[FORM OF AMENDED NOTE]
THIS SECURITY HAS NOT BEEN
REGISTERED WITH THE SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION OR THE
SECURITIES COMMISSION OF ANY STATE IN RELIANCE UPON AN EXEMPTION
FROM REGISTRATION UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED (THE
“SECURITIES ACT”), AND, ACCORDINGLY, MAY NOT BE OFFERED
OR SOLD EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AN EFFECTIVE REGISTRATION STATEMENT
UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OR PURSUANT TO AN AVAILABLE EXEMPTION
FROM, OR IN A TRANSACTION NOT SUBJECT TO, THE REGISTRATION
REQUIREMENTS OF THE SECURITIES ACT AND IN ACCORDANCE WITH
APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS AS EVIDENCED BY A LEGAL OPINION OF
COUNSEL TO THE TRANSFEROR TO SUCH EFFECT, THE SUBSTANCE OF WHICH
SHALL BE REASONABLY ACCEPTABLE TO THE COMPANY. THIS SECURITY MAY BE
PLEDGED IN CONNECTION WITH A BONA FIDE MARGIN ACCOUNT OR OTHER LOAN
SECURED BY SUCH SECURITIES.
Original Issue Date: June 29,
2006
As amended and restated as of
December 31, 2008
$XXXXXXX
AMENDED AND
RESTATED
SENIOR SECURED
NOTE
DUE JUNE 29, 2011
THIS NOTE is one of a series of duly
authorized and issued Senior Secured Notes of Pipeline Data
Inc. , a Delaware corporation, having a principal place of
business at 1515 Hancock Street, Suite 301, Quincy, MA 02169 (the
“ Company ”), designated as its Senior Secured
Notes, due June 29, 2011 (the “ Note(s)
”).
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the Company
promises to pay to XXXXXXXX or its registered assigns (the
“ Holder ”), the principal sum of $13,940,500 on
the earlier of (i) June 29, 2011 (or June 29, 2012 if so
extended by the Company pursuant to Section 2(f) hereunder) or
(ii) such earlier date as the Notes are required or permitted
to be repaid as provided hereunder (the “ Maturity
Date ”), and to pay interest to the Holder on the
aggregate outstanding principal amount of this Note in accordance
with the provisions hereof. This Note is subject to the following
additional provisions:
Section 1 .
Definitions . For the purposes hereof, in addition to the
terms defined elsewhere in this Note: (a) capitalized terms not
otherwise defined herein have the meanings given to such terms in
the Purchase Agreement, and (b) the following terms shall have the
following meanings:
“ Adjusted Net Income
” shall mean with respect to any Person for any period, the
sum of (a) Net Income for such period, plus (b) the net after-tax
amount of amortization expense (but not depreciation expense) that
was deducted in the calculation of such Net Income.
“ Business Day ”
means any day except Saturday, Sunday and any day which shall be a
federal legal holiday in the United States or a day on which
banking institutions in the State of New York are authorized or
required by law or other government action to close.
“ Capital Expenditures
” means, with respect to any Person for any period, the sum
of the aggregate of all expenditures by such Person and its
Subsidiaries during such period that in accordance with GAAP are or
should be included in “property, plant and equipment”
or in a similar fixed asset account on its balance sheet, whether
such expenditures are paid in cash or financed and including all
Capitalized Lease Obligations paid or payable during such period;
provided, however, that Capital Expenditures shall not include the
aggregate of all expenditures by such Person and its Subsidiaries
during such period to acquire by purchase or otherwise the business
or fixed assets of, or the capital stock of, any other
Person.
“ Capitalized Lease
Obligations ” means as to any Person, the obligations of
such Person to pay rent or other amounts under any lease of (or
other arrangement conveying the right to use) real or personal
property, or a combination thereof, which obligations are required
to be classified and accounted for as capital leases on a balance
sheet of such Person under GAAP and, for the purposes of this Note,
the amount of such obligations at any time shall be the capitalized
amount thereof at such time determined in accordance with
GAAP.
