SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED LOAN
AND SECURITY AGREEMENT
THIS SECOND
AMENDED AND RESTATED LOAN AND SECURITY AGREEMENT is made on
July 29, 2008, by and among MASTEC, INC. , a Florida
corporation (individually and, in its capacity as the
representative of the other Borrowers pursuant to
Section 4.4 hereof, “ MasTec ”), a
Florida corporation with its chief executive office and principal
place of business at 800 Douglas Road, North Tower, 12th Floor,
Coral Gables, Florida 33134; its subsidiaries named as
“Borrowers” on Annex A hereto, MasTec
, and each other Borrower being referred to collectively as
“Borrowers,” and individually as a
“Borrower”); its subsidiaries party hereto as
“Guarantors”; the various financial institutions listed
on the signature pages hereof (together with their respective
successors and permitted assigns, the “Lenders”);
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. , a national banking association, in
its capacity as collateral and administrative agent for the Lenders
pursuant to Section 13 hereof (together with its
successors in such capacity, “Agent”), and GENERAL
ELECTRIC CAPITAL CORPORATION , a Delaware corporation, as
Syndication Agent (together with its successors in such capacity,
the “Syndication Agent”). Capitalized terms used in
this Agreement have the meanings assigned to them in
Section 1 .
MasTec, its
Affiliates party thereto as borrowers, certain financial
institutions (the “Original Lenders”) and Fleet Capital
Corporation (“FCC”), as Administrative Agent (the
“Original Agent”), were parties to a certain Revolving
Credit and Security Agreement dated January 22, 2002 (as at
any time amended, restated, modified or otherwise supplemented, the
“Original Loan Agreement”), pursuant to which the
Original Lenders made certain revolving credit loans and letter of
credit accommodations to Borrowers.
Prior to the date
of the Existing Loan Agreement (as defined below), (i) FCC
assigned all of its interests in the loans under the Original Loan
Agreement to Bank of America, N.A., (ii) FCC resigned as
Administrative Agent under the Original Loan Agreement and
(iii) Bank of America, N.A. was appointed as successor
Administrative Agent by the Lenders party to the Original Loan
Agreement.
MasTec, its
Affiliates party thereto as borrowers, certain financial
institutions (the “Existing Lenders”) and Agent, are
parties to a certain Amended and Restated Loan and Security
Agreement dated May 10, 2005 (as at any time amended,
restated, modified or otherwise supplemented, and as in effect on
the date hereof, the “Existing Loan Agreement”),
pursuant to which the Existing Lenders made certain revolving
credit loans and letter of credit accommodations to
Borrowers.
Borrowers have
requested that the Existing Loan Agreement be amended and restated
in its entirety to become effective and binding on the Obligors
pursuant to the terms hereof, and the Lenders (including the
Existing Lenders that are parties hereto) have agreed, subject to
the terms of this Agreement, to amend and restate the Existing Loan
Agreement in its entirety to read as set forth herein, and it has
been agreed by the parties hereto that (a) the commitments
which the Existing Lenders that are parties hereto extended to
Borrowers under the Existing Loan Agreement and the commitments of
new Lenders that become parties hereto shall be extended or
advanced upon the amended and restated terms and conditions
contained in this Agreement, (b) the Loans and other Secured
Obligations outstanding under (and as defined in) the Existing Loan
Agreement shall be governed by and deemed to be outstanding under
the amended and restated terms and conditions contained herein, and
(c) all existing Secured Obligations are and shall continue to
be (and all Obligations incurred pursuant hereto shall be) secured
by the Loan Documents, which for purposes of this Agreement shall
include the Loan Documents under (and as defined in) the Existing
Loan Agreement, as such Loan Documents may be now or
hereafter
amended, modified, supplemented or restated in connection with the
credit facility under this Agreement.
Obligors have
requested that the Lenders establish a revolving credit facility
pursuant to which revolving credit loans may be made to Borrowers
and letters of credit may be issued for the account of Borrowers,
which shall be used by Borrowers to finance their mutual and
collective enterprise of providing construction, design,
installation, maintenance and upgrade services to providers of
telecommunications, broadband, energy services, traffic control and
homeland security services. In order to utilize the financial
powers of each Borrower in the most efficient and economical
manner, and in order to facilitate the financing of each
Borrower’s needs, Lenders will, at the request of any
Borrower, make loans to all Borrowers under the revolving credit
facility on a combined basis and in accordance with the provisions
hereinafter set forth. Borrowers’ business is a mutual and
collective enterprise and Borrowers believe that the consolidation
of all revolving credit loans under this Agreement will enhance the
aggregate borrowing powers of each Borrower and ease the
administration of their revolving credit loan relationship with
Lenders, all to the mutual advantage of Borrowers. Lenders’
willingness to extend credit to Borrowers and to administer each
Borrower’s collateral security therefor, on a combined basis
as more fully set forth in this Agreement, is done solely as an
accommodation to Borrowers and at Borrowers’ request in
furtherance of Borrowers’ mutual and collective
enterprise.
Each Borrower has
agreed to be liable for loans and all outstanding other obligations
under this Agreement and to guarantee the obligations of each of
the other Borrowers under this Agreement and each of the other Loan
Documents.
NOW, THEREFORE,
for Ten Dollars ($10.00) and other good and valuable consideration,
the parties hereto, intending to be bound hereby, agree that the
Existing Loan Agreement is hereby amended and restated in its
entirety by this Agreement:
SECTION 1.
DEFINITIONS; RULES OF CONSTRUCTION
As
used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the
following meanings ascribed to them (terms used in the singular to
have the same meaning when used in the plural, and vice
versa ):
Account
— shall have the meaning given to the term
“account” in the UCC or the PPSA, as applicable, and
shall include any and all rights of an Obligor to payment for goods
sold or leased or for services rendered that are not evidenced by
an Instrument or Chattel Paper, whether or not they have been
earned by performance.
Account
Debtor — a Person who is or becomes obligated under or on
account of an Account, Chattel Paper or General
Intangible.
Accounts
Formula Amount — on any date of determination thereof, an
amount equal to the lesser of (i) the Revolver Commitments on
such date or (ii) 85% (or such lesser percentage as Agent may
in its reasonable credit judgment determine from time to time) of
the net amount of Eligible Accounts on such date. As used herein,
the phrase “net amount of Eligible Accounts” shall mean
the face amount of such Accounts on any date less any and all
returns, rebates, discounts (which may, at Agent’s option, be
calculated on shortest terms), credits, allowances or Taxes
(including sales, excise or other taxes) at any time issued, owing,
claimed by Account
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Debtors,
granted, outstanding or payable in connection with, or any interest
accrued on the amount of, such Accounts at such date.
Ace LC
— a Letter of Credit issued for the account of MasTec for the
benefit of ACE American Insurance Company (“ ACE
”) in the stated amount of $18,000,000 with respect to
MasTec’s insurance coverage for claims under worker’s
compensation laws or similar legislation effected through ACE from
time to time.
Acquisition — the acquisition of a Business Unit or of
Equity Interests in another Person sufficient to give the acquiring
Person control of such other Person, in each case whether by
purchase, exchange, issuance of stock or other securities, or by
merger, reorganization or any other method.
Acquisition
Earn-Out Payments — earn-out payments required to be paid
by Borrowers relating to any Permitted Acquisition pursuant to the
terms of the acquisition documentation with the applicable
seller(s), to the extent paid by Borrowers in cash.
Adjusted
EBITDA — for any fiscal period of Borrowers and their
Subsidiaries (other than DirectStar), an amount equal to the sum
for such period of (i) Adjusted Net Earnings, plus
(ii) provision for taxes based on income and for state or
provincial franchise taxes, to the extent deducted in the
calculation of Adjusted Net Earnings, plus
(iii) interest expense, to the extent deducted in the
calculation of Adjusted Net Earnings, plus
(iv) depreciation and amortization to the extent deducted in
the calculation of Adjusted Net Earnings, plus
(v) charges included in Adjusted Net Earnings related to
purchase accounting adjustments that are as required by FASB 141
and 142, plus (vi) non-cash charges (including
inventory adjustments, loss on job contract accruals, litigation
and legacy accounts receivable charges initially recognized for the
third Fiscal Quarter of 2007, expenses relating to equity award
compensation and write down of assets and the cumulative effect of
changes in accounting principles under GAAP) either (A) as
approved by Agent or (B) from discontinued operations to the
extent deducted in the calculation of Adjusted Net Earnings for
such period, all calculated on a Consolidated basis, plus
(vii) without duplication, any cash Distributions made by
DirectStar to any Borrower, all calculated on a Consolidated basis;
provided that , solely for the purpose of determining
the Leverage Ratio in connection with the calculation of the
Applicable Margin, (x) Adjusted EBITDA shall be calculated on
a Consolidated basis for Borrowers and their Subsidiaries
(excluding those discontinued operations of Borrowers and
Guarantors reported to Agent in writing by Borrowers on
July 31, 2007), and (y) Adjusted EBITDA shall include,
with respect to any Permitted Acquisition, the Adjusted EBITDA of
the acquired Person for the twelve month period immediately
preceding the Permitted Acquisition.
Adjusted LIBOR
Rate — for any Interest Period, with respect to LIBOR
Loans, the rate of interest per annum determined pursuant to the
following formula:
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Offshore Base
Rate
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1.00 -
Eurodollar Reserve Percentage
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Offshore Base Rate ” means the rate per annum
appearing on Telerate Page 3750 (or any successor page) as the
London interbank offered rate for deposits in Dollars at
approximately 11:00 a.m. (London time) two Business Days prior
to the first day of such Interest Period for a term comparable to
such
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Interest
Period. If for any reason such rate is not available, the Offshore
Base Rate shall be, for any Interest Period, the rate per annum
appearing on Reuters Screen LIBO Page as the London interbank
offered rate for deposits in Dollars at approximately
11:00 a.m. (London time) two Business Days prior to the first
day of such Interest Period for a term comparable to such Interest
Period; provided, however, if more than one rate is specified on
Reuters Screen LIBO Page, the applicable rate shall be the
arithmetic mean of all such rates. If for any reason none of the
foregoing rates is available, the Offshore Base Rate shall be, for
any Interest Period, the rate per annum determined by Agent as the
rate of interest at which Dollar deposits in the approximate amount
of the applicable LIBOR Loan would be offered by BofA’s
London Branch to major banks in the offshore Dollar market at their
request at or about 11:00 a.m. (London time) two Business Days
prior to the first day of such Interest Period for a term
comparable to such Interest Period.
“
Eurodollar Reserve Percentage ” means, for any day
during any Interest Period, the reserve percentage (expressed as a
decimal, rounded upward to the next 1/8th of 1%) in effect on such
day applicable to member banks under regulations issued from time
to time by the Board of Governors for determining the maximum
reserve requirement (including any emergency, supplemental or other
marginal reserve requirement) with respect to Eurocurrency funding
(currently referred to as “Eurocurrency liabilities”
under Regulation D of the Board of Governors). The Offshore
Rate for each outstanding LIBOR Loan shall be adjusted
automatically as of the effective date of any change in the
Eurodollar Reserve Percentage.
Adjusted Net
Earnings — with respect to any fiscal period, the net
earnings (or loss) for such fiscal period of Borrowers and their
Subsidiaries, all as reflected on the financial statement of
Borrowers and their Subsidiaries supplied to Agent and Lenders
pursuant to Section 10.1.3 , but excluding:
(i) any gain or loss arising from the sale of capital assets;
(ii) any gain arising from any write-up of assets during such
period; (iii) earnings of any Subsidiary accrued prior to the date
it became a Subsidiary; (iv) earnings of any Person,
substantially all the assets of which have been acquired in any
manner by a Borrower or Subsidiary, realized by such Person prior
to the date of such acquisition; (v) net earnings of any entity
(other than a Subsidiary of a Borrower) in which a Borrower has an
ownership interest unless such net earnings have actually been
received by a Borrower in the form of cash Distributions;
(vi) any portion of the net earnings of any Subsidiary which
for any reason is unavailable for payment of Distributions to a
Borrower; (vii) the earnings of any Person to which any assets
of a Borrower shall have been sold, transferred or disposed of, or
into which a Borrower shall have merged, or been a party to any
consolidation or other form of reorganization, prior to the date of
such transaction; (viii) any gain arising from the acquisition of
any Equity Interests of a Borrower; and (ix) any gain arising
from extraordinary or non-recurring items, all as determined in
accordance with GAAP on a Consolidated basis.
Affiliate
— a Person: (i) which directly or indirectly through one
or more intermediaries controls, or is controlled by, or is under
common control with, another Person; (ii) which beneficially
owns or holds 10% or more of any class of the Equity Interests of a
Person; or (iii) 10% or more of the Equity Interests with
power to vote of which is beneficially owned or held by another
Person or a Subsidiary of another Person. For purposes hereof,
“control” means the possession, directly or indirectly,
of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and
policies of a Person, whether through the ownership of any Equity
Interest, by contract or otherwise.
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Agency
Appointment as to Vehicle Titles — as defined in
Section 8.4.4 of this Agreement.
Agent
Indemnitees — Agent and all of Agent’s present and
future officers, directors, employees, agents and
attorneys.
Agent
Professionals — attorneys, accountants, appraisers,
business valuation experts, environmental engineers or consultants,
turnaround consultants and other professionals or experts retained
by Agent.
Agreement
— this Second Amended and Restated Loan and Security
Agreement and all Annexes, Exhibits and Schedules
thereto.
Anti-Terrorism
Laws — any laws relating to terrorism or money
laundering, including Executive Order No. 13224 and the USA
Patriot Act.
Applicable
Law — all laws, rules and regulations applicable to the
Person, conduct, transaction, covenant, Loan Document or Material
Contract in question, including all applicable common law and
equitable principles; all provisions of all applicable state,
provincial, federal and foreign constitutions, statutes, rules,
regulations and orders of Governmental Authorities; and all orders,
judgments and decrees of all courts and arbitrators.
Applicable
Margin — a percentage equal to 0.50% with respect to
Revolver Loans that are Base Rate Loans and 2.00% with respect to
Revolver Loans that are LIBOR Loans; provided , that
commencing on the first day of the calendar month immediately
succeeding the third Business Day (each an “Adjustment
Date”) after Agent’s receipt of the applicable
financial statements and corresponding Compliance Certificate for
each Fiscal Quarter ending on or after June 30, 2009, the
Applicable Margin shall be increased or (if no Default or Event of
Default exists) decreased, on a quarterly basis according to the
performance of Borrowers as measured by the Leverage Ratio for the
immediately preceding Fiscal Quarter of Borrowers, as
follows:
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Applicable
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Applicable Base
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Level
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Leverage Ratio
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LIBOR Margin
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Rate Margin
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≥ 4.00 to
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2.50
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%
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1.00
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0.75
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< 4.00 to
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≥ 2.00 to
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0.50
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< 3.00 to
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≥ 1.50 to
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0.50
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< 2.00 to
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≥ 1.00 to
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1.625
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0.50
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Except as
otherwise set forth herein, any such increase or reduction in the
Applicable
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Margin shall be
subject to receipt by Agent of the applicable financial statements
and corresponding Compliance Certificate. If the financial
statements and the Compliance Certificate of Borrowers setting
forth the Leverage Ratio are not received by Agent by the date
required pursuant to Section 10.1.3 of this Agreement,
the Applicable Margin shall be determined as if the Leverage Ratio
exceeds 4.00 to 1.00 until such time as such financial statements
and Compliance Certificate are received and any Event of Default
resulting from a failure to timely deliver such financial
statements or Compliance Certificate is waived in writing by Agent
and Lenders; provided , however , that Agent and
Lenders shall be entitled to accrue and receive interest at the
Default Rate to the extent authorized by Section 3.1.5
of this Agreement and, on each date that the Default Rate accrues
on any Loan, the Applicable Margin on such date for such Loan shall
be the Applicable Margin that would apply if the Leverage Ratio
exceeded 4.00 to 1.00 (without regard to the actual Leverage
Ratio). For the final Fiscal Quarter of any Fiscal Year of
Borrowers, Borrowers may provide the unaudited financial statements
of Borrowers, subject only to year-end adjustments, for the purpose
of determining the Applicable Margin; provided ,
however , that if, upon delivery of the annual audited
financial statements required to be submitted by Borrowers to Agent
pursuant to Section 10.1.3(i) of this Agreement,
Borrowers have not met the criteria for reduction of the Applicable
Margin pursuant to the terms hereinabove for the final Fiscal
Quarter of the Fiscal Year of Borrowers then ended, then
(a) such Applicable Margin reduction shall be terminated and,
effective on the first day of the month following receipt by Agent
of such audited financial statements, the Applicable Margin shall
be the Applicable Margin that would have been in effect if such
reduction had been implemented based upon the audited financial
statements of Borrowers for the final Fiscal Quarter of the Fiscal
Year of Borrowers then ended, and (b) Borrowers shall pay to Agent,
for the Pro Rata benefit of the Lenders, on the first day of the
month following receipt by Agent of such audited financial
statements, an amount equal to the difference between the amount of
interest that would have been paid using the Applicable Margin
determined based upon such audited financial statements and the
amount of interest actually paid during the period in which the
reduction of the Applicable Margin was in effect based upon the
unaudited financial statements for the final Fiscal Quarter of the
Fiscal Year of Borrowers then ended.
Approved
Account Debtor — on any date of determination
(i) each Account Debtor whose corporate credit rating or
senior debt rating (secured or unsecured), or any of them, by
Moody’s and S&P is at least Baa3 and BBB-, respectively,
and (ii) each Account Debtor that is named on the list of
proposed Approved Account Debtors delivered to Agent by Borrower
Agent with the Borrowing Base Certificate most recently delivered
prior to such date of determination and that Agent has approved in
writing as an Approved Account Debtor (which approval shall be
effective until the next Borrowing Base Certificate is timely
delivered to Agent by Borrower Agent). Approved Account Debtors as
of the date of this Agreement are listed on Annex B
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Approved
Credit Enhancement — in Agent’s sole discretion and
at its option, either (i) an irrevocable letter of credit that
is in form and substance acceptable to Agent, issued or confirmed
by a bank acceptable to Agent, and payable in Dollars at a place of
payment within the United States that is acceptable to Agent, which
letter of credit is assigned to Agent for the benefit of the
Secured Parties (with such assignment acknowledged by the issuing
or confirming bank) or, if so requested by Agent, duly transferred
to Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties (together with
sufficient documentation to permit direct draws under any such
letter of credit by Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties)
or (ii) credit insurance that is issued by a credit insurance
company acceptable to Agent and is in form and substance acceptable
to Agent (which credit insurance shall be payable to Agent for the
benefit of the Secured Parties in Dollars).
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Asset
Disposition — a sale, lease, license, consignment or
other transfer or disposition of assets (real or personal, tangible
or intangible) of an Obligor, including a termination of rights of
any Obligor under any lease, license agreement or other contract or
a disposition of Property in connection with a sale-leaseback
transaction or synthetic lease.
Assignment and
Acceptance — an assignment and acceptance entered into by
a Lender and an Eligible Assignee and accepted by Agent, in the
form of Exhibit G .
AT&T
— collectively, AT&T Corp. and its Subsidiaries and
Affiliates.
AT&T
Concentration Percentage — 40%, or such lesser percentage
as Agent may in its reasonable credit judgment determine from time
to time.
Availability — on any date, the amount that Borrowers
are entitled to borrow as Revolver Loans on such date, such amount
being the difference derived when the sum of the principal amount
of Revolver Loans then outstanding (including any amounts that
Agent or Lenders may have paid for the account of Obligors pursuant
to any of the Loan Documents and that have not been reimbursed by
Borrowers and any outstanding Swingline Loans) is subtracted from
the Borrowing Base on such date. If the amount outstanding is equal
to or greater than the Borrowing Base, Availability is
zero.
Availability
Reserve — on any date of determination thereof, an amount
equal to the sum of the following (without duplication):
(i) the Rent Reserve; (ii) any amounts which any Obligor
is obligated to pay to Agent, Lenders or other Persons pursuant to
the provisions of any of the Loan Documents that Agent or any
Lender elects to pay for the account of such Obligor in accordance
with authority contained in any of the Loan Documents;
(iii) the LC Reserve; (iv) the aggregate amount of
reserves established by Agent from time to time in its discretion
in respect of Banking Relationship Debt; (v) the aggregate
amount of Royalties that have accrued and are unpaid, whether or
not then due and payable by an Obligor; (vi) the aggregate
amount of all liabilities and obligations that are secured by Liens
upon any of the Collateral that are senior in priority to
Agent’s Liens if such Liens are not Permitted Liens (
provided that the imposition of a reserve hereunder
on account of such Liens shall not be deemed a waiver of the Event
of Default that arises from the existence of such Liens) or are
Permitted Liens under Section 10.2.5(iii) of this
Agreement; (vii) the DirecTV Account Reserve; (viii) the
Dilution Reserve; and (ix) such additional reserves, in such
amounts and with respect to such matters, as Agent in its
reasonable credit judgment may elect to impose from time to
time.
