Exhibit 10.13
CREDIT AGREEMENT
dated as of October 28, 2020 among
COSMOS FINANCE, LLC,
as the Parent,
COSMOS ACQUISITION, LLC,
as the Lead Borrower,
THE OTHER BORROWERS PARTY HERETO FROM TIME TO TIME,
THE OTHER GUARANTORS PARTY HERETO FROM TIME TO TIME, ADAMS STREET CREDIT ADVISORS LP,
as Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent, and
THE LENDERS PARTY HERETO FROM TIME TO TIME
and
ADAMS STREET CREDIT ADVISORS LP,
as Sole Lead Arranger and Sole Bookrunner
TABLE OF CONTENTS
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ARTICLE I. DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS
Section 1.01. Defined Terms 1
Section 1.02. Other Interpretive Provisions 68
Section 1.03. Accounting Terms 70
Section 1.04. Rounding 70
Section 1.05. References to Agreements, Laws, Etc 70
Section 1.06. Exchange Rates 70
Section 1.07. Compliance with Certain Sections 71
Section 1.08. Times of Day 71
Section 1.09. Timing of Payment or Performance 72
Section 1.10. Cumulative Credit Transactions 72
Section 1.11. Pro Forma Calculations 72
Section 1.12. [Reserved] 75
Section 1.13. Appointment of Lead Borrower 75
Section 1.14. Certifications 75
ARTICLE II. THE COMMITMENTS AND CREDIT EXTENSIONS
Section 2.01. The Loans 75
Section 2.02. Borrowings, Conversions and Continuations of Loans 76
Section 2.03. [Reserved] 78
Section 2.04. [Reserved] 78
Section 2.05. Prepayments 78
Section 2.06. Termination or Reduction of Commitments 89
Section 2.07. Repayment of Loans 90
Section 2.08. Interest 90
Section 2.09. Fees 91
Section 2.10. Computation of Interest and Fees 92
Section 2.11. Evidence of Indebtedness 92
Section 2.12. Payments Generally 92
Section 2.13. Sharing of Payments 94
Section 2.14. Incremental Credit Extensions 95
Section 2.15. Refinancing Amendments 102
Section 2.16. Extension of Term Loans; Extension of Revolving Credit Loans 103
Section 2.17. Defaulting Lenders 106
Section 2.18. Permitted Debt Exchanges 107
ARTICLE III. TAXES, INCREASED COSTS PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY Section 3.01. Taxes 109
Section 3.02. Illegality 112
Section 3.03. Inability to Determine Rates 113
Section 3.04. Increased Cost and Reduced Return; Capital Adequacy; Eurocurrency Rate Loan Reserves 114
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Section 3.05. Funding Losses 115
Section 3.06. Matters Applicable to All Requests for Compensation 115
Section 3.07. Replacement of Lenders under Certain Circumstances 116
Section 3.08. Survival 118
ARTICLE IV. CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO CREDIT EXTENSIONS
Section 4.01. Conditions to Initial Credit Extension 118
Section 4.02. Conditions to All Credit Extensions after the Closing Date 120
Section 5.01. Existence, Qualification and Power; Compliance with Laws 121
Section 5.02. Authorization; No Contravention 121
Section 5.03. Governmental Authorization 121
Section 5.04. Binding Effect 122
Section 5.05. Financial Statements; No Material Adverse Effect 122
Section 5.06. Litigation 123
Section 5.07. Ownership of Real Property; Liens 123
Section 5.08. Environmental Matters 123
Section 5.09. Taxes 124
Section 5.10. ERISA Compliance 124
Section 5.11. Use of Proceeds 124
Section 5.12. Margin Regulations; Investment Company Act 124
Section 5.13. Disclosure 124
Section 5.14. Labor Matters 125
Section 5.15. Intellectual Property; Licenses, Etc 125
Section 5.16. Solvency 125
Section 5.17. USA Patriot Act; OFAC; FCPA 126
Section 5.18. Security Documents 126
Section 6.01. Financial Statements 127
Section 6.02. Certificates; Other Information 130
Section 6.03. Notices 130
Section 6.04. Payment of Taxes 131
Section 6.05. Preservation of Existence, Etc 131
Section 6.06. Maintenance of Properties; Intellectual Property 131
Section 6.07. Maintenance of Insurance 131
Section 6.08. Compliance with Laws 132
Section 6.09. Books and Records 132
Section 6.10. Inspection Rights 132
Section 6.11. Additional Collateral; Additional Borrowers and Guarantors 133
Section 6.12. Compliance with Environmental Laws 135
Section 6.13. Further Assurances; Post Closing Obligations 135
Section 6.14. Designation of Subsidiaries 136
Section 6.15. Use of Proceeds 136
Section 6.16. Lines of Business 136
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Section 6.17. End of Fiscal Years 137
Section 6.18. Lender Meetings 137
Section 6.19. Transactions with Affiliates 137
Section 7.01. Liens 140
Section 7.02. Investments 145
Section 7.03. Indebtedness 149
Section 7.04. Fundamental Changes 154
Section 7.05. Dispositions 155
Section 7.06. Restricted Payments 159
Section 7.07. [Reserved] 163
Section 7.08. [Reserved] 164
Section 7.09. Burdensome Agreements 164
Section 7.10. Amendments or Waivers of Organizational Documents 166
Section 7.11. Financial Covenant 166
Section 7.12. Prepayments, Etc. of Junior Financings 167
Section 7.13. Permitted Activities 168
ARTICLE VIII. EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES
Section 8.01. Events of Default 169
Section 8.02. Remedies Upon Event of Default 171
Section 8.03. Application of Funds 172
Section 8.04. Borrower’s Right to Cure 172
Section 9.01. Appointment and Authority 174
Section 9.02. Rights as a Lender 175
Section 9.03. Exculpatory Provisions 175
Section 9.04. Reliance by Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent 176
Section 9.05. Delegation of Duties 176
Section 9.06. Resignation of Administrative Agent 176
Section 9.07. Non-Reliance on Administrative Agent, Collateral Agent and Other Lenders 178
Section 9.08. No Other Duties, Etc 178
Section 9.09. Administrative Agent May File Proofs of Claim 178
Section 9.10. Collateral and Guaranty Matters 179
Section 9.11. Secured Treasury Services Agreements and Secured Hedge Agreements 180
Section 9.12. Withholding Tax Indemnity 180
Section 10.01. Amendments, Etc 181
Section 10.02. Notices and Other Communications; Facsimile Copies 184
Section 10.03. No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies 186
Section 10.04. Attorney Costs and Expenses 186
Section 10.05. Indemnification by the Borrower 187
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Section 10.06. Payments Set Aside 189
Section 10.07. Successors and Assigns 189
Section 10.08. Confidentiality 198
Section 10.09. Setoff 199
Section 10.10. Interest Rate Limitation 199
Section 10.11. Counterparts 199
Section 10.12. Integration 200
Section 10.13. Survival of Representations and Warranties 200
Section 10.14. Severability 200
Section 10.15. GOVERNING LAW 200
Section 10.16. WAIVER OF RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY 201
Section 10.17. Binding Effect 201
Section 10.18. USA Patriot Act and Beneficial Ownership Regulation Notice 202
Section 10.19. No Advisory or Fiduciary Responsibility 202
Section 10.20. Intercreditor Agreements 202
Section 10.21. Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-In of Affected Financial Institutions 203
Section 10.22. Closing Date Joinder 203
Section 10.23. Acknowledgment Regarding Any Supported QFCs 203
Section 10.24. Benchmark Transition Event 204
Section 11.01. The Guarantee 208
Section 11.02. Obligations Unconditional 208
Section 11.03. Reinstatement 209
Section 11.04. Subrogation; Subordination 209
Section 11.05. Remedies 210
Section 11.06. Instrument for the Payment of Money 210
Section 11.07. Continuing Guarantee 210
Section 11.08. General Limitation on Guarantee Obligations 210
Section 11.09. Release of Guarantors 210
Section 11.10. Right of Contribution 211
Section 11.11. Keepwell 211
Section 11.12. Certain ERISA Matters 211
SCHEDULES
I Guarantors 1.01A Commitments
5.06Litigation
5.07Real Property
5.08Environmental Matters 6.01(a) Auditors
6.13(b) Post Closing Obligations
6.19 Affiliate Transactions 7.01(b) Existing Liens 7.02(f) Existing Investments 7.03(b) Existing Indebtedness 7.05(s) Dispositions
7.09 Burdensome Agreements
10.02 Administrative Agent’s Office, Certain Addresses for Notices EXHIBITS
Form of
ACommitted Loan Notice
B[Reserved]
C-1Term Note
C-2Revolving Credit Note
C-3[Reserved]
C-4Delayed Draw Term Loan Note D-1 Compliance Certificate
D-2 Solvency Certificate
E-1Assignment and Assumption
E-2Sponsor-Controlled Affiliated Lender Notice E-3 Acceptance and Prepayment Notice
E-4 Discount Range Prepayment Notice E-5 Discount Range Prepayment Offer
E-6 Solicited Discounted Prepayment Notice E-7 Solicited Discounted Prepayment Offer E-8 Specified Discount Prepayment Notice
E-9 Specified Discount Prepayment Response F Security Agreement
GIntercompany Note
HUnited States Tax Compliance Certificate
ISponsor-Controlled Affiliated Lender Assignment and Assumption
JJoinder
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CREDIT AGREEMENT
This CREDIT AGREEMENT is entered into as of October 28, 2020, among Cosmos Acquisition, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Buyer” and the “Lead Borrower”), Cosmos Finance, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Parent”), the other Borrowers party hereto from time to time, the other Guarantors party hereto from time to time, Adams Street Credit Advisors LP, as Administrative Agent (in such capacity, including any permitted successors thereto, the “Administrative Agent”) and as Collateral Agent (in such capacity, including any permitted successors thereto, the “Collateral Agent”) and each lender from time to time party hereto (collectively, the “Lenders” and, individually, a “Lender”), and the other Persons party hereto from time to time.
PRELIMINARY STATEMENTS
Pursuant to the Securities Purchase Agreement, dated as of October 28, 2020 (as amended, supplemented, waived or modified from time to time in accordance with the terms herein, the “Acquisition Agreement”), by and among Roccor, LLC, a Colorado limited liability company (the “Target”), the individuals executing a signature page thereto under the header “Sellers” (the “Sellers”), and Douglas Campbell, as representative for the Sellers (the “Sellers’ Representative”), the Buyer will acquire, directly or indirectly, 100% of the issued and outstanding membership interests of the Target (referred to herein, together with its Subsidiaries, as the “Company”) (such acquisition, the “Acquisition”), following which the Company will become a direct or indirect, as applicable, Wholly- owned Subsidiary of the Buyer.
The Lead Borrower has requested that, prior to but substantially simultaneously with the consummation of the Acquisition, the Lenders extend credit to the Lead Borrower in the form of Initial Term Loans (as this and other capitalized terms used in these preliminary statements are defined in Section 1.01 below), Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments and Revolving Credit Commitments on the Closing Date.
The proceeds of the Initial Term Loans and, if applicable, the Revolving Credit Loans, together with cash on hand, will be used on the Closing Date (i) to fund the Acquisition, (ii) to pay fees and expenses incurred in connection with the Transactions, and (iii) to fund working capital needs, including the payment of any working capital adjustment pursuant to the Acquisition Agreement.
The applicable Lenders have indicated their willingness to lend on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth herein.
In consideration of the mutual covenants and agreements herein contained, the parties hereto covenant and agree as follows:
ARTICLE I.
DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS
Section 1.01. Defined Terms.
As used in this Agreement, the following terms shall have the meanings set forth below: “Acceptable Discount” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a)(v)(D)(2).
“Acceptable Prepayment Amount” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a)(v)(D)(3).
“Acceptance and Prepayment Notice” means a written notice of the Lead Borrower’s acceptance
of the Acceptable Discount in substantially the form of Exhibit E-3.
“Acceptance Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a)(v)(D)(2).
“Acquisition” has the meaning set forth in the preliminary statements to this Agreement.
“Acquisition Agreement” has the meaning set forth in the preliminary statements to this Agreement.
“Additional Lender” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.14(c).
“Additional Refinancing Lender” means, at any time, any bank, financial institution or other institutional lender or investor (other than any such bank, financial institution or other institutional lender or investor that is a Lender at such time) that agrees to provide any portion of Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness pursuant to a Refinancing Amendment in accordance with Section 2.15 (including any Sponsor-Controlled Affiliated Lender); provided that each Additional Refinancing Lender shall be subject to the approval of (i) the Administrative Agent, such approval not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned, denied or delayed, and solely to the extent such consent would be required pursuant to Section 10.07 with respect to an assignment to such Person, to the extent that each such Additional Refinancing Lender is not then an existing Lender, an Affiliate of a then existing Lender, an Approved Fund, or (subject to the same restrictions set forth in Section 10.07(k) as it would otherwise be subject to with respect to any assignment to such a Sponsor-Controlled Affiliated Lender of Initial Term Loans) a Sponsor-Controlled Affiliated Lender and (ii) the Lead Borrower.
“Administrative Agent” means Adams Street Credit Advisors LP in its capacity as administrative agent under any of the Loan Documents, or any successor administrative agent, pursuant to Section 9.06.
“Administrative Agent’s Office” means the Administrative Agent’s address and account as set forth on Schedule 10.02, or such other address or account as the Administrative Agent may from time to time notify the Lead Borrower and the Lenders.
“Administrative Questionnaire” means an Administrative Questionnaire in a form supplied by the Administrative Agent.
“Affected Class” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.07(a).
“Affiliate” means, with respect to any Person, another Person that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediaries, Controls or is Controlled by or is under common Control with the Person specified.
“Agent-Related Persons” means the Agents, together with their respective Affiliates, officers, directors, employees, partners, agents, advisors and other representatives.
“Agents” means, collectively, the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, the Lead Arranger and the Bookrunner.
“Aggregate Commitments” means the Commitments of all the Lenders.
“Agreement” means this Credit Agreement, as the same may be amended, restated, amended and restated, supplemented, extended, refinanced or otherwise modified from time to time.
“AHYDO Payment” shall mean any mandatory prepayment or redemption pursuant to the terms of any Indebtedness, in an amount not to exceed the minimum amount necessary to cause such Indebtedness not to be treated as an “applicable high yield discount obligation” within the meaning of Code Section 163(i).
“All-In Yield” shall mean, as to any Indebtedness, the effective yield on such Indebtedness in the reasonable determination of the Administrative Agent and consistent with generally accepted financial practices, taking into account the applicable interest rate margins and any amendments to the interest rate margin on the applicable Indebtedness that became effective subsequent to the Closing Date but prior to the applicable date of determination, any interest rate floors, or similar devices and all fees, including upfront or similar fees or original issue discount (amortized over the shorter of (i) the remaining Weighted Average Life to Maturity of such Indebtedness and (ii) the four years following the date of incurrence thereof) payable generally to all Lenders or other institutions providing such Indebtedness, but excluding any arrangement, underwriting, structuring, ticking, syndication, amendment, consent, unused line, commitment fees and other similar fees payable in connection therewith and other fees payable in connection therewith that are not generally paid to all relevant lenders providing Indebtedness of such type and, if applicable, consent fees for an amendment paid generally to consenting lenders; provided that, for purposes of determining the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of the applicable Indebtedness, the effects of any prepayments or amortization made on such applicable Indebtedness prior to the date of the applicable modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal, replacement or extension shall be disregarded; provided, further, that if the applicable Indebtedness includes an interest rate floor greater than the applicable interest rate floor under the existing Indebtedness, such differential between the interest rate floors shall be equated to the applicable interest rate margin for purposes of determining whether an actual increase to the interest rate margin under the existing Indebtedness shall be required, but only to the extent an increase in the interest rate floor under the existing Indebtedness would cause an increase in the interest rate then in effect thereunder, and in such case the interest rate floor (but not the interest rate margin) applicable to the existing Indebtedness shall be increased to the extent of such differential between interest rate floors.
“Alternative Interest Rate Election Event” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.03(b).
“Anti-Terrorism Laws” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 5.17(a).
“Applicable Asset Sale Percentage” means, for any Disposition, 100%. “Applicable Discount” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a)(v)(C)(2).
“Applicable ECF Percentage” means, for any fiscal year, (a) 50%, if the Consolidated Senior Secured Net Leverage Ratio (determined on a Pro Forma Basis in accordance with Section 1.11) as of the last day of such fiscal year is greater than 4.00 to 1.00, (b) 25%, if the Consolidated Senior Secured Net Leverage Ratio (determined on a Pro Forma Basis in accordance with Section 1.11) as of the last day of such fiscal year is less than or equal to 4.00 to 1.00 and greater than 3.50 to 1.00, and (c) 0%, if the Consolidated Senior Secured Net Leverage Ratio (determined on a Pro Forma Basis in accordance with Section 1.11) as of the last day of such fiscal year is less than or equal to 3.50 to 1.00.
“Applicable Rate” means a percentage per annum equal to:
(a)with respect to Initial Term Loans and Delayed Draw Term Loans, (A) for Eurocurrency Rate Loans, 6.00% per annum and (B) for Base Rate Loans, 5.00% per annum; and
(b)with respect to Revolving Credit Loans and unused Revolving Credit Commitments, (A) for Eurocurrency Rate Loans, 6.00% per annum, (B) for Base Rate Loans, 5.00% per
annum and
(c)in the case of the undrawn commitment fees for the Revolving Credit Commitments, 0.50% per annum.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, (v) the Applicable Rate in respect of any Class of Extended Revolving Credit Commitments or any Extended Term Loans or Revolving Credit Loans made pursuant to any Extended Revolving Credit Commitments shall be the applicable percentages per annum set forth in the relevant Extension Amendment, (w) the Applicable Rate in respect of any Revolving Commitment Increase, any Class of Incremental Term Loans or any Class of Incremental Revolving Loans shall be the applicable percentages per annum set forth in the relevant Incremental Amendment, (x) the Applicable Rate in respect of any Class of Replacement Term Loans shall be the applicable percentages per annum set forth in the relevant agreement, (y) the Applicable Rate in respect of any Class of Refinancing Revolving Credit Commitments, any Class of Refinancing Revolving Credit Loans or any Class of Refinancing Term Loans shall be the applicable percentages per annum set forth in the relevant agreement and (z) in the case of the Initial Term Loans, the Applicable Rate shall be increased as, and to the extent, necessary to comply with the provisions of Section 2.14.
“Appropriate Lender” means, at any time, with respect to Loans of any Class, the Lenders of such
Class.
“Approved Fund” means, with respect to any Lender, any Fund that is administered, advised or managed by (a) a Lender, (b) an Affiliate of a Lender or (c) an entity or an Affiliate of an entity that administers, advises or manages a Lender.
“Assignee” has the meaning set forth in Section 10.07(b).
“Assignment and Assumption” means an Assignment and Assumption substantially in the form of Exhibit E-1 hereto, or such other form approved by the Administrative Agent.
“Assignment Taxes” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.01(b).
“Attorney Costs” means and includes all reasonable and documented fees, out-of-pocket expenses and disbursements of (i) one primary external counsel, (ii) if reasonably necessary, one external local counsel in each relevant material jurisdiction, (iii) in the case of an actual or perceived conflict of interest, one firm of counsel for each group of similarly affected parties, and (iv) other external counsel otherwise retained with the Lead Borrower’s prior written consent.
“Attributable Indebtedness” means, on any date, in respect of any Capitalized Lease of any Person, the capitalized amount thereof that would appear on a balance sheet of such Person prepared as of such date in accordance with GAAP.
“Auction Agent” means (a) the Administrative Agent or (b) any other financial institution or advisor employed by the Lead Borrower or any Subsidiary (whether or not an Affiliate of the Administrative Agent) to act as an arranger in connection with any Discounted Term Loan Prepayment pursuant to Section 2.05(a)(v) or as an arranger in connection with any Permitted Debt Exchange pursuant to Section 2.18; provided that the Lead Borrower shall not designate the Administrative Agent as the Auction Agent without the written consent of the Administrative Agent (it being understood that the Administrative Agent shall be under no obligation to agree to act as the Auction Agent).
“Bail-In Action” shall mean the exercise of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by the
applicable Resolution Authority in respect of any liability of an Affected Financial Institution.
“Bail-In Legislation” shall mean (i) with respect to any EEA Member Country implementing Article 55 of Directive 2014/59/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union, the implementing law, regulation, rule or requirement for such EEA Member Country from time to time which is described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule and (ii) with respect to the United Kingdom, Part I of the United Kingdom Banking Act 2009 (as amended from time to time) and any other law, regulation or rule applicable in the United Kingdom relating to the resolution of unsound or failing banks, investment firms or other financial institutions or their affiliates (other than through liquidation, administration or other insolvency proceedings).
“Base Rate” means for any day a fluctuating rate per annum equal to the highest of (a) the Federal Funds Rate plus 0.50%, (b) the Prime Rate in effect on such day and (c) the one-month Eurocurrency Rate plus 1.00% (or, if such day is not a Business Day, the immediately preceding Business Day).
“Base Rate Loan” means a Loan that bears interest based on the Base Rate.
“Beneficial Ownership Certification” means a certification regarding beneficial ownership as required by the Beneficial Ownership Regulation.
“Beneficial Ownership Regulation” means 31 C.F.R. § 1010.230.
“Benefit Plan” means any of (a) an “employee benefit plan” (as defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) that is subject to Title I of ERISA, (b) a “plan” as defined in and subject to Section 4975 of the Code or (c) any Person whose assets include (for purposes of ERISA Section 3(42) or otherwise for purposes of Title I of ERISA or Section 4975 of the Code) the assets of any such “employee benefit plan” or “plan”.
“BHC Act Affiliate” of a party means an “affiliate” (as such term is defined under, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 U.S.C. 1841(k)) of such party.
“Bookrunner” means Adams Street Credit Advisors LP, in its capacity as the sole bookrunner. “Borrower” shall mean, as the context may require, (a) the Lead Borrower and (b) thereafter, each
Restricted Subsidiary of the Parent that is a Wholly-owned Material Domestic Subsidiary that shall have become a Borrower pursuant to Section 6.11. For the avoidance of doubt, the Lead Borrower may (subject to clause (b) and (f) of the “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement”) elect to cause any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Borrower or a Guarantor to cease to be an Excluded Subsidiary and to become a Borrower by causing such Restricted Subsidiary to execute a joinder to this Agreement substantially in the form attached as Exhibit J or in another form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Lead Borrower and causing such Restricted Subsidiary to satisfy the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement, and any such Restricted Subsidiary shall be a Borrower and a Loan Party hereunder for all purposes (it being understood and agreed that no Foreign Subsidiary may become a “Borrower”).
“Borrower Materials” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.01.
“Borrower Offer of Specified Discount Prepayment” means the offer by any Company Party to make a voluntary prepayment of Term Loans at a Specified Discount to par pursuant to Section 2.05(a)(v)(B).
“Borrower Solicitation of Discounted Prepayment Offers” means the solicitation by any Company Party of offers for, and the subsequent acceptance, if any, by a Lender of, a voluntary prepayment
of Term Loans at a discount to par pursuant to Section 2.05(a)(v)(D).
“Borrower Solicitation of Discount Range Prepayment Offers” means the solicitation by any Company Party of offers for, and the corresponding acceptance by a Lender of, a voluntary prepayment of Term Loans at a specified range of discounts to par pursuant to Section 2.05(a)(v)(C).
“Borrowing” means a Revolving Credit Borrowing or a Term 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 of New York, and, if such day relates to any Eurocurrency Rate Loan, means any such day that is also a London Banking Day.
“Buyer” has the meaning set forth in the preliminary statements to this Agreement.
“Capital Expenditures” means, for any period, the aggregate of all expenditures (whether paid in cash or accrued as liabilities and including in all events all amounts expended or capitalized under Capitalized Leases) by the Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries during such period that, in conformity with GAAP, are or are required to be included as capital expenditures on the consolidated statement of cash flows of the Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries.
“Capitalized Leases” means, subject to Section 1.03, all leases that have been or are required to be, in accordance with GAAP, recorded as financing leases; provided that for all purposes hereunder the amount of obligations under any Capitalized Lease shall be the amount thereof accounted for as a liability in accordance with GAAP; provided further, that all leases of any Person that are or would be characterized as operating leases in accordance with GAAP on December 31, 2019 (whether or not such operating leases were in effect on such date) shall continue to be accounted for as operating leases (and not as Capitalized Leases) for purposes of this Agreement regardless of any change in GAAP following December 31, 2019 that would otherwise require such leases to be recharacterized as Capitalized Leases.
“Capitalized Software Expenditures” means, for any period, the aggregate of all expenditures (whether paid in cash or accrued as liabilities) by a Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries during such period in respect of purchased software or internally developed software and software enhancements that, in conformity with GAAP, are or are required to be reflected as capitalized costs on the consolidated balance sheet of a Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries.
“Cash Equivalents” means any of the following types of Investments, to the extent owned by the Parent or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Parent:
(a)Dollars, Euros, Pounds Sterling, Canadian Dollars, Mexican Pesos, Singapore Dollars or any national currency of any Participating Member State in the European Union or local currencies held from time to time in the ordinary course of business,
(b)readily marketable securities issued or directly and fully and unconditionally guaranteed or insured by the United States government or any country that is a member state of the European Union or any agency or instrumentality thereof the securities of which are unconditionally guaranteed as a full faith and credit obligation of such government with maturities of 24 months or less from the date of acquisition,
(c)certificates of deposit, time deposits, and eurodollar time deposits with maturities of one year or less from the date of acquisition, demand deposits, bankers’ acceptances with maturities not
exceeding one year, and overnight bank deposits, in each case with any commercial bank having capital and surplus of not less than $250,000,000 in the case of U.S. banks and $100,000,000 (or the equivalent thereof as of the date of determination) in the case of foreign banks,
(d)repurchase obligations for underlying securities of the types described in clauses
(b)and (c) above and clause (h) below entered into with any financial institution meeting the qualifications specified in clause (c) above,
(e)commercial paper rated at least P-2 (or the equivalent thereof) by Moody’s or at least A-2 (or the equivalent thereof) by S&P and in each case maturing within 12 months after the date of creation thereof,
(f)marketable short-term money market and similar securities having a rating of at least P-2 or A-2 (or, in either case, the equivalent thereof) from either Moody’s or S&P, respectively (or, if at any time neither Moody’s nor S&P shall be rating such obligations, an equivalent rating from another nationally recognized ratings agency), and in each case maturing within 12 months after the date of creation or acquisition thereof,
(g)readily marketable direct obligations issued by any state, commonwealth, or territory of the United States or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof having one of the two highest rating categories obtainable from either Moody’s or S&P with maturities of 24 months or less from the date of acquisition,
(h)Indebtedness or preferred Equity Interests issued by Persons with a rating of “A” (or the equivalent thereof) or higher from S&P or “A2” (or the equivalent thereof) or higher from Moody’s with maturities of 24 months or less from the date of acquisition,
(i)solely with respect to any Foreign Subsidiary: (i) obligations of the national government of the country in which such Foreign Subsidiary maintains its chief executive office and principal place of business; provided such country is a member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, in each case, maturing within one year after the date of investment therein,
(ii) certificates of deposit of, bankers acceptances of, or time deposits with, any commercial bank which is organized and existing under the laws of the country in which such Foreign Subsidiary maintains its chief executive office and principal place of business provided such country is a member of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, and whose short-term commercial paper rating from S&P is at least “A-2” or the equivalent thereof or from Moody’s is at least “P-2” or the equivalent thereof (any such bank being an “Approved Foreign Bank”), and, in each case, with maturities of not more than 24 months from the date of acquisition and (iii) the equivalent of demand deposit accounts which are maintained with an Approved Foreign Bank, in each case, customarily used by entities for cash management purposes in any jurisdiction outside the United States to the extent reasonably required in connection with any business conducted by such Foreign Subsidiary organized in such jurisdiction,
(j)in the case of investments by any Foreign Subsidiary or investments made in a country outside the United States, Cash Equivalents shall also include investments of the type and maturity described in clauses (a) through (i) above of foreign obligors to the extent such investments are necessary or useful for the business of such Person, which investments have ratings, described in such clauses or equivalent ratings from comparable foreign rating agencies, and
(k)investment funds investing all or substantially all of their assets in securities of the types described in clauses (a) through (i) above.
Notwithstanding the foregoing, Cash Equivalents shall include amounts denominated in currencies other than those set forth in clause (a) above; provided that such amounts are converted into any currency listed in clause (a) as promptly as practicable and in any event within ten (10) Business Days following the receipt of such amounts.
“Cash Management Obligations” means obligations owed by any Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary to any Hedge Bank in respect of any Cash Management Services, in each case, pursuant to a Treasury Services Agreement, and solely to the extent designated by the Lead Borrower and such Hedge Bank as “Cash Management Obligations” in writing to the Administrative Agent (but subject, in any event, to the limitations set forth in the definition of “Hedge Bank”). The designation of any Cash Management Obligations shall not create in favor of such Hedge Bank any rights in connection with the management or release of any Collateral or of the obligations of any Guarantor under the Loan Documents.
“Cash Management Services” shall mean any one or more of the following types of services or facilities: (a) ACH transactions; (b) treasury and/or cash management services, including controlled disbursement services, depository, overdraft and electronic funds transfer services, return items and purchasing card services (including all “P-Card” arrangements); (c) foreign exchange facilities; (d) deposit and other accounts; (e) merchant services (other than those constituting a line of credit); (f) provision of performance bonds; and (g) credit card processing, credit or debit card services. For the avoidance of doubt, Cash Management Services do not include Hedging Obligations.
“Casualty Event” means any event that gives rise to the receipt by any Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of any insurance proceeds or condemnation awards in respect of any equipment, fixed assets or real property (including any improvements thereon) to replace or repair such equipment, fixed assets or real property.
“CFC” shall mean a “controlled foreign corporation” within the meaning of Section 957 of the
Code.
“CFC Holding Company” shall mean a Subsidiary of the Parent that has no material assets other than (a) the equity interests (including, for this purpose, any debt or other instrument treated as equity for
U.S.federal income tax purposes), or equity interests and indebtedness, in one or more Foreign Subsidiaries, each of which is a CFC, and/or one or more CFC Holding Companies and (b) cash, Cash Equivalents and other assets being held incidental to the holding of assets described in clause (a) of this definition (excluding for purposes of this determination any indebtedness of such Foreign Subsidiaries).
“Change of Control” shall be deemed to occur if:
(a)at any time prior to a Qualified IPO, any combination of Permitted Holders shall fail to own beneficially (within the meaning of Rule 13d-5 of the Exchange Act as in effect on the Closing Date), directly or indirectly, in the aggregate Equity Interests representing at least a majority of the aggregate ordinary voting power represented by the issued and outstanding Equity Interests of Parent; or
(b)at any time after a Qualified IPO, any person or “group” (within the meaning of Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act as in effect on the Closing Date), but excluding (w) any employee benefit plan of such person and its Subsidiaries and any Person or entity acting in its capacity as trustee, agent or other fiduciary or administrator of any such plan, (x) any combination of Permitted Holders, (y) any one or more direct or indirect parent companies of the Lead Borrower and in which there is no Person or “group” (other than any persons described in the preceding clause (x)), and (z) any one or more direct or indirect parent companies of Parent in which the Sponsor, directly or indirectly, owns the largest percentage of such parent company’s voting Equity Interests, shall have, directly or indirectly,
acquired beneficial ownership of Equity Interests representing 40% or more of the aggregate voting power represented by the issued and outstanding Equity Interests of the Relevant Public Company and the Permitted Holders shall own, directly or indirectly, less than such person or “group” of the aggregate voting power represented by the issued and outstanding Equity Interests of the Relevant Public Company; or
(c)a “change of control” (or similar event) shall occur in any document entered into in connection with Other Term Loans, Other Notes or Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness or Permitted Ratio Debt (or any Permitted Refinancing of any of the foregoing), in each case, with an aggregate outstanding principal amount in excess of the Threshold Amount and secured on a pari passu or junior basis to the Obligations; or
(d)prior to a Qualified IPO, Parent (or New Parent) shall cease to own, directly or indirectly, 100% of the Equity Interests of the Lead Borrower,
unless, in the case of clause (a) or clause (b) of this definition of “Change of Control”, the Permitted Holders have, at such time, the right or the ability by voting power, contract, or otherwise to elect or designate for election at least a majority of the board of directors (or analogous governing body) of Parent or the Relevant Public Company, as applicable.
Notwithstanding the preceding or any provision of Rule 13d-3 of the Exchange Act (or any successor provision), a Person or group shall not be deemed to beneficially own securities subject to an equity or asset purchase agreement, merger agreement or similar agreement (or voting or option or similar agreement related thereto) until the consummation of the transactions contemplated by such agreement.
“Class” (a) when used with respect to any Lender, refers to whether such Lender has a Loan or Commitment with respect to a particular Class of Loans or Commitments, (b) when used with respect to Commitments, refers to whether such Commitments are Revolving Credit Commitments, Extended Revolving Credit Commitments of a given Extension Series, Refinancing Revolving Credit Commitments of a given Refinancing Series, Initial Term Commitments, Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments, Incremental Term Commitments, Refinancing Term Commitments of a given Refinancing Series or Commitments in respect of Replacement Term Loans, and (c) when used with respect to Loans or a Borrowing, refers to whether such Loans, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, are Revolving Credit Loans, Revolving Credit Loans under Extended Revolving Credit Commitments of a given Extension Series, Incremental Revolving Loans, Revolving Credit Loans under Refinancing Revolving Credit Commitments of a given Refinancing Series, Initial Term Loans, Delayed Draw Term Loans, Extended Term Loans of a given Extension Series, Incremental Term Loans, Refinancing Term Loans of a given Refinancing Series or Replacement Term Loans. Commitments (and in each case, the Loans made pursuant to such Commitments) that have different terms and conditions shall be construed to be in different Classes. Commitments (and, in each case, the Loans made pursuant to such Commitments) that have the same terms and conditions shall be construed to be in the same Class.
