Exhibit 10.1
Execution Version
LIMITED WAIVER AND AMENDMENT
NO. 15 TO CREDIT AGREEMENT
This LIMITED WAIVER AND AMENDMENT
NO. 15 TO CREDIT AGREEMENT (this “ Waiver and
Amendment ”) is dated as of May 20, 2009 by and
among INTERNATIONAL TEXTILE GROUP, INC., a Delaware corporation
(“ ITG ”), the other Borrowers and Credit
Parties signatory hereto, GENERAL ELECTRIC CAPITAL CORPORATION, a
Delaware corporation, for itself and as Agent (“ Agent
”), and the other Lenders signatory hereto. Unless otherwise
specified herein, capitalized terms used in this Waiver and
Amendment shall have the meanings ascribed to them in the Credit
Agreement (as hereinafter defined).
R E C I T A L S:
WHEREAS, Borrowers, the other Credit
Parties, the Agent and the Lenders entered into that certain Credit
Agreement dated as of December 29, 2006 (as amended,
supplemented, restated or otherwise modified from time to time, the
“ Credit Agreement ”); and
WHEREAS, the parties to the Credit
Agreement have agreed to a limited waiver and amendment to the
Credit Agreement as set forth herein;
NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of
the premises contained herein, and for other good and valuable
consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby
acknowledged, the parties hereto agree as follows:
1 Limited Waiver . The
Agent and the Lenders hereby waive, for the period from and after
the date hereof up to and including June 20, 2009, any breach
of Section 4.1 of the Credit Agreement, and any Default
or Event of Default as a result thereof, solely to the extent that
Borrowers failed to deliver to the Agent an unqualified opinion (as
to going concern) in connection with Borrowers’ delivery of a
copy of the audited consolidated balance sheets of ITG and each of
its Subsidiaries (including the Excluded Subsidiaries) as at the
end of fiscal year ended December 31, 2008 and the related
consolidated statements of income or operations,
shareholders’ equity and cash flows for such fiscal
year.
2 Amendment to
Section 1.1 . Section 1.1(b) of the Credit
Agreement is hereby amended by deleting clause (A)(ii) thereof and
replacing it with the following:
“(ii) the Letter of Credit
Obligations for all Letters of Credit would exceed the US Dollar
Equivalent of $17,500,000 (the “ L/C Sublimit ”)
or”
3 Amendment to
Section 1.9 . Section 1.9(b) of the Credit
Agreement is hereby amended and restated in its entirety to read as
follows:
“(b) Unused Commitment
Fee . The US Borrowers shall pay to the Agent, for the ratable
benefit of the Revolving Lenders, a fee (the “ Unused
Commitment Fee ”) in an amount equal to
(A) the Aggregate Revolving Loan
Commitment, less
(B) the sum of (x) the average
daily principal balance of all Revolving Loans outstanding
plus (y) the average daily amount of Letter of Credit
Obligations plus (z) the average daily principal balance of
Swing Loans, in each case, during the preceding month (the sum of
(x), (y) and (z), the “Average Daily Revolving
Amount”),
multiplied by 1.00%. Such fee shall
be payable monthly in arrears on the first day of the month
following the date hereof and the first day of each month
thereafter. The Unused Commitment Fee provided in this subsection
1.9(b) shall accrue at all times from and after mutual execution
and delivery of this Agreement.”
4 Amendments to
Section 11.1 . Section 11.1 of the Credit
Agreement is hereby amended as follows:
(i) the definition of
“Applicable Margin” is hereby amended and restated in
its entirety to read as follows:
“‘Applicable
Margin’ means:
(a) for the period commencing on the
Closing Date through January 31, 2007, 2.00% for LIBOR Loans and
1.00% for Base Rate Loans;
(b) for the period commencing
February 1, 2007 up to but not including the Thirteenth
Amendment Effective Date, the Applicable Margin shall equal the
applicable LIBOR margin or Base Rate margin in effect from time to
time as set forth below, determined on the first Business Day of
each Fiscal Month based upon the Average Daily Revolving Amount
during the immediately preceding fiscal month:
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Average Daily Revolving Amount
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LIBOR Margin
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Base Rate Margin
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£ $80,000,000
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1.75
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%
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0.75
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%
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>$80,000,000 but £ $120,000,000
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2.00
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%
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1.00
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%
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> $120,000,000
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2.25
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%
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1.25
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%
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(c) for the period from and after
the Thirteenth Amendment Effective Date up to but not including the
Fifteenth Amendment Effective Date, 2.75% for LIBOR Loans and 1.75%
for Base Rate Loans; and
(d) for the period from and after
the Fifteenth Amendment Effective Date, 4.00% for LIBOR Loans and
3.00% for Base Rate Loans;
Notwithstanding anything herein to
the contrary, Swing Loans may not be LIBOR Rate
Loans.”
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(ii) the definition of “Base
Rate” is hereby amended and restated in its entirety to read
as follows:
“‘Base Rate’
means, at any time, a rate per annum equal to the higher of
(a) the rate last quoted by The Wall Street Journal as
the “base rate on corporate loans posted by at least 75% of
the nation’s largest banks” in the United States (the
“base rate”) or, if The Wall Street Journal
ceases to quote such rate, the highest per annum interest rate
published by the Federal Reserve Board in Federal Reserve
Statistical Release H.15 (519) (Selected Interest Rates) as the
“bank prime loan” rate or, if such rate is no longer
quoted therein, any similar rate quoted therein (as determined by
the Agent) or any similar release by the Federal Reserve Board (as
determined by the Agent), (b) the sum of 3.0% per annum
and the Federal Funds Rate and (c) the sum of (x) LIBOR,
as defined herein, calculated for each such day based on an
Interest Period of three months (or six months for Interest Periods
of six months) determined two (2) Business Days prior to such
day, plus (y) the excess of the Applicable Margin for LIBOR
Loans over the Applicable Margin for Base Rate Loans, in each
instance, as of such day. Any change in the Base Rate due to a
change in any of the foregoing shall be effective on the effective
date of such change in the “base rate”, the “bank
prime loan” rate or the Federal Funds Rate.”
(iii) the definition of
“LIBOR” is hereby amended and restated in its entirety
to read as follows:
“‘LIBOR’ means for
each Interest Period, the greater of (a) the offered rate per
annum for deposits of Dollars for the applicable Interest Period
and (b) the offered rate per annum for deposits of Dollars for
an Interest Period of three months (or six months for Interest
Periods of six months), in each case, that appears on Reuters
Screen LIBOR01 Page as of 11:00 A.M. (London, England time) two
(2) Business Days prior to the first day in such Interest
Period. If no such offered rate exists, such rate will be the rate
of interest per annum, as determined by the Agent (rounded upwards,
if necessary, to the nearest 1 / 100 of 1%)
at which deposits of Dollars in immediately available funds are
offered at 11:00 A.M. (London, England time) two (2) Business
Days prior to the first day in such Interest Period by major
financi