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Exhibit 10.1
SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED
REVOLVING CREDIT AND TERM LOAN AGREEMENT
among
HARDINGE INC.
(the " Borrower ")
the Banks signatory hereto
MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS TRUST
COMPANY
as Agent
and
Lead Arranger
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.
as Syndication Agent
and
KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION
As Documentation Agent
Amended and Restated as of November 21, 2006
TABLE OF
CONTENTS
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ARTICLE 1. DEFINITIONS; ACCOUNTING TERMS
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ARTICLE 2. THE CREDIT
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ARTICLE 3. YIELD PROTECTION; ILLEGALITY; ETC.
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ARTICLE 4. CONDITIONS PRECEDENT
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ARTICLE 5. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
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ARTICLE 6. AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS
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ARTICLE 7. NEGATIVE COVENANTS
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ARTICLE 8. FINANCIAL COVENANTS
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ARTICLE 9. EVENTS OF DEFAULT
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ARTICLE 10. THE AGENT; RELATIONS AMONG BANKS AND
BORROWER
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ARTICLE 11. MISCELLANEOUS
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EXHIBITS
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Exhibit A
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Authorization Letter
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Exhibit B
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Form of Revolving Credit Note
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Exhibit C
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Form of Swing Line Note
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Exhibit D
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Form of Term Loan Note
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Exhibit E
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Opinion of Counsel for Borrower
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Exhibit F
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Confidentiality Agreement
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Exhibit G
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Form Notice of Borrowing
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Exhibit H
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Assignment and Assumption Agreement
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Exhibit I
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Compliance Certificate
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SCHEDULES
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Schedule I
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Existing JP Morgan Letters of Credit
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Schedule II
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Existing Other Debt
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Schedule III
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Revolving Commitment Amounts
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Schedule IV
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Term Loan Commitment Amounts
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Schedule V
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Subsidiaries of Borrower
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Schedule VI
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Hazardous Materials
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Schedule VII
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Insurance
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SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED REVOLVING CREDIT
AND
TERM LOAN AGREEMENT
THIS SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED REVOLVING CREDIT AND TERM
LOAN AGREEMENT dated as of November 21, 2006 is entered into by
and among HARDINGE INC. , a corporation organized under the
laws of New York, each of the banks which is a signatory hereto,
MANUFACTURERS AND TRADERS TRUST COMPANY , a New York banking
corporation, as Agent and Lead Arranger for the Banks, JPMORGAN
CHASE BANK, N.A. , a national banking association formed and
existing under the laws of the United States of America, as
Syndication Agent and KEYBANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION , a
national banking association formed and existing under the laws of
the United States of America, as Documentation Agent.
RECITALS
A.
The Borrower, the Banks, the Agent, the Syndication Agent and the
Documentation Agent are parties to an Amended and Restated
Revolving Credit and Term Loan Agreement dated January 28, 2005, as
the same has been amended by Amendment No. 1 to the Amended and
Restated Revolving Credit and Term Loan Agreement dated February
11, 2005, Amendment No. 2 to the to the Amended and Restated
Revolving Credit and Term Loan Agreement dated July 16, 2005,
Amendment No. 3 to the Amended and Restated Revolving Credit and
Term Loan Agreement dated December 22, 2005 and Amendment No. 4 to
the Amended and Restated Revolving Credit and Term Loan Agreement
dated June 7, 2006. (collectively, the " Existing Credit
Agreement ").
B.
The parties hereto desire to amend, restate and modify, but not
extinguish, the Existing Credit Agreement in its entirety, as
herein provided.
NOW, THEREFORE , in consideration of the premises and the
mutual agreements contained herein, the parties hereto agree as
follows:
ARTICLE 1. DEFINITIONS; ACCOUNTING TERMS
Section 1.01
Definitions . As used in this Agreement
the following terms have the following meanings:
" Account Control Agreements " means the Account
Control Agreements as may be required pursuant to the terms of the
Security Documents, given by the Borrower and the applicable
financial institutions where Borrower maintains its operating
accounts in favor of the Agent for the benefit of the Banks, which
Account Control Agreements shall in all respects be acceptable to
the Agent and the Banks, as such agreement may be amended,
restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
" Acquisition " means the acquisition of: (a) a
controlling equity interest in another Person (including the
purchase of an option, warrant or convertible or similar type
security to acquire such a controlling interest at the time it
becomes exercisable by the holder thereof), whether by purchase of
such equity interest or upon exercise of an option or warrant for,
or conversion of securities into, such equity interest, or (b)
assets of another Person which constitute all or substantially all
of the assets of such Person or of a line or lines of business
conducted by such Person.
" Additional Costs " has the meaning given to such
term in Section 3.01 hereof.
" Additional Technical Information " shall mean
and refer to the technical information required for the manufacture
of the products, accessories and spares, including but not limited
to the blueprints, designs, schematics, drawings, specifications,
computer source and object codes, customer lists and other
proprietary rights and assets of a similar nature, all as described
with particularity in the Bridgeport Acquisition Documents.
" Administrative Questionnaire " means the
administrative questionnaire in the form supplied by the Agent.
" Affected Loans " has the meaning given to such
term in Section 3.04 hereof.
" Affected Type " has the meaning given to such
term in Section 3.04 hereof.
" Affiliate " means any Person: (a) which directly
or indirectly controls, or is controlled by, or is under common
control with, the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries; (b) which
directly or indirectly beneficially owns or holds 5% or more of any
class of voting stock of the Borrower or any such Subsidiary; (c)
5% or more of the voting stock of which is directly or indirectly
beneficially owned or held by the Borrower or such Subsidiary; or
(d) which is a partnership in which the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries is a general partner. The term "
control " means the possession, directly or
indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the
management and policies of a Person, whether through the ownership
of voting securities, by contract, or otherwise.
" Agent " means M&T Bank in its capacity as
agent of the Banks pursuant to Article 10, and not in its
individual capacity as a Bank, and any successor Agent appointed
pursuant to Article 10.
" Agreement " means this Second Amended and
Restated Revolving Credit and Term Loan Agreement, as amended,
supplemented, restated or otherwise modified from time to time.
References to Articles, Sections, Exhibits, schedules and the
like refer to the Articles, Sections, Exhibits, schedules and the
like of this Agreement unless otherwise indicated.
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" Aggregate Commitment " means, on any date of
determination, the aggregate amount on such date of the Commitments
of all of the Banks. On the Effective Date, the Aggregate
Commitment is $91,600,000.
" Aggregate Revolving Commitment " means, on any
date of determination, the aggregate amount on such date of the
Revolving Commitments of all of the Banks. On the Effective
Date, the Aggregate Revolving Commitment is $70,000,000.
" Aggregate Revolving Credit Exposure " means as
of any date of determination, the sum of Revolving Credit Exposure
of all the Banks.
" Aggregate Term Loan Commitment " means on any
date of determination, the aggregate amount on such date of the
Term Loan Commitments of all of the Banks..
" Applicable Margin " means for each Variable Rate
Loan or Eurocurrency Loan, or with respect to the Revolving
Commitment Fees payable hereunder, as the case may be, the
applicable rate per annum on the table next following under the
caption "Variable Margin", "Eurocurrency Margin" or "Revolving
Commitment Fee Rate", respectively, under the Pricing Level then in
effect based upon Borrower’s Leverage Ratio as reflected in
the Financials for the immediately preceding four Fiscal Quarters
for income statement items and the most recently ended Fiscal
Quarter for balance sheet items, computed as provided below.
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Pricing
Level
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Leverage Ratio
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Variable Rate Margin
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Eurocurrency
Margin
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Revolving
Commitment
Fee Rate
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Level I
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Less than 1.5
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0 Basis Points
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100 Basis
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15 Basis
Points
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Level II
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Equal to or greater
than 1.5 and less than 2.0
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0 Basis Points
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125 Basis
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17.5 Basis
Points
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Level III
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Equal to or greater
than 2.0 and less than 2.5
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25 Basis Points
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150 Basis
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20 Basis
Points
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Level IV
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Equal to or greater
than 2.5 and less than 3.0
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50 Basis Points
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175 Basis
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25 Basis
Points
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Level V
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Equal to or greater
than or equal to 3.0
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75 Basis Points
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200 Basis
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37.5 Basis
Points
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For purposes of the foregoing, notwithstanding anything herein
to the contrary
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(a)
if at any time the Borrower fails to deliver the Financials
required under Sections 6.02(a) or 6.02(b) on or before the date
such Financials are due, Pricing Level V shall be deemed applicable
for the period commencing five (5) Business Days after such
required date of delivery and ending on the date which is five (5)
Business Days after such Financials are actually delivered, after
which the Pricing Level shall be determined using such Financials
in accordance with the table above as applicable;
(b)
adjustments, if any, to the Pricing Level then in effect shall be
effective five (5) Business Days after the Agent has received the
applicable Financials (it being understood and agreed that each
change in Pricing Level shall apply during the period commencing on
the effective date of such change and ending on the date
immediately preceding the effective date of the next such change);
and
(c)
each determination of the Applicable Margin made by the Agent in
accordance with the foregoing shall, in the absence of demonstrable
error, be conclusive and binding on the Borrower and each Bank;
and
(d)
the initial Applicable Margin on the Effective Date shall be based
on Level IV until the first adjustment thereto as provided
above.
" Arranger " means M&T Bank in its capacity as
sole arranger for the credit facilities provided under this
Agreement.
" Assignment and Assumption Agreement " has the
meaning given to such term in Section 11.05(b) hereof.
" Assignment of Leases and Rents " means that
certain Assignment of Leases and Rents dated as of the Original
Effective Date (as the same may be amended, restated, supplemented
or otherwise modified from time to time), as granted by Hardinge
Technology Systems, Inc. in favor of the Agent for the benefit of
the Banks, whereby Hardinge Technology Systems, Inc. granted, as
collateral for the Obligations, an assignment of the leases and
rents for the principal place of business for the Borrower.
" Authorization Letter " means the letter
agreement executed by the Borrower in the form of Exhibit
A hereto.
