NATIONAL CITY BUSINESS CREDIT,
INC.
(AS LENDER, ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND AS COLLATERAL
AGENT)
NATIONAL CITY BANK
(AS ISSUER)
SUCH OTHER LENDERS WHICH ARE NOW
OR HEREAFTER A PARTY HERETO
LESCO, INC.
(AS BORROWING AGENT AND AS A BORROWER)
THE OTHER BORROWERS PARTY
HERETO
(AS BORROWERS)
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DEFINITIONS
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1
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1.1
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Accounting
Terms
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1
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1.2
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General
Terms
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1.3
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Uniform
Commercial Code Terms
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1.4
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Certain Matters
of Construction
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ADVANCES,
PAYMENTS
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2.1
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Revolving
Advances
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2.2
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Procedure for
Borrowing Advances
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2.3
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Disbursement of
Advance Proceeds
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2.4
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Maximum
Advances
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2.5
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Repayment of
Advances
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2.6
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Repayment of
Excess Advances
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2.7
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Statement of
Account
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2.8
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Letters of
Credit
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2.9
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Issuance of
Letters of Credit
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2.10
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Requirements
For Issuance of Letters of Credit
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2.11
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Additional
Payments
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2.12
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Manner of
Borrowing and Payment
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2.13
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Reserved
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2.14
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Use of
Proceeds
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2.15
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Defaulting
Lender
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INTEREST AND
FEES
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3.1
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Interest
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3.2
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Letter of
Credit Fees
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3.3
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Facility
Fee
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3.4
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Collateral
Fees
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3.5
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Initial
Fee
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3.6
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Computation of
Interest and Fees
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3.7
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Maximum
Charges
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3.8
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Increased
Costs
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3.9
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Basis For
Determining Interest Rate Inadequate or Unfair
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3.10
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Capital
Adequacy
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COLLATERAL:
GENERAL TERMS
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4.1
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Security
Interest in the Collateral
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4.2
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Perfection of
Security Interest
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4.3
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Disposition of
Collateral
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4.4
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Preservation of
Collateral
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4.5
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Ownership of
Collateral
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4.6
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Defense of
Agent’s and Lenders’ Interests
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4.7
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Books and
Records
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4.8
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Financial
Disclosure
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4.9
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Compliance with
Laws
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4.10
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Inspection of
Premises
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4.11
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Insurance
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4.12
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Failure to Pay
Insurance
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4.13
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Payment of
Taxes
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4.14
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Payment of
Leasehold Obligations
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4.15
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Receivables
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4.16
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Maintenance of
Equipment
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4.17
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Exculpation of
Liability
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4.18
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Environmental
Matters
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4.19
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Financial
Statements
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REPRESENTATIONS
AND WARRANTIES
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5.1
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Authority
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5.2
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Formation and
Qualification
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5.3
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Survival of
Representations and Warranties
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5.4
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Tax
Returns
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5.5
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Financial
Statements
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5.6
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Corporate
Name
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5.7
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O.S.H.A. and
Environmental Compliance
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5.8
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Solvency; No
Litigation, Violation, Indebtedness or Default
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5.9
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Patents,
Trademarks, Copyrights and Licenses
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5.10
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Licenses and
Permits
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5.11
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Default of
Indebtedness
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5.12
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No
Default
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5.13
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No Burdensome
Restrictions
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5.14
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No Labor
Disputes
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5.15
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Margin
Regulations
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5.16
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Investment
Company Act
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5.17
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Disclosure
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5.18
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Hedging
Contracts
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5.19
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Conflicting
Agreements
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5.20
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Application of
Certain Laws and Regulations
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5.21
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Business and
Property of the Loan Parties
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5.22
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Section 20
Subsidiaries
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5.23
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Anti-Terrorism
Laws
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5.24
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Credit Card
Agreements
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AFFIRMATIVE
COVENANTS
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6.1
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Payment of
Fees
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6.2
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Conduct of
Business and Maintenance of Existence and Assets
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6.3
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Violations
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6.4
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Government
Receivables
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6.5
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Fixed Charge
Coverage Ratio
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6.6
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Threshold
Availability
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6.7
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Execution of
Supplemental Instruments
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6.8
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Payment of
Indebtedness
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6.9
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Standards of
Financial Statements
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6.10
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Anti-Terrorism
Laws
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NEGATIVE
COVENANTS
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7.1
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Merger,
Consolidation, Acquisition and Sale of Assets
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7.2
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Creation of
Liens
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7.3
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Guarantees
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7.4
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Investments
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7.5
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Loans
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7.6
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Capital
Expenditures
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7.7
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Dividends
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7.8
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Indebtedness
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7.9
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Nature of
Business
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7.10
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Transactions
with Affiliates
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7.11
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Leases
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7.12
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Subsidiaries
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7.13
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Fiscal Year and
Accounting Changes
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7.14
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Pledge of
Credit
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7.15
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Amendment of
Articles of Incorporation, By-Laws, Articles of Organization,
Operating Agreement, Etc.
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65
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7.16
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Compliance with
ERISA
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7.17
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Credit Card
Agreements
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7.18
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Prepayment of
Indebtedness
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CONDITIONS
PRECEDENT
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8.1
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Conditions to
Initial Advances
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8.2
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Conditions to
Each Advance
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8.3
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Post-Closing
Conditions to Advances
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INFORMATION AS
TO THE LOAN PARTIES
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9.1
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Disclosure of
Material Matters
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9.2
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Schedules.
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9.3
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Environmental
Reports
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9.4
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Litigation
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9.5
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Material
Occurrences
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9.6
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Government
Receivables
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9.7
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Annual
Financial Statements
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9.8
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Quarterly and
Monthly Financial Statements
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9.9
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Other
Reports
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9.10
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Additional
Information
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9.11
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Projected
Operating Budget
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9.12
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Notice of
Suits, Adverse Events
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75
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9.13
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ERISA Notices
and Requests
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75
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9.14
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Credit Card
Agreements
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9.15
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Additional
Documents
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EVENTS OF
DEFAULT
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10.1
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Payment of
Obligations
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10.2
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Misrepresentations
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10.3
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Failure to
Furnish Information
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10.4
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Liens Against
Assets
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10.5
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Breach of
Covenants
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10.6
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Judgment
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77
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10.7
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Insolvency and
Related Proceedings of the Loan Parties
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77
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10.8
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Insolvency;
Cessation of Operations
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77
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10.9
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Bankruptcy
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78
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10.10
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Material
Adverse Effect
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10.11
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Loss of
Priority Lien
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10.12
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Breach of
Material Agreements
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10.13
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Cross Default;
Cross Acceleration
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78
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10.14
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Termination of
Guaranty
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10.15
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Change of
Control
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10.16
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Invalidity of
Credit Agreement
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10.17
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Loss of
Material Intellectual Property
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79
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10.18
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Destruction of
Collateral
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79
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10.19
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Business
Interruption
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79
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10.20
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ERISA
Events
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LENDERS’
RIGHTS AND REMEDIES AFTER DEFAULT
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80
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11.1
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Rights and
Remedies
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80
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11.2
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Agent’s
Discretion
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81
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11.3
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Setoff
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81
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11.4
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Rights and
Remedies not Exclusive
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81
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11.5
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Allocation of
Payments After Event of Default
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WAIVERS AND
JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS
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12.1
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Waiver of
Notice
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82
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12.2
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Delay
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83
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12.3
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Jury
Waiver
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83
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EFFECTIVE DATE
AND TERMINATION
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13.1
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Term
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83
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13.2
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Termination
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83
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REGARDING
AGENT
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84
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14.1
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Appointment
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84
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14.2
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Nature of
Duties
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84
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14.3
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Lack of
Reliance on Agent and Resignation
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85
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14.4
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Certain Rights
of Agent
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86
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14.5
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Reliance
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86
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14.6
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Notice of
Default
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86
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14.7
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Indemnification
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86
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14.8
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Agent in its
Individual Capacity
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87
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14.9
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Delivery of
Documents
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87
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14.10
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Borrowers’ Undertaking to Agent
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87
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14.11
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No Reliance on
Agent’s Customer Identification Program
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87
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14.12
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Collateral
Matters
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87
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14.13
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Borrowing
Agency Provisions
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89
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14.14
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Waivers
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90
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[RESERVED]
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90
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MISCELLANEOUS
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90
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16.1
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Governing
Law
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90
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16.2
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Entire
Understanding
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91
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16.3
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Transfers and
Assignments
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93
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16.4
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Application of
Payments
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97
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16.5
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Indemnity
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97
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16.6
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Notice
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97
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16.7
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Survival
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100
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16.8
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Severability
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100
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16.9
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Expenses
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100
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16.10
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Injunctive
Relief
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100
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16.11
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Consequential
Damages
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101
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16.12
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Captions
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101
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16.13
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Counterparts;
Telecopied Signatures
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101
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16.14
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Construction
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101
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16.15
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Confidentiality; Sharing Information
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101
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16.16
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USA Patriot
Act
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102
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16.17
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Publicity
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102
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16.18
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Posting of
Approved Electronic Communications
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102
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16.19
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WAIVER OF JURY
TRIAL
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103
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16.20
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CONFESSION OF
JUDGMENT
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103
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iv
REVOLVING CREDIT AND SECURITY
AGREEMENT
This
Revolving Credit and Security Agreement (this
“Agreement”), has been executed and dated as of
September 27, 2006 by and among the Borrowers (as hereinafter
defined), the financial institutions which are now or which
hereafter become a party hereto (collectively, the
“Lenders” and individually, a “Lender”),
National City Business Credit, Inc., an Ohio corporation
(“NCBC”), as administrative agent and collateral agent
for the Lenders and the Issuer (as hereinafter defined) (NCBC, in
such capacity, the “Agent”), and National City Bank, a
national banking association, as the lead arranger and
Issuer.
IN CONSIDERATION of the mutual covenants and undertakings
herein contained, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby
acknowledged, the Borrowers, the Lenders, the Agent and the Issuer
hereby agree as follows:
As
used in this Agreement, the Notes, or any certificate, report or
other document made or delivered pursuant to this Agreement,
accounting terms not defined in Section 1.2 or elsewhere in
this Agreement and accounting terms partly defined in
Section 1.2 to the extent not defined shall have the
respective meanings given to them under GAAP; provided, however,
whenever such accounting terms are used for the purposes of
determining compliance with financial covenants in this Agreement,
such accounting terms shall be defined in accordance with GAAP. All
financial computations to be made under this Agreement shall,
unless otherwise specifically provided herein, be made in
accordance with GAAP applied on a basis consistent in all material
respects with the financial statements delivered to the Agent and
the Lenders on or prior to the Closing Date.
For
purposes of this Agreement, the following terms shall have the
following meanings:
“
Accountants ” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 9.7.
“
Advances ” shall mean and include the Revolving
Advances and Letters of Credit.
“
Advance Rates ” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 2.1(a) hereof.
“
Affected Lender ” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 16.3(h) hereof.
“
Affiliate ” of any Person shall mean (a) any
Person which, directly or indirectly, is in control of, is
controlled by, or is under common control with such Person, or
(b) any Person who is a director or officer (i) of such
Person, (ii) of any Subsidiary of such Person or (iii) of
any Person described in clause (a) above. For purposes of this
definition, control of a Person shall mean the power, direct or
indirect, (x) to vote five percent (5%) or more of the
securities having
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ordinary voting
power for the election of directors of such Person, or (y) to
direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of
such Person whether by contract or otherwise.
“
Agent ” shall have the meaning set forth in the
preamble to this Agreement and shall include its successors and
assigns.
“
Alternate Base Rate ” shall mean, for any day, a rate
per annum equal to the higher of: (a) the rate of interest
which is established from time to time by National City Bank at its
principal office in Cleveland, Ohio as its “prime rate”
or “base rate” in effect, such rate to be adjusted
automatically, without notice, as of the opening of business on the
effective date of any change in such rate (it being agreed that:
(i) such rate is not necessarily the lowest rate of interest
then available from National City Bank on fluctuating rate loans
and (ii) such rate may be established by National City Bank by
public announcement or otherwise) and (b) the Federal Funds
Effective Rate in effect on such day plus one half of
one percent (.50%).
