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EXHIBIT 10.113
REVOLVING CREDIT
AGREEMENT
DATED AS OF DECEMBER 29, 2006
COMERICA BANK
AS ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
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1.
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DEFINITIONS
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1
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1.1
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Certain Defined Terms
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1
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2.
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REVOLVING CREDIT
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2.1
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Commitment
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2.2
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Accrual of Interest and Maturity; Evidence of
Indebtedness
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2.3
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Requests for and Refundings and Conversions of
Advances
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2.4
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Disbursement of Advances
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2.5
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[Intentionally Omitted]
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2.6
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Interest Payments; Default Interest
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2.7
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Optional Prepayments
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2.8
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Prime-based Advance in Absence of Election or
Upon Default
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2.9
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Revolving Credit Commitment Fee
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2.10
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Mandatory Repayment of Revolving Credit
Advances
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2.11
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Optional Reduction or Termination of Revolving
Credit Aggregate Commitment
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2.12
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Use of Proceeds of Advances
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3.
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LETTERS OF CREDIT
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3.1
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Letters of Credit
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3.2
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Conditions to Issuance
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3.3
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Notice
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3.4
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Letter of Credit Fees; Increased Costs
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3.5
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Other Fees
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3.6
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Drawings and Demands for Payment Under Letters of
Credit
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3.7
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Obligations Irrevocable
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3.8
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Risk Under Letters of Credit
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3.9
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Indemnification
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3.10
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Right of Reimbursement
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[Intentionally Omitted]
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5.
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CONDITIONS
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5.1
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Execution of Notes and this Agreement
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5.2
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Corporate Authority
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5.3
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Notes, Agreement and other Loan
Documents
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5.4
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[Intentionally Omitted]
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5.5
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Insurance
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5.6
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Compliance with Certain Documents and
Agreements
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5.7
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Opinions of Counsel
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5.8
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Payment of Fees
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5.9
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Non-GAAP Balance Sheet and Financial
Statements
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5.10
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Appraisals; Audits; Due Diligence
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5.11
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[Intentionally Omitted]
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5.12
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Material Contracts
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5.13
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Governmental and Other Approvals
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5.14
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Closing Certificate
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5.15
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PowerDsine
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5.16
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Continuing Conditions
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REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
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6.1
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Corporate Authority
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6.2
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Due Authorization
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6.3
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Good Title; Leases; Assets; No Liens
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6.4
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Taxes
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6.5
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No Defaults
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6.6
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Enforceability of Agreement and Loan
Documents
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6.7
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Compliance with Laws
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6.8
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Non-contravention
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6.9
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Litigation
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6.10
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Consents, Approvals and Filings, Etc
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6.11
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Agreements Affecting Financial
Condition
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6.12
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No Investment Company or Margin Stock
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6.13
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ERISA
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6.14
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Conditions Affecting Business or
Properties
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6.15
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Environmental and Safety Matters
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6.16
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Subsidiaries
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6.17
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[Intentionally Omitted]
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6.18
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Material Contracts
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6.19
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Franchises, Patents, Copyrights, Tradenames,
etc
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6.20
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[Intentionally Omitted]
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6.21
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Accuracy of Information
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6.22
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Solvency
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6.23
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Employee Matters
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6.24
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No Misrepresentation
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AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS
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7.1
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Financial Statements
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7.2
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Certificates; Other Information
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7.3
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Payment of Obligations
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7.4
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Conduct of Business and Maintenance of Existence;
Compliance with Laws
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7.5
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Maintenance of Property; Insurance
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7.6
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Inspection of Property; Books and Records,
Discussions
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7.7
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Notices
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7.8
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Hazardous Material Laws
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7.9
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Financial Covenants
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7.10
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Governmental and Other Approvals
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7.11
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Compliance with ERISA; ERISA Notices
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7.12
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[Intentionally Omitted]
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7.13
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Accounts
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7.14
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Use of Proceeds
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7.15
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PowerDsine
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7.16
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Further Assurances
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8.
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NEGATIVE COVENANTS
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8.1
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Limitation on Debt
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8.2
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Limitation on Liens
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8.3
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Acquisitions
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8.4
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Limitation on Mergers, Dissolution or Sale of
Assets
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8.5
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Restricted Payments
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8.6
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Limitation on Capital Expenditures
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8.7
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Limitation on Investments, Loans and
Advances
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8.8
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Transactions with Affiliates
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8.9
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Sale-Leaseback Transactions
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8.10
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Limitations on Other Restrictions
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8.11
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Prepayment of Debt
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8.12
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Amendment of Subordinated Debt
Documents
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8.13
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Modification of Certain Agreements
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8.14
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Management Fees
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8.15
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Fiscal Year
