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EXHIBIT 10.35
REVOLVING CREDIT AND TERM LOAN AGREEMENT
AGREEMENT (this "AGREEMENT") is made and entered into as of the
27th
day of June, 2007, by and between BLUEFIN CAPITAL, LLC, a
Delaware limited
liability company (the "LENDER"), and TAG-IT PACIFIC, INC., a
Delaware
corporation (the "BORROWER").
W I T N E S S E T H :
WHEREAS, the Borrower is engaged in the business of distributing
a full
range of apparel, zipper and trim products to manufacturers of
fashion apparel,
specialty retailers and mass merchandisers (collectively, the
"BUSINESS
OPERATIONS"); and
WHEREAS, in order to provide funds for (a) the repayment and
retirement
of the Convertible Debentures (as such term is hereinafter
defined), and (b) the
Borrower's working capital and other general corporate purposes,
the Borrower
has requested the Lender to extend to the Borrower a revolving
credit facility
and a term loan on the terms and conditions of this Agreement;
and
WHEREAS, the Lender is willing and able to provide such
revolving
credit facility and make such term loan to the Borrower on the
terms and
conditions of this Agreement;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises and the
mutual
covenants herein contained, the parties hereby agree as
follows:
I. DEFINITIONS
SECTION 1.01. DEFINED TERMS. In addition to the other terms
defined
elsewhere in this Agreement, as used herein, the following terms
shall have the
following meanings:
"ACCOUNTS" shall mean "accounts" (as defined in the UCC) of
the Borrower and its Subsidiaries from time to time.
"ACCOUNT DEBTOR" shall mean any Person who is obligated on
an
Account.
"ACT" shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and
the rules and regulations thereunder.
"ADVANCES" shall mean the principal amounts loaned to the
Borrower from time to time pursuant to Section 2.01 below.
"AFFILIATE" shall mean, with respect to any Person, any
other
Person in Control of, Controlled by, or under common Control
with the first
Person, and any other Person who has a substantial interest,
direct or indirect,
in the first Person or any of its Affiliates, including, without
limitation, any
officer or director of the first Person or any of its
Affiliates; PROVIDED,
HOWEVER, that neither the Lender nor any of its Affiliates shall
be deemed an
"Affiliate" of the
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Borrower for any purposes of this Agreement. For the purpose of
this definition,
a "substantial interest" shall mean the direct or indirect legal
or beneficial
ownership of more than ten (10%) percent of any class of stock
or similar
interest.
"AGREEMENT" shall mean this Revolving Credit and Term Loan
Agreement as it may from time to time be amended, modified,
supplemented and/or
restated.
"APPLICABLE LAW" shall mean all applicable provisions of all
(a) constitutions, statutes, ordinances, rules, regulations and
orders of all
governmental and/or quasi-governmental bodies, (b) Government
Approvals, and (c)
order, judgments and decrees of all courts and arbitrators.
"AVAILABILITY" shall mean the amount (if any) by which, at
the
time of determination, (a) the Revolving Credit Commitment
exceeds (b) the
outstanding principal amount of Advances.
"BORROWING BASE" shall mean an amount, determined in
accordance with the most recent borrowing base report
theretofore provided to
the Lender under Section 5.04(d) below, equal to (a) 75% of
Eligible Accounts,
PLUS (b) 55% of Eligible Inventory, PLUS (c)(i) $1,200,000 at
all times from the
Closing Date through and including June 30, 2007, (ii) $750,000
at all times
from July 1, 2007 through and including September 30, 2007, and
(iii) $500,000
at all times from October 1, 2007 through and including March
31, 2008, MINUS
(d) the amount (if any) of the Debenture Reserve at the date of
determination,
MINUS (e) such other reserves as the Lender may establish from
time to time in
its Permitted Discretion (including, without limitation, to
account for Account
concentration and other risks of collection, and for obsolete,
slow-moving or
otherwise problematic inventory). In the event that the Borrower
has not timely
delivered a current Borrowing Base report in accordance with
Section 5.04(d)
below, then the applicable Borrowing Base shall be such amount
as is established
by the Lender, until such time as the Borrower has delivered a
current Borrowing
Base report.
"BORROWING DATE" means the Business Day on which the Lender
makes a Loan hereunder.
"BUSINESS DAY" shall mean a day other than (a) a Saturday,
(b)
a Sunday, or (c) a day on which banking institutions in either
the State of
Florida or the State of California are authorized or required by
law or
executive order to close.
"CAPITAL EXPENDITURES" shall mean with respect to any
Person,
all expenditures of such Person for tangible assets which are
capitalized, and
the fair value of any tangible assets leased by such Person
under any lease
which would be a Capitalized Lease, determined in accordance
with GAAP,
including all amounts paid or accrued by such Person in
connection with the
purchase (whether on a cash or deferred payment basis) or lease
(including
Capitalized Lease Obligations) of any machinery, equipment, real
property,
improvements to real property (including leasehold
improvements), or any other
tangible asset of such Person which is required, in accordance
with GAAP, to be
treated as a fixed asset on the consolidated balance sheet of
such Person.
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"CAPITALIZED LEASE" shall mean any lease which is or should
be
capitalized on the balance sheet of the lessee thereunder in
accordance with
GAAP.
"CAPITALIZED LEASE OBLIGATION" shall mean with respect to
any
Person, the amount of the liability which reflects the amount of
future payments
under all Capitalized Leases of such Person as at any date,
determined in
accordance with GAAP.
"CASH EQUIVALENTS" shall mean (a) marketable securities
issued, or directly and fully guaranteed or insured, by the
United States of
America or any agency or instrumentality thereof (provided that
the full faith
and credit of the United States of America is pledged in support
thereof) having
maturities of not more than twelve (12) months from the date of
acquisition; (b)
time deposits, demand deposits, certificates of deposit,
acceptances or prime
commercial paper issued by, or repurchase obligations for
underlying securities
of the types described in clause (a) entered into with any
commercial bank
having a short-term deposit rating of at least A-2 or the
equivalent thereof by
Standard & Poor's Corporation or at least P-2 or the
equivalent thereof by
Moody's Investors Service, Inc.; (c) commercial paper with a
rating of A-I or
A-2 or the equivalent thereof by Standard & Poor's
Corporation or P-1 or P-2 or
the equivalent thereof by Moody's Investors Service, Inc. and in
each case
maturing within twelve (12) months after the date of
acquisition; (d) marketable
direct obligations issued by any state in the United States or
any agency or
instrumentality thereof maturing within twelve (12) months from
the date of
acquisition thereof and, at the time of acquisition, have one of
the two highest
ratings generally obtainable from either Standard & Poor's
Corporation or
Moody's Investors Services, Inc.; (e) tax-exempt commercial
paper of United
States municipal, state or local governments rated at least A-2
or the
equivalent thereof by Standard & Poor's Corporation or at
least P-2 or the
equivalent thereof by Moody's Investors Services, Inc. and
maturing within
twelve (12) months after the date of acquisition thereof; (f)
any other items
selected by the Borrower and approved by the Lender (which
approval shall not be
unreasonably withheld or delayed); or (g) any mutual fund or
other pooled
investment vehicle which invests principally in the foregoing
obligations.
"CLOSING DATE" shall mean the date on which the Term Loan is
funded.
"CLOSING FEE" shall mean the sum of $250,000 with respect to
the Term Loan, which shall be payable in accordance with Section
2.03(a) below.
"CODE" shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, and the
rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, as in effect from
time to time.
