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Exhibit
10.1
Conformed Version
$800,000,000 364-DAY
REVOLVING CREDIT AGREEMENT
dated as of
November 30,
2007
among
MEDCO HEALTH SOLUTIONS,
INC.,
as Borrower
THE LENDERS
PARTY HERETO
and
CITIBANK, N.A.,
as Administrative
Agent
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK,
N.A.
as Syndication
Agent
CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS
INC.
and
J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES
INC.,
as Joint Lead Arrangers and
Joint Bookrunners
TABLE OF
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ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS
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SECTION 1.01. |
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Defined
Terms |
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SECTION 1.02. |
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Classification of Loans and Borrowings |
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SECTION 1.03. |
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Terms
Generally |
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SECTION 1.04. |
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Accounting Terms; GAAP |
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SECTION 1.05. |
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Rounding |
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SECTION 1.06. |
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Times of
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ARTICLE II THE
CREDITS
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SECTION 2.01.
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Commitments |
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SECTION 2.02.
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Loans and
Borrowings |
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SECTION 2.03.
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Requests
for Borrowings |
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SECTION 2.04.
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Reserved |
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SECTION 2.05.
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Funding
of Borrowings |
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SECTION 2.06.
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Interest
Elections |
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SECTION 2.07.
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Termination and Reduction of Commitments |
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SECTION 2.08.
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Repayment
of Loans; Evidence of Debt |
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SECTION 2.09.
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Optional
and Mandatory Prepayment of Loans; and Termination upon Change in
Control |
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SECTION 2.10.
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Fees |
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SECTION 2.11.
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Interest |
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SECTION 2.12.
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Alternate
Rate of Interest |
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SECTION 2.13.
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Increased
Costs |
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SECTION 2.14.
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Break
Funding Payments |
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SECTION 2.15.
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Taxes |
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SECTION 2.16.
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Payments
Generally; Pro Rata Treatment; Sharing of Set-offs |
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SECTION 2.17.
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Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders |
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ARTICLE III REPRESENTATIONS AND
WARRANTIES
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SECTION 3.01.
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Organization; Powers |
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SECTION 3.02.
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Authorization; Enforceability |
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SECTION 3.03.
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Governmental Approvals; No Conflicts; Ranking |
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SECTION 3.04.
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Financial
Condition; No Material Adverse Change |
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SECTION 3.05.
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Properties; Insurance |
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SECTION 3.06.
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Litigation and Environmental Matters |
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SECTION 3.07.
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Compliance with Laws and Agreements; No Default |
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SECTION 3.08.
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Investment Company Status |
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SECTION 3.09.
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Taxes |
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SECTION 3.10.
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ERISA |
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SECTION 3.11.
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Margin
Regulations |
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SECTION 3.12.
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Certain
Fees |
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SECTION 3.13.
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Disclosure |
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ARTICLE IV CONDITIONS
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SECTION 4.01.
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Conditions to Initial Credit Event |
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SECTION 4.02.
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Conditions to Each Credit Event |
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ARTICLE
V AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS
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SECTION 5.01.
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Financial
Statements; Ratings Change and Other Information |
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SECTION 5.02.
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Notices
of Material Events |
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SECTION 5.03.
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Existence; Conduct of Business |
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SECTION 5.04.
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Payment
of Obligations |
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SECTION 5.05.
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Maintenance of Properties; Insurance |
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SECTION 5.06.
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Books and
Records; Inspection Rights |
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SECTION 5.07.
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Compliance with Laws |
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SECTION 5.08.
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Use of
Proceeds and Letters of Credit |
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SECTION 5.09.
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Subsidiary Guarantors |
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ARTICLE VI NEGATIVE COVENANTS AND
FINANCIAL COVENANTS
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SECTION 6.01.
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Indebtedness |
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SECTION 6.02.
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Liens |
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SECTION 6.03.
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Fundamental Changes |
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SECTION 6.04.
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Change in
Nature of Business; Swap Agreements |
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SECTION 6.05.
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Transactions with Affiliates |
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SECTION 6.06.
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Restrictive Agreements |
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SECTION 6.07.
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Financial
Covenants |
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ARTICLE VII EVENTS OF
DEFAULT
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ARTICLE VIII THE ADMINISTRATIVE
AGENT; THE AGENTS
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SECTION 8.01.
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Appointment and Authority |
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SECTION 8.02.
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Rights as
a Lender |
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SECTION 8.03.
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Exculpatory Provisions |
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SECTION 8.04.
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Reliance
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SECTION 8.05.
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Delegation of Duties |
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SECTION 8.06.
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Resignation of Administrative Agent |
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SECTION 8.07.
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Non-Reliance on Administrative Agent and Other
Lenders |
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SECTION 8.08.
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No Other
Duties, Etc. |
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SECTION 8.09.
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Administrative Agent May File Proofs of Claim |
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SECTION 8.10.
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Guaranty
Matters |
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ARTICLE IX MISCELLANEOUS
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SECTION 9.01.
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Notices |
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SECTION 9.02.
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Waivers;
Amendments |
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SECTION 9.03.
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Expenses;
Indemnity; Damage Waiver |
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SECTION 9.04.
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Successors and Assigns |
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SECTION 9.05.
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Survival |
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SECTION 9.06.
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Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness |
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SECTION 9.07.
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Severability |
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SECTION 9.08.
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Right of
Setoff |
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SECTION 9.09.
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Governing
Law; Jurisdiction; Consent to Service of Process |
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SECTION 9.10.
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WAIVER OF
JURY TRIAL |
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SECTION 9.11.
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Headings |
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SECTION 9.12.
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Confidentiality |
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SECTION 9.13.
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Interest
Rate Limitation |
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SECTION 9.14.
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Release
of Subsidiary Guarantors |
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SECTION 9.15.
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USA
PATRIOT Act |
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SECTION 9.16.
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No
Advisory or Fiduciary Responsibility |
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SCHEDULES:
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Schedule 2.01
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Commitments |
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Schedule 3.01(a)
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Subsidiaries |
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Schedule 3.01(b)
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Borrower
Information |
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Schedule 6.01
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Existing
Indebtedness |
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Schedule 6.02
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Existing
Liens |
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Schedule 6.06
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Restrictive Agreements |
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EXHIBITS:
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Exhibit A
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Form of
Assignment and Assumption |
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Exhibit B
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Form of
Certificate of Non-Bank Status |
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Exhibit C
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Form of
Committed Loan Notice |
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Exhibit D
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Reserved |
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Exhibit E
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Form of
Interest Election Request |
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Exhibit F
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Form of
Revolving Credit Note for Revolving Loans |
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Exhibit G-1
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Form of
Opinion of Borrower’s External Counsel |
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Exhibit G-2
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Form of
Opinion of Borrower’s Internal Counsel |
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Exhibit H
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Form of
Accountant’s Certificate |
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Exhibit I
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Form of
Guaranty |
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iv
CREDIT AGREEMENT, dated as of
November 30, 2007, among MEDCO HEALTH SOLUTIONS, INC., a
Delaware corporation, the Lenders from time to time party hereto
and CITIBANK, N.A., as Administrative Agent.
WITNESSETH:
WHEREAS, the Borrower has
requested, and the Lenders are willing to make available to the
Borrower, revolving loans described in this Agreement for the
purpose of facilitating the Borrower’s repurchase of shares
of its capital stock pursuant to its Share Repurchase Program in
effect from time to time and for general corporate and working
capital purposes (including making acquisitions), upon and subject
to the terms and conditions hereinafter set forth.
NOW, THEREFORE, in
consideration of the premises, covenants and agreements set forth
herein, the parties hereto agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
Definitions
SECTION 1.01. Defined
Terms . As used in this Agreement, the following terms have the
meanings specified below:
“ Administrative
Agent ” means Citibank, in its capacity as administrative
agent for the Lenders hereunder, and any successor thereto
appointed in accordance with this Agreement.
“ Administrative
Agent’s Office ” means the Administrative
Agent’s address and, as appropriate, account, as set forth in
Section 9.01 or as the Administrative Agent may from
time to time notify to the Borrower and the Lenders in
writing.
“ Administrative
Questionnaire ” means an Administrative Questionnaire in
a form supplied by the Administrative Agent.
“ Affected
Lender ” has the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 2.12(b).
“ Affiliate
” means, with respect to a specified Person, another Person
that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries,
Controls or is Controlled by or is under common Control with the
Person specified.
“ Agent Parties
” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section
9.01(c).
“ Agents ”
means, collectively, the Administrative Agent and the Syndication
Agent.
“ Agreement
” means this Credit Agreement, as the same may at any time be
amended, supplemented or otherwise modified in accordance with the
terms hereof and in effect.
