UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

 

FORM 8-K

 

 

CURRENT REPORT

PURSUANT TO SECTION 13 OR 15(d)

OF THE SECURITIES EXCHANGE ACT OF 1934

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported): March 19, 2019

 

 

OneSpaWorld Holdings Limited

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

 

 

Commonwealth of The Bahamas   001-38843   Not Applicable

(State or other jurisdiction

of incorporation)

 

(Commission

File Number)

 

(IRS Employer

Identification No.)

 

Office of Lennox Paton Corporate Services Limited

Bayside Executive Park, Buildings 3, West Bay Street, P.O. Box N-4875

City of Nassau, Island of New Providence, Commonwealth of The Bahamas

  N/A
(Address of principal executive offices)   (Zip Code)

Tel: (242) 502-5000

(Registrant’s telephone number, including area code)

 

 

Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions:

 

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Indicate by check mark whether the registrant is an emerging growth company as defined in Rule 405 of the Securities Act of 1933 (§230.405 of this chapter) or Rule 12b-2 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 (§240.12b-2 of this chapter).

 

Emerging Growth Company

If an emerging growth company, indicate by check mark if the registrant has elected not to use the extended transition period for complying with any new or revised financial accounting standards provided pursuant to Section 13(a) of the Exchange Act.  ☐

 

 

 


Introductory Note

On March 19, 2019, OneSpaWorld Holdings Limited (“OneSpaWorld”) consummated the previously announced business combination (the “Business Combination”) pursuant to that certain Business Combination Agreement, dated as of November 1, 2018 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Transaction Agreement”), by and among Steiner Leisure Limited, an international business company incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas (“Steiner Leisure”), Steiner U.S. Holdings, Inc., a Florida corporation, Nemo (UK) Holdco, Ltd., a limited company formed under the laws of England and Wales, Steiner UK Limited, a limited company formed under the laws of England and Wales, Steiner Management Services LLC, a Florida limited liability company, Haymaker Acquisition Corp., a Delaware corporation (“Haymaker”), Dory US Merger Sub, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, Dory Acquisition Sub, Limited, an international business company incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, Dory Intermediate LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, and Dory Acquisition Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation.

OSW Predecessor” is comprised of the net assets and operations of (i) the following wholly-owned subsidiaries of Steiner Leisure: OneSpaWorld LLC, Steiner Spa Asia Limited, Steiner Spa Limited, and Steiner Marks Limited, (ii) the following respective indirect subsidiaries of Steiner Leisure: Mandara PSLV, LLC, Mandara Spa (Hawaii), LLC, Florida Luxury Spa Group, LLC, Steiner Transocean U.S., Inc., Steiner Spa Resorts (Nevada), Inc., Steiner Spa Resorts (Connecticut), Inc., Steiner Resort Spas (California), Inc., Steiner Resort Spas (North Carolina), Inc., OSW SoHo LLC, OSW Distribution LLC, Steiner Training Limited, STO Italy S.r.l., One Spa World LLC, Mandara Spa Services LLC, OneSpaWorld Limited, OneSpaWorld (Bahamas) Limited (formerly known as Steiner Transocean Limited), OneSpaWorld Medispa LLC, OneSpaWorld Medispa Limited, OneSpaWorld Medispa (Bahamas) Limited, Mandara Spa (Cruise I), LLC, Mandara Spa (Cruise II), LLC, Steiner Transocean (II) Limited, The Onboard Spa by Steiner (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Mandara Spa LLC, Mandara Spa Puerto Rico, Inc., Mandara Spa (Guam), L.L.C., Mandara Spa (Bahamas) Limited, Mandara Spa Aruba N.V., Mandara Spa Polynesia Sarl, Mandara Spa (Saipan), Inc., Mandara Spa Asia Limited, PT Mandara Spa Indonesia, Spa Services Asia Limited, Mandara Spa Palau, Mandara Spa (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd., Mandara Spa Ventures International Sdn. Bhd., Spa Partners (South Asia) Limited, Mandara Spa (Maldives) PVT LTD, and Mandara Spa (Fiji) Limited, (iii) Medispa Limited, a majority-owned subsidiary of Steiner Leisure, and (iv) the timetospa.com website owned by Elemis USA, Inc. (formerly known as Steiner Beauty Products, Inc.).

At the closing of the Business Combination, OneSpaWorld became the ultimate parent company of Haymaker and OSW Predecessor. Unless the context otherwise requires, “we,” “us,” “our” and the “Company” refer to OneSpaWorld Holdings Limited and its subsidiaries.

 

Item 1.01

Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement.

Credit Agreement

On March 19, 2019, Dory Intermediate LLC (“Dory Intermediate”) entered into (i) senior secured first lien credit facilities (the “First Lien Credit Facilities”) with Dory Acquisition Sub, Inc. (“Dory Acquisition”), Goldman Sachs Lending Partners LLC, as administrative agent, and certain lenders, consisting of (x) a term loan facility of $208.5 million (of which $20 million was borrowed by Dory Acquisition) (the “First Lien Term Loan Facility”), (y) a revolving loan facility of up to $20 million (the “First Lien Revolving Facility”) and (z) a delayed draw term loan facility of $5 million (the “First Lien Delayed Draw Facility”), and (ii) a senior secured second lien term loan facility of $25 million (the “Second Lien Term Loan Facility” and, together with the First Lien Term Loan Facility, the “Term Loan Facilities”; the New Term Loan Facilities, together with the First Lien Revolving Facility and the First Lien Delayed Draw Facility, are referred to as the “New Credit Facilities”) with Cortland Capital Market Services LLC, as administrative agent, and Neuberger Berman Alternative Funds, Neuberger Berman Long Short Fund, as lender. The New First Lien Revolving Facility included borrowing capacity available for letters of credit up to $5 million. Any issuance of letters of credit reduces the amount available under the New First Lien Revolving Facility. The New First Lien Term Loan Facility matures seven years after March 19, 2019, the New First Lien Revolving Facility matures five years after March 19, 2019 and the New Second Lien Term Loan Facility matures eight years after March 19, 2019.

 

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Loans outstanding under the First Lien Credit Facilities will accrue interest at a rate per annum equal to LIBOR plus a margin of 4.00%, with one step down to 3.75% upon achievement of a certain leverage ratio, and undrawn amounts under the First Lien Revolving Facility will accrue a commitment fee at a rate per annum of 0.50% on the average daily undrawn portion of the commitments thereunder, with one step down to 0.325% upon achievement of a certain leverage ratio. Loans outstanding under the Second Lien Term Loan Facility will accrue interest at a rate per annum equal to LIBOR plus 7.50%.

The obligations under the Credit Facilities are guaranteed by OneSpaWorld and each of its direct or indirect wholly-owned subsidiaries organized under the laws of the United States and the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, in each case, other than certain excluded subsidiaries, including, but not limited to, immaterial subsidiaries, non-profit subsidiaries, and any other subsidiary with respect to which the burden or cost of providing a guarantee is excessive in view of the benefits to be obtained by the lenders therefrom.

The Term Loan Facilities require Dory Intermediate to make certain mandatory prepayments, with (i) 100% of net cash proceeds of all non-ordinary course asset sales or other dispositions of property, subject to the ability to reinvest such proceeds and certain other exceptions, and subject to step downs if certain leverage ratios are met and (ii) 100% of the net cash proceeds of any debt incurrence, other than debt permitted under the definitive agreements (but excluding debt incurred to refinance the Credit Facilities). Dory Intermediate also is required to make quarterly amortization payments equal to .25% of the original principal amount of the First Lien Term Loan Facility commencing after the first full fiscal quarter after the closing date of the Credit Facilities (subject to reductions by optional and mandatory prepayments of the loans). Dory Intermediate may prepay (i) the First Lien Credit Facilities at any time without premium or penalty, subject to payment of customary breakage costs and a customary “soft call,” and (ii) the Second Lien Term Loan Facility at any time without premium or penalty, subject to a customary make-whole premium for any voluntary prepayment prior to the date that is 30 months following the closing date of the Credit Facilities (the “Callable Date”), following by a call premium of (x) 4.0% on or prior to the first anniversary of the Callable Date, (y) 2.50% after the first anniversary but on or prior to the second anniversary of the Callable Date, and (z) 1.50% after the second anniversary but on or prior to the third anniversary of the Callable Date.

The First Lien Revolving Facility contains a financial covenant and the Credit Facilities contain a number of traditional negative covenants including negative covenants related to the following subjects: consolidations, mergers, and sales of assets; limitations on the incurrence of certain liens; limitations on certain indebtedness; limitations on the ability to pay dividends; and certain affiliate transaction.

The Credit Facilities also contain certain customary representations and warranties, affirmative covenants and events of default. If an event of default occurs, the lenders under the Credit Facilities are entitled to take various actions, including the acceleration of amounts due under the Credit Facilities and all actions permitted to be taken by a secured creditor, subject to customary intercreditor provisions among the first and second lien secured parties.

The foregoing descriptions of the First Lien Term Loan Facility, First Lien Revolving Facility, First Lien Delayed Draw Facility and Second Lien Term Loan Facility do not purport to be complete and are qualified in their entirety by the terms and conditions of the First Lien Term Loan Facility, First Lien Revolving Facility and Second Lien Term Loan Facility, which are attached hereto as Exhibits 10.1 and 10.2, respectively, and are incorporated herein by reference.

Registration Rights Agreement

On March 19, 2019, in connection with the closing of the Business Combination (the “Closing”), OneSpaWorld, Steiner Leisure and Haymaker Sponsor, LLC (“Haymaker Sponsor”), entered into a Registration Rights Agreement (the “Registration Rights Agreement”). The Registration Rights Agreement provides for customary registration rights, including demand and piggyback rights subject to cut-back provisions. In addition, OneSpaWorld has agreed to use its commercially reasonable efforts to file a shelf registration statement to register Steiner Leisure’s and Haymaker Sponsor’s shares within 45 days of the Closing. At any time, and from time to time, after the shelf registration statement has been declared effective by the Securities and Exchange Commission (“SEC”), Steiner Leisure will be entitled to make up to three demands, and Haymaker Sponsor will be entitled to make up to three demands per year, that a resale of shares of OneSpaWorld reasonably expected to exceed $10,000,000 in gross offering price pursuant to such

 

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shelf registration statement be made pursuant to an underwritten offering. Pursuant to the Registration Rights Agreement, Steiner Leisure and Haymaker Sponsor will agree not to sell, transfer, pledge or otherwise dispose of their OneSpaWorld Shares (as defined in the Registration Rights Agreement) during the seven days before and 90 days after the pricing of any underwritten offering of OneSpaWorld, subject to certain exceptions, and Steiner Leisure and Haymaker Sponsor will enter into a customary lock-up agreement to such effect. Steiner Leisure and Haymaker Sponsor will agree not to assign or delegate their rights, duties or obligations under the Registration Rights Agreement for a period of six months following the Closing, subject to certain exceptions.

The foregoing description of the Registration Rights Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by the terms and conditions of the Registration Rights Agreement, which is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.3 and is incorporated herein by reference.

Lock-up Agreement

On March 19, 2019, in connection with the Business Combination, Haymaker Sponsor, Steiner Leisure, and directors and officers of OneSpaWorld and Haymaker, and (solely for the purpose of certain provisions thereof) Haymaker (the “Lock-up Parties”), entered into a Lock-up Agreement (the “Lock-up Agreement”) with OneSpaWorld that, among other things, modifies that certain lock-up agreement, dated as of October 24, 2017, by and among Haymaker, Haymaker Sponsor, and the directors and officers of Haymaker. Pursuant to the Lock-up Agreement, the Lock-up Parties agreed that they would not, subject to certain limited exceptions, transfer or sell their OneSpaWorld Shares for a period of six months after the consummation of the Business Combination.

The foregoing description of the Lock-up Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by the terms and conditions of the Lock-up Agreement, which is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.4 and is incorporated herein by reference.

Warrant Agreement

On March 19, 2019, in connection with the Closing, OneSpaWorld entered into an Amended and Restated Warrant Agreement (the “Warrant Agreement”), by and between OneSpaWorld and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company pursuant to which the obligations of Haymaker under the Original Warrant Agreement (as defined in the Warrant Agreement) are now obligations of OneSpaWorld and are no longer obligations of Haymaker.

The foregoing description of the Warrant Agreement does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by the terms and conditions of the Warrant Agreement, which is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.5 and is incorporated herein by reference.

2019 Equity Incentive Plan

The OneSpaWorld board of directors approved the 2019 Equity Incentive Plan (the “2019 Plan”) on March 18, 2019 and our shareholder approved the 2019 Plan on March 18, 2019. The purpose of the 2019 Plan is to make available incentives that will assist OneSpaWorld to attract, retain, and motivate employees, including officers, consultants and directors. OneSpaWorld may provide these incentives through the grant of share options, share appreciation rights, restricted shares, restricted share units, performance shares and units and other cash-based or share-based awards. Awards may be granted under the 2019 Plan to OneSpaWorld’s employees, including officers, directors or consultants or those of any present or future parent or subsidiary corporation or other affiliated entity. A total of 7,000,000 OneSpaWorld Shares will be initially authorized and reserved for issuance under the plan.

The foregoing description of the 2019 Plan does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by the terms and conditions of the 2019 Plan, which is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.6 and is incorporated herein by reference.

 

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Indemnity Agreements

On March 19, 2019, we entered into indemnity agreements with each of our directors and executive officers. Each indemnity agreement provides for indemnification and advancement by the Company of certain expenses and costs relating to claims, suits or proceedings arising from service to the Company or, at our request, service to other entities, as officers or directors to the maximum extent permitted by applicable law.

The foregoing description of the indemnity agreements does not purport to be complete and is qualified in its entirety by the terms and conditions of the indemnity agreements, a form of which is attached hereto as Exhibit 10.7 and is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 2.01

Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets.

The disclosure set forth in the “Introductory Note” above is incorporated into this Item 2.01 by reference. On March 6, 2019, the Business Combination was approved by the shareholders of Haymaker at a special meeting (the “Special Meeting”). The Business Combination was completed on March 19, 2019.

Consideration to Haymaker’s Shareholders and Warrant Holders in the Business Combination

Upon completion of the Business Combination, the public stockholders of Haymaker received an aggregate of 31,713,387 common shares par value $0.0001 per share, of OneSpaWorld ( the “OneSpaWorld Shares”), with each public stockholder receiving one OneSpaWorld Share in exchange for each share of Class A common stock, par value $0.0001 per share, of Haymaker (“Class A Shares”) held at the Closing; in addition, each warrant to purchase Class A Shares (the “Haymaker Warrants”) became exercisable for one OneSpaWorld Share, on the same terms and conditions as those applicable to the warrants to purchase Class A Shares.

In addition, 3,000,000 OneSpaWorld Shares and the right to receive 1,600,000 OneSpaWorld Shares upon the occurrence of certain events were issued to Haymaker Sponsor and other former holders of Class B common stock of Haymaker (the “Founders”), in exchange for such shares of Class B common stock of Haymaker, and the Haymaker Warrants held by Haymaker Sponsor became exercisable for 3,408,186 OneSpaWorld Shares, after giving effect to the forfeiture of warrants to purchase 4,591,814 OneSpaWorld Shares.

Consideration Payable to Steiner Leisure in the Business Combination

The consideration paid to Steiner Leisure in connection with the Business Combination consisted of: (i) 14,155,274 OneSpaWorld Shares (valued at $141,552,740 based on a $10.00 per share price), (ii) 1,486,520 OneSpaWorld Warrants, (iii) $611,671,249 in cash and (iv) the right to receive up to an additional 5,000,000 OneSpaWorld Shares upon the occurrence of certain events.

The material terms and conditions of the Merger Agreement are described in the section entitled “The Transaction Agreement and Related Agreements” starting on page 127 of Amendment No. 4 to the Registration Statement on Form S-4, filed by OneSpaWorld with the SEC on February 14, 2019 (the “Registration Statement”), and is incorporated herein by reference.

On March 20, 2019, Steiner Leisure completed the sales of 5,607,144 OneSpaWorld Shares to certain investors in a private placement for total proceeds of $56,071,440.

CAUTIONARY NOTE REGARDING FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS

This Current Report on Form 8-K contains forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933 and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. These forward-looking statements relate to expectations for future financial performance, business strategies or expectations for the post- combination business. Specifically, forward-looking statements may include statements relating to:

 

   

the benefits of the Business Combination;

 

   

the future financial performance of the Company following the Business Combination;

 

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changes in the market for our services;

 

   

expansion plans and opportunities; and

 

   

other statements preceded by, followed by or that include the words “outlook,” “believes,” “expects,” “potential,” “continues,” “may,” “will,” “should,” “could,” “seeks,” “approximately,” “predicts,” “intends,” “plans,” “estimates,” “anticipates” or the negative version of these words or other comparable words or phrases.

These forward-looking statements are based on information available as of the date of this Current Report on Form 8-K and our management’s current expectations, forecasts and assumptions, and involve a number of judgments, risks and uncertainties. Accordingly, forward-looking statements should not be relied upon as representing our views as of any subsequent date. OneSpaWorld undertakes no obligation to update forward-looking statements to reflect events or circumstances after the date they were made, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise, except as may be required under applicable securities laws.

As a result of a number of known and unknown risks and uncertainties, our actual results or performance may be materially different from those expressed or implied by these forward-looking statements. Some factors that could cause actual results to differ include:

 

   

the outcome of any legal proceedings that may be instituted against OneSpaWorld following announcement of the consummated Business Combination and transactions contemplated thereby;

 

   

the inability to obtain or maintain the listing of our common shares or warrants on The Nasdaq Stock Market following the Business Combination;

 

   

the risk that the Business Combination disrupts current plans and operations as a result of the announcement and consummation of the transactions described herein;

 

   

the inability to recognize the anticipated benefits of the Business Combination, which may be affected by, among other things, competition and the ability of the combined business to grow and manage growth profitably;

 

   

costs related to the Business Combination;

 

   

changes in applicable laws or regulations;

 

   

the possibility that OneSpaWorld may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors; and

 

   

other risks and uncertainties indicated or incorporated by reference in this Current Report on Form 8-K, including those set forth in the section entitled “Risk Factors” beginning on page 45 of the Registration Statement, and are incorporated herein by reference.

Business

The business of OneSpaWorld is described in the section entitled “Business of OneSpaWorld after the Business Combination” beginning on page 166 of the Registration Statement and is incorporated herein by reference.

 

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Risk Factors

The risk factors related to our business and operations are described in the section entitled “Risk Factors” beginning on page 45 of the Registration Statement and is incorporated herein by reference.

Selected Historical Financial Information

The following tables contain selected historical financial data for OSW Predecessor as of and for the years ended December 31, 2018, 2017 and 2016, derived from the audited combined financial statements of OSW Predecessor incorporated herein by reference. The selected historical financial data of OSW Predecessor is not intended to be an indicator of its or OneSpaWorld’s financial condition or results of operations in the future.

The information below is only a summary and should be read in conjunction with the section entitled “OSW Predecessor Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations” included below in this Current Report on Form 8-K and the audited combined financial statements of OSW Predecessor, and the notes related thereto, included as Exhibit 99.2 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.

 

     Year Ended
December 31,
 
(In thousands)    2018     2017     2016  

Revenues

      

Service Revenues

   $ 410,927     $ 383,686     $ 362,698  

Product Revenues

     129,851       122,999       113,586  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Revenues

     540,778       506,685       476,284  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Cost of Revenue and Operating Expenses

      

Cost of Services

     352,382       332,360       318,001  

Cost of Products

     110,793       107,990       106,259  

Administrative

     9,937       9,222       10,432  

Salary and Payroll Taxes

     15,624       15,294       14,454  

Amortization of Intangible Assets

     3,521       3,521       3,521  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Cost of Revenues and Operating Expenses

     492,257       468,387       452,667  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Income from Operations

     48,521       38,298       23,617  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Other Income (Expense), net

      

Interest Expense

     (34,099     —         —    

Interest Income

     238       408       340  

Other (Expense) / Income

     171       (217     (178
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Other Income (Expense), net

     (33,690     191       162  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Income Before Provision for Income Taxes

     14,831       38,489       23,779  

Provision for Income Taxes

     1,088       5,263       5,615  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net Income

   $ 13,743     $ 33,226     $ 18,164  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Adjusted EBITDA(1)

   $ 58,622     $ 55,902     $ 51,746  

Unlevered After-Tax Free Cash Flow

   $ 52,913     $ 52,774     $ 48,020  

% Conversion

     90.3     94.4     92.8

 

     As of December 31,  
(In thousands)    2018      2017  

Balance Sheet Data (At Period End):

     

Working Capital(2)

   $ 22,419      $ 17,252  

Total Assets

     272,659        267,072  

Total Liabilities

     400,242        41,791  

Total Equity (Deficit)

     (127,583      225,281  

 

(1)

OSW Predecessor defines Adjusted EBITDA as Net Income plus Provision for Income Taxes, Other Income, Non-Controlling Interest, Interest Expense, and Depreciation & Amortization, with adjustments for non-recurring items, related party transactions, contribution from the historical timetospa.com channel, purchase price accounting adjustments relating to the 2015 Transaction (as defined below), discrepancies between cash and booked Provision for Income Taxes and non-cash contract expenses. See “Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Financial Statements.” OSW Predecessor defines Unlevered After-Tax Free Cash Flow as Adjusted EBITDA minus capital expenditures and cash taxes paid.

(2)

Working capital calculated as current assets less current liabilities, less cash and cash equivalents.

 

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The following table reconciles Net Income to Adjusted EBITDA and Unlevered After-Tax Free Cash Flow for the years ended December 31, 2018, 2017 and 2016:

 

(In thousands)    Year Ended
December 31,
 
   2018     2017     2016  

Net Income

   $ 13,743     $ 33,226     $ 18,164  

Provision for Income Taxes

     1,088       5,263       5,615  

Other Income

     (409     (191     (162

Non-Controlling Interest(a)

     (3,857     (2,109     (3,261

Interest Expense

     34,099       —         —    

Non-GAAP Management Adjustments(b)

     —         (1,208     270  

Related Party Adjustments(c)

     2,860       9,925       18,953  

timetospa.com Adjustments(d)

     —         (805     (1,388

Depreciation & Amortization

     10,055       9,829       12,884  

Addback for Non-Cash Prepaid Expenses(e)

     1,043       1,972       671  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Adjusted EBITDA

   $ 58,622     $ 55,902     $ 51,746  

Capital Expenditures

     (4,983     (2,683     (3,081

Cash Taxes(f)

     (726     (445     (645
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Unlevered After-Tax Free Cash Flow

   $ 52,913     $ 52,774     $ 48,020  

% Conversion(g)

     90.3     94.4     92.8

 

(a)

Non-Controlling Interest refers to amounts paid to a joint venture partner of OSW Predecessor.

(b)

Non-GAAP Management Adjustments refers to adjustments for certain one-time income or expenses and reflects timing discrepancies for certain cash income or expense items.

(c)

Related Party Adjustments refers to adjustments to reflect the impact of agreements with related parties for the full periods presented.

(d)

As a result of its planned separation from Steiner Leisure, OSW Predecessor is no longer operating timetospa.com as a standalone e-commerce business with focused marketing efforts and paid search advertising, as it had operated the channel through December 31, 2017. timetospa.com is now a post-cruise sales tool where guests may continue their wellness journey after disembarking. This adjustment removes the impact of timetospa.com in the historical financial period due to this change in business model and to assist in comparing such periods with later periods.

(e)

Addback for Non-Cash Prepaid Expenses refers to non-cash expenses incurred in connection with certain contracts.

(f)

Cash Taxes refers to cash taxes paid or payable.

(g)

Unlevered After-Tax Free Cash Flow Conversion is calculated as Adjusted EBITDA less Capital Expenditures and Provision for Income Taxes, divided by Adjusted EBITDA.

 

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Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Financial Information

The following unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information is provided to aid you in your analysis of the financial aspects of the Business Combination. Upon consummation of the Business Combination, Haymaker became an indirect wholly-owned subsidiary of OneSpaWorld.

The historical combined financial statements of OSW Predecessor are included in this Current Report on Form 8-K. Further, prior to the Business Combination, OneSpaWorld had no material operations, assets or liabilities.

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined income statement for the year ended December 31, 2018 was derived from OSW Predecessor’s audited combined income statement for the year ended December 31, 2018 and Haymaker’s audited statement of operations for the year ended December 31, 2018.

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined income statement for the year ended December 31, 2018 gives pro forma effect to the Business Combination as if it had occurred on January 1, 2018. The unaudited pro forma condensed combined balance sheet as of December 31, 2018 gives effect to the Business Combination as if it was completed on December 31, 2018.

This information should be read together with (i) Haymaker’s historical financial statements and related notes for the year ended December 31, 2018, as well as “Haymaker’s Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” included in Haymaker’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, and (ii) OSW Predecessor’s historical consolidated financial statements and related notes for the year ended December 31, 2018 as well as “OSW Predecessor Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” included elsewhere in this Current Report on Form 8-K.

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial statements give effect to the Business Combination in accordance with the acquisition method of accounting for business combinations, with Haymaker deemed to be the accounting acquirer because, among other reasons:

 

   

cash consideration was transferred from Haymaker to the Sellers; and

 

   

former Haymaker stockholders and Haymaker Sponsor in connection with the Business Combination, own, in the aggregate, 56.8% of the OneSpaWorld Shares, which represents a controlling interest in OneSpaWorld, immediately after giving effect to the Business Combination.

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial statements reflect adjustments to the historical financial information that are expected to have a continuing impact on the results of the combined company, factually supportable and directly attributable to the following events and transactions:

 

   

the Business Combination;

 

   

the payment of the cash consideration to the Sellers;

 

   

the closing of the Primary Private Placement;

 

   

the conversion of each Class A Share into the right to receive one fully paid and non-assessable OneSpaWorld Share;

 

   

each Haymaker Public Warrant becoming exercisable for one OneSpaWorld Share, on the same terms and conditions as those applicable to the Haymaker Public Warrants;

 

   

the Founder Shares converting into 6.7 million OneSpaWorld Shares (3.7 million, subject to certain adjustments, of which were transferred and forfeited to OneSpaWorld) and the right to receive 1.6 million OneSpaWorld Shares upon the occurrence of certain events. Such deferred OneSpaWorld shares are not included in the EPS calculations set forth below;

 

   

the repayment of $352.4 million of outstanding indebtedness, of OSW Predecessor as of December 31, 2018 and the entry into the Debt Financing at the time of the Business Combination;

 

   

each of the Founder Warrants becoming exercisable for one OneSpaWorld Share; and

 

   

the redemption of 1,286,613 Class A Shares by Haymaker’s public stockholders in accordance with Haymaker’s amended and restated certificate of incorporation.

Haymaker provided its public stockholders with the opportunity to redeem, upon the closing of the Business Combination, each Class A Share then held by them for cash equal to their pro rata share of the aggregate amount on deposit (as of two business days prior to the closing of the Business Combination) in the Trust Account, which held the proceeds (including interest, which was net of taxes payable) of the Haymaker IPO.

 

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The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information is for illustrative purposes only. The actual results may differ significantly from those reflected in the pro forma financial statements for a number of reasons, including, but not limited to, differences between the assumptions used to prepare the pro forma financial statements and actual amounts. The financial results may have been different had the companies always been combined. You should not rely on the unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information as being indicative of the historical results that would have been achieved had the companies always been combined or the future results that the combined company will experience. OSW Predecessor and Haymaker have not had any historical relationship prior to the Business Combination. Accordingly, no pro forma adjustments were required to eliminate activities between the companies.

 

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PRO FORMA CONDENSED COMBINED INCOME STATEMENT

For the year ended December 31, 2018

(Dollars in thousands, except per share amounts)

(unaudited)

 

     Haymaker     OSW Predecessor     Pro Forma
Adjustments
         Pro Forma  

Service revenues

   $ —       $ 410,927     $ —          $ 410,927  

Product revenues

     —         129,851       —            129,851  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

      

 

 

 

Total revenues

     —         540,778       —            540,778  

Cost of services

     —         352,382       (235   (a.)      352,147  

Cost of products

     —         110,793       —            110,793  

Administrative

     4,691       9,937       (3,862   (a.), (g.)      10,766  

Salary and payroll taxes

     —         15,624       —            15,624  

Amortization of intangible assets

     —         3,521       13,950     (b.)      17,471  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

      

 

 

 

Total cost of revenues and operating expenses

     4,691       492,257       9,853          506,801  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

      

 

 

 

Income (loss) from operations

     (4,691     48,521       (9,853        33,977  

Unrealized gain on securities held in Trust

     449       —         (449   (c.)      —    

Interest expense

     —         (34,099     19,247     (d.)      (14,852

Interest income

     5,656       238       (5,656   (c.)      238  

Other income

     —         171       —            171  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

      

 

 

 

Total other income (expense), net

     6,105       (33,690     13,142          (14,443
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

      

 

 

 

Income from continuing operations before provision for income taxes

     1,414       14,831       3,289          19,534  

Provision for income taxes

     1,017       1,088       —       (e.)      2,105  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

      

 

 

 

Net income from continuing operations

   $ 397     $ 13,743     $ 3,289        $ 17,429  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

      

 

 

 

Net Income attributable to non-controlling interest

     —         3,857       —            3,857  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

      

 

 

 

Net income attributable to parent

   $ 397     $ 9,886     $ 3,289        $ 13,572  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

      

 

 

 

Earnings per common share (f.)

           

Basic

   $ (0.44 )*           $ 0.22  

Diluted

   $ (0.44 )*           $ 0.20  

Weighted average common shares

           

Basic

     9,911,510              61,118,298  

Diluted

     9,911,510              68,118,298  

 

*

Net loss per common share – basic and diluted excludes interest income attributable to common stock subject to redemption of $4,773,466 for the year ended December 31, 2018.

 

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PRO FORMA CONDENSED COMBINED BALANCE SHEETS

As of December 31, 2018

(Dollars in thousands, except per share data)

(unaudited)

 

     Haymaker      OSW Predecessor     Pro Forma
Adjustments
         Pro Forma  

ASSETS

            

Current assets:

            

Cash and cash equivalents

   $ 221      $ 15,302     $ (3,196   (a.)    $ 12,327  

Accounts receivable, net

     —          25,352       —            25,352  

Inventories, net

     —          32,265       2,295     (b.)      34,560  

Other current assets

     93        8,041       —            8,134  
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

      

 

 

 

Total current assets

     314        80,960       (901        80,373  

Note receivable due from affiliate of the Parent

     —          —         —            —    

Investments held in Trust Account

     336,671        —         (336,671   (a.)      —    

Property and equipment, net

     —          16,239       11,815     (c.)      28,054  

Intangible assets, net

     —          131,517       493,483     (d.)      625,000  

Goodwill

     —          33,864       78,171     (e.)      112,035  

Deferred tax assets

     —          4,265       (4,172   (f.)      93  

Other noncurrent assets, net

     —          5,814       731     (i.)      6,545  
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

      

 

 

 

Total assets

   $ 336,985      $ 272,659     $ 242,456        $ 852,100  
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

      

 

 

 

LIABILITIES AND SHAREHOLDERS’ EQUITY

            

Current liabilities:

            

Accounts payable

   $ —        $ 7,595     $ —          $ 7,595  

Accounts payable - related parties

     —          6,553       —            6,553  

Accrued expenses

     3,805        27,211       (3,684   (g.)      27,332  

Income tax payable

     1,012        670       —            1,682  

Other current liabilities

     —          1,210       —            1,210  
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

      

 

 

 

Total current liabilities

     4,817        43,239       (3,684        44,372  

Deferred rent

     —          645       —            645  

Deferred tax liabilities

     94        —         77     (f.)      171  

Income tax contingency

     —          3,918       —            3,918  

Long-term debt

     —          352,440       (113,347   (i.)      239,093  

Deferred underwriting fees

     12,150        —         (12,150   (j.)      —    
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

      

 

 

 

Total liabilities

   $ 17,061      $ 400,242     $ (129,104      $ 288,199  
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

      

 

 

 

Shareholders’ equity:

            

Common stock subject to possible redemption

   $ 314,924      $ —       $ (314,924   (k.)    $ —    

Preferred stock, $0.0001 par value

     —          —         —            —    

Class A common stock, $0.0001 par value

     —          —         4     (k.), (m.)      4  

Class B convertible common stock, $0.0001 par value

     1        —         (1   (m.)      —    

Additional paid-in capital

     4,266        —         556,952     (o.)      561,218  

Non-controlling interest

     —          3,586       2,169     (n.)      5,755  

Accumulated earnings (loss)

     733        (130,520     126,711     (l.), (h.)      (3,076

Accumulated Other Comprehensive Loss

     —          (649     649     (l.)      —    
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

      

 

 

 

Total shareholders’ equity

   $ 319,924      $ (127,583   $ 371,560        $ 563,901  
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

      

 

 

 

Total liabilities and shareholders’ equity

   $ 336,985      $ 272,659     $ 242,456        $ 852,100  
  

 

 

    

 

 

   

 

 

      

 

 

 

 

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Notes to Unaudited Pro Forma Combined Financial Statements

1. Basis of Pro Forma Presentation

Overview

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial statements have been prepared assuming the Business Combination is accounted for using the acquisition method of accounting with Haymaker as the acquiring entity and OSW Predecessor as the acquiree. Under the acquisition method of accounting, Haymaker’s assets and liabilities will retain their carrying assets and the assets and liabilities of OSW, including its predecessor’s assets and liabilities, will be recorded at their fair values measured as of the acquisition date. The excess of the purchase price over the estimated fair values of net assets acquired will be recorded as goodwill. The pro forma adjustments have been prepared as if the Business Combination and the other related transactions had taken place on December 31, 2018 in the case of the unaudited pro forma condensed combined balance sheet and on January 1, 2018 in the case of the unaudited pro forma condensed combined income statements.

