Exhibit 10.46
REVOLVING CREDIT
AGREEMENT
This Revolving Credit Agreement
(“Agreement”) is made as of the 21st day of November,
2008, by and among the financial institutions from time to time
signatory hereto (individually a “Lender,” and any and
all such financial institutions collectively the
“Lenders”), Comerica Bank, as Administrative Agent for
the Lenders (in such capacity, the “Agent”), Arranger,
Syndication Agent and Documentation Agent, and Obagi Medical
Products, Inc. (“Obagi”) and OMP, Inc.
(“OMP” and together with Obagi, the
“Borrowers” and each individually, a
“Borrower”).
RECITALS
A. Borrowers
have requested that the Lenders extend to them credit and letters
of credit on the terms and conditions set forth herein.
B. The
Lenders are prepared to extend such credit as aforesaid, but only
on the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement.
NOW THEREFORE, in consideration of the covenants
contained herein, the Borrowers, the Lenders, and the Agent agree
as follows:
1.1 Certain Defined
Terms
. For the purposes of this Agreement
the following terms will have the following meanings:
“Account(s)” shall mean any account
or account receivable as defined under the UCC, including without
limitation, with respect to any Person, any right of such Person to
payment for goods sold or leased or for services
rendered.
“Account Control Agreement(s)” shall
mean those certain account control agreements, or similar
agreements that are delivered pursuant to Section 7.14 of
this Agreement or otherwise, as the same may be amended, restated
or otherwise modified from time to time.
“Account Debtor” shall mean the
party who is obligated on or under any Account.
“Advance(s)” shall mean, as the
context may indicate, a borrowing requested by a Borrower, and made
by the Revolving Credit Lenders under Section 2.1 hereof,
including without limitation any readvance, refunding or conversion
of such borrowing pursuant to Section 2.3 hereof, and any
advance deemed to have been made in respect of a Letter of Credit
under Section 3.6(a) hereof, and shall include, as
applicable, a Eurodollar-based Advance, a Base Rate Advance and a
Daily Funding-based Advance.
“Affected Lender” shall have the
meaning set forth in Section 13.13 hereof.
“Affiliate” shall mean, with respect
to any Person, any other Person directly or indirectly controlling
(including but not limited to all directors and officers of such
Person), controlled by, or under direct or indirect common control
with such Person. A Person shall be deemed to
control another Person for the purposes of this
definition if such Person possesses, directly or indirectly, the
power (i) to vote 10% (or 20% with respect to a Borrower or
Subsidiary of Borrower) or more of the Equity Interests having
ordinary voting power for the election of directors or managers of
such other Person or (ii) to direct or cause the direction of the
management and policies of such other Person, whether through the
ownership of voting securities, by contract or
otherwise.
“Agent” shall have the meaning set
forth in the preamble, and include any successor agents appointed
in accordance with Section 12.4 hereof.
“Agent’s Correspondent” shall
mean for Eurodollar-based Advances, Agent’s Grand Cayman
Branch (or for the account of said branch office, at Agent’s
main office in Santa Clara, California, United States).
“Alternate Base Rate” shall mean,
for any day, an interest rate per annum equal to the Federal Funds
Effective Rate in effect on such day, plus one percent
(1.0%).
“Applicable Fee Percentage” shall
mean, as of any date of determination thereof, the applicable
percentage used to calculate certain of the fees due and payable
hereunder, determined by reference to the appropriate columns in
the Pricing Matrix attached to this Agreement as Schedule
1.1 .
“Applicable Interest Rate” shall
mean, with respect to each Advance, the Eurodollar-based Rate, the
Base Rate or the Daily Funding-based Rate, in each case as selected
by the Borrowers from time to time subject to the terms and
conditions of this Agreement.
“Applicable Margin” shall mean, as
of any date of determination thereof, the applicable interest rate
margin, determined by reference to the appropriate columns in the
Pricing Matrix attached to this Agreement as Schedule 1.1 ,
such Applicable Margin to be adjusted solely as specified in
Section 11.8 hereof.
“Asset Sale” shall mean the sale,
transfer or other disposition by any Credit Party of any asset
(other than the sale or transfer of less than one hundred percent
(100%) of the stock or other ownership interests of any Subsidiary)
to any Person (other than to a Borrower or a Guarantor).
“Assignment Agreement” shall mean an
Assignment Agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit
E hereto.
“Authorized Signer” shall mean each
person who has been authorized by a Borrower to execute and deliver
any requests for Advances hereunder pursuant to a written
authorization delivered to the Agent and whose signature card or
incumbency certificate has been received by the Agent.
“Bankruptcy Code” shall mean Title
11 of the United States Code and the rules promulgated
thereunder.
“Base Rate” shall mean for any day,
that rate of interest which is equal to the Applicable Margin plus
the greater of (i) the Daily Adjusting LIBOR Rate and (ii) the
Prime-based Rate. “Base Rate Advance” shall mean an
Advance which bears interest at the Base Rate.
“Borrower” and
“Borrowers” shall have the meaning ascribed to such
terms in the preamble to this Agreement.
“Borrower Representative” shall
mean, initially, OMP, Inc., or any other Borrower identified as the
Borrower Representative in a written notice delivered to Agent and
signed by all Borrowers.
“Business Day” shall mean any day
other than a Saturday or a Sunday on which commercial banks are
open for domestic and international business (including dealings in
foreign exchange) in Los Angeles, California and New York, New
York, and in the case of a Business Day which relates to a
Eurodollar-based Advance, on which dealings are carried on in the
London interbank eurodollar market.
“Capital Expenditures” shall mean,
for any period, with respect to any Person (without duplication),
the aggregate of all expenditures incurred by such Person and its
Subsidiaries during such period for the acquisition or leasing
(pursuant to a Capitalized Lease) of fixed or capital assets or
additions to equipment, plant and property that should be
capitalized under GAAP on a consolidated balance sheet of such
Person and its Subsidiaries.
“Capitalized Lease” shall mean, as
applied to any Person, any lease of any property (whether real,
personal or mixed) with respect to which the discounted present
value of the rental obligations of such Person as lessee
thereunder, in conformity with GAAP, is required to be capitalized
on the balance sheet of that Person.
“Cash” shall mean unrestricted cash
and cash equivalents.
“Change of Control” shall mean (a)
an event or series of events whereby any Person or
“group” (within the meaning of Section 13(d) or
14(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended)
shall either (x) acquire beneficial ownership of more than 50% of
any outstanding class of common stock of any Borrower having
ordinary voting power in the election of directors of such Borrower
or (y) obtain the power (whether or not exercised) to elect a
majority of such Borrower’s directors or (b) the occurrence
of event or series of events that would trigger a violation of the
any change of control or change in control provision in any of the
Subordinated Debt Documents.
“Collateral” shall mean all property
or rights in which a security interest, mortgage, lien or other
encumbrance for the benefit of the Lenders is or has been granted
or arises or has arisen, under or in connection with this
Agreement, the other Loan Documents, or otherwise to secure the
Indebtedness.
“Collateral Access Agreement” shall
mean an agreement in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent
in its sole discretion, pursuant to which a mortgagee or lessor of
real property on which Collateral is stored or otherwise located,
or a warehouseman, processor or other bailee of inventory or other
property owned by any Credit Party, that acknowledges
the
Liens under the Collateral Documents and
subordinates or waives any Liens held by such Person on such
property and, includes such other agreements with respect to the
Collateral as Agent may require in its sole discretion, as the same
may be amended, restated or otherwise modified from time to
time.
“Collateral Documents” shall mean
the Security Agreement, the Collateral Access Agreements, and all
other security documents (and any joinders thereto) executed by any
Credit Party in favor of the Agent on or after the Effective Date,
in connection with any of the foregoing collateral documents, in
each case, as such collateral documents may be amended or otherwise
modified from time to time.
“Comerica Bank” shall mean Comerica
Bank, and its successors or assigns.
“Consolidated” (or
“consolidated”) or “Consolidating” (or
“consolidating”) shall mean, when used with reference
to any financial term in this Agreement, the aggregate for two or
more Persons of the amounts signified by such term for all such
Persons determined on a consolidated (or consolidating) basis in
accordance with GAAP, applied on a consistent basis. Unless
otherwise specified herein, “Consolidated” and
“Consolidating” shall refer to Borrowers and their
respective Subsidiaries, determined on a Consolidated or
Consolidating basis.
“Contractual Obligation” shall mean,
as to any Person, any provision of any security issued by such
Person or of any material agreement, instrument or other
undertaking to which such Person is a party or by which it or any
of its property is bound.
“Covenant Compliance Report” shall
mean the report to be furnished by Borrowers to the Agent pursuant
to Section 7.2(a) hereof, substantially in the form attached
hereto as Exhibit G and certified by a Responsible
Officer of the Borrower Representative, in which report Borrowers
shall set forth the information specified therein and which shall
include a statement of then applicable level for the Applicable
Margin and Applicable Fee Percentages as specified in Schedule
1.1 attached to this Agreement.
“Credit Parties” shall mean the
Borrowers and any Guarantors, and “Credit Party” shall
mean any one of them, as the context indicates or otherwise
requires.
“Daily Adjusting LIBOR Rate” shall
mean for any day a per annum interest rate which is equal to the
sum of one percent (1%) plus the quotient of the
following:
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a percentage
(expressed as a decimal) equal to 1.00 minus the maximum rate on
such date at which Bank is required to maintain reserves on
“Euro-currency Liabilities” as defined in and pursuant
to Regulation D of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System or, if such regulation or definition is modified, and as
long as Bank is required to maintain reserves against a category of
liabilities which includes eurodollar deposits or includes a
category of assets which includes
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eurodollar
loans, the rate at which such reserves are required to be
maintained on such category.
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“Debt” shall mean as to any Person,
without duplication (a) all Funded Debt of a Person, (b) all
Guarantee Obligations of such Person, (c) all obligations of such
Person under conditional sale or other title retention agreements
relating to property or assets purchased by such Person, (d) all
indebtedness of such Person arising in connection with any Hedging
Transaction entered into by such Person, (e) all recourse Debt of
any partnership of which such Person is the general partner, and
(f) any Off Balance Sheet Liabilities.
“Default” shall mean any event that
with the giving of notice or the passage of time, or both, would
constitute an Event of Default under this Agreement.
“Distribution” is defined in
Section 8.5 hereof.
“Dollars” and the sign
“$” shall mean lawful money of the United States of
America.
“Domestic Subsidiary” shall mean any
Subsidiary of a Borrower incorporated or organized under the laws
of the United States of America, or any state or other political
subdivision thereof or which is considered to be a
“disregarded entity” for United States federal income
tax purposes and which is not a “controlled foreign
corporation” as defined under Section 957 of the Internal
Revenue Code, in each case provided such Subsidiary is owned by
such Borrower or a Domestic Subsidiary of such Borrower, and
“Domestic Subsidiaries” shall mean any or all of
them.
“Effective Date” shall mean the date
on which all the conditions precedent set forth in Sections
5.1 and 5.2 have been satisfied.
“Electronic Transmission” shall mean
each document, instruction, authorization, file, information and
any other communication transmitted, posted or otherwise made or
communicated by e-mail or E-Fax, or otherwise to or from an
E-System or other equivalent service.
“Eligible Assignee” shall mean (a) a
Lender; (b) an Affiliate of a Lender; (c) any Person (other than a
natural person) that is or will be engaged in the business of
making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial
loans or similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its
business, provided that such Person is administered or managed by a
Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or an entity or Affiliate of an
entity that administers or manages a Lender; or (d) any other
Person (other than a natural person) approved by the (i) Agent (and
in the case of an assignment of a commitment under the Revolving
Credit and the Issuing Lender, and (ii) unless an Event of Default
has occurred and is continuing, the Borrowers (each such approval
not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed); provided that
notwithstanding the foregoing, “Eligible Assignee”
shall not include any of the Borrowers, or any of the
Borrowers’ Affiliates or Subsidiaries; and provided further
that notwithstanding clause (d)(ii) of this definition, no
assignment shall be made to an entity which is a competitor of any
Credit Party without the consent of the Borrowers, which consent
may be withheld in the sole discretion of the Borrowers.
“Equity Interest” shall mean (i) in
the case of any corporation, all capital stock and any securities
exchangeable for or convertible into capital stock, (ii) in the
case of an association or business entity, any and all shares,
interests, participations, rights or other equivalents of corporate
stock (however designated) in or to such association or entity,
(iii) in the case of a partnership or limited liability company,
partnership or membership interests (whether general or limited)
and (iv) any other interest or participation that confers on a
Person the right to receive a share of the profits and losses of,
or distribution of assets of, the issuing Person, and including, in
all of the foregoing cases described in clauses (i), (ii), (iii) or
(iv), any warrants, rights or other options to purchase or
otherwise acquire any of the interests described in any of the
foregoing cases.
“ERISA” shall mean the Employee
Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended, or any
successor act or code and the regulations in effect from time to
time thereunder.
“E-System” shall mean any electronic
system and any other Internet or extranet-based site, whether such
electronic system is owned, operated or hosted by the Agent, any of
its Affiliates or any other Person, providing for access to data
protected by passcodes or other security system.
“Eurodollar-based Advance” shall
mean any Advance which bears interest at the Eurodollar-based
Rate.
“Eurodollar-based Rate” shall mean a
per annum interest rate which is equal to the sum of (a) the
Applicable Margin, plus (b) the quotient of the
following:
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a percentage
(expressed as a decimal) equal to 1.00 minus the maximum rate
during such Eurodollar-Interest Period at which Agent or any Lender
is required to maintain reserves on “Euro-currency
Liabilities” as defined in and pursuant to Regulation D of
the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System or, if such
regulation or definition is modified, and as long as Agent or any
Lender is required to maintain reserves against a category of
liabilities which includes eurodollar deposits or includes a
category of assets which includes eurodollar loans, the rate at
which such reserves are required to be maintained on such
category.
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“Eurodollar-Interest Period” shall
mean, for any Eurodollar-based Advance, an Interest Period of one,
two, three or six months (or any shorter or longer periods agreed
to in advance by the Borrowers, Agent and the Lenders) as selected
by Borrowers, for such Eurodollar-based Advance pursuant to
Section 2.3 hereof.
“Eurodollar Lending Office” shall
mean, (a) with respect to the Agent, Agent’s office located
at its Grand Caymans Branch or such other branch of Agent, domestic
or foreign, as it may hereafter designate as its Eurodollar Lending
Office by written notice to Borrowers and the Lenders and (b) as to
each of the Lenders, its office, branch or affiliate located at its
address set
forth on the signature pages hereof (or
identified thereon as its Eurodollar Lending Office), or at such
other office, branch or affiliate of such Lender as it may
hereafter designate as its Eurodollar Lending Office by written
notice to Borrowers and Agent.
“Event of Default” shall mean each
of the Events of Default specified in Section 9.1
hereof.
“Federal Funds Effective Rate” shall
mean, for any day, a fluctuating interest 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, as published for such day (or, if such day
is not a Business Day, for the next preceding Business Day) by the
Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or, if such rate is not so
published for any day which is a Business Day, the average of the
quotations for such day on such transactions received by Agent from
three Federal funds brokers of recognized standing selected by
Agent, all as conclusively determined by the Agent, such sum to be
rounded upward, if necessary, to the nearest whole multiple of
1/100th of 1%.
“Fees” shall mean the Revolving
Credit Facility Fee, the Letter of Credit Fees and the other fees
and charges (including any agency fees) payable by Borrowers to the
Lenders, the Issuing Lender or Agent hereunder.
“Final Maturity Date” shall mean the
Revolving Credit Maturity Date.
“Fiscal Year” shall mean the
twelve-month period ending on each December 31.
“Funded Debt” of any Person shall
mean, without duplication, (a) all indebtedness of such Person for
borrowed money or for the deferred purchase price of property or
services as of such date (other than operating leases and trade
liabilities incurred in the ordinary course of business and payable
in accordance with customary practices) or which is evidenced by a
note, bond, debenture or similar instrument, (b) the principal
component of all obligations of such Person under Capitalized
Leases, (c) all reimbursement obligations (actual, contingent or
otherwise) of such Person in respect of letters of credit, bankers
acceptances or similar obligations issued or created for the
account of such Person, (d) all liabilities of the type described
in (a), (b) and (c) above that are secured by any Liens on any
property owned by such Person as of such date even though such
Person has not assumed or otherwise become liable for the payment
thereof, the amount of which is determined in accordance with GAAP;
provided however that so long as such Person is not personally
liable for any such liability, the amount of such liability shall
be deemed to be the lesser of the fair market value at such date of
the property subject to the Lien securing such liability and the
amount of the liability secured, and (e) all Guarantee Obligations
in respect of any liability which constitutes Funded Debt;
provided, however that Funded Debt shall not include any
indebtedness under any Hedging Transaction prior to the occurrence
of a termination event with respect thereto.
“GAAP” shall mean, as of any
applicable date of determination, generally accepted accounting
principles in the United States of America, as applicable on such
date, consistently applied, as in effect from time to
time.
“Governmental Obligations” means
noncallable direct general obligations of the United States of
America or obligations the payment of principal of and interest on
which is unconditionally guaranteed by the United States of
America.
“Guarantee Obligation” shall mean as
to any Person (the “guaranteeing person”) any
obligation of the guaranteeing Person in respect of any obligation
of another Person (the “primary obligor”) (including,
without limitation, any bank under any letter of credit), the
creation of which was induced by a reimbursement agreement,
guaranty agreement, keepwell agreement, purchase agreement,
counterindemnity or similar obligation issued by the guaranteeing
person, in either case guaranteeing or in effect guaranteeing any
Debt, leases, dividends or other obligations (the “primary
obligations”) of the primary obligor in any manner, whether
directly or indirectly, including, without limitation, any
obligation of the guaranteeing person, whether or not contingent,
(i) to purchase any such primary obligation or any property
constituting direct or indirect security therefor, (ii) to advance
or supply funds (1) for the purchase or payment of any such primary
obligation or (2) to maintain working capital or equity capital of
the primary obligor or otherwise to maintain the net worth or
solvency of the primary obligor, (iii) to purchase property,
securities or services primarily for the purpose of assuring the
owner of any such primary obligation of the ability of the primary
obligor to make payment of such primary obligation or (iv)
otherwise to assure or hold harmless the owner of any such primary
obligation against loss in respect thereof; provided, however, that
the term Guarantee Obligation shall not include endorsements of
instruments for deposit or collection in the ordinary course of
business. The amount of any Guarantee Obligation of any
guaranteeing person shall be deemed to be the lower of (a) an
amount equal to the stated or determinable amount of the primary
obligation in respect of which such Guarantee Obligation is made
and (b) the maximum amount for which such guaranteeing person may
be liable pursuant to the terms of the instrument embodying such
Guarantee Obligation, unless such primary obligation and the
maximum amount for which such guaranteeing person may be liable are
not stated or determinable, in which case the amount of such
Guarantee Obligation shall be such guaranteeing person’s
maximum reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof as
determined by the applicable Person in good faith.
“Guarantor(s)” shall mean each
Domestic Subsidiary of a Borrower (excluding any Domestic
Subsidiary that is a Borrower) which has executed and delivered to
the Agent a Guaranty (or a joinder to a Guaranty), and a Security
Agreement (or a joinder to the Security Agreement).
“Guaranty” shall mean, collectively,
those guaranty agreements executed and delivered from time to time
after the Effective Date (whether by execution of joinder
agreements or otherwise) pursuant to Section 7.13 hereof or
otherwise, in each case in the form attached hereto as
Exhibit F , as amended, restated or otherwise
modified from time to time.
“Hazardous Material” shall mean any
hazardous or toxic waste, substance or material defined or
regulated as such in or for purposes of the Hazardous Material
Laws.
“Hazardous Material Law(s)” shall
mean all laws, codes, ordinances, rules, regulations and other
governmental restrictions and requirements issued by any federal,
state, local or other governmental or quasi-governmental authority
or body (or any agency, instrumentality or
political subdivision thereof) pertaining to any
substance or material which is regulated for reasons of health,
safety or the environment and which is present or alleged to be
present on or about or used in any facilities owned, leased or
operated by any Credit Party, or any portion thereof including,
without limitation, those relating to soil, surface, subsurface
ground water conditions and the condition of the indoor and outdoor
ambient air; any so-called “superfund” or
“superlien” law; and any other United States federal,
state or local statute, law, ordinance, code, rule, regulation,
order or decree regulating, relating to, or imposing liability or
standards of conduct concerning, any Hazardous Material, as now or
at any time during the term of the Agreement in effect.
“Hedging Agreement” shall mean any
agreement relating to a Hedging Transaction entered into between
the Borrowers and any Lender or an Affiliate of a
Lender.
“Hedging Transaction” means each
interest rate swap transaction, basis swap transaction, forward
rate transaction, equity transaction, equity index transaction,
foreign exchange transaction, cap transaction, floor transaction
(including any option with respect to any of these transactions and
any combination of any of the foregoing).
