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TERM LOAN AGREEMENT
THIS TERM LOAN AGREEMENT (" Agreement
") is made and entered into as of December 18, 2008, by and
between MMA FINANCIAL HOLDINGS, INC ., a Florida corporation
(the " Borrower "), which has a principal executive office
located at 621 E. Pratt Street, Suite 300, Baltimore, Maryland
21202, and OAK GROVE COMMERCIAL MORTGAGE, LLC, a Delaware
limited liability company (the " Lender "), which has a
registered office located at 2177 Youngman Avenue #300, St. Paul,
Minnesota 55116.
RECITALS
WHEREAS, capitalized terms used but not defined in
these recitals shall have the respective meanings set forth for
such terms in Section 1.1 hereof;
WHEREAS, the Borrower has requested that the Lender
provide to the Borrower a twelve (12) month term loan in the
original principal amount of up to Fifteen Million Dollars
($15,000,000.00) pursuant to the terms and conditions of this
Agreement that is secured by all of the issued and outstanding
capital stock of MMA Mortgage Corporation; and
WHEREAS, the Lender is willing to provide to the
Borrower such term loan pursuant to the terms and conditions of
this Agreement.
In consideration of the mutual agreements set forth
herein, and for other good and valuable consideration, the receipt
and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged by the parties,
the parties hereto agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS
Section 1.1 Definitions . For all
purposes of this Agreement, except as otherwise expressly provided,
the following terms shall have the meanings assigned to them in
this Section or in the Section referenced after such term:
" Acquisition Agreement " shall mean that
certain Acquisition Agreement, dated as of December 18, 2008,
entered into by and between MMA Mortgage Corporation and the
Lender.
" Affiliate " or " Affiliates " means
any Person controlled by, controlling or under common control with
the Borrower, including any Subsidiary of the Borrower. For
purposes of this definition, "control," when used with respect to
any specified Person, means the power to direct the management and
policies of such Person, directly or indirectly, whether through
the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise.
" Agencies " means the Federal Housing
Administration, the United States Department of Housing and Urban
Development, Fannie Mae, the Government National Mortgage
Association, and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation.
" Agreement " means this Term Loan
Agreement, as such may be amended, modified, supplemented, or
restated from time to time.
" Business Day " means any day on which the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York is open for business.
" Constituent Documents " means the
Borrower’s (i) articles of incorporation, (ii) bylaws,
and (iii) any other similar document or agreement governing
the Borrower’s existence, organization or management or
concerning disposition of ownership interests of the Borrower or
voting rights among the Borrower’s owners.
" Declaration Notice " has the meaning set
forth in Section 6.2(b).
" Default " means an event that, with giving
of notice or passage of time or both, would constitute an Event of
Default.
" Default Period " means any period of time
beginning on the day an Event of Default occurs and ending on the
date that such Event of Default has been cured or waived.
" Default Rate " means, with respect to the
Term Note, an annual interest rate in effect during a Default
Period or following the Maturity Date, which interest rate shall be
equal to a fixed rate of interest equal to twenty-five percent
(25%) per annum.
" Defined Benefit Pension Plan " is a
Pension Plan that is subject to Title IV of ERISA.
" Director " means a director if the Person
is a corporation, a governor or manager if the Person is a limited
liability company, or a general partner if the Person is a
partnership.
" Dollars " and the sign "$" means freely
transferable lawful money of the United States.
" ERISA " means the Employee Retirement
Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to time.
" ERISA Affiliate " means any trade or
business (whether or not incorporated) that is a member of a group
which includes the Borrower and which is treated as a single
employer under Section 414 of the IRC.
" Event of Default " has the meaning set
forth in Section 6.1.
" Exit Fee " has the meaning set forth in
Section 2.3(b).
" Funding Date " shall mean, as the context
so requires, the Initial Funding Date or the Subsequent Funding
Date.
" GAAP " means generally accepted accounting
principles (other than such deviations from generally accepted
accounting principals disclosed on Schedule 6.06 to the
Acquisition Agreement), applied on a basis consistent with the
accounting practices applied in the financial statements described
in Section 4.6.
" Guarantees " means the Parent Guaranty and
the Subsidiary Guaranty.
" Guarantors " means the Parent Guarantor
and the Subsidiary Guarantor.
" IRC " means the Internal Revenue Code of
1986, as amended from time to time.
" Interest Payment Date " has the meaning
set forth in Section 2.4(a).