“
Anti-Terrorism Laws ” shall mean any laws relating to
terrorism or money laundering, including Executive Order
No. 13224, the USA Patriot Act, the laws comprising or
implementing the Bank Secrecy Act, and the laws administered by the
United States Treasury Department’s Office of Foreign Asset
Control (as any of the foregoing laws may from time to time be
amended, renewed, extended, or replaced).
“
Applicable Base Rate Margin ” shall have the meaning
set forth in Section 3.1(b) hereof.
“
Applicable Facility Fee Percentage ” shall have the
meaning set forth in Section 3.3 hereof.
“
Applicable Letter of Credit Fee Percentage ” shall
have the meaning set forth in Section 3.2(a)
hereof.
“
Applicable LIBOR Rate Margin ” shall have the meaning
set forth in Section 3.1(b) hereof.
“
Approved Electronic Communications ” shall mean each
notice, demand, communication, information, document and other
material that any party is obligated to, or otherwise chooses to,
provide to the Agent and the Lenders by electronic transmission
pursuant to this Agreement or any Other Document or the
transactions contemplated therein, including, without limitation,
any financial statement, financial and other report, notice,
request, certificate and other information material;
provided , however , that, “Approved Electronic
Communication” shall exclude (a) any Advance request,
Letter of Credit application, any request for conversion, and any
other notice, demand, communication, information, document and
other material relating to a request for a new, or a conversion of
an existing borrowing, (b) any other notice relating to the
payment of any principal or other amount due under this Agreement
prior to the scheduled date therefore, (c) all notices of any
Default or Event of Default and (d) any notice, demand,
communication, information, document and other material required to
be delivered to satisfy any of the conditions set forth in
Article VIII or any other condition to any borrowing or other
extension of credit hereunder or any condition precedent to the
effectiveness of this Agreement.
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“
Assignment and Assumption ” means an assignment and
assumption entered into by a Lender and an Eligible Assignee (with
the consent of any party whose consent is required by Section
16.3), and accepted by the Agent, in form and substance acceptable
to the Agent.
“
Authority ” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 4.18(d) hereof.
“
Availability Block ” shall mean Ten Million Dollars
($10,000,000); provided that the Availability Block shall be
released at such time as the Loan Parties are in compliance with
the financial standards contained in Section 6(d) of the TCS Supply
Agreement for at least one fiscal quarter; and, provided further
that, the Availability Block shall immediately be reinstated at
such time as the Loan Parties are not in compliance with the
financial standards contained in Section 6(d) of the TCS Supply
Agreement.
“
Blocked Account Agreements ” shall mean, collectively,
each of the Blocked Account Agreements in form and substance
satisfactory to the Agent, entered into by the Borrowers, as
applicable, the Agent and the applicable Lockbox Bank at which the
applicable Collection Account is located, together with all
amendments, supplements, modifications, substitutions and
replacements thereto and thereof.
“
Blocked Person ” shall have the meaning assigned to
such term in Section 5.23(b) hereof.
“
Borrower ” shall mean LESCO, Inc., its wholly-owned
Subsidiaries and any other Person who may hereafter become a party
hereto and “ Borrowers ” shall collectively mean
all such Persons.
“
Borrowing Agent ” shall mean LESCO, Inc.
“
Borrowing Base Certificate ” shall mean a certificate
duly executed by an officer of the Borrowing Agent appropriately
completed and in substantially the form of Exhibit A
hereto.
“
Business Day ” shall mean any day other than Saturday
or Sunday or a legal holiday on which commercial banks are
authorized or required by law to be closed for business in
Cleveland, Ohio and, if the applicable Business Day relates to any
Libor Rate Loans, such day must also be a day on which dealings are
carried on in the London interbank market.
“
Capital Expenditures ” shall mean any expenditure made
or liability incurred which is, determined in accordance with GAAP,
treated as a capital expenditure and not as an expense item for the
year in which it was made or incurred, as the case may
be.
“
Cash Concentration Account ” shall mean, with respect
to the Borrowers, that certain commercial deposit account at
National City Bank, in the name of NCBC, designated as
“National City Business Credit, Inc. (as Agent for the
benefit of the Lenders and the Issuer) LESCO, Inc. Cash
Concentration Account”, which shall be: (a) maintained
by the Agent with National City Bank pursuant to a Deposit Account
Agreement, without liability by the Agent or National City Bank to
pay interest thereon, (b) the funds within which shall be the
sole and exclusive property of the Agent for the pro rata benefit
of the Lenders and (c) from which
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account the
Agent shall have the irrevocable and exclusive right to withdraw
funds until all of the Obligations are paid, performed, satisfied
and enforced in full and the commitments of the Lenders to make
Advances hereunder and all Letters of Credit have
terminated.
“
CERCLA ” shall mean the Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, as amended, 42
U.S.C. Sections 9601 et seq.
“
Change of Control ” shall mean (a) the occurrence
of any event (whether in one or more transactions) which results in
a transfer of control of any Loan Party other than LESCO, Inc. or
(b) any merger or consolidation of or with any Loan Party in
which the Loan Party is not the surviving party or sale of all or
substantially all of the property or assets of any Loan Party. For
purposes of this definition, “control of Loan Party”
shall mean the power, direct or indirect (x) to vote fifty
percent (50%) or more of the securities having ordinary voting
power for the election of directors of any Loan Party or
(y) to direct or cause the direction of the management and
policies of any Loan Party by contract or otherwise.
“
Charges ” shall mean all taxes, charges, fees,
imposts, levies or other assessments, including, without
limitation, all net income, gross income, gross receipts, sales,
use, ad valorem, value added, transfer, franchise, profits,
inventory, capital stock, license, withholding, payroll,
employment, social security, unemployment, excise, severance,
stamp, occupation and property taxes, custom duties, fees,
assessments, liens, claims and charges, together with any interest
and any penalties, additions to tax or additional amounts, imposed
by any taxing or other similar governmental authority, domestic or
foreign (including, without limitation, the Pension Benefit
Guaranty Corporation or any environmental agency or superfund),
upon the Collateral, any Loan Party or any of its
Affiliates.
“
CIP Regulations ” shall have the meaning assigned to
such term in Section 14.11 hereof.
“
Closing Date ” shall mean September 27, 2006 or
such other date as may be agreed to by the parties
hereto.
“
Code ” shall mean the Internal Revenue Code of 1986,
as amended from time to time and the regulations promulgated
thereunder.
“
Collateral ” shall mean all property owned by each
Borrower, whether now owned or existing, or hereafter arising or
acquired or received by a Borrower, wherever located, including
without limitation:
(c) all
General Intangibles;
(e) all
Investment Property;
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(f) all
of each Loan Party’s right, title and interest in and to
(i) its respective goods and other personal property
including, but not limited to, all merchandise returned or rejected
by Customers, relating to or securing any of the Receivables;
(ii) all of each Loan Party’s rights as a consignor, a
consignee, an unpaid vendor, mechanic, artisan, or other lien or,
including stoppage in transit, setoff, detinue, replevin,
reclamation and repurchase; (iii) all additional amounts due
to any Loan Party from any Customer relating to the Receivables;
(iv) other property, including warranty claims, relating to
any goods securing this Agreement; (v) all of each Loan
Party’s contract rights, rights of payment which have been
earned under a contract right, instruments (including promissory
notes), documents, chattel paper (including electronic chattel
paper), warehouse receipts, deposit accounts including, but not
limited to, the Blocked Accounts, letters of credit, and money;
(vi) all commercial tort claims (whether now existing or
hereafter arising); (vii) if and when obtained by any Loan
Party, all real and personal property of third parties in which
such Loan Party has been granted a lien or security interest as
security for the payment or enforcement of Receivables; and
(viii) any other goods or personal property, if any, in which
any Loan Party may hereafter in writing grant a security interest
to the Agent hereunder, or in any amendment or supplement hereto or
thereto, or under any other agreement between the Agent and any
Loan Party;
(g) all
of each Loan Party’s ledger sheets, ledger cards, files,
correspondence, records, books of account, business papers,
computer software (owned by any Loan Party or in which it has an
interest), computer programs, tapes, disks and documents relating
to (a), (b), (c), (d), (e) or (f) of this Paragraph;
and
(h) all
proceeds and products of (a), (b), (c), (d), (e), (f) and
(g) in whatever form, including, but not limited to: cash,
deposit accounts (whether or not comprised solely of proceeds),
certificates of deposit, insurance proceeds (including hazard,
flood and credit insurance), negotiable instruments and other
instruments for the payment of money, chattel paper, security
agreements, documents, eminent domain proceeds, condemnation
proceeds and tort claim proceeds.
“
Collection Accounts ” shall have the meaning set forth
in Section 4.15(g) hereof.
“
Commitment Percentage ” of any Lender shall mean the
percentage set forth below such Lender’s name on the
signature page hereof as same may be adjusted upon any assignment
by a Lender pursuant to Section 16.3 hereof.
“
Consents ” shall mean all filings and all licenses,
permits, consents, approvals, authorizations, qualifications and
orders of governmental authorities and other third parties,
domestic or foreign, necessary to carry on any Loan Party’s
business, including, without limitation, any Consents required
under all applicable federal, state or other applicable
law.
“
Contract Rate ” shall mean, as of the date of
determination, an interest rate per annum equal to (a) the
Alternate Base Rate plus the Applicable Base Rate
Margin with respect to Domestic Rate Loans and (b) the sum of
the Libor Rate plus the Applicable LIBOR Rate Margin
with respect to Libor Rate Loans.
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“
Controlled Group ” shall mean all members of a
controlled group of corporations and all trades or businesses
(whether or not incorporated) under common control which, together
with any Loan Party, are treated as a single employer under
Section 414 of the Code.
“
Customer ” shall mean and include the account debtor
with respect to any Receivable and/or the prospective purchaser of
goods, services or both with respect to any contract or contract
right, and/or any party who enters into or proposes to enter into
any contract or other arrangement with any Loan Party, pursuant to
which such Loan Party is to deliver any personal property or
perform any services.
“
Customs ” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 2.10(c) hereof.
“
Default ” shall mean an event which, with the giving
of notice or passage of time or both, would constitute an Event of
Default.
“
Default Rate ” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 3.1(d) hereof.
“
Defaulting Lender ” shall have the meaning set forth
in Section 2.15(a) hereof.
“
Deposit Account Agreement ” shall have the meaning set
forth in Section 4.15(g) hereof.
“
Dollar ” and the sign “ $ ” shall
mean lawful money of the United States of America.
“
Domestic Rate Loan ” shall mean any Advance that bears
interest based upon the Alternate Base Rate.
“
Earnings Before Interest and Taxes ” shall mean for
any fiscal period the sum of (i) net income (or loss) of the Loan
Parties and their Subsidiaries determined on a consolidated basis
for such period (excluding extraordinary gains and extraordinary
non-cash losses) in accordance with GAAP, (ii) plus
all interest expense of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries
determined on a consolidated basis for such period in accordance
with GAAP and (iii) plus all charges against or
minus credits to income of the Loan Parties and their
Subsidiaries for federal, state and local taxes determined on a
consolidated basis for such period in accordance with
GAAP.
“
EBITDA ” shall mean for any fiscal period the sum of
(i) Earnings Before Interest and Taxes for such period, (ii)
plus depreciation expenses of the Loan Parties and
their Subsidiaries determined on a consolidated basis for such
period, and (iii) plus amortization expenses of the
Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries determined on a consolidated
basis for such period in accordance with GAAP.
“
Eligible Assignee ” shall mean any of the following
Persons: (a) a Lender; (b) an Affiliate of a Lender; and
(c) any other Person (other than a natural person) approved by
(i) so long as no default or Event of Default has occurred,
the Borrowing Agent, the approval of which shall not be
unreasonably withheld, (ii) the Agent, and (iii) in the
case of any assignment of a commitment to make Advances hereunder,
the Issuer, provided , that, notwithstanding the
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foregoing, a
Person shall only be an “Eligible Assignee” if
(i) such Person shall have complied with the requirements of
Section 16.17, and (ii) the assignment to or
participation of such Person shall not constitute a
“prohibited transaction” (as defined in
Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the
Code).