“Hereof”, “hereto”,
“hereunder” and similar terms shall refer to this
Agreement and not to any particular paragraph or provision of this
Agreement.
“Income Taxes” shall mean for any
period the aggregate amount of taxes based on income or profits for
such period with respect to the operations of Borrowers and their
respective Subsidiaries (including, without limitation, all
corporate franchise, capital stock, net worth and value-added taxes
assessed by state and local governments) determined in accordance
with GAAP on a Consolidated basis (to the extent such income and
profits were included in computing Consolidated Net
Income).
“Indebtedness” shall mean all
indebtedness and liabilities (including without limitation
principal, interest (including without limitation interest accruing
at the then applicable rate provided in this Agreement or any other
applicable Loan Document after an applicable maturity date and
interest accruing at the then applicable rate provided in this
Agreement or any other applicable Loan Document after the filing of
any petition in bankruptcy, or the commencement of any insolvency,
reorganization or like proceeding, relating to the Credit Parties
whether or not a claim for post-filing or post-petition interest is
allowed in such proceeding), fees, expenses and other charges)
arising under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents,
whether direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, of any Credit
Party to any of the Lenders or Affiliates thereof or to the Agent,
in any manner and at any time, whether arising under this
Agreement, the Guaranty or any of the other Loan Documents
(including without limitation, payment obligations under Hedging
Transactions evidenced by Hedging Agreements), due or hereafter to
become due, now owing or that may hereafter be incurred by any
Credit Party to any of the Lenders or Affiliates thereof or to the
Agent, and which shall be deemed to include protective advances
made by Agent with respect to the Collateral under or pursuant to
the terms of any Loan Document and any liabilities of any Credit
Party to Agent or any Lender arising in connection with any Lender
Products, in each case whether or not reduced to judgment, with
interest according to the rates and terms specified, and any and
all consolidations, amendments, renewals, replacements,
substitutions or extensions of any of the foregoing; provided,
however
that for purposes of calculating the
Indebtedness outstanding under this Agreement or any of the other
Loan Documents, the direct and indirect and absolute and contingent
obligations of the Credit Parties (whether direct or contingent)
shall be determined without duplication.
“Intercompany Note” shall mean any
promissory note issued or to be issued by any Credit Party to
evidence an intercompany loan in form and substance satisfactory to
Agent.
“Interest Period” shall mean a
Eurodollar-Interest Period, commencing on the day a
Eurodollar-based Advance is made, or on the effective date of an
election of the Eurodollar-based Rate made under Section 2.3
hereof; provided, however that (i) any Interest Period which would
otherwise end on a day which is not a Business Day shall end on the
next succeeding Business Day, except that, if the next succeeding
Business Day falls in another calendar month, such Interest Period
shall end on the next preceding Business Day, (ii) when an Interest
Period begins on a day which has no numerically corresponding day
in the calendar month during which such Interest Period is to end,
it shall end on the last Business Day of such calendar month, and
(iii) no Interest Period in respect of any Advance shall extend
beyond the Revolving Credit Maturity Date.
“Internal Revenue Code” shall mean
the Internal Revenue Code of 1986 of the United States of America,
as amended from time to time, and the regulations promulgated
thereunder.
“Inventory” shall mean any inventory
as defined under the UCC.
“Investment” shall mean, when used
with respect to any Person, (a) any loan, investment or advance
made by such Person to any other Person (including, without
limitation, any Guarantee Obligation) in respect of any Equity
Interest, Debt, obligation or liability of such other Person and
(b) any other investment made by such Person (however acquired) in
Equity Interests in any other Person, including, without
limitation, any investment made in exchange for the issuance of
Equity Interest of such Person and any investment made as a capital
contribution to such other Person.
“Issuing Lender” shall mean Comerica
Bank in its capacity as issuer of one or more Letters of Credit
hereunder, or its successor designated by Borrowers and the
Revolving Credit Lenders.
“Issuing Office” shall mean such
office as Issuing Lender shall designate as its Issuing
Office.
“Lender Products” shall mean any one
or more of the following types of services or facilities extended
to the Credit Parties by any Lender: (i) credit cards, (ii) credit
card processing services, (iii) debit cards, (iv) purchase cards,
(v) Automated Clearing House (ACH) transactions, (vi) cash
management, including controlled disbursement services, and (vii)
establishing and maintaining deposit accounts.
“Lenders” shall have the meaning set
forth in the preamble, and shall include the Revolving Credit
Lenders, and any assignee which becomes a Lender pursuant to
Section 13.9 hereof.
“Letter of Credit Agreement” shall
mean, collectively, the letter of credit application and related
documentation executed and/or delivered by the Borrowers in respect
of each Letter of Credit, in each case satisfactory to the Issuing
Lender, as amended, restated or otherwise modified from time to
time.
“Letter of Credit Documents” shall
have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 3.7(a)
hereof.
“Letter of Credit Fees” shall mean
the fees payable in connection with Letters of Credit pursuant to
Section 3.4(a) and (b) hereof.
“Letter of Credit Maximum Amount”
shall mean Five Million Dollars ($5,000,000)
“Letter of Credit Obligations” shall
mean at any date of determination, the sum of (a) the aggregate
undrawn amount of all Letters of Credit then outstanding, and (b)
the aggregate amount of Reimbursement Obligations which remain
unpaid as of such date.
“Letter of Credit Payment” shall
mean any amount paid or required to be paid by the Issuing Lender
in its capacity hereunder as issuer of a Letter of Credit as a
result of a draft or other demand for payment under any Letter of
Credit.
“Letter(s) of Credit” shall mean any
standby letters of credit issued by Issuing Lender at the request
of or for the account of Borrowers pursuant to Article 3
hereof.
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with respect to
the principal amount of any Eurodollar-based Advance outstanding
hereunder, the per annum rate of interest determined on the basis
of the rate for deposits in United States Dollars for a period
equal to the relevant Eurodollar-Interest Period, commencing on the
first day of such Eurodollar-Interest Period, appearing on Page
BBAM of the Bloomberg Financial Markets Information Service as of
8:00 a.m. (California time) (or soon thereafter as practical), two
(2) Business Days prior to the first day of such
Eurodollar-Interest Period. In the event that such rate
does not appear on Page BBAM of the Bloomberg Financial Markets
Information Service (or otherwise on such Service), the
“LIBOR Rate” shall be determined by reference to such
other publicly available service for displaying LIBOR rates as may
be agreed upon by Agent and Borrower, or, in the absence of such
agreement, the “LIBOR Rate” shall, instead, be the per
annum rate equal to the average (rounded upward, if necessary, to
the nearest one-sixteenth of one percent (1/16%)) of the rate at
which Agent is offered dollar deposits at or about 8:00 a.m.
(California time) (or soon thereafter as practical), two (2)
Business Days prior to the first day of such Eurodollar-Interest
Period in the interbank LIBOR market in an amount comparable to the
principal amount of the relevant Eurodollar-based Advance which is
to bear interest at such Eurodollar-based Rate and for a period
equal to the relevant Eurodollar-Interest Period; and
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with respect to
any Advance carried at the Daily Adjusting LIBOR Rate outstanding
hereunder, the per annum rate of interest determined on the basis
of the rate for deposits in United States Dollars the per annum
rate for a period equal to one (1) month appearing on Page BBAM of
the Bloomberg Financial Markets Information Service as of 8:00 a.m.
(California time) (or soon thereafter as practical) on such day, or
if such day is not a Business Day, on the immediately preceding
Business Day. In the event that such rate does not
appear on Page BBAM of the Bloomberg Financial Markets Information
Service (or otherwise on such Service), the “LIBOR
Rate” shall be determined by reference to such other publicly
available service for displaying eurodollar rates as may be agreed
upon by Agent and Borrower, or, in the absence of such agreement,
the “LIBOR Rate” shall, instead, be the per annum rate
equal to the average of the rate at which Agent is offered dollar
deposits at or about 8:00 a.m. (California time) (or soon
thereafter as practical) on such day in the interbank eurodollar
market in an amount comparable to the principal amount of the
Indebtedness hereunder which is to bear interest at such
“LIBOR Rate” and for a period equal to one (1)
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“Lien” shall mean any security
interest in or lien on or against any property arising from any
pledge, assignment, hypothecation, mortgage, security interest,
deposit arrangement, trust receipt, conditional sale or title
retaining contract, sale and leaseback transaction, Capitalized
Lease, consignment or bailment for security, or any other type of
lien, charge, encumbrance, title exception, preferential or
priority arrangement affecting property (including with respect to
stock, any stockholder agreements, voting rights agreements,
buy-back agreements and all similar arrangements), whether based on
common law or statute.
“Loan Documents” shall mean,
collectively, this Agreement, the Notes (if issued), the Letter of
Credit Agreements, the Letters of Credit, the Guaranty, the
Subordination Agreements, the Collateral Documents, each Hedging
Agreement, and any other documents, certificates or agreements that
are executed and required to be delivered pursuant to any of the
foregoing documents, as such documents may be amended, restated or
otherwise modified from time to time.
“Majority Lenders” shall mean at any
time (a) so long as the Revolving Credit Aggregate Commitment has
not been terminated, Lenders holding more than 50.0% of the
Revolving Credit Aggregate Commitment and (b) if the Revolving
Credit Aggregate Commitment has been terminated (whether by
maturity, acceleration or otherwise), Lenders holding more than
50.0% of the aggregate principal amount then outstanding under the
Revolving Credit; provided that, for purposes of determining
Majority Lenders hereunder, the Letter of Credit Obligations shall
be allocated among the Revolving Credit Lenders based on their
respective Revolving Credit Percentages; provided further that so
long as there are fewer than three Lenders, considering any Lender
and its Affiliates as a single Lender, “Majority
Lenders” shall mean all Lenders.
“Majority Revolving Credit Lenders”
shall mean at any time (a) so long as the Revolving Credit
Aggregate Commitment has not been terminated, the Revolving Credit
Lenders holding more than 50.0% of the Revolving Credit Aggregate
Commitment and (b) if the Revolving Credit Aggregate Commitment has
been terminated (whether by maturity, acceleration or otherwise),
Revolving Credit Lenders holding more than 50.0% of the aggregate
principal
amount then outstanding under the Revolving
Credit; provided that, for purposes of determining Majority
Revolving Credit Lenders hereunder, the Letter of Credit
Obligations shall be allocated among the Revolving Credit Lenders
based on their respective Revolving Credit Percentages; provided
further that so long as there are fewer than three Revolving Credit
Lenders, considering any Revolving Credit Lender and its Affiliates
as a single Revolving Credit Lender, “Majority Revolving
Credit Lenders” shall mean all Revolving Credit
Lenders.
“Material Adverse Effect” shall mean
a material adverse effect on (a) the condition (financial or
otherwise), business, performance, operations, properties or
prospects of the Credit Parties taken as a whole, (b) the ability
of any Credit Party to perform its obligations under this
Agreement, the Notes (if issued) or any other Loan Document to
which it is a party, or (c) the validity or enforceability of this
Agreement, any of the Notes (if issued) or any of the other Loan
Documents or the rights or remedies of the Agent or the Lenders
hereunder or thereunder.
“Material Contract” shall mean (i)
unless otherwise defined or limited in this Agreement, each
agreement or contract to which any Credit Party is a party or in
respect of which any Credit Party has any liability, that by its
terms (without reference to any indemnity or reimbursement
provision therein) provides for aggregate future guaranteed
payments in respect of any such individual agreement or contract of
at least $50,000 and (ii) any other agreement or contract the loss
of which would be reasonably likely to result in a Material Adverse
Effect; provided that Material Contracts shall not be deemed to
include any Pension Plans, collective bargaining agreements, or
casualty or liability or other insurance policies maintained in the
ordinary course of business.
“Multiemployer Plan” shall
mean a Pension Plan which is a multiemployer plan as defined in
Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA.
“Net Cash Proceeds” shall mean the
aggregate cash payments received by any Credit Party from any Asset
Sale, the issuance of Equity Interests or the issuance of
Subordinated Debt, as the case may be, net of the ordinary and
customary direct costs incurred in connection with such sale or
issuance, as the case may be, such as legal, accounting and
investment banking fees, sales commissions, and other third party
charges, and net of property taxes, transfer taxes and any other
taxes paid or payable by such Credit Party in respect of any sale
or issuance.
“Net Income” shall mean for any
period the net income (as determined in accordance with GAAP) of a
Person for such period but excluding in any event: (i) any gains or
losses on the sale or other disposition, not in the ordinary course
of business, of investments or fixed or capital assets, and any
taxes on the excluded gains and any tax deductions or credits on
account of any excluded losses; (ii) net earnings of any entity in
which such Person has an ownership interest, unless such net
earnings shall have been actually received by such Person in the
form of cash distributions; and (iii)extraordinary items as defined
by GAAP.
“Notes” shall mean the Revolving
Credit Notes.
“Obagi” shall have the meaning
ascribed to such term in the preamble of this Agreement.
“Off Balance Sheet Liability(ies)”
of a Person shall mean (i) any repurchase obligation or liability
of such Person with respect to accounts or notes receivables sold
by such Person, (ii) any
liability under any sale and leaseback
transaction which is not a Capitalized Lease, (iii) any liability
under any so-called “synthetic lease” transaction
entered into by such Person, or (iv) any obligation arising with
respect to any other transaction which is the functional equivalent
of Debt or any of the liabilities set forth in subsections
(i)-(iii) of this definition, but which does not constitute a
liability on the balance sheets of such Person.
“OMP” shall have the meaning
ascribed to such term in the preamble of this Agreement.
“PBGC” shall mean the Pension
Benefit Guaranty Corporation or any successor thereto.
“Pension Plan” shall mean any plan
established and maintained by a Credit Party, or contributed to by
a Credit Party, which is qualified under Section 401(a) of the
Internal Revenue Code and subject to the minimum funding standards
of Section 412 of the Internal Revenue Code.
“Percentage” shall mean the
Revolving Credit Percentage.
“Permitted Investments” shall mean
with respect to any Person:
(a) Governmental
Obligations;
(b) Obligations of a
state or commonwealth of the United States or the obligations of
the District of Columbia or any possession of the United States, or
any political subdivision of any of the foregoing, which are
described in Section 103(a) of the Internal Revenue Code and
are graded in any of the highest three (3) major grades as
determined by at least one Rating Agency; or secured, as to
payments of principal and interest, by a letter of credit provided
by a financial institution or insurance provided by a bond
insurance company which in each case is itself or its debt is rated
in one of the highest three (3) major grades as determined by at
least one Rating Agency;
(c) Banker’s
acceptances, commercial accounts, demand deposit accounts,
certificates of deposit, other time deposits or depository receipts
issued by or maintained with any Lender or any Affiliate thereof,
or any bank, trust company, savings and loan association, savings
bank or other financial institution whose deposits are insured by
the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and whose reported
capital and surplus equal at least $250,000,000, provided that such
minimum capital and surplus requirement shall not apply to demand
deposit accounts maintained by any Credit Party in the ordinary
course of business;
(d) Commercial paper
rated at the time of purchase within the two highest
classifications established by not less than two Rating Agencies,
and which matures within 270 days after the date of
issue;
(e) Secured repurchase
agreements against obligations itemized in paragraph (a) above, and
executed by a bank or trust company or by members of the
association of primary dealers or other recognized dealers in
United States government securities, the market value of which must
be maintained at levels at least equal to the amounts advanced;
and
(f) Any fund or other
pooling arrangement which exclusively purchases and holds the
investments itemized in (a) through (e) above.
“Permitted Liens” shall mean with
respect to any Person:
(a) Liens for (i)
taxes or governmental assessments or charges or (ii) customs duties
in connection with the importation of goods to the extent such
Liens attach to the imported goods that are the subject of the
duties, in each case (x) to the extent not yet due, (y) as to which
the period of grace, if any, related thereto has not expired or (z)
which are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings,
provided that in the case of any such contest, any proceedings for
the enforcement of such liens have been suspended and adequate
reserves with respect thereto are maintained on the books of such
Person in conformity with GAAP;
(b) carriers’,
warehousemen’s, mechanics’, materialmen’s,
repairmen’s, processor’s, landlord’s liens or
other like liens arising in the ordinary course of business which
secure obligations that are not overdue for a period of more than
30 days or which are being contested in good faith by appropriate
proceedings, provided that in the case of any such contest, (x) any
proceedings commenced for the enforcement of such Liens have been
suspended and (y) appropriate reserves with respect thereto are
maintained on the books of such Person in conformity with
GAAP;
(c) (i) Liens incurred
in the ordinary course of business to secure the performance of
statutory obligations arising in connection with progress payments
or advance payments due under contracts with the United States
government or any agency thereof entered into in the ordinary
course of business and (ii) Liens incurred or deposits made in the
ordinary course of business to secure the performance of statutory
obligations (not otherwise permitted under subsection (g) of this
definition), bids, leases, fee and expense arrangements with
trustees and fiscal agents, trade contracts, surety and appeal
bonds, performance bonds and other similar obligations (exclusive
of obligations incurred in connection with the borrowing of money,
any lease-purchase arrangements or the payment of the deferred
purchase price of property), provided, that in each case full
provision for the payment of all such obligations has been made on
the books of such Person as may be required by GAAP;
(d) any attachment or
judgment lien that remains unpaid, unvacated, unbonded or unstayed
by appeal or otherwise for a period ending on the earlier of (i)
thirty (30) consecutive days from the date of its attachment or
entry (as applicable) or (ii) the commencement of enforcement steps
with respect thereto, other than the filing of notice thereof in
the public record;
(e) minor survey
exceptions or minor encumbrances, easements or reservations, or
rights of others for rights-of-way, utilities and other similar
purposes, or zoning or other restrictions as to the use of real
properties, or any interest of any lessor or sublessor under any
lease permitted hereunder which, in each case, does not materially
interfere with the business of such Person;
(f) Liens arising in
connection with worker’s compensation, unemployment
insurance, old age pensions and social security benefits and
similar statutory obligations (excluding Liens arising under
ERISA), provided that no enforcement proceedings in respect
of
(g) such Liens are
pending and provisions have been made for the payment of such liens
on the books of such Person as may be required by GAAP;
and
(h) continuations of
Liens that are permitted under subsections (a)-(f) hereof, provided
such continuations do not violate the specific time periods set
forth in subsections (b) and (d) and provided further that such
Liens do not extend to any additional property or assets of any
Credit Party or secure any additional obligations of any Credit
Party.
Regardless of the language set forth in this
definition, no Lien over the Equity Interests of any Credit Party
granted to any Person other than to Agent for the benefit of the
Lenders shall be deemed a “Permitted Lien” under the
terms of this Agreement.
“Person” shall mean a natural
person, corporation, limited liability company, partnership,
limited liability partnership, trust, incorporated or
unincorporated organization, joint venture, joint stock company,
firm or association or a government or any agency or political
subdivision thereof or other entity of any kind.
“Prime-based Advance” shall mean an
Advance which bears interest at the Prime-based Rate, plus the
Applicable Margin.
“Prime-based Rate” shall mean, for
any day, that rate of interest which is equal to the greater of (i)
the Prime Rate, and (ii) the Alternate Base Rate.
“Prime Rate” shall mean the per
annum rate of interest announced by the Agent, at its main office
from time to time as its “prime rate” (it being
acknowledged that such announced rate may not necessarily be the
lowest rate charged by the Agent to any of its customers), which
Prime Rate shall change simultaneously with any change in such
announced rate.
“Purchasing Lender” shall have the
meaning set forth in Section 13.13 .
“Rating Agency” shall mean
Moody’s Investor Services, Inc., Standard and Poor’s
Ratings Services, their respective successors or any other
nationally recognized statistical rating organization which is
acceptable to the Agent.
“Register” is defined in Section
13.9(g) hereof.
“Reimbursement Obligation(s)” shall
mean the aggregate amount of all unreimbursed drawings under all
Letters of Credit (excluding for the avoidance of doubt,
reimbursement obligations that are deemed satisfied pursuant to a
deemed disbursement under Section 3.6(a) ).
“Request for Advance” shall mean a
Request for Revolving Credit Advance.
“Request for Revolving Credit
Advance” shall mean a request for a Revolving Credit Advance
issued by a Borrower under Section 2.3 of this Agreement in
the form attached hereto as Exhibit A .
“Requirement of Law” shall mean as
to any Person, the certificate of incorporation and bylaws, the
partnership agreement or other organizational or governing
documents of such
Person and any law, treaty, rule or regulation
or determination of an arbitration or a court or other governmental
authority, in each case applicable to or binding upon such Person
or any of its property or to which such Person or any of its
property is subject.
“Responsible Officer” shall mean,
with respect to any Person, the chief executive officer, chief
financial officer, treasurer, president or controller of such
Person, or with respect to compliance with financial covenants, the
chief financial officer or the treasurer of such Person, or any
other officer of such Person having substantially the same
authority and responsibility.
