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Exhibit
10(zz)
EXECUTION
COPY
$6,750,000,000
SENIOR UNSECURED INTERIM
LOAN AGREEMENT
Dated as of
October 10, 2007
among
ENERGY FUTURE COMPETITIVE
HOLDINGS COMPANY,
TEXAS COMPETITIVE ELECTRIC
HOLDINGS COMPANY LLC
and
TCEH FINANCE,
INC.
as the Borrower,
The Several
Lenders
from Time to Time Parties
Hereto,
MORGAN STANLEY SENIOR
FUNDING, INC.,
as Administrative
Agent
and
GOLDMAN SACHS CREDIT
PARTNERS L.P.,
as Syndication
Agent
CITIBANK,
N.A.,
CREDIT SUISSE SECURITIES
(USA) LLC,
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK,
N.A.,
and LEHMAN COMMERCIAL
PAPER INC.
as Co-Documentation
Agents
GOLDMAN SACHS CREDIT
PARTNERS L.P.,
MORGAN STANLEY SENIOR
FUNDING, INC.,
CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS
INC.,
CREDIT SUISSE SECURITIES
(USA) LLC,
J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES
INC.
and LEHMAN BROTHERS
INC.
as Joint Lead Arrangers and
Bookrunners
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
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SECTION 1. Definitions
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1.1.
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Defined
Terms |
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8 |
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1.2.
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Other
Interpretive Provisions |
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63 |
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1.3.
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Accounting Terms |
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64 |
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1.4.
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[
Reserved ] |
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64 |
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1.5.
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References to Agreements, Laws, Etc. |
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64 |
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1.6.
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Times of
Day |
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1.7.
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Timing of
Payment or Performance |
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64 |
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| SECTION 2. Amount and Terms of Credit |
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64 |
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2.1.
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Commitments |
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2.2.
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Maximum
Number of Borrowings |
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65 |
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2.3.
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Notice of
Borrowing |
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66 |
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2.4.
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Disbursement of Funds |
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66 |
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2.5.
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Repayment
of Loans; Evidence of Debt |
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67 |
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2.6.
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Conversions and Continuations |
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67 |
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2.7.
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Pro Rata
Borrowings |
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68 |
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2.8.
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Interest |
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69 |
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2.9.
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Interest
Periods |
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70 |
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2.10.
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Increased
Costs, Illegality, Etc. |
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71 |
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2.11.
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Compensation |
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73 |
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2.12.
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Change of
Lending Office |
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73 |
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2.13.
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Notice of
Certain Costs |
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73 |
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2.14.
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Permanent
Refinancing |
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74 |
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| SECTION 3. [Reserved] |
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76 |
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| SECTION 4. Mandatory Termination of Commitments |
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76 |
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4.1.
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[
Reserved ] |
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76 |
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4.2.
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[
Reserved ] |
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76 |
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4.3.
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Mandatory
Termination of Commitments |
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76 |
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| SECTION 5. Payments |
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76 |
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5.1.
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Voluntary
Prepayments |
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76 |
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5.2.
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Mandatory
Prepayments |
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77 |
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5.3.
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Method
and Place of Payment |
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78 |
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5.4.
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Net
Payments |
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79 |
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5.5.
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Computations of Interest |
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82 |
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5.6.
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Limit on
Rate of Interest |
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SECTION 6. Conditions Precedent to
Initial Borrowing
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6.2.
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Guarantee |
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6.3.
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Legal
Opinions |
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6.4.
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Debt
Repayments |
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83 |
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6.5.
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Equity
Investments |
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83 |
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6.6.
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Closing
Certificates |
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83 |
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6.7.
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Authorization of Proceedings of Each Loan Party |
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83 |
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6.8.
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Fees |
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83 |
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6.9.
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Representations and Warranties |
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84 |
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6.10.
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Acquisition Agreement |
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84 |
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6.11.
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Solvency
Certificate |
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84 |
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6.12.
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Merger |
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84 |
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6.13.
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Pro Forma
Financial Statements |
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84 |
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6.14.
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Patriot
Act |
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84 |
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6.15.
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Notice of
Borrowing |
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84 |
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| SECTION 7. [Reserved] |
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| SECTION 8. Representations, Warranties and
Agreements |
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8.1.
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Corporate
Status; Compliance with Laws |
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85 |
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8.2.
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Corporate
Power and Authority |
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85 |
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8.3.
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No
Violation |
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85 |
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8.4.
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Litigation |
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86 |
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8.5.
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Margin
Regulations |
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86 |
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8.6.
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Governmental Approvals |
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86 |
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8.7.
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Investment Company Act |
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8.8.
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True and
Complete Disclosure |
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86 |
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8.9.
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Financial
Condition; Financial Statements |
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8.10.
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Tax
Matters |
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8.11.
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Compliance with ERISA |
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87 |
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8.12.
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Subsidiaries |
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8.13.
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Intellectual Property |
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88 |
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8.14.
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Environmental Laws |
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88 |
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8.15.
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Properties |
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8.16.
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Solvency |
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| SECTION 9. Covenants |
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9.1.
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Reports
and Other Information |
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9.2.
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Compliance Certificate |
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90 |
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9.3.
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Taxes |
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91 |
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9.4.
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Stay,
Extension and Usury Laws |
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91 |
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9.5.
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Limitation on Restricted Payments |
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9.6.
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Dividend
and Other Payment Restrictions Affecting Restricted
Subsidiaries |
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9.7.
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Limitation on Incurrence of Indebtedness and Issuance of
Disqualified Stock and Preferred Stock |
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102 |
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9.8.
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Asset
Sales |
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108 |
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9.9.
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Transactions with Affiliates |
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9.10.
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Liens |
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113 |
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9.11.
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Corporate
Existence |
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114 |
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9.12.
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Offer to
Repurchase upon Change of Control |
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114 |
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9.13.
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Limitation on Guarantees of Indebtedness by Restricted
Subsidiaries |
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116 |
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9.14.
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Merger,
Consolidation or Sale of All or Substantially All
Assets |
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116 |
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9.15.
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Successor
Corporation Substituted |
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119 |
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9.16.
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Limitations on Business Activities of TCEH Finance |
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119 |
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| SECTION 10. [Reserved] |
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119 |
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| SECTION 11. Events of Default |
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119 |
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11.1.
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Event of
Default |
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119 |
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11.2.
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[
Reserved ] |
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121 |
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11.3.
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[
Reserved ] |
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121 |
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11.4.
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[
Reserved ] |
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122 |
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11.5.
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[
Reserved ] |
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122 |
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11.6.
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[
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122 |
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11.7.
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[
Reserved ] |
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122 |
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11.8.
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[
Reserved ] |
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122 |
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11.9.
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[
Reserved ] |
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122 |
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11.10.
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[
Reserved ] |
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122 |
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11.11.
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[
Reserved ] |
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122 |
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11.12.
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[
Reserved ] |
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122 |
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11.13.
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[
Reserved ] |
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122 |
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11.14.
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[
Reserved ] |
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122 |
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11.15.
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[
Reserved ] |
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122 |
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11.16.
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Remedies
upon Event of Default, Waivers of Past Defaults |
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122 |
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11.17.
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Application of Proceeds |
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123 |
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| SECTION 12. The Agents |
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123 |
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12.1.
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Appointment |
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123 |
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12.2.
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Delegation of Duties |
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124 |
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12.3.
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Exculpatory Provisions |
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124 |
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12.4.
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Reliance
by Agents |
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125 |
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12.5.
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Notice of
Default |
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126 |
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12.6.
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Non-Reliance on Administrative Agent and Other
Lenders |
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126 |
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12.7.
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Indemnification |
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127 |
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12.8.
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Agents in
their Individual Capacity |
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128 |
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12.9.
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Successor
Agents |
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128 |
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12.10.
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Withholding Tax |
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129 |
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12.11.
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Trust
Indenture Act |
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12.12.
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Guarantee |
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129 |
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SECTION 13. Miscellaneous
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130 |
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13.1.
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Amendments, Waivers and Releases |
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130 |
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13.2.
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Notices |
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132 |
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13.3.
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No
Waiver; Cumulative Remedies |
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132 |
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13.4.
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Survival
of Representations and Warranties |
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132 |
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13.5.
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Payment
of Expenses; Indemnification |
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133 |
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13.6.
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Successors and Assigns; Participations and
Assignments |
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134 |
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13.7.
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Replacements of Lenders under Certain Circumstances |
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139 |
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13.8.
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Adjustments; Set-off |
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139 |
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13.9.
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Counterparts |
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140 |
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13.10.
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Severability |
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140 |
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13.11.
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Integration |
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140 |
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13.12.
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GOVERNING
LAW |
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141 |
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13.13.
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Submission to Jurisdiction; Waivers |
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141 |
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13.14.
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Acknowledgments |
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141 |
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13.15.
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WAIVERS OF JURY TRIAL |
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142 |
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13.16.
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Confidentiality |
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143 |
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13.17.
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Direct
Website Communications |
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143 |
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13.18.
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USA
PATRIOT Act |
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145 |
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13.19.
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Payments
Set Aside |
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145 |
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13.20.
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Separateness |
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SCHEDULES
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Schedule 1.1(a)
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Commitments and Addresses of
Lenders
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Schedule 1.1(f)
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Existing Credit Facilities
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Schedule 1.1(g)
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Non-Oncor Undertakings
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Schedule 8.4
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Litigation
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Schedule 8.12
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Subsidiaries
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Schedule 8.15
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Title to Properties
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Schedule 13.2
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Notice Addresses
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EXHIBITS
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Exhibit A
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Form of Notice of Borrowing
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| Exhibit B |
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Form of
Senior Unsecured Guarantee |
| Exhibit C |
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Form of
Senior Refinancing Indenture |
| Exhibit D |
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Form of
Senior Refinancing Registration Rights Agreement |
| Exhibit E-1 |
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Form of
Exchange Notice for Senior Cash Pay Loans |
| Exhibit E-2 |
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Form of
Exchange Notice for Senior Toggle Loans |
| Exhibit F-1 |
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Form of
Legal Opinion of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP |
| Exhibit F-2 |
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Form of
Legal Opinion of Vinson & Elkins LLP |
| Exhibit F-3 |
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Form of
Legal Opinion of Hunton & Williams LLP |
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Exhibit F-4
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Form of
Legal Opinion of Covington & Burling LLP |
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Exhibit G
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Form of
Loan Party Closing Certificate |
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Exhibit H
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Form of
Assignment and Acceptance |
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Exhibit I-1
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Form of
Cash-Pay Promissory Note |
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Exhibit I-2
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Form of
Toggle Promissory Note |
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Exhibit J
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Form of
Non-U.S. Lender Certification |
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SENIOR UNSECURED INTERIM LOAN
AGREEMENT, dated as of October 10, 2007, among ENERGY FUTURE
COMPETITIVE HOLDINGS COMPANY, a Texas corporation (“
US Holdings ”), TEXAS COMPETITIVE ELECTRIC
HOLDINGS COMPANY LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“
TCEH ”), TCEH FINANCE, INC., a Delaware Corporation
(“ TCEH Finance ” and together with TCEH, the
“ Borrower ”), the lending institutions from
time to time parties hereto (each a “ Lender ”
and, collectively, the “ Lenders ”), MORGAN
STANLEY SENIOR FUNDING, INC., as Administrative Agent (such terms
and each other capitalized term used but not defined in this
preamble having the meaning provided in Section 1.1 ),
GOLDMAN SACHS CREDIT PARTNERS L.P., as Syndication Agent, GOLDMAN
SACHS CREDIT PARTNERS L.P., MORGAN STANLEY SENIOR FUNDING, INC.,
CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC., CREDIT SUISSE SECURITIES (USA) LLC,
J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES INC. and LEHMAN BROTHERS INC., as Joint Lead
Arrangers and Bookrunners, and CITIBANK, N.A., CREDIT SUISSE
SECURITIES (USA) LLC, JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. and LEHMAN
COMMERCIAL PAPER INC., as Co-Documentation Agents.
RECITALS:
WHEREAS, pursuant to the
Agreement and Plan of Merger (the “ Acquisition
Agreement ”), dated as of February 25, 2007, by and
among TXU Corp., a Texas corporation (the “ Parent
”), Holdings and Merger Sub, Merger Sub will merge with and
into the Borrower (the “ Merger ”), with the
Borrower surviving the Merger as a wholly-owned Subsidiary of
Holdings;
WHEREAS, to fund, in part,
the Merger Funds, it is intended that the Sponsors and certain
other investors (collectively, the “ Initial Investors
”) will directly or indirectly make cash equity contributions
(the “ Equity Contribution ”) to Holdings and/or
a direct or indirect parent thereof in exchange for Stock (which
cash will be contributed to Merger Sub) in an aggregate amount
equal to, when combined with the fair market value of the Stock of
management and existing shareholders of the Parent rolled over or
invested in connection with the Transactions, at least 15% (the
“ Minimum Equity Amount ”) of the total sources
(including the Existing Notes, the Existing Parent Notes and the
Existing Oncor Notes, but excluding any transition bonds) required
to consummate the Merger (the “ Merger Consideration
”), to redeem, refinance or repay certain existing
indebtedness or repurchase receivables of the Parent and its
Subsidiaries, including the Repaid Indebtedness (the “
Refinancing ”), and to pay fees, premiums and expenses
incurred in connection with the Transactions (such fees, premiums
and expenses, together with the Merger Consideration and the
Refinancing payment, the “ Merger Funds
”);
WHEREAS, in connection with
the foregoing, the Borrower has requested that the Lenders extend
credit to the Borrower in the form of Senior Interim Loans on the
Closing Date, in an aggregate principal amount of $6,750,000,000,
which shall initially consist of (a) $5,000,000,000 of Senior
Interim Cash Pay Loans and (b) $1,750,000,000 of Senior
Interim Toggle Loans;
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WHEREAS, in order to fund, in
part, the Merger Funds (a) TCEH will enter into a senior
secured credit agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, by and
among TCEH, US Holdings, the lenders from time to time party
thereto, Citibank, N.A., as administrative agent, collateral agent,
swingline lender, revolving letter of credit issuer and deposit
letter of credit issuer, Goldman Sachs Credit Partners L.P., as
posting agent, posting syndication agent and posting documentation
agent, J. Aron & Company, as posting calculation agent,
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as syndication agent and revolving
letter of credit issuer, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC,
Goldman Sachs Credit Partners L.P., Lehman Commercial Paper Inc.
and Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., as co-documentation
agents, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., J.P. Morgan Securities Inc.,
Goldman Sachs Credit Partners L.P., Lehman Brothers Inc., Morgan
Stanley Senior Funding, Inc. and Credit Suisse Securities (USA)
LLC, as joint lead arrangers and bookrunners and Goldman Sachs
Credit Partners L.P., as Posting Lead Arranger and Bookrunner (the
“ Senior Secured Credit Agreement ”), pursuant
to which TCEH (i) will borrow term loans in an aggregate
principal amount of $16,450,000,000 on the Closing Date (the
“ Senior Secured Initial Term Loans ”),
(ii) may borrow term loans in an aggregate principal amount of
up to $4,100,000,000 at any time and from time to time prior to the
Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment Termination Date (as defined in
the Senior Secured Credit Agreement) (the “ Senior Secured
Delayed Draw Term Loans ”), (iii) will borrow
$1,250,000,000 in aggregate principal amount of deposit letter of
credit loans on the Closing Date (the “ Senior Secured
Deposit L/C Loans ”), (iv) may borrow revolving
credit loans (the “ Senior Secured Revolving Credit
Loans ”) in aggregate principal amount of up to
$2,700,000,000 at any time and from time to time prior to the
Revolving Credit Termination Date (as defined in the Senior Secured
Credit Agreement); and (v) will borrow under a senior
revolving credit facility, the principal amount of which is capped
by the MTM Exposures (as defined in the Senior Secured Credit
Agreement) (the “ Posting Facility ”); and
(b) the Parent will enter into a senior unsecured interim loan
agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, by and among the Parent,
the lenders from time to time party thereto, Morgan Stanley Senior
Funding, Inc., as administrative agent, Goldman Sachs Credit
Partners L.P., as syndication agent, Citibank, N.A., Credit Suisse
Securities (USA) LLC, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. and Lehman
Commercial Paper Inc., as co-documentation agents, and Morgan
Stanley Senior Funding, Inc., Goldman Sachs Credit Partners L.P.,
Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC,
J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., and Lehman Brothers Inc., as joint
lead arrangers and bookrunners (the “ Parent Senior
Unsecured Interim Loan Agreement ”), pursuant to which
the Parent will borrow senior unsecured interim loans in an
aggregate principal amount of $4,500,000,000, which shall initially
consist of (a) $2,000,000,000 of senior interim cash pay loans
(the “ Parent Senior Interim Cash Pay Loans ”)
and (b) $2,500,000,000 of senior interim toggle loans (the
“ Parent Senior Interim Toggle Loans ” and,
together with the Parent Senior Interim Cash Pay Loans, the “
Parent Senior Interim Loans ”);
WHEREAS, the net proceeds of
the Senior Interim Loans will be used by the Borrower for the
Merger Funds and contributed by the Parent to TCEH and used by
TCEH, together with (a) the net proceeds of the Senior Secured
Initial Term Loans, less $400,000,000, (b) the net proceeds of
up to $250,000,000 of Senior Secured Revolving Credit Loans,
(c) the net proceeds of the Equity Contribution, (d) the
net proceeds of the Parent Senior Interim Loans and (e) cash
on hand at TCEH, on the Closing Date (or, in the case of the
Refinancing, such later date as may be necessary to effect certain
of the Refinancings in accordance with the tender offers therefor).
Up to $400,000,000 of proceeds of the Senior Secured Initial Term
Loans will be used by TCEH for general corporate purposes. The
proceeds of the Posting Facility will be used by TCEH (a) to
fund margin payments on over-the-counter natural gas fixed for
floating swap transactions between TCEH and the Restricted
Subsidiaries, on the one hand, and various
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counterparties, on the other,
(b) to fund margin payments on NYMEX futures and swap
positions maintained by TCEH and its Restricted Subsidiaries and
(c) for other general corporate purposes of TCEH and the
Restricted Subsidiaries (provided that such funds will be applied
first to fund margin on Dealer Swaps (as defined in the Senior
Secured Credit Agreement) to the extent such transactions are
outstanding and any margin is due thereon and second for any such
other purposes; and
WHEREAS, the Lenders are
willing to make available to the Borrower the Senior Interim Loans
upon the terms and subject to the conditions provided
herein;
AGREEMENT:
NOW, THEREFORE, in
consideration of the premises and the covenants and agreements
contained herein, the parties hereto hereby agree as
follows:
SECTION 1.
Definitions
1.1. Defined Terms
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(a) As used herein, the
following terms shall have the meanings specified in this
Section 1.1 unless the context otherwise
requires:
“ ABR ”
shall mean for any day a fluctuating rate per annum equal to
the higher of (a) the Federal Funds Effective Rate plus
1/2 of 1% and (b) the rate of interest published by the Wall
Street Journal, from time to time, as the prime or base commercial
lending rate. If the Administrative Agent is unable to ascertain
the Federal Funds Effective Rate due to its inability to obtain
sufficient quotations in accordance with the definition thereof,
after notice is provided to the Borrower, the ABR shall be
determined without regard to clause (a) above until the
circumstances giving rise to such inability no longer exist. Any
change in the ABR due to a change in such rate published in the
Wall Street Journal or in the Federal Funds Effective Rate shall
take effect at the opening of business on the day specified in the
public announcement of such change.
“ ABR Loan
” shall mean each Loan bearing interest based on
ABR.
“ Acquired
Indebtedness ” shall mean, with respect to any specified
Person,
(1) Indebtedness of any other
Person existing at the time such other Person is merged with or
into or became a Restricted Subsidiary of such specified Person,
including Indebtedness incurred in connection with, or in
contemplation of, such other Person merging with or into or
becoming a Restricted Subsidiary of such specified Person,
and
(2) Indebtedness secured by a
Lien encumbering any asset acquired by such specified
Person.