" Initial Funding Date " has the meaning set
forth in Section 2.1(a).
" Lien " means any security interest,
mortgage, deed of trust, pledge, lien, charge, encumbrance, title
retention agreement or analogous instrument or device, including
the interest of each lessor under any capitalized lease and the
interest of any bondsman under any payment or performance bond, in,
of or on any assets or properties of a Person, whether now owned or
hereafter acquired and whether arising by agreement or operation of
law.
" Loan Documents " means this Agreement, the
Term Note, the Security Documents, the Guarantees, and all other
writings, documents, instruments, certificates and statements
contemplated hereunder to be executed or supplied by the Borrower,
the Parent Guarantor, or the Subsidiary Guarantor.
" Material Adverse Effect " means any of the
following:
(i) A material adverse effect on the business,
operations, results of operations, prospects, assets, liabilities
or financial condition of the Borrower or of MMA Mortgage
Corporation, but not including results of the current credit market
conditions or other general market conditions to the extent not
disproportionately adversely affecting the business, operations,
results of operations, assets, liabilities, or financial condition
of the Borrower or of MMA Mortgage Corporation or any results of
the announcement of the transactions contemplated by the
Acquisition Agreement;
(ii) A material adverse effect on the ability
of the Borrower to perform its obligations under the Loan
Documents;
(iii) A material adverse effect on the ability
of the Lender to enforce the Obligations or to realize the intended
benefits of the Security Documents, including a material adverse
effect on the validity or enforceability of any Loan Document or of
any rights against any Guarantor, or on the status, existence,
perfection, priority or enforceability of any Lien securing payment
or performance of the Obligations; or
(iv) Any claim against the Borrower or MMA
Mortgage Corporation or threat of litigation which presents a
reasonable possibility of being determined against the Borrower or
MMA Mortgage Corporation, as applicable, which if determined
adversely would cause the Borrower or MMA Mortgage Corporation to
be liable to pay an amount exceeding $2,000,000.00 or would be an
event described in clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) above.
" Maturity Date " shall mean the earliest of
(i) at the Closing (as defined in the Acquisition Agreement),
(ii) December 18, 2009, or (iii) the date the Lender
demands payment of the Obligations or they become automatically due
and payable after an Event of Default pursuant to
Section 6.2.
" MMA Mortgage Corporation " means MMA
Mortgage Investment Corporation, a corporation organized under the
laws of the State of Florida, which is a wholly-owned subsidiary of
the Borrower.
" Multiemployer Plan " means a multiemployer
plan (as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA) to which the
Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate contributes or is obligated to
contribute.
" Obligations " means the obligations
arising under the Term Note and each and every other debt,
liability and obligation of every type and description which the
Borrower may now or at any time hereafter owe to the Lender arising
under any Loan Document, whether such debt, liability or obligation
now exists or is hereafter created or incurred, and whether it is
direct or indirect, due or to become due, absolute or contingent,
primary or secondary, liquidated or unliquidated, or sole, joint,
several or joint and several.
" Office r" means an officer if the Person
is a corporation, an officer or a manager if the Person is a
limited liability company, or a partner if the Person is a
partnership.
" Origination Fee " has the meaning set
forth in Section 2.3(a).
" Owner " means with respect to any Person,
each Person having legal or beneficial title to an ownership
interest in such Person or a right to acquire such an interest.
" Parent Guarantor " means Municipal
Mortgage & Equity, LLC, a limited liability company organized
under the laws of the State of Delaware.
" Parent Guaranty " means that certain
Limited Liability Company Guaranty, dated as of the date hereof,
made by the Parent Guarantor in favor of the Lender.
" Pension Plan " means a pension plan (as
defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA) maintained for employees of
the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate and covered by Title IV of
ERISA.
