FEDERAL SIGNAL CORPORATION
1415 W. 22nd Street
Oak Brook, Illinois 60523-9945
(630) 954-2000
Fax: (630) 954-2030
GLOBAL AMENDMENT
TO NOTE PURCHASE AGREEMENTS
Note Purchase Agreement dated as of
June 1, 1999, as
supplemented by a First Supplement dated as of May 15,
2001,
a Second Supplement dated as of November 15, 2001 and a
Third Supplement dated as of December 1, 2002
Note Purchase Agreement dated as of
December 15, 2002,
as amended by an Assumption and First Amendment
dated as of January 31, 2008
Master Note Purchase Agreement dated
as of June 1, 2003
Dated as of April 27,
2009
To the Holders
of the Senior Notes
of Federal Signal Corporation
Named in the Attached Annex I
Federal
Signal Corporation, a Delaware corporation (the
“Company”), agrees with you as follows:
1.
PRELIMINARY STATEMENT.
Reference
is made to (i) the Note Purchase Agreement dated as of
June 1, 1999, as supplemented by a First Supplement dated as
of May 15, 2001 (‘First Supplement”), a Second
Supplement dated as of November 15, 2001 (“Second
Supplement”) and a Third Supplement dated as of
December 1, 2002 (“Third Supplement”) among
Federal Signal Corporation (the “Company”) and each of
the Purchasers named in Schedules A thereto (such Note Purchase
Agreement, as so supplemented, the “1999 Note
Agreement”); (ii) the Note Purchase Agreement dated as
of December 15, 2002, as amended by an Assumption and First
Amendment dated as of January 31, 2008, among the Company (as
guarantor of and successor to Federal Signal Canada Finance
Company) and the Purchasers named in Schedule A thereto (the
“2002 Note
Agreement”); and (iii) the Master
Note Purchase Agreement dated as of June 1, 2003 among the
Company and the Purchasers named in Schedule A thereto (the
“2003 Note Agreement” and, together with the 1999 Note
Agreement and the 2002 Note Agreement, the “Note
Agreements”).
Pursuant
to the Note Agreements the following series of Senior Notes were
issued, all or a portion of which remain outstanding:
$50,000,000
6.79% Senior Notes, Series 1999-A, due June 15,
2011;
$50,000,000
6.60% Senior Notes, Series 2001-A, Tranche 2, due May 30,
2011;
$60,000,000
5.24% Senior Notes, Series 2002-A, due December 15,
2012;
$40,000,000
4.93% Guaranteed Senior Notes due December 30,
2012;
$20,000,000
Floating Rate Senior Notes, Series 2003-A, Tranche 2, due
June 30, 2010;
$10,000,000
Floating Rate Senior Notes, Series 2003-A, Tranche 3, due
June 30, 2013 (and, together with the Senior Notes referenced
above, the “Existing Notes”).
Each
register for the registration and transfer of Existing Notes
indicates that you and each of the other parties named in Annex 1
to this Global Amendment to Note Purchase Agreements (this
“Global Amendment”) are currently the holders of the
entire outstanding principal amount of the Existing Notes. You are
referred to herein individually as a “Holder” and
collectively as the “Holders.” Capitalized terms used
and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings ascribed
to them in the Note Agreements.
2.
AMENDMENTS OF NOTE AGREEMENTS.
2.1.
Amendment to References to Federal Signal in 2002 Note
Agreement.
Each
reference to “Federal Signal” in the 2002 Note
Agreement is replaced with “the Company.”
2.2.
Amendment to References to Restricted Subsidiaries in Note
Agreements.
Each
reference to “Restricted Subsidiary” or
“Restricted Subsidiaries” in each Note Agreement is
replaced with “Subsidiary” or
“Subsidiaries.”
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2.3.
Interest Rates and Calculations.
The
interest rate on each series of Notes, or the calculation thereof,
is modified as follows:
(a) Commencing on
the Effective Date (as hereinafter defined), the interest rate
payable on the Series 1999-A Notes, Series 2001-A Notes,
Series 2002-A Notes and the Guaranteed Notes shall increase by
one percent (1.0%) per annum and on January 1, 2010 such
interest rate shall increase by another one percent (1.0%) per
annum, as set forth below:
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Interest Rate
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Immediately
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Commencing on the
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Commencing on
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Prior to the
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Effective Date through
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January 1, 2010
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Notes
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Effective Date
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December 31, 2009
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and thereafter
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6.79
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7.79
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8.79
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6.60
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7.60
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5.24
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6.24
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4.93
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5.93
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6.93
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(b) Commencing on
the Effective Date, the Applicable Percentage, as such term is used
in Section 1.3(a) of the 2003 Note Agreement, for the
Series 2003-A, Tranche 2, Notes and the Series 2003-A,
Tranche 3, Notes shall increase by one percent (1.0%) per annum and
on January 1, 2010 such Applicable Percentage shall increase
by another one percent (1.0%) per annum, as set forth
below:
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Applicable Percentage
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1.05
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1.10
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(c) A new
Section 1A is added to the 1999 Note Agreement and the 2002
Note Agreement immediately after Section 1 of such agreements,
to read in its entirety as follows:
1A. CHANGE
IN RESERVE REQUIREMENTS.
