Exhibit 10.20
Execution Version
AMENDMENT No. 4, dated as of August 13, 2020 (this Amendment), to the Credit Agreement, dated as of October 16, 2012 (as amended, restated, modified and supplemented from time to time prior to the effectiveness of this Amendment, including pursuant to Amendment No. 1, dated as of August 16, 2016, Amendment No. 2, dated as of September 29, 2016 and Amendment No. 3, dated as of January 13, 2017, the Credit Agreement), among LESLIES POOLMART, INC., a Delaware corporation (the Parent Borrower), LESLIES HOLDINGS, INC., a Delaware corporation (Holdings), the Subsidiary Borrowers from time to time party thereto, the several banks and other financial institutions or entities from time to time party thereto (the Lenders), BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as administrative agent and collateral agent (in such capacity, including any successor thereto, the Administrative Agent) and U.S. Bank National Association, as co-collateral agent (in such capacity, including any successor thereto, the Co-Collateral Agent), by and among the Parent Borrower, the Subsidiary Borrowers, the Guarantors party hereto, each Lender, the Administrative Agent and the Co-Collateral Agent. Capitalized terms used and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to such terms in the Credit Agreement.
WHEREAS, the parties desire to amend the Credit Agreement on the terms 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, intending to be legally bound hereby, agree as follows:
Section 1.
Amendment. The Credit Agreement is, effective as of the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date (as defined below), hereby amended to (i) delete the stricken text (indicated textually in the same manner as the following example: stricken text) and to add the double-underlined text (indicated textually in the same manner as the following
example: double-underlined text) as set forth in the pages
of the Credit Agreement attached as Exhibit A hereto (the Amended Credit Agreement) and (ii) replace the Schedules referenced therein in their entirety with the Schedules annexed hereto as Exhibit B.
Section 2. Representations and Warranties, No Default. The Borrowers hereby represent and warrant that as of the date hereof (i) no Default or Event of Default exists and is continuing and (ii) all representations and warranties of the Loan Parties contained in the Credit Agreement and the Loan Documents are true and correct in all material respects (except for representations and warranties that are already qualified by materiality, in which case such representations and warranties shall be true and correct in all respects) on and as of the date hereof, as though made on and as of the date hereof, except to the extent that such representations and warranties specifically refer to an earlier date, in which case they were true and correct in all material respects (except for representations and warranties that are already qualified by materiality, in which case such representations and warranties shall be true and correct in all respects) as of such earlier date.
Section 3. Effectiveness. This Amendment shall become effective on the date that the following conditions have been satisfied or waived (the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date):
(1) the Administrative Agent shall have received executed signature pages of this Amendment, from each Loan Party, the Administrative Agent and each Lender;
(2) the Administrative Agent shall have received a Note executed by the Borrowers in favor of each Lender that has requested a Note at least three Business Days prior to the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date;
(3) the Administrative Agent shall have received a legal opinion of Kirkland & Ellis LLP, counsel to the Loan Parties, which opinion shall be in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent;
(4) the Administrative Agent shall have received a solvency certificate signed by the Chief Financial Officer (or other officer with substantially similar responsibilities) of the Parent Borrower certifying as to the solvency (as set forth in Section 5.16 of the Amended Credit Agreement) of the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis, on the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date;
(5) the Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate of each Loan Party, dated the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date, substantially in the form of Exhibit I to the Amended Credit Agreement, with appropriate insertions and attachments;
(6) the Administrative Agent shall have received good standing certificates of each Loan Party from its jurisdiction of organization;
(7) the Administrative Agent shall have received a certificate signed by a Responsible Officer of the Parent Borrower certifying that (i) the conditions specified in Sections 2 hereof have been satisfied and (ii) since September 28, 2019, no Material Adverse Effect has occurred;
(8) the Administrative Agent shall have received a Borrowing Base Certificate for the month ended July, 2020, and executed by a Responsible Officer of the Parent Borrower. After giving effect to (i) any funding of the Loans on the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date and (ii) 2all Letters of Credit to be issued at, or immediately subsequent to, the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date, Excess Availability shall not be less than 50% of the outstanding Line Cap;
(9) arrangements reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent shall have been made for the execution, delivery and filing of such Collateral Documents, including, for the avoidance of doubt, the filing of any agreements covering Intellectual Property with the applicable filing office;
(10) (i) upon the reasonable request of any Lender made at least five (5) days prior to the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date, the Parent Borrower shall have provided to such Lender, and such Lender shall be reasonably satisfied with, the documentation and other information so requested in connection with applicable know your customer and anti-money-laundering rules and regulations, including, without limitation, the PATRIOT Act, in each case at least three (3) days prior to the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date and (ii) at least three (3) days prior to the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date, any Loan Party that qualifies as a legal entity customer under the Beneficial Ownership Regulation shall have delivered, to each Lender that so requests at least five (5) days prior to the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date, a Beneficial Ownership Certification in relation to such Loan Party;
(11) the Administrative Agent shall have received an executed (i) Joinder Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, by and among Horizon Spa & Pool Parts, Inc., a Delaware corporation (Horizon) and the Administrative Agent, and (ii) Assumption Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, by and among Horizon and the Administrative Agent; and
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(12) the Borrower shall have paid, or concurrently herewith shall pay, to the Administrative Agent and the Lead Arranger (as defined in the Amended Credit Agreement) such fees as have separately been agreed by the Parent Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lead Arranger (including legal fees of the Administrative Agent and the Lead Arranger to the extent an invoice therefor is received by the Parent Borrower at least three (3) business days prior to the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date).
Section 4. Post-Closing Covenant. Within 30 days after the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date (as such date may be extended by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion, which extension may be given by electronic mail) the Parent Borrower shall have delivered insurance endorsements, naming the Administrative Agent, on behalf of the Lenders, and the Co-Collateral Agent as an additional insured or co-lenders loss payee, as the case may be, under all insurance policies maintained with respect to the assets and properties of the Loan Parties that constitute Collateral.
Section 5. Counterparts. This Amendment may be executed in any number of counterparts and by different parties hereto on separate counterparts, each of which when so executed and delivered shall be deemed to be an original, but all of which when taken together shall constitute a single instrument. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Amendment by facsimile or any other electronic transmission shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart hereof.
Section 6. Applicable Law. The provisions of Section 11.14 and Section 11.15 of the Amended Credit Agreement shall apply to this Amendment mutatis mutandis.
Section 7. Headings. The headings of this Amendment are for purposes of reference only and shall not limit or otherwise affect the meaning hereof.
Section 8. Effect of Amendment. Except as expressly set forth herein, (i) 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 Administrative Agent, the Co-Collateral Agent or any other Person, in each case under the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document, and (ii) 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 provision of either such agreement or any other Loan Document. Each and every term, condition, obligation, covenant and agreement contained in the Credit Agreement as amended hereby, or any other Loan Document as amended hereby, is hereby ratified and re-affirmed in all respects and shall continue in full force and effect. This Amendment shall constitute a Loan Document for purposes of the Credit Agreement and from and after the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date, all references to the Credit Agreement in any Loan Document and all references in the Credit Agreement to this Agreement, hereunder, hereof or words of like import referring to the Credit Agreement, shall, unless expressly provided otherwise, refer to the Amended Credit Agreement. Each of the Loan Parties hereby consents to this Amendment and confirms that all obligations of such Loan Party under the Loan Documents to which such Loan Party is a party shall continue to apply to the Amended Credit Agreement.
Section 9. Reaffirmation. Each of the Loan Parties hereby consents to the amendment of the Credit Agreement described in Section 1 of this Amendment and hereby confirms its respective guarantees, pledges, grants of security interests, subordinations and other obligations, as applicable, under and subject to the terms of each of the Loan Documents to which it is party, and confirms, agrees and acknowledges that, notwithstanding the consummation of this Amendment, such guarantees, pledges, grants of security interests, subordinations, any and all Liens previously granted to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, and other obligations, and the terms of each of the Loan Documents to which it is a party, except as expressly modified by this Amendment, are not affected or impaired in any manner whatsoever and shall continue to be in full force and effect and shall
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also guarantee and secure all obligations as amended and reaffirmed pursuant to the Credit Agreement and this Amendment. Each and every term, condition, obligation, covenant and agreement contained in the Credit Agreement, as modified by this Amendment, or any other Loan Document is hereby ratified and re-affirmed in all respects and shall continue in full force and effect. From and after the effective date of this Amendment, all references to the Credit Agreement in any Loan Document shall, unless expressly provided otherwise, refer to the Amended Credit Agreement.
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Amendment to be duly executed by their respective authorized officers as of the day and year first above written.
LESLIES POOLMART, INC., | ||||
as the Parent Borrower | ||||
By: | /s/ Steven Weddell | |||
Name: | Steven Weddell | |||
Title: | Chief Financial Officer | |||
LESLIES HOLDINGS, INC., | ||||
as Holdings | ||||
By: | /s/ Steven Weddell | |||
Name: | Steven Weddell | |||
Title: | Chief Financial Officer | |||
CORTZ, INC., | ||||
as a Subsidiary Borrower | ||||
By: | /s/ Steven Weddell | |||
Name: | Steven Weddell | |||
Title: | Chief Financial Officer | |||
LPM MANUFACTURlNG, INC., | ||||
as a Subsidiary Borrower | ||||
By: | /s/ Steven Weddell | |||
Name: | Steven Weddell | |||
Title: | Chief Financial Officer |
[Signature Page to ABL Amendment No. 4]
BLACKWOOD & SIMMONS, INC. | ||
HORIZON SPA & POOL PARTS, INC. | ||
HOT TUB WORKS, LLC | ||
IN THE SWIM HOLDING CORP. | ||
ITS HOLDING I CORPORATION | ||
LPM SERVICE, INC. | ||
POOL PARTS, INC. | ||
POOLCENTER.COM, INC. | ||
RAM CHEMICAL & SUPPLY, INC. | ||
SANDYS POOL SUPPLY, INC. | ||
SPP HOLDING CORPORATION | ||
WAREHOUSE POOL SERVICE & CONSTRUCTION, INC. | ||
WAREHOUSE POOL SUPPLY, INC. | ||
WAREHOUSE POOLS, INC., | ||
as Guarantors | ||
By: | /s/ Steven Weddell | |
Name: Steven Weddell | ||
Title: Chief Financial Officer |
[Signature Page to ABL Amendment No. 4]
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., | ||
as Administrative Agent and as a Lender | ||
By: | /s/ Stephen T. Szymanski | |
Name: | Stephen T. Szymanski | |
Title: | Director |
[Signature Page to ABL Amendment No. 4]
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, | ||
as Co-Collateral Agent and as a Lender | ||
By: | /s/ David Lawrence | |
Name: David Lawrence | ||
Title: Vice President |
[Signature Page to ABL Amendment No. 4]
EXHIBIT A
Amended Credit Agreement
See attached.
EXHIBIT A
CREDIT AGREEMENT
Dated as of October 16, 2012,
As Amendedas amended by
Amendment No. 1, dated as of August 16, 2016,
Amendment No. 2, dated as of September 29, 2016
and
Amendment No. 3, dated as of January 13, 2017
and
Amendment No. 4, dated as of August 13, 2020
among
LESLIES POOLMART, INC.,
as the Parent Borrower,
LESLIES HOLDINGS, INC.,
as Holdings,
Thethe Subsidiary Borrowers named herein,
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A. ,
as Administrative Agent,
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Co-Collateral Agent and
Syndication Agent,
and
The Other Lenders Party Hereto
MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED
BOFA SECURITIES, INC.
and
U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I |
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DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS |
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Section 1.01 |
Defined Terms | 1 | ||||
Section 1.02 |
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Section 1.03 |
Accounting Terms ; GAAP | |||||
Section 1.04 |
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Section 1.05 |
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Joint and Several Liability of Borrowers for Obligations | |||||
Section 1.07 |
Parent Borrower | 73 | ||||
Section 1.08 |
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Section 1.09 |
Administrative Agent and Co-Collateral Agent | |||||
Section 1.10 |
Required Financial Statements | 74 | ||||
Section 1.11 |
Interest Rates | 74 | ||||
ARTICLE II |
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THE REVOLVING CREDIT COMMITMENTS AND CREDIT EXTENSIONS |
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Section 2.01 |
Revolving Credit Commitments | |||||
Section 2.02 |
Termination or Reduction of Revolving Credit Commitments | |||||
Section 2.03 |
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Section 2.04 |
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Section 2.05 |
Borrowings, Conversions and Continuations of Loans | |||||
Section 2.06 |
Swing Line Commitment | |||||
Section 2.07 |
Procedure for Swing Line Borrowing; Refunding of Swing Line Loans | |||||
Section 2.08 |
Incremental Credit Extensions | |||||
Section 2.09 |
Prepayments | |||||
Section 2.10 |
Interest | |||||
Section 2.11 |
Fees | |||||
Section 2.12 |
Computation of Interest and Fees | |||||
Section 2.13 |
Evidence of Debt | |||||
Section 2.14 |
Payments Generally; Administrative Agents Clawback | |||||
Section 2.15 |
Sharing of Payments by Lenders | |||||
Section 2.16 |
Letters of Credit Commitment | |||||
Section 2.17 |
Procedure for Issuance of Letter of Credit | |||||
Section 2.18 |
L/C Fees and Other Charges | |||||
Section 2.19 |
L/C Participations | |||||
Section 2.20 |
Letters of Credit Reimbursement Obligation of the Borrowers | |||||
Section 2.21 |
Letters of Credit Obligations Absolute | |||||
Section 2.22 |
Letter of Credit Payments | |||||
Section 2.23 |
Letter of Credit Applications | |||||
Section 2.24 | Defaulting Lender Adjustments |
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ARTICLE III |
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TAXES, YIELD PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY |
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Section 3.01 |
Taxes | |||||
Section 3.02 |
Illegality | |||||
Section 3.03 |
Inability to Determine Rates | |||||
Section 3.04 |
Increased Costs; Reserves on Eurodollar Rate Loans | |||||
Section 3.05 |
Compensation for Losses | |||||
Section 3.06 |
Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders | |||||
Section 3.07 |
Survival | |||||
ARTICLE IV |
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CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO CREDIT EXTENSIONS |
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Section 4.01 |
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ARTICLE V |
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REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES |
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Section 5.01 |
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Section 5.02 |
Authorization |
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Section 5.03 |
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Section 5.04 |
Governmental |
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Section 5.05 |
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Section 5.06 |
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Section 5.07 |
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Section 5.08 |
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Section 5.09 |
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Section 5.10 |
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Section 5.11 |
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Section 5.12 |
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Section 5.13 |
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Section 5.14 |
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Section 5.15 |
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Section 5.16 |
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Section 5.17 |
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Section 5.18 |
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Section 5.19 |
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Section 5.20 |
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Section 5.21 |
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Section 5.22 |
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ARTICLE VI |
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AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS |
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Section 6.01 |
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Section 6.02 |
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Section 6.03 |
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Section 6.04 |
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Section 6.05 |
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Section 6.06 |
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Section 6.07 |
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Section 6.08 |
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Section 6.09 |
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Section 6.10 |
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Physical Inventories | |||||
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ARTICLE VII |
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NEGATIVE COVENANTS |
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Section 7.01 |
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Section 7.02 |
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Section 7.03 |
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Section 7.04 |
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Section 7.06 |
Restricted Payments | |||||
Section 7.07 |
Transactions with Affiliates | |||||
Section 7.08 |
Business of the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries | 165 | ||||
Section 7.09 |
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Section 7.10 |
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Section 7.11 |
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Clean Down | |||||
Section 7.14 |
Sanctions; Anti-Corruption Laws | 170 | ||||
ARTICLE VIII |
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EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES |
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Section 8.01 |
Events of Default | |||||
Section 8.02 |
Right to Cure | |||||
Section 8.03 |
Remedies upon Event of Default | |||||
Section 8.04 |
Application of Funds | |||||
ARTICLE IX |
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AGENTS |
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Section 9.01 |
Appointment and Authority | |||||
Section 9.02 |
Rights as a Lender | |||||
Section 9.03 |
Exculpatory Provisions | |||||
Section 9.04 |
Reliance by Administrative Agent | |||||
Section 9.05 |
Delegation of Duties | |||||
Section 9.06 |
Resignation of Administrative Agent | |||||
Section 9.07 |
Non-Reliance on Administrative Agent, Co-Collateral Agent and Other Lenders | |||||
Section 9.08 |
No Other Duties, Etc. | |||||
Section 9.09 |
Administrative Agent May File Proofs of Claim | |||||
Section 9.10 |
Collateral and Guaranty Matters | |||||
Section 9.11 |
Indemnification | |||||
Section 9.12 |
Withholding Taxes | |||||
Section 9.13 |
Reports and Financial Statements | |||||
ARTICLE X |
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CONTINUING GUARANTY |
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Section 10.01 |
Guaranty | |||||
Section 10.02 |
Rights of Lenders | |||||
Section 10.03 |
Certain Waivers | |||||
Section 10.04 |
Obligations Independent |
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Section 10.05 |
Subrogation | |||||
Section 10.06 |
Termination; Reinstatement | |||||
Section 10.07 |
Subordination | |||||
Section 10.08 |
Stay of Acceleration | |||||
Section 10.09 |
Condition of the Borrowers | |||||
ARTICLE XI |
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MISCELLANEOUS |
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Section 11.01 |
Amendments, Etc | |||||
Section 11.02 |
Notices; Effectiveness; Electronic Communications | |||||
Section 11.03 |
No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies | |||||
Section 11.04 |
Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver | |||||
Section 11.05 |
Payments Set Aside | |||||
Section 11.06 |
Successors and Assigns | |||||
Section 11.07 |
Treatment of Certain Information; Confidentiality | |||||
Section 11.08 |
Right of Setoff | |||||
Section 11.09 |
Interest Rate Limitation | |||||
Section 11.10 |
Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness | |||||
Section 11.11 |
Survival of Representations and Warranties | |||||
Section 11.12 |
Severability | |||||
Section 11.13 |
Replacement of Lenders | |||||
Section 11.14 |
Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Etc. | |||||
Section 11.15 |
WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL | |||||
Section 11.16 |
No Advisory or Fiduciary Responsibility | |||||
Section 11.17 |
USA PATRIOT Act Notice | |||||
Section 11.18 |
Electronic Execution of Assignments and Certain Other Documents | |||||
Section 11.19 |
No Strict Construction | |||||
Section 11.20 |
Attachments | |||||
Section 11.21 |
Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-In of EEA Financial Institutions | |||||
Section 11.22 |
Acknowledgement Regarding Any Supported QFCs | 202 |
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SCHEDULES |
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1.01 |
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5.04 |
Governmental Approvals | |||||
5.05 |
Possession under Leases | |||||
5.06 |
Subsidiaries | |||||
5.11 |
Taxes | |||||
5.13 |
Environmental Matters | |||||
5.15(1) |
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5.20 |
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5.22(a) |
Deposit Accounts |
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5.22(b) |
Processing and Payment Arrangements | |||||
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6.04 |
Certain Reporting Requirements | |||||
6.12 |
Subsidiary Guarantors | |||||
7.01 |
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Existing Liens | |||||
7.04(a) |
Existing Investments | |||||
7.07 |
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11.02 |
Administrative Agents Office, Certain Addresses for Notices |
EXHIBITS | ||
Form of | ||
A-1 |
Committed Loan Notice | |
A-2 |
Conversion/Continuation Notice | |
B |
Lender Addendum | |
C |
Revolving Credit Note | |
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E |
Assignment and Assumption | |
F |
Guarantee and Collateral Agreement |
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G H I J K L M N O |
Opinion Matters Counsel to Loan Parties Perfection Certificate I Closing Certificate J Collateral Access Agreement Customs Broker Agreement Borrowing Base Certificate
Joinder Agreement United States Tax Compliance Certificate |
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CREDIT AGREEMENT
This CREDIT AGREEMENT (this Agreement) is entered into as of October 16, 2012 and amended by Amendment No. 1,
dated as of August 16, 2016, Amendment No. 2, dated as of September 29, 2016 and, Amendment No. 3, dated as of January 13, 2017 and Amendment No. 4, dated as of August 13, 2020, among LESLIES POOLMART, INC., a Delaware
corporation (Leslies or the Parent Borrower), the Subsidiary Borrowers from time to time party hereto, LESLIES HOLDINGS, INC., a Delaware corporation (Holdings), each lender from
time to time party hereto, BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as Administrative Agent, and U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION, as Co-Collateral Agent.
PRELIMINARY STATEMENTS:
TheAs of the Amendment
No. 4 Effective Date, the Borrowers have requested
that the Lenders provide a
$150,000,000200,000,000
asset based revolving credit facility to be used, in part, to (i) refinance the existing indebtedness incurred under that certain credit agreement, dated as of November 30, 2010 (the
this Agreement andExisting Credit Agreement), by and among Leslies Poolmart, Inc., Leslies Holdings, Inc. and Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent and the other lenders party thereto, as
amended, (ii) for other general corporate purposes (including permitted acquisitions), and the Lenders have indicated
their willingness to lend, on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein.
In consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements herein contained, the parties hereto covenant and agree as follows:
ARTICLE I
DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS
Section 1.01 Defined Terms. As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth below:
ABL Priority Collateral has the meaning ascribed to such term in the Intercreditor Agreement.
ACH means automated clearing house
transfers.
Acceptable Document of Title means, with
respect to any Inventory, a negotiable bill of lading or other Document (as defined in the UCC) that (a) is issued by a common carrier which is not an Affiliate of any Loan Party which is in actual possession of such Inventory,
(b) reflects a Borrower as consignee or, if requested by the Administrative Agent after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default, names the Administrative Agent as consignee, and (c) is not subject to any Lien
(other than Permitted Liens described in clauses (a),
(db),
(nl)
and (w) of Section 7.017.02).
Accounting Change has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 1.03.
Accounts means accounts as defined in the UCC, and also means a right to payment of a monetary obligation, whether or not earned by performance, (a) for property that has been or is to be sold, leased, licensed, assigned, or otherwise disposed of, (b) for services rendered or to be rendered, (c) for a policy of insurance issued or to be issued, (d) for a secondary obligation incurred or to be incurred, or (d) arising out of the use of a credit or charge card or information contained on or for use with the card.
ACH means automated clearing house transfers.
Acquisition means the acquisition of Holdings pursuant to the Acquisition Agreement.
Acquisition Agreement means Agreement and
Plan of Merger dated as of January 13, 2017 by and among Bubbles Buyer, Inc., Bubbles Merger Sub, Inc. and Holdings. .
Adjustment Date means the first day of each
Fiscal Quarter, commencing with the Fiscal Quarter beginning December 30, 2012.
Additional Lender has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 2.08(d).
Adjustment has the meaning specified in Section 3.03(c).
Adjustment Date means the first day of each fiscal quarter, commencing with the fiscal quarter beginning October 1, 2020.
Administrative Agent means Bank of
America, N.A. in its capacity as administrative agent under any of the Loan Documents, or any successor
administrative agent.
Administrative Agent Fee Letter means the Administrative Agent Fee Letter dated as of the ClosingAmendment No. 4
Effective Date by and between the Administrative Agent and the Parent Borrower.
Administrative Agents Office means the Administrative Agents address and, as appropriate, account as set forth on Schedule 11.02 annexed to Amendment No. 4, or such other address or account as the Administrative Agent may from time to time notify to the Parent Borrower and the Lenders.
Administrative Questionnaire means an Administrative Questionnaire in a form supplied by the Administrative Agent.
Advisor has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 11.06(d).
Affiliate means, with respect to any Person, another Person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, Controls or is Controlled by or is under common Control with the Person specified.
Agent Parties has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 11.02(c).
Aggregate Commitments means the Revolving Credit Commitments of all the Lenders. Aggregate Exposure means, with respect to any Lender at any time, an amount equal to the aggregate amount of such Lenders Revolving Credit Commitment then in effect or, if the Revolving Credit Commitments have been terminated, the amount of such Lenders Revolving Extensions of Credit then outstanding.
Agreementmeans this Credit
Agreementhas the meaning ascribed in the preamble.
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AHYDO Catch-Up Payment
means any redemption, retirement or repayment made in respect of Indebtedness to the extent required to prevent such Indebtedness from being treated as an applicable high yield discount obligation within the meaning of
Section 163(i)(1) of the Code and so that such Indebtedness shall be treated as not having significant original issue discount within the meaning of Section 163(i)(2) of the Code.
Amendment No. 4 means Amendment No. 4 to this Agreement, dated as of August 13, 2020.
Amendment No. 1
means4 Effective Date has the meaning set forth in Amendment No. 1 to this Agreement, dated as of August 16, 20164.
Annual Financial Statements
has the meaning Amendment No. 1 Effective
Dateset forth in Amendment No. 1.
Amendment No. 2
means Amendment No. 2 to this Agreement, dated as of September 29, 2016.
Amendment No. 2 Effective
Date has the meaning set forth in Amendment No.2.
Amendment No. 3
means Amendment No. 3 to this Agreement, dated as ofJanuary 13, 2017.
Amendment No. 3 Effective
Date has the meaning set forth in Amendment No.3ascribed thereto in Section 6.04(a).
Applicable Margin means:
(a) From and after the
ClosingAmendment No. 4 Effective Date until
the first Adjustment Date no less than the percentages set forth in Level III of the pricing grid below; and
(b) From and after the first Adjustment Date and on each Adjustment Date thereafter, the Applicable Margin shall be determined
from the pricing grid below based upon Average Daily Excess Availability for the most recently ended Fiscal Quarterfiscal quarter immediately preceding such Adjustment Date;
provided that if any Borrowing Base Certificates are at any time restated or otherwise revised (including as a result of an audit) or if the information set forth in any Borrowing Base Certificates otherwise proves to be false or incorrect
such that the Applicable Margin would have been higher than was otherwise in effect during any period, without constituting a waiver of any Default or Event of Default arising as a result thereof, interest due under this Agreement shall be
immediately recalculated at such higher rate for any applicable periods and shall be due and payable on demand.
Level |
Average Daily Percentage of the Aggregate |
Eurodollar Rate Applicable Margin |
Base Rate Loans Applicable Margin | |||||
I |
Greater than |
%0.75% | ||||||
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% | |||||||
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Less than or equal to
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%1.00% |
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Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein contained, upon the occurrence of an Event
of Default for failure to deliver a Borrowing Base Certificate pursuant to Section 6.04(d), the Applicable Margin, at the option of the Administrative Agent or at the direction of the Required Lenders, shall be immediately increased to the percentages set forth in Level IIIII of the pricing grid above (even if the Average Daily Excess Availability requirements for a different Level have been met) for so long as such Event of Default is continuing.
Applicable Percentage means, with respect to any Lender at any time, the percentage (carried out to the ninth decimal place) of such Lenders Aggregate Exposure at such time to the sum of the Aggregate Exposures of all Lenders.
Application means an application, in such form as the relevant Issuing Lender may specify from time to time, requesting such Issuing Lender to issue a Letter of Credit to be issued (which application shall be subject to Section 2.23).
Appraised Value means the net orderly liquidation value of the Borrowers Inventory (expressed as a percentage of the Cost of such Inventory) as determined from time to time by an independent appraiser engaged by the Administrative Agent.
Approved Fund means any Fund that is administered or managed by (a) a Lender, (b) an Affiliate of a Lender or (c) an entity or an Affiliate of an entity that administers or manages a Lender.
Asset Sale means any loss, damage, destruction or condemnation of, or any sale, transfer or other disposition (including any Sale and Lease-Back Transaction) to any Person of any asset or assets of the Parent Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary.
Assignee Group means two or more Eligible Assignees that are Affiliates of one another or two or more Approved Funds managed by the same investment advisor.
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 11.06(b)), and accepted by the Administrative Agent, in substantially the form of Exhibit E or any other form (including electronic documentation generated by use of an electronic platform) approved by the Administrative Agent.
Attributable Indebtedness means, on any date, (a) in respect of any Capitalized Lease of any Person, the capitalized amount thereof
that would appear on a balance sheet of such Person prepared as of such date in accordance with GAAP, (b) in respect of any Synthetic Lease Obligation, the capitalized amount of the remaining lease or similar payments under the relevant lease
or other applicable agreement or instrument that would appear on a balance sheet of such Person prepared as of such date in accordance with GAAP if such lease or other agreement or instrument were accounted for as a Capitalized Lease and
(c) all Synthetic Debt of such Person.
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Audited Financial Statements means the audited consolidated balance sheet
of the Parent Borrower and its Subsidiaries for the Fiscal
YearsYear ended October 3, 2009, October 2, 2010 and October 1, 2011September 28, 2019, and the related consolidated statements of income or
operations, shareholders equity and cash flows for such Fiscal YearsYear of the Parent Borrower and its Subsidiaries, including the notes
thereto.
Availability Reserves means, without duplication of any other Reserves or items that are otherwise addressed or excluded through eligibility criteria, such reserves, if any, as the Administrative Agent and Co-Collateral Agent from time to time determine in their reasonable discretion as being reasonably required pursuant to this Agreement, equal to the sum of (a) the amount of all sales taxes that have been collected by the Borrowers and not remitted to any state taxing authority when due, (b) an amount equal to two (2) months gross rent for (i) each leased Store of the Borrowers located in a Landlord Lien State (consistent with the Administrative Agents and Co-Collateral Agents usual practices) other than those Stores with respect to which the Administrative Agent has received a Collateral Access Agreement, and (ii) each leased distribution center or other location at which Inventory is maintained (but excluding any Store) other than those distribution centers and other locations with respect to which the Administrative Agent has received a Collateral Access Agreement, (c) Customer Credit Liabilities and customer deposits, (d) an amount based on rent which is past due for more than ten days for any of the Borrowers leased locations, with the exception of past due rent that is the subject of a Permitted Protest as determined by the Administrative Agent and the Co-Collateral Agent in their reasonable discretion, (e) an amount equal to 50% of the liabilities for gift cards accrued by the Borrowers, as shown on the most recent balance sheet of the Parent Borrower in accordance with GAAP, (f) such other reserves as the Administrative Agent and the Co-Collateral Agent from time to time determines in their reasonable discretion as being reasonably required pursuant to this Agreement, including, without limitation, reserves implemented in connection with Permitted Liens and Permitted Indebtedness, but in the case of each of the foregoing, only to the extent such Liens, encumbrances and Indebtedness relate or in any way affect the Borrowing Base, (g) Bank Product Reserves and (h) Cash Management Reserves.
Average Daily Excess
Availability means the average daily Excess Availability for the immediately preceding Fiscal Quarter.
Available Revolving Credit Commitment means, with respect to any Lender at
any time, an amount equal to (a) such Lenders Revolving Credit Commitment then in effect minus (b) such Lenders Revolving Extensions of Credit then outstanding; provided, that in calculating any Lenders
Revolving Extensions of Credit for the purpose of determining such Lenders Available Revolving Credit Commitment pursuant to
Section
2.11(ba), the aggregate principal amount of Swing Line Loans then outstanding shall be deemed to be zero.
Average Revolving Loan
UtilizationDaily
Excess Availability means, at any Adjustment Date, the average daily outstanding amount of Loans and Letters of
CreditExcess Availability for the Fiscal Quarter immediately preceding
such Adjustment Date, divided by the Aggregate Commitments at such
timefiscal
quarter.
Backstop LC has the meaning ascribed thereto in the definition of the term Cash Collateralize.
Bail-In Action means the exercise of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by the applicable EEA Resolution Authority in respect of any liability of an EEA Financial Institution.
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Bail-In Legislation means, with respect to any EEA Member Country implementing Article 55 of Directive 2014/59/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union, the implementing law for such EEA Member Country from time to time which is described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule.
Bank of America means Bank of America, N.A. and its successors.
Bank Product Reserves means such reserves as the Administrative Agent from time to time determines in its reasonable discretion as being appropriate to reflect the liabilities and obligations of the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries with respect to Bank Products then provided or outstanding.
Bank Products means any services or facilities provided to any Loan Party by any Lender or any of its Affiliates (but excluding Cash Management Services) on account of (a) credit cards, (b) Swap Contracts, (c) purchase cards, (d) merchant services constituting a line of credit and (e) leasing.
Bank Product Reserves means such reserves as the
Administrative Agent from time to time determines in its reasonable discretion as being appropriate to reflect the liabilities and obligations of the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries with respect to Bank Products then provided or
outstanding.
Base Rate means, for any day, a fluctuating rate per annum equal to the highest of (a) the Prime Rate in effect on such day, (b) the Federal Funds Rate in effect on such day plus 1/2 of 1% and (c) the Eurodollar Rate
plus 1.00%. For purposes hereof:
,
(b) the rate of interestPrime Rate means, at any time, per annumin effect for
such day as publicly announced or otherwise identified from time to time by Bank of America, N.A. at its principal office in New
York, New York from time to time by Bank of
America as its prime rate. The parties hereto acknowledge that the, and (c) the Eurodollar Rate plus 1.00% (which rate, for the avoidance of doubt, shall not be less than the LIBOR Floor). The prime rate is a rate announced publiclyset by Bank of America, N.A. as its prime rate based upon various factors including Bank of Americas costs and desired return, general economic conditions and other
factors, and is used as a reference point for pricing some loans, which may be priced at, above, or below such announced rate. Any change in such prime rate announced by Bank of America shall take effect at the opening of business on the day
specified in the public announcement of such change. If the Base Rate is being used as an index or basealternate rate and shall not
necessarily be its lowest or best rate charged to its customers or other banksof interest pursuant to
Section 3.03 hereof, then the Base Rate shall be the greater of clauses (a) and (b) above and shall be determined without reference to clause (c) above.
Base Rate Loan means a Loan that bears interest based on the Base Rate.
Beneficial Owner has the meaning given to that term in Rule 13d-3 and Rule 13d-5 under the Exchange Act, except that in calculating the beneficial ownership of any particular person (as that term is used in Section 13(d)(3) of the Exchange Act), such person will not be deemed to have beneficial ownership of any securities that such person has the right to acquire or vote only upon the happening of any future event or contingency (including the passage of time) that has not yet occurred. The terms Beneficially Owns, Beneficially Owned and Beneficial Ownership have a corresponding meaning.
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Beneficial Ownership Certification means a certification regarding beneficial ownership required by the Beneficial Ownership Regulation.
Beneficial Ownership Regulation means 31 C.F.R. § 1010.230.
BHC Act Affiliate of a party means an affiliate (as such term is defined under, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 U.S.C. 1841(k)) of such party.
Blocked
Account has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section
6.176.13(a)(ii).
Blocked Account Agreement has the meaning ascribed
thereto in Section
6.176.13(a)(ii).
Blocked Account Bank means each bank with whom deposit accounts are maintained in which any funds of any of the Loan Parties from one or more DDAs are concentrated and with whom a Blocked Account Agreement has been, or is required to be, executed in accordance with the terms hereof.
Board means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States of America.
Borrower Materials has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 6.04.
Borrowers means the Parent Borrower and the Subsidiary Borrowers, collectively.
Borrower
Materials has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 6.02.
Borrowing means Loans of the same Type, made on the same date and, in the case of Eurodollar Rate Loans, as to which a single Interest Period is in effect.
Borrowing Base means, at any time of calculation, an amount equal to:
(a) the lesser of (i) $50,000,000 and (ii) 100% of cash and Cash Equivalents
that are either held collectively in deposit accounts and securities accounts either (x) maintained with the Administrative Agent or (y) that constitute Blocked Accounts or that otherwise are the subject of a control agreement in favor of
the Administrative Agent, subject to no other Liens (other than non-consensual Liens and Liens permitted by clauses (a), (l) and
(wbb)(i) and
(iii) of Section 7.02); plus 7.01
(b) the Credit Card Receivables Component; plus
(c) the Trade Receivables Component; plus
(d) the Inventory Component; plus
(e) the Letter of Credit Component; minus
(f) the then amount of all Availability Reserves.
Borrowing Base Certificate has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section
6.04(6.02id).
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Borrowing Date means any Business Day specified by the Borrowers as a date on which the Borrowers requests the relevant Lenders to make Loans hereunder.
Budget has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 6.04(f).
Business Day means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day on
which commercial banks in New York City are authorized or required by law to close under the Laws of, or are in fact closed in, the state where the Administrative Agents Office is located or the Parent Borrowers headquarters are located and,
if such day relates to any; provided that when used in connection with a Eurodollar Rate Loan,
meansthe term
Business Day also excludes any such
day on which banks are not open for dealings in Dollar deposits are
conducted by and between banks in the London interbank eurodollar market.
Capital Expenditures means, with respect to any Person for any period, any expenditure in respect of the purchase or other acquisition of any fixed or capital asset (excluding normal replacements and maintenance which are properly charged to current operations) which is, or should be in accordance with GAAP, reflected as a capital expenditure in a consolidated statement of cash flows of such Person for the period in which such expenditure occurs, but excluding (i) expenditures constituting reinvestment of Net Cash Proceeds permitted by Section 2.09(b)(ii) and (ii) leasehold improvement expenditures funded directly or indirectly with cash allowances provided by landlords in the ordinary course of business.