“Revolving Credit” shall mean the
revolving credit loans to be advanced to Borrowers by the
applicable Revolving Credit Lenders pursuant to Article 2
hereof, in an aggregate amount (subject to the terms hereof), not
to exceed, at any one time outstanding, the Revolving Credit
Aggregate Commitment.
“Revolving Credit Advance” shall
mean a borrowing requested by a Borrower and made by the Revolving
Credit Lenders under Section 2.1 of this Agreement,
including without limitation any readvance, refunding or conversion
of such borrowing pursuant to Section 2.3 hereof and any
deemed disbursement of an Advance in respect of a Letter of Credit
under Section 3.6(a) hereof, and may include, subject to the
terms hereof, Eurodollar-based Advances and Base Rate
Advances.
“Revolving Credit Aggregate
Commitment” shall mean Twenty Million Dollars ($20,000,000),
subject to reduction or termination under Section 2.11 or
9.2 hereof.
“Revolving Credit Commitment Amount”
shall mean with respect to any Revolving Credit Lender, (i) if the
Revolving Credit Aggregate Commitment has not been terminated, the
amount specified opposite such Revolving Credit Lender’s name
in the column entitled “Revolving Credit Commitment
Amount” on Schedule 1.2 , as adjusted from time to
time in accordance with the terms hereof; and (ii) if the Revolving
Credit Aggregate Commitment has been terminated (whether by
maturity, acceleration or otherwise), the amount equal to its
Percentage of the aggregate principal amount outstanding under the
Revolving Credit (including the outstanding Letter of Credit
Obligations).
“Revolving Credit Facility Fee”
shall mean the fee payable to Agent for distribution to the
Revolving Credit Lenders in accordance with Section 2.9
hereof.
“Revolving Credit Lenders” shall
mean the financial institutions from time to time parties hereto as
lenders of the Revolving Credit.
“Revolving Credit Maturity Date”
shall mean the earlier to occur of (i) November 21, 2011, and (ii)
the date on which the Revolving Credit Aggregate Commitment shall
terminate in accordance with the provisions of this
Agreement.
“Revolving Credit Notes” shall mean
the revolving credit notes described in Section 2.2 hereof,
made by Borrowers to each of the Revolving Credit Lenders in the
form attached hereto as Exhibit B , as such notes may
be amended or supplemented from time to time, and any other notes
issued in substitution, replacement or renewal thereof from time to
time.
“Revolving Credit Percentage” means,
with respect to any Revolving Credit Lender, the percentage
specified opposite such Revolving Credit Lender’s name in the
column entitled “Revolving Credit Percentage” on
Schedule 1.2 , as adjusted from time to time in accordance
with the terms hereof.
“Security Agreement” shall mean, the
security agreement executed and delivered by the Borrowers on the
Effective Date pursuant to Section 5.1 hereof, and any such
agreements executed and delivered after the Effective Date (whether
by execution of a joinder agreement to any existing security
agreement or otherwise) pursuant to Section 7.13 hereof or
otherwise, in the form of the Security Agreement attached hereto as
Exhibit D , as amended, restated or otherwise
modified from time to time.
“Stock Repurchase Program” shall
have the meaning ascribed to such term in Section 8.5 of
this Agreement.
“Subordinated Debt” shall mean any
unsecured Funded Debt of any Credit Party and other obligations
under the Subordinated Debt Documents and any other Funded Debt of
any Credit Party which has been subordinated in right of payment
and priority to the Indebtedness, all on terms and conditions
satisfactory to the Agent.
“Subordinated Debt Documents” shall
mean and include any documents evidencing any Subordinated Debt, in
each case, as the same may be amended, modified, supplemented or
otherwise modified from time to time in compliance with the terms
of this Agreement.
“Subordination Agreements” shall
mean, collectively, any subordination agreements entered into by
any Person from time to time in favor of Agent in connection with
any Subordinated Debt, the terms of which are acceptable to the
Agent, in each case as the same may be amended, restated or
otherwise modified from time to time, and “Subordination
Agreement” shall mean any one of them.
“Subsidiary(ies)” shall mean any
other corporation, association, joint stock company, business
trust, limited liability company, partnership or any other business
entity of which more than fifty percent (50%) of the outstanding
voting stock, share capital, membership, partnership or other
interests, as the case may be, is owned either directly or
indirectly by any Person or one or more of its Subsidiaries, or the
management of which is otherwise controlled, directly, or
indirectly through one or more intermediaries, or both, by any
Person and/or its Subsidiaries. Unless otherwise specified to the
contrary herein or the context otherwise requires, Subsidiary(ies)
shall refer to the Subsidiary(ies) of Borrowers.
“Tangible Effective Net Worth” shall
mean, as of any date of determination, the aggregate net book value
of the assets of Borrowers as of such date (excluding all amounts
owing to Borrowers, or either of them, by officers, directors,
shareholders and other affiliates and all patents, patent rights,
trademarks, trade names, franchises, copyrights, licenses, goodwill
and all other intangible assets of Borrowers), after all
appropriate deductions in accordance with GAAP (including, without
limitation, reserves for doubtful receivables, obsolescence,
depreciation and amortization), plus the aggregate amount of
Subordinated Debt of Borrowers, all as determined on a consolidated
basis for the Borrowers and in accordance with GAAP.
“Uniform Commercial Code” or
“UCC” shall mean the Uniform Commercial Code as in
effect in any applicable state; provided that, unless specified
otherwise or the context otherwise requires, such terms shall refer
to the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in the State of
California.
“USA Patriot Act” is defined in
Section 6.7 hereof.
“Withdrawal Liability” shall mean
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.
“Wisconsin Letter of Credit” shall
mean the $5,000 Letter of Credit dated May 28, 2008, with an
expiration date of May 27, 2009, and more particularly described on
Schedule 8.1 .
. Subject to the terms and conditions
of this Agreement (including without limitation Section 2.3
hereof), each Revolving Credit Lender severally and for itself
alone agrees to make Advances of the Revolving Credit in Dollars to
Borrowers from time to time on any Business Day during the period
from the Effective Date hereof until (but excluding) the Revolving
Credit Maturity Date in an aggregate amount, not to exceed at any
one time outstanding such Lender’s Revolving Credit
Percentage of the Revolving Credit Aggregate Commitment. Subject to
the terms and conditions set forth herein, advances, repayments and
readvances may be made under the Revolving Credit.
2.2 Accrual of
Interest and Maturity; Evidence of Indebtedness.
(a) Borrowers hereby
jointly and severally and unconditionally promise to pay to the
Agent for the account of each Revolving Credit Lender the then
unpaid principal amount of each Revolving Credit Advance (plus all
accrued and unpaid interest) of such Revolving Credit Lender to
Borrowers on the Revolving Credit Maturity Date and on such other
dates and in such other amounts as may be required from time to
time pursuant to this Agreement. Subject to the terms and
conditions hereof, each Revolving Credit Advance shall, from time
to time from and after the date of such Advance (until paid), bear
interest at its Applicable Interest Rate.
(b) Each Revolving
Credit Lender shall maintain in accordance with its usual practice
an account or accounts evidencing indebtedness of Borrowers to the
appropriate lending office of such Revolving Credit Lender
resulting from each Revolving Credit Advance made by such lending
office of such Revolving Credit Lender from time to time, including
the amounts of principal and interest payable thereon and paid to
such Revolving Credit Lender from time to time under this
Agreement.
(c) The Agent shall
maintain the Register pursuant to Section 13.9(g) , and a
subaccount therein for each Revolving Credit Lender, in which
Register and subaccounts (taken together) shall be recorded (i) the
amount of each Revolving Credit Advance made hereunder, the type
thereof and each Eurodollar-Interest Period applicable to any
Eurodollar-based Advance (ii) the amount of any principal or
interest due and payable or to become due and payable from
Borrowers to each Revolving Credit Lender hereunder in respect of
the Revolving Credit
(d) Advances and (iii)
both the amount of any sum received by the Agent hereunder from
Borrowers in respect of the Revolving Credit Advances and each
Revolving Credit Lender’s share thereof.
(e) The entries made
in the Register maintained pursuant to paragraph (c) of this
Section 2.2 shall, absent manifest error, to the extent
permitted by applicable law, be prima facie evidence of the
existence and amounts of the obligations of Borrowers therein
recorded; provided , however , that the failure of
any Revolving Credit Lender or the Agent to maintain the Register
or any account, as applicable, or any error therein, shall not in
any manner affect the obligation of Borrowers to repay the
Revolving Credit Advances (and all other amounts owing with respect
thereto) made to Borrowers by the Revolving Credit Lenders in
accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
(f) Borrowers agree
that, upon written request to the Agent by any Revolving Credit
Lender, Borrowers will execute and deliver, to such Revolving
Credit Lender, at Borrowers’ own expense, a Revolving Credit
Note evidencing the outstanding Revolving Credit Advances owing to
such Revolving Credit Lender.
2.3 Requests for
and Refundings and Conversions of Advances
. Borrowers may request an Advance of
the Revolving Credit, a refund of any Revolving Credit Advance in
the same type of Advance or to convert any Revolving Credit Advance
to any other type of Revolving Credit Advance only by delivery to
Agent of a Request for Revolving Credit Advance executed by an
Authorized Signer for the Borrowers, subject to the
following:
(a) each such Request
for Revolving Credit Advance shall set forth the information
required on the Request for Revolving Credit Advance, including
without limitation:
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the proposed
date of such Revolving Credit Advance (or the refunding or
conversion of an outstanding Revolving Credit Advance), which must
be a Business Day;
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whether such
Advance is a new Revolving Credit Advance or a refunding or
conversion of an outstanding Revolving Credit Advance;
and
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whether such
Revolving Credit Advance is to be a Base Rate Advance or a
Eurodollar-based Advance, and, except in the case of a Base Rate
Advance, the first Interest Period applicable thereto, provided,
however, that the initial Revolving Credit Advance made under this
Agreement shall be a Base Advance, which may then be converted into
a Eurodollar-based Advance in compliance with this
Agreement.
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(b) each such Request
for Revolving Credit Advance shall be delivered to Agent by 12:00
p.m. (P.S.T.) three (3) Business Days prior to the proposed date of
the Revolving Credit Advance, except in the case of a Base Rate
Advance, for which the Request for Revolving Credit Advance must be
delivered by 12:00 p.m. (P.S.T.) on the proposed date for such
Revolving Credit Advance;
(c) on the proposed
date of such Revolving Credit Advance, the sum of (x) the aggregate
principal amount of all Revolving Credit Advances outstanding on
such date (including, without duplication the Advances that are
deemed to be disbursed by Agent under Section 3.6(a) hereof
in respect of Borrowers’ Reimbursement Obligations
hereunder), plus (y) the Letter of Credit Obligations as of such
date, in each case after giving effect to all outstanding requests
for Revolving Credit Advances and for the issuance of any Letters
of Credit, shall not exceed the Revolving Credit Aggregate
Commitment;
(d) in the case of a
Base Rate Advance, the principal amount of the initial funding of
such Advance, as opposed to any refunding or conversion thereof,
shall be at least $250,000 or the remainder available under the
Revolving Credit Aggregate Commitment if less than
$250,000;
(e) in the case of a
Eurodollar-based Advance, the principal amount of such Advance,
plus the amount of any other outstanding Revolving Credit Advance
to be then combined therewith having the same Eurodollar-Interest
Period, if any, shall be at least $250,000 in the case of the first
such advance (or a larger integral multiple of at least $100,000),
and thereafter in amounts in integral amounts of at least $100,000,
or the remainder available under the Revolving Credit Aggregate
Commitment if less than $100,000 and at any one time there shall
not be in effect more than five (5) different Eurodollar-Interest
Periods;
(f) a Request for
Revolving Credit Advance, once delivered to Agent, shall not be
revocable by Borrowers and shall constitute a certification by
Borrowers as of the date thereof that:
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all conditions
to the making of Revolving Credit Advances set forth in this
Agreement have been satisfied, and shall remain satisfied to the
date of such Revolving Credit Advance (both before and immediately
after giving effect to such Revolving Credit Advance);
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there is no
Default or Event of Default in existence, and none will exist upon
the making of such Revolving Credit Advance (both before and
immediately after giving effect to such Revolving Credit Advance);
and
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the
representations and warranties of the Borrowers contained in this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents are true and correct in all
material respects and shall be true and correct in all material
respects as of the date of the making of such Revolving Credit
Advance (both before and immediately after giving effect to such
Revolving Credit Advance), other than any representation or
warranty that expressly speaks only as of a different
date;
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Agent, acting on behalf of the Revolving Credit
Lenders, may also, at its option, lend under this Section
2.3 upon the telephone or email request of an Authorized Signer
of the Borrowers to make such requests and, in the event Agent,
acting on behalf of the Revolving Credit Lenders, makes any such
Advance upon a telephone or email request, an Authorized Signer
shall fax or deliver by electronic file to Agent, on the same day
as such telephone or email
request, an executed Request for Revolving
Credit Advance. Borrowers hereby authorize Agent to disburse
Advances under this Section 2.3 pursuant to the telephone or
email instructions of any person purporting to be an Authorized
Signer. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Borrowers acknowledge that
Borrowers shall bear all risk of loss resulting from disbursements
made upon any telephone or email request. Each telephone or email
request for an Advance from an Authorized Signer for the Borrowers
shall constitute a certification of the matters set forth in the
Request for Revolving Credit Advance form as of the date of such
requested Advance.
2.4 Disbursement of
Advances.
(a) Upon receiving any
Request for Revolving Credit Advance from a Borrower under
Section 2.3 hereof, Agent shall promptly notify each
Revolving Credit Lender by wire, telex or telephone (confirmed by
wire, telecopy or telex) of the amount of such Advance being
requested and the date such Revolving Credit Advance is to be made
by each Revolving Credit Lender in an amount equal to its Revolving
Credit Percentage of such Advance. Unless such Revolving Credit
Lender’s commitment to make Revolving Credit Advances
hereunder shall have been suspended or terminated in accordance
with this Agreement, each such Revolving Credit Lender shall make
available the amount of its Revolving Credit Percentage of each
Revolving Credit Advance in immediately available funds to Agent,
as follows:
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for Base Rate
Advances at the office of Agent located at 75 E Trimble Road, San
Jose, CA 95131, not later than 1:00 p.m. (P.S.T.) on the date of
such Advance; and
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for
Eurodollar-based Advances, at the Agent’s Correspondent for
the account of the Eurodollar Lending Office of the Agent, not
later than 12:00 p.m. (the time of the Agent’s Correspondent)
on the date of such Advance.
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(b) Subject to
submission of an executed Request for Revolving Credit Advance by a
Borrower without exceptions noted in the compliance certification
therein, Agent shall make available to Borrowers the aggregate of
the amounts so received by it from the Revolving Credit Lenders in
like funds and currencies:
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for Base Rate
Advances or Daily Funding-based Advances not later than 4:00 p.m.
(P.S.T. time) on the date of such Revolving Credit Advance, by
credit to an account of Borrowers maintained with Agent or to such
other account or third party as Borrowers may reasonably direct in
writing, provided such direction is timely given; and
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for
Eurodollar-based Advances, not later than 4:00 p.m. (the time of
the Agent’s Correspondent) on the date of such Revolving
Credit Advance, by credit to an account of Borrowers maintained
with Agent’s Correspondent or to such other account or third
party as Borrowers may direct, provided such direction is timely
given.
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(c) Agent shall
deliver the documents and papers received by it for the account of
each Revolving Credit Lender to such Revolving Credit Lender.
Unless Agent shall have been
(d) notified by any
Revolving Credit Lender prior to the date of any proposed Revolving
Credit Advance that such Revolving Credit Lender does not intend to
make available to Agent such Revolving Credit Lender’s
Percentage of such Advance, Agent may assume that such Revolving
Credit Lender has made such amount available to Agent on such date,
as aforesaid. Agent may, but shall not be obligated to,
make available to Borrowers the amount of such payment in reliance
on such assumption. If such amount is not in fact made available to
Agent by such Revolving Credit Lender, as aforesaid, Agent shall be
entitled to recover such amount on demand from such Revolving
Credit Lender. If such Revolving Credit Lender does not pay such
amount forthwith upon Agent’s demand therefor and the Agent
has in fact made a corresponding amount available to Borrowers, the
Agent shall promptly notify Borrowers and Borrowers shall pay such
amount to Agent, if such notice is delivered to Borrowers prior to
1:00 p.m. (P.S.T.) on a Business Day, on the day such notice is
received, and otherwise on the next Business Day, and such amount
paid by Borrowers shall be applied as a prepayment of the Revolving
Credit (without any corresponding reduction in the Revolving Credit
Aggregate Commitment), reimbursing Agent for having funded said
amounts on behalf of such Revolving Credit Lender. The
Borrowers shall retain their claim against such Revolving Credit
Lender with respect to the amounts repaid by them to Agent and, if
such Revolving Credit Lender subsequently makes such amounts
available to Agent, Agent shall promptly make such amounts
available to the Borrowers as a Revolving Credit Advance. Agent
shall also be entitled to recover from such Revolving Credit Lender
or Borrowers, as the case may be, but without duplication, interest
on such amount in respect of each day from the date such amount was
made available by Agent to Borrowers, to the date such amount is
recovered by Agent, at a rate per annum equal to:
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in the case of
such Revolving Credit Lender, for the first two (2) Business Days
such amount remains unpaid, the Federal Funds Effective Rate, and
thereafter, at the rate of interest then applicable to such
Revolving Credit Advances; and
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in the case of
Borrowers, the rate of interest then applicable to such Advance of
the Revolving Credit.
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Until such Revolving Credit Lender has paid
Agent such amount, such Revolving Credit Lender shall have no
interest in or rights with respect to such Advance for any purpose
whatsoever. The obligation of any Revolving Credit
Lender to make any Revolving Credit Advance hereunder shall not be
affected by the failure of any other Revolving Credit Lender to
make any Advance hereunder, and no Revolving Credit Lender shall
have any liability to Borrowers or any of its Subsidiaries, the
Agent, any other Revolving Credit Lender, or any other party for
another Revolving Credit Lender’s failure to make any loan or
Advance hereunder.
2.6 Interest
Payments; Default Interest.
(a) Interest on the
unpaid balance of all Base Rate Advances of the Revolving Credit
from time to time outstanding shall accrue from the date of such
Advance to the date repaid, at a per annum interest rate equal to
the Base Rate, as applicable, and shall be payable in immediately
available funds commencing on December 1, 2008, and on the first
day of each month thereafter.
(b) Whenever any
payment under this Section 2.6(a) shall become due on a day
which is not a Business Day, the date for payment thereof shall be
extended to the next Business Day. Interest accruing at the Base
Rate shall be computed on the basis of a 360 day year and assessed
for the actual number of days elapsed, and in such computation
effect shall be given to any change in the interest rate resulting
from a change in the Base Rate, on the date of such change in the
Base Rate.
(c) Interest on each
Eurodollar-based Advance of the Revolving Credit shall accrue at
its Eurodollar-based Rate, and shall be payable in immediately
available funds on the last day of the Eurodollar-Interest Period,
applicable thereto (and, if any Eurodollar-Interest Period shall
exceed three months, then on the last Business Day of the third
month of such Eurodollar-Interest Period, and at three month
intervals thereafter). Interest accruing at the Eurodollar-based
Rate shall be computed on the basis of a 360 day year and assessed
for the actual number of days elapsed from the first day of the
Eurodollar-Interest Period applicable thereto to but not including
the last day thereof.
(d) In the case of any
Event of Default under Section 9.1(i) , immediately upon the
occurrence thereof, and in the case of any other Event of Default,
immediately upon receipt by Agent of notice from the Majority
Revolving Credit Lenders, interest shall be payable on demand on
all Revolving Credit Advances from time to time outstanding at a
per annum rate equal to the Applicable Interest Rate in respect of
each such Advance plus, in the case of Eurodollar-based Advances,
two percent (2%) for the remainder of the then existing Interest
Period, if any, and at all other such times, and for all Base Rate
Advances and from time to time outstanding, at a per annum rate
equal to the Base Rate, plus two percent (2%).
2.7 Optional
Prepayments.
(a) (i) The Borrowers
may prepay all or part of the outstanding principal of any Base
Rate Advance(s) of the Revolving Credit at any time, provided that,
after giving effect to any partial prepayment, the aggregate
balance of Base Rate Advance(s) of the Revolving Credit remaining
outstanding shall be at least Two Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars
($250,000), and (ii) the Borrowers may prepay all or part of the
outstanding principal of any Eurodollar-based Advance of the
Revolving Credit at any time (subject to not less than five (5)
Business Day’s notice to Agent) provided that, after giving
effect to any partial prepayment, the unpaid portion of such
Advance which is to be refunded or converted under Section
2.3 hereof shall be at least Two Hundred Fifty Thousand Dollars
($250,000).
(b) Any prepayment of
a Base Rate Advance made in accordance with this Section shall be
without premium or penalty and any prepayment of any other type of
Advance shall be subject to the provisions of Section 11.1
hereof, but otherwise without premium or penalty.
