AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AND
SECURITY AGREEMENT
dated as of September 19,
2008
PACKAGING RECEIVABLES COMPANY,
LLC,
as Borrower
PACKAGING CREDIT COMPANY, LLC,
as Initial Servicer
YC SUSI TRUST,
as a Lender
BANK OF AMERICA, NATIONAL
ASSOCIATION,
individually as a Lender and as Agent
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Section 1.1. The Facility
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Section 1.2. Funding Mechanics; Liquidity
Fundings
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Section 1.3. Interest Rates
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Section 1.4. Payment Dates; Noteless
Agreement
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Section 1.6. Reductions in Aggregate
Commitment
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Section 1.7. Requests for Increases in
Aggregate Commitment
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Section 1.8. Extension of the Scheduled
Termination Date
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Section 1.9. Distribution of Certain
Notices; Notification of Interest Rates
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ARTICLE II BORROWING AND PAYMENT MECHANICS;
CERTAIN COMPUTATIONS
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Section 2.1. Method of Borrowing
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Section 2.2. Selection of Interest Periods
for Eurodollar Loans
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Section 2.3. Computation of Concentration
Limits and Unpaid Balance
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Section 2.4. Maximum Interest
Rate
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Section 2.5. Payments and Computations,
Etc
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Section 2.6. Non-Receipt of Funds by the
Agent
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Section 3.2. Allocations and
Distributions
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Section 3.3. Non-Distribution of
Servicer’s Fee
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Section 3.4. Deemed Collections
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ARTICLE IV FEES AND YIELD PROTECTION
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Section 4.2. Yield Protection
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Section 4.3. Funding Losses
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ARTICLE V CONDITIONS OF ADVANCES
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Section 5.1. Conditions Precedent to
Initial Advance
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Section 5.2. Conditions Precedent to All
Advances
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
(continued)
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ARTICLE VI REPRESENTATIONS AND
WARRANTIES
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Section 6.1. Representations and Warranties
of the Borrower and the Servicer
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ARTICLE VII GENERAL COVENANTS OF THE BORROWER
AND SERVICER
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Section 7.1. Affirmative Covenants of the
Borrower and Servicer
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Section 7.2. Reporting Requirements of the
Borrower
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Section 7.3. Negative Covenants of the
Borrower and the Servicer
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Section 7.4. Separate Corporate Existence
of the Borrower
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ARTICLE VIII ADMINISTRATION AND
COLLECTION
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Section 8.1. Designation of
Servicer
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Section 8.2. Duties of Servicer
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Section 8.3. Rights of the Agent
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Section 8.4. Responsibilities of the
Borrower
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Section 8.5. Further Action Evidencing the
Security Interest
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Section 8.6. Application of
Collections
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ARTICLE IX SECURITY INTEREST
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Section 9.1. Grant of Security
Interest
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Section 9.3. Termination after Final Payout
Date
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Section 9.4. Limitation on Rights to
Collateral Proceeds
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ARTICLE X EVENTS OF DEFAULT
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Section 10.1. Events of Default
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Section 11.1. Appointment
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Section 11.2. Delegation of
Duties
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Section 11.3. Exculpatory
Provisions
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Section 11.4. Reliance by Agent
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Section 11.5. Notice of Events of
Default
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Section 11.6. Non-Reliance on Agent and
Other Lenders
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
(continued)
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Section 11.7. Indemnification of
Agent
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Section 11.8. Agent in its Individual
Capacity
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Section 11.9. Successor Agent
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Section 11.10. Agent’s Conflict
Waivers
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Section 11.11. UCC Filings
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ARTICLE XII ASSIGNMENTS AND
PARTICIPATIONS
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Section 12.1. Restrictions on Assignments,
etc
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Section 12.2. Rights of Assignees and
Participants
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Section 12.3. Terms and Evidence of
Assignment
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ARTICLE XIII INDEMNIFICATION
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Section 13.1. Indemnities by the
Borrower
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Section 13.2. Indemnities by
Servicer
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ARTICLE XIV MISCELLANEOUS
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Section 14.1. Amendments, Etc
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Section 14.2. Notices, Etc
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Section 14.3. No Waiver;
Remedies
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Section 14.4. Binding Effect;
Survival
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Section 14.5. Costs, Expenses and
Taxes
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Section 14.6. No Proceedings
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Section 14.7. Confidentiality
Provisions
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Section 14.9. Captions and Cross
References
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Section 14.10. Integration
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Section 14.11. Governing Law
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Section 14.12. Waiver of Jury
Trial
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Section 14.13. Consent to Jurisdiction;
Waiver of Immunities
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Section 14.14. Execution in
Counterparts
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Section 14.15. No Recourse Against Other
Parties
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Section 14.16. Amendment and
Restatement
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ARTICLE XV ADDITIONAL LIQUIDITY BANK
PROVISIONS
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TABLE OF CONTENTS
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Section 15.1. Assignment to Liquidity
Banks
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Section 15.2. Downgrade of Liquidity
Bank
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AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AND
SECURITY AGREEMENT
THIS AMENDED AND
RESTATED CREDIT AND SECURITY AGREEMENT is entered into as of
September 19, 2008, by and among:
(1) Packaging
Receivables Company LLC, a Delaware limited liability company
(together with its successors and permitted assigns, the “
Borrower ”),
(2) Packaging
Credit Company, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (together
with its successors, the “ Initial Servicer ”),
as initial servicer hereunder (in such capacity, together with any
successor servicer or sub-servicer appointed pursuant to
Section 8.1, the “ Servicer ”),
(3) YC SUSI Trust,
a Delaware statutory trust (together with its successors, “
YC SUSI ”), and Bank of America, National Association,
a national banking association, in its capacity as a Liquidity Bank
to YC SUSI (together with its successors, “ Bank of
America ”), as Lenders (hereinafter defined),
and
(4) Bank of
America, National Association, as agent for the Lenders (in such
capacity, together with any successors thereto in such capacity,
the “ Agent ”).
Unless otherwise
indicated, capitalized terms used in this Agreement are defined in
Annex A.
WHEREAS, the
Borrower is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Packaging Corporation of
America;
WHEREAS, Packaging
Corporation of America, as Originator, and Packaging Credit
Company, LLC (“ Seller ”) have entered into a
Receivables Sale Agreement (the “ Sale Agreement
”) pursuant to which the Originator has sold, and hereafter
will sell, to the Seller all of its right, title and interest in
and to its accounts receivable and certain related
rights;
WHEREAS, the
Seller sells or contributes to the Borrower under the Purchase and
Sale Agreement all of its right, title and interest in and to its
accounts receivable and certain related rights;
WHEREAS, the
Borrower, the Servicer, Blue Ridge Asset Funding Corporation
(“ Blue Ridge ”), as a Lender, and Wachovia
Bank, N.A. (“ Wachovia ”), as a Lender and as
Agent, entered into that certain Credit and Security Agreement,
dated as of November 29, 2000 (as amended, amended and
restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the
“ Original Credit Agreement ”);
WHEREAS, Blue
Ridge, Wachovia, YC SUSI and Bank of America have entered into that
certain Assignment and Acceptance Agreement (the “
Assignment Agreement ”), dated as of the date hereof,
pursuant to which Blue Ridge and Wachovia have assigned to YC SUSI
and
Bank of America
their respective rights as Lenders and Agent, as applicable, under
the Original Credit Agreement and other Transaction
Documents;
WHEREAS, the
parties hereto desire to amend and restate the Original Credit
Agreement to make certain changes thereto;
WHEREAS, the
Borrower has requested that the Lenders make revolving loans to the
Borrower from time to time hereafter secured by the Collateral,
and, subject to the terms and conditions contained in this
Agreement, the Lenders are willing to make such secured
loans;
WHEREAS, the
Lenders have requested that Initial Servicer act as the initial
Servicer for the Collateral, and, subject to the terms and
conditions contained in this Agreement, Initial Servicer is willing
to act in such capacity; and
WHEREAS, Bank of
America has been requested, and is willing, to act as the Agent
under this Agreement.
NOW, THEREFORE, in
consideration of the premises and the mutual agreements herein
contained, the parties hereto hereby agree as follows:
Section 1.1. The Facility . On the terms and subject to
the conditions set forth in this Agreement, the Borrower (or the
Servicer on the Borrower’s behalf) may from time to time
during the Revolving Period request Advances by delivering a
Borrowing Request to the Agent in accordance with Section 2.1.
Upon receipt of a copy of each Borrowing Request from the Borrower
or Servicer, the Agent shall advise the Borrower not later than
12:00 noon (New York City time) on the Business Day following such
receipt whether YC SUSI and/or the Liquidity Banks will fund a Loan
(or Loans) in the aggregate amount of the requested Advance, and in
the event that YC SUSI elects not to make any such Loan to the
Borrower, each of the Liquidity Banks severally agrees to make its
Ratable Share of such Loan to the Borrower, on the terms and
subject to the conditions hereof, provided that at no time may the
aggregate principal amount of YC SUSI’s and the Liquidity
Banks’ Loans at any one time outstanding exceed the lesser of
(i) the aggregate amount of the Liquidity Banks’
Commitments, and (ii) the Borrowing Base (such lesser amount,
the “ Allocation Limit ”). If the Agent advises
the Borrower that YC SUSI elects not to fund a Loan, the Borrower
or Servicer may rescind the Borrowing Request. Each Loan shall be
in the minimum amount of $1,000,000 or a larger integral multiple
of $500,000. In no event may the aggregate principal amount of the
Advances hereunder exceed the lesser of (x) the Aggregate
Commitment, or (y) the Borrowing Base. All Liquidity
Banks’ Commitments shall terminate on the Termination Date.
Each of the Loans, and all other Obligations of the Borrower, shall
be secured by the Collateral as provided in
Article IX.
Section 1.2. Funding Mechanics; Liquidity Fundings .
(a) Each Advance hereunder shall consist of Loans made from YC
SUSI and/or the Liquidity Banks.
(b) If a
Liquidity Bank fails to transfer to the Agent its full Ratable
Share of any Loan when required by Section 1.1 (the aggregate
amount not made available to the Agent by each
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such Liquidity
Bank being the “ Unpaid Amount ”), then, upon
notice from the Agent by not later than 1:15 p.m. (Chicago time),
each Liquidity Bank not owing an Unpaid Amount shall transfer to
the Agent, by not later than 1:45 p.m. (Chicago time), an amount
equal to the lesser of such Liquidity Bank’s proportionate
share (based on its Commitment divided by the Commitments of all
Liquidity Banks that have not so failed to pay their full Ratable
Share) of the Unpaid Amount and its Commitment. If the Agent does
not then receive the Unpaid Amount in full, upon notice from the
Agent by not later than 2:00 p.m. (Chicago time) on such day, each
Liquidity Bank that has not failed to fund any part of its
obligations on such day under this Section 1.2 shall pay to
the Agent, by not later than 2:30 p.m. (Chicago time), its
proportionate share (determined as described above) of the amount
of such remaining deficiency up to the amount of its unused
Commitment. Any Liquidity Bank that fails to make a payment under
this Section 1.2 on the date of a Liquidity Funding shall pay
on demand to each other Liquidity Bank that makes a payment under
this subsection (b) the amount paid by it to cover such
failure, together with interest thereon, for each day from the date
such payment was made until the date such other Liquidity Bank has
been paid such amount in full, at a rate per annum equal to the
Federal Funds Rate plus two percent (2%) per annum. In addition,
without prejudice to any other rights YC SUSI may have under
applicable law, any Liquidity Bank that has failed to transfer to
the Agent under Section 1.1 its full Ratable Share of any Loan
shall pay on demand to YC SUSI the difference between such unpaid
Ratable Share of such Loan and the amount paid by other Liquidity
Banks or the Agent to cover such failure, together with interest
thereon, for each day from the date such Ratable Share of such Loan
was due until the date paid, at a rate per annum equal to the
Federal Funds Rate plus two percent (2%) per annum.