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DEFAULTS
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9.1
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Events of Default
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9.2
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Exercise of Remedies
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9.3
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Rights Cumulative
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9.4
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Waiver by Borrowers of Certain Laws
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9.5
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Waiver of Defaults
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9.6
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Set Off
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PAYMENTS, RECOVERIES AND COLLECTIONS
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10.1
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Payment Procedure
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10.2
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[Intentionally Omitted]
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10.3
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Pro-rata Recovery
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CHANGES IN LAW OR CIRCUMSTANCES; INCREASED
COSTS
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11.1
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Reimbursement of Prepayment Costs
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11.2
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Eurodollar Lending Office
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11.3
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Circumstances Affecting Eurodollar-based Rate
Availability
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11.4
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Laws Affecting Eurodollar-based Advance
Availability
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11.5
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Increased Cost of Eurodollar-based
Advances
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11.6
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Capital Adequacy and Other Increased
Costs
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11.7
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Right of Lenders to Fund through Branches and
Affiliates
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11.8
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Margin Adjustment
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AGENT
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12.1
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Appointment of Agent
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12.2
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Deposit Account with Agent or any
Lender
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12.3
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Scope of Agent’s Duties
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12.4
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Successor Agent
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12.5
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Credit Decisions
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12.6
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Authority of Agent to Enforce This
Agreement
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12.7
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Indemnification of Agent
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12.8
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Knowledge of Default
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12.9
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Agent’s Authorization; Action by
Lenders
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12.10
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Enforcement Actions by the Agent
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12.11
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[Intentionally Omitted]
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12.12
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Agents in their Individual Capacities
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12.13
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Agent’s Fees
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12.14
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Documentation Agent or other Titles
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MISCELLANEOUS
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13.1
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Accounting Principles
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13.2
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Choice of Law and Venue; Jury Trial
Waiver
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13.3
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Reference Provision
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13.4
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Interest
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13.5
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Closing Costs and Other Costs;
Indemnification
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13.6
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Notices
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13.7
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Further Action
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13.8
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Successors and Assigns; Participations;
Assignments
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13.9
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Counterparts
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13.10
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Amendment and Waiver
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13.11
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Confidentiality
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13.12
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Substitution of Lenders
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13.13
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Withholding Taxes
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13.14
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Taxes and Fees
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13.15
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[Intentionally Omitted]
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13.16
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Patriot Act Notice
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13.17
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Complete Agreement; Conflicts
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13.18
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Severability
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13.19
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Table of Contents and Headings; Section
References
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13.20
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Construction of Certain Provisions
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13.21
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Independence of Covenants
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13.22
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Joint and Several Liability
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13.23
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Advertisements
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13.24
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Reliance on and Survival of Various
Provisions
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REVOLVING CREDIT
AGREEMENT
This REVOLVING CREDIT AGREEMENT ("Agreement") is made as of
December 29, 2006, 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"), and Microsemi Corporation
("Parent"), Microsemi Corp. – Power Products Group, Microsemi
Corp. – Integrated Products, Microsemi Corp. –
Massachusetts and Microsemi Corp. – Scottsdale (each, a
"Borrower" and collectively with Parent, "Borrowers").
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, Borrowers, the Lenders, and the Agent agree as follows:
1. DEFINITIONS.
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 Debtor" shall mean the party who is obligated on or
under any Account.
"Advance(s)" shall mean a borrowing requested by Parent 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 and a Prime-based Advance.
"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 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.
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"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 Detroit,
Michigan, United States).
"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 the Eurodollar-based Rate
or the Prime-based Rate.
"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.
"Applicable Measuring Period" shall mean the period of four
consecutive fiscal quarters ending on the applicable date of
determination.
"Asset Sale" shall mean the sale, transfer or other disposition
by any Borrower 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 Subsidiary of such Borrower).
"Assignment Agreement" shall mean an Assignment Agreement
substantially in the form of Exhibit D hereto.
"Authorized Signer" shall mean each person who has been
authorized by the Parent 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.
"Borrower" and "Borrowers" shall have the meanings set forth in
the preamble to this Agreement.
"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
Orange County, 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.
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"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.
"Comerica Bank" shall mean Comerica Bank, a Michigan banking
corporation, and its successors or assigns.
"Condemnation Proceeds" shall mean the cash proceeds received by
a Borrower in respect of any condemnation proceeding net of
reasonable fees and expenses (including without limitation
attorneys’ fees and expenses) incurred in connection with the
collection thereof.
"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 Subsidiaries, determined on a Consolidated or
Consolidating basis.
"Consolidated Funded Debt" shall mean at any date the aggregate
amount of all Funded Debt of the Borrowers at such date, determined
on a Consolidated 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 Parent to the Agent pursuant to Section 7.2(a)
hereof, substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit L and
certified by a Responsible Officer of Parent, in which report
Parent 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.
"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.
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"Distribution" is defined in Section 8.5
hereof.
"Dollars" and the sign "$" shall mean lawful money of the United
States of America.
"EBITDA" means, as of any date of determination, net income,
plus net interest expense, taxes, depreciation and amortization,
non-cash charges and extraordinary expenses, less non-cash income,
and extraordinary income, all determined in accordance with GAAP
and measured on a rolling four (4) quarter basis.
"Effective Date" shall mean the date on which all the conditions
precedent set forth in Sections 5.1 through 5.16 have been
satisfied.
"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, the Issuing Lender), and (ii) unless an
Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Parent (each
such approval not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed); provided
that notwithstanding the foregoing, "Eligible Assignee" shall not
include 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 Parent without the consent of
Parent, which consent may be withheld in its sole discretion.
"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.
"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:
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the relevant eurocurrency are offered to Agent’s Eurodollar
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an amount comparable to the relevant Eurodollar-based Advance and
for a period equal to the relevant Eurodollar-Interest Period at
approximately 11:00 A.M. California time two (2) Business Days
prior to the first day of such Eurodollar-Interest Period, divided
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a percentage equal to 100% minus the maximum rate
on such date at which Agent is required to maintain reserves on
‘Eurocurrency 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 is required to maintain reserves against a category
of liabilities which includes eurocurrency deposits or includes a
category of assets which includes eurocurrency loans, the rate at
which such reserves are required to be maintained on such category,
such sum to be rounded upward, if necessary, to the nearest whole
multiple of 1/100th of 1%.
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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 Parent, Agent and the Lenders) as selected by Parent, for such
Eurodollar-based Advance pursuant to Section 2.3 hereof, as
the case may be.
"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 Parent 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 Parent 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 Commitment 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.
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"Fiscal Year" shall mean the twelve-month period
ending on the each of September 30,
2007, September 28, 2008 and September 27,
2009.
"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, including but
not limited to accounts payable, payroll, taxes and interest,
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 on the Effective Date.
