting
Principles Board and the American Institute of Certified Public
Accountants and statements and pronouncements of the Financial
Accounting Standards Board or such other principles as may be
approved by a significant segment of the accounting profession in
the United States, that are applicable to the circumstances as of
the date of determination, consistently applied.
Guaranteed
Pension Plan . Any employee pension benefit plan within the
meaning of §3(2) of ERISA maintained or contributed to by the
Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate the benefits of which are
guaranteed on termination in full or in part by the PBGC pursuant
to Title IV of ERISA, other than a Multiemployer Plan.
Guarantors
. Collectively, Parent, CS Business Trust I, CS Business Trust II,
Operating Partnership, each Subsidiary Guarantor and each
Additional Guarantor, and individually any one of them.
Guaranty .
The Unconditional Guaranty of Payment and Performance dated of even
date herewith made by Parent, CS Business Trust I, CS Business
Trust II, Operating Partnership and each Subsidiary Guarantor in
favor of the Agent and the Lenders, as the same may be modified,
amended or ratified.
Hazardous
Substances . Each and every element, compound, chemical
mixture, contaminant, pollutant, toxic substances, oil, material,
waste or other substance which is defined, determined or identified
as hazardous or toxic under any Environmental Law. Without limiting
the generality of the foregoing, the term shall mean and
include:
(a) “hazardous
substances” as defined in the Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, the Superfund
Amendment and Reauthorization Act of 1986, or Title III of the
Superfund Amendment and Reauthorization Act, each as amended, and
regulations promulgated thereunder;
(b) “hazardous
waste” and “regulated substances” as defined in
the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act of 1976, as amended, and
regulations promulgated thereunder;
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(c) “hazardous
materials” as defined in the Hazardous Materials
Transportation Act, as amended, and regulations promulgated
thereunder; and
(d) “chemical
substance or mixture” as defined in the Toxic Substances
Control Act, as amended, and regulations promulgated
thereunder.
Hedge
Obligations . All obligations of the Borrower to any Lender or
an Affiliate of a Lender to make any payments (including, without
limitation, any payments due upon a termination or default) under
any agreement with respect to an interest rate swap, collar, cap or
floor or a forward rate agreement or other agreement regarding the
hedging of interest rate risk exposure executed in connection with
the satisfaction of the condition set forth in §7.12, and any
confirming letter executed pursuant to such hedging agreement, all
as amended, restated or otherwise modified. Nothing herein shall
require the Borrower to obtain any such agreement from any Lender
or an Affiliate of a Lender.
Holdings .
MEA Holdings, Inc., a Wisconsin corporation.
Indebtedness . With respect to a Person, at the time of
computation thereof, all of the following (without duplication):
(a) all obligations of such Person in respect of money
borrowed (other than trade debt incurred in the ordinary course of
business which is not more than ninety (90) days past due);
(b) all obligations of such Person, whether or not for money
borrowed (i) represented by notes payable, or drafts accepted,
in each case representing extensions of credit, (ii) evidenced
by bonds, debentures, notes or similar instruments, or
(iii) constituting purchase money indebtedness, conditional
sales contracts, title retention debt instruments or other similar
instruments, upon which interest charges are customarily paid or
that are issued or assumed as full or partial payment for property
or services rendered; (c) obligation of such Person as a
lessee or obligor under a Capitalized Lease (but for the avoidance
of doubt, not under any operating lease); (d) all
reimbursement obligations of such Person under any letters of
credit or acceptances (whether or not the same have been presented
for payment); (e) all Off-Balance Sheet Obligations of such
Person; (f) all obligations of such Person in respect of any
purchase obligation, repurchase obligation, takeout commitment or
forward equity commitment; (g) net obligations under any
Derivatives Contract not entered into as a hedge against existing
Indebtedness, in an amount equal to the Derivatives Termination
Value thereof; (h) all obligations of such Person to redeem,
retire, defease or otherwise make any payment in respect of any
Mandatorily Redeemable Stock issued by such Person or any other
Person, valued at the greater of its voluntary or involuntary
liquidation preference plus accrued and unpaid dividends;
(i) all Indebtedness of other Persons which such Person has
guaranteed or is otherwise recourse to such Person (except for
guaranties of customary exceptions for fraud, misapplication of
funds, environmental indemnities, violation of “special
purpose entity” covenants, and other similar exceptions to
recourse liability until a claim is made with respect thereto, and
then shall be included only to the extent of the amount of such
claim), including liability of a general partner in respect of
liabilities of a partnership in which it is a general partner which
would constitute “Indebtedness” hereunder, any
obligation to supply funds to or in any manner to invest directly
or indirectly in a Person, to maintain working capital or equity
capital of a Person or otherwise to maintain net worth, solvency or
other financial condition of a Person, to purchase indebtedness, or
to assure the owner of indebtedness against loss, including,
without limitation, through an agreement to purchase property,
securities, goods, supplies or services for the purpose
of
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enabling the
debtor to make payment of the indebtedness held by such owner or
otherwise; (j) all Indebtedness of another Person secured by (or
for which the holder of such Indebtedness has an existing right,
contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien on property or
assets owned by such Person, even though such Person has not
assumed or become liable for the payment of such Indebtedness or
other payment obligation; and (k) such Person’s pro rata
share of the Indebtedness (based upon its Equity Percentage in such
Unconsolidated Affiliates) of any Unconsolidated Affiliate of such
Person.
Indemnity
Agreement . Any indemnity or similar agreement entered into by
the Borrower and/or any of its Subsidiaries relating to
indemnification of one or more sureties in connection with any
claims made under a Payment or Performance Bond, including, without
limitation, that certain General Indemnity Agreement, dated
July 29, 2005, from Holdings, Marshall Erdman &
Associates, Inc. and Marshall Edrman Development, LLC in favor of
Arch Insurance Company, Arch Reinsurance Company and their
subsidiaries and affiliates.
Intercreditor
Agreement . The Intercreditor Agreement, dated as of the date
hereof, between the Agent and the Senior Revolving Loan
Agent.
Interest
Hedge . See §7.12.
Interest
Expense . For any period, without duplication, (a) total
interest expense incurred (both expensed and capitalized) of the
Borrower, the Subsidiary Guarantors and their respective
Subsidiaries on funded debt, including the portion of rents payable
under a Capitalized Lease allocable to interest expense in
accordance with GAAP (but excluding capitalized interest funded
under a construction loan interest reserve account), determined on
a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP for such period, plus
(b) the Borrower’s, the Subsidiary Guarantors’ and
their respective Subsidiaries’ Equity Percentage of Interest
Expense of their Unconsolidated Affiliates for such period.
Interest Expense shall not include Preferred
Distributions.
Interest
Payment Date . As to each Base Rate Loan and each LIBOR Rate
Loan, the first (1 st )
day of each calendar month during the term of such Loan.
Interest
Period . With respect to each LIBOR Rate Loan
(a) initially, the period commencing on the Drawdown Date of
such LIBOR Rate Loan and ending one, two, three or six months (or
such shorter period as may be approved by the Lenders) thereafter,
and (b) thereafter, each period commencing on the day
following the last day of the next preceding Interest Period
applicable to such Loan and ending on the last day of one of the
periods set forth above, as selected by the Borrower in a
Conversion/Continuation Request; provided that all of the
foregoing provisions relating to Interest Periods are subject to
the following:
(i) if
any Interest Period with respect to a LIBOR Rate Loan would
otherwise end on a day that is not a LIBOR Business Day, such
Interest Period shall end on the next succeeding LIBOR Business
Day, unless such next succeeding LIBOR Business Day occurs in the
next calendar month, in which case such Interest Period shall end
on the next preceding LIBOR Business Day, as determined
conclusively (absent manifest error) by the Agent in accordance
with the then current bank practice in London;
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(ii) if
the Borrower shall fail to give notice as provided in §4.1,
the Borrower shall be deemed to have requested a continuation of
the affected LIBOR Rate Loan as a Base Rate Loan on the last day of
the then current Interest Period with respect thereto;
(iii) any
Interest Period pertaining to a LIBOR Rate Loan that begins on the
last Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which there
is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month at the
end of such Interest Period) shall end on the last Business Day of
the applicable calendar month;
(iv) any
Interest Period pertaining to a LIBOR Rate Loan that begins on the
first Business Day of a calendar month shall end on the last
Business Day of the applicable calendar month, unless the last
Business Day of such calendar month is not a LIBOR Business Day, in
which case such Interest Period shall end on the next succeeding
LIBOR Business Day; and
(v) no
Interest Period relating to any LIBOR Rate Loan shall extend beyond
the Maturity Date.