" Authorized Officer " means the president, chief
executive officer, chief financial officer or the secretary of the
Borrower or any other Person designated by any of the foregoing in
writing to the Agent from time to time to act on behalf of any
Borrower which designation has not been rescinded in writing, in
each case acting singly, provided that two Authorized Officers
shall be required to modify the wiring instructions for any
Loan.
" Bank " means the banks who are parties to this
Agreement on the date hereof and any other bank that shall become a
party hereto after the date hereof pursuant to an Assignment and
Assumption, other than any such Person that shall have ceased to be
a party hereto pursuant to an
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Assignment and Assumption. Unless the
context otherwise requires, the term "Bank" includes the Swing Line
Bank. In addition to the foregoing, for the purpose of
identifying the Persons entitled to share in the collateral and the
proceeds thereof under, and in accordance with the provisions of,
this Agreement and the Security Documents, the term "Bank" shall
include Affiliates of a Bank providing Bank Products.
" Bank Product Agreements " means those agreements
entered into from time to time by the Borrower or any Subsidiary in
connection with any of the Bank Products.
" Bank Product Obligations " means all
obligations, liabilities, contingent reimbursement obligations,
fees, and expenses owing pursuant to or evidenced by the Bank
Product Agreements and irrespective of whether for the payment of
money, whether direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, due or
to become due, now existing or hereafter arising, and including all
such amounts that the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries is
obligated to reimburse to anyone as a result of purchasing
participations or executing indemnities or reimbursement
obligations with respect to the Bank Products.
" Bank Products " means any service or facility
(but excluding the Loans and the Facility Letters of Credit)
extended to Borrower or any Subsidiary, including: (a) credit
cards, (b) credit card processing services, (c) debit cards, (d)
purchase cards, (e) ACH Transactions, (f) cash management,
including controlled disbursement accounts or services, or (g)
facilities for foreign exchange, foreign derivative products and
foreign exposures.
" Bankruptcy Event " has the meaning given to such
term in Section 2.08(b) thereof.
" Basis Point " means one one-hundredth of one
percent.
" Borrower " means Hardinge Inc., a New York
corporation, and its successors.
" Bridgeport Acquisition Documents " means the
various agreements and instruments executed by and between the
Borrower and BPT IP, LLC, including but not limited to, that
certain Alliance Agreement dated November, 2004, whereby among
other things, BP IP, LLC granted to the Borrower an option to
purchase the Additional Technical Information on or before December
31, 2005, as described with particularity in Section 7.6.3 of the
Alliance Agreement.
" Business Day " means any day that is not a
Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in New York
City are authorized or required by law to remain closed; provided
that when used in connection with a Eurocurrency Loan, the term
"Business Day" shall also exclude any day on which banks are not
open for dealings in deposits in the applicable currency in the
London interbank market.
" Capital Expenditures " means for any period, the
sum of (without duplication) of all expenditures during such period
(including, but not limited to, the purchase, construction or
rehabilitation of equipment or other physical assets) that are
required to be capitalized under GAAP, whether or not financed.
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" Capital Lease " means any lease which has been
or should be capitalized on the books of the lessee in accordance
with GAAP.
" Capital Securities " means, with respect to any
Person, all shares, interests, participations or other equivalents
(however designated, whether voting or non-voting) of such
Person’s capital, whether now outstanding or issued or
acquired after the Original Effective Date, including common
shares, preferred shares, membership interests in a limited
liability company, limited or general partnership interests in a
partnership, interests in a trust, interests in other
unincorporated organizations or any other equivalent of such
ownership interest.
" Change in Control " means: (a) except as to: (i)
officers and directors in office as of the Original Effective Date,
and (ii) the Hardinge Inc. Pension Plan, Hardinge Inc. Retirement
Plan or other compensation plan of Borrower, the acquisition of
ownership, directly or indirectly, beneficially or of record, of
any Person or group (within the meaning of the Securities Act of
1934 and Rule 13d-5 of the Securities and Exchange Commission as in
effect on the date hereof) of Capital Securities representing more
than twenty five percent (25%) of the aggregate ordinary voting
power in the election of Borrower’s directors; or (b)
occupation of a majority of the seats (other than vacant seats) on
the board of directors of the Borrower by Persons who are neither:
(i) nominated by the board of directors of the Borrower, nor (ii)
appointed by the directors so nominated.
" Code " means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986,
as amended from time to time.
" Commercial Letter of Credit " shall mean a
documentary Letter of Credit issued in respect of the purchase of
goods or services by Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries in the
ordinary course of its business.
" Commitment " means, with respect to a Bank, both
its Revolving Commitment and its Term Loan Commitment.
" Compliance Certificate " has the meaning given
to such term in Section 6.02(c) hereof.
" consolidated " and " consolidating
", when used with reference to any term, mean that term as applied
to the accounts of the Borrower (or other specified Person) and all
of its Subsidiaries (or other specified group of Persons), or such
of its Subsidiaries as may be specified, consolidated or
consolidating, as the case may be, in accordance with GAAP.
" Consolidated Interest Expense " means for any
period, the sum for the Borrower and its Consolidated Subsidiaries
(determined on a consolidated basis without duplication, in
accordance with GAAP) of the following: (a) all interest with
respect of Funded Debt (including, without limitation, the interest
component of any payments in respect of Capital Leases) accrued or
capitalized during such period (whether or not actually paid during
such period), (b) the net amount payable (or minus the net amount
receivable) under Hedging Agreements during such period (whether or
not actually paid or received during such period); (c) without
duplication any
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periodic commitment fees and other fees payable
to the Agent or the Bank pursuant to the Loan Documents; and (d)
without duplication, any periodic fees paid by the Borrower or any
of its Subsidiaries to other creditors, which fees shall be related
to or arising out of any Debt owed to other creditors.
" Consolidated Net Income " means for any period
the net income or loss of the Borrower and its Consolidated
Subsidiaries for such period determined on a consolidated basis,
without duplication, in accordance with GAAP, provided that there
shall be excluded from such net income or loss: (a) the income of
any Person (other than a Consolidated Subsidiary) in which any
other Person (other than the Borrower or any Consolidated
Subsidiary or any director holding qualifying shares in compliance
with applicable law) owns an Equity Interest, except to the extent
of the amount of dividends or other distributions actually paid to
the Borrower or any of the consolidated Subsidiaries by such Person
during such period, and (b) the income or loss of any Person
accrued prior to the date on which it becomes a Subsidiary or is
merged into or consolidated with the Borrower or any consolidated
Subsidiary or the date on which such Person’s assets are
acquired by the Borrower or any Consolidated Subsidiary.
" Consolidated Tangible Net Worth " means as of
the date of determination, without duplication and determined in
accordance with GAAP: (a) the total assets of the Borrower and its
Consolidated Subsidiaries, minus (b) the total liabilities of
Borrower and its Consolidated Subsidiaries and all intangible
assets of the Borrower and its Consolidated Subsidiaries, and (c)
minus any decrease or plus any increase in the value of intangible
assets related to the translation of adjustments, provided,
however, that there shall be excluded from all such calculations
both: (x) cumulative foreign currency translation adjustments, and
(y) changes in pension liabilities recorded in accordance with SFAS
87.
" Credit Party " or " Credit Parties
," individually or collectively, means and refers to the Borrower
and the Subsidiary Guarantors.
" Customer Notes " means any and all notes and
other evidence of indebtedness (except accounts receivable arising
in the ordinary course of business) listed on that certain Due
Diligence Certificate to be delivered by the Borrower to the Agent
on or before the Effective Date, which notes were issued prior to
the Original Effective Date to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries
for the payment obligations of customers for goods or services
provided in the ordinary course of business and that Borrower and
its Subsidiaries sold prior to the Original Effective Date pursuant
to the Customer Note Sale Agreements.
" Customer Note Sale Agreements " means,
collectively, those agreements entered into prior to the Original
Effective Date, between the Borrower and certain third party
purchasers, for the sale, by the Borrower of certain of its
Customer Notes, all of which are listed on that certain Due
Diligence Certificate to be delivered by the Borrower to the Agent
on or before the Effective Date.
" Customer Note Sale Agreement Guaranties " means,
collectively, those limited guaranties granted by the Borrower
prior to the Original Effective Date, whereby the Borrower
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guaranteed, on a limited basis, the payment of
its certain of its Customer Notes as contemplated under the terms
of the Customer Note Sale Agreements, all of which are listed on
listed on that certain Due Diligence Certificate to be delivered by
the Borrower to the Agent on or before the Effective
Date.
" Debt " means, with respect to any Person: (a)
indebtedness of such Person for borrowed money whether or not
evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or similar instruments; (b)
obligations of such Person as lessee under Capital Leases or
Synthetic Lease Obligations, (c) obligations under direct or
indirect guaranties in respect of, and obligations (contingent or
otherwise) to purchase or otherwise acquire, or otherwise to assure
a creditor against loss in respect of, indebtedness or obligations
of others of the kinds referred to in clause (a) and (b) above,
(not otherwise reserved for), which in the case of the Borrower,
shall specifically include any contingent and direct obligations
arising under or in connection with the Customer Note Sale
Agreement Guaranties, (d) all obligations of such Person to pay the
deferred purchase price of property or services (excluding trade
accounts payable in the ordinary course of business and accrued
expenses arising in the ordinary course of business), (e) all
obligations, contingent or otherwise, with respect to the face
amount of all letters of credit, including the Facility Letters of
Credit issued hereunder (whether or not drawn) (excluding, however,
in all cases, Commercial Letters of Credit), bankers’
acceptances and similar obligations issued for the account of such
Person, , (f) all guaranties of indebtedness of any Person, and (g)
all Debt of any partnership of which such Person is a general
partner.
" Default " means any event which with the giving
of notice or lapse of time, or both, would become an Event of
Default.
" Default Rate " means, with respect to the
principal of any Loan and, to the extent permitted by law, any
other amount payable by the Borrower under this Agreement
(including the repayment of any Facility LC Disbursement) or any
Note that is not paid when due (whether at stated maturity, by
acceleration or otherwise), a rate per annum during the period from
and including the due date, to, but excluding the date on which
such amount is paid in full equal to three percent (3.0%) above the
Variable Rate as in effect from time to time plus the Applicable
Margin (provided that, if the amount so in default is principal of
a Eurocurrency Loan and the due date thereof is a day other than
the last day of the Interest period therefor, the "Default Rate"
for such principal shall be, for the period from and including the
due date and to but excluding the last day of the Interest Period
therefor, three percent (3.0%) above the interest rate for such
Loan as provided in Section 2.07 hereof and, thereafter, the rate
provided for above in this definition).
