Exhibit 99.1
TRIUMPH GROUP,
INC.
AMENDMENT NO. 3 TO NOTE PURCHASE
AGREEMENT
DATED AS OF MAY 3,
2005
$80,000,000 SERIES A SENIOR NOTES
DUE DECEMBER 2, 2012
$70,000,000 SERIES B SENIOR NOTES
DUE DECEMBER 2, 2012
Annexes &
Exhibits
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TRIUMPH GROUP,
INC.
$80,000,000 SERIES A SENIOR NOTES
DUE DECEMBER 2, 2012
$70,000,000 SERIES B SENIOR NOTES
DUE DECEMBER 2, 2012
AMENDMENT NO. 3 TO NOTE PURCHASE
AGREEMENT
As of May 3, 2005
To each of the Current
Noteholders
Named in Annex 1 hereto:
Ladies and Gentlemen:
TRIUMPH GROUP, INC.
, a Delaware corporation (together
with any successors and assigns, the “ Company
”), hereby agrees with each of you as follows:
1.
PRIOR ISSUANCE OF NOTES,
ETC.
The Company previously issued and
sold (a) eighty million dollars ($80,000,000) in aggregate
principal amount of its Series A Senior Notes due
December 2, 2012 (as may be amended, restated or otherwise
modified from time to time, collectively, the “
Series A Notes ”, such term to include any such
notes issued in substitution therefor pursuant to Section 13
of the Note Purchase Agreement) and (b) seventy million
dollars ($70,000,000) in aggregate principal amount of its
Series B Senior Notes due December 2, 2012 (as may be
amended, restated or otherwise modified from time to time,
collectively, the “ Series B Notes ”, such
term to include any such notes issued in substitution therefor
pursuant to Section 13 of the Note Purchase Agreement)
pursuant to those certain separate Note Purchase Agreements, each
dated as of November 21, 2002, as amended by (i) that
certain Amendment No. 1 to Note Purchase Agreement, dated as
of April 21, 2004 and (ii) that certain Amendment
No. 2 to Note Purchase Agreement, dated as of November 3,
2004 (as in effect immediately prior to giving effect to the
Amendment provided for herein, collectively, the “
Existing Note Purchase Agreement ” and, as amended
pursuant to this Agreement and as may be further amended, restated
or otherwise modified from time to time, collectively, the “
Note Purchase Agreement ”) between the Company and
each of Current Noteholders (as herein after defined). The
Series A Notes and the Series B Notes are collectively
referred to herein as the “ Notes .”
Capitalized terms used herein and not otherwise defined herein
shall have the meanings ascribed to such terms in the Note Purchase
Agreement after giving effect to the Amendment contemplated by this
Agreement.
The register kept by the Company for
the registration and transfer of the Notes indicates that each of
the Persons named in Annex 1 hereto (collectively, the
“ Current Noteholders ”) is currently a holder
of the aggregate principal amount of Notes indicated in such Annex
1.
2.
REQUEST FOR CONSENT TO
AMENDMENT.
The hereby requests that each of the
Current Noteholders agree to the amendment (the “
Amendment ”) to the Existing Note Purchase Agreement
provided for by this Agreement.
3.
WARRANTIES AND
REPRESENTATIONS.
To induce the Current Noteholders to
enter into this Agreement and to agree to the Amendment, the
Company warrants and represents to the Current Noteholders as
follows (it being agreed, however, that nothing in this
Section 3 shall affect any of the warranties and
representations previously made by the Company in or pursuant to
the Existing Note Purchase Agreement, and that all of such other
warranties and representations, as well as the warranties and
representations in this Section 3, are true and correct in all
material respects on and as of the date hereof):
3.1.
No Material Adverse
Change.
Since the date of the most recent
audited financial statements provided to you pursuant to
Section 7.1(b) of the Existing Note Purchase Agreement,
there has been no change in the business operations, profits,
financial condition, properties or business prospects of the
Company or any Subsidiary except changes that, in the aggregate,
could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
3.2.
Corporate Organization and
Authority.
Each of the Company and its
Subsidiaries is duly organized, validly existing and in good
standing under the laws of its jurisdiction of organization and has
the requisite corporate power and authority to execute and deliver
this Agreement and to perform its obligations hereunder and under
the Financing Documents.
