UNITED STATES
SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Washington, D.C. 20549
FORM 8-K
CURRENT REPORT
Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the
Securities Exchange Act of 1934
Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): September 2, 2015
CECO Environmental Corp.
(Exact Name of registrant as specified in its charter)
Delaware | 000-7099 | 13-2566064 | ||
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation) |
(Commission File Number) |
(IRS Employer Identification No.) | ||
4625 Red Bank Road, Cincinnati, OH |
45227 | |||
(Address of principal executive offices) | (Zip Code) |
Registrants telephone number, including area code: 513-458-2600
Not applicable
(Former Name or Former Address, if Changed Since Last Report)
Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:
¨ | Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425) |
¨ | Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12) |
¨ | Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b)) |
¨ | Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c)) |
Item 1.01. | Entry into a Definitive Material Agreement |
On September 3, 2015, CECO Environmental Corp. (CECO or the Company) entered into an Amended and Restated Credit Agreement among the Company, certain of the Companys subsidiaries, each lender from time to time party thereto, Bank of America as Administrative Agent, Swing Line Lender and an L/C Issuer, and each other L/C Issuer from time to time party thereto (the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement). The Amended and Restated Credit Agreement will amend CECOs existing Credit Agreement dated as of August 27, 2013, by and among CECO, certain CECO subsidiaries, Bank of America as administrative agent, and the lenders party to the agreement.
The Amended and Restated Credit Agreement provides for senior credit facilities consisting of: (a) revolving credit commitments in the aggregate amount of $80 million (the Revolving Credit Facility) and (b) a term loan commitment in the aggregate amount of $170 million (the Term Loan and, together with the Revolving Credit Facility, the Credit Facilities). At CECOs option and with the consent of the lenders that agree to provide the additional principal amount, the Credit Facilities may be further increased by an aggregate principal amount of $50 million.
The Credit Facilities will accrue interest, (a) with respect to base rate loans, at a rate equal to an applicable rate of between 1.00% and 2.00% (fluctuating based on CECOs consolidated leverage ratio), plus a rate equal to the highest of (1) the Bank of America prime rate, (2) the Federal Funds rate plus 0.50% and (c) the one-month LIBOR rate plus 1.00% and (b) with respect to Eurocurrency rate loans, at a rate equal to an applicable rate of between 2.00% and 3.00% (fluctuating based on CECOs consolidated leverage ratio) plus a rate equal to the one, two, three or six-month LIBOR rate, as selected by CECO.
The Credit Facilities will terminate and all amounts outstanding thereunder will be due and payable in full on the fifth anniversary following the closing of the Credit Facilities. The closing of the Credit Facilities was subject to customary conditions precedent for financings of this type. The parties to the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement provided covenants and made representations and warranties that are usual and customary for transactions of this type. The Amended and Restated Credit Agreement also contains customary indemnity provisions.
The foregoing description of the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by reference to the full text of (i) the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, (ii) the Company Guaranty Agreement, (iii) the Subsidiary Guaranty Agreement, (iv) the Security Agreement, and (v) the Securities Pledge Agreement, copies of which are attached hereto as Exhibit 10.1, Exhibit 10.2, Exhibit 10.3, Exhibit 10.4, and Exhibit 10.5, respectively, and are incorporated by reference herein.
Item 2.01. | Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets |
On September 3, 2015, the Company completed its acquisition of PMFG, Inc., a Delaware corporation (PMFG). Pursuant to an Agreement and Plan of Merger, dated as of May 3, 2015 (the Merger Agreement), among the Company, Top Gear Acquisition Inc., a Delaware corporation and a direct wholly owned subsidiary of the Company (Merger Sub I), Top Gear Acquisition II LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and a direct wholly owned subsidiary of the Company (Merger Sub II) and PMFG, Merger Sub I merged with and into PMFG (the First Merger), with PMFG as the surviving corporation, and subsequently, also on September 3, 2015, the surviving corporation of the First Merger merged with and into Merger Sub II (the Second Merger and, together with the First Merger, the Mergers), with Merger Sub II surviving as a wholly owned subsidiary of the Company under the name PMFG Acquisition LLC.
In the First Merger, PMFGs shareholders had the option to elect to exchange each share of PMFG common stock for either (i) $6.85 in cash, without interest (the Cash Consideration), or (ii) shares of the Companys common stock valued at $6.85 (the Stock Consideration), based on the volume weighted average trading price of the Companys common stock for the 15-trading day period ending on September 2, 2015, the last trading day before the closing of the First Merger (the Company Trading Price), subject to a collar so that there was a maximum exchange ratio of 0.6456 shares of Company common stock for each share of PMFG common stock and a minimum exchange ratio of 0.5282 shares of Company common stock for each share of PMFG common stock. Overall elections were subject to proration so that in the aggregate approximately 45% of the PMFG shares were exchanged for cash and 55% for shares of Company common stock.
At the effective time of the First Merger, approximately 44.5% of the shares of PMFG common stock converted into the right to receive the $6.85 per share Cash Consideration, for an approximate total of $64.6 million in aggregate Cash Consideration. The Company Trading Price was $9.6655. As a result, each of the remaining shares of PMFG common stock converted into the right to receive 0.6456 shares of Company common stock, or an approximate total of 7,602,328 shares of Company common stock in aggregate Stock Consideration. Following the issuance of these additional shares, there were approximately 33,962,292 shares of Company common stock issued and outstanding.
In accordance with the proration and reallocation provisions of the Merger Agreement, because the $6.85 per share Cash Consideration was oversubscribed by PMFG shareholders prior to the election deadline on September 1, 2015 at 5:00 p.m. Eastern time (the Election Deadline), (a) each PMFG share for which a valid stock election was made or for which no valid cash or stock election was made prior to the Election Deadline was automatically cancelled and converted into the right to receive the Stock Consideration and (b) each PMFG shareholder of record that made a valid cash election prior to the Election Deadline will receive (i) the Cash Consideration for approximately 58.05% of such holders PMFG shares for which a valid cash election was made and (ii) the Stock Consideration for approximately 41.95% of such holders PMFG Shares for which a valid cash election was made.
No fractional shares of Company common stock will be issued to any PMFG shareholder in the First Merger. Each PMFG shareholder who would otherwise have been entitled to receive a fraction of a share of Company common stock in the First Merger will receive cash in an amount equal to the product obtained by multiplying (i) the fractional share interest which such holder would otherwise be entitled to receive by (ii) $9.6655 (which represents the Company Trading Price).
In addition, holders of outstanding PMFG options and restricted stock units will receive an aggregate amount of cash equal to approximately $1.6 million as consideration for the cancellation of the options and restricted stock units held by them immediately prior to the effective time of the First Merger.
Based upon the final mix of cash and stock merger consideration described above and the trading price of the Companys common stock on the closing date of the Mergers, the Company and PMFG will report the Mergers as a reorganization under Section 368(a) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended. To review the tax consequences of the Mergers to them in greater detail, former PMFG shareholders should refer to the Companys and PMFGs joint proxy statement/prospectus filed with the SEC, dated July 31, 2015. Specifically, former PMFG shareholders should review the section of the joint proxy statement/prospectus entitled Material United States Federal Income Tax Consequences beginning on page 197 of the joint proxy statement/prospectus. Former PMFG shareholders are also encouraged to consult their tax advisors as to the tax consequences of the Mergers in their particular circumstances.
As a result of the First Merger, shares of PMFG common stock have ceased trading on the NASDAQ Global Select Market Exchange and will be delisted.
The foregoing summary of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement does not purport to be complete and is subject to, and qualified in its entirety by, the full text of the Merger Agreement, which is attached as Exhibit 2.1 to the Companys Form 8-K filed with the SEC on May 4, 2015, which is incorporated herein by reference.
Item 2.03. | Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation or an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of a Registrant |
The information set forth under Item 1.01 above relating to the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement is incorporated by reference herein.
Item 5.02. | Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers. |
(e) At the special meeting of stockholders of the Company held on September 2, 2015 (the Special Meeting), Company stockholders approved an amendment to the Amended and Restated CECO Environmental Corp. 2007 Equity Incentive Plan (the Plan) to increase the number of shares of Company common stock available for issuance thereunder from 2,600,000 to 3,300,000, as set forth in the Second Amended and Restated CECO Environmental Corp. 2007 Equity Incentive Plan (the Second Amended and Restated Plan), a copy of which is included as Exhibit 10.6 to this Form 8-K and incorporated into this Item 5.02(e) by reference. The only change to the Plan was the addition of 700,000 shares to the total number of shares of Company common stock reserved for issuance thereunder. The Companys Second Amended and Restated Plan became effective upon the closing of the First Merger.
In connection with the closing of the transactions contemplated by the Merger Agreement, the Companys Board of Directors approved cash bonuses to be paid to certain of the Companys officers and employees as well as a member of the Companys Board of Directors, including cash bonuses of $350,000 to Jeffrey Lang, the Companys Chief Executive Officer; $50,000 to Edward Prajzner, the Companys Chief Financial Officer; and $225,000 to Jonathan Pollack, a member of the Companys Board of Directors.
Item 5.07 | Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders. |
At the Special Meeting, 20,414,164 shares of Company common stock, or approximately 77.4% of the 26,359,964 shares (excluding 82,200 shares held in treasury) of Company common stock issued and outstanding and entitled to vote at the Special Meeting, were present in person or by proxy.
At the Special Meeting, Company stockholders of record as of the close of business on July 30, 2015 considered: (1) a proposal to approve the issuance of Company common stock to PMFG stockholders in the First Merger; (2) a proposal to approve an amendment to the Amended and Restated CECO Environmental Corp. 2007 Equity Incentive Plan (described above) to increase the number of shares of Company common stock available for issuance thereunder from 2,600,000 to 3,300,000; and (3) a proposal to approve the adjournment of the Special Meeting, if necessary or appropriate. The voting results at the Special Meeting with respect to each of the matters described above were as follows:
1. | The proposal to approve the issuance of Company common stock to shareholders of PMFG in the First Merger was approved as follows: |
FOR |
AGAINST |
ABSTAIN |
BROKER | |||
20,200,705 |
75,921 | 137,536 | 0 |
2. | The proposal to approve an amendment to the Amended and Restated CECO Environmental Corp. 2007 Equity Incentive Plan to increase the number of shares of Company common stock available for issuance thereunder from 2,600,000 to 3,300,000 was approved as follows: |
FOR |
AGAINST |
ABSTAIN |
BROKER | |||
19,798,190 |
585,366 | 30,606 | 0 |
3. | The proposal to approve the adjournment of the Special Meeting, if necessary was approved as follows: |
FOR |
AGAINST |
ABSTAIN |
BROKER | |||
19,507,013 |
879,239 | 27,907 | 0 |
Safe Harbor for Forward-Looking Statements
Any statements contained in this Current Report on Form 8-K other than statements of historical fact, including statements about managements beliefs and expectations of the merger and related transactions and future results, are forward-looking statements within the meaning of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995 and should be evaluated accordingly. These statements are made on the basis of managements views and assumptions regarding future events and business performance. Words such as estimate, believe, anticipate, expect, intend, target, should, may, will and similar expressions and their negative forms are intended to identify forward-looking statements.
Forward-looking statements involve risks and uncertainties that may cause actual results to differ materially from any future results, performance or achievements expressed or implied by such statements. These risks and uncertainties include the ability to successfully integrate CECOs and PMFGs operations, product lines, technologies and employees; the ability to realize revenue and customer growth opportunities, combined revenue goals, marketing and cost synergies from the merger between CECO and PMFG in a timely manner or at all; factors related to the businesses of CECO and PMFG including economic, political and financial market conditions generally and economic conditions in CECOs and PMFGs target markets; dependence on fixed-price contracts and the risks associated with those contracts, including actual costs exceeding estimates and method of accounting for contract revenue; fluctuations in operating results from period-to-period due to cyclicality of the businesses; the effect of the merger and related transactions on each of CECOs and PMFGs infrastructure, resources, and existing sales; the ability to expand operations in both new and existing markets; the potential for contract delay or cancellation; changes in or developments with respect to any litigation or investigation; unknown, underestimated or undisclosed commitments or liabilities; the potential for fluctuations in prices for manufactured components and raw materials; the potential impact of the announcement or consummation of the transactions on the parties relationships with third parties, which may make it more difficult to maintain business and operational relationships; the substantial amount of debt expected to be incurred in connection with the merger and CECOs ability to repay or refinance it, incur additional debt in the future or obtain a certain debt coverage ratio; diversion of management time from each of CECOs and PMFGs ongoing operations; the impact of federal, state or local government regulations; and the effect of competition in the air pollution control and industrial ventilation industry.
These and other risks and uncertainties are discussed in more detail in CECOs and PMFGs current and future filings with the SEC, including the final prospectus/proxy statement under the heading Risk Factors, which was filed by each of CECO and PMFG on July 31, 2015, CECOs Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2014 under the heading Item 1A. Risk Factors, which was filed with the SEC on March 18, 2015 and PMFGs Annual Report on Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended June 28, 2014 under the heading Item 1A. Risk Factors, which was filed with the SEC on September 10, 2014. Many of these risks are beyond managements ability to control or predict. Should one or more of these risks or uncertainties materialize, or should the assumptions prove incorrect, actual results may vary in material aspects from those currently anticipated. Investors are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements as they speak only as of the date the statement is made. All forward-looking statements attributable to CECO or PMFG or persons acting on behalf of either CECO or PMFG are expressly qualified in their entirety by the cautionary statements and risk factors contained in this Current Report on Form 8-K and CECOs and PMFGs respective filings with the SEC. Forward-looking statements speak only as of the date they are made. Except as required under the federal securities laws or the rules and regulations of the SEC, neither CECO nor PMFG undertakes any obligation to update or review any forward-looking statement or information, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as required by law.
Item 9.01. | Financial Statements and Exhibits. |
(a) Financial statements of businesses acquired.
Any financial statements required by Item 9.01(a) will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission by amendment to this Current Report on Form 8-K not later than 71 days after the date on which this Current Report on Form 8-K is required to be filed.
(b) Pro forma financial information.
Any pro forma financial information required by Item 9.01(b) will be filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission by amendment to this Current Report on Form 8-K not later than 71 days after the date on which this Current Report on Form 8-K is required to be filed.
(d) Exhibits.
Exhibit No. |
Description | |
2.1 | Agreement and Plan of Merger by and among PMFG, Inc., CECO Environmental Corp., Top Gear Acquisition Inc. and Top Gear Acquisition II LLC, dated as of May 3, 2015. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 2.1 to the Form 8-K filed by CECO Environmental Corp. with the SEC on May 4, 2015).* | |
10.1 | Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of September 3, 2015, among CECO Environmental Corp. and certain of its subsidiaries, the Lenders party thereto, and Bank of America, N.A. | |
10.2 | Company Guaranty Agreement, dated August 27, 2013 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 of the CECO Environmental Corp.s Form 8-K filed with the SEC on August 30, 2013). | |
10.3 | Subsidiary Guaranty Agreement, dated August 27, 2013 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 of the CECO Environmental Corp.s Form 8-K filed with the SEC on August 30, 2013). | |
10.4 | Security Agreement, dated August 27, 2013 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.4 of the CECO Environmental Corp.s Form 8-K filed with the SEC on August 30, 2013). | |
10.5 | Securities Pledge Agreement, dated August 27, 2013. | |
10.6 | Second Amended and Restated CECO Environmental Corp. 2007 Equity Incentive Plan. |
* | Schedules and exhibits have been omitted pursuant to item 601(b)(2) of Regulation S-K. The Registrant agrees to furnish supplementally to the Securities and Exchange Commission a copy of any omitted schedule or exhibit upon request. |
Signatures
Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.
Date: September 3, 2015 | CECO ENVIRONMENTAL CORP. | |||||||
By: | /s/ Edward J. Prajzner | |||||||
Edward J. Prajzner Chief Financial Officer and Secretary |
EXHIBIT INDEX
Exhibit No. |
Description | |
2.1 | Agreement and Plan of Merger by and among PMFG, Inc., CECO Environmental Corp., Top Gear Acquisition Inc. and Top Gear Acquisition II LLC, dated as of May 3, 2015. (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 2.1 to the Form 8-K filed by CECO Environmental Corp. with the SEC on May 4, 2015).* | |
10.1 | Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of September 3, 2015, among CECO Environmental Corp. and certain of its subsidiaries, the Lenders party thereto, and Bank of America, N.A. | |
10.2 | Company Guaranty Agreement, dated August 27, 2013 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.2 of the CECO Environmental Corp.s Form 8-K filed with the SEC on August 30, 2013). | |
10.3 | Subsidiary Guaranty Agreement, dated August 27, 2013 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.3 of the CECO Environmental Corp.s Form 8-K filed with the SEC on August 30, 2013). | |
10.4 | Security Agreement, dated August 27, 2013 (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.4 of the CECO Environmental Corp.s Form 8-K filed with the SEC on August 30, 2013). | |
10.5 | Securities Pledge Agreement, dated August 27, 2013. | |
10.6 | Second Amended and Restated CECO Environmental Corp. 2007 Equity Incentive Plan. |
* | Schedules and exhibits have been omitted pursuant to item 601(b)(2) of Regulation S-K. The Registrant agrees to furnish supplementally to the Securities and Exchange Commission a copy of any omitted schedule or exhibit upon request. |
Exhibit 10.1
Execution Version
Published Deal CUSIP Number: 12514DAA3
Published Revolving Credit (USD) Facility CUSIP Number: 12514DAB1
Published Revolving Credit (MC) Facility CUSIP Number: 12514DAD7
Published Term Loan Facility CUSIP Number: 12514DAE5
AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT
Dated as of September 3, 2015
among
CECO ENVIRONMENTAL CORP.,
and
CERTAIN SUBSIDIARIES
as Borrowers,
THE LENDERS PARTY HERETO,
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A.,
as Administrative Agent, Swing Line Lender
and
an L/C Issuer,
CITIZENS BANK OF PENNSYLVANIA
and
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A.,
as Co-Syndication Agents,
FIFTH THIRD BANK,
as Documentation Agent,
and
MERRILL LYNCH, PIERCE, FENNER & SMITH INCORPORATED,
as Sole Lead Arranger and Sole Bookrunner,
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I. |
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DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS |
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1.01 |
Defined Terms | 1 | ||||
1.02 |
Other Interpretive Provisions | 40 | ||||
1.03 |
Accounting Terms | 41 | ||||
1.04 |
Rounding | 42 | ||||
1.05 |
Times of Day | 42 | ||||
1.06 |
Letter of Credit Amounts | 42 | ||||
1.07 |
Adjustments for Specified Transactions | 42 | ||||
1.08 |
Exchange Rates; Currency Equivalents | 43 | ||||
1.09 |
Additional Alternative Currencies | 43 | ||||
1.10 |
Change of Currency | 44 | ||||
ARTICLE II. |
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THE COMMITMENTS AND CREDIT EXTENSIONS |
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2.01 |
Loans | 45 | ||||
2.02 |
Borrowings, Conversions and Continuations of Loans | 46 | ||||
2.03 |
Letters of Credit | 48 | ||||
2.04 |
Swing Line Loans | 58 | ||||
2.05 |
Prepayments | 61 | ||||
2.06 |
Termination or Reduction of Revolving Credit (USD) Commitments or Revolving Credit (MC) Commitments | 65 | ||||
2.07 |
Repayment of Loans | 65 | ||||
2.08 |
Interest | 66 | ||||
2.09 |
Fees | 67 | ||||
2.10 |
Computation of Interest and Fees; Retroactive Adjustments of Applicable Rate | 68 | ||||
2.11 |
Evidence of Debt | 69 | ||||
2.12 |
Payments Generally; Administrative Agents Clawback | 69 | ||||
2.13 |
Sharing of Payments by Lenders | 71 | ||||
2.14 |
Designated Borrowers | 72 | ||||
2.15 |
Increase Option | 74 | ||||
2.16 |
Cash Collateral | 77 | ||||
2.17 |
Defaulting Lenders | 78 | ||||
ARTICLE III. |
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TAXES, YIELD PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY |
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3.01 |
Taxes | 81 | ||||
3.02 |
Illegality | 86 | ||||
3.03 |
Inability to Determine Rates | 86 | ||||
3.04 |
Increased Costs; Reserves on Eurocurrency Rate Loans | 87 | ||||
3.05 |
Compensation for Losses | 89 | ||||
3.06 |
Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders | 90 | ||||
3.07 |
Survival | 90 |
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CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO CREDIT EXTENSIONS |
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4.01 |
Conditions of Initial Credit Extension | 90 | ||||
4.02 |
Conditions to all Credit Extensions | 96 | ||||
ARTICLE V. |
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REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES |
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5.01 |
Existence, Qualification and Power | 97 | ||||
5.02 |
Authorization; No Contravention | 97 | ||||
5.03 |
Governmental Authorization; Other Consents | 97 | ||||
5.04 |
Binding Effect | 97 | ||||
5.05 |
Financial Statements; No Material Adverse Effect | 98 | ||||
5.06 |
Litigation | 98 | ||||
5.07 |
No Default | 99 | ||||
5.08 |
Ownership of Property; Liens | 99 | ||||
5.09 |
Environmental Compliance | 99 | ||||
5.10 |
Insurance | 99 | ||||
5.11 |
Taxes | 99 | ||||
5.12 |
ERISA Compliance | 99 | ||||
5.13 |
Subsidiaries; Equity Investments; Loan Parties | 101 | ||||
5.14 |
Margin Regulations; Investment Company Act | 101 | ||||
5.15 |
Disclosure | 101 | ||||
5.16 |
Compliance with Laws | 102 | ||||
5.17 |
Intellectual Property; Licenses, Etc | 102 | ||||
5.18 |
OFAC | 102 | ||||
5.19 |
Solvency | 102 | ||||
5.20 |
Casualty, Etc | 102 | ||||
5.21 |
Labor Matters | 102 | ||||
5.22 |
Collateral Documents | 102 | ||||
5.23 |
Representations as to Foreign Obligors | 103 | ||||
5.24 |
Anti-Corruption Laws; Sanctions; Use of Proceeds | 104 | ||||
ARTICLE VI. |
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AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS |
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6.01 |
Financial Statements | 104 | ||||
6.02 |
Certificates; Other Information | 105 | ||||
6.03 |
Notices | 107 | ||||
6.04 |
Payment of Obligations | 108 | ||||
6.05 |
Preservation of Existence, Etc | 108 | ||||
6.06 |
Maintenance of Properties | 108 | ||||
6.07 |
Maintenance of Insurance | 108 | ||||
6.08 |
Compliance with Laws | 108 | ||||
6.09 |
Books and Records | 109 | ||||
6.10 |
Inspection Rights | 109 | ||||
6.11 |
Use of Proceeds | 109 |
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6.12 |
Additional Subsidiaries and Real Property | 109 | ||||
6.13 |
Compliance with Environmental Laws | 112 | ||||
6.14 |
Further Assurances | 112 | ||||
6.15 |
Approvals and Authorizations | 113 | ||||
6.16 |
Anti-Corruption Laws | 113 | ||||
ARTICLE VII. |
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NEGATIVE COVENANTS |
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7.01 |
Liens | 113 | ||||
7.02 |
Investments | 114 | ||||
7.03 |
Indebtedness | 116 | ||||
7.04 |
Fundamental Changes | 117 | ||||
7.05 |
Dispositions | 117 | ||||
7.06 |
Restricted Payments | 118 | ||||
7.07 |
Change in Nature of Business | 118 | ||||
7.08 |
Transactions with Affiliates | 118 | ||||
7.09 |
Burdensome Agreements | 119 | ||||
7.10 |
Use of Proceeds | 119 | ||||
7.11 |
Financial Covenants | 119 | ||||
7.12 |
Amendment or Modification of Organization Documents | 120 | ||||
7.13 |
Accounting Changes | 120 | ||||
7.14 |
Amendment, Etc. of Closing Date Acquisition Documents | 120 | ||||
7.15 |
Interest Rate Protection | 120 | ||||
ARTICLE VIII. |
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EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES |
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8.01 |
Events of Default | 120 | ||||
8.02 |
Remedies Upon Event of Default | 123 | ||||
8.03 |
Application of Funds | 123 | ||||
ARTICLE IX. |
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ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT |
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9.01 |
Appointment and Authority | 124 | ||||
9.02 |
Rights as a Lender | 125 | ||||
9.03 |
Exculpatory Provisions | 125 | ||||
9.04 |
Reliance by Administrative Agent | 126 | ||||
9.05 |
Delegation of Duties | 127 | ||||
9.06 |
Resignation of Administrative Agent | 127 | ||||
9.07 |
Non-Reliance on Administrative Agent and Other Lenders | 128 | ||||
9.08 |
No Other Duties, Etc | 128 | ||||
9.09 |
Administrative Agent May File Proofs of Claim; Credit Bidding | 129 | ||||
9.10 |
Collateral and Guaranty Matters | 130 | ||||
9.11 |
Secured Cash Management Agreements and Secured Hedging Agreements | 131 |
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ARTICLE X. |
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MISCELLANEOUS |
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10.01 |
Amendments, Etc | 131 | ||||
10.02 |
Notices; Effectiveness; Electronic Communication | 133 | ||||
10.03 |
No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies; Enforcement | 135 | ||||
10.04 |
Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver | 136 | ||||
10.05 |
Payments Set Aside | 138 | ||||
10.06 |
Successors and Assigns | 139 | ||||
10.07 |
Treatment of Certain Information; Confidentiality | 144 | ||||
10.08 |
Right of Setoff | 145 | ||||
10.09 |
Interest Rate Limitation | 145 | ||||
10.10 |
Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness | 146 | ||||
10.11 |
Survival of Representations and Warranties | 146 | ||||
10.12 |
Severability | 146 | ||||
10.13 |
Replacement of Lenders | 146 | ||||
10.14 |
Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Etc | 147 | ||||
10.15 |
Waiver of Jury Trial | 148 | ||||
10.16 |
No Advisory or Fiduciary Responsibility | 149 | ||||
10.17 |
Electronic Execution of Assignments and Certain Other Documents | 149 | ||||
10.18 |
USA PATRIOT Act | 150 | ||||
10.19 |
Keepwell | 150 | ||||
10.20 |
Judgment Currency | 150 | ||||
SIGNATURES | S-1 |
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SCHEDULES |
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1.01A |
Closing Date Mortgaged Property | |||
1.01B |
Existing Letters of Credit | |||
1.01C |
Consolidated EBITDA Adjustments for Specified 2014 Acquisitions and Closing Date Acquisition | |||
2.01 |
Commitments and Applicable Percentages | |||
2.07(a) |
Term Loan Facility Amortization Schedule | |||
5.05(b) |
Supplement to Interim Financial Statements | |||
5.12(d) |
Pension Plans | |||
5.13 |
Subsidiaries; Equity Investments; Loan Parties | |||
5.21 |
Collective Bargaining Agreements and Multiemployer Plans | |||
7.01 |
Existing Liens | |||
7.02 |
Existing Investments | |||
7.03 |
Existing Indebtedness | |||
10.02 |
Administrative Agents Office; Certain Addresses for Notices | |||
EXHIBITS |
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Form of |
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A |
Loan Notice | |||
B |
Swing Line Loan Notice | |||
C-1 |
Revolving Credit (USD) Note | |||
C-2 |
Term Loan Note | |||
C-3 |
Revolving Credit (MC) Note | |||
D |
Compliance Certificate | |||
E |
Assignment and Assumption | |||
F |
U.S. Tax Compliance Certificates | |||
G |
Letters of Credit Report | |||
H |
Designated Borrower Request and Assumption Agreement | |||
I |
Designated Borrower Notice | |||
J |
Notice of Loan Prepayment |
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AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT
This AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT (this Agreement) is entered into as of September 3, 2015, among CECO ENVIRONMENTAL CORP., a Delaware corporation (the Company), certain Subsidiaries of the Company party hereto pursuant to Section 2.14 (each a Designated Borrower and, together with the Company, the Borrowers and, each a Borrower), each lender from time to time party hereto (collectively, the Lenders and individually, a Lender), BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as Administrative Agent, Swing Line Lender and an L/C Issuer, and each other L/C Issuer from time to time party hereto.
RECITALS:
A. The Borrowers, the lenders party thereto and the Administrative Agent have entered into that certain Credit Agreement, dated as of August 27, 2013 (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified prior to the date hereof, the Existing Credit Agreement).
B. The Borrowers have requested, and subject to the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders have agreed to amend and restate the Existing Credit Agreement and extend certain credit facilities to the Borrowers.
In consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements herein contained, the parties hereto covenant and agree as follows:
ARTICLE I.
DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS
1.01 Defined Terms. As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth below:
Aarding means Aarding Thermal Acoustics B.V., a private limited company organized in the Netherlands.
Acquisition means, by any Person, the acquisition by such Person, in a single transaction or in a series of related transactions, of (a) more than 50% of the voting Equity Interests of another Person (including the purchase of an option, warrant or convertible or similar type security to acquire such a controlling interest at the time it becomes exercisable by the holder thereof), whether by purchase of such Equity Interest or upon exercise of an option or warrant for, or conversion of securities into, such Equity Interest, or (b) assets of another Person which constitute all or substantially all of the assets of such Person, a division of such Person or a line or lines of business conducted by such Person.
Act has the meaning specified in Section 10.18.
Additional Commitment has the meaning set forth in Section 2.15(a).
Additional Commitments Amendment has the meaning set forth in Section 2.15(d).
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Additional Commitments Closing Date has the meaning set forth in Section 2.15(f).
Additional Commitments Effective Date has the meaning set forth in Section 2.15(e).
Additional Lenders has the meaning set forth in Section 2.15(c).
Additional Loans has the meaning set forth in Section 2.15(a).
Additional Term Loans has the meaning set forth in Section 2.15(a).
Administrative Agent means Bank of America, in its capacity as administrative agent under any of the Loan Documents, or any successor administrative agent.
Administrative Agents Office means, with respect to any currency, the Administrative Agents address and, as appropriate, account as set forth on Schedule 10.02 with respect to such currency, or such other address or account with respect to such currency as the Administrative Agent hereafter may designate by written notice to the Company and the Lenders.
Administrative Questionnaire means an Administrative Questionnaire in substantially the form provided by the Administrative Agent or any other form approved by the Administrative Agent.
Affiliate means, with respect to a specified 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.
Aggregate Commitments means the Commitments of all the Lenders.
Aggregate Revolving Credit (MC) Commitments means the Revolving Credit (MC) Commitments of all the Revolving Credit (MC) Lenders.
Aggregate Revolving Credit (USD) Commitments means the Revolving Credit (USD) Commitments of all Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders.
Agreement means this Credit Agreement.
Alternative Currency means (a) with respect to the Revolving Credit (MC) Facility, Euro and each other currency (other than Dollars) that is approved in accordance with Section 1.09 with respect to such Facility and (b) with respect to Letters of Credit issued by any L/C Issuer pursuant to the Revolving Credit (USD) Facility, Euro, Rupees and each other currency (other than Dollars) that is approved in accordance with Section 1.09 with respect to such L/C Issuer and such Facility.
Alternative Currency Equivalent means, at any time, with respect to any amount denominated in Dollars, the equivalent amount thereof in the applicable Alternative Currency as determined by the Administrative Agent or the applicable L/C Issuer, as the case may be, at such time on the basis of the Spot Rate (determined in respect of the most recent Revaluation Date) for the purchase of such Alternative Currency with Dollars.
Applicable Excess Cash Flow Percentage has the meaning assigned thereto in Section 2.05(b)(iv).
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Applicable Percentage means (a) in respect of the Term Loan Facility, with respect to any Term Loan Lender at any time, the percentage (carried out to the ninth decimal place) of the Term Loan Facility represented by (i) on or prior to the funding of its Term Loan on the Closing Date, the sum of such Lenders Term Loan Commitment at such time plus the principal amount of such Term Loan Lenders Term Loan outstanding at such time and (ii) thereafter, the aggregate principal amount of such Term Loan Lenders Term Loans outstanding at such time, (b) in respect of the Revolving Credit (USD) Facility, with respect to any Revolving Credit (USD) Lender at any time, the percentage (carried out to the ninth decimal place) of the Aggregate Revolving Credit (USD) Commitments represented by such Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders Revolving Credit (USD) Commitment at such time, in each case, subject to adjustment as provided in Section 2.17, and (c) in respect of the Revolving Credit (MC) Facility, with respect to any Revolving Credit (MC) Lender at any time, the percentage (carried out to the ninth decimal place) of the Aggregate Revolving Credit (MC) Commitments represented by such Revolving Credit (MC) Lenders Revolving Credit (MC) Commitment at such time. If the commitment of each Revolving Credit (USD) Lender to make Revolving Credit (USD) Loans and the obligation of each L/C Issuer to make L/C Credit Extensions have been terminated, or if the Aggregate Revolving Credit (USD) Commitments have expired, then the Applicable Percentage of each Revolving Credit (USD) Lender in respect of the Revolving Credit (USD) Facility shall be determined based on the Applicable Percentage of such Revolving Credit (USD) Lender in respect of the Revolving Credit (USD) Facility most recently in effect, giving effect to any subsequent assignments. If the commitment of each Revolving Credit (MC) Lender to make Revolving Credit (MC) Loans has been terminated, or if the Aggregate Revolving Credit (MC) Commitments have expired, then the Applicable Percentage of each Revolving Credit (MC) Lender in respect of the Revolving Credit (MC) Facility shall be determined based on the Applicable Percentage of such Revolving Credit (MC) Lender in respect of the Revolving Credit (MC) Facility most recently in effect, giving effect to any subsequent assignments. On and after the Closing Date, the initial Applicable Percentage of each Lender in respect of each Facility is set forth opposite the name of such Lender on Schedule 2.01 or in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender becomes a party hereto, as applicable.
Applicable Rate means the following percentages per annum, based upon the Consolidated Leverage Ratio as set forth in the most recent Compliance Certificate received by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 6.02(a):
Pricing Level |
Consolidated Leverage Ratio |
Commitment Fee |
Eurocurrency Rate Letter of Credit Fee |
Base Rate Loans |
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Less than 1.75 to 1.00 | 0.250 | % | 2.000 | % | 1.000 | % | |||||||
II |
Greater than or equal to 1.75 to 1.00 but less than 2.25 to 1.00 | 0.300 | % | 2.250 | % | 1.250 | % | |||||||
III |
Greater than or equal to 2.25 to 1.00 but less than 2.75 to 1.00 | 0.350 | % | 2.500 | % | 1.500 | % | |||||||
IV |
Greater than or equal to 2.75 to 1.00 but less than 3.25 to 1.00 | 0.450 | % | 2.750 | % | 1.750 | % | |||||||
V |
Greater than or equal to 3.25 to 1.00 | 0.500 | % | 3.000 | % | 2.000 | % |
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Any increase or decrease in the Applicable Rate resulting from a change in the Consolidated Leverage Ratio shall become effective as of the first Business Day immediately following the date a Compliance Certificate is delivered pursuant to Section 6.02(a); provided, however, that if a Compliance Certificate is not delivered when due in accordance with such Section, then, upon the request of the Required Term Loan Lenders (in the case of the Term Loan Facility), the Required Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders (in the case of the Revolving Credit (USD) Facility) or the Required Revolving Credit (MC) Lenders (in the case of the Revolving Credit (MC) Facility), as the case may be, Pricing Level V shall apply in respect of the Term Loan Facility, the Revolving Credit (USD) Facility and the Revolving Credit (MC) Facility, as applicable, in each case as of the first Business Day after the date on which such Compliance Certificate was required to have been delivered until the first Business Day after such Compliance Certificate is delivered. The Applicable Rate in effect from the Closing Date until the first Business Day following the delivery of the Compliance Certificate for the fiscal quarter ending September 30, 2015, shall be determined based upon Pricing Level IV.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this definition, the determination of the Applicable Rate for any period shall be subject to the provisions of Section 2.10(b).
Applicable Revolving Credit (USD) Percentage means with respect to any Revolving Credit (USD) Lender at any time, such Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders Applicable Percentage in respect of the Revolving Credit (USD) Facility at such time.
Applicable Time means, with respect to any borrowings and payments in any Alternative Currency, the local time in the place of settlement for such Alternative Currency as may be determined by the Administrative Agent or the applicable L/C Issuer, as the case may be, to be necessary for timely settlement on the relevant date in accordance with normal banking procedures in the place of payment.
Applicant Borrower has the meaning specified in Section 2.14.
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.
Arranger means Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner & Smith Incorporated, in its capacity as sole lead arranger and sole bookrunner.
Assignment and Assumption means an assignment and assumption entered into by a Lender and an assignee (with the consent of any party whose consent is required by Section 10.06(b)), and accepted by the Administrative Agent, in substantially the form of Exhibit E or any other form (including electronic documentation generated by MarkitClear or other electronic platform) approved by the Administrative Agent.
ATA Beheer means ATA Beheer B.V., a private limited company organized in the Netherlands.
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ATA Beheer Earn-Outs means the earn-out payments made pursuant to Section 3.4 of the Share Purchase Agreement dated as of February 28, 2013 between N.F.J.A. Pieterse Beheer B.V. and W.M. Pranger Beheer B.V., as Sellers, and CECO Environmental, as Purchaser, and the Company, as Guarantor, related to the acquisition of ATA Beheer and its Subsidiaries.
Attributable Indebtedness means, on any date, (a) in respect of any capital 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, and (b) in respect of any Synthetic Lease Obligation, the capitalized amount of the remaining lease payments under the relevant lease that would appear on a balance sheet of such Person prepared as of such date in accordance with GAAP if such lease were accounted for as a capital lease.
Audited Financial Statements means the audited consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its Subsidiaries for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2014, and the related consolidated statements of income or operations, shareholders equity and cash flows for such fiscal year of the Company and its Subsidiaries, including the notes thereto.
Availability Period means (a) in the case of the Revolving Credit (USD) Facility, the period from and including the Closing Date to the earliest of (i) the Maturity Date, (ii) the date of termination of the Aggregate Revolving Credit (USD) Commitments pursuant to Section 2.06, and (iii) the date of termination of the commitment of each Revolving Credit (USD) Lender to make Revolving Credit (USD) Loans and of the obligation of each L/C Issuer to make L/C Credit Extensions pursuant to Section 8.02 and (b) in the case of the Revolving Credit (MC) Facility, the period from and including the Closing Date to the earliest of (i) the Maturity Date, (ii) the date of termination of the Aggregate Revolving Credit (MC) Commitments pursuant to Section 2.06, and (iii) the date of termination of the commitment of each Revolving Credit (MC) Lender to make Revolving Credit (MC) Loans pursuant to Section 8.02.
Bank of America means Bank of America, N.A. and its successors.
Base Rate means for any day a fluctuating rate per annum equal to the highest of (a) the Federal Funds Rate plus 1/2 of 1%, (b) the rate of interest in effect for such day as publicly announced from time to time by Bank of America as its prime rate, and (c) the Eurocurrency Rate plus 1.00%. The prime rate is a rate set by Bank of America 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.
Base Rate Loan means a Loan that bears interest based on the Base Rate. All Base Rate Loans shall be denominated in Dollars.
Base Rate Revolving Credit (USD) Loan means a Revolving Credit (USD) Loan that is a Base Rate Loan.
Borrower and Borrowers each has the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph hereto.
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Borrower Materials has the meaning specified in Section 6.02.
Borrowing means a Revolving Credit (USD) Borrowing, a Revolving Credit (MC) Borrowing, a Swing Line Borrowing or a Term Loan Borrowing, as the context may require.
Business Day means any day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks are authorized to close under the Laws of, or are in fact closed in, the state where the Administrative Agents Office with respect to Obligations denominated in Dollars is located and:
(a) if such day relates to any interest rate settings as to a Eurocurrency Rate Loan denominated in Dollars, any fundings, disbursements, settlements and payments in Dollars in respect of any such Eurocurrency Rate Loan, or any other dealings in Dollars to be carried out pursuant to this Agreement in respect of any such Eurocurrency Rate Loan, means any London Banking Day;
(b) if such day relates to any interest rate settings as to a Eurocurrency Rate Loan denominated in Euro, any fundings, disbursements, settlements and payments in Euro in respect of any such Eurocurrency Rate Loan, or any other dealings in Euro to be carried out pursuant to this Agreement in respect of any such Eurocurrency Rate Loan, means a TARGET Day;
(c) if such day relates to any interest rate settings as to a Eurocurrency Rate Loan denominated in a currency other than Dollars or Euro, means any such day on which dealings in deposits in the relevant currency are conducted by and between banks in the London or other applicable offshore interbank market for such currency; and
(d) if such day relates to any fundings, disbursements, settlements and payments in a currency other than Dollars or Euro in respect of a Eurocurrency Rate Loan denominated in a currency other than Dollars or Euro, or any other dealings in any currency other than Dollars or Euro to be carried out pursuant to this Agreement in respect of any such Eurocurrency Rate Loan (other than any interest rate settings), means any such day on which banks are open for foreign exchange business in the principal financial center of the country of such currency.
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).
Cash Collateralize means to pledge and deposit with or deliver to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of one or more of the L/C Issuers or the Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders, as collateral for L/C Obligations or obligations of the Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders to fund participations in respect of L/C Obligations, cash or deposit account balances or, if the Administrative Agent and the L/C Issuers shall agree in their sole discretion, other credit support, in each case pursuant to documentation in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to (a) the Administrative Agent and (b) the L/C Issuers. Cash Collateral shall have a meaning correlative to the foregoing and shall include the proceeds of such cash collateral and other credit support.
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Cash Equivalents means any of the following types of Investments:
(a) readily marketable obligations issued or directly and fully guaranteed or insured by the United States or any agency or instrumentality thereof having maturities of not more than 360 days from the date of acquisition thereof; provided that the full faith and credit of the United States is pledged in support thereof;
(b) time deposits with, or insured certificates of deposit or bankers acceptances of, any commercial bank that (i) (A) is a Lender or (B) is organized under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia or is the principal banking subsidiary of a bank holding company organized under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia, and is a member of the Federal Reserve System, (ii) issues (or the parent of which issues) commercial paper rated as described in clause (c) of this definition and (iii) has combined capital and surplus of at least $1,000,000,000, in each case with maturities of not more than 90 days from the date of acquisition thereof;
(c) commercial paper issued by any Person organized under the laws of any state of the United States and 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, in each case with maturities of not more than 180 days from the date of acquisition thereof; and
(d) Investments, classified in accordance with GAAP as current assets of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, in money market investment programs registered under the Investment Company Act of 1940, which are administered by financial institutions that have the highest rating obtainable from either Moodys or S&P, and the portfolios of which are limited solely to Investments of the character, quality and maturity described in clauses (a), (b) and (c) of this definition.
Cash Management Agreement means any agreement to provide treasury or cash management services, including deposit accounts, overnight draft, credit cards, debit cards, p-cards (including purchasing cards and commercial cards), funds transfer, automated clearinghouse, zero balance accounts, returned check concentration, controlled disbursement, lockbox, account reconciliation and reporting and trade finance services and other cash management services (including any Treasury Management Agreement).
Cash Management Bank means any Person in its capacity as a party to a Cash Management Agreement that, (a) at the time it enters into a Cash Management Agreement with a Loan Party, is a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender, or (b) at the time it (or its Affiliate) becomes a Lender, is a party to a Cash Management Agreement with a Loan Party, in each case in its capacity as a party to such Cash Management Agreement (even if such Person ceases to be a Lender or such Persons Affiliate ceased to be a Lender).
CECO Environmental means CECO Environmental Netherlands B.V., a private limited company organized in the Netherlands.
Change in Law means the occurrence, after the date of this Agreement, of any of the following: (a) the adoption, phase-in 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,
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implementation or application thereof by any Governmental Authority or (c) the making or issuance of any request, rule, guideline or directive (whether or not having the force of law) by any Governmental Authority; provided that notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (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 or foreign regulatory authorities, in each case pursuant to Basel III, shall in each case be deemed to be a Change in Law, regardless of the date enacted, adopted or issued.
Change of Control means an event or series of events by which:
(a) any person or group (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, but excluding any employee benefit plan of such person or 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 the Specified Existing Shareholders) becomes the beneficial owner (as defined in Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, except that a person or group shall be deemed to have beneficial ownership of all securities that such person or group has the right to acquire, whether such right is exercisable immediately or only after the passage of time (such right, an option right)), directly or indirectly, of 35% or more of the equity securities of the Company entitled to vote for members of the board of directors or equivalent governing body of the Company on a fully-diluted basis (and taking into account all such securities that such person or group has the right to acquire pursuant to any option right);
(b) during any period of 12 consecutive months, a majority of the members of the board of directors or other equivalent governing body of the Company cease to be composed of individuals (i) who were members of that board or equivalent governing body on the first day of such period, (ii) whose election or nomination to that board or equivalent governing body was approved by individuals referred to in clause (i) above constituting at the time of such election or nomination at least a majority of that board or equivalent governing body or (iii) whose election or nomination to that board or other equivalent governing body was approved by individuals referred to in clauses (i) and (ii) above constituting at the time of such election or nomination at least a majority of that board or equivalent governing body (such individuals, the Continuing Directors); or
(c) the passage of thirty days from the date upon which any Person or two or more Persons (other than one or more of the Specified Existing Shareholders) acting in concert shall have acquired by contract or otherwise, or shall have entered into a contract or arrangement that, upon consummation thereof, will result in its or their acquisition of the power to exercise, directly or indirectly, a controlling influence over the management or policies of the Company, or control over the equity securities of the Company entitled to vote for members of the board of directors or equivalent governing body of the Company on a fully-diluted basis (and taking into account all such securities that such Person or Persons have the right to acquire pursuant to any option right) representing 35% or more of the combined voting power of such securities.
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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 10.01.
Closing Date Acquisition means the Acquisition of the Target and its Subsidiaries as more specifically described in the Closing Date Purchase Agreement.
Closing Date Acquisition Documents means the Closing Date Purchase Agreement and all other material documents executed between or among the Company and its Subsidiaries and the Target and its Subsidiaries in connection with the Closing Date Acquisition.
Closing Date Material Adverse Effect means (a) any event, change, effect or occurrence that has a material adverse effect on the business, assets, liabilities, results of operations or financial condition of the Target and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, as applicable, or (b) a material adverse effect on the ability of the Target or the Company, the Merger Sub (as defined in the Closing Date Purchase Agreement) or Successor Sub (as defined in the Closing Date Purchase Agreement), as applicable, to consummate the transactions contemplated by the Closing Date Purchase Agreement; provided, however, that none of the following, and no event, change, effect or occurrence arising out of or resulting from the following, shall constitute a Closing Date Material Adverse Effect or be considered in determining whether a Closing Date Material Adverse Effect has occurred or would be reasonably likely to occur: (i) the public announcement or the pendency of the Closing Date Purchase Agreement or the transactions contemplated thereby or any actions required to be taken (or refrained from being taken) in compliance therewith, (ii) changes in the economy, financial markets or economic conditions generally in the United States and/or in any other country in which the Target and its Subsidiaries or the Company and its Subsidiaries, as applicable, conduct operations, (iii) any failure by the Target or the Company, as applicable, to meet any projections or forecasts for any period ending (or for which revenues or earnings are released) on or after the date of the Closing Date Purchase Agreement; provided, however, that the exception in this clause (iii) shall not apply to the underlying causes giving rise to or contributing to any such failure or prevent any of such underlying causes from being taken into account in determining whether a Closing Date Material Adverse Effect has occurred, (iv) changes in GAAP or in any applicable Law (or the interpretation thereof) after the date of the Closing Date Purchase Agreement, (v) changes generally affecting the industries in which the Target or the Company, as applicable, operate, or (vi) any outbreak, escalation or occurrence after the date of the Closing Date Purchase Agreement of significant hostilities in which the United States or any other jurisdiction in which the Target or the Company, as applicable, or its Subsidiaries have material operations is involved, or any outbreak, escalation or occurrence of acts of war, terrorism or sabotage within such jurisdictions; provided further that, with respect to clauses (ii), (iv), (v) and (vi), any such event, change, effect or occurrence shall be taken into account to the extent it has a disproportionately adverse effect on the Target and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, or the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, as applicable, compared to other similarly situated participants operating in their respective industries and markets.
Closing Date Purchase Agreement means that certain Agreement and Plan of Merger dated as of May 3, 2015 by and among the Company, the Target, TOP GEAR ACQUISITION INC., a Delaware corporation, and TOP GEAR ACQUISITION II LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, including all schedules and exhibits thereto.
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Closing Date Transaction means, collectively, the Closing Date Acquisition, the repayment in full of the Specified Pay-Off Indebtedness, the execution and delivery of this Agreement and certain other Loan Documents on the Closing Date and the funding of the Loans thereunder on the Closing Date.
Code means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986.
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 all of the Collateral and Mortgaged Property referred to therein.
Collateral Documents means, collectively, each Security Agreement, each Security Joinder Agreement, each Pledge Agreement, each Pledge Joinder Agreement, each Pledge Agreement Supplement, each Mortgage and each of the other security agreements, pledge agreements, mortgages, collateral assignments or other similar 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.
Commitment means a Term Loan Commitment, a Revolving Credit (USD) Commitment or a Revolving Credit (MC) Commitment, as the context may require.
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.
Company has the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph hereto.
Company Guaranty means the Company Guaranty dated as of August 27, 2013, made by the Company in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties.
Competitor means (a) any Person (a Direct Competitor) that is a bona fide direct competitor of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in the same industry or a substantially similar industry which offers a substantially similar product or service as the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, and (b) any Person whose primary business is owning a Direct Competitor.
Compliance Certificate means a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit D.
Connection Income Taxes means Other Connection Taxes that are imposed on or measured by net income (however denominated) or that are franchise Taxes or branch profits Taxes.
Consolidated EBITDA means, for any period, for the Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, subject to Section 1.07, an amount equal to Consolidated Net Income for such period plus (a) the following to the extent deducted in calculating such Consolidated Net Income (without duplication): (i) Consolidated Interest Charges for such period, (ii) the provision for Federal, state, local and foreign income taxes by the Company and its Subsidiaries for such period, (iii) depreciation and amortization expense for such period, (iv) other items reducing Consolidated Net Income that do not constitute a cash charge or cash expense in such
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period or in any future period, including, without limitation, goodwill impairment charges, stock compensation or other stock related charges (excluding amortization of a prepaid cash item that was paid in a prior period), (v) reasonable and documented out-of-pocket fees and expenses incurred in connection with the Specified 2014 Acquisitions; provided that the aggregate amount of such fees and expenses permitted to be added back pursuant to this clause (v) during the term of this Agreement shall not exceed $2,000,000, (vi) ATA Beheer Earn-Outs and any other earn-out and similar payments in connection with Acquisitions permitted hereby that reduced Consolidated Net Income for such period, (vii) any reduction to Consolidated Net Income for such period arising from the retention portion of the purchase price for the acquisition by the Company of ATA Beheer and its subsidiaries; provided that the aggregate amount permitted to be added back pursuant to this clause (vii) shall not exceed $260,000 with respect to any particular fiscal quarter, and (viii) reasonable and documented out-of-pocket fees and expenses incurred in connection with the Closing Date Acquisition Transaction provided that the aggregate amount of such fees and expenses permitted to be added back pursuant to this clause (viii) during the term of this Agreement shall not exceed $11,000,000, and minus (b) the following to the extent included in calculating such Consolidated Net Income: (i) Federal, state, local and foreign income tax credits of the Company and its Subsidiaries for such period and (ii) all non-cash items increasing Consolidated Net Income for such period; provided that, for purposes of calculating the Consolidated Leverage Ratio and the Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio at any time, Consolidated EBITDA for each of the fiscal quarters listed on Schedule 1.01C shall be increased by the amount(s) set forth opposite such fiscal quarter to account for (x) the incremental EBITDA generated by the Person(s) and/or assets acquired pursuant to the applicable Specified 2014 Acquisition and Closing Date Acquisition referenced on Schedule 1.01C prior to the date of consummation of such Specified 2014 Acquisition or Closing Date Acquisition, as applicable, and (y) the expected savings in operating expenses directly attributable to such Specified 2014 Acquisition and Closing Date Acquisition.
Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio means, as of any date of determination, the ratio of (a) the remainder of (i) Consolidated EBITDA for the period of the four fiscal quarters most recently ended minus (ii) Capital Expenditures during such period (excluding (A) Capital Expenditures constituting payments in respect of capital leases and Capital Expenditures financed by Indebtedness permitted hereunder, (B) amounts expended as consideration for Acquisitions permitted hereunder to the extent such amounts would otherwise be included as Capital Expenditures and (C) Capital Expenditures paid for with proceeds of casualty insurance as evidenced in writing and submitted to the Administrative Agent together with any Compliance Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 6.02(a)) minus (iii) Federal, state, local and foreign income taxes paid by the Company and its Subsidiaries during such period to (b) Consolidated Fixed Charges for such period.
Consolidated Fixed Charges means, for any period, for the Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, the sum of (a) Consolidated Interest Charges paid in cash during such period, (b) scheduled principal payments of Consolidated Funded Indebtedness during such period, (c) dividends and distributions paid in cash by the Company to its shareholders during such period, and (d) ATA Beheer Earn-Outs and any other earn-out and similar payments in connection with Acquisitions that are paid in cash during such period.
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Consolidated Funded Indebtedness means, as of any date of determination, for the Company 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 (including Obligations hereunder) and all 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), bankers acceptances, bank guaranties, surety bonds and similar instruments (excluding from such calculation direct obligations with respect to (i) undrawn performance standby letters of credit, (ii) undrawn performance-based bank guarantees and (iii) performance-based surety bonds on which no claims have been asserted, but in all cases including (x) any payment and reimbursement obligations due in respect of the foregoing and (y) all obligations with respect to financial standby letters of credit and bank guarantees or bonds providing assurance with respect to financial obligations), (d) all obligations in respect of the deferred purchase price of property or services (other than (x) trade accounts payable in the ordinary course of business and (y) earn-out and similar payments in connection with Acquisitions permitted hereby), (e) Attributable Indebtedness in respect of capital leases and Synthetic Lease Obligations, (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 Company 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 Company or a Subsidiary is a general partner or joint venturer, unless such Indebtedness is expressly made non-recourse to the Company or such Subsidiary (it being understood that any Indebtedness owed by the Company to any Subsidiary, by any Subsidiary to the Company or by any Subsidiary to another Subsidiary will be netted out for purposes of calculating Consolidated Funded Indebtedness to the extent such netting would be made when making calculations on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP).
Consolidated Interest Charges means, for any period, for the Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, the sum of (a) all interest, premium payments, debt discount, fees, charges and related expenses of the Company and its Subsidiaries in connection with borrowed money (including capitalized interest) or in connection with the deferred purchase price of assets, in each case to the extent treated as interest in accordance with GAAP, and (b) the portion of rent expense of the Company and its Subsidiaries with respect to such period under capital leases that is treated as interest in accordance with GAAP.
Consolidated Leverage Ratio means, as of any date of determination, the ratio of (a) Consolidated Funded Indebtedness as of such date to (b) Consolidated EBITDA for the period of the four fiscal quarters most recently ended.
Consolidated Net Income means, for any period, for the Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis, subject to Section 1.07, the net income (or loss) of the Company and its Subsidiaries for such period determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, but excluding therefrom (to the extent otherwise included therein) (a) any extraordinary gains or losses, (b) any gains attributable to a sale of assets (other than inventory sold in the ordinary course of business) and the write-up of assets, (c) any equity interest of the Company or any Subsidiary of the Company in the unremitted earnings of any Person that is not a Subsidiary, (d) the net income of any Subsidiary to the extent that the declaration or payment of dividends or
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similar distributions by such Subsidiary of such income is not permitted by operation of the terms of its Organization Documents or any agreement, instrument or Law applicable to such Subsidiary, except that the Companys equity in any net loss of any such Subsidiary shall be included in determining Consolidated Net Income and (e) any income (or loss) of any Person accrued prior to the date it becomes a Subsidiary or is merged into or consolidated with the Company or any Subsidiary or the date that such Persons assets are acquired by the Company or any Subsidiary.
Consolidated Total Assets means, as of any date of determination, the net book value of all assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries on such date determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.
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.
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 exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise. Controlling and Controlled have meanings correlative thereto.
Credit Extension means each of the following: (a) a Borrowing and (b) an L/C Credit Extension.
Current Assets means, with respect to the Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis at any date of determination, all assets (other than cash and Cash Equivalents) that would, in accordance with GAAP, be classified on a consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its Subsidiaries as current assets at such date of determination, other than amounts related to current or deferred Taxes based on income, profits, assets held for sale, loans (permitted) to third parties, employee pension benefit plan assets, deferred bank fees and derivative financial instruments.
Current Liabilities means, with respect to the Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis at any date of determination, all liabilities that would, in accordance with GAAP, be classified on a consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its Subsidiaries as current liabilities at such date of determination, other than (a) the current portion of any long term Indebtedness, (b) Revolving Credit (MC) Borrowings, Revolving Credit (USD) Exposure, (c) the current portion of Consolidated Interest Charges, (d) accruals for current or deferred Taxes based on income or profits, (e) accruals of any costs or expenses related to restructuring reserves and (f) deferred revenue.
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.
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.
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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 Rate, if any, applicable to Base Rate Loans plus (iii) 2% per annum; provided, however, that with respect to a Eurocurrency Rate Loan, the Default Rate shall be an interest rate equal to the interest rate (including any Applicable Rate) 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 Rate plus 2% per annum.
Defaulting Lender means, subject to Section 2.17(b), any Lender that (a) has failed to (i) fund all or any portion of its Loans within two Business Days of the date such Loans were required to be funded hereunder unless such Lender notifies the Administrative Agent and the Company in writing that such failure is the result of such Lenders determination that one or more conditions precedent to funding (each of which conditions precedent, together with any applicable default, shall be specifically identified in such writing) has not been satisfied, or (ii) pay to the Administrative Agent, any L/C Issuer, the Swing Line Lender or any other Lender any other amount required to be paid by it hereunder (including, in the case of any Revolving Credit (USD) Lender, in respect of its participation in Letters of Credit or Swing Line Loans) within two Business Days of the date when due, (b) has notified the Company, the Administrative Agent, any L/C Issuer or the Swing Line Lender in writing that it does not intend to comply with its funding obligations hereunder, or has made a public statement to that effect (unless such writing or public statement relates to such Lenders obligation to fund a Loan hereunder and states that such position is based on such Lenders determination that a condition precedent to funding (which condition precedent, together with any applicable default, shall be specifically identified in such writing or public statement) cannot be satisfied), (c) has failed, within three Business Days after written request by the Administrative Agent or the Company, to confirm in writing to the Administrative Agent and the Company that it will comply with its prospective funding obligations hereunder (provided that such Lender shall cease to be a Defaulting Lender pursuant to this clause (c) upon receipt of such written confirmation by the Administrative Agent and the Company), 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, or (ii) had appointed for it a receiver, custodian, conservator, trustee, administrator, assignee for the benefit of creditors or similar Person charged with reorganization or liquidation of its business or assets, including the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other state or federal regulatory authority acting in such a capacity; 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 so long as such ownership interest does not result in or provide such Lender with immunity from the jurisdiction of courts within the United States or from the enforcement of judgments or writs of attachment on its assets or permit such Lender (or such Governmental Authority) to reject, repudiate, disavow or disaffirm any contracts or agreements made with such Lender. Any determination by the Administrative Agent that a Lender is a Defaulting Lender under any one or more of clauses (a) through (d) above, and of the effective date of such status, shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error, and such Lender shall be deemed to be a Defaulting Lender (subject to Section 2.17(b)) as of the date established therefor by the Administrative Agent in a written notice of such determination, which shall be delivered by the Administrative Agent to the Company, each L/C Issuer, the Swing Line Lender and each other Lender promptly following such determination.
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Designated Borrower has the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph hereto.
Designated Borrower Notice has the meaning specified in Section 2.14.
Designated Borrower Request and Assumption Agreement has the meaning specified in Section 2.14.
Designated Jurisdiction means any country or territory to the extent that such country or territory itself is the subject of any Sanction.
Disposition or Dispose means the sale, transfer, license, lease or other disposition (including any sale and leaseback transaction) of any property 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.
Dollar and $ mean lawful money of the United States.
Dollar Equivalent means, at any time, (a) with respect to any amount denominated in Dollars, such amount, and (b) with respect to any amount denominated in any Alternative Currency, the equivalent amount thereof in Dollars as determined by the Administrative Agent or the applicable L/C Issuer, as the case may be, at such time on the basis of the Spot Rate (determined in respect of the most recent Revaluation Date) for the purchase of Dollars with such Alternative Currency.
Domestic Subsidiary means any Subsidiary that is organized under the laws of any political subdivision of the United States.
Eligible Assignee means any Person that meets the requirements to be an assignee under Section 10.06(b)(iii) and (v) (subject to such consents, if any, as may be required under Section 10.06(b)(iii)).
Emtrol Acquisition means the Acquisition of Emtrol LLC, a New York limited liability company consummated on or about November 4, 2014.
Environmental Laws means any and all Federal, state, local, and foreign statutes, laws, regulations, ordinances, rules, judgments, orders, decrees, permits, concessions, grants, franchises, licenses, agreements or governmental restrictions relating to pollution and the protection of the environment or the release of any materials into the environment, including those related to hazardous substances or wastes, air emissions and discharges to waste or public systems.
Environmental Liability means any liability, contingent or otherwise (including any liability for damages, costs of environmental remediation, fines, penalties or indemnities), of the Company, any other Loan Party or any of their respective Subsidiaries directly or indirectly resulting from or based upon (a) violation of any Environmental Law, (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 environment or (e) any contract, agreement or other consensual arrangement pursuant to which liability is assumed or imposed with respect to any of the foregoing.
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Environmental Permit means any permit, approval, identification number, license or other authorization 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.
ERISA means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.
ERISA Affiliate means any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) under common control with the Company within the meaning of Section 414(b) or (c) of the Code (and Sections 414(m) and (o) of the Code for purposes of provisions relating to Section 412 of the Code).
ERISA Event means (a) a Reportable Event with respect to a Pension Plan; (b) the withdrawal of the Company or any ERISA Affiliate from a Pension Plan subject to Section 4063 of ERISA during a plan year in which such entity was a substantial employer as defined in Section 4001(a)(2) of ERISA or a cessation of operations that is treated as such a withdrawal under Section 4062(e) of ERISA; (c) a complete or partial withdrawal by the Company or any ERISA Affiliate from a Multiemployer Plan or notification that a Multiemployer Plan is in reorganization; (d) the filing of a notice of intent to terminate, the treatment of a Pension Plan amendment as a termination under Section 4041 or 4041A of ERISA; (e) the institution by the PBGC of proceedings to terminate a Pension Plan; (f) any 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; (g) the determination that any Pension Plan is considered an at-risk plan or a plan in endangered or critical status within the meaning of Sections 430, 431 and 432 of the Code or Sections 303, 304 and 305 of ERISA; or (h) the imposition of any liability under Title IV of ERISA, other than for PBGC premiums due but not delinquent under Section 4007 of ERISA, upon the Company or any ERISA Affiliate.
Euro and mean the single currency of the Participating Member States.
Eurocurrency Rate means:
(a) for any Interest Period with respect to a Eurocurrency Rate Loan,
(i) in the case of a Eurocurrency Rate Loan denominated in a LIBOR Quoted Currency, the rate per annum equal to the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) or a comparable or successor rate approved by the Administrative Agent, as published on
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the applicable Bloomberg 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 deposits in the relevant currency (for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period) with a term equivalent to such Interest Period; and
(ii) in the case of any other Eurocurrency Rate Loan denominated in a Non-LIBOR Quoted Currency, the rate per annum as designated with respect to such currency at the time such currency was approved by the Administrative Agent and the Lenders pursuant to Section 1.09(a) or, if such rate is unavailable on any date of determination for any reason, a comparable or successor rate approved by the Administrative Agent; and
(b) for any interest calculation with respect to a Base Rate Loan on any date, the rate per annum equal to LIBOR or a comparable or successor rate approved by the Administrative Agent, as published on the applicable Bloomberg 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 determined two Business Days prior to such date for Dollar deposits being delivered in the London interbank market for a term of one month commencing that day;
provided that to the extent a comparable or successor rate is approved by the Administrative Agent in connection with any rate set forth in this definition, the approved rate shall be applied to the applicable Interest Period 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. The Administrative Agent does not warrant, nor accept responsibility, nor shall it have any liability with respect to the administration, submission or any other matter related to LIBOR or any comparable or successor rate referenced in this definition above. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Eurocurrency Rate shall be less than zero, such rate shall be deemed zero for purposes of this Agreement.
Eurocurrency Rate Loan means a Revolving Credit (USD) Loan, a Revolving Credit (MC) Loan or a Term Loan that bears interest at a rate based on clause (a) of the definition of Eurocurrency Rate. Revolving Credit (USD) Loans and Term Loans that are Eurocurrency Rate Loans must be denominated in Dollars. Revolving Credit (MC) Loans that are Eurocurrency Rate Loans may be denominated in Dollars or in an Alternative Currency. All Revolving Credit (MC) Loans denominated in an Alternative Currency must be Eurocurrency Rate Loans.
Event of Default has the meaning specified in Section 8.01.
Excess Cash Flow means, for any fiscal year and without duplication of any of the following to the extent already accounted for in determining Consolidated EBITDA or otherwise deducted in any other item subtracted below, the positive remainder (if any) of (a) Consolidated EBITDA for such fiscal year; minus (b) Consolidated Interest Charges paid in cash during such fiscal year; minus (c) federal, state, local and foreign income taxes (including franchise and
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similar taxes in the nature of income taxes) paid and payable in cash by the Company and its Subsidiaries for such fiscal year; minus (d) Capital Expenditures of the Company and its Subsidiaries during such fiscal year (excluding the portion thereof financed with the proceeds of debt or equity issuances or other proceeds that would not be included in Consolidated EBITDA); minus (e) the aggregate amount of all scheduled payments of Consolidated Funded Indebtedness made during such fiscal year; minus (f) earnout and similar payments paid in cash by Company and its Subsidiaries for such fiscal year in connection with Acquisitions permitted hereby (excluding the portion thereof financed with the proceeds of debt or equity issuances); minus (g) any reasonable, out-of-pocket cash expense of Company and its Subsidiaries incurred in connection with any merger, acquisition, investment or financing permitted by this Agreement, paid during such fiscal year (excluding the portion thereof financed with the proceeds of debt or equity issuances); minus (h) fees and expenses paid or payable in cash to unaffiliated third parties in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby and with any other issuances of debt or equity permitted hereby, whether or not such issuances are successful (excluding the portion thereof financed with the proceeds of debt or equity issuances); minus (i) dividends paid by the Company during such fiscal year in an aggregate amount not to exceed $9,000,000; and (j) plus or minus, as the case may be, changes in Working Capital for such fiscal year; provided, that, notwithstanding the foregoing, the calculation of Excess Cash Flow during any fiscal year that includes a Permitted Acquisition shall exclude the results of operations of the Person or assets subject to such Permitted Acquisition prior to the date such Permitted Acquisition is consummated.
Excluded Subsidiary means a Subsidiary that is neither a Loan Party nor a Material Subsidiary nor a Subsidiary that has been selected by the Company to become a Subsidiary Guarantor (whether pursuant to Section 6.12 or otherwise).
Excluded Swap Obligation means, with respect to any Subsidiary Guarantor, any Swap Obligation if, and to the extent that, all or a portion of the Guarantee of such Subsidiary Guarantor of, or the grant by such Subsidiary Guarantor of a Lien to secure, such Swap Obligation (or any Guarantee 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 thereof) by virtue of such Subsidiary Guarantors failure for any reason to constitute an eligible contract participant as defined in the Commodity Exchange Act (determined after giving effect to Section 10.19 and any other keepwell, support or other agreement for the benefit of such Subsidiary Guarantor and any and all guarantees of such Subsidiary Guarantors Swap Obligations by other Loan Parties) at the time the Guarantee of such Subsidiary Guarantor, or a grant by such Subsidiary Guarantor of a Lien, 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 Guarantee or security interest is or becomes excluded in accordance with the first sentence of this definition.
Excluded Taxes means any of the following Taxes imposed on or with respect to any Recipient or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to a Recipient, (a) Taxes imposed on or measured by net income (however denominated), franchise Taxes, and branch profits Taxes, in each case, (i) imposed as a result of such Recipient being organized under the laws of, or having its principal office or, in the case of any Lender, its Lending Office located in,
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the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (or any political subdivision thereof) or (ii) that are Other Connection Taxes, (b) in the case of a Lender, U.S. federal withholding Taxes imposed on amounts payable to or for the account of such Lender with respect to an applicable interest in a Loan or Commitment pursuant to a law in effect on the date on which (i) such Lender acquires such interest in the Loan or Commitment (other than pursuant to an assignment request by the Company under Section 10.13) or (ii) such Lender changes its Lending Office, except in each case to the extent that, pursuant to Section 3.01(a)(ii), (a)(iii) or (c), amounts with respect to such Taxes were payable either to such Lenders assignor immediately before such Lender became a party hereto or to such Lender immediately before it changed its Lending Office, (c) Taxes attributable to such Recipients failure to comply with Section 3.01(e) and (d) any U.S. federal withholding Taxes imposed pursuant to FATCA.
Existing Credit Agreement is defined in Recital A.
Existing Letters of Credit means those letters of credit described on Schedule 1.01B.
Extraordinary Receipt means any cash received by or paid to or for the account of any Person not in the ordinary course of business, including tax refunds, pension plan reversions, proceeds of insurance (other than proceeds of business interruption insurance to the extent such proceeds constitute compensation for lost earnings), condemnation awards (and payments in lieu thereof), indemnity payments and any purchase price adjustments.
Facility means the Term Loan Facility, the Revolving Credit (USD) Facility or the Revolving Credit (MC) Facility, as the context may require.