Capitalized Leases means all leases that have
been or should be, in accordance with GAAP, recorded as capitalized leases
Capital Lease Obligations means, with respect to any Person, the obligations of such Person to pay rent or other amounts under any lease of (or other similar arrangement conveying the right to use) real or personal property, or a combination thereof, which obligations are required to be classified and accounted for as capital leases on a balance sheet of such Person under GAAP and, for purposes hereof, the amount of such obligations at any time will be the capitalized amount thereof at such time determined in accordance with GAAP.
Capital Stock means:
(a) in the case of a corporation, corporate stock;
(b) in the case of an association or business entity, any and all shares, interests, participations, rights or other equivalents (however designated) of corporate stock;
(c) in the case of a partnership or limited liability company, partnership or membership interests (whether general or limited); and
(d) any other interest or participation that confers on a Person the right to receive a share of the profits and losses of, or distributions of assets of, the issuing Person.
Captive Insurance Company means a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of any Borrower created solely for providing self-insurance for the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries and engaging in no other activities other than activities ancillary thereto and necessary for the maintenance of corporate existence.
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Cash Collateral Account means a blocked non-interest-bearing account established by one or more of the Loan Parties with, and in the name of, the Administrative Agent, for its own benefit and the ratable benefit of the other Secured Parties, under the sole and exclusive dominion and control of the Administrative Agent, in the name of the Administrative Agent or as the Administrative Agent shall otherwise direct, in which deposits are required to be made in accordance with Section 2.09(b)(i), Section 2.24(a) or Section 8.03.
Cash Collateralize means, as to any Letter of Credit, to pledge and deposit with or deliver to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the relevant Issuing Lender and the Lenders, as collateral for the L/C Obligations, (i) cash or deposit balances in an amount equal to 103% of the aggregate amount available to be drawn under the applicable Letter of Credit pursuant to documentation in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the relevant Issuing Lender, or (ii) a backstop letter of credit (a Backstop LC) in an amount equal to 100% of the aggregate amount available to be drawn under the applicable Letter of Credit pursuant to documentation in form and substance, and with a counterparty, reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the relevant Issuing Lender; provided that in the case of this clause (ii), the Administrative Agent or the relevant Issuing Lender may, at their discretion, demand at any time that such Backstop LC be funded or be replaced with a new Backstop LC with revised terms or a different counterparty reasonably satisfactory to them, in each case upon a determination by the Administrative Agent or the relevant Issuing Lender, acting reasonably and in good faith, that the credit risk to the Lenders of the relevant Backstop LC issuer in respect of the relevant Letter of Credit has deteriorated in any material respect. Cash Collateral shall have a meaning correlative to the foregoing and shall include the proceeds of such cash collateral and other credit support.
Cash Dominion Event means either (i) the occurrence and continuance of any Event of Default
or (ii) Excess Availability at any time is less than the greater of (A) 12.5% of the Line Cap at the time of calculation, or
(B)
$8,750,00012,500,000
. For purposes of this Agreement, the occurrence of a Cash Dominion Event shall be deemed continuing (i) so long as such Event of Default has not been waived, and/or (ii) if the Cash
Dominion Event arises pursuant to clause (ii) above, until Excess Availability has exceeded the amounts required pursuant to clause (ii) of this definition for thirty (30) consecutive days, in which case a Cash Dominion
Event shall no longer be deemed to be continuing for purposes of this Agreement; provided that a Cash Dominion Event shall be deemed continuing (even if an Event of Default is no longer continuing and/or Excess Availability exceeds the
required amount for thirty (30) consecutive days) at all times after a Cash Dominion Event has occurred and been discontinued on five (5) occasion(s) after the
ClosingAmendmen
t
No. 4 Effective Date.
Cash Equivalents means any of the
following types of Investments:
(a) Dollars, Canadian dollars, Japanese yen, pounds sterling, euros or the national currency of any participating member of the European Union or, in the case of any Foreign Subsidiary, any local currencies held by it from time to time in the ordinary course of business and not for speculation;
(b)
(a) readily marketabledirect obligations issued or directly and fullyof the United States of America or any member of the European Union or any agency thereof or
obligations guaranteed or insured by the United
States of America or any member of the European Union or any agency or instrumentality thereof
having, in each case, with maturities of not more than 365 days
from the date of acquisition thereof; provided that the full faith and credit of the United States of America is pledged in support
thereofexceeding two years;
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(b)
(c) time deposits or insured , eurodollar
time deposits, certificates of deposit or bankers acceptances that are either (i) issued by (or with)
(A) a Lender or (B) any commercial bank organized under the laws of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia or that is the principal banking subsidiary of a bank holding company organized under the laws
of the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia, and is a member of the Federal Reserve System, or (ii) in an amount of less
than $250,000 in the aggregate issued by any other commercial bank insured by the Federal Deposit Insurance
Corporationand
money market deposits, in each case, with
maturities of
not more than 365
daysexceeding one year from the date of
acquisition thereof;
(c)
marketable direct obligations issued by any state of the United States or any political subdivision of any such state or any public instrumentality thereof rated at least Prime-1 (or the then equivalent grade) by Moodys or at least
A-1 (or the then equivalent grade) by S&P, and overnight bank deposits, in each case, with
maturities any commercial
bank having capital, surplus and undivided profits of
not less than $250,000,000;
(d) repurchase obligations for underlying securities of the types described in clauses (b) and (c) above and clause (f) below entered into with a bank meeting the qualifications described in clause (c) above;
(e)
commercial paper or variable or fixed rate notes maturing
not more than 365 days fromone year
after the date of acquisition thereof;
(d) commercial
paperissued by a corporation rated at least
PrimeP
-1 (or the then equivalent grade) by
Moodys or at least A- 1 by S&P (or the
thenreasonably equivalent grade) by S&P, in each
caseratings of another internationally recognized rating agency);
(f)
securities with maturities of not more than 365 daystwo years or less from the date of acquisition thereof;
(e) repurchase obligations with a term of not
more than seven days for underlying securities of the types described in clause (a) above or that are (i) marketable general obligations issued or fully guaranteed by any state of the United States of America
or, commonwealth or territory of the United States of
America, or by any political subdivision of any such state or any public
instrumentalityor taxing authority thereof maturing within 365 days,
having one of the date of purchase and, at the time of purchase, havingtwo highest rating categories obtainable from either Moodys or S&P (or reasonably equivalent ratings of another internationally recognized rating agency);
(g) Indebtedness issued by Persons (other than the Sponsors) with
a credit rating of
A or better from either S&P
orat least A 2 by Moodys or A by S&P (or carrying
anreasonably equivalent rating by a
nationallyratings of another internationally
recognized rating agency), if both of S&P and Moodys cease publishing ratings of investments) or (ii) investments in certificates of
deposit, eurodollar time deposits, bankers
acceptances or
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overnight
bank deposits issued by a bank organized under the laws of the United States of America or any state thereof or the District of Columbia, in each case having
capital, surplus and undivided profits totaling more than $500,000,000 and ratedin each case, with maturities not exceeding one year from the date of acquisition, and marketable short-term money market and
similar securities having a rating of at least AP-2by S&P)
andor A-2byfrom either Moodys or
S&P (or carrying anreasonably equivalent rating by a
nationallyratings of another internationally
recognized rating agency, if both of S&P and Moodys cease publishing ratings of investments), maturing within 365 days of purchase;
and
(f) Investments, classified in accordance with GAAP as current assets of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries, in money market or similar investment programs which invest
solely in Investments of the character, quality and maturity described in clauses (a), (b), (c), (d) and (e) of this definition or money market programs registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940 and which are administered by
financial institutions that have the highest rating obtainable from either Moodys or S&P);
(h) Investments in money market funds with average maturities of 12 months or less from the date of acquisition that are rated Aaa3 by Moodys and AAA by S&P (or reasonably equivalent ratings of another internationally recognized rating agency);
(i) instruments equivalent to those referred to in clauses (a) through (h) above denominated in any foreign currency comparable in credit quality and tenor to those referred to above customarily utilized in the countries where any such Restricted Subsidiary is located or in which such Investment is made; and
(j) shares of mutual funds whose investment guidelines restrict 95% of such funds investments to those satisfying the provisions of clauses (a) through (i) above.
Cash Management Bank means any provider of Cash Management Services that, at the time such Cash Management Obligations were entered into or, if entered into prior to the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date, on the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date, was the Administrative Agent, a Lender or an Affiliate of the foregoing, whether or not such Person subsequently ceases to be the Administrative Agent, a Lender or an Affiliate of the foregoing.
Cash Management Obligations means obligations owed by any Loan Party to any Cash Management Bank in respect of or in connection with Cash Management Services and designated by the Cash Management Bank and the Parent Borrower in writing to the Administrative Agent as Cash Management Obligations under this Agreement.
Cash Management Reserves means such reserves as the Administrative Agent and the Co-Collateral Agent, from time to time, determine
determines in
theirits
reasonable discretion as being appropriate to reflect the reasonably anticipated liabilities and obligations of the Parent Borrower and its Subsidiaries with respect to Cash Management Services then
provided or outstanding.
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Cash Management Services means any one or more of the following types or services or facilities provided to the Parent Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries by any Lender or any of its Affiliates: (a) ACH transactions, (b)treasury, depository, pooling, netting, overdraft, stored value card, purchase card (including so called procurement
card or P-card), debit card, credit card, cash
management, supply chain finance services,
(including, without limitation, controlled disbursement services, treasury, depository, overdraft, and electronic funds transfer services, (c) foreign exchange facilities, (d) credit or debit
cards, and (e) merchanttrade payable services and supplier accounts receivables purchases) and
similar services not constituting a Bank Product.
CERCLA means the Comprehensive
Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act of 1980, as amended, and regulations promulgated thereunder.
CERCLIS means the Comprehensive Environmental
Response, Compensation and Liability Information System maintained by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
CFC means a Person that is a controlled foreign
corporation under Section 957 of the Code.
and any automated clearing house transfer of funds.
Change in Law means the occurrence, after the date of this Agreement, of any of the following: (a) the adoption or taking effect of any law, rule, regulation or treaty, (b) any change in any law, rule, regulation or treaty or in the administration, interpretation or application thereof by any Governmental Authority or (c) the making or issuance of any request, guideline or directive (whether or not having the force of law) by any Governmental Authority. For purposes of this definition (x) the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, rules, guidelines or directives thereunder or issued in connection therewith and (y) all requests, rules, guidelines or directives promulgated by the Bank for International settlements, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (or any successor or similar authority) or the United States regulatory authorities, in each case pursuant to Basel III, are in each case deemed to have been adopted and to have taken effect after the date of this Agreement.
Change of Controlmeans an event or series
of events by which:will be deemed to occur if:
(a) at any time,
(i) Holdings ceases to Beneficially Own, directly or indirectly, 100% of the issued and outstanding Equity Interests of the Parent Borrower; or
(ii) a change of control (or comparable event) occurs under the Term Loan Facility or the New Senior Notes Indenture or the documentation governing any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness in respect of any of the foregoing, in each case, if any Indebtedness is outstanding under such agreement; or
(iii) a majority of the seats (other than vacant seats) on the Board of Directors of Holdings shall at any time be occupied by persons who were not (A) nominated by or whose nomination was not approved by the Board of Directors of Holdings or a Permitted Holder, (B) appointed by directors so nominated or approved or (C) appointed by a Permitted Holder;
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(b)
(a) at any time prior to the
creationconsummation of a Public
MarketQualified IPO, the Equity Investors
shallPermitted Holders, taken together, cease to
own beneficially,
eitherBeneficially Own, directly or indirectly,
equity securities in
HoldingsVoting Stock representing 50% or more than 50% of the
combinedaggregate
ordinary voting power of all equity securities entitled to vote for members of the board of directors or equivalent governing body of Holdings (the Board of
Directors) (such equity securities excluding any class of preferred stock with a right to elect two or fewer such members so long as at all times at least a majority of the Board of Directors shall have been elected by the Equity
Investors), with such equity securities being referred to hereinafter as theVoting
Sharesrepresented by the issued and outstanding Equity Interests of Holdings (determined on a
fully diluted basis but without giving effect to contingent voting rights not yet vested); or
(c)
(b) at any time after the
creationconsummation of a Public
MarketQualified IPO, any person
or group (as such terms are used in Sectionswithin the meaning of Rules 13(d)-3 and 14(d) of13d-5 under
the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, but excluding any employee benefit plan of such Person orand its subsidiaries, and any Person or entity acting in its capacity as trustee, agent or other fiduciary or administrator of any such plan), other than any
of the Equity Investors, becomes the beneficial owner (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5
under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934Permitted Holders, acquires Beneficial Ownership of Voting Stock of a Parent Entity representing (a) of more than 35% or
more of the combinedaggregate ordinary voting power offor the Voting Shares of Holdings, and at such time,election of directors represented by the issued and outstanding Equity Investors beneficially own, directly or indirectly, a lesserInterests of such
Parent Entity (determined on a fully diluted basis but without giving effect to contingent voting rights that have not yet vested) and (b) more than the percentage of the combinedaggregate
ordinary voting power of the Voting Shares of Holdings; provided that any plan, agreement or arrangement
among the Equity Investors and any such person or group shall not be considered to represent a group for purposes of this definition so long as the Equity Investors continue to have Voting Shares sufficient to
enable them to elect, and have not granted a proxy preventing them from electing, a greater number of members of the Board of Directors than such person or group would have without the participation of the Equity Investors pursuant to any such plan,
agreement or arrangementfor the election of
directors that gave rise tois at the determination in question;
ortime Beneficially Owned, directly or
indirectly, by the Permitted Holders, taken together (determined on a fully diluted basis but without giving
effect to contingent voting rights that have not yet vested).
(c) except as permitted by Section 7.04, Holdings shall cease to own (directly or indirectly) and control legally and beneficially the Equity
Interests in the Parent Borrower; or
(d) a change of control or any comparable term under, and as defined in any instrument, document or agreement relating to Indebtedness above the Threshold Amount
shall have occurred and not been the subject of a waiver or other modification, in any case that gives the holders thereof the immediate right to require Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries to repurchase, offer to repurchase or immediately repay
such Indebtedness.
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Closing Date means the first date all the conditions precedent in Section 4.01 are satisfied or waived in accordance with Section 11.01October 16, 2012.
Co-Collateral Agent means U.S. Bank National Association in its capacity as Co-Collateral Agent under this Agreement, or any successor co-collateral agent.
Code means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
Collateral means all of the property that is or is intended under the terms of the Collateral Documents to be subject to Liens in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties, including the Collateral referred to in the Collateral Documents.
Collateral Access Agreement means an agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit J.
Collateral Documents means, collectively, the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, each of the collateral assignments,
security agreements, pledge agreements or other similar agreements delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 6.126.10, and each of the other agreements, instruments or documents that
creates or purports to create a Lien in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties.
Commercial Letter of Credit means any Letter of Credit issued for the purpose of providing the primary payment mechanism in connection with the purchase of any materials, goods or services by any Borrower in the ordinary course of business of such Borrower.
Commitment Fee Rate means
0.250.375% per annum.
Committed Loan Notice means a notice of a Borrowing, which, if in writing, shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A-1 or such other form as may be approved by the Administrative Agent (including any form on an electronic platform or electronic transmission system as shall be approved by the Administrative Agent), appropriately completed and signed by a Responsible Officer of the Parent Borrower.
Commodity Exchange Act means the Commodity Exchange Act (7 U.S.C. § 1 et seq.), as amended from time to time, and any successor statute.
Compliance Certificate means a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit
DCompany Competitor means any competitor of the Parent Borrower and/or any of its
Subsidiaries.
Competitor Debt Fund Affiliate means, with respect to any Company Competitor or any Affiliate thereof, any debt fund, investment vehicle, regulated bank entity or unregulated lending entity (in each case, other than any Disqualified Institution or any Excluded Party) that is (i) primarily engaged in, or advise funds or other investment vehicles that are engaged in, making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of business for financial investment purposes and (ii) managed, sponsored or advised by any Person that is controlling, controlled by or under common control with the relevant Company Competitor or Affiliate thereof, but only to the extent that no personnel involved with the investment in the relevant Competitor or its Affiliates, or the management, control or operation thereof, (A) makes (or has the right to make or participate with others in making) investment decisions on behalf of, or otherwise cause the direction of the investment policies of, such debt fund, investment vehicle, regulated bank entity or unregulated entity or (B) has access to any information (other than information that is publicly available) relating to any Borrower and/or any entity that forms part of its business (including any of its Subsidiaries).
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Concentration Account has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section
6.176.13(b).
consolidated
means, when used to modify a financial term, test, statement, or report of a Person, the application or preparation of such term, test, statement or report (as
applicable) based upon the consolidation, in accordance with GAAP, of the financial condition or operating results of such Person and its Subsidiaries.
Consolidated Debt means, as of any date, the aggregate outstanding principal amount (without duplication) of all Indebtedness (other than letters of credit or bank guarantees, to the extent undrawn) consisting of Capital Lease Obligations, Indebtedness for borrowed money, and Disqualified Stock of the Borrowers and the Restricted Subsidiaries and all Guarantees of the foregoing, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, based upon the most recent month-end financial statements available internally as of the date of determination, and calculated on a Pro Forma Basis.
Consolidated EBITDA means with respect to
the Parent Borrower and its Subsidiaries, for any Measurement Periodperiod, the sum (without duplication) of (i) Consolidated Net Income
and (ii) to the extent Consolidated Net Income has been reduced thereby, (A) all income taxes of the Parent Borrower and its Subsidiaries paid or
accrued in accordance with GAAP for such Measurement Period, (B) Consolidated Interest Expense, (C) Management Fees, (D) Consolidated Non-cash Charges, (E) Transaction Expenses incurred within twelve months of the Closing Date, of the Borrowers for such period:
(a) increased, in each case to the extent deducted in calculating such Consolidated Net Income (and without duplication), by:
(i) provision for taxes based on income, profits or capital, including state, franchise, excise and similar taxes and foreign withholding taxes paid or accrued, including any penalties and interest relating to any tax examinations, and state taxes in lieu of business fees (including business license fees) and payroll tax credits, income tax credits and similar tax credits, and including an amount equal to the amount of tax distributions actually made to the holders of Equity Interests of the Borrowers or any Parent Entity in respect of such period (in each case, to the extent attributable to the operations of the Borrowers and its Subsidiaries), which will be included as though such amounts had been paid as income taxes directly by the Borrowers; plus
(ii) Consolidated Interest Expense; plus
(iii) cash dividend payments (excluding items eliminated in consolidation) on any series of preferred stock or Disqualified Stock of any Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary; plus
(iv) all depreciation and amortization charges and expenses; plus
(v) all
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(1) losses, charges and expenses relating to the Transactions;
(F2) transaction fees, costs and expenses incurred in connection with the
issuance, prepayment or amendment of or refinancing of Indebtedness or issuance of equity permitted hereunder (in each case whether or not suchconsummation of any transaction that is out of the ordinary course of business
(or any transaction isproposed but not
consummated), (G) out-of-pocket costs and expenses related to actual or potential Investments
permitted hereunderunder this Agreement, including equity issuances, investments, acquisitions (in each case whether or not such investment or acquisition is consummated), (H) fees, costs and expenses incurred under the Revolving Credit Facility,
(I) non-recurring cash expenses or losses; provided that the aggregate amount added to Consolidated EBITDA pursuant to this clause (I) during the term of this Agreement shall not exceed $20,000,000 and shall be demonstrated in reasonable
detail in the relevant Compliance Certificate (it being understood and agreed that Item 10(e) of Regulation S-K of the Securities Act of 1933 shall not constitute a limitation on any determination of non-recurring items and, dispositions, recapitalizations, mergers, option buyouts and the incurrence, modification or repayment of Indebtedness
permitted to be incurred under this Agreement (including any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof) or any amendments, waivers or other modifications under the agreements relating to such Indebtedness or similar transactions;
and
(3) without duplication of any of the foregoing, non-operating or
non-recurring items) and
(J)professional fees, costs and expenses incurred in connection with the Acquisition incurred within twelve months of
the closing date of the Acquisition less (iii) any non-cash items increasing Consolidated Net Income for the Measurement Period, all as determined on a consolidated basis for the Parent Borrower and its
Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP.
Consolidated Funded Indebtedness means, as of any date of
determination, for the Parent Borrower and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, the sum of (a) the outstanding principal amount of all obligations,
whether current or long-term, for borrowed money and all principal obligations evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes, loan agreements or other similar instruments, (b) all purchase money Indebtedness, (c) all direct obligations arising
under letters of credit (including standby and commercial letters of credit), bankers acceptances, bank guaranties, surety bonds and other similar instruments, in each case, to the extent required to be reflected on a consolidated balance
sheet of the Parent Borrower in accordance with GAAP and representing any unreimbursed drawings thereunder, (d) all obligations in respect of the deferred purchase price of property or services (other than (i) deferred compensation and (ii) trade accounts payable in the ordinary course of business) to the extent that the liability on
account of any such obligations
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becomes fixed (including, without limitation, earn-outs to the extent they have been treated as a liability on
the balance sheet in accordance with GAAP and such liability has become fixed), (e) all Attributable Indebtedness, (f) without duplication, all Guarantees with respect to outstanding Indebtedness of the types specified in clauses
(a) through (e) above of
Persons other than the Parent Borrower or any Subsidiary, and (g) all Indebtedness of the types referred to in clauses (a) through
(f) above of any partnership or joint venture (other than a joint venture that is itself a corporation or limited liability company) in which the Parent Borrower or a Subsidiary
is a general partner or joint venturer, unless such Indebtedness is non-recourse to the Parent Borrower or such Subsidiary, minus, unrestricted cash and Cash Equivalents (other than any cash or cash equivalents relating to or derived from any Cure Amount or from any incurrence of Indebtedness on the date of determination) up to $75,000,000
on the consolidated balance sheet of the Parent Borrower as at such date to the extent that the use thereof for application to payment of Indebtedness is not prohibited by law or any contract to which the Parent Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries
is a party and provided that such cash and
Cash Equivalents are not subject to any Liens other than Liens created under the Collateral Documents, Liens securing the Term Loan Facility or non-consensual Permitted Liens imposed under applicable law.for such period; plus
(vi) any expense or deduction attributable to minority Equity Interests of third parties in any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of any Borrower; plus
(vii) the amount of management, monitoring, consulting, transaction and advisory fees (including termination fees) and related indemnities, charges and expenses paid or accrued to or on behalf of any Parent Entity or any of the Permitted Holders, in each case, to the extent permitted by Section 7.07; plus
(viii) earn-out obligations incurred in connection with any Permitted Acquisition or other Investment; plus
(ix) all charges, costs, expenses, accruals or reserves in connection with the rollover, acceleration or payout of Equity Interests held by officers or employees of any Borrower and all losses, charges and expenses related to payments made to holders of options or other derivative Equity Interests in the common equity of any Borrower or any Parent Entity in connection with, or as a result of, any distribution being made to equityholders of such Person or any of its direct or indirect parents, which payments are being made to compensate such option holders as though they were equityholders at the time of, and entitled to share in, such distribution; plus
(x) all non-cash losses, charges and expenses, including any write-offs or write-downs; provided that if any such non-cash charge represents an accrual or reserve for potential cash items in any future four-fiscal quarter period (i) the applicable Borrower may determine not to add back such non-cash charge in the period for which Consolidated EBITDA is being calculated and (ii) to the extent the applicable Borrower does decide to add back such non-cash charge, the cash payment in respect thereof in such future four-fiscal quarter period will be subtracted from Consolidated EBITDA for such future four-fiscal quarter period;
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(xi) all costs and expenses in connection with pre-opening and opening of stores, distribution centers and other facilities that were not already excluded in calculating such Consolidated Net Income; and
(b) decreased, without duplication and to the extent increasing such Consolidated Net Income for such period, by non-cash gains (excluding any non-cash gains that represent the reversal of any accrual of, or cash reserve for, anticipated cash charges that were deducted (and not added back) in the calculation of Consolidated EBITDA for any prior period ending after the Closing Date).
To the extent items excluded in the calculation of Consolidated Net Income have been excluded on an after-tax basis, these same items shall be excluded on a pre-tax basis for purposes of the calculation of Consolidated EBITDA.
Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio means, at any date of determination, the ratio of (a) (i) Consolidated
EBITDA for the most recently ended Measurement Period prior to such
daterecent period of four consecutive fiscal quarters for which Required Financial Statements have been
delivered, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, minus (ii) Unfinanced Capital Expenditures made in such period minus (iii) the aggregate amount of Federal, state, local and foreign
income taxes paid in cash in such period to (b) the sum of (i) Debt Service Charges for such period plus (ii) the aggregate amount of all Restricted Payments paid in cash, in each case, of or by the Parent Borrower and
its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, all as
determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.
Consolidated Interest Expense means, with respect
to the Parent Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries for any Measurement Periodthe
most recent period of four consecutive fiscal quarters for which Required Financial Statements have been delivered, the sum of, without duplication: (i) the aggregate of the interest expense of
the Parent Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries for
such Measurement
Periodperiod determined on a consolidated basis in
accordance with GAAP (excluding any accruals of dividends on preferred stock that are not paid in cash in such period, Indebtedness or Disqualified
Capital Stock), including, without limitation, (a) any amortization of debt discount, (b) the net costs under Swap Contracts, (c) all capitalized interest and (d) the
interest portion of any deferred payment obligation; and (ii) the interest component of capitalized lease obligations paid, accrued and/or scheduled to be paid or accrued by the Parent Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries during such Measurement
Periodperiod as determined on a consolidated basis
in accordance with GAAP.
Consolidated
Net Income means, with respect to the Parent Borrower and its Subsidiaries, for any
Measurement Period, the aggregate net income (or loss) of the Parent Borrower and its Subsidiaries for such Measurement Period on a consolidated basis, determined in accordance with GAAP; provided that there shall be excluded therefrom (a) after-tax
gains from asset sales or abandonments or reserves relating thereto, (b) after-tax items classified as extraordinary or nonrecurring gains or losses, (c) the net income (but not loss) of any Subsidiary of the Parent Borrower to the extent
that the declaration of dividends or similar distributions by that Subsidiary of that income is restricted by contract, operation of law or otherwise, (d) the net income of any person, other than a Subsidiary of the Parent Borrower, except to
the extent of cash dividends or distributions paid to the Parent Borrower or to a wholly owned Subsidiary of the Parent Borrower by such person, (e) any restoration to income of any contingency,
reserve,
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except to the extent that provision for such reserve was made out of Consolidated Net Income accrued at any time
following the Closing Date, (f) income or loss attributable to discontinued operations (including, without limitation, operations disposed of during such Measurement Period whether or not such operations were classified as discontinued), (g) in the case
of a successor to the Parent Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries by consolidation or merger or as a transferee of the Parent Borrowers or any of its Subsidiaries assets, any earnings of the successor corporation prior to such
consolidation, merger or transfer of assets and (h) accruals of dividends on preferred stock that are not paid in cash in such period, Indebtedness or Disqualified Capital Stock, to the extent that accrued dividends are classified as interest
expense in accordance with GAAP.Consolidated Net Income means, with respect to any Person
for any period, the aggregate of the net income (or loss) of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, calculated on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP (adjusted to reflect any charge, tax or expense incurred or accrued
by Holdings or any Parent Entity during such period attributable to the operations of the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries as though such charge, tax or expense had been incurred by any Borrower, to the extent that such Borrower has made or would be
entitled under the Loan Documents to make any Restricted Payment or other payment to or for the account of Holdings in respect thereof) and before any deduction for preferred stock dividends; provided that:
Consolidated Non-cash Charges means, with respect to the Parent Borrower and its Subsidiaries, for any Measurement Period, the aggregate
depreciation, amortization
(a) all net after-tax extraordinary, nonrecurring or unusual gains, losses, income, expenses and charges, and in any event including all restructuring, severance, relocation, retention, consolidation, integration or other similar charges and expenses, contract termination costs, litigation costs, excess pension charges, system establishment charges, start-up or closure or transition costs, expenses related to any reconstruction, decommissioning, recommissioning or reconfiguration of fixed assets for alternative uses, fees, expenses or charges relating to curtailments or modifications to pension and post-retirement employee benefit plans, expenses associated with strategic initiatives, facilities shutdown and opening costs, and any fees, expenses, charges or change in control payments (including any transition-related expenses incurred before, on or after the Closing Date), will be excluded;
(b) all net after-tax income, loss, expense or charge from abandoned, closed or discontinued operations and any net after-tax gain or loss on the disposal of abandoned, closed or discontinued operations will be excluded;
(c) all net after-tax gain, loss, expense or charge attributable to business dispositions and asset dispositions other than in the ordinary course of business (as determined in good faith by a Responsible Officer of the Parent Borrower) will be excluded;
(d) all net after-tax income, loss, expense or charge attributable to the early extinguishment or cancellation of Indebtedness, Hedge Agreements or other derivative instruments will be excluded;
(e) all non-cash gain, loss, expense or charge attributable to the movement in the mark-to-market valuation of Hedge Agreements or other derivative instruments will be excluded;
(f) (i) the net income for such period of any Person that is not a Restricted Subsidiary of the referent Person, or that is accounted for by the equity method of accounting, will be included only to the extent of the amount of dividends or distributions or other payments that are paid in cash (or converted into cash) to the referent Person or a Restricted Subsidiary thereof in respect of such period; and (ii) the net income for such period will include any ordinary course dividends, distributions or other payments in cash received from any such Person during such period in excess of the amounts included in clause (i) hereof;
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(g) the cumulative effect of a change in accounting principles during such period will be excluded;
(h) the effects of purchase accounting, fair value accounting or recapitalization accounting adjustments (including the effects of such adjustments pushed down to the referent Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries) resulting from the application of purchase accounting, fair value accounting or recapitalization accounting in relation to any acquisition consummated before or after the Closing Date, and the amortization, write-down or write-off of any amounts thereof, net of taxes, will be excluded;
(i) all non-cash impairment charges and asset write-ups, write-downs and write-offs will be excluded;
(j) all non-cash expenses realized in connection with or resulting from stock option plans, employee benefit plans or agreements or post-employment benefit plans or agreements, or grants or sales of stock, stock appreciation or similar rights, stock options, restricted stock, preferred stock or other similar rights will be excluded;
(k) any costs or expenses incurred in connection with the payment of dividend equivalent rights to option holders pursuant to any management equity plan, stock option plan or any other management or employee benefit plan or agreement or post-employment benefit plan or agreement will be excluded;
(l) [reserved];
(m) all amortization and write-offs of deferred financing fees, debt issuance costs, commissions, fees and expenses and expensing of any bridge, commitment or other financing fees, will be excluded;
(n) any currency translation gains and losses related to changes in currency exchange rates (including remeasurements of Indebtedness and any net loss or gain resulting from Hedge Agreements for currency exchange risk), will be excluded;
(o) (a) the non-cash portion of straight-line rent expense will be excluded and (b) the cash portion of straight-line rent expense that exceeds the amount expensed in respect of such rent expense will be included;
(p) expenses and lost profits with respect to liability or casualty events or business interruption will be disregarded to the extent covered by insurance and actually reimbursed, or, so long as such Person has made a determination that there exists reasonable evidence that such amount will in fact be reimbursed by the insurer, but only to the extent that such amount (i) has not been denied by the applicable carrier in writing and (ii) is in fact reimbursed within 365 days of the date on which such liability was discovered or such casualty event or business interruption occurred (with a deduction for any amounts so added back that are not reimbursed within such 365-day period); provided that any proceeds of such reimbursement when received will be excluded from the calculation of Consolidated Net Income to the extent the expense or lost profit reimbursed was previously disregarded pursuant to this clause (p);
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(q) losses, charges and expenses that are covered by indemnification or other reimbursement provisions in connection with any asset disposition will be excluded to the extent actually reimbursed, or, so long as such Person has made a determination that a reasonable basis exists for indemnification or reimbursement, but only to the extent that such amount is in fact indemnified or reimbursed within 365 days of such determination (with a deduction in the applicable future period for any amount so added back to the extent not so indemnified or reimbursed within such 365 days);
(r)
(a) cash costs and expenses in connection with pre-opening and opening of stores, distribution
centers and other facilities for any four-quarter period,
and all non-cash pre-opening costs and expenses, will be excluded, and (b) all income, loss, charges of the Parent Borrower and its Subsidiaries reducingand expenses associated with stores, distribution centers and other facilities closed in any period, or scheduled for closure
within 12 months of the date on which Consolidated Net Income of the Parent Borrower and its Subsidiaries
for such Measurement Period, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP (including, without limitation, any LIFO adjustments, but excluding any such charge which requires an accrual of or a reserve for cash charges for any future
period)is being calculated, will be excluded; and
(s) non-cash charges for deferred tax asset valuation allowances will be excluded.
Consolidated Secured Net Debt means, as of any date, all Consolidated Debt as of such date that is secured by a Lien on the Collateral, minus all Unrestricted Cash as of such date, in each case, determined based upon the most recent month-end financial statements available internally as of the date of determination, and calculated on a Pro Forma Basis; provided that for purposes of calculating the amount of Consolidated Secured Net Debt with respect to any Indebtedness being incurred in reliance on compliance with any financial ratio-based incurrence test, Unrestricted Cash will not include any proceeds received from such Indebtedness.
Consolidated Total Assets means, as of any date, the total assets of the Parent Borrower and its Subsidiaries, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, determined based upon the most recent month-end financial statements available internally as of the date of determination, and calculated on a Pro Forma Basis.
Consolidated Total Leverage Ratio means, as of any date of determination, the ratio of (a) Consolidated Funded Indebtedness as of such date to (b) Consolidated EBITDA of the Parent Borrower and its
Subsidiaries for the most recently completed Measurement Period.
Contractual Obligation means, as to any Person, any provision of any security issued by such Person or of any agreement, instrument or other undertaking to which
such Person is a party or by which it or any of its property is bound.Contribution Indebtedness
has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 7.01(p).
Control means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or
policies of a Person, whether through the ability to
exerciseownership of voting powersecurities, by contract or
otherwise.,
and the terms Controlling and Controlledwill have meanings correlative
theretomeanings
.
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Conversion/Continuation Notice means a notice of (a) a conversion of Loans from one Type to the other, or (b) a continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans, pursuant to Section 2.05(a), which, if in writing, shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A-2.
Cost
means the calculated cost of purchases, based upon the Borrowers accounting practices, known to the Administrative Agent, which practices are in effect on the ClosingAmendment No. 4
Effective Date as such calculated cost is determined from invoices received by the Borrowers, the Borrowers purchase journals or the Borrowers stock ledger. Cost does not
include inventory capitalization costs (other than capitalized distribution costs) or other non-purchase price charges (such as freight) used in the Borrowers calculation of cost of goods sold.
Covenant Compliance Event means that Excess Availability at any time is less than the greater of (a) ten
(10%) percent of the Line Cap or
(b)
$7,000,00010,000,000
. For purposes hereof, the occurrence of a Covenant Compliance Event shall be deemed continuing until Excess Availability has exceeded the amounts set forth above for thirty (30) consecutive
days, in which case a Covenant Compliance Event shall no longer be deemed to be continuing for purposes of this Agreement. The termination of a Covenant Compliance Event as provided herein shall in no way limit, waive or delay the occurrence of a
subsequent Covenant Compliance Event in the event that the conditions set forth in this definition again arise.
Covered Entity means any of the following: (i) a covered entity as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 252.82(b); (ii) a covered bank as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. §47.3(b); or (iii) a covered FSI as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 382.2(b).
Covered Party has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 11.22.
Credit Card Advance Rate means 90%.
Credit Card
Notifications has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 6.17.
Credit Card Receivables Component means the face amount of Eligible Credit Card Receivables multiplied by the Credit Card Advance Rate.
Credit Extension means the making of a Loan or the issuance of a Letter of Credit by a Lender or Issuing Lender, as the case may be.
Cure Amount has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 8.02.
Cure Right has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 8.02.
Customer Credit Liabilities means, at any time, the aggregate remaining value at such time of (a) outstanding gift certificates and gift cards sold by the Borrowers entitling the holder thereof to use all or a portion of the certificate or gift card to pay all or a portion of the purchase price for any Inventory, and (b) outstanding merchandise credits issued by the Borrowers.
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Customs Broker Agreement means an agreement in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit K among the applicable Borrower, a customs broker or other carrier, and the Administrative Agent, in which the customs broker or other carrier acknowledges that it has control over and holds the documents evidencing ownership of the subject Inventory for the benefit of the Administrative Agent and agrees, upon notice from the Administrative Agent, to hold and dispose of the subject Inventory solely as directed by the Administrative Agent.
CVC means CVC Capital Partners.
DDA means each checking or other demand deposit account maintained by any of the Loan Parties. All funds in each DDA shall be conclusively presumed to be Collateral and proceeds of Collateral and the Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall have no duty to inquire as to the source of the amounts on deposit in any DDA.