Investments . With respect to any Person, all shares of
capital stock, evidences of Indebtedness and other securities
issued by any other Person and owned by such Person, all loans,
advances, or extensions of credit to, or contributions to the
capital of, any other Person, all purchases of the securities or
business or integral part of the business of any other Person and
commitments and options to make such purchases, all interests in
real property, and all other investments; provided ,
however , that the term “Investment” shall not
include (i) equipment, inventory and other tangible personal
property acquired in the ordinary course of business, or
(ii) current trade and customer accounts receivable for
services rendered in the ordinary course of business and payable in
accordance with customary trade terms. In determining the aggregate
amount of Investments outstanding at any particular time:
(a) there shall be included as an Investment all interest
accrued with respect to Indebtedness constituting an Investment
unless and until such interest is paid; (b) there shall be
deducted in respect of each Investment any amount received as a
return of capital; (c) there shall not be deducted in respect
of any Investment any amounts received as earnings on such
Investment, whether as dividends, interest or otherwise, except
that accrued interest included as provided in the foregoing clause
(a) may be deducted when paid; and (d) there shall not be
deducted in respect of any Investment any decrease in the value
thereof.
Joinder
Agreement . The Joinder Agreement with respect to the Guaranty
and Contribution Agreement to be executed and delivered pursuant to
§5.2 by any Additional Guarantor, such Joinder Agreement to be
substantially in the form of Exhibit B
hereto.
KeyBank .
As defined in the preamble hereto.
Lenders .
KeyBank, the other lending institutions which are party hereto and
any other Person which becomes an assignee of any rights of a
Lender pursuant to §17 (but not including any participant as
described in §17).
LIBOR .
For any LIBOR Rate Loan for any Interest Period, the average rate
(rounded upwards to the nearest 1/16th) as shown in Reuters Screen
LIBOR01 Page at which deposits in
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U.S. dollars
are offered by first class banks in the London Interbank Market at
approximately 11:00 a.m. (London time) on the day that is two
(2) LIBOR Business Days prior to the first day of such
Interest Period with a maturity approximately equal to such
Interest Period and in an amount approximately equal to the amount
to which such Interest Period relates, adjusted for reserves and
taxes if required by future regulations. If such service no longer
reports such rate or Agent determines in good faith that the rate
so reported no longer accurately reflects the rate available to
Agent in the London Interbank Market, Loans shall accrue interest
at the Base Rate plus the Applicable Margin. For any period during
which a Reserve Percentage shall apply, LIBOR with respect to LIBOR
Rate Loans shall be equal to the amount determined above divided by
an amount equal to 1 minus the Reserve Percentage.
LIBOR Business
Day . Any day on which commercial banks are open for
international business (including dealings in Dollar deposits) in
London, England.
LIBOR Lending
Office . Initially, the office of each Lender designated as
such on Schedule 1 hereto; thereafter, such other
office of such Lender, if any, that shall be making or maintaining
LIBOR Rate Loans.
LIBOR Rate
Loans . Loans bearing interest calculated by reference to
LIBOR.
Loan
Documents . This Agreement, the Notes, the Guaranty, the
Security Documents, the Cash Management Documents and all other
documents, instruments or agreements now or hereafter executed or
delivered by or on behalf of the Borrower or any Guarantor in
connection with the Loans.
Loan and
Loans . The Term Loan.
Mandatorily
Redeemable Stock . With respect to any Person, any Equity
Interest of such Person which by the terms of such Equity Interest
(or by the terms of any security into which it is convertible or
for which it is exchangeable or exercisable), upon the happening of
any event or otherwise (a) matures or is mandatorily
redeemable, pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise
(other than an Equity Interest to the extent redeemable in exchange
for common stock or other equivalent common Equity Interests),
(b) is convertible into or exchangeable or exercisable for
Indebtedness or Mandatorily Redeemable Stock, or (c) is
redeemable at the option of the holder thereof, in whole or in part
(other than an Equity Interest which is redeemable solely in
exchange for common stock or other equivalent common Equity
Interests).
Material
Adverse Effect . A material adverse effect on (a) the
business, properties, assets, condition (financial or otherwise) or
results of operations of Parent, the Borrower and the Subsidiary
Guarantors (taken as a whole); (b) the ability of Borrower or
any Guarantor to perform any of its obligations under the Loan
Documents; (c) the validity or enforceability of any of the
Loan Documents or the creation, perfection and priority of any
Liens of Agent in the Collateral; or (d) the rights or
remedies of Agent or the Lenders under the Loan
Documents.
Material
Subsidiary . Any existing or future Wholly Owned Subsidiary of
the Borrower.
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Maturity
Date . March ___, 2011, as the same may be extended by Borrower
as provided in §2.5, or such earlier date on which the Loans
shall become due and payable pursuant to the terms
hereof.
Merger .
As defined in the recitals hereto.
Moody’s . Moody’s Investor Service,
Inc.
Multiemployer
Plan . Any multiemployer plan within the meaning of §3(37)
of ERISA maintained or contributed to by the Borrower or any ERISA
Affiliate.
Net Income (or
Loss) . With respect to any Person (or any asset of any Person)
for any period, the net income (or loss) of such Person (or
attributable to such asset), determined in accordance with
GAAP.
Non-Recourse
Exclusions . With respect to any Non-Recourse Indebtedness of
any Person, any usual and customary exclusions from the
non-recourse limitations governing such Indebtedness, including,
without limitation, exclusions for claims that (i) are based
on fraud, intentional misrepresentation, misapplication of funds,
gross negligence or willful misconduct, (ii) result from
intentional mismanagement of or waste at the Real Property securing
such Non-Recourse Indebtedness, (iii) arise from the presence
of Hazardous Substances on the Real Property securing such
Non-Recourse Indebtedness; (iv) are the result of any unpaid
real estate taxes and assessments (whether contained in a loan
agreement, promissory note, indemnity agreement or other document);
or (v) result from the borrowing Subsidiary and/or its assets
becoming the subject of a voluntary or involuntary bankruptcy,
insolvency or similar proceeding.
Non-Recourse
Indebtedness . With respect to a Person, (a) Indebtedness
in respect of which recourse for payment (except for Non-Recourse
Exclusions until a claim is made with respect thereto, and then
such Indebtedness shall not constitute Non-Recourse Indebtedness
only to the extent of the amount of such claim) is contractually
limited to specific assets of such Person encumbered by a Lien
securing such Indebtedness or (b) if such Person is a Single
Asset Entity, any Indebtedness of such Person. A loan secured by
multiple properties owned by Single Asset Entities shall be
considered Non-Recourse Indebtedness of such Single Asset Entities
even if such Indebtedness is cross-defaulted and
cross-collateralized with the loans to such other Single Asset
Entities.
Obligations . All indebtedness, obligations and liabilities
of the Borrower or any Guarantor to any of the Lenders or the
Agent, individually or collectively, under this Agreement or any of
the other Loan Documents or in respect of any of the Loans, the
Notes, or other instruments at any time evidencing any of the
foregoing, whether existing on the date of this Agreement or
arising or incurred hereafter, direct or indirect, joint or
several, absolute or contingent, matured or unmatured, liquidated
or unliquidated, secured or unsecured, arising by contract,
operation of law or otherwise.
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OFAC .
Office of Foreign Asset Control of the Department of the Treasury
of the United States of America.
Off-Balance
Sheet Obligations . Liabilities and obligations of the
Borrower, any Subsidiary or any other Person in respect of
“off-balance sheet arrangements” (as defined in the SEC
Off-Balance Sheet Rules) which Parent would be required to disclose
in the “Management’s Discussion and Analysis of
Financial Condition and Results of Operations” section of
Parent’s report on Form 10-Q or Form 10-K (or their
equivalents) which Parent is required to file with the SEC (or any
governmental authority substituted therefore). As used in this
definition, the term “SEC Off-Balance Sheet Rules”
means the Disclosure in Management’s Discussion and Analysis
About Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements, Securities Act Release
No. 33-8182, 68 Fed. Reg. 5982 (Feb. 5, 2003) (codified at 17
CFR pts. 228, 229 and 249).
Operating
Partnership . As defined in the recitals hereto.
Outstanding . With respect to the Loans, the aggregate
unpaid principal thereof as of any date of
determination.
Owner .