Facility Termination Date means the date as of which all of the following shall have occurred: (a) the Aggregate Commitments have terminated, (b) all Obligations have been paid in full (other than (x) contingent indemnification obligations and (y) obligations and liabilities under Secured Cash Management Agreements and Secured Hedge Agreements as to which arrangements reasonably satisfactory to the applicable Cash Management Bank or Hedge Bank shall have been made) and (c) all Letters of Credit have terminated or expired (other than Letters of Credit as to which other arrangements with respect thereto reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the L/C Issuers shall have been made).
FASB ASC means the Accounting Standards Codification of the Financial Accounting Standards Board.
FATCA means Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code, as of the date of this Agreement (or any amended or successor version that is substantively comparable and not materially more onerous to comply with), any current or future regulations or official interpretations thereof and any agreements entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b)(1) of the Code.
Federal Funds Rate means, for any day, the rate per annum equal to the weighted average of the rates on overnight Federal funds transactions with members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by Federal funds brokers on such day, as published by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York on the Business Day next succeeding such day; provided that (a) if such day is not a Business Day, the Federal Funds Rate for such day shall be such rate on such
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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 for such day 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 Agent.
Fee Letters means (a) the letter agreement dated as of May 3, 2015, between the Company and the Arranger, as amended, and (b) the letter agreement dated September 3, 2015, between the Company and Bank of America, as amended.
Foreign/Non-Loan Party Investment Basket means, with respect to any fiscal year, an amount equal to $15,000,000; provided that any portion of the foregoing basket, if not used pursuant to Section 7.02(c)(vi) or 7.02(g)(ii) in the fiscal year for which it is permitted (commencing with the fiscal year ending December 31, 2015), may be carried over for use in the next following fiscal year; it being understood that if any such amount is so carried over, it will be deemed used in the subsequent fiscal year after the foregoing basket for such fiscal year.
Foreign Lender means, with respect to any Borrower, (a) if such Borrower is a U.S. Person, a Lender that is not a U.S. Person, and (b) if such Borrower is not a U.S. Person, a Lender that is resident or organized under the laws of a jurisdiction other than that in which such Borrower is resident for tax purposes. For purposes of this definition, the United States, each State thereof and the District of Columbia shall be deemed to constitute a single jurisdiction.
Foreign Obligor means a Loan Party that is a Foreign Subsidiary.
Foreign Subsidiary means any Subsidiary that is not a Domestic Subsidiary.
FRB means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States.
Fronting Exposure means, at any time there is a Defaulting Lender that is a Revolving Credit (USD) Lender, (a) with respect to any L/C Issuer, such Defaulting Lenders Applicable Percentage of the outstanding L/C Obligations on account of Letters of Credit issued by such L/C Issuer other than L/C Obligations as to which such Defaulting Lenders participation obligation has been reallocated to other Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders or Cash Collateralized in accordance with the terms hereof, and (b) with respect to the Swing Line Lender, such Defaulting Lenders Applicable Percentage of Swing Line Loans other than Swing Line Loans as to which such Defaulting Lenders participation obligation has been reallocated to other Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders in accordance with the terms hereof.
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 activities.
GAAP means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States set forth in the opinions and pronouncements of the Accounting Principles Board and the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and statements and pronouncements of the Financial Accounting Standards Board or such other principles as may be approved by a significant segment of the accounting profession in the United States, that are applicable to the circumstances as of the date of determination, consistently applied.
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Governmental Authority means the government of the United States or any other nation, or of any political subdivision thereof, whether state or local, and any agency, authority, instrumentality, 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).
Guarantee means, as to any Person, (a) any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of such Person 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 Person, direct or indirect, (i) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Indebtedness or other obligation, (ii) to purchase or lease property, securities or services for the purpose of assuring the obligee in respect of such Indebtedness or other obligation of the payment or performance of such Indebtedness or other obligation, (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) entered into for the purpose of assuring in any other manner the obligee in respect of such Indebtedness or other obligation of the payment or performance thereof or to protect such obligee against loss in respect thereof (in whole or in part), or (b) any Lien on any assets of such Person securing any Indebtedness or other obligation 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 Lien). The amount of any Guarantee shall be deemed to be an amount equal to the stated or determinable amount of the related primary obligation, or portion thereof, in respect of which such Guarantee is made or, if not stated or determinable, the maximum reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof as determined by the guaranteeing Person in good faith. The term Guarantee as a verb has a corresponding meaning.
Guaranties means the Company Guaranty and the Subsidiary Guaranties.
Hazardous Materials means all explosive or radioactive substances or wastes and all hazardous or toxic substances, wastes or other pollutants, including petroleum or petroleum distillates, asbestos or asbestos-containing materials, polychlorinated biphenyls, radon gas, infectious or medical wastes and all other substances or wastes of any nature regulated pursuant to any Environmental Law.
Hedge Bank means any Person that, (a) at the time it enters into a Swap Contract not prohibited under Article VII, is a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender, or (b) at the time it (or its Affiliate) becomes a Lender, is party to a Swap Contract, in each case, in its capacity as a party to such Swap Contract.
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HEE Acquisition means the Acquisition by the Company, directly or indirectly through a Subsidiary, of certain assets of HEE Environmental Engineering, LLC consummated on or about August 13, 2014.
Indebtedness means, as 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 all obligations of such Person evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes, loan agreements or other similar instruments;
(b) all direct or contingent obligations of such Person arising under letters of credit (including standby and commercial), bankers acceptances, bank guaranties, surety bonds and similar instruments;
(c) net obligations of such Person under any Swap Contract;
(d) all obligations of such Person to pay the deferred purchase price of property or services (other than trade accounts payable in the ordinary course of business and, in each case, not past due for more than 60 days after the date on which such trade account payable was created);
(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;
(f) capital leases and Synthetic Lease Obligations;
(g) all obligations 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 the case of a redeemable preferred interest, at the greater of its voluntary or involuntary liquidation preference plus accrued and unpaid dividends; and
(h) all Guarantees of such Person in respect of any of the foregoing.
For all purposes hereof, the Indebtedness of any Person shall 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 such Indebtedness is expressly made non-recourse to 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 any capital lease or Synthetic Lease Obligation as of any date shall be deemed to be the amount of Attributable Indebtedness in respect thereof as of such date.
Indemnified Taxes means (a) Taxes other than Excluded Taxes imposed on or with respect to any payment made by or on account of any obligation of any Loan Party under any Loan Document and (b) to the extent not otherwise described in clause (a), Other Taxes.
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Indemnitees has the meaning specified in Section 10.04(b).
Information has the meaning specified in Section 10.07.
ING Debt has the meaning specified in Section 6.12(c).
Interest Payment Date means, (a) as to any Loan other than a Base Rate Loan, the last day of each Interest Period applicable to such Loan and the Maturity Date; provided, however, that if any Interest Period for a Eurocurrency Rate Loan exceeds three months, the respective dates that fall every three months after the beginning of such Interest Period shall also be Interest Payment Dates; (b) as to any Base Rate Loan (including a Swing Line Loan), the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December and the Maturity Date; and (c) as to any Swing Line Loan, such other date as may be specified in any Treasury Management Agreement.
Interest Period means, as to each Eurocurrency Rate Loan, the period commencing on the date such Eurocurrency Rate Loan is disbursed or converted to or continued as a Eurocurrency Rate Loan and ending on the date one, two, three or six months thereafter (in each case subject to availability), as selected by the Company in its Loan Notice; provided that:
(a) any Interest Period that would otherwise end on a day that is not a Business Day shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless such Business Day falls in another calendar month, in which case such Interest Period shall end on the next preceding Business Day;
(b) any Interest Period 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; and
(c) no Interest Period shall extend beyond the Maturity Date.
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 equity participation or interest in, another Person, including any partnership or joint venture interest in such other Person and any arrangement pursuant to which the investor Guarantees Indebtedness of such other Person, or (c) the purchase or other acquisition (in one transaction or a series of transactions) of assets of another Person that constitute a 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.
IP Rights has the meaning specified in Section 5.17.
IRS means the United States Internal Revenue Service.
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ISP means, with respect to any Letter of Credit, the International Standby Practices 1998 published by the Institute of International Banking Law & Practice, Inc. (or such later version thereof as may be in effect at the time of issuance).
Issuer Documents means with respect to any Letter of Credit, the Letter of Credit Application, and any other document, agreement and instrument entered into by the applicable L/C Issuer and the Company (or any Subsidiary) or in favor of such L/C Issuer and relating to such Letter of Credit.
Laws means, collectively, all international, foreign, Federal, state and local 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 administrative orders, directed duties, requests, licenses, authorizations and permits of, and agreements with, any Governmental Authority, in each case whether or not having the force of law.
L/C Advance means, with respect to each Revolving Credit (USD) Lender, such Lenders funding of its participation in any L/C Borrowing in accordance with its Applicable Revolving Credit (USD) Percentage. All L/C Advances shall be denominated in Dollars.
L/C Borrowing means an extension of credit resulting from a drawing under any Letter of Credit which has not been reimbursed on the date when made or refinanced as a Revolving Credit (USD) Borrowing. All L/C Borrowings shall be denominated in Dollars.
L/C Credit Extension means, with respect to any Letter of Credit, the issuance thereof or extension of the expiry date thereof, or the increase of the amount thereof.
L/C Issuer means, individually or collectively as the context may indicate, (a) Bank of America in its capacity as an issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder or any successor to Bank of America in its capacity as an issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder and (b) Fifth Third Bank, in its capacity as an issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder or any successor to Fifth Third Bank in its capacity as an issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder; provided, that, for so long as any Existing Letter of Credit issued by Citibank, N.A., is outstanding, the term L/C Issuer shall also include, with respect to any Existing Letter of Credit and any related L/C Advances, L/C Credit Extensions and L/C Obligations, Citibank, N.A., in its capacity as issuer of such Existing Letters of Credit; provided, further, that, notwithstanding any provision hereof to the contrary, Citibank, N.A. shall not, and shall not have any obligation to, issue any Letter of Credit (other than the Existing Letters of Credit deemed issued by it hereunder), but may, in its sole discretion, elect from time to time, subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement, to renew or amend any such Existing Letter of Credit upon request therefor from the Company.
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 L/C 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
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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.
Lender has the meaning specified in the introductory paragraph hereto and, unless the context requires otherwise, includes the Swing Line Lender.
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 Company 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.
Letter of Credit means any standby letter of credit issued hereunder and shall include the Existing Letters of Credit. Letters of Credit may be issued in Dollars or in an Alternative Currency.
Letter of Credit Application means an application and agreement for the issuance or amendment of a Letter of Credit in the form from time to time in use by the applicable L/C Issuer.
Letter of Credit Expiration Date means the day that is seven days prior to the Maturity Date then in effect (or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next preceding Business Day).
Letter of Credit Fee has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(h).
Letter of Credit Sublimit means an amount equal to the lesser of (a) the Aggregate Revolving Credit (USD) Commitments and (b) $40,000,000. The Letter of Credit Sublimit is part of, and not in addition to, the Aggregate Revolving Credit (USD) Commitments.
LIBOR Quoted Currency means each of the following currencies: Dollars; Euro; Sterling; Swiss Franc; and Yen.
Lien means any mortgage, pledge, hypothecation, assignment, deposit arrangement, encumbrance, lien (statutory or other), charge, or preference, priority or other security interest or preferential arrangement in the nature of a security interest of any kind or nature whatsoever (including any conditional sale or other title retention agreement, any easement, right of way or other encumbrance on title to real property, and any financing lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing).
Loan means an extension of credit by a Lender to a Borrower under Article II in the form of a Revolving Credit (USD) Loan, a Revolving Credit (MC) Loan, a Swing Line Loan or a Term Loan.
Loan Documents means, collectively, this Agreement, each Designated Borrower Request and Assumption Agreement, each Note, the Ratification Agreement, each Collateral Document, each Issuer Document, any agreement creating or perfecting rights in Cash Collateral pursuant to the provisions of Section 2.16 of this Agreement, the Fee Letters, the Company Guaranty, each Subsidiary Guaranty and each Subsidiary Guaranty Joinder Agreement.
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Loan Notice means a notice of (a) a Term Loan Borrowing, (b) a Revolving Credit (USD) Borrowing, (c) a Revolving Credit (MC) Borrowing, (d) a conversion of Loans from one Type to the other, or (e) a continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans, pursuant to Section 2.02(a), which, if in writing, shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A 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 Company.
Loan Parties means, collectively, the Company, each Subsidiary Guarantor and each Designated Borrower.
London Banking Day means any day on which dealings in Dollar deposits are conducted by and between banks in the London interbank eurodollar market.
Material Adverse Effect means (a) a material adverse change in, or a material adverse effect upon, the operations, business, properties, liabilities (actual or contingent) or condition (financial or otherwise) of the Company or the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole; (b) a material impairment of the rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent or any Lender under any Loan Document or of the ability of any Loan Party 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 any Loan Party of any Loan Document to which it is a party.
Material Subsidiary means, as of any date of determination, each direct or indirect Subsidiary of the Company that either (a) has assets as of such date equal to 5% or more of the Consolidated Total Assets as of the last day of the four fiscal quarter period of the Company most recently ended for which financial information is available or (b) had revenues in such four fiscal quarter period equal to 5% or more of the consolidated total revenues of the Company and its Subsidiaries. For the purpose of the foregoing calculations, (i) revenues shall be calculated giving effect to any pro forma adjustments, with respect to any Specified Transaction, in a manner consistent with the adjustments described in Section 1.07 and (ii) the assets and revenues of a Subsidiary shall be deemed to include the assets and revenues of its Subsidiaries.
Maturity Date means September 3, 2020; provided, however, that if such date is not a Business Day, the Maturity Date shall be the next preceding Business Day.
Mefiag means Mefiag B.V., a private limited company organized in the Netherlands.
Minimum Collateral Amount means, at any time, (a) with respect to Cash Collateral consisting of cash or deposit account balances provided to reduce or eliminate Fronting Exposure during the existence of a Defaulting Lender, an amount equal to 103% of the Fronting Exposure of any L/C Issuer with respect to Letters of Credit issued by such L/C Issuer and outstanding at such time, (b) with respect to Cash Collateral consisting of cash or deposit account balances provided in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.16(a)(i), (a)(ii) or (a)(iii), an amount equal to 103% of the Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations, and (c) otherwise, an amount determined by the Administrative Agent and the L/C Issuers in their sole discretion.
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Moodys means Moodys Investors Service, Inc. and any successor thereto.
Mortgage or Mortgages means, individually and collectively, as the context requires, each of the fee or leasehold mortgages, deeds of trust and deeds executed by a Loan Party that purport to grant a Lien to the Administrative Agent (or a trustee for the benefit of the Administrative Agent) for the benefit of the Secured Parties in any Mortgaged Properties, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
Mortgaged Property means any owned or leased (after giving effect to the Closing Date Acquisition) property of a Loan Party listed on Schedule 1.01A and any other owned or leased real property of a Loan Party that is or will become encumbered by a Mortgage in favor of the Administrative Agent in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
Mortgaged Property Support Documents means, with respect to any real property constituting Collateral, such warehousemen and bailee letters, third party consents, intercreditor agreements, mortgagee title insurance policies (in amounts and with endorsements acceptable to the Administrative Agent), surveys, appraisals, environmental reports, flood hazard certifications and, evidence of flood insurance (if such insurance is required by applicable Law), leases, landlord waivers and such other mortgage-related documents as the Administrative Agent may request.
Multiemployer Plan means any employee benefit plan of the type described in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA, to which the Company or any ERISA Affiliate makes or is obligated to make contributions, or during the preceding five plan years, has made or been obligated to make contributions.
Multiple Employer Plan means a Plan which has two or more contributing sponsors (including the Company or any ERISA Affiliate) at least two of whom are not under common control, as such a plan is described in Section 4064 of ERISA.
Net Cash Proceeds means:
(a) with respect to any Disposition by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, or any Extraordinary Receipt received or paid to the account of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, the excess, if any, of (i) the sum of cash and Cash Equivalents received in connection with such transaction (including any cash or Cash Equivalents received by way of deferred payment pursuant to, or by monetization of, a note receivable or otherwise, but only as and when so received) over (ii) the sum of (A) the principal amount of any Indebtedness that is secured by the applicable asset and that is required to be repaid in connection with such transaction (other than Indebtedness under the Loan Documents), (B) the reasonable and customary out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Company or such Subsidiary in connection with such transaction and (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 connection therewith; 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 constitute Net Cash Proceeds; and
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(b) with respect to the incurrence or issuance of any Indebtedness by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, the excess of (i) the sum of the cash and Cash Equivalents received in connection with such transaction over (ii) the underwriting discounts and commissions, and other reasonable and customary out-of-pocket expenses, incurred by the Company or such Subsidiary in connection therewith.
Netherlands Designated Borrowers means, collectively, CECO Environmental, ATA Beheer, Aarding and Mefiag.
Non-Consenting Lender means, as applicable, (a) any Lender that does not approve any consent, waiver or amendment that (i) requires the approval of all Lenders or all affected Lenders in accordance with the terms of Section 10.01 and (ii) has been approved by the Required Lenders, (b) any Revolving Credit (USD) Lender that does not approve any consent, waiver or amendment that (i) requires the approval of all Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders or all affected Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders in accordance with the terms of Section 10.01 and (ii) has been approved by the Required Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders, (c) any Revolving Credit (MC) Lender that does not approve any consent, waiver or amendment that (i) requires the approval of all Revolving Credit (MC) Lenders or all affected Revolving Credit (MC) Lenders in accordance with the terms of Section 10.01 and (ii) has been approved by the Required Revolving Credit (MC) Lenders or (d) any Term Loan Lender that does not approve any consent, waiver or amendment that (i) requires the approval of all Term Loan Lenders or all affected Term Loan Lenders in accordance with the terms of Section 10.01 and (ii) has been approved by the Required Term Loan Lenders.
Non-Defaulting Lender means, at any time, each Lender that is not a Defaulting Lender at such time.
Non-LIBOR Quoted Currency means any currency other than a LIBOR Quoted Currency.
Note means a Term Loan Note, a Revolving Credit (USD) Note or a Revolving Credit (MC) Note, as the context may require.
Notice of Loan Prepayment means a notice of prepayment with respect to a Loan, which shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit J 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 Company.
Obligations means all advances to, and debts, liabilities, obligations, covenants and duties of, any Loan Party arising under any Loan Document or otherwise with respect to any Loan, Letter of Credit, Secured Cash Management Agreement or Secured Hedge Agreement, in each case whether direct or indirect (including those acquired by assumption), absolute or contingent, due or to become due, now existing or hereafter arising and including interest and fees that accrue after the commencement by or against any Loan Party or any Affiliate thereof of
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any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Laws naming such Person as the debtor in such proceeding, regardless of whether such interest and fees are allowed claims in such proceeding; provided that the Obligations of a Subsidiary Guarantor shall exclude any Excluded Swap Obligations with respect to such Subsidiary Guarantor.
OFAC means the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the United States Department of the Treasury.
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 Connection Taxes means, with respect to any Recipient, Taxes imposed as a result of a present or former connection between such Recipient and the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (other than connections arising from such Recipient having executed, delivered, become a party to, performed its obligations under, received payments under, received or perfected a security interest under, engaged in any other transaction pursuant to or enforced any Loan Document, or sold or assigned an interest in any Loan or Loan Document).
Other Taxes means all present or future stamp, court or documentary, intangible, recording, filing or similar Taxes that arise from any payment made under, from the execution, delivery, performance, enforcement or registration of, from the receipt or perfection of a security interest under, or otherwise with respect to, any Loan Document, except any such Taxes that are Other Connection Taxes imposed with respect to an assignment (other than an assignment made pursuant to Section 3.06).
Outstanding Amount means (a) with respect to Term Loans, Revolving Credit (USD) Loans, Revolving Credit (MC) Loans and Swing Line Loans on any date, the Dollar Equivalent Amount of the aggregate outstanding principal amount thereof after giving effect to any borrowings and prepayments of Term Loans, Revolving Credit (USD) Loans, Revolving Credit (MC) Loans and Swing Line Loans, as the case may be, occurring on such date; and (b) with respect to any L/C Obligations on any date, the Dollar Equivalent amount of such L/C Obligations on such date after giving effect to any L/C Credit Extension occurring on such date and any other changes in the aggregate amount of the L/C Obligations as of such date, including as a result of any reimbursements by the Company of Unreimbursed Amounts.
Overnight Rate means, for any day, (a) with respect to any amount denominated in Dollars, the greater of (i) the Federal Funds Rate and (ii) an overnight rate determined by the Administrative Agent, the applicable L/C Issuer, or the Swing Line Lender, as the case may be, in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation, and (b) with respect to
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any amount denominated in an Alternative Currency, the rate of interest per annum at which overnight deposits in the applicable Alternative Currency, in an amount approximately equal to the amount with respect to which such rate is being determined, would be offered for such day by a branch or Affiliate of Bank of America in the applicable offshore interbank market for such currency to major banks in such interbank market.
Participant has the meaning specified in Section 10.06(d).
Participant Register has the meaning specified in Section 10.06(d).
Participating Member State means any member state of the European Union that has the Euro as its lawful currency in accordance with legislation of the European Union relating to Economic and Monetary Union.
PBGC means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.
Pension Act means the Pension Protection Act of 2006.
Pension Funding Rules means the rules of the Code and ERISA regarding minimum required contributions (including any installment payment thereof) to Pension Plans and set forth in, with respect to plan years ending prior to the effective date of the Pension Act, Section 412 of the Code and Section 302 of ERISA, each as in effect prior to the Pension Act and, thereafter, Section 412, 430, 431, 432 and 436 of the Code and Sections 302, 303, 304 and 305 of ERISA.
Pension Plan means any employee pension benefit plan (including a Multiple Employer Plan or a Multiemployer Plan) that is maintained or is contributed to by the Company and any ERISA Affiliate and is either covered by Title IV of ERISA or is subject to the minimum funding standards under Section 412 of the Code.
Permitted Acquisition means any Acquisition (other than the Closing Date Acquisition and any Specified 2014 Acquisition) by the Company or any Subsidiary as to which the following conditions are satisfied:
(a) immediately before and immediately after giving effect to any such Acquisition (including any assumption or incurrence of Indebtedness in connection therewith), no Default shall have occurred and be continuing;
(b) either the required majority of the Board of Directors (or other equivalent governing body) of the Person so to be acquired (or that owns the assets to be acquired) incumbent at the time such Acquisition is proposed has acquiesced to such Acquisition, or such Acquisition is otherwise deemed in the reasonable judgment of the Administrative Agent to be a friendly Acquisition;
(c) the lines of business of the Person to be (or the property of which is to be) so acquired shall be permitted by Section 7.07; and
(d) the Company and its Subsidiaries shall be in pro forma compliance with the covenants set forth in Section 7.11, such compliance to be determined on the basis of
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financial information for the fiscal period most recently ended for which financial information is available and calculated in accordance with Section 1.07; provided that with respect to the Consolidated Leverage Ratio covenant in Section 7.11(b), such compliance must be satisfied at a level 0.50 below the required covenant compliance level then applicable, and, with respect to each Acquisition or series of related Acquisitions involving aggregate consideration of $15,000,000 or more, the Company shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent a Compliance Certificate demonstrating the pro forma compliance required by this clause (d).
Permitted Liens means the Liens permitted by Section 7.01.
Person means any natural person, corporation, limited liability company, trust, joint venture, association, company, partnership, Governmental Authority or other entity.
Plan means any employee benefit plan within the meaning of Section 3(3) of ERISA (including a Pension Plan), maintained for employees of the Company or any ERISA Affiliate or any such Plan to which the Company or any ERISA Affiliate is required to contribute on behalf of any of its employees.
Platform has the meaning specified in Section 6.02.
Pledge Agreements means, collectively, the Securities Pledge Agreement (the U.S. Pledge Agreement) dated as of August 27, 2013, made by the Company and certain other Loan Parties in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties specified therein and (b) any other securities pledge agreement now or hereafter in effect executed by one or more Loan Parties that are Foreign Subsidiaries in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of any of the Secured Parties, each of which shall be in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, in each case, as supplemented from time to time by the execution and delivery of Pledge Joinder Agreements and Pledge Agreement Supplements.
Pledge Agreement Supplement means each Pledge Agreement Supplement, substantially in the form thereof attached to a Pledge Agreement, executed and delivered by a Loan Party to the Administrative Agent.
Pledge Joinder Agreement means each Pledge Joinder Agreement, substantially in the form thereof attached to a Pledge Agreement, executed and delivered by a Subsidiary to the Administrative Agent.
Public Lender has the meaning specified in Section 6.02.
Purchase Agreement Representations has the meaning specified in Section 4.01.
Ratification Agreement means the Ratification Agreement dated as of the Closing Date executed by the Company and certain other Loan Parties in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties specified therein.
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Recipient means the Administrative Agent, any Lender, any L/C Issuer or any other recipient of any payment to be made by or on account of any obligation of any Loan Party hereunder.
Register has the meaning specified in Section 10.06(c).
Related Parties means, with respect to any Person, such Persons Affiliates and the partners, directors, officers, employees, agents, trustees, administrators, managers, advisors and representatives of such Person and of such Persons Affiliates.
Reportable Event means any of the events set forth in Section 4043(c) of ERISA, other than events for which the 30 day notice period has been waived.
Request for Credit Extension means (a) with respect to a Borrowing, conversion or continuation of Revolving Credit (USD) Loans, Revolving Credit (MC) Loans or Term Loans, a Loan Notice, (b) with respect to an L/C Credit Extension, a Letter of Credit Application, and (c) with respect to a Swing Line Loan, a Swing Line Loan Notice.
Required Facility Lenders means (a) for the Revolving Credit (USD) Facility, the Required Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders, (b) for the Revolving Credit (MC) Facility, the Required Revolving Credit (MC) Lenders and (c) for the Term Loan Facility, the Required Term Loan Lenders.
Required Lenders means, at any time, Lenders having Total Credit Exposures representing more than 50% of the Total Credit Exposures of all Lenders. The Total Credit Exposure of any Defaulting Lender shall be disregarded in determining Required Lenders at any time; provided that, the amount of any participation in any Swing Line Loan and Unreimbursed Amounts that any Defaulting Lender which is a Revolving Credit (USD) Lender has failed to fund that have not been reallocated to and funded by another Revolving Credit (USD) Lender shall be deemed to be held by the Lender that is the Swing Line Lender or an L/C Issuer, as the case may be, in making such determination.
Required Revolving Credit (MC) Lenders means, at any time, Lenders having more than 50% of the sum of the Outstanding Amount of Revolving Credit (MC) Loans plus the aggregate unused Revolving Credit (MC) Commitments. The aggregate Outstanding Amount of Revolving Credit (MC) Loans and unused Revolving Credit (MC) Commitment of any Defaulting Lender shall be disregarded in determining Required Revolving Credit (MC) Lenders at any time.
Required Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders means, at any time, Lenders having more than 50% of the sum of the aggregate Revolving Credit (USD) Exposure plus the aggregate unused Revolving Credit (USD) Commitments. The Revolving Credit (USD) Exposure and unused Revolving Credit (USD) Commitment of any Defaulting Lender shall be disregarded in determining Required Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders at any time; provided that, the amount of any participation in any Swing Line Loan and Unreimbursed Amounts that such Defaulting Lender has failed to fund that have not been reallocated to and funded by another Revolving Credit (USD) Lender shall be deemed to be held by the Lender that is the Swing Line Lender or an L/C Issuer, as the case may be, in making such determination.
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Required Term Loan Lenders means, at any time, Lenders having more than 50% of the sum of the Outstanding Amount of Term Loans plus the unfunded Term Loan Commitments. The Outstanding Amount of Term Loans and unfunded Term Loan Commitments of any Defaulting Lender shall be disregarded in determining Required Term Loan Lenders at any time.
Responsible Officer means the chief executive officer, president, chief financial officer, treasurer, assistant treasurer or controller of a Loan Party, solely for purposes of the delivery of incumbency certificates pursuant to Section 4.01, the secretary or any assistant secretary of a Loan Party and, solely for purposes of notices given pursuant to Article II, any other officer or employee of the applicable Loan Party so designated by any of the foregoing officers in a notice to the Administrative Agent or any other officer or employee of the applicable Loan Party designated in or pursuant to an agreement between the applicable Loan Party and the Administrative Agent. 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. To the extent requested by the Administrative Agent, each Responsible Officer will provide an incumbency certificate and to the extent reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent, appropriate authorization documentation, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
Restricted Payment means any dividend or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property) with respect to any capital stock or other Equity Interest of the Company or any Subsidiary, or any payment (whether in cash, securities or other property), including any sinking fund or similar deposit, on account of the purchase, redemption, retirement, acquisition, cancellation or termination of any such capital stock or other Equity Interest, or on account of any return of capital to the Companys stockholders, partners or members (or the equivalent Person thereof).
Revaluation Date means (a) with respect to any Revolving Credit (MC) Loan, each of the following: (i) each date of a Borrowing of a Eurocurrency Rate Loan denominated in an Alternative Currency, (ii) each date of a continuation of a Eurocurrency Rate Loan denominated in an Alternative Currency pursuant to Section 2.02, and (iii) such additional dates as the Administrative Agent shall determine or the Required Revolving Credit (MC) Lenders shall require; and (b) with respect to any Letter of Credit, each of the following: (i) each date of issuance of a Letter of Credit denominated in an Alternative Currency, (ii) each date of an amendment of any such Letter of Credit having the effect of increasing the amount thereof (solely with respect to the increased amount), (iii) each date of any payment by the applicable L/C Issuer under any Letter of Credit denominated in an Alternative Currency, (iv) in the case of all Existing Letters of Credit denominated in Alternative Currencies, the Closing Date and (v) such additional dates as the Administrative Agent or any L/C Issuer shall reasonably determine or the Required Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders or Required Revolving Credit (MC) Lenders shall reasonably require.
Revolving Credit (MC) Borrowing means a borrowing consisting of simultaneous Revolving Credit (MC) Loans of the same Type, in the same currency and, in the case of Eurocurrency Rate Loans, having the same Interest Period made by each of the Lenders pursuant to Section 2.01(c).
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Revolving Credit (USD) Borrowing means a borrowing consisting of simultaneous Revolving Credit (USD) Loans of the same Type and, in the case of Eurocurrency Rate Loans, having the same Interest Period made by each of the Lenders pursuant to Section 2.01(a).
Revolving Credit (MC) Commitment means, as to each Lender, its obligation to make Revolving Credit (MC) Loans to the Borrowers pursuant to Section 2.01(c), in an aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding not to exceed the Dollar amount set forth opposite such Lenders name on Schedule 2.01 under the caption Revolving Credit (MC) Commitment or opposite such caption in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender becomes a party hereto, as applicable, as such amount may be adjusted from time to time in accordance with this Agreement.
Revolving Credit (USD) Commitment means, as to each Lender, its obligation to (a) make Revolving Credit (USD) Loans to the U.S. Borrowers pursuant to Section 2.01(a), (b) purchase participations in L/C Obligations, and (c) purchase participations in Swing Line Loans, in an aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding not to exceed the Dollar amount set forth opposite such Lenders name on Schedule 2.01 under the caption Revolving Credit (USD) Commitment or opposite such caption in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender becomes a party hereto, as applicable, as such amount may be adjusted from time to time in accordance with this Agreement.
Revolving Credit (USD) Exposure means, as to any Lender at any time, the aggregate principal amount at such time of its outstanding Revolving Credit (USD) Loans and such Lenders participations in L/C Obligations and Swing Line Loans at such time.
Revolving Credit (MC) Facility means, at any time, the revolving credit facility provided in this Agreement pursuant to the Aggregate Revolving Credit (MC) Commitments.
Revolving Credit (USD) Facility means, at any time, the revolving credit facility provided in this Agreement pursuant to the Aggregate Revolving Credit (USD) Commitments, including the participations in L/C Obligations and Swing Line Loans thereunder.
Revolving Credit (MC) Lender means, at any time, any Lender that has a Revolving Credit (MC) Commitment or outstanding Revolving Credit (MC) Loans at such time.
Revolving Credit (USD) Lender means, at any time, any Lender that has a Revolving Credit (USD) Commitment or Revolving Credit (USD) Exposure at such time.
Revolving Credit (MC) Loan has the meaning specified in Section 2.01(c).
Revolving Credit (USD) Loan has the meaning specified in Section 2.01(a).
Revolving Credit (MC) Note means a promissory note made by a Borrower in favor of a Revolving Credit (MC) Lender evidencing Revolving Credit (MC) Loans made by such Revolving Credit (MC) Lender to such Borrower, substantially in the form of Exhibit C-3.
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Revolving Credit (USD) Note means a promissory note made by a U.S. Borrower in favor of a Revolving Credit (USD) Lender evidencing Revolving Credit (USD) Loans or Swing Line Loans, as the case may be, made by such Revolving Credit (USD) Lender to such Borrower, substantially in the form of Exhibit C-1.
Rupees means the lawful currency of India.
Same Day Funds means (a) with respect to disbursements and payments in Dollars, immediately available funds, and (b) with respect to disbursements and payments in an Alternative Currency, same day or other funds as may be determined by the Administrative Agent or the applicable L/C Issuer, as the case may be, to be customary in the place of disbursement or payment for the settlement of international banking transactions in the relevant Alternative Currency.
Sanction(s) means any international economic sanction administered or enforced by the United States Government (including without limitation, OFAC), the United Nations Security Council, the European Union, Her Majestys Treasury or other relevant sanctions authority.
S&P means Standard & Poors Financial Services LLC, a subsidiary of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc. and any successor thereto.
SAT Acquisition means the Acquisition by the Company, directly or indirectly through a Subsidiary, of the Equity Interests in SAT Technology, Inc. consummated on or about September 26, 2014.
SEC means the Securities and Exchange Commission, or any Governmental Authority succeeding to any of its principal functions.
Secured Cash Management Agreement means any Cash Management Agreement that is entered into by and between any Loan Party and any Cash Management Bank.
Secured Hedge Agreement means any Swap Contract permitted hereunder that is entered into by and between any Loan Party and any Hedge Bank.
Secured Parties means, collectively, the Administrative Agent, the Lenders, the L/C Issuers, the Hedge Banks, the Cash Management Banks, each co-agent or sub-agent appointed by the Administrative Agent from time to time pursuant to Section 9.05, and the other Persons the Obligations owing to which are or are purported to be secured by the Collateral under the terms of the Collateral Documents.
Security Agreements means, collectively, (a) the Security Agreement (the U.S. Security Agreement) dated as of August 27, 2013, made by the Company and certain other Loan Parties in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties specified therein and (b) any other security agreement now or hereafter in effect executed by one or more Loan Parties that are Foreign Subsidiaries in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of any of the Secured Parties, each of which shall be in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, in each case as supplemented from time to time by the execution and delivery of Security Joinder Agreements.
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Security Joinder Agreement means each Security Joinder Agreement, substantially in the form thereof attached to a Security Agreement, executed and delivered by a Subsidiary to the Administrative Agent.
Special Notice Currency means at any time an Alternative Currency, other than the currency of a country that is a member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development at such time located in North America or Europe.
Specified 2014 Acquisitions means, collectively, the HEE Acquisition, the SAT Acquisition, the Emtrol Acquisition and the Zhongli Acquisition.
Specified Disposition means any disposition of all or substantially all of the assets or Equity Interests of any Subsidiary of the Company or any division, business unit, product line or line of business.
Specified Existing Shareholders means, collectively, Phillip DeZwirek, Jason Louis DeZwirek and Icarus Investment Corp., a Delaware corporation (Icarus), to the extent that Icarus is Controlled by either Phillip DeZwirek or Jason Louis DeZwirek.
Specified Pay-Off Indebtedness means, all outstanding indebtedness of the Target or any Subsidiary thereof under that certain Credit Agreement dated as September 7, 2012, among the Target, Peerless Mfg. Co, Citibank, N.A., as Administrative Agent and the lenders party thereto, as in effect on the date hereof.
Specified Representations has the meaning specified in Section 4.01.
Specified Transactions means (a) any Specified Disposition, (b) any Permitted Acquisition and (c) the Closing Date Acquisition.
Spot Rate for a currency means the rate determined by the Administrative Agent or the applicable L/C Issuer, as applicable, to be the rate quoted by the Person acting in such capacity as the spot rate for the purchase by such Person of such currency with another currency through its principal foreign exchange trading office at approximately 11:00 a.m. on the date two Business Days prior to the date as of which the foreign exchange computation is made; provided that the Administrative Agent or any L/C Issuer may obtain such spot rate from another financial institution designated by the Administrative Agent or any L/C Issuer if the Person acting in such capacity does not have as of the date of determination a spot buying rate for any such currency; and provided further that any L/C Issuer may use such spot rate quoted on the date as of which the foreign exchange computation is made in the case of any Letter of Credit denominated in an Alternative Currency.
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
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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.
Sterling and £ mean the lawful currency of the United Kingdom.
Subsidiary of a Person means a corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited liability company or other business entity of which a majority of the shares of securities or other interests having ordinary voting power for the election of directors or other governing body (other than securities or interests having such power only by reason of the happening of a contingency) are at the time beneficially owned, or the management of which is otherwise controlled, directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, or both, by such Person. Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to a Subsidiary or to Subsidiaries shall refer to a Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of the Company.
Subsidiary Guarantors means, collectively, the Subsidiaries party to a Subsidiary Guaranty (including by execution of a Subsidiary Guaranty Joinder Agreement).
Subsidiary Guaranties means, collectively, (a) the Subsidiary Guaranty Agreement (the U.S. Subsidiary Guaranty) dated as of August 27, 2013, made by certain Subsidiaries of the Company in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties specified therein and (b) means any other subsidiary guaranty agreement now or hereafter in effect executed by one or more Loan Parties that are Foreign Subsidiaries in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of any of the Secured Parties, each of which shall be in form and substance satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, in each case as supplemented from time to time by the execution and delivery of Subsidiary Guaranty Joinder Agreements
Subsidiary Guaranty Joinder Agreement means each Subsidiary Guaranty Joinder Agreement, substantially in the form thereof attached to a Subsidiary Guaranty, executed and delivered by a Subsidiary to the Administrative Agent.
Swap Contract means (a) 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, and (b) any and all transactions of any kind, and the related confirmations, which are subject to the terms and conditions of, or governed by, any form of master agreement published by the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc., any International Foreign Exchange Master Agreement, or any other master agreement (any such master agreement, together with any related schedules, a Master Agreement), including any such obligations or liabilities under any Master Agreement.
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Swap Obligation means, with respect to any Subsidiary 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 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 Borrowing means a borrowing of a Swing Line Loan pursuant to Section 2.04.
Swing Line Lender means Bank of America in its capacity as provider of Swing Line Loans, or any successor swing line lender hereunder.
Swing Line Loan has the meaning specified in Section 2.04(a).
Swing Line Loan Notice means a notice of a Swing Line Borrowing pursuant to Section 2.04(b), which, if in writing, shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit B or such other form as 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 Company.
Swing Line Sublimit means, at any time, an amount equal to the lesser of (a) $10,000,000 and (b) the Aggregate Revolving Credit (USD) Commitments. The Swing Line Sublimit is part of, and not in addition to, the Aggregate Revolving Credit (USD) Commitments.
Swiss Franc means the lawful currency of Switzerland.
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 creating obligations that do not appear on the balance sheet of such Person but which, upon the insolvency or bankruptcy of such Person, would be characterized as the indebtedness of such Person (without regard to accounting treatment).
Target means PMFG, Inc., a Delaware corporation.
TARGET2 means the Trans-European Automated Real-time Gross Settlement Express Transfer payment system which utilizes a single shared platform and which was launched on November 19, 2007.
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TARGET Day means any day on which TARGET2 (or, if such payment system ceases to be operative, such other payment system, if any, determined by the Administrative Agent to be a suitable replacement) is open for the settlement of payments in Euro.
Taxes means all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions, withholdings (including backup withholding), assessments, fees or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority, including any interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable thereto.
Term Loan means an advance made by any Lender under the Term Loan Facility.
Term Loan Borrowing means a borrowing consisting of simultaneous Term Loans of the same Type and, in the case of Eurocurrency Rate Loans, having the same Interest Period made by each of the Term Loan Lenders pursuant to Section 2.01(b).
Term Loan Commitment means, as to each Lender, its obligation to make a Term Loan to the Company pursuant to Section 2.01(b) on the Closing Date in a principal amount not to exceed the amount set forth opposite such Lenders name on Schedule 2.01 under the caption Term Loan Commitment or opposite such caption in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Lender becomes a party hereto, as applicable, as such amount may be adjusted from time to time in accordance with this Agreement.
Term Loan Facility means, at any time, the term loan facility provided pursuant to Section 2.01(b) of this Agreement.
Term Loan Lender means, at any time, any Lender that has a Term Loan Commitment or an outstanding Term Loan at such time.
Term Loan Note means a promissory note made by the Company in favor of a Term Loan Lender evidencing the Term Loan made by such Term Loan Lender, substantially in the form of Exhibit C-2.
Threshold Amount means $7,500,000.
Total Credit Exposure means, as to any Lender at any time, the unused Commitments, Revolving Credit (USD) Exposure, outstanding Revolving Credit (MC) Loans and outstanding Term Loans of such Lender at such time.
Total Revolving Credit (USD) Outstandings means the aggregate Outstanding Amount of all Revolving Credit (USD) Loans, Swing Line Loans and L/C Obligations.
Treasury Management Agreement means any treasury management services, autoborrow, sweep or similar agreement entered into between the Company and the Swing Line Lender from time to time.
Type means, with respect to a Loan, its character as a Base Rate Loan or a Eurocurrency Rate Loan.
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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 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 or priority.
United States and U.S. mean the United States of America.
Unreimbursed Amount has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(c)(i).
U.S. Borrowers means, collectively, the Company and each Designated Borrower that is a Domestic Subsidiary.
U.S. Person means any Person that is a United States Person as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code.
U.S. Pledge Agreement has the meaning specified in the definition of Pledge Agreements.
U.S. Security Agreement has the meaning specified in the definition of Security Agreements.
U.S. Subsidiary Guaranty has the meaning specified in the definition of Subsidiary Guaranties.
U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate has the meaning specified in Section 3.01(e)(ii)(B)(III).
Working Capital means, for the Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis and calculated in accordance with GAAP, as of any date of determination, Current Assets at such date of determination minus Current Liabilities at such date of determination; provided that, increases or decreases in Working Capital shall be calculated without regard to any changes in Current Assets or Current Liabilities as a result of (a) any reclassification in accordance with GAAP of assets or liabilities, as applicable, between current and noncurrent or (b) the effects of purchase accounting.
Yen and ¥ means the lawful currency of Japan.
Zhongli Acquisition means the Acquisition relating to the equity interests of, or certain assets of, Jiangyin Zhongli Machinery Industry Co., Ltd. consummated on or about December 14, 2014.
1.02 Other Interpretive Provisions. 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 shall apply equally to the singular and plural forms of the terms defined. Whenever the context may require, any pronoun shall
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include the corresponding masculine, feminine and neuter forms. The words include, includes and including shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase without limitation. The word will shall 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 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), (ii) any reference herein to any Person shall be construed to include such Persons successors and assigns, (iii) the words hereto, herein, hereof and hereunder, and words of similar import when used in any Loan Document, shall be construed to refer to such Loan Document in its entirety and not to any particular provision thereof, (iv) all references in a Loan Document to Articles, Sections, Exhibits and Schedules shall be construed to refer to Articles and Sections of, and Exhibits and Schedules to, the Loan Document in which such references appear, (v) any reference to any law shall include all statutory and regulatory provisions consolidating, amending, replacing or interpreting such law and any reference to any law or regulation shall, 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 intangible assets and properties, including cash, securities, accounts and contract rights.
(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.
1.03 Accounting Terms. (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, except as otherwise specifically prescribed herein. Notwithstanding the foregoing, for purposes of determining compliance with any covenant (including the computation of any financial covenant) contained herein, Indebtedness of the Company 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.
(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 Company or the Required Lenders shall so request, the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the Company 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
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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 Company 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.
(c) Consolidation of Variable Interest Entities. All references herein to consolidated financial statements of the Company and its Subsidiaries or to the determination of any amount for the Company 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 Company is required to consolidate pursuant to FASB ASC 810 as if such variable interest entity were a Subsidiary as defined herein.
1.04 Rounding. Any financial ratios required to be maintained by the Company 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).
1.05 Times of Day. Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to times of day shall be references to Eastern time (daylight or standard, as applicable).
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 Dollar Equivalent of 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 Issuer 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 Dollar Equivalent of 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.
1.07 Adjustments for Specified Transactions. For each four-quarter period ending next following the date of any Specified Transaction, for purposes of determining the Consolidated Leverage Ratio, Consolidated EBITDA shall be computed as if such Specified Transaction (and all other Specified Transactions that have been consummated during the applicable period) occurred as of the first day of the applicable period of measurement and:
(a) all income statement items (whether positive or negative) attributable to the property or person disposed of in a Specified Disposition shall be excluded and all income statement items (whether positive or negative) attributable to the property or person acquired in the Closing Date Acquisition or a Permitted Acquisition shall be included (provided that such income statement items to be included are reflected in financial statements or other financial data reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and based upon reasonable assumptions and calculations which are expected to have a continuous impact); and
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(b) non-recurring costs, extraordinary expenses and other pro forma adjustments attributable to such transaction may be included to the extent that such costs, expenses or adjustments:
(i) are reasonably expected to be realized within twelve (12) months of such Specified Transaction as set forth in reasonable detail on a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Company delivered to the Administrative Agent; and
(ii) are calculated on a basis consistent with GAAP and Regulation S-X of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934;
provided that the foregoing costs, expenses and adjustments shall be without duplication of any costs, expenses or adjustments that are already included in the calculation of Consolidated EBITDA or clause (a) above.
1.08 Exchange Rates; Currency Equivalents.
(a) The Administrative Agent or the applicable L/C Issuer, as applicable, shall determine the Spot Rates as of each Revaluation Date to be used for calculating Dollar Equivalent amounts of Credit Extensions and Outstanding Amounts denominated in Alternative Currencies. Such Spot Rates shall become effective as of such Revaluation Date and shall be the Spot Rates employed in converting any amounts between the applicable currencies until the next Revaluation Date to occur. Except for purposes of financial statements delivered by Loan Parties hereunder or calculating financial covenants hereunder or except as otherwise provided herein, the applicable amount of any currency (other than Dollars) for purposes of the Loan Documents shall be such Dollar Equivalent amount as so determined by the Administrative Agent or the applicable L/C Issuer, as applicable.
(b) Wherever in this Agreement in connection with a Revolving Credit (MC) Borrowing, conversion, continuation or prepayment of a Eurocurrency Rate Loan or the issuance, amendment or extension of a Letter of Credit, an amount, such as a required minimum or multiple amount, is expressed in Dollars, but such Revolving Credit (MC) Borrowing, Eurocurrency Rate Loan or Letter of Credit is denominated in an Alternative Currency, such amount shall be the relevant Alternative Currency Equivalent of such Dollar amount (rounded to the nearest unit of such Alternative Currency, with 0.5 of a unit being rounded upward), as determined by the Administrative Agent or the applicable L/C Issuer, as the case may be.
1.09 Additional Alternative Currencies.
(a) The Company may from time to time request that Eurocurrency Rate Loans that are Revolving Credit (MC) Loans be made and/or Letters of Credit be issued in a currency other than those specifically listed in the definition of Alternative Currency; provided that such requested currency is a lawful currency (other than Dollars) that is readily available and freely transferable and convertible into Dollars. In the case of any such request with respect to the making of Eurocurrency Rate Loans that are Revolving Credit (MC) Loans, such request shall be subject to the approval of the Administrative Agent and the Revolving Credit (MC) Lenders; and in the case of any such request with respect to the issuance of Letters of Credit,
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such request shall be subject to the approval of the Administrative Agent and at least one of the L/C Issuers (it being acknowledged and agreed that no L/C Issuer shall be obligated to issue any Letter of Credit denominated in a currency requested by the Company pursuant to this Section 1.09(a) if such currency has not been approved by such L/C Issuer).
(b) Any such request shall be made to the Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 a.m., twenty (20) Business Days prior to the date of the desired Credit Extension (or such other time or date as may be agreed by the Administrative Agent and, in the case of any such request pertaining to Letters of Credit, the L/C Issuers, in its or their sole discretion). In the case of any such request pertaining to Eurocurrency Rate Loans that are Revolving Credit (MC) Loans, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Revolving Credit (MC) Lender thereof; and in the case of any such request pertaining to Letters of Credit, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the L/C Issuers thereof. Each Revolving Credit (MC) Lender (in the case of any such request pertaining to Eurocurrency Rate Loans) or each L/C Issuer (in the case of a request pertaining to Letters of Credit) shall notify the Administrative Agent, not later than 11:00 a.m., ten (10) Business Days after receipt of such request whether it consents, in its sole discretion, to the making of Eurocurrency Rate Loans or the issuance of Letters of Credit, as the case may be, in such requested currency.
(c) Any failure by a Revolving Credit (MC) Lender or an L/C Issuer, as the case may be, to respond to such request within the time period specified in the last sentence of Section 1.09(b) shall be deemed to be a refusal by such Lender or such L/C Issuer, as the case may be, to permit Eurocurrency Rate Loans to be made or Letters of Credit to be issued in such requested currency. If the Administrative Agent and all the Revolving Credit (MC) Lenders consent to making Eurocurrency Rate Loans in such requested currency, the Administrative Agent shall so notify the Company and such currency shall thereupon be deemed for all purposes to be an Alternative Currency hereunder for purposes of any Revolving Credit (MC) Borrowings of Eurocurrency Rate Loans; and if the Administrative Agent and at least one of the L/C Issuers consent to the issuance of Letters of Credit in such requested currency, the Administrative Agent shall so notify the Company and such currency shall thereupon be deemed for all purposes to be an Alternative Currency hereunder for purposes of any Letter of Credit issuances by the consenting L/C Issuers. If the Administrative Agent shall fail to obtain consent to any request for an additional currency under this Section 1.09, the Administrative Agent shall promptly so notify the Company.
1.10 Change of Currency.
(a) Each obligation of the Borrowers to make a payment denominated in the national currency unit of any member state of the European Union that adopts the Euro as its lawful currency after the date hereof shall be redenominated into Euro at the time of such adoption. If, in relation to the currency of any such member state, the basis of accrual of interest expressed in this Agreement in respect of that currency shall be inconsistent with any convention or practice in the London interbank market for the basis of accrual of interest in respect of the Euro, such expressed basis shall be replaced by such convention or practice with effect from the date on which such member state adopts the Euro as its lawful currency; provided that if any Revolving Credit (MC) Borrowing in the currency of such member state is outstanding immediately prior to such date, such replacement shall take effect, with respect to such Revolving Credit (MC) Borrowing, at the end of the then current Interest Period.
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(b) Each provision of this Agreement shall be subject to such reasonable changes of construction as the Administrative Agent may from time to time reasonably specify to be appropriate to reflect the adoption of the Euro by any member state of the European Union and any relevant market conventions or practices relating to the Euro.
(c) Each provision of this Agreement also shall be subject to such reasonable changes of construction as the Administrative Agent may from time to time specify to be appropriate to reflect a change in currency of any other country and any relevant market conventions or practices relating to the change in currency.
ARTICLE II.
THE COMMITMENTS AND CREDIT EXTENSIONS
2.01 Loans.
(a) Revolving Credit (USD) Borrowings. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Revolving Credit (USD) Lender severally agrees to make loans (each such loan, a Revolving Credit (USD) Loan) to the U.S. Borrowers, in Dollars, from time to time, on any Business Day during the Availability Period with respect to the Revolving Credit (USD) Facility, in an aggregate amount not to exceed at any time outstanding the amount of such Lenders Revolving Credit (USD) Commitment; provided, however, that after giving effect to any Revolving Credit (USD) Borrowing, (i) the Total Revolving Credit (USD) Outstandings shall not exceed the Aggregate Revolving Credit (USD) Commitments and (ii) the Revolving Credit (USD) Exposure of any Revolving Credit (USD) Lender shall not exceed such Lenders Revolving Credit (USD) Commitment. Within the limits of each Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders Revolving Credit (USD) Commitment, and subject to the other terms and conditions hereof, the U.S. Borrowers may borrow under this Section 2.01(a), prepay under Section 2.05, and reborrow under this Section 2.01(a). Revolving Credit (USD) Loans may be Base Rate Loans or Eurocurrency Rate Loans, as further provided herein.
(b) Term Loan Borrowing. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Term Loan Lender severally agrees to make a loan to the Company, in Dollars, on the Closing Date in an amount not to exceed the amount set forth opposite such Lenders name on Schedule 2.01 as such Lenders Term Loan Commitment (each loan described in this Section 2.01(b), a Term Loan). Amounts borrowed under this Section 2.01(b) and repaid or prepaid may not be reborrowed. Term Loans may be Base Rate Loans or Eurocurrency Rate Loans, as further provided herein.
(c) Revolving Credit (MC) Borrowings. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Revolving Credit (MC) Lender severally agrees to make loans (each such loan, a Revolving Credit (MC) Loan) to the Borrowers, in Dollars or in one or more Alternative Currencies, from time to time, on any Business Day during the Availability Period with respect to the Revolving Credit (MC) Facility, in an aggregate amount not to exceed at
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any time outstanding the amount of such Lenders Revolving Credit (MC) Commitment; provided, however, that after giving effect to any Revolving Credit (MC) Borrowing, (i) the aggregate Outstanding Amount of all Revolving Credit (MC) Loans shall not exceed the Aggregate Revolving Credit (MC) Commitments and (ii) the aggregate Outstanding Amount of all Revolving Credit (MC) Loans of any Revolving Credit (MC) Lender shall not exceed such Lenders Revolving Credit (MC) Commitment. Within the limits of each Revolving Credit (MC) Lenders Revolving Credit (MC) Commitment, and subject to the other terms and conditions hereof, the Borrowers may borrow under this Section 2.01(c), prepay under Section 2.05, and reborrow under this Section 2.01(c). Revolving Credit (MC) Loans may be Base Rate Loans or Eurocurrency Rate Loans, as further provided herein.
2.02 Borrowings, Conversions and Continuations of Loans.
(a) Each Revolving Credit (USD) Borrowing, each Revolving Credit (MC) Borrowing, each Term Loan Borrowing, each conversion of Loans from one Type to the other, and each continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans shall be made upon the Companys irrevocable notice to the Administrative Agent, which may be given by: (A) telephone or (B) a Loan Notice; provided that any telephonic notice must be confirmed promptly by delivery to the Administrative Agent of a Loan Notice. Each such notice must be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 a.m. (i) three Business Days prior to the requested date of any Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in Dollars or of any conversion of Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in Dollars to Base Rate Loans, (ii) four Business Days (or five Business Days in the case of a Special Notice Currency) prior to the requested date of any Borrowing or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in Alternative Currencies, and (iii) on the requested date of any Borrowing of Base Rate Loans. Each telephonic notice by the Company pursuant to this Section 2.02(a) must be confirmed promptly by delivery to the Administrative Agent of a written Loan Notice, appropriately completed and signed by a Responsible Officer of the Company. Each Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of $1,000,000 or a whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof. Except as provided in Sections 2.03(c) and 2.04(c), each Borrowing of or conversion to Base Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of $500,000 or a whole multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof. Each Loan Notice (whether telephonic or written) shall specify (i) whether the Company is requesting a Term Loan Borrowing, a Revolving Credit (USD) Borrowing, a Revolving Credit (MC) Borrowing, a conversion of Term Loans, Revolving Credit (USD) Loans or Revolving Credit (MC) Loans from one Type to the other, or a continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans, (ii) the requested date of the Borrowing, conversion or continuation, as the case may be (which shall be a Business Day), (iii) the principal amount of Loans to be borrowed, converted or continued, (iv) the Type of Loans to be borrowed or to which existing Term Loans, Revolving Credit (USD) Loans or Revolving Credit (MC) Loans are to be converted, (v) if applicable, the duration of the Interest Period with respect thereto, (vi) if applicable, the currency of the Revolving Credit (MC) Loans to be borrowed, and (vii) if applicable, the Designated Borrower. If the Company fails to specify a currency in a Loan Notice requesting a Revolving Credit (MC) Borrowing, then the Revolving Credit (MC) Loans so requested shall be made in Dollars. If the Company fails to specify a Type of Loan in a Loan Notice or if the Company fails to give a timely notice requesting a conversion or continuation, then the applicable Term Loans, Revolving Credit (USD) Loans or Revolving
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Credit (MC) Loans shall be made as, or converted to, Base Rate Loans; provided, however, that in the case of a failure to timely request a continuation of Revolving Credit (MC) Loans denominated in an Alternative Currency, such Loans shall be continued as Eurocurrency Rate Loans in their original currency with an Interest Period of one month. 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 Eurocurrency Rate Loans. If the Company requests a Borrowing of, conversion to, or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans in any such Loan Notice, but fails to specify an Interest Period, it will be deemed to have specified an Interest Period of one month. No Revolving Credit (MC) Loan may be converted into or continued as a Revolving Credit (MC) Loan denominated in a different currency, but instead must be prepaid in the original currency of such Revolving Credit (MC) Loan and reborrowed in the other currency.
(b) Following receipt of a Loan Notice for a Facility, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Lender under such Facility of the amount (and, if applicable, the currency) of its Applicable Percentage under such Facility of the applicable Loans, and if no timely notice of a conversion or continuation is provided by the Company, the Administrative Agent shall notify each Lender under the applicable Facility of the details of any automatic conversion to Base Rate Loans or continuation of Revolving Credit (MC) Loans denominated in a currency other than Dollars, in each case as described in the preceding subsection. In the case of a Term Loan Borrowing, a Revolving Credit (USD) Borrowing or a Revolving Credit (MC) Borrowing, each Lender under the applicable Facility shall make the amount of its Loan available to the Administrative Agent in Same Day Funds at the Administrative Agents Office for the applicable currency not later than 1:00 p.m., in the case of any Loan denominated in Dollars, and not later than the Applicable Time specified by the Administrative Agent in the case of any Revolving Credit (MC) Loan in an Alternative Currency, in each case on the Business Day specified in the applicable Loan Notice. Upon satisfaction of the applicable conditions set forth in Section 4.02 (and, if such Borrowing is the initial Credit Extension, Section 4.01), the Administrative Agent shall make all funds so received available to the Company or the other applicable Borrower in like funds as received by the Administrative Agent either by (i) crediting the account of such Borrower on the books of Bank of America 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 Company; provided, however, that if, on the date a Loan Notice with respect to a Revolving Credit (USD) Borrowing is given by the Company, there are L/C Borrowings outstanding, then the proceeds of such Revolving Credit (USD) Borrowing, first, shall be applied to the payment in full of any such L/C Borrowings, and, second, shall be made available to the applicable Borrower as provided above.
(c) Except as otherwise provided herein, a Eurocurrency Rate Loan may be continued or converted only on the last day of an Interest Period for such Eurocurrency Rate Loan. During the existence of a Default, no Loans may be requested as, converted to or continued as Eurocurrency Rate Loans (whether in Dollars or any Alternative Currency) without the consent of the Required Lenders, and the Required Lenders may demand that any or all of the then outstanding Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in an Alternative Currency be prepaid, or redenominated into Dollars in the amount of the Dollar Equivalent thereof, on the last day of the then current Interest Period with respect thereto.
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(d) The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the Company and the Lenders of the interest rate applicable to any Interest Period for Eurocurrency Rate Loans upon determination of such interest rate. At any time that Base Rate Loans are outstanding, the Administrative Agent shall notify the Company and the Lenders of any change in Bank of Americas prime rate used in determining the Base Rate promptly following the public announcement of such change.
(e) After giving effect to all Revolving Credit (USD) Borrowings, all conversions of Revolving Credit (USD) Loans from one Type to the other, and all continuations of Revolving Credit (USD) Loans as the same Type, there shall not be more than eight Interest Periods in effect with respect to Revolving Credit (USD) Loans. After giving effect to all Revolving Credit (MC) Borrowings, all conversions of Revolving Credit (MC) Loans from one Type to the other, and all continuations of Revolving Credit (MC) Loans as the same Type, there shall not be more than four Interest Periods in effect with respect to Revolving Credit (MC) Loans. After giving effect to all Term Loan Borrowings, all conversions of Term Loans from one Type to the other, and all continuations of Term Loans as the same Type, there shall not be more than eight Interest Periods in effect with respect to Term Loans.
(f) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, any Lender may exchange, continue or rollover all of the portion of its Loans in connection with any refinancing, extension, loan modification or similar transaction permitted by the terms of this Agreement, pursuant to a cashless settlement mechanism approved by the Company, the Administrative Agent, and such Lender.
2.03 Letters of Credit.
(a) The Letter of Credit Commitment.
(i) Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, (A) each L/C Issuer agrees, in reliance upon the agreements of the Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders set forth in this Section 2.03, (1) from time to time on any Business Day during the period from the Closing Date until the Letter of Credit Expiration Date, to issue Letters of Credit denominated in Dollars or in one or more Alternative Currencies applicable to such L/C Issuer, for the account of the Company or its Subsidiaries, and to amend or extend Letters of Credit previously issued by it, in accordance with subsection (b) below, and (2) to honor drawings under the Letters of Credit; and (B) the Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders severally agree to participate in Letters of Credit issued for the account of the Company or its Subsidiaries and any drawings thereunder; provided that after giving effect to any L/C Credit Extension with respect to any Letter of Credit, (x) the Total Revolving Credit (USD) Outstandings shall not exceed the Aggregate Revolving Credit (USD) Commitments, (y) the Revolving Credit (USD) Exposure of any Lender shall not exceed such Lenders Revolving Credit (USD) Commitment, and (z) the Outstanding Amount of the L/C Obligations shall not exceed the Letter of Credit Sublimit. Each request by the Company for the issuance or amendment of a Letter of Credit shall be deemed to be a representation by the Company that the L/C Credit Extension so requested complies with the conditions set forth in the proviso to the preceding sentence. Within the foregoing limits, and subject to the terms and
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conditions hereof, the Companys ability to obtain Letters of Credit shall be fully revolving, and accordingly the Company may, during the foregoing period, obtain Letters of Credit to replace Letters of Credit that have expired or that have been drawn upon and reimbursed. All Existing Letters of Credit shall be deemed to have been issued pursuant hereto, and from and after the Closing Date shall be subject to and governed by the terms and conditions hereof.
(ii) No L/C Issuer shall issue any Letter of Credit if the expiry date of the requested Letter of Credit would occur after the Letter of Credit Expiration Date, unless all the Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders have approved such expiry date.
(iii) No L/C Issuer shall be under any obligation to issue any Letter of Credit if:
(A) any order, judgment or decree of any Governmental Authority or arbitrator shall by its terms purport to enjoin or restrain such L/C Issuer from issuing such Letter of Credit, or any Law applicable to such L/C Issuer or any request or directive (whether or not having the force of law) from any Governmental Authority with jurisdiction over such L/C Issuer shall prohibit, or request that such L/C Issuer refrain from, the issuance of letters of credit generally or such Letter of Credit in particular or shall impose upon such L/C Issuer with respect to such Letter of Credit any restriction, reserve or capital requirement (for which such L/C Issuer is not otherwise compensated hereunder) not in effect on the Closing Date, or shall impose upon such L/C Issuer any unreimbursed loss, cost or expense that was not applicable on the Closing Date and that such L/C Issuer in good faith deems material to it;
(B) the issuance of such Letter of Credit would violate one or more policies of such L/C Issuer applicable to letters of credit generally;
(C) except as otherwise agreed by the Administrative Agent and such L/C Issuer, such Letter of Credit is in an initial stated amount less than $50,000;
(D) such Letter of Credit is to be denominated in a currency other than Dollars or an Alternative Currency applicable to such L/C Issuer;
(E) such L/C Issuer does not as of the issuance date of the requested Letter of Credit issue letters of credit in the requested currency;
(F) any Revolving Credit (USD) Lender is at that time a Defaulting Lender, unless the L/C Issuers have entered into arrangements, including the delivery of Cash Collateral, satisfactory to the L/C Issuers (in their sole discretion) with the Company or such Revolving Credit (USD) Lender to eliminate the L/C Issuers actual or potential Fronting Exposure (after giving effect to Section 2.17(a)(iv)) with respect to the Defaulting Lender arising from either the Letter of Credit then proposed to be issued or that Letter of Credit and all other L/C Obligations as to which the L/C Issuers have actual or potential Fronting Exposure, as they may elect in their sole discretion;
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(G) subject to Section 2.03(b)(iii), the expiry date of the requested Letter of Credit would occur more than twelve months after the date of issuance or last extension; or
(H) such Letter of Credit contains any provisions for automatic reinstatement of the stated amount after any drawing thereunder.
(iv) No L/C Issuer shall amend any Letter of Credit if such L/C Issuer would not be permitted at such time to issue such Letter of Credit in its amended form under the terms hereof.
(v) No L/C Issuer shall be under any obligation to amend any Letter of Credit if (A) such L/C Issuer would have no obligation at such time to issue such Letter of Credit in its amended form under the terms hereof, or (B) the beneficiary of the Letter of Credit does not accept the proposed amendment to such Letter of Credit.
(vi) Each L/C Issuer shall act on behalf of the Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders with respect to any Letters of Credit issued by it and the documents associated therewith, and each L/C Issuer shall have all of the benefits and immunities (A) provided to the Administrative Agent in Article IX with respect to any acts taken or omissions suffered by such L/C Issuer in connection with Letters of Credit issued by it or proposed to be issued by it and Issuer Documents pertaining to such Letters of Credit as fully as if the term Administrative Agent as used in Article IX included such L/C Issuer with respect to such acts or omissions, and (B) as additionally provided herein with respect to such L/C Issuer.
(b) Procedures for Issuance and Amendment of Letters of Credit; Auto-Extension Letters of Credit.
(i) Each Letter of Credit shall be issued or amended, as the case may be, upon the request of the Company delivered to the applicable L/C Issuer (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) in the form of a Letter of Credit Application, appropriately completed and signed by a Responsible Officer of the Company. Such Letter of Credit Application may be sent by facsimile, by United States mail, by overnight courier, by electronic transmission using the system provided by the applicable L/C Issuer, by personal delivery or by any other means acceptable to the applicable L/C Issuer. Such Letter of Credit Application must be received by the applicable L/C Issuer and the Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 a.m. at least two Business Days (or such later date and time as the Administrative Agent and such L/C Issuer may agree in a particular instance in their sole discretion) prior to the proposed issuance date or date of amendment, as the case may be. In the case of a request for an initial issuance of a Letter of Credit, such Letter of Credit Application shall specify in form and detail reasonably satisfactory to the applicable L/C Issuer: (A) the proposed issuance date of the requested Letter of Credit (which shall be a Business Day); (B) the amount and currency thereof; (C) the expiry date thereof; (D) the name and address of the beneficiary thereof; (E) the documents to be presented by such beneficiary in case of any drawing thereunder; (F) the full text of any certificate to be presented by such
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beneficiary in case of any drawing thereunder; (G) the purpose and nature of the requested Letter of Credit; and (H) such other matters as such L/C Issuer may reasonably require. In the case of a request for an amendment of any outstanding Letter of Credit, such Letter of Credit Application shall specify in form and detail reasonably satisfactory to the applicable L/C Issuer (A) the Letter of Credit to be amended; (B) the proposed date of amendment thereof (which shall be a Business Day); (C) the nature of the proposed amendment; and (D) such other matters as such L/C Issuer may require. Additionally, the Company shall furnish to the applicable L/C Issuer and the Administrative Agent such other documents and information pertaining to such requested Letter of Credit issuance or amendment, including any Issuer Documents, as such L/C Issuer or the Administrative Agent may reasonably require.
(ii) Promptly after receipt of any Letter of Credit Application, the applicable L/C Issuer will confirm with the Administrative Agent (by telephone or in writing) that the Administrative Agent has received a copy of such Letter of Credit Application from the Company and, if not, such L/C Issuer will provide the Administrative Agent with a copy thereof. Unless the applicable L/C Issuer has received written notice from any Revolving Credit (USD) Lender, the Administrative Agent or any Loan Party, at least one Business Day prior to the requested date of issuance or amendment of the applicable Letter of Credit, that one or more applicable conditions contained in Article IV shall not then be satisfied, then, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, such L/C Issuer shall, on the requested date, issue a Letter of Credit for the account of the Company (or the applicable Subsidiary) or enter into the applicable amendment, as the case may be, in each case in accordance with such L/C Issuers usual and customary business practices. Immediately upon the issuance of each Letter of Credit, each Revolving Credit (USD) Lender shall be deemed to, and hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees to, purchase from the applicable L/C Issuer a risk participation in such Letter of Credit in an amount equal to the product of such Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders Applicable Revolving Credit (USD) Percentage times the amount of such Letter of Credit.
(iii) If the Company so requests in any applicable Letter of Credit Application, each L/C Issuer may, in its sole and absolute discretion, agree to issue a Letter of Credit that has automatic extension provisions (each, an Auto-Extension Letter of Credit); provided that any such Auto-Extension Letter of Credit must permit such L/C Issuer to prevent any such extension at least once in each twelve-month period (commencing with the date of issuance of such Letter of Credit) by giving prior notice to the beneficiary thereof not later than a day (the Non-Extension Notice Date) in each such twelve-month period to be agreed upon at the time such Letter of Credit is issued. Unless otherwise directed by the applicable L/C Issuer, the Company shall not be required to make a specific request to such L/C Issuer for any such extension. Once an Auto-Extension Letter of Credit has been issued, the Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders shall be deemed to have authorized (but may not require) the applicable L/C Issuer to permit the extension of such Letter of Credit at any time to an expiry date not later than the Letter of Credit Expiration Date; provided, however, that no L/C Issuer shall permit any such extension if (A) such L/C Issuer has determined that it would not be permitted, or would have no obligation, at such time to issue such Letter of Credit in
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its revised form (as extended) under the terms hereof (by reason of the provisions of clause (ii) or (iii) of Section 2.03(a) or otherwise), or (B) it has received notice (which may be by telephone or in writing) on or before the day that is seven Business Days before the Non-Extension Notice Date (1) from the Administrative Agent that the Required Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders have elected not to permit such extension or (2) from the Administrative Agent, any Revolving Credit (USD) Lender or the Company that one or more of the applicable conditions specified in Section 4.02 is not then satisfied, and in each such case directing such L/C Issuer not to permit such extension.