The acquisition method of accounting is based on Financial Accounting Standards Board (“FASB”) Accounting Standard Codification (“ASC”) 805, Business Combinations (“ASC 805”), and uses the fair value concepts defined in FASB ASC 820, Fair Value Measurements (“ASC 820”). ASC 805 requires, among other things, that assets acquired and liabilities assumed be recognized at their fair values as of the acquisition date by Haymaker, who was determined to be the accounting acquirer.

Under ASC 805, acquisition-related transaction costs are not included as a component of consideration transferred but are accounted for as expenses in the periods in which such costs are incurred, or if related to the issuance of debt, capitalized as debt issuance costs. Acquisition-related transaction costs expected to be incurred as part of the business combination, include estimated fees related to the issuance of long-term debt, as well as advisory, legal and accounting fees.

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial statements should be read in conjunction with (i) Haymaker’s historical financial statements and related notes for the year ended December 31, 2018, as well as “Haymaker’s Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” included in Haymaker’s Annual Report on Form 10-K, (ii) OSW Predecessor’s historical combined financial statements and related notes for the year ended December 31, 2018 as well as “OSW Predecessor Management’s “Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations,” included elsewhere in this Current Report on Form 8-K.

The pro forma adjustments represent management’s estimates based on information available as of the date of this Current Report on Form 8-K and are subject to change as additional information becomes available and additional analyses are performed. The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial statements do not reflect possible adjustments related to restructuring or integration activities that have yet to be determined or transaction or other costs following the Business Combination that are not expected to have a continuing impact. In addition, the unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial statements do not reflect additional costs and expenses that OneSpaWorld may incur as a public company (other than those incurred by Haymaker and reflected in the unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial statements). Further, one-time transaction-related expenses anticipated to be incurred prior to, or concurrent with, closing the Business Combination and the other related transactions are not included in the unaudited pro forma condensed combined income statements. However, the impact of such transaction expenses is reflected in the unaudited pro forma condensed combined balance sheet as a decrease to retained earnings and a decrease to cash, unless otherwise noted.

 

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2. Preliminary Allocation of Purchase Price

The total purchase consideration for the Business Combination has been allocated to the assets acquired, liabilities assumed, and non-controlling interest for purposes of the unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information based on their estimated relative fair values. The allocation of the purchase consideration herein is preliminary. The final allocation of the purchase consideration for the Business Combination will be determined after the completion of a thorough analysis to determine the fair value of all assets acquired, liabilities assumed and non-controlling interest but in no event later than one year following the completion of the Business Combination.

Accordingly, the final acquisition accounting adjustments could differ materially from the preliminary amounts presented in these unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial statements.

Any increase or decrease in the fair value of the assets acquired, liabilities assumed and non-controlling interest, as compared to the information shown herein, could also change the portion of the purchase consideration allocable to goodwill and could impact the operating results of OneSpaWorld following the Business Combination due to differences in the allocation of the purchase consideration, depreciation and amortization related to some of these assets and liabilities. The purchase consideration was preliminarily allocated as follows:

 

(In thousands)       

Cash paid to Selling Equityholders

   $ 659,065  

Equity consideration paid to Selling Equityholders

     141,552  
  

 

 

 
   $ 800,617  
  

 

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents

   $ 15,302  

Accounts receivable, net

     25,352  

Inventories, net

     34,560  

Other current assets

     8,041  

Property and equipment, net

     28,054  

Intangible assets, net

     625,000  

Other noncurrent assets, net

     5,814  

Deferred tax asset

     93  

Goodwill

     112,035  

Current liabilities

     (43,239

Deferred tax liabilities

     (77

Other long-term liabilities

     (4,563

Non-controlling interest

     (5,755
  

 

 

 

Net assets acquired

   $ 800,617  
  

 

 

 

The estimated value of the equity consideration paid, or deemed paid, to the Sellers includes OneSpaWorld Shares with an assumed fair value of approximately $141.6 million. The estimated value of the aggregate equity consideration issued to the Sellers of $85.5 million reflects an assumed per share market value of common shares of OneSpaWorld of $10.00.

The consideration above does not include five million of deferred shares, with an assumed value of $50.0 million (reflecting an assumed per share value of $10.0 per share), issued to the Sellers.

Preliminary identifiable intangible assets in the unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information consist of intangibles derived from retail concession agreements, lease agreements, a trade name and a licensing agreement. Retail concession agreements and lease agreements (collectively, “agreements”) were valued through application of the multi-period excess earnings method. Under this method, revenues, operating expenses and other costs associated with these agreements were estimated in order to derive cash flows attributable to the existing agreements. The resulting cash flows were then discounted to present value at rates reflective of the risk and return expectations of the agreements to arrive at the fair value of the agreements

 

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as of December 31, 2018. The amortization related to the agreements is reflected as unaudited pro forma adjustments to the unaudited pro forma condensed combined income statements using the straight line method of amortization. Company management has determined the estimated remaining useful lives of the retail concession agreements and lease agreements based on the projected economic benefits associated with these interests. The tradename and licensing agreement were valued through application of the relief from royalty method. Under this method a royalty rate is applied to the revenues associated with the tradename to capture value associated with use of the name as if licensed. The resulting royalty savings are then discounted to present value at rates reflective of the risk and return expectations of the interests to derive their respective fair values as of December 31, 2018. Company management has determined that the trade name is preliminarily estimated to have an indefinite useful life while the licensing agreement life is estimated based on the projected economic benefits associated with this interest.

The preliminary allocation of the purchase consideration to property and equipment was based on the fair value of such assets determined using the trending method of the cost approach. Depreciation expense for property and equipment was preliminarily estimated based on a straight line methodology, which approximates the remaining weighted useful life of such underlying assets. The fair value of the inventory was determined through use of the replacement cost approach.

The amount that will ultimately be allocated to these identified intangible assets, property and equipment and inventory and the related amount of amortization and depreciation, may differ materially from this preliminary allocation.

Goodwill represents the excess of the total purchase consideration over the fair value of the underlying net assets, largely arising from the workforce and extensive efficient distribution network that has been established by OSW Predecessor.

 

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3. Pro Forma Adjustments and Assumptions

The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information has been prepared to illustrate the effect of the Business Combination and other transactions described above and has been prepared for informational purposes only. The unaudited pro forma condensed combined income statements are not necessarily indicative of what the actual results of operations would have been had the Business Combination taken place on the date indicated, nor is it indicative of the future consolidated results of operations of the combined company. The unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information is based upon the historical consolidated financial statements of Haymaker and OSW Predecessor and should be read in conjunction with their historical financial statements included elsewhere in Haymaker’s Annual Report on Form 10-K and this Current Report on Form 8-K.

The historical consolidated financial statements have been adjusted in the unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial information to give effect to pro forma events that are (1) directly attributable to the Business Combination, the Primary Private Placement and the Debt Financing, (2) factually supportable, and (3) with respect to the income statements, expected to have a continuing impact on the results of OneSpaWorld.

There were no intercompany balances or transactions between Haymaker and OSW Predecessor as of the dates and for the periods of these unaudited pro forma combined financial statements.

The pro forma combined consolidated provision for income taxes does not necessarily reflect the amounts that would have resulted had the companies filed consolidated income tax returns during the periods presented.

The pro forma basic and diluted earnings per share amounts presented in the unaudited pro forma condensed combined income statements are based upon the number of OneSpaWorld’s shares outstanding, assuming the Business Combination and the Primary Private Placement occurred on January 1, 2018.

 

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Pro Forma Adjustments to the Income Statements:

 

(a)

Represents the adjustment to depreciation of $0.2 million for the year ended December 31, 2018. The adjustment is reflecting the impact of the changes in fair values of property and equipment, based on the preliminary purchase price allocation.

 

(b)

Represents the adjustment to amortization of $14.0 million for the year ended December 31, 2018 reflecting the impact of the changes in fair value of intangible assets based on the preliminary purchase price allocation. Amortization of the acquired intangible assets will be recognized on a straight line basis over the estimated useful life, which represents the projected economic benefits associated with the acquired intangible assets.

 

(c)

Represents the adjustment to eliminate the historical interest income and unrealized gains of Haymaker associated with the funds that were held in the Trust Account, which were used to fund portions of the cash consideration and debt refinancing in connection with the Business Combination.

 

(d)

Represents the removal of previous interest on the OSW Predecessor debt repaid at the closing by the Seller. An adjustment has also been made that represents the increased interest expense related to the issuance of new debt in connection with the Business Combination.

The pro forma interest expense assumes a weighted average interest rate of approximately 5.59% on the Initial Term Facility ($208.5 million), Second Lien Term Facility ($25.0 million) and Revolving Credit Facility ($12.4 million). Each 1/8% change in the assumed rate would create a $0.3 million change in annual interest expense.

Included in the adjustments to interest expense is deferred financing expense of $1.1 million for the year ended December 31, 2018.

 

(e)

This adjustment represents the estimated income tax effect of the pro forma adjustments. The tax effect of the pro-forma adjustments was calculated using the historical statutory rates in effect for the periods presented. The blended statutory rate is 0% due to the fact that the pro forma adjustments predominately relate to businesses that are in zero tax rate jurisdictions.

 

(f)

Pro forma basic earnings per share was computed by dividing pro forma net income attributable to OneSpaWorld common shareholders by the weighted average of Class A Shares, as if such shares were issued and outstanding as of January 1, 2018. Basic shares outstanding were calculated based on the following common shares outstanding:

 

     At December 31, 2018  

OneSpaWorld Shares held by Haymaker Public Stockholders

     31,713,387  

OneSpaWorld Shares held by Haymaker Sponsor

     3,000,000  

OneSpaWorld Shares held by Private Placement Investors

     12,249,637  

OneSpaWorld Shares held by Sellers

     14,155,274  
  

 

 

 

Total common shares outstanding

     61,118,298  

Equity consideration - Employee option pool

     7,000,000  
  

 

 

 

Diluted shares outstanding

     68,118,298  
  

 

 

 

 

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Pro forma dilutive earnings per share was computed using the “treasury stock buyback” method to determine the potential dilutive effect of its outstanding options. The employee option pool is the number of options available for issue at the time of closing, but no options were issued at that time.

The currently outstanding Haymaker Public Warrants, the Founder Warrants and the Private Placement Warrants with an exercise price of $11.50 per share became exercisable for one OneSpaWorld Share. The Haymaker Public Warrants, the Founder Warrants and the Private Placement Warrants are not dilutive on a pro forma basis and have been excluded from the diluted number of OneSpaWorld Shares outstanding at the time of closing; however, the potential dilutive impact will ultimately be recognized based on the actual market price on the date of measurement.

Similarly, the Founder Shares that became converted into the right to receive 1,600,000 OneSpaWorld Shares upon the occurrence of certain events are not dilutive on a pro forma basis and would have been excluded from the diluted number of OneSpaWorld Shares outstanding at the time of the closing.

 

  (g)

The adjustment represents the removal of $3.9 million of transaction fees incurred in the year ended December 31, 2018. Transaction costs are eliminated from pro forma income statements because they are nonrecurring charges that are directly attributable to the transaction.

 

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Pro Forma Adjustments to the Balance Sheet:

 

  (a)

Represents the net adjustment to cash associated with Haymaker’s payment of cash consideration in the Business Combination:

Pro forma net adjustment to cash associated with purchase adjustments (in thousands):

 

(In thousands)    Scenario 1  

Haymaker cash previously held in Trust Account (1)

   $ 336,671  

Proceeds from the primary private placement (2)

     122,496  

Proceeds from new debt (3)

     245,900  

Shareholder redemptions (4)

     (12,866

Cash consideration (5)

     (659,065

Payment of transaction costs (6)

     (36,332
  

 

 

 

Net adjustment to cash

   $ (3,196
  

 

 

 

 

(1)

Represents the adjustment related to the reclassification of the cash equivalents held in the Trust Account in form of investments to cash and cash equivalents to reflect the fact that these investments were available for use in connection with the Business Combination and the payment of a portion of the cash consideration.

(2)

Represents the shares and warrants OneSpaWorld issued and sold to the Private Placement Investors for gross proceeds of approximately $122.5 million.

(3)

Represents additional funds raised through the new loans.

(4)

Represents cash paid for redemptions of Haymaker common shares.

(5)

Represents the cash consideration portion of the total consideration that is expected to be paid to effectuate the Business Combination prior to any Sellers’ costs and amounts to be paid under the escrow agreement.

(6)

Reflects the impact of estimated transaction costs of $36.3 million including fees and costs attributable to debt and equity consideration.

 

  (b)

Represents the adjustment to inventory to reflect their estimated fair values on the preliminary purchase price allocation (see Note 2).

 

  (c)

Represents the adjustment to property and equipment to (i) reflect the adjustment to the respective fixed asset category to reflect their estimated fair values based on the preliminary purchase price allocation, and (ii) to eliminate the historical accumulated depreciation (see Note 2).

 

  (d)

Represents the adjustment to intangible assets to reflect their estimated fair values on the preliminary purchase price allocation (see Note 2).

 

  (e)

Represents the adjustment to goodwill based on the preliminary purchase price allocation (see Note 2).

 

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(In thousands)       

Concession Agreements

   $  598,300  

Lease Agreements

     19,300  

Trade Name

     5,900  

Licensing Agreement

     1,500  
  

 

 

 
   $  625,000  
  

 

 

 

 

  (f)

Represents the adjustment to the deferred tax assets and liability. The deferred taxes are primarily related to the difference between the financial statement and tax basis for depreciation and amortization. The basis difference primarily results from the Business Combination where Haymaker receives a step-up value adjustment on certain assets for financial accounting purposes.

 

  (g)

Represents the payment of accrued transaction expenses of $3.7 million.

 

  (h)

Represents the transaction cost expense at closing going against retained earnings. Of the $36.3 million, $3.8 million has been recognized in retained earnings. This figure represents the total estimated transaction expense net of deferred financing fees (note i), the Private Placement fee that reduces additional paid in capital (note o), the accrued transaction expenses (note g) and the deferred underwriting costs accrued by Haymaker (note j).

 

  (i)

Represents the repayment of OSW Predecessor debt ($352.4 million) at the closing by the Seller and the issuance of $245.9 million of new long-term debt in the form of an Initial Term Facility ($208.5 million) and Second Lien Term Facility ($25.0 million) and Revolving Credit Facility of ($12.4 million). The adjustment reflects related deferred financing costs of $7.5 million, of which $0.7 million has been allocated to other non-current assets as it relates to the Revolving Credit Facility, and the remainder has been netted against long-term debt. These unaudited pro forma condensed combined financial statements are presented as such to better reflect indebtedness following the Business Combination.

 

  (j)

Represents the payment of deferred underwriting costs of $12.2 million.

 

  (k)

Represents an adjustment to reflect that at the time of issuance, certain Haymaker common stock was subject to a possible redemption and, as such, an amount of $314.9 million was classified as redeemable equity in Haymaker’s historical consolidated balance sheet as of December 31, 2018. As of the balance sheet, $12.9 million of common stock of Haymaker was redeemed at an assumed redemption price of $10.00 per Class A Share and the remaining outstanding common stock of $302.0 million has been reclassified from redeemable equity to additional paid-in capital and Class A common stock, $0.0001 par value.

 

  (l)

Represents the elimination of OSW Predecessor’s accumulated deficit of $130.5 million and accumulated other comprehensive loss of $0.6 million.

 

  (m)

Represents the Founder Shares being converted into 6.7 million OneSpaWorld Shares (3.7 million, subject to certain adjustments, of which were transferred and forfeited to OneSpaWorld) and the right to receive 1.6 million OneSpaWorld Shares upon the occurrence of certain events. Such deferred OneSpaWorld shares are not included in the EPS calculations set forth above.

 

  (n)

Represents the adjustment to non-controlling interest to reflect the estimated fair values on the preliminary purchase price allocation (see Note 2).

 

  (o)

Represents the pro forma adjustment to additional paid-in capital.

 

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(In thousands)       

Reverse Haymaker historical APIC

   $ —    

Conversion of redeemable shares held by Haymaker’s public stockholders to APIC, net of par amount

     302,054  

Increase to APIC attributable to the stock issued to the Selling Equityholders

     141,552  

Increase to APIC attributable to the Private Placement

     122,496  

Reduction to APIC attributable to the Private Placement fee

     (9,150
  

 

 

 

Pro forma adjustment to APIC

   $  556,952  
  

 

 

 

OSW Predecessor Management’s Discussion and Analysis of Financial Condition and Results of Operations

The following discussion and analysis of OSW Predecessor’s audited financial condition and results of operations should be read in conjunction with the information presented in “Selected Historical Financial Information” included above in this Current Report on Form 8-K and the audited combined financial statements of OSW Predecessor, and the notes related thereto, included as Exhibit 99.2 to this Current Report on Form 8-K. In addition to historical information, the following discussion contains forward-looking statements, such as statements regarding OneSpaWorld’s expectation for future performance, liquidity and capital resources that involve risks, uncertainties and assumptions that could cause actual results to differ materially from OneSpaWorld’s expectations. OneSpaWorld’s actual results may differ materially from those contained in or implied by any forward-looking statements. Factors that could cause such differences include those identified below and those described in the sections entitled “Cautionary Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements” and “Unaudited Pro Forma Condensed Combined Financial Statements,” included above in this Current Report on Form 8-K, and in the section entitled “Risk Factors” beginning on page 45 of the Registration Statement, which is incorporated herein by reference. OneSpaWorld assumes no obligation to update any of these forward-looking statements.

 

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The information for the years ended December 31, 2018, 2017 and 2016 are derived from OSW Predecessor’s audited combined financial statements and the notes thereto included elsewhere in this Current Report on Form 8-K.

Any reference to “OneSpaWorld” refers to OneSpaWorld Holdings Limited and its consolidated subsidiaries on a forward-looking basis or, as the context requires, to the historical results of OSW Predecessor. Any reference to “OSW Predecessor” refers to the entities comprising the “OneSpaWorld” business prior to the consummation of the Business Combination.

Overview

OneSpaWorld is the pre-eminent global operator of health and wellness centers onboard cruise ships and a leading operator of health and wellness centers at destination resorts worldwide. OneSpaWorld’s highly-trained and experienced staff offer guests a comprehensive suite of premium health, fitness, beauty and wellness services and products onboard 163 cruise ships and at 67 destination resorts globally. With over 80% market share in the highly attractive outsourced maritime health and wellness market, OneSpaWorld is the unquestioned market leader at approximately 10x the size of its closest maritime competitor. Over the last 50 years, OneSpaWorld has built its leading market position on its depth of staff expertise, broad and innovative service and product offerings, expansive global recruitment, training and logistics platform as well as decades-long relationships with cruise and destination resort partners. Throughout its history, OneSpaWorld’s mission has been simple—helping guests look and feel their best during and after their stay.

At its core, OneSpaWorld is a global services company. OneSpaWorld serves a critical role for its cruise line and destination resort partners, operating a highly complex and increasingly important aspect of its cruise line and destination resort partners’ overall guest experience. Decades of investment and know-how have allowed OneSpaWorld to construct an unmatched global infrastructure to manage the complexity of its operations, which in 2017 included nearly 8,000 annual voyages with visits to over 1,100 ports of call around the world. OneSpaWorld has consistently expanded its onboard offering with innovative and leading-edge service and product introductions, and developed the powerful back-end recruiting, training and logistics platforms to manage its operational complexity, maintain its industry-leading quality standards, and maximize revenue per center. The combination of its renowned recruiting and training platform, deep labor pool, global logistics and supply chain infrastructure and proven revenue management capabilities represents a significant competitive advantage that OneSpaWorld believes is not economically feasible to replicate.

Matters Affecting Comparability

Supply Agreement

OSW Predecessor purchases beauty products for resale from an entity (the “Supplier Entity”) that was, during the periods presented, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Steiner Leisure. OSW Predecessor and the Supplier Entity entered into an agreement, effective as of January 1, 2017 (subsequently amended in 2018), which established the prices at which beauty products will be purchased by OSW Predecessor from the Supplier Entity for a term of 10 years (the “Supply Agreement”). The Supply Agreement has had a positive impact on OSW Predecessor’s business as it has reduced the cost of products for retail goods and has lowered the cost of products used in services. The prices of beauty products purchased by OSW Predecessor from the Supplier Entity prior to 2017 were not comparable to those set forth under the Supply Agreement and applicable to future periods. As a result, OSW Predecessor’s operations and financial condition in periods prior to January 1, 2017 differ materially from those ended after that date.

The Supply Agreement was effective as of January 1, 2017, however, existing inventories of products purchased prior to the effectiveness of the Supply Agreement were not fully depleted until the end of the third quarter of 2017. Beginning October 1, 2017, the cost of products used in services and cost of products reflect the actual pricing under the Supply Agreement because, at that time, all inventory on hand was purchased under the terms of the Supply Agreement.

 

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In order to quantify the impact of the Supply Agreement on the comparability of OSW Predecessor’s financial statements between periods, the following table sets forth the decrease in cost of products used in services and cost of products that would have been reflected in the financial statements of OSW Predecessor for the periods presented if all inventory on hand during such periods was purchased under the terms of the Supply Agreement (i.e., as if no existing inventories of products purchased prior to the effectiveness of the Supply Agreement were sold during the periods presented):

 

(in thousands)    2018      2017      2016  

Decrease in Cost of Products Used in Services

   $ —        $ 4,170      $ 7,824  

Decrease in Cost of Products

     —          5,214        10,589  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

   $ —        $ 9,384      $ 18,413  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

In order to further quantify the impact of the Supply Agreement on the comparability of OSW Predecessor’s financial statements between periods, the following table sets forth the increase in cost of products used in services and cost of products that would have been reflected in the financial statements of OSW Predecessor for the periods presented if all inventory on hand during such periods was purchased prior to the effectiveness of the Supply Agreement:

 

     For the Year Ended
December 31,
 
     2018      2017  

Increase in Cost of Products Used in Services

   $ 8,886      $ 3,282  

Increase in Cost of Products

     13,844        5,897  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

   $ 22,730      $ 9,179  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

timetospa.com Business Model

As a result of its planned separation from Steiner Leisure, OSW Predecessor is no longer operating timetospa.com as a standalone e-commerce business with focused marketing efforts and paid search advertising, as it had operated the channel through December 31, 2017. timetospa.com is now a post cruise sales tool where guests may continue their wellness journey after disembarking. Revenue and net income in the years ended December 31, 2017 and 2016 are not directly comparable to revenue and net income in the year ended December 31, 2018 due to this change in the timetospa.com business model.

Key Performance Indicators

In assessing the performance of its business, OSW Predecessor considers several key performance indicators used by management. These key indicators include:

 

   

Ship Count. The number of ships, both on average during the period and at period end, on which OSW Predecessor operates health and wellness centers. This is a key metric that impacts revenue and profitability.

 

   

Average Weekly Revenue Per Ship. A key indicator of productivity per ship. Revenue per ship can be affected by the various sizes of health and wellness centers and categories of ships on which OSW Predecessor serves.

 

   

Average Revenue Per Shipboard Staff Per Day. OSW Predecessor utilizes this performance metric to assist in determining the productivity of its onboard staff, which OSW Predecessor believes is a critical element of its operations.

 

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Destination Resort Count. The number of destination resorts, both on average during the period and at period end, on which OSW Predecessor operates the health and wellness centers. This is a key metric that impacts revenue and profitability.

 

   

Average Weekly Revenue Per Destination Resort Health and Wellness Center. A key indicator of productivity per destination resort health and wellness center. Revenue per destination resort health and wellness center in a period can be affected by the mix of North American and Asian centers for such period because North American centers are typically larger and produce substantially more revenues per center than Asian centers. Additionally, average weekly revenue can also be negatively impacted by renovations of OSW Predecessor’s destination resort health and wellness centers.

The following table sets forth the above key performance indicators for the periods presented:

 

     As of and for the Year Ended
December 31,
 
   2018      2017      2016  

Average Ship Count

     156.7        154.0        151.0  

Period End Ship Count

     163        157        156  

Average Weekly Revenue Per Ship

   $ 60,421      $ 56,999      $ 53,741  

Average Revenue Per Shipboard Staff Per Day

   $ 474      $ 446      $ 427  

Average Resort Count

     61.9        51.6        48.1  

Period End Resort Count

     67        54        50  

Average Weekly Revenue Per Resort

   $ 13,927      $ 16,400      $ 18,765  

Key Financial Definitions

Revenues. Revenues consist primarily of sales of services and sales of products to cruise ship passengers and destination resort guests. The following is a brief description of the components of OSW Predecessor’s revenues:

 

   

Service revenues. Service revenues consist primarily of sales of health and wellness services, including a full range of massage treatments, facial treatments, nutritional/weight management consultations, teeth whitening, mindfulness services and medi-spa services to cruise ship passengers and destination resort guests. OSW Predecessor bills its services at rates which inherently include an immaterial charge for products used in the rendering of such services, if applicable.

 

   

Product revenues. Product revenues consist primarily of sales of health and wellness products such as facial skincare, body care, orthotics and detox supplements to cruise ship passengers, destination resort guests and timetospa.com customers.

Cost of services. Cost of services consists primarily of an allocable portion of payments to cruise lines (which are derived as a percentage of service revenues or a minimum annual rent or a combination of both), an allocable portion of wages paid to shipboard employees, an allocable portion of staff-related shipboard expenses, costs related to recruitment and training of shipboard employees, wages paid directly to destination resort employees, payments to destination resort venue owners, the allocable cost of products consumed in the rendering of a service and health and wellness center depreciation. Cost of services has historically been highly variable; increases and decreases in cost of services are primarily attributable to a corresponding increase or decrease in service revenues. Cost of services has tended to remain consistent as a percentage of service revenues.

Cost of products. Cost of products consists primarily of the cost of products sold through OSW Predecessor’s various methods of distribution, an allocable portion of wages paid to shipboard employees and an allocable portion of payments to cruise lines and destination resort partners (which are derived as a percentage of product revenues or a minimum annual rent or a combination of both). Cost of products has historically been highly variable, increases and decreases in cost of products are primarily attributable to a corresponding increase or decrease in product revenues. Cost of products has tended to remain consistent as a percentage of product revenues.

 

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Administrative. Administrative expenses are comprised of expenses associated with corporate and administrative functions that support OSW Predecessor’s business, including fees for professional services, insurance, headquarter rent and other general corporate expenses. OSW Predecessor expects administrative expenses to increase due to additional legal, accounting, insurance and other expenses related to becoming a public company.

Salary and payroll taxes. Salary and payroll taxes are comprised of employee expenses associated with corporate and administrative functions that support OSW Predecessor’s business, including fees for employee salaries, bonuses, payroll taxes, pension/401K and other employee costs.

Amortization of intangible assets. Amortization of intangible assets are comprised of the amortization of intangible assets with definite useful lives (e.g. customer contracts, trade names, long-term leases) and amortization expenses associated with the acquisition of Steiner Leisure Limited on December 9, 2015 by certain investment vehicles managed by Catterton Management Company, L.L.C. (the “2015 Transaction”).

Other income (expense), net. Other income (expense) consists of royalty income, interest income, interest expense and minority interest expense.

Provision for income taxes. Provision for income taxes includes current and deferred federal income tax expenses, as well as state and local income taxes. See “—Critical Accounting Policies—Income Taxes.”

Net income. Net income consists of income from operations less other income (expense) and provision for income taxes.

Revenue Drivers and Business Trends

OSW Predecessor’s revenues and financial performance are impacted by a multitude of factors, including, but not limited to:

 

   

The number of ships and destination resorts in which OSW Predecessor operates health and wellness centers. Revenue is impacted by net new ship growth and the increase in the number of destination resort health and wellness centers in each period.

 

   

The size and offering of new health and wellness centers. OSW Predecessor has focused its attention on the innovation and provision of higher value added and price point services such as medi-spa and advanced facial techniques, which require treatment rooms equipped with specific equipment and staff trained to perform these services. As OSW Predecessor’s cruise line partners continue to invest in new ships with enhanced health and wellness centers that allows for more advanced treatment rooms and larger staff sizes, OSW Predecessor is able to increase the availability of these services, driving an overall shift towards a more attractive service mix.

 

   

Expansion of value-added services and products across modalities in existing health and wellness centers. OSW Predecessor continues to expand its higher value added and price point offerings in existing health and wellness centers, including introducing premium medi-spa services, resulting in higher guest spend.

 

   

The mix of ship count across contemporary, premium, luxury and budget categories. Revenue generated per shipboard health and wellness center differs across contemporary, premium, luxury and budget ship categories due to the size of the health and wellness centers, services offered, guest demographics and guest spending patterns.

 

   

The mix of cruise geography and itinerary. Revenue generated per shipboard health and wellness center is influenced by each cruise itinerary including the number of sea versus port days, which impact center utilization, as well as the geographic sailing region which may impact the offering of services and products to best address guest preferences.

 

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Collaboration with cruise line partners including targeted marketing and promotion initiatives as well as implementation of proprietary technologies to increase center utilization via pre-booking and pre-payment. OSW Predecessor is now directly marketing and distributing promotions to onboard passengers as a result of enhanced collaboration with select cruise line partners. OSW Predecessor has also begun to implement proprietary pre-booking and pre-payment technology platforms that interface with its cruise line partners’ pre-cruise planning systems. These areas of increased collaboration with cruise line partners are resulting in higher revenue generation across its health and wellness centers.

 

   

The impact of weather. OSW Predecessor’s health and wellness centers onboard cruise ships and in select destination resorts may be negatively affected by hurricanes. The negative impact of hurricanes is highest during peak hurricane season from August to October.

The effect of each of these factors on OSW Predecessor’s revenues and financial performance varies from period to period.