" Documentation Agent " means KeyBank National
Association in its capacity as documentation agent of the Banks,
and not in its individual capacity as a Bank.
" Domestic Subsidiary " means any Subsidiary of
Borrower that is organized and existing under the laws of any
jurisdiction in the United States of America.
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" EBITDA " means Consolidated Net Income prior to
the deduction of Consolidated Interest Expense, prior to the
deduction of federal or foreign corporate income and corporate
franchise taxes, prior to the deduction of depreciation and
amortization and MINUS to the extent included in the determination
of Consolidated Net Income for such period, the sum of the
following for the Borrower and its Consolidated Subsidiaries: (a)
interest income, (b) any extraordinary, unusual or non-recurring
income or gains (including, whether or not otherwise able to be
included as a separate item in the statement of Consolidated Net
Income for such period, gains on the sales of assets outside the
ordinary course of business), and (c) any other non-cash income,
all as determined on a consolidated basis.
" Effective Date " means November 21, 2006, or, if
later, the date on which the conditions contained in Article 4 have
been satisfied (or waived in accordance with Section 11.01).
" Environmental Laws " means any and all federal,
state, local and foreign statutes, laws, regulations, ordinances,
rules, judgments, orders, decrees, permits, concessions, grants,
franchises, licenses, agreements or other governmental restrictions
relating to the environment or to emissions, discharges, releases
or threatened releases of pollutants, contaminants, chemicals, or
industrial, toxic or hazardous substances or wastes into the
environment including, without limitation, ambient air, surface
water, ground water, or land, or otherwise relating to the
manufacture, processing distribution, use, treatment, storage,
disposal, transport, or handling-of pollutants, contaminants,
chemicals, or industrial, toxic or hazardous substances or
wastes.
" ERISA Affiliate " means each Person (as defined
in Section 3(9) of ERISA), which together with the Borrower or a
Subsidiary of the Borrower, would be deemed to be a "single
employer" (i) within the meaning of Section 414(b), (c), (m) or (o)
of the Code or Section 4001(a)(14) or 4001(b)(i) of ERISA or (ii)
as a result of the Borrower or a Subsidiary of the Borrower being
or having been a general partner of such Person.
" Equity Issuance " means: (a) any issuance or
sale by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries of: (i) any Capital
Securities, (ii) any warrants or options exercisable in respect of
Capital Securities (other than any warrants or options issued to
directors, officers or employees of the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries in their capacity as such and any Capital Securities
of the Borrower issued upon the exercise of such warrants), or
(iii) any other security or instrument representing an equity
interest (or the right to obtain any equity interest) in the
Borrower, or (b) the receipt by the Borrower of any contribution to
its capital (whether or not evidenced by any Capital
Securities).
" ERISA " means the Employee Retirement Income
Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to time, including any
rules and regulations promulgated thereunder.
" Eurocurrency Loan " means any Loan when and to
the extent the interest rate is determined on the basis of the
definition of "LIBOR Rate".
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" Eurocurrency Rate " means for any Interest
Period for any Eurocurrency Loan a rate per annum determined by the
Agent to be equal to the relevant LIBOR Rate for the Eurocurrency
Loan, adjusted for any applicable Reserve Requirement.
" Existing Bridge Loans " means the Bridge Loans
made pursuant to, and as defined in, Amendment No. 3 to the
Existing Credit Agreement that are outstanding immediately prior to
the Effective Date.
" Existing Facility Letter of Credit " means a
Facility Letter of Credit issued by the Issuing Bank pursuant to
Section 2.14 of the Existing Agreement. For the avoidance of
doubt, Existing Facility Letters of Credit do not include the
JPMorgan Letters of Credit.
" Existing JP Morgan Letters of Credit " means the
outstanding Letters of Credit issued by JPMorgan for the account of
the Borrower prior to the date of this Agreement which are set
forth on Schedule I to this Agreement.
" Excluded Foreign Subsidiaries " has the meaning
given thereto in Section 5.12(b).
" Existing Other Debt " means the Debt of the
Borrower and its Subsidiaries existing as of the Original Effective
Date, all of which is set forth in Schedule II
to this Agreement
" Existing Revolving Loans " means the Loans made
pursuant to, and as defined in, the Existing Credit Agreement that
are outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Date.
" Existing Term Loans " means the Loans made
pursuant to, and as defined in, the Existing Credit Agreement that
are outstanding immediately prior to the Effective Date.
" Event of Default " has the meaning given such
term in Section 9.01 hereof.
" Facility LC Commitment " means the
commitment of the Issuing Bank to issue Facility Letters of Credit
pursuant to Section 2.14.
" Facility LC Disbursement " means a payment made
by the Issuing Bank pursuant to a Facility Letter of Credit.
" Facility Letter of Credit Collateral Account "
has the meaning given to such term in Section 2.14(i) hereof.
" Facility LC Exposure " means, at any time, the
sum of: (a) the aggregate undrawn amount of all outstanding
Facility Letters of Credit at such time, plus (b) the aggregate
amount of all unreimbursed Facility LC Disbursements. The
Facility LC Exposure of any Bank at any time shall be its Pro Rata
Share of the Facility LC Exposure at such time determined in
accordance with the foregoing sentence.
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" Facility Letter of Credit " means a Letter of
Credit issued by the Issuing Bank pursuant to Section 2.14 of this
Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, Facility Letters of
Credit do not include JPMorgan Letters of Credit.
" Facility Letter of Credit Fee " has the meaning
given to such term in Section 2.11(b) hereof.
" Facility Letter of Credit Fronting Fee " has the
meaning given to such term in Section 2.11(b).
" Facility Letter of Credit Collateral Shortfall
Amount " has the meaning given to such term in Section
9.02(a) hereof.
" Federal Funds Rate " means, for any day, the
rate per annum equal to the weighted average of the rates on
overnight federal funds transactions as published by the Federal
Reserve Bank of New York for such day (or for any day that is not a
Business Day, for the immediately preceding Business Day).
" Fee Letters " means the Engagement Letter dated
October 11, 2006 between Borrower and M&T Bank, the letter
agreement dated December 14, 2004 between Borrower and M&T
Bank, both relating to certain fees payable by the Borrower with
respect to the transactions contemplated by the Existing Credit
Agreement and this Agreement
" Financials " means the annual or quarterly
financial statements, and accompanying certificates and other
documents, of the Borrower required to be delivered pursuant to
Section 6.02(a) or 6.02(b).
" Fiscal Quarter " means the three (3) month
period ending on or around March 31, June 30, September 30 and
December 31 of each year.
" Fiscal Year " means the twelve (12) month period
ending on December 31 of each year.
" Fixed Charges " means as of the date of
determination all of the scheduled principal payments on Debt,
interest payments on Debt, dividends and all other distributions of
the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (excluding dividends and
distributions from a Subsidiary to the Borrower) for the twelve
(12) month period ending on such date.
" Fixed Charges Coverage Ratio " means as of the
date of determination, the ratio of: (a) EBITDA minus : (i)
Non-Financed Capital Expenditures, and (ii) Taxes paid in cash, for
the twelve (12) month period ending on such date, divided by (b)
Fixed Charges for the same period.
" Foreign Subsidiary " means any Subsidiary of
Borrower that is not a Domestic Subsidiary.
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" Forfeiture Proceeding " means any action,
proceeding or investigation affecting the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries or Affiliates before any court, governmental
department, commission, board, bureau, agency or instrumentality,
domestic or foreign, or the receipt of notice by any such party
that any of them is a suspect in or a target of any governmental
inquiry or investigation, which may result in an indictment of any
of them or the seizure or forfeiture of any of their property.
" Funded Debt " means, without duplication
determined in accordance with GAAP, all of Borrower’s and its
Consolidated Subsidiaries’ Debt.
" GAAP " means generally accepted accounting
principles in the United States of America as in effect from time
to time, applied on a basis consistent with those used in the
preparation of the audited financial statements referred to in
Section 5.05 (except for changes concurred in by the
Borrower’s independent public accountants).
" Guaranty " means the Amended and Restated
Guaranty made by Hardinge Technology Systems, Inc. in favor of the
Agent for the benefit of the Banks dated as of the Original
Effective Date, as it may be amended, supplemented, restated or
otherwise modified from time to time.
" Guaranty Supplement " means supplements to the
Guaranty to be executed by the required Subsidiaries of the
Borrower pursuant to Section 6.08 herein, which shall be in the
form attached to the Guaranty as an exhibit.
" Hazardous Materials " means any substance
regulated under any Environmental Laws.
" Hedging Agreement " means any interest rate swap
agreement, cap agreement or collar agreement, and any other
agreement or arrangement designed to protect a Person against
fluctuations in interest rates.
" Hedging Obligation " means any liability of the
Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries under any Hedging
Agreement. The amount of obligation in respect of any Hedging
Obligation shall be deemed to be the incremental obligation that
would be reflected in the financial statements of the Borrower and
its Consolidated Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP.
" Indemnified Liability " has the meaning given to
such term in Section 11.03 hereof.
" Intellectual Property Security Agreement " means
the Intellectual Property Security Agreement granted by the
Borrower, certain Subsidiaries of the Borrower and any other Person
listed in the signature pages thereto, in favor of the Agent for
the benefit of the Banks dated as of Original Effective Date
securing the Obligations and in the form attached to the Security
Agreement as an exhibit, as such agreement may be amended,
supplemented, restated or otherwise modified from time to time.
" Intellectual Property Security Agreement
Supplement " means supplements to the Intellectual Property
Security Agreement to be executed by the required Subsidiaries of
the
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Borrower pursuant to Section 6.08 herein, which
shall be in a the form attached to the Intellectual Property
Security Agreement as an exhibit.
" Intercompany Debt " shall mean Debt that is owed
by a Subsidiary to the Borrower or any other Subsidiary or by any
Subsidiary to any other Subsidiary.
