Exhibit 10.1
EXECUTION COPY
AMENDMENT NO. 3, CONSENT,
WAIVER AND AGREEMENT dated as of August 1, 2007 (this “
Amendment ”), to the Credit Agreement dated as
of April 1, 2005, as amended by Amendment No. 1, Consent,
Waiver and Agreement dated as of August 19, 2005 and Amendment
No. 2, Consent, Waiver and Agreement dated as of March 7,
2007 (as so amended, the “ Credit Agreement
”), among AMI SEMICONDUCTOR, INC., a Delaware corporation
(the “ Borrower ”), AMIS HOLDINGS, INC.,
a Delaware corporation (“ Holdings ”),
the Lenders (as defined in Article I of the Credit Agreement)
and CREDIT SUISSE (formerly known as Credit Suisse First Boston),
as administrative agent (in such capacity, the “
Administrative Agent ”) and as collateral agent
(in such capacity, the “ Collateral Agent
” ) for the Lenders.
A. Pursuant to the Credit Agreement,
the Lenders have extended, and have agreed to extend, credit to the
Borrower.
B. Holdings and the Borrower have
requested (i) certain amendments to the Credit Agreement and
(ii) that the Lenders waive compliance by Holdings and the
Borrower with certain provisions of the Credit Agreement as set
forth herein, and the applicable Lenders are willing to agree to
such amendments and grant such waivers, in each case on the terms
and subject to the conditions set forth herein.
Accordingly, in consideration of the
mutual agreements herein contained and other good and valuable
consideration, the sufficiency and receipt of which are hereby
acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:
SECTION 1. Defined Terms;
Interpretation; Etc . Capitalized terms used and not
defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in
the Credit Agreement. The rules of construction set forth in
Section 1.02 of the Credit Agreement shall apply equally to
this Amendment. This Amendment shall be a “Loan
Document” for all purposes of the Credit Agreement and the
other Loan Documents.
SECTION 2. Consent and
Waiver . (a) The Required Lenders hereby consent to
the Designated Intellectual Property Transfers (as defined below),
and hereby waive compliance by Holdings and the Borrower with the
provisions of Sections 6.05 and 6.07 of the Credit Agreement to the
extent (but only to the extent) necessary to sell, license,
sublicense or otherwise transfer the assets in respect of the
Designated Intellectual Property Transfers.
(b) The Required Lenders and the
Requisite Term Lenders (as defined below) hereby waive compliance
by the Borrower with the provisions of Section 2.13(b) of the
Credit Agreement to the extent (but only to the extent) that such
Section would otherwise require the Borrower to prepay Term Loans
with the Net Cash Proceeds of the Designated Intellectual Property
Transfers. For purposes of this Amendment, “ Requisite
Term Lenders ” shall mean Term Lenders under the
Credit Agreement holding a majority of the aggregate principal
amount of outstanding Term Loans.
(c) The Required Lenders and the
Requisite Term Lenders hereby waive compliance by the Borrower with
the provisions of Section 2.13(c) of the Credit Agreement to
the extent (but only to the extent) that such Section would
otherwise require the Borrower to prepay Term Loans with the
proceeds from the Convertible Notes Offering (as defined
below).
SECTION 3. Amendments.