(c) While it
is the intent of YC SUSI to fund each requested Advance through the
issuance of Commercial Paper Notes, the parties acknowledge that if
YC SUSI is unable, or determines that it is undesirable, to issue
Commercial Paper Notes to fund all or any portion of the Loans, or
is unable to repay such Commercial Paper Notes upon the maturity
thereof, YC SUSI may put all or any portion of its Loans to the
Liquidity Banks at any time pursuant to the Liquidity Agreement to
finance or refinance the necessary portion of its Loans through a
Liquidity Funding to the extent available. The Liquidity Fundings
may be Alternate Base Rate Loans or Eurodollar Loans, or a
combination thereof, selected by the Borrower in accordance with
Article II. Regardless of whether a Liquidity Funding
constitutes an assignment of a Loan or the sale of one or more
participations therein, each Liquidity Bank participating in a
Liquidity Funding shall have the rights of a “Lender”
hereunder with the same force and effect as if it had directly made
a Loan to the Borrower in the amount of its Liquidity
Funding.
(d) Nothing
herein shall be deemed to commit YC SUSI to make Loans. Nothing
herein shall be deemed to give the Borrower the right to select
Eurodollar Loans or Alternate Base Rate Loans for any
Advance.
Section 1.3. Interest Rates . (a) (i) Borrower
shall pay CP Costs with respect to the principal balance of YC
SUSI’s Loans from time to time outstanding. Each Loan of YC
SUSI that is funded substantially with Pooled Commercial Paper will
accrue CP Costs each day on a pro rata basis, based upon the
percentage share that the principal in respect of such Loan
represents in relation to all assets held by YC SUSI and funded
substantially with related Pooled Commercial Paper. The Agent will
notify the Borrower promptly after the commencement of
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any period
during which CP Costs are calculated pursuant to the last sentence
of the definition thereof, and will attempt to give prior notice if
reasonably practicable under the circumstances.
(ii) Not later
than the third Business Day immediately preceding each Reporting
Date, YC SUSI shall calculate the aggregate amount of CP Costs
applicable to its CP Rate Loans for the Settlement Period then most
recently ended and shall notify Borrower of such aggregate
amount.
(b) Each
Eurodollar Loan shall bear interest on the outstanding principal
amount thereof from and including the first day of the Interest
Period applicable thereto selected in accordance with
Article II of this Agreement to (but not including) the last
day of such Interest Period at a rate per annum equal to the sum of
(i) the applicable Eurodollar Rate (Reserve Adjusted) for such
Interest Period plus (ii) the Bank Rate Spread.
(c) Each
Alternate Base Rate Loan shall bear interest on the outstanding
principal amount thereof, for each day from and including the date
such Loan is made to but excluding the date it is paid at a rate
per annum equal to the Alternate Base Rate for such day. Changes in
the rate of interest on Alternate Base Rate Loans will take effect
simultaneously with each change in the Alternate Base
Rate.
(d) Notwithstanding
anything to the contrary contained in Sections 1.3(a),
(b) or (c), upon the occurrence of an Event of Default, and
during the continuance thereof, all Obligations shall bear
interest, payable upon demand, at the Default Rate.
(e) Interest
at any of the aforementioned rates shall be calculated for actual
days elapsed on the basis of a 360-day year. Interest shall be
payable for the day a Loan is made but not for the day of any
payment on the amount paid if payment is received prior to noon
(local time) at the place of payment. If any payment of principal
of or interest on a Loan shall become due on a day which is not a
Business Day, such payment shall be made on the next succeeding
Business Day and, in the case of a principal payment, such
extension of time shall be included in computing interest in
connection with such payment.
Section 1.4. Payment Dates; Noteless Agreement .
(a) On each Settlement Date, Borrower shall pay to the Agent
(for the benefit of YC SUSI) an aggregate amount equal to all
accrued and unpaid CP Costs (to the extent allocated to the
Borrower in accordance with Section 1.3(a)(i)) in respect of
the principal associated with all CP Rate Loans for the Settlement
Period then most recently ended in accordance with Article II.
The principal on each CP Rate Loan shall be payable on and after
the Termination Date as and when Collections are
received.
(b) The
Borrower promises to pay each Eurodollar Loan on the last day of
its Interest Period.
(c) The
Borrower promises to pay each Alternate Base Rate Loan, together
with all accrued and unpaid interest thereon, on or before the
earlier to occur of (i) the Termination Date, and (ii)
refinancing of such Loan with a CP Rate Loan or a Eurodollar
Loan.
(d) The
Borrower promises to pay all accrued and unpaid interest on each
Loan (other than a CP Rate Loan) on its applicable Interest Payment
Date.
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(e) Each
Lender shall maintain in accordance with its usual practice an
account or accounts evidencing the indebtedness of the Borrower to
such Lender resulting from each Loan made by such Lender from time
to time, including the amounts of principal and interest payable
and paid to such Lender from time to time hereunder. Upon request
of the Borrower or the Agent, such Lender will confirm the
outstanding principal balances of its Loans and the amount of any
accrued and unpaid interest thereon. The entries maintained in the
accounts maintained pursuant to this Section shall be prima facie
evidence of the existence and amounts of the Obligations therein
recorded; provided , however , that the failure of
any Lender to maintain such accounts or any error therein shall not
in any manner affect the obligation of the Borrower to repay the
Obligations in accordance with their terms.
Section 1.5. Prepayments . Subject, in the case of CP
Rate Loans and Eurodollar Loans, to the funding indemnification
provisions of Section 4.3:
(a) The Borrower
may from time to time prepay, without penalty or premium, all
outstanding Loans, or, in a minimum aggregate amount of $2,000,000
(or a larger integral multiple of $1,000,000), any portion of the
outstanding Loans upon two Business Days’ prior written
notice to the Agent (each, a “ Prepayment Notice
”), provided that each such prepayment of principal is
accompanied by a payment of all accrued and unpaid interest thereon
and is made ratably amongst the Lenders; it being understood that
the Borrower, in its discretion, may designate the outstanding
Loans to which the Agent will apply each such prepayment or portion
thereof, subject to, in the case of CP Rate Loans or Eurodollar
Loans, the funding indemnification provisions of Section 4.3
hereof;
(b) If on any
Business Day, the aggregate outstanding principal amount of YC
SUSI’s Loans and the Liquidity Fundings made by the Liquidity
Banks exceeds the Allocation Limit, the Borrower shall prepay such
Loans, subject, in the case of CP Rate Loans and Eurodollar Loans,
to the funding indemnification provision of Section 4.3 but
otherwise without premium or penalty, by initiating a wire transfer
to the Agent not later than 11:00 a.m. (New York City time) on
the second Business Day thereafter in an amount sufficient to
eliminate such excess, together with interest accrued and to accrue
on the amount prepaid; and
(c) Upon receipt
of any wire transfer pursuant to Section 1.5(b), the Agent
shall initiate a wire transfer to the Lenders of their respective
shares thereof not later than 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the
date when received.
(d) Upon the
occurrence of a Credit Event, the Agent shall have the right
(x) to declare that the Termination Date has occurred,
whereupon the Aggregate Commitment shall terminate and all
Collections shall be allocated and distributed pursuant to
Section 3.2(b) hereof (the “ Credit Event
Amortization Option ”) or (y) to require the
Borrower to pay additional interest of 2.0% per annum on the
principal amount of any Loan (the “ Additional Interest
Option ”). Within ten (10) days of the occurrence of
a Credit Event, the Borrower will deliver a notice (the “
Credit Event Amortization Notice ”) to the Agent
describing such event. Promptly after the occurrence of the Credit
Event, the Agent will elect the Credit Event Amortization Option or
the Additional Interest Option, and the Agent shall deliver a
notice (the “ Credit Event
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Election
Notice ”) to the
Borrower informing the Borrower of such election. If the Agent
elects the Credit Event Amortization Option, then on the date of
delivery of the Credit Event Notice, the Agent shall allocate and
distribute all Collections pursuant to Section 3.2(b) and on
the earlier of (A) the date of such distribution and
(B) the date the Borrower receives the Credit Event Election
Notice, the Aggregate Commitment shall automatically terminate. If
the Agent elects the Additional Interest Option, then from the date
of the occurrence of such Credit Event, the Borrower shall pay
interest on the principal amount of any Loan at a rate per
annum equal at all times to 2.0% per annum above the
rate per annum required to be paid on such Loan pursuant to
Section 1.3.
Section 1.6. Reductions in Aggregate Commitment . The
Borrower may permanently reduce the Aggregate Commitment in whole,
or ratably in part, in a minimum amount of $5,000,000 (or a larger
integral multiple of $1,000,000), upon at least five
(5) Business Days’ written notice to the Agent (each, a
“ Commitment Reduction Notice ”),
provided , however , that (a) the amount of the
Aggregate Commitment may not be reduced below the aggregate
principal amount of the outstanding Advances, and (b) the
amount of the Aggregate Commitment may not be reduced below
$5,000,000 unless the Aggregate Commitment is terminated in full.
All accrued and unpaid fees shall be payable on the effective date
of any termination of the Aggregate Commitment. Each Commitment
Reduction Notice shall be irrevocable once delivered to the
Agent.
Section 1.7. Requests for Increases in Aggregate
Commitment . The Borrower may from time to time request
increases in the Aggregate Commitment in a minimum amount of
$5,000,000 (or a larger integral multiple of $1,000,000), upon at
least thirty (30) days’ prior written notice to the
Agent, which notice shall specify the amount of and proposed
effective date for any such requested increase (each, a “
Commitment Increase Request ”). If each of the Lenders
agrees to the requested increase by notifying the Agent and the
Borrower in writing of their concurrence, such increase shall be
made to the Commitments of the Liquidity Banks, ratably in
accordance with their respective Ratable Shares as of the effective
date specified in the Commitment Increase Request. If less than all
of the Lenders agree to such increase, the amount of the Aggregate
Commitment shall remain unchanged.