"COLLATERAL" shall mean all collateral pledged by the
Borrower
and/or any of the Subsidiaries as security for the payment and
performance of
the Obligations, whether pursuant to the Collateral Agreement or
any other
Security Document.
"COLLATERAL AGREEMENT" shall mean the Collateral Agreement,
dated as of the Closing Date, by and between the Borrower and
the Lender, as
same may be amended, modified, supplemented and/or restated from
time to time.
"COMMITMENT FEES" shall mean the annual fees payable to the
Lender pursuant to Section 2.03(b)(ii) below.
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"COMMON STOCK" shall mean the authorized common stock of the
Company, $.001 par value per share.
"CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION" shall mean information that the
Borrower furnishes to the Lender which is not generally
available to the public
or available to the Lender from a source other than the Borrower
which is not,
to the Lender's knowledge, bound by any confidentiality
agreement in respect
thereof.
"CONTRACT" shall mean any indenture, agreement (other than
this Agreement), other contractual restriction, lease in which
the Borrower or
any Subsidiary is a lessor or lessee, license or instrument.
"CONTROL" shall mean the possession, directly or indirectly,
of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management
or policies of a
Person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by
contract or
otherwise, and the terms "CONTROLLING" and "CONTROLLED" shall
have meanings
correlative thereto.
"CONTROL AGREEMENT" shall mean, with respect to each bank
account (including, without limitation, the Escrow Account)
and/or securities
account maintained by or in the name of the Borrower or any
Subsidiary from time
to time, an agreement executed and delivered by the Borrower (or
the subject
Subsidiary, as applicable) and the account intermediary, whereby
the account
intermediary acknowledges the Lender's Lien on such account and
all funds or
property therein, and "control" (within the meaning of the UCC)
over such
account is established in favor of the Lender.
"CONVERTIBLE DEBENTURES" shall mean the Convertible
Promissory
Notes of the Borrower dated November 9, 2004 in the aggregate
principal amount
of $12,500,000, which by their terms mature on November 9,
2007.
"DEBENTURE RESERVE" shall mean, at any time, an amount equal
to the positive difference (if any) of (a) the aggregate
outstanding principal
amount and unpaid accrued interest of the Convertible Debentures
at such time,
MINUS (b) the amount of funds then on deposit in the Escrow
Account.
"DEFAULT" shall mean any of the events specified in Article
VII hereof, whether or not any requirement for the giving of
notice, the lapse
of time, or both, or any other condition, has been
satisfied.
"DISCLOSURE SCHEDULE" shall mean the disclosure schedule,
dated as of the Closing Date, executed and delivered by the
Borrower to the
Lender, the section numbers of which correspond to the Section
numbers of this
Agreement.
"DOLLARS" or "$" shall mean United States Dollars, lawful
currency for the payment of public and private debts.
"DOMESTIC SUBSIDIARY" shall mean any Subsidiary which is
incorporated or formed under the laws of the United States, any
State or
Commonwealth in the United States, or the District of
Columbia.
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"EBITDA" shall mean, for the subject period, for the
Borrower
and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, the sum of (a) Net
Income, MINUS
(b) net income attributable to any Subsidiary to the extent, but
only to the
extent, that such net income is (A) not available for
distribution to the
Borrower for more than six (6) months, or (B) required by the
Borrower's
auditors to be reserved in whole or in part as a result of
restrictions on
distribution (PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that this clause (B) shall not
apply if such
reserve(s) is included in Net Income), PLUS (c) Interest Expense
deducted in the
calculation of such Net Income, PLUS (d) taxes on income,
whether payable or
accrued, deducted in the calculation of such Net Income (except
that taxes
actually paid in cash shall not be added back pursuant to this
clause (d)), PLUS
(e) depreciation expense deducted in the calculation of such Net
Income, PLUS
(f) amortization expense deducted in the calculation of such Net
Income, PLUS
(g) all other non-cash charges and expenses (including equity
incentive plan
expenses) deducted in the calculation of such Net Income,
excluding accruals for
cash expenses made in the ordinary course of business, MINUS (h)
any non-cash
gains included in the calculation of such Net Income, PLUS (i)
losses deducted
in the calculation of such Net Income from any sales of assets,
other than sales
in the ordinary course of business, MINUS (j) gains added in the
calculation of
such Net Income from any sales of assets, other than sales in
the ordinary
course of business, PLUS (k) other extraordinary or
non-recurring non-cash
losses deducted in the calculation of such Net Income, MINUS (l)
other
extraordinary or non-recurring non-cash gains added in the
calculation of such
Net Income, all determined in accordance with GAAP.
"ELIGIBLE ACCOUNT" shall mean the face amount of each trade
Account of the Borrower or a Subsidiary (if same has executed a
Guaranty
Agreement and become a party to the Collateral Agreement) for
services rendered
or goods and products sold in the ordinary course of the
Business Operations
which the Lender, in its Permitted Discretion, deems to be an
Eligible Account;
PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that an Account shall not be deemed an
Eligible Account
unless it meets all of the following conditions:
(a) the subject services or products and goods have been
rendered, shipped or delivered on an absolute sale basis to an
Account Debtor
which is not an Affiliate, vendor or supplier of the Borrower or
a Subsidiary,
with an invoice date contemporaneous with or within thirty (30)
calendar days
after the date of shipment or service, and which does not
constitute a
consignment sale, bill-and-hold sale, sale-and-return or other
such arrangement
and is not subject to any other repurchase, return or offset
agreement binding
upon the Borrower or a Subsidiary; the subject services or
products and goods
have been rendered, shipped and delivered (or shipped f.o.b.) to
such Account
Debtor on an open account basis (or with payment guaranteed by a
letter of
credit, drawn on or by a domestic financial institution,
acceptable to the
Lender in all respects), and no part of the subject services,
products or goods
has been returned, rejected, lost or damaged; the Account is not
evidenced by
chattel paper or an instrument of any kind; and such Account
Debtor, unless
pre-approved in writing by the Lender, is not insolvent or the
subject of any
bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding of any kind in any
jurisdiction;
(b) if the Account Debtor is located outside the continental
United States, either (i) payment for the subject services or
goods shall be
secured by an irrevocable letter of credit, which letter of
credit shall have
been confirmed by a financial institutional reasonably
acceptable to the Lender
payable in the full amount of the face value of the Account in
Dollars or
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other currency reasonably acceptable to the Lender, or (ii) such
Account and
Account Debtor are reasonably satisfactory to the Lender in its
Permitted
Discretion;
(c) it is a valid, legally enforceable obligation of the
Account Debtor thereunder payable in Dollars or other currency
reasonably
satisfactory to the Lender, and is not subject to any
recoupment, offset or
other defense or any discount or chargeback on the part of such
Account Debtor
(provided that prompt payment discounts granted in the ordinary
course of
business shall not cause an Account to be disqualified
hereunder, so long as
only the discounted amount of such Account, if not otherwise
disqualified, is
included in the calculation of the Borrowing Base) or to any
claim on the part
of such Account Debtor denying liability thereunder (provided
that the
undisputed portion may be considered to be an Eligible
Account);
(d) it is subject to no Lien whatsoever, except for the Lien
of the Lender;
(e) it has not remained unpaid in whole or in part for a
period exceeding ninety (90) days after the original invoice
date;
(f) it does not arise out of a transaction (whether direct
or
indirect) with an employee, officer, agent, director or
Affiliate of the
Borrower or any Subsidiary or with any entity controlled by any
employee,
officer, agent or director of the Borrower or any Subsidiary
(unless, in any
such case, a majority of the disinterested members of the Board
of Directors of
the Borrower has approved the subject transaction and such
transaction is on an
arms'-length basis);
(g) it is not subject to any contract retainage or other
withholding of any portion of payments on amounts invoiced,
whether to secure
the Borrower's or any Subsidiary's performance or otherwise;
(h) it does not represent the unpaid portion of an Account
any
portion of which was previously paid or agreed to be paid
through the issuance
or delivery of equity securities or other non-cash
consideration;
(i) if the Account Debtor is the United States, any State or
Commonwealth therein, or any department, agency or
instrumentality thereof, or
any foreign government or agency of a foreign government, the
Borrower or the
applicable Domestic Subsidiary has duly assigned its rights to
payment of such
Account to the Lender pursuant to the federal Assignment of
Claims Act, any
comparable state statutes or any comparable foreign statutes (as
applicable);
(j) the Lender has a perfected first priority Lien in such
Account;
(k) such Account is not payable by any person other than the
Account Debtor (such as a beneficiary, recipient or subscriber
individually),
provided that the portion thereof which is payable by the
Account Debtor may be
considered to be an Eligible Account;
(l) at least sixty (60%) percent in dollar amount of the
total
Accounts owed by such Account Debtor and/or its Affiliates
constitute Eligible
Accounts;
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(m) the total Accounts owed by the subject Account Debtor
and/or its Affiliates constitute less than ten (10%) percent of
the net
collectible dollar value of all Eligible Accounts (provided that
only the excess
over ten (10%) percent shall be disqualified under this clause
(m), unless the
Lender has otherwise consented in writing to the inclusion of
all or any portion
of such excess);
(n) such Account is payable solely to the Borrower or a
Subsidiary, and the Borrower or such Subsidiary is not aware of
any dispute by
the Account Debtor with respect to such Account; and
(o) it is not otherwise determined by the Lender, in the
Lender's Permitted Discretion, to be difficult to collect,
uncollectible or
otherwise unacceptable for any reason.