“
Eligible Credit Card Receivables ” means, at any time,
Receivables (other than Eligible Receivables) due to the Borrowers
(net of standard chargebacks and standard fees due to the credit
card issuer or processor and without reference to any rights of
customers to return goods) from (a) General Electric Financial
Corporation, Visa, MasterCard, American Express Co., Discover, to
the extent processed by a major credit card processor, and
(b) other major credit card issuers and/or processors
acceptable to the Agent, that (i) arise in the ordinary course
of business for the purchase of merchandise which has been earned
by performance and (ii) are deemed by the Agent to be eligible
as the basis for Advances hereunder. Without limiting the
Agent’s discretion provided herein, Eligible Credit Card
Receivables shall not include Receivables:
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that are not subject to a first
priority perfected Lien in favor of the Agent;
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(b)
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that are subject to any Lien other
than (i) a Lien in favor of the Agent and (ii) a
Permitted Encumbrance;
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(c)
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that are past due or have been
outstanding for more than 5 Business Days since the date of the
corresponding sale;
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(d)
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with respect to which one or more of
the Borrowers does not have good, valid and marketable title
thereto, free and clear of any Lien (other than Liens in favor of
the Agent or a Permitted Encumbrance);
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with respect to which the related
sale is not in accordance with the terms and conditions of all
purchase orders, contracts, or other documents relating thereto and
forming a part of a contract between one or more of the Borrowers
and the account debtor, and, in the case of goods, title to the
goods has passed from a Borrower to the purchaser;
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(f)
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that are disputed; subject, in the
case of General Electric Financial Corporation, to recourse against
the Borrowers (unless such recourse requires at least 120 days
of mitigation efforts prior to any required payment by a Borrower);
or with respect to which a claim, counterclaim, offset, judgment,
defense, dispute, deduction, or chargeback has been asserted but
only to the extent of such dispute, recourse, claim, counterclaim,
offset, judgement, defense, dispute, deduction or chargeback;
or
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(g)
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which the Agent determines may not
be paid by reason of the account debtor’s inability to pay or
which the Agent otherwise determines is unacceptable.
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“
Eligible Inventory ” shall mean and include with
respect to each Borrower, Inventory, excluding work-in-process and
raw materials (unless otherwise deemed eligible by the Agent), of
each Borrower, valued at the lower of cost or market value,
determined on a first-in-first-out basis, which is not, in the
Agent’s reasonable opinion, obsolete, slow moving or
unmerchantable and which the Agent, in its sole and reasonable
discretion, shall not deem ineligible Inventory, based on such
considerations as the Agent may from time to time reasonably deem
appropriate including, without limitation, whether the Inventory is
subject to a perfected, first priority security interest in favor
of the Agent and whether the Inventory conforms to all standards
imposed by any governmental agency, division or department thereof
which has regulatory authority over such goods or the use or sale
thereof.
In addition, no
Inventory of any Borrower shall be Eligible Inventory if
it:
(a) is
not owned by such Borrower free and clear of all Liens and rights
of any other Person (including the rights of a purchaser that has
made progress payments and the rights of a surety that has issued a
bond to assure such Borrower’s performance with respect to
that Inventory), except the Liens in favor of the Agent, on behalf
of itself and the Lenders, and other Permitted Encumbrances
(notwithstanding the foregoing no seed inventory subject to any
Lien other than Liens of the Agent or the Lenders shall be included
as Eligible Inventory);
(b) (i) is
not located on one of Borrowers’ Stores-on-Wheels
® vehicles or on premises owned, leased or rented
by such Borrower and located in the continental United States and
set forth in Schedule 4.5 (as such Schedule may be
updated from time to time), or (ii) is stored at a leased
location, unless it is located in the continental United States and
a reasonably satisfactory landlord waiver has been delivered to the
Agent, or a Reserve equal to three (3) months’ rent thereat
has been established by the Agent with respect thereto or
(iii) is stored with a bailee or warehouseman unless it is
located in the continental United States and a reasonably
satisfactory warehouseman waiver or a reasonably satisfactory,
acknowledged bailee letter has been received by the Agent or,
except in the case where Turf Care Supply Corp. shall act as the
bailee or warehouseman, in which case Section 8.3 shall apply,
a Reserve equal to three (3) months’ rent thereat has
been established by the Agent with respect thereto, or (iv) is
located at a location owned by a Borrower that is subject to a
mortgage in favor of a lender other than the Agent unless it is
located in the continental United States and a reasonably
satisfactory mortgagee waiver has been delivered to the Agent, or a
Reserve equal to three (3) months’ mortgage payment
thereat has been established by the Agent with respect
thereto;
(c) is
in transit unless such otherwise Eligible Inventory is (i) in
transit from a domestic location owned by a Borrower (or leased and
subject to a waiver, bailee letter or Reserve as specified in
subparagraph (b) immediately above) or a domestic location
identified on Schedule 8.1 (as such Schedule may be updated
from time to time) to a domestic location owned by a Borrower (or
leased and subject to a waiver, bailee letter or Reserve as
specified in subparagraph (b) immediately above) or a location
identified on Schedule 8.1 (as such Schedule may be
updated from time to time) or (ii) inventory for which title
has passed to such Borrower, which is insured to the full value
thereof and with respect to which (A) all negotiable bills of
lading shall be properly endorsed and in the Agent’s
possession and (B) all non-negotiable bills of lading shall be
issued in the Agent’s name;
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(d) is
covered by a negotiable document of title, unless such document has
been delivered to the Agent with all necessary endorsements, free
and clear of all Liens except Permitted Encumbrances;
(e) is
placed on consignment (or is being held pursuant to a consignment
agreement);
(f) is
purged (i.e., excess or obsolete), unsalable, shopworn, seconds,
damaged or unfit for sale;
(g) consists
of goods which have been returned by the Customer, excluding goods
that are salable or returned for reprocessing in the ordinary
course of business;
(h) consists
of display items or packing or shipping materials, manufacturing
supplies or replacement parts for a Borrower’s consumption
(and not, for example, stocking parts for sale (e.g., replacement
parts for mower decks);
(i) is
not of a type held for sale in the ordinary course of such
Borrower’s business;
(j) breaches
any of the representations or warranties pertaining to Inventory of
such Borrower set forth in this Agreement or in any of the Other
Documents;
(k) consists
of any costs associated with “freight-in” charges to
the extent of any costs associated with freight-in
charges;
(l) consists
of any gross profit mark-up in connection with the sale and
distribution thereof to any division of any Borrower or to any
Affiliate of such Borrower;
(m) consists
of Hazardous Substances or goods that can be transported or sold
only with licenses that are not held by a Borrower;
(n) is
not covered by casualty insurance as required by terms of this
Agreement reasonably acceptable to the Agent;
(o) was
produced in violation of the Fair Labor Standards Act and subject
to the “hot goods” provision contained in Title 29
U.S.C. Section 215(a)(1); or
(p) is
not otherwise satisfactory to the Agent as determined in good faith
by the Agent in the exercise of its discretion in a reasonable
manner.
“
Eligible Receivables ” shall mean and include with
respect to each Borrower, each Receivable consisting solely of
accounts of such Borrower arising in the ordinary course of such
Borrower’s business and which the Agent, in its sole and
reasonable credit judgment, shall deem to be an Eligible
Receivable, based on such considerations as the Agent may from time
to time deem appropriate. A Receivable shall not be deemed eligible
unless such Receivable is subject to the Agent’s first
priority perfected security interest and no other Lien (other than
Permitted Encumbrances), and is evidenced by an invoice or other
documentary evidence
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reasonably
satisfactory to the Agent. In addition, no Receivable of a Borrower
shall be an Eligible Receivable if:
(a) it
arises out of a sale made by any Borrower to an Affiliate of any
Borrower or to a Person controlled by an Affiliate of any
Borrower;
(b) it
is unpaid more than ninety (90) days after the original
invoice date;
(c) fifty
percent (50%) or more of the Receivables from such Customer are not
deemed Eligible Receivables hereunder;
(d) any
covenant, representation or warranty contained in this Agreement
with respect to such Receivable has been breached;
(e) the
Customer shall (i) apply for, suffer, or consent to the
appointment of, or the taking of possession by, a receiver,
custodian, trustee or liquidator of itself or of all or a
substantial part of its property or call a meeting of its
creditors, (ii) admit in writing its inability, or be
generally unable, to pay its debts as they become due or cease
operations of its present business, (iii) make a general
assignment for the benefit of creditors, (iv) commence a
voluntary case under any state or federal bankruptcy laws (as now
or hereafter in effect), (v) be adjudicated a bankrupt or
insolvent, (vi) file a petition seeking to take advantage of
any other law providing for the relief of debtors,
(vii) acquiesce to, or fail to have dismissed, any petition
which is filed against it in any involuntary case under such
bankruptcy laws, or (viii) take any action for the purpose of
effecting any of the foregoing unless and until any of the
foregoing actions or events are withdrawn or otherwise terminated
within sixty (60) days of the commencement or occurrence
thereof;
(f) the
sale is to a Customer outside the United States of America or
Canada, unless the sale is on letter of credit, guaranty or
acceptance terms, in each case reasonably acceptable to the
Agent;
(g) the
sale to the Customer is on a bill-and-hold, guaranteed sale,
sale-and-return, sale on approval, consignment or any other
repurchase or return basis or is evidenced by chattel
paper;
(h) the
Agent believes, in its sole reasonable judgment, that collection of
such Receivable is insecure or that such Receivable may not be paid
by reason of the Customer’s financial inability to
pay;
(i) the
Customer is the United States of America, or any department, agency
or instrumentality thereto, unless the applicable Borrower assigns
its right to payment of such Receivable to the Agent pursuant to
the Assignment of Claims Act of 1940, as amended (31 U.S.C.
Sub-Section 3727 et seq. and 41 U.S.C. Sub-Section 15 et
seq.) or has otherwise complied with other applicable laws and has
complied with Section 6.4 hereof;
(j) the
goods giving rise to such Receivable have not been shipped to the
Customer or the services giving rise to such Receivable have not
been performed by the applicable Borrower or the Receivable
otherwise does not represent a final sale;
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(k) the
Receivables of a Customer exceed a credit limit determined by the
Agent, in its reasonable commercial judgment, to the extent such
Receivables exceed such limit;
(l) the
Receivable is subject to any offset (unless such Borrower has
received a letter from the Customer in form and substance
satisfactory to the Agent indicating that such Customer shall not
exercise its right of offset), deduction, defense, dispute, or
counterclaim, or is owed by a Customer that is also a creditor or
supplier of a Borrower (but only to the extent of such
Borrower’s obligations to such Customer from time to time) or
the Receivable is contingent in any respect or for any reason (but
only to the extent of such offset, deduction, defense, dispute or
counterclaim);
(m) the
applicable Borrower has made any agreement with any Customer for
any deduction therefrom, except for discounts or allowances made in
the ordinary course of business for prompt payment or volume
purchase, all of which discounts or allowances are reflected in the
calculation of the face value of each respective invoice related
thereto;
(n) any
return, rejection or repossession of the merchandise has occurred
or the rendition of services has been disputed (but only to the
extent of such dispute);
(o) such
Receivable is not payable to a Borrower; or
(p) such
Receivable is not otherwise satisfactory to the Agent as determined
in good faith by the Agent in the exercise of its discretion in a
reasonable manner.
“
Environmental Complaint ” shall have the meaning set
forth in Section 4.18(d) hereof.
“
Environmental Laws ” shall mean all federal, state and
local environmental, land use, zoning, health, chemical use, safety
and sanitation laws, statutes, ordinances and codes relating to the
protection of the environment and/or governing the use, storage,
treatment, generation, transportation, processing, handling,
production or disposal of Hazardous Substances and the rules,
regulations, policies, guidelines, interpretations, decisions,
orders and directives of federal, state and local governmental
agencies and authorities with respect thereto.