Section 1.8. Extension of the Scheduled Termination
Date . Provided that no Event of Default exists and is
continuing, the Borrower may request an extension of the Scheduled
Termination Date by submitting a request for an extension (each, an
“ Extension Request ”) to the Agent no more than
sixty (60) days prior to the Scheduled Termination Date then
in effect. The Extension Request must specify the new Scheduled
Termination Date requested by the Borrower and the date (which must
be at least thirty (30) days after the Extension Request is
delivered to the Agent) as of which the Agent, the Lenders and the
Liquidity Banks must respond to the Extension Request (the “
Response Date ”). The new Scheduled Termination Date
shall be no more than 364 days after the Scheduled Termination
Date in effect at the time the Extension Request is received,
including the Scheduled Termination Date as one of the days in the
calculation of the days elapsed. Promptly upon receipt of an
Extension Request, the Agent shall notify YC SUSI and the Liquidity
Banks of the contents thereof and shall request each such Person to
approve the Extension Request. Each Lender and Liquidity Bank
approving the Extension Request shall deliver its written approval
to the Agent no later than the Response Date, whereupon the Agent
shall notify the Borrower within one (1) Business Day
thereafter as
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to whether all
of the Lenders have approved the Extension Request. If all of the
Lenders have approved the Extension Request, the Scheduled
Termination Date specified in the Extension Request shall become
effective on the existing Scheduled Termination Date, and the Agent
shall promptly notify the Borrower and the Lenders of the new
Scheduled Termination Date. If all of the Lenders do not
unanimously agree to an Extension Request, the Scheduled
Termination Date shall remain unchanged.
Section 1.9. Distribution of Certain Notices; Notification
of Interest Rates . Promptly after receipt thereof, the Agent
will notify YC SUSI and the Liquidity Banks of the contents of each
Information Package, Borrowing Request, Extension Request,
Commitment Reduction Notice, Prepayment Notice, Commitment Increase
Request or notice of default received by it from the Borrower or
the Servicer hereunder. In addition, the Agent shall promptly
notify the Lenders and the Borrower of each determination of and
change in Interest Rates.
ARTICLE II
BORROWING AND PAYMENT MECHANICS; CERTAIN
COMPUTATIONS
Section 2.1. Method of Borrowing . The Borrower (or the
Servicer on the Borrower’s behalf) shall give the Agent
irrevocable notice in the form of Exhibit 2.1 hereto (each, a
“ Borrowing Request ”) not later than 12:00 noon
(New York City time) at least two Business Days before the
Borrowing Date of each Advance. On each Borrowing Date, each Lender
shall make available its Loan or Loans in immediately available
funds to the Agent by initiating a wire transfer in such amount not
later than 12:00 noon (New York City time). Subject to its receipt
of such wire transfers, the Agent will initiate a wire transfer of
the funds so received from the Lenders to the Borrower at the
account specified in its Borrowing Request not later than 1:00 p.m.
(New York City time) on the applicable Borrowing Date. Neither the
Borrower, nor the Servicer on the Borrower’s behalf, may
deliver more than four (4) Borrowing Requests in any
month.
Section 2.2. Selection of Interest Periods for Eurodollar
Loans . If the Borrower has been informed by the Agent that CP
Rate Loans are not available, prior to the occurrence of an Event
of Default, the Borrower or the Servicer in its Borrowing Request
may request Interest Periods for Eurodollar Loans from time to time
to apply to each Lender’s Eurodollar Loans; provided ,
however , that (i) at least one Interest Period shall
mature on each Settlement Date, and (ii) no Interest Period
which began prior to the Scheduled Termination Date shall extend
beyond the Scheduled Termination Date.
While the Agent
will use reasonable efforts to accommodate the Borrower’s or
the Servicer’s requests for Interest Periods prior to an
Event of Default, the Agent shall have the right to subdivide any
requested Eurodollar Loan into one or more Eurodollar Loans of
different Interest Periods, or, if the requested period is not
feasible, to suggest an alternative Interest Period, provided
that not less than $1,000,000 of principal may be allocated to
any Interest Period of any Lender, and no Alternate Base Rate Loan
may have a principal amount of less than $1,000,000.
The Borrower (or
the Servicer on the Borrower’s behalf) may not request an
Interest Period for a Eurodollar Loan unless it shall have given
the Agent written notice of its desire
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therefor not
later than 12:00 noon (New York City time) at least three
(3) Business Days prior to the first day of the desired
Interest Period. Accordingly, all Liquidity Fundings shall
initially be Alternate Base Rate Loans.
Unless the Agent
shall have received written notice by 12:00 noon (New York City
time) on the third Business Day prior to the last day of an
Interest Period that the Borrower intends to reduce the aggregate
principal amount of the Eurodollar Loans outstanding from the
Liquidity Banks, each of the Liquidity Banks shall be entitled to
assume that the Borrower desires to refinance its maturing
Eurodollar Loans on the last day of such Interest Period with
Eurodollar Loans with an Interest Period of one
(1) month.
The Agent
acknowledges and agrees that a Borrowing Request shall not be
required in connection with the refinancing on the last day of an
Interest Period of maturing Eurodollar Loans.
If the Agent or
any Liquidity Bank determines (i) that maintenance of any
Eurodollar Loan would violate any applicable law or regulation,
(ii) that deposits of a type and maturity appropriate to match
fund any of such Liquidity Bank’s Eurodollar Loans are not
available or (iii) that the maintenance of any Eurodollar Loans
will not adequately and fairly reflect the cost of such Liquidity
Bank of funding Eurodollar Loans, then the Agent, upon the
direction of such Liquidity Bank, shall suspend the availability of
future Eurodollar Loans until such time as the Agent or applicable
Liquidity Bank provides notice that the circumstances giving rise
to such suspension no longer exist, and, if required by any
applicable law or regulation, terminate any outstanding Eurodollar
Loan so affected. All Loans allocated to any such terminated
Eurodollar Loan shall be reallocated to an Alternative Base Rate
Loan.
Section 2.3. Computation of Concentration Limits and Unpaid
Balance . The Obligor Concentration Limits and the aggregate
Unpaid Balance of Receivables of each Obligor and its Affiliated
Obligors (if any) shall be calculated as if each such Obligor and
its Affiliated Obligors were one Obligor.
Section 2.4. Maximum Interest Rate . No provision of
this Agreement shall require the payment or permit the collection
of interest in excess of the maximum permitted by applicable
law.
Section 2.5. Payments and Computations, Etc . (a)
Payments . The Borrower or the Servicer, as the case may be,
shall initiate a wire transfer of immediately available funds of
all amounts to be paid or deposited by the Borrower or the Servicer
to the Agent or any of the Lenders (other than amounts payable
under Section 4.2) no later than 11:00 a.m. (New York
City time) on the day when due in lawful money of the United States
of America to the Agent at its address specified in
Schedule 14.2, and, to the extent such payment is for the
account of a Lender, the Agent shall promptly disburse such funds
to the appropriate Lender.
(b) Late
Payments . To the extent permitted by law, upon demand, the
Borrower or the Servicer, as applicable, shall pay to the Agent for
the account of each Person to whom payment of any Obligation is
due, interest on all amounts not paid or deposited by 2:00 p.m.
(New York City time) on the date when due (without taking into
account any applicable grace
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period) at the
Default Rate as specified in Section 10.1(a), provided,
however, that no such interest rate shall at any time exceed the
maximum rate permitted by applicable law.
(c)
Method of Computation . All computations of interest,
Servicer’s Fee, any per annum fees payable under
Section 4.1 and any other per annum fees payable by the
Borrower to the Lenders, the Servicer or the Agent under the Loan
Documents shall be made on the basis of a year of 360 days for
the actual number of days (including the first day but excluding
the last day) elapsed.
(d)
Avoidance or Recission of Payments . To the maximum extent
permitted by applicable law, no payment of any Obligation shall be
considered to have been paid if at any time such payment is
rescinded or must be returned for any reason.
Section 2.6. Non-Receipt of Funds by the Agent . Unless
a Lender notifies the Agent prior to the date and time on which it
is scheduled to fund a Loan that it does not intend to fund, the
Agent may assume that such funding will be made and may, but shall
not be obligated to, make the amount of such Loan available to the
intended recipient in reliance upon such assumption. If such Lender
has not in fact funded its Loan proceeds to the Agent, the
recipient of such payment shall, on demand by the Agent, repay to
the Agent the amount so made available together with interest
thereon in respect of each day during the period commencing on the
date such amount was so made available by the Agent until the date
the Agent recovers such amount at a rate per annum equal to the
Federal Funds Rate for such day.
Section 3.1. Reporting . (a) Information
Packages . On the 15th Business Day after each Cut-Off Date
hereafter (each, a “ Reporting Date ”), the
Servicer shall deliver to the Agent, a report in the form of
Exhibit 3.1(a) (each, an “ Information Package
”) accompanied by an electronic file in a form reasonably
satisfactory to the Agent; provided , however , that
if an Event of Default shall exist and be continuing, the Agent may
request that a computation of the Borrowing Base be made more
frequently than monthly but no more frequently than once per
day.
(b)
Interest; Other Amounts Due . At or before 12:00 noon (New
York City time) on the Business Day before each Settlement Date,
the Agent shall notify the Borrower and the Servicer of
(i) the aggregate principal balance of all Loans made by the
Lenders that are then outstanding, and (ii) the aggregate amount of
all principal, interest and fees that will be due and payable by
the Borrower to the Agent for the account of the Agent or the
Lenders on such Settlement Date.
Section 3.2. Allocations and Distributions .
(a)
Revolving Period . On each day during the Revolving Period,
the Servicer shall set aside and hold in trust solely for the
account of the Agent, for the benefit of the Agent and the Lenders
(or deliver to the Collection Account as required pursuant to
Section 7.1(i) hereof), the Percentage Share of all
Collections and Deemed Collections received on such day, to the
extent required for the payment of any accrued and unpaid
Obligations (other than principal) on the
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next Settlement
Date or Interest Payment Date. If at any time Collections are
received by the Servicer during the Revolving Period, the Servicer
shall (i) set aside such amounts as are required pursuant to
the immediately preceding sentence to satisfy all Obligations
(including but not limited to interest, fees, principal, increased
costs or indemnification payments required hereunder or under any
other Transaction Document) and the Servicer’s Fee due or to
become due as of the next Settlement Date or Interest Payment Date,
as applicable, and (ii) provided clause (i) above has
been satisfied, unless otherwise requested by the Borrower, apply
the remaining Collections to the purchase of additional Receivables
from the Seller under and in accordance with the Purchase and Sale
Agreement. On each Settlement Date or Interest Payment Date, as
applicable, during the Revolving Period, the Servicer shall remit
the amounts set aside above that have not been used for the
purchase of additional Receivables, first , to the Lenders
in reduction of the Obligations due and owing, and second ,
to the Servicer, for payment of the Servicer’s Fee then due
and owing.
(b)
Termination Date . On each day on and after the Termination
Date, the Servicer shall set aside and hold in trust solely for the
account of the Agent, for the benefit of the Agent and the Lenders
(or delivered to the Collection Account as required pursuant to
Section 7.1(i) hereof), the Percentage Share of all
Collections received on such day and such Collections shall be
remitted as follows on each Settlement Date, or if an Event of
Default has occurred, on each other Business Day specified by the
Agent ( provided the Servicer has been given two
(2) Business Days’ prior notice thereof):
(i) first ,
to the Lenders (ratably, based on their Ratable Share) until all
Loans of, and interest due but not already paid to, the Lenders
have been paid in full;
(ii) second
, to the Lenders until all other amounts owed to the Lenders have
been paid in full;
(iii) third
, to the Agent until all amounts owed to the Agent have been paid
in full;
(iv) fourth
, to any other Person to whom any amounts are owed under the
Transaction Documents until all such amounts have been paid in
full;
(v) fifth ,
to the Servicer until all amounts owed to the Servicer under the
Agreement have been paid in full; and
(vi) sixth
, to the Borrower (or as otherwise required by applicable
law).