(iv) Promptly after its delivery of any Letter of Credit or any amendment to a Letter of Credit to an advising bank with respect thereto or to the beneficiary thereof, each L/C Issuer will also deliver to the Company and the Administrative Agent a true and complete copy of such Letter of Credit or amendment.
(c) Drawings and Reimbursements; Funding of Participations.
(i) Upon receipt from the beneficiary of any Letter of Credit of any notice of a drawing under such Letter of Credit, the applicable L/C Issuer shall promptly notify the Company and the Administrative Agent thereof. In the case of a Letter of Credit denominated in an Alternative Currency, the Company shall reimburse the applicable L/C Issuer in such Alternative Currency, unless (A) such L/C Issuer (at its option) shall have specified in such notice that it will require reimbursement in Dollars, or (B) in the absence of any such requirement for reimbursement in Dollars, the Company shall have notified such L/C Issuer promptly following receipt of the notice of drawing that the Company will reimburse such L/C Issuer in Dollars. In the case of any such reimbursement in Dollars of a drawing under a Letter of Credit denominated in an Alternative Currency, the applicable L/C Issuer shall notify the Company of the Dollar Equivalent of the amount of the drawing promptly following the determination thereof. Not later than 11:00 a.m. on the date of any payment by the applicable L/C Issuer under a Letter of Credit to be reimbursed in Dollars, or the Applicable Time on the date of any payment by such L/C Issuer under a Letter of Credit to be reimbursed in an Alternative Currency (each such date, an Honor Date), the Company shall reimburse such L/C Issuer through the Administrative Agent in an amount equal to the amount of such drawing and in the applicable currency. In the event that (A) a drawing denominated in an Alternative Currency is to be reimbursed in Dollars pursuant to the second sentence in this Section 2.03(c)(i) and (B) the Dollar amount paid by the Company, whether on or after the Honor Date, shall not be adequate on the date of that payment to purchase in accordance with normal banking procedures a sum denominated in the Alternative Currency equal to the drawing, the Company agrees, as a separate and independent obligation, to indemnify the applicable L/C Issuer for the loss resulting from its inability on that date to purchase the Alternative Currency in the full amount of the drawing. If the Company fails to so reimburse the applicable L/C Issuer by such time, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Revolving Credit (USD) Lender of the Honor Date, the amount of the unreimbursed drawing (expressed in Dollars in the amount of the Dollar Equivalent thereof in the case of a Letter of Credit denominated in an Alternative Currency) (the Unreimbursed
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Amount), and the amount of such Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders Applicable Revolving Credit (USD) Percentage thereof. In such event, the Company shall be deemed to have requested a Revolving Credit (USD) Borrowing of Base Rate Loans to be disbursed on the Honor Date in an amount equal to the Unreimbursed Amount, without regard to the minimum and multiples specified in Section 2.02 for the principal amount of Base Rate Loans, but subject to the amount of the unutilized portion of the Aggregate Revolving Credit (USD) Commitments and the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 (other than the delivery of a Loan Notice). Any notice given by the applicable L/C Issuer or the Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section 2.03(c)(i) may be given by telephone if immediately confirmed in writing; provided that the lack of such an immediate confirmation shall not affect the conclusiveness or binding effect of such notice.
(ii) Each Revolving Credit (USD) Lender shall upon any notice pursuant to Section 2.03(c)(i) make funds available (and the Administrative Agent may apply Cash Collateral provided for this purpose) for the account of the applicable L/C Issuer, in Dollars, at the Administrative Agents Office for Dollar-denominated payments in an amount equal to its Applicable Revolving Credit (USD) Percentage of the Unreimbursed Amount not later than 1:00 p.m. on the Business Day specified in such notice by the Administrative Agent, whereupon, subject to the provisions of Section 2.03(c)(iii), each Revolving Credit (USD) Lender that so makes funds available shall be deemed to have made a Base Rate Revolving Credit (USD) Loan to the Company in such amount. The Administrative Agent shall remit the funds so received to the applicable L/C Issuer in Dollars.
(iii) With respect to any Unreimbursed Amount that is not fully refinanced by a Revolving Credit (USD) Borrowing of Base Rate Loans because the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 cannot be satisfied or for any other reason, the Company shall be deemed to have incurred from the applicable L/C Issuer an L/C Borrowing in the amount of the Unreimbursed Amount that is not so refinanced, which L/C Borrowing shall be due and payable on demand (together with interest) and shall bear interest at the Default Rate. In such event, each Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders payment to the Administrative Agent for the account of the applicable L/C Issuer pursuant to Section 2.03(c)(ii) shall be deemed payment in respect of its participation in such L/C Borrowing and shall constitute an L/C Advance from such Lender in satisfaction of its participation obligation under this Section 2.03.
(iv) Until each Revolving Credit (USD) Lender funds its Revolving Credit (USD) Loan or L/C Advance pursuant to this Section 2.03(c) to reimburse the applicable L/C Issuer for any amount drawn under any Letter of Credit, interest in respect of such Lenders Applicable Revolving Credit (USD) Percentage of such amount shall be solely for the account of such L/C Issuer.
(v) Each Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders obligation to make Revolving Credit (USD) Loans or L/C Advances to reimburse the applicable L/C Issuer for amounts drawn under Letters of Credit, as contemplated by this Section 2.03(c), shall be absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance, including
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(A) any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other right which such Lender may have against such L/C Issuer, the Company, any Subsidiary or any other Person for any reason whatsoever; (B) the occurrence or continuance of a Default; or (C) any other occurrence, event or condition, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing; provided, however, that each Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders obligation to make Revolving Credit (USD) Loans pursuant to this Section 2.03(c) is subject to the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 (other than delivery by the Company of a Loan Notice). No such making of an L/C Advance shall relieve or otherwise impair the obligation of the Company to reimburse the applicable L/C Issuer for the amount of any payment made by such L/C Issuer under any Letter of Credit, together with interest as provided herein.
(vi) If any Revolving Credit (USD) Lender fails to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the applicable L/C Issuer any amount required to be paid by such Lender pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.03(c) by the time specified in Section 2.03(c)(ii), then, without limiting the other provisions of this Agreement, such L/C Issuer shall be entitled to recover from such Lender (acting through the Administrative Agent), on demand, such amount with interest thereon for the period from the date such payment is required to the date on which such payment is immediately available to such L/C Issuer at a rate per annum equal to the applicable Overnight Rate from time to time in effect, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by such L/C Issuer in connection with the foregoing. If such Lender pays such amount (with interest and fees as aforesaid), the amount so paid shall constitute such Lenders Revolving Credit (USD) Loan included in the relevant Revolving Credit (USD) Borrowing or L/C Advance in respect of the relevant L/C Borrowing, as the case may be. A certificate of the applicable L/C Issuer submitted to any Revolving Credit (USD) Lender (through the Administrative Agent) with respect to any amounts owing under this clause (vi) shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
(d) Repayment of Participations.
(i) At any time after an L/C Issuer has made a payment under any Letter of Credit and has received from any Revolving Credit (USD) Lender such Lenders L/C Advance in respect of such payment in accordance with Section 2.03(c), if the Administrative Agent receives for the account of such L/C Issuer any payment in respect of the related Unreimbursed Amount or interest thereon (whether directly from the Company or otherwise, including proceeds of Cash Collateral applied thereto by the Administrative Agent), the Administrative Agent will distribute to such Lender its Applicable Revolving Credit (USD) Percentage thereof in Dollars and in the same funds as those received by the Administrative Agent.
(ii) If any payment received by the Administrative Agent for the account of any L/C Issuer pursuant to Section 2.03(c)(i) is required to be returned under any of the circumstances described in Section 10.05 (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by such L/C Issuer in its discretion), each Revolving Credit (USD) Lender shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such L/C Issuer its Applicable
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Revolving Credit Percentage thereof on demand of the Administrative Agent, plus interest thereon from the date of such demand to the date such amount is returned by such Lender, at a rate per annum equal to the applicable Overnight Rate from time to time in effect. The obligations of the Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders under this clause shall survive the payment in full of the Obligations and the termination of this Agreement.
(e) Obligations Absolute. The obligation of the Company to reimburse each L/C Issuer for each drawing under each Letter of Credit made by such L/C Issuer and to repay each L/C Borrowing shall be absolute, unconditional and irrevocable, and shall be paid strictly in accordance with the terms of this Agreement under all circumstances, including the following:
(i) any lack of validity or enforceability of such Letter of Credit, this Agreement, or any other Loan Document;
(ii) the existence of any claim, counterclaim, setoff, defense or other right that the Company or any Subsidiary may have at any time against any beneficiary or any transferee of such Letter of Credit (or any Person for whom any such beneficiary or any such transferee may be acting), any L/C Issuer or any other Person, whether in connection with this Agreement, the transactions contemplated hereby or by such Letter of Credit or any agreement or instrument relating thereto, or any unrelated transaction;
(iii) any draft, demand, certificate or other document presented under such Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect; or any loss or delay in the transmission or otherwise of any document required in order to make a drawing under such Letter of Credit;
(iv) waiver by any L/C Issuer of any requirement that exists for such L/C Issuers protection and not the protection of the Company or any waiver by any L/C Issuer which does not in fact materially prejudice the Company;
(v) honor of a demand for payment presented electronically even if such Letter of Credit requires that demand be in the form of a draft;
(vi) any payment made by any L/C Issuer in respect of an otherwise complying item presented after the date specified as the expiration date of, or the date by which documents must be received under such Letter of Credit if presentation after such date is authorized by the UCC or the ISP, as applicable;
(vii) any payment by such L/C Issuer under such Letter of Credit against presentation of a draft or certificate that does not strictly comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit; or any payment made by such L/C Issuer under such Letter of Credit to any Person purporting to be a trustee in bankruptcy, debtor-in-possession, assignee for the benefit of creditors, liquidator, receiver or other representative of or successor to any beneficiary or any transferee of such Letter of Credit, including any arising in connection with any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law;
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(viii) any adverse change in the relevant exchange rates or in the availability of the relevant Alternative Currency to the Company or any Subsidiary or in the relevant currency markets generally; or
(ix) any other circumstance or happening whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing, including any other circumstance that might otherwise constitute a defense available to, or a discharge of, the Company or any Subsidiary;
provided, however, that anything in the foregoing to the contrary notwithstanding, the Company may have a claim against an L/C Issuer, and an L/C Issuer may be liable to the Company, to the extent, but only to the extent, of any direct, as opposed to consequential or exemplary, damages suffered by the Company which the Company proves were caused by such L/C Issuers willful misconduct or gross negligence or such L/C Issuers willful failure to pay under any Letter of Credit after the presentation to it by the beneficiary of a sight draft and certificate(s) strictly complying with the terms and conditions of a Letter of Credit.
The Company shall promptly examine a copy of each Letter of Credit and each amendment thereto that is delivered to it and, in the event of any claim of noncompliance with the Companys instructions or other irregularity, the Company will promptly notify the applicable L/C Issuer. The Company shall be conclusively deemed to have waived any such claim against the applicable L/C Issuer and its correspondents unless such notice is given as aforesaid.
(f) Role of L/C Issuers. Each Lender and the Company agree that, in paying any drawing under a Letter of Credit, no L/C Issuer shall have any responsibility to obtain any document (other than any sight draft, certificates and documents expressly required by the Letter of Credit) or to ascertain or inquire as to the validity or accuracy of any such document or the authority of the Person executing or delivering any such document. None of the L/C Issuers, the Administrative Agent, any of their respective Related Parties nor any correspondent, participant or assignee of any L/C Issuer shall be liable to any Lender for (i) any action taken or omitted in connection herewith at the request or with the approval of the Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders or the Required Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders, as applicable; (ii) any action taken or omitted in the absence of gross negligence or willful misconduct; or (iii) the due execution, effectiveness, validity or enforceability of any document or instrument related to any Letter of Credit or Issuer Document. The Company hereby assumes all risks of the acts or omissions of any beneficiary or transferee with respect to its use of any Letter of Credit; provided, however, that this assumption is not intended to, and shall not, preclude the Companys pursuing such rights and remedies as it may have against the beneficiary or transferee at law or under any other agreement. None of the L/C Issuers, the Administrative Agent, any of their respective Related Parties nor any correspondent, participant or assignee of any L/C Issuer shall be liable or responsible for any of the matters described in clauses (i) through (viii) of Section 2.03(e); provided, however, that anything in such clauses to the contrary notwithstanding, the Company may have a claim against an L/C Issuer, and an L/C Issuer may be liable to the Company, to the extent, but only to the extent, of any direct, as opposed to consequential or exemplary, damages suffered by the Company which the Company proves were caused by such L/C Issuers willful misconduct or gross negligence or such L/C Issuers willful failure to pay under any Letter of Credit after the
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presentation to it by the beneficiary of a sight draft and certificate(s) strictly complying with the terms and conditions of a Letter of Credit. In furtherance and not in limitation of the foregoing, each L/C Issuer may accept documents that appear on their face to be in order, without responsibility for further investigation, regardless of any notice or information to the contrary, and no L/C Issuer shall be responsible for the validity or sufficiency of any instrument transferring or assigning or purporting to transfer or assign a Letter of Credit or the rights or benefits thereunder or proceeds thereof, in whole or in part, which may prove to be invalid or ineffective for any reason. Each L/C Issuer 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.
(g) Applicability of ISP; Limitation of Liability. Unless otherwise expressly agreed by the applicable L/C Issuer and the Company when a Letter of Credit is issued (including any such agreement applicable to an Existing Letter of Credit), the rules of the ISP shall apply to each standby Letter of Credit issued by such L/C Issuer. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no L/C Issuer shall be responsible to the Company for, and no L/C Issuers rights and remedies against the Company shall be impaired by, any action or inaction of such L/C Issuer 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 such L/C Issuer or the beneficiary is located, the practice stated in the ISP 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.
(h) Letter of Credit Fees. The Company shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Revolving Credit (USD) Lender in accordance, subject to Section 2.17, with its Applicable Revolving Credit (USD) Percentage, in Dollars, a Letter of Credit fee (the Letter of Credit Fee) for each Letter of Credit equal to the Applicable Rate times the Dollar Equivalent of daily amount available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit. For purposes of computing the daily 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. 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 Letter of Credit Expiration Date and thereafter on demand and (ii) computed on a quarterly basis in arrears. If there is any change in the Applicable Rate during any quarter, the daily amount available to be drawn under each Letter of Credit shall be computed and multiplied by the Applicable Rate separately for each period during such quarter that such Applicable Rate was in effect. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, upon the request of the Required Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders, while any Event of Default exists, all Letter of Credit Fees shall accrue at the Default Rate.
(i) Fronting Fee and Documentary and Processing Charges Payable to an L/C Issuer. The Company shall pay directly to each L/C Issuer for its own account, in Dollars, a fronting fee with respect to each Letter of Credit issued by (A) Bank of America in its capacity as an L/C Issuer, at the rate per annum specified in the Fee Letter to which Bank of America is
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a party, computed on the Dollar Equivalent of the daily amount available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit on a quarterly basis in arrears and (B) any other L/C Issuer, at a rate separately agreed between the Company and such L/C Issuer, computed on the Dollar Equivalent of the daily amount available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit 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 Letter of Credit Expiration Date and thereafter on demand. For purposes of computing the daily 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. In addition, the Company shall pay directly to each L/C Issuer for its own account, in Dollars, the customary issuance, presentation, amendment and other processing fees, and other standard costs and charges, of such L/C Issuer relating to letters of credit as from time to time in effect. Such customary fees and standard costs and charges are due and payable on demand and are nonrefundable.
(j) Conflict with Issuer Documents. In the event of any conflict between the terms hereof and the terms of any Issuer Document, the terms hereof shall control.
(k) Letters of Credit Issued for Subsidiaries. Notwithstanding that a Letter of Credit issued or outstanding hereunder is in support of any obligations of, or is for the account of, a Subsidiary, the Company shall be obligated to reimburse the applicable L/C Issuer hereunder for any and all drawings under such Letter of Credit. The Company hereby acknowledges that the issuance of Letters of Credit for the account of Subsidiaries inures to the benefit of the Company, and that the Companys business derives substantial benefits from the businesses of such Subsidiaries.
(l) Letters of Credit Reports. For so long as any Letter of Credit issued by an L/C Issuer (other than Bank of America) is outstanding, such L/C Issuer shall deliver to the Administrative Agent on the last Business Day of each calendar month, and on each date that an L/C Credit Extension occurs with respect to any such Letter of Credit, a report in the form of Exhibit G, appropriately completed with the information for every outstanding Letter of Credit issued by such L/C Issuer.
2.04 Swing Line Loans.
(a) The Swing Line. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Swing Line Lender, in reliance upon the agreements of the other Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders set forth in this Section 2.04, may in its sole discretion, make loans (each such loan, a Swing Line Loan) to the Company, in Dollars, from time to time on any Business Day during the Availability Period in an aggregate amount not to exceed at any time outstanding the amount of the Swing Line Sublimit, notwithstanding the fact that such Swing Line Loans, when aggregated with the Applicable Revolving Credit (USD) Percentage of the Outstanding Amount of Revolving Credit (USD) Loans and L/C Obligations of the Lender acting as Swing Line Lender, may exceed the amount of such Lenders Revolving Credit (USD) Commitment; provided, however, that after giving effect to any Swing Line Loan, (i) the Total Revolving Credit (USD) Outstandings shall not exceed the Aggregate Revolving Credit (USD)
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Commitments, and (ii) the Revolving Credit (USD) Exposure of any Lender shall not exceed such Lenders Revolving Credit (USD) Commitment, and provided, further, that the Company shall not use the proceeds of any Swing Line Loan to refinance any outstanding Swing Line Loan. Within the foregoing limits, and subject to the other terms and conditions hereof, the Company may borrow under this Section 2.04, prepay under Section 2.05, and reborrow under this Section 2.04. Each Swing Line Loan shall be a Base Rate Loan. Immediately upon the making of a Swing Line Loan, each Revolving Credit (USD) Lender shall be deemed to, and hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees to, purchase from the Swing Line Lender a risk participation in such Swing Line Loan in an amount equal to the product of such Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders Applicable Revolving Credit (USD) Percentage times the amount of such Swing Line Loan.
(b) Borrowing Procedures. Each Swing Line Borrowing shall be made upon the Companys irrevocable notice to the Swing Line Lender and the Administrative Agent, which may be given by: (A) telephone or (B) a Swing Line Loan Notice; provided that any telephonic notice must be confirmed promptly by delivery to the Swing Line Lender and the Administrative Agent of a Swing Line Loan Notice. Each such notice must be received by the Swing Line Lender and the Administrative Agent not later than 1:00 p.m. on the requested borrowing date, and shall specify (i) the amount to be borrowed, which shall be a minimum of $100,000, and (ii) the requested borrowing date, which shall be a Business Day. Each such telephonic notice must be confirmed promptly by delivery to the Swing Line Lender and the Administrative Agent of a written Swing Line Loan Notice, appropriately completed and signed by a Responsible Officer of the Company. Promptly after receipt by the Swing Line Lender of any telephonic Swing Line Loan Notice, the Swing Line Lender will confirm with the Administrative Agent (by telephone or in writing) that the Administrative Agent has also received such Swing Line Loan Notice and, if not, the Swing Line Lender will notify the Administrative Agent (by telephone or in writing) of the contents thereof. Unless the Swing Line Lender has received notice (by telephone or in writing) from the Administrative Agent (including at the request of any Revolving Credit (USD) Lender) prior to 2:00 p.m. on the date of the proposed Swing Line Borrowing (A) directing the Swing Line Lender not to make such Swing Line Loan as a result of the limitations set forth in the first proviso to the first sentence of Section 2.04(a), or (B) that one or more of the applicable conditions specified in Article IV is not then satisfied, then, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the Swing Line Lender will, not later than 3:00 p.m. on the borrowing date specified in such Swing Line Loan Notice, make the amount of its Swing Line Loan available to the Company at its office by crediting the account of the Company on the books of the Swing Line Lender in Same Day Funds. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Swing Line Borrowings may be advanced without regard to the notice requirements, minimum amounts and other requirements set forth above in this Section 2.04(b) in accordance with and as set forth in any Treasury Management Agreement.
(c) Refinancing of Swing Line Loans.
(i) The Swing Line Lender at any time in its sole and absolute discretion may request, on behalf of the Company (which hereby irrevocably authorizes the Swing Line Lender to so request on its behalf), that each Revolving Credit (USD) Lender make a Base Rate Revolving Credit (USD) Loan in an amount equal to such Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders Applicable Revolving Credit (USD) Percentage of the amount
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of Swing Line Loans then outstanding. Such request shall be made in writing (which written request shall be deemed to be a Loan Notice for purposes hereof) and in accordance with the requirements of Section 2.02, without regard to the minimum and multiples specified therein for the principal amount of Base Rate Loans, but subject to the unutilized portion of the Aggregate Revolving Credit (USD) Commitments and the conditions set forth in Section 4.02. The Swing Line Lender shall furnish the Company with a copy of the applicable Loan Notice promptly after delivering such notice to the Administrative Agent. Each Revolving Credit (USD) Lender shall make an amount equal to its Applicable Revolving Credit (USD) Percentage of the amount specified in such Loan Notice available to the Administrative Agent in Same Day Funds for the account of the Swing Line Lender at the Administrative Agents Office for Dollar-denominated payments not later than 1:00 p.m. on the day specified in such Loan Notice, whereupon, subject to Section 2.04(c)(ii), each Revolving Credit (USD) Lender that so makes funds available shall be deemed to have made a Base Rate Revolving Credit (USD) Loan to the Company in such amount. The Administrative Agent shall remit the funds so received to the Swing Line Lender.
(ii) If for any reason any Swing Line Loan cannot be refinanced by such a Revolving Credit (USD) Borrowing in accordance with Section 2.04(c)(i), the request for Base Rate Revolving Credit (USD) Loans submitted by the Swing Line Lender as set forth herein shall be deemed to be a request by the Swing Line Lender that each of the Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders fund its risk participation in the relevant Swing Line Loan and each Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders payment to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Swing Line Lender pursuant to Section 2.04(c)(i) shall be deemed payment in respect of such participation.
(iii) If any Revolving Credit (USD) Lender fails to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Swing Line Lender any amount required to be paid by such Lender pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.04(c) by the time specified in Section 2.04(c)(i), the Swing Line Lender shall be entitled to recover from such Lender (acting through the Administrative Agent), on demand, such amount with interest thereon for the period from the date such payment is required to the date on which such payment is immediately available to the Swing Line Lender at a rate per annum equal to the applicable Overnight Rate from time to time in effect, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by the Swing Line Lender in connection with the foregoing. If such Revolving Credit (USD) Lender pays such amount (with interest and fees as aforesaid), the amount so paid shall constitute such Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders Revolving Credit (USD) Loan included in the relevant Revolving Credit (USD) Borrowing or funded participation in the relevant Swing Line Loan, as the case may be. A certificate of the Swing Line Lender submitted to any Lender (through the Administrative Agent) with respect to any amounts owing under this clause (iii) shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
(iv) Each Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders obligation to make Revolving Credit (USD) Loans or to purchase and fund risk participations in Swing Line Loans pursuant to this Section 2.04(c) shall be absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance, including (A) any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment,
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defense or other right which such Lender may have against the Swing Line Lender, the Company or any other Person for any reason whatsoever, (B) the occurrence or continuance of a Default, or (C) any other occurrence, event or condition, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing; provided, however, that each Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders obligation to make Revolving Credit (USD) Loans pursuant to this Section 2.04(c) is subject to the conditions set forth in Section 4.02. No such funding of risk participations shall relieve or otherwise impair the obligation of the Company to repay Swing Line Loans, together with interest as provided herein.
(d) Repayment of Participations.
(i) At any time after any Revolving Credit (USD) Lender has purchased and funded a risk participation in a Swing Line Loan, if the Swing Line Lender receives any payment on account of such Swing Line Loan, the Swing Line Lender will distribute to such Revolving Credit (USD) Lender its Applicable Revolving Credit (USD) Percentage thereof in the same funds as those received by the Swing Line Lender.
(ii) If any payment received by the Swing Line Lender in respect of principal or interest on any Swing Line Loan is required to be returned by the Swing Line Lender under any of the circumstances described in Section 10.05 (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by the Swing Line Lender in its discretion), each Revolving Credit (USD) Lender shall pay to the Swing Line Lender its Applicable Revolving Credit (USD) Percentage thereof on demand of the Administrative Agent, plus interest thereon from the date of such demand to the date such amount is returned, at a rate per annum equal to the applicable Overnight Rate. The Administrative Agent will make such demand upon the request of the Swing Line Lender. The obligations of the Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders under this clause shall survive the payment in full of the Obligations and the termination of this Agreement.
(e) Interest for Account of Swing Line Lender. The Swing Line Lender shall be responsible for invoicing the Company for interest on the Swing Line Loans. Until each Revolving Credit (USD) Lender funds its Base Rate Revolving Credit (USD) Loan or risk participation pursuant to this Section 2.04 to refinance such Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders Applicable Revolving Credit (USD) Percentage of any Swing Line Loan, interest in respect of such Applicable Revolving Credit (USD) Percentage shall be solely for the account of the Swing Line Lender.
(f) Payments Directly to Swing Line Lender. The Company shall make all payments of principal and interest in respect of the Swing Line Loans directly to the Swing Line Lender.
2.05 Prepayments.
(a) Optional.
(i) Each Borrower may, upon notice from the Company to the Administrative Agent pursuant to delivery to the Administrative Agent of a Notice of Loan Prepayment, at any time or from time to time voluntarily prepay Revolving Credit
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(USD) Loans, Revolving Credit (MC) Loans and Term 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 11:00 a.m. (1) three Business Days prior to any date of prepayment of Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in Dollars, (2) four Business Days (or five, in the case of prepayment of Loans denominated in Special Notice Currencies) prior to any date of prepayment of Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in Alternative Currencies and (3) on the date of prepayment of Base Rate Loans; (B) any prepayment of Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in Dollars shall be in a principal amount of $1,000,000 or a whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof; (C) any prepayment of Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in Alternative Currencies shall be in a minimum principal amount of $1,000,000 or a whole multiple thereof; and (D) 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 Eurocurrency 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 (based on such Lenders Applicable Percentage in respect of the relevant Facility). If such notice is given by the Company, the applicable Borrower shall make such prepayment and the payment amount specified in such notice shall be due and payable on the date specified therein. Any prepayment of a Eurocurrency 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 the outstanding Term Loans pursuant to this Section 2.05(a) shall be applied to the principal repayment installments thereof on a pro rata basis. Subject to Section 2.17, each such prepayment shall be paid to the Lenders in accordance with their respective Applicable Percentages in respect of each of the relevant Facilities.
(ii) The Company may, upon notice to the Swing Line Lender pursuant to delivery to the Swingline Lender of a Notice of Loan Prepayment (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), at any time or from time to time, voluntarily prepay Swing Line Loans in whole or in part without premium or penalty; provided that (A) such notice must be received by the Swing Line Lender and the Administrative Agent not later than 1:00 p.m. on the date of the prepayment, and (B) any such prepayment shall be in a minimum principal amount of $100,000. Each such notice shall specify the date and amount of such prepayment. If such notice is given by the Company, the Company shall make such prepayment and the payment amount specified in such notice shall be due and payable on the date specified therein. Notwithstanding the foregoing, Swing Line Borrowings may be repaid without regard to the notice requirements, minimum amounts and other requirements set forth above in this Section 2.04(a)(ii) in accordance with and as set forth in any Treasury Management Agreement.
(b) Mandatory.
(i) If the Company or any of its Subsidiaries Disposes of any property (other than any Disposition of any property permitted by Section 7.05(a), (b), (c), (d) or
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(e)) which results in the realization by such Person of Net Cash Proceeds in excess of $2,500,000 in a given transaction or series of related transactions, the Company shall prepay Term Loans and, if so provided in the applicable Additional Commitments Amendment, Additional Term Loans then outstanding in an amount equal to 100% of such Net Cash Proceeds immediately upon receipt thereof by such Person (such prepayment to be applied as set forth in clause (iv) below); provided, however, that, with respect to any Net Cash Proceeds realized under a Disposition described in this Section 2.05(b)(i), at the election of the Company (as notified by the Company to the Administrative Agent on or prior to the date of such Disposition), and so long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Company or such Subsidiary may reinvest all or any portion of such Net Cash Proceeds in operating assets so long as (A) within 180 days after the receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds, a definitive agreement for the purchase of such assets shall have been entered into and (B) within 270 days after the receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds, such purchase shall have been consummated (as certified by the Company in writing to the Administrative Agent); and provided further, however, that any Net Cash Proceeds not subject to such definitive agreement or so reinvested shall be immediately applied to the prepayment of the Loans as set forth in this Section 2.05(b)(i).
(ii) Upon the incurrence or issuance by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries of any Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness expressly permitted to be incurred or issued pursuant to Section 7.03), the Company shall prepay Term Loans and, if so provided in the applicable Additional Commitments Amendment, Additional Term Loans then outstanding in an amount equal to 100% of all Net Cash Proceeds received therefrom immediately upon receipt thereof by the Company or such Subsidiary (such prepayment to be applied as set forth in clause (iv) below).
(iii) Upon any Extraordinary Receipt received by or paid to or for the account of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, and not otherwise included in clause (i) or (ii) of this Section 2.05(b) which results in the realization by such Person of Net Cash Proceeds in excess of $2,500,000, the Company shall prepay Term Loans and, if so provided in the applicable Additional Commitments Amendment, Additional Term Loans then outstanding in an amount equal to 100% of all Net Cash Proceeds received therefrom immediately upon receipt thereof by the Company or such Subsidiary (such prepayment to be applied as set forth in clause (iv) below); provided, however, that with respect to any proceeds of insurance, condemnation awards (or payments in lieu thereof) or indemnity payments, at the election of the Company (as notified by the Company to the Administrative Agent on or prior to the date of receipt of such insurance proceeds, condemnation awards or indemnity payments), and so long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the Company or such Subsidiary may utilize such insurance proceeds, condemnation awards or payments within 270 days after the receipt of such cash proceeds to replace or repair the equipment, fixed assets or real property in respect of which such Net Cash Proceeds were received; and provided, further, however, that any Net Cash Proceeds not so utilized shall be immediately applied to the prepayment of the Loans as set forth in this Section 2.05(b)(iii).
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(iv) Excess Cash Flow. After the end of each fiscal year (commencing with the fiscal year ending December 31, 2016), within ten (10) Business Days after the delivery of the financial statements and related Compliance Certificate for such fiscal year pursuant to Section 6.01(a) and Section 6.02(a), the Company shall prepay Term Loans and, if so provided in the applicable Additional Commitments Amendment, Additional Term Loans then outstanding in an amount equal to (A) the Applicable Excess Cash Flow Percentage times Excess Cash Flow for the fiscal year covered by such financial statements minus (B) the aggregate amount of all optional prepayments of any Term Loan during such fiscal year pursuant to Section 2.05(a)(i), solely to the extent that such prepayments are not funded with the incurrence of any Indebtedness or any amounts that are, or may become, the subject of any other mandatory prepayment pursuant to this Section 2.05(b). For the purpose hereof, Applicable Excess Cash Flow Percentage means, for any fiscal year, (a) 50% if the Consolidated Leverage Ratio as of the end of such fiscal year is greater than or equal to 3.25 to 1.00, (b) 25% if the Consolidated Leverage Ratio as of the end of such fiscal year is less than 3.25 to 1.00 but greater than or equal to 3.00 to 1.00 and (c) 0% if the Consolidated Leverage Ratio as of the end of such fiscal year is less than 3.00 to 1.00.
(v) Each prepayment of Term Loans pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.05(b) shall be applied to the principal repayment installments of the Term Loans on a pro-rata basis (excluding from such calculation the final payment due at maturity). Subject to Section 2.17, such prepayments in respect of the Term Loan Facility shall be paid to the Lenders in accordance with their respective Applicable Percentages in respect of the Term Loan Facility. Each prepayment of Additional Term Loans pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.05(b) shall be applied to the principal repayment installments of the Additional Term Loans as set forth in the applicable Additional Commitments Amendment (or if not specified therein in the same manner as the Term Loans).
(vi) If for any reason the Total Revolving Credit (USD) Outstandings at any time exceed the Aggregate Revolving Credit (USD) Commitments at such time, the U.S. Borrowers shall immediately prepay Revolving Credit (USD) Loans, Swing Line Loans and L/C Borrowings and/or Cash Collateralize the L/C Obligations in an aggregate amount equal to such excess; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to Cash Collateralize the L/C Obligations pursuant to this Section 2.05(b)(vi) unless, after the prepayment of the Revolving Credit (USD) Loans and Swing Line Loans, the Total Revolving Credit (USD) Outstandings exceed the Aggregate Revolving Credit (USD) Commitments at such time.
(vii) If for any reason the Outstanding Amount of all Revolving Credit (MC) Loans at any time exceeds the Aggregate Revolving Credit (MC) Commitments at such time, the Borrowers shall immediately prepay Revolving Credit (MC) Loans in an aggregate amount equal to such excess.
(viii) Notwithstanding anything in this Section 2.05(b) to the contrary, no prepayment shall be required pursuant to (A) clause (i), (ii) or (iii) of this Section 2.05(b) as a result of any actions of a Foreign Subsidiary if such prepayment by such
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Foreign Subsidiary or the upstreaming of cash by such Foreign Subsidiary in order to make such prepayment would not be permitted by local law (e.g., financial assistance, corporate benefit, restrictions on upstreaming of cash intra-group and the fiduciary and statutory duties of the directors of such Foreign Subsidiary) and (B) clause (i) of this Section 2.05(b) as a result of the Disposition of assets by a Foreign Subsidiary or clause (iii) of this Section 2.05(b) as a result of the receipt of Extraordinary Receipts by a Foreign Subsidiary if, in either case, the Company and its Subsidiaries would suffer material adverse tax consequences (as determined in good faith by the Company) as a result of upstreaming cash to make any such prepayment (including the imposition of withholding taxes).
2.06 Termination or Reduction of Revolving Credit (USD) Commitments or Revolving Credit (MC) Commitments. The Company may, upon notice to the Administrative Agent, terminate the Aggregate Revolving Credit (USD) Commitments or Aggregate Revolving Credit (MC) Commitments, or from time to time permanently reduce the Aggregate Revolving Credit (USD) Commitments or Aggregate Revolving Credit (MC) Commitments; provided that (i) any such notice shall be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 a.m. five Business Days prior to the date of termination or reduction, (ii) any such partial reduction in the Aggregate Revolving Credit (USD) Commitments or the Aggregate Revolving Credit (MC) Commitments shall be in an aggregate amount of $5,000,000 or any whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof, (iii) the Company shall not (A) terminate or reduce the Aggregate Revolving Credit (USD) Commitments if, after giving effect thereto and to any concurrent prepayments hereunder, the Total Revolving Credit (USD) Outstandings would exceed the Aggregate Revolving Credit (USD) Commitments or (B) terminate or reduce the Aggregate Revolving Credit (MC) Commitments if, after giving effect thereto and to any concurrent prepayments hereunder, the Outstanding Amount of all Revolving Credit (MC) Loans would exceed the Aggregate Revolving Credit (MC) Commitments, and (iv) if, after giving effect to any reduction of the Aggregate Revolving Credit (USD) Commitments, the Letter of Credit Sublimit or the Swing Line Sublimit exceeds the amount of the Aggregate Revolving Credit (USD) Commitments, such Sublimit shall be automatically reduced by the amount of such excess. The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Lenders of any such notice of termination or reduction of the Aggregate Revolving Credit (USD) Commitments or the Aggregate Revolving Credit (MC) Commitments. Subject to clause (iv) of the proviso to the first sentence of this Section, the amount of any such Aggregate Revolving Credit (USD) Commitment reduction shall not be applied to the Letter of Credit Sublimit or the Swing Line Sublimit unless otherwise specified by the Company. Any reduction of the Aggregate Revolving Credit (USD) Commitments shall be applied to the Revolving Credit (USD) Commitment of each Lender according to its Applicable Revolving Credit (USD) Percentage. Any reduction of the Aggregate Revolving Credit (MC) Commitments shall be applied to the Revolving Credit (MC) Commitment of each Lender according to its Applicable Percentage with respect to the Revolving Credit (MC) Facility. All fees accrued until the effective date of any termination of the Aggregate Revolving Credit (USD) Commitments or Aggregate Revolving Credit (MC) Commitments, as the case may be, shall be paid on the effective date of such termination.
2.07 Repayment of Loans. (a) Term Loans. The Company shall repay to the Term Loan Lenders the aggregate principal amount of all Term Loans in quarterly principal installments as set forth on Schedule 2.07(a) (which principal amounts shall be reduced as a
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result of the application of prepayments in accordance with the order of priority set forth in Section 2.05); provided, however, that the final principal repayment installment of the Term Loans shall be repaid on the Maturity Date and in any event shall be in an amount equal to the aggregate principal amount of all Term Loans outstanding on such date.
(b) Revolving Credit (USD) Loans. Each U.S. Borrower shall repay to the Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders on the Maturity Date the aggregate principal amount of Revolving Credit (USD) Loans made to such U.S. Borrower outstanding on such date.
(c) Revolving Credit (MC) Loans. Each Borrower shall repay to the Revolving Credit (MC) Lenders on the Maturity Date the aggregate principal amount of Revolving Credit (MC) Loans made to such Borrower outstanding on such date.
(d) Swing Line Loans. The Company shall repay each Swing Line Loan on the earlier to occur of (i) the date ten Business Days after such Loan is made and (ii) the Maturity Date.
2.08 Interest. (a) Subject to the provisions of subsection (b) below, (i) each Eurocurrency Rate Loan shall bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof for each Interest Period at a rate per annum equal to the Eurocurrency Rate for such Interest Period plus the Applicable Rate; (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 Rate; and (iii) each Swing Line 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 Rate.
(b) (i) If any amount of principal of any Loan is not paid when due (without regard to any applicable grace periods), whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, such amount shall thereafter 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) While any Event of Default of the type described in Section 8.01(f) exists, the Borrowers shall pay interest on the principal amount of all outstanding Obligations hereunder at a fluctuating interest rate per annum at all times equal to the Default Rate to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws.
(iii) If any amount (other than principal of any Loan) payable by any Borrower under any Loan Document is not paid when due (without regard to any applicable grace periods), whether at stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise, then upon the request of the Required Term Loan Lenders (in the case of the Term Loan Facility), the Required Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders (in the case of the Revolving Credit (USD) Facility) or the Required Revolving Credit (MC) Lenders (in the case of the Revolving Credit (MC) Facility), as the case may be, such amount shall thereafter 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.
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(iv) Upon the request of the Required Term Loan Lenders (in the case of the Term Loan Facility), the Required Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders (in the case of the Revolving Credit (USD) Facility) or the Required Revolving Credit (MC) Lenders (in the case of the Revolving Credit (MC) Facility), as the case may be, while any Event of Default exists (other than as set forth in clauses (b)(i), (b)(ii) and (b)(iii) above), the Borrowers shall pay interest on the principal amount of all outstanding Obligations hereunder at a fluctuating interest rate per annum at all times equal to the Default Rate to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws.
(v) Accrued and unpaid interest on past due amounts (including interest on past due interest) shall be due and payable upon demand.
(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.
2.09 Fees. In addition to certain fees described in subsections (h) and (i) of Section 2.03:
(a) Commitment Fee.
(i) The Company shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Revolving Credit (USD) Lender in accordance with its Applicable Revolving Credit (USD) Percentage, a commitment fee equal to the Applicable Rate times the actual daily amount by which the Aggregate Revolving Credit (USD) Commitments exceed the sum of (i) the Outstanding Amount of Revolving Credit (USD) Loans and (ii) the Outstanding Amount of L/C Obligations, subject to adjustment as provided in Section 2.17. For the avoidance of doubt, the Outstanding Amount of Swing Line Loans shall not be counted towards or considered usage of the Aggregate Revolving Credit (USD) Commitments for purposes of determining the commitment fee. The commitment fee shall accrue at all times during the Availability Period with respect to the Revolving Credit (USD) Facility, including at any time during which one or more of the conditions in Article IV is not met, and shall be due and payable quarterly in arrears on the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December, commencing with the first such date to occur after the Closing Date, and on the last day of the Availability Period with respect to the Revolving Credit (USD) Facility. The commitment fee shall be calculated quarterly in arrears, and if there is any change in the Applicable Rate during any quarter, the actual daily amount shall be computed and multiplied by the Applicable Rate separately for each period during such quarter that such Applicable Rate was in effect.
(ii) The Company shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Revolving Credit (MC) Lender in accordance with its Applicable Percentage in respect of the Revolving Credit (MC) Facility, a commitment fee equal to the Applicable Rate times the actual daily amount by which the Aggregate Revolving
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Credit (MC) Commitments exceed the Outstanding Amount of Revolving Credit (MC) Loans, subject to adjustment as provided in Section 2.17. The commitment fee shall accrue at all times during the Availability Period with respect to the Revolving Credit (MC) Facility, including at any time during which one or more of the conditions in Article IV is not met, and shall be due and payable quarterly in arrears on the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December, commencing with the first such date to occur after the Closing Date, and on the last day of the Availability Period with respect to the Revolving Credit (MC) Facility. The commitment fee shall be calculated quarterly in arrears, and if there is any change in the Applicable Rate during any quarter, the actual daily amount shall be computed and multiplied by the Applicable Rate separately for each period during such quarter that such Applicable Rate was in effect.
(b) Other Fees. (i) The Company shall pay to the Arranger and the Administrative Agent for their own respective accounts fees in the amounts and at the times specified in the Fee Letters. Such fees shall be fully earned when paid and shall not be refundable for any reason whatsoever.
(ii) The Company shall pay to the Lenders such fees as shall have been separately agreed upon in writing in the amounts and at the times so specified. Such fees shall be fully earned when paid and shall not be refundable for any reason whatsoever.
2.10 Computation of Interest and Fees; Retroactive Adjustments of Applicable Rate. (a) All computations of interest for Base Rate Loans (including Base Rate Loans determined by reference to the Eurocurrency Rate) 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) or, in the case of interest in respect of Revolving Credit (MC) Loans denominated in Alternative Currencies as to which market practice differs from the foregoing, in accordance with such market practice. 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 2.12(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.
(b) If, as a result of any restatement of or other adjustment to the financial statements of the Company or for any other reason, the Company or the Lenders determine that (i) the Consolidated Leverage Ratio as calculated by the Company as of any applicable date was inaccurate and (ii) a proper calculation of the Consolidated Leverage Ratio would have resulted in higher pricing for such period, each Borrower shall immediately and retroactively be obligated to pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of the applicable Lenders or the applicable L/C Issuers, as the case may be, promptly on demand by the Administrative Agent (or, after the occurrence of an actual or deemed entry of an order for relief with respect to any Borrower under the Bankruptcy Code of the United States, automatically and without further action by the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any L/C Issuer), an amount equal to
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the excess of the amount of interest and fees that should have been paid for such period over the amount of interest and fees actually paid for such period. This paragraph shall not limit the rights of the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any L/C Issuer, as the case may be, under Section 2.03(c)(iii), 2.03(h) or 2.08(b) or under Article VIII. The Borrowers obligations under this paragraph shall survive the termination of the Aggregate Commitments and the repayment of all other Obligations hereunder.
2.11 Evidence of Debt. (a) 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 to a Borrower made through the Administrative Agent, such Borrower shall execute and deliver to such Lender (through the Administrative Agent) a Note, which shall evidence such Lenders Loans to such Borrower in addition to such accounts or records. Each Lender may attach schedules to a Note and endorse thereon the date, Type (if applicable), amount, currency and maturity of its Loans and payments with respect thereto.
(b) In addition to the accounts and records referred to in subsection (a), each Lender and the Administrative Agent shall maintain in accordance with its usual practice accounts or records evidencing the purchases and sales by such Lender of participations in Letters of Credit and Swing Line Loans. In the event of any conflict between the accounts and records maintained by the Administrative Agent and the accounts and records of any Lender in respect of such matters, the accounts and records of the Administrative Agent shall control in the absence of manifest error.
2.12 Payments Generally; Administrative Agents Clawback. (a) General. All payments to be made by the Borrowers shall be made free and clear of and without condition or deduction for any counterclaim, defense, recoupment or setoff. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein and except with respect to principal of and interest on Loans denominated in an Alternative Currency, 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 applicable Administrative Agents Office in Dollars and in Same Day Funds not later than 2:00 p.m. on the date specified herein. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all payments by the Borrowers hereunder with respect to principal and interest on Revolving Credit (MC) Loans denominated in an Alternative Currency shall be made to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the respective Lenders to which such payment is owed, at the applicable Administrative Agents Office in such Alternative Currency and in Same Day Funds not later than the Applicable Time specified by the Administrative Agent on the dates specified herein. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Administrative Agent may require (upon reasonable notice) that any payments due under this Agreement be made in the United States. If, for any reason, any Borrower is prohibited by any Law from making any required payment
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hereunder in an Alternative Currency, such Borrower shall make such payment in Dollars in the Dollar Equivalent of the Alternative Currency payment amount. The Administrative Agent will promptly distribute to each Lender its Applicable Percentage in respect of the relevant Facility (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 (i) after 2:00 p.m., in the case of payments in Dollars, or (ii) after the Applicable Time specified by the Administrative Agent in the case of payments in an Alternative Currency, shall in each case 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 any Borrower 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 in computing interest or fees, as the case may be.
(b) (i) Funding by Lenders; Presumption by Administrative Agent. Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from a Lender prior to the proposed date of any Borrowing of Eurocurrency 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 2.02 (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 2.02) and may, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the applicable Borrower a corresponding amount. In such event, if a Lender has not in fact made its share of the applicable Borrowing available to the Administrative Agent, then the applicable Lender and the applicable Borrower severally agree to pay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand such corresponding amount in Same Day Funds with interest thereon, for each day from and including the date such amount is made available to such Borrower 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 Overnight Rate, 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 such Borrower, the interest rate applicable to Base Rate Loans. If such Borrower 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 such Borrower the amount of such interest paid by such Borrower 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 such Borrower shall be without prejudice to any claim such Borrower 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 a Borrower prior to the date on which any payment is due to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Lenders or an L/C Issuer hereunder that such Borrower will not make such payment, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Borrower has made such payment on such date in accordance herewith and may, in reliance upon such assumption, distribute to the Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders, the Revolving Credit (MC) Lenders, the Term Loan Lenders or L/C Issuers, as the case may be, the amount due. In such event, if such Borrower has not in fact made such payment, then each of the Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders, the Revolving Credit (MC) Lenders, the Term Loan Lenders
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or the L/C Issuers, as the case may be, severally agrees to repay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand the amount so distributed to such Lender or such L/C Issuer, in Same Day 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 Overnight Rate.
A notice of the Administrative Agent to any Lender or Borrower 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 to any Borrower as provided in the foregoing provisions of this Article II, and such funds are not made available to such Borrower 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 Revolving Credit (USD) Loans, Revolving Credit (MC) Loans and Term Loans, to fund participations in Letters of Credit and Swing Line Loans and to make payments pursuant to Section 10.04(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 10.04(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 10.04(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.
2.13 Sharing of Payments by Lenders. If any Lender shall, by exercising any right of setoff or counterclaim or otherwise, obtain payment in respect of (a) Obligations in respect of any of the Facilities 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 in respect of the Facilities due and payable to all Lenders hereunder and under the other Loan Documents at such time) of payments on account of the Obligations in respect of the Facilities 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 in respect of any of the Facilities 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 in respect of the Facilities owing (but not due and payable) to all Lenders hereunder and under the other Loan Documents at such time) of payments on account of the Obligations in respect of the Facilities 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, in each case under clauses (a) and (b) above, the Lender
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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 and subparticipations in L/C Obligations and Swing Line 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 in respect of the Facilities then due and payable to the Lenders or owing (but not due and payable) to the Lenders, as the case may be, provided that:
(i) if any such participations or subparticipations are purchased and all or any portion of the payment giving rise thereto is recovered, such participations or subparticipations shall be rescinded and the purchase price restored to the extent of such recovery, without interest; and
(ii) the provisions of this Section shall not be construed to apply to (x) any payment made by or on behalf of a Borrower pursuant to and in accordance with the express terms of this Agreement (including the application of funds arising from the existence of a Defaulting Lender), (y) the application of Cash Collateral provided for in Section 2.17, or (z) any payment obtained by a Lender as consideration for the assignment of or sale of a participation in any of its Loans or subparticipations in L/C Obligations or Swing Line Loans to any assignee or participant, other than an assignment to the Company or any Subsidiary thereof (as to which the provisions of this Section shall apply).
Each Borrower 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 Borrower rights of setoff and counterclaim with respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender were a direct creditor of such Borrower in the amount of such participation.
2.14 Designated Borrowers.
(a) The Company may at any time, upon not less than fifteen (15) Business Days notice from the Company to the Administrative Agent (or such shorter period as may be agreed by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion), designate any wholly-owned Subsidiary of the Company (an Applicant Borrower) as a Designated Borrower to receive Revolving Credit (MC) Loans or Revolving Credit (USD) Loans, as the case may be, hereunder by delivering to the Administrative Agent (which shall promptly deliver counterparts thereof to each Revolving Credit (USD) Lender or Revolving Credit (MC) Lender, as applicable) a duly executed notice and agreement in substantially the form of Exhibit H (a Designated Borrower Request and Assumption Agreement). The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that prior to any Applicant Borrower becoming entitled to utilize the Revolving Credit (MC) Facility or the Revolving Credit (USD) Facility, as the case may be, (i) the Administrative Agent, each Revolving Credit (MC) Lender and, in the case of any Applicant Borrower that is a Domestic Subsidiary, each Revolving Credit (USD) Lender shall have approved such Applicant Borrower as a Designated Borrower and received all documentation and other information that such Person requests in order to comply with its ongoing obligations under applicable know your customer and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including the Act, (ii) the
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Administrative Agent, each Revolving Credit (MC) Lender and, in the case of any Applicant Borrower that is a Domestic Subsidiary, each Revolving Credit (USD) Lender shall have received such supporting resolutions, incumbency certificates, opinions of counsel and other documents or information, in form, content and scope reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, as may be required by the Administrative Agent, the Revolving Credit (MC) Lenders or the Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders in their sole discretion, and (iii) each Revolving Credit (MC) Lender shall have received Revolving Credit (MC) Notes and each Revolving Credit (USD) Lender shall have received Revolving Credit (USD) Notes, in each case signed by such new Borrowers to the extent requested thereby. If the Administrative Agent, the Revolving Credit (MC) Lenders and, in the case of any Applicant Borrower that is a Domestic Subsidiary, the Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders agree that an Applicant Borrower shall be entitled to receive Revolving Credit (MC) Loans or Revolving Credit (USD) Loans, as the case may be, hereunder, then promptly following receipt of all such requested resolutions, incumbency certificates, opinions of counsel and other documents or information, the Administrative Agent shall send a notice in substantially the form of Exhibit I (a Designated Borrower Notice) to the Company, the Revolving Credit (MC) Lenders and, in the case of any Applicant Borrower that is a Domestic Subsidiary, the Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders specifying the effective date upon which the Applicant Borrower shall constitute a Designated Borrower for purposes hereof, whereupon each of the Revolving Credit (MC) Lenders agrees to permit such Designated Borrower to receive Revolving Credit (MC) Loans hereunder and, in the case of any Applicant Borrower that is a Domestic Subsidiary, each of the Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders agrees to permit such Designated Borrower to receive Revolving Credit (USD) Loans hereunder, on the terms and conditions set forth herein, and each of the parties agrees that such Designated Borrower otherwise shall be a Borrower for all purposes of this Agreement; provided that no Loan Notice or Letter of Credit Application may be submitted by or on behalf of such Designated Borrower until the date five (5) Business Days after such effective date; and provided further that, effective as of the date hereof, (x) the Administrative Agent and the Revolving Credit (MC) Lenders hereby agree that each of the Netherlands Designated Borrowers may become a Designated Borrower hereunder and may receive Revolving Credit (MC) Loans for its account on the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement and (y) the Administrative Agent, the Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders and the Revolving Credit (MC) Lenders hereby agree that Met-Pro Technologies LLC, a Delaware limited liability company may become a Designated Borrower hereunder and may receive Revolving Credit (MC) Loans and Revolving Credit (USD) Loans for its account on the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement, in the case of each Person identified in the foregoing clauses (x) and (y), upon delivery of a duly executed Designated Borrower Request and Assumption Agreement and satisfaction of the conditions set forth in clauses (i) through (iii) of the second sentence this Section 2.14(a) without any requirement of further written consent from the Administrative Agent, the Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders or Revolving Credit (MC) Lenders.
(b) The Obligations of each U.S. Borrower shall be joint and several in nature. The Obligations of all Designated Borrowers that are Foreign Subsidiaries shall be several in nature.
(c) Each Subsidiary of the Company that is or becomes a Designated Borrower pursuant to this Section 2.14 hereby irrevocably appoints the Company as its agent for all
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purposes relevant to this Agreement and each of the other Loan Documents, including (i) the giving and receipt of notices, (ii) the execution and delivery of all documents, instruments and certificates contemplated herein and all modifications hereto, and (iii) the receipt of the proceeds of any Revolving Credit (USD) Loans or Revolving Credit (MC) Loans made by the Lenders to any such Designated Borrower hereunder. Any acknowledgment, consent, direction, certification or other action which might otherwise be valid or effective only if given or taken by all Borrowers, or by each Borrower acting singly, shall be valid and effective if given or taken only by the Company, whether or not any such other Borrower joins therein. Any notice, demand, consent, acknowledgement, direction, certification or other communication delivered to the Company in accordance with the terms of this Agreement shall be deemed to have been delivered to each Designated Borrower.
(d) The Company may from time to time, upon not less than fifteen (15) Business Days notice from the Company to the Administrative Agent (or such shorter period as may be agreed by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion), terminate a Designated Borrowers status as such, provided that there are no outstanding Loans payable by such Designated Borrower, or other amounts payable by such Designated Borrower on account of any Loans made to it, as of the effective date of such termination. The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Lenders of any such termination of a Designated Borrowers status.
2.15 Increase Option.
(a) Request for Increase. Upon notice to the Administrative Agent (which shall promptly notify the Lenders), at any time after the Closing Date, the Company may request additional Commitments (each an Additional Commitment and all of them, collectively, the Additional Commitments); provided that (x) after giving effect to any such addition, the aggregate amount of Additional Commitments that have been added pursuant to this Section 2.15 after the Closing Date shall not exceed $50,000,000, and (y) any such addition shall be in an aggregate amount of not less than $10,000,000 or any whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof (or, in either case, such lesser amount as may be acceptable to the Administrative Agent). Any loans made in respect of any such Additional Commitments (the Additional Loans) may be made, at the option of the Company, by either (i) increasing the Aggregate Revolving Credit (USD) Commitments with the same terms (including pricing) as the existing Revolving Credit (USD) Facility, or (ii) creating a new tranche of terms loans (any loans provided pursuant to such additional tranche, the Additional Term Loans) (it being understood that the Company has the absolute right to pursue Additional Commitments in accordance with this Section 2.15 and no Lender shall have the ability to block any such pursuit although no Lender shall be obligated to provide any Additional Commitments).
(b) Ranking and Other Provisions. The Additional Term Loans shall (i) rank pari passu in right of payment and in respect of lien priority as to the Collateral with the outstanding Loans, (ii) not have a weighted average life that is shorter than the weighted average life of the outstanding Term Loans, (iii) not mature earlier than the Maturity Date, and (iv) not contain additional or different financial or other covenants which are more restrictive in any material respect than the covenants applicable to the Term Loans unless either such covenants benefit all of the Lenders or are otherwise consented to by the Administrative Agent.
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(c) Notices; Lender Elections. Each notice from the Company pursuant to this Section shall set forth the requested amount and proposed terms of the Additional Commitments. Additional Commitments (or any portion thereof) may be made by any existing Lender or by any other bank or financial institution that is an Eligible Assignee (any such bank or other financial institution, together with any existing Lenders making any Additional Loans, the Additional Lenders), in each case on terms permitted in this Section and otherwise on terms reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent. At the time of the sending of such notice, the Company (in consultation with the Administrative Agent) shall specify the time period within which each Lender is requested to respond (which shall in no event be less than ten Business Days from the date of delivery of such notice to the Lenders). No Lender shall be obligated to provide any Additional Loans, unless it so agrees. Each Lender shall notify the Administrative Agent within such time period whether or not it agrees to provide an Additional Commitment and, if so, whether by an amount equal to, greater than, or less than its Applicable Percentage of such requested increase. Any Lender not responding within such time period shall be deemed to have declined to provide an Additional Commitment. The Administrative Agent shall notify the Company and each Lender of the Lenders responses to each request made hereunder. To achieve the full amount of a requested increase, the Company may also invite additional Eligible Assignees to become Lenders pursuant to a joinder agreement in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and its counsel.
(d) Additional Commitment Amendment. Additional Commitments shall become Commitments under this Agreement pursuant to an amendment (an Additional Commitment Amendment) to this Agreement and, as appropriate, the other Loan Documents, executed by the Borrowers, the other Loan Parties, each Additional Lender and the Administrative Agent. An Additional Commitment Amendment may, without the consent of any other Lenders, effect such amendments to any Loan Documents as may be necessary or appropriate, in the opinion of the Administrative Agent, to effect the provisions of this Section (including, without limitation, to incorporate the Additional Loans and Additional Commitments into the calculation of the Required Lenders, Required Facility Lenders and related provisions). Upon execution, the Administrative Agent shall provide a copy of any Additional Commitment Amendment to all Lenders.
(e) Effective Date and Allocations. If any Additional Commitments are added in accordance with this Section 2.15, the Administrative Agent and the Company shall determine the effective date (each, an Additional Commitments Effective Date) and the final allocation thereof. The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the Company, the existing Lenders and the Additional Lenders of the final allocation of such addition and the Additional Commitments Effective Date.
(f) Conditions to Effectiveness of Increase. The effectiveness of any Additional Commitment Amendment shall, unless otherwise agreed to by the Administrative Agent and each Additional Lender, be subject to the satisfaction on the date thereof (each, an Additional Commitments Closing Date) of each of the following conditions:
(i) the Administrative Agent shall have received on or prior to the Additional Commitments Closing Date each of the following, each dated the applicable Additional Commitments Closing Date unless otherwise indicated or agreed to by the
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Administrative Agent and each in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent: (A) the applicable Additional Commitment Amendment; and (B) a certificate of each Loan Party dated as of the Additional Commitments Closing Date signed by a Responsible Officer of such Loan Party certifying and attaching the resolutions adopted by the board of directors (or other appropriate governing body) of such Loan Party approving or consenting to the Additional Commitment Amendment and the Additional Commitments provided thereby, and in the case of the Company, certifying that, before and after giving effect to the Additional Commitment Amendment and the Additional Commitments provided thereby, (x) the representations and warranties contained in Article V and the other Loan Documents are true and correct on and as of the Additional Commitments Closing Date, except to the extent that such representations and warranties specifically refer to an earlier date, in which case they are true and correct as of such earlier date and except that for purposes of this Section 2.15, the representations and warranties contained in subsections (a) and (b) of Section 5.05 shall be deemed to refer to the most recent statements furnished pursuant to clauses (a) and (b), respectively, of Section 6.01, and (y) no Default exists or will result from the Additional Commitments or from the application of the proceeds thereof;
(ii) immediately after giving effect to such Additional Commitment Amendment, no Default shall exist;
(iii) the Company shall have delivered evidence to the Administrative Agent (which shall be reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent) that the Company and its Subsidiaries will be in pro forma compliance with all of the covenants set forth in Section 7.11 after giving effect to such Additional Commitment Amendment and the Indebtedness to be incurred in connection therewith; and
(iv) there shall have been paid to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders (including any Person becoming a Lender as part of such Additional Commitment Amendment on the related Additional Commitments Closing Date), as applicable, all fees and expenses (including reasonable and documented out-of-pocket fees, charges and disbursements of counsel) that are due and payable on or before the Additional Commitments Closing Date.
(g) Effect of Additional Commitment Amendment. On each Additional Commitments Closing Date, (i) each Eligible Assignee which is providing an Additional Commitment shall become a Lender for all purposes of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, (ii) each Additional Commitment shall become Commitments hereunder, (iii) each loan provided pursuant to an Additional Commitment shall be a Loan for all purposes of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and (iv) in the case of any increase of the Aggregate Revolving Credit (USD) Commitments, the Company shall prepay any Revolving Credit (USD) Loans outstanding (and pay any additional amounts required pursuant to Section 3.05) to the extent necessary to keep the outstanding Revolving Credit (USD) Loans ratable with any revised Applicable Revolving Credit (USD) Percentages arising from any nonratable increase in the Revolving Credit (USD) Commitments under this Section.
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(h) Conflicting Provisions. This Section shall supersede any provisions in Section 2.13 or 10.01 to the contrary.
2.16 Cash Collateral.
(a) Certain Credit Support Events. If (i) any L/C Issuer has honored any full or partial drawing request under any Letter of Credit and such drawing has resulted in an L/C Borrowing, (ii) as of the close of business on the Letter of Credit Expiration Date, any L/C Obligation for any reason remains outstanding, (iii) the Company shall be required to provide Cash Collateral pursuant to Section 8.02(c), or (iv) there shall exist a Defaulting Lender, the Company shall immediately (in the case of clause (iii) above) or within one Business Day (in all other cases) following any request by the Administrative Agent or any L/C Issuer, provide Cash Collateral in an amount not less than the applicable Minimum Collateral Amount (determined in the case of Cash Collateral provided pursuant to clause (iv) above, after giving effect to Section 2.17(a)(iv) and any Cash Collateral provided by the Defaulting Lender). Additionally, if the Administrative Agent notifies the Company at any time that the Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations at such time exceeds 103% of the Letter of Credit Sublimit then in effect, then, within two Business Days after receipt of such notice, the Company shall provide Cash Collateral for the Outstanding Amount of the L/C Obligations in an amount not less than the amount by which the Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations exceeds the Letter of Credit Sublimit.
(b) Grant of Security Interest. The Company, and to the extent provided by any Defaulting Lender, such Defaulting Lender, hereby grants to (and subjects to the control of) the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuers and the Lenders, and agrees to maintain, a first priority security interest in all such cash, deposit accounts and all balances therein, and all other property so provided as collateral pursuant hereto, and in all proceeds of the foregoing, all as security for the obligations to which such Cash Collateral may be applied pursuant to Section 2.16(c). If at any time the Administrative Agent determines that Cash Collateral is subject to any right or claim of any Person other than the Administrative Agent or the L/C Issuers as herein provided, or that the total amount of such Cash Collateral is less than the Minimum Collateral Amount, the Company will, promptly upon demand by the Administrative Agent, pay or provide to the Administrative Agent additional Cash Collateral in an amount sufficient to eliminate such deficiency. All Cash Collateral (other than credit support not constituting funds subject to deposit) shall be maintained in blocked, non-interest bearing deposit accounts at Bank of America. The Company shall pay on demand therefor from time to time all customary account opening, activity and other administrative fees and charges in connection with the maintenance and disbursement of Cash Collateral.
(c) Application. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, Cash Collateral provided under any of this Section 2.16 or Sections 2.03, 2.05, 2.17 or 8.02 in respect of Letters of Credit shall be held and applied to the satisfaction of the specific L/C Obligations, obligations to fund participations therein (including, as to Cash Collateral provided by any Defaulting Lender, any interest accrued on such obligation) and other obligations for which the Cash Collateral was so provided, prior to any other application of such property as may otherwise be provided for herein.
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(d) Release. Cash Collateral (or the appropriate portion thereof) provided to reduce Fronting Exposure or to secure other obligations shall be released promptly following (i) the elimination of the applicable Fronting Exposure or other obligations giving rise thereto (including by the termination of Defaulting Lender status of the applicable Lender (or, as appropriate, its assignee following compliance with Section 10.06(b)(vi))) or (ii) the determination by the Administrative Agent and the L/C Issuers that there exists excess Cash Collateral; provided, however, (x) any such release shall be without prejudice to, and any disbursement or other transfer of Cash Collateral shall be and remain subject to, any other Lien conferred under the Loan Documents and the other applicable provisions of the Loan Documents, and (y) the Person providing Cash Collateral and the L/C Issuers may agree that Cash Collateral shall not be released but instead held to support future anticipated Fronting Exposure or other obligations.
2.17 Defaulting Lenders.
(a) Adjustments. 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. Such Defaulting Lenders right to approve or disapprove any amendment, waiver or consent with respect to this Agreement shall be restricted as set forth in the definition of Required Lenders, Required Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders, Required Revolving Credit (MC) Lenders, Required Term Loan Lenders and Section 10.01.
(ii) Defaulting Lender Waterfall. Any payment of principal, interest, fees or other amounts received by the Administrative Agent for the account of such Defaulting Lender (whether voluntary or mandatory, at maturity, pursuant to Article VIII or otherwise) or received by the Administrative Agent from a Defaulting Lender pursuant to Section 10.08, 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 such Defaulting Lender to the Administrative Agent hereunder; second, to the payment on a pro rata basis of any amounts owing by such Defaulting Lender to any L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender hereunder; third, to Cash Collateralize the L/C Issuers Fronting Exposure with respect to such Defaulting Lender in accordance with Section 2.16; fourth, as the Company may request (so long as no Default or Event of Default exists), to the funding of any Loan in respect of which such 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 Company, to be held in a deposit account and released pro rata in order to (x) satisfy such Defaulting Lenders potential future funding obligations with respect to Loans under this Agreement and (y) Cash Collateralize the L/C Issuers future Fronting Exposure with respect to such Defaulting Lender with respect to future Letters of Credit issued under this Agreement, in accordance with Section 2.16; sixth, to the payment of any amounts owing to the Lenders, the L/C Issuers or the Swing Line Lender as a result of any judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction obtained by any Lender, any L/C Issuer or the Swing Line Lender against that Defaulting Lender as a result of that
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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 Company as a result of any judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction obtained by the Company against such Defaulting Lender as a result of such Defaulting Lenders breach of its obligations under this Agreement; and eighth, to such 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 Borrowings in respect of which such Defaulting Lender has not fully funded its appropriate share and (y) such Loans were made or the related Letters of Credit were issued 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 under the applicable Facility on a pro rata basis (and ratably among all applicable Facilities computed in accordance with the Defaulting Lenders respective funding deficiencies) prior to being applied to the payment of any Loans of, or L/C Obligations owed to, such Defaulting Lender under the applicable Facility until such time as all Loans and funded and unfunded participations in L/C Obligations and Swing Line Loans are held by the Lenders pro rata in accordance with the Commitments hereunder without giving effect to Section 2.17(a)(iv). 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 2.17(a)(ii) shall be deemed paid to and redirected by such Defaulting Lender, and each Lender irrevocably consents hereto.
(iii) Certain Fees.
(A) No Defaulting Lender shall be entitled to receive any fee payable under Section 2.09(a) for any period during which that Lender is a Defaulting Lender (and the Company shall not be required to pay any such fee that otherwise would have been required to have been paid to that Defaulting Lender).
(B) Each Defaulting Lender which is a Revolving Credit (USD) Lender shall be entitled to receive Letter of Credit Fees for any period during which that Lender is a Defaulting Lender only to the extent allocable to its Applicable Revolving Credit (USD) Percentage of the stated amount of Letters of Credit for which it has provided Cash Collateral pursuant to Section 2.16.
(C) With respect to any Letter of Credit Fee not required to be paid to any Defaulting Lender pursuant to clause (B) above, the Company shall (x) pay to each Non-Defaulting Lender which is a Revolving Credit (USD) Lender that portion of any such Letter of Credit Fee otherwise payable to such Defaulting Lender with respect to such Defaulting Lenders participation in L/C Obligations that has been reallocated to such Non-Defaulting Lender pursuant to clause (iv) below, (y) pay to the applicable L/C Issuer the amount of any such fee otherwise payable to such Defaulting Lender to the extent allocable to such L/C Issuers Fronting Exposure to such Defaulting Lender, and (z) not be required to pay the remaining amount of any such fee.
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(iv) Reallocation of Applicable Revolving Credit (USD) Percentages to Reduce Fronting Exposure. All or any part of such Defaulting Lenders participation in L/C Obligations and Swing Line Loans shall be reallocated among the Non-Defaulting Lenders which are Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders in accordance with their respective Applicable Revolving Credit (USD) Percentages (calculated without regard to such Defaulting Lenders Revolving Credit (USD) Commitment) but only to the extent that (x) the conditions set forth in Section 4.02 are satisfied at the time of such reallocation (and, unless the Company shall have otherwise notified the Administrative Agent at such time, the Company shall be deemed to have represented and warranted that such conditions are satisfied at such time), and (y) such reallocation does not cause the aggregate Revolving Credit (USD) Exposure of any Non-Defaulting Lender to exceed such Non-Defaulting Lenders Revolving Credit (USD) Commitment. No reallocation hereunder shall constitute a waiver or release of any claim of any party hereunder against a Defaulting Lender arising from that Lender having become a Defaulting Lender, including any claim of a Non-Defaulting Lender as a result of such Non-Defaulting Lenders increased exposure following such reallocation.
(v) Cash Collateral, Repayment of Swing Line Loans. If the reallocation described in clause (a)(iv) above cannot, or can only partially, be effected, the Company shall, without prejudice to any right or remedy available to it hereunder or under applicable Law, (x) first, prepay Swing Line Loans in an amount equal to the Swing Line Lenders Fronting Exposure and (y) second, Cash Collateralize the L/C Issuers Fronting Exposure in accordance with the procedures set forth in Section 2.16.