“ Applicable
Commitment Fee Rate ” means, with respect to the
Commitments, for any period, the applicable percentage per annum
equal to the percentage set forth below determined by reference to
the category containing the highest (except as set forth below) of
(a) the Credit Rating from S&P, (b) the Credit Rating
from Moody’s and (c) the Credit Rating from Fitch, in
each case as in effect from time to time during such
period:
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Credit Rating
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Category 1: A- or better / A3 or
better / A- or better
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0.070 |
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Category 2: BBB+ / Baa1 /
BBB+
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0.080 |
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Category 3: BBB / Baa2 /
BBB
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0.100 |
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Category 4: BBB- / Baa3 /
BBB-
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0.125 |
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Category 5: BB+ or worse / Ba1 or
worse / BB+ or worse
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0.150 |
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provided, that:
(a) if the Borrower shall
maintain Credit Ratings from each of the three Credit Rating
Agencies and such Credit Ratings are all (or any combination of
such Credit Ratings are) split among the foregoing categories
(i) by no more than a one category differential, then the
Applicable Commitment Fee Rate at such time shall be set at the
highest of such categories, (ii) by more than a one category
differential, and two of the foregoing Credit Ratings are
equivalent with the third being lower, then the Applicable
Commitment Fee Rate at such time shall be set at the highest of
such categories or (iii) by a category differential other than
as set forth in either of clauses (i) or
(ii) above, then the Applicable Commitment Fee Rate
shall be one category lower than the highest of such
categories;
(b) if the Borrower shall
maintain Credit Ratings from (i) only two of the Credit Rating
Agencies, then the higher of such two Credit Ratings shall apply
unless such Credit Ratings are split by more than a one category
differential, in which case the Applicable Commitment Fee Rate
shall be one category lower than that corresponding to the higher
of the two Credit Ratings, (ii) only one of the Credit Rating
Agencies, then that single Credit Rating shall apply or
(iii) none of the Credit Rating Agencies, then the Applicable
Commitment Fee Rate shall be 0.150%;
(c) if the Credit Ratings
established by any Credit Rating Agency shall be changed (other
than as a result of a change in the rating system of such Credit
Rating Agency), such change shall be effective as of the date on
which it is first announced by the applicable rating agency,
irrespective of when notice of such change shall have been
furnished by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent and the
Lenders pursuant to Section 5.01(f) or
otherwise;
(d) each change in the
Applicable Commitment Fee Rate shall apply during the period
commencing on the effective date of such change and ending on the
date immediately preceding the effective date of the next such
change; and
(e) if the rating system of
any Credit Rating Agency shall change, or if any such Credit Rating
Agency (including any successor to its credit rating agency
business) shall cease to be in the business of rating corporate
debt obligations, the Borrower and the Lenders
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shall negotiate in good faith to amend
this definition to reflect such changed rating system or the
unavailability of ratings from such Credit Rating Agency (including
any successor to its credit rating agency business) and, pending
the effectiveness of any such amendment, the Applicable Commitment
Fee Rate shall be determined using the S&P, Moody’s or
Fitch Credit Rating, as the case may be, most recently in effect
prior to such changed rating system or cessation.
For the purposes of this definition, the
highest Credit Ratings from the Credit Rating Agencies shall be
category 1 Credit Ratings set forth above, and the lowest Credit
Ratings from the Credit Rating Agencies shall be category 5 Credit
Ratings set forth above.
“ Applicable
Interest Rate Margin ” means, with respect to any
Revolving Loans comprising Base Rate Loans or Eurodollar Loans, the
applicable percentage per annum equal to the percentage set
forth below, determined by reference to the category containing the
highest of (a) the Credit Rating from S&P, (b) the
Credit Rating from Moody’s and (c) the Credit Rating
from Fitch, in each case corresponding to such Base Rate Loan (as
in effect on the day such Base Rate Loan is made) or Eurodollar
Loan (as in effect on the first day of the corresponding Interest
Period):
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Credit Rating
(S&P/Moody’s/Fitch)
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Base Rate
Loans |
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Eurodollar
Loans |
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Category 1: A- or better / A3 or
better / A- or better
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0.00 |
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0.45 |
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Category 2: BBB+ / Baa1 /
BBB+
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0.00 |
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0.50 |
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Category 3: BBB / Baa2 /
BBB
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0.00 |
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0.55 |
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Category 4: BBB- / Baa3 /
BBB-
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0.00 |
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0.70 |
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Category 5: BB+ or worse / Ba1 or
worse / BB+ or worse
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0.00 |
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0.85 |
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provided, that:
(a) if the Borrower shall
maintain Credit Ratings from each of the three Credit Rating
Agencies and such Credit Ratings are all (or any combination of
such Credit Ratings are) split among the foregoing categories
(i) by no more than a one category differential, then the
Applicable Interest Rate Margin at such time shall be set at the
highest of such categories, (ii) by more than a one category
differential, and two of the foregoing Credit Ratings are
equivalent with the third being lower, then the Applicable Interest
Rate Margin at such time shall be set at the highest of such
categories or (iii) by a category differential other than as
set forth in either of clauses (i) or
(ii) above, then the Applicable Interest Rate Margin
shall be one category lower than the highest of such
categories;
(b) if the Borrower shall
maintain Credit Ratings from (i) only two of the Credit Rating
Agencies, then the higher of such two Credit Ratings shall apply
unless such Credit Ratings are split by more than a one category
differential, in which case the Applicable Interest Rate Margin
shall be one category lower than that corresponding to the higher
of the two Credit Ratings, (ii) only one of the Credit Rating
Agencies, then that single Credit Rating shall apply or (iii) none
of the Credit Rating Agencies, then the Applicable Interest Rate
Margin shall be 0.00% or 0.85% with respect to any Base Rate Loans
or Eurodollar Loans, respectively, at such time;
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(c) if the Credit Ratings
established by any Credit Rating Agency shall be changed (other
than as a result of a change in the rating system of such Credit
Rating Agency), such change shall be effective as of the date on
which it is first announced by the applicable rating agency,
irrespective of when notice of such change shall have been
furnished by the Borrower to the Administrative Agent and the
Lenders pursuant to Section 5.01(f) or
otherwise;
(d) each change in the
Applicable Interest Rate Margin shall apply during the period
commencing on the effective date of such change and ending on the
date immediately preceding the effective date of the next such
change; and
(e) if the rating system of
any Credit Rating Agency shall change, or if any such Credit Rating
Agency (including any successor to its credit rating agency
business) shall cease to be in the business of rating corporate
debt obligations, the Borrower and the Lenders shall negotiate in
good faith to amend this definition to reflect such changed rating
system or the unavailability of ratings from such Credit Rating
Agency (including any successor to its credit rating agency
business) and, pending the effectiveness of any such amendment, the
Applicable Interest Rate Margin shall be determined using the
S&P, Moody’s or Fitch Credit Rating, as the case may be,
most recently in effect prior to such changed rating system or
cessation.
For the purposes of this definition, the
highest Credit Ratings from the Credit Rating Agencies shall be
category 1 Credit Ratings set forth above, and the lowest Credit
Ratings from the Credit Rating Agencies shall be category 5 Credit
Ratings set forth above.
“ Applicable
Percentage ” means, with respect to any Lender’s
Commitment, the percentage (expressed as a decimal, carried out to
nine (9) decimal places) of the Lenders’ total
Commitments represented by such Lender’s Commitment. If the
Commitments have respectively terminated or expired, the Applicable
Percentages shall be determined based upon the Commitments,
respectively, most recently in effect, giving effect to any
permitted assignments made pursuant to Section 9.04
.
“ Approved Fund
” means with respect to any Lender, a Fund managed or
administered by such Lender, an Affiliate of such Lender or an
entity or an Affiliate of an entity that administers or manages
such Lender.
“ Arrangers
” means, collectively, Citigroup Global Markets Inc. and J.P.
Morgan Securities Inc., in their capacities as joint lead arrangers
and joint bookrunners.
“ Assignment and
Assumption ” means an assignment and assumption entered
into by a Lender and an assignee (with the consent of any party
whose consent is required by Section 9.04 ), and
accepted by the Administrative Agent, in substantially the form of
Exhibit A or any other form approved by the Administrative
Agent.
“ Availability
Period ” means from and including the Commitment
Effective Date to, but excluding, the earliest of (a) the
Maturity Date, (b) the date of termination of the Commitments
pursuant to Section 2.07 or 2.09 and
(c) the date of termination of the commitment of each Lender
to make Revolving Loans pursuant to Article VII .
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“ Base Rate
” means for any day a fluctuating rate per annum equal to the
higher of (a) the Federal Funds Effective Rate plus 1/2
of 1% and (b) the rate of interest in effect for such day as
publicly announced from time to time by Citibank as its
“prime rate.” The “prime rate” is a rate
set by Citibank based upon various factors including
Citibank’s costs and desired return, general economic
conditions and other factors, and is used as a reference point for
pricing some loans, which may be priced at, above, or below such
announced rate. Any change in such rate announced by Citibank shall
take effect at the opening of business on the day specified in the
public announcement of such change. “ Base Rate
”, when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to
whether such Loan, or the Loans constituting such Borrowing, are
bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the Base
Rate.