" Interest Period " means the period commencing on
the date a Loan is made and ending, as the Borrower may select
pursuant to Section 2.08: (a) in the case of Variable Rate Loans,
the period commencing on the date such Variable Rate Loan is made
and ending on the Quarterly Date next succeeding such date; and (b)
in the case of Eurocurrency Loans, on the numerically corresponding
day in the first, second, third, or sixth calendar month
thereafter, provided , however , that each such
Interest Period which commences on the last Business Day of a
calendar month (or any day for which there is no numerically
corresponding day in the appropriate subsequent calendar month)
shall end on the last Business Day of the subsequent calendar
month.
" Issuing Bank " means M&T Bank in its
capacity as the Issuing Bank of a Facility Letter of Credit or any
Affiliate of M&T Bank that may from time to time issue Facility
Letters of Credit, and their successors and assigns in such
capacity.
" JPMorgan " means JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., a
national association formed and existing under the laws of the
United States of America.
" JPMorgan Exposure " means the sum of: (a) the
aggregate maximum amount that Borrower and its Subsidiaries could
be required to pay under the Customer Note Sale Guaranties and the
JPMorgan Letters of Credit, plus (b) the aggregate amount of all
unreimbursed disbursements made by JPMorgan or its Affiliates
pursuant to the JPMorgan Letters of Credit.
" JPMorgan Letters of Credit " means the Existing
JPMorgan Letters of Credit and the Letters of Credit issued by
JPMorgan after the Original Effective Date for the account of the
Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries.
" JPMorgan Obligations " means the obligation of
the Borrower and its Subsidiaries to pay to JPMorgan under the
Customer Note Sale Guaranties and the obligation of the Borrower
and its Subsidiaries to reimburse JPMorgan or its Affiliates with
respect to any disbursement made pursuant to a JPMorgan Letters of
Credit.
" Letter of Credit " of a Person means a letter of
credit or similar instrument which is issued upon the application
of such Person or upon which such Person is an account party or for
which such Person is in any way liable.
" Leverage Ratio " means, as of the date of its
determination, with respect to the Borrower, the ratio of: (a)
Funded Debt as of such date, over (b) EBITDA for the twelve (12)
months ending as of such date.
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" LIBOR Rate " means with respect to a
Eurocurrency Loan for any Interest Period thereof:
(a)
an interest rate per annum at which U.S. dollar deposits are
offered in the London interbank market in an amount approximately
equal to the portion of the Loan subject to the LIBOR Rate for a
period of time equal to such Interest Period that appears on Page
3750 of the Dow Jones Markets Service (or on an successor to or
substitute for such service, providing rate quotations comparable
to those currently provided on such page of such service), as
determined by the Agent after 11:00 a.m. (London time) on the day
that is two (2) Business Days prior to the first day of such
Interest Period;
(b)
if no such rate appears on the Telerate Page 3750, the rate of
interest determined by the Agent to be the average of up to four
interest rates per annum at which U.S. Dollar deposits are offered
in the London interbank market in an amount approximately equal to
the portion of the Loan subject to the LIBOR Rate, for a period of
time equal to such Interest Period which appear on the
Reuter’s Screen LIBOR Page as of 11:00 a.m. (London time) two
(2) Business Days prior to the Business Day on which such Interest
Period begins if at least two such offered rates so appear on the
Reuter’s Screen LIBOR Page, or
(c)
if no such rate appears on the Telerate Page 3750 and fewer than
two offered rates appear on the Reuter’s Screen LIBOR Page,
the rate of interest at which deposits in an amount approximately
equal to the portion of the Loan as to which the related LIBOR Rate
has been elected and which have a term corresponding to such
Interest Period are offered to the Agent by first class banks in
the London inter-bank market for delivery in immediately available
funds at a LIBOR Office on the first day of such Interest Period as
determined by the Agent at approximately 11:00 a.m. (London time)
two (2) Business Days prior to the date upon which such Interest
Period is to commence (which determination by shall, in the absence
of manifest error, be conclusive).
" Lien " means any interest in property securing
any Debt or other obligation owed to, or a claim by, a Person other
than the owner of the property, whether the interest is based on
common law, statute or contract (including the security interest or
lien arising from a mortgage, encumbrance, pledge, conditional sale
or trust receipt or a lease, consignment or bailment for security
purposes). The term "Lien" shall not include minor
reservations, exceptions, encroachments, easements, rights-of-way,
covenants, conditions, restrictions and other minor title
exceptions affecting real property, provided that they do not
constitute security for a monetary obligation. For the
purposes of this Agreement, the Borrower or a Subsidiary shall be
deemed to be the owner of any property which it has acquired or
holds subject to a conditional sale agreement, Capital Lease or
other arrangement pursuant to which title to the property has been
retained by or vested in some other Person for security purposes,
and such retention or vesting shall be deemed to be a Lien.
" Loan " or " Loans " means, as the
context may require, Revolving Loans, Term Loans and/or Swing Line
Loans.
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" Loan Documents " means this Agreement, the
Notes, the Facility Letters of Credit, the Fee Letter, the
Authorization Letter, the Security Documents, the Guaranty, the
Omnibus Assignment, the Termination Agreement, the letter agreement
described in Section 4.01(l) below and any certificate or other
document furnished pursuant to or in connection with this Agreement
or any of the foregoing.
" Material Adverse Effect " means a material
adverse effect on: (a) the business, assets, operations, prospects
or financial condition of the Borrower and the Subsidiaries taken
as a whole, (b) the ability of the Borrower to perform any of its
obligations under this Agreement or any other Loan Document, (c)
the ability of any of the Credit Parties other than the Borrower to
perform any of their respective obligations under any other Loan
Document, or (c) the rights of or benefits available to the Agent
or any of the Banks under this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents, including, without limitation, the enforceability of the
Security Documents or the attachment, perfection or priority of any
Liens intended to be created thereby, or the validity of any of the
Loan Documents or the consummation of any of the transactions
contemplated therein.
" M&T Bank " means Manufacturers and Traders
Trust Company, a New York banking corporation, and its
successors.
" Multiemployer Plan " means a multiemployer plan,
as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA to which the Borrower or
any Subsidiary of the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate is making or
accruing an obligation to make contributions or has within any of
the preceding five plan years made or accrued an obligation to make
contributions.
" Multiple Employer Plan " means an employee
benefit plan, other than a Multiemployer Plan, to which the
Borrower or any Subsidiary of the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate,
and one or more employers other than the Borrower or a Subsidiary
of the Borrower or an ERISA Affiliate, is making or accruing an
obligation to make contributions or, in the event that any such
plan has been terminated, to which the Borrower or a Subsidiary of
the Borrower or an ERISA Affiliate made or accrued an obligation to
make contributions during any of the five plan years preceding the
date of termination of such plan.
" Net Cash Proceeds " means:
(a)
with respect to any sale, lease, transfer, casualty loss or other
disposition (including condemnation, confiscation or other similar
event) or loss of any assets of the Borrower or its Subsidiaries
other than those contemplated by Sections 7.06(b) and (c), the
aggregate cash proceeds (including cash proceeds received pursuant
to policies of insurance or by way of deferred payment of principal
pursuant to a note, installment receivable or otherwise, but only
as and when received) received by the Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries pursuant to such disposition net of: (i) the direct
costs relating to any non-Affiliate for such sale, lease, transfer,
casualty loss or other disposition (including condemnation,
confiscation or other similar event) or loss (including sales
commissions and legal, accounting and investment banking fees),
(ii) taxes paid or reasonably estimated by the Borrower to be
payable as a result thereof (after
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taking into account any available tax credits or
deductions and any tax sharing arrangements), and (iii) amounts
required to be applied to the repayment of any Debt secured by a
Lien on the asset subject to such any sale, lease, transfer,
casualty loss or other disposition (including condemnation,
confiscation or other similar event) or loss (other than the
Obligations);
(b)
with respect to any Equity Issuances, the aggregate cash proceeds
received by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries pursuant to
such issuance, net of the direct costs relating to such issuance
(including sales and underwriters’ commissions); and
(c)
with respect to any issuance of Funded Debt, the aggregate cash
proceeds received by the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries
pursuant to such issuance, net of the direct costs of such issuance
(including up-front, underwriters’ and placement fees).
" Non-Financed Capital Expenditures " means, with
respect to the Borrower and its Subsidiaries (determined on a
consolidated basis), as of the date of determination, all Capital
Expenditures for the for the twelve (12) month period ending on
such date paid out of the operating cash flow or the proceeds of
the Revolving Loans or Swing Line Loans.
" Notes " mean the Revolving Credit Notes, the
Swing Line Note and the Term Loan Notes.
" Notice " means that form Notice of
Borrowing/Conversion/Continuation in the form of Exhibit
G hereto evidencing the Borrower’s request for
funding and/or the continuation or conversion of an applicable rate
of interest. In the case of any Eurocurrency Loans, such
Notice shall also indicate the applicable Interest Period.
" Obligations " means all: (a) Loans, unreimbursed
Facility LC Disbursements, advances, debts, liabilities,
obligations (monetary or otherwise, including post-petition
interest, allowed or not), covenants and duties owing by any Credit
Party to the Agent, any Bank, the Swing Bank, the Issuing Bank or
any Affiliate of any of the foregoing or any indemnified Person
hereunder, of any kind or nature, present or future, arising under
this Agreement or any other Loan Document, including all interest,
charges, expenses, fees, reasonable attorneys’ fees and
disbursements, and any reimbursement obligations of each Credit
Party in respect of Letters of Credit and surety bonds, (b) all
Hedging Obligations of each Credit Party permitted hereunder which
are owed to any Bank or its Affiliate, (c) all Bank Product
Obligations of the Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries permitted
hereunder which are owed to any Bank or its Affiliates, and (d)
JPMorgan Obligations, in all cases whether or not evidenced by any
note, guaranty or other instrument, whether or not for the payment
of money, whether arising by reason of an extension of credit,
loan, guaranty, indemnification, or in any other manner, whether
direct or indirect (including those acquired by assignment),
absolute or contingent, due or to become due, now existing or
hereafter arising and however acquired.