Any Person party to a Contract acting as the sponsor, owner and/or
operator of a Project for whom the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries is performing Construction Work thereunder.
Parent .
As defined in the preamble hereto.
Patriot
Act . The Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing
Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act
of 2001, as the same may be amended from time to time, and
corresponding provisions of future laws.
Payment or
Performance Bond . Any (a) payment bond issued by a surety
which guarantees the timely payment by the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries for all labor, materials, supplies, implements,
machinery and equipment furnished with respect to any Construction
Work under a Contract or (b) any performance bonds issued by a
surety which guarantee the timely performance by the Borrower or
any of its Subsidiaries of all Construction Work under a
Contract.
PBGC . The
Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation created by §4002 of ERISA
and any successor entity or entities having similar
responsibilities.
Permitted
Liens . Liens, security interests and other encumbrances
permitted by §8.2.
Person .
Any individual, corporation, limited liability company,
partnership, trust, unincorporated association, business, or other
legal entity, and any government or any governmental agency or
political subdivision thereof.
Plan
Assets . Assets of any employee benefit plan subject to
Part 4, Subtitle A, Title I of ERISA.
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Preferred
Distributions. For any period and without duplication, all
Distributions paid, declared but not yet paid or otherwise due and
payable during such period on Preferred Securities issued by the
Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries. Preferred Distributions shall
not include dividends or distributions (a) paid or payable
solely in Equity Interests of identical class payable to holders of
such class of Equity Interests; (b) paid or payable to the
Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries; or (c) constituting or
resulting in the redemption of Preferred Securities, other than
scheduled redemptions not constituting balloon, bullet or similar
redemptions in full.
Preferred
Securities . With respect to any Person, Equity Interests in
such Person, which are entitled to preference or priority over any
other Equity Interest in such Person in respect of the payment of
dividends or distribution of assets upon liquidation, or
both.
Pricing
Level . Such term shall have the meaning established within the
definition of Applicable Margin.
Project .
Any health care facility or medical office building(s) designed
and/or constructed by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in
its capacity as general contractor, project manager or similar role
pursuant to a Contract, and by any Subcontractor(s) pursuant to one
or more Subcontracts, together with all on-site infrastructure,
site improvements and appurtenances to be designed, constructed and
installed in connection therewith, and all demolitions in
connection therewith.
Real
Estate . All real property at any time owned or leased (as
lessee or sublessee) by the Borrower, any Guarantor or any of their
respective Subsidiaries.
Record .
The grid attached to any Note, or the continuation of such grid, or
any other similar record, including computer records, maintained by
the Agent with respect to any Loan referred to in such
Note.
Recourse
Indebtedness . As of any date of determination, any
Indebtedness (whether secured or unsecured) which is recourse to a
Subsidiary of the Parent other than the Borrower or any Guarantor
which is a Subsidiary of the Borrower. Recourse Indebtedness shall
not include Non-Recourse Indebtedness.
REIT
Status . With respect to Parent, its status as a real estate
investment trust as defined in §856(a) of the Code.
Release .
Any releasing, spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting,
emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, disposing or dumping
(other than the storing of materials in reasonable quantities to
the extent necessary for the operation of such property in the
ordinary course of business, and in any event in compliance with
all Environmental Laws) of Hazardous Substances on, upon, into or
from the Real Estate.
Required
Lenders . As of any date, the Lender or Lenders whose aggregate
Commitment Percentage is greater than fifty percent (50.0%) of the
Total Commitment; provided that in determining said
percentage at any given time, all then existing Delinquent Lenders
will be
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disregarded and
excluded and the Commitment Percentages of the Lenders shall be
redetermined for voting purposes only to exclude the Commitment
Percentages of such Delinquent Lenders.
Reserve
Percentage . For any Interest Period, that percentage which is
specified three (3) Business Days before the first day of such
Interest Period by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System (or any successor) or any other governmental or
quasi-governmental authority with jurisdiction over Agent or any
Lender for determining the maximum reserve requirement (including,
but not limited to, any marginal reserve requirement) for Agent or
any Lender with respect to liabilities constituting of or including
(among other liabilities) Eurocurrency liabilities in an amount
equal to that portion of the Loan affected by such Interest Period
and with a maturity equal to such Interest Period.
SEC . The
federal Securities and Exchange Commission.
Security
Agreement . The Security Agreement, dated as of the date
hereof, executed by Borrower and certain of its Subsidiaries, in
favor of the Agent.
Security
Documents . Collectively, the Guaranty, the Joinder Agreements,
the Pledge Agreement, the Acknowledgments, the Assignment of Hedge,
the Security Agreement, UCC-1 financing statements and any further
collateral assignments by Borrower or any Guarantor to the Agent
for the benefit of the Lenders.
Senior
Revolving Agent . Bank of America, N.A., together with its
successors and assigns, in its capacity as “Agent” for
the Senior Revolving Lenders under the Senior Revolving Loan
Documents.
Senior
Revolving Lenders . The lenders party to the Senior Revolving
Loan Documents from time to time.
Senior
Revolving Loan . The revolving loan or loans evidenced and
secured by the Senior Revolving Loan Documents, in an aggregate
principal amount not to exceed One Hundred Fifty Million Dollars
($150,000,000.00).
Senior
Revolving Loan Agreement . The Credit Agreement dated of even
date herewith among Operating Partnership, as borrower, the Senior
Revolving Agent and the Senior Revolving Lenders, as amended,
supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
Senior
Revolving Loan Documents . The Senior Revolving Loan Agreement
and all other documents, instruments or agreements now or hereafter
executed or delivered by or on behalf of the borrower thereunder or
any guarantor thereof in connection with the loans evidenced
thereby, as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time
to time.
Single Asset
Entity . A bankruptcy remote, single purpose entity which is a
Subsidiary of Parent and which is not a Subsidiary Guarantor which
owns real property and related assets which are security for
Indebtedness of such entity, and which Indebtedness does not
constitute Indebtedness of any other Person except as provided in
the definition of Non-Recourse Indebtedness (except for
Non-Recourse Exclusions).
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S&P .
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Group.
State . A
state of the United States of America and the District of
Columbia.
Subcontract . Any subcontract or any direct or indirect
agreement between the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries and any
Subcontractor for the performance of a portion of the design and/or
construction of a Project or the provision of labor, materials or
other services required to be performed by Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries, as general contractor, project manager or similar
role, under any Contract.
Subcontractor . Any person who has entered into a direct or
indirect arrangement with the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries,
as general contractor, project manager or similar role under a
Contract, including any sub-subcontractor or other provider, for
the provision of labor, materials or other services to be performed
by Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, as general contractor,
project manager or similar role, under any Contract.
Subordinated
Debt . All Indebtedness of the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries which (a) has a maturity of not earlier than one
year after the Maturity Date (as extended pursuant to §2.5),
is not recourse to any of the Guarantors, (c) is not secured
by any assets of property of the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries, (d) does not contain any covenants or defaults
other than a requirement to maintain “good standing”
and payment of such Indebtedness and (e) is subordinate to the
Obligations and the Hedge Obligations in right and time of payment
pursuant to a Subordination Agreement in form and substance
satisfactory to Agent.
Subordination
Agreement . Each Subordination Agreement, by and among Agent,
Borrower or its Subsidiary and the holder of the Subordinated Debt
relating to the Subordinate Debt, as the same may be modified or
amended.
Subsidiary
. For any Person, any corporation, partnership, limited liability
company or other entity of which at least a majority of the
securities or other ownership interests having by the terms thereof
ordinary voting power to elect a majority of the board of directors
or other persons performing similar functions of such corporation,
partnership, limited liability company or other entity (without
regard to the occurrence of any contingency) is at the time
directly or indirectly owned or controlled by such Person or one or
more Subsidiaries of such Person or by such Person and one or more
Subsidiaries of such Person, and shall include all Persons the
accounts of which are consolidated with those of such Person
pursuant to GAAP.
Subsidiary
Guarantor . Initially, those Persons described on
Schedule 1.1 hereto and each Additional Guarantor. Upon
any Additional Guarantor becoming a Subsidiary Guarantor or upon
the release of a Subsidiary Guarantor in accordance with the terms
of this Agreement, Agent may unilaterally amend
Schedule 1.1 .
Term Loan
. An individual loan or the aggregate loans, as the case may be, in
the maximum principal amount of One Hundred Million Dollars
($100,000,000.00) made by the Lenders to the Borrower
hereunder.