(b) Defaulting Lender Cure. If the Company, the Administrative Agent, and, in the case that a Defaulting Lender is a Revolving Credit (USD) Lender, the Swing Line Lender and the L/C Issuers agree in writing in their sole discretion that a Lender under any Facility is no longer 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 at par that portion of outstanding Loans of the other Lenders under such Facility or take such other actions as the Administrative Agent may determine to be necessary to cause the Loans under such Facility and, in the case of the Revolving Credit (USD) Facility, the funded and unfunded participations in Letters of Credit and Swing Line Loans to be held on a pro rata basis by the Lenders under such Facility in accordance with their Applicable Percentages (without giving effect to Section 2.17(a)(iv)), whereupon such 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 Company 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.
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ARTICLE III.
TAXES, YIELD PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY
3.01 Taxes.
(a) Payments Free of Taxes; Obligation to Withhold; Payments on Account of Taxes.
(i) Any and all payments by or on account of any obligation of any Loan Party under any Loan Document shall be made without deduction or withholding for any Taxes, except as required by applicable Laws. If any applicable Laws (as determined in the good faith discretion of the Administrative Agent) require the deduction or withholding of any Tax from any such payment by the Administrative Agent or a Loan Party, then the Administrative Agent or such Loan Party shall be entitled to make such deduction or withholding, upon the basis of the information and documentation to be delivered pursuant to subsection (e) below.
(ii) If any Loan Party or the Administrative Agent shall be required by the Code to withhold or deduct any Taxes, including both United States Federal backup withholding and withholding taxes, from any payment, then (A) the Administrative Agent shall withhold or make such deductions as are determined by the Administrative Agent to be required based upon the information and documentation it has received pursuant to subsection (e) below, (B) the Administrative Agent shall timely pay the full amount withheld or deducted to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with the Code, and (C) to the extent that the withholding or deduction is made on account of Indemnified Taxes, the sum payable by the applicable Loan Party shall be increased as necessary so that after any required withholding or the making of all required deductions (including deductions applicable to additional sums payable under this Section 3.01) the applicable Recipient receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such withholding or deduction been made.
(iii) If any Loan Party or the Administrative Agent shall be required by any applicable Laws other than the Code to withhold or deduct any Taxes from any payment, then (A) such Loan Party or the Administrative Agent, as required by such Laws, shall withhold or make such deductions as are determined by it to be required based upon the information and documentation it has received pursuant to subsection (e) below, (B) such Loan Party or the Administrative Agent, to the extent required by such Laws, shall timely pay the full amount withheld or deducted to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with such Laws, and (C) to the extent that the withholding or deduction is made on account of Indemnified Taxes, the sum payable by the applicable Loan Party shall be increased as necessary so that after any required withholding or the making of all required deductions (including deductions applicable to additional sums payable under this Section 3.01) the applicable Recipient receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such withholding or deduction been made.
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(b) Payment of Other Taxes by the Borrowers. Without limiting the provisions of subsection (a) above, each Borrower shall timely pay to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law, or at the option of the Administrative Agent timely reimburse it for the payment of, any Other Taxes.
(c) Tax Indemnifications.
(i) Each Borrower shall, and does hereby, indemnify each Recipient, and shall make payment in respect thereof within 10 Business Days after demand therefor, for the full amount of any Indemnified Taxes (including Indemnified Taxes imposed or asserted on or attributable to amounts payable under this Section 3.01) payable or paid by such Recipient or required to be withheld or deducted from a payment to such Recipient, and any penalties, interest and reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Indemnified Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A reasonably detailed certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to the Company by a Lender or an L/C Issuer (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), or by the Administrative Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of a Lender or an L/C Issuer, shall be conclusive absent manifest error. Each Borrower shall, and does hereby, indemnify the Administrative Agent, and shall make payment in respect thereof within 10 Business Days after demand therefor, for any amount which a Lender or an L/C Issuer for any reason fails to pay indefeasibly to the Administrative Agent as required pursuant to Section 3.01(c)(ii) below.
(ii) Each Lender and each L/C Issuer shall, and does hereby, severally indemnify, and shall make payment in respect thereof within 10 Business Days after demand therefor, (x) the Administrative Agent against any Indemnified Taxes attributable to such Lender or such L/C Issuer (but only to the extent that any Borrower has not already indemnified the Administrative Agent for such Indemnified Taxes and without limiting the obligation of each Borrower to do so), (y) the Administrative Agent and the Borrowers, as applicable, against any Taxes attributable to such Lenders failure to comply with the provisions of Section 10.06(d) relating to the maintenance of a Participant Register and (z) the Administrative Agent and the Borrowers, as applicable, against any Excluded Taxes attributable to such Lender or such L/C Issuer, in each case, that are payable or paid by the Administrative Agent or a Borrower in connection with any Loan Document, and any reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such 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 any Lender by the Administrative Agent shall be conclusive absent manifest error. Each Lender and each L/C Issuer hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent to set off and apply any and all amounts at any time owing to such Lender or such L/C Issuer, as the case may be, under this Agreement or any other Loan Document against any amount due to the Administrative Agent under this clause (ii).
(d) Evidence of Payments. Upon request by the Company or the Administrative Agent, as the case may be, after any payment of Taxes by any Borrower or by the
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Administrative Agent to a Governmental Authority as provided in this Section 3.01, the Company shall deliver to the Administrative Agent or the Administrative Agent shall deliver to the Company, as the case may be, the original or a copy of a receipt issued by such Governmental Authority evidencing such payment, a copy of any return required by Laws to report such payment or other evidence of such payment reasonably satisfactory to the Company or the Administrative Agent, as the case may be.
(e) Status of Lenders; Tax Documentation.
(i) Any Lender that is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of withholding Tax with respect to payments made under any Loan Document shall deliver to the Company and the Administrative Agent, at the time or times reasonably requested by the Company or the Administrative Agent, such properly completed and executed documentation prescribed by applicable law or the taxing authorities of a jurisdiction pursuant to such applicable law or reasonably requested by the Company or the Administrative Agent as will permit such payments to be made without withholding or at a reduced rate of withholding. In addition, any Lender, if reasonably requested by the Company or the Administrative Agent, shall deliver such other documentation prescribed by applicable law or reasonably requested by the Company or the Administrative Agent as will enable the Company or the Administrative Agent to determine whether or not such Lender is subject to backup withholding or information reporting requirements. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the preceding two sentences, the completion, execution and submission of such documentation (other than such documentation either (A) set forth in Section 3.01(e)(ii)(A), (ii)(B) and (ii)(D) below or (B) required by applicable law other than the Code or the taxing authorities of the jurisdiction pursuant to such applicable law to comply with the requirements for exemption or reduction of withholding tax in that jurisdiction) shall not be required if in the Lenders reasonable judgment such completion, execution or submission would subject such Lender to any material unreimbursed cost or expense or would materially prejudice the legal or commercial position of such Lender.
(ii) Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, in the event that a Borrower is a U.S. Person,
(A) any Lender that is a U.S. Person shall deliver to the Company and the Administrative Agent on or prior to the date on which such Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Company or the Administrative Agent), executed originals of IRS Form W-9 certifying that such Lender is exempt from U.S. federal backup withholding tax;
(B) any Foreign Lender shall, to the extent it is legally entitled to do so, deliver to the Company and the Administrative Agent (in such number of copies as shall be requested by the recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Foreign Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Company or the Administrative Agent), whichever of the following is applicable:
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(I) in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of an income tax treaty to which the United States is a party (x) with respect to payments of interest under any Loan Document, executed originals of IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E, as applicable, establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. federal withholding Tax pursuant to the interest article of such tax treaty and (y) with respect to any other applicable payments under any Loan Document, IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E, as applicable, establishing an exemption from, or reduction of, U.S. federal withholding Tax pursuant to the business profits or other income article of such tax treaty;
(II) executed originals of IRS Form W-8ECI;
(III) in the case of a Foreign Lender claiming the benefits of the exemption for portfolio interest under Section 881(c) of the Code, (x) a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit F-1 to the effect that such Foreign Lender is not a bank within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, a 10 percent shareholder of the Company within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(B) of the Code, or a controlled foreign corporation described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code (a U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate) and (y) executed originals of IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E, as applicable; or
(IV) to the extent a Foreign Lender is not the beneficial owner, executed originals of IRS Form W-8IMY, accompanied by IRS Form W-8ECI, IRS Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E, as applicable, a U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit F-2 or Exhibit F-3, IRS Form W-9, and/or other certification documents from each beneficial owner, as applicable; provided that if the Foreign Lender is a partnership and one or more direct or indirect partners of such Foreign Lender are claiming the portfolio interest exemption, such Foreign Lender may provide a U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit F-4 on behalf of each such direct and indirect partner;
(C) any Foreign Lender shall, to the extent it is legally entitled to do so, deliver to the Company and the Administrative Agent (in such number of copies as shall be requested by the recipient) on or prior to the date on which such Foreign Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Company or the Administrative Agent), executed originals of any other form prescribed by applicable law as a basis for claiming exemption from or a reduction in U.S. federal withholding Tax, duly completed, together with such supplementary documentation as may be prescribed by applicable law to permit the Company or the Administrative Agent to determine the withholding or deduction required to be made; and
(D) 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
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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 Company and the Administrative Agent at the time or times prescribed by law and at such time or times reasonably requested by the Company 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 Company or the Administrative Agent as may be necessary for the Company 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.
(iii) Each Lender agrees that if any form or certification it previously delivered pursuant to this Section 3.01 expires or becomes obsolete or inaccurate in any respect, it shall update such form or certification or promptly notify the Company and the Administrative Agent in writing of its legal inability to do so.
(f) Treatment of Certain Refunds. Unless required by applicable Laws, at no time shall the Administrative Agent have any obligation to file for or otherwise pursue on behalf of a Lender or an L/C Issuer, or have any obligation to pay to any Lender or any L/C Issuer, any refund of Taxes withheld or deducted from funds paid for the account of such Lender or such L/C Issuer, as the case may be. If any Recipient determines that it has received a refund of any Taxes as to which it has been indemnified by any Borrower or with respect to which any Borrower has paid additional amounts pursuant to this Section 3.01, it shall pay to such Borrower an amount equal to such refund (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made, or additional amounts paid, by a Borrower under this Section 3.01 with respect to the Taxes giving rise to such refund), net of all out-of-pocket expenses (including Taxes) incurred by such Recipient, and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant Governmental Authority with respect to such refund), provided that each Borrower, upon the request of the Recipient, agrees to repay the amount paid over to such Borrower (plus any penalties, interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental Authority) to the Recipient in the event the Recipient is required to repay such refund to such Governmental Authority. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this subsection, in no event will the applicable Recipient be required to pay any amount to any Borrower pursuant to this subsection the payment of which would place the Recipient in a less favorable net after-Tax position than such Recipient would have been in if the Tax subject to indemnification and giving rise to such refund had not been deducted, withheld or otherwise imposed and the indemnification payments or additional amounts with respect to such Tax had never been paid. This subsection shall not be construed to require any Recipient to make available its tax returns (or any other information relating to its taxes that it deems confidential) to any Borrower or any other Person.
(g) Survival. Each partys obligations under this Section 3.01 shall survive the resignation or replacement of the Administrative Agent or any assignment of rights by, or the replacement of, a Lender or an L/C Issuer, the termination of the Commitments and the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all other Obligations.
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(h) Treatment of Certain FATCA Matters. Solely for purposes of determining withholding Taxes imposed under FATCA, from and after the Closing Date, the Company 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).
3.02 Illegality. If any Lender determines in good faith 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 Loans whose interest is determined by reference to the Eurocurrency Rate (whether denominated in Dollars or an Alternative Currency), or to determine or charge interest rates based upon the Eurocurrency 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 or any Alternative Currency in the applicable interbank market, then, on notice thereof by such Lender to the Company through the Administrative Agent, (i) any obligation of such Lender to make or continue Eurocurrency Rate Loans in the affected currency or currencies or, in the case of Eurocurrency Rate Loans in Dollars, to convert Base Rate Revolving Credit (USD) Loans to Eurocurrency Rate Loans shall be suspended, and (ii) if such notice asserts the illegality of such Lender making or maintaining Base Rate Loans the interest rate on which is determined by reference to the Eurocurrency Rate component of the Base Rate, the interest rate on which Base Rate Loans of such Lender shall, if necessary to avoid such illegality, be determined by the Administrative Agent without reference to the Eurocurrency Rate component of the Base Rate, in each case until such Lender notifies the Administrative Agent and the Company that the circumstances giving rise to such determination no longer exist. Upon receipt of such notice, (x) the Borrowers shall, upon demand from such Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), prepay or, if applicable and such Loans are denominated in Dollars, convert all Eurocurrency Rate Loans of such Lender to Base Rate Loans (the interest rate on which Base Rate Loans of such Lender shall, if necessary to avoid such illegality, be determined by the Administrative Agent without reference to the Eurocurrency Rate component of the Base Rate), either on the last day of the Interest Period therefor, if such Lender may lawfully continue to maintain such Eurocurrency Rate Loans to such day, or immediately, if such Lender may not lawfully continue to maintain such Eurocurrency Rate Loans and (y) if such notice asserts the illegality of such Lender determining or charging interest rates based upon the Eurocurrency Rate, the Administrative Agent shall during the period of such suspension compute the Base Rate applicable to such Lender without reference to the Eurocurrency Rate component thereof until the Administrative Agent is advised in writing by such Lender that it is no longer illegal for such Lender to determine or charge interest rates based upon the Eurocurrency Rate. Upon any such prepayment or conversion, the Borrowers shall also pay accrued interest on the amount so prepaid or converted.
3.03 Inability to Determine Rates. If in connection with any request for a Eurocurrency Rate Loan or a conversion to or continuation thereof, (a) the Administrative Agent determines that (i) deposits (whether in Dollars or an Alternative Currency) are not being offered to banks in the applicable offshore interbank market for such currency for the applicable amount and Interest Period of such Eurocurrency Rate Loan, or (ii) adequate and reasonable means do
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not exist for determining the Eurocurrency Rate for any requested Interest Period with respect to a proposed Eurocurrency Rate Loan (whether denominated in Dollars or an Alternative Currency) or in connection with an existing or proposed Base Rate Loan, or (b) the Required Lenders determine that for any reason the Eurocurrency Rate for any requested Interest Period with respect to a proposed Eurocurrency 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 Company and each Lender. Thereafter, (x) the obligation of the Lenders under the appropriate Facility to make or maintain Eurocurrency Rate Loans in the affected currency or currencies shall be suspended (to the extent of the affected Eurocurrency Rate Loans or Interest Periods), and (y) in the event of a determination described in the preceding sentence with respect to the Eurocurrency Rate component of the Base Rate, the utilization of the Eurocurrency Rate component in determining the Base Rate shall be suspended, in each case until the Administrative Agent (upon the instruction of the Required Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders (in the case of the Revolving Credit (USD) Facility), the Required Revolving Credit (MC) Lenders (in the case of the Revolving Credit (MC) Facility) or the Required Term Loan Lenders (in the case of the Term Loan Facility)) revokes such notice. Upon receipt of such notice, the Company may revoke any pending request for a Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans in the affected currency or currencies (to the extent of the affected Eurocurrency Rate Loans or Interest Periods) under the appropriate Facility or, failing that, will be deemed to have converted such request into a request for a Borrowing of Base Rate Loans under the appropriate Facility in the amount specified therein; provided that, in the case of a pending request for a Loan denominated in an Alternative Currency, the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent and the Revolving Credit (MC) Lenders may alternatively establish a mutually acceptable alternative rate.
3.04 Increased Costs; Reserves on Eurocurrency 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 L/C Issuer;
(ii) subject any Recipient to any Taxes (other than (A) Indemnified Taxes, (B) Taxes described in clauses (b) through (d) of the definition of Excluded Taxes and (C) Connection Income Taxes) on its loans, loan principal, letters of credit, commitments, or other obligations, or its deposits, reserves, other liabilities or capital attributable thereto; or
(iii) impose on any Lender or any L/C Issuer or the London interbank market any other condition, cost or expense affecting this Agreement or Eurocurrency Rate 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, converting to, continuing or maintaining any Loan the interest on which is determined by reference to the Eurocurrency Rate (or of maintaining its obligation to make any such Loan), or
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to increase the cost to such Lender or such L/C Issuer of participating in, issuing or maintaining any Letter of Credit (or of maintaining its obligation to participate in or to issue any Letter of Credit), or to reduce the amount of any sum received or receivable by such Lender or such L/C Issuer hereunder (whether of principal, interest or any other amount), in each of the foregoing cases, by an amount deemed material by such Lender or such L/C Issuer, as applicable, then, upon request of such Lender or such L/C Issuer, the Company will pay (or cause the applicable Designated Borrower to pay) to such Lender or such L/C Issuer, as the case may be, such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or such L/C Issuer, as the case may be, for such additional costs incurred or reduction suffered.
(b) Capital Requirements. If any Lender or any L/C Issuer determines that any Change in Law affecting such Lender or such L/C Issuer or any Lending Office of such Lender or such Lenders or such L/C Issuers holding company, if any, regarding capital or liquidity requirements has or would have the effect of reducing the rate of return on such Lenders or such L/C Issuers capital or on the capital of such Lenders or such L/C Issuers holding company, if any, as a consequence of this Agreement, the Commitments of such Lender or the Loans made by, or participations in Letters of Credit or Swing Line Loans held by, such Lender, or the Letters of Credit issued by such L/C Issuer, to a level below that which such Lender or such L/C Issuer or such Lenders or such L/C Issuers holding company could have achieved but for such Change in Law (taking into consideration such Lenders or such L/C Issuers policies and the policies of such Lenders or such L/C Issuers holding company with respect to capital adequacy), in each of the foregoing cases, by an amount deemed material by such Lender or such L/C Issuer, as applicable, then from time to time the Company will pay (or cause the applicable Designated Borrower to pay) such Lender or such L/C Issuer, as the case may be, such additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or such L/C Issuer or such Lenders or such L/C Issuers holding company for any such reduction suffered.
(c) Certificates for Reimbursement. A certificate of a Lender or an L/C Issuer setting forth in reasonable detail the amount or amounts necessary to compensate such Lender or such L/C Issuer or its holding company, as the case may be, as specified in subsection (a) or (b) of this Section and delivered to the Company shall be conclusive absent manifest error. The Company shall pay (or cause the applicable Designated Borrower to pay) such Lender or such L/C Issuer, as the case may be, 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 or any L/C Issuer to demand compensation pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section 3.04 shall not constitute a waiver of such Lenders or such L/C Issuers right to demand such compensation, provided that no Borrower shall be required to compensate a Lender or an L/C Issuer pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section for any increased costs incurred or reductions suffered more than nine months prior to the date that such Lender or such L/C Issuer, as the case may be, notifies the Company of the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions and of such Lenders or such L/C Issuers intention to claim compensation therefor (except that, if the Change in Law giving rise to such increased costs or reductions is retroactive, then the nine-month period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof).
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(e) Reserves on Eurocurrency Rate Loans. The Company shall pay (or cause the applicable Designated Borrower to pay) to each Lender, (i) as long as such Lender shall be required to maintain reserves with respect to liabilities or assets consisting of or including Eurocurrency funds or deposits (currently known as Eurocurrency liabilities), additional interest on the unpaid principal amount of each Eurocurrency 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), and (ii) as long as such Lender shall be required to comply with any reserve ratio requirement or analogous requirement of any other central banking or financial regulatory authority imposed in respect of the maintenance of the Commitments or the funding of the Eurocurrency Rate Loans, such additional costs (expressed as a percentage per annum and rounded upwards, if necessary, to the nearest five decimal places) equal to the actual costs allocated to such Commitment or Loan by such Lender (as determined by such Lender in good faith, which determination shall be conclusive, which in each case shall be due and payable on each date on which interest is payable on such Loan, provided the Company shall have received at least 10 days prior notice (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) of such additional interest or costs from such Lender. If a Lender fails to give notice 10 days prior to the relevant Interest Payment Date, such additional interest or costs shall be due and payable 10 days from receipt of such notice.
3.05 Compensation for Losses. Upon demand of any Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) from time to time, the Company shall promptly compensate (or cause the applicable Designated Borrower to compensate) such Lender for and hold such Lender harmless from any loss, cost or reasonable and documented out-of-pocket 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 any Borrower (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 Company or the applicable Designated Borrower;
(c) any failure by any Borrower to make payment of any Loan or drawing under any Letter of Credit (or interest due thereon) denominated in an Alternative Currency on its scheduled due date or any payment thereof in a different currency; or
(d) any assignment of a Eurocurrency Rate Loan on a day other than the last day of the Interest Period therefor as a result of a request by the Company pursuant to Section 10.13;
including any loss of anticipated profits, any foreign exchange losses and 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 or from the performance of any foreign exchange contract. The Company shall also pay (or cause the applicable Designated Borrower to pay) any customary administrative fees charged by such Lender in connection with the foregoing.
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For purposes of calculating amounts payable by the Company (or applicable Designated Borrower) to the Lenders under this Section 3.05, each Lender shall be deemed to have funded each Eurocurrency Rate Loan made by it at the Eurocurrency Rate for such Loan by a matching deposit or other borrowing in the offshore interbank market for such currency for a comparable amount and for a comparable period, whether or not such Eurocurrency Rate Loan was in fact so funded.
3.06 Mitigation Obligations; Replacement of Lenders.
(a) Designation of a Different Lending Office. If any Lender requests compensation under Section 3.04, or requires any Borrower to pay any Indemnified Taxes or additional amounts to any Lender, any L/C Issuer, or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender or any L/C Issuer pursuant to Section 3.01, or if any Lender gives a notice pursuant to Section 3.02, then at the request of the Company such Lender or such L/C Issuer shall, as applicable, 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 judgment of such Lender or such L/C Issuer, 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 or such L/C Issuer, as the case may be, to any unreimbursed cost or expense and would not otherwise be disadvantageous to such Lender or such L/C Issuer, as the case may be. The Company hereby agrees to pay (or cause the applicable Designated Borrower to pay) all reasonable costs and out-of-pocket expenses incurred by any Lender or any L/C Issuer in connection with any such designation or assignment.
(b) Replacement of Lenders. If any Lender requests compensation under Section 3.04, or if any Borrower is required to pay any Indemnified Taxes or additional amounts to any Lender or any Governmental Authority for the account of any Lender pursuant to Section 3.01 and, in each case, such Lender has declined or is unable to designate a different lending office in accordance with Section 3.06(a), the Company may replace such Lender in accordance with Section 10.13.
3.07 Survival. All of the Borrowers obligations under this Article III shall survive termination of the Aggregate Commitments, repayment of all other Obligations hereunder, and resignation of the Administrative Agent.
ARTICLE IV.
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO CREDIT EXTENSIONS
4.01 Conditions of Initial Credit Extension. The obligation of each L/C Issuer and each Lender to make its initial Credit Extension hereunder is subject to satisfaction of the following conditions precedent:
(a) Documentation. Subject to the Certain Funds Provision set forth below, the Administrative Agents receipt of the following, each of which shall be originals or telecopies
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(followed promptly by originals) unless otherwise specified, each properly executed by a Responsible Officer of the signing Loan Party, each dated the Closing Date (or, in the case of certificates of governmental officials, a recent date before the Closing Date) and each in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and each of the Lenders:
(i) executed counterparts of this Agreement, the Ratification Agreement, a Pledge Agreement Supplement Agreement (as to Equity Interests of Subsidiaries acquired in the Closing Date Transaction) and, as appropriate, Pledge Joinder Agreement (as to Equity Interests of Subsidiaries acquired in the Closing Date Transaction), a Security Joinder Agreement (as to Subsidiary Guarantors acquired in the Closing Date Transaction) and a Subsidiary Guaranty Joinder Agreement (as to Subsidiary Guarantors acquired in the Closing Date Transaction), in each case sufficient in number for distribution to the Administrative Agent, each Lender and the Company;
(ii) Notes executed by the Borrowers in favor of each Lender requesting Notes;
(iii) such certificates of resolutions or other action, incumbency certificates and/or other certificates of Responsible Officers of each Loan Party as the Administrative Agent may require evidencing the identity, authority and capacity of each Responsible Officer thereof authorized to act as a Responsible Officer in connection with this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which such Loan Party is a party;
(iv) such documents and certifications as the Administrative Agent may reasonably require to evidence that each Loan Party is duly organized or formed, and that each Loan Party is validly existing, in good standing and qualified to engage in business in each jurisdiction where its ownership, lease or operation of properties or the conduct of its business requires such qualification, except to the extent that failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
(v) favorable opinions of counsel to the Loan Parties addressed to the Administrative Agent and each Lender, as to the matters concerning the Loan Parties and the Loan Documents as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request;
(vi) a certificate of a Responsible Officer of each Loan Party attaching copies of all Closing Date Acquisition Documents;
(vii) a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Company certifying that the conditions specified in subsections (c), (d), (e), (f), (h) and (i) of this Section 4.01 have been satisfied;
(viii) a certificate of the chief financial officer of the Company as to the Solvency of the Company and the Company and its Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, after giving effect to the Closing Date Transaction and the Indebtedness incurred in connection therewith;
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(ix) searches of UCC filings in the jurisdiction of incorporation or formation, as applicable, of each Loan Party, the Target and its Subsidiaries and each jurisdiction where any Collateral is located or where a filing would need to be made in order to perfect the Administrative Agents security interest in the Collateral, copies of the financing statements on file in such jurisdictions and evidence that no Liens exist other than Permitted Liens;
(x) delivery of Uniform Commercial Code financing statements suitable in form and substance for filing in all places required by applicable Law to perfect the Liens of the Administrative Agent under the Collateral Documents as a first priority Lien as to items of Collateral in which a security interest may be perfected by the filing of financing statements, and such other documents and/or evidence of other actions as may be reasonably necessary under applicable Law to perfect the Liens of the Administrative Agent under such Collateral Documents as a first priority Lien (subject only to Permitted Liens) in and to such other Collateral as the Administrative Agent may require including without limitation the delivery by the Loan Parties of stock or membership certificates, if any, evidencing the Equity Interests pledged pursuant to the Collateral Documents and undated stock or transfer powers duly executed in blank; in each case to the extent such Equity Interests are certificated (except to the extent permitted to be delivered pursuant to Section 7.15);
(xi) delivery of amendments to the Mortgages with respect to the real property located in Illinois, Indiana and Michigan reflecting the new maturity date and maximum secured principal amount of the Facilities contemplated by this Agreement (it being understood that each of the parties hereto, by its signature below, consents to such amendments), together with the Mortgaged Property Support Documents (including flood hazard certifications and, evidence of flood insurance (if such insurance is required by applicable Law)), requested by the Administrative Agent; and
(xii) such other assurances, certificates, documents, consents or opinions as the Administrative Agent, each L/C Issuer, the Swing Line Lender or the Lenders reasonably may require.
(b) Insurance. The Company shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent evidence of insurance coverage on the Companys and each Subsidiarys property satisfying the requirements of Section 6.07, and where required by the Administrative Agent, with loss payable endorsements in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties.
(c) Closing Date Acquisition. The Closing Date Acquisition shall have been consummated, or shall be consummated substantially simultaneously with the Closing Date, in all material respects in accordance with the terms of the Closing Date Purchase Agreement, without giving effect to any modifications, amendments, consents or waivers thereto that are material and adverse to the interests of the Lenders, as reasonably determined by the Arranger, without the prior consent of the Arranger, it being understood that any substantive material modification, amendment, consent or waiver to (i) the Company Disclosure Schedules (as defined in the Closing Date Purchase Agreement), the Parent Disclosure Schedules (as defined
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in the Closing Date Purchase Agreement) or the definition of Material Adverse Effect in the Closing Date Purchase Agreement, (ii) the third party beneficiary rights in the Closing Date Purchase Agreement applicable to the Arranger and/or the Lenders (including, without limitation, any substantive modification, amendment, consent or waiver of any of the provisions referenced in Sections 9.5(c), 10.5 or 10.8 of the Closing Date Purchase Agreement) or (iii) the governing law of the Closing Date Purchase Agreement shall in each case be deemed to be material and adverse to the interests of the Lenders.
(d) Closing Date Material Adverse Effect. (A) Except as set forth in Section 5.8 of the Parent Disclosure Schedules or in the Parent SEC Reports (as defined in the Closing Date Purchase Agreement) filed with the SEC since December 31, 2014 and publicly available prior to the date of the Closing Date Purchase Agreement, and except for the transactions contemplated by the Closing Date Purchase Agreement, since December 31, 2014, there has not occurred any event, occurrence, condition, change, development, set of facts or circumstances that has had or would reasonably be expected to have a Closing Date Material Adverse Effect on the Company, and (B) except as set forth in Section 4.8 of the Company Disclosure Schedules or in the Company SEC Reports (as defined in the Closing Date Purchase Agreement) filed with the SEC since June 28, 2014 and publicly available prior to the date of the Closing Date Purchase Agreement, and except for the transactions contemplated by the Closing Date Purchase Agreement, since June 28, 2014, there has not occurred any event, occurrence, condition, change, development, set of facts or circumstances that has had or would reasonably be expected to have a Closing Date Material Adverse Effect on the Target.
(e) Absence of Litigation. There are no actions, suits, proceedings, claims or disputes pending or, to the actual knowledge of the Company after reasonable inquiry, threatened in writing, at law, in equity, in arbitration or before any Governmental Authority, by or against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or the Target or any of its Subsidiaries or against any of their properties or revenues that (A) could reasonably be expected to materially adversely affect the Loan Documents or any of the transactions contemplated thereby, or (B) would result in clause (d) above not being satisfied; provided, however, that the foregoing shall not include any shareholder class action or derivative litigation commenced against the Company or the Target (or either of their respective boards of directors) since the date of the Closing Date Purchase Agreement and arising from allegations of breach of fiduciary duty of the Companys or the Targets respective directors relating to their respective negotiation and approval of the Closing Date Purchase Agreement or from allegations of false or misleading public disclosure by the Company or the Target with respect to the Closing Date Transaction, including, without limitation, the Closing Date Purchase Agreement.
(f) No Change in Information. The Administrative Agent shall be satisfied that all of the information and evaluations prepared by the Company and its advisors, or on their behalf, relating to the Closing Date Transaction (including projections) is complete and correct in all material respects considered as a whole; and no new or additional information, shall have been received or discovered by the Administrative Agent or the Arranger regarding the Company or its Subsidiaries, the Target or its Subsidiaries or the Closing Date Transaction after May 3, 2015, that, either individually or in the aggregate, (A) would result in clause (d) above or clause (h) below not being satisfied if such new information were deemed to constitute a change or development for the purposes thereof or (B) could reasonably be expected to materially and adversely affect the Facilities or any other aspect of the Closing Date Transaction.
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(g) Financial Information. The Administrative Agent shall have received (i) audited financial statements of each of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of December 31, 2014 and the Target and its Subsidiaries as of June 28, 2014, (ii) all interim financial statements of each of the Company and its Subsidiaries and the Target and its Subsidiaries from and the after the most recent fiscal year end through the most recent quarter for which financial statements are available which are not inconsistent with the information provided to the Arranger prior to May 3, 2015, if such inconsistency would result in clause (d) above or clause (h) below not being satisfied, (iii) a satisfactory quality of earnings report with respect to the Target and its Subsidiaries prepared by an independent certified public accountant acceptable to the Arranger (it being agreed that the quality of earnings report delivered to the Arranger on April 8, 2015, satisfies this condition) and (iv) pro forma consolidated financial statements as to the Company and its Subsidiaries giving effect to all elements of the Closing Date Transaction to be effected on or before the Closing Date, and forecasts prepared by management of the Company of balance sheets, income statements and cash flow statements on a quarterly basis for the fiscal year 2015 and on an annual basis for each fiscal year thereafter during the contemplated term of this Agreement.
(h) Maximum Consolidated Leverage Ratio. The Administrative Agent shall have received evidence reasonably satisfactory to it that, on the Closing Date after giving pro forma effect to all Credit Extensions hereunder on the Closing Date, the consummation of the Closing Date Transaction and the repayment of Indebtedness (including the repayment of Indebtedness which may occur on the date immediately succeeding the Closing Date) reflected on the funds flow statement executed in connection with the Closing Date Transaction, the Consolidated Leverage Ratio is less than 3.50 to 1.00.
(i) Accuracy of Representations / No Default. Subject to the Certain Funds Provision set forth below, (A) the representations and warranties of each Borrower and each other Loan Party contained in Article V and in each other Loan Document shall be true and correct in all material respects (or, to the extent any such representation and warranty is modified by a materiality or Material Adverse Effect standard, in all respects) as of the Closing Date and (B) no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, provided that the condition in this clause (B) shall not be a condition to the availability of the Facilities on the Closing Date with respect to any Event of Default relating to the making of any representation or warranty on the Closing Date other than a Specified Representation or a Purchase Agreement Representation.
(j) Specified Pay-Off Indebtedness. The Administrative Agent shall have received evidence reasonably satisfactory to it that, concurrently with the closing, (i) the Specified Pay-Off Indebtedness is paid in full, the related credit facilities thereunder are terminated and any Liens securing the same are released and (ii) the outstanding principal and interest of the term loan under the Existing Credit Agreement has been paid in full.
(k) Fees. Any fees required to be paid on or before the Closing Date shall have been paid.
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(l) Legal Fees and Expenses. Unless waived by the Administrative Agent, the Company shall have paid all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket fees, charges and 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, plus such additional amounts of such fees, charges and disbursements as shall constitute its reasonable estimate of such fees, charges and disbursements incurred or to be incurred by it through the closing proceedings (provided that such estimate shall not thereafter preclude a final settling of accounts between the Company and the Administrative Agent or its counsel).
(m) Outside Date. The conditions specified in this Section 4.01 shall have been satisfied no later than December 31, 2015.
Without limiting the generality of the provisions of the last paragraph of Section 9.03, for purposes of determining compliance with the conditions specified in this Section 4.01, 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.
Notwithstanding anything in this Section 4.01 to the contrary, (i) the only representations and warranties related to the Target and its Subsidiaries in the Loan Documents the accuracy of which will be a condition to the availability of the Facilities on the Closing Date will be (A) such representations and warranties regarding the Target and its Subsidiaries in the Purchase Agreement as are material to the interests of Administrative Agent and the Lenders, but only to the extent that the Company or its Affiliates have the right to terminate the Companys or its Affiliates obligations under the Closing Date Purchase Agreement (or the right not to consummate the Closing Date Acquisition pursuant to the Closing Date Purchase Agreement) as a result of a failure of such representations and warranties to be true and correct (the Purchase Agreement Representations) and (B) the Specified Representations (as defined below) and (ii) the terms of the Loan Documents (including, without limitation, the conditions precedent to the effectiveness thereof) will not impair availability of the Facilities on the Closing Date if the conditions expressly set forth in this Section 4.01 are satisfied (it being understood that, to the extent a perfected security interest in any Collateral (the security interest in respect of which cannot be perfected by means of the filing of a UCC financing statement, the making of a federal intellectual property filing or delivery of possession of capital stock or other certificated security) is not able to be provided on the Closing Date after the Companys use of commercially reasonable efforts to do so, the perfection of such security interest in such Collateral will not constitute a condition precedent to the availability of the Facilities on the Closing Date, but a security interest in such collateral will be required to be perfected after the Closing Date pursuant to arrangements to be mutually agreed between the Company and the Administrative Agent). For purposes hereof, the term Specified Representations mean the representations and warranties set forth in Sections 5.01, 5.02(a), 5.02(b)(solely, in the case of 5.02(b)(i) to material debt agreements), 5.02(c) (to the extent such violation could be reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect), 5.03, 5.04, 5.14, 5.15, 5.18, 5.19, 5.22 (subject to the limitations on perfection set forth above) and 5.24. For the avoidance of doubt, the foregoing provisions of this paragraph shall be referred to herein as the Certain Funds Provisions.
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4.02 Conditions to all Credit Extensions other than Credit Extensions to be made on the Closing Date. The obligation of each Lender and each L/C Issuer to honor any Request for Credit Extension after the Closing Date (other than a Loan Notice requesting only a conversion of Loans to the other Type, or a continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans) is subject to the following conditions precedent:
(a) The representations and warranties of the Borrowers and each other Loan Party contained in Article V or any other Loan Document or in any document furnished at any time under or in connection herewith or therewith, shall be true and correct on and as of the date of such Credit Extension, except to the extent that such representations and warranties specifically refer to an earlier date, in which case they shall be true and correct as of such earlier date, and except that for purposes of this Section 4.02, the representations and warranties contained in Sections 5.05(a) and (b) shall be deemed to refer to the most recent statements furnished pursuant to Sections 6.01(a) and (b), respectively; provided that, notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, for the purposes of determining whether the conditions precedent to the Credit Extensions on the Closing Date have been satisfied, the representations and warranties made on the Closing Date by the Borrowers in Sections 5.05(c) and 5.06 shall be deemed to be limited to be representations that the conditions set forth in subsections (d) and (e) of Section 4.01 will be satisfied immediately before and immediately after giving effect to the consummation of the Closing Date Transaction.
(b) No Default shall exist or would result from such proposed Credit Extension or the application of the proceeds thereof.
(c) The Administrative Agent and, if applicable, the applicable L/C Issuer or the Swing Line Lender shall have received a Request for Credit Extension in accordance with the requirements hereof.
(d) If the applicable Borrower is a Designated Borrower, then the conditions of Section 2.14 to the designation of such Borrower as a Designated Borrower shall have been met to the satisfaction of the Administrative Agent.
(e) In the case of a Credit Extension to be denominated in an Alternative Currency, there shall not have occurred any change in national or international financial, political or economic conditions or currency exchange rates or exchange controls which in the reasonable opinion of the Administrative Agent, the Required Revolving Credit (MC) Lenders (in the case of any Revolving Credit (MC) Loans to be denominated in an Alternative Currency) or the applicable L/C Issuer (in the case of any Letter of Credit to be denominated in an Alternative Currency) would make it impracticable for such Credit Extension to be denominated in the relevant Alternative Currency.
Each Request for Credit Extension (other than a Loan Notice requesting only a conversion of Loans to the other Type or a continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans) submitted by the Company shall be deemed to be a representation and warranty that the conditions specified in Sections 4.02(a) and (b) have been satisfied on and as of the date of the applicable Credit Extension.
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ARTICLE V.
REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
Except as otherwise provided in Section 5.23, each Borrower represents and warrants to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders that:
5.01 Existence, Qualification and Power. Each Loan Party and each Subsidiary thereof (a) is duly organized or formed, validly existing and, as applicable, in good standing under the Laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or organization, (b) has all requisite power and authority and all requisite governmental licenses, authorizations, consents and approvals to (i) own or lease its assets and carry on its business and (ii) execute, deliver and perform its obligations under the Loan Documents to which it is a party, and (c) is duly qualified and is licensed and, as applicable, in good standing under the Laws of each jurisdiction where its ownership, lease or operation of properties or the conduct of its business requires such qualification or license; except in each case referred to in clause (b)(i) or (c), to the extent that failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
5.02 Authorization; No Contravention. The execution, delivery and performance by each Loan Party of each Loan Document to which such Person is party, have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate or other organizational action, and do not and 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 (other than the creation of a Lien in favor of the Administrative Agent under the Collateral Documents) 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 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.
5.03 Governmental Authorization; Other Consents. No approval, consent, exemption, authorization, or other action by, or notice to, or filing with, 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 (including the first priority nature thereof) 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.
5.04 Binding Effect. 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. This Agreement constitutes, and each other Loan Document when so delivered will constitute, a legal, valid and binding obligation of such Loan Party, enforceable against each Loan Party that is party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as such enforcement may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization or other similar laws relating to or limiting creditors rights generally and by general principles of equity (regardless of whether enforcement is sought in a proceeding in equity or at law).
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5.05 Financial Statements; No Material Adverse Effect.
(a) The Audited Financial Statements (i) were prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently applied throughout the period covered thereby, except as otherwise expressly noted therein; (ii) fairly present the financial condition of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of the date thereof and their results of operations for the period covered thereby in accordance with GAAP consistently applied throughout the period covered thereby, except as otherwise expressly noted therein; and (iii) show all material indebtedness and other liabilities, direct or contingent, of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of the date thereof, including liabilities for taxes, material commitments and Indebtedness.
(b) The unaudited consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its Subsidiaries dated June 30, 2015, and the related consolidated statements of income or operations, shareholders equity and cash flows for the fiscal quarter ended on that date (i) were prepared in accordance with GAAP consistently applied throughout the period covered thereby, except as otherwise expressly noted therein, and (ii) fairly present the financial condition of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of the date thereof and their results of operations for the period covered thereby, subject, in the case of clauses (i) and (ii), to the absence of footnotes and to normal year-end audit adjustments. Schedule 5.05(b) sets forth all material indebtedness and other liabilities, direct or contingent, of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries as of the Closing Date that are not reflected on such financial statements, including liabilities for taxes, material commitments and Indebtedness but excluding the Indebtedness under the Loan Documents.
(c) Since December 31, 2014, there has been no event or circumstance, either individually or in the aggregate, that has had or could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
(d) The consolidated pro forma balance sheet of the Company and its Subsidiaries as at June 30, 2015, and the related consolidated pro forma statements of income and cash flows of the Company and its Subsidiaries for the four fiscal quarter period then ended, certified by the chief financial officer or treasurer of the Company, copies of which have been furnished to each Lender, fairly present the consolidated pro forma financial condition of the Company and its Subsidiaries as at such date and the consolidated pro forma results of operations of the Company and its Subsidiaries for the period ended on such date, all in accordance with GAAP.
(e) The consolidated forecasted balance sheet and statements of income and cash flows of the Company and its Subsidiaries delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(c) were prepared in good faith on the basis of the assumptions stated therein, which assumptions were believed to be reasonable at the time of delivery of such forecasts (it being understood that such forecasts are subject to uncertainties and contingencies, some of which are beyond the control of the Company, that no assurance can be given that any particular forecast will be realized, that actual results may differ and that such differences may be material).
5.06 Litigation. There are no actions, suits, proceedings, claims or disputes pending or, to the actual knowledge of the Company after reasonable inquiry, threatened or contemplated,
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at law, in equity, in arbitration or before any Governmental Authority, by or against the Company or any of its Subsidiaries or against any of their properties or revenues that (a) purport to affect or pertain to this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or any of the transactions contemplated hereby, or (b) either individually or in the aggregate, if determined adversely, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
5.07 No Default. Neither any Loan Party nor any Subsidiary thereof is in default under or with respect to any Contractual Obligation that could, either individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. No Default has occurred and is continuing or would result from the consummation of the transactions contemplated by this Agreement or any other Loan Document.
5.08 Ownership of Property; Liens. Each of the Company and each Subsidiary has good record and marketable title in fee simple to, or valid leasehold interests in, all real property necessary or used in the ordinary conduct of its business, except for such defects in title as could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. The property of the Company and its Subsidiaries is subject to no Liens, other than Liens permitted by Section 7.01.
5.09 Environmental Compliance. The Company and its Subsidiaries conduct in the ordinary course of business a review of the effect of existing Environmental Laws and claims alleging potential liability or responsibility for violation of any Environmental Law on their respective businesses, operations and properties, and as a result thereof the Company has reasonably concluded that such Environmental Laws and claims could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
5.10 Insurance. The properties of the Company and its Subsidiaries are insured with financially sound and reputable insurance companies not Affiliates of any Borrower, in such amounts, with such deductibles and covering such risks as are customarily carried by companies engaged in similar businesses and owning similar properties in localities where the Company or the applicable Subsidiary operates.
5.11 Taxes. The Company and its Subsidiaries have filed all Federal, state and other material tax returns and reports required to be filed, and have paid all Federal, state and other material taxes, assessments, fees and other governmental charges levied or imposed upon them or their properties, income or assets otherwise due and payable, except those which are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted and for which adequate reserves have been provided in accordance with GAAP. There is no proposed tax assessment against the Company or any Subsidiary that would, if made, have a Material Adverse Effect. Neither any Loan Party nor any Subsidiary thereof is party to any tax sharing agreement.
5.12 ERISA Compliance.
(a) Each Plan is in compliance in all material respects with the applicable provisions of ERISA, the Code and other Federal or state laws. Each Pension Plan that is intended to be a qualified plan under Section 401(a) of the Code has received a favorable determination letter from the Internal Revenue Service or is permitted to rely on an opinion
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letter from the Internal Revenue Service to the effect that the form of such Plan is qualified under Section 401(a) of the Code and the trust related thereto has been determined by the Internal Revenue Service to be exempt from federal income tax under Section 501(a) of the Code, or an application for such a determination letter is currently being processed by the Internal Revenue Service. To the best knowledge of the Company, nothing has occurred that would prevent or cause the loss of such tax-qualified status.
(b) There are no pending or, to the best knowledge of the Company, threatened claims, actions or lawsuits, or action by any Governmental Authority, with respect to any Plan that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. There has been no prohibited transaction or violation of the fiduciary responsibility rules with respect to any Plan that has resulted or could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.
(c) (i) No ERISA Event has occurred, and neither the Company nor any ERISA Affiliate is aware of any fact, event or circumstance that could reasonably be expected to constitute or result in an ERISA Event with respect to any Pension Plan; (ii) the Company and each ERISA Affiliate has met all applicable requirements under the Pension Funding Rules in respect of each Pension Plan, and no waiver of the minimum funding standards under the Pension Funding Rules has been applied for or obtained; (iii) as of the most recent valuation date for any Pension Plan, the funding target attainment percentage (as defined in Section 430(d)(2) of the Code) is 60% or higher and neither the Company nor any ERISA Affiliate knows of any facts or circumstances that could reasonably be expected to cause the funding target attainment percentage for any such plan to drop below 60% as of the most recent valuation date; (iv) neither the Company nor any ERISA Affiliate has incurred any liability to the PBGC other than for the payment of premiums, and there are no premium payments which have become due that are unpaid; (v) neither the Company nor any ERISA Affiliate has engaged in a transaction that could be subject to Section 4069 or Section 4212(c) of ERISA; and (vi) no Pension Plan has been terminated by the plan administrator thereof nor by the PBGC, and no event or circumstance has occurred or exists that could reasonably be expected to cause the PBGC to institute proceedings under Title IV of ERISA to terminate any Pension Plan.
(d) Neither the Company nor any ERISA Affiliate maintains or contributes to, or has any unsatisfied obligation to contribute to, or liability under, any active or terminated Pension Plan other than (i) on the Closing Date (after giving effect to the Closing Date Acquisition), those listed on Schedule 5.12(d) and (ii) thereafter, Pension Plans not otherwise prohibited by this Agreement.
(e) With respect to each scheme or arrangement mandated by a government other than the United States (a Foreign Government Scheme or Arrangement) and with respect to each employee benefit plan maintained or contributed to by the Company or any Subsidiary that is not subject to United States law (a Foreign Plan):
(i) any employer and employee contributions required by law or by the terms of any Foreign Government Scheme or Arrangement or any Foreign Plan have been made, or, if applicable, accrued, in accordance with normal accounting practices;
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(ii) the fair market value of the assets of each funded Foreign Plan, the liability of each insurer for any Foreign Plan funded through insurance or the book reserve established for any Foreign Plan, together with any accrued contributions, is sufficient to procure or provide for the accrued benefit obligations, as of the date hereof, with respect to all current and former participants in such Foreign Plan according to the actuarial assumptions and valuations most recently used to account for such obligations in accordance with applicable generally accepted accounting principles; and
(iii) each Foreign Plan required to be registered has been registered and has been maintained in good standing with applicable regulatory authorities.
5.13 Subsidiaries; Equity Investments; Loan Parties. As of the Closing Date (after giving effect to the Closing Date Acquisition), the Company has no Subsidiaries other than those specifically disclosed in Part (a) of Schedule 5.13, and all of the outstanding Equity Interests in such Subsidiaries have been validly issued, are fully paid and nonassessable and are owned by a Loan Party in the amounts specified on Part (a) of Schedule 5.13 free and clear of all Liens except those created under the Collateral Documents. As of the Closing Date (after giving effect to the Closing Date Acquisition), the Company has no equity investments in any other corporation or entity other than those specifically disclosed in Part (b) of Schedule 5.13. All of the outstanding Equity Interests in the Company have been validly issued and are fully paid and nonassessable. Part (c) of Schedule 5.13 sets forth the name, jurisdiction of organization and U.S. taxpayer identification number of each Loan Party (or, in the case of any Foreign Obligor, the unique identification number of such Person that has been issued by its jurisdiction of organization) as of the Closing Date (after giving effect to the Closing Date Acquisition).
5.14 Margin Regulations; Investment Company Act.
(a) No Borrower is engaged or will engage, principally or as one of its important activities, in the business of purchasing or carrying margin stock (within the meaning of Regulation U issued by the FRB), or extending credit for the purpose of purchasing or carrying margin stock.
(b) None of the Company, any Person Controlling the Company, or any Subsidiary is or is required to be registered as an investment company under the Investment Company Act of 1940.
5.15 Disclosure. The Company has disclosed to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders all agreements, instruments and corporate or other restrictions to which it or any of its Subsidiaries is subject, and all other matters known to it, that, individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. No report, financial statement, certificate or other information furnished (whether in writing or orally) by or on behalf of any Loan Party to the Administrative Agent or any Lender in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby and the negotiation of this Agreement or delivered hereunder or under any other Loan Document (in each case, as modified or supplemented by other information so furnished) contains any material misstatement of fact or omits to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under
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which they were made, not misleading; provided that, with respect to projected financial information, the Company represents only that such information was prepared in good faith based upon assumptions believed to be reasonable at the time (it being understood that any projected financial information is subject to uncertainties and contingencies, some of which are beyond the control of the Company, that no assurance can be given that any particular projected financial information will be realized, that actual results may differ and that such differences may be material).
5.16 Compliance with Laws. Each Loan Party and each Subsidiary thereof is in compliance in all material respects with the requirements of all Laws and all orders, writs, injunctions and decrees applicable to it or to its properties, except in such instances in which (a) such requirement of Law or order, writ, injunction or decree is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted or (b) the failure to comply therewith, either individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
5.17 Intellectual Property; Licenses, Etc. The Company and its Subsidiaries own, or possess the right to use, all of the material trademarks, service marks, trade names, copyrights, patents, patent rights, franchises, licenses and other intellectual property rights (collectively, IP Rights) that are reasonably necessary for the operation of their respective businesses, without infringing upon the rights of any other Person. To the best knowledge of the Company, no slogan or other advertising device, product, process, method, substance, part or other material now employed, or now contemplated to be employed, by the Company or any Subsidiary infringes upon any rights held by any other Person. No claim or litigation regarding any of the foregoing is pending or, to the best knowledge of the Company, threatened, which, either individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
5.18 OFAC. Neither the Company, nor any of its Subsidiaries, nor, to the knowledge of the Company and its Subsidiaries, any director, officer, employee, agent, affiliate or representative thereof, is an individual or entity currently the subject of any Sanctions, nor is the Company or any Subsidiary located, organized or resident in a Designated Jurisdiction.
5.19 Solvency. The Loan Parties, on a consolidated basis, are Solvent.
5.20 Casualty, Etc. Neither the businesses nor the properties of any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries are affected by any fire, explosion, accident, strike, lockout or other labor dispute, drought, storm, hail, earthquake, embargo, act of God or of the public enemy or other casualty (whether or not covered by insurance) that, either individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
5.21 Labor Matters. Except for those listed on Schedule 5.21, there are no collective bargaining agreements or Multiemployer Plans covering the employees of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries as of the Closing Date. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary has suffered any strikes, walkouts, work stoppages or other material labor difficulty within the last five years.
5.22 Collateral Documents. The provisions of the Collateral Documents are effective to create in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties a legal, valid
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and enforceable first priority Lien (subject to Permitted Liens) on all right, title and interest of the respective Loan Parties in the Collateral described therein. Except for filings completed on or prior to the Closing Date and as contemplated hereby and by the Collateral Documents, no filing or other action will be necessary to perfect or protect such Liens.
5.23 Representations as to Foreign Obligors. Each of the Company and each Foreign Obligor represents and warrants to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders that:
(a) Such Foreign Obligor is subject to civil and commercial Laws with respect to its obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which it is a party (collectively as to such Foreign Obligor, the Applicable Foreign Obligor Documents), and the execution, delivery and performance by such Foreign Obligor of the Applicable Foreign Obligor Documents constitute and will constitute private and commercial acts and not public or governmental acts. Neither such Foreign Obligor nor any of its property has any immunity from jurisdiction of any court or from any legal process (whether through service or notice, attachment prior to judgment, attachment in aid of execution, execution or otherwise) under the laws of the jurisdiction in which such Foreign Obligor is organized and existing in respect of its obligations under the Applicable Foreign Obligor Documents.
(b) The Applicable Foreign Obligor Documents are in proper legal form under the Laws of the jurisdiction in which such Foreign Obligor is organized and existing for the enforcement thereof against such Foreign Obligor under the Laws of such jurisdiction, and to ensure the legality, validity, enforceability, priority or admissibility in evidence of the Applicable Foreign Obligor Documents. It is not necessary to ensure the legality, validity, enforceability, priority or admissibility in evidence of the Applicable Foreign Obligor Documents that the Applicable Foreign Obligor Documents be filed, registered or recorded with, or executed or notarized before, any court or other authority in the jurisdiction in which such Foreign Obligor is organized and existing or that any registration charge or stamp or similar tax be paid on or in respect of the Applicable Foreign Obligor Documents or any other document, except for (i) any such filing, registration, recording, execution or notarization as has been made or is not required to be made until the Applicable Foreign Obligor Document or any other document is sought to be enforced and (ii) any charge or tax as has been timely paid.
(c) There is no tax, levy, impost, duty, fee, assessment or other governmental charge, or any deduction or withholding, imposed by any Governmental Authority in or of the jurisdiction in which such Foreign Obligor is organized and existing either (i) on or by virtue of the execution or delivery of the Applicable Foreign Obligor Documents or (ii) on any payment to be made by such Foreign Obligor pursuant to the Applicable Foreign Obligor Documents, except as has been disclosed to the Administrative Agent.
(d) The execution, delivery and performance of the Applicable Foreign Obligor Documents executed by such Foreign Obligor are, under applicable foreign exchange control regulations of the jurisdiction in which such Foreign Obligor is organized and existing, not subject to any notification or authorization except (i) such as have been made or obtained or (ii) such as cannot be made or obtained until a later date (provided that any notification or authorization described in clause (ii) shall be made or obtained as soon as is reasonably practicable).
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5.24 Anti-Corruption Laws; Sanctions; Use of Proceeds
(a) The Company and its Subsidiaries have conducted their businesses in compliance with the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, the UK Bribery Act 2010, and other similar anti-corruption legislation in other jurisdictions and have instituted and maintained policies and procedures designed to promote and achieve compliance with such laws.
(b) The Company will not and will not permit any Subsidiary, directly or indirectly, to use the proceeds of any Credit Extension, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any Subsidiary, joint venture partner or other individual or entity, to fund any activities of or business with any individual or entity, or in any Designated Jurisdiction, that, at the time of such funding, is the subject of Sanctions, or in any other manner that will result in a violation by any individual or entity (including any individual or entity participating in the transaction, whether as a Lender, the Arranger, the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuers, the Swing Line Lender, or otherwise) of Sanctions.
(c) The Company will not and will not permit any Subsidiary, to directly or indirectly use the proceeds of any Credit Extension for any purpose which would breach the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, the UK Bribery Act 2010, and other similar anti-corruption legislation in other jurisdictions.
ARTICLE VI.
AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS
So long as any Lender shall have any Commitment hereunder, any Loan or other Obligation hereunder shall remain unpaid or unsatisfied, or any Letter of Credit shall remain outstanding, the Company shall, and shall (except in the case of the covenants set forth in Sections 6.01, 6.02, and 6.03) cause each Subsidiary to:
6.01 Financial Statements. Deliver to the Administrative Agent and each Lender, in form and detail reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders:
(a) as soon as available, but in any event within 90 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company (or, if earlier, 15 days after the date required to be filed with the SEC (after giving effect to any extension permitted by the SEC)), a consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its Subsidiaries as at the end of such fiscal year, and the related consolidated statements of income or operations, changes in shareholders equity, and cash flows for such fiscal year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the previous fiscal year, all in reasonable detail and prepared in accordance with GAAP, audited and accompanied by a report and opinion of an independent certified public accountant of nationally recognized standing reasonably acceptable to the Required Lenders, which report and opinion shall be prepared in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards and shall not be subject to any going concern or like qualification or exception or any qualification or exception as to the scope of such audit;
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(b) as soon as available, but in any event within 45 days after the end of each of the first three fiscal quarters of each fiscal year of the Company (or, if earlier, 5 days after the date required to be filed with the SEC (after giving effect to any extension permitted by the SEC)) (commencing with the fiscal quarter ended June 30, 2015), a consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its Subsidiaries as at the end of such fiscal quarter, the related consolidated statements of income or operations for such fiscal quarter and for the portion of the Companys fiscal year then ended, and the related consolidated statements of changes in shareholders equity, and cash flows for the portion of the Companys fiscal year then ended, in each case setting forth in comparative form, as applicable, the figures for the corresponding fiscal quarter of the previous fiscal year and the corresponding portion of the previous fiscal year, all in reasonable detail, certified by the chief executive officer, chief financial officer, treasurer or controller of the Company as fairly presenting the financial condition, results of operations, shareholders equity and cash flows of the Company and its Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP, subject only to normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes; and
(c) as soon as available, but in any event within 90 days after the end of each fiscal year of the Company, forecasts prepared by management of the Company, in form reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders, of consolidated balance sheets and statements of income or operations and cash flows of the Company and its Subsidiaries on a quarterly basis for the current fiscal year (including the fiscal year in which the Maturity Date occurs).
As to any information contained in materials furnished pursuant to Section 6.02(c), the Company shall not be separately required to furnish such information under clause (a) or (b) above, but the foregoing shall not be in derogation of the obligation of the Company to furnish the information and materials described in clauses (a) and (b) above at the times specified therein.
6.02 Certificates; Other Information. Deliver to the Administrative Agent and each Lender, in form and detail reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders:
(a) concurrently with the delivery of the financial statements referred to in Sections 6.01(a) and (b), a duly completed Compliance Certificate signed by the chief executive officer, chief financial officer, treasurer or controller of the Company (which delivery may, unless the Administrative Agent, or a Lender requests executed originals, be by electronic communication including fax or email and shall be deemed to be an original authentic counterpart thereof for all purposes);
(b) promptly after any request by the Administrative Agent or any Lender, copies of any detailed audit reports, management letters or recommendations submitted to the board of directors (or the audit committee of the board of directors) of the Company by independent accountants in connection with the accounts or books of the Company or any Subsidiary, or any audit of any of them;
(c) promptly after the same are available, copies of each annual report, proxy or financial statement or other report or communication sent to the stockholders of the Company, and copies of all annual, regular, periodic and special reports and registration statements which
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the Company may file or be required to file with the SEC under Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, and not otherwise required to be delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant hereto;
(d) promptly, and in any event within five Business Days after receipt thereof by any Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof, copies of each notice or other correspondence received from the SEC (or comparable agency in any applicable non-U.S. jurisdiction) concerning any investigation or possible investigation or other inquiry by such agency regarding financial or other operational results of any Loan Party or any Subsidiary thereof; and
(e) promptly, such additional information regarding the business, financial or corporate affairs of the Company or any Subsidiary, or compliance with the terms of the Loan Documents, as the Administrative Agent or any Lender may from time to time reasonably request.
Documents required to be delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or (b) or Section 6.02(c) (to the extent any such documents are included in materials otherwise filed with the SEC) may be delivered electronically and if so delivered, shall be deemed to have been delivered on the date (i) on which the Company posts such documents, or provides a link thereto on the Companys website on the Internet at the website address listed on Schedule 10.02; or (ii) on which such documents are posted on the Companys behalf on an Internet or intranet website, if any, to which each Lender and the Administrative Agent have access (whether a commercial, third-party website or whether sponsored by the Administrative Agent); provided that: (i) the Company shall deliver paper copies of such documents to the Administrative Agent or any Lender upon its request to the Company to deliver such paper copies until a written request to cease delivering paper copies is given by the Administrative Agent or such Lender and (ii) the Company shall notify the Administrative Agent and each Lender (by facsimile or electronic mail) of the posting of any such documents and provide to the Administrative Agent by electronic mail electronic versions (i.e., soft copies) of such documents. The Administrative Agent shall have no obligation to request the delivery of or to maintain paper copies of the documents referred to above, and in any event shall have no responsibility to monitor compliance by the Company with any such request by a Lender for delivery, and each Lender shall be solely responsible for requesting delivery to it or maintaining its copies of such documents.
Each Borrower hereby acknowledges that (a) the Administrative Agent and/or the Arranger may, but shall not be obligated to, make available to the Lenders and the L/C Issuers materials and/or information provided by or on behalf of the Borrowers hereunder (collectively, Borrower Materials) by posting the Borrower Materials on Debt Domain, IntraLinks, SyndTrak or another similar electronic system (the Platform) and (b) certain of the Lenders (each, a Public Lender) may have personnel who do not wish to receive material non-public information with respect to any of the Borrowers or their respective Affiliates, or the respective securities of any of the foregoing, and who may be engaged in investment and other market-related activities with respect to such Persons securities. Each Borrower hereby agrees that (w) all Borrower Materials that are to be made available to Public Lenders shall be clearly and conspicuously marked PUBLIC which, at a minimum, shall mean that the word PUBLIC
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shall appear prominently on the first page thereof; (x) by marking Borrower Materials PUBLIC, such Borrower shall be deemed to have authorized the Administrative Agent, the Arranger, the L/C Issuers and the Lenders to treat such Borrower Materials as not containing any material non-public information with respect to such Borrower or its securities for purposes of United States Federal and state securities laws (provided, however, that to the extent such Borrower Materials constitute Information, they shall be treated as set forth in Section 10.07); (y) all Borrower Materials marked PUBLIC are permitted to be made available through a portion of the Platform designated Public Side Information; and (z) the Administrative Agent and the Arranger shall be entitled to treat any Borrower Materials that are not marked PUBLIC as being suitable only for posting on a portion of the Platform not designated Public Side Information.
6.03 Notices. Promptly notify the Administrative Agent and each Lender:
(a) of the occurrence of any Default;
(b) of any matter that has resulted or could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, including any such matter arising from (i) a breach or non-performance of, or any default under, a Contractual Obligation of the Company or any Subsidiary involving more than the Threshold Amount; (ii) a material dispute, litigation, investigation, proceeding or suspension between the Company or any Subsidiary and any Governmental Authority; or (iii) the commencement of, or any material development in, any litigation or proceeding affecting the Company or any Subsidiary, including pursuant to any applicable Environmental Laws, involving more than the Threshold Amount;
(c) of the occurrence of any ERISA Event with respect to any Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan which has resulted or could reasonably be expected to result in liability of the Company under Title IV of ERISA to such Pension Plan, such Multiemployer Plan or the PBGC in an aggregate amount in excess of the Threshold Amount;
(d) of any material change in accounting policies or financial reporting practices by the Company or any Subsidiary, including any determination by the Company referred to in Section 2.10(b); and
(e) of the (i) occurrence of any Disposition of property or assets for which the Company is required to make a mandatory prepayment pursuant to Section 2.05(b)(i), (ii) incurrence or issuance of any Indebtedness for which the Company is required to make a mandatory prepayment pursuant to Section 2.05(b)(ii), and (iii) receipt of any Extraordinary Receipt for which the Company is required to make a mandatory prepayment pursuant to Section 2.05(b)(iii).
Each notice pursuant to this Section 6.03 shall be accompanied by a statement of a Responsible Officer of the Company setting forth details of the occurrence referred to therein and stating what action the Company has taken and proposes to take with respect thereto. Each notice pursuant to Section 6.03(a) shall describe with particularity any and all provisions of this Agreement and any other Loan Document that have been breached.
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6.04 Payment of Obligations. Pay and discharge as the same shall become due and payable, all its material obligations and liabilities, including (a) all Federal, State and other material tax liabilities, assessments and governmental charges or levies upon it or its properties or assets, unless the same are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted and adequate reserves in accordance with GAAP are being maintained by the Company or such Subsidiary; (b) all other lawful claims which, if unpaid, would by law become a Lien upon its property; and (c) all Indebtedness, as and when due and payable, but subject to any subordination provisions contained in any instrument or agreement evidencing or governing such Indebtedness.
6.05 Preservation of Existence, Etc. (a) (i) Preserve, renew and maintain in full force and effect its legal existence under the Laws of the jurisdiction of its organization except in a transaction permitted by Section 7.04 or 7.05 and (ii) preserve, renew and maintain in full force and effect its good standing under the Laws of the jurisdiction of its organization except in a transaction permitted by Section 7.04 or 7.05 and except to the extent that the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; (b) take all reasonable action to maintain all rights, privileges, permits, licenses and franchises necessary or desirable in the normal conduct of its business, except to the extent that failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; and (c) preserve or renew all of its registered patents, trademarks, trade names and service marks, the non-preservation of which could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
6.06 Maintenance of Properties. (a) Maintain, preserve and protect all of its material properties and equipment necessary in the operation of its business in good working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted and (b) make all necessary repairs thereto and renewals and replacements thereof except where the failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
6.07 Maintenance of Insurance. Maintain with financially sound and reputable insurance companies not Affiliates of the Company, insurance with respect to its properties and business against loss or damage of the kinds customarily insured against by Persons engaged in the same or similar business, of such types and in such amounts as are customarily carried under similar circumstances by such other Persons and as may be required by applicable Law and as are required by any Collateral Document. All such insurance shall, (a) provide that no cancellation or material modification thereof shall be effective until at least 30 days after receipt by the Administrative Agent of written notice thereof (except in the case of cancellation as a result of non-payment of premium in which case only 10 days prior written notice shall be required), (b) name the Administrative Agent and each Lender as an additional insured party thereunder and (c) in the case of each casualty insurance policy, name the Administrative Agent as lenders loss payee.
6.08 Compliance with Laws. Comply in all material respects with the requirements of all Laws and all orders, writs, injunctions and decrees applicable to it or to its business or property, except in such instances in which (a) such requirement of Law or order, writ, injunction or decree is being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted; or (b) the failure to comply therewith could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
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6.09 Books and Records. Maintain proper books of record and account, with entries that are full, true and correct in all material respects in conformity with GAAP consistently applied shall be made of all financial transactions and matters involving the assets and business of the Company or such Subsidiary, as the case may be.
6.10 Inspection Rights. Permit representatives and independent contractors of the Administrative Agent to visit and inspect any of its properties, to examine its corporate, financial and operating records, and make copies thereof or abstracts therefrom, and to discuss its affairs, finances and accounts with its directors, officers, and independent public accountants, all at the expense of the Company and at such reasonable times during normal business hours, upon reasonable advance notice to the Company; provided, however, that (a) when no Event of Default exists, the Company shall not be obligated to pay for more than one such visitation and inspection in the period beginning on the Closing Date and ending on the day prior to the first anniversary of the Closing Date, or in any subsequent twelve-month period commencing on an anniversary of the Closing Date and ending twelve months thereafter and (b) when an Event of Default exists the Administrative Agent (or its representatives or independent contractors) may do any of the foregoing at the expense of the Company at any time during normal business hours, without advance notice and as often as may be reasonably deemed necessary or prudent to protect the interests of the Secured Parties. Each Lender shall be provided advance notice by the Administrative Agent of any such inspection and shall be permitted, at such Lenders expense, to accompany (or to have its representatives or independent contractors accompany) the Administrative Agent (or its representatives or independent contractors) on any such inspection.
6.11 Use of Proceeds. Use the proceeds of the Credit Extensions for general corporate purposes (including, without limitation, in connection with the Closing Date Acquisition and Permitted Acquisitions) not in contravention of any Law or of any Loan Document.
6.12 Additional Subsidiaries and Real Property.
(a) Subject to the limits and exclusions set forth in Section 6.12(d) below, if (i) at any time the Company acquires or forms any additional Subsidiary, merges any Subsidiary into another Person or Disposes of assets from any Subsidiary to another Person and, as a result of such acquisition, formation, merger or Disposition, a Person becomes a Material Subsidiary, or (ii) as of the end of any fiscal quarter, any Subsidiary that is not already a Subsidiary Guarantor qualifies as a Material Subsidiary, the Company will promptly notify the Administrative Agent thereof and, as soon as practicable (but in any event within thirty days or such longer period to which the Administrative Agent may agree in its sole discretion) following such acquisition, formation, merger, Disposition or fiscal quarter end, as the case may be, deliver or cause to be delivered to the Administrative Agent each of the following:
(i) a Subsidiary Guaranty Agreement or a Subsidiary Guaranty Joinder Agreement, as applicable, duly executed by such Subsidiary;
(ii) a Security Agreement or a Security Joinder Agreement, as applicable, duly executed by such Subsidiary (with all schedules thereto appropriately completed);
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(iii) if such Subsidiary owns Equity Interests in any other Subsidiary, a Pledge Agreement or a Pledge Joinder Agreement, as applicable, duly executed by such Subsidiary (with all schedules thereto appropriately completed);
(iv) if such Subsidiary has any fee ownership interest in any real property and such real property has a fair market value in excess of $3,500,000 or any leasehold interest in any real property determined by the Administrative Agent to be material to the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole, a Mortgage and such Mortgaged Property Support Documents as the Administrative Agent may request to cause such real property to be subject at all times to a first priority, perfected Lien (subject to Permitted Liens) in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties securing the Obligations;
(v) a Pledge Agreement, Pledge Joinder Agreement or Pledge Agreement Supplement, as applicable, duly executed by the Loan Party owning the Equity Interests of such Subsidiary (in either case, with all schedules thereto appropriately completed);
(vi) if any of the documents referenced in the foregoing clauses (i) through (v) are delivered (or required to be delivered) and if requested by the Administrative Agent, opinions of counsel to the applicable Loan Parties and such Subsidiary with respect to the documents delivered and the transactions contemplated by this Section 6.12(a), in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent, including opinions, assumptions and qualifications similar to those contained in the opinions of counsel delivered pursuant to Section 4.01(a);
(vii) if any of the documents referenced in the foregoing clauses (i) through (iv) are delivered (or required to be delivered), current copies of the documents of the types referred to in clauses (iii) and (iv) of Section 4.01(a) with respect to such Subsidiary, all certified by the applicable Governmental Authority or appropriate officer as the Administrative Agent may elect, all in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent; and
(viii) evidence reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent that all taxes, filing fees and recording fees related to the perfection of the Liens created under any of the documents delivered pursuant to this Section 6.12(a) have been paid and all reasonable costs and expenses (including title insurance premiums) of the Administrative Agent in connection therewith have been paid.