“ Board ”
means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the
United States of America.
“ Borrower
” means Medco Health Solutions, Inc., a Delaware
corporation.
“ Borrower
Materials ” has the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 5.01.
“ Borrowing
” means an advance of Revolving Loans of the same Type, made,
converted or continued on the same date and, in the case of
Eurodollar Loans, as to which a single Interest Period is in
effect.
“ Borrowing
Request ” means a request by the Borrower for a Borrowing
in accordance with Section 2.03 , which, if in writing,
shall be in the form of a Committed Loan Notice.
“ Business Day
” means any day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or other day
on which commercial banks in New York City are authorized or
required by law to remain closed; provided, that, when used
in connection with a Eurodollar Loan, the term “ Business
Day ” shall also exclude any day on which banks are not
open for dealings in dollar deposits in the London interbank
market.
“ Capital Lease
” means 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 the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries under GAAP.
“ Capital Lease
Obligations ” means the obligations of the Borrower or
its Subsidiaries to pay rent or other amounts under any Capital
Lease, and the amount of such obligations shall be the capitalized
amount thereof determined in accordance with GAAP.
“ Cash Management
Obligation ” means, any direct or indirect liability,
contingent or otherwise, of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries in
respect of cash management services (including treasury,
depository, overdraft, credit or debit card, electronic funds
transfer, purchasing card obligations and other cash management
arrangements) provided by the Administrative Agent, any Lender or
any Affiliate of any of them, including obligations for the payment
of fees, interest, charges, expenses, attorneys’ fees and
disbursements in connection therewith.
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“ Certificate of
Non-Bank Status ” means a certificate substantially in
the form of Exhibit B .
“ Change in
Control ” means (a) the acquisition of ownership,
directly or indirectly, beneficially or of record, by any Person or
group (each within the meaning of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934 and the rules of the SEC thereunder as in effect on the date
hereof) not an Affiliate of the Borrower of Equity Interests
representing more than 30% of the aggregate ordinary voting power
represented by the issued and outstanding Equity Interests of the
Borrower or (b) the occurrence of a “Change of
Control” as defined in the Senior Notes Indenture.
“ Change in Law
” means (a) the adoption of any law, rule or regulation
after the date of this Agreement, (b) any change in any law,
rule or regulation or in the interpretation or application thereof
by any Governmental Authority after the date of this Agreement or
(c) compliance by any Lender (or, for purposes of
Section 2.13(b) , by any lending office of such Lender
or by such Lender’s holding company, if any) with any
request, guideline or directive (whether or not having the force of
law) of any Governmental Authority made or issued after the date of
this Agreement.
“ Citibank
” means Citibank, N.A., a national banking
association.
“ Closing Date
” means November 30, 2007.
“ Code ”
means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to
time.
“ Commitment
” means, as to each Lender, its obligation to make Revolving
Loans to the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.01 , in an
aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding not to
exceed the amount set forth opposite such Lender’s name on
Schedule 2.01 under the caption “Commitment” or
opposite such caption in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to
which such Lender becomes a party hereto, as applicable, as such
amount may be adjusted from time to time in accordance with this
Agreement. The aggregate amount of the Commitments as of the
Commitment Effective Date is $800,000,000.
“Commitment
Effective Date ” means January 2, 2008; provided
that all the condition is Section 4.01 have been
satisfied (or waived).
“ Committed Loan
Notice ” means a notice of a Revolving Credit Borrowing
which shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit
C.
“ Consolidated
EBITDA ” means, for any period, Consolidated Net Income
for such period plus (A) without duplication and to the extent
deducted in determining such Consolidated Net Income, the sum of
(1) the aggregate amount of Consolidated Interest Expense for
such period, (2) the aggregate provision for federal, state,
local or foreign taxes based on income or profits for such period,
(3) all amounts attributable to depreciation, amortization
(including amortization of goodwill or other intangible assets) or
impairment of goodwill or other intangible assets for such period,
(4) any extraordinary or non-recurring non-cash charges for
such period ( provided , however, that cash expenditures in
respect of charges added back pursuant to this clause (4)
shall be deducted in determining Consolidated EBITDA for the
period during which such expenditures are made), (5) the
aggregate amount of all non-cash compensation charges incurred
during such period arising from the grant of or the issuance of
stock, stock options or other equity awards, and (6) the
aggregate amount of any extraordinary losses (less
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extraordinary gains) plus any loss (less
any gains) realized by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in
connection with any dispositions that occur during the applicable
period and minus (B) any extraordinary or non-recurring
non-cash gains for such period.
“ Consolidated
Interest Expense ” means, for any period, the amount of
interest expense reflected on the consolidated statement of income
of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for such period in conformity
with GAAP.
“ Consolidated Net
Income ” means, for any period, the amount of net income
reflected on the consolidated statement of income of the Borrower
and its Subsidiaries for such period in conformity with
GAAP.
“ Consolidated Net
Worth ” means, at any date, all amounts that would, in
conformity with GAAP, be included on a consolidated balance sheet
of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries under stockholders’
equity at such date.
“ Consolidated Total
Debt ” means, as of the date of determination, the
aggregate amount of Indebtedness reflected on the consolidated
balance sheet of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as of such date
in conformity with GAAP, plus, without duplication, “
synthetic leases ”, letters of credit (but only to the
extent drawn and not reimbursed) and the aggregate amount advanced
(whether in the form of capital or principal, including any
capitalized yield thereon) which is outstanding under the
Securitization.
“ Control
” means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power
to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of a
Person, whether through the ability to exercise voting power, by
contract or otherwise. “ Controlling ” and
“ Controlled ” have meanings correlative
thereto.
“ Credit Event
” has the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 4.02.
“ Credit Rating
” means the Borrower’s long-term senior unsecured
non-credit enhanced debt rating.
“ Credit Rating
Agencies ” means each of S&P, Moody’s and
Fitch.
“ Debt Issuance
” means the incurrence of Indebtedness by the Borrower or any
of its Subsidiaries pursuant to any credit facility or debt
securities issued in the commercial bank or capital markets but
excluding all Indebtedness incurred pursuant to (i) the
Existing Credit Agreement or any credit facility which replaces,
refinances or extends the maturity of, the Existing Credit
Agreement ( provided that any increase in the principal
committed amount (as of the date hereof) of the Existing Credit
Agreement shall be a “Debt Issuance” to the extent of
any amounts borrowed pursuant to such increase in committed
amount), (ii) any bilateral financing lines, (iii) any
Securitization and (iv) any issuances of commercial paper or
other similar short term borrowings.
“ Debtor Relief
Laws ” means the Bankruptcy Code of the United States,
and all other liquidation, conservatorship, bankruptcy, assignment
for the benefit of creditors, moratorium, rearrangement,
receivership, insolvency, reorganization, or similar debtor relief
laws of the United States or other applicable jurisdictions from
time to time in effect and affecting the rights of creditors
generally.
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“ Default
” means any event or condition which constitutes an Event of
Default or which upon notice, lapse of time or both would, unless
cured or waived, become an Event of Default.
“ Defaulting
Lender ” means any Lender that (a) has failed to
fund any portion of the Revolving Loans required to be funded by it
hereunder on the date required to be funded by it hereunder,
(b) has otherwise failed to pay over to the Administrative
Agent or any other Lender any other amount required to be paid by
it hereunder within one (1) Business Day of the date when due,
unless the subject of a good faith dispute, or (c) has been
deemed insolvent or become the subject of a bankruptcy or
insolvency proceeding
“ Dollars
” or “ $ ” refers to lawful money of the
United States of America.
“ Eligible
Assignee ” means (a) any Lender, (b) an
Affiliate or Approved Fund of any Lender, in each case engaged in
making, purchasing and holding commercial loans and similar
extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its business,
(c) any financial institution or other entity, in each case
engaged in making, purchasing and holding commercial loans and
similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its
business, (d) any commercial bank, or (e) any other
Person (other than a natural Person) acceptable to the
Administrative Agent and the Borrower.
“ Environmental
Laws ” means all laws, rules, regulations, codes,
ordinances, orders, decrees, judgments, injunctions or binding
agreements issued, promulgated or entered into by any Governmental
Authority, relating in any way to the environment, preservation or
reclamation of natural resources, the management, release or
threatened release of any Hazardous Material or to health and
safety matters.
“ Environmental
Liability ” means any liability, contingent or otherwise
(including any liability for damages, costs of environmental
remediation, fines, penalties or indemnities), of the Borrower or
any Subsidiary directly or indirectly resulting from or based upon
(a) violation of any Environmental Law, (b) the
generation, use, handling, transportation, storage, treatment or
disposal of any Hazardous Materials, (c) exposure to any
Hazardous Materials, (d) the release or threatened release of
any Hazardous Materials into the environment or (e) any
contract, agreement or other consensual arrangement pursuant to
which liability is assumed or imposed with respect to any of the
foregoing.