The
Notes shall bear interest from time to time at the stated rate of
interest (and in the manner) specified therein. Notwithstanding the
foregoing, unless, pursuant to generally applicable insurance
regulations for U.S. life and health insurance companies, the risk
based capital factor (the “Risk Based Capital
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Factor”)
attributable to any of the Notes on April 1, 2010, shall be at
a level below the level attributable to such Notes on the Effective
Date (an “RBC Change”), the interest rate on the
outstanding Notes shall be increased by an additional two percent
(2.0%) per annum commencing on April 1, 2010. This increase
shall be in addition to the increases provided in
Section 2.3(a) of the Global Amendment. Each holder of a Note
agrees that (i) if it has actual knowledge of an RBC Change
prior to April 1, 2010 it will use reasonable efforts to
notify the Company of such RBC change prior to April 1, 2010
and (ii) upon written request of the Company prior to
April 1, 2010, it will use reasonable efforts to ascertain
whether there has been an RBC Change and to advise the Company
thereof.
(d) A new
Section 1A is added to the 2003 Note Agreement immediately
after Section 1 of such agreement, to read in its entirety as
follows:
1A. CHANGE
IN RESERVE REQUIREMENTS.
Subject
to the next succeeding sentence, the Notes shall bear interest from
time to time at the stated rate of interest (and in the manner)
specified therein. Notwithstanding the foregoing, unless, pursuant
to generally applicable insurance regulations for U.S. life and
health insurance companies, the risk based capital factor (the
“Risk Based Capital Factor”) attributable to any of the
Notes on April 1, 2010, shall be at a level below the level
attributable to such Note on the Effective Date (an “RBC
Change”), the applicable percentage to be used in determining
Adjusted Libor for such Notes pursuant to Section 1.3(a) shall
be increased by an additional two percent (2.0%) per annum
commencing on April 1, 2010. This increase shall be in
addition to the increases provided in Section 2.3(b) of the
Global Amendment. Each holder of a Note agrees that (i) if it
has actual knowledge of an RBC Change prior to April 1, 2010,
it will use reasonable efforts to notify the Company of such RBC
change prior to April 1, 2010 and (ii) upon written
request of the Company prior to April 1, 2010, it will use
reasonable efforts to ascertain whether there has been an RBC
Change and to advise the Company thereof.
2.4.
Section 8 of Note Agreements.
(a)
Section 8.5 of the 1999 and 2002 Note Agreements, and
Section 8.6 of the 2003 Note Agreement, are amended to read in
their entirety as follows, except that for purposes of the 2003
Note Agreement, all references below to “8.5” shall be
deemed to mean “8.6”:
The
Company will not and will not permit any Affiliate to purchase,
redeem, prepay or otherwise acquire, directly or indirectly, any of
the outstanding Notes except (a) upon the payment or
prepayment of the Notes in accordance with the terms of this
Agreement and the Notes or (b) pursuant to an
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offer to
purchase at not less than par plus accrued interest made by the
Company or an Affiliate pro rata to the holders of All Notes of All
Series at the time outstanding upon the same terms and conditions.
Any such offer shall provide each holder with sufficient
information to enable it to make an informed decision with respect
to such offer, and shall remain open for at least 30 days. A
failure by a holder to respond to an offer under clause
(b) above or to accept any such offer as to all of such offer
made to such holder, within the offer period, shall be deemed to
constitute acceptance of such offer by such holder. If the holders
of more than 25% of the principal amount of All Notes of All Series
then outstanding accept or are deemed to have accepted such offer,
the Company shall promptly notify the remaining holders of the
actual percentage that have accepted and the expiration date for
the acceptance by holders of Notes of such offer shall be extended
by the number of days necessary to give each such remaining holder
at least 10 Business Days from its receipt of such notice to accept
such offer. The Company will promptly cancel all Notes acquired by
it or any Affiliate pursuant to any payment, prepayment or purchase
of Notes pursuant to any provision of this Agreement and no Notes
may be issued in substitution or exchange for any such
Notes.
(b) The definition
of “Remaining Scheduled Payments” in Section 8.6
of the 1999 and 2002 Note Agreements is amended to read in its
entirety as follows:
“Remaining Scheduled Payments” means, with
respect to the Called Principal of any Note, all payments of such
Called Principal and interest thereon (for this purpose only to be
calculated based upon the original coupon rate on such Note) that
would be due after the Settlement Date with respect to such Called
Principal if no payment of such Called Principal were made prior to
its scheduled due date, provided that if such Settlement Date is
not a date on which interest payments are due to be made under the
terms of the Notes, then the amount of the next succeeding
scheduled interest payment will be reduced by the amount of
interest accrued to such Settlement Date and required to be paid on
such Settlement Date pursuant to Section 8.2 or 12.1.
(c) A new
Section 8.7 is added to the 1999 and 2002 Note Agreements and
a new Section 8.9 is added to the 2003 Note Agreement, to read in
its entirety as follows, except that for purposes of the 2003 Note
Agreement, all references below to “8.7” shall be
deemed to mean “8.9”:
8.7
Mandatory Offer to Prepay upon Change of Control.