(b) With respect to any Material Real Property (i) acquired (whether by purchase, merger or otherwise) after the Closing Date by any Person that is, or is required to be or become, a Loan Party, or (ii) owned or leased by a Person acquired after the Closing Date that is, or is required to be or become, a Loan Party, cause to be delivered to the Administrative Agent promptly (but in any event within thirty days after such acquisition or such longer period as the Administrative Agent may agree in its sole discretion) a Mortgage and such Mortgaged Property Support Documents as the Administrative Agent may request, in the case of each of clauses (i) and (ii), in order to cause such Material Real Property to be subject at all times to a first priority, perfected Lien (subject to Permitted Liens) in favor of the Administrative Agent
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for the benefit of the Secured Parties securing the Obligations. As used herein, Material Real Property means any fee-owned real property that has a fair market value in excess of $3,500,000 and any leased real property determined by the Administrative Agent to be material to the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole.
(c) Without limiting the foregoing, within 30 days (or such longer period as approved by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion) after (i) each delivery or required delivery of financial information pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or Section 6.01(b) and (ii) any Disposition of any Subsidiary or any material portion of its assets (including via merger or dissolution), cause one or more Subsidiaries to become Subsidiary Guarantors and take such additional actions of the type described in Section 6.12(a) as if such Subsidiaries were Material Subsidiaries, to the extent necessary to cause, subject to the limits and exclusions set forth in Section 6.12(d) below:
(i) the Obligations of the Company and any Designated Borrower that is a Domestic Subsidiary to be guaranteed by, and secured by the Equity Interests and assets of, Subsidiaries that, together with the Company, account for at least 90% of Consolidated Total Assets and 90% of the consolidated total revenues of the Company and its Subsidiaries (but excluding from such calculation the assets and revenues of each Foreign Subsidiary that would, if such Subsidiary provided security or a guaranty with respect to such Obligations, result in material adverse tax consequences to the Company); and
(ii) the Obligations of each Designated Borrower that is a Foreign Subsidiary to be guaranteed by, and secured by the Equity Interests and assets of, Subsidiaries that, together with the Company, account for at least 90% of Consolidated Total Assets and 90% of the consolidated total revenues of the Company and its Subsidiaries (but excluding from such calculation the assets and revenues of each Foreign Subsidiary that would, if such Subsidiary provided security or a guaranty with respect to such Obligations, result in material adverse tax consequences to the Company).
For purposes of the foregoing calculations, (x) assets shall be determined as of the last day of the most recently ended fiscal quarter for which financial information is available, (y) revenues shall be determined using the results of the four fiscal quarter period of the Company most recently ended for which financial information is available, but giving effect to any pro forma adjustments, with respect to any Specified Transaction, in a manner consistent with the adjustments described in Section 1.07 and (z) the assets and revenues of a Subsidiary shall not be deemed to include the assets and revenues of its Subsidiaries.
(d) Notwithstanding anything in this Section 6.12 to the contrary, it is acknowledged and agreed that (i) in no event shall any Foreign Subsidiary be required to guarantee, or provide collateral security for, any portion of the Obligations which would result in an adverse tax consequence to the Company, (ii) the pledge of any Equity Interests in Foreign Subsidiaries as collateral security for any portion of the Obligations shall be limited to an amount which would not result in an adverse tax consequence to the Company, (iii) in no event shall any of CECO Environmental, Aarding, ATA Beheer or Atradius Credit Insurances N.V. be required to guarantee, or provide collateral security for, any portion of the Obligations
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of the U.S. Borrowers and (iv) even if no adverse tax consequences to the Company would result, no Foreign Subsidiary of any Netherlands Designated Borrower shall be required to guarantee, or provide collateral security for, any portion of the Obligations until requested by the Administrative Agent following the repayment of the 10.0 million facilities agreement dated August 17, 2012 between ATA Beheer and Aarding, as borrowers, and ING Bank N.V., as the lender (the ING Debt).
(e) Following the repayment of the ING Debt, the Company shall (i) promptly (but in any event with 2 Business Days following such repayment) notify the Administrative Agent thereof and (ii) upon the request of the Administrative Agent, as soon as practicable (but in any event within thirty days or such longer period to which the Administrative Agent may agree in its sole discretion), cause each of the Netherlands Designated Borrowers and their respective Foreign Subsidiaries to guarantee, and/or provide collateral security for, the Obligations (subject to the limitations set forth in Section 6.12(d)) by delivering the documentation described in Section 6.12(a).
6.13 Compliance with Environmental Laws. Comply, and cause all lessees and other Persons operating or occupying its properties to comply, in all material respects, with all applicable Environmental Laws and Environmental Permits; obtain and renew all Environmental Permits necessary for its operations and properties; and conduct any investigation, study, sampling and testing, and undertake any cleanup, removal, remedial or other action necessary to remove and clean up all Hazardous Materials from any of its properties, in accordance with the requirements of all Environmental Laws; provided, however, that neither the Company nor any of its Subsidiaries shall be required to undertake any such cleanup, removal, remedial or other action to the extent that (a) its obligation to do so is being contested in good faith and by proper proceedings and appropriate reserves are being maintained with respect to such circumstances in accordance with GAAP, or (b) its failure to undertake any such action, either individually or in the aggregate, could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or result in a penalty, fine or liability to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in excess of the Threshold Amount.
6.14 Further Assurances. Promptly upon request by the Administrative Agent, or any Lender through the Administrative Agent, (a) correct any material defect or error that may be discovered in any Loan Document or in the execution, acknowledgment, filing or recordation thereof, and (b) do, execute, acknowledge, deliver, record, re-record, file, re-file, register and re-register any and all such further acts, deeds, certificates, assurances and other instruments as the Administrative Agent, or any Lender through the Administrative Agent, may reasonably require from time to time in order to (i) carry out more effectively the purposes of the Loan Documents, (ii) to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, subject any Loan Partys or any of its Subsidiaries properties, assets, rights or interests to the Liens now or hereafter intended to be covered by any of the Collateral Documents, (iii) perfect and maintain the validity, effectiveness and priority of any of the Collateral Documents and any of the Liens intended to be created thereunder and (iv) assure, convey, grant, assign, transfer, preserve, protect and confirm more effectively unto the Secured Parties the rights granted or now or hereafter intended to be granted to the Secured Parties under any Loan Document or under any other instrument executed in connection with any Loan Document to which any Loan Party or any of its Subsidiaries is or is to be a party, and cause each of its Subsidiaries to do so.
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6.15 Approvals and Authorizations. Except as would not reasonably be expected to cause a Material Adverse Effect, maintain all authorizations, consents, approvals and licenses from, exemptions of, and filings and registrations with, each Governmental Authority of the jurisdiction in which each Foreign Obligor is organized and existing, and all approvals and consents of each other Person in such jurisdiction, in each case that are required in connection with the Loan Documents.
6.16 Anti-Corruption Laws. Conduct its businesses in compliance in all material respects with the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, the UK Bribery Act 2010, and other similar anti-corruption legislation in other jurisdictions and maintain policies and procedures designed to promote and achieve compliance with such laws.
ARTICLE VII.
NEGATIVE COVENANTS
So long as any Lender shall have any Commitment hereunder, any Loan or other Obligation hereunder shall remain unpaid or unsatisfied, or any Letter of Credit shall remain outstanding, the Company shall not, nor shall it permit any Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly:
7.01 Liens. Create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien upon any of its property, assets or revenues, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, other than the following:
(a) Liens pursuant to any Loan Document;
(b) Liens existing on the date hereof and listed on Schedule 7.01 and any renewals or extensions thereof, provided that (i) the property covered thereby is not changed, (ii) the amount secured or benefited thereby is not increased except as contemplated by Section 7.03(b), (iii) the direct or any contingent obligor with respect thereto is not changed, and (iv) any renewal or extension of the obligations secured or benefited thereby is permitted by Section 7.03(b);
(c) Liens for taxes not yet due or which are being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted, if adequate reserves with respect thereto are maintained on the books of the applicable Person in accordance with GAAP;
(d) carriers, warehousemens, mechanics, materialmens, repairmens or other like Liens arising in the ordinary course of business which are not overdue for a period of more than 30 days or which are being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted, if adequate reserves with respect thereto are maintained on the books of the applicable Person;
(e) pledges or deposits in the ordinary course of business in connection with workers compensation, unemployment insurance and other social security legislation, other than any Lien imposed by ERISA;
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(f) deposits to secure the performance of bids, trade contracts and leases (other than Indebtedness), statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds, performance bonds and other obligations of a like nature incurred in the ordinary course of business;
(g) easements, rights-of-way, restrictions and other similar encumbrances affecting real property which, in the aggregate, are not substantial in amount, and which do not in any case materially detract from the value of the property subject thereto or materially interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business of the applicable Person;
(h) Liens securing judgments for the payment of money not constituting an Event of Default under Section 8.01(h);
(i) Liens securing Indebtedness permitted under Section 7.03(e) and Section 7.03(f); provided that (i) such Liens do not at any time encumber any property other than the property financed by such Indebtedness and, in the case of Indebtedness assumed in connection with a Permitted Acquisition, the property subject thereto immediately prior to such Acquisition and (ii) the Indebtedness secured thereby does not exceed the cost or fair market value, whichever is lower, of the property being acquired on the date of acquisition;
(j) Liens, if any, in favor of a surety granted by the Company and/or its Subsidiaries arising by operation of law or under any indemnity agreement or surety agreement entered into in the ordinary course of business in connection with construction-related bid or performance bonds; provided that such Lien does not at any time encumber any property other than the applicable bonded contractual obligation and the accounts receivable, material and equipment under such applicable bonded contractual obligation; and
(k) other Liens securing obligations, which when taken together with the outstanding Indebtedness permitted under Section 7.03(e) and Section 7.03(f) do not exceed $10,000,000 at any time outstanding.
7.02 Investments. Make any Investments, except:
(a) Investments held by the Company or such Subsidiary in the form of Cash Equivalents;
(b) advances to officers, directors and employees of the Company and Subsidiaries in an aggregate amount not to exceed $500,000 at any time outstanding, for travel, entertainment, relocation and analogous ordinary business purposes;
(c) (i) Investments existing on the Closing Date in Subsidiaries existing on the Closing Date; (ii) Investments existing on the Closing Date (other than Investments in Subsidiaries existing on the Closing Date) and described on Schedule 7.02; (iii) Investments made after the Closing Date by any Loan Party in any other Loan Party (limited, in the case of the Company and Loan Parties that are Domestic Subsidiaries, to Investments in each other and in Foreign Subsidiaries that have Guaranteed the Obligations of the Company); (iv) Investments made after the Closing Date by any Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party in any other Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party; (v) Investments made after the Closing Date by any Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party in any Loan Party; and (vi) Investments made after the
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Closing Date by any Loan Party in any Subsidiary that is either not a Loan Party or is a Foreign Subsidiary that is a Loan Party but has not Guaranteed the Obligations of the Company in an aggregate amount in any fiscal year, when taken together with the aggregate amount of Investments made in the form of Permitted Acquisitions pursuant to Section 7.02(g)(ii) during such fiscal year (exclusive of the Zhongli Acquisition), not to exceed the Foreign/Non-Loan Party Investment Basket for such fiscal year (provided that any Investments in the form of loans or advances made by any Loan Party to any Subsidiary that is either not a Loan Party or is a Foreign Subsidiary that is a Loan Party but has not Guaranteed the Obligations of the Company pursuant to this clause (vi) shall be evidenced by a demand note in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and shall be pledged and delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant to the Collateral Documents);
(d) Investments consisting of extensions of credit in the nature of accounts receivable or notes receivable arising from the grant of trade credit in the ordinary course of business, and Investments received in satisfaction or partial satisfaction thereof from financially troubled account debtors to the extent reasonably necessary in order to prevent or limit loss;
(e) Guarantees permitted by Section 7.03;
(f) the Closing Date Acquisition;
(g) Investments by the Company or any Subsidiary in the form of:
(i) Permitted Acquisitions to the extent that any Person or property acquired in such Permitted Acquisition becomes a part of the Company or a Loan Party that has Guaranteed the Obligations of the Company or becomes a Subsidiary Guarantor which Guarantees the Obligations of the Company in the manner contemplated by Section 6.12; and
(ii) Permitted Acquisitions to the extent that any Person or property acquired in such Permitted Acquisition does not become a Loan Party that has Guaranteed the Obligations of the Company or a part of a Loan Party that has Guaranteed the Obligations of the Company in an aggregate amount in any fiscal year (exclusive of the Zhongli Acquisition), when taken together with the aggregate amount of Investments made pursuant to Section 7.02(c)(vi) during such fiscal year, not to exceed the Foreign/Non-Loan Party Investment Basket for such fiscal year;
(h) Investments of a Person or any of its Subsidiaries existing at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary of the Company or at the time such Person merges or consolidates with the Company or any of its Subsidiaries, in either case, in connection with a Permitted Acquisition; provided that such Investments were not made by such Person in connection with, or in anticipation or contemplation of, such Person becoming a Subsidiary of the Company or such merger or consolidation; and
(i) other Investments not exceeding $2,500,000 in the aggregate in any fiscal year of the Company.
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7.03 Indebtedness. Create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Indebtedness, except:
(a) Indebtedness under the Loan Documents;
(b) Indebtedness outstanding on the date hereof and listed on Schedule 7.03 and any refinancings, refundings, renewals or extensions thereof; provided that the amount of such Indebtedness is not increased at the time of such refinancing, refunding, renewal or extension except by (i) an amount equal to a reasonable premium or other reasonable amount paid, and fees and expenses reasonably incurred, in connection with such refinancing, (ii) an amount equal to any existing commitments unutilized thereunder, and (iii) the amount of Indebtedness incurred pursuant to another subsection of this Section 7.03 and allocated by the Company for such purpose in accordance with the final sentence of this Section 7.03;
(c) unsecured (i) Indebtedness of any Loan Party to another Loan Party and Guarantees of any Loan Party in respect of Indebtedness otherwise permitted hereunder of another Loan Party; (ii) Indebtedness of any Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party to another Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party and Guarantees of any Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party in respect of Indebtedness otherwise permitted hereunder of another Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party; (iii) Indebtedness of a Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party to the Company or any wholly-owned Subsidiary that is a Loan Party to the extent such Indebtedness is permitted by Section 7.02(c)(vi); and (iv) Indebtedness owed by any Loan Party to any Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party (provided that such Indebtedness shall be subordinated to the Obligations in a manner reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent);
(d) obligations (contingent or otherwise) of the Company or any Subsidiary existing or arising under any Swap Contract, provided that (i) such obligations are (or were) entered into by such Person in the ordinary course of business for the purpose of directly mitigating risks associated with liabilities, commitments, investments, assets, or property held or reasonably anticipated by such Person, or changes in the value of securities issued by such Person, and not for purposes of speculation or taking a market view; and (ii) such Swap Contract does not contain any provision exonerating the non-defaulting party from its obligation to make payments on outstanding transactions to the defaulting party;
(e) Indebtedness in respect of capital leases, Synthetic Lease Obligations and purchase money obligations for fixed or capital assets within the limitations set forth in Section 7.01(i); provided, however, that the aggregate amount of all such Indebtedness, at any one time outstanding, when added to the aggregate amount of all outstanding Indebtedness permitted under Section 7.03(f) below, shall not exceed $10,000,000;
(f) Indebtedness incurred in connection with Permitted Acquisitions (including existing Indebtedness of a Person acquired in connection with a Permitted Acquisition provided such Indebtedness was not incurred in anticipation of such Acquisition); provided, however, that the aggregate amount of all such Indebtedness, at any one time outstanding, when added to the aggregate amount of all outstanding Indebtedness permitted under Section 7.03(e) above, shall not exceed $10,000,000;
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(g) (i) the ATA Beheer Earn-Outs and (ii) other earn-out and similar payments and obligations to make customary purchase price adjustments for working capital, indemnities and the like in connection with Acquisitions permitted hereby;
(h) Indebtedness of Foreign Subsidiaries and Guarantees by the Company thereof; provided, however, that the aggregate amount of all such Indebtedness, at any one time outstanding, shall not exceed $20,000,000; and
(i) other Indebtedness in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $10,000,000 at any time outstanding.
To the extent that the creation, incurrence or assumption of any Indebtedness could be attributable to more than one subsection of this Section 7.03, the Company may allocate such Indebtedness to any one or more of such subsections and in no event shall the same portion of Indebtedness be deemed to utilize or be attributable to more than one item.
7.04 Fundamental Changes. Merge, dissolve, liquidate, consolidate with or into another Person, or Dispose of (whether in one transaction or in a series of transactions) all or substantially all of its assets (whether now owned or hereafter acquired) to or in favor of any Person, except that, so long as no Event of Default exists or would result therefrom:
(a) any Subsidiary may merge with (i) the Company, provided that the Company shall be the continuing or surviving Person, or (ii) any one or more other Subsidiaries, provided that when any Subsidiary that is a Loan Party is merging with another Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party, the Subsidiary that is a Loan Party shall be the continuing or surviving Person; and
(b) any Subsidiary may Dispose of all or substantially all of its assets (upon voluntary liquidation or otherwise) to the Company or to another Subsidiary; provided that if the transferor in such a transaction is a Loan Party, then the transferee must either be the Company or another Loan Party.
7.05 Dispositions. Make any Disposition or enter into any agreement to make any Disposition, except:
(a) Dispositions of obsolete or worn out equipment, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, in the ordinary course of business;
(b) Dispositions of inventory in the ordinary course of business;
(c) Dispositions of equipment or real property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property or (ii) the proceeds of such Disposition are reasonably promptly applied to the purchase price of such replacement property;
(d) Dispositions of property by any Subsidiary to the Company or to a wholly-owned Subsidiary; provided that if the transferor of such property is a Subsidiary Guarantor, the transferee thereof must either be the Company or a Subsidiary Guarantor;
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(e) Dispositions permitted by Section 7.04;
(f) Dispositions of accounts receivable that are at least 180 days past due or are owing from obligors that are the subject of proceedings of the types described in Section 8.01(f); and
(g) Dispositions by the Company and its Subsidiaries not otherwise permitted under this Section 7.05; provided that (i) at the time of such Disposition, no Event of Default shall exist or would result from such Disposition and (ii) the aggregate book value of all property Disposed of in reliance on this clause (g) while this Agreement is in effect shall not exceed $35,000,000;
provided, however, that any Disposition pursuant to clauses (a) through (g) above shall be for fair market value and, in the case of Dispositions pursuant to clause (g) above, shall be for at least 75% cash consideration.
7.06 Restricted Payments. Declare or make, directly or indirectly, any Restricted Payment, or incur any obligation (contingent or otherwise) to do so, except that:
(a) each Subsidiary may make Restricted Payments to the Company, the Subsidiary Guarantors and any other Person that owns an Equity Interest in such Subsidiary, ratably according to their respective holdings of the type of Equity Interest in respect of which such Restricted Payment is being made;
(b) the Company and each Subsidiary may declare and make dividend payments or other distributions payable solely in the common stock or other common Equity Interests of such Person;
(c) the Company and each Subsidiary may purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire Equity Interests issued by it with the proceeds received from the substantially concurrent issue of new shares of its common stock or other common Equity Interests; and
(d) so long as no Event of Default exists or would result therefrom (in the case of the Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio calculated on a pro forma basis as if such Restricted Payment occurred on the last day of the four fiscal quarter period most recently ended for which financial information is available), the Company may declare and pay cash dividends and distributions to the holders of its Equity Interests.
7.07 Change in Nature of Business. Engage in any material line of business substantially different from those lines of business conducted by the Company and its Subsidiaries on the date hereof (after giving effect to the Closing Date Acquisition) or any business substantially related or incidental thereto.
7.08 Transactions with Affiliates. Enter into any transaction of any kind with any Affiliate of the Company, whether or not in the ordinary course of business, other than on fair and reasonable terms substantially as favorable to the Company or such Subsidiary as would be obtainable by the Company or such Subsidiary at the time in a comparable arms length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate; provided that the foregoing restriction shall not
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apply to transactions between or among the Company and any Subsidiary Guarantor or Designated Borrower or between and among any Designated Borrowers or Subsidiary Guarantors.
7.09 Burdensome Agreements. After the date hereof, enter into any Contractual Obligation (other than this Agreement or any other Loan Document) that (a) limits the ability (i) of any Subsidiary (other than an Excluded Subsidiary) to make Restricted Payments to the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor or to otherwise transfer property to the Company or any Subsidiary Guarantor, (ii) of any Subsidiary (other than an Excluded Subsidiary) to Guarantee the Indebtedness of the Company or (iii) of the Company or any Subsidiary (other than an Excluded Subsidiary) to create, incur, assume or suffer to exist Liens on property of such Person; provided, however, that this clause (iii) shall not prohibit any negative pledge incurred or provided in favor of any holder of Indebtedness permitted under Section 7.03(e) solely to the extent any such negative pledge relates to the property financed by or the subject of such Indebtedness; or (b) requires the grant of a Lien to secure an obligation of such Person if a Lien is granted to secure another obligation of such Person.
7.10 Use of Proceeds.
(a) Use the proceeds of any Credit Extension, whether directly or indirectly, and whether immediately, incidentally or ultimately, to purchase or carry margin stock (within the meaning of Regulation U of the FRB) or to extend credit to others for the purpose of purchasing or carrying margin stock or to refund indebtedness originally incurred for such purpose.
(b) Directly or indirectly, use the proceeds of any Credit Extension, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any Subsidiary, joint venture partner or other individual or entity, to fund any activities of or business with any individual or entity, or in any Designated Jurisdiction, that, at the time of such funding, is the subject of Sanctions, or in any other manner that will result in a violation by any individual or entity (including any individual or entity participating in the transaction, whether as a Lender, the Arranger, the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuers, the Swing Line Lender, or otherwise) of Sanctions.
(c) Directly or indirectly use the proceeds of any Credit Extension for any purpose which would breach the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, the UK Bribery Act 2010, and other similar anti-corruption legislation in other jurisdictions.
7.11 Financial Covenants.
(a) Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio. Permit the Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio as of the end of any period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of the Company to be less than 1.25 to 1.00.
(b) Consolidated Leverage Ratio. Permit the Consolidated Leverage Ratio at any time during any period set forth below to be greater than the ratio set forth below opposite such period:
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Period |
Consolidated Leverage Ratio | |
Closing Date through June 29, 2016 |
3.75 to 1.00 | |
June 30, 2016 through December 31, 2016 |
3.50 to 1.00 | |
January 1, 2017 through September 30, 2017 |
3.25 to 1.00 | |
October 1, 2017 and thereafter |
3.00 to 1.00 |
7.12 Amendment or Modification of Organization Documents. Amend any of its Organization Documents in any manner that is material and adverse to the interests of any Secured Party.
7.13 Accounting Changes. Make any material change in (a) accounting policies or reporting practices, except as required by GAAP, or (b) fiscal year, except that any Subsidiary can conform its fiscal year to that of the Company.
7.14 Amendment, Etc. of Closing Date Acquisition Documents. Amend, modify or change in any manner any term or condition of any Closing Date Acquisition Document or give any consent, waiver or approval thereunder, in either case, to the extent such amendment, modification, change, consent, waiver or approval is material and adverse to the interests of the Lenders, as reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent, without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent.
7.15 Interest Rate Protection. Within 120 days after the Closing Date, fail to enter into, and thereafter maintain, Swap Contracts with Persons reasonably acceptable to Administrative Agent and the Arranger, the effect of which is fix or limit the interest cost to the Borrower with respect to at least thirty-three percent (33%) of the Outstanding Amount of the Term Loan Facility.
7.16 Post-Closing Action. Fail to deliver to the Administrative Agent within thirty (30) days following the Closing Date (or such longer period as the Administrative Agent may permit in its sole discretion), a Mortgage granting a Lien to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties in the property located at 5450 Dakota Lane, Denton, TX 76207, and any Mortgaged Property Support Documents in connection therewith.
ARTICLE VIII.
EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES
8.01 Events of Default. Any of the following shall constitute an Event of Default:
(a) Non-Payment. The Company or any other Loan Party fails to pay (i) when and as required to be paid herein, and in the currency required hereunder, any amount of principal of any Loan or any L/C Obligation, or (ii) within three Business Days after the same becomes due, any interest on any Loan or on any L/C Obligation, or any fee due hereunder, or (iii) within five Business Days after the same becomes due, any other amount payable hereunder or under any other Loan Document; or
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(b) Specific Covenants. The Company fails to perform or observe any term, covenant or agreement contained in any of Section 6.01, 6.02, 6.03, 6.05(a) (in the case of any Borrower only), 6.11, or 6.12 or Article VII, or any Subsidiary Guarantor fails to perform or observe any term, covenant or agreement contained in the Subsidiary Guaranty to which it is a party; or
(c) Other Defaults. Any Loan Party fails to perform or observe any other covenant or agreement (not specified in subsection (a) or (b) above) contained in any Loan Document on its part to be performed or observed and such failure continues for (i) 5 Business Days, in the case of any covenant or agreement contained in Section 6.05 or 6.10 or (ii) 30 days, in all other cases; or
(d) Representations and Warranties. Any representation, warranty, certification or statement of fact made or deemed made by or on behalf of the Company or any other Loan Party herein, in any other Loan Document, or in any document delivered in connection herewith or therewith shall be incorrect or misleading in any material respect when made or deemed made; or
(e) Cross-Default. (i) The Company or any Subsidiary (A) fails to make any payment when due (whether by scheduled maturity, required prepayment, acceleration, demand, or otherwise but taking into account any applicable period of grace) in respect of any Indebtedness or Guarantee (other than Indebtedness hereunder and Indebtedness under Swap Contracts) having an aggregate principal amount (including undrawn committed or available amounts and including amounts owing to all creditors under any combined or syndicated credit arrangement) of more than the Threshold Amount, or (B) fails to observe or perform (after taking into account any applicable period of grace) any other agreement or condition relating to any such Indebtedness or Guarantee or contained in any instrument or agreement evidencing, securing or relating thereto, or any other event occurs, the effect of which default or other event is to cause, or to permit the holder or holders of such Indebtedness or the beneficiary or beneficiaries of such Guarantee (or a trustee or agent on behalf of such holder or holders or beneficiary or beneficiaries) to cause, with the giving of notice if required, such Indebtedness to be demanded or to become due or to be repurchased, prepaid, defeased or redeemed (automatically or otherwise), or an offer to repurchase, prepay, defease or redeem such Indebtedness to be made, prior to its stated maturity, or such Guarantee to become payable or cash collateral in respect thereof to be demanded; or (ii) there occurs under any Swap Contract an Early Termination Date (as defined in such Swap Contract) resulting from (A) any event of default under such Swap Contract as to which the Company or any Subsidiary is the Defaulting Party (as defined in such Swap Contract) or (B) any Termination Event (as so defined) under such Swap Contract as to which the Company or any Subsidiary is an Affected Party (as so defined) and, in either event, the Swap Termination Value owed by the Company or such Subsidiary as a result thereof is greater than the Threshold Amount; or
(f) Insolvency Proceedings, Etc. The Company or any Subsidiary institutes or consents to the institution of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law, or makes an assignment for the benefit of creditors; or applies for or consents to the appointment of any receiver, trustee, custodian, conservator, liquidator, rehabilitator or similar officer for it or for all or any material part of its property; or any receiver, trustee, custodian, conservator,
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liquidator, rehabilitator or similar officer is appointed without the application or consent of such Person and the appointment continues undischarged or unstayed for 60 calendar days; or any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law relating to any such Person or to all or any material part of its property is instituted without the consent of such Person and continues undismissed or unstayed for 60 calendar days, or an order for relief is entered in any such proceeding; or
(g) Inability to Pay Debts; Attachment. (i) The Company or any Subsidiary becomes unable or admits in writing its inability or fails generally to pay its debts as they become due, or (ii) any writ or warrant of attachment or execution or similar process is issued or levied against all or any material part of the property of any such Person and is not released, vacated or fully bonded within 30 days after its issue or levy; or
(h) Judgments. There is entered against the Company or any Subsidiary (i) one or more final judgments or orders for the payment of money in an aggregate amount (as to all such judgments or orders) exceeding the Threshold Amount (to the extent not covered by independent third-party insurance as to which the insurer does not dispute coverage), or (ii) any one or more non-monetary final judgments that have, or could reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect and, in either case, (A) enforcement proceedings are commenced by any creditor upon such judgment or order, or (B) there is a period of 30 consecutive days during which a stay of enforcement of such judgment, by reason of a pending appeal or otherwise, is not in effect; or
(i) ERISA. (i) An ERISA Event occurs with respect to a Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan which has resulted or could reasonably be expected to result in liability of the Company under Title IV of ERISA to the Pension Plan, Multiemployer Plan or the PBGC in an aggregate amount in excess of the Threshold Amount, or (ii) the Company or any ERISA Affiliate fails to pay when due, after the expiration of any applicable grace period, any installment payment with respect to its withdrawal liability under Section 4201 of ERISA under a Multiemployer Plan in an aggregate amount in excess of the Threshold Amount; or
(j) Invalidity of Loan Documents. Any provision of any Loan Document, at any time after its execution and delivery and for any reason other than as expressly permitted hereunder or thereunder or satisfaction in full of all the Obligations, ceases to be in full force and effect; or any Loan Party contests in any manner the validity or enforceability of any provision of any Loan Document; or any Loan Party denies that it has any or further liability or obligation under any Loan Document, or purports to revoke, terminate or rescind any provision of any Loan Document; or
(k) Change of Control. There occurs any Change of Control; or
(l) Collateral Documents. Any Collateral Document after delivery thereof pursuant to Section 4.01 or 6.12 shall for any reason (other than pursuant to the terms thereof) cease to create a valid Lien on the Collateral purported to be covered thereby.
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8.02 Remedies Upon Event of Default. If any Event of Default occurs and is continuing, the Administrative Agent shall, at the request of, or may, with the consent of, the Required Lenders, take any or all of the following actions:
(a) declare the commitment of each Lender to make Loans and any obligation of each L/C Issuer to make L/C Credit Extensions to be terminated, whereupon such commitments and obligation shall be terminated;
(b) declare the unpaid principal amount of all outstanding Loans, all interest accrued and unpaid thereon, and all other amounts owing or payable hereunder or under any other Loan Document to be immediately due and payable, without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived by the Borrowers;
(c) require that the Company Cash Collateralize the L/C Obligations (in an amount equal to the Minimum Collateral Amount with respect thereto); and
(d) exercise on behalf of itself, the Lenders and the L/C Issuers all rights and remedies available to it, the Lenders and the L/C Issuers under the Loan Documents;
provided, however, that upon the occurrence of an actual or deemed entry of an order for relief with respect to any Borrower under the Bankruptcy Code of the United States, the obligation of each Lender to make Loans and any obligation of any L/C Issuer to make L/C Credit Extensions shall automatically terminate, the unpaid principal amount of all outstanding Loans and all interest and other amounts as aforesaid shall automatically become due and payable, and the obligation of the Company to Cash Collateralize the L/C Obligations as aforesaid shall automatically become effective, in each case without further act of the Administrative Agent or any Lender.
8.03 Application of Funds. After the exercise of remedies provided for in Section 8.02 (or after the Loans have automatically become immediately due and payable and the L/C Obligations have automatically been required to be Cash Collateralized as set forth in the proviso to Section 8.02), any amounts received on account of the Obligations shall, subject to the provisions of Sections 2.16 and 2.17, be applied by the Administrative Agent in the following order:
First, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting fees, indemnities, expenses and other amounts (including fees, charges and disbursements of counsel to the Administrative Agent (to the extent required to be paid or reimbursed hereunder) and amounts payable under Article III) payable to the Administrative Agent in its capacity as such;
Second, to payment of that portion of the Obligations arising under the Loan Documents constituting fees, indemnities and other amounts (other than principal, interest and Letter of Credit Fees) payable to the Lenders and the L/C Issuers (including fees, charges and disbursements of counsel to the respective Lenders and the L/C Issuers (to the extent required to be paid or reimbursed hereunder) and amounts payable under Article III), ratably among them in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause Second payable to them;
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Third, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting accrued and unpaid Letter of Credit Fees and interest on the Loans, L/C Borrowings and other Obligations arising under the Loan Documents, ratably among the Lenders and the L/C Issuers in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause Third payable to them;
Fourth, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting unpaid principal of the Loans, L/C Borrowings and Obligations then owing under Secured Hedge Agreements and Secured Cash Management Agreements, ratably among the Lenders, the L/C Issuers, the Hedge Banks and the Cash Management Banks in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause Fourth held by them;
Fifth, to the Administrative Agent for the account of the L/C Issuers, to Cash Collateralize that portion of L/C Obligations comprised of the aggregate undrawn amount of Letters of Credit to the extent not otherwise Cash Collateralized by the Company pursuant to Sections 2.03 and 2.16; and
Last, the balance, if any, after all of the Obligations have been indefeasibly paid in full, to the Company or as otherwise required by Law;
provided that Excluded Swap Obligations with respect to any Loan Party shall not be paid with amounts received from such Loan Party or its assets, but appropriate adjustments shall be made with respect to payments from other Loan Parties to preserve the allocation to Obligations otherwise set forth above in this Section.
Subject to Section 2.03(c) and 2.16, amounts used to Cash Collateralize the aggregate undrawn amount of Letters of Credit pursuant to clause Fifth above shall be applied to satisfy drawings under such Letters of Credit as they occur. If any amount remains on deposit as Cash Collateral after all Letters of Credit have either been fully drawn or expired, such remaining amount shall be applied to the other Obligations, if any, in the order set forth above.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, Obligations arising under Secured Cash Management Agreements and Secured Hedge Agreements shall be excluded from the application described above if the Administrative Agent has not received written notice thereof, together with such supporting documentation as the Administrative Agent may request, from the applicable Cash Management Bank or Hedge Bank, as the case may be. Each Cash Management Bank or Hedge Bank not a party to this Agreement that has given the notice contemplated by the preceding sentence shall, by such notice, be deemed to have acknowledged and accepted the appointment of the Administrative Agent pursuant to the terms of Article IX hereof for itself and its Affiliates as if a Lender party to this Agreement.
ARTICLE IX.
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT
9.01 Appointment and Authority.
(a) Each of the Lenders (including in its capacities as a potential Hedge Bank and a potential Cash Management Bank) and the L/C Issuers hereby irrevocably appoints Bank of
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America to act on its behalf as the Administrative Agent hereunder and under the other Loan Documents and authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such actions on its behalf and to exercise such powers as are delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms hereof or thereof, together with such actions and powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. The provisions of this Article are solely for the benefit of the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the L/C Issuers, and neither any Borrower nor any other Loan Party shall have rights as a third party beneficiary of any of such provisions. It is understood and agreed that the use of the term agent herein or in any other Loan Documents (or any other similar term) with reference to the Administrative Agent is not intended to connote any fiduciary or other implied (or express) obligations arising under agency doctrine of any applicable Law. Instead such term is used as a matter of market custom, and is intended to create or reflect only an administrative relationship between contracting parties.
(b) The Administrative Agent shall also act as the collateral agent under the Loan Documents, and each of the Lenders (including in its capacities as a potential Hedge Bank and a potential Cash Management Bank) and each L/C Issuer hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent to act as the agent of such Lender and such L/C Issuer for purposes of acquiring, holding and enforcing any and all Liens on Collateral granted by any of the Loan Parties to secure any of the Obligations, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto. In this connection, the Administrative Agent, as collateral agent and any co-agents, sub-agents and attorneys-in-fact appointed by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 9.05 for purposes of holding or enforcing any Lien on the Collateral (or any portion thereof) granted under the Collateral Documents, or for exercising any rights and remedies thereunder at the direction of the Administrative Agent), shall be entitled to the benefits of all provisions of this Article IX and Article X (including Section 10.04(c), as though such co-agents, sub-agents and attorneys-in-fact were the collateral agent under the Loan Documents) as if set forth in full herein with respect thereto.
9.02 Rights as a Lender. The Person serving as the Administrative Agent hereunder shall have the same rights and powers in its capacity as a Lender as any other Lender and may exercise the same as though it were not the Administrative Agent and the term Lender or Lenders shall, unless otherwise expressly indicated or unless the context otherwise requires, include the Person serving as the Administrative Agent hereunder in its individual capacity. Such Person and its Affiliates may accept deposits from, lend money to, own securities of, act as the financial advisor or in any other advisory capacity for and generally engage in any kind of business with the Borrowers or any Subsidiary or other Affiliate thereof as if such Person were not the Administrative Agent hereunder and without any duty to account therefor to the Lenders.
9.03 Exculpatory Provisions. The Administrative Agent shall not have any duties or obligations except those expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents, and its duties hereunder shall be administrative in nature. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Administrative Agent:
(a) shall not be subject to any fiduciary or other implied duties, regardless of whether a Default has occurred and is continuing;
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(b) shall not have any duty to take any discretionary action or exercise any discretionary powers, except discretionary rights and powers expressly contemplated hereby or by the other Loan Documents that the Administrative Agent is required to exercise as directed in writing by the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be expressly provided for herein or in the other Loan Documents), provided that the Administrative Agent shall not be required to take any action that, in its opinion or the opinion of its counsel, may expose the Administrative Agent to liability or that is contrary to any Loan Document or applicable law, including for the avoidance of doubt any action that may be in violation of the automatic stay under any Debtor Relief Law or that may effect a forfeiture, modification or termination of property of a Defaulting Lender in violation of any Debtor Relief Law; and
(c) shall not, except as expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents, have any duty to disclose, and shall not be liable for the failure to disclose, any information relating to any of the Borrowers or any of their respective Affiliates that is communicated to or obtained by the Person serving as the Administrative Agent or any of its Affiliates in any capacity.
The Administrative Agent shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by it (i) with the consent or at the request of the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be necessary, or as the Administrative Agent shall believe in good faith shall be necessary, under the circumstances as provided in Sections 10.01 and 8.02) or (ii) in the absence of its own gross negligence or willful misconduct as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by final and nonappealable judgment. The Administrative Agent shall be deemed not to have knowledge of any Default unless and until notice describing such Default is given in writing to the Administrative Agent by the Company, a Lender or an L/C Issuer.
The Administrative Agent shall not be responsible for or have any duty to ascertain or inquire into (i) any statement, warranty or representation made in or in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document, (ii) the contents of any certificate, report or other document delivered hereunder or thereunder or in connection herewith or therewith, (iii) the performance or observance of any of the covenants, agreements or other terms or conditions set forth herein or therein or the occurrence of any Default, (iv) the validity, enforceability, effectiveness or genuineness of this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any other agreement, instrument or document, or the creation, perfection or priority of any Lien purported to be created by the Collateral Documents, (v) the value or the sufficiency of any Collateral, or (vi) the satisfaction of any condition set forth in Article IV or elsewhere herein, other than to confirm receipt of items expressly required to be delivered to the Administrative Agent.
9.04 Reliance by Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent shall be entitled to rely upon, and shall not incur any liability for relying upon, any notice, request, certificate, consent, statement, instrument, document or other writing (including any electronic message, Internet or intranet website posting or other distribution) believed by it to be genuine and to have been signed, sent or otherwise authenticated by the proper Person. The Administrative Agent also may rely upon any statement made to it orally or by telephone and believed by it to have been made by the proper Person, and shall not incur any liability for relying thereon. In determining compliance with any condition hereunder to the making of a Loan, or the issuance,
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extension, renewal or increase of a Letter of Credit, that by its terms must be fulfilled to the satisfaction of a Lender or an L/C Issuer, the Administrative Agent may presume that such condition is satisfactory to such Lender or such L/C Issuer unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice to the contrary from such Lender or such L/C Issuer prior to the making of such Loan or the issuance of such Letter of Credit. The Administrative Agent may consult with legal counsel (who may be counsel for the Company), independent accountants and other experts selected by it, and shall not be liable for any action taken or not taken by it in accordance with the advice of any such counsel, accountants or experts.
9.05 Delegation of Duties. The Administrative Agent may perform any and all of its duties and exercise its rights and powers hereunder or under any other Loan Document by or through any one or more sub agents appointed by the Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent and any such sub agent may perform any and all of its duties and exercise its rights and powers by or through their respective Related Parties. The exculpatory provisions of this Article IX shall apply to any such sub agent and to the Related Parties of the Administrative Agent and any such sub agent, and shall apply to their respective activities in connection with the syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein as well as activities as Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent shall not be responsible for the negligence or misconduct of any sub-agents except to the extent that a court of competent jurisdiction determines in a final and nonappealable judgment that the Administrative Agent acted with gross negligence or willful misconduct in the selection of such sub-agents.
9.06 Resignation of Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent may at any time give notice of its resignation to the Lenders, the L/C Issuers and the Company. Upon receipt of any such notice of resignation, the Required Lenders shall have the right, in consultation with the Company, to appoint a successor, which shall be a bank with an office in the United States, or an Affiliate of any such bank with an office in the United States. If no such successor shall have been so appointed by the Required Lenders and shall have accepted such appointment within 30 days after the retiring Administrative Agent gives notice of its resignation (or such earlier day as shall be agreed by the Required Lenders) (the Resignation Effective Date), then the retiring Administrative Agent may (but shall not be obligated to) on behalf of the Lenders and the L/C Issuers, appoint a successor Administrative Agent meeting the qualifications set forth above. Whether or not a successor has been appointed, such resignation shall become effective in accordance with such notice on the Resignation Effective Date. With effect from the Resignation Effective Date, (1) the retiring Administrative Agent shall be discharged from its duties and obligations hereunder and under the other Loan Documents (except that in the case of any collateral security held by the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Lenders or the L/C Issuers under any of the Loan Documents, the retiring Administrative Agent shall continue to hold such collateral security until such time as a successor Administrative Agent is appointed) and (2) except for any indemnity payments or other amounts then owed to the retiring Administrative Agent, all payments, communications and determinations provided to be made by, to or through the Administrative Agent shall instead be made by or to each Lender and each L/C Issuer directly, until such time as the Required Lenders appoint a successor Administrative Agent as provided for above in this Section. Upon the acceptance of a successors appointment as Administrative Agent hereunder, such successor shall succeed to and become vested with all of the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring (or retired) Administrative Agent (other than as provided in Section 3.01(g) and other
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than any rights to indemnity payments or other amounts owed to the retiring Administrative Agent as of the Resignation Effective Date), and the retiring Administrative Agent shall be discharged from all of its duties and obligations hereunder or under the other Loan Documents (if not already discharged therefrom as provided above in this Section). The fees payable by the Company to a successor Administrative Agent shall be the same as those payable to its predecessor unless otherwise agreed between the Company and such successor. After the retiring Administrative Agents resignation hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, the provisions of this Article and Section 10.04 shall continue in effect for the benefit of such retiring Administrative Agent, its sub agents and their respective Related Parties in respect of any actions taken or omitted to be taken by any of them while the retiring Administrative Agent was acting as Administrative Agent.
Any resignation by Bank of America as Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section shall also constitute its resignation as an L/C Issuer and the Swing Line Lender. If Bank of America resigns as an L/C Issuer, it shall retain all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of an L/C Issuer hereunder with respect to all Letters of Credit outstanding as of the effective date of its resignation as an L/C Issuer and all L/C Obligations with respect thereto, including the right to require the Lenders to make Base Rate Revolving Credit (USD) Loans or fund risk participations in Unreimbursed Amounts pursuant to Section 2.03(c). If Bank of America resigns as Swing Line Lender, it shall retain all the rights of the Swing Line Lender provided for hereunder with respect to Swing Line Loans made by it and outstanding as of the effective date of such resignation, including the right to require the Lenders to make Base Rate Revolving Credit (USD) Loans or fund risk participations in outstanding Swing Line Loans pursuant to Section 2.04(c). Upon the appointment by the Company of a successor L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender hereunder (which successor shall in all cases be a Lender other than a Defaulting Lender), (a) such successor shall succeed to and become vested with all of the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender, as applicable, (b) the retiring L/C Issuer and Swing Line Lender shall be discharged from all of their respective duties and obligations hereunder or under the other Loan Documents, and (c) the successor L/C Issuer shall issue letters of credit in substitution for the Letters of Credit, if any, outstanding at the time of such succession or make other arrangements satisfactory to the retiring L/C Issuer to effectively assume the obligations of the retiring L/C Issuer with respect to such Letters of Credit.
9.07 Non-Reliance on Administrative Agent and Other Lenders. Each Lender and each L/C Issuer acknowledges that it has, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent or any other Lender or any of their Related Parties and based on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Agreement. Each Lender and each L/C Issuer also acknowledges that it will, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent or any other Lender or any of their Related Parties and based on such documents and information as it shall from time to time deem appropriate, continue to make its own decisions in taking or not taking action under or based upon this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any related agreement or any document furnished hereunder or thereunder.
9.08 No Other Duties, Etc. Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, none of the arranger(s), bookrunner(s), syndication agent(s) or documentation agent(s) listed on the cover
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page hereof shall have any powers, duties or responsibilities under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, except in its capacity, as applicable, as the Administrative Agent, a Lender or an L/C Issuer hereunder.
9.09 Administrative Agent May File Proofs of Claim; Credit Bidding. In case of the pendency of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law or any other judicial proceeding relative to any Loan Party, the Administrative Agent (irrespective of whether the principal of any Loan or L/C Obligation shall then be due and payable as herein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Administrative Agent shall have made any demand on any Borrower) shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise
(a) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of the principal and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Loans, L/C Obligations and all other Obligations that are owing and unpaid and to file such other documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Lenders, the L/C Issuers and the Administrative Agent (including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Lenders, the L/C Issuers and the Administrative Agent and their respective agents and counsel and all other amounts due the Lenders, the L/C Issuers and the Administrative Agent under Sections 2.03(h) and (i), 2.09 and 10.04) allowed in such judicial proceeding; and
(b) to collect and receive any monies or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same;
and any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator or other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Lender and each L/C Issuer to make such payments to the Administrative Agent and, in the event that the Administrative Agent shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Lenders and the L/C Issuers, to pay to the Administrative Agent any amount due for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Administrative Agent and its agents and counsel, and any other amounts due the Administrative Agent under Sections 2.09 and 10.04.
Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to authorize the Administrative Agent to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Lender or any L/C Issuer any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Obligations or the rights of any Lender or any L/C Issuer to authorize the Administrative Agent to vote in respect of the claim of any Lender or any L/C Issuer in any such proceeding.
The Loan Parties and the Secured Parties hereby irrevocably authorize the Administrative Agent, based upon the instruction of the Required Lenders, to (a) credit bid and in such manner purchase (either directly or through one or more acquisition vehicles) all or any portion of the Collateral at any sale thereof conducted under the provisions of the Bankruptcy Code of the United States, including under Section 363 of the Bankruptcy Code of the United States or any similar Laws in any other jurisdictions to which a Loan Party is subject, or (b) credit bid and in such manner purchase (either directly or through one or more acquisition vehicles) all or any portion of the Collateral at any other sale or foreclosure conducted by (or with the consent or at the direction of) the Administrative Agent (whether by judicial action or otherwise) in accordance with applicable Law. In connection with any such credit bid and purchase, the
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Obligations owed to the Secured Parties shall be entitled to be, and shall be, credit bid on a ratable basis (with Obligations with respect to contingent or unliquidated claims being estimated for such purpose if the fixing or liquidation thereof would not unduly delay the ability of the Administrative Agent to credit bid and purchase at such sale or other disposition of the Collateral and, if such claims cannot be estimated without unduly delaying the ability of the Administrative Agent to credit bid, then such claims shall be disregarded, not credit bid, and not entitled to any interest in the asset or assets purchased by means of such credit bid) and the Secured Parties whose Obligations are credit bid shall be entitled to receive interests (ratably based upon the proportion of their Obligations credit bid in relation to the aggregate amount of Obligations so credit bid) in the asset or assets so purchased (or in the Equity Interests of the acquisition vehicle or vehicles that are used to consummate such purchase). Except as provided above and otherwise expressly provided for herein or in the other Collateral Documents, the Administrative Agent will not execute and deliver a release of any Lien on any Collateral. Upon request by the Administrative Agent or the Company at any time, the Secured Parties will confirm in writing the Administrative Agents authority to release any such Liens on particular types or items of Collateral pursuant to this Section 9.09.
9.10 Collateral and Guaranty Matters. Each of the Lenders (including in its capacities as a potential Hedge Bank and a potential Cash Management Bank) and each L/C Issuer irrevocably authorize the Administrative Agent at its option and in its discretion,
(a) to release any Lien on any property granted to or held by the Administrative Agent under any Loan Document (i) upon termination of the Aggregate Commitments and payment in full of all Obligations (other than (x) contingent indemnification obligations and (y) obligations and liabilities under Secured Cash Management Agreements and Secured Hedge Agreements as to which arrangements reasonably satisfactory to the applicable Cash Management Bank or Hedge Bank shall have been made) and the expiration or termination of all Letters of Credit (other than Letters of Credit as to which other arrangements with respect thereto reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and each L/C Issuer shall have been made), (ii) that is sold or otherwise Disposed of or to be sold or otherwise Disposed of as part of or in connection with any sale or other Disposition permitted hereunder or under any other Loan Document, or (iii) subject to Section 10.01, if approved, authorized or ratified in writing by the Required Lenders;
(b) to subordinate any Lien on any property granted to or held by the Administrative Agent under any Loan Document to the holder of any Lien on such property that is permitted by Section 7.01(i); and
(c) to release any Subsidiary Guarantor from its obligations under the Subsidiary Guaranty to which it is a party if such Person ceases to be a Subsidiary as a result of a transaction permitted hereunder.
Upon request by the Administrative Agent at any time, the Required Lenders will confirm in writing the Administrative Agents authority to release or subordinate its interest in particular types or items of property, or to release any Subsidiary Guarantor from its obligations under the Subsidiary Guaranty to which it is a party pursuant to this Section 9.10.
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The Administrative Agent shall not be responsible for or have a duty to ascertain or inquire into any representation or warranty regarding the existence, value or collectability of the Collateral, the existence, priority or perfection of the Administrative Agents Lien thereon, or any certificate prepared by any Loan Party in connection therewith, nor shall the Administrative Agent be responsible or liable to the Lenders for any failure to monitor or maintain any portion of the Collateral.
9.11 Secured Cash Management Agreements and Secured Hedging Agreements. No Cash Management Bank or Hedge Bank that obtains the benefit of the provisions of Section 8.03, any Guaranty or any Collateral by virtue of the provisions hereof or of any Guaranty or any Collateral Document shall have any right to notice of any action or to consent to, direct or object to any action hereunder or under any other Loan Document or otherwise in respect of the Collateral (including the release or impairment of any Collateral) (or to notice of or to consent to any amendment, waiver or modification of the provisions hereof or of any Guaranty or any Collateral Document) other than in its capacity as a Lender and, in such case, only to the extent expressly provided in the Loan Documents. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Article IX to the contrary, the Administrative Agent shall not be required to verify the payment of, or that other reasonably satisfactory arrangements have been made with respect to, Obligations arising under Secured Cash Management Agreements and Secured Hedge Agreements unless the Administrative Agent has received written notice of such Obligations, together with such supporting documentation as the Administrative Agent may request, from the applicable Cash Management Bank or Hedge Bank, as the case may be.
ARTICLE X.
MISCELLANEOUS
10.01 Amendments, Etc. No amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, and no consent to any departure by the Company or any other Loan Party therefrom, shall be effective unless in writing signed by the Required Lenders (or the Administrative Agent acting with the authorization of the Required Lenders) and the Company or the applicable Loan Party, as the case may be, and acknowledged by the Administrative Agent, and each such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which given; provided, however, that no such amendment, waiver or consent shall:
(a) waive any condition set forth in Section 4.01(a) without the written consent of each Lender;
(b) without limiting the generality of clause (a) above, waive any condition set forth in Section 4.02 as to any Credit Extension under a particular Facility without the written consent of the Required Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders, Required Revolving Credit (MC) Lenders) or the Required Term Loan Lenders, as the case may be;
(c) extend or increase any Commitment of any Lender (or reinstate any Commitment terminated pursuant to Section 8.02) without the written consent of such Lender;
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(d) postpone any date fixed by this Agreement or any other Loan Document for any payment (excluding mandatory prepayments) of principal, interest, fees or other amounts due to the Lenders (or any of them) hereunder or under any other Loan Document without the written consent of each Lender directly affected thereby;
(e) reduce the principal of, or the rate of interest specified herein on, any Loan or L/C Borrowing, or (subject to clause (iv) of the second proviso to this Section 10.01) any interest, fees or other amounts payable hereunder or under any other Loan Document without the written consent of each Lender directly affected thereby; provided, however, that only the consent of the Required Lenders shall be necessary (i) to amend the definition of Default Rate or to waive any obligation of any Borrower to pay interest or Letter of Credit Fees at the Default Rate or (ii) to amend any financial covenant hereunder (or any defined term used therein) even if the effect of such amendment would be to reduce the rate of interest on any Loan or L/C Borrowing or to reduce any fee payable hereunder;
(f) change Section 8.03 in a manner that would alter the pro rata sharing of payments required thereby or the order of application of payments required thereby without the written consent of each Lender adversely and directly affected thereby;
(g) change Section 2.05 in a manner that would alter the order of application of any prepayments of Term Loans without the written consent of each Term Loan Lender;
(h) change (i) any provision of this Section or the definition of Required Lenders or any other provision hereof specifying the number or percentage of Lenders required to amend, waive or otherwise modify any rights hereunder or make any determination or grant any consent hereunder (other than as provided in subclause (ii) of this clause (h)), without the written consent of each Lender or (ii) the definition of Required Facility Lenders as it relates to a Facility (or the constituent definition therein relating to such Facility) without the written consent of each Lender under such Facility;
(i) amend Section 1.09 of the definition of Alternative Currency, in either case, as it relates to the Revolving Credit (MC) Facility, without the written consent of each Revolving Credit (MC) Lender;
(j) release all or substantially all of the Collateral in any transaction or series of related transactions, without the written consent of each Lender;
(k) release (i) the Company from the Company Guaranty without the written consent of each Lender, or (ii) all or substantially all of the value of the Subsidiary Guaranties without the written consent of each Lender, except to the extent the release of any Subsidiary Guarantor is permitted pursuant to Section 9.10 (in which case such release may be made by the Administrative Agent acting alone);
(l) amend Section 2.14(d) as it relates to the termination of a Designated Borrowers status as such under a particular Facility, without the written consent of each Lender under such Facility; or
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(m) impose any greater restriction on the ability of any Lender under a Facility to assign any of its rights or obligations hereunder without the written consent of the Required Facility Lenders under such Facility;
and, provided further, that (i) no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by such L/C Issuer in addition to the Lenders required above, affect the rights or duties of any L/C Issuer under this Agreement or any Issuer Document relating to any Letter of Credit issued or to be issued by it (including, without limitation, any amendment, waiver or consent that would change Section 1.09 or the definition of Alternative Currency, in either case, as it relates to the Revolving Credit (USD) Facility); (ii) no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by the Swing Line Lender in addition to the Lenders required above, affect the rights or duties of the Swing Line Lender under this Agreement; (iii) no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by the Administrative Agent in addition to the Lenders required above, affect the rights or duties of the Administrative Agent under this Agreement or any other Loan Document; and (iv) the Fee Letters may be amended, or rights or privileges thereunder waived, in a writing executed only by the parties thereto. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, no Defaulting Lender shall have any right to approve or disapprove any amendment, waiver or consent hereunder (and any amendment, waiver or consent which by its terms requires the consent of all Lenders or each affected Lender or all Lenders or each affected Lender under a Facility may be effected with the consent of the applicable Lenders other than Defaulting Lenders), except that (x) no Commitment of any Defaulting Lender may be increased or extended without the consent of such Lender and (y) any waiver, amendment or modification requiring the consent of all Lenders or each affected Lender or all Lenders or each affected Lender under a Facility that by its terms affects any Defaulting Lender disproportionately adversely relative to other affected Lenders shall require the consent of such Defaulting Lender.
10.02 Notices; Effectiveness; Electronic Communication.
(a) Notices Generally. Except in the case of notices and other communications expressly permitted to be given by telephone (and except as provided in subsection (b) below), all notices and other communications provided for herein shall be in writing and shall be delivered by hand or overnight courier service, mailed by certified or registered mail or sent by facsimile as follows, and all notices and other communications expressly permitted hereunder to be given by telephone shall be made to the applicable telephone number, as follows:
(i) if to the Company, the Administrative Agent or Bank of America, in its capacity as an L/C Issuer or the Swing Line Lender, to the address, facsimile number, electronic mail address or telephone number specified for such Person on Schedule 10.02; and
(ii) if to any other Lender or L/C Issuer, to the address, facsimile number, electronic mail address or telephone number specified in its Administrative Questionnaire (including, as appropriate, notices delivered solely to the Person designated by a Lender on its Administrative Questionnaire then in effect for the delivery of notices that may contain material non-public information relating to the Company).
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Notices and other communications sent by hand or overnight courier service, or mailed by certified or registered mail, shall be deemed to have been given when received; notices and other communications sent by facsimile shall be deemed to have been given when sent (except that, if not given during normal business hours for the recipient, shall be deemed to have been given at the opening of business on the next Business Day for the recipient). Notices and other communications delivered through electronic communications to the extent provided in subsection (b) below, shall be effective as provided in such subsection (b).
(b) Electronic Communications. Notices and other communications to the Lenders and the L/C Issuers hereunder may be delivered or furnished by electronic communication (including e-mail, FpML messaging and Internet or intranet websites) pursuant to procedures approved by the Administrative Agent, provided that the foregoing shall not apply to notices to any Lender or any L/C Issuer pursuant to Article II if such Lender or such L/C Issuer, as applicable, has notified the Administrative Agent that it is incapable of receiving notices under such Article by electronic communication. The Administrative Agent, the Swing Line Lender, any L/C Issuer or the Company may each, in its discretion, agree to accept notices and other communications to it hereunder by electronic communications pursuant to procedures approved by it, provided that approval of such procedures may be limited to particular notices or communications.
Unless the Administrative Agent otherwise prescribes, (i) notices and other communications sent to an e-mail address shall be deemed received upon the senders receipt of an acknowledgement from the intended recipient (such as by the return receipt requested function, as available, return e-mail or other written acknowledgement), and (ii) notices or communications posted to an Internet or intranet website shall be deemed received upon the deemed receipt by the intended recipient at its e-mail address as described in the foregoing clause (i) of notification that such notice or communication is available and identifying the website address therefor; provided that, for both clauses (i) and (ii), if such notice, email or other communication is not sent during the normal business hours of the recipient, such notice, email or communication shall be deemed to have been sent at the opening of business on the next Business Day for the recipient.
(c) The Platform. THE PLATFORM IS PROVIDED AS IS AND AS AVAILABLE. THE AGENT PARTIES (AS DEFINED BELOW) DO NOT WARRANT THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE BORROWER MATERIALS OR THE ADEQUACY OF THE PLATFORM, AND EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM LIABILITY FOR ERRORS IN OR OMISSIONS FROM THE BORROWER MATERIALS. NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS OR FREEDOM FROM VIRUSES OR OTHER CODE DEFECTS, IS MADE BY ANY AGENT PARTY IN CONNECTION WITH THE BORROWER MATERIALS OR THE PLATFORM. In no event shall the Administrative Agent or any of its Related Parties (collectively, the Agent Parties) have any liability to any Borrower, any other Loan Party, any Lender, any L/C Issuer or any other Person for losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses of any kind (whether in tort, contract or otherwise) arising out of any Borrowers, any other Loan Partys or the Administrative Agents transmission of Borrower Materials or notices through the platform, any other electronic platform or electronic messaging service or through the Internet.
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(d) Change of Address, Etc. Each of the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuers and the Swing Line Lender may change its address, facsimile or telephone number for notices and other communications hereunder by notice to the other parties hereto. Each other Lender may change its address, facsimile or telephone number for notices and other communications hereunder by notice to the Company, the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuers and the Swing Line Lender. In addition, each Lender agrees to notify the Administrative Agent from time to time to ensure that the Administrative Agent has on record (i) an effective address, contact name, telephone number, facsimile number and electronic mail address to which notices and other communications may be sent and (ii) accurate wire instructions for such Lender. Furthermore, each Public Lender agrees to cause at least one individual at or on behalf of such Public Lender to at all times have selected the Private Side Information or similar designation on the content declaration screen of the Platform in order to enable such Public Lender or its delegate, in accordance with such Public Lenders compliance procedures and applicable Law, including United States Federal and state securities Laws, to make reference to Borrower Materials that are not made available through the Public Side Information portion of the Platform and that may contain material non-public information with respect to the Company or its securities for purposes of United States Federal or state securities laws.
(e) Reliance by Administrative Agent, L/C Issuers and Lenders. The Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuers and the Lenders shall be entitled to rely and act upon any notices (including telephonic or electronic Loan Notices, Letter of Credit Applications and Swing Line Loan Notices) purportedly given by or on behalf of any Borrower even if (i) such notices were not made in a manner specified herein, were incomplete or were not preceded or followed by any other form of notice specified herein, or (ii) the terms thereof, as understood by the recipient, varied from any confirmation thereof. The Company shall indemnify the Administrative Agent, each L/C Issuer, each Lender and the Related Parties of each of them from all losses, costs, liabilities and reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses resulting from the reliance by such Person on each notice purportedly given by or on behalf of any Borrower. All telephonic notices to and other telephonic communications with the Administrative Agent may be recorded by the Administrative Agent, and each of the parties hereto hereby consents to such recording.
10.03 No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies; Enforcement. No failure by any Lender, any L/C Issuer or the Administrative Agent to exercise, and no delay by any such Person in exercising, any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, remedy, power or privilege. The rights, remedies, powers and privileges herein provided, and provided under each other Loan Document, are cumulative and not exclusive of any rights, remedies, powers and privileges provided by law.
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Documents against the Loan Parties or any of them shall be vested exclusively in, and all actions and proceedings at law in connection with such enforcement shall be instituted and maintained exclusively by, the Administrative Agent in accordance with Section 8.02 for the benefit of all the Lenders and the L/C Issuers; provided, however, that the foregoing shall not prohibit (a) the Administrative Agent from exercising on its own behalf the rights and remedies that inure to its benefit (solely in its capacity as Administrative Agent) hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, (b) any L/C Issuer or the Swing Line Lender from exercising the rights and remedies that inure to its benefit (solely in its capacity as an L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender, as the case may be) hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, (c) any Lender from exercising setoff rights in accordance with Section 10.08 (subject to the terms of Section 2.13), or (d) any Lender from filing proofs of claim or appearing and filing pleadings on its own behalf during the pendency of a proceeding relative to any Loan Party under any Debtor Relief Law; and provided, further, that if at any time there is no Person acting as Administrative Agent hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, then (i) the Required Lenders shall have the rights otherwise ascribed to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 8.02 and (ii) in addition to the matters set forth in clauses (b), (c) and (d) of the preceding proviso and subject to Section 2.13, any Lender may, with the consent of the Required Lenders, enforce any rights and remedies available to it and as authorized by the Required Lenders.
10.04 Expenses; Indemnity; Damage Waiver.
(a) Costs and Expenses. The Company shall pay (i) all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent and its Affiliates (including the reasonable and documented fees, disbursements and other charges of one counsel for the Administrative Agent and the Arranger, taken as a whole, and, if reasonably necessary, of one local counsel and one regulatory counsel in any relevant jurisdiction for the Administrative Agent and the Arranger, taken as a whole), in connection with the syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein, the preparation, negotiation, execution, delivery and administration of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents or any amendments, modifications or waivers of the provisions hereof or thereof (whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby shall be consummated), (ii) all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses incurred by any L/C Issuer in connection with the issuance, amendment, renewal or extension of any Letter of Credit or any demand for payment thereunder and (iii) all documented out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any L/C Issuer (including the documented fees, disbursements and other charges of one counsel for the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the L/C Issuers, taken as a whole, and, if reasonably necessary, of one local counsel and one applicable regulatory counsel in each relevant jurisdiction for the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and each L/C Issuer, taken as a whole, and, solely in the case of a conflict of interest, one additional counsel to all such affected Persons similarly situated, taken as a whole), in connection with the enforcement or protection of its rights (A) in connection with this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, including its rights under this Section, or (B) in connection with the Loans made or Letters of Credit issued hereunder, including all such documented out-of-pocket expenses incurred during any workout, restructuring or negotiations in respect of such Loans or Letters of Credit.
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(b) Indemnification by the Company. The Company shall indemnify the Administrative Agent (and any sub-agent thereof), each Lender and each L/C Issuer, and each Related Party of any of the foregoing Persons (each such Person being called an Indemnitee) against, and hold each Indemnitee harmless from, any and all losses, claims, damages, liabilities and related expenses (including the reasonable and documented out-of-pocket fees, disbursements and other charges of one counsel to the Indemnitees, taken as a whole, and, if reasonably necessary, of one local counsel and one applicable regulatory counsel in each relevant jurisdiction to all such Indemnitees, taken as a whole, and, solely in the case of a conflict of interest, one additional counsel to all affected Indemnitees similarly situated, taken as a whole), incurred by any Indemnitee or asserted against any Indemnitee by any third party or by any Borrower or any other Loan Party arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of (i) the execution or delivery of this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby or thereby, the performance by the parties hereto of their respective obligations hereunder or thereunder, the consummation of the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, or, in the case of the Administrative Agent (and any sub-agent thereof) and its Related Parties only, the administration of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents (including in respect of any matters addressed in Section 3.01), (ii) any Loan or Letter of Credit or the use or proposed use of the proceeds therefrom (including any refusal by any L/C Issuer to honor a demand for payment under a Letter of Credit if the documents presented in connection with such demand do not strictly comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit), (iii) any actual or alleged presence or release of Hazardous Materials on or from any property owned or operated by any Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, or any Environmental Liability related in any way to any Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, or (iv) any actual or prospective claim, litigation, investigation or proceeding relating to any of the foregoing, whether based on contract, tort or any other theory, whether brought by a third party or by the Company or any other Loan Party, and regardless of whether any Indemnitee is a party thereto; provided that such indemnity shall not, as to any Indemnitee, be available to the extent that such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or related expenses (x) are determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by final and nonappealable judgment to have resulted from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee or (y) result from a claim brought by the Company or any other Loan Party against an Indemnitee for breach in bad faith of such Indemnitees obligations hereunder or under any other Loan Document, if the Company or such other Loan Party has obtained a final and nonappealable judgment in its favor on such claim as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction. Without limiting the provisions of Section 3.01(c), this Section 10.04(b) shall not apply with respect to Taxes other than any Taxes that represent losses, claims, damages, etc. arising from any non-Tax claim.
(c) Reimbursement by Lenders. To the extent that the Company for any reason fails to indefeasibly pay any amount required under subsection (a) or (b) of this Section to be paid by it to the Administrative Agent (or any sub-agent thereof), any L/C Issuer, the Swing Line Lender or any Related Party of any of the foregoing, each Lender severally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent (or any such sub-agent), such L/C Issuer, the Swing Line Lender or such Related Party, as the case may be, such Lenders pro rata share (determined as of the time that the applicable unreimbursed expense or indemnity payment is sought based on each Lenders share of the Total Credit Exposure at such time) of such unpaid amount (including any such unpaid amount in respect of a claim asserted by such Lender), such payment to be made severally among them based on such Lenders Applicable Percentage (determined as of
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the time that the applicable unreimbursed expense or indemnity payment is sought), provided that the unreimbursed expense or indemnified loss, claim, damage, liability or related expense, as the case may be, was incurred by or asserted against the Administrative Agent (or any such sub-agent), such L/C Issuer or the Swing Line Lender in its capacity as such, or against any Related Party of any of the foregoing acting for the Administrative Agent (or any such sub-agent), such L/C Issuer or the Swing Line Lender in connection with such capacity. The obligations of the Lenders under this subsection (c) are subject to the provisions of Section 2.12(d).
(d) Waiver of Consequential Damages, Etc. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, no Borrower shall assert, and each Borrower hereby waives, and acknowledges that no other Person shall have, any claim against any Indemnitee, on any theory of liability, for special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to direct or actual damages) arising out of, in connection with, or as a result of, this Agreement, any other Loan Document or any agreement or instrument contemplated hereby, the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby, any Loan or Letter of Credit or the use of the proceeds thereof. No Indemnitee referred to in subsection (b) above shall be liable for any damages arising from the use by unintended recipients of any information or other materials distributed to such unintended recipients by such Indemnitee through telecommunications, electronic or other information transmission systems in connection with this Agreement or the other Loan Documents or the transactions contemplated hereby or thereby other than for direct or actual damages resulting from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee as determined by a final and nonappealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction.
(e) Payments. All amounts due under this Section shall be payable not later than ten Business Days after demand therefor.
(f) Survival. The agreements in this Section and the indemnity provisions of Section 10.02(e) shall survive the resignation of the Administrative Agent, any L/C Issuer and the Swing Line Lender, the replacement of any Lender, the termination of the Aggregate Commitments and the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all the other Obligations.