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Term Loan
Commitment . As to each Lender, the amount equal to such
Lender’s Commitment Percentage of the aggregate principal
amount of the Loans from time to time outstanding to
Borrower.
Titled
Agents . The Arranger, and any syndication agent or
co-documentation agent.
Total
Commitment . The sum of the Commitments of the Lenders, as in
effect from time to time.
Type . As
to any Loan, its nature as a Base Rate Loan or a LIBOR Rate
Loan.
Unconsolidated
Affiliate . In respect of any Person, any other Person in whom
such Person holds an Investment, (a) which Investment is
accounted for in the financial statements of such Person on an
equity basis of accounting and whose financial results would not be
consolidated under GAAP with the financial results of such first
Person on the consolidated financial statements of such first
Person, or (b) which is not a Subsidiary of such first
Person.
Unrestricted
Cash and Cash Equivalents . As of any date of determination,
the sum of (a) the aggregate amount of Unrestricted cash and
(b) the aggregate amount of Unrestricted Cash Equivalents
(valued at fair market value). As used in this definition,
“Unrestricted” means the specified asset is not subject
to any escrow, reserves or Liens or claims of any kind in favor of
any Person (other than customary rights of depository institutions
in the ordinary course of business with respect to bank
accounts).
WIP
Schedule . A work in process schedule reflecting, among other
things the financial status of all Construction Work being provided
under each Contract, in the form previously delivered to the
Agent.
§1.2 Rules
of Interpretation .
(a) A
reference to any document or agreement shall include such document
or agreement as amended, modified or supplemented from time to time
in accordance with its terms and the terms of this
Agreement.
(b) The
singular includes the plural and the plural includes the
singular.
(c) A
reference to any law includes any amendment or modification of such
law.
(d) A
reference to any Person includes its permitted successors and
permitted assigns.
(e) Accounting
terms not otherwise defined herein have the meanings assigned to
them by GAAP applied on a consistent basis by the accounting entity
to which they refer.
(f) The
words “include”, “includes” and
“including” are not limiting.
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(g) The
words “approval” and “approved”, as the
context requires, means an approval in writing given to the party
seeking approval after full and fair disclosure to the party giving
approval of all material facts necessary in order to determine
whether approval should be granted.
(h) All
terms not specifically defined herein or by GAAP, which terms are
defined in the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in the State of
New York, have the meanings assigned to them therein.
(i) Reference
to a particular “§”, refers to that section of
this Agreement unless otherwise indicated.
(j) The
words “herein”, “hereof”,
“hereunder” and words of like import shall refer to
this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular section or
subdivision of this Agreement.
(k) In
the event of any change in generally accepted accounting principles
after the date hereof or any other change in accounting procedures
pursuant to §7.3 which would affect the computation of any
financial covenant, ratio or other requirement set forth in any
Loan Document, then upon the request of Borrower or Agent, the
Borrower, the Guarantors, the Agent and the Lenders shall negotiate
promptly, diligently and in good faith in order to amend the
provisions of the Loan Documents such that such financial covenant,
ratio or other requirement shall continue to provide substantially
the same financial tests or restrictions of the Borrower and the
Guarantors as in effect prior to such accounting change, as
determined by the Required Lenders in their good faith judgment.
Until such time as such amendment shall have been executed and
delivered by the Borrower, Guarantors, the Agent and the Required
Lenders, such financial covenants, ratio and other requirements,
and all financial statements and other documents required to be
delivered under the Loan Documents, shall be calculated and
reported as if such change had not occurred.
(a) Subject
to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, each of
the Lenders severally agrees to lend to the Borrower on the Closing
Date such Lender’s Commitment Percentage of the Total
Commitment, and the Borrower irrevocably agrees to borrow from the
Lenders the amount of the Total Commitment. The Loans shall be
fully disbursed on the Closing Date. Notwithstanding anything to
the contrary contained herein, the obligation of the Lenders to
make the Loans is subject to the satisfaction of the conditions set
forth in §10. The funding of the Loans hereunder shall
constitute a representation and warranty by the Borrower that of
the conditions required of Borrower set forth in §10 have been
satisfied on the Closing Date.
(b) The
Loans shall be evidenced by separate promissory notes of Borrower
in substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto
(collectively, the “Notes”), dated of even date with
this Agreement (except as otherwise provided in §17.3) and
completed with appropriate insertions. One Note shall be payable to
the order of each Lender in the principal amount equal
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to such
Lender’s Commitment, plus interest accrued thereon, as set
forth below. The Borrower irrevocably authorizes Agent to make or
cause to be made, on or about the date hereof or the time of
receipt of any payment of principal thereof, an appropriate
notation on Agent’s Record reflecting the making of such Loan
or (as the case may be) the receipt of such payment. The
outstanding amount of the Loans set forth on Agent’s Record
shall be prima facie evidence of the principal amount
thereof owing and unpaid to each Lender, but the failure to record,
or any error in so recording, any such amount on Agent’s
Record shall not limit or otherwise affect the obligations of the
Borrower hereunder or under any Note to make payments of principal
of or interest on any such Note when due.
(a) Each
Base Rate Loan shall bear interest for the period commencing with
the Drawdown Date thereof and ending on the date on which such Base
Rate Loan is repaid or converted to a LIBOR Rate Loan at the rate
per annum equal to the sum of the Base Rate plus the Applicable
Margin.
(b) Each
LIBOR Rate Loan shall bear interest for the period commencing with
the Drawdown Date thereof and ending on the last day of each
Interest Period with respect thereto at the rate per annum equal to
the sum of LIBOR determined for such Interest Period plus the
Applicable Margin.
(c) The
Borrower promises to pay interest on each Loan in arrears on each
Interest Payment Date with respect thereto.
(d) Base
Rate Loans and LIBOR Rate Loans may be converted to Loans of the
other Type as provided in §4.1.
(a) Not
later than 1:00 p.m. (Cleveland time) on the proposed Drawdown Date
of the Loan, each of the Lenders will make available to the Agent,
at the Agent’s Head Office, in immediately available funds,
the amount of such Lender’s Commitment Percentage of the
amount of the requested Loans which may be disbursed pursuant to
§2.1. Upon receipt from each Lender of such amount, and upon
receipt of the documents required by §10 and the satisfaction
of the other conditions set forth therein, to the extent
applicable, the Agent will make available to the Borrower the
aggregate amount of such Loans made available to the Agent by the
Lenders by crediting such amount to the account of the Borrower
maintained at the Agent’s Head Office. The failure or refusal
of any Lender to make available to the Agent at the aforesaid time
and place on the Drawdown Date the amount of its Commitment
Percentage of the requested Loan shall not relieve any other Lender
from its several obligation hereunder to make available to the
Agent the amount of such other Lender’s Commitment Percentage
of any requested Loan, including any additional Loans that may be
requested subject to the terms and conditions hereof to provide
funds to replace those not advanced by the Lender so failing or
refusing. In the event of any such failure or refusal, the Lenders
not so failing or refusing shall be entitled to a priority secured
position as against the Lender or Lenders so failing or refusing
to
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make available
to the Borrower the amount of its or their Commitment Percentage
for such Loans as provided in §11.5.
(b) Unless
the Agent shall have been notified by any Lender prior to the
Drawdown Date that such Lender will not make available to Agent
such Lender’s Commitment Percentage of the proposed Loan,
Agent may in its discretion assume that such Lender has made such
Loan available to Agent in accordance with the provisions of this
Agreement and the Agent may, if it chooses, in reliance upon such
assumption make such Loan available to the Borrower, and such
Lender shall be liable to the Agent for the amount of such advance.
If such Lender does not pay such corresponding amount upon the
Agent’s demand therefor, the Agent will promptly notify the
Borrower, and the Borrower shall promptly pay such corresponding
amount to the Agent. The Agent shall also be entitled to recover
from the Lender or the Borrower, as the case may be, interest on
such corresponding amount in respect of each day from the date such
corresponding amount was made available by the Agent to the
Borrower to the date such corresponding amount is recovered by the
Agent at a per annum rate equal to (i) from the Borrower at
the applicable rate for such Loan or (ii) from a Lender at the
Federal Funds Effective Rate plus one percent (1%).
§2.4 Use
of Proceeds . The Borrower will use the proceeds of the Loans
solely to (a) pay closing costs in connection with this Agreement;
and (b) to finance a portion of the Acquisition.