" Omnibus Assignment " means that certain Omnibus
Assignment dated as of the Original Effective Date, whereby the
Borrower and the Banks agreed, among other things, to: (a) accept
the resignation of JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. as Agent, (b) appoint
the Agent as the successor
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agent to JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A., and (c)
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. assigned to the Agent all of its rights,
title and interest under, in and to guaranties, security agreement
and other instruments executed by the Borrower and certain of its
Subsidiaries in connection with: (i) that certain Multicurrency
Agreement entered into by and among the Borrower and the Banks
dated October 24, 2002, which Multicurrency Agreement was
superseded and replaced by the terms of the Existing Credit
Agreement, and (ii) that certain Term Loan Agreement entered into
by and among the Borrower and the Banks dated October 24, 2002,
which Term Loan Agreement was superseded and replaced by the terms
of the Existing Credit Agreement.
" Original Effective Date " means
January 28, 2005.
" Payor " has the meaning given to such term in
Section 10.13 hereof.
" PBGC " means the Pension Benefit Guaranty
Corporation and any entity succeeding to any or all of its
functions under ERISA.
" Permitted Acquisitions " means any Acquisition
by the Borrower involving a Person which is engaged in a line of
business which is the same or substantially similar to the business
of the Borrower; provided (a) the Agent shall have received
evidence reasonably satisfactory to them that any assets of such
Person which are the subject of the Permitted Acquisition are, or
will be promptly following the closing of such Permitted
Acquisition, free and clear of all Liens, except Liens permitted
pursuant to Section 7.02 and other Liens for which the Borrower has
sought and obtained the prior written consent of the Agent, which
consent may be withheld, conditioned or delayed in the sole
discretion of the Agent; (b) no Default or Event of Default shall
have occurred and be continuing immediately prior to or would occur
after giving effect to the Acquisition on a pro forma basis, and
(c) the Acquisition has either: (i) been approved by an officer of
such Person which is transferring assets having authority to grant
such approval, (ii) been approved by the Board of Directors or
other governing body of the Person which is the subject of the
Acquisition, or (iii) been recommended for approval by the Board of
Directors or other governing body of such Person to the
shareholders or other members of such Person and subsequently
approved by the shareholders or such members if shareholder or such
member approval is required under applicable law or the by-laws,
certificate of incorporation or other governing instruments of such
Person.
" Person " means an individual, partnership,
corporation, limited liability company, business trust, joint stock
company, trust, unincorporated association, joint venture,
governmental authority or other entity of whatever nature.
" Plan " means any Multiemployer Plan or
Single-Employer Plan.
" Pledged Subsidiary " means any: (a) Domestic
Subsidiary which has all of its outstanding capital stock has been
pledged to the Agent for the benefit of the Banks pursuant to the
Security Documents, and (b) Foreign Subsidiary which has at least
sixty five percent (65%) of its outstanding capital stock pledged
to the Agent for the benefit of the Banks pursuant to the Security
Documents.
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" Prime Rate " means that rate of interest from
time to time announced by the Reference Bank at its Principal
Office as its prime commercial lending rate.
" Principal Office " means the principal office of
the Agent, presently located at One M&T Plaza, Buffalo, New
York.
" Prohibited Transaction " means a transaction
with respect to a Plan that is prohibited under Section 4975 of the
Code or Section 406 of ERISA and not exempt under Section 4975 of
the Code or Section 408 of ERISA.
" Pro Rata Share " means:
(a)
with respect to a Bank’s obligation to make Revolving Loans,
participate in Facility Letters of Credit, reimburse the Issuing
Bank, participate in Swing Loans and prior to an acceleration of
all amounts due under the Notes in accordance with Section 9.02, to
receive payments of principal, interest, fees, costs, and expenses
with respect thereto: (i) prior to the Aggregate Revolving
Commitment being terminated or reduced to zero, the percentage
obtained by dividing (1) such Bank’s Revolving Commitment, by
(2) the Aggregate Revolving Commitment, and (ii) from and after the
time the Aggregate Revolving Commitment has been terminated or
reduced to zero, the percentage obtained by dividing (1) the
aggregate unpaid principal amount of such Bank’s Revolving
Credit Exposure (after settlement and repayment of all Swing Line
Loans by the Banks), by (2) the Aggregate Revolving Credit
Exposure;
(b)
with respect to a Bank’s obligation to make a Term Loan and
prior to an acceleration of all amounts due under the Notes in
accordance with Section 9.02, to receive payments of interest,
fees, and principal with respect thereto: (i) prior to the making
of the Term Loans, the percentage obtained by dividing: (1) such
Bank’s Term Loan Commitment, by (2) the Aggregate Term Loan
Commitment, and (ii) from and after the making of the Term Loans,
the percentage obtained by dividing: (1) the unpaid principal
amount of such Bank’s Term Loan, by (2) the unpaid principal
amount of all Term Loans of all Banks;
(c)
with respect to the allocation and payment of any proceeds received
after the acceleration of all amounts due under the Notes in
accordance with Section 9.02, the percentage obtained by dividing:
(i) all of the Obligations (including required payments into the
Facility Letter of Credit Collateral Shortfall Account) owed to the
applicable Bank and payable under the applicable subsection of
Section 2.05(a)(iv), by (ii) the aggregate amount of all
Obligations (including required payments into the Facility Letter
of Credit Collateral Shortfall Account) owed to all the Banks and
payable under the applicable subsection of Section 2.05(a)(iv);
and
(d)
with respect to all other matters as to a particular Bank, the
percentage obtained by dividing: (i) the amount of such
Bank’s Revolving Credit Exposure (after settlement and
repayment of all Swing Line Loans by the Banks) plus the unpaid
principal amount of such
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Bank’s Term Loan, by (ii) the Aggregate
Revolving Credit Exposure plus the unpaid principal amount of all
Term Loans.
" Purchase Money Debt " means and includes: (a)
Debt (other than the Obligations) for the payment of all or any
part of the purchase price of any fixed assets, (b) any Debt (other
than the Obligations) incurred at the time of or within ten (10)
days prior to or after the acquisition of any fixed assets for the
purpose of financing all or any part of the purchase price thereof,
and (c) any renewals, extensions, or refinancings thereof, but not
any increases in the principal amounts thereof outstanding at such
time, including, for purposes of this definition, any such Debt
constituting a Capital Lease.
" Purchase Money Lien " means a Lien upon fixed
assets which secures Purchase Money Debt, but only if such Lien
shall at all times be confined solely to the fixed assets to the
extent they had their purchase price financed through the
incurrence of Purchase Money Debt.
" Quarterly Date " means the last day of March,
June, September, and December in each year, the first of which
shall be the first such day after the date of this Agreement.
" Reaffirmation Agreement " shall mean and refer
to the Reaffirmation Agreement dated on or about the date of this
Agreement, whereby: (a) the Borrower, certain Subsidiaries of the
Borrower and any other Persons listed on the signature pages to the
Security Agreement, shall among other things, reaffirm their
respective obligations under the Security Agreement, as such
agreement may be amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise
modified from time to time, and (b) each Guarantor shall, among
other things, reaffirm its respective obligations under the
Guaranty, as such agreement may be amended, supplemented, restated
or otherwise modified from time to time.
" Reference Bank " means M&T Bank.
" Regulation D " means Regulation D of the Board
of Governors of the Federal Reserve System as the same may be
amended or supplemented from time to time.
" Regulation U " means Regulation U of the Board
of Governors of the Federal Reserve System as the same may be
amended or supplemented from time to time.
" Regulatory Change " means, with respect to any
Bank, any change after the Original Effective Date in United States
federal, state, municipal or foreign laws or regulations
(including, without limitation, Regulation D) or the adoption or
making after such date of any interpretations, directives or
requests applying to a class of banks including such Bank of or
under any United States, federal, state, municipal or foreign laws
or regulations (whether or not having the force of law) by any
court or governmental or monetary authority charged with the
interpretation or administration thereof.
" Required Banks " means, (a) at any time while no
Obligations are outstanding, Banks having Commitments equal to at
least 66 2/3% of the Aggregate Commitments and, (b) at any
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time while any Obligations remain outstanding and
unpaid, Banks having a Revolving Credit Exposure, unused Revolving
Commitment and unpaid principal with respect to their Term Loans
which constitute at least 66 2/3% of the sum of (i) the Aggregate
Revolving Credit Exposure and, to the extent unused, the Aggregate
Revolving Commitment, and (ii) the unpaid principal amount of all
outstanding Term Loans.
" Required Payment " has the meaning given to such
term in Section 10.13 hereof.
" Reportable Event " means an event described in
Section 4043 of ERISA or the regulations thereunder with respect to
a Plan, other than those events as to which the notice requirement
is waived under subsection .22, .23, .25, .27, .28, .29, .30, .31,
.32, .34, .35, .62, .63, 64, .65 or .67 of PBGC Regulation Section
4043.
" Reserve Requirement " means, with respect to any
Interest Period, the reserve percentage (expressed as a decimal) in
effect from time to time during such Interest Period, as provided
by the Federal Reserve Board, or any other governmental authority,
applied for determining the maximum reserve requirements
(including, without limitation, basic, supplemental, marginal and
emergency reserves) applicable to M&T Bank under Regulation D
of the of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System with
respect to "Eurocurrency liabilities" within the meaning of
Regulation D, or under any similar or successor regulation with
respect to Eurocurrency liabilities or Eurocurrency funding.
Without limiting the effect of the foregoing, the Reserve
Requirement shall also reflect any other reserves required to be
maintained by M&T Bank by reason of any Regulatory Change
against: (a) any category of liabilities which includes deposits by
reference to which the LIBOR Rate for Eurocurrency Loans is to be
determined as provided in the definition of "LIBOR Rate" in this
Section 1.01 or (b) any category of extensions of credit or other
assets which include Eurocurrency Loans.
" Revolving Commitment " means, with respect to
each Bank, the commitment and obligation of such Bank to make
Revolving Loans under the terms of this Agreement and to
participate in Facility Letters of Credit and Swing Line Loans
under the terms of this Agreement, in an aggregate principal amount
not to exceed the amount set forth opposite such Bank’s name
on Schedule III , or in an Assignment and
Assumption Agreement executed by it, in all cases as such amount
may be modified from time to time in accordance with the terms
hereof.
