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Exhibit
4C
Federal Signal
Corporation
Supplemental Agreement
Supplemental Agreement
This Supplemental Agreement (herein,
the “Agreement”) is entered into as of
September 6, 2007, by and among Federal Signal Corporation, a
Delaware corporation (the “Borrower”), Federal
Signal Europe B.V. y CIA, S.C., a Spanish company
“sociedad colectiva” incorporated under the laws
of Spain and domiciled in Calle Doctor Ferran 7, Vilassar de Dalt
(Barcelona) Postal Code 08339 and registered with the Barcelona
Commercial Registry under Volume 39272 Folio 109 Page B-343809,
First Entry, with Tax ID Number C-64402126 and duly represented by
its legal Representative Mr. Jose Maria Paso Luna (the
“Alternative Currency Borrower”), Bank of
Montreal Ireland p.l.c. (the “Alternative Currency
Lender”), BMO Capital Markets Financing, Inc., a Delaware
corporation, as Swing Line Lender under the Credit Agreement
hereinafter identified and defined, and Bank of Montreal, acting as
administrative agent hereunder for the Lenders hereinafter
identified and defined (Bank of Montreal, acting as such
administrative agent and any successor or successors to Bank of
Montreal acting in such capacity being hereinafter referred to as
the “Agent”).
Preliminary
Statements
A. The Borrower is a party to a
Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of
April 25, 2007, among the Borrower, the several Guarantors
from time to time party hereto, the several financial institutions
from time to time party thereto, as Banks, the Swing Line Lender
and the Agent (such Credit Agreement, as the same may be amended,
modified or supplemented from time to time, is referred to herein
as the “Credit Agreement”).
B. Concurrently herewith the
Borrower, the Agent, the Alternative Currency Borrower and the
Swing Line Lender are entering into a Designation of Alternative
Currency Borrower of even date herewith (such Designation of
Alternative Currency Borrower, as the same may be amended, modified
or supplemented from time to time, is referred to herein as the
“Designation Agreement”) pursuant to which,
among other things, the Alternative Currency Borrower has become a
party to the Credit Agreement for the purpose of obtaining Swing
Loans under the Swing Line.
C. The parties hereto are
entering into this Agreement to provide for the Alternative
Currency Lender to become a Designated Alternative Currency Lender
under the Credit Agreement for the purpose of making Swing Loans
denominated in Euros to the Alternative Currency Borrower under the
Credit Agreement.
Now, Therefore , for good and
valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which is
hereby acknowledged, and subject to the satisfaction of the
conditions precedent set forth in Section 4 below, the parties
hereto agree as follows:
Section 1.
Agreements.
Section 1.1. Swing
Loans. The parties hereto agree that from and after the
effective date of this Agreement the Alternative Currency Lender
shall be a Designated Alternative Currency Lender under the Credit
Agreement for the purpose of making Swing Loans denominated in
Euros to the Alternative Currency Borrower under the Credit
Agreement. The Alternative Currency Lender shall have all of the
rights and obligations of a Designated Alternative Currency Lender
under the Credit Documents. The Alternative Currency Lender agrees
to make Swing Loans denominated in Euros to the Alternative
Currency Borrower, subject to the terms and conditions set forth in
the Credit Agreement and this Agreement.
Section 1.2. Applicable
Interest Rate. Each Swing Loan made or maintained by the
Alternative Currency Lender shall bear interest during each
Interest Period it is outstanding (computed on the basis of a year
of 360 days and actual days elapsed) on the unpaid principal
amount thereof from the date such Swing Loan is advanced or
continued until maturity (whether by acceleration or otherwise) at
a rate per annum equal to the sum of the Applicable Margin plus
EURIBOR applicable for such Interest Period, payable on the last
day of the Interest Period and at maturity (whether by acceleration
or otherwise), and, if the applicable Interest Period is longer
than three months, on each day occurring every three months after
the commencement of such Interest Period. The Alternative Currency
Lender shall determine each interest rate applicable to the Swing
Loans made by it hereunder, and a reasonable determination thereof
by the Alternative Currency Lender shall be conclusive and binding
except in the case of manifest error or willful misconduct.