§2.5
Extension of Maturity Date . The Borrower shall have the
one-time right and option, in its sole discretion, to extend the
Maturity Date to March 10, 2012, upon satisfaction of the
following conditions precedent, which must be satisfied prior to
the effectiveness of any extension of the Maturity Date:
(a)
Extension Request . The Borrower shall deliver written
notice of such request (the “Extension Request”) to the
Agent not later than the date which is forty-five (45) days
prior to the Maturity Date (as determined without regard to such
extension). Any such Extension Request shall be irrevocable and
binding on the Borrower.
(b)
Payment of Extension Fee . The Borrower shall pay to the
Agent for the pro rata accounts of the Lenders in
accordance with their respective Commitments an extension fee in an
amount equal to twenty-five (25) basis points on the Total
Commitment, which fee shall, when paid, be fully earned and
non-refundable under any circumstances.
(c)
No Default . On the date the Extension Request is given and
on the Maturity Date (as determined without regard to such
extension) there shall exist no Default or Event of
Default.
(d)
Representations and Warranties . The representations and
warranties made by the Borrower and the Guarantors in the Loan
Documents or otherwise made by or on behalf of the Borrower and the
Guarantors in connection therewith or after the date thereof shall
have been true and correct in all material respects when made and
shall also be true and correct in all material respects on the date
the Extension Request is given and on the Maturity Date (as
determined without regard to such extension) other than for
representations to the extent they
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relate
expressly to an earlier date, which representations shall be
required to be true and correct only as of such specified date, and
except to the extent of any changes resulting from transactions
permitted by this Agreement that singly or in the aggregate have
not had or could not reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect.
(e)
Extension of Other Indebtedness . The maturity date of the
Senior Revolving Loan shall be extended to a date not earlier than
the Maturity Date (as extended). To the extent not already so
extended, the maturity date of all Subordinated Debt shall be
extended to a date not earlier than one (1) year following the
Maturity Date (as extended).
§3.
REPAYMENT OF THE LOANS.
§3.1
Stated Maturity . The Borrower promises to pay on the
Maturity Date and there shall become absolutely due and payable on
the Maturity Date all of the Loans outstanding on such date,
together with any and all accrued and unpaid interest
thereon.
§3.2
Mandatory Prepayments . If at any time the obligation of the
Senior Revolving Lenders to make Senior Revolving Loans under the
Senior Revolving Loan Agreement has been terminated or their
commitments under the Senior Revolving Loan Agreement has been
reduced to zero, the Borrower shall immediately make a prepayment
of the entire amount of the outstanding Loans to the Agent for the
respective accounts of the Lenders, as applicable, for application
to the Loans as provided in §3.4, such prepayment shall be
accompanied by the payment of any amounts due pursuant to
§4.8.
§3.3
Optional Prepayments . The Borrower shall have the right, at
its election, to prepay the outstanding amount of the Loans, as a
whole or in part, at any time without penalty or premium;
provided , that if any prepayment of the outstanding amount
of any LIBOR Rate Loans pursuant to this §3.3 is made on a
date that is not the last day of the Interest Period relating
thereto, such prepayment shall be accompanied by the payment of any
amounts due pursuant to §4.8. The Borrower shall give the
Agent, no later than 10:00 a.m. (Cleveland time) at least
three (3) days prior written notice of any prepayment pursuant to
this §3.3, in each case specifying the proposed date of
prepayment of the Loans and the principal amount to be prepaid
(provided that any such notice may be revoked or modified upon one
(1) day’s prior notice to the Agent).
§3.4
Partial Prepayments . Each partial prepayment of the Loans
under §3.3 shall be in a minimum amount of $1,000,000.00 or an
integral multiple of $100,000.00 in excess thereof, shall be
accompanied by the payment of accrued interest on the principal
prepaid to the date of payment. Each partial payment under
§3.2 and §3.3 shall be applied in the absence of
instruction by the Borrower, to the principal of Base Rate Loans
and then to the principal of LIBOR Rate Loans.
§3.5
Effect of Prepayments . Amounts of the Loans prepaid or
repaid may not be reborrowed.
§4.
CERTAIN GENERAL PROVISIONS.
§4.1
Conversion Options .
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(a) The
Borrower may elect from time to time to convert the Loan to a Loan
of another Type and it shall thereafter bear interest as a Base
Rate Loan or a LIBOR Rate Loan, as applicable; provided that
(i) with respect to any such conversion of a LIBOR Rate Loan
to a Base Rate Loan, the Borrower shall give the Agent at least one
(1) Business Day’s prior written notice of such
election, and such conversion shall only be made on the last day of
the Interest Period with respect to such LIBOR Rate Loan, unless
Borrower elects to pay the Breakage Costs association with such
conversion; (ii) with respect to any such conversion of a Base
Rate Loan to a LIBOR Rate Loan, the Borrower shall give the Agent
at least two (2) LIBOR Business Days’ prior written
notice of such election and the Interest Period requested for such
Loan, the principal amount of the Loan so converted shall be in a
minimum aggregate amount of $1,000,000.00 or an integral multiple
of $200,000.00 in excess thereof and, after giving effect to the
making of such Loan, there shall be no more than four
(4) LIBOR Rate Loans outstanding at any one time; and
(iii) no Loan may be converted into a LIBOR Rate Loan when any
Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing. All or
any part of the outstanding Loans of any Type may be converted as
provided herein, provided that no partial conversion shall
result in a Base Rate Loan in a principal amount of less than
$1,000,000.00 or an integral multiple of $100,000.00 or a LIBOR
Rate Loan in a principal amount of less than $1,000,000.00 or an
integral multiple of $200,000.00. On the date on which such
conversion is being made, each Lender shall take such action as is
necessary to transfer its Commitment Percentage of the Loan to its
Domestic Lending Office or its LIBOR Lending Office, as the case
may be. Each Conversion/Continuation Request relating to the
conversion of a Base Rate Loan to a LIBOR Rate Loan shall be
irrevocable by the Borrower.
(b) Any
LIBOR Rate Loan may be continued as such Type upon the expiration
of an Interest Period with respect thereto by compliance by the
Borrower with the terms of §4.1; provided that no LIBOR
Rate Loan may be continued as such when any Default or Event of
Default has occurred and is continuing, but shall be automatically
converted to a Base Rate Loan on the last day of the Interest
Period relating thereto ending during the continuance of any
Default or Event of Default.
(c) In
the event that the Borrower does not notify the Agent of its
election hereunder with respect to any LIBOR Rate Loan, such Loan
shall be automatically converted at the end of the applicable
Interest Period to a Base Rate Loan.
§4.2
Fees . The Borrower agrees to pay to KeyBank certain fees
for services rendered or to be rendered in connection with the
Loans as provided pursuant to the separate fee letter dated
March 10, 2008 between Borrower and KeyBank (the
“Agreement Regarding Fees”). All such fees shall be
fully earned when paid and nonrefundable under any
circumstances.
§4.3 Funds
for Payments .
(a) All
payments of principal, interest, closing fees and any other amounts
due hereunder or under any of the other Loan Documents shall be
made to the Agent, for the respective accounts of the Lenders and
the Agent, as the case may be, at the Agent’s Head Office,
not later than 2:00 p.m. (Cleveland time) on the day when due, in
each case in lawful money of the United States in immediately
available funds. The Agent is hereby authorized to charge the
accounts of the Borrower with KeyBank, on the dates when the amount
thereof shall
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become due and
payable, with the amounts of the principal of and interest on the
Loans and all fees, charges, expenses and other amounts owing to
the Agent and/or the Lenders under the Loan Documents. Subject to
the foregoing, all payments made to Agent on behalf of the Lenders,
and actually received by Agent, shall be deemed received by the
Lenders on the date actually received by Agent.
(b) All
payments by the Borrower hereunder and under any of the other Loan
Documents shall be made without setoff or counterclaim and free and
clear of and without deduction for any taxes (other than income or
franchise taxes imposed on any Lender), levies, imposts, duties,
charges, fees, deductions, withholdings, compulsory loans,
restrictions or conditions of any nature now or hereafter imposed
or levied by any jurisdiction or any political subdivision thereof
or taxing or other authority therein unless the Borrower is
compelled by law to make such deduction or withholding. If any such
obligation is imposed upon the Borrower with respect to any amount
payable by it hereunder or under any of the other Loan Documents,
the Borrower will pay to the Agent, for the account of the Lenders
or (as the case may be) the Agent, on the date on which such amount
is due and payable hereunder or under such other Loan Document,
such additional amount in Dollars as shall be necessary to enable
the Lenders or the Agent to receive the same net amount which the
Lenders or the Agent would have received on such due date had no
such obligation been imposed upon the Borrower. The Borrower will
deliver promptly to the Agent certificates or other valid vouchers
for all taxes or other charges deducted from or paid with respect
to payments made by the Borrower hereunder or under any other Loan
Document.