Section 3.3. Non-Distribution of Servicer’s Fee .
Each of the Agent and the Secured Parties hereby consents to the
retention by the Servicer of a portion of the Percentage Share of
the Collections equal to the Servicer’s Fee (and, if
applicable, any invoiced expenses of such Servicer that are due and
owing pursuant to Section 8.1(d)) so long as the Collections
received by the Servicer are sufficient to pay all amounts pursuant
to Section 3.2 of a higher priority as specified in such
Section.
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Section 3.4. Deemed Collections . If on any
day:
(a) the
Unpaid Balance of any Receivable is reduced as a result of any
defective or rejected goods or services, any cash discount or any
other adjustment by any Loan Party or any Affiliate thereof, or as
a result of any tariff or other governmental or regulatory action,
or
(b) the
Unpaid Balance of any Receivable is reduced or canceled as a result
of a setoff in respect of any claim by the Obligor thereof (whether
such claim arises out of the same or a related or an unrelated
transaction), or
(c) the
Unpaid Balance of any Receivable is reduced on account of the
obligation of any Loan Party or any Affiliate thereof to pay to the
related Obligor any rebate or refund, or
(d) the
Unpaid Balance of any Receivable is less than the amount included
in calculating the Net Pool Balance for purposes of any Information
Package (for any reason other than such Receivable becoming a
Defaulted Receivable), or
(e) any of
the representations or warranties of the Borrower set forth in
Section 6.1(j), (l) or (p) were not true when made with
respect to any Receivable, or any of the representations or
warranties of the Borrower set forth in Section 6.1(k) are no
longer true with respect to any Receivable, or any Receivable is
repurchased by the Seller pursuant to the Purchase and Sale
Agreement,
then, on such
day, the Borrower shall be deemed to have received a Collection of
such Receivable (1) in the case of clauses (a)-(d) above, in
the amount of such reduction or cancellation or the difference
between the actual Unpaid Balance and the amount included in
calculating such Net Pool Balance, as applicable; and (2) in
the case of clause (e) above, in the amount of the Unpaid
Balance of such Receivable.
ARTICLE IV
FEES AND YIELD PROTECTION
Section 4.1. Fees . The Borrower shall pay to the Agent
and the Lenders certain fees from time to time in amounts and
payable on such dates as are set forth in the Fee Letter (including
the Facility Fees, the Program Fees and the Structuring
Fee).
Section 4.2. Yield Protection . If (i) a change to
Regulation D or (ii) any Regulatory Change, in either
case, occurring after the date hereof:
(a) shall subject
an Affected Party to any tax, duty or other charge with respect to
its Obligations or, as applicable, its Commitment or its commitment
under any Liquidity Agreement, or shall change the basis of
taxation of payments to the Affected Party of any Obligations, owed
to or funded in whole or in part by it or any other amounts due
under this Agreement in respect of its Obligations or, as
applicable, its Commitment or its commitment under any Liquidity
Agreement except for (1) taxes based on, or measured by, net
income, or changes in the rate of tax on or determined by reference
to the overall net income, of such Affected Party,
(2) franchise taxes, taxes on, or in the nature of, doing
business taxes or capital taxes, or (3) withholding taxes
required
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for payments
made to any foreign entity which, at the time such foreign entity
issues its Commitment or Liquidity Commitment or becomes an
assignee of a Lender hereunder, fails to deliver to the Agent and
the Borrower an accurate IRS Form W-8 BEN or W-8 ECI, as
applicable; or
(b) shall impose,
modify or deem applicable any reserve (including, without
limitation, any reserve imposed by the Federal Reserve Board, but
excluding any reserve included in the determination of interest),
special deposit or similar requirement against assets of any
Affected Party, deposits or obligations with or for the account of
any Affected Party or with or for the account of any affiliate (or
entity deemed by the Federal Reserve Board to be an affiliate) of
any Affected Party, or credit extended by any Affected Party;
or
(c) shall affect
the amount of capital required or expected to be maintained by any
Affected Party; or
(d) shall impose
any other condition affecting any Obligation owned or funded in
whole or in part by any Affected Party, or its rights or
obligations, if any, to make Loans or Liquidity Fundings;
or
(e) shall change
the rate for, or the manner in which the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporation (or a successor thereto) assesses deposit insurance
premiums or similar charges;
and the result
of any of the foregoing is or would be:
(x) to increase
the cost to or to impose a cost on (I) an Affected Party
funding or making or maintaining any Loan, any Liquidity Funding,
or any commitment of such Affected Party with respect to any of the
foregoing, or (II) any Agent for continuing its or the
Borrower’s relationship with any Affected Party, in each
case, in an amount deemed to be material by such Affected
Party,
(y) to reduce the
amount of any sum received or receivable by an Affected Party under
this Agreement or under the Liquidity Agreement, or
(z) to reduce the
rate of return on such Affected Party’s capital as a
consequence of its Commitment, its Liquidity Commitment or the
Loans made by it to a level below that which such Affected Party
could have achieved but for the occurrence of such
circumstances,
then, within
thirty (30) days after demand by such Affected Party (which
demand shall be accompanied by a certificate setting forth, in
reasonable detail, the basis of such demand and the methodology for
calculating, and the calculation of, the amounts claimed by the
Affected Party), the Borrower shall pay directly to such Affected
Party such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such
Affected Party for such actual additional cost, actual increased
cost or actual reduction.
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(f) Each Affected
Party will promptly notify the Borrower and the Agent of any event
of which it has knowledge (including any future event that, in the
judgment of such Affected Party, is reasonably certain to occur)
which will entitle such Affected Party to compensation pursuant to
this Section 4.2; provided , however , no
failure to give or delay in giving such notification shall
adversely affect the rights of any Affected Party to such
compensation.
(g) In determining
any amount provided for or referred to in this Section 4.2, an
Affected Party may use any reasonable averaging and attribution
methods (consistent with its ordinary business practices) that it
(in its reasonable discretion) shall deem applicable. Any Affected
Party when making a claim under this Section 4.2 shall submit
to the Borrower the above-referenced certificate as to such actual
increased cost or actual reduced return (including calculation
thereof in reasonable detail), which statement shall, in the
absence of demonstrable error, be conclusive and binding upon the
Borrower.
(h) Each of the
Lenders agrees, and will require each Affected Party to agree that,
with reasonable promptness after an officer of such Lender or such
Affected Party responsible for administering the Transaction
Documents becomes aware that it has become an Affected Party under
this Section 4.2, is entitled to receive payments under this
Section 4.2, or is or has become subject to U.S. withholding taxes
payable by any Loan Party in respect of its investment hereunder,
it will, to the extent not inconsistent with any internal policy of
such Person or any applicable legal or regulatory restriction,
(i) use all reasonable efforts to make, fund or maintain its
commitment or investment hereunder through another branch or office
of such Affected Party, or (ii) take such other reasonable
measures, if, as a result thereof, the circumstances which would
cause such Person to be an Affected Party under this
Section 4.2 would cease to exist, or the additional amounts
which would otherwise be required to be paid to such Person
pursuant to this Section 4.2 would be reduced, or such
withholding taxes would be reduced, and if the making, funding or
maintaining of such commitment or investment through such other
office or in accordance with such other measures, as the case may
be, would not otherwise adversely affect such commitment or
investment or the interests of such Person; provided that ,
such Person will not be obligated to utilize such other lending
office pursuant to this Section 4.2 unless the Borrower agrees
to pay all incremental expenses incurred by such Person as a result
of utilizing such other office as described in clause
(i) above. For the avoidance of doubt, any interpretation of
Accounting Research Bulletin No. 51 by the Financial
Accounting Standards Board which becomes applicable to the
Liquidity Banks shall constitute a Regulatory Change subject to
this Section 4.2.
Section 4.3. Funding Losses . In the event that any
Lender shall actually incur any actual loss or expense (including
any actual loss or expense incurred by reason of the liquidation or
reemployment of deposits or other funds acquired by such Lender to
make any Loan or any Liquidity Funding, as applicable, or maintain
any Loan or Liquidity Funding, as applicable) as a result of
(i) any payment of principal with respect to such
Lender’s Loan being made on any day other than a Settlement
Date or the scheduled last day of an applicable Interest Period
with respect thereto, as applicable (it being understood that the
foregoing shall not apply to any Alternate Base Rate Loans), or
(ii) any Loan not being made in accordance with a request
therefor under Section 2.1, then, upon written notice from the
Agent to the Borrower and the
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Servicer, the
Borrower shall pay to the Servicer and the Servicer shall pay to
the Agent for the account of such Lender the amount of such actual
loss or expense. Such written notice (which notice shall set forth
in reasonable detail the basis to the loss or expense and shall
include the methodology for calculating, and the calculation of,
the amount of such actual loss or expense, in reasonable detail)
shall, in the absence of demonstrable error or unreasonable
assumption, methodology or allocations, be conclusive and binding
upon the Borrower and the Servicer.
Notwithstanding
the foregoing, unless the Agent gives notice to the Borrower and
the Servicer that it is obligated to pay an amount pursuant to this
Section 4.3 within one year after the date the Lender obtained
knowledge of the respective actual loss or expense, then such
Lender shall only be entitled to be compensated for such actual
loss or expense as are incurred or suffered on or after the date
which occurs one year prior to the Agent giving notice to the
Borrower and the Servicer unless such loss or expense is incurred
on a retroactive basis, in which case, such Lender shall be
entitled to be compensated for all loss and expense provided the
Agent or such Lender gives notice within one year from the date of
such retroactive change. If the Borrower pays any additional amount
under this Section 4.3 to a Lender and such Lender determines
that it has actually received or realized in connection therewith
any refund or any reduction of, or credit against its tax
liabilities in or with respect to the taxable year in which the
additional amount is paid (a “ Tax Benefit ”),
such Lender shall pay to the Borrower an amount that such Lender
shall determine is equal to the net benefit, after tax, which was
obtained by such Lender in such year as a consequence of such Tax
Benefit; provided , however , that nothing in this
Section 4.3 shall require any Lender to (i) seek a Tax
Benefit or (ii) disclose any confidential information to the
Borrower or Servicer (including, without limitation, its tax
returns).
ARTICLE V
CONDITIONS OF ADVANCES
Section 5.1. Conditions Precedent to Initial Advance .