"ELIGIBLE INVENTORY" shall mean the lower of the cost (on a
[first in-first out] basis) or fair market value of that
inventory consisting of
raw materials or finished goods (but excluding work in process
and product
models or samples) of Borrower or any Subsidiary which is party
to the
Collateral Agreement which (a) is in good and merchantable
condition, (b) was
manufactured in accordance with and meets all standards imposed
by any
governmental agency having regulatory authority over such goods
and/or their
use, manufacture and/or sale, (c) is in the physical possession
of the Borrower
or the subject Subsidiary, or has been shipped to the Borrower
or the subject
Subsidiary with title thereto having passed to the Borrower or
such Subsidiary
(provided that up to $100,000 in value of inventory held by a
vendor/supplier
for drop shipment to a customer for the benefit of the Borrower
or the subject
Subsidiary may be considered to be Eligible Inventory if it
otherwise meets all
other criteria set forth in this definition), (d) is currently
usable or
currently saleable in the normal course of the Business
Operations, (e) is not
on consignment to or from any Person, (f) is not subject to any
Lien whatsoever,
except for the Lien of the Lender, which shall be perfected with
respect to such
inventory, (g) has not been sold to any Person, and (h) is
otherwise
satisfactory to the Lender in its Permitted Discretion.
"ERISA" shall mean the Employee Retirement Income Security
Act
of 1974, as in effect from time to time.
"ERISA AFFILIATE" shall mean, with respect to any Person,
any
other Person which is under common control with the first Person
within the
meaning of Section 414(b) or 414(c) of the Code; PROVIDED,
HOWEVER, that with
respect to the Borrower, no Person which is an Affiliate of the
Lender (other
than the Borrower and its Subsidiaries) shall be deemed an ERISA
Affiliate for
purposes of this Agreement
"ESCROW ACCOUNT" shall mean the bank account contemplated by
Section 2.04(b)(i) below.
"EVENT OF DEFAULT" has the meaning set forth in Article VII
below.
"EXCHANGE ACT" shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of
1934,
as amended.
"FACTORING AGREEMENT" shall mean the factoring agreement
dated
July 19, 2004 by and between the Borrower and East Asia GE
Commercial Finance
Limited, as amended.
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"FINANCIAL STATEMENTS" has the meaning set forth in Section
3.01(a) below.
"FISCAL YEAR" shall mean the fiscal year of the Borrower
which
ends on December 31 of each year.
"FOREIGN INVESTMENT LIMITATION" has the meaning set forth in
Section 6.01(g) below.
"FOREIGN SUBSIDIARY" shall mean any Subsidiary which is not
a
Domestic Subsidiary.
"FREE CASH FLOW" shall mean, for any Fiscal Year in
question,
an amount equal to (a) EBITDA for the immediately preceding
Fiscal Year, MINUS
(b) taxes paid or payable in cash by or in respect of the
Borrower and its
Subsidiaries during or in respect of such immediately preceding
Fiscal Year,
MINUS (c) principal and interest payments made or required to be
made by the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries during such immediately preceding
Fiscal Year,
MINUS (d) Capital Expenditures paid by the Borrower and its
Subsidiaries in cash
during such immediately preceding Fiscal Year, MINUS (e)
scheduled principal and
interest payments made or required to be made by the Borrower
and its
Subsidiaries during the subject Fiscal Year.
"GAAP" shall mean generally accepted accounting principles
in
the United States of America, consistently applied, unless the
context otherwise
requires, with respect to any financial terms contained herein,
as then in
effect with respect to the preparation of financial
statements.
"GOVERNMENT APPROVAL" shall mean an authorization, consent,
non-action, approval, license or exemption of, registration or
filing with, or
report to, any governmental or quasi-governmental department,
agency, body or
other unit.
"GUARANTY", "GUARANTEED" or to "GUARANTEE", as applied to
any
Indebtedness, liability or other obligation, shall mean (a) a
guaranty, directly
or indirectly, in any manner, including by way of endorsement
(other than
endorsements of negotiable instruments for collection in the
ordinary course of
business), of any part or all of such obligation, and (b) an
agreement,
contingent or otherwise, and whether or not constituting a
guaranty, assuring,
or intended to assure, the payment or performance (or payment of
damages in the
event of non-performance) of any part or all of such obligation
by any means
(including, without limitation, the purchase of securities or
obligations, the
purchase or sale of property or services, or the supplying of
funds).
"GUARANTY AGREEMENT" shall mean a guaranty agreement, in
form
and substance satisfactory to the Lender, to be executed by each
Subsidiary in
favor of the Lender, pursuant to which such Subsidiary will
guaranty the full
and timely payment and performance of all of the
Obligations.
"INDEBTEDNESS" shall mean (without duplication), with
respect
to any Person, (a) all obligations or liabilities, contingent or
otherwise, for
borrowed money, (b) any and all obligations represented by
promissory notes,
bonds, debentures or the like, or on which interest charges are
customarily
paid, (c) any liability secured by any mortgage, pledge, lien or
security
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interest on property owned or acquired, whether or not such
liability shall have
been assumed, (d) obligations of such Person under conditional
sale or other
title retention agreements relating to property or assets
purchased by such
Person, (e) all obligations of such Person issued or assumed as
the deferred
purchase price of property or services (excluding trade payables
and accrued
obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business), (f)
any obligations
(contingent or otherwise) of such Person as an account party or
applicant in
respect of letters of credit and/or bankers' acceptances, or in
respect of
interest rate swaps, interest rate caps, hedging agreements or
other financial
or hedging obligations, and (g) Guarantees, endorsements (other
than for
collection in the ordinary course of business) and other
contingent obligations
in respect of the obligations of others.
"INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY" shall have the meaning ascribed
thereto in the Collateral Agreement.
"INTEREST EXPENSE" shall mean, for the relevant period,
total
interest expense (including interest attributable to Capitalized
Leases in
accordance with GAAP) and fees with respect to outstanding
Indebtedness.
"INVESTMENT", as applied to the Borrower or any Subsidiary,
shall mean: (a) any shares of capital stock, evidence of
Indebtedness or other
security issued by any other Person to the Borrower or any
Subsidiary, (b) any
loan, advance or extension of credit to, or contribution to the
capital of, any
other Person, other than credit terms extended to customers in
the ordinary
course of business, (c) any other investment by the Borrower or
any Subsidiary
in any assets or securities of any other Person, and (d) any
commitment to make
any Investment.
"KNOWLEDGE" OR "KNOWN" or words of similar import shall
mean,
with respect to the Borrower and/or any Subsidiary, the actual
knowledge of
Steve Forte, Lonnie Schnell and/or Wouter van Biene (and/or
their respective
successors as officers of the Borrower) after reasonable inquiry
of the
appropriate employees of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries.
"LANDLORD WAIVER" shall mean a landlord waiver,
subordination
and/or access agreement, in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to the
Lender, executed in favor of the Lender by the landlord of a
Leased Real
Property.
"LEASED REAL PROPERTY" shall mean any and all Real
Properties
leased or occupied by the Borrower or any Subsidiary from time
to time.
"LENDER SHARES" shall mean the shares of Common Stock to be
purchased by and issued to the Lender as contemplated by Section
2.03(d) below.
"LIABILITIES AND CONTINGENCIES" has the meaning set forth in
Section 3.01(c) below.
"LIEN", as applied to the property or assets (or the income
or
profits therefrom) of the Borrower or any Subsidiary, shall mean
(in each case,
whether the same is consensual or non-consensual or arises by
contract,
operation of law, legal process or otherwise): (a) any mortgage,
lien, pledge,
hypothecation, attachment, assignment, deposit arrangement,
encumbrance, charge,
lease constituting a Capitalized Lease Obligation, conditional
sale or other
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title retention agreement, or other security interest or
encumbrance of any kind
in respect of any property (including, without limitation, stock
of any
Subsidiary) of the Borrower or any Subsidiary, or upon the
income or profits
therefrom; (b) any arrangement under which any property of the
Borrower or any
Subsidiary is transferred, sequestered or otherwise identified
for the purpose
of subjecting or making available the same for the payment of
Indebtedness or
the performance of any other liability in priority to the
payment of the
general, unsecured creditors of the Borrower or any Subsidiary;
(c) any
Indebtedness or liability which remains unpaid after the same
shall become due
and payable and which, if unpaid, by law or otherwise is given
any priority
whatsoever over the general unsecured creditors of the Borrower
or any
Subsidiary; and (d) any agreement (other than this Agreement) or
other
arrangement which, directly or indirectly, prohibits the
Borrower or any
Subsidiary from creating or incurring any lien on any of its
properties or
assets or which conditions the ability to do so on the security,
on a PRO RATA
or other basis, of Indebtedness other than Indebtedness
outstanding under this
Agreement.
"LOAN DOCUMENTS" shall mean the collective reference to this
Agreement, the Notes, the Security Documents, the Warrants, the
Registration
Rights Agreement, and any and all other agreements, instruments,
certificates
and other documents as may be executed and delivered by the
Borrower and/or any
of the Subsidiaries pursuant hereto or thereto.
"LOANS" shall mean, collectively, the Advances and the Term
Loan.
"MATERIAL ADVERSE EFFECT" shall mean any event, act,
omission,
condition or circumstance which has or would reasonably be
expected to have a
material adverse effect on (a) the business, operations,
properties, assets or
condition, financial or otherwise, of the Borrower and the
Subsidiaries, taken
as a whole, (b) the ability of the Borrower or any Subsidiary to
perform any of
its obligations under any of the Loan Documents, or (c) the
validity or
enforceability of, or the Lender's rights and remedies under,
any of the Loan
Documents, other than due to the acts or omissions of the Lender
or any of its
Affiliates.
"MATURITY DATE" shall mean June 30, 2010.
"MAXIMUM REVOLVER AMOUNT" shall mean, at any date, (a)
$5,000,000 MINUS (b) the amount of the Debenture Reserve (if
any) at the date of
determination, MINUS (c) an amount equal to 50% of all Qualified
Proceeds
received by the Borrower from and after the repayment (or
required repayment) in
full of the Term Loan.
"MONITORING FEE" shall mean the fees payable to the Lender
pursuant to Section 2.03(b)(i) below.
"NET INCOME" shall mean the consolidated net income (or
loss)
of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries for the period in question,
after giving
effect to deduction of or provision for all operating expenses,
all taxes and
reserves (including reserves for deferred taxes) and all other
proper
deductions, all determined in accordance with GAAP and (for so
long as the
Borrower is subject thereto) Regulation S-X promulgated under
the Act.
"NOTES" shall mean, collectively, the Revolving Credit Note
and the Term Note.
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"OBLIGATIONS" shall mean the collective reference to all
Indebtedness and other liabilities and obligations of every kind
and description
owed by the Borrower to the Lender from time to time under or
pursuant to this
Agreement, the Notes, the Security Documents and the other Loan
Documents
(excluding the Warrant and Registration Rights Agreement, other
than amounts
payable from time to time pursuant to Section 2(c) of the
Registration Rights
Agreement), and/or otherwise in respect of the Loans, however
evidenced, created
or incurred, fixed or contingent, now or hereafter existing, due
or to become
due.
"ORGANIC DOCUMENTS" shall mean, with respect to any Person,
the certificate of incorporation, articles of incorporation,
certificate of
formation, certificate of limited partnership, by-laws,
operating agreement,
limited partnership agreement or other such document of such
Person.
"OWNED REAL PROPERTY" shall mean each Real Property in which
the Borrower or any Subsidiary holds an ownership or fee
interest from time to
time.
"PERMITTED DISCRETION" shall mean a determination or
judgment
made by the Lender in good faith in the exercise of reasonable
business judgment
from the perspective of a secured lender.
"PERMITTED INDEBTEDNESS" shall mean any and all Indebtedness
expressly permitted pursuant to Section 6.01 below.
"PERMITTED LIENS" shall mean those Liens expressly permitted
pursuant to Section 6.02 below.
"PERSON" shall mean any individual, partnership,
corporation,
limited liability company, banking association, business trust,
joint stock
company, trust, unincorporated association, joint venture,
governmental
authority or other entity of whatever nature.