"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
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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.
"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 are
presently known or alleged to be currently present on or about or
used in any facilities owned, leased or operated by a Borrower, 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 a Borrower 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 Subsidiaries (including,
without limitation, the Michigan Single Business Tax and all other
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 the Final Maturity Date
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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 a
Borrower 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 a
Borrower to any of the Lenders or Affiliates thereof or to the
Agent, in any manner and at any time, whether arising under this
Agreement 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 a Borrower to any of
the Lenders or Affiliates thereof or to the Agent, and any
liabilities of Borrowers 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 Borrowers (whether direct or contingent) shall
be determined without duplication.
"Insurance Proceeds" shall mean the cash proceeds received by a
Borrower from any insurer in respect of any damage or destruction
of any property or asset net of reasonable fees and expenses
(including without limitation attorneys fees and expenses) incurred
solely in connection with the recovery thereof.
"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 as to an Interest Period in respect of a Eurodollar-based
Advance, 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 in
respect of a Eurodollar-based Advance 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.
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"Issuing Lender" shall mean Comerica Bank in its
capacity as issuer of one or more Letters of Credit hereunder, or
its successor designated by Parent 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 any Borrower 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 13.8 hereof.
"Letter of Credit Agreement" shall mean, collectively, the
letter of credit application and related documentation executed
and/or delivered by Parent 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 Ten Million Dollars
($10,000,000).
"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
Parent pursuant to Article 3 hereof.
"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.
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"Loan Documents" shall mean, collectively, this
Agreement, the Notes (if issued), the Letter of Credit Agreements,
the Letters of Credit, 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 Loans;
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 a Borrower,
(b) the ability of Borrowers to perform their obligations
under this Agreement, the Notes (if issued) or any other Loan
Document to which they are 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) each agreement or
contract to which a Borrower is a party or in respect of which a
Borrower 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 Five Million Dollars
($5,000,000), 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, broad-based pension or compensation plans or policies,
leases of real property or equipment, contracts to purchase or sell
goods or services in the ordinary course of Borrowers’
business, or casualty or liability or other insurance policies
maintained in the ordinary course of business.
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"Multiemployer Plan" shall mean a Pension Plan
which is a multiemployer plan as defined in Section 4001(a)(3)
of ERISA.
"Non-GAAP" shall mean non-GAAP financial measures (non-GAAP
gross margin, non-GAAP operating expenses, non-GAAP operating
income, non-GAAP income before taxes, non-GAAP net income, and
non-GAAP diluted earnings per share) that exclude transitional idle
capacity and inventory abandonments, manufacturing profit in
acquired inventory, in-process research and development,
amortization of intangible assets, stock option compensation, gain
or loss on disposition of assets and restructuring and other
special charges.
"Non-GAAP Balance Sheet" shall mean the non-GAAP consolidated
balance sheet of Parent and its Subsidiaries which has been
certified by a Responsible Officer of Parent that it fairly
presents in all material respects the Non-GAAP adjustments
reflecting the transactions (including payment of all fees and
expenses in connection therewith) contemplated by this Agreement
and the other Loan Documents.
"Non-GAAP Projected Financial Information" shall mean, as to any
proposed acquisition, a statement executed by Parent (supported by
reasonable detail) setting forth the total consideration to be paid
or incurred in connection with the proposed acquisition, and
non-GAAP combined projected financial information for Parent and
the acquisition target (if applicable), consisting of projected
balance sheets as of the proposed effective date of the acquisition
and as of the end of at least the next succeeding one
(1) Fiscal Year following the acquisition and projected
statements of income for that year, including sufficient detail to
permit calculation of the ratios described in Section 7.9
hereof, as projected as of the effective date of the acquisition
and as of the end of that Fiscal Year and accompanied by (i) a
statement setting forth a calculation of the ratio so described,
(ii) a statement in reasonable detail specifying all material
assumptions underlying the projections and (iii) such other
information as the Agent or the Lenders shall reasonably
request.
"Notes" shall mean the Revolving Credit Notes.
"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.
"Parent" shall have the meaning set forth in the preamble.
"PBGC" shall mean the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation or
any successor thereto.
"Pension Plan" shall mean any plan established and maintained by
a Borrower, or contributed to by a Borrower, 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.
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"Percentage" shall mean, as applicable, the
Revolving Credit Percentage or the Weighted Percentage.