“ Acquisition
Agreement ” shall have the meaning provided in the
recitals to this Agreement.
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“ Additional Senior
Cash Pay Notes ” shall mean additional Senior Cash Pay
Notes (other than Initial Senior Cash Pay Notes (as defined in the
Senior Refinancing Indenture) and Exchange Notes (as defined in the
Senior Refinancing Indenture) issued in exchange for such Initial
Senior Cash Pay Notes) issued from time to time under the Senior
Refinancing Indenture, as part of the same series as the Initial
Senior Cash Pay Notes.
“ Additional Senior
Toggle Notes ” shall mean additional Senior Toggle Notes
(other than the Initial Senior Toggle Notes (as defined in the
Senior Refinancing Indenture), any PIK Notes issued as a result of
a PIK Payment on such Initial Senior Notes (as defined in the
Senior Refinancing Indenture) and Exchange Notes (as defined in the
Senior Refinancing Indenture) issued in exchange for such Initial
Senior Toggle Notes and such PIK Notes) issued from time to time
under the Senior Refinancing Indenture, as part of the same series
as the Initial Senior Toggle Notes.
“ Administrative
Agent ” shall mean Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.,
as the administrative agent for the Lenders under this Agreement
and the other Loan Documents, or any successor administrative agent
pursuant to Section 13 .
“ Administrative
Agent’s Office ” shall mean the Administrative
Agent’s address and, as appropriate, account as provided in
Schedule 13.2 , or such other address or account as the
Administrative Agent may from time to time notify to the Borrower
and the Lenders.
“ Administrative
Questionnaire ” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 13.6(b) .
“ Affiliate
” of any specified Person shall mean any other Person
directly or indirectly controlling or controlled by or under direct
or indirect common control with such specified Person. For purposes
of this definition, “control” (including, with
correlative meanings, the terms “controlling,”
“controlled by” and “under common control
with”), as used with respect to any Person, shall mean the
possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause
the direction of the management or policies of such Person, whether
through the ownership of voting securities, by agreement or
otherwise.
“ Agent Parties
” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 13.17(d).
“ Agents ”
shall mean the Administrative Agent, the Syndication Agent, each
Co-Documentation Agent, each Joint Lead Arranger and each Joint
Bookrunner.
“ Agreement
” shall mean this Senior Unsecured Interim Loan
Agreement.
“ Applicable ABR
Margin ” shall mean at any date, with respect to each ABR
Loan, (a) 2.25% per annum with respect to Senior Cash
Pay Loans and (b) 2.50% per annum with respect to
Senior Toggle Loans. If the Loans are not paid within the six-month
period following the Closing Date, the Applicable ABR Margin will
increase by 0.50% per annum at the end of such
six-month period and shall increase by an additional 0.25%
per annum at the end of each three-month period thereafter
until the Interim Loan Conversion Date. At the Interim Loan
Conversion Date the Applicable ABR Margin will increase by
0.25% per annum and shall increase by an additional
0.25% per annum at the end of each three month period
thereafter until
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the applicable Term Loan Maturity Date.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Applicable ABR Margin shall be
capped such that the applicable interest rate (exclusive of
interest at the Default Rate) (i) in the case of Senior Cash
Pay Loans, shall not exceed the Senior Cash Pay Fixed Rate and
(ii) in the case of Senior Toggle Loans, excluding the effect
of the PIK Margin, shall not exceed the Senior Toggle Fixed
Rate.
“ Applicable
Laws ” shall mean, as to any Person, any law (including
common law), statute, regulation, ordinance, rule, order, decree,
judgment, consent decree, writ, injunction, settlement agreement or
governmental requirement enacted, promulgated or imposed or entered
into or agreed by any Government Authority (including the PUCT and
ERCOT), in each case applicable to or binding on such Person or any
of its property or assets or to which such Person or any of its
property or assets is subject. Applicable Laws shall also include
commitments, undertakings and stipulations (a) relating to
Oncor and its Subsidiaries set forth in the Joint Report and
Application of Oncor Electric Delivery Company and Texas Energy
Future Holdings Limited Partnership pursuant to Public Utility
Regulatory Act 14.101 before the PUCT, to the extent such
commitments, undertakings and stipulations are embodied in a final
order issued by PUCT and (b) relating to the Loan Parties and
their Affiliates other than Oncor and its Subsidiaries as set forth
on Schedule 1.1(g) hereto.
“ Applicable LIBOR
Margin ” shall mean at any date, with respect to each
LIBOR Loan, (a) 3.25% per annum with respect to Senior
Cash Pay Loans and (b) 3.50% per annum with respect to
Senior Toggle Loans. If the Loans are not paid within the six-month
period following the Closing Date, the Applicable LIBOR Margin will
increase by 0.50% per annum at the end of such
six-month period and shall increase by an additional 0.25%
per annum at the end of each three-month period thereafter
until the Interim Loan Conversion Date. At the Interim Loan
Conversion Date the Applicable LIBOR Margin will increase by
0.25% per annum and shall increase by an additional
0.25% per annum at the end of each three month period
thereafter until the applicable Term Loan Maturity Date.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Applicable LIBOR Margin shall be
capped such that the applicable interest rate (exclusive of
interest at the Default Rate) (i) in the case of Senior Cash
Pay Loans, shall not exceed the Senior Cash Pay Fixed Rate and
(ii) in the case of Senior Toggle Loans, excluding the effect
of the PIK Margin, shall not exceed the Senior Toggle Fixed
Rate.
“ Approved Fund
” shall mean any Fund that is administered or managed by
(a) a Lender, (b) an Affiliate of a Lender or (c) an
entity or an Affiliate of an entity that administers or manages a
Lender.
“ Asset Sale
” shall mean:
(1) the sale, conveyance,
transfer or other disposition, whether in a single transaction or a
series of related transactions, of property or assets (including by
way of a Sale and Lease-Back Transaction) of TCEH or any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries (each referred to in this definition as a
“disposition”); or
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(2) the issuance or sale of
Equity Interests of any Restricted Subsidiary, whether in a single
transaction or a series of related transactions (other than
Preferred Stock of Restricted Subsidiaries issued in compliance
with Section 9.7 );
in each case, other
than:
(a) any disposition of Cash
Equivalents or Investment Grade Securities or obsolete or worn out
equipment (including any such equipment that has been refurbished
in contemplation of such disposition) in the ordinary course of
business or any disposition of inventory or goods (or other assets)
held for sale in the ordinary course of business;
(b) the disposition of all or
substantially all of the assets of TCEH in a manner permitted
pursuant to the provisions of Section 9.14 or any
disposition that constitutes a Change of Control pursuant to this
Agreement;
(c) the making of any
Restricted Payment or Permitted Investment that is permitted to be
made, and is made, under Section 9.5 ;
(d) any disposition of assets
or issuance or sale of Equity Interests of any Restricted
Subsidiary in any transaction or series of related transactions
with an aggregate fair market value of less than (x) prior to
the Interim Loan Conversion Date, $50,000,000 and
(y) thereafter, $75,000,000;
(e) any disposition of
property or assets or issuance of securities by a Restricted
Subsidiary of TCEH to TCEH or by TCEH or a Restricted Subsidiary of
TCEH to another Restricted Subsidiary of TCEH;
(f) to the extent allowable
under Section 1031 of the Code or any comparable or successor
provision, any exchange of like property (excluding any boot
thereon) for use in a Similar Business;
(g) the lease, assignment or
sublease of any real or personal property in the ordinary course of
business;
(h) any issuance or sale of
Equity Interests in, or Indebtedness or other securities of, an
Unrestricted Subsidiary;
(i) foreclosures on
assets;
(j) sales of accounts
receivable, or participations therein, in connection with any
Receivables Facility for the benefit of TCEH or any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries;
(k) any financing transaction
with respect to property built or acquired by TCEH or any
Restricted Subsidiary after the Closing Date, including Sale and
Lease-Back Transactions and asset securitizations permitted by this
Agreement;
(l) [ Reserved
] ;
(m) sales, transfers and
other dispositions (i) of Investments in joint ventures to the
extent required by, or made pursuant to, customary buy/sell or
put/call arrangements between the joint venture parties set forth
in joint venture arrangements and similar binding arrangements or
(ii) to joint ventures in connection with the dissolution or
termination of a joint venture to the extent required pursuant to
joint venture and similar arrangements;
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(n) [ Reserved
] ;
(o) [ Reserved
] ;
(p) [ Reserved
] ;
(q) any Casualty Event
provided the net proceeds therefrom are deemed to be Net
Asset Sale Proceeds and are applied in accordance with
Section 9.8(b) or TCEH or such Restricted Subsidiary
delivers to the Administrative Agent a Restoration Certificate with
respect to plans to invest (and reinvests within 450 days from
the date of receipt of the Net Asset Sale Proceeds) and;
(r) the execution of (or
amendment to), settlement of or unwinding of any Hedging Obligation
in the ordinary course of business;
(s) any disposition of
mineral rights (other than coal and lignite mineral rights);
provided the net proceeds therefrom are deemed to be Net
Asset Sale Proceeds and are applied in accordance with
Section 9.8(b) ;
(t) any sale, transfer or
other disposal of any real property that is (i) primarily used
or intended to be used for mining which has either been reclaimed,
or has not been used for mining in a manner which requires
reclamation, and in either case has been determined by TCEH not to
be necessary for use for mining, (ii) used as buffer land, but
no longer serves such purpose or its use is restricted such that it
will continue to be buffer land, or (iii) was acquired in
connection with power generation facilities, but has been
determined by TCEH to no longer be commercially suitable for such
purpose;
(u) [ Reserved
] ;
(v) dispositions of power,
capacity, heat rate, renewable energy credits, waste by-products,
energy, electricity, coal and lignite, oil and other petroleum
based liquids, emissions and other environmental credits, ancillary
services, fuel (including all forms of nuclear fuel and natural
gas) and other related assets or products of services, including
assets related to trading activities or the sale of inventory or
contracts related to any of the foregoing, in each case in the
ordinary course of business;
(w) [ Reserved
] ;
(x) any disposition of assets
in connection with salvage activities, provided the net
proceeds therefrom are deemed to be Net Asset Sale Proceeds and are
applied in accordance with Section 9.8(b) ;
and
(y) any sale, transfer or
other disposition of any assets required by any Government
Authority; provided the net proceeds therefrom are deemed to
be Net Asset Sale Proceeds and applied in accordance with
Section 9.8(b) .
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“ Asset Sale
Offer ” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 9.8(c) .
“ Assignment and
Acceptance ” shall mean an assignment and acceptance
substantially in the form of Exhibit H , or such other
form as may be approved by the Administrative Agent.
“ Authorized
Officer ” shall mean the President, the Chief Executive
Officer, the Chief Financial Officer, the Chief Operating Officer,
the Treasurer, the Assistant Treasurer, with respect to certain
limited liability companies or partnerships that do not have
officers, any manager, managing member or general partner thereof,
any other senior officer of US Holdings, the Borrower or any
other Loan Party designated as such in writing to the
Administrative Agent by US Holdings, the Borrower or any other
Loan Party, as applicable, and, with respect to any document (other
than the solvency certificate) delivered on the Closing Date, the
Secretary or the Assistant Secretary of any Loan Party. Any
document delivered hereunder that is signed by an Authorized
Officer shall be conclusively presumed to have been authorized by
all necessary corporate, limited liability company, partnership
and/or other action on the part of US Holdings, the Borrower
or any other Loan Party and such Authorized Officer shall be
conclusively presumed to have acted on behalf of such
Person.
“ Bankruptcy
Code ” shall mean Title 11 of the United States
Code, as amended.
“ Bankruptcy Law
” shall mean the Bankruptcy Code and any similar federal,
state or foreign law for the relief of debtors.
“ benefited
Lender ” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 13.8(a) .
“ Board ”
shall mean the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of
the United States (or any successor).
“ Borrower
” shall have the meaning provided in the preamble to this
Agreement.
“ Borrowing
” shall mean and include the incurrence of the Loans on the
Closing Date (or resulting from conversions on a given date after
the Closing Date) having, in the case of LIBOR Loans, the same
Interest Period ( provided that ABR Loans incurred pursuant
to Section 2.10(b) shall be considered part of any
related Borrowing of LIBOR Loans).
“ Business Day
” shall mean any day excluding Saturday, Sunday and any other
day on which banking institutions in New York City are authorized
by law or other governmental actions to close, and, if such day
relates to (a) any interest rate settings as to a LIBOR Loan,
(b) any fundings, disbursements, settlements and payments in
respect of any such LIBOR Loan, or (c) any other dealings
pursuant to this Agreement in respect of any such LIBOR Loan, such
day shall be a day on which dealings in deposits in Dollars are
conducted by and between banks in the London interbank eurodollar
market.
“ Capital Stock
” shall mean:
(1) in the case of a
corporation, corporate stock;
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(2) in the case of an
association or business entity, any and all shares, interests,
participations, rights or other equivalents (however designated) of
corporate stock;
(3) in the case of a
partnership or limited liability company, partnership or membership
interests (whether general or limited); and
(4) any other interest or
participation that confers on a Person the right to receive a share
of the profits and losses of, or distributions of assets of, the
issuing Person.
“ Capitalized Lease
Obligation ” shall mean, at the time any determination
thereof is to be made, the amount of the liability in respect of a
capital lease that would at such time be required to be capitalized
and reflected as a liability on a balance sheet (excluding the
footnotes thereto) in accordance with GAAP; provided that
any obligations existing on the Closing Date (i) that were not
included on the balance sheet of TCEH as capital lease obligations
and (ii) that are subsequently recharacterized as capital
lease obligations due to a change in accounting treatment shall for
all purposes not be treated as Capitalized Lease
Obligations.
“ Capitalized
Software Expenditures ” shall mean, for any period, the
aggregate of all expenditures (whether paid in cash or accrued as
liabilities) by a Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries during
such period in respect of purchased software or internally
developed software and software enhancements that, in conformity
with GAAP, are or are required to be reflected as capitalized costs
on the consolidated balance sheet of a Person and its Restricted
Subsidiaries.
“ Cash
Equivalents ” shall mean:
(1) Dollars;
(2) euros or any national
currency of any participating member state of the EMU or such local
currencies held by TCEH and its Restricted Subsidiaries from time
to time in the ordinary course of business;
(3) securities issued or
directly and fully and unconditionally guaranteed or insured by the
U.S. government (or any agency or instrumentality thereof the
securities of which are unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith
and credit obligation of the U.S. government) with maturities,
unless such securities are deposited to defease Indebtedness, of
24 months or less from the date of acquisition;
(4) certificates of deposit,
time deposits and eurodollar time deposits with maturities of one
year or less from the date of acquisition, bankers’
acceptances with maturities not exceeding one year and overnight
bank deposits, in each case with any commercial bank having capital
and surplus of not less than $500,000,000 in the case of U.S. banks
and $100,000,000 (or the Dollar equivalent as of the date of
determination) in the case of non-U.S. banks;
(5) repurchase obligations
for underlying securities of the types described in
clauses (3) and (4) entered into with any financial
institution meeting the qualifications specified in clause (4)
above;
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(6) commercial paper rated at
least P-1 by Moody’s or at least A-1 by S&P and in each
case maturing within 24 months after the date of creation
thereof;
(7) marketable short-term
money market and similar securities having a rating of at least P-2
or A-2 from either Moody’s or S&P, respectively (or, if
at any time neither Moody’s nor S&P shall be rating such
obligations, an equivalent rating from another Rating Agency) and
in each case maturing within 24 months after the date of
creation thereof;
(8) investment funds
investing 95% of their assets in securities of the types described
in clauses (1) through (7) above;
(9) readily marketable direct
obligations issued by any state, commonwealth or territory of the
United States or any political subdivision or taxing authority
thereof having an Investment Grade Rating from either Moody’s
or S&P with maturities of 24 months or less from the date
of acquisition;
(10) Indebtedness or
Preferred Stock issued by Persons with a rating of A or higher
from S&P or A2 or higher from Moody’s with maturities of
24 months or less from the date of acquisition; and
(11) Investments with average
maturities of 24 months or less from the date of acquisition
in money market funds rated AAA- (or the equivalent thereof) or
better by S&P or Aaa3 (or the equivalent thereof) or better by
Moody’s.
Notwithstanding the
foregoing, Cash Equivalents shall include amounts denominated in
currencies other than those provided in clauses (1) and
(2) above; provided that such amounts are converted
into any currency listed in clauses (1) and (2) as
promptly as practicable and in any event within ten Business Days
following the receipt of such amounts.
“ Cash Interest
” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 2.8(a)(ii) .
“ Casualty Event
” shall mean any taking under power of eminent domain or
similar proceeding and any insured loss; provided that any
such taking or similar proceeding or insured loss that results in
Net Asset Sale Proceeds of less than (x) prior to the Interim
Loan Conversion Date, $50,000,000 and (y) thereafter,
$75,000,000 shall not be deemed a Casualty Event.
“ Change in Law
” shall mean (a) the adoption of any Applicable Laws
after the date of this Agreement, (b) any change in any
Applicable Laws or in the interpretation or application thereof by
any Government Authority after the date of this Agreement or
(c) compliance by any party with any guideline, request,
directive or order issued or made after the date hereof by any
central bank or other governmental or quasi-governmental authority
(whether or not having the force of law).
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“ Change of
Control ” shall mean the occurrence of any of the
following:
(1) the sale, lease or
transfer, in one or a series of related transactions, of all or
substantially all of the assets of US Holdings or TCEH and its
Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, to any Person other than a
Permitted Holder;
(2) TCEH becomes aware (by
way of a report or any other filing pursuant to Section 13(d)
of the Exchange Act, proxy, vote, written notice or otherwise) of
the acquisition by any Person or group (within the meaning of
Section 13(d)(3) or Section 14(d)(2) of the Exchange Act
or any successor provision), including any group acting for the
purpose of acquiring, holding or disposing of securities (within
the meaning of Rule 13d-5(b)(1) under the Exchange Act or any
successor provision), other than the Permitted Holders, in a single
transaction or in a related series of transactions, by way of
merger, consolidation or other business combination or purchase of
beneficial ownership (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the
Exchange Act, or any successor provision) of 50% or more of the
total voting power of the Voting Stock of TCEH or any of its direct
or indirect parent companies; or
(3) at any time, the Parent
shall cease to own directly or indirectly beneficially and of
record at least a majority of the total voting power of the voting
stock of TCEH.
“ Change of Control
Offer ” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 9.12(a).
“ Change of Control
Prepayment ” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 9.12(a).
“ Change of Control
Prepayment Date ” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 9.12(a)(2).
“ Class ”,
when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, shall refer to
whether such Loan, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, are
Senior Cash Pay Loans or Senior Toggle Loans and, when used in
reference to any Commitment, refers to whether such Commitment is a
Senior Interim Cash Pay Loan Commitment or a Senior Interim Toggle
Loan Commitment.
“ Closing Date
” shall mean the date of the initial Borrowings
hereunder.
“ Code ”
shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time
to time. Section references to the Code are to the Code as in
effect at the date of this Agreement, and any subsequent provisions
of the Code, amendatory thereof, supplemental thereto or
substituted therefor.
“ Co-Documentation
Agents ” shall mean Citibank, N.A., Credit Suisse
Securities (USA) LLC, JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. and Lehman
Commercial Paper Inc.
“ Collateral Posting
Facility ” shall mean any senior cash posting credit
facility, the size of which is capped by the mark-to-market loss,
inclusive of any unpaid settlement amounts, of TCEH and its
Subsidiaries on a hypothetical portfolio of commodity swaps,
forwards and futures transactions that correspond to or replicate
all or a portion of actual transactions by TCEH and its
Subsidiaries that are outstanding on, or entered into from time to
time on or after, the Closing Date.