Results of Operations

Comparison of Results for the Years Ended December 31, 2018 (audited) and December 31, 2017 (audited)

 

($ in thousands)    Year Ended December 31,     Change  
   2018     % of
Total
Revenue
    2017     % of
Total
Revenue
    $     %  

Revenues

            

Service Revenues

   $ 410,927       76.0   $ 383,686       75.7   $ 27,241       7.1

Product Revenues

     129,851       24.0     122,999       24.3     6,852       5.6
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Revenues

     540,778       100.0     506,685       100.0     34,093       6.7
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Cost of Revenues and Operating Expenses

            

Cost of Services

     352,382       65.2     332,360       65.6     20,022       6.0

Cost of Products

     110,793       20.5     107,990       21.3     2,803       2.6

Administrative

     9,937       1.8     9,222       1.8     715       7.8

Salary and Payroll Taxes

     15,624       2.9     15,294       3.0     330       2.2

Amortization of Intangible Assets

     3,521       0.7     3,521       0.7     0       0.0
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Cost of Revenues and Operating Expenses

     492,257       91.0     468,387       92.4     23,870       5.1
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Income from Operations

     48,521       9.0     38,298       7.6     10,223       26.7
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Other Income (Expense), net

            

Interest Expense

     (34,099     6.3     0       0.0     (34,099     NM  

Interest Income

     238       0.0     408       0.1     (170     (41.4 %) 

Other (Expense)/Income

     171       0.0     (217     0.0     388       NM  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Other Income, net

     (33,690     6.2     191       0.0     (33,881     NM  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Income Before Provision for Income Taxes

     14,831       2.7     38,489       7.6     (23,658     (61.5 %) 

Provision for Income Taxes

     1,088       0.2     5,263       1.0     (4,175     (79.3 %) 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net Income

   $ 13,743       2.5   $ 33,226       6.6   $ (19,483     (58.6 %) 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Revenues. Revenues increased approximately 6.7%, or $34.1 million, to $540.8 million in 2018, from $506.7 million in 2017. The increase was driven by six incremental net new shipboard health and wellness centers added to the fleet, 14 incremental net new destination resort health and wellness centers opened, a continued trend towards larger and enhanced shipboard health and wellness centers as well as increased guest spend on higher-priced services, product innovation and improved collaboration with partners such as the continued rollout of new direct marketing initiatives onboard. The revenue increase was offset by one-time changes in the business model for the timetospa.com website.

For the year ended December 31, 2018, the 20 incremental net new health and wellness centers contributed $20.1 million, the increase in average price of services and products sold contributed $15.3 million and the increase in the volume of services sold at existing health and wellness centers contributed $1.0 million in increased revenue, respectively, offset by a decrease of $2.2 million due to the change in timetospa.com website business model. The revenue growth over this time period was relatively proportional between service and product revenues:

 

   

Service revenues. Service revenues increased approximately 7.1%, or $27.2 million, to $410.9 million in 2018, from $383.7 million in 2017.

 

   

Product revenues. Product revenues increased approximately 5.6%, or $6.9 million, to $129.9 million in 2018, from $123.0 million in 2017.

 

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The productivity of shipboard health and wellness centers increased for 2018 compared to 2017 as evidenced by an increase in both average weekly revenues and revenues per shipboard staff per day. Average weekly revenues increased by 6.0% to $60,421 in 2018, from $56,999 in 2017, and revenues per shipboard staff per day increased by 6.3% over the same time period. OSW Predecessor had an average of 2,852 shipboard staff members in service in 2018 compared to an average of 2,809 shipboard staff members in service in 2017.

The productivity of destination resort health and wellness centers, measured by average weekly revenues, decreased 12.9% to $13,927 in 2018, from $16,400 in 2017. The decrease in productivity was primarily driven by one large destination resort health and wellness center being under renovation as well as the addition of smaller health and wellness centers in Asia that generate lower revenue and the closure of a large health and wellness center in Las Vegas.

Cost of services. Cost of services increased $20.0 million in 2018 compared to 2017. The increase was primarily attributable to an increase in service revenues which accounted for an increase of $23.6 million, offset by the effect of reduced costs under the Supply Agreement which decreased cost of services by $4.2 million. Cost of services as a percentage of service revenues decreased to 85.8% in 2018, from 86.6% in 2017. The decrease was primarily attributable to the effect of the Supply Agreement.

Cost of products. Cost of products increased $2.8 million in 2018 compared to 2017. The increase was primarily attributable to an increase in product revenues which accounted for an increase of $6.1 million and an increase in payments to cruise and destination resort partners of $3.0 million, offset by the effect of the Supply Agreement which decreased cost of products by $5.2 million. Cost of products as a percentage of product revenues decreased to 85.3% in 2018, from 87.8% in 2017. The decrease was attributable to the effect of reduced costs under the Supply Agreement.

Administrative. Administrative expenses increased $0.7 million in 2018 compared to 2017. The increase in administrative expenses was driven primarily by expenses incurred in connection with the Business Combination.

Salary and payroll taxes. Salary and payroll taxes increased $0.3 million in 2018 compared to 2017. The increase was primarily related to additional merit-based compensation.

Amortization of intangible assets. Amortization of intangible assets remained flat at $3.5 million in 2018 and 2017.

Other income (expense), net. Other income (expense), net decreased $33.9 million in 2018 compared to 2017. This decrease was primarily attributable to an increase in interest expense related to internal restructuring, which resulted in debt previously held at the parent level being assigned to OSW Predecessor in anticipation of the Business Combination.

Provision for income taxes. Provision for income taxes decreased $4.2 million in 2018 compared to 2017. This decrease was primarily due to a favorable impact of the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act of 2017 (the “Act”) which resulted in a lower U.S. federal tax rate effective January 1, 2018. Cash taxes as a percentage of income before provision for income taxes for the years ended December 31, 2018 and 2017 were 4.9% and 1.2%, respectively.

Net income. Net income was $13.7 million in 2018 compared to net income of $33.2 million in 2017. This increase in net income was due to all of the factors described above.

 

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Comparison of Results for the Years Ended December 31, 2017 (audited) and December 31, 2016 (audited)

 

($ in thousands)    Year Ended December 31,     Change  
   2017     % of
Total
Revenue
    2016     % of
Total
Revenue
    $     %  

Revenues

            

Service Revenues

   $ 383,686       75.7   $ 362,698       76.2   $ 20,988       5.8

Product Revenues

     122,999       24.3     113,586       23.9     9,413       8.3
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Revenues

     506,685       100.0     476,284       100.0     30,401       6.4
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Cost of Revenues and Operating Expenses

            

Cost of Services

     332,360       65.6     318,001       66.8     14,359       4.5

Cost of Products

     107,990       21.3     106,259       22.3     1,731       1.6

Administrative

     9,222       1.8     10,432       2.2     (1,210     (11.6 %) 

Salary and Payroll Taxes

     15,294       3.0     14,454       3.0     840       5.8

Amortization of Intangible Assets

     3,521       0.7     3,521       0.7     0       0.0
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Cost of Revenues and Operating Expenses

     468,387       92.4     452,667       95.0     15,720       3.5
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Income from Operations

     38,298       7.6     23,617       5.0     14,681       62.2
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Other Income (Expense), net

            

Interest Income

     408       0.1     340       0.1     68       20.0

Other (Expense)/Income

     (217     0.0     (178     0.0     (39     21.9
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Other Income, net

     191       0.0     162       0.0     29       17.9
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Income Before Provision for Income Taxes

     38,489       7.6     23,779       5.0     14,710       61.9

Provision for Income Taxes

     5,263       1.0     5,615       1.2     (352     (6.3 %) 
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net Income

   $ 33,226       6.6   $ 18,164       3.8   $ 15,062       82.9
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Revenues. Revenues increased approximately 6.4%, or $30.4 million, to $506.7 million in 2017, from $476.3 million in 2016. The increase was driven by one incremental net new shipboard health and wellness center added to the fleet, four net new destination health and wellness resort centers opened, a continued trend towards larger and enhanced health and wellness centers as well as increased guest spending on higher-priced services, product innovation and improved collaboration with partners such as continued rollout of new direct marketing initiatives onboard.

For the year ended December 31, 2017, the five incremental net new health and wellness centers contributed $5.7 million, the increase in average price of services and products sold contributed $12.6 million and the increase in the volume of services sold at existing health and wellness centers contributed $12.0 million in increased revenue, respectively. The revenue growth over this time period was driven more from products than services:

 

   

Service revenues. Service revenues increased approximately 5.8%, or $21.0 million, to $383.7 million in 2017, from $362.7 million in 2016.

 

   

Product revenues. Product revenues increased approximately 8.3%, or $9.4 million, to $123.0 million in 2017, from $113.6 million in 2016.

The productivity of shipboard health and wellness centers increased for 2017 compared to 2016 as evidenced by an increase in both average weekly revenues and revenues per shipboard staff per day. Average weekly revenues increased by 6.1% to $56,999 in 2017, from $53,741 in 2016, and revenues per shipboard staff per day increased by 4.3% over the same time period. OSW Predecessor had an average of 2,809 shipboard staff members in service in 2017 compared to an average of 2,708 shipboard staff members in service in 2016.

The productivity of destination resort health and wellness centers, measured by average weekly revenues, decreased 12.6% to $16,400 in 2017, from $18,765 in 2016. The decrease in productivity was primarily driven by one large destination resort health and wellness center being under renovation, the addition of smaller health and wellness centers in Asia that generate lower revenue and the impact of hurricanes in 2017.

Cost of services. Cost of services increased $14.4 million in 2017 compared to 2016. The increase was primarily attributable to an increase in service revenues which accounted for an increase of $18.4 million, offset by the effect of reduced costs under the Supply Agreement which decreased cost of services by $3.6 million. Cost of services as a percentage of service revenues decreased to 86.6% in 2017, from 87.7% in 2016. The decrease was primarily attributable to the effect of reduced costs under the Supply Agreement and an increase in higher margin services.

 

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Cost of products. Cost of products increased $1.7 million in 2017 compared to 2016. The increase was primarily attributable to an increase in product revenues which accounted for an increase of $7.1 million, offset by the effect of reduced costs under the Supply Agreement which decreased cost of products by $5.4 million. Cost of products as a percentage of product revenues decreased to 87.8% in 2017, from 93.5% in 2016. The decrease was attributable to the effect of reduced costs under the Supply Agreement.

Administrative. Administrative expenses decreased $1.2 million in 2017 compared to 2016. The decrease in administrative expenses was driven partially by a continued decrease in corporate marketing expenses and corporate overhead related to the timetospa.com business.

Salary and payroll taxes. Salary and payroll taxes increased $0.8 million in 2017 compared to 2016. The increase in salary and payroll taxes was driven primarily by additional merit-based compensation and headcount additions to support growth in the business.

Amortization of intangible assets. Amortization of intangible assets remained flat at $3.5 million in 2017 and 2016.

Other income (expense), net. Other income (expense), net remained flat at income of $0.2 million in 2017 and 2016.

Provision for income taxes. Provision for income taxes decreased $0.4 million in 2017 compared to 2016, driven primarily by the reevaluation of deferred tax assets in 2017 in connection with a decrease in the U.S. federal tax rate, offset by the effect of a reduction in tax reserves related to an examination by a foreign taxing authority of dividends paid by a wholly-owned subsidiary of Steiner Leisure. Cash taxes as a percentage of income before provision for income taxes for the years ended December 31, 2017 and 2016 was 1.2% and 2.7%, respectively.

Net income. Net income was $33.2 million in 2017 compared to net income of $18.2 million in 2016. This increase in net income was due to all of the factors described above.

Liquidity and Capital Resources

Overview

OSW Predecessor has historically funded its operations with cash flow from operations, except with respect to certain expenses and operating costs that had been paid by Steiner Leisure on behalf of OSW Predecessor, and, when needed, with borrowings under its credit facility. Steiner Leisure has paid on behalf of OSW Predecessor expenses associated with the allocation of Parent corporate overhead and costs associated with the purchase of products from related parties and forgiven by Steiner Leisure. Historical operating cash flows exclude the OSW Predecessor’s expenses and operating costs paid by Steiner Leisure on behalf of OSW Predecessor. Consequently, OSW Predecessor’s combined historical cash flows may not be indicative of cash flows had actually OSW Predecessor been a separate stand-alone entity or future cash flows of OSW Predecessor.

OSW Predecessor’s principal uses for liquidity have been distributions to Steiner Leisure, debt service and working capital. OSW Predecessor believes its sources of liquidity and capital will be sufficient to finance its continued operations, growth strategy and additional expenses it expects to incur as a public company for at least the next twelve months.

 

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Cash Flows

The following table shows summary cash flow information for the years ended December 31, 2018, 2017 and 2016 (audited).

 

     Year Ended
December 31,
 
(in thousands)    2018      2017      2016  

Net Income

   $ 13,743      $ 33,226      $ 18,164  

Depreciation & Amortization

     10,055        9,829        12,884  

Amortization of Deferred Financing Costs

     1,243        —          —    

Provision for Doubtful Accounts

     18        18        18  

Allocation of Parent Corporate Overhead1

     11,731        11,666        11,250  

Deferred Income Taxes

     (1      3,350        (472

Change in Working Capital1

     (4,402      12,029        34,807  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Cash Flow from Operating Activities1

     32,387        70,118        76,651  

Capital Expenditures

     (4,983      (2,683      (3,081

Note Receivable from Parent

     —          —          (5,446

Cash Flow Used in Investing Activities

     (4,983      (2,683      (8,527

Net Distributions to Parent1

     (15,690      (60,893      (70,348

Distribution to NCI

     (4,867      (4,606      (1,159
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Cash Flow Used in Financing Activities1

     (20,557      (65,499      (71,507

Effect of Exchange Rates

     (216      124        (480
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Net Increase (Decrease) in Cash and Cash Equivalents

   $ 6,631      $ 2,060      $ (3,863
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

(1)

Allocation of Parent Corporate Overhead was paid by Steiner Leisure on behalf of OSW Predecessor. Additionally, Change in Working Capital was benefited by costs associated with the purchase of inventory from related parties and forgiven by Steiner Leisure, which were reported as a non-cash reduction to accounts payable-related parties of $0, $0 and $32,987, for the years ended December 31, 2018, 2017 and 2016, respectively. The amounts related to the allocation of Parent corporate overhead and costs associated with the purchase of products from related parties and forgiven by Steiner Leisure were considered non-cash contributions and enabled OSW Predecessor to make increased cash distributions to Steiner Leisure, which are classified in financing cash outflows.

Comparison of Results for the Years Ended December 31, 2018 (audited) and December 31, 2017 (audited)

Operating activities. OSW Predecessor’s net cash provided by operating activities decreased $37.7 million to $32.4 million in 2018, from $70.1 million in 2017. This decrease was due primarily to an unfavorable change in operating assets and liabilities as well as a lower net income. The unfavorable change in operating assets and liabilities was largely driven by a change in the payment terms, the effect of reduced costs under the Supply Agreement and the depletion of existing inventories of products purchased prior to the effectiveness of the Supply Agreement of $9.4 million in 2017. The unfavorable change in net income was primarily due to interest expense of $34.1 million in 2018 related to an internal restructuring, which resulted in debt previously held at the parent level being assigned to OSW Predecessor in anticipation of the Business Combination.

Investing activities. OSW Predecessor’s net cash used by investing activities increased $2.3 million to $5.0 million in 2018, from $2.7 million in 2017. This increase was largely driven by the renovation of a destination resort health and wellness center.

Financing activities. OSW Predecessor’s net cash used by financing activities decreased $44.9 million to $20.6 million in 2018, from $65.5 million in 2017. This decrease was largely due to a decrease in distributions to Steiner Leisure and its affiliates.

 

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Comparison of Results for the Years Ended December 31, 2017 (audited) and December 31, 2016 (audited)

Operating activities. OSW Predecessor’s net cash provided by operating activities decreased $6.5 million to $70.1 million in 2017, from $76.7 million in 2016. This decrease was due primarily to an unfavorable change in operating assets and liabilities, partially offset by higher net income. The unfavorable change in operating assets and liabilities was largely driven by a change in the payment terms, the effect of reduced costs under the Supply Agreement and the depletion of existing inventories of products purchased prior to the effectiveness of the Supply Agreement of $9.4 million in 2017. The increase in net income was due to the reasons described above under “—Results of Operations—Comparison of Results for the Years Ended December 31, 2017 (audited) and December 31, 2016 (audited).”

Investing activities. OSW Predecessor’s net cash used by investing activities decreased $5.8 million to $2.7 million in 2017, from $8.5 million in 2016. This decrease was due to a loan from OSW Predecessor to a wholly-owned subsidiary of Steiner Leisure for €5.0 million in 2016.

Financing activities. OSW Predecessor’s net cash used by financing activities decreased $6.0 million to $65.5 million in 2017, from $71.5 million in 2016. This decrease was due to distributions to Steiner Leisure and its affiliates.

Seasonality

A significant portion of OSW Predecessor’s revenues are generated onboard cruise ships. Certain cruise lines, and, as a result, OSW Predecessor, have experienced varying degrees of seasonality as the demand for cruises is stronger in the Northern Hemisphere during the summer months and during holidays. Accordingly, the third quarter and holiday periods generally result in the highest revenue yields for OSW Predecessor. Further, cruises and destination resort health and wellness centers have been negatively affected by the frequency and intensity of hurricanes. The negative impact of hurricanes is highest during peak hurricane season from August to October.

Off-Balance Sheet Arrangements

Other than the operating lease arrangements described below, OSW Predecessor has no off-balance sheet arrangements that have or are reasonably likely to have a current or future material effect on its financial condition, changes in financial condition, income or expenses, results of operations, liquidity, capital expenditures or capital resources.

Contractual Obligations

The following table summarizes certain of OSW Predecessor’s obligations as of December 31, 2018 and the estimated timing and effect that such obligations are expected to have on liquidity and cash flows in future periods (in millions):

 

     Payment due by period  
   Total      2019      2020-2021      2022-2023      Thereafter  

Cruise Line Agreements(1)(3)

   $ 130,677      $ 122,677      $ 8,000      $ —        $ —    

Operating Leases(2)(3)

     23,444        3,443        5,341        4,397        10,263  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

   $ 154,121      $ 126,120      $ 13,341      $ 4,397      $ 10,263  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

(1)

Cruise Line Agreements. A large portion of OSW Predecessor’s revenues are generated on cruise ships. OSW Predecessor has entered into agreements of varying terms with the cruise lines under which services and products are paid for by cruise passengers. These agreements provide for OSW Predecessor to pay the cruise line commissions for use of their shipboard facilities, as well as fees for staff shipboard meals and accommodations. These commissions are based on a percentage of revenue, a minimum annual amount, or a combination of both. Some of the minimum commissions are calculated as a flat dollar amount, while others are based upon minimum passenger per diems for passengers actually embarked on each cruise of the respective vessel. Staff shipboard meals and accommodations are charged by the cruise lines on a per staff per day basis. OSW Predecessor recognizes all expenses related to cruise line commissions, minimum arrears payment, and staff shipboard meals and accommodations, generally, as they are incurred and includes such expenses in cost of revenues in the accompanying combined statements of income. For cruises in process at period end, an accrual is made to record such expenses in a manner that approximates a pro-rata basis. In addition, staff-related expenses such as shipboard employee commissions are recognized in the same manner.

 

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(2)

Operating Leases. OSW Predecessor leases office and warehouse space, as well as office equipment and automobiles, under operating leases. OSW Predecessor also makes certain payments to the owners of the destination resorts where destination resort health and wellness centers are located. Destination resort health and wellness centers generally require rent based on a percentage of revenues. In addition, as part of the rental arrangements for some of the destination resort health and wellness centers, OSW Predecessor is required to pay a minimum annual rental regardless of whether such amount would be required to be paid under the percentage rent arrangement. Substantially all of these arrangements include renewal options ranging from three to five years. Rental expense incurred under operating leases for the years ended December 31, 2018, 2017 and 2016 were $9.5 million, $8.8 million and $9.5 million, respectively.

(3)

The amounts presented represent minimum annual commitments under OSW Predecessor’s cruise line agreements and operating lease obligations. Certain minimum annual commitments, if any, are not currently determinable for fiscal years other than 2019.

Critical Accounting Policies

General. OSW Predecessor’s combined financial statements include the accounts of the wholly-owned direct and indirect subsidiaries of Steiner Leisure listed in Note 1 and include the accounts of a company partially owned by OneSpaWorld Medispa (Bahamas) Limited, in which OneSpaWorld (Bahamas) Limited (100% owner of OneSpaWorld Medispa (Bahamas) Limited) has a controlling interest. The combined financial statements also include the accounts and results of operations associated with the timetospa.com website owned by Elemis USA, Inc. OSW Predecessor’s combined financial statements do not represent the financial position and results of operations of a legal entity but rather a combination of entities under common control of OSW Predecessor that have been “carved out” of Steiner Leisure’s consolidated financial statements and reflect significant assumptions and allocations. All significant intercompany transactions and balances have been eliminated in combination.

OSW Predecessor’s combined financial statements include the assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses specifically related to OSW Predecessor’s operations. OSW Predecessor receives services and support from various functions performed by Steiner Leisure and costs associated with these functions have been allocated to OSW Predecessor. These allocations are necessary to reflect all of the costs of doing business and include costs related to certain Steiner Leisure corporate functions including, but not limited to, senior management, legal, human resources, finance, IT and other shared services that have been allocated to OSW Predecessor based on direct usage or benefit where identifiable, with the remainder allocated on a pro rata basis determined by an estimate of the percentage of time Steiner Leisure employees devoted to OSW Predecessor, as compared to total time available or by the headcount of employees at Steiner Leisure’s corporate headquarters that are fully dedicated to OSW Predecessor’s entities in relation to the total employee headcount. These allocated costs are reflected in salary and payroll taxes and administrative expenses in the combined statements of income.

Management considers these allocations to be a reasonable reflection of the utilization of services by or benefit provided to OSW Predecessor. However, the allocations may not be indicative of the actual expenses that would have been incurred had OSW Predecessor operated as an independent, stand-alone entity.

OSW Predecessor believes the assumptions and allocations underlying the accompanying combined financial statements and notes to the combined financial statements are reasonable, appropriate and consistently applied for the periods presented. OSW Predecessor believes the combined financial statements reflect all costs of doing business.

OSW Predecessor’s combined financial statements have been prepared in conformity with GAAP.

OSW Predecessor has identified the policies outlined below as critical to its business operations and an understanding of its results of operations. This discussion is not intended to be a comprehensive description of all accounting policies. In many cases, the accounting treatment of a particular transaction is specifically dictated by accounting principles generally accepted in the United States, with no need for management’s judgment in their application. The impact on OSW Predecessor’s business operations and any associated risks related to these policies is discussed under results of operations, below, where such policies affect its reported and expected financial results. For a detailed discussion on the application of these and other accounting policies, please see Note 2 in the Notes to the Combined Financial Statements of OSW Predecessor attached as Exhibit 99.2 to this Current Report on Form 8-K. Note that OSW Predecessor’s preparation of its combined financial statements included in this this Current Report on Form 8-K requires it to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amount of assets and liabilities, disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of its financial statements, and the reported amounts of revenue and expenses during the reporting period. There can be no assurance that actual results will be consistent with those estimates.

 

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Cost of revenues includes:

 

   

Cost of services. Cost of services consists primarily of the cost of product consumed in the rendering of a service, an allocable portion of wages paid to shipboard employees, an allocable portion of payments to cruise lines (which are derived as a percentage of service revenues or a minimum annual rent or a combination of both), an allocable portion of staff-related shipboard expenses, costs related to recruitment and training of shipboard employees, wages paid directly to destination resort employees, payments to destination resort venue owners, and health and wellness facility depreciation.

 

   

Cost of products. Cost of products consists primarily of the cost of products sold through OneSpaWorld’s various methods of distribution, an allocable portion of wages paid to shipboard employees, an allocable portion of payments to cruise lines and destination resort partners (which are derived as a percentage of product revenues or a minimum annual rent or a combination of both).

Cost of revenues may be affected by, among other things, sales mix, production levels, exchange rates, changes in supplier prices and discounts, purchasing and manufacturing efficiencies, tariffs, duties, freight and inventory costs and increases in fuel costs. Certain cruise line and destination resort health and wellness center agreements provide for increases in the percentages of services and products revenues and/or, as the case may be, the amount of minimum annual payments over the terms of those agreements. These payments may also be increased under new agreements with cruise lines and destination resort health and wellness center owners that replace expiring agreements.

Cost of products includes the cost of products sold through various methods of distribution.

Operating expenses include administrative expenses, salaries and payroll taxes. In addition, operating expenses include amortization of certain intangibles relating to acquisitions.

Revenue Recognition. OSW Predecessor recognizes revenues earned as services are provided and as products are sold. All taxable revenue transactions are presented on a net-of tax basis. Revenue from gift certificate sales is recognized upon gift certificate redemption and upon recognition of “breakage” (non-redemption of a gift certificate after a specified period of time). OSW Predecessor does not charge administrative fees on unused gift cards, and OSW Predecessor’s gift cards do not have an expiration date. Based on historical redemption rates, a relatively stable percentage of gift certificates will never be redeemed. OSW Predecessor uses the redemption recognition method for recognizing breakage related to certain gift certificates for which it has sufficient historical information. Under the redemption recognition method, revenue is recorded in proportion to, and over the time period gift cards are actually redeemed. Breakage is recognized only if OSW Predecessor determines that it does not have a legal obligation to remit the value of unredeemed gift certificates to government agencies under the unclaimed property laws in the relevant jurisdictions. OSW Predecessor determines the gift certificate breakage rate based upon historical redemption patterns. At least three years of historical data, which is updated annually, is used to estimate redemption patterns.

Long-Lived Assets. OSW Predecessor reviews long-lived assets for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate, based on estimated future cash flows, that the carrying amount of these assets may not be fully recoverable. Recoverability of assets to be held and used is measured by a comparison of the carrying amount of an asset (asset group) to future undiscounted cash flows expected to be generated by the asset (asset group). An asset group is the lowest level of assets and liabilities for which identifiable cash flows are largely independent of the cash flows of other assets and liabilities. When estimating future cash flows, OSW Predecessor considers:

 

   

only the future cash flows that are directly associated with and that are expected to arise as a direct result of the use and eventual disposition of the asset group;

 

   

potential events and changes in circumstance affecting key estimates and assumptions; and

 

   

the existing service potential of the asset (asset group) at the date tested.

 

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If an asset (asset group) is considered to be impaired, the impairment to be recognized is measured by the amount by which the carrying amount of the asset (asset group) exceeds its fair value. When determining the fair value of the asset (asset group), OSW Predecessor considers the highest and best use of the assets from a market- participant perspective. The fair value measurement is generally determined through the use of independent third-party appraisals or an expected present value technique, both of which may include a discounted cash flow approach, which reflects assumptions of what market participants would utilize to price the asset (asset group).

Assets to be disposed of are reported at the lower of the carrying amount or fair value less costs to sell. Assets to be abandoned, or from which no further benefit is expected, are written down to zero at the time that the determination is made and the assets are removed entirely from service.

Income Taxes. OSW Predecessor’s U.S. entities, other than those that are domiciled in U.S. territories, file their U.S. tax return as part of a consolidated tax filing group, while OSW Predecessor’s entities that are domiciled in U.S. territories file specific returns. In addition, OSW Predecessor’s foreign entities file income tax returns in their respective countries of incorporation, where required. For the purposes of OSW Predecessor’s combined financial statements included in this Current Report on Form 8-K, OSW Predecessor accounts for income taxes under the separate return method of accounting. This method requires the allocation of current and deferred taxes to OSW Predecessor as if it were a separate taxpayer. Under this method, the resulting portion of current income taxes payable that is not actually owed to the tax authorities is written-off through equity.

Accordingly, income taxes payable in the combined balance sheets, as of December 31, 2018 and 2017 reflects current income tax amounts actually owed to the tax authorities, as of those dates, as well as the accrual for uncertain tax positions. The write-off of current income taxes payable not actually owed to the tax authorities is included in net Parent investment in the accompanying combined balance sheets, as of December 31, 2018 and 2017. Deferred income taxes are recognized based upon the tax consequences of “temporary differences” by applying enacted statutory rates applicable to future years to differences between the financial statement carrying amounts and the tax bases of existing assets and liabilities. Deferred income tax provisions and benefits are based on the changes to the asset or liability from period to period. A valuation allowance is provided on deferred tax assets if it is determined that it is more likely than not that the deferred tax assets will not be realized. The majority of OSW Predecessor’s income is generated outside of the United States.

OSW Predecessor believes a large percentage of its shipboard service income is foreign-source income, not effectively connected to a business it conducts in the United States and, therefore, not subject to U.S. income taxation.

OSW Predecessor recognizes interest and penalties within the provision for income taxes in the combined statements of income. To the extent interest and penalties are not assessed with respect to uncertain tax positions, amounts accrued, therefore, will be reduced and reflected as a reduction of the overall income tax provision.

OSW Predecessor recognizes liabilities for uncertain tax positions based on a two-step process. The first step is to evaluate the tax position for recognition by determining if the weight of available evidence indicates it is more likely than not that the position will be sustained on audit, including resolution of related appeals or litigation processes, if any. The second step is to measure the tax benefit as the largest amount of benefit, determined on a cumulative probability basis, which is more than 50% likely of being realized upon ultimate settlement.

Recently Issued and Accounting Pronouncements

With the exception of those discussed below, there have been no recent accounting pronouncements or changes in accounting pronouncements during the year ended December 31, 2018 that are of significance, or potential significance, to OSW Predecessor based on its current operations. The following summary of recent accounting pronouncements is not intended to be an exhaustive description of the respective pronouncement.

 

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In December 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-20, Technical Corrections and Improvement to Topic 606, Revenue from Contracts with Customers to clarify the Accounting Standards Codification or to correct unintended application of the guidance as part of an on-going project on its agenda about technical corrections and improvements and to increase awareness of the proposals and to expedite improvements to ASU 2014-09, Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606) (“ASU 2014-09”).

In May 2014, the FASB issued ASU 2014-09. The core principle of the guidance in ASU 2014-09 is that an entity should recognize revenue to depict the transfer of promised goods or services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the entity expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services. The guidance in this ASU supersedes the revenue recognition requirements in Topic 605, Revenue Recognition, and most industry specific guidance throughout the Industry Topics of the ASC. Additionally, ASU 2014-09 supersedes some cost guidance included in Subtopic 605-35, Revenue Recognition—Construction-Type and Production-Type Contracts.

In periods subsequent to the initial issuance of this ASU, the FASB has issued additional ASU’s clarifying items within Topic 606, as follows:

 

   

In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-08, “Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606): Principal versus Agent Considerations” (“ASU 2016-08”). The amendments in ASU 2016-08 serve to clarify the implementation guidance on principal versus agent considerations.

 

   

In April 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-10, “Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606): Identifying Performance Obligations and Licensing” (“ASU 2016-10”). The purpose of ASU 2016-10 is to clarify two aspects of Topic 606: identifying performance obligations and the licensing implementation guidance (while retaining the related principles for those areas).

 

   

In May 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-12, “Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606)” (“ASU 2016-12”). The purpose of ASU 2016-12 is to address certain issues identified to improve Topic 606 by enhancing guidance on assessing collectability, presentation of sales taxes and other similar taxes collected from customers, noncash consideration and completed contracts and contract modifications at transition.

The FASB issued updates ASU 2016-08, ASU 2016-10 and ASU 2016-12 to provide guidance to improve the operability and understandability of the implementation guidance included in ASU 2014-09. ASU 2016-08, ASU 2016-10 and ASU 2016-12 have the same effective date and transition requirements of ASU 2015-14, which defers the effective date and transition of ASU 2014-09 annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2018, and interim periods within annual periods beginning after December 15, 2019, with early adoption permitted. The Company plans to adopt this standard, other related revenue standard clarifications and technical guidance effective for the annual period ending December 31, 2019 and quarterly periods beginning January 1, 2020. The Company has elected the modified retrospective transition approach. Under this method, the standard will be applied only to the most current period presented and the cumulative effect of applying the standard will be recognized at the date of initial application. The Company is progressing through its implementation plan and is continuing to evaluate the impact of the standard on its processes, accounting systems, controls and financial disclosures. The Company is not able to determine at this time if the adoption of this guidance will have a material impact on the Company’s combined financial statements.

In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02, “Leases (Topic 842)” (“ASU 2016-02”) to increase transparency and comparability among organizations by recognizing rights and obligations resulting from leases as lease assets and lease liabilities on the balance sheet and disclosing key information about leasing arrangements. The update requires lessees to recognize for all leases with a term of 12 months or more at the commencement date: (a) a lease liability or a lessee’s obligation to make lease payments arising from a lease, measured on a discounted basis; and (b) a right-of-use asset or a lessee’s right to use or control the use of a specified asset for the lease term. Under the update, lessor accounting remains largely unchanged. The update requires a modified retrospective transition approach for leases existing at, or entered into after the beginning of the earliest comparative period presented in the financial statements and do not require any transition accounting for leases that expire before the earliest comparative period presented. The update is effective retrospectively for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2019, and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2020, with early adoption permitted. OSW Predecessor is not able to determine at this time if the adoption of this guidance will have a material impact on OSW Predecessor’s combined financial statements.