"Permitted Acquisition" shall mean any acquisition by Parent or
designated subsidiary, other than another Borrower, of all or
substantially all of the assets of another Person, or of a division
or line of business of another Person, or any Equity Interests of
another Person which satisfies and/or is conducted in accordance
with the following requirements:
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engaged in a line of business which is compatible with, or
complementary to, the business of the Parent or such
Subsidiary;
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Parent shall have delivered to Agent not less
than fifteen (15) (or such shorter period of time agreed to by
the Agent) nor more than ninety (90) days prior to the date of
such acquisition, notice of such acquisition together with Non-GAAP
Projected Financial Information, copies of all material documents
relating to such acquisition (including the acquisition agreement
and any related document), and historical financial information
(including income statements, balance sheets and cash flows)
covering at least three (3) complete Fiscal Years of the
acquisition target, if available, prior to the effective date of
the acquisition or the entire credit history of the acquisition
target, whichever period is shorter, in each case in form and
substance reasonably satisfactory to the Agent;
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Both immediately before and after the
consummation of such acquisition and after giving effect to the
Non-GAAP Projected Financial Information, no Default or Event of
Default shall have occurred and be continuing;
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The board of directors (or other Person(s)
exercising similar functions) of the seller of the assets or issuer
of the Equity Interests being acquired shall not have disapproved
such transaction or recommended that such transaction be
disapproved;
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All governmental, quasi-governmental, agency,
regulatory or similar licenses, authorizations, exemptions,
qualifications, consents and approvals necessary under any laws
applicable to Parent, or the acquisition target (if applicable) for
or in connection with the proposed acquisition and all necessary
non-governmental and other third-party approvals which, in each
case, are material to such acquisition shall have been obtained,
and all necessary or appropriate declarations, registrations or
other filings with any court, governmental or regulatory authority,
securities exchange or any other Person, which in each case, are
material to the consummation of such acquisition or to the
acquisition target, if applicable, have been made, and evidence
thereof reasonably satisfactory in form and substance to Agent
shall have been delivered, or caused to have been delivered, by
Parent to Agent;
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There shall be no actions, suits or proceedings
pending or, to the knowledge of Borrowers threatened against or
affecting the acquisition target in any court or before or by any
governmental department, agency or instrumentality, which could
reasonably be expected to be decided adversely to the acquisition
target and which, if decided adversely, could reasonably be
expected to have a material adverse effect on the business,
operations, properties or financial condition of the acquisition
target and its subsidiaries (taken as a whole) or would materially
adversely affect the ability of the acquisition target to enter
into or perform its obligations in connection with the proposed
acquisition, nor shall there be any actions, suits, or proceedings
pending, or to the knowledge of Borrowers threatened against a
Borrower that is making the acquisition which would materially
adversely affect the ability of Parent to enter into or perform its
obligations in connection with the proposed acquisition;
and
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The purchase price of such proposed new
acquisition, computed on the basis of total acquisition
consideration paid or incurred, or required to be paid or incurred,
with respect thereto, including the amount of Debt (such Debt being
otherwise permitted under this Agreement) assumed or to which such
assets, businesses or business or Equity Interests, or any Person
so acquired is subject and including any portion of the purchase
price allocated to any non-compete agreements, when added to the
purchase price for each other acquisition consummated hereunder as
a Permitted Acquisition during the term of this agreement (not
including acquisitions specifically consented to which fall outside
the terms of this definition, and not including the PowerDsine
Acquisition), does not exceed Twenty Five Million Dollars
($25,000,000).
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"Permitted Investments" shall mean with respect
to any Person:
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Governmental Obligations;
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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;
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Banker’s acceptances, money-market
accounts, commercial accounts, auction rate securities, 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
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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 Borrowers in the ordinary course of
business;
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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;
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Obligations of any corporation that maintains a
subordinated debt credit quality rating of at least A1 or A+ by
Standard & Poor’s (or equivalent);
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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
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Any fund or other pooling arrangement which
exclusively purchases and holds the investments itemized in
(a) through (f) above.
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"Permitted Liens" shall mean with respect to any
Person:
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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;
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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;
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(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
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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;
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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;
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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;
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Liens arising in connection with worker’s
compensation, unemployment insurance, old age pensions and social
security benefits and similar statutory obligations, provided that
no enforcement proceedings in respect of 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
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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 a Borrower or secure
any additional obligations of Borrowers.
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Regardless of the language set forth in this
definition, no Lien over any real property interest of a Borrower
granted to any Person 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.
"PowerDsine" means PowerDsine, an Israeli corporation.
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"PowerDsine Acquisition" means the acquisition by
Parent or designated subsidiary other than another Borrower, of all
of the issued and outstanding capital stock of
PowerDsine.
"Prime-based Advance" shall mean an Advance which bears interest
at the Prime-based Rate.
"Prime-based Rate" shall mean, for any day, that rate of
interest which is equal to the sum of the Applicable Margin plus
the Prime 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 13.11.
"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 13.8(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 a Revolving
Credit Advance.
"Request for Revolving Credit Advance" shall mean a request for
a Revolving Credit Advance issued by Parent under Section 2.3
of this Agreement in the form annexed 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 Parent 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.
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"Revolving Credit Advance" shall mean a borrowing
requested by Parent 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 Prime-based Advances.
"Revolving Credit Aggregate Commitment" shall mean
(a) Seventy Five Million Dollars ($75,000,000), from the
Effective Date through the first anniversary thereof;
(b) Sixty Million Dollars ($60,000,000) from the first
Business Day after the first anniversary of the Effective Date
through the second anniversary of the Effective Date; and
(c) Fifty Million Dollars ($50,000,000) from and after the
first Business Day after the second anniversary of the Effective
Date; subject, in all cases, to reduction or termination under
Section 2.10, 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 Commitment 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) January 1, 2010, 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 annexed 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.
"Subordinated Debt" shall mean any unsecured Funded Debt of a
Borrower and other obligations under the Subordinated Debt
Documents and any other Funded Debt of a Borrower which has been
subordinated in right of payment and priority to the Indebtedness,
all on terms and conditions satisfactory to the Agent.
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"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.
"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.
"Weighted Percentage" shall mean with respect to any Lender, its
percentage share as set forth in Schedule 1.2, as such Schedule may
be revised by the Agent from time to time, which percentage shall
be calculated as follows:
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as to such Lender, so long as the Revolving
Credit Aggregate Commitment has not been terminated, its weighted
percentage calculated by dividing (i) its Revolving Credit
Commitment Amount, by (ii) the Revolving Credit Aggregate
Commitment; and
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as to such Lender, if the Revolving Credit
Aggregate Commitment has been terminated (whether by maturity,
acceleration or otherwise), its weighted percentage calculated by
dividing (i) its applicable Revolving Credit Commitment
Amount, by (ii) the aggregate principal amount outstanding
under the Revolving Credit (including any outstanding Letter of
Credit Obligations).
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"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.
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2. REVOLVING CREDIT.
2.1 Commitment . 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
Parent 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 .
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Each Borrower hereby unconditionally promises 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 Parent 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.