“ Change of Control
Transaction ” means the occurrence after the date hereof,
of any of (i) an acquisition after the date hereof (including,
without limitation, by reason of any merger or consolidation to
which the Company is a party) by an individual or legal entity or
“group” (as described in Rule 13d-5(b)(1) promulgated
under the Exchange Act) of effective control (whether through legal
or beneficial ownership of capital stock of the Company, by
contract or otherwise) of in excess of 50% of the voting securities
of the Company (or, in the case of any merger or consolidation, the
surviving or successor entity of such transaction), (ii) the
Company sells or transfers all or substantially all of its assets
to another Person and the stockholders of the Company immediately
prior to such transaction own less than 60% of the aggregate voting
power of the acquiring entity immediately after the transaction,
(iii) after December 31, 2008, a replacement at one time or within
a three year period of more than one-half of the members of the
Company’s board of directors which is not approved by a
majority of those individuals who are members of the board of
directors on the date hereof (or by those individuals who are
serving as members of the board of directors on any date whose
nomination to the board of directors was approved by a majority of
the members of the board of directors who are members on the date
hereof), (iv) Peter Kight shall no longer be a director of the
Company and Randy McCoy shall no longer be employed by the Company,
or (v) the execution by the
Company of an agreement (and the satisfaction of all conditions
precedent contained in such agreement other than those which are
within the Company’s control to satisfy or waive), to which
the Company is a party or by which it is bound, providing for any
of the events set forth above in (i), (ii), (iii) or (iv).
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the issuance by the Company of the
Convertible Preferred Stock pursuant to the ComVest Investment
Agreement and the conversion by ComVest of the Convertible
Preferred Stock into Common Stock shall not be deemed a Change of
Control Transaction.
“ Common Stock ”
means the common stock, $0.001 par value, of the Company and stock
of any other class into which such shares may hereafter have been
reclassified or changed.
“ ComVest ” means
Pipeline Holdings, LLC, a Delaware limited liability
company.
“ ComVest Investment
Agreement ” means that certain Stock Purchase Agreement,
dated as of February 2, 2009, by and between ComVest and the
Company relating to the issuance of the Convertible Preferred Stock
by the Company. The ComVest Investment Agreement contemplates an
initial issuance of common stock and Series A Convertible Preferred
Stock and exchange of such initial issuance with the Convertible
Preferred Stock.
“ Convertible Preferred
Stock ” shall mean the Company’s $15,000,000.00 of
Series B Convertible Preferred Stock.
“ Cumulative Adjusted Net
Income ” shall mean the aggregate amount of Adjusted Net
Income of the Company for the period beginning on January 1, 2009
through the close of the most recently completed fiscal quarter as
of any date of determination. For the avoidance of doubt, to the
extent that Adjusted Net Income for any completed fiscal period is
a negative number, such negative amount shall offset positive
Adjusted Net Income from any prior or future fiscal
period.
“ EBITDA ” shall
mean, with respect to any period, the combination of (i) the
Company’s net income or loss (after giving effect to
deduction of or provision for all operating expenses (but not to
fees and expenses payable pursuant to the Management Agreement),
all taxes and reserves and all other proper deductions), plus (ii)
the Company’s interest expense after giving effect to
payments made or received under interest rate protection
agreements, plus (iii) total federal, state, local and foreign
income, value added and similar taxes paid or payable by the
Company and its Subsidiaries, plus (iv) the Company’s
depreciation and amortization expense, all as determined on a
consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP and as set forth on the
Company’s consolidated financial statements included in its
SEC Reports or internal financial statements (as certified by the
Company’s Chief Executive Officer or Chief Financial
Officer). As used herein, “EBITDA” shall not reflect
the Company’s or any of its Subsidiaries’ receipt of
any of the principal amount of the Notes or any other amounts
received by the Holders as a result of the consummation of the
transactions contemplated by the Transaction Documents, the
issuance or conversion of Convertible Preferred Stock, or proceeds
of any future issuances of any equity securities or debt
instruments, or any non-cash charges resulting from future
issuances of any equity securities or debt instruments.
“ Event of Default
” shall have the meaning set forth in Section 8.
“ Excess Cash Flow
” means for any period, (i) EBITDA for such period, less (ii)
the sum of (A) all Net Interest Expense of the Company, (B) income,
withholding and other similar Federal, state or local taxes paid in
cash by the Company for such period, (C) Capital Expenditures made
in respect of the Company, (D) the amount of any gains of the
Company (net of cash taxes paid thereon) included in amounts
actually paid under Section 2(e)(1)(B) below in respect of any
transaction(s) consummated during the subject period, and (E) any
taxes paid during the subject period relating to a transaction
which required a mandatory prepayment under Section 2(e)(1)(B)
during a prior fiscal period, so long as such mandatory prepayment
in such prior fiscal quarter was actually paid. Excess Cash Flow
shall not include amounts attributable to Acquisition Subsidiaries
unless such Acquisition Subsidiaries are permitted to pay dividends
to the Company under their respective debt agreements and such
dividends are actually paid to the Company.