" Permitted Liens " means
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(a)
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Liens created by any of the Security Documents;
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(b)
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Liens existing on the date of this Agreement and disclosed on
Schedule 5.3 hereto or incurred after the date of this
Agreement in connection with indebtedness permitted under
Section 5.2 ;
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(c)
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Liens incurred after the date of this Agreement by way of
purchase money security interest, purchase money mortgage,
conditional sale or other title retention agreement, capitalized
lease or other deferred payment contract, and attaching only to the
property being acquired, provided that the indebtedness secured
thereby is permitted hereunder at the time of such incurrence and
does not exceed the lesser of the purchase price or the fair market
value of such property at the time of its acquisition and the
aggregate of such indebtedness incurred in any fiscal year does not
exceed $500,000 in the aggregate;
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(d)
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Deposits or pledges to secure payment of workers’
compensation, unemployment insurance, old age pensions or other
social security obligations, in the ordinary course of business of
the Borrower;
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(e)
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Liens for taxes, fees, assessments and governmental charges not
delinquent or to the extent that payments therefor shall not at the
time be required to be made in accordance with the provisions of
Section 5.9 ;
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(f)
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Liens of carriers, warehousemen, mechanics and materialmen, and
other like Liens arising in the ordinary course of business, for
sums not due or to the extent that payment therefor shall not at
the time be required to be made in accordance with the provisions
of Section 5.9 ;
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(g)
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Deposits to secure the performance of bids, trade contracts,
leases, statutory obligations and other obligations of a like
nature incurred in the ordinary course of business; and
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(h)
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Zoning restrictions, easements, licenses, restrictions on the
use of real property or irregularities in title thereto, which do
not materially impair the use of such property in the operation of
the Borrower’s business or the value of such property for the
purpose of such business.
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" Person " means any individual,
corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited liability company,
association, joint stock company, trust, unincorporated
organization or government or any agency or political subdivision
thereof.
" Plan " means an employee benefit plan (as
defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) maintained for employees of
the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate.
" Pledge Agreement " means that certain
Pledge Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, entered into by and
between the Borrower and the Lender.
" Re-Ven Disposition " means the sale or
other disposition of all of the membership interests or all or
substantially all of the assets of MMA Renewable Ventures, LLC, a
Maryland limited liability company, by MMA New Initiatives, LLC to
a third party in an arms-length transaction.
" Scheduled Forbearance Agreements " has the
meaning set forth in Section 4.11.
" Security Documents " means the Pledge
Agreement and any other document delivered to the Lender from time
to time to secure the Obligations.
" Subsequent Funding Date " has the meaning
set forth in Section 2.1(b).
" Subsidiary " means, with respect to any
Person, any corporation, partnership, limited liability company,
association, joint venture or other business entity of which more
than 50% of the total voting power of shares of stock or other
ownership interests entitled (without regard to the occurrence of
any contingency) to vote in the election of the Person or Persons
(whether directors, managers, trustees or other Persons performing
similar functions) having the power to direct or cause the
direction of the management and policies thereof is at the time
owned or controlled, directly or indirectly, by that Person or one
or more of the other Subsidiaries of that Person or a combination
thereof.
" Subsidiary Guarantor " means MMA Mortgage
Corporation.
" Subsidiary Guaranty " means that certain
Corporate Guaranty, dated as of the date hereof, made by the
Subsidiary Guarantor in favor of the Lender.
" Suspended Event of Default " has the
meaning set forth in Section 6.2(b).
" Term Note " means the Borrower’s
term promissory note, payable to the order of the Lender in
substantially the form of Exhibit A hereto, as the same may be
renewed and amended from time to time, and all replacements
thereto.
" UCC " means the Uniform Commercial Code as
in effect in the state designated in Section 7.12 as the state
whose laws shall govern this Agreement, or in any other state whose
laws are held to govern this Agreement or any portion hereof.
" Unsuspendable Event of Default " has the
meaning set forth in Section 6.2(b).
Section 1.2 Other Definitional Terms; Rules
of Interpretation . The words "hereof", "herein" and
"hereunder" and words of similar import when used in this Agreement
shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular
provision of this Agreement. All accounting terms not otherwise
defined herein have the meanings assigned to them in accordance
with GAAP. All terms defined in the UCC and not otherwise defined
herein have the meanings assigned to them in the UCC. References to
Articles, Sections, subsections, Exhibits, Schedules and the like,
are to Articles, Sections and subsections of, or Exhibits or
Schedules attached to, this Agreement unless otherwise expressly
provided. The words "include", "includes" and "including" shall be
deemed to be followed by the phrase "without limitation". Unless
the context in which used herein otherwise clearly requires, "or"
has the inclusive meaning represented by the phrase "and/or".
Defined terms include in the singular number the plural and in the
plural number the singular. Reference to any agreement (including
the Loan Documents), document or instrument means such agreement,
document or instrument as amended or modified and in effect from
time to time in accordance with the terms thereof (and, if
applicable, in accordance with the terms hereof and the other Loan
Documents), except where otherwise explicitly provided, and
reference to any promissory note includes any promissory note which
is an extension or renewal thereof or a substitute or replacement
therefor. Reference to any law, rule, regulation, order, decree,
requirement, policy, guideline, directive or interpretation means
as amended, modified, codified, replaced or reenacted, in whole or
in part, and in effect on the determination date, including rules
and regulations promulgated thereunder.