“Closing Date” means October 28, 2020.
“Closing Date Financial Statements” means the reviewed consolidated balance sheets of the Company (as defined in the Acquisition Agreement) as of and for the periods ended (as applicable) December 31, 2018 and December 31, 2019, and the related reviewed statements of income, owners’ equity and cash flows (or the equivalent) for the fiscal year then ended.
“Code” means the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, and the United States Treasury Regulations promulgated thereunder, as amended from time to time (unless as specifically provided otherwise).
“Collateral” means the “Collateral” (or any comparable term) as defined in the Security Agreement and all the “Collateral” or “Pledged Assets” (or comparable terms) as defined in any other Collateral Document and any other assets pledged pursuant to any Collateral Document (but, in any event, excluding the Excluded Assets).
“Collateral Agent” means Adams Street Credit Advisors LP in its capacity as collateral agent under the Loan Documents and its successors and permitted assigns.
“Collateral and Guarantee Requirement” means, at any time, the requirement that:
(a)the Administrative Agent shall have received each Collateral Document required to be delivered (i) on the Closing Date, pursuant to Section 4.01(a)(iv) and (ii) at such time as may be designated therein, pursuant to the Collateral Documents or Sections 6.11 or 6.13, subject, in each case, and as applicable, to the limitations and exceptions of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, if applicable, duly executed by each Loan Party a party thereto;
(b)all Obligations shall have been unconditionally guaranteed by the Parent, each Borrower (other than with respect to the Obligations of such Borrower) and each existing and subsequently acquired or organized (including, without limitation, by division) Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is a direct or indirect Wholly-owned Material Domestic Subsidiary (other than any Excluded Subsidiary) and not designated as a Borrower hereunder, including those that are listed on Schedule I hereto; provided that the Lead Borrower may, in its sole discretion, designate any Restricted Subsidiary that is an Excluded Subsidiary as a Guarantor (or, if a Wholly-owned Material Domestic Subsidiary, a Borrower) in accordance with the definition of “Guarantor” (or “Borrower”, if applicable); provided that no Foreign Subsidiary shall become a Borrower or a Guarantor unless such security documents and other actions reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent and consistent with the market in such jurisdiction in respect of security and this Agreement (within such time periods as the Administrative Agent may agree in its reasonable discretion) shall have been delivered and/or taken to create and perfect the Liens on the Equity Interests and substantially all assets of such Foreign Subsidiary in its jurisdiction of organization;
(c)the Obligations and the Guaranty shall have been secured by a first-priority security interest (subject to Liens permitted by Section 7.01) in (i) all of the Equity Interests of the Lead Borrower, of each other Borrower and of each Subsidiary Guarantor (if directly owned by a Loan Party),
(ii) all of the Equity Interests of each Wholly-owned Restricted Subsidiary that is a Material Subsidiary (other than a Domestic Subsidiary described in the following clause (iii) or a Foreign Subsidiary described in clause (iv) below) directly owned by the Parent, the Lead Borrower, any other Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor, (iii) 65% of the issued and outstanding voting Equity Interests and 100% of the non- voting Equity Interests of each Restricted Subsidiary that is a Wholly-owned Material Domestic Subsidiary and constitutes a CFC Holding Company that is directly owned by the Parent, the Lead Borrower, any other Borrower or by any Subsidiary Guarantor (other than, for the avoidance of doubt, in each case, any Domestic Subsidiary of any Foreign Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is a CFC or of any Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is a CFC Holding Company) and (iv) 65% of the issued and outstanding voting Equity Interests and 100% of the non-voting Equity Interests of each Restricted Subsidiary that is a Wholly-owned Material Foreign Subsidiary that is a CFC or CFC Holding Company and directly owned by Parent, the Lead Borrower, any other Borrower or by any Subsidiary Guarantor, in each case other than any Excluded Pledged Subsidiary;
(d)except to the extent otherwise provided hereunder, including subject to Liens permitted by Section 7.01, or under any Collateral Document, the Obligations and the Guaranty shall have been secured by a perfected first-priority security interest (to the extent such security interest may be perfected by delivering certificated securities or instruments, filing financing statements under the Uniform
Commercial Code or making any necessary filings with the United States Patent and Trademark Office or United States Copyright Office or as required in the Security Agreement) in substantially all assets of the Lead Borrower, each other Borrower and each Guarantor (including accounts, inventory, equipment, investment property, contract rights, applications and registrations of intellectual property filed in the United States, other general intangibles, Material Real Property, material intercompany notes, cash, deposit accounts, securities accounts and proceeds of the foregoing), in each case, (i) with the priority required by the Collateral Documents and (ii) subject to exceptions and limitations otherwise set forth in this Agreement (for the avoidance of doubt, including the limitations and exceptions set forth in Section 4.01) and the Collateral Documents;
(e)with respect to Material Real Property, the Administrative Agent shall have received on or before the date required to be delivered pursuant to Section 6.11 or Section 6.13 (after giving effect to any extension by the Administrative Agent) (i) counterparts of a Mortgage with respect to each Material Real Property required to be delivered pursuant to Sections 6.11 and 6.13 (the “Mortgaged Properties”) duly executed and delivered by the applicable Loan Party, (ii) a policy or policies (or an unconditional binding commitment therefor to be replaced by a final title policy) of title insurance issued by a nationally recognized title insurance company, in such amounts as are customary or otherwise reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent not to exceed the Fair Market Value of the applicable Mortgaged Property, insuring the Lien of each Mortgage as a valid first Lien on the Mortgaged Property described therein, free of any other Liens except as permitted by Section 7.01 or as otherwise permitted by the Administrative Agent and otherwise in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the Lead Borrower, together with such endorsements, coinsurance and reinsurance as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request but only to the extent such endorsements are (x) available in the relevant jurisdiction (provided that in no event shall the Administrative Agent request a creditors’ rights endorsement) and (y) at commercially reasonable rates (the “Mortgage Policies”), (iii) a completed Life- of-Loan Federal Emergency Management Agency Standard Flood Hazard Determination with respect to each Mortgaged Property (together with a notice about special flood hazard area status and flood disaster assistance duly executed by the Lead Borrower and each Loan Party relating thereto) and, if any improvements on any Mortgaged Property are located within an area designated a “flood hazard area”, evidence of such flood insurance as may be required under Section 6.07, (iv) ALTA surveys in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld, delayed, denied or conditioned) or such existing surveys together with no-change affidavits sufficient for the title company to remove all standard survey exceptions from the Mortgage Policies and issue the endorsements required in clause (ii) above and (v) to the extent reasonably requested, such customary legal opinions and other documents as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request with respect to any such Mortgaged Property; and
(f)in the case of any Foreign Subsidiary that the Lead Borrower has elected to become a Borrower or a Guarantor in accordance with clause (b) above and Section 6.11, the Administrative Agent shall have received such other customary Collateral Documents as it shall reasonably require to provide and perfect Liens on the Equity Interests and property of such Foreign Subsidiary constituting Collateral for the benefit of the Secured Parties securing the Secured Obligations on a basis substantially comparable to the Liens on the Collateral for the benefit of the Secured Parties securing the Secured Obligations granted by Borrowers and Guarantors that are not Foreign Subsidiaries, in each case, as mutually reasonably agreed by the Lead Borrower and the Administrative Agent and taking into account applicable foreign law and local market custom;
provided, however, that (i) the foregoing definition (other than as expressly set forth in clauses (b) and (f) above) shall not require, and the Loan Documents shall not contain any requirements as to, the creation or perfection of pledges of, security interests in, Mortgages on, or the obtaining of title insurance, surveys, abstracts or appraisals or taking other actions with respect to any Excluded Assets and (ii) the Liens required
to be granted from time to time pursuant to the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement shall be subject to exceptions and limitations set forth in this Agreement and the Collateral Documents.
The Administrative Agent may grant extensions of time for the perfection of security interests in, or the delivery of the Collateral Documents and the obtaining of title insurance and surveys with respect to, particular assets and the delivery of assets (including extensions beyond the Closing Date for the perfection of security interests in the assets of the Loan Parties on such date) or any other compliance with the requirements of this definition where it reasonably determines, in consultation with the Lead Borrower, that perfection or compliance cannot be accomplished without undue effort or expense by the time or times at which it would otherwise be required by this Agreement, the Collateral Documents or any other Loan Documents.
Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, if the Lead Borrower and the Collateral Agent mutually agree in their reasonable judgment that the cost or other consequences (including adverse tax, accounting and regulatory consequences (other than de minimis tax consequences)) of creating or perfecting any Lien on any property is excessive in relation to the benefits afforded to the Secured Parties thereby, then such property may be excluded from the Collateral for all purposes of the Loan Documents.
Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary (other than as expressly set forth in clauses (b) and
(f)above), the Borrowers and the Guarantors shall not be required, nor shall the Collateral Agent be authorized (unless otherwise approved by the Lead Borrower), (i) to perfect the above-described pledges, security interests and mortgages by any means other than by (A) filings pursuant to the Uniform Commercial Code in the office of the secretary of state (or equivalent filing office of the relevant State of the respective jurisdiction of organization of Parent, the Lead Borrower, any other Borrower or any Guarantor), (B) filings in United States government offices with respect to intellectual property as expressly required herein and under the other Loan Documents, (C) delivery to the Collateral Agent, for its possession and control, of all Collateral consisting of intercompany notes, instruments, chattel paper and all stock (or similar) certificates of the Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries to the extent required herein and under the other Loan Documents, or (D) Mortgages required to be delivered pursuant to this definition of “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement” and fixture filings relating to Material Real Property, (ii) to enter into any control agreement, including, without limitation, with respect to any deposit account, securities account or commodities account or contract, (iii) (a) other than a Foreign Subsidiary that becomes a Borrower or a Guarantor pursuant to Section 6.11, to take any action in any non-U.S. jurisdiction or pursuant to the requirements of the laws of any non-U.S. jurisdiction in order to create any security interests (for the avoidance of doubt, other than the execution of documents by individuals located outside of the U.S.) or (b) to perfect any security interests in assets located outside of (or governed or arising under any Laws outside of) the United States, including with respect to any intellectual property registered outside of the United States (it being understood that there shall be no security agreements or pledge agreements governed by the laws of any non-U.S. jurisdiction), (iv) except as expressly provided above, to take any other action with respect to any Collateral to perfect through control agreements or to otherwise perfect by “control”, (v) to provide any notice or to obtain the consent of governmental authorities under the Federal Assignment of Claims Act (or any state equivalent thereof) or (vi) to enter into any source code escrow arrangement (or be obligated to register intellectual property); provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, the Lead Borrower may elect to perform any of the foregoing in its sole discretion.
“Collateral Documents” means, collectively, the Security Agreement, any Intercreditor Agreement, the Intellectual Property Security Agreements, the Mortgages, Security Agreement Supplements, security agreements, pledge agreements, or other similar agreements delivered to the Administrative Agent or Collateral Agent pursuant to Sections 4.01(a)(iv), 6.11 or 6.13 and each of the other agreements, instruments or documents that creates or purports to create a Lien in favor of the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent (or pursuant to a parallel debt structure, if applicable) for the
benefit of the Secured Parties.
“Commitment” means a Revolving Credit Commitment, Extended Revolving Credit Commitment of a given Extension Series, Revolving Commitment Increase, Refinancing Revolving Credit Commitment of a given Refinancing Series, Initial Term Commitment, Incremental Term Commitment, Refinancing Term Commitment of a given Refinancing Series or Commitment in respect of Replacement Term Loans, as the context may require.
“Committed Loan Notice” means a written notice of (a) a Borrowing, (b) a conversion of Loans from one Type to the other or (c) a continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans pursuant to Section 2.02(a), which shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A hereto.
“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 set forth in the preliminary statements to this Agreement. “Company Parties” means the collective reference to the Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries,
and “Company Party” means any one of them.
“Compensation Period” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.12(c)(ii).
“Compliance Certificate” means a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit D-1 hereto.
“Consolidated EBITDA” means, for any period, Consolidated Net Income for such period, plus:
(a)without duplication and, except with respect to clauses (vii)(B), (x) and (xi) below, to the extent deducted (and not added back or excluded) in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income, the sum of the following amounts for such period with respect to the Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries:
(i)total interest expense determined in accordance with GAAP (including,
(A) amortization of original issue discount resulting from the issuance of Indebtedness at less than par, (B) all commissions, discounts and other fees and charges owed with respect to letters of credit or bankers acceptances, (C) non-cash interest payments, (D) the interest component of Capitalized Leases, (E) net payments, if any, pursuant to interest Swap Contracts with respect to Indebtedness,
(F) amortization of deferred financing fees, debt issuance costs, commissions and fees, (G) the interest component of any pension or other post-employment benefit expense, and (H) to the extent not reflected in such total interest expense, any losses on hedging obligations or other derivative instruments entered into for the purpose of hedging interest rate risk, net of interest income and gains on such hedging obligations, and costs of surety bonds in connection with financing activities (whether amortized or immediately expensed),
(ii)without duplication, provision for taxes based on income (or similar taxes in lieu of income taxes), profits or capital gains of the Parent and the Restricted Subsidiaries, including federal, foreign, state, local, franchise, excise and similar taxes and foreign withholding taxes paid or accrued during such period including penalties and interest related to such taxes or arising from any tax examinations paid or accrued during such period and, to the extent reflected as a charge in the statement of such Consolidated Net Income (regardless of classification), and any tax distributions made during, or with respect to, such period,
(iii)depreciation and amortization expense, including the amortization of
deferred financing fees or costs, debt issuance costs, commissions, fees, and expenses, capitalized expenditures, Capitalized Software Expenditures or costs, amortization of expenditures relating to software, license and intellectual property payments, amortization of any lease related assets recorded in purchase accounting, depreciation of lease payments, customer acquisition costs, unrecognized prior service costs and actuarial gains and losses related to pensions and other post- employment benefits, depreciation of goodwill, the amortization of original issue discount resulting from the issuance of Indebtedness at less than par and incentive payments, conversion costs, and contract acquisition costs of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period on a consolidated basis and otherwise determined in accordance with GAAP,
(iv)(A) extraordinary, exceptional, unusual or non-recurring charges, expenses or losses or special items and (B) any losses on sales of assets outside of the ordinary course of business,
(v)any other non-cash charges, expenses or losses, including, without limitation, any non-cash asset retirement costs, non-cash increase in expenses resulting from the revaluation of inventory (including any impact of changes to inventory valuation policy methods including changes in capitalization of variances) or other inventory adjustments or due to purchase accounting, or any other acquisition, non-cash compensation charges, non-cash expense relating to the vesting of warrants, impairment charges, write-offs or write-downs for such period (provided that if any such non-cash charges represent an accrual or reserve for potential cash items in any future period, (i) the Lead Borrower may determine not to add back such non-cash item in the current period or (ii) to the extent the Lead Borrower determines to add back such non-cash item in the current period, the cash payment in respect thereof in such future period shall be subtracted from Consolidated EBITDA to such extent, and excluding amortization of a prepaid cash item that was paid in a prior period), any non-cash asset retirement costs, non-cash compensation charges and non-cash translation (gain) loss,
(vi)(x) retention, recruiting, relocation, integration and severance, signing and stay bonuses and expenses, including payments made to employees, producers or others who are subject to non-compete agreements, and stock option and other equity-based compensation expenses, and (y) costs associated with implementation of operational and reporting systems and technology initiatives (including any such payments made in connection with the consummation of the Transactions),
(vii)(A)(x) restructuring costs, integration costs, opening, pre-opening, consolidation and closing costs for facilities, transactions fees and expenses and management, monitoring, consulting and advisory fees, indemnities and expenses, costs incurred in connection with any non-recurring strategic initiatives, costs incurred in connection with acquisitions and non- recurring intellectual property development after the Closing Date, contract termination costs, other business optimization expenses and charges (including costs and expenses relating to business optimization programs and new systems design, upgrade and implementation costs), project start- up costs and other restructuring charges, accruals or reserves (including restructuring costs related to acquisitions after the Closing Date and to closure/consolidation of facilities and retention charges), any one time expense relating to enhanced accounting function or other transaction costs, including those associated with becoming a standalone entity or public company and public company costs, and (y) transition costs (including systems establishment costs and excess pension charges) and (B) (i) LTM pro forma results for acquisitions and dispositions of business entities or properties or assets constituting a division or line of business of any business entity (and purchases and dispositions of intellectual property if pro forma treatment is elected by the Borrower in its discretion on a case-by-case basis), and new contracts and other customary specified transactions,
and (ii) the “run rate” amount of cost savings, operating expense reductions, other operating improvements and cost synergies projected by the Lead Borrower in good faith to be realizable in connection with the Transactions or any Specified Transaction or the implementation of an operational initiative or operational change (including, to the extent applicable, from the Transactions or the effect of new customer contracts or projects or increased pricing or volume in existing customer contracts with such cash flow to be generated within a 6 month period after contract signing) before or after the Closing Date (calculated on a Pro Forma Basis as though such cost savings, operating expense reductions, other operating improvements and cost synergies had been realized on the first day of such period and as if such cost savings, operating expense reductions, other operating improvements and cost synergies were realized during the entirety of such period), net of the amount of actual benefits realized during such period from such actions; provided that (x) a duly completed certificate signed by a Responsible Officer of the Lead Borrower shall be delivered to the Administrative Agent together with the Compliance Certificate required to be delivered pursuant to Section 6.02, certifying that such cost savings, operating expense reductions, other operating improvements and/or cost synergies are readily identifiable, factually supportable and have been determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower to be reasonably anticipated to be realizable within twenty-four (24) months after the consummation of the Transactions or the applicable Specified Transaction or the implementation of the applicable operational initiative or operational change, as applicable (with actions in respect of any such transaction occurring prior to the Closing Date occurring within twenty-four (24) months of the Closing Date) and (y) no cost savings, operating expense reductions and synergies shall be added pursuant to this clause (vii)(B) to the extent duplicative of any expenses or charges otherwise added to Consolidated EBITDA, whether through a pro forma adjustment or otherwise, for such period;
(viii)any director’s fees and related expenses payable to any independent director or operating partner of the Parent or any direct or indirect parent entity thereof, in each case, in cash during such period,
(ix)(A) other accruals, charges, payments, fees and expenses (including rationalization, legal, tax, structuring and other costs and expenses), or any amortization thereof, related to, or otherwise incurred in connection with, the Transactions (including all Transaction Expenses) and all such accruals, charges, payments, fees and expenses payable in connection with the Loan Documents, acquisitions, Investments, Restricted Payments, Dispositions, or any amortization thereof, refinancings, issuances or registrations (actual or proposed) of Indebtedness or Equity Interests whether or not permitted by the terms of this Agreement, any Qualified IPO or repayment of debt, issuance of equity securities, refinancing transactions, negotiation, forbearance, extension or amendment or other modification or waiver of any documentation governing the transactions described in this clause (ix)(A) (including the Loan Documents) (in each case, including any such transaction consummated on the Closing Date and any such transaction undertaken but not completed) (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the effects of expensing all transaction-related expenses in accordance with Account Standards Codification Topic No. 805, Business Combinations) and (B) costs of surety bonds incurred in such period in connection with financing activities permitted by the terms of this Agreement,
(x)to the extent actually received or expected by the Lead Borrower in good faith to be received within 180 days of such determination and not already included in Consolidated Net Income, proceeds of business interruption insurance (it being understood and agreed that, to the extent such anticipated amounts are not actually received within such 180 day period, such amounts shall be deducted in calculating Consolidated EBITDA),
(xi)cash receipts (or any netting arrangements resulting in reduced cash
expenditures) not representing Consolidated EBITDA or Consolidated Net Income in any period to the extent non-cash gains relating to such income were deducted in the calculation of Consolidated EBITDA pursuant to paragraph (b) below for any previous period and not added back,
(xii)any non-cash increase in expenses (A) resulting from the revaluation of inventory (including any impact of changes to inventory valuation policy methods including changes in capitalization of variances) or other inventory adjustments (including any non-cash increase in expenses as a result of last-in first-out and/or first-in first-out methods of accounting) or any other acquisition or (B) due to purchase accounting,
(xiii)the amount of any expense attributable to minority interests or non- controlling interests of third parties in any non-Wholly-owned Restricted Subsidiary,
(xiv)the amount of (A) management, consulting, monitoring and advisory fees (including termination and exit fees), transaction fees and related expenses and indemnifications paid to the Permitted Holders in accordance with the Management Agreement and (B) payments by the Parent or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Permitted Holders made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Lead Borrower in good faith,
(xv)any Equity Funded Employee Plan Costs,
(xvi)the amount of loss or discount on sale of (A) Receivables Assets and related assets in connection with a Receivables Facility and (B) Securitization Assets and related assets in connection with a Qualified Securitization Financing,
(xvii)adjustments (A) of the type evidenced by or contained in the quality of earnings analysis and data or derived from quality of earnings reports prepared by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and delivered to the Administrative Agent on September 9, 2020,
(B)evidenced by or contained in a quality of earnings report made available to the Administrative Agent prepared with respect to the target of a Permitted Acquisition or other Investment permitted hereunder by (x) a “big-four” nationally recognized accounting firm or regionally recognized accounting firm or (y) any other accounting firm that shall be reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld, delayed, denied or conditioned) with respect to the target of a Permitted Acquisition or other permitted Investment,
(C)consistent with Regulation S-X, or (D) including the pro forma adjustments (i) identified in writing and agreed to by the Administrative Agent and (ii) of the type set forth in the Sponsor Model,
(xviii)payments or accruals by the Parent, the Borrowers and their Restricted Subsidiaries paid or accrued during such period in respect of purchase price holdbacks, earn-outs and other similar contingent obligations to the extent deducted in calculating Consolidated Net Income of the Parent, the Borrowers and their Restricted Subsidiaries,
(xix)with respect to any joint venture that is not a Restricted Subsidiary, an amount equal to the proportion of those items described in clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) above relating to such joint venture corresponding to the Parent’s, the Borrowers’ and their Restricted Subsidiaries’ proportionate share of such joint venture’s Consolidated Net Income (determined as if such joint venture were a Restricted Subsidiary),
(xx)any net loss from disposed, abandoned or discontinued operations or
product lines,
(xxi)to the extent reducing Consolidated Net Income, any charges, costs, expenses or losses relating to any litigation (or the settlement thereof),
(xxii)the amount of costs, charges and expenses relating to payments made to option holders of any direct or indirect parent of the Borrowers in connection with, or as a result of, any distribution being made to equityholders of such Person, which payments are being made to compensate such option holders as though they were equityholders at the time of, and entitled to share in, such distribution, in each case to the extent permitted under this Agreement,
(xxiii)any fees, costs and expenses incurred in connection with the implementation of ASC 606 and any non-cash losses or charges resulting from the application of ASC 606,
(xxiv)any net increases in deferred revenue liabilities (including current portion),
(xxv)to the extent not otherwise added back pursuant to clause (xvii) above, the amount of all non-cash net periodic benefit costs recognized by Parent, the Borrowers or any of their Restricted Subsidiaries with respect to any defined benefit pension plan, and
minus (b) without duplication and to the extent included in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income, (i) non-cash gains (excluding any non-cash gain to the extent it represents the reversal of an accrual or reserve for a potential cash item that reduced Consolidated EBITDA in any prior period) including non- cash gains as a result of last-in first-out and/or first-in first-out methods of accounting, (ii)(x) any extraordinary or unusual net gains and (y) any gains on sales of assets outside of the ordinary course of business (cash and non-cash) and (iii) any net decreases in deferred revenue liabilities (including current portion); provided that:
(A)to the extent included in Consolidated Net Income, there shall be excluded in determining Consolidated EBITDA (x) currency translation gains and losses related to currency re- measurements of Indebtedness (including the net loss or gain (i) resulting from Swap Contracts for currency exchange risk and (ii) resulting from intercompany indebtedness) and (y) all other foreign currency translation gains or losses to the extent such gains or losses are non-cash items;
(B)to the extent included in Consolidated Net Income, there shall be excluded in determining Consolidated EBITDA for any period any adjustments resulting from the application of FASB Accounting Standards Codification 815 and International Accounting Standard No. 39 and their respective related pronouncements and interpretations;
(C)to the extent included in Consolidated Net Income, there shall be excluded in determining Consolidated EBITDA for any period any income (loss) for such period attributable to the early extinguishment of (i) Indebtedness, (ii) obligations under any Swap Contracts or
(iii) other derivative instruments; and
(D)to the extent included in Consolidated Net Income, there shall be excluded in determining Consolidated EBITDA for any period the estimated pro forma service costs of pension, post-retirement employee benefits plans and SERPs as evidenced by and derived from the quality of earnings reports prepared by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP and delivered to the Administrative Agent on September 9, 2020.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, (i) all amounts added to Consolidated EBITDA pursuant to clauses (a)(iv) and (a)(vii) above, together with all amounts added back to Consolidated EBITDA pursuant to Section 1.11(c)(ii), shall not exceed, in the aggregate, 25% of Consolidated EBITDA (determined after giving effect to all such amounts that would be added back pursuant to the foregoing) and (ii) for purposes of determining Consolidated EBITDA under this Agreement for any period that includes any of the fiscal quarters ended December 31, 2019, March 31, 2020, June 30, 2020 and September 30, 2020, Consolidated EBITDA for such fiscal quarters shall be $5,478,677.64,
$1,024,867.90, $3,103,283.35 and $2,916,090.17, respectively, in each case as may be subject to add-backs and adjustments (without duplication) pursuant to clause (vii)(B) and Section 1.11(c) for the applicable Test Period (subject to the limitations set forth in the immediately preceding clause (i) with respect to such add- backs and adjustments). For the avoidance of doubt, Consolidated EBITDA shall be calculated, including pro forma adjustments, in accordance with Section 1.11.
“Consolidated Net Income” means, for any period, the net income (loss) of the Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP; provided, however, that, without duplication,
(a)(i) any after-tax effect of extraordinary items (less all fees and expenses relating thereto), charges or expenses (including relating to the Transactions), (ii) severance, recruiting, retention and relocation costs, charges and expenses, (iii) costs, expenses and charges incurred in connection with curtailments or modifications to pension and post-retirement employee benefits plans and (iv) one-time compensation charges shall be excluded,
(b)the cumulative effect of a change in accounting principles during such period to the extent included in Consolidated Net Income shall be excluded,
(c)accruals and reserves that are established or adjusted within 12 months after the Closing Date that are so required to be established or adjusted as a result of the Transactions (or within 12 months after the closing of any acquisition or other similar Investment that are so required to be established or adjusted as a result of such acquisition or other similar Investment) in accordance with GAAP or charges as a result of adoption or modification of accounting policies in accordance with GAAP shall be excluded,
(d)any net after-tax effect of gains or losses (less all fees, expenses and charges relating thereto) attributable to asset dispositions or abandonments or the sale or other disposition of any Equity Interests of any Person, in each case other than in the ordinary course of business, as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower, shall be excluded,
(e)the net income (loss) for such period of any Person that is not a Subsidiary of the Parent, or is an Unrestricted Subsidiary, or that is accounted for by the equity method of accounting, shall be excluded; provided that Consolidated Net Income of the Parent shall be increased by the amount of dividends or distributions or other payments that are actually paid in cash or Cash Equivalents (or to the extent subsequently converted into cash or Cash Equivalents) to the Parent or a Restricted Subsidiary thereof in respect of such period,
(f)any impairment charge or asset write-off or write-down, including impairment charges or asset write-offs or write-downs related to intangible assets, goodwill, long-lived assets, investments in debt and equity securities or as a result of a change in law or regulation, in each case, pursuant to GAAP or SEC guidelines, and the amortization of intangibles arising pursuant to GAAP or SEC guidelines shall be excluded,
(g)any (i) equity or phantom equity based non-cash compensation charge or expense, including any such charge or expense arising from the grants of stock appreciation or similar rights, stock options, restricted stock or other rights or equity incentive programs or any other equity-based compensation, and (ii) cash charges associated with the rollover, acceleration or payout of Equity Interests by managers, officers, directors, consultants or employees of the Parent, the Borrowers, any Restricted Subsidiary or any of the Borrowers’ direct or indirect parents, shall be excluded,
(h)any expenses, charges or losses that are covered by indemnification or other reimbursement provisions in connection with any Investment, Permitted Acquisition or any sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition of assets permitted under this Agreement, to the extent actually reimbursed, or, so long as the Lead Borrower has made a determination that a reasonable basis exists for indemnification or reimbursement and only to the extent that such amount is in fact indemnified or reimbursed within 365 days of such determination (with a deduction in the applicable future period for any amount so added back to the extent not so indemnified or reimbursed within such 365-day period), shall be excluded,
(i)to the extent covered by insurance or a third party and actually paid for or reimbursed, or indemnified, or, so long as the Lead Borrower reasonably expects that such amount will in fact be paid for or reimbursed by the insurer or third party and only to the extent that such amount is in fact paid for, reimbursed or indemnified within 365 days of the date of such determination (with a deduction in the applicable future period for any amount so added back to the extent not so reimbursed within such 365 days), expenses, charges or losses with respect to liability or casualty events or business interruption shall be excluded,
(j)the income (or loss) of any Person accrued prior to the date it becomes a Restricted Subsidiary of the Parent or is merged into or consolidated with the Parent or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries or such Person’s assets are acquired by the Parent or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries shall be excluded (except to the extent required for any calculation of Consolidated EBITDA on a Pro Forma Basis in accordance with Section 1.11),
(k)[reserved],
(l)the purchase accounting effects of adjustments in component amounts required or permitted by GAAP (including in the inventory, property and equipment, goodwill, intangible assets, in-process research and development, deferred revenue and debt line items thereof) and related authoritative pronouncements (including the effects of such adjustments pushed down to the Parent, the Borrowers and their Restricted Subsidiaries), as a result of the Transactions, any acquisition constituting an Investment permitted under this Agreement consummated prior to or after the Closing Date, or the amortization or write-off of any amounts thereof shall be excluded,
(m)letter of credit fees shall be excluded,
(n)any deferred tax expense associated with tax deductions or net operating losses arising as a result of the Transactions, or the release of any valuation allowance related to such items, shall be excluded,
(o)gains and losses due solely to fluctuations in currency values and the related tax effects determined in accordance with GAAP for such period shall be excluded,
(p)any net pension or other post-employment benefit costs representing amortization of unrecognized prior service costs, actuarial losses, including amortization of such amounts arising
in prior periods, amortization of the unrecognized net obligation (and loss or cost) existing at the date of initial application of Statement of Financial Accounting Standards Nos. 87, 106 and 112, and any other items of a similar nature, shall be excluded,
(q)any non-cash adjustments resulting from the application of Accounting Standards Codification Topic No. 460, Guarantees, or any comparable regulation, shall be excluded,
(r)earn-out obligations and other contingent consideration obligations (including to the extent accounted for as bonuses, compensation or otherwise (and including deferred performance incentives in connection with Permitted Acquisitions or other Investments permitted hereunder whether or not a service component is required from the transferor or its related party)) and adjustments thereof and purchase price adjustments, shall be excluded,
(s)(i) accruals and reserves (including contingent liabilities) that are (A) established or adjusted within twelve months after the Closing Date that are so required to be established as a result of the Transactions or (B) established or adjusted within twelve months after the closing of any Permitted Acquisition or any other acquisition (other than any such other acquisition in the ordinary course of business) that are so required to be established or adjusted as a result of such Permitted Acquisition or such other acquisition, in each case in accordance with GAAP or (ii) charges, accruals, expenses and reserves as a result of adoption or modification of accounting policies, shall be excluded,
(t)(i) extraordinary, exceptional, unusual or non-recurring charges, expenses or losses or special items and (ii) any losses on sales of assets outside of the ordinary course of business, shall be excluded,
(u)retention, recruiting, relocation, integration and signing bonuses and expenses, stock option and other equity-based compensation expenses, severance costs, stay bonuses, transaction fees and expenses and management fees and expenses, including any one time expense relating to enhanced accounting function or other transaction costs, including those associated with becoming a standalone entity or public company and implementation, replacement, development or upgrade of operational, reporting and information technology systems and technology initiatives (including, without limitation, any such payments made in connection with the consummation of the Transactions), shall be excluded,
(v)[reserved], and
(w)the amount of (i) management, consulting, monitoring and advisory fees and related expenses paid to the Permitted Holders in accordance with the Management Agreement and
(ii) payments by the Parent or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to any of the Permitted Holders made for any financial advisory, financing, underwriting or placement services or in respect of other investment banking activities, including, without limitation, in connection with acquisitions or divestitures which payments are approved by the Lead Borrower in good faith, shall be excluded.
In addition, to the extent not already included in the Consolidated Net Income of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries in any period, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the foregoing, Consolidated Net Income shall include the amount of proceeds received from business interruption insurance.
For the avoidance of doubt, Consolidated Net Income shall be calculated, including pro forma
adjustments, in accordance with Section 1.11.
“Consolidated Secured Net Debt” means, as of any date of determination, “Consolidated Total Net Debt” outstanding on such date that is secured by a Lien on the assets of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries.
“Consolidated Secured Net Leverage Ratio” means, with respect to any Test Period, the ratio of
(a) Consolidated Secured Net Debt as of the last day of such Test Period to (b) Consolidated EBITDA for such Test Period.
“Consolidated Senior Secured Net Debt” means, as of any date of determination, “Consolidated Total Net Debt” outstanding on such date that is secured by a first priority Lien on the assets of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries.