Debt Representative means, with respect to any Indebtedness that is secured on a junior basis to the Revolving Credit Loans, the trustee, administrative agent, collateral agent, security agent or similar agent under
the indenture or agreement pursuant to which such Indebtedness is issued, incurred or otherwise obtained, as the case may be, and each of their successors in such capacities.
Debt
Service Chargesmeans, for any Measurement
Periodperiod of four consecutive fiscal quarters for which Required Financial Statements have been
delivered, the sum of (a) Consolidated Interest Expense paid in cash or required to be paid in cash for such period, plus (b) principal payments made or required to be made on
account of Indebtedness (excluding the Obligations and any principal payments made with the proceeds of Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness or with the proceeds of Indebtedness under the Term Loan Facility, but including, without limitation, any
Synthetic Lease Obligationssynthetic lease obligations) for such period, in each case
determined in accordance with GAAP.
Debtor Relief Laws means the Bankruptcy Code of the United States, and all other liquidation, conservatorship, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors, moratorium, rearrangement, receivership, insolvency, reorganization, or similar debtor relief Laws of the United States or other applicable jurisdictions from time to time in effect and affecting the rights of creditors generally.
Default means any event or condition that constitutes an Event of Default or that, with the giving of any notice, the passage of time, or both, would be an Event of Default.
Default Rate means (a) when used with respect to Obligations other than Letter of Credit Fees, an interest rate equal to (i) the Base Rate plus (ii) the Applicable Margin, if any, applicable to Base Rate Loans plus (iii) 2% per annum; provided, however, that with respect to a Eurodollar Rate Loan, the Default Rate shall be an interest rate equal to the interest rate (including any Applicable Margin) otherwise applicable to such Loan plus 2% per annum and (b) when used with respect to Letter of Credit Fees, a rate equal to the applicable percentage set forth in Section 2.18(a) for Standby Letters of Credit or Commercial Letters of Credit, as applicable, plus 2% per annum.
Default Right has the meaning assigned to that term in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. §§252.81, 47.2 or 382.1, as applicable.
Defaulting Lender means, subject to Section 2.24(b), any Lender that (a) has failed to perform any of its funding obligations hereunder, including in respect of its Loans or participations in respect of Letters of Credit or Swing Line Loans, within one Business Day of the date required to be funded by it hereunder, (b) has notified the Parent Borrower, or the Administrative Agent that it does not intend to comply with its funding obligations or has made a public statement to that effect with respect to
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its funding obligations hereunder or under other agreements in which it commits to extend credit, (c) has failed, within three Business Days after a request by the Administrative Agent, to confirm in a manner satisfactory to the Administrative Agent that it will comply with its funding obligations or (d) has, or has a direct or indirect parent company that has, (i) become the subject of a proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law, (ii) had a receiver, conservator, trustee, administrator, assignee for the benefit of creditors or similar Person charged with reorganization or liquidation of its business or a custodian appointed for it, or (iii) taken any action in furtherance of, or indicated its consent to, approval of or acquiescence in any such proceeding or appointment; provided that a Lender shall not be a Defaulting Lender solely by virtue of the ownership or acquisition of any equity interest in that Lender or any direct or indirect parent company thereof by a Governmental Authority.
Disposition or
Dispose means the sale, transfer, license, lease or other disposition (including any sale and leaseback transaction) of any property (including, without limitation, any Equity Interests of any other Person held by
a specified Person) by any Person, including any sale, assignment, transfer or other disposal, with or without recourse, of any notes or accounts receivable or any rights and claims associated therewith, in each case, resulting in consideration to
such Person (including assumption of liabilities) for any such transaction or series of related transactions in excess of $5,000,000.
Designated Jurisdiction means any country or territory to the extent that such country or territory itself is the subject of any Sanction.
Designated Non-Cash Consideration means the fair market value of non-cash consideration received by the Parent Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in connection with an Asset Sale that is designated as Designated Non-Cash Consideration pursuant to a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Parent Borrower setting forth the basis of such valuation, less the amount of cash or Cash Equivalents received in connection with a subsequent sale of such Designated Non-Cash Consideration.
Disinterested Director means, with respect to any Person and transaction, a member of the Board of Directors of such Person who does not have any material direct or indirect financial interest in or with respect to such transaction.
Disqualified Institution means:
(a) (i) any Person identified in writing to the Joint Lead Arrangers and the Administrative Agent on July27, 2020, (ii) any Person that is identified in writing to the Joint Lead Arrangers and the Administrative Agent after July 27, 2020 and prior to the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date, if the disqualification of such Person is reasonably acceptable to the Joint Lead Arrangers, (iii) any Affiliate of any Person described in clauses (i) and/or (ii) above that is reasonably identifiable as an Affiliate of such Person solely on the basis of such Affiliates name and (iv) any other Affiliate of any Person described in clauses (i), (ii) and/or (iii) above that is identified in a written notice to the Joint Lead Arrangers (or, after the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date, the Administrative Agent) after August 13, 2020 (each such person, a Disqualified Lending Institution); it being understood that the Parent Borrower may withhold its consent to any Person that is known by it to be an Affiliate of a Disqualified Lending Institution regardless of whether such Person is reasonably identifiable as an Affiliate of such Person solely on the basis of such Affiliates name;
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(b) (i) any Company Competitor and/or any Affiliate of any Company Competitor (other than a Competitor Debt Fund Affiliate), in each case, who have been identified to the Joint Lead Arrangers and the Administrative Agent in writing on July 27, 2020 (or, after the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date, identified in writing to the Administrative Agent), (ii) any Affiliate (other than a Competitor Debt Fund Affiliate) of any Person described in clause (i) above that is reasonably identifiable as an Affiliate of such Person solely on the basis of such Affiliates name and (iii) any other Affiliate of any Person described in clauses (i) and/or (ii) above (other than a Competitor Debt Fund Affiliate) that is identified in a written notice to the Joint Lead Arrangers (or, after the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date, the Administrative Agent) after July 27, 2020; it being understood that the Parent Borrower may withhold its consent to any Person that is known by it to be an Affiliate of a Company Competitor regardless of whether such Person is reasonably identifiable as an Affiliate of such Person solely on the basis of such Affiliates name; and/or
(c) any Affiliate or representative of the Joint Lead Arrangers or the Administrative Agent that is engaged as a principal primarily in private equity, mezzanine financing or venture capital that is identified in writing to us on or prior to the date hereof (each such person, an Excluded Party);
provided that no written notice delivered pursuant to clauses (a)(ii), (a)(iv), (b)(i) and/or (b)(iii) above shall apply retroactively to disqualify any Person that has previously acquired an assignment or participation hereunder prior to the delivery of such notice.
Disqualified CapitalLending Institution has the meaning ascribed thereto in the definition of the term Disqualified
Institution.
Disqualified Stock means those,
with respect to any Person, any Equity Interests whichof such Person
that, by their terms (or by the terms of any security into which suchor other Equity Interests into which they are convertible or for which they are redeemable or exchangeable at the option of the holder thereof), or upon the happening of any
event, or
condition:
(1) mature or are mandatorily redeemable (other than solely for Qualified Equity Interests), pursuant to a
sinking fund obligation or otherwise, or
(except as a result of a change of control or asset sale so long as any rights of the holders thereof
upon the occurrence of a change of control or asset sale are subject to the prior repayment in full of the Loans and all other Obligations that are accrued and payable and the termination of the Revolving Credit Commitments);
(2)
are redeemable at the sole option of the holder
thereof.
Distribution means a
distribution of up to $226,602,805 by the Parent Borrower (and the further distribution of such amount by Holdings to its shareholders) on or about the Amendment No. 1 Effective Date. (other than solely for Qualified Equity Interests), in whole or in
part;
(3) provide for the scheduled payments of dividends in cash; or
(4) either mandatorily or at the option of the holders thereof, are or become convertible into or exchangeable for Indebtedness or any other Equity Interests that would constitute Disqualified Stock,
in each case, prior to the date that is 91 days after the earlier of (x) the Revolving Credit Termination Date; and (y) the date on which the Loans and all other Obligations (other than Obligations in respect of contingent indemnification and reimbursement obligations that are not yet due and payable and for which
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no claim has been asserted) are repaid in full and the Revolving Credit Commitments are terminated; provided that only the portion of the Equity Interests that so mature or are mandatorily redeemable, are so convertible or exchangeable or are so redeemable at the option of the holder thereof prior to such date will be deemed to be Disqualified Stock; provided, further, that if such Equity Interests are issued to any employee or to any plan for the benefit of employees of Holdings or its Subsidiaries or by any such plan to such employees, such Equity Interests will not constitute Disqualified Stock solely because they may be required to be repurchased by Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries in order to satisfy applicable statutory or regulatory obligations or as a result of such employees termination, death or disability; and provided, further, that any class of Equity Interests of such Person that by its terms authorizes such Person to satisfy its obligations thereunder by delivery of Equity Interests that is not Disqualified Stock will not be deemed to be Disqualified Stock.
Dividing Person has the meaning assigned to it in the definition of Division.
Division means the division of the assets, liabilities and/or obligations of a Person (the Dividing Person) among two or more Persons (whether pursuant to a plan of division or similar arrangement), which may or may not include the Dividing Person and pursuant to which the Dividing Person may or may not survive.
Dollar and $ means lawful money of the United States.
Domestic Subsidiary means any Subsidiary of any Borrower that is organized under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia, and Domestic Subsidiaries means any two or more of them. Unless otherwise indicated in this Agreement, all references to Domestic Subsidiaries will mean Domestic Subsidiaries of any Borrower.
EEA Financial Institution means (a) any credit institution or investment firm established in any EEA Member Country which is subject to the supervision of an EEA Resolution Authority, (b) any entity established in an EEA Member Country which is a parent of an institution described in clause (a) of this definition, or (c) any financial institution established in an EEA Member Country which is a Subsidiary of an institution described in clauses (a) or (b) of this definition and is subject to consolidated supervision with its parent.
EEA Member Country means any of the member states of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.
EEA Resolution Authority means any public administrative authority or any Person entrusted with public administrative authority of any EEA Member Country (including any delegee) having responsibility for the resolution of any EEA Financial Institution.
Eligible Assignee means any Person that meets the requirements to be an assignee under Sections 11.06(b)(iii) and (v) (subject to such consents, if any, as may be required under Section 11.06(b)(iii)).
Eligible Credit Card Receivables means Accounts due to a Borrower on a non-recourse basis from Visa, Mastercard, American Express Company, Discover, and other major credit card processors, in each case acceptable to the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion, as arise in the ordinary course of business, which have been earned by performance, and are deemed by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion to be eligible for inclusion in the calculation of the Borrowing Base. Without limiting the foregoing, none of the following shall be deemed to be Eligible Credit Card Receivables:
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(a) Accounts due from major credit card processors that have been outstanding for more than five (5) Business Days from the date of sale;
(b) Accounts due from major credit card
processors with respect to which a Borrower does not have good, valid and marketable title, free and clear of any Lien (other than Liens granted to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties and Liens in favor of the Term Loan
Administrative Agent permitted by
Section
7.017.02(wb));
(c) Accounts due from major credit card processors that are not subject to a first priority security interest in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties (it being the intent that chargebacks in the ordinary course by the credit card processors shall not be deemed violative of this clause (c));
(d) Accounts due from major credit card processors which are disputed, are with recourse, or with respect to which a claim, counterclaim, offset or chargeback has been asserted (to the extent of such claim, counterclaim, offset or chargeback);
(e) Accounts due from major credit card processors as to which the credit card processor has the right under certain circumstances to require a Borrower to repurchase the Accounts from such credit card processor;
(f) Accounts due from any Person on account of any private label credit card receivables of a Borrower in the name of such Person; or
(g) Accounts due from major credit card processors which the Administrative Agent determines in its reasonable discretion to be uncertain of collection.
Eligible In-Transit Inventory means, as of any date of determination thereof, without duplication of other Eligible Inventory, Inventory:
(a) which has been shipped (i) from a foreign location for receipt by a Borrower within sixty (60) days of the date of shipment, or (ii) from a domestic location for receipt by a Borrower within fifteen (15) days of the date of shipment, but, in either case, which has not yet been delivered to such Borrower;
(b) for which the purchase order is in the name of a Borrower and title has passed to such Borrower;
(c) for which an Acceptable Document of Title has been issued and, in the case of Inventory shipped from a foreign location of a Borrower, as to which the Administrative Agent has control over the documents of title which evidence ownership of the subject Inventory by virtue of either (i) the Administrative Agents actual possession of such documents of title or (ii) the receipt of a Customs Broker Agreement with each of such Borrowers customs brokers and freight forwarders;
(d) which is insured in accordance with the terms of this Agreement; and
(e) which otherwise would constitute Eligible Inventory;
provided that the Administrative Agent may, in its reasonable discretion, exclude any particular Inventory from the definition of Eligible In-Transit
Inventory in the event the Administrative Agent determines that such Inventory is subject to any Lien (other than Permitted Liens described in clauses (a),
(db),
(nl) and (w) of
Section
7.017.02)
.
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Eligible Inventory means, as of the date of determination thereof, without duplication, (i) Eligible In-Transit Inventory and (ii) items of Inventory of a Borrower that are (i) raw materials or (ii) finished goods, merchantable and readily saleable to the public in the ordinary course deemed by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion to be eligible for inclusion in the calculation of the Borrowing Base, in each case that, except as otherwise agreed by the Administrative Agent, complies with each of the representations and warranties respecting Inventory made by the Borrowers in the Loan Documents, and that is not excluded as ineligible by virtue of one or more of the criteria set forth below. The following items of Inventory shall not be included in Eligible Inventory:
(a) Inventory that is not solely owned by a Borrower;
(b) Inventory that is leased by or is on consignment to a Borrower or to which a Borrower does not have good and valid title;
(c) Inventory (other than Eligible In -Transit Inventory or Inventory which is the subject of an Eligible Letter of Credit) that is not (i) located in the United States of America (excluding territories or possessions of the United States) or (ii) at a location that is owned or leased by a Borrower, except, with respect to this clause (ii) only, to the extent that such Borrower has furnished the Administrative Agent with (A) any UCC financing statements or other documents that the Administrative Agent may determine to be necessary to perfect its security interest in such Inventory at such location, and (B) if the value of the Inventory at a location is greater than $1,500,000, a Collateral Access Agreement executed by the Person owning such location on terms reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent;
(d) Inventory that is comprised of goods which (i) are damaged, defective, seconds, or otherwise unmerchantable, (ii) are to be returned to the vendor, (iii) are obsolete or slow moving, or custom items, work in process, or that constitute spare parts, promotional, marketing, packaging and shipping materials or supplies used or consumed in a Borrowers business or that are raw materials consisting of cartons or components, (iv) are not in compliance with all standards imposed by any Governmental Authority having regulatory authority over such Inventory, its use or sale, (v) that is vendor serviced merchandise not reflected in the stock ledger, or (vi) are bill and hold goods;
(e) Inventory that is not subject to a perfected first-priority security interest in favor of the Administrative Agent for its own benefit and the ratable benefit of the other Secured Parties;
(f) Inventory that consists of samples, labels, and other similar non-merchandise categories;
(g) Inventory that is not insured in compliance with the provisions of
Section
6.076.02
hereof;
(h) Inventory that has been sold but not yet delivered or as to which a Borrower has accepted a deposit;
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(i) Inventory that is subject to any licensing, patent, royalty, trademark, trade name or copyright agreement with any third party from which the Parent Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries has received notice of a dispute in respect of any such agreement; or
(j) Inventory acquired in an acquisition permitted under Section
7.037.04, unless (i) the acquired Inventory has
an aggregate Cost of less than $2,000,000 and (ii) in the case of acquired Inventory with an aggregate Cost of greater than $2,000,000, the Administrative Agent has completed or received (A) an appraisal of such Inventory from appraisers
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, establishes an Inventory Advance Rate and Inventory Reserves (if applicable) therefor, and otherwise agrees that such Inventory shall be deemed Eligible Inventory, and (B) such other due diligence as
the Administrative Agent may require, all of the results of the foregoing to be reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
Eligible Letter of Credit means, as of any date of determination thereof, a Commercial Letter of Credit which supports the
purchase of Inventory, (i) which Inventory does not constitute Eligible In-Transit Inventory and for which no documents of title have then been issued, (ii) which Inventory otherwise would constitute Eligible Inventory, (iii) which
Commercial Letter of Credit has an expiry within sixty (60) days of the date of initial issuance of such Commercial Letter of Credit, (iv) which Commercial Letter of Credit provides that it may be drawn only after the Inventory is
completed and after an Acceptable Document of Title has been issued for such Inventory reflecting a Borrower or the Administrative Agent as consignee of such Inventory and (v) which will constitute Eligible In-Transit Inventory upon
satisfaction of the requirements of clause (iv) hereof; provided that the Administrative Agent may, in its reasonable discretion, exclude any particular Inventory from the definition of Eligible Letter of Credit in the
event the Administrative Agent determines that such Inventory is subject to any Lien (other than Permitted Liens described in clauses (a), (db), (nl) and (w) of Section 7.017.02).
Eligible Trade Receivables means Accounts arising from the sale of a Borrowers Inventory which arise in the ordinary course of business, which have been earned by performance. None of the following shall be deemed to be Eligible Trade Receivables:
(a) Accounts that are not evidenced by an invoice;
(b) Accounts that have been outstanding for more than sixty (60) days from the relevant invoice due date or ninety (90) days from invoice date;
(c) Accounts due from any account debtor with respect to which more than fifty
percent (50%) of the aggregate dollar amount of all outstanding invoices to such account debtor are accounts described in clause (b) above.
(d) Accounts to an account debtor whose total obligations owing to a Borrower exceed twenty percent (20%) in the aggregate of the Borrowers Eligible Trade Receivables;
(e) Accounts which are pre-billed or arise from progress billings;
(f) Accounts with respect to which a Borrower does not have good, valid and
marketable title thereto, free and clear of any Lien (other than Liens granted to the Administrative Agent, for its benefit and
the benefit of the Secured Parties, pursuant to the Collateral Documents and Liens permitted by clause (b) of Sectionw7.02);
7.01
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(g) Accounts which are disputed or with respect to which a claim, counterclaim, offset or chargeback has been asserted, but only to the extent of such dispute, counterclaim, offset or chargeback;
(h) Accounts which arise out of any sale made not in the ordinary course of business, made on a basis other than upon credit terms usual to the business of a Borrower or are not payable in Dollars;
(i) Accounts which are owed by any account debtor whose principal place of business is not within the continental United States;
(j) Accounts which are owed by any Affiliate, employee, officer or director of a Borrower;
(k) Accounts for which all consents, approvals or authorizations of, or registrations or declarations required to be obtained, effected or given in connection with the performance of such Account by the account debtor or in connection with the enforcement of such Account by the Administrative Agent have not been duly obtained, effected or given and are not in full force and effect;
(l) Accounts due from an account debtor which is the subject of any bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding, has had a trustee or receiver appointed for all or a substantial part of its property, has made an assignment for the benefit of creditors or has suspended its business;
(m) Accounts due from any Governmental Authority except to the extent that the subject account debtor is the federal government of the United States of America and has complied with the Federal Assignment of Claims Act of 1940;
(n) Accounts (i) owing from any Person that is also a supplier to or creditor of the Parent Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries unless such Person has waived any right of setoff in a manner acceptable to the Administrative Agent or (ii) representing any manufacturers or suppliers credits, discounts, incentive plans or similar arrangements entitling the Parent Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to discounts on future purchase therefrom;
(o) Account arising out of sales on a bill-and-hold, guaranteed sale, sale-or-return, sale on approval or consignment basis or subject to any right of return, setoff or charge back; or
(p) Accounts which the Administrative Agent determines in its reasonable discretion to be unacceptable for borrowing.
Environment means ambient air,and indoor air, surface
water,
and groundwater, drinking (including potable water, navigable water and wetlands), the land surface andor subsurface strata, and natural resources such, as wetlands, flora and fauna.
Environmental Laws means any
and all Federal, state, local, and foreign Laws, other legally enforceable agreements or governmental
restrictions (including Environmental Permits)applicable laws (including common law), statutes, rules,
regulations, codes, ordinances, orders, binding agreements and final, binding decrees or judgments, in each case, promulgated or entered into by or with any Governmental Authority, relating in any way to pollution and the protection of the
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Environment,
preservation or
the reclamation of natural resources, the generation, management, Release or threat
ofthreatened Release of, or exposure to, any Hazardous Materials into
Hazardous Material
or to occupational health and safety matters (to the extent relating to the Environment, including those related to air emissions and discharges to waste or public systems or exposure to Hazardous Materials).
Environmental Liability means any liability, contingent or otherwise (including any liability for damages, costs of environmental remediation, fines, penalties or indemnities) directly or indirectly resulting from or based upon (a) violation of any Environmental Law or Environmental Permit, (b) the generation, use, handling, transportation, storage, treatment or disposal of any Hazardous Materials, (c) exposure to any Hazardous Materials, (d) the Release or threatened Release of any Hazardous Materials into the indoor or outdoor Environment or (e) any contract, agreement or other consensual arrangement pursuant to which liability is assumed, retained or imposed with respect to any of the foregoing.
Environmental Permit means any permit, approval, registration, exemption, identification number, license, franchise, concession, grant or other authorization pursuant to or required under any Environmental Law.
Equity Interests means, with respect to any Person, all of the shares of capital stock of (or other ownership or profit interests in) such Person, all of the warrants, options or other rights for the purchase or acquisition from such Person of shares of capital stock of (or other ownership or profit interests in) such Person, all of the securities convertible into or exchangeable for shares of capital stock of (or other ownership or profit interests in) such Person or warrants, rights or options for the purchase or acquisition from such Person of such shares (or such other interests), and all of the other ownership or profit interests in such Person (including partnership, member or trust interests therein), whether voting or nonvoting, and whether or not such shares, warrants, options, rights or other interests are outstanding on any date of determination; provided that Equity Interests shall not include any debt securities that are convertible or exchangeable for any of the foregoing Equity Interests.
Equity Investors means the Sponsors, any member of management and any other equity holders of the outstanding Equity Interests of the Parent Borrower or its direct or indirect parent company on the Closing Date (and, in the case of any management equity holder, any such management equity holder after the Closing Date).
ERISA means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as the same may be amended from time to time, and any final regulations promulgated and the rulings issued thereunder.
ERISA Affiliate means any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) under common controlthat,
together with Holdings or any Loan Party within the meaning of its Subsidiaries, is treated as a single employer under
Section 414(b) or (c) of the Code (or Sections 414(m) and (o) of the
Code, solely for purposes of provisions relating
toSection 302 of ERISA and Section 412 of the
Code), is treated as a single employer under Section 414 of the Code.
ERISA Event means
(a) :
(a)
a Reportable Event, or the requirements of
Section 4043(b) of ERISA apply, with respect to a Pension Plan; (b)
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(b)
a withdrawal by Holdings or any Loan Party
orof its Subsidiaries or, to the knowledge of Holdings or the Parent Borrower, any ERISA Affiliate from a Pension Plan subject to
Section 4063 of ERISA during a plan year in which it was a substantial employer (as defined in Section 4001(a)(2) of ERISA) or a cessation of operations
by Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries or, to the knowledge of Holdings or the Parent Borrower, any ERISA
Affiliate that is treated as such a withdrawaltermination
under Section 4062(e) of ERISA; (c)
(c)
a complete or partial withdrawal by Holdings or any Loan Party
orof its
Subsidiaries or, to the knowledge of Holdings or the Parent Borrower, any ERISA Affiliate from a Multiemployer Plan or, receipt of written notification by Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries or, to the knowledge of Holdings or the Parent
Borrower, any ERISA Affiliate concerning the imposition of Withdrawal Liability or written notification that a Multiemployer Plan is in reorganization; (d) the
filing, or is expected to be, insolvent within the meaning of Title IV of ERISA or endangered or in
critical status within the meaning of Section 305 of ERISA;
(d)
the provision by a Plan administrator or the PBGC
of a notice of intent to terminate a Plan, to appoint a trustee to administer a Plan, the treatment of a
Plan or Multiemployer Plan amendment as a termination under
SectionSections
4041 or 4041A of ERISA, or the commencement of
proceedings by the PBGC to terminate a Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan; (e) an event or condition which constitutes grounds under Section 4042 of ERISA for the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any Pension Plan
or Multiemployer Plan; (f) the imposition
(e) the incurrence by Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries or, to the knowledge of Holdings or the Parent Borrower, any ERISA
Affiliate of any liability under Title IV of ERISA with
respect to the termination of any Plan or Multiemployer Plan, other than for
the payment of plan contributions or PBGC premiums due but
not delinquent under Section 4007 of ERISA, upon any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate; (g) any person shall engage in a prohibited
transaction (as defined in Section 406 of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code) involving any Plan; or (h) any failure to satisfy
the;
(f)
the application for a minimum funding standardwaiver under Section 412 of the
Code and Section 302(c) of ERISA, whether or not waived, shall exist with respect to
anya
Plan or ;
(g)
the failure to make any required contribution to a Multiemployer Plan, or any Lien in favor of the PBGC
shall arise on the assets of any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate.imposition of a lien under Section
303(k) of ERISA with respect to any Plan; and
(h) a determination that any Plan is in at risk status (within the meaning of Section 303 of ERISA).
EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule means the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule published by the Loan Market Association (or any successor person), as in effect from time to time.
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Eurodollar Rate means the higher of:
(i) the LIBOR Floor;
(a) (ii) (a)for any Interest Period with respect to a Eurodollar Rate Loan, the rate per annum equal to the London Interbank Offered Rate
as administered by ICE Benchmark Administration (or any other Person that takes over the administration of such
rate) for U.S. Dollars for a period equal in length to such Interest Period (LIBOR) or a
comparable or successor rate, which rate is approved by the Administrative Agent, as published on the
applicable
ReutersBloomberg screen page (or such other
commercially available source providing such quotations as may be designated by the Administrative Agent from time to time) at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period, for Dollar
deposits (for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period) with a term equivalent to such Interest Period; and
(b) (b) for any interest calculation with respect to a Base Rate Loan on any date, the rate per annum equal to LIBOR, at or about 11:00 a.m., London time determined two BusinessLondon
Banking Days prior to such date for U.S. Dollar deposits with a term of one month commencing that day;
and
(c) if the Eurodollar Rate shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed zero for purposes of this Agreement;
provided that to the extent a comparable or
successor rate is approved by the Administrative Agent in connection herewith, the approved rate shall be applied in a manner consistent with market practice; provided, further that to the extent such market practice is not administratively feasible
for the Administrative Agent, such approved rate shall be applied in a manner as otherwise reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent.
Eurodollar Rate Loan means a Loan that bears interest at a rate based on the Eurodollar Rate.
Event of Default has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 8.01.
Excess Availability means, as of any date of determination thereof, the result of:
(a) | the Line Cap minus |
(b) | the Total Revolving Extensions of Credit. |
Exchange Act means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
Excluded Contributions means, as of any date, the aggregate amount of the net cash proceeds and Cash Equivalents, together with the aggregate fair market value (determined in good faith by a Responsible Officer of the Parent Borrower) of other assets that are used or useful in a business permitted under Section 7.08, received by the Borrowers after the Closing Date from:
(1) | contributions to its common equity capital; or |
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(2) the sale of Capital Stock of any Borrower;
in each case, designated as Excluded Contributions pursuant to a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Parent Borrower on the date such contribution is made or such Capital Stock is sold, less the aggregate amount of Investments made pursuant to Section 7.04(cc) in each case prior to such date; provided that the proceeds of Disqualified Stock and any net cash proceeds that are used prior to such date (A) to make Restricted Payments under Section 7.06(a) or Section 7.06(b)(ii) or (B) for Contribution Indebtedness, will not be treated as Excluded Contributions.
Excluded Party has the meaning assigned to such term in clause (c) of the definition of Disqualified Institution.
Excluded Subsidiary means any Subsidiary (if and to the extent such Subsidiary is not a borrower or guarantor under the Term Loan Credit Agreement) that is an:
(1) Immaterial Subsidiary;
(2) Subsidiary that is not a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Parent Borrower;
(3) Unrestricted Subsidiary;
(4) Foreign Subsidiary;
(5) Domestic Subsidiary of a Foreign Subsidiary;
(6) Subsidiary substantially all the assets of which are Equity Interests and, if any, indebtedness in one or more Foreign Subsidiaries;
(7) Subsidiary if acting as a Guarantor, or its Guarantee, would, and only so long as it would, (a) be prohibited by law or regulation or by any contractual obligation existing on the (but not incurred in anticipation of) Closing Date or on the date such subsidiary is acquired or organized (as long as, in the case of an acquisition of a subsidiary, such prohibition did not arise as part of such acquisition) or (b) require a governmental or third-party consent, approval, license or authorization (unless such consent, approval, license or authorization has been received); and
(8) any Subsidiary that is a Captive Insurance Company, not-for-profit Subsidiary or Subsidiary which is a special purpose entity for securitization transaction or like special purposes.
in each case, unless the Parent Borrower determines in its sole discretion, upon notice to the Administrative Agent, that any of the foregoing Persons (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary or Subsidiary that is not a Wholly Owned Subsidiary of the Borrowers) should not be an Excluded Subsidiary until the date on which the Parent Borrower has informed the Administrative Agent that it elects to have such Person be an Excluded Subsidiary (provided that, if such election results in a reduction in the Borrowing Base in excess of $5,000,000, the Parent Borrower shall promptly deliver an updated Borrowing Base Certificate to the Administrative Agent); provided that the Guarantee and the security interest provided by such Person is full and unconditional and fully enforceable in the jurisdiction of organization of such Person.
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Excluded Swap Obligation means, with respect to any Guarantor, any Swap Obligation if, and to the extent that, all or a portion of the Guaranty of such Guarantor of, or the grant by such Guarantor of a security interest to secure, such Swap Obligation (or any Guaranty thereof) is or becomes illegal under the Commodity Exchange Act or any rule, regulation or order of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (or the application or official interpretation of any thereof) by virtue of such Guarantors failure for any reason to constitute an eligible contract participant as defined in the Commodity Exchange Act (determined after giving effect to any keepwell, support or other agreement for the benefit of such Guarantor and any and all guarantees of such Guarantors Swap Obligations by other Loan Parties) at the time the Guaranty of such Guarantor, or a grant by such Guarantor of a security interest, becomes effective with respect to such Swap Obligation. If a Swap Obligation arises under a master agreement governing more than one swap, such exclusion shall apply only to the portion of such Swap Obligation that is attributable to swaps for which such Guaranty or security interest is or becomes excluded in accordance with the first sentence of this definition.
Excluded Taxes means, with respect to the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any other recipient of any payment to be made by or on account of any obligation of any Loan Party under any Loan Document, (a) taxes imposed on or measured by its overall net income (however denominated), and franchise taxes (including taxes on overall gross receipts) imposed on it (in lieu of net income taxes), by a jurisdiction (or any political subdivision thereof) as a result of such recipient being organized or having its principal office or applicable Lending Office located in such jurisdiction or as a result of a present or former connection between such recipient and the jurisdiction (other than a connection arising from such recipient having executed, delivered, enforced, become a party to, performed its obligations under, received payments under, received or perfected a security interest under, or engaged in any other transaction pursuant to, or enforced, a Loan Document), (b) any branch profits taxes imposed by the United States or any political subdivision thereof, or any similar tax imposed by any other jurisdiction described in clause (a), (c) in the case of a Foreign Lender (other than an assignee pursuant to a request by the Borrowers under Section 11.13), any United States federal withholding tax that is imposed on amounts payable to such Foreign Lender pursuant to any Laws in effect at the time such Foreign Lender becomes a party hereto (or designates a new Lending Office), except to the extent that such Foreign Lender (or in the case of a Foreign Lender that becomes a Lender as a result of an assignment, its assignor) was entitled, immediately prior to the designation of a new Lending Office (or assignment), to receive additional amounts from any Loan Party with respect to such withholding tax pursuant to Section 3.01(a), (d) any withholding tax attributable to a Lenders failure to comply with Section 3.01(e) that would establish exemption from all withholding taxes; (e) any U.S. federal withholding tax imposed pursuant to FATCA; and (f) any interest, additions to tax or penalties incurred with respect to any of the foregoing.
Executive Order has the meaning set forth in Section
5.255.19(c)(i).
Existing Credit Agreementhas the meaning
ascribed thereto in the recitals.
Existing Holdco Senior Notes means all outstanding senior notes of Holdings due 2019 issued pursuant
tomeans that certain Note Exchange
Agreementcredit agreement, dated as of
November 30, 2010, by and among Holdings and the other parties thereto, as amended and supplemented prior to the Amendment No. 1 Effective Date, which shall be repaid in full on the Amendment
No. 1 Effective Date.
Existing Senior Notes means the 10.5% Senior Notes of the Parent Borrower due 2018, issued pursuant
to that certain Note Exchange Agreement, dated as of November 30, 2010, by and among the Parent Borrower and the other parties thereto, as amended and supplemented prior to the Amendment No. 1 Effective Date, which shall be repaid in full
on the Amendment No. 1 Effective Date.
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Existing Term Facility means the Credit Agreement, dated as of October 16, 2012, by and among the Parent Borrower,Holdings and Bank of America, as Administrative
Agentadministrative agent and the other lenders from time to time party
thereto, relating to senior secured term loans borrowed by the
Parent Borrower on the date thereof, which shall be repaid in full on the Amendment No. 1 Effective Date.
FATCA means Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code, as of the date of this Agreement (or any amended or successor version that is substantially comparable and not materially more onerous to comply with) and any current or future regulations or official interpretations thereof and any agreements entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b)(1).
FCPAhaashas the meaning set forth in Section
5.255.19(b).
Federal Funds Rate means, for any day, the rate per annum equal tocalculated
by the weighted average of the rates on overnight FederalFederal Reserve Bank of New York based on such days federal funds
transactions with members
ofby depository institutions (as
determined in such manner as the Federal Reserve System, asBank of New York shall set forth on its public website from time to time) and published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on the Business Day next succeeding
such
dayBusiness Day by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York as the federal funds effective rate; provided that (a) if such day is not a Business Day, the Federal Funds Rate for such day shall be such rate on such transactions on the next preceding
Business Day as so published on the next succeeding Business Day, and (b) if no such rate is so published on such next succeeding Business Day, the Federal Funds Rate foras so determined would be less than zero, such dayrate shall be the average rate (rounded upward, if necessary, to a whole multiple of 1/100 of 1%) charged to Bank of America on
such day on such transactions as determined by the Administrative Agentdeemed to be zero for purposes
of this Agreement.
Financial Officer means, with respect to any Person, the chief financial officer, president, principal accounting officer, director of financial services, treasurer, assistant treasurer or controller of such Person.
Financial Performance Covenant shall mean the covenant of the Parent Borrower set forth in Section 7.197.14.
First Priority means, with respect to any Lien
purported to be created on any Collateral pursuant to any Collateral Document, that such Lien is the most senior Lien to which such Collateral is subject (subject to Permitted Liens).
Fiscal Month means any fiscal month
of any Fiscal Year.
Fiscal Quarter means any fiscal quarter of any Fiscal Year.
Fiscal Year means any period of twelve
consecutive months ending on the Saturday closest to September 30 of any calendar year
Fixed Amounts has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 1.08(b).
Foreign Lender means any Lender that is not a United States Person, as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code.
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FRB means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United
StatesForeign Subsidiary means any Subsidiary that is not a Domestic Subsidiary.
Fund means 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 means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America as in effect from time to time, including those set forth in
the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board
andof
the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and statements and pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board or in such other principlesstatements by
such other entity as may be approved by a
significant segment of the accounting profession
in(but
excluding the United States, that arepolicies, rules and regulations of the SEC applicable only to the circumstances as of the date of determination, consistently
appliedpublic companies).
Governmental Authority means the
government of the United States or any other nation, or of any political subdivision thereof,
whetherany federal, state or, local, and
any or foreign court or governmental agency,
authority,
instrumentality, or
regulatory body, court, central bank or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing,
regulatory or administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to government (including any supra-national bodies such as the European Union or the European Central Bank)or legislative body.