The initial Advance pursuant to this Agreement is subject to the
condition precedent that (i) the Borrower or the Originator
shall have paid in full (x) all amounts required to be paid by
each of them on or prior to the date hereof pursuant to the Fee
Letter and (y) the fees and expenses described in
Section 14.5(a) and invoiced prior to the date hereof, and
(ii) the Agent shall have received, on or before the date of
such initial Advance, the following, each (unless otherwise
indicated) dated such date and in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to the Agent:
(a) This
Agreement, the Sale Agreement, the Purchase and Sale Agreement and
each of the other Transaction Documents executed by the Originator,
the Borrower or the Servicer, as applicable, each duly executed by
the parties thereto;
(b) A certificate
of the Secretary or Assistant Secretary or other appropriate
officer of each Loan Party certifying the names and true signatures
of the officers authorized on its behalf to sign this Agreement and
the other Transaction Documents to be delivered by it hereunder (on
which certificate the Agent and the Lenders may conclusively rely
until such time as the Agent shall receive from such Loan Party a
revised certificate meeting the requirements of this subsection
(b));
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(c) The
Certificate of Formation or other organizational documents of each
Loan Party, duly certified by the Secretary of State of such Loan
Party’s state of incorporation or organization, as of a
recent date acceptable to the Agent in each case together with a
copy of the limited liability company agreement or other
organizational document of such Loan Party, duly certified by the
Secretary or an Assistant Secretary of such Loan Party or other
appropriate officer;
(d) Resolutions of
the board of managers or other governing body of each Loan Party
authorizing its execution, delivery and performance of this
Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a
party and all other documents evidencing necessary corporate action
and government approvals, if any;
(e) Copies of good
standing certificates or similar certificates of existence for each
Loan Party, issued by the Secretaries of State of the state of
incorporation or organization of such Loan Party and the state
where such Loan Party’s principal place of business is
located;
(f) UCC financing
statements and/or UCC financing statement amendments satisfactory
to the Agent with respect to the Collateral together with written
evidence satisfactory to the Agent that the same have been filed or
submitted for filing in the appropriate public filing offices(s),
in the Agent’s sole discretion, to perfect the Secured
Parties’ first priority security interest in the
Collateral;
(g) A signed
acknowledgment by the Lockbox Bank, Wachovia and the Servicer of
the assignment of the rights under the Lockbox Agreement to the
Agent;
(h) Search reports
provided in writing to the Agent (i) listing all effective
financing statements that name any Loan Party as debtor and that
are filed in the jurisdictions in which filings were made pursuant
to subsection (f) above and in such other jurisdictions that
the Agent shall reasonably request, together with copies of such
financing statements, and (ii) listing all tax liens and
judgment liens (if any) filed against any debtor referred to in
clause (i) above in the jurisdictions described therein and
showing no such Liens;
(i) The Seller
Note, duly executed by the Borrower and the Initial PCA Note, duly
executed by the Seller;
(j) A favorable
opinion of counsel to Loan Parties admitted to practice in the
State of Illinois, covering the matters set forth in
Exhibit 5.1(j);
(k) Favorable
opinions of counsel to Loan Parties, as to:
(1) the existence
of a “true sale” of the Receivables from the Originator
to the Seller and from the Seller to the Borrower under the Sale
Agreement and the Purchase and Sale Agreement, respectively;
and
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(2) the
inapplicability of the doctrine of substantive consolidation to the
Borrower and the Originator and to the Borrower and the Seller in
connection with any bankruptcy proceeding involving any Loan
Party;
(l) A pro forma
Information Package, prepared as of the Cut-Off Date of
August 31, 2008;
(m) Satisfactory
results of a review and audit of the Originator’s collection,
operating and reporting systems, Credit and Collection Policy,
historical receivables data and accounts, including satisfactory
results of a review of the Originator’s operating location(s)
and satisfactory review and approval of the Eligible Receivables
then in existence and a written outside audit report of a financial
consultant reasonably acceptable to the Agent as to such matters,
in each case, as of a recent date.
(n) The Liquidity
Agreement, in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent, duly
executed by the parties thereto;
(o) With respect
to the Performance Guarantor, copies of its most recent reports on
SEC Forms 10-K and 10-Q;
(p) The Fee
Letter, together with payment of any and all fees due on or prior
to the date of the initial Advance;
(q) A certificate
of an Authorized Officer of each of the Loan Parties certifying
that as of the date of the initial Advance, no Event of Default or
Unmatured Default exists and is continuing;
(r) The Assignment
Agreement, duly executed by the parties thereto; and
(s) Such other
agreements, instruments, certificates, opinions and other documents
as the Agent may reasonably request.
Section 5.2. Conditions Precedent to All Advances .
Each Advance (including the initial Advance) shall be subject to
the further conditions precedent that on the applicable Borrowing
Date, each of the following statements shall be true (and the
Borrower, by accepting the amount of such Advances or by receiving
the proceeds of any Loan comprising such Advance, and each other
Loan Party, upon such acceptance or receipt by the Borrower, shall
be deemed to have certified that):
(a) the
representations and warranties contained in Section 6.1 are
accurate in all material respects on and as of the date of such
Advance as though made on and as of such day and shall be deemed to
have been made on such day,
(b) no event has
occurred and is continuing, or would result from such Advance, that
constitutes an Event of Default or Unmatured Default,
(c) after giving
effect to each proposed Advance, (i) the outstanding Loans
made by YC SUSI and the Liquidity Banks will not exceed the
Allocation Limit, and (ii)
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the sum of
(x) the aggregate outstanding principal balance of the
Advances as of the date of such Advance and (y) the Required
Reserves as of such date shall not exceed the Net Pool Balance as
of such date.
(d) the
Termination Date shall not have occurred, and
(e) the Agent
shall have timely received an appropriate Borrowing Request in
accordance with Section 2.1.
ARTICLE VI
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
Section 6.1. Representations and Warranties of the Borrower
and the Servicer . Each of the Borrower and the Servicer
represents and warrants as of the date hereof and as of the date of
any subsequent Borrowing Date, as follows:
(a) Due
Organization and Good Standing; Ownership . It is duly
organized, validly existing and in good standing under the laws of
the jurisdiction of its organization or formation. Performance
Guarantor owns, directly or indirectly, all outstanding ownership
interests of the Borrower and the Servicer, and all of such
ownership interests are fully paid and non-assessable and free and
clear of any Liens.
(b) Due
Qualification . It is duly qualified to do business and in good
standing in all jurisdictions not covered by Section 6.1(a) in
which the ownership or lease of property or the conduct of its
business requires such qualification, except where the failure to
be so qualified or have such licenses or approvals would not have a
Material Adverse Effect.
(c) Power and
Authority; Due Authorization . It (i) has all necessary
power, authority and legal right, and has obtained all necessary
licenses and approvals, (A) to execute and deliver this
Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a
party, (B) to carry out the terms of the Transaction Documents
to which it is a party, (C) in the case of the Servicer (or
any Affiliate thereof that is acting as a sub-servicer), to service
the Receivables and the Related Assets in accordance with this
Agreement and the Purchase and Sale Agreement, and (D) in the
case of the Borrower, to grant the security interest in the
Collateral and borrow the Loans on the terms and conditions herein
provided, and (ii) has duly authorized by all necessary
corporate action the execution, delivery and performance of this
Agreement and the other Transaction Documents to which it is a
party and, in the case of the Borrower, the granting of the
security interest described in clause (i)(D) above.
(d) Title to
Receivables; Valid Security Interest . Each Receivable has been
acquired by the Borrower from the Seller in accordance with the
terms of the Purchase and Sale Agreement, and the Borrower has
thereby irrevocably obtained all legal and equitable title to, and
has the legal right to sell and encumber, such Receivable and the
Related Assets. Each such Receivable has been transferred to the
Borrower free and clear of any Lien except as created hereby.
Without limiting the foregoing, there have been duly filed all
financing statements or other similar instruments or
documents
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necessary under
the UCC of all appropriate jurisdictions to perfect the
Borrower’s ownership interest in such Receivable. This
Agreement creates a valid security interest in the Collateral in
favor of the Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties,
enforceable against creditors of and purchasers from the
Borrower.
(e)
Noncontravention . Its execution, delivery and performance
of this Agreement and each other Transaction Document to which it
is party do not and will not: (i) contravene the terms of any
of its certificate of formation or limited liability company
agreement or other appropriate organizational documents;
(ii) conflict with or result in a material breach or
contravention of, or the creation of any Lien under, any document
evidencing any material Contractual Obligation to which it is a
party or any order, injunction, writ or decree of any Governmental
Authority to which it or its property is subject; or
(iii) violate any Requirement of Law.
(f) No
Proceedings . There are no actions, suits, labor controversies,
proceedings, claims or disputes pending, or to its knowledge,
threatened or contemplated, at law, in equity, in arbitration or
before any Governmental Authority, against it or its Subsidiaries
or any of their respective properties which: (i) purport to
affect or pertain to this Agreement or any other Transaction
Document, or any of the transactions contemplated hereby or
thereby; or (ii) if determined adversely to it or its
Subsidiaries, would, individually or in the aggregate, have a
Material Adverse Effect. No injunction, writ, temporary restraining
order or order of any nature has been issued by any court or other
Governmental Authority purporting to enjoin or restrain the
execution, delivery or performance of this Agreement or any other
Transaction Document, or directing that the transactions provided
for herein or therein not be consummated as herein or therein
provided. It is generally subject to suit and it does not nor do
any of its properties or revenues enjoy any right of immunity from
judicial proceedings.
(g)
Enforceability . Each of this Agreement and the other
Transaction Documents to which it is a party has been duly executed
and delivered and constitutes its legal, valid and binding
obligation, enforceable against it in accordance with its terms
(except as enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy,
insolvency, or similar laws affecting the enforcement of
creditors’ rights generally or by equitable principles
relating to enforceability).
(h) Government
Approvals . No approval, consent, exemption, authorization, or
other action by, or notice to, or filing with, any Governmental
Authority is necessary or required in connection with the
execution, delivery or performance by the Borrower or the Servicer
of this Agreement or any other Transaction Document, or the
enforcement thereof, except for (i) the filing of the UCC financing
statements referred to in Sections 5.1(f), and (ii) the
filing of any UCC continuation statements and amendments from time
to time required in relation to any UCC financing statements filed
in connection with this Agreement, as provided in Section 8.5,
all of which, at the time required in such Sections, shall have
been duly made and shall be in full force and effect.
(i) Nature of
Receivables . Each Receivable constitutes an
Account.
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(j) Margin
Regulations . Its use of all funds obtained under this
Agreement or any other Transaction Document will not conflict with
or contravene any of Regulations T, U and X promulgated by the
Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System from time to
time.
(k) Quality of
Title . In the case of the Borrower, (i) each Receivable,
together with the Related Assets, is owned by the Borrower free and
clear of any Lien (other than any Lien arising solely as the result
of any action taken by the Agent or one of the Secured Parties);
(ii) the Agent, on behalf of the Secured Parties, has a valid
and perfected first priority security interest in the Collateral;
and (iii) no financing statement or other instrument similar
in effect covering any portion of the Collateral is on file in any
recording office except such as may be filed (A) in favor of
the Originator in accordance with the Contracts, (B) in favor
of the Seller in accordance with the Sale Agreement (C) in
favor of the Borrower and its assigns in connection with the
Purchase and Sale Agreement, or (D) in favor of the Agent in
accordance with this Agreement or in connection with any Lien
arising solely as the result of any action taken by the Agent or
one of the Secured Parties.
(l) Accurate
Reports . No Information Package (if prepared by the Borrower
or the Servicer, or to the extent information therein was supplied
by the Borrower or the Servicer), no other information furnished
verbally or in writing prior to the date of this Agreement, and no
other information, exhibit, financial statement, document, book,
record or report furnished or to be furnished in writing after the
date of this Agreement, by or on behalf of the Borrower or the
Servicer to the Agent or any of the Lenders pursuant to this
Agreement was or will be inaccurate in any material respect as of
the date it was or will be dated or (except as otherwise disclosed
to the Agent or the Lenders at such time) as of the date so
furnished, or contained or (in the case of information or other
materials to be furnished in the future) will contain any material
misstatement of fact or omitted or (in the case of information or
other materials to be furnished in the future) will omit to state a
material fact or any fact necessary to make the statements
contained therein not materially misleading in light of the
circumstances made or presented.