“Consolidated Senior Secured Net Leverage Ratio” means, with respect to any Test Period, the ratio of (a) Consolidated Senior Secured Net Debt as of the last day of such Test Period to (b) Consolidated EBITDA for such Test Period.
“Consolidated Total Net Debt” means, as of any date of determination, subject to Section 8.04(d)(ii), (a) the aggregate principal amount of gross Indebtedness of the Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries outstanding on such date, in an amount that would be reflected on a balance sheet prepared as of such date on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP (but excluding the effects of any discounting of Indebtedness resulting from the application of purchase accounting in connection with the Transactions or any acquisition constituting an Investment permitted under this Agreement) consisting of (i) Indebtedness for borrowed money, (ii) Attributable Indebtedness and (iii) purchase money Indebtedness, minus (b) the aggregate amount of Qualified Cash; provided that Consolidated Total Net Debt shall not include Indebtedness in respect of letters of credit, except to the extent of unreimbursed amounts thereunder; provided, further, that any unreimbursed amount under commercial letters of credit shall not be counted as Consolidated Total Net Debt until three Business Days after such amount is drawn. For the avoidance of doubt, it is understood that obligations (w) under any PPP Loan (so long as, and solely to the extent to, each such PPP Loan is supported by a cash escrow account in respect thereof on terms reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent (it being understood and agreed that the cash collateral accounts in support of the PPP Loans as in effect on the Closing Date are reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent)), (x) under Swap Contracts and Treasury Services Agreements, (y) owed by Unrestricted Subsidiaries or (z) under Supplier Financing Facilities do not constitute Consolidated Total Net Debt.
“Consolidated Total Net Leverage Ratio” means, with respect to any Test Period, the ratio of
(a) Consolidated Total Net Debt as of the last day of such Test Period to (b) Consolidated EBITDA for such Test Period.
“Consolidated Working Capital” means, with respect to the Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis at 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 Consolidated 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, (b) the effects of purchase accounting or (c) the effect of fluctuations in the amount of accrued or contingent obligations, assets or liabilities under Swap Contracts.
“Contract Consideration” has the meaning set forth in the definition of “Excess Cash Flow”. “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 or by contract. “Controlling” and “Controlled” have meanings correlative thereto.
“Core Intellectual Property” means the intellectual property owned by the Loan Parties that is material the operation of the business of the Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries (taken as a whole) as of the Closing Date.
“Covered Entity” means any of the following: (a) a “covered entity” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 252.82(b); (b) a “covered bank” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 47.3(b) or (c) a “covered FSI” as that term is defined in, and interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. § 382.2(b).
“Covered Party” has the meaning assigned to such term in Section 10.23.
“Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness” means (a) Permitted First Priority Refinancing Debt, (b) Permitted Junior Priority Refinancing Debt, (c) Permitted Unsecured Refinancing Debt or
(d) other Indebtedness, in each case, issued, incurred or otherwise obtained (including by means of the extension or renewal of existing Indebtedness) in exchange for, or to extend, renew, replace, repurchase, retire or refinance, in whole or in part, existing Term Loans or existing Revolving Credit Loans (or unused Revolving Credit Commitments), or any then-existing Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness (the “Refinanced Debt”); provided that (i) such Indebtedness has a scheduled maturity no earlier, and, in the case of any refinancing of Term Loans, a Weighted Average Life to Maturity equal to or greater, than the Refinanced Debt (without giving effect to any amortization or prepayments of such outstanding Term Loans), (ii) such Indebtedness shall not have a greater principal amount than the principal amount of the Refinanced Debt, plus accrued interest, fees, premiums (if any) and penalties thereon and fees and expenses associated with the refinancing, plus an amount equal to any existing commitment unutilized thereunder, plus any other amount that could be incurred pursuant to Section 7.03, (iii) the terms and conditions of such Indebtedness (except as otherwise provided in clauses (i) and (ii) above and clauses (iv) through (ix) below, and excluding pricing, fees and optional prepayment or redemption terms) shall contain such terms as are reasonably satisfactory to the Lead Borrower, the borrower thereof (if not the Lead Borrower) and the lenders providing such Indebtedness; provided, that the terms of such Indebtedness shall be consistent with, or (taken as a whole) not materially more favorable to the lenders providing such Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness than those applicable to the Term Facility or revolving commitments being refinanced (unless (x) the lenders under the corresponding class of Term Facility or Incremental Term Loans and Revolving Credit Facility (if applicable) also receive the benefit of such more favorable terms or (y) such covenants or other provisions are applicable only to periods after the latest final maturity date of the Term Facility and revolving credit commitments existing at the time of such refinancing), (iv) the All-In Yield with respect such Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness shall be determined by the applicable Borrowers and the lenders providing such Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness, (v) the applicable Refinanced Debt shall be repaid, repurchased, retired, defeased or satisfied and discharged, and all accrued interest, fees, premiums (if any) and penalties in connection therewith shall be paid, on the date such Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness is issued, incurred or obtained, (vi) such Indebtedness is not at any time guaranteed by any Person other than Guarantors, (vii) to the extent secured, such Indebtedness is not secured by property of the Parent, the Borrowers or any Restricted Subsidiary other than Collateral (or property the Administrative Agent has declined as Collateral) and shall be subject to an Intercreditor Agreement and/or another lien subordination and intercreditor arrangement reasonably satisfactory to the Lead Borrower and the Administrative Agent, (viii) if the applicable Refinanced Debt is subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations, then any Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness in respect thereof shall be subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations, as applicable, on terms
(A)with customary subordination agreements (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower) or
(B)otherwise reasonably acceptable to the Lead Borrower and the Administrative Agent, (ix) any Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness shall be pari passu or junior in right of payment and, if secured, secured on a pari passu or junior basis with respect to security, with respect to the Revolving Credit Facility and the Term Facility, (x) any Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness may (i) participate on a pro rata basis, a greater than pro rata basis or on a less than pro rata basis in any voluntary prepayments hereunder,
(ii)to the extent such Indebtedness is secured on a pari passu basis with the Obligations, may participate on a pro rata basis or on a less than pro rata basis (but not greater than pro rata basis) in any mandatory prepayments hereunder (unless such amounts are declined hereunder) and (iii) shall not require any mandatory prepayments in addition to those hereunder; provided that no Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness that is in the form of term loans shall be permitted to be voluntarily or mandatorily prepaid prior to the repayment in full of all Term Loans hereunder, unless accompanied by a ratable offer of prepayment of the Term Loans hereunder, and (xi) any Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness that is Revolving Credit Loans does not mature (or require commitment reductions) prior to the latest maturity date of Revolving Credit Commitments being refinanced and is subject to no greater than pro rata borrowing, letter of credit participation and prepayment and commitment reduction provisions with the existing Revolving Credit Facility; provided, further, that in determining if the foregoing conditions in this proviso are met, a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Lead Borrower delivered to the Administrative Agent at least three Business Days (or such shorter period as may be agreed by the Administrative Agent) prior to the issuance of the applicable Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness, together with a reasonably detailed description of the material terms and conditions of such resulting Indebtedness or drafts of the documentation relating thereto, stating that the Lead Borrower has determined in good faith that such terms and conditions satisfy the foregoing requirement, shall be conclusive evidence that such terms and conditions satisfy the foregoing requirement unless the Administrative Agent notifies the Lead Borrower within such three Business Day period (or such shorter period as may be reasonably agreed by the Administrative Agent) that it disagrees with such determination (including a reasonable description of the basis upon which it disagrees).
“Credit Extension” means a Borrowing (but not a continuation or conversion of a Eurocurrency Rate Loan).
“Cumulative Credit” means, at any date, an amount, not less than zero in the aggregate, determined on a cumulative basis equal to, without duplication:
(a)the greater of (i) $2,500,000 and (ii) 25% of Consolidated EBITDA as of the last day of the last Test Period (calculated on a Pro Forma Basis), plus
(b)an amount equal to the Cumulative Retained Excess Cash Flow Amount, plus
(c)the cumulative amount of aggregate net proceeds from (i) the sale of Qualified Equity Interests of the Parent or Equity Interests of any other direct or indirect parent of the Borrowers after the Closing Date and on or prior to such time (including upon exercise of warrants or options) (other than (1) a sale to a Restricted Subsidiary, (2) any amount designated as a Cure Amount, (3) any Excluded Contribution Amount, (4) any amount used to build Section 7.02(i) or
(5) any amount used for Equity Funded Employee Plan Costs) which proceeds have been contributed as common equity to the capital of the Lead Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary and
(ii) the Qualified Equity Interests of the Parent (or Equity Interests of any other direct or indirect parent of the Borrowers) (other than (1) any amount designated as a Cure Amount, (2) any Excluded Contribution Amount or (3) any amount used for Equity Funded Employee Plan Costs) issued upon conversion of Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness that is contractually subordinated in right of payment or security to the Obligations) of the Lead Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower owed to a Person other than a Loan Party or a Restricted Subsidiary of a Loan Party
not previously applied for a purpose (including as a Cure Amount, any Excluded Contribution Amount or any amount used for Equity Funded Employee Plan Costs) other than use in the Cumulative Credit, plus
(d)100% of the aggregate amount of contributions to the common capital (including 100% of the Fair Market Value of property (other than cash and Cash Equivalents) as reasonably determined by the Lead Borrower) of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries or the net proceeds of the issuance of Qualified Equity Interests of Parent (or any other direct or indirect parent of the Borrowers) contributed to the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, received
(x) in cash or Cash Equivalents by the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries after the Closing Date (other than from a Restricted Subsidiary or the Lead Borrower and other than (1) any amount designated as a Cure Amount, (2) any Excluded Contribution Amount, (3) any amount used to build Section 7.02(i) or (4) any amount used for Equity Funded Employee Plan Costs) or (y) in other property, plus
(e)100% of the aggregate amount of cash, Cash Equivalents and the Fair Market Value of other property received by the Lead Borrower and each Restricted Subsidiary (as reasonably determined by the Lead Borrower) after the Closing Date from:
(i)the sale, transfer or other disposition (other than to the Parent or any such Restricted Subsidiary) of the Equity Interests or any assets of an Unrestricted Subsidiary or any minority Investments or other joint venture (that is not a Restricted Subsidiary),
(ii)any dividend or other distribution by an Unrestricted Subsidiary or received in respect of minority Investments or other joint venture (that is not a Restricted Subsidiary), or
(iii)any interest, returns of principal, repayments and similar payments by such Unrestricted Subsidiary or received in respect of any minority Investments,
(f)in the event any Unrestricted Subsidiary has been re-designated as a Restricted Subsidiary or has been merged, consolidated or amalgamated with or into, or transfers or conveys its assets to, or is liquidated into, the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary, the Fair Market Value of the Investments of the Lead Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries made using the Cumulative Credit in such Unrestricted Subsidiary at the time of such re-designation, combination or transfer (or of the assets transferred or conveyed, as applicable), plus
(g)an amount equal to any returns in cash and Cash Equivalents (including dividends, interest, distributions, returns of principal, profits on sale, repayments, income, the Fair Market Value of property and similar amounts) actually received by the Lead Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in respect of any Investments to the extent of the Investments originally funded with and in reliance on the Cumulative Credit, plus
(h)the proceeds and the fair market value (as reasonably determined by the Lead Borrower) of marketable securities or other property contributed to the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary or contributed to the capital of the Lead Borrower and further contributed to a Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary as cash common equity since the Closing Date from any Person other than the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower, plus
(i)an aggregate amount equal to the sum of (i) Declined Proceeds and (ii) the Cumulative Retained Asset Sale Proceeds, minus
(j)any amount of the Cumulative Credit used to make Investments pursuant to Sections 7.02(i)(iii) and 7.02(n)(y) after the Closing Date and prior to such time, minus
(k)any amount of the Cumulative Credit used to pay dividends or make distributions or other Restricted Payments pursuant to Section 7.06(f)(A) or 7.06(g) after the Closing Date and prior to such time, minus
(l)any amount of the Cumulative Credit used to make payments or distributions in respect of Junior Financings pursuant to Section 7.12 after the Closing Date and prior to such time, minus
(m)any amount of the Cumulative Credit used to make any Permitted Acquisition pursuant to Section 7.02(i) after the Closing Date and prior to such time, minus
(n)the aggregate amount of prepayments, redemptions, purchases, defeasances and other payments made in respect of Junior Financings in reliance on clause (v) of Section 7.12(a); provided that, with respect to the amounts set forth in clauses (e)(i), (e)(ii), (e)(iii) and (f) of this definition, such amount shall be limited to the Investments made in such Unrestricted Subsidiary, minority Investments or other joint venture, as applicable, originally funded with and in reliance on the Cumulative Credit (but not in excess of the original amount of the Cumulative Credit used to fund such Investment).
“Cumulative Retained Asset Sale Proceeds” has the meaning set forth in the definition of “Net Proceeds”.
“Cumulative Retained Excess Cash Flow Amount” shall mean, at any date, an amount, not less than zero, determined on a cumulative basis equal to the amount of Excess Cash Flow for all completed Excess Cash Flow Periods that was not required to be applied to prepay the Loans in accordance with Section 2.05(b)(i) (without giving effect to any reduction in respect of prepayments of Indebtedness as provided in clauses (B)(1) through (4) thereof) and including any amount that would otherwise be payable but for not exceeding the dollar threshold contained therein.
“Cure Amount” has the meaning set forth in Section 8.04(a).
“Cure Expiration Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 8.04(a).
“Current Assets” means, with respect to the Parent and the Restricted 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 Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries as current assets at such date of determination, other than (i) amounts related to current or deferred Taxes based on income, profits or capital gains, (ii) assets held for sale, (iii) loans (permitted) to third parties, (iv) pension assets, (v) deferred bank fees, (vi) derivative financial instruments and (vii) in the event that any Securitization Facility is accounted for off-balance sheet, (A) gross accounts receivable comprising Securitization Assets sold pursuant to such Securitization Facility less (B) collection against the amount sold pursuant to clause (A), and excluding the effects of adjustments pursuant to GAAP resulting from the application of purchase accounting, as the case may be, in relation to the Acquisition or any consummated acquisition.
“Current Liabilities” means, with respect to the Parent and the Restricted 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 Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries as current liabilities
at such date of determination, other than (a) the current portion of any Indebtedness, (b) the current portion of interest expense, (c) accruals for current or deferred Taxes based on income or profits, (d) accruals of any costs or expenses related to restructuring reserves, (e) deferred revenue, (f) any Revolving Credit Exposure or Revolving Credit Loans, and (g) the current portion of pension liabilities and excluding the effects of adjustments pursuant to GAAP resulting from the application of purchase accounting, as the case may be, in relation to the Acquisition or any consummated acquisition.
“Debt Fund Affiliate” means any affiliate of Parent or the Sponsor (other than a natural person) that is primarily engaged in, or advises funds or other investment vehicles that are engaged in, making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans, bonds and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course and whose managers have fiduciary duties to the third-party investors in such fund or investment vehicle independent of their duties to Parent or the Sponsor.
“Debtor Relief Laws” means the Bankruptcy Code of the United States and all other liquidation, conservatorship, bankruptcy, assignment for the benefit of creditors, moratorium, rearrangement, receivership, insolvency, reorganization or similar debtor relief Laws of the United States or other applicable jurisdictions from time to time in effect and affecting the rights of creditors generally.
“Declined Proceeds” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(b)(viii).
“Default” shall mean any event, act, or condition set forth in Article VIII that with notice or lapse of time, or both, as set forth in such Article VIII would (unless cured or waived hereunder) constitute an Event of Default.
“Default Rate” means (a) with respect to overdue principal, an interest rate equal to (i) the Base Rate plus (ii) the Applicable Rate, if any, applicable to Base Rate Loans plus (iii) 2.00% per annum; provided 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 2.00% per annum, and (b) with respect to any other overdue amount (including overdue interest), the interest rate (including any Applicable Rate) applicable to Base Rate Loans plus 2.00% per annum, in each case, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws.
“Default Right” has the meaning assigned to that term in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 C.F.R. §§ 252.81, 47.2 or 382.1, as applicable.
“Defaulting Lender” means, subject to Section 2.17(b), any Lender that, as reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, (a) has failed to perform any of its funding obligations hereunder, including in respect of its Loans within one Business Day of the date required to be funded by it hereunder, (b) has notified the Administrative Agent that it does not intend to comply with its funding obligations or has made a public statement to that effect with respect to its funding obligations hereunder or under other agreements in which it commits to extend credit, (c) has failed, within three Business Days after request by the Administrative Agent or the Lead Borrower, to confirm in a manner satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Lead Borrower, as applicable, that it will comply with its funding obligations,
(d) has failed, within two Business Days after request by the Administrative Agent, to pay any amounts owing to the Administrative Agent or the other Lenders, (e) has, or has a direct or indirect parent company that has, (i) become the subject of a proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law, (ii) had a receiver, conservator, trustee, administrator, assignee for the benefit of creditors or similar Person charged with reorganization or liquidation of its business or a custodian appointed for it or (iii) taken any action in furtherance of, or indicated its consent to, approval of or acquiescence in any such proceeding or appointment ort (f) has, or has a direct or indirect parent company that has, become the subject of a Bail-in Action; 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.
“Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment” shall mean $15,000,000; provided, that the Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment shall be reduced to zero ($0) on the Delayed Draw Term Loan Expiration Date.
“Delayed Draw Term Loan Expiration Date” shall mean the earlier of (i) the first anniversary of the Closing Date or (ii) the date as of which the Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment has been fully utilized in accordance with the terms of Section 2.01(b).
“Delayed Draw Term Loans” shall mean a Loan made by the Delayed Draw Term Loan Lenders to the Borrowers pursuant to Section 2.01(b).
“Delayed Draw Term Loan Note” shall mean a promissory note with respect to the Delayed Draw Term Loans substantially in the form of Exhibit C-4.
“Designated Non-Cash Consideration” means non-cash consideration received by any Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary in connection with a Disposition pursuant to Section 7.05(j) that is designated as Designated Non-Cash Consideration pursuant to a certificate of a Responsible Officer, setting forth the basis of such valuation.
“Discount Prepayment Accepting Lender” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a)(v)(B)(2).
“Discount Range” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a)(v)(C)(1).
“Discount Range Prepayment Amount” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a)(v)(C)(1).
“Discount Range Prepayment Notice” means a written notice of a Borrower Solicitation of Discount Range Prepayment Offers made pursuant to Section 2.05(a)(v)(C) substantially in the form of Exhibit E-4.
“Discount Range Prepayment Offer” means the irrevocable written offer by a Lender, substantially in the form of Exhibit E-5, submitted in response to an invitation to submit offers following the Auction Agent’s receipt of a Discount Range Prepayment Notice.
“Discount Range Prepayment Response Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a)(v)(C)(1).
“Discount Range Proration” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a)(v)(C)(3).
“Discounted Prepayment Determination Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a)(v)(D)(3).
“Discounted Prepayment Effective Date” means in the case of a Borrower Offer of Specified Discount Prepayment, Borrower Solicitation of Discount Range Prepayment Offer or Borrower Solicitation of Discounted Prepayment Offer, five Business Days following the Specified Discount Prepayment Response Date, the Discount Range Prepayment Response Date or the Solicited Discounted Prepayment Response Date, as applicable, in accordance with Sections 2.05(a)(v)(B)(1), 2.05(a)(v)(C)(1) or 2.05(a)(v)(D)(1), respectively, unless a shorter period is agreed to between the Lead Borrower and the Auction Agent.
“Discounted Term Loan Prepayment” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a)(v)(A).
“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 of Equity Interests (other than by the issuance thereof)), 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.
“Disqualified Equity Interests” means any Equity Interest that, by its terms (or by the terms of any security or other Equity Interests into which it is convertible or for which it is exchangeable), or upon the happening of any event or condition (a) matures or is mandatorily redeemable (other than solely for Qualified Equity Interests and cash in lieu of fractional shares), pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise (except as a result of a change of control, asset sale or similar event so long as any rights of the holders thereof upon the occurrence of a change of control, asset sale or similar event shall be subject to the prior repayment in full of the Loans and all other Obligations (other than (i) contingent indemnification obligations not then due and (ii) Cash Management Obligations or obligations and liabilities pursuant to Secured Hedge Agreements) that are accrued and payable and the termination of the Commitments), (b) is redeemable at the option of the holder thereof (other than (i) solely for Qualified Equity Interests and cash in lieu of fractional shares or (ii) as a result of a change of control, asset sale or similar event so long as any rights of the holders thereof upon the occurrence of a change of control, asset sale or similar event shall be subject to the prior repayment in full of the Loans and all other Obligations (other than (i) contingent indemnification obligations not then due and (ii) Cash Management Obligations or obligations and liabilities pursuant to Secured Hedge Agreements) that are accrued and payable and the termination of the Commitments), in whole or in part, (c) provides for the scheduled payments of dividends in cash or (d) is or becomes convertible into or exchangeable for Indebtedness or any other Equity Interests that would constitute Disqualified Equity Interests, in each case, prior to the date that is 91 days after the Latest Maturity Date at the time of issuance of such Equity Interests; provided that if such Equity Interests are issued pursuant to a plan for the benefit of employees of the Parent (or any direct or indirect parent thereof), the Borrowers or the Restricted Subsidiaries or by any such plan to such employees, such Equity Interests shall not constitute Disqualified Equity Interests solely because they may be required to be repurchased by the Parent or its Restricted Subsidiaries in order to satisfy applicable statutory or regulatory obligations or as a result of the termination, death or disability of such employee.
“Disqualified Lender” means any banks, financial institutions, institution lenders or any other Person (x) that have been specified to the Lead Arrangers by the Lead Borrower in writing at any time on or prior to the Closing Date (provided that such list may be updated by the Lead Borrower from time to time to include any other Person reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent) or to any Affiliates of such banks, financial institutions or institution lenders or other Persons, in each case that are readily identifiable as Affiliates on the basis of such affiliate’s name or that have been specified to the Lead Arrangers by the Lead Borrower in writing, (y) that constitutes a competitor of the Lead Borrower or the Lead Borrower’s subsidiaries or any Affiliate of such competitor that is readily identifiable as an Affiliate of such competitor on the basis of such Affiliate’s name or that have been specified to the Lead Arrangers by the Lead Borrower in writing (and in each case other than a competitor that is a bona fide debt fund), or
(z) that is a Lender’s or any of a Lender’s Affiliates’ deal teams that are engaged as principals primarily in private equity, mezzanine financing or venture capital (other than a bona fide debt fund) or are engaged in the sale of the Company and its subsidiaries, including through the provision of advisory services (the “Excluded Affiliates”). Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, (a) the Administrative Agent shall not be responsible or have any liability for, or have any duty to ascertain, inquire into, monitor or enforce, compliance with the provisions hereof relating to Disqualified Lenders in such capacity and (b) the Borrowers (on behalf of themselves and the other Loan Parties) and the Lenders acknowledge and agree that the Administrative Agent shall have no responsibility or obligation to determine whether any Lender or potential Lender is a Disqualified Lender and that the Administrative
Agent shall have no liability with respect to any assignment or participation made to a Disqualified Lender. “Dollar” and “$” mean lawful money of the United States.
“Domestic Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary that is organized under the Laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia.
“EEA Financial Institution” means (a) any credit institution or investment firm established in any EEA Member Country which is subject to the supervision of an EEA Resolution Authority, (b) any entity established in an EEA Member Country which is a parent of an institution described in clause (a) of this definition, or (c) any financial institution established in an EEA Member Country which is a subsidiary of an institution described in clauses (a) or (b) of this definition and is subject to consolidated supervision with its parent.
“EEA Member Country” means any of the member states of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.
“EEA Resolution Authority” shall mean any public administrative authority or any person entrusted with public administrative authority of any EEA Member Country (including any delegee) having responsibility for the resolution of any EEA Financial Institution.
“Eligible Assignee” has the meaning set forth in Section 10.07(a)(i).
“Enforcement Qualifications” has the meaning set forth in Section 5.04.
“Environment” means indoor air, ambient air, surface water, groundwater, drinking water, land surface, subsurface strata or sediment, and natural resources such as wetlands, flora and fauna or as otherwise defined in any Environmental Law.
“Environmental Laws” means any applicable Law relating to the prevention of pollution or the protection of the Environment and natural resources, and the protection of human health and safety as it relates to exposure to Hazardous Materials, including any applicable provisions of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act, 42 U.S.C. § 9601 et seq., the Hazardous Materials Transportation Act, 49 U.S.C. § 5101 et seq., the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, 42 U.S.C. § 6901 et seq., the Clean Water Act, 33 U.S.C. § 1251 et seq., the Clean Air Act, 42 U.S.C. § 7401 et seq., the Toxic Substances Control Act, 15 U.S.C. § 2601 et seq., the Occupational Safety and Health Act, 29 U.S.C. § 651 et seq. (as it relates to exposure to Hazardous Materials), and the Oil Pollution Act of 1990, 33 U.S.C. § 2701 et seq., and all analogous state or local statutes, and the regulations promulgated pursuant thereto.
“Environmental Liability” means any liability, contingent or otherwise (including any liability for damages, costs of investigation and remediation, fines, penalties or indemnities), of the Loan Parties or any Restricted Subsidiary directly or indirectly resulting from or based upon (a) noncompliance with any Environmental Law including any failure to obtain, maintain or comply with any Environmental Permit,
(b)the generation, use, handling, transportation, storage or treatment of any Hazardous Materials,
(c)exposure to any Hazardous Materials, (d) the Release or threatened Release of any Hazardous Materials or (e) any contract or agreement to the extent pursuant to which liability is assumed or imposed with respect to any of the foregoing.
“Environmental Permit” means any permit, approval, identification number, license or other authorization required under any applicable Environmental Law.
“Equity Funded Employee Plan Costs” means cash costs or expenses, incurred pursuant to any management equity plan or stock option plan or any other management or employee benefit plan or agreement or any stock subscription or shareholder agreement, to the extent funded with cash proceeds contributed to the capital of the Lead Borrower or net cash proceeds of an issuance of Qualified Equity Interests of the Lead Borrower or Equity Interests of any direct or indirect parent of the Lead Borrower (other than any amount designated as a Cure Amount, any Excluded Contribution Amount or any amount used in calculating the Cumulative Credit).
“Equity Interests” means, with respect to any Person, all of the shares, interests, rights, participations or other equivalents (however designated) of capital stock of (or other ownership or profit interests or units in) such Person and all of the warrants, options or other rights for the purchase, acquisition or exchange from such Person of any of the foregoing (including through convertible securities); provided, that any instrument evidencing Indebtedness convertible or exchangeable for Equity Interests shall not be deemed to be Equity Interests unless and until such instrument is so converted or exchanged.
“ERISA” means the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, as amended from time to
time.
“ERISA Affiliate” means any trade or business (whether or not incorporated) that is under common control with a Loan Party or any Restricted Subsidiary within the meaning of Section 414(b) or
(c) of the Code or Section 4001 of ERISA (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) a withdrawal by a Loan Party, any Restricted Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate from a Pension Plan subject to Section 4063 of ERISA during a plan year in which it was a substantial employer (as defined in Section 4001(a)(2) of ERISA) or a cessation of operations that is treated as such a withdrawal under Section 4062(e) of ERISA;
(c)a complete or partial withdrawal by a Loan Party, any Restricted Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate from a Multiemployer Plan or notification that a Multiemployer Plan is insolvent (within the meaning of Section 4245 of ERISA) or in “endangered” or “critical” status (within the meaning of Section 432 of the Code or Section 305 of ERISA); (d) a determination that any Pension Plan is in “at risk” status (within the meaning of Section 430 of the Code or Section 303 of ERISA); (e) the filing of a notice of intent to terminate, the treatment of a Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan amendment as a termination under Sections 4041 or 4041A of ERISA, or the commencement of proceedings by the PBGC to terminate a Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan; (f) an event or condition which constitutes grounds under Section 4042 of ERISA for, and that could reasonably be expected to result in, the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan; (g) with respect to a Pension Plan, the failure to satisfy the minimum funding standard of Sections 412 or 430 of the Code or Sections 302 or 303 of ERISA, whether or not waived; (h) a failure by a Loan Party, any Restricted Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate to make a required contribution to a Multiemployer Plan; (i) the occurrence of a nonexempt prohibited transaction (within the meaning of Section 4975 of the Code or Section 406 of ERISA) which could reasonably be expected to result in liability to a Loan Party or any Restricted Subsidiary; or (j) the imposition of any liability under Title IV of ERISA, other than for PBGC premiums due under Section 4007 of ERISA, upon a Loan Party, any Restricted Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate.
“EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule” shall mean the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule published by the Loan Market Association (or any successor person), as in effect from time to time.
“Eurocurrency Rate” means: for each Interest Period, the higher of (a) 1.00% per annum and (b) the offered rate per annum for deposits of Dollars for the applicable Interest Period that appears on the
applicable Bloomberg screen page (or the applicable successor page) as of 11:00 A.M. (London, England time) two (2) Business Days prior to the first day in such Interest Period. If no such offered rate exists, such rate will be the rate of interest per annum, as determined by Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion at which deposits of Dollars in immediately available funds are offered at 11:00 A.M. (London, England time) two (2) Business Days prior to the first day in such Interest Period by major financial institutions reasonably satisfactory to Administrative Agent in the London interbank market for such Interest Period for the applicable principal amount on such date of determination.
“Eurocurrency Rate Loan” means a Loan that bears interest based on the Eurocurrency Rate. “Euros” means lawful currency of the European Union.
“Event of Default” has the meaning set forth in Section 8.01.
“Excess Cash Flow” means, for any Excess Cash Flow Period, an amount equal to:
(a)the sum, without duplication, of:
(i)Consolidated Net Income for such Excess Cash Flow Period,
(ii)an amount equal to the amount of all non-cash charges (including depreciation and amortization) to the extent deducted in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income,
(iii)decreases in Consolidated Working Capital for such Excess Cash Flow Period (other than (A) any such decreases arising from acquisitions or dispositions by the Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries completed during such Excess Cash Flow Period or (B) reclassification of items from short-term to long-term or vice versa in accordance with GAAP),
(iv)an amount equal to the aggregate net non-cash loss on Dispositions by the Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries during such Excess Cash Flow Period (other than sales in the ordinary course of business) to the extent deducted in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income, and
(v)expenses deducted from Consolidated Net Income during such Excess Cash Flow Period in respect of expenditures made during any prior Excess Cash Flow Period for which a deduction from Excess Cash Flow was made in such Excess Cash Flow Period pursuant to clause (b)(xi), (xii), (xiii), (xv) or (xvi) below, minus
(b)the sum, without duplication, of:
(i)an amount equal to the amount of all non-cash gains and credits included in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income (including, to the extent constituting non-cash credits, amortization of deferred revenue acquired as a result of any Permitted Acquisition or other consummated acquisition permitted hereunder), and Transaction Expenses to the extent not deducted in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income and paid in cash during such period, and cash charges, losses, costs, fees or expenses to the extent excluded in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income during such period,
(ii)without duplication of amounts deducted pursuant to clause (xi) below in prior Excess Cash Flow Periods, the amount of any Capital Expenditures, Capitalized Software Expenditures or acquisitions of intellectual property to the extent not expensed or accrued during
such Excess Cash Flow Period, to the extent that such Capital Expenditures, Capitalized Software Expenditures or acquisitions were financed with Internally Generated Cash,
(iii)to the extent financed with Internally Generated Cash, the aggregate amount of all principal payments of Indebtedness of the Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries (including (A) the principal component of payments in respect of Capitalized Leases, (B) the amount of any scheduled repayment of Initial Term Loans pursuant to Section 2.07, Extended Term Loans, Refinancing Term Loans, Incremental Term Loans, Replacement Term Loans, Other Term Loans, Other Notes, (C) any mandatory prepayment of Term Loans pursuant to Section 2.05(b)(ii), Other Term Loans, Other Notes and Permitted Ratio Debt to the extent required due to a Disposition that resulted in an increase to Consolidated Net Income and not in excess of the amount of such increase and (D) payments of earn-outs or seller notes or notes converted from an earn-out, but excluding (X) all other prepayments of Term Loans and any other Indebtedness secured on a pari passu basis with the Term Loans (other than (x) prepayments referred to in clause (C) above and
(y) revolving Indebtedness) and (Y) all prepayments in respect of any revolving credit facility, except to the extent there is an equivalent permanent reduction in commitments thereunder),
(iv)an amount equal to the aggregate net non-cash gain on dispositions by the Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries during such Excess Cash Flow Period (other than dispositions in the ordinary course of business) to the extent included in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income,
(v)increases in Consolidated Working Capital for such Excess Cash Flow Period (other than (A) any such increases arising from acquisitions or dispositions by the Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries during such Excess Cash Flow Period or (B) reclassification of items from short-term to long-term or vice versa in accordance with GAAP),
(vi)cash payments by the Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries during such Excess Cash Flow Period in respect of long-term liabilities of the Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries other than Indebtedness to the extent such payments are not expensed during such Excess Cash Flow Period or are not deducted in calculating Consolidated Net Income and to the extent financed with Internally Generated Cash,
(vii)without duplication of amounts deducted pursuant to clause (xi) below in prior Excess Cash Flow Periods, the amount of any Investments or acquisitions during such Excess Cash Flow Period pursuant to Section 7.02 (other than Section 7.02(a) or (c)) to the extent that such Investments and acquisitions were financed with Internally Generated Cash,
(viii)the amount of Restricted Payments paid during such Excess Cash Flow Period pursuant to Section 7.06 (other than Section 7.06(f)(A), (q) and (s)) to the extent such Restricted Payments were financed with Internally Generated Cash,
(ix)the aggregate amount of expenditures actually made by the Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries in cash during such Excess Cash Flow Period (including Capital Expenditures for the payment of financing fees) to the extent that such expenditures are not expensed during such Excess Cash Flow Period, in each case to the extent financed with Internally Generated Cash,
(x)the aggregate amount of any premium, make-whole or penalty payments actually paid in cash by the Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries during such Excess Cash Flow Period that are required to be made in connection with any prepayment of Indebtedness, in each
case to the extent financed with Internally Generated Cash,
(xi)without duplication of amounts deducted from Excess Cash Flow in prior Excess Cash Flow Periods and, at the option of the Lead Borrower, (1) the aggregate consideration required to be paid in cash by the Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries pursuant to binding contracts or executed letters of intent (the “Contract Consideration”) entered into (x) prior to or during such Excess Cash Flow Period (including all contracts on account of which the Parent or any of its Subsidiaries have deferred revenue) or (y) at the election of the Lead Borrower, any Contract Consideration paid after year-end and prior to when such Excess Cash Flow prepayment is due, and (2) any planned cash expenditures by the Parent or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries, in the case of each of clauses (1) and (2) relating to Permitted Acquisitions, Investments (other than Investments made pursuant to Section 7.02(a) or (c)), Capital Expenditures or Capitalized Software Expenditures to be consummated or made during the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters following the end of the applicable Excess Cash Flow Period, plus any restructuring cash expenses, pension payments or tax contingency payments then due and payable that have been added to Excess Cash Flow pursuant to clause (a)(ii) above; provided that to the extent the aggregate amount of Internally Generated Cash actually utilized to finance such acquisitions, Investments, Capital Expenditures or Capitalized Software Expenditures during such Excess Cash Flow Period is less than the Contract Consideration, together with the amount of planned cash expenditures pursuant to clause (2) above, the amount of such shortfall shall be added to the calculation of Excess Cash Flow for the next fiscal year,
(xii)without duplication of amounts deducted from Excess Cash Flow in prior Excess Cash Flow Periods, the amount of cash taxes (including penalties and interest) paid or tax reserves set aside or payable (without duplication) in such Excess Cash Flow Period, plus the amount of distributions with respect to taxes made in such Excess Cash Flow Period under Section 7.06, in each case, to the extent they exceed the amount of tax expense deducted in determining Consolidated Net Income for such Excess Cash Flow Period,
(xiii)cash expenditures in respect of Swap Contracts during such Excess Cash Flow Period to the extent not deducted in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income,
(xiv)any payment of cash to be amortized or expensed over a future Excess Cash Flow Period and recorded as a long-term asset,
(xv)reimbursable or insured expenses incurred during such Excess Cash Flow Period to the extent that such reimbursement has not yet been received and to the extent not deducted in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income,
(xvi)cash expenditures for costs and expenses (including retention, recruiting, relocation, stay and signing bonuses and expenses) in connection with the Transactions (including all Transaction Expenses), acquisitions, Investments, Restricted Payments, dispositions and the issuance of equity interests or Indebtedness, repayments of debt, Qualified IPOs, refinancing transactions or amendments or other modifications of any debt instrument (including, in each case, any such transaction consummated on the Closing Date and any such transaction undertaken but not completed), in each case to the extent not deducted in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income,
(xvii)payments by the Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries during such Excess Cash Flow Period in respect of purchase price holdbacks, earn-outs, other contingent obligations and long-term liabilities (other than the current portion thereof) of the Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries other than Indebtedness (including purchase price holdbacks, earn-outs, seller notes
or notes converted from earn-outs and similar obligations), to the extent not already deducted from Consolidated Net Income; and
(xviii)any cash fees, costs and expenses incurred in connection with the implementation of ASC 606.