(c) Each
Lender organized under the laws of a jurisdiction outside the
United States, if requested in writing by the Borrower (but only so
long as such Lender remains lawfully able to do so), shall provide
the Borrower with such duly executed form(s) or statement(s) which
may, from time to time, be prescribed by law and, which, pursuant
to applicable provisions of (i) an income tax treaty between
the United States and the country of residence of such Lender,
(ii) the Code, or (iii) any applicable rules or
regulations in effect under (i) or (ii) above, indicates
the withholding status of such Lender; provided that nothing
herein (including without limitation the failure or inability to
provide such form or statement) shall relieve the Borrower of its
obligations under §4.3(b). In the event that the Borrower
shall have delivered the certificates or vouchers described above
for any payments made by the Borrower and such Lender receives a
refund of any taxes paid by the Borrower pursuant to §4.3(b),
such Lender will pay to the Borrower the amount of such refund
promptly upon receipt thereof; provided that if at any time
thereafter such Lender is required to return such refund, the
Borrower shall promptly repay to such Lender the amount of such
refund.
(d) The
obligations of the Borrower to the Lenders under this Agreement
shall be absolute, unconditional and irrevocable, and shall be paid
and performed strictly in accordance with the terms of this
Agreement, under all circumstances whatsoever, including, without
limitation, the following circumstances: (i) any lack of
validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any of the other
Loan Documents; (ii) the existence of any claim, set-off,
defense or any right which the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries
or Affiliates may have at any time against any of the Lenders
(other than the defense of payment to the Lenders in accordance
with the terms of this Agreement) or any other person, whether in
connection with this Agreement, any other Loan Document, or any
unrelated transaction; (iii) the occurrence of any Default
or
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Event of
Default; and (iv) any other circumstance or happening
whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the
foregoing.
§4.4
Computations . All computations of interest on the Loans and
of other fees to the extent applicable shall be based on a 360-day
year and paid for the actual number of days elapsed. Except as
otherwise provided in the definition of the term “Interest
Period” with respect to LIBOR Rate Loans, whenever a payment
hereunder or under any of the other Loan Documents becomes due on a
day that is not a Business Day, the due date for such payment shall
be extended to the next succeeding Business Day, and interest shall
accrue during such extension. The Outstanding Loans as reflected on
the records of the Agent from time to time shall be considered
prima facie evidence of such amount absent manifest
error.
§4.5
Suspension of LIBOR Rate Loans . In the event that, prior to
the commencement of any Interest Period relating to any LIBOR Rate
Loan, the Agent shall in its good faith discretion determine that
adequate and reasonable methods do not exist for ascertaining LIBOR
for such Interest Period, or the Agent shall reasonably determine
that LIBOR will not accurately and fairly reflect the cost of the
Lenders making or maintaining LIBOR Rate Loans for such Interest
Period, the Agent shall forthwith give notice of such determination
(which shall be conclusive and binding on the Borrower and the
Lenders absent manifest error) to the Borrower and the Lenders. In
such event each LIBOR Rate Loan will automatically, on the last day
of the then current Interest Period applicable thereto, become a
Base Rate Loan, and the obligations of the Lenders to make LIBOR
Rate Loans shall be suspended until the Agent determines that the
circumstances giving rise to such suspension no longer exist,
whereupon the Agent shall promptly notify the Borrower and the
Lenders thereof.
§4.6
Illegality . Notwithstanding any other provisions herein, if
any present or future law, regulation, treaty or directive or the
interpretation or application thereof shall make it unlawful, or
any central bank or other governmental authority having
jurisdiction over a Lender or its LIBOR Lending Office shall assert
that it is unlawful, for any Lender to make or maintain LIBOR Rate
Loans, such Lender shall forthwith give notice of such
circumstances to the Agent and the Borrower and thereupon
(a) the commitment of the Lenders to make LIBOR Rate Loans
shall forthwith be suspended and (b) the LIBOR Rate Loans then
outstanding shall be converted automatically to Base Rate Loans on
the last day of each Interest Period applicable to such LIBOR Rate
Loans or within such earlier period as may be required by law.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, before giving such notice, the
applicable Lender shall designate a different lending office if
such designation will void the need for giving such notice and will
not, in the judgment of such Lender, be otherwise materially
disadvantageous to such Lender or increase any costs payable by
Borrower hereunder.
§4.7
Additional Interest . If any LIBOR Rate Loan or any portion
thereof is repaid or is converted to a Base Rate Loan for any
reason on a date which is prior to the last day of the Interest
Period applicable to such LIBOR Rate Loan, or if repayment of the
Loans has been accelerated as provided in §11.1, the Borrower
will pay to the Agent upon demand for the account of the applicable
Lenders in accordance with their respective Commitment Percentages,
in addition to any amounts of interest otherwise payable hereunder,
the Breakage Costs. Borrower understands, agrees and acknowledges
the following: (i) no Lender has any obligation to purchase,
sell and/or match funds in connection with the use of LIBOR as a
basis for
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calculating the
rate of interest on a LIBOR Rate Loan; (ii) LIBOR is used
merely as a reference in determining such rate; and
(iii) Borrower has accepted LIBOR as a reasonable and fair
basis for calculating such rate and any Breakage Costs. Borrower
further agrees to pay the Breakage Costs, if any, whether or not a
Lender elects to purchase, sell and/or match funds.
§4.8
Additional Costs, Etc . Notwithstanding anything herein to
the contrary, but subject to §4.13, if any present or future
applicable law, which expression, as used herein, includes
statutes, rules and regulations thereunder and interpretations
thereof by any competent court or by any governmental or other
regulatory body or official charged with the administration or the
interpretation thereof and requests, directives, instructions and
notices at any time or from time to time hereafter made upon or
otherwise issued to any Lender or the Agent by any central bank or
other fiscal, monetary or other authority (whether or not having
the force of law), shall:
(a) subject
any Lender or the Agent to any tax, levy, impost, duty, charge,
fee, deduction or withholding of any nature with respect to this
Agreement, the other Loan Documents, such Lender’s Commitment
or the Loans (other than taxes based upon or measured by the gross
receipts, income or profits of such Lender or the Agent or its
franchise tax), or
(b) materially
change the basis of taxation (except for changes in taxes on gross
receipts, income or profits or its franchise tax) of payments to
any Lender of the principal of or the interest on the Loan or any
other amounts payable to any Lender under this Agreement or the
other Loan Documents, or
(c) impose
or increase or render applicable any special deposit, reserve,
assessment, liquidity, capital adequacy or other similar
requirements (whether or not having the force of law and which are
not already reflected in any amounts payable by Borrower hereunder)
against assets held by, or deposits in or for the account of, or
loans by, or commitments of an office of any Lender, or
(d) impose
on any Lender or the Agent any other conditions or requirements
with respect to this Agreement, the other Loan Documents, the Loan,
such Lender’s Commitment or any class of loans or commitments
of which any of the Loans or such Lender’s Commitment forms a
part; and the result of any of the foregoing is:
(i) to
increase the cost to any Lender of making, funding, issuing,
renewing, extending or maintaining the Loan or such Lender’s
Commitment, or
(ii) to
reduce the amount of principal, interest or other amount payable to
any Lender or the Agent hereunder on account of such Lender’s
Commitment or the Loan, or
(iii) to
require any Lender or the Agent to make any payment or to forego
any interest or other sum payable hereunder, the amount of which
payment or foregone interest or other sum is calculated by
reference to the gross amount of any sum receivable or deemed
received by such Lender or the Agent from the Borrower
hereunder,
then, and in
each such case, the Borrower will, within fifteen (15) days of
demand made by such Lender or (as the case may be) the Agent at any
time and from time to time and as often as the occasion therefor
may arise, pay to such Lender or the Agent such additional amounts
as such
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Lender or the
Agent shall determine in good faith to be sufficient to compensate
such Lender or the Agent for such additional cost, reduction,
payment or foregone interest or other sum. Each Lender and the
Agent in determining such amounts may use any reasonable averaging
and attribution methods generally applied by such Lender or the
Agent.