“ Equity
Interests ” means, with respect to any Person, shares of
capital stock, partnership interests, membership interests in a
limited liability company, beneficial interests in a trust or other
equity ownership interests issued by such Person, and any warrants,
options or other rights entitling the holder thereof to purchase or
acquire any such equity interest.
“ Equity
Issuance ” means the issue or sale of any Equity
Interests of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries to any Person
other than (i) to the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (as
applicable), (ii) pursuant to any employee stock-option plan,
employee benefit plan or non-employee director stock plan or
pursuant to the exercise of any stock options, restricted stock
units, warrants or other equity awards or (iii) pursuant to
any stock dividend, stock split or other distribution of stock to
existing shareholders without consideration.
“ ERISA ”
means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as
amended from time to time.
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“ ERISA
Affiliate ” means any trade or business (whether or not
incorporated) that, together with the Borrower, is treated as a
single employer under Section 414(b) or (c) of the Code
or, solely for purposes of Section 302 of ERISA and
Section 412 of the Code, is treated as a single employer under
Section 414 of the Code.
“ ERISA Event
” means (a) any “ reportable event ”,
as defined in Section 4043 of ERISA or the regulations issued
thereunder with respect to a Plan (other than an event for which
the 30-day notice period is waived); (b) the existence with
respect to any Plan of an “ accumulated funding
deficiency ” (as defined in Section 412 of the Code
or Section 302 of ERISA), whether or not waived; (c) the
filing pursuant to Section 412(d) of the Code or
Section 303(d) of ERISA of an application for a waiver of the
minimum funding standard with respect to any Plan; (d) the
incurrence by the Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates of any
liability under Title IV of ERISA with respect to the termination
of any Plan; (e) the receipt by the Borrower or any ERISA
Affiliate from the PBGC or a plan administrator of any notice
relating to an intention to terminate any Plan or Plans or to
appoint a trustee to administer any Plan; (f) the incurrence
by the Borrower or any of its ERISA Affiliates of any liability
with respect to the withdrawal or partial withdrawal from any Plan
or Multiemployer Plan; or (g) the receipt by the Borrower or
any ERISA Affiliate of any notice, or the receipt by any
Multiemployer Plan from the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate of any
notice, concerning the imposition of Withdrawal Liability or a
determination that a Multiemployer Plan is, or is expected to be,
insolvent or in reorganization, within the meaning of Title IV of
ERISA.
“ Eurodollar
”, when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to
whether such Loan, or the Loans constituting such Borrowing, are
bearing interest at a rate determined by reference to the
Eurodollar Rate.
“ Eurodollar
Rate ” means for any Interest Period with respect to a
Eurodollar Loan, a rate per annum determined by the Administrative
Agent pursuant to the following formula:
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For purposes of this definition, “
Eurodollar Base Rate ” means, for such Interest
Period, the rate per annum equal to the British Bankers Association
LIBOR Rate (“ BBA LIBOR ”), as published by
Reuters (or other commercially available source providing
quotations of BBA LIBOR as designated by the Administrative Agent
from time to time) at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two
(2) Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest
Period, for Dollar deposits (for delivery on the first day of such
Interest Period) with a term equivalent to such Interest Period. If
such rate is not available at such time for any reason, then the
“Eurodollar Base Rate” for such Interest Period shall
be the rate per annum determined by the Administrative Agent to be
the rate at which deposits in Dollars for delivery on the first day
of such Interest Period in same day funds in the approximate amount
of the Eurodollar Loan being made, continued or converted by
Citibank and with a term equivalent to such Interest Period would
be offered by Citibank’s London Branch to major banks in the
London interbank eurodollar market at their request at
approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two (2) Business Days
prior to the commencement of such Interest Period.
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“ Eurodollar Reserve
Percentage ” means, for any day during any Interest
Period, the reserve percentage (expressed as a decimal, carried out
to five (5) decimal places) in effect on such day, whether or
not applicable to any Lender, under regulations issued from time to
time by the FRB for determining the maximum reserve requirement
(including any emergency, supplemental or other marginal reserve
requirement) with respect to Eurocurrency funding (currently
referred to as “Eurocurrency liabilities”). The
Eurodollar Rate for each outstanding Eurodollar Loan shall be
adjusted automatically as of the effective date of any change in
the Eurodollar Reserve Percentage.
“ Event of
Default ” has the meaning assigned to such term in
Article VII .
“ Excluded Taxes
” means, with respect to the Administrative Agent, any Lender
or any other recipient of any payment to be made by or on account
of any obligation of the Borrower hereunder, (a) income or
franchise taxes imposed on (or measured by) its net income or
profits by reason of any connection between, as applicable, the
Administrative Agent or such Lender or any other party entitled to
receive payment hereunder and the relevant taxing jurisdiction,
including, without limitation, a connection arising from such other
Person being or having been a citizen, domiciliary, or resident of
such jurisdiction, being organized in such jurisdiction, or having
or having had a permanent establishment, branch or other fixed
place of business therein, but excluding a connection arising
solely from such Person having executed, delivered, performed its
obligations or received any payment under this Agreement,
(b) any branch profits taxes imposed by the United States or
any similar tax imposed by any other jurisdiction, (c) in the
case of a Foreign Lender (other than an assignee pursuant to a
request by the Borrower under Section 2.17(b) ), any
Tax that is imposed on amounts payable to such Foreign Lender at
the time such Foreign Lender becomes a party hereto (or designates
a new Lending Office) , except to the extent that such
Foreign Lender (or its assignor, if any) was entitled, at the time
of designation of a new Lending Office (or assignment), to receive
additional amounts from the Borrower with respect to such Tax
pursuant to Section 2.15 (d) any Taxes imposed by
reason of the Administrative Agent, such Lender or such other party
treated as a “conduit” under U.S. Treasury Regulation
Section 1.881-3 or applicable successor provision and
(e) any Taxes that are attributable to the Administrative
Agent’s, such Lender’s or such other party’s
failure to deliver the forms required by
Section 2.15(e) .
“ Executive
Officer ” means the chief executive officer, the chief
financial officer, the general counsel, the chief accounting
officer, the controller, the treasurer or any other “
officer ” (as defined in Rule 16a-1 of the Securities
Exchange Act of 1934, as amended) of the Borrower.
“ Existing Credit
Agreement ” means the Credit Agreement, dated as of
April 30, 2007, among the Borrower, the lenders and issuing
bank party thereto and Bank of America, N.A., as administrative
agent, as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to
time.
“ Federal Funds
Effective Rate ” means, for any day, the rate per annum
equal to the weighted average of the rates on overnight Federal
funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System
arranged by Federal funds brokers on such day, as published by the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York on the Business Day next
succeeding such day; provided that (a) if such day is
not a Business Day, the Federal Funds Effective Rate for such day
shall be such rate on such transactions on the next preceding
Business Day as so published on the next succeeding Business Day,
and (b) if no such rate is so published on such next
succeeding Business Day, the Federal Funds Effective Rate for such
day shall be the average rate (rounded upward, if necessary, to a
whole multiple of 1/100 of 1%) charged to Citibank on such day on
such transactions as determined by the Administrative
Agent.
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“ Financial
Officer ” means the chief financial officer, the
principal accounting officer, the treasurer and the controller of
the Borrower.
“ Fitch ”
means Fitch Ratings or any successor rating agency business
thereof.
“ Foreign Lender
” means any Lender that is not a “ United States
person ” (as such term is defined in
Section 7701(a)(3) of the Code).
“ FRB ”
means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the
United States.
“ Fund ”
means any Person (other than a natural person) that is (or has been
formed for the purpose of being) engaged in making, purchasing,
holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans and similar
extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its
activities.
“ GAAP ”
means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States
of America.
“ Governmental
Authority ” means the government of the United States of
America, any other nation or any political subdivision thereof,
whether state or local, and any agency, authority, instrumentality,
regulatory body, court, central bank or other entity exercising
executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory or
administrative powers or functions of government.
“ Guarantee
” of or by any Person (the “ guarantor ”)
means any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of the guarantor
guaranteeing any Indebtedness or other obligation of any other
Person (the “ primary obligor ”) in any manner,
whether directly or indirectly, and including any obligation of the
guarantor, direct or indirect, (a) to purchase or pay (or
advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such
Indebtedness or other obligation, or any security for such
Indebtedness or other obligation, (b) to purchase or lease
property, securities or services primarily for the purpose of
assuring the owner of such Indebtedness or other obligation of the
payment thereof, (c) to maintain working capital, equity
capital or any other financial statement condition or liquidity of
the primary obligor so as to enable the primary obligor to pay such
Indebtedness or other obligation or (d) as an account party in
respect of any letter of credit or letter of guarantee issued to
support such Indebtedness or other obligation; provided ,
that the term “ Guarantee ” shall not include
endorsements for collection or deposit in the ordinary course of
business.