 

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In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-04, “Recognition of Breakage for Certain Prepaid Stored-Value Products (a consensus of the FASB Emerging Issues Task Force).” ASU 2016-04 requires entities that sell certain prepaid stored-value products redeemable for goods, services or cash at third-party merchants to derecognize liabilities related to those products for breakage (i.e., the value that is ultimately not redeemed by the consumer). This guidance is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2018. Early adoption is permitted. Entities can use either a full retrospective approach, meaning they would apply the guidance to all periods presented, or a modified retrospective approach, meaning they would apply it only to the most current period presented with a cumulative-effect adjustment to retained earnings as of the beginning of the period of adoption. OSW Predecessor is currently evaluating the methods and impact of adopting this new guidance on its combined financial statements.

In June 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-13, “Financial Instruments—Credit Losses (Topic 326).” This ASU amends the Board’s guidance on the impairment of financial instruments. The ASU adds to GAAP an impairment model (known as the current expected credit losses model) that is based on an expected losses model rather than an incurred losses model. Under the new guidance, an entity recognizes as an allowance its estimate of expected credit losses. The ASU is also intended to reduce the complexity of GAAP by decreasing the number of impairment models that entities use to account for debt instruments. The update is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2020. OSW Predecessor is currently assessing the future impact the adoption of this guidance will have on its combined financial statements.

In August 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-15, “Statement of Cash Flows (Topic 230): Classification of Certain Cash Receipts and Cash Payments.” This ASU addresses eight specific cash flow issues with the objective of reducing the existing diversity in practice in how certain cash receipts and cash payments are presented and classified in the statement of cash flows under existing guidance. The update is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2018. The amendments should be applied using a retrospective transition method to each period presented. OSW Predecessor does not anticipate the adoption of this guidance will have a material impact on its combined financial statements.

In October 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-16, “Income Taxes (Topic 740): Intra-Entity Transfers of Assets Other Than Inventory” (“ASU 2016-16”). This ASU was issued as part of the Board’s initiative to reduce complexity in accounting standards. This ASU eliminates an exception in ASC 740, which prohibits the immediate recognition of income tax consequences of intra-entity asset transfers other than inventory. Under ASU 2016-16, entities will be required to recognize the immediate current and deferred income tax effects of intra-entity asset transfers, which often involve a subsidiary of a company transferring intellectual property to another subsidiary. The new guidance will be effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2018. This ASU’s amendments should be applied on a modified retrospective basis, recognizing the effects in retained earnings as of the beginning of the year of adoption. OSW Predecessor does not anticipate the adoption of this guidance will have a material impact on its combined financial statements.

In November 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-18, “Statement of Cash Flows (Topic 230): Restricted Cash.” This ASU requires that a statement of cash flows explains the change during the period in the total of cash, cash equivalents, and amounts generally described as restricted cash or restricted cash equivalents.

Therefore, amounts generally described as restricted cash and restricted cash equivalents should be included with cash and cash equivalents when reconciling the beginning-of-period and end-of-period total amounts shown on the statement of cash flows. The update is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2018. OSW Predecessor does not anticipate the adoption of this guidance will have a material impact on its combined financial statements.

In January 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-01, “Business Combinations (Topic 805): Clarifying the Definition of a Business.” This ASU assists entities with evaluating whether transactions should be accounted for as acquisitions (or disposals) of assets or businesses by clarifying the definition of a business. The definition of a business affects many areas of accounting including acquisition, disposals, goodwill and consolidation. The update is effective for annual periods beginning after December 31, 2018. The amendments in this update should be applied prospectively on or after the effective date. OSW Predecessor does not anticipate the adoption of this guidance will have a material impact on OSW Predecessor’s combined financial statements.

 

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In January 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-04, “Intangibles – Goodwill and Other (Topic 350): Simplifying the Test for Goodwill Impairment” (“ASU 2017-04”). This ASU simplifies the subsequent measurement of goodwill by eliminating Step 2 from the goodwill impairment test. Previously, in computing the implied fair value of goodwill under Step 2, an entity had to perform procedures to determine the fair value at the impairment testing date of its assets and liabilities following the procedure that would be required in determining the fair value of assets acquired and liabilities assumed in a business combination. Instead, under ASU 2017-04, an entity should perform its annual, or interim, goodwill impairment test by comparing the fair value of a reporting unit with its carrying amount. An entity should recognize an impairment charge for the amount by which the carrying amount exceeds the reporting unit’s fair value; however, the loss recognized should not exceed the total amount of goodwill allocated to the reporting unit. The new guidance is effective for an entity’s annual or any interim goodwill impairment tests in fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2019 and early adoption is permitted for interim or annual goodwill impairment tests performed on testing dates after January 1, 2017. The Company is currently assessing the future impact the adoption of this guidance will have on its combined financial statements.

In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02, “Consolidation (Topic 810): Amendments to the Consolidation Analysis” (“ASU 2016-02”). The amendments in this topic are intended to improve and simplify targeted areas of the consolidation guidance. ASU 2016-02 modifies the method for determining whether limited partnerships and similar legal entities are variable interest entities (“VIEs”) or voting interest entities. Further, it eliminates the presumption that a general partner should consolidate a limited partnership and impacts the consolidation analysis of reporting entities that are involved with VIEs, particularly those that have fee arrangements and related party relationships. The ASU was effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2016. The adoption of this guidance, as of January 1, 2017, did not have a material impact on OSW Predecessor’s combined financial statements.

In July 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2015-11, “Simplifying the Measurement of Inventory.” ASU 2015-11 simplifies the subsequent measurement of inventory by replacing today’s the lower of cost or market test with a lower of cost and net realizable value test. The guidance applies only to inventories for which cost is determined by methods other than last-in first-out (“LIFO”) and the retail inventory method (“RIM”). The guidance was effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2016. The adoption of this guidance, as of January 1, 2017, on a prospective basis, did not have a material impact on OSW Predecessor’s combined financial statements.

Inflation and Economic Conditions

OneSpaWorld does not believe that inflation has had a material adverse effect on its revenues or results of operations. However, public demand for activities, including cruises, is influenced by general economic conditions, including inflation. Periods of economic softness could have a material adverse effect on the cruise industry and hospitality industry upon which OneSpaWorld is dependent. Such a slowdown has adversely affected OneSpaWorld’s results of operations and financial condition in certain prior years. Recurrence of the more severe aspects of the recent adverse economic conditions, as well as periods of fuel price increases, could have a material adverse effect on OneSpaWorld’s results of operations and financial condition during the period of such recurrence. Weakness in the U.S. Dollar compared to the U.K. Pound Sterling and the Euro also could have a material adverse effect on OneSpaWorld’s results of operations and financial condition.

U.S. Tax Reform

On December 22, 2017, the U.S. enacted significant changes to tax law following the passage and signing of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“TCJA”). The Company has completed the analysis of the tax accounting implications of the TCJA during the year ended December 31, 2018 in accordance with the terms of SEC Staff Bulletin 118. The Company did not record any adjustments in the year ended December 31, 2018 to provisional amounts that were material to its combined financial statements.

 

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Quantitative and Qualitative Disclosures of Market Risks

OneSpaWorld’s future income, cash flows and fair values relevant to financial instruments are dependent upon prevalent market interest rates. Market risk refers to the risk of loss from adverse changes in market prices and interest rates.

Concentration of credit risk. Financial instruments that potentially subject OSW Predecessor to significant concentrations of credit risk consist principally of cash and cash equivalents and accounts receivable. OSW Predecessor maintains cash and cash equivalents with high quality financial institutions. As of December 31, 2018, 2017 and 2016, OSW Predecessor had three cruise companies that represented greater than 10% of accounts receivable. OSW Predecessor does not normally require collateral or other security to support normal credit sales. OSW Predecessor controls credit risk through credit approvals, credit limits, and monitoring procedures.

Accounts receivable are stated at amounts due from customers, net of an allowance for doubtful accounts. OSW Predecessor records an allowance for doubtful accounts with respect to accounts receivable using historical collection experience, and generally, an account receivable balance is written off once it is determined to be uncollectible. OSW Predecessor reviews the historical collection experience and considers other facts and circumstances and adjusts the calculation to record an allowance for doubtful accounts as appropriate. If OSW Predecessor’s current collection trends were to differ significantly from historic collection experience, OSW Predecessor would make a corresponding adjustment to the allowance. As of December 31, 2018 and 2017, the allowance for doubtful accounts was $0.6 million and $0.5 million, respectively. Bad debt expense is included within administrative operating expenses in the combined statements of income and is immaterial of the years ended December 31, 2018, 2017 and 2016.

Interest rate risk. OneSpaWorld is subject to interest rate risk in connection with borrowing based on a variable interest rate. Derivative financial instruments, such as interest rate swap agreements and interest rate cap agreements, may be used for the purpose of managing fluctuating interest rate exposures that exist from OneSpaWorld’s variable rate debt obligations that are expected to remain outstanding. Interest rate changes do not affect the market value of such debt, but could impact the amount of OneSpaWorld’s interest payments, and accordingly, OneSpaWorld’s future earnings and cash flows, assuming other factors are held constant.

Foreign currency risk. The fluctuation in currency exchange rates is not a significant risk for OneSpaWorld, as most of its revenues are earned and expenses are incurred in U.S. Dollars.

Security Ownership of Certain Beneficial Owners and Management

The following table sets forth information regarding the beneficial ownership of the OneSpaWorld Shares as of March 22, 2019 by:

 

   

each person who is the beneficial owner of more than 5% of the OneSpaWorld Shares;

 

   

each person who became an executive officer or director of the Company at or after the Closing and prior to the filing of this Current Report on Form 8-K; and

 

   

all executive officers and directors of the Company as a group post-Business Combination.

The SEC has defined “beneficial ownership” of a security to mean the possession, directly or indirectly, of voting power and/or investment power over such security. A shareholder is also deemed to be, as of any date, the beneficial owner of all securities that such shareholder has the right to acquire within 60 days after that date through (a) the exercise of any option, warrant or right, (b) the conversion of a security, (c) the power to revoke a trust, discretionary account or similar arrangement, or (d) the automatic termination of a trust, discretionary account or similar arrangement. In computing the number of OneSpaWorld Shares beneficially owned by a person and the percentage ownership of that person, OneSpaWorld Shares subject to options or other rights (as set forth above) held by that person that are currently exercisable, or will become exercisable within 60 days thereafter, are deemed outstanding, while such shares are not deemed outstanding for purposes of computing percentage ownership of any other person. Each person named in the table has sole voting and investment power with respect to all of the OneSpaWorld Shares shown as beneficially owned by such person, except as otherwise indicated in the table or footnotes below.

 

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The beneficial ownership percentages set forth in the table below do not take into account (i) the issuance of any OneSpaWorld Shares (or options to acquire OneSpaWorld Shares) under the 2019 Plan and (ii) the issuance of any OneSpaWorld Shares upon the exercise of outstanding OneSpaWorld Warrants to purchase OneSpaWorld Shares.

Unless otherwise indicated, the Company believes that all persons named in the table below have sole voting and investment power with respect to all shares of OneSpaWorld Share beneficially owned by them. To the Company’s knowledge, no shares of OneSpaWorld Share beneficially owned by any executive officer, director or director nominee have been pledged as security.

Beneficial ownership of OneSpaWorld Share is based on 61,118,298 shares of OneSpaWorld Shares issued and outstanding as of the Closing.

Unless otherwise indicated, the address of each person named below is c/o OneSpaWorld, 770 South Dixie Highway, Suite 200, Coral Gables, FL 33146.

 

Beneficial Owner

   Number of
OneSpaWorld
Shares
     Percentage of
All
OneSpaWorld
Shares
 

Executive Officers, Directors:

     

Leonard Fluxman

     —          —    

Steven J. Heyer(1)

     3,000,000        4.9

Glenn J. Fusfield

     —          —    

Marc Magliacano

     —          —    

Andrew R. Heyer(1)

     3,000,000        4.9

Walter F. McLallen

     —          —    

Jeffrey E. Stiefler

     —          —    

Michael J. Dolan

     —          —    

Stephen W. Powell

     2,500        *  

Stephen B. Lazarus

     —          —    

All executive officers and directors as a group (10 individuals)

     3,002,500        4.9

Other 5% Shareholders:

     

Steiner Leisure(2)

     8,548,130        14.0

Haymaker Sponsor (1)

     3,000,000        4.9

Templeton Investment Counsel, LLC(3)

     6,244,281        10.2

Neuberger Berman Group LLC and certain of its affiliates(4)

     5,000,000        8.2

 

*

Less than 1 percent

(1)

Steven J. Heyer and Andrew R. Heyer are the managing members of Haymaker Sponsor and jointly have voting and dispositive power of the securities held by such entity. Accordingly, Messrs. Heyer and Heyer may be deemed to have or share beneficial ownership of such shares.

(2)

Steiner Leisure is 100% owned by Nemo Parent, Inc., an international business company incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas. Nemo Parent, Inc. is 100% owned by Nemo Investor Aggregator, Limited, a Cayman Islands exempted company. Nemo Investor Aggregator, Limited is governed by a board of directors consisting of seven directors. Each director has one vote, and the approval of a majority of the directors is required to approve an action of Nemo Investor Aggregator, Limited. Under the so-called “rule of three,” if voting and dispositive decisions regarding an entity’s securities are made by three or more individuals, and a voting or dispositive decision requires the approval of a majority of those individuals, then none of the individuals is deemed a beneficial owner of the entity’s securities. Based upon the foregoing analysis, no director of Nemo Investor Aggregator, Limited exercises voting or dispositive control over any of the securities held by

 

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  Steiner Leisure, even those in which he or she directly holds a pecuniary interest. Accordingly, none of them will be deemed to have or share beneficial ownership of such shares. The address for Steiner Leisure is Suite 104A, Saffrey Square, Nassau, The Bahamas. The address for Nemo Investor Aggregator, Limited is c/o Mourant Ozannes Corporate Services (Cayman) Ltd., 94 Solaris Avenue, PO Box 1348, Camana Bay, Grand Cayman KY1-1108, Cayman Islands. The address for Nemo Parent, Inc. is c/o Lennox Paton Corporate Services Ltd., 3 Bayside Executive Park, West Bay Street, Nassau, The Bahamas.
(3)

Templeton Investment Counsel, LLC (“TIC, LLC”) is an indirect wholly owned subsidiary of Franklin Resources, Inc.(“FRI”), which is the beneficial owner of these shares for purposes of Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act in its capacity as the investment adviser to various investment companies registered under Section 8 of the Investment Company Act of 1940 and other accounts. When an investment management contract (including a sub-advisory agreement) delegates to TIC, LLC investment discretion or voting power over the securities held in the investment advisory accounts that are subject to that agreement, FRI treats TIC, LLC as having sole investment discretion or voting authority, as the case may be, unless the agreement specifies otherwise. Accordingly, TIC, LLC reports for purposes of Section 13(d) of the Exchange Act that it has sole investment discretion and voting authority over the securities covered by any such investment management agreement, unless otherwise specifically noted. The voting and investment powers held by TIC, LLC are exercised independently from FRI, the investment management subsidiaries and their other affiliates. Furthermore, internal policies and procedures of TIC, LLC and FRI establish informational barriers that prevent the flow between TIC, LLC and FRI and its other affiliates of information that relates to the voting and investment powers over the securities owned by their investment management clients. Consequently, TIC, LLC, on the one hand, and FRI and its other affiliates, on the other hand, report the securities over which they hold investment and voting power separately from each other for purposes of Section 13 of the Exchange Act. The address of TIC, LLC is 300 S. E. 2nd Street, Fort Lauderdale, Florida 33301.

(4)

Neuberger Berman Group LLC and certain of its affiliates may be deemed to be the beneficial owners of the securities for purposes of Rule 13d-3 under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, because it or certain affiliated persons, including Neuberger Berman Investment Advisers LLC, the adviser or sub-adviser to the funds holding the securities, and NB Equity Management GP LLC, the General Partner of NB All Cap Alpha Fund L.P., a “feeder” fund operating in a “master-feeder” structure and the owner of all or substantially all the outstanding shares of NB All Cap Alpha Master Fund Ltd., have shared power to retain, dispose of or vote the securities owned by the funds pursuant to the terms of investment management, advisory and/or sub-advisory agreements with the funds. Neuberger Berman Group LLC or its affiliated persons do not, however, have any economic interest in the securities held by the funds. The address of Neuberger Berman Group LLC, Neuberger Berman Investment Advisers LLC, NB Equity Management GP LLC is 1290 Avenue of the Americas, New York, NY 10104.

Directors and Executive Officers

Information with respect to the Company’s directors and executive officers immediately after the Closing is set forth in the Registration Statement in the section entitled “Management of OneSpaWorld after the Business Combination” beginning on page 229 of the Registration Statement and is incorporated herein by reference.

On March 18, 2019, each of Messrs. Steven J. Heyer, Glenn J. Fusfield, Andrew R. Heyer, Walter F. McLallen, Jeffrey E. Stiefler, Michael J. Dolan and Stephen W. Powell were appointed to serve as directors of the post-combination company effective upon consummation of the Business Combination; Marc Magliacano was appointed to serve as a director of the post-combination company starting on March 22, 2019. The size of the Board is nine members. Biographical information for Messrs. Magliacano, Powell and Dolan is set forth in the Registration Statement in the section entitled “Management of OneSpaWorld After the Business Combination” beginning on page 229 of the Registration Statement and is incorporated herein by reference. Biographical information for Messrs. Steven J. Heyer, Walter F. McLallen, Jeffrey E. Stiefler and Andrew R. Heyer are set forth in the Registration Statement in the section entitled “Business of Haymaker and Certain Information About Haymaker—Directors, Executive Officers and Corporate Governance” beginning on page 215 of the Registration Statement, and is incorporated herein by reference. Biographical information for Messrs. Leonard Fluxman, Stephen B. Lazarus and Glenn J. Fusfield are set forth in the Registration Statement in the section entitled “Business of OneSpaWorld After the Business Combination—Management and Executive Compensation of OSW Predecessor—Management—Executive Officers” beginning on page 180 of the Registration Statement and is incorporated herein by reference.

 

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The Board appointed Messrs. McLallen, Powell and Dolan to serve on the Audit Committee, with Mr. McLallen serving as the chair of the committee. The Board appointed Messrs. Dolan, Powell and Magliacano to serve on the Compensation Committee, with Mr. Dolan serving as its Chairperson. The Board appointed Messrs. Dolan and McLallen to serve on the Nominating and Governance Committee, with Mr. Dolan serving as its Chairman. Information with respect to the Company’s Audit Committee, Compensation Committee and Nominating and Governance Committee is set forth in the Registration Statement in the section entitled “Management of OneSpaWorld After the Business Combination—Board Committees” beginning on page 231 of the Registration Statement and is incorporated herein by reference.

Executive Compensation

The compensation of OSW Predecessor’s named executive officers before the Business Combination is set forth in the Registration Statement in the section entitled “Business of OneSpaWorld After the Business Combination—Management and Executive Compensation of OSW Predecessor—Management—Executive Compensation” beginning on page 181 of the Registration Statement and is incorporated herein by reference.

The compensation for the Company’s executive officers after the Closing of the Business Combination is described in the section entitled “Management of OneSpaWorld After the Business Combination—OneSpaWorld Executive Compensation After the Business Combination” beginning on page 235 of the Registration Statement and is incorporated herein by reference.

Director Compensation

The compensation for the Company’s directors upon the Closing of the Business Combination is generally described in the Registration Statement in the section entitled “Management of OneSpaWorld After the Business Combination—Director Compensation” beginning on page 241 of the Registration Statement and is incorporated herein by reference.

Certain Relationships and Related Transactions

The description of certain relationships and related transactions is included in the Registration Statement in the section entitled “Certain Relationships and Related Transactions” beginning on page 257 of the Registration Statement and is incorporated herein by reference.

The information set forth in the sections entitled “Registration Rights Agreement” and “Indemnity Agreements” in Item 1.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated herein by reference.

Director Independence

Nasdaq listing standards require that a majority of the Board be independent. An “independent director” is defined generally as a person other than an officer or employee of a company or its subsidiaries or any other individual having a relationship which in the opinion of the board of directors of such company, would interfere with the director’s exercise of independent judgment in carrying out the responsibilities of a director.

All of our directors have been declared independent by the Board pursuant to the rules of Nasdaq except Mr. Fluxman, our Executive Chairman, and Mr. Fusfield, our Chief Executive Officer.

Legal Proceedings

None.

 

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Market Price of and Dividends on the Registrant’s Common Equity and Related Shareholder Matters

Market Information and Holders

Historical market price information regarding the Company is not provided because, as of the date of this Current Report on Form 8-K, there has been no established public market for the OneSpaWorld Shares and OneSpaWorld Warrants for a full quarterly period or any interim period for which financial statements are included, or required to be included, in this Current Report on Form 8-K.

As of March 19, 2019, there are no outstanding options to purchase OneSpaWorld Shares, 24,500,000 OneSpaWorld Warrants to purchase OneSpaWorld Shares and no other securities convertible into shares of the Company. The Company has reserved a total of 7,000,000 shares of OneSpaWorld Shares for issuance pursuant to the 2019 Plan, subject to certain adjustments set forth in the 2019 Plan.

As of March 22, 2019, there were approximately 33 holders of OneSpaWorld Shares.

In connection with the Closing, the OneSpaWorld Shares began listing on Nasdaq under the symbol “OSW.”

Dividends

It is the policy of OneSpaWorld to only make distributions to its shareholders if OneSpaWorld’s shareholders’ equity exceeds the sum of the paid-up and called-up share capital plus the reserves as required to be maintained by the OneSpaWorld Memorandum and Articles of Association (“Distributable Profits”).

Any amount remaining out of distributable profits is added to OneSpaWorld’s reserves as the OneSpaWorld Board determines. After reservation by the OneSpaWorld Board of any distributable profits, the OneSpaWorld Board, upon the request of the shareholders, may declare a dividend. The OneSpaWorld Board is permitted, subject to certain requirements, to declare interim dividends without the approval of the shareholders of OneSpaWorld. Interim dividends may be declared as provided in the OneSpaWorld Memorandum and Articles of Association and may be distributed to the extent that the shareholders’ equity, based on interim financial statements, exceeds the paid-up and called-up share capital and the reserves that must be maintained under the OneSpaWorld Memorandum and Articles of Association. Interim dividends are deemed advances on the final dividend to be declared with respect to the fiscal year in which the interim dividends have been declared. OneSpaWorld may reclaim any distributions, whether interim or not interim, made in contravention of certain restrictions of Bahamian law from shareholders that knew or should have known that such distribution was not permissible. In addition, on the basis of Bahamian case law, if after a distribution OneSpaWorld is not able to pay its due and collectable debts, then OneSpaWorld’s shareholders or directors who at the time of the distribution knew or reasonably should have foreseen that result may be liable to OneSpaWorld’s creditors.

Distributions shall be payable in the currency determined by the OneSpaWorld Board at a date determined by the OneSpaWorld Board. The OneSpaWorld Board will set the record date to establish which shareholders are entitled to the distribution, such date not being earlier than the date on which the distribution was announced. Claims for payment of dividends and other distributions not made within three years from the date that such dividends or distributions became payable will lapse, and any such amounts will be considered to have been forfeited to OneSpaWorld.

OneSpaWorld has not paid any cash dividends on the OneSpaWorld Shares to date. The Board intends to evaluate adopting a policy of paying cash dividends. In evaluating any dividend policy, the Board may consider OneSpaWorld’s financial condition and results of operations, certain tax considerations, capital requirements, alternative uses for capital, industry standards and economic conditions. Whether OneSpaWorld adopts such a dividend policy and the frequency and amount of any dividends declared on the OneSpaWorld Shares will be within the discretion of the Board.

 

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Description of the Company’s Securities

A description of the OneSpaWorld Shares and OneSpaWorld Warrants is included in the Registration Statement in the section entitled “Description of OneSpaWorld Securities” beginning on page 242 of the Registration Statement and is incorporated herein by reference.

The Company has authorized 250,000,000 common shares with a par value of $0.0001 per share. The outstanding common shares are duly authorized, validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable. As of March 22, 2019, there were 61,118,298 common shares outstanding, held of record by approximately 33 holders and 24,500,000 warrants outstanding held of record by approximately 33 holders. Such numbers do not include Depository Trust Company participants or beneficial owners holding shares through nominee names.

Indemnification of Directors and Officers

The information set forth under Item 1.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K under “Indemnity Agreements” is incorporated by reference herein.

Financial Statements, Supplementary Data and Exhibits

The information set forth under Item 9.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated by reference herein.

 

Item 2.03

Creation of a Direct Financial Obligation of an Obligation under an Off-Balance Sheet Arrangement of the Registrant.

The information set forth under Item 1.01 of this Current Report on Form 8-K under “Credit Agreement” and the information contained in Part II, Item 20 of the Registration Statement is incorporated by reference herein.

 

Item 3.02

Recent Sales of Unregistered Securities

On November 1, 2018, OneSpaWorld entered into certain subscription agreements (the “Subscription Agreements”) with the certain investors pursuant to which, among other things, such investors agreed to subscribe for and purchase, and OneSpaWorld agreed to issue and sell to such investors newly issued 17,856,781 OneSpaWorld Shares and 3,105,294 OneSpaWorld Warrants for gross proceeds of approximately $122,496,370 (the “Private Placements”).

On March 19, 2019, OneSpaWorld completed the sales of 17,856,781 OneSpaWorld Shares and 3,105,294 OneSpaWorld Warrants to such investors as contemplated by the Subscription Agreements. The proceeds from the Private Placements were used to fund a portion of the cash payment payable in connection with the consummation of the Business Combination.

 

Item 3.03

Material Modification to Rights of Security Holders.

On March 18, 2019, in connection with the consummation of the Business Combination, the Company’s Memorandum of Association and Articles of Association were amended and restated. The material terms of the Company’s Amended and Restated Memorandum of Association and Articles of Association and the general effect upon the rights of holders of the OneSpaWorld Shares are included in the Registration Statement under the section entitled “Comparison of Stockholders Rights” beginning of page 249 of the Registration Statement and is incorporated herein by reference.

A copy of the Amended and Restated Memorandum of Association and Articles of Association of the Company is attached as Exhibit 3.1 to this Current Report on Form 8-K.

 

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Item 4.01

Changes in the Registrant’s Certifying Accountant.

Appointment of the Company’s Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

On March 25, 2019, the OneSpaWorld Audit Committee appointed Ernst & Young LLP (“E&Y”) as the Company’s registered public accounting firm. E&Y audited the combined balance sheets of OSW Predecessor as of December 31, 2018, 2017 and 2016, and the related combined statements of income, comprehensive income, equity and cash flows for the years ended December 31, 2018, 2017 and 2016 and for the period from December 9, 2015 through December 31, 2015 (Successor), and for the period from January 1, 2015 through December 8, 2015 (Predecessor).

 

Item 5.01

Changes in Control of the Registrant.

The disclosure set forth under “Introductory Note” and “Item 2.01. Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets” above is incorporated in this Item 5.01 by reference.

 

Item 5.02

Departure of Directors or Certain Officers; Election of Directors; Appointment of Certain Officers; Compensatory Arrangements of Certain Officers.

Information with respect to the Company’s directors and executive officers immediately after and in connection with the consummation of the Business Combination is set forth in the Registration Statement in the section entitled “Management of OneSpaWorld after the Business Combination” beginning on page 229 and is incorporated herein by reference.

The information set forth under “Item 2.01. Completion of Acquisition or Disposition of Assets—Directors and Executive Officers,” “—Executive Compensation” and “—Director Compensation” and under “Item 1.01. Entry into a Material Definitive Agreement—2019 Equity Incentive Plan” of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 5.03

Amendments to Articles of Incorporation or Bylaws; Change in Fiscal Year.

The disclosure set forth in Item 3.03 of this Current Report on Form 8-K is incorporated in this Item 5.03 by reference.

 

Item 5.06

Change in Shell Company Status.

As a result of the Business Combination, which fulfilled the definition of an “initial business combination” as required by Haymaker’s organizational documents, Haymaker and the Company ceased to be a shell company upon the closing of the Business Combination. The material terms of the Business Combination are described in the Registration Statement in the section entitled “Proposal No. 1—The Business Combination Proposal” beginning on page 140 of the Registration Statement and is incorporated herein by reference.

 

Item 5.07

Submission of Matters to a Vote of Security Holders.

Haymaker reported the results of the Special Meeting on a Current Report on Form 8-K filed on March 6, 2019. 1,286,613 shares of Haymaker common stock were redeemed in connection with the Closing.

 

Item 7.01

Regulation FD Disclosure.

On March 19, 2019, the Company issued a press release announcing the consummation of the Business Combination, which is included in this Current Report on Form 8-K as Exhibit 99.1.

 

Item 9.01

Financial Statements and Exhibits.

(a) Financial statements of businesses acquired

The audited combined financial statements of OSW Predecessor for the years ended December 31, 2018, 2017 and 2016 is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.2 and is incorporated herein by reference.

 

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(b) Exhibits

 

Exhibit

Number

  

Exhibit Description

  3.1    Amended and Restated Memorandum of Association and Articles of Association of OneSpaWorld Holdings Limited
10.1    First Lien Credit Agreement, by and among OneSpaWorld Holdings Limited, Dory Intermediate LLC, Dory Acquisition Sub, Inc., the lenders party thereto and Goldman Sachs Lending Partners LLC, as the Administrative Agent and as the Collateral Agent
10.2    Second Lien Credit Agreement, by and among OneSpaWorld Holdings Limited, Dory Intermediate LLC, the lenders party thereto and Cortland Capital Market Services LLC, as the Administrative Agent and as the Collateral Agent
10.3    Registration Rights Agreement, by and among OneSpaWorld Holdings Limited, Steiner Leisure Limited, Haymaker Sponsor, LLC and, solely for the purpose of certain provisions thereof, Haymaker Acquisition Corp.
10.4    Lock-up Agreement, by and among OneSpaWorld Holdings Limited, Steiner Leisure Limited, Haymaker Sponsor, LLC, directors and officers of OneSpaWorld Holdings and Haymaker Acquisition Corp., and solely for the purpose of certain provisions thereof, Haymaker Acquisition Corp.
10.5    Amended and Restated Warrant Agreement, by and between OneSpaWorld Holdings Limited and Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company
10.6    2019 Equity Incentive Plan
10.7    Form of Indemnity Agreement (incorporated by reference to Exhibit 10.7 to Amendment No. 2 to the Registration Statement on Form S-4 filed by OneSpaWorld Holdings Limited with the Securities and Exchange Commission on January 22, 2019)
99.1    Press Release, dated March 19, 2019
99.2    Audited combined financial statements of OSW Predecessor as of December 31, 2018 and 2017 and for the years ended December 31, 2018, 2017 and 2016

 

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SIGNATURE

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

    OneSpaWorld Holdings Limited
Date: March 25, 2019     By:  

/s/ Stephen B. Lazarus

      Stephen B. Lazarus
      Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer

EX-3.1

Exhibit 3.1

COMMONWEALTH OF THE BAHAMAS

New Providence

Company under the

International Business Companies Act 2000

 

 

AMENDED AND RESTATED

MEMORANDUM

AND

ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION

OF

ONESPAWORLD HOLDINGS LIMITED

 

 

Incorporated the 5th day of October, 2018

 

 


COMMONWEALTH OF THE BAHAMAS

THE INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS COMPANIES ACT 2000

AMENDED AND RESTATED

MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION

OF

ONESPAWORLD HOLDINGS LIMITED

NAME

 

1.

The name of the company is OneSpaWorld Holdings Limited (the “Company”).

REGISTERED OFFICE

 

2.

The registered office of the Company will be at Ocean Centre, Montagu Foreshore, East Bay Street, Nassau, New Providence, The Bahamas, the postal address of which is P.O. Box SS-19084, Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas.