“
Equipment ” shall mean and include as to each Loan
Party all of such Loan Party’s goods (other than Inventory)
whether now owned or hereafter acquired and wherever located
including, without limitation, all equipment, machinery, apparatus,
vehicles, fittings, furniture, furnishings, fixtures, parts,
accessories and all replacements and substitutions therefor or
accessions thereto.
“
ERISA ” shall mean the Employee Retirement Income
Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to time and the rules
and regulations promulgated thereunder.
“
Eurocurrency Reserve Percentage ” means, for any
Interest Period in respect of any Libor Rate Loan, as of any date
of determination, the aggregate of the then stated maximum reserve
percentages (including any marginal, special, emergency or
supplemental reserves), expressed as a decimal, applicable to such
Interest Period (if more than one such percentage is applicable,
the daily average of such percentages for those days in such
Interest Period during
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which any such
percentages shall be so applicable) by the Board of Governors of
the Federal Reserve System, any successor thereto, or any other
banking authority, domestic or foreign, to which the Agent or any
Lender may be subject in respect to eurocurrency funding (currently
referred to as “Eurocurrency Liabilities” in
Regulation D of the Federal Reserve Board) or in respect of
any other category of liabilities including deposits by reference
to which the interest rate on Libor Rate Loans is determined or any
category of extension of credit or other assets that include the
Libor Rate Loans. For purposes hereof, such reserve requirements
shall include, without limitation, those imposed under
Regulation D of the Federal Reserve Board and the Libor Rate
Loans shall be deemed to constitute Eurocurrency Liabilities
subject to such reserve requirements without benefit of credits for
proration, exceptions or offsets which may be available from time
to time to the Agent under said Regulation D.
“
Event of Default ” shall mean the occurrence of any of
the events set forth in Article X hereof.
“
Executive Order No. 13224 ” shall mean the
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.
“
Facility Termination Date ” shall have the meaning set
forth in Section 13.1 hereof.
“
Federal Funds Effective Rate ” means, for any day, the
rate per annum (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the nearest one
hundredth of one percent (1/100th of 1%) equal to the weighted
average of the rates on overnight federal funds transactions with
members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by federal funds
brokers on such day, as published by the Federal Reserve Bank of
New York on the Business Day next succeeding such day;
provided , however , that: (a) if the day for
which such rate is to be determined is not a Business Day, the
Federal Funds Rate for such day shall be such a rate on such
transactions on the immediately preceding Business Day as so
published on the next succeeding Business Day and (b) if such
rate is not so published for any Business Day, the Federal Funds
Rate for such Business Day shall be the average of quotations for
such day on such transactions received by the Agent from three
federal funds brokers of recognized standing selected by the
Agent.
“
Fee Letter ” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 3.5.
“
Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio ” shall mean and include,
with respect to any fiscal period, the ratio of (a) EBITDA
minus Capital Expenditures that were not specifically
funded by Indebtedness (other than a Revolving Advance) of the Loan
Parties and their Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis with respect
to such period, minus cash taxes paid by the Loan
Parties and their Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis with respect
to such period minus cash dividends and cash
distributions of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries on a
consolidated basis with respect to such period as permitted by
Section 7.7 hereof to (b) Fixed Charges.
“
Fixed Charges ” shall mean, with respect to any fiscal
period, the sum of (a) cash interest expense of the Loan
Parties and their Subsidiaries determined on a consolidated basis
with respect to such period in accordance with GAAP,
plus (b) scheduled principal payments
on
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Indebtedness of
the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis
with respect to such period (for avoidance of doubt, Fixed Charges
shall not include any payment on Revolving Advances
hereunder).
“
Formula Amount ” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 2.1(a).
“
Fund ” shall mean any Person (other than a natural
person) that is (or will be) engaged in making, purchasing, holding
or otherwise investing in commercial loans and similar extensions
of credit in the ordinary course of its business.
“
GAAP ” shall mean generally accepted accounting
principles in the United States of America in effect from time to
time.
“
General Intangibles ” shall mean and include as to
each Loan Party all of such Loan Party’s general intangibles,
whether now owned or hereafter acquired including, without
limitation, all payment intangibles, choses in action, causes of
action, corporate or other business records, inventions, designs,
patents, patent applications, equipment formulations, manufacturing
procedures, quality control procedures, trademarks, service marks,
trade secrets, goodwill, copyrights, design rights, software,
computer information, source codes, codes, records and dates,
registration, licenses, franchises, customer lists, tax refunds,
tax refund claims, computer programs, all claims under guaranties,
security interests or other security, held by or granted to such
Loan Party to secure payment of any of the Receivables by a
Customer (other than to the extent covered by Receivables), all
rights of indemnification and all other intangible property of
every kind and nature (other than Receivables).
“
Governmental Body ” shall mean any nation or
government, any state or other political subdivision thereof or any
entity exercising the legislative, judicial, regulatory or
administrative functions of or pertaining to a
government.
“
Guarantor ” shall mean any other Person who may
hereafter guarantee payment or performance of the whole or any part
of the Obligations and “ Guarantors ” means
collectively all such Persons.
“
Guaranty ” shall mean any guaranty of the obligations
of the Borrowers executed by a Guarantor in favor of the Agent for
its benefit, the benefit of the Issuer and for the ratable benefit
of the Lenders, together with all amendments, supplements,
modifications, substitutions and replacements thereto and
thereof.
“
Hazardous Discharge ” shall have the meaning set forth
in Section 4.18(d) hereof.
“
Hazardous Substance ” shall mean, without limitation,
any flammable explosives, radon, radioactive materials, asbestos,
urea formaldehyde foam insulation, polychlorinated biphenyls,
petroleum and petroleum products, methane, hazardous materials,
Hazardous Wastes, hazardous or Toxic Substances or related
materials as defined in CERCLA, the Hazardous Materials
Transportation Act, as amended (49 U.S.C. Sections 1801, et
seq.), RCRA or any other applicable Environmental Law and in the
regulations adopted pursuant thereto.
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“
Hazardous Wastes ” shall mean all waste materials
subject to regulation under CERCLA, RCRA or applicable state law,
and any other applicable Federal and state laws now in force or
hereafter enacted relating to hazardous waste disposal.
“
Hedging Contracts ” shall mean foreign exchange
contracts, currency swap agreements, futures contracts, interest
rate protection agreements, interest rate future agreements,
interest rate swap agreements, interest rate cap agreements,
interest rate collar agreements, option agreements or any other
similar hedging agreements or arrangements entered into by a Loan
Party in the ordinary course of business and not for speculative
purposes.
“
Hedging Obligations ” shall mean all liabilities of a
Loan Party under Hedging Contracts.
“
Incentive Pricing Effective Date ” shall have the
meaning set forth in Section 3.1(b) hereof.
“
Indebtedness ” of a Person at a particular date shall
mean all obligations of such Person which in accordance with GAAP
would be classified upon a balance sheet as liabilities (except
capital stock and surplus earned or otherwise) and in any event,
without limitation by reason of enumeration, shall include all
Hedging Obligations, indebtedness, debt and other similar monetary
obligations of such Person whether direct or guaranteed, and all
premiums, if any, due at the required prepayment dates of such
indebtedness, and all indebtedness secured by a Lien on assets
owned by such Person, whether or not such indebtedness actually
shall have been created, assumed or incurred by such Person. Any
indebtedness of such Person resulting from the acquisition by such
Person of any assets subject to any Lien shall be deemed, for the
purposes hereof, to be the equivalent of the creation, assumption
and incurring of the indebtedness secured thereby, whether or not
actually so created, assumed or incurred.
“
Ineligible Security ” shall mean any security which
may not be underwritten or dealt in by member banks of the Federal
Reserve System under Section 16 of the Banking Act of 1933 (12
U.S.C. Section 24, Seventh), as amended.
“
Intercreditor Agreement ” shall mean, collectively,
the Intercreditor Agreements dated of even date herewith by and
among (a) Turf Care Supply Corp., LESCO, Inc. and the Agent
and (b) GE Capital Financial Inc., LESCO, Inc. and the Agent,
and any other Intercreditor Agreement among LESCO, Inc., the Agent
and such other Person, as may be entered into hereafter from time
to time, which shall be in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to the Agent, all of the foregoing together with all
amendments, supplements, modifications, substitutions and
replacements thereto and thereof.
“
Interest Period ” shall mean the period provided for
any Libor Rate Loan pursuant to Section 2.2(b)
hereof.
“
Inventory ” shall mean and include as to each Loan
Party all of such Loan Party’s now owned or hereafter
acquired goods, merchandise and other personal property, wherever
located, to be furnished under any consignment arrangement,
contract of service or held for sale or lease, all raw materials,
work in process, finished goods and materials and supplies of any
kind, nature or description which are or might be used or consumed
in such Loan Party’s
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business or
used in selling or furnishing such goods, merchandise and other
personal property, and all documents of title or other documents
representing them.
“
Inventory Advance Rate ” shall have the meaning set
forth in Section 2.1(a) hereof.
“
Investment Property ” shall mean and include as to
each Loan Party, all of such Loan Party’s now owned or
hereafter acquired securities (whether certificated or
uncertificated), securities entitlements, securities accounts,
commodities contracts and commodities accounts.
“
ISP ” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 2.9(b).
“
Issuer ” means, with respect to any Letter of Credit,
the issuer of such Letter of Credit and shall be, with respect to
any Letter of Credit hereunder, National City Bank, or each other
Lender that is requested by the Agent with the approval of the
Borrowing Agent, and agrees to act as an Issuer, and each of their
successors and assigns (and which may be replaced at the sole
discretion of the Agent).
“
Lender ” and “ Lenders ” shall have
the meaning ascribed to such term in the preamble to this Agreement
and shall include each Person which becomes a transferee, successor
or assign of any Lender.
“
Letter of Credit Application ” shall have the meaning
set forth in Section 2.9(a) hereof.
“
Letter of Credit Fees ” shall have the meaning set
forth in Section 3.2 hereof.
“
Letters of Credit ” shall have the meaning set forth
in Section 2.8 hereof.
“
Libor Rate ” means, for any Interest Period with
respect to a Libor Rate Loan, the quotient (rounded upwards, if
necessary, to the nearest one sixteenth of one percent (1/16th of
1%) of: (x) the per annum rate of interest, determined by the
Agent in accordance with its usual procedures (which determination
shall be conclusive absent manifest error) as of approximately
12:00 noon (London time) two (2) Business Days prior to the
beginning of such Interest Period pertaining to such Libor Rate
Loan, as provided by Bloomberg’s or Reuters (or any other
similar company or service that provides rate quotations comparable
to those currently provided by such companies as the rate in the
London interbank market), as determined by the Agent from time to
time for purposes of providing quotations of interest rates
applicable to deposits in Dollars or in the London interbank
market) as the rate in the London interbank market for deposits in
Dollars in immediately available funds with a maturity comparable
to such Interest Period divided by (y) a number equal
to 1.00 minus the Eurocurrency Reserve Percentage. In
the event that such rate quotation is not available for any reason,
then the rate (for purposes of clause (x) hereof) shall be the
rate, determined by the Agent as of approximately 12:00 noon
(London time) two (2) Business Days prior to the beginning of
such Interest Period pertaining to such Libor Rate Loan, to be the
average (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the nearest one
sixteenth of one percent (1/16th of 1%)) of the per annum rates at
which deposits in Dollars in immediately available funds in an
amount comparable to such Libor borrowing and with a maturity
comparable to such Interest Period are offered to the prime banks
by leading banks in the London interbank market.
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The Libor Rate
shall be adjusted automatically on and as of the effective date of
any change in the Eurocurrency Reserve Percentage.
“
Libor Rate Loan ” shall mean an Advance at any time
that bears interest based on the Libor Rate.
“
Lien ” shall mean any mortgage, deed of trust, pledge,
hypothecation, assignment, security interest, lien (whether
statutory or otherwise), Charge, claim or encumbrance, or
preference, priority or other security agreement or preferential
arrangement held or asserted in respect of any asset of any kind or
nature whatsoever including, without limitation, any conditional
sale or other title retention agreement, any lease having
substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing, and
the filing of, or agreement to give, any financing statement under
the Uniform Commercial Code or comparable law of any
jurisdiction.