Section 1.3. Minimum
Borrowing Amount. Each Swing Loan made hereunder shall be in an
amount not less than €
500,000 and in integral multiples of € 250,000.
Section 1.4. Manner of
Borrowing and Designating Interest Rates. (a) Notice to the
Agent. The Alternative Currency Borrower shall give notice to
the Agent by no later than 11:00 a.m. (Chicago time)
(i) at least four (4) Business Days before the date on
which the Alternative Currency Borrower requests the Alternative
Currency Lender to advance a Swing Loan. After a Swing Loan is made
hereunder, the Alternative Currency Borrower may from time to time
elect, on the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto,
to continue part or all of such Swing Loan for an Interest Period
or Interest Periods specified by the Alternative Currency Borrower.
The Alternative Currency Borrower shall give all such notices
requesting the advance or continuation of a Swing Loan hereunder to
the Agent by telephone or telecopy (which notice shall be
irrevocable once given and, if by telephone, shall be promptly
confirmed in writing). Notices of the continuation of a Swing Loan
for an additional Interest Period must be given by no later than
11:00 a.m. (Chicago time) at least four (4) Business Days
before the date of the requested continuation. All such notices
concerning the advance or continuation of a Swing Loan shall
specify the date of the requested advance or continuation (which
shall be a Business Day), the amount of the requested Swing Loan to
be advanced or continued and the Interest Period applicable
thereto. The Alternative Currency Borrower agrees that the Agent
may rely on any such telephonic or telecopy notice given by any
person it in good faith believes is an Authorized Representative
without the necessity of independent investigation, and in the
event
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any such
notice by telephone conflicts with any written confirmation, such
telephonic notice shall govern if the Agent has acted in reliance
thereon.
(b) Notice to the
Alternative Currency Lender. The Agent shall give telephonic or
telecopy notice to the Alternative Currency Lender of any notice
from the Alternative Currency Borrower received pursuant to
Section 1.4(a) above within one Business Day of the
Agent’s receipt of such notice from the Alternative Currency
Borrower. The Alternative Currency Lender shall notify the Agent,
and thereafter the Agent shall give notice to the Alternative
Currency Borrower, by like means of the interest rate applicable to
each Swing Loan made hereunder.
(c) Alternative Currency
Borrower’s Failure to Notify. Any outstanding Swing Loans
made hereunder shall automatically be continued for an additional
Interest Period of one month duration on the last day of its then
current Interest Period unless the Alternative Currency Borrower
notifies the Agent within the period required by
Section 1.9(a) that it intends to prepay such Swing
Loan.
(d) Disbursement of
Loans. Not later than 12:00 Noon (Dublin time) on the date of
any requested advance of a new Swing Loan under this Agreement,
subject to Section 7 of the Credit Agreement, the Alternative
Currency Lender shall make available to the Alternative Currency
Borrower the requested Swing Loan in funds immediately available at
the principal office of the Alternative Currency Lender in Dublin,
Ireland.
Section 1.5. Default
Rate Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in
Section 1.2 hereof, at the direction of the Required Banks
while any Event of Default exists or (unless and until rescinded by
the Required Banks) after acceleration, the Alternative Currency
Borrower shall pay interest (after as well as before entry of
judgment thereon to the extent permitted by law) on the principal
amount of all Swing Loans made under this Agreement (computed on
the basis of a year of 360 days and actual days elapsed), at a
rate per annum equal to the sum of two percent (2%) plus the rate
of interest in effect thereon at the time of such default until the
end of the Interest Period applicable thereto and, thereafter, at a
rate per annum equal to the sum of two percent (2%) plus the
Applicable Margin plus the EURIBOR from time to time in effect;
provided, however, that in the absence of acceleration or
any other Event of Default pursuant to Section 9.1(a) of the Credit
Agreement, any adjustments pursuant to this Section 1.5 shall
be made at the election of the Required Banks with written notice
to the Alternative Currency Borrower. While any Event of Default
exists or after acceleration, interest shall be paid on demand of
the Agent at the request or with the consent of the Required
Banks.