Guaranteemeans, as toof or by any Person, (athe guarantor) means:
(a)
any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of such Personthe guarantor guaranteeing or having the economic effect of guaranteeing
any Indebtedness or other obligation payable or performable by another Person (the primary obligor) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, and including any obligation of such Personthe
guarantor, direct or indirect, (i) :
(i)
to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Indebtedness or other
obligation,
(ii) (whether arising by virtue of partnership arrangements, by agreement to keep well, to purchase
assets, goods, securities or services, to take or pay or otherwise) or to purchase (or to advance or supply funds for the purchase of) any security for the
payment of such Indebtedness or other obligations;
(ii)
to purchase or lease property, securities or services for the purpose of assuring the obligee in
respectowner of such Indebtedness or other
obligation of the payment or performance of such Indebtedness
or other obligation,
(iii) thereof;
(iii)
to maintain working capital, equity capital or any other financial statement condition or liquidity or
level of income or cash flow of the primary obligor so as to enable the primary obligor to pay such Indebtedness or other obligation, or
(iv) ;
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(iv)
entered into for the purpose of assuring in any other manner the obligee in
respectholders of such Indebtedness or other
obligation of the payment or performance thereof or to protect such obligeeholders against loss in respect thereof (in whole or in part), or (b) ; or
(v) as an account party in respect of any letter of credit, bank guarantee or other letter of credit guaranty issued to support such Indebtedness or other obligation; or
(b)
any Lien on any assets of such Personthe guarantor securing any Indebtedness or other obligation(or any
existing right, contingent or otherwise, of
the holder of Indebtedness to be secured by such a
Lien) of any other Person, whether or not such Indebtedness or other obligation is assumed by such Person
(or any right, contingent or otherwise, of any holder
of such Indebtedness to obtain any such Lienthe guarantor;
provided, that the term Guarantee will not include endorsements of instruments for deposit or collection in the ordinary course of business or customary and reasonable indemnity obligations in effect on the Closing Date or entered into in connection with any acquisition or disposition of assets permitted by this Agreement (other than such obligations with respect to Indebtedness).
The amount of any Guarantee shallwill be deemed to be an amount equal to the stated or determinable amount of the related primary obligation, or portion
thereof,Indebtedness in respect of which such
Guarantee is made or, if not stated or determinable, the maximum reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof
(assuming such Person is required to perform thereunder) as
determined by the
guaranteeingsuch Person in good faith. The term Guarantee as a verb has a corresponding meaning.
Guarantee and Collateral Agreement means the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement to be executed and delivered by Holdings, the Borrowers and each other Guarantor, substantially in the form of Exhibit F, as the same may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time.
Guarantors means, collectively, Holdings, the Subsidiaries of the Parent Borrower
Borrowers listed on Schedule 6.12 annexed to
Amendment No. 4 and each other Subsidiary of the Parent BorrowerBorrowers that shall be required to execute and deliver a supplement to
the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement pursuant to Section 6.126.10.
Guaranty means, collectively, the Guaranty made by Holdings under Article X in favor of the Secured Parties and the
Guaranty made by the other Guarantors in favor of the Secured Parties pursuant to the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, together with each other guaranty and guaranty supplement delivered pursuant to Section 6.126.10.
Hazardous Materials means all
pollutants, contaminants, wastes, chemicals, materials, substances and constituents, including explosive or radioactive substances or wastes and all hazardous or toxic substances, wastes or other pollutants,
includingpetroleum or petroleum byproducts or petroleum distillates,
friable asbestos or friable asbestos-containing materials, polychlorinated biphenyls, or radon gas, toxic molds, infectious or medical wastes and all other substances or wastes of any naturein each case, that are regulated pursuant to, or which
couldwould reasonably be expected to give rise to
liability under, any Environmental Law.
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Hedge Agreement means any agreement with respect to any swap, forward, future or derivative transaction or option or similar agreement involving, or settled by reference to, one or more rates, currencies, commodities, equity or debt instruments or securities, or economic, financial or pricing indices or measures of economic, financial or pricing risk or value or any similar transaction or any combination of these transactions, in each case, not entered into for speculative purposes; provided that no phantom stock or similar plan providing for payments only on account of services provided by current or former directors, officers, employees or consultants of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries will be a Hedge Agreement.
Holdings has the meaning ascribed thereto in the introductory paragraph hereto and shall include any successor Person as permitted by Section 7.04.
Immaterial Subsidiary means, as of any date, any Restricted Subsidiary that (i) did not, as of the last day of the most recent fiscal quarter of the Borrowers for which Required Financial Statements have been delivered (or were required to be delivered), have assets with a value in excess of 2.50% of the Consolidated Total Assets or revenues representing in excess of 2.50% of total revenues of the Borrowers and the Restricted Subsidiaries for the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters for which Required Financial Statements have been delivered (or were required to be delivered), calculated on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP; and (ii) taken together with all Immaterial Subsidiaries as of the last day of the most recent fiscal quarter of the Borrowers for which Required Financial Statements have been delivered (or were required to be delivered), did not have assets with a value in excess of 5.00% of Consolidated Total Assets or revenues representing in excess of 5.00% of total revenues of the Borrowers and the Restricted Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis for such four-quarter period.
Impacted Loans has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 3.03(a).
Incremental Amendment has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 2.08(d).
Incremental Facility Closing
DateIncurrence Based Amounts has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section
2.081.08(d
b).
Indebtedness means, aswith respect to any Person at a particular time, without duplication, all of the following, whether or not included as indebtedness or liabilities in accordance with GAAP:
(a) all obligations of such Person for borrowed
money and
;
(b)
all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes, loan agreements or other similar instruments;
(b) the maximum amount of all direct or
contingent obligations of such Person arising under letters of credit (including standby and commercial letters of credit), bankers acceptances, bank guaranties, surety bonds and similar instruments;
(c) netall obligations of such Person under Swap Contractsconditional
sale or title retention agreements relating to property or assets purchased by such Person;
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(d) all obligations of such Person to pay the deferred purchase price of property or services (other than
deferred compensation and trade accounts payable in the ordinary course of business which are being disputed in good faith by appropriate proceedings or which are not past due for more than 120 days after the date on which such trade account was created);issued or assumed as the deferred
purchase price of property or services, to the extent the same would be required to be shown as a long-term
liability on a balance sheet prepared in accordance with GAAP;
(e) indebtedness (excluding prepaid interest
thereon) secured by a Lien on property owned or being purchased by such Person (including indebtedness arising under conditional sales or other title retention agreements), whether or not such indebtedness shall have been assumed by such Person or is
limited in recourse (but limited, in the case of indebtedness of others, to the lesser of the fair market value of such property and the outstanding principal amount of such indebtedness);
(e)
(f)
all Attributable Indebtedness in respect of Capitalized Leases and SyntheticCapital Lease Obligations of such Person and ;
(f)
all Synthetic Debt ofnet payments that such Person would have to make in the event of an early termination, on the date Indebtedness of such Person is being determined, in
respect of outstanding Hedge Agreements;
(g) the principal component of all obligations, contingent or otherwise, of such Person to purchase, redeem, retire, defease or otherwise make any payment in respect of any Equity Interest in such Person or any other Person, valued, in as an account party in respect of letters of credit and bank
guarantees;
(h) the principal component of all obligations of such Person in respect of bankers acceptances;
(i) all Guarantees by such Person of Indebtedness described in clauses (1) through (8) above; and
(j)
the
caseamount
of a redeemable preferred interest, at the greater of its voluntary or involuntaryall obligations of such Person with respect to the redemption, repayment or other repurchase of any Disqualified Stock
(excluding accrued dividends that have not increased the liquidation preference plus accrued and unpaid dividends;
andof such Disqualified Stock);
(h) all Guarantees of such Person in respect
of any of the foregoing.
For all purposes hereof, the
provided that Indebtedness will not include:
(a) trade payables, accrued expenses and intercompany liabilities arising in the ordinary course of business;
(b) prepaid or deferred revenue arising in the ordinary course of business;
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(c) purchase price holdbacks arising in the ordinary course of business in respect of a portion of the purchase prices of an asset to satisfy unperformed obligations of the seller of such asset; or
(d) earn-out obligations until such obligations become a liability on the balance sheet of such Person in accordance with GAAP.
The
Indebtedness of any Person shallwill include the Indebtedness of any partnership or joint venture (other than a joint venture that is itself a corporation or limited liability company) in which such
Person is a general partner or a joint venturer,
unless, other than to the extent that the instrument or agreement evidencing such Indebtedness is non-recourse
toexpressly limits the liability of such
Person. The amount of any net obligation under any Swap Contract on any date shall be deemed to be the Swap Termination Value thereof as of such date. The
amount of outstanding Indebtedness as of any date shall be the principal amount or accreted value thereof at such
date in respect thereof.
Indemnified Taxes means Taxes other than Excluded Taxes.
Indemnitee has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 11.04(b).
Information has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 11.07.
Intellectual Property means all present
and future: trade secrets, know-how and other proprietary information; trademarks, internet domain names, service marks, trade dress, trade names, business names, designs, logos, slogans (and all translations, adaptations, derivations and
combinations of the foregoing) indicia and other source and/or business identifiers, and all registrations which have heretofore been or may hereafter be issued thereon throughout the world and all business goodwill associated therewith; copyrights
and copyright applications (including copyrights in computer programs), unpatented inventions (whether or not patentable), patents and patent applications, industrial design applications and registered industrial designs, rights arising under
computer software, whether in source or object code format, and any related databases; and any other intellectual property wherever recognized in the
world Rights has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 5.20(a).
Intercreditor Agreement means that certain Amended and Restated
Intercreditor Agreement, dated as of the Amendment No. 1 Effective
DateAugust 16, 2016, by and among the
Administrative Agent and the Term Loan Administrative Agent, as amended, restated, amended and restated,
supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time in accordance therewith.
Interest Coverage Ratio means, as of any date, the ratio of (1) Consolidated EBITDA for the most recently ended Measurement Period prior to such
daterecent period of four consecutive fiscal quarters for which Required Financial Statements have been
delivered, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, to (2) the sum of (a) the
ConsolidatedRatio
Interest Expense for such period, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis, and (b) all cash dividend payments (excluding items eliminated in consolidation) on any series of Disqualified Capital Stock of the Parent Borrower or preferred stock of any of the Restricted Subsidiaries, in each case, made during such period.
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Interest Payment Date means, (a) as to any Loan other than a Base Rate Loan, the first Business Daylast
day of each January, April, July and OctoberInterest Period applicable to occur while such Loan is
outstanding and the final maturity date of such Loan, (b) as to any Eurodollar Rate Loan having
an Interest Period of three months or shorter, the last day of such; provided, however, that if
any Interest Period, (c) as to any for a Eurodollar Rate Loan having an Interest Period longer
thanexceeds three months, the last day of such Interest Period and each other
dayrespective dates that isfall every three months, or a whole multiple thereof, after the first
daybeginning of such Interest Period and (d) as to any Loan (other than any Loan that is
ashall also be Interest Payment Dates; and (b) as to any Base Rate Loan and
any(including a Swing Line Loan), the date of any repayment or prepayment made in respect
thereoflast Business Day of each March, June, September and December and the final maturity date of
such Loan.
Interest Period means, as to any Eurodollar Rate Loan, (a) initially, the period commencing on the borrowing or conversion date, as the case may be, with respect to such Eurodollar Rate Loan and ending one, two, three or six months (or twelve months if agreed to by all of the Lenders) thereafter, in each case, subject to availability, as selected by the Borrowers in the Committed Loan Notice or Conversion/Continuation Notice, as the case may be, given with respect thereto; and (b) thereafter, each period commencing on the last day of the next preceding Interest Period applicable to such Eurodollar Rate Loan and ending one, two, three or six months (or nine or twelve months or less than one month if agreed to by all of the relevant Lenders) thereafter, as selected by the Borrowers by irrevocable notice to the Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 a.m., on the date that is three Business Days prior to the last day of the then current Interest Period with respect thereto; provided that all of the foregoing provisions relating to Interest Periods are subject to the following:
(a) if any Interest Period would otherwise end on a day that is not a Business Day, such Interest Period shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless, in the case of a Eurodollar Rate Loan, the result of such extension would be to carry such Interest Period into another calendar month in which event such Interest Period shall end on the immediately preceding Business Day;
(b) any Interest Period that would otherwise extend beyond the Revolving Credit Termination Date shall end on the Revolving Credit Termination Date; and
(c) any Interest Period pertaining to a Eurodollar Rate Loan that begins on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month at the end of such Interest Period) shall end on the last Business Day of the calendar month at the end of such Interest Period.
Inventory has the meaning given that term in the UCC, and shall also include, without limitation, all: (a) goods which (i) are leased by a Person as lessor, (ii) are held by a Person for sale or lease or to be furnished under a contract of service, (iii) are furnished by a Person under a contract of service, or (iv) consist of raw materials, work in process, or materials used or consumed in a business; (b) goods of said description in transit; (c) goods of said description which are returned, repossessed or rejected; and (d) packaging, advertising, and shipping materials related to any of the foregoing.
Inventory Advance Rate means, with respect to any calculation of the Inventory Component in connection with a calculation of the Borrowing Base in any Borrowing Base Certificate, the applicable percentage set forth below opposite the date below that is the first day of any calendar month that is the closest to the date by which such Borrowing Base Certificate is required to be delivered (e.g., November 1 in the case of a Borrowing Base Certificate required to be delivered on October 18):
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Date |
Percentage | |||
January 1, February 1, March 1 or April 1 |
75 | % | ||
September 1 |
65 | % | ||
October 1 |
50 | % | ||
November 1 |
45 | % | ||
December 1 |
60 | % |
; provided, however, that, if Consolidated EBITDA for the most recently ended Measurement
Periodrecent period of four consecutive fiscal quarters for which Required Financial Statements have
been delivered is less than $110,000,000, the Inventory Advance Rate set forth above opposite of and in respect of the calendar months beginning on
April 1, September 1, October 1 and November 1 shall be the lesser of (x) 90% of the Appraised Value of Eligible Inventory and (y) the applicable percentage set forth above for such month.
Inventory Component means, (a) with respect to the calculation of the Inventory Component for purposes of any Borrowing Base Certificate that is required to be delivered no later than a date which is closest to the first day of any calendar month which is January 1, February 1, March 1, April 1, September 1, October 1, November 1 or December 1, the applicable Inventory Advance Rate, multiplied by the Cost of Eligible Inventory, net of Inventory Reserves and (b) with respect to the calculation of the Inventory Component for purposes of any Borrowing Base Certificate the nearest first day of any calendar month which is not set forth in clause (a) above, the lesser of (x) 90% of the Appraised Value of Eligible Inventory and (y) 75% of the Cost of Eligible Inventory, in each case, net of Inventory Reserves.
Inventory Reserves means such reserves as may be established from time to time by the Administrative Agent and the Co-Collateral Agent in their reasonable discretion (exercised in a manner consistent with their practices with respect to their other similarly situated customers) which negatively affect the saleability, at retail, of the Eligible Inventory or which reflect such other factors as negatively affect the market value of the Eligible Inventory. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, Inventory Reserves may include (but are not limited to) reserves based on:
(a) | obsolescence; |
(b) | seasonality; |
(c) |
|
(d) | imbalance; |
(e) | change in Inventory character; |
(f) | change in Inventory composition; |
(g) | change in Inventory mix; |
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(h) markdowns (both permanent and point of sale);
(i) retail mark-ons and markups inconsistent with prior period practice and performance, industry standards, current business plans or advertising calendar and planned advertising events; and
(j) out-of-date and/or expired Inventory.
Investment means, as to any Person, any
direct or indirect acquisition or investment by such Person, whether by means of (a) the purchase or other acquisition of Equity Interests of another Person, (b) a loan, advance or capital contribution to, Guarantee or assumption of debt
of, or purchase or other acquisition of any other debt or interest in, another Person, or (c) the purchase or other acquisition (in one transaction or a series of transactions) of all or substantially all of the assets of another Person or of the
assets of another Person that constitute a discrete business unit. For purposes of covenant compliance, the amount of any Investment shall be the amount actually invested, without adjustment for subsequent increases or decreases in the value of such
Investment.
Investors has the meaning ascribed thereto in
Section 11.06(h). has the meaning assigned such term in Section 7.04.
Investment Grade Securities means:
(a) securities issued or directly and fully guaranteed or insured by the U.S. government or any agency or instrumentality thereof (other than Cash Equivalents);
(b) securities that have an Investment Grade Rating, but excluding any debt securities or instruments constituting loans or advances among the Borrowers and their Restricted Subsidiaries;
(c) corresponding instruments in countries other than the United States customarily utilized for high quality investments and in each case with maturities not exceeding two years from the date of acquisition; and
(d) investments in any fund that invests at least 95.0% of its assets in investments of the type described in clauses (a) and (b) above which fund may also hold immaterial amounts of cash pending investment and/or distribution.
IRS means the United States Internal Revenue Service.
ISP means, with respect to any Letter of Credit, the International Standby Practices 1998 published by the Institute of International Banking Law & Practice (or such later version thereof as may be in effect at the time of issuance).
Issuing Lender means Bank of America,
N.A. and any other financial institution from time to time designated as an Issuing Lender hereunder
(including, without limitation, the initial Issuing Lender) and any Lender or an Affiliate thereof satisfactory to the Parent Borrower from time to time designated by the Parent Borrower as an Issuing Lender with the consent of such Lender and the
Administrative Agent. To the extent there is more than one Issuing Lender, each reference to Issuing Lender herein shall be deemed, where appropriate, to be a reference to the relevant Issuing Lender with respect to the relevant Letter
of Credit.
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Joinder Agreement means an agreement, in the form attached hereto as Exhibit N, pursuant to which, among other things, a Person becomes a party to, and bound by the terms of, this Agreement as a Subsidiary Borrower.
Joint Bookrunners means each of Merrill
Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated (or any other registered broker-dealer wholly-owned by Bank of America Corporation to which all or substantially all of Bank of America Corporations or any of its subsidiaries
investment banking, commercial lending services or related businesses may be transferred following the date of this
Agreement)BofA Securities, Inc. and U.S. Bank
National Association, each in its capacity as sole Joint Bookrunnersa
joint bookrunner under the Loan Documents, or any successor sole Joint
BookrunnersBookrunner.
Joint Lead Arrangers means each of Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated (or any other registered broker-dealer wholly-owned by Bank of America Corporation to which all or substantially all
of Bank of America Corporations or any of its subsidiaries investment banking, commercial lending services or related businesses may be transferred following the Amendment No. 2 Effective Date)BofA Securities, Inc. and U.S. Bank National Association, each in its capacity as a joint lead arranger.
Junior Financing means (1) any Indebtedness permitted to be incurred hereunder that is contractually subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations or secured by Liens that are contractually subordinated to the Liens securing the Obligations, (2) the New Senior Notes or (3) any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness in respect of any of the foregoing.
Landlord Lien State means such state(s) in which a landlords claim for rent has priority over the Lien of the Administrative Agent in any of the Collateral.
Laws means, collectively, all international, foreign, Federal, state and local laws (including common law) statutes, treaties, rules, guidelines, regulations, ordinances, codes and administrative or judicial precedents or authorities, including the interpretation or administration thereof by any Governmental Authority charged with the enforcement, interpretation or administration thereof, and all applicable and legally enforceable administrative orders, directed duties, licenses, authorizations and permits of, and agreements with, any Governmental Authority.
LCA Election has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 1.08(a).
LCA Test Date has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 1.08(a).
L/C Commitment means $25,000,000, which amount is part of and not in addition to the Revolving Credit Commitments.
L/C
Fee Payment Date means the first Business Day of each January, April, July and October and the last day of the Revolving Credit Commitment Period.
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L/C Obligations means, as at any date of determination, the aggregate amount available to be drawn under all outstanding Letters of Credit plus the aggregate of all unreimbursed amounts, including all Letter of Credit borrowings. For purposes of computing the amount available to be drawn under any Letter of Credit, the amount of such Letter of Credit shall be determined in accordance with Section 1.06. For all purposes of this Agreement, if on any date of determination a Letter of Credit has expired by its terms but any amount may still be drawn thereunder by reason of the operation of Rule 3.14 of the ISP, such Letter of Credit shall be deemed to be outstanding in the amount so remaining available to be drawn.
L/C Participants means, with respect to any Letter of Credit, the collective reference to all the Lenders other than the Issuing Lender that issued such Letter of Credit.
Lender means each Lender that has a Revolving Credit Commitment or that is the holder of Revolving Credit Exposure.
Lending Office means, as to any Lender, the office or offices of such Lender described as such in such Lenders Administrative Questionnaire, or such other office or offices as a Lender may from time to time notify the Parent Borrower and the Administrative Agent, which office may include any Affiliate of such Lender or any domestic or foreign branch of such Lender or such Affiliate. Unless the context otherwise requires each reference to a Lender shall include its applicable Lending Office.
Leslies has the meaning ascribed thereto in the introductory paragraph hereto.
Letter of Credit Component means, with respect to any Eligible Letter of Credit, the lesser of (i) the applicable
Inventory Advance Rate, multiplied by the Cost when completed of the Inventory supported by such Eligible Letter of Credit, or (ii) the Stated
Amountstated amount of such Eligible Letter of
Credit, multiplied by the applicable Inventory Advance Rate.
Letters of Credit has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section
2.16
Letter of Credit Expiration Date means the day that is seven days prior to the final maturity date of the Revolving Credit Facility then in effect (or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next preceding Business Day).
Letter of Credit Fee has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 2.18(a).
Letters of Credit has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 2.16(a).
LGP means Leonard Green & Partners, L.P
LIBOR has the meaning assigned to such term in clause (a) of the definition of Eurodollar Rate.
LIBOR Floor means 0.75% per annum.
LIBOR Screen Rate means the LIBOR quote on the applicable screen page the Administrative Agent designates to determine LIBOR (or such other commercially available source providing such quotations as may be designated by the Administrative Agent from time to time).
LIBOR Successor Rate has the meaning specified in Section 3.03(c).
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LIBOR Successor Rate Conforming Changes means, with respect to any proposed LIBOR Successor Rate, any conforming changes to the definition of Base Rate, Interest Period, timing and frequency of determining rates and making payments of interest and other technical, administrative or operational matters as may be appropriate, in the discretion of the Administrative Agent, to reflect the adoption and implementation of such LIBOR Successor Rate and to permit the administration thereof by the Administrative Agent in a manner substantially consistent with market practice (or, if the Administrative Agent determines that adoption of any portion of such market practice is not administratively feasible or that no market practice for the administration of such LIBOR Successor Rate exists, in such other manner of administration as the Administrative Agent determines is reasonably necessary in connection with the administration of this Agreement).
Lien means, with respect to any asset (1) any mortgage, deed of trust, lien, hypothecation, pledge, charge, security interest or similar encumbrance in or on such asset; or (2) the interest of a vendor or a lessor under any conditional sale agreement, capital lease or title retention agreement (or any financing lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing) relating to such asset; provided that in no event will an operating lease, any capital lease in respect of Real Property permitted hereunder, or an agreement to sell be deemed to constitute a Lien.
Limited Condition Acquisition means any acquisition, including by way of merger, by any Borrower or one or more Restricted Subsidiaries permitted pursuant to the Loan Documents whose consummation is not conditioned on the availability of, or on obtaining, third party financing.
Line Cap means, at any time of determination, the lesser of (a) the Aggregate Commitments or (b) the Borrowing Base.
Liquidation means the exercise by the Administrative Agent of those rights and remedies accorded to the Administrative Agent under the Loan Documents and applicable Law as a creditor of the Loan Parties with respect to the realization on the Collateral, including (after the occurrence and continuation of an Event of Default) the conduct by the Loan Parties acting with the consent of the Administrative Agent, of any public, private or going out of business sale or other disposition of the Collateral for the purpose of liquidating the Collateral. Derivations of the word Liquidation (such as Liquidate) are used with like meaning in this Agreement.
Loan means an extension of credit by a Lender to the Borrowers under Article II (other than a Letter of Credit).
Loan Documents means, collectively, (a) this Agreement, (b) the Intercreditor Agreement, (c) the Applications, (d) the Notes, (e) the Collateral Documents and (f) the Administrative Agent Fee Letter and any waiver, amendment, supplement or other modification to any of the foregoing and all other documents, instruments or agreements executed and delivered by a Loan Party in connection herewith.
Loan Parties means, collectively, the Borrowers and each Guarantor (other than Holdings).
London Banking Day means any day on which dealings in Dollar deposits are conducted by and between banks in the London interbank eurodollar market.
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Management Agreement means (i) prior to the consummation of the Acquisition on the Amendment No. 3 Effective Date, that certain Amended and Restated Management Services Agreement, dated as of February 207, 2007 (as amended through the Closing Date) by and between LGP and an affiliate of CVC on the one hand, and the Borrowers,
on the other hand, as in effect on the Closing Date or as amended in any manner not adverse to the Lenders, including to assign such agreement to any Affiliate of LGP or CVC and (ii) from and after the consummation of the Acquisition on the
Amendment No. 3 Effective Date, a management agreement with the2017, between the Parent Borrower
and Sponsor, as in effect on the Amendment No. 3 Effective Date or as amended in any manner to the extent not adverse to the Lenders, including through an assignment to an Affiliate of the Sponsor.
Management Fees means all fees and expense reimbursements payable to the Sponsors or any of their controlled Affiliates pursuant to the
Management Agreement.Management Group means the group consisting of the directors,
executive officers and other management personnel of Holdings, the Borrowers or the Restricted Subsidiaries on the Closing Date.
Margin Stock has the meaning assigned to such term in Regulation U.
Material Adverse Effect means
(a) any change, circumstance, event or effect that would be
materiallya material adverse to effect on:
(a)
the assets and liabilities, business, financial
condition or results of operations, in each case, of the
Parent
BorrowerBorrowers and itsthe
Restricted Subsidiaries (taken as a whole);
(b) a material impairment of
(b) the ability of the Borrowers and the Guarantors (taken as a whole) to perform their payment obligations under the Loan Documents; or
(c) the rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent
or any Lenderand the
Lenders (taken as a whole) under anythe Loan Document, or of the ability of the Parent Borrower or any Material Subsidiary to perform its obligations under any Loan Document to which it is a party; or (c) a
material adverse effect upon the legality, validity, binding effect or enforceability against the
ParentDocuments.
Material
Indebtedness means Indebtedness (other than the Obligations) of any Borrower or any
Material Subsidiary
of any Loan
Document to which it is a partyParty in an aggregate outstanding principal amount exceeding
$25,000,000.
Material Subsidiary means, at any date of determination, any Subsidiary or group of Subsidiaries with respect to which a specified condition
applies (a) whose total assets at the last day of the most recently ended Measurement Period were equal to or greater than 5% of the consolidated total assets of the Parent Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries at such date, or
(b) whose gross revenues for such Measurement Period were equal to or greater than 5% of the consolidated gross revenues of the Parent Borrower and its consolidated Subsidiaries for such period, in each case determined in accordance with
GAAP.
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Material Subsidiary means any Restricted Subsidiary other than an Immaterial Subsidiary.
Maximum Rate has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 11.09.
Measurement Period means, at any date of determination, the
most recently completed four Fiscal Quarters of the Parent Borrower for which financial statements pursuant to
Section 6.01(a) or
(b)
have been delivered for the applicable fiscal period (or, in the case of any calculation made prior to the first such delivery, the four Fiscal Quarter period
ended June 30, 2012).
Moodys means Moodys Investors Service, Inc. and any successor thereto.
Multiemployer Plan means any employee
benefit plan of the type describeda multiemployer plan as defined in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA, to which Holdings, any Loan
PartyBorrower or any Restricted Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate makes or is obligated(other
than one considered an ERISA Affiliate only pursuant to subsection (m) or (o) of Code Section 414) is making or accruing an obligation to make contributions, or duringhas within any
of the preceding five plan years, has made or
been
obligatedaccrued an obligation to make
contributions.
Net Cash Proceeds means (a) with respect to any Disposition by the Parent Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, or any Recovery Eventthe aggregate cash proceeds (using the fair market value of any Cash Equivalents) received or paid to the account
ofby the Parent Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in respect of its Subsidiaries, the excess, if
any,any Asset Sale (including any cash received in
respect of
(i)or
upon the sum of cash and Cash Equivalents received in connection with such transaction
(including any cash or Cash
Equivalentssale or other disposition of any Designated Non-Cash Consideration received in any Asset
Sale and any cash payments received by way of deferred payment
of principal pursuant to, or by monetization of, a note
or installment receivable or otherwise, but only as and
when so received)
over (ii),
and including any proceeds received as a result of unwinding any related Hedge Agreements in connection with such transaction but excluding the assumption by the acquiring Person of Indebtedness relating to the disposed assets or other consideration
received in any other non-cash form), net of the direct cash costs relating to such Asset Sale and the sale or disposition of such Designated Non-Cash Consideration (including legal, accounting and investment banking fees, and brokerage and sales
commissions), and any relocation expenses incurred as a result thereof, taxes paid or payable as a result thereof (after taking into account any available tax credits or deductions and any tax sharing arrangements related thereto), amounts required
to be applied to the sumrepayment of (A) the principal amount
of, premium (if any) and interest on
Indebtedness that is secured by the applicable asset and that is required to be repaid in connection
withpaid as a result of such transaction (other than Indebtedness under the Loan Documents and Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness constituting Capitalized Leases, Synthetic Lease Obligations or purchase money
obligations)that is secured by a Permitted
Lien on such assets ranking
juniorthat is prior or senior to the Liens underLien
securing the Loan Documents), (B) the reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Parent Borrower or
such SubsidiaryObligations, any costs associated with unwinding any related Hedge Agreements in connection with such transaction, (C) income taxes reasonably estimated to be actually payable within two years of the
date of the relevant transaction as a result of any gain recognized in
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connection therewith, (D) any amount of such Net Cash Proceeds set aside as a cash reserve for indemnity or
other potential claims in connection and any deduction
of appropriate amounts to be provided by the Parent Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries as a reserve in accordance with GAAP against any liabilities associated with the asset disposed of in such transaction
until any unused reserves are no longer maintained in connection with such sale and (E) in respect of a Recovery Event, any amounts required to be paid over to
any applicable lessor or mortgagee; provided that, if the amount of any estimated taxes pursuant to subclause (C) exceeds the amount of taxes actually required to be
paid in cash in respect of such Disposition, the aggregate amount of such excess shall constituteand
retained by the Parent Borrower or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries after such sale or other disposition thereof, including pension and other post-employment benefit liabilities and liabilities related to environmental matters or against any
indemnification obligations associated with such transaction; provided that such reserved amounts will be deemed to be Net Cash Proceeds; to the extent and (b) with respect to the incurrence or issuance of any Indebtedness by the Parent Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, the excess of (i) the sum of cash and Cash Equivalents
received in connection with such transaction over (ii) the underwriting discounts and commissions, and other reasonable out-of-pocket expenses, incurred by the Parent Borrower or such Subsidiary in connection therewithat the time of any reversal thereof (to the extent not applied to the satisfaction of any applicable liabilities in cash in a
corresponding amount).
New Senior Notes means $390,000,000 aggregate principal amount of floating rate senior notes due 2024, issued by the Parent Borrower on August 16, 2016.
New Senior Notes Documents means, collectively, the New Senior Notes Indenture and all other loan agreements, indentures, note purchase agreements, promissory notes, guarantees, intercreditor agreements, assignment and assumption agreements and other instruments and agreements evidencing the terms of the New Senior Notes.
New Senior Notes Indenture means that certain indenture, dated as of August 16, 2016, among the New Senior Notes Trustee, the Parent Borrower and the guarantors party thereto.
New Senior Notes Trustee means U.S. Bank National Association, together with its permitted successors and assigns.
Note means a promissory note (including a Swing Line Note) made by the Borrowers in favor of a Lender, evidencing Loans made by such Lender, substantially in the form of Exhibit C.
NPL means the National Priorities List under CERCLA.
Obligations means the unpaid principal of and interest on (including, without limitation, interest accruing after the maturity of the Loans and Reimbursement Obligations and interest accruing 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) the Loans, the Reimbursement Obligations and all other obligations and liabilities of any Loan Party to the Administrative Agent or to any Lender or any Qualified Counterparty, whether direct or indirect, absolute or contingent, due or to become due, or now existing or hereafter incurred, which may arise under, out of, or in connection with, this Agreement, any other Loan Document, the Letters of Credit, any Specified Swap Contract, any Cash Management Services, any Bank Products or any other document made, delivered or given in connection herewith or therewith, whether on account of principal, interest, reimbursement obligations, fees, indemnities, costs, expenses (including, without limitation, all fees, charges and disbursements of counsel to the
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Administrative Agent or to any Lender that are required to be paid by the Borrowers pursuant hereto) or otherwise; provided that (i) obligations of the Parent Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries under any Specified Swap Contract, any Bank Products and any Cash Management Services shall be secured and guaranteed pursuant to the Collateral Documents only to the extent that, and for so long as, the other Obligations are so secured and guaranteed, (ii) any release of Collateral or Guarantors effected in the manner permitted by this Agreement shall not require the consent of holders of obligations under Specified Swap Contracts, Bank Products or Cash Management Services in their capacities as such and (iii) Obligations with respect to any Guarantor shall exclude Excluded Swap Obligations of such Guarantor.
OFAC has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 5.255.19(c)(v).
Organization Documents means, (a) with respect to any
corporation, the certificate or articles of incorporation and the bylaws (or equivalent or comparable constitutive documents with respect to any non-U.S. jurisdiction); (b) with respect to any limited liability company, the certificate or
articles of formation or organization and operating agreement; and (c) with respect to any partnership, joint venture, trust or other form of business entity, the partnership, joint venture or other applicable agreement of formation or
organization and any agreement, instrument, filing or notice with respect thereto filed in connection with its formation or organization with the applicable Governmental Authority in the jurisdiction of its formation or organization and, if
applicable, any certificate or articles of formation or organization of such entity.
Other Liabilities means amounts due on account of or arising from (a) any Cash Management Services furnished to any of the Loan Parties or any of their Subsidiaries, (b) any Bank Product entered into with any Loan Party and (c) any Specified Swap Contract, as each may be amended from time to time.
Other Taxes means any and all present or future stamp or documentary Taxes or any other excise or property Taxes, charges or similar levies arising from any payment made hereunder or under any other Loan Document or from the execution, delivery or enforcement of, or otherwise with respect to, this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
Overadvance means a Credit Extension to the extent that, immediately after it having been made, Excess Availability is less than zero.
Owned Material Real Property has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 5.15.
Parent Borrower has the meaning ascribed thereto in the introductory paragraph hereto.
Parent Entity means any direct or indirect parent of any Borrower.
Participant has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 11.06(d).
Participation Amount has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 2.19(b).
Payment Amount has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 2.20.
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Payment Conditions means, at the time of determination with respect to any specified Investment or prepayment, that (a) no Default then exists or would arise as a result of entering into such transaction or making such payment, (b) the Borrowers have demonstrated to the reasonable satisfaction of the Administrative Agent that average monthly Excess Availability, on a Pro Forma Basis after giving effect to such Investment or prepayment on such date and for the twelve (12) months following such date, will be greater than twelve and one-half percent (12.5%) of the Line Cap, and (c) after giving effect to such Investment or prepayment on a Pro Forma Basis, the Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio, as calculated on a trailing twelve months basis, is greater than 1.0 to 1.0; provided that if that average monthly Excess Availability, as projected on a Pro Forma Basis for the twelve (12) months following and after giving effect to such acquisition or prepayment, will be greater than seventeen and one-half percent (17.5%) of the Line Cap, the provisions of clause (c) will not be required to be satisfied.
PBGC means the Pension Benefit Guaranty
Corporation.
PCAOB means the Public Company Accounting Oversight
Board.
Pension Plan means any employee pension benefit plan (as such term is referred to and defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA),
other than a Multiemployer Plan, that is subject to Title IV of ERISA and is sponsored or maintained by any Loan
Party or any ERISA Affiliate or to which any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate contributes or has an obligation to contribute, or in the case of a multiple employer or other plan described in Section 4064(a) of ERISA, has made contributions at any
time during the immediately preceding five plan yearssuccessor thereto.
Perfection Certificate means a certificate in the form of Exhibit H or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent, as the same shall be supplemented from time to time.
Permitted Acquisition means any acquisition of all or substantially all the assets of, or a majority of the Equity Interests in, or merger, consolidation or amalgamation with, a Person or division or line of business of a Person (or any subsequent investment made in a Person, division or line of business previously acquired in a Permitted Acquisition) if (1) no Event of Default is continuing immediately prior to making such Investment or would result therefrom; and (2) immediately after giving effect thereto, with respect to acquisitions of entities that do not become Subsidiary Loan Parties, the aggregate fair market value of all Investments made in such entities since the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date (with all such Investments being valued at their original fair market value and without taking into account subsequent increases or decreases in value), when taken together with the aggregate amount of payments made with respect to Investments pursuant to Section 7.04(f), will not exceed the greater of (a) $25,000,000 and (b) 6.25% of Consolidated Total Assets as of the date any such acquisition is made.
Permitted Cure Securities means any equity securities of the Parent Borrower or Holdings issued pursuant to the Cure Right.
Permitted Holders means each of:
(a) the Sponsors;
(b) any member of the Management Group (or any controlled Affiliate thereof);
(c) any other holder of a direct or indirect equity interest in Holdings that either (a) holds such interest as of the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date and is disclosed to the Joint Lead Arrangers prior to the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date or (b) becomes a holder of such interest prior to the three-month anniversary of the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date and is a limited partner of a Sponsor on the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date; provided that the limited partners that become holders of equity interests pursuant to this clause (b) do not own in the aggregate more than 20% of the Voting Stock of Holdings as of such three-month anniversary;
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(d) any group (within the meaning of Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act) of which Persons described in the foregoing clauses (a), (b) or (c) are members; provided that, without giving effect to the existence of such group or any other group, the Persons described in clauses (a), (b) and (c), collectively, Beneficially Own Voting Stock representing 50% or more of the aggregate ordinary voting power represented by the issued and outstanding Equity Interests of Holdings (determined on a fully diluted basis but without giving effect to contingent voting rights not yet vested) then held by such group; and
(e) any Permitted Parent.