Notwithstanding anything in the definition of any term used in the definition of “Excess Cash Flow” to the contrary, all components of Excess Cash Flow shall be computed for the Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis.
“Excess Cash Flow Period” shall mean each full fiscal year of the Parent commencing after the Closing Date.
“Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.
“Excluded Affiliate” shall have the meaning set forth in the definition of “Disqualified Lenders”.
“Excluded Assets” means (unless otherwise elected by the Lead Borrower) (i) any fee owned real property (other than Material Real Property) and any leasehold rights and interests in real property (it being understood and agreed that there shall be no requirement on the part of the Loan Parties to deliver landlord or other third-party waivers, estoppels, consents or collateral access letters), (ii) motor vehicles, airplanes and other assets subject to certificates of title, except to the extent a security interest therein may be perfected by filing of a UCC financing statement, (iii) commercial tort claims for which a claim with a value of less than $1,000,000 is made, (iv) any lease related to or any property subject to a purchase money security interest, Capitalized Lease or similar arrangements, in each case, to the extent permitted under the Loan Documents, to the extent that a grant of a security interest therein would violate or invalidate such lease, purchase money, Capitalized Lease or a similar arrangement or create a right of termination or consent in favor of any other party thereto (other than of the Parent or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Parent) (it being understood and agreed that there shall be no obligation to seek or obtain such consent), (v) any lease, license, permit, franchise or other agreement, and the property subject thereto, in each case, to the extent that a grant of a security interest therein (A) is prohibited by applicable Law other than to the extent such prohibition is rendered ineffective under the UCC or other applicable Law notwithstanding such prohibition or (B) to the extent and for so long as it would violate the terms thereof (in each case, after giving effect to the relevant provisions of the UCC or other applicable Laws) or would give rise to a termination or governmental or other third-party consent right (other than of the Parent or a Restricted Subsidiary of the Parent) thereunder (except to the extent such provision is overridden by the UCC or other applicable Laws), in each case, solely to the extent that such limitation on such pledge or security interest is otherwise permitted under Section 7.09, (vi)(A) Margin Stock and (B)(1) to the extent not permitted by the terms of such Person’s organizational or joint venture documents (so long as such documents are not entered into in contemplation of this Agreement), Equity Interests in any Person other than the Borrowers and other Wholly-owned Restricted Subsidiaries of the Parent and (2) Equity Interests in any Person in an amount in excess of the amounts required to be pledged under the definition of “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement” above (and excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, Excluded Pledged Subsidiaries), (vii) any property subject to a Lien permitted by Sections 7.01(u) or (aa) (to the extent relating to a Lien originally incurred pursuant to Sections 7.01(u) or (aa) solely to the extent that a security interest therein is prohibited by the terms of the agreements governing such Lien, and such prohibition existed at the time such Restricted Subsidiary becomes a Loan Party (and was not incurred in contemplation thereof)), (viii) any property or assets (I) of any Subsidiary that is a CFC, CFC Holding Company or a Subsidiary of a CFC or CFC Holding Company or (II) for which the creation or perfection of pledges of, or security interests in, could result in adverse tax consequences (other than de minimis tax consequences) or adverse regulatory or accounting consequences to the Parent, the Borrowers or any of their Subsidiaries, each as reasonably determined by
the Lead Borrower, (ix) letter of credit rights with a value of less than $1,000,000, except to the extent constituting support obligations for other Collateral as to which perfection of the security interest in such other Collateral is accomplished solely by the filing of a UCC financing statement (it being understood and agreed that no actions shall be required to perfect a security interest in letter of credit rights, other than the filing of a UCC financing statement), (x) deposit accounts maintained and used (I) for payroll or payroll taxes, (II) for withholding tax or other tax accounts, including without limitation, sales tax accounts, (III) for employee benefits or wages, (IV) as escrow, trust or any other fiduciary account, (V) zero balance accounts, (VI) cash collateral accounts securing credit card facilities, or merchant accounts permitted hereunder, (VII) accounts that are used as cash collateral or escrow accounts or otherwise with third parties to the extent such deposits or securities therein constitute Liens permitted hereunder, (VIII) accounts that are maintained outside of the United States, (IX) to support performance bonds and (X) accounts in which the average daily balance of any five (5) consecutive Business Day period does not exceed $500,000 in the aggregate for all such accounts, taken as a whole, (xi) any intent-to-use Trademark application prior to the filing and acceptance of a “Statement of Use” or “Amendment to Allege Use” with respect thereto, to the extent, if any, that, and solely during the period, if any, in which, the grant of a security interest therein would impair the validity or enforceability of such intent-to-use Trademark application or any registration that issues therefrom under applicable federal Law, (xii) particular assets if and for so long as, if reasonably agreed by the Administrative Agent and the Lead Borrower, the cost of creating or perfecting such pledges or security interests in such assets or obtaining title insurance, surveys, abstracts or appraisals in respect of such assets is excessive in relation to the practical benefits to be obtained by the Lenders therefrom, (xiii)(a) Equity Interests of the type described in the proviso to Section 2.01(i) of the Security Agreement and (b) any assets of any Subsidiary of the Parent which is not a Loan Party, (xiv) Securitization Assets (or interests therein) sold to any Securitization Subsidiary or otherwise pledged, factored, transferred or sold in connection with a Qualified Securitization Financing permitted hereunder, (xv) Receivables Assets sold or otherwise pledged or transferred in connection with a Receivables Facility permitted hereunder and (xvi) Equity Interests and assets of captive insurance subsidiaries, Subsidiaries that are not Material Subsidiaries (except to the extent perfected by filing of a UCC financing statement), broker dealer subsidiaries, Unrestricted Subsidiaries and each other Excluded Pledged Subsidiary (other than, in each case, any such Subsidiary that is a Loan Party); provided, however, that Excluded Assets shall not include any Proceeds, substitutions or replacements of any Excluded Assets referred to in clauses (i) through (xvi) (unless such Proceeds, substitutions or replacements would independently constitute Excluded Assets referred to in clauses (i) through (xvi)).
“Excluded Contribution Amount” shall mean net cash proceeds received by a Borrower as capital contributions to its common equity capital after the Closing Date (other than from a Restricted Subsidiary of the Parent) or from the issuance or sale (other than (i) to a Restricted Subsidiary of the Parent, (ii) to any management equity plan or equity option plan or any other management or employee benefit plan or agreement of the Lead Borrower or direct or indirect parent thereof or (iii) Cure Amounts) of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Equity Interests) of a Borrower or direct or indirect parent thereof or the Fair Market Value of Investment Grade Securities or Qualified Proceeds contributed to a Borrower, in each case, designated as Excluded Contribution Amounts pursuant to an officer’s certificate executed by a Responsible Officer of the Lead Borrower from time to time, which are excluded from the calculation of Cumulative Credit, minus any Excluded Contribution Amount applied or used hereunder after the Closing Date and prior to such time.
“Excluded Information” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a)(v)(F).
“Excluded Pledged Subsidiary” means (a) any Subsidiary for which the pledge of its Equity Interests is prohibited by applicable Law or, solely in the case of a newly acquired Subsidiary, by Contractual Obligation in existence at the time of acquisition but not entered into in contemplation thereof, or for which governmental (including regulatory) consent, approval, license or authorization would be
required unless such consent, approval, license or authorization has been received (it being understood and agreed that there shall be no obligation to seek or obtain such consent, approval, license or authorization),
(b) any other Subsidiary with respect to which, to the extent reasonably agreed by the Lead Borrower and the Administrative Agent, the burden or cost or other consequences (including any adverse tax, regulatory or accounting consequences (other than de minimis tax or regulatory consequences)) of the pledge of its Equity Interests shall be excessive in view of the benefits to be obtained by the Lenders therefrom (as reasonably determined by the Lead Borrower and the Administrative Agent), (c) any not-for-profit Subsidiaries, (d) any special purpose securitization vehicle, Securitization Subsidiary or Receivables Subsidiary (or similar entity), but only to the extent that the pledge of the Equity Interests in such vehicle is prohibited by applicable Law or by Contractual Obligations and (e) any Unrestricted Subsidiary.
“Excluded Subsidiary” means, unless otherwise elected by the Lead Borrower, (a) any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-owned Domestic Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower or a Guarantor and each joint venture, (b) any Subsidiary for which guarantees of the Obligations are (i) prohibited by applicable Law, rule or regulation or require consent, approval, license or authorization of a Governmental Authority, unless such consent, approval, license or authorization has been received; provided, that there shall be no obligation to obtain such consent, approval, license or authorization or (ii) contractually prohibited on the Closing Date or, following the Closing Date, the date of the acquisition thereof, so long as such prohibition exists and so long as such prohibition is not created in contemplation of the Transactions or any such acquisition, (c) any Subsidiary with respect to which, in the reasonable judgment of the Lead Borrower and the Administrative Agent, the burden or cost of providing a Guarantee shall be excessive in view of the benefits to be obtained by the Lenders therefrom (giving due consideration to regulatory, accounting and tax consequences), (d) any not-for-profit Subsidiaries, (e) any Unrestricted Subsidiaries, (f) any special purpose securitization vehicle (or similar entity), including each Receivables Subsidiary and Securitization Subsidiary, (g) any direct or indirect Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower or a Guarantor that is a CFC Holding Company or a CFC, (h) any Subsidiary that is a direct or indirect Subsidiary of a Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower or a Guarantor that is a CFC Holding Company or a CFC, (i) captive insurance Subsidiaries and any other Excluded Pledged Subsidiary, (j) any Subsidiary that is not a Material Subsidiary and (k) any Subsidiary acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition or other Investment permitted under this Agreement and financed with assumed Indebtedness permitted to be incurred pursuant to this Agreement (and not incurred in contemplation of such Permitted Acquisition or Investment), and each Restricted Subsidiary acquired in such Permitted Acquisition or other Investment permitted hereunder that guarantees such Indebtedness, in each case to the extent that, and for so long as, the documentation relating to such Indebtedness to which such Subsidiary is a party prohibits such Subsidiary from guaranteeing the Obligations and such prohibition is not created in contemplation of such Permitted Acquisition or other Investment permitted hereunder.
“Excluded Swap Obligation” means, with respect to any Guarantor, any obligation (a “Swap 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, if, and to the extent that, all or a portion of the Guarantee of such Guarantor of, or the grant by such Guarantor of a security interest to secure, such Swap Obligation (or any Guarantee thereof) is or becomes illegal or unlawful under the Commodity Exchange Act or any rule, regulation or order of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission (or the application or official interpretation of any thereof) by virtue of such Guarantor’s failure for any reason not to constitute an “eligible contract participant” as defined in the Commodity Exchange Act.
“Executive Order” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Section 5.17(a).
“Existing Term Loan Tranche” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.16(a).
“Extended Revolving Credit Commitments” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.16(b).
“Extended Revolving Credit Loans” means one or more Classes of Revolving Credit Loans that result from an Extension Amendment.
“Extended Term Loans” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.16(a).
“Extending Term Lender” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.16(c).
“Extending Revolving Credit Lender” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.16(c).
“Extension” means the establishment of an Extension Series by amending a Loan pursuant to the terms of Section 2.16 and the applicable Extension Amendment.
“Extension Amendment” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.16(d).
“Extension Election” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.16(c).
“Extension Request” means any Term Loan Extension Request or a Revolving Credit Loan Extension Request, as the case may be.
“Extension Series” means any Term Loan Extension Series or a Revolving Credit Loan Extension Series, as the case may be.
“Facility” means the Revolving Credit Facility, a given Extension Series of Extended Revolving Credit Commitments, a given Refinancing Series of Refinancing Revolving Credit Loans, the Term Facility, a given Extension Series of Extended Term Loans, a given Class of Incremental Term Loans or a given Refinancing Series of Refinancing Term Loans, as the context may require.
“Fair Market Value” means with respect to any asset or group of assets on any date of determination, the value of the consideration obtainable in a sale of such asset at such date of determination assuming a sale by a willing seller to a willing purchaser dealing at arm’s length and arranged in an orderly manner over a reasonable period of time having regard to the nature and characteristics of such asset, as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower.
“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 thereunder or official interpretations thereof, any agreements entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b)(1) of the Code as of the date of this Agreement (or any amended or successor version described above), any intergovernmental agreement implementing the foregoing, and any related fiscal or regulatory legislation, rules or official administrative practices adopted pursuant to any intergovernmental agreement, treaty or convention among Governmental Authorities implementing the foregoing.
“FCPA” has the meaning set forth in Section 5.17(a).
“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 on such day, as published by the Federal Reserve Bank 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 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 the
Administrative Agent by three federal funds brokers of recognized standing selected by it on such day on such transactions as reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent, but in no event less than 0.00% per annum.
“Fee Letter” means the Fee Letter, dated as of October 28, 2020, among the Lead Borrower and the Administrative Agent.
“FIRREA” means the Financial Institutions Reform, Recovery and Enforcement Act of 1989, as amended.
“Flood Insurance Laws” means, collectively, (i) the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 as now or hereafter in effect or any successor statute thereto, (ii) the Flood Disaster Protection Act of 1973 as now or hereafter in effect or any successor statue thereto, (iii) the National Flood Insurance Reform Act of 1994 as now or hereafter in effect or any successor statute thereto, and (iv) the Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2004 as now or hereafter in effect or any successor statute thereto.
“Foreign Lender” means any Lender which is not a United States person as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code.
“Foreign Subsidiary” means any direct or indirect Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower or any Guarantor which is not a Domestic Subsidiary.
“Fund” means any Person (other than a natural person) that is engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course.
“GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States of America, as in effect from time to time; provided, however, that, subject to Section 1.03, if the Lead Borrower notifies the Administrative Agent that the Lead Borrower requests an amendment to any provision hereof to eliminate the effect of any change occurring after the Closing Date in GAAP or in the application thereof (including through conforming changes made consistent with IFRS) on the operation of such provision (or if the Administrative Agent notifies the Lead Borrower that the Required Lenders request an amendment to any provision hereof for such purpose), regardless of whether any such notice is given before or after such change in GAAP or in the application thereof (including through conforming changes made consistent with IFRS), then such provision shall be interpreted on the basis of GAAP as in effect and applied immediately before such change shall have become effective until such notice shall have been withdrawn or such provision amended in accordance herewith.
“Governmental Authority” means any nation or government, any state or other political subdivision thereof, any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body, court, administrative tribunal, central bank or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial, taxing, regulatory, or administrative powers or functions of or pertaining to government, or any supra-national bodies (such as the European Union or the European Central Bank).
“Granting Lender” has the meaning set forth in Section 10.07(h).
“Guarantee” means, as to any Person, without duplication, any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of such Person guaranteeing or having the economic effect of guaranteeing any Indebtedness of 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, (ii) to purchase or lease property, securities or services for the purpose of assuring the obligee in respect of such Indebtedness of the payment or performance of such Indebtedness,
(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 (iv) entered into for the purpose of assuring in any other manner the obligee in respect of such Indebtedness of the payment or performance thereof or to protect such obligee against loss in respect thereof (in whole or in part); provided, however, that the term “Guarantee” shall not include (i) endorsements of instruments for deposit or collection in the ordinary course of business or (ii) customary and reasonable indemnity obligations or product warranties in effect on the Closing Date or entered into in connection with any acquisition or disposition of assets permitted under this Agreement (other than such obligations with respect to Indebtedness). 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.
“Guaranteed Obligations” has the meaning set forth in Section 11.01.
“Guarantors” means (1) the Parent, (2) each Borrower with respect to the obligations of each other Borrower and the obligations of each Restricted Subsidiary in respect of Cash Management Obligations and Hedge Obligations, (3) each existing Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is a direct or indirect Wholly-owned Material Domestic Subsidiary (other than any Excluded Subsidiary) as of the Closing Date and not designated as a Borrower hereunder and (4) each subsequently acquired or organized (including, without limitation, by division) Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower that is a direct or indirect Wholly-owned Material Domestic Subsidiary (other than any Excluded Subsidiary) and not designated as a Borrower hereunder that shall become a Guarantor pursuant to Section 6.11. For the avoidance of doubt, the Lead Borrower may (subject to the terms of clause (b) and (f) of the “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement”) elect to cause any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor to cease to be an Excluded Subsidiary and to Guarantee the Obligations by causing such Restricted Subsidiary to execute a joinder to this Agreement substantially in the form attached as Exhibit J or in another form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Lead Borrower and causing such Restricted Subsidiary to satisfy the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement, whereupon any such Restricted Subsidiary shall be a Guarantor, Loan Party and Subsidiary Guarantor (but not a Borrower) hereunder for all purposes (any such Excluded Subsidiary that becomes a Guarantor, a “Specified Guarantor”).
“Guaranty” means, collectively, the guaranty of the Obligations by the Guarantors pursuant to this Agreement.
“Hazardous Materials” means all materials, substances or wastes, all pollutants or contaminants, in any form, including petroleum or petroleum distillates, friable asbestos or asbestos-containing materials, polychlorinated biphenyls, radon gas and toxic mold that are regulated pursuant to, or which could give rise to liability under, applicable Environmental Law because of their toxic, dangerous or deleterious properties or characteristics.
“Hedge Bank” means any Person that is (x) a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender or Agent at the time it enters into a Secured Hedge Agreement or a Treasury Services Agreement, as applicable or (y) at the option of the Lead Borrower, any other Person, in each case, in its capacity as a party thereto and that is designated a “Hedge Bank” with respect to such Secured Hedge Agreement or Treasury Services Agreement, as applicable, in a writing from the Lead Borrower to the Administrative Agent, and (other than a Person already party hereto as a Lender or Agent) that delivers to the Administrative Agent a letter agreement reasonably satisfactory to it (i) appointing the Administrative Agent as its agent under the applicable Loan Documents and (ii) agreeing to be bound by Sections 10.05, 10.15 and 10.16 and Article IX as if it were a Lender; provided that the aggregate principal amount of the Hedging Obligations
and/or the Cash Management Obligations owed to all Persons so designated pursuant to the foregoing clause (y) at any time (other than in respect of purchasing card services, performance bonds and letters of credit permitted under Section 7.03(q), in each case, in the ordinary course of business) when taken together with the aggregate amount of Liens securing Swap Contracts pursuant to Section 7.01 below, shall not exceed $5,000,000 in the aggregate.
“Hedging Obligations” shall mean, with respect to any Person, the obligations of such Person under any Secured Hedge Agreements.
“Identified Participating Lenders” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a)(v)(C)(3).
“Identified Qualifying Lenders” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a)(v)(D)(3).
“IFRS” means international accounting standards as promulgated by the International Accounting Standards Board.
“Incremental Amendment” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.14(f).
“Incremental Commitments” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.14(a).
“Incremental Facility Closing Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.14(d).
“Incremental Lenders” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.14(c).
“Incremental Loan” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.14(b).
“Incremental Request” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.14(a).
“Incremental Revolving Credit Lender” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.14(c).
“Incremental Revolving Loan” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.14(b).
“Incremental Term Commitments” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.14(a).
“Incremental Term Lender” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.14(c).
“Incremental Term Loan” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.14(b).
“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)the maximum amount (after giving effect to any prior drawings or reductions which may have been reimbursed) of all outstanding drawn letters of credit (including standby and commercial), bankers’ acceptances, and bank guaranties issued or created by or for the account of such Person;
(c)net obligations of such Person under any Swap Contract;
(d)all obligations of such Person to pay the deferred purchase price of property;
(e)indebtedness described in clauses (a)-(d) and (f)-(h) (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 and mortgage, industrial revenue bond, industrial development bond and similar financings), whether or not such indebtedness shall have been assumed by such Person or is limited in recourse;
(f)all Attributable Indebtedness;
(g)all obligations of such Person in respect of Disqualified Equity Interests if and to the extent that the foregoing would constitute indebtedness or a liability in accordance with GAAP; and
(h)to the extent not otherwise included above, all Guarantees of such Person in respect of Indebtedness of the type described in clauses (a) through (g) in respect of any of the foregoing.
For all purposes hereof, the Indebtedness of any Person shall (A) 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, except to the extent such Person’s liability for such Indebtedness is otherwise limited and only to the extent such Indebtedness would be included in the calculation of Consolidated Total Net Debt, (B) in the case of the Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries, exclude all intercompany Indebtedness having a term not exceeding 364 days (inclusive of any roll-over or extensions of terms) and made in the ordinary course of business and (C) exclude (i) trade accounts and accrued expenses payable in the ordinary course of business, (ii) any earn-out obligation until such obligation is not paid for ten (10) Business Days after becoming due and payable, (iii) accruals for payroll and other liabilities accrued in the ordinary course of business, (iv) purchase price holdbacks in respect of a portion of the purchase price of an asset to satisfy warranty or other unperformed obligations of the respective seller, (v) contingent obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business, (vi) deferred Taxes, deferred and prepaid or deferred revenue, in each case arising in the ordinary course of business and
(vii) customary obligations under employment agreements and deferred compensation; provided, further, that Indebtedness of any direct or indirect parent company appearing upon the balance sheet of the Parent solely by reason of push down accounting under GAAP shall be excluded. 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 Indebtedness of any Person for purposes of clause (e), shall be deemed to be equal to the lesser of (x) the aggregate unpaid amount of such Indebtedness and (y) the Fair Market Value of the property encumbered thereby as determined by such Person in good faith.
“Indemnified Liabilities” has the meaning set forth in Section 10.05.
“Indemnified Taxes” means, with respect to any Agent or any Lender, all Taxes imposed on or with respect to payments made by or on account of any obligation of any Loan Party under the Loan Documents other than (i) any Taxes imposed on or measured by its net income, however denominated, and franchise Taxes, in each case, imposed by a jurisdiction (or any political subdivision thereof) as a result of such Agent or Lender being organized in or having its principal office or applicable lending office in such jurisdiction, or that are Other Connection Taxes, (ii) any Taxes attributable to the failure of such Agent or Lender to deliver the documentation required to be delivered pursuant to Section 3.01(d), Section 3.01(e), or Section 3.01(f), as applicable, (iii) any branch profits Taxes imposed by the United States under Section 884(a) of the Code or any similar Tax imposed by any jurisdiction described in clause (i) above,
(iv)in the case of a Lender, any U.S. federal withholding Tax that would apply to amounts payable hereunder under the law applicable at such time the Lender becomes a party to this Agreement (other than pursuant to a request by the Lead Borrower under Section 3.07(a)), or designates a new Lending Office, except to the extent such Lender (or its assignor, if any) was entitled, immediately prior to the time of
designation of a new Lending Office (or assignment), to receive additional amounts from any Borrower or any Guarantor with respect to such withholding Tax pursuant to Section 3.01 and (v) any withholding Taxes imposed under FATCA.
“Indemnitees” has the meaning set forth in Section 10.05.
“Independent Financial Advisor” means an accounting, appraisal, investment banking firm or consultant of nationally recognized standing that is, in the good faith judgment of the Lead Borrower, qualified to perform the task for which it has been engaged and that is independent of the Lead Borrower and its Affiliates.
“Information” has the meaning set forth in Section 10.08.
“Initial Revolving Borrowing” means one or more borrowings of Revolving Credit Loans on the Closing Date which Revolving Credit Loans are used for Permitted Initial Revolving Credit Borrowing Purposes.
“Initial Term Commitment” means, as to each Term Lender, its obligation to make an Initial Term Loan to the Borrowers pursuant to Section 2.01(a) in an aggregate amount not to exceed the amount set forth opposite such Lender’s name on Schedule 1.01A under the caption “Initial Term Commitment” or in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Term Lender becomes a party hereto, as applicable, as such amount may be adjusted from time to time in accordance with this Agreement (including Section 2.14). The aggregate amount of the Initial Term Commitments is $31,000,000.
“Initial Term Loans” means the term loans made by the Lenders on the Closing Date to the Borrowers pursuant to Section 2.01(a).
“Intellectual Property Security Agreement” has the meaning set forth in the Security Agreement. “Intercompany Note” means a promissory note substantially in the form of Exhibit G.
“Intercreditor Agreement” shall mean an intercreditor agreement substantially in a form to be mutually agreed among the Lead Borrower and the Administrative Agent and the representatives for purposes thereof for holders of one or more classes of Indebtedness pari passu in right of payment and security (other than the Obligations) or secured by a Lien junior in priority to those securing the Obligations which shall be on customary terms in light of prevailing market conditions, which if deemed reasonably necessary by the Administrative Agent shall be posted to the Lenders not less than five Business Days before execution thereof and, if the Required Lenders shall not have objected to such agreement within five Business Days after posting, then the Required Lenders shall be deemed (a) to have agreed that the Administrative Agent’s entry into such intercreditor agreement (with such changes as the Administrative Agent deems reasonably necessary) is reasonable and to have consented to such intercreditor agreement (with such changes as the Administrative Agent and the Lead Borrower deem reasonably necessary) and to the Administrative Agent’s execution thereof and (b) to have directed the Administrative Agent to execute such agreement.
“Interest Payment Date” means, (a) as to any Eurocurrency Rate Loan, the last day of each Interest Period applicable to such Loan and the Maturity Date of the Facility under which such Loan was made; provided 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 and (b) as to any Base Rate Loan, the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December and the Maturity Date of the Facility under which such Loan was made.
“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, three or six months thereafter or, to the extent agreed by each applicable Lender of such Eurocurrency Rate Loan, 12 months or less than one month thereafter, as selected by the Lead Borrower in its Committed 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 (other than an Interest Period having a duration of less than one month) 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 applicable Maturity Date.
“Internally Generated Cash” means, with respect to any Person, funds of such Person not constituting proceeds of the incurrence of long-term Indebtedness (other than revolving indebtedness or intercompany indebtedness) of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries.
“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 or debt or other securities of another Person, (b) a loan, advance or capital contribution to, Guarantee or assumption of Indebtedness 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 or (c) the purchase or other acquisition (in one transaction or a series of related transactions) of all or substantially all of the property and assets or business of another Person or assets constituting a business unit, line of business or division of such Person; provided, that Investments shall not include, in the case of the Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries, intercompany loans, advances, or Indebtedness made to or owing by the Parent or a Restricted Subsidiary having a term not exceeding 364 days (inclusive of any roll-over or extensions of terms) and made in the ordinary course of business; provided, further, that, in the event that any Investment is made by Parent, any Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in any Person through substantially concurrent interim transfers of any amount through the Parent or any Restricted Subsidiary, then such other substantially concurrent interim transfers shall be disregarded for purposes of Section 7.02. For purposes of covenant compliance, the amount of any Investment at any time shall be the amount actually invested (measured at the time made), without adjustment for subsequent increases or decreases in the value of such Investment, less any Returns (except with respect to any Returns increasing the Cumulative Credit pursuant to clause (e) or (g) of the definition thereof) in respect of such Investment.
“Investment Grade Securities” shall mean:
(i)securities issued or directly, fully and unconditionally guaranteed by the United States government or any agency or instrumentality thereof (other than Cash Equivalents),
(ii)debt securities or debt instruments with an investment grade rating, but excluding any debt securities or instruments constituting loans or advances among the Parent and its Subsidiaries, and
(iii)investments in any fund that invests all or substantially all of its assets in investments of the type described in clauses (i) and (ii), which fund may also hold immaterial amounts of cash pending investment or distribution.
“IP Rights” has the meaning set forth in Section 5.15.
“Junior Financing” has the meaning set forth in Section 7.12(a).
“Junior Financing Documentation” means any documentation governing any Junior Financing.
“Latest Maturity Date” means, at any date of determination, the latest Maturity Date applicable to any Loan or Commitment hereunder at such time, including the latest maturity date of any Extended Revolving Credit Commitments, Refinancing Revolving Credit Commitments, Extended Term Loans, Incremental Term Loans, Refinancing Term Loans, Replacement Term Loans and Refinancing Term Commitments, in each case, as extended in accordance with this Agreement from time to time.
“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 legally binding interpretation or administration thereof by any Governmental Authority charged with the enforcement, interpretation or administration thereof, and all applicable administrative orders, directed duties, legally binding requests, licenses, authorizations and permits of, and agreements with, any Governmental Authority.
“Lead Arranger” means Adams Street Credit Advisors LP, in its capacity as the sole lead arranger under this Agreement.
“Lead Borrower” shall have the meaning provided in the preamble to this Agreement.
“Lender” has the meaning set forth in the introductory paragraph to this Agreement and their respective successors and assigns as permitted hereunder, each of which is referred to herein as a “Lender”.
“Lending Office” means, as to any Lender, such office or offices as a Lender may from time to time notify the Lead Borrower and the Administrative Agent.
“Lien” means any mortgage, deed of trust, deed to secure debt, pledge, hypothecation, collateral assignment, security deposit arrangement, encumbrance, lien (statutory or other), charge or other security interest or preferential arrangement 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 Capitalized Lease having substantially the same economic effect as any of the foregoing).
“Limited Condition Transaction” shall mean any (i) Permitted Acquisition or other permitted acquisition of any assets, business or person or Investment (including acquisitions subject to a letter of intent or purchase agreement), in each case, the consummation of which is not conditioned on the availability of, or on obtaining, financing, (ii) redemption, repurchase, defeasance, satisfaction and discharge or repayment of Indebtedness requiring irrevocable notice in advance of such redemption, repurchase, defeasance, satisfaction and discharge or repayment, (iii) Disposition or (iv) Restricted Payment.
“Loan” means an extension of credit hereunder by a Lender to the Borrowers, including, without limitation, in the form of a Term Loan, Delayed Draw Term Loan or Revolving Credit Loan (including, without limitation, any Initial Term Loans, any Incremental Term Loans and any extensions of credit under any Revolving Commitment Increase or Additional Revolving Commitments, any Extended Term Loans and any extensions of credit under any Extended Revolving Credit Commitment, any Refinancing Term Loans and any extensions of credit under any Refinancing Revolving Credit Commitment and any Replacement Term Loans).
“Loan Documents” means, collectively, (i) this Agreement (including the schedules hereto),
(ii) the Notes, (iii) the Collateral Documents, (iv) any Refinancing Amendment, Incremental Amendment or Extension Amendment, (v) each Intercreditor Agreement, (vi) the Fee Letter, and (vii) any amendment or joinder to this Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, Swap Contracts and agreements for the provision of Cash Management Services shall not constitute “Loan Documents”.
“Loan Parties” means, collectively, each Borrower and each Guarantor.