“
Loan Account ” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 2.7 hereof.
“Loan Party or Loan Parties” shall mean
singularly or collectively, as the context may require, each
Borrower and each Guarantor, if any,
“
Lockbox ” shall mean a post office box rented by and
in the name of the Borrowing Agent (or any other Borrower
acceptable to the Agent) as required by this Agreement and as to
which only the applicable Lockbox Bank and the Agent have access
pursuant to the requirements of this Agreement and which can not be
closed by the applicable Lockbox Bank without the consent of the
Agent pursuant to the applicable Blocked Account
Agreement.
“
Lockbox Agreement ” shall have the meaning set forth
in Section 4.15(g) hereof.
“
Lockbox Bank ” shall mean National City Bank and, for
such period as is acceptable to the Agent, any other financial
institution acceptable to the Agent.
“
Material Adverse Effect ” shall mean a material
adverse effect on (a) the financial condition, results of
operations, or business of the applicable Person or Persons,
(b) any Loan Party’s ability to pay the Obligations in
accordance with the terms thereof, (c) the value of the
Collateral, or the Agent’s Liens on the Collateral or,
subject to Permitted Encumbrances, the priority of any such Lien or
(d) the practical realization of the benefits of the
Agent’s and each Lender’s rights and remedies under
this Agreement and the Other Documents.
“
Maximum Revolving Advance Amount ” shall mean
Fifty-Five Million Dollars ($55,000,000).
“
Monthly Advances ” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 3.1(a) hereof.
“
Multiemployer Plan ” shall mean a “multiemployer
plan” as defined in Sections 3(37) and 4001(a)(3) of
ERISA.
“
National City Bank ” shall mean National City Bank, a
national banking association, and its successors and
assigns.
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“
NCBC ” shall have the meaning set forth in the
preamble to this Agreement and shall include its successors and
assigns.
“
Net Orderly Liquidation Value ” means with respect to
Inventory or equipment of any Person, the orderly liquidation value
thereof as determined in a manner acceptable to the Agent by an
appraiser acceptable to the Agent net of all costs of liquidation
thereof.
“
Note ” shall mean each Revolving Credit Note and
“ Notes ” shall collectively mean all of the
Revolving Credit Notes.
“
Obligations ” shall mean and include any and all
loans, advances, debts, liabilities, obligations, covenants and
duties (absolute, contingent, matured or unmatured) owing by the
Loan Parties to the Lenders, the Issuer or the Agent or to any
other direct or indirect subsidiary or affiliate of the Agent, the
Issuer or any Lender of any kind or nature, present or future
(including, without limitation, any interest accruing thereon after
maturity, or after the filing of any petition in bankruptcy, or the
commencement of any insolvency, reorganization or like proceeding
relating to any Loan Party, whether or not a claim for post-filing
or post-petition interest is allowed in such proceeding), whether
or not evidenced by any note, guaranty or other instrument, whether
arising under any agreement, instrument or document, (including,
without limitation, this Agreement and the Other Documents) whether
or not for the payment of money, whether arising by reason of an
extension of credit, opening of a letter of credit, loan, equipment
lease or guarantee, under any Hedging Contract or in connection
with any cash management or treasury administration services or in
any other manner, whether arising out of overdrafts or deposit or
other accounts or electronic funds transfers (whether through
automated clearing houses or otherwise) or out of the
Agent’s, the Issuers or any Lenders non-receipt of or
inability to collect funds or otherwise not being made whole in
connection with depository transfer check or other similar
arrangements, whether direct or indirect (including those acquired
by assignment or participation), absolute or contingent, joint or
several, due or to become due, now existing or hereafter arising,
contractual or tortious, liquidated or unliquidated, regardless of
how such indebtedness or liabilities arise or by what agreement or
instrument they may be evidenced or whether evidenced by any
agreement or instrument, including, but not limited to, any and all
of any Loan Party’s Indebtedness and/or liabilities under
this Agreement, the Other Documents or under any other agreement
between the Agent, the Issuer or the Lenders and any Loan Party and
any amendments, extensions, renewals or increases and all costs and
expenses of the Agent, the Issuer and any Lender incurred in the
documentation, negotiation, modification, enforcement, collection
or otherwise in connection with any of the foregoing, including but
not limited to, reasonable attorneys’ fees and expenses and
all obligations of any Loan Party to the Agent, the Issuer or the
Lenders to perform acts or refrain from taking any
action.
“
Other Documents ” shall mean, individually or
collectively, as the context may require, the Revolving Credit
Notes, the Perfection Certificate, the Letters of Credit, the
Blocked Account Agreements, the Waivers, the Intercreditor
Agreements, any Guaranty, and any and all other agreements,
instruments and documents, including, without limitation,
guaranties, pledges, powers of attorney, consents, and all other
writings heretofore, now or hereafter executed by any Loan Party
and/or delivered to the Agent, the Issuer or any Lender in respect
of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.
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“
Parent ” of any Person shall mean a corporation or
other entity owning, directly or indirectly at least fifty percent
(50%) of the shares of stock or other ownership interests having
ordinary voting power to elect a majority of the directors of the
Person, or other Persons performing similar functions for any such
Person.
“
Participant ” shall mean have the meaning set forth in
Section 16.3(d).
“
Payment Office ” shall mean initially 1965 East Sixth
Street, 4 th
Floor, Cleveland, Ohio 44114;
thereafter, such other office of the Agent, if any, which it may
designate by notice to the Borrowing Agent and to each Lender to be
the Payment Office.
“
PBGC ” shall mean the Pension Benefit Guaranty
Corporation.
“
Perfection Certificate ” shall mean the Perfection
Certificate and the responses thereto provided by the Borrowers and
their Subsidiaries to the Agent.
“
Permitted Encumbrances ” shall mean (a) Liens in
favor of the Agent for the benefit of the Agent and the Lenders;
(b) Liens for taxes, assessments or other governmental charges
not delinquent or being contested in good faith and by appropriate
proceedings and with respect to which proper reserves have been
taken by the Loan Parties in accordance with GAAP; provided, that,
such Liens shall have no effect on the priority of the Liens in
favor of the Agent or the value of the assets in which the Agent
has such a Lien and a stay of enforcement of any such Lien shall be
in effect; (c) deposits or pledges to secure obligations under
worker’s compensation, social security or similar laws, or
under unemployment insurance or general liability or product
liability insurance; (d) deposits or pledges to secure bids,
tenders, contracts (other than contracts for the payment of money),
leases, statutory obligations, performance bonds, surety and appeal
bonds and other obligations of like nature arising in the ordinary
course of any Loan Party’s business; (e) mechanics, workers,
materialmen’s, warehousemen’s, common carriers,
landlord’s or other like Liens arising in the ordinary course
of any Loan Party’s business with respect to obligations
which are not due or which are being contested in good faith by the
applicable Loan Party; (f) Liens placed upon equipment and
real estate assets acquired or leased to secure a portion of the
purchase price thereof, provided that (x) any such Lien shall
not encumber any other property of the Loan Parties other than
insurance and other proceeds of such equipment and real estate and
(y) the aggregate amount of Indebtedness secured by such Liens
incurred as a result of such purchases or leases during any fiscal
year shall not exceed the amount provided for in Section 7.6;
(g) Liens placed upon seed inventory acquired to secure a
portion of the purchase price thereof, provided that any such Lien
shall not encumber any other property of the Loan Parties other
than insurance and other proceeds of such seed inventory;
(h) zoning restrictions, easements, encroachments, rights of
way, restrictions, leases, licenses, restrictive covenants and
other similar title exceptions or Liens affecting Real Property,
none of which materially impairs the use of such Real Property or
the value thereof, and none of which is violated in any material
respect by existing or supporting structures or land use;
(i) attachment and judgment liens which do not constitute an
Event of Default under Section 10.6; (j) Liens disclosed
on Schedule 1.2 provided that the principal amount
secured thereby is not hereafter increased, and no additional
assets become subject to such Lien; (k) Liens granted to
finance special purchases of inventory from Commercial Turf
Products consisting of hard goods such as mower decks and
spreaders, so long as such Liens (i) attach only to such
inventory purchased
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from Commercial
Turf Products and the proceeds thereof and (ii) are subject to
an Intercreditor Agreement that is in form and substance
satisfactory to the Agent; (l) Liens incidental to the conduct
of a Borrower’s business incurred in the ordinary course
thereof and that do not secure any indebtedness for borrowed money
so long as such Liens are junior to the Liens of the Agent or the
Lenders, and (m) Liens which are the subject of an
Intercreditor Agreement.
“
Person ” shall mean any individual, sole
proprietorship, partnership, corporation, business trust, joint
stock company, trust, unincorporated organization, association,
limited liability company, institution, public benefit corporation,
joint venture, entity or government (whether federal, state,
county, city, municipal or otherwise, including any
instrumentality, division, agency, body or department
thereof).
“
Plan ” shall mean any employee benefit plan within the
meaning of Section 3(3) of ERISA, maintained for employees of
the Loan Parties or any member of the Controlled Group or any such
Plan to which any Loan Party or any member of the Controlled Group
is required to contribute on behalf of any of its
employees.
“
Projections ” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 5.5(a) hereof.
“
Real Property ” shall mean all real property, both
owned and leased, of the Loan Parties.
“
Receivables ” shall mean and include, as to each Loan
Party, all of such Loan Party’s accounts, contract rights,
instruments (including those evidencing indebtedness owed to the
Loan Parties by their Affiliates), documents, chattel paper
(including electronic chattel paper), general intangibles relating
to accounts, drafts and acceptances, credit card receivables, and
all other forms of obligations owing to such Loan Party arising out
of or in connection with the sale or lease of Inventory or the
rendition of services (including, but not limited to, tolling
arrangements), all supporting obligations, guarantees and other
security therefor, whether secured or unsecured, now existing or
hereafter created, and whether or not specifically sold or assigned
to the Agent hereunder.
“
Receivables Advance Rate ” shall have the meaning set
forth in Section 2.1(a)(i) hereof.
“
Register ” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 16.3(c) hereof.
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Releases ” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 5.7(c)(i) hereof.
“
Reportable Event ” shall mean a reportable event
described in Section 4043(b) of ERISA or the regulations
promulgated thereunder.
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Required Lenders ” shall mean, at any date of
determination thereof, the Lenders holding at least fifty-one
percent (51%) of the Advances and, if no Advances are outstanding,
shall mean the Lenders holding fifty-one percent (51%) of the
Commitment Percentages. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if there are
only two Lenders, Required Lenders shall mean both
Lenders.
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“
Reserves ” means any and all reserves which the Agent
deems necessary in the exercise of reasonable business judgment
(from the perspective of a secured asset-based lender) to maintain
(including, without limitation, reserves for accrued and unpaid
interest on the Obligations, liquidation reserves, banking services
reserves, reserves for rent at locations leased by any Borrower and
for consignee’s, warehousemen’s and bailee’s
charges, reserves for dilution of accounts, reserves for Inventory
shrinkage, reserves for customs charges and shipping charges
related to any Inventory in transit, reserves for contingent
liabilities of any Borrower, reserves for uninsured losses of any
Borrower and reserves for taxes, fees, assessments, and other
governmental charges) with respect to the Collateral or any Loan
Party.
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Revolving Advances ” shall mean Advances made other
than Letters of Credit.
“
Revolving Credit Note ” or “ Revolving Credit
Notes ” shall mean, singularly or collectively, as the
context may require, the promissory notes referred to in
Section 2.1(a) hereof.
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Section 20 Subsidiary ” shall mean the Subsidiary
of the bank holding company controlling NCBC, which Subsidiary has
been granted authority by the Federal Reserve Board to underwrite
and deal in certain Ineligible Securities.
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Settlement Date ” shall mean the Closing Date and
thereafter Thursday of each week unless such day is not a Business
Day in which case it shall be the next succeeding Business
Day.