Average Days
Sales Outstanding — with respect to Accounts for which a
specified Person is the Account Debtor, as of the last day of any
calendar month, that number of days derived (a) by calculating
the average amount of Accounts of Borrowers and their Subsidiaries
for which such specified Person is the Account Debtor for the last
3 months ending with such month by dividing the sum of the
Accounts of Borrowers and their Subsidiaries for which such
specified Person is the Account Debtor as of the last day of each
such month, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with
GAAP, for such 3 months by 3, (b) by calculating the average
amount of net revenues of Borrowers and their Subsidiaries
attributable to such specified Account Debtor for the same
3 months by dividing the sum of the net revenues of Borrowers
and their Subsidiaries attributable to such specified Person,
determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, for
such 3 months by 3, (c) by dividing the amount resulting from
the calculation described in (a) by the amount resulting from
the calculation described in (b), and (d) by multiplying the
result of the calculation described in (c) by 30.
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Average
Revolver Loan Balance — for any period, the amount
obtained by adding the unpaid balance of Revolver Loans and LC
Obligations at the end of each day for the period in question and
by dividing such sum by the number of days in such
period.
Bank
Products — any one or more of the following types of
products, services or facilities extended to any Obligor (other
than any Canadian Obligor) by any Lender or any Affiliate of any
Lender: (i) commercial credit cards; (ii) merchant card
services; (iii) products or services under Cash Management
Agreements; (iv) Hedging Agreements; (v) interstate depository
network services; and (vi) such other banking products or
services provided by any Lender or any Affiliate of any Lender as
may be requested by any Obligor (whether requested on behalf of
itself or its Subsidiaries), other than Letters of Credit and Bank
Products Exclusions.
Bank Products
Exclusions — banking products or services provided by any
Lender or any Affiliate of any Lender that consist of financings of
Equipment with Permitted Purchase Money Debt or providing operating
lease financing of Equipment other than the financing provided
under this Agreement or the other Loan Documents.
Banking
Relationship Debt — Debt or other obligations of an
Obligor (other than any Canadian Obligor) to any Lender (or any
Affiliate of any Lender) arising out of or relating to Bank
Products.
Bankruptcy
Code — title 11 of the United States Code.
Base Rate
— the rate of interest announced or quoted by BofA from time
to time as its prime rate. The prime rate announced by BofA is a
reference rate and does not necessarily represent the lowest or
best rate charged by BofA. BofA from time to time makes loans or
other extensions of credit at, above or below its announced prime
rate. If the prime rate is discontinued by BofA as a standard, a
comparable reference rate designated by BofA as a substitute
therefor shall be the Base Rate.
Base Rate
Loan — a Loan, or portion thereof, during any period in
which it bears interest at a rate based upon the Base
Rate.
Blocked
Person — as defined in Section 9.1.27(ii) of
this Agreement.
Board of
Governors — the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve
System.
BofA
— Bank of America, N.A., a national banking association, and
its successors and assigns.
BofA
Indemnitees — BofA and all of its present and future
officers, directors, employees agents and attorneys.
Borrower
— each of MasTec and each Subsidiary of MasTec listed as a
“Borrower” on Annex A hereto and each Subsidiary
of MasTec that becomes a “Borrower” after the Effective
Date pursuant to Section 10.1.11 of this
Agreement.
Borrower
Agent — as defined in Section 4.4 of this
Agreement.
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Borrowing
— a borrowing consisting of Loans of one Type made on the
same day by Lenders (or by BofA in the case of a Borrowing funded
by Swingline Loans) or a conversion of a Loan or Loans of one Type
from Lenders on the same day.
Borrowing
Base — on any date of determination thereof, an amount
equal to the lesser of: (a) the aggregate amount of the
Revolver Commitments on such date minus the Availability
Reserve on such date, or (b) an amount equal to (i) the
sum of (A) the Accounts Formula Amount on such date
plus (B) the Eligible Unbilled Accounts Formula Amount
on such date plus (C) the Fixed Assets Formula Amount
on such date plus (D) the Real Estate Formula Amount on
such date plus (E) the Eligible Cash Collateral Amount
on such date minus (ii) the Availability Reserve on
such date, or (c) the sum of (i) the amount on such date
that constitutes Indebtedness permitted under
Section 4.08(b)(1) of the Indenture as in effect on the
Closing Date, plus (ii) the amount of Obligations that
Borrowers would be permitted to incur hereunder on such date under
Section 4.08(b)(11) without causing a breach or violation of
the Indenture as in effect on the Closing Date.
Borrowing Base
Certificate — a certificate, in the form requested by
Agent, by which Borrowers shall certify to Agent and Lenders, with
such frequency as Agent may request or as otherwise required by
Section 8.6 of this Agreement, the amount of the Borrowing
Base as of the date of the certificate and the calculation of such
amount.
Business
Day — any day excluding Saturday, Sunday and any other
day that is a legal holiday under the laws of the State of Georgia
or is a day on which banking institutions located in such state are
closed; provided , however , that when used with
reference to a LIBOR Loan (including the making, continuing,
prepaying or repaying of any LIBOR Loan), the term “Business
Day” shall also exclude any day on which banks are not open
for dealings in Dollar deposits on the London interbank
market.
Business
Interruption Insurance Assignment — the Collateral
Assignment of Business Interruption Insurance to be executed by
each Obligor and pursuant to which such Obligor shall assign in
favor of Agent, for the benefit of Secured Parties, all of such
Obligor’s rights under any business interruption insurance
policy owned by or in favor of such Obligor, as security for the
Obligations.
Business
Unit — assets constituting a business, whether all of the
assets of any Person or the assets of a division or operating unit
of any Person.
Cdn$ and
Canadian Dollars — each means freely transferable
Canadian dollars.
Canadian
Obligor — Phasecom Systems Inc., an Ontario (Canada)
corporation, and Integral Power & Telecommunications
Corporation Ltd., a Canadian corporation, and both Wholly Owned
Subsidiaries of MasTec and each other direct or indirect Wholly
Owned Subsidiary organized under the laws of Canada or any province
thereof that becomes an Obligor, singly or collectively.
Canadian
Obligor Guarantee — each Guaranty executed by a Canadian
Obligor.
Canadian
Security Agreement — collectively, each General Security
Agreement, Deed of Hypothec and other security instrument with
respect to Property of a Canadian Obligor executed and delivered by
a Canadian Obligor, pursuant to which such Canadian Obligor grants
in favor of Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties a first
priority Lien upon its personal Properties.
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Capital
Adequacy Regulation — any guideline, request or directive
of any central bank or other Governmental Authority, or any other
law, rule or regulation, whether or not having the force of law, in
each case regarding capital adequacy of any bank or of any
corporation controlling a bank.
Capital
Expenditures — expenditures made or liabilities incurred
by an Obligor for the acquisition of any fixed assets or
improvements, replacements, substitutions or additions thereto
which have a useful life of more than one year, including the total
principal portion of Capitalized Lease Obligations.
Capitalized
Lease Obligation — any Debt represented by obligations
under a lease that is required to be capitalized for financial
reporting purposes in accordance with GAAP.
Cash
Collateral — cash, and any interest or other income
earned thereon, that is deposited with Agent in accordance with
this Agreement for the Pro Rata benefit of Lenders to Cash
Collateralize any LC Obligations.
Cash
Collateral Account — a demand deposit, money market or
other account established by Agent at such financial institution as
Agent may select in its discretion, which account shall be in
Agent’s name and subject to Agent’s Liens for the
benefit of Secured Parties.
Cash
Collateralize — with respect to LC Obligations arising
from Letters of Credit outstanding on any date or Obligations
arising under Hedging Agreements on such date, the deposit with
Agent of immediately available funds into the Cash Collateral
Account in an amount equal to 105% of the sum of the aggregate
Undrawn Amounts of such Letters of Credit and other LC Obligations,
all Obligations existing under such Hedging Agreements, and all
related fees and other amounts due or to become due in connection
with such LC Obligations and Hedging Agreements.
Cash
Equivalents — (i) marketable direct obligations
issued or unconditionally guaranteed by the United States
government and backed by the full faith and credit of the United
States government; (ii) domestic certificates of deposit and
time deposits having maturities of not more than 12 months
from the date of acquisition, bankers’ acceptances having
maturities of not more than 12 months from the date of
acquisition and overnight bank deposits, in each case issued by any
commercial bank organized under the laws of the United States, any
state thereof or the District of Columbia, which at the time of
acquisition are rated A-1 (or better) by S&P or P-1 (or better)
by Moody’s, and (unless issued by a Lender) not subject to
offset rights in favor of such bank arising from any banking
relationship with such bank; (iii) repurchase obligations with
a term of not more than 30 days for underlying securities of
the types described in clauses (i) and (ii) entered into
with any financial institution meeting the qualifications specified
in clause (ii) above; (iv) commercial paper having at the time
of investment therein or a contractual commitment to invest therein
a rating of A-1 (or better) by S&P or P-1 (or better) by
Moody’s, and having a maturity within 9 months after the
date of acquisition thereof; and (v) shares of any money
market fund that (a) has substantially all of its assets
invested continuously in the types of investments referred to in
clauses (i) — (iv), (b) has net assets not less than
$500,000,000 and (c) has the highest rating obtainable from
either Moody’s or S&P.
Cash
Management Agreements — any agreement entered into from
time to time between any Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries, on the
one hand, and a Lender or any of its Affiliates or any other
banking or financial institution, on the other, in connection with
cash management services for operating, collections, payroll and
trust accounts of such Obligor or its Subsidiaries
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provided by
such banking or financial institution, including automatic
clearinghouse services, controlled disbursement services,
electronic funds transfer services, information reporting services,
lockbox services, stop payment services and wire transfer
services.
CERCLA
— the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and
Liability Act, 42 U.S.C. § 9601 et seq. and its implementing
regulations.
Change of
Control — the occurrence of any of the following events
after the date of this Agreement: (a) MasTec shall cease to
own, directly, or indirectly through a Subsidiary, 100% of the
Equity Interests in any Obligor (other than as a result of a
merger, reorganization, consolidation or amalgamation permitted
under Section 10.2.1 of this Agreement), or
(b) any “Change of Control,” “Change in
Control” or similar event or circumstance, however defined or
designated, under the Indenture (as in effect on the date of this
Agreement) shall occur.
Chattel
Paper — shall have the meaning given to the term
“chattel paper” in the UCC or the PPSA, as
applicable.
Clearing
Bank — BofA, Wachovia Bank, N.A., each bank listed on
Schedule 1.1C - Clearing Banks , and any other U.S.
banking institution with which a Controlled Account has been
established pursuant to a Control Agreement.
Closing
Date — the date on which all of the conditions precedent
in Section 11 of this Agreement are satisfied or waived
and the initial Loans are made under this Agreement.
Collateral
— all of the Property and interests in Property described in
Section 7 of this Agreement; all Property described in any
of the Security Documents as security for the payment or
performance of any of the Obligations; and all other Property and
interests in Property that now or hereafter secure (or are intended
to secure) the payment and performance of any of the
Obligations.
Commercial
Tort Claim — shall have the meaning given to the term
“commercial tort claim” in the UCC.
Commitment
— at any date for any Lender, the aggregate amount of such
Lender’s Revolver Commitment on such date, and “
Commitments ” means the aggregate amount of all
Revolver Commitments.
Commitment
Termination Date — the date that is the soonest to occur
of (i) the last day of the Term; (ii) the date on which
either Borrowers or Agent terminates the Commitments pursuant to
Section 6.2 of this Agreement; or (iii) the date
on which the Commitments are automatically terminated pursuant to
Section 12.2 of this Agreement.
Compliance
Certificate — a Compliance Certificate to be provided by
Borrowers to Agent in accordance with, and in the form annexed as
Exhibit E to, this Agreement, and the supporting
schedules to be annexed thereto.
Consolidated — the consolidation in accordance with
GAAP of the accounts or other items as to which such term
applies.
Contingent
Obligation — with respect to any Person, any obligation
of such Person arising from any guaranty, indemnity or other
assurance of payment or performance of any Debt, lease,
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dividend or
other obligation (“primary obligations”) of any other
Person (the “primary obligor”) in any manner, whether
directly or indirectly, including (i) the direct or indirect
guaranty, endorsement (other than for collection or deposit in the
Ordinary Course of Business), co-making, discounting with recourse
or sale with recourse by such Person of the obligation of a primary
obligor, (ii) the obligation to make take-or-pay or similar
payments, if required, regardless of nonperformance by any other
party or parties to an agreement, (iii) any obligation of such
Person, whether or not contingent, (A) to purchase any such
primary obligation or any Property constituting direct or indirect
security therefor, (B) to advance or supply funds (1) for
the purchase or payment of any such primary obligations or
(2) to maintain working capital or equity capital of the
primary obligor or otherwise to maintain the net worth or solvency
of the primary obligor, (C) to purchase Property, Securities
or services primarily for the purpose of assuring the owner of any
such primary obligation of the ability of the primary obligor to
make payment of such primary obligation or (D) otherwise to
assure or hold harmless the holder of such primary obligation
against loss in respect thereof. The amount of any Contingent
Obligation shall be deemed to be an amount equal to the stated or
determinable amount of the primary obligation with respect to which
such Contingent Obligation is made (or, if less, the maximum amount
of such primary obligation for which such Person may be liable
pursuant to the terms of the instrument evidencing such Contingent
Obligation) or, if not stated or determinable, the maximum
reasonably anticipated liability with respect thereto (assuming
such Person is required to perform thereunder), as determined by
such Person in good faith.
Control or
controlled by or under common control —
possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause
the direction of management or policies (whether through ownership
of voting securities, by contract or otherwise, but not solely by
being an officer or director of that Person); provided ,
however , that in any event any Person which beneficially
owns, directly or indirectly, 10% or more (in number of votes) of
the Equity Interest having ordinary Voting Power with respect to
another Person shall be conclusively presumed to control such
Person.
Control
Agreement — an agreement among an Obligor, Agent and a
Clearing Bank, in form and substance satisfactory to Agent,
concerning the collection and transfer of payments which represent
the proceeds of Accounts or of any other Collateral, and which
gives Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, control
(within the meaning of Section 9-104 of the UCC) over the deposit
accounts of such Obligor maintained at such Clearing
Bank.
Controlled
Account — a demand deposit account of an Obligor
maintained by it with a Clearing Bank that is subject to a Control
Agreement.
CWA
— the Clean Water Act (33 U.S.C. §§ 1251 et
seq .).
Debt
— as applied to a Person means, without duplication:
(i) all items which in accordance with GAAP would be included
in determining total liabilities as shown on the liability side of
a balance sheet of such Person as of the date as of which Debt is
to be determined, including Capitalized Lease Obligations;
(ii) all Contingent Obligations of such Person; (iii) all
reimbursement obligations in connection with letters of credit or
letter of credit guaranties issued for the account of such Person;
and (iv) in the case of an Obligor (without duplication), the
Obligations. The Debt of a Person shall include any recourse Debt
of any partnership or joint venture in which such Person is a
general partner or joint venturer.
Default
— an event or condition the occurrence of which would, with
the lapse of time or the giving of notice, or both, become an Event
of Default.
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Default
Rate — on any date, a rate per annum that is equal to
(i) in the case of each Revolver Loan outstanding on such
date, 2% in excess of the rate otherwise applicable to such Loan on
such date, and (ii) in the case of any of the other
Obligations outstanding on such date, 2% plus the highest
Applicable Margin for Base Rate Loans.
Deposit
Account — shall have the meaning given to the term
“deposit account” in the UCC.
Dilution
Reserve — at any date of determination, an amount equal
to the excess of (i) non-cash reductions to Obligors’
Accounts during a 12-month period prior to the date of
determination as established by Obligors’ records or by a
field examination conducted by Agent’s employees or
representatives, expressed as a percentage of Obligors’
Accounts outstanding during the same period, as the same may be
adjusted by Agent in the exercise of its reasonable credit
judgment, over (ii) 5%, multiplied by the aggregate amount of
Eligible Accounts as of the date of determination.
DirecTV
— collectively, DirecTV, Inc. and its Affiliates and
Subsidiaries.
DirecTV
Account Reserve — a reserve, in such amount as shall be
determined from time to time by Agent in its sole discretion as
sufficient to protect against the risk of offset by DirecTV with
respect to any Accounts for which DirecTV is the Account
Debtor.
DirecTV
Concentration Percentage — (a) at any time that
(i) DirecTV’s corporate credit rating or senior debt
rating (secured or unsecured) by Moody’s is Ba2 and by
S&P is BB, and (ii) Average Days Sales Outstanding on
Accounts for which DirecTV is the Account Debtor is 50 or fewer
days, 40%; (b) at any time that DirecTV’s corporate
credit rating or senior debt rating (secured or unsecured) by
Moody’s is Ba3 or by S&P is BB-, 25%; (c) at any
time that DirecTV’s corporate credit rating or senior debt
rating (secured or unsecured) by Moody’s is B1 or by S&P
is B+, 15%; (d) at any time that Average Days Sales
Outstanding on Accounts for which DirecTV is the Account Debtor is
more than 50 days, 15%; and (e) irrespective of the Average
Days Sales Outstanding on Accounts for which DirecTV is the Account
Debtor, or DirecTV’s rating, such lesser percentage as Agent
may in its reasonable credit judgment determine from time to
time.
DirectStar
— DirectStar TV, LLC, a North Carolina limited liability
company, and its Subsidiaries.
DirectStar
Purchase Agreement — that certain Membership Interest
Purchase Agreement dated February 6, 2007, by and among MasTec
North America, MasTec, DirectStar, Red Ventures, LLC, a North
Carolina limited liability company, and Ricardo Elias, Daniel S.
Feldstein and Mark Brodsky, pursuant to which MasTec North America
has agreed to purchase the remaining fifty-one percent (51%) of the
issued and outstanding membership shares in DirectStar.
Distribution — in respect of any entity, (i) any
payment of any dividends or other distributions on Equity Interests
of the entity (except distributions in such Equity Interests) and
(ii) any purchase, redemption or other acquisition or
retirement for value of any Equity Interests of the entity or any
Affiliate of the entity unless made contemporaneously from the net
proceeds of the sale of Equity Interests.
Document
— shall have the meaning given to the term
“document” in the UCC.
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Dollars and
the sign $ — lawful money of the United States of
America.
Domestic
Subsidiary — a Subsidiary of a Borrower (other than a
Subsidiary that is a Borrower) that is incorporated under the laws
of a state of the United States or the District of
Columbia.
Dominion
Account — a special account of Agent established by
Borrowers at BofA or another bank selected by Borrowers, but
acceptable to Agent in its sole discretion, and over which Agent
shall have exclusive access and control for withdrawal
purposes.
Electronic
Chattel Paper — shall have the meaning given to the term
“electronic chattel paper” in the UCC.