“London Banking Day” means any day on which dealings in Dollar deposits are conducted by and between banks in the London interbank eurodollar market.
“Management Agreement” means that certain Consulting Agreement, dated as of March 2, 2020, by and between Adcole Maryland Aerospace, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, the Lead Borrower, Parent and AE Industrial Partners, LP, a Delaware limited partnership and its Affiliates from time to time party thereto, as amended by that certain Amendment No. 1 to Consulting Agreement, dated as of July 1, 2020.
“Management Equityholders” shall mean any of (i) any current or former director, officer, employee or member of management of the Parent or any of its Subsidiaries or any direct or indirect parent company thereof (including with respect to warrants and options) in Parent or any direct or indirect parent thereof, (ii) any trust, partnership, limited liability company, corporate body or other entity established by any such director, officer, employee or member of management of Parent or any of its Subsidiaries or any direct or indirect parent thereof or any Person described in the succeeding clause (iii), as applicable, to hold an investment in the Parent or any direct or indirect parent thereof in connection with such Person’s estate or tax planning and (iii) any Person who acquires an investment in the Parent or any direct or indirect parent thereof by will or by the laws of intestate succession as a result of the death of any such director, officer or member of management of the Parent or any of its Subsidiaries or any direct or indirect parent thereof.
“Margin Stock” shall have the meaning assigned to such term in Regulation U of the Board of Governors of the United States Federal Reserve System, or any successor thereto.
“Master Agreement” shall have the meaning set forth in the definition of “Swap Contract”. “Material Adverse Effect” means (a) on the Closing Date, a “Material Adverse Effect” (as defined
in the Acquisition Agreement) or (b) after the Closing Date, any event, circumstance or condition that has
had or could reasonably be expected to have a material and adverse effect on (i) the business, results of operations or financial condition of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, taken as a whole,
(ii)material remedies (taken as a whole) of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents or (iii) the ability of the Lead Borrower and the Guarantors, taken as a whole, to perform their material payment obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.
“Material Domestic Subsidiary” means, at any date of determination, each of the Parent’s Domestic Subsidiaries that are Restricted Subsidiaries (a) whose total assets at the last day of the most recent Test Period were equal to or greater than 5.00% of Total Assets at such date or (b) whose gross revenues for such Test Period were equal to or greater than 5.00% of the consolidated gross revenues of the Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, in each case, determined in accordance with GAAP; provided that if, at any time and from time to time after the Closing Date, Domestic Subsidiaries that are Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Guarantors solely because they do not meet the thresholds set forth in clauses (a) or (b) comprise in the aggregate more than 7.50% of Total Assets as of the end of the most recently ended fiscal quarter of the Parent for which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to Section 6.01 or more than 7.50% of the consolidated gross revenues of the Parent and its Restricted
Subsidiaries for such Test Period, then the Lead Borrower shall, not later than 60 days after the date by which financial statements for such quarter are required to be delivered pursuant to this Agreement (or such longer period as the Administrative Agent may agree in its reasonable discretion), (i) designate in writing to the Administrative Agent one or more of such Domestic Subsidiaries as “Material Domestic Subsidiaries” to the extent required such that the foregoing condition ceases to be true and (ii) comply with the provisions of Section 6.11 applicable to such Subsidiary.
“Material Foreign Subsidiary” means, at any date of determination, each of the Parent’s Foreign Subsidiaries (a) whose consolidated total assets (calculated, for such purposes as the assets of such Foreign Subsidiary, together with the assets of its direct and indirect subsidiaries) at the last day of the most recent Test Period were equal to or greater than 5.00% of Total Assets at such date or (b) whose consolidated gross revenues (calculated, for such purposes as the gross revenues of such Foreign Subsidiary, together with the gross revenues of its direct and indirect subsidiaries) for such Test Period were equal to or greater than 5.00% of the consolidated gross revenues of the Parent and the Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, in each case, determined in accordance with GAAP; provided that if, at any time and from time to time after the Closing Date, Foreign Subsidiaries not meeting the thresholds set forth in clauses (a) or (b) comprise in the aggregate more than 7.50% of Total Assets as of the end of the most recently ended fiscal quarter of the Borrowers for which financial statements have been delivered pursuant to Section 6.01 or more than 7.50% of the consolidated gross revenues of the Parent and the Restricted Subsidiaries for such Test Period, then the Lead Borrower shall, not later than 60 days after the date by which financial statements for such quarter are required to be delivered pursuant to this Agreement (or such longer period as the Administrative Agent may agree in its reasonable discretion), (i) designate in writing to the Administrative Agent one or more of such Foreign Subsidiaries as “Material Foreign Subsidiaries” to the extent required such that the foregoing condition ceases to be true and (ii) comply with the provisions of the definition of “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement”.
“Material Intellectual Property” means any material intellectual property that is necessary for the operation of the business of the Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries as of the Closing Date, the loss of which would be reasonably expected to have a Material Adverse Effect on the business of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries (taken as a whole).
“Material Non-Public Information” means, with respect to any Person, information that is (a) of a type that would not be publicly available (and could not be derived from publicly available information) if such Person and its Subsidiaries were public reporting companies and (b) material (as reasonably determined by the Lead Borrower) with respect to such Person, its Subsidiaries or the respective securities of such Person and its Subsidiaries for purposes of United States Federal and state securities laws, in each case, assuming such laws were applicable to such Person and its Subsidiaries.
“Material Real Property” means any fee-owned real property located in the United States that is owned by any Loan Party and that has a Fair Market Value in excess of $2,500,000 (at the Closing Date or, with respect to real property acquired after the Closing Date, at the time of acquisition, in each case, as reasonably estimated by the Lead Borrower in good faith).
“Material Subsidiary” means any Material Domestic Subsidiary or any Material Foreign Subsidiary.
“Maturity Date” means (i) with respect to the Initial Term Loans, October 28, 2026, (ii) with respect to the Delayed Draw Term Loans, October 28, 2026, (iii) with respect to the Revolving Credit Facility, October 28, 2026, (iv) with respect to any tranche of Extended Term Loans or Extended Revolving Credit Commitments, the final maturity date as specified in the applicable Extension Amendment, (v) with respect to any Incremental Term Loans, the final maturity date as specified in the applicable Incremental
Amendment, (vi) with respect to any Refinancing Term Loans or Refinancing Revolving Credit Commitments, the final maturity date as specified in the applicable Refinancing Amendment, and (vii) with respect to any Replacement Term Loans, the final maturity date as specified in the applicable agreement; provided that, in each case, if such day is not a Business Day, the Maturity Date shall be the Business Day immediately succeeding such day.
“Maximum Rate” has the meaning set forth in Section 10.10.
“Minimum Tender Condition” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.18(b).
“Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. and any successor thereto.
“Mortgage Policies” has the meaning set forth in the definition of “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement”.
“Mortgaged Properties” has the meaning set forth in the definition of “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement”.
“Mortgages” means collectively, the deeds of trust, trust deeds, deeds to secure debt, hypothecs and mortgages made by the Loan Parties in favor or for the benefit of the Administrative Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties creating and evidencing a Lien on a Mortgaged Property in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Lead Borrower, and any other mortgages executed and delivered pursuant to Sections 6.11 and 6.13.
“Multiemployer Plan” means any employee benefit plan of the type described in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA, to which a Loan Party, any Restricted Subsidiary or any ERISA Affiliate makes or is obligated to make contributions, or during the preceding six plan years, has made or been obligated to make contributions.
“Net Proceeds” means:
(a)100% of the cash proceeds actually received by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (including any cash payments received by way of deferred payment of principal pursuant to a note or installment receivable or purchase price adjustment receivable or otherwise and including casualty insurance settlements and condemnation awards in respect of Casualty Events, but in each case only as and when received and, in any event, excluding the proceeds of business interruption insurance) from any Disposition or Casualty Event, net of (i) attorneys’ fees, accountants’ fees, investment banking fees, survey costs, title insurance premiums, and related search and recording charges, transfer taxes, deed or mortgage recording taxes, other customary expenses and brokerage, consultant and other customary fees and expenses actually incurred in connection therewith, (ii) the principal amount of any Indebtedness that is secured by a Lien (other than a Lien contractually subordinated to the Liens securing the Obligations) on the asset subject to such Disposition or Casualty Event and that is required to be repaid in connection with such Disposition or Casualty Event (other than Indebtedness under the Loan Documents), together with any applicable premium, penalty, interest and breakage costs, (iii) in the case of any Disposition or Casualty Event by a non-Wholly-owned Restricted Subsidiary, the pro rata portion of the Net Proceeds thereof (calculated without regard to this clause (iii)) attributable to minority interests and not available for distribution to or for the account of the Lead Borrower or a Wholly-owned Restricted Subsidiary as a result thereof, (iv) Taxes paid or reasonably estimated to be payable (including Taxes that would be payable in connection with the repatriation of any such proceeds, whether or not such repatriation actually occurs) and tax distributions with regard to taxes made pursuant to Section 7.06(i)(iii) in connection with such event, (v) the amount of any reasonable reserve established in accordance with GAAP against
any adjustment to the sale price or any liabilities (other than any taxes deducted pursuant to clause (i) above)
(x) related to any of the applicable assets and (y) retained by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries including, without limitation, pension and other post-employment benefit liabilities and liabilities related to environmental matters or against any indemnification obligations (provided, however, the amount of any subsequent reduction of such reserve (other than in connection with a payment in respect of any such liability) shall be deemed to be Net Proceeds of such Disposition or Casualty Event occurring on the date of such reduction) and (vi) any funded escrow established pursuant to the documents evidencing any such sale or disposition to secure any indemnification obligations or adjustments to the purchase price associated with any such sale or disposition (provided that to the extent that any amounts are released from such escrow to the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary, such amounts net of any related expenses shall constitute Net Proceeds); provided that, subject to the restrictions set forth in Section 7.05(j), if the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries use any portion of such proceeds to acquire, maintain, develop, construct, improve, upgrade or repair assets useful in the business of the Lead Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries or to make Capital Expenditures, Permitted Acquisitions or other permitted Investments, in each case, within 12 months of such receipt (or, in the case of net cash proceeds from a Disposition, prior to the receipt of such net cash proceeds (so long as such reinvestment was made or committed to within 90 days prior to the receipt of such net cash proceeds)), such portion of such proceeds shall not constitute Net Proceeds except to the extent not, within 12 months of such receipt, so used or committed to be so used (it being understood that if any portion of such proceeds are not so used within such 12-month period but within such 12-month period are contractually committed to be used, then upon the termination of such contract or if such Net Proceeds are not so used within 18 months of such receipt, such remaining portion shall constitute Net Proceeds as of the date of such termination or expiry without giving effect to this proviso); provided, further, no proceeds realized in a single transaction or series of related transactions shall constitute Net Proceeds unless (x) such proceeds shall exceed $500,000 or (y) the aggregate net proceeds shall exceed $2,500,000 (and thereafter only net cash proceeds in excess of such amount shall constitute Net Proceeds under this clause (a) (the aggregate amount of net cash proceeds retained pursuant to this proviso, the “Cumulative Retained Asset Sale Proceeds”), and
(b)100% of the cash proceeds from the incurrence, issuance or sale by the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries of any Indebtedness, net of all taxes paid or reasonable estimated to be payable as a result thereof (including tax distributions in respect thereof) and fees (including investment banking fees and discounts), commissions, costs and other expenses, in each case incurred in connection with such issuance or sale.
For purposes of calculating the amount of Net Proceeds, fees, commissions and other costs and expenses payable to the Borrowers shall be disregarded.
“Non-Consenting Lender” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.07(c).
“Non-Debt Fund Affiliate” means any Affiliate of the Parent, including the Parent or any of its Subsidiaries, but excluding (a) any Debt Fund Affiliate and (b) any natural person.
“Non-Defaulting Lender” means, at any time, a Lender that is not a Defaulting Lender. “Note” means a Term Note or a Revolving Credit Note, as the context may require. “Notice of Intent to Cure” has the meaning set forth in Section 8.04.
“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, 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, premium, fees and expenses that accrue after the commencement by or against any Loan Party of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Laws naming such Person as the debtor in such proceeding, regardless of whether such interest, premium, fees and expenses are allowed claims in such proceeding. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Obligations of the Loan Parties under the Loan Documents include (a) the obligation (including guarantee obligations) to pay principal, interest, reimbursement obligations, charges, expenses, fees, Attorney Costs, indemnities and other amounts payable by any Loan Party, in each case, in accordance with the terms of the Loan Documents and (b) the obligation of any Loan Party to reimburse any amount in respect of any of the foregoing that any Lender may elect to pay or advance on behalf of such Loan Party in accordance with the terms of the Loan Documents.
“OFAC” has the meaning set forth in Section 5.17(b).
“Offered Amount” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a)(v)(D)(1).
“Offered Discount” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a)(v)(D)(1).
“OID” means original issue discount.
“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 Applicable Indebtedness” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(b)(i).
“Other Commitments” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.14(a)(ii).
“Other Connection Taxes” means, with respect to any Agent or Lender, Taxes imposed as a result of a present or former connection between such Agent or Lender and the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (other than connections arising from such Agent or Lender 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 Notes” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.14(a)(iii).
“Other Taxes” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.01(b).
“Other Term Loans” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.14(a)(ii).
“Outstanding Amount” means, with respect to the Term Loans and Revolving Credit Loans on any date, the outstanding principal amount thereof after giving effect to any borrowings and prepayments or repayments of Term Loans and Revolving Credit Loans, as the case may be, occurring on such date.
“Overnight Rate” means, for any day, the greater of (a) the Federal Funds Rate and (b) an
overnight rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation.
“Parent” has the meaning (i) set forth in the introductory preamble to this Agreement or (ii) after the Closing Date, any other Person (“New Parent”) that is a Subsidiary of Parent (to the extent such Subsidiary ceases to be a Subsidiary in connection with becoming New Parent) or that is the direct or indirect parent of Parent (or the previous New Parent, as the case may be) but not the Lead Borrower (“Previous Parent”); provided that (a) such New Parent directly owns 100% of the Equity Interests of the Lead Borrower, (b) New Parent shall expressly assume all the obligations of Previous Parent under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents pursuant to a supplement hereto or thereto in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Lead Borrower, (c) if reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent, a customary opinion of counsel shall be delivered on behalf of the Lead Borrower to the Administrative Agent, (d) all Equity Interests of the Lead Borrower and substantially all of the other assets of Previous Parent are contributed or otherwise transferred, directly or indirectly, to such New Parent and pledged to secure the Obligations to the extent constituting Collateral, (e)(x) no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing at the time of such substitution and such substitution does not result in any Event of Default and (y) such substitution does not result in any adverse tax consequences (other than de minimis tax consequences) to any Lender (unless reimbursed hereunder) or to the Administrative Agent (unless reimbursed hereunder), (f) the Administrative Agent shall have received at least five (5) Business Days’ prior written notice of the proposed transaction and Previous Parent, New Parent and the Lead Borrower shall promptly and in any event at least two (2) Business Days’ prior to the consummation of the transaction provide all information the Administrative Agent (or any Lender through the Administrative Agent) may reasonably request in writing to satisfy its “know your customer” and other similar requirements necessary for such Person to comply with its internal compliance and regulatory requirements with respect to the proposed successor New Parent, (g) New Parent shall be an entity organized or existing under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia, (h) if reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent, the Loan Parties shall execute and deliver amendments, supplements and other modifications to all Loan Documents, instruments and agreements executed in connection therewith necessary to perfect and protect the liens and security interests in the Collateral of New Parent, in each case, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Lead Borrower, and (i) the Lead Borrower delivers a certificate of a Responsible Officer with respect to the satisfaction of the conditions set forth in clauses (a), (e)(x) and (y) and (g) of this definition; provided, further, that if each of the foregoing is satisfied, Previous Parent shall be automatically released of all its obligations under the Loan Documents and any reference to “Parent” in the Loan Documents shall refer to New Parent.
“Participant” has the meaning set forth in Section 10.07(e).
“Participant Register” has the meaning set forth in Section 10.07(e).
“Participating Lender” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a)(v)(C)(2).
“PBGC” means the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation.
“Pension Plan” means any “employee pension benefit plan” (as such term is defined in Section 3(2) of ERISA), other than a Multiemployer Plan, that is subject to Title IV of ERISA and is sponsored or maintained by any Loan Party or to which any Loan Party contributes or has an obligation to contribute (including on account of any ERISA Affiliate), or in the case of a multiple employer or other plan described in Section 4064(a) of ERISA, has made contributions at any time during the immediately preceding five plan years.
“Permitted Acquisition” has the meaning set forth in Section 7.02(i).
“Permitted Debt Exchange” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.18(a).
“Permitted Debt Exchange Notes” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.18(a).
“Permitted Debt Exchange Offer” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.18(a).
“Permitted First Priority Refinancing Debt” means any secured Indebtedness (including any Registered Equivalent Notes) incurred by the Borrowers or any other Loan Party in the form of one or more series of senior secured notes or loans; provided that such Indebtedness otherwise meets the requirements contained in the proviso to the definition of “Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness”.
“Permitted Holders” means each of (i) the Sponsor; (ii) the Management Equityholders; (iii) any Permitted Transferee of any of the foregoing Persons; and (iv) any “group” (within the meaning of Rules 13d-3 and 13d-5 under the Exchange Act as in effect on the Closing Date) including any of the foregoing Persons; provided, that (x) any combination of such foregoing Persons referred to in clauses (i),
(ii) and (iii) shall hold a majority of the aggregate voting interests in the Equity Interests of the Parent or the Relevant Public Company, as the case may be, held by all members of such combination and (y) as of the Closing Date, no other Person (together with its Affiliates) shall have more Equity Interests representing the ordinary voting power than the Sponsor (together with its Affiliates).
“Permitted Initial Revolving Credit Borrowing Purposes” means one or more Borrowings of Revolving Credit Loans to fund a portion of the purchase price of the Acquisition, to finance working capital, including in respect of working capital adjustments or purchases of working capital under the Acquisition Agreement, and for other general corporate purposes not prohibited by the Loan Documents, in an aggregate amount not to exceed $1,000,000.
“Permitted IPO Reorganization” means any transactions or actions taken in connection with consummating an initial public offering of the Lead Borrower or any direct or indirect parent thereof, so long as, after giving effect thereto, neither the value of the security interest of the Collateral Agent and the Lenders in the Collateral, taken as a whole (including as to the perfection and priority thereof), nor the value of the Guaranty, taken as a whole, is materially impaired.
“Permitted Junior Priority Refinancing Debt” means secured Indebtedness (including any Registered Equivalent Notes) incurred by the Borrowers or any other Loan Party in the form of one or more series of second lien (or other junior lien) secured notes or second lien (or other junior lien) secured loans; provided that (i) such Indebtedness is secured only by all or a portion of the Collateral on a second priority (or other junior priority) basis to the Liens securing the Obligations and the obligations in respect of any Permitted First Priority Refinancing Debt, (ii) such Indebtedness otherwise constitutes Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness and (iii) such Indebtedness meets the Permitted Other Debt Conditions. Permitted Junior Priority Refinancing Debt will include any Registered Equivalent Notes issued in exchange therefor.
“Permitted Other Debt Conditions” means that such applicable Indebtedness does not mature or have scheduled amortization payments of principal or payments of principal and is not subject to mandatory redemption, repurchase, prepayment or sinking fund obligations (other than, in each case, customary offers or obligations to repurchase, redeem or repay upon a change of control, asset sale, excess cash flow sweeps, casualty or condemnation event or similar events, AHYDO Payments, customary acceleration rights after an event of default, solely with respect to any Indebtedness secured by a Lien ranking junior to the Secured Obligations, any payment obligations solely with respect to prepayment amounts declined by any Lender under this Agreement and/or any lender(s) in respect of any other Secured Obligations being prepaid or that constitute a customary prepayment provision with respect to Refinancing Indebtedness on a pro rata basis
in connection with such prepayment in accordance with this Agreement, and solely with respect to any Indebtedness secured by a Lien ranking pari passu with the Secured Obligations, any payment obligations that will also be applied to the Term Loans hereunder on a pro rata or greater than pro rata basis or that constitute a customary prepayment provision with respect to Refinancing Indebtedness), in each case prior to the Latest Maturity Date at the time such Indebtedness is incurred.
“Permitted Parent Holdco Financing” means the issuance of unsecured securities and other unsecured holding company debt issued or incurred by the Parent to fund any Excluded Contribution Amount described in Section 7.06(q); provided that (i) Sponsor at all times unconditionally guarantees such securities or debt, (ii) neither the Borrowers nor any other Restricted Subsidiary of the Parent is a borrower or a guarantor with respect to such securities or debt and (iii) neither the Borrowers nor any other Loan Party (other than Parent) shall otherwise be liable for such securities or debt.
“Permitted Ratio Debt” means Indebtedness of the Borrowers or any other Restricted Subsidiary of the Parent; provided that immediately after giving Pro Forma Effect thereto and to the use of the proceeds thereof, (i) the aggregate amount of such Indebtedness outstanding at the time of incurrence or issuance shall not exceed the sum of (A) an amount equal to the greater of (x) $7,500,000 or (y) 75% of Consolidated EBITDA as of the last day of the most recently ended Test Period (calculated on a Pro Forma Basis), minus the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness incurred pursuant to Section 2.14(d)(iii)(A), plus (B) such additional amounts to the extent that, after giving effect thereto, for the most recently ended Test Period (on a Pro Forma Basis) at the time of incurrence or issuance, (1) in the case of Indebtedness secured by Liens on the Collateral that rank pari passu with the Liens securing the Initial Term Loans, the Consolidated Senior Secured Net Leverage Ratio (calculated on a Pro Forma Basis in accordance with Section 1.11) is not greater than 4.50:1.00, (2) in the case of Indebtedness secured by Liens on the Collateral that rank junior to the Liens on the Collateral securing the Initial Term Loans, the Consolidated Secured Net Leverage Ratio (calculated on a Pro Forma Basis in accordance with Section 1.1) is not greater than 4.50:1.00 and (3) in the case of unsecured Indebtedness or Indebtedness secured only by Liens on assets that do not constitute Collateral, the Consolidated Total Net Leverage Ratio (calculated on a Pro Forma Basis in accordance with Section 1.11) is not greater than 4.50:1.00, in each case after giving effect to any acquisition consummated in connection therewith and all other appropriate pro forma adjustments (including giving effect to the prepayment of Indebtedness on or prior to the consummation of such acquisition) and assuming for purposes of this calculation that (I) the full committed amount of any revolving loans then being made shall be treated as fully drawn and outstanding for such purpose and (II) cash proceeds of any such Permitted Ratio Debt or other Indebtedness permitted hereunder then being incurred shall not be netted from the numerator in the Consolidated Total Net Leverage Ratio, Consolidated Secured Net Leverage Ratio or the Consolidated Senior Secured Net Leverage Ratio, as applicable plus (C) the sum, without duplication, of all (i) voluntary prepayments and optional redemptions of Term Loans made pursuant to Section 2.05(a) or Section 10.07(l)(x) or mandatory assignments pursuant to Section 3.07 or of other pari passu Indebtedness incurred pursuant to clause (A) of Section 2.14(d)(iii), Section 7.03(m) or clause (i)(A) above and
(ii)voluntary commitment reductions and voluntary prepayments of the Loans under the Revolving Credit Facility or any other pari passu revolving facility incurred pursuant to clause (A) of Section 2.14(d)(iii), Section 7.03(m) or clause (i)(A) above to the extent accompanied by a permanent commitment reduction, (in each case, including any substantially concurrent prepayment, redemption, reduction, termination, buy- back (the amount of any debt buy backs limited to the cash payment actually made in respect thereof) or purchase, other than to the extent funded with (A) proceeds of long term Indebtedness (other than revolving Indebtedness or intercompany Indebtedness) or (B) proceeds of Indebtedness incurred pursuant to clause
(A)of Section 2.14(d)(iii), Section 7.03(m) or clause (i)(A) above; provided that in the case of Indebtedness incurred by Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Guarantors, the Indebtedness shall not exceed an aggregate amount at the time of incurrence equal to the greater of (x) $1,500,000 and (y) 15% of Consolidated EBITDA as of the last day of the most recently ended Test Period (calculated on a Pro Forma Basis), (ii)(x) in the case of any Indebtedness secured by a Lien on any Collateral ranking junior to the Lien securing the
Secured Obligations, such Indebtedness shall have a final maturity not sooner than 91 days after the Latest Maturity Date in respect of Term Loans, as determined at the time of issuance or incurrence of such Indebtedness, and (y) in the case of any Indebtedness secured by a Lien on the Collateral ranking pari passu with the Secured Obligations, such Indebtedness shall have a final scheduled maturity date not sooner than the Latest Maturity Date in respect of Term Loans, as determined at the time of issuance or incurrence of such Indebtedness (in each case, other than any customary bridge facility so long as the Indebtedness into which such customary bridge facility is to be converted complies with such requirements), (iii) in the case of any secured Indebtedness, such Indebtedness shall be subject to customary intercreditor terms (including those in an Intercreditor Agreement and/or any other lien subordination and intercreditor arrangement, as applicable, reasonably satisfactory to the Lead Borrower and the Administrative Agent), (iv) such Indebtedness shall not provide for any mandatory repayment (except, subject to clause (vii), scheduled principal amortization payments), redemption or sinking fund payment obligations prior to the Latest Maturity Date in respect of Term Loans, as determined at the time of issuance or incurrence of the Indebtedness (other than, in each case, customary offers or obligations to repurchase, redeem or repay upon a change of control, asset sale, excess cash flow sweep, casualty or condemnation event or similar events, AHYDO Payments, customary acceleration rights after an event of default, solely with respect to any such Indebtedness constituting Indebtedness secured by a Lien ranking junior to the Lien securing the Secured Obligations, any payment obligations solely with respect to prepayment amounts declined by any Lender under this Agreement and/or any lender(s) in respect of any other Indebtedness secured by a Lien ranking pari passu with the Secured Obligations being prepaid or that constitute a customary prepayment provision with respect to Refinancing Indebtedness on a pro rata basis in connection with such prepayment in accordance with this Agreement, and solely with respect to any such Indebtedness secured by a Lien ranking pari passu with the Lien securing the Secured Obligations, any payment obligations (including any mandatory repayment obligation relating to generation of excess cash flow) that will also be applied to the Term Loans hereunder on a pro rata or greater than pro rata basis or that constitute a customary prepayment provision with respect to Refinancing Indebtedness), (v) in the case of Indebtedness secured by a Lien ranking pari passu in right of payment and security with the Secured Obligations outstanding under this Agreement, the All-In Yield of the Initial Term Loans and the Delayed Draw Term Loans shall be subject to adjustment in the manner set forth in Section 2.14(e)(i)(D), determined for the purposes of this clause (v) as if such Indebtedness were Incremental Term Loans, (vi) other than as required by the preceding clauses (i) through (v) and the succeeding clauses (vii) and (viii), shall contain such terms as are reasonably satisfactory to the Lead Borrower, the borrower thereof (if not the Lead Borrower) and the providers of such Indebtedness; provided, that the terms of such Indebtedness shall be no more favorable to the providers of such Indebtedness than the applicable terms of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents (except for any terms (w) applicable only to periods after the Latest Maturity Date in respect of Term Loans, as determined at the time of issuance or incurrence of such Permitted Ratio Debt, (x) that are also added for the benefit of the Term Lenders, (y) that are not materially more restrictive than the terms of this Agreement (as determined by the Lead Borrower in good faith) or (z) reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent (not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned, delayed or denied)), (vii) the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of such Permitted Ratio Debt constituting Term Loans is not shorter than the remaining Weighted Average Life to Maturity of then-existing Term Loans (excluding in all events customary bridge financings so long as the Indebtedness into which such bridge financing is to be converted complies with such requirements); provided, that for purposes of determining the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of the applicable Indebtedness, the effects of any prepayments or amortization made on the then existing Term Loans prior to the date of the incurrence of the applicable Indebtedness shall be disregarded, and (viii) the Indebtedness shall not at any time be guaranteed by any Person other than the Guarantors (unless the Required Lenders have declined a guarantee from such other Person and except as otherwise permitted under this Agreement) and, to the extent secured, are not secured by a Lien on any property or asset that does not secure the Facilities (unless the Required Lenders have declined and except as otherwise permitted under this Agreement) (it being understood that (x) amounts under clause (i)(B) (to the extent compliant therewith) and/or clause (i)(C) shall be deemed to have been used prior to utilization of amounts under
clause (i)(A), (y) Indebtedness may be incurred under clauses (i)(A), (i)(B) and (i)(C), and (i)(A), (i)(B) or (i)(C), and proceeds from any such incurrence under such clauses may be utilized in a single transaction or series of related transactions by first calculating the incurrence under clause (i)(B) and then calculating the incurrence under clause (i)(A) and/or (i)(C) and, for the avoidance of doubt, any such incurrence under clause (i)(A) and/or (i)(C) shall not be given pro forma effect for purposes of determining the Consolidated Total Net Leverage Ratio, Consolidated Secured Net Leverage Ratio or the Consolidated Senior Secured Net Leverage Ratio, as applicable, for purposes of effectuating the incurrence under clause (i)(B) and/or clause (i)(C) in such single transaction or series of related transactions and (z) any Indebtedness originally incurred pursuant to clause (i)(A) and/or clause (i)(C) shall be automatically redesignated (unless otherwise elected by Lead Borrower) as incurred pursuant to clause (i)(B) if the Borrowers meet the applicable leverage ratio under clause (i)(B) at such time on a Pro Forma Basis (for purposes of clarity, with any such redesignation having the effect of increasing the ability to incur Indebtedness pursuant to clause (i)(A) and/or clause (i)(C) as of the date of such redesignation by the amount of such Indebtedness so redesignated).
“Permitted Refinancing” means, with respect to any Person, any modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal, restructuring, replacement or extension of any Indebtedness of such Person; provided that (a) the principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) thereof does not exceed the principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) of the Indebtedness so modified, refinanced, restructured, refunded, renewed, replaced or extended except by an amount equal to unpaid accrued interest and premium thereon plus other amounts owing or paid related to such Indebtedness, and fees and expenses incurred, in connection with such modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal, restructuring, replacement or extension and by an amount equal to any existing commitments unutilized thereunder or other than to the extent permitted by another exception set forth in Section 7.03, (b) other than with respect to (x) a Permitted Refinancing in respect of Indebtedness permitted pursuant to Section 7.03(e), (g) or (u) or (y) a Permitted Refinancing in the form of a bridge loan intended to be refinanced with a securities offering the maturity date of which provides for an automatic extension of the maturity date thereof, to a date that is not earlier than the maturity date of the Indebtedness being refinanced, such modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal, restructuring, replacement or extension has a final maturity date equal to or later than the final maturity date of, and has a Weighted Average Life to Maturity equal to or greater than the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of, the Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed, restructured, replaced or extended, (c) if such Permitted Refinancing is secured by assets it shall not be secured by assets that do not secure the Indebtedness being refinanced and the priority of such Liens shall be pari passu or junior to the Liens securing the Indebtedness being refinanced, (d) if such Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed, restructured, replaced or extended is subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations, such modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal, restructuring, replacement or extension is subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations on subordination terms (i) at least as favorable (taken as a whole) (as reasonably determined by the Lead Borrower) to the Lenders as those contained in the documentation governing the Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed, restructured, replaced or extended or (ii) otherwise reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent (such approval not to be unreasonably withheld, delayed, conditioned or denied), (e) such Indebtedness is incurred and guaranteed by one or more Persons who is an obligor of the Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed, restructured, replaced or extended (and no other Persons unless otherwise permitted under Section 7.03), (f) with respect to Permitted Refinancings of Indebtedness incurred pursuant to Section 7.03(s), (w) or (x), if such Indebtedness is secured, is not secured by assets or property other than Collateral (unless declined by the Administrative Agent or otherwise permitted) and (g) with respect to Permitted Refinancings of Indebtedness incurred pursuant to Section 7.03(s), (w) or (x), in the case of any Indebtedness secured by the Collateral, shall be subject to the intercreditor terms of an Intercreditor Agreement and/or any other lien subordination and intercreditor arrangement, as applicable, reasonably satisfactory to the Lead Borrower and the Administrative Agent.
“Permitted Repricing Amendment” has the meaning set forth in Section 10.01.
“Permitted Tax Restructuring” means any re-organizations and other activities among the Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries related to tax planning and re-organization so long as, after giving effect thereto, (a) taken as a whole, the security interests of the Collateral Agent in the Collateral are not materially impaired and (b) taken as a whole, the value of the Collateral securing the Obligations and the Guaranty by the Guarantors of the Obligations are not materially reduced.
“Permitted Transferee” means (A) in the case of any Management Equityholder, (i) his or her executor, administrator, testamentary trustee, legatee or beneficiaries, (ii) his or her spouse, parents, siblings, members of his or her immediate family (including adopted children and step children) and/or direct lineal descendants or (iii) a trust, the beneficiaries of which, or a corporation or partnership, the stockholders or partners of which, include only a Management Equityholder and his or her spouse, parents, siblings, members of his or her immediate family (including adopted children and step children) and/or direct lineal descendants or (B) in the case of the Sponsor, (i) any Sponsor Associate, (ii) the heirs, executors, administrators, testamentary trustees, legatees or beneficiaries of any Sponsor Associate and
(iii)any trust, the beneficiaries of which, or a corporation or partnership, the stockholders or partners of which, include only a Sponsor Associate, his or her spouse, parents, siblings, members of his or her immediate family (including adopted children and step children) and/or direct lineal descendants.