“ Guaranteed
Obligations ” means (i) the Obligations,
(ii) all Cash Management Obligations owing to the
Administrative Agent, any Lender or any of their respective
Affiliates and (iii) all Hedging Obligations owing to one or
more Hedging Creditors, in each case to the extent constituting a
monetary payment obligation.
“ Guaranteed
Parties ” means (i) the Administrative Agent,
(ii) each Lender, (iii) each Indemnitee, (iv) the
Administrative Agent, each Lender and each of their respective
Affiliates in respect of any Cash Management Obligation owing to
it, (v) each Hedging Creditor in respect of any Hedging
Obligation owing to it and (vi) any other holder of a
Guaranteed Obligation.
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“ Guaranty
” means each Guaranty, if any, executed and delivered by each
Subsidiary Guarantor, substantially in the form of Exhibit I
, as the same may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified
from time to time.
“ Hazardous
Materials ” means all explosive or radioactive substances
or wastes and all hazardous or toxic substances, wastes or other
pollutants, including petroleum or petroleum distillates, asbestos
or asbestos containing materials, polychlorinated biphenyls, radon
gas, infectious or medical wastes and all other substances or
wastes of any nature regulated pursuant to any Environmental
Law.
“ Hedging
Contract ” means any Swap Agreement designed to alter the
risk exposure of the Borrower or any Subsidiary with respect in
interest rates, currency values, equity prices or commodity
prices.
“ Hedging
Creditor ” means the Administrative Agent, any Lender or
any of their respective Affiliates from time to time party to one
or more Hedging Contracts with the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries (even if the Administrative Agent or any such Lender
for any reason ceases after the execution of such agreement to be a
party hereto), and its successors and assigns, and “
Hedging Creditors ” means any two (2) or more of
them, collectively.
“ Hedging
Obligations ” of any Person means all obligations
(including any amounts which accrue after the commencement of any
bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding with respect to such Person,
whether or not allowed or allowable as a claim under any bankruptcy
or insolvency proceeding) of such Person in respect of any Hedging
Contract, excluding any amounts which such Person is entitled to
set-off against its obligations under applicable law.
“ Indebtedness
” of any Person means, without duplication, (a) all
obligations of such Person for borrowed money, (b) all
obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or
similar instruments, (c) all obligations of such Person under
conditional sale or other title retention agreements relating to
property acquired by such Person (other than customary reservations
or retentions of title under agreements with suppliers entered into
in the ordinary course of business), (d) all obligations of
such Person in respect of the deferred purchase price of property
or services (excluding current accounts payable, rebates to
customers and vendors and other accrued expenses incurred in the
ordinary course of business), (e) all Indebtedness of others
secured by (or for which the holder of such Indebtedness has an
existing right, contingent or otherwise, to be secured by) any Lien
on property owned or acquired by such Person, whether or not the
Indebtedness secured thereby has been assumed; provided ,
that the amount of any Indebtedness of others that constitutes
Indebtedness of such Person solely by reason of this clause
(e) shall, in the event that such Indebtedness is limited
recourse to such property (without recourse to such Person), for
purposes of this Agreement, not exceed the greater of the book
value or the fair market value of such property subject to such
Lien, (f) all Guarantees by such Person of Indebtedness of
others, (g) all Capital Lease Obligations of such Person,
(h) all obligations, contingent or otherwise, of such Person
as an account party in respect of the face amount of letters of
credit and letters of guarantee, (i) all obligations,
contingent or otherwise, of such Person in respect of the face
amount of bankers’ acceptances, (j) Off-Balance Sheet
Liabilities and (k) all aggregate principal component amounts
advanced to such Person and outstanding under any accounts
receivable securitization; provided , that Indebtedness
shall not
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include deferred tax liabilities,
employee and retiree benefit obligations or endorsements for
collection or deposit in the ordinary course of business. The
Indebtedness of any Person shall include the Indebtedness of any
other entity (including any partnership in which such Person is a
general partner) to the extent such Person is liable therefor as a
result of such Person’s ownership interest in or other
relationship with such entity, except to the extent the terms of
such Indebtedness provide that such Person is not liable
therefor.
“ Indemnified
Taxes ” means Taxes other than Excluded Taxes.
“ Indemnitee
” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section
9.03(b).
“ Insurance
Subsidiary ” means each Subsidiary of the Borrower that
engages primarily in insurance-related activities that are
connected with the business of the Borrower or one or more of its
Subsidiaries (including in connection with the Medicare Part D
prescription drug benefit program) and identified in writing by the
Borrower to the Administrative Agent as an “Insurance
Subsidiary.”
“ Interest Election
Request ” means a request by the Borrower to convert or
continue a Borrowing in accordance with Section 2.06
.
“ Interest Payment
Date ” means, (a) as to any Eurodollar Loan, the
last day of each Interest Period applicable to such Loan and the
Maturity Date; provided, however , that if any Interest
Period for a Eurodollar Loan exceeds three months, the respective
dates that fall every three months after the beginning of such
Interest Period shall also be Interest Payment Dates; and
(b) as to any Base Rate Loan, the last Business Day of each
March, June, September and December and the Maturity
Date.
“ Interest
Period ” means, as to each Eurodollar Loan, the period
commencing on the date such Eurodollar Loan is disbursed or
converted to or continued as a Eurodollar Loan and ending on the
date one, two, three or six months thereafter, or, to the extent
available from each Lender, one week, two weeks, nine months or
twelve months thereafter, in all cases as selected by the Borrower
in its Committed Loan Notice; provided, that:
(a) any Interest Period that
would otherwise end on a day that is not a Business Day shall be
extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless such Business
Day falls in another calendar month, in which case such Interest
Period shall end on the next preceding Business Day;
(b) any Interest Period that
begins on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day
for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar
month at the end of such Interest Period) shall end on the last
Business Day of the calendar month at the end of such Interest
Period; and
(c) no Interest Period shall
extend beyond the Maturity Date.
“ Investment Grade
Ratings ” means Credit Ratings of Baa3 or better by
Moody’s (or its equivalent under any successor rating
categories of Moody’s) and BBB- or better by S&P (or its
equivalent under any successor rating categories of S&P) and
BBB- or better by Fitch (or its equivalent under any successor
rating categories of Fitch).
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“ Lenders
” means the Persons listed on Schedule 2.01 and any
other Person that shall have become a party hereto pursuant to an
Assignment and Assumption, other than any such Person that ceases
to be a party hereto pursuant to an Assignment and
Assumption.
“ Lending Office
” means, as to any Lender, the office or offices of such
Lender described as such in such Lender’s Administrative
Questionnaire, or such other office or offices as a Lender may from
time to time notify the Borrower and the Administrative
Agent.
“ Lien ”
means, with respect to any asset, (a) any mortgage, deed of
trust, lien, pledge, hypothecation, encumbrance, charge or security
interest in, on or of such asset, (b) the interest of a vendor
or a lessor under any conditional sale agreement, capital lease or
title retention agreement (or any financing lease having
substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing)
relating to such asset and (c) in the case of securities, any
purchase option, call or similar right of a third party with
respect to such securities. The filing of a Uniform Commercial Code
financing statement that is a protective lease filing in respect of
an operating lease that does not constitute a security interest in
the leased property or otherwise give rise to a Lien does not
constitute a Lien solely on account of being filed in a public
office.
“ Loan ”
means any Revolving Loan made to the Borrower pursuant to this
Agreement.
“ Loan Documents
” means, collectively, this Agreement, each Revolving Credit
Note, the Syndication Letter, the Guaranty and, to the extent
expressly designated as a “Loan Document” by the
Borrower and the Administrative Agent, each certificate, agreement
or document executed by the Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor
and delivered to the Administrative Agent or any Lender in
connection with or pursuant to any of the foregoing.
“ Loan Parties
” means the Borrower and each Subsidiary
Guarantor.
“ Material Adverse
Effect ” means a material adverse effect on (a) the
business, operations or condition (financial or otherwise) of the
Borrower and the Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, (b) the
ability of the Borrower to perform any of its obligations under
this Agreement or any other Loan Document subject to applicable
cure and grace periods or (c) the validity and enforceability
of this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
“ Material
Indebtedness ” means Indebtedness (other than the Loans),
or net termination payment obligations in respect of one or more
Swap Agreements, of any one or more of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries in an aggregate principal amount exceeding
(a) for purposes of clause (f) of Article
VII , $100,000,000, and (b) for purposes of clause
(g) of Article VII , $100,000,000. For purposes of
determining Material Indebtedness, the “ principal
amount ” of the obligations of the Borrower or any
Subsidiary in respect of any Swap Agreement at any time shall be
the maximum aggregate amount (giving effect to any netting
agreements) that the Borrower or such Subsidiary would be required
to pay if such Swap Agreement were terminated at such
time.