"QUALIFIED PROCEEDS" shall mean any and all net proceeds
received by the Borrower from time to time after the date of
this Agreement from
the issuance and/or sale of any capital stock of the Borrower or
any security
(including any Indebtedness incurred subsequent to the Closing
Date) convertible
into or exchangeable for capital stock of the Borrower, except
to the extent
that (a) such proceeds are received from the exercise of
warrants or options
that are outstanding on the date of this Agreement, or (b) such
proceeds are,
within thirty (30) days after the receipt thereof, applied to
pay the purchase
price and/or directly associated expenses of the Borrower's
acquisition
(directly or through a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary which is a
Domestic Subsidiary)
of another business (whether through merger, consolidation,
share exchange,
stock purchase, or purchase of all or substantially all of the
assets of the
target company or an operating division or unit thereof), in
each case effected
subject to and in accordance with the requirements of this
Agreement and the
Collateral Agreement (including, without limitation the pledge
to the Lender of
the capital stock and/or assets (as applicable) of the acquired
business). In
determining the amount of net proceeds for purposes of this
definition, there
shall be deducted from gross proceeds only those reasonable
expenses incurred by
the Borrower directly related to the subject issuance or sale,
exclusive of any
fees or commissions paid to any officer, director or other
Affiliate of the
Borrower or any Affiliate of any of the foregoing.
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"REAL PROPERTIES" shall mean, collectively, any real
properties (land, buildings and/or improvements) now owned or
leased or occupied
by the Borrower or any of the Subsidiaries, and, during the
period of the
Borrower's and/or Subsidiary's occupancy thereof, any other real
properties
heretofore owned or leased by the Borrower or any Subsidiary
(provided that,
with respect to leased properties, the "Real Property" shall
refer only to the
portion of the subject property (excluding common areas) leased
by the Borrower
or a Subsidiary).
"REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT" shall mean the Registration
Rights Agreement, to be dated as of the Closing Date, made by
the Borrower for
the benefit of the Lender and any subsequent Holders (as such
term is defined in
the Registration Rights Agreement), as same may be amended,
modified,
supplemented and/or restated from time to time.
"REVOLVING CREDIT COMMITMENT" shall mean the Lender's
agreement to make Advances to the Borrower within the
limitations set forth in
Section 2.01 below.
"REVOLVING CREDIT NOTE" shall mean the promissory note of
the
Borrower issued to the Lender to represent the Advances and
interest thereon, as
described in Section 2.01(f) below.
"SALE" shall mean any transaction or series of related
transactions (a) whereby Control of the Borrower is held by a
Person (or group
of Persons acting in concert) other than the management of the
Borrower on the
date of this Agreement (or Affiliates of such management),
provided that a
"Sale" shall not be deemed to have occurred solely by reason of
normal market
trading in the Common Stock which does not result in the
acquisition by a single
Person or "group" (within the meaning of Section 13(d)(3) of the
Exchange Act)
of a majority of the outstanding voting stock of the Borrower,
(b) in which the
Borrower is a constituent party to any merger, consolidation or
share exchange
and as a result thereof (i) the holders of the outstanding
capital stock of the
Borrower which ordinarily has voting power for the election of
directors
(including preferred stock counted on an "as converted" basis
into common stock)
immediately prior to such merger or consolidation cease to own a
majority of the
outstanding capital stock of the Borrower which ordinarily has
voting power for
the election of directors (including preferred stock counted on
an "as
converted" basis into common stock), or (ii) the Borrower is not
the surviving
corporation, or (c) whereby all or any material portion of the
assets of the
Borrower or any Subsidiary are sold, assigned or
transferred.
"SEC" shall mean the United States Securities and Exchange
Commission, and any successor agency performing the functions
thereof.
"SEC REPORTS" shall mean the periodic and current reports,
registration statements, proxy statements and other reports
filed or required to
be filed by the Borrower with the SEC pursuant to the Act and/or
the Exchange
Act, and any amendments or supplements thereto filed with the
SEC.
"SECURITY DOCUMENTS" shall mean the Guaranty Agreement, the
Collateral Agreement, any Collateral Assignments, Landlord
Waivers, Control
Agreements, financing
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statements or other such agreements or documents pursuant
thereto, and any other
agreements or instruments securing or creating or evidencing
Liens securing the
Obligations.
"SUBORDINATED DEBT" shall mean all Indebtedness for money
borrowed and other liabilities of the Borrower or any
Subsidiary, whether or not
evidenced by promissory notes, which is contractually
subordinated in right of
payment, in a manner satisfactory to the Lender (as evidenced by
the Lender's
prior written approval thereof), to all Obligations of the
Borrower and/or the
subject Subsidiary to the Lender.
"SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENTS" shall mean those Subscription
Agreements dated November 9, 2004, by and between the Borrower
and the original
purchasers of the Convertible Debentures.
"SUBSIDIARY" or "SUBSIDIARIES" shall mean the individual or
collective reference to any corporation, limited liability
company or other
entity of which 50% or more of the outstanding shares of stock
or other equity
interests of each class having ordinary voting power and/or
rights to profits
(other than stock having such power only by reason of the
happening of a
contingency) is at the time owned by the Borrower, directly or
indirectly
through one or more Subsidiaries of the Borrower.
"TERM LOAN" shall mean the term loan in the principal amount
of $9,500,000 to be made pursuant to Section 2.02(a) below.
"TERM NOTE" shall mean the promissory note of the Borrower
issued to the Lender as described in Section 2.02(d) below.
"UCC" means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in the
State of New York on the date hereof and hereafter from time to
time.
"WARRANTS" shall mean the warrants to purchase shares of
Common Stock (such warrants covering an aggregate of 2,100,000
shares of Common
Stock, subject to adjustment) to be issued by the Borrower to
the Lender on the
Closing Date.
"WHOLLY-OWNED SUBSIDIARY" shall mean each Subsidiary of
which
all of the outstanding equity securities (other than directors'
qualifying
shares) are owned by the Borrower or another such Wholly-Owned
Subsidiary.
"WHOLLY-OWNED DOMESTIC SUBSIDIARY" shall mean each
Wholly-Owned Subsidiary which is a Domestic Subsidiary.
SECTION 1.02. USE OF DEFINED TERMS. All terms defined in this
Agreement
shall have their defined meanings when used in the Notes, the
Security
Documents, the other Loan Documents, and all certificates,
reports or other
documents made or delivered pursuant to this Agreement, unless
otherwise defined
therein or unless the specific context shall otherwise
require.
SECTION 1.03. ACCOUNTING TERMS. All accounting terms not
specifically
defined herein shall be construed in accordance with GAAP.
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SECTION 1.04. OTHER DEFINITIONAL PROVISIONS. The words
"hereof,"
"herein", "hereto" and "hereunder" and words of similar import
when used in this
Agreement shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to
any particular
provision of this Agreement, and Section references are to this
Agreement unless
otherwise specified. The meanings given to terms defined herein
shall be equally
applicable to both the singular and plural forms of such terms.
The word
"including" and words of similar import when used in this
Agreement shall mean
"including, without limitation," unless otherwise specified.
II. GENERAL TERMS
SECTION 2.01. REVOLVING CREDIT LOANS.
(a) Subject at all times to all of the terms and conditions
of
this Agreement, the Lender hereby agrees to extend to the
Borrower a secured
revolving credit facility, from the Closing Date to the Maturity
Date, in an
aggregate principal amount not to exceed, at any time
outstanding, the lesser of
(i) the Borrowing Base at the subject time, or (ii) the Maximum
Revolver Amount
(the "REVOLVING CREDIT COMMITMENT"); PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that
following the
application of all funds in the Escrow Account to the repayment
of Convertible
Debentures, accrued interest thereon and/or accrued interest on
the Term Loan,
the amount of the Debenture Reserve shall be disregarded in the
calculation of
the Borrowing Base and the Maximum Revolver Amount to the extent
that Advances
then being borrowed hereunder shall immediately be applied to
repayment of
remaining Convertible Debentures.