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“ Commitment
Letter ” shall mean the amended and restated commitment
letter, dated July 20, 2007, as amended by that certain Letter
Agreement dated October 10, 2007, among TCEH (as successor in
interest to Merger Sub) and Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Credit
Suisse Cayman Islands Branch, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC,
Goldman Sachs Credit Partners L.P., JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., J.P.
Morgan Securities Inc., Lehman Brothers Inc., Lehman Brothers
Holdings Inc., Lehman Commercial Paper Inc., Lehman Brothers
Commercial Bank and Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.
“ Commitments
” shall mean, with respect to each Lender (to the extent
applicable), such Lender’s Senior Interim Cash Pay Loan
Commitment and/or Senior Interim Toggle Loan Commitment, as the
context requires.
“ Committed
Lenders ” shall mean Citibank, N.A., Credit Suisse Cayman
Islands Branch, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Goldman Sachs
Credit Partners L.P., JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., Lehman Loan
Funding, LLC and Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.
“ Communications
” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 13.17 .
“ Confidential
Information ” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 13.16 .
“ Consolidated
Depreciation and Amortization Expense ” shall mean with
respect to any Person for any period, the total amount of
depreciation and amortization expense, including the amortization
of deferred financing fees, nuclear fuel costs, depletion of coal
or lignite reserves, debt issuance costs, commissions, fees and
expenses and Capitalized Software Expenditures, of such Person and
its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period on a consolidated basis
and otherwise determined in accordance with GAAP.
“ Consolidated
Interest Expense ” shall mean, with respect to any Person
for any period, without duplication, the sum of:
(1) consolidated interest
expense of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such
period, to the extent such expense was deducted (and not added
back) in computing Consolidated Net Income (including
(a) amortization of original issue discount resulting from the
issuance of Indebtedness at less than par, (b) all
commissions, discounts and other fees and charges owed with respect
to letters of credit or bankers’ acceptances or any
Collateral Posting Facility or similar facilities,
(c) non-cash interest payments (but excluding any non-cash
interest expense attributable to the movement in the mark to market
valuation of Hedging Obligations or other derivative instruments
pursuant to GAAP), (d) the interest component of Capitalized
Lease Obligations, and (e) net payments, if any, pursuant to
interest rate Hedging Obligations with respect to Indebtedness, and
excluding, (u) accretion of asset retirement obligations and
accretion or accrual of discounted liabilities not constituting
Indebtedness, (v) any expense resulting from the discounting
of the Existing Notes or other Indebtedness in connection with the
application of purchase accounting, (w) “additional
interest” with respect to the Senior Refinancing Registration
Rights Agreement and any comparable “additional
interest” with respect to other securities,
(x) amortization of reacquired Indebtedness, deferred
financing fees, debt issuance costs, commissions, fees and
expenses, (y) any expensing of bridge, commitment and other
financing fees and (z) commissions, discounts, yield and other
fees and charges (including any interest expense) related to any
Receivables Facility); plus
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(2) consolidated capitalized
interest of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such
period, whether paid or accrued; less
(3) interest income of such
Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period.
For purposes of this
definition, interest on a Capitalized Lease Obligation shall be
deemed to accrue at an interest rate reasonably determined by such
Person to be the rate of interest implicit in such Capitalized
Lease Obligation in accordance with GAAP.
“ Consolidated Net
Income ” shall mean, with respect to any Person for any
period, the aggregate of the Net Income of such Person for such
period, on a consolidated basis, and otherwise determined in
accordance with GAAP; provided , however, that,
without duplication,
(1) any after-tax effect of
extraordinary, non-recurring or unusual gains or losses (less all
fees and expenses relating thereto) or expenses (including
Transaction fees and expenses to the extent incurred on or prior to
December 31, 2008), severance, relocation costs, consolidation
and closing costs, integration and facilities opening costs,
business optimization costs, transition costs, restructuring costs,
signing, retention or completion bonuses, and curtailments or
modifications to pension and post-retirement employee benefit plans
shall be excluded;
(2) the cumulative effect of
a change in accounting principles during such period shall be
excluded;
(3) any after-tax effect of
income (loss) from disposed, abandoned or discontinued operations
and any net after-tax gains or losses on disposal of disposed,
abandoned, transferred, closed or discontinued operations shall be
excluded;
(4) any after-tax effect of
gains or losses (less all fees and expenses relating thereto)
attributable to asset dispositions or abandonments other than in
the ordinary course of business, as determined in good faith by
TCEH, shall be excluded;
(5) the Net Income for such
period of any Person that (a) is not a Subsidiary, (b) is
an Unrestricted Subsidiary or (c) is accounted for by the
equity method of accounting, shall be excluded; provided
that Consolidated Net Income of TCEH shall be increased by the
amount of dividends or distributions or other payments that are
actually paid in cash (or to the extent converted into cash) to the
referent Person or a Restricted Subsidiary thereof in respect of
such period;
(6) solely for the purpose of
determining the amount available for Restricted Payments under
clause (3)(a) of Section 9.5(a) hereof, the
Net Income for such period of any Restricted Subsidiary (other than
any Guarantor) shall be excluded to the extent that the declaration
or payment of dividends or similar distributions by that Restricted
Subsidiary of its
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Net Income is not at the date of
determination wholly permitted without any prior governmental
approval (which has not been obtained) or, directly or indirectly,
by the operation of the terms of its charter or any agreement,
instrument, judgment, decree, order, statute, rule, or governmental
regulation applicable to that Restricted Subsidiary or its
stockholders, unless such restriction with respect to the payment
of dividends or similar distributions has been legally waived;
provided that Consolidated Net Income of TCEH will be
increased by the amount of dividends or other distributions or
other payments actually paid in cash (or to the extent converted
into cash) or Cash Equivalents to TCEH or a Restricted Subsidiary
thereof in respect of such period, to the extent not already
included therein;
(7) effects of all
adjustments (including the effects of such adjustments pushed down
to TCEH and its Restricted Subsidiaries) in such Person’s
consolidated financial statements pursuant to GAAP resulting from
the application of purchase accounting in relation to the
Transactions or any consummated acquisition or the amortization or
write-off of any amounts thereof, net of taxes, shall be
excluded;
(8) any net after-tax effect
of income (loss) attributable to the early extinguishment of
Indebtedness (other than Hedging Obligations) shall be
excluded;
(9) any impairment charge or
asset write-off, including, without limitation, impairment charges
or asset write-offs related to intangible assets, long-lived assets
or investments in debt and equity securities, in each case,
pursuant to GAAP and the amortization of intangibles arising
pursuant to GAAP shall be excluded;
(10) any non-cash
compensation expense recorded from grants of stock appreciation or
similar rights, stock options, restricted stock or other rights,
and any cash charges associated with the rollover, acceleration or
payout of Equity Interests by management of TCEH or any of its
direct or indirect parent companies in connection with the
Transactions, shall be excluded;
(11) any fees and expenses
incurred during such period, or any amortization thereof for such
period, in connection with any acquisition, Investment, Asset Sale,
issuance or repayment of Indebtedness, issuance of Equity
Interests, refinancing transaction or amendment or modification of
any debt instrument (in each case, including any such transaction
consummated prior to the Closing Date and any such transaction
undertaken but not completed) and any charges or non-recurring
merger costs incurred during such period as a result of any such
transaction shall be excluded;
(12) accruals and reserves
that are established or adjusted within twelve months after the
Closing Date that are so required to be established as a result of
the Transactions in accordance with GAAP, or changes as a result of
adoption or modification of accounting policies, shall be
excluded;
(13) to the extent covered by
insurance and actually reimbursed, or, so long as TCEH has made a
determination that there exists reasonable evidence that such
amount will in fact be reimbursed by the insurer and only to the
extent that such amount is (a) not denied by the applicable
carrier in writing within 180 days and (b) in fact
reimbursed within 365 days of the date of such evidence (with
a deduction for any amount so added back to the extent not so
reimbursed within 365 days), expenses with respect to
liability or casualty events or business interruption shall be
excluded;
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(14) any net after-tax effect
of unrealized income (loss) attributable to Hedging Obligations or
other derivative instruments shall be excluded; and
(15) any benefit from any
fair market value of any contract as recorded on the balance sheet
at the time of the Transactions shall be excluded.
(16) Notwithstanding the
foregoing, for the purpose of Section 9.5(a) hereof
only (other than clause (3)(d) thereof), there shall be
excluded from Consolidated Net Income any income arising from any
sale or other disposition of Restricted Investments made by TCEH
and its Restricted Subsidiaries, any repurchases and redemptions of
Restricted Investments from TCEH and its Restricted Subsidiaries,
any repayments of loans and advances which constitute Restricted
Investments by TCEH or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, any sale
of the stock of an Unrestricted Subsidiary or any distribution or
dividend from an Unrestricted Subsidiary, in each case only to the
extent such amounts increase the amount of Restricted Payments
permitted under clause (3)(d) of Section 9.5(a)
hereof.
“ Consolidated
Secured Debt Ratio ” shall mean, as of any date of
determination, the ratio of (x) Consolidated Secured
Indebtedness computed as of the end of the most recent fiscal
quarter for which internal financial statements are available
immediately preceding the date on which such event for which such
calculation is being made shall occur to (y) the aggregate
amount of EBITDA of TCEH for the period of the most recently ended
four full consecutive fiscal quarters for which internal financial
statements are available immediately preceding the date on which
such event for which such calculation is being made shall occur, in
each case with such pro forma adjustments to Consolidated
Secured Indebtedness and EBITDA as are appropriate and consistent
with the pro forma adjustment provisions provided in the
definition of “Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio”.
“ Consolidated
Secured Indebtedness ” shall mean Consolidated Total
Indebtedness secured by a Lien on any assets of TCEH or any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries
“ Consolidated Total
Assets ” shall mean, as of any date of determination, the
amount that would, in conformity with GAAP, be set forth opposite
the caption “ total assets ” (or any like
caption), after intercompany eliminations, on a consolidated
balance sheet of TCEH and the Restricted Subsidiaries at such
date.
“ Consolidated Total
Indebtedness ” shall mean, as at any date of
determination, an amount equal to (1) the aggregate amount of
all outstanding Indebtedness of TCEH and its Restricted
Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis consisting of Indebtedness for
borrowed money, debt obligations evidenced by promissory notes and
similar instruments, letters of credit (only to the extent of any
unreimbursed drawings thereunder) and Obligations in respect of
Capitalized Lease Obligations, plus (2) the aggregate amount
of all outstanding Disqualified Stock of TCEH and all Disqualified
Stock and Preferred Stock of its Restricted Subsidiaries on a
consolidated basis, with the amount of such Disqualified Stock and
Preferred Stock equal to the greater of
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their respective voluntary or
involuntary liquidation preferences and maximum fixed repurchase
prices, in each case determined on a consolidated basis in
accordance with GAAP, less (3) the aggregate amount of all
Unrestricted Cash and less (4) all Deposit L/C Loans and
Incremental Deposit L/C Loans outstanding on such date of
determination. For purposes hereof, the “ maximum fixed
repurchase price ” of any Disqualified Stock or Preferred
Stock that does not have a fixed repurchase price shall be
calculated in accordance with the terms of such Disqualified Stock
or Preferred Stock as if such Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock
were purchased on any date on which Consolidated Total Indebtedness
shall be required to be determined, and if such price is based
upon, or measured by, the fair market value of such Disqualified
Stock or Preferred Stock, such fair market value shall be
determined reasonably and in good faith by TCEH.
“ Contingent
Obligations ” shall mean, with respect to any Person, any
obligation of such Person guaranteeing any leases, dividends or
other obligations that do not constitute Indebtedness (“
primary obligations ”) of any other Person (the
“ primary obligor ”) in any manner, whether
directly or indirectly, including, without limitation, any
obligation of such Person, whether or not contingent,
(1) to purchase any such
primary obligation or any property constituting direct or indirect
security therefor,
(2) to advance or supply
funds,
(a) for the purchase or
payment of any such primary obligation, or
(b) to maintain working
capital or equity capital of the primary obligor or otherwise to
maintain the net worth or solvency of the primary obligor,
or
(3) to purchase property,
securities or services primarily for the purpose of assuring the
owner of any such primary obligation of the ability of the primary
obligor to make payment of such primary obligation against loss in
respect thereof.
“ Contractual
Requirement ” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 8.3 .
“ Covered
Commodity ” shall mean any energy, electricity,
generation capacity, power, heat rate, congestion, natural gas,
nuclear fuel (including enrichment and conversion), diesel fuel,
fuel oil, other petroleum-based liquids, coal, lignite, weather,
emissions and other environmental credits, waste by-products,
renewable energy credit, or any other energy related commodity or
service (including ancillary services and related risks (such as
location basis).
“ Credit Event
” shall mean and include the making (but not the conversion
or continuation) of a Loan, provided that the accrual of PIK
Interest shall not constitute a Credit Event.
“ Credit
Facilities ” shall mean, with respect to TCEH or any of
its Restricted Subsidiaries, one or more debt facilities, including
the facilities hereunder, the TCEH Senior Secured Facilities or
other financing arrangements (including, without limitation,
commercial paper facilities or indentures) providing for revolving
credit loans, term loans, letters of credit or
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other long-term indebtedness, including
any notes, mortgages, guarantees, collateral documents, instruments
and agreements executed in connection therewith, and any
amendments, supplements, modifications, extensions, renewals,
restatements or refundings thereof and any indentures or credit
facilities or commercial paper facilities that replace, refund or
refinance any part of the loans, notes, other credit facilities or
commitments thereunder, including any such replacement, refunding
or refinancing facility or indenture that increases the amount
permitted to be borrowed thereunder or alters the maturity thereof
( provided that such increase in borrowings is permitted
under Section 9.7 hereof) or adds Restricted
Subsidiaries as additional borrowers or guarantors thereunder and
whether by the same or any other agent, lender or group of
lenders.
“ Debt Incurrence
Prepayment Event ” shall mean any issuance or incurrence
by TCEH, TECH Finance, US Holdings or any other Guarantor, of
any Refinancing Indebtedness (excluding any Indebtedness permitted
to be issued or incurred under Section 9.7(b) other
than Section 9.7(b)(2 ) or 9.7(b)(13))
with respect to any refinancing of Indebtedness incurred
under Section 9.7(b)(2 ).
“ Default
” shall mean any event that is, or with the passage of time
or the giving of notice or both would be, an Event of
Default.
“ Default Rate
” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 2.8(d) .
“ Defaulting
Lender ” shall mean any Lender with respect to which a
Lender Default is in effect.
“ Deposit L/C
Loan ” shall mean Deposit L/C Loans under, and as defined
in, the TCEH Senior Secured Facilities.
“ Designated
Non-Cash Consideration ” shall mean the fair market value
of non-cash consideration received by TCEH or a Restricted
Subsidiary in connection with an Asset Sale that is so designated
as Designated Non-Cash Consideration pursuant to an Officer’s
Certificate, setting forth the basis of such valuation, executed by
the principal financial officer of TCEH, less the amount of cash or
Cash Equivalents received in connection with a subsequent sale of
or collection on such Designated Non-Cash Consideration.
“ Designated
Preferred Stock ” shall mean Preferred Stock of TCEH or
any parent corporation thereof (in each case other than
Disqualified Stock) that is issued for cash (other than to a
Restricted Subsidiary or an employee stock ownership plan or trust
established by TCEH or any of its Subsidiaries) and is so
designated as Designated Preferred Stock, pursuant to an
Officer’s Certificate executed by the principal financial
officer of TCEH or the applicable parent corporation thereof, as
the case may be, on the issuance date thereof, the cash proceeds of
which are excluded from the calculation provided in
clause (3) of Section 9.5(a) hereof.
“ Disqualified
Stock ” shall mean, with respect to any Person, any
Capital Stock of such Person which, by its terms, or by the terms
of any security into which it is convertible or for which it is
putable or exchangeable, or upon the happening of any event,
matures or is mandatorily redeemable (other than solely as a result
of a change of control or asset sale) pursuant to a sinking fund
obligation or otherwise, or is redeemable at the option of the
holder thereof (other than solely as a result of a change of
control or asset sale), in whole or in part, in
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each case prior to the date 91 days
after the earlier of October 15, 2016 or the date the Loans
are no longer outstanding; provided , however, that
if such Capital Stock is issued to any plan for the benefit of
employees of TCEH or its Subsidiaries or by any such plan to such
employees, such Capital Stock shall not constitute Disqualified
Stock solely because it may be required to be repurchased by TCEH
or its Subsidiaries in order to satisfy applicable statutory or
regulatory obligations.
“ Dollars
” and “ $ ” shall mean dollars in lawful
currency of the United States of America.
“ Domestic
Subsidiary ” shall mean each Subsidiary of TCEH that is
organized under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or
the District of Columbia.