Section 1.6. Note for
Loans. (a) The Swing Loans made to the Alternative
Currency Borrower by the Alternative Currency Lender shall be
evidenced by a single promissory note of the Alternative Currency
Borrower issued to the Alternative Currency Lender in the form of
Exhibit A hereto. Such promissory note is hereinafter referred
to as the “Swing Note.”
(c) The Alternative Currency
Lender shall record on its books and records or on a schedule to
its Swing Note the amount of each Loan advanced or continued by it,
all payments of principal and interest and the principal balance
from time to time outstanding thereon, and the
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Interest
Period and the interest rate applicable thereto. The record
thereof, whether shown on such books and records of the Alternative
Currency Lender or on a schedule to its Swing Note, shall be
prima facie evidence as to all such matters; provided,
however, that the failure of the Alternative Currency Lender to
record any of the foregoing or any error in any such record shall
not limit or otherwise affect the obligation of the Alternative
Currency Borrower to repay all Swing Loans made to it hereunder
together with accrued interest thereon. At the request of the
Alternative Currency Lender and upon the Alternative Currency
Lender tendering to the Alternative Currency Borrower the Swing
Note to be replaced, the Alternative Currency Borrower shall
furnish a new Swing Note to the Alternative Currency Lender to
replace any outstanding Swing Note, and at such time the first
notation appearing on a schedule on the reverse side of, or
attached to, Swing Note shall set forth the aggregate unpaid
principal amount of all Loans, if any, then outstanding
thereon.
Section 1.7. Interest
Periods. As provided in Section 1.4(a) hereof, at the time
of each request to advance or continue any Swing Loan, the
Alternative Currency Borrower shall select an Interest Period
applicable to such Loan from among the available options. The term
“Interest Period” means the period commencing on
the date a Swing Loan is advanced or continued and ending 1, 2, 3
or 6 months thereafter; provided, however, that:
(a) the Alternative Currency Borrower
may not select an Interest Period that extends beyond the
Termination Date;
(b) whenever the last day of any
Interest Period would otherwise be a day that is not a Business
Day, the last day of such Interest Period shall be extended to the
next succeeding Business Day, provided that, if such
extension would cause the last day of an Interest Period for a
Swing Loan to occur in the following calendar month, the last day
of such Interest Period shall be the immediately preceding Business
Day; and
(c) for purposes of determining an
Interest Period for a Swing Loan, a month means a period starting
on one day in a calendar month and ending on the numerically
corresponding day in the next calendar month; provided,
however, that if there is no numerically corresponding day in
the month in which such an Interest Period is to end or if such an
Interest Period begins on the last Business Day of a calendar
month, then such Interest Period shall end on the last Business Day
of the calendar month in which such Interest Period is to
end.
Section 1.8. Maturity of
Loans. Each Swing Loan shall mature and become due and payable
by the Alternative Currency Borrower on the Termination Date.
Section 1.9.
Prepayments. (a) Optional. The Alternative Currency
Borrower may prepay without premium or penalty and in whole or in
part (but, if in part, then: (i) in an amount not less than
€ 250,000, and
(ii) in an amount such that the minimum amount required for a
Swing Loan pursuant to Section 1.3 hereof remains outstanding)
any Swing Loans upon four (4) Business Days’ prior
notice to the Agent, such prepayment to be made by the payment of
the principal amount to be prepaid and accrued interest thereon to
the date fixed for prepayment and
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any
compensation required by Section 1.10 hereof. The Agent will
promptly advise the Alternative Currency Lender of any such
prepayment notice it receives from the Alternative Currency
Borrower. Any amount paid or prepaid before the Termination Date
may, subject to the terms and conditions of the Credit Agreement
and this Agreement, be borrowed, repaid and borrowed again.