ARTICLE II
AMOUNT AND TERMS OF THE TERM
NOTE
Section 2.1 Funding and Repayment of Term
Note .
(a) Initial Funding of Term Note. The Lender
agrees, subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, to
make an advance to the Borrower on the date on which all of the
conditions set forth in Section 3.1 herein are satisfied (the
" Initial Funding Date ") in an original principal amount
equal to Ten Million Dollars ($10,000,000).
(b) Subsequent Funding of Term Note . The
Lender agrees, subject to the terms and conditions of this
Agreement, to make an additional advance to the Borrower on the
date on which all of the conditions set forth in Section 3.2
herein are satisfied (the " Subsequent Funding Date ") in an
original principal amount equal to Five Million Dollars
($5,000,000).
(c) Repayment of Term Note. The entire
unpaid principal balance of the Term Note, and all unpaid interest
accrued thereon, shall be due and payable on the Maturity Date. All
prepayments of amounts outstanding under the Term Note shall be
applied first to any fees payable by the Borrower to the Lender,
next to any accrued but unpaid interest, and finally to outstanding
principal amounts. The Borrower’s obligation to repay the
term loan advance(s) and to pay interest on it shall be evidenced
by the Term Note and shall be secured by the collateral described
in the Pledge Agreement.
Section 2.2 Interest; Default Interest; and
Usury .
(a) Interest. Except as provided in
Section 2.2(b) and Section 2.2(c), the principal amount
of the Term Note shall bear interest at the fixed rate of twenty
percent (20%) per annum.
(b) Default Interest Rate. At any time
during any Default Period, in the Lender’s sole discretion
and without waiving any of its other rights or remedies, the
principal of the Term Note shall bear interest at the Default Rate
or such lesser rate as the Lender may determine, effective as of
the first day of the month in which any Default Period begins
through the last day of such Default Period, or any shorter time
period that the Lender may determine. The decision of the Lender to
impose a rate that is less than the Default Rate or to not impose
the Default Rate for the entire duration of the Default Period
shall be made by Lender in its sole discretion and shall not be a
waiver of any of its other rights and remedies, including its right
to retroactively impose the full Default Rate for the entirety of
any such Default Period.
(c) Usury. In any event, no rate change
shall be put into effect which would result in a rate greater than
the highest rate permitted by law. Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary contained in any Loan Document, all agreements which
either now are or which shall become agreements between the
Borrower and the Lender are hereby limited so that in no
contingency or event whatsoever shall the total liability for
payments in the nature of interest, additional interest and other
charges exceed the applicable limits imposed by any applicable
usury laws. If any payments in the nature of interest, additional
interest and other charges made under any Loan Document are held to
be in excess of the limits imposed by any applicable usury laws, it
is agreed that any such amount held to be in excess shall be
considered payment of principal hereunder, and the indebtedness
evidenced hereby shall be reduced by such amount so that the total
liability for payments in the nature of interest, additional
interest and other charges shall not exceed the applicable limits
imposed by any applicable usury laws, in compliance with the
desires of the Borrower and the Lender. This provision shall never
be superseded or waived and shall control every other provision of
the Loan Documents and all agreements between the Borrower and the
Lender, or their successors and assigns.
Section 2.3 Fees .
(a) Origination Fee. On any Funding Date,
the Borrower shall pay to the Lender a non-refundable origination
fee in the amount equal to one percent (1.0%) of the principal
amount funded by the Lender on such Funding Date (the "
Origination Fee "). In the Lender’s sole discretion,
the Lender may fund the principal amount of any term loan advance,
net of the Origination Fee, on any Funding Date.
(b) Exit Fee. At the time any principal
amount of the Term Note is paid by the Borrower regardless of
whether such amount is prepaid or paid on the Maturity Date, the
Borrower shall pay to the Lender a fee in an amount equal to two
percent (2%) of the principal amount of the Term Note paid (the "
Exit Fee "); provided, however, the Lender agrees to waive
the payment of the Exit Fee by the Borrower if repayment of the
Term Note is made in connection with the closing of the
transactions contemplated by the Acquisition Agreement.