§4.9
Capital Adequacy . If after the date hereof any Lender
determines in good faith that (a) the adoption of or change in
any law, rule, regulation or guideline regarding capital
requirements for banks or bank holding companies or any change in
the interpretation or application thereof by any governmental
authority charged with the administration thereof, or
(b) compliance by such Lender or its parent bank holding
company with any guideline, request or directive of any such entity
regarding capital adequacy (whether or not having the force of
law), has the effect of reducing the return on such Lender’s
or such holding company’s capital as a consequence of such
Lender’s commitment to make the Loan hereunder to a level
below that which such Lender or holding company could have achieved
but for such adoption, change or compliance (taking into
consideration such Lender’s or such holding company’s
then existing policies with respect to capital adequacy and
assuming the full utilization of such entity’s capital) by
any amount deemed by such Lender to be material, then such Lender
may notify the Borrower thereof. The Borrower agrees to pay to such
Lender the amount of such reduction in the return on capital as and
when such reduction is determined by Lender in its good faith
discretion, upon presentation by such Lender of a statement of the
amount setting forth the Lender’s calculation thereof. In
determining such amount, such Lender may use any reasonable
averaging and attribution methods generally applied by such
Lender.
§4.10
Breakage Costs . Borrower shall pay all Breakage Costs
required to be paid by it pursuant to this Agreement and incurred
from time to time by any Lender upon demand within fifteen
(15) days from receipt of written notice from Agent, or such
earlier date as may be required by this Agreement.
§4.11
Default Interest . Following the occurrence and during the
continuance of any Event of Default, and regardless of whether or
not the Agent or the Lenders shall have accelerated the maturity of
the Loan, the Loan shall bear interest payable on demand at a rate
per annum equal to two percent (2.0%) above the Base Rate (the
“Default Rate”), until such amount shall be paid in
full (after as well as before judgment), or if any of such amount
shall exceed the maximum rate permitted by law, then at the maximum
rate permitted by law.
§4.12
Certificate . A certificate setting forth any amounts
payable pursuant to §4.7, §4.8, §4.9, §4.10 or
§4.11 and a reasonably detailed explanation of such amounts
which are due, submitted by any Lender or the Agent to the
Borrower, shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest
error.
§4.13
Limitation on Interest . Notwithstanding anything in this
Agreement or the other Loan Documents to the contrary, all
agreements between or among the Borrower, the Guarantors, the
Lenders and the Agent, whether now existing or hereafter arising
and whether written or oral, are hereby limited so that in no
contingency, whether by reason of acceleration of the maturity of
any of the Obligations or otherwise, shall the interest contracted
for, charged or received by the Lenders exceed the maximum amount
permissible under applicable law. If, from any circumstance
whatsoever, interest would otherwise be payable to the Lenders in
excess of
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the maximum
lawful amount, the interest payable to the Lenders shall be reduced
to the maximum amount permitted under applicable law; and if from
any circumstance the Lenders shall ever receive anything of value
deemed interest by applicable law in excess of the maximum lawful
amount, an amount equal to any excessive interest shall be applied
to the reduction of the principal balance of the Obligations and to
the payment of interest or, if such excessive interest exceeds the
unpaid balance of principal of the Obligations, such excess shall
be refunded to the Borrower. All interest paid or agreed to be paid
to the Lenders shall, to the extent permitted by applicable law, be
amortized, prorated, allocated and spread throughout the full
period until payment in full of the principal of the Obligations
(including the period of any renewal or extension thereof) so that
the interest thereon for such full period shall not exceed the
maximum amount permitted by applicable law. This Section shall
control all agreements between or among the Borrower, the
Guarantors, the Lenders and the Agent.
§4.14
Certain Provisions Relating to Increased Costs . If a Lender
gives notice of the existence of the circumstances set forth in
§4.6 or any Lender requests compensation for any losses or
costs to be reimbursed pursuant to any one or more of the
provisions of §4.8 or §4.9, then, upon request of
Borrower, such Lender, as applicable, shall use reasonable efforts
in a manner consistent with such institution’s practice in
connection with loans like the Loan of such Lender to eliminate,
mitigate or reduce amounts that would otherwise be payable by
Borrower under the foregoing provisions, provided that such
action would not be otherwise prejudicial to such Lender,
including, without limitation, by designating another of such
Lender’s offices, branches or affiliates; the Borrower
agreeing to pay all reasonably incurred costs and expenses incurred
by such Lender in connection with any such action. Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary contained herein, if no Default or Event
of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, and if any Lender
has given notice of the existence of the circumstances set forth in
§4.6 or has requested payment or compensation for any losses
or costs to be reimbursed pursuant to any one or more of the
provisions of §4.8 or §4.9 (each, an “Affected
Lender”), then, within thirty (30) days after such
notice or request for payment or compensation, Borrower shall have
the one-time right as to such Affected Lender to be exercised by
delivery of written notice delivered to the Agent and the Affected
Lender within thirty (30) days of receipt of such notice to
elect to cause the Affected Lender to transfer its Commitment. The
Agent shall promptly notify the remaining Lenders that each of such
Lenders shall have the right, but not the obligation, to acquire a
portion of the Commitment, pro rata based upon their relevant
Commitment Percentages, of the Affected Lender (or if any of such
Lenders does not elect to purchase its pro rata share, then to such
remaining Lenders in such proportion as approved by the Agent). In
the event that the Lenders do not elect to acquire all of the
Affected Lender’s Commitment, then the Agent shall endeavor
to obtain a new Lender to acquire such remaining Commitment. Upon
any such purchase of the Commitment of the Affected Lender, the
Affected Lender’s interest in the Obligations and its rights
hereunder and under the Loan Documents shall terminate at the date
of purchase, and the Affected Lender shall promptly execute all
documents reasonably requested to surrender and transfer such
interest. The purchase price for the Affected Lender’s
Commitment shall equal any and all amounts outstanding and owed by
Borrower to the Affected Lender, including principal and all
accrued and unpaid interest or fees.
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§5.1
Collateral . The Obligations shall be secured by (i) a
perfected first priority lien to be held by the Agent for the
benefit of the Lenders in the Equity Interests pledged pursuant to
the Pledge Agreement and (ii) a perfected first priority lien
to be held by the Agent for the benefit of the Lenders in the other
Collateral pledged pursuant to the Security Agreement. The
Obligations shall be guaranteed by the Guarantors pursuant to the
Guaranty.
§5.2
Additional Guarantors . In the event any direct or indirect
Subsidiary of the Borrower shall satisfy the definition of
“Material Subsidiary”, whether formed or acquired after
the date hereof, the Borrower shall cause each such Subsidiary to
promptly, but in any event within fifteen (15) Business Days
of satisfying such “Material Subsidiary” definition (as
such date may be extended by Agent in its discretion), execute and
deliver to Agent a Joinder Agreement, and such Subsidiary shall
become a Guarantor hereunder and thereunder. Each such Subsidiary
shall be specifically authorized, in accordance with its respective
organizational documents, to be a Guarantor hereunder and
thereunder and to execute the Contribution Agreement and such
Security Documents as Agent may require. The Borrower and Parent
shall further cause all representations, covenants and agreements
in the Loan Documents with respect to Guarantors to be true and
correct with respect to each such Subsidiary. In connection with
the delivery of such Joinder Agreement, the Borrower shall deliver
to the Agent such organizational agreements, resolutions, consents,
opinions and other documents and instruments as the Agent may
reasonably require.
§5.3
Release of Collateral and Guarantors . Upon the refinancing
or repayment of the Obligations in full, then the Agent shall be
entitled to release the Collateral from the lien and security
interest of the Security Documents and to release the Guarantors,
provided that Agent has not received a notice from the
“Representative” (as defined in §13.11) or the
holder of the Hedge Obligations that any Hedge Obligation is then
due and payable to the holder thereof.
§6.
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES.
The Borrower
represents and warrants to the Agent and the Lenders as
follows.
§6.1
Corporate Authority, Etc.
(a)
Incorporation; Good Standing . Parent is a Maryland
corporation duly organized pursuant to articles of incorporation
filed with the Maryland Secretary of State, and is validly existing
and in good standing under the laws of Maryland. Parent conducts
its business in a manner which enables it to qualify as a real
estate investment trust under, and to be entitled to the benefits
of, §856 of the Code, and has elected to be treated as and is
entitled to the benefits of a real estate investment trust
thereunder. The Borrower is a Wisconsin corporation duly organized
pursuant to its articles of incorporation filed with the Wisconsin
Secretary of State, and is validly existing and in good standing
under the laws of Wisconsin. The Borrower (i) has all
requisite power to own its property and conduct its business as now
conducted and as presently contemplated, and (ii) is in good
standing and is duly authorized to do business in the jurisdiction
of its organization and in each other jurisdiction where a failure
to be so qualified in
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such other
jurisdiction has had or could reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect.