“ EBITDA ”
shall mean, with respect to any Person for any period, the
Consolidated Net Income of such Person for such period
(1) increased (without
duplication) by:
(a) provision for taxes based
on income or profits or capital gains, including, without
limitation, foreign, federal, state, franchise, excise, value-added
and similar taxes and foreign withholding taxes (including
penalties and interest related to such taxes or arising from tax
examinations) of such Person paid or accrued during such period,
deducted (and not added back) in computing Consolidated Net Income;
plus
(b) Fixed Charges of such
Person for such period (including (x) net losses on Hedging
Obligations or other derivative instruments entered into for the
purpose of hedging interest rate risk and (y) costs of surety
bonds in connection with financing activities, in each case, to the
extent included in Fixed Charges), together with items excluded
from the definition of “Consolidated Interest Expense”
pursuant to clauses (1)(u), (v), (w), (x), (y) and
(z) of the definition thereof, and, in each such case, to the
extent the same were deducted (and not added back) in calculating
such Consolidated Net Income; plus
(c) Consolidated Depreciation
and Amortization Expense of such Person for such period to the
extent the same was deducted (and not added back) in computing
Consolidated Net Income; plus
(d) any fees, expenses or
charges (other than depreciation or amortization expense) related
to any Equity Offering, Permitted Investment, acquisition,
disposition, recapitalization or the incurrence of Indebtedness
permitted to be incurred by such Person and its Restricted
Subsidiaries, by this Agreement (including a refinancing
transaction or amendment or other modification of any debt
instrument) (whether or not successful), including (i) such
fees, expenses or charges related to the offering of the Senior
Notes, the TCEH Senior Secured Facilities, this Agreement and any
Receivables Facility, (ii) any amendment or other modification
of the Senior Interim Loans, (iii) any such transaction
consummated prior to the Closing Date and any such transaction
undertaken but not completed and (iv) any charges or
non-recurring merger costs as a result of any such transaction, in
each case, deducted (and not added back) in computing Consolidated
Net Income; plus
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(e) the amount of any
restructuring charge or reserve deducted (and not added back) in
such period in computing Consolidated Net Income, including any
costs incurred in connection with acquisitions after the Closing
Date, costs related to the closure and/or consolidation of
facilities; plus
(f) any other non-cash
charges, including any write-offs or write-downs, reducing
Consolidated Net Income for such period ( provided that if
any such non-cash charges represent an accrual or reserve for
potential cash items in any future period, the cash payment in
respect thereof in such future period shall be subtracted from
EBITDA to such extent, and excluding amortization of a prepaid cash
item that was paid in a prior period); plus
(g) the amount of any
minority interest expense consisting of Subsidiary income
attributable to minority equity interests of third parties in any
non-Wholly Owned Subsidiary deducted (and not added back) in such
period in calculating Consolidated Net Income;
plus
(h) the amount of management,
monitoring, consulting and advisory fees and related indemnities
and expenses paid in such period to the Sponsors to the extent
otherwise permitted under Section 9.9 hereof and
deducted (and not added back) in calculating Consolidated Net
Income; plus
(i) the amount of net cost
savings projected by TCEH in good faith to be realized as a result
of specified actions taken or to be taken prior to or during such
period (calculated on a pro forma basis as though such cost
savings had been realized on the first day of such period and added
to EBITDA until fully realized), net of the amount of actual
benefits realized during such period from such actions;
provided that (w) such cost savings are reasonably
identifiable and factually supportable, (x) such actions have
been taken or are to be taken within 12 months after the date of
determination to take such action and some portion of the benefit
is expected to be realized within 12 months of taking such
action, (y) no cost savings shall be added pursuant to this
clause (i) to the extent duplicative of any expenses or
charges relating to such cost savings that are included in
clause (e) above with respect to such period and (z) the
aggregate amount of cost savings added pursuant to this
clause (i) shall not exceed $150,000,000 for any four
consecutive quarter period (which adjustments may be incremental to
pro forma adjustments made pursuant to the second paragraph
of the definition of “ Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio
”); plus
(j) the amount of loss on
sales of receivables and related assets to the Receivables
Subsidiary in connection with a Receivables Facility deducted (and
not added back) in calculating Consolidated Net Income;
plus
(k) any costs or expense
incurred by TCEH or a Restricted Subsidiary pursuant to any
management equity plan or stock option plan or any other management
or employee benefit plan or agreement or any stock subscription or
shareholder agreement, to the extent that such cost or expenses are
funded with cash proceeds contributed to the capital of TCEH or net
cash proceeds of an issuance of Equity Interests (other than
Disqualified Stock) of TCEH (or any direct or indirect parent
thereof) solely to the extent that such net cash proceeds are
excluded from the calculation provided in clause (3) of
Section 9.5(a) hereof; plus
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(l) Expenses Relating to a
Unit Outage; provided that the only Expenses Relating to a
Unit Outage that may be included in EBITDA shall be, without
duplication (i) up to $250,000,000 per fiscal year of Expenses
Relating to a Unit Outage incurred within the first 12 months
after any planned or unplanned outage of any Unit by reason of any
action by any regulatory body or other Government Authority or to
comply with any applicable law and (ii) up to $100,000,000 per
fiscal year of Expenses Relating to a Unit Outage incurred within
the first 12 months after any planned outage of any Unit for
purposes of expanding or upgrading such Unit;
plus
(m) cash receipts (or any
netting arrangements resulting in increased cash receipts) not
added in arriving at EBITDA or Consolidated Net Income in any
period to the extent the non-cash gains relating to such receipts
were deducted in the calculation of EBITDA pursuant to
paragraph (2) below for any previous period and not added;
and
(2) decreased by (without
duplication) (a) non-cash gains increasing Consolidated Net
Income of such Person for such period, excluding any non-cash gains
to the extent they represent the reversal of an accrual or reserve
for a potential cash item that reduced EBITDA in any prior period,
(b) cash expenditures (or any netting arrangements resulting
in increased cash expenditures) not deducted in arriving at EBITDA
or Consolidated Net Income in any period to the extent non-cash
losses relating to such expenditures were added in the calculation
of EBITDA pursuant to paragraph (1) above for any previous
period and not deducted, and (c) the amount of any minority
interest income consisting of Subsidiary losses attributable to
minority equity interests of third parties in a non-Wholly Owned
Subsidiary to the extent such minority interest income is included
in Consolidated Net Income.
“ Employee Benefit
Plan ” shall mean an employee benefit plan (as defined in
Section 3(3) of ERISA), other than a Foreign Plan, that is
maintained or contributed to by the Parent, US Holdings, TCEH
or any Subsidiary (or, with respect to an employee benefit plan
subject to Title IV of ERISA, any ERISA Affiliate).
“ EMU ”
shall mean the economic and monetary union as contemplated in the
Treaty on European Union.
“ Energy Future
Holding Company ” shall mean Energy Future Intermediate
Holding Company LLC, a Delaware limited liability
company.
“ Engagement
Letter ” shall mean the amended and restated Engagement
Letter, dated as of July 20, 2007, as amended by that certain
Letter Agreement dated October 10, 2007, among the TCEH (as
successor in interest to Merger Sub), Citigroup Global Markets
Inc., Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC, Goldman, Sachs &
Co., J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., Lehman Brothers Inc. and Morgan
Stanley & Co. Incorporated.
“ Environmental
CapEx Debt ” shall mean Indebtedness of TCEH or any of
its Restricted Subsidiaries incurred for the purpose of financing
Environmental Capital Expenditures.
“ Environmental
Capital Expenditures ” shall mean capital expenditures
deemed necessary by TCEH or its Restricted Subsidiaries to comply
with, or in anticipation of having to comply with, Environmental
Law or otherwise undertaken voluntarily by TCEH or any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with environmental
matters.
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“ Environmental
Claims ” shall mean any and all actions, suits,
proceedings, orders, decrees, demands, demand letters, claims,
liens, notices of noncompliance, violation or potential
responsibility or investigation (other than reports prepared by or
on behalf of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (a) in
the ordinary course of such Person’s business or (b) as
required in connection with a financing transaction or an
acquisition or disposition of Real Estate) or proceedings relating
in any way to any Environmental Law or any permit issued, or any
approval given, under any such Environmental Law (hereinafter,
“ Claims ”), including (i) any and all
Claims by Government Authorities for enforcement, cleanup, removal,
response, remedial or other actions or damages pursuant to any
applicable Environmental Law and (ii) any and all Claims by
any third party seeking damages, contribution, indemnification,
cost recovery, compensation or injunctive relief relating to the
presence, release or threatened release into the environment of
Hazardous Materials or arising from alleged injury or threat of
injury to human health or safety (to the extent relating to human
exposure to Hazardous Materials), or to the environment, including,
ambient air, indoor air, surface water, groundwater, land surface
and subsurface strata and natural resources such as
wetlands.
“ Environmental
Law ” shall mean any applicable Federal, state, foreign
or local statute, law, rule, regulation, ordinance, code and rule
of common law now or hereafter in effect and in each case as
amended, and any binding judicial or administrative interpretation
thereof, including any binding judicial or administrative order,
consent decree or judgment, relating to the protection of the
environment, including, ambient air, indoor air, surface water,
groundwater, land surface and sub-surface strata and natural
resources such as wetlands, or to human health or safety (to the
extent relating to human exposure to Hazardous Materials), or
Hazardous Materials.
“ Equity
Contribution ” shall have the meaning provided in the
recitals to this Agreement.
“ Equity
Interests ” shall mean Capital Stock and all warrants,
options or other rights to acquire Capital Stock, but excluding any
debt security that is convertible into, or exchangeable for,
Capital Stock.
“ Equity
Offering ” shall mean any public or private sale of
common stock or Preferred Stock of TCEH or any of its direct or
indirect parent companies (excluding Disqualified Stock), other
than:
(1) public offerings with
respect to TCEH’s or any direct or indirect parent
company’s common stock registered on
Form S-8;
(2) issuances to any
Subsidiary of TCEH; and
(3) any such public or
private sale that constitutes an Excluded Contribution.
“ ERCOT ”
shall mean the Electric Reliability Council of Texas.
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“ ERISA ”
shall mean the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as
amended from time to time. Section references to ERISA are to ERISA
as in effect at the date of this Agreement and any subsequent
provisions of ERISA amendatory thereof, supplemental thereto or
substituted therefor.
“ ERISA
Affiliate ” shall mean each person (as defined in
Section 3(9) of ERISA) that together with TCEH or any
Subsidiary of TCEH would be deemed to be a “single
employer” within the meaning of Section 414(b) or
(c) of the Code or, solely for purposes of Section 302 of
ERISA and Section 412 of the Code, is treated as a single
employer under Section 414 of the Code.
“ euro ”
shall mean the single currency of participating member states of
the EMU.
“ Event of
Default ” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 11 .
“ Excess
Proceeds ” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 9.8(c) hereof.
“ Exchange Act
” shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended,
and the rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated
thereunder.
“ Exchange Date
” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 2.14(b)(i) .
“ Exchange
Notice ” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 2.14(b)(ii) .
“ Excluded
Contribution ” shall mean net cash proceeds, marketable
securities or Qualified Proceeds received by TCEH after the Closing
Date from
(1) contributions to its
common equity capital, and
(2) the sale (other than to a
Subsidiary of TCEH or to any management equity plan or stock option
plan or any other management or employee benefit plan or agreement
of TCEH) of Capital Stock (other than Disqualified Stock and
Designated Preferred Stock) of TCEH,
in each case designated as
Excluded Contributions pursuant to an Officer’s Certificate
executed by the principal financial officer of TCEH on the date
such capital contributions are made or the date such Equity
Interests are sold, as the case may be, which are excluded from the
calculation provided in clause (3) of
Section 9.5(a) hereof.
“ Excluded Taxes
” shall mean, with respect to any Agent or any Lender,
(a) net income taxes and franchise and excise taxes (imposed
in lieu of net income taxes) imposed on such Agent or Lender,
(b) any Taxes imposed on any Agent or any Lender as a result
of any current or former connection between such Agent or Lender
and the jurisdiction of the Government Authority imposing such tax
or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof or therein
(other than any such connection arising from such Agent or Lender
having executed, delivered or performed its obligations or received
a payment under, or having been a party to or having enforced, this
Agreement or any other Loan Document), (c) any U.S. federal
withholding tax that is imposed on amounts payable to any Lender
under the law in effect at the time such
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Lender becomes a party to this
Agreement; provided that this subclause (c) shall not
apply to the extent that (x) the indemnity payments or
additional amounts any Lender would be entitled to receive (without
regard to this subclause (c) ) do not exceed the
indemnity payment or additional amounts that the person making the
assignment, participation or transfer to such Lender would have
been entitled to receive in the absence of such assignment or
(y) any Tax is imposed on a Lender in connection with an
interest in any Loan or other obligation that such Lender was
required to acquire pursuant to Section 13.8(a) or that
such Lender acquired pursuant to Section 13.7 (it being
understood and agreed, for the avoidance of doubt, that any
withholding tax imposed on a Lender as a result of a Change in Law
occurring after the time such Lender became a party to this
Agreement (or designates a new lending office) shall not be an
Excluded Tax) and (d) any Tax to the extent attributable to
such Lender’s failure to comply with
Section 5.4(d) and (e) (in the case of any
Non-U.S. Lender) or Section 5.4(h) (in the case of a
U.S. Lender).
“ Existing Notes
” shall mean
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US Holdings’ Floating Rate Junior Subordinated
Debentures, Series D due 2037;
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US Holdings’ 8.175% Fixed Junior Subordinated
Debentures, Series E due 2037;
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TCEH’s
6.125% Senior Notes due 2008;
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TCEH’s
7.000% Senior Notes due 2013;
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US Holdings’ 7.460% Fixed Secured Bonds with
amortizing payments to 2015;
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US Holdings’ 7.480% Fixed Secured Bonds;
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US Holdings’ 9.580% Fixed Notes due in semi-annual
installments to 2019;
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US Holdings’ 8.254% Fixed Notes due in quarterly
installments to 2021;
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Pollution Control Revenue
Bonds—Brazos River Authority:
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5.400% Fixed
Series 1994A due May 1, 2029;
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7.700% Fixed
Series 1999A due April 1, 2033;
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6.750% Fixed
Series 1999B due September 1, 2034;
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7.700% Fixed
Series 1999C due March 1, 2032;
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Floating Rate
Series 2001A due October 1, 2030;
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5.750% Fixed
Series 2001C due May 1, 2036;
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Floating Rate
Series 2001D due May 1, 2033;
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Floating Rate
Taxable Series 2001I due December 1, 2036;
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Floating Rate
Series 2002A due May 1, 2037;
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6.750%
Fixed· Series 2003A due April 1, 2038;
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6.300% Fixed
Series 2003B due July 1, 2032;
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6.750% Fixed
Series 2003C due October 1, 2038;
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5.400% Fixed
Series 2003D due October 1, 2029, remarketing date
October 1, 2014;
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5.000% Fixed
Series 2006 due March 1, 2041;
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Pollution Control Revenue
Bonds—Sabine River Authority of Texas:
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6.450% Fixed
Series 2000A due June 1, 2021;
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5.500% Fixed
Series 2001A due May 1, 2022, remarketing date
November 1, 2011;
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5.750% Fixed
Series 2001B due May 1, 2030, remarketing date
November 1, 2011;
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5.200% Fixed
Series 2001C due May 1, 2028;
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5.800% Fixed
Series 2003A due July 1, 2022;
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6.150% Fixed
Series 2003B due August 1, 2022
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Pollution Control Revenue
Bonds—Trinity River Authority of Texas:
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6.250% Fixed
Series 2000A due May 1, 2028;
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in each case to the extent
outstanding on the Closing Date.
“ Existing Notes
Indentures ” shall mean each of the indentures or other
documents containing the terms of the Existing Notes.
“ Existing Parent
Notes ” means
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Parent’s 5.550% Fixed Senior Notes Series P due
2014;
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Parent’s 6.500% Fixed Senior Notes Series Q due
2024;
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Parent’s 6.550% Fixed Senior Notes Series R due
2034;
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Parent’s Floating Convertible Senior Notes due
2033;
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Parent’s 6.375% Series C Senior Notes due
2008;
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Parent’s 4.800% Series O Senior Notes due
2009;
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in each case to the extent
outstanding on the Closing Date.
“ Existing
US Holdings Notes ” shall mean:
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US Holdings’ Floating Rate Junior Subordinated
Debentures, Series D due 2037;
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US Holdings’ 8.175% Fixed Junior Subordinated
Debentures, Series E due 2037;
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US Holdings’ 7.460% Fixed Secured Bonds with
amortizing payments to 2015;
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US Holdings’ 7.480% Fixed Secured Bonds;
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US Holdings’ 9.580% Fixed Notes due in semi-annual
installments to 2019;
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US Holdings’ 8.254% Fixed Notes due in quarterly
installments to 2021;
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in each case to the extent
outstanding on the Closing Date.
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“ Expenses Relating
to a Unit Outage ” shall mean any expenses or other
charges as a result of any outage or shut-down of any Unit,
including any expenses or charges relating to (a) restarting
any such Unit so that it may be placed back in service after such
outage or shut-down, (b) purchases of power, natural gas or
heat rate to meet commitments to sell, or offset a short position
in, power, natural gas or heat rate that would otherwise have been
met or offset from production generated by such Unit during the
period of such outage or shut-down, net of the expenses not in fact
incurred (including fuel and other operating expenses) that would
have been incurred absent such outage or shut down and
(c) starting up, operating, maintaining and shutting down any
other Unit that would not otherwise have been operating absent such
outage or shut-down, including the fuel and other operating
expenses to the extent in excess of the expenses not in fact
incurred (including fuel and other operating costs) that would have
been incurred absent such outage or shut down, incurred to
start-up, operate, maintain and shut-down such Unit and that are
required during the period of time that the shut-down or outaged
Unit is out of service in order to meet the commitments of such
shut-down or outaged Unit to sell, or offset a short position in,
power, natural gas or heat rate.
“ Federal Funds
Effective Rate ” shall mean, for any day, the weighted
average of the per annum rates on overnight federal funds
transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by
federal funds brokers on such day, as published on the next
succeeding Business Day by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York;
provided that (a) if such day is not a Business Day,
the Federal Funds Effective Rate for such day shall be such rate on
such transactions on the next preceding Business Day as so
published on the next succeeding Business Day, and (b) if no
such rate is so published on such next succeeding Business Day, the
Federal Funds Effective Rate for such day shall be the average rate
(rounded upward, if necessary, to a whole multiple of 1/100 of 1%)
charged to the Administrative Agent on such day on such
transactions as determined by the Administrative Agent.
“ Fee Letter
” shall mean the amended and restated fee letter, dated
July 20, 2007, and as amended pursuant to that certain Letter
Agreement dated October 10, 2007, among TCEH (as successor in
interest to Merger Sub) and Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Credit
Suisse Cayman Islands Branch, Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC,
Goldman Sachs Credit Partners L.P., JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., J.P.
Morgan Securities Inc., Lehman Commercial Paper Inc., Lehman
Brothers Commercial Bank and Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., Lehman
Brothers Inc. and Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.
“ Fees ”
shall mean all amounts payable pursuant to, or referred to in,
Section 4.1 .
“ Fixed Charge
Coverage Ratio ” shall mean, with respect to any Person
for any period, the ratio of EBITDA of such Person for such period
to the Fixed Charges of such Person for such period. In the event
that TCEH or any Restricted Subsidiary incurs, assumes, guarantees,
redeems, retires or extinguishes any Indebtedness (other than
Indebtedness incurred under any revolving credit facility unless
such Indebtedness has been permanently repaid and has not been
replaced) or issues or redeems Disqualified Stock or Preferred
Stock subsequent to the commencement of the period for which the
Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio is being calculated but prior to or
simultaneously with the event for which the calculation of the
Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio is made (the “ Fixed Charge
Coverage Ratio Calculation Date ”), then the Fixed Charge
Coverage Ratio shall be calculated giving pro forma effect
to such incurrence, assumption, guarantee, redemption, retirement
or extinguishment of Indebtedness, or such issuance or redemption
of Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock, as if the same had
occurred at the beginning of the applicable four-quarter
period.
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For purposes of making the
computation referred to above, Investments, acquisitions,
dispositions, mergers, consolidations and disposed operations (as
determined in accordance with GAAP) that have been made by TCEH or
any of its Restricted Subsidiaries during the four-quarter
reference period or subsequent to such reference period and on or
prior to or simultaneously with the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio
Calculation Date shall be calculated on a pro forma basis
assuming that all such Investments, acquisitions, dispositions,
mergers, consolidations and disposed operations (and the change in
any associated fixed charge obligations and the change in EBITDA
resulting therefrom) had occurred on the first day of the
four-quarter reference period. If, since the beginning of such
period, any Person that subsequently became a Restricted Subsidiary
or was merged with or into TCEH or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries since the beginning of such period shall have made any
Investment, acquisition, disposition, merger, consolidation or
disposed operation that would have required adjustment pursuant to
this definition, then the Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio shall be
calculated giving pro forma effect thereto for such period
as if such Investment, acquisition, disposition, merger,
consolidation or disposed operation had occurred at the beginning
of the applicable four-quarter period.
For purposes of this
definition, whenever pro forma effect is to be given to a
transaction, the pro forma calculations shall be made in
good faith by a responsible financial or accounting officer of
TCEH. If any Indebtedness bears a floating rate of interest and is
being given pro forma effect, the interest on such
Indebtedness shall be calculated as if the rate in effect on the
Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio Calculation Date had been the
applicable rate for the entire period (taking into account any
Hedging Obligations applicable to such Indebtedness). Interest on a
Capitalized Lease Obligation shall be deemed to accrue at an
interest rate reasonably determined by a responsible financial or
accounting officer of TCEH to be the rate of interest implicit in
such Capitalized Lease Obligation in accordance with GAAP. For
purposes of making the computation referred to above, interest on
any Indebtedness under a revolving credit facility computed on a
pro forma basis shall be computed based upon the average
daily balance of such Indebtedness during the applicable period
except as provided in the first paragraph of this definition.
Interest on Indebtedness that may optionally be determined at an
interest rate based upon a factor of a prime or similar rate, a
eurocurrency interbank offered rate or other rate shall be deemed
to have been based upon the rate actually chosen, or, if none, then
based upon such optional rate chosen as TCEH may
designate.
“ Fixed Charges
” shall mean, with respect to any Person for any period, the
sum of:
(1) Consolidated Interest
Expense of such Person for such period;
(2) all cash dividends or
other distributions paid (excluding items eliminated in
consolidation) on any series of Preferred Stock during such period;
and
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(3) all cash dividends or
other distributions paid (excluding items eliminated in
consolidation) on any series of Disqualified Stock during such
period.
“ Foreign Plan
” shall mean any employee benefit plan, program, policy,
arrangement or agreement maintained or contributed to by TCEH or
any of its Subsidiaries with respect to employees employed outside
the United States.