Section 2.4 Time for Interest Payments;
Payment on Non-Business Days; Computation of Interest and Fees
.
(a) Time For Interest Payments. Accrued and
unpaid interest shall be due and payable in arrears on the first
day of each month and on the Maturity Date (each an " Interest
Payment Date "). Interest will accrue from the most recent date
to which interest has been paid or, if no interest has been paid,
from the date of such term loan advance to the Interest Payment
Date.
(b) Payment on Non Business Days. Whenever
any payment to be made hereunder shall be stated to be due on a day
which is not a Business Day, such payment may be made on the next
succeeding Business Day, and such extension of time shall in such
case be included in the computation of interest on the term loan
advance(s) or the fees hereunder, as the case may be.
(c) Computation of Interest and Fees.
Interest accruing on the outstanding principal balance of the Term
Note and fees hereunder outstanding from time to time shall be
computed on the basis of actual number of days elapsed in a year of
360 days.
Section 2.5 Use of Proceeds . The
Borrower shall use the proceeds of the Term Note for working
capital and other general corporate purposes, to make loans to its
Affiliates, or to pay dividends to its Affiliates if such dividend
payments are permitted pursuant to the terms of the Pledge
Agreement.
Section 2.6 Liability Records . The
Lender may maintain from time to time, at its discretion, records
as to the Obligations. All entries made on any such record shall be
presumed correct until the Borrower establishes the contrary. Upon
the Lender’s demand, the Borrower will admit and certify in
writing the exact principal balance of the Obligations that the
Borrower then asserts to be outstanding. Any billing statement or
accounting rendered by the Lender shall be conclusive and fully
binding on the Borrower unless the Borrower gives the Lender
specific written notice of exception within 30 days after
receipt.
Section 2.7 Taxes . Any and all
payments by the Borrower hereunder shall be made, in accordance
with this Article II, free and clear of and without deduction
for any and all present or future taxes, levies, imposts,
deductions, charges or withholdings, and all liabilities with
respect thereto, excluding, in the case of the Lender, taxes
imposed on its income, and franchise taxes imposed on it. If the
Borrower shall be required by law to deduct any such amounts from
or in respect of any sum payable hereunder to the Lender,
(i) the sum payable shall be increased as may be necessary so
that after making all required deductions (including deductions
applicable to additional sums payable under this Section 2.7)
the Lender receives an amount equal to the sum it would have
received had no such deductions been made, (ii) the Borrower
shall make such deductions and (iii) the Borrower shall pay
the full amount deducted to the relevant taxation authority or
other authority in accordance with applicable law. The Borrower
further agrees to pay any present or future stamp or documentary
taxes or any other excise or property taxes, charges or similar
levies which arise from any payment made hereunder or from the
execution, delivery or registration of, or otherwise with respect
to, the Term Note.
Section 2.8 Setoff . The Lender may at
any time or from time to time, at its sole discretion and without
demand and without notice to anyone, setoff any liability owed to
the Borrower by the Lender, whether or not such is due and payable,
against any Obligation, that is due and payable.
ARTICLE III
CONDITIONS OF LENDING
Section 3.1 Conditions Precedent to the
Initial Term Loan Advance . The Lender’s obligation to
make the initial term loan advance in the principal amount of Ten
Million Dollars ($10,000,000) shall be subject to the conditions
precedent that the Lender shall have received all of the following,
each properly executed by the appropriate party and in form and
substance satisfactory to the Lender:
(a) This Agreement.
(b) The Acquisition Agreement.
(c) The Term Note.
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(d)
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The Pledge Agreement.
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(e) The Guarantees.
(f) Current searches of appropriate filing
offices showing that (i) no Liens have been filed and remain
in effect against the Borrower or MMA Mortgage Corporation except
Permitted Liens or Liens held by Persons who have agreed in writing
that upon receipt of proceeds of the term loan advance, they will
satisfy, release or terminate such Liens in a manner satisfactory
to the Lender, and (ii) the Lender has duly filed all
financing statements necessary to perfect the security interests
granted by the Borrower to the Lender pursuant to the Pledge
Agreement, to the extent such security interest is capable of being
perfected by filing, and performance of all other actions required
to be performed by the Borrower under the Pledge Agreement,
including but not limited to the delivery by the Borrower of
(i) assignments separate from certificates duly executed by
the Borrower in blank relating to the pledge of all the capital
stock of MMA Mortgage Corporation and (ii) all the original
capital stock certificates of MMA Mortgage Corporation.