“Permitted Unsecured Refinancing Debt” means unsecured Indebtedness (including any unsecured Registered Equivalent Notes) incurred by the Lead Borrower or any Loan Party in the form of one or more series of senior unsecured notes or loans; provided that such Indebtedness (i) constitutes Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness, (ii) meets the Permitted Other Debt Conditions and (iii) to the extent such unsecured Indebtedness is contractually subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations, the holders of such unsecured Indebtedness shall have entered into customary subordination agreements or provisions reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Lead Borrower.
“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” (as such term is defined in Section 3(3) of ERISA) established or maintained by any Loan Party or any Restricted Subsidiary or, with respect to any such plan that is subject to Section 412 of the Code or Title IV of ERISA, any ERISA Affiliate.
“Platform” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.01.
“Pledged Debt” has the meaning set forth in the Security Agreement. “Pledged Equity” has the meaning set forth in the Security Agreement.
“PPP Loans” means, individually or collectively as the context may require, (1) that certain Note, dated as of May 1, 2020, by Deep Space Systems Inc. in favor of Customers Bank, in an aggregate principal amount equal to $1,057,500, (2) that certain Promissory Note, dated as of April 15, 2020, by Made In Space, Inc. in favor of Bank of America, N.A., in an aggregate principal amount equal to $1,462,639, (3) that certain Promissory Note, dated as of April 15, 2020, by Roccor, LLC in favor Citywide Banks, in an aggregate principal amount equal to $910,900 and (4) any other “paycheck protection program” that Parent or any Restricted Subsidiary applies for and obtains under the Coronavirus Aid, Relief and Economic Security Act (H.R. 748) (as in effect on the Closing Date and as may be amended or succeeded from time to time).
“Prime Rate” means the rate of interest quoted in the print edition of The Wall Street Journal, Money Rates Section as the Prime Rate (currently defined as the base rate on corporate loans posted by at least 70% of the nation’s ten (10) largest banks), as in effect from time to time. The Prime Rate is a reference rate and does not necessarily represent the lowest or best rate actually charged to any customer. The Administrative Agent or any other Lender may make commercial loans or other loans at rates of interest at, above or below the Prime Rate.
“Proceeding” has the meaning set forth in Section 10.05.
“Proceeds” has the meaning set forth in the Security Agreement.
“Pro Forma Balance Sheet” has the meaning set forth in Section 5.05(b).
“Pro Forma Basis” and “Pro Forma Effect” means, with respect to compliance with any test or covenant or calculation of any ratio hereunder, the determination or calculation of such test, covenant or ratio (including in connection with Specified Transactions) in accordance with Section 1.11.
“Pro Forma Compliance” means, with respect to the covenant in Section 7.11, compliance on a Pro Forma Basis with such covenant in accordance with Section 1.11.
“Pro Forma Financial Statements” has the meaning set forth in Section 5.05(b).
“Pro Rata Share” means, with respect to each Lender, at any time a fraction (expressed as a percentage, carried out to the ninth decimal place), the numerator of which is the amount of the Commitments and, if applicable and without duplication, Term Loans of such Lender under the applicable Facility or Facilities at such time and the denominator of which is the amount of the Aggregate Commitments under the applicable Facility or Facilities and, if applicable and without duplication, Term Loans under the applicable Facility or Facilities at such time; provided that, in the case of the Revolving Credit Facility, if such Commitments have been terminated, then the Pro Rata Share of each Lender shall be determined based on the Pro Rata Share of such Lender immediately prior to such termination and after giving effect to any subsequent assignments made pursuant to the terms hereof.
“Projections” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.01(d).
“PTE” means a prohibited transaction class exemption issued by the U.S. Department of Labor, as any such exemption may be amended from time to time.
“Public Lender” has the meaning set forth in Section 6.01.
“QFC” has the meaning assigned to the term “qualified financial contract” in, and shall be interpreted in accordance with, 12 U.S.C. 5390(c)(8)(D).
“QFC Credit Support” has the meaning assigned to it in Section 10.23.
“Qualified Cash” means, as of any date of determination, an amount equal to the aggregate amount of cash and Cash Equivalents (other than Restricted Cash) of the Loan Parties on such date; provided that the aggregate amount of such cash and Cash Equivalents of the Loan Parties on such date that does not represent deferred revenue shall not exceed $20,000,000 as of any date of determination for purposes of this definition.
“Qualified ECP Guarantor” means, in respect of any Swap Obligations, each Loan Party that has
total assets exceeding $10,000,000 at the time such Swap Obligations are incurred.
“Qualified Equity Interests” means any Equity Interests that are not Disqualified Equity Interests. “Qualified IPO” means (x) the issuance by the Lead Borrower or any direct or indirect parent of
the Lead Borrower of its common Equity Interests in an underwritten primary public offering (other than a
public offering pursuant to a registration statement on Form S-8) pursuant to an effective registration statement filed with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission or in a commonly underwritten offering (or series of related offerings of securities to the public pursuant to a final prospectus in accordance with the Securities Act (whether alone or in connection with a secondary public offering)) or (y) a transaction where the Equity Interests of any direct or indirect parent of Parent become publicly registered on any United States or Canadian national securities exchange through a merger, acquisition or other combination with a “SPAC” or similar entity.
“Qualified Proceeds” shall mean assets that are used or useful in, or Equity Interests of any Person engaged in, any business conducted or proposed to be conducted by the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries, taken as a whole, on the Closing Date or any other business activities which are reasonable extensions thereof or otherwise similar, incidental, corollary, complementary, synergistic, reasonably related, or ancillary to any of the foregoing (including non-core incidental businesses acquired in connection with any Permitted Acquisition or permitted Investment), in each case as determined by the Lead Borrower in good faith.
“Qualified Securitization Financing” shall mean any Securitization Facility (and any guarantee of such Securitization Facility), that meets the following conditions: (i) the Lead Borrower shall have determined in good faith that such Securitization Facility (including financing terms, covenants, termination events and other provisions) is in the aggregate economically fair and reasonable to the Borrowers and the other Restricted Subsidiaries of the Parent; (ii) all transfers of Securitization Assets and related assets by any Borrower or any other Restricted Subsidiary of the Parent to the Securitization Subsidiary or any other Person are made at Fair Market Value, a portion of which may be paid in the form of an increase in the Seller’s Retained Interest; (iii) the financing terms, covenants, termination events and other provisions thereof shall be on market terms (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower) and may include Standard Securitization Undertakings; and (iv) the obligations under such Securitization Facility are non- recourse (except for customary representations, warranties, covenants, performance guarantees and indemnities made in connection with such facilities) to any Borrower or any other Restricted Subsidiary of the Parent (other than a Securitization Subsidiary).
“Qualifying Lender” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a)(v)(D)(3).
“Real Property” means, collectively, all right, title and interest (including any leasehold, mineral or other estate) in and to any and all parcels of or interests in real property owned or leased by any Person, whether by lease, license or other means, together with, in each case, all easements, hereditaments and appurtenances relating thereto, all improvements and appurtenant fixtures and equipment, all general intangibles and contract rights and other property and rights incidental to the ownership, lease or operation thereof.
“Receivables Assets” shall mean (a) any accounts receivable, including proceeds thereof, owed to any Borrower or any other Restricted Subsidiary of the Parent and arising in the ordinary course of business from the sale of goods and services and (b) all collateral securing such accounts receivable, all contracts and contract rights, guarantees or other obligations in respect of such accounts receivable, all records with respect to such accounts receivable and any other related assets customarily transferred together with accounts receivable in connection with a non-recourse accounts receivable factoring arrangement and
which are sold, conveyed, assigned or otherwise transferred or pledged in connection with a Receivables Facility.
“Receivables Facility” shall mean any of one or more receivables financing facilities (and any guarantee of such financing facility) that meets the following conditions: (i) the obligations under such facility are non-recourse (except for customary representations, warranties, covenants and indemnities made in connection with such facilities and customary Securitization Repurchasing Obligations) to the Borrowers and the other Restricted Subsidiaries of the Parent, (ii) pursuant to such facility any Borrower or any other Restricted Subsidiary of the Parent sells, directly or indirectly, grants a security interest in or otherwise transfers its Receivables Assets to either (a) a Person that is not a Borrower or another Restricted Subsidiary of the Parent or (b) a Receivables Subsidiary that in turn funds such purchase by (1) transferring its accounts receivable to a Person that is not a Borrower or another Restricted Subsidiary of the Parent or by borrowing from such Person or from another Receivables Subsidiary that in turn funds itself by borrowing from such Person or (2) the issuance to such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary of Seller’s Retained Interests or an increase in such Seller’s Retained Interests and (iii) the financing terms, covenants, termination events and other provisions thereof shall be on market terms (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower) and may include Standard Securitization Undertakings and shall include any guaranty in respect of such financing facility.
“Receivables Fee” shall mean distributions or payments made directly or by means of discounts with respect to any accounts receivable or participation interest issued or sold in connection with, and other fees paid to a Person that is not a Borrower or another Restricted Subsidiary of the Parent in connection with, any Receivables Facility.
“Receivables Subsidiary” shall mean any Subsidiary of the Parent formed for the purpose of, and that solely engages in, facilitating or entering into one or more Receivables Facilities and any other activities reasonably related or incidental thereto or another Person formed for the purposes of engaging in a Receivables Facility in which the Lead Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary makes an Investment and to which the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary transfers accounts receivable and related assets or grants a security interest in Receivables Assets.
“Refinanced Debt” has the meaning set forth in the definition of “Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness”.
“Refinanced Term Loans” has the meaning set forth in Section 10.01.
“Refinancing Amendment” means an amendment to this Agreement executed by each of (a) the Lead Borrower, (b) the Administrative Agent, (c) each Additional Refinancing Lender and (d) each Lender that agrees to provide any portion of Refinancing Term Loans, Refinancing Revolving Credit Commitments or Refinancing Revolving Credit Loans incurred pursuant thereto, in accordance with Section 2.15.
“Refinancing Revolving Credit Commitments” means one or more Classes of Revolving Credit Commitments hereunder that result from a Refinancing Amendment.
“Refinancing Revolving Credit Loans” means one or more Classes of Revolving Credit Loans that result from a Refinancing Amendment.
“Refinancing Series” means all Refinancing Term Loans or Refinancing Term Commitments, Refinancing Revolving Credit Loans or Refinancing Revolving Credit Commitments that are established pursuant to the same Refinancing Amendment (or any subsequent Refinancing Amendment to the extent such Refinancing Amendment expressly provides that the Refinancing Term Loans or Refinancing Term
Commitments, Refinancing Revolving Credit Loans or Refinancing Revolving Credit Commitments provided for therein are intended to be a part of any previously established Refinancing Series) and that provide for the same All-In Yield (other than, for this purpose, any original issue discount or upfront fees), if applicable, and amortization schedule, if applicable.
“Refinancing Term Commitments” means one or more term loan commitments hereunder that fund Refinancing Term Loans of the applicable Refinancing Series hereunder pursuant to a Refinancing Amendment.
“Refinancing Term Loans” means one or more Classes of Term Loans that result from a Refinancing Amendment.
“Register” has the meaning set forth in Section 10.07(d).
“Registered Equivalent Notes” means, with respect to any notes originally issued in an offering pursuant to Rule 144A under the Securities Act or other private placement transaction under the Securities Act, substantially identical notes (having the same guarantees) issued in a dollar-for-dollar exchange therefor pursuant to an exchange offer registered with the SEC.
“Rejection Notice” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(b)(viii).
“Related Parties” means, with respect to any Person, such Person’s Affiliates and the partners, directors, officers, employees, agents, trustees and advisors of such Person and of such Person’s Affiliates.
“Release” means any spilling, leaking, pumping, pouring, emitting, emptying, discharging, injecting, escaping, leaching, dumping, or disposing into the Environment.
“Relevant Public Company” means the Parent or any direct or indirect parent thereof that is the registrant with respect to a Qualified IPO.
“Replacement Term Loans” has the meaning set forth in Section 10.01.
“Reportable Event” means any of the events set forth in Section 4043(c) of ERISA or the regulations issued thereunder, other than events for which the otherwise applicable notice period has been waived by regulation or otherwise by the PBGC.
“Request for Credit Extension” means, with respect to a Borrowing, continuation or conversion of Term Loans or Revolving Credit Loans, a Committed Loan Notice.
“Required Lenders” means, as of any date of determination, Lenders having more than 50% of the sum of the (a) Total Outstandings, (b) aggregate unused Initial Term Commitments, Incremental Term Commitments and Refinancing Term Commitments and (c) aggregate unused Revolving Credit Commitments, unused Incremental Term Commitments and unused Refinancing Revolving Credit Commitments; provided that the unused Term Commitment, Incremental Term Commitment, Refinancing Term Commitment and unused Revolving Credit Commitment of, and the portion of the Total Outstandings held or deemed held by, any Defaulting Lender shall be excluded for purposes of making a determination of Required Lenders; provided, further, that, to the same extent set forth in Section 10.07(m) with respect to a determination of Required Lenders, the Loans of any Sponsor-Controlled Affiliated Lender shall in each case be excluded for purposes of making a determination of Required Lenders.
“Resolution Authority” means an EEA Resolution Authority or, with respect to any UK Financial
Institution, a UK Resolution Authority.
“Responsible Officer” means the chief executive officer, president, vice president, chief financial officer, chief administrative officer, secretary or assistant secretary, treasurer or assistant treasurer, controller or other similar officer of a Loan Party. Any document delivered hereunder that is signed by a Responsible Officer of a Loan Party shall be conclusively presumed to have been authorized by all necessary corporate, partnership and/or other action on the part of such Loan Party and such Responsible Officer shall be conclusively presumed to have acted on behalf of such Loan Party.
“Restricted Cash” means cash or Cash Equivalents of the Parent or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries that appears (or would be required to appear) as “restricted” on a consolidated balance sheet of the Parent (unless such appearance is related to the Loan Documents (or the Liens created thereunder) or other obligations or Indebtedness permitted under Section 7.03 which is permitted to be secured by a Lien).
“Restricted Payment” means any dividend or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property) on account of any Equity Interest of the Parent or any Restricted 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, defeasance, acquisition, cancellation or termination of any such Equity Interest, or on account of any return of capital to the Parent’s or such Restricted Subsidiary’s stockholders, partners or members (or the equivalent Persons thereof).
“Restricted Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary. Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to a “Restricted Subsidiary” or to “Restricted Subsidiaries” shall refer to a Restricted Subsidiary or Restricted Subsidiaries of the Parent.
“Returns” means, with respect to any Investment, any dividends, distributions, interest, fees, premium, return of capital, repayment of principal, income, profits (from a Disposition or otherwise) and other amounts received or realized in respect of such Investment (including the fair market value of any applicable assets).
“Revolving Commitment Increase” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.14(a).
“Revolving Credit Borrowing” means a borrowing consisting of simultaneous Revolving Credit Loans of the same Type and, in the case of Eurocurrency Rate Loans, having the same Interest Period, made by each of the Revolving Credit Lenders.
“Revolving Credit Commitment” means, as to each Revolving Credit Lender, its obligation to make Revolving Credit Loans to the Borrowers in an aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding not to exceed the amount set forth opposite such Lender’s name on Schedule 1.01A under the caption “Revolving Credit Commitment” or 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 (including Sections 2.14 and 10.07(b)). The aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments of all Revolving Credit Lenders shall be $5,000,000 on the Closing Date, as such amount may be adjusted from time to time in accordance with the terms of this Agreement.
“Revolving Credit Exposure” means, as to each Revolving Credit Lender, the sum of the amount of the Outstanding Amount of such Revolving Credit Lender’s Revolving Credit Loans.
“Revolving Credit Facility” means the Revolving Credit Commitments, including any Revolving Commitment Increase, each Extension Series of Extended Revolving Credit Commitments, each
Refinancing Series of Refinancing Revolving Credit Commitments and the Credit Extensions made thereunder.
“Revolving Credit Lender” means, at any time, any Lender that has a Revolving Credit Commitment at such time or, if the Revolving Credit Commitments have terminated, Revolving Credit Exposure.
“Revolving Credit Loan Extension Request” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.16(b).
“Revolving Credit Loan Extension Series” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.16(b).
“Revolving Credit Loans” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.01(b).
“Revolving Credit Note” means a promissory note of the Borrowers payable to any Revolving Credit Lender or its registered assigns, in substantially the form of Exhibit C-2 hereto, evidencing the aggregate Indebtedness of the Borrowers to such Revolving Credit Lender resulting from the Revolving Credit Loans made by such Revolving Credit Lender to the Borrowers.
“S&P” means Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc., and any successor thereto.
“Same Day Funds” means immediately available funds.
“SEC” means the Securities and Exchange Commission, or any Governmental Authority succeeding to any of its principal functions.
“Secured Hedge Agreement” means any Swap Contract permitted under Article VII (and subject, for the avoidance of doubt, to the limitations set forth in the definition of “Hedge Bank”) that is entered into by and between any Borrower or any other Restricted Subsidiary of the Parent and any Hedge Bank, to the extent designated by the Lead Borrower and such Hedge Bank as a “Secured Hedge Agreement” in writing to the Administrative Agent. The designation of any Secured Hedge Agreement shall not create in favor of such Hedge Bank any rights in connection with the management or release of Collateral or of the obligations of any Guarantor under the Loan Documents.
“Secured Obligations” means, collectively, the Obligations, the Cash Management Obligations and all Hedging Obligations.
“Secured Parties” means, collectively, the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, each Lender, the Hedge Banks (subject to the limitations set forth in the definition thereof) and each co-agent or sub-agent appointed by the Administrative Agent from time to time pursuant to Section 9.05.
“Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.
“Securitization Asset” shall mean (a) any accounts receivable or related assets and the proceeds thereof owed to any Borrower or any other Restricted Subsidiary of the Parent and arising in the ordinary course of business from the sale of goods or services and (b) all collateral securing such receivable or asset, all contracts and contract rights, guaranties or other obligations in respect of such receivable or asset, lockbox accounts and records with respect to such account or asset and any other related assets customarily transferred (or in respect of which security interests are customarily granted), together with accounts or assets in a securitization financing and which in the case of clause (a) and (b) above are sold, conveyed, assigned or otherwise transferred or pledged in connection with a Qualified Securitization Financing.
“Securitization Facility” shall mean any transaction or series of securitization financings that may be entered into by any Borrower or any other Restricted Subsidiary of the Parent pursuant to which any such Borrower or any such Restricted Subsidiary may sell, convey or otherwise transfer, or may grant a security interest in, Securitization Assets to either (a) a Person that is not a Borrower or another Restricted Subsidiary of the Parent or (b) a Securitization Subsidiary that in turn sells such Securitization Assets to a Person that is not a Borrower or another Restricted Subsidiary of the Parent, or may grant a security interest in, any Securitization Assets of any Borrower, any other Restricted Subsidiary of the Parent or any of its Subsidiaries.
“Securitization Fees” shall mean distributions or payments made directly or by means of discounts with respect to any Securitization Asset or participation interest therein issued or sold in connection with, and other fees and expenses (including reasonable fees and expenses of legal counsel) paid to a Person that is not a Borrower or another Restricted Subsidiary of the Parent in connection with, any Qualified Securitization Financing.
“Securitization Repurchase Obligation” shall mean any obligation of a seller (or any guaranty of such obligation) of (i) Receivables Assets under a Receivables Facility to repurchase Receivables Assets or (ii) Securitization Assets in a Qualified Securitization Financing to repurchase Securitization Assets, in either case, arising as a result of a breach of a representation, warranty or covenant or otherwise, including, without limitation, as a result of a receivable or portion thereof becoming subject to any asserted defense, dispute, offset or counterclaim of any kind as a result of any action taken by, any failure to take action by or any other event relating to the seller.
“Securitization Subsidiary” shall mean any Subsidiary of the Parent in each case formed for the purpose of, and that solely engages in, one or more Qualified Securitization Financings and other activities reasonably related thereto or another Person formed for the purposes of engaging in a Qualified Securitization Financing in which the Parent or any Restricted Subsidiary makes an Investment and to which the Parent or such Restricted Subsidiary transfers Securitization Assets and related assets.
“Security Agreement” means a security agreement substantially in the form of Exhibit F.
“Security Agreement Supplement” has the meaning set forth in the Security Agreement.
“Seller’s Retained Interest” means the debt or equity interests held by the Lead Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary in (i) a Securitization Subsidiary to which Securitization Assets have been transferred, and/or (ii) a Receivables Subsidiary to which Receivables Assets have been transferred including, in each case, any such debt or equity received as consideration for or as a portion of the purchase price for the Securitization Assets and/or Receivables Assets transferred, or any other instrument through which the Lead Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary has rights to or receives distributions in respect of any deferred purchase price or other residual or excess interest in such Securitization Assets and/or Receivables Assets.
“Senior Representative” means, with respect to any series of Permitted First Priority Refinancing Debt, Permitted Junior Priority Refinancing Debt, Other Term Loans or Other Notes (if secured), the trustee, administrative agent, collateral agent, security agent or similar agent under the indenture or agreement pursuant to which such Indebtedness is issued, incurred or otherwise obtained, as the case may be, and each of their successors in such capacities.
“Solicited Discount Proration” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a)(v)(D)(3).
“Solicited Discounted Prepayment Amount” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a)(v)(D)(1).
“Solicited Discounted Prepayment Notice” means a written notice of the Borrower of Solicited Discounted Prepayment Offers made pursuant to Section 2.05(a)(v)(D) substantially in the form of Exhibit E-6.
“Solicited Discounted Prepayment Offer” means the irrevocable written offer by each Lender, substantially in the form of Exhibit E-7, submitted following the Administrative Agent’s receipt of a Solicited Discounted Prepayment Notice.
“Solicited Discounted Prepayment Response Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a)(v)(D)(1).
“Solvent” and “Solvency” mean, with respect to any Person or Persons on any date of determination, that on such date such Person or Persons (a) have property with fair value (on a going concern basis) that exceeds, on a consolidated basis, their debts and liabilities, subordinated, contingent or otherwise, (b) have assets with the present fair saleable value of the property (on a going concern basis) that is, on a consolidated basis, greater than the amount that will be required to pay the probable liability, on a consolidated basis, of their debts and other liabilities, subordinated, contingent or otherwise, as such debts and other liabilities become absolute and matured in the ordinary course of business, (c) will be able to pay, on a consolidated basis, their debts and liabilities, subordinated, contingent or otherwise, as they become absolute and matured in the ordinary course of business and (d) are not engaged in, and are not about to engage in, on a consolidated basis, business contemplated as of the date hereof for which they have unreasonably small capital.
“SPC” has the meaning set forth in Section 10.07(h).
“Specified Acquisition Agreement Representations” means the representations and warranties made with respect to the Companies (as defined in the Acquisition Agreement) in the Acquisition Agreement as are material to the interests of the Lenders, but only to the extent that the Buyer (or its Affiliates) has (or have) the right (taking into account any applicable cure provisions) to terminate its (or their) obligations under the Acquisition Agreement or decline to consummate the Acquisition (in each case, in accordance with the terms of the Acquisition Agreement) as a result of a breach of such representations and warranties in the Acquisition Agreement.
“Specified Discount” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a)(v)(B)(1).
“Specified Discount Prepayment Amount” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a)(v)(B)(1).
“Specified Discount Prepayment Notice” means a written notice of the Borrower Offer of Specified Discount Prepayment made pursuant to Section 2.05(a)(v)(B) substantially in the form of Exhibit E-8.
“Specified Discount Prepayment Response” means the irrevocable written response by each Lender, substantially in the form of Exhibit E-9, to a Specified Discount Prepayment Notice.
“Specified Discount Prepayment Response Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a)(v)(B)(1).
“Specified Discount Proration” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a)(v)(B)(3).
“Specified Guarantor” has the meaning set forth in the definition of “Guarantor”.
“Specified Junior Financing Obligations” means any obligations in respect of any Junior Financing in respect of which any Loan Party is an obligor in a principal amount in excess of the Threshold Amount.
“Specified Representations” means those representations and warranties made by the Loan Parties in Sections 5.01(a) (other than with respect to a Subsidiary which does not constitute a Material Subsidiary) 5.01(b), 5.02(a), 5.02(b)(i) (solely as it relates to the entering into and performing under the Loan Documents), 5.04, 5.12, 5.16, 5.17(a) (solely in respect of (i) the use of Loan proceeds on the Closing Date and (ii) the USA Patriot Act), 5.17(b) (solely in respect of the use of Loan proceeds on the Closing Date), 5.17(c) (solely in respect of the use of Loan proceeds on the Closing Date) and 5.18 (subject to the proviso at the end of Section 4.01(a)).
“Specified Transaction” means (i) any Investment that results in a Person becoming a Restricted Subsidiary of the Parent, (ii) any designation of a Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary or an Unrestricted Subsidiary, (iii) any Permitted Acquisition, (iv) any Disposition that results in a Restricted Subsidiary ceasing to be a Subsidiary of the Parent, (v) any Investment constituting an acquisition of assets constituting a business unit, line of business or division of, or all or substantially all of the Equity Interests of, another Person or any Disposition of a business unit, line of business or division of the Lead Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary, in each case whether by merger, consolidation, amalgamation or otherwise, (vi) any incurrence or repayment of Indebtedness, (vii) any Restricted Payment, (viii) any of Revolving Commitment Increase, Incremental Revolving Loan or Incremental Term Loan or (ix) any other event that by the terms of this Agreement requires pro forma compliance with a test or covenant hereunder or requires such test or covenant to be calculated on a pro forma basis or giving pro forma effect to any such transaction or event that by the terms of this Agreement requires such test to be calculated on a “Pro Forma Basis” or after giving “Pro Forma Effect.”
“Sponsor” means any of (i) AE Industrial Partners Fund II, L.P. and (ii) any successors of a Person set forth in clause (i) and any of their Affiliates, and funds or partnerships managed or advised by any of them or any of their respective Affiliates but not including, however, any portfolio company of any of the foregoing.
“Sponsor Associate” means any managing director, general partner, limited partner, director, officer or employee of the Sponsor.
“Sponsor-Controlled Affiliated Lender” means, at any time, any Lender that is the Sponsor or a Non-Debt Fund Affiliate, in each case, other than the Parent, any Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, any Debt Fund Affiliate or any natural person
“Sponsor-Controlled Affiliate Lender Assignment and Assumption” has the meaning set forth in Section 10.07(k)(ii).
“Sponsor-Controlled Affiliated Lender Cap” has the meaning set forth in Section 10.07(k)(v).
“Sponsor Model” means that certain projection model delivered by the Sponsor to the Administrative Agent and the Lead Arranger on September 11, 2020, and any subsequent modifications by the Sponsor thereto that are reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent.
“Standard Securitization Undertakings” means representations, warranties, covenants, repurchase obligations and indemnities entered into by any Borrower or any other Restricted Subsidiary of the Parent which are customary for a seller or servicer of assets transferred in connection with a non- recourse, bankruptcy-remote financing of accounts receivable.
“Submitted Amount” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a)(v)(C)(1).
“Submitted Discount” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.05(a)(v)(C)(1).
“Subsidiary” of a Person means a corporation, partnership, joint venture, limited liability company or other business entity (excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, any charitable organizations, and any other Person that meets the requirements of Section 501(c)(3) of the Code) of which (i) 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, (ii) more than half of the issued share capital is at the time beneficially owned or (iii) 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 Parent.
“Subsidiary Guarantor” means any Guarantor other than the Parent. “Successor Company” has the meaning set forth in Section 7.04(d).
“Supported QFC” has the meaning assigned to it in Section 10.23.
“Supplier Financing Assets” shall mean (a) any accounts receivable owed to the Lead Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries subject to a Supplier Financing Facility and the proceeds thereof and (b) all collateral securing such accounts receivable, all contracts and contract rights, guarantees or other obligations in respect of such accounts receivable, all records with respect to such accounts receivable and any other assets customarily transferred together with accounts receivable in connection with a non- recourse accounts receivable factoring arrangement and which are sold, conveyed, assigned or otherwise transferred or pledged in connection with a Supplier Financing Facility.
“Supplier Financing Facility” means any agreement between the Lead Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries and a financial institution that is entered into at the request of a customer or supplier of the Lead Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries, pursuant to which (a) such Person, as applicable, agrees to sell to such financial institution accounts receivable owing by such customer, together with Supplier Financing Assets related thereto, at a maximum discount, for each such account receivable, not to exceed 5.00% of the face value thereof and (b) the obligations of the Person, as applicable, thereunder are non-recourse (except for customary representations, warranties, covenants and indemnities made in connection with such facilities) to the Parent and such Subsidiaries.
“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.
“Swap Obligation” has the meaning set forth in the definition of “Excluded Swap Obligation.”
“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).
“Taxes” means all present or future taxes, duties, levies, imposts, deductions, assessments or withholdings (including backup withholding), fees or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority, including any interest, penalties and additions to tax.
“Term Borrowing” means a borrowing consisting of 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 Lenders pursuant to Section 2.01(a), or under any Incremental Amendment, Extension Amendment or Refinancing Amendment or otherwise.
“Term Commitment” means, as to each Term Lender, its obligation to make a Term Loan to the Borrowers hereunder, expressed as an amount representing the maximum principal amount of the Term Loan to be made by such Term Lender under this Agreement, as such commitment may be (a) reduced from time to time pursuant to Section 2.06 and (b) reduced or increased from time to time pursuant to
(i)assignments by or to such Term Lender pursuant to an Assignment and Assumption, (ii) an Incremental Amendment, (iii) a Refinancing Amendment, (iv) an Extension Amendment, or (v) the incurrence of Replacement Term Loans. The initial amount of each Term Lender’s Commitment is set forth on Schedule 1.01A under the caption “Initial Term Commitment” or, otherwise, in the Assignment and Assumption, Incremental Amendment, Extension Amendment or Refinancing Amendment pursuant to which such Lender shall have assumed its Commitment, as the case may be.
“Term Facility” means (a) prior to the Closing Date, the Initial Term Commitments and
(b)thereafter, each Class of Term Loans and/or Term Commitments.
“Term Lender” means, at any time, any Lender that has (a) an Initial Term Commitment, Incremental Term Commitment, Refinancing Term Commitment or other Term Commitment or (b) a Term Loan at such time.
“Term Loan” means any Initial Term Loan, Extended Term Loan, Delayed Draw Term Loan, Incremental Term Loan, Refinancing Term Loan or Replacement Term Loan, as the context may require.
“Term Loan Extension Request” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.16(a).
“Term Loan Extension Series” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.16(a).
“Term Loan Increase” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.14(a).
“Term Note” means a promissory note of the Borrowers payable to any Term Lender or its registered assigns, in substantially the form of Exhibit C-1 hereto, evidencing the aggregate Indebtedness of the Borrowers to such Term Lender resulting from the Term Loans made by such Term Lender.
“Test Period” means, for any date of determination under this Agreement, the four consecutive
fiscal quarters of the Parent most recently ended as of such date of determination for which financial statements have been delivered.
“Threshold Amount” means $3,000,000.
“Total Assets” means the total assets of the Parent and the Restricted Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, as shown on the most recent balance sheet of the Parent delivered pursuant to Sections 6.01(a) or (b) or, for the period prior to the time any such statements are so delivered pursuant to Sections 6.01(a) or (b), the Pro Forma Financial Statements.
“Total Outstandings” means the aggregate Outstanding Amount of all Loans. “Trademark” has the meaning set forth in the Security Agreement.
“Transaction Expenses” means any fees or expenses incurred or paid by the Parent, the Borrowers or any of their respective Subsidiaries or any of their direct or indirect parent entities (including the Sponsor) in connection with the Transactions (including, without limitation, expenses in connection with hedging transactions), this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby.
“Transactions” means, collectively, (a) the Acquisition and other related transactions contemplated by the Acquisition Agreement, (b) the funding of the Initial Term Loans and the Initial Revolving Borrowing on the Closing Date and the execution and delivery of Loan Documents to be entered into on the Closing Date and (c) the payment of Transaction Expenses in connection with the foregoing.
“Transferred Guarantor” has the meaning set forth in Section 11.09.
“Treasury Services Agreement” means any agreement between any Loan Party or Restricted Subsidiary and any Hedge Bank relating to treasury, depository, credit card, debit card, credit card and cash management services or automated clearinghouse transfer of funds or any similar services.
“Type” means, with respect to a Loan, its character as a Base Rate Loan or a Eurocurrency Rate
Loan.
“UK Financial Institution” means any BRRD Undertaking (as such term is defined under the PRA Rulebook (as amended from time to time) promulgated by the United Kingdom Prudential Regulation Authority) or any person falling within IFPRU 11.6 of the FCA Handbook (as amended from time to time) promulgated by the United Kingdom Financial Conduct Authority, which includes certain credit institutions and investment firms, and certain affiliates of such credit institutions or investment firms.
“UK Resolution Authority” means the Bank of England or any other public administrative authority having responsibility for the resolution of any UK Financial Institution.
“Uniform Commercial Code” or “UCC” means (i) the Uniform Commercial Code as the same may from time to time be in effect in the State of New York or (ii) the Uniform Commercial Code (or similar code or statute) of another jurisdiction, to the extent it may be required to apply to any item or items of Collateral. References in this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to specific sections of the Uniform Commercial Code are based on the Uniform Commercial Code as in effect in the State of New York on the date hereof. In the event such Uniform Commercial Code is amended or another Uniform Commercial Code described in clause (ii) is applicable, such section reference shall be deemed to be a reference to the comparable section in such amended or other Uniform Commercial Code.
“United States” and “U.S.” mean the United States of America.
“United States Tax Compliance Certificate” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.01(d)(ii)(C) and is in substantially the form of Exhibit H hereto.
“Unrestricted Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of the Borrowers designated by the Lead Borrower as an Unrestricted Subsidiary pursuant to Section 6.14 subsequent to the Closing Date.