" Revolving Credit Exposure " means, with respect
to any Bank at any time, the sum of: (a) the outstanding principal
amount of such Bank’s Revolving Loans, (b) such Bank’s
Facility LC Exposure, and (c) such Bank’s Swing Line Exposure
at such time.
" Revolving Credit Notes " means the Amended and
Restated Revolving Credit Notes of the Borrower to each of the
Banks in the principal amount of their respective Revolving
Commitment, in the form of Exhibit B hereto
evidencing the Revolving Loans made by the Banks hereunder (each a
" Revolving Loan Note ") as the same may be amended,
modified, extended, renewed, restated, consolidated and replaced
from time to time.
" Revolving Loans " means any Loan made pursuant
to Section 2.01.
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" ROC Joint Venture Agreement " means the Joint
Venture Agreement dated as of February 12, 1999 entered into by and
among the Borrower and the ROC Shareholders, as the same may have
been amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise modified from
time to time.
" ROC Shareholders " shall mean and refer to the
ROC Shareholders identified under the terms of the Joint Venture
Agreement (as such agreement was in effect on February 12, 1999) as
Mr. R.M. Yang, Ms. Shain Wu, Mr. Paul Ling and Ms. J.R. Ho.
" Security Agreement " means the Amended and
Restated Security Agreement granted by the Borrower, certain
Subsidiaries of the Borrower and any other Persons listed on the
signature pages thereto, in favor of the Agent for the benefit of
the Banks dated as of the Original Effective Date, securing among
other things, the Obligations and in form and substance
satisfactory to the Agent and the Banks, as such agreement may be
amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise modified from time to
time.
" Security Agreement Supplement " means
supplements to the Security Agreement to be executed by the
required Subsidiaries of the Borrower pursuant to Section 6.08
herein, which shall be in the form attached to the Security
Agreement as an exhibit.
" Security Documents " means collectively any and
all documentation executed in connection with this Agreement which
is intended, by virtue of its terms and conditions to serve as
security for the Obligations of the Borrower under the terms of
this Agreement or any Loan Document, any Credit Party under any
Loan Document or otherwise, including, but not limited to, the
Account Control Agreements, the Assignment of Leases and Rents, the
Security Agreement, the Intellectual Property Security Agreement,
each Security Agreement Supplement, each Intellectual Property
Security Agreement Supplement, the Guaranty and each Guaranty
Supplement.
" Single Employer Plan " means a single employer
plan, as defined in Section 4001(a)(15) of ERISA, to which the
Borrower, any Subsidiary of the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate is
making or accruing an obligation to make contributions or, in the
event that any such plan has been terminated, to which the
Borrower, any Subsidiary of the Borrower or any ERISA Affiliate
made or accrued an obligation to make contributions during any of
the five plan years preceding the date of termination of such
plan.
" Subsidiary " means, with respect to any Person,
any corporation or other entity of which at least a majority of the
securities or other ownership interests having ordinary voting
power (absolutely or on a contingent basis) for the election of
directors or other persons performing similar functions are at the
time owned directly or indirectly by such Person.
" Subsidiary Guarantor " means certain of the
Domestic Subsidiaries that have executed and delivered to the Agent
for the benefit of the Banks the Guaranty or a Guaranty
Supplement.
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" Subsidiary Real Property Liens " has the meaning
given to such term in Section 5.12 hereof.
" Swing Bank " means M&T Bank, in its capacity
as Bank of Swing Line Loans hereunder.
" Swing Line Exposure " means, at any time, the
aggregate principal amount of all Swing Line Loans outstanding at
such time. The Swing Line Exposure of any Bank at any time
shall be its Pro Rata Share of the Swing Line Exposure at such time
determined in accordance with the foregoing sentence.
" Swing Line Loan " has the meaning given to such
term in Section 2.13 hereof.
" Swing Line Note " means the Amended and Restated
Swing Line Note of the Borrower to the Swing Line Bank in the
principal amount of $7,000,000, in the form of Exhibit
C hereto evidencing the Swing Line Loans made by the
Swing Line Bank, as the same may be amended, modified, extended,
renewed, restated, consolidated and replaced from time to time.
" Syndication Agent " means JPMorgan Chase Bank,
N.A. in its capacity as the syndication agent of the Banks, and not
in its individual capacity as a Bank.
" Synthetic Lease Obligations " means all monetary
obligations of a Person under: (a) a so-called synthetic,
off-balance sheet or tax retention lease, or (b) an agreement for
the use or possession of property creating obligations which do not
appear on the balance sheet of such Person but which, upon the
insolvency or bankruptcy of such Person, would be characterized as
the Debt of such Person (without regard to accounting
treatment).
" Termination Agreement " means the Termination
Agreement by and among the Existing Agent, the Documentation Agent
and the Banks dated as of the Original Effective Date, whereby the
parties thereto agreed, among other things, to terminate that
certain Intercreditor Agreement dated on or about October 24, 2002
by and among such parties.
" Termination Date " means January 28, 2010.
" Term Loan Commitment " means, with respect to
each Bank, the commitment and obligation of such Bank to make Term
Loans under this Agreement, in an aggregate principal amount not to
exceed the amount set forth opposite such Bank’s name on
Schedule IV , or in an Assignment and
Assumption Agreement executed by it, in all cases as such amount
may be modified from time to time in accordance with the terms
hereof.
" Term Loan Maturity Date " means January 28,
2011.
" Term Loan Notes " means the Amended and Restated
Term Loan Notes of the Borrower to each of the Banks in the
principal amount of their respective Term Loan Commitment, in the
form of Exhibit D hereto evidencing the Term
Loans made by the Banks hereunder (each a
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" Term Loan Note ") as the same may be amended,
modified, extended, renewed, restated, consolidated and replaced
from time to time.
" Term Loan Quarterly Payment Dates " means the
20th day of each June, September, December and March in each
year.
" Taiwanese Property " shall mean and refer to the
lands located at and commonly known as 305 Nan-Kang Sub-section
Lin-Tze Section, Nanto County, Taiwan and the buildings thereon
(including a four-floor office building and a factory with two
floors above the ground level and one basement below the ground
level.
" USA Patriot Act " means the Uniting and
Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to
Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001.
" Variable Rate " means, for any day, the higher
of: (a) the Federal Funds Rate for such day plus fifty (50) Basis
Points, and (b) the Prime Rate for such day. Any change in the
Variable Rate due to a change in the Prime Rate or the Federal
Funds Rate shall be effective from and including the effective date
of such change in the Prime Rate or the Federal Funds Rate,
respectively.
" Variable Rate Loan " means any Loan when and to
the extent the interest rate for such Loan is determined in
relation to the Variable Rate.
" Wholly Owned Subsidiary " shall mean a
Subsidiary for which all of the outstanding shares of stock or
other equity of such entity is owned directly or indirectly by
Borrower or one of Borrower’s Wholly Owned Subsidiaries.
Section 1.02 .
Other Defined Terms; Rules of
Interpretation .
(a)
All terms defined in this Agreement shall have the defined meanings
when used in any certificate or other document made or delivered
pursuant hereto, unless otherwise expressly provided therein.
(b)
As used herein and in any certificate or other document made or
delivered pursuant hereto, accounting terms not defined herein and
accounting terms partly defined herein to the extent not defined,
shall have the respective meanings given to them under GAAP.
(c)
The words "hereof," "herein" 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. The words "include," "includes" and "including"
shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase "without
limitation." Unless the context in which used herein
otherwise clearly requires, "or" has the inclusive meaning
represented by the phrase "and/or."
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(d)
Terms defined in this Agreement by reference to any other
agreement, document or instrument shall have the meanings assigned
to them in such agreement, document or instrument, whether or not
such agreement, document or instrument is then in effect.
(e)
All terms defined in the UCC and not otherwise defined herein have
the meanings assigned to them in the UCC.
(f)
References to Articles, Sections, subsections, Exhibits, Schedules
and the like, are to Articles, Sections, subsections of, or
Exhibits or Schedules attached to, this Agreement (as amended from
time to time) unless otherwise expressly provided.
(g)
Defined terms include in the singular number the plural and in the
plural number the singular.
(h)
Reference to any law, rule, regulation, order, decree, requirement,
policy, guideline, directive or interpretation means as amended,
modified, codified, replaced or reenacted, in whole or in part, and
in effect on the determination date, including rules and
regulations promulgated thereunder.
(i)
All references herein to the Banks or any of them shall be deemed
to include the Issuing Bank unless specifically provided otherwise
or the context otherwise requires.
Section 1.03 .
Amendment and Restatement . This Agreement is and
shall for all purposes be deemed to be an amendment and a
restatement of the provisions of the Existing Credit Agreement.
This Agreement shall supersede the Existing Credit Agreement
insofar as it constitutes the entire agreement between the parties
concerning the subject matter of this Agreement, but does not
constitute a novation of the Existing Credit Agreement or any of
the Indebtedness, liabilities or obligations of the Borrower
thereunder. All Existing Revolving Loans and Existing Term
Loans together with all Existing Facility Letters of Credit
pursuant to the Existing Credit Agreement shall be deemed to be
Loans and Letters of Credit under this Agreement, and all
Obligations (as defined in the Existing Credit Agreement) shall be
deemed to be Obligations under this Agreement.
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ARTICLE 2. THE CREDITS
Section 2.01 .
The Commitments .
(a)
Revolving Loans .
(i)
On the Effective Date, the Existing Revolving Loans and the
Existing Bridge Loans shall automatically, and without any action
on the part of any Person, be deemed to be Revolving Loans under
this Agreement, and the Banks shall , through the Agent, make such
adjustments as shall be necessary so that after giving effect
thereto, each Bank holds its Pro Rata Share of the outstanding
Revolving loans, provided that such amount is not greater than its
Revolving Commitment.
(ii)
Subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement,
each Bank agrees to make Revolving Loans to the Borrower from time
to time from the Effective Date until the Termination Date in an
aggregate principal amount that will not result in: (A) such
Bank’s Revolving Credit Exposure exceeding such Bank’s
Revolving Commitment, and (B) the Aggregate Revolving Credit
Exposure exceeding the Aggregate Revolving Commitment. Within
the foregoing limits and subject to the terms and conditions set
forth herein, the Borrower may borrow, repay and re-borrow from
time to time Revolving Loans.