(g) (i) A certificate of the
Borrower’s Secretary or Assistant Secretary certifying that
attached to such certificate are (A) the resolutions of the
Borrower’s Directors and, if required, Owners, authorizing
the execution, delivery and performance by the Borrower of the Loan
Documents to which it is a party, (B) true, correct and
complete copies of the Borrower’s Constituent Documents, and
(C) incumbency signatures of the Borrower’s Officers or
agents authorized to execute and deliver the Loan Documents to
which it is a party and other instruments, agreements and
certificates on the Borrower’s behalf; (ii) A
certificate of the Parent Guarantor’s Secretary or Assistant
Secretary certifying that attached to such certificate are
(A) the resolutions of the Parent Guarantor’s Directors
and, if required, Owners, authorizing the execution, delivery and
performance by the Parent Guarantor of the Loan Documents to which
it is a party, (B) true, correct and complete copies of the
Parent Guarantor’s Amended and Restated Certificate of
Formation, Amended and Restated Certificate of Formation and
Operating Agreement, and Amended and Restated By-Laws, and
(C) incumbency signatures of the Parent Guarantor’s
Officers or agents authorized to execute and deliver the Loan
Documents to which it is a party and other instruments, agreements
and certificates on the Parent Guarantor’s behalf; and
(iii) A certificate of the Secretary or Assistant Secretary of
MMA Mortgage Corporation certifying that attached to such
certificate are (A) the resolutions of MMA Mortgage
Corporation’s Directors and, if required, Owners, authorizing
the execution, delivery and performance by MMA Mortgage Corporation
of the Loan Documents to which it is a party, (B) true,
correct and complete copies of the Articles of Incorporation and
Bylaws of MMA Mortgage Corporation, and (C) incumbency
signatures of MMA Mortgage Corporation’s Officers or agents
authorized to execute and deliver the Loan Documents to which it is
a party and other instruments, agreements and certificates on MMA
Mortgage Corporation’s behalf.
(h) A current good standing certificate for
the Borrower issued by the Secretary of State of Florida
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(i) A current good standing certificate for
the Parent Guarantor issued by the Secretary of State of
Delaware.
(j) A current good standing certificate for
MMA Mortgage Corporation issued by the Secretary of State of
Florida.
(k) An opinion of counsel to the Borrower, the
Parent Guarantor, and MMA Mortgage Corporation, addressed to the
Lender, in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the
Lender.
(l) Certificates of the insurance required
hereunder.
(m) Payment of the fees and commissions due
under Section 2.3 through the date of the initial term loan
advance and expenses incurred by the Lender through such date and
required to be paid by the Borrower under Section 7.5,
including all legal expenses incurred through the date of this
Agreement.
(n) Approvals by Federal National Mortgage
Association and the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation to the
pledge of the stock in MMA Mortgage Corporation to Lender.
(o) The filing with the Florida Secretary of
State of an amendment to the Articles of Incorporation of MMA
Mortgage Corporation, in a form acceptable to the Lender in its
sole discretion, so that the Articles of Incorporation, as amended,
of MMA Mortgage Corporation require the affirmative vote of each
independent director of MMA Mortgage Corporation and the prior
written consent of the Lender prior to the taking by MMA Mortgage
Corporation of certain actions relating to the declaration of
bankruptcy or acknowledgment of insolvency as further described in
such amendment.
(p) Evidence satisfactory to the Lender that
any UCC financing statement amendment, termination, or release
necessary for the Borrower to comply herewith has been authorized
for filing or been filed.
(q) Such other documents as the Lender may
reasonably require.
Section 3.2 Conditions Precedent to the
Subsequent Term Loan Advance . The Lender’s obligation to
make the subsequent term loan advance in the principal amount of
Five Million Dollars ($5,000,000) shall be subject to satisfaction
of each of the following the conditions precedent:
(a) (i) each of the representations and
warranties contained in Article IV of the Agreement shall be
true and correct on and as of the Subsequent Funding Date as though
made on and as of such date, except to the extent that such
representations and warranties relate solely to an earlier date;
(ii) no event shall have occurred and be continuing, or would
result from the making of such subsequent term loan advance that
would constitute a Default or an Event of Default (without regard
to whether the Lender has issued a Declaration Notice with respect
thereto, if applicable); and (iii) the Lender shall have
received a certificate executed by an executive officer of the
Borrower dated as of the Subsequent Funding Date, certifying the
statements in Section 3.2(a) (i) and (ii) above are
true and correct;
(b) the Acquisition Agreement has not then
been terminated and is in full force and effect on Subsequent
Funding Date and the transactions contemplated by the Acquisition
Agreement have not yet then been consummated;
(c) The Re-Ven Disposition shall have closed
and done so within 45 days after the date hereof on terms
substantially similar to the terms described in writing by MMA
Mortgage Corporation to the Lender prior to the date of this
Agreement, and in any event, generating net proceeds to the seller
of at least $14 million and the Borrower shall have presented
reasonable evidence to that effect (including a certificate to that
effect from an executive officer of the Borrower); and
(d) Such other documents as the Lender may
reasonably require.
