EX-10.7 8 y04505exv10w7.htm EX-10.7 exv10w7
Exhibit 10.7
Private and Confidential
Date 28 January 2011
NAVIOS MARITIME HOLDINGS INC.
as Borrower
COMMERZBANK AG and HSH NORDBANK AG
as Lenders
HSH NORDBANK AG
as Swap Bank, Joint-Arranger, Agent,
Account Bank and Security Trustee
and
COMMERZBANK AG
as Joint-Arranger
as Swap Bank
 
SIXTH SUPPLEMENTAL AGREEMENT

 
in relation to a Facility Agreement dated 1 February 2007 (as amended),
for a term loan facility of up to US$280,000,000
and a reducing revolving credit facility of up to US$120,000,000
(INCE & CO LOGO)
PIRAEUS

 

 

Index
             
Clause   Page No
   
 
        
1  
INTERPRETATION
     2  
   
 
        
2  
AGREEMENT OF THE LENDERS
     2  
   
 
        
3  
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT
     3  
   
 
        
4  
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
     4  
   
 
        
5  
AMENDMENTS TO FACILITY AGREEMENT AND OTHER SECURITY DOCUMENTS
     4  
   
 
        
6  
FURTHER ASSURANCES
     5  
   
 
        
7  
FEES AND EXPENSES
     5  
   
 
        
8  
NOTICES AND OTHER MATTERS
     5  
   
 
        
9  
SUPPLEMENTAL
     6  
   
 
        
10  
LAW AND JURISDICTION
     6  
   
 
        
SCHEDULE — Indenture Excerpt     8  

 

 

THIS AGREEMENT is made on 28 January 2011
BETWEEN
(1)   NAVIOS MARITIME HOLDINGS INC. as Borrower;
 
(2)   COMMERZBANK AG and HSH NORDBANK AG as Lenders;
 
(3)   HSH NORDBANK AG as Swap Bank, Joint-Arranger, Agent, Account Bank and Security Trustee; and
 
(4)   COMMERZBANK AG as Joint-Arranger and Swap Bank.
BACKGROUND
(A)   By a Facility Agreement dated 1 February 2007 (as amended by supplemental agreements dated 15 November 2007, 24 December 2007, 23 March 2009, 8 January 2010 and 28 April 2010) and made between the parties hereto, the Lenders made available to the Borrower a term loan of (originally) up to US$280,000,000 and a reducing revolving credit facility of up to US$120,000,000.
 
(B)   The Borrower has made a request to the Lenders that they amend certain terms of the Facility Agreement.
 
(C)   This Agreement sets out the terms and conditions on which the Lenders agree, with effect on and from the Effective Date, to amend certain terms of the Facility Agreement.
IT IS AGREED as follows:
1   INTERPRETATION
 
1.1   Defined expressions. Words and expressions defined in the Facility Agreement shall have the same meanings when used in this Agreement unless the context otherwise requires.
 
1.2   Definitions. In this Agreement, unless the contrary intention appears:
 
    “Effective Date” means the Banking Day on which all the conditions precedent referred to in Clause 3.1 have been fulfilled by the Borrower; and
 
    “Facility Agreement” means the Facility Agreement referred to in Recital (A).
 
1.3   Application of construction and Interpretation provisions of Facility Agreement. Clauses 1.3, 1.4, 1.5 and 1.6 of the Facility Agreement apply, with any necessary modifications, to this Agreement.
 
2   AGREEMENT OF THE LENDERS
2.1   Lender’s consent. The Lenders hereby agree to the amendments to the Facility Agreement set out in Clause 5 and to the Borrower issuing $350,000,000 of notes under, and the Guarantors issuing guarantees of the notes pursuant to, that certain indenture dated 28 January 2011 issued by the Borrower and Navios Maritime Finance II (US) Inc. and guaranteed by the Guarantors for 8 1/8% Senior Notes due on 15 February 2019 (with the proceeds thereof being used to repurchase and/or redeem the Borrower’s 9.5% Senior Notes due 2014 and to pay related fees and expenses and for general corporate purposes) on condition that:
 
2.1.1   the Agent, or its authorised representative, has received the documents and evidence specified in Clause 3.1 in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent; and

 

 

2.1.2   the representations and warranties contained in clause 4 are then true and correct as if each was made with respect to the facts and circumstances existing at such time.
 