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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.
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The Agent shall maintain the Register pursuant to
Section 13.8(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 Advances and (iii) both the amount of any sum received
by the Agent hereunder from a Borrower in respect of the Revolving
Credit Advances and each Revolving Credit Lender’s share
thereof.
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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
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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 Borrower by the
Revolving Credit Lenders in accordance with the terms of this
Agreement.
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Each Borrower agrees 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.
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2.3 Requests for and Refundings and
Conversions of Advances . Parent 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 Parent, subject to the following:
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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
Prime-based Advance or a Eurodollar-based Advance, and, except in
the case of a Prime-based Advance, the first Eurodollar-Interest
Period applicable thereto, provided, however, that the initial
Revolving Credit Advance made under this Agreement shall be a
Prime-based Advance, which may then be converted into a
Eurodollar-based Advance in compliance with this
Agreement.
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each such Request for a Revolving Credit Advance
shall be delivered to Agent by 12:00 p.m. (California time) three
(3) Business Days prior to the proposed date of the Revolving
Credit Advance, except in the case of a Prime-based Advance, for
which the Request for Revolving Credit Advance must be delivered by
12:00 p.m. (California time) on the proposed date for such
Revolving Credit Advance;
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on the proposed date of such Revolving Credit
Advance, the sum of (x) the aggregate principal amount of all
Revolving Credit Advances
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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;
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in the case of a Prime-based Advance, the
principal amount of the initial funding of such Advance, as opposed
to any refunding or conversion thereof, and each additional
Prime-based Advance, shall be at least Five Hundred Thousand
Dollars ($500,000) or the remainder available under the Revolving
Credit Aggregate Commitment if less than Five Hundred Thousand
Dollars ($500,000);
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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 One Million Dollars ($1,000,000) (or a larger integral
multiple of One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000)) or the
remainder available under the Revolving Credit Aggregate Commitment
if less than One Million Dollars ($1,000,000) and at any one time
there shall not be in effect more than seven (7) different
Eurodollar-Interest Periods;
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a Request for a Revolving Credit Advance, once
delivered to Agent, shall not be revocable by any Borrower 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 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
Parent 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, each Borrower acknowledges
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 Parent 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 .
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Upon receiving any Request for Revolving Credit
Advance from Parent 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 Prime-based Advances, at the office of Agent
located at 500 North State College Boulevard, Suite 570, Orange,
California 92868, not later than 1:00 p.m. (California time) 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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Subject to submission of an executed Request for
Revolving Credit Advance by Parent without exceptions noted in the
compliance certification therein, Agent shall make available to
Parent the aggregate of the amounts so received by it from the
Revolving Credit Lenders in like funds and currencies:
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for Prime-based Advances, not later than 4:00
p.m. (California time) on the date of such Revolving Credit
Advance, by credit to an account of Parent maintained with Agent or
to such other account or third party as Parent 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 Parent
maintained with Agent’s Correspondent or to such other
account or third party as Parent may direct in writing, provided
such direction is timely given.
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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 notified
by any Revolving Credit Lender at least two (2) Business Days
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 Parent
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 Parent, the Agent shall promptly
notify Parent and Borrowers shall pay such amount to Agent, if such
notice is delivered to Parent prior to 1:00 p.m. (California time)
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. 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
Parent 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 Parent, 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;
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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 any
Borrower or any of their 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.
2.5 [Intentionally Omitted].
2.6 Interest Payments; Default Interest .
(a) Interest on the unpaid balance of all Prime-based Advances
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 Prime-based Rate, and shall be payable in immediately available
funds commencing on first day of the first full month after such
Advance is made, and on the first day of each calendar month
thereafter. 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 Prime-based 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
Prime-based Rate on the date of such change in the Prime-based
Rate.
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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.
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Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the
preceding sections, all accrued and unpaid interest on any
Revolving Credit Advance refunded or converted pursuant to
Section 2.3 hereof, shall be due and payable in full on the
date such Advance is refunded or converted.
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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,
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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
Prime-based Advances from time to time outstanding, at a per annum
rate equal to the Prime-based Rate plus two percent
(2%).
2.7 Optional Prepayments .
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(i) Borrowers may prepay the outstanding
principal of any Prime-based Advance(s) of the Revolving Credit at
any time (subject to not less than three (3) Business
Day’s notice to Agent), provided that, any partial prepayment
shall be at least Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000), and
(ii) subject to Section 2.10(c) hereof, Borrowers may
prepay the outstanding principal of any Eurodollar-based Advance of
the Revolving Credit at any time (subject to not less than three
(3) Business Day’s notice to Agent) provided that,
provided that, any partial prepayment shall be at least Five
Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000).
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Any prepayment of a Prime-based 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.
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2.8 Prime-based 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) subject to
Section 2.6(d) hereof, 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 Prime-based Advance and the Agent shall
thereafter promptly notify Parent of said action.
2.9 Revolving Credit Commitment Fee . From the Effective
Date to the Revolving Credit Maturity Date, Borrowers shall pay to
the Agent for distribution to the Revolving Credit Lenders pro-rata
in accordance with their respective Percentages, a Revolving Credit
Commitment Fee quarterly in arrears commencing April 1, 2007
(in respect of the prior quarter or any portion thereof), and on
the first day of each calendar quarter thereafter. Whenever any
payment of the Revolving Credit Commitment 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. The Revolving Credit
Commitment Fee payable to each Revolving Credit Lender shall be
determined by multiplying the Applicable Fee Percentage times the
average daily amount by which such Lender’s Percentage of the
Revolving Credit Aggregate Commitment then in effect exceeds the
sum of (i) such Lender’s Revolving Credit Percentage of
the aggregate principal amount of Revolving Credit Advances
outstanding from time to time during such period and (ii) such
Lender’s Percentage of the Letter of Credit Obligations
outstanding from time to time during such period, calculated on a
daily basis. The Revolving Credit Commitment Fee shall be
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computed on the basis of a year of three hundred
sixty (360) days and assessed for the actual number of days
elapsed. Upon receipt of such payment, Agent shall make prompt
payment to each Lender of its share of the Revolving Credit
Commitment Fee based upon its respective Revolving Credit
Percentage. It is expressly understood that the Revolving Credit
Commitment Fees described in this Section are not refundable under
any circumstances.