ARTICLE IV
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
The Borrower represents and warrants to the Lender
as follows:
Section 4.1 Existence and Power; Name;
Chief Executive Office; and Organizational Identification
Number . The Borrower is a corporation, duly organized, validly
existing and in good standing under the laws of the State of
Florida and is duly licensed or qualified to transact business in
all jurisdictions where the character of the property owned or
leased or the nature of the business transacted by it makes such
licensing or qualification necessary except jurisdictions in which
the failure to so qualify would not, in the aggregate, have a
Material Adverse Effect. The Borrower has all requisite power and
authority to conduct its business, to own its properties and to
execute and deliver, and to perform all of its obligations under,
the Loan Documents to which it is a party. During its existence,
the Borrower has done business solely under the names set forth in
Schedule 4.1. The Borrower’s chief executive office and
principal place of business is located at the address set forth in
Schedule 4.1. The Borrower’s organizational
identification is K22809.
Section 4.2 Ownership . The Borrower
owns one hundred percent (100%) of the outstanding capital stock
issued by MMA Mortgage Corporation. The Parent Guarantor owns
directly or indirectly one hundred percent (100%) of the
outstanding capital stock of the Borrower.
Section 4.3 Authorization of Borrowing; No
Conflict as to Law or Agreements . The execution, delivery and
performance by the Borrower of the Loan Documents have been duly
authorized by all necessary corporate action and do not and will
not (i) require any consent or approval of the
Borrower’s Owners, except such consent or approval as has
been obtained or given prior to the date hereof; (ii) require
any authorization, consent or approval by, or registration,
declaration or filing with, or notice to, any governmental
department, commission, board, bureau, agency or instrumentality,
domestic or foreign, or any third party, except such authorization,
consent, approval, registration, declaration, filing or notice as
has been obtained from the Agencies and any other parties,
accomplished or given prior to the date hereof; (iii) violate
any provision of any law, rule or regulation or of any order, writ,
injunction or decree presently in effect having applicability to
the Borrower or of the Borrower’s Constituent Documents;
(iv) result in a breach of or constitute a default under any
indenture or loan or credit agreement or any other material
agreement, lease or instrument to which the Borrower is a party or
by which it or its properties may be bound or affected; or
(v) result in, or require, the creation or imposition of any
Lien (other than any security interest granted by the Borrower to
the Lender) upon or with respect to any of the properties now owned
or hereafter acquired by the Borrower.
Section 4.4 Legal Agreements . This
Agreement constitutes and, upon due execution by the Borrower, the
other Loan Documents to which the Borrower is a party will
constitute the legal, valid and binding obligations of the
Borrower, enforceable against the Borrower in accordance with their
respective terms.
Section 4.5 Subsidiaries . MMA Mortgage
Corporation has no Subsidiaries.
Section 4.6 Financial Condition; No Adverse
Change . The Borrower has furnished to the Lender (a) the
audited balance sheets of MMA Mortgage Corporation as of
December 31, 2006 and December 31, 2007 and the related
audited statements of earnings and comprehensive earnings,
stockholders’ equity and cash flows for each of the fiscal
years then ended, together a true and correct copy of the report on
such audited information by Ernst & Young and all letters from
such accountants with respect to the results of such audits and
(b) the unaudited balance sheet and statements of earnings of
MMA Mortgage Corporation as of and for the nine months ended
September 30, 2008. Except as set forth in the notes thereto or in
any disclaimers included therewith, all such financial statements
were prepared in accordance with GAAP and fairly present the
consolidated financial condition and results of operations of MMA
Mortgage Corporation as of the respective dates thereof and for the
respective periods covered thereby, subject in the cast of such
unaudited financial statements to normal year-end adjustments (the
effect of which will not individually or in the aggregate, have a
Material Adverse effect).