“ Foreign
Subsidiary ” shall mean, with respect to any Person, any
Restricted Subsidiary of such Person that is not organized or
existing under the laws of the United States, any state or
territory thereof or the District of Columbia and any Restricted
Subsidiary of such Foreign Subsidiary.
“ Fund ”
shall mean any Person (other than a natural person) that is (or
will be) engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise
investing in commercial loans and similar extensions of credit in
the ordinary course.
“ GAAP ”
shall mean generally accepted accounting principles in the United
States which are in effect on the Closing Date.
“ Government
Authority ” shall mean any nation or government, any
state, province, territory or other political subdivision thereof,
and any entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial,
regulatory or administrative functions of or pertaining to
government, including without limitation ERCOT.
“ Granting
Lender ” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 13.6(g) .
“ guarantee
” shall mean a guarantee (other than by endorsement of
negotiable instruments for collection in the ordinary course of
business), direct or indirect, in any manner (including letters of
credit and reimbursement agreements in respect thereof), of all or
any part of any Indebtedness or other obligations.
“ Guarantee
” shall mean (a) the Guarantee made by each Guarantor in
favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Guaranteed
Parties, substantially in the form of Exhibit B , and
(b) any other guarantee of the Obligations made by a
Restricted Subsidiary that is a Domestic Subsidiary in form and
substance reasonably acceptable to the Administrative
Agent.
“ Guaranteed
Parties ” shall mean the Administrative Agent, any other
Agent and each Lender, in each case, with respect to the
Obligations or any Guarantee, and each sub-agent appointed by the
Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 12 with
respect to matters relating to the Obligations.
“ Guarantor
” shall mean US Holdings and each other Restricted
Subsidiary that provides a Guarantee hereunder pursuant to
Section 9.13 or otherwise.
“ Hazardous
Materials ” shall mean (a) any petroleum or
petroleum products, radioactive materials, friable asbestos, urea
formaldehyde foam insulation, transformers or other equipment that
contain dielectric fluid containing regulated levels of
polychlorinated biphenyls and radon gas; (b) any chemicals,
materials or substances defined as or included in the
definition
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of “hazardous substances,”
“toxic substances,” “toxic pollutants,”
“contaminants,” or “pollutants” or words of
similar import, under any applicable Environmental Law; and
(c) any other chemical, material or substance, which is
prohibited, limited or regulated by any Environmental
Law.
“ Hedging
Obligations ” shall mean with respect to any Person, the
obligations of such Person under (a) 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, (b) any and
all transactions of any kind, and the 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 (any such master
agreement, together with any related schedules, a “Master
Agreement”), including any such obligations or liabilities
under any Master Agreement and (c) physical or financial
commodity contracts or agreements, power purchase or sale
agreements, fuel purchase or sale agreements, environmental credit
purchase or sale agreements, power transmission agreements,
commodity transportation agreements, fuel storage agreements,
netting agreements (including Netting Agreements), capacity
agreements and commercial or trading agreements, each with respect
to the purchase, sale, exchange of (or the option to purchase, sell
or exchange), transmission, transportation, storage, distribution,
processing, sale, lease or hedge of, any Covered Commodity price or
price indices for any such Covered Commodity or services or any
other similar derivative agreements, and any other similar
agreements.
“ Historical
Financial Statements ” shall mean, as of the Closing
Date, (a) the audited consolidated balance sheets of TCEH as
of December 31, 2004, December 31, 2005 and
December 31, 2006 and the audited consolidated statements of
income, stockholders’ equity and cash flows of TCEH for each
of the fiscal years in the three year period ending on
December 31, 2006 and (b) the unaudited consolidated
balance sheets of TCEH for each subsequent fiscal quarter ended at
least 45 days before the Closing Date and the unaudited
consolidated statements of income, stockholders’ equity and
cash flows of TCEH for each such fiscal quarter.
“ Holdings
” shall mean Texas Energy Future Holdings Limited
Partnership, a Delaware limited partnership and its
successors.
“ Incremental
Deposit L/C Loans ” shall mean Incremental Deposit L/C
Loans under the TCEH Senior Secured Facilities.
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“ Indebtedness
” shall mean, with respect to any Person, without
duplication:
(1) any indebtedness
(including principal and premium) of such Person, whether or not
contingent:
(a) in respect of borrowed
money;
(b) evidenced by bonds,
notes, debentures or similar instruments or letters of credit or
bankers’ acceptances (or, without duplication, reimbursement
agreements in respect thereof);
(c) representing the balance
deferred and unpaid of the purchase price of any property
(including Capitalized Lease Obligations), except (i) any such
balance that constitutes a trade payable or similar obligation to a
trade creditor, in each case accrued in the ordinary course of
business and (ii) any earn-out obligations until such
obligation becomes a liability on the balance sheet of such Person
in accordance with GAAP; or
(d) representing any Hedging
Obligations;
if and to the extent that any
of the foregoing Indebtedness (other than letters of credit and
Hedging Obligations) would appear as a liability upon a balance
sheet (excluding the footnotes thereto) of such Person prepared in
accordance with GAAP;
(2) to the extent not
otherwise included, any obligation by such Person to be liable for,
or to pay, as obligor, guarantor or otherwise on, the obligations
of the type referred to in clause (1) of a third Person
(whether or not such items would appear upon the balance sheet of
the such obligor or guarantor), other than by endorsement of
negotiable instruments for collection in the ordinary course of
business; and
(3) to the extent not
otherwise included, the obligations of the type referred to in
clause (1) of a third Person secured by a Lien on any asset
owned by such first Person, whether or not such Indebtedness is
assumed by such first Person; provided that the amount of
Indebtedness of such first Person for purposes of this
clause (3) shall be deemed to be equal to the lesser of
(i) the aggregate unpaid amount of such Indebtedness and
(ii) the fair market value of the property encumbered thereby
as determined by such first Person in good faith;
provided ,
however , that notwithstanding the foregoing, Indebtedness
shall be deemed not to include (a) Contingent Obligations
incurred in the ordinary course of business or (b) obligations
under or in respect of Receivables Facilities or (c) amounts
payable by TCEH and any Restricted Subsidiary in connection with
retail clawback or other regulatory transition issues.
“ indemnified
liabilities ” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 13.5 .
“ Indemnified
Taxes ” shall mean all Taxes (including Other Taxes)
other than (i) Excluded Taxes and (ii) any interest,
penalties or expenses caused by an Agent’s or Lender’s
gross negligence or willful misconduct.
“ Independent
Financial Advisor ” shall mean an accounting, appraisal,
investment banking firm or consultant to Persons engaged in Similar
Businesses of nationally recognized standing that is, in the good
faith judgment of TCEH, qualified to perform the task for which it
has been engaged.
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“ Initial
Investors ” shall have the meaning provided in the
recitals to this Agreement.
“ Intercompany
Loan ” means a senior, unsubordinated loan by TCEH or any
of its Restricted Subsidiaries to the Parent, with an interest rate
commensurate with an arm’s length relationship, guaranteed by
any Subsidiary of the Parent that has guaranteed any Indebtedness
of the Parent and (if outstanding at the time any such proceeds are
received) requiring repayment with up to $1,250,000,000 of proceeds
received by the Parent or any of its Subsidiaries (other than the
Oncor Subsidiaries) from the sale of Equity Interests in,
Indebtedness of, or all or substantially all of the assets (in one
transaction or a series of related transactions) the Oncor
Subsidiaries or any direct or indirect parent of the Oncor
Subsidiaries.
“ Interest Election
Notice ” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 2.8(c) .
“ Interest
Period ” shall mean, with respect to any Loan, the
interest period applicable thereto, as determined pursuant to
Section 2.9 .
“ Interim Loan
Conversion Date ” shall mean October 10, 2008 or, if
such date is not a Business Day, the next succeeding Business
Day.
“ Investment Grade
Rating ” shall mean a rating equal to or higher than Baa3
(or the equivalent) by Moody’s and BBB- (or the equivalent)
by S&P, or an equivalent rating by any other Rating
Agency.
“ Investment Grade
Securities ” shall mean:
(1) securities issued or
directly and fully guaranteed or insured by the United States
government or any agency or instrumentality thereof (other than
Cash Equivalents);
(2) debt securities or debt
instruments with an Investment Grade Rating, but excluding any debt
securities or instruments constituting loans or advances among TCEH
(or any of its direct or indirect parent companies) and its (or
their) Subsidiaries;
(3) investments in any fund
that invests exclusively in investments of the type described in
clauses (1) and (2) which fund may also hold immaterial
amounts of cash pending investment or distribution; and
(4) corresponding instruments
in countries other than the United States customarily utilized for
high quality investments.
“ Investments
” shall mean, with respect to any Person, all investments by
such Person in other Persons (including Affiliates) in the form of
loans (including guarantees), advances or capital contributions
(excluding accounts receivable, trade credit, advances to
customers, commissions, travel and similar advances to officers and
employees, in each case made in the ordinary course of business),
purchases or other acquisitions for consideration of
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Indebtedness, Equity Interests or other
securities issued by any other Person and investments that are
required by GAAP to be classified on the balance sheet (excluding
the footnotes) of TCEH in the same manner as the other investments
included in this definition to the extent such transactions involve
the transfer of cash or other property. For purposes of the
definition of “ Unrestricted Subsidiary ” and
Section 9.5 hereof:
(1) “
Investments ” shall include the portion (proportionate
to TCEH’s equity interest in such Subsidiary) of the fair
market value of the net assets of a Subsidiary of TCEH at the time
that such Subsidiary is designated an Unrestricted Subsidiary;
provided , however , that upon a redesignation of
such Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary, TCEH shall be deemed to
continue to have a permanent “ Investment ” in
an Unrestricted Subsidiary in an amount (if positive) equal
to:
(a) TCEH’s “
Investment ” in such Subsidiary at the time of such
redesignation; less
(b) the portion
(proportionate to TCEH’s equity interest in such Subsidiary)
of the fair market value of the net assets of such Subsidiary at
the time of such redesignation; and
(2) any property transferred
to or from an Unrestricted Subsidiary shall be valued at its fair
market value at the time of such transfer, in each case as
determined in good faith by TCEH.
“ Joint Lead
Arrangers and Bookrunners ” shall mean Goldman Sachs
Credit Partners L.P., Morgan Stanley Senior Funding, Inc.,
Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC,
J.P. Morgan Securities Inc. and Lehman Brothers Inc.
“ KKR ”
shall mean each of Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co., L.P. and
KKR Associates, L.P.
“ Lender ”
and “ Lenders ” shall have the meanings provided
in the preamble to this Agreement.
“ Lender Default
” shall mean (a) the failure (which has not been cured)
of a Lender to make available its portion of any Borrowing that it
is required to make hereunder or (b) a Lender having notified
the Administrative Agent and/or the Borrower that it does not
intend to comply with the obligations under
Section 2.1(a) , or (c) a Lender being deemed
insolvent or becoming the subject of a bankruptcy or insolvency
proceeding.
“ LIBOR Loan
” shall mean any Loan bearing interest at a rate determined
by reference to the LIBOR Rate.
“ LIBOR Rate
” shall mean, for any Interest Period with respect to a LIBOR
Loan, the rate per annum equal to the British Bankers
Association LIBOR Rate (“ BBA LIBOR ”), as
published by Reuters (or other commercially available source
providing quotations of BBA LIBOR as designated by the
Administrative Agent from time to time) at approximately
11:00 a.m., London time, two Business Days prior to the
commencement of such Interest Period, for deposits in Dollars (for
delivery on the first day of such Interest Period) with a
term
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equivalent to such Interest Period. If
such rate is not available at such time for any reason, then the
“LIBOR Rate” for such Interest Period shall be the rate
per annum as may be agreed by the Borrower and the
Administrative Agent to be a rate at which deposits in Dollars for
delivery on the first day of such Interest Period in same day funds
in the approximate amount of the LIBOR Loan being made, continued
or converted by the Administrative Agent and with a term equivalent
to such Interest Period would be offered by the Administrative
Agent’s London Branch to major banks in the applicable London
interbank eurocurrency market at their request at approximately
11:00 a.m. (London time) two Business Days prior to the
commencement of such Interest Period.
“ Lien ”
shall mean, with respect to any asset, any mortgage, lien
(statutory or otherwise), pledge, hypothecation, charge, security
interest, preference, priority or encumbrance of any kind in
respect of such asset, whether or not filed, recorded or otherwise
perfected under Applicable Laws, including any conditional sale or
other title retention agreement, any lease in the nature thereof,
any option or other agreement to sell or give a security interest
in and any filing of or agreement to give any financing statement
under the Uniform Commercial Code (or equivalent statutes) of any
jurisdiction; provided that in no event shall an operating
lease be deemed to constitute a Lien.
“ Loan ”
shall mean any Senior Interim Loan or Senior Term Loan made by any
Lender hereunder and any Loan made as a result of the accrual of
PIK Interest.
“ Loan Documents
” shall mean this Agreement, the Guarantee and any promissory
notes issued by the Borrower hereunder.
“ Loan Parties
” shall mean TCEH, TCEH Finance, US Holdings and each
other Guarantor.
“ Master
Agreement ” shall have the meaning provided in the
definition of the term “Hedging
Obligations”.
“ Material Adverse
Effect ” shall mean any circumstances or conditions
affecting the business, assets, operations, properties or financial
condition of TCEH and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, that
would, individually or in the aggregate, materially adversely
affect (a) the ability of the Borrower and the other Loan
Parties, taken as a whole, to perform their payment obligations
under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents or
(b) the rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent and
the Lenders under this Agreement or any of the other Loan
Documents.
“ Material
Subsidiary ” shall mean, at any date of determination,
each Restricted Subsidiary of TCEH (a) whose total assets
(when combined with the assets of such Restricted
Subsidiary’s Subsidiaries, after eliminating intercompany
obligations) at the last day of the most recent Test Period for
which Section 9.1 Financials have been delivered were equal to
or greater than 2.5% of the Consolidated Total Assets of TCEH and
the Restricted Subsidiaries at such date or (b) whose total
revenues (when combined with the revenues of such Restricted
Subsidiary’s Subsidiaries after eliminating intercompany
obligations) during such Test Period were equal to or greater than
2.5% of the consolidated revenues of TCEH and the Restricted
Subsidiaries for
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such period, in each case determined in
accordance with GAAP; provided that if, at any time and from
time to time after the Closing Date, Restricted Subsidiaries that
are not Material Subsidiaries have, in the aggregate,
(x) total assets (when combined with the assets of such
Restricted Subsidiary’s Subsidiaries, after eliminating
intercompany obligations) at the last day of such Test Period equal
to or greater than 10.0% of the Consolidated Total Assets of TCEH
and the Restricted Subsidiaries at such date or (y) total
revenues (when combined with the revenues of such Restricted
Subsidiary’s Subsidiaries, after eliminating intercompany
obligations) during such Test Period equal to or greater than 10.0%
of the consolidated revenues of TCEH and the Restricted
Subsidiaries for such period, in each case determined in accordance
with GAAP, then TCEH shall, on the date on which financial
statements for such quarter are delivered pursuant to this
Agreement, designate in writing to the Administrative Agent one or
more of such Restricted Subsidiaries as “ Material
Subsidiaries ” so that such condition no longer exists.
It is agreed and understood that no Receivables Subsidiary shall be
a Material Subsidiary.
“ Maturity Date
” shall mean (a) if the Loans have not been converted to
Senior Term Loans, October 10, 2008 or, if such date is not a
Business Day, the next succeeding Business Day, or (b) if the
Loans have been converted to Senior Term Loans,
(i) October 10, 2015 in respect of Senior Cash Pay Loans
(the “ Cash Pay Loan Maturity Date ”),
(ii) October 10, 2016 in respect of Senior Toggle Loans
(the “ Toggle Loan Maturity Date ”) or, if
either date referred to in this clause (b) is not a Business
Day, the next succeeding Business Day (collectively, the Cash Pay
Loan Maturity Date and the Toggle Loan Maturity Date, the “
Term Loan Maturity Date ”).
“ Merger ”
shall have the meaning provided in the recitals to this
Agreement.
“ Merger Funds
” shall have the meaning provided in the recitals to this
Agreement.
“ Merger Sub
” shall mean Texas Energy Future Merger Sub Corp., a Texas
corporation.
“ Minimum Equity
Amount ” shall have the meaning provided in the recitals
to this Agreement.
“ Moody’s
” shall mean Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. and any
successor to its rating agency business.
“ Multiemployer
Plan ” shall mean a plan that is a multiemployer plan as
defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA (i) to which any
of TCEH, any Subsidiary of TCEH or any ERISA Affiliate is then
making or has an obligation to make contributions or (ii) with
respect to which TCEH, any Subsidiary of TCEH or any ERISA
Affiliate could incur liability pursuant to Title IV of
ERISA.
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“ Necessary CapEx
Debt ” means Indebtedness of TCEH or any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries incurred for the purpose of financing
Necessary Capital Expenditures.
“ Necessary Capital
Expenditures ” means capital expenditures by TCEH and its
Restricted Subsidiaries that are required by applicable law (other
than Environmental Law) or otherwise undertaken voluntarily for
health and safety reasons (other than as required by Environmental
Law). The term “ Necessary Capital Expenditures
” does not include any capital expenditure undertaken
primarily to increase the efficiency of, expand or re-power any
power generation facility.
“ Net Asset Sale
Proceeds ” shall mean the aggregate cash proceeds
received by TCEH or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in respect
of any Asset Sale (including a Casualty Event), including any cash
received upon the sale or other disposition of any Designated
Non-Cash Consideration received in any Asset Sale (including a
Casualty Event), net of the direct costs relating to such Asset
Sale (including a Casualty Event) and the sale or disposition of
such Designated Non-Cash Consideration, including legal, accounting
and investment banking fees, and brokerage and sales commissions,
any relocation expenses incurred as a result thereof, taxes paid or
payable as a result thereof (after taking into account any
available tax credits or deductions and any tax sharing
arrangements), amounts required to be applied to the repayment of
principal, premium, if any, and interest on Senior Indebtedness
required (other than required by clause (1) of
Section 9.8(b) hereof) to be paid as a result of such
transaction and any deduction of appropriate amounts to be provided
by TCEH or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries as a reserve in
accordance with GAAP against any liabilities associated with the
asset disposed of in such transaction and retained by TCEH or any
of its Restricted Subsidiaries after such sale or other disposition
thereof, including pension and other post-employment benefit
liabilities and liabilities related to environmental matters or
against any indemnification obligations associated with such
transaction.
“ Net Cash
Proceeds ” shall mean, with respect to any Debt
Incurrence Prepayment Event, (a) the gross cash proceeds
(including payments from time to time in respect of installment
obligations, if applicable) received by or on behalf of TCEH or any
of the Restricted Subsidiaries in respect of such Debt Incurrence
Prepayment Event, as the case may be, less (b) the sum
of:
(i) the amount, if any, of
all taxes paid or estimated to be payable by TCEH or any of the
Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with such Debt Incurrence
Prepayment Event, and
(ii) reasonable and customary
fees paid by TCEH or a Restricted Subsidiary in connection with the
foregoing,
in each case only to the
extent not already deducted in arriving at the amount referred to
in clause (a) above.
“ Net Income
” shall mean, with respect to any Person, the net income
(loss) of such Person, determined in accordance with GAAP and
before any reduction in respect of Preferred Stock
dividends.
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“ Netting
Agreement ” shall mean a netting agreement, master
netting agreement or other similar document having the same effect
as a netting agreement or master netting agreement and, as
applicable, any collateral annex, security agreement or other
similar document related to any master netting agreement or
Permitted Contract.
“ Non-Consenting
Lender ” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 13.7(b) .
“ Non-Defaulting
Lender ” shall mean and include each Lender other than a
Defaulting Lender.
“ Non-U.S.