2.10 Mandatory Repayment of Revolving Credit Advances
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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 105% of the amount of such Letter of
Credit Obligations and the amount of such remaining excess, with
such cash collateral to be provided on the basis set forth in
Section 9.2 hereof. Each Borrower acknowledges 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 Prime-based
Advances under the Revolving Credit and then to Eurodollar-based
Advances of the Revolving Credit.
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Subject to Article 10 hereof, any payments made
pursuant to this Section shall be applied first to outstanding
Prime-based Advances under the Revolving Credit and then to
Eurodollar-based Advances. If any amounts remain thereafter, a
portion of such prepayment equivalent to the undrawn amount of any
outstanding Letters of Credit shall be held by Lender as cash
collateral for the Reimbursement Obligations, with any additional
prepayment monies being applied to any Fees, costs or expenses due
and outstanding under this Agreement, and with the remainder of
such prepayment thereafter being returned to Parent.
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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
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held by the Agent, for and on behalf of the
Revolving Credit Lenders, on such terms and conditions as are
reasonably acceptable to 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 Borrowers will be
obligated to pay any resulting breakage costs under
Section 11.1.
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 Two Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars
($2,500,000) or a larger integral multiple of Two Million Five
Hundred Thousand Dollars ($2,500,000); (ii) each reduction
shall be accompanied by the payment of the Revolving Credit
Commitment 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,
Borrowers shall compensate the Revolving Credit Lenders for any
losses or, so long as no Default or Event of Default has occurred
and is continuing, Borrowers 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 any Borrower. 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 Prime-based Advances
under the Revolving Credit and then to Eurodollar-based Advances of
the Revolving Credit.
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2.12 Use of Proceeds of Advances .
Advances of the Revolving Credit shall be used to finance a portion
of the PowerDsine Acquisition, and for working capital and other
lawful corporate purposes.
3. LETTERS OF CREDIT.
3.1 Letters of Credit . 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 Parent
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 Parent, 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 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.
3.2 Conditions to Issuance . No Letter of Credit shall be
issued at the request and for the account of Parent unless, as of
the date of issuance of such Letter of Credit:
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(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;
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the representations and warranties of 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 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;
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there is no Default or Event of Default in
existence, and none will exist upon the issuance of such Letter of
Credit;
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Parent 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;
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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;
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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, Parent 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
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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.
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Each Letter of Credit Agreement submitted to
Issuing Lender pursuant hereto shall constitute the certification
by Borrowers of the matters set forth in Sections 3.2
(a) through (c) hereof. The Agent shall be entitled to
rely on such certification without any duty of inquiry.
3.3 Notice . 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.
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3.4 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
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.
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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
Parent 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 semi-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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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
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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 Prime-based 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 prepared in good faith and shall be
conclusive evidence, absent manifest error, as to the amount
thereof.
3.5 Other Fees . 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.
3.6 Drawings and Demands for Payment Under Letters of
Credit .
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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. (California time), on (i) the
Business Day that Parent receives notice of such presentment and
honor, if such notice is received prior to 11:00 a.m. (California
time) or (ii) the Business Day immediately following the day
that Parent received such notice, if such notice is received after
11:00 a.m. (California time). Unless Borrowers shall have made such
payment to the Agent for the account of the Issuing Lender on such
day, the Agent shall be deemed to have disbursed to Parent and to
have elected to substitute for the reimbursement
obligation,
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with respect to the applicable Letter of Credit
honored by the Issuing Lender, a Prime-based 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) on behalf of and for the account of the
Revolving Credit Lenders in an aggregate amount equal to the amount
so paid by the Issuing Lender in respect of such draft or other
demand under such Letter of Credit. Such Prime-based Advance shall
be deemed disbursed notwithstanding any failure to satisfy any
conditions for disbursement of any Advance set forth in
Section 2 hereof and, to the extent of the Advances so
disbursed, the reimbursement obligation of Borrowers under this
Section 3.6 shall be deemed satisfied.
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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 Parent
on the date such draft or demand is honored, and to each Revolving
Credit Lender on such date unless Borrowers shall have satisfied
their reimbursement obligations under Section 3.6(a) hereof by
payment to the Agent (for the benefit of the Issuing Lender) on
such date. The Issuing Lender shall further use reasonable efforts
to provide notice to Parent 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 Section 3.6(a)
hereof.