Eligible
Account — an Account which arises in the Ordinary Course
of Business of an Obligor from the sale of goods or rendition of
services, is payable in Dollars (or, with respect to Accounts that
arise from a sale to an Account Debtor located in Canada, in
Canadian Dollars), is subject to Agent’s duly perfected Lien,
and is deemed by Agent, in its reasonable credit judgment, to be an
Eligible Account. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing,
no Account shall be an Eligible Account if: (i) it arises out
of a sale made by an Obligor to a Subsidiary or an Affiliate of an
Obligor, a Person controlled by an Affiliate of an Obligor or a
Blocked Person; (ii) it is unpaid for more than 60 days
after the original due date shown on the invoice; (iii) it is
due or unpaid more than 90 days after the original invoice
date (or as to any Approved Account Debtor, 120 days after
original invoice date); (iv) 50% or more of the Accounts from
the Account Debtor are not deemed Eligible Accounts hereunder;
(v) the total unpaid Accounts of the Account Debtor or group
of affiliated Account Debtors (excluding any affiliated Account
Debtor that satisfies the criteria of clause (i) in the
definition of Approved Account Debtor) exceed 7.5% (or (A) as to
any Approved Account Debtor (other than DirecTV, Verizon or
AT&T), 15%, (B) as to DirecTV, the DirecTV Concentration
Percentage, (C) as to Verizon, the Verizon Concentration
Percentage, and (D) as to AT&T, the AT&T Concentration
Percentage) of the aggregate amount of all Eligible Accounts or
exceed a credit limit established by Agent for such Account Debtor,
in each case, to the extent of such excess; (vi) any covenant,
representation or warranty contained in this Agreement with respect
to such Account has been breached in any respect deemed material by
Agent; (vii) the Account Debtor is also such Obligor’s
creditor or supplier, or the Account Debtor has disputed liability
with respect to such Account, or the Account Debtor has made any
claim with respect to any other Account due from such Account
Debtor to such Obligor, or the Account otherwise is or may become
subject to any right of setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, reserve,
defense or chargeback, provided that, the Accounts of such Account
Debtor shall be ineligible only to the extent of such dispute or
right of offset, counterclaim, recoupment, reserve, defense or
chargeback; (viii) an Insolvency Proceeding has been commenced
by or against the Account Debtor (other than Accounts arising under
and in accordance with the terms of post-petition contracts with
such Account Debtor approved by the court in which the Insolvency
Proceeding of the Account Debtor is being heard or otherwise
permitted in such case) or the Account Debtor has failed, suspended
or ceased doing business; (ix) the Account Debtor is not or
has ceased to be Solvent; (x) it arises from a sale to an
Account Debtor that is organized under the laws of any jurisdiction
outside of the United States or Canada or that has its principal
office or principal place of business outside the United States or
Canada except to the extent that the sale is supported or secured
by an Approved Credit Enhancement; (xi) it arises from a sale
to the Account Debtor on a bill-and-hold, guaranteed sale,
sale-or-return, sale-on-approval, consignment or any other
repurchase or return basis; (xii) the Account Debtor is the
United States of America or Canada any department, agency, Crown
corporation or instrumentality thereof, unless the applicable
Obligor is not prohibited from assigning the Account and does
assign its
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right to
payment of such Account to Agent, in a manner satisfactory to
Agent, so as to comply, in the case of the United States, with the
Assignment of Claims Act of 1940 (31 U.S.C. §3727 and 41
U.S.C. §15), and, in the case of Canada, with the Financial
Administration Act, R.S.C. c. F-11 or is a state, province, county
or municipality, or a political subdivision or agency thereof and
Applicable Law disallows or restricts an assignment of Accounts on
which it is the Account Debtor; (xiii) the Account Debtor is
located in any jurisdiction which imposes conditions on the right
of a creditor to collect accounts receivable unless the applicable
Obligor has either qualified to transact business in such
jurisdiction as a foreign entity or filed a Notice of Business
Activities Report or other required report with the appropriate
officials in those jurisdictions for the then current year;
(xiv) the Account Debtor is located in a jurisdiction in which
such Obligor is deemed to be doing business under the laws of such
jurisdiction and which denies creditors access to its courts in the
absence of qualification to transact business in such jurisdiction
or of the filing of any reports with such jurisdiction, unless such
Obligor has qualified as a foreign entity authorized to transact
business in such jurisdiction or has filed all required reports;
(xv) the Account is subject to a Lien other than a Permitted
Lien; (xvi) the goods giving rise to such Account have not
been delivered to and accepted by the Account Debtor or the
services giving rise to such Account have not been performed by
such Obligor and accepted by the Account Debtor or the Account
otherwise does not represent a final sale; (xvii) the Account
is evidenced by Chattel Paper or an Instrument of any kind, or has
been reduced to judgment; (xviii) the Account represents a
billing in excess of cost or a retainage or arises from a sale on a
cash-on-delivery basis; (xix) such Obligor has made any
agreement with the Account Debtor for any deduction therefrom,
except for discounts or allowances which are made in the Ordinary
Course of Business for prompt payment and which discounts or
allowances are reflected in the calculation of the face value of
each invoice related to such Account; (xx) such Obligor has
made an agreement with the Account Debtor to extend the time of
payment thereof; (xxi) the Account arises from the performance
of services under a contract in respect of which any performance
bond or surety bond has been issued or under or related to any
warranty obligation of an Obligor; (xxii) the Account
represents, in whole or in part, a billing for interest, fees or
late charges, provided that such Account shall be ineligible only
to the extent of the amount of such billing; or (xxiii) it
arises from a retail sale of Inventory to a Person who is
purchasing the same primarily for personal, family or household
purposes.
Eligible
Assignee — a Person that is a Lender, a U.S. based
Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund (as defined below); a
commercial bank, finance company, or other financial institution,
in each case that is organized under the laws of the United States
or any state, has total assets in excess of $5 billion,
extends asset-based lending facilities of the type contemplated
herein in the Ordinary Course of Business and whose becoming an
assignee would not constitute a prohibited transaction under
Section 4975 of ERISA or any other Applicable Law, is
acceptable to Agent and, unless a Default or an Event of Default
exists, Borrowers (such approval by Borrowers, when required, not
to be unreasonably withheld or delayed and to be deemed given by
Borrowers if no objection is received by the assigning Lender and
Agent from Borrowers within 2 Business Days after notice of such
proposed assignment has been provided by the assigning Lender as
set forth in Section 14.3 of this Agreement); and, at
any time that an Event of Default exists, any other Person
acceptable to Agent in its sole discretion. The term “
Approved Fund ” means any Person (other than a natural
person) that is engaged in making, purchasing, holding or investing
in bank loans and similar extensions of credit in the Ordinary
Course of Business of such Person and that is administered or
managed by (i) a Lender, (ii) an Affiliate of a Lender or
(iii) an entity or an Affiliate of an entity that administers
or manages a Lender.
Eligible Cash
Collateral — cash and Cash Equivalents of MasTec that
(i) are on deposit in the LC Collateral Account, (ii) are
subject to the perfected, first priority security interest and
Lien
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in favor of
Agent, on behalf of the Secured Parties, upon such cash and Cash
Equivalents, and BofA (or the other applicable depositary
institution or intermediary at which the LC Collateral Account is
maintained) has executed a deposit account control agreement in
favor of Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, or such
other documentation as may be required by Agent with respect to the
LC Collateral Account and the cash and Cash Equivalent maintained
therein, in each case in form and substance satisfactory to Agent
in all respects, and (iii) are not subject to any Lien, claim
or other interest in favor of any Person other than
Agent.
Eligible Cash
Collateral Amount — on any date of determination, an
amount equal to 100% of the amount of Eligible Cash Collateral on
such date; provided , that , it is the intent of the
parties that (i) the amount of eligible Cash Collateral
maintained in the LC Collateral Account shall be equal to the
undrawn amount of the Letters of Credit that are Cash
Collateralized on such date, (ii) Borrowers shall not be
required on any date to maintain Eligible Cash Collateral in an
amount greater than the undrawn amount of the Letters of Credit
that are Cash Collateralized on such date, and (iii) to extent that
on any date the Eligible Cash Collateral in the LC Collateral
Account exceeds the undrawn amount of Letters of Credit that are
Cash Collateralized on such date, BofA or its Affiliate at which
the LC Collateral Account is maintained shall, at the request of
Borrowers, pay the amount of Eligible Cash Collateral in excess of
undrawn amount of the Letters of Credit that are Cash
Collateralized to Borrowers, subject to the provisions of
Section 2.3.3 .
Eligible Fixed
Assets — Equipment owned by an Obligor, subject to the
Lien in favor of Agent and to no other Lien, that is located within
the continental United States and has been included in the most
recent Net Orderly Liquidation Value Appraisal accepted by
Agent.
Eligible Real
Estate — each parcel of Real Estate which Agent, in its
reasonable credit judgment, determines to be Eligible Real Estate.
Without limiting the discretion of Agent to establish other
criteria of eligibility, Eligible Real Estate (i) shall be owned by
an Obligor, (ii) shall be subject to the Lien in favor of
Agent and to no other Lien (other than those Liens or encumbrances,
if any, which are expressly permitted in the Mortgages applicable
to such Real Estate), (iii) shall be located within the
continental United States, (iv) shall be in compliance with
all of the representations, warranties, covenants and agreements
set forth in the Mortgage(s) applicable thereto and in
Sections 7.3.1, 9.1.30 and 10.1.17 hereof, and
(v) shall have been included in a fair market value appraisal
of the Real Estate, and shall be covered by an environmental
report, in each case which have been accepted by and are
satisfactory to Agent.
Eligible
Unbilled Accounts — an amount which, when an invoice is
issued with respect thereto, will be an Eligible Account, and in
respect of which an invoice is issued within 30 days (or
45 days with respect to an Account Debtor principally engaged
in the power distribution and transmission business or
communications business) after such amount is first included as an
eligible unbilled account on any Borrowing Base
Certificate.
Eligible
Unbilled Accounts Formula Amount — on any date of
determination thereof, an amount equal to the lesser of
(i) 70% (or such lesser percentage as Agent may in its
reasonable credit judgment determine from time to time) of the
aggregate amount of Eligible Unbilled Accounts on such date, or
(ii) an amount equal to the product of (x) the sum of the
Accounts Formula Amount on such date, the amount derived pursuant
to subsection (i) of this definition, the Fixed Assets Formula
Amount, and the Real Estate Formula Amount multiplied by
(y) 15%.
Enforcement
Action — action taken or to be taken by Agent, during any
period that an Event of Default exists, to enforce collection of
the Obligations or to realize upon the Collateral
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(whether by
judicial action, under power of sale, by self-help repossession, by
notification to Account Debtors, or by exercise of rights of setoff
or recoupment).
Environmental
Agreement — the Agreement Regarding Environmental Matters
to be executed by Obligors in favor of Agent on or about the
Closing Date and by which each Obligor shall, among other things,
indemnify Agent and Lenders from liability for such Obligor’s
failure to comply with any Environmental Laws.
Environmental
Laws — all federal, state, provincial local and foreign
laws, rules, regulations, codes, ordinances, orders and consent
decrees (together with all programs, permits and guidance documents
promulgated by regulatory agencies, to the extent having the force
of law), now or hereafter in effect, that relate to public health
(but excluding occupational safety and health, to the extent
regulated by OSHA) or the protection or pollution of the
environment, whether new or hereafter in effect, including CERCLA,
RCRA and CWA.
Environmental
Notice — a notice (whether written or oral) from any
Governmental Authority or any other Person of a possible or alleged
noncompliance with or liability under any Environmental Laws,
including any complaints, citations, demands or requests from any
Governmental Authority or any other Person for correction or
remediation of any asserted violation of any Environmental Laws or
any investigations concerning any asserted violation of any
Environmental Laws.
Environmental
Release — a release as defined in CERCLA or under any
other applicable Environmental Laws.
Equipment
— shall have the meaning given to the term
“equipment” in the UCC or the PPSA, as applicable, and
shall include all of each Obligor’s machinery, apparatus,
equipment, fittings, furniture, fixtures, motor vehicles and other
tangible personal Property (other than Inventory) of every kind and
description, whether now owned or hereafter acquired by such
Obligor and wherever located, and all parts, accessories and
special tools therefor, all accessions thereto, and all
substitutions and replacements thereof.
Equity
Interest — the interest of (i) a shareholder in a
corporation, (ii) a partner (whether general or limited) in a
partnership (whether general, limited or limited liability),
(iii) a member in a limited liability company, or
(iv) any other Person having any other form of equity security
or ownership interest.
ERISA
— the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and all
rules and regulations from time to time promulgated
thereunder.
Event of
Default — as defined in Section 12 of this
Agreement.
Executive
Order No. 13224 — Executive Order No. 13224 on
Terrorist Financing, effective September 24, 2001, as the same
has been, or shall hereafter be, renewed, extended, amended or
replaced.
Existing
Lenders — the Lenders under (and as defined in) the
Existing Loan Agreement as in effect on the Closing
Date.
Existing
Letters of Credit — as defined in
Section 2.3.1 of this Agreement.
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Extraordinary
Expenses — all costs, expenses, fees (including fees
incurred to Agent Professionals) or advances that Agent may suffer
or incur, whether prior to or after the occurrence of an Event of
Default, and whether prior to, after or during the pendency of an
Insolvency Proceeding of an Obligor, on account of or in connection
with (i) the audit, inspection, repossession, storage, repair,
appraisal, insuring, completion of the manufacture of, preparing
for sale, advertising for sale, selling, collecting or otherwise
preserving or realizing upon any Collateral; (ii) the defense
of Agent’s Lien upon any Collateral or the priority thereof
or any adverse claim with respect to the Loans, the Loan Documents
or the Collateral asserted by any Obligor, any receiver or trustee
for any Obligor or any creditor or representative of creditors of
any Obligor; (iii) the settlement or satisfaction of any Liens
upon any Collateral (whether or not such Liens are Permitted
Liens); (iv) the collection or enforcement of any of the
Obligations, whether by Enforcement Action or otherwise;
(v) the negotiation, documentation, and closing of any
restructuring or forbearance agreement with respect to the Loan
Documents or Obligations; (vi) amounts advanced by Agent
pursuant to Sections 8.1.3 or 15.10 of this Agreement;
(vii) the enforcement of any of the provisions of any of the
Loan Documents; or (viii) any payment under a guaranty,
indemnity or other payment agreement provided by Agent, which is
reimbursable to Agent by Borrowers pursuant to
Section 3.4.2 of this Agreement. Such costs, expenses
and advances may include transfer fees, taxes, storage fees,
insurance costs, permit fees, utility reservation and standby fees,
legal fees, appraisal fees, brokers’ fees and commissions,
auctioneers’ fees and commissions, accountants’ fees,
environmental study fees, wages and salaries paid to employees of
any Obligor or independent contractors in liquidating any
Collateral, travel expenses, all other fees and expenses payable or
reimbursable by Borrowers or any other Obligor under any of the
Loan Documents, and all other fees and expenses associated with the
enforcement of rights or remedies under any of the Loan Documents,
but excluding compensation paid to employees (including inside
legal counsel who are employees) of Agent.
Federal Funds
Rate — for any period, a fluctuating interest rate per
annum equal for each date during such period to the weighted
average of the rates on overnight federal funds transactions with
members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by federal funds
brokers, as published for such day (or, if such day is not a
Business Day, for the next preceding Business Day) in Atlanta,
Georgia by the Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, or if such rate is
not so published for any day which is a Business Day, the average
of the quotations for such day on such transactions received by
Agent from 3 federal funds brokers of recognized standing selected
by Agent.
Fee Letter
— the fee letter agreement between Agent and
Borrowers.
FEIN
— with respect to any Person, the Federal Employer
Identification Number of such Person.
Fiscal
Quarter — each of the 4 consecutive 3-month periods
beginning on the first day of a Fiscal Year.
Fiscal
Year — the fiscal year of Borrowers and their
Subsidiaries for accounting and tax purposes, which ends on
December 31 of each year and when preceded by the designation
of a calendar year (e.g., 2008 Fiscal Year) means the fiscal year
of Borrowers and their Subsidiaries ending on December 31 of
such designated calendar year.
Fixed Assets
Formula Amount — on any date of determination thereof,
the lesser of (i) $100,000,000 or (ii) an amount equal to
eighty percent (80%) of the Net Orderly Liquidation Value of
Eligible Fixed Assets, provided however , that the
amount calculated under this clause
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(ii) shall
be adjusted (either upward or downward, as applicable) by an amount
equal to the lesser of (A) $10,000,000 (in the case of an upward
adjustment) and (B) the result of (I) eighty percent
(80%) of the aggregate cost of all Equipment that has been acquired
by Obligors since the date of the most recent Net Orderly
Liquidation Value Appraisal, minus (II) an amount, as
determined by Agent, equal to the aggregate amount of the fair
market value or book value, whichever is more, of all Equipment
that has been disposed of by Obligors (other than in accordance
with Section 8.4.2(ii) ) since the date of the most
recent Net Orderly Liquidation Value Appraisal of the
Equipment.
Fixed Charge
Coverage Ratio — for any period, the ratio of
(a) Adjusted EBITDA for such period minus Net Capital
Expenditures (excluding Capital Expenditures financed by Permitted
Purchase Money Debt) for such period, minus Distributions
made during such period, minus cash Taxes paid during such
period, minus cash Investments made by Borrowers in
DirectStar, minus any portion of the Earn-Out Payments under
(and as defined in) the DirectStar Purchase Agreement made by
Borrowers in cash, minus all other Acquisition Earn-Out
Payments, to (b) the sum of all Fixed Charges for such period,
all calculated for Borrowers and their Subsidiaries (other than
DirectStar) on a Consolidated basis.
Fixed
Charges — for any fiscal period, the sum of
(i) interest expense (other than interest payable-in-kind to
the extent not paid in cash and interest expense arising from this
Agreement or the other Loan Documents that is deferred into future
periods in accordance with GAAP) for such period plus
(ii) current maturities of Funded Debt (including Capitalized
Lease Obligations) as of the last day of such period.
FLSA
— the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938.
Foreign
Lender — any Lender that is organized under the laws of a
jurisdiction other than the laws of the United States, any state
thereof or the District of Columbia.
Foreign
Subsidiary — a Subsidiary that is not a Domestic
Subsidiary.
Full
Payment — with respect to any of the Obligations, the
full, final and indefeasible payment in full, in cash and in
Dollars, of all of such Obligations, including all interests, fees
and other charges payable in connection therewith under any of the
Loan Documents, whether such interests, fees or other charges
accrue or are incurred prior to or during the pendency of an
Insolvency Proceeding and whether or not any of the same are
allowed or recoverable in any Bankruptcy Case pursuant to
Section 506 of the Bankruptcy Code or otherwise; with respect
to any LC Obligations represented by undrawn Letters of Credit and
Banking Relationship Debt, the depositing of cash with Agent, as
security for the payment of such Obligations, not to exceed 105% of
the aggregate undrawn amount of such Letters of Credit and 100% of
Agent’s good faith estimate of the amount of Banking
Relationship Debt due and to become due; and with respect to any
Obligations that are contingent in nature (other than Obligations
consisting of LC Obligations or Banking Relationship Debt), such as
a right of Agent or a Lender to indemnification by any Obligor, the
depositing of cash with Agent in an amount equal to 100% of such
Obligations or, if such Obligations are unliquidated in amount and
represent a claim which has been overtly asserted (or is reasonably
probable of assertion) against Agent or a Lender and for which an
indemnity has been provided by Obligors in any of the Loan
Documents, in an amount that is equal to such claim or
Agent’s good faith estimate of such claim. None of the Loans
shall be deemed to have been paid in full until all Commitments
related to such Loans have expired or been terminated.
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Funded Debt — with respect
to Borrowers and their Subsidiaries, the sum, without duplication,
of (i) the aggregate amount of Debt of Borrowers and their
Subsidiaries relating to (a) the borrowing of money or the
obtaining of credit (other than trade payables incurred in the
Ordinary Course of Business), including the Obligations and any
other notes or bonds, (b) the deferred purchase price of
assets (other than trade payables incurred in the Ordinary Course
of Business), and (c) any Capitalized Lease Obligations,
plus (ii) Debt of the type referred to in clause
(i) of another Person guaranteed by a Borrower or Subsidiary,
in each case as determined on a Consolidated basis.
GAAP
— generally accepted accounting principles in the United
States of America in effect from time to time.
GECC
— General Electric Capital Corporation, a Delaware
corporation, and its successors and assigns.
General
Intangibles — shall have the meaning given to the term
“general intangibles” in the UCC and shall include each
Obligor’s choses in action, causes of action, company or
other business records, inventions, blueprints, designs, patents,
patent applications, trademarks, trademark applications, trade
names, trade secrets, service marks, goodwill, brand names,
copyrights, registrations, licenses, franchises, customer lists,
permits, tax refund claims, computer programs, operational manuals,
internet addresses and domain names, insurance refunds and premium
rebates, all claims under guaranties, security interests or other
security held by or granted to such Obligor to secure payment of
any of any of such Obligor’s Accounts by an Account Debtor,
all rights to indemnification and all other intangible property of
such Obligor of every kind and nature (other than
Accounts).
Goods
— shall have the meaning given to the term
“goods” in the UCC or the PPSA.
Governmental
Approvals — all authorizations, consents, approvals,
licenses and exemptions of, registrations and filings with, and
reports to, all Governmental Authorities.
Governmental
Authority — any federal, state, provincial, municipal,
national, foreign or other governmental department, commission,
board, bureau, court, agency or instrumentality or political
subdivision thereof or any entity or officer exercising executive,
legislative, judicial, regulatory or administrative functions of or
pertaining to any government or any court, in each case whether
associated with a state of the United States, the District of
Columbia or a foreign entity or government.
Guarantor
— each Canadian Obligor and each other Person who guarantees
payment or performance of the whole or any part of the
Obligations.
Guaranty
— each guaranty agreement now or hereafter executed by a
Guarantor in favor of Agent with respect to any of the Obligations,
including each Canadian Obligor Guarantee.