(b) Mandatory.
(i) If on the last day of any month or on any other date
specified by the Agent the sum of the aggregate Original Dollar
Amount of all Swing Loans then outstanding shall exceed
$35,000,000, the Alternative Currency Borrower shall within two
Business Days prepay the Swing Loans outstanding hereunder by the
amount, if any, necessary to eliminate such excess.
(ii) The Swing Loans made
hereunder are subject to mandatory prepayment on the terms set
forth in Section 2.3 of the Credit Agreement.
Section 1.10. Funding
Indemnity. If the Alternative Currency Lender shall incur any
loss, cost or expense (including, without limitation, any loss,
cost or expense incurred by reason of the liquidation or
re-employment of deposits or other funds acquired by the
Alternative Currency Lender to fund or maintain any Swing Loan or
the relending or reinvesting of such deposits or amounts paid or
prepaid to the Alternative Currency Lender, but in any event
excluding any loss of profit) as a result of:
(a) any payment, prepayment or
conversion of a Swing Loan on a date other than the last day of its
Interest Period,
(b) any failure (because of a failure
to meet the conditions of Section 7 of the Credit Agreement or
otherwise) by the Alternative Currency Borrower to borrow or
continue a Swing Loan on the date specified in a notice given
pursuant to Section 1.4(a) or established pursuant to
Section 1.4(c) hereof,
(c) any failure by the Alternative
Currency Borrower to make any payment of principal on any Swing
Loan when due (whether by acceleration or otherwise), or
(d) any acceleration of the maturity
of a Swing Loan as a result of the occurrence of any Event of
Default under the Credit Agreement,
then,
upon the demand of the Alternative Currency Lender, the Alternative
Currency Borrower shall pay to the Alternative Currency Lender such
amount as will reimburse the Alternative Currency Lender for such
loss, cost or expense. If the Alternative Currency Lender makes
such a claim for compensation, it shall provide to the Alternative
Currency Borrower, with a copy to the Agent, a certificate executed
by an officer of the Alternative Currency Lender setting forth the
amount of such loss, cost or expense in reasonable detail
(including an explanation of the basis for and the computation of
such loss, cost or expense) and the amounts shown on such
certificate if reasonably calculated shall be conclusive absent
demonstrable error.
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Section 1.11. Place and
Application of Payments. All payments of principal of and
interest on the Swing Loans and of all other amounts payable by the
Alternative Currency Borrower under this Agreement and the Credit
Agreement, shall be made by the Alternative Currency Borrower to
the Alternative Currency Lender by no later than 1:00 p.m. (Dublin
time) on the due date thereof at the principal office of the
Alternative Currency Lender in Dublin, Ireland (or such other
location in Dublin, Ireland as the Alternative Currency Lender may
designate to the Alternative Currency Borrower). Any payments
received after such time shall be deemed to have been received by
the Alternative Currency Lender on the next Business Day. All such
payments shall be made in Euros in such funds then customary for
the settlement of international transactions in such currency, in
each case without set-off or counterclaim.
Section 1.12. Change of
Law. Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Agreement or
the Swing Note, if at any time after the date hereof any change in
applicable law or regulation or in the interpretation thereof makes
it unlawful for the Alternative Currency Lender to make or continue
to maintain Swing Loans or to perform its obligations as
contemplated hereby, the Alternative Currency Lender shall promptly
give notice thereof to the Alternative Currency Borrower and the
Alternative Currency Lender’s obligations to make or maintain
Swing Loans under this Agreement shall terminate. To the extent
required by such change, the Alternative Currency Borrower shall
prepay on demand the outstanding principal amount of any such
affected Swing Loans, together with all interest accrued thereon at
a rate per annum equal to the interest rate applicable to such
Swing Loan.