REGISTERED AGENT

 

3.

The Registered Agent of the Company will be at Ocean Centre, Montagu Foreshore, East Bay Street, Nassau, New Providence, The Bahamas, the postal address of which is P.O. Box SS-19084, Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas.

OBJECTS AND POWERS

 

4.

The objects for which the Company is established are to engage in any act or activity that is not prohibited under any law for the time being in force in The Bahamas.

 

5.

The Company shall have all such powers as are permitted by any law for the time being in force in The Bahamas, irrespective of corporate benefit, to perform all acts and engage in all activities necessary or conducive to the conduct, promotion or attainment of the objects or purposes of the Company.

 

6.

The directors may by resolution of directors exercise all the powers of the Company to borrow money and to mortgage or charge its undertakings and property or any part thereof to issue debentures, debenture stock and other securities whenever money is borrowed or as security for any debt, liability or obligation of the Company or of any third party.

 

7.

Any mortgage or charge of the undertaking and property of the Company shall for the purposes of Section 80 of the Act be regarded as in the usual or regular course of the business carried on by the Company.

CURRENCY

 

8.

Shares in the Company shall be issued in the currency of the United States of America.

AUTHORISED CAPITAL

 

9.

The authorised capital of the Company is US$250,000,000.00

 

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CLASSES, NUMBER AND PAR VALUE OF SHARES

 

10.

The authorised capital is made up of 250,000,000 common shares, par value US$0.0001 per share (the “Common Shares”), and 0 preferred shares, par value US$0.0001 per share (the “Preferred Shares”).

SHARE RIGHTS AND LIMITATIONS

 

11.

The following is a statement fixing certain of the designations and the powers, voting rights, preferences and relative, participating, optional and other rights of the Common Shares and the Preferred Shares, and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereof, and of the authority with respect thereto expressly granted to the Board of Directors of the Company (the “Board of Directors” or the “Board”) to fix any such provisions not fixed by this Memorandum of Association or the Articles of Association of the Company:

 

  (a)

The Board of Directors is hereby expressly vested with the authority to adopt a resolution or resolutions providing for the issue of authorised but unissued Preferred Shares, which shares may be issued from time to time, in one or more series and in such amounts as may be determined by the Board of Directors in such resolution or resolutions. The powers, voting rights, designations, preferences and relative, participating, optional or other special rights, if any, of each series of Preferred Shares and the qualifications, limitations or restrictions, if any, of such preferences and/or rights (collectively, the “Series Terms”), shall be such as are stated and expressed in the resolution or resolutions providing for the issue of such series of Preferred Shares (the “Series Terms Resolution”) adopted by the Board of Directors. The powers of the Board of Directors with respect to the Series Terms of a particular series (any of which powers may, by resolution of directors, be specifically delegated to one or more of its committees, except as prohibited by law) shall include, but not be limited to, determination of the following:

 

  (i)

The number of shares constituting that series and the distinctive designation of that series;

 

  (ii)

The dividend rate on the shares of that series, whether such dividends, if any, shall be cumulative, and, if so, the date or dates from which dividends payable on such shares shall accumulate, and the relative rights of priority, if any, of payment of dividends on shares of that series;

 

  (iii)

Whether that series shall have voting rights, in addition to any voting rights provided by law, and, if so, the terms of such voting rights;

 

  (iv)

Whether that series shall have conversion privileges with respect to shares of any other class or classes of shares or of any other series of any class of shares, and, if so, the terms and conditions of such conversion upon the occurrence of such events as the Board of Directors shall determine;

 

  (v)

Whether the shares of that series shall be redeemable, and, if so, the terms and conditions of such redemption, including their relative rights of priority, if any, of redemption, the date or dates upon or after which they shall be redeemable, provisions regarding redemption notices, and the amount per share payable in case of redemption, which amount may vary under different conditions and at different redemption dates;

 

  (vi)

Whether that series shall have a sinking fund for the redemption or purchase of shares of that series by the Company, and, if so, the terms and amount of such sinking fund;

 

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  (vii)

The rights of the shares of that series in the event of a voluntary or involuntary liquidation, dissolution, or winding up of the Company, and the relative rights of priority, if any, of payment of shares of that series;

 

  (viii)

The conditions or restrictions upon the creation of indebtedness of the Company or upon the issuance of additional Preferred Shares or other capital shares ranking on parity therewith, or prior thereto, with respect to dividends or distribution of assets upon liquidation;

 

  (ix)

The conditions or restrictions with respect to the issuance of, payment of dividends upon, or the making of other distributions to, or the acquisition or redemption of, shares ranking junior to the Preferred Shares or to any series thereof with respect to dividends or distribution of assets upon liquidation;

 

  (x)

Any other designations, preferences, powers and rights and any qualifications, limitations or restrictions thereon as may be fixed by resolution or resolutions of the Board of Directors under the International Business Companies Act 2000; and

 

  (xi)

Any of the Series Terms, including voting rights, of any series may be made dependent upon facts ascertainable outside this Memorandum of Association and the Series Terms Resolution, provided that the manner in which such facts shall operate upon such Series Terms is clearly and expressly set forth in this Memorandum of Association or in the Series Terms Resolution.

 

  (b)

Subject to the rights of the holders of any series of Preferred Shares set forth in any Series Terms Resolution, the Board of Directors may, in its discretion, out of funds legally available for the payment of dividends and at such times and in such manner as determined by the Board of Directors, declare and pay dividends on the Common Shares of the Company.

 

  (c)

In the event of any liquidation, dissolution or winding up of the Company, whether voluntary or involuntary, after payment or provision for the payment of the debts and other liabilities of the Company and the payment or setting aside for payment of any preferential amount due to the holders of any series of Preferred Shares, the holders of Common Shares, subject to the rights of the holders of any class or series of shares ranking on a parity with the Common Shares as to the payments or distributions in such event, shall be entitled to receive ratably any and all assets of the Company remaining to be paid or distributed.

 

  (d)

The holders of the Common Shares shall be entitled at all meetings of shareholders to one vote for each such share held by them.

 

  (e)

Holders of Common Shares shall have no cumulative voting rights and no preemptive rights.

 

  (f)

Unless otherwise provided in a Series Terms Resolution with respect to a particular series of Preferred Shares, all Preferred Shares redeemed or acquired by the Company (as a result of conversion or otherwise) shall be retired and restored to the status of authorised but unissued shares.

 

  (g)

Unless otherwise provided with respect to a particular series of Preferred Shares in a Series Terms Resolution, no holder of capital shares of the Company shall have any preemptive or other right, except as such rights are expressly provided by contract, to purchase or subscribe for or receive any shares of any class or series of the Company, whether now or hereafter authorised, or any warrants, options, bonds, debentures or other securities convertible into, exchangeable for or carrying any right to purchase any shares of any class or series of the Company.

 

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VARIATION OF CLASS RIGHTS

 

12.

If at any time the authorised capital is divided into different classes or series of shares, the rights attached to any class or series (unless otherwise provided by the terms of issue of the shares of that class or series) may, whether or not the Company is being wound up, be varied with the consent in writing of the holders of not less than a majority of the issued shares of that class or series and of the holders of not less than a majority of the issued shares of any other class or series of shares which may be affected by such variation.

 

13.

The rights conferred upon the holders of the shares of any class or series (including any class or series issued with preferred or other rights) shall not, unless otherwise expressly provided by the terms of issue of the shares of that class or series, be deemed to be varied by the creation or issue of further shares ranking senior to or pari passu therewith.

REGISTERED SHARES

 

14.

Shares may be issued only as registered shares.

LIABILITY OF SHAREHOLDERS

 

15.

The liability of shareholders is limited to the amount, if any, unpaid on the shares respectively held by them.

AMENDMENT OF MEMORANDUM AND ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION

 

16.

The Company may amend this Memorandum of Association and/or the Articles of Association by a resolution of shareholders or by a resolution of directors. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Memorandum of Association (including Clauses 16 and 17), if SLL (as defined in the Articles) is a shareholder of the Company or has a contingent right to the Contingent Shares (as defined in the Business Combination Agreement), the Company shall not amend, alter or repeal this Article 16 or any of Articles 124 through 132 of the Articles of Association in manner that adversely affects SLL without the prior written consent of SLL. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Articles, so long as any director designated by SLL pursuant to the Director Designation Agreement (as defined herein) serves as a member of the Board, the Company shall not amend, alter or repeal any of Articles 133 through 137 in a manner that adversely affects the Steiner Group or any Steiner Group Related Persons (each as defined in the Director Designation Agreement) without the prior written consent of SLL.

 

17.

In addition, the Board of Directors may, to the extent permitted by law, from time to time establish, modify, amend or rescind the Articles, regulations and procedures of the Company not inconsistent with the provisions of the Transfer Restrictions (as defined in the Articles) for purposes of determining whether any Transfer of Company Securities would result in the Company’s (or any of its subsidiaries’) status as a CFC (as defined in the Articles) and for the orderly application, administration and implementation of the Transfer Restrictions.

DEFINITIONS

 

18.

Unless otherwise defined in this Memorandum of Association, the meanings of words in this Memorandum of Association are as defined in the Articles of Association of the Company.

Adopted: [    ], 2018

 

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COMMONWEALTH OF THE BAHAMAS

THE INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS COMPANIES ACT 2000

AMENDED AND RESTATED

ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION

OF

ONESPAWORLD HOLDINGS LIMITED

TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

Article

 

Description

  

Page

 

1-7

 

DEFINITIONS

     1-2  

8-12

 

REGISTERED SHARES

     3  

13-23

 

SHARES, AUTHORISED CAPITAL AND CAPITAL

     3-4  

24-26

 

LIEN ON SHARES

     5  

27-29

 

TRANSFER OF SHARES

     5  

30-34

 

TRANSMISSION OF SHARES

     6  

35-40

 

REDUCTION OR INCREASE IN AUTHORISED CAPITAL

     6-7  

41-66

 

MEETINGS AND CONSENTS OF SHAREHOLDERS

     7-11  

67-75

 

DIRECTORS

     11-12  

76-81

 

POWERS OF DIRECTORS

     12-13  

82-93

 

PROCEEDINGS OF DIRECTORS

     13-14  

94-97

 

OFFICERS

     14  

98-99

 

CONFLICT OF INTERESTS

     14-15  

100-111

 

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY OF DIRECTORS; INDEMNIFICATION

     15-17  

112

 

SEAL

     18  

113-123

 

DIVIDENDS

     18-19  

124-132

 

RESTRICTIONS ON TRANSFER AND OWNERSHIP

     19-25  

133-137

 

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

     25-26  

138

 

FISCAL YEAR

     26  

139

 

BOOKS AND RECORDS

     26  

140

 

NOTICES

     27  

141-142

 

VOLUNTARY WINDING UP AND DISSOLUTION

     27  

143

 

CONTINUATION

     27  

144

 

GOVERNING LAW

     27  


DEFINITIONS

 

1.

In these Articles, if not inconsistent with the subject or context, the words and expressions standing in the first column of the following table shall bear the meanings set opposite them respectively in the second column thereof.

 

Words

  

Meaning

Act    The International Business Companies Act 2000 including any modification, extension, re-enactment or renewal thereof and any regulations made thereunder.
Articles    These Articles of Association as they may from time to time be further amended.
Auditor    The person for the time being performing the duties of auditor of the Company (if any).
capital    The sum of the aggregate par value of all outstanding shares with par value of the Company and shares with par value held by the Company as treasury shares plus
  

(a)   the aggregate of the amounts designated as capital of all outstanding shares without par value of the Company and shares without par value held by the Company as treasury shares, and

  

(b)   the amounts as are from time to time transferred from surplus to capital by a resolution of directors.

cause    For removal of a director shall mean and be deemed to exist only if (a) the director whose removal is proposed has committed, been convicted of or pled guilty or nolo contendere to a criminal offence involving dishonesty or any felony by a court of competent jurisdiction, (b) such director has been found by the affirmative vote of a majority of the directors then in office at any regular or extraordinary meeting of the directors called for that purpose, or by a court of competent jurisdiction, to have engaged in conduct that constitutes fraud, gross negligence or willful misconduct in the performance of such director’s duties to the Company, (c) such director has been adjudicated by a court of competent jurisdiction to be mentally incompetent, which mental incompetency directly affects such person’s ability to perform his or her obligations as a director, or (d) the director has engaged in conduct which constitutes a breach of his or her fiduciary duties to the Company.
Director Designation Agreement    The Director Designation Agreement, dated November 1, 2018, by and among the Company, Haymaker Acquisition Corp., a Delaware corporation, and SLL.
Memorandum    The Memorandum of Association of the Company as it may from time to time be amended.
person    An individual, a corporation, a limited liability company, a trust, the estate of a deceased individual, a partnership, government (or an agency or subdivision thereof) or an unincorporated association of persons.
resolution of directors   

(a)   A resolution approved at a duly constituted meeting of directors or of a committee of directors of the Company by the affirmative vote of a simple majority of the directors present who voted and did not abstain; or

  

b)   a resolution consented to in writing by a simple majority of all directors or of all members of the committee of directors, as the case may be;

   except where a director is given more than one vote, he or she shall be counted by the number of votes he or she casts for the purpose of establishing a majority.


resolution of shareholders   

(a)   A resolution approved at a duly constituted meeting of the shareholders of the Company by the affirmative vote of

  

(i)  a simple majority of the votes of the shareholders present and entitled to vote thereon and who voted and did not abstain; or

  

(ii)  a simple majority of the votes of the shareholders of each class or series of shares present and entitled to vote thereon as a class or series and who voted and did not abstain and of a simple majority of the votes of the remaining shareholders present and entitled to vote thereon and who voted and did not abstain; or

  

(b)   a resolution consented to in writing by all of the votes of the shareholders entitled to vote thereon.

Seal    Any seal which has been duly adopted as the Common Seal of the Company.
securities    Shares and debt obligations of every kind, and options, warrants and rights to acquire shares or debt obligations.
shareholder    A person who holds shares in the Company.
SLL    Steiner Leisure Limited, an international business company incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas.
surplus    The excess, if any, at the time of the determination of the total assets of the Company over the sum of its total liabilities, as shown in its books of account, plus its issued and outstanding share capital.
treasury shares    Shares in the Company that were previously issued but were repurchased, redeemed or otherwise acquired by the Company and not cancelled.

 

2.

“Written” or any term of like import includes (a) words typewritten, printed, painted, engraved, lithographed, photographed or represented or reproduced by any mode of reproducing words in a visible form, including telex, telefax, telegram, or cable and (b) electronic transmission. “Electronic transmission” is any form of communication, not directly involving the physical transmission of paper, that creates a record that may be retained, retrieved, and reviewed by a recipient thereof, and that may be directly reproduced in paper form by such a recipient through an automated process.

 

3.

Save as aforesaid any words or expressions defined in the Act shall bear the same meaning in these Articles.

 

4.

Terms not defined in these Articles or in the Act shall have the meaning given to them in the Memorandum.

 

5.

Whenever the singular or plural number, or the masculine, feminine or neuter gender is used in these Articles, it shall equally, where the context admits, include the others.

 

6.

The realisable value in relation to the assets of the Company shall mean such value as the directors may decide upon as the value of the assets, which value in the absence of fraud shall be conclusive unless a question of law is involved.

 

7.

A reference to money in these Articles is, unless otherwise stated, a reference to the currency in which shares in the Company shall be issued according to the provisions of the Memorandum.

 

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REGISTERED SHARES

 

8.

The shares of the Company shall be represented by certificates, provided that the Board may provide by resolution or resolutions that some or all of any or all classes or series of its shares shall be uncertificated shares. Any such resolution shall not apply to shares represented by a certificate until such certificate is surrendered to the Company. Subject to such conditions as the directors may reasonably determine for the issue of Certificates, every shareholder holding registered shares in the Company shall be entitled, upon the request of such shareholder, to a certificate which shall be signed by a director or officer of the Company and under the Seal specifying the share or shares held by him and the signature of the director or officer and the Seal may be stamped thereon; provided, that the Board has not provided for such shares to be uncertificated.

 

9.

All certificates (including global certificates) and book-entry positions evidencing uncertificated shares issued by the Company representing Company Securities shall bear a conspicuous legend substantially in the form as follows:

“THE TRANSFER OF THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED HEREBY IS SUBJECT TO SIGNIFICANT OWNERSHIP AND TRANSFER RESTRICTIONS PURSUANT TO ARTICLES 124 THROUGH 132 OF THE AMENDED AND RESTATED ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION OF ONESPAWORLD HOLDINGS LIMITED (THE “COMPANY”), AS IT MAY BE AMENDED FROM TIME TO TIME. THE COMPANY WILL FURNISH A COPY OF ITS AMENDED AND RESTATED MEMORANDUM OF ASSOCIATION TO THE HOLDER OF RECORD OF THIS CERTIFICATE WITHOUT CHARGE UPON A WRITTEN REQUEST ADDRESSED TO THE COMPANY AT ITS PRINCIPAL PLACE OF BUSINESS.”

 

10.

The Company shall have the power to make appropriate notations upon its share transfer records and instruct any transfer agent, registrar, securities intermediary or depository with respect to the requirements of the Transfer Restrictions for any uncertificated Company Securities or Company Securities held in an indirect holding system.

 

11.

Any shareholder receiving a share certificate for registered shares shall indemnify and hold the Company and its directors and officers harmless from any loss or liability which it or they may incur by reason of any wrongful or fraudulent use or representation made by any person by virtue of the possession thereof. If a share certificate for registered shares be worn out or defaced, the directors may upon surrender thereof for cancellation issue a new one in its stead and if it be lost or destroyed, the directors may upon the loss or destruction being established to their satisfaction and upon such indemnity being given to the Company as it by resolution of directors may determine issue a new one in its stead.

 

12.

If several persons are registered as holders of any shares, any one of such persons may give an effectual receipt for any dividend payable in respect of such shares.

SHARES, AUTHORISED CAPITAL AND CAPITAL

 

13.

Subject to the provisions of these Articles, the Memorandum and to any resolution of shareholders, the unissued shares of the Company shall be at the disposal of the directors who may without prejudice to any rights previously conferred on the holders of any existing shares or class or series of shares offer, allot, grant options over or otherwise dispose of shares to such persons, at such times and upon such terms and conditions as the Company may by resolution of directors determine.

 

14.

Shares in the Company shall be issued for money, services rendered, personal property, an estate in real property, a promissory note or other binding obligation to contribute money or property or any combination of the foregoing as shall be determined by a resolution of directors.

 

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15.

Shares in the Company may be issued for such amount of consideration as the Company may from time to time by resolution of directors determine, except that in the case of shares with par value, the amount shall not be less than the par value, and in the absence of fraud the decision of the directors as to the value of the consideration received by the Company in respect of the issue is conclusive unless a question of law is involved. The consideration in respect of the shares with par value constitutes capital to the extent of the par value and the excess constitutes surplus.

 

16.

A share issued by the Company upon conversion of, or in exchange for, another share or a debt obligation or other security in the Company, shall be treated for all purposes as having been issued for money equal to the consideration received or deemed to have been received by the Company in respect of the other share, debt obligation or security.

 

17.

Treasury shares may be disposed of by the Company on such terms and conditions (not otherwise inconsistent with these Articles) as the Company may by resolution of directors determine.

 

18.

The Company may issue fractions of a share and a fractional share shall have the same corresponding fractional liabilities, limitations, preferences, privileges, qualifications, restrictions, rights and other attributes of a whole share of the same class or series of shares.

 

19.

Upon the issue by the Company of a share without par value, if an amount is stated in the Memorandum to be authorised capital represented by such shares then each share shall be issued for no less than the appropriate proportion of such amount which shall constitute capital, otherwise the consideration in respect of the share constitutes capital to the extent designated by the directors and the excess constitutes surplus, except that the directors shall designate as capital an amount of the consideration that is at least equal to the amount that the share is entitled to as a preference, if any, in the assets of the Company upon liquidation of the Company.

 

20.

The Company may purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire and hold its own shares but no purchase, redemption or other acquisition shall be made unless the directors determine that immediately after the purchase, redemption or other acquisition the Company will be able to satisfy its liabilities as they become due in the ordinary course of its business and the realisable value of the assets of the Company will not be less than the sum of its total liabilities, other than deferred taxes, as shown in the books of account.

 

21.

A determination by the directors under the preceding Article is not required where shares are purchased, redeemed or otherwise acquired:

 

  (a)

pursuant to a right of a shareholder to have his shares redeemed or to have his shares exchanged for money or other property of the Company;

 

  (b)

in exchange for newly issued shares in the Company;

 

  (c)

by virtue of the provisions of Section 81 of the Act; or

 

  (d)

pursuant to a court order.

 

22.

Shares that the Company purchases, redeems or otherwise acquires pursuant to Article 20 may be cancelled or held as treasury shares unless the shares are purchased, redeemed or otherwise acquired out of capital pursuant to Section 34 of the Act in which case they shall be cancelled.

 

23.

Where shares in the Company are held by the Company as treasury shares or are held by another company of which the Company holds, directly or indirectly, shares having more than 50 percent of the votes in the election of directors of the other company, the shareholders of the Company shall not be entitled to vote in respect of such shares or to have dividends paid thereon and such shares shall not be treated as outstanding for any purpose except for purposes of determining the capital of the Company.

 

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LIEN ON SHARES

 

24.

The Company shall have a first and paramount lien on every share issued for a promissory note or for any other binding obligation to contribute money or property or any combination thereof to the Company, and the Company shall also have a first and paramount lien on every share standing registered in the name of a shareholder, whether singly or jointly with any other person or persons, for all the debts and liabilities of such shareholder or his estate to the Company, whether the same shall have been incurred before or after notice to the Company of any interest of any person other than such shareholder, and whether the time for the payment or discharge of the same shall have actually arrived or not, and notwithstanding that the same are joint debts or liabilities of such shareholder or his estate and any other person, whether a shareholder of the Company or not. The Company’s lien on a share shall extend to all dividends payable thereon. The directors may at any time either generally, or in any particular case, waive any lien that has arisen or declare any share to be wholly or in part exempt from the provisions of this Article.

 

25.

In the absence of express provisions regarding sale in the promissory note or other binding obligation to contribute money or property, the Company may sell, in such manner as it may by resolution of directors determine, any share on which the Company has a lien, but no sale shall be made unless some sum in respect of which the lien exists is presently payable nor until the expiration of twenty one days after a notice in writing, stating and demanding payment of the sum presently payable and giving notice of the intention to sell in default of such payment, has been served on the holder for the time being of the share.

 

26.

The net proceeds of the sale by the Company of any shares on which it has a lien shall be applied in or towards payment or discharge of the binding obligation in respect of which the lien exists so far as the same is presently payable and any residue shall (subject to a like lien for debts or liabilities not presently payable as existed upon the share prior to the sale) be paid to the holder of the share immediately before such sale. In order to give effect to any such sale, the Board may authorise an agent to transfer the shares sold to the purchaser thereof.    The purchaser shall be registered as the holder of the shares and such holder shall not be bound to see to the application of the purchase money, nor shall such holder’s title to the shares be affected by any irregularity or invalidity in the proceedings in reference to the sale.

TRANSFER OF SHARES

 

27.

Subject to the Transfer Restrictions, all transfers of shares may be effected by transfer in writing in the usual common form, or in such other form as the Board of Directors may accept.

 

28.

The instrument of transfer of a share shall be signed by or on behalf of the transferor and transferee, and the transferor shall be deemed to remain the holder of the share until the name of the transferee is entered in the Register of Shareholders in respect thereof.

 

29.

The Company or any transfer agent, on the application of the transferor or transferee of a share in the Company, shall enter in the share register the name of the transferee of the share except that (a) the Board or the transfer agent may decline to register a transfer of shares unless the instrument of transfer is accompanied by the certificate or certificates for the shares, if any, and such other evidence as the Board or the transfer agent may reasonably require to show the right of the transferor to make the transfer and (b) the registration of transfers may be suspended and the share register closed at such times and for such periods as the Board may from time to time determine provided always that such registration shall not be suspended and the share register closed for more than 60 days in any period of 12 months. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company or any transfer agent shall not be required to transfer shares that are subject to restrictive legends unless the conditions to transfer have been satisfied.

 

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TRANSMISSION OF SHARES

 

30.

The executor or administrator of a deceased shareholder, the guardian of an incompetent shareholder or the trustee of a bankrupt shareholder shall be the only person recognized by the Company as having any title to his or her share but they shall not be entitled to exercise any rights as a shareholder of the Company until they have proceeded as set forth in the following three Articles.

 

31.

The production to the Company of any document which is evidence of probate of the will, or letters of administration of the estate, or confirmation as personal representative of a deceased shareholder or of the appointment of a guardian of an incompetent shareholder or the trustee of a bankrupt shareholder shall be accepted by the Company even if the deceased, incompetent or bankrupt shareholder is domiciled outside The Bahamas if the document evidencing the grant of probate or letters of administration, confirmation as personal representative, appointment as guardian or trustee in bankruptcy is issued by a foreign court which had competent jurisdiction in the matter. For the purpose of establishing whether or not a foreign court had competent jurisdiction in such a matter the directors may obtain appropriate legal advice. The directors may also require an indemnity to be given by the executor, administrator, guardian or trustee in bankruptcy.

 

32.

Any person becoming entitled by operation of law or otherwise to a share or shares in consequence of the death, incompetence or bankruptcy of any shareholder may be registered as a shareholder upon such evidence being produced as may reasonably be required by the directors. An application by any such person to be registered as a shareholder shall for all purposes be deemed to be a transfer of shares of the deceased, incompetent or bankrupt shareholder and the directors shall treat it as such.

 

33.

Any person who has become entitled to a share or shares in consequence of the death, incompetence or bankruptcy of any shareholder may, instead of being registered himself, request in writing that some person to be named by him be registered as the transferee of such share or shares and such request shall likewise be treated as if it were a transfer.

 

34.

What amounts to incompetence on the part of a person is a matter to be determined by the court having regard to all the relevant evidence and the circumstances of the case.

REDUCTION OR INCREASE IN AUTHORISED CAPITAL

 

35.

The Company may amend the Memorandum to increase or reduce its authorised capital and in connection therewith the Company may in respect of any unissued shares, increase or reduce the number of such shares, increase or reduce the par value of any such shares or effect any combination of the foregoing.

 

36.

The Company may amend the Memorandum to

 

  (a)

divide the shares, including issued shares, of a class or series into a larger number of shares of the same class or series; or

 

  (b)

combine the shares, including issued shares, of a class or series into a smaller number of shares of the same class or series;

provided, however, that where shares are divided or combined under (a) or (b) of this Article, the aggregate par value of the new shares must be equal to the aggregate par value of the original shares.

 

37.

The capital may by a resolution of directors be increased by transferring an amount out of the surplus of the Company to capital.

 

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38.

Subject to the provisions of the two (2) next succeeding Articles, the capital may by resolution of directors be reduced by:

 

  (a)

returning to shareholders any amount received by the Company upon the issue of any of its shares, the amount being surplus to the requirements of the Company,

 

  (b)

cancelling any capital that is lost or not represented by assets having a realisable value or

 

  (c)

transferring capital to surplus for the purpose of purchasing, redeeming or otherwise acquiring shares that the directors have resolved to purchase, redeem or otherwise acquire.

 

39.

No reduction of capital shall be effected that reduces the capital to an amount that immediately after the reduction is less than the aggregate par value of all outstanding shares with par value and all shares with par value held by the Company as treasury shares and the aggregate of the amounts designated as capital of all outstanding shares without par value and all shares without par value held by the Company as treasury shares that are entitled to a preference, if any, in the assets of the Company upon liquidation of the Company.

 

40.

No reduction of capital shall be effected unless the directors determine that immediately after the reduction the Company will be able to satisfy its liabilities as they become due in the ordinary course of its business and that the realisable value of the assets of the Company will not be less than its total liabilities, other than deferred taxes, as shown in the books of the Company, and its remaining issued and outstanding share capital.

MEETINGS AND CONSENTS OF SHAREHOLDERS

 

41.

Annual meetings of the shareholders shall be held during each fiscal year of the Company. The date, time and place of annual meetings of shareholders shall be as determined by resolution of directors.

 

42.

The directors of the Company may convene special meetings of the shareholders of the Company at such times and in such manner and places within or outside The Bahamas, or by means of remote communication, as the directors consider necessary or desirable.

 

43.

Upon the written request of shareholders holding not less than a majority of the outstanding voting shares in the Company, the directors shall convene a meeting of shareholders. If a special meeting is requested by such shareholders, a written request, specifying the business proposed to be transacted, shall be delivered personally or sent by first class mail, by express delivery or electronic transmission, to the Secretary of the Company. Upon receipt of such a request, the Secretary shall cause notice of such meeting to be given, within 45 days after the date the request was delivered to the Secretary, to the shareholders entitled to vote on such proposal, in accordance with the provisions of these Articles. Except as provided below, if the notice is not given by the Secretary within 45 days after the date the request was delivered to the Secretary, then the person or persons requesting the meeting may specify the time and place of the meeting and give notice thereof; provided, however, that at least 10 days’ notice of such meeting is required to be given to the shareholders.

 

44.

In order that the Company may determine the shareholders entitled to notice of or to vote at any meeting of shareholders or any adjournment thereof or entitled to receive payment of any dividend or other distribution or allotment of any rights, or entitled to exercise any rights in respect of any change, conversion or exchange of shares or for the purpose of any other lawful action, the directors may fix, but shall not be required to so fix, a record date; provided, however, that such record date shall not precede the date upon which the action of the directors fixing such record date is taken.

 

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45.

Notice of the place (if any), date, hour, the record date for determining the shareholders entitled to vote at the meeting (if such date is different from the record date for shareholders entitled to notice of the meeting), and means of remote communication, if any, of every meeting of shareholders shall be given by the Company not less than ten (10) days nor more than sixty (60) days before the meeting (unless a different time is specified by the Act) to every shareholder entitled to vote at the meeting as of the record date for determining the shareholders entitled to notice of the meeting. Notice of any meeting need not be given to any shareholder who shall, either before or after the meeting, submit a waiver of notice or who shall attend such meeting, except when the shareholder attends for the express purpose of objecting, at the beginning of the meeting, to the transaction of any business because the meeting is not lawfully called or convened. Any shareholder so waiving notice of the meeting shall be bound by the proceedings of the meeting in all respects as if due notice thereof had been given. Attendance of a shareholder at a meeting shall constitute a waiver of notice of such meeting, except when the shareholder attends the meeting for the express purpose of objecting, at the beginning of the meeting, to the transaction of any business because the meeting is not lawfully convened.

 

46.

A meeting of shareholders may be held in contravention of the requirement to give notice if shareholders holding not less than ninety (90) percent of;

 

  (a)

the total number of shares of the shareholders entitled to vote on all matters to be considered at the meeting, or

 

  (b)

the votes of each class or series of shares where shareholders are entitled to vote thereon as a class or series together with an absolute majority of the remaining votes,

have waived notice of the meeting; and for this purpose presence at the meeting shall be deemed to constitute waiver.

 

47.

The inadvertent failure of the directors to give notice of a meeting to a shareholder, or the fact that a shareholder has not received notice, shall not invalidate the meeting.

 

48.

If a quorum pursuant to Article 55 is present at any meeting, (a) in all matters other than the election of directors, the affirmative vote of the majority of the shares present in person or represented by proxy at the meeting and entitled to vote on the subject matter shall be the act of the shareholders, and (b) directors shall be elected by a plurality of the votes of the shares present in person or represented by proxy at the meeting and entitled to vote on the election of directors, unless a different vote is required by these Articles or the Memorandum or under applicable law, in which case such express provision shall govern and control the decision of such question. Shareholders may act only at meetings duly called and shareholders may not act by written consent or otherwise outside of such meeting. Only those matters set forth in the notice of a special meeting may be considered or acted upon at that meeting, unless otherwise required by law.

 

49.

If shareholder approval is required (a) for the adoption of any agreement for the merger of the Company with or into any other entity or for the consolidation of the Company with or into any other entity or (b) to authorise any sale, lease, exchange or other transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company to any person, the affirmative vote of at least 66 2/3% of the shares entitled to vote thereon is required to approve such transaction; provided, however, that if such transaction is approved in advance by the directors, such transaction may be approved by the affirmative vote of a majority of the shares entitled to vote thereon.