(m) Offices
. The principal places of business and chief executive offices of
the Servicer and the Borrower are located at the respective
addresses set forth on Schedule 14.2, and the offices where the
books, records and documents evidencing the Receivables, the
related Contracts and all purchase orders and other agreements
related to such Receivables are located are specified in
Schedule 6.1(m) (or at such other locations, notified to the
Agent in accordance with Section 7.1(f), in jurisdictions
where all action required by Section 8.5 has been taken and
completed).
(n) Lock-Box
Accounts . The names and addresses of all the Lock-Box Banks,
together with the account numbers of the accounts of the Borrower
at such Lock-Box Banks, are specified in Schedule 6.1(n) (or
have been notified to and approved by the Agent in accordance with
Section 7.3(d)). Each of the Lock-Box Accounts is subject to a
Lock-Box Agreement that is in full force and effect.
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(o) Eligible
Receivables . Each Receivable included as an Eligible
Receivable in the Net Pool Balance in connection with any
computation or recomputation of the Borrowing Base is an Eligible
Receivable on such date.
(p) Names .
In the past five years, the Borrower has not used any corporate
names, trade names or assumed names other than the name in which it
has executed this Agreement.
(q) Credit and
Collection Policy . With respect to each Receivable, each of
the Originator, the Borrower and the Servicer has complied in all
material respects with the applicable Credit and Collection Policy,
and no change has been made to such Credit and Collection Policy
since the date of this Agreement which would be reasonably likely
to materially and adversely affect the collectibility of the
Receivables or decrease the credit quality of any newly created
Receivables except for such changes as to which each of the Agent
have received the notice required under Section 7.2(g) and, to
the extent that such change is material, has given its prior
written consent thereto (which consent shall not be unreasonably
withheld or delayed).
(r) Payments to
Seller . With respect to each Receivable sold to the Borrower
by the Seller, the Borrower has given reasonably equivalent value
to the Seller in consideration for such Receivable and the Related
Assets with respect thereto pursuant to, and in accordance with,
the Purchase and Sale Agreement and such transfer was not made for
or on account of an antecedent debt. No transfer by the Seller of
any Receivable is or may be voidable under any Section of the
Bankruptcy Reform Act of 1978 (11 U.S.C. §§101 et seq.),
as amended.
(s) Not an
Investment Company . The Borrower is not an “investment
company” within the meaning of the Investment Company Act of
1940, as amended from time to time, or any successor
statute.
(t) Borrowing
Base . As of each Borrowing Date, after giving effect to the
Loans to be made on such date, the Borrowing Base is at least equal
to the aggregate outstanding principal balance of the
Advances.
(u) ERISA .
The Borrower is not (and throughout the term of this Agreement will
not be), and is not acting on behalf of (and throughout the term of
this Agreement will not be acting on behalf of), (i) an
“employee benefit plan” as defined in Section 3(3)
of ERISA that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (ii) a
“plan” as defined in and subject to Section 4975
of the Code, or (iii) an entity deemed to hold “plan
assets” (within the meaning of 29 C.F.R. 2510.3-101, as
modified by Section 3(42) of ERISA) of either of the
foregoing, no steps have been taken by the Originator, the Servicer
or the Borrower to terminate any Pension Plan the assets of which
are not sufficient to satisfy all of its benefit liabilities (as
determined on a termination basis under Title IV of ERISA), no
contribution failure has occurred or is expected to occur with
respect to any Pension Plan sufficient to give rise to a lien under
Section 303(k) of ERISA or Section 430(k) of the Code, no Pension
Plan is in “at risk” status within the meaning of
Section 303(i) of ERISA or Section 430(i) of the Code, and each
Pension Plan has been administered in all
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material
respects in compliance with its terms and applicable law,
including, without limitation, applicable provisions of ERISA and
the Code.
(v) Bulk
Sales . No transaction contemplated hereby or by the Sale
Agreement requires compliance with any bulk sales act or similar
law.
(w)
Nonconsolidation . The Borrower is in compliance with each
of the covenants set forth in Section 7.4.
ARTICLE VII
GENERAL COVENANTS OF THE BORROWER AND SERVICER
Section 7.1. Affirmative Covenants of the Borrower and
Servicer . From the date hereof until the Final Payout Date,
unless the Agent shall otherwise consent in writing:
(a) Compliance
With Laws, Etc . The Borrower and the Servicer will comply with
all applicable laws, rules, regulations and orders, including those
with respect to the Receivables and related Contracts, except where
the failure to so comply would not individually or in the aggregate
have a Material Adverse Effect.
(b)
Preservation of Corporate Existence . Each of the Borrower
and the Servicer will preserve and maintain its limited liability
company (or such other entity that may apply to any successor
Servicer) existence, rights, franchises and privileges in the
jurisdiction of its organization, and qualify and remain qualified
in good standing in each jurisdiction where the failure to preserve
and maintain such existence, rights, franchises, privileges and
qualification would have a Material Adverse Effect.
(c) Audits
. The Borrower and the Servicer will (i) at any time and from
time to time upon not less than ten (10) Business Days’
notice (unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing,
in which case no such notice shall be required) during regular
business hours, permit the Agent or any of its agents or
representatives: (A) to examine and make copies of and
abstracts from all books, records and documents (including, without
limitation, computer tapes and disks) in the possession or under
the control of or accessible to the Borrower or Servicer, as
applicable, relating to Receivables, including, without limitation,
the related Contracts and purchase orders and other agreements, and
(B) to visit the offices and properties of the Borrower or
Servicer, as applicable, for the purpose of examining such
materials described in clause (i) (A) next above, and to
discuss matters relating to Receivables or the Borrower’s or
Servicer’s respective performance hereunder with any of the
officers or employees of the Borrower or Servicer, as applicable,
having knowledge of such matters; and (ii) without limiting
the provisions of clause (i) above, from time to time upon not less
than ten (10) Business Days notice, at the expense of the
Borrower or Servicer, as applicable, permit Performance
Guarantor’s outside auditors (except as hereinafter provided)
or other certified public accountants or auditors acceptable to the
Agent to conduct a review of the Borrower’s or
Servicer’s respective books and records with respect to the
Receivables and Related Assets (each of the reviews described in
clause (i) and (ii) hereof, a “ Review
”); provided , however , that, so long as no
Event of Default has occurred and is
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continuing,
(i) each of the Borrower and Servicer shall only be
responsible for the costs and expenses of one such Review under
this Section or under Section 7.2(h) in any one calendar year
and (ii) there shall be no more than two such Reviews under
this Section or under Section 7.2(h) in any one calendar
year.
(d) Keeping of
Records and Books of Account . Each of the Borrower and the
Servicer will maintain and implement administrative and operating
procedures (including, without limitation, an ability to recreate
records evidencing Receivables in the event of the destruction of
the originals thereof), and keep and maintain, all documents,
books, records and other information reasonably necessary or
advisable for the collection of all Receivables (including, without
limitation, records adequate to permit the daily identification of
outstanding Unpaid Balances by Obligor and related debit and credit
details of the Receivables).
(e) Performance
and Compliance with Receivables and Contracts . Each of the
Borrower and the Servicer will, at its expense, timely and fully
perform and comply with all material provisions, covenants and
other promises, if any, required to be observed by it under the
Contracts related to the Receivables and all agreements related to
such Receivables.
(f) Location of
Chief Executive Office . Each of the Borrower and the Servicer
will keep its chief place of business and chief executive office,
and the offices where records concerning the Receivables and all
related Contracts are kept (and all original documents relating
thereto), at the address(es) referred to in Section 6.1(m) or,
upon 15 days’ prior written notice to the Agent, at such
other locations in jurisdictions where all action required by
Section 8.5 shall have been taken and completed.
(g) Credit and
Collection Policies . The Borrower and the Servicer will comply
in all material respects with the Credit and Collection Policy in
regard to each Receivable and the related Contracts.
(h) Purchase
and Sale Agreement . The Borrower will perform and comply in
all material respects with all of its covenants and agreements set
forth in the Purchase and Sale Agreement, and will enforce the
performance by the Seller of its obligations under the Purchase and
Sale Agreement.
(i)
Collections . All Obligors shall be instructed to make
payments on Receivables directly to a Lock-Box Account which is the
subject of a Lock-Box Agreement. If, notwithstanding the foregoing,
any Collections are paid directly to the Borrower or the Servicer,
the Borrower or the Servicer, as applicable, shall deposit the same
(with any necessary endorsements) to such a Lock-Box Account within
two (2) Business Days after receipt thereof. Upon demand of
the Agent to the extent that the Agent reasonably determines
necessary in order to protect the interests of the Agent or the
Secured Parties under this Agreement, the Borrower or the Servicer
shall establish a segregated account at Bank of America, National
Association, which is subject to a perfected security interest in
favor of the Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties (the
“ Collection Account ”), into which all deposits
from time to time in Lock-Box Accounts,
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and all other
Collections, are concentrated pending application in accordance
with the terms of this Agreement to the Obligations.
(j) Further
Assurances . The Borrower shall take all necessary action to
establish and maintain (i) in favor of the Borrower, a valid
and perfected ownership interest in the Receivables and Related
Assets (other than books and records evidencing or otherwise
relating to any Receivables), and (ii) in favor of the Agent
for the benefit of the Secured Parties, a valid and perfected first
priority security interest in the Receivables and the Related
Assets (other than books and records evidencing or otherwise
relating to any Receivables), including, without limitation, taking
such action to perfect, protect or more fully evidence the interest
of the Agent as the Agent may reasonably request.
Section 7.2. Reporting Requirements of the Borrower .