Lender ” shall mean any Agent or Lender that is not, for
United States federal income tax purposes, (a) an individual
who is a citizen or resident of the United States, (b) a
corporation, partnership or entity treated as a corporation or
partnership created or organized in or under the laws of the United
States, or any political subdivision thereof, (c) an estate
whose income is subject to U.S. federal income taxation regardless
of its source or (d) a trust if a court within the United
States is able to exercise primary supervision over the
administration of such trust and one or more United States persons
have the authority to control all substantial decisions of such
trust or a trust that has a valid election in effect under
applicable U.S. Treasury regulations to be treated as a United
States person.
“ Notice of
Borrowing ” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 2.3(a) .
“ Notice of
Conversion or Continuation ” shall have the meaning
provided in Section 2.6 .
“ Obligations
” shall mean any principal, interest (including any interest
accruing subsequent to the filing of a petition in bankruptcy,
reorganization or similar proceeding at the rate provided for in
the documentation with respect thereto, whether or not such
interest is an allowed claim under applicable state, federal or
foreign law), premium, penalties, fees, indemnifications,
reimbursements (including reimbursement obligations with respect to
letters of credit and bankers’ acceptances), damages and
other liabilities, and guarantees of payment of such principal,
interest, penalties, fees, indemnifications, reimbursements,
damages and other liabilities, payable under the documentation
governing any Indebtedness.
“ Officer’s
Certificate ” shall mean a certificate signed on behalf
of TCEH by an Authorized Officer of TCEH, who must be the principal
executive officer, the principal financial officer, the treasurer
or the principal accounting officer of TCEH that meets the
requirements provided in this Agreement.
“ Oncor ”
shall mean Oncor Electric Delivery Company LLC, a Delaware limited
liability company.
“ Oncor Electric
Delivery Facility ” shall mean the revolving credit
agreement to be entered into as of the Closing Date by and among
Oncor, as borrower, the lenders party thereto in their capacities
as lenders thereunder and JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., as
Administrative Agent, including any guarantees, collateral
documents, instruments and agreements executed in connection
therewith, and any amendments, supplements, modifications,
extensions, renewals, restatements, refundings or refinancings
thereof and any indentures or credit facilities or commercial paper
facilities with banks or other institutional lenders or investors
that replace, refund or refinance any part of the loans, notes,
other credit facilities or commitments thereunder, including any
such replacement, refunding or refinancing facility or indenture
that increases the amount borrowable thereunder or alters the
maturity thereof.
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“ Oncor Holdings
” shall mean Oncor Electric Delivery Holdings Company LLC, a
Delaware limited liability company.
“ Oncor
Subsidiaries ” shall mean the Subsidiaries of Energy
Future Holding Company, including Oncor Holdings and its
Subsidiaries.
“ Opinion of
Counsel ” shall mean a written opinion from legal counsel
who is acceptable to the Administrative Agent. The counsel may be
an employee of or counsel to the Borrower or the Administrative
Agent.
“ Optional Interest
Repayment ” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 5.1(b) .
“ Optional Interest
Repayment Amount ” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 5.1(b) .
“ Organizational
Documents ” shall mean, (a) with respect to any
corporation, the certificate or articles of incorporation and the
bylaws (or equivalent or comparable constitutive documents with
respect to any non-U.S. jurisdiction); (b) with respect to any
limited liability company, the certificate or articles of formation
or organization and operating agreement; and (c) with respect
to any partnership, joint venture, trust or other form of business
entity, the partnership, joint venture or other applicable
agreement of formation or organization and, if applicable, any
agreement, instrument, filing or notice with respect thereto filed
in connection with its formation or organization with the
applicable Government Authority in the jurisdiction of its
formation or organization and, if applicable, any certificate or
articles of formation or organization of such entity.
“ Other Taxes
” shall mean any and all present or future stamp,
registration, documentary or any other excise, property or similar
taxes (including interest, fines, penalties, additions to tax and
related expenses with regard thereto) arising from any payment made
or required to be made under this Agreement or any other Loan
Document or from the execution or delivery of, registration or
enforcement of, consummation or administration of, or otherwise
with respect to, this Agreement or any other Loan
Document.
“ Overnight Rate
” shall mean, for any day, the greater of (i) the
Federal Funds Effective Rate and (ii) an overnight rate
determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking
industry rules on interbank compensation.
“ Parent ”
shall have the meaning provided in the recitals to this
Agreement.
“ Parent PIK
Notes ” shall have the meaning assigned to the term
“PIK Notes” in the senior refinancing indenture in
respect of the Parent Senior Notes.
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“ Parent Senior Cash
Pay Notes ” shall mean senior notes due 2017, to be
issued by the Parent in connection with the refinancing of the
Parent Senior Interim Cash Pay Loans or the exchange of the
Parent’s senior cash pay term loans under the senior
refinancing indenture referred to in the Parent Senior Unsecured
Interim Loan Agreement, in an aggregate principal amount of up to
$2,000,000,000 (less the amount of any Parent Senior Interim Cash
Pay Loans and senior cash pay term loans of the Parent under the
Parent Senior Unsecured Interim Loan Agreement that remain
outstanding after the issuance of the Parent Senior Cash Pay
Notes), together with interest, fees and all other amounts payable
in connection therewith.
“ Parent Senior
Interim Cash Pay Loans ” shall have the meaning provided
in the recitals to this Agreement.
“ Parent Senior
Interim Facilities ” means the Parent Senior Unsecured
Interim Loan Agreement, including any guarantees, instruments and
agreements executed in connection therewith, and any amendments,
supplements, modifications or restatements thereof.
“ Parent Senior
Interim Loans ” shall mean the Parent Senior Interim
Loans defined in the recitals to this Agreement.
“ Parent Senior
Interim Toggle Loans ” shall have the meaning provided in
the recitals to this Agreement.
“ Parent Senior
Notes ” shall mean the Parent Senior Cash Pay Notes and
the Parent Senior Toggle Notes.
“ Parent Senior
Toggle Notes ” shall mean senior toggle notes due 2017,
to be issued by the Parent in connection with the refinancing of
the Parent Senior Interim Toggle Loans or the exchange of the
Parent’s senior toggle term loans under the senior
refinancing indenture referred to in the Parent Senior Unsecured
Interim Loan Agreement, in an aggregate principal amount of up to
$2,500,000,000 (less the amount of any Parent Senior Interim Toggle
Loans and Parent Senior Toggle Term Loans that remain outstanding
after the issuance of the Parent Senior Toggle Notes), together
with interest (including any PIK Interest), fees and all other
amounts payable in connection therewith.
“ Parent Senior
Unsecured Interim Loan Agreement ” shall have the meaning
provided in the recitals to this Agreement.
“ Participant
” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 13.6(c) .
“ Participant
Register ” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 13.6(c)(iii) .
“ Patriot Act
” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 13.18 .
“ Pension Act
” shall mean the Pension Protection Act of 2006, as it
presently exists or as it may be amended from time to
time.
“ Permitted Asset
Swap ” shall mean the concurrent purchase and sale or
exchange of Related Business Assets or a combination of Related
Business Assets and cash or Cash Equivalents between TCEH or any of
its Restricted Subsidiaries and another Person; provided ,
that any cash or Cash Equivalents received must be applied in
accordance with Section 9.8 hereof.
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“ Permitted
Holders ” shall mean each of the Sponsors, members of
management (including directors) of the Parent or its Subsidiaries
who on the Closing Date are (or will be at any time prior to the
first anniversary of the Closing Date) holders of Equity Interests
of TCEH (or any of its direct or indirect parent companies) and any
group (within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) or
Section 14(d)(2) of the Exchange Act or any successor
provision) of which any of the foregoing are members;
provided that, in the case of such group and without giving
effect to the existence of such group or any other group, such
Sponsors and members of management, collectively, have beneficial
ownership of more than 50% of the total voting power of the Voting
Stock of TCEH or any of its direct or indirect parent
companies.
“ Permitted
Investments ” shall mean:
(1) any Investment in TCEH or
any of its Restricted Subsidiaries;
(2) any Investment in cash
and Cash Equivalents or Investment Grade Securities;
(3) any Investment by TCEH or
any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in a Person that is engaged in a
Similar Business if as a result of such Investment:
(a) such Person becomes a
Restricted Subsidiary; or
(b) such Person, in one
transaction or a series of related transactions, is merged or
consolidated with or into, or transfers or conveys substantially
all of its assets to, or is liquidated into, TCEH or a Restricted
Subsidiary,
and, in each case, any
Investment held by such Person; provided that such
Investment was not acquired by such Person in contemplation of such
acquisition, merger, consolidation or transfer;
(4) any Investment in
securities or other assets not constituting cash, Cash Equivalents
or Investment Grade Securities and received in connection with an
Asset Sale made pursuant to Section 9.8 or any other
disposition of assets not constituting an Asset Sale;
(5) any Investment existing
on the Closing Date;
(6) any Investment acquired
by TCEH or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries:
(a) in exchange for any other
Investment or accounts receivable held by TCEH or any such
Restricted Subsidiary in connection with or as a result of a
bankruptcy, workout, reorganization or recapitalization of the
issuer of such other Investment or accounts receivable;
or
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(b) as a result of a
foreclosure by TCEH or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries with
respect to any secured Investment or other transfer of title with
respect to any secured Investment in default;
(7) Hedging Obligations
permitted under clause (10) of
Section 9.7(b) ;
(8) any Investment in a
Similar Business having an aggregate fair market value, taken
together with all other Investments made pursuant to this
clause (8) that are at that time outstanding, not to exceed
(x) prior to the Interim Loan Conversion Date, $750,000,000
and (y) thereafter, 3.5% of Total Assets at the time of such
Investment (in each case, with the fair market value of each
Investment being measured at the time made and without giving
effect to subsequent changes in value);
(9) Investments the payment
for which consists of Equity Interests (exclusive of Disqualified
Stock) of TCEH or any of its direct or indirect parent companies;
provided , however , that such Equity Interests will
not increase the amount available for Restricted Payments under
clause (3) of Section 9.5(a) ;
(10) guarantees of
Indebtedness of TCEH or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries
permitted under Section 9.7 ;
(11) any transaction to the
extent it constitutes an Investment that is permitted and made in
accordance with the provisions of Section 9.9(b)
(except transactions described in clauses (2) ,
(5) and (9) of
Section 9.9(b)) ;
(12) Investments consisting
of purchases and acquisitions of inventory, fuel (including all
forms of nuclear fuel), supplies, material or equipment;
(13) additional Investments
having an aggregate fair market value, taken together with all
other Investments made pursuant to this clause (13) that are
at that time outstanding (without giving effect to the sale of an
Investment to the extent the proceeds of such sale do not consist
of cash or marketable securities), not to exceed (x) prior to
the Interim Loan Conversion date, $750,000,000 and
(y) thereafter, 3.5% of Total Assets at the time of such
Investment (in each case, with the fair market value of each
Investment being measured at the time made and without giving
effect to subsequent changes in value);
(14) Investments relating to
a Receivables Subsidiary that, in the good faith determination of
TCEH, is necessary or advisable to effect any Receivables Facility
for the benefit of TCEH or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries;
(15) advances to, or
guarantees of Indebtedness of, employees not in excess of
$25,000,000 outstanding at any one time, in the
aggregate;
(16) loans and advances to
officers, directors and employees for business-related travel
expenses, moving expenses and other similar expenses, in each case
incurred in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past
practices or to fund such Person’s purchase of Equity
Interests of TCEH or any direct or indirect parent company
thereof;
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(17) any Investment in any
Subsidiary or any joint venture in connection with intercompany
cash management arrangements or related activities arising in the
ordinary course of business;
(18) any loans, letters of
credit issued on behalf of the Parent or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries under the Parent Senior Interim Facilities and any
refinancings thereof for working capital purposes, in each case
made in the ordinary course of business and consistent with past
practices;
(19) any Investment in Shell
Wind in an aggregate amount not to exceed (x) prior to the
Interim Loan Conversion Date, $250,000,000 and (y) thereafter,
$1,500,000,000; and
(20) one or more letters of
credit in an aggregate amount not to exceed $170,000,000 posted by
a Restricted Subsidiary in favor of an Oncor Subsidiary to secure
that Restricted Subsidiary’s contractual obligations to that
Subsidiary.
“ Permitted
Liens ” shall mean, with respect to any
Person:
(1) pledges or deposits by
such Person under workmen’s compensation laws, unemployment
insurance laws or similar legislation, or good faith deposits in
connection with bids, tenders, contracts (other than for the
payment of Indebtedness) or leases to which such Person is a party,
or deposits to secure public or statutory obligations of such
Person or deposits of cash or U.S. government bonds to secure
surety or appeal bonds to which such Person is a party, or deposits
as security for contested taxes or import duties or for the payment
of rent, in each case incurred in the ordinary course of business
(including in connection with the construction or restoration of
facilities for the generation, transmission or distribution of
electricity) or otherwise constituting Permitted
Investments;
(2) Liens imposed by law,
such as carriers’, warehousemen’s and mechanics’
Liens, in each case for sums not yet overdue for a period of more
than 30 days or being contested in good faith by appropriate
proceedings or other Liens arising out of judgments or awards
against such Person with respect to which such Person shall then be
proceeding with an appeal or other proceedings for review if
adequate reserves with respect thereto are maintained on the books
of such Person in accordance with GAAP;
(3) Liens for taxes,
assessments or other governmental charges not yet overdue for a
period of more than 30 days or payable or subject to penalties
for nonpayment or which are being contested in good faith by
appropriate proceedings diligently conducted, if adequate reserves
with respect thereto are maintained on the books of such Person in
accordance with GAAP;
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(4) Liens in favor of issuers
of performance and surety bonds or bid bonds or with respect to
other regulatory requirements or letters of credit issued pursuant
to the request of and for the account of such Person in the
ordinary course of its business;
(5) minor survey or title
exceptions or irregularities, minor encumbrances, easements or
reservations of, or rights of others for, licenses, permits,
conditions, covenants, rights-of-way, sewers, electric lines,
telegraph and telephone lines and other similar purposes, or zoning
or other restrictions as to the use of real properties or Liens
incidental to the conduct of the business of such Person or to the
ownership of its properties which were not incurred in connection
with Indebtedness and which do not in the aggregate materially
adversely affect the value of said properties or materially impair
their use in the operation of the business of such
Person;
(6) Liens securing
Indebtedness permitted to be incurred pursuant to
clause (4) , (12) or (13) of
Section 9.7(b) hereof; provided that
(a) Liens securing Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or
Preferred Stock permitted to be incurred pursuant to
clause (13) relate only to Refinancing Indebtedness
that serves to refund or refinance Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock
or Preferred Stock incurred under clause (4) or
(12) of Section 9.7(b) hereof, and
(b) Liens securing Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or
Preferred Stock permitted to be incurred pursuant to
clause (4) of Section 9.7(b) hereof extend
only to the assets so financed, purchased, constructed or
improved;
(7) Liens existing on the
Closing Date (other than Liens in favor of the lenders under the
TCEH Senior Secured Facilities);
(8) Liens on property or
shares of stock of a Person at the time such Person becomes a
Subsidiary; provided , however , such Liens are not
created or incurred in connection with, or in contemplation of,
such other Person becoming such a Subsidiary; provided ,
further , however , that such Liens may not extend to
any other property owned by TCEH or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries;
(9) Liens on property at the
time TCEH or a Restricted Subsidiary acquired the property,
including any acquisition by means of a merger or consolidation
with or into TCEH or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries;
provided , however , that such Liens are not created
or incurred in connection with, or in contemplation of, such
acquisition; provided , further , however ,
that the Liens may not extend to any other property owned by TCEH
or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries;
(10) Liens securing
Indebtedness or other obligations of a Restricted Subsidiary owing
to TCEH or another Restricted Subsidiary permitted to be incurred
in accordance with Section 9.7 hereof;
(11) Liens securing Hedging
Obligations, of TCEH or its Restricted Subsidiaries incurred under
clause (10) of Section 9.7(b) hereof,
provided that such agreements were entered into in the
ordinary course of business and not for speculative purposes (as
determined by TCEH in its reasonable discretion (acting in good
faith) and, in the case of any commodity Hedging Obligations or any
Hedging Obligation of the type described in clause (c)
of the definition of “Hedging Obligation,”
entered into in order to hedge against or manage fluctuations in
the price or availability of any Covered Commodity);
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(12) Liens on specific items
of inventory or other goods and proceeds of any Person securing
such Person’s obligations in respect of bankers’
acceptances issued or created for the account of such Person to
facilitate the purchase, shipment or storage of such inventory or
other goods;
(13) leases, subleases,
licenses or sublicenses granted to others in the ordinary course of
business which do not materially interfere with the ordinary
conduct of the business of TCEH or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries;
(14) Liens arising from
Uniform Commercial Code financing statement filings regarding
operating leases entered into by TCEH and its Restricted
Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business;
(15) Liens in favor of TCEH
or any Restricted Subsidiary that is a Guarantor;
(16) [ Reserved
] ;
(17) Liens on accounts
receivable, other Receivables Facility assets, or accounts into
which collections or proceeds of Receivables Facility assets are
deposited, in each case in connection with a Receivables Facility
for the benefit of TCEH or its Restricted Subsidiaries;
(18) Liens to secure any
refinancing, refunding, extension, renewal or replacement (or
successive refinancing, refunding, extensions, renewals or
replacements) as a whole, or in part, of any Indebtedness secured
by any Lien referred to in the foregoing clauses (6), (7),
(8) and (9); provided , however, that
(a) such new Lien shall be limited to all or part of the same
property that secured the original Lien (plus improvements on such
property), and (b) the Indebtedness secured by such Lien at
such time is not increased to any amount greater than the sum of
(i) the outstanding principal amount or, if greater, committed
amount of the Indebtedness described under clauses (6), (7),
(8), and (9) at the time the original Lien became a Permitted
Lien under this Agreement, and (ii) an amount necessary to pay
any fees and expenses, including premiums, related to such
refinancing, refunding, extension, renewal or
replacement;
(19) deposits made in the
ordinary course of business to secure liability to insurance
carriers;
(20) other Liens securing
obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business which
obligations do not exceed $100,000,000 at any one time
outstanding;
(21) Liens securing judgments
for the payment of money not constituting an Event of Default under
clause (f) of Section 11.1 hereof so long
as such Liens are adequately bonded and any appropriate legal
proceedings that may have been duly initiated for the review of
such judgment have not been finally terminated or the period within
which such proceedings may be initiated has not expired;
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(22) Liens in favor of
customs and revenue authorities arising as a matter of law to
secure payment of customs duties in connection with the importation
of goods in the ordinary course of business;
(23) Liens (i) of a
collection bank arising under Section 4-210 of the Uniform
Commercial Code, or any comparable or successor provision, on items
in the course of collection, and (ii) in favor of banking
institutions arising as a matter of law encumbering deposits
(including the right of set-off) and which are within the general
parameters customary in the banking industry;
(24) Liens deemed to exist in
connection with Investments in repurchase agreements permitted
under Section 9.7 hereof; provided that such
Liens do not extend to any assets other than those that are the
subject of such repurchase agreements;
(25) ground leases or
subleases, licenses or sublicenses in respect of real property on
which facilities owned or leased by TCEH or any of its Subsidiaries
are located;
(26) Liens that are
contractual rights of set-off (i) relating to the
establishment of depository relations with banks not given in
connection with the issuance of Indebtedness, (ii) relating to
pooled deposit or sweep accounts of TCEH or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries to permit satisfaction of overdraft or similar
obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business of TCEH and
its Restricted Subsidiaries or (iii) relating to purchase
orders and other agreements entered into with customers of TCEH or
any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of
business;
(27) Liens arising out of
conditional sale, title retention, consignment or similar
arrangements for the sale or purchase of goods entered into by TCEH
or any Restricted Subsidiary in the ordinary course of
business;
(28) rights reserved to or
vested in others to take or receive any part of, or royalties
related to, the power, gas, oil, coal, lignite or other minerals or
timber generated, developed, manufactured or produced by, or grown
on, or acquired with, any property of TCEH or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries and Liens upon the production from property of power,