(b)
Term Loans . Immediately prior to the Effective
Date, the Banks held the Existing Term Loans with an aggregate
outstanding principal amount being $21,600,000. On the
Effective Date, the Existing Term Loans held by each Bank shall
automatically, and without any action on the part of any Person, be
deemed to be Term Loans under this Agreement.
Section 2.02 .
The Notes and Recordkeeping .
(a)
The Revolving Credit Loans of each Bank shall be evidenced by a
Revolving Credit Note, with appropriate insertions, payable to the
order of such Bank in a face principal amount equal to the sum of
such Bank’s Revolving Commitment. The Term Loans of
each Bank shall be evidenced by a Term Loan Note, with appropriate
insertions, payable to the order of such Bank in a face principal
amount equal to the sum of such Bank’s Term Loan
Commitment. The Swing Loans shall be evidenced by a Swing
Line Note, with appropriate insertions, payable to the order of the
Swing Line Bank in a face principal amount equal to
$7,000,000. Each Note shall be dated the date of this
Agreement and otherwise duly completed and executed by the
Borrower.
(b)
The date, type, amount, interest rate, duration of Interest Period,
and conversion of each Loan made by each Bank to the Borrower, and
each payment made on account of the principal thereof, shall be
recorded by such Bank on its books and, on the schedule attached to
each Note or any continuation thereof. The aggregate unpaid
principal amount so recorded shall be presumptive evidence of the
principal amount of the Loans owing and unpaid. The failure
of such Bank to make, or any error in making, any such recordation
shall not affect the Obligations of Borrower hereunder or under any
Note to pay when due of any
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amount owing hereunder or under such Note in
respect of the Loan together with interest accruing
thereon.
Section 2.03 .
Purpose . The Borrower shall use the
proceeds of the Revolving Loans to refinance Existing Revolving
Loans and Existing Bridge Loans and Swing Line Loans and may
otherwise use the proceeds of the Revolving Loans: (i) for working
capital requirements and other general corporate purposes in the
ordinary course of business and (ii) up to a maximum of $5,000,000
to fund Permitted Acquisitions. The proceeds of Swing Line
Loans may be used only for working capital requirements and general
corporate purposes in the ordinary course of business. The
Borrower shall use the proceeds of the Term Loans to refinance the
Existing Term Loans. Notwithstanding any provision herein to
the contrary, the proceeds of the Borrower shall not use the
proceeds from any Loans, whether immediately, incidental or
ultimate, for the purpose of buying or carrying "margin stock"
within the meaning of Regulation U.
Section 2.04 .
Borrowing Procedures .
(a)
To effect a funding, the Borrower shall give the Agent a Notice,
delivered in accordance with this Section 2.04 and in Section 2.08,
specifying the type, amount and date of each intended borrowing and
the manner in which the same will be disbursed.
(b)
Each Revolving Loan shall be, and each Term Loan may be, divided
into tranches which are, either a Variable Rate Loan or a
Eurocurrency Loan (each a " type " of Loan), as the
Borrower shall specify in the related notice of borrowing or
conversion pursuant to Section 2.08. Both Variable Rate Loans
and Eurocurrency Loans may be outstanding at the same time,
provided that not more than eight (8) different Eurocurrency Loans
shall be outstanding at any one time. Each request for a
Eurocurrency Loan shall be treated as a single Loan, this despite
any Eurocurrency Loans having the same Interest Period which expire
on the same day. All borrowings, conversions and repayments
of Loans shall be effected so that each Bank will have a ratable
share, according to its Pro Rata Share, of all types of Loans.
(c)
Promptly upon receipt of each Notice, the Agent shall advise each
Bank thereof and their respective proportionate share of the
Loans. The amount so received by the Agent shall, subject to
the conditions of this Agreement, be made available to the
Borrower, in immediately available funds, by the Agent crediting an
account of the Borrower designated by the Borrower and maintained
with the Agent at a banking office designated by the Agent,
provided that Revolving Loans made to finance the reimbursement of
a Facility LC Disbursement as provided in Section 2.14(e) shall be
remitted by the Agent to the Issuing Bank.
(d)
Unless the Agent shall have received notice from a Bank prior to
the proposed date of any borrowing under this Agreement that such
Bank will not make available to the Agent such Bank’s share
of such borrowing, the Agent may assume that such Bank has made
such share available on such date in accordance with Section
2.04(c) and may, in reliance upon such assumption, make available
to the Borrower a corresponding amount. In such event, if a
Bank has not in fact made its share of the applicable borrowing
available to the Agent, then the applicable Bank and the Borrower
severally agree to pay to the Agent forthwith on demand such
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corresponding amount with interest thereon, for
each day from and including the date such amount is made available
to the Borrower to but excluding the date of payment to the Agent,
at: (i) in the case of such Bank, the greater of the Federal Funds
Rate and a rate determined by the Agent in accordance with banking
industry rules on interbank compensation, or (ii) in the case of
the Borrower, the interest rate applicable to Variable Loans.
If such Bank pays such amount to the Agent, then such amount shall
constitute such Bank’s Loan included in such
borrowing.
Section 2.05 .
Payments .
(a)
Except to the extent otherwise provided herein, all payments of
principal of and interest on Loans payable by the Borrower under
this Agreement and the Notes shall be made in immediately available
funds not later than 11:00 a.m. New York time on the date on which
such payments shall become due (each such payment made after such
time on such date to be deemed to have been made on the next
succeeding Business Day). So long as no Default or Event of
Default has occurred and is continuing: (i) payments matching
specific scheduled payments then due shall be applied to those
scheduled payments, and (ii) voluntary and mandatory prepayments
shall be applied as set forth in Section 2.12. Subject to the
foregoing, and except as otherwise below, all principal payments in
respect of the Loans (other than the Swing Line Loans) shall be
applied first, to repay outstanding Variable Rate Loans and then to
repay outstanding Eurocurrency Loans in direct order of Interest
Period maturities. After the occurrence and during the
continuance of a Default or Event of Default, payment by Borrower
or any Credit Party to and all amounts collected or received by the
Agent or any Bank as payments from the Borrower or any Credit Party
or otherwise or as proceeds from the sale of, or other realization
upon, all or any part of the collateral, shall be applied as
follows anything contained herein to the contrary
notwithstanding:
(i)
first, to the payment of any outstanding costs and expenses
incurred by the Agent in protecting, preserving or enforcing rights
under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and in any event
including all costs and expenses of a character which the Borrower
has agreed to pay under Section 11.03 hereof (such funds to be
retained by the Agent for its own account unless it has previously
been reimbursed for such costs and expenses by the Banks, in which
event such amounts shall be remitted to the Banks to reimburse them
for payments theretofore made to the Agent);
(ii)
second, to the payment of any outstanding interest or other fees or
indemnification amounts due with respect to the Obligations,
ratably as among the Agent and the Banks in accord with the amount
of such interest and other fees or indemnification amounts owing
each;
(iii)
third, to the payment of the principal of the Swing Loans;
(iv)
fourth, to the payment of all other Obligations in accordance with
each Bank’s Pro Rata Share (including required payments into
the Facility Letter of Credit Shortfall Collateral Account), except
that the JPMorgan Obligations shall be only to a maximum
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amount of $8,000,000 and the Bank Product
Obligations of Subsidiaries of the Borrower that are not Credit
Parties shall be only to a maximum of $3,000,000;
(v)
fifth, to payment of any remaining unpaid JPMorgan
Obligations and Bank Product Obligations; and
(vi)
sixth, to the Borrower or to whomever the Agent reasonably
determines to be lawfully entitled thereto.
If the due date of any payment under this Agreement or the Notes
would otherwise fall on a day which is not a Business Day, such
date shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day and
interest shall be payable for any principal so extended for the
period of such extension. Each payment received by the Agent
hereunder or under the Notes for the account of a Bank shall be
paid promptly to such Bank, in immediately available funds.
(b)
Unless earlier due pursuant to Section 2.12 or Section 9.02, the
Revolving Loans of each Bank shall be paid in full and the
Revolving Commitments shall terminate on the Termination Date.
(c)
Unless earlier due pursuant to Section 2.12 or Section 9.02, the
Borrower promises to pay to the Agent, for the pro rata accounts of
the Banks in accordance with their Pro Rata Share, the principal
amount of the Term Loans in seventeen (17) consecutive quarterly
payments on each Term Loan Quarterly Payment Date in an amount
equal to the amount set forth in the table below opposite the
calendar year containing the date of such payment (subject to
reductions from prepayments as set forth in Section 2.12),
commencing on December 20, 2006, with a final payment due on the
Term Loan Maturity Date in an amount equal to the unpaid balance of
the Term Loans.
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Amount of
Quarterly Payment
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$
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1,200,000
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$
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1,275,000
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$
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1,275,000
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$
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1,275,000
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$
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1,275,000
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Section 2.06 .
Interest Periods . In the case of each
Eurocurrency Loan, the Borrower shall select in each Notice an
Interest Period of any duration in accordance with the definition
of Interest Period in Section 1.01 hereof, subject to the following
limitations: (a) in the case of Revolving Loans, no Interest Period
may extend beyond the Termination Date; (b) in the case of Term
Loans if, after giving effect to an Interest Period, the aggregate
principal amount of all Term Loans having Interest Periods ending
after any date on which an installment of the Term
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Loans is scheduled to be repaid would exceed the
aggregate principal amount of the Term Loans scheduled to be
outstanding after giving effect to such repayment, such Interest
period may not be selected, (c) notwithstanding clause (a) above,
no Interest Period for a Eurocurrency Loan shall have a duration
less than one month and if any such proposed Interest Period would
otherwise be for a shorter period, such Interest Period shall not
be available; and (d) if an Interest Period would end on a day
which is not a Business Day, such Interest Period shall be extended
to the next Business Day, unless, in the case of a Eurocurrency
Loan, such Business Day would fall in the next calendar month in
which event such Interest Period shall end on the immediately
preceding Business Day.
Section 2.07 .
Interest .