3   CONDITIONS PRECEDENT
3.1   Conditions precedent to the new indenture. The conditions referred to in Clause 2.1.1 are that the Agent shall have received the following documents:
 
(a)   Corporate documents
 
    Certified Copies of all documents which evidence or relate to the constitution of the Borrower and its current corporate existence;
 
(b)   Corporate authorities
  (i)   Certified Copies of resolutions of the directors of the Borrower approving this Supplemental Agreement and authorising the execution and delivery thereof and performance of the Borrower’s obligations thereunder, additionally certified by an officer of the Borrower as having been duly passed at a duly convened meeting of the directors of the Borrower and not having been amended, modified or revoked and being in full force and effect; and
 
  (ii)   originals or Certified Copies of any powers of attorney issued by any Security Party pursuant to such resolutions
(c)   Certificate of incumbency
 
    a list of directors and officers of the Borrower, specifying the names and positions of such persons, certified by an officer of the Borrower to be true, complete and up to date;
 
(d)   Laws of the Marshall Islands: opinion
 
    an opinion of Messrs Cozen O’Connor, special legal advisers in New York to the Banks;
 
(e)   London agent
 
    documentary evidence that the agent for service of process named in clause 19 of the Facility Agreement has accepted its appointment in respect of this Agreement;
 
(f)   Acknowledgment
 
    an acknowledgement (in a letter or otherwise) signed by each Security Party (other than the Borrower) in such form as the Agent and the Majority Lenders may require in their sole discretion acknowledging the terms of this Agreement;
 
(g)   Fee
 
    A non-refundable fee of USD15,000 payable by the Borrower to the Agent promptly on execution of this Agreement by the Borrower, for distribution to the Lenders pro rata according to their Contributions to the Loan and the Revolving Loan; and
 
(h)   Further opinions, etc
 
    any further opinions, consents, agreements and documents in connection with this Agreement and the Security Documents which the Agent may request by notice to the Borrower prior to the Effective Date.

 

 

4   REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
 
4.1   Repetition of Facility Agreement representations and warranties. The Borrower represents and warrants to each Bank that the representations and warranties in clause 7 of the Facility Agreement, as amended and supplemented by this Agreement and updated with appropriate modifications to refer to this Agreement, remain true and not misleading if repeated on the date of this Agreement with reference to the circumstances now existing.
 
5   AMENDMENTS TO FACILITY AGREEMENT AND OTHER SECURITY DOCUMENTS
 
5.1   Specific amendments to Facility Agreement. With effect on and from the Effective Date the Facility Agreement shall be, and shall be deemed by this Agreement to be, amended as follows:
  (a)   by deleting in the definition of “Indenture” in Clause 1.1 the words “18 December 2006 issued by the Borrower and the Guarantors for 9 1/2% Senior Notes due on 18 December 2014” and replacing them with the words “28 January 2011 issued by the Borrower and Navios Maritime Finance II (US) Inc. and guaranteed by the Guarantors for 8 1/8% Senior Notes due on 15 February 2019”;
 
  (b)   by adding the words “and as is permitted to be incurred pursuant to the covenants set forth in the Indenture Excerpt” after the words “Existing Loan Agreement” at the end of Clause 7.1.24;
 
  (c)   by deleting the Indenture Excerpt from Schedule 8 and replacing it with the Indenture Excerpt set out in the Schedule attached to this Agreement; and
 
  (d)   by construing references throughout to “this Agreement”, “hereunder” and other like expressions as if the same referred to the Facility Agreement as amended and supplemented by this Agreement.
5.2   Amendments to Security Documents. With effect on and from the Effective Date each of the Security Documents other than the Facility Agreement, shall be, and shall be deemed by this Agreement to be, amended as follows:
  (a)   the definition of, and references throughout each of the Security Documents to, the Facility Agreement and any of the other Security Documents shall be construed as if the same referred to the Facility Agreement and those Security Documents as amended and supplemented by this Agreement;
 
  (b)   by construing references throughout each of the Security Documents to “this Agreement”, “this Deed”, “hereunder” and other like expressions as if the same referred to such Security Documents as amended and supplemented by this Agreement.
5.3   Security Documents to remain In full force and effect. The Security Documents shall remain in full force and effect as amended and supplemented by:
  (a)   the amendments to the Security Documents contained or referred to in Clauses 5.1 and 5.2 or the relevant; and
 
  (b)   such further or consequential modifications as may be necessary to give full effect to the terms of this Agreement.