Hedging
Agreement — any interest rate protection agreement,
foreign currency exchange agreement, forward contract, currency
swap agreement, commodity price protection agreement or other
interest or currency exchange rate or commodity price hedging
arrangement.
Impermissible
Qualification — any qualification or exception to the
opinion or certification of any independent public accountant as to
any financial statement of Borrowers which (i) is of a
“going concern” or similar nature, (ii) relates to
the limited scope of examination
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of matters
relevant to such financial statements, or (iii) relates to the
treatment or classification of any item in such financial statement
in which, a condition to its removal, would require an adjustment
to such item the effect of which would be to cause the occurrence
of an Event of Default.
Increase
Effective Date — as defined in
Section 2.1.6(ii) of this Agreement.
Indemnified
Amount — in the case of Agent Indemnitees, the amount of
any loss, cost, expenses or damages suffered or incurred by Agent
Indemnitees and against which Lenders or any Obligor have agreed to
indemnify Agent Indemnitees pursuant to the terms of this Agreement
or any of the other Loan Documents; in the case of Lender
Indemnitees, the amount of any loss, cost, expenses or damages
suffered or incurred by Lender Indemnitees and against which
Lenders or any Obligor have agreed to indemnify Lender Indemnitees
pursuant to the terms of this Agreement or any of the other Loan
Documents; and, in the case of BofA Indemnitees, the amount of any
loss, cost, expenses or damages suffered or incurred by BofA
Indemnitees and against which Lenders or any Obligor have agreed to
indemnify BofA Indemnitees pursuant to the terms of this Agreement
or any of the other Loan Documents.
Indemnified
Claim — any and all claims, demands, liabilities,
obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits,
awards, remedial response costs, expenses or disbursements of any
kind or nature whatsoever (including reasonable attorneys’,
accountants’, consultants’ or paralegals’ fees
and expenses), whether arising under or in connection with the Loan
Documents, any Applicable Law (including any Environmental Laws) or
otherwise, that may now or hereafter be suffered or incurred by any
Indemnitee (whether suffered or incurred in or as a result of any
investigation, litigation, arbitration or other judicial or
non-judicial proceeding or any appeals related thereto) and that is
covered by an indemnity of an Obligor under any of the Loan
Documents.
Indemnitees — the Agent Indemnitees, the Lender
Indemnitees and the BofA Indemnitees.
Indenture
— the Indenture, among MasTec, its Subsidiaries and the
trustee named thereunder, as Trustee, governing the Senior
Notes.
Initial
Lenders — BofA, GECC and PNC Bank, National Association,
each in its capacity as a “Lender” under this Agreement
on the Closing Date.
Insolvency
Proceeding — any action, case or proceeding commenced by
or against a Person under any state, provincial, federal or foreign
law, or any agreement of such Person, for (i) the entry of an
order for relief under any chapter or section of the Bankruptcy
Code, the Bankruptcy and Insolvency Act of Canada, the
Companies’ Creditors Arrangement Act of Canada, or under any
other bankruptcy , insolvency or debt adjustment (whether state,
provincial, federal or foreign), (ii) the appointment of a
receiver (or administrative receiver), interim receiver, assignee,
trustee, liquidator administrator, conservator sequestrator,
monitor or other custodian for such Person or any part of its
Property, (iii) an assignment or trust mortgage for the
benefit of creditors of such Person, or (iv) the liquidation,
dissolution or winding up of the affairs of such Person.
Instrument
— shall have the meaning given to the term
“instrument” in the UCC.
Insurance Cash
Collateral Account — each demand deposit account in
existence on the date of this Agreement established by and held in
the name of an insurance company or insurance
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service company
at a depository bank, as described on Schedule 1.1B
attached hereto, to establish loss reserves with respect to
policies insuring MasTec issued by such insurance company or
through such insurance service company.
Intellectual
Property — all intellectual and similar Property of a
Person of every kind and description, including inventions,
designs, patents, patent applications, copyrights, trademarks,
service marks, trade names, mask works, trade secrets, confidential
or proprietary information, know-how, software and databases and
all embodiments or fixations thereof and related documentation,
registrations and franchises, all books and records describing or
used in connection with the foregoing and all licenses, or other
rights to use any of the foregoing.
Intellectual
Property Claim — the assertion by any Person of a claim
(whether asserted in writing, by action, suit or proceeding or
otherwise) that any Obligor’s ownership, use, marketing, sale
or distribution of any Inventory, Equipment, Intellectual Property
or other Property is violative of any ownership or right to use any
Intellectual Property of such Person.
Interest
Period — shall have the meaning ascribed to it in
Section 3.1.3 of this Agreement.
Inventory
— shall have the meaning given to the term
“inventory” in the UCC or the PPSA, as applicable, and
shall include all goods intended for sale or lease by an Obligor,
or for display or demonstration; all work in process, all raw
materials and other materials and supplies of every nature and
description used or which might be used in connection with the
manufacture, printing, packing, shipping, advertising, selling,
leasing or furnishing such goods or otherwise used or consumed in
such Obligor’s business (but excluding Equipment).
Investment
Property — shall have the meaning given to
“investment property” in the UCC and shall include all
Securities (whether certificated or uncertificated), security
entitlements, securities accounts, commodity contracts and
commodity accounts.
Issuing
Bank — BofA or an Affiliate of BofA, including Fleet
National Bank, as issuer of the Letters of Credit, and, with
respect to the Existing Letters of Credit, Fleet National
Bank.
Issuing Bank
Indemnitees — Issuing Bank and all of its present and
future officers, employees, directors and agents.
Joinder
Agreement — a Joinder Agreement to be executed and
delivered by each new Subsidiary that pursuant to
Section 10.1.11 of this Agreement becomes a Borrower
hereunder, in accordance with, and in the form of
Exhibit J annexed to this Agreement.
LC
Application — an application by any or all Borrowers to
Issuing Bank, pursuant to a form approved by Issuing Bank, for the
issuance of a Letter of Credit, that is submitted to Issuing Bank
at least 5 Business Days prior to the requested issuance of such
Letter of Credit.
LC Collateral
Account — a Deposit Account, securities account or other
account established by MasTec at BofA or an Affiliate of BofA and
over which Agent has control within the meaning of the UCC;
provided , that , any interest, interest equivalent
or other income that accrues, from time to time, on the cash or
financial assets maintained or deposited in such account shall be
the property of Borrowers and paid by BofA or its Affiliate to
Borrowers from time to time.
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LC
Conditions — the following conditions, the satisfaction
of each of which is required before Issuing Bank shall be obligated
issue a Letter of Credit: (i) each of the conditions set forth
in Section 11 of this Agreement has been and continues
to be satisfied, including the absence of any Default or Event of
Default; (ii) after giving effect to the issuance of the
requested Letter of Credit and all other unissued Letters of Credit
for which an LC Application has been signed by a Borrower and
approved by Agent and Issuing Bank, no Out-of-Formula Condition
would exist, and, if no Revolver Loans are outstanding, the LC
Obligations do not, and would not upon the issuance of the
requested Letter of Credit, exceed the Borrowing Base;
(iii) such Letter of Credit has an expiration date that is no
more than 365 days from the date of issuance and such
expiration date is at least 30 days prior to the last Business Day
of the Term unless otherwise agreed by Agent in its discretion;
(iv) the currency in which payment is to be made under the
Letter of Credit is Dollars; and (v) the form of the proposed
Letter of Credit is satisfactory to Agent and Issuing Bank in their
discretion, provides for sight drafts only and does not contain any
language that automatically increases the amount available to be
drawn under the Letter of Credit.
LC
Documents — any and all agreements, instruments and
documents (including an LC Application) required by Issuing Bank to
be executed by Borrowers or any other Person and delivered to
Issuing Bank for the issuance, amendment or renewal of a Letter of
Credit.
LC
Facility — the subfacility for Letters of Credit
established as part of the Revolver Commitments pursuant to
Section 2.3 of this Agreement.
LC
Obligations — on any date, an amount (in Dollars) equal
to the sum of (without duplication) (i) all amounts then due
and payable by any Obligor on such date by reason of any payment
that is made by Issuing Bank under a Letter of Credit and that has
not been repaid to Issuing Bank, plus (ii) the
aggregate undrawn amount of all Letters of Credit which are then
outstanding or for which an LC Application has been delivered to
and accepted by Issuing Bank and approved by Agent, plus
(iii) all fees and other amounts due or to become due in
respect of Letters of Credit outstanding on such date.
LC Request
— a Letter of Credit Request from Borrowers to Issuing Bank
in the form of Exhibit I annexed
hereto.
LC Reserve
— at any date, the aggregate of all LC Obligations on such
date, other than (i) LC Obligations that Borrowers shall Cash
Collateralize on or prior to such date and (ii) during any
period that no Default or Event of Default exists, the portion of
LC Obligations described in clause (iii) of the definition
thereof.
Lender
Indemnitees — Lenders and all of their respective present
and future officers, directors, employees, agents and
attorneys.
Lenders
— shall have the meaning given to it in the preamble to this
Agreement and shall include BofA (whether in its capacity as a
provider of Loans under Section 2 of this Agreement or
as the provider of Swingline Loans under Section 4.1.3
of this Agreement) and any other Person who may from time to time
become a “Lender” under this Agreement.
Letter of
Credit — any standby or documentary letter of credit
issued by Issuing Bank for the account of any Borrower.
Letter-of-Credit Right — shall have the meaning given
to the term “letter-of-credit-right” in the
UCC.
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Leverage
Ratio — with respect to any fiscal period, the ratio of
(i) the amount of total Funded Debt (including Senior Funded
Debt, Capitalized Lease Obligations, LC Obligations (other than
those LC Obligations that are Cash Collateralized) and Subordinated
Debt, if any) as of the last day of such fiscal period minus
the amount of domestic unrestricted balance sheet cash as of the
last day of such fiscal period, to (ii) Adjusted EBITDA for
such fiscal period, all calculated for Borrowers and their
Subsidiaries on a Consolidated basis.
LIBOR Lending
Office — with respect to a Lender, the office designated
as a LIBOR Lending Office for such Lender on the signature page
hereof (or on any Assignment and Acceptance, in the case of an
assignee) and such other office of such Lender or any of its
Affiliates that is hereafter designated by written notice to
Agent.
LIBOR Loan
— a Loan, or portion thereof, during any period in which it
bears interest at a rate based upon the applicable Adjusted LIBOR
Rate.
License
Agreement — any agreement between an Obligor and a
Licensor pursuant to which such Obligor is authorized to use any
Intellectual Property in connection with the manufacturing,
marketing, sale or other distribution of any Inventory of such
Obligor.
Licensor
— any Person from whom an Obligor obtains the right to use
(whether on an exclusive or non-exclusive basis) any Intellectual
Property in connection with such Obligor’s manufacture,
marketing, sale or other distribution of any Inventory.
Lien
— any interest in Property securing an obligation owed to, or
a claim by, a Person other than the owner of the Property, whether
such interest is based on common law, statute or contract. The term
“Lien” shall also include reservations, exceptions,
encroachments, easements, rights-of-way, covenants, conditions,
restrictions, leases and other title exceptions and encumbrances
affecting Property and, additionally with respect to any Canadian
Obligor, any other lien, charge, privilege, secured claim,
hypothec, prior claim, title retention right, garnishment right,
deemed trust, encumbrance or other right affecting any of the
property of such Canadian Obligor, choate or inchoate, arising by
any statute, act of law of any jurisdiction at common law or in
equity or by agreement . For the purpose of this Agreement, an
Obligor shall be deemed to be the owner of any Property which it
has acquired or holds subject to a conditional sale agreement or
other arrangement pursuant to which title to the Property has been
retained by or vested in some other Person for security
purposes.
Lien
Waiver — an agreement duly executed in favor of Agent, in
form and content acceptable to Agent, by which (i) for
locations leased by an Obligor, an owner or mortgagee of premises
upon which any Property of an Obligor is located agrees to waive or
subordinate any Lien it may have with respect to such Property in
favor of Agent’s Lien therein and to permit Agent to enter
upon such premises and remove such Property or to use such premises
to store or dispose of such Property, or (ii) for locations at
which any Obligor places Inventory with a warehouseman or a
processor, such warehouseman or processor agrees to waive or
subordinate any Lien it may have with respect to such Property in
favor of Agent’s Lien therein and to permit Agent to enter
upon such premises and remove such Property or to use such premises
to store or dispose of such Property.
Loan
— a Revolver Loan (and each Base Rate Loan and LIBOR Loan
comprising such Loan).
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Loan
Account — the loan account established by each Lender on
its books pursuant to Section 5.8 of this
Agreement.
Loan
Documents — this Agreement, the Other Agreements and the
Security Documents.
Loan Year
— a period commencing each calendar year on the same month
and day as the date of this Agreement and ending on the same month
and day in the immediately succeeding calendar year, with the first
such period ( i.e. the first Loan Year) to commence on the
date of this Agreement.
Lockbox
— each U. S. Post Office Box specified in a Lockbox
Agreement.
Lockbox
Agreement — each agreement between a Borrower and a
Clearing Bank concerning the establishment of a Lockbox for the
collection of Accounts.
Margin
Stock — shall have the meaning ascribed to it in
Regulation U and of the Board of Governors.
Material
Adverse Effect — the effect of any event, condition,
action, omission or circumstance, which, alone or when taken
together with other events, conditions, actions, omissions or
circumstances occurring or existing concurrently therewith,
(i) has a material adverse effect upon the business,
operations, Properties, prospects or condition (financial or
otherwise) of Obligors, taken as a whole; (ii) has or could be
reasonably expected to have any material adverse effect whatsoever
upon the validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any of the
other Loan Documents; (iii) has any adverse effect upon the
value of the whole or any material part of the Collateral, the
Liens of Agent with respect to the Collateral or the priority of
any such Liens; (iv) impairs the ability of any Obligor to
perform its obligations under this Agreement or any of the other
Loan Documents, including repayment of any of the Obligations when
due; or (v) impairs the ability of Agent or any Lender to
enforce or collect the Obligations or realize upon any of the
Collateral in accordance with the Loan Documents and Applicable
Law.
Material
Contract — an agreement to which an Obligor is a party
(other than the Loan Documents) (i) which is deemed to be a
material contract as provided in Regulation S-K promulgated by
the SEC under the Securities Act of 1933 or (ii) for which
breach, termination, cancellation, nonperformance or failure to
renew could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
Maximum
Rate — the maximum non-usurious rate of interest
permitted by Applicable Law that at any time, or from time to time,
may be contracted for, taken, reserved, charged or received on the
Debt in question or, to the extent that at any time Applicable Law
may thereafter permit a higher maximum non-usurious rate of
interest, then such higher rate. Notwithstanding any other
provision hereof, the Maximum Rate shall be calculated on a daily
basis (computed on the actual number of days elapsed over a year of
365 or 366 days, as the case may be).
Money
Borrowed — as applied to any Obligor, without
duplication, (i) Debt arising from the lending of money by any
other Person to such Obligor; (ii) Debt, whether or not in any
such case arising from the lending of money by another Person to
such Obligor, (A) which is represented by notes payable or
drafts accepted that evidence extensions of credit, (B) which
constitutes obligations evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes or
similar instruments, or (C) upon which interest charges are
customarily paid (other than accounts payable) or that was issued
or
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assumed as full
or partial payment for Property; (iii) Debt that constitutes a
Capitalized Lease Obligation; (iv) reimbursement obligations
with respect to letters of credit or guaranties of letters of
credit; and (v) Debt of such Obligor under any guaranty of
obligations that would constitute Debt for Money Borrowed under
clauses (i) through (iii) hereof, if owed directly by such
Obligor.
Moody’s — Moody’s Investors Services,
Inc.
Mortgages
— the mortgages, deeds of trust and/or deeds to secure debt
to be executed by a Borrower in favor of Agent and pursuant to
which such Borrower shall grant and convey to Agent, for the
benefit of Secured Parties, Liens upon the Real Estate of such
Borrower as security for the payment of the Obligations.
Multiemployer
Plan — has the meaning set forth in
Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA.
Net Capital
Expenditures — for any period, the sum of all Capital
Expenditures made during such period less the amount of net
cash proceeds received by Borrowers or their Subsidiaries from
sales of Equipment made during such period in accordance with the
terms of this Agreement, all calculated for Borrowers and their
Subsidiaries on a Consolidated basis.
Net
Disposition Proceeds — with respect to a Permitted Asset
Disposition, proceeds (including cash receivable (when received) by
way of deferred payment) received by an Obligor in cash from such
Asset Disposition, net of: (i) the reasonable and customary
costs and expenses actually incurred in connection with such Asset
Disposition (including legal fees and sales commissions);
(ii) amounts applied to repayment of Debt (other than the
Obligations) secured by a Permitted Lien on such Collateral
disposed of that is senior in priority to Agent’s Liens;
(iii) transfer or similar taxes; and (iv) reserves for
escrows and indemnities, until such reserves are no longer required
and such reserves or escrows are released to an Obligor.
Net Orderly
Liquidation Value — on any date of determination and with
respect to any Eligible Fixed Assets, the value of such Eligible
Fixed Assets expected to be realized at an orderly, negotiated sale
of such Eligible Fixed Assets that is held within a reasonable
period of time, as such value is determined by Agent from the most
recent Net Orderly Liquidation Value Appraisal received by Agent on
or before such date.
Net Orderly
Liquidation Value Appraisal — an appraisal of the orderly
liquidation value of Equipment performed by an appraiser
satisfactory to Agent, which may be a desktop appraisal performed
by an employee or agent of Agent, which appraisal shall include, as
a factor in the determination of orderly liquidation value, all
costs and expenses projected to be incurred in the conduct of any
liquidation of all or any portion of the Equipment.
Notes
— each Revolver Note and any other promissory note executed
by Borrowers at Agent’s request to evidence any of the
Obligations.
Notice of
Borrowing — as defined in Section 4.1.1(i) of
this Agreement.
Notice of
Conversion/Continuation — as defined in
Section 3.1.2(ii) of this Agreement.
Obligations — in each case, whether now in existence
or hereafter arising, (i) the principal of, and interest and
premium, if any, on, the Loans; (ii) all LC Obligations of any
Obligor to Agent or Issuing Bank arising in connection with the
issuance of any Letter of Credit; (iii) all Indemnified
Amounts; (iv) all Extraordinary Expenses; and (v) all other
Debts, covenants, duties
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and obligations
(including Contingent Obligations) now or at any time or times
hereafter owing by any Obligor to Agent or any Lender under or
pursuant to this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, or
owing by any Obligor to Agent or any Lender (or any Affiliate of
any Lender) with respect to Banking Relationship Debt, in each
case, whether evidenced by any note or other writing, whether
arising from any extension of credit, opening of a letter of
credit, acceptance, loan, guaranty, indemnification or otherwise
and whether direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, due or to
become due, primary or secondary, or joint or several, including
all interest, charges, expenses, fees or other sums chargeable to
any or all Obligors under this Agreement or under any of the other
Loan Documents.
Obligor
— each Borrower and each Guarantor, and any other Person that
is at any time liable for the payment of the whole or any part of
the Obligations or that has granted in favor of Agent a Lien upon
any of such Person’s assets to secure payment of any of the
Obligations.
Ordinary
Course of Business — with respect to any transaction
involving any Person, the ordinary course of such Person’s
business, as conducted by such Person in accordance with past
practices and undertaken by such Person in good faith and not for
the purpose of evading any covenant or restriction in any Loan
Document.
Organic
Documents — with respect to any Person, its charter,
certificate or articles of incorporation, bylaws, articles of
organization, limited liability agreement, operating agreement,
members agreement, shareholders agreement, partnership agreement,
certificate of partnership, certificate of formation, voting trust,
or similar agreement or instrument governing the formation or
operation of such Person.
OSHA
— the Occupational Safety and Hazard Act of 1970.
Other
Agreements — the Notes, the Fee Letter, each Lien Waiver,
each Letter of Credit and any and all other agreements, instruments
and documents (other than this Agreement and the Security
Documents), heretofore, now or hereafter executed by any Obligor,
any other Obligor or any other Person and delivered to Agent or any
Lender, or otherwise executed by Agent or any Lender in favor of
any Person on behalf or for the account of an Obligor, in each case
in respect of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or
other Loan Documents.
Out-of-Formula
Condition — as defined in Section 2.1.2 of
this Agreement.
Out-of-Formula
Loan — a Revolver Loan made or existing when an
Out-of-Formula Condition exists or the amount of any Revolver Loan
which, when funded, results in an Out-of-Formula
Condition.