“USA Patriot Act” means the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Public Law 107-56.
“Weighted Average Life to Maturity” means, when applied to any Indebtedness at any date, the number of years obtained by dividing: (i) the sum of the products obtained by multiplying (a) the amount of each then remaining installment, sinking fund, serial maturity or other required payments of principal, including payment at final maturity, in respect thereof, by (b) the number of years (calculated to the nearest one-twelfth) that will elapse between such date and the making of such payment; by (ii) the then outstanding principal amount of such Indebtedness; provided that for purposes of the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of such Indebtedness, the effects of any prepayments or amortization made on such Indebtedness prior to the date of the applicable modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal, replacement or extension shall be disregarded.
“Wholly-owned” means, with respect to a Subsidiary of a Person, a Subsidiary of such Person all of the outstanding Equity Interests of which (other than (x) director’s qualifying shares and (y) shares issued to foreign nationals to the extent required by applicable Law) are owned by such Person and/or by one or more wholly-owned Subsidiaries of such Person.
“Write-Down and Conversion Powers” shall mean, (i) with respect to any EEA Resolution Authority, the write-down and conversion powers of such EEA Resolution Authority from time to time under the Bail-In Legislation for the applicable EEA Member Country, which write-down and conversion powers are described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule, and (ii) with respect to the United Kingdom, any powers of the applicable Resolution Authority under the Bail-In Legislation to cancel, reduce, modify or change the form of a liability of any UK Financial Institution or any contract or instrument under which that liability arises, to convert all or part of that liability into shares, securities or obligations of that person or any other person, to provide that any such contract or instrument is to have effect as if a right had been exercised under it or to suspend any obligation in respect of that liability or any of the powers under that Bail-In Legislation that are related to or ancillary to any of those powers.
Section 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 meanings of defined terms are equally applicable to the singular and plural forms of the defined terms.
(b)The words “herein,” “hereto,” “hereof” and “hereunder” and words of similar import when used in any Loan Document shall refer to such Loan Document as a whole and not to any particular provision thereof.
(c)Article, Section, Exhibit and Schedule references are to the Loan Document in which such reference appears.
(d)The term “including” is by way of example and not limitation.
(e)The word “or” is not exclusive.
(f)The term “documents” includes any and all instruments, documents, agreements, certificates, notices, reports, financial statements and other writings, however evidenced, whether in physical or electronic form.
(g)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”.
(h)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.
(i)[Reserved].
(j)All references to “knowledge” of any Loan Party or a Restricted Subsidiary of Parent means the actual knowledge of a Responsible Officer.
(k)The words “asset” and “property” shall be construed as having 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.
(l)All references to any Person shall be constructed to include such Person’s successors and assigns (subject to any restriction on assignment set forth herein) and, in the case of any Governmental Authority, any other Governmental Authority that shall have succeeded to any or all of the functions thereof.
(m)All references to “in the ordinary course of business” of the Parent or any Subsidiary thereof means (i) in the ordinary course of business of, or in furtherance of an objective that is in the ordinary course of business of the Parent or such Subsidiary, as applicable, (ii) generally consistent with the past or current practice of the Parent or such Subsidiary, as applicable, or any other jurisdiction in which the Parent or any Subsidiary does business, as applicable, or (iii) customary and usual in the industry or industries of the Parent and its Subsidiaries in the United States or any other jurisdiction in with the Parent or any Subsidiary does business, as applicable.
(n)In the case of any cure or waiver, Parent, the Borrowers, the applicable Loan Parties, the Lenders and the Administrative Agent shall be restored to their former positions and rights hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, and any Default or Event of Default cured or waived shall be deemed to be cured or waived, as applicable, and not continuing, it being understood that no such cure or waiver shall extend to any subsequent or other Default or Event of Default or impair any right consequent thereon.
(o)Any reference herein or in any other Loan Document to (i) a transfer, assignment, sale or disposition (including any Disposition), or similar term, shall be deemed to apply to a division (including, without limitation, a “plan of division” or similar plan under the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act) of or by a limited liability company, or an allocation of assets to a series of a limited liability company, as if it were a transfer, assignment, sale or disposition (including any Disposition), or similar term, as applicable, to a separate Person and (ii) a merger, consolidation, amalgamation or consolidation,
or similar term, shall be deemed to apply to any division (including, without limitation, a “plan of division” or similar plan under the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act) or the unwinding of such a division or allocation, as if it were a merger, consolidation, amalgamation or consolidation or similar term, as applicable, with a separate Person.
Section 1.03. Accounting Terms.
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, except as otherwise specifically prescribed herein. Notwithstanding any other provision contained herein, (a) unless the Lead Borrower has requested an amendment pursuant to this Section 1.03 with respect to the treatment of operating leases and Capitalized Leases and until such amendment has become effective, all obligations of any Person that would have been treated as operating leases for purposes of GAAP prior to the implementation of ASC 842 (whether before or after the Closing Date) shall continue to be accounted for as operating leases for purposes of all financial definitions and calculations for purposes of this Agreement (whether or not such operating lease obligations were in effect on such date) regardless of any change in or application of GAAP following such date pursuant to ASC 842 or otherwise that would require such leases (on a prospective or retroactive basis or otherwise) to be treated as Capitalized Leases and (b) all terms of an accounting or financial nature used herein shall be construed, and all computations of amounts and ratios referred to herein shall be made, without giving effect to Statement of Financial Accounting Standards 141R or ASC 805 (or any other financial accounting standard having a similar result or effect).
Section 1.04. Rounding.
Any financial ratios required to be maintained by the Borrowers pursuant to this Agreement (or required to be satisfied in order for a specific action to be permitted under this Agreement) shall be calculated by dividing the appropriate component by the other component, carrying the result to one place more than the number of places by which such ratio is expressed herein and rounding the result up or down to the nearest number (with a rounding up if there is no nearest number).
Section 1.05. References to Agreements, Laws, Etc.
Unless otherwise expressly provided herein, (a) references to Organization Documents, agreements (including the Loan Documents) and other contractual instruments shall be deemed to include all subsequent amendments, refinancings, restatements, renewals, restructurings, extensions, supplements and other modifications thereto, but only to the extent that such amendments, refinancings, restatements, renewals, restructuring, extensions, supplements and other modifications are not prohibited by the Loan Documents and (b) references to any Law shall include all statutory and regulatory provisions consolidating, amending, replacing, supplementing or interpreting such Law.
Section 1.06. Exchange Rates.
(a)Any amount specified in this Agreement (other than in Article 2) or any of the other Loan Documents to be in Dollars shall also include the equivalent of such amount in any currency other than Dollars, such equivalent amount to be determined at the rate of exchange quoted on the applicable Bloomberg screen page for the applicable currency at 11:00 a.m. (London time) on such day (or, in the event such rate does not appear on any Bloomberg screen page, by reference to such other publicly available service for displaying exchange rates as may be agreed upon by the Administrative Agent and the Lead Borrower, or, in the absence of such agreement, by reference to such publicly available service for displaying exchange rates as the Administrative Agent selects in its reasonable discretion).
(b)For purposes of determining the Consolidated Senior Secured Net Leverage Ratio, the Consolidated Secured Net Leverage Ratio and the Consolidated Total Net Leverage Ratio, the amount of Indebtedness shall reflect the currency translation effects, determined in accordance with GAAP, of Swap Contracts permitted hereunder for currency exchange risks with respect to the applicable currency in effect on the date of determination of the Dollar equivalent of such Indebtedness.
(c)Notwithstanding the foregoing, for purposes of determining compliance with Article VII (and, in each case, other definitions used therein) with respect to the amount of any Indebtedness, Lien, Disposition, Investment, Restricted Payment or other applicable transaction in a currency other than Dollars, no Default or Event of Default shall be deemed to have occurred solely as a result of changes in rates of currency exchange occurring after the time such Indebtedness or Lien is incurred or such Disposition, Investment, Restricted Payment or other applicable transaction is made (or declared or notified, as applicable) (so long as such Indebtedness, Lien, Disposition, Investment, Restricted Payment or other applicable transaction at the time incurred or made (or declared or notified, as applicable) was permitted hereunder).
(d)Each provision of this Agreement shall be subject to such reasonable changes of construction as the Administrative Agent may from time to time specify with the Lead Borrower’s prior written consent to appropriately reflect a change in currency of any country and any relevant market conventions or practices relating to such change in currency.
Section 1.07. Compliance with Certain Sections.
For purposes of determining compliance with any of Section 6.19 or Sections 7.01 through 7.13 (other than Section 7.11), in the event that any Lien, Investment, Indebtedness (whether at the time of incurrence or upon application of all or a portion of the proceeds thereof), Disposition, Affiliate transaction, Contractual Obligation, Restricted Payment or prepayment of Junior Financing meets the criteria of one, or more than one, of the “baskets” or categories of transactions then permitted pursuant to any clause or subsection of any such section of Article VI or Article VII, as applicable, such transaction (or portion thereof) at any time shall be permitted under one or more of such clauses of such Section at the time of such transaction or any later time from time to time, in each case, as determined by the Lead Borrower in its sole discretion at such time and thereafter may be reclassified within such section by the Lead Borrower in any manner not expressly prohibited by this Agreement. With respect to (x) any amounts incurred or transactions entered into (or consummated) in reliance on a provision of this Agreement that does not require compliance with a financial ratio or test (including the Consolidated Total Net Leverage Ratio, the Consolidated Secured Net Leverage Ratio and/or the Consolidated Senior Secured Net Leverage Ratio) (any such amounts, the “Fixed Amounts”) substantially concurrently with (y) any amounts incurred or transactions entered into (or consummated) in reliance on a provision of this Agreement that requires compliance with a financial ratio or test (including the Consolidated Total Net Leverage Ratio, the Consolidated Secured Net Leverage Ratio and/or the Consolidated Senior Secured Net Leverage Ratio) (any such amounts, the “Incurrence-Based Amounts”), it is understood and agreed that the Fixed Amounts shall be disregarded in the calculation of the financial ratio or test applicable to Incurrence-Based Amounts. In addition, any Indebtedness (and associated Liens, subject to the applicable priorities required pursuant to the applicable Incurrence-Based Amounts), Investments, prepayments of debt and Restricted Payment incurred in reliance on Fixed Amounts may be reclassified at any time, as the Lead Borrower may elect from time to time, as incurred under any applicable Incurrence-Based Amounts if the Lead Borrower subsequently meets the applicable ratio or test for such Incurrence-Based Amounts on a pro forma basis (or would have met such ratio or test, in which case, such reclassification shall be deemed to have automatically occurred if not elected by the Lead Borrower).
Section 1.08. Times of Day.
Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to times of day shall be references to Eastern time (daylight or standard, as applicable).
Section 1.09. Timing of Payment or Performance.
Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, when the payment of any obligation or the performance of any covenant, duty or obligation is stated to be due or performance required on a day which is not a Business Day, the date of such payment (other than as described in the definition of “Interest Period”) or performance shall extend to the immediately succeeding Business Day.
Section 1.10. Cumulative Credit Transactions.
If more than one action occurs on any given date the permissibility of the taking of which is determined hereunder by reference to the amount of the Cumulative Credit immediately prior to the taking of such action, the permissibility of the taking of each such action shall be determined independently and in no event may any two or more such actions be treated as occurring simultaneously.
Section 1.11. Pro Forma Calculations.
(a)Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, financial ratios and tests, including the Consolidated Total Net Leverage Ratio, the Consolidated Secured Net Leverage Ratio and the Consolidated Senior Secured Net Leverage Ratio shall be calculated in the manner prescribed by this Section 1.11; provided that notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 1.11, when calculating the Consolidated Total Net Leverage Ratio for purposes of (i) the definition of “Applicable ECF Percentage,”
(ii)the definition of “Applicable Asset Sale Percentage”, and (iii) determining actual compliance (and not Pro Forma Compliance or compliance on a Pro Forma Basis) with any covenant pursuant to Section 7.11, in each case, the events described in this Section 1.11 that occurred subsequent to the end of the applicable Test Period shall not be given pro forma effect. In addition, whenever a financial ratio or test is to be calculated on a pro forma basis, the reference to the “Test Period” for purposes of calculating such financial ratio or test shall be deemed to be a reference to, and shall be based on, the most recently ended Test Period for which financial statements of the Parent are available (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower); provided that, the provisions of this sentence shall not apply for purposes of calculating the Consolidated Senior Secured Net Leverage Ratio for purposes of the definition of “Applicable ECF Percentage”, the definition of “Applicable Asset Sale Percentage”, or determining actual compliance with Section 7.11 (other than for the purpose of determining pro forma compliance with Section 7.11), each of which shall be based on the financial statements delivered pursuant to Sections 6.01(a) or (b), as applicable, for the relevant Test Period.
(b)For purposes of calculating any financial ratio or test or basket that is based on a percentage of Consolidated EBITDA or Total Assets, Specified Transactions (with any incurrence or repayment of any Indebtedness in connection therewith to be subject to Section 1.11(d)) that have been made (i) during the applicable Test Period and (ii) if applicable as described in Section 1.11(a), subsequent to such Test Period and prior to or substantially concurrently with the event for which the calculation of any such ratio is made shall be calculated on a pro forma basis assuming that all such Specified Transactions (and any increase or decrease in Consolidated EBITDA, Total Assets and the component financial definitions used therein attributable to any Specified Transaction) had occurred on the first day of the applicable Test Period (or, in the case of the determination of Total Assets, the last day of the applicable Test Period). If since the beginning of any applicable Test Period any Person that subsequently became a Restricted Subsidiary of the Parent or was merged, amalgamated or consolidated with or into any Borrower or any of the Parent’s other Restricted Subsidiaries since the beginning of such Test Period shall have made any Specified Transaction that would have required adjustment pursuant to this Section 1.11, then such financial ratio or
test (or the calculation of Total Assets) shall be calculated to give pro forma effect thereto in accordance with this Section 1.11.
(c)Whenever pro forma effect is to be given to the Transactions, a Specified Transaction, the implementation of an operational initiative or operational change, the pro forma calculations (i) shall be made in good faith by a Responsible Officer of the Lead Borrower and (ii) may include, for the avoidance of doubt, the amount of “run-rate” cost savings, operating expense reductions, other operating improvements and cost synergies resulting from, or relating to, such initiative or change, such Transaction or such Specified Transaction projected by the Lead Borrower in good faith to be realizable as a result of actions taken or expected to be taken (calculated on a pro forma basis as though such cost savings, operating expense reductions, other operating improvements and cost synergies had been realized on the first day of such period as if such cost savings, operating expense reductions, other operating improvements and cost synergies were realized during the entirety of such period and such that “run-rate” means the full recurring projected benefit for a period that is associated with any action taken or expected to be taken (including any savings or other benefits expected to result from the elimination of a public target’s compliance costs with public company requirements) net of the amount of actual benefits realized during such period from such actions), and any such adjustments shall be included in the initial pro forma calculation of such financial ratios or tests or basket that is based on a percentage of Consolidated EBITDA relating to such initiative or change, such Transaction or such Specified Transaction (and in respect of any subsequent pro forma calculation in which such initiative or change, such Transaction or such Specified Transaction is given pro forma effect) and during any applicable subsequent Test Period in which the effects thereof are expected to be realizable, relating to such initiative or change, such Transaction or such Specified Transaction; provided that (x) a duly completed certificate signed by a Responsible Officer of the Lead Borrower shall be delivered to the Administrative Agent together with the Compliance Certificate required to be delivered pursuant to Section 6.02, certifying that such cost savings, operating expense reductions, other operating improvements and/or cost synergies are readily identifiable, factually supportable and have been determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower to be reasonably anticipated to be realizable in the good faith judgment of the Lead Borrower, within twenty-four (24) months after the consummation of such initiative or change (or, with respect to the Transactions, within 24 months after the consummation of the Transactions), such Transaction or such Specified Transaction, which is expected to result in such cost savings, operating expense reductions, other operating improvements or cost synergies and (y) no cost savings, operating expense reductions, other operating improvements or cost synergies shall be added pursuant to clause (ii) above to the extent duplicative of any expenses or charges otherwise added to Consolidated EBITDA (or any component thereof) , whether through a pro forma adjustment or otherwise, for such period; provided, further, that all amounts added back to Consolidated EBITDA pursuant to clause (ii) above, together with all amounts added back to Consolidated EBITDA pursuant to clauses (a)(iv) and (a)(vii) in the definition thereof, shall not exceed, in the aggregate 25% of Consolidated EBITDA (calculated after giving effect to such amounts that would be added back pursuant to such clause (ii) and clause (a)(vii)(B) in the definition of Consolidated EBITDA).
(d)In the event that any Borrower or any other Restricted Subsidiary of the Parent incurs (including by assumption or guarantees) or repays (including by redemption, repayment, retirement or extinguishment) any Indebtedness included in the calculations of any financial ratio or test, (i) during the applicable Test Period or (ii) subject to Section 1.11(a) subsequent to the end of the applicable Test Period and prior to or simultaneously with the event for which the calculation of any such ratio is made, then such financial ratio or test shall be calculated giving pro forma effect to such incurrence or repayment of Indebtedness, to the extent required, as if the same had occurred on the last day of the applicable Test Period.
(e)Any provision requiring pro forma compliance with Section 7.11 shall be made assuming that compliance with the Consolidated Total Net Leverage Ratio pursuant to such Section is required with
respect to the most recent Test Period prior to such time (it being understood that for purposes of determining Pro Forma Compliance with Section 7.11, if no Test Period with an applicable Consolidated Total Net Leverage Ratio cited in Section 7.11 has passed, the applicable Consolidated Total Net Leverage Ratio level shall be the level for the first Test Period cited in Section 7.11 with an indicated Consolidated Total Net Leverage Ratio level).
(f)[Reserved].
(g)In connection with any action being taken in connection with a Limited Condition Transaction, for purposes of:
(i)determining compliance with any provision of this Agreement which requires the calculation of any financial ratio or test, including the Consolidated Total Net Leverage Ratio, the Consolidated Secured Net Leverage Ratio or the Consolidated Senior Secured Net Leverage Ratio;
(ii)testing availability under baskets set forth in this Agreement (including baskets measured as a percentage of Consolidated EBITDA); or
(iii)determining compliance with representations, warranties, Defaults or Events of Default;
in each case, at the option of the Lead Borrower (the Lead Borrower’s election to exercise such option in connection with any Limited Condition Transaction, an “LCT Election”), the date of determination of whether any such action is permitted hereunder shall be deemed to be the date the definitive agreement for such Limited Condition Transaction is entered into or irrevocable notice is given in respect of such transaction (or such later date as specified by the Lead Borrower in writing to the Administrative Agent from time to time) (the “LCT Test Date”), and if, after giving Pro Forma Effect to the Limited Condition Transaction and the other transactions to be entered into in connection therewith as if they had occurred at the beginning of the most recent Test Period ending prior to the LCT Test Date, the Parent or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries would have been permitted to take such action on the relevant LCT Test Date in compliance with such ratio, test or basket, such ratio, test or basket shall be deemed to have been complied with for all purposes; provided that if financial statements for one or more subsequent fiscal periods shall have been delivered pursuant to this Agreement, the Lead Borrower may elect, in its sole discretion, to redetermine all such ratios, tests or baskets on the basis of such financial statements, in which case such date or redetermination shall thereafter be deemed to be the applicable date the definitive agreements for such Limited Condition Transaction are entered into. For the avoidance of doubt, if the Lead Borrower has made an LCT Election and any of the ratios, tests or baskets for which compliance was determined or tested as of the LCT Test Date would have failed to have been satisfied as a result of fluctuations in any such ratio, test or basket (including due to fluctuations of the target of any Limited Condition Transaction), including due to fluctuations in Consolidated EBITDA or Total Assets, at or prior to the consummation of the relevant transaction or action, such baskets, tests or ratios will not be deemed to have been exceeded or failed to have been satisfied as a result of such fluctuations. If the Lead Borrower has made an LCT Election for any Limited Condition Transaction, then in connection with any event or transaction occurring after the relevant LCT Test Date and prior to the earlier of (i) the date on which such Limited Condition Transaction is consummated or (ii) the date that the definitive agreement or date for redemption, repurchase, defeasance, satisfaction and discharge or repayment specified in an irrevocable notice for such Limited Condition Transaction is terminated, expires or passes, as applicable, without consummation of such Limited Condition Transaction (a “Subsequent Transaction”) in connection with which a ratio, test or basket availability calculation must be made on a pro forma basis or giving pro forma effect to such Subsequent Transaction, for purposes of determining whether such ratio, test or basket availability has been complied with under this Agreement, any such ratio, test or basket shall be required
to be satisfied on a pro forma basis assuming such Limited Condition Transaction and other transactions in connection therewith have been consummated; provided that, solely with respect to any such ratio, test or basket calculated with respect to a Restricted Payment or payment on account of Indebtedness under any Junior Financing, the calculation of any such ratio, test or basket shall be required to be satisfied on a non- pro forma basis until such time as such Subsequent Transaction is actually consummated.
(h)For purposes of the definition of “Applicable ECF Percentage”, (i) the Consolidated Senior Secured Net Leverage Ratio shall be recalculated to give Pro Forma Effect to (A) if the Lead Borrower elects any deduction be made pursuant to the clauses (B)(1) through (4) of Section 2.05(b)(i) after the end of the relevant fiscal year and prior to the time such Excess Cash Flow prepayment is due, any cash pay- downs or reductions made after the end of the relevant fiscal year and prior to the time the applicable Excess Cash Flow prepayment is due and (B) any repayments of the Loan to be made pursuant to Section 2.05(b)(i) utilizing such Excess Cash Flow and (ii) the Consolidated Senior Secured Net Leverage Ratio for the succeeding fiscal year shall not give Pro Forma Effect to such cash pay-downs or reductions.
Section 1.12. [Reserved].
Section 1.13. Appointment of Lead Borrower.
Each time that a Loan Party is joined to the Agreement as a “Borrower” in accordance with Section 6.11, such Borrower hereby designates the Buyer (or any successor Lead Borrower appointed prior to such joinder in accordance with this Section 1.13) as its representative and agent on its behalf for the purposes of selecting interest rate options, giving and receiving all other notices and consents hereunder or under any of the other Loan Documents and taking all other actions (including in respect of compliance with covenants) on behalf of any Borrower or the Borrowers under the Loan Documents, which appointment shall remain in full force and effect unless and until the Administrative Agent shall have received prior written notice signed by each Borrower that such appointment has been revoked and that another Borrower has been appointed as the Lead Borrower. The Lead Borrower, including the Buyer on the Closing Date, hereby accepts such appointment. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, no Borrower other than the Lead Borrower shall be entitled to take any of the foregoing actions. Each Agent and each Lender may regard any notice or other communication from all of the Borrowers, and may give any notice or communication required or permitted to be given to any Borrower or all Borrowers hereunder to the Lead Borrower on behalf of such Borrower or all Borrowers. Each Borrower agrees that each notice, election, representation and warranty, covenant, agreement and undertaking made on its behalf by the Lead Borrower (in such capacity) shall be deemed for all purposes to have been made by such Borrower and shall be binding upon and enforceable against such Borrower to the same extent as if the same had been made directly by such Borrower.
Section 1.14. Certifications.
All certifications to be made hereunder by an officer or representative of a Loan Party shall be made by such person in his or her capacity solely as an officer or a representative of such Loan Party, on such Loan Party’s behalf and not in such Person’s individual capacity.
ARTICLE II.
THE COMMITMENTS AND CREDIT EXTENSIONS
Section 2.01. The Loans.
(a)Term Borrowings.
(i)Initial Term Loan Borrowings. Subject to the terms and conditions expressly set forth herein, each Term Lender severally agrees to make to the Lead Borrower on the Closing Date one or more Term Borrowings denominated in Dollars in an aggregate amount not to exceed at any time outstanding the amount of such Term Lender’s Term Commitment. Amounts borrowed under this Section 2.01(a) and repaid or prepaid may not be re-borrowed. Term Loans may be Base Rate Loans or Eurocurrency Rate Loans, as further provided herein.
(ii)Delayed Draw Term Loan Borrowings. Subject to the terms and conditions expressly set forth herein, each Term Lender agrees to make term loans denominated in Dollars equal to such Term Lenders’ Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment (“Delayed Draw Term Loans”) in the amount requested from time to time by the Borrower at such time pursuant to this Section 2.01(b) on any Business Day during the period from the Closing Date until the Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment Expiration Date, in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed at any time outstanding the amount of such Term Lenders’ Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment; provided that (i) the amount of the Delayed Draw Term Loans requested by the Borrower at such time shall not exceed the aggregate amount of unfunded Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments at such time; and (ii) the terms of each Delayed Draw Term Loan shall be identical to the terms applicable to the Initial Term Loans. Amounts borrowed under this Section 2.01(b) and repaid or prepaid may not be re-borrowed.
(b)Revolving Credit Borrowings. Subject to the terms and conditions expressly set forth herein, each Revolving Credit Lender severally agrees to make Revolving Credit Loans denominated in Dollars to the Borrowers pursuant to Section 2.02 (each such loan, together with any loans made pursuant to an Extended Revolving Credit Commitment, Incremental Revolving Loans and Refinancing Revolving Credit Loans, a “Revolving Credit Loan”) from time to time, on any Business Day during the period from and including the Closing Date until the Maturity Date, in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed at any time outstanding the amount of such Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment; provided that after giving effect to any Revolving Credit Borrowing, the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Revolving Credit Loans of any Lender shall not exceed such Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment. Within the limits of each Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment, and subject to the other terms and conditions hereof, the Borrowers may borrow, prepay, and re-borrow, in each case without premium or penalty (subject to Section 3.05). Revolving Credit Loans may be Base Rate Loans or Eurocurrency Rate Loans, as further provided herein.
Section 2.02. Borrowings, Conversions and Continuations of Loans.
(a)Each Term Borrowing, each Revolving Credit Borrowing, each conversion of Term Loans or Revolving Credit Loans from one Type to the other, and each continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans shall be made upon the Borrower’s delivery of a written Committed Loan Notice, appropriately completed and signed by a Responsible Officer of the Lead Borrower to the Administrative Agent (provided that the notices in respect of the Borrowings (i) on the Closing Date may be conditioned on the closing of the Acquisition and (ii) in connection with a Permitted Acquisition or other permitted Investment may be conditioned on the closing of the applicable Permitted Acquisition or other permitted Investment). Each such notice must be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 2:00 p.m., (I) three Business Days prior to the requested date of any Borrowing or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans or any conversion of Base Rate Loans to Eurocurrency Rate Loans and (II) three Business Day prior to the requested date of any Borrowing of Base Rate Loans or any conversion of Eurocurrency Rate Loans to Base Rate Loans; provided that the notice referred to in clause (I) above may be delivered no later than three (3) Business Day prior to the Closing Date in the case of initial Credit Extensions. Except as otherwise provided in Section 2.14, each Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans shall be in a minimum principal amount of $100,000 or a whole multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof. Except as
otherwise provided herein, each Borrowing of or conversion to Base Rate Loans shall be in a minimum principal amount of $100,000 or a whole multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof. Each Committed Loan Notice (whether telephonic or written) shall specify (i) whether the Lead Borrower is requesting a Term Borrowing, a Revolving Credit Borrowing, a conversion of Term Loans or Revolving Credit 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 or Revolving Credit Loans are to be converted, (v) if applicable, the duration of the Interest Period with respect thereto and (vi) wire instructions of the account(s) to which funds are to be disbursed (it being understood, for the avoidance of doubt, that the amount to be disbursed to any particular account may be less than the minimum or multiple limitations set forth above so long as the aggregate amount to be disbursed to all such accounts pursuant to such Borrowing meets such minimums and multiples). If the Lead Borrower fails to specify a Type of Loan in a Committed Loan Notice, then the applicable Loans shall be made as one month Eurocurrency Rate Loans. If the Lead Borrower fails to give a timely notice requesting a conversion or continuation, then (x) with respect to existing Base Rate Loans, such Base Rate Loans shall be continued as Base Rate Loans and (ii) with respect to existing Eurocurrency Rate Loans, subject to Section 2.02(c), such Eurocurrency Rate Loans shall be continued as Eurocurrency Rate Loans with an Interest Period of one month. Any such automatic conversion to Eurocurrency 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 Lead Borrower requests a Borrowing of, conversion to, or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans in any such Committed Loan Notice, but fails to specify an Interest Period, it will be deemed to have specified an Interest Period of one month.
(b)Following receipt of a Committed Loan Notice, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Lender of the amount of its Pro Rata Share or other applicable share provided for under this Agreement of the applicable Class of Loans, and if no timely notice of a conversion or continuation is provided by the Lead Borrower, the Administrative Agent shall notify each Lender of the details of any automatic continuation described in Section 2.02(a). In the case of each Borrowing, each Appropriate Lender shall make the amount of its Loan available to the Administrative Agent in Same Day Funds at the Administrative Agent’s Office not later than 1:00 p.m. on the Business Day specified in the applicable Committed Loan Notice; provided that, on the Closing Date, such funds may be made available at such earlier time as may be agreed among the relevant Lenders, the Lead Borrower and the Administrative Agent for the purpose of consummating the Transactions. Upon receipt of all requested funds, the Administrative Agent shall make all funds so received available to the Borrowers in like funds as received by the Administrative Agent by wire transfer of such funds in accordance with instructions provided by the Lead Borrower to (and reasonably acceptable to) the Administrative Agent.
(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 unless the Borrowers pay the amount due, if any, under Section 3.05 in connection therewith. During the occurrence and continuation of an Event of Default under Section 8.01(a) or 8.01(f), the Required Lenders may require (effective following written notice thereof) that no Loans may be converted to or continued as Eurocurrency Rate Loans.
(d)The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the Lead Borrower and the Lenders of the interest rate applicable to any Interest Period for Eurocurrency Rate Loans upon determination of such interest rate. The determination of the Eurocurrency Rate by the Administrative Agent shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error. At any time that Base Rate Loans are outstanding, the Administrative Agent shall notify the Lead Borrower and the Lenders of any change in the Prime Rate used in determining the Base Rate promptly following the announcement of such change.
(e)After giving effect to all Term Borrowings, all Revolving Credit Borrowings, all conversions of Term Loans or Revolving Credit Loans from one Type to the other, and all continuations of Term Loans or Revolving Credit Loans as the same Type, there shall not be more than eight (8) Interest Periods plus three (3) additional Interest Periods in respect of each Incremental Loan, each Delayed Draw Term Loan, each Loan in connection with an Extension Amendment and each Loan in connection with a Refinancing Amendment (or such greater amount as may be agreed by the Administrative Agent in its reasonable discretion).
(f)The failure of any Lender to make the Loan to be made by it as part of any Borrowing shall not relieve any other Lender of its obligation, if any, hereunder to make its Loan on the date of such Borrowing, but no Lender shall be responsible for the failure of any other Lender to make the Loan to be made by such other Lender on the date of any Borrowing.
(g)Unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from a Lender prior to the date of any Borrowing that such Lender will not make available to the Administrative Agent such Lender’s Pro Rata Share or other applicable share provided for under this Agreement of such Borrowing, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender has made such Pro Rata Share or other applicable share provided for under this Agreement available to the Administrative Agent on the date of such Borrowing in accordance with Section 2.02(b) above, and the Administrative Agent may, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the Borrowers on such date a corresponding amount. If the Administrative Agent shall have so made funds available, then, to the extent that such Lender shall not have made such portion available to the Administrative Agent, each of such Lender and the Borrowers severally agree to repay to the Administrative Agent promptly after written demand such corresponding amount together with interest thereon, for each day from the date such amount is made available to the Borrowers until the date such amount is repaid to the Administrative Agent at (i) in the case of the Borrowers, the interest rate applicable at the time to the Loans comprising such Borrowing and (ii) in the case of such Lender, the Overnight Rate plus any administrative, processing, or similar fees customarily charged by the Administrative Agent in accordance with the foregoing. A certificate of the Administrative Agent submitted to any Lender with respect to any amounts owing under this Section 2.02(g) shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error. If the Borrowers and such Lender shall pay such interest to the Administrative Agent for the same or an overlapping period, the Administrative Agent shall promptly remit to the Borrowers the amount of such interest paid by the Borrowers for such period. If such Lender pays its share of the applicable Borrowing to the Administrative Agent, then the amount so paid shall constitute such Lender’s Loan included in such Borrowing. Any payment by the Borrowers shall be without prejudice to any claim the Borrowers may have against a Lender that shall have failed to make such payment to the Administrative Agent.
Section 2.03. [Reserved].
Section 2.04. [Reserved].
Section 2.05. Prepayments.
(a)Optional. (i) The Borrowers may, upon written notice to the Administrative Agent by the Lead Borrower, at any time or from time to time voluntarily prepay any Class or Classes of Term Loans and Revolving Credit Loans of any Class or Classes in whole or in part without premium or penalty (except as expressly set forth in this Section 2.05); provided that (1) such notice must be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 4:00 p.m. (A) three Business Days prior to any date of prepayment of Eurocurrency Rate Loans and (B) one Business Day prior to the date of prepayment of Base Rate Loans;
(2)any prepayment of Eurocurrency Rate Loans shall be in a minimum principal amount of $100,000, or a whole multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof; and (3) any prepayment of Base Rate Loans shall be in a
minimum principal amount of $100,000 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 Class(es) and Type(s) of Loans to be prepaid. In connection with any voluntary prepayment pursuant to this Section 2.05(a)(i) that is consummated in respect of all or any portion of the Term Loans (A) prior to the date that is one year after the Closing Date, the Borrower shall pay to the Term Lenders a fee equal to 2.00% of the aggregate principal amount of the Term Loans prepaid pursuant to this Section 2.05(a)(i) or (B) on or after the date that is one year after the Closing Date but prior to the date that is two years after the Closing Date, the Borrower shall pay to the Term Lenders a fee equal to 1.00% of the aggregate principal amount of the Term Loans prepaid pursuant to this Section 2.05(a)(i). The Administrative Agent will promptly notify each Appropriate Lender of its receipt of each such notice, and of the amount of such Lender’s Pro Rata Share or other applicable share provided for under this Agreement of such prepayment. If such notice is given by the Lead Borrower, unless rescinded pursuant to clause (iii) below, the Borrowers 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 Loan (other than prepayments of Base Rate Loans that are Revolving Credit Loans that are not made in connection with the termination or permanent reduction of the Revolving Credit Commitments) shall be accompanied by all accrued interest thereon, together with any additional amounts required pursuant to Section 3.05. In the case of each prepayment of the Loans pursuant to this Section 2.05(a), the Lead Borrower may in its sole discretion select the Borrowing or Borrowings (and the order of maturity of principal payments) to be repaid, and such payment shall be paid to the Lenders in accordance with their respective Pro Rata Shares or other applicable share provided for under this Agreement.