Permitted Holdings Debt means unsecured Indebtedness of Holdings that:
(a ) is not subject to any Guarantee by any Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary;
(b) does not mature prior to the date that is ninety-one (91) days after the Revolving Credit Termination Date;
(c) no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing immediately after the issuance or incurrence thereof or would result therefrom;
(d) has no scheduled amortization or payments of principal prior to the date that is ninety-one (91) days after the Revolving Credit Termination Date (it being understood that such Indebtedness may have mandatory prepayment, repurchase or redemption provisions satisfying the requirements of clause (f) hereof);
(e) does not require any payments in cash of interest or other amounts in respect of the principal thereof prior to the date that is ninety-one (91) days after the Revolving Credit Termination Date; and
(f) has mandatory prepayment, repurchase or redemption, covenant, default and remedy provisions customary for senior discount 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 New Senior Notes Indenture taken as a whole (other than provisions customary for senior discount notes of a holding company), in each case as determined in good faith by a Responsible Officer of the Parent Borrower;
provided that clauses (d) and (e) will not restrict payments that are necessary to prevent such Indebtedness from being treated as an applicable high yield discount obligation within the meaning of Section 163(i)(1) of the Code; provided, further that the Parent Borrower will deliver to the Administrative Agent final copies of the definitive credit documentation relating to such Indebtedness (unless the Parent Borrower is bound by a confidentiality obligation with respect thereto, in which case the Parent Borrower will deliver a reasonably detailed description of the material terms and conditions of such Indebtedness in lieu thereof).
Permitted Indebtedness has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 7.027.01.
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Permitted Investments has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 7.04.
Permitted Lien has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 7.017.02.
Permitted Overadvance means an Overadvance made by the Administrative Agent, in its discretion, which:
(a) is made to maintain, protect or preserve the Collateral, the business of the Borrowers and/or the Secured Parties rights under the Loan Documents or which is otherwise for the benefit of the Secured Parties; or
(b) is made to enhance the likelihood of, or to maximize the amount of, repayment of any Obligation;
(c) is made to pay any other amount chargeable to any Loan Party hereunder; and
(d) together with all other Permitted Overadvances then outstanding, shall not, at the time of making of such Permitted Overadvance, (i) exceed five percent (5%) of the Borrowing Base in the aggregate outstanding at any time or (ii) unless a Liquidation is taking place, remain outstanding for more than forty-five (45) consecutive Business Days, or (iii) be made on more than two occasions in any 180 day period;
provided, however, that the foregoing shall not (i) modify or abrogate any of the provisions of Section 2.19 regarding the Lenders obligations with respect to Participation Amounts, or (ii) result in any claim or liability against the Administrative Agent (regardless of the amount of any Overadvance) for inadvertent Overadvances (i.e. where an Overadvance results from changed circumstances beyond the control of the Administrative Agent (such as a reduction in the collateral value)), and such inadvertent Overadvances shall not reduce the amount of Permitted Overadvances allowed hereunder; and provided further that in no event shall the Administrative Agent make an Overadvance, if after giving effect thereto, the Total Revolving Extensions of Credit would exceed the Aggregate Commitments at the time such Overadvance is made.
Permitted Parent means (a) any Parent Entity that at the time it became a Parent Entity was a Permitted Holder pursuant to clauses (a), (b) and (c) of the definition thereof; provided that such Parent Entity was not formed in connection with, or in contemplation of, a transaction that would otherwise constitute a Change of Control and (b) Holdings, so long as it is controlled by one or more Persons that are Permitted Holders pursuant to clause (a), (b), (c) or (d) of the definition thereof.
Permitted Protest shall mean the right of the Borrowers to protest any Lien (other than any such Lien that secures the Obligations), taxes, or rental payment; provided that (a) a reserve with respect to such obligation is established on the books and records in such amount (if any) to the extent required under GAAP, (b) any such protest is prosecuted diligently by the Borrowers in good faith, by appropriate proceedings, (c) such contest effectively suspends collection of the contested obligation and enforcement of any Lien securing such obligation, and (d) the failure to make payment, individually or in the aggregate, would not reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness means,
with respect to any Person, any modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal or extension of any any Indebtedness issued in exchange for, or the net proceeds of which are used to extend, refinance, renew, replace, defease
or refund (collectively, Refinance) the Indebtedness of such Person (or any successor of such
Personbeing Refinanced (or previous refinancings thereof constituting Permitted Refinancing
Indebtedness); provided, however, that
(a)
:
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(a)
the principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) thereofof such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness does not exceed the sum of (i) the outstanding principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) of the Indebtedness so modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed or extended plus (ii) prepayment premiums and other reasonable amounts paid, andRefinanced (plus unpaid accrued interest and premium (including tender premiums) thereon and underwriting discounts,
defeasance costs, fees, commissions and expenses reasonably incurred, in connection with such modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal or extension, (b)
such modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal or extension has ); provided, that with
respect to the Term Loan Obligations, the principal amount of any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof shall be subject only to Section
7.01(b)(iA
) a final maturity date equal to or later than the final maturity date of the Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed or extended and (ii) a weighted
average life to maturity equal to or;
(b) the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness is greater than the weighted average lifeor equal to maturitythe
shorter of (a) the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of
the Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed or extended,Refinanced and (cb)
ifthe Weighted Average Life to Maturity that would result if all payments of principal on the Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed or extended is Subordinated Indebtedness, such modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal or extension (i)Refinanced that were due on or after the date that is one year following the Revolving Credit Termination Date were instead
due on the date that is one year following the Revolving Credit Termination Date; provided that no Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness incurred in reliance on this subclause (b) will have any scheduled principal payments due prior to the Revolving
Credit Termination Date in excess of, or prior to, the scheduled principal payments due prior to such Revolving Credit Termination Date for the Indebtedness being Refinanced;
(c)
if the Indebtedness being Refinanced is subordinated in
right of payment to any Obligations under this Agreement, such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness is subordinated in right of payment to thesuch Obligations on terms at least as favorable, taken as a whole, to
the Lenders (as determined in good faith by a Responsible Officer of the Parent Borrower) as those contained in the documentation governing the
Subordinated Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed or extended, and (ii)
containsRefinanced;
(d)
no Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness may have different
obligors, or greater Guarantees or security, than the Indebtedness being Refinanced; provided that, with respect to a Refinancing of the Term Loan Obligations, the Liens, if any, securing such Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness will be on terms that are not less favorable to such Person taken as a whole
thanmaterially less favorable to the termsLenders than
those contained in the documentation governing the Term
Loan Facility, as determined in good faith by a Responsible Officer of the Parent Borrower;
(e) [reserved];
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(f)
in the case of a Refinancing of Indebtedness that is
secured on a pari passu basis with, or on a junior basis to, the Loans with Indebtedness that is secured on a junior basis, to the Loans, a Debt Representative acting on behalf of the
holders of such Indebtedness being refinanced
(has become party to or is otherwise subject to the provisions of a Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement (as
defined in the Term Loan Facility) and, if applicable, the Intercreditor Agreement; and
(g)
in the case of a Refinancing of the Term Loan Obligations, the Liens, if any, securing such Permitted
Refinancing Indebtedness are subject to the Intercreditor Agreement or another intercreditor agreement that is substantially consistent with, and no less favorable to the Lenders in any material respect than, the Intercreditor Agreement as determined in good faith by a Responsible Officer of the Parent Borrower) and as certified by a Responsible Officer of the Parent Borrower.
Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness may not be incurred to Refinance Indebtedness that is secured on a junior basis to the Loans with Indebtedness that is secured on a pari passu basis with the Loans.
Person or person means any natural person, corporation, limited liability company, trust, joint venture, association, company, partnership, Governmental Authority or other entity.
Plan means any
employee pension benefit plan (as such term
is defined in Section 3(33(2) of ERISA (other than a Multiemployer Plan) established by any Loan Party or, with respect to any such plan that is (1) subject to the provisions of Title IV of ERISA or Section 412 of the Code or
Title
IVSection 302 of ERISA, any ERISA Affiliate;
and (2) either (a) sponsored or maintained (at the time of determination or at any time within the five years
prior thereto) by Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries or any ERISA Affiliate or (b) in respect of which Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries or any ERISA Affiliate is (or, if such plan were terminated, would under Section 4069 of ERISA be deemed to
be) an employer as defined in Section 3(5) of ERISA.
Platform has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 6.026.04.
Pledged Debt means any debt instrument constituting Collateral under any of the Collateral Documents.
Pledged Equity means any certificated equity security constituting Collateral under any of the Collateral Documents.
primary obligor has the meaning assigned to such term in clause (a) of the definition ofGuarantee.
Pro Forma
Basis or Pro Forma means:,
with respect to the calculation of Consolidated EBITDA, the Total Secured Net Leverage Ratio, the Total Net
Leverage Ratio, the Interest Coverage Ratio, or any other calculation under any applicable provision of the Loan Documents, as of any date, that (a) pro forma effect will be given to any Permitted Acquisition or Investment, any issuance, incurrence,
assumption or permanent repayment of Indebtedness (including Indebtedness issued, incurred or assumed as a result of, or to finance, any relevant transaction and for which any such financial ratio or other calculation is being calculated), all
sales, transfers and other dispositions or discontinuance of any Subsidiary, line of business, division or store, or any conversion of a Restricted Subsidiary to an Unrestricted Subsidiary or of an Unrestricted Subsidiary to a Restricted Subsidiary
and restructuring, strategic and other cost savings initiatives, in each case that have occurred during the four consecutive
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fiscal quarter period of the Borrowers being used to calculate such financial ratio (the Reference Period), or subsequent to the end of the Reference Period but prior to such date or prior to or simultaneously with the event for which a determination under this definition is made (including any such event occurring at a Person who became a Restricted Subsidiary after the commencement of the Reference Period), as if each such event occurred on the first day of the Reference Period, and (b) pro forma effect will be given to factually supportable and identifiable pro forma cost savings related to operational efficiencies, strategic initiatives or purchasing improvements and other synergies, in each case, reasonably expected by the Borrowers and the Restricted Subsidiaries to be realized based upon actions reasonably expected to be taken within 18 months of the date of such calculation (without duplication of the amount of actual benefit realized during such period from such actions), which cost savings, improvements and synergies can be reasonably computed, as certified in writing by the chief financial officer of the Parent Borrower; provided that any such pro forma adjustments in respect of such cost savings, improvements and synergies shall not exceed 20% of Consolidated EBITDA (before giving effect to all such adjustments) for any four-quarter period. For the avoidance of doubt, no pro forma adjustment will be made subsequent to the relevant measurement date for borrowings incurred or repayments made under the Term Loan Facility in the ordinary course of business and unrelated to any of the events described in this definition.
(a) with respect to any determination for any
Measurement Period covering any period prior to the Closing Date, that such determination shall be made giving pro forma effect to the Transactions, as if the Transactions had been consummated on the first day of such Measurement Period;
and
(b) with respect to any test hereunder, that such test shall be calculated after giving effect on a pro forma basis for the period of such calculation to:
(i) the incurrence of any Indebtedness
(including any pro forma change to consolidated interest expense) by the Parent Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries (and the application of the proceeds thereof) and any repayment of other Indebtedness of the Parent Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries (other than the incurrence or repayment of Indebtedness in the ordinary course of business for working capital purposes pursuant to any revolving credit arrangement) occurring during the Measurement Period or at any time subsequent to
the last day of the Measurement Period and on or prior to the date of determination, as if such incurrence, repayment, issuance or redemption, as the case may be (and the application of the proceeds thereof), occurred on the first day of the
Measurement Period; and
(ii) any Disposition or acquisition of a Person or a line of business occurring during the Measurement Period or at any time subsequent to the last day of the Measurement
Period and on or prior to the date of determination, as if such Disposition or acquisition occurred on
the first day of the Measurement Period;
in each case based on historical results accounted for in
accordance with GAAP and, to the extent applicable, reasonable adjustments and assumptions that are specified in detail in the relevant Compliance Certificate, financial statements delivered to the Lenders in accordance with Section 6.01(a) or
(b) or other document provided to the Administrative Agent in connection herewith, as would be in accordance with Regulation S-X under the Securities Act of 1933 or otherwise reasonably estimated by the Parent Borrower
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Projections means all projections (including financial estimates, financial models, forecasts and other forward-looking information) furnished to the Lenders or the Administrative Agent by or on behalf of Holdings or any of the Subsidiaries on or prior to the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date in connection with the Transactions.
Public Lender has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 6.026.04.
Public Market shall exist if (a) a Public Offering has been
consummated and (b) any Equity Interests of any parent company of Holdings or Holdings have been distributed by means of an effective registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933.
Public Offering means a public offering of the Equity
Interests of any parent company of Holdings or Holdings pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act of 1933
QFC has the meaning assigned to the term qualified financial contract in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 U.S.C. 5390(c)(8)(D).
QFC Credit Support has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 11.22.
Qualified Counterparty means, with respect to any Specified Swap Contract, Bank Product or Cash Management Services, any counterparty thereto that, at the time such Specified Swap Contract, Bank Product or Cash Management Services were entered into, or, if entered into prior to the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date, on the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date, was a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender.
Qualified ECP Guarantor shall mean, at any time, each Loan Party with total assets exceeding $10,000,000 or that qualifies at such time as an eligible contract participant under
the Commodity Exchange Act and can cause another person to qualify as an eligible contract participant at such time under §1a(18)(A)(v)(II) of the Commodity Exchange Act.
Qualified Equity Interests means any Equity Interests other than Disqualified Stock.
Qualified IPO means an underwritten public offering (other than a public offering pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-4 or Form S 8) of the Equity Interests of any Parent Entity which generates cash proceeds of at least $100,000,000.
Quarterly Financial Statements has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 6.04(b).
Ratio Debt has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 7.01.
Ratio Interest Expense means, with respect to any Person for any period, the sum, without duplication, of:
(h) the aggregate interest expense of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, calculated on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, to the extent such expense was deducted in computing Consolidated Net Income (including pay-in-kind interest payments, amortization of original issue discount, the interest component of Capital Lease
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Obligations and net payments and receipts (if any) pursuant to Hedge Agreements relating to interest rates (other than in connection with the early termination thereof) but excluding any non-cash interest expense attributable to the movement in the mark-to-market valuation of hedging obligations, all amortization and write-offs of deferred financing fees, debt issuance costs, commissions, fees and expenses and expensing of any bridge, commitment or other financing fees, and all discounts, commissions, fees and other charges associated with any Receivables Facility (as defined in the Term Loan Facility)); plus
(i) consolidated capitalized interest of the referent Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, whether paid or accrued; plus
(j) any amounts paid or payable in respect of interest on Indebtedness the proceeds of which have been contributed to the referent Person and that has been Guaranteed by the referent Person; less
(k) interest income of the referent Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period.
For purposes of this definition, interest on Capital Lease Obligations will be deemed to accrue at the interest rate reasonably determined by a Responsible Officer of the Parent Borrower to be the rate of interest implicit in such Capital Lease Obligations in accordance with GAAP.
Real Property means, collectively, all right, title and interest (including any leasehold, mineral or other estate) in and to any and all parcels of or interests in real property owned, leased or operated by any person, whether by lease, license or other means, together with, in each case, all easements, hereditaments and appurtenances relating thereto, all improvements and appurtenant fixtures and equipment, all general intangibles and contract rights and other property and rights incidental to the ownership, lease or operation thereof.
Receivables Advance Rate means 90%.
Receivables Reserves means such Reserves as may be established from time to time by the Administrative Agent and the Co-Collateral Agent in their reasonable discretion with respect to the determination of the collectability in the ordinary course of Eligible Trade Receivables, including, without limitation, on account of bad debts and dilution.
Recovery Event means any settlement or payment
in respect of any property or casualty insurance claim or any condemnation proceeding relating to any asset of the Parent Borrower or any of its
SubsidiariesReference Period has the meaning assigned to such term within the definition of
Pro Forma Basis.
Refinance has the meaning assigned to such term within the definition of Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness.
Refunded Swing Line Loan has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 2.07(b).
Refunding Date has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 2.07(c).
Register has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 11.06(c).
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Registered Public Accounting Firm has the meaning
specified by the Securities Laws and shall be independent of the Parent Borrower and its Subsidiaries as prescribed by the Securities
LawsRegulation U means Regulation U of the Board as from time to time in effect and all official
rulings and interpretations thereunder or thereof.
Reimbursement Obligation means the obligation of the Borrowers to reimburse each Issuing Lender pursuant to Section 2.20 for amounts drawn under Letters of Credit issued by such Issuing Lender.
Related Parties means, with respect to any Person, such Persons Affiliates and the partners, directors, officers, employees, agents and advisors of such Person and of such Persons Affiliates.
Release means any spilling,
leaking, seepage, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying,
dischargedischarging
, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping, disposing, depositing or migration, dispersing, emanating or migrating in, into, upon, onto or through the Environment, or into or through any building or structure.
Relevant Governmental Body means the Federal Reserve Board and/or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, or a committee officially endorsed or convened by the Federal Reserve Board and/or the Federal Reserve Bank of New York for the purpose of recommending a benchmark rate to replace LIBOR in loan agreements similar to this Agreement.
Remaining Present Value means, as of any date with respect to any lease, the present value as of such date of the scheduled future lease payments with respect to such lease, determined with a discount rate equal to a market rate of interest for such lease reasonably determined at the time such lease was entered into.
Reportable Event means any of the events
set forthreportable event as defined in
Section 4043(c) of ERISA or the regulations issued thereunder, other than those events
foras
to which the 30- day notice period referred to in
Section 4043(c) of ERISA has been waived, with respect
to a Plan (other than a Plan maintained by an ERISA Affiliate that is considered an ERISA Affiliate only pursuant to subsection (m) or (o) of Section 414 of the Code).
Reports has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 9.13(b).
Request for Credit Extension means (a) with respect to a Borrowing of Revolving Credit Loans, a Committed Loan Notice, (b) with respect to conversion or continuation of the Revolving Credit Loans, a Conversion/Continuation Notice, (c) with respect to an issuance of a Letter of Credit, an Application, and (d) with respect to a Swing Line Loan, a notice pursuant to Section 2.07(a).
Required Financial Statements has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 6.04(b).
Required Lenders means, at any time, the holders of more than 50% of the Aggregate Commitments then in effect or, if the Revolving Credit Commitments have been terminated, the Total Revolving Extensions of Credit then outstanding; provided that (i) the Loans, L/C Obligations and unused Revolving Credit Commitments held or deemed held by any Defaulting Lender shall be excluded for all purposes of making a determination of Required Lenders, (ii) at any time there are fewer than three Lenders, Required Lenders shall mean all Lenders and (iii) at any time there are three Lenders, Required Lenders shall mean two or more Lenders with more than 50% of the Aggregate Commitments then in effect or, if the Revolving Credit Commitments have been terminated, the Total Revolving Extensions of Credit then outstanding.
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Reserves means all (if any) Inventory Reserves, Availability Reserves and Receivables Reserves.
Responsible Officer means the chief executive officer, president, chief financial officer, any executive or senior vice president, treasurer, assistant treasurer or controller of a Loan Party or any of the other individuals designated in writing to the Administrative Agent by an existing Responsible Officer of a Loan Party as an authorized signatory of any certificate or other document to be delivered hereunder. Any document delivered hereunder that is signed by a Responsible Officer of a Loan Party shall be conclusively presumed to have been authorized by all necessary corporate, partnership and/or other action on the part of such Loan Party and such Responsible Officer shall be conclusively presumed to have acted on behalf of such Loan Party.
Restricted Paymentmeans any dividend or
other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property) by the Parent Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries with respect to any capital stock or other Equity Interest of any Person, or any payment by the Parent Borrower or any of its
Subsidiaries (whether in cash, securities or other property), including any sinking fund or similar deposit, on account of the purchase, redemption, retirement, defeasance, acquisition, cancellation or termination of any such capital stock or other
Equity Interest, or on account of any return of capital to the Parent Borrowers or any of its Subsidiaries direct or indirect stockholders, partners or members (or the equivalent of any thereof).has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 7.06.
Restricted Subsidiary means any Subsidiary of a Person other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary of such Person. Unless otherwise indicated in this Agreement, all references to Restricted Subsidiaries will mean Restricted Subsidiaries of the Borrowers.
Revolving Credit Commitment means, as to any
Lender, the obligation of such Lender, if any, to make Revolving Credit Loans and participate in Swing Line Loan Overadvances and Letters of Credit, in an aggregate principal and/or face amount not to exceed the amount set forth under the heading
Revolving Credit Commitment opposite such Lenders name on Schedule 1.01 annexed to Amendment No. 24 or, as the case may be, in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender became a party hereto, as the same may be changed from time to time pursuant to the terms hereof.
Revolving Credit Commitment Increase has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 2.08(a).
Revolving Credit Commitment Increase Lender has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 2.08(d).
Revolving Credit Commitment Period means the period after (but not including) the Closing Date to the Revolving Credit Termination Date.
Revolving Credit Exposure means, at any time, Total Revolving Extensions of Credit, minus L/C Obligations that have been Cash Collateralized.
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Revolving Credit Facility means the Revolving Credit Commitments and the extensions of credit made thereunder.
Revolving Credit Loans has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 2.01(a).
Revolving Credit Percentage means, as to any Lender at any time, the percentage which such Lenders Revolving Credit Commitment then constitutes of the Aggregate Commitments (or, at any time after the Revolving Credit Commitments shall have expired or terminated, the percentage which the aggregate amount of such Lenders Revolving Extensions of Credit then outstanding constitutes of the Total Revolving Extensions of Credit then outstanding).
Revolving Credit Termination Date means
the earliest to occur of (i) August 1613,
20212025, (ii)
the date that is ninety-one (91) days prior to the final maturity of the New Senior Notes and (iii) the date that is ninety-one (91) days prior to the final maturity of the Term Loan Facility.
Revolving Extensions of Credit means, as to any Lender at any time, an amount equal to the sum of (a) the aggregate principal amount of all Revolving Credit Loans made by such Lender then outstanding, (b) such Lenders Revolving Credit Percentage of the L/C Obligations then outstanding, (c) such Lenders Revolving Credit Percentage of the Overadvances then outstanding and (d) such Lenders Revolving Credit Percentage of the aggregate principal amount of Swing Line Loans then outstanding.
RP Conditions means, at the time of determination with respect to any specified Restricted Payment, that (a) no Default then exists or would arise as a result of making such payment, (b) the Borrowers have demonstrated to the reasonable satisfaction of the Administrative Agent that average monthly Excess Availability on a Pro Forma Basis after giving effect to such Restricted Payment as of such date and for the twelve (12) months following such date, will be greater than fifteen percent (15%) of the Line Cap, and (c) after giving effect to such Restricted Payment on a Pro Forma Basis, the Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio, as calculated on a trailing twelve months basis, is greater than 1.1 to 1.0; provided that if that average monthly Excess Availability, as projected on a Pro Forma Basis for the twelve (12) months following and after giving effect to such Restricted Payment, will be greater than twenty percent (20%) of the Line Cap, the provisions of clause (c) will not be required to be satisfied.
S&P means Standard & Poors Ratings Services, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., and any successor thereto.
Sanction(s) means any sanction administered or enforced by the United States Government (including without limitation, OFAC), the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, Her Majestys Treasury (HMT) or other relevant sanctions authority.
Sale and Lease-Back Transactions has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 7.03.
Scheduled Unavailability Date has the meaning specified in Section 3.03(c).
SEC means the Securities and Exchange Commission, or any Governmental Authority succeeding to any of its principal functions.
Secured Parties means, collectively, the Administrative Agent, the Co-Collateral Agent, the Lenders and their Affiliates, each co-agent or sub-agent appointed by the Administrative Agent from time to time pursuant to Section 9.05, the Issuing Lender, the Joint Lead Arrangers, the Joint Bookrunners, the beneficiaries of each indemnification obligation undertaken by any Loan Party under
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any Loan Document, any other Person to whom Obligations under this Agreement and other Loan Documents are owing, and the successors and assigns of each of the foregoing, each Qualified Counterparty party to a Specified Swap Contract, Bank Product or Cash Management Services, and the other Persons which are or are purported to be secured by the Collateral under the terms of the Collateral Documents.
Secured Party Expenses means, without limitation, (a) all
reasonable out-of -pocket expenses incurred by the Administrative
Agent and its Affiliates (including, without limitation, Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith IncorporatedBofA Securities, Inc.)
and the Co-Collateral Agent and its Affiliates in connection with this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, including without limitation (i) the reasonable fees, charges and disbursements of (A) one firm of counsel for the
Administrative Agent and the Co-Collateral Agent plus on additional firm of local counsel to the Administrative Agent and the Co-Collateral Agent in each applicable jurisdiction, (B) appraisers, (C) commercial finance examinations, and
(D) all such out-of-pocket expenses incurred during any workout, restructuring or negotiations in respect of the Obligations, (ii) in connection with (A) the syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein, (B) the
preparation, negotiation, administration, management, execution and delivery of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents or any amendments, modifications or waivers of the provisions thereof (whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby or
thereby shall be consummated), (C) the enforcement or protection of their rights in connection with this Agreement or the Loan Documents or efforts to preserve, protect, collect, or enforce the Collateral, or (D) any workout, restructuring
or negotiations in respect of any Obligations; (b) with respect to the Issuing Lender, and its Affiliates, all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred in connection with the issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit
or any demand for payment thereunder; and (c) all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Secured Parties who are not the Administrative Agent,
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith
IncorporatedBofA Securities, Inc., the Issuing
Lender or any Affiliate of any of them, after the occurrence and during the continuance of an Event of Default; provided that such Secured Parties shall be entitled to reimbursement for no more than one counsel representing all such Secured
Parties (absent a conflict of interest, in which case the Secured Parties may engage and be reimbursed for additional counsel) plus one local counsel in each applicable jurisdiction.
Securities Laws means the Securities Act of 1933, the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934, Sarbanes-Oxley, and the applicable accounting and auditing principles, rules, standards and practices promulgated, approved or incorporated by the SEC or the PCAOB.
Senior Notes means $390,000,000 aggregate principal amount of
floating rate senior notes due 2024 issued by the Parent Borrower on the Amendment No. 1 Effective Date.
Shrink means Inventory which has been lost, misplaced, stolen, or is otherwise unaccounted for.
Shrink
Reserve means an amount reasonably estimated by the Administrative Agent and the Co-Collateral Agent to be equal to that amount which is required in order that the Shrink reflected the Borrowers general ledger would be
reasonably equivalent to the Shrink calculated as part of the Borrowers most recent physical inventory.
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Solvent and Solvency mean, with respect to any Person on any date of determination, that on such date (a) the fair value of the property of such Person is greater than
the total amount of liabilities, including contingent liabilities, of such Person, (b) the present fair salable value of the assets of such Person
is not less than the amount that will be required to pay the probable liability of such Person on its debts as they become absolute and matured, (c) such Person does not intend to, and does not believe that it will, incur debts or liabilities
beyond such Persons ability to pay such debts and liabilities as they mature, (d) such Person is not engaged in business or a transaction, and is not about to engage in business or a transaction, for which such Persons property
would constitute an unreasonably small capital, and
(e) such Person is able to pay its debts and liabilities, contingent obligations and other commitments as they mature in the ordinary course of business. The amount of contingent liabilities at any time shall be computed as the amount that, in
the light of all the facts and circumstances existing at such time, represents the amount that can reasonably be expected to become an actual or matured liability.
SOFR with respect to any day means the secured overnight financing rate published for such day by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, as the administrator of the benchmark (or a successor administrator) on the Federal Reserve Bank of New Yorks website (or any successor source) and, in each case, that has been selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body.
SOFR-Based Rate means SOFR or Term SOFR.
Specified Event of Default means any Event of Default under Section 8.01(b), 8.01(c), 8.01(h) or 8.01(i).
Specified Swap Contract means any Swap Contract entered into by any Borrower or any of their Subsidiaries with any Qualified Counterparty.
Specified Transaction means any Investment (including any Limited Condition Acquisition), disposition, incurrence or repayment of Indebtedness, Restricted Payment, Subsidiary designation, that by the terms of this Agreement requires such test to be calculated on a Pro Forma Basis; provided that any increase in the Revolving Credit Commitments above the amount of Revolving Credit Commitments in effect on the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date, for purposes of this Specified Transaction definition, shall be deemed to be fully drawn; provided, further, that, at the Parent Borrowers election, any such Specified Transaction (other than a Restricted Payment) having an aggregate value of less than $5,000,000 shall not be calculated on a Pro Forma Basis.
Sponsors means (i) prior to the consummation of the Acquisition on the Amendment No. 3 Effective Date (x) LGP, the general partner of LGP and any Affiliate of LGP or its
general partner (other than portfolio companies of LGP) and (y) CVC, the general partner of the constituent owners of CVC and any Affiliate of such owners or their respective general partners (other than portfolio companies of CVC) and
(ii) from and after the consummation of the Acquisition on the Amendment No. 3 Effective Date, Catterton Management Company, L.L.C. and NY116 Investment Pte Ltd, a Singapore private
limited company, the respective general partners of the constituent owners of, Catterton Management Company, L.L.C. and NY116 Investment Pte Ltd, and any Affiliate of such owners or their respective general partners (other than portfolio companies
of Catterton Management Company, L.L.C. and NY116 Investment Pte Ltd).
Standby Letter of Credit means any Letter of Credit that is not a Commercial Letter of Credit and that (a) is used in lieu or in support of performance guaranties or performance, surety or similar bonds (excluding appeal bonds) arising in the ordinary course of business, (b) is used in lieu or in support of stay or appeal bonds, (c) supports the payment of insurance premiums for reasonably necessary casualty insurance carried by any of the Loan Parties, or (d) supports payment or performance for identified purchases or exchanges of products or services in the ordinary course of business.
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Store means any retail store operated, or to be operated, by any Loan Party.
Subordinated
Indebtedness means all Indebtedness of a Loan Party that is subordinate in right of payment to any or all of the Obligations.
Subsidiaryof ameans, with respect to any Person means a, any corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited liability
company or other business entity of which a majority of the shares of securities or other
interests(1) Equity Interests having ordinary
voting power for the election of directors or other governing body (other than securities or
interestsEquity Interests having such power only
by reason of the happening of a contingency) to elect a majority of the Board of Directors of such corporation,
partnership, limited liability company or other entity are at the time beneficially owned, by such Person; or the management of which is otherwise controlled, directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, or both,(2) more than 50.0% of the Equity Interests are at the time owned by
such Person. Unless otherwise
specifiedindicated
in this Agreement, all references herein to
a Subsidiary or toSubsidiaries
shall refer to a Subsidiary or will mean Subsidiaries of the
BorrowersParent Borrower
.
Subsidiary Borrower means LPM Manufacturing, Inc.,
Cortz, Inc. and each other Subsidiary of the Parent Borrower that becomes a Subsidiary Borrower following the Amendment No. 24 Effective Date pursuant to Section 6.12.
Subsidiary Loan Parties means (1) each Wholly Owned Domestic Subsidiary of a Borrower on the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date (other than any Excluded Subsidiary); and (2) each Wholly Owned Domestic Subsidiary (other than any Excluded Subsidiary) of the Parent Borrower that becomes, or is required to become, a party to the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement after the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date.
Supported QFC has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 11.22.
Swap Contract means any and all rate swap transactions, basis swaps, credit derivative transactions, forward rate transactions, commodity swaps, commodity options, forward commodity contracts, equity or equity index swaps or options, bond or bond price or bond index swaps or options or forward bond or forward bond price or forward bond index transactions, interest rate options, forward foreign exchange transactions, cap transactions, floor transactions, collar transactions, currency swap transactions, cross-currency rate swap transactions, currency options, spot contracts, or any other similar transactions or any combination of any of the foregoing (including any options to enter into any of the foregoing), whether or not any such transaction is governed by or subject to any master agreement.
Swap Obligations means with respect to any Guarantor any obligation to pay or perform under any agreement, contract or transaction that constitutes a swap within the meaning of Section 1a(47) of the Commodity Exchange Act.
Swap Termination Value means, in respect of any one or more Swap Contracts, after taking into account the effect of any legally
enforceable netting agreement relating to such Swap Contracts, (a) for any date on or after the date such Swap Contracts have been closed out
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and termination value(s)
determined in accordance therewith, such termination value(s), and (b) for any date prior to the date referenced in clause
(a), the amount(s) determined as the mark-to-market value(s) for such Swap Contracts, as determined based upon one or more mid-market or other
readily available quotations provided by any recognized dealer in such Swap Contracts (which may include a Lender or any Affiliate of a Lender).
Swing Line Commitment means the obligation of the Swing Line Lender to make Swing Line Loans pursuant to Section 2.06 in an aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding not to exceed $10,000,000, which amount is part of and not in addition to the Revolving Credit Commitment.
Swing Line Lender means Bank of America,
N.A., in its capacity as the lender of Swing Line Loans.
Swing Line Loans has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 2.06(a).
Swing Line Participation Amount has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 2.07.
Syndication Agent means U.S. Bank National
Association, in its capacity as syndication agent.
Synthetic Debt means,
with respect to any Person as of any date of determination thereof, all obligations of such Person in respect of transactions entered into by such Person that are intended to function primarily as a borrowing of funds (including any minority
interest transactions that function primarily as a borrowing) but are not otherwise included in the definition of Indebtedness or as a liability on the consolidated balance sheet of such Person and its Subsidiaries in accordance with
GAAP.
(c). Synthetic Lease Obligation means the monetary obligation of a Person under (a) a so-called synthetic, off-balance sheet or tax retention
lease, or (b) an agreement for the use or possession of property (including sale and leaseback transactions but excluding operating leases entered into in the ordinary course of business), in each case, creating obligations that do not appear
on the balance sheet of such Person but which, upon the application of any Debtor Relief Laws to such Person, would be characterized as the indebtedness of such Person (without regard to accounting treatment
Taxes means all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, withholdings, assessments, fees or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority, including any interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable thereto.
Term Loan Administrative Agent means Nomura Corporate Funding Americas, LLC in its capacity as administrative agent under the Term Loan Facility and its successors in such capacity.
Term Loan Documents means the Loan Documents as defined in the Term Loan Facility.
Term Loan Facility means that certain term loan credit agreement, dated as of August 16, 2016 by and among the CompanyParent
Borrower, the Term Loan Lenders, the Term Loan Administrative Agent and the other parties thereto
and, as the same may be amended, restated, modified,
supplemented, extended, increased, or refinanced or replaced pursuant to any Permitted Refinancing indebtedness in respect thereof from time to time in one or more agreements.
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Term Loan Lender means each lender under the Term Loan Facility.
Term Loan Obligations means the Obligations as defined in the Term Loan Facility.
Term Loan Priority Collateral has the meaning ascribed to such term in the Intercreditor Agreement.
Threshold Amount means $25,000,000.
Term SOFRmeans the forward-looking term rate for any period that is approximately (as determined by the Administrative Agent) as long as any of the Interest Period options set forth in the definition of Interest Period and that is based on SOFR and that has been selected or recommended by the Relevant Governmental Body, in each case as published on an information service as selected by the Administrative Agent from time to time in its reasonable discretion.
Total Revolving Extensions of Credit means, at any time, the aggregate amount of the Revolving Extensions of Credit of the Lenders outstanding at such time.
Total Secured Net Leverage Ratio means, as of any date, the ratio of Consolidated Secured Net Debt as of such date to Consolidated EBITDA for the most recent four fiscal quarter period for which Required Financial Statements have been delivered, calculated on a Pro Forma Basis.
Trade Receivables Component means the face amount of Eligible Trade Receivables minus Receivables Reserves multiplied by the Receivables Advance Rate.
Tranche B Term Loans has
the meaning given to such term in the Term Loan Facility as in effect on the Closing Date.
Transaction Expenses
means fees and expenses incurred in connection with the closing of this Agreement, the effectuation of the Transactions and any transactions contemplated in connection with the foregoing.
Transactions means the entering into of Amendment No. 14, the borrowing of the Tranche B Term Loans on the Amendment
No.
14 Effective Date, the issuance of the Senior Notes, the repayment in full of the Existing Term Loan Facility, the Existing
Senior Notes and the Existing Holdco Senior Notes, the Distributionif any, and the payment of fees and expenses in connection with the forgoing.
Type means, with respect to a Loan, its character as a Base Rate Loan or a Eurodollar Rate Loan.
UCC means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in the State of New York; provided that, if perfection or the effect of perfection or non-perfection or the priority of any security interest in any Collateral or the availability of any remedy under the Loan Documents is governed by the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in a jurisdiction other than the State of New York, UCC means the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect from time to time in such other jurisdiction for purposes of the provisions hereof relating to such perfection, effect of perfection or non-perfection, priority or availability of such remedy.