Participant — as defined in Section 14.2.1
.
Participating
Lender — as defined in Section 2.3.2(i)
.
Payment
Account — an account maintained by Agent to which all
monies from time to time deposited to a Dominion Account shall be
transferred and all other payments shall be sent in immediately
available federal funds.
Payment
Intangible — shall have the meaning given to the term
“payment intangible” in the UCC.
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Payment
Items — all checks, drafts, or other items of payment
payable to an Obligor, including those evidencing or constituting
proceeds of any of the Collateral.
PBA
— the Pension Benefits Act of Ontario or any other Canadian
federal or provincial statute in relation to Plans and all
regulations thereunder as amended from time to time, and any
successor legislation.
Pending
Revolver Loans — at any date, the aggregate principal
amount of all Revolver Loans which have been requested in any
Notice of Borrowing received by Agent but which have not
theretofore been advanced by Agent or Lenders.
Permitted
Acquisition — an Acquisition by an Obligor or any
Subsidiary of an Obligor in which each of the following conditions
is satisfied:
(a) no Default or
Event of Default exists before or would exist immediately after
giving effect thereto;
(b) the
Acquisition is of (i) Equity Interests of any other Person
organized under the laws of the United States of America or any
state thereof or of Canada or any province thereof sufficient to
give such Obligor or Subsidiary control of such other Person or
(ii) all or substantially all of the assets of a Business Unit
located in the United States or Canada, and such Person or Business
Unit is engaged in a business that is substantially similar,
related or incidental to the business conducted by
Obligors;
(c) the Purchase
Price of such Acquisition does not exceed $100,000,000, and the
cash portion of such Purchase Price does not exceed
$80,000,000;
(d) Availability
after giving pro forma effect to such Acquisition would exceed
$25,000,000;
(e) MasTec or the
applicable Obligor has made available to Agent, not later than
14 days prior to the proposed date of such Acquisition, the
results of any due diligence investigation of the target performed
by or on behalf of such Obligor or its Subsidiaries, environmental
assessment reports if any real property is to be acquired, copies
of the Acquisition documents, and historical financial statements
of the target since inception but no longer than the 3 previous
years;
(f) Agent shall
have received evidence satisfactory to it that no Default of Event
of Default has occurred and is continuing or would exist after
giving effect to such transaction and of the Obligors’
continued compliance with the provisions of this Agreement and the
other Loan Documents, including the provisions of
Sections 10.1.14, 10.2.22, and, on a pro forma
basis after giving effect to such Acquisition Borrowers shall have
a Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio of not less than 1.20 to 1.0 for the
12 calendar month period ending on the date of the
Acquisition;
(g) to the extent
financed with Debt other than Loans, such Debt is Subordinated Debt
payable to the seller,
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(h) such
Acquisition is not “hostile” or contested;
(i) Agent shall
have received evidence reasonably satisfactory to it demonstrating
on a pro forma basis that Adjusted EBITDA (calculated by
MasTec and approved by Agent as described below in this definition)
of the target for the period of 12 consecutive calendar months
ended nearest to the date of determination, is at least equal to
the sum of interest expense and scheduled principal payments on any
Debt incurred in connection with payment of the Purchase Price
(including Loans);
(j) if requested
by Agent or the Required Lenders, any new Subsidiary shall have
executed and delivered a Subsidiary Guaranty and a Subsidiary
Security Agreement, or, at Agent’s election, a Joinder
Agreement, and in either case shall have delivered or caused to be
delivered as to such Subsidiary the items referred to in
Sections 11.1.4, 11.1.5 and 11.1.7 and an
opinion of counsel for such Subsidiary as to such matters in
connection with the transactions contemplated by the Subsidiary
Guaranty and Subsidiary Security Agreement or Joinder Agreement as
Agent may reasonably request; and
(k) financial
statements shall have been delivered to Agent and the Lenders for
the most recently completed Fiscal Quarter in compliance with the
provisions of Section 10.1 . 3.
A determination
made for purposes of this definition on a pro forma basis
shall be based upon Borrowers’ actual results of operations
and the actual results of operations of the target for the same
period of 12 months ended prior to the date of determination,
as if such Acquisition had occurred (and any related Debt had been
incurred) on the first day of such 12-month period, as adjusted
with the approval of Agent to reflect verifiable, adequately
documented severance payments and reductions in officer and
employee compensation, insurance expenses, interest expense and
rental expense that will be realized effective upon completion of
such Acquisition.
Notwithstanding
any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, in connection with
any merger (or other distribution of the assets) of a Subsidiary
that is not an Obligor with and into (or to) an Obligor, or any
Acquisition by an Obligor, whether by purchase of stock, merger, or
purchase of assets, and whether in a single transaction or series
of related transactions, Agent shall have the right to determine in
its reasonable credit judgment (based on standards and
methodologies similar to those applied to Borrowers’ then
existing Accounts and Equipment to the extent that the Accounts and
Equipment so acquired are similar to such then existing Accounts
and Equipment), whether any Accounts or Equipment so acquired shall
be included in the Borrowing Base (subject to the other applicable
provisions of this Agreement). In connection with such
determination, Agent may obtain, at Borrowers’ expense, such
appraisals, commercial finance exams and other assessments of such
Accounts and related Inventory, Equipment and Real Estate as Agent
may deem desirable.
Permitted
Asset Disposition — an Asset Disposition that
(i) consists of the sale of Inventory of an Obligor in the
Ordinary Course of Business; (ii) is a disposition of
Equipment permitted by Section 8.4.2(ii) ;
(iii) is a transfer of Property to a Borrower by another
Obligor or a Subsidiary; (iv) is an Asset Disposition for cash
(the Net Disposition Proceeds from which are
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promptly
remitted to Agent for application as provided in
Section 5.2.3 ), no Event of Default exists at the time
of or after giving effect to the disposition, the purchaser or
other transferee is not an Affiliate of the Obligor effectuating
such Asset Disposition, and the Property that is the subject of the
Asset Disposition consists solely of (a) Equipment which, when
aggregated with all other Equipment disposed of during any Fiscal
Year, has a fair market value or book value, whichever is more,
that does not exceed $10,000,000; or (b) real Property and the
aggregate Net Disposition Proceeds from all Asset Dispositions
pursuant to this clause (iv)(b) does not exceed $2,500,000 in any
Fiscal Year or $5,000,000 from and after the Closing Date; or
(c) other Property and the aggregate Net Disposition Proceeds
from all Asset Dispositions pursuant to this clause (iv)(c) does
not exceed $5,000,000 from and after the Closing Date;
(v) consists solely of a termination of a lease of real or
personal Property that is not necessary to the conduct of an
Obligor’s business in the ordinary course, could not
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect and does
not result from an Obligor’s default or failure to perform
under such lease; (vi) consists of a deposit to secure an
obligation to the extent such deposit is permitted under
Section 10.2.5 ; or (vii) is any other Asset
Disposition that has been consented to in writing by Agent and the
Required Lenders.
Permitted
Contingent Obligations — Contingent Obligations
(a) arising from endorsements of Payment Items for collection
or deposit in the Ordinary Course of Business; (b) arising
from Hedging Agreements entered into in the Ordinary Course of
Business pursuant to this Agreement or with Agent’s prior
written consent; (c) of any Borrower and its Subsidiaries
existing as of the Closing Date, including extensions and renewals
thereof that do not increase the amount of such Contingent
Obligations as of the date of such extension or renewal;
(d) incurred in the Ordinary Course of Business with respect
to surety bonds, appeal bonds, performance bonds and other similar
obligations; (e) arising under indemnity agreements to title
insurers to cause such title insurers to issue to Agent title
insurance policies; (f) with respect to customary
indemnification obligations in favor of purchasers in connection
with dispositions of Equipment permitted under
Section 8.4.2 of this Agreement; (g) consisting of
reimbursement obligations from time to time owing by any Borrower
to an Issuing Bank with respect to Letters of Credit (but in no
event to include reimbursement obligations at any time owing by a
Borrower to any other Person that may issue letters of credit for
the account of Borrowers); (h) of MasTec arising from any
guaranty, indemnity or other assurance of payment or performance of
any equipment lease for which any other Obligor is the primary
obligor; (i) arising from the Earn-Out Payments under (and as
defined in) the DirectStar Purchase Agreement and subject to the
terms and conditions of any subordination agreement or other
tri-party agreement required by Agent, (j) of DirectStar
arising from a Funding Obligation Loan under (and as defined in)
the DirectStar Purchase Agreement and other payments of Net
Available Cash required under (and as defined in) the DirectStar
Purchase Agreement by DirectStar during the period in which such
Funding Obligation Loan remains outstanding, and (k) other
than those Contingent Obligations described in the foregoing
clauses of this definition, not exceeding $1,000,000 in the
aggregate at any time.
Permitted
DirectStar Investments — cash Investments in DirectStar
in amounts determined by the Borrowers so long
as (i) the aggregate amount of Borrowers’ cash
Investments in DirectStar does not at any time exceed $3,000,000,
(ii) no Default or Event of Default exists at the time of or
will exist immediately after giving effect to any such Investment,
and (iii) Availability before and immediately after giving
effect to any such Investment equals or exceeds
$25,000,000.
Permitted
Distribution — any Distribution by MasTec so long as:
(a) no Default or Event of Default exists before or after
giving effect to such Distribution (including any Loans made
hereunder to finance such Distribution); (b) MasTec is Solvent
before and after giving effect to
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such
Distribution (including any Loans made hereunder to finance such
Distribution); (c) such Distribution does not contravene
MasTec’s Organic Documents or violate, or cause MasTec to be
in breach of or default under, (i) any provision of any
Applicable Law, order, writ, judgment, injunction, decree,
determination or award in effect having applicability to MasTec, or
(ii) any indenture or loan or credit agreement or any other
agreement, lease or instrument to which MasTec or any of its
Subsidiaries is a party or by which it or its Properties may be
bound or affected, including the Indenture; (d) after giving
effect to such Distribution (including any Loans made hereunder to
finance such Distribution), Availability is greater than
$25,000,000; and (e) on the date of such Distribution, a
Senior Officer delivers to Agent a certificate as to each of the
foregoing conditions and containing such pro forma balance sheets
and other financial statements as Agent may reasonably require in
order to confirm that MasTec is Solvent before and after giving
effect to such Distribution (including any Loans made hereunder to
finance such Distribution).
Permitted
Lien — a Lien of a kind specified in
Section 10.2.5 of this Agreement.
Permitted
Purchase Money Debt — Purchase Money Debt of Borrowers
and their Subsidiaries that is secured by no Lien or only by a
Purchase Money Lien, provided that the aggregate
amount of Purchase Money Debt outstanding at any time does not
exceed the sum of (i) $50,000,000 plus (ii) 5% of
MasTec’s Consolidated Net Assets (as defined under the
Indenture). For the purposes of this definition, the principal
amount of any Purchase Money Debt consisting of capitalized leases
shall be computed as a Capitalized Lease Obligation.
Person
— an individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability
company, limited liability partnership, joint stock company, land
trust, business trust, or unincorporated organization, or a
Governmental Authority.
Plan
— an employee pension benefit plan that is covered by Title
IV of ERISA, the PBA or other applicable law of any jurisdiction or
subject to the minimum funding standards under Section 412 of
the Internal Revenue Code and that is either (i) maintained by
any Obligor for employees or (ii) maintained pursuant to a
collective bargaining agreement or any other arrangement under
which more than one employer makes contributions and to which such
Obligor is then making or accruing an obligation to make
contributions or has within the preceding 5 years made or
accrued such contributions.
Pledge
Agreement — each Pledge Agreement pursuant to which an
Obligor pledges to Agent as collateral for the Obligations, shares
of capital stock or other equity interests in any
Subsidiary.
PPSA
— collectively, the Personal Property Security Act of the
Province of Ontario and any similar or equivalent Canadian (federal
or provincial) legislation which is required as a result thereof to
be applied in connection with the creation, validity, perfection or
enforcement of security interests or hypothecs, including the Civil
Code of Quebec, as in effect in any applicable jurisdiction, and
all regulations thereunder, as amended from time to time, and any
successor legislation.
Pro Rata
— for any Lender on any date, a percentage (expressed as a
decimal, rounded to the ninth decimal place) arrived at by dividing
the amount of the total Commitments of such Lender on such date by
the aggregate amount of the Commitments of all Lenders on such date
(regardless of whether or not any of such Commitments have been
terminated on or before such date).
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Projections — (i) prior to the Closing Date and
thereafter until Agent and Lenders receive new projections pursuant
to Section 10.1.5 hereof, the projections of
Borrowers’ financial condition, results of operations, cash
flow and projected Availability, prepared on a monthly basis for
the Fiscal Year ending December 31, 2008, and on an annual
basis for the Fiscal Years ending 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 and 2013;
and (ii) thereafter, the projections most recently received by
Agent and Lenders pursuant to and as required by
Section 10.1.5 hereof.
Properly
Contested — in the case of any Debt of an Obligor
(including any Taxes) that is not paid as and when due or payable
by reason of such Obligor’s bona fide dispute concerning its
liability to pay same or concerning the amount thereof,
(i) such Debt is being properly contested in good faith by
appropriate proceedings promptly instituted and diligently
conducted; (ii) such Obligor has established appropriate
reserves as shall be required in conformity with GAAP;
(iii) the non-payment of such Debt will not have a Material
Adverse Effect and will not result in a forfeiture or sale of any
assets of such Obligor; (iv) no Lien is imposed upon any of
such Obligor’s assets with respect to such Debt unless such
Lien is at all times junior and subordinate in priority to the
Liens in favor of Agent (except only with respect to property taxes
that have priority as a matter of Applicable Law) and enforcement
of such Lien is stayed during the period prior to the final
resolution or disposition of such dispute; (v) if the Debt
results from, or is determined by the entry, rendition or issuance
against an Obligor or any of its assets of a judgment, writ, order
or decree, enforcement of such judgment, writ, order or decree is
stayed pending a timely appeal or other judicial review; and
(vi) if such contest is abandoned, settled or determined
adversely (in whole or in part) to such Obligor, such Obligor
forthwith pays such Debt and all penalties, interest and other
amounts due in connection therewith.
Property
— any interest in any kind of property or asset, whether
real, personal or mixed and whether tangible or
intangible.
Protective
Advances — as defined in Section 2.1.5 of
this Agreement.
Purchase Money
Debt — means and includes (i) Debt (other than the
Obligations) for the payment of all or any part of the purchase
price of any fixed assets, (ii) any Debt (other than the
Obligations) incurred at the time of or within 10 days prior
to or after the acquisition of any fixed assets for the purpose of
financing all or any part of the purchase price thereof, and
(iii) any renewals, extensions or refinancings (but not any
increases in the principal amounts) thereof outstanding at the
time.
Purchase Money
Lien — a Lien upon fixed assets which secures Purchase
Money Debt, but only if such Lien shall at all times be confined
solely to the fixed assets acquired through the incurrence of the
Purchase Money Debt secured by such Lien and such Lien constitutes
a purchase money security interest under the UCC or the PPSA, as
applicable.
Purchase
Price — for purposes of the definition of
“Permitted Acquisition” means an amount equal to the
total consideration paid for such Acquisition, including all cash
payments (whether classified as purchase price, noncompete
payments, consulting payments, “earn out” or otherwise
and without regard to whether such amount is paid in whole or in
part at the closing of the Acquisition or over time thereafter, but
excluding any finance charges attributable to deferred payments,
any salary or other employment compensation paid to a seller for
the purpose of retaining such seller’s services as an active
employee of a Borrower or a Subsidiary and, upon Agent’s
determination to such effect, any “earn out” based upon
achievement of a material improvement in financial performance of
the target), the remaining principal amount of all Debt of the
Acquisition target and of any Subordinated Debt owing to the
seller, and the value (as
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determined by
the board of directors of MasTec, including pursuant to the
applicable purchase agreement between the relevant Obligor or
Subsidiary of an Obligor and the seller, in the case of any
property, the fair value of which is not readily ascertainable) of
all other property, other than capital stock or options to acquire
such capital stock of MasTec, transferred by MasTec to the seller.
For purposes of determining the Purchase Price of the DirectStar
Acquisition, such Purchase Price shall be calculated as set forth
above, provided , that , the amount of the
“earn-out” portion of such Purchase Price will be based
on the projected calculation thereof provided by MasTec to Agent on
or prior to the closing date of the DirectStar
Acquisition.
RCRA
— the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (42 U.S.C.
§§ 6991-6991i) and all rules and regulations promulgated
pursuant thereto.
Real
Estate — all right, title and interest of a Borrower
(whether as owner, lessor or lessee) at any time or times held by
such Borrower in any real Property or any buildings, structures,
parking areas or other improvements thereon, including the real
Property and improvements thereon owned by a Borrower and located
at 2801 SW 46th Avenue, Davie, Florida, SR540 Lakeland, Florida,
4250 North Powerline Road, Pompano, Florida, 7221 Dr. Martin
Luther King Boulevard East, Tampa, Florida, 209 Art Bryant Drive,
Asheboro, North Carolina, Highway #2 East, Shevlin, Minnesota, and
2700, 2701 and 2716 E. 5th Street and 2808 Industrial Terrace, Austin,
Texas.
Real Estate
Formula Amount — on any date of determination thereof,
the lesser of (i) $15,000,000 or (ii) an amount equal to the
product of sixty percent (60%) multiplied by the fair market
value of Eligible Real Estate set forth in the most recent fair
market value appraisal of the Real Estate which has been accepted
by and is satisfactory to Agent; provided , that the
amount calculated under this clause shall be reduced by an amount,
as determined by Agent, equal to the aggregate amount of the fair
market value of all Eligible Real Estate that has been disposed of
by Obligors (other than in accordance with
Section 8.4.2(ii) ) since the date of the most recent
fair market value appraisal of the Real Estate which has been
accepted by and is satisfactory to Agent.
Refinancing
Conditions — the following conditions, each of which must
be satisfied before Refinancing Debt shall be permitted under
Section 10.2.3 of this Agreement: (i) the
Refinancing Debt is in an aggregate principal amount that does not
exceed the aggregate principal amount of the Debt being extended,
renewed or refinanced (or in the case of the Indenture and Senior
Notes, the original principal amount thereof), (ii) the
Refinancing Debt has a later or equal final maturity and a longer
or equal weighted average life than the Debt being extended,
renewed or refinanced, (iii) the Refinancing Debt does not
bear a rate of interest that exceeds a market rate (as determined
in good faith by a Senior Officer) as of the date of such
extension, renewal or refinancing, (iv) if the Debt being
extended, renewed or refinanced is subordinate to the Obligations,
the Refinancing Debt is subordinated to the same extent,
(v) the covenants contained in any instrument or agreement
relating to the Refinancing Debt are no less favorable to Obligors
than those relating to the Debt being extended, renewed or
refinanced, and (vi) at the time of and after giving effect to
such extension, renewal or refinancing, no Default or Event of
Default shall exist.
Refinancing
Debt — Debt for Money Borrowed that is permitted by
Section 10.2.3 and that is the subject or the result of
an extension, renewal or refinancing.
Regulation D — Regulation D of the Board of
Governors.
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Register
— the register maintained by Agent in accordance with
Section 5.8.2 of this Agreement.
Reimbursement
Date — as defined in Section 2.3.1(iii) of this
Agreement.