Section 4.7 Litigation . There are no
actions, suits or proceedings pending or, to the Borrower’s
knowledge, threatened against or affecting the Borrower or MMA
Mortgage Corporation or the properties of the Borrower or MMA
Mortgage Corporation before any court or governmental department,
commission, board, bureau, agency or instrumentality, domestic or
foreign, which, if determined adversely to the Borrower or MMA
Mortgage Corporation, would have a Material Adverse Effect, apart
from those matters specifically listed in Schedule 4.7.
Section 4.8 Regulation U . The
Borrower is not engaged in the business of extending credit for the
purpose of purchasing or carrying margin stock (within the meaning
of Regulation U of the Board of Governors of the Federal
Reserve System), and no part of the proceeds of the term loan
advance(s) will be used to purchase or carry any margin stock or to
extend credit to others for the purpose of purchasing or carrying
any margin stock.
Section 4.9 Taxes . The Parent
Guarantor, the Borrower, and their Subsidiaries have paid or caused
to be paid to the proper authorities when due all federal, state
and local taxes required to be withheld by each of them. The Parent
Guarantor, the Borrower, and their Subsidiaries have filed all
federal, state and local tax returns which to the knowledge of the
Officers of the Parent Guarantor, the Borrower, or any of their
Subsidiaries, as the case may be, are required to be filed, and the
Parent Guarantor, the Borrower, and their Subsidiaries have paid or
caused to be paid to the respective taxing authorities all taxes as
shown on said returns or on any assessment received by any of them
(other than assessments that are being contested in good faith by
appropriate proceedings and for which proper reserves have been
made) to the extent such taxes have become due.
Section 4.10 Plans . Neither the
Borrower nor any ERISA Affiliate (i) contributes to, has
contributed to or has any liability with respect to any
Multiemployer Plan or Defined Benefit Pension Plan or
(ii) provides, has provided or has any obligation
to provide post-retirement medical or insurance benefits with
respect to employees or former employees (other than benefits
required under Section 601 of ERISA, Section 4980B of the
IRC or applicable state law). Neither the Borrower nor any ERISA
Affiliate has received any notice or has any knowledge to the
effect that it is not in full compliance with any of the
requirements of ERISA, the IRC or applicable state law with respect
to any Plan. All Pensions Plans of the Borrower and any ERISA
Affiliate that are operated as plans that are qualified under the
provisions of Section 401(a) of the IRC satisfy in form and
operation all applicable qualification requirements and no Pension
Plan has received or committed to receive a transfer of assets
and/or liabilities or spin-off from another plan, except transfers,
which qualify as transfers from eligible rollover distributions
within the meaning of IRC Section 402(c)(4). Neither the
Borrower nor any ERISA Affiliate has (i) any accumulated
funding deficiency (as defined in Section 302 of ERISA and
Section 412 of the IRC) under any Pension Plan, whether or not
waived or (ii) any liability or knowledge of any facts or
circumstances which could result in any liability to the Pension
Benefit Guaranty Corporation, the Internal Revenue Service, the
Department of Labor or any participant or other person in
connection with any Plan (other than routine claims for benefits
under the Plan).
Section 4.11 Default . Each of the
Borrower and MMA Mortgage Corporation is in compliance with all
provisions of all agreements, instruments, decrees and orders to
which it is a party or by which it or its property is bound or
affected, the breach or default of which could have a Material
Adverse Effect except (i) to the extent such compliance is
related to the timely delivery of financial statements by the
Parent Guarantor, the Borrower, MMA Mortgage Corporation, or any of
their Affiliates under such agreements or instruments or
(ii) as scheduled on Schedule 4.11(a). Schedule 4.11(b)
lists the forbearance agreements to which the Borrower or MMA
Mortgage Corporation currently is a party (the " Scheduled
Forbearance Agreements "). Each of the Borrower and MMA
Mortgage Corporation is in compliance with each of the terms of the
Scheduled Forbearance Agreements to which each is a party and no
default has occurred and is continuing under any of the Scheduled
Forbearance Agreements.
Section 4.12 Submissions to Lender .
All financial and other information provided to the Lender by or on
behalf of the Borrower in connection with the Borrower’s
request for any term loan advance contemplated hereby is
(i) true and correct in all material respects, (ii) does
not omit any material fact necessary to make such information not
misleading and, (iii) as to projections, valuations or
proforma financial statements, present a good faith opinion as to
such projections, val
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