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Unfinanced Capital Expenditures means Capital Expenditures other than those made with the proceeds of Indebtedness or capital lease transactions, or equity contributions permitted hereunder; provided that any Capital Expenditures made with the proceeds of Credit Extensions hereunder shall constitute Unfinanced Capital Expenditures.
Unfunded Pension
Liability means the excess of a Pension Plans benefit liabilities under Section 4001(a)(16) of ERISA, over the current value of that Pension Plans assets, determined in accordance with the assumptions used for
funding the Pension Plan pursuant to Section 412 of the Code for the applicable plan year.
United States and U.S. mean the United States of America.
United States Tax Compliance Certificate has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 3.01(e)(2)(C).
Unrestricted Cash means, as of any date, all cash and Cash Equivalents of the Borrowers and their Restricted Subsidiaries as of such date that would not appear as restricted on the Required Financial Statements, determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, determined based upon the most recent month-end financial statements available internally as of the date of determination, and calculated on a Pro Forma Basis.
Unrestricted Subsidiary means any Subsidiary of Holdings (other than the Borrowers) designated by Parent Borrower as an Unrestricted Subsidiary hereunder by written notice to the Administrative Agent; provided that the Parent Borrower will only be permitted to so designate a new Unrestricted Subsidiary after the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date or subsequently re-designate any such Unrestricted Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary (by written notice to the Administrative Agent) if:
(a) no Event of Default is continuing; provided, that if such Subsidiary is being designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary in connection with a Limited Condition Acquisition, (i) the date of determination of such condition shall be the LCA Test Date and (ii) on the date such Subsidiary is designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary, no Specified Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would exist immediately after such designation;
(b) such designation or re-designation would not cause an Event of Default; provided, that if such Subsidiary is being designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary in connection with a Limited Condition Acquisition, (i) the date of determination of such condition shall be the LCA Test Date and (ii) on the date such Subsidiary is designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary, such designation or re-designation would not cause a Specified Event of Default; and
(c) the Parent Borrower has demonstrated compliance with Payment Conditions; provided, that if such Subsidiary is being designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary in connection with a Limited Condition Acquisition, the date of determination of such condition shall be the LCA Test Date.
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The designation of any Restricted Subsidiary as an Unrestricted Subsidiary will constitute an Investment for purposes of Section 7.04. The redesignation of any Unrestricted Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary will be deemed to be an incurrence at the time of such designation of Indebtedness of such Unrestricted Subsidiary and the Liens on the assets of such Unrestricted Subsidiary, in each case outstanding on the date of such redesignation. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, at no time shall any Borrower, any Guarantor or any of their Restricted Subsidiaries transfer Intellectual Property Rights that are material to the Collateral (taken as a whole) included in the Borrowing Base or material and necessary for the operation of the assets of the Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, to an Unrestricted Subsidiary, unless such Intellectual Property Rights are subject to a non-exclusive royalty-free worldwide license in favor of, and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent for purposes of the Administrative Agents exercise of rights and remedies under this Agreement in connection with the ABL Priority Collateral.
USA PATRIOT Act means the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (Title III of Pub. L. No. 107 56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)).
U.S. Person means any Person that is a United States Person as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code.
U.S. Special Resolution Regimes has the meaning ascribed thereto in Section 11.22.
Voting Stock means, as of any date, the Capital Stock of any Person that is at the time entitled to vote (without regard to the occurrence of any contingency) in the election of the Board of Directors of such Person.
Weighted Average Life to Maturity means, when applied to any Indebtedness as of any date, the number of years obtained by dividing (1) the sum of the products obtained by multiplying (a) the amount of each then remaining installment, sinking fund, serial maturity or other required payment of principal (excluding nominal amortization), including payment at final maturity, in respect thereof by (b) the number of years (calculated to the nearest 1/12) that will elapse between such date and the making of such payment; by (2) the then outstanding principal amount of such Indebtedness.
Wholly Owned Domestic Subsidiary means, with respect to any Person, a Domestic Subsidiary of such Person that is a Wholly Owned Subsidiary. Unless otherwise indicated in this Agreement, all references to Wholly Owned Domestic Subsidiaries will mean Wholly Owned Domestic Subsidiaries of any Borrower.
Wholly Owned Subsidiary means, with respect to any Person, a subsidiary of such Person, all of the Equity Interests of which (other than directors qualifying shares or nominee or other similar shares required pursuant to applicable law) are owned by such Person or another Wholly Owned Subsidiary of such Person. Unless otherwise indicated in this Agreement, all references to WhollyOwned Subsidiaries will mean Wholly Owned Subsidiaries of any Borrower.
Withdrawal Liability means liability to a Multiemployer Plan as a result of a complete or partial withdrawal from such Multiemployer Plan, as such terms are defined in Part I of Subtitle E of Title IV of ERISA.
Work Fee means the fee charged by the initial Issuing Lender in connection with any issuance or amendment of any Letter of Credit, which Work Fee shall in no event exceed (i) $1,500 per Letter of Credit issued by such initial Issuing Lender with respect to any issuance thereof and (ii) $250 per Letter of Credit issued by such initial Issuing Lender with respect to any amendment thereof.
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Write-Down and Conversion Powers means, with respect to any EEA Resolution Authority, the write-down and conversion powers of such EEA Resolution Authority from time to time under the Bail-In Legislation for the applicable EEA Member Country, which write-down and conversion powers are described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule.
Other Interpretive
ProvisionsTerms Generally. With reference to this Agreement and each other Loan Document, unless otherwise specified herein or in such other Loan Document:(a) . The definitions of terms herein shallset
forth or referred to in Section 1.01 will apply equally to
both the singular and plural forms of the terms defined.
Whenever the context may require, any pronoun
shallwill
include the corresponding masculine, feminine and neuter forms. The Unless the context requires otherwise,
(b)
the words
include, includes and including
shallwill be deemed to be followed by the phrase
without limitation. The;
(c) in the computation of periods of time from a specified date to a later specified date, the word from means from and including; the words to and until each mean to but excluding and the word through means to and including;
(d)
the word
will
shallwill be construed to have the same meaning
and effect as the word shall. Unless the context
requires otherwise, (i) any definition of or reference to any agreement, instrument or other document (including any Organization Document)
shall;
(e)
the word incur will be construed as referring to such agreement,
instrument or other document as from time to time amended, supplemented or otherwise modified (subject to any restrictions on such amendments, supplements or modifications set forth
herein or in any other Loan Document),
(iimean incur, create, issue, assume, become liable in respect of or suffer to exist (and the words
incurred and incurrence will have correlative meanings) ;
(f)
any reference herein to any Person shallwill be construed to include such Persons legal successors and
permitted assigns, (iii) ;
and
(g)
the words herein,asset and hereof similar import when used in any Loan Document, shall be
construed to refer to such Loan hereunder, and words ofDocument in its entirety and not to any particular provision thereof, (iv) allproperty will be construed to have the same meaning and effect.
All references in a Loan
Documentherein to Articles, Sections, Preliminary Statements, Exhibits and Schedules shallwill be construed to
referdeemed references to Articles and Sections
of, and Preliminary Statements, Exhibits and Schedules to, the Loan Document in which such references appear,
(v) anythis Agreement unless the context otherwise requires. Except as otherwise expressly
provided herein, any reference in this Agreement to any Loan Document or organizational document of the Loan Parties means such document as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time (subject to any restrictions on such amendments, supplements or modifications set forth herein or in any other Loan
Document). Any reference to any law shallwill include all statutory and regulatory provisions consolidating, amending, replacing or interpreting such law and any reference to any law or regulation shallmeans, unless otherwise specified, refer to such law or regulation as
amended, modified or supplemented from time to time, and (vi) the words asset and property shall be construed to have the same
meaning and effect and to refer to any and all tangible and
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intangible assets and properties, including cash, securities, accounts and contract rights. Whenever this Agreement refers to the knowledge of the Parent Borrower or any Loan Party, such reference will
be construed to mean the knowledge of the chief executive officer, president, chief financial officer,
treasurer or controller of such Person.
(b) In the computation of periods of time from a specified date to a later specified date, the word from
means from and including; the words
to and
until each mean to but excluding; and the word through means to and including.
(c) Section
headings herein and in the other Loan Documents are included for convenience of reference only and shall not affect the interpretation of this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
Section 1.02 Accounting
Terms;
GAAP.
(a) Generally. All accounting terms
not specifically or completely defined herein shall be construed in conformity with, and all financial data (including financial ratios and other financial calculations) required to be submitted pursuant to this Agreement shall be prepared in
conformity with, GAAP applied on a consistent basis, as in effect from time to time, applied in a manner consistent with that used in preparing the Audited Financial Statements for the Fiscal Year ended October 1, 2011,
except as otherwise specifically prescribed herein.
(b) Changes in GAAP. If at any time
any change in GAAP would affect the computation of any financial ratio or requirement set forth in any Loan Document, and either the Parent Borrower or the Required Lenders shall so request, the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the Borrowers
shall negotiate in good faith to amend such ratio or requirement to preserve the original intent thereof in light of such change in GAAP (subject to the approval of the Required Lenders); provided that, until so amended,
(i) such ratio or requirement shall continue to be computed in accordance with GAAP prior to such change therein and (ii) the Borrowers shall provide to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders financial statements and other documents
required under this Agreement or as reasonably requested hereunder setting forth a reconciliation between calculations of such ratio or requirement made before and after giving effect to such change in GAAP. Notwithstanding the foregoing (i) any
changes in GAAP following the Closing Date in whether a lease is required to be capitalized shall be disregarded for purposes of any financial ratio or limitation in this Agreement and (ii) for purposes of determining compliance with any
covenant (including the computation of any financial covenant) contained herein, Indebtedness of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries shall be deemed to be carried at 100% of the outstanding principal amount thereof, and the effects of FASB ASC 825 and
FASB ASC 470-20 on financial liabilities shall be disregarded.
(c) Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all terms of an accounting or financial nature will be
construed in accordance with Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities. All references herein to consolidated financial statements of the Parent Borrower and its
Subsidiaries or to the determination of any amount for the Parent Borrower and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis or any similar reference shall, in each case, be deemed to include each variable interest entity that the Parent Borrower is
required to consolidate pursuant to FASB Interpretation No. 46 Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities: an interpretation of ARB No. 51 (January 2003) as if such variable interest entity were a Subsidiary as defined herein.
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GAAP, as in effect from time to time; provided that, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, all accounting or financial terms used herein will be construed, and all financial computations pursuant hereto will be made, without giving effect to any election under Statement of Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Codification 825 10 (or any other Statement of Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Codification having a similar effect) to value any Indebtedness or other liabilities of the Parent Borrower or any Subsidiary at fair value, as defined therein. In the event that any Accounting Change (as defined below) occurs and such change results in a change in the method of calculation of financial ratios, standards or terms in this Agreement, then upon the written request of the Parent Borrower or the Administrative Agent (acting upon the request of the Required Lenders), the Parent Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders will enter into good faith negotiations in order to amend such provisions of this Agreement so as to equitably reflect such Accounting Change with the desired result that the criteria for evaluating the Borrowers financial condition will be the same after such Accounting Change as if such Accounting Change had not occurred; provided that provisions of this Agreement in effect on the date of such Accounting Change will remain in effect until the effective date of such amendment. Accounting Change means (1) any change in accounting principles required by the promulgation of any rule, regulation, pronouncement or opinion by the Financial Accounting Standards Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants or (2) any change in the application of GAAP by Holdings or the Parent Borrower.
Section 1.03 RoundingCurrencies. Any financial ratios
required to be maintained by the Borrowers pursuant to this Agreement shall be calculated by dividing
the appropriate component by the other component, carrying the result to one place more than the number of places by which such ratio is expressed herein and rounding the result up or down to the nearest number (with a rounding-up if there is no
nearest number).
Section 1.05 Unless otherwise specifically set forth in this
Agreement, monetary amounts are in Dollars. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, no Default or Event of Default will arise as a result of any limitation or threshold set forth in Dollars being exceeded solely as a result of changes in
currency exchange rates. Times of Day.Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to times of day shall be references to New York City
time.
The Administrative Agent does not warrant, nor accept responsibility, nor shall the Administrative Agent have any liability with respect to the administration, submission or
any other matter related to the rates in the definition of Eurodollar Rate or with respect to any comparable or successor rate
thereto.
Section 1.04
Section 1.06 Letter of Credit Amounts. Unless otherwise specified herein, the amount of a Letter of Credit at any time shall be deemed to be the stated amount of such Letter of
Credit in effect at such time; provided, however, that with respect to any Letter of Credit that, by its terms or the terms of any Loan Document related thereto, provides for one or more automatic increases in the stated amount
thereof, the amount of such Letter of Credit shall be deemed to be the maximum stated amount of such Letter of Credit after giving effect to all such increases, whether or not such maximum stated amount is in effect at such time.
Section
1.05 Section 1.07 Joint and Several Liability of Borrowers for Obligations. All Credit
Extensions made hereunder are made to or for the mutual benefit, directly and indirectly, of the Borrowers, collectively, and in consideration of the agreement of each of the Borrowers to accept joint and several liability for the Obligations. Each
of the Borrowers, jointly and severally, hereby irrevocably and unconditionally accepts, not merely as a surety but also as a co-debtor, joint and several and direct and primary liability for the full payment when due and performance of all
Obligations and
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each of the Borrowers agree that such liability is independent of the duties, obligations and liabilities of each of the joint and several Borrowers. In furtherance of the foregoing, each of the Borrowers, jointly and severally, absolutely and unconditionally guarantees to the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the other Secured Parties the full payment and performance when due of all the Obligations.
Section
1.06 Section 1.08 Parent
Borrower. The Borrowers hereby each appoint the Leslies as the Parent Borrower hereunder and each hereby agrees that any notice required to be provided to or by any Borrower hereunder may be provided solely to or
by the Parent Borrower on behalf of each of the Borrowers.
Section 1.07 Certain Calculations and Tests.
(a) Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement or any Loan Document to the contrary, when calculating any applicable ratio or determining other compliance with this Agreement (including the determination of compliance with any provision of this Agreement which requires that no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing or would result therefrom) in connection with a Specified Transaction undertaken in connection with the consummation of a Limited Condition Acquisition, the date of determination of such ratio and determination of whether any Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing or would result therefrom or other applicable covenant shall, at the option of the Parent Borrower (the Parent Borrowers election to exercise such option in connection with any Limited Condition Acquisition, an LCA Election), be deemed to be the date the definitive agreements for such Limited Condition Acquisition are entered into (the LCA Test Date), and if, after such ratios and other provisions are measured on a Pro Forma Basis after giving effect to such Limited Condition Acquisition and the other Specified Transactions to be entered into in connection therewith (including any incurrence of Indebtedness and the use of proceeds thereof) as if they occurred at the beginning of the four consecutive fiscal quarter period being used to calculate such financial ratio ending prior to the LCA Test Date, the applicable Borrower could have taken such action on the relevant LCA Test Date in compliance with such ratios and provisions, such provisions shall be deemed to have been complied with unless a Specified Event of Default shall be continuing at the time of the consummation of such Limited Condition Acquisition. For the avoidance of doubt, (x) if any of such ratios are exceeded as a result of fluctuations in such ratio (including due to fluctuations in Consolidated EBITDA of the Borrowers) at or prior to the consummation of the relevant Limited Condition Acquisition, such ratios and other provisions will not be deemed to have been exceeded as a result of such fluctuations solely for purposes of determining whether the Limited Condition Acquisition is permitted hereunder and (y) such ratios and other provisions shall not be tested at the time of consummation of such Limited Condition Acquisition or related Specified Transactions unless a Specified Event of Default shall be continuing at the time of the consummation of such Limited Condition Acquisition. If the Parent Borrower has made an LCA Election for any Limited Condition Acquisition, then in connection with any subsequent calculation of any ratio or basket availability with respect to any other Specified Transaction on or following the relevant LCA Test Date and prior to the earlier of the date on which such Limited Condition Acquisition is consummated or the date that the definitive agreement for such Limited Condition Acquisition is terminated or expires without consummation of such Limited Condition Acquisition, any such ratio or basket shall be calculated on (1) a Pro Forma Basis assuming such Limited Condition Acquisition and other transactions in connection therewith (including any incurrence of Indebtedness and the use of proceeds thereof) have been consummated and (2) on a Pro Forma Basis but without giving effect to such Limited Condition Acquisition and other transactions in connection therewith (including any incurrence of Indebtedness and use of proceeds thereof); provided, that (other than solely with respect to the incurrence test under which such Limited Condition Acquisition is being made) Consolidated EBITDA, Consolidated Total Assets and Consolidated Net Income of any target of such Limited Condition Acquisition can only be used in the determination of the relevant ratio and baskets if and when such Limited Condition Acquisition has closed. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the
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Limited Condition Acquisition provisions set forth above shall not apply in respect of any incurrence of any Loans (or other Credit Extensions) the proceeds of which will be used to finance such Limited Condition Acquisition.
(b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, with respect to any amounts incurred or transactions entered into (or consummated) in reliance on a provision of this Agreement under any covenant that does not require compliance with a financial ratio or test (including, without limitation, pro forma compliance with any Total Secured Net Leverage Ratio, Total Net Leverage Ratio test and/or any Interest Coverage Ratio test) (any such amounts, the Fixed Amounts) substantially concurrently with any amounts incurred or transactions entered into (or consummated) in reliance on a provision of this Agreement under the same covenant as such Fixed Amount that requires compliance with any such financial ratio or test (any such amounts, the Incurrence Based Amounts), it is understood and agreed that the Fixed Amounts being substantially concurrently incurred (other than, in the case of any Fixed Amounts contained in Section 7.01 or Section 7.02, any refinancings of any Indebtedness that was previously incurred) and any substantially concurrent borrowings under the Revolving Credit Facility or any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof (and any cash proceeds thereof) shall be disregarded in the calculation of the financial ratio or test applicable to the Incurrence Based Amounts in connection with such substantially concurrent incurrence, except that incurrences of Indebtedness and Liens constituting Fixed Amounts and any substantially concurrent borrowings under the Revolving Credit Facility or any Permitted Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof shall be taken into account for purposes of any Incurrence Based Amounts under any covenant other than Incurrence Based Amounts contained in Section 7.01 or Section 7.02.
Section 1.08 Administrative Agent and Co-Collateral Agent. All determinations under this Agreement that are specified to be made by the Administrative Agent and the Co-Collateral Agent shall be made jointly by such Persons; provided that, in the event that the Administrative Agent and the Co-Collateral Agent cannot agree on any matter to be determined by the Administrative Agent and the Co-Collateral Agent, then (a) if the aggregate amount of the Reserves with respect to which there is such a disagreement is less than or equal to $10,000,000, the determination shall be made by the Administrative Agent or the Co-Collateral Agent asserting the more conservative credit judgment or (b) if the aggregate amount of the Reserves with respect to which there is such a disagreement is greater than $10,000,000, the determination shall be made by the Administrative Agent.
Section 1.09 Required Financial Statements. With respect to the determination of the Senior Secured First Lien Net Leverage Ratio (as defined in the Term Loan Facility as in effect on the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date), the Total Secured Net Leverage Ratio, the Total Net Leverage Ratio, the Interest Coverage Ratio, or under any other applicable provision of the Loan Documents (including the definition of Immaterial Subsidiary) made on or prior to the date on which Required Financial Statements have been delivered for the first fiscal quarter ending after the Closing Date, such calculation will be determined for the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters most recently ended prior to the Closing Date, and calculated on a Pro Forma Basis. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, for purposes of determining compliance with any test contained in this Agreement with respect to any period during which any Specified Transaction occurs, the Senior Secured First Lien Net Leverage Ratio, the Total Secured Net Leverage Ratio, the Total Net Leverage Ratio, the Interest Coverage Ratio or under any other applicable provision of the Loan Documents (including the definition of Immaterial Subsidiary) shall be calculated with respect to such period and such Specified Transaction on a Pro Forma Basis.
Section 1.10 Interest Rates. The Administrative Agent does not warrant, nor accept responsibility, nor shall the Administrative Agent have any liability with respect to the administration, submission or any other matter related to the rates in the definition of Eurodollar Rate or with respect to any rate that is an alternative or replacement for or successor to any of such rate (including, without limitation, any LIBOR Successor Rate) or the effect of any of the foregoing, or of any LIBOR Successor Rate Conforming Changes.
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ARTICLE II
THE REVOLVING CREDIT COMMITMENTS AND CREDIT EXTENSIONS
Section 2.01 Revolving Credit Commitments.
(a) Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the Lenders severally agree to make revolving credit loans (Revolving Credit Loans) to the Borrowers from time to time after the Closing Date and during the Revolving Credit Commitment Period; provided that after giving effect thereto (i) the aggregate principal amount of Revolving Credit Loans at any one time outstanding for each Lender, when added to such Lenders Revolving Credit Percentage of the sum of (x) the L/C Obligations then outstanding and (y) the aggregate principal amount of the Swing Line Loans then outstanding, does not exceed the amount of such Lenders Revolving Credit Commitment and (ii) the Total Revolving Extensions of Credit do not exceed the Line Cap. During the Revolving Credit Commitment Period the Borrowers may use the Revolving Credit Commitments by borrowing, prepaying the Revolving Credit Loans in whole or in part, and reborrowing, all in accordance with the terms and conditions hereof. The Revolving Credit Loans may from time to time be Eurodollar Rate Loans or Base Rate Loans, as determined by the Borrowers and notified to the Administrative Agent in accordance with Section 2.05; provided that no Revolving Credit Loan shall be made as a Eurodollar Rate Loan after the day that is one month prior to the Revolving Credit Termination Date.
(b) The Borrowers shall repay all outstanding Revolving Credit Loans on the applicable Revolving Credit Termination Date.
(c) The Inventory Reserves and Availability Reserves as of the ClosingAmendment No. 4
Effective Date are set forth in the Borrowing Base Certificate delivered pursuant to
Section
4.01(g)Amendment No. 4.
The Administrative Agent shall have the right, at any time and from time to time after the Closing Date in its reasonable discretion to establish, modify or eliminate Reserves.
Section 2.02 Termination or Reduction of Revolving Credit Commitments.
(a) The Borrowers may, upon notice from the Parent Borrower to the Administrative Agent, terminate the Revolving Credit Commitments or from
time to time permanently reduce the Revolving Credit Commitments; provided that (i) any such notice shall be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 2:00 p.m. fifteenten (10) Business Days prior to the date of termination or five Business Days prior to the date of reduction, as the case may be, (ii) any such notice shall be irrevocable (except in the case of a termination, such notice shall be irrevocable only beginning three days prior to the date of the proposed
termination), (iii) any such partial reduction shall be in an aggregate amount of $5,000,000 or any whole multiple of $5,000,000 and (iv) the Borrowers shall not terminate or reduce the Revolving Credit Commitments if, after giving effect
thereto and to any concurrent prepayments hereunder, the Total Revolving Extensions of Credit would exceed the Line Cap. Each such reduction or termination shall be applied ratably to the Revolving Credit Commitments of each Lender.
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(b) If, after giving effect to any reduction of the Aggregate Commitments, the L/C Commitment or the Swing Line Commitment exceeds the amount of the Aggregate Commitments, such Revolving Credit Commitment shall be automatically reduced by the amount of such excess.
(c) Upon the Revolving Credit Termination Date, the Revolving Credit Commitments of the Lenders shall be terminated in full, and the Borrowers shall pay, in full and in cash, all outstanding Revolving Credit Loans then owing by them to the Lenders.
The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Lenders of any termination or reduction of the Revolving Credit Commitments, the L/C Commitment or the Swing Line Commitment under this Section 2.02. All fees accrued until the effective date of any such termination or reduction shall be paid on the effective date of such termination or reduction.
Section 2.03 [Reserved].
Section 2.04 [Reserved].
Section 2.05 Borrowings, Conversions and Continuations of Loans.
(a) Each Borrowing, each conversion of Loans from one Type to the other, and each continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans shall be made upon the
Borrowers irrevocable notice to the Administrative Agent, which may be given by (A) telephone, or (B) a Committed Loan Notice or
Conversion/ContiuationContinuation
Notice, as the case may be; provided that any telephone notice must be confirmed immediately by delivery to the Administrative Agent of a Committed Loan Notice or
Conversion/Continuation Notice, as applicable. Each such
notice must be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 2:00 p.m. (i) three Business Days prior to the requested date of the Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans or of any conversion of Eurodollar Rate
Loans to Base Rate Loans, and (ii) one Business Day prior to the requested date of the Borrowing of Base Rate Loans. The Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of $1,000,000 or a
whole multiple of $250,000 in excess thereof. The Borrowing of or conversion to Base Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of $250,000 or a whole multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof; provided that the Swing Line Lender may request, on
behalf of the Borrowers, borrowings of Base Rate Loans under the Revolving Credit Commitments in other amounts pursuant to Section 2.07. Each Committed Loan Notice (whether telephonic or written) shall specify (i) the requested date
of the Borrowing (which shall be a Business Day), (ii) the principal amount of Loans to be borrowed, (iii) the Type of Loans to be borrowed, and (iv) if applicable, the duration of the Interest Period with respect thereto. Each
Conversion/Continuation Notice shall specify (i) whether the Borrowers are requesting a conversion of Loans from one Type to the other, or a continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans, (ii) the requested date of the conversion or continuation
(which shall be a Business Day), (iii) the principal amount of Loans to be converted or continued, (iv) the Type of Loans to which existing Loans are to be converted, and (v) if applicable, the duration of the Interest Period with
respect thereto. If the Borrowers fail to specify a Type of Loan in a Committed Loan Notice or if the Borrowers fail to give a timely notice of a conversion or continuation in a Conversion/Continuation Notice, then the Loans shall be made as, or
converted to, Base Rate Loans. Any such automatic conversion to Base Rate Loans shall be effective as of the last day of the Interest Period then in effect with respect to the applicable Eurodollar Rate Loans. If the Borrowers request a Borrowing of
Eurodollar Rate Loans in any such Committed Loan Notice or a conversion to or continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans in a Conversion/Continuation Notice, but fail to specify an Interest Period, they will be deemed to have specified an Interest Period
of one month.
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(b) Following receipt of a Committed Loan Notice, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Lender of the amount of its Applicable Percentage of the applicable Revolving Credit Loan, and if no timely notice of a conversion or continuation in a Conversion/Continuation Notice is provided by the Parent Borrower, the Administrative Agent shall notify each Lender of the details of any automatic conversion to Base Rate Loans described in Section 2.05(a). Each Lender shall make the amount of its Revolving Credit Loan available to the Administrative Agent in immediately available funds at the Administrative Agents Office not later than 3:00 p.m. on the Business Day specified in the applicable Committed Loan Notice. Upon satisfaction of the applicable conditions set forth in Article IV, the Administrative Agent shall make all funds so received available to the Borrowers in like funds as received by the Administrative Agent either by (i) crediting the account of the Borrowers on the books of the Administrative Agent with the amount of such funds or (ii) wire transfer of such funds, in each case in accordance with instructions provided to (and reasonably acceptable to) the Administrative Agent by the Parent Borrower.
(c) Except as otherwise provided herein, a Eurodollar Rate Loan may be continued or converted only on the last day of an Interest Period for such Eurodollar Rate Loan. During the existence of an Event of Default, no Loans may be requested as, converted to or continued as Eurodollar Rate Loans without the consent of the Required Lenders.
(d) The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the Borrowers and the Lenders of the interest rate applicable to any Interest Period for Eurodollar Rate Loans upon determination of such interest rate.
(e) After giving effect to all Borrowings, all conversions of Loans from one Type to the other, and all continuations of Loans as the same Type, there shall not be more than (i) 15 Interest Periods or (ii) more than two Interest Periods of less than one month, in each case, in effect with respect of all Loans.
(f) The Administrative Agent, without the request of any Borrower, may advance any interest, fee, service charge, Secured Party Expenses, or other payment to which any Secured Party is entitled from the Loan Parties pursuant hereto or any other Loan Document and may charge the same to the Register notwithstanding that an Overadvance may result thereby; provided that, prior to advancing any amounts for payment of Secured Party Expenses, the Administrative Agent shall furnish the Borrowers with five (5) Business Days advance notice thereof; provided further that in no event shall the Administrative Agent make an advance hereunder, if after giving effect thereto, the Total Revolving Extensions of Credit would exceed the Aggregate Commitments. The Administrative Agent shall deliver to the Borrowers a statement of any such advance or charge promptly after the making thereof (or in the case of Secured Party Expenses, at the time that the five (5) Business Days notice is furnished) in reasonable detail sufficient to allow the Borrowers to verify such interest, fee, service charge, Secured Party Expenses or other payment. Such action on the part of the Administrative Agent shall not constitute a waiver of the Administrative Agents rights and the Borrowers obligations under Section 2.09(b). Any amount which is added to the principal balance of the Register as provided in this Section 2.05(f) shall bear interest at the interest rate then and thereafter applicable to Base Rate Loans.
(g) The Administrative Agent, the Lenders, the Swing Line Lender and the Issuing Lender shall have no obligation to make any Loan or to provide any Letter of Credit if an Overadvance would result. The Administrative Agent may, in its discretion, make Permitted Overadvances without the consent of the Lenders, the Swing Line Lender and the Issuing Lender and each Lender shall be bound thereby. Any Permitted Overadvance may constitute a Swing Line Loan. A Permitted Overadvance is for the account of the Borrowers and shall constitute a Loan and an Obligation. Any Permitted Overadvance shall be subject to such required repayments and other terms as the
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Administrative Agent may determine. The making of any such Permitted Overadvance on any one occasion shall not obligate the Administrative Agent or any Lender to make or permit any Permitted Overadvance on any other occasion or to permit such Permitted Overadvances to remain outstanding. The making by the Administrative Agent of a Permitted Overadvance shall not modify or abrogate any of the provisions of Section 2.19 regarding the Lenders obligations to purchase participations with respect to Letters of Credit or of Section 2.07 regarding the Lenders obligations to purchase participations with respect to Swing Line Loans. The Administrative Agent shall have no liability for, and no Loan Party or Secured Party shall have the right to, or shall, bring any claim of any kind whatsoever against the Administrative Agent with respect to inadvertent Overadvances (i.e. where an Overadvance results from changed circumstances beyond the control of the Administrative Agent (such as a reduction in the collateral value)) regardless of the amount of any such Overadvance(s).
Section 2.06 Swing Line Commitment.
(a) Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the Swing Line Lender agrees that, after the Closing Date and during the Revolving Credit Commitment Period, it will make available to the Borrowers, in the sole reasonable discretion of the Swing Line Lender, in the form of swing line loans (Swing Line Loans) a portion of the credit otherwise available to the Borrowers under the Revolving Credit Commitments, which portion is a part of and not in addition to the Revolving Credit Commitments; provided that (i) the aggregate principal amount of Swing Line Loans outstanding at any time shall not exceed the Swing Line Commitment then in effect (notwithstanding that the Swing Line Loans outstanding at any time, when aggregated with the Swing Line Lenders other outstanding Revolving Credit Loans hereunder, may exceed the Swing Line Commitment then in effect or such Swing Line Lenders Revolving Credit Commitment then in effect) and (ii) the Borrowers shall not request, and the Swing Line Lender shall not make, any Swing Line Loan if, after giving effect to the making of such Swing Line Loan, the Total Revolving Extensions of Credit would exceed the Line Cap. During the Revolving Credit Commitment Period, the Borrowers may use the Swing Line Commitment by borrowing, repaying and reborrowing, all in accordance with the terms and conditions hereof. Swing Line Loans shall be Base Rate Loans only.
(b) The Borrowers shall repay all outstanding Swing Line Loans on the Revolving Credit Termination Date.
Section 2.07 Procedure for Swing Line Borrowing; Refunding of Swing Line Loans.
(a) The Borrowers may borrow under the Swing Line Commitment on any Business Day during the Revolving Credit Commitment Period; provided that the Borrowers shall give the Swing Line Lender irrevocable telephonic notice confirmed promptly in writing (which telephonic notice must be received by the Swing Line Lender not later than 2:00 p.m. on the proposed Borrowing Date), specifying (i) the amount to be borrowed and (ii) the requested Borrowing Date. Each borrowing under the Swing Line Commitment shall be in an amount equal to $500,000 or a whole multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof. Not later than 4:00 p.m. on the Borrowing Date specified in the borrowing notice in respect of any Swing Line Loan, the Swing Line Lender shall make available to the Administrative Agent at the Administrative Agents Office an amount in immediately available funds equal to the amount of such Swing Line Loan. The Administrative Agent shall make the proceeds of such Swing Line Loan available to the Borrowers on such Borrowing Date in like funds as received by the Administrative Agent.
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(b) The Swing Line Lender, at any time and from time to time in its sole and absolute discretion may, on behalf of the Borrowers (which hereby irrevocably directs the Swing Line Lender to act on its behalf), on one Business Days notice given by the Swing Line Lender no later than 12:00 noon, request each Lender to make, and each Lender hereby agrees to make, a Revolving Credit Loan (which shall initially be a Base Rate Loan), in an amount equal to such Lenders Revolving Credit Percentage of the aggregate amount of the Swing Line Loans (the Refunded Swing Line Loans) outstanding on the date of such notice, to repay the Swing Line Lender. Each Lender shall make the amount of such Revolving Credit Loan available to the Administrative Agent at the Administrative Agents Office in immediately available funds, not later than 10:00 a.m., one Business Day after the date of such notice. The proceeds of such Revolving Credit Loans shall be made immediately available by the Administrative Agent to the Swing Line Lender for application by the Swing Line Lender to the repayment of the Refunded Swing Line Loans.
(c) If prior to the time a Revolving Credit Loan would have otherwise been made pursuant to Section 2.07(b), one of the events described in Section 8.01(f) shall have occurred and be continuing with respect to any Borrower, or if for any other reason, as determined by the Swing Line Lender in its sole discretion, Revolving Credit Loans may not be made as contemplated by Section 2.07(b), each Lender shall, on the date such Revolving Credit Loan was to have been made pursuant to the notice referred to in Section 2.07(b) (the Refunding Date), purchase for cash an undivided participating interest in the then outstanding Swing Line Loans by paying to the Swing Line Lender an amount (the Swing Line Participation Amount) equal to (i) such Lenders Revolving Credit Percentage times (ii) the sum of the aggregate principal amount of Swing Line Loans then outstanding which were to have been repaid with such Revolving Credit Loans.
(d) Whenever, at any time after the Swing Line Lender has received from any Lender such Lenders Swing Line Participation Amount, the Swing Line Lender receives any payment on account of the Swing Line Loans, the Swing Line Lender will distribute to such Lender its Swing Line Participation Amount (appropriately adjusted, in the case of interest payments, to reflect the period of time during which such Lenders participating interest was outstanding and funded and, in the case of principal and interest payments, to reflect such Lenders pro rata portion of such payment if such payment is not sufficient to pay the principal of and interest on all Swing Line Loans then due); provided, however, that in the event that such payment received by the Swing Line Lender is required to be returned, such Lender will return to the Swing Line Lender any portion thereof previously distributed to it by the Swing Line Lender.
(e) Each Lenders obligation to make the Loans referred to in Section 2.07(b) and to purchase participating interests pursuant to Section 2.07(c) shall be absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance, including, without limitation, (i) any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other right which such Lender or the Borrowers may have against the Swing Line Lender, any Borrower or any other Person for any reason whatsoever; (ii) the occurrence or continuance of a Default or the failure to satisfy any of the other conditions specified in Article IV; (iii) any adverse change in the condition (financial or otherwise) of the Borrowers; (iv) any breach of this Agreement or any other Loan Document by any Borrower, any other Loan Party or any other Lender; or (v) any other circumstance, happening or event whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing.
Section 2.08 Incremental Credit Extensions.
(a) The Borrowers may at any time or from time to time after the
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No. 4 Effective Date, by notice from the Parent Borrower to the Administrative Agent (whereupon the Administrative Agent shall promptly deliver a copy to each of the Lenders), request one or
more increases in the amount of the Revolving Credit Commitments (each such increase, a Revolving Credit Commitment Increase); provided that both at the time of any such request and upon the effectiveness of any Incremental
Amendment referred to below (i) all representations and warranties
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in Article V shall be true and correct in all material respects (except where such representations and warranties expressly relate to an earlier date, in which case such representations and warranties shall have been true and correct in all material respects as of such earlier date and except to the extent that a particular representation or warranty is already qualified by materiality, in which case such representation or warranty shall be true and correct), (ii) no Default or Event of Default shall exist or would result therefrom and (iii) the aggregate principal amount of all Revolving Credit Commitment Increases shall not exceed $50,000,000.
(b) Each Revolving Credit Commitment Increase shall be in an aggregate principal amount that is a whole multiple of $500,000 which is not less than $10,000,000 (provided that such amount may be less than $10,000,000 if such amount represents all remaining availability under the limit set forth in Section 2.08(a)(iii) above).