“ Exchange Act ”
means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
“ Fundamental
Transaction ” shall mean any transaction in which (A) the
Company effects any merger or consolidation of the Company with or
into another Person (outside of the ordinary course of business),
(B) the Company effects any sale of all or substantially all of its
assets in one or a series of related transactions, (C) any tender
offer or exchange offer (whether by the Company or another Person)
is completed pursuant to which holders of Common Stock are
permitted to tender or exchange their shares for other securities,
cash or property, or (D) the
Company effects any reclassification
of the Common Stock (other than forward or reverse stock splits or
other reclassifications that do not change the pro rata allocation
of economic or voting rights of stockholders) or any compulsory
share exchange pursuant to which the Common Stock is effectively
converted into or exchanged for other securities, cash or property
of another Person.
“ Interest Rate ”
means (i) 10% per annum until and including June 30, 2010 and (ii)
14% per annum after June 30, 2010.
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“ Late Fees ” shall have the
meaning set forth in Section 2(c) of this Note.
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“ Management Agreement
” means the Management Agreement, dated as of February 2,
2009, by and between the Company and ComVest, as amended, modified
or supplemented from time to time in accordance with its
terms.
“ Mandatory Prepayment
Amount ” means the sum of (i) 100% of the outstanding
principal amount of this Note, plus all accrued and unpaid interest
hereon, and (ii) all other amounts, costs, expenses and liquidated
damages due in respect of this Note.
“ Net Income ”
shall mean with respect to any Person for any period, the net
income (loss) of such Person and its Subsidiaries for such period,
determined on a consolidated basis and in accordance with generally
accepted accounting principles.
“ Net Interest Expense
” shall mean for any period, total cash interest expense of
the Company and its Subsidiaries for such period determined on a
consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, relating to the
Notes.
“ Original Issue Date
” shall mean the date of the first issuance of the Notes
regardless of the number of transfers of any Note and regardless of
the number of instruments which may be issued to evidence such
Note.
“ Permitted
Indebtedness ” means (a) the indebtedness existing on the
Initial Closing Date and set forth on Schedule 3.1(z) to the
Purchase Agreement, (b) purchase money indebtedness of the Company
incurred in connection with the acquisition of capital assets
(including merchant accounts) with respect to newly acquired assets
so long as (i) the maturity date of such indebtedness is subsequent
to June 29, 2012, (ii) such indebtedness is subordinated to the
Notes on terms and conditions reasonably satisfactory to the
holders of 75% or more of the then-outstanding principal amount of
the Notes (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld, delayed
or conditioned), provided that such terms may include (A) permitted
payment and receipt of scheduled interest payments provided that no
default or Event of Default under the Notes exists on the date of
such scheduled interest payment, (B) no permitted principal or
amortization payments until the Notes have been repaid in full in
cash, and (C) other terms and conditions not inconsistent with the
Notes (and such terms described in the foregoing clauses (A), (B)
and (C) will in any event be deemed satisfactory to all holders of
Notes, although the approval of the holders of 75% or more of the
then-outstanding principal amount of the Notes shall still be
required as described above), (iii) the last twelve months’
leverage pro forma for debt incurred (and repaid) and EBITDA
acquired as a result of the transaction (assuming such transaction
occurred on the first day of the period) shall not exceed a ratio
of 3.5 times debt to EBITDA, and (iv) the last twelve months’
EBITDA to interest expense pro forma for the debt incurred (and
repaid) and EBITDA acquired for the Company and its Subsidiaries
(assuming such transaction occurred on the first day of the period)
shall not be less than 2.5 times, (c) indebtedness entered into
with the consent of the Holders of 75% of the aggregate principal
amount of the then
outstanding Notes, provided that
such indebtedness is expressly subordinated to the Notes pursuant
to a written subordination agreement satisfactory to the Holders,
(d) up to $15 million of purchase money indebtedness incurred in
connection with the acquisition of capital assets (including
merchant accounts) by an Acquisition Subsidiary pursuant to a line
of credit provided by ComVest or an Affiliate of ComVest having an
annual interest rate no greater than 12%, which may be secured by a
first priority lien solely on all of such Acquisition
Subsidiary’s assets, (e) indebtedness incurred by an
Acquisition Subsidiary so long as such indebtedness is secured
solely by the assets of such Acquisition Subsidiary, (f)
subordinated indebtedness of the Company described in Section
7(h)(viii) below and (g) Capitalized Lease Obligations within the
guidelines set forth in Section 7(g).