(a) Notice of
Change of Control or Control Event — The Company will,
within five Business Days after any Responsible Officer has
knowledge of the occurrence of any Change of Control or Control
Event, give notice of such Change of Control or Control Event to
each holder of Notes unless notice in respect of such Change of
Control (or the Change of Control contemplated by such Control
Event) shall have been given pursuant to paragraph (b) of this
Section 8.7. If a Change of Control has occurred, such notice
shall contain and
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constitute an
offer to prepay Notes as described in paragraph (c) of this
Section 8.7 and shall be accompanied by the certificate
described in paragraph (g) of this Section 8.7.
(b) Condition
to Company Action — The Company will not take any action
that consummates or finalizes a Change of Control unless
(i) at least 15 Business Days prior to such action it shall
have given to each holder of Notes written notice containing and
constituting an offer to prepay Notes accompanied by the
certificate described in paragraph (g) of this
Section 8.7, and (ii) subject to the provisions of
paragraph (d) below, contemporaneously with such action, it
prepays all Notes required to be prepaid in accordance with this
Section 8.7.
(c) Offer to
Prepay Notes — The offer to prepay Notes contemplated by
paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section 8.7 shall be
an offer to prepay, in accordance with and subject to this
Section 8.7, all, but not less than all, of the Notes held by
each holder (in this case only, “holder” in respect of
any Note registered in the name of a nominee for a disclosed
beneficial owner shall mean such beneficial owner) on a Business
Day specified in such offer (the “Proposed Prepayment
Date”). If such Proposed Prepayment Date is in connection
with an offer contemplated by paragraph (a) of this
Section 8.7, such date shall be not less than 30 days and
not more than 60 days after the date of such offer.
(d) Acceptance;
Rejection — A holder of Notes may accept the offer to
prepay made pursuant to this Section 8.7 by causing a notice
of such acceptance to be delivered to the Company on or before the
date specified in the certificate described in paragraph
(g) of this Section 8.7. A failure by a holder of Notes
to respond to an offer to prepay made pursuant to this
Section 8.7, or to accept an offer as to all of the Notes held
by the holder, within such time period shall be deemed to
constitute acceptance of such offer by such holder.
(e)
Prepayment — Prepayment of the Notes to be prepaid
pursuant to this Section 8.7 shall be at 100% of the
outstanding principal amount of such Notes, together with interest
on such Notes accrued to the date of prepayment and shall not
require the payment of any Make-Whole Amount or prepayment premium.
The prepayment shall be made on the Proposed Prepayment Date except
as provided in paragraph (f) of this
Section 8.7.
(f) Deferral
Pending Change of Control — The obligation of the Company
to prepay Notes pursuant to the offers required by paragraphs
(a) and (b) and accepted in accordance with paragraph
(d) of this Section 8.7 is subject to the occurrence of
the Change of Control in respect of which such offers and
acceptances shall have been made. In the event that such Change of
Control does not occur on or prior to the Proposed Prepayment Date
in respect thereof, the prepayment shall be deferred until and
shall be made on the date on which such Change of Control occurs.
The Company shall keep each holder of Notes reasonably and timely
informed of (i) any such deferral of the date of prepayment,
(ii) the date on which such Change of Control and the
prepayment are expected to
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occur, and
(iii) any determination by the Company that efforts to effect
such Change of Control have ceased or been abandoned (in which case
the offers and acceptances made pursuant to this Section 8.7
in respect of such Change of Control shall be deemed rescinded).
Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that the prepayment has
not been made within 90 days after such Proposed Prepayment
Date by virtue of the deferral provided for in this
Section 8.3(f), the Company shall make a new offer to prepay
in accordance with paragraph (c) of this
Section 8.7.
(g)
Officer’s Certificate — Each offer to prepay the
Notes pursuant to this Section 8.7 shall be accompanied by a
certificate, executed by a Senior Financial Officer of the Company
and dated the date of such offer, specifying: (i) the Proposed
Prepayment Date, (ii) that such offer is made pursuant to this
Section 8.7, (iii) the principal amount of each Note
offered to be prepaid, (iv) the interest that would be due on
each Note offered to be prepaid, accrued to the Proposed Prepayment
Date, (v) that the conditions of this Section 8.7 have
been fulfilled, (vi) in reasonable detail, the nature and date
or proposed date of the Change of Control and (vii) the date
by which any holder of a Note that wishes to accept such offer must
deliver notice thereof to the Company, which date shall not be
earlier than three Business Days prior to the Proposed Prepayment
Date or, in the case of a prepayment pursuant to
Section 8.7(b), the date of the action referred to in
Section 8.7(b)(i).
2.5.
Section 10 of the Note Agreements.
Section 10
of each of the Note Agreements is amended to read in its entirety
as follows:
The
Company covenants that so long as any of the Notes are
outstanding:
10.1 Total
Indebtedness/Capital Ratio.
The
Company will not permit the Total Indebtedness/Capital Ratio to be
greater than .50 to 1.0 as of the last day of any fiscal
quarter.
The
Company will not permit Priority Debt to be greater than 20% of
Consolidated Net Worth at any time.