(c) The Revolving Credit Loans made pursuant to the Revolving Credit Commitment Increases (a) shall be made under and documented in this Agreement or pursuant to an amendment hereto and shall rank pari passu in right of payment and of security with the Revolving Credit Loans and (b) shall be treated substantially the same as or less favorably than the Revolving Credit Loans (including with respect to mandatory and voluntary prepayments and voting rights).
(d) Each notice from the Borrowers pursuant to this Section 2.08 shall set forth the requested amount and proposed terms of the
relevant Revolving Credit Commitment Increases. Revolving Credit Commitment Increases may be provided by any existing Lender or by any other bank or other financial institution selected by the Borrowers (any such bank or other financial institution
being called an Additional Lender); provided that the Administrative Agent shall have consented (not to be unreasonably withheld) to such Lenders or Additional Lenders providing any such Revolving Credit
Commitment Increases if such consent would be required under Section 11.06 for an assignment of Revolving
Credit Commitments to such Lender or Additional Lender. Revolving Credit Commitments in respect of Revolving Credit Commitment Increases shall become Revolving Credit Commitments (or in the case
of a Revolving Credit Commitment Increase to be provided by an existing Lender, an increase in such Lenders applicable Revolving Credit Commitment) under this Agreement pursuant to an amendment (an Incremental Amendment) to
this Agreement and, as appropriate, the other Loan Documents, executed by Holdings, the Borrowers, each Lender agreeing to provide such Revolving Credit Commitment, if any, each Additional Lender, if any, and the Administrative Agent. The
Incremental Amendment may, without the consent of any other Lenders, effect such amendments to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as may be necessary or appropriate, in the reasonable opinion of the Administrative Agent and the Borrowers,
to effect the provisions of this Section 2.08. The effectiveness of any Incremental Amendment shall be subject to the satisfaction on the date thereof
(each, an of each of the
conditions set forth in Section 4.02 and such other conditions as the parties thereto shall agree. The Borrowers will use the proceeds of the Revolving Credit Commitment Increases for any purpose not prohibited by this Agreement. No
Lender shall be obligated to provide any Revolving Credit Commitment Increases, unless it so agrees. Upon each increase in the Revolving Credit Commitments pursuant to this Section 2.08, each Lender immediately prior to such increase
will automatically and without further act be deemed to have assigned to each Lender providing a portion of the Revolving Credit Commitment Increase (each, a Revolving Credit Commitment Increase Lender) in respect of such
increase, and each such Revolving Credit Commitment Increase Lender will automatically and without further act be deemed to have assumed, a portion of such Lenders participations hereunder in outstanding Letters of Credit and Swing Line Loans
such that, after giving effect to each such deemed assignment and assumption of participations, the percentage of the aggregate outstanding (i) participations hereunder in Letters of Credit and (ii) participations hereunder in Swing Line
Loans held by each Lender (including each such Revolving Credit Commitment Increase Lender) will equal the percentage of the aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments of all Lenders Incremental Facility Closing Date)
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represented by such Lenders Revolving Credit Commitment and (b) if, on the date of such increase, there are any Revolving Credit Loans outstanding, the Lenders (including the Additional Lenders) shall make such payments as directed by the Administrative Agent in order that the Revolving Credit Loans are held by the Lenders (including Additional Lenders) ratably in accordance with the increased Revolving Credit Commitments (and interest and other payments shall be adjusted accordingly).
(e) The Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereby agree that the minimum borrowing, pro rata borrowing and pro rata payment requirements contained elsewhere in this Agreement shall not apply to the transactions effected pursuant to this Section 2.08.
(f) This Section 2.08 shall supersede any provisions in Section 2.14, 2.15 or 11.01 to the contrary.
Section 2.09 Prepayments.
(a) Optional. The Borrowers may, upon notice to the Administrative Agent, at any time or from time to time voluntarily prepay Loans in whole or in part without premium or penalty; provided that (A) such notice must be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 2:00 p.m., (1) three Business Days prior to any date of prepayment of Eurodollar Rate Loans and (2) one Business Day prior to the date of prepayment of Base Rate Loans; (B) any prepayment of Eurodollar Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of $1,000,000 or a whole multiple of $500,000 in excess thereof; and (C) any prepayment of Base Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of $500,000 or a whole multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof or, in each case, if less, the entire principal amount thereof then outstanding. Each such notice shall specify the date and amount of such prepayment and the Type(s) of Loans to be prepaid and, if Eurodollar Rate Loans are to be prepaid, the Interest Period(s) of such Loans. The Administrative Agent will promptly notify each Lender of its receipt of each such notice, and of the amount of such Lenders ratable portion of such prepayment. If such notice is given by the Borrowers, the Borrowers shall make such prepayment and the payment amount specified in such notice shall be due and payable on the date specified therein; provided that if such prepayment is being made in connection with the closing of another transaction it may be conditioned upon the closing of such transaction. Any prepayment of a Eurodollar Rate Loan shall be accompanied by all accrued interest on the amount prepaid, together with any additional amounts required pursuant to Section 3.05. Each prepayment of any Loans shall be paid to the Lenders thereof in accordance with their respective Applicable Percentages in respect of the Revolving Credit Facility.
(b) Mandatory. (i) If for any reason the Total Revolving Extensions of Credit at any time exceed the Line Cap as then in effect, the Borrowers shall immediately prepay Revolving Credit Loans, Swing Line Loans, and Letter of Credit borrowings and/or Cash Collateralize the L/C Obligations (other than Letter of Credit borrowings) in an aggregate amount equal to such excess; provided, however, that the Borrowers shall not be required to Cash Collateralize the L/C Obligations pursuant to this Section 2.09(b)(i) unless after the prepayment in full of the Revolving Credit Loans and the Swing Line Loans and the Total Revolving Extensions of Credit exceed the Line Cap as then in effect.
(ii) The Borrowers shall also prepay the Loans and Cash Collateralize Letters of Credit in accordance with the provisions of
Section
6.176.13.
Section 2.10 Interest.
(a) Subject to the provisions of Section 2.10(b), (i) each Eurodollar Rate Loan shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof for each Interest Period at a rate per annum equal to the Eurodollar Rate for such Interest Period plus the Applicable Margin; and (ii) each Base Rate Loan shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof from the applicable borrowing date at a rate per annum equal to the Base Rate plus the Applicable Margin.
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(b) (i) If any Obligation is not paid when due (in each case, without regard to any applicable grace periods), whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, then the Administrative Agent upon the request of the Required Lenders shall notify the Borrowers that such amount shall, until such time as such Event of Default has ceased to exist, bear interest at a fluctuating interest rate per annum at all times equal to the Default Rate to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws.
(ii) If any other Event of Default exists, then the Administrative Agent, upon the request of the Required Lenders, shall notify the Borrowers that the principal amount of all outstanding Obligations (including, without limitation, all Letter of Credit Fees) shall, until such time as such Event of Default has ceased to exist, bear interest at a fluctuating interest rate per annum at all times equal to the Default Rate to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws; provided that such request and notice shall not be required with respect to any Event of Default under Section 8.01(f) and, upon such an Event of Default such amounts shall bear interest at the Default Rate automatically.
(c) (iii) Accrued and unpaid interest on past due amounts (including interest on past due interest) shall be due and
payable upon demand.
(d)
(c) Interest on each Loan shall be due and payable in
arrears on each Interest Payment Date applicable thereto and at such other times as may be specified herein. Interest hereunder shall be due and payable in accordance with the terms hereof before and after judgment, and before and after the
commencement of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law.
Section 2.11 Fees.
(a) The Borrowers shall pay an upfront fee to each Lender
with a Revolving Credit Commitment a fee on the Closing Date equal to 0.375% of the principal amount of the Revolving Credit Commitment of such Lender on the Closing Date. Such fees shall be fully earned when paid and shall not be refundable for any
reason whatsoever.
(a) (b) The Borrowers shall pay the fees relating to the Revolving Credit Facility to the Persons in the amounts
and at the times specified in the Administrative Agent Fee Letter. Such fees shall be fully earned when paid and shall not be refundable for any reason whatsoever.
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(c) The Borrowers agree to pay to the Administrative
Agent for the account of each Lender (other than any Defaulting Lender) a commitment fee for the period from and including the ClosingAmendment No. 4 Effective Date to but excluding the last day of the
Revolving Credit Commitment Period, computed at the Commitment Fee Rate on the actual daily amount of the Available Revolving Credit Commitment of such Lender during the period for which payment is made, payable quarterly in arrears on the last
Business Day of each March, June, September and December and on the Revolving Credit Termination Date, commencing on the first of such dates to occur after the date hereof.
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Section 2.12 Computation of Interest and Fees. All computations of interest for Base Rate Loans shall be made on the basis of a year of 365 or 366 days, as the case may be, and actual days elapsed. All other computations of fees and interest shall be made on the basis of a 360-day year and actual days elapsed (which results in more fees or interest, as applicable, being paid than if computed on the basis of a 365-day year). Interest shall accrue on each Loan for the day on which the Loan is made, and shall not accrue on a Loan, or any portion thereof, for the day on which the Loan or such portion is paid; provided that any Loan that is repaid on the same day on which it is made shall, subject to Section 2.14(a), bear interest for one day. Each determination by the Administrative Agent of an interest rate or fee hereunder shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.
Section 2.13 Evidence of Debt. The Credit Extensions made by each Lender shall be evidenced by one or more accounts or records maintained by such Lender and by the Administrative Agent in the ordinary course of business. The accounts or records maintained by the Administrative Agent and each Lender shall be conclusive absent manifest error of the amount of the Credit Extensions made by the Lenders to the Borrowers and the interest and payments thereon. Any failure to so record or any error in doing so shall not, however, limit or otherwise affect the obligation of the Borrowers hereunder to pay any amount owing with respect to the Obligations. In the event of any conflict between the accounts and records maintained by any Lender and the accounts and records of the Administrative Agent in respect of such matters, the accounts and records of the Administrative Agent shall control in the absence of manifest error. Upon the request of any Lender made through the Administrative Agent, the Borrowers shall execute and deliver to such Lender (through the Administrative Agent) a Note or Notes, which shall evidence such Lenders Loans and Revolving Credit Commitments in addition to such accounts or records. Each Lender may attach schedules to its Note(s) and endorse thereon the date, Type (if applicable), amount and maturity of its Loans and Revolving Credit Commitments and payments with respect thereto. Upon receipt of an affidavit of a Lender as to the loss, theft, destruction or mutilation of such Lenders Note(s) and upon cancellation of such Note(s), the Borrowers will issue, in lieu thereof, a replacement Note or Notes in favor of such Lender, in the same principal amount thereof and otherwise of like tenor.
Section 2.14 Payments Generally; Administrative Agents Clawback.
(a) General. All payments to be made by the Borrowers shall be made without condition or deduction for any counterclaim, defense, recoupment or setoff. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all payments by the Borrowers hereunder shall be made to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the respective Lenders to which such payment is owed, at the Administrative Agents Office in Dollars and in immediately available funds not later than 2:00 p.m. on the date specified herein. The Administrative Agent will promptly distribute to each Lender its Applicable Percentage (or other applicable share as provided herein) of such payment in like funds as received by wire transfer to such Lenders Lending Office. All payments received by the Administrative Agent after 2:00 p.m. shall be deemed received on the next succeeding Business Day and any applicable interest or fee shall continue to accrue. If any payment to be made by the Borrowers shall come due on a day other than a Business Day, payment shall be made on the next following Business Day, and such extension of time shall be reflected on computing interest or fees, as the case may be.
(b) Funding by Lenders; Presumption by Administrative Agent. (i) Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from a Lender prior to the proposed date of any Borrowing of Eurodollar Rate Loans (or, in the case of any Borrowing of Base Rate Loans, prior to 12:00 noon on the date of such Borrowing) that such Lender will not make available to the Administrative Agent such Lenders share of such Borrowing, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender has made such share available on such date in accordance with Section 2.05 (or, in the case of a Borrowing of Base Rate Loans, that such Lender has made such share available in accordance with and at the time required by Section 2.05) and may, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the Borrowers a corresponding amount. In such event, if a Lender has not in fact made its share of the
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applicable Borrowing available to the Administrative Agent, then the applicable Lender and the Borrowers severally agree to pay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such corresponding amount in immediately available funds with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is made available to the Borrowers to but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at (A) in the case of a payment to be made by such Lender, the greater of the Federal Funds Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by the Administrative Agent in connection with the foregoing, and (B) in the case of a payment to be made by the Borrowers, the interest rate applicable to Base Rate Loans. If the Borrowers and such Lender shall pay such interest to the Administrative Agent for the same or an overlapping period, the Administrative Agent shall promptly remit to the Borrowers the amount of such interest paid by the Borrowers for such period. If such Lender pays its share of the applicable Borrowing to the Administrative Agent, then the amount so paid shall constitute such Lenders Loan included in such Borrowing. Any payment by the Borrowers shall be without prejudice to any claim the Borrowers may have against a Lender that shall have failed to make such payment to the Administrative Agent.
(ii) Payments by Borrowers; Presumptions by Administrative Agent. Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from the Borrowers prior to the time at which any payment is due to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Lenders hereunder that the Borrowers will not make such payment, the Administrative Agent may assume that the Borrowers have made such payment on such date in accordance herewith and may, in reliance upon such assumption, distribute to the Lenders the amount due. In such event, if the Borrowers have not in fact made such payment, then each of the Lenders severally agrees to repay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand the amount so distributed to such Lender in immediately available funds with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is distributed to it to but excluding the date of payment to the Administrative Agent, at the greater of the Federal Funds Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation.
A notice of the Administrative Agent to any Lender or the Borrowers with respect to any amount owing under this subsection (b) shall be conclusive, absent manifest error.
(c) Failure to Satisfy Conditions Precedent. If any Lender makes available to the Administrative Agent funds for any Loan to be made by such Lender as provided in the foregoing provisions of this Article II, and such funds are not made available to the Borrowers by the Administrative Agent because the conditions to the applicable Credit Extension set forth in Article IV are not satisfied or waived in accordance with the terms hereof, the Administrative Agent shall return such funds (in like funds as received from such Lender) to such Lender, without interest.
(d) Obligations of Lenders Several. The obligations of the Lenders hereunder to make Loans, participate in Letters of Credit or Swing Line Loans and to make payments pursuant to Section 11.04(c) are several and not joint. The failure of any Lender to make any Loan, to fund any such participation or to make any payment under Section 11.04(c) on any date required hereunder shall not relieve any other Lender of its corresponding obligation to do so on such date, and no Lender shall be responsible for the failure of any other Lender to so make its Loan, to purchase its participation or to make its payment under Section 11.04(c).
(e) Funding Source. Nothing herein shall be deemed to obligate any Lender to obtain the funds for any Loan in any particular place or manner or to constitute a representation by any Lender that it has obtained or will obtain the funds for any Loan in any particular place or manner.
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(f) Insufficient Funds. Subject to Section 8.03, if at any time insufficient funds are received by and available to the Administrative Agent to pay fully all amounts of principal, interest and fees then due hereunder, such funds shall be applied (i) first, toward payment of interest and fees then due hereunder, ratably among the parties entitled thereto in accordance with the amounts of interest and fees then due to such parties, and (ii) second, toward payment of principal then due hereunder, ratably among the parties entitled thereto in accordance with the amounts of principal then due to such parties.
Section 2.15 Sharing of Payments by Lenders. (i) If any Lender shall, by exercising any right of setoff or counterclaim or otherwise, obtain payment in respect of (a) Obligations due and payable to such Lender hereunder and under the other Loan Documents at such time in excess of its ratable share (according to the proportion of (i) the amount of such Obligations due and payable to such Lender at such time to (ii) the aggregate amount of the Obligations due and payable to all Lenders hereunder and under the other Loan Documents at such time) of payments on account of the Obligations due and payable to all Lenders hereunder and under the other Loan Documents at such time obtained by all the Lenders at such time or (b) Obligations owing (but not due and payable) to such Lender hereunder and under the other Loan Documents at such time in excess of its ratable share (according to the proportion of (i) the amount of such Obligations owing (but not due and payable) to such Lender at such time to (ii) the aggregate amount of the Obligations owing (but not due and payable) to all Lenders hereunder and under the other Loan Documents at such time) of payment on account of the Obligations owing (but not due and payable) to all Lenders hereunder and under the other Loan Documents at such time obtained by all of the Lenders at such time then the Lender receiving such greater proportion shall (a) notify the Administrative Agent of such fact, and (b) purchase (for cash at face value) participations in the Loans of the other Lenders, or make such other adjustments as shall be equitable, so that the benefit of all such payments shall be shared by the Lenders ratably in accordance with the aggregate amount of Obligations then due and payable to the Lenders or owing (but not due and payable) to the Lenders, as the case may be; provided that:
(ii) if any such participations are purchased and all or any portion of the payment giving rise thereto is recovered, such participations shall be rescinded and the purchase price restored to the extent of such recovery, without interest; and
(iii) the provisions of this Section 2.15 shall not be construed to apply to (A) any payment made by the Borrowers pursuant to and in accordance with the express terms of this Agreement or (B) any payment obtained by a Lender as consideration for the assignment of or sale of a participation in any of its Loans to any assignee or participant if made in accordance with Section 11.06.
Each Loan Party consents to the foregoing and agrees, to the extent it may effectively do so under applicable law, that any Lender acquiring a participation pursuant to the foregoing arrangements may exercise against such Loan Party rights of setoff and counterclaim with respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender were a direct creditor of such Loan Party in the amount of such participation.
Section 2.16 Letters of Credit Commitment.
(a) Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, each Issuing Lender agrees, in each case, in reliance on the agreements of the other Lenders set forth in Section 2.19(a), to issue Standby Letters of Credit or Commercial Letters of Credit (the Letters of Credit) for the account of the Borrowers (which the Borrowers may request be issued with respect to obligations of any Subsidiary of a Borrower) on any Business Day during the Revolving Credit Commitment Period in such form as may be approved from time to time by the Issuing Lender; provided that no Issuing Lender shall be obligated to issue any Letter of Credit if, after giving effect to such issuance, (i) the L/C Obligations would exceed the L/C Commitment or (ii) the Total Revolving Extensions of Credit would exceed the Line Cap. Each Letter of Credit shall be denominated in Dollars.
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(b) No Issuing Lender shall be obligated to issue any Letter of Credit hereunder if such
issuance would conflict with, or cause the Issuing Lender or any L/C Participant to exceed any limits imposed by, any applicable Law. The L/C IssuerIssuing Lender shall not issue any Letter of Credit, if:
(i) subject to Section 2.16(d), the expiry date of such requested Standby Letter of Credit would occur more than twelve (12) months after the date of issuance or last extension, unless the Required Lenders have approved such expiry date; or
(ii) subject to Section 2.16(d), the expiry date of such requested Commercial Letter of Credit would occur more than 120 days after the date of issuance, unless the Required Lenders have approved such expiry date; or
(iii) the expiry date of such requested Letter of Credit would occur after the Letter of Credit Expiration Date, unless Cash Collateralized or otherwise credit supported to the reasonable satisfaction of the Administrative Agent and the applicable Issuing Lender at the time of issuance.
(c) No Issuing Lender shall not be under any obligation to issue any Letter of Credit if any order, judgment or decree of any Governmental Authority or arbitrator shall by its terms purport to enjoin or restrain the Issuing Lender from issuing the Letter of Credit, or any Law applicable to the Issuing Lender or any request or directive (whether or not having the force of law) from any Governmental Authority with jurisdiction over the Issuing Lender shall prohibit, or request that the Issuing Lender refrain from, the issuance of letters of credit generally or the Letter of Credit in particular or shall impose upon the Issuing Lender with respect to the Letter of Credit any restriction, reserve or capital requirement (for which the Issuing Lender is not otherwise compensated hereunder) not in effect on the Closing Date, or shall impose upon the Issuing Lender any unreimbursed loss, cost or expense which was not applicable on the Closing Date and which the Issuing Lender in good faith deems material to it.
(d) Unless otherwise expressly agreed by the Issuing Lender and the Borrowers when a Letter of Credit is issued (i) the rules of the ISP shall apply to each Standby Letter of Credit, and (ii) the rules of the Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits, as most recently published by the International Chamber of Commerce at the time of issuance shall apply to each Commercial Letter of Credit. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Issuing Lenders shall not be responsible to the Borrowers for, and the Issuing Lenders rights and remedies against the Borrowers shall not be impaired by, any action or inaction of the Issuing Lenders required or permitted under any law, order, or practice that is required or permitted to be applied to any Letter of Credit or this Agreement, including the Law or any order of a jurisdiction where the Issuing Lenders or the beneficiary is located, the practice stated in clause (i) or (ii) of the previous sentence, as applicable, or in the decisions, opinions, practice statements, or official commentary of the ICC Banking Commission, the Bankers Association for Finance and Trade International Financial Services Association (BAFT-IFSA), or the Institute of International Banking Law & Practice, whether or not any Letter of Credit chooses such law or practice.
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Section 2.17 Procedure for Issuance of Letter of Credit. The Borrowers may from
time to time request that an Issuing Lender issue a Letter of Credit by delivering to the Issuing Lender at its address for notices specified herein an Application therefor, completed to the reasonable satisfaction of the Issuing Lender and such
other certificates, documents and other papers and information as the Issuing Lender may reasonably request. Such Application may be sent by facsimile, by United States mail, by overnight courier, by electronic transmission using the system provided
by the Issuing Lender, by personal delivery or by any other means acceptable to the L/C IssuerIssuing Lender. Concurrently with the delivery of an Application to the
Issuing Lender, the Parent Borrower shall deliver a copy thereof to the Administrative Agent. Upon receipt of any Application, the Issuing Lender will process such Application and the certificates, documents and other papers and information
delivered to it in connection therewith in accordance with their respective customary procedures and the Issuing Lender will issue the Letter of Credit requested thereby by causing or issuing the original of such Letter of Credit to be issued to the
beneficiary thereof or as otherwise may be agreed to by such Issuing Lender and the Borrowers (but in no event shall any Issuing Lender be required to issue any Letter of Credit earlier than three Business Days after the Issuing Lenders
receipt of the Application therefor and all such other certificates, documents and other papers and information relating thereto). Promptly after issuance by an Issuing Lender of a Letter of Credit, the Issuing Lender shall furnish a copy of such
Letter of Credit to the Borrowers. The Issuing Lender shall promptly give notice to the Administrative Agent of the issuance of each Letter of Credit issued by such Issuing Lender (including the face amount thereof), and shall provide a copy of such
Letter of Credit to the Administrative Agent as soon as possible after the date of issuance.
Section 2.18 L/C Fees and Other Charges.
(a) The Borrowers shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Lender in accordance with its Applicable Percentage a Letter of Credit fee (the Letter of Credit Fee) (i) with respect to each Commercial Letter of Credit, equal to 50% of the Applicable Margin for Eurodollar Rate Loans, times the daily maximum amount available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit (whether or not such maximum amount is then in effect under such Letter of Credit), and (ii) with respect to each Standby Letter of Credit, equal to the Applicable Margin for Eurodollar Rate Loans, times the daily maximum amount available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit (whether or not such maximum amount is then in effect under such Letter of Credit). Letter of Credit Fees shall be (i) due and payable on the first Business Day after the end of each March, June, September and December, commencing with the first such date to occur after the issuance of such Letter of Credit, on the final maturity date of the Loans and thereafter on demand and (ii) computed on a quarterly basis in arrears.
(b) The Borrowers shall pay directly to the Issuing Lender for its own account a fronting fee (i) with respect to each Commercial Letter of Credit, at the rate per annum equal to one-eighth of one percent (0.125%), computed on the amount of such Letter of Credit, and payable upon the issuance thereof, (ii) with respect to any amendment of a Commercial Letter of Credit increasing the amount of such Letter of Credit, at a rate separately agreed between the Borrowers and the Issuing Lender, computed on the amount of such increase, and payable upon the effectiveness of such amendment, and (iii) with respect to each Standby Letter of Credit, at the rate per annum equal to one-eighth of one percent (0.125%), computed on the daily amount available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit and on a quarterly basis in arrears. Such fronting fee shall be due and payable on the first Business Day after the end of each March, June, September and December in respect of the most recently-ended quarterly period (or portion thereof, in the case of the first payment), commencing with the first such date to occur after the issuance of such Letter of Credit, on the final maturity date of the Loans and thereafter on demand.
(c) In addition to the foregoing fees, the Borrowers shall (i) pay or reimburse each Issuing Lender other than the initial Issuing Lender, without duplication, for such normal and customary costs and expenses as are incurred or charged by such Issuing Lender in issuing, negotiating, effecting payment under, amending or otherwise administering any Letter of Credit and (ii) with respect to any Letter of Credit issued by the initial Issuing Lender, pay the Work Fee applicable thereto.
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Section 2.19 L/C Participations.
(a) Each Issuing Lender irrevocably agrees to grant and hereby grants to each L/C Participant, and, to induce the Issuing Lender to issue Letters of Credit hereunder, each L/C Participant irrevocably agrees to accept and purchase and hereby accepts and purchases from the Issuing Lender on the terms and conditions hereinafter stated, for such L/C Participants own account and risk, an undivided interest equal to such L/C Participants Revolving Credit Percentage of each Issuing Lenders obligations and rights under each Letter of Credit issued by such Issuing Lender hereunder and the amount of each draft paid by such Issuing Lender thereunder. Each L/C Participant unconditionally and irrevocably agrees with each Issuing Lender that, if a draft is paid under any Letter of Credit for which the Issuing Lender is not reimbursed in full by the Borrowers in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, such L/C Participant shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Issuing Lender upon demand of the Administrative Agent at the Administrative Agents address for notices (and thereafter the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to the Issuing Lender) an amount equal to such L/C Participants Revolving Credit Percentage of the amount of such draft, or any part thereof, that is not so reimbursed. Each L/C Participants obligation to pay such amount shall be absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance, including (i) any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other right that such L/C Participant may have against the Issuing Lender, any Borrower or any other Person for any reason whatsoever, (ii) the occurrence or continuance of a Default or an Event of Default or the failure to satisfy any of the other conditions specified in Article IV, (iii) any adverse change in the condition (financial or otherwise) of any Borrower, (iv) any breach of this Agreement or any other Loan Document by any Borrower, any other Loan Party or any other L/C Participant or (v) any other circumstance, happening or event whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing.
(b) If any amount (a Participation Amount) required to be paid by any L/C Participant to an Issuing Lender pursuant to Section 2.19(a) in respect of any unreimbursed portion of any payment made by such Issuing Lender in connection with any Letter of Credit is not paid to an Issuing Lender within three Business Days after the date such payment is due, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the L/C Participants, and each L/C Participant shall pay to the Administrative Agent, for the account of such Issuing Lender, as the case may be, on demand (and thereafter the Administrative Agent shall promptly pay to such Issuing Lender) an amount equal to the product of (i) such Participation Amount, times (ii) the daily average Federal Funds Rate during the period from and including the date such payment is required to the date on which such payment is immediately available to such Issuing Lender, times (iii) a fraction the numerator of which is the number of days that elapse during such period and the denominator of which is 360. If any Participation Amount required to be paid by any L/C Participant pursuant to Section 2.19(a) is not made available to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Lender by such L/C Participant within three Business Days after the date such payment is due, the Administrative Agent on behalf of such Issuing Lender shall be entitled to recover from such L/C Participant, on demand, such Participation Amount with interest thereon calculated from such due date at the rate per annum applicable to Base Rate Loans under the Revolving Credit Facility. A certificate of the Administrative Agent submitted on behalf of such Issuing Lender to any L/C Participant with respect to any amounts owing under this Section 2.19 shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error.
(c) Whenever, at any time after an Issuing Lender has made payment under any Letter of Credit and has received from the Administrative Agent any L/C Participants pro rata share of such payment in accordance with Section 2.19(a) and the Administrative Agent receives any payment related to such Letter of Credit (whether directly from the Borrowers or otherwise, including proceeds of
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collateral applied thereto by such Issuing Lender), or any payment of interest on account thereof, the Administrative Agent will promptly distribute to such L/C Participant its pro rata share thereof; provided, however, that in the event that any such payment received by such Issuing Lender shall be required to be returned by such Issuing Lender, such L/C Participant shall return to the Administrative Agent for the account of such Issuing Lender (and thereafter the Administrative Agent shall promptly return to such Issuing Lender), the portion thereof previously distributed by such Issuing Lender.
Section 2.20 Letters of Credit Reimbursement Obligation of the Borrowers. The Borrowers agree to reimburse the Issuing Lender on each date on which such Issuing Lender notifies the Borrowers of the date and amount of a draft presented under any Letter of Credit and paid by the Issuing Lender, for the amount of (a) such draft so paid and (b) any Taxes, fees, charges or other costs or expenses incurred by the Issuing Lender (without duplication) in connection with such payment (the amounts described in the foregoing clauses (a) and (b) in respect of any drawing, collectively, the Payment Amount). Each such payment shall be made through the Administrative Agent in lawful money of the United States of America and in immediately available funds. Interest shall be payable on each Payment Amount from the date of the applicable drawing until payment in full at the rate set forth in (i) until the second Business Day following the date of the applicable drawing, Section 2.10(a)(ii) and (ii) thereafter, Section 2.10(b). Each drawing under any Letter of Credit shall (unless an event of the type described in Section 8.01(f) shall have occurred and be continuing with respect to the Borrowers, in which case the procedures specified in Section 2.19 for funding by L/C Participants shall apply) constitute a request by the Borrowers (provided that the Borrowers shall not be deemed to have made any representations or warranties in connection with such request) to the Administrative Agent for a borrowing pursuant to Section 2.05 of Base Rate Loans (or, at the option of the Administrative Agent and the Swing Line Lender in their sole discretion, a borrowing pursuant to Section 2.07 of Swing Line Loans) in the amount of such drawing. The Borrowing Date with respect to such borrowing shall be the first date on which a borrowing of Revolving Credit Loans (or, if applicable, Swing Line Loans) could be made, pursuant to Section 2.05 (or, if applicable, Section 2.07), if the Administrative Agent had received a notice of such borrowing at the time the Administrative Agent receives notice from the Issuing Lender of such drawing under such Letter of Credit. If Revolving Credit Loans (or, if applicable, Swing Line Loans) are otherwise unavailable to the Borrowers, the Payment Amount shall be paid to the Issuing Lender, on (x) the same Business Day that the Issuing Lender notifies the Borrowers of the date and amount of a draft presented under any Letter of Credit and paid by the Issuing Lender, if such notice is provided prior to 12:00 p.m. (New York City time) or (y) the following Business Day, in all other cases.
Section 2.21 Letters of Credit Obligations Absolute. The Borrowers obligations under Section 2.20 in respect of the Letters of Credit shall be absolute and unconditional under any and all circumstances and irrespective of any setoff, counterclaim or defense to payment that any Borrower may have or have had against any Issuing Lender, any beneficiary of a Letter of Credit or any other Person. The Borrowers also agree with each Issuing Lender that the Issuing Lenders shall not be responsible for, and the Borrowers reimbursement obligations under Section 2.20 shall not be affected by, among other things, the validity or genuineness of documents or of any endorsements thereon, even though such documents shall in fact prove to be invalid, fraudulent or forged, or any dispute between or among any Borrower and any beneficiary of any Letter of Credit or any other party to which such Letter of Credit may be transferred or any claims whatsoever of any Borrower against any beneficiary of such Letter of Credit or any such transferee. No Issuing Lender shall be liable for any error, omission, interruption or delay in transmission, dispatch or delivery of any message or advice, however transmitted, in connection with any Letter of Credit, except that the Issuing Lender shall be liable to the extent provided by law for errors or omissions found by a final and nonappealable decision of a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Issuing Lender. The Borrowers agree that any action taken or omitted by an Issuing Lender under or in connection with any Letter of Credit issued by it or the related drafts or documents, if done in the
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absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct and in accordance with the standards or care specified in the Uniform Commercial Code of the State of New York, shall be binding on each Borrower and shall not result in any liability of any Issuing Lender to any Borrower. The initial Issuing Lender shall not have any liability to any Borrower, the Administrative Agent or the Lenders in respect of any Letters of Credit issued by it or any Letters of Credit requested to be issued by it, nor shall the initial Issuing Lender owe any duty to any Person, or be deemed to have agreed, to issue any Letters of Credit. The Issuing Lenders may send a Letter of Credit or conduct any communication to or from the beneficiary via the Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication (SWIFT) message or overnight courier, or any other commercially reasonable means of communicating with a beneficiary.
Section 2.22 Letter of Credit Payments. If any draft shall be presented for payment under any Letter of Credit, the Issuing Lender shall promptly notify the Borrowers and the Administrative Agent of the date and amount thereof. The responsibility of any Issuing Lender to the Borrowers in connection with any draft presented for payment under any Letter of Credit, in addition to any payment obligation expressly provided for in such Letter of Credit issued by such Issuing Lender, shall be limited to determining that the documents (including each draft) delivered under such Letter of Credit in connection with such presentment appear on their face to be in conformity with such Letter of Credit and, in the case of any Issuing Lender, making any payment to the applicable beneficiary in accordance with the applicable Letter of Credit.
Section 2.23 Letter of Credit Applications. To the extent that any provision of any Application related to any Letter of Credit is inconsistent with the provisions of this Article II, the provisions of this Article II shall apply.
Section 2.24 Defaulting Lender Adjustments. (a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, if any Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, then, until such time as that Lender is no longer a Defaulting Lender, to the extent permitted by applicable Law:
(i) Waivers and Amendments. That Defaulting Lenders right to approve or disapprove any amendment, waiver or consent with respect to this Agreement shall be restricted as set forth in Section 11.01.
(ii) Reallocation of Payments. Any payment of principal, interest, fees or other amounts received by the Administrative Agent for the account of that Defaulting Lender (whether voluntary or mandatory, at maturity, pursuant to Article VIII or otherwise, and including any amounts made available to the Administrative Agent by that Defaulting Lender pursuant to Section 11.08), shall be applied at such time or times as may be determined by the Administrative Agent as follows: first, to the payment of any amounts owing by that Defaulting Lender to the Administrative Agent hereunder; second, to the payment on a pro rata basis of any amounts owing by that Defaulting Lender to the Issuing Lender or Swing Line Lender hereunder; third, if so determined by the Administrative Agent or requested by the Issuing Lender or Swing Line Lender, to be held as Cash Collateral for future funding obligations of that Defaulting Lender of any participation in any Swing Line Loan or Letter of Credit; fourth, as the Borrowers may request (so long as no Default or Event of Default exists), to the funding of any Loan in respect of which that Defaulting Lender has failed to fund its portion thereof as required by this Agreement, as determined by the Administrative Agent; fifth, if so determined by the Administrative Agent and the Borrowers, to be held in a non-interest bearing deposit account (which amount shall not bear interest under this Agreement) and released in order to satisfy obligations of that Defaulting Lender to fund Loans under this Agreement; sixth, to the payment of any amounts owing to the Lenders, the Issuing Lender or Swing Line Lender as a result of any judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction obtained by any Lender, the Issuing Lender or
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Swing Line Lender against that Defaulting Lender as a result of that Defaulting Lenders breach of its obligations under this Agreement; seventh, so long as no Default or Event of Default exists, to the payment of any amounts owing to the Borrowers as a result of any judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction obtained by the Borrowers against that Defaulting Lender as a result of that Defaulting Lenders breach of its obligations under this Agreement; and eighth, to that Defaulting Lender or as otherwise directed by a court of competent jurisdiction; provided that if (x) such payment is a payment of the principal amount of any Loans or L/C Obligations in respect of which that Defaulting Lender has not fully funded its appropriate share and (y) such Loans or L/C Obligations were made at a time when the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 were satisfied or waived, such payment shall be applied solely to pay the Loans of, and L/C Obligations owed to, all non-Defaulting Lenders on a pro rata basis prior to being applied to the payment of any Loans of, or L/C Obligations owed to, that Defaulting Lender. Any payments, prepayments or other amounts paid or payable to a Defaulting Lender that are applied (or held) to pay amounts owed by a Defaulting Lender or to post Cash Collateral pursuant to this Section 2.24(a)(ii) shall be deemed paid to and redirected by that Defaulting Lender, and each Lender irrevocably consents hereto.
(iii) Certain Fees. That Defaulting Lender (x) shall not be entitled to receive any commitment fee pursuant to
Section
2.11(ba)
for any period during which that Lender is a Defaulting Lender (and the Borrowers shall not be required to pay any such fee that otherwise would have been required to have been paid to that Defaulting
Lender) and (y) shall be not be entitled to receive Letter of Credit fees.
(iv) Reallocation of Applicable Percentages to Reduce Fronting Exposure. During any period in which there is a Defaulting Lender, for purposes of computing the amount of the obligation of each non-Defaulting Lender to acquire, refinance or fund participations in Letters of Credit or Swing Line Loans pursuant to Sections 2.07 and 2.19, the Applicable Percentage of each non-Defaulting Lender shall be computed without giving effect to the Revolving Credit Commitment of that Defaulting Lender; provided that (i) each such reallocation shall be given effect only if, at the date the applicable Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, the aggregate obligation of each non-Defaulting Lender to acquire, refinance or fund participations in Letters of Credit and Swing Line Loans shall not exceed the positive difference, if any, of (1) the Revolving Credit Commitment of that non-Defaulting Lender minus (2) the aggregate outstanding amount of the Revolving Extensions of Credit of that Lender. For the avoidance of doubt, under no circumstances shall the Revolving Extension of Credit of any Lender be in excess of such Lenders Revolving Credit Commitment.