2.8 Base Rate
Advance in Absence of Election or Upon Default
. If, (a) as to any outstanding
Eurodollar-based Advance of the Revolving Credit, Agent has not
received payment of all outstanding principal and accrued interest
on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, or does
not receive a timely Request for Advance meeting the requirements
of Section 2.3 hereof with respect to the refunding or
conversion of such Advance, or (b) if on the last day of the
applicable Interest Period a Default or an Event of Default shall
have occurred and be
continuing, then, on the last day of the
applicable Interest Period the principal amount of any
Eurodollar-based Advance which has not been prepaid shall, absent a
contrary election of the Majority Revolving Credit Lenders, be
converted automatically to a Base Rate Advance and the Agent shall
thereafter promptly notify Borrowers of said action. All
accrued and unpaid interest on any Advance converted to a Base Rate
Advance under this Section 2.8 shall be due and payable in
full on the date such Advance is converted.
2.9 Revolving
Credit Facility Fee
. From the Effective Date to the
Revolving Credit Maturity Date, the Borrowers shall pay to the
Agent for distribution to the Lenders pro-rata in accordance with
their respective Percentages, a Revolving Credit Facility Fee
annually in arrears commencing January 1, 2009, and on the first
day of each year thereafter (in respect of the prior twelve months
or any portion thereof). The Revolving Credit Facility Fee shall be
determined by multiplying 0.275% times the Revolving Credit
Aggregate Commitment then in effect (whether used or unused). The
Revolving Credit Facility Fee shall be computed on the basis of a
year of three hundred sixty (360) days and assessed for the actual
number of days elapsed. Whenever any payment of the Revolving
Credit Facility Fee shall be due on a day which is not a Business
Day, the date for payment thereof shall be extended to the next
Business Day. Upon receipt of such payment, Agent shall make prompt
payment to each Lender of its share of the Revolving Credit
Facility Fee based upon its respective Percentage. It is expressly
understood that the Revolving Credit Facility Fees described in
this Section are not refundable.
2.10 Mandatory
Repayment of Revolving Credit Advances.
(a) If at any time and
for any reason the aggregate outstanding principal amount of
Revolving Credit Advances, plus the outstanding Letter of Credit
Obligations, shall exceed the Revolving Credit Aggregate
Commitment, Borrowers shall immediately reduce any pending request
for a Revolving Credit Advance on such day by the amount of such
excess and, to the extent any excess remains thereafter, repay any
Revolving Credit Advances in an amount equal to the lesser of the
outstanding amount of such Advances and the amount of such
remaining excess, with such amounts to be applied between the
Revolving Credit Advances as determined by the Agent and then, to
the extent that any excess remains after payment in full of all
Revolving Credit Advances, to provide cash collateral in support of
any Letter of Credit Obligations in an amount equal to the lesser
of (x) 110% of the amount of such Letter of Credit Obligations and
(y) the amount of such remaining excess, with such cash collateral
to be provided on the basis set forth in Section 9.2 hereof.
Borrowers acknowledge that, in connection with any repayment
required hereunder, it shall also be responsible for the
reimbursement of any prepayment or other costs required under
Section 11.1 hereof. Any payments made pursuant
to this Section shall be applied first to outstanding Base Rate
Advances under the Revolving Credit, and then to Eurodollar-based
Advances of the Revolving Credit.
(b) To the extent
that, on the date any mandatory repayment of the Revolving Credit
Advances under this Section 2.10 or payment pursuant to the
terms of any of the Loan Documents is due, the Indebtedness under
the Revolving Credit or any other Indebtedness to be prepaid is
being carried, in whole or in part, at the Eurodollar-based Rate
and no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing,
Borrowers may deposit the amount of such mandatory prepayment in a
cash collateral account to be held by the Agent, for and on behalf
of the Revolving Credit Lenders, on such terms and conditions as
are reasonably acceptable to
(c) Agent and upon
such deposit the obligation of Borrowers to make such mandatory
prepayment shall be deemed satisfied. Subject to the terms and
conditions of said cash collateral account, sums on deposit in said
cash collateral account shall be applied (until exhausted) to
reduce the principal balance of the Revolving Credit on the last
day of each Eurodollar-Interest Period attributable to the
Eurodollar-based Advances of such Revolving Advance, thereby
avoiding breakage costs under Section 11.1 hereof; provided,
however, that if a Default or Event of Default shall have occurred
at any time while sums are on deposit in the cash collateral
account, Agent may, in its sole discretion, elect to apply such
sums to reduce the principal balance of such Eurodollar-based
Advances prior to the last day of the applicable
Eurodollar-Interest Period and the Borrowers will be obligated to
pay any resulting breakage costs under Section 11.1
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2.11 Optional
Reduction or Termination of Revolving Credit Aggregate
Commitment
. Borrowers may, upon at least five
(5) Business Days’ prior written notice to the Agent,
permanently reduce the Revolving Credit Aggregate Commitment in
whole at any time, or in part from time to time, without premium or
penalty, provided that: (i) each partial reduction of the Revolving
Credit Aggregate Commitment shall be in an aggregate amount equal
to Five Million Dollars ($5,000,000) or a larger integral multiple
of One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000); (ii) each reduction
shall be accompanied by the payment of the Revolving Credit
Facility Fee, if any, accrued and unpaid to the date of such
reduction; (iii) Borrowers shall prepay in accordance with the
terms hereof the amount, if any, by which the aggregate unpaid
principal amount of Revolving Credit Advances (including, without
duplication, any deemed Advances made under Section 3.6
hereof) outstanding hereunder, plus the Letter of Credit
Obligations, exceeds the amount of the then applicable Revolving
Credit Aggregate Commitment as so reduced, together with interest
thereon to the date of prepayment; and (iv) no reduction shall
reduce the Revolving Credit Aggregate Commitment to an amount which
is less than the aggregate undrawn amount of any Letters of Credit
outstanding at such time; provided, however that if the termination
or reduction of the Revolving Credit Aggregate Commitment requires
the prepayment of a Eurodollar-based Advance and such termination
or reduction is made on a day other than the last Business Day of
the then current Interest Period applicable to such
Eurodollar-based Advance, then, pursuant to Section 11.1 ,
Borrower shall compensate the Revolving Credit Lenders for any
losses or, so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred
and is continuing, Borrower may deposit the amount of such
prepayment in a collateral account as provided in Section
2.10(b) . Reductions of the Revolving Credit Aggregate
Commitment and any accompanying prepayments of Advances of the
Revolving Credit shall be distributed by Agent to each Revolving
Credit Lender in accordance with such Revolving Credit
Lender’s Revolving Percentage thereof, and will not be
available for reinstatement by or readvance to Borrowers. Any
reductions of the Revolving Credit Aggregate Commitment hereunder
shall reduce each Revolving Credit Lender’s portion thereof
proportionately (based on the applicable Percentages), and shall be
permanent and irrevocable. Any payments made pursuant to this
Section shall be applied first to outstanding Base Rate Advances
under the Revolving Credit, and then to Eurodollar-based Advances
of the Revolving Credit.
2.12 Use of Proceeds
of Advances
. Advances of the Revolving Credit
shall be used to finance working capital and other lawful corporate
purposes.
. Subject to the terms and conditions
of this Agreement, Issuing Lender may through the Issuing Office,
at any time and from time to time from and after the date hereof
until thirty (30) days prior to the Revolving Credit Maturity Date,
upon the written request of Borrowers accompanied by a duly
executed Letter of Credit Agreement and such other documentation
related to the requested Letter of Credit as the Issuing Lender may
require, issue Letters of Credit in Dollars for the account of
Borrowers, in an aggregate amount for all Letters of Credit issued
hereunder at any one time outstanding not to exceed the Letter of
Credit Maximum Amount. Each Letter of Credit shall be in a minimum
face amount of One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000) (or $5,000
in the case of the Wisconsin Letter of Credit or such lesser amount
as may be agreed to by Issuing Lender) and each Letter of Credit
(including any renewal thereof) shall expire not later than the
first to occur of (i) one year after the date of issuance thereof
and (ii) ten (10) Business Days prior to the Revolving Credit
Maturity Date in effect on the date of issuance thereof. The
submission of all applications in respect of and the issuance of
each Letter of Credit hereunder shall be subject in all respects to
the International Standby Practices 98, and any successor
documentation thereto and to the extent not inconsistent therewith,
the laws of the State of California. In the event of any conflict
between this Agreement and any Letter of Credit Document other than
any Letter of Credit, this Agreement shall control.
4.1 Conditions to
Issuance
. No Letter of Credit shall be issued
(including the renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit
previously issued) at the request and for the account of Borrowers
unless, as of the date of issuance (or renewal or extension) of
such Letter of Credit:
(a) (i) after giving
effect to the Letter of Credit requested, the Letter of Credit
Obligations do not exceed the Letter of Credit Maximum Amount; and
(ii) after giving effect to the Letter of Credit requested, the
Letter of Credit Obligations on such date plus the aggregate amount
of all Revolving Credit Advances (including all Advances deemed
disbursed by Agent under Section 3.6(a) hereof in respect of
Borrowers’ Reimbursement Obligations) hereunder requested or
outstanding on such date do not exceed the Revolving Credit
Aggregate Commitment;
(b) the
representations and warranties of the Credit Parties contained in
this Agreement and the other Loan Documents are true and correct in
all material respects and shall be true and correct in all material
respects as of date of the issuance of such Letter of Credit (both
before and immediately after the issuance of such Letter of
Credit), other than any representation or warranty that expressly
speaks only as of a different date;
(c) there is no
Default or Event of Default in existence, and none will exist upon
the issuance of such Letter of Credit;
(d) Borrowers shall
have delivered to Issuing Lender at its Issuing Office, not less
than three (3) Business Days prior to the requested date for
issuance (or such shorter time as the Issuing Lender, in its sole
discretion, may permit), the Letter of Credit Agreement related
thereto, together with such other documents and materials as may be
required pursuant to the terms thereof, and the terms of the
proposed Letter of Credit shall be reasonably satisfactory to
Issuing Lender;
(e) no order, judgment
or decree of any court, arbitrator or governmental authority shall
purport by its terms to enjoin or restrain Issuing Lender from
issuing the Letter of Credit requested, or any Revolving Credit
Lender from taking an assignment of its Revolving Credit Percentage
thereof pursuant to Section 3.6 hereof, and no law, rule,
regulation, request or directive (whether or not having the force
of law) shall prohibit the Issuing Lender from issuing, or any
Revolving Credit Lender from taking an assignment of its Revolving
Credit Percentage of, the Letter of Credit requested or letters of
credit generally;
(f) there shall have
been (i) no introduction of or change in the interpretation of any
law or regulation, (ii) no declaration of a general banking
moratorium by banking authorities in the United States, California
or the respective jurisdictions in which the Revolving Credit
Lenders, the Borrowers and the beneficiary of the requested Letter
of Credit are located, and (iii) no establishment of any new
restrictions by any central bank or other governmental agency or
authority on transactions involving letters of credit or on banks
generally that, in any case described in this clause (e), would
make it unlawful or unduly burdensome for the Issuing Lender to
issue or any Revolving Credit Lender to take an assignment of its
Revolving Credit Percentage of the requested Letter of Credit or
letters of credit generally; and
(g) Issuing Lender
shall have received the issuance fees required in connection with
the issuance of such Letter of Credit pursuant to Section
3.4 hereof.
Each Letter of Credit Agreement submitted to
Issuing Lender pursuant hereto shall constitute the certification
by Borrowers of the matters set forth in Sections 5.2
hereof. The Agent shall be entitled to rely on such certification
without any duty of inquiry.
. The Issuing Lender shall deliver to
the Agent, concurrently with or promptly following its issuance of
any Letter of Credit, a true and complete copy of each Letter of
Credit. Promptly upon its receipt thereof, Agent shall give notice,
substantially in the form attached as Exhibit C , to
each Revolving Credit Lender of the issuance of each Letter of
Credit, specifying the amount thereof and the amount of such
Revolving Credit Lender’s Percentage thereof.
4.3 Letter of
Credit Fees; Increased Costs
(a) Borrowers shall
pay letter of credit fees as follows:
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A per annum
letter of credit fee with respect to the undrawn amount of each
Letter of Credit issued pursuant hereto (based on the amount of
each Letter of Credit) in the amount of the Applicable Fee
Percentage (determined with reference to Schedule 1.1 to
this Agreement) shall be paid to the Agent for distribution to the
Revolving Credit Lenders in accordance with their Revolving Credit
Percentages.
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A letter of
credit facing fee on the face amount of each Letter of Credit shall
be paid to the Agent for distribution to the Issuing Lender for its
own account, in accordance with the terms of any applicable fee
letter.
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All payments by
Borrowers to the Agent for distribution to the Issuing Lender or
the Revolving Credit Lenders under this Section 3.4 shall be
made in Dollars in immediately available funds at the Issuing
Office or such other office of the Agent as may be designated from
time to time by written notice to Borrowers by the Agent. The fees
described in clauses (a)(i) and (ii) above (i) shall be
nonrefundable under all circumstances, (ii) in the case of fees due
under clause (a)(i) above, shall be payable annually in advance and
(iii) in the case of fees due under clause (a)(ii) above, shall be
payable upon the issuance of such Letter of Credit and upon any
amendment thereto or extension thereof. The fees due under clause
(a)(i) above shall be determined by multiplying the Applicable Fee
Percentage times the undrawn amount of the face amount of each such
Letter of Credit on the date of determination, and shall be
calculated on the basis of a 360 day year and assessed for the
actual number of days from the date of the issuance thereof to the
stated expiration thereof. The parties hereto acknowledge that,
unless the Issuing Lender otherwise agrees, any material amendment
and any extension to a Letter of Credit issued hereunder shall be
treated as a new Letter of Credit for the purposes of the letter of
credit facing fee.
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(b) If any change in
any law or regulation or in the interpretation thereof by any court
or administrative or governmental authority charged with the
administration thereof, adopted after the date hereof, shall either
(i) impose, modify or cause to be deemed applicable any reserve,
special deposit, limitation or similar requirement against letters
of credit issued or participated in by, or assets held by, or
deposits in or for the account of, Issuing Lender or any Revolving
Credit Lender or (ii) impose on Issuing Lender or any Revolving
Credit Lender any other condition regarding this Agreement, the
Letters of Credit or any participations in such Letters of Credit,
and the result of any event referred to in clause (i) or (ii) above
shall be to increase the cost or expense to Issuing Lender or such
Revolving Credit Lender of issuing or maintaining or participating
in any of the Letters of Credit (which increase in cost or expense
shall be determined by the Issuing Lender’s or such Revolving
Credit Lender’s reasonable allocation of the aggregate of
such cost increases and expenses resulting from such events), then,
upon demand by the Issuing Lender or such Revolving Credit Lender,
as the case may be, Borrowers shall, within thirty (30) days
following demand for payment, pay to Issuing Lender or such
Revolving Credit Lender, as the case may be, from time to time as
specified by the Issuing Lender or such Revolving Credit Lender,
additional amounts which shall be sufficient to compensate the
Issuing Lender or such Revolving Credit Lender for such increased
cost and expense (together with interest on each such amount from
ten days after the date such payment is due until payment in full
thereof at the Base Rate), provided that if the Issuing Lender or
such Revolving Credit Lender could take any reasonable action,
without cost or administrative or other burden or restriction to
such Lender, to mitigate or eliminate such cost or expense, it
agrees to do so within a reasonable time after becoming aware of
the foregoing matters. Each demand for payment under this
Section 3.4(c) shall be accompanied by a certificate of
Issuing Lender or the applicable Revolving Credit Lender setting
forth the amount of such increased cost or expense incurred by the
Issuing Lender or such Revolving Credit Lender, as the case may be,
as a result of any event mentioned in clause (i) or (ii) above, and
in reasonable detail, the methodology for calculating and the
calculation of such amount, which certificate shall be
(c) prepared in good
faith and shall be conclusive evidence, absent manifest error, as
to the amount thereof.
. In connection with the Letters of
Credit, and in addition to the Letter of Credit Fees, Borrowers
shall pay, for the sole account of the Issuing Lender, standard
documentation, administration, payment and cancellation charges
assessed by Issuing Lender or the Issuing Office, at the times, in
the amounts and on the terms set forth or to be set forth from time
to time in the standard fee schedule of the Issuing Office in
effect from time to time.
4.5 Participation
Interests in and Drawings and Demands for Payment Under Letters of
Credit.
(a) Upon issuance by
the Issuing Lender of each Letter of Credit hereunder (and on the
Effective Date with respect to each Existing Letter of Credit),
each Revolving Credit Lender shall automatically acquire a pro rata
participation interest in such Letter of Credit and each related
Letter of Credit Payment based on its respective Revolving Credit
Percentage.
(b) If the Issuing
Lender shall honor a draft or other demand for payment presented or
made under any Letter of Credit, Borrowers agree to pay to the
Issuing Lender an amount equal to the amount paid by the Issuing
Lender in respect of such draft or other demand under such Letter
of Credit and all reasonable expenses paid or incurred by the Agent
relative thereto not later than 1:00 p.m. (P.S.T.), in Dollars, on
(i) the Business Day that Borrowers received notice of such
presentment and honor, if such notice is received prior to 11:00
a.m. (P.S.T.) or (ii) the Business Day immediately following the
day that Borrowers received such notice, if such notice is received
after 11:00 a.m. (P.S.T.).
(c) If the Issuing
Lender shall honor a draft or other demand for payment presented or
made under any Letter of Credit, but Borrowers do not reimburse the
Issuing Lender as required under clause (b) above and the Revolving
Credit Aggregate Commitment has not been terminated (whether by
maturity, acceleration or otherwise), the Borrowers shall be deemed
to have immediately requested that the Revolving Credit Lenders
make a Base Rate Advance of the Revolving Credit (which Advance may
be subsequently converted at any time into a Eurodollar-based
Advance pursuant to Section 2.3 hereof) in the principal
amount equal to the amount paid by the Issuing Lender in respect of
such draft or other demand under such Letter of Credit and all
reasonable expenses paid or incurred by the Agent relative
thereto. Agent will promptly notify the Revolving Credit
Lenders of such deemed request, and each such Lender shall make
available to the Agent an amount equal to its pro rata share (based
on its Revolving Credit Percentage) of the amount of such
Advance.
(d) If the Issuing
Lender shall honor a draft or other demand for payment presented or
made under any Letter of Credit, but Borrowers do not reimburse the
Issuing Lender as required under clause (b) above, and (i) the
Revolving Credit Aggregate Commitment has been terminated (whether
by maturity, acceleration or otherwise), or (ii) any reimbursement
received by the Issuing Lender from Borrowers is or must be
returned or rescinded upon or during any bankruptcy or
reorganization of any Credit Party or otherwise, then Agent shall
notify each Revolving Credit Lender, and each Revolving Credit
Lender will be obligated to pay the Agent for the account of the
Issuing Lender its pro rata share (based on its Revolving
Credit
(e) Percentage) of the
amount paid by the Issuing Lender in respect of such draft or other
demand under such Letter of Credit and all reasonable expenses paid
or incurred by the Agent relative thereto (but no such payment
shall diminish the obligations of the Borrowers hereunder). Upon
receipt thereof, the Agent will deliver to such Revolving Credit
Lender a participation certificate evidencing its participation
interest in respect of such payment and expenses. To the
extent that a Revolving Credit Lender fails to make such amount
available to the Agent by 11:00 am P.S.T. on the Business Day next
succeeding the date such notice is given, such Revolving Credit
Lender shall pay interest on such amount in respect of each day
from the date such amount was required to be paid, to the date paid
to Agent, at a rate per annum equal to the Federal Funds Effective
Rate. The failure of any Revolving Credit Lender to make
its pro rata portion of any such amount available under to the
Agent shall not relieve any other Revolving Credit Lender of its
obligation to make available its pro rata portion of such amount,
but no Revolving Credit Lender shall be responsible for failure of
any other Revolving Credit Lender to make such pro rata portion
available to the Agent.
(f) In the case of any
Advance made under this Section 3.6 , each such Advance
shall be disbursed notwithstanding any failure to satisfy any
conditions for disbursement of any Advance set forth in Article
2 hereof or Article 5 hereof, and, to the extent of the
Advance so disbursed, the Reimbursement Obligation of Borrowers to
the Agent under this Section 3.6 shall be deemed satisfied
(unless, in each case, taking into account any such deemed
Advances, the aggregate outstanding principal amount of Advances of
the Revolving Credit, plus the Letter of Credit Obligations (other
than the Reimbursement Obligations to be reimbursed by this
Advance) on such date exceed the then applicable Revolving Credit
Aggregate Commitment).