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The
Company will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary to, permit to
exist, create, assume or incur, directly or indirectly, any Lien on
its properties or assets, whether now owned or hereafter acquired,
except:
(a) Liens for
taxes, assessments or governmental charges not then due and
delinquent or the nonpayment of which is permitted by
Section 9.4;
(b) Liens
incidental to the ordinary course of business of the Company or any
Subsidiary to secure claims for labor, materials or supplies in
respect to obligations not overdue or in connection with the
ownership of property (including workers’ compensation,
unemployment insurance, warehousemen’s, mechanics’,
materialmen’s and attorney’s liens and statutory
landlords’ liens) that are not incurred in connection with
the borrowing of money and that in the aggregate do not materially
interfere with the conduct of the business of the Company and its
Subsidiaries taken as a whole or Materially impair the use or value
of the property or assets subject thereto;
(c) any attachment
or judgment Lien, unless the judgment it secures has not, within
60 days after the entry thereof, been discharged or execution
thereof stayed pending appeal, or has not been discharged within
60 days after the expiration of any such stay;
(d) Liens securing
Indebtedness of a Subsidiary to the Company or to another
Subsidiary;
(f) minor survey
exceptions and the like that do not Materially detract from the
value or utility of such property;
(g) encumbrances
in the nature of leases, subleases, zoning restrictions, easements,
rights of way and other rights and restrictions of record on the
use of real property and defects in title arising or incurred in
the ordinary course of business, which, individually and in the
aggregate do not Materially impair the use or value of the property
or assets subject thereto;
(h) Liens
(i) existing on property at the time of its acquisition by the
Company or a Subsidiary and not created in contemplation thereof,
whether or not the Indebtedness secured by such Lien is assumed by
the Company or a Subsidiary; or (ii) on property created
contemporaneously with its acquisition or within 180 days of
the acquisition or completion of construction or improvement
thereof to secure or provide for all or a portion of the purchase
price or cost of construction or improvement of such property after
the date of Closing; or (iii) existing on property of a Person
at the time such Person is merged or consolidated with, or becomes
a Subsidiary of, or substantially all of its assets are acquired
by, the Company or a Subsidiary and not created in contemplation
thereof; provided
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that in the
case of clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) such Liens do not
extend to additional property of the Company or any Subsidiary
(other than property that is an improvement to or is acquired for
specific use in connection with the subject property) and, in the
case of clause (ii) only, that the aggregate principal amount
of Indebtedness secured by each such Lien does not exceed the
lesser of the fair market value (determined in good faith by the
board of directors of the Company) or cost of acquisition or
construction of the property subject thereto;
(i) Liens
resulting from extensions, renewals or replacements of Liens
permitted by paragraph (d), (e) and (h), provided that
(i) there is no increase in the principal amount or decrease
in the maturity of the Indebtedness secured thereby at the time of
such extension, renewal or replacement, (ii) any new Lien
attaches only to the same property theretofore subject to such
earlier Lien and (iii) immediately after such extension, renewal or
replacement no Default or Event of Default would exist;
and
(j) additional
Liens securing Indebtedness not otherwise permitted by paragraphs
(a) through (i) above, provided that, at the time of
creation, assumption or incurrence thereof and any time thereafter,
Priority Debt does not exceed 20% of Consolidated Net
Worth.
Notwithstanding
the foregoing or any other provision of this Agreement to the
contrary, the Company will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary
to, permit to exist, create, assume or incur, directly or
indirectly, any Lien on its properties or assets, whether now owned
or hereafter acquired, in favor of any lenders under the Credit
Agreement unless concurrently therewith the Company makes or causes
to be made effective provision whereby the Notes are secured by
such Lien equally and ratably with any and all Indebtedness thereby
secured pursuant to agreements containing terms reasonably
acceptable to the Required Holders.
Except
as permitted by Section 10.6, the Company will not, and will
not permit any Subsidiary to, sell, lease, transfer or otherwise
dispose of, including by way of merger (collectively, a
“Disposition”), any assets, including capital stock of
Subsidiaries, in one or a series of transactions, to any Person,
other than:
(a) Dispositions
in the ordinary course of business;
(b) Dispositions
by the Company to a Wholly Owned Subsidiary or by a Subsidiary to
the Company or to another Wholly Owned Subsidiary or
(c) other
Dispositions not otherwise permitted by this Section 10.5,
including the sale of receivables pursuant to asset securitization
transactions, provided that the aggregate net book value of all
assets so disposed of in any fiscal year pursuant to this
Section 10.5(c) does not exceed 15% of Consolidated Total
Assets as of the end of the immediately preceding fiscal
year.
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Notwithstanding
the foregoing, the Company may, or may permit any Subsidiary to,
make a Disposition and the assets subject to such Disposition shall
not be subject to or included in the foregoing limitation and
computation contained in Section 10.5(c), to the extent that
the net proceeds from such Disposition (after repayment of any
Indebtedness secured by a Lien on the assets subject to such
Disposition) are within one year of such Disposition:
(A) reinvested in
productive assets by the Company or a Subsidiary; or
(B) applied to the
payment or prepayment of the Notes and any other outstanding
Indebtedness of the Company that is pari passu or senior to the
Notes.
For purposes of
foregoing clause B, the Company shall offer to prepay (on a
Business Day not less than 30 or more than 60 days following
such offer) the Notes, on a pro rata basis with the other
Indebtedness that the Company elects to include in such offer, at a
price of 100% of the principal amount of the Notes to be prepaid
(without any Make-Whole Amount), together with interest accrued to
the date of prepayment; provided that if any holder of the Notes
declines or rejects such offer, the proceeds that would have been
paid to such holder shall be offered pro rata to the other holders
of the Notes that have accepted the offer. A failure by a holder of
Notes to respond in writing not later than 10 Business Days prior
to the proposed prepayment date to an offer to prepay made pursuant
to this Section 10.5 shall be deemed to constitute acceptance
of such offer by such holder. Solely for the purposes of foregoing
clause (B), whether or not such offers are accepted by the holders,
the entire principal amount of the Notes subject thereto shall be
deemed to have been prepaid.