Related Real
Estate Documents — with respect to any Real Estate
subject to a Mortgage, the following, in form and substance
satisfactory to Agent and received by Agent for review at least
15 days prior to the effective date of the Mortgage (or most
recent amendment thereto): (a) duly executed amendments or
assignments of the existing Mortgages in favor of the Existing
Agent, conveying to Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties a
first priority mortgage lien on such Real Estate (including the
Real Estate located at 2801 SW 46th Avenue, Davie, Florida, SR540
Lakeland, Florida, 7221 Dr. Martin Luther King Boulevard East,
Tampa, Florida, 209 Art Bryant Drive, Asheboro, North Carolina,
Highway #2 East, Shevlin, Minnesota, and 2700, 2701 and 2716 E. 5th
Street and 2808 Industrial Terrace, Austin, Texas); (b) fully
paid mortgagee title insurance policies (or binding commitments to
issue title insurance policies, marked to Agent’s
satisfaction to evidence the form of such policies to be
delivered), in standard ALTA form, issued by a title insurance
company satisfactory to Agent, each in an amount equal to not less
than the fair market value of the Real Estate or leasehold
interest, as the case may be, subject to the Mortgages, insuring
the Mortgages to create a valid Lien on all Real Estate and valid
Liens on the leasehold interest described therein with no
exceptions which Agent shall not have approved in writing and no
survey exceptions, which policies (and commitments therefor) shall
have acceptable zoning endorsements; (c) a current, as-built
survey with respect to each parcel of Real Estate subject to a
Mortgage, which survey shall indicate the following: (i) an
accurate metes and bounds or lot, block and parcel description of
such Real Estate; (ii) the correct location of all buildings,
structures and other improvements on such Real Estate, including
all streets, easements, rights of way and utility lines;
(iii) the location of ingress and egress from such Real
Estate, and the location of any set-back or other building lines
affecting such Real Estate; and (iv) a flood plain
certification, and (v) a certification by a registered land
surveyor in form and substance acceptable to Agent, certifying to
the accuracy and completeness of such survey and to such other
matters relating to such Real Estate and survey as Agent shall
require; (d) the favorable, written opinions of Greenberg
Traurig LLP and the respective local counsel to Borrowers in each
state in which the Real Estate subject to a Mortgage is located
covering, to Agent’s satisfaction the matters set forth on
Exhibit F attached hereto with respect to the
Mortgages and the other documents to be executed and delivered in
connection therewith; (e) such assignments of leases, estoppel
letters, attornment agreements, consents, waivers and releases as
Agent may require with respect to other Persons having an interest
in the Real Estate; (f) flood insurance in an amount, with
endorsements and by an insurer acceptable to Agent, if the Real
Estate is within a flood plain; (g) a current appraisal of the
Real Estate, prepared by an appraiser acceptable to Agent, and in
form and substance satisfactory to Required Lenders; (h) an
environmental assessment, prepared by environmental engineers
acceptable to Agent, and accompanied by such reports, certificates,
studies or data as Agent may reasonably require, which shall all be
in form and substance satisfactory to Required Lenders; and (i) an
Environmental Agreement and such other documents, instruments or
agreements as Agent may reasonably require with respect to any
environmental risks regarding the Real Estate.
Rent
Reserve — on any date, the aggregate of (i) all past
due rent, fees or other charges owing on such date by any Obligor
to any landlord of any premises where any of the Collateral is
located or to any processor, repairman, mechanic or other Person
who is in possession of any Collateral or has asserted any Lien or
claim thereto, and (ii) a reserve equal to 3 months rent
or other charges with respect to any Collateral in the possession
of, or at a location owned or
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operated by, a
Person other than an Obligor if such Person has not duly executed
and delivered to Agent a Lien Waiver satisfactory to
Agent.
Reportable
Event — any of the events set forth in Section 4043(b) of
ERISA or any similar provision of the PBA, including, with respect
to a Canadian Obligor, any other event or condition which might
constitute grounds for the termination of, winding up or partial
termination or winding up or the appointment of trustee to
administer any Plan.
Required
Lenders — at any date of determination thereof, Lenders
having Commitments representing more than 50% of the aggregate
Commitments at such time (and in any event including BofA);
provided , however , that if any Lender shall be in
breach of any of its obligations hereunder to Borrowers or Agent,
including any breach resulting from its failure to honor its
Commitment in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, then,
for so long as such breach continues, the term “ Required
Lenders ” shall mean Lenders (excluding each Lender that
is in breach of its obligations under this Agreement) having
Commitments representing more than 50% of the aggregate Commitments
(excluding the Commitments of each Lender that is in breach of its
obligations under this Agreement) at such time (and in any event
including BofA); provided further , however ,
that if all of the Commitments have been terminated, the term
“ Required Lenders ” shall mean Lenders
(excluding each Lender that is in breach of its obligations under
this Agreement) holding Loans (including Swingline Loans)
representing more than 50% of the aggregate principal amount of
Loans (including Swingline Loans) outstanding at such time (and in
any event including BofA).
Restricted
Investment — any acquisition of Property by an Obligor or
any of its Subsidiaries in exchange for cash or other Property,
whether in the form of an acquisition of Equity Interests or Debt,
or the purchase or acquisition by such Obligor or any of its
Subsidiaries of any other Property, or a loan, advance, capital
contribution or subscription (each of the foregoing, an
“Investment”), except acquisitions of the following:
(i) fixed assets to be used in the Ordinary Course of Business
of such Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries so long as the
acquisition costs thereof are Capital Expenditures permitted
hereunder; (ii) goods held for sale or lease or to be used in
the manufacture of goods or the provision of services by such
Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries in the Ordinary Course of
Business; (iii) Current Assets arising from the sale or lease
of goods or the rendition of services in the Ordinary Course of
Business of such Obligor or any of its Subsidiaries;
(iv) Investments in Subsidiaries to the extent existing on the
Closing Date; (v) Cash Equivalents to the extent they are not
subject to rights of offset in favor of any Person other than Agent
or a Lender; (vi) loans and other advances of money to the
extent not prohibited by Section 10.2.2 ;
(vii) Permitted Acquisitions; (viii) those Investments of
Borrowers described in Schedule 1.1A , to the extent
existing or committed to (as described in Schedule 1.1A
) on the Closing Date; (ix) Permitted DirectStar Investments,
and (x) any other Investment (other than a Permitted
DirectStar Investment) that does not result in an Acquisition, so
long as Borrowers have demonstrated to Agent’s satisfaction
that both before or after giving effect to such Investment
(A) no Default or Event of Default exists and
(B) Availability is greater than $25,000,000.
Restrictive
Agreement — an agreement (other than any of the Loan
Documents) that, if and for so long as an Obligor or any Subsidiary
of such Obligor is a party thereto, would prohibit, condition or
restrict such Obligor’s or Subsidiary’s right to incur
or repay Debt for Money Borrowed (including any of the
Obligations); grant Liens upon any of such Obligor’s or
Subsidiary’s assets (including Liens granted in favor of
Agent pursuant to the Loan Documents); declare or make
Distributions; amend, modify, extend or renew any agreement
evidencing Debt
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for Money
Borrowed (including any of the Loan Documents); or repay any Debt
owed to another Obligor.
Revolver
Commitment — at any date for any Lender, the obligation
of such Lender to make Revolver Loans and to purchase
participations in LC Obligations pursuant to the terms and
conditions of this Agreement, which shall not exceed the principal
amount set forth opposite such Lender’s name under the
heading “Revolver Commitment” on the signature pages of
this Agreement or as described in the Assignment and Acceptance by
which it became a Lender, as modified from time to time pursuant to
the terms of this Agreement or to give effect to any applicable
Assignment and Acceptance; and “Revolver Commitments”
means the aggregate principal amount of the Revolver Commitments of
all Lenders, the maximum amount of which on any date shall be
$210,000,000, as reduced from time to time pursuant to Section
2.2 , or increased from time to time pursuant to
Section 2.1.6 .
Revolver
Loan — a loan made by Lenders as provided in
Section 2.1 of this Agreement (including any
Out-of-Formula Loan) or a Swingline Loan funded solely by BofA or a
Protective Advance.
Revolver
Note — a Revolver Note to be executed by Borrowers in
favor of each Lender in the form of Exhibit A
attached hereto, which shall be in the face amount of such
Lender’s Revolver Commitment and which shall evidence all
Revolver Loans (other than Swingline Loans) made by such Lender to
Borrowers pursuant to this Agreement.
Royalties
— with respect to a License Agreement, all royalties, fees,
expense reimbursement and other amounts at any time owing by an
Obligor under such License Agreement.
S&P
— Standard & Poor’s Ratings Group, a division of
McGraw-Hill, Inc.
Schedule of
Accounts — as defined in Section 8.2.1 of
this Agreement.
SEC
— Securities and Exchange Commission.
Secured
Parties — Agent, Issuing Bank, Lenders (including BofA as
the provider of Swingline Loans) and BofA or any other Lender (and
any Affiliate of BofA or such Lender) as the provider of any Bank
Products.
Security
Documents — each Mortgage, each Guaranty, each Pledge
Agreement, the Canadian Security Agreement, the Trademark Security
Agreement, the Control Agreements, the Business Interruption
Insurance Assignment and all other instruments and agreements now
or at any time hereafter securing the whole or any part of the
Obligations.
Senior Funded
Debt — all Funded Debt other than Subordinated
Debt.
Senior
Notes — MasTec’s Senior Notes having a maturity
date of February 1, 2017 in the original principal amount of
$150,000,000, issued pursuant to the New Notes Indenture on
January 31, 2007 on an unsecured basis and otherwise on terms
satisfactory to Agent and Lenders; provided, that, the original
principal amount set forth above may be increased by an amount of
up to $25,000,000 reflecting an oversubscription of the New Notes
issued under the New Notes Indenture.
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Senior
Officer — the chairman of the board of directors, the
president, the chief financial officer, the corporate controller,
the treasurer or the cash manager of, or in-house legal counsel to,
a Borrower.
Settlement
Date — as defined in Section 4.1.3(i) of this
Agreement.
Settlement
Report — a report delivered by Agent to Lenders
summarizing the amount of the outstanding Revolver Loans as of the
Settlement Date and the calculation of the Borrowing Base as of
such Settlement Date.
Software
— shall have the meaning given to the term
“software” in the UCC.
Solvent
— as to any Person, such Person (i) owns Property whose
fair salable value is greater than the amount required to pay all
of such Person’s debts (including contingent, subordinated,
unmatured and unliquidated liabilities), (ii) owns Property
whose present fair salable value (as defined below) is greater than
the probable total liabilities (including contingent, subordinated,
unmatured and unliquidated liabilities), of such Person as they
become absolute and matured, (iii) is able to pay all of its
debts as such debts mature, (iv) has capital that is not
unreasonably small for its business and is sufficient to carry on
its business and transactions and all business and transactions in
which it is about to engage, (v) is not
“insolvent” within the meaning of Section 101(32)
of the Bankruptcy Code and the requisite section of the Bankruptcy
and Insolvency Act (Canada), and (vi) has not incurred (by way
of assumption or otherwise) any obligations or liabilities
(contingent or otherwise) under any of the Loan Documents, or made
any conveyance pursuant to or in connection therewith, with actual
intent to hinder, delay or defraud either present or future
creditors of such Person or any of its Subsidiaries. As used
herein, the term “fair salable value” of a
Person’s assets means the amount that may be realized within
a reasonable time, either through collection or sale of such assets
at the regular market value, based upon the amount that could be
obtained for such assets within such period by a capable and
diligent seller from an interested buyer who is willing (but is
under no compulsion) to purchase under ordinary selling
conditions.
Statutory
Reserves — on any date, the percentage (expressed as a
decimal) established by the Board of Governors which is the then
stated maximum rate for all reserves (including all basic,
emergency, supplemental or other marginal reserve requirements and
taking into account any transitional adjustments or other scheduled
in reserve requirements) applicable to any member bank of the
Federal Reserve System in respect to Eurocurrency Liabilities (or
any successor category of liabilities under Regulation D).
Such reserve percentage shall include those imposed pursuant to
said Regulation D. The Statutory Reserve shall be adjusted
automatically on and as of the effective date of any change in such
percentage.
Subordinated
Debt — unsecured Debt incurred by an Obligor that is
expressly subordinated and made junior to the Full Payment of the
Obligations and contains terms and conditions (including terms
relating to interest, fees, repayment and subordination)
satisfactory to Agent.
Subsidiary
— any Person in which more than 50% of its outstanding Voting
Securities or more than 50% of all Equity Interests is owned
directly or indirectly by a Borrower, by one or more other
Subsidiaries of such Borrower or by a Borrower and one or more
other Subsidiaries.
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Subsidiary
Guarantor — any Subsidiary of MasTec that is not a
Borrower and that has, at Agent’s request or with its
consent, executed and delivered the Subsidiary Guaranty or a
joinder agreement in respect thereof and a Subsidiary Security
Agreement.
Subsidiary
Guaranty — a Guaranty of the Obligations substantially in
the form of Exhibit K attached hereto or as
otherwise acceptable to Agent and MasTec.
Subsidiary
Security Agreement — one or more agreements substantially
in the form of Exhibit L attached hereto or
otherwise in form and substance satisfactory to Agent in its
reasonable judgment, sufficient to create in favor of Agent a Lien
on all of the assets of any Subsidiary Guarantor and proceeds
thereof.
Supporting
Obligation — shall have the meaning given to the term
“supporting obligation” in the UCC.
Swingline
Loan — as defined in Section 4.1.3(ii) of
this Agreement.
Taxes
— any present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, fees,
assessments, deductions, withholdings or other charges of whatever
nature, including income, receipts, excise, property, sales, use,
transfer, license, payroll, withholding, social security and
franchise taxes now or hereafter imposed or levied by the United
States or any other Governmental Authority and all interest,
penalties, additions to tax and similar liabilities with respect
thereto, but excluding, in the case of each Lender, taxes imposed
on or measured by the net income or overall gross receipts of such
Lender.
Term
— as defined in Section 6.1 of this
Agreement.
Trademark
Security Agreement — the Trademark Security Agreement to
be executed by Obligors in favor of Agent on or before the Closing
Date and by which Obligors shall grant to Agent, for the benefit of
Secured Parties, as security for the Obligations, a security
interest in all of Obligors’ right, title and interest in and
to all of their trademarks.
Transferee
— as defined in Section 14.3.3 of this
Agreement.
Trigger
Event — as defined in Section 8.2.5(ii) of
this Agreement.
Type
— any type of a Loan determined with respect to the interest
option applicable thereto, which shall be either a LIBOR Loan or a
Base Rate Loan.
UCC
— the Uniform Commercial Code (or any successor statute) as
adopted and in force in the State of Georgia or, when the laws of
any other state govern the method or manner of the perfection or
enforcement of any security interest in any of the Collateral, the
Uniform Commercial Code (or any successor statute) of such
state.
Undrawn
Amount — on any date and with respect to a particular
Letter of Credit, the total amount then available to be drawn under
such Letter of Credit in Dollars.
Upstream
Payment — a payment or distribution of cash or other
Property by a Subsidiary of a Borrower to such Borrower, whether in
repayment of Debt owed by such Subsidiary to such Borrower, as a
dividend or distribution on account of such Borrower’s
ownership of Equity Interests or otherwise.
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USA Patriot
Act — the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing
Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act
of 2001, Pub. L. No. 107-56, 115 Stat. 272 (2001).
Verizon
— Verizon Communications, Inc. and its Affiliates and
Subsidiaries.
Verizon
Concentration Percentage — (a) at any time that
Verizon’s corporate credit rating or senior debt rating
(secured or unsecured) by Moody’s is Baa3 or higher and by
S&P BBB- or higher, 40%; or (b) at any time that
Verizon’s corporate credit rating or senior debt rating
(secured or unsecured) by Moody’s is lower than Baa3 or by
S&P is lower than BBB-, 15%; or (c) irrespective of
Verizon’s rating, such lesser percentage as Agent may in its
reasonable credit judgment determine from time to time.
Voting
Securities — Equity Interests of any class or classes of
a corporation or other entity the holders of which are ordinarily,
in the absence of contingencies, entitled to elect a majority of
the corporate directors or Persons performing similar
functions.
1.2.
Accounting Terms . Unless otherwise specified herein,
all terms of an accounting character used in this Agreement shall
be interpreted, all accounting determinations under this Agreement
shall be made, and all financial statements required to be
delivered under this Agreement shall be prepared in accordance with
GAAP, applied on a basis consistent with the most recent audited
Consolidated financial statements of Borrowers and their
Subsidiaries heretofore delivered to Agent and Lenders and using
the same method for inventory valuation as used in such audited
financial statements, except for any change required by GAAP
.
1.3. Other
Terms . All other terms contained in this Agreement shall
have, when the context so indicates, the meanings provided for by
the UCC to the extent the same are used or defined
therein.
1.4.
Certain Matters of Construction . The terms
“herein,” “hereof” and
“hereunder” and other words of similar import refer to
this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular section,
paragraph or subdivision. Any pronoun used shall be deemed to cover
all genders. In the computation of periods of time from a specified
date to a later specified date, the word “from” means
“from and including” and the words “to” and
“until” each means “to but excluding.” The
section titles, table of contents and list of exhibits appear as a
matter of convenience only and shall not affect the interpretation
of this Agreement. All references to statutes and related
regulations shall include any amendments of same and any successor
statutes and regulations; to any agreement, instrument or other
documents (including any of the Loan Documents) shall include any
and all modifications and supplements thereto and any and all
restatements, extensions or renewals thereof to the extent such
modifications, supplements, restatements, extensions or renewals of
any such documents are permitted by the terms thereof; to any
Person (including Agent, an Obligor, a Lender or BofA) shall mean
and include the successors and permitted assigns of such Person; to
“including” and “include” shall be
understood to mean “including, without limitation”
(and, for purposes of each Loan Document, the parties agree that
the rule of ejusdem generis shall not be applicable to limit
a general statement, which is followed by or referable to an
enumeration of specific matters to matters similar to the matters
specifically mentioned); or to the time of day shall mean the time
of day on the day in question in Atlanta, Georgia, unless otherwise
expressly provided in this Agreement. A Default or an Event of
Default shall be deemed to exist at all times during the period
commencing on the date that such Default or Event of Default occurs
to the date on which such Default or Event of Default is waived in
writing by Agent acting with the consent of or at the direction of
the Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable pursuant to this
Agreement or, in the case of a Default, is cured within any period
of cure expressly provided in this Agreement; and an Event of
Default shall “continue” or be “continuing”
until such Event of Default has
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been waived in
writing by Agent acting with the consent of or at the direction of
the Lenders or the Required Lenders, as applicable. All
calculations of value shall be in Dollars, all Loans shall be
funded in Dollars and all Obligations shall be repaid in Dollars.
Whenever the phrase “to the best of Borrowers’
knowledge” or words of similar import relating to the
knowledge or the awareness of a Borrower are used in this Agreement
or other Loan Documents, such phrase shall mean and refer to
(i) the actual knowledge of a Senior Officer of any Borrower
or (ii) the knowledge that a Senior Officer of a Borrower
would have obtained if they had engaged in good faith and diligent
performance of his duties, including the making of such reasonably
specific inquiries as may be necessary of the employees or agents
of a Borrower and a good faith attempt to ascertain the existence
or accuracy of the matter to which such phrase relates. Any Lien
referred to in this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents as
having been created in favor of Agent, any agreement entered into
by Agent pursuant to this Agreement or any of the other Loan
Documents, any payment made by or to, or funds received by, Agent
pursuant to or as contemplated by any of the Loan Documents, or any
other act taken or omitted to be taken by Agent shall, unless
otherwise expressly provided, be created, entered into, made or
received, or taken or omitted for the benefit or account of Agent
and the Lenders.
SECTION 2.
CREDIT FACILITIES
Subject to the
terms and conditions of, and in reliance upon the representations
and warranties made in, this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents, Lenders severally agree to the extent and in the manner
hereinafter set forth to make their respective shares of the
Commitments available to Borrowers in the aggregate amount up to
$210,000,000, as set forth herein below:
2.1.
Revolver Commitments.
2.1.1.
Revolver Loans . Each Lender agrees, severally to the extent
of its Revolver Commitment and not jointly with the other Lenders,
upon the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein, to
make Revolver Loans to Borrowers on any Business Day during the
period from the Closing Date through the Business Day before the
last day of the Term, not to exceed in aggregate principal amount
outstanding at any time such Lender’s Revolver Commitment at
such time, which Revolver Loans may be borrowed, prepaid, repaid
and reborrowed in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement;
provided , however , that Lenders shall have no
obligation to Borrowers whatsoever to honor any request for a
Revolver Loan on or after the Commitment Termination Date or if at
the time of the proposed funding thereof the aggregate principal
amount of all of the Revolver Loans then outstanding and Pending
Revolver Loans exceeds, or would exceed after the funding of such
Revolver Loans, the Borrowing Base. Each Borrowing of Revolver
Loans shall be funded by Lenders on a Pro Rata basis in accordance
with their respective Revolver Commitments (except for BofA with
respect to Swingline Loans). The Revolver Loans shall bear interest
as set forth in Section 3.1. hereof. Each Revolver Loan
shall, at the option of Borrowers, be made or continued as, or
converted into, part of one or more Borrowings that, unless
specifically provided herein, shall consist entirely of Base Rate
Loans or LIBOR Loans.
2.1.2.
Out-of-Formula Loans . If the unpaid balance of Revolver
Loans outstanding at any time should exceed the Borrowing Base at
such time (an “Out-of-Formula Condition”), such
Revolver Loans shall nevertheless constitute Obligations that are
secured by the Collateral and entitled to all of the benefits of
the Loan Documents. In the event that Lenders are willing in their
sole and absolute discretion to make Out-of-Formula Loans or are
required to do so by Section 13.9.4 hereof, such
Out-of-Formula Loans shall be payable on demand and shall
bear interest as provided in Section 3.1.5 of this
Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the maximum amount of
Out-of-Formula Loans outstanding at any time, when added to the
aggregate of Revolver Loans, LC Obligations and Protective Advances
outstanding at such time, shall not exceed the aggregate principal
amount of the Revolver Commitments of all Lenders at such
time.