(g) If the Issuing
Lender shall honor a draft or other demand for payment presented or
made under any Letter of Credit, the Issuing Lender shall provide
notice thereof to Borrowers on the date such draft or demand is
honored, and to each Revolving Credit Lender on such date unless
Borrowers shall have satisfied its reimbursement obligations by
payment to the Agent (for the benefit of the Issuing Lender) as
required under this Section 3.6 . The Issuing
Lender shall further use reasonable efforts to provide notice to
Borrowers prior to honoring any such draft or other demand for
payment, but such notice, or the failure to provide such notice,
shall not affect the rights or obligations of the Issuing Lender
with respect to any Letter of Credit or the rights and obligations
of the parties hereto, including without limitation the obligations
of Borrowers under this Section 3.6 .
(h) Notwithstanding
the foregoing however no Revolving Credit Lender shall be deemed to
have acquired a participation in a Letter of Credit if the officers
of the Issuing Lender immediately responsible for matters
concerning this Agreement shall have received written notice from
Agent or any Lender at least two (2) Business Days prior to the
date of the issuance or extension of such Letter of Credit or, with
respect to any Letter of Credit subject to automatic extension, at
least five (5) Business Days prior to the date that the beneficiary
under such Letter of Credit must be notified that such Letter of
Credit will not be renewed, that the issuance or extension of
Letters of Credit should be suspended based on the occurrence and
continuance of a Default or Event of Default and stating that such
notice is a “notice of default”; provided, however that
the Revolving Credit Lenders shall be deemed to have acquired such
a participation upon the date on which such Default or Event of
Default has been waived by the requisite Lenders, as
applicable. In the event that the Issuing Lender
receives such a notice, the Issuing
(i) Lender shall have
no obligation to issue any Letter of Credit until such notice is
withdrawn by Agent or such Lender or until the requisite Lenders
have waived such Default or Event of Default in accordance with the
terms of this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement shall be
construed to require or authorize any Revolving Credit Lender to
issue any Letter of Credit, it being recognized that the Issuing
Lender shall be the sole issuer of Letters of Credit under this
Agreement.
4.6 Obligations
Irrevocable
. The obligations of Borrowers to
make payments to Agent for the account of Issuing Lender or the
Revolving Credit Lenders with respect to Letter of Credit
Obligations under Section 3.6 hereof, shall be unconditional
and irrevocable and not subject to any qualification or exception
whatsoever, including, without limitation:
(a) Any lack of
validity or enforceability of any Letter of Credit, any Letter of
Credit Agreement, any other documentation relating to any Letter of
Credit, this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents (the
“Letter of Credit Documents”);
(b) Any amendment,
modification, waiver, consent, or any substitution, exchange or
release of or failure to perfect any interest in collateral or
security, with respect to or under any Letter of Credit
Document;
(c) The existence of
any claim, setoff, defense or other right which Borrowers may have
at any time against any beneficiary or any transferee of any Letter
of Credit (or any persons or entities for whom any such beneficiary
or any such transferee may be acting), the Agent, the Issuing
Lender or any Revolving Credit Lender or any other Person, whether
in connection with this Agreement, any of the Letter of Credit
Documents, the transactions contemplated herein or therein or any
unrelated transactions;
(d) Any draft or other
statement or document presented under any Letter of Credit proving
to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect or
any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any
respect;
(e) Payment by the
Issuing Lender to the beneficiary under any Letter of Credit
against presentation of documents which do not comply with the
terms of such Letter of Credit, including failure of any documents
to bear any reference or adequate reference to such Letter of
Credit;
(f) Any failure,
omission, delay or lack on the part of the Agent, Issuing Lender or
any Revolving Credit Lender or any party to any of the Letter of
Credit Documents or any other Loan Document to enforce, assert or
exercise any right, power or remedy conferred upon the Agent,
Issuing Lender, any Revolving Credit Lender or any such party under
this Agreement, any of the other Loan Documents or any of the
Letter of Credit Documents, or any other acts or omissions on the
part of the Agent, Issuing Lender, any Revolving Credit Lender or
any such party; or
(g) Any other event or
circumstance that would, in the absence of this Section 3.7
, result in the release or discharge by operation of law or
otherwise of Borrowers from the performance or observance of any
obligation, covenant or agreement contained in Section 3.6
hereof.
(h) No setoff,
counterclaim, reduction or diminution of any obligation or any
defense of any kind or nature which Borrowers have or may have
against the beneficiary of any Letter of Credit shall be available
hereunder to Borrowers against the Agent, Issuing Lender or any
Revolving Credit Lender. With respect to any Letter of Credit,
nothing contained in this Section 3.7 shall be deemed to
prevent Borrowers, after satisfaction in full of the absolute and
unconditional obligations of Borrowers hereunder with respect to
such Letter of Credit, from asserting in a separate action any
claim, defense, set off or other right which they (or any of them)
may have against Agent, Issuing Lender or any Revolving Credit
Lender in connection with such Letter of Credit.
4.7 Risk Under
Letters of Credit.
(a) In the
administration and handling of Letters of Credit and any security
therefor, or any documents or instruments given in connection
therewith, Issuing Lender shall have the sole right to take or
refrain from taking any and all actions under or upon the Letters
of Credit.
(b) Subject to other
terms and conditions of this Agreement, Issuing Lender shall issue
the Letters of Credit and shall hold the documents related thereto
in its own name and shall make all collections thereunder and
otherwise administer the Letters of Credit in accordance with
Issuing Lender’s regularly established practices and
procedures and will have no further obligation with respect
thereto. In the administration of Letters of Credit, Issuing Lender
shall not be liable for any action taken or omitted on the advice
of counsel, accountants, appraisers or other experts selected by
Issuing Lender with due care and Issuing Lender may rely upon any
notice, communication, certificate or other statement from
Borrowers, beneficiaries of Letters of Credit, or any other Person
which Issuing Lender believes to be authentic. Issuing Lender will,
upon request, furnish the Revolving Credit Lenders with copies of
Letter of Credit Documents related thereto.
(c) In connection with
the issuance and administration of Letters of Credit and the
assignments hereunder, Issuing Lender makes no representation and
shall have no responsibility with respect to (i) the obligations of
Borrowers or the validity, sufficiency or enforceability of any
document or instrument given in connection therewith, or the taking
of any action with respect to same, (ii) the financial condition
of, any representations made by, or any act or omission of
Borrowers or any other Person, or (iii) any failure or delay in
exercising any rights or powers possessed by Issuing Lender in its
capacity as issuer of Letters of Credit in the absence of its gross
negligence or willful misconduct. Each of the Revolving Credit
Lenders expressly acknowledges that it has made and will continue
to make its own evaluations of Borrowers’ creditworthiness
without reliance on any representation of Issuing Lender or Issuing
Lender’s officers, agents and employees.
(d) If at any time
Issuing Lender shall recover any part of any unreimbursed amount
for any draw or other demand for payment under a Letter of Credit,
or any interest thereon, Agent or Issuing Lender, as the case may
be, shall receive same for the pro rata benefit of the Revolving
Credit Lenders in accordance with their respective Percentages and
shall promptly deliver to each Revolving Credit Lender its share
thereof, less such Revolving Credit Lender’s pro rata share
of the costs of such recovery, including court costs and
attorney’s fees. If at any time any Revolving Credit Lender
shall receive from any source whatsoever any payment on
any
(e) such unreimbursed
amount or interest thereon in excess of such Revolving Credit
Lender’s Percentage of such payment, such Revolving Credit
Lender will promptly pay over such excess to Agent, for
redistribution in accordance with this Agreement.
. Borrowers hereby indemnify and
agree to hold harmless the Revolving Credit Lenders, the Issuing
Lender and the Agent and their respective Affiliates, and the
respective officers, directors, employees and agents of such
Persons (each an “L/C Indemnified Person”), from and
against any and all claims, damages, losses, liabilities, costs or
expenses of any kind or nature whatsoever which the Revolving
Credit Lenders, the Issuing Lender or the Agent or any such Person
may incur or which may be claimed against any of them by reason of
or in connection with any Letter of Credit (collectively, the
“L/C Indemnified Amounts”), and none of the Issuing
Lender, any Revolving Credit Lender or the Agent or any of their
respective officers, directors, employees or agents shall be liable
or responsible for:
(a) the use which may
be made of any Letter of Credit or for any acts or omissions of any
beneficiary in connection therewith;
(b) the validity,
sufficiency or genuineness of documents or of any endorsement
thereon, even if such documents should in fact prove to be in any
or all respects invalid, insufficient, fraudulent or
forged;
(c) payment by the
Issuing Lender to the beneficiary under any Letter of Credit
against presentation of documents which do not strictly comply with
the terms of any Letter of Credit (unless such payment resulted
from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the Issuing
Lender), including failure of any documents to bear any reference
or adequate reference to such Letter of Credit;
(d) any error,
omission, interruption or delay in transmission, dispatch or
delivery of any message or advice, however transmitted, in
connection with any Letter of Credit; or
(e) any other event or
circumstance whatsoever arising in connection with any Letter of
Credit.
It is
understood that in making any payment under a Letter of Credit the
Issuing Lender will rely on documents presented to it under such
Letter of Credit as to any and all matters set forth therein
without further investigation and regardless of any notice or
information to the contrary.
With respect to
subparagraphs (a) through (e) hereof, (i) no Borrower shall be
required to indemnify any L/C Indemnified Person for any L/C
Indemnified Amounts to the extent such amounts result from the
gross negligence or willful misconduct of such L/C Indemnified
Person or any officer, director, employee or agent of such L/C
Indemnified Person and (ii) the Agent and the Issuing Lender shall
be liable to each Borrower to the extent, but only to the extent,
of any direct, as opposed to consequential or incidental, damages
suffered by any Borrower which were caused by the gross negligence
or willful misconduct of the Issuing Lender or any officer,
director, employee or agent of the Issuing Lender or by the Issuing
Lender’s wrongful dishonor of any Letter of Credit after the
presentation to it by the beneficiary thereunder of a draft or
other demand for payment and other documentation strictly complying
with the terms and conditions of such Letter of Credit.
. Each Revolving Credit Lender agrees
to reimburse the Issuing Lender on demand, pro rata in accordance
with its respective Revolving Credit Percentage, for (i) the
reasonable out-of-pocket costs and expenses of the Issuing Lender
to be reimbursed by Borrowers pursuant to any Letter of Credit
Agreement or any Letter of Credit, to the extent not reimbursed by
Borrowers or any other Credit Party and (ii) any and all
liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions,
judgments, suits, costs, fees, reasonable out-of-pocket expenses or
disbursements of any kind and nature whatsoever which may be
imposed on, incurred by or asserted against Issuing Lender in any
way relating to or arising out of this Agreement (including
Section 3.6(c) hereof), any Letter of Credit, any
documentation or any transaction relating thereto, or any Letter of
Credit Agreement, to the extent not reimbursed by Borrowers, except
to the extent that such liabilities, losses, costs or expenses were
incurred by Issuing Lender as a result of Issuing Lender’s
gross negligence or willful misconduct or by the Issuing
Lender’s wrongful dishonor of any Letter of Credit after the
presentation to it by the beneficiary thereunder of a draft or
other demand for payment and other documentation strictly complying
with the terms and conditions of such Letter of Credit.
The obligations of the Lenders to make Advances
or loans pursuant to this Agreement and the obligation of the
Issuing Lender to issue Letters of Credit are subject to the
following conditions:
6.1 Conditions of
Initial Advances
. The obligations of the Lenders to
make initial Advances or loans pursuant to this Agreement and the
obligation of the Issuing Lender to issue initial Letters of
Credit, in each case, on the Effective Date only, are subject to
the following conditions:
(a) Notes, this
Agreement and the other Loan Documents . Borrowers
shall have executed and delivered to Agent for the account of each
Lender requesting Notes, the Revolving Credit Notes; Borrowers
shall have executed and delivered this Agreement; and such Notes
(if any), this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall be in
full force and effect.
(b) Corporate
Authority . Agent shall have received, with a
counterpart thereof for each Lender, a certificate of its Secretary
or Assistant Secretary dated as of the Effective Date as
to:
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corporate
resolutions (or the equivalent) of each Borrower authorizing the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents approval of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents,
in each case to which such Borrower is party, and authorizing the
execution and delivery of this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents, and in the case of Borrowers, authorizing the execution
and delivery of requests for Advances and the issuance of Letters
of Credit hereunder,
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the incumbency
and signature of the officers or other authorized persons of such
Borrower executing any Loan Document and in the case of
the
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Borrowers, the
officers who are authorized to execute any Requests for Advance, or
requests for the issuance of Letters of Credit,
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a certificate
of good standing or continued existence (or the equivalent thereof)
from the state of its incorporation or formation, and from every
state or other jurisdiction where such Borrower is qualified to do
business, which jurisdictions are listed on Schedule 5.1(b)
attached hereto, and
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copies of such
Borrower’s certificate of incorporation and bylaws or other
constitutional documents, as in effect on the Effective
Date.
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(c) Collateral
Documents, Guaranties and other Loan Documents . The
Agent shall have received the following documents, each in form and
substance satisfactory to Agent and fully executed by each party
thereto:
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The following
Collateral Documents, each in form and substance acceptable to
Agent and fully executed by each party thereto and dated as of the
Effective Date: the Security Agreement, Short Form Intellectual
Property Security Agreements (as defined in the Security Agreement)
and the Account Control Agreement (as defined in the Security
Agreement), each executed and delivered by the
Borrowers.
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(A) Certified
copies of uniform commercial code requests for information, or a
similar search report certified by a party acceptable to the Agent,
dated a date reasonably prior to the Effective Date, listing all
effective financing statements in the jurisdiction noted on
Schedule 5.1(c) which name any Borrower (under their present
names or under any previous names used within five (5) years prior
to the date hereof) as debtors, together with (x) copies of such
financing statements, and (y) authorized Uniform Commercial Code
(Form UCC-3) Termination Statements, if any, necessary to release
all Liens and other rights of any Person in any Collateral
described in the Collateral Documents previously granted by any
Person (other than Liens permitted by Section 8.2 of this
Agreement) and (B) intellectual property search reports results
from the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the United
States Copyright Office for the Credit Parties dated a date
reasonably prior to the Effective Date.
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Any documents
(including, without limitation, financing statements, amendments to
financing statements and assignments of financing statements, stock
powers executed in blank and any endorsements) requested by Agent
and reasonably required to be provided in connection with the
Collateral Documents to create, in favor of the Agent (for and on
behalf of the Lenders), a first priority perfected security
interest in the Collateral thereunder shall have been filed,
registered or recorded, or shall have been delivered to Agent in
proper form for filing, registration or recordation.
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Insurance . The Agent shall have received
evidence reasonably satisfactory to it that the Credit Parties have
obtained the insurance policies required by Section 7.5
hereof and that such insurance policies are in full force and
effect.
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(d) Compliance with
Certain Documents and Agreements . Each Borrower
shall have each performed and complied in all material respects
with all agreements and conditions contained in this Agreement and
the other Loan Documents, to the extent required to be performed or
complied with by such Borrower. No Person (other than Agent,
Lenders and Issuing Lender) party to this Agreement or any other
Loan Document shall be in material default in the performance or
compliance with any of the terms or provisions of this Agreement or
the other Loan Documents or shall be in material default in the
performance or compliance with any of the material terms or
material provisions of, in each case to which such Person is a
party.
(e) Opinions of
Counsel . The Borrowers shall furnish Agent prior to
the initial Advance under this Agreement, with signed copies for
each Lender, opinions of counsel to the Borrowers, including
opinions of local counsel to the extent deemed necessary by the
Agent, in each case dated the Effective Date and covering such
matters as reasonably required by and otherwise reasonably
satisfactory in form and substance to the Agent and each of the
Lenders.
(f) Payment of
Fees . Borrowers shall have paid any fees, costs or
expenses due and outstanding to the Agent or the Lenders as of the
Effective Date (including reasonable fees, disbursements and other
charges of counsel to Agent).
(g) Financial
Statements . Borrowers shall have delivered to the
Lenders and the Agent, in form and substance satisfactory to Agent:
(a) audited consolidated and consolidating (if any) financial
statements of OMP and its Consolidated Subsidiaries for the Fiscal
Year ending December 31, 2007, and presented in accordance with
GAAP, and (b) quarterly consolidated and consolidating (if any)
financial statements prepared by Borrowers for the fiscal quarter
ended June 30, 2008.
(h) Appraisals;
Audits; Due Diligence . Agent and Lenders shall have
received, in each case in form and substance satisfactory to the
Agent, (a) an audit of all accounts receivable and inventory of
Borrowers and their respective Subsidiaries, (b) appraisals of all
fixed assets of Borrowers and their respective Subsidiaries, and
(c) such other reports or due diligence materials as Agent and the
Majority Lenders may reasonably request.
(i) Management
Agreement and Employment Agreements . Agent shall
have received copies of the Management Agreement and all employment
agreements of the Credit Parties which shall remain in effect
following the Effective Date as set forth on Schedule 6.17
hereof, the terms of which are reasonably acceptable to Agent and
the Majority Lenders.
(j) Material
Contracts . Agent shall have received copies of each
Material Contract that by its terms provides for aggregate future
guaranteed payments to or from Credit Parties of at least
$500,000.
(k) Governmental
and Other Approvals . Agent shall have received
copies of all authorizations, consents, approvals, licenses,
qualifications or formal exemptions, filings,
(l) declarations and
registrations with, any court, governmental agency or regulatory
authority or any securities exchange or any other person or party
(whether or not governmental) received by any Borrower in
connection with the transactions contemplated by the Loan Documents
to occur on the Effective Date.
(m) Closing
Certificate . The Agent shall have received, with a
signed counterpart for each Lender, a certificate of a Responsible
Officer of Borrower Representative dated the Effective Date (or, if
different, the date of the initial Advance hereunder), stating that
to the best of his or her respective knowledge after due inquiry,
(a) the conditions set forth in this Section 5 have been
satisfied to the extent required to be satisfied by any Borrower;
(b) the representations and warranties made by the Credit Parties
in this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, as
applicable, are true and correct in all material respects; (c) no
Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing;
and (d) since June 30, 2008 nothing shall have occurred which has
had, or could reasonably be expected to have, a material adverse
change on the business, results of operations, conditions, property
or prospects (financial or otherwise) of Borrowers.
6.2 Continuing
Conditions
. The obligations of each Lender to
make Advances (including the initial Advance) under this Agreement
and the obligation of the Issuing Lender to issue any Letters of
Credit shall be subject to the continuing conditions
that:
(a) No Default or
Event of Default shall exist as of the date of the Advance or the
request for the Letter of Credit, as the case may be;
and
(b) Each of the
representations and warranties contained in this Agreement and in
each of the other Loan Documents shall be true and correct in all
material respects as of the date of the Advance or Letter of Credit
(as the case may be) as if made on and as of such date (other than
any representation or warranty that expressly speaks only as of a
different date).
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REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES.
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Borrowers represent and warrant to the Agent,
the Lenders and the Issuing Lender as follows:
. Each Credit Party is a corporation
(or other business entity) duly organized and existing in good
standing under the laws of the state or jurisdiction of its
incorporation or formation, as applicable, and each Credit Party is
duly qualified and authorized to do business as a foreign
corporation in each jurisdiction where the character of its assets
or the nature of its activities makes such qualification and
authorization necessary except where failure to be so qualified or
be in good standing could not reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect. Each Credit Party has all requisite
corporate, limited liability or partnership power and authority to
own all its property (whether real, personal, tangible or
intangible or of any kind whatsoever) and to carry on its
business.
. Execution, delivery and performance
of this Agreement, and the other Loan Documents, to which each
Credit Party is party, and the issuance of the Notes by Borrowers
(if requested) are within such Person’s corporate power, have
been duly authorized, are not in contravention of any law
applicable to such Credit Party or the terms of such
Credit
Party’s organizational documents and,
except as have been previously obtained or as referred to in
Section 6.10 , below, do not require the consent or approval
of any governmental body, agency or authority or any other third
party except to the extent that such consent or approval is not
material to the transactions contemplated by the Loan
Documents.
7.3 Good Title;
Leases; Assets; No Liens
. (a) Each Credit Party,
to the extent applicable, has good and valid title (or, in the case
of real property, good and marketable title) to all assets owned by
it, subject only to the Liens permitted under Section 8.2
hereof, and each Credit Party has a valid leasehold or interest as
a lessee or a licensee in all of its leased real
property;
(b) Schedule
6.3(a) hereof identifies all of the real property owned or
leased, as lessee thereunder, by the Credit Parties on the
Effective Date, including all warehouse or bailee
locations;
(c) The Credit Parties
will collectively own or collectively have a valid leasehold
interest in all assets that were owned or leased (as lessee) by the
Credit Parties immediately prior to the Effective Date to the
extent that such assets are necessary for the continued operation
of the Credit Parties’ businesses in substantially the manner
as such businesses were operated immediately prior to the Effective
Date;
(d) Each Credit Party
owns or has a valid leasehold interest in all real property
necessary for its continued operations and, to the best knowledge
of Borrowers, no material condemnation, eminent domain or
expropriation action has been commenced or threatened against any
such owned or leased real property; and
(e) There are no Liens
on and no financing statements on file with respect to any of the
assets owned by the Credit Parties, except for the Liens permitted
pursuant to Section 8.2 of this Agreement.