10.05 Payments Set Aside. To the extent that any payment by or on behalf of any Borrower is made to the Administrative Agent, any L/C Issuer or any Lender, or the Administrative Agent, any L/C Issuer or any Lender exercises its right of setoff, and such payment or the proceeds of such setoff or any part thereof is subsequently invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside or required (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by the Administrative Agent, such L/C Issuer or such Lender in its discretion) to be repaid to a trustee, receiver or any other party, in connection with any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law or otherwise, then (a) to the extent of such recovery, the obligation or part thereof originally intended to be satisfied shall be revived and continued in full force and effect as if such payment had not been made or such setoff had not occurred, and (b) each Lender and each L/C Issuer severally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent upon demand its applicable share (without duplication) of any amount so recovered from or repaid by the Administrative Agent plus interest thereon from the date of such demand to the date such payment is made at a rate per annum equal to the applicable Overnight Rate from time to time in effect, in the applicable currency of such recovery or payment. The obligations of the Lenders and the L/C Issuers under clause (b) of the preceding sentence shall survive the payment in full of the Obligations and the termination of this Agreement.
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10.06 Successors and Assigns.
(a) Successors and Assigns Generally. The provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby, except that no Borrower may assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent and each Lender and no Lender may assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder except (i) to an assignee in accordance with the provisions of subsection (b) of this Section, (ii) by way of participation in accordance with the provisions of subsection (d) of this Section or (iii) by way of pledge or assignment of a security interest subject to the restrictions of subsection (e) of this Section (and any other attempted assignment or transfer by any party hereto shall be null and void). Nothing in this Agreement, expressed or implied, shall be construed to confer upon any Person (other than the parties hereto, their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby, Participants to the extent provided in subsection (d) of this Section and, to the extent expressly contemplated hereby, the Related Parties of each of the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuers and the Lenders) any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or by reason of this Agreement.
(b) Assignments by Lenders. Any Lender may at any time assign to one or more assignees all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitment(s) and the Loans (including for purposes of this subsection (b), participations in L/C Obligations and in Swing Line Loans) at the time owing to it); provided that (in each case with respect to any Facility) any such assignment shall be subject to the following conditions:
(i) Minimum Amounts.
(A) in the case of an assignment of the entire remaining amount of the assigning Lenders Commitment under any Facility and/or the Loans at the time owing to it (in each case with respect to any Facility) or contemporaneous assignments to related Approved Funds that equal at least the amount specified in paragraph (b)(i)(B) of this Section in the aggregate or in the case of an assignment to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund, no minimum amount need be assigned; and
(B) in any case not described in subsection (b)(i)(A) of this Section, the aggregate amount of the applicable Commitment (which for this purpose includes Loans outstanding thereunder) or, if the applicable Commitment is not then in effect, the principal outstanding balance of the Loans of the assigning Lender subject to each such assignment, determined as of the date the Assignment and Assumption with respect to such assignment is delivered to the Administrative Agent or, if Trade Date is specified in the Assignment and Assumption, as of the Trade Date, shall not be less than $5,000,000, in the case of any assignment in respect of the Revolving Credit (USD) Facility, or
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$1,000,000, in the case of any assignment in respect of the Term Loan Facility or the Revolving Credit (MC) Facility, unless each of the Administrative Agent and, so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, the Company otherwise consents (each such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed).
(ii) Proportionate Amounts. Each partial assignment shall be made as an assignment of a proportionate part of all the assigning Lenders rights and obligations under this Agreement with respect to the Loans or the Commitment assigned, except that this clause (ii) shall not apply to the Swing Line Lenders rights and obligations in respect of Swing Line Loans.
(iii) Required Consents. No consent shall be required for any assignment except to the extent required by subsection (b)(i)(B) of this Section and, in addition:
(A) the consent of the Company (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) shall be required unless (1) an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing at the time of such assignment or (2) such assignment is to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund; provided that the Company shall be deemed to have consented to any such assignment unless it shall object thereto by written notice to the Administrative Agent within five (5) Business Days after having received notice thereof;
(B) the consent of the Administrative Agent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) shall be required for assignments in respect of (i) any unfunded Term Loan Commitment, any Revolving Credit (USD) Commitment or any Revolving Credit (MC) Commitment if such assignment is to a Person that is not a Lender with a Commitment in respect of the applicable Facility, an Affiliate of such a Lender or an Approved Fund with respect to such a Lender or (ii) any Term Loan to a Person that is not a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund; and
(C) the consent of each L/C Issuer and the Swing Line Lender shall be required for any assignment in respect of the Revolving Credit (USD) Facility.
(iv) Assignment and Assumption. The parties to each assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent an Assignment and Assumption, together with a processing and recordation fee in the amount of $3,500; provided, however, that the Administrative Agent may, in its sole discretion, elect to waive such processing and recordation fee in the case of any assignment. The assignee, if it is not a Lender, shall deliver to the Administrative Agent an Administrative Questionnaire.
(v) No Assignment to Certain Persons. No such assignment shall be made (A) to the Company or any of the Companys Affiliates or Subsidiaries, (B) to any Defaulting Lender or any of its Subsidiaries, or any Person who, upon becoming a Lender hereunder, would constitute any of the foregoing Persons described in this clause (B), or (C) to a natural Person (or to a holding company, investment vehicle or trust for, or owned and operated for the primary benefit of a natural Person).
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(vi) Certain Additional Payments. In connection with any assignment of rights and obligations of any Defaulting Lender hereunder, no such assignment shall be effective unless and until, in addition to the other conditions thereto set forth herein, the parties to the assignment shall make such additional payments to the Administrative Agent in an aggregate amount sufficient, upon distribution thereof as appropriate (which may be outright payment, purchases by the assignee of participations or subparticipations, or other compensating actions, including funding, with the consent of the Company and the Administrative Agent, the applicable pro rata share of Loans previously requested but not funded by the Defaulting Lender, to each of which the applicable assignee and assignor hereby irrevocably consent), to (x) pay and satisfy in full all payment liabilities then owed by such Defaulting Lender to the Administrative Agent, any L/C Issuer or any Lender hereunder (and interest accrued thereon) and (y) acquire (and fund as appropriate) its full pro rata share of all Loans and participations in Letters of Credit and Swing Line Loans in accordance with its Applicable Percentage. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in the event that any assignment of rights and obligations of any Defaulting Lender hereunder shall become effective under applicable Law without compliance with the provisions of this paragraph, then the assignee of such interest shall be deemed to be a Defaulting Lender for all purposes of this Agreement until such compliance occurs.
(vii) Assignee is not a Competitor. Unless an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing (in which case this clause (vii) shall not apply to such assignment), each assignee represents and warrants to the Company that such assignee is not a Competitor.
Subject to acceptance and recording thereof by the Administrative Agent pursuant to subsection (c) of this Section, from and after the effective date specified in each Assignment and Assumption, the assignee thereunder shall be a party to this Agreement and, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, have the rights and obligations of a Lender under this Agreement, and the assigning Lender thereunder shall, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Assumption covering all of the assigning Lenders rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto) but shall continue to be entitled to the benefits of Sections 3.01, 3.04, 3.05, and 10.04 with respect to facts and circumstances occurring prior to the effective date of such assignment; provided, that except to the extent otherwise expressly agreed by the affected parties, no assignment by a Defaulting Lender will constitute a waiver or release of any claim of any party hereunder arising from that Lenders having been a Defaulting Lender. Upon request, each Borrower (at its expense) shall execute and deliver a Note to the assignee Lender. Any assignment or transfer by a Lender of rights or obligations under this Agreement that does not comply with this subsection shall be treated for purposes of this Agreement as a sale by such Lender of a participation in such rights and obligations in accordance with subsection (d) of this Section.
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(c) Register. The Administrative Agent, acting solely for this purpose as an agent of the Borrowers (and such agency being solely for tax purposes), shall maintain at the Administrative Agents Office a copy of each Assignment and Assumption delivered to it (or the equivalent thereof in electronic form) and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders, and the Commitments of, and principal amounts (and stated interest) of the Loans and L/C Obligations owing to, each Lender pursuant to the terms hereof from time to time (the Register). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive absent manifest error, and the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register pursuant to the terms hereof as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement. The Register shall be available for inspection by each of the Borrowers and any Lender, at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice.
(d) Participations. Any Lender may at any time, without the consent of, or notice to, any Borrower or the Administrative Agent, sell participations to any Person (other than a natural Person, or a holding company, investment vehicle or trust for, or owned and operated for the primary benefit of a natural Person, a Defaulting Lender or the Company or any of the Companys Affiliates or Subsidiaries) (each, a Participant) in all or a portion of such Lenders rights and/or obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitment(s) and/or the Loans (including such Lenders participations in L/C Obligations and/or Swing Line Loans) owing to it); provided that (i) such Lenders obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations and (iii) the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the L/C Issuers shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lenders rights and obligations under this Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, each Lender shall be responsible for the indemnity under Section 10.04(c) without regard to the existence of any participation.
Any agreement or instrument pursuant to which a Lender sells such a participation shall provide that such Lender shall retain the sole right to enforce this Agreement and to approve any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of this Agreement; provided that such agreement or instrument may provide that such Lender will not, without the consent of the Participant, agree to any amendment, waiver or other modification described in the first proviso to Section 10.01 that affects such Participant. Each Borrower agrees that each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 3.01, 3.04 and 3.05 to the same extent as if it were a Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to subsection (b) of this Section (it being understood that the documentation required under Section 3.01(e) shall be delivered to the Lender who sells the participation) to the same extent as if it were a Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to subsection (b) of this Section; provided that such Participant (A) agrees to be subject to the provisions of Sections 3.06 and 10.13 as if it were an assignee under subsection (b) of this Section and (B) shall not be entitled to receive any greater payment under Sections 3.01 or 3.04, with respect to any participation, than the Lender from whom it acquired the applicable participation would have been entitled to receive, except to the extent such entitlement to receive a greater payment results from a Change in Law that occurs after the Participant acquired the applicable participation. Each Lender that sells a participation agrees, at the Companys request and expense, to use reasonable efforts to cooperate with the Company to effectuate the provisions of Section 3.06 with respect to any Participant. To the extent permitted
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by law, each Participant also shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 10.08 as though it were a Lender, provided that such Participant agrees to be subject to Section 2.13 as though it were a Lender. Each Lender that sells a participation shall, acting solely for this purpose as an agent of the Company, maintain a register on which it enters the name and address of each Participant and the principal amounts (and stated interest) of each Participants interest in the Loans or other obligations under the Loan Documents (the Participant Register); provided that no Lender shall have any obligation to disclose all or any portion of the Participant Register (including the identity of any Participant or any information relating to a Participants interest in any commitments, loans, letters of credit or its other obligations under any Loan Document) to any Person except to the extent that such disclosure is necessary to establish that such commitment, loan, letter of credit or other obligation is in registered form under Section 5f.103-1(c) of the United States Treasury Regulations. The entries in the Participant Register shall be conclusive absent manifest error, and such Lender shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Participant Register as the owner of such participation for all purposes of this Agreement notwithstanding any notice to the contrary. For the avoidance of doubt, the Administrative Agent (in its capacity as Administrative Agent) shall have no responsibility for maintaining a Participant Register.
(e) Certain Pledges. Any Lender may at any time pledge or assign a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including under its Note(s), if any) to secure obligations of such Lender, including any pledge or assignment to secure obligations to a Federal Reserve Bank; provided that no such pledge or assignment shall release such Lender from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute any such pledgee or assignee for such Lender as a party hereto.
(f) Resignation as an L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender after Assignment. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, (i) if at any time Bank of America assigns all of its Revolving Credit (USD) Commitment and Revolving Credit (USD) Loans pursuant to subsection (b) above, Bank of America may, (A) upon 30 days notice to the Company and the Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders, resign as an L/C Issuer and/or (B) upon 30 days notice to the Company, resign as Swing Line Lender, and (ii) if at any time any other Lender acting as an L/C Issuer assigns all of its Revolving Credit (USD) Commitment and Revolving Credit (USD) Loans pursuant to subsection (b) above, such Lender may, upon 30 days notice to the Company and the Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders, resign as an L/C Issuer. In the event of any such resignation as an L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender, the Company shall be entitled to appoint from among the Lenders a successor L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender hereunder; provided, however, that no failure by the Company to appoint any such successor shall affect the resignation of Bank of America as an L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender, as the case may be, or any other Lender as an L/C Issuer. If Bank of America or any other Lender resigns as an L/C Issuer, it shall retain all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of an L/C Issuer hereunder with respect to all Letters of Credit outstanding and issued by it as of the effective date of its resignation as an L/C Issuer and all L/C Obligations with respect thereto (including the right to require the Lenders to make Base Rate Revolving Credit (USD) Loans or fund risk participations in Unreimbursed Amounts pursuant to Section 2.03(c)). If Bank of America resigns as Swing Line Lender, it shall retain all the rights of the Swing Line Lender provided for hereunder with respect to Swing Line Loans made by it and outstanding as of the effective date of such resignation, including the right to require the Lenders to make Base Rate
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Revolving Credit (USD) Loans or fund risk participations in outstanding Swing Line Loans pursuant to Section 2.04(c). Upon the appointment of a successor L/C Issuer and/or Swing Line Lender, (a) such successor shall succeed to and become vested with all of the rights, powers, privileges and duties of the retiring L/C Issuer or Swing Line Lender, as the case may be, and (b) the successor L/C Issuer shall issue letters of credit in substitution for the Letters of Credit, if any, outstanding at the time of such succession or make other arrangements reasonably satisfactory to Bank of America or such other retiring L/C Issuer, as the case may be, to effectively assume the obligations of Bank of America or such other retiring L/C Issuer, as the case may be, with respect to such Letters of Credit issued by it.
10.07 Treatment of Certain Information; Confidentiality. Each of the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the L/C Issuers agree to maintain the confidentiality of the Information (as defined below), except that Information may be disclosed (a) to its Related Parties (it being understood that the Persons to whom such disclosure is made will be informed of the confidential nature of such Information and instructed to keep such Information confidential), (b) to the extent required or requested by any regulatory authority purporting to have jurisdiction over such Person or its Related Parties (including any self-regulatory authority, such as the National Association of Insurance Commissioners), (c) to the extent required by applicable laws or regulations or by any subpoena or similar legal process, (d) to any other party hereto, (e) in connection with the exercise of any remedies hereunder or under any other Loan Document or any action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document or the enforcement of rights hereunder or thereunder, (f) subject to an agreement containing provisions substantially the same as those of this Section, to (i) any assignee of or Participant in, or any prospective assignee of or Participant in, any of its rights and obligations under this Agreement or any Eligible Assignee invited to be a Lender pursuant to Section 2.15(c) or (ii) any actual or prospective party (or its Related Parties) to any swap, derivative or other transaction under which payments are to be made by reference to a Borrower and its obligations, this Agreement or payments hereunder, (g) on a confidential basis to (i) any rating agency in connection with rating the Company or its Subsidiaries or the credit facilities provided hereunder or (ii) the CUSIP Service Bureau or any similar agency in connection with the issuance and monitoring of CUSIP numbers or other market identifiers with respect to the credit facilities provided hereunder, (h) with the consent of the Company or (i) to the extent such Information (x) becomes publicly available other than as a result of a breach of this Section or (y) becomes available to the Administrative Agent, any Lender, any L/C Issuer or any of their respective Affiliates on a nonconfidential basis from a source other than the Company. In addition, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders may disclose the existence of this Agreement and information about this Agreement to market data collectors, similar service providers to the lending industry and service providers to the Agents and the Lenders in connection with the administration of this Agreement, the other Loan Documents, and the Commitments.
For purposes of this Section, Information means all information received from the Company or any Subsidiary relating to the Company or any Subsidiary or any of their respective businesses, other than any such information that is available to the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any L/C Issuer on a nonconfidential basis prior to disclosure by the Company or any Subsidiary, provided that, in the case of information received from the Company or any Subsidiary after the date hereof, such information is clearly identified at the time of delivery as confidential. Any Person required to maintain the confidentiality of Information as provided in
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this Section shall be considered to have complied with its obligation to do so if such Person has exercised the same degree of care to maintain the confidentiality of such Information as such Person would accord to its own confidential information.
Each of the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the L/C Issuers acknowledge that (a) the Information may include material non-public information concerning the Company or a Subsidiary, as the case may be, (b) it has developed compliance procedures regarding the use of material non-public information and (c) it will handle such material non-public information in accordance with applicable Law, including United States Federal and state securities Laws.
10.08 Right of Setoff. If an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, each Lender, each L/C Issuer and each of their respective Affiliates is hereby authorized at any time and from time to time, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, to set-off and apply any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final, in whatever currency) at any time held and other obligations (in whatever currency) at any time owing by such Lender, such L/C Issuer or any such Affiliate to or for the credit or the account of any Borrower against any and all of the obligations of such Borrower now or hereafter existing under this Agreement or any other Loan Document to such Lender or such L/C Issuer or their respective Affiliates, irrespective of whether or not such Lender, such L/C Issuer or such Affiliate shall have made any demand under this Agreement or any other Loan Document and although such obligations of such Borrower are owed to a branch, office or Affiliate of such Lender or such L/C Issuer different from the branch, office or Affiliate holding such deposit or obligated on such indebtedness; provided, that in the event that any Defaulting Lender shall exercise any such right of setoff, (x) all amounts so set off shall be paid over immediately to the Administrative Agent for further application in accordance with the provisions of Section 2.17 and, pending such payment, shall be segregated by such Defaulting Lender from its other funds and deemed held in trust for the benefit of the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuers and the Lenders, and (y) the Defaulting Lender shall provide promptly to the Administrative Agent a statement describing in reasonable detail the Obligations owing to such Defaulting Lender as to which it exercised such right of setoff. The rights of each Lender, each L/C Issuer and their respective Affiliates under this Section are in addition to other rights and remedies (including other rights of setoff) that such Lender, such L/C Issuer or their respective Affiliates may have. Each Lender and each L/C Issuer agrees to notify the Company and the Administrative Agent promptly after any such setoff and application, provided that the failure to give such notice shall not affect the validity of such setoff and application.
10.09 Interest Rate Limitation. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in any Loan Document, the interest paid or agreed to be paid under the Loan Documents shall not exceed the maximum rate of non-usurious interest permitted by applicable Law (the Maximum Rate). If the Administrative Agent or any Lender shall receive interest in an amount that exceeds the Maximum Rate, the excess interest shall be applied to the principal of the Loans or, if it exceeds such unpaid principal, refunded to the Company. In determining whether the interest contracted for, charged, or received by the Administrative Agent or a Lender exceeds the Maximum Rate, such Person may, to the extent permitted by applicable Law, (a) characterize any payment that is not principal as an expense, fee, or premium rather than interest, (b) exclude voluntary prepayments and the effects thereof, and (c) amortize, prorate, allocate, and spread in equal or unequal parts the total amount of interest throughout the contemplated term of the Obligations hereunder.
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10.10 Counterparts; Integration; Effectiveness. This Agreement and the other Loan Documents may be executed in counterparts (and by different parties hereto in different counterparts), each of which shall constitute an original, but all of which when taken together shall constitute a single contract. This Agreement and the other Loan Documents constitute the entire contract among the parties relating to the subject matter hereof and supersede any and all previous agreements and understandings, oral or written, relating to the subject matter hereof. Except as provided in Section 4.01, this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall become effective when it shall have been executed by the Administrative Agent and when the Administrative Agent shall have received counterparts hereof that, when taken together, bear the signatures of each of the other parties hereto. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Agreement and any other Loan Document by facsimile or other electronic imaging means (e.g., pdf or tif) shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.
10.11 Survival of Representations and Warranties. All representations and warranties made hereunder and in any other Loan Document or other document delivered pursuant hereto or thereto or in connection herewith or therewith shall survive the execution and delivery hereof and thereof. Such representations and warranties have been or will be relied upon by the Administrative Agent and each Lender, regardless of any investigation made by the Administrative Agent or any Lender or on their behalf and notwithstanding that the Administrative Agent or any Lender may have had notice or knowledge of any Default at the time of any Credit Extension, and shall continue in full force and effect as long as any Loan or any other Obligation hereunder shall remain unpaid or unsatisfied or any Letter of Credit shall remain outstanding.
10.12 Severability. If any provision of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents is held to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable, (a) the legality, validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall not be affected or impaired thereby and (b) the parties shall endeavor in good faith negotiations to replace the illegal, invalid or unenforceable provisions with valid provisions the economic effect of which comes as close as possible to that of the illegal, invalid or unenforceable provisions. The invalidity of a provision in a particular jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction. Without limiting the foregoing provisions of this Section 10.12, if and to the extent that the enforceability of any provisions in this Agreement relating to Defaulting Lenders shall be limited by Debtor Relief Laws, as determined in good faith by the Administrative Agent, any L/C Issuer or the Swing Line Lender, as applicable, then such provisions shall be deemed to be in effect only to the extent not so limited.
10.13 Replacement of Lenders. If the Company is entitled to replace a Lender pursuant to the provisions of Section 3.06, or if any Lender is a Defaulting Lender or a Non-Consenting Lender, then the Company may, at its sole expense and effort, upon notice to such Lender and the Administrative Agent, require such Lender to assign and delegate, without recourse (in accordance with and subject to the restrictions contained in, and consents required by, Section 10.06), all of its interests, rights (other than its existing rights to payments pursuant
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to Sections 3.01 and 3.04) and obligations under this Agreement and the related Loan Documents to an Eligible Assignee that shall assume such obligations (which assignee may be another Lender, if a Lender accepts such assignment), provided that:
(a) the Company shall have paid (or caused a Designated Borrower to pay) to the Administrative Agent the assignment fee (if any) specified in Section 10.06(b);
(b) such Lender shall have received payment of an amount equal to 100% of the outstanding principal of its Loans and L/C Advances, accrued interest thereon, accrued fees and all other amounts payable to it hereunder and under the other Loan Documents (including any amounts under Section 3.05) from the assignee (to the extent of such outstanding principal and accrued interest and fees) or the Company or applicable Designated Borrower (in the case of all other amounts);
(c) in the case of any such assignment resulting from a claim for compensation under Section 3.04 or payments required to be made pursuant to Section 3.01, such assignment will result in a reduction in such compensation or payments thereafter;
(d) such assignment does not conflict with applicable Laws; and
(e) in the case of an assignment resulting from a Lender becoming a Non-Consenting Lender, the applicable assignee shall have consented to the applicable amendment, waiver or consent.
A Lender shall not be required to make any such assignment or delegation if, prior thereto, as a result of a waiver by such Lender or otherwise, the circumstances entitling the Company to require such assignment and delegation cease to apply.
10.14 Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Etc.
(a) GOVERNING LAW. THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS AND ANY CLAIMS, CONTROVERSY, DISPUTE OR CAUSE OF ACTION (WHETHER IN CONTRACT OR TORT OR OTHERWISE) BASED UPON, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT (EXCEPT, AS TO ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT, AS EXPRESSLY SET FORTH THEREIN) AND THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY AND THEREBY SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
(b) SUBMISSION TO JURISDICTION. EXCEPT TO THE EXTENT MANDATED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR RULES OF PROCEDURE, EACH BORROWER IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY AGREES THAT IT WILL NOT COMMENCE ANY ACTION, LITIGATION OR PROCEEDING OF ANY KIND OR DESCRIPTION, WHETHER IN LAW OR EQUITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT OR IN TORT OR OTHERWISE, AGAINST THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT, ANY LENDER, ANY L/C ISSUER, OR ANY RELATED PARTY OF THE FOREGOING IN ANY WAY RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS RELATING HERETO OR THERETO, IN ANY FORUM OTHER THAN
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THE COURTS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK SITTING IN NEW YORK COUNTY AND OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT OF THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK, AND ANY APPELLATE COURT FROM ANY THEREOF, AND EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY SUBMITS TO THE JURISDICTION OF SUCH COURTS AND AGREES THAT ALL CLAIMS IN RESPECT OF ANY SUCH ACTION, LITIGATION OR PROCEEDING MAY BE HEARD AND DETERMINED IN SUCH NEW YORK STATE COURT OR, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN SUCH FEDERAL COURT. EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO AGREES THAT A FINAL JUDGMENT IN ANY SUCH ACTION, LITIGATION OR PROCEEDING SHALL BE CONCLUSIVE AND MAY BE ENFORCED IN OTHER JURISDICTIONS BY SUIT ON THE JUDGMENT OR IN ANY OTHER MANNER PROVIDED BY LAW. NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT OR IN ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT SHALL AFFECT ANY RIGHT THAT THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT, ANY LENDER OR ANY L/C ISSUER MAY OTHERWISE HAVE TO BRING ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT AGAINST ANY BORROWER OR ITS PROPERTIES IN THE COURTS OF ANY JURISDICTION.
(c) WAIVER OF VENUE. EACH PARTY HERETO IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY OBJECTION THAT IT MAY NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE TO THE LAYING OF VENUE OF ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT IN ANY COURT REFERRED TO IN PARAGRAPH (b) OF THIS SECTION. EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE DEFENSE OF AN INCONVENIENT FORUM TO THE MAINTENANCE OF SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING IN ANY SUCH COURT.
(d) SERVICE OF PROCESS. EACH PARTY HERETO IRREVOCABLY CONSENTS TO SERVICE OF PROCESS IN THE MANNER PROVIDED FOR NOTICES IN SECTION 10.02. NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT WILL AFFECT THE RIGHT OF ANY PARTY HERETO TO SERVE PROCESS IN ANY OTHER MANNER PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.
10.15 Waiver of Jury Trial. EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY (WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY OTHER THEORY). EACH PARTY HERETO (A) CERTIFIES THAT NO REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY OTHER PERSON HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PERSON WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVER AND (B) ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT AND THE OTHER PARTIES HERETO HAVE BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS AGREEMENT AND THE OTHER LOAN DOCUMENTS BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION.
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10.16 No Advisory or Fiduciary Responsibility. In connection with all aspects of each transaction contemplated hereby (including in connection with any amendment, waiver or other modification hereof or of any other Loan Document), each Borrower acknowledges and agrees, and acknowledges its Affiliates understanding, that: (i) (A) the arranging and other services regarding this Agreement provided by the Administrative Agent, the Arranger and the Lenders are arms-length commercial transactions between such Borrower and its Affiliates, on the one hand, and the Administrative Agent, the Arranger and the Lenders, on the other hand, (B) such Borrower has consulted its own legal, accounting, regulatory and tax advisors to the extent it has deemed appropriate, and (C) such Borrower is capable of evaluating, and understands and accepts, the terms, risks and conditions of the transactions contemplated hereby and by the other Loan Documents; (ii) (A) each of the Administrative Agent, the Arranger and the Lenders is and has been acting solely as a principal and, except as expressly agreed in writing by the relevant parties, has not been, is not, and will not be acting as an advisor, agent or fiduciary for such Borrower or any of its Affiliates or any other Person and (B) neither the Administrative Agent, the Arranger nor any Lender has any obligation to such Borrower or any of its Affiliates with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby except those obligations expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents; and (iii) the Administrative Agent, the Arranger and the Lenders and their respective Affiliates may be engaged in a broad range of transactions that involve interests that differ from those of such Borrower and its Affiliates, and neither the Administrative Agent, the Arranger nor any Lender has any obligation to disclose any of such interests to any Borrower or any of their respective Affiliates. To the fullest extent permitted by law, each of the Borrowers hereby waives and releases any claims that it may have against the Administrative Agent, the Arranger or any Lender with respect to any breach or alleged breach of agency or fiduciary duty in connection with any aspect of any transaction contemplated hereby.
10.17 Electronic Execution of Assignments and Certain Other Documents. The words execute, execution, signed, signature, and words of like import in or related to any document to be signed in connection with this Agreement and the transactions contemplated hereby (including without limitation Assignment and Assumptions, amendments or other modifications, Loan Notices, Swing Line Loan Notices, waivers and consents) shall be deemed to include electronic signatures, the electronic matching of assignment terms and contract formations on electronic platforms approved by the Administrative Agent, or the keeping of records in electronic form, each of which shall be of the same legal effect, validity or enforceability as a manually executed signature, physical delivery thereof or the use of a paper-based recordkeeping system, as the case may be, to the extent and as provided for in any applicable Law, including the Federal Electronic Signatures in Global and National Commerce Act, the New York State Electronic Signatures and Records Act, or any other similar state laws based on the Uniform Electronic Transactions Act; provided that notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary neither the Administrative Agent, any L/C Issuer nor any Lender is under any obligation to agree to accept electronic signatures in any form or in any format unless expressly agreed to by the Administrative Agent, such L/C Issuer or such Lender pursuant to procedures approved by it and provided further without limiting the foregoing, upon the request of any party, any electronic signature shall be promptly followed by such manually executed counterpart.
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10.18 USA PATRIOT Act. Each Lender that is subject to the Act (as hereinafter defined) and the Administrative Agent (for itself and not on behalf of any Lender) hereby notifies the Borrowers that pursuant to the requirements of the USA PATRIOT Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)) (the Act), it is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies the Borrowers, which information includes the name and address of each Borrower and other information that will allow such Lender or the Administrative Agent, as applicable, to identify such Borrower in accordance with the Act. Each Borrower shall, promptly following a request by the Administrative Agent or any Lender, provide all documentation and other information that the Administrative Agent or such Lender requests in order to comply with its ongoing obligations under applicable know your customer and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including the Act.
10.19 Keepwell. The Company hereby absolutely, unconditionally and irrevocably undertakes to provide such funds or other support to each Subsidiary Guarantor as may be needed by such Subsidiary Guarantor from time to time to honor all of its obligations under the Subsidiary Guaranty to which it is a party and the other Loan Documents to which it is a party in respect of Swap Obligations that would, in absence of the agreement in this Section 10.19, otherwise constitute Excluded Swap Obligations (but, in each case, only up to the maximum amount of such liability that can be hereby incurred without rendering the Companys obligations and undertakings under this Section 10.19 voidable under applicable law relating to fraudulent conveyance or fraudulent transfer, and not for any greater amount). The obligations and undertakings of the Company under this Section 10.19 shall remain in full force and effect until the Obligations have been indefeasibly paid and performed in full. The Company intends this Section 10.19 to constitute, and this Section 10.19 shall be deemed to constitute, a guarantee of the obligations of, and a keepwell, support, or other agreement for the benefit of, each Subsidiary Guarantor for all purposes of the Commodity Exchange Act.
10.20 Judgment Currency. If, for the purposes of obtaining judgment in any court, it is necessary to convert a sum due hereunder or any other Loan Document in one currency into another currency, the rate of exchange used shall be that at which in accordance with normal banking procedures the Administrative Agent could purchase the first currency with such other currency on the Business Day preceding that on which final judgment is given. The obligation of each Borrower in respect of any such sum due from it to the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any L/C Issuer hereunder or under the other Loan Documents shall, notwithstanding any judgment in a currency (the Judgment Currency) other than that in which such sum is denominated in accordance with the applicable provisions of this Agreement (the Agreement Currency), be discharged only to the extent that on the Business Day following receipt by the Administrative Agent, such Lender or such L/C Issuer, as the case may be, of any sum adjudged to be so due in the Judgment Currency, the Administrative Agent, such Lender or such L/C Issuer, as the case may be, may in accordance with normal banking procedures purchase the Agreement Currency with the Judgment Currency. If the amount of the Agreement Currency so purchased is less than the sum originally due to the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any L/C Issuer from any Borrower in the Agreement Currency, such Borrower agrees, as a separate obligation and notwithstanding any such judgment, to indemnify the Administrative Agent, such
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Lender or such L/C Issuer, as the case may be, against such loss. If the amount of the Agreement Currency so purchased is greater than the sum originally due to the Administrative Agent, any Lender or any L/C Issuer in such currency, the Administrative Agent, such Lender or such L/C Issuer, as the case may be, agrees to return the amount of any excess to such Borrower (or to any other Person who may be entitled thereto under applicable law).
10.21 Amendment and Restatement; No Novation. This Agreement constitutes an amendment and restatement of the Existing Credit Agreement, effective from and after the Closing Date. The execution and delivery of this Agreement shall not constitute a novation of any indebtedness or other obligations owing to the Lenders or the Administrative Agent under the Existing Credit Agreement based on facts or events occurring or existing prior to the execution and delivery of this Agreement. On the Closing Date, the credit facilities described in the Existing Credit Agreement, shall be amended, supplemented, modified and restated in their entirety by the facilities described herein, and all loans and other obligations of the Borrowers outstanding as of such date under the Existing Credit Agreement, shall be deemed to be loans and obligations outstanding under the corresponding facilities described herein, without any further action by any Person, except that the Administrative Agent shall make such transfers of funds as are necessary in order that the outstanding balance of such Loans, together with any Loans funded on the Closing Date, reflect the respective Applicable Percentages of the Lenders hereunder and the Borrowers agree to pay any amounts required pursuant to Section 3.05 in connection with such transfers as if all Loans under the Existing Credit Agreement were repaid on the Closing Date, to the extent not waived by the applicable Lenders.
[Signature pages follow.]
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Amended and Restated Credit Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first above written.
CECO ENVIRONMENTAL CORP. | ||
By: | /s/ Edward J. Prajzner | |
Name: | Edward J. Prajzner | |
Title: | Chief Financial Officer |
CECO Environmental Corp.
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement
Signature Page
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as | ||
Administrative Agent | ||
By: | /s/ Anthony W. Kell | |
Name: | Anthony W. Kell | |
Title: | Vice President |
CECO Environmental Corp.
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement
Signature Page
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as a Lender, an L/C Issuer and Swing Line Lender | ||
By: | /s/ Joseph R. Jackson | |
Name: | Joseph R. Jackson | |
Title: | Vice President |
CECO Environmental Corp.
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement
Signature Page
CITIZENS BANK OF PENNSYLVANIA | ||
By: | /s/ Dale R. Carr | |
Name: | Dale R. Carr | |
Title: | Senior Vice President |
CECO Environmental Corp.
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement
Signature Page
JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A. | ||
By: | /s/ Richard B. Wertz | |
Name: | Richard B. Wertz | |
Title: | Executive Director |
CECO Environmental Corp.
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement
Signature Page
FIFTH THIRD BANK, as a Lender and an L/C Issuer | ||
By: | /s/ Nick Jevic | |
Name: | Nick Jevic | |
Title: | Vice President |
CECO Environmental Corp.
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement
Signature Page
TD BANK, N.A. | ||
By: | /s/ Susan Schwartz | |
Name: | Susan Schwartz | |
Title: | Vice President |
CECO Environmental Corp.
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement
Signature Page
PNC BANK, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION | ||
By: | /s/ Gregory Buchanan | |
Name: | Gregory Buchanan | |
Title: | Senior Vice President |
CECO Environmental Corp.
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement
Signature Page
CITIBANK, N.A., as a Lender and an L/C Issuer | ||
By: | /s/ John Torres | |
Name: | John Torres | |
Title: | Senior Vice President |
CECO Environmental Corp.
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement
Signature Page
ASSOCIATED BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION | ||
By: | /s/ Erik Zimmerman | |
Name: | Erik Zimmerman | |
Title: | Senior Vice President |
CECO Environmental Corp.
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement
Signature Page
SCHEDULE 1.01A
CLOSING DATE MORTGAGED PROPERTY
Property Owner (after giving effect to the Closing Date Acquisition) |
Address | |
Met-Pro Technologies LLC | 1550 Industrial Drive Owosso, MI 48867 | |
Met-Pro Technologies LLC | 6040 Guion Road Indianapolis, IN 46254 | |
Met-Pro Technologies LLC | 700 Emlen Way Telford, Pennsylvania 18969 |
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SCHEDULE 1.01B
EXISTING LETTERS OF CREDIT
Issuer |
Letter of Credit No. |
Beneficiary |
Amount |
Date |
Expiration Date |
Currency | ||||||||
Bank of America, N.A. |
S501818 | ALSTOM POWER INC. | 77,480.00 | 8/27/13 | 5/31/16 | USD | ||||||||
Bank of America, N.A. |
S503099 | TECNIMONT S.P.A | 39,820.00 | 8/27/13 | 5/30/16 | USD | ||||||||
Bank of America, N.A. |
S503523 | CMP ARLES | 69,745.00 | 9/9/13 | 6/30/16 | USD | ||||||||
Bank of America, N.A. |
S503627 | BABCOCK 7 WILCOX POW | 32,025.00 | 9/12/13 | 12/14/17 | USD | ||||||||
Bank of America, N.A. |
S500548 | ALSTROM NORWAY | 98,000.00 | 8/27/13 | 5/31/16 | USD | ||||||||
Bank of America, N.A. |
S502651-FX | SLOVENSKE ENERGETICK | 20,053.50 | 10/1/13 | 6/18/16 | EUR | ||||||||
Bank of America, N.A. |
S503763 | TECHNIP DE MEXICO | 65,152.50 | 10/30/13 | 4/12/16 | USD | ||||||||
Bank of America, N.A. |
S503787 | RILEY POWER INC | 30,921.00 | 11/5/13 | 5/1/16 | USD | ||||||||
Bank of America, N.A. |
S504431 | CMMERZBANK AG AMSTE | 30,699.80 | 5/20/14 | 1/31/18 | USD | ||||||||
Bank of America, N.A. |
S504482 | BABCOCK AND WILCOX P | 123,800.06 | 6/4/14 | 8/19/16 | USD | ||||||||
Bank of America, N.A. |
S504488 | ALSTOM ENVIRONMENTAL | 46,912.00 | 6/6/14 | 6/30/18 | USD | ||||||||
Bank of America, N.A. |
T00000068104476 | DAELIM INDUSTRIAL CO | 16,794.00 | 6/26/14 | 4/30/17 | USD | ||||||||
Bank of America, N.A. |
T00000068105100 | ADVATECH LLC | 79,465.00 | 7/23/14 | 12/2/16 | USD | ||||||||
Bank of America, N.A. |
T00000068104475 | INDUSTRIAL COML BK C | 137,500.00 | 7/28/14 | 1/10/18 | USD | ||||||||
Bank of America, N.A. |
T00000068106084 | BOUSTEAD INTERNATION | 8,849.00 | 9/16/14 | 5/31/17 | USD | ||||||||
Bank of America, N.A. |
T00000068106843 | EAST KENTUCKY POWER | 37,977.50 | 9/26/14 | 4/30/17 | USD | ||||||||
Bank of America, N.A. |
T00000068107522 | M&T BANK | 2,000,000.00 | 10/31/14 | 4/30/16 | USD | ||||||||
Bank of America, N.A. |
T00000068107638 | COMMERZBANK | 390,213.66 | 11/19/14 | 1/29/16 | EUR | ||||||||
Bank of America, N.A. |
T00000068107637 | INTESA SANPAOLO | 160,612.06 | 12/11/14 | 12/15/16 | EUR | ||||||||
Bank of America, N.A. |
T00000068108904 | MIRO MINERALOELRAFFI | 56,243.69 | 1/21/15 | 12/16/16 | EUR | ||||||||
Bank of America, N.A. |
T00000068109210 | GAMMA TECH FZE | 43,077.45 | 1/21/15 | 8/31/16 | EUR | ||||||||
Bank of America, N.A. |
T00000068109440 | DANSKE BANK | 87,447.22 | 2/9/15 | 7/29/16 | EUR | ||||||||
Bank of America, N.A. |
T00000068109211 | GR ENGINEERING PRIVA | 256,449.69 | 2/11/15 | 1/31/17 | CAD | ||||||||
Bank of America, N.A. |
T00000068109212 | GR ENGINEERING PRIVA | 342,389.18 | 2/11/15 | 1/31/17 | CAD | ||||||||
Bank of America, N.A. |
T00000068110257 | GR ENGINEERING PRIVA | 26,913.76 | 2/23/15 | 1/31/17 | CAD | ||||||||
Bank of America, N.A. |
T000000681110268 | PHILLIPS 66 LTD. | 103,131.97 | 3/17/15 | 2/28/17 | EUR | ||||||||
Bank of America, N.A. |
S505406 | RELIANCE INDUSTRIES | 12,017.50 | 3/17/15 | 8/30/15 | USD | ||||||||
Bank of America, N.A. |
T00000068109814 | BANCO BILBAO VIZCAYA | 391,260.10 | 3/20/15 | 12/30/15 | USD | ||||||||
Bank of America, N.A. |
T00000068109815 | BANCO BILBAO VIZCAYA | 71,138.20 | 3/20/15 | 12/30/15 | USD | ||||||||
Bank of America, N.A. |
T00000068110865 | PHILLIPS 66 LTD. | 81,706.76 | 4/2/15 | 2/28/17 | CAD | ||||||||
Bank of America, N.A. |
T00000068110844 | BANK OF AMERICA | 167,521.58 | 4/3/15 | 3/28/18 | EUR | ||||||||
Bank of America, N.A. |
T00000068111187 | SOLVAY INDUPA S.A.I. | 32,355.03 | 4/15/15 | 6/30/16 | EUR | ||||||||
Bank of America, N.A. |
T00000068111186 | DEUTSCHE BANK | 2,995,110.00 | 4/17/15 | 3/29/16 | USD | ||||||||
Bank of America, N.A. |
T00000068110866 | HEURTEY PETROCHEM S. | 23,905.22 | 5/11/15 | 11/13/17 | EUR | ||||||||
Bank of America, N.A. |
T00000068111572 | SEWON CELLONTECH | 12,470.00 | 5/11/15 | 8/31/15 | USD | ||||||||
Bank of America, N.A. |
T00000068111874 | BANCA POPOLARE DI AN | 148,561.98 | 5/20/15 | 10/29/15 | EUR | ||||||||
Bank of America, N.A. |
T00000068113489 | HONG KONG SHANGHAI B | 4,824.00 | 7/29/15 | 7/22/16 | USD | ||||||||
Bank of America, N.A. |
T00000068113443 | EAST KENTUCKY POWER | 14,401.50 | 8/4/15 | 4/30/17 | USD | ||||||||
Bank of America, N.A. |
T00000068113441 | THE BABCOCK & WILCOX | 300,000.00 | 8/13/15 | 3/31/18 | USD | ||||||||
Bank of America, N.A. |
T00000068113442 | THE BABCOCK & WILCOX | 14,175.50 | 8/13/15 | 3/31/17 | USD | ||||||||
Bank of America, N.A. |
T00000068114109 | BANK OF AMERICA MERR | 15,665.00 | 8/14/15 | 12/30/15 | USD | ||||||||
Citibank, N.A. |
63667767 | SIEMENS ENERGY, INC. | 67,640.00 | 4/5/13 | 12/18/15 | USD | ||||||||
Citibank, N.A. |
63667765 | SIEMENS ENERGY INC. | 137,380.00 | 4/5/13 | 10/15/15 | USD | ||||||||
Citibank, N.A. |
63669503 | CITIBANK SINGAPORE | 1,000,000.00 | 10/31/13 | 8/30/16 | USD | ||||||||
Citibank, N.A. |
69600354 | PCS NITROGEN OHIO, L.P. | 6,172.70 | 3/21/14 | 12/2/15 | USD | ||||||||
Citibank, N.A. |
69600708 | CITIBANK KOREA, INC. | 24,170.50 | 5/7/14 | 9/30/17 | USD | ||||||||
Citibank, N.A. |
69600707 | LUMMUS TECHNOLOGY | 42,060.00 | 5/7/14 | 11/7/15 | USD | ||||||||
Citibank, N.A. |
69600797 | LUMMUS TECHNOLOGY | 19,450.00 | 5/20/14 | 12/29/15 | USD | ||||||||
Citibank, N.A. |
69601558 | PCS NITROGEN OHIO, L.P. | 109,921.15 | 8/12/14 | 12/4/15 | USD | ||||||||
Citibank, N.A. |
69601737 | LUMMUS TECHNOLOGY | 18,486.50 | 9/4/14 | 5/1/16 | USD | ||||||||
Citibank, N.A. |
69602027 | BECHTEL INTERNATIONAL, INC. | 68,337.00 | 10/15/14 | 10/16/15 | USD |
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Issuer |
Letter of Credit No. |
Beneficiary |
Amount |
Date |
Expiration |
Currency | ||||||||
Citibank, N.A. |
69603226 | CITIBANK KOREA INC. | 49,200.00 | 2/20/15 | 5/1/16 | USD | ||||||||
Citibank, N.A. |
69603350 | LINDE ENGINEERING NORTH AMERICA | 70,451.30 | 3/3/15 | 12/31/15 | USD | ||||||||
Citibank, N.A. |
69603930 | HSBC BANK PLC | 4,500,000.00 | 4/20/15 | 4/15/16 | USD | ||||||||
Citibank, N.A. |
69604719 | KIEWIT ENERGY CANADA CORP. | 45,542.50 | 7/10/15 | 1/2/16 | USD | ||||||||
Citibank, N.A. |
69605119 | RABOBANK NEDERLAND-UTRECHT | 126,836.00 | 8/25/15 | 1/8/16 | USD | ||||||||
Citibank, N.A. |
69605154 | BANCO CITIBANK DE EL SALVADOR, S.A. | 82,090.40 | 8/28/15 | 10/31/15 | USD | ||||||||
Citibank, N.A. |
69605155 | BANCO CITIBANK DE EL SALVADOR, S.A. | 41,045.20 | 8/28/15 | 10/31/15 | USD |
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SCHEDULE 1.01C
CONSOLIDATED EBITDA ADJUSTMENTS FOR SPECIFIED 2014 ACQUISITIONS AND CLOSING DATE ACQUISITION
Fiscal Quarter |
HEE Acquisition | SAT Acquisition | Emtrol Acquisition | Zhongli Acquisition | PMFG Acquisition | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Incremental EBITDA |
Expected Savings |
Incremental EBITDA |
Expected Savings |
Incremental EBITDA |
Expected Savings |
Incremental EBITDA |
Expected Savings |
Incremental EBITDA |
Expected Savings |
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March 31, 2014 |
$ | 337,000 | $ | 0 | $ | 142,000 | $ | 0 | $ | 1,231,000 | $ | 750,000 | $ | 875,000 | $ | 0 | | | ||||||||||||||||||||||
June 30, 2014 |
$ | 337,000 | $ | 0 | $ | 142,000 | $ | 0 | $ | 1,231,000 | $ | 750,000 | $ | 875,000 | $ | 0 | | | ||||||||||||||||||||||
September 30, 2014 |
$ | 169,000 | $ | 0 | $ | 142,000 | $ | 0 | $ | 1,231,000 | $ | 750,000 | $ | 875,000 | $ | 0 | $ | 2,780,000 | | |||||||||||||||||||||
December 31, 2014 |
$ | 0 | $ | 0 | $ | 0 | $ | 0 | $ | 410,000 | $ | 750,000 | $ | 875,000 | $ | 0 | $ | 1,401,000 | * | |||||||||||||||||||||
March 31, 2015 |
| | | | | | | | $ | 851,000 | * | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
June 30, 2015 |
| | | | | | | | ($ | 488,000 | ) | * | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
September 30, 2015 |
| | | | | | | | |
To be calculated in accordance with Section 1.07 of the Credit Agreement |
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* |
* | $10,000,000 in the aggregate of expected savings with respect to the PMFG Acquisition shall be added in calculating Consolidated EBITDA in the first four covenant calculations occurring after the Closing Date. |
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SCHEDULE 2.01
COMMITMENTS AND APPLICABLE PERCENTAGES
Lender |
Revolving Credit (USD) Commitment |
Applicable Percentage (Revolving Credit (USD) Facility) |
Revolving Credit (MC) Commitment |
Applicable Percentage (Revolving Credit (MC) Facility) |
Term Loan Commitment |
Applicable Percentage (Term Loan Facility) |
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Bank of America, N.A. |
$ | 14,520,000.00 | 24.000000000 | % | $ | 4,680,000.00 | 24.000000000 | % | $ | 40,800,000.00 | 24.000000000 | % | ||||||||||||
Citizens Bank of Pennsylvania |
$ | 9,680,000.00 | 16.000000000 | % | $ | 3,120,000.00 | 16.000000000 | % | $ | 27,200,000.00 | 16.000000000 | % | ||||||||||||
JPMorgan Chase Bank, N.A. |
$ | 9,075,000.00 | 15.000000000 | % | $ | 2,925,000.00 | 15.000000000 | % | $ | 25,500,000.00 | 15.000000000 | % | ||||||||||||
Fifth Third Bank |
$ | 7,260,000.00 | 12.000000000 | % | $ | 2,340,000.00 | 12.000000000 | % | $ | 20,400,000.00 | 12.000000000 | % | ||||||||||||
TD Bank, N.A. |
$ | 6,655,000.00 | 11.000000000 | % | $ | 2,145,000.00 | 11.000000000 | % | $ | 18,700,000.00 | 11.000000000 | % | ||||||||||||
PNC Bank, National Association |
$ | 5,445,000.00 | 9.000000000 | % | $ | 1,755,000.00 | 9.000000000 | % | $ | 15,300,000.00 | 9.000000000 | % | ||||||||||||
Citibank, N.A. |
$ | 4,235,000.00 | 7.000000000 | % | $ | 1,365,000.00 | 7.000000000 | % | $ | 11,900,000.00 | 7.000000000 | % | ||||||||||||
Associated Bank National Association |
$ | 3,630,000.00 | 6.000000000 | % | $ | 1,170,000.00 | 6.000000000 | % | $ | 10,200,000.00 | 6.000000000 | % | ||||||||||||
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Total |
$ | 60,500,000.00 | 100.000000000 | % | $ | 19,500,000.00 | 100.000000000 | % | $ | 170,000,000.00 | 100.000000000 | % |
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SCHEDULE 2.07(a)
TERM LOAN FACILITY AMORTIZATION SCHEDULE
Last Business Day of |
Principal Payment Amount | |
December 2015 |
$3,187,500.00 | |
March 2016 |
$3,187,500.00 | |
June 2016 |
$3,187,500.00 | |
September 2016 |
$3,187,500.00 | |
December 2016 |
$3,187,500.00 | |
March 2017 |
$3,187,500.00 | |
June 2017 |
$3,187,500.00 | |
September 2017 |
$3,187,500.00 | |
December 2017 |
$4,250,000.00 | |
March 2018 |
$4,250,000.00 | |
June 2018 |
$4,250,000.00 | |
September 2018 |
$4,250,000.00 | |
December 2018 |
$5,312,500.00 | |
March 2019 |
$5,312,500.00 | |
June 2019 |
$5,312,500.00 | |
September 2019 |
$5,312,500.00 | |
December 2019 |
$5,312,500.00 | |
March 2020 |
$5,312,500.00 | |
June 2020 |
$5,312,500.00 | |
Maturity Date |
Entire outstanding principal amount of Term Loans |
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SCHEDULE 5.05(b)
SUPPLEMENT TO INTERIM FINANCIAL STATEMENTS
Fees and expenses (including any change in control or severance payments payable) paid in connection with the Closing Date Transaction.
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SCHEDULE 5.12(d)
PENSION PLANS
1. | Met-Pro Corporation Amended and Restated Hourly Pension Plan. |
2. | Met-Pro Corporation Amended and Restated Salaried Pension Plan, effective February 1, 2012. |
3. | CECO Profit Sharing and 401(k) Savings Retirement Plan for non-union employees. |
4. | CECO Environmental Corp. 1997 Stock Option Plan and Amendment. |
5. | Executive Incentive Compensation / Bonus Plan (Amended and Restated 2006 Executive Incentive Compensation Plan). |
6. | CECO Environmental Corp. 2007 Equity Incentive Plan, as amended. |
7. | First Amendment to CECO Environmental Corp. 2007 equity Incentive Plan. |
8. | CECO Environmental Corp. Employee Stock Purchase Plan. |
9. | Kirk and Blum Manufacturing Company Sheet Metal Workers Local Union 183 Pension Plan. |
10. | Kirk and Blum Manufacturing Company Post-Retirement Medical Plan (for employee retired prior to January 1, 1990). |
11. | CECO Environmental Corp. or its Subsidiaries contribute to, or have contributed to, multiemployer plans with respect to the following union locals: |
a. | Union #110 |
b. | Union #177 |
c. | Union #214 |
d. | Union #214B |
e. | Union #312 |
f. | Union #05CH |
g. | Union #05NC |
h. | Union #20IN |
i. | Union #24CN |
j. | Union #36LR |
k. | Union #100B |
l. | Union #PF572 |
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m. | Union #PF619 |
12. | Effective as of March 31, 2012, Kirk & Blum Manufacturing Company terminated the Kirk & Blum Manufacturing Company Sheet Metal Workers Local Union No. 433 401(k) Plan. |
13. | The PBGC has notified CECO Environmental Corp. that it is assessing whether an ERISA Section 4062(e) event has occurred with respect to the Kirk and Blum Manufacturing Company Sheet Metal Workers Local Union 183 Pension Plan. |
14. | The following Employee Plans promise or provide retiree medical or other retiree welfare benefits: |
a. | Kirk and Blum Manufacturing Company Sheet Metal Workers Local Union 183 Pension Plan. |
b. | Kirk and Blum Manufacturing Company Post-Retirement Medical Plan (for employees retired prior to January 1, 1990). |
15. | With respect to employees of Flextor, Inc. (Flextor) located in Canada, Flextor makes required contributions to government-sponsored/maintained plans. In addition, Felxtor provides health and dental benefits to its employees through arrangements with Groupe Financier AGA Intrust Manulife. |
16. | With respect to employees of Aarding Thermal Acoustics B.V. (Aarding) located in The Netherlands, Aarding makes required contributions to government-sponsored/maintained plans. |
17. | With respect to employees of PMC or its subsidiaries and affiliates located in the United Kingdom, Germany, Singapore, and China, PMC makes required contributions to government-sponsored/maintained plans. |
18. | PMC Retirement Savings Plan and Trust, Plan # 002 |
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SCHEDULE 5.13
SUBSIDIARIES; EQUITY INVESTMENTS; LOAN PARTIES
Part (a). Subsidiaries.
Name |
State or Country |
Subsidiary of |
% of Ownership | |||
CECO Group, Inc. |
Delaware | CECO Environmental Corp. | 100% | |||
CECO Abatement Systems, Inc. |
Delaware | CECO Group, Inc. | 100% | |||
GMD Environmental Technologies, Inc. |
Delaware | CECO Group, Inc | 100% | |||
The Kirk & Blum Manufacturing Company |
Ohio | CECO Group, Inc. | 100% | |||
KBD/Technic, Inc. |
Indiana | CECO Group Inc. | 100% | |||
Effox Inc. |
Delaware | CECO Group, Inc. | 100% | |||
CECOaire, Inc. |
Delaware | CECO Group, Inc. | 100% | |||
Adwest Technologies, Inc. |
California | CECO Group, Inc. | 100% | |||
CECO Filters, Inc. |
Delaware | CECO Group, Inc. | 99% | |||
CECO India Private Limited |
India | CECO Filters, Inc | 100% | |||
New Busch Co., Inc. |
Delaware | CECO Filters, Inc. | 100% | |||
H.M. White, Inc. |
Delaware | CECO Group Inc. | 100% | |||
CECO Mexico Holdings LLC |
Delaware | CECO Group Inc. | 100% | |||
CECO Environmental Mexico S. de R.L. de C.V. |
Mexico | H.M. White, Inc. ECO Mexico Holdings LLC | > 99% H.M. White, Inc. < 1% CECO Mexico Holdings LLC | |||
CECO Environmental Services S. de R.L. de C.V. |
Mexico | H.M. White, Inc. CECO Mexico Holdings LLC |
> 99% H.M. White, Inc. < 1% CECO Mexico Holdings LLC | |||
Fisher-Klosterman, Inc. |
Delaware | CECO Group, Inc. | 100% | |||
FKI, LLC |
Delaware | Fisher-Klosterman, Inc. | 100% | |||
CECO Environmental (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. |
China | Fisher-Klosterman, Inc. | 100% | |||
AVC, Inc. |
Delaware | Fisher-Klosterman, Inc. | 100% | |||
Fisher-Klosterman-Buell Shanghai Co. Ltd. |
China | Fisher-Klosterman, Inc. | 100% | |||
Emtrol LLC |
New York | Fisher-Klosterman, Inc. | 100% | |||
Emtrol Ltd. |
Ontario, Canada |
Emtrol LLC | 100% | |||
SAT Technology, Inc. |
Delaware | Fisher-Klosterman, Inc. | 100% | |||
SAT Technology, Inc. |
China | SAT Technology, Inc. (DE) | 100% | |||
Flextor Inc. |
Quebec, Canada | CECO Environmental Corp. | 100% | |||
Flextor Chile S.A. |
Chile | Flextor Inc. | 100% |
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Name |
State or Country of |
Subsidiary of |
% of Ownership | |||
Flextor do Brasil Importacao e Exportacao Ltda. |
Brazil | Flextor Inc. | 100% | |||
CECO Group Global Holdings LLC |
Delaware | CECO Environmental Corp. | 100% | |||
CECO Environmental Netherlands B.V. |
Netherlands | CECO Group Global Holdings LLC | 100% | |||
ATA Beheer B.V. |
Netherlands | CECO Environmental Netherlands B.V. | 100% | |||
Aarding Thermal Acoustics B.V. |
Netherlands | ATA Beheer B.V. | 100% | |||
Aarding Thermal Acoustics USA Inc. |
Delaware | CECO Group, Inc. | 100%. | |||
Aarding do Brasil Fornecimento de Produtos Termo Acusticos Equipamentos Ltda |
Brasil | ATA Beheer B.V. Aarding Thermal Acoustics B.V. |
99.99% ATA Beheer B.V. 0.01% Aarding Thermal Acoustics B.V. | |||
Met-Pro Technologies LLC (f/k/a Mustang Acquisition II LLC) |
Delaware | CECO Environmental Corp. | 100% | |||
Met-Pro Chemicals Inc. |
Delaware | Met-Pro Technologies LLC | 100% | |||
Strobic Air Corporation |
Delaware | Met-Pro Technologies LLC | 100% | |||
MPC Inc. |
Delaware | Met-Pro Technologies LLC | 100% | |||
Met-Pro Industrial Services, Inc. |
Pennsylvania | Met-Pro Technologies LLC | 100% | |||
Bio-Reaction Industries Inc. |
Delaware | Met-Pro Technologies LLC | 100% | |||
Met-Pro Product Recovery/Pollution Control Technologies Inc. |
Canada | Met-Pro Technologies LLC | 100% | |||
Mefiag B.V. |
Netherlands | Met-Pro Technologies LLC | 100% | |||
Met-Pro (Hong Kong) Company Limited |
Hong Kong | Met-Pro Technologies LLC | 100% | |||
Met-Pro Holdings LLC |
Delaware | Met-Pro Technologies LLC | 100% | |||
Met-Pro Chile Limitada |
Chile | Met-Pro Technologies LLC Met-Pro Holdings LLC |
99% - Met-Pro Technologies LLC 1% - Met-Pro Holdings LLC | |||
Mefiag (Guangzhou) Filter Systems Ltd. |
Special Administrative Region of the Peoples Republic of China |
Met-Pro (Hong Kong) Company Limited | 100% | |||
Jiangyin Zhongli Industrial Technology Co. Ltd. |
China | Met-Pro (Hong Kong) Company Limited | 100% | |||
Peerless Mfg. Co. |
Texas | PMFG Acquisition LLC (f/k/a Top Gear Acquisition II LLC) | 100% | |||
Nitram Energy, Inc. |
New York | PMC | 100% | |||
PMC Acquisition, Inc. |
Texas | PMC | 100% | |||
Peerless Europe Ltd. |
United Kingdom | PMC | 100% |
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Name |
State or Country of |
Subsidiary of |
% of Ownership | |||
Peerless Manufacturing Canada Ltd. |
British Columbia | PMC | 100% | |||
Peerless Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. |
Singapore | PMC | 100% | |||
Peerless Propulsys China Holdings LLC |
Delaware | PMC | 60%- Peerless Mfg. Co. 40%- Propulsys, Inc. | |||
Peerless China Manufacturing Co., Ltd. |
China | Peerless Propulsys China Holdings LLC | 100% | |||
Burgess-Manning, Inc. |
Texas | Nitram Energy, Inc. | 100% | |||
BurMan Management, Inc. |
Texas | Nitram Energy, Inc. | 100% | |||
Bos-Hatten, Inc. |
New York | Nitram Energy, Inc. | 100% | |||
Burgess Manning (India) Private Limited1 |
India | Burgess-Manning, Inc. | 51% | |||
Burgess-Manning GmbH |
Germany | Peerless Europe Ltd. | 100% |
Prior to the Closing Date Acquisition, the Company also had the following Subsidiaries:
Name |
State or Country |
Subsidiary of |
% of Ownership | |||
Top Gear Acquisition Inc. |
Delaware | CECO Environmental Corp. | 100% | |||
Top Gear Acquisition II LLC (name to be changed to PMFG Acquisition LLC immediately after closing) |
Delaware | CECO Environmental Corp. | 100% |
Part (b). Other Equity Investments.
Fuel Tech Inc. 50,000 shares
Part (c). Loan Parties.
Name |
Jurisdiction of Organization |
U.S. taxpayer identification number | ||
CECO Environmental Corp. |
Delaware | 13-2566064 |
1 | In the process of being dissolved |
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Name |
Jurisdiction of Organization |
U.S. taxpayer identification number | ||
CECO Group, Inc. |
Delaware | 31-1679799 | ||
CECO Abatement Systems, Inc. |
Delaware | 36-4445097 | ||
GMD Environmental Technologies, Inc. |
Delaware | 26-1290976 | ||
The Kirk & Blum Manufacturing Company |
Ohio | 31-0341570 | ||
KBD/Technic, Inc. |
Indiana | 31-1246102 | ||
Effox Inc. |
Delaware | 20-8253585 | ||
CECOaire, Inc. |
Delaware | 20-2192100 | ||
Adwest Technologies, Inc. |
California | 33-0345523 | ||
CECO Filters, Inc. |
Delaware | 23-2399315 | ||
New Busch Co., Inc. |
Delaware | 23-2918900 | ||
H.M. White, Inc. |
Delaware | 01-0720084 | ||
CECO Mexico Holdings LLC |
Delaware | 26-1242052 | ||
Fisher-Klosterman, Inc. |
Delaware | 26-1564793 | ||
FKI, LLC |
Delaware | 35-2299704 | ||
AVC, Inc. |
Delaware | 26-4562479 | ||
CECO Group Global Holdings LLC |
Delaware | 46-2136381 | ||
Aarding Thermal Acoustics USA Inc. |
Delaware | 32-0294798 | ||
Strobic Air Corporation |
Delaware | 23-2857851 | ||
MPC Inc. |
Delaware | 33-1038149 | ||
Met-Pro Industrial Services Inc. |
Pennsylvania | 27-0294918 | ||
Bio-Reaction Industries Inc. |
Delaware | 27-3638451 | ||
Met-Pro Holdings LLC |
Delaware | 45-2514820 | ||
Met-Pro Technologies LLC |
Delaware | 46-2630972 | ||
Emtrol LLC |
New York | 11-3465171 | ||
SAT Technology, Inc. |
Delaware | 30-0856624 | ||
Peerless Mfg. Co. |
Texas | 75-0724417 | ||
Met-Pro Chemicals Inc. |
Delaware | 03-0373683 | ||
Nitram Energy, Inc. |
New York | 16-1117245 | ||
PMC Acquisition, Inc. |
Texas | 75-2862839 | ||
Burgess-Manning, Inc. |
Texas | 75-2322352 | ||
BurMan Management, Inc. |
Texas | 75-2436011 | ||
Bos-Hatten, Inc. |
New York | 16-0357060 |
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Prior to the Closing Date Acquisition, the following Subsidiaries will also be Loan Parties:
Name |
Jurisdiction of Organization |
U.S. taxpayer identification number | ||
Top Gear Acquisition Inc. |
Delaware | 47-4363166 | ||
Top Gear Acquisition II LLC (name to be changed to PMFG Acquisition LLC immediately after closing) |
Delaware | 47-4374225 |
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SCHEDULE 5.21
COLLECTIVE BARGAINING AGREEMENTS
AND MULTIEMPLOYER PLANS
1. | Path Forward Agreement between CECO Environmental Corp. and Sheet Metal Workers International Association, AFL-CIO and the Sheet Metal Workers International Local Union 24 and 83, expires June 20, 2016 |
2. | Path Forward Agreement between CECO Environmental Corp. and Sheet Metal Workers International Association, AFL-CIO, expires June 20, 2016 (for employees located in Ontario, Canada) |
3. | UAW in Telford, PA. Expires 11/11/2015. |
4. | CECO Environmental Corp. and/or its Subsidiaries are parties to the following union / collective bargaining agreements: |
Branch | Local # | Expires | ||||||
Cincinnati |
24 | 05-31-18 | ||||||
Indianapolis |
20 | 05-31-16 | ||||||
Lexington/Louisville |
110 | 05-31-18 | ||||||
North Carolina |
5 | 05-14-16 | ||||||
Tennessee |
177 | 05-01-18 | ||||||
Piping |
572 | 04-30-17 | ||||||
Canton |
214 | 08-01-16 | ||||||
Piping |
619 | 12-31-15 |
5. | The Kirk & Blum Manufacturing Company is a signatory to Sheet Metal Workers International Association. |
6. | In Holland, companies with more than thirty-five (35) employees have an employees (or workers) council. The employees of Mefiag B.V. have chosen not be a part of the council for their section. Each employee in Holland has the right to be a member of the union for which the employees pay a monthly fee. In the past, a few employees of Mefiag B.V. were members of this union. |
7. | Pursuant to applicable law, employees of PMFG in China are represented by collective bargaining associations pursuant to customary contractual arrangements. |
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SCHEDULE 7.01
EXISTING LIENS
1. | That certain UCC Financing Statement against Met-Pro Corporation in favor of Intellipack, Inc. filed with the Pennsylvania Department of State on May 5, 2008 as File Number 2008050605098, as such UCC Financing Statement may be amended to modify the name of Met-Pro Corporation to Met-Pro Technologies LLC (f/k/a Mustang Acquisition II LLC and successor to Met-Pro Corporation following the Closing Date Acquisition). |
2. | That certain UCC Financing Statement against Effox Inc. in favor of Orbian Financial Services II, LLC filed with the Delaware Secretary of State on September 13, 2011 as File Number 2011 3513200. |
3. | That certain UCC Financing Statement against New Busch Co., Inc. in favor of Orbian Financial Services II, LLC filed with the Delaware Secretary of State on January 14, 2011 as File Number 2011 0156912. |
4. | That certain UCC Financing Statement against The Kirk & Blum Manufacturing Company in favor of Dell Financial Services L.L.C. filed with the Ohio Secretary of State on April 16, 2008 as File Number OH00125767973. |
5. | That certain UCC Financing Statement against The Kirk & Blum Manufacturing Company in favor of NMHG Financial Services, Inc. filed with the Ohio Secretary of State on October 15, 2008 as File Number OH00130227057. |
6. | That certain UCC Financing Statement against The Kirk & Blum Manufacturing Company in favor of Orbian Financial Services II, LLC filed with the Ohio Secretary of State on February 3, 2010 as File Number OH00140111317. |
7. | That certain UCC Financing Statement against PMFG, Inc. in favor of Citibank, N.A. as Administrative Agent filed with the Delaware Secretary of State on September 7, 2012 as File Number 2012 3468313.2 |
8. | That certain UCC Financing Statement against Peerless Mfg. Co. in favor of Citibank, N.A. as Administrative Agent filed with the Texas Secretary of State on September 7, 2012 as File Number 12-0028446633.2 |
9. | That certain UCC Financing Statement against Nitram Energy, Inc. in favor of Citibank, N.A. as Administrative Agent filed with the New York Secretary of State on September 7, 2012 as File Number 201209076012339. 2 |
2 | To be released at Closing |
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10. | That certain UCC Financing Statement against PMC Acquisition, Inc. in favor of Citibank, N.A. as Administrative Agent filed with the Texas Secretary of State on September 7, 2012 as File Number 12-0028446512. 2 |
11. | That certain UCC Financing Statement against Bos-Hatten, Inc. in favor of Citibank, N.A. as Administrative Agent filed with the New York Secretary of State on September 7, 2012 as File Number 201209076012327.2 |
12. | That certain UCC Financing Statement against BurMan Management, Inc. in favor of Citibank, N.A. as Administrative Agent filed with the Texas Secretary of State on September 7, 2012 as File Number 12-0028446370.2 |
13. | That certain UCC Financing Statement against Burgess-Manning, Inc. in favor of Citibank, N.A. as Administrative Agent filed with the Texas Secretary of State on September 7, 2012 as File Number 12-0028446491.2 |
14. | There exist liens on the assets of Peerless Europe Ltd., securing the debt under Item 6 on Schedule 7.03. |
15. | There exist liens on the assets of Burgess-Manning GmbH, securing the debt under Item 7 of Schedule 7.03. |
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SCHEDULE 7.02
EXISTING INVESTMENTS
None.
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SCHEDULE 7.03
EXISTING INDEBTEDNESS
1. | That certain facilities agreement among ING Bank N.V., ATA Beheer B.V and Aarding Thermal Acoustics B.V., dated August 17, 2012, as amended, evidencing Indebtedness in the amount of up to 7,000,000. |
2. | That certain Credit Agreement in the amount of $30,000,000 dated as of September 7, 2012, as amended, between PMFG, Peerless Mfg. Co. and Citibank, N.A. and other lenders a party thereto.3 |
3. | That certain Guaranty of the PMFG and PMCs obligations under the Credit Agreement, by Nitram Energy, Inc., PMC Acquisition, Inc., Burgess-Manning, Inc., BurMan Management, Inc. and Bos-Hatten, Inc., as amended.4 |
4. | That certain Short-term Financing Agreement in the amount of RMB 10,000,000, dated December 11, 2014, by and between Peerless China Manufacturing Co., Ltd. and the Bank of China. |
5. | That certain Long-term Financing Agreement in the amount of RMB 43,000,000, dated July 7, 2013, by and between Peerless China Manufacturing Co., Ltd. and the Bank of China. |
6. | That certain Facility Letter in the amount of £6,000,000, dated May 26, 2015, by and between Peerless Europe Ltd. and HSBC Bank plc, as amended. |
7. | That certain Credit Agreement in the amount of 4,750,000, dated October 5, 2012, by and between UniCredit Bank AG and Burgess-Manning GmbH, as amended. |
8. | That certain Surety Agreement, dated April 26, 2010, by and between R+V Allgemeine Versicherung AG and Burgess-Manning GmbH, as amended. |
9. | That certain Credit Facilities Letter in the amount of $1,000,000, dated as of October 25, 2013, by and between Citibank, N.A. and Peerless Asia Pacific Pte. Ltd. |
10. | That certain General Contract of Indemnity / Surety Agreement, dated May 18, 2009, between the Company and Peerless Mfg. Inc., and Travelers Casualty and Surety Company of America. |
3 | To be paid off at Closing |
4 | To be terminated at Closing |
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SCHEDULE 10.02
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENTS OFFICE;
CERTAIN ADDRESSES FOR NOTICES
COMPANY:
CECO Environmental Corp.