(a)
Interest shall accrue on the outstanding and unpaid principal
amount of each Loan for the period from and including the date of
such Loan to but excluding the date such Loan is paid at the
following rates per annum: (i) for a Variable Rate Loan, at a rate
per annum equal to the Variable Rate plus the Applicable Margin,
and (ii) for a Eurocurrency Loan, at a fixed rate equal to the
Eurocurrency Rate plus the Applicable Margin. If the
principal amount of any Loan and any other Obligation payable by
the Borrower hereunder or under a Note or other Loan Document shall
not be paid when due (at stated maturity, by acceleration or
otherwise), interest shall accrue at the Default Rate on such
amount to the full extent permitted by law from and including such
due date to but excluding the date such amount is paid in full.
(b)
The applicable LIBOR Rate for each Interest Period for each
Eurocurrency Loan shall be determined by the Agent, and notice
thereof shall be given by the Agent promptly to the Borrower and
each Bank. Each determination of the applicable LIBOR Rate by the
Agent shall be conclusive and binding upon the parties hereto, in
the absence of demonstrable error. The Agent shall, upon
written request of the Borrower or any Bank, deliver to the
Borrower or such Bank a statement showing the computations used by
the Agent in determining any applicable LIBOR Rate hereunder.
(c)
Interest shall be computed for the actual number of days elapsed on
the basis of a year of 360 days; provided that calculations of
interest with respect to Variable Rate Loans shall be for the
actual number of days elapsed on the basis of a year of 365/366
days. The applicable interest rate for each Variable Rate
Loan shall change simultaneously with each change in the Variable
Rate.
(d)
Accrued interest on each Variable Rate Loan shall be payable in
arrears on each Quarterly Date for Revolving Loans and each Term
Loan Quarterly Payment Date for Term Loans, upon a prepayment of
any such Loan and at maturity of any such Loan. Accrued
interest on each Eurocurrency Loan shall be payable on the last day
of each Interest Period relating to such Loan (and, in the case of
a Eurocurrency Loan with an Interest Period in excess of three
months, on the three-month anniversary of the first day of such
Interest Period), upon a prepayment of any such Loan, and at
maturity of any such Loan. After maturity, and at any time an Event
of Default exists, accrued interest on all Loans shall be payable
on demand.
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Section 2.08 .
Certain Notices .
(a)
The Borrower shall deliver to the Agent a Notice for: (1) each
borrowing pursuant to Section 2.04, and (2) each
conversion/continuation of an Interest Period pursuant to Section
2.08(b). The Borrower shall also deliver to the Agent advance
written notice pursuant to this Section 2.08 of each prepayment
pursuant to Section 2.12 and each reduction or termination of the
Revolving Commitments pursuant to Section 2.09(b). All
Notices received by the Agent shall be irrevocable and shall be
effective only if received by the Agent: (i) in the case of
borrowings for Variable Rate Loans, the Borrower shall deliver a
Notice to the Agent no later than 2:00 p.m. New York time at least
one (1) Business Day prior to the date of such borrowing, (ii) in
the case of any prepayment for Variable Rate Loans, written notice
shall be delivered to the Agent no later than 11:00 p.m. New York
time on the date of prepayment, (iii) in the case of borrowings,
conversion from a Variable Rate Loan to a Eurocurrency Loan, a
conversion/ continuation of an Interest Period, prepayment or
required prepayment for Eurocurrency Loans, written notice or a
Notice (as applicable) shall be delivered to the Agent by 2:00
p.m., at least three (3) Business Days prior to the date of such
borrowing, conversion of the applicable rate of interest,
conversion/continuation of an Interest Period, prepayments and/or
required prepayment for Eurocurrency Loans; (iv) in the case of
Swing Line Loans, a Notice shall be delivered to the Agent no later
than 12:00 noon, New York time, on the date of such borrowing, and
(v) in the case of reductions or terminations of the Revolving
Commitments, written notice shall be delivered to the Agent at
least three (3) Business Days prior thereto. Each written
notice of reduction or termination shall specify the amount of the
Revolving Commitments to be reduced or terminated. Each
Notice for the conversion/continuation of a Loan shall specify the
proposed date of conversion or continuation; the aggregate amount
of Loans to be converted or continued; the type of Loans resulting
from the proposed conversion or continuation; and in the case of
conversion into, or continuation of, Eurocurrency Loans the
duration of the requested Interest Period therefor. Without
limiting the foregoing, any failure by the Borrower to deliver the
required notice in connection with the prepayment of any
Eurocurrency Loan will result in the payment of any necessary fees
or costs (if any) as described in Section 3.05 below.
(b)
If upon the expiration of any Interest Period applicable to
Eurocurrency Loans, the Borrower has failed to select timely a new
Interest Period to be applicable to such Eurocurrency Loans, the
Borrower shall be deemed to have elected to convert such
Eurocurrency Loans into Variable Rate Loans effective on the last
day of such Interest Period. Furthermore, unless the Required
Banks otherwise consent in writing, if there exists a Default or
Event of Default, Borrower may not thereafter elect to have an
existing Loan converted to a Eurocurrency Loan or have any new
Eurocurrency Loans extended thereafter. Further, at the sole
discretion of the Agent and the Required Banks, the Agent may
convert any Eurocurrency Loan to a Variable Rate Loan.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, if Borrower commences, or has
commenced against it, any proceeding or request for relief under
any bankruptcy, insolvency or similar laws not or hereafter in
effect in the United States of America or any state or territory
thereof or any foreign jurisdiction or any formal or informal
proceeding for dissolution, liquidation or settlement of claims
against or winding up of affairs of Borrower (sometimes hereinafter
collectively referred to as a " Bankruptcy Event "),
any outstanding Eurocurrency Loans shall be automatically converted
to Variable Rate Loans without further action of the Agent and/or
the Banks, Nothing
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herein shall be construed as a waiver by the
Banks to have any Obligations accrue interest at the Default
Rate.
(c)
Subject to Sections 2.08(a) and 2.10, and subject to the
restrictions on the number of Eurocurrency Loans that may be
outstanding at any given time as set forth in Section 2.04(b)
above, the Borrower may, upon irrevocable written notice to the
Agent:
(i)
Elect, as of any Business Day, to convert any Variable Rate Loans
into Eurocurrency Loans; or
(ii)
Elect, as of the last day of the applicable Interest Period, to
continue all or any part of any Eurocurrency Loans having Interest
Periods expiring on such day for a new Interest Period of its
choice, provided that after giving effect to any prepayment,
conversion or continuation: or
(iii)
Elect, as of the last day of the applicable Interest Period, to
convert any or a part of any Eurocurrency Loan into a Variable Rate
Loan.
Section 2.09 .
Changes in Revolving Commitment .
(a)
The Borrower shall have the right to reduce or terminate the amount
of unused Revolving Commitments at any time or from time to time,
provided that: (i) the Borrower shall give notice of each reduction
or termination to the Agent as provided in Section 2.08(a); and
(ii) each partial reduction shall be in an aggregate amount of at
least Three Million Dollars ($3,000,000).
(b)
The Revolving Commitments once reduced or terminated may not be
reinstated. All reductions in the Revolving Commitments shall
be made pro rata according to the amount of each Bank’s
Revolving Commitment. Any reduction of the Revolving Commitments to
a level below the maximum principal amount set forth in Section
2.13(a) for Swing Line Loans and the maximum Facility LC Exposure
set forth in Section 2.14(a) for Facility Letters of Credit shall
effect a concurrent reduction in those amounts so as to equal the
total Aggregate Revolving Commitments after giving effect to such
reduction.
Section 2.10 .
Minimum Amounts .
(a)
Except for borrowings which exhaust the full remaining amount of
the Aggregate Revolving Commitment, and prepayments which result in
the prepayment of all Revolving Loans, each borrowing and
prepayment of principal shall be in an amount equal to at least One
Million Dollars ($1,000,000) and shall be in incremental multiples
of One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000).
(b)
Except for borrowings which exhaust the full remaining amount of
the Swing Line Loan available to the Borrower, all Swing Line Loans
shall be in an amount equal to
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at least One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000)
and shall be in incremental multiples of Fifty Thousand Dollars
($50,000).
Section 2.11 .
Fees .
(a)
The Borrower shall pay to the Agent for the account of each Bank a
fee (the " Revolving Commitment Fee ") on the daily
average unused Revolving Commitment of such Bank for the period
from and including the Original Effective Date to the earlier of
the date the Bank’s Revolving Commitment is terminated or the
Termination Date. The Revolving Commitment Fee shall equal
the daily average unused Revolving Commitment of such Bank during
the period for which payment is due, multiplied by the applicable
Revolving Commitment Fee Rate. For purposes of calculating
usage under this Section, the Revolving Commitment of each Bank
shall be deemed used to the extent of the Revolving Credit
Exposure, except that the Swing Loan Exposure shall not be taken
into account for such purpose. The accrued Revolving
Commitment Fee shall be due and payable in arrears, upon any
reduction or termination of the Revolving Commitments and on each
Quarterly Date commencing on the first such date after the Original
Effective Date, and shall be calculated on the basis of a year of
three hundred sixty (360) days for the actual number of days
elapsed.
(b)
The Borrower shall pay to the Agent, for the benefit of the Banks,
an amount equal to the Applicable Margin for Eurocurrency Loans
multiplied by the aggregate face amount of all outstanding Facility
Letters of Credit as of each payment date therefor (the "
Facility Letter of Credit Fee ") prior to the
termination of such Facility Letter of Credit. In addition,
the Borrower shall also pay to the Agent for the benefit of the
Issuing Bank, a fronting fee for each Facility Letter of Credit
equal to one eighth of one percent (.125%) per annum multiplied by
the aggregate face amount of all outstanding Facility Letters of
Credit as of each payment date therefor (" Facility Letter of
Credit Fronting Fee ") prior to the termination of such
Facility Letter of Credit. Finally, the Borrower, shall upon
demand of the Agent, and for the benefit of the Issuing Bank, pay
to the Agent, such other fees and expenses as the Issuing Bank
customarily requires in connection with the issuance, negotiation,
processing and/or administration of letters of credit in similar
situations.
(c)
The accrued Facility Letter of Credit Fee and Facility Letter of
Credit Fronting Fee shall be due and payable on each Quarterly Date
commencing on the first such date after the Original Effective Date
that a Facility Letter of Credit is issued and on the Termination
Date. The Facility Letter of Credit Fee and the Facility
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