“ Maturity Date
” means the earliest of (i) November 28, 2008 and
(ii) the date of the prepayment in full of the Revolving Loans
and termination of the Lenders’ total Commitments;
provided, however , that, in each case, if such date is not
a Business Day, the Maturity Date shall be the next preceding
Business Day.
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“ Moody’s
” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. or any
successor to the rating agency business thereof.
“ Multiemployer
Plan ” means a multiemployer plan as defined in
Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA.
“Net Cash
Proceeds ” means the cash proceeds received by the
Borrower for any Debt Issuance or Equity Issuance; net of any
underwriting or other discounts, commissions, fees and other costs
or expenses associated therewith.
“ Obligations
” means the Loans, and all other amounts, obligations,
covenants and duties owing by the Borrower to the Administrative
Agent, any Lender, any Affiliate of any of them or any Indemnitee,
of every type and description (whether by reason of an extension of
credit, opening or amendment of a letter of credit or payment of
any draft drawn thereunder, loan, guarantee, indemnification or
otherwise), present or future, arising under this Agreement or any
other Loan Document, whether direct or indirect (including those
acquired by assignment), absolute or contingent, due or to become
due, now existing or hereafter arising and however acquired and
whether or not evidenced by any note, guarantee or other instrument
or for the payment of money, including all letter of credit and
other fees, interest, charges, expenses, attorneys’ fees and
disbursements and other sums chargeable to the Borrower under this
Agreement or any other Loan Document.
“ Off-Balance Sheet
Liability ” of a Person shall mean (i) any liability
under any Sale and Leaseback or any lease leaseback transaction
which is not a Capital Lease Obligation and (ii) any liability
under any so called “ synthetic lease ”
transaction entered into by such Person.
“ Other Taxes
” means all present or future stamp or documentary taxes or
any other excise or property taxes, charges or similar levies
arising from any payment made hereunder or under any other Loan
Document or from the execution, delivery or enforcement of, or
otherwise with respect to, this Agreement or any other Loan
Document.
“ Outstanding
Amount ” means, on any date, the aggregate outstanding
principal amount thereof after giving effect to any Borrowings and
prepayments or repayments of Revolving Loans occurring on such
date.
“ Participant
” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.04(d)
.
“ PBGC ”
means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation referred to and
defined in ERISA and any successor entity performing similar
functions.
“ Permitted
Encumbrances ” means:
(f) Liens imposed by law for
taxes, assessments or governmental charges, levies or claims that
are not yet delinquent or which are being contested in compliance
with clauses (a) and (b) of
Section 5.04 ;
(g) carriers’,
warehousemen’s, mechanics’, materialmen’s,
repairmen’s and other like Liens arising by operation of law,
arising in the ordinary course of business and securing obligations
that are not overdue by more than 30 days or are being contested in
compliance with clauses (a) and (b) of
Section 5.04 ;
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(h) Liens arising, and
deposits made, in the ordinary course of business in compliance
with workers’ compensation, unemployment insurance and other
social security laws or regulations;
(i) Liens incurred or
deposits made to secure the performance of bids, tenders, trade
contracts, government contracts, leases, statutory obligations,
surety, indemnity, release and appeal bonds, performance bonds and
other obligations of a like nature, in each case in the ordinary
course of business;
(j) judgment Liens in respect
of judgments that do not constitute an Event of Default under
paragraph (k) of Article VII ;
(k) any interest or title of
a lessor under an operating lease entered into in the ordinary
course of business, or any statutory and common law landlord
Liens;
(l) Liens arising out of
consignment or similar arrangements for sales of goods entered into
in the ordinary course of business;
(m) easements, ground leases,
zoning restrictions, building codes, rights-of-way, minor defects
and irregularity in title and similar encumbrances on real property
imposed by law or arising in the ordinary course of business that
do not secure any monetary obligations and do not materially
detract from the value of the affected property or interfere with
the ordinary conduct of business of the Borrower or any
Subsidiary;
(n) licenses of patents,
trademarks or other intellectual property rights granted by the
Borrower or its Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of
business;
(o) Liens arising solely by
virtue of any statutory or common law provision relating to
bankers’ liens, rights of set-off or similar rights, in each
case incurred in the ordinary course of business;
(p) leases or subleases
granted to third persons in the ordinary course of business not
interfering in any material respect with the business of the
Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries and not materially detracting
from the value of the property subject to such lease or sublease;
and
(q) the replacement,
extension or renewal of any Lien permitted hereunder;
provided , that such replacement, extension or renewal Lien
shall not cover any property other than the property subject
thereto prior to such replacement, extension or renewal;
provided , that the term “
Permitted Encumbrances ” shall not include any Lien
securing Indebtedness for borrowed money.
“ Person ”
means any natural person, corporation, limited liability company,
trust, joint venture, association, company, partnership,
Governmental Authority or other entity.
“ Plan ”
means any employee pension benefit plan (other than a Multiemployer
Plan) subject to the provisions of Title IV of ERISA or
Section 412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA, and in
respect of which the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate is (or, if
such plan were terminated, would under Section 4069 of ERISA
be deemed to be) an “ employer ” as defined in
Section 3(5) of ERISA.
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“ Platform
” has the meaning set forth in Section 5.01
.
“ Public Lender
” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section
5.01.
“ Receivables and
Related Assets ” means accounts receivable (including any
rebate receivables) and any related underlying contractual rights,
and solely to the extent evidencing, constituting or relating to
such assets or proceeds thereof, each of the following:
instruments, chattel paper, obligations, general intangibles,
deposit accounts and other similar assets, including interests in
returned merchandise or returned goods, the sale or lease of which
give rise to the foregoing, related contractual rights, guarantees,
insurance proceeds, collections, other related assets and proceeds
of all the foregoing.
“ Register
” has the meaning set forth in Section 9.04(c)
.
“ Related
Parties ” means, with respect to any specified Person,
such Person’s Affiliates and the respective directors,
trustees, officers, employees, agents and advisors of such Person
and such Person’s Affiliates.
“ Request for
Borrowing ” means a Committed Loan Notice.
“ Required
Lenders ” means, at any time, Lenders having more than
50% in total of the aggregate outstanding amount of the Commitments
or, after the Maturity Date, the aggregate Revolving Credit
Exposure, then outstanding. A Defaulting Lender shall not be
included in the calculation of “ Required Lenders.
”
“ Responsible
Officer ” means the chief executive officer, president,
or any Financial Officer of a Loan Party. Any document delivered
hereunder that is signed by a Responsible Officer of a Loan Party
shall be conclusively presumed to have been authorized by all
necessary corporate, partnership and/or other action on the part of
such Loan Party and such Responsible Officer shall be conclusively
presumed to have acted on behalf of such Loan Party.
“ Revolving Credit
Borrowing ” means a borrowing consisting of simultaneous
Revolving Loans of the same Type and, in the case of Eurodollar
Loans, having the same Interest Period made by each of the Lenders
pursuant to Section 2.01.
“ Revolving Credit
Exposure ” means, with respect to any Lender at any time,
the sum of the outstanding principal amount of such Lender’s
Revolving Loans.
“ Revolving Credit
Facility ” means, at any time, the aggregate amount of
the Lenders’ Commitments at such time.
“ Revolving Credit
Note ” means a promissory note made by the Borrower in
favor of a Lender evidencing Revolving Loans made by such Lender,
substantially in the form of Exhibit F.
“ Revolving
Loans ” has the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 2.01 .
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“ Sale and
Leaseback ” means any lease of any property (whether
real, personal or mixed), whether now owned or hereafter acquired,
to which the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, directly or
indirectly, becomes or remains liable as lessee or as a guarantor
or other surety and which the Borrower has sold or transferred or
is to sell or to transfer to any other Person (other than any of
its Subsidiaries).
“ S&P
” means Standard & Poor’s or any successor
rating agency business thereof.
“ SEC ”
means the Securities and Exchange Commission or any successor
thereto.
“ Securitization
” means the program under which the Borrower and the
Securitization SPV securitize Receivables and Related Assets
entered into among the Borrower, the Securitization SPV and the
other parties thereto on or before the date hereof, as the same may
be amended, supplemented, modified or replaced from time to time in
accordance herewith.