4625 Red Bank Road
Suite 200
Cincinnati, OH 45227
Attention: Edward J. Prajzner
Telephone: (215) 717-7822
Facsimile: (610) 688-4083
Electronic Mail: eprajzner@cecoenviro.com
U.S. Taxpayer Identification Number: 13-2566064
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT:
Administrative Agents Office
(for Payments and Requests for Credit Extensions):
Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent
One Independence Center, 101 N. Tryon St.
Mail Code: NC1-001-05-46
Charlotte, NC 28255-0001
Attention: Michael L. Wetherell, Credit Services Representative
Telephone: 980-683-0902
Facsimile: 704-719-8870
Electronic Mail: michael.l.wetherell@baml.com
Wire Instructions:
Pay to: Bank of America, N.A.
New York, NY
ABA 026009593
Account No.: 001291000883
Account Name: Corporate Credit Services
Ref: CECO Environmental Corp.
(for all Other Notices and deliveries to Administrative Agent (financial reporting requirements, Bank Group Communications, etc.)):
Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent
901 Main Street
Mail Code: TX1-492-14-11
Dallas, TX 75202-3714
Attention: Anthony Kell
Telephone: 214-209-4124
Telecopier: 214-290-9422
Electronic Mail: Anthony.w.kell@baml.com
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BANK OF AMERICA AS AN L/C ISSUER:
(for issuance, amendment, etc. of Standby Letters of Credit):
Bank of America, N.A., as an L/C Issuer
1 Fleet Way
Mail Code: PA6-580-02-30
Scranton, PA 18507
Attention: Alfonso Malave, Jr., Sr. Operations Manager
Telephone: 570-496-9622
Facsimile: 800-755-8743
Electronic Mail: alfonso.malave@baml.com
SWING LINE LENDER:
(for borrowings and payments of Swing Line loans):
Bank of America, N.A., as Swing Line Lender
One Independence Center, 101 N. Tryon St.
Mail Code: NC1-001-05-46
Charlotte, NC 28255-0001
Attention: Michael L. Wetherell, Credit Services Representative
Telephone: 980-683-0902
Facsimile: 704-719-8870
Electronic Mail: michael.l.wetherell@baml.com
Wire Instructions:
Pay to: Bank of America, N.A.
New York, NY
ABA 026009593
Account No.: 001291000883
Account Name: Corporate Credit Services
Ref: CECO Environmental Corp.
(for Swing Line loans on auto-borrow):
Bank of America, N.A., as Swing Line Lender
312 Walnut St., Suite 2200
Mail Code: OH7-442-22-00
Cincinnati, OH 45202
Attention: Paula Buhrmann, Credit Support Associate
Telephone: 513-929-3434
Facsimile: 513-929-3454
Electronic Mail: paula.buhrmannl@baml.com
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EXHIBIT A
FORM OF LOAN NOTICE
Date: ,
To: | Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent |
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Reference is made to that certain Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of September 3, 2015 (as amended, restated, extended, supplemented or otherwise modified in writing from time to time, the Agreement; the terms defined therein being used herein as therein defined), among CECO Environmental Corp., a Delaware corporation (the Company), certain Subsidiaries of the Company party thereto (each a Designated Borrower and, together with the Company, the Borrowers and, each a Borrower), each Lender from time to time party thereto, and Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent, Swing Line Lender and L/C Issuer.
The undersigned hereby requests on behalf of the Borrower referenced in item 6 below (select one):
¨ | A Borrowing of [Revolving Credit (USD) Loans] [Revolving Credit (MC) Loans] [Term Loans] |
¨ | A conversion or continuation of [Revolving Credit (USD) Loans] [Revolving Credit (MC) Loans] [Term Loans] |
1. | On (a Business Day). |
2. | In the amount of $ . |
3. | Comprised of . [Type of Loan requested (e.g., Base Rate Loans or Eurocurrency Rate Loans)] |
4. | In the following currency1: . |
5. | For Eurocurrency Rate Loans: with an Interest Period of months. |
6. | On behalf of [insert name of applicable Borrower] |
[The [Revolving Credit (USD) Borrowing][Revolving Credit (MC) Borrowing], if any, requested herein complies with the proviso to the first sentence of Section [2.01(a)] [2.01(c)] of the Agreement.]2
1 | For Revolving Credit (MC) Borrowings only. |
2 | Include this sentence in the case of a Revolving Credit (USD) Borrowing or a Revolving Credit (MC) Borrowing. |
A-1
Form of Loan Notice
COMPANY: | ||
CECO ENVIRONMENTAL CORP. | ||
By: |
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Name: |
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Title: |
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A-2
Form of Loan Notice
EXHIBIT B
FORM OF SWING LINE LOAN NOTICE
Date: ,
To: | Bank of America, N.A., as Swing Line Lender |
Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Reference is made to that certain Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of September 3, 2015 (as amended, restated, extended, supplemented or otherwise modified in writing from time to time, the Agreement; the terms defined therein being used herein as therein defined), among CECO Environmental Corp., a Delaware corporation (the Company), certain Subsidiaries of the Company party thereto (each a Designated Borrower and, together with the Company, the Borrowers and, each a Borrower), each Lender from time to time party thereto, and Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent, Swing Line Lender and L/C Issuer.
The undersigned hereby requests a Swing Line Loan:
1. | On (a Business Day). |
2. | In the amount of $ . |
The Swing Line Borrowing requested herein complies with the requirements of the proviso to the first sentence of Section 2.04(a) of the Agreement.
COMPANY: | ||
CECO ENVIRONMENTAL CORP. | ||
By: |
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Name: |
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Title: |
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B-1
Form of Swing Line Loan Notice
EXHIBIT C-1
FORM OF REVOLVING CREDIT (USD) NOTE
, 20
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned (the Borrower) hereby promises to pay to the order of or registered assigns (the Lender), in accordance with the provisions of the Agreement (as hereinafter defined), the principal amount of each Revolving Credit (USD) Loan and/or Swing Line Loan, as applicable (each referred to herein as a Loan), from time to time made by the Lender under that certain Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of September 3, 2015 (as amended, restated, extended, supplemented or otherwise modified in writing from time to time, the Agreement; the terms defined therein being used herein as therein defined), among [the Borrower, certain of its Subsidiaries][CECO Environmental Corp., certain of its Subsidiaries (including, the Borrower)]3, each Lender from time to time party thereto, and Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent, Swing Line Lender and an L/C Issuer.
The Borrower promises to pay interest on the unpaid principal amount of each Loan from the date such Loan is made until such principal amount is paid in full, at such interest rates and at such times as provided in the Agreement. Except as otherwise provided in Section 2.04(f) of the Agreement with respect to Swing Line Loans, all payments of principal and interest shall be made to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Lender in Dollars and in immediately available funds at the Administrative Agents Office for Dollar-denominated payments. If any amount is not paid in full when due hereunder, such unpaid amount shall bear interest, to be paid upon demand, from the due date thereof until the date of actual payment (and before as well as after judgment) computed at the per annum rate set forth in the Agreement.
This Revolving Credit (USD) Note is one of the Revolving Credit (USD) Notes referred to in the Agreement, is entitled to the benefits thereof and may be prepaid in whole or in part subject to the terms and conditions provided therein. This Revolving Credit (USD) Note is also entitled to the benefits of [the Company Guaranty and]4 one or more of the Subsidiary Guaranties and is secured by the Collateral. Upon the occurrence and continuation of one or more of the Events of Default specified in the Agreement, all amounts then remaining unpaid on this Revolving Credit (USD) Note shall become, or may be declared to be, immediately due and payable all as provided in the Agreement. Loans made by the Lender shall be evidenced by one or more loan accounts or records maintained by the Lender in the ordinary course of business. The Lender may also attach schedules to this Revolving Credit (USD) Note and endorse thereon the date, amount, currency and maturity of its Loans and payments with respect thereto.
The Borrower, for itself, its successors and assigns, hereby waives diligence, presentment, protest and demand and notice of protest, demand, dishonor and non-payment of this Revolving Credit (USD) Note.
[Signature page follows]
3 | Second set of brackets to be used for Revolving Credit (USD) Notes signed by Designated Borrowers. |
4 | Applicable to Revolving Credit (USD) Notes signed by Designated Borrowers. |
C-1-1
Form of Revolving Credit (USD) Note
THIS REVOLVING CREDIT (USD) NOTE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
[BORROWER NAME] | ||
By: |
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Name: |
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Title: |
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C-1-2
Form of Revolving Credit (USD) Note
LOANS AND PAYMENTS WITH RESPECT THERETO
Date |
Type of Loan Made |
Amount of Loan Made |
End of Interest Period |
Amount of Principal or Interest Paid This Date |
Outstanding Principal Balance This Date |
Notation Made By | ||||||
C-1-3
Form of Revolving Credit (USD) Note
EXHIBIT C-2
FORM OF TERM LOAN NOTE
, 20
FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned (the Borrower) hereby promises to pay to or registered assigns (the Lender), in accordance with the provisions of the Agreement (as hereinafter defined), the principal amount of each Term Loan made by the Lender to the Borrower from time to time under that certain Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of September 3, 2015 (as amended, restated, extended, supplemented or otherwise modified in writing from time to time, the Agreement; the terms defined therein being used herein as therein defined), among the Borrower, certain of its Subsidiaries, each Lender from time to time party thereto, and Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent, Swing Line Lender and an L/C Issuer.
The Borrower promises to pay interest on the unpaid principal amount of each Term Loan from the date such Term Loan is made until such principal amount is paid in full, at such interest rates and at such times as provided in the Agreement. All payments of principal and interest shall be made to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Lender in Dollars and in Same Day Funds at the Administrative Agents Office for Dollar-denominated payments. If any amount is not paid in full when due hereunder, such unpaid amount shall bear interest, to be paid upon demand, from the due date thereof until the date of actual payment (and before as well as after judgment) computed at the per annum rate set forth in the Agreement.
This Term Loan Note is one of the Term Loan Notes referred to in the Agreement, is entitled to the benefits thereof and may be prepaid in whole or in part subject to the terms and conditions provided therein. This Term Loan Note is also entitled to the benefits of one or more of the Subsidiary Guaranties and is secured by the Collateral. Upon the occurrence and continuation of one or more of the Events of Default specified in the Agreement, all amounts then remaining unpaid on this Term Loan Note shall become, or may be declared to be, immediately due and payable all as provided in the Agreement. Each Term Loan made by the Lender shall be evidenced by one or more loan accounts or records maintained by the Lender in the ordinary course of business. The Lender may also attach schedules to this Term Loan Note and endorse thereon the date, amount and maturity of its Term Loans and payments with respect thereto.
The Borrower, for itself, its successors and assigns, hereby waives diligence, presentment, protest and demand and notice of protest, demand, dishonor and non-payment of this Term Loan Note.
[Signature page follows]
C-2-1
Form of Term Loan Note
THIS TERM LOAN NOTE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
CECO ENVIRONMENTAL CORP. | ||
By: |
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Name: |
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Title: |
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C-2-2
Form of Term Loan Note
LOANS AND PAYMENTS WITH RESPECT THERETO
Date |
Type of Loan Made |
Amount of Loan Made |
End of Interest Period |
Amount of Principal or Interest Paid This Date |
Outstanding Principal Balance This Date |
Notation Made By | ||||||
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Form of Term Loan Note
EXHIBIT C-3
FORM OF REVOLVING CREDIT (MC) NOTE
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FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned (the Borrower) hereby promises to pay to the order of or registered assigns (the Lender), in accordance with the provisions of the Agreement (as hereinafter defined), the principal amount of each Revolving Credit (MC) Loan, from time to time made by the Lender to [the Borrower][the U.S. Borrowers]5 under that certain Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of September 3, 2015 (as amended, restated, extended, supplemented or otherwise modified in writing from time to time, the Agreement; the terms defined therein being used herein as therein defined), among [the Borrower, certain of its Subsidiaries][CECO Environmental Corp., certain of its Subsidiaries (including, the Borrower)]6, each Lender from time to time party thereto, and Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent, Swing Line Lender and an L/C Issuer.
The Borrower promises to pay interest on the unpaid principal amount of each such Revolving Credit (MC) Loan from the date such Revolving Credit (MC) Loan is made until such principal amount is paid in full, at such interest rates and at such times as provided in the Agreement. All payments of principal and interest shall be made to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Lender in the currency in which such Revolving Credit (MC) Loan was denominated and in immediately available funds at the Administrative Agents Office for payments denominated in such currency. If any amount is not paid in full when due hereunder, such unpaid amount shall bear interest, to be paid upon demand, from the due date thereof until the date of actual payment (and before as well as after judgment) computed at the per annum rate set forth in the Agreement.
This Revolving Credit (MC) Note is one of the Revolving Credit (MC) Notes referred to in the Agreement, is entitled to the benefits thereof and may be prepaid in whole or in part subject to the terms and conditions provided therein. This Revolving Credit (MC) Note is also entitled to the benefits of [the Company Guaranty and]7 one or more of the Subsidiary Guaranties and is secured by the Collateral. Upon the occurrence and continuation of one or more of the Events of Default specified in the Agreement, all amounts then remaining unpaid on this Revolving Credit (MC) Note shall become, or may be declared to be, immediately due and payable all as provided in the Agreement. Revolving Credit (MC) Loans made by the Lender shall be evidenced by one or more loan accounts or records maintained by the Lender in the ordinary course of business. The Lender may also attach schedules to this Revolving Credit (MC) Note and endorse thereon the date, amount, currency and maturity of its Revolving Credit (MC) Loans evidenced by this Revolving Credit (MC) Note and payments with respect thereto.
The Borrower, for itself, its successors and assigns, hereby waives diligence, presentment, protest and demand and notice of protest, demand, dishonor and non-payment of this Revolving Credit (MC) Note.
[Signature page follows]
5 | Second set of brackets to be used for Revolving Credit (MC) Notes signed by U.S. Borrowers. |
6 | Second set of brackets to be used for Revolving Credit (MC) Notes signed by Designated Borrowers. |
7 | Applicable to Revolving Credit (MC) Notes signed by Designated Borrowers. |
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Form of Revolving Credit (MC) Note
THIS REVOLVING CREDIT (MC) NOTE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
[BORROWER NAME] | ||
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Form of Revolving Credit (MC) Note
LOANS AND PAYMENTS WITH RESPECT THERETO
Date |
Type of Loan Made |
Currency and Amount of Loan Made |
End of Interest Period |
Amount of Principal or Interest Paid This Date |
Outstanding Principal Balance This Date |
Notation Made By | ||||||
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Form of Revolving Credit (MC) Note
EXHIBIT D
FORM OF COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
Financial Statement Date: ,
To: | Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent |
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Reference is made to that certain Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of September 3, 2015 (as amended, restated, extended, supplemented or otherwise modified in writing from time to time, the Credit Agreement; the terms defined therein being used herein as therein defined), among CECO Environmental Corp., a Delaware corporation (the Company), certain Subsidiaries of the Company party thereto (each a Designated Borrower and, together with the Company, the Borrowers and, each a Borrower), each Lender from time to time party thereto, and Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent, Swing Line Lender and L/C Issuer.
The undersigned Responsible Officer hereby certifies as of the date hereof that he/she is the of the Company, and that, as such, he/she is authorized to execute and deliver this Compliance Certificate to the Administrative Agent on the behalf of the Company, and that:
[Use following paragraph 1 for fiscal year-end financial statements]
1. The Company has delivered the audited financial statements required by Section 6.01(a) of the Credit Agreement for the fiscal year of the Company ended as of the above date, together with the report and opinion of an independent certified public accountant required by such section.
[Use following paragraph 1 for fiscal quarter-end financial statements]
1. The Company has delivered the unaudited financial statements required by Section 6.01(b) of the Credit Agreement for the fiscal quarter of the Company ended as of the above date. Such financial statements fairly present in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations and cash flows of the Company and its Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP as at such date and for such period, subject only to normal year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes.
2. The undersigned has reviewed and is familiar with the terms of the Credit Agreement and has made, or has caused to be made under his/her supervision, a detailed review of the transactions and condition (financial or otherwise) of the Company during the accounting period covered by such financial statements.
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3. A review of the activities of the Company during such fiscal period has been made under the supervision of the undersigned with a view to determining whether during such fiscal period the Company performed and observed all its Obligations under the Loan Documents, and
[select one:]
[to the best knowledge of the undersigned, no Default has occurred and is continuing.]
or
[to the best knowledge of the undersigned, the following is a list of each Default that has occurred and is continuing and its nature and status:]
4. The financial covenant analyses and information set forth on Schedules 1 and 2 attached hereto are true and accurate on and as of the date of this Compliance Certificate.
5. Attached on Schedule 3 hereto is a list of all Excluded Subsidiaries as of the date of this certificate and calculations showing compliance with the definition of Material Subsidiary and Section 6.12 of the Credit Agreement.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Compliance Certificate as of , .
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CECO ENVIRONMENTAL CORP. | ||
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Form of Compliance Certificate
For the Quarter/Year ended (Statement Date)
SCHEDULE 18
to the Compliance Certificate
($ in 000s)
I. | Section 7.11(a) Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio. |
A. | Consolidated EBITDA for four consecutive fiscal quarters ending on above date (Subject Period): | |||||||||
1. | Consolidated Net Income for Subject Period: | $ | ||||||||
2. | Consolidated Interest Charges for Subject Period: | $ | ||||||||
3. | Provision for income taxes for Subject Period: | $ | ||||||||
4. | Depreciation expenses for Subject Period: | $ | ||||||||
5. | Amortization expenses for Subject Period: | $ | ||||||||
6. | Other non-cash reductions of Consolidated Net Income for Subject Period: | $ | ||||||||
7. | Fees and expenses incurred in connection with the Specified 2014 Acquisitions (not to exceed $2,000,000): | $ | ||||||||
8. | ATA Beheer Earn-Outs and any other earn-out and similar payments: | $ | ||||||||
9. | Retention portion of the purchase price for the acquisition by the Company of ATA Beheer and its subsidiaries (not to exceed $260,000) | $ | ||||||||
10. | Fees and expenses incurred in connection with the Closing Date Acquisition Transaction (not to exceed $11,000,000): | $ | ||||||||
11. | Income tax credits for Subject Period: | $ | ||||||||
12. | Non-cash additions to Consolidated Net Income for Subject Period: | $ | ||||||||
13. | Necessary adjustments (see Schedule 1.01C): | $ | ||||||||
14. | Consolidated EBITDA (Lines I.A.1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7 + 8 + 9 + 10 11 12 + 13): | $ | ||||||||
B. | Capital Expenditures during Subject Period9: | $ |
8 | The following is a summary of the Credit Agreement and to the extent any conflict exists between the following and the Credit Agreement, the Credit Agreement shall control. |
9 | Excluding (A) Capital Expenditures constituting payments in respect of capital leases and Capital Expenditures financed by Indebtedness permitted under the Credit Agreement, (B) amounts expended as consideration for Acquisitions permitted under the Credit Agreement to the extent such amounts would otherwise be included as Capital Expenditures and (C) Capital Expenditures paid for with proceeds of casualty insurance as evidenced in writing and submitted to the Administrative Agent together with any Compliance Certificate delivered pursuant to Section 6.02(a) of the Credit Agreement. |
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C. | Income taxes paid during Subject Period: | $ | ||||||||
D. | Consolidated Fixed Charges for Subject Period: | |||||||||
1. | Consolidated Interest Charges paid in cash during Subject Period: | $ | ||||||||
2. | Scheduled principal payments of Consolidated Funded Indebtedness during Subject Period: | $ | ||||||||
3. | Dividends and distributions paid in cash by Company to its shareholders during Subject Period: | $ | ||||||||
4. | ATA Beheer Earn-Outs and any other earn-out and similar payments during Subject Period: | $ | ||||||||
5. | Consolidated Fixed Charges for Subject Period (Lines I.D.1 + 2 + 3 + 4): | $ | ||||||||
E. | Consolidated Fixed Charge Coverage Ratio ((Line I.A.14 Line I.B Line I.C) ÷ Line I.D.5): |
to 1.00 | ||||||||
Minimum permitted: | 1.25 to 1.00 |
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II. | Section 7.11 (b) Consolidated Leverage Ratio. |
A. | Consolidated Funded Indebtedness at Statement Date: | |||||||
1. | Outstanding principal amount of all obligations for borrowed money: | $ | ||||||
2. | Purchase money Indebtedness: | $ | ||||||
3. | Direct obligations arising under letters of credit, bankers acceptances, bank guaranties, surety bonds and similar instruments: | $ | ||||||
4. | Obligations in respect of the deferred purchase price of property or services: | $ | ||||||
5. | Attributable Indebtedness in respect of capital leases and Synthetic Lease Obligations: | $ | ||||||
6. | Guarantees with respect to outstanding Indebtedness of the types specified in Lines II.A.1 through II.A.5 above of Persons other than the Company or any Subsidiary: | $ | ||||||
7. | Indebtedness of the types referred to in Lines II.A.1 through II.A.6 above of any partnership or joint venture in which the Company or a Subsidiary is a general partner or joint venturer (unless non-recourse): | $ | ||||||
8. | Consolidated Funded Indebtedness (Lines II.A.1 + 2 + 3 + 4 + 5 + 6 + 7): | $ | ||||||
B. | Consolidated EBITDA for Subject Period (enter Line I.A.14 above): | $ | ||||||
C. | Consolidated Leverage Ratio (Line II.A.8 ÷ Line II.B): | to 1.00 |
Maximum Permitted:
Period |
Consolidated Leverage Ratio | |
Closing Date through June 29, 2016 |
3.75 to 1.00 | |
June 30, 2016 through December 31, 2016 |
3.50 to 1.00 | |
January 1, 2017 through September 30, 2017 |
3.25 to 1.00 | |
October 1, 2017 and thereafter |
3.00 to 1.00 |
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Form of Compliance Certificate
For the Quarter/Year ended (Statement Date)
SCHEDULE 210
to the Compliance Certificate
($ in 000s)
Consolidated EBITDA
(in accordance with the definition of Consolidated EBITDA
as set forth in the Credit Agreement)
Consolidated EBITDA |
Quarter Ended |
Quarter Ended |
Quarter Ended |
Quarter Ended |
Twelve Months Ended | |||||
Consolidated Net Income |
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+ Consolidated Interest Charges |
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+ income taxes |
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+ depreciation expense |
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+ amortization expense |
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+ Other non-cash expenses |
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+ Fees and expenses incurred in connection with the Specified 2014 Acquisitions (subject to cap) |
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+ ATA Beheer Earn-Outs and any other earn-out and similar payments |
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+ retention portion of purchase price for acquisition by the Company of ATA Beheer and its subsidiaries (subject to cap) |
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+ Fees and expenses incurred in connection with the Closing Date Acquisition Transaction (subject to cap) |
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+ Necessary adjustment (see Schedule 1.01C) |
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- income tax credits |
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- non-cash income |
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= Consolidated EBITDA |
10 | The following is a summary of the Credit Agreement and to the extent any conflict exists between the following and the Credit Agreement, the Credit Agreement shall control. |
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Form of Compliance Certificate
For the Quarter/Year ended (Statement Date)
SCHEDULE 311
to the Compliance Certificate
($ in 000s)
LIST OF EXCLUDED SUBSIDIARIES12
Subsidiary |
Assets of Subsidiary | Consolidated Total Assets of Company and its Subsidiaries |
% of Consolidated Assets |
Revenue of Subsidiary |
Consolidated Total Revenue of the Company and its Subsidiaries |
% of Consolidated Revenue | ||||||
11 | The following is a summary of the Credit Agreement and to the extent any conflict exists between the following and the Credit Agreement, the Credit Agreement shall control. |
12 | For the calculations of assets and revenues, (a) revenues shall be calculated giving effect to any pro forma adjustments with respect to any Specified Transaction in a manner consistent with the adjustments described in Section 1.07 of the Credit Agreement and (b) the assets and revenues of a Subsidiary shall be deemed to include the assets and revenues of its Subsidiaries. |
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Form of Compliance Certificate
EXHIBIT E
FORM OF ASSIGNMENT AND ASSUMPTION
This Assignment and Assumption (this Assignment and Assumption) is dated as of the Effective Date set forth below and is entered into by and between [the][each]13 Assignor identified in item 1 below ([the][each, an] Assignor) and [the][each]14 Assignee identified in item 2 below ([the][each, an] Assignee). [It is understood and agreed that the rights and obligations of [the Assignors][the Assignees]15 hereunder are several and not joint.]16 Capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement identified below (as amended, the Credit Agreement), receipt of a copy of which is hereby acknowledged by the Assignee. The Standard Terms and Conditions set forth in Annex 1 attached hereto are hereby agreed to and incorporated herein by reference and made a part of this Assignment and Assumption as if set forth herein in full.
For an agreed consideration, [the][each] Assignor hereby irrevocably sells and assigns to [the Assignee][the respective Assignees], and [the][each] Assignee hereby irrevocably purchases and assumes from [the Assignor][the respective Assignors], subject to and in accordance with the Standard Terms and Conditions and the Credit Agreement, as of the Effective Date inserted by the Administrative Agent as contemplated below (i) all of [the Assignors][the respective Assignors] rights and obligations in [its capacity as a Lender][their respective capacities as Lenders] under the Credit Agreement and any other documents or instruments delivered pursuant thereto in the amount[s] and equal to the percentage interest[s] identified below of all the outstanding rights and obligations under the respective facilities identified below (including, without limitation, the Letters of Credit and the Swing Line Loans included in such facilities17) and (ii) to the extent permitted to be assigned under applicable law, all claims, suits, causes of action and any other right of [the Assignor (in its capacity as a Lender)][the respective Assignors (in their respective capacities as Lenders)] against any Person, whether known or unknown, arising under or in connection with the Credit Agreement, any other documents or instruments delivered pursuant thereto or the loan transactions governed thereby or in any way based on or related to any of the foregoing, including, but not limited to, contract claims, tort claims, malpractice claims, statutory claims and all other claims at law or in equity related to the rights and obligations sold and assigned pursuant to clause (i) above (the rights and obligations sold and assigned by [the][any] Assignor to [the][any] Assignee pursuant to clauses (i) and (ii) above being referred to herein collectively as [the][an] Assigned Interest). Each such sale and assignment is without recourse to [the][any] Assignor and, except as expressly provided in this Assignment and Assumption, without representation or warranty by [the][any] Assignor.
13 | For bracketed language here and elsewhere in this form relating to the Assignor(s), if the assignment is from a single Assignor, choose the first bracketed language. If the assignment is from multiple Assignors, choose the second bracketed language. |
14 | For bracketed language here and elsewhere in this form relating to the Assignee(s), if the assignment is to a single Assignee, choose the first bracketed language. If the assignment is to multiple Assignees, choose the second bracketed language. |
15 | Select as appropriate. |
16 | Include bracketed language if there are either multiple Assignors or multiple Assignees. |
17 | Include all applicable subfacilities. |
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1. | Assignor[s]: |
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[Assignor [is] [is not] a Defaulting Lender] | ||||||
2. | Assignee[s]: |
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[for each Assignee, indicate [Affiliate][Approved Fund] of [identify Lender]] | ||||||
3. | Borrower(s): | CECO Environmental Corp., a Delaware corporation (the Company) and certain Subsidiaries of the Company (each a Designated Borrower and, together with the Company, the Borrowers and, each a Borrower) | ||||
4. |
Administrative Agent: | Bank of America, N.A., as the administrative agent under the Credit Agreement | ||||
5. | Credit Agreement: | Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of September 3, 2015, among CECO Environmental Corp., a Delaware corporation (the Company), certain Subsidiaries of the Company party thereto (each a Designated Borrower and, together with the Company, the Borrowers and each a Borrower), each Lender from time to time party thereto, and Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent, Swing Line Lender and L/C Issuer. | ||||
6. | Assigned Interest[s]: |
Assignor[s]18 |
Assignee[s]19 | Facility Assigned20 |
Aggregate Amount of Commitment /Loans for all Lenders21 |
Amount of Commitment/Loans Assigned |
Percentage Assigned of Commitment/ Loans22 |
CUSIP Number | ||||||||||||
$ | $ | % | ||||||||||||||||
$ | $ | % | ||||||||||||||||
$ | $ | % |
18 | List each Assignor, as appropriate. |
19 | List each Assignee and, if available, its market entity identifier, as appropriate. |
20 | Fill in the appropriate terminology for the types of facilities under the Credit Agreement that are being assigned under this Assignment (e.g. Revolving Credit (USD) Commitment, Term Loan Commitment, etc.). |
21 | Amounts in this column and in the column immediately to the right to be adjusted by the counterparties to take into account any payments or prepayments made between the Trade Date and the Effective Date. |
22 | Set forth, to at least 9 decimals, as a percentage of the Commitment/Loans of all Lenders thereunder. |
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[7. | Trade Date: | ]23 |
Effective Date: , 20 [TO BE INSERTED BY ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND WHICH SHALL BE THE EFFECTIVE DATE OF RECORDATION OF TRANSFER IN THE REGISTER THEREFOR.]
The terms set forth in this Assignment and Assumption are hereby agreed to:
ASSIGNOR[S]24 | ||
[NAME OF ASSIGNOR] | ||
By: |
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[NAME OF ASSIGNOR] | ||
By: |
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ASSIGNEE[S]25 | ||
[NAME OF ASSIGNEE] | ||
By: |
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[NAME OF ASSIGNEE] | ||
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23 | To be completed if the Assignor and the Assignee intend that the minimum assignment amount is to be determined as of the Trade Date. |
24 | Add additional signature blocks as needed. Include both Fund/Pension Plan and manager making the trade (if applicable). |
25 | Add additional signature blocks as needed. Include both Fund/Pension Plan and manager making the trade (if applicable). |
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[Consented to and]26 Accepted: | ||
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as | ||
Administrative Agent | ||
By: |
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Title: | ||
[Consented to:27 | ||
CECO ENVIRONMENTAL CORP. | ||
By: |
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Title: | ||
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as Swing Line Lenderand an L/C Issuer | ||
By: |
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FIFTH THIRD BANK, as an L/C Issuer | ||
By: |
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26 | To be added only if the consent of the Administrative Agent is required by the terms of the Credit Agreement. |
27 | To be added only if the consent of the Company and/or other parties (e.g. Swing Line Lender, L/C Issuers) is required by the terms of the Credit Agreement. |
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Form of Assignment and Assumption
ANNEX 1 TO ASSIGNMENT AND ASSUMPTION
STANDARD TERMS AND CONDITIONS FOR
ASSIGNMENT AND ASSUMPTION
1. Representations and Warranties.
1.1. Assignor. [The][Each] Assignor (a) represents and warrants that (i) it is the legal and beneficial owner of [the][the relevant] Assigned Interest, (ii) [the][such] Assigned Interest is free and clear of any lien, encumbrance or other adverse claim, (iii) it has full power and authority, and has taken all action necessary, to execute and deliver this Assignment and Assumption and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby and (iv) it is [not] a Defaulting Lender; and (b) assumes no responsibility with respect to (i) any statements, warranties or representations made in or in connection with the Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document, (ii) the execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value of the Loan Documents or any collateral thereunder, (iii) the financial condition of the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates or any other Person obligated in respect of any Loan Document or (iv) the performance or observance by the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates or any other Person of any of their respective obligations under any Loan Document.
1.2. Assignee. [The][Each] Assignee (a) represents and warrants that (i) it has full power and authority, and has taken all action necessary, to execute and deliver this Assignment and Assumption and to consummate the transactions contemplated hereby and to become a Lender under the Credit Agreement, (ii) it meets all the requirements to be an assignee under Section 10.06(b)(iii) and (v) of the Credit Agreement (subject to such consents, if any, as may be required under Section 10.06(b)(iii) of the Credit Agreement), (iii) from and after the Effective Date, it shall be bound by the provisions of the Credit Agreement as a Lender thereunder and, to the extent of [the][the relevant] Assigned Interest, shall have the obligations of a Lender thereunder, (iv) it is sophisticated with respect to decisions to acquire assets of the type represented by [the][such] Assigned Interest and either it, or the Person exercising discretion in making its decision to acquire [the][such] Assigned Interest, is experienced in acquiring assets of such type, (v) it has received a copy of the Credit Agreement, and has received or has been accorded the opportunity to receive copies of the most recent financial statements delivered pursuant to Section 6.01 thereof, as applicable, and such other documents and information as it deems appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Assignment and Assumption and to purchase [the][such] Assigned Interest, (vi) it has, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own credit analysis and decision to enter into this Assignment and Assumption and to purchase [the][such] Assigned Interest, and (vii) if it is a Foreign Lender, attached hereto is any documentation required to be delivered by it pursuant to the terms of the Credit Agreement, duly completed and executed by [the][such] Assignee; and (b) agrees that (i) it will, independently and without reliance upon the Administrative Agent, [the][any] Assignor or any other Lender, and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under the Loan Documents, and (ii) it will perform in accordance with their terms all of the obligations which by the terms of the Loan Documents are required to be performed by it as a Lender.
2. Payments. From and after the Effective Date, the Administrative Agent shall make all payments in respect of [the][each] Assigned Interest (including payments of principal, interest, fees and other amounts) to [the][the relevant] Assignor for amounts which have accrued to but excluding the Effective Date and to [the][the relevant] Assignee for amounts which have accrued from and after the Effective Date. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Administrative Agent shall make all payments of interest, fees or other amounts paid or payable in kind from and after the Effective Date to [the][the relevant] Assignee.
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3. General Provisions. This Assignment and Assumption shall be binding upon, and inure to the benefit of, the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns. This Assignment and Assumption may be executed in any number of counterparts, which together shall constitute one instrument. Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this Assignment and Assumption by telecopy shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this Assignment and Assumption. This Assignment and Assumption shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with, the law of the State of New York.
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Form of Assignment and Assumption
EXHIBIT F-1
FORM OF U.S. TAX COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
(For Foreign Lenders That Are Not Partnerships For U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes)
Reference is hereby made to that certain Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of September 3, 2015 (as amended, restated, extended, supplemented or otherwise modified in writing from time to time, the Credit Agreement), among CECO Environmental Corp., a Delaware corporation (the Company), certain Subsidiaries of the Company party thereto (each a Designated Borrower and, together with the Company, the Borrowers and, each a Borrower), the lenders from time to time party thereto, and Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent, an L/C Issuer and Swing Line Lender.
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 3.01(e) of the Credit Agreement, the undersigned hereby certifies that (i) it is the sole record and beneficial owner of the Loan(s) (as well as any Note(s) evidencing such Loan(s)) in respect of which it is providing this certificate, (ii) it is not a bank within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, (iii) it is not a 10 percent shareholder of any Borrower within the meaning of Section 871(h)(3)(B) of the Code and (iv) it is not a controlled foreign corporation related to any Borrower as described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code.
The undersigned has furnished the Administrative Agent and the Company with a certificate of its non-U.S. Person status on IRS Form W-8BEN-E. By executing this certificate, the undersigned agrees that (1) if the information provided on this certificate changes, the undersigned shall promptly so inform the Company and the Administrative Agent, and (2) the undersigned shall have at all times furnished the Company and the Administrative Agent with a properly completed and currently effective certificate in either the calendar year in which each payment is to be made to the undersigned, or in either of the two calendar years preceding such payments.
Unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the Credit Agreement and used herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement.
[NAME OF LENDER]
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Date: , 20[ ] |
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Form of U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate
EXHIBIT F-2
FORM OF U.S. TAX COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
(For Foreign Participants That Are Not Partnerships For U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes)
Reference is hereby made to that certain Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of September 3, 2015 (as amended, restated, extended, supplemented or otherwise modified in writing from time to time, the Credit Agreement), among CECO Environmental Corp., a Delaware corporation (the Company), certain Subsidiaries of the Company party thereto (each a Designated Borrower and, together with the Company, the Borrowers and, each a Borrower), the lenders from time to time party thereto, and Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent, an L/C Issuer and Swing Line Lender.
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 3.01(e) of the Credit Agreement, the undersigned hereby certifies that (i) it is the sole record and beneficial owner of the participation in respect of which it is providing this certificate, (ii) it is not a bank within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, (iii) it is not a 10 percent shareholder of any Borrower within the meaning of Section 871(h)(3)(B) of the Code, and (iv) it is not a controlled foreign corporation related to any Borrower as described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code.
The undersigned has furnished its participating Lender with a certificate of its non-U.S. Person status on IRS Form W-8BEN-E. By executing this certificate, the undersigned agrees that (1) if the information provided on this certificate changes, the undersigned shall promptly so inform such Lender in writing, and (2) the undersigned shall have at all times furnished such Lender with a properly completed and currently effective certificate in either the calendar year in which each payment is to be made to the undersigned, or in either of the two calendar years preceding such payments.
Unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the Credit Agreement and used herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement.
[NAME OF PARTICIPANT] | ||||||
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Date: , 20[ ] |
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Form of U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate
EXHIBIT F-3
FORM OF U.S. TAX COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
(For Foreign Participants That Are Partnerships For U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes)
Reference is hereby made to that certain Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of September 3, 2015 (as amended, restated, extended, supplemented or otherwise modified in writing from time to time, the Credit Agreement), among CECO Environmental Corp., a Delaware corporation (the Company), certain Subsidiaries of the Company party thereto (each a Designated Borrower and, together with the Company, the Borrowers and, each a Borrower), the lenders from time to time party thereto, and Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent, an L/C Issuer and Swing Line Lender.
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 3.01(e) of the Credit Agreement, the undersigned hereby certifies that (i) it is the sole record owner of the participation in respect of which it is providing this certificate, (ii) its direct or indirect partners/members are the sole beneficial owners of such participation, (iii) with respect such participation, neither the undersigned nor any of its direct or indirect partners/members is a bank extending credit pursuant to a loan agreement entered into in the ordinary course of its trade or business within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, (iv) none of its direct or indirect partners/members is a 10 percent shareholder of any Borrower within the meaning of Section 871(h)(3)(B) of the Code and (v) none of its direct or indirect partners/members is a controlled foreign corporation related to any Borrower as described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code.
The undersigned has furnished its participating Lender with IRS Form W-8IMY accompanied by one of the following forms from each of its partners/members that is claiming the portfolio interest exemption: (i) an IRS Form W-8BEN-E, or (ii) an IRS Form W-8IMY accompanied by an IRS Form W-8BEN-E, from each of such partners/members beneficial owners that is claiming the portfolio interest exemption. By executing this certificate, the undersigned agrees that (1) if the information provided on this certificate changes, the undersigned shall promptly so inform such Lender and (2) the undersigned shall have at all times furnished such Lender with a properly completed and currently effective certificate in either the calendar year in which each payment is to be made to the undersigned, or in either of the two calendar years preceding such payments.
Unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the Credit Agreement and used herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement.
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EXHIBIT F-4
FORM OF U.S. TAX COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
(For Foreign Lenders That Are Partnerships For U.S. Federal Income Tax Purposes)
Reference is hereby made to that certain Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of September 3, 2015 (as amended, restated, extended, supplemented or otherwise modified in writing from time to time, the Credit Agreement), among CECO Environmental Corp., a Delaware corporation (the Company), certain Subsidiaries of the Company party thereto (each a Designated Borrower and, together with the Company, the Borrowers and, each a Borrower), the lenders from time to time party thereto, and Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent, an L/C Issuer and Swing Line Lender.
Pursuant to the provisions of Section 3.01(e) of the Credit Agreement, the undersigned hereby certifies that (i) it is the sole record owner of the Loan(s) (as well as any Note(s) evidencing such Loan(s)) in respect of which it is providing this certificate, (ii) its direct or indirect partners/members are the sole beneficial owners of such Loan(s) (as well as any Note(s) evidencing such Loan(s)), (iii) with respect to the extension of credit pursuant to this Credit Agreement or any other Loan Document, neither the undersigned nor any of its direct or indirect partners/members is a bank extending credit pursuant to a loan agreement entered into in the ordinary course of its trade or business within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, (iv) none of its direct or indirect partners/members is a 10 percent shareholder of any Borrower within the meaning of Section 871(h)(3)(B) of the Code and (v) none of its direct or indirect partners/members is a controlled foreign corporation related to any Borrower as described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code.
The undersigned has furnished the Administrative Agent and the Company with IRS Form W-8IMY accompanied by one of the following forms from each of its partners/members that is claiming the portfolio interest exemption: (i) an IRS Form W-8BEN-E, or (ii) an IRS Form W-8IMY accompanied by an IRS Form W-8BEN-E, from each of such partners/members beneficial owners that is claiming the portfolio interest exemption. By executing this certificate, the undersigned agrees that (1) if the information provided on this certificate changes, the undersigned shall promptly so inform the Company and the Administrative Agent, and (2) the undersigned shall have at all times furnished the Company and the Administrative Agent with a properly completed and currently effective certificate in either the calendar year in which each payment is to be made to the undersigned, or in either of the two calendar years preceding such payments.
Unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the Credit Agreement and used herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement.
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EXHIBIT G
FORM OF LETTERS OF CREDIT REPORT
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To: | Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent |
Ladies and Gentlemen:
Reference is made to that certain Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of September 3, 2015 (as amended, restated, extended, supplemented or otherwise modified in writing from time to time, the Agreement; the terms defined therein being used herein as therein defined), among CECO Environmental Corp., a Delaware corporation (the Company), certain Subsidiaries of the Company party thereto (each a Designated Borrower and, together with the Company, the Borrowers and, each a Borrower), each Lender from time to time party thereto, and Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent, Swing Line Lender and an L/C Issuer.
This report is being delivered pursuant to Section 2.03(l) of the Agreement. Set forth in the table below is a description of each Letter of Credit issued by the undersigned and outstanding on the date hereof.
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EXHIBIT H
FORM OF DESIGNATED BORROWER
REQUEST AND ASSUMPTION AGREEMENT
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To: | Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent |
Ladies and Gentlemen:
This Designated Borrower Request and Assumption Agreement is made and delivered pursuant to Section 2.14 of that certain Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of September 3, 2015 (as amended, restated, extended, supplemented or otherwise modified in writing from time to time, the Credit Agreement), among CECO Environmental Corp., a Delaware corporation (the Company), certain Subsidiaries of the Company party thereto (each a Designated Borrower and, together with the Company, the Borrowers and, each a Borrower), each Lender from time to time party thereto, and Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent, Swing Line Lender and an L/C Issuer and reference is made thereto for full particulars of the matters described therein. All capitalized terms used in this Designated Borrower Request and Assumption Agreement and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Credit Agreement.
Each of (Designated Borrower) and the Company hereby confirms, represents and warrants to the Administrative Agent[, the Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders]28 and the Revolving Credit (MC) Lenders that the Designated Borrower is a wholly-owned [Domestic][Foreign] Subsidiary of the Company.
The documents required to be delivered to the Administrative Agent under Section 2.14 of the Credit Agreement will be furnished to the Administrative Agent in accordance with the requirements of the Credit Agreement.
Complete if the Designated Borrower is a Domestic Subsidiary: The true and correct U.S. taxpayer identification number of the Designated Borrower is .
Complete if the Designated Borrower is a Foreign Subsidiary: The true and correct unique identification number that has been issued to the Designated Borrower by its jurisdiction of organization and the name of such jurisdiction are set forth below:
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The parties hereto hereby confirm that with effect from the date of the Designated Borrower Notice for the Designated Borrower, the Designated Borrower shall have obligations,
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duties and liabilities toward each of the other parties to the Credit Agreement identical to those which the Designated Borrower would have had if the Designated Borrower had been an original party to the Credit Agreement as a Borrower. Effective as of the date of the Designated Borrower Notice for the Designated Borrower, the Designated Borrower confirms its acceptance of, and consents to, all representations and warranties, covenants, and other terms and provisions of the Credit Agreement.
The parties hereto hereby request that the Designated Borrower be entitled to receive [Revolving Credit (USD) Loans and]29 Revolving Credit (MC) Loans under the Credit Agreement.
This Designated Borrower Request and Assumption Agreement shall constitute a Loan Document under the Credit Agreement.
THIS DESIGNATED BORROWER REQUEST AND ASSUMPTION AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Designated Borrower Request and Assumption Agreement to be duly executed and delivered by their proper and duly authorized officers as of the day and year first above written.
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EXHIBIT I
FORM OF DESIGNATED BORROWER NOTICE
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To: CECO Environmental Corp.[, the Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders]30 and the Revolving Credit (MC) Lenders party to the Credit Agreement referred to below
Ladies and Gentlemen:
This Designated Borrower Notice is made and delivered pursuant to Section 2.14 of that certain Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of September 3, 2015 (as amended, restated, extended, supplemented or otherwise modified in writing from time to time, the Credit Agreement), among CECO Environmental Corp., a Delaware corporation (the Company), certain Subsidiaries of the Company party thereto (each a Designated Borrower and, together with the Company, the Borrowers and, each a Borrower), each Lender from time to time party thereto, and Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent, Swing Line Lender and an L/C Issuer, and reference is made thereto for full particulars of the matters described therein. All capitalized terms used in this Designated Borrower Notice and not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned to them in the Credit Agreement.
The Administrative Agent hereby notifies the Company[, the Revolving Credit (USD) Lenders]28 and the Revolving Credit (MC) Lenders that effective as of the date hereof [ ] shall be a Designated Borrower and may receive [Revolving Credit (USD) Loans and]28 Revolving Credit (MC) Loans for its account on the terms and conditions set forth in the Credit Agreement.
This Designated Borrower Notice shall constitute a Loan Document under the Credit Agreement.
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EXHIBIT J
FORM OF NOTICE OF LOAN PREPAYMENT
TO: | Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent (the Administrative Agent) | |
RE: | Reference is made to that certain Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of September 3, 2015 (as amended, restated, extended, supplemented or otherwise modified in writing from time to time, the Agreement; the terms defined therein being used herein as therein defined), among CECO Environmental Corp., a Delaware corporation (the Company), certain Subsidiaries of the Company party thereto (each a Designated Borrower and, together with the Company, the Borrowers and, each a Borrower), each Lender from time to time party thereto, and Bank of America, N.A., as Administrative Agent, Swing Line Lender and L/C Issuer. | |
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The Company hereby provides notice to the Administrative Agent that it shall repay the following Loans as more specifically set forth below:
The Loan(s) to be prepaid consist of: [check each applicable box]
¨ | Optional prepayment of Term Loans in the amount of $ |
¨ | Optional prepayment of Revolving Credit (USD) Loans in the amount of $ |
¨ | Optional prepayment of Revolving Credit (MC) Loans in the amount of $ |
(Complete with an amount in accordance with Section 2.05 of the Credit Agreement.)
The Company shall repay the above-referenced Loans on the following Business Day: . (Complete with a date no earlier than (i) the same Business Day as the date of this Notice of Prepayment with respect to any Base Rate Loan, (ii) three (3) Business Days subsequent to date of this Notice of Prepayment with respect to Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in Dollars, (iii) four (4) Business Days prior to the date of the Notice of Prepayment with respect to Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in Alternative Currencies other than Special Notice Currencies, and (iv) five (5) Business Days prior to the date of this Notice of Prepayment with respect to Eurocurrency Rate Loans denominated in Special Notice Currencies.)
Delivery of an executed counterpart of a signature page of this notice by fax transmission or other electronic mail transmission (e.g. pdf or tif) shall be effective as delivery of a manually executed counterpart of this notice.
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Exhibit 10.5
SECURITIES PLEDGE AGREEMENT
THIS SECURITIES PLEDGE AGREEMENT dated as of August 27, 2013 (this Pledge Agreement), is being entered into among CECO ENVIRONMENTAL CORP., a Delaware corporation (the Company and a Pledgor), EACH OF THE UNDERSIGNED SUBSIDIARIES OF THE COMPANY AND EACH OTHER PERSON THAT SHALL BECOME A PARTY HERETO BY EXECUTION OF A PLEDGE JOINDER AGREEMENT (each a Subsidiary Guarantor and a Pledgor and, together with the Company, collectively, the Pledgors), and BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as Administrative Agent (in such capacity, the Administrative Agent) for each of the Secured Parties (as defined in the Credit Agreement referenced below).
RECITALS:
A. Pursuant to a Credit Agreement dated as of the date hereof (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the Credit Agreement), among the Company, certain Subsidiaries of the Company party thereto (each a Designated Borrower and together with the Company, the Borrowers and each a Borrower), the Administrative Agent, Bank of America, N.A., as Swing Line Lender and an L/C Issuer, the lenders now or hereafter party thereto (the Lenders) and the other L/C Issuers now or hereafter party thereto, the Lenders and the L/C Issuers have agreed to provide to the Borrowers a revolving credit facility with a letter of credit subfacility and a swing line subfacility, a multicurrency revolving credit facility and a term loan facility.
B. Certain additional extensions of credit may be made from time to time for the benefit of the Pledgors pursuant to certain Secured Cash Management Agreements and Secured Hedge Agreements (each as defined in the Credit Agreement).
C. It is a condition precedent to the Secured Parties obligations to make and maintain such extensions of credit that the Pledgors shall have executed and delivered this Pledge Agreement to the Administrative Agent.
In order to induce the Secured Parties to from time to time make and maintain extensions of credit under the Credit Agreement and such Secured Cash Management Agreements and Secured Hedge Agreements, the parties hereto agree as follows:
1. Certain Definitions. All capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined herein shall have the meanings assigned thereto in the Credit Agreement. Terms used in this Pledge Agreement that are not otherwise expressly defined herein or in the Credit Agreement, and for which meanings are provided in the Uniform Commercial Code of the State of New York (the UCC), shall have such meanings unless the context requires otherwise. In addition, for purposes of this Pledge Agreement, the following terms have the following definitions:
Direct Foreign Subsidiary means any Foreign Subsidiary if Equity Interests representing more than 50% of either the aggregate ordinary voting power or the aggregate equity value represented by the issued and outstanding Equity Interests of such Person are owned by the Company, a Domestic Subsidiary or any combination thereof.
Secured Obligations means (a) as to the Company, all of the Obligations, including, the payment and performance of the obligations and liabilities (whether now existing or hereafter arising) of each Loan Party under (i) the Credit Agreement and each of the other Loan Documents (including this Agreement) to which such Loan Party is now or hereafter becomes a party, and (ii) any Secured Cash Management Agreement and Secured Hedge Agreement to which such Loan Party is now or hereafter becomes a party, (b) as to each Designated Borrower, all of its Obligations under (i) the Credit Agreement and each of the other Loan Documents (including this Agreement) to which such Designated Borrower is now or hereafter becomes a party, and (ii) any Secured Cash Management Agreement and Secured Hedge Agreement to which such Designated Borrower is now or hereafter becomes a party and (c) as to each Subsidiary Guarantor, the payment and performance of its obligations and liabilities (whether now existing or hereafter arising) under (i) the Subsidiary Guaranty to which it is a party and each of the other Loan Documents (including this Agreement) to which it is now or hereafter becomes a party, and (ii) any Secured Cash Management Agreement and Secured Hedge Agreement to which it is now or hereafter becomes a party.
Voting Equity Interests means, with respect to any Person, the Equity Interests entitled to vote for members of the board of directors or equivalent governing body of such Person.
2. Pledge of Pledged Interests; Other Collateral.
(a) Each Pledgor hereby grants as collateral security for the payment, performance and satisfaction of the Secured Obligations to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties a first priority security interest in all of the following items of property in which it now has or may at any time hereafter acquire an interest or the power to transfer rights therein, and wheresoever located:
(i) all Equity Interests in all of its Subsidiaries (limited, in the case of Foreign Subsidiaries to Equity Interests that, when taken with all other Equity Interests pledged hereunder, constitute no more than (x) 65% of the Voting Equity Interests of each Direct Foreign Subsidiary and (y) 100% of the other Equity Interests of such Pledgor in each Direct Foreign Subsidiary), in each case, whether now existing or hereafter created or acquired (collectively, the Pledged Interests), including without limitation the Pledged Interests more particularly described on Schedule I hereto (such Subsidiaries, together with all other Subsidiaries whose Equity Interests may be required to be subject to this Pledge Agreement from time to time, are referred to collectively as the Pledged Subsidiaries);
(ii) all money, securities, security entitlements and other investment property, dividends, rights, general intangibles and other property at any time and from time to time (x) declared or distributed in respect of or in exchange for or on conversion of any Pledged Interest, or (y) by its or their terms exchangeable or exercisable for or convertible into any Pledged Interest;
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(iii) all other property of whatever character or description, including money, securities, security entitlements and other investment property, and general intangibles hereafter delivered to the Administrative Agent in substitution for or as an addition to any of the foregoing;
(iv) all securities accounts to which may at any time be credited any or all of the foregoing or any proceeds thereof and all certificates and instruments representing or evidencing any of the foregoing or any proceeds thereof; and
(v) all proceeds of any of the foregoing.
All such Pledged Interests, certificates, instruments, cash, securities, interests, dividends, rights and other property referred to in clauses (i) through (v) of this Section 2 are herein collectively referred to as the Collateral.
(b) Each Pledgor agrees to deliver all certificates, instruments or other documents representing any Collateral to the Administrative Agent at such location as the Administrative Agent shall from time to time designate by written notice pursuant to Section 23 for its custody at all times until termination of this Pledge Agreement, together with such instruments of assignment and transfer as requested by the Administrative Agent.
(c) Each Pledgor agrees to execute and deliver, or cause to be executed and delivered by other Persons, at Pledgors expense, all share certificates, documents, instruments, agreements, financing statements (and amendments thereto and continuations thereof), assignments, control agreements, or other writings as the Administrative Agent may request from time to time to carry out the terms of this Pledge Agreement or to protect or enforce the Administrative Agents Lien and security interest in the Collateral hereunder granted to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties and further agrees to do and cause to be done upon the Administrative Agents reasonable request, at Pledgors expense, all things reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent to be necessary or advisable to perfect and keep in full force and effect the Lien in the Collateral hereunder granted to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties, including the prompt payment of all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket fees and expenses incurred in connection with any filings made to perfect or continue the Lien and security interest in the Collateral hereunder granted in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties.
(d) All filing fees, advances, charges, costs and expenses, including all documented out-of-pocket fees and expenses of counsel (collectively, Attorneys Costs), incurred or paid by the Administrative Agent or any Lender in exercising any right, power or remedy conferred by this Pledge Agreement, or in the enforcement thereof, shall become a part of the Secured Obligations secured hereunder and shall be paid to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties by the Pledgors in respect of which the same was incurred immediately upon demand therefor, and any amounts not so paid on demand (in addition to other rights and remedies resulting from such nonpayment) shall bear interest from the date of demand until paid in full at the Default Rate.
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(e) Each Pledgor agrees to register and cause to be registered the interest of the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, in the Collateral on its own books and records and the registration books of each of the Pledged Subsidiaries.
3. Status of Pledged Interests. Each Pledgor hereby represents, warrants and covenants to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties, with respect to itself and the Collateral as to which it has or acquires any interest, that:
(a) Except as disclosed on Schedule I, all of the Pledged Interests are, as of the date of execution of this Pledge Agreement or Pledge Joinder Agreement by each Pledgor pledging such Pledged Interests (such date as applicable with respect to each Pledgor, its Applicable Date), and shall at all times thereafter be validly issued and outstanding, fully paid and non-assessable and constitute (i) 65% of the issued and outstanding Voting Equity Interests (or if any Pledgor shall own less than 65% of such Voting Equity Interests, then 100% of the Voting Equity Interests owned by such Pledgor) and 100% of the other issued and outstanding Equity Interests of each Direct Foreign Subsidiary constituting a Pledged Subsidiary and (ii) all of the issued and outstanding Equity Interests of all Domestic Subsidiaries constituting Pledged Subsidiaries, and are accurately described on Schedule I (to the extent of the information included on such Schedule).
(b) Such Pledgor is as at its Applicable Date and shall at all times thereafter (subject to Dispositions permitted under the Credit Agreement) be the sole registered and record and beneficial owner of the Pledged Interests, free and clear of all Liens, charges, equities, options, hypothecations, encumbrances and restrictions on pledge or transfer, including transfer of voting rights (other than the pledge hereunder and applicable restrictions pursuant to federal and state and applicable foreign securities laws). Without limiting the foregoing, the Pledged Interests are not and will not be subject to any voting trust, shareholders agreement, right of first refusal, voting proxy, power of attorney or other similar arrangement (other than the rights hereunder in favor of the Administrative Agent).
(c) At no time shall any Pledged Interests (i) be held or maintained in the form of a security entitlement or credited to any securities account and (ii) which constitute a security (or as to which the related Pledged Subsidiary has elected to have treated as a security) under Article 8 of the UCC (including, for the purposes of this Section, the Uniform Commercial Code of any other applicable jurisdiction) be maintained in the form of uncertificated securities. With respect to Pledged Interests that are securities under the UCC, or as to which the issuer has elected at any time to have such interests treated as securities under the UCC, such Pledged Interests are, and shall at all times be, represented by the share certificates listed on Schedule I hereto (as such Schedule may be from time to time updated in accordance with the terms hereof), which share certificates, with stock powers duly executed in blank by such Pledgor, (except to the extent permitted to be delivered after the Closing Date pursuant to Section 7.15 of the Credit Agreement) have been delivered to the Administrative Agent or are being delivered to the Administrative Agent simultaneously herewith or, in the case of Additional Interests as defined in Section 22, shall be delivered pursuant to Section 22. In
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addition, with respect to all Pledged Interests, including Pledged Interests that are not securities under the UCC and as to which the applicable Pledged Subsidiary has not elected to have such interests treated as securities under the UCC, such Pledgor has at its Applicable Date delivered to the Administrative Agent (or has previously delivered to the Administrative Agent or, in case of Additional Interests shall deliver pursuant to Section 22) Uniform Commercial Code financing statements (or appropriate amendments thereto) duly authorized by such Pledgor and naming the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties as secured party, in form, substance and number sufficient in the reasonable opinion of the Administrative Agent to be filed in all UCC filing offices and in all jurisdictions in which filing is necessary or advisable to perfect in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties the Lien on such Pledged Interests, together with all required filing fees. Without limiting the foregoing provisions of this Section 3(c), with respect to any Pledged Interests issued by any Direct Foreign Subsidiary, Pledgor shall deliver or cause to be delivered, (i) in addition to or in substitution for all or any of the foregoing items, as the Administrative Agent may elect, such other instruments, certificates, agreements, notices, filings, and other documents, and take or cause to be taken such other action, as the Administrative Agent may reasonably determine to be necessary or advisable under the laws of the jurisdiction of formation of such Direct Foreign Subsidiary, to grant, perfect and protect as a first priority lien in such Collateral in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties, and (ii) an opinion of counsel reasonably acceptable in form and substance to the Administrative Agent issued by a law firm reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent licensed to practice law in such foreign jurisdiction, addressing with respect to such Pledged Interests the matters described in Section 4.01(a) of the Credit Agreement.
(d) It has full corporate power, legal right and lawful authority to execute this Pledge Agreement (and any Pledge Joinder Agreement applicable to it) and to pledge, assign and transfer its Pledged Interests in the manner and form hereof.
(e) The pledge, assignment and delivery of its Pledged Interests (along with undated stock powers executed in blank, financing statements and other agreements referred to in Section 3(c) hereof) to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties pursuant to this Pledge Agreement (or any Pledge Joinder Agreement) creates or continues, as applicable, a valid and perfected first priority security interest in such Pledged Interests in favor of the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties, securing the payment of the Secured Obligations, assuming, in the case of the Pledged Interests which constitute certificated securities under the UCC (including, for the purposes of this Section, the Uniform Commercial Code of any other applicable jurisdiction), continuous and uninterrupted possession by or on behalf of the Administrative Agent in the State of New York. Such Pledgor will at its own cost and expense defend the Secured Parties right, title and security interest in and to the Collateral against the claims and demands of all persons whomsoever.
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(f) Except as otherwise expressly provided herein pursuant to a Disposition permitted under the Credit Agreement, none of the Pledged Interests (nor any interest therein or thereto) shall be sold, transferred or assigned without the Administrative Agents prior written consent, which may be withheld for any reason.
(g) It shall at all times cause the Pledged Interests of such Pledgor that constitute securities (or as to which the issuer elects to have treated as securities) under the UCC to be represented by the certificates now and hereafter delivered to the Administrative Agent in accordance with Sections 2, 3 and 22 and that it shall cause each of the Pledged Subsidiaries as to which it is the Pledgor not to issue any Equity Interests, or securities convertible into, or exchangeable or exercisable for, Equity Interests, at any time during the term of this Pledge Agreement unless the Pledged Interests of such Pledged Subsidiary are issued solely to either (i) such Pledgor who shall immediately comply with Sections 3 and 22 with respect to such property or (ii) the Company or a Subsidiary Guarantor who shall immediately pledge such additional Equity Interests to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties pursuant to Section 22 or 24, as applicable, on substantially identical terms as are contained herein and deliver or cause to be delivered the appropriate documents described in Section 3(c) to the Administrative Agent and take such further actions as the Administrative Agent may reasonably deem necessary in order to perfect a first priority security interest in such Equity Interests.
(h) As of its Applicable Date, the exact legal name and address, type of Person, jurisdiction of formation, jurisdiction of formation identification number (if any), and location of the chief executive office of such Pledgor are as specified on Schedule II attached hereto (in each case, before and after giving effect to the Closing Date Transaction). No Pledgor shall change its name, jurisdiction of formation (whether by reincorporation, merger or otherwise), or the location of its chief executive office, except upon giving not less than thirty (30) days prior written notice to the Administrative Agent and taking or causing to be taken all such action at such Pledgors expense as may be reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent to perfect or maintain the perfection of the Lien of the Administrative Agent in Collateral and except that Mustang Acquisition Inc. may do any of the foregoing on the Closing Date in connection with the Closing Date Acquisition and Mustang Acquisition II LLC (formerly known as Mustang Acquisition II Inc.) may change its name to Met-Pro Technologies LLC on the Closing Date in connection with the Closing Date Acquisition.
4. Preservation and Protection of Collateral.
(a) The Administrative Agent shall be under no duty or liability with respect to the collection, protection or preservation of the Collateral, or otherwise, beyond the use of reasonable care in the custody and preservation thereof while in its possession.
(b) Each Pledgor agrees to pay when due all taxes, charges, Liens and assessments against the Collateral in which it has an interest, unless being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted and against which adequate reserves have been established in accordance with GAAP applied on a basis consistent
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with that used in preparing the Audited Financial Statements and evidenced to the satisfaction of the Administrative Agent and provided that all enforcement proceedings in the nature of levy or foreclosure are effectively stayed. Upon the failure of any Pledgor to so pay or contest such taxes, charges, Liens or assessments, or upon the failure of any Pledgor to pay any amount pursuant to Section 2(c), the Administrative Agent at its option may pay or contest any of them (the Administrative Agent having the sole right to determine the legality or validity and the amount necessary to discharge such taxes, charges, Liens or assessments) but shall not have any obligation to make any such payment or contest. All sums so disbursed by the Administrative Agent, including Attorneys Costs, court costs, expenses and other charges related thereto, shall be payable on demand by the applicable Pledgor to the Administrative Agent and shall be additional Secured Obligations secured by the Collateral, and any amounts not so paid on demand (in addition to other rights and remedies resulting from such nonpayment) shall bear interest from the date of demand until paid in full at the Default Rate.
(c) Each Pledgor hereby (i) irrevocably authorizes the Administrative Agent to file (with, or to the extent permitted by applicable law, without the signature of the Pledgor appearing thereon) financing statements (including amendments thereto and continuations and copies thereof) showing such Pledgor as debtor at such time or times and in all filing offices as the Administrative Agent may from time to time reasonably determine to be necessary or advisable to perfect or protect the rights of the Administrative Agent and the Secured Parties hereunder, or otherwise to give effect to the transactions herein contemplated, and (ii) irrevocably ratifies and acknowledges all such actions taken by or on behalf of the Administrative Agent prior to the Applicable Date.
5. Default. Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default, the Administrative Agent is given full power and authority, then or at any time thereafter while such Event of Default is continuing, to sell, assign, deliver or collect the whole or any part of the Collateral, or any substitute therefor or any addition thereto, in one or more sales, with or without any previous demands or demand of performance or, to the extent permitted by law, notice or advertisement, in such order as the Administrative Agent may elect; and any such sale may be made either at public or private sale at the Administrative Agents place of business or elsewhere, either for cash or upon credit or for future delivery, at such price or prices as the Administrative Agent may reasonably deem fair; and the Administrative Agent or any other Secured Party may be the purchaser of any or all Collateral so sold and hold the same thereafter in its own right free from any claim of any Pledgor or right of redemption. Demands of performance, advertisements and presence of property and sale and notice of sale are hereby waived to the extent permissible by law. Any sale hereunder may be conducted by an auctioneer or any officer or agent of the Administrative Agent. Each Pledgor recognizes that the Administrative Agent may be unable to effect a public sale of the Collateral by reason of certain prohibitions contained in the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the Securities Act), and applicable state law, and may be otherwise delayed or adversely affected in effecting any sale by reason of present or future restrictions thereon imposed by governmental authorities, and that as a consequence of such prohibitions and restrictions the Administrative Agent may be compelled (i) to resort to one or more private sales to a restricted group of purchasers who will be obliged to agree, among other things, to acquire the Collateral for their own account, for investment and not
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with a view to the distribution or resale thereof, or (ii) to seek regulatory approval of any proposed sale or sales, or (iii) to limit the amount of Collateral sold to any Person or group. Each Pledgor agrees and acknowledges that private sales so made may be at prices and upon terms less favorable to such Pledgor than if such Collateral was sold either at public sales or at private sales not subject to other regulatory restrictions, and that the Administrative Agent has no obligation to delay the sale of any of the Collateral for the period of time necessary to permit the Pledged Subsidiary to register or otherwise qualify the Collateral, even if such Pledged Subsidiary would agree to register or otherwise qualify such Collateral for public sale under the Securities Act or applicable state law. Each Pledgor further agrees, to the extent permitted by applicable law, that the use of private sales made under the foregoing circumstances to dispose of the Collateral shall be deemed to be dispositions in a commercially reasonable manner. Each Pledgor hereby acknowledges that a ready market may not exist for the Pledged Interests if they are not traded on a national securities exchange or quoted on an automated quotation system and agrees and acknowledges that in such event the Pledged Interests may be sold for an amount less than a pro rata share of the fair market value of the Pledged Subsidiarys assets minus its liabilities. In addition to the foregoing, the Secured Parties may exercise such other rights and remedies as may be available under the Loan Documents, at law (including without limitation the UCC) or in equity.
6. Proceeds of Sale. The net cash proceeds resulting from the collection, liquidation, sale, or other disposition of the Collateral shall be applied first to the documented out-of-pocket expenses (including all Attorneys Costs) of retaking, holding, storing, processing and preparing for sale, selling, collecting, liquidating and the like, and then to the satisfaction of all Secured Obligations in accordance with the terms of Section 8.03 of the Credit Agreement. Each Pledgor shall be liable to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, and shall pay to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, on demand any deficiency which may remain after such sale, disposition, collection or liquidation of the Collateral.
7. Presentments, Demands and Notices. The Administrative Agent shall not be under any duty or obligation whatsoever to make or give any presentments, demands for performances, notices of nonperformance, protests, notice of protest or notice of dishonor in connection with any obligations or evidences of indebtedness held thereby as collateral, or in connection with any obligations or evidences of indebtedness which constitute in whole or in part the Secured Obligations secured hereunder.
8. Attorney-in-Fact. Each Pledgor hereby appoints the Administrative Agent as such Pledgors attorney-in-fact for the purposes of carrying out the provisions of this Pledge Agreement and taking any action and executing any instrument which the Administrative Agent may reasonably deem necessary or advisable to accomplish the purposes hereof, which appointment is irrevocable and coupled with an interest; provided that the Administrative Agent shall have and may exercise rights under this power of attorney only upon the occurrence and during the continuance of a Event of Default. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of a Event of Default, the Administrative Agent shall have the right and power to receive, endorse and collect all checks and other orders for the payment of money made payable to any Pledgor representing any dividend, interest payment, principal payment or other distribution payable or distributable in respect to the Collateral or any part thereof and to give full discharge for the same.
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9. Reinstatement. The granting of a security interest in the Collateral and the other provisions hereof shall continue to be effective or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time any payment of any of the Secured Obligations is rescinded or must otherwise be returned by any Secured Party or is repaid by any Secured Party in whole or in part in good faith settlement of a pending or threatened avoidance claim, whether upon the insolvency, bankruptcy or reorganization of any Pledgor or any other Loan Party or otherwise, all as though such payment had not been made. The provisions of this Section 9 shall survive repayment of all of the Secured Obligations and the termination or expiration of this Pledge Agreement in any manner, including but not limited to termination upon occurrence of the Facility Termination Date.