(b) Such revolving credit loans are herein sometimes
referred
to individually as an "ADVANCE" and collectively as the
"ADVANCES." Subject at
all times to all of the terms and conditions of this Agreement,
from the Closing
Date to the Maturity Date and within the limits of the Revolving
Credit
Commitment, the Lender shall lend, and the Borrower may borrow,
prepay (without
premium or penalty) and reborrow under this Section 2.01. Each
request for an
Advance (i) shall be irrevocable, (ii) shall be deemed to
constitute an express
affirmation that all conditions precedent set forth in part B of
Article IV
hereof are satisfied on the date of such request and will be
satisfied on the
requested Borrowing Date, and (iii) shall be made to the Lender
in writing, not
later than three (3) Business Days prior to the requested
Borrowing Date, by an
authorized officer of the Borrower or by telephonic
communication by such
authorized officer to the Lender, which shall be confirmed by
written notice to
the Lender to be delivered to the Lender by the Business Day
next following the
subject request. In no event shall the Borrower request, or
shall the Lender be
required to honor, (A) any request for an Advance in an amount
greater than the
Availability at such time, (B) any request for an Advance in an
amount less than
$100,000, or (C) more than one request for the borrowing of
Advances in any
seven (7) calendar day period.
(c) The Borrower shall pay the Lender interest on all
Advances
at the rate(s) per annum as in effect from time to time in
accordance with the
Revolving Credit Note. Such interest shall be payable monthly in
arrears on the
last day of each calendar month commencing June 30, 2007 and on
the Maturity
Date, and shall be computed on the daily unpaid balance of all
Advances made
under the Borrower's revolving credit loan accounts with the
Lender, based on a
three hundred sixty (360) day year, counting the actual number
of days elapsed.
The Borrower hereby authorizes the Lender to charge the
Borrower's revolving
credit loan accounts for all such
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interest; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that the Lender shall be under no
obligation to
make any such charge to the Borrower's revolving credit loan
accounts
(including, without limitation, if there is insufficient
Availability at the
time such interest is due and payable).
(d) In the event and to the extent that, at any time, the
outstanding principal amount of Advances exceeds the Revolving
Credit Commitment
then in effect, then the Borrower shall immediately, without
notice or demand,
make a payment to the Lender in respect of the Advances in an
amount sufficient
to cause the outstanding principal amount of Advances to be
equal to or less
than the Revolving Credit Commitment then in effect.
(e) Unless sooner due and payable by reason of an Event of
Default or Sale having occurred, the Borrower shall pay in full
all of the
Obligations to the Lender in respect of all Advances on or prior
to the Maturity
Date.
(f) All Advances shall be evidenced by a secured Revolving
Credit Note of the Borrower payable to the order of the
Lender.
(g) The Borrower may, at its option, terminate the Revolving
Credit Commitment at any time upon ten (10) Business Days' prior
written notice,
and paying to the Lender, on the date fixed for termination, an
amount equal to
the sum of (i) all outstanding principal and accrued interest of
the Advances,
and (ii) prorated accrued Commitment Fees. In the event that,
simultaneously
with such termination and payment, the Borrower enters into a
replacement
revolving credit facility, the Lender shall, upon request of the
Borrower,
subordinate its liens and security interests in the Borrower's
and the
Subsidiaries' Accounts and inventory pursuant to a subordination
agreement in
form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Lender.
SECTION 2.02. TERM LOAN.
(a) Subject at all times to all of the terms and conditions
of
this Agreement, the Lender hereby agrees to extend to the
Borrower a Term Loan
in the principal amount of $9,500,000. The Term Loan shall be
borrowed in a
single borrowing on the Closing Date, and any principal amounts
repaid in
respect of the Term Loan may not be reborrowed.
(b) The Term Loan shall be repayable in full on the Maturity
Date. The Borrower shall be required to prepay the Term Loan (i)
in full
simultaneously with the consummation of any Sale, and (ii) in
whole or in part
from time to time (A) in the event and to the extent of 50% of
any and all
Qualified Proceeds received by the Borrower from time to time,
and (B) as
provided in Section 2.04 below. Any prepayment required under
the foregoing
clause (A) shall be due and payable as and when the amount of
Qualified Proceeds
is determined (i.e., upon receipt of such Qualified Proceeds in
the event that
no acquisition transaction is then pending, or thirty (30) days
after receipt of
such Qualified Proceeds to the extent that such Qualified
Proceeds have not been
applied to the purchase price and/or related expenses of a
consummated business
acquisition).
(c) The Borrower shall pay the Lender interest on the
principal balance of the Term Loan at the rate(s) per annum as
in effect from
time to time in accordance with the Term Note. Such interest
shall be payable
quarterly in arrears commencing June 30, 2007, on the last
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day of each calendar quarter thereafter, and on the Maturity
Date, and shall be
computed on the daily unpaid balance of the Term Loan, based on
a three hundred
sixty (360) day year, counting the actual number of days
elapsed. The Borrower
hereby authorizes the Lender to charge the Borrower's revolving
credit loan
accounts for all such interest and/or for any or all principal
amounts due and
payable in respect of the Term Loans; PROVIDED, HOWEVER, that
the Lender shall
be under no obligation to make any such charge to the Borrower's
revolving
credit loan accounts (including, without limitation, if there is
insufficient
Availability at the time such interest and/or principal is due
and payable).
(d) The Term Loan shall be evidenced by a secured Term Note
of
the Borrower payable to the order of the Lender.
SECTION 2.03. FEES AND PREMIUMS; LENDER SHARES.
(a) The Borrower shall pay the Closing Fee to the Lender on
the Closing Date. The Closing Fee shall be deemed fully earned
on the Closing
Date and shall not be refundable in whole or in part and shall
not be subject to
reduction or set-off under any circumstances.
(b) The Borrower shall further pay to the Lender, in respect
of the Revolving Credit Commitment:
(i) in advance on the Closing Date and on the first
(1st) Business Day of each calendar month prior to (A) the
Maturity
Date, or (B) the earlier termination of the Revolving Credit
Commitment
and payment of the Obligations thereon in accordance with
this
Agreement, a collateral monitoring and unused
commitment/administrative
fee in the amount of $5,000 per month or portion thereof;
and
(ii) on May 31 of each year commencing May 31, 2008,
and upon any early termination of the Revolving Credit
Commitment
(appropriately prorated in such latter case), an annual
Commitment Fee
in the amount of $50,000.
(c) In the event of any prepayment of all or any portion of
the Term Loan other than pursuant to Sections 2.04(b)(i) or
2.04(b)(iii) below,
in addition to the payment of the subject principal amount and
all unpaid
accrued interest thereon, the Borrower shall be required to pay
to the Lender a
prepayment premium in an amount equal to one (1%) percent of the
principal
amount being prepaid.
(d) On the Closing Date, the Lender shall purchase, and the
Borrower shall sell and issue to the Lender, an aggregate of
1,500,000 fully
paid and nonassessable shares of Common Stock for aggregate
purchase price of
$1,500. The Lender hereby acknowledges that such Lender Shares
constitute
"restricted securities" under the Act, and represents and
warrants that it is
acquiring such Lender Shares for its own account for investment,
and not with a
view to the resale or distribution thereof in violation of any
applicable
securities laws.
(e) Payments received in respect of the Obligations after
12:00 Noon on any day shall be deemed to be received on the next
succeeding
Business Day, and if any payment is received other than by wire
transfer of
immediately available funds, such payment shall be
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subject to three (3) Business Days' clearance prior to being
credited to the
Obligations for interest calculation purposes.
