EXHIBIT 10
EXECUTION COPY
FIRST AMENDMENT AND WAIVER dated as
of August 16, 2007 (this “ Amendment ”), to
the FIVE-YEAR CREDIT AGREEMENT dated as of June 21, 2006 (as
amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time the
“ Credit Agreement ”), among PALL CORPORATION
(the “ Company ”), the Subsidiaries of the
Company named on the signature pages thereto, the LENDERS from time
to time party thereto, JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., as facility agent
for the Lenders (the “ Facility Agent ”) and
J.P. MORGAN EUROPE LIMITED, as London agent for the Lenders (the
“ London Agent ” and, together with the Facility
Agent, the “ Agents ”).
WHEREAS
the Company has informed the Agents and the Lenders that
(a) it believes that it has understated its U.S. income tax
payments and its provision for income taxes, (b) the
understatement relates to the taxation of certain intercompany
payable balances that mainly resulted from sales of products by a
foreign subsidiary of the Company to a U.S. subsidiary of the
Company, (c) as of the date of this Amendment, the Company
expects its liability in respect of the foregoing will be
approximately $130,000,000 plus interest and penalties,
(d) the amount of additional tax provisions required to be
recorded by the Company has not been determined as of the date of
this Amendment and (e) the Company expects that it will be
required to restate some or all of its financial statements for the
fiscal years 1999 through 2006 and each of the fiscal quarters
ended October 31, 2006, January 31, 2007, and
April 30, 2007 and that, for its fiscal year ended
July 31, 2007, it may be required to report one or more
material weaknesses in its internal control over financial
reporting (the matters referred to in this paragraph being called
the “ Specified Matters ”).
WHEREAS
the Company has further informed the Agents and the Lenders that,
as a result of the Specified Matters, (a) certain
certifications, representations and warranties of the Company
contained in or made pursuant to the Credit Agreement or other Loan
Documents (or any document delivered in connection therewith) may
have been inaccurate when made or may not be accurate if required
to be made in the event of additional borrowings under the Credit
Agreement, (b) the covenants set forth in Sections 5.01,
5.02, 5.03, 5.04, 5.08 or 5.09 of the Credit Agreement may have
been violated, (c) certain defaults may have occurred under
other credit agreements, debt indentures or ISDA agreements of the
Company, (d) the Company expects that it may not be able to
deliver its Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended
July 31, 2007 (the “ Affected Annual Report
”) or its Quarterly Report on Form 10-Q for its fiscal
quarter ending October 31, 2007 (the “ Affected
Quarterly Report ”), to the Facility Agent as and when it
is required to do so by Section 5.01 of the Credit Agreement
and (e) the foregoing inaccuracies, violations and other
matters may, if not waived by the Lenders, have resulted in or will
result in Events of Default pursuant to Section 7.01 of the
Credit Agreement.
WHEREAS
the Company has requested that the Lenders waive, and the Lenders
have agreed to waive, certain Defaults and failures of conditions
precedent arising from the Specified Matters and the Company has
requested that the Lenders
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amend,
and the Lenders have agreed to amend, Section 5.01 to extend the
period of time during which the Company must deliver the Affected
Annual Report and Affected Quarterly Report on the terms and
subject to the conditions set forth herein.
NOW,
THEREFORE, in consideration of the above premises and other good
and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which
are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto hereby agree as
follows:
SECTION
1. Defined Terms. Each capitalized term used and not defined
herein shall have the meaning assigned to it in the Credit
Agreement (as modified hereby).
SECTION
2. Waiver. Effective as of the First Amendment and Waiver
Effective Date (as defined below), the Lenders hereby waive
(a) all breaches of representations and warranties under the
Credit Agreement, Defaults caused by violations of
Sections 5.01, 5.02, 5.03, 5.04, 5.08 and 5.09 of the Credit
Agreement and failures to satisfy conditions precedent set forth in
Section 4.02 of the Credit Agreement (including conditions
precedent to any further borrowing under the Credit Agreement)
resulting from the Specified Matters and (b) any Default that
may occur pursuant to Section 7.01(e)(i)(B) or 7.01(e)(ii)(A)
of the Credit Agreement as a result of violations of the Other Debt
Agreements (as defined below) due to (i) the Specified Matters
or (ii) the failure to file with the Securities and Exchange
Commission or to transmit to holders thereunder the Affected Annual
Report or the Affected Quarterly Report as and when required by the
terms thereof (A) in the case of the Other Debt Agreements
(other than the Material Debt Agreements (as defined below)) until
October 31, 2007 and (B) in the case of the Material Debt
Agreements, until September 6, 2007.
SECTION
3. Amendment to Section 5.01. Effective as of the First
Amendment and Waiver Effective Date, Section 5.01 of the
Credit Agreement is hereby amended by:
(a)
replacing paragraph (a) of such Section with the following
paragraph:
(a)
(i) with respect to each Fiscal Year of the Company (other
than the Fiscal Year ended July 31, 2007), as soon as available,
but in any event within 90 days after the end of each such
Fiscal Year or at such earlier time as the SEC may require the
Company to deliver its Form 10-K (commencing with the Fiscal Year
ended July 31, 2006) and (ii) with respect to the Fiscal
Year of the Company ended July 31, 2007, as soon as available,
but in any event by December 31, 2007, a consolidated balance
sheet of the Company and the Subsidiaries as at the end of such
Fiscal Year, and the related consolidated statements of earnings,
shareholders’ equity and cash flows for such Fiscal Year,
setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the
previous Fiscal Year, all in reasonable detail and prepared in
accordance with GAAP consistently applied throughout the periods
covered thereby, except as otherwise expressly noted therein,
audited and accompanied by a report and opinion of an independent
certified public accountant of nationally recognized standing
reasonably acceptable to the Required
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Lenders,
which report and opinion shall be prepared in accordance with
generally accepted auditing standards and shall not be subject to
any “going concern” or like qualification or exception
or any qualification or exception as to the scope of such financial
statement audit; provided that (i) the requirements of
this paragraph shall be deemed satisfied by delivery within the
time period specified above of (A) a copy of the
Company’s Annual Report on Form 10-K for such Fiscal Year
(together with the Company’s annual report to shareholders,
if any, prepared pursuant to Rule 14a-3 under the Exchange
Act) (“ Form 10-K ”) prepared in accordance
with the requirements therefor and filed with the SEC or (B) a
notice setting forth a written reference to a website that contains
such Form 10-K (together with the Company’s annual report to
shareholders, if any, prepared pursuant to Rule 14a-3 under
the Exchange Act) and (ii) on or prior to September 30,
2007, the Company shall deliver to the Facility Agent, in form and
detail reasonably satisfactory to the Facility Agent and the
Lenders, an unaudited condensed consolidated statement of earnings
before interest and taxes, setting forth in comparative form the
figures for the previous Fiscal Year, and balance sheet highlights
comprised of accounts receivable, inventory and indebtedness, in
each case with respect to the Company and its Subsidiaries as of
and for the Fiscal Year ended July 31, 2007; and
(b)
replacing paragraph (b) of such Section with the following
paragraph:
(b)
(i) with respect to each of the first three fiscal quarters of
the Company in any Fiscal Year (other than the fiscal quarter
ending October 31, 2007), as soon as available, but in any
event within 45 days after the end of each such fiscal quarter
or at such earlier time as the SEC may require the Company to
deliver its Form 10-Q (commencing with the fiscal quarter ended
October 31, 2006) and (ii) with respect to the fiscal quarter
of the Company ending October 31, 2007, as soon as available,
but in any event by December 31, 2007, (A) a consolidated
balance sheet of the Company and the Subsidiar
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