. Except as set forth on Schedule
6.4 hereof, OMP and each of its Subsidiaries, as applicable,
has filed on or before their respective due dates or within the
applicable grace periods, all United States federal, state, local
and other tax returns which are required to be filed or has
obtained extensions for filing such tax returns and is not
delinquent in filing such returns in accordance with such
extensions and has paid all material taxes which have become due
pursuant to those returns or pursuant to any assessments received
by any such Person, as the case may be, to the extent such taxes
have become due, except to the extent such taxes are being
contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently
conducted and with respect to which adequate provision has been
made on the books of such Person as may be required by
GAAP.
. Neither OMP nor any of its
Subsidiaries is in default under or with respect to any agreement,
instrument or undertaking to which it is a party or by which it or
any of its property is bound which would cause or would reasonably
be expected to cause a Material Adverse Effect.
7.6 Enforceability
of Agreement and Loan Documents
. This Agreement and each of the
other Loan Documents to which any Credit Party is a party
(including without limitation,
each Request for Advance), have each been duly
executed and delivered by its duly authorized officers and
constitute the valid and binding obligations of such Credit Party,
enforceable against such Credit Party in accordance with their
respective terms, except as enforcement thereof may be limited by
applicable bankruptcy, reorganization, insolvency, fraudulent
conveyance, moratorium or similar laws affecting the enforcement of
creditor’s rights, generally and by general principles of
equity (regardless of whether enforcement is considered in a
proceeding in law or equity).
. Except as disclosed on Schedule 6.7 ,
OMP and each of its Subsidiaries has complied with all applicable
federal, state and local laws, ordinances, codes, rules,
regulations and guidelines (including consent decrees and
administrative orders) including but not limited to Hazardous
Material Laws, and is in compliance with any Requirement of Law,
except to the extent that failure to comply therewith could not
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; and (b)
neither the extension of credit made pursuant to this Agreement or
the use of the proceeds thereof by OMP or its Subsidiaries will, to
Borrowers’ knowledge, violate the Trading with the Enemy Act,
as amended, or any of the foreign assets control regulations of the
United States Treasury Department (31 CFR, Subtitle B, Chapter V,
as amended) or any enabling legislation or executive order relating
thereto, or The United and Strengthening America by providing
appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism
(“USA Patriot Act”) Act of 2001, Public Law 10756,
October 26, 2001 or Executive Order 13224 of September
23, 2001 issued by the President of the United States (66 Fed. Reg.
49049 (2001)).
. The execution, delivery and
performance of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents
(including each Request for Advance) to which each Credit Party is
a party are not in contravention of the terms of any indenture,
agreement or undertaking to which such Credit Party is a party or
by which it or its properties are bound where such violation could
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
. Except as set forth on Schedule
6.9 hereof, there is no suit, action, proceeding, including,
without limitation, any bankruptcy proceeding or governmental
investigation pending against or to the knowledge of Borrowers,
threatened against OMP or any of its Subsidiaries (other than any
suit, action or proceeding in which OMP or any of its Subsidiaries
is the plaintiff and in which no counterclaim or cross-claim
against such Person has been filed), or any judgment, decree,
injunction, rule, or order of any court, government, department,
commission, agency, instrumentality or arbitrator outstanding
against OMP or any of its Subsidiaries, nor is OMP or any of its
Subsidiaries in violation of any applicable law, regulation,
ordinance, order, injunction, decree or requirement of any
governmental body or court which could in any of the foregoing
events reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
7.10 Consents,
Approvals and Filings, Etc
. Except as set forth on Schedule
6.10 hereof, no material authorization, consent, approval,
license, qualification or formal exemption from, nor any filing,
declaration or registration with, any court, governmental agency or
regulatory authority or any securities exchange or any other Person
(whether or not governmental) is required in connection with (a)
the execution, delivery and performance: (i) by any Credit Party of
this Agreement and any of the other Loan Documents to which such
Credit
Party is a party or (ii) by the Credit Parties
of the grant of Liens granted, conveyed or otherwise established
(or to be granted, conveyed or otherwise established) by or under
this Agreement or the other Loan Documents, as applicable, and (b)
otherwise necessary to the operation of its business, except in
each case for (x) such matters which have been previously obtained,
and (y) such filings to be made concurrently herewith or promptly
following the Effective Date, including termination of the security
interests and revolving credit facility with GE Business Financial
Services, Inc., as are required by the Collateral Documents to
perfect Liens in favor of the Agent. All such material
authorizations, consents, approvals, licenses, qualifications,
exemptions, filings, declarations and registrations which have
previously been obtained or made, as the case may be, are in full
force and effect and, to the best knowledge of Borrowers, are not
the subject of any attack or threatened attack (in each case in any
material respect) by appeal or direct proceeding or
otherwise.
7.11 Agreements
Affecting Financial Condition
. Neither OMP nor any of its
Subsidiaries is party to any agreement or instrument or subject to
any charter or other corporate restriction which could reasonably
be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
7.12 No Investment
Company or Margin Stock
. Neither OMP nor any of its
Subsidiaries is an “investment company” within the
meaning of the Investment Company Act of 1940, as
amended. Neither OMP nor any of its Subsidiaries is
engaged principally, or as one of its important activities,
directly or indirectly, in the business of extending credit for the
purpose of purchasing or carrying margin stock. None of the
proceeds of any of the Advances will be used by OMP or any of its
Subsidiaries to purchase or carry margin stock. Terms for which
meanings are provided in Regulation U of the Board of Governors of
the Federal Reserve System or any regulations substituted
therefore, as from time to time in effect, are used in this
paragraph with such meanings.
. Neither OMP nor any of its
Subsidiaries maintains or contributes to any Pension Plan subject
to Title IV of ERISA, except as set forth on Schedule 6.13
hereto or otherwise disclosed to the Agent in
writing. There is no accumulated funding deficiency
within the meaning of Section 412 of the Internal Revenue
Code or Section 302 of ERISA, or any outstanding liability
with respect to any Pension Plans owed to the PBGC other than
future premiums due and owing pursuant to Section 4007 of
ERISA, and no “reportable event” as defined in
Section 4043(c) of ERISA has occurred with respect to any
Pension Plan other than an event for which the notice requirement
has been waived by the PBGC. Neither OMP nor any of its
Subsidiaries has engaged in a prohibited transaction with respect
to any Pension Plan, other than a prohibited transaction for which
an exemption is available and has been obtained, which could
subject OMP or any of its Subsidiaries to a material tax or penalty
imposed by Section 4975 of the Internal Revenue Code or
Section 502(i) of ERISA. Each Pension Plan is
being maintained and funded in accordance with its terms and is in
material compliance with the requirements of the Internal Revenue
Code and ERISA. Neither OMP nor any of its Subsidiaries
has had a complete or partial withdrawal from any Multiemployer
Plan that has resulted or could reasonably be expected to have
resulted in any Withdrawal Liability and, except as notified to
Agent in writing following the Effective Date, no such
Multiemployer Plan is in reorganization (within the meaning of
Section 4241 of ERISA) or insolvent (within the meaning of
Section 4245 of ERISA).
Conditions Affecting Business or
Properties
. Neither the respective businesses
nor the properties of OMP or any of its Subsidiaries is affected by
any fire, explosion, accident, strike, lockout or other dispute,
drought, storm, hail, earthquake, embargo, Act of God, or other
casualty (except to the extent such event is covered by insurance
sufficient to ensure that upon application of the proceeds thereof,
no Material Adverse Effect could reasonably be expected to occur)
which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
7.14 Environmental
and Safety Matters
. Except as set forth in Schedules
6.9, 6.10 and 6.15 :
(a) all facilities and
property owned or leased by the Credit Parties are in material
compliance with all Hazardous Material Laws;
(b) to the best
knowledge of Borrowers, there have been no unresolved and
outstanding past, and there are no pending or
threatened:
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complaints, notices or requests for information received by any
Credit Party with respect to any alleged violation of any Hazardous
Material Law, or
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written
complaints, notices or inquiries to any Credit Party regarding
potential liability of any Credit Parties under any Hazardous
Material Law; and
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(c) to the best
knowledge of Borrowers, no conditions exist at, on or under any
property now or previously owned or leased by any Credit Party
which, with the passage of time, or the giving of notice or both,
are reasonably likely to give rise to liability under any Hazardous
Material Law or create a significant adverse effect on the value of
the property.
. Except as disclosed on Schedule
6.16 hereto as of the Effective Date, and thereafter, except as
disclosed to the Agent in writing from time to time, no Credit
Party has any Subsidiaries.
7.16 Management
Agreements
. Schedule 6.17 attached
hereto is an accurate and complete list of all management and
significant employment agreements in effect on or as of the
Effective Date to which any Credit Party is a party or is
bound.
. Schedule 6.18 attached
hereto is an accurate and complete list of all Material Contracts
in effect on or as of the Effective Date to which any Credit Party
is a party or is bound.
7.18 Franchises,
Patents, Copyrights, Tradenames, etc
. OMP and each of its Subsidiaries
possess all franchises, patents, copyrights, trademarks, trade
names, licenses and permits, and rights in respect of the
foregoing, adequate for the conduct of their business substantially
as now conducted without known conflict with any rights of
others. Schedule 6.19 contains a true and
accurate list of all trade names and any and all other names used
by OMP or any of its Subsidiaries during the five-year period
ending as of the Effective Date.
. Schedule 6.20 attached
hereto sets forth all issued and outstanding Equity Interests of
each Credit Party, including the number of authorized, issued and
outstanding Equity Interests of each Credit Party, the par value of
such Equity Interests and the holders of such Equity Interests, all
on and as of the Effective Date. All issued and outstanding Equity
Interests of each Credit Party are duly authorized and validly
issued, fully paid, nonassessable, free and clear of all Liens
(except for the benefit of Agent) and such Equity Interests were
issued in compliance with all applicable state, federal and foreign
laws concerning the issuance of securities. Except as
disclosed on Schedule 6.20 , there are no preemptive or
other outstanding rights, options, warrants, conversion rights or
similar agreements or understandings for the purchase or
acquisition from any Credit Party, of any Equity Interests of any
Credit Party.
7.19 Accuracy of
Information
. (a) The audited
financial statements for the Fiscal Year ended December 31, 2007,
furnished to Agent and the Lenders prior to the Effective Date
fairly present in all material respects the financial condition of
OMP and its Consolidated Subsidiaries and the results of their
operations for the periods covered thereby, and have been prepared
in accordance with GAAP. The projections delivered to the Agent
prior to the Effective Date are based upon good faith estimates and
assumptions believed by management of each of the Borrowers to be
accurate and reasonable at the time made, it being recognized by
the Lenders that such financial information as it relates to future
events is not to be viewed as fact and that actual results during
the period or periods covered by such financial information may
differ from the projected results set forth therein.
(b) From December 31,
2007 through the Effective Date, there has been no material adverse
change in the business, operations, condition, property or
prospects (financial or otherwise) of OMP or its Subsidiaries taken
as a whole.
(c) To
the best knowledge of the Credit Parties, as of the Effective Date,
(i) OMP and its Subsidiaries do not have any material contingent
obligations (including any liability for taxes) not disclosed by or
reserved against in the opening balance sheet to be delivered
hereunder and (ii) there are no unrealized or anticipated losses
from any present commitment of OMP and its Subsidiaries which
contingent obligations and losses in the aggregate could reasonably
be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
. After giving effect to the
consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and
other Loan Documents, OMP and each of its Subsidiaries will be
solvent, able to pay its indebtedness as it matures and will have
capital sufficient to carry on its businesses and all business in
which it is about to engage. This Agreement is being executed and
delivered by the Borrower Representative to Agent and the Lenders
in good faith and in exchange for fair, equivalent consideration.
The Credit Parties do not intend to nor does management of the
Credit Parties believe that OMP or any of its Subsidiaries will
incur debts beyond their ability to pay as they
mature. Neither OMP nor any of its Subsidiaries
contemplate filing a petition in bankruptcy or for an arrangement
or reorganization under the Bankruptcy Code or any similar law of
any jurisdiction now or hereafter in effect relating to OMP or any
of its Subsidiaries, nor does any Credit Party have any knowledge
of any threatened bankruptcy or insolvency proceedings against OMP
or any of its Subsidiaries.
. There are no strikes, slowdowns,
work stoppages, unfair labor practice complaints, grievances,
arbitration proceedings or controversies pending or, to the best
knowledge of the Borrower Representative, threatened against OMP or
any of its Subsidiaries by any employees of OMP or any of its
Subsidiaries, other than non-material employee grievances or
controversies arising in the ordinary course of business. Set forth
on Schedule 6.23 are all union contracts or agreements to
which OMP or any of its Subsidiaries is party as of the Effective
Date and the related expiration dates of each such
contract.
. Except as disclosed on Schedule
6.24 , neither Borrower is a party to, nor is bound by, any
inbound license agreement that prohibits or otherwise restricts
such Borrower from assigning or granting a security interest in
such inbound license agreement or any related property. For the
purpose of clarity, the parties agree that inbound license
agreements shall not include commonly available off-the-shelf
software programs that are licensed by either Borrower pursuant to
“shrink wrap” licenses.
7.22 No
Misrepresentation
. Neither this Agreement nor any
other Loan Document, certificate, information or report furnished
or to be furnished by or on behalf of OMP or any of its
Subsidiaries to Agent or any Lender in connection with any of the
transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, contains a
misstatement of material fact, or omits to state a material fact
required to be stated in order to make the statements contained
herein or therein, taken as a whole, not misleading in the light of
the circumstances under which such statements were
made. There is no fact, other than information known to
the public generally, known to any Credit Party after diligent
inquiry, that could reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect that has not expressly been disclosed to Agent in
writing.
7.23 Corporate
Documents and Corporate Existence
. As to each Credit Party, (a) it is
an organization as described on Schedule 1.3 hereto and has
provided the Agent and the Lenders with complete and correct copies
of its certificate of incorporation, by-laws and all other
applicable charter and other organizational documents, and, if
applicable, a good standing certificate and (b) its correct legal
name, business address, type of organization and jurisdiction of
organization, tax identification number and other relevant
identification numbers are set forth on Schedule 1.3
hereto.
Each Borrower covenants and agrees, so long as
any Lender has any commitment to extend credit hereunder, or any of
the Indebtedness remains outstanding and unpaid, that it will, and,
as applicable, it will cause each of its Subsidiaries
to:
. Furnish to the Agent, in form and
detail satisfactory to Agent, with sufficient copies for each
Lender, the following documents:
(a) as soon as
available, but in any event within ninety (90) days after the end
of each Fiscal Year, a copy of the audited Consolidated and
unaudited Consolidating (if any) financial statements of OMP and
its Consolidated Subsidiaries as at the end of such Fiscal Year and
the related audited Consolidated and unaudited Consolidating (if
any) statements of income, stockholders equity, and cash flows of
OMP and its Consolidated Subsidiaries for such Fiscal
(b) Year or partial
Fiscal Year and underlying assumptions, setting forth in each case
in comparative form the figures for the previous Fiscal Year,
certified as being fairly stated in all material respects by an
independent, nationally recognized certified public accounting firm
reasonably satisfactory to the Agent; and
(c) as soon as
available, but in any event within forty five (45) days after the
end of each fiscal quarter of OMP (except the last quarter of each
Fiscal Year), Borrower prepared unaudited Consolidated and
Consolidating (if any) balance sheets of OMP and its Consolidated
Subsidiaries as at the end of such quarter and the related
unaudited statements of income, stockholders equity and cash flows
of OMP and its Consolidated Subsidiaries for the portion of the
Fiscal Year through the end of such quarter, setting forth in each
case in comparative form the figures for the corresponding periods
in the previous Fiscal Year, and certified by a Responsible Officer
of the Borrower Representative as being fairly stated in all
material respects.
All such
financial statements shall be complete and correct in all material
respects and be prepared in reasonable detail and in accordance
with GAAP throughout the periods reflected therein and with prior
periods (except as approved by a Responsible Officer and disclosed
therein), provided however that the financial statements delivered
pursuant to clause (b) hereof will not be required to include
footnotes and will be subject to change from audit and year-end
adjustments.
8.2 Certificates;
Other Information
. Furnish to the Agent, in form and
detail acceptable to Agent, with sufficient copies for each Lender,
the following documents:
(a) Concurrently with
the delivery of the financial statements described in Sections
7.1(a) and 7.1(b) of this Agreement for each fiscal
year-end and fiscal quarter-end, respectively, a Covenant
Compliance Report duly executed by a Responsible Officer of
Borrower Representative;
(b) Promptly upon
receipt thereof, copies of all significant reports submitted by
OMP’s firm of certified public accountants in connection with
each annual, interim or special audit or review of any type of the
financial statements or related internal control systems of OMP and
its Consolidated Subsidiaries made by such accountants, including
any comment letter submitted by such accountants to management in
connection with their services;
(c) Any financial
reports, statements, press releases, other material information or
written notices delivered to the holders of the Subordinated Debt
pursuant to any applicable Subordinated Debt Documents (to the
extent not otherwise required hereunder), as and when delivered to
such Persons;
(d) Within ninety (90)
days after the end of each Fiscal Year, projections for OMP and its
Consolidated Subsidiaries for the next succeeding Fiscal Year, on a
quarterly basis, including a balance sheet, as at the end of each
relevant period and for the period commencing at the beginning of
the Fiscal Year and ending on the last day of such relevant period,
such projections certified by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower
Representative as being based on reasonable estimates and
assumptions taking into account all facts and information known
(or
(e) reasonably
available to any Borrower or Subsidiary) by a Responsible Officer
of the Borrower Representative;
(f) Within forty five
(45) days after and as of the end of each fiscal quarter, including
the last month of each Fiscal Year, or more frequently as requested
by the Agent or the Majority Revolving Credit Lenders the monthly
aging of the accounts receivable and accounts payable of the
Borrowers;
(g) Within forty five
(45) days of the last day of each fiscal quarter, a report signed
by each Borrower, in form reasonably acceptable to Agent and in the
form of Exhibit H attached hereto, listing any
applications or registrations that Borrowers, or either of them,
have made or filed in respect of any Intellectual Property
Collateral (as defined in the Security Agreement) and the status of
any outstanding applications or registrations, as well as any
material change in either Borrower’s Intellectual Property
Collateral, including but not limited to any subsequent ownership
right of a Borrower in or to any Intellectual Property
Collateral;
(h) Within forty five
(45) days of the last day of each fiscal quarter, a customer
contract report signed by each Borrower, in form and detail
reasonably acceptable to Agent, which report shall include, without
limitation, a listing of (i) each of Borrowers’ customer
contract or agreement that provides for aggregate future payments
in respect of such individual contract or agreement of at least
$500,000 (a “Major Contract”), (ii) all Major Contracts
that have been executed since the last customer contract report was
submitted to Agent and (iii) all Major Contracts that have expired,
been suspended or been terminated since the last customer contract
report was submitted to Agent. In addition, upon
Agent’s or any Lender’s request, Borrowers shall
provide Agent with copies of any of the Major Contracts requested
by Agent or any Lender;
(i) Any additional
information as required by any Loan Document, and such additional
schedules, certificates and reports respecting all or any of the
Collateral, the items or amounts received by the Credit Parties in
full or partial payment thereof, and any goods (the sale or lease
of which shall have given rise to any of the Collateral) possession
of which has been obtained by the Credit Parties, all to such
extent as Agent may reasonably request from time to time, any such
schedule, certificate or report to be certified as true and correct
in all material respects by a Responsible Officer of the applicable
Credit Party and shall be in such form and detail as Agent may
reasonably specify; and
(j) Such additional
financial and/or other information as Agent or any Lender may from
time to time reasonably request, promptly following such
request.
8.3 Payment of
Obligations
. Pay, discharge or otherwise
satisfy, at or before maturity or before they become delinquent, as
the case may be, all of its material obligations of whatever
nature, including without limitation all assessments, governmental
charges, claims for labor, supplies, rent or other obligations,
except where the amount or validity thereof is currently being
appropriately contested in good faith and reserves in conformity
with GAAP with respect thereto have been provided on the books of
OMP or its Subsidiaries, as applicable.
8.4 Conduct of
Business and Maintenance of Existence; Compliance with
Laws.
8.5 Continue to
engage in their respective business and operations substantially as
conducted immediately prior to the Effective Date;
(a) Preserve, renew
and keep in full force and effect its existence and maintain its
qualifications to do business in each jurisdiction where such
qualifications are necessary for its operations, except as
otherwise permitted pursuant to Section 8.4 ;
(b) Take all action it
deems necessary in its reasonable business judgment to maintain all
rights, privileges, licenses and franchises necessary for the
normal conduct of its business except where the failure to so
maintain such rights, privileges or franchises could not, either
singly or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect;
(c) Comply with all
Contractual Obligations and Requirements of Law, except to the
extent that failure to comply therewith could not, either singly or
in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect; and
(d) (i) Continue to be
a Person whose property or interests in property is not blocked or
subject to blocking pursuant to Section 1 of Executive Order
13224 of September 23, 2001 Blocking Property and Prohibiting
Transactions With Persons Who Commit, Threaten to Commit or Support
Terrorism (66 Fed. Reg. 49079 (2001)) (the “Order”),
(ii) not engage in the transactions prohibited by Section 2
of that Order or become associated with Persons such that a
violation of Section 2 of the Order would arise, and (iii)
not become a Person on the list of Specially Designated National
and Blocked Persons, or (iv) otherwise not become subject to the
limitation of any OFAC regulation or executive order.