10.6 Merger,
Consolidation, etc.
The
Company will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary to,
consolidate with or merge with any other Person or convey, transfer
or lease all or substantially all of its assets in a single
transaction or series of transactions to any Person except
that:
(a) the Company
may consolidate or merge with any other Person or convey, transfer,
sell or lease all or substantially all of its assets in a single
transaction or series of transactions to any Person, provided
that:
(i) the successor
formed by such consolidation or the survivor of such merger or the
Person that acquires by conveyance, transfer or lease all or
substantially all of the assets of the Company as an entirety, as
the case may be, shall be a solvent corporation organized and
existing under the laws of the United States or any State thereof
(including the District of Columbia), and, if the Company is not
such corporation, such corporation (x) shall have executed and
delivered to each holder of any Notes its assumption of the due and
punctual performance and observance of each covenant and condition
of this Agreement and the Notes and (y) shall have caused to
be delivered to each holder of any Notes an opinion of nationally
recognized independent counsel, or other independent
counsel
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reasonably
satisfactory to the Required Holders, to the effect that all
agreements or instruments effecting such assumption are enforceable
in accordance with their terms and comply with the terms hereof;
and
(ii) at the time
of such transaction and immediately after giving effect to such
transaction, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and
be continuing; and
(b) any Subsidiary
may (x) merge into the Company (provided that the Company is
the surviving corporation) or a Wholly Owned Subsidiary (provided
that a Wholly Owned Subsidiary is the surviving corporation) or
(y) sell, transfer or lease all or any part of its assets to
the Company or a Wholly Owned Subsidiary, or (z) merge or
consolidate with, or sell, transfer or lease all or substantially
all of its assets to, any Person in a transaction that is permitted
by Section 10.5 or, as a result of which, such Person becomes
a Wholly Owned Subsidiary; provided in each instance set forth in
clauses (x) through (z) that, immediately before and
after giving effect thereto, there shall exist no Default or Event
of Default.
No such
conveyance, transfer or lease of all or substantially all of the
assets of the Company shall have the effect of releasing the
Company or any successor corporation that shall theretofore have
become such in the manner prescribed in this Section 10.6 from
its liability under this Agreement or the Notes .
10.7
Indebtedness of Subsidiaries.
The
Company will not permit any Subsidiary to create, incur, assume,
guaranty or be or remain liable, contingently or otherwise, with
respect to any Indebtedness other than:
(a) Indebtedness
of Subsidiary Guarantors to the banks, the banks’ Affiliates
(in the case of Hedging Liability) and the agent under the Credit
Agreement as guarantors under the Bank Guarantees and as borrowers
under the Credit Agreement;
(b) Indebtedness
of Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries to the Company or to other
Wholly-Owned Subsidiaries;
(c) Indebtedness
under hedging arrangements permitted by Section 10.14
(m);
(d) Indebtedness
under each Subsidiary Guaranty;
(e) Indebtedness
under Guaranties permitted under Sections 10.14 (q) or
(t);
(f) Securitization
Transaction Attributed Indebtedness in connection with Qualified
Trade Securitization Transactions; and
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(g) Indebtedness
not otherwise permitted by this Section 10.7 provided that
Priority Debt does not at any time exceed 20% of Consolidated Net
Worth.
10.8
Subsidiary Guarantors.
At
no time will the aggregate of the assets directly owned by the
Company and directly owned by the Subsidiary Guarantors (excluding,
for the purposes of this calculation, assets owned by any
Subsidiary that is not a Subsidiary Guarantor) comprise less than
50% of the consolidated total assets of the Company and its
Subsidiaries.
10.9
Guaranties by Subsidiaries.
The
Company will not permit any Subsidiary to become a party to the
Bank Guarantees or to directly or indirectly guarantee any of the
Company’s Indebtedness or other obligations under the Credit
Agreement unless such Subsidiary is, or concurrently therewith
becomes, a party to the Subsidiary Guaranty.
10.10 Nature
of Business.
The
Company will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary to, engage in
any business if, as a result, the general nature of the business in
which the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, would
then be engaged would be substantially changed from the general
nature of the business in which the Company and its Subsidiaries,
taken as a whole, were engaged on December 31, 2008
.
10.11.
Transactions with Affiliates.
The
Company will not and will not permit any Subsidiary to enter into
directly or indirectly any Material transaction or group of related
transactions (including without limitation the purchase, lease,
sale or exchange of properties of any kind or the rendering of any
service) with any Affiliate (other than the Company or another
Subsidiary), except in the ordinary course of business and pursuant
to the reasonable requirements of the Company’s or such
Subsidiary’s business and upon fair and reasonable terms no
less favorable to the Company or such Subsidiary than would be
obtainable in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a
Person not an Affiliate.
10.12.
Consolidated Net Worth.