From the date hereof until the Final Payout Date, unless the Agent
shall otherwise consent in writing:
(a) Quarterly
Financial Statements . (i) The Borrower will cause the
Performance Guarantor to furnish to the Agent as soon as available
and in any event within fifty (50) days after the end of each of
the first three quarters of each fiscal year of Performance
Guarantor, copies of its consolidated balance sheets and related
statements of income and statements of cash flow, showing the
financial condition of Performance Guarantor and its consolidated
Subsidiaries as of the close of such fiscal quarter and the results
of its operations and the operations of such Subsidiaries during
such fiscal quarter and the then elapsed portion of the fiscal
year, together with a Certificate of Financial Officer in the form
attached hereto as Exhibit 7.2 executed by the chief financial
officer or treasurer of Performance Guarantor; and (ii) the
Borrower will furnish to the Agent, as soon as available and in any
event within fifty (50) days after the end of each of the
first three quarters of each fiscal year of the Borrower, copies of
the financial statements of the Borrower, consisting of at least a
balance sheet as at the close of such quarter and statements of
earnings and changes in cash flows for such quarter and for the
period from the beginning of the fiscal year to the close of such
quarter, together with a Certificate of Financial Officer in the
form attached hereto as Exhibit 7.2 executed by the chief
financial officer or treasurer of the Borrower;
(b) Annual
Financial Statements . (i) The Borrower will cause the
Performance Guarantor to furnish to the Agent, as soon as available
and in any event within ninety (90) days after the end of each
fiscal year of Performance Guarantor, copies of its consolidated
balance sheets and related statements of income and statements of
cash flow, showing the financial condition of Performance Guarantor
and its consolidated Subsidiaries as of the close of such fiscal
year and the results of its operations and the operations of such
Subsidiaries during such year, all audited by independent public
accountants of recognized national standing acceptable to the Agent
and accompanied by an opinion of such accountants (which shall not
be qualified in any material respect with respect to any matter
related to the Receivables or the collectability of the
Receivables) to the effect that such consolidated financial
statements fairly present the financial condition and results of
operations of Performance Guarantor on a consolidated basis (except
as noted therein) in accordance with GAAP consistently applied; and
(ii) the Borrower will furnish to the Agent, as soon as
available and in any event within ninety (90) days
after
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the end of each
fiscal year of the Borrower, copies of the financial statements of
the Borrower, consisting of at least a balance sheet of Borrower
for such year and statements of earnings, cash flows and
shareholders’ equity, setting forth in each case in
comparative form corresponding figures from the preceding fiscal
year, together with a Certificate of Financial Officer in the form
attached hereto as Exhibit 7.2 executed by the chief financial
officer or treasurer of the Borrower;
(c) Reports to
SEC and Exchanges . In addition to the reports required by
subsections (a) and (b) next above, promptly upon the
Agent’s reasonable request, the Borrower will cause the
Performance Guarantor to furnish to the Agent copies of any reports
or registration statements that Performance Guarantor files with
the Securities and Exchange Commission or any national securities
exchange other than registration statements relating to employee
benefit plans and to registrations of securities for selling
securityholders;
(d) ERISA .
Promptly after the filing or receiving thereof, the Borrower will
furnish to the Agent copies of all Annual Reports (Form 5500
series) with schedules and attachments with respect to each Pension
Plan and all reports and notices with respect to any Reportable
Event which the Borrower, the Performance Guarantor or any ERISA
Affiliate files with the Internal Revenue Service, the Pension
Benefit Guaranty Corporation or the U.S. Department of Labor or
which the Borrower, the Performance Guarantor or any ERISA
Affiliate receives from the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation,
the Internal Revenue Service or the U.S. Department of
Labor;
(e) Events of
Default, etc . As soon as possible and in any event within five
(5) Business Days after any Responsible Officer of the Borrower
obtains knowledge of the occurrence of any Event of Default or any
Unmatured Default, the Borrower will furnish to the Agent a written
statement of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower setting forth
details of such event and the action that the Borrower will take
with respect thereto;
(f)
Litigation . As soon as possible and in any event within ten
(10) Business Days after any Responsible Officer of the
Borrower obtains knowledge thereof, the Borrower will furnish to
the Agent notice of (i) any litigation, investigation or
proceeding which may exist at any time which would reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect and (ii) any
development in previously disclosed litigation which development
would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect;
(g) Change in
Business, Auditors or Credit and Collection Policy . The
Borrower will furnish to the Agent prompt written notice of
(i) any material change in the character of the
Borrower’s business prior to the occurrence of such change
and (ii) any change in the outside auditor of the Borrower or
the Originator, and the Borrower will provide the Agent with not
less than fifteen (15) Business Days’ prior written
notice of any material change in the Credit and Collection Policy
(together with a copy of such proposed change); and
(h) Other .
Promptly, from time to time, the Borrower will furnish to the Agent
such other information, documents, records or reports respecting
the Receivables
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(including all
Records) or the condition or operations, financial or otherwise, of
the Borrower as the Agent may from time to time reasonably request
in order to protect the interests of the Agent or the Secured
Parties under or as contemplated by this Agreement.
Notwithstanding
anything herein to the contrary, as long as the Agent is a party to
the Five Year Credit Agreement, the Borrower shall be deemed to be
in compliance with Section 7.2(a)(i), 7.2(b)(i) and 7.2(c) to
the extent the Performance Guarantor is in compliance with
Section 5.01(i) of the Five Year Credit Agreement.
Section 7.3. Negative Covenants of the Borrower and the
Servicer . From the date hereof until the Final Payout Date,
without the prior written consent of the Agent:
(a) Sales,
Liens, Etc . (i) The Borrower or the Servicer will not,
except as otherwise provided herein and in the other Transaction
Documents, sell, assign (by operation of law or otherwise) or
otherwise dispose of, or create or suffer to exist any Lien upon or
with respect to, any Collateral, or any account to which any
Collections are sent, or any right to receive income or proceeds
from or in respect of any of the foregoing (except, prior to the
execution of Lock-Box Agreements, set-off rights of any bank at
which any such account is maintained), and (ii) the Servicer
will not assert any interest in the Receivables, except as the
Servicer.
(b) Extension
or Amendment of Receivables . The Borrower or the Servicer will
not, except as otherwise permitted in Section 8.2(c), extend,
amend or otherwise modify the terms of any Receivable, or amend,
modify or waive any material term or condition of any Contract
related thereto in any way that materially adversely affects the
collectibility of any Receivable or any Lender’s rights
therein.
(c) Change in
Business or Credit and Collection Policy . The Borrower or the
Servicer will not make or permit to be made any change in the
character of its business or in the Credit and Collection Policy,
which change would, in either case, impair the collectibility of
any significant portion of the Receivables or otherwise materially
and adversely affect the interests or remedies of each Lender under
this Agreement or any other Transaction Document.
(d) Change in
Payment Instructions to Obligors . Neither the Borrower nor the
Servicer will add or terminate any bank as a Lock-Box Bank from
those listed in Schedule 6.1(n) or, after the Collection
Account has been established pursuant to Section 7.1(i), make
any material change in its instructions to Obligors regarding
payments to be made to the Borrower or the Servicer or payments to
be made to any Lock-Box Bank (which shall not include a change in
instructions solely for the purpose of directing Obligors to make
such payments to another existing Lock-Box Bank), unless
(i) the Agent shall have received prior written notice of such
addition, termination or change and (ii) the Agent shall have
received duly executed copies of Lock-Box Agreements in a form
reasonably acceptable to the Agent with each new Lock-Box
Bank.
(e) Deposits to
Lock-Box Accounts and Collection Account . The Borrower will
not deposit or otherwise credit, or cause or permit to be so
deposited or credited, to
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any Lock-Box
Account or the Collection Account, any cash or cash proceeds other
than Collections of Receivables.
(f) Changes to
Other Documents . The Borrower will not, without the consent of
the Agent, enter into any amendment or modification of, or
supplement to, the Purchase and Sale Agreement, the Seller Note,
the Borrower’s certificate of formation or the
Borrower’s limited liability company agreement.
(g) Restricted
Payments by the Borrower . The Borrower will not:
(i) declare or pay
any distributions in respect of any membership or other equity
interest in the Borrower or set aside any funds for any such
purpose, unless, in each of the foregoing cases: (A) such
distribution is made on, or immediately following, a Settlement
Date after payment of all Obligations due and owing on such
Settlement Date, and (B) after giving effect to such
distribution, the Borrower’s net worth (determined in
accordance with GAAP) will be at least $20,000,000; or
(ii) Make any
payment of principal or interest on the Seller Note if any Event of
Default exists or would result therefrom or if such payment would
result in the Borrower’s having insufficient cash on hand to
pay all Obligations that will be due and owing on the next
succeeding Settlement Date.
(h) Borrower
Indebtedness . The Borrower will not incur or permit to exist
any Indebtedness or liability on account of deposits except:
(A) current accounts payable arising in the ordinary course of
business and not overdue in an aggregate amount at any time
outstanding not to exceed $50,000 (B) Indebtedness incurred in
accordance with the Purchase and Sale Agreement and evidenced by
the Seller Note and (C) current payables not mentioned in
Clause (A) of this subsection (h) and expense
reimbursement obligations arising under the Transaction Documents
and not overdue.
(i) Prohibition
on Additional Negative Pledges . The Borrower will not enter
into or assume any agreement (other than this Agreement and the
other Transaction Documents) prohibiting the creation or assumption
of any Lien upon any Receivables or Related Assets, whether now
owned or hereafter acquired, except as contemplated by the
Transaction Documents, or otherwise prohibiting or restricting any
transaction contemplated hereby or by the other Transaction
Documents, and the Borrower will not enter into or assume any
agreement creating any Lien upon the Seller Note.
(j) Name
Change, Offices . The Borrower will not change its state of
organization or its name or identity unless it shall have:
(i) given the Agent at least fifteen (15) Business Days’
prior written notice thereof and (ii) prior to effectiveness
of such change, delivered to the Agent all financing statements,
instruments and other documents requested by the Agent in
connection with such change.
(k) Mergers,
Consolidations and Acquisitions . The Borrower will not merge
into or consolidate with any other Person, or permit any other
Person to merge into or consolidate with it, or purchase, lease or
otherwise acquire (in one transaction or a series
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of
transactions) all or substantially all of the assets of any other
Person (whether directly by purchase, lease or other acquisition of
all or substantially all of the assets of such Person or indirectly
by purchase or other acquisition of all or substantially all of the
capital stock of such other Person) other than the acquisition of
the Receivables and Related Assets pursuant to the Purchase and
Sale Agreement.
(l) Disposition
of Receivables and Related Assets . Except pursuant to this
Agreement, the Borrower or the Servicer will not sell, lease,
transfer, assign or otherwise dispose of (in one transaction or in
a series of transactions) any Receivables or Related
Assets.
(m) Borrowing
Base . The Borrower will not request any Advance if, after
giving effect thereto, the aggregate outstanding principal balance
of the Loans would exceed the Borrowing Base.