 

50.

A shareholder may be represented at a meeting of shareholders by a proxy who may speak and vote on behalf of the shareholder including otherwise than on a poll and that proxy need not to be a shareholder.

 

51.

An instrument appointing a proxy shall be produced at the place appointed for the meeting before the time for holding the meeting at which the person named in such instrument proposes to vote.

 

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52.

An instrument appointing a proxy shall be in such form as the Chairman of the meeting shall accept as properly evidencing the wishes of the shareholder appointing the proxy. Only shareholders who are individuals may appoint proxies.

 

53.

The following shall apply in respect of co-ownership of shares:

 

  (a)

if two (2) or more persons hold shares together each of them may be present in person or by proxy at a meeting of shareholders and may speak as a shareholder;

 

  (b)

if only one of them is present in person or by proxy such person may vote on behalf of all of them, and

 

  (c)

if two (2) or more are present in person or by proxy they must vote as one.

 

54.

A shareholder shall be deemed to be present at a meeting of shareholders if such shareholder participates by telephone or other electronic means and all shareholders participating in the meeting are able to hear each other.

 

55.

A meeting of shareholders is duly constituted if, at the commencement of the meeting, there are present in person or by proxy shareholders representing not less than fifty (50) percent of the votes of the shares or class or series of shares entitled to vote on resolutions of shareholders to be considered at the meeting. If a quorum be present, notwithstanding the fact that such quorum may be represented by only one person then such person may resolve any matter and a certificate signed by such person accompanied where such person be a proxy by the proxy form or a copy thereof shall constitute a valid resolution of shareholders. A quorum, once established, shall not be broken by the subsequent withdrawal of enough votes to leave less than a quorum. If, however, such quorum shall not be present or represented at any meeting of the shareholders, the chair of the meeting or the shareholders entitled to vote thereat, present in person or represented by proxy, shall have power, by the affirmative vote of a majority in voting power thereof, to adjourn the meeting from time to time, in the manner provided in Article 57, until a quorum shall be present or represented.

 

56.

At every meeting of shareholders, the Chairman of the Board of Directors shall preside as chairman of the meeting. If there is no Chairman of the Board of Directors or if the Chairman of the Board of Directors is not present at the meeting, the shareholders present shall choose some one of their number to be the chairman. If the shareholders are unable to choose a chairman for any reason, then the person representing the greatest number of voting shares present in person or appointed under an instrument of proxy in prescribed form at the meeting shall preside as chairman failing which the oldest individual shareholder or representative of a shareholder present shall take the chair.

 

57.

Any meeting of the shareholders, annual or special, may be adjourned from time to time to reconvene at the same or some other place, if any, and notice need not be given of any such adjourned meeting if the time, place, if any, thereof and the means of remote communication, if any, are announced at the meeting at which the adjournment is taken. At the adjourned meeting, the Company may transact any business which might have been transacted at the original meeting. If the adjournment is for more than 30 days, a notice of the adjourned meeting shall be given to each shareholder of record entitled to vote at the meeting. If after the adjournment a new record date is fixed for shareholders entitled to vote at the adjourned meeting, the Board shall fix a new record date for notice of the adjourned meeting and shall give notice of the adjourned meeting to each shareholder of record entitled to vote at the adjourned meeting as of the record date fixed for notice of the adjourned meeting.

 

58.

If within one hour from the time appointed for the meeting a quorum is not present or represented, the meeting, if convened upon the requisition of shareholders, shall be dissolved; in any other case it may be adjourned in accordance with Articles 55 and 57 until a quorum is present or represented.

 

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59.

At any meeting of the shareholders, the chairman shall be responsible for deciding in such manner as he or she shall consider appropriate whether any resolution has been carried or not and the result of his decision shall be announced to the meeting and recorded in the minutes thereof. If the chairman shall have any doubt as to the outcome of any resolution put to the vote, he or she shall cause a poll to be taken of all votes cast upon such resolution, but if the chairman shall fail to take a poll then any shareholder present in person or by proxy who disputes the announcement by the chairman of the result of any vote may immediately following such announcement demand that a poll be taken and the chairman shall thereupon cause a poll to be taken. If a poll is taken at any meeting, the result thereof shall be duly recorded in the minutes of that meeting by the chairman.

 

60.

Any person other than an individual shall be regarded as one shareholder and subject to the specific provisions hereinafter contained for the appointment of representatives of such persons the right of any individual to speak for or represent such shareholder shall be determined by the law of the jurisdiction where, and by the documents by which, the person is constituted or derives its existence. In case of doubt, the directors may in good faith seek legal advice from any qualified person and unless and until a court of competent jurisdiction shall otherwise rule, the directors may rely and act upon such advice without incurring any liability to any shareholder.

 

61.

Directors of the Company may attend and speak at any meeting of shareholders of the Company and at any separate meeting of the holders of any class or series of shares of the Company.

 

62.

Any person other than an individual which is a shareholder of the Company may by resolution of its directors or other governing body authorise such person as it thinks fit to act as its representative at any meeting of the Company or of any class of shareholders of the Company, and the person so authorised shall be entitled to exercise the same powers on behalf of the person which such representative represents as that person could exercise if it were an individual shareholder of the Company.

 

63.

The chairman of any meeting at which a vote is cast by proxy or on behalf of any person other than an individual may call for a copy of such proxy or authority authenticated by the certificate of a Notary Public which shall be produced within seven (7) days of being so requested or the votes cast by such proxy or on behalf of such person shall be disregarded.

 

64.

Reserved.

 

65.

Any action required or permitted to be taken by the shareholders of the Company may be effected at either a duly called meeting of the shareholders of the Company or by any unanimous consent of the shareholders entitled to so vote thereon.

 

66.

At an annual meeting of the shareholders, only such business shall be conducted as shall have been properly brought before the meeting. In addition to any other applicable requirements, to be properly brought before an annual meeting, business must be (a) specified in the notice of meeting (or any supplement thereto) given by or at the direction of the directors, (b) brought before the meeting by or at the direction of the directors, or (c) otherwise properly brought before the meeting by a shareholder. For business to be properly brought before an annual meeting by a shareholder, the shareholder must have given timely notice thereof in writing to the Secretary and be present at the meeting. To be timely for the first annual meeting of shareholders after the Company’s initial public offering of its shares, a shareholder’s notice must be received at the corporate office of the Company not later than the later of (a) the 75th day prior to the scheduled date of the annual meeting and (b) the 10th day following the day on which public announcement of the date of such annual meeting is first made by the Company. For all subsequent annual meetings, a shareholder’s notice shall be timely if received by the Company at its corporate office not less than 75 days nor more than 120 days prior to the anniversary date of the immediately preceding annual meeting (the “Anniversary Date”); provided, however, that in the event the annual meeting is scheduled to be held on a date more than 30 days before the Anniversary Date or more than 60 days after the Anniversary Date, a notice shall be timely if received by the

 

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  Company at its corporate office not later than the close of business on the later of (a) the 75th day prior to the scheduled date of such annual meeting or (b) the 10th day following the day on which public announcement of the date of such annual meeting is first made by the Company. A shareholder’s notice to the Secretary shall set forth as to each matter the shareholder proposes to bring before the annual meeting (a) a brief description of the business desired to be brought before the annual meeting, and the reasons for conducting such business at such annual meeting, (b) the name and address, as they appear on the Company’s books, of the shareholder proposing such business, (c) the class and number of shares of the Company which are beneficially owned by the shareholder, (d) the names of any other beneficial owners of such shares, (e) any material interest of the shareholder in such business and (f) the names and addresses of other shareholders known by the shareholder proposing such business to support such proposal and the class and numbers of shares beneficially owned by such shareholders. Notwithstanding anything in these Articles to the contrary, no business shall be conducted at an annual meeting except in accordance with the procedures set forth in this Article 66. If the directors or a designated committee thereof determines that any shareholder proposal was not made in a timely fashion in accordance with the procedures of this Article 66 or that the information provided in a shareholder’s notice does not satisfy the information requirements of this Article 66 in any material respect (a “Non-Compliance Determination”), such proposal shall not be presented for action at the annual meeting in question. If neither the directors nor such committee makes a determination as to the validity of any shareholder proposal in the manner set forth above, the presiding officer of an annual meeting shall determine whether the shareholder proposal was made in accordance with the terms of this Article 66. If such presiding officer makes a Non-Compliance Determination with respect to such proposal, such proposal shall not be presented for action at the annual meeting in question. If the directors, a designated committee thereof or the presiding officer determines that a shareholder proposal was made in accordance with the requirements of this Article 66, the presiding officer shall so declare at the annual meeting and ballots shall be provided for use at the meeting with respect to such proposal.

DIRECTORS

 

67.

The first directors of the Company shall be elected by the subscribers to the Memorandum, subject to the terms of these Articles and the Director Designation Agreement; and thereafter, the directors shall be elected by the shareholders or the directors for such term as the shareholders or the directors, as the case may be, determine, subject to the terms of these Articles, the Director Designation Agreement and the Business Combination Agreement (as defined in Article 125(c)).

 

68.

The minimum number of directors shall be one (1) and the maximum number shall be ten (10), and the number of directors shall be determined from time to time by the directors. The directors shall be divided into three (3) classes designated as Class A, Class B and Class C, respectively. Directors shall initially be assigned to each class by resolution of directors and in accordance with the terms of the Director Designation Agreement. At the first annual meeting of the Company the term of office of the Class A Directors shall expire and Class A Directors shall be elected for a full term of three (3) years. At the succeeding annual meeting of the Company, the term of office of the Class B Directors shall expire and Class B Directors shall be elected for a full term of three (3) years. At the third annual meeting of the Company, the term of office of the Class C Directors shall expire and Class C Directors shall be elected for a full term of three (3) years. At each succeeding annual meeting of the Company, directors shall be elected for a full term of three (3) years to succeed the directors of the class whose terms expire at such annual meeting. Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this Article, each director shall hold office until the expiration of his term, until his successor shall have been duly elected and qualified or until his earlier death, resignation or removal. No decrease in the number of directors constituting the directors shall shorten the term of any incumbent director.

 

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69.

Each director shall hold office for the term, if any, fixed by resolution of shareholders or by resolution of directors, as the case may be, or until his earlier death, resignation or removal, or in the case of a company upon the making of an order for the winding up or dissolution of the company or upon the removal of a defunct company by the Registrar otherwise than pursuant to a winding up order.

 

70.

Subject to any rights of the holders of Preferred Shares, if and when issued, to elect directors and to remove any directors whom the holders of any such shares have the right to elect, any director of the Company may be removed from office (a) with or without cause by a vote of a majority of the directors then in office or (b) with cause by shareholder resolution.

 

71.

A director may resign his office by giving written notice of his resignation to the Company and the resignation shall have effect from the date the notice is received by the Company or from such later date as may be specified in the notice.

 

72.

A vacancy in the Board of Directors may be filled by a resolution of shareholders or by a resolution of a majority of the remaining directors.

 

73.

The directors may, by a resolution of directors, fix the emoluments of directors with respect to services to be rendered in any capacity to the Company.

 

74.

A director shall not require a share qualification, and may be an individual or a company.

 

75.

Articles 67 through 74 shall be subject to the Director Designation Agreement in all respects.

POWERS OF DIRECTORS

 

76.

The business and affairs of the Company shall be managed by the directors who may pay all expenses incurred preliminary to and in connection with the formation and registration of the Company and may exercise all such powers of the Company as are not by the Act or by the Memorandum or these Articles required to be exercised by the shareholders of the Company, subject to any delegation of such powers as may be authorised by these Articles and to such requirements as may be prescribed by a resolution of shareholders; but no requirement made by a resolution of shareholders shall prevail if it be inconsistent with these Articles nor shall such requirement invalidate any prior act of the directors which would have been valid if such requirement had not been made.

 

77.

The directors may, by a resolution of directors, appoint any person, including a person who is a director, to be an officer or agent of the Company and the directors may remove any such person so appointed.

 

78.

Every officer or agent of the Company has such powers and authority of the directors, including the power and authority to affix the Seal, as are set forth in these Articles or in the resolution of directors appointing the officer or agent but the directors may revoke or vary such powers. No officer or agent has any power or authority with respect to matters requiring a resolution under this Article or under Articles 73, 77 and 81.

 

79.

Any director which is a body corporate may appoint in writing any person its duly authorised representative for the purpose of representing it at meetings of the Board of Directors and the person so appointed shall be entitled to exercise the same powers on behalf of such body corporate as the body corporate could exercise if it were an individual director.

 

80.

The continuing directors may act notwithstanding any vacancy in their body, save that if their number is reduced to their knowledge below the number fixed by or pursuant to these Articles as the necessary quorum for a meeting of directors, the continuing directors or director may act only for the purpose of appointing directors to fill any vacancy that has arisen or summoning a meeting of shareholders.

 

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81.

All cheques, promissory notes, drafts, bills of exchange and other negotiable instruments and all receipts for moneys paid to the Company, shall be signed, drawn, accepted, endorsed or otherwise executed, as the case may be, in such manner as shall from time to time be determined by resolution of directors.

PROCEEDINGS OF DIRECTORS

 

82.

The directors or any committee thereof may meet at such times and in such manner and places within or outside The Bahamas, or by means of remote communication, as the directors may determine to be necessary or desirable; however, the directors shall hold an annual meeting each year as soon as practicable after the annual meeting of the shareholders.

 

83.

A director shall be deemed to be present at a meeting of directors if he or she participates by telephone or other electronic means and all directors participating in the meeting are able to hear each other.

 

84.

A director shall be given not less than forty-eight (48) hours’ notice of meetings of directors, but a meeting of directors held without forty-eight (48) hours’ notice having been given to all directors shall be valid if all the directors entitled to vote at the meeting who do not attend, waive notice of the meeting and for this purpose, the presence of a director at a meeting shall constitute waiver on his part.

 

85.

A meeting of directors is duly constituted for all purposes if there are present not less than one half of the total number of directors, unless there are only two (2) directors in which case the quorum shall be two (2). Where any director is participating in a meeting in accordance with the provisions of Article 83 he or she shall be counted for the purpose of determining whether the meeting is duly constituted.

 

86.

If the Company shall have only one (1) director the provisions herein contained for meetings of the directors shall not apply but such sole director shall have full power to represent and act for the Company. In all matters as are not by the Act or the Memorandum or these Articles required to be exercised by the shareholders of the Company, in lieu of minutes of a meeting such sole director shall record in writing and sign a note or memorandum of all matters requiring a resolution of directors. Such a note or memorandum shall constitute sufficient evidence of such resolution for all purposes.

 

87.

At every meeting of the directors the Chairman of the Board of Directors shall preside as chairman of the meeting. If there is no Chairman of the Board of Directors or the Chairman of the Board of Directors is not present at the meeting, the directors present shall choose some one of their number to be chairman of the meeting.

 

88.

An action that may be taken by the directors or a committee of directors at a meeting may be taken without a meeting if all directors or members of such committee, as the case may be, consent thereto in writing or by electronic transmission, and the writings or electronic transmissions are filed with the minutes of proceedings of the Board of Directors or committee.

 

89.

The directors shall cause the following corporate records to be kept:

 

  (a)

minutes of all meetings of directors, shareholders, committees of directors, committees of officers and committees of shareholders;

 

  (b)

copies of all resolutions consented to by directors, shareholders, committees of directors, committees of officers and committees of shareholders; and

 

  (c)

such other accounts and records as the directors by resolution of directors consider necessary or desirable in order to reflect the financial position of the Company.

 

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90.

The books, statutory registers, records and minutes shall be kept at the registered office of the Company.

 

91.

Subject to the provisions of the Director Designation Agreement, the directors may, by resolution of directors, designate one or more committees, each consisting of one or more directors.

 

92.

Each committee of directors has such powers and authorities of the directors, including the power and authority to affix the Seal, as are set forth in the resolution of directors establishing the committee, except that no committee has any power or authority to amend the Memorandum or these Articles, to appoint directors, fix the emoluments of directors, or to appoint officers or agents of the Company.

 

93.

The meetings and proceedings of each committee of directors consisting of two (2) or more directors shall be governed mutatis mutandis by the provisions of these Articles regulating the proceedings of directors so far as the same are not superseded by any provisions in the resolution establishing the committee.

OFFICERS

 

94.

The Company may by resolution of directors appoint officers of the Company at such time as shall be considered necessary or expedient. Such officers may consist of a Chairman of the Board of Directors, a Chief Executive Officer, a Chief Financial Officer, a Chief Operating Officer and one or more Vice Presidents, Secretaries and Treasurers and such other officers as may from time to time be deemed desirable. Any number of offices may be held by the same person.

 

95.

The officers shall perform such duties as shall be prescribed at the time of their appointment subject to any modification in such duties as may be prescribed thereafter by resolution of directors or resolution of shareholders, but in the absence of any specific allocation of duties it shall be the responsibility of the Chairman of the Board of Directors to preside at meetings of directors and shareholders and to manage the day to day affairs of the Company, and the other officers to perform such duties as may be delegated to them by the directors or the Chairman of the Board.

 

96.

The emoluments of all officers shall be fixed by resolution of directors.

 

97.

The officers of the Company shall hold office until their successors are duly elected, but any officer elected or appointed by the directors may be removed at any time, with or without cause, by resolution of directors. Any vacancy occurring in any office of the Company may be filled by resolution of the remaining directors.

CONFLICT OF INTERESTS

 

98.

No contract or other transaction between the Company and one or more interested directors shall be either void or voidable because of such relationship or interest, because such director or directors are present at the meeting of the Board of Directors or a committee thereof which authorises, approves or ratifies such contract or transaction, or because his or their votes are counted for such purpose, if:

 

  (a)

The fact of such relationship or interest is disclosed or known to the Board of Directors or committee which authorises, approves or ratifies the contract or transactions by a vote or consent sufficient for the purpose without counting the votes or consents of such interested directors;

 

  (b)

the fact of such relationship or interest is disclosed or known to the shareholders entitled to vote and they authorise, approve or ratify such contract or transaction by vote or written consent; or

 

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  (c)

the contract or transaction is fair and reasonable as to the Company at the time it is authorised by the board, a committee or the shareholders.

 

99.

A director who has an interest in any particular business to be considered at a meeting of directors or shareholders may be counted for purposes of determining whether the meeting is duly constituted.

LIMITATION OF LIABILITY OF DIRECTORS; INDEMNIFICATION

 

100.

No person who may be entitled to indemnification hereunder (a “Covered Person”) shall be liable to the Company for any loss or damage incurred by the Company as a result (whether direct or indirect) of the carrying out of their functions as a director, officer, employee or agent of the Company (or, to the extent requested to be performed by the Company, their functions as an officer director, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise) unless that liability arises through the actual fraud or willful misconduct by such person. No person shall be found to have committed actual fraud or willful misconduct under the Indemnification Provisions (as defined below) unless or until a court of competent jurisdiction shall have made a finding to that effect. Each shareholder agrees to waive any claim or right of action he or she might have, whether individually or by or in the right of the Company, against any director or officer of the Company on account of any action taken by such director or officer, or the failure of such director or officer to take any action in the performance of his duties with or for the Company; provided that such waiver shall not extend to any matter in respect of any actual fraud or willful misconduct which may attach to such director or officer.

 

101.

The Company shall indemnify and hold harmless to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law (as now or, to the extent providing greater benefit to any Covered Person, as hereafter in effect) any person (other than any Auditor) who was or is a party or witness to (or is threatened to be made a party or witness to) any threatened, pending or completed action, suit or proceeding, whether civil, criminal, administrative or investigative (other than an action by or in the right of the Company) directly or indirectly by reason of the fact that he or she is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the Company, or, while serving as a director, officer, employee or agent of the Company, is or was serving (at the request of the Company) any other corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise in any capacity, against all liabilities, damages, costs, expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with such action, suit or proceeding if he or she acted in good faith and in a manner he or she reasonably believed to be in (or not opposed to) the best interests of the Company, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had no reasonable cause to believe his or her conduct was unlawful; provided, in no event shall any person be entitled to be indemnified, held harmless or advanced any amounts hereunder in respect of any liability, damage, cost, expense, judgment, fine or amount paid in settlement (if any) that such person may incur by reason of their own actual fraud or intentional misconduct. The termination of any action, suit or proceeding by judgment, order, settlement, conviction, or upon a plea of nolo contendere or its equivalent, shall not, of itself, create a presumption that the person did not act in good faith and in a manner which he or she reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Company, and, with respect to any criminal action or proceeding, had reasonable cause to believe that his or her conduct was unlawful. Notwithstanding this Article 101 or the provisions of Article 102 hereof, except as otherwise provided in Article 106 hereof, the Company shall be required to indemnify a Covered Person in connection with a proceeding (or part thereof) commenced by such Covered Person only if the commencement of such proceeding (or part thereof) by the Covered Person was authorised in the specific case by the directors.

 

102.

The Company shall indemnify and hold harmless to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law (as now or, to the extent providing greater benefit to any Covered Person, as hereafter in effect) any person (other than any Auditor) who was or is a party or witness to (or is threatened to be made a party or witness to) any threatened, pending or completed action or suit by or in the right of the Company to procure a judgment in its favor by reason of the fact that he or she is or was a

 

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  director, officer, employee or agent of the Company, or, while serving as a director, officer, employee or agent of the Company, is or was serving (at the request of the Company) another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise in any capacity against all liabilities, damages, costs, expenses (including attorneys’ fees), judgments, fines and amounts paid in settlement actually and reasonably incurred by such person in connection with the defence or settlement of such action or suit if he or she acted in good faith and in a manner he or she reasonably believed to be in or not opposed to the best interests of the Company and except that no such indemnification shall be made in respect of any claim, issue or matter as to which such person shall have been adjudged to be liable to the Company, unless and only to the extent that the court in which such action or suit was brought shall determine upon application that, despite the adjudication of liability but in view of all the circumstances of the case, such person is fairly and reasonably entitled to indemnity for such expenses which such other court shall deem proper.

 

103.

Any indemnification under Articles 101 or 102 (unless ordered by a court) shall be made by the Company only as authorised in the specific case upon a determination that indemnification of the present or former director, officer, employee or agent is proper in the circumstances because he or she has met the applicable standard of conduct set forth in Articles 101 or 102. Such determination shall be made, with respect to a person who is a director, officer, employee or agent at the time of such determination, (a) by a majority vote of the directors who are not parties to such action, suit or proceeding, even though less than a quorum, or (b) by a committee of such directors designated by majority vote of such directors, even though less than a quorum, or (c) if there are no such directors, or if such directors so direct, by independent legal counsel in a written opinion, or (d) by the shareholders.

 

104.

Expenses incurred by any Covered Person, officer or director in defending a civil or criminal action, suit or proceeding shall be paid by the Company to the fullest extent permitted by law in advance of the final disposition of such action, suit or proceeding upon receipt of an undertaking by or on behalf of such director or officer to repay such amount if it shall ultimately be determined that he or she is not entitled to be indemnified by the Company as authorised in these Articles. Any such expenses incurred by former directors and officers or other employees and agents may be so paid upon such terms and conditions, if any, as the Company deems appropriate. Without duplication of the foregoing, to the extent that a present or former director, officer, employee or agent of the Company shall be successful on the merits or otherwise in defence of any action, suit or proceeding referred to in Articles 101 or 102, or in defence of any claim, issue or matter therein, he or she shall be indemnified against expenses (including attorneys’ fees) actually and reasonably incurred by him or her in connection therewith. If it shall be determined by a final judgment or other final adjudication that any such indemnified person was not entitled to indemnification with respect to or advancements of such judgment, costs or expenses, then such party shall not be indemnified with respect to such judgment, costs or expenses and any advancement shall be returned to the Company (without interest) by the indemnified person.

 

105.

The indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to, the Indemnification Provisions shall not be deemed exclusive of any other rights to which those seeking indemnification or advancement of expenses may at any time be entitled under any other Article, agreement, vote of shareholders or disinterested directors or otherwise, both as to action in his or her official capacity and as to action in another capacity while holding such office. The provisions of the Indemnification Provisions shall not be deemed to preclude the indemnification of (or advancement of expenses to) any person who is not specified in Article 101 or 102 but whom the Company has the power or obligation to indemnity under the provisions of applicable law or otherwise.

 

106.

If a claim for indemnification (following the final disposition of a proceeding) or advancement of expenses under the Indemnification Provisions is not paid in full within 90 days after a written claim therefor has been received by the Company, the claimant may file suit to recover the unpaid amount of such claim and, if successful in whole or in part, shall be entitled to be paid the

 

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  expense of prosecuting such claim to the fullest extent permitted by law. In any such action, the Company shall have the burden of proving that the claimant was not entitled to the requested indemnification or advancement of expenses under applicable law.

 

107.

The Company may purchase and maintain insurance in relation to any person who is or was a director, an officer or a liquidator of the Company, or who at the request of the Company is or was serving as a director, an officer or a liquidator of, or in any other capacity is or was acting for, another company or a partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, against any liability asserted against the person and incurred by the person in that capacity, whether or not the Company has or would have had the power to indemnify the person against the liability as provided in these Articles.

 

108.

Neither the repeal nor modification of any Article of these Articles under the heading Limitation of Liability of Directors; Indemnification (the “Indemnification Provisions”), nor the adoption of any provision in these Articles or in the Memorandum inconsistent with any of the Indemnification Provisions, shall adversely affect any right or protection afforded to any person described in Article 100 by any of the Indemnification Provisions prior to such repeal, modification or adoption of an inconsistent provision.

 

109.

The indemnification and advancement of expenses provided by, or granted pursuant to, the Indemnification Provisions shall, unless otherwise provided when authorised or ratified, be contract rights and continue as to a person who has ceased to be a director, officer, employee or agent and shall inure to the benefit of the heirs, executors and administrators of such a person. The Company’s obligation, if any, to indemnify or to advance expenses to any person who was or is serving at its request another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise in any capacity shall be reduced by any amount such person may collect as indemnification or advancement of expenses from such other company, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise.

 

110.

The directors may authorise the Company to enter into a contract with any person who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of the Company or is or was serving at the request of the Company as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise providing for indemnification rights equivalent to or, if the directors so determine, greater than those provided in the Indemnification Provisions.

 

111.

For the purposes of the Indemnification Provisions, (a) references to (i) the “Company” shall include, in addition to the resulting corporation, any constituent corporation (including any constituent of a constituent) absorbed in a consolidation or merger which, if its separate existence had continued, would have had power and authority to indemnify its directors, officers, employees or agents, so that any person who is or was a director, officer, employee or agent of such constituent corporation, or is or was serving at the request of such constituent corporation as a director, officer, employee or agent of another corporation, partnership, joint venture, trust or other enterprise, shall stand in the same position under the Indemnification Provisions with respect to the resulting or surviving corporation as he or she would have with respect to such constituent corporation if its separate existence had continued, (ii) “other enterprises” shall include employee benefit plans, (iii) “fines” shall include any excise taxes assessed on a person with respect to an employee benefit plan, and (iv) “serving at the request of the Company” shall include service as a director, officer, employee or agent of the Company which imposes duties on, or involves services by, such director, officer, employee or agent with respect to an employee benefit plan, its participants or beneficiaries, and (b) a person who acted in good faith and in a manner he or she reasonably believed to be in the interest of the participants and beneficiaries of an employee benefit plan shall be deemed to have acted in a manner “not opposed to the best interest of the Company” as referred to in the Indemnification Provisions.

 

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SEAL

 

112.

The Company may have more than one Seal and references herein to the Seal shall be references to every Seal which shall have been duly adopted by resolution of directors. The directors shall provide for the safe custody of the Seal and for an imprint thereof to be kept at the registered office. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein the Seal when affixed to any written instrument shall be witnessed and attested to by the signature of a director or an officer or any other person so authorised from time to time by resolution of directors. Such authorization may be before or after the Seal is affixed, may be general or specific and may refer to any number of sealings. The directors may provide for a stamp of the Seal and of the signature of any director, officer or authorised person which may be reproduced by printing or other means on any instrument and it shall have the same force and validity as if the Seal had been affixed to such instrument and the same had been signed as hereinbefore described.

DIVIDENDS

 

113.

The Company may by a resolution of directors declare and pay dividends in money, shares, or other property. In the event that dividends are paid in specie the directors shall have responsibility for establishing and recording in the resolution of directors authorizing the dividends, a fair and proper value for the assets to be so distributed.

 

114.

The directors may from time to time pay to the shareholders such interim dividends as appear to the directors to be justified by the profits of the Company.

 

115.

The directors may, before declaring any dividend, set aside out of the profits of the Company such sum as they think proper as a reserve fund, and may invest the sum so set apart as a reserve fund upon such securities as they may select.

 

116.

No dividend shall be declared and paid unless the directors determine that immediately after the payment of the dividend the Company will be able to satisfy its liabilities as they become due in the ordinary course of its business and the realisable value of the assets of the Company will not be less than the sum of its total liabilities, other than deferred taxes, as shown in its books of account, and its issued and outstanding share capital.

 

117.

Notice of any dividend that may have been declared shall be given to each shareholder in manner hereinafter mentioned and all dividends unclaimed for three (3) years after having been declared may be forfeited by resolution of directors for the benefit of the Company.

 

118.

No dividend shall bear interest as against the Company and no dividend shall be paid on treasury shares or shares held by another company of which the Company holds, directly or indirectly, shares having more than fifty (50) percent of the vote in electing directors.

 

119.

A share issued as a dividend by the Company shall be treated for all purposes as having been issued for money equal to the surplus that is transferred to capital upon the issue of the share.

 

120.

In the case of a dividend of authorised but unissued shares with par value, an amount equal to the aggregate par value of the shares shall be transferred from surplus to capital at the time of the distribution.

 

121.

In the case of a dividend of authorised but unissued shares without par value, the amount designated by the directors shall be transferred from surplus to capital at the time of the distribution, except that the directors shall designate as capital an amount that is at least equal to the amount that the shares are entitled to as a preference, if any, in the assets of the Company upon liquidation of the Company.

 

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122.

A division of the issued and outstanding shares of a class or series of shares into a larger number of shares of the same class or series having a proportionately smaller par value shall not constitute a dividend of shares.

 

123.

The record date for shareholders entitled to receive dividends shall be established in accordance with Article 41.

RESTRICTIONS ON TRANSFER AND OWNERSHIP

 

124.

Purpose. It is in the best interests of the Company and its shareholders that certain restrictions on the Transfer of Company Securities (each defined below) be established, as more fully set forth in the Articles under the heading Restrictions on Transfer and Ownership (the “Transfer Restrictions”), as any such Transfer may threaten the preservation of certain tax attributes of the Company and its subsidiaries.

 

125.

Definitions. The following capitalized terms shall have the following respective meanings (and any references to any portions of the Code or the Treasury Regulations thereunder shall include any amendment thereto and any successor provisions):

 

  (a)

“Acquire” means the acquisition, directly or indirectly and including by operation of law, of ownership of Company Securities by any means, including, without limitation: (i) the acquisition of any option, warrant, convertible security, pledge or other security interest or similar right to acquire Company Securities or the exercise of such an existing right that results in an acquisition of Company Securities; (ii) the entering into of any swap, hedge or other arrangement that results in the acquisition of any of the economic benefits of ownership of Company Securities from the owner of such Company Securities; or (iii) any other direct or indirect acquisition (including the direct or indirect acquisition of an ownership interest in a Prohibited Transferee) resulting in the direct, indirect, or constructive ownership of such Company Securities under Section 958 of the Code. The terms “Acquires” and “Acquisition” shall have the same meaning, mutatis mutandis.

 

  (b)

“Beneficial Ownership,” “Beneficially Owned” and “Beneficially Owns” have the meanings specified in Rule 13d-3 promulgated under the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, including the provision that any member of a “group” will be deemed to have beneficial ownership of all securities beneficially owned by other members of the group, and a Person’s beneficial ownership of securities will be calculated in accordance with the provisions of such Rule; provided, however, that a Person will be deemed to be the beneficial owner of any security which may be acquired by such Person upon the conversion, exchange or exercise of any rights, options, warrants or similar securities to subscribe for, purchase or otherwise acquire (x) capital stock of any Person or (y) securities directly or indirectly convertible into, or exercisable or exchangeable for, such capital stock of such Person.