The
Company will at all times maintain a Consolidated Net Worth of not
less than the sum of (a) $355,000,000 plus (b) 50% of
Consolidated Net Income for each fiscal quarter ending on or after
March 31, 2007 for which such Consolidated Net Income is a
positive amount (i.e., there shall be no reduction to the minimum
amount of Consolidated Net Worth required to be maintained
hereunder for any fiscal quarter in which Consolidated Net Income
is less than zero).
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10.13.
Interest Coverage Ratio.
The
Company will not permit the Interest Coverage Ratio to be less than
3.00 to 1.00 as of the end of any fiscal quarter.
10.14.
Investments, Acquisitions, Loans, Advances and
Guaranties.
The
Company will not, and will not permit any Subsidiary to, directly
or indirectly, make, retain or have outstanding any investments
(whether through purchase of stock or obligations or otherwise) in,
or loans or advances to, any other Person, or acquire all or any
substantial part of the assets or business of any other Person or
division thereof, or be or become liable as endorser, guarantor,
surety or otherwise (such as liability as a general partner) for
any debt, obligation or undertaking of any other Person, or
otherwise agree to provide funds for payment of the obligations of
another, or supply funds thereto or invest therein or otherwise
assure a creditor of another against loss, or apply for or become
liable to the issuer of a letter of credit which supports an
obligation of another, or subordinate any claim or demand it may
have to the claim or demand of any other Person (cumulatively, all
of the foregoing, being “Investments”); other
than:
(a) investments in
direct obligations of the United States of America or of any agency
or instrumentality thereof whose obligations constitute full faith
and credit obligations of the United States of America provided
that any such obligation matures within one year from the date it
is acquired by the Company or Subsidiary;
(b) investments in
commercial paper rated P-l by Moody’s or A-l by S&P
maturing within one year of its date of issuance;
(c) investments in
certificates of deposit issued by any United States commercial bank
having capital and surplus of not less than $100,000,000 maturing
within one year from the date of issuance thereof or in
banker’s acceptances endorsed by any such commercial bank and
maturing within six months of the date of acceptance or in
Eurodollar time deposits placed with any such commercial
bank;
(d) investments in
repurchase obligations with a term of not more than seven days for
underlying securities of the types described in subsection
(a) above entered into with any bank meeting the
qualifications specified in subsection (c) above, provided all such
agreements require physical delivery of the securities securing
such repurchase agreement, except those delivered through the
Federal Reserve Book Entry System;
(e) investments in
money market funds that invest solely, and that are restricted by
their respective charters to invest solely, in investments of the
type described in the immediately preceding subsections (a), (b),
(c) and (d) above;
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(f) tax-exempt
obligations, having an effective maturity within one year from the
date of acquisition, that are rated in one of the top two rating
classifications by at least one nationally recognized rating
agency; and
(g) ownership of
stock, obligations or securities received in settlement of debts
(created in the ordinary course of business) owing to the Company
or any Subsidiary;
(h) endorsements
of negotiable instruments for collection in the ordinary course of
business;
(i) loans and
advances to employees in the ordinary course of business for
travel, relocation, and similar purposes;
(j) Permitted
Acquisitions;
(k) Guaranties by
Subsidiary Guarantors under the Bank Guaranties;
(l) Guaranties by
Subsidiary Guarantors under the Subsidiary Guaranties;
(m) interest rate
swaps and other recognized hedging arrangements entered into by the
Company or any Subsidiary in the ordinary course of its business
for the purpose of directly mitigating risks associated with
liabilities, commitments or assets held or reasonably anticipated
by the Company or such Subsidiary and not for purposes of
speculation or taking a “market view”, and guaranties
by the Company or any Subsidiary of the obligations under such
interest rate swaps or other recognized hedging
arrangements;
(n) investments by
the Company and its Subsidiaries from time to time in their
respective Subsidiaries;
(o) Investments
comprised of capital contributions (whether in the form of cash, a
note, or other assets) to a Subsidiary or other special-purpose
entity created solely to engage in a Qualified Securitization
Transaction or otherwise resulting from transfers of assets
permitted by Section 10.5 hereof to such a special-purpose
entity;
(p) Trade Value
Agreements aggregating not more than $50,000,000 at any one time
outstanding;
(q) Guaranties not
otherwise permitted by this Section 10.14 aggregating not more
than $100,000,000 at any one time outstanding (specifically
excluding Trade Value Agreements, which are permitted only under
clause (p) above), and provided that any Guaranties entered
into by Subsidiaries pursuant to this clause (q) shall also
reduce, on a dollar-for-dollar basis, the amount available for
Guaranties under clause (t), below, even if such Guaranties entered
into under this clause (s) could not otherwise be entered into
under said clause (t);
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(s) Guaranties by
the Company of the indebtedness, obligations and liabilities of
Subsidiary borrowers under the Credit Agreement; and
(t)
Investments not otherwise permitted by this Section 10.14
aggregating not more than $20,000,000 at any one time outstanding
(specifically excluding Trade Value Agreements, which are permitted
only under clause (p) above), and provided that any Guaranties
entered into by Subsidiaries pursuant to this clause (t) shall
also reduce, on a dollar-for-dollar basis, the amount available for
Guaranties under clause (s) above, even if such Guaranties
entered into under this clause (t) could not otherwise be
entered into under said clause (s).