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Upon issuance by the Issuing Lender of each
Letter of Credit hereunder, 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. Each Revolving Credit
Lender, on the date a draft or demand under any Letter of Credit is
honored (or the next succeeding Business Day if the notice required
to be given by Issuing Lender to the Revolving Credit Lenders under
Section 3.6(b) hereof is not given to the Revolving Credit
Lenders prior to 2:00 p.m. (California time) on such date of draft
or demand), shall make its Revolving Credit Percentage of the
amount paid by the Issuing Lender, and not reimbursed by Borrowers
on such day, in immediately available funds at the principal office
of the Agent for the account of Issuing Lender. If and to the
extent such Revolving Credit Lender shall not have made such pro
rata portion available to the Agent, such Revolving Credit Lender
agrees to pay to the Agent for the account of the Issuing Lender
forthwith on demand such amount together with interest thereon, for
each day from the date such amount was paid by the Issuing Lender
until such amount is so made available to the Agent at the Federal
Funds Rate for the first three days and thereafter at a Prime-based
Rate applicable during such period to the related Advance deemed to
have been disbursed under Section 3.6(a) in respect of the
reimbursement obligation
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of Borrowers. If such Revolving Credit Lender
shall pay such amount to the Agent for the account of Issuing
Lender together with such interest, if any, such amount so paid
shall be deemed to constitute an Advance by such Revolving Credit
Lender disbursed in respect of the reimbursement obligation of
Borrowers under Section 3.6(a) hereof for purposes of this
Agreement, effective as of the dates applicable under said
Section 3.6(a). The failure of any Revolving Credit Lender to
make its pro rata portion of any such amount paid by the Issuing
Lender available to the Agent for the account of Issuing Lender
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 for the account of Issuing
Lender.
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 of such
Letter of Credit that the issuance 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 Revolving Credit Lenders, as applicable.
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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.
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3.7 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:
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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");
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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;
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The existence of any claim, setoff, defense or
other right which any Borrower 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
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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;
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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;
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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;
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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 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
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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.
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No setoff, counterclaim, reduction or diminution
of any obligation or any defense of any kind or nature which any
Borrower has 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.
3.8 Risk Under Letters of Credit .
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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.
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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
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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 any Borrower, 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.
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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 any Borrower 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.
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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 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.
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3.9 Indemnification . Each Borrower hereby
indemnifies and agrees 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
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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:
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the use which may be made of any Letter of Credit
or for any acts or omissions of any beneficiary in connection
therewith;
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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;
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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;
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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
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any other event or circumstance whatsoever
arising in connection with any Letter of Credit.
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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 a 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.
3.10 Right of Reimbursement . 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 a Borrower 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
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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 a Borrower,
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.
4. [INTENTIONALLY OMITTED].
5. CONDITIONS.
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:
5.1 Execution of Notes and this Agreement . Borrowers
shall have executed and delivered to Agent for the account of each
Lender requesting Notes, the Revolving Credit Note; Borrowers shall
have executed and delivered this Agreement; and Borrowers shall
have executed and delivered the other Loan Documents to which any
Borrower is required to be a party (including all schedules and
other documents to be delivered pursuant hereto); and such Notes
(if any), this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall be in
full force and effect.
5.2 Corporate Authority . Agent shall have received, with
a counterpart thereof for each Lender:
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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 Parent,
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 each Borrower executing any Loan
Document and in the case of Parent, 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 each Borrower is qualified to do business, which
jurisdictions are listed on Schedule 5.2 attached hereto,
and
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copies of each Borrower’s articles of
incorporation and bylaws or other constitutional documents, as in
effect on the Effective Date.
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5.3 Notes, Agreement and other Loan
Documents . (a) 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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a Revolving Credit Note drawn to the order of
each Lender that has requested the delivery of Notes, as
applicable, executed and delivered by Borrowers and dated the
Effective Date; and
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a fully executed copy of this Agreement dated the
Effective Date.
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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 5.3(d) which name any Borrower
(under its present name or under any previous names used within
five (5) years prior to the date hereof) as debtor, 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 previously granted by any Person (other
than Liens permitted by Section 8.2 of this
Agreement).
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5.4 [Intentionally Omitted] .
5.5 Insurance . The Agent shall have received evidence
reasonably satisfactory to it that Borrowers have obtained the
insurance policies required by Section 7.5 hereof and that
such insurance policies are in full force and effect.
5.6 Compliance with Certain Documents and Agreements .
Each Borrower shall have 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.
5.7 Opinions of Counsel . Parent shall furnish Agent
prior to the initial Advance under this Agreement, with signed
copies for each Lender, opinions of counsel to 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.
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5.8 Payment of Fees . Borrowers shall have
paid to Comerica Bank any fees due under the terms hereof, along
with any other 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).
5.9 Non-GAAP Balance Sheet and Financial Statements .
Parent shall have delivered to the Lenders and the Agent, in form
and substance satisfactory to Agent: (a) the Non-GAAP Balance
Sheet, (b) audited financial statements of Parent and its
Subsidiaries for the Fiscal Year ending October 1, 2006, and
presented in accordance with GAAP, and the quarterly financial
statements prepared by Parent for October 1, 2006 and
(c) quarterly projections of Parent through September 30,
2007, in form acceptable to Agent.
5.10 Appraisals; Audits; Due Diligence . Agent and
Lenders shall have received, in each case in form and substance
satisfactory to the Agent, such audits, appraisals and other
reports or due diligence materials as Agent and the Majority
Lenders may reasonably request.
5.11 [Intentionally Omitted] .
5.12 Material Contracts . Agent shall have received
copies of all Material Contracts described on Schedule 6.18
hereof.
5.13 Governmental and Other Approvals . Agent shall have
received copies of all authorizations, consents, approvals,
licenses, qualifications or formal exemptions, filings,
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 each
Borrower in connection with the transactions contemplated by the
Loan Documents to occur on the Effective Date.
5.14 Closing Certificate . The Agent shall have received,
with a signed counterpart for each Lender, a certificate of a
Responsible Officer of Parent 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 Borrowers 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;
(d) since October 1, 2006, 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; and
(e) there shall have been no material adverse change to the
Non-GAAP Balance Sheet.
5.15 PowerDsine . The Agent shall have received, prior to
the Effective Date, a brokerage or similar statement with respect
to PowerDsine’s cash and cash equivalents.
5.16 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:
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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
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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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6. REPRESENTATIONS AND
WARRANTIES.
Each Borrower represents and warrants to the Agent, the Lenders
and the Issuing Lender as follows:
6.1 Corporate Authority . Borrower 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, other than as set forth on Schedule
6.1 hereto, Borrower 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. Borrower 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.