8.6 Maintenance of
Property; Insurance
. (a) Keep all material
property it deems, in its reasonable business judgment, useful and
necessary in its business in working order (ordinary wear and tear
excepted); (b) maintain insurance coverage with financially sound
and reputable insurance companies on physical assets and against
other business risks in such amounts and of such types as are
customarily carried by companies similar in size and nature
(including without limitation casualty and public liability and
property damage insurance), and in the event of acquisition of
additional property, real or personal, or of the incurrence of
additional risks of any nature, increase such insurance coverage in
such manner and to such extent as prudent business judgment and
present practice or any applicable Requirements of Law would
dictate; (c) in the case of all insurance policies covering any
Collateral, such insurance policies shall provide that the loss
payable thereunder shall be payable to the applicable Credit Party,
and to the Agent (as mortgagee, or, in the case of personal
property interests, lender loss payee) as their respective
interests may appear; (d) in the case of all public
liability insurance policies, such policies shall list the Agent as
an additional insured, as Agent may reasonably request; and (e) if
requested by Agent, certificates evidencing such policies,
including all endorsements thereto, to be deposited with Agent,
such certificates being in form and substance reasonably acceptable
to Agent.
8.7 Inspection of
Property; Books and Records, Discussions
. Permit Agent and each Lender,
through their authorized attorneys, accountants and representatives
on an annual basis, unless an Event of Default or Default exists or
is continuing (a) at all reasonable times during normal business
hours, upon the request of Agent or such Lender, to examine each
Credit Party’s books, accounts, records, ledgers and assets
and properties; (b) from time to time, during normal
business hours, upon the request of the Agent,
to conduct full or partial collateral audits of the Accounts and
Inventory of the Credit Parties and appraisals of all or a portion
of the fixed assets (including real property) of the Credit
Parties, such audits and appraisals to be completed by an appraiser
as may be selected by Agent and consented to by Borrowers (such
consent not to be unreasonably withheld), with all reasonable costs
and expenses of such audits to be reimbursed by the Credit Parties,
provided that so long as no Event of Default or Default exists,
Borrowers shall not be required to reimburse Agent for such audits
or appraisals more frequently than once each Fiscal Year; (c)
during normal business hours and at their own risk, to enter onto
the real property owned or leased by any Credit Party to conduct
inspections, investigations or other reviews of such real property;
and (d) at reasonable times during normal business hours and at
reasonable intervals, to visit all of the Credit Parties’
offices, discuss each Credit Party’s respective financial
matters with their respective officers, as applicable, and, by this
provision, Borrowers authorize, and will cause each of their
respective Subsidiaries to authorize, its independent certified or
chartered public accountants to discuss the finances and affairs of
any Credit Party and examine any of such Credit Party’s
books, reports or records held by such accountants.
. Promptly give written notice to the
Agent of:
(a) the occurrence of
any Default or Event of Default of which any Credit Party has
knowledge;
(b) any (i) litigation
or proceeding existing at any time between OMP or any of its
Subsidiaries and any Governmental Authority or other third party,
or any investigation of OMP or any of its Subsidiaries conducted by
any Governmental Authority, which in any case if adversely
determined would have a Material Adverse Effect or (ii) any
material adverse change in the financial condition of OMP or any of
its Subsidiaries since the date of the last audited financial
statements delivered pursuant to Section 7.1(a)
hereof;
(c) the occurrence of
any event which any Credit Party believes could reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, promptly after
concluding that such event could reasonably be expected to have
such a Material Adverse Effect;
(d) promptly after
becoming aware thereof, the taking by the Internal Revenue Service
or any foreign taxing jurisdiction of a written tax position (or
any such tax position taken by OMP or any of its Subsidiaries in a
filing with the Internal Revenue Service or any foreign taxing
jurisdiction) which could reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect, setting forth the details of such position and the
financial impact thereof;
(e) (i) all
jurisdictions in which OMP or any of its Subsidiaries proposes to
become qualified after the Effective Date to transact business,
(ii) the acquisition or creation of any new Subsidiaries, (iii) any
material change after the Effective Date in the authorized and
issued Equity Interests of OMP or any of its Subsidiaries or any
other material amendment to OMP’s or any of its
Subsidiaries’ charter, by-laws or other organizational
documents, such notice, in each case, to identify the applicable
jurisdictions, capital structures or amendments as applicable,
provided that such notice shall be given not less than ten (10)
Business Days prior to the
(f) proposed
effectiveness of such changes, acquisition or creation, as the case
may be (or such shorter period to which Agent may
consent);
(g) not less than
fifteen (15) Business Days (or such other shorter period to which
Agent may agree) prior to the proposed effective date thereof, any
proposed material amendments, restatements or other modifications
to any Subordinated Debt Documents; and
(h) any default or
event of default by any Person under any Subordinated
Debt Document, concurrently with delivery or promptly after receipt
(as the case may be) of any notice of default or event of default
under the applicable document, as the case may be.
Each notice
pursuant to this Section shall be accompanied by a statement of a
Responsible Officer of Borrower Representative setting forth
details of the occurrence referred to therein and, in the case of
notices referred to in clauses (a), (b), (c), (d) and (g) hereof
stating what action the applicable Person has taken or proposes to
take with respect thereto.
8.9 Hazardous
Material Laws.
(a) Use and operate
all of its facilities and properties in material compliance with
all applicable Hazardous Material Laws, keep all material required
permits, approvals, certificates, licenses and other authorizations
required under such Hazardous Material Laws in effect and remain in
compliance therewith, and handle all Hazardous Materials in
material compliance with all applicable Hazardous Material
Laws;
(b) (i) Promptly
notify Agent and provide copies upon receipt of all written claims,
complaints, notices or inquiries received by any Credit Party
relating to its facilities and properties or compliance with
Hazardous Material Laws which, if adversely determined, could
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect and (ii)
promptly cure and have dismissed with prejudice to the reasonable
satisfaction of Agent and the Majority Lenders any material actions
and proceedings relating to compliance with Hazardous Material Laws
to which OMP or any of its Subsidiaries is named a party, other
than such actions or proceedings being contested in good faith and
with the establishment of reasonable reserves;
(c) To the extent
necessary to comply in all material respects with Hazardous
Material Laws, remediate or monitor contamination arising from a
release or disposal of Hazardous Material, which solely, or
together with other releases or disposals of Hazardous Materials
could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect;
(d) Provide such
information and certifications which Agent or any Lender may
reasonably request from time to time to evidence compliance with
this Section 7.8 .
8.10 Financial
Covenants.
(a) Minimum Quick
Ratio . Maintain, on a consolidated basis, as of the end of
each fiscal quarter, commencing with the fiscal quarter ending
September 30, 2008, a ratio of (i) the sum of the aggregate Cash of
Borrowers plus the aggregate amount of Accounts of Borrowers as of
such date of determination, to (ii) current liabilities of
Borrowers of not less than 1.00 to 1.00.
(b) Total
Liabilities to Tangible Effective Net Worth . Maintain, on a
consolidated basis, as of the end of each fiscal quarter,
commencing with the fiscal quarter ending September 30, 2008, a
ratio of Borrowers’ total liabilities to Tangible Effective
Net Worth of not more than 1.75 to 1.00.
(c) Minimum Net
Income . Maintain, on a consolidated basis, as of the end of
each Fiscal Year, commencing with the Fiscal Year ending December
31, 2008, Net Income of not less than $1,000,000 and not have, on a
consolidated basis, Net Income of less than $0 for more than two
consecutive fiscal quarters.
8.11 Governmental
and Other Approvals
. Apply for, obtain and/or maintain
in effect, as applicable, all authorizations, consents, approvals,
licenses, qualifications, exemptions, filings, declarations and
registrations (whether with any court, governmental agency,
regulatory authority, securities exchange or otherwise) which are
necessary or reasonably requested by Agent in connection with the
execution, delivery and performance by any Credit Party of, as
applicable, this Agreement, the other Loan Documents, the
Subordinated Debt Documents, or any other documents or instruments
to be executed and/or delivered by any Credit Party, as applicable
in connection therewith or herewith, except where the failure to so
apply for, obtain or maintain could not reasonably be expected to
have a Material Adverse Effect.
8.12 Compliance with
ERISA; ERISA Notices.
(a) Comply in all
material respects with all material requirements imposed by ERISA
and the Internal Revenue Code, including, but not limited to, the
minimum funding requirements for any Pension Plan, except to the
extent that any noncompliance could not reasonably be expected to
have a Material Adverse Effect.
(b) Promptly notify
Agent upon the occurrence of any of the following events in
writing: (i) the termination, other than a standard termination, as
defined in ERISA, of any Pension Plan subject to Subtitle C of
Title IV of ERISA by OMP or any of its Subsidiaries; (ii) the
appointment of a trustee by a United States District Court to
administer any Pension Plan subject to Title IV of ERISA; (iii) the
commencement by the PBGC, of any proceeding to terminate any
Pension Plan subject to Title IV of ERISA; (iv) the failure of OMP
or any of its Subsidiaries to make any payment in respect of any
Pension Plan required under Section 412 of the Internal
Revenue Code or Section 302 of ERISA; (v) the withdrawal of
OMP or any of its Subsidiaries from any Multiemployer Plan if any
such Person reasonably believes that such withdrawal would give
rise to the imposition of Withdrawal Liability with respect
thereto; or (vi) the occurrence of (x) a “reportable
event” which is required to be reported by OMP or any of its
Subsidiaries under Section 4043 of ERISA other than any
event for which the reporting requirement has been waived by the
PBGC or (y) a “prohibited transaction” as defined in
Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Internal
Revenue Code other than a transaction for which a statutory
exemption is available or an administrative exemption has been
obtained.
8.13 Defense of
Collateral
. Defend the Collateral from any
Liens other than Liens permitted by Section 8.2 .
8.14 Future
Subsidiaries; Additional Collateral.
8.15 With respect to
each Person which becomes a Domestic Subsidiary of any Borrower
(directly or indirectly) subsequent to the Effective Date cause
such new Domestic Subsidiary to execute and deliver to the Agent,
for and on behalf of each of the Lenders (unless waived by Agent),
in Agent’s sole discretion, either:
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within thirty
(30) days after the date such Person becomes a Domestic Subsidiary
(or such longer time period as the Agent may determine), a joinder
agreement to this Agreement, the Note, and any applicable
Collateral Documents whereby such Domestic Subsidiary becomes
obligated as a Borrower under this Agreement, the Note and the
applicable Collateral Documents; or
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within thirty
(30) days after the date such Person becomes a Domestic Subsidiary
(or such longer time period as the Agent may determine), and at
Agent’s request,
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a Guaranty, or
in the event that a Guaranty already exists, a joinder agreement to
the Guaranty whereby such Domestic Subsidiary becomes obligated as
a Guarantor under the Guaranty; and
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a joinder
agreement to the Security Agreement whereby such Domestic
Subsidiary grants a Lien over its assets (other than Equity
Interests which should be governed by (b) of this Section
7.13 ) as set forth in the Security Agreement, and such
Domestic Subsidiary shall take such additional actions as may be
necessary to ensure a valid first priority perfected Lien over such
assets of such Domestic Subsidiary, subject only to the other Liens
permitted pursuant to Section 8.2 of this Agreement;
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within the time
period specified in and to the extent required under this
Section 7.13 , Collateral Access Agreements and/or other
documents required to be delivered in connection
therewith;
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(b) (i) With respect
to the acquisition of any leasehold interest in real property by
any Credit Party after the Effective Date, not later than thirty
(30) days after the acquisition is consummated or the owner of the
applicable leasehold interest becomes a Domestic Subsidiary (or
such longer time period as Agent may determine), the applicable
Credit Party shall deliver to the Agent a copy of the applicable
lease agreement and shall execute or cause to be executed, at
Agent’s option, unless otherwise waived by Agent, a
Collateral Access Agreement in form and substance reasonably
acceptable to Agent together with such other documentation as may
be reasonably required by Agent;
in each case in
form reasonably satisfactory to the Agent, in its reasonable
discretion, together with such supporting documentation, including
without limitation corporate authority items, certificates and
opinions of counsel, as reasonably required by the
Agent. Upon the Agent’s request, Credit Parties
shall take, or cause to be taken, such additional steps as are
necessary or
advisable under
applicable law to perfect and ensure the validity and priority of
the Liens granted under this Section 7.13 .
. Maintain all deposit accounts and
securities accounts of any Credit Party with Agent or a Lender,
provided that, with respect to any such accounts maintained with
any Lender (other than Agent), such Credit Party (i) shall cause to
be executed and delivered an Account Control Agreement in form and
substance satisfactory to Agent and (ii) has taken all other steps
necessary, or in the opinion of the Agent, desirable to ensure that
Agent has a perfected security interest in such
account. Notwithstanding the foregoing, until September
5, 2011, OMP shall be permitted to maintain brokerage account
number F 81327700 with Thomas Weisal Partners (the “TWP
Account”) solely for the purpose of facilitating the Stock
Repurchase Program, which account shall not be governed by an
Account Control Agreement. On or before September 5,
2011 Borrowers shall close the TWP Account or deliver to Agent a
fully executed Account Control Agreement governing the TWP
Account.
. Prior to entering into or becoming
bound by any inbound license agreement: (i) provide
written notice to Agent of the material terms of such inbound
license agreement with a description of its likely impact on such
Borrower’s business or financial condition, and (ii) in good
faith use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain the consent of,
or waiver by, any Person whose consent or waiver is necessary for
such Borrower’s interest in such inbound licenses or contract
rights to be deemed Collateral and for Agent, for and on behalf of
the Lenders, to have a security interest in such licenses or
contract rights that might otherwise be restricted by the terms of
the applicable license agreement, whether now existing or entered
into in the future, provided, however, that such Borrower’s
failure to obtain any such consent or waiver shall not constitute a
Default under this Agreement. For the purpose of
clarity, the parties agree that inbound licenses shall not include
commonly available off-the-shelf software programs that are
licensed by such Borrower pursuant to “shrink wrap”
licenses.
. Use all Advances of the Revolving
Credit as set forth in Section 2.12 hereof. Borrowers shall
not use any portion of the proceeds of any such advances for the
purpose of purchasing or carrying any “margin stock”
(as defined in Regulation U of the Board of Governors of the
Federal Reserve System) in any manner which violates the provisions
of Regulation T, U or X of said Board of Governors or for any other
purpose in violation of any applicable statute or
regulation.
8.19 Further
Assurances and Information.
(a) Take such actions
as the Agent or Majority Lenders may from time to time reasonably
request to establish and maintain first priority perfected security
interests in and Liens on all of the Collateral, subject only to
those Liens permitted under Section 8.2 hereof, including
executing and delivering such additional pledges, assignments,
mortgages, lien instruments or other security instruments covering
any or all of the Credit Parties’ assets as Agent may
reasonably require, such documentation to be in form and substance
reasonably acceptable to Agent, and prepared at the expense of the
Borrowers.
(b) Execute and
deliver or cause to be executed and delivered to Agent within a
reasonable time following Agent’s request, and at the expense
of the Borrowers, such other
(c) documents or
instruments as Agent may reasonably require to effectuate more
fully the purposes of this Agreement or the other Loan
Documents.
(d) Provide the Agent
and the Lenders with any other information required by Section
326 of the USA Patriot Act or necessary for the Agent and the
Lenders to verify the identity of any Credit Party as required by
Section 326 of the USA Patriot Act.
8.20 Collateral
Access Agreements .
(a) As soon as
possible, but in any event within forty five (45) days after the
Effective Date, Borrowers shall furnish, or cause to be furnished
to Agent, for the real property locations at 2205 E. Carson Street,
Suite B1-B3, Long Beach, CA 90820 and 3760 Kilroy Airport Way,
Suites 500 and 610, Long Beach, CA 90806 (i) a true, complete and
accurate copy of the fully executed applicable lease, bailment or
warehouse agreement, as the case may be; and (ii) a Collateral
Access Agreement substantially in the form attached hereto as
Exhibit I with respect to each such
location.
(b) Agent shall not
require a Collateral Access Agreement for any real property
location (other than as provided in Section 7.18(a) ) so
long as (i) no Event of Default or Default exists or is continuing,
and (ii) all Inventory at such real property location consists
solely of Inventory which would be properly classified as
“raw materials” or as “finished goods
inventory” under and in accordance with GAAP, and any such
“finished goods inventory” is shipped from such real
property location as soon as practicable after the goods become
“finished goods inventory”, such time frame being in
the ordinary course of business consistent with past practice with
each bulk product supplier or contract manufacturer, but in no
event not later than the time period required by the applicable
purchase order, product specifications or manufacturing contract;
provided , however, for any real property location leased by
either Borrower that does not meet these requirements, Borrowers
shall furnish, or cause to be furnished to Agent, as soon as
possible, but in any event within thirty (30) days after written
request by Agent, (i) a true, complete and accurate copy of the
fully executed applicable lease, bailment or warehouse agreement,
as the case may be, and (ii) a Collateral Access Agreement with
respect to such real property location.
Each Borrower covenants and agrees that, so long
as any Lender has any commitment to extend credit hereunder, or any
of the Indebtedness remains outstanding and unpaid, it will not,
and, as applicable, it will not permit any of its Subsidiaries to
without first obtaining the consent of Agent, which consent (so
long as Default or Event of Default exists or is continuing) will
not be unreasonably withheld or delayed:
. Create, incur, assume or suffer to
exist any Debt, except:
(a) Indebtedness of
any Credit Party to Agent and the Lenders under this Agreement
and/or the other Loan Documents;
(b) any Debt existing
on the Effective Date and set forth in Schedule 8.1 attached
hereto and any renewals or refinancing of such Debt (provided that
(i) the aggregate principal
(c) amount of such
renewed or refinanced Debt shall not exceed the aggregate principal
amount of the original Debt outstanding on the Effective Date (less
any principal payments and the amount of any commitment reductions
made thereon on or prior to such renewal or refinancing), (ii) the
renewal or refinancing of such Debt shall be on substantially the
same or better terms as in effect with respect to such Debt on the
Effective Date, and shall otherwise be in compliance
with this Agreement, and (iii) at the time of such renewal or
refinancing no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing or would result from the renewal or refinancing of such
Debt;
(d) any Debt of such
Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries incurred to finance the
acquisition of fixed or capital assets, whether pursuant to a loan
or a Capitalized Lease provided that both at the time of and
immediately after giving effect to the incurrence thereof (i) no
Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing,
and (ii) the aggregate amount of all such Debt at any one time
outstanding (including, without limitation, any Debt of the type
described in this clause (c) which is set forth on Schedule
8.1 hereof) shall not exceed $1,000,000, and any renewals or
refinancings of such Debt on terms substantially the same or better
than those in effect at the time of the original incurrence of such
Debt;
(f) Debt under any
Hedging Transactions, provided that such transaction is entered
into for risk management purposes and not for speculative
purposes;
(g) Debt arising from
judgments or decrees not deemed to be a Default or Event of Default
under subsection (g) of Section 9.1 ; and
(h) Debt owing to a
Person that is a Credit Party, but only to the extent permitted
under Section 8.7 hereof.
. Create, incur, assume or suffer to
exist any Lien upon any of its property, assets or revenues,
whether now owned or hereafter acquired, except for:
(b) Liens securing
Debt permitted by Section 8.1(c) , provided that (i) such
Liens are created upon fixed or capital assets acquired by the
applicable Credit Party after the date of this Agreement (including
without limitation by virtue of a loan or a Capitalized Lease),
(ii) any such Lien is created solely for the purpose of securing
indebtedness representing or incurred to finance the cost of the
acquisition of the item of property subject thereto, (iii) the
principal amount of the Debt secured by any such Lien shall at no
time exceed 100% of the sum of the purchase price or cost of the
applicable property, equipment or improvements and the related
costs and charges imposed by the vendors thereof and (iv) the Lien
does not cover any property other than the fixed or capital asset
acquired; provided, however, that no such Lien shall be created
over any owned real property of any Credit Party for which Agent
has received a Mortgage or for which such Credit Party is required
to execute a Mortgage pursuant to the terms of this
Agreement;
(c) Liens created
pursuant to the Loan Documents; and
(d) other Liens,
existing on the Effective Date, set forth on Schedule 8.2
and renewals, refinancings and extensions thereof on substantially
the same or better terms as in effect on the Effective Date and
otherwise in compliance with this Agreement.