(f) In the event that the Lender notifies the Borrower that
the Lender is ready, willing and able to fund the Loans on
substantially the
terms of this Agreement and the Closing Date has not occurred
within fifteen
(15) days thereafter other than due to the fault of the Lender,
then the Lender
may, at any time thereafter until the Closing Date, terminate
this Agreement by
written notice to the Borrower, in which event the Borrower
shall immediately
pay to the Lender (i) an amount equal to all out-of-pocket
costs, charges and
expenses (up to an aggregate maximum of $75,000) incurred by the
Lender in
respect of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement, and
(ii) an
additional fee in the amount of $250,000. This Section 2.03(f)
shall survive any
termination of this Agreement.
SECTION 2.04. USE OF PROCEEDS.
(a) The Borrower shall utilize the proceeds of the Advances
solely for (i) repaying outstanding principal and accrued
interest on
Indebtedness currently owed by the Borrower to Mark Dyne in the
aggregate amount
of approximately $1,000,000, (ii) repaying up to $3,000,000 in
principal amount
of Convertible Debentures, (iii) paying accrued interest on the
Convertible
Debentures, and (iv) working capital and other general corporate
purposes of the
Borrower.
(b) The Borrower shall utilize the proceeds of the Term Loan
solely for the purpose of repaying the Convertible Debentures,
provided that, if
all holders of the Convertible Debentures have not agreed, prior
to and
effective on the Closing Date, to waive the prepayment penalties
provided in the
Convertible Debentures, then:
(i) On the Closing Date, the proceeds of the Term
Loan shall be placed in a segregated bank account (the
"ESCROW
ACCOUNT") at a commercial bank reasonably satisfactory to the
Lender,
which shall have entered into a Control Agreement pursuant to
which no
transactions in or withdrawals or other dispositions of funds in
the
Escrow Account may be made without the written consent of the
Lender.
The funds in the Escrow Account (including any interest earned
thereon)
may be withdrawn (and the Lender shall give its written
authorization
for such withdrawal) and applied to the payment of interest on
the Term
Loan from time to time as and when same becomes due and payable
and to
the payment of the Convertible Debentures at the earlier of (A)
the
maturity date of the Convertible Debentures, or (B) such time as
the
holders of the Convertible Debentures will accept prepayment
thereof in
full without any prepayment penalty. To the extent that, on
the
maturity date of the Convertible Debentures, the funds in the
Escrow
Account are not utilized to pay the Convertible Debentures, or
sooner
in the event and to the extent that, at any time or from time to
time,
the funds in the Escrow Account shall be greater than the
outstanding
principal and unpaid accrued interest of the Convertible
Debentures,
funds shall be withdrawn from the Escrow Account and applied to
the
prepayment of the Term Loan.
(ii) Anything contained in the Term Note to the
contrary notwithstanding, the interest rate applicable to the
portion
of the proceeds of the Term
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Loan held in the Escrow Account from time to time shall be equal
to the
interest income earned on the funds on deposit in the Escrow
Account
(and, for purposes of this Section 2.04(b)(ii), any withdrawals
from
the Escrow Account shall be deemed made from the principal
originally
deposited in the Escrow Account, until all such principal has
been
withdrawn from the Escrow Account).
(iii) In the event and to the extent that the holders
of the Convertible Debentures hereafter elect to and do convert
the
Convertible Debentures (or any portion or portions thereof) into
Common
Stock, then (A) an amount equal to the principal amount of
Convertible
Debentures that are converted shall, simultaneously with
such
conversion, be withdrawn from the Escrow Account and used to
prepay a
like portion of the Term Loan, and (B) upon each such
prepayment, the
Lender shall return to the Borrower a ratable portion of the
Lender
Shares and Warrants based on the principal amount prepaid as a
portion
of the aggregate $14,000,000 of maximum lending commitments
hereunder.
By way of example, if an aggregate of $4,000,000 in principal
amount of
Convertible Debentures were converted, $4,000,000 of the
principal of
the Term Loan would thereupon be prepaid out of funds in the
Escrow
Account, and simultaneously with such prepayment, four
fourteenths
((4)/14th) of the Lender Shares (428,571 Lender Shares) and
four
fourteenths ((4)/14th) of each Warrant would be cancelled (and
the
Borrower shall promptly (x) if required, issue replacement
stock
certificates for the uncancelled portion of any stock
certificate
theretofore representing any cancelled Lender Shares, and (y)
issue
replacement Warrants for the unexercised and uncancelled
portions of
the original Warrants). The Lender hereby agrees that it will
not sell,
transfer or dispose of Lender Shares or Warrants, or exercise
Warrants,
to such an extent that the Lender ceases to hold a sufficient
number of
Lender Shares and Warrants to satisfy any potential future
surrender
obligation under this Section 2.04(b)(iii).
(iv) Nothing herein contained shall be deemed to
abrogate or impair the Lender's right to withdraw funds from the
Escrow
Account for application to the Obligations upon the occurrence
and
during the continuance of any Event of Default.
SECTION 2.05. FURTHER OBLIGATIONS. With respect to all
Obligations for
which the interest rate is not otherwise specified herein
(whether such
Obligations arise hereunder, pursuant to the Notes or Security
Documents, or
otherwise), such Obligations shall bear interest at the rate(s)
in effect from
time to time pursuant to the Revolving Credit Note.
SECTION 2.06. APPLICATION OF PAYMENTS. All amounts paid to or
received
by the Lender in respect of the Loans from whatever source
(whether from the
Borrower, any Subsidiary pursuant to the Guaranty Agreement, any
realization
upon any Collateral, or otherwise) shall, unless otherwise
directed by the
Borrower with respect to any particular payment (unless an Event
of Default
shall then be continuing, in which event the Lender may
disregard the Borrower's
direction), be applied (a) first, to reimburse the Lender for
all out-of-pocket
costs and expenses incurred by the Lender which are reimbursable
to the Lender
in accordance with this Agreement, the Notes and/or any of the
other Loan
Documents, (b) next, to any accrued but unpaid fees or
prepayment premiums, and
amounts payable under Section 2.2(c) of the Registration Rights
Agreement, (c)
next, to unpaid accrued interest on the Term Loan, (d) next, to
unpaid accrued
interest on the Advances, (e) next, to the outstanding principal
of the Term
Loan, to the extent
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then due and payable, (f) next, to the outstanding principal of
the Advances,
and (g) finally, to the payment of any other outstanding
Obligations; and after
payment in full of the Obligations, any further amounts paid to
or received by
the Lender in respect of the Loans shall be paid over to the
Borrower or such
other Person(s) as may be legally entitled thereto.
SECTION 2.07. SALE. Anything elsewhere contained in this
Agreement
and/or the Notes to the contrary notwithstanding, the Revolving
Credit
Commitment shall terminate and all Obligations shall become
immediately due and
payable, without requirement of any notice or demand, upon the
consummation of
any Sale.
SECTION 2.08. OBLIGATIONS UNCONDITIONAL.