(a) The definition of “Applicable Percentage” set
forth in Section 1.01 of the Credit Agreement is hereby
amended and restated in its entirety to read as follows:
“ Applicable
Percentage ” shall mean, for any day, (a) with
respect to any Eurodollar Term Loan or ABR Term Loan, as the case
may be, the applicable percentage set forth below under the caption
“Eurodollar Spread–Term Loans” or “ABR
Spread–Term Loans”, as the case may be, based upon the
satisfaction of the Specified Ratings Condition as of the relevant
date of determination:
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Satisfaction of Specified Ratings
Condition
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Eurodollar
Spread –
Term Loans
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ABR Spread–
Term Loans
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Specified
Ratings Condition is not satisfied
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2.75%
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1.75%
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Specified
Ratings Condition is satisfied
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2.00%
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1.00%
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(b) with respect to any Eurodollar
Revolving Loan or ABR Revolving Loan (including for this purpose
each Swingline Loan), as the case may be, the applicable percentage
set forth below under the caption “Eurodollar
Spread–Revolving Loans” or “ABR
Spread–Revolving Loans”, as the case may be, based upon
the Leverage Ratio as of the relevant date of determination;
provided that, in the event that the Specified Ratings
Condition is not satisfied, and for so long as the Specified
Ratings Condition shall not be satisfied, such applicable
percentage shall be 75 basis points greater than the applicable
percentage set forth below:
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Eurodollar
Spread–
Revolving Loans
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ABR Spread–
Revolving
Loans
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Category 1
Equal to or greater than 2.0 to
1.0
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2.25%
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1.25%
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Category 2
Equal to or greater than 1.0 to 1.0,
but less than 2.0 to 1.0
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2.00%
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1.00%
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Category 3
Less than 1.0 to 1.0
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1.75%
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0.75%
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Each change in the Applicable
Percentage resulting from a change in the Leverage Ratio shall be
effective with respect to all applicable Loans and Letters of
Credit outstanding on and after the date of delivery to the
Administrative Agent of the financial statements and certificates
required by Section 5.04(a) or (b) and
Section 5.04(c), respectively, indicating such change until
the date immediately preceding the next date of delivery of such
financial statements and certificates indicating another such
change. Notwithstanding the foregoing, (a) at any time during
which the Borrower has failed to deliver the financial statements
and certificates required by Section 5.04(a) or (b) and
Section 5.04(c), respectively, the Leverage Ratio shall be
deemed to be in Category 2 for purposes of determining the
Applicable Percentage (unless the Leverage Ratio in effect
immediately prior to such failure was in Category 1, in which case
the Leverage Ratio shall remain in Category 1 until delivery of
such financial statements and certificate) and (b) at any time
after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of
Default, the Leverage Ratio shall be deemed to be in Category 1 for
purposes of determining the Applicable Percentage.
Notwithstanding anything in this
Agreement to the contrary, the Specified Ratings Condition with
respect to the Term Loans and the Revolving Loans, as applicable,
shall in no event be considered to be or remain satisfied
(a) at any time after the occurrence and during the
continuance of an Event of Default or (b) following the first
Business Day after the occurrence of a Ratings Event or a Ratings
Withdrawal. If the rating system of Moody’s or S&P shall
change, or if either such rating agency shall cease to be in the
business of rating corporate debt obligations, the Borrower and the
Required Lenders shall negotiate in good faith to amend the
definition of the term “Specified Ratings Condition” to
reflect such changed rating system, or the unavailability of
ratings from such rating agency and, pending the effectiveness of
any such amendment, the Applicable Percentage with respect to the
(a) Term Loans shall be the Applicable Percentage in effect
immediately prior to such change or unavailability and
(b) Revolving Loans shall be determined without regard to
whether or not the Specified Ratings Condition shall have been
satisfied.
(b) The definition of
“Permitted Acquisition” set forth in Section 1.01
of the Credit Agreement is hereby amended by inserting a new
sub-clause (w) to clause (iii) of the proviso to such
definition that reads as follows: “(w) $225,000,000 for
acquisitions financed with the Net Cash Proceeds of the Convertible
Notes Offering (less the amount of such Net Cash Proceeds that has
previously been used to finance a repurchase of Equity Interests of
Holdings pursuant to Section 6.06(g))”.
(c) Section 1.01 of the Credit
Agreement is hereby amended by inserting the following defined
terms in appropriate alphabetical order:
“ Amendment
No. 2 ” shall mean Amendment No. 2,
Consent, Waiver and Agreement dated as of March 7, 2007, to
this Agreement.
“ Amendment
No. 3 ” shall mean Amendment No. 3,
Consent, Waiver and Agreement dated as of August 1, 2007, to
this Agreement.
“ Amendment No. 3
Effective Date ” shall mean the date on which
Amendment No. 3 becomes effective in accordance with its
terms.
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“ Convertible Cash
Settlement Payment ” shall mean any payment of the
cash portion of the settlement amount required to be paid to any
holder of Convertible Notes upon the conversion thereof in
accordance with the terms of the Convertible Note
Documents.