(b)
Subsidiaries . Each of the Subsidiaries of the Borrower and
Guarantors (other than the Borrower) (i) is a corporation,
limited partnership, general partnership, limited liability company
or trust duly organized under the laws of its State of organization
and is validly existing and in good standing under the laws
thereof, (ii) has all requisite power to own its property and
conduct its business as now conducted and as presently contemplated
and (iii) is in good standing and is duly authorized to do
business in each jurisdiction necessary to carry out its business
and operations, except where a failure to comply with
§6.1(b)(i), (ii) and (iii) individually or in the
aggregate has not had and could not reasonably be expected to have
a Material Adverse Effect.
(c)
Authorization . The execution, delivery and performance of
this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which any of the
Borrower or any Guarantor is a party and the transactions
contemplated hereby and thereby (i) are within the authority
of such Person, (ii) have been duly authorized by all
necessary proceedings on the part of such Person, (iii) do not
and will not conflict with or result in any breach or contravention
of any provision of law, statute, rule or regulation to which such
Person is subject or any judgment, order, writ, injunction, license
or permit applicable to such Person, (iv) do not and will not
conflict with or constitute a default (whether with the passage of
time or the giving of notice, or both) under any provision of the
partnership agreement, articles of incorporation or other charter
documents or bylaws of, or any agreement or other instrument
binding upon, such Person or any of its properties, (v) do not
and will not result in or require the imposition of any lien or
other encumbrance on any of the properties, assets or rights of
such Person, and (vi) do not require the approval or consent
of any Person other than those already obtained and delivered to
Agent.
(d)
Enforceability . The execution and delivery of this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which any of the Borrower
or any Guarantor is a party are valid and legally binding
obligations of such Person enforceable in accordance with the
respective terms and provisions hereof and thereof, except as
enforceability is limited by bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, moratorium or other laws relating to or affecting
generally the enforcement of creditors’ rights and general
principles of equity.
§6.2
Governmental Approvals . The execution, delivery and
performance of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which
the Borrower or any Guarantor is a party and the transactions
contemplated hereby and thereby do not require the approval or
consent of, or filing or registration with, or the giving of any
notice to, any court, department, board, governmental agency or
authority other than those already obtained and the filing of the
Security Documents in the appropriate records office with respect
thereto.
§6.3 Title
to Properties; Etc . Except as indicated on Part I of
Schedule 6.3 hereto, the Borrower, the Guarantors and
their respective Subsidiaries own or lease all of the assets
reflected in the consolidated balance sheet of Parent as at the
Balance Sheet Date or acquired or leased since that date (except
property and assets sold or otherwise disposed of in the ordinary
course of business since that date) or other adjustments that are
not material in amount, subject to no rights of others, including
any mortgages, leases pursuant to which Parent or any of its
Subsidiaries or
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any of their
Affiliates is the lessee, conditional sales agreements, title
retention agreements, liens or other encumbrances except Permitted
Liens and as to Subsidiaries of Borrower, except for such defects
as individually or in the aggregate have not had and could not
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Neither
the Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries, owns any assets or
properties, individually or in the aggregate, with a value
(determined at the greater of fair market and book value) in excess
of $5,000,000.00, other than materials to be incorporated into a
Project.
§6.4
Financial Statements . The Borrower has furnished to Agent:
(a) the unaudited consolidated balance sheet of
(i) Parent and its Subsidiaries and (ii) the Borrower and
its Subsidiaries, each as of the Balance Sheet Date and the related
consolidated statement of income and cash flow for the calendar
year then ended, (b) as of the Closing Date, an unaudited
statement of Adjusted Consolidated EBITDA of (i) Parent and
its Subsidiaries and (ii) the Borrower and its Subsidiaries,
each for the period ending on the Balance Sheet Date reasonably
satisfactory in form to the Agent, and (c) certain other
financial information relating to the Borrower, the Guarantors and
the Collateral. Such balance sheets and statements have been
prepared in accordance with GAAP and fairly present the
consolidated financial condition of Parent and its Subsidiaries and
the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, as applicable, as of such dates
and the consolidated results of the operations of Parent and its
Subsidiaries and the Borrower and its Subsidiaries, as applicable,
for such periods.
§6.5 No
Material Changes . Since the Balance Sheet Date or the date of
the most recent financial statements delivered pursuant to
§7.4, as applicable, there has occurred no materially adverse
change in the financial condition or business of the Borrower,
Guarantors and their respective Subsidiaries taken as a whole as
shown on or reflected in the consolidated balance sheet of the
Parent or the Borrower, as applicable, as of the Balance Sheet
Date, or its consolidated statement of income or cash flows for the
calendar year then ended, other than changes that have not and
could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
§6.6
Franchises, Patents, Copyrights, Etc . The Borrower, the
Guarantors and their respective Subsidiaries possess all
franchises, patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade names, service
marks, licenses and permits, and rights in respect of the
foregoing, adequate for the conduct of their business substantially
as now conducted without known conflict with any rights of others
except where such failure individually or in the aggregate has not
had and could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
§6.7
Litigation . Except as stated on Schedule 6.7 ,
there are no actions, suits, proceedings or investigations of any
kind pending or to the knowledge of the Borrower threatened against
(a) the Borrower, any Guarantor or any of their respective
Subsidiaries before any court, tribunal, arbitrator, mediator or
administrative agency or board which question the validity of this
Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, any action taken or
to be taken pursuant hereto or thereto or any lien, security title
or security interest created or intended to be created pursuant
hereto or thereto, or which if adversely determined could
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or
(b) any Person arising out of or relating to the Acquisition.
Except as set forth on Schedule 6.7 , there are no
judgments, final orders or awards outstanding against or affecting
the Borrower, any Guarantor, any of their respective Subsidiaries
or any Collateral.
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§6.8 No
Material Adverse Contracts, Etc . None of the Borrower, any
Guarantor or any of their respective Subsidiaries is subject to any
charter, corporate or other legal restriction, or any judgment,
decree, order, rule or regulation that has or is expected in the
future to have a Material Adverse Effect. None of the Borrower, any
Guarantor or any of their respective Subsidiaries is a party to any
contract or agreement that has or could reasonably be expected to
have a Material Adverse Effect.
§6.9
Compliance with Other Instruments, Laws, Etc . None of the
Borrower, any Guarantor or any of their respective Subsidiaries is
in violation of any provision of its charter or other
organizational documents, bylaws, or any agreement or instrument to
which it is subject or by which it or any of its properties is
bound or any decree, order, judgment, statute, license, rule or
regulation, in any of the foregoing cases in a manner that has had
or could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
§6.10 Tax
Status . Each of the Borrower, the Guarantors and their
respective Subsidiaries (a) has made or filed all federal and
state income and all other tax returns, reports and declarations
required by any jurisdiction to which it is subject or has obtained
an extension for filing, (b) has paid prior to delinquency all
taxes and other governmental assessments and charges shown or
determined to be due on such returns, reports and declarations,
except those being contested in good faith and by appropriate
proceedings and (c) has set aside on its books provisions
reasonably adequate for the payment of all taxes for periods
subsequent to the periods to which such returns, reports or
declarations apply. There are no unpaid taxes in any material
amount claimed to be due by the taxing authority of any
jurisdiction, and the officers or partners of such Person know of
no basis for any such claim. There are no audits pending or to the
knowledge of Borrower threatened with respect to any tax returns
filed by Borrower, any Guarantor or their respective Subsidiaries.
The taxpayer identification number for Parent is 20-3126457, and
for the Borrower is 27-0075162.
§6.11 No
Event of Default . No Default or Event of Default has occurred
and is continuing.
§6.12
Investment Company Act . None of the Borrower, any Guarantor
or any of their respective Subsidiaries is an “investment
company”, or an “affiliated company” or a
“principal underwriter” of an “investment
company”, as such terms are defined in the Investment Company
Act of 1940.
§6.13
Absence of Liens . There are no Liens on any property of the
Borrower, any Guarantor or any of their respective Subsidiaries or
rights thereunder except as permitted by §8.2.
§6.14
Labor Matters . Excep
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