“ Permitted Investments
” means (i) marketable direct obligations issued or
unconditionally guaranteed by the United States Government, the
federal government of Canada or issued by any agency thereof and
backed by the full faith and credit of the United States or Canada,
in each case, maturing within six months from the date of
acquisition thereof; (ii) commercial paper, maturing not more than
270 days after the date of issue rated P-1 by Moody’s or A-I
by Standard & Poor’s or such comparable rating agencies
in Canada; (iii) certificates of deposit maturing not more than 270
days after the date of issue, issued by commercial banking
institutions and money market or demand deposit accounts maintained
at commercial banking institutions, each of which is a member of
the Federal Reserve System and has a combined capital and surplus
and undivided profits of not less than $500,000,000; (iv)
repurchase agreements having maturities of not more than 90 days
from the date of acquisition which are entered into with major
money center banks included in the commercial banking institutions
described in clause (iii) above and which are secured by readily
marketable direct obligations of the United States Government, the
federal government of Canada or any agency thereof, (v) money
market accounts maintained with mutual funds having assets in
excess of $2,500,000,000, and (vi) tax exempt securities rated A or
higher by Moody’s or A+ or higher by Standard &
Poor’s or such comparable rating agencies.
“ Permitted Lien
” means the individual and collective reference to the
following: (a) Liens for taxes, assessments and other governmental
charges or levies not yet due or Liens for taxes, assessments and
other governmental charges or levies being contested in good faith
and by appropriate proceedings for which adequate reserves (in the
good faith judgment of the management of the Company) have been
established in accordance with GAAP; (b) Liens imposed by law which
were incurred in the ordinary course of the Company’s
business, such as carriers’, warehousemen’s and
mechanics’ Liens, statutory landlords’ Liens, and other
similar Liens arising in the ordinary course of the Company’s
business, and which (x) do not individually or in the aggregate
materially detract from the value of such property or assets or
materially impair the use thereof in the operation of the business
of the Company and its Subsidiaries or (y) are being contested in
good faith by appropriate proceedings, which proceedings have the
effect of preventing for the foreseeable future the forfeiture or
sale of the property or asset subject to such Lien; (c) Liens
incurred in connection with Permitted Indebtedness under clause (a)
thereunder; (d) Liens incurred in connection with Permitted
Indebtedness under clauses (d) and(e) thereunder, provided that
such Liens are secured by assets of the Acquisition Subsidiary and
not of the Company or its Restricted Subsidiaries; and (e) Liens
with the consent of the Holders of a majority of the aggregate
principal amount of the then outstanding Notes, provided that such
Liens are expressly subordinated to the security interest of the
Holders pursuant to a written subordination agreement satisfactory
to the Holders.
“ Person ” means
a corporation, an association, a partnership, organization, a
business, an individual, a government or political subdivision
thereof or a governmental agency.
“ Purchase Agreement
” means the Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of June
29, 2006, as amended as of December 31, 2008, to which the Company
and the original Holders are parties, as amended, modified or
supplemented from time to time in accordance with its
terms.
“ SEC Reports ”
means all reports that the Company is obligated to file pursuant to
Sections 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act.
“ Securities Act
” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and the rules
and regulations promulgated thereunder.
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Section 2 .
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Interest; Payments .