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2.1.3.
Use of Proceeds . The proceeds of the Revolver Loans shall
be used by Borrowers solely for one or more of the following
purposes: (i) to satisfy the Debt owing on the Closing Date to
the Existing Lenders under the Existing Loan Agreement;
(ii) to pay the fees and transaction expenses associated with
the closing of the transactions described herein; (iii) to pay
any of the Obligations in accordance with this Agreement;
(iv) to finance the ongoing working capital and other general
corporate purposes of the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries; and
(v) to make expenditures for other lawful corporate purposes
of Borrowers to the extent such expenditures are not prohibited by
this Agreement or Applicable Law. In no event may any Revolver Loan
proceeds be used by any Borrower (x) to purchase or to carry,
or to reduce, retire or refinance any Debt incurred to purchase or
carry, any Margin Stock or for any related purpose that violates
the provisions of Regulations T, U or X of the Board of Governors,
(y) to fund any operations or finance any investments or
activities in, or to make payments to, a Blocked Person, or
(z) to defease, redeem or refinance the Senior
Notes.
2.1.4.
Revolver Notes . The Revolver Loans made by each Lender and
interest accruing thereon shall be evidenced by the records of
Agent and such Lender and by the Revolver Note payable to such
Lender (or the assignee of such Lender), which shall be executed by
Borrowers, completed in conformity with this Agreement and
delivered to such Lender. All outstanding principal amounts and
accrued interest under the Revolver Notes shall be due and payable
as set forth in Section 5.2 hereof.
2.1.5.
Protective Advances . Agent shall be authorized, in its sole
and absolute discretion, at any time or times that a Default or
Event of Default exists or any of the conditions precedent set
forth in Section 11 hereof have not been satisfied, to
make Revolver Loans that are Base Rate Loans to Borrowers in an
aggregate amount outstanding at any time not to exceed $5,000,000,
but only to the extent that Agent, in the exercise of its business
judgment, deems the funding of such Loans (herein called
“Protective Advances”) to be necessary or desirable
(i) to preserve or protect the Collateral or any portion
thereof, (ii) to enhance the likelihood, or increase the
amount, of repayment of the Obligations or (iii) to pay any
other amount chargeable to Borrowers pursuant to the terms of this
Agreement, including costs, fees and expenses, all of which
Protective Advances shall be deemed part of the Obligations and
secured by the Collateral and shall be treated for all purposes of
this Agreement (including Sections 5.6.1 and
15.4 ) as advances for the repayment to Agent and Lenders of
Extraordinary Expenses; provided , however , that the
Required Lenders may at any time revoke Agent’s authorization
to make any such Protective Advances by written notice to Agent,
which shall become effective prospectively upon and after
Agent’s actual receipt thereof. Absent such revocation,
Agent’s determination that the making of a Protective Advance
is required for any such purposes shall be conclusive. Each
Revolver Lender shall participate in each Protective Advance in an
amount equal to its Pro Rata share of the Revolver Commitments.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, the maximum amount of Protective
Advances outstanding at any time, when added to the aggregate of
Revolver Loans, LC Obligations and Out-of-Formula Loans outstanding
at such time, shall not exceed the total of the Revolver
Commitments. Nothing in this Section 2.1.6 shall be
construed to limit in any way the amount of Extraordinary Expenses
that may be incurred by Agent and that Borrowers shall be obligated
to reimburse to Agent as provided in the Loan Documents.
2.1.6.
Increase in Revolver Commitments .
(i) To
the extent that any requested increase in the Revolver Commitments
is permitted under and will not violate the Indenture, and provided
that Agent has received evidence satisfactory to it from Borrowers
that such requested increase is permitted under and will not
violate the Indenture, then upon the terms and subject to the
conditions set forth herein, on any Business Day during the period
from July 31, 2007 through the Business Day immediately prior
to the last calendar day of the Term, and so long as no Default or
Event of Default exists, Borrowers may request that the
Revolver
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Commitments be
increased and, upon such request, Agent shall use reasonable
efforts in light of then-current market conditions to solicit
additional Eligible Assignees to become Lenders for the purposes of
this Agreement, or to encourage any Lender to increase its Revolver
Commitment; provided , that (a) each Lender that
is a party to this Agreement immediately prior to such increase
shall have the first option, and may elect, to fund its Pro Rata
share of the amount of the increase in the Revolver Commitment (or
any such greater amount in the event that one or more Lenders does
not elect to fund its respective Pro Rata share of the amount of
the increase in the Revolver Commitment), thereby increasing its
Revolver Commitment hereunder, but no Lender shall have any
obligation to do so, (b) in the event that it becomes
necessary to include a new Eligible Assignee to fund the amount of
the requested increase in the Revolver Commitment, each such
Eligible Assignee shall become a Lender hereunder and agree to
become party to, and shall assume and agree to be bound by, this
Agreement, subject to all terms and conditions hereof; (c) no
Lender shall have an obligation to Borrowers, Agent or any other
Lender to increase its Revolver Commitment or its Pro Rata share of
the Revolver Commitments, which decision shall be made in the sole
discretion of each Lender; and (d) in no event shall the
addition of any Lender or Lenders or the increase in the Revolver
Commitment of any Lender under this Section 2.1.6
increase the aggregate Revolver Commitments to an aggregate amount
greater than $260,000,000 less the amount of any voluntary
reductions under Section 2.2 hereof. Upon the addition
of any Lender, or the increase in the Revolver Commitment of any
Lender, the dollar amount of the Revolver Commitment set forth
opposite each Lender’s name on the signature pages to this
Agreement shall be amended by Agent and Borrowers to reflect such
addition or such increase, and Agent shall deliver to Lenders and
Borrowers a copy of such amendment. Lenders shall be entitled to
receive and Borrowers shall be obligated to pay a mutually
agreeable amendment fee to Agent for the Pro Rata benefit of those
Lenders who increase their Revolver Commitment and any new Lenders,
such fee to be based upon the increase in their Revolver
Commitments only and not on their aggregate Revolver Commitments
after giving effect to such increase.
(ii) If
any requested increase in the Revolver Commitments is agreed to in
accordance with subsection (i) above, Agent and Borrowers
shall determine the effective date of such increase (the
“Increase Effective Date”). Agent, with the consent and
approval of Borrowers, shall promptly confirm in writing to Lenders
the final allocation of such increase as of the Increase Effective
Date, and each new Lender and each existing Lender that has
increased its Revolver Commitment shall purchase Revolver Loans and
LC Obligations from each other Lender in an amount such that, after
such purchase or purchases, the amount of outstanding Revolver
Loans and LC Obligations from each Lender shall equal such
Lender’s respective Pro Rata share of the Revolver
Commitments, as modified to give effect to such increase,
multiplied by the aggregate amount of Revolver Loans outstanding
and LC Obligations from all Lenders. As condition precedents to the
effectiveness of such increase, Borrowers shall deliver to Agent
(i) a certificate dated as of the Increase Effective Date (in
sufficient copies for each Lender) signed by the Chief Financial
Officer of Borrower Agent on behalf of Borrowers, including a
Compliance Certificate demonstrating compliance with the terms of
this Agreement and certification that, both before and after giving
effect to such increase, each representation and warranty contained
in Section 9 and each certification in
Section 15.18 of this Agreement is true and correct in
all material respects on and as of the Increase Effective Date
(except to the extent that any such representation or warranty is
stated to relate solely to an earlier date), that the requested
increase is permitted under and will not violate the Indenture, and
that no Default or Event of Default exists, and (ii) legal
opinions from counsel to the Borrowers in form and substance
acceptable to Agent that the Loan Agreement and the requested
increase in the Revolver Commitments provided for herein is
permitted under and does not violate the Indenture or any other
Material Contract. Upon the request of any Lender, Borrowers shall
deliver a new or amended Revolver Note reflecting the new or
increased Revolver Commitment of each such Lender as of the
Increase Effective Date.
2.2.
Voluntary Reductions of Revolver Commitments . Borrowers
shall have the right to permanently reduce the amount of the
Revolver Commitments, on a Pro Rata basis for each Lender,
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any time and
from time to time upon written notice to Agent of such reduction,
which notice shall specify the amount of such reduction, shall be
irrevocable once given, shall be given at least 5 Business Days
prior to the end of a month and shall be effective only upon
Agent’s receipt thereof. Agent shall promptly transmit such
notice to each Lender. The effective date of any voluntary
reduction of the Revolver Commitments shall be the first day of the
month following the month in which such notice is timely received
by Agent. If on the effective date of any such reduction in the
Revolver Commitments and after giving effect thereto an
Out-of-Formula Condition exists, then the provisions of
Section 5.2.1(iii) shall apply, except that such
repayment shall be due immediately upon such effective date without
further notice to or demand upon Borrowers. If the Commitments are
reduced to zero, then such reduction shall be deemed a termination
of the Commitments by Borrowers pursuant to
Section 6.2.2 . The Revolver Commitments, once reduced,
may not be reinstated without the written consent of all
Lenders.
2.3.1.
Issuance of Letters of Credit . Subject to all of the terms
and conditions hereof, Issuing Bank agrees to establish the LC
Facility pursuant to which, during the period from the date hereof
to (but excluding) the 30th day prior to the last day of the Term,
Issuing Bank shall issue one or more Letters of Credit on Borrower
Agent’s request therefor from time to time, subject to the
following terms and conditions:
(i)
Each Borrower acknowledges that Issuing Bank’s willingness to
issue any Letter of Credit is conditioned upon Issuing Bank’s
receipt of (A) an LC Application with respect to the requested
Letter of Credit and (B) such other instruments and agreements
as Issuing Bank may customarily require for the issuance of a
letter of credit of equivalent type and amount as the requested
Letter of Credit. Issuing Bank shall have no obligation to issue
any Letter of Credit unless (x) Issuing Bank receives an LC
Request and LC Application at least 3 Business Days prior to the
date of issuance of a Letter of Credit, and (y) each of the LC
Conditions is satisfied on the date of Issuing Bank’s receipt
of the LC Request and at the time of the requested issuance of a
Letter of Credit. Any Letter of Credit issued on the Closing Date
shall be for an amount in Dollars that is greater than
$250,000.
(ii)
Letters of Credit may be requested by a Borrower only if such
Letters of Credit are to be used (a) to support obligations of
such Borrower incurred in the Ordinary Course of Business of such
Borrower, on a standby basis or (b) for such other purposes as
Agent and Lenders may approve from time to time in
writing.
(iii)
Borrowers shall comply with all of the terms and conditions imposed
on Borrowers by Issuing Bank that are contained in any LC
Application or in any other agreement customarily or reasonably
required by Issuing Bank in connection with the issuance of any
Letter of Credit. If Issuing Bank shall honor any request for
payment under a Letter of Credit, Borrowers shall pay to Issuing
Bank, in Dollars on the first Business Day following the date on
which payment was made by Issuing Bank (the “Reimbursement
Date”), an amount equal to the amount paid by Issuing Bank
under such Letter of Credit, together with interest from and after
the Reimbursement Date until Full Payment is made by Borrowers at
the Default Rate for Revolver Loans constituting Base Rate Loans.
Until Issuing Bank has received payment from Borrowers in
accordance with the foregoing provisions of this clause (iii),
Issuing Bank, in addition to all of its other rights and remedies
under this Agreement and any LC Application, shall be fully
subrogated to the rights and remedies of each beneficiary under
such Letter of Credit whose claims against Borrowers have been
discharged with the proceeds of such Letter of Credit. Whether or
not a Borrower submits any Notice of Borrowing to Agent, Borrowers
shall be deemed to have requested from Lenders a Borrowing of Base
Rate Loans in an amount
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necessary to
pay to Issuing Bank all amounts due Issuing Bank on any
Reimbursement Date and each Lender agrees to fund its Pro Rata
share of such Borrowing whether or not any Default or Event of
Default has occurred or exists, the Commitments have been
terminated, the funding of the Borrowing would result in (or
increase the amount of) any Out-of-Formula Condition, or any of the
conditions set forth in Section 11 hereof are not
satisfied.
(iv)
Borrowers assume all risks of the acts, omissions or misuses of any
Letter of Credit by the beneficiary thereof. The obligation of
Borrowers to reimburse Issuing Bank for any payment made by Issuing
Bank under a Letter of Credit shall be absolute, unconditional,
irrevocable and joint and several and shall be paid without regard
to any lack of validity or enforceability of any Letter of Credit
or the existence of any claim, setoff, defense or other right which
Borrowers may have at any time against a beneficiary of any Letter
of Credit. In connection with the issuance of any documentary
Letter of Credit, none of Agent, Issuing Bank or any Lender shall
be responsible for the existence, character, quality, quantity,
condition, packing, value or delivery of any goods purported to be
represented by any Documents; any differences or variation in the
character, quality, quantity, condition, packing, value or delivery
of any goods from that expressed in the Documents; the validity,
sufficiency or genuineness of any Documents or of any endorsements
thereon, even if such Documents should in fact prove to be in any
or all respects invalid, insufficient, fraudulent or forged; the
time, place, manner or order in which shipment of goods is made;
partial or incomplete shipment of, or failure or omission to ship,
any or all of the goods referred to in a documentary Letter of
Credit or Documents applicable thereto; any deviation from
instructions, delay, default or fraud by the shipper and/or any
Person in connection with any goods or any shipping or delivery
thereof; or any breach of contract between the shipper or vendors
and a Borrower. The rights, remedies, powers and privileges of
Issuing Bank under this Agreement with respect to Letters of Credit
shall be in addition to, and cumulative with, all rights, remedies,
powers and privileges of Issuing Bank under any of the LC
Documents. Nothing herein shall be deemed to release Issuing Bank
from any liability or obligation that it may have in respect to any
Letter of Credit arising out of and directly resulting from its own
gross negligence or willful misconduct.
(v)
No Letter of Credit shall be extended or amended in any respect
that is not solely ministerial, unless all of the LC Conditions are
met as though a new Letter of Credit were being requested and
issued. With respect to any Letter of Credit that contains any
“evergreen” or automatic renewal provision, each Lender
shall be deemed to have consented to any such extension or renewal,
unless any such Lender shall have provided to Agent written notice
that it declines to consent to any such extension or renewal at
least 30 days prior to the date on which the Issuing Bank is
entitled to decline to extend or renew the Letter of Credit. If all
of the LC Conditions are met and no Default or Event of Default
exists, no Lender shall have the right to decline to consent to any
such extension or renewal.
(vi)
Unless otherwise provided in any of the LC Documents, each LC
Application and each standby Letter of Credit shall be subject to
the Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits (1993
Revision), International Chamber of Commerce No. 500, and any
amendments or revisions thereto.
Each letter of
credit issued or deemed issued and outstanding under the Existing
Loan Agreement on the Closing Date, including any extension or
renewal thereof (each, an “Existing Letter of Credit”)
shall constitute a “Letter of Credit” for all purposes
of this Agreement, issued, for purposes of this
Section 2.3 , on the Closing Date.
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(i)
Immediately upon the issuance of any Letter of Credit, each Lender
shall be deemed to have irrevocably and unconditionally purchased
and received from Issuing Bank, without recourse or warranty, an
undivided interest and participation equal to the Pro Rata share of
such Lender (a “Participating Lender”) in all LC
Obligations arising in connection with such Letter of Credit, but
in no event greater than an amount which, when added to such
Lender’s Pro Rata share of all Revolver Loans and LC
Obligations then outstanding, exceeds such Lender’s Revolver
Commitment; provided , however , that if Issuing Bank
shall have received written notice from a Lender on or before the
Business Day immediately prior to the date of Issuing Bank’s
issuance of a Letter of Credit that one or more of the conditions
set forth in Section 11 or Section 2.3.1
has not been satisfied, Issuing Bank shall have no obligation to
issue the requested Letter of Credit or any other Letter of Credit
until such notice is withdrawn in writing by that Lender or until
the Required Lenders shall have effectively waived such condition
in accordance with this Agreement. In no event shall Issuing Bank
be deemed to have notice or knowledge of any existence of any
Default or Event of Default or the failure of any conditions in
Sections 11 or 2.3.1 hereof to be satisfied
prior to its receipt of such notice from a Lender.
(ii)
If Issuing Bank makes any payment under a Letter of Credit and
Borrowers do not repay or cause to be repaid the amount of such
payment on the Reimbursement Date, Issuing Bank shall promptly
notify Agent, which shall promptly notify each Participating
Lender, of such payment and each Participating Lender shall
promptly (and in any event within 1 Business Day after its receipt
of notice from Agent) and unconditionally pay to Agent, for the
account of Issuing Bank, in immediately available funds, the amount
of such Participating Lender’s Pro Rata share of such
payment, and Agent shall promptly pay such amounts to Issuing Bank.
If a Participating Lender does not make its Pro Rata share of the
amount of such payment available to Agent on a timely basis as
herein provided, such Participating Lender agrees to pay to Agent
for the account of Issuing Bank, forthwith on demand, such amount
together with interest thereon at the Federal Funds Rate until
paid. The failure of any Participating Lender to make available to
Agent for the account of Issuing Bank such Participating
Lender’s Pro Rata share of the LC Obligations shall not
relieve any other Participating Lender of its obligation hereunder
to make available to Agent its Pro Rata share of the LC
Obligations. No Participating Lender shall be responsible for the
failure of any other Participating Lender to make available to
Agent its Pro Rata share of the LC Obligations on the date such
payment is to be made.
(iii)
Whenever Issuing Bank receives a payment on account of the LC
Obligations, including any interest thereon, as to which Agent has
previously received payments from any Participating Lender for the
account of Issuing Bank, Issuing Bank shall promptly pay to each
Participating Lender which has funded its participating interest
therein, through Agent, in immediately available funds, an amount
equal to such Participating Lender’s Pro Rata share
thereof.
(iv)
The obligation of each Participating Lender to make payments to
Agent for the account of Issuing Bank in connection with Issuing
Bank’s payment under a Letter of Credit shall be absolute,
unconditional and irrevocable, not subject to any counterclaim,
setoff, qualification or exception whatsoever, and shall be made in
accordance with the terms and conditions of this Agreement under
all circumstances and irrespective of whether or not Borrowers may
assert or have any claim for any lack of validity or
unenforceability of this Agreement or any of the other Loan
Documents; the existence of any Default or Event of Default; any
draft, certificate or other document presented under a Letter of
Credit having been determined to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or
insufficient in any respect or any statement therein being untrue
or inaccurate in any respect; the existence of any setoff or
defense any Obligor may have with respect to any of the
Obligations; or the termination of the Commitments.
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(v)
Neither Issuing Bank nor any of its officers, directors, employees
or agents shall be liable to any Participating Lender for any
action taken or omitted to be taken under or in connection with any
of the LC Documents except as a result of actual gross negligence
or willful misconduct on the part of Issuing Bank. Issuing Bank
does not assume any responsibility for any failure or delay in
performance or breach by a Borrower or any other Person of its
obligations under any of the LC Documents. Issuing Bank does not
make to Participating Lenders any express or implied warranty,
representation or guaranty with respect to the Collateral, the LC
Documents, or any Obligor. Issuing Bank shall not be responsible to
any Participating Lender for any recitals, statements, information,
representations or warranties contained in, or for the execution,
validity, genuineness, effectiveness or enforceability of or any of
the LC Documents; the validity, genuineness, enforceability,
collectibility, value or sufficiency of any of the Collateral or
the perfection of any Lien therein; or the assets, liabilities,
financial condition, results of operations, business,
creditworthiness or legal status of any Obligor or any Account
Debtor. In connection with its administration of and enforcement of
rights or remedies under any of the LC Documents, Issuing Bank
shall be entitled to act, and shall be fully protected in acting
upon, any certification, notice or other communication in whatever
form believed by Issuing Bank, in good faith, to be genuine and
correct and to have been signed, sent or made by a proper Person.
Issuing Bank may consult with and employ legal counsel, accountants
and other experts and to advise it concerning its rights, powers
and privileges under the LC Documents and shall be entitled to act
upon, and shall be fully protected in any action taken in good
faith reliance upon, any advice given by such experts. Issuing Bank
may employ agents and attorneys-in-fact in connection with any
matter relating to the LC Documents and shall not be liable for the
negligence, default or misconduct of any such agents or
attorneys-in-fact selected by Issuing Bank with reasonable care.