“
Subsidiary ” shall mean a corporation or other entity
of whose shares of stock or other ownership interests having
ordinary voting power (other than stock or other ownership
interests having such power only by reason of the happening of a
contingency) to elect a majority of the directors of such
corporation, or other Persons performing similar functions for such
entity, are owned, directly or indirectly, by such
Person.
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TCS Supply Agreement ” shall mean that certain
Long-Term Supply Agreement dated as of October 1, 2005 by and
between Turf Care Supply Corp. and LESCO, Inc., as the same may be
amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified.
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Termination Event ” shall mean (a) a Reportable
Event with respect to any Plan or Multiemployer Plan; (b) the
withdrawal of any Loan Party or any member of the Controlled Group
from a Plan that is subject to Title IV of ERISA during a plan year
in which such entity was a “substantial employer” as
defined in Section 4001(a)(2) of ERISA; (c) the providing
of notice of intent to terminate a Plan in a distress termination
described in Section 4041(c) of ERISA; (d) the institution by
the PBGC of proceedings to terminate a Plan or Multiemployer Plan;
(e) any event or condition (i) which would reasonably be
expected to constitute grounds under Section 4042 of ERISA for
the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer,
any Plan or Multiemployer Plan, or (ii) that would reasonably
be expected to result in the termination of a Multiemployer Plan
pursuant to Section 4041A of ERISA; or (f) the partial or
complete withdrawal within the meaning of Sections 4203 and
4205 of ERISA, of any Loan Party or any member of the Controlled
Group from a Multiemployer Plan.
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“
Threshold Availability ” shall mean, at a particular
date, an amount equal to the Formula Amount less the
aggregate outstanding amount of the Revolving Advances
plus the Availability Block.
“
Toxic Substance ” shall mean and include any material
present on the Real Property which has been shown to have
significant adverse effect on human health or which is subject to
regulation under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), 15 U.S.C.
Sections 2601 et seq., applicable state law, or any other
applicable Federal or state laws now in force or hereafter enacted
relating to toxic substances. “Toxic Substance”
includes but is not limited to asbestos, polychlorinated biphenyls
(PCBs) and lead-based paints.
“
UCP ” shall have the meaning set forth in
Section 2.9(b) hereof.
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Undrawn Availability ” shall mean, at a particular
date, an amount equal to (a) the lesser of (i) the
Formula Amount or (ii) the Maximum Revolving Advance Amount,
minus the Availability Block, minus the
aggregate amount of outstanding Letters of Credit,
minus Reserves, minus (b) the
outstanding amount of Revolving Advances.
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Uniform Commercial Code ” shall mean the Uniform
Commercial Code or other similar law of the State of Ohio as in
effect on the date of this Agreement and as amended from time to
time.
“
USA Patriot Act ” shall mean the Uniting and
Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to
Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Public Law 107-56, as
the same has been, or shall hereafter be, renewed, extended,
amended or replaced.
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Waivers ” shall mean, collectively, any and all
landlord’s waivers, warehouseman’s waivers,
creditor’s waivers, mortgagee waivers and processing facility
and similar bailee’s waivers, executed and delivered in
connection with this Agreement, in form and substance satisfactory
to the Agent, together with all amendments, supplements,
modifications, substitutions and replacements thereto and
thereof.
“
Week ” shall mean the time period commencing with the
opening of business on a Wednesday and ending on the end of
business the following Tuesday.
1.3 Uniform
Commercial Code Terms .
All
terms used herein and defined in the Uniform Commercial Code as
adopted in the State of Ohio from time to time shall have the
meaning given therein unless otherwise defined herein. To the
extent the definition of any category or type of Collateral is
expanded by any amendment, modification or revision to the Uniform
Commercial Code, such expanded definition will apply automatically
as of the date of such amendment, modification or
revision.
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.
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Any pronoun
used shall be deemed to cover all genders. Wherever appropriate in
the context, terms used herein in the singular also include the
plural and vice versa . All references to statutes
and related regulations shall include any amendments of same and
any successor statutes and regulations. Unless otherwise provided,
all references to any instruments or agreements to which the Agent
is a party, including, without limitation, references to any of the
Other Documents, shall include any and all modifications or
amendments thereto and any and all extensions or renewals
thereof.
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(a)
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Subject to the terms and conditions
set forth in this Agreement including, without limitation,
Section 2.1(b), each Lender, severally and not jointly, will
make Revolving Advances to the Borrowers in aggregate amounts
outstanding at any time equal to such Lender’s Commitment
Percentage of the lesser of (x) the Maximum Revolving Advance
Amount less the aggregate amount of outstanding
Letters of Credit less Reserves or (y) an amount
equal to the sum of:
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(i) up to
eighty-five percent (85%), subject to the provisions of
Section 2.1(b) hereof (“Receivables Advance
Rate”), of Eligible Receivables and Eligible Credit Card
Receivables, plus
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sixty-five percent (65%) of the
value of Eligible Inventory subject to the provisions of
Section 2.1(b) hereof, or, at the option of the Borrowing
Agent;
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(B)
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if
the Borrowers obtain an appraisal of their Inventory, which
appraisal shall be in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent,
the lesser of (I) eight-five percent (85%) of the Net Orderly
Liquidation Value (expressed as a percentage of cost based on the
most recent inventory appraisal) of Eligible Inventory subject to
the provisions of Section 2.1(b) hereof or (II) seventy
percent (70%) of the value of Eligible Inventory subject to the
provisions of Section 2.1(b) hereof, minus
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(iii) the
aggregate amount of outstanding Letters of Credit,
minus
(v) the
Availability Block.
The rates
derived from Sections 2.1(a)(ii)(A) and (ii)(B) shall be
referred to collectively as the “Inventory Advance
Rate”. The Receivables Advance Rate and the Inventory Advance
Rate shall be referred to as the “Advance Rates”. The
amount derived from the sum of Sections 2.1(a)(i) and (ii)
minus the sum of
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Section 2.1(a)(iii), (iv) and
(v) at any time and from time to time shall be referred to as
the “Formula Amount”. Notwithstanding the foregoing,
the amount derived in part (ii) above shall not include more
than $10,000,000 for Inventory located on Borrowers’
Stores-on-Wheels ® vehicles.
Revolving
Advances shall be evidenced by one or more secured promissory notes
(collectively, the “Revolving Credit Note”)
substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit 2.1(a)
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Discretionary Rights
. Subject to
Section 16.2(b)(vii), the Advance Rates may be increased or
decreased by the Agent at any time and from time to time in the
exercise of its reasonable business judgment (from the perspective
of a secured asset-based lender). Each Borrower consents to any
such increases or decreases and acknowledges that decreasing the
Advance Rates or increasing the reserves may limit or restrict
Advances requested by the Borrowing Agent.
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2.2
Procedure for Borrowing Advances .
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(a)
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The
Borrowing Agent on behalf of any Borrower shall notify the Agent
prior to Noon (Cleveland, Ohio time) on a Business Day of a
Borrower’s request to incur, on that day, a Revolving Advance
hereunder. Should any amount required to be paid as interest
hereunder, or as fees or other charges under this Agreement or any
other agreement with the Agent or the Lenders, or with respect to
any other Obligation, become due, same shall be deemed a request
for a Revolving Advance as of the date such payment is due, in the
amount required to pay in full such interest, fee, charge or
Obligation under this Agreement or any other agreement with the
Agent or the Lenders, and such request shall be
irrevocable.
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Notwithstanding the provisions of
(a) above, in the event any Borrower desires to obtain a Libor
Rate Loan, the Borrowing Agent shall notify the Agent in writing no
later than Noon (Cleveland, Ohio time) at least three
(3) Business Days’ prior to the date of such proposed
borrowing, specifying (i) the date of the proposed borrowing
(which shall be a Business Day), (ii) the amount of such
Revolving Advance to be borrowed, which amount shall be in a
minimum amount of One Million Dollars ($1,000,000) and in integral
multiples of Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($500,000) thereafter,
and (iii) the duration of the first Interest Period therefor.
Interest Periods for Libor Rate Loans shall be for one (1), two
(2), three (3) months or six (6) months; provided, if an
Interest Period would end on a day that is not a Business Day, it
shall end on the next succeeding Business Day unless such day falls
in the next succeeding calendar month in which case the Interest
Period shall end on the next preceding Business Day. No Libor Rate
Loan shall be made available to a Borrower during the continuance
of a Default or an Event of Default.
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Each Interest Period of a Libor Rate
Loan shall commence on the date such Libor Rate Loan is made and
shall end on such date as the Borrowing Agent may elect as set
forth in subsection (b) (iii) above provided that the exact
length of each
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Interest Period
shall be determined in accordance with the practice of the
interbank market for offshore Dollar deposits and no Interest
Period shall end after the Facility Termination Date.
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The Borrowing
Agent shall elect the initial Interest Period applicable to a Libor
Rate Loan by its notice of borrowing given to the Agent pursuant to
Section 2.2(b) or by its notice of conversion given to the
Agent pursuant to Section 2.2(d), as the case may be. The
Borrowing Agent shall elect the duration of each succeeding
Interest Period by giving irrevocable written notice to the Agent
of such duration not less than three (3) Business Days prior
to the last day of then current Interest Period applicable to such
Libor Rate Loan. If the Agent does not receive timely notice of the
Interest Period elected by the Borrowing Agent, the Borrowers shall
be deemed to have elected to convert to a Domestic Rate Loan
subject to Section 2.2(d) hereinbelow.
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(d)
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Any
Borrower may, on the last Business Day of then current Interest
Period applicable to any outstanding Libor Rate Loan, or on any
Business Day with respect to Domestic Rate Loans, convert any such
loan into a loan of another type in the same aggregate principal
amount provided that any conversion of a Libor Rate Loan shall be
made only on the last Business Day of then current Interest Period
applicable to such Libor Rate Loan. If a Borrower desires to
convert a loan, the Borrowing Agent shall give the Agent not less
than three (3) Business Days’ prior written notice to
convert from a Domestic Rate Loan to a Libor Rate Loan or one (1)
Business Day’s prior written notice to convert from a Libor
Rate Loan to a Domestic Rate Loan, specifying the date of such
conversion, the loans to be converted and if the conversion is from
a Domestic Rate Loan to any other type of loan, the duration of the
first Interest Period therefor; provided, however, a Borrower shall
not be permitted to convert a Domestic Rate Loan to a Libor Rate
Loan or continue to select a Libor Rate Loan during the continuance
of a Default or an Event of Default. After giving effect to each
such conversion, there shall not be outstanding more than five
(5) Libor Rate Loans, in the aggregate.
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At
its option and upon three (3) Business Days’ prior
written notice, any Borrower may prepay the Libor Rate Loans in
whole at any time or in part from time to time, without premium or
penalty, but with accrued interest on the principal being prepaid
to the date of such repayment. Such Borrower shall specify the date
of prepayment of Advances which are Libor Rate Loans and the amount
of such prepayment. In the event that any prepayment of a Libor
Rate Loan is required or permitted on a date other than the last
Business Day of then current Interest Period with respect thereto,
such Borrower shall indemnify the Agent and the Lenders therefor in
accordance with Section 2.2(f) hereof.
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(f)
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Each Borrower shall indemnify the
Agent and the Lenders and hold the Agent and the Lenders harmless
from and against any and all losses or expenses that the Agent and
the Lenders may sustain or incur as a consequence of any
prepayment, conversion of or any default by any Borrower in the
payment of the principal of or interest on any Libor Rate Loan or
failure by any Borrower to complete a borrowing of, a prepayment of
or conversion of or to a Libor Rate Loan after
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notice thereof
has been given, including, but not limited to, any interest payable
by the Agent or the Lenders to lenders of funds obtained by it in
order to make or maintain its Libor Rate Loans hereunder unless
such loss or expense is due to the gross negligence or willful
misconduct of the Agent and/or any Lender. A certificate as to any
additional amounts payable pursuant to the foregoing sentence
submitted by the Agent or any Lender to the Borrowing Agent shall
be presumed correct absent manifest error.