(v) Reallocation of Revolving Credit Percentages. During any period in which there is a Defaulting Lender, for purposes of computing the amount of the obligation of each non-Defaulting Lender to fund Revolving Credit Loans pursuant to Section 2.01, the Revolving Credit Percentage of each non-Defaulting Lender shall be computed without giving effect to the Revolving Credit Commitment of that Defaulting Lender; provided that (i) each such reallocation shall be given effect only if, at the date the applicable Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, the aggregate obligation of each non-Defaulting Lender to fund Revolving Credit Loans shall not exceed the positive difference, if any, of (1) the Revolving Credit Commitment of that non-Defaulting Lender minus (2) the aggregate outstanding amount of the Revolving Extensions of Credit of that Lender. For the avoidance of doubt, under no circumstances shall the Revolving Extension of Credit of any Lender be in excess of such Lenders Revolving Credit Commitment.
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(b) Defaulting Lender Cure. If the Parent Borrower, the Administrative Agent, Swing Line Lender and the Issuing Lender agree in writing in their sole discretion that a Defaulting Lender should no longer be deemed to be a Defaulting Lender, the Administrative Agent will so notify the parties hereto, whereupon as of the effective date specified in such notice and subject to any conditions set forth therein (which may include arrangements with respect to any Cash Collateral), that Lender will, to the extent applicable, purchase that portion of outstanding Loans of the other Lenders or take such other actions as the Administrative Agent may determine to be necessary to cause the Revolving Credit Loans and funded and unfunded participations in Letters of Credit and Swing Line Loans to be held on a pro rata basis by the Lenders in accordance with their Applicable Percentages (without giving effect to Section 2.24(a)(iv)), whereupon that Lender will cease to be a Defaulting Lender; provided that no adjustments will be made retroactively with respect to fees accrued or payments made by or on behalf of the Borrowers while that Lender was a Defaulting Lender; and provided, further, that except to the extent otherwise expressly agreed by the affected parties, no change hereunder from Defaulting Lender to Lender will constitute a waiver or release of any claim of any party hereunder arising from that Lenders having been a Defaulting Lender.
ARTICLE III
TAXES, YIELD PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY
Section 3.01 Taxes.
(a) Payments Free of Taxes. Any and all payments by or on account of any obligation of any Loan Party hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall be made free and clear of and without reduction or withholding for any Taxes unless required by applicable Laws; provided that if any applicable withholding agent shall be required by applicable Laws to deduct any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes from such payments, then (i) the sum payable by the applicable Loan Party shall be increased as necessary so that after all required deductions with respect to such Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes (including deductions applicable to additional sums payable under this Section 3.01) have been made, the Administrative Agent or any Lender, as the case may be, receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such deductions been made, (ii) the applicable withholding agent shall make such deductions and (iii) the applicable withholding agent shall timely pay the full amount deducted to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law.
(b) Payment of Other Taxes by the Loan Parties. Without limiting or duplicating the provisions of subsection (a) above, the Loan Parties shall timely pay any Other Taxes to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law.
(c) Indemnification by the Loan Parties. The Loan Parties shall, jointly and severally, indemnify the Administrative Agent and each Lender, within 10 days after demand therefor, for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to any payment by or on account of any obligation of any Loan Party under any Loan Document or Other Taxes (including Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section 3.01) paid or payable by the Administrative Agent or such Lender, as the case may be, and reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to the Borrowers by a Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), or by the Administrative Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of a Lender, shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
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(d) Evidence of Payments. As soon as practicable after any payment of Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes by the applicable Loan Party to a Governmental Authority, the applicable Loan Party shall deliver to the Administrative Agent the original or a certified copy of a receipt issued by such Governmental Authority evidencing such payment, a copy of the return reporting such payment or other evidence of such payment reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
(e) Status of Lenders. Each Lender shall, at such times as are reasonably requested by the Parent Borrower or the Administrative Agent, provide the Borrowers and the Administrative Agent with any documentation prescribed by Laws or reasonably requested by the Borrowers or the Administrative Agent certifying as to any entitlement of such Lender to an exemption from, or reduction in, withholding tax with respect to any payments to be made to such Lender under the Loan Documents. Each such Lender shall, whenever a lapse in time or change in circumstances renders such documentation obsolete, expired or inaccurate in any material respect, deliver promptly to the Borrowers and the Administrative Agent updated or other appropriate documentation (including any new documentation reasonably requested by the Parent Borrower or the Administrative Agent) or promptly notify the Borrowers and the Administrative Agent of its inability to do so. Unless the Borrowers or the Administrative Agent has received forms or other documents satisfactory to it indicating that payments under any Loan Document to or for a Lender are not subject to withholding tax or are subject to such Tax at a rate reduced by an applicable tax treaty, the Borrowers or the Administrative Agent (as applicable) shall withhold amounts required to be withheld by applicable Laws from such payments at the applicable statutory rate. Without limiting the foregoing:
(1) Each Lender that is a United States person (as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code) shall deliver to the Borrowers and the Administrative Agent on or before the date on which it becomes a party to this Agreement two properly completed and duly signed original copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-9 certifying that such Lender is exempt from U.S. federal backup withholding.
(2) Each Foreign Lender shall deliver to the Parent Borrower and the Administrative Agent on or before the date on which it becomes a party to this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the request of the Borrowers or the Administrative Agent) whichever of the following is applicable:
(A) two properly completed and duly signed original copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E, as applicable (or any successor forms) claiming eligibility for the benefits of an income tax treaty to which the United States is a party, and such other documentation as required under the Code,
(B) two properly completed and duly signed original copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8ECI (or any successor forms),
(C) in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of the exemption for portfolio interest under Section 881(c) of the Code, (A) two properly completed and duly signed certificates substantially in the form of Exhibit O (any such certificate, a United States Tax Compliance Certificate) and (B) two properly completed and duly signed original copies of Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E, as applicable (or any successor forms),
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(D) to the extent a Foreign Lender is not the beneficial owner (for example, where the Foreign Lender is a partnership or a participating Lender), Internal Revenue Service Form W-8IMY (or any successor forms) of the Foreign Lender, accompanied by a Form W-8ECI, W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E, as applicable, United States Tax Compliance Certificate, Form W-9, Form W-8IMY or any other required information (or any successor forms) from each beneficial owner that would be required under this Section 3.01(e) if such beneficial owner were a Lender, as applicable (provided that, if one or more beneficial owners are claiming the portfolio interest exemption, the United States Tax Compliance Certificate may be provided by such Foreign Lender on behalf of such beneficial owner), or
(E) two properly completed and duly signed original copies of any other form prescribed by applicable U.S. federal income tax laws (including the Treasury Regulations) as a basis for claiming a complete exemption from, or a reduction in, United States federal withholding tax on any payments to such Lender under the Loan Documents and
(F) if a payment made to a Lender under any Loan Document would be subject to U.S. federal withholding Tax imposed by FATCA if such Lender were to fail to comply with the applicable reporting requirements of FATCA (including those contained in Section 1471(b) or 1472(b) of the Code, as applicable), such Lender shall deliver to the Parent Borrower and the Administrative Agent at the time or times prescribed by law and at such time or times reasonably requested by the Parent Borrower or the Administrative Agent such documentation prescribed by applicable law (including as prescribed by Section 1471(b)(3)(C)(i) of the Code) and such additional documentation reasonably requested by the Parent Borrower or the Administrative Agent as may be necessary for the Parent Borrower and the Administrative Agent to comply with their obligations under FATCA and to determine that such Lender has complied with such Lenders obligations under FATCA or to determine the amount to deduct and withhold from such payment. Solely for purposes of this clause (D), FATCA shall include any amendments made to FATCA after the date of this Agreement.
Each Lender shall deliver to the Borrowers and the Administrative Agent two further original copies of any previously delivered form or
certification (or any applicable successor form) on or before the date that any such form or certification expires or becomes obsolete or inaccurate and promptly after the occurrence of any event requiring a change in the most recent form previously
delivered by it to the Borrowers or the Administrative Agent, or promptly notify the Borrowers and the Administrative Agent that it is unable to do so. Each Lender shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent at any time it determines that it is
no longer in a position to provide any previously delivered form or certification to the Borrowers or the Administrative Agent,.
For purposes of determining withholding Taxes imposed under FATCA, from and after the Amendment No. 4 Effective Date, the Borrowers and the Administrative Agent shall treat (and the Lenders hereby authorize the Administrative Agent to treat) this Agreement as not qualifying as a grandfathered obligation within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-2(b)(2)(i).
Notwithstanding any other provision of this clause (e), a Lender shall not be required to deliver any form that such Lender is not legally eligible to deliver.
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(f) Treatment of Certain Refunds. If the Borrowers reasonably believe that the Administrative Agent or a Lender is entitled to a refund (whether received in cash or as an offset against other cash tax obligations) of any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes as to which it has been indemnified by an applicable Loan Party or with respect to which an applicable Loan Party has paid additional amounts pursuant to this Section 3.01, the Parent Borrower may request that the Administrative Agent or relevant Lender pursue such refund with the relevant Governmental Authority at the Borrowers expense (so long as such efforts would not, in the sole determination of the Administrative Agent or the Lender, result in any unreimbursed costs or expenses or be otherwise materially disadvantageous to it). If the Administrative Agent or the applicable Lender receives such refund, it shall pay to the Borrowers an amount equal to such refund (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made, or additional amounts paid, by the Loan Parties under this Section 3.01 with respect to the Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes giving rise to such refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses of the Administrative Agent or such Lender, as the case may be (including any Taxes imposed with respect to such refund), and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental Authority with respect to such refund); provided that the Borrowers, upon the request of the Administrative Agent or such Lender, agree to repay the amount paid over to the Borrowers (plus any penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental Authority) to the Administrative Agent or such Lender if the Administrative Agent or such Lender is required to repay such refund to such Governmental Authority. This subsection shall not be construed to require the Administrative Agent or any Lender to make available its tax returns (or any other information relating to its taxes that it deems confidential) to the Loan Parties or any other Person.
(g) Lenders. For the avoidance of doubt, a Lender shall, for purposes of this Section 3.01, include an Issuing Lender and a Swing Line Lender.
Section 3.02 Illegality. IfSubject to Section
3.03(c), if any Lender determines that any Law has made it unlawful, or that any Governmental Authority has asserted that it is unlawful, for any Lender or its applicable Lending Office to make,
maintain or fund Eurodollar Rate Loans, or to determine or charge interest rates based upon the Eurodollar Rate, or any Governmental Authority has imposed material restrictions on the authority of such Lender to purchase or sell, or to take deposits
of, Dollars in the London interbank market, then, on notice thereof by such Lender to the Borrowers through the Administrative Agent, any obligation of such Lender to make or continue Eurodollar Rate Loans or to convert Base Rate Loans to Eurodollar
Rate Loans shall be suspended until such Lender notifies the Administrative Agent and the Borrowers that the circumstances giving rise to such determination no longer exist. Upon receipt of such notice, the Borrowers shall, upon demand from such
Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), prepay or, if applicable, convert all Eurodollar Rate Loans of such Lender to Base Rate Loans, either on the last day of the Interest Period therefor, if such Lender may lawfully continue to maintain
such Eurodollar Rate Loans to such day, or immediately, if such Lender may not lawfully continue to maintain such Eurodollar Rate Loans. Upon any such prepayment or conversion, the Borrowers shall also pay accrued interest on the amount so prepaid
or converted.
Section 3.03 Inability to Determine Rates.
(a)
If the Required Lenders determineAdministrative Agent determines that for any reason in connection with
any request for a Eurodollar Rate Loan or a conversion to or continuation thereof that (a) Dollar deposits are not being offered to banks in the London interbank eurodollar market for the applicable amount and Interest Period of such Eurodollar
Rate Loan, (any
such Loans, Impacted Loans), (bb) (x)
adequate and reasonable means do not exist for determining the Eurodollar Rate for any requested Interest Period with respect to a proposed Eurodollar Rate
Loan,
(y) the circumstances described in Section 3.03(c)(i) do not apply (in each case with respect to this clauses (a) and (b), Impacted Loans), or (c) the Eurodollar
Rate for any requested Interest Period with respect
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to a proposed Eurodollar Rate Loan does not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders of funding such Loan, the Administrative Agent will promptly so notify the Borrowers and each Lender. Thereafter, the obligation of the Lenders to make or maintain Eurodollar Rate Loans shall be suspended until the Administrative Agent (upon the instruction of the Required Lenders) revokes such notice. Upon receipt of such notice, the Borrowers may revoke any pending request for a Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans or, failing that, will be deemed to have converted such request into a request for a Borrowing of Base Rate Loans in the amount specified therein.
(b) Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Administrative Agent has made the determination described in clause (a) above, the Administrative Agent, in consultation with the Borrowers and the Lenders, may establish an alternative interest rate for the Impacted Loans, in which case, such alternative rate of interest shall apply with respect to the Impacted Loans until (1) the Administrative Agent revokes the notice delivered with respect to the Impacted Loans under clause (a) of the first sentence of this section, (2) the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders notify the Administrative Agent and the Parent Borrower that such alternative interest rate does not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders of funding the Impacted Loans, or (3) any Lender determines that any Law has made it unlawful, or that any Governmental Authority has asserted that it is unlawful, for such Lender or its applicable Lending Office to make, maintain or fund Loans whose interest is determined by reference to such alternative rate of interest or to determine or charge interest rates based upon such rate or any Governmental Authority has imposed material restrictions on the authority of such Lender to do any of the foregoing and provides the Administrative Agent and the Parent Borrower written notice thereof.
(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement or any other Loan Documents, if the Administrative Agent determines (which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error), or the Parent Borrower or Required Lenders notify the Administrative Agent (with, in the case of the Required Lenders, a copy to the Parent Borrower) that the Parent Borrower or Required Lenders (as applicable) have determined, that:
(i) adequate and reasonable means do not exist for ascertaining LIBOR for any requested Interest Period, including, without limitation, because the LIBOR Screen Rate is not available or published on a current basis and such circumstances are unlikely to be temporary; or
(ii) the administrator of the LIBOR Screen Rate or a Governmental Authority having jurisdiction over the Administrative Agent has made a public statement identifying a specific date after which LIBOR or the LIBOR Screen Rate shall no longer be made available, or used for determining the interest rate of loans, provided that, at the time of such statement, there is no successor administrator that is satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, that will continue to provide LIBOR after such specific date (such specific date, the Scheduled Unavailability Date); or
(iii) syndicated loans currently being executed, or that include language similar to that contained in this Section 3.03, are being executed or amended (as applicable) to incorporate or adopt a new benchmark interest rate to replace LIBOR,
then, reasonably promptly after such determination by the Administrative Agent or receipt by the Administrative Agent of such notice, as applicable, the Administrative Agent and the Parent Borrower may amend this Agreement solely for the purpose of replacing LIBOR in accordance with this Section 3.03 with (x) one or more SOFR-Based Rates or (y) another alternate benchmark rate giving due
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consideration to any evolving or then existing convention for similar U.S. dollar denominated syndicated credit facilities for such alternative benchmarks and, in each case, including any mathematical or other adjustments to such benchmark giving due consideration to any evolving or then existing convention for similar U.S. dollar denominated syndicated credit facilities for such benchmarks, which adjustment or method for calculating such adjustment shall be published on an information service as selected by the Administrative Agent from time to time in its reasonable discretion and may be periodically updated (the Adjustment; and any such proposed rate, a LIBOR Successor Rate), and any such amendment shall become effective at 5:00 p.m. on the fifth Business Day after the Administrative Agent shall have posted such proposed amendment to all Lenders and the Parent Borrower unless, prior to such time, Lenders comprising the Required Lenders have delivered to the Administrative Agent written notice that such Required Lenders (A) in the case of an amendment to replace LIBOR with a rate described in clause (x), object to the Adjustment; or (B) in the case of an amendment to replace LIBOR with a rate described in clause (y), object to such amendment; provided that for the avoidance of doubt, in the case of clause (A), the Required Lenders shall not be entitled to object to any SOFR-Based Rate contained in any such amendment. Such LIBOR Successor Rate shall be applied in a manner consistent with market practice; provided that to the extent such market practice is not administratively feasible for the Administrative Agent, such LIBOR Successor Rate shall be applied in a manner as otherwise reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent.
If no LIBOR Successor Rate has been determined and the circumstances under clause (i) above exist or the Scheduled Unavailability Date has occurred (as applicable), the Administrative Agent will promptly so notify the Parent Borrower and each Lender. Thereafter, (x) the obligation of the Lenders to make or maintain Eurodollar Rate Loans shall be suspended, (to the extent of the affected Eurodollar Rate Loans or Interest Periods), and (y) the Eurodollar Rate component shall no longer be utilized in determining the Base Rate. Upon receipt of such notice, the Parent Borrower may revoke any pending request for a Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans (to the extent of the affected Eurodollar Rate Loans or Interest Periods) or, failing that, will be deemed to have converted such request into a request for a Borrowing of Base Rate Loans (subject to the foregoing clause (y)) in the amount specified therein.
Notwithstanding anything else herein, any definition of LIBOR Successor Rate shall provide that in no event shall such LIBOR Successor Rate be less than the LIBOR Floor for purposes of this Agreement.
In connection with the implementation of a LIBOR Successor Rate, the Administrative Agent will have the right to make LIBOR Successor Rate Conforming Changes from time to time and, notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein or in any other Loan Document, any amendments implementing such LIBOR Successor Rate Conforming Changes will become effective without any further action or consent of any other party to this Agreement; provided that, with respect to any such amendment effected, the Administrative Agent shall post each such amendment implementing such LIBOR Successor Rate Conforming Changes to the Lenders reasonably promptly after such amendment becomes effective.
Section 3.04 Increased Costs; Reserves on Eurodollar Rate Loans.
(a) Increased Costs Generally. If any Change in Law shall:
(i) impose, modify or deem applicable any reserve, special deposit, compulsory loan, insurance charge or similar requirement against assets of, deposits with or for the account of, or credit extended or participated in by, any Lender (except any reserve requirement contemplated by Section 3.04(e)) or any Issuing Lender;
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(ii) subject any Lender to any Tax of any kind whatsoever with respect to this Agreement or any Loan made by it, or change the basis of taxation of payments to such Lender in respect thereof (except for Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes covered by Section 3.01 or any Excluded Tax); or
(iii) impose on any Lender or Issuing Lender or the London interbank market any other condition, cost or expense affecting this Agreement or Loans made by such Lender or any Letter of Credit or participation therein;
and the result of any of the foregoing shall be to increase the cost to such Lender of making or maintaining any Loan (or of maintaining its obligation to make any such Loan), or to reduce the amount of any sum received or receivable by such Lender hereunder (whether of principal, interest or any other amount), then, upon request of such Lender, the Borrowers will pay to such Lender such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender for such additional costs incurred or reduction suffered.
(b) Capital Requirements. If any Lender determines that any Change in Law affecting such Lender or any Lending Office of such Lender or such Lenders holding company, if any, regarding capital requirements or liquidity requirements has or would have the effect of reducing the rate of return on such Lenders capital or on the capital of such Lenders holding company, if any, as a consequence of this Agreement, the Revolving Credit Commitments of such Lender or the Loans made by such Lender, to a level below that which such Lender or such Lenders holding company could have achieved but for such Change in Law (taking into consideration such Lenders policies and the policies of such Lenders holding company with respect to capital adequacy), then from time to time the Borrowers will pay to such Lender such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or such Lenders holding company for any such reduction suffered.
(c) Certificates for Reimbursement. A certificate of a Lender setting forth the amount or amounts necessary to compensate such Lender or its holding company, as the case may be, as specified in subsection (a) or (b) of this Section 3.04, in reasonable detail sufficient to allow the Borrowers to verify such calculation, and delivered to the Parent Borrower shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The Borrowers shall pay such Lender the amount shown as due on any such certificate within 10 days after receipt thereof.
(d) Delay in Requests. Failure or delay on the part of any Lender to demand compensation pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section 3.04 shall not constitute a waiver of such Lenders right to demand such compensation; provided that the Borrowers shall not be required to compensate a Lender pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section 3.04 for any increased costs incurred or reductions suffered more than six months prior to the date that such Lender notifies the Borrowers of the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions and of such Lenders intention to claim compensation therefor (except that, if the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions is retroactive, then the six-month period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof).
(e) Reserves on Eurodollar Rate Loans. The Borrowers shall pay to each Lender, as long as such Lender
shall be required to maintain reserves with respect to liabilities or assets consisting of or including EurocurrencyEurodollar funds or deposits (currently known as Eurocurrency liabilities), additional interest on the unpaid principal amount of
each Eurodollar Rate Loan equal to the actual costs of such reserves allocated to such Loan by such Lender (as determined by such Lender in good faith, which determination shall be conclusive), which shall be due and payable on each date on which
interest is payable on such Loan; provided that the Borrowers shall have received at least 10 days prior notice (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) of such additional interest from such Lender. If a Lender fails to give notice 10
days prior to the relevant Interest Payment Date, such additional interest shall be due and payable 10 days from receipt of such notice.
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(f) Increased Amounts. No Lender shall demand any payment referred to herein if it shall not at the time be the general policy or practice of such Lender to demand such compensation in substantially similar circumstances under substantially comparable provisions of other credit agreements.
Section 3.05 Compensation for Losses. Upon demand of any Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) from time to time, the Borrowers shall promptly compensate such Lender for and hold such Lender harmless from any loss, cost or expense actually incurred by it as a result of:
(a) any continuation, conversion, payment or prepayment of any Loan other than a Base Rate Loan on a day other than the last day of the Interest Period for such Loan (whether voluntary, mandatory, automatic, by reason of acceleration, or otherwise);
(b) any failure by the Borrowers (for a reason other than the failure of such Lender to make a Loan) to prepay, borrow, continue or convert any Loan other than a Base Rate Loan on the date or in the amount notified by the Borrowers; or
(c) any assignment of a Eurodollar Rate Loan on a day other than the last day of the Interest Period therefor as a result of a request by the Parent Borrower pursuant to Section 11.13;
including any loss or expense arising from the liquidation or reemployment of funds obtained by it to maintain such Loan or from fees payable to terminate the deposits from which such funds were obtained, but excluding loss of anticipated profits. The Borrowers shall also pay any customary administrative fees charged by such Lender in connection with the foregoing.
For purposes of calculating amounts payable by the Borrowers to the Lenders under this Section 3.05, each Lender shall be deemed to have funded each Eurodollar Rate Loan made by it at the Eurodollar Rate for such Loan by a matching deposit or other borrowing in the London interbank eurodollar market for a comparable amount and for a comparable period, whether or not such Eurodollar Rate Loan was in fact so funded.
Section 3.06 Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders.
(a) Designation of a Different Lending Office. If any Lender requests compensation under Section 3.04, or the Borrowers is required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 3.01, or if any Lender gives a notice pursuant to Section 3.02, then such Lender shall use reasonable efforts to designate a different Lending Office for funding or booking its Loans hereunder or to assign its rights and obligations hereunder to another of its offices, branches or affiliates, if, in the sole judgment of such Lender, such designation or assignment (i) would eliminate or reduce amounts payable pursuant to Section 3.01 or 3.04, as the case may be, in the future, or eliminate the need for the notice pursuant to Section 3.02, as applicable, and (ii) in each case, would not subject such Lender to any unreimbursed cost or expense and would not otherwise be disadvantageous to such Lender. The Borrowers hereby agree to pay all reasonable costs and expenses incurred by any Lender in connection with any such designation or assignment.
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(b) Replacement of Lenders. If any Lender requests compensation under Section 3.04, or if the Borrowers are required to pay any additional amount to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 3.01, or if any Lender gives a notice pursuant to Section 3.02, or if any Lender is a Defaulting Lender, the Parent Borrower may replace such Lender in accordance with Section 11.13; provided, that prior to any such replacement, such Lender shall have taken no action under Section 3.06(a) so as to eliminate the continued need for payment of amounts owing pursuant to Section 3.01, and until such time as such replacement is consummated, the Borrowers shall pay all additional amounts pursuant to Section 3.01.
Section 3.07 Survival. All of the Borrowers obligations under this Article III shall survive termination of the Aggregate Commitments and repayment of all other Obligations hereunder.
ARTICLE IV
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO CREDIT EXTENSIONS
Section 4.01 Conditions
to Effectiveness. The obligation of each Lender to make
its initial Credit Extension hereunder
iseffectiveness of this Agreement on the Closing Date was subject to satisfaction or waiver pursuant to Section 11.01 of the following conditions precedent:
(a) The Administrative Agents receipt of the following:
(i) executed counterparts of this Agreement (including the related Lender Addenda), the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement and the Perfection Certificate by each of the parties thereto, together with:
(A) certificates representing the Pledged Equity accompanied by undated stock powers executed in blank and instruments evidencing the Pledged Debt indorsed in blank or with other instruments of transfer and all other documents or agreements required by the Guarantee and Collateral Agreement, and
(B) UCC financing statements relating to the Collateral in form appropriate for filing under the Uniform Commercial Code of each jurisdiction where any Loan Party is organized naming such Loan Party as debtor and the Administrative Agent as secured party.
(ii) a Note executed by the Borrowers in favor of each Lender that has requested a Note at least three Business Days prior to the Closing Date;
(iii) a certificate of each Loan Party, dated the Closing Date, substantially in the form of Exhibit I, with appropriate insertions and attachments;
(iv) long form good standing certificates of each Loan Party in its jurisdiction of organization and, to the extent reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent, bring-down good standing certificates of the Loan Parties;
(v) a favorable opinion of Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher LLP, counsel to the Loan Parties, addressed to the Administrative Agent and each Lender, as to the matters set forth in Exhibit G;
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(vi) a certificate signed by a Responsible Officer of the Parent Borrower certifying that the conditions specified in Sections 4.01(f) and 4.02 have been satisfied;
(vii) a
certificate from the chief financial officer of the Borrowers which shall certify to the Solvencysolvency of the Borrowers and its Subsidiaries considered as a whole;
(viii) certificates of insurance, naming the Administrative Agent, on behalf of the Lenders, as an additional insured or loss payee, as the case may be, under all insurance policies maintained with respect to the assets and properties of the Loan Parties that constitute Collateral;
(ix) the results of a recent lien search in each of the jurisdictions where assets of the Loan Parties are located, and such
search shall reveal no liens on any of the assets of the Loan Parties except for liens permitted by Section
7.01Permitted Liens or Liens discharged on or prior to the Closing Date pursuant to
documentation satisfactory to the Administrative Agent;
(x) evidence that the Existing Credit Agreement has been, or concurrently with the Closing Date is being, terminated and all amounts due and owing thereunder are being repaid in full and all Liens securing obligations under the Existing Credit Agreement have been, or concurrently with the Closing Date are being, released; and
(xi) evidence that the Senior Notes and the Holdco Senior Notes have been amended on or concurrently with the Closing Date to, among other things, extend the final maturity of the Senior Notes to August 20, 2018.
(b) All fees required to be paid to the Administrative Agent and the Joint Bookrunners on or before the Closing Date shall have been paid.
(c) The Borrowers shall have paid the reasonable and documented fees and out-of-pocket disbursements of counsel to the Administrative Agent (directly to such counsel if requested by the Administrative Agent) to the extent invoiced prior to or on the Closing Date.
(d) There shall be no material indebtedness of the Borrowers or the Guarantors (other than under the Loan Documents, the Term Loan
Facility, the Holdco Senior Notes and the Senior Notes), except as set forth on Schedule 7.027.01.
(e) If any Credit Extensions are to be made on the Closing Date, the Administrative Agent shall have received a Request for Credit Extension in accordance with the requirements hereof.
(f) Since October 1, 2011, no Material Adverse Effect shall have occurred.
(g) The Administrative Agent shall have received a Borrowing Base Certificate dated as of a recent date, related to the month ended August 25, 2012, and executed by a Responsible Officer of the Parent Borrower. After giving effect to (i) any funding of the Loans on the Closing Date and (ii) and all Letters of Credit to be issued at, or immediately subsequent to, the Closing Date, Excess Availability shall be not less than $75,000,000.
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(h) The Administrative Agent shall have received and be satisfied with a field exam and inventory appraisal from an appraiser reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent.
Section 4.02 Conditions to Each Extension of Credit. The agreement of each Lender to make any extension of credit requested to be made by it hereunder on any date (including, without limitation, its initial extension of credit) is subject to the satisfaction of the following conditions precedent:Representations and Warranties. At the time of each extension of credit, as applicable, and also after giving effect thereto, each of the representations and warranties made by any Loan Party in or pursuant to the Loan Documents shall be true and correct in all material respects with the same effect as though such representations and warranties had been made on and as of the date of such extension of credit (except where such representations and warranties expressly relate to an earlier date, in which case such representations and warranties shall have been true and correct in all material respects as of such earlier date and except to the extent that a particular representation or warranty is already qualified by materiality, in which case, such representation or warranty shall be true and correct).
(b) No Default. No Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing on such date or after giving effect to the extensions of credit requested to be made on such date.
(c) Each borrowing by or issuance of a Letter of Credit on behalf of, the Borrowers hereunder (excluding any borrowing of Revolving Credit Loans pursuant to Section 2.07(b) and of any Loans pursuant to Section 2.20) shall constitute a representation and warranty by the Borrowers as of the date of such extension of credit that the conditions contained in this Section 4.02 have been satisfied.
(d) The Administrative Agent and, if applicable, the Issuing Lender or the Swing Line Lender shall have received a Request for Credit Extension in the form of Exhibit A-1 or A-2, as applicable, in accordance with the requirements hereof.
(e) With respect to any Borrowing hereunder, after giving effect to the proposed Credit Extension (other than a conversion of Revolving Credit Loans to the other Type or a continuation of Eurodollar Rate Loans), the aggregate amount of all unrestricted cash and Cash Equivalents held by Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall not exceed $40,000,000 after giving pro forma effect to such Borrowing and pro forma effect to the anticipated current use of proceeds of such Borrowing and other cash or Cash Equivalents.
Without limiting the generality of the provisions of Section 9.07, for purposes of determining compliance with the conditions specified in this Article IV on the Closing Date, each Lender that has signed this Agreement shall be deemed to have consented to, approved or accepted or to be satisfied with, each document or other matter required thereunder to be consented to or approved by or acceptable or satisfactory to a Lender unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from such Lender prior to the proposed Closing Date specifying its objection thereto.
ARTICLE V
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
Each of the Borrowers and Holdings (where applicable below) represents and warrants to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders that:
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Section 5.01
Existence, Qualification and
PowerOrganization; Powers. Each of Holdings, the Borrowers and each Loan Party and each of its Subsidiaries
(a) Restricted Subsidiary:
(a)
is a partnership, limited liability company, corporation,
or trust duly organized or formed, validly
existing and, as applicable, in good standing under the Lawslaws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation ororganization (to the extent such status or an analogous concept applies to such an organization, (b) ;
(b)
has all requisite power and authority and all requisite governmental licenses, permits, authorizations, consents and approvals to (i) own or lease its
property and assets and to carry on its business and (ii) execute, deliver and perform its obligations
under the Loan Documents to which it is a party, and
(c) as now conducted;
(c)
is duly qualified and is licensed and, as applicable, in good standing under the Laws ofto do
business in each jurisdiction where its ownership, lease or operation of properties or the conduct of its
business requires such qualification or license;is required, except in each case referred to in clause (b)(i) or (c),
towhere the extent that failure to
do so
couldqualify
would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. Schedule 5.01 annexed hereto sets forth, as; and
(d)
has the power and authority to
execute, deliver and perform its obligations under each of the Closing Date,
HoldingsLoan Documents and each Loan Partys name as it appears in official filings in its state of incorporation or organization, its state of incorporation or organization, organization type,
organization number, if any, issued by its state of incorporation or organization, its federal employer identification
numberother agreement or instrument contemplated thereby to which it is a party and, in the case of the
Borrowers, to borrow and otherwise obtain credit hereunder.
Authorization; No Contravention. The execution, delivery and performance by eachthe Loan
PartyParties
of each of the Loan DocumentDocuments to which such Personit is or is to be a party , the Borrowings hereunder and the Transactions:
(e)
have been duly authorized by all necessary
corporate, stockholder, partnership, limited liability
company or other organizationalapplicable action, and do not required to be
taken by the Loan Parties; and
(f) will not (a) contravene the terms of any of such Persons Organization Documents; (b) conflict with or result in any breach or contravention of, or the creation of any Lien under, or require any payment to be made under
(i) any material Contractual Obligation to which such Person is a party or affecting such Person or the properties of such Person or any of its Subsidiaries or (ii) any material order, injunction, writ or decree of any Governmental
Authority or any arbitral award to which such Person or its property is subject; or (c) violate any Law in any material respect. The execution, delivery and performance by Holdings of each Loan Document to which it is or is to be a party have
been duly authorized by all necessary corporate or other organizational action, and do not and will not contravene the terms of its Organization
Documents.:
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Section 5.03 Governmental Authorization;
Other Consents. No material approval, consent, exemption, authorization, or other action by, or notice to, or filing with,
(i) violate:
(1) any provision of law, statute, rule or regulation, or of the certificate or articles of incorporation or other constitutive documents (including any partnership, limited liability company or operating agreement or by-laws) of any Loan Party;
(2)
any applicable order of any court or any rule, regulation
or order of any Governmental Authority or any other Person is necessary or required in connection with
(a) the execution, delivery or performance by, or enforcement against, any Loan Party of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, (b) the
grant by any Loan Party of the Liens granted by it pursuant to the Collateral Documents, (c) the perfection or maintenance of the Liens created
under the Collateral Documents or (d) the exercise by the Administrative Agent or any Lender of its rights under the Loan Documents or the
remedies in respect of the Collateral pursuant to the Collateral Documents, except for (i) in the case of clause (d) above, authorizations, approvals, actions, notices and filings required in connection with
enforcement of remedies against securities under securities laws or (ii) the authorizations, approvals, actions, notices and filings listed on
Schedule 5.03, all of which have been duly obtained, taken, given or made and are in full force and effect.;
(3) any provision of any indenture, certificate of designation for preferred stock, agreement or other instrument to which any Loan Party is a party or by which any of them or any of their property is or may be bound;
(ii) be in conflict with, result in a breach of, constitute (alone or with notice or lapse of time or both) a default under, or give rise to a right of or result in any cancellation or acceleration of any right or obligation (including any payment) or to a loss of a material benefit under, any such indenture, certificate of designation for preferred stock, agreement or other instrument; or
(iii) result in the creation or imposition of any Lien upon any property or assets of any Loan Party, other than the Liens created by the Loan Documents and Permitted Liens;
Section 5.04 Bindingexcept with
respect to clauses (i) and (ii) of this Section 5.02(b) as would not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect.
Section
5.02 Enforceability. This Agreement has been, and each other Loan Document, when delivered hereunder, will have been, duly executed and delivered by each Loan Party that is party thereto and Holdings,
to and the extent party thereto. This
AgreementBorrowers and constitutes, and each other
Loan Document when
soexecuted
and delivered by each Loan Party that is party
thereto will constitute, a legal, valid and binding obligation of Holdings or such Loan Party, enforceable against each such Person that is party
theretoLoan Party in accordance with its terms,
subject to
applicable:
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(a)
the effects of
bankruptcy, insolvency, moratorium, reorganization, moratoriumfraudulent
conveyance or other similar laws affecting creditors rights generally and subject to ;
(b)
general principles of equity,
(regardless of whether such enforceability is considered in a proceeding in equity or at
law);
(c) implied covenants of good faith and fair dealing; and
(d) any foreign laws, rules and regulations as they relate to pledges of Equity Interests in Foreign Subsidiaries.
Section 5.03 Governmental Approvals. No action, consent or approval of, registration or filing with or any other action by any Governmental Authority or third party is or will be required in connection with the Transactions, the perfection or maintenance of the Liens created under the Collateral Documents or the exercise by the Administrative Agent or any Lender of its rights under the Loan Documents or the remedies in respect of the Collateral, except for:
(a) the filing of Uniform Commercial Code financing statements and equivalent filings in foreign jurisdictions;
(b) filings with the United States Patent and Trademark Office and the United States Copyright Office and comparable offices in foreign jurisdictions and equivalent filings in foreign jurisdictions;
(c) filings which may be required under Environmental Laws;
(d) filings as may be required under the Exchange Act and applicable stock exchange rules in connection therewith;
(e) such as have been made or obtained and are in full force and effect;
(f) such actions, consents and approvals the failure of which to be obtained or made would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; or
(g) filings or other actions listed on Schedule 5.04 annexed to Amendment No. 4.
Section 5.04 Title to Properties; Possession Under Leases.