 

  (c)

“Business Combination Agreement” means that certain Business Combination Agreement, dated November 1, 2018, by and among Dory Intermediate LLC, SLL, Steiner U.S. Holdings, Inc., Nemo (UK) Holdco, Ltd., Steiner UK Limited, Steiner Management Services LLC, SLL, in its capacity as representative of Sellers, Haymaker Acquisition Corp, the Company, Dory US Merger Sub, LLC, Dory Intermediate LLC, Dory Acquisition Sub, Limited, and Dory Acquisition Sub, Inc. (as amended from time to time in accordance with its terms).

 

  (d)

“CFC” shall mean a foreign corporation that is a “controlled foreign corporation” within the meaning of Section of 957 of the Code, determined without regard to any attribution under Section 958 of the Code of stock of such foreign corporation to any subsidiary of the Company.

 

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  (e)

“Closing Date” shall have the meaning ascribed to it in the Business Combination Agreement.

 

  (f)

“Code” means the United States Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time.

 

  (g)

“Committee” means the Board of Directors of the Company, or a committee of the Board to which the Board has delegated authority with respect to the Transfer Restrictions.

 

  (h)

“Company Securities” means: (i) Common Shares; (ii) Preferred Shares; (iii) any other interests that would be treated as “stock” of the Company for purposes of Section 958 of the Code, including pursuant to Treasury Regulation Section 1.958-2(e); and (iv) warrants, rights or options to acquire shares or interests described in clauses (i)-(iii) and “Company Security” shall have a corresponding meaning.

 

  (i)

“Disposition” means, with respect to any Person other than the Company, the sale, transfer, exchange, assignment, conveyance, pledge, distribution, contribution, or other disposition of such Company Securities by such Person. A “Disposition” also shall include the issuance or grant of a warrant, right or option to acquire Company Securities held by such Person.

 

  (j)

“Ownership Cap” means 9.99%

 

  (k)

“Percentage Stock Ownership” means, with respect to any Person, such Person’s percentage stock ownership of Company Securities as determined under Section 958 of the Code, applicable Treasury Regulations and other official guidance.

 

  (l)

“Person” means an individual, corporation, estate, trust, association, limited liability company, partnership, joint venture or similar organization or entity within the meaning of Section 958 of the Code and applicable Treasury Regulations.

 

  (m)

“Prohibited Transferee” means a Person whose Percentage Stock Ownership is in excess of the Ownership Cap.

 

  (n)

“Signing Date” means the date of the execution of the Business Combination Agreement.

 

  (o)

“Steiner Holders” means, collectively, (a) SLL and (b) any Steiner Permitted Transferee of Company Securities.

 

  (p)

“Steiner Permitted Transferee” means any Person to whom any Company Securities initially held by SLL are transferred who, at the time of such transfer, is an Affiliate (as defined in the Business Combination Agreement) of such Person.

 

  (q)

“Transfer” means any Acquisition or Disposition of Company Securities.

 

  (r)

“Treasury Regulation” means any Treasury regulation, in effect from time to time, promulgated under the Code.

 

  (s)

“United States” means the United States of America.

 

126.

Transfer Limitations.

 

  (a)

Except as otherwise provided in Article 126(b) or Article 127, no Person shall be permitted to make a Transfer, whether in a single transaction (with any transactions occurring on the same day being treated as a single transaction) or series of related transactions, and any such purported Transfer will be void ab initio, (i) if and to the extent that after giving effect to such purported Transfer: the purported transferee (or any other Person by reason of the purported transferee’s Acquisition) would become a Prohibited

 

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  Transferee; or (ii) if the purported transferee is a Prohibited Transferee or the purported Transfer would increase the Percentage Stock Ownership of any Prohibited Transferee (any such purported Transfer described in this Article 126(a), a “Prohibited Transfer”).

 

  (b)

The restrictions set forth in Article 126(a) shall not apply to a proposed Transfer, and the proposed Transfer shall not be treated as a Prohibited Transfer hereunder, if the transferor or the transferee obtains approval of the proposed Transfer by the Committee (at a meeting of the Committee or by written consent of the Committee). As a condition to granting its approval pursuant to this Article 126(b), the Committee may, as determined in its sole discretion, require and/or obtain (at the expense of the transferor and/or transferee) such documentation, information and action, if any, as it determines, including, without limitation, representations and warranties from the transferor and/or transferee, such opinions of counsel to be rendered by counsel selected by (or acceptable to) the Committee, and such other advice, in each case as to such matters as the Committee determines in its sole discretion is appropriate. Any such approval, once granted, shall be irrevocable, provided that such information, documentation and representations and warranties upon which such approval was based remain true, accurate and complete prior to the applicable Transfer.

 

  (c)

The restrictions set forth in Article 126(a) shall not preclude the settlement of any transaction in the Company Securities through the facilities of The Depository Trust Company (or any successor or similar settlement service), it being understood, however, that any such settlement shall not negate or otherwise affect the treatment of a Transfer as a Prohibited Transfer hereunder.

 

127.

Exceptions to Transfer Limitations.

 

  (a)

The Transfer of Company Securities to the Steiner Holders pursuant to the Business Combination Agreement (or any related agreement) shall not be treated as a Prohibited Transfer and the Steiner Holders shall not be considered to be a Prohibited Transferee for purposes of such Transfer;

 

  (b)

The Transfer of Company Securities by the Company to the Investors (as defined in the Business Combination Agreement) or, in the case of an agreement described in clause (z), the applicable transferee shall not be treated as a Prohibited Transfer and no such Investor or transferee shall be considered to be Prohibited Transferee for purposes of such Transfer in each case, so long as such Transfer is effected pursuant to (x) an agreement that is entered into on or prior to the Signing Date, (y) an agreement described in clause (x) that is modified after the Signing Date in a manner that is not prohibited by the Business Combination Agreement or (z) an agreement entered into after the Signing Date and prior to the Closing Date, in a manner that is (i) not prohibited by the Business Combination Agreement or (ii) otherwise agreed by the parties to the Business Combination Agreement;

 

  (c)

The Transfer of Company Securities by the Steiner Holders to the Investors or, in the case of an agreement described in clause (z), the applicable transferee shall not be treated as a Prohibited Transfer and no such Investor or transferee shall be considered to be a Prohibited Transferee for purposes of such Transfer, in each case, so long as such Transfer is effected pursuant to (x) an agreement that is entered into on or prior to the Signing Date, (y) an agreement described in clause (x) that is modified after the Signing Date in a manner that is not prohibited by the Business Combination Agreement or (z) an agreement entered into after the Signing Date and prior to the Closing Date, in a manner that is (i) not prohibited by the Business Combination Agreement or (ii) otherwise agreed by the parties to the Business Combination Agreement; and

 

  (d)

Any Transfer of Company Securities by the Steiner Holders (or any of their permitted transferees pursuant to this Article 127(d)) that is permitted under the Business Combination Agreement shall not be treated as a Prohibited Transfer and the applicable transferee shall not be considered to be a Prohibited Transferee for purposes of such Transfer

 

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128.

Treatment of Excess Securities.

 

  (a)

    

 

  (i)

No employee or agent of the Company shall record any Prohibited Transfer, and the purported transferee of a Prohibited Transfer (the “Purported Transferee”) shall not be recognized as a shareholder of the Company for any purpose whatsoever in respect of the Company Securities that are the subject of the Prohibited Transfer (the “Excess Securities”). The Purported Transferee shall not be entitled with respect to such Excess Securities to any rights of shareholders of the Company, including, without limitation, the right to vote such Excess Securities, to receive dividends or distributions, whether liquidating or otherwise, in respect thereof and to effect any Transfer thereof. Once the Excess Securities have been acquired in a Transfer that is in accordance with this Article 128 and is not a Prohibited Transfer, such Company Securities shall cease to be Excess Securities. For this purpose, any Transfer of Excess Securities not in accordance with the provisions of this Article 128 shall also be a Prohibited Transfer.

 

  (ii)

The Company may require, including, but not limited to, as a condition to the registration of the Transfer of any Company Securities or the payment of any dividend or distribution on any Company Securities, that the proposed transferee or payee furnish to the Company all information reasonably requested by the Company with respect to all the direct or indirect ownership interests in such Company Securities. The Company may make such arrangements or issue such instructions to its stock transfer agent as may be determined by the Committee to be necessary or advisable to implement this Article 128, including, without limitation, authorizing such transfer agent to require an affidavit from a proposed transferee or payee regarding such Person’s direct, indirect, and constructive ownership of stock and other evidence that a Transfer will not be prohibited by the Transfer Restrictions as a condition to registering any Transfer or paying any dividend or distribution.

 

  (b)

    

 

  (i)

If a Prohibited Transfer has occurred: (1) the Prohibited Transfer and, if applicable, the registration of such Prohibited Transfer, shall be void ab initio and have no legal effect; and (2) upon written demand by the Company, the Purported Transferee (if identified by the Company or otherwise) shall transfer or cause to be transferred any certificate or other evidence of ownership of the Excess Securities within the Purported Transferee’s possession or control, together with any dividends or other distributions that were received by the Purported Transferee from the Company with respect to the Excess Securities (the “Prohibited Distributions”), to an agent designated and controlled by the Committee (the “Agent”).

 

  (ii)

If a Prohibited Transfer has occurred, the Agent shall thereupon sell to a buyer or buyers the Excess Securities transferred to it pursuant to this Article 128(b)(ii) in one or more arm’s-length transactions (including over a national securities exchange on which the Company Securities may be traded, if possible); provided, however, that the Agent, in its sole discretion, shall effect such sale or sales in an orderly fashion and shall not be required to effect any such sale within any specific time frame if, in the Agent’s sole discretion, such sale or sales would

 

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  disrupt the market for the Company Securities or otherwise would adversely affect the value of the Company Securities; provided further that any such sale by the Agent must not constitute a Prohibited Transfer. If the Purported Transferee has resold the Excess Securities before receiving the Company’s demand to surrender the Excess Securities to the Agent, the Purported Transferee shall be deemed to have sold the Excess Securities for the Agent, and shall be required to transfer to the Agent any Prohibited Distributions and the proceeds of such sale (in the form received, i.e., whether in cash or other property), and the Agent shall thereupon identify and sell any non-cash consideration to a buyer or buyers in one or more arm’s-length transactions (including over a national securities exchange, if possible), except to the extent the Company grants written permission to the Purported Transferee to retain a portion of such sale proceeds not exceeding the amount that the Purported Transferee would have received from the Agent pursuant to Article 128(c) if the Agent, rather than the Purported Transferee, had resold the Excess Securities.

 

  (c)

Except for Prohibited Distributions that are to be returned to the Purported Transferor in accordance with Article 128(b)(ii), the Agent shall apply any proceeds or any other amounts received by it by and in accordance with this Article 128 as follows:

 

  (i)

first, such amounts shall be paid to the Agent to the extent necessary to cover its costs and expenses incurred in connection with its duties hereunder;

 

  (ii)

second, any remaining amounts shall be paid to the Purported Transferee, up to the amount paid by the Purported Transferee for the Excess Securities (or the fair market value at the time of the Prohibited Transfer, in the event the purported Transfer of the Excess Securities was, in whole or in part, a gift, inheritance or similar Transfer); and

 

  (iii)

third, any remaining amounts, subject to the limitations imposed by the following proviso, shall be paid to one or more organizations qualifying under Section 501(c)(3) of the Code selected by the Committee; provided, however, that if the Excess Securities (including any Excess Securities arising from a previous Prohibited Transfer not sold by the Agent in a prior sale or sales) represent a Percentage Stock Ownership interest in the Company greater than the Ownership Cap, then such remaining amounts shall be paid to two or more unrelated organizations qualifying under Section 501(c)(3) of the Code selected by the Committee, such that no organization qualifying under Section 501(c)(3) of the Code shall possess Percentage Stock Ownership in the Company in excess of the Ownership Cap.

 

  (iv)

The recourse of any Purported Transferee in respect of any Prohibited Transfer shall be limited to the amount payable to the Purported Transferee pursuant to clause (ii) above. Except to the extent used to cover the reasonable and documented out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred by the Agent in performing its duties hereunder, in no event shall the proceeds of any sale of Excess Securities pursuant to this Article 128 inure to the benefit of the Company.

 

  (d)

If the Purported Transferee or the Purported Transferor fails to surrender the Excess Securities (as applicable) or the proceeds of a sale thereof to the Agent within thirty (30) days from the date on which the Company makes a demand pursuant to Article 128(b), then the Company shall, in such manner and at such time, as determined by the Committee, use its best efforts to enforce the provisions hereof, which may include the institution of legal proceedings to compel the surrender. Nothing in this Article 128(d) shall (i) be deemed inconsistent with any Prohibited Transfer of the Excess Securities provided in the Transfer Restrictions being void ab initio or (ii) preclude the Company in its discretion from immediately bringing legal proceedings without a prior demand.

 

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  (e)

In the event of any Prohibited Transfer that does not involve a transfer of Company Securities within the meaning of the Act, the application of Article 128(b)-(d) shall be modified as described in this Article 128(e). In such case, no such Purported Transferee shall be required to dispose of any interest that is not a Company Security, but such Purported Transferee and/or any Person whose ownership of Company Securities is attributed to such Purported Transferee (such Purported Transferee or other Person, a “Remedial Holder”) shall be deemed to have disposed of and shall be required to dispose of sufficient Company Securities (which Company Securities shall be disposed of in the inverse order in which they were acquired) to cause such Purported Transferee, following such disposition, not to be in violation of the Transfer Restrictions. Such disposition shall be deemed to occur simultaneously with the Transfer giving rise to the application of this provision, and such number of Company Securities that are deemed to be disposed of shall be considered Excess Securities and shall be disposed of through the Agent as provided in Article 128(b)-(d), except that the maximum aggregate amount payable to a Remedial Holder in connection with such sale shall be the fair market value of such Excess Securities at the time of the Prohibited Transfer. A Remedial Holder shall not be entitled, with respect to such Excess Securities, to any rights of shareholders of the Company, including, without limitation, the right to vote such Excess Securities and to receive dividends or distributions, whether liquidating or otherwise, in respect thereof, if any, following the time of the Prohibited Transfer. All expenses incurred by the Agent in disposing of such Excess Securities shall be paid out of any amounts due to such Remedial Holder. The purpose of this Article 128(e) is to extend the restrictions in Article 128(b)-(d) to situations in which there is a Prohibited Transfer without a direct Transfer of Company Securities, and this Article 128(e), along with the other provisions of the Transfer Restrictions, shall be interpreted to produce the same results, with differences as the context requires, as a direct Transfer of Company Securities.

 

129.

Liability. To the fullest extent permitted by law, any shareholder subject to the provisions of the Transfer Restrictions who knowingly violates the provisions of the Transfer Restrictions shall be liable to the Company for, and shall indemnify and hold the Company and its subsidiaries harmless against, any and all damages suffered by the Company or its subsidiaries as a result of such violation, including, but not limited to, United States federal, state or local taxes, together with any interest, penalties and additions to tax, imposed on the Company or any of its subsidiaries as a result of the Company or any of its subsidiaries being treated as a CFC and attorneys’, accountants’ and auditors’ fees incurred in connection with such violation.

 

130.

Compliance.

 

  (a)

The Committee shall have the power to, in good faith, decide all matters necessary for determining compliance with the Transfer Restrictions, including, without limitation, determining (A) the identification of Prohibited Transferees, (B) whether a Transfer is a Prohibited Transfer, (C) whether to exempt a Transfer, (D) the Percentage Stock Ownership of any Prohibited Transferee or other Person, (E) whether an instrument constitutes a Company Security, (F) the amount (or fair market value) due to a Purported Transferee or Purported Transferor pursuant to the Transfer Restrictions, (G) to interpret any provision of the Transfer Restrictions, and (H) any other matter that the Committee determines to be relevant. The good faith determination of the Committee, upon the advice of outside counsel, on such matters shall be conclusive and binding on all persons and entities for the purposes of the Transfer Restrictions.

 

  (b)

Without affecting or limiting any of the rights of SLL under the Business Combination Agreement, nothing contained in the Transfer Restrictions shall limit the authority of the Committee to take such other action to the extent permitted by law as it deems reasonably necessary or advisable to assist the Company and its shareholders in

 

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  preventing the Company or any of its subsidiaries from being treated as a CFC. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing but subject to the rights of SLL under the Business Combination Agreement, in the event of a change in law making one or more of the following actions reasonably necessary or desirable, the Committee may, by adopting a written resolution, (A) modify the ownership interest percentage in the Company or the Persons covered by the Transfer Restrictions, (B) modify the definitions of any terms set forth in the Transfer Restrictions or (C) modify the terms of the Transfer Restrictions as appropriate, in each case, in order to prevent the Company or any of its subsidiaries from being treated as a CFC, as a result of any changes in applicable Treasury Regulations or otherwise; provided, however, that the Committee shall not cause there to be such modification unless it determines, by adopting a written resolution, that such action is reasonably necessary or advisable to prevent the Company or any of its subsidiaries from being treated as a CFC or that the continuation of these restrictions is no longer reasonably necessary to prevent the Company or any of its subsidiaries from being treated as a CFC.

 

  (c)

In the case of an ambiguity in the application of any of the provisions of the Transfer Restrictions, including any definition used herein, the Committee shall have the power to, determine the application of such provisions with respect to any situation based on its reasonable belief, understanding or knowledge of the circumstances. In the event the Transfer Restrictions require an action by the Committee but fails to provide specific guidance with respect to such action, the Committee shall have the power to determine the action to be taken so long as such action is not contrary to the provisions of the Transfer Restrictions. All such actions, calculations, interpretations and determinations that are done or made by the Committee shall be conclusive and binding on the Company, the Agent, and all other parties for all other purposes of the Transfer Restrictions.

 

131.

Severability. If any provision or provisions of the Transfer Restrictions shall be held invalid, illegal or unenforceable as applied to any person or entity or circumstances for any reason whatsoever, then, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the validity, legality and enforceability of such provisions in any other circumstance and of the remaining provisions of the Transfer Restrictions (including, without limitation, each portion of any sentence of the Transfer Restrictions containing any such provision held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable that is not itself held to be invalid, illegal or unenforceable) and the application of such provision to other persons or entities and circumstances shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

 

132.

The restrictions on transfer and ownership imposed by the Transfer Restrictions will expire on the close of business on the date the Committee publicly announces that it has determined that such restrictions are no longer necessary or desirable to prevent the Company or any of its subsidiaries from being treated as a CFC.

BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

 

133.

In recognition and anticipation of the facts that: (a) directors, managers, officers, shareholders, partners, managing members, employees and/or agents of the Steiner Group (each of the foregoing, a “Steiner Group Related Person”) may serve as directors, officers, employees and agents of the Company or one or more of its subsidiaries); and (b) the Steiner Group engages, and shall continue to engage in the same or similar activities or related lines of business as those in which the Company, directly or indirectly, may engage and/or other business activities that overlap with or compete with those in which the Company or any of its subsidiaries, directly or indirectly, may engage, the provisions of Articles 133 through 137 are set forth to regulate and define the conduct of certain affairs of the Company as they may involve the shareholders and the Steiner Group Related Persons, and the powers, rights, duties and liabilities of the Company and its officers, directors and shareholders in connection therewith.

 

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134.

To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Steiner Group and the Steiner Group Related Persons shall have no duty, except and to the extent expressly assumed by contract, to refrain from engaging directly or indirectly in the same or similar business activities or lines of business as the Company or any of its subsidiaries. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the Company, on behalf of itself and its subsidiaries, renounces any interest, duty or expectancy of the Company or any of its subsidiaries in, or in being offered an opportunity to participate in, or being presented with, any potential transaction or matter which may be a corporate opportunity for either the Steiner Group or any Steiner Group Related Person, on the one hand, and the Company and its subsidiaries, on the other. Except to the extent expressly assumed by contract, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law (including the Statute), the Steiner Group and the Steiner Group Related Persons shall have no duty to communicate or offer any such corporate opportunity to the Company or any of its subsidiaries and shall not be liable to the Company, any of its subsidiaries or any of their respective equityholders for breach of any fiduciary or other duty (of whatever nature) as a director, officer, employee, equityholder or agent of the Company or any of its subsidiaries by reason of the fact that such party directly or indirectly pursues, exploits or acquires such corporate opportunity for the Steiner Group, itself, himself or herself, directs such corporate opportunity to another person (including any Steiner Group member or any Steiner Group Related Person), or does not communicate information regarding such corporate opportunity to the Company.

 

135.

Except as provided elsewhere in these Articles, the Company, on behalf of itself and its subsidiaries, hereby renounces any interest or expectancy of the Company or any of its subsidiaries in, or in being offered an opportunity to participate in, any potential transaction or matter which may be a corporate opportunity for both the Company or any of its subsidiaries and the Steiner Group, about which a director and/or officer of the Company who is also a Steiner Group Related Person acquires knowledge.

 

136.

To the extent a court might hold that the conduct of any activity related to a corporate opportunity that is renounced in these Articles to be a breach of duty to the Company, its subsidiaries or any of their equityholders, the Company, on behalf of itself and its subsidiaries, hereby waives, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, any and all claims and causes of action that the Company or any of its subsidiaries may have for such activities. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable law, the provisions of these Articles apply equally to activities conducted in the future and that have been conducted in the past.

 

137.

As used in Articles 133 through 137, the following definitions shall apply:

 

  137.1

Affiliate” shall have the meaning set forth in Rule 12b-2 promulgated under the United States Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended; and

 

  137.2

Steiner Group” shall mean Nemo Investor Aggregator and SLL, and their respective Affiliates, and the respective successors and assigns of the foregoing.

FISCAL YEAR

 

138.

The fiscal year of the Company shall be determined by the Board of Directors.

BOOKS AND RECORDS

 

139.

The directors shall from time to time determine whether and to what extent and at what times and places and under what conditions or regulations the accounts and books of the Company or any of them shall be open to inspection by the shareholders not being directors, and no shareholder (not being a director) shall have any right of inspecting any account or book or document of the Company except as conferred by statute or authorised by the directors.

 

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NOTICES

 

140.

Any notice, information or written statement to be given by the Company to shareholders shall be in writing and delivered personally or mailed to the shareholders at their address appearing on the books of the Company. Without limiting the manner by which notice otherwise may be given effectively to shareholders, any notice, information or written statement may be given to shareholders by means of electronic transmission in accordance with the Act.

VOLUNTARY WINDING UP AND DISSOLUTION

 

141.

The Company may voluntarily commence to wind up and dissolve by resolution of shareholders or by resolution of directors.

 

142.

If the Company shall be wound up (whether the liquidation is voluntary, under supervision, or by the Court) the Liquidator may, with the authority of a resolution of shareholders, divide among the shareholders in specie or kind the whole or any part of the assets of the Company and whether or not the assets shall consist of property of one kind or shall consist of properties of different kinds, and may for such purpose set such value as he or she deems fair upon any one or more class or classes of property and may determine how such division shall be carried out as between the shareholders or different classes of shareholders.

CONTINUATION

 

143.

The Company may by resolution of shareholders or by a resolution passed unanimously by all directors of the Company continue as a company incorporated under the laws of a jurisdiction outside The Bahamas in the manner provided under those laws.

GOVERNING LAW

 

144.

Except as otherwise specifically provided for herein, Bahamian law shall govern all aspects of these Articles.

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COMMONWEALTH OF THE BAHAMAS

New Providence

Company under the International Business

Companies Act 2000

AMENDED AND RESTATED

MEMORANDUM

AND

ARTICLES OF ASSOCIATION

OF

ONESPAWORLD HOLDINGS LIMITED

Incorporated the [    ] day of [        ], 2018

Prepared by:

H & J Corporate Services Ltd.

Ocean Centre

Montagu Foreshore

East Bay Street

Nassau, New Providence

Bahamas


EX-10.1

Exhibit 10.1

EXECUTION VERSION

 

 

FIRST LIEN CREDIT AGREEMENT

dated as of March 19, 2019

among

OneSpaWorld Holdings Limited,

as Holdings,

Dory Intermediate LLC,

as Lead Borrower,

Dory Acquisition Sub, Inc.,

as U.S. Borrower,

The Lenders Party Hereto

and

Goldman Sachs Lending Partners LLC,

as Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent

 

 

Goldman Sachs Lending Partners LLC,

as Sole Lead Arranger and Sole Bookrunner

 


TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

         Page  

ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS

     2  

Section 1.01

  Defined Terms      2  

Section 1.02

  Other Interpretive Provisions      71  

Section 1.03

  Accounting Terms      72  

Section 1.04

  Rounding      73  

Section 1.05

  References to Agreements, Laws, Etc.      73  

Section 1.06

  Times of Day; Rates      73  

Section 1.07

  Timing of Payment or Performance      73  

Section 1.08

  Currency Equivalents Generally      73  

Section 1.09

  Letter of Credit Amounts      73  

Section 1.10

  Limited Condition Acquisitions      74  

Section 1.11

  Permitted Reorganizations      74  

Section 1.12

  Change of Currency      75  

Section 1.13

  Cashless Rollovers      75  

Section 1.14

  [Reserved]      75  

Section 1.15

  LIBOR Discontinuation      75  
ARTICLE II THE COMMITMENTS AND CREDIT EXTENSIONS      76  

Section 2.01

  The Loans      76  

Section 2.02

  Borrowings, Conversions and Continuations of Loans      76  

Section 2.03

  Letters of Credit      78  

Section 2.04

  [Reserved]      87  

Section 2.05

  Prepayments      87  

Section 2.06

  Termination or Reduction of Commitments      95  

Section 2.07

  Repayment of Loans      95  

Section 2.08

  Interest      96  

Section 2.09

  Fees, Closing Payments and Exit Payments      97  

Section 2.10

  Computation of Interest, Fees and Closing Payments      98  

Section 2.11

  Evidence of Indebtedness      98  

Section 2.12

  Payments Generally      99  

Section 2.13

  Sharing of Payments      101  

Section 2.14

  Incremental Credit Extensions      101  

Section 2.15

  Extensions of Term Loans, Revolving Credit Commitments and Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments      106  

Section 2.16

  Defaulting Lenders      109  

Section 2.17

  Permitted Debt Exchanges      111  

Section 2.18

  Refinancing Amendments      114  
ARTICLE III TAXES, INCREASED COSTS PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY      115  

Section 3.01

  Taxes      115  

Section 3.02

  Illegality      119  

Section 3.03

  Inability to Determine Rates      120  

Section 3.04

  Increased Cost and Reduced Return; Capital Adequacy; Reserves on Eurocurrency Rate Loans      121  

Section 3.05

  Funding Losses      122  

 

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Section 3.06

  Matters Applicable to All Requests for Compensation      123  

Section 3.07

  Replacement of Lenders under Certain Circumstances      124  

Section 3.08

  Survival      125  

ARTICLE IV CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO CREDIT EXTENSIONS

     125  

Section 4.01

  Closing Date      125  

Section 4.02

  Conditions to Delayed Draw Term Facility Credit Extension      129  

Section 4.03

  Conditions to Certain Subsequent Credit Extensions      129  

ARTICLE V REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

     130  

Section 5.01

  Existence, Qualification and Power; Compliance with Laws      130  

Section 5.02

  Authorization; No Contravention      130  

Section 5.03

  Governmental Authorization; Other Consents      131  

Section 5.04

  Binding Effect      131  

Section 5.05

  Financial Statements; No Material Adverse Effect      131  

Section 5.06

  Litigation      132  

Section 5.07

  Ownership of Property; Liens; Insurance      132  

Section 5.08

  Environmental Compliance      132  

Section 5.09

  Taxes      133  

Section 5.10

  Compliance with ERISA      133  

Section 5.11

  Labor Matters      133  

Section 5.12

  Subsidiaries; Equity Interests      133  

Section 5.13

  Margin Regulations; Investment Company Act      134  

Section 5.14

  Disclosure      134  

Section 5.15

  Intellectual Property; Licenses, Etc.      134  

Section 5.16

  Solvency      134  

Section 5.17

  Collateral Documents      134  

Section 5.18

  Patriot Act; Anti-Money Laundering Laws      135  

Section 5.19

  Anti-Corruption Laws      135  

Section 5.20

  Sanctioned Persons      135  

Section 5.21

  Use of Proceeds      135  

Section 5.22

  Classification as Priority Lien Obligations; etc.      135  

Section 5.23

  Material Contracts      136  

ARTICLE VI AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS

     136  

Section 6.01

  Financial Statements      136  

Section 6.02

  Certificates; Other Information      137  

Section 6.03

  Notices      139  

Section 6.04

  Maintenance of Existence      139  

Section 6.05

  Maintenance of Properties      140  

Section 6.06

  Maintenance of Insurance      140  

Section 6.07

  Compliance with Laws      140  

Section 6.08

  Books and Records      140  

Section 6.09

  Inspection Rights      140  

Section 6.10

  Covenant to Guarantee Obligations and Give Security      141  

Section 6.11

  Use of Proceeds      142  

Section 6.12

  Further Assurances and Post-Closing Covenants      143  

Section 6.13

  Designation of Subsidiaries      143  

Section 6.14

  Payment of Taxes      144  

 

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Section 6.15

  [Reserved]      144  

Section 6.16

  [Reserved]      144  

Section 6.17

  Compliance with Anti-Terrorism Laws and Anti-Corruption Laws      144  

Section 6.18

  Performance of Material Contracts      145  

Section 6.19

  Lender Conference Calls      145  

Section 6.20

  Credit Enhancements      145  

Section 6.21

  Access to Information for GS Investor Lenders      145  

ARTICLE VII NEGATIVE COVENANTS

     146  

Section 7.01

  Liens      146  

Section 7.02

  Investments      151  

Section 7.03

  Indebtedness      155  

Section 7.04

  Fundamental Changes      160  

Section 7.05

  Dispositions      162  

Section 7.06

  Restricted Payments      165  

Section 7.07

  Transactions with Affiliates      168  

Section 7.08

  Prepayments, Etc. of Indebtedness      169  

Section 7.09

  Financial Covenant      170  

Section 7.10

  [Reserved]      170  

Section 7.11

  Nature of Business and Fiscal Year      170  

Section 7.12

  Holdings Covenant      171  

Section 7.13

  Amendments or Waivers of Organizational Documents and Certain Related Agreements      172  

Section 7.14

  Amendments or Waivers with respect to Certain Indebtedness      172  

ARTICLE VIII EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES

     172  

Section 8.01

  Events of Default      172  

Section 8.02

  Remedies Upon Event of Default      174  

Section 8.03

  Exclusion of Immaterial Subsidiaries      175  

Section 8.04

  Application of Funds      175  

Section 8.05

  Right to Cure      176  

ARTICLE IX ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND OTHER AGENTS

     177  

Section 9.01

  Appointment and Authorization of Agents      177  

Section 9.02

  Delegation of Duties      178  

Section 9.03

  Liability of Agents      179  

Section 9.04

  Reliance by Agents      179  

Section 9.05

  Notice of Default      180  

Section 9.06

  Credit Decision; Disclosure of Information by Agents      180  

Section 9.07

  Indemnification of Agents      181  

Section 9.08

  Agents in their Individual Capacities      181  

Section 9.09

  Successor Agents      181  

Section 9.10

  Administrative Agent May File Proofs of Claim; Credit Bidding      182  

Section 9.11

  Collateral and Guarantee Matters      184  

Section 9.12

  Other Agents; Arrangers and Managers      186  

Section 9.13

  Appointment of Supplemental Administrative Agents      186  

Section 9.14

  Withholding Tax      187  

Section 9.15

  GS Investor Provision      187  

Section 9.16

  Certain ERISA Matters      188  

 

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ARTICLE X MISCELLANEOUS

     189  

Section 10.01

  Amendments, Etc.      189  

Section 10.02

  Notices and Other Communications; Facsimile Copies      192  

Section 10.03

  No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies      195  

Section 10.04

  Attorney Costs and Expenses      195  

Section 10.05

  Indemnification by the Borrower      195  

Section 10.06

  Payments Set Aside      197  

Section 10.07

  Successors and Assigns      197  

Section 10.08

  Confidentiality      204  

Section 10.09

  Setoff      205  

Section 10.10

  Counterparts      206  

Section 10.11

  Integration      206  

Section 10.12

  Survival of Representations and Warranties      206  

Section 10.13

  Severability      206  

Section 10.14

  GOVERNING LAW, JURISDICTION, SERVICE OF PROCESS      207  

Section 10.15

  WAIVER OF RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY      208  

Section 10.16

  Binding Effect      208  

Section 10.17

  Judgment Currency      208  

Section 10.18

  Lender Action      208  

Section 10.19

  USA PATRIOT Act      209  

Section 10.20

  Obligations Absolute      209  

Section 10.21

  No Advisory or Fiduciary Responsibility      209  

Section 10.22

  Acknowledgment and Consent to Bail-In of EEA Financial Institutions      210  

Section 10.23

  Use of Name, Logo, etc.      210  

Section 10.24

  Intercreditor Agreements      210  

 

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SCHEDULES

1.01A

      Excluded Subsidiaries

1.01B

      Security Agreements

1.01C

      Agreed Security Principles

1.01D

      Material Contracts

2.01

      Commitments

5.06

      Litigation

5.12

      Subsidiaries and Other Equity Investments

6.12(b)

      Post-Closing Deliverables

7.01(c)

      Existing Liens

7.03

      Existing Indebtedness

7.07

      Transactions with Affiliates

10.02

      Administrative Agent’s Office, Certain Addresses for Notices

EXHIBITS

Form of

 

A

      Committed Loan Notice

B

      [Reserved]

C-1(A)

      Term Note (Lead Borrower)

C-2(B)

      Term Note (U.S. Borrower)

C-2

      Revolving Credit Note

C-3

      Delayed Draw Note

D

      Compliance Certificate

E

      Assignment and Assumption

F

      Discounted Prepayment Option Notice

G

      Lender Participation Notice

H

      Discounted Voluntary Prepayment Notice

I

      [Reserved]

J

      Sponsor Affiliated Lender Notice

K

      Prepayment Notice

L

      Solvency Certificate

M

      First Lien Intercreditor Agreement

N

      Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement

O

      Intercompany Note

P

      Successor Holdings Joinder

 

 

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FIRST LIEN CREDIT AGREEMENT

This FIRST LIEN CREDIT AGREEMENT is entered into as of March 19, 2019, among Dory Intermediate LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, (the “Lead Borrower”), Dory Acquisition Sub, Inc., a Delaware corporation (the “U.S. Borrower” and, together with the Lead Borrower, the “Borrowers” and each, individually, a “Borrower”), OneSpaWorld Holdings Limited, a company organized under the laws of the Commonwealth of the Bahamas (“Initial Holdings”), Goldman Sachs Lending Partners LLC (“GS Lending Partners”), as Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent, and each lender from time to time party hereto (collectively, the “Lenders” and individually, a “Lender”).