6.2 Due Authorization . Execution, delivery and
performance of this Agreement, and the other Loan Documents, to
which Borrower is party, and the issuance of the Notes by Borrower
(if requested) are within such Person’s corporate, limited
liability or partnership power, have been duly authorized, are not
in contravention of any law applicable to Borrower or the terms of
Borrower’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.
6.3 Good Title; Leases; Assets; No Liens .
(a) Borrower, 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 Borrower has a valid leasehold or
interest as a lessee or a licensee in all of its leased real
property;
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Schedule 6.3(b) hereof identifies all of the real
property owned or leased, as lessee thereunder, by the Borrower on
the Effective Date, including all warehouse or bailee
locations;
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The Borrower will collectively own or
collectively have a valid leasehold interest in all assets that
were owned or leased (as lessee) by the Borrower immediately prior
to the Effective Date to the extent that such assets are necessary
for the continued operation of the Borrower’ businesses in
substantially the manner as such businesses were operated
immediately prior to the Effective Date;
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Borrower owns or has a valid leasehold interest
in all real property necessary for its continued operations and, to
the best knowledge of Borrower, no material condemnation, eminent
domain or expropriation action has been commenced or threatened
against any such owned or leased real property; and
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There are no Liens on and no financing statements
on file with respect to any of the assets owned by the Borrower,
except for the Liens permitted pursuant to Section 8.2 of this
Agreement.
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6.4 Taxes . Except as set forth on
Schedule 6.4 hereof, Borrower 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 Borrower, 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 estimated provision
has been made on the books of Borrower as may be required by
GAAP.
6.5 No Defaults . Borrower is not in default under or
with respect to any agreement, instrument or undertaking to which
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.
6.6 Enforceability of Agreement and Loan Documents . This
Agreement and each of the other Loan Documents to which Borrower 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
Borrower, enforceable against Borrower 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).
6.7 Compliance with Laws . (a) Except as disclosed
on Schedule 6.7, Borrower 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 the Borrower will 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
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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)).
6.8 Non-contravention . The execution, delivery and
performance of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents
(including each Request for Advance) to which Borrower is a party
are not in contravention of the terms of any indenture, agreement
or undertaking to which Borrower 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.
6.9 Litigation . 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 Borrower, threatened against
Borrower (other than any suit, action or proceeding in which
Borrower is the plaintiff and in which no counterclaim or
cross-claim against Borrower has been filed), or any judgment,
decree, injunction, rule, or order of any court, government,
department, commission, agency, instrumentality or arbitrator
outstanding against Borrower, nor is Borrower 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.
6.10 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 the execution, delivery and performance:
(a) by Borrower of this Agreement and any of the other Loan
Documents to which Borrower is a party or (b) by the Borrower
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, except
in each case for such matters which have been previously obtained.
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
Borrower, are not the subject of any attack or threatened attack
(in each case in any material respect) by appeal or direct
proceeding or otherwise.
6.11 Agreements Affecting Financial Condition . Borrower
is not 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.
6.12 No Investment Company or Margin Stock . Borrower is
not an "investment company" within the meaning of the Investment
Company Act of 1940, as amended. Borrower is not 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 Borrower 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.
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6.13 ERISA . Borrower does not maintain or
contribute 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. None
of the Borrower 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 such Borrower 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. Borrower has not 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).
6.14 Conditions Affecting Business or Properties . As of
the Effective Date and the date of each request for an Advance
hereunder, neither the respective businesses nor the properties of
Borrower 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.
6.15 Environmental and Safety Matters . Except as set
forth in Schedules 6.9, 6.10 and 6.15:
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(a)
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all facilities and property owned or leased by
the Borrower are in compliance with all Hazardous Material
Laws;
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(b)
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to the best knowledge of Borrower, there have
been no unresolved and outstanding past, and there are no pending
or threatened:
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(i)
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claims, complaints, notices or requests for
information received by Borrower with respect to any alleged
violation of any Hazardous Material Law, or
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(ii)
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written complaints, notices or inquiries to
Borrower regarding potential liability of any Borrower under any
Hazardous Material Law; and
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(c)
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to the best knowledge of Borrower, no conditions
exist at, on or under any property now or previously owned or
leased by Borrower 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.
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6.16 Subsidiaries . 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,
Borrower does not have any other Subsidiaries.
6.17 [Intentionally Omitted] .
6.18 Material Contracts . 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 Borrower is a party
or is bound.
6.19 Franchises, Patents, Copyrights, Tradenames, etc .
The Borrower 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 6.18 contains a true and accurate
list of all trade names and any and all other names used by
Borrower during the five-year period ending as of the Effective
Date.
6.20 [Intentionally Omitted] .
6.21 Accuracy of Information . (a) The audited
financial statements for the Fiscal Year ended October 1,
2006, furnished to Agent and the Lenders prior to the Effective
Date fairly present in all material respects the financial
condition of the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries and the results
of their operations for the periods covered thereby, and have been
prepared in accordance with GAAP. The projections, the Non-GAAP
Balance Sheet and the other non-GAAP financial information
delivered to the Agent prior to the Effective Date are based upon
good faith estimates and assumptions believed by management of the
Borrower 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.
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(b)
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From October 1, 2006 through the Effective
Date, there has been no material adverse change in the business,
operations, condition, property or prospects (financial or
otherwise) of the Borrower, taken as a whole.
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(c)
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To the best knowledge of the Borrower, as of the
Effective Date, (i) the Borrower does 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 the Borrower
which contingent obligations and losses in the aggregate could
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
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6.22 Solvency . After giving effect to the
consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement and
other Loan Documents, Borrower will b
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