“ Securitization
Documents ” means the Amended and Restated Receivables
Purchase Agreement, dated as of September 22, 2003, by and
among the Securitization SPV, as Seller, the Borrower, as Servicer,
each Person party thereto as a Conduit Purchaser or Committed
Purchaser, Citicorp North America, Inc. and Bank One, NA (Main
Office Chicago), as Managing Agents, and Citicorp North America,
Inc., as Administrative Agent, as amended on June 15, 2004,
and as further amended on June 24, 2004, and as extended on
June 25, 2004, the Receivables Purchase and Contribution
Agreement, dated as of August 8, 2003, between the Borrower,
as Originator and Servicer, and the Securitization SPV, as Buyer,
and each other document or agreement entered into pursuant thereto
with respect to the Securitization, and as such documents may be
amended, supplemented, modified or refinanced from time to time and
any replacements thereto.
“ Securitization
SPV ” means Medco Health Receivables, LLC, a
bankruptcy-remote Subsidiary of the Borrower established pursuant
to the Securitization or any other Subsidiary designated as the
Securitization SPV for the purposes of the Securitization
Documents.
“ Senior Notes
Indenture ” means the Indenture, dated as of
August 12, 2003, between the Borrower, as issuer, and U.S.
Bank Trust National Association, as trustee, with respect to the
Borrower’s 7.25% senior notes due August 15, 2013 issued
in an aggregate principal amount of $500,000,000.
“ Share Repurchase
Program ” means the Borrower’s Share Repurchase
Program as described in its filings made with the SEC.
“ Significant
Subsidiary ” means, at any time, a Subsidiary that has or
represents at least 5% of (a) the consolidated gross revenues
of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for the fiscal year then most
recently ended and/or (b) the consolidated assets of the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries as of the last day of the fiscal year
then most recently ended; provided , that if a combination
of Subsidiaries would, on a combined basis, represent at least 5%
of either of the foregoing amounts, then each such Subsidiary shall
be deemed a “ Significant Subsidiary ” for the
purposes hereof.
“ Solvent
” means, with respect to any Person, that as of the date of
determination (a) the sum of such Person’s debt
(including contingent liabilities) does not exceed all of its
property, at a present fair valuation on a going concern basis;
(b) the fair saleable value of the
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property on a going concern basis of
such Person is not less than the amount that will be required to
pay the probable liabilities on such Person’s then existing
debts as they become absolute and matured; (c) such
Person’s capital is not unreasonably small in relation to its
business or any contemplated or undertaken transaction; and
(d) such Person does not intend to incur, or believe (nor
should it reasonably believe) that it will incur, debts beyond its
ability to pay such debts as they become due. For purposes of this
definition, the amount of any contingent liability at any time
shall be computed as the amount that, in light of all of the facts
and circumstances existing at such time, represents the amount that
can reasonably be expected to become an actual or matured liability
(irrespective of whether such contingent liabilities meet the
criteria for accrual under Statement of Financial Accounting
Standard No. 5).
“ subsidiary
” means, with respect to any Person (the “
parent ”) at any date, any corporation, limited
liability company, partnership, association or other entity the
accounts of which would be consolidated with those of the parent in
the parent’s consolidated financial statements if such
financial statements were prepared in accordance with GAAP as of
such date, as well as any other corporation, limited liability
company, partnership, association or other entity of which
securities or other ownership interests representing more than 50%
of the ordinary voting power or, in the case of a partnership, more
than 50% of the general partnership interests are, as of such date,
owned, controlled or held.
“ Subsidiary
” means any subsidiary of the Borrower.
“ Subsidiary
Guarantor ” means each Subsidiary that (at the
Borrower’s election) becomes a party to the Guaranty pursuant
to Section 5.09 .
“ Swap Agreement
” means any agreement with respect to any swap, forward,
future or derivative transaction or option or similar agreement
involving, or settled by reference to, one or more rates,
currencies, commodities, equity or debt instruments or securities,
or economic, financial or pricing indices or measures of economic,
financial or pricing risk or value or any similar transaction or
any combination of these transactions; provided , that no
phantom stock or similar plan providing for payments only on
account of services provided by current or former directors,
officers, employees or consultants of the Borrower or its
Subsidiaries shall be a Swap Agreement.
“ Syndication
Agent ” means JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., in its capacity
as Syndication Agent hereunder.
“ Syndication
Letter ” means the letter agreement entered into by
Borrower with the Administrative Agent and the Arrangers with
respect to the payment of fees by the Borrower in connection with
the Revolving Credit Facility.
“ Taxes ”
means all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties,
deductions, withholdings, assessments, fees or other charges
imposed by any Governmental Authority, including any interest,
additions to tax or penalties applicable thereto.
“ Third-Party
Claim ” has the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 9.03(b).
“ Total
Outstandings ” means the aggregate Outstanding Amount of
all Loans.
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“ Transactions
” means the execution, delivery and performance of the Loan
Documents by the Loan Parties party thereto, the borrowing of
Loans, the use of the proceeds thereof and all other transactions
contemplated by the Loan Documents.
“ Type ”,
when used in reference to any Loan or Borrowing, refers to whether
the rate of interest on such Loan, or on the Loans constituting
such Borrowing, is determined by reference to the Eurodollar Rate
or the Base Rate.
“ Unused Commitment
Fee ” has the meaning assigned to such term in
Section 2.10(a) .
“ Withdrawal
Liability ” means liability to a Multiemployer Plan as a
result of a complete or partial withdrawal from such Multiemployer
Plan, as such terms are defined in Part I of Subtitle E of Title IV
of ERISA.
SECTION 1.02.
Classification of Loans and Borrowings . For purposes of
this Agreement, Loans and Borrowings may be classified and referred
to by Type (e.g., a “ Eurodollar Loan ” or a
“ Eurodollar Borrowing ”).
SECTION 1.03. Terms
Generally . The definitions of terms herein shall apply equally
to the singular and plural forms of the terms defined. Whenever the
context may require, any pronoun shall include the corresponding
masculine, feminine and neuter forms. The words “
include ”, “ includes ” and “
including ” shall be deemed to be followed by the
phrase “ without limitation ”. The word “
will ” shall be construed to have the same meaning and
effect as the word “ shall ”. Unless the context
requires otherwise (a) any definition of or reference to any
agreement, instrument or other document herein shall be construed
as referring to such agreement, instrument or other document as
from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified
(subject to any restrictions on such amendments, supplements or
modifications set forth herein), (b) any reference herein to
any Person shall be construed to include such Person’s
successors and assigns, (c) the words “ herein
”, “ hereof ” and “ hereunder
”, and words of similar import, shall be construed to refer
to this Agreement in its entirety and not to any particular
provision hereof, (d) all references herein to Articles
, Sections , paragraphs, clauses , Exhibits
and Schedules shall be construed to refer to, respectively,
Articles, Sections paragraphs and clauses of, and Exhibits and
Schedules to, this Agreement and (e) the words “
asset ” and “ property ” shall be
construed to have the same meaning and effect and to refer to any
and all tangible and intangible assets and properties, including
cash, securities, accounts and contract rights.
SECTION 1.04. Accounting
Terms; GAAP .
(a) Generally . All
accounting terms not specifically or completely defined herein
shall be construed in conformity with, and all financial data
(including financial ratios and other financial calculations)
required to be submitted pursuant to this Agreement shall be
prepared in conformity with, GAAP applied on a consistent basis, as
in effect from time to time, applied in a manner consistent with
that used in preparing the audited financial statements, except as
otherwise specifically prescribed herein.
(b) Changes in GAAP .
If at any time any change in GAAP would affect the computation of
any financial ratio or requirement set forth in any Loan Document,
and either the Borrower or the Required Lenders shall so request,
the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the Borrower shall
negotiate in good faith to amend such ratio or requirement to
preserve the original intent of the Agreement and/or eliminate the
effect of such change.
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(c) Consolidation of
Variable Interest Entities . All references herein to
consolidated financial statements of the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries or to the determination of any amount for the Borrower
and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis or any similar
reference shall, in each case, be deemed to include each variable
interest entity that the Borrower is required to consolidate
pursuant to FASB Interpretation No. 46 – Consolidation
of Variable Interest Entities: an interpretation of ARB No. 51
(January 2003) as if such variable interest entity were a
Subsidiary as defined herein.
SECTION 1.05. Rounding
. Any financial ratios required to be maintained by the Borrower
pursuant to this Agreement shall be calculated by dividing the
appropriate component by the other component, carrying the result
to one place more than the number of places by which such ratio is
expressed herein and rounding the result up or down to the nearest
number (with a rounding-down if there is no nearest
number).
SECTION 1.06. Times of
Day . Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to
times of day shall be references to Eastern time (daylight or
standard, as applicable).
ARTICLE II
The Credits
SECTION 2.01.
Commitments . Subject to the terms and conditions set forth
herein, each Lender, severally and not jointly with the other
Lenders, agrees to make revolving credit Loans (the “
Revolving Loans ”) to the Borrower from time to time
during the Availability Period in an aggregate principal amount
that will not result in such Lender’s Revolving Credit
Exposure exceeding such Lender’s Commitment. Within the
foregoing limits and subject to the terms and conditions set forth
herein, the Borrower may borrow, prepay and re-borrow Revolving
Loans.