In determining
the amount of Investments permitted under this Section 10.14,
investments and acquisitions shall always be taken at the original
cost thereof (regardless of any subsequent appreciation or
depreciation therein), loans and advances shall be taken at the
principal amount thereof then remaining unpaid, guaranties (other
than Trade Value Agreements) shall be taken at the amount of
obligations guaranteed thereby and Trade Value Agreements shall be
valued as set forth in the definition of such term.
10.15. Most
Favored Lender.
(a) If the Company
shall at any time amend or modify any provision of the Credit
Agreement that requires the Company to comply with any financial
covenant, undertaking, restriction or other provision that limits
or measures indebtedness, interest expense, stockholders’
equity, asset sales, sale and leasebacks, liens, subsidiary
indebtedness, credit ratings or any similar items (however
expressed and whether stated as a ratio, as a fixed threshold, as
an event of default, as a right to be prepaid or offered to be
prepaid or otherwise) (each a “Financial Covenant”)
that is not at such time included or, after such amendment or
modification, is more restrictive than what is then included in
this Agreement, then the Company shall within 3 Business Days
provide a Most Favored Lender Notice to each holder of the Notes.
Unless waived in writing by the Required Holders within 3 Business
Days of the date on which such notice is required to be sent, each
such Financial Covenant and each event of default, definition and
other provision relating to such Financial Covenant in the Credit
Agreement (as amended or modified from time to time thereafter)
shall be deemed to be incorporated by reference in this Agreement,
mutatis mutandis, as if then set forth herein in full.
(b) The
incorporation of any Financial Covenant pursuant to this
Section 10.15 shall:
(i) automatically
(without any further action being taken by the Company or any
holder of a Note) take effect as of the time of effectiveness of
such Financial Covenant under the Credit Agreement;
(ii) so long as no
Default or Event of Default shall then exist under or in respect of
such incorporated Financial Covenant, automatically (without any
further action being taken by the Company or any holder of a Note
other than as
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set forth
below) be deleted or further modified if such Financial Covenant,
definition, event of default or other provision relating thereto is
deleted (other than by virtue of a termination of the Credit
Agreement) or made less restrictive on the Company and its
Subsidiaries by way of a permanent written amendment or
modification of such Credit Agreement (and not by temporary waiver
of rights thereunder); provided that:
(A) if any fee or
other consideration is paid or given to any bank party to the
Credit Agreement in connection with such deletion or modification,
each holder of a Note receives equivalent consideration on a pro
rata basis and such deletion or modification shall not be effective
until such consideration is received by each such holder;
and
(B) in no event
shall any deletion or relaxation of any such Financial Covenant
have the effect of deleting or making less restrictive any covenant
or other provision specifically set forth in this Agreement;
and
(iii) subject to
Section 10.15(b)(ii), continue in effect regardless of any
subsequent termination of the Credit Agreement.
2.6.
Amendments of Section 11 of Note Agreements.
(a) Section 11(c)
of each of the Note Agreements is amended to read in its entirety
as follows:
(c) the Company
defaults in the performance of or compliance with any term
contained in Sections 7.1(e) or 10.1 through 10.15;
or
(b) Each reference
to “5% of Adjusted Consolidated Net Worth (as of the end of
the most recently completed fiscal period of the Company)” in
Sections 11(f) and (i) is replaced with
“$25,000,000.”
2.7.
Amendment of Schedule B of Note Agreements.
Schedule B
of each of the Note Agreements is amended and restated to read in
its entirety as follows:
As
used herein, the following terms have the respective meanings set
forth below or set forth in the Section hereof following such
term:
“Acquired Business” means the entity or assets
acquired by the Company or a Subsidiary in an Acquisition, whether
before or after the date hereof.
“Acquisition” means any transaction or series of
related transactions for the purpose of or resulting, directly or
indirectly, in (a) the acquisition of all or substantially all
of the assets of a Person, or of any business or division of a
Person, (b) the acquisition of in excess of 50% of the capital
stock, partnership interests, membership
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interests or
equity of any Person (other than a Person that is a Subsidiary), or
otherwise causing any Person to become a Subsidiary, or (c) a
merger or consolidation or any other combination with another
Person (other than a Person that is a Subsidiary) provided that the
Company or the Subsidiary is the surviving entity.
“Adjusted LIBOR Rate” is defined in
Section 1.3(a) of the 2003 Note Agreement.
“Affiliate” means, at any time, and with respect
to any Person, (a) any other Person that at such time directly
or indirectly through one or more intermediaries Controls, or is
Controlled by, or is under common Control with, such first Person,
and (b) any Person beneficially owning or holding, directly or
indirectly, 10% or more of any class of voting or equity interests
of the Company or any Subsidiary or any corporation of which the
Company and its Subsidiaries beneficially own or hold, in the
aggregate, directly or indirectly, 10% or more of any class of
voting or equity interests. As used in this definition,
“Control” means the possession, directly or indirectly,
of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and
policies of a Person, whether through the ownership of voting
securities, by contract or otherwise. Unless the context otherwise
clearly requires, any reference to an “Affiliate” is a
reference to an Affiliate of the Company.
“All Notes of All Series” means, at any time,
the Notes then outstanding under the Note Agreements.