“ Convertible Note
Documents ” shall mean the indenture under which the
Convertible Notes are issued and all other instruments, agreements
and other documents evidencing or governing the Convertible Notes
or providing for any right in respect thereof.
“ Convertible
Notes ” shall mean convertible notes of Holdings that
(a) mature on or after, and require no scheduled payments of
principal prior to, the date that is three months after Term Loan
Maturity Date, (b) are in an initial aggregate principal
amount of up to $225,000,000 and (c) have other terms
reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent.
“ Convertible Notes
Offering ” shall mean the offering and sale by
Holdings of the Convertible Notes.
“ Designated
Intellectual Property Transfer ” shall mean the
transfer or license by Holdings, the Borrower and any Subsidiary
Guarantor, for reasonably adequate consideration, of intellectual
property owned by such person, to one or more Foreign Subsidiaries
( provided that, notwithstanding anything herein or in
Amendment No. 2 to the contrary, the aggregate fair market
value (as determined in good faith by the Board of Directors of the
Borrower) of all intellectual property so transferred shall not
exceed $75,000,000).
“ Permitted Holdings
Debt ” shall mean unsecured Indebtedness of Holdings
that (a) is not guaranteed by the Borrower or any Subsidiary,
(b) does not mature prior to the first anniversary of the Term
Loan Maturity Date, (c) has no scheduled amortization or
payments of principal (it being understood that such Indebtedness
may have mandatory prepayment, repurchase or redemption provisions
satisfying the requirements of clause (e) hereof),
(d) other than in respect of any such Indebtedness that has
terms substantially similar to those of the Convertible Notes, does
not require any payments in cash of interest or other amounts in
respect of the principal thereof prior to the earlier to occur of
(i) the date that is five years from the date of the issuance
or incurrence thereof and (ii) the first anniversary of the
Term Loan Maturity Date, and (e) that has mandatory
prepayment, repurchase or redemption, covenant, default and remedy
provisions customary for senior notes of an issuer that is the
parent of a borrower under senior secured credit facilities, and in
any event, with respect to covenant, default and remedy provisions,
no more restrictive than those set forth in the Convertible Note
Documents taken as a whole; provided that any such
Indebtedness shall constitute Permitted Holdings Debt only if both
before and after giving effect to the issuance or incurrence
thereof, no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing.
“ Specified Foreign
Subsidiary Debt ” shall have the meaning given to
such term in Section 6.01(j).
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“ Specified Ratings
Condition ” shall mean that the Borrower shall have
in effect a corporate family rating of Ba3 or higher from
Moody’s and a corporate rating of BB- or higher from S&P
(the “ Specified Ratings ”);
provided that the Specified Ratings Condition shall only
remain satisfied for so long as (x) neither Moody’s nor
S&P shall have reduced its corporate family/corporate rating of
the Borrower to a ratings category below the Specified Ratings,
(y)(i) Moody’s shall not have placed the corporate family
rating of the Borrower on “Negative Outlook or Watch
Downgrade” (or any comparable designation employed in the
future by Moody’s) at any time that the Borrower’s
corporate family rating is Ba3 and (ii) S&P shall not have
placed the corporate rating of the Borrower on “CreditWatch
negative” (or any comparable designation employed in the
future by S&P) at any time that the Borrower’s corporate
rating is BB- (any of the events described in clauses (x) or
(y), a “ Ratings Event ”) and
(z) neither Moody’s nor S&P shall have withdrawn its
rating of the Borrower (a “ Ratings Withdrawal
”).
(d) Section 2.13(e) of the
Credit Agreement is hereby amended by inserting the words
(1) “or incurrence” immediately following the
words “from the issuance” in the second line thereof,
(2) “and Specified Foreign Subsidiary Debt”
immediately following the words “Other Permitted Subordinated
Debt” in the third and fourth lines thereof,
(3) “, incurrence” immediately following the words
“any issuance” in the ninth line thereof and
(4) “or Specified Foreign Subsidiary Debt”
immediately following the words “Other Permitted Subordinated
Debt” in the ninth and tenth lines thereof.