SECTION 2.02. Loans and
Borrowings . (a) Revolving Loans . Each Revolving
Loan shall be made as part of a Borrowing consisting of Revolving
Loans from the Lenders ratably in accordance with their respective
Commitments.
(b) Subject to
Section 2.12 , each Borrowing of Revolving Loans shall
be comprised of Base Rate Loans or Eurodollar Loans, or both, as
the Borrower may request in accordance herewith. Each Lender at its
option may make any Eurodollar Loan by causing any domestic or
foreign branch or Affiliate of such Lender to make such Loan in
accordance with the terms hereof; provided that any exercise
of such option shall not affect the obligation of the Borrower to
repay such Loan in accordance with the terms of this
Agreement.
(c) At the commencement of
each Interest Period for any Eurodollar Borrowing, such Borrowing
shall be in an aggregate amount that is equal to $10,000,000 or an
integral multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof. At the time that
each Base Rate Revolving Borrowing is made, such Borrowing shall be
in an aggregate amount that is equal to $10,000,000 or an integral
multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof; provided that a
Base Rate Revolving Borrowing may be in an aggregate amount that is
equal to the entire unused balance of the total Commitments.
Borrowings of more than one Type may be outstanding at the same
time; provided that there shall not at any time be more than
a total of fifteen (15) Eurodollar Revolving Borrowings
outstanding.
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(d) Notwithstanding any other
provision of this Agreement, the Borrower shall not be entitled to
request, or to elect to convert or continue, any Borrowing if the
Interest Period requested with respect thereto would end after the
Maturity Date.
SECTION 2.03. Requests for
Borrowings . To request a Borrowing, the Borrower shall notify
the Administrative Agent of such request by telephone (i) in
the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing, not later than 12:00 noon, New
York City time, three (3) Business Days before the date of the
proposed Borrowing or (ii) in the case of a Base Rate
Borrowing, not later than 11:00 a.m., New York City time, on the
date of the proposed Borrowing. Each such telephonic Borrowing
Request shall be irrevocable and shall be confirmed promptly by
hand delivery or telecopy to the Administrative Agent of a
Committed Loan Notice signed by the Borrower. Each such telephonic
and written Borrowing Request shall specify the following
information in compliance with Section 2.02
:
(1) the aggregate amount of
the requested Borrowing;
(2) the date of such
Borrowing, which shall be a Business Day;
(3) whether such Borrowing is
to be a Base Rate Borrowing or a Eurodollar Borrowing;
(4) in the case of a
Eurodollar Borrowing, the initial Interest Period to be applicable
thereto, which shall be a period contemplated by the definition of
the term “ Interest Period ”; and
(5) the location and number
of the Borrower’s account to which funds are to be disbursed,
which shall comply with the requirements of Section
2.05.
If no election as to the Type
of Borrowing is specified, then the requested Borrowing shall be a
Base Rate Borrowing. If no Interest Period is specified with
respect to any requested Eurodollar Borrowing, then the Borrower
shall be deemed to have selected an Interest Period of one
month’s duration. Promptly following receipt of a Borrowing
Request in accordance with this Section , the Administrative
Agent shall advise each applicable Lender of the details thereof
and of the amount of such Lender’s Loan to be made as part of
the requested Borrowing.
SECTION 2.04. Reserved
.
SECTION 2.05. Funding of
Borrowings . (a) Each Lender shall make each Loan
committed to be made by it hereunder on the proposed date thereof
by wire transfer of immediately available funds by 12:00 noon (or
in the case of Base Rate Loans, by 1:00 p.m.), New York City time,
to the account of the Administrative Agent most recently designated
by it for such purpose by notice to the Lenders. The Administrative
Agent will immediately make any such Revolving Loans available to
the Borrower by promptly crediting the aggregate amounts so
received from the Lenders, in immediately available funds, to an
account of the Borrower pursuant to instructions of the Borrower on
file with the Administrative Agent and designated by the Borrower
in the applicable Borrowing Request.
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(b) Unless the Administrative
Agent shall have received notice from a Lender prior to the
proposed date of any Borrowing (or in the case of any Borrowing of
Base Rate Loans, prior to 12:00 noon, New York City time, on the
day of such Borrowing) that such Lender will not make available to
the Administrative Agent such Lender’s share of such
Borrowing, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender has
made such share available on such date in accordance with
paragraph (a) of this Section 2.05 and
may, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the
Borrower a corresponding amount. In such event, if a Lender has not
in fact made its share of the applicable Borrowing available to the
Administrative Agent, the Administrative Agent shall be entitled to
recover such corresponding amount on demand from such Lender for
each day from and including the date such amount is made available
to the Borrower to but excluding the date of payment to the
Administrative Agent at the greater of (x) the Federal Funds
Effective Rate and (y) a rate determined by the Administrative
Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank
compensation plus any administrative processing or similar fees
customarily charged by the Administrative Agent in connection with
the foregoing. If such Lender does not pay such corresponding
amount with interest thereon upon the Administrative Agent’s
demand therefor and the Administrative Agent previously made such
amount available to Borrower, the Administrative Agent shall
promptly notify Borrower and, if so notified, Borrower shall pay on
the day it receives such notification ( provided, however,
that it if such day is not a Business Day or the Borrower receives
such notification after 2:00 p.m., New York City time, then the
Borrower shall pay on the next Business Day) such corresponding
amount to the Administrative Agent at the interest rate applicable
to the relevant Borrowing for each day from and including the date
such amount is made available to the Borrower to but excluding the
date of payment to the Administrative Agent. If such Lender pays
such amount to the Administrative Agent, then such amount shall
constitute such Lender’s Loan included in such Borrowing. No
provision of this Section 2.05 shall relieve a Lender
which is in default with respect to its obligation to fund its
Commitment in accordance with this Section 2.05.
SECTION 2.06. Interest
Elections . (a) Each Borrowing initially shall be of the
Type specified in the applicable Borrowing Request and, in the case
of a Eurodollar Borrowing, shall have an initial Interest Period as
specified in such Borrowing Request. Thereafter, the Borrower may
elect to convert each such Borrowing to a different Type or to
continue such Borrowing and, in the case of a Eurodollar Borrowing,
may elect Interest Periods therefor, all as provided in this
Section 2.06 . The Borrower may elect different Type
options with respect to different portions of each affected
Borrowing, in which case each such portion shall be allocated
ratably among the applicable Lenders holding the Loans constituting
such Borrowing, and the Loans constituting each such portion shall
be considered a separate Borrowing.
(b) To make an election
pursuant to this Section 2.06 , the Borrower shall
notify the Administrative Agent of such election by telephone by
the time that a Borrowing Request would be required under
Section 2.03 if the Borrower were requesting a
Revolving Borrowing of the Type resulting from such election to be
made on the effective date of such election. Each such telephonic
Interest Election Request shall be irrevocable and shall be
confirmed promptly by hand delivery or telecopy to the
Administrative Agent of a written Interest Election Request
substantially in the form attached as Exhibit E and signed
by a Financial Officer.
(c) Each telephonic and
written Interest Election Request shall specify the following
information in compliance with Section 2.03
:
(i) the Borrowing to which
such Interest Election Request applies and, if different options
are being elected with respect to different portions thereof, the
portions thereof to be allocated to each resulting Borrowing (in
which case the information to be specified pursuant to
paragraphs (iii) and (iv) below of this
Section 2.06(c) shall be specified for each resulting
Borrowing);
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(ii) the effective date of
the election made pursuant to such Interest Election Request, which
shall be a Business Day;
(iii) whether the resulting
Borrowing is to be a Base Rate Borrowing or a Eurodollar Borrowing;
and
(iv) if the resulting
Borrowing is a Eurodollar Borrowing, the Interest Period to be
applicable thereto after giving effect to such election, which
shall be a period contemplated by the definition of the term
“ Interest Period ”.
If any such Interest Election
Request requests a Eurodollar Borrowing but does not specify an
Interest Period, then the Borrower shall be deemed to have selected
an Interest Period of one month’s duration.
(d) Promptly following
receipt of an Interest Election Request, the Administrative Agent
shall advise each Lender of the details thereof and of such
Lender’s portion of each resulting Borrowing.
(e) If the Borrower fails to
deliver a timely Interest Election Request with respect to a
Eurodollar Borrowing prior to the end of the Interest Period
applicable thereto, then, unless such Borrowing is repaid as
provided herein, at the end of such Interest Period such Borrowing
shall be converted to an Base Rate Borrowing. Notwithstanding any
contrary provision hereof, if an Event of Default has occurred and
is continuing, then, so long as an Event of Default is continuing
(i) no outstanding Borrowing may be converted to or continued
as a Eurodollar Borrowing and (ii) unless repaid, each
Eurodollar Borrowing shall be converted to a Base Rate
Borrowing
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