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Notwithstanding any other provision
hereof, if any applicable law, treaty, regulation or directive, or
any change therein or in the interpretation or application thereof,
shall make it unlawful for any Lender (for purposes of this
subsection (g), the term “Lender” shall include any
Lender and the office or branch where any Lender or any corporation
or bank controlling such Lender makes or maintains any Libor Rate
Loans) to make or maintain its Libor Rate Loans, the obligation of
the Lenders to make Libor Rate Loans hereunder shall forthwith be
cancelled and the Borrowers shall, if any affected Libor Rate Loans
are then outstanding, promptly upon request from the Agent, either
pay all such affected Libor Rate Loans or convert such affected
Libor Rate Loans into loans of another type. If any such payment or
conversion of any Libor Rate Loan is made on a day that is not the
last day of the Interest Period applicable to such Libor Rate Loan,
the Borrowers shall pay the Agent, upon the Agent’s request,
such amount or amounts as may be necessary to compensate the
Lenders for any loss or expense sustained or incurred by the
Lenders in respect of such Libor Rate Loan as a result of such
payment or conversion, including (but not limited to) any interest
or other amounts payable by the Lenders to lenders of funds
obtained by the Lenders in order to make or maintain such Libor
Rate Loan. A certificate as to any additional amounts payable
pursuant to the foregoing sentence submitted by the Lenders to the
Borrowing Agent shall be presumed correct absent manifest
error.
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2.3
Disbursement of Advance Proceeds .
All
Advances shall be disbursed from whichever office or other place
the Agent may designate from time to time and, together with any
and all other Obligations of the Borrowers to the Agent or the
Lenders, shall be charged to the Loan Account on the Agent’s
books. During the term of this Agreement, the Borrowers may use the
Revolving Advances by borrowing, prepaying and reborrowing, all in
accordance with the terms and conditions hereof. The proceeds of
each Revolving Advance requested by the Borrowers or deemed to have
been requested by the Borrowers under Section 2.2(a) hereof
shall, with respect to requested Revolving Advances to the extent
the Lenders make such Revolving Advances, be made available to the
applicable Borrower on the day so requested by way of credit to the
Borrowing Agent’s operating account at National City Bank, or
such other bank as the Borrowing Agent may designate following
notification to the Agent, in immediately available federal funds
or other immediately available funds or, with respect to Revolving
Advances deemed to have been requested by any Borrower, be
disbursed to the Agent to be applied to the outstanding Obligations
giving rise to such deemed request.
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Subject
to Section 16.2(b), the aggregate balance of outstanding
Advances outstanding at any time shall not exceed the lesser of
(a) the Maximum Revolving Advance Amount less
Reserves or (b) the Formula Amount (without duplication of the
amount of Letters of Credit).
2.5
Repayment of Advances .
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(a)
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The
Revolving Advances shall be due and payable in full on the Facility
Termination Date subject to earlier prepayment as herein
provided.
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(b)
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Any
Customer payment with respect to Receivables which is evidenced by
a check, note, draft or any other similar item of payment may not
be immediately collectible. In calculating outstanding Revolving
Advances, Undrawn Availability and Threshold Availability, the
Agent agrees that any such item of payment will be deemed to have
been received by the Agent and will be provisionally credited to
the Loan Account by the Agent on the Business Day immediately
following the day on which the Agent has actual possession of such
item of payment for deposit to the Cash Concentration Account. With
respect to such calculation of outstandings, Undrawn Availability
and Threshold Availability, the Agent also agrees that any Customer
payment consisting of a federal wire transfer pursuant to the
United States Treasury Fedwire Deposit System, an automatic
clearing house credit or other similar payment mechanism will be
deemed to have been received by the Agent and will be credited to
the Loan Account by the Agent on the Business Day on which the
Agent has received such payment prior to Noon (Cleveland, Ohio
time) in immediately available funds for deposit to the Cash
Concentration Account. In consideration of the Agent’s
agreement for provisional crediting of items of payment, the
Borrowers agree that, in calculating interest and other charges on
the Obligations, all Customer payments will be treated as having
been credited to the Loan Account on the Business Day immediately
following the Business Day on which such payments are deemed to
have been received by the Agent pursuant to this
paragraph.
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(c)
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The
Agent shall not be required to credit the Loan Account for the
amount of any item of payment or other payment which is
unsatisfactory to the Agent in its reasonable business judgment.
All credits (other than federal wire transfers) shall be
provisional, subject to verification and final settlement. The
Agent may charge the Loan Account for the amount of any item of
payment or other payment which is returned to the Agent unpaid or
otherwise not collected. The Borrowers agree that any information
and data reported to the Borrowers pursuant to any service which is
received prior to final posting and confirmation is subject to
correction and is not to be construed as final posting information.
The Agent and the Lenders shall have no liability for the content
of such preliminary service related information.
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All
payments of principal, interest and other amounts payable
hereunder, or under any of the Other Documents shall be made to the
Agent at the Payment Office not later than Noon (Cleveland, Ohio
time) on the due date in lawful money of the United States of
America in federal funds or other funds immediately available to
the Agent. The Agent shall have the right to effectuate payment on
any and all Obligations due and owing hereunder by charging the
Loan Account or by making Advances as provided in Section 2.2
hereof.
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(e)
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The
Borrowers shall pay principal, interest, and all other amounts
payable hereunder, or under any related agreement, without any
deduction whatsoever, including, but not limited to, any deduction
for any setoff or counterclaim.
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2.6
Repayment of Excess Advances .
The
aggregate balance of outstanding Advances at any time in excess of
the maximum amount of such Advances permitted hereunder shall be
immediately due and payable without the necessity of any demand, at
the Payment Office, whether or not a Default or Event of Default
has occurred.
2.7
Statement of Account .
The
Agent shall maintain, in accordance with its customary procedures,
a loan account (“Loan Account”) in the name of the
Borrowers in which shall be recorded the date and amount of each
Advance made by the Agent and the date and amount of each payment
in respect thereof; provided, however, the failure by the Agent to
record the date and amount of any Advance shall not adversely
affect the Agent or any Lender. Each calendar month, the Agent
shall send to the Borrowing Agent a statement showing the
accounting for the Advances made, payments made or credited in
respect thereof, and other transactions between the Agent and the
Borrowers, during such month. The monthly statements shall be
deemed correct and binding upon the Borrowers in the absence of
manifest error and shall constitute an account stated between the
Lenders and the Borrowers unless the Agent receives a written
statement of the Borrowers’ specific exceptions thereto
within thirty (30) days after such statement is received by
the Borrowing Agent. The records of the Agent with respect to the
loan account shall be presumed correct evidence absent manifest
error of the amounts of Advances and other charges thereto and of
payments applicable thereto.
Subject
to the terms and conditions hereof, the Issuer shall (a) issue
or cause the issuance of Letters of Credit (“Letters of
Credit”) on behalf of any Borrower; provided, however, that
the Issuer will not be required to issue or cause to be issued any
Letters of Credit to the extent that the face amount of such
Letters of Credit would then cause the outstanding Advances to
exceed the lesser of (a) the Maximum Revolving Advance Amount
less Reserves or (b) the Formula Amount (without
duplication of the amount of Letters of Credit). The maximum amount
of the amount of Letters of Credit outstanding shall not exceed
Twenty Five Million Dollars ($25,000,000) in the aggregate at any
time. All disbursements or payments related to Letters of Credit
shall be deemed to be Domestic Rate Loans (in Dollars) consisting
of
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Revolving
Advances and shall bear interest at the Alternate Base Rate;
Letters of Credit that have not been drawn upon shall not bear
interest.
2.9
Issuance of Letters of Credit .
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The
Borrowing Agent, on behalf of any Borrower, may request the Issuer
to issue or cause the issuance of a Letter of Credit by delivering
to the Issuer at the Payment Office, the Issuer’s form of
Letter of Credit Application (the “Letter of Credit
Application”) completed to the satisfaction of the Issuer;
and, such other certificates, documents and other papers and
information as the Issuer may reasonably request no later than
12:00 noon (Cleveland, Ohio time) at least five (5) Business
Days’ prior to the date of such proposed issuance (except for
any Letter of Credit to be issued as of the Closing Date). The
Borrowing Agent, on behalf of the Borrowers, also has the right to
give instructions and make agreements with respect to any
application, any applicable letter of credit and security
agreement, any applicable letter of credit reimbursement agreement
and/or any other applicable agreement, any letter of credit and the
disposition of documents, disposition of any unutilized funds, and
to agree with the Issuer upon any amendment, extension or renewal
of any Letter of Credit.
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Each Letter of Credit shall, among
other things, (i) provide for the payment of sight drafts or
other forms of written demand for payment or, acceptances of issued
drafts when presented for honor thereunder in accordance with the
terms thereof and when accompanied by the documents described
therein and (ii) have an expiry date not later than the
earlier of one (1) year from the date of issuance or, unless
agreed to by the Agent and the Issuer, the Facility Termination
Date; provided that, the Letter of Credit in the face amount of
$3,210,690 issued to PNC Bank, National Association on the Closing
Date may have an expiry date later than one year from the date of
issuance. Each trade Letter of Credit shall be subject to the
Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits (1993
Revision), International Chamber of Commerce Publication
No. 500, and any amendments or revisions thereof adhered to by
the Issuer (the “UCP”). Each standby Letter of Credit
shall be subject to the International Standby Practices 1998,
International Chamber of Commerce Publication 590 and any
amendments or revisions thereof adhered to by the Issuer (the
“ISP”) or the UCP, as determined by the Issuer. Each
Letter of Credit shall be governed, to the extent not inconsistent
with the UCP or the ISP, as applicable, by the laws of the State of
Ohio (provided, however, upon the request of the Borrowing Agent
and the consent of the Issuer, a Letter of Credit may be governed
by the laws of a State other than Ohio).
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(c)
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The
Agent shall notify the Lenders of the request by the Borrowing
Agent for a Letter of Credit hereunder within a reasonable time
after receiving such request.
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(d)
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The
Issuer shall have absolute discretion whether to accept any draft.
Without in any way limiting the Issuer’s absolute discretion
whether to accept any draft, the Borrowing Agent will not present
for acceptance any draft, and the Issuer will
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generally not
accept any drafts (i) that arise out of transactions involving
the sale of goods by any Borrower not in the ordinary course of its
business, (ii) that involve a sale to an Affiliate of any
Borrower, (iii) that involve any purchase for which the Issuer
has not received all related documents, instruments and forms
requested by the Issuer, or (iv) that is not eligible for
discounting with Federal Reserve Banks pursuant to paragraph 7 of
Section 13 of the Federal Reserve Act, as amended.
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2.10
Requirements For Issuance of Letters of Credit
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(a)
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In
connection with the issuance of any Letter of Credit, the Borrowers
shall indemnify, save and hold the Agent, each Lender and each
Issuer harmless from any loss, cost, expense or liability,
including, without limitation, payments made by the Agent, any
Lender or any Issuer and expenses and reasonable attorneys’
fees incurred by the Agent, any Lender or Issuer arising out of, or
in connection with, any Letter of Credit to be issued or created
for any Borrower, unless such loss, cost, expense or liability is
due to the gross negligence or willful misconduct of the Agent or
any Lender. The Borrowers shall be bound by the Agent’s or
any Issuer’s regulations and good faith interpretations of
any Letter of Credit issued or created for the Loan Account,
although this interpretation may be different from its own; and,
neither the Agent, nor any Lender, nor any Issuer nor any of their
correspondents shall be liable for any error, negligence, or
mistakes, whether of omission or commission, in following the
Borrowing Agent’s or any Borrower’s instructions or
those contained in any Letter of Credit or of any modifications,
amendments or supplements thereto or in issuing or paying any
Letter of Credit, except for the Agent’s, any Lender’s,
any Issuer’s or such correspondents’ actual gross
negligence or willful misconduct.
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(b)
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The
Borrowing Agent shall authorize and direct the Issuer to name the
applicable Borrower as the “Applicant” or
“Account Party” of each Letter of Credit. The Borrowing
Agent shall authorize and direct the Issuer to deliver to the Agent
all instruments, documents, and other writings and property
received by the Issuer pursuant to the Letter of Credit and to
accept and rely upon the Agent’s instructions and agreements
with respect to all matters arising in connection with the Letter
of Credit, the application therefor or any acceptance
therefor.