gas, oil, coal, lignite or other minerals or timber, and the
by-products and proceeds thereof, to secure the obligations to pay
all or a part of the expenses of exploration, drilling, mining or
development of such property only out of such production or
proceeds;
(29) Liens arising out of all
presently existing and future division and transfer orders, advance
payment agreements, processing contracts, gas processing plant
agreements, operating agreements, gas balancing or deferred
production agreements, pooling, unitization or communitization
agreements, pipeline, gathering or transportation agreements,
platform agreements, drilling contracts, injection or repressuring
agreements, cycling agreements, construction agreements, salt water
or other disposal agreements, leases or rental agreements, farm-out
and farm-in agreements, exploration and development agreements, and
any and all other contracts or agreements covering, arising out of,
used or useful in connection with or pertaining to the exploration,
development, operation, production, sale, use, purchase, exchange,
storage, separation, dehydration, treatment, compression,
gathering, transportation, processing, improvement, marketing,
disposal or handling of any property of TCEH or any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries, provided that such agreements are
entered into in the ordinary course of business (including in
respect of construction and restoration activities);
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(30) any restrictions on any
stock or stock equivalents or other joint venture interests of TCEH
or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries providing for a breach,
termination or default under any owners, participation, shared
facility, joint venture, stockholder, membership, limited liability
company or partnership agreement between such Person and one or
more other holders of such stock or stock equivalents or interest
of such Person, if a security interest or other Lien is created on
such stock or stock equivalents or interest as a result thereof and
other similar Liens;
(31) [ Reserved
] ;
(32) Liens and other
exceptions to title, in either case on or in respect of any
facilities of TCEH or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, arising
as a result of any shared facility agreement entered into with
respect to such facility, except to the extent that any such Liens
or exceptions, individually or in the aggregate, materially
adversely affect the value of the relevant property or materially
impair the use of the relevant property in the operation of
business of TCEH or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, taken as a
whole;
(33) Liens on cash and Cash
Equivalents (i) deposited by TCEH or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries in margin accounts with or on behalf of brokers,
credit clearing organizations, independent system operators,
regional transmission organizations, pipelines, state agencies,
federal agencies, futures contract brokers, customers, trading
counterparties, or any other parties or issuers of surety bonds or
(ii) pledged or deposited as collateral by TCEH or any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries with any of the entities described in
clause (i) above to secure their respective obligations, in
the case of each of clauses (i) and (ii) above, with
respect to: (A) any contracts and transactions for the
purchase, sale, exchange of, or the option (whether physical or
financial) to purchase, sell or exchange (1) natural gas,
(2) electricity, (3) coal and lignite,
(4) petroleum-based liquids, (5) oil, (6) nuclear
fuel (including enrichment and conversion), (7) emissions or
other environmental credits, (8) waste byproducts,
(9) weather, (10) power and other generation capacity,
(11) heat rate, (12) congestion, (13) renewal energy
credit, or (14) any other energy-related commodity or services
or derivative (including ancillary services and related risk (such
as location basis); (B) any contracts or transactions for the
purchase, processing, transmission, transportation, distribution,
sale, lease, hedge or storage of, or any other services related to
any commodity or service identified in subparts (1)—(14)
above, including any capacity agreement; (C) any financial
derivative agreement (including but not limited to swaps, options
or swaptions) related to any commodity identified in
subparts (1)—(14) above, or to any interest rate or
currency rate management activities; (D) any agreement for
membership or participation in an organization that facilitates or
permits the entering into or clearing of any netting agreement or
any agreement described in this clause (33); (E) any
agreement combining part or all of a netting agreement or part or
all of any of the agreements described in this clause (33);
(E) any document relating to any agreement described in this
clause (33) that is filed with a Government Authority and any
related service agreements; or (F) any commercial or trading
agreements, each with respect to, or involving the purchase,
transmission, distribution, sale, lease or hedge of, any energy,
generation capacity or fuel, or any
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other energy related commodity or
service, price or price indices for any such commodities or
services or any other similar derivative agreements, and any other
similar agreements (such agreements described in clauses (A)
through (F) of this clause (33) being collectively,
“Permitted Contracts”), Netting Agreements, Hedging
Obligations and letters of credit supporting Permitted Contracts,
Netting Agreements and Hedging Obligations;
(34) Liens arising under
Section 9.343 of the Texas Uniform Commercial Code or similar
statutes of states other than Texas;
(35) Liens created in the
ordinary course of business in favor of banks and other financial
institutions over credit balances of any bank accounts of TCEH and
its Subsidiaries held at such banks or financial institutions, as
the case may be, to facilitate the operation of cash pooling and/or
interest set-off arrangements in respect of such bank accounts in
the ordinary course of business;
(36) any zoning, land use,
environmental or similar law or right reserved to or vested in any
Government Authority to control or regulate the use of any real
property that does not materially interfere with the ordinary
conduct of the business of TCEH or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries, taken as a whole;
(37) any Lien arising by
reason of deposits with or giving of any form of security to any
Government Authority for any purpose at any time as required by
Applicable Laws as a condition to the transaction of any business
or the exercise of any privilege or license, or to enable TCEH or
any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to maintain self-insurance or
participate in any fund for liability on any insurance
risks;
(38) Liens, restrictions,
regulations, easements, exceptions or reservations of any
Government Authority applying particularly to nuclear
fuel;
(39) rights reserved to or
vested in any Government Authority by the terms of any right,
power, franchise, grant, license or permit, or by any provision of
applicable law, to terminate or modify such right, power,
franchise, grant, license or permit or to purchase or recapture or
to designate a purchaser of any of the property of such
person;
(40) Liens arising under any
obligations or duties affecting any of the property of TCEH or any
of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any Government Authority with
respect to any franchise, grant, license or permit which do not
materially impair the use of such property for the purposes for
which it is held;
(41) rights reserved to or
vested in any Government Authority to use, control or regulate any
property of such person;
(42) any obligations or
duties, affecting the property of TCEH or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries, to any Government Authority with respect to any
franchise, grant, license or permit;
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(43) a set-off or netting
rights granted by TCEH or any Subsidiary of TCEH pursuant to any
agreements related to Hedging Obligations, Netting Agreements or
Permitted Contracts solely in respect of amounts owing under such
agreements;
(44) Liens (i) on cash
advances in favor of the seller of any property to be acquired in
an Investment described under “Permitted Investments”
to be applied against the purchase price for such Investment and
(ii) consisting of an agreement to sell, transfer, lease or
otherwise dispose of any property in a transaction excluded from
the definition described under “Asset Sale,” in each
case, solely to the extent such Investment or sale, disposition,
transfer or lease, as the case may be, would have been permitted on
the date of the creation of such Lien;
(45) rights of first refusal
and purchase options in favor of Aluminum Company of America
(“ Alcoa ”) to purchase Sandow Unit 4
and/or the real property related thereto, as described in
(i) the Sandow Unit 4 Agreement dated August 13, 1976, as
amended, between Alcoa and Texas Power & Light Company
(“ TPL ”) and (ii) Deeds dated
March 14, 1978 and July 21, 1980, as amended, executed by
Alcoa conveying to TPL the Sandow Four Real Estate; and
(46) any amounts held by a
trustee in the funds and accounts under any indenture securing any
revenue bonds issued for the benefit of TCEH or any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries.
For purposes of this
definition, the term “Indebtedness” shall be deemed to
include interest on such Indebtedness.
“ Person ”
shall mean any individual, corporation, limited liability company,
partnership, joint venture, association, joint stock company,
trust, unincorporated organization, government or any agency or
political subdivision thereof or any other entity.
“ PIK Interest
” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 2.8(a)(ii) .
“ PIK Interest
Amount ” shall mean (i) the aggregate principal
amount of all increases in outstanding principal amount of Senior
Toggle Notes and issuances of PIK Notes (as defined in the Senior
Refinancing Indenture) in connection with an election by the
Borrower to pay interest on the Senior Toggle Notes in kind and
(ii) the aggregate principal amount of all increases in
outstanding principal amount of Senior Toggle Loans in connection
with an election by the Borrower to pay interest on the Senior
Toggle Loans in kind.
“ PIK Interest
Termination Date ” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 2.8(a)(ii) .
“ PIK Margin
” shall mean 0.75% per annum .
“ PIK Notes
” shall mean additional Senior Toggle Notes issued under the
Senior Refinancing Indenture on the same terms and conditions as
the Senior Toggle Notes in connection with a PIK Payment. For
purposes of this Agreement, all references to “PIK
Notes” shall include the Related PIK Notes.
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“ PIK Payment
” shall mean an interest payment with respect to the Senior
Toggle Notes made by increasing the outstanding principal amount of
the Senior Toggle Notes or issuing PIK Notes.
“ Plan ”
shall mean an employee pension benefit plan (other than a
Multiemployer Plan) which is covered by Title IV of ERISA or
subject to the minimum funding standards under Section 412 of
the Code or Section 302 of ERISA and is maintained or
contributed to by TCEH, any Subsidiary or ERISA Affiliate or with
respect to which TCEH or any Subsidiary could incur liability
pursuant to Title IV of ERISA.
“ Platform
” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 13.17(c) .
“ Preferred
Stock ” shall mean any Equity Interest with preferential
rights of payment of dividends or upon liquidation, dissolution or
winding up.
“ prime rate
” shall mean the “prime rate” referred to in the
definition of “ABR”.
“ Pro Forma Balance
Sheet ” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 8.9 .
“ Pro Forma
Financial Statements ” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 8.9 .
“ PUCT ”
shall mean the Public Utility Commission of Texas or any
successor.
“ Purchase Money
Obligations ” shall mean any Indebtedness incurred to
finance or refinance the acquisition, leasing, construction,
repair, restoration, replacement, expansion or improvement of
property (real or personal) or assets (other than Capital Stock),
and whether acquired through the direct acquisition of such
property or assets, or otherwise, incurred in respect of capital
expenditures (including Environmental CapEx Debt and Necessary
CapEx Debt).
“ Qualified
Proceeds ” shall mean assets that are used or useful in,
or Capital Stock of any Person engaged in, a Similar Business;
provided that the fair market value of any such assets or
Capital Stock shall be determined by TCEH in good faith.
“ Rating
Agencies ” means Moody’s and S&P or if
Moody’s or S&P or both shall not make a rating on the
applicable security or other investment publicly available, a
nationally recognized statistical rating agency or agencies, as the
case may be, selected by TCEH which shall be substituted for
Moody’s or S&P or both, as the case may be.
“ Real Estate
” shall mean any interest in land, buildings and improvements
owned, leased or otherwise held by any Loan Party but excluding all
operating fixtures and equipment.
“ Receivables
Facility ” shall mean any of one or more receivables
financing facilities as amended, supplemented, modified, extended,
renewed, restated or refunded from time to time, the Obligations of
which are non-recourse (except for customary representations,
warranties, covenants and indemnities made in connection with such
facilities) to TCEH or any
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of its Restricted Subsidiaries (other
than a Receivables Subsidiary) pursuant to which TCEH or any of its
Restricted Subsidiaries purports to sell its accounts receivable to
either (a) a Person that is not a Restricted Subsidiary or
(b) a Receivables Subsidiary that in turn funds such purchase
by purporting to sell its accounts receivable to a Person that is
not a Restricted Subsidiary or by borrowing from such Person or
from another Receivables Subsidiary that in turn funds itself by
borrowing from such Person.
“ Receivables
Fees ” shall mean distributions or payments made directly
or by means of discounts with respect to any accounts receivable or
participation interest therein issued or sold in connection with,
and other fees paid to a Person that is not a Restricted Subsidiary
in connection with any Receivables Facility.
“ Receivables
Subsidiary ” shall mean any Subsidiary formed for the
purpose of facilitating or entering into one or more Receivables
Facilities, and in each case engages only in activities reasonably
related or incidental thereto.
“ Refinancing
” shall have the meaning provided in the recitals to this
Agreement.
“ Refinancing
Indebtedness ” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 9.7(b)(13).
“ Register
” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 13.6(b)(iv) .
“
Regulation T ” shall mean Regulation T of
the Board as from time to time in effect and any successor to all
or a portion thereof establishing margin requirements.
“
Regulation U ” shall mean Regulation U of
the Board as from time to time in effect and any successor to all
or a portion thereof establishing margin requirements.
“
Regulation X ” shall mean Regulation X of
the Board as from time to time in effect and any successor to all
or a portion thereof establishing margin requirements.
“ Related Business
Assets ” shall mean assets (other than cash or Cash
Equivalents) used or useful in a Similar Business; provided
that any assets received by TCEH or a Restricted Subsidiary in
exchange for assets transferred by TCEH or a Restricted Subsidiary
will not be deemed to be Related Business Assets if they consist of
securities of a Person, unless upon receipt of the securities of
such Person, such Person would become a Restricted
Subsidiary.
“ Related
Parties ” shall mean, with respect to any specified
Person, such Person’s Affiliates and the directors, officers,
employees, agents, trustees and advisors of such Person and any
Person that possesses, directly or indirectly, the power to direct
or cause the direction of the management or policies of such
Person, whether through the ability to exercise voting power, by
contract or otherwise.
“ Related PIK
Notes ” shall mean, with respect to a Senior Toggle,
(i) each PIK Note issued in connection with a PIK Payment on
such Senior Toggle Note and (ii) each additional PIK Note
issued in connection with a PIK Payment on a Related PIK Note with
respect to such Senior Toggle Note.
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“ Repaid
Indebtedness ” shall mean:
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of TCEH’s 6.125% Fixed Senior Notes due 2008
tendered;
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of TCEH’s 7.000% Fixed Senior Notes due 2013
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“ Reportable
Event ” shall mean an event described in
Section 4043 of ERISA and the regulations thereunder, other
than any event as to which the thirty day notice period has been
waived.
“ Required
Debt” shall mean, with respect to any action, on any
date, the outstanding principal amount at such date of (1) the
Senior Term Loans (excluding the Loans of Defaulting Lenders),
(2) the Senior Notes (including any Additional Senior Notes
(as defined in the Senior Refinancing Indenture)) and (3) any
other senior unsecured securities issued by the Borrower to
refinance or replace any of the items described in clauses
(1) and (2) of this definition (including
any additional securities of the same series), other than, in each
case any such debt beneficially owned by the Borrower or its
Affiliates, voting as a single class, except to the extent
prohibited by law; provided that (a) Required Debt
shall only include debt described in clauses (2) and
(3) of this definition to the extent such debt would require
the consent of the holders of the debt described in this definition
voting as a single class to take such action, except to the extent
described in clauses (b) and (c) below,
(b) if any amendment, waiver or other action would
disproportionately affect the holders of the Senior Term Loans,
Required Debt shall mean the Senior Term Loans voting as a single
class and the debt described in clauses (1) through
(3) voting as a single class, and (c) if any
amendment, waiver or other action would only affect the Senior Term
Loans, Required Debt shall mean the Senior Term Loans voting as a
single class without the debt described in clauses (2)
and (3) .
“ Required
Lenders ” shall mean (a) on any date on or prior to
the Interim Loan Conversion Date, Non-Defaulting Lenders having or
holding a majority of the Senior Interim Loans (excluding the Loans
of Defaulting Lenders) in the aggregate at such date, and
(b) on any date after the Interim Loan Conversion Date,
holdiers (other than Defaulting Lenders) of a majority in aggregate
principal amount of the Required Debt.
“ Restoration
Certificate ” shall mean, with respect to any Casualty
Event, an Officer’s Certificate provided to the
Administrative Agent prior to the 365 th day after such Casualty Event has
occurred certifying (a) that TCEH or such Restricted
Subsidiary intends to use the proceeds received in connection with
such Casualty Event to repair, restore or replace the property or
assets in respect of which such Casualty Event occurred,
(b) the approximate costs of completion of such repair,
restoration or replacement and (c) that such repair,
restoration or replacement will be completed within the later of
(x) 450 days after the date on which cash proceeds with
respect to such Casualty Event were received and
(y) 180 days after delivery of such Restoration
Certificate.
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“ Restricted
Investment ” shall mean an Investment other than a
Permitted Investment.
“ Restricted
Subsidiary ” shall mean, at any time, any direct or
indirect Subsidiary of TCEH (including TCEH Finance and any Foreign
Subsidiary) that is not then an Unrestricted Subsidiary;
provided , however, that upon an Unrestricted
Subsidiary’s ceasing to be an Unrestricted Subsidiary, such
Subsidiary shall be included in the definition of “Restricted
Subsidiary.”
“ S&P
” shall mean Standard & Poor’s, a division of
The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., and any successor to its rating
agency business.
“ Sale and
Lease-Back Transaction ” shall mean any arrangement
providing for the leasing by TCEH or any of its Restricted
Subsidiaries of any real or tangible personal property, which
property has been or is to be sold or transferred by TCEH or such
Restricted Subsidiary to a third Person in contemplation of such
leasing.
“ SEC ”
shall mean the Securities and Exchange Commission.
“Section 9.1
Financials” shall mean the financial statements
delivered, or required to be delivered, pursuant to
Section 9.1(a)(i) or (ii) .
“ Secured
Indebtedness ” shall mean any Indebtedness of TCEH or any
of its Restricted Subsidiaries secured by a Lien.
“ Securities Act
” shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the
rules and regulations of the SEC promulgated thereunder.
“ Securitization
” shall mean a public or private offering by a Lender or any
of its Affiliates or their respective successors and assigns of
securities or notes which represent an interest in, or which are
collateralized, in whole or in part, by the Loans and the
Lender’s rights under the Credit Documents.
“ Senior Cash Pay
Fixed Rate ” shall mean 10.25% per annum
.
“ Senior Cash Pay
Loans ” shall mean Senior Interim Cash Pay Loans and/or
Senior Cash Pay Term Loans, as the context requires.
“ Senior Cash Pay
Notes ” shall mean senior notes due 2015, to be issued in
connection with the refinancing of the Senior Interim Cash Pay
Loans or the exchange of the Senior Cash Pay Term Loans under the
Senior Refinancing Indenture, in an aggregate principal amount of
up to $5,000,000,000 (less the amount of any Senior Interim Cash
Pay Loans and Senior Cash Pay Term Loans that remain outstanding
after the issuance of the Senior Cash Pay Notes), together with
interest, fees and all other amounts payable in connection
therewith.
“ Senior Cash Pay
Term Loans ” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 2.14(a)(i) .
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“ Senior
Indebtedness ” shall mean:
(1) all Indebtedness of TCEH,
TCEH Finance or any Guarantor (other than US Holdings)
outstanding under this Agreement and each related Guarantee
thereof, the TCEH Senior Secured Facilities and each related
guarantee, the Senior Notes and related guarantees (including
interest accruing on or after the filing of any petition in
bankruptcy or similar proceeding or for reorganization of TCEH,
TCEH Finance or any such Guarantor (at the rate provided for in the
documentation with respect thereto, regardless of whether or not a
claim for post-filing interest is allowed in such proceedings)),
and any and all other fees, expense reimbursement obligations,
indemnification amounts, penalties, and other amounts (whether
existing on the Closing Date or thereafter created or incurred) and
all obligations of TCEH, TCEH Finance or any such Guarantor to
reimburse any bank or other Person in respect of amounts paid under
letters of credit, acceptances or other similar
instruments;
(2) all Hedging Obligations
(and guarantees thereof) of TCEH or any Guarantor (other than the
Parent Guarantor) owing to a Lender (as defined in the TCEH Senior
Secured Facilities) or any Affiliate of such Lender (or any Person
that was a Lender or an Affiliate of such Lender at the time the
applicable agreement giving rise to such Hedging Obligation was
entered into); provided that such Hedging Obligations are
permitted to be incurred under the terms of this
Agreement;
(3) any other Indebtedness of
TCEH or any Guarantor (other than US Holdings) permitted to be
incurred under the terms of this Agreement, unless the instrument
under which such Indebtedness is incurred expressly provides that
it is subordinated in right of payment to the Indebtedness
outstanding under the Loans or any related Guarantee;
and
(4) all Obligations with
respect to the items listed in the preceding clauses (1),
(2) and (3);
provided ,
however , that Senior Indebtedness shall not
include:
(a) any obligation of such
Person to TCEH or any of its Subsidiaries;
(b) any liability for
federal, state, local or other taxes owed or owing by such
Person;
(c) any accounts payable or
other liability to trade creditors arising in the ordinary course
of business;
(d) any Indebtedness or other
Obligation of such Person which is subordinate or junior in any
respect to any other Indebtedness or other Obligation of such
Person; or
(e) that portion of any
Indebtedness which at the time of incurrence is incurred in
violation of this Agreement.