10. Waiver by the Pledgors. Each Pledgor waives to the extent permitted by applicable law (a) any right to require any Secured Party or any other obligee of the Secured Obligations to (i) proceed against any Person or entity, including without limitation any Loan Party, (ii) proceed against or exhaust any Collateral or other collateral for the Secured Obligations, or (iii) pursue any other remedy in its power, (b) any defense arising by reason of any disability or other defense of any other Person, or by reason of the cessation from any cause whatsoever of the liability of any other Person or entity, (c) any right of subrogation, and (d) any right to enforce any remedy which any Secured Party or any other obligee of the Secured Obligations now has or may hereafter have against any other Person and any benefit of and any right to participate in any collateral or security whatsoever now or hereafter held by the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties. Each Pledgor authorizes each Secured Party and each other obligee of the Secured Obligations without notice (except notice required by applicable law) or demand and without affecting its liability hereunder or under the Loan Documents from time to time to: (i) take and hold security, other than the Collateral herein described, for the payment of such Secured Obligations or any part thereof, and exchange, enforce, waive and release the Collateral herein described or any part thereof or any such other security; and (ii) apply such Collateral or other security and direct the order or manner of sale thereof as such Secured Party or obligee in its discretion may determine.
The Administrative Agent may at any time deliver (without representation, recourse or warranty) the Collateral or any part thereof to a Pledgor and the receipt thereof by such Pledgor shall be a complete and full acquittance for the Collateral so delivered, and the Administrative Agent shall thereafter be discharged from any liability or responsibility therefor.
11. Dividends and Voting Rights.
(a) All dividends and other distributions with respect to any of the Pledged Interests shall be subject to the pledge hereunder.
(b) So long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the registration of the Collateral in the name of a Pledgor as record and beneficial owner shall not be changed and such Pledgor shall be entitled to exercise all voting and other rights and powers pertaining to the Collateral for all purposes not inconsistent with the terms of the Loan Documents.
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(c) Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default, all rights of the Pledgors to receive and retain cash dividends and other distributions upon the Collateral shall cease and shall thereupon be vested in the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties, and each Pledgor shall promptly deliver, or shall cause to be promptly delivered, all such cash dividends and other distributions with respect to the Pledged Interests to the Administrative Agent (together, if the Administrative Agent shall request, with the documents described in Sections 2(c) and 3(c) or other negotiable documents or instruments so distributed) to be held by it hereunder or, at the option of the Administrative Agent, to be applied to the Secured Obligations. Pending delivery to the Administrative Agent of such property, each Pledgor shall keep such property segregated from its other property and shall be deemed to hold the same in trust for the benefit of the Secured Parties.
(d) Upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default, at the option of the Administrative Agent, all rights of each of the Pledgors to exercise the voting or consensual rights and powers which it is authorized to exercise pursuant to subsection (b) above shall cease and the Administrative Agent may thereupon (but shall not be obligated to), at its request, cause such Collateral to be registered in the name of the Administrative Agent or its nominee or agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties and/or exercise such voting or consensual rights and powers as appertain to ownership of such Collateral, and to that end each Pledgor hereby appoints the Administrative Agent as its proxy, with full power of substitution, to vote and exercise all other rights as a shareholder with respect to such Pledged Interests hereunder upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default, which proxy is coupled with an interest and is irrevocable until the Facility Termination Date, and each Pledgor hereby agrees to provide such further proxies as the Administrative Agent may request; provided, however, that the Administrative Agent in its discretion may from time to time refrain from exercising, and shall not be obligated to exercise, any such voting or consensual rights or such proxy.
12. Continued Powers. Until the Facility Termination Date shall have occurred, the power of sale and other rights, powers and remedies granted to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties hereunder shall continue to exist and may be exercised by the Administrative Agent at any time and from time to time irrespective of the fact that any of the Secured Obligations or any part thereof may have become barred by any statute of limitations or that any part of the liability of any Pledgor may have ceased.
13. Other Rights. The rights, powers and remedies given to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties by this Pledge Agreement shall be in addition to all rights, powers and remedies given to the Administrative Agent or any other Secured Party under any Loan Document or by virtue of any statute or rule of law. Any forbearance or failure or delay by the Administrative Agent in exercising any right, power or remedy hereunder shall not be deemed to be a waiver of such right, power or remedy, and any single or partial exercise of any right, power or remedy hereunder shall not preclude the further exercise thereof; and every right, power and remedy of the Secured Parties shall continue in full force and effect until such right, power or remedy is specifically waived in accordance with the terms of the Credit Agreement.
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14. Anti-Marshaling Provisions. The right is hereby given by each Pledgor to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, to make releases (whether in whole or in part) of all or any part of the Collateral agreeable to the Administrative Agent without notice to, or the consent, approval or agreement of other parties and interests, including junior lienors, which releases shall not impair in any manner the validity of or priority of the Liens and security interests in the remaining Collateral conferred hereunder, nor release any Pledgor from personal liability for the Secured Obligations. Notwithstanding the existence of any other security interest in the Collateral held by the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, the Administrative Agent shall have the right to determine the order in which any or all of the Collateral shall be subjected to the remedies provided in this Pledge Agreement. Each Pledgor hereby waives any and all right to require the marshaling of assets in connection with the exercise of any of the remedies permitted by applicable law or provided herein or in any Loan Document.
15. Entire Agreement. This Pledge Agreement and each Pledge Joinder Agreement, together with the Credit Agreement and other Loan Documents, constitutes and expresses the entire understanding between the parties hereto with respect to the subject matter hereof, and supersedes all prior negotiations, agreements and understandings, inducements, commitments or conditions, express or implied, oral or written, except as herein contained. The express terms hereof and of the Pledge Joinder Agreements control and supersede any course of performance or usage of the trade inconsistent with any of the terms hereof and thereof. Except as provided in Sections 21, 22 and 24, neither this Pledge Agreement, any Pledge Joinder Agreement nor any Pledge Agreement Supplement nor any portion or provision hereof or thereof may be changed, altered, modified, supplemented, discharged, canceled, terminated, or amended orally or in any manner other than as provided in the Credit Agreement.
16. Further Assurances. Each Pledgor agrees at its own expense to do such further acts and things, and to execute and deliver, and cause to be executed and delivered as may be necessary or reasonably advisable to give effect thereto, such additional conveyances, assignments, financing statements, control agreements, documents, certificates, stock powers, agreements and instruments, as the Administrative Agent may at any time reasonably request in connection with the administration or enforcement of this Pledge Agreement or any Pledge Joinder Agreement or related to the Collateral or any part thereof or in order better to assure and confirm unto the Administrative Agent its rights, powers and remedies for the benefit of the Secured Parties hereunder or thereunder. Each Pledgor hereby consents and agrees that the Pledged Subsidiaries and all other Persons, shall be entitled to accept the provisions hereof and of the Pledge Joinder Agreements as conclusive evidence of the right of the Administrative Agent, on behalf of the Secured Parties, to exercise its rights, privileges, and remedies hereunder and thereunder with respect to the Collateral, notwithstanding any other notice or direction to the contrary heretofore or hereafter given by any Pledgor or any other Person to any of such Pledged Subsidiaries or other Persons.
17. Binding Agreement; Assignment. This Pledge Agreement and each Pledge Joinder Agreement, and the terms, covenants and conditions hereof and thereof, shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and thereto, and to their respective successors and assigns, except that no Pledgor shall be permitted to assign this Pledge Agreement, any Pledge Joinder Agreement or any interest herein or therein or in the Collateral, or any part
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thereof or interest therein, or otherwise pledge, encumber or grant any option with respect to the Collateral, or any part thereof, or any cash or property held by the Administrative Agent as Collateral under this Pledge Agreement. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing sentence of this Section 17, any Lender may assign to one or more Persons, or grant to one or more Persons participations in or to, all or any part of its rights and obligations under the Credit Agreement (to the extent permitted by the Credit Agreement); and to the extent of any such assignment or participation such other Person shall, to the fullest extent permitted by law, thereupon become vested with all the benefits in respect thereof granted to such Lender herein or otherwise, subject however, to the provisions of the Credit Agreement, including Article IX thereof (concerning the Administrative Agent) and Section 10.06 thereof (concerning assignments and participations). All references herein to the Administrative Agent and to the Secured Parties shall include any successor thereof or permitted assignee, and any other obligees from time to time of the Secured Obligations.
18. Secured Cash Management Agreements and Secured Hedging Agreements. No Secured Party (other than the Administrative Agent) that obtains the benefit of this Pledge Agreement shall have any right to notice of any action or to consent to, direct or object to any action hereunder or otherwise in respect of the Collateral (including the release or impairment of any Collateral) other than in its capacity as a Lender or an L/C Issuer and, in such case, only to the extent expressly provided in the Loan Documents. Notwithstanding any other provision of this Pledge Agreement to the contrary, the Administrative Agent shall only be required to verify the payment of, or that other satisfactory arrangement have been made with respect to, the Secured Obligations arising under Secured Cash Management Agreements and Secured Hedge Agreements to the extent the Administrative Agent has received written notice of such Obligations, together with such supporting documentation as it may request, from the applicable Cash Management Bank or Hedge Bank, as the case may be. Each Secured Party not a party to the Credit Agreement that obtains the benefit of this Pledge Agreement shall be deemed to have acknowledged and accepted the appointment of the Administrative Agent pursuant to the terms of the Credit Agreement, and that with respect to the actions and omissions of the Administrative Agent hereunder or otherwise relating hereto that do or may affect such Secured Party, the Administrative Agent and each of its Related Parties shall be entitled to all the rights, benefits and immunities conferred under Article IX of the Credit Agreement.
19. Severability. The provisions of this Pledge Agreement are independent of and separable from each other. If any provision hereof shall for any reason be held to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable, (a) the legality, validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Pledge Agreement shall not be affected or impaired thereby and (b) the parties shall endeavor in good faith negotiations to replace the illegal, invalid or unenforceable provisions with valid provisions the economic effect of which comes as close as possible to that of the illegal, invalid or unenforceable provisions. The invalidity of a provision in a particular jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.
20. Counterparts. This Pledge Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts each of which when so executed and delivered shall be deemed an original, and it shall not be necessary in making proof of this Pledge Agreement to produce or account for more than one such counterpart executed by the Pledgor against whom enforcement is sought. Without limiting the foregoing provisions of this Section 20, the provisions of Section 10.10 of the Credit Agreement shall be applicable to this Pledge Agreement.
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21. Termination. Subject to the provisions of Section 9, this Pledge Agreement and each Pledge Joinder Agreement, and all obligations of the Pledgors hereunder (excluding those obligations and liabilities that expressly survive such termination) shall terminate without delivery of any instrument or performance of any act by any party on the Facility Termination Date. Upon such termination of this Pledge Agreement, the Administrative Agent shall, at the sole expense of the Pledgors, promptly deliver to the Pledgors the certificates evidencing its shares of Pledged Interests (and any other property received as a dividend or distribution or otherwise in respect of such Pledged Interests to the extent then held by the Administrative Agent as additional Collateral hereunder), together with any cash then constituting the Collateral not then sold or otherwise disposed of in accordance with the provisions hereof, and take such further actions at the request of the Pledgors as may be necessary to effect the same.
22. Additional Interests. If any Pledgor shall at any time acquire or hold any additional Pledged Interests, including any Pledged Interests issued by any Subsidiary not listed on Schedule I hereto which are required to be subject to a Lien pursuant to this Pledge Agreement by the terms hereof or of any provision of the Credit Agreement (any such shares being referred to herein as the Additional Interests), such Pledgor shall deliver to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties (a) a Pledge Agreement Supplement in the form of Exhibit A hereto with respect to such Additional Interests duly completed and executed by such Pledgor and (b) any other document required in connection with such Additional Interests as described in Section 3(c). Each Pledgor shall comply with the requirements of this Section 22 concurrently with the acquisition of any such Additional Interests or, in the case of Additional Interests to which Section 6.12 of the Credit Agreement applies, within the time period specified in such Section 6.12 or elsewhere in the Credit Agreement with respect to such Additional Interests; provided, however, that the failure to comply with the provisions of this Section 22 shall not impair the Lien on Additional Interests conferred hereunder.
23. Notices. Any notice required or permitted hereunder shall be given (a) with respect to any Pledgor, at the address of the Company indicated in Schedule 10.02 of the Credit Agreement and (b) with respect to the Administrative Agent or a Lender, at the Administrative Agents address indicated in Schedule 10.02 of the Credit Agreement. All such addresses may be modified, and all such notices shall be given and shall be effective, as provided in Section 10.02 of the Credit Agreement for the giving and effectiveness of notices and modifications of addresses thereunder.
24. Joinder. Each Person who shall at any time execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent a Pledge Joinder Agreement substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit B shall thereupon irrevocably, absolutely and unconditionally become a party hereto and obligated hereunder as a Pledgor and shall have thereupon pursuant to Section 2 granted a security interest in and collaterally assigned and pledged to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties all Pledged Interests and other Collateral which it has at its Applicable Date or thereafter acquires any interest or the power to transfer, and all references herein and in the other Loan Documents to the Pledgors or to the parties to this Pledge Agreement shall be deemed to include such Person as a Pledgor hereunder. Each Pledge Joinder Agreement shall be accompanied by the Supplemental Schedules referred to therein, appropriately completed with information relating to the Pledgor executing such Pledge Joinder Agreement and its property. Each of the applicable Schedules attached hereto shall be deemed amended and supplemented without further action by such information reflected on the Supplemental Schedules.
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25. Rules of Interpretation. The rules of interpretation contained in Section 1.02 of the Credit Agreement shall be applicable to this Pledge Agreement and each Pledge Joinder Agreement and are hereby incorporated by reference. All representations and warranties contained herein shall survive the delivery of documents and any Credit Extensions referred to herein or secured hereby.
26. Governing Law; Jurisdiction; Etc.
(a) GOVERNING LAW. THIS PLEDGE AGREEMENT, EACH PLEDGE JOINDER AGREEMENT AND EACH PLEDGE AGREEMENT SUPPLEMENT AND ANY CLAIMS, CONTROVERSY, DISPUTE OR CAUSE OF ACTION (WHETHER IN CONTRACT OR TORT OR OTHERWISE) BASED UPON, ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS PLEDGE AGREEMENT, ANY PLEDGE JOINDER AGREEMENT OR ANY PLEDGE AGREEMENT SUPPLEMENT AND THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY AND THEREBY SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
(b) SUBMISSION TO JURISDICTION. EACH PLEDGOR IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY AGREES THAT IT WILL NOT COMMENCE ANY ACTION, LITIGATION OR PROCEEDING OF ANY KIND OR DESCRIPTION, WHETHER IN LAW OR EQUITY, WHETHER IN CONTRACT OR IN TORT OR OTHERWISE, AGAINST THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT, ANY LENDER, ANY L/C ISSUER, OR ANY RELATED PARTY OF THE FOREGOING IN ANY WAY RELATING TO THIS PLEDGE AGREEMENT, ANY PLEDGE JOINDER AGREEMENT OR ANY PLEDGE AGREEMENT SUPPLEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS RELATING HERETO OR THERETO, IN ANY FORUM OTHER THAN THE COURTS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK SITTING IN NEW YORK COUNTY AND OF THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT OF THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF NEW YORK, AND ANY APPELLATE COURT FROM ANY THEREOF, AND EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY SUBMITS TO THE JURISDICTION OF SUCH COURTS AND AGREES THAT ALL CLAIMS IN RESPECT OF ANY SUCH ACTION, LITIGATION OR PROCEEDING MAY BE HEARD AND DETERMINED IN SUCH NEW YORK STATE COURT OR, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, IN SUCH FEDERAL COURT. EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO AGREES THAT A FINAL JUDGMENT IN ANY SUCH ACTION, LITIGATION OR PROCEEDING SHALL BE CONCLUSIVE AND MAY BE ENFORCED IN OTHER JURISDICTIONS BY SUIT ON THE JUDGMENT OR IN ANY OTHER MANNER PROVIDED BY LAW. NOTHING IN THIS PLEDGE AGREEMENT, IN ANY PLEDGE JOINDER AGREEMENT OR IN ANY PLEDGE AGREEMENT SUPPLEMENT SHALL AFFECT ANY RIGHT THAT THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT, ANY LENDER OR ANY L/C ISSUER MAY OTHERWISE HAVE TO BRING ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING RELATING TO THIS PLEDGE AGREEMENT, ANY PLEDGE JOINDER AGREEMENT OR ANY PLEDGE AGREEMENT SUPPLEMENT AGAINST ANY PLEDGOR OR ITS PROPERTIES IN THE COURTS OF ANY JURISDICTION.
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(c) WAIVER OF VENUE. EACH PARTY HERETO IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY OBJECTION THAT IT MAY NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE TO THE LAYING OF VENUE OF ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS PLEDGE AGREEMENT, ANY PLEDGE JOINDER AGREEMENT OR ANY PLEDGE AGREEMENT SUPPLEMENT IN ANY COURT REFERRED TO IN PARAGRAPH (b) OF THIS SECTION. EACH OF THE PARTIES HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, THE DEFENSE OF AN INCONVENIENT FORUM TO THE MAINTENANCE OF SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING IN ANY SUCH COURT.
(d) SERVICE OF PROCESS. EACH PARTY HERETO IRREVOCABLY CONSENTS TO SERVICE OF PROCESS IN THE MANNER PROVIDED FOR NOTICES IN SECTION 23. NOTHING IN THIS PLEDGE AGREEMENT WILL AFFECT THE RIGHT OF ANY PARTY HERETO TO SERVE PROCESS IN ANY OTHER MANNER PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.
27. Waiver of Jury Trial. EACH PARTY HERETO HEREBY IRREVOCABLY WAIVES, TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL PROCEEDING DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF OR RELATING TO THIS PLEDGE AGREEMENT, ANY PLEDGE JOINDER AGREEMENT OR ANY PLEDGE AGREEMENT SUPPLEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED HEREBY OR THEREBY (WHETHER BASED ON CONTRACT, TORT OR ANY OTHER THEORY). EACH PARTY HERETO (A) CERTIFIES THAT NO REPRESENTATIVE, AGENT OR ATTORNEY OF ANY OTHER PERSON HAS REPRESENTED, EXPRESSLY OR OTHERWISE, THAT SUCH OTHER PERSON WOULD NOT, IN THE EVENT OF LITIGATION, SEEK TO ENFORCE THE FOREGOING WAIVER AND (B) ACKNOWLEDGES THAT IT AND THE OTHER PARTIES HERETO HAVE BEEN INDUCED TO ENTER INTO THIS PLEDGE AGREEMENT, ANY PLEDGE JOINDER AGREEMENT OR ANY PLEDGE AGREEMENT SUPPLEMENT BY, AMONG OTHER THINGS, THE MUTUAL WAIVERS AND CERTIFICATIONS IN THIS SECTION.
[Signature pages follow.]
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have duly executed this Securities Pledge Agreement on the day and year first written above.
PLEDGORS: | ||
CECO ENVIRONMENTAL CORP. | ||
AARDING THERMAL ACOUSTICS USA INC. | ||
ADWEST TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | ||
AVC, INC. | ||
CECO ABATEMENT SYSTEMS, INC. | ||
CECO FILTERS, INC. | ||
CECO GROUP, INC. | ||
CECO MEXICO HOLDINGS LLC | ||
CECOAIRE, INC. | ||
EFFOX INC. | ||
FISHER-KLOSTERMAN, INC. | ||
GMD ENVIRONMENTAL TECHNOLOGIES, INC. | ||
MUSTANG ACQUISITION, INC. | ||
MUSTANG ACQUISITION II LLC | ||
NEW BUSCH CO., INC. | ||
THE KIRK & BLUM MANUFACTURING COMPANY | ||
By: | /s/ Benton L. Cook | |
Name: | Benton L. Cook | |
Title: | Interim Chief Financial Officer | |
CECO GROUP GLOBAL HOLDINGS LLC FKI, LLC | ||
By: | /s/ Benton L. Cook | |
Name: | Benton L. Cook | |
Title: | Treasurer & Secretary | |
H.M. WHITE, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Benton L. Cook | |
Name: | Benton L. Cook | |
Title: | Chief Financial Officer | |
KBD/TECHNIC, INC. | ||
By: | /s/ Jeffrey Lang | |
Name: | Jeffrey Lang | |
Title: | President |
SECURITIES PLEDGE AGREEMENT
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ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT: | ||
BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., as Administrative Agent | ||
By: | /s/ Anthony W. Kell | |
Name: | Anthony W. Kell | |
Title: | President |
SECURITIES PLEDGE AGREEMENT
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SCHEDULE I
Pledged Interests
Name of Pledgor |
Name, and Type of Pledged |
Class or Type Interest |
Total Amount |
Total Amount |
Total Amount |
Certificate |
Par Value (if |
Name of | ||||||||
CECO Environmental Corp. |
CECO Group, Inc. Delaware Corporation |
Common | 1,000 | 100 | 100 | 1 | $.01 | n/a | ||||||||
CECO Environmental Corp. |
CECO Group Global Holdings LLC Delaware Limited |
Membership Interests |
n/a | n/a | 100% | uncertificated | n/a | n/a | ||||||||
CECO Environmental Corp. |
Flextor Inc. Quebec Corporation |
Class A Common Shares (voting) |
Unlimited | 2,800,000 | 1,820,000 | AC-1-R | n/a | n/a | ||||||||
CECO Environmental Corp. |
Mustang Acquisition, Inc. Delaware Corporation |
Common | 1,000 | 100 | 100 | 1 | no par value | n/a | ||||||||
CECO Environmental Corp. |
Mustang Acquisition II LLC Delaware Limited |
Membership Interest Units |
n/a | 100 | 100 | uncertificated | n/a | n/a |
Name of Pledgor |
Name, and Type of Pledged |
Class or Type Interest |
Total Amount |
Total Amount |
Total Amount |
Certificate |
Par Value |
Name of | ||||||||
CECO Group, Inc. |
CECO Mexico Holdings LLC Delaware Limited |
Membership interest units |
n/a | 100 | 100 | uncertificated | n/a | n/a | ||||||||
CECO Group, Inc. |
CECO Abatement Systems, Inc. Delaware Corporation |
Common | 100,000 | 10,000 | 10,000 | 1 | $.01 | n/a | ||||||||
CECO Group, Inc. |
GMD Environmental Technologies, Inc. Delaware Corporation |
Common | 1,000 | 1,000 | 1,000 | 2 | $.01 | n/a | ||||||||
CECO Group, Inc. |
The Kirk & Blum Manufacturing Company
Ohio Corporation |
Class A Voting Common
Class B |
105,000
225,000 |
62,670
188,010 |
62,670
188,010 |
548
625 |
no par value
no |
n/a
n/a | ||||||||
CECO Group, Inc. |
KBD/Technic, Inc. Indiana Corporation |
Common | 1,000 | 930 | 930 | 23 | no par value |
n/a | ||||||||
CECO Group, Inc. |
Effox Inc. Delaware Corporation |
Common | 10,000 | 100 | 100 | 2 | $.01 | n/a | ||||||||
CECO Group, Inc. |
CECOaire, Inc. Delaware Corporation |
Common | 100,000 | 100 | 100 | 1 | $.001 | n/a |
Name of Pledgor |
Name, and Type of Pledged |
Class or Interest |
Total Amount |
Total Amount |
Total Amount |
Certificate |
Par Value |
Name of | ||||||||
CECO Group, Inc. |
Adwest Technologies, Inc. California Corporation |
Common | 1,000,000 | 224,500 | 224,500 | 27 | no par value |
n/a | ||||||||
CECO Group, Inc. |
Aarding Thermal Acoustics USA Inc. Delaware Corporation |
Common | 5,000 | 1,000 | 1,000 | 3 | $.01 | n/a | ||||||||
CECO Group, Inc. |
CECO Filters, Inc. Delaware Corporation1 |
Common | 99,000,000 | 38,404,107 (number approximate; subject to +/- 1% deviation) |
37,978,312 | SC-1 (31,536,440 shares) CF |
$.001 | n/a | ||||||||
CECO Group, Inc. |
H.M. White, Inc. Delaware Corporation |
Common | 100,000 | 100 | 100 | 3 | $.001 | n/a | ||||||||
CECO Group, Inc. |
Fisher- Klosterman, Inc. Delaware Corporation |
Common | 1,000 | 1,000 | 1,000 | 2 | $.01 | n/a |
1 | Note CECO Group, Inc. owns approximately 99% of the issued and outstanding Equity Interests of this Pledged Subsidiary. |
Name of Pledgor |
Name, and Type of Pledged |
Class or Type of Interest |
Total Amount |
Total Amount |
Total Amount |
Certificate |
Par Value |
Name of | ||||||||
CECO Filters, Inc. |
CECO Environmental India Private Limited |
Equity Shares | 15,00,000 | 2 | 65% | 4 | Rs.10 | n/a | ||||||||
CECO Filters, Inc. |
New Busch Co., Inc. Delaware Corporation |
Common | 1,000 | 10 | 10 | 1 | no par value |
n/a | ||||||||
H.M. White, Inc. |
CECO Environmental Mexico S. de R.L. de C.V. Mexico Limited |
Equity quotas | 1 | 1 equity quota |
65%3 | uncertificated | MXN $2,999 peso |
n/a | ||||||||
H.M. White, Inc. |
CECO Environmental Services S. de R.L. de C.V. Mexico Limited |
Equity quotas | 1 | 1 equity quota |
65%3 | uncertificated | MXN $2,999 peso |
n/a |
2 | Note The Company is informed, but unable to verify that 1,16,042 Equity Shares are outstanding. The Company will provide information relating to this Pledged Subsidiary to the Administrative Agent after the Closing Date. |
3 | Note In lieu of having any other Pledgor owning Voting Equity Interests in this Pledged Subsidiary pledge such Voting Equity Interests, H.M. White, Inc. is pledging the portion of its Voting Equity Interests in this Pledged Subsidiary constituting 65% of all of the issued and outstanding Voting Equity Interests of this Pledged Subsidiary. |
Name of Pledgor |
Name, and Type of Pledged |
Class or Type Interest |
Total Amount |
Total Amount |
Total Amount |
Certificate |
Par Value |
Name of | ||||||||
Fisher-Klosterman, Inc. |
FKI, LLC Delaware Limited |
Membership interest units |
n/a | 10 | 10 | uncertificated | n/a | n/a | ||||||||
FKI, LLC |
CECO Environmental (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. China Limited |
Registered capital |
n/a | n/a | 65% | uncertificated | n/a | n/a | ||||||||
Fisher-Klosterman, Inc. |
AVC, Inc. Delaware Corporation |
Common | 1,000 | 100 | 100 | 1 | $.01 | n/a | ||||||||
CECO Group Global Holdings LLC |
CECO Environmental Netherlands B.V. (Netherlands) Private |
Shares | n/a | 50,000 | 32,500 | uncertificated | EUR 1.00 |
n/a |
4 | Note This information is based solely on the English portions of (a) the Certificate of Approval for Establishment of Enterprises with Foreign Investment in the Peoples Republic of China No. 0295713, (b) a Unanimous Written Consent of the Board of Directors of Kentucky Fabrication (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. dated , 2007 (which states that the directors approved the transfer of 100% shares of Kentucky Fabrication (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. to Fisher klosterman, Inc. (sic.) as the original investor) and (c) on Amendments to the Articles of Association (AOA) of Kentucky Fabrication (Shanghai) Co., Ltd. dated , 2007 stating that the Registered capital is US$550,000. The Company has no knowledge of such registered capital being divided into shares. |
SCHEDULE II
Pledgor Information
Name and Address of Pledgor |
Type of Person |
Jurisdiction of Formation of Pledgor |
Jurisdiction of Formation Identification Number |
Address of Chief Executive Office | ||||
CECO Environmental Corp. |
Corporation | Delaware | 3478982 | 4625 Red Bank Road Suite 200 Cincinnati, OH 45227 | ||||
Aarding Thermal Acoustics USA Inc. |
Corporation | Delaware | 4751002 | 4625 Red Bank Road Suite 200 Cincinnati, OH 45227 | ||||
Adwest Technologies, Inc. |
Corporation | California | C1456777 | 4625 Red Bank Road Suite 200 Cincinnati, OH 45227 | ||||
AVC, Inc. |
Corporation | Delaware | 4662295 | 4625 Red Bank Road Suite 200 Cincinnati, OH 45227 | ||||
CECO Abatement Systems, Inc. |
Corporation | Delaware | 3385209 | 4625 Red Bank Road Suite 200 Cincinnati, OH 45227 | ||||
CECO Filters, Inc. |
Corporation | Delaware | 2067402 | 4625 Red Bank Road Suite 200 Cincinnati, OH 45227 | ||||
CECO Group, Inc. |
Corporation | Delaware | 3123251 | 4625 Red Bank Road Suite 200 Cincinnati, OH 45227 | ||||
CECO Mexico Holdings LLC |
Limited Liability Company | Delaware | 4436783 | 4625 Red Bank Road Suite 200 Cincinnati, OH 45227 | ||||
CECOaire, Inc. |
Corporation | Delaware | 3898184 | 4625 Red Bank Road Suite 200 Cincinnati, OH 45227 | ||||
Effox Inc. |
Corporation | Delaware | 4285791 | 4625 Red Bank Road Suite 200 Cincinnati, OH 45227 |
Name and Address of Pledgor |
Type of Person |
Jurisdiction of Formation of Pledgor |
Jurisdiction of Formation Identification Number |
Address of Chief Executive Office | ||||
Fisher-Klosterman, Inc. |
Corporation | Delaware | 4473182 | 4625 Red Bank Road Suite 200 Cincinnati, OH 45227 | ||||
GMD Environmental Technologies, Inc. |
Corporation | Delaware | 4443004 | 4625 Red Bank Road Suite 200 Cincinnati, OH 45227 | ||||
Mustang Acquisition Inc. |
Corporation | Delaware | 5317638 | 4625 Red Bank Road Suite 200 Cincinnati, OH 45227 | ||||
Mustang Acquisition II LLC |
Limited Liability Company | Delaware | 5321202 | 4625 Red Bank Road Suite 200 Cincinnati, OH 45227 | ||||
New Busch Co., Inc. |
Corporation | Delaware | 2765910 | 4625 Red Bank Road Suite 200 Cincinnati, OH 45227 | ||||
The Kirk & Blum Manufacturing Company |
Corporation | Ohio | 105763 | 4625 Red Bank Road Suite 200 Cincinnati, OH 45227 | ||||
CECO Group Global Holdings LLC |
Limited Liability Company | Delaware | 5290934 | 4625 Red Bank Road Suite 200 Cincinnati, OH 45227 | ||||
FKI, LLC |
Limited Liability Company | Delaware | 4328854 | 4625 Red Bank Road Suite 200 Cincinnati, OH 45227 | ||||
H.M. White, Inc. |
Corporation | Delaware | 3535543 | 4625 Red Bank Road Suite 200 Cincinnati, OH 45227 | ||||
KBD/Technic, Inc. |
Corporation | Indiana | 1988070667 | 4625 Red Bank Road Suite 200 Cincinnati, OH 45227 |
EXHIBIT A
FORM OF
PLEDGE AGREEMENT SUPPLEMENT
THIS PLEDGE AGREEMENT SUPPLEMENT dated as of , 20 (this Pledge Agreement Supplement), is made by , a (the Pledgor), in favor of BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., in its capacity as Administrative Agent (in such capacity, the Administrative Agent) for the Secured Parties (as defined in the Credit Agreement referenced below; all capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to such terms in such Credit Agreement).
RECITALS:
A. Pursuant to a Credit Agreement dated as of August 27, 2013 (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the Credit Agreement), among CECO Environmental Corp., a Delaware corporation (the Company), certain Subsidiaries of the Company party thereto, the Administrative Agent, Bank of America, N.A., as an L/C Issuer and Swing Line Lender, the lenders now or hereafter party thereto (the Lenders) and the other L/C Issuers now or hereafter party thereto, the Lenders and the L/C Issuers have agreed to provide to the Borrowers a revolving credit facility with a letter of credit subfacility and a swing line subfacility, a multicurrency revolving credit facility and a term loan facility.
B. The Pledgor is party to that certain Securities Pledge Agreement dated as of August 27, 2013 (as in effect on the date hereof, the Pledge Agreement), among the Company, certain of its Subsidiaries and the Administrative Agent.
C. The Pledgor has acquired rights in the Pledged Interests (as defined in the Pledge Agreement) listed on Annex A to this Pledge Agreement Supplement (the Additional Interests) and desires to pledge, and evidence its prior pledge, to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties all of the Additional Interests in accordance with the terms of the Credit Agreement and the Pledge Agreement.
In order to induce the Secured Parties to from time to time make and maintain extensions of credit under the Credit Agreement, Cash Management Agreements and Hedge Agreements, the Pledgor hereby agrees as follows:
1. Affirmations. The Pledgor hereby reaffirms and acknowledges the pledge and collateral assignment to, and the grant of security interest in, the Additional Interests contained in the Pledge Agreement and pledges and collaterally assigns to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties, and grants to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties a first priority lien and security interest in, the Additional Interests and all of the following:
(a) all money, securities, security entitlements and other investment property, dividends, rights, general intangibles and other property at any time and from time to time (i) declared or distributed in respect of or in exchange for or on conversion of any or all of the Additional Interests or (ii) by its or their terms exchangeable or exercisable for or convertible into any Additional Interest or other Pledged Interest;
(b) all other property of whatever character or description, including money, securities, security entitlements and other investment property, and general intangibles hereafter delivered to the Administrative Agent in substitution for or as an addition to any of the foregoing;
(c) all securities accounts to which may at any time be credited any or all of the foregoing or any proceeds thereof and all certificates and instruments representing or evidencing any of the foregoing or any proceeds thereof; and
(d) all proceeds of any of the foregoing.
The Pledgor hereby acknowledges, agrees and confirms by its execution of this Pledge Agreement Supplement that the Additional Interests constitute Pledged Interests under and are subject to the Pledge Agreement, and the items of property referred to in clauses (a) through (d) above (the Additional Collateral) shall collectively constitute Collateral under and are subject to the Pledge Agreement. Each of the representations and warranties with respect to Pledged Interests and Collateral contained in the Pledge Agreement is hereby made by the Pledgor with respect to the Additional Interests and the Additional Collateral, respectively. The Pledgor further represents and warrants that Annex A attached to this Pledge Agreement Supplement contains a true, correct and complete description of the Additional Interests, and that all other documents required to be furnished to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 3(c) of the Pledge Agreement in connection with the Additional Collateral have been delivered or are being delivered simultaneously herewith to the Administrative Agent. The Pledgor further acknowledges that Schedule I to the Pledge Agreement shall be deemed, as to it, to be supplemented as of the date hereof to include the Additional Interests as described on Annex A to this Pledge Agreement Supplement.
2. Counterparts. This Pledge Agreement Supplement may be executed in any number of counterparts each of which when so executed and delivered shall be deemed an original, and it shall not be necessary in making proof of this Pledge Agreement Supplement to produce or account for more than one such counterpart executed by the Pledgor. Without limiting the foregoing provisions of this Section 2, the provisions of Section 10.10 of the Credit Agreement shall be applicable to this Pledge Agreement Supplement.
3. Governing Law; Venue; Waiver of Jury Trial. The provisions of Section 26 and 27 of the Pledge Agreement are hereby incorporated by reference as if fully set forth herein.
[Signature page follows.]
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Pledgor has caused this Pledge Agreement Supplement to be duly executed by its authorized officer as of the day and year first above written.
PLEDGOR: | ||
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By: |
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Name: |
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Title: |
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ANNEX A
(to Pledge Agreement Supplement of dated )
Additional Interests
Name of Pledgor |
Name, |
Class or |
Total |
Total |
Total |
Certificate |
Par Value (if |
Name of | ||||||||
EXHIBIT B
FORM OF
PLEDGE JOINDER AGREEMENT
THIS PLEDGE JOINDER AGREEMENT dated as of , 20 (this Pledge Joinder Agreement), is made by , a (the Joining Pledgor), in favor of BANK OF AMERICA, N.A., in its capacity as Administrative Agent (in such capacity, the Administrative Agent) for the Secured Parties (as defined in the Credit Agreement referenced below; all capitalized terms used but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to such terms in the Credit Agreement).
RECITALS:
A. Pursuant to a Credit Agreement dated as of August 27, 2013 (as amended, restated, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the Credit Agreement), among CECO Environmental Corp., a Delaware corporation (the Company), certain Subsidiaries of the Company party thereto, the Administrative Agent, Bank of America, N.A., as an L/C Issuer and Swing Line Lender, the lenders now or hereafter party thereto (the Lenders) and the other L/C Issuers now or hereafter party thereto, the Lenders and the L/C Issuers have agreed to provide to the Borrowers a revolving credit facility with a letter of credit subfacility and a swing line subfacility, a multicurrency revolving credit facility and a term loan facility.
B. The Company, certain of its Subsidiaries and the Administrative Agent, are party to a Securities Pledge Agreement dated as of August 27, 2013 (as in effect on the date hereof, the Pledge Agreement).
C. The Joining Pledgor is a Subsidiary of the Company and is required by the terms of the Credit Agreement to become a Subsidiary Guarantor and be joined as a party to the Pledge Agreement as a Pledgor (as defined in the Pledge Agreement).
D. The Joining Pledgor will materially benefit directly and indirectly from the making and maintenance of the extensions of credit made from time to time under the Credit Agreement, Secured Cash Management Agreements and Secured Hedge Agreements.
In order to induce the Secured Parties to from time to time make and maintain extensions of credit under the Credit Agreement, Secured Cash Management Agreements and Secured Hedge Agreements, the Joining Pledgor hereby agrees as follows:
1. Joinder. The Joining Pledgor hereby irrevocably, absolutely and unconditionally becomes a party to the Pledge Agreement as a Pledgor and bound by all the terms, conditions, obligations, liabilities and undertakings of each Pledgor or to which each Pledgor is subject thereunder, all with the same force and effect as if the Joining Pledgor were a signatory to the Pledge Agreement. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Joining Pledgor hereby grants as collateral security for the payment, performance and satisfaction of all of the Secured Obligations (as defined in the Pledge Agreement), to the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties a first priority security interest in the Pledged Interests (as defined in the
Pledge Agreement) and all other property constituting Collateral (as defined in the Pledge Agreement) of the Joining Pledgor or in which the Joining Pledgor has or may have or acquire an interest or the power to transfer rights therein, whether now owned or existing or hereafter created, acquired or arising and wheresoever located.
2. Affirmations. The Joining Pledgor hereby acknowledges and affirms as of the date hereof with respect to itself, its properties and its affairs, each of the waivers, representations, warranties, acknowledgements and certifications applicable to any Pledgor contained in the Pledge Agreement.
3. Supplemental Schedules. Attached to this Pledge Joinder Agreement are duly completed schedules (the Supplemental Schedules) supplementing as thereon indicated the respective Schedules to the Pledge Agreement. The Joining Pledgor represents and warrants that the information contained on each of the Supplemental Schedules with respect to the Joining Pledgor and its properties and affairs is true, complete and accurate as of its Applicable Date.
4. Severability. If any provision of this Pledge Joinder Agreement is held to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable, (a) the legality, validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Pledge Joinder Agreement shall not be affected or impaired thereby and (b) the parties shall endeavor in good faith negotiations to replace the illegal, invalid or unenforceable provisions with valid provisions the economic effect of which comes as close as possible to that of the illegal, invalid or unenforceable provisions. The invalidity of a provision in a particular jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.
5. Counterparts. This Pledge Joinder Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts each of which when so executed and delivered shall be deemed an original, and it shall not be necessary in making proof of this Pledge Joinder Agreement to produce or account for more than one such counterpart executed by the Joining Pledgor. Without limiting the foregoing provisions of this Section 5, the provisions of Section 10.10 of the Credit Agreement shall be applicable to this Pledge Joinder Agreement.
6. Delivery. The Joining Pledgor hereby irrevocably waives notice of acceptance of this Pledge Joinder Agreement and acknowledges that the Secured Obligations are and shall be deemed to be incurred, and credit extensions under the Loan Documents, Cash Management Agreements and Hedge Agreements made and maintained, in reliance on this Pledge Joinder Agreement and the Joining Pledgors joinder as a party to the Pledge Agreement as herein provided.
7. Governing Law; Venue; Waiver of Jury Trial. The provisions of Section 26 and 27 of the Pledge Agreement are hereby incorporated by reference as if fully set forth herein.
[Signature page follows.]
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the Joining Pledgor has duly executed and delivered this Pledge Joinder Agreement as of the day and year first written above.
JOINING PLEDGOR: | ||
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SUPPLEMENTAL
SCHEDULE I
Pledged Interests
Name of Pledgor |
Name, |
Class or |
Total |
Total |
Total |
Certificate |
Par Value |
Name | ||||||||
Delivered Pursuant to Pledge Joinder Agreement of:
Applicable Date: , 20
SUPPLEMENTAL
SCHEDULE II
Pledgor Information
Name and Address of Pledgor |
Type of Person |
Jurisdiction of of Pledgor |
Jurisdiction Identification |
Address of Chief Executive Office | ||||
Delivered Pursuant to Pledge Joinder Agreement of:
Applicable Date: , 20
Exhibit 10.6
SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED
CECO ENVIRONMENTAL CORP.
2007 EQUITY INCENTIVE PLAN
1. | PURPOSE. |
The purpose of the CECO Environmental Corp. 2007 Equity Incentive Plan (the Plan) is to advance the interests of CECO Environmental Corp. (the Company) and its stockholders by providing Directors, Consultants and those key employees of the Company and its Subsidiaries and Affiliates, upon whose judgment, initiative and efforts the successful conduct of the business of the Company and its Subsidiaries and Affiliates largely depends, with additional incentive to perform in a superior manner. A purpose of the Plan also is to attract and retain personnel of sufficient experience and ability to the service of the Company and its Subsidiaries and Affiliates, and to reward such individuals for achievement of corporate and individual performance goals.
2. | DEFINITIONS. |
(a) Affiliate means an affiliate as that term is defined in Rule 12b-2 of the General Rules and Regulations of the Exchange Act.
(b) Award means a Stock Grant or a grant of Non-statutory Stock Options, Incentive Stock Options or Restricted Stock Units pursuant to the provisions of this Plan.
(c) Board of Directors or Board means the board of directors of the Company.
(d) Code means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.
(e) Change in Control of the Company shall have occurred when (i) any person, as the term is used in Section 3 of the Exchange Act (other than a Company employee benefit plan) is or becomes the beneficial owner as defined in Rule 16a-1 under the Exchange Act, directly or indirectly, of securities of the Company representing 50% or more of the Companys outstanding securities ordinarily having the right to vote in the election of directors; (ii) individuals who constitute the Board (the Incumbent Board), cease for any reason to constitute at least a majority thereof, provided that any person becoming a director subsequent to the date hereof whose election was approved by a vote of at least three-quarters of the directors comprising the Incumbent Board shall be for purposes of this clause (ii) considered as though he or she were a member of the Incumbent Board; (iii) consummation of a plan of reorganization, merger, or consolidation, in which the stockholders of the Company own less than 50% of the outstanding voting securities of the surviving entity; or (iv) a sale of substantially all of the Companys assets, a liquidation or dissolution of the Company or a similar transaction.
(f) Committee means the Compensation Committee of the Board, consisting of two or more Directors appointed by the Board pursuant to Section 3 hereof who are non-employee directors, as defined in Rule 16b-3 promulgated by the SEC under the Exchange Act and outside directors as defined in Treas. Reg. 1.162-27 promulgated under the Code, and if there is no Compensation Committee fitting such requirements, the Committee shall be the Board of Directors of the Company.
(g) Common Stock means the Common Stock of the Company, $.01 par value per share.
(h) Consultant means an individual, corporation, partnership, limited liability company or other entity providing services to the Company, its Subsidiaries or Affiliates in an independent contractor capacity.
(i) Covered Employee means a Participant who is a covered employee within the meaning of Section 162(m) of the Code.
(j) Date of Grant means the date an Award is effective pursuant to the terms hereof.
(k) Director means a Director of the Company or a Subsidiary or Affiliate of the Company who is not also an Employee.
(l) Disability means disability as defined in Code Section 409A.
(m) Employee means any person who is employed by the Company or a Subsidiary or Affiliate of the Company on a full-time or part-time basis.
(n) Exchange Act means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
(o) Fair Market Value shall mean, as of any date, (i) the closing price of the Common Stock on the principal national stock exchange on which the shares are listed on such date or, if shares were not traded on such date, then on the next preceding trading day during which a sale occurred; or (ii) if such stock is not listed on an exchange but is quoted on NASDAQ or a successor quotation system, (1) the last sales price (if the stock is then listed as a National Market Issue under the NASD National Market System) or (2) the mean between the closing representative bid and asked prices (in all other cases) for the stock on such date as reported by NASDAQ or such successor quotation system; or (iii) if such stock is not listed on an exchange and not quoted on NASDAQ or a successor quotation system, the mean between the closing bid and asked prices for the stock on such date as quoted on the OTC Bulletin Board or such other market as the Board deems appropriate to use; or (iv) if the Common Stock is not publicly traded, the fair market value established by the Committee acting in good faith applying a consistent methodology for all Awards, provided such fair market value meets the definition of fair market value for purposes of Code Section 409A.
(p) Incentive Stock Option means an Option granted by the Committee to a Participant, which Option is designated as an Incentive Stock Option pursuant to Section 9 of this Plan.
(q) Investor Relations Activities means any activities, by or on behalf of the Company, that promotes or reasonably could be expected to promote the purchase or sale of securities of the Company, but does not include:
(a) | the dissemination of information provided, or records prepared, in the ordinary course of business of the Company, |
(i) | to promote the sale of products or services of the Company, or |
(ii) | to raise public awareness of the Company, |
that cannot reasonably be considered to promote the purchase or sale of securities of the Company;
(b) | activities or communications necessary to comply with the requirements of, |
(i) | any applicable Securities Laws, or |
(ii) | any requirements of any national or foreign securities exchange or the by-laws, rules or other regulatory instruments of any other self regulatory body or exchange having jurisdiction over the Company; |
(c) | communications by a publisher of, or writer for, a newspaper, magazine or business or financial publication, that is of general and regular paid circulation, distributed only to subscribers to it for value or to purchasers of it, if, |
(i) | the communication is only through the newspaper, magazine or publication, and |
(ii) | the publisher or writer receives no commission or other consideration other than for acting in the capacity of publisher or writer; or |
(d) | activities or communications that may be otherwise specified by any national or foreign securities exchange. |
(r) Non-statutory Stock Option means an Option granted to a Participant and which is not an Incentive Stock Option.
(s) Option means an Award granted under Section 8 or Section 9 of this Plan.
(t) Participant means an Employee of the Company or a Subsidiary or Affiliate chosen by the Committee to participate in the Plan, a Director of the Company or a Subsidiary or Affiliate of the Company chosen by the Committee to participate in the Plan or a Consultant to the Company or a Subsidiary or Affiliate of the Company chosen by the Committee to participate in the Plan.
(u) Regulatory Authorities means all national and foreign securities exchanges, facilities on which the Companys securities are listed or quoted, all federal, state and foreign securities commissions or similar securities regulatory bodies having jurisdiction over the Company and all self-regulatory organizations that have jurisdiction over the Company.
(v) Restricted Stock Unit means an award granted under Section 9A of this Plan.
(w) SEC means the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
(x) Securities Laws means securities legislation, securities laws, securities regulations and securities rules, as amended, and the securities related policies, notices, instruments and orders in force from time to time that govern or are applicable to the Company.
(y) Stock Grant means a grant of shares of Common Stock accompanied by such restrictions as may be determined by the Committee under Section 7 of this Plan.
(z) Subsidiary means a corporation, domestic or foreign, of which not less than 50% of the voting shares are held by the Company or a subsidiary, whether or not such corporation now exists or is hereafter organized or acquired by the Company or a Subsidiary.
(aa) Termination for Misconduct means the termination of a Participant for gross negligence, commission of a felony or material violation of any established Company policies.
3. | ADMINISTRATION. |
3.1 General. The Plan shall be administered by the Committee. The members of the Committee shall be appointed by the Board. The Committee shall act by vote of a majority of its members or unanimous written consent. The Committee is authorized, subject to the provisions of the Plan, to establish such rules and regulations as it deems necessary for the proper administration of the Plan and to make whatever determinations and interpretations in connection with the Plan it deems necessary or advisable with respect to Participants. Subject to the limitations of the Plan and the ultimate authority of the Board, the Committee shall have the sole and complete authority to: (i) select Participants, (ii) grant Options, Stock Grants or Restricted Stock Units to Participants in such forms and amounts as it shall determine, (iii) impose such limitations, restrictions and conditions upon such Options, Stock Grants or Restricted Stock Units as it shall deem appropriate, (iv) interpret the Plan and adopt, amend and rescind administrative guidelines and other rules and regulations relating to the Plan, (v) correct any defect or omission or reconcile any inconsistency in the Plan or in any Option, Stock Grant or Restricted Stock Unit granted hereunder and (vi) make all other determinations and take all other actions necessary or advisable for the implementation and administration of the Plan. All determinations and interpretations made by the Committee shall be binding and conclusive on such Participants and on their legal representatives and beneficiaries. In determining the number of shares of Common Stock to which Options, Stock Grants or Restricted Stock Units relate, fractional shares will be rounded up to the nearest whole number if the fraction is 0.5 or higher, and down if it less.
3.2 Limitation on Liability. No member of the Committee shall be liable for any action or determination made in good faith with respect to the Plan, any rule, regulation or procedure adopted by it pursuant thereto or any Awards granted under it. If a member of the Committee is a party or is threatened to be made a party to any threatened, pending or contemplated action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative, by reason of anything done or not done by him or her in such capacity under or with respect to the Plan, the Company shall indemnify such member against expenses (including attorneys fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by him in connection with such action, suit or proceeding if he or she acted in good faith and in a manner reasonably believed to be in the best interests of the Company, and its Subsidiaries and Affiliates and, with respect to any criminal proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his conduct was unlawful.
4. | TYPES OF AWARDS. |
Awards under the Plan may be granted in any one or a combination of:
(a) Stock Grants;
(b) Non-statutory Stock Options;
(c) Incentive Stock Options; and
(d) Restricted Stock Units
as defined in Sections 7, 8, 9 and 9A of the Plan.
The Committee shall, in its discretion, determine from time to time which Participants will be granted Awards under the Plan, the number of shares of Common Stock subject to each Award, the restrictions, if any, which will be applicable to each Stock Grant or Restricted Stock Unit, whether each Option will be an Incentive Stock Option or a Non-statutory Stock Option (except that Incentive Stock Options may not be awarded to Consultants or Directors), and the exercise price of an Option. In making all such determinations, the Committee shall take into account the duties, responsibilities and performance of each respective Participant, his or her present and potential contributions to the growth and success of the Company, his or her compensation and such other factors as the Committee shall deem relevant to accomplishing the purposes of the Plan; provided that the total aggregate maximum number of shares of Common Stock for which Options, in the aggregate, may be granted to any Covered Employee during any period of twelve consecutive months shall not exceed 800,000 shares and the total aggregate maximum number of shares issued as Stock Grants and Restricted Stock Units that may be granted to any Covered Employee during any period of twelve consecutive months shall not exceed 750,000 shares.
No Participant shall have any voting or dividend rights or other rights of a stockholder in respect of any shares of Common Stock covered by an Option or Restricted Stock Unit prior to the time the shares have been issued to the Participant.
5. | STOCK SUBJECT TO THE PLAN. |
Subject to adjustment as provided in Section 15, the maximum number of shares of Common Stock reserved for Stock Grants and Restricted Stock Units and for purchase pursuant to the exercise of Options granted under the Plan (all of which may be issued pursuant to the exercise of Incentive Stock Options) is three million three hundred thousand (3,300,000) shares of Common Stock.
The shares of Common Stock to be subject to the Plan may be either authorized but unissued shares or shares previously issued and reacquired by the Company. To the extent that the Plan provides for the issuance of stock certificates with respect to Common Stock, the Company may, in lieu thereof, record the shares on a book entry account maintained by the Companys transfer agent. To the extent that Options or Restricted Stock Units are granted and Stock Grants are made under the Plan, the shares underlying such Options, Restricted Stock Units and Stock Grants will be unavailable for future grants under the Plan except that, to the extent that the Options, Restricted Stock Units and Stock Grants granted under the Plan terminate, expire, are canceled or are forfeited without having been exercised, new Awards may be made with respect to such shares.
6. | ELIGIBILITY. |
Officers and other Employees (including Employees who also are Directors of the Company or its Subsidiaries or Affiliates) shall be eligible to receive Stock Grants, Restricted Stock Units, Incentive Stock Options and Non-statutory Stock Options under the Plan. Directors and Consultants shall be eligible to receive Stock Grants, Restricted Stock Units and Non-statutory Stock Options under the Plan.
7. | STOCK GRANTS. |
7.1 General Terms. Each Stock Grant may be accompanied by such restrictions, or may be made without any restrictions, as may be determined in the discretion of the Committee. Such restrictions may include, without limitation, requirements that the Participant remain in the continuous employment of the Company or its Subsidiaries or Affiliates for a specified period of time, or that the Participant meet designated individual performance goals, or that the Company and/or one or more of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates meet designated performance goals.
7.2 Issuance Procedures. A stock certificate representing the number of shares of Common Stock covered by a Stock Grant shall be registered in the Participants name and may be held by the Participant; provided however, if a Stock Grant is subject to certain restrictions, the shares of Common Stock covered by such Stock Grant shall be registered in the Participants name and held in custody by the Company. Unless the Committee determines otherwise, a Participant who has been awarded a Stock Grant shall have the rights and privileges of a stockholder of the Company as to the shares of Common Stock covered by a Stock Grant, including the right to receive dividends and the right to vote such shares. None of the shares of Common Stock covered by the Stock Grant may be sold, transferred, assigned, pledged or otherwise encumbered or disposed of prior to the expiration or satisfaction of any applicable restrictions or performance requirements. All of the shares of Common Stock covered by a Stock Grant shall be forfeited and all rights of a Participant who has been awarded such Stock Grant to such shares shall terminate without further obligation on the part of the Company in the event that any applicable restrictions or performance requirements do not expire or are not satisfied. Upon forfeiture of shares of Common Stock, such shares shall be transferred to the Company without further action by the Participant. Upon the expiration or satisfaction of any applicable restrictions, whether in the ordinary course or under circumstances set forth in Section 7.3, certificates evidencing shares of Common Stock subject to the related Stock Grant shall be delivered to the Participant, or the Participants beneficiary or estate, as the case may be, free of all such restrictions.
7.3 Accelerated Vesting.
(a) Termination of Service. If a Participant terminates service prior to vesting in any Stock Grant, all outstanding unvested Stock Grants shall be forfeited by such Participant; provided, however, that vesting may be accelerated in the sole discretion of the Committee.
(b) Change in Control. The vesting of all or part of an outstanding Stock Grant may be accelerated, in the sole discretion of the Board, in the event there is a Change in Control of the Company.
8. | NON-STATUTORY STOCK OPTIONS. |
8.1 Grant of Non-statutory Stock Options.
(a) Grants to Employees, Consultants and Directors. The Committee may, from time to time, grant Non-statutory Stock Options to Participants.
(b) Terms of Non-Statutory Options. Non-statutory Stock Options granted under this Plan are subject to the following terms and conditions:
(i) Price. The purchase price per share of Common Stock deliverable upon the exercise of each Non-statutory Stock Option shall be determined on the date the option is granted. Such purchase price shall be the Fair Market Value of the Companys Common Stock on the Date of Grant or such greater amount as determined by the Committee; provided, however, that the purchase price of a Non-statutory Stock Option granted under this Plan may be less than the Fair Market Value of the Common Stock on the date of Grant if the Grant: (i) involves the substitution of a Non-statutory Stock Option under this Plan for an outstanding option under another plan pursuant to a corporate transaction; (ii) the requirements of Treas. Reg. 1.424-1 would be met if the Non-statutory Stock Option was an Incentive Stock Option; and (iii) the ratio of the exercise price from the fair market value of the shares subject to the new Non-statutory Stock Option immediately after the substitution is not greater than the ratio of the exercise price to the fair market value of the shares subject to the old Non-statutory Stock Option immediately before the substitution. Shares may be purchased only upon full payment of the purchase price, provided, however, that, if authorized by the Committee, a Participant may exercise an Option through a cashless exercise as permitted by Federal Reserve Board Regulation T and the Company shall make reasonable efforts to facilitate such exercise.
(ii) Terms of Options. The term during which each Non-statutory Stock Option may be exercised shall be ten years from the Date of Grant, or such shorter period determined by the Committee. The Committee shall determine the date on which each Non-statutory Stock Option shall become vested and may provide that a Non-statutory Stock Option shall become vested in installments. The shares comprising each installment may be purchased in whole or in part at any time after such installment becomes vested. The Committee may, in its sole discretion, accelerate the time at which any Non-statutory Stock Option becomes vested in whole or in part.
(iii) Termination of Service. Upon the termination of a Participants service as an Employee, Director or a Consultant for any reason other than death or Disability, Termination for Misconduct, or by order of any Regulatory Authority, the Participants Non-statutory Stock Options shall be exercisable only as to those shares which were vested at the date of termination and only for a period of 90 days following termination unless otherwise determined by the Committee in its sole discretion. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Participant is engaged to provide Investor Relations Activities, and such Participant ceases to be so engaged for any reason other than death or Disability, Termination for Misconduct or by order of any Regulatory Authority, such Participants vested Non-Statutory Stock Options shall be exercisable for a period of 30 days following termination unless the Committee in its sole discretion determines otherwise.
In the event of termination for death or Disability, the Participants Non-statutory Stock Options shall be exercisable only as to those shares which were vested at the date of termination and only for a period of twelve months following termination unless otherwise determined by the Committee in its sole discretion.
In the event of Termination for Misconduct or by order of a Regulatory Authority, all rights under the Participants Non-statutory Stock Options shall expire upon termination of employment.
The vesting of all or a part of a Grant of Non-statutory Stock Options may be accelerated, in the sole discretion of the Board, in the event there is a Change in Control of the Company.
9. | INCENTIVE STOCK OPTIONS. |
9.1 Grant of Incentive Stock Options.
The Committee may, from time to time, grant Incentive Stock Options to Employees. Incentive Stock Options granted pursuant to the Plan shall be subject to the following terms and conditions:
(a) Price. The purchase price per share of Common Stock deliverable upon the exercise of each Incentive Stock Option shall be not less than 100% of the Fair Market Value of the Companys Common Stock on the Date of Grant; provided, however, that the purchase price of an Incentive Stock Option granted under this Plan may be less than the Fair Market Value of the Common Stock on the Date of Grant if the Grant: (i) involves the substitution of an Incentive Stock Option for an outstanding incentive stock option under another plan pursuant to a corporate transaction; and (ii) the requirements of Treas. Reg. 1.424-1 are met with respect to the substitution. However, if a Participant owns Common Stock representing more than 10% of the total combined voting power of all classes of Common Stock of the Company (or under Section 425(d) of the Code is deemed to own Common Stock representing more than 10% of the total combined voting power of all such classes of Common Stock), the purchase price per share of Common Stock deliverable upon the exercise of each Incentive Stock Option shall not be less than 110% of the Fair Market Value of the Companys Common Stock on the Date of Grant. Shares may only be purchased on full payment of the purchase price, provided, however, that, if authorized by the Committee, a Participant may exercise an Option through a cashless exercise as permitted by Federal Reserve Board Regulation T and the Company shall use reasonable efforts to facilitate such exercise.
(b) Amounts of Options. Incentive Stock Options may be granted to any Employee in such amounts as determined by the Committee. In the case of an option intended to qualify as an Incentive Stock Option, the aggregate Fair Market Value (determined as of the time the option is granted) of the Common Stock with respect to which Incentive Stock Options granted are exercisable for the first time by the Participant during any calendar year (under all plans of the Participants employer corporation and its parent and subsidiary corporations) shall not exceed $100,000. The provisions of this Section 9.1(b) shall be construed and applied in accordance with Section 422(d) of the Code and the regulations, if any, promulgated thereunder. To the extent an award under this Section 9.1 exceeds this $100,000 limit, the portion of the award in excess of such limit shall be deemed a Non-statutory Stock Option.
(c) Terms of Options. The term during which each Incentive Stock Option may be exercised shall be determined by the Committee, but in no event shall an Incentive Stock Option be exercisable in whole or in part more than ten years from the Date of Grant. If at the time an Incentive Stock Option is granted to an Employee, the Employee owns Common Stock representing more than 10% of the total combined voting power of the Company (or, under Section 425(d) of the Code, is deemed to own Common Stock representing more than 10% of the total combined voting power of all such classes of Common Stock), the Incentive Stock Option granted to such Employee shall not be exercisable after the expiration of five years from the Date of Grant.
No Incentive Stock Option granted under this Plan is transferable except by will or the laws of descent and distribution and is exercisable in his lifetime only by the Employee to whom it is granted. After death an Incentive Stock Option may be exercised by the beneficiary described in Section 14 below.
The Committee shall determine the date on which each Incentive Stock Option shall become vested and may provide that an Incentive Stock Option shall become vested in installments. The shares comprising each installment may be purchased in whole or in part at any time after such installment becomes vested, provided that the amount able to be first exercised in a given year is consistent with the terms of Section 422 of the Code.
The Committee may, in its sole discretion, accelerate the time at which any Incentive Stock Option becomes vested in whole or in part, provided that it is consistent with the terms of Section 422 of the Code.
(d) Termination of Service. Upon the termination of a Participants service for any reason other than death or Disability, Termination for Misconduct, or by order of a Regulatory Authority, the Incentive Stock Options shall be exercisable only as to those shares which were vested at the date of termination and only for a period of 90 days following termination (unless otherwise determined by the Committee in its sole discretion).
In the event of termination for death or Disability, the Participants Incentive Stock Options shall be exercisable only as to those shares which were vested at the date of termination and only for a period of twelve months following termination unless otherwise determined by the Committee in its sole discretion.
In the event of Termination for Misconduct or by order of a Regulatory Authority, all rights under the Participants Incentive Stock Options shall expire upon termination of employment.
The vesting of all or a part of a Grant of Incentive Stock Options may be accelerated, in the sole discretion of the Board, in the event there is a Change in Control of the Company.
(e) Compliance with Code. The options granted under this Section 9 of the Plan are intended to qualify as incentive stock options within the meaning of Section 422 of the Code, but the Company makes no warranty as to the qualification of any option as an incentive stock option within the meaning of Section 422 of the Code.
9A. | RESTRICTED STOCK UNITS. |
9A.1 Grant of Restricted Stock Units. The Committee may, from time to time and upon such terms and conditions as it may determine, grant Restricted Stock Units to Participants.
9A.2 General Terms. Each Restricted Stock Unit grant will constitute the agreement by the Company to deliver Common Stock or cash to the Participant in the future in consideration of the performance of services, but subject to the fulfillment of such conditions during the period of time that the Restricted Stock Units are subject to restrictions as the Committee may specify. Such restrictions may include, without limitation, requirements that the Participant remain in the continuous employment of the Company or its Subsidiaries or Affiliates for a specified period of time, or that the Participant meet designated individual performance goals, or that the Company and/or one or more of its Subsidiaries or Affiliates meet designated performance goals. Each Restricted Stock Unit grant may be made without additional consideration or in consideration of a payment by such Participant in an amount specified by the Committee.
9A.3 Accelerated Vesting.
(a) Termination of Service. If a Participant terminates service prior to vesting in any Restricted Stock Unit, all outstanding unvested Restricted Stock Units shall be forfeited by such Participant; provided, however, that vesting may be accelerated in the sole discretion of the Committee.
(b) Change in Control. The vesting of all or part of an outstanding Restricted Stock Unit award may be accelerated in the sole discretion of the Board, in the event there is a Change in Control of the Company.
10. | RIGHTS OF A STOCKHOLDER; NO TRANSFERABILITY. |
No Participant shall have any rights as a stockholder with respect to any shares covered by a Non-statutory and/or Incentive Stock Option or a Restricted Stock Unit until the date of issuance of such shares. Nothing in this Plan or in any Award granted confers on any person any right to continue in the employ of the Company or its Affiliates or to continue as a Director of the Company or its Affiliates or to continue as a Consultant to the Company or its Affiliates or interferes in any way with the right of the Company or its Affiliates to terminate a Participants services as an officer, Employee, Consultant or Director at any time.
No Option or other Award granted under this Plan is transferable except by will or the laws of descent and distribution and is exercisable in his or her lifetime only by the Participant to whom it is granted. No Option or other Award (or interest or right therein) may be subject to pledge, encumbrance, assignment, levy, attachment or garnishment.
11. | AGREEMENT WITH GRANTEES. |
Each Award of Options will be evidenced by a written agreement, executed by the Participant and the Company or its Subsidiaries or Affiliates which describes the conditions for receiving the Options including the date of Option Award, the purchase price if any, applicable periods, and any other terms and conditions as may be required by applicable securities law.
The proper officers of the Company shall advise each Participant who is awarded a Stock Grant or a Restricted Stock Unit, in writing, of the number of shares to which it pertains and the terms and conditions and any restrictions or performance requirements applicable to such Stock Grant or Restricted Stock Unit; provided they are not inconsistent with the terms, conditions and provisions of the Plan.
12. | RESTRICTIONS ON SHARES. |
The Committee may require before any shares of Common Stock are issued pursuant to this Plan, that the Participant agrees to subject the shares to such holding periods and restrictions as are determined by the Committee.
13. | DESIGNATION OF BENEFICIARY. |
A Participant may, with the consent of the Committee, designate a person or persons to receive, in the event of death, any Award to which the Participant would then be entitled. Such designation will be made upon forms supplied by and delivered to the Company and may be revoked in writing. If a Participant fails effectively to designate a beneficiary, then the Participants estate will be deemed to be the beneficiary.
14. | ADJUSTMENTS. |
In the event of any change in the outstanding shares of Common Stock of the Company by reason of any stock dividend or split, recapitalization, merger, consolidation, spin-off, reorganization, combination or exchange of shares, or other similar corporate change, or other increase or decrease in such shares without receipt or payment of consideration by the Company, the Committee will make such adjustments to previously granted Awards, to prevent dilution or enlargement of the rights of the Participant, including any or all of the following:
(a) adjustments in the aggregate number or kind of shares of Common Stock which may be awarded under the Plan;
(b) adjustments in the aggregate number or kind of shares of Common Stock covered by Awards already made under the Plan;
(c) adjustments in the purchase price of outstanding Stock Grants, Restricted Stock Units and Incentive and/or Non-statutory Stock Options.
No such adjustments may, however, materially change the value of benefits available to a Participant under a previously granted Award.
15. | WITHHOLDING/GOVERNMENTAL AUTHORITY. |
There may be deducted from each distribution of cash and/or Common Stock under the Plan the amount of tax required by any governmental authority to be withheld or paid. The Company may also require a Participant to take, or the Company may take, any other action as may be required by a governmental authority in connection with any distribution under the Plan and the Company may refrain from making any distributions until such action is taken.
16. | REGISTRATION OF PLAN ON FORM S-8. |
The Company may register the Plan on a Form S-8 and in such event, will take such additional action as is necessary in connection with such registration. The Company may in its sole discretion, however, elect to not register the Plan or to terminate such registration.
17. | TERMINATION AND AMENDMENT OF THE PLAN. |
The Board may at any time, and from time to time, suspend, terminate, modify or amend the Plan in any respect. Except as otherwise provided in Section 14, the Committee and the Company shall not, without obtaining stockholder approval: (a) amend the terms of outstanding Options to reduce the exercise price of such outstanding Options; (b) cancel outstanding Options in exchange for Options with an exercise price that is less than the exercise price of the original Options; or (c) cancel outstanding Options with an exercise price above the current stock price in exchange for cash or other securities.
The Board may determine that stockholder approval of any amendment to this Plan may be advisable for any reason, including but not limited to, for the purpose of obtaining or retaining any statutory or regulatory benefits under tax, securities or other laws or satisfying applicable stock exchange listing requirements.
Such suspension, termination, modification or amendment may not affect the rights of a Participant under an outstanding Award without the Participants consent, except the Board may, in connection with a Change in Control, either: (i) replace the Awards granted under this Plan with substantially similar awards under another plan of another party to the Change in Control; (ii) make a payment to all Participants with respect to Options equal to the difference between the Fair Market Value of the Common Stock on the date of the Change in Control and the exercise price per share of an Option on the Date of Grant in either cash or such consideration as the holders of Common Stock of the Company are receiving in the Change in Control transaction; (iii) upon not less than 7 days written notice to all holders of Options, cause all Options to terminate immediately prior to the effective time of the Change in Control, and if the Board elects, accelerate the Vesting of any or all Options not then vested; or (iv) make a payment to all Participants with respect to Restricted Stock Units equal to the Fair Market Value of the Common Stock subject to such Restricted Stock Units on the date of the Change in Control in either cash or such other consideration as the holders of Common Stock of the Company are receiving in the Change in Control transaction. Options or Restricted Stock Units granted under another plan shall not be substantially similar unless the shares acquired through the exercise of such options or the settlement of such restricted stock units are readily tradable on an established securities market.
No Awards under the Plan shall be granted more than ten (10) years after the Effective Date of the Plan.
18. | EFFECTIVE DATE OF PLAN. |
The Plan shall become effective as of the date that the Plan is approved by the directors of the Company (the Effective Date); provided that the Plan is approved by the Companys stockholders at the next annual meeting of stockholders of the Company and within one (1) year of the Effective Date. The Plan also shall be presented to stockholders of the Company for ratification for purposes of: (i) satisfying one of the requirements of Section 422 of the Code governing the tax treatment for Incentive Stock Options; and (ii) if applicable, establishing or maintaining listing on a stock exchange or system.
19. | APPLICABLE LAW. |
The Plan will be administered in accordance with the laws of the State of Delaware to the extent not preempted by Federal law as now or hereafter in effect.
20. | COMPLIANCE WITH SECTION 16. |
With respect to persons subject to Section 16 of the Exchange Act, transactions under this Plan are intended to comply with all applicable conditions of Rule 16b-3 or its successors under the Exchange Act. To the extent any provision of the Plan or action by the Committee fails to so comply, it shall be deemed null and void, to the extent permitted by law and deemed advisable by the Committee.