Section 7.4. Separate Corporate Existence of the
Borrower . The Borrower hereby acknowledges that the Lenders
and the Agent are entering into the transactions contemplated
hereby in reliance upon the Borrower’s identity as a legal
entity separate from the Performance Guarantor, the Servicer and
their other Affiliates. Therefore, the Borrower shall, from the
date hereof until the Final Payout Date, take all steps
specifically required by this Agreement or reasonably required by
the Agent to continue the Borrower’s identity as a separate
legal entity and to make it apparent to third Persons that the
Borrower is an entity with assets and liabilities distinct from
those of its Affiliates, and is not a division of Performance
Guarantor or any other Person. Without limiting the foregoing, the
Borrower will, from the date hereof until the Final Payout Date,
take such actions as shall be required in order that:
(a) The Borrower
will be a limited purpose company whose primary activities are
restricted in its organizational documents to purchasing or
otherwise acquiring from Seller, owning, holding, granting security
interests in the Collateral, entering into agreements for the
financing and servicing of the Receivables, and conducting such
other activities as it deems necessary or appropriate to carry out
its primary activities;
(b) Not less than
one member of the Borrower’s board of managers (the “
Independent Manager ”) shall be an individual who is
not, and never has been, a direct, indirect or beneficial
stockholder (other than through a mutual fund the investment
decisions of which are not controlled by such person), officer,
director, employee, affiliate, associate, material supplier or
material customer of Performance Guarantor or any of its Affiliates
(other than an Affiliate organized with a limited purpose charter
for the purpose of acquiring receivables or other financial assets
or intangible property). The organizational documents of the
Borrower shall provide that (i) at least one member of the
Borrower’s board of managers or other similar governing body
shall be an Independent Manager, (ii) the Borrower’s
board of managers or other similar governing body shall not
approve, or take any other action to cause the filing of, a
voluntary bankruptcy petition with respect to the Borrower unless
the Independent Manager shall approve the taking of such action in
writing prior to the taking of such action and (iii) the
provisions requiring an Independent Manager and the provision
described in clauses (i)
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and
(ii) of this paragraph (b) cannot be amended without the
prior written consent of the Independent Manager;
(c) The
Independent Manager shall not at any time serve as a trustee in
bankruptcy for the Borrower or any Affiliate thereof;
(d) Any director,
employee, consultant or agent of the Borrower will be compensated
from the Borrower’s funds for services provided to the
Borrower. The Borrower will not engage any agents other than its
attorneys, auditors and other professionals and a servicer (which
servicer will be fully compensated for its services by payment of
the Servicer’s Fee) and any other agent contemplated by the
Transaction Documents for the Collateral;
(e) The Borrower
will contract with the Servicer to perform for the Borrower all
operations required on a daily basis to service the Collateral. The
Borrower will pay the Servicer the Servicer’s Fee pursuant
hereto. The Borrower will not incur any material indirect or
overhead expenses for items shared with Performance Guarantor (or
any other Affiliate thereof) which are not reflected in the
Servicer’s Fee. To the extent, if any, that the Borrower (or
any other Affiliate thereof) shares items of expenses not reflected
in the Servicer’s Fee, for legal, auditing and other
professional services and directors’ fees, such expenses will
be allocated to the extent practical on the basis of actual use or
the value of services rendered, and otherwise on a basis reasonably
related to the actual use or the value of services rendered, it
being understood that Performance Guarantor shall pay all expenses
relating to the preparation, negotiation, execution and delivery of
the Transaction Documents, including, without limitation, legal,
rating agency and other fees;
(f) The
Borrower’s operating expenses will not be paid by any other
Loan Party or other Affiliate of the Borrower;
(g) The Borrower
will have its own stationery;
(h) The books of
account, financial reports and corporate records of the Borrower
will be maintained separately from those of Performance Guarantor
and each other Affiliate of the Borrower;
(i) Any financial
statements of any Loan Party or Affiliate thereof which are
consolidated to include the Borrower will contain detailed notes
clearly stating that (A) all of the Borrower’s assets are
owned by the Borrower, and (B) the Borrower is a separate
corporate entity with its own separate creditors that will be
entitled to be satisfied out of the Borrower’s assets prior
to any value in the Borrower becoming available to the
Borrower’s equity holders; and the accounting records and the
published financial statements of the Seller will clearly show
that, for accounting purposes, the Receivables and Related Assets
have been sold by the Seller to the Borrower;
(j) The
Borrower’s assets will be maintained in a manner that
facilitates their identification and segregation from those of the
Servicer and the other Affiliates;
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(k) Each Affiliate
of the Borrower will strictly observe corporate formalities in its
dealings with the Borrower, and, except as permitted pursuant to
this Agreement with respect to Collections, funds or other assets
of the Borrower will not be commingled with those of any of its
Affiliates;
(l) No Affiliate
of the Borrower will maintain joint bank accounts with the Borrower
or other depository accounts with the Borrower to which any such
Affiliate (other than in the Borrower’s or such
Affiliate’s existing or future capacity as the Servicer
hereunder or under the Purchase and Sale Agreement) has independent
access, provided that prior to demand by the Agent pursuant to
Section 7.1(i) to establish a segregated Collection Account,
Collections may be deposited into general accounts of Performance
Guarantor, subject to the obligations of the Servicer
hereunder;
(m) No Affiliate
of the Borrower shall, directly or indirectly, name the Borrower or
enter into any agreement to name the Borrower as a direct or
contingent beneficiary or loss payee on any insurance policy
covering the property of any Affiliate of the Borrower;
(n) Each Affiliate
of the Borrower will maintain arm’s length relationships with
the Borrower, and each Affiliate of the Borrower that renders or
otherwise furnishes services or merchandise to the Borrower will be
compensated by the Borrower at market rates for such services or
merchandise;
(o) No Affiliate
of the Borrower will be, nor will it hold itself out to be,
responsible for the debts of the Borrower or the decisions or
actions in respect of the daily business and affairs of the
Borrower. Packaging Corporation of America and the Borrower will
immediately correct any known misrepresentation with respect to the
foregoing and they will not operate or purport to operate as an
integrated single economic unit with respect to each other or in
their dealing with any other entity;
(p) The Borrower
will keep correct and complete books and records of account and
minutes of the meetings and other proceedings of its member(s) and
board of managers, and the resolutions, agreements and other
instruments of the Borrower will be continuously maintained as
official records by the Borrower; and
(q) Each of the
Borrower, on the one hand, and the Seller and the Originator, on
the other hand, will conduct its business solely in its own
corporate name and in such a separate manner so as not to mislead
others with whom they are dealing.
ARTICLE VIII
ADMINISTRATION AND COLLECTION
Section 8.1. Designation of Servicer . (a) Seller as
Initial Servicer . The servicing, administering and collection
of the Receivables shall be conducted by the Person designated as
Servicer hereunder from time to time in accordance with this
Section 8.1. Until the Agent gives to Seller a Successor
Notice (as defined in Section 8.1(b)), Seller is hereby
designated as, and hereby agrees to perform the duties and
obligations of, Servicer pursuant to the terms hereof.
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(b)
Successor Notice; Servicer Transfer Events . Upon
Seller’s receipt of a notice from the Agent following a
Servicer Transfer Event of the designation of a new Servicer (a
“ Successor Notice ”), Seller agrees that it
will terminate its activities as Servicer hereunder in a manner
that will facilitate the transition of the performance of such
activities to the new Servicer, and the Agent (or the designee of
the Agent) shall assume each and all of Seller’s obligations
to service and administer such Receivables, on the terms and
subject to the conditions herein set forth, and Seller shall use
its reasonable best efforts to assist the Agent (or the
Agent’s designee) in assuming such obligations. Without
limiting the foregoing, Seller agrees, at its expense, to take all
actions necessary to provide the new Servicer with access to all
computer software necessary to generate reports useful in
collecting or billing Receivables, solely for use in collecting and
billing Receivables. If Seller disputes the occurrence of a
Servicer Transfer Event, Seller may take appropriate action to
resolve such dispute; provided that Seller must terminate
its activities hereunder as Servicer and allow the newly designated
Servicer to perform such activities on the date specified by the
Agent as described above, notwithstanding the commencement or
continuation of any proceeding to resolve the aforementioned
dispute, if the Agent reasonably determines, in good faith, that
such termination is necessary or advisable to protect the Secured
Parties’ interests hereunder.
(c)
Subcontracts . So long as Seller is acting as the Servicer,
it may subcontract with the Originator for servicing, administering
or collecting all or any portion of the Receivables,
provided , however , that no such subcontract shall
relieve Seller of its primary liability for performance of its
duties as Servicer pursuant to the terms hereof and any such
subservicing arrangement may be terminated at the request of the
Agent at any time after a Successor Notice has been given. In
addition to the foregoing, with the prior written consent of the
Agent (which consent shall not be unreasonably withheld or
delayed), any Servicer may subcontract with other Persons for
servicing, administering or collecting all or any portion of the
Receivables, provided , however , that no such
subcontract shall relieve such Servicer of its primary liability
for performance of its duties as Servicer pursuant to the terms
hereof and any such subservicing arrangement may be terminated at
the request of the Agent at any time that such Agent reasonably
determines that such subservicer is not performing
adequately.
(d)
Expense Indemnity after a Servicer Transfer Event . In
addition to, and not in lieu of the Servicer’s Fee, if Seller
or one of its Affiliates is replaced as Servicer following a
Successor Notice, the Borrower shall reimburse the Servicer within
ten (10) Business Days after receipt of a written invoice, any
and all reasonable costs and expenses (based on then current market
prices) of the Servicer incurred in connection with its servicing
of the Receivables for the benefit of the Secured
Parties.
Section 8.2. Duties of Servicer .
(a)
Appointment; Duties in General . Each of the Borrower, the
Lenders and the Agent hereby appoints as its agent, the Servicer,
as from time to time designated pursuant to Section 8.1, to
enforce its rights and interests in and under the Receivables, the
Related Security and the related Contracts. The Servicer shall take
or cause to be taken all such actions as may be necessary or
advisable to collect each Receivable from time to time, all in
accordance with applicable laws, rules and regulations, with
reasonable care and diligence, and in accordance with the Credit
and Collection Policy and the terms of the Transaction
Documents.
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(b)
Segregation of Collections . The Servicer shall not be
required (unless otherwise requested by the Agent) to segregate the
funds constituting the Collections prior to the remittance thereof
in accordance with Article III. If the Agent determines in its
reasonable judgment that it is necessary or desirable and so
instructs the Servicer, the Servicer shall segregate and deposit
into the Collection Account Collections not later than the second
Business Day following receipt by the Servicer of such Collections
in immediately available funds.
(c)
Modification of Receivables . Seller, while it is the
Servicer, may, in accordance with the Credit and Collection Policy,
so long as no Event of Default and no Unmatured Default shall have
occurred and be continuing, extend the maturity as Seller may
reasonably determine to be appropriate to maximize Collections
thereof or adjust the Unpaid Balance of any Receivable in a manner
consistent with the Credit and Collection Policy (although no such
extension or adjustment shall alter the status of such Receivable
as a Defaulted Receivable or a Delinquent Receivable or, in the
case of an adjustment, limit the rights of the Agent or the Lenders
under Section 3.4).
(d)
Documents and Records . The Borrower shall deliver to the
Servicer, and the Servicer shall hold in trust for the Borrower and
the Secured Parties, all documents, instruments and records
(including, without limitation, computer tapes or disks) that
evidence or relate to Receivables.
(e)
Certain Duties to the Borrower . The Servicer shall, as soon
as practicable following receipt, turn over to the Borrower
(i) that portion of the Collections which are not required to
be turned over to the Agent, less the Servicer’s Fee, and, in
the event that neither Seller nor any other Loan Party or Affiliate
thereof is the Servicer, all reasonable and appropriate
out-of-pocket costs and expenses of the Servicer of servicing,
collecting and administering the Receivables to the extent not
covered by the Servicer’s Fee received by it, and
(ii) the collections of any receivable which is not a
Receivable. The Servicer, if other than Seller or any other Loan
Party or Affiliate thereof, shall, as soon as practicable upon
demand, deliver to the Borrower all documents, instruments and
records in its possession that evidence or relate to Receivables of
the Borrower, and copies of documents, instruments and records in
its possession that evidence or relate to Receivables.
(f)
Termination . The Servicer’s authorization under this
Agreement shall terminate upon the Final Payout Date.
(g) Power
of Attorney . The Borrower hereby grants to the Servicer an
irrevocable power of attorney, with full power of substitution,
coupled with an interest, to take in the name of the Borrower all
steps which are necessary or advisable to endorse, negotiate or
otherwise realize on any writing or other right of any kind held or
transmitted by the Borrower or transmitted or received by Lender
(whether or not from the Borrower) in connection with any
Receivable.
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Section 8.3. Rights of the Agent .
(a)
Notice to Obligors . At any time when an Unmatured Default
or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Agent may
notify the Obligors of Receivables,
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