“Anti-Terrorism Order” means Executive Order
13224 of September 23, 2001 Blocking Property and Prohibiting
Transactions With Persons Who Commit, Threaten to Commit, or
Support Terrorism (66 Fed. Reg. 49079 (2001).
“Bank Guarantees” means the Guaranties contained
in or provided by any Subsidiary in connection with the Credit
Agreement.
“Business Day” means (a) for the purposes
of Section 8.6 of the 1999 and 2002 Note agreements and
Section 8.7 of the 2003 Note Agreement only, any day other
than a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which commercial banks in New
York City are required or authorized to be closed, and (b) for
the purposes of any other provision of this Agreement, any day
other than a Saturday, a Sunday or a day on which commercial banks
in Chicago, Illinois, or New York, New York are required or
authorized to be closed; provided that, if the applicable Business
Day relates to the determination of LIBOR, a day on which dealings
are also carried on in U.S. dollar deposits in the London interbank
market.
“Capital Lease” means, at any time, a lease with
respect to which the lessee is required concurrently to recognize
the acquisition of an asset and the incurrence of a liability in
accordance with GAAP.
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“Change of Control” means:
(a) an event or
series of events by which any “person” or
“group” (within the meaning of Sections 13(d) and
14(d)(2) of the Exchange Act) becomes the “beneficial
owner” (as defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange
Act), directly or indirectly, of 25% or more of the voting power of
the then outstanding Voting Stock of the Company;
(b) individuals
who, at the beginning of any period of 24 consecutive months,
constitute the Company’s board of directors (together with
any new director whose election by the Company’s board of
directors or whose nomination for election by the Company’s
stockholders was approved by a vote of at least two-thirds of the
directors then still in office who either were directors at the
beginning of such period or whose election or nomination for
election was previously so approved) cease for any reason (other
than death or disability) to constitute a majority of the
Company’s board of directors then in office;
(c) the
stockholders of the Company approve a merger or consolidation of
the Company with any other Person (other than a merger or
consolidation which would result in the Voting Stock of the Company
outstanding immediately prior thereto continuing to represent
(either by remaining outstanding or by being converted into voting
securities of the surviving entity), at least 51% of the Voting
Stock of the Company or such surviving entity outstanding
immediately after such merger or consolidation); or
(d) any
“Change of Control” (or words of like import), as
defined in any agreement or indenture relating to any issue of
Indebtedness aggregating in excess of $10,000,000 shall occur, the
effect of which is to cause the acceleration of any issue of such
Indebtedness or to enable any holder of such Indebtedness to cause
the Company or any Subsidiary to repurchase, redeem, pay, prepay or
retire any such Indebtedness held by it.
“Closing” is defined in
Section 3.
“Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986,
as amended from time to time, and the rules and regulations
promulgated thereunder from time to time.
“Company” means Federal Signal Corporation, a
Delaware corporation.
“Confidential Information” is defined in
Section 20 of the 1999 and 2003 Note Agreements and
Section 21 of the 2002 Note Agreement.
“Consolidated Net Income” means, for any period,
the net income (or net loss) of the Company and its Subsidiaries
for such period computed on a consolidated basis in accordance with
GAAP.
“Consolidated Net Worth” means, as of any date,
the sum of all equity and retained earnings of the Company and its
Subsidiaries, determined in accordance
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with GAAP on a
consolidated basis, but without deducting therefrom (a) any
non-cash charges or including therein any non-cash gains resulting
from the impact of SFAS No. 87 (Employers’ Accounting
for Pensions), or (b) non-cash charges in an aggregate amount
not to exceed $200,000,000 relating to the sale, revaluation,
closure or disposition of assets, provided that such charges are
non-cash charges in the period in which taken and in all future
periods, in each case notwithstanding the GAAP treatment of any
such charges or gains.
“Consolidated Total Assets” means, as of any
date, the assets and properties of the Company and its Subsidiaries
determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with
GAAP.
(a) the execution
by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates of any
agreement or letter of intent with respect to any proposed
transaction or event or series of transactions or events that,
individually or in the aggregate, may reasonably be expected to
result in a Change of Control;
(b) the execution
of any written agreement that, when fully performed by the parties
thereto, would result in a Change of Control; or
(c) the making of
any written offer by any “person” (as such term is used
in section 13(d) and section 14(d)(2) of the Exchange Act as in
effect on the date of the Closing) or related persons constituting
a group (as such term is used in Rule 13d-5 under the Exchange Act)
to the holders of the common stock of the Company, which offer, if
accepted by the requisite number of holders, would result in a
Change of Control.
“Credit Agreement” means the Second Amended and
Restated Credit Agreement dated as of April 25, 2007 by and
among the Company, the Subsidiaries of the Company from time to
time party thereto, the several financial institutions from time to
time party thereto, and Bank of Montreal, as Agent, as supplemented
and amended by a Supplemental Agreement dated as of
September 6, 2007 and a Second Amendment and Waiver dated as
of March 27, 2008, as such agreement may be hereafter amended,
restated, supplemented, refinanced, increased or reduced from time
to time, and any successor credit agreement or similar
facility.
“Default” means an event or condition the
occurrence or existence of which would, with the lapse of time or
the giving of notice or both, become an Event of
Default.
“Default Rate” means, at any time, a rate of
interest that is the greater of (i) 2% per annum above the
rate of interest otherwise payable on the Notes at such time or
(ii)&nb
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