“ Senior Interim
Cash Pay Loan ” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 2.1(a)(i) .
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“ Senior Interim
Cash Pay Loan Commitment ” shall mean (a) in the
case of each Lender that is a Lender on the date hereof, the amount
set forth opposite such Lender’s name on
Schedule 1.1(a) as such Lender’s “Senior
Interim Cash Pay Loan Commitment” and (b) in the case of
any Lender that becomes a Lender after the date hereof, the amount
specified as such Lender’s “Senior Interim Cash Pay
Loan Commitment” in the Assignment and Acceptance pursuant to
which such Lender assumed a portion of the Total Senior Interim
Loan Commitment, in each case as the same may be changed from time
to time pursuant to the terms hereof. The aggregate amount of the
Senior Interim Cash Pay Loan Commitments as of the Closing Date is
$5,000,000,000.
“ Senior Interim
Cash Pay Loans Requested Amount ” shall have the meaning
provided in Section 2.3(a) .
“ Senior Interim
Loan Commitment ” shall mean, with respect to each
Lender, such Lender’s Senior Interim Cash Pay Loan Commitment
and Senior Interim Toggle Loan Commitment.
“ Senior Interim
Loans ” shall mean the Senior Interim Cash Pay Loans
and/or Senior Interim Toggle Loans, as the context
requires.
“ Senior Interim
Toggle Loan ” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 2.1(a)(ii) .
“ Senior Interim
Toggle Loan Commitment ” shall mean (a) in the case
of each Lender that is a Lender on the date hereof, the amount set
forth opposite such Lender’s name on
Schedule 1.1(a) as such Lender’s “Senior
Interim Toggle Loan Commitment” and (b) in the case of
any Lender that becomes a Lender after the date hereof, the amount
specified as such Lender’s “Senior Interim Toggle Loan
Commitment” in the Assignment and Acceptance pursuant to
which such Lender assumed a portion of the Total Senior Interim
Loan Commitment, in each case as the same may be changed from time
to time pursuant to the terms hereof. The aggregate amount of the
Senior Interim Toggle Loan Commitments as of the Closing Date is
$1,750,000,000.
“ Senior Interim
Toggle Loans Requested Amount ” shall have the meaning
provided in Section 2.3(a) .
“ Senior Notes
” shall mean Senior Cash Pay Notes and/or Senior Toggle
Notes, as the context requires.
“ Senior Refinancing
Indenture ” shall mean the indenture substantially in the
form attached as Exhibit C to be entered into in
connection with the exchange of the Senior Term Loans, among TCEH,
TCEH Finance, the Guarantors and a trustee, pursuant to which the
Senior Notes shall be issued on or after the Interim Loan
Conversion Date.
“ Senior Refinancing
Registration Rights Agreement ” shall mean the
registration rights agreement substantially in the form attached as
Exhibit D to be entered into in connection with the
exchange of the Senior Term Loans, among TCEH, TCEH Finance, the
Guarantors and the Administrative Agent, relating to rights given
by TCEH, TCEH Finance and the Guarantors to the holders of Senior
Notes issued under the Senior Refinancing Indenture to register
such notes under the Securities Act.
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“ Senior Secured
Credit Agreement ” shall have the meaning provided in the
recitals to this Agreement.
“ Senior Secured
Delayed Draw Term Loans ” shall have the meaning provided
in the recitals to this Agreement.
“ Senior Secured
Deposit L/C Loans ” shall have the meaning provided in
the recitals to this Agreement.
“ Senior Secured
Initial Term Loans ” shall have the meaning provided in
the recitals to this Agreement.
“ Senior Secured
Revolving Credit Loans ” shall have the meaning provided
in the recitals to this Agreement.
“ Senior Term
Loans ” shall mean Senior Cash Pay Term Loans and/or
Senior Toggle Term Loans, as the context requires.
“ Senior Toggle
Fixed Rate ” shall mean 10.50% per annum
.
“ Senior Toggle
Loans ” shall mean Senior Interim Toggle Loans and/or
Senior Toggle Term Loans, as the context requires.
“ Senior Toggle
Fixed Rate” shall mean 10.50% per annum
.
“ Senior Toggle
Loans” shall mean Senior Interim Toggle Loans and/or
Senior Toggle Term Loans, as the context requires.
“ Senior Toggle
Notes ” shall mean senior toggle notes due 2016, to be
issued in connection with the refinancing of the Senior Interim
Toggle Loans or the exchange of the Senior Toggle Term Loans under
the Senior Refinancing Indenture, in an aggregate principal amount
of up to $1,750,000,000 (less the amount of any Senior Interim
Toggle Loans and Senior Toggle Term Loans that remain outstanding
after the issuance of the Senior Toggle Notes), together with
interest (including any PIK Interest), fees and all other amounts
payable in connection therewith.
“ Senior Toggle Term
Loans ” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 2.14(a)(ii) .
“ Shell Wind
” shall mean a joint venture with Shell WindEnergy Inc. (or
similar entity) in which TCEH and its Restricted Subsidiaries have
up to a 50% ownership interest relating to the joint development of
a 3,000 megawatt wind project in Texas and other renewable
energy projects in Texas.
“ Significant
Subsidiary ” shall mean any Restricted Subsidiary that
would be a “significant subsidiary” as defined in
Article 1, Rule 1-02 of the Regulation S-X, promulgated pursuant to
the Securities Act, as such regulation is in effect on the Closing
Date.
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“ Similar
Business ” shall mean any business conducted or proposed
to be conducted by TCEH and its Subsidiaries on the Closing Date or
any business that is similar, reasonably related, incidental or
ancillary thereto.
“ Solvent
” shall mean, with respect to any Person, that as of the
Closing Date, (a) (i) the sum of such Person’s debt
(including contingent liabilities) does not exceed the present fair
saleable value of such Person’s present assets;
(ii) such Person’s capital is not unreasonably small in
relation to its business as contemplated on the Closing Date; and
(iii) such Person has not incurred and does not intend to
incur, or believe that it will incur, debts including current
obligations beyond its ability to pay such debts as they become due
(whether at maturity or otherwise); and (b) such Person is
“solvent” within the meaning given that term and
similar terms under Applicable Laws relating to fraudulent
transfers and conveyances. For purposes of this definition, the
amount of any contingent liability at any time shall be computed as
the amount that, in light of all of the facts and circumstances
existing at such time, represents the amount that can reasonably be
expected to become an actual or matured liability (irrespective of
whether such contingent liabilities meet the criteria for accrual
under Statement of Financial Accounting Standard
No. 5).
“ Sponsors
” shall mean any of KKR, TPG, J.P. Morgan Ventures
Corporation, Citigroup Global Markets Inc., Morgan
Stanley & Co. Incorporated, Goldman Sachs & Co.,
and LB I Group and each of their respective Affiliates but not
including, however, any portfolio companies of any of the
foregoing.
“ Sponsor Management
Agreement ” shall mean the management agreement between
certain of the management companies associated with the Sponsors
and the Parent.
“ SPV ”
shall have the meaning provided in Section 13.6(g)
.
“ Stock ”
shall mean shares of capital stock or shares in the capital, as the
case may be (whether denominated as common stock or preferred stock
or ordinary shares or preferred shares, as the case may be),
beneficial, partnership or membership interests, participations or
other equivalents (regardless of how designated) of or in a
corporation, partnership, limited liability company or equivalent
entity, whether voting or non-voting.
“ Stock
Equivalents ” shall mean all securities convertible into
or exchangeable for Stock and all warrants, options or other rights
to purchase or subscribe for any Stock, whether or not presently
convertible, exchangeable or exercisable.
“ Subordinated
Indebtedness ” shall mean,
(1) any Indebtedness of TCEH
or TCEH Finance which is by its terms subordinated in right of
payment to the Loans, and
(2) any Indebtedness of any
Guarantor which is by its terms subordinated in right of payment to
the Guarantee of such entity of the Loans.
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“ Subsidiary
” shall mean, with respect to any Person:
(1) any corporation,
association, or other business entity (other than a partnership,
joint venture, limited liability company or similar entity) of
which more than 50% of the total voting power of shares of Capital
Stock entitled (without regard to the occurrence of any
contingency) to vote in the election of directors, managers or
trustees thereof is at the time of determination owned or
controlled, directly or indirectly, by such Person or one or more
of the other Subsidiaries of that Person or a combination thereof;
and
(2) any partnership, joint
venture, limited liability company or similar entity of
which
(x) more than 50% of the
capital accounts, distribution rights, total equity and voting
interests or general or limited partnership interests, as
applicable, are owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by
such Person or one or more of the other Subsidiaries of that Person
or a combination thereof whether in the form of membership,
general, special or limited partnership or otherwise,
and
(y) such Person or any
Restricted Subsidiary of such Person is a controlling general
partner or otherwise controls such entity.
Unless otherwise expressly provided, all
references herein to a “Subsidiary” shall mean a
Subsidiary of TCEH.
“ Syndication
Agent ” shall mean Goldman Sachs Credit Partners L.P.,
together with its Affiliates, as syndication agent for the Lenders
under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.
“ Taxes ”
shall mean any and all present or future taxes, duties, levies,
imposts, assessments, deductions, withholdings or other similar
charges imposed by any Government Authority whether computed on a
separate, consolidated, unitary, combined or other basis and any
interest, fines, penalties or additions to tax with respect to the
foregoing.
“ TCEH ”
shall have the meaning provided in the preamble to this
Agreement.
“ TCEH Finance
” shall have the meaning provided in the preamble to this
Agreement.
“ TCEH Senior
Secured Facilities ” shall mean the TCEH Senior Secured
Credit Agreement, including any guarantees, collateral documents,
instruments and agreements executed in connection therewith, and
any amendments, supplements, modifications, extensions, renewals,
restatements, refundings or refinancings thereof and any indentures
or credit facilities or commercial paper facilities with banks or
other institutional lenders or investors that replace, refund or
refinance any part of the loans, notes, other credit facilities or
commitments thereunder, including any such replacement, refunding
or refinancing facility or indenture that increases the amount
borrowable thereunder or alters the maturity thereof (
provided that such increase in borrowings is permitted under
Section 9.7 ).
“ Term Loan Maturity
Dates ” shall have the meaning provided such term in the
definition of “Maturity Date.”
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“ Test Period
” shall mean, for any determination under this Agreement, the
four consecutive fiscal quarters of TCEH then last ended and for
which Section 9.1 Financials have been or were required to
have been delivered.
“ Total Assets
” shall mean the total assets of TCEH and its Restricted
Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, as shown on the most recent
consolidated balance sheet of TCEH or such other Person as may be
expressly stated.
“ Total Credit
Exposure ” shall mean, at any date, the aggregate
outstanding principal amount of all Loans at such date.
“ Total Senior
Interim Loan Commitment ” shall mean the sum of Senior
Interim Cash Pay Loan Commitments and Senior Interim Toggle Loan
Commitments of all Lenders.
“ TPG ”
shall mean TPG Capital, L.P.
“ Transactions
” shall mean, collectively, the transactions contemplated by
this Agreement (including the entering into and funding hereunder),
the TCEH Senior Secured Facilities, the Parent Senior Unsecured
Interim Loan Agreement, the Oncor Electric Delivery Facility, the
Receivables Facility entered into on the Closing Date, the Merger
and the Equity Contribution, the Refinancing, the payment of fees
and expenses in connection therewith and the consummation of any
other transaction connected with the foregoing.
“ Transferee
” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 13.6(e) .
“ Trustee
” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 2.14(b)(iv) .
“ Type ”
shall mean as to any Loan, its nature as an ABR Loan or a LIBOR
Loan.
“ Unfunded Current
Liability ” of any Plan shall mean the amount, if any, by
which the Accumulated Benefit Obligation (as defined under
Statement of Financial Accounting Standards No. 87 (“
SFAS 87 ”)) under the Plan as of the close of its
most recent plan year, determined in accordance with SFAS 87
as in effect on the date hereof, exceeds the fair market value of
the assets allocable thereto.
“ Unit ”
shall mean an individual power plant generation system comprised of
all necessary physically connected generators, reactors, boilers,
combustion turbines and other prime movers operated together to
independently generate electricity.
“ Unrestricted
Cash ” shall mean, as of any date, without duplication,
(a) all cash and Cash Equivalents (in each case, free and
clear of all Liens, other than nonconsensual Liens permitted by
Section 9.10 and Liens permitted by
clause (23) , subclauses (i) and
(ii) of clause (26) and
clause (33) of the definition of “ Permitted
Liens ”, included in the cash and cash equivalents
accounts listed on the consolidated balance sheet of TCEH and its
Restricted Subsidiaries as of such date and (b) all
unrestricted margin deposits related to commodity positions listed
on the consolidated balance sheet of TCEH and the Restricted
Subsidiaries
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“ Unrestricted
Subsidiary ” shall mean:
(1) any Subsidiary of TCEH
(other than TCEH Finance) which at the time of determination is an
Unrestricted Subsidiary (as designated by TCEH, as provided below);
and
(2) any Subsidiary of an
Unrestricted Subsidiary.
TCEH may designate any
Subsidiary of TCEH (including any existing Subsidiary and any newly
acquired or newly formed Subsidiary but excluding TCEH Finance) to
be an Unrestricted Subsidiary unless such Subsidiary or any of its
Subsidiaries owns any Equity Interests or Indebtedness of, or owns
or holds any Lien on, any property of, TCEH or any Subsidiary of
TCEH (other than solely any Subsidiary of the Subsidiary to be so
designated); provided that
(1) any Unrestricted
Subsidiary must be an entity of which the Equity Interests entitled
to cast at least a majority of the votes that may be cast by all
Equity Interests having ordinary voting power for the election of
directors or Persons performing a similar function are owned,
directly or indirectly, by TCEH;
(2) such designation complies
with Section 9.5 hereof; and
(3) each of:
(a) the Subsidiary to be so
designated; and
(b) its
Subsidiaries
has not at the time of
designation, and does not thereafter, create, incur, issue, assume,
guarantee or otherwise become directly or indirectly liable with
respect to any Indebtedness pursuant to which the lender has
recourse to any of the assets of TCEH or any Restricted
Subsidiary.
TCEH may designate any
Unrestricted Subsidiary to be a Restricted Subsidiary;
provided that, immediately after giving effect to such
designation, no Default shall have occurred and be continuing and
either:
(1) TCEH would be permitted
to incur at least $1.00 of additional Indebtedness pursuant to
Section 9.7(a) hereof; or
(2) the Fixed Charge Coverage
Ratio for TCEH and its Restricted Subsidiaries would be greater
than such ratio for TCEH and its Restricted Subsidiaries
immediately prior to such designation, in each case on a pro
forma basis taking into account such designation.
Any such designation by TCEH
shall be notified by TCEH to the Administrative Agent by promptly
filing with the Administrative Agent a copy of the resolution of
the Board of Directors of TCEH or any committee thereof giving
effect to such designation and an Officer’s Certificate
certifying that such designation complied with the foregoing
provisions.
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“ U.S. ”
or “ United States ” shall mean the United
States of America.
“
US Holdings ” shall mean Energy Future
Competitive Holdings Company, a Texas corporation.
“ U.S. Lender
” shall have the meaning provided in
Section 5.4(h) .
“ Voting Stock
” of any Person as of any date shall mean the Capital Stock
of such Person that is at the time entitled to vote in the election
of the Board of Directors of such Person.
“ Weighted Average
Life to Maturity ” shall mean, when applied to any
Indebtedness, Disqualified Stock or Preferred Stock, as the case
may be, at any date, the quotient obtained by dividing:
(1) the sum of the products
of the number of years from the date of determination to the date
of each successive scheduled principal payment of such Indebtedness
or redemption or similar payment with respect to such Disqualified
Stock or Preferred Stock multiplied by the amount of such payment;
by
(2) the sum of all such
payments.
“ Wholly Owned
Subsidiary ” of any Person shall mean a Subsidiary of
such Person, 100% of the outstanding Equity Interests of which
(other than directors’ qualifying shares) shall at the time
be owned by such Person or by one or more Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries
of such Person.
1.2. Other Interpretive
Provisions . With reference to this Agreement and each other
Loan Document, unless otherwise specified herein or in such other
Loan Document:
(a) The meanings of defined
terms are equally applicable to the singular and plural forms of
the defined terms.
(b) The words
“herein”, “hereto”, “hereof”
and “hereunder” and words of similar import when used
in any Loan Document shall refer to such Loan Document as a whole
and not to any particular provision thereof.
(c) Article, Section, Exhibit
and Schedule references are to the Loan Document in which such
reference appears.
(d) The term
“including” is by way of example and not
limitation.
(e) The term
“documents” includes any and all instruments,
documents, agreements, certificates, notices, reports, financial
statements and other writings, however evidenced, whether in
physical or electronic form.
(f) In the computation of
periods of time from a specified date to a later specified date,
the word “from” shall mean “from and
including”; the words “to” and
“until” each shall mean “to but excluding”;
and the word “through” shall mean “to and
including”.
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(g) Section headings
herein and in the other Loan Documents are included for convenience
of reference only and shall not affect the interpretation of this
Agreement or any other Loan Document.
(h) To the extent any
provision of the Senior Refinancing Indenture is deemed to be
incorporated and set forth in this Agreement, (i) any
reference to the “Issuer” or the “Company”
in the Senior Refinancing Indenture shall be deemed to be a
reference to the Borrower, (ii) any reference to a
“Holder” in the Senior Refinancing Indenture shall be
deemed to be a reference to a Lender, (iii) any reference to
the “Trustee” in the Senior Refinancing Indenture shall
be deemed to be a reference to the Administrative Agent,
(iv) any reference to the “Notes” in the Senior
Refinancing Indenture shall be deemed to be a reference to the
Loans and (v) any reference to “this Indenture” in
the Senior Refinancing Indenture shall be deemed to be a reference
to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, in each case as the
context may require.
1.3. Accounting Terms
. All accounting terms not specifically or completely defined
herein shall be construed in conformity with, and all financial
data (including financial ratios and other financial calculations)
required to be submitted pursuant to this Agreement shall be
prepared in conformity with, GAAP.
1.4. [Reserved].
1.5. References to
Agreements, Laws, Etc . Unless otherwise expressly provided
herein, (a) references to organizational documents, agreements
(including the Loan Documents) and other Contractual Requirements
shall be deemed to include all subsequent amendments, restatements,
amendment and restatements, extensions, supplements and other
modifications thereto, but only to the extent that such amendments,
restatements, amendment and restatements, extensions, supplements
and other modifications are permitted by any Loan Document; and
(b) references to any Applicable Laws shall include all
statutory and regulatory provisions consolidating, amending,
replacing, supplementing or interpreting such Applicable
Law.
1.6. Times of Day .
Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to times of day
shall be references to Eastern time (daylight or standard, as
applicable).
1.7. Timing of Payment or
Performance . When the payment of any obligation or the
performance of any covenant, duty or obligation is stated to be due
or performance required on a day which is not a Business Day, the
date of such payment (other that as described in the definition of
Interest Period) or pe
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