Regardless of
the provisions of this Section 8.2 , no Lien over the Equity
Interests of any Borrower or any Subsidiary of any Borrower (except
for those Liens for the benefit of Agent and the Lenders) shall be
permitted under the terms of this Agreement.
. Except for acquisitions permitted
under Section 8.7(g) , purchase or otherwise acquire or
become obligated for the purchase of all or substantially all or
any material portion of the assets or business interests or a
division or other business unit of any Person, or any Equity
Interest of any Person, or any business or going
concern.
9.4 Limitation on
Mergers, Dissolution or Sale of Assets
. Enter into any merger or
consolidation or convey, sell, lease, assign, transfer or otherwise
dispose of any of its property, business or assets (including,
without limitation, Equity Interests (other than in connection with
future public offerings of its Common Stock, or as permitted by its
charter or pursuant to any equity incentive plans now or hereafter
adopted), receivables and leasehold interests, but excluding sales
of its products in the ordinary course of business), whether now
owned or hereafter acquired or liquidate, wind up or dissolve,
except:
(a) Inventory leased
or sold in the ordinary course of business;
(b) obsolete, damaged,
uneconomic or worn out machinery, parts, property or equipment, or
property or equipment no longer used or useful in the conduct of
the applicable Credit Party’s business;
(c) mergers or
consolidations of any Subsidiary of a Borrower with or into any
Borrower or any Guarantor so long as such Borrower or such
Guarantor shall be the continuing or surviving entity; provided
that at the time of each such merger or consolidation, both before
and after giving effect thereto, no Default or Event of Default
shall have occurred and be continuing or result from such merger or
consolidation;
(d) any Subsidiary of
a Borrower may liquidate or dissolve into a Borrower or a Guarantor
if Borrowers determine in good faith that such liquidation or
dissolution is in the best interests of Borrowers, so long as no
Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would
result therefrom;
(e) sales or
transfers, including without limitation upon voluntary liquidation
from any Subsidiary to a Borrower or a Guarantor, provided that the
applicable Borrower or Guarantor takes such actions as Agent may
reasonably request to ensure the perfection and priority of the
Liens in favor of the Lenders over such transferred
assets;
(f) (i) Asset Sales
(exclusive of asset sales permitted pursuant to all other
subsections of this Section 8.4 ) in which the sales price
is at least equal to the fair market value of the assets sold and
the consideration received is cash or cash equivalents or Debt of
any Credit Party being assumed by the purchaser, provided that the
aggregate amount of such Asset Sales does not exceed $100,000 in
any Fiscal Year and no Default or Event of Default has occurred and
is
(g) continuing at the
time of each such sale (both before and after giving effect to such
Asset Sale), and (ii) other Asset Sales approved by the Majority
Lenders in their sole discretion;
(h) the sale or
disposition of Permitted Investments and other cash equivalents in
the ordinary course of business;
(i) dispositions of
owned or leased vehicles in the ordinary course of business;
and
(j) suspensions or
terminations of foreign qualifications so long as such
qualifications are no longer required in such jurisdictions in
order for Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries to conduct
business.
The Lenders
hereby consent and agree to the release by Agent of any and all
Liens on the property sold or otherwise disposed of in compliance
with this Section 8.4 .
. Declare or make any distributions,
dividend, payment or other distribution of assets, properties,
cash, rights, obligations or securities (collectively,
“Distributions”) on account of any of its Equity
Interests, as applicable, or purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire
for value any of its Equity Interests, as applicable, or any
warrants, rights or options to acquire any of its Equity Interests,
now or hereafter outstanding (collectively,
“Purchases”), except that:
(a) at any time prior
to August 5, 2011, OMP may repurchase its Equity Interests with an
aggregate purchase or redemption price not to exceed $10,000,000
(the “Stock Repurchase Program”), provided that such
repurchase does not otherwise violate the terms of this Agreement
and no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing
at the time of such repurchase or would result from the making of
such repurchase;
(b) during any Fiscal
Year, Borrowers may make Cash distributions and dividends on
account of their Equity Interests in an aggregate amount not to
exceed twenty five percent (25%) of Net Income of Borrowers for the
preceding Fiscal Year of Borrowers;
(c) each Credit Party
may pay cash Distributions to any Borrower; and
(d) each Credit Party
may declare and make Distributions payable in the Equity Interests
of such Credit Party, provided that the issuance of such Equity
Interests does not otherwise violate the terms of this Agreement
and no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing
at the time of making such Distribution or would result from the
making of such Distribution.
9.6 Limitation on
Capital Expenditures
. Make or commit to make (by way of
the acquisition of securities of a Person or otherwise) any
expenditure in respect of the purchase or other acquisition of
fixed or capital assets (excluding any such asset acquired in
connection with normal replacement and maintenance programs
properly charged to current operations) except for Capital
Expenditures, the amount of which in any Fiscal Year shall not
exceed (i) for the Fiscal Years ending December 31, 2008 and
December 31, 2009, $6,000,000 per Fiscal Year for
the Borrowers in the aggregate and (ii) for each
Fiscal Year ending thereafter, the sum of $3,000,000 per Fiscal
Year for the Borrowers in the aggregate.
9.7 Limitation on
Investments, Loans and Advances
. Make or allow to remain outstanding
any Investment (whether such investment shall be of the character
of investment in shares of stock, evidences of indebtedness or
other securities or otherwise) in, or any loans or advances to, any
Person other than:
(a) Permitted
Investments;
(b) Investments
existing on the Effective Date and listed on Schedule 8.7
hereof;
(c) sales on open
account in the ordinary course of business;
(d) intercompany loans
or intercompany Investments made by OMP or any of its Subsidiaries
to or in any Guarantor or any Borrower; provided that, in the case
of any intercompany loans or intercompany Investments made by any
Borrower in any Guarantor, the aggregate amount from time to time
outstanding in respect thereof shall not exceed $50,000; and
provided, further, that in each case, no Default or Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of making
such intercompany loan or intercompany Investment or result from
such intercompany loan or intercompany Investment being made and
that any intercompany loans shall be evidenced by and funded under
an Intercompany Note pledged to the Agent under the appropriate
Collateral Documents;
(e) Investments in
respect of Hedging Transactions provided that such transaction is
entered into for risk management purposes and not for speculative
purposes;
(f) loans and advances
to employees, officers and directors of OMP or any of its
Subsidiaries for moving, entertainment, travel and other similar
expenses in the ordinary course of business in the aggregate at any
time outstanding;
(g) Investments in any
joint ventures provided that both at the time of and immediately
after giving effect to any such joint venture Investment (i) no
Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing
or shall result from the making of such joint venture Investment,
(ii) the aggregate Cash amount of all such joint venture
Investments during the current Fiscal Year does not exceed
$2,000,000 at any time and (iii) the aggregate Equity Interest
given by a Borrower in connection with any such joint venture
Investment does not exceed twenty percent (20%) of the aggregate
amount of such Borrower’s Equity Interest or joint venturer
partner’s outstanding capital stock or other equity
securities; and
(h) other Investments
not described above provided that both at the time of and
immediately after giving effect to any such Investment (i) no
Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing
or shall result from the making of such Investment and (ii) the
aggregate amount of all such Investments shall not exceed
$1,000,000 at any time outstanding.
In valuing any
Investments for the purpose of applying the limitations set forth
in this Section 8.7 (except as otherwise expressly provided
herein), such Investment shall be taken at the original
cost thereof,
without allowance for any subsequent write-offs or appreciation or
depreciation, but less any amount repaid or recovered on account of
capital or principal.
9.8 Transactions
with Affiliates
. Except as set forth in Schedule
8.8 , enter into any transaction, including, without
limitation, any purchase, sale, lease or exchange of property or
the rendering of any service, with any Affiliates of the Credit
Parties except: (a) transactions with Affiliates that are the
Borrowers or Guarantors; (b) transactions otherwise permitted under
this Agreement; and (c) transactions in the ordinary course of a
Credit Party’s business and upon fair and reasonable terms no
less favorable to such Credit Party than it would obtain in a
comparable arms length transaction from unrelated third
parties.
9.9 Sale-Leaseback
Transactions
. Enter into any arrangement with any
Person providing for the leasing by a Credit Party of real or
Personal property which has been or is to be sold or transferred by
such Credit Party to such Person or to any other Person to whom
funds have been or are to be advanced by such Person on the
security of such property or rental obligations of such Credit
Party, as the case may be.
9.10 Limitations on
Other Restrictions
. Except for this Agreement or any
other Loan Document, enter into any agreement, document or
instrument which would (i) restrict the ability of any Subsidiary
of a Borrower to pay or make dividends or distributions in cash or
kind to any Borrower or any Guarantor, to make loans, advances or
other payments of whatever nature to any Credit Party, or to make
transfers or distributions of all or any part of its assets to any
Credit Party; or (ii) restrict or prevent any Credit Party from
granting Agent on behalf of Lenders Liens upon, security interests
in and pledges of their respective assets, except to the extent
such restrictions exist in documents creating Liens permitted by
Section 8.2(b) hereunder.
. Make any prepayment (whether
optional or mandatory), repurchase, redemption, defeasance or any
other payment in respect of any Subordinated Debt.
9.12 Amendment of
Subordinated Debt Documents
. Amend, modify or otherwise alter
(or suffer to be amended, modified or altered) the Subordinated
Debt Documents except as permitted in the applicable Subordinated
Debt Documents and Subordination Agreements, or if no such
restrictions exist in the applicable Subordinated Debt Documents or
Subordination Agreements, without the prior written consent of the
Agent.
9.13 Modification of
Certain Agreements
. Make, permit or consent to any
amendment or other modification to the constitutional documents of
any Credit Party or any Material Contract except to the extent that
any such amendment or modification (i) does not violate the terms
and conditions of this Agreement or any of the other Loan
Documents, (ii) does not materially adversely affect the interest
of the Lenders as creditors and/or secured parties under any Loan
Document, (iii) is negotiated and executed in the ordinary course
of such Borrower’s business and (iv) could not reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
. Pay or otherwise advance, directly
or indirectly, any management, consulting or other fees to an
Affiliate, other than expense reimbursements and director fees not
to exceed $25,000 in the aggregate per calendar year to Stonington
Partners (Borrower’s larger stockholder) for attending Board
of Director and other committee meetings.
. Permit the Fiscal Year of any
Credit Party to end on a day other than December 31.
. The occurrence of any of the
following events shall constitute an Event of Default
hereunder:
(a) non-payment when
due of (i) the principal or interest on the Indebtedness under the
Revolving Credit or (ii) any Reimbursement Obligation or (iii) any
Fees;
(b) non-payment of any
other amounts due and owing by a Borrower under this Agreement or
by any Credit Party under any of the other Loan Documents to which
it is a party, other than as set forth in subsection (a) above,
within three (3) Business Days after the same is due and
payable;
(c) default in the
observance or performance of any of the conditions, covenants or
agreements of Borrowers set forth in Sections 7.1, 7.2,
7.4(a) and (e), 7.5, 7.6, 7.7, 7.9, 7.13, 7.14, 7.15,
7.16 or Article 8 in its entirety;
(d) default in the
observance or performance of any of the other conditions, covenants
or agreements set forth in this Agreement or any of the other Loan
Documents by any Credit Party and continuance thereof for a period
of thirty (30) consecutive days;
(e) any representation
or warranty made by any Credit Party herein or in any certificate,
instrument or other document submitted pursuant hereto proves
untrue or misleading in any material adverse respect when
made;
(f) (i) default by OMP
or any of its Subsidiaries in the payment of any indebtedness for
borrowed money, whether under a direct obligation or guaranty
(other than Indebtedness hereunder) of OMP or any of its
Subsidiaries in excess of Fifty Thousand Dollars ($50,000) (or the
equivalent thereof in any currency other than Dollars) individually
or in the aggregate when due and continuance thereof beyond any
applicable period of cure and or (ii) failure to comply with the
terms of any other obligation of OMP or any of its Subsidiaries
with respect to any indebtedness for borrowed money (other than
Indebtedness hereunder) in excess of Fifty Thousand Dollars
($50,000) (or the equivalent thereof in any currency other than
Dollars) individually or in the aggregate, which continues beyond
any applicable period of cure and which would permit the holder or
holders thereto to accelerate such other indebtedness for borrowed
money, or require the prepayment, repurchase, redemption or
defeasance of such indebtedness;
(g) the rendering of
any judgment(s) (not covered by adequate insurance from a solvent
carrier which is defending such action without reservation of
rights) for the payment of money in excess of the sum of Fifty
Thousand Dollars ($50,000) (or the equivalent thereof in any
currency other than Dollars) individually or in the aggregate
against OMP or any of its Subsidiaries, and such judgments shall
remain unpaid, unvacated, unbonded or unstayed by appeal or
otherwise for a period of thirty (30) consecutive days from the
date of its entry;
(h) the occurrence of
(i) a “reportable event”, as defined in ERISA, which is
determined by the PBGC to constitute grounds for a distress
termination of any Pension Plan subject to Title IV of ERISA
maintained or contributed to by or on behalf of OMP or any of its
Subsidiaries for the benefit of any of its employees or for the
appointment by the appropriate United States District Court of a
trustee to administer such Pension Plan and such reportable event
is not corrected and such determination is not revoked within sixty
(60) days after notice thereof has been given to the plan
administrator of such Pension Plan (without limiting any of
Agent’s or any Lender’s other rights or remedies
hereunder), or (ii) the termination or the institution of
proceedings by the PBGC to terminate any such Pension Plan, or
(iii) the appointment of a trustee by the appropriate United States
District Court to administer any such Pension Plan, or (iv) the
reorganization (within the meaning of Section 4241 of ERISA)
or insolvency (within the meaning of Section 4245 of ERISA)
of any Multiemployer Plan, or receipt of notice from any
Multiemployer Plan that it is in reorganization or insolvency, or
the complete or partial withdrawal by OMP or any of its
Subsidiaries from any Multiemployer Plan, which in the case of any
of the foregoing, could reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect;
(i) except as
expressly permitted under this Agreement, OMP or any of its
Subsidiaries shall be dissolved (other than a dissolution of a
Subsidiary of a Borrower which is not a Guarantor or a Borrower) or
liquidated (or any judgment, order or decree therefor shall be
entered) except as otherwise permitted herein; or if a
creditors’ committee shall have been appointed for the
business of OMP or any of its Subsidiaries; or if OMP or any of its
Subsidiaries shall have made a general assignment for the benefit
of creditors or shall have been adjudicated bankrupt and if not an
adjudication based on a filing by OMP or any of its Subsidiaries,
it shall not have been dismissed within sixty (60) days, or shall
have filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy or for reorganization
or to effect a plan or arrangement with creditors or shall fail to
pay its debts generally as such debts become due in the ordinary
course of business (except as contested in good faith and for which
adequate reserves are made in such party’s financial
statements); or shall file an answer to a creditor’s petition
or other petition filed against it, admitting the material
allegations thereof for an adjudication in bankruptcy or for
reorganization; or shall have applied for or permitted the
appointment of a receiver or trustee or custodian for any of its
property or assets; or such receiver, trustee or custodian shall
have been appointed for any of its property or assets (otherwise
than upon application or consent of OMP or any of its Subsidiaries)
and shall not have been removed within sixty (60) days; or if an
order shall be entered approving any petition for reorganization of
OMP or any of its Subsidiaries and shall not have been reversed or
dismissed within sixty (60) days;
(j) a Change of
Control, unless consented to in writing by Lenders;
(k) the validity,
binding effect or enforceability of any subordination provisions
relating to any Subordinated Debt shall be contested by any Person
party thereto (other than any Lender, Agent or Issuing Lender), or
such subordination provisions shall fail to be enforceable by Agent
and the Lenders in accordance with the terms thereof, or the
Indebtedness shall for any reason not have the priority
contemplated by this Agreement or such subordination provisions;
or
(l) any Loan Document
shall at any time for any reason cease to be in full force and
effect (other than in accordance with the terms thereof or the
terms of any other Loan
(m) Document), as
applicable, or the validity, binding effect or enforceability
thereof shall be contested by any party thereto (other than any
Lender, Agent or Issuing Lender), or any Person shall deny that it
has any or further liability or obligation under any Loan Document,
or any such Loan Document shall be terminated (other than in
accordance with the terms thereof or the terms of any other Loan
Document), invalidated, revoked or set aside or in any way cease to
give or provide to the Lenders and the Agent the benefits purported
to be created thereby, or any Loan Document purporting to grant a
Lien to secure any Indebtedness shall, at any time after the
delivery of such Loan Document, fail to create a valid and
enforceable Lien on any Collateral purported to be covered thereby
or such Lien shall fail to cease to be a perfected Lien with the
priority required in the relevant Loan Document.
10.2 Exercise of
Remedies
. If an Event of Default has occurred
and is continuing hereunder: (a) the Agent may, and shall, upon
being directed to do so by the Majority Revolving Credit Lenders,
declare the Revolving Credit Aggregate Commitment terminated; (b)
the Agent may, and shall, upon being directed to do so by the
Majority Lenders, declare the entire unpaid principal Indebtedness,
including the Notes, immediately due and payable, without
presentment, notice or demand, all of which are hereby expressly
waived by the Borrowers; (c) upon the occurrence of any Event of
Default specified in Section 9.1(i) and notwithstanding the
lack of any declaration by Agent under preceding clauses (a) or
(b), the entire unpaid principal Indebtedness shall become
automatically and immediately due and payable, and the Revolving
Credit Aggregate Commitment shall be automatically and immediately
terminated; (d) the Agent shall, upon being directed to do so by
the Majority Revolving Credit Lenders, demand immediate delivery of
cash collateral, and each Borrower agrees to deliver such cash
collateral upon demand, in an amount equal to 110% of the maximum
amount that may be available to be drawn at any time prior to the
stated expiry of all outstanding Letters of Credit, for deposit
into an account controlled by the Agent; (e) the Agent may, and
shall, upon being directed to do so by the Majority Lenders, notify
Borrowers or any Credit Party that interest shall be payable on
demand on all Indebtedness (other than Revolving Credit Advances
with respect to which Sections 2.6 hereof shall govern)
owing from time to time to the Agent or any Lender, at a per annum
rate equal to the then applicable Base Rate plus two percent (2%);
and (f) the Agent may, and shall, upon being directed to do so by
the Majority Lenders or the Lenders, as applicable (subject to the
terms hereof), exercise any remedy permitted by this Agreement, the
other Loan Documents or law.
. No delay or failure of Agent and/or
Lenders in exercising any right, power or privilege hereunder shall
affect such right, power or privilege, nor shall any single or
partial exercise thereof preclude any further exercise thereof, or
the exercise of any other power, right or privilege. The rights of
Agent and Lenders under this Agreement are cumulative and not
exclusive of any right or remedies which Lenders would otherwise
have.
10.4 Waiver by
Borrowers of Certain Laws
. To the extent permitted by
applicable law, each Borrower hereby agrees to waive, and does
hereby absolutely and irrevocably waive and relinquish the benefit
and advantage of any valuation, stay, appraisement, extension or
redemption laws now existing or which may hereafter exist, which,
but for this provision, might be applicable to any sale made under
the judgment, order or decree of any court, on any claim for
interest on the Notes, or any security interest or mortgage
contemplated by or granted under or in
connection with this Agreement. These waivers
have been voluntarily given, with full knowledge of the
consequences thereof.
. No Event of Default shall be waived
by the Lenders except in a writing signed by an officer of the
Agent in accordance with Section 13.11 hereof. No single or
partial exercise of any right, power or privilege hereunder, nor
any delay in the exercise thereof, shall preclude other or further
exercise of their rights by Agent or the Lenders. No waiver of any
Event of Default shall extend to any other or further Event of
Default. No forbearance on the part of the Agent or the Lenders in
enforcing any of their rights shall constitute a waiver of any of
their rights. Each Borrower expressly agrees that this Section may
not be waived or modified by the Lenders or Agent by course of
performance, estoppel or otherwise.
. Upon the occurrence and during the
continuance of any Event of Default, each Lender may at any time
and from time to time, without notice to Borrowers but subject to
the provisions of Section 10.3 hereof (any requirement for
such notice being expressly waived by Borrowers), setoff and apply
against any and all of the obligations of Borrowers now or
hereafter existing under this Agreement, whether owing to such
Lender, any Affiliate of such Lender or any other Lender or the
Agent, any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand,
provisional or final) at any time held and other indebtedness at
any time owing by such Lender to or for the credit or the account
of Borrowers and any property of Borrowers from time to time in
possession of such Lender, irrespective of whether or not such
deposits held or indebtedness owing by such Lender may be
contingent and unmatured and regardless of whether any Collateral
then held by Agent or any Lender is adequate to cover the
Indebtedness. Promptly following any such setoff, such Lender shall
give written notice to Agent and Borrowers of the occurrence
thereof. Borrowers hereby grant to the Lenders and the Agent a lien
on and security interest in all such deposits, indebtedness and
property as collateral security
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