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a)
Payment of Interest; Other Payments . The Company shall pay
interest in cash to the Holder on the aggregate outstanding
principal amount of this Note at the Interest Rate, payable
quarterly in arrears beginning on the first day of the fourth month
after the Original Issue Date and on the Maturity Date (except
that, if any such date is not a Business Day, then such payment
shall be due on the next succeeding Business Day) (each such date,
an “ Interest Payment Date ”).
b)
Interest Calculations . Interest shall be calculated on the
basis of a 360-day year and shall accrue daily commencing on the
Original Issue Date until payment in full of the principal sum,
together with all accrued and unpaid interest and other amounts
which may become due hereunder, has been made. Interest shall be
compounded monthly. Interest hereunder will be paid to the Person
in whose name this Note is registered on the records of the Company
regarding registration and transfers of Notes (the “ Note
Register ”).
c)
Late Fee . All overdue accrued and unpaid interest to be
paid hereunder shall entail a late fee at the rate of 20% per annum
(or such lower maximum amount of interest permitted to be charged
under applicable law) (“ Late Fee ”) which will
accrue daily, from the date such interest is due hereunder through
and including the date of payment.
d)
Optional Repayment . (1) Subject to the provisions of this
Section 2, the Company may deliver a notice to the Holder (an
“ Optional Repayment Notice ” and the date such
notice is deemed delivered hereunder, the “ Optional
Repayment Notice Date ”) of its irrevocable election to
prepay up to 100% of the outstanding Notes for cash in an amount
equal to the principal amount being prepaid plus accrued interest
thereon to the date of repayment (the “ Optional Repayment
Amount ”) on the 20 th Business Day following
the Optional Repayment Notice Date (such date, the “
Optional Repayment Date ” and such repayment, the
“ Optional Repayment ”). The Optional Repayment
Amount is payable in full on the Optional Repayment
Date.
(2) The payment of cash pursuant to
an Optional Repayment shall be made on the Optional Repayment Date.
If any portion of the payment pursuant to an Optional Repayment
shall not be paid by the Company by the applicable due date,
interest shall accrue thereon until such amount is paid in full at
an interest rate equal to the lesser of 18% per annum or the
maximum rate permitted by applicable law. Notwithstanding anything
herein contained to the contrary, if any portion of the Optional
Repayment Amount remains unpaid after such date, the Holder may
elect, by written notice to the Company given at any time
thereafter, to invalidate ab initio such repayment, and, with
respect to the Company’s failure to honor the Optional
Repayment, the Company shall have no further right to exercise such
Optional Repayment.
Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary in this Section 2, the Company’s determination to
redeem in cash shall be applied ratably among the holders of Notes
in proportion to respective principal amounts of the
Notes.
e)
Mandatory Repayment . (1) The Company shall be required to
prepay in cash (A) the aggregate principal amount of the Notes upon
the consummation of a Change of Control Transaction or a
Fundamental Transaction or (B) upon or within five (5) Business
Days after the sale, disposal or similar transaction outside the
ordinary course of business involving of any or all of the
Collateral, a principal amount of the Notes (ratably as aforesaid)
equal to the gross proceeds (as adjusted for the net tax impact to
the Company on a consolidated basis, including but not limited to
income taxes or capital gain or loss, in respect of such
transaction) received by the Company as a result of such
transaction.
(2) The Company shall be required to
make a mandatory prepayment of the outstanding principal and
accrued interest of the Notes (ratably as aforesaid) hereunder
within forty-five (45) calendar days after the end of each fiscal
quarter in each fiscal year of the Company (commencing with the
fiscal quarter ending March 31, 2009) in an amount equal to 50% of
all Excess Cash Flow, if any, for such fiscal quarter. In the event
that the Company’s independent public accountants find as
part of any quarterly review or annual audit or attestation that
the financial statement line items used to calculate Excess Cash
Flow for any prior fiscal quarter (or with respect to a mandatory
prepayment already made for the most recently completed fiscal
quarter) were incorrect, the calculation of Excess Cash Flow and
the mandatory prepayment with respect to any subsequent fiscal
quarters shall reflect any and all corrections and adjustments
necessary to correct such prior fiscal periods or previous
mandatory prepayments, and upon the request of the Holders of 75%
of the then outstanding Notes, the Company’s independent
public accountants shall certify the corrected calculations or
Excess Cash Flow.
f)
Extension of Maturity Date . At any time prior to May 10,
2011, the Company may extend the Maturity Date to June 29, 2012 by
providing 30 days prior written notice to all Holders, so long as
(i) no default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing
on the Maturity Date and (ii) no Event of Default has occurred and
is continuing on the date of any such notice.
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Section 3.
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Registration of Transfers and
Exchanges .
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a)
Different Denominations . This Note is exchangeable for an
equal aggregate principal amount of Notes of different authorized
denominations, as requ