 

 

6   FURTHER ASSURANCES
 
6.1   Borrower’s obligation to execute further documents etc. The Borrower shall, and shall procure that any other party to any Security Document shall:
  (a)   execute and deliver to the Agent (or as it may direct) any assignment, mortgage, power of attorney, proxy or other document, governed by the law of England or such other country as the Agent may, in any particular case, specify,
 
  (b)   effect any registration or notarisation, give any notice or take any other step, which the Agent may, by notice to the Borrower or other party, specify for any of the purposes described in Clause 6.2 or for any similar or related purpose.
6.2   Purposes of further assurances. Those purposes are:
  (a)   validly and effectively to create any Security Interest or right of any kind which the Lender intended should be created by or pursuant to the Facility Agreement or any other Security Document, each as amended and supplemented by this Agreement; and
 
  (b)   implementing the terms and provisions of this Agreement.
6.3   Terms of further assurances. The Agent may specify the terms of any document to be executed by the Borrower or any other party under Clause 6.1, and those terms may include any covenants, powers and provisions which the Agent considers appropriate to protect its interests.
 
6.4   Obligation to comply with notice. The Borrower shall comply with a notice under Clause 6.1 by the date specified in the notice.
 
6.5   Additional corporate action. At the same time as the Borrower or any other party delivers to the Agent any document executed under Clause 6.1(a), the Borrower or such other party shall also deliver to the Agent a certificate signed by 2 of the Borrower’s or that other party’s directors which shall:
  (a)   set out the text of a resolution of the Borrower’s or that other party’s directors specifically authorising the execution of the document specified by the Agent, and
 
  (b)   state that either the resolution was duly passed at a meeting of the directors validly convened and held throughout which a quorum of directors entitled to vote on the resolution was present or that the resolution has been signed by all the directors and is valid under the Borrower’s or that other party’s articles of association or other constitutional documents.
7   FEES AND EXPENSES
 
7.1   Expenses. The provisions of clause 5 (Fees and Expenses) of the Facility Agreement, as amended and supplemented by this Agreement, shall apply to this Agreement as if they were expressly incorporated in this Agreement with any necessary modifications.
 
8   NOTICES AND OTHER MATTERS
 
8.1   General. The provisions of clause 17 (Notices and other matters) of the Facility Agreement, as amended and supplemented by this Agreement, shall apply to this Agreement as if they were expressly incorporated in this Agreement with any necessary modifications.

 

 

9   SUPPLEMENTAL
 
9.1   Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts.
 
9.2   Third party rights. A person who is not a party to this Agreement has no right under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 to enforce or to enjoy the benefit of any term of this Agreement.
 
10   LAW AND JURISDICTION
 
10.1   Governing law. This Agreement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law.
 
10.2   Incorporation of the Facility Agreement provisions. The provisions of clauses 18 and 19 (Governing Law and Jurisdiction) of the Facility Agreement, as amended and supplemented by this Agreement, shall apply to this Agreement as if they were expressly incorporated in this Agreement with any necessary modifications.
IN WITNESS whereof the parties to this Agreement have caused this Agreement to be duly executed on the date first above written.
             
SIGNED as a deed by Alexandros Laios
    )     /s/ Alexandros Laios
for and on behalf of
    )      
NAVIOS MARITIME HOLDINGS INC.
    )      
(as Borrower under and pursuant to
    )      
a power of attorney dated 28 January 2011
    )      
 
            
SIGNED by Ronan Le Du
    )     /s/ Ronan Le Du
for and on behalf of
    )      
COMMERZBANK AG
    )      
(as a Lender)
    )      
 
            
SIGNED by Ronan Le Du
    )     /s/ Ronan Le Du
for and on behalf of
    )      
HSH NORDBANK AG
    )      
(as a Lender)
    )      
 
            
SIGNED by Ronan Le Du
    )     /s/ Ronan Le Du
for and on behalf of
    )      
HSH NORDBANK AG
    )      
(as a Swap Bank)
    )      
 
            
SIGNED by Ronan Le Du
    )     /s/ Ronan Le Du
for and on behalf of
    )      
HSH NORDBANK AG
    )      
(as Joint-Arranger, Agent, Account
    )      
Bank and Security Trustee)
    )      
 
            

 

 

             
SIGNED by Ronan Le Du
    )     /s/ Ronan Le Du
for and on behalf of
    )      
COMMERZBANK AG
    )      
(as Joint-Arranger)
    )      
 
            
SIGNED by Ronan Le Du
    )     /s/ Ronan Le Du
for and on behalf of
    )      
COMMERZBANK AG
    )      
(as Swap Bank)
    )      
 
            
Witness to all the above
    )      
Signatures:
    )      
Name: Robin Parry
    )     /s/ Robin Parry
Address: 47-49 Akti Miaouli
    )      
Piraeus 185 36
Greece