(e) Section 3.13 of the Credit
Agreement is hereby amended by (1) inserting the words
“(other than any Revolving Loans made in respect of increased
Revolving Credit Commitments established pursuant to
Section 2.24)” immediately following the words
“Revolving Loans” in the fourth line thereof,
(2) inserting the words “, but that no proceeds of any
Revolving Loans made in respect of increased Revolving Credit
Commitments established pursuant to Section 2.24 shall be used
by the Borrower to purchase or otherwise acquire the common Equity
Interests of Holdings or by the Borrower to finance a Dividend to
Holdings for the purpose of enabling Holdings to make any such
purchase or other acquisition or to finance any Dividend to
Holdings for the purpose of redeeming or otherwise acquiring for
value any Convertible Notes or making any Convertible Cash
Settlement Payment, or any other Dividend to Holdings”
immediately following the words “purpose of the
Borrower” in the sixth line thereof and (3) inserting
the words “(it being understood and agreed that no such
proceeds shall be used by the Borrower to purchase or otherwise
acquire the common Equity Interests of Holdings or by the Borrower
to finance a Dividend to Holdings for the purpose of enabling
Holdings to make any such purchase or other acquisition or to
finance any Dividend to Holdings for the purpose of redeeming or
otherwise acquiring for value any Convertible Notes or making any
Convertible Cash Settlement Payment, or any other Dividend to
Holdings)” immediately following the words “Assumption
Agreement” in the eighth line thereof.
(f) Section 5.08 of the Credit
Agreement is hereby amended by (1) inserting the words
“(other than any Revolving Loans made in respect of increased
Revolving Credit Commitments established pursuant to
Section 2.24)” immediately following the words
“Revolving Loans” in the fourth line thereof and
(2) inserting the words “, but that no proceeds of any
Revolving Loans made in respect of increased Revolving Credit
Commitments established pursuant to Section 2.24 or any
Incremental Term Loans shall be used by the Borrower to purchase or
otherwise acquire the common Equity Interests of Holdings or by the
Borrower to finance a Dividend to Holdings for the purpose of
enabling Holdings to make any such purchase or other acquisition or
to finance any Dividend to Holdings for the purpose of redeeming or
otherwise acquiring for value any Convertible Notes or making any
convertible Cash Settlement Payment, or any other Dividend to
Holdings” immediately following the words “purpose of
the Borrower” in the sixth line thereof.
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(g) Section 6.01 of the Credit
Agreement is hereby amended by (1) (i) replacing the word
“and” with a comma and (ii) inserting the words
“and (o)” immediately following the reference to
paragraph (m), in each case in the second line of paragraph
(n) thereof, (2) inserting the words “(
provided that the Foreign Subsidiaries may incur up to an
additional $55,000,000 of Indebtedness in the aggregate for the
purpose of financing Designated Intellectual Property Transfers
(any such additional Indebtedness, “ Specified Foreign
Subsidiary Debt ”))” immediately following the
words “not exceed $20,000,000” in the fourth line of
paragraph (j) thereof, and (3) relabeling the current
paragraph (o) as paragraph (p) and (3) inserting the
following new paragraph (o) immediately after paragraph
(n):
“(o) Indebtedness in respect
of (i) the Convertible Notes and (ii) Permitted Holdings
Debt incurred to refinance the Convertible Notes in accordance with
Section 6.01(n) as contemplated by
Section 6.06(i);”
(h) Section 6.04 of the Credit
Agreement is hereby amended by (1) deleting the word
“and” immediately following the semicolon at the end of
Section 6.04(p), (2) deleting the period and inserting a
semicolon in place thereof at the end of Section 6.04(q) and
(3) inserting new Section 6.04(r) thereof, which shall
read in its entirety as follows:
“(r) investments consisting of
purchases of Equity Interests permitted by
Section 6.06.”