(ii)[Reserved].
(iii)Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, the Lead Borrower may rescind any notice of prepayment under Sections 2.05(a)(i) or 2.05(a)(ii) by notice to the Administrative Agent on the date of prepayment if such prepayment would have resulted from a refinancing of all or any portion of the applicable Class or occurrence of any other event, which refinancing or other event shall not be consummated or shall otherwise be delayed.
(iv)Voluntary prepayments of any Class of Term Loans permitted hereunder shall be applied to the remaining scheduled installments of principal thereof pursuant to Section 2.07(a) in a manner determined at the discretion of the Lead Borrower and specified in the notice of prepayment (and absent such direction, in direct order of maturity).
(v)Notwithstanding anything in any Loan Document to the contrary, in addition to the terms set forth in Sections 2.05(a)(i) and (a)(ii) and 10.07, so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, any Company Party may prepay the outstanding Term Loans (which shall, for the avoidance of doubt, be automatically and permanently canceled immediately upon such prepayment) (or any Borrower or any of its Subsidiaries may purchase such outstanding Loans and in the case of any Borrower and each Restricted Subsidiary immediately cancel them) without premium or penalty on the following basis:
(A)Any Company Party shall have the right to make a voluntary prepayment or purchase of Term Loans at a discount to par pursuant to a Borrower Offer of Specified Discount Prepayment, Borrower Solicitation of Discount Range Prepayment Offers or Borrower Solicitation of Discounted Prepayment Offers (any such prepayment or purchase, the “Discounted Term Loan Prepayment”), in each case made in accordance with this Section 2.05(a)(v) and without premium or penalty.
(B)(1) Any Company Party may from time to time offer to make a Discounted Term Loan Prepayment by providing the Auction Agent (with a copy to the Administrative Agent,
if the Administrative Agent is not acting as Auction Agent hereunder) with five Business Days’ notice in the form of a Specified Discount Prepayment Notice (or such shorter period as agreed by the Auction Agent); provided that (I) any such offer shall be made available, at the sole discretion of the Company Party, to (x) each Term Lender and/or (y) each Term Lender with respect to any Class of Term Loans on an individual tranche basis, (II) any such offer shall specify the aggregate principal amount offered to be prepaid (the “Specified Discount Prepayment Amount”) with respect to each applicable tranche, the tranche or tranches of Term Loans subject to such offer and the specific percentage discount to par (the “Specified Discount”) of such Term Loans to be prepaid (or purchased) (it being understood that different Specified Discounts and/or Specified Discount Prepayment Amounts may be offered with respect to different tranches of Term Loans and, in such event, each such offer will be treated as a separate offer pursuant to the terms of this Section 2.05(a)(v)(B)), (III) the Specified Discount Prepayment Amount shall be in an aggregate amount not less than $500,000 and whole increments of $500,000 in excess thereof and (IV) unless rescinded pursuant to clause (iii) above, each such offer shall remain outstanding through the Specified Discount Prepayment Response Date. The Auction Agent will promptly provide each Appropriate Lender with a copy of such Specified Discount Prepayment Notice and a form of the Specified Discount Prepayment Response to be completed and returned by each such Term Lender to the Auction Agent (or its delegate) by no later than 5:00 p.m. on the third Business Day after the date of delivery of such notice to such Lenders (or such later date specified therein) (the “Specified Discount Prepayment Response Date”).
(2)Each Term Lender receiving such offer shall notify the Auction Agent (or its delegate) by the Specified Discount Prepayment Response Date whether or not it agrees to accept a prepayment (or purchase) of any of its applicable then outstanding Term Loans at the Specified Discount and, if so (such accepting Lender, a “Discount Prepayment Accepting Lender”), the amount and the tranches of such Lender’s Term Loans to be prepaid (or purchased) at such offered discount. Each acceptance of a Discounted Term Loan Prepayment by a Discount Prepayment Accepting Lender shall be irrevocable. Any Term Lender whose Specified Discount Prepayment Response is not received by the Auction Agent by the Specified Discount Prepayment Response Date shall be deemed to have declined to accept the applicable Borrower Offer of Specified Discount Prepayment.
(3)If there is at least one Discount Prepayment Accepting Lender, the relevant Company Party will make a prepayment (or purchase) of outstanding Term Loans pursuant to this Section 2.05(a)(v)(B) to each Discount Prepayment Accepting Lender in accordance with the respective outstanding amount and tranches of Term Loans specified in such Lender’s Specified Discount Prepayment Response given pursuant to clause (2) above; provided that, if the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans accepted for prepayment by all Discount Prepayment Accepting Lenders exceeds the Specified Discount Prepayment Amount, such prepayment (or purchase) shall be made pro rata among the Discount Prepayment Accepting Lenders in accordance with the respective principal amounts accepted to be prepaid (or purchased) by each such Discount Prepayment Accepting Lender and the Auction Agent (subject to the consent of such Company Party and subject to rounding requirements of the Auction Agent made in its reasonable discretion) will calculate such proration (the “Specified Discount Proration”). The Auction Agent shall promptly, and in any case within three Business Days following the Specified Discount Prepayment Response Date, notify (I) the relevant Company Party of the respective Term Lenders’ responses to such offer, the Discounted Prepayment Effective Date and the aggregate principal amount of the Discounted Term Loan Prepayment and the tranches to be prepaid, (II) each Term Lender and the Administrative Agent (if not the Auction Agent) of the Discounted Prepayment Effective Date, and the aggregate principal amount and the tranches of Term Loans to be prepaid at the Specified Discount on such date, (III) each Discount Prepayment Accepting Lender of the Specified Discount
Proration, if any, and confirmation of the principal amount, tranche and Type of Term Loans of such Lender to be prepaid (or purchased) at the Specified Discount on such date, and (IV) the Administrative Agent to the extent not acting as the Auction Agent. Each determination by the Auction Agent of the amounts stated in the foregoing notices to the Company Party and such Term Lenders shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes absent manifest error. The payment amount specified in such notice to the Company Party shall be due and payable by such Company Party on the Discounted Prepayment Effective Date in accordance with Section 2.05(a)(v)(F) below (subject to Section 2.05(a)(v)(I) below).
(C)(1) Any Company Party may from time to time solicit Discount Range Prepayment Offers by providing the Auction Agent with five Business Days’ notice in the form of a Discount Range Prepayment Notice (or such shorter period as agreed by the Auction Agent); provided that (I) any such solicitation shall be extended, at the sole discretion of such Company Party, to (x) each Term Lender and/or (y) each Term Lender with respect to any Class of Term Loans on an individual tranche basis, (II) any such notice shall specify the maximum aggregate principal amount of the relevant Term Loans (the “Discount Range Prepayment Amount”), the tranche or tranches of Term Loans subject to such offer and the maximum and minimum percentage discounts to par (the “Discount Range”) of the principal amount of such Term Loans with respect to each relevant tranche of Term Loans willing to be prepaid (or purchased) by such Company Party (it being understood that different Discount Ranges and/or Discount Range Prepayment Amounts may be offered with respect to different tranches of Term Loans and, in such event, each such offer will be treated as separate offer pursuant to the terms of this Section 2.05(a)(v)(C)),
(III) the Discount Range Prepayment Amount shall be in an aggregate amount not less than
$500,000 and whole increments of $500,000 in excess thereof and (IV) unless rescinded pursuant to clause (iii) above, each such solicitation by a Company Party shall remain outstanding through the Discount Range Prepayment Response Date. The Auction Agent will promptly provide each Appropriate Lender with a copy of such Discount Range Prepayment Notice and a form of the Discount Range Prepayment Offer to be submitted by a responding Lender to the Auction Agent (or its delegate) by no later than 5:00 p.m. on the third Business Day after the date of delivery of such notice to such Lenders (or such later date specified therein) (the “Discount Range Prepayment Response Date”). Each Term Lender’s Discount Range Prepayment Offer shall be irrevocable and shall specify a discount to par within the Discount Range (the “Submitted Discount”) at which such Lender is willing to allow prepayment (or purchase) of any or all of its then outstanding Term Loans of the applicable tranche or tranches and the maximum aggregate principal amount and tranches of such Lender’s Term Loans (the “Submitted Amount”) such Term Lender is willing to have prepaid (or purchased) at the Submitted Discount. Any Term Lender whose Discount Range Prepayment Offer is not received by the Auction Agent by the Discount Range Prepayment Response Date shall be deemed to have declined to accept a Discounted Term Loan Prepayment of any of its Term Loans at any discount to their par value within the Discount Range.
(2)The Auction Agent shall review all Discount Range Prepayment Offers received on or before the applicable Discount Range Prepayment Response Date and shall determine (with the consent of such Company Party and subject to rounding requirements of the Auction Agent made in its reasonable discretion) the Applicable Discount and Term Loans to be prepaid (or purchased) at such Applicable Discount in accordance with this Section 2.05(a)(v)(C). The relevant Company Party agrees to accept on the Discount Range Prepayment Response Date all Discount Range Prepayment Offers received by Auction Agent by the Discount Range Prepayment Response Date, in the order from the Submitted Discount that is the largest discount to par to the Submitted Discount that is the smallest discount to par, up to and including the Submitted Discount that is the smallest discount to par within the Discount Range (such Submitted
Discount that is the smallest discount to par within the Discount Range being referred to as the “Applicable Discount”) which yields a Discounted Term Loan Prepayment in an aggregate principal amount equal to the lower of (I) the Discount Range Prepayment Amount and (II) the sum of all Submitted Amounts. Each Term Lender that has submitted a Discount Range Prepayment Offer to accept prepayment at a discount to par that is larger than or equal to the Applicable Discount shall be deemed to have irrevocably consented to prepayment (or purchase) of Term Loans equal to its Submitted Amount (subject to any required proration pursuant to the following clause (3)) at the Applicable Discount (each such Term Lender, a “Participating Lender”).
(3)If there is at least one Participating Lender, the relevant Company Party will prepay (or purchase) the respective outstanding Term Loans of each Participating Lender on the Discounted Prepayment Effective Date in the aggregate principal amount and of the tranches specified in such Lender’s Discount Range Prepayment Offer at the Applicable Discount; provided that if the Submitted Amount by all Participating Lenders offered at a discount to par greater than the Applicable Discount exceeds the Discount Range Prepayment Amount, prepayment (or purchase) of the principal amount of the relevant Term Loans for those Participating Lenders whose Submitted Discount is a discount to par greater than or equal to the Applicable Discount (the “Identified Participating Lenders”) shall be made pro rata among the Identified Participating Lenders in accordance with the Submitted Amount of each such Identified Participating Lender and the Auction Agent (with the consent of such Company Party and subject to rounding requirements of the Auction Agent made in its reasonable discretion) will calculate such proration (the “Discount Range Proration”). The Auction Agent shall promptly, and in any case within five Business Days following the Discount Range Prepayment Response Date, notify (I) the relevant Company Party of the respective Term Lenders’ responses to such solicitation, the Discounted Prepayment Effective Date, the Applicable Discount and the aggregate principal amount of the Discounted Term Loan Prepayment and the tranches to be prepaid (or purchased),
(II)each Term Lender and the Administrative Agent (if not the Auction Agent) of the Discounted Prepayment Effective Date, the Applicable Discount and the aggregate principal amount and tranches of Term Loans to be prepaid (or purchased) at the Applicable Discount on such date,
(III)each Participating Lender of the aggregate principal amount and tranches of such Term Lender to be prepaid (or purchased) at the Applicable Discount on such date, (IV) if applicable, each Identified Participating Lender of the Discount Range Proration, and (V) the Administrative Agent to the extent not acting as the Auction Agent. Each determination by the Auction Agent of the amounts stated in the foregoing notices to the relevant Company Party and Term Lenders shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes absent manifest error. The payment amount specified in such notice to the Company Party shall be due and payable by such Company Party on the Discounted Prepayment Effective Date in accordance with Section 2.05(a)(v)(F) below (subject to Section 2.05(a)(v)(I) below).
(D)(1) Any Company Party may from time to time solicit Solicited Discounted Prepayment Offers by providing the Auction Agent with five Business Days’ notice in the form of a Solicited Discounted Prepayment Notice (or such later notice specified therein); provided that (I) any such solicitation shall be extended, at the sole discretion of such Company Party, to (x) each Term Lender and/or (y) each Lender with respect to any Class of Loans on an individual tranche basis, (II) any such notice shall specify the maximum aggregate amount of the Term Loans (the “Solicited Discounted Prepayment Amount”) and the tranche or tranches of Term Loans the applicable Company Party is willing to prepay (or purchase) at a discount (it being understood that different Solicited Discounted Prepayment Amounts may be offered with respect to different tranches of Term Loans and, in such event, each such offer will be treated as a separate offer pursuant to the terms of this Section 2.05(a)(v)(D)), (III) the Solicited Discounted Prepayment Amount shall be in an aggregate amount not less than $500,000 and whole increments of $500,000
in excess thereof and (IV) unless rescinded, each such solicitation by a Company Party shall remain outstanding through the Solicited Discounted Prepayment Response Date. The Auction Agent will promptly provide each Appropriate Lender with a copy of such Solicited Discounted Prepayment Notice and a form of the Solicited Discounted Prepayment Offer to be submitted by a responding Lender to the Auction Agent (or its delegate) by no later than 5:00 p.m. on the third Business Day after the date of delivery of such notice to such Term Lenders (or such later date specified therein) (the “Solicited Discounted Prepayment Response Date”). Each Term Lender’s Solicited Discounted Prepayment Offer shall (x) be irrevocable, (y) remain outstanding until the Acceptance Date and (z) specify both a discount to par (the “Offered Discount”) at which such Term Lender is willing to allow prepayment (or purchase) of its then outstanding Term Loan and the maximum aggregate principal amount and tranches of such Term Loans (the “Offered Amount”) such Term Lender is willing to have prepaid (or purchased) at the Offered Discount. Any Term Lender whose Solicited Discounted Prepayment Offer is not received by the Auction Agent by the Solicited Discounted Prepayment Response Date shall be deemed to have declined prepayment of any of its Term Loans at any discount.
(2)The Auction Agent shall promptly provide the relevant Company Party with a copy of all Solicited Discounted Prepayment Offers received on or before the Solicited Discounted Prepayment Response Date. Such Company Party shall review all such Solicited Discounted Prepayment Offers and select the largest of the Offered Discounts specified by the relevant responding Term Lenders in the Solicited Discounted Prepayment Offers that is acceptable to the Company Party in its sole discretion (the “Acceptable Discount”), if any. If the Company Party elects, in its sole discretion, to accept any Offered Discount as the Acceptable Discount, then as soon as practicable after the determination of the Acceptable Discount, but in no event later than by the fifth Business Day after the date of receipt by such Company Party from the Auction Agent of a copy of all Solicited Discounted Prepayment Offers pursuant to the first sentence of this clause (2) (the “Acceptance Date”), the Company Party shall submit an Acceptance and Prepayment Notice to the Auction Agent setting forth the Acceptable Discount. If the Auction Agent shall fail to receive an Acceptance and Prepayment Notice from the Company Party by the Acceptance Date, such Company Party shall be deemed to have rejected all Solicited Discounted Prepayment Offers.
(3)Based upon the Acceptable Discount and the Solicited Discounted Prepayment Offers received by the Auction Agent by the Solicited Discounted Prepayment Response Date, within five Business Days after receipt of an Acceptance and Prepayment Notice (the “Discounted Prepayment Determination Date”), the Auction Agent will determine (with the consent of such Company Party and subject to rounding requirements of the Auction Agent made in its reasonable discretion) the aggregate principal amount and the tranches of Term Loans (the “Acceptable Prepayment Amount”) to be prepaid (or purchased) by the relevant Company Party at the Acceptable Discount in accordance with this Section 2.05(a)(v)(D). If the Company Party elects to accept any Acceptable Discount, then the Company Party agrees to accept all Solicited Discounted Prepayment Offers received by the Auction Agent by the Solicited Discounted Prepayment Response Date, in the order from largest Offered Discount to smallest Offered Discount, up to and including the Acceptable Discount. Each Term Lender that has submitted a Solicited Discounted Prepayment Offer with an Offered Discount that is greater than or equal to the Acceptable Discount shall be deemed to have irrevocably consented to prepayment (or purchase) of Term Loans equal to its Offered Amount (subject to any required pro rata reduction pursuant to the following sentence) at the Acceptable Discount (each such Lender, a “Qualifying Lender”). The Company Party will prepay (or purchase) outstanding Term Loans pursuant to this Section 2.05(a)(v)(D) to each Qualifying Lender in the aggregate principal amount and of the tranches specified in such Lender’s Solicited Discounted Prepayment Offer at the Acceptable
Discount; provided that if the aggregate Offered Amount by all Qualifying Lenders whose Offered Discount is greater than or equal to the Acceptable Discount exceeds the Solicited Discounted Prepayment Amount, prepayment (or purchase) of the principal amount of the Term Loans for those Qualifying Lenders whose Offered Discount is greater than or equal to the Acceptable Discount (the “Identified Qualifying Lenders”) shall be made pro rata among the Identified Qualifying Lenders in accordance with the Offered Amount of each such Identified Qualifying Lender and the Auction Agent (with the consent of such Company Party and subject to rounding requirements of the Auction Agent made in its sole reasonable discretion) will calculate such proration (the “Solicited Discount Proration”). On or prior to the Discounted Prepayment Determination Date, the Auction Agent shall promptly notify (I) the relevant Company Party of the Discounted Prepayment Effective Date and Acceptable Prepayment Amount comprising the Discounted Term Loan Prepayment and the tranches to be prepaid (or purchased), (II) each Term Lender and the Administrative Agent (if not the Auction Agent) of the Discounted Prepayment Effective Date, the Acceptable Discount and the Acceptable Prepayment Amount of all Term Loans and the tranches to be prepaid (or purchased) at the Applicable Discount on such date, (III) each Qualifying Lender of the aggregate principal amount and the tranches of such Term Lender to be prepaid (or purchased) at the Acceptable Discount on such date, (IV) if applicable, each Identified Qualifying Lender of the Solicited Discount Proration, and (V) the Administrative Agent to the extent not acting as the Auction Agent. Each determination by the Auction Agent of the amounts stated in the foregoing notices to such Company Party and Term Lenders shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes absent manifest error. The payment amount specified in such notice to such Company Party shall be due and payable by such Company Party on the Discounted Prepayment Effective Date in accordance with Section 2.05(a)(v)(F) below (subject to Section 2.05(a)(v)(I) below).
(E)In connection with any Discounted Term Loan Prepayment, the Company Parties and the Term Lenders acknowledge and agree that the Auction Agent may require as a condition to any Discounted Term Loan Prepayment, the payment of customary and documented fees and out-of-pocket expenses from a Company Party in connection therewith.
(F)If any Term Loan is prepaid (or purchased) in accordance with Sections 2.05(a)(v)(B) through 2.05(a)(v)(D) above, a Company Party shall prepay (or purchase) such Term Loans on the Discounted Prepayment Effective Date. The relevant Company Party shall make such prepayment (or purchase) to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the Discount Prepayment Accepting Lenders, Participating Lenders, or Qualifying Lenders, as applicable, at the Administrative Agent’s Office in immediately available funds not later than 1:00 p.m. on the Discounted Prepayment Effective Date and all such prepayments (or purchases) shall be applied to the remaining scheduled principal installments of the relevant tranche of Loans being prepaid (or purchased) on a pro rata basis across such installments. The Term Loans so prepaid shall be, as set forth in Section 2.05(c), accompanied by all accrued and unpaid interest on the par principal amount so prepaid (or purchased) up to, but not including, the Discounted Prepayment Effective Date. Each prepayment (or purchase) of the outstanding Term Loans pursuant to this Section 2.05(a)(v) shall be paid to the Discount Prepayment Accepting Lenders, Participating Lenders or Qualifying Lenders, as applicable, and shall be applied to the relevant Term Loans of such Lenders in accordance with their respective Pro Rata Share or other applicable share hereunder. The aggregate principal amount of the tranches and installments of the relevant Term Loans outstanding shall be deemed reduced by the full par value of the aggregate principal amount of the tranches of Term Loans prepaid (or purchased) on the Discounted Prepayment Effective Date in any Discounted Term Loan Prepayment. In connection with each prepayment (or purchase) pursuant to this Section 2.05(a)(v), each Lender participating in any prepayment (or purchase) described in this Section 2.05(a)(v) acknowledges and agrees that in connection therewith, (1) any
Borrower or any Company Party then may have, and later may come into possession of, information regarding the Borrowers, the Sponsor and their respective affiliates not known to such Lender and that may be material to a decision by such Lender to participate in such prepayment (including Material Non-Public Information) (“Excluded Information”), (2) such Lender has independently and, without reliance on any Borrower, any of its Subsidiaries, the Administrative Agent or any of their respective Affiliates, made its own analysis and determination to participate in such prepayment notwithstanding such Lender’s lack of knowledge of the Excluded Information,
(3) none of the Borrowers, the Company Parties or the Sponsor or any of their respective Affiliates shall be required to make any representation that it is not in possession of material non-public information and all parties to the relevant transactions may render customary “big boy” disclaimer letters, and (4) none of the Borrowers, their Subsidiaries, the Administrative Agent, the Sponsor or any of their respective Affiliates shall have any liability to such Lender, and such Lender hereby waives and releases, to the extent permitted by law, any claims such Lender may have against the Borrowers, their Subsidiaries, the Administrative Agent, the Sponsor and their respective Affiliates, under applicable laws or otherwise, with respect to the nondisclosure of the Excluded Information.
(G)To the extent not expressly provided for herein, each Discounted Term Loan Prepayment shall be consummated pursuant to procedures consistent with the provisions in this Section 2.05(a)(v), established by the Auction Agent acting in its reasonable discretion and as reasonably agreed by the applicable Company Party.
(H)Each of the Company Parties and the Term Lenders acknowledge and agree that the Auction Agent may perform any and all of its duties under this Section 2.05(a)(v) by itself or through any Affiliate of the Auction Agent and expressly consents to any such delegation of duties by the Auction Agent to such Affiliate and the performance of such delegated duties by such Affiliate. The exculpatory provisions pursuant to this Agreement shall apply to each Affiliate of the Auction Agent and its respective activities in connection with any Discounted Term Loan Prepayment provided for in this Section 2.05(a)(v) as well as activities of the Auction Agent.
(I)Each Company Party shall have the right, by written notice to the Auction Agent, to revoke in full (but not in part) its offer to make a Discounted Term Loan Prepayment and rescind the applicable Specified Discount Prepayment Notice, Discount Range Prepayment Notice or Solicited Discounted Prepayment Notice therefor at its discretion at any time on or prior to the applicable Specified Discount Prepayment Response Date (and if such offer is revoked pursuant to the preceding clauses, any failure by such Company Party to make any prepayment to a Lender, as applicable, pursuant to this Section 2.05(a)(v) shall not constitute a Default or Event of Default under Section 8.01 or otherwise).
(b)Mandatory. (i) Within ten (10) Business Days after financial statements are required to have been delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(a) (commencing with the fiscal year ending December 31, 2021), the Borrowers shall cause to be prepaid an aggregate principal amount of Term Loans in an amount equal to (A) the Applicable ECF Percentage of Excess Cash Flow, if any, for the Excess Cash Flow Period covered by such financial statements, minus, without duplication of any amount deducted from Consolidated Net Income in calculating Excess Cash Flow for such Excess Cash Flow Period, (B) the sum (except to the extent such voluntary prepayments are funded with the proceeds of long term Indebtedness (other than revolving loans or intercompany Indebtedness)) of (1) all voluntary prepayments of Term Loans made during such Excess Cash Flow Period, in an amount equal to the discounted amount actually paid in cash in respect of the principal amount of such Term Loans during such Excess Cash Flow Period or, at the election of the Lead Borrower, after year-end and prior to when such Excess Cash Flow prepayment is due,
(2)all other voluntary prepayments of the Initial Term Loans, any Incremental Term Loans, Other Term
Loans, Other Notes, Permitted Debt Exchange Notes, Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness and any other Indebtedness, in each case, secured on a pari passu basis with the Initial Term Loans actually paid in cash in respect of the principal amount of such Initial Term Loans, Incremental Term Loans, Other Term Loans, Other Notes, Permitted Debt Exchange Notes, Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness and any other Indebtedness, in each case, secured on a pari passu basis with the Term Loans during such Excess Cash Flow Period, or at the election of the Lead Borrower, after year-end and prior to when such Excess Cash Flow prepayment is due, (3) all voluntary prepayments of Revolving Credit Loans, Extended Revolving Credit Loans, Refinancing Revolving Credit Loans and Incremental Revolving Credit Loans secured on a pari passu basis with the Term Loans during such Excess Cash Flow Period, at the Lead Borrower’s option, or after year-end and prior to when such Excess Cash Flow prepayment is due, to the extent (x) the Revolving Credit Commitments, Extended Revolving Credit Commitments, Refinancing Revolving Credit Commitments or Revolving Commitment Increase, as the case may be, are permanently reduced by the amount of such payments and (y) such prepayments were not made with the proceeds of long term Indebtedness (other than the proceeds of revolving loans or intercompany loans) and (4) the amount equal to all payments in cash actually paid by the Borrowers or any other Restricted Subsidiary of the Parent in connection with (x) the buyback of Indebtedness secured on a pari passu basis with the Initial Term Loans to the extent such buybacks are funded with Internally Generated Cash and (y) in connection with mandatory assignments pursuant to Section 3.07; provided that, to the extent any deduction is made pursuant to the foregoing clauses (B)(1) through (4) after year-end and prior to when such Excess Cash Flow prepayment is due, such prepayment shall not be deducted with respect to the Excess Cash Flow prepayment for the succeeding fiscal year; provided, further, that a prepayment of the principal amount of Term Loans pursuant to this Section 2.05(b)(i) in respect of any fiscal year shall only be required in the amount by which such Excess Cash Flow prepayment for such fiscal year exceeds $1,000,000; provided, further that, at the option of the Lead Borrower, to the extent that the foregoing prepayments exceed the amount of payments otherwise due pursuant to this Section 2.05(b)(i) for the applicable fiscal year, any such amount in excess may be applied to reduce the amount of Excess Cash Flow prepayments in the immediately subsequent fiscal year; provided, further, that if at the time that any such prepayment would be required, the Borrowers are required to offer to repurchase permitted Indebtedness (in each case, to the extent secured by Liens on the Collateral on a pari passu basis with the Obligations) and the Permitted Refinancing of any such Indebtedness, in each case, pursuant to the terms of the documentation governing such Indebtedness with the Excess Cash Flow (such Indebtedness required to be offered to be so repurchased, “Other Applicable Indebtedness”), then the Borrowers may apply such Excess Cash Flow on a pro rata basis (and not greater than a pro rata basis) (determined on the basis of the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Term Loans and Other Applicable Indebtedness at such time; provided that the portion of such Excess Cash Flow allocated to the Other Applicable Indebtedness shall not exceed the amount of such Excess Cash Flow required to be allocated to the Other Applicable Indebtedness pursuant to the terms thereof, and the remaining amount, if any, of such Excess Cash Flow shall be allocated to the Term Loans in accordance with the terms hereof) to the prepayment of the Term Loans and to the repurchase or prepayment of Other Applicable Indebtedness, and the amount of prepayment of the Term Loans that would have otherwise been required pursuant to this Section 2.05(b)(i) shall be reduced accordingly; provided, further, that to the extent the holders of Other Applicable Indebtedness decline to have such indebtedness repurchased or prepaid, the declined amount shall promptly (and in any event within five (5) Business Days after the date of such rejection) be offered to the Lenders in accordance herewith to be applied to repay the Term Loans in accordance with the terms hereof).
(ii)If (1) the Lead Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower Disposes of any property pursuant to Sections 7.05(j), (k) and (m) and, in each case, outside the ordinary course of business or (2) any Casualty Event occurs, which results in the realization or receipt by the Lead Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower of Net Proceeds, subject to this Section 2.05(b), the Borrowers shall cause to be prepaid on or prior to the date which is ten (10) Business Days after the date of the realization or receipt by the Lead Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of the
Lead Borrower of such Net Proceeds, an aggregate principal amount of Term Loans in an amount equal to the Applicable Asset Sale Percentage of all such Net Proceeds; provided, that if at the time that any such prepayment would be required, the Borrowers are required to offer to repurchase Other Applicable Indebtedness pursuant to the terms of the documentation governing such Other Applicable Indebtedness with the Net Proceeds of such Disposition or Casualty Event, then the Borrowers may apply such Net Proceeds on a pro rata basis (determined on the basis of the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the Term Loans and Other Applicable Indebtedness at such time; provided that the portion of such Net Proceeds allocated to the Other Applicable Indebtedness shall not exceed the amount of such Net Proceeds required to be allocated to the Other Applicable Indebtedness pursuant to the terms thereof, and the remaining amount, if any, of such Net Proceeds shall be allocated to the Term Loans in accordance with the terms hereof) to the prepayment of the Term Loans and to the repurchase or prepayment of Other Applicable Indebtedness, and the amount of prepayment of the Term Loans that would have otherwise been required pursuant to this Section 2.05(b)(ii) shall be reduced accordingly; provided, further, that to the extent the holders of Other Applicable Indebtedness decline to have such indebtedness repurchased or prepaid, the declined amount shall promptly (and in any event within five (5) Business Days after the date of such rejection) be offered to the Lenders in accordance herewith to be applied to repay the Term Loans in accordance with the terms hereof.
(iii)If the Lead Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower incurs or issues any Indebtedness after the Closing Date (A) not permitted to be incurred or issued pursuant to Section 7.03 or (B) that is intended to constitute Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness in respect of any Class of Term Loans, the Borrowers shall cause to be prepaid an aggregate principal amount of Term Loans (or, in the case of Indebtedness constituting Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness, the applicable Class of Term Loans) in an amount equal to 100% of all Net Proceeds, if any, received therefrom on or prior to the date which is three (3) Business Days after the receipt by the Lead Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary of such Net Proceeds. In connection with any prepayment under Section 2.05(b)(iii)(B) that is consummated in respect of all or any portion of the Initial Term Loans (A) prior to the date that is one year after the Closing Date, the Borrowers shall pay to the Term Lenders a fee equal to 2.00% of the aggregate principal amount of the Initial Term Loans subject to such prepayment or
(B) on or after the date that is one year after the Closing Date but prior to the date that is two years after the Closing Date, the Borrowers shall pay to the Term Lenders a fee equal to 1.00% of the aggregate principal amount of the Initial Term Loans subject to such prepayment.
(iv)If for any reason the aggregate Outstanding Amount of Revolving Credit Loans at any time exceeds the aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments then in effect, the Borrowers shall promptly, following the earlier of written notice from the Administrative Agent and knowledge of the Lead Borrower, prepay Revolving Credit Loans in an aggregate amount equal to such excess.
(v)Notwithstanding any other provisions of this Section 2.05, (i) to the extent that the repatriation to the United States of any Excess Cash Flow attributable to Foreign Subsidiaries (“Foreign Subsidiary Excess Cash Flow”) would be (x) prohibited or delayed by applicable Law or (y) restricted, prohibited or delayed by applicable material constituent documents or material agreements so long as such restrictions described in this clause (y) are not created in contemplation of such prepayments, an amount equal to the portion of such Foreign Subsidiary Excess Cash Flow that would be so affected were the Borrowers to attempt to repatriate such cash will not be required to be applied to repay Term Loans at the times provided in this Section 2.05 if the applicable local law or applicable material constituent documents or material agreements would not otherwise permit repatriation to the United States (the Lead Borrower hereby agrees to use commercially reasonable efforts during the year following the date such prepayment would otherwise have been required to be paid to overcome or eliminate any such restrictions on repatriation, even if the Borrowers do not intend to actually repatriate such cash, so that an amount equal to the full amount of such Foreign Subsidiary Excess Cash Flow will otherwise be subject to repayment
under this Section 2.05), and if within one year following the date on which the respective prepayment would otherwise have been required such repatriation of any of such affected Foreign Subsidiary Excess Cash Flow is permissible under the applicable Law or applicable material documents (even if such cash is actually not repatriated), an amount equal to the amount of the Foreign Subsidiary Excess Cash Flow that could be repatriated will be promptly (and in any event not later than five Business Days) applied (net of an amount equal to the additional taxes of each Borrower, its Subsidiaries and the direct and indirect holders of Equity Interests in such Borrower that would be payable or reserved against as a result of a repatriation and any additional costs that would be incurred as a result of a repatriation, whether or not a repatriation actually occurs, in each case to the extent not already taken into account in the definition of “Net Proceeds”) by the Borrowers to the repayment of the Term Loans pursuant to this Section 2.05 and (ii) to the extent that the Lead Borr