3.3.
Legal and Authorized; Obligations
are Enforceable.
(a)
Legal and No Conflict
. The
execution and delivery by the Company and its Subsidiaries of this
Agreement and the compliance by the Company and its Subsidiaries
with all of the provisions of the Financing Documents to which it
is a party are legal and do not violate, conflict with, result in
any breach of any of the provisions of, require any consents under,
constitute a default under, or result in the creation of any Lien
(other than Permitted Liens) upon any property of the Company or
any Subsidiary under the provisions of,
(i)
the charter documents or any other
material agreement to which the Company or such Subsidiary is a
party or by which it or any of its properties may be bound,
or
(ii)
any order, judgment, decree, or
ruling of any court, arbitrator or Governmental Authority
applicable to the Company or any Subsidiary.
(b)
Obligations of Company are
Enforceable . The execution and
delivery of each of this Agreement has been duly authorized by all
necessary action on the part of the Company, and this Agreement has
been executed and delivered on behalf of the Company by one or more
duly authorized officers of the Company, and each of the Financing
Documents to which the Company or any Subsidiary is a party
constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of the Company
and such Subsidiary, enforceable
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against the
Company or such Subsidiary in accordance with its respective terms,
except that, in each case, the enforceability thereof may
be
(i)
limited by applicable bankruptcy,
reorganization, arrangement, insolvency, moratorium, or other
similar laws affecting the enforceability of creditors’
rights generally, and
(ii)
subject to the availability of
equitable remedies,
and except that certain rights to
indemnity and contribution may be limited by applicable
law.
3.4.
Full Disclosure.
Neither the financial statements and
other certificates previously provided to the Current Noteholders
pursuant to the provisions of the Existing Note Purchase Agreement
nor the statements made in this Agreement nor any other written
statements furnished by or on behalf of the Company to the Current
Noteholders in connection with the proposal and negotiation of the
Amendment, taken as a whole, contain any untrue statement of a
material fact or omit a material fact necessary to make the
statements contained therein and herein not misleading. There
is no fact relating to any event or circumstance that has occurred
or arisen since the Closing that the Company has not disclosed to
the Current Noteholders in writing that has had or, so far as the
Company can now reasonably foresee, could reasonably be expected to
have, a Material Adverse Effect.
3.5.
Governmental Consent.
Neither the nature of the Company,
or of any of its businesses or Properties, nor any relationship
between the Company and any other Person, nor any circumstance in
connection with the execution and delivery of this Agreement by the
Company, or the performance by the Company of its obligations
thereunder, is such as to require a consent, approval or
authorization of, or filing, registration or qualification with,
any Governmental Authority on the part of the Company in connection
with the execution and delivery of this Agreement or the
performance by the Company of its obligations under the Financing
Documents to which it is a party.
3.6.
Litigation; Observance of
Agreements, Statutes and Orders.
(a)
Except with respect to the matter
Eaton Corp, et al v Frisby, et al and the related investigation by
the Department of Justice, as disclosed in the Company’s
Current Report on Form 8-K dated July 14, 2004, and
any quarterly or current report dated prior to the Effective
Date, filed by the Company with the with the Securities and
Exchange Commission pursuant to the Securities and Exchange Act of
1934, as amended, and the regulations promulgated there under,
there are no actions, suits or proceedings pending or, to the
knowledge of the Company, threatened against or affecting the
Company or any Subsidiary or any property of the Company or any
Subsidiary in any court or before any arbitrator of any kind or
before or by any Governmental Authority that, individually or in
the aggregate, would reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect.
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(b)
Neither the Company nor any
Subsidiary is in default under any order, judgment, decree or
ruling of any court, arbitrator or Governmental Authority or is in
violation of any applicable law, ordinance, rule or regulation
(including, without limitation, Environmental Laws) of any
Governmental Authority, which default or violation, individually or
in the aggregate, would reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect.
3.7.
Solvency.
The fair saleable
value of the business and assets of each of the Company and each
Subsidiary, exceeds, as of the Effective Date, the amount that will
be required to pay the probable liabilities of such Person
(including subordinated, contingent, unmatured and unliquidated
liabilities), on existing debts as they may become absolute and
matured