(i) Section 6.06 of the Credit
Agreement is hereby amended by (1) deleting the word
“and” immediately following the semicolon at the end of
paragraph (f) thereof, (2) (i) relabeling the
current paragraph (g) as paragraph (j),
(ii) deleting the words “paragraphs (a) through
(f) above” in the first and second lines thereof and
replacing such words with “paragraphs (a) through
(i) above”, and (iii) inserting the words
(A) “(or in respect of any Convertible Cash Settlement
Payment)” immediately following the word
“holders” in the fourth line of such paragraph,
(B) “or such Dividend and Convertible Cash Settlement
Payment, as applicable” immediately following the words
“after giving effect to the payment of such Dividend”
in the sixth line of such paragraph and (C) “(other than
a Dividend made in connection with a Convertible Cash Settlement
Payment)” immediately following the words “proposed
Dividend” in the seventh line of such paragraph, and
(3) inserting the following new paragraphs (g), (h) and
(i) immediately after paragraph (f):
“(g) so long as there will
exist no Default or Event of Default (both before and after giving
effect to the payment thereof), Holdings may repurchase its common
Equity Interests through open market purchases or through privately
negotiated transactions in an aggregate amount not to exceed the
Net Cash Proceeds of the Convertible Notes Offering (less the
amount of such Net Cash Proceeds that has previously been used to
finance a Permitted Acquisition pursuant to clause (iii)(w) of the
proviso to the definition of “Permitted Acquisition”)
(it being understood and agreed that, without duplication, the
Borrower may directly make any purchases permitted by this clause
(g) or may pay cash Dividends to Holdings for the purpose of
enabling Holdings to make any such purchase, to the extent such Net
Cash Proceeds shall have been actually contributed by Holdings to
the Borrower);
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(h) so long as there will exist no
Default or Event of Default (both before and after giving effect to
the payment thereof), the Borrower may pay cash Dividends to
Holdings in an amount not in excess of the amount of regularly
scheduled cash interest payable on or during the period of 45 days
following the date of such Dividend on outstanding Convertible
Notes or any Permitted Holdings Debt incurred to refinance the
Convertible Notes to the extent such Permitted Holdings Debt is a
cash-pay instrument (to the extent permitted by the definition of
the term “Permitted Holdings Debt”), provided
that any such Dividends relating to any such cash interest
payment must be paid not earlier than 45 days prior to the date
when such cash interest is required to be paid by Holdings and the
proceeds must be applied by Holdings to the payment of such
interest when due;
(i) so long as there will exist no
Default or Event of Default (both before and after giving effect to
the payment thereof), the Borrower may pay cash Dividends to
Holdings for the purpose of making, so long as all proceeds thereof
are promptly used by Holdings to make, a Convertible Cash
Settlement Payment (x) funded with cash on hand of the
Borrower ( provided in the case of this clause (x) that
(i) no such Dividend may be financed in whole or in part with
any Revolving Borrowings or Incremental Term Borrowings,
(ii) after giving effect to the payment of such Dividend,
Holdings and its subsidiaries shall have on hand unrestricted cash
and Cash Equivalents of not less than $60,000,000 and
(iii) the Administrative Agent shall have received a
certificate of a Financial Officer of the Borrower certifying as to
the matters set forth in clauses (i) and (ii) of this
proviso) or (y) financed with the proceeds of a substantially
contemporaneous issuance of Permitted Holdings Debt (to the extent
the proceeds of such issuance shall have been actually contributed
by Holdings to the Borrower); and”
(j) Section 6.09 of the Credit
Agreement is hereby amended and restated in its entirety to read as
follows:
“Section 6.09. Maximum
Leverage Ratio . Permit the Leverage Ratio at any time
during a period set forth below to be greater than the ratio set
forth opposite such period below:
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Ratio
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Amendment No. 3 Effective Date to End of
Third Fiscal Quarter 2007
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4.50 to 1.0
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Beginning of Fourth Fiscal Quarter 2007 to End
of Fourth Fiscal Quarter 2007
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4.25 to 1.0
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Beginning of First Fiscal Quarter 2008 to End
of First Fiscal Quarter 2008
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4.00 to 1.0
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Beginning of Second Fiscal Quarter 2008 to End
of Third Fiscal Quarter 2008
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3.75 to 1.0
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Beginning of Fourth Fiscal Quarter 2008 to End
of Fourth Fiscal Quarter 2008
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3.50 to 1.0
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Beginning of First Fiscal Quarter 2009 to End
of First Fiscal Quarter 2009
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3.00 to 1.0
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Thereafter
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2.50 to 1.0
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(k) Section 6.14 of the Credit
Agreement is hereby amended by inserting the words “, the
Convertible Notes, any Permitted Holdings Debt” immediately
following the words “Existing Notes” appearing in the
fifth line thereof.