Section 1.13. Increased Cost
and Reduced Return (a) If, on or after the date hereof,
the adoption of any applicable law, rule or regulation, or any
change therein, or any change in the interpretation or
administration thereof by any governmental authority, central bank
or comparable agency charged with the interpretation or
administration thereof, or compliance by the Alternative Currency
Lender with any request or directive (whether or not having the
force of law but, if not having the force of law, compliance with
which is customary in the relevant jurisdiction) of any such
authority, central bank or comparable agency:
(i) shall subject the Alternative
Currency Lender to any tax, duty or other charge with respect to
Swing Loans, Swing Notes or any thereof, or shall change the basis
of taxation of payments to the Alternative Currency Lender of the
principal of or interest on such Swing Loans or any other amounts
due under this Agreement in respect of such Swing Loans or its
obligation to make Swing Loans (except for changes in the rate of
tax on the overall net income or profits of the Alternative
Currency Lender imposed by the jurisdiction in which the
Alternative Currency Lender is incorporated, or in which its
principal executive office is located); or
(ii) shall impose, modify or deem
applicable any reserve (including any liquidity reserve), special
deposit or similar requirement (including, without limitation, any
such requirement imposed by any Regulatory Authority irrespective
of whether or not such requirements have the force of law) against
assets of, deposits with or for the account of, or credit extended
by, the Alternative Currency Lender or shall impose on the
Alternative Currency Lender or on the interbank market any other
condition affecting Swing Loans, Swing Notes or its obligation to
make Swing Loans;
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and the
result of any of the foregoing is to increase the cost to the
Alternative Currency Lender of making or maintaining any Swing
Loan, or to reduce the amount of any sum received or receivable by
the Alternative Currency Lender under this Agreement or under Swing
Notes with respect thereto, by an amount deemed by the Alternative
Currency Lender to be material, then, within fifteen (15) days
after demand by the Alternative Currency Lender (with a copy to the
Agent), the Alternative Currency Borrower shall be obligated to pay
to the Alternative Currency Lender such additional amount or
amounts as will compensate the Alternative Currency Lender for such
increased cost or reduction; provided, however, that the
Alternative Currency Lender shall promptly notify the Alternative
Currency Borrower of an event which might cause it to seek
compensation, and the Alternative Currency Borrower shall be
obligated to pay only such compensation which is incurred or which
arises after the date ninety (90) days prior to the date such
notice is given. In the event any law, rule, regulation or
interpretation described above is revoked, declared invalid or
inapplicable or is otherwise rescinded, and as a result thereof the
Alternative Currency Lender is determined to be entitled to a
refund from the applicable authority for any amount or amounts
which were paid or reimbursed by Alternative Currency Borrower to
the Alternative Currency Lender hereunder, the Alternative Currency
Lender shall refund such amount or amounts to Alternative Currency
Borrower without interest.
(b) If the Alternative Currency
Lender shall have determined that the adoption, after the date
hereof, of any applicable law, rule or regulation regarding capital
adequacy, or any change therein (including, without limitation, any
revision in the requirements of any Regulatory Authority, or in any
other applicable capital rules heretofore adopted and issued by any
governmental authority), or any change in the interpretation or
administration thereof by any governmental authority, central bank
or comparable agency charged with the interpretation or
administration thereof, or compliance by the Alternative Currency
Lender with any request or directive regarding capital adequacy
(whether or not having the force of law but, if not having the
force of law, compliance with which is customary in the applicable
jurisdiction) of any such authority, central bank or comparable
agency, has or would have the effect of reducing the rate of return
on the Alternative Currency Lender’s capital, or on the
capital of any corporation controlling the Alternative Currency
Lender, as a consequence of its obligations hereunder to a level
below that which the Alternative Currency Lender could have
achieved but