Issuing Bank shall not have any liability to any Participating
Lender by reason of Issuing Bank’s refraining to take any
action under any of the LC Documents without having first received
written instructions from the Required Lenders to take such
action.
(vi)
Upon the request of any Participating Lender, Issuing Bank shall
furnish to such Participating Lender copies (to the extent then
available to Issuing Bank) of each outstanding Letter of Credit and
related LC Documents as may be in the possession of Issuing Bank
and reasonably requested from time to time by such Participating
Lender.
2.3.3.
Cash Collateral Account . If any LC Obligations, whether or
not then due or payable, shall for any reason be outstanding
(i) at any time that an Event of Default exists, (ii) on
any date an Out-of-Formula Condition exists, (iii) on or at
any time after the Commitment Termination Date, or (iv) on the
day that is 30 days prior to the last Business Day of the
Term, then Borrowers shall, on Issuing Bank’s or
Agent’s request, forthwith pay to Issuing Bank the amount of
any LC Obligations that are then due and payable and shall, upon
the occurrence of any of the events described in clauses (i),
(iii) and (iv) hereinabove, Cash Collateralize all
outstanding Letters of Credit. If notwithstanding the occurrence of
one or more of the events described in clauses (i), (iii) and
(iv) in the immediately preceding sentence Borrowers fail to
Cash Collateralize any outstanding Letters of Credit on the first
Business Day following Agent’s or Issuing Bank’s demand
therefor, Lenders may (and shall upon direction of Agent) advance
such amount as Revolver Loans (whether or not the Commitment
Termination Date has occurred or an Out-of-Formula Condition is
created thereby). Such cash (together with any interest accrued
thereon) shall be held by Agent in the Cash Collateral Account and
may be invested, in Agent’s discretion, in Cash Equivalents.
Each Borrower hereby pledges to Agent and grants to Agent a
security interest in, for the benefit of Agent in such capacity and
for the Pro Rata benefit of Lenders, all Cash Collateral held in
the Cash Collateral Account from time to time and all proceeds
thereof, as security for the payment of all Obligations (including
LC Obligations), whether or not then due or payable. From time to
time after cash is deposited in the Cash Collateral Account, Agent
may (and shall upon the direction of the Required Lenders) apply
Cash Collateral then held in the Cash Collateral Account to the
payment of any amounts,
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in such order
as Agent may elect, as shall be or shall become due and payable by
Borrowers to Issuing Bank, Agent or any Lender with respect to the
LC Obligations. Neither Borrowers nor any other Person claiming by,
through or under or on behalf of Borrowers shall have any right to
withdraw any of the Cash Collateral held in the Cash Collateral
Account, including any accrued interest, provided
that (A) upon termination or expiration of all Letters
of Credit and the payment and satisfaction of all of the LC
Obligations, or (B) if Agent has confirmed in writing to
Borrowers that the events described in clauses (i) or
(ii) of the initial sentence of this Section 2.3.3
which required the Cash Collateralization of outstanding Letters of
Credit, no longer exist, then any Cash Collateral remaining in the
Cash Collateral Account shall be returned to Borrowers unless an
Event of Default then exists (in which event Agent may (and shall
upon the direction of the Required Lenders) apply such Cash
Collateral to the payment of any other Obligations outstanding in
accordance with the provisions of Section 5.6 , with
any surplus to be turned over to Borrowers).
(i)
In addition to any other indemnity which Borrowers may have to any
Indemnitees under any of the other Loan Documents and without
limiting such other indemnification provisions, each Borrower
hereby agrees to indemnify and defend each of the Indemnitees and
to hold each of the Indemnitees harmless from and against any and
all Indemnified Claims which any Indemnitee may (other than solely
as the result of its own gross negligence or willful misconduct or
its breach of any of the Loan Documents) incur or be subject to as
a consequence, directly or indirectly, of (a) the issuance of,
payment or failure to pay or any performance or failure to perform
under any Letter of Credit, (b) any suit, investigation or
proceeding as to which Agent or any Lender is or may become a party
to as a consequence, directly or indirectly, of the issuance of any
Letter of Credit or the payment or failure to pay thereunder or
(c) Issuing Bank following any instructions of a Borrower with
respect to any Letter of Credit or any Document received by Issuing
Bank with reference to any Letter of Credit; provided
that no Borrower shall be liable to any Indemnitee for any
of the foregoing to the extent that they result solely from the
willful misconduct or gross negligence of such
Indemnitee.
(ii) Each Participating
Lender agrees to indemnify and defend each of the Issuing Bank
Indemnitees (to the extent the Issuing Bank Indemnitees are not
reimbursed by Borrowers or any other Obligor, but without limiting
the indemnification obligations of Borrowers under this Agreement),
to the extent of such Lender’s Pro Rata share of the Revolver
Commitments, from and against any and all Indemnified Claims which
may be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against any of the
Issuing Bank Indemnitees in any way related to or arising out of
Issuing Bank’s administration or enforcement of rights or
remedies under any of the LC Documents or any of the transactions
contemplated thereby (including costs and expenses which Borrowers
are obligated to pay under Section 15.2 hereof),
provided that no Participating Lender shall be liable
to any of the Issuing Bank Indemnitees for any of the foregoing to
the extent that they result solely from the willful misconduct or
gross negligence of such Issuing Bank Indemnitees.
SECTION 3.
INTEREST, FEES AND CHARGES
3.1.1. Rates of Interest . Borrowers agree to pay
interest in respect of all unpaid principal amounts of the Revolver
Loans from the respective dates such principal amounts are advanced
until paid (whether at stated maturity, on acceleration or
otherwise) at a rate per annum equal to the applicable rate
indicated below:
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(i)
for Revolver Loans made or outstanding as Base Rate Loans, the
Applicable Margin plus the Base Rate in effect from time to
time; or
(ii)
for Revolver Loans made or outstanding as LIBOR Loans, the
Applicable Margin plus the relevant Adjusted LIBOR Rate for
the applicable Interest Period selected by Borrowers in conformity
with this Agreement.
Upon
determining the Adjusted LIBOR Rate for any Interest Period
requested by Borrowers, Agent shall promptly notify Borrowers
thereof by telephone and, if so requested by Borrowers, confirm the
same in writing. Such determination shall, absent manifest error,
be final, conclusive and binding on all parties and for all
purposes. The applicable rate of interest for all Loans (or
portions thereof) bearing interest based upon the Base Rate shall
be increased or decreased, as the case may be, by an amount equal
to any increase or decrease in the Base Rate, with such adjustments
to be effective as of the opening of business on the day that any
such change in the Base Rate becomes effective. Interest on each
Loan shall accrue from and including the date on which such Loan is
made, converted to a Loan of another Type or continued as a LIBOR
Loan to (but excluding) the date of any repayment thereof;
provided , however , that, if a Loan is repaid on the
same day made, one day’s interest shall be paid on such Loan.
The Base Rate on the date hereof is 6.00% per annum and, therefore,
the rate of interest in effect hereunder on the date hereof,
expressed in simple interest terms, is 6.00% per annum with respect
to any portion of the Revolver Loans bearing interest as a Base
Rate Loan.
3.1.2.
Conversions and Continuations.
(i)
Borrowers may on any Business Day, subject to the giving of a
proper Notice of Conversion/Continuation as hereinafter described,
elect (A) to continue all or any part of a LIBOR Loan by
selecting a new Interest Period therefor, to commence on the last
day of the immediately preceding Interest Period, or (B) to
convert all or any part of a Loan of one Type into a Loan of
another Type; provided , however , during the period
that any Default or Event of Default exists, Agent may (and shall
at the direction of the Required Lenders) declare that no Loan may
be made or continued as or converted into a LIBOR Loan. Any
conversion of a LIBOR Loan into a Base Rate Loan shall be made on
the last day of the Interest Period for such LIBOR Loan. Any
conversion or continuation made with respect to less than the
entire outstanding balance of the Loans must be allocated among
Lenders on a Pro Rata basis, and the Interest Period for Loans
converted into or continued as LIBOR Loans shall be coterminous for
each Lender.
(ii)
Whenever Borrowers desire to convert or continue Loans under
Section 3.1.2(i) , Borrower Agent shall give Agent
written notice (or telephonic notice promptly confirmed in writing)
substantially in the form of Exhibit C (a
“Notice of Conversion/Continuation”), signed by an
authorized officer of Borrower Agent, or in other form required by
Agent, at least 1 Business Day before the requested conversion
date, in the case of a conversion into Base Rate Loans, and at
least 3 Business Days before the requested conversion or
continuation date, in the case of a conversion into or continuation
of LIBOR Loans. Promptly after receipt of a Notice of
Conversion/Continuation, Agent shall notify each Lender in writing
of the proposed conversion or continuation. Each such Notice of
Conversion/Continuation shall be irrevocable and shall specify the
aggregate principal amount of the Loans to be converted or
continued, the date of such conversion or continuation (which shall
be a Business Day) and whether the Loans are being converted into
or continued as LIBOR Loans (and, if so, the duration of the
Interest Period to be applicable thereto and, in the absence of any
specification by Borrowers of the Interest Period, an Interest
Period of one month will be deemed to be specified) or Base Rate
Loans. If, upon the expiration of any Interest Period in respect of
any LIBOR
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Loans,
Borrowers shall have failed to deliver the Notice of
Conversion/Continuation, Borrowers shall be deemed to have elected
to convert such LIBOR Loans to Base Rate Loans.
3.1.3.
Interest Periods . In connection with the making or
continuation of, or conversion into, each Borrowing of LIBOR Loans,
Borrowers shall select an interest period (each an “Interest
Period”) to be applicable to such LIBOR Loan, which interest
period shall commence on the date such LIBOR Loan is made and shall
end on a numerically corresponding day in the first, second, third
or sixth month thereafter; provided , however ,
that:
(i)
the initial Interest Period for a LIBOR Loan shall commence on the
date of such Borrowing (including the date of any conversion from a
Loan of another Type) and each Interest Period occurring thereafter
in respect of such Revolver Loan shall commence on the date on
which the next preceding Interest Period expires;
(ii)
if any Interest Period would otherwise expire on a day that is not
a Business Day, such Interest Period shall expire on the next
succeeding Business Day, provided that, if any Interest
Period in respect of LIBOR Loans would otherwise expire on a day
that is not a Business Day but is a day of the month after which no
further Business Day occurs in such month, such Interest Period
shall expire on the immediately preceding Business Day;
(iii)
any Interest Period that begins on a day for which there is no
numerically corresponding day in the calendar month at the end of
such Interest Period shall expire on the last Business Day of such
calendar month; and
(v)
no Interest Period shall extend beyond the last day of the
Term.
3.1.4.
Interest Rate Not Ascertainable . If Agent shall determine
(which determination shall, absent manifest error, be final,
conclusive and binding upon all parties) that on any date for
determining the Adjusted LIBOR Rate for any Interest Period, by
reason of any changes arising after the date of this Agreement
affecting the London interbank market or any Lender’s
position in such market, adequate and fair means do not exist for
ascertaining the applicable interest rate on the basis provided for
in the definition of Adjusted LIBOR Rate, then, and in any such
event, Agent shall forthwith give notice (by telephone promptly
confirmed in writing) to Borrowers of such determination. Until
Agent notifies Borrowers that the circumstances giving rise to the
suspension described herein no longer exist, the obligation of
Lenders to make LIBOR Loans shall be suspended, and such affected
Loans then outstanding shall, at the end of the then applicable
Interest Period or at such earlier time as may be required by
Applicable Law, bear the same interest as Base Rate
Loans.
3.1.5.
Default Rate of Interest . Borrowers shall pay interest at a
rate per annum equal to the Default Rate (i) with respect to
the principal amount of any portion of the Obligations (and, to the
extent permitted by Applicable Law, all past due interest) that is
not paid on the due date thereof (whether due at stated maturity,
on demand, upon acceleration or otherwise) until Full Payment;
(ii) with respect to the principal amount of all of the
Obligations (and, to the extent permitted by Applicable Law, all
past due interest) upon the earlier to occur of (x) Borrower
Agent’s receipt of notice from Agent of the Required
Lenders’ election to charge the Default Rate based upon the
existence of any Event of Default (which notice Agent shall send
only with the consent or at the direction of the Required Lenders),
whether or not acceleration or demand for payment of the
Obligations has been made, or (y) the commencement by or
against any Borrower of an Insolvency Proceeding whether or not
under the circumstances described in clauses (i) or
(ii) hereof Lenders elect to accelerate the maturity or demand
payment of any of the Obligations; and (iii) with respect to
the principal amount of any Out-of-Formula Loans (unless otherwise
agreed in writing by the Required Lenders), whether or not demand
for payment thereof has
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been made by
Agent. To the fullest extent permitted by Applicable Law, the
Default Rate shall apply and accrue on any judgment entered with
respect to any of the Obligations and to the unpaid principal
amount of the Obligations during any Insolvency Proceeding of a
Borrower. Each Borrower acknowledges that the cost and expense to
Agent and each Lender attendant upon the occurrence of an Event of
Default are difficult to ascertain or estimate and that the Default
Rate is a fair and reasonable estimate to compensate Agent and
Lenders for such added cost and expense. Interest accrued at the
Default Rate shall be due and payable on demand.
3.2.
Fees . In consideration of Lenders’ establishment
of the Commitments in favor of Borrowers, and Agent’s
agreement to serve as collateral and administrative agent
hereunder, Borrowers agree to pay the following fees:
3.2.1.
Unused Line Fee . Borrowers shall pay to Agent for the Pro
Rata benefit of Lenders a fee equal to (i) 0.375% per annum of
the amount by which the Average Revolver Loan Balance for any month
(or portion thereof that the Commitments are in effect) is less
than the aggregate amount of the Revolver Commitments;
provided that if the Average Revolver Loan Balance
for the immediately preceding Fiscal Quarter (or portion thereof)
is greater than 50% of the aggregate amount of the Revolver
Commitments, then such fee shall be 0.250% per annum of the amount
by which the Average Revolver Loan Balance for such month (or
portion thereof) is less than the aggregate amount of the Revolver
Commitments, in each case such fee to be paid on the first day of
the following month, provided that , if the
Commitments are terminated on a day other than the first day of a
month, then any such fee payable for the month in which termination
occurs shall be paid on the effective date of such
termination.
3.2.2.
LC Facility Fees . Borrowers shall pay: (a)(i) to Agent, for
the Pro Rata account of each Lender for all Letters of Credit, the
Applicable Margin in effect for Revolver Loans that are LIBOR Loans
on a per annum basis based on the average amount available to be
drawn under Letters of Credit outstanding and all Letters of Credit
that are paid or expire during the period of measurement (or, with
respect to each Letter of Credit that is secured by cash deposited
by Borrowers into the Cash Collateral Account on terms satisfactory
to Agent, 0.65% on a per annum basis based on the average amount
available to be drawn under all such cash-collateralized Letters of
Credit outstanding and all such cash-collateralized Letters of
Credit that are paid or expire during the period of measurement),
in each case payable monthly, in arrears, on the first Business Day
of the following month; (ii) to Agent, for its own account a
Letter of Credit fronting fee of 0.125% per annum based on the
average amount available to be drawn under all Letters of Credit
outstanding and all Letters of Credit that are paid or expire
during the period of measurement, payable monthly, in arrears, on
the first Business Day of the following month; and (iii) to
Issuing Bank for its own account all customary charges associated
with the issuance, amending, negotiating, payment, processing and
administration of all Letters of Credit.
3.2.3.
Audit and Appraisal Fees and Expenses . Borrowers shall
reimburse Agent for all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by
Agent (including standard fees charged by Agent’s internal
appraisal department) in connection with (i) examinations and
reviews of any Obligor’s books and records and such other
matters pertaining to any Obligor or any Collateral as Agent shall
deem appropriate in the exercise of its reasonable credit judgment,
up to three (3) times per Loan Year, unless a Default or Event
of Default exists (in which event, there shall be no limit on the
number of examinations and reviews for which Borrowers shall be
obligated to reimburse Agent) and, in each case, shall pay to Agent
the standard amount charged by Agent per day ($850 per day as of
the Closing Date) for each day that an employee or agent of Agent
shall be engaged in an examination or review of any Obligor’s
books and records, (ii) appraisals of Equipment no more
frequently than three (3) times per Loan Year (one of which
may be a full physical appraisal and the other two of which shall
be desktop appraisals performed by employees or agents of Agent),
and (iii) appraisals of Eligible Real Estate no more
frequently than one (1) time per Loan Year; provided ,
that , in the case of each of clauses (ii) and (iii),
if a Default or
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Default exists, there shall be no limit on the number or type of
appraisals for which Borrowers shall be obligated to reimburse
Agent.
3.2.4.
Other Fees . Borrowers shall pay to Agent the fees in the
amounts and on the dates as provided in the Fee Letter.
3.2.5.
General Provisions . All fees shall be fully earned by the
identified recipient thereof pursuant to the foregoing provisions
of this Agreement on the due date thereof (and, in the case of
Letters of Credit, upon each issuance, renewal or extension of such
Letter of Credit) and, except as otherwise set forth herein or
required by Applicable Law, shall not be subject to rebate, refund
or proration. All fees provided for in Section 3.2 are
and shall be deemed to be compensation for services and are not,
and shall not be deemed to be, interest or any other charge for the
use, forbearance or detention of money.
3.3.
Computation of Interest and Fees . All fees and other
charges provided for in this Agreement that are calculated as a per
annum percentage of any amount and all interest shall be calculated
daily and shall be computed on the actual number of days elapsed
over a year of 360 days. For purposes of computing interest
and other charges hereunder, each Payment Item and other form of
payment received by Agent shall be deemed applied by Agent on
account of the Obligations (subject to final payment of such items)
on the first Business Day after the Business Day on which Agent
receives such Payment Item in the Payment Account, and Agent shall
be deemed to have received such Payment Item on the date specified
in Section 5.7 hereof. Each determination by Agent of
interest and fees hereunder shall be made in good faith and, except
for manifest error, shall be presumptive evidence of the
correctness of such interest and fees.
3.4.
Reimbursement Obligations.
3.4.1.
Borrowers shall reimburse Agent and (during any period that an
Event of Default exists) each Lender for all legal, accounting,
appraisal, consulting and other fees and expenses incurred by Agent
or any Lender in connection with: (i) the negotiation and
preparation of any of the Loan Documents, any amendment or
modification thereto, any waiver of any Default or Event of Default
thereunder, or any restructuring or forbearance with respect
thereto; (ii) the administration of the Loan Documents and the
transactions contemplated thereby; (iii) action taken to
perfect or maintain the perfection or priority of any of
Agent’s Liens with respect to any of the Collateral;
(iv) any inspection of or audits conducted by Agent with
respect to any Borrower’s books and records or any of the
Collateral; (v) any effort by Agent to verify, protect,
appraise, preserve, or restore any of the Collateral or to collect,
sell, liquidate or otherwise dispose of or realize upon any of the
Collateral; (vi) any litigation, contest, dispute, suit,
proceeding or action (whether instituted by or against Agent, any
Lender, any Obligor or any other Person) in any way arising out of
or relating to any of the Collateral (or the validity, perfection
or priority of any of Agent’s Liens thereon), any of the Loan
Documents or the validity, allowance or amount of any of the
Obligations; (vii) the protection or enforcement or any rights
or remedies of Agent in, and the monitoring of, any Insolvency
Proceeding; and (viii) any other action taken by Agent or any
Lender to enforce any of the rights or remedies of Agent against
any Obligor or Account Debtor or to enforce collection of any of
the Obligations or payments with respect to any of the Collateral.
All amounts chargeable to Borrowers under this Section 3.4
shall constitute Obligations that are secured by all of the
Collateral and shall be payable on demand to Agent.
Borrowers shall also reimburse Agent for expenses incurred by Agent
in its administration of any of the Collateral to the extent and in
the manner provided in Section 8 hereof or in any of
the other Loan Documents. The foregoing shall be in addition to,
and shall not be construed to limit, any other provision of any of
the Loan Documents
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regarding the
reimbursement by Borrowers of costs, expenses or liabilities
suffered or incurred by Agent or any Lender.
3.4.2.
If at any time Agent or (with the prior consent of Agent) any
Lender shall agree to indemnify any Person against losses or
damages that such Person may suffer or incur in its dealings or
transactions with Borrowers, or shall guarantee or otherwise assure
payment of any liability or obligation of Borrowers to such Person,
or otherwise shall provide assurances of Borrowers’ payment
or performance under any agreement with such Person, including
indemnities, guaranties or other assurances of payment or
performance given by Agent or any Lender with respect to Banking
Relationship Debt, then the Contingent Obligation of Agent or any
Lender providing any such indemnity, guaranty or other
assur
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