(a) The payment and performance of all Obligations shall
constitute the absolute and unconditional obligations of the
Borrower, and shall
be independent of any defense or rights of set-off, recoupment
or counterclaim
which the Borrower might otherwise have against the Lender. All
payments
required by this Agreement and/or the Notes shall be paid free
of any deductions
or withholdings for any taxes (but only for the original Lender
and any
investment funds under common management with such Lender) or
other amounts and
without abatement, diminution or set-off. If the Borrower is
required by law to
make such a deduction or withholding from a payment hereunder,
the Borrower
shall pay to the Lender such additional amount as is necessary
to ensure that,
after the making of such deduction or withholding, the Lender
receives (free
from any liability in respect of any such deduction or
withholding) a net sum
equal to the sum which it would have received and so retained
had no such
deduction or withholding been made or required to be made. The
Borrower shall
(i) pay the full amount of any deduction or withholding, which
it is required to
make by-law, to the relevant authority within the payment period
set by the
relevant law, and (ii) promptly after any such payment, deliver
to the Lender an
original (or certified copy) official receipt issued by the
relevant authority
in respect of the amount withheld or deducted or, if the
relevant authority does
not issue such official receipts, such other evidence of payment
of the amount
withheld or deducted as is reasonably acceptable to the
Lender.
(b) If, at any time and from time to time after the Closing
Date, (i) any change in any existing law, regulation, treaty or
directive or in
the interpretation or application thereof, (ii) any new law,
regulation, treaty
or directive enacted or application thereof, or (iii) compliance
by the Lender
with any request or directive (whether or not having the force
of law) from any
governmental authority (A) subjects the Lender to any tax, levy,
impost,
deduction, assessment, charge or withholding of any kind
whatsoever with respect
to any Loan Document, or changes the basis of taxation of
payments to the Lender
of any amount payable thereunder (except for net income taxes,
or franchise
taxes imposed in lieu of net income taxes, imposed generally by
federal, state
or local taxing authorities with respect to interest or
commitment fees or other
fees payable hereunder or changes in the rate of tax on the
overall net income
of the Lender or its members), or (B) imposes on the Lender any
other condition
or increased cost in connection with the transactions
contemplated thereby or
participations therein, and the result of any of the foregoing
is to increase
the cost to the Lender of making or continuing any Loan or to
reduce any amount
receivable hereunder, then, in any such case, the Borrower shall
promptly pay to
the Lender any additional amounts necessary to compensate the
Lender, on an
after-tax basis, for such additional cost or reduced amount as
determined by the
Lender. If the Lender becomes
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entitled to claim any additional amounts pursuant to this
Section 2.08(b), the
Lender shall promptly notify the Borrower of the event by reason
of which the
Lender has become so entitled, and each such notice of
additional amounts
payable pursuant to this Section 2.08(b) submitted by the Lender
to the Borrower
shall, absent manifest error, be final, conclusive and binding
for all purposes.
SECTION 2.09. REVERSAL OF PAYMENTS. To the extent that any
payment or
payments made to or received by the Lender pursuant to this
Agreement or any
other Loan Document are subsequently invalidated, declared to be
fraudulent or
preferential, set aside, or required to be repaid to any
trustee, receiver or
other person under any state or federal bankruptcy or other such
law, then, to
the extent thereof, such amounts shall be revived as Obligations
and continue in
full force and effect hereunder as if such payment or payments
had not been
received by the Lender.
SECTION 2.10. OFFERING TO HOLDERS OF CONVERTIBLE DEBENTURES.
Within the
time periods provided in Section 8 of the Subscription
Agreements, the Borrower
shall offer to the holders of the Convertible Debentures the
opportunity to
purchase participations in the Loans, the Lender Shares and the
Warrants,
pursuant to participation agreements in form and substance
satisfactory to the
Lender; PROVIDED, however, that in no event shall such
participations offered to
the holders of the Convertible Debentures exceed 49% of the
Loans, the Lender
Shares or the Warrants. If any of such holders accepts such
offer, the Borrower
shall, upon tender of the certificates representing the Lender
Shares and the
Warrants, reissue such Lender Shares and Warrants to the Lender
and the subject
participants in the amounts designated by the Lender based upon
such
participations. Thereafter, in the event that any of the Lender
Shares or the
Warrants are required to be surrendered pursuant to Section
2.04(b)(iii) above,
the Borrower shall look solely to the participants for the
return of their
proportionate shares of such to-be-surrendered Lender Shares and
Warrants.
III. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
As of the Closing Date and on each Borrowing Date (unless
the
representation and warranty refers to a specific date), the
Borrower hereby
makes the following representations and warranties to the
Lender, all of which
representations and warranties shall survive the Closing Date,
the delivery of
the Notes and the making of the Loans, shall be continuing in
nature so long as
any Obligations are outstanding or the Revolving Credit
Commitment remains in
effect, and are as follows:
SECTION 3.01. FINANCIAL MATTERS.
(a) The Borrower has heretofore furnished to the Lender (i)
the audited consolidated financial statements (including balance
sheets,
statements of income and statements of cash flows) of the
Borrower and its
Subsidiaries as at December 31, 2005 and 2006, and for the
Fiscal Years then
ended, and (ii) the unaudited consolidated financial statements
of the Borrower
and its Subsidiaries as of March 31, 2007 and for the three (3)
months then
ended (collectively, the "FINANCIAL STATEMENTS").
(b) The Financial Statements (i) have been prepared in
accordance with GAAP and Regulation S-X promulgated under the
Act on a
consistent basis for all periods
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(subject, in the case of unaudited statements, to the absence of
full footnote
disclosures, and to normal non-material audit adjustments), (ii)
are complete
and correct in all material respects, (iii) fairly present the
consolidated
financial condition of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries as of
said dates, and
the results of their operations for the periods stated, (iv)
contain and reflect
all necessary adjustments and accruals for a fair presentation
of the Borrower's
and its Subsidiaries' consolidated financial condition and
results of operations
as of the dates of and for the periods covered by such Financial
Statements, and
(v) make full and adequate provision, subject to and in
accordance with GAAP,
for the various assets and liabilities (including, without
limitation, deferred
revenues) of the Borrower, fixed or contingent, and the results
of their
operations and transactions in their accounts, as of the dates
and for the
periods referred to therein.
(c) Except as set forth in SCHEDULE 3.01 of the Disclosure
Schedule, neither the Borrower nor any of its Subsidiaries have
any liabilities,
obligations or commitments of any kind or nature whatsoever,
whether absolute,
accrued, contingent or otherwise (collectively "LIABILITIES AND
CONTINGENCIES"),
including, without limitation, Liabilities and Contingencies
under employment
agreements and with respect to any "earn-outs", stock
appreciation rights, or
related compensation obligations, except: (i) Liabilities and
Contingencies
disclosed in the Financial Statements or footnotes thereto, (ii)
Liabilities and
Contingencies incurred in the ordinary course of business and
consistent with
past practice since the date of the most recent Financial
Statements, or (iii)
those Liabilities and Contingencies which are not required to be
disclosed under
GAAP. The reserves, if any, reflected on the balance sheet
included in the most
recent Financial Statements are appropriate and reasonable.
Neither the Borrower
nor any of its Subsidiaries have any Indebtedness for money
borrowed,
outstanding obligations for the purchase price of property,
contingent
obligations or liabilities for taxes, or any unusual forward or
long-term
commitments, except as specifically set forth in SCHEDULE 3.01
of the Disclosure
Schedule.
(d) Since the date of the most recent Financial Statements,
except as set forth in SCHEDULE 3.01 of the Disclosure Schedule,
there has been
no material adverse change in the working capital, condition
(financial or
otherwise), assets, liabilities, reserves, business, management,
operations or
prospects of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, including,
without
limitation, the following:
(i) there has been no material change in any
assumptions underlying,
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