SECTION 4. Other
Agreements. Holdings, the Borrower and the Required Lenders
hereby agree that:
(a) no portion of any basket
provided for in Section 6.05(a) of the Credit Agreement shall
be deemed utilized by the receipt of the Net Cash Proceeds from the
Designated Intellectual Property Transfers; and
(b) contemporaneously with the
consummation of a Designated Intellectual Property Transfer, the
assets sold, licensed, sublicensed or otherwise transferred in
respect of such Designated Intellectual Property Transfer shall be
deemed to have been automatically released from the Liens created
pursuant to the Security Documents, and the Administrative Agent
and the Collateral Agent are hereby authorized to take any action
deemed appropriate to effect the foregoing.
SECTION 5. Representations and
Warranties. To induce the other parties hereto to enter
into this Amendment, Holdings and the Borrower represent and
warrant to each of the Lenders, the Administrative Agent and the
Collateral Agent that, after giving effect to this Amendment and
the transactions contemplated hereby, (a) this Amendment has
been duly executed and delivered by Holdings, the Borrower and each
Subsidiary Guarantor, (b) the representations and warranties
set forth in Article III of the Credit Agreement are true and
correct in all material respects on and as of the date hereof,
except to the extent such representations and warranties expressly
relate to an earlier date, and (c) no Default or Event of
Default has occurred and is continuing.
SECTION 6.
Effectiveness. This Amendment shall become effective
as of the date first written above on the date on which:
(a) the Administrative Agent (or its
counsel) shall have received counterparts of this Amendment that,
when taken together, bear the signatures of (i) the Borrower,
(ii) Holdings, (iii) each Subsidiary Guarantor,
(iv) the Required Lenders and (v) the Requisite Term
Lenders; and
(b) the Administrative Agent shall
have received, for the account of each Lender that executes and
delivers a copy of this Amendment to the Administrative Agent (or
its counsel) at or prior to 12:00 (noon), New York City time,
on July 31, 2007 (the “ Signing Date
”), an amendment fee in an amount equal to 0.10% of the sum
of such Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment (whether used or
unused) and the principal amount of such Lender’s outstanding
Term Loans, in each case as of the Signing Date.
Notwithstanding anything in this
Section 6 to the contrary, the amendments to Section 6.09
of the Credit Agreement contemplated by Section 3(k) of this
Amendment shall not become effective unless and until the
Convertible Notes Offering is consummated.
SECTION 7. Effect of
Amendment. Except as expressly set forth herein, this
Amendment shall not by implication or otherwise limit, impair,
constitute a waiver of, or otherwise affect the rights and remedies
of the Lenders, the Collateral Agent or the
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Administrative Agent under the Credit Agreement
or any other Loan Document, and shall not alter, modify, amend or
in any way affect any of the terms, conditions, obligations,
covenants or agreements contained in the Credit Agreement or any
other Loan Document, all of which are ratified and affirmed in all
respects and shall continue in full force and effect. Nothing
herein shall be deemed to entitle any Loan Party to a consent to,
or a waiver, amendment, modification or other change of, any of the
terms, conditions, obligations, covenants or agreements contained
in the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document in similar or
different circumstances. This Amendment shall apply and be
effective only with respect to the provisions of the Credit
Agreement specifically referred to herein. After the date hereof,
any reference to the Credit Agreement shall mean the Credit
Agreement, as modified hereby.
SECTION 8.
Counterparts. This Amendment may be executed in any
number of counterparts and by different parties hereto in separate
counterparts, each of which when so executed and delivered shall be
deemed an original, but all such counterparts together shall
constitute but one and the same contract. Delivery of an executed
counterpart of a signature page of this Amendment by facsimile
transmission shall be as effective as delivery of a manually
executed counterpart hereof.
SECTI