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(c)
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In
connection with all Letters of Credit issued by the Issuer under
this Agreement, each Borrower hereby appoints the Issuer, or its
designee, as its attorney, with full power and authority upon the
occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default or
Default, (i) to sign and/or endorse such Borrower’s name
upon any warehouse or other receipts, letter of credit applications
and acceptances; (ii) to sign such Borrower’s name on
bills of lading; (iii) to clear Inventory through the United
States of America Customs Department (“Customs”) in the
name of such Borrower or Issuer or Issuer’s designee, and to
sign and deliver to Customs officials powers of attorney in the
name of such Borrower for such purpose; and (iv) to complete
in such Borrower’s name or Issuer’s, or in the name of
Issuer’s designee, any order, sale or transaction, obtain the
necessary documents in
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connection
therewith, and collect the proceeds thereof. Neither Issuer nor its
attorneys will be liable for any acts or omissions nor for any
error of judgment or mistakes of fact or law, except for
Issuer’s or its attorney’s actual gross negligence or
willful misconduct. This power, being coupled with an interest, is
irrevocable as long as any Letters of Credit remain
outstanding.
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Each Lender shall to the extent of
the percentage amount equal to the product of such Lender’s
Commitment Percentage times the aggregate amount of all unpaid
reimbursement obligations arising from disbursements made or
obligations incurred with respect to the Letters of Credit be
deemed to have irrevocably purchased an undivided participation in
each such unpaid reimbursement obligation. In the event that at the
time a disbursement is made the unpaid balance of Advances exceeds
or would exceed, with the making of such disbursement, the lesser
of (i) the Maximum Revolving Advance Amount less
Reserves or (ii) the Formula Amount, and such disbursement is
not reimbursed by the Borrowers within two (2) Business Days,
the Agent shall promptly notify each Lender and upon the
Agent’s demand each Lender shall pay to the Agent such
Lender’s proportionate share of such unpaid disbursement
together with such Lender’s proportionate share of the
Agent’s reasonable unreimbursed costs and expenses relating
to such disbursement. In the event the Issuer makes a disbursement
in respect of a Letter of Credit, each Lender shall pay to such
Issuer, upon such Issuer’s demand, such Lender’s
proportionate share of such disbursement together with such
Lender’s proportionate share of such Issuer’s
reasonable unreimbursed costs and expenses relating to such
disbursement. Upon receipt by the Agent of a repayment from any
Borrower of any amount disbursed by the Agent for which the Agent
had already been reimbursed by the Lenders, the Agent shall deliver
to each Lender that Lender’s pro rata share of such
repayment. Each Lender’s participation commitment shall
continue until the last to occur of any of the following events:
(A) the Issuer ceases to be obligated to issue or cause to be
issued Letters of Credit hereunder; (B) no Letter of Credit
issued hereunder remains outstanding and uncancelled or
(C) all Persons (other than the applicable Borrower) have been
fully reimbursed for all payments made under or relating to Letters
of Credit.
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Immediately upon the request of the
Agent, (i) after the occurrence and during the continuance of
a Default or an Event of Default, or (ii) Letter of Credit
remain outstanding sixty (60) days prior to the expiration of
the Facility Termination Date, in each such case the Borrowers will
deposit and maintain in an account with the Agent cash, as cash
collateral, in an amount equal to one hundred five percent (105%)
of the amount of outstanding Letters of Credit. In each case, each
Borrower hereby irrevocably authorizes the Agent, in its
discretion, on such Borrower’s behalf and in such
Borrower’s name, to open such an account and to make and
maintain deposits in such account or in an account opened by such
Borrower, in the amounts required to be made by such Borrower, out
of the proceeds of Receivables or other Collateral or out of any
other funds of such Borrower coming into any Lender’s
possession at any time. The Agent will invest such cash collateral
( less applicable Reserves) in such short-term
money-
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market items as
to which the Agent and such Borrower mutually agree and the net
return on such investments shall be credited to such account and
constitute additional cash collateral. So long as such Default or
Event of Default is continuing, no Borrower may withdraw amounts
credited to any such account except upon payment and performance in
full of all Obligations and termination of this
Agreement.
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2.11
Additional Payments .
Any
sums reasonably expended by the Agent or any Lender due to any
Borrower’s failure to perform or comply with its obligations
under this Agreement or any Other Document including, without
limitation, any Borrower’s obligations under
Sections 4.2, 4.4, 4.12, 4.13, 4.14 and 6.1 hereof, may be
charged to the Loan Account as a Revolving Advance and added to the
Obligations.
2.12 Manner
of Borrowing and Payment .
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Each borrowing of Revolving Advances
shall be advanced according to the applicable Commitment
Percentages of the Lenders.
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Each payment (including each
prepayment) by the Borrowers on account of the principal of and
interest on the Revolving Advances, shall be applied to the
Revolving Advances pro rata according to the applicable Commitment
Percentages of the Lenders. Except as expressly provided herein,
all payments (including prepayments) to be made by any Borrower on
account of principal, interest and fees shall be made without set
off or counterclaim and shall be made to the Agent on behalf of the
Lenders to the Payment Office, in each case on or prior to 1:00
P.M. (Cleveland, Ohio time) in Dollars and in immediately available
funds.
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(i) Notwithstanding anything to
the contrary contained in Sections 2.12(a) and 2.12(b) hereof,
commencing with the first Business Day following the Closing Date,
each borrowing of Revolving Advances shall be advanced by the Agent
and each payment by any Borrower on account of Revolving Advances
shall be applied first to those Revolving Advances advanced by the
Agent. On or before 1:00 P.M. (Cleveland, Ohio time) on each
Settlement Date commencing with the first Settlement Date following
the Closing Date, the Agent and the Lenders shall make certain
payments as follows: (I) if the aggregate amount of new
Revolving Advances (which includes any Revolving Advances made on
the Closing Date) made by the Agent during the preceding Week (if
any) exceeds the aggregate amount of repayments applied to
outstanding Revolving Advances during such preceding Week, then
each Lender shall provide the Agent with funds in an amount equal
to its applicable Commitment Percentage of the difference between
(w) such Revolving Advances and (x) such repayments and
(II) if the aggregate amount of repayments applied to
outstanding Revolving Advances during such Week exceeds the
aggregate amount of new Revolving Advances made during such Week,
then the Agent shall provide each Lender with funds in
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an amount equal
to its applicable Commitment Percentage of the difference between
(y) such repayments and (z) such Revolving
Advances.
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(ii) Each
Lender shall be entitled to earn interest at the applicable
Contract Rate on outstanding Advances which it has
funded.
(iii) Promptly following each Settlement
Date, the Agent shall submit to each Lender a certificate with
respect to payments received and Advances made during the Week
immediately preceding such Settlement Date. Such certificate of the
Agent shall be presumed correct in the absence of manifest
error.
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If
any Lender or Participant (a “benefited Lender”) shall
at any time receive any payment of all or part of its Advances, or
interest thereon, or receive any Collateral in respect thereof
(whether voluntarily or involuntarily or by set-off) in a greater
proportion than any such payment to and Collateral received by any
other Lender, if any, in respect of such other Lender’s
Advances, or interest thereon, and such greater proportionate
payment or receipt of Collateral is not expressly permitted
hereunder, such benefited Lender shall purchase for cash from the
other Lenders a participation in such portion of each such other
Lender’s Advances, or shall provide such other Lender with
the benefits of any such Collateral, or the proceeds thereof, as
shall be necessary to cause such benefited Lender to share the
excess payment or benefits of such Collateral or proceeds ratably
with each of the other Lenders; provided, however, that if all or
any portion of such excess payment or benefits is thereafter
recovered from such benefited Lender, such purchase shall be
rescinded, and the purchase price and benefits returned, to the
extent of such recovery, but without interest. Each Lender so
purchasing a portion of another Lender’s Advances may
exercise all rights of payment (including, without limitation,
rights of set-off) with respect to such portion as fully as if such
Lender were the direct holder of such portion.
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Unless the Agent shall have been
notified by telephone, confirmed in writing, by any Lender that
such Lender will not make the amount which would constitute its
applicable Commitment Percentage of the Advances available to the
Agent, the Agent may (but shall not be obligated to) assume that
such Lender shall make such amount available to the Agent on the
next Settlement Date and, in reliance upon such assumption, make
available to the Borrowers a corresponding amount. The Agent will
promptly notify the Borrowers of its receipt of any such notice
from a Lender. If such amount is made available to the Agent on a
date after such next Settlement Date, such Lender shall pay to the
Agent on demand an amount equal to the product of (i) the
daily average Federal Funds Effective Rate (computed on the basis
of a year of 360 days) during such period as quoted by the
Agent, times (ii) such amount, times (iii) the number of
days from and including such Settlement Date to the date on which
such amount becomes immediately available to the Agent. A
certificate of the Agent submitted to any Lender with respect to
any amounts owing under this paragraph (e) shall be presumed
correct, in the absence of manifest error. If such amount is not in
fact made available to the Agent by such Lender within three
(3) Business Days after such Settlement
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Date, the Agent
shall be entitled to recover such an amount, with interest thereon
at the rate per annum then applicable to such Revolving Advances
hereunder, on demand from the Borrowers; provided, however, that
the Agent’s right to such recovery shall not prejudice or
otherwise adversely affect the Borrowers’ rights (if any)
against such Lender.
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The
Borrowers shall apply the proceeds of Advances (i) to repay
existing Indebtedness owed to its current senior secured lenders
(PNC Bank, National Association, Agent), (ii) to pay fees and
expenses relating to the transaction contemplated by this
Agreement, (iii) for general corporate purposes and
(iv) to provide for working capital needs.
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Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary contained herein, in the event any Lender (x) has
refused (which refusal constitutes a breach by such Lender of its
obligations under this Agreement) to make available its portion of
any Advance or (y) notifies either the Agent or the Borrowing
Agent that it does not intend to make available its portion of any
Advance (if the actual refusal would constitute a breach by such
Lender of its obligations under this Agreement) (each, a
“Lender Default”), all rights and obligations hereunder
of such Lender (a “Defaulting Lender”) as to which a
Lender Default is in effect and of the other parties hereto shall
be modified to the extent of the express provisions of this
Section 2.15 while such Lender Default remains in
effect.
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Advances shall be incurred pro rata
from the Lenders (the “Non-Defaulting Lenders”) which
are not Defaulting Lenders based on their respective Commitment
Percentages, and no Commitment Percentage of any Lender or any pro
rata share of any Advances required to be advanced by any Lender
shall be increased as a result of such Lender Default. Amounts
received in respect of principal of any type of Advances shall be
applied to reduce the applicable Advances of each Lender pro rata
based on the aggregate of the outstanding Advances of that type of
all Lenders at the time of such application; provided, that, such
amount shall not be applied to any Advances of a Defaulting Lender
at any time when, and to the extent that, the aggregate amount of
Advances of any Non-Defaulting Lender exceeds such Non-Defaulting
Lender’s Commitment Percentage of all Advances then
outstanding.
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A
Defaulting Lender shall not be entitled to give instructions to the
Agent or to approve, disapprove, consent to or vote on any matters
relating to this Agreement and the Other Documents. All amendments,
waivers and other modifications of this Agreement and the Other
Documents may be made without regard to a Defaulting Lender and,
for purposes of the definition of “Required Lenders”,
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Defaulting
Lender shall be deemed not to be a Lender and not to have Advances
outstanding.
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Other than as expressly set forth in
this Section 2.15, the rights and obligations of a Defaulting
Lender (including the obligation to indemnify the Agent) and the
other parties hereto shall remain unchanged. Nothing in this
Section 2.15 shall be deemed to release any Defaulting Lender
from its obligations under this Agreement and the Other Documents,
shall alter such obligations, shall operate as a waiver of any
default by such Defaulting Lender hereunder, or shall prejudice any
rights which any Borrower, the Agent or any Lender may have against
any Defaulting Lender as a result of any default by such Defaulting
Lender hereunder.
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