PRELIMINARY STATEMENTS

Pursuant to that certain Business Combination Agreement, dated as of November 1, 2018 (as amended on January 7, 2019 by Amendment No. 1 to Business Combination Agreement and as further amended, supplemented or modified and in effect from time to time in the manner permitted pursuant to Section 4.01(c) of this Agreement, and including all schedules and exhibits thereto, the “Acquisition Agreement”), by and among inter alios, the Borrowers, Initial Holdings, the SPAC (as defined herein), Steiner UK Limited, Steiner Management Services, LLC, Dory US Merger Sub, LLC, Dory Acquisition Sub, Limited and Steiner Leisure Limited (in its capacity as a Seller (as defined therein) and as the representative for the Seller Parties (as defined therein) party thereto), (x) the SPAC will use funds available in the Trust Account (as defined in the Acquisition Agreement), which holds funds contributed from public investors and held by the SPAC for the purposes of undertaking business combinations (the “SPAC Trust Account”), subject to any redemptions required under applicable law or the governing documents of the SPAC to acquire equity interests in certain subsidiaries of the Sellers by way of a business combination, which shall include, but not be limited to (i) the purchase of equity interests of certain subsidiaries organized in the United States (the transactions described in this clause (i), the “U.S. Target Purchase” and the funds in the SPAC Trust Account remaining after the U.S. Target Purchase, the “SPAC Trust Account Remainder”) and (ii) the merger of Dory U.S. Merger Sub, LLC with and into the SPAC (the “U.S. Merger” and, together with the U.S. Target Purchase, collectively, the “Closing Date Acquisition”) and (y) following the U.S. Merger, the SPAC shall lend the SPAC Trust Account Remainder to Holdings (the “HAC Loan”), in each case, on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Acquisition Agreement.

The Borrowers have requested that the Lenders extend credit (i) to the Borrowers in the form of Initial Term B Loans in an initial aggregate principal amount of $208,500,000, of which $20,000,000 shall be borrowed by the U.S. Borrower (the “U.S. Sub-facility”) and the remainder of which shall be borrowed by the Lead Borrower and (ii) to the Lead Borrower in the form of (A) Revolving Credit Commitments in an initial aggregate principal amount of $20,000,000 (the “Revolving Credit Facility”) and (B) Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments in an initial aggregate principal amount of (x) $5,000,000 (the “Delayed Draw Term Facility”). The Revolving Credit Facility may include one or more Letters of Credit from time to time.

The proceeds of the Initial Term B Loans and the proceeds of the Revolving Credit Loans borrowed on the Closing Date, will be used to finance in part the Transactions and the Transaction Expenses and other purposes not prohibited by the terms of this Agreement.

From and after the Closing Date, the proceeds of (x) any Revolving Credit Loans and Letters of Credit will be used for working capital and general corporate purposes, including the funding of Permitted Acquisitions, other permitted Investments and/or any other transaction not prohibited by the terms of this Agreement and (y) the proceeds of any the Delayed Draw Term Loans will be used for purposes permitted under Section 6.11.

 

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The applicable Lenders have indicated their willingness to lend, and the L/C Issuer has indicated its willingness to issue Letters of Credit, in each case, 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 specified in Section 2.05(d)(iii).

Acceptance Date” has the meaning specified in Section 2.05(d)(ii).

Accounting Changes” has the meaning specified in Section 1.03(d).

Acquired EBITDA” means, with respect to any Acquired Entity or Business or any Converted Restricted Subsidiary for any period, the amount for such period of Consolidated EBITDA of such Acquired Entity or Business or Converted Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable, all as determined on a consolidated basis for such Acquired Entity or Business or Converted Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable.

Acquired Entity or Business” means, for any period, any Person, property, business or asset acquired by any Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary during such period (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary), to the extent not subsequently sold, transferred or otherwise disposed of by such Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary during such period.

Acquisition” means the acquisition of (i) a Controlling equity or other ownership interest in another Person (including upon the exercise of an option, warrant or convertible or similar type security to acquire such a Controlling interest), whether by purchase of such equity or other ownership interest or upon exercise of an option or warrant for, or conversion of securities into, such equity or other ownership interest, or (ii) assets of another Person (whether by purchase, merger or otherwise) which constitute all or substantially all of the assets of such Person or of a line or lines of business conducted by such Person.

Acquisition Agreement” has the meaning specified in the Preliminary Statements to this Agreement.

Additional Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(d).

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 2.18; provided, (x) each Additional Refinancing Lender shall be subject to the approval of (i) in the case of Refinancing Revolving Credit Commitments, the L/C Issuer, such approval not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed, to the extent that each such Additional Refinancing Lender is not then an existing Revolving Credit Lender, an Affiliate of a then existing Revolving Credit Lender or an

 

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Approved Fund and (ii) the Lead Borrower and (y) any such Additional Refinancing Lender that is a Sponsor Affiliated Lender shall be subject to the provisions of Section 10.07(j), mutatis mutandis, to the same extent as if such Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness and related Obligations had been obtained by such Lender by way of assignment.

Administrative Agent” means, subject to Section 9.13, GS Lending Partners, in its capacity as administrative agent under the Loan Documents, or any successor administrative agent appointed in accordance with Section 9.09.

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.

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. “Control” means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of a Person, whether through the ability to exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise. “Controlling” and “Controlled” have meanings correlative thereto.

Affiliated Debt Fund” means a Sponsor Affiliated Lender 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 of business and the investment decisions of which are not Controlled by the private equity business of the SPAC or any Affiliate of the SPAC; provided, however, that an Affiliated Debt Fund shall exercise independent discretion from the private equity business of the SPAC and any Affiliate of the SPAC and its managers shall have fiduciary duties to third party investors that are independent of their duties to the direct or indirect equity holders of Holdings (or any parent entity thereof).

Agent Parties” has the meaning specified in Section 10.02(c).

Agent-Related Persons” means the Agents, together with their respective Affiliates, and the officers, directors, employees, agents, trustees, advisors, other representatives and successors and assigns of such Persons and Affiliates.

Agents” means, collectively, the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, and the Supplemental Administrative Agents (if any).

Aggregate Commitments” means the Commitments of all the Lenders.

Agreed Security Principles” means the principles set out in Schedule 1.01C.

Agreement” means this Credit Agreement.

Agreement Currency” has the meaning specified in Section 10.17.

Anti-Corruption Laws” means all laws, rules or regulations relating to corruption or bribery, including, but not limited to, the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended.

 

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Anti-Money Laundering Laws” has the meaning specified in Section 5.18(b).

Applicable Discount” has the meaning specified in Section 2.05(d)(iii).

Applicable Indebtedness” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Weighted Average Life to Maturity.”

Applicable Lending Office” means for any Lender, such Lender’s office, branch or affiliate designated for Eurocurrency Rate Loans, Base Rate Loans, L/C Advances or Letters of Credit, as applicable, as notified to the Administrative Agent, any of which offices may be changed by such Lender.

Applicable Payment” has the meaning specified in Section 2.05(a)(i).

Applicable Percentage” means, at any time (a) with respect to any Lender with a Commitment of any Class, the percentage equal to a fraction the numerator of which is the amount of such Lender’s Commitment of such Class at such time and the denominator of which is the aggregate amount of all Commitments of such Class of all Lenders (provided, (i) in the case of Section 2.16 when a Defaulting Lender shall exist, “Applicable Percentage” with respect to the Revolving Credit Facility shall be determined by disregarding any Defaulting Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment under the Revolving Credit Facility, (ii) in the case of Section 2.16 when a Defaulting Lender shall exist, “Applicable Percentage” with respect to the Delayed Draw Term Facility shall be determined by disregarding any Defaulting Lender’s Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment under the Delayed Draw Term Facility and (iii) if the Commitments under the Revolving Credit Facility have terminated or expired, the Applicable Percentages of the Lenders under such Revolving Credit Facility shall be determined based upon the Revolving Credit Commitments thereunder most recently in effect) and (b) with respect to the Loans of any Class, a percentage equal to a fraction the numerator of which is such Lender’s Outstanding Amount of the Loans of such Class and the denominator of which is the aggregate Outstanding Amount of all Loans of such Class.

Applicable Rate” and the “Applicable Revolving Commitment Fee” means a percentage per annum equal to:

(a) until delivery of financial statements and a related Compliance Certificate for the first full fiscal quarter commencing on or after the Closing Date pursuant to Section 6.01: (I) with respect to the Initial Term B Loans, the Delayed Draw Term Loans and Revolving Credit Loans, (x) in each case, that are Base Rate Loans, 3.00% per annum and (y) in each case, that are Eurocurrency Rate Loans, 4.00% per annum and (II) with respect to the Applicable Revolving Commitment Fee, 0.50%; and

(b) thereafter, the percentages per annum set forth below, based upon the First Lien Senior Secured Leverage Ratio as set forth in the most recent Compliance Certificate received by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 6.02(a): with respect to each of the Initial Term B Loans, the Delayed Draw Term Loans, the Revolving Credit Loans and the Applicable Revolving Commitment Fee:

 

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Pricing

Level

   First Lien Senior
Secured Leverage
Ratio
     Applicable
Rate for Base
Rate Loans
    Applicable
Rate for
Eurocurrency
Rate Loans
    Applicable
Revolving
Commitment
Fee
 

I

     ³ 4.50:1.00        3.00     4.00     0.50

II

     < 4.50:1.00        2.75     3.75     0.325

Any increase or decrease in the Applicable Rate or the Applicable Revolving Commitment Fee resulting from a change in the First Lien Senior Secured Leverage Ratio shall become effective as of the first Business Day immediately following the date a Compliance Certificate is delivered pursuant to Section 6.02(a); provided, if a Compliance Certificate is not delivered within the time frame set forth in Section 6.02(a), the Applicable Rate or the Applicable Revolving Commitment Fee set forth in “Pricing Level I” shall automatically apply commencing with the first Business Day immediately following the due date of such Compliance Certificate and continuing until the first Business Day immediately following the delivery of such Compliance Certificate; provided further, if an Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing upon the written request of the Required Lenders, the Applicable Rate or the Applicable Revolving Commitment Fee set forth in “Pricing Level I” shall automatically apply.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained above in this definition or elsewhere in this Agreement, if it is subsequently determined that the First Lien Senior Secured Leverage Ratio set forth in any Compliance Certificate delivered to the Administrative Agent is inaccurate for any reason and the result thereof is that the Lenders received interest or fees for any period based on an Applicable Rate or the Applicable Revolving Commitment Fee that is less than that which would have been applicable had the First Lien Senior Secured Leverage Ratio been accurately determined, then, for all purposes of this Agreement, the “Applicable Rate” or the “Applicable Revolving Commitment Fee” for any day occurring within the period covered by such Compliance Certificate shall retroactively be deemed to be the relevant percentage as based upon the accurately determined First Lien Senior Secured Leverage Ratio for such period, and any shortfall in the interest or fees theretofore paid by the appliable Borrower for the relevant period pursuant to Section 2.08 and Section 2.09 as a result of the miscalculation of the First Lien Senior Secured Leverage Ratio shall be deemed to be (and shall be) due and payable under the relevant provisions of Section 2.08 or Section 2.09, as applicable, at the time the interest or fees for such period were required to be paid pursuant to such Section (and shall remain due and payable until paid in full, together with all amounts owing under Section 2.08 (other than Section 2.08(c)), in accordance with the terms of this Agreement); provided, notwithstanding the foregoing, so long as an Event of Default described in Section 8.01(a), (f) or (g) has not occurred with respect to any Borrower, such shortfall shall only be due and payable five (5) Business Days following the determination described above.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Applicable Rate or the Applicable Revolving Commitment Fee in respect of any Class of Extended Revolving Credit Commitments, Refinancing Revolving Credit Commitments, any Class of Refinancing Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments, Extended Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments, any Incremental Term Loans, Extended Term Loans, Revolving Credit Loans made pursuant to any Extended Revolving Credit Commitments, Revolving Credit Loans made pursuant to any Refinancing Revolving Credit Commitments or Delayed Draw Term Loans made pursuant to Refinancing Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments or Extended Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments shall be the applicable percentages per annum set forth in the relevant Incremental Facility Amendment, Refinancing Amendment or Extension Offer.

 

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Appropriate Lender” means, at any time, (a) with respect to Loans of any Class, the Lenders of such Class and (b) with respect to any Letters of Credit, (i) the relevant L/C Issuer and (ii) the Revolving Credit Lenders.

Approved Foreign Bank” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Cash Equivalents.”

Approved Fund” means (i) any Fund that is administered or managed by (a) a Lender, (b) an Affiliate of a Lender or, (c) an entity or an Affiliate of an entity that administers or manages a Lender or (ii) at any time that any GS Investor is a Lender hereunder, any Fund that is advised by (a) an Affiliate of a GS Investor Lender or (b) an entity or an Affiliate of an entity that advises a GS Investor Lender.

Assignment and Assumption” means (a) an Assignment and Assumption substantially in the form of Exhibit E and (b) in the case of any assignment of Term Loans or the Delayed Draw Term Loans in connection with a Permitted Debt Exchange conducted in accordance with Section 2.17, such form of assignment (if any) as may have been requested by the Administrative Agent in accordance with Section 2.17(a)(viii) or any other form (including electronic documentation generated by an approved electronic platform) approved by the Administrative Agent.

Attorney Costs” means and includes all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket fees, expenses and disbursements of any law firm or other external legal counsel.

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 and Indebtedness incurred for the purpose of financing all or any part of the purchase price or cost of acquisition, repair, construction or improvement of fixed or capital assets that are used or useful in the business of such Person.

Audited Financial Statements” means the audited financial statements of Holdings and its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis for the period ended December 31, 2017, December 31, 2016 and December 31, 2015, in each case prepared in accordance with GAAP.

Auto-Extension Letter of Credit” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(b)(iii).

Available Amount” means, at any time (the “Available Amount Reference Time”), a cumulative amount (which shall not be less than zero) equal to the sum of $20,000,000, plus (in each case, without duplication):

(a) the Cumulative Excess Cash Flow Amount at such time; plus

(b) the amount of any capital contributions (including the proceeds and the fair market value (as reasonably determined by the Lead Borrower) of marketable securities or other property received by the Lead Borrower from any person other than a Loan Party (other than Holdings) or a Restricted Subsidiary) or Net Cash Proceeds from any Permitted Equity Issuance (or issuance of debt securities that have been converted into or exchanged for Qualified Equity Interests) (other than any Cure Amount or any other capital contributions or equity or debt issuances to the extent utilized in connection with other transactions permitted pursuant to Section 7.02(t), 7.06(j) or 7.08(iii)(A)) received by or made to the Lead Borrower (or any direct or indirect parent thereof and contributed by such parent to the Lead Borrower) during the period from and including the Business Day immediately following the Closing Date through and including the Available Amount Reference Time; plus

 

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(c) to the extent not otherwise applied to prepay the outstanding Second Lien Term Loans in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Credit Agreement, the aggregate amount of Retained Declined Proceeds during the period from the Business Day immediately following the Closing Date through and including the Available Amount Reference Time; plus

(d) to the extent not already reflected as a return of capital or deemed reduction in the amount of such Investment pursuant to clause (e) below or any other provision of Section 7.02, an amount equal to any net after-tax returns in cash and Cash Equivalents (including dividends, interest, distributions, returns of principal, sale proceeds, repayments, income and similar amounts) actually received by any Loan Party or Restricted Subsidiary in respect of any Investments pursuant to Section 7.02(n); minus

(e) the aggregate amount of the fair market value of (i) any Investments made pursuant to Section 7.02(n) (net of any return of capital in respect of such Investment or deemed reduction in the amount of such Investment, including, without limitation, upon the redesignation of any Unrestricted Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary or the sale, transfer, lease or other disposition of any such Investment), (ii) any Restricted Payment made pursuant to Section 7.06(n) and (iii) any payments made pursuant to Section 7.08(iii)(C), in each case, during the period commencing on the Closing Date through and including the Available Amount Reference Time (and, for purposes of this clause (e), without taking account of the intended usage of the Available Amount at such Available Amount Reference Time).

Available Amount Reference Time” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Available Amount”.

Bail-In Action” means the exercise of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by the applicable EEA Resolution Authority in respect of any liability of an EEA Financial Institution.

Bail-In Legislation” means, with respect to any EEA Member Country implementing Article 55 of Directive 2014/59/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union, the implementing law for such EEA Member Country from time to time which is described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule.

Bankruptcy Code” means Title 11 of the United States Code, as amended, or any similar federal or state law for the relief of debtors.

Base Rate” means a fluctuating rate per annum, for any day, equal to the highest of:

(a) the Prime Rate;

(b) Federal Funds Rate plus 12 of 1.00%; and

(c) the Eurocurrency Rate for an Interest Period for Dollar deposits of one (1) month plus 1.00%.

Base Rate Loan” means a Loan that bears interest at a rate based on the Base Rate.

Beneficial Ownership Regulation” means 31 C.F.R § 1010.230, as amended or modified from time to time.

 

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Benefit Plan” means any of (a) an “employee benefit plan” (as defined in 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”.

Borrower Materials” has the meaning specified in Section 6.02.

Borrowers” has the meaning specified in the Preliminary Statements to this Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, no Borrower shall be designated as an “Immaterial Subsidiary”, “Securitization Subsidiary” and “Unrestricted Subsidiary” at any time.

Borrowing” means Loans of the same Class, Type and currency, made, converted or continued on the same date and, in the case of Eurocurrency Rate Loans, as to which a single Interest Period is in effect.

Borrowing Minimum” means (x) in the case of Revolving Credit Loans, $100,000 and (y) in the case of Term Loans, $1,000,000; provided that the Borrowing Minimum with respect to the Delayed Draw Term Loans shall be $1,000,000, or such lesser amount as reasonably agreed by the Administrative Agent and the Lenders in respect of such applicable Class.

Borrowing Multiple” means (x) in the case of Revolving Credit Loans, $50,000, (y) in the case of Term Loans, $100,000, and (z) in the case of the Delayed Draw Term Loans, $1,000,000, in each case, or such other amount as reasonably agreed by the Administrative Agent and the Lenders in respect of such applicable Class.

Business Day” means any day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in New York City are authorized or required by law to remain closed, or are in fact closed; provided, when used in connection with a Eurocurrency Rate Loan, the term “Business Day” shall also exclude any day on which banks are not open for dealings in Dollar deposits in the London interbank market.

Capital Expenditures” means, for any period, the aggregate of, without duplication, (a) all expenditures (whether paid in cash or accrued as liabilities and including Capitalized Research and Development Costs and Capitalized Software Expenditures) by the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries during such period that, in conformity with GAAP, are or are required to be included as additions during such period to property, plant or equipment reflected in the consolidated balance sheet of the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries and (b) Capitalized Lease Obligations incurred by the Lead Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries during such period.

Capitalized Lease Obligation” means, at the time any determination thereof is to be made, the amount of the liability in respect of a Capitalized Lease that would at such time be required to be capitalized and reflected as a liability on a balance sheet (excluding the footnotes thereto) prepared in accordance with GAAP.

Capitalized Leases” means all leases that are required to be, in accordance with GAAP, recorded as capitalized leases; provided, 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, that all obligations of any Person that are or would be characterized as an operating lease as determined in accordance with GAAP as in effect on the date hereof (whether or not such operating lease was in effect on such date) shall continue to be accounted for as an operating lease (and not as a Capitalized Lease or Capitalized Lease Obligation) for purposes of this Agreement regardless of any

 

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change in GAAP following the Closing Date that would otherwise require such obligation to be recharacterized as a Capitalized Lease Obligation, to the extent that financial reporting shall not be affected hereby. For purposes of Section 7.01, a Capitalized Lease Obligation shall be deemed to be secured by a Lien on the property being leased and such property shall be deemed to be owned by the lessee.

Capitalized Research and Development Costs” means research and development costs that are required to be, in accordance with GAAP, capitalized.

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 required to be reflected as capitalized costs on the consolidated balance sheet of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries.

Cash Collateral” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(f).

Cash Collateralize” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(f).

Cash Equivalents” means any of the following types of Investments, to the extent owned by Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary:

(1) Dollars and, with respect to any Non-U.S. Subsidiaries, other currencies held by such Non-U.S. Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business;

(2) securities issued or directly and fully and unconditionally guaranteed or insured by the government of the United States, the United Kingdom, any participating member state of the European Union or any agency or instrumentality of the foregoing 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;

(3) certificates of deposit, time deposits and eurodollar time deposits with maturities of one year or less from the date of acquisition, with any domestic or foreign 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 Dollar Equivalent as of the date of determination) in the case of non-U.S. banks;

(4) repurchase obligations for underlying securities of the types described in clauses (2), (3) and (7) of this definition entered into with any financial institution meeting the qualifications specified in clause (3) above;

(5) commercial paper rated at least “P-1” by Moody’s or at least “A-1” by S&P, and in each case maturing within 24 months after the date of creation thereof and Indebtedness or preferred stock issued by Persons with a rating of “A” or higher from S&P or “A-2” or higher from Moody’s, with maturities of 24 months or less from the date of acquisition;

(6) marketable short-term money market and similar securities having a rating of at least “P-2” or “A-2” 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 statistical rating agency selected by the Lead Borrower) and in each case maturing within 24 months after the date of creation or acquisition thereof;

 

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(7) readily marketable direct obligations issued by any state, commonwealth or territory of the United States or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof having an Investment Grade Rating from Moody’s or S&P with maturities of 24 months or less from the date of acquisition;

(8) readily marketable direct obligations issued by any foreign government or any political subdivision or public instrumentality thereof, in each case having an Investment Grade Rating from Moody’s or S&P with maturities of 24 months or less from the date of acquisition;

(9) Investments with average maturities of 12 months or less from the date of acquisition in money market funds rated within the top three ratings category by S&P or Moody’s;

(10) with respect to any Non-U.S. Subsidiary: (i) obligations of the national government of the country in which such Non-U.S. 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 Non-U.S. 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-1” or the equivalent thereof or from Moody’s is at least “P-1” or the equivalent thereof (any such bank being an “Approved Foreign Bank”), and in each case with maturities of not more than 270 days from the date of acquisition and (iii) the equivalent of demand deposit accounts which are maintained with an Approved Foreign Bank;

(11) Cash Equivalents of the types described in clauses (1) through (10) above denominated in Dollars; and

(12) investment funds investing at least 90% of their assets in Cash Equivalents of the types described in clauses (1) through (11) above.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, Cash Equivalents shall include amounts denominated in currencies other than those set forth in clause (1) above; provided, such amounts are converted into any currency listed in clause (1) above as promptly as practicable and in any event within ten (10) Business Days following the receipt of such amounts.

Cash Management Bank” means (i) each provider of any Cash Management Services to Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary and (ii) each provider of Cash Management Services to Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary, including any Cash Management Secured Bank.

Cash Management Obligations” means obligations owed by Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary to any Cash Management Bank in respect of any Cash Management Services.

Cash Management Secured Bank” means any Person that is an Agent or a Lender or an Affiliate of any of the foregoing at the time it initially provides any Cash Management Services pursuant to a Secured Cash Management Agreement (or, in the case of Secured Cash Management Agreements existing on the Closing Date, on the Closing Date), whether or not such Person subsequently ceases to be an Agent or a Lender or an Affiliate of any of the foregoing.

 

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Cash Management Services” means any agreement or arrangement to provide cash management services, including treasury, depository, overdraft, credit card processing, credit or debit card, purchase card, electronic funds transfer, ACH transactions and other cash management arrangements.

Casualty Event” means any event that gives rise to the receipt by the Lead Borrower or any of its 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” means a controlled foreign corporation (within the meaning of Section 957 of the Code).

Change in Law” means the occurrence, after the date of this Agreement, of any of the following: (a) the adoption or taking effect of any law, rule, regulation or treaty, (b) any change in any law, rule, regulation or treaty or in the administration, interpretation, implementation or application thereof by any Governmental Authority or (c) the making or issuance of any request, rule, guideline or directive (whether or not having the force of law) by any Governmental Authority; provided, notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (x) the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, rules, guidelines or directives thereunder or issued in connection therewith and (y) all requests, rules, guidelines or directives promulgated by the Bank for International Settlements, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (or any successor or similar authority) or the United States or foreign regulatory authorities, in each case pursuant to Basel III, shall in each case be deemed to be a “Change in Law,” regardless of the date enacted, adopted or issued.

Change of Control” means the earlier to occur of:

(a) at any time and for any reason whatsoever, (A) any “person” or “group” (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act) shall become the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rules 13(d)-3 and 13(d)-5 under such Act), directly or indirectly, of more than thirty-five percent (35%) of the then outstanding voting stock of Holdings or its direct or indirect parent company and (B) at any time during any period of twelve (12) consecutive months, the Continuing Directors shall constitute less than a majority of the board of directors, managers or other governing body of Holdings;

(b) the (i) Lead Borrower ceasing to be a direct Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Holdings or (ii) the U.S. Borrower ceasing to be a direct or indirect Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Holdings; or

(c) any “change of control” or similar event under the Second Lien Credit Agreement.

Class” (a) when used with respect to Lenders, refers to whether such Lenders are Revolving Credit Lenders, Delayed Draw Term Lenders or Term Lenders, (b) when used with respect to Commitments, refers to whether such Commitments are Revolving Credit Commitments, Initial Term B Commitments, Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments, Extended Revolving Credit Commitments, Incremental Revolving Credit Commitments, Refinancing Revolving Credit Commitments, Extended Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments, Refinancing Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments, Commitments in respect of any Incremental Term Loans, Commitments in respect of any Extended Term Loans or Refinancing Term Commitments 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, Refinancing Revolving Credit Loans, Delayed Draw Term Loans, Refinancing Delayed Draw Term Loans, Initial Term B Loans, Incremental Term Loans, Refinancing Term Loans or Extended Term

 

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Loans. Notwithstanding the above, Initial Term B Loans, Delayed Draw Term Loans, Incremental Term Loans, Refinancing Revolving Credit Loans, Refinancing Term Loans, Refinancing Delayed Draw Term Loans and Extended Term Loans that have different terms (including currencies) and conditions (together with the Commitments in respect thereof and any Lenders thereof) shall be construed to be in different Classes; provided that Incremental Term Loans or any Delayed Draw Term Loans in the form of increases to any then existing Class of Term Loans shall be construed as part of the same Class as such increased Term Loans.

Closing Date” means the date on which all of the applicable conditions precedent in Section 4.01 are satisfied or waived in accordance with Section 10.01 and the Initial Term B Loans are made to the Borrowers.

Closing Date Acquisition” has the meaning specified in the Preliminary Statements to this Agreement.

Closing Date Acquisition Guarantee and Lien Release” means the release and termination of the guarantees provided by, and the security interests granted by, certain of the Subsidiaries of the Lead Borrower pursuant to (i) the Credit Agreement, dated as of December 9, 2015 (as amended, restated, amended and restated, extended, renewed, supplemented, modified and otherwise changed from time to time), by and among Steiner Leisure Limited, an international business company incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas (“Steiner Leisure”), and certain of its Subsidiaries as borrowers, Newstar Financial, Inc., as administrative agent and collateral agent, and the other lenders from time to time party thereto, and (ii) the Credit Agreement, dated as of December 9, 2015 (as amended, restated, amended and restated, extended, renewed, supplemented, modified and otherwise changed from time to time), by and among Steiner Leisure and certain of its Subsidiaries as borrowers, PNC Bank, National Association, as the administrative agent and collateral agent, and other lenders from time to time party thereto, in each case, including by way of the discharge and satisfaction of the primary obligations under such facility.

Code” means the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

Collateral” means all the “Collateral” (or similar term) as defined in the Collateral Documents and all other property of whatever kind and nature pledged or charged as collateral under any Collateral Document, and shall include the Mortgaged Properties.

Collateral Agent” means the Administrative Agent, in its capacity as collateral agent under any of the Loan Documents, or any successor collateral agent appointed in accordance with Section 9.09.

Collateral and Guarantee Requirement” means, at any time, subject to the Agreed Security Principles and the Intercreditor Agreement, the requirement that:

(a) the Collateral Agent shall have received each Collateral Document required to be delivered on the Closing Date pursuant to Section 4.01 or thereafter pursuant to Section 6.10 or Section 6.12 duly executed by each Loan Party that is a party thereto;

(b) all Obligations shall have been unconditionally guaranteed (the “Guarantees”) jointly and severally, by (i) Holdings, (ii) each Borrower (other than with respect to its own Obligations) and (iii) each other Restricted Subsidiary of Holdings that is a Material Subsidiary (other than, in the case of this clause (iii) any Excluded Subsidiary and any non-Wholly-Owned Subsidiary) (collectively, the “Guarantors” and each individually, a “Guarantor”);

 

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(c) the Obligations and the Guarantees shall have been secured pursuant to the Security Agreements by a first-priority security interest in (i) all the Equity Interests of Borrowers and (ii) all other Equity Interests (other than Excluded Equity) held directly by Holdings, Borrowers or any Subsidiary Guarantor in any Subsidiary; provided, that in the case of Obligations of the U.S. Borrower under the U.S. Sub-facility, the security interest granted shall not include (1) any Equity Interests of any CFC or Foreign Subsidiary Holdco directly owned by the Lead Borrower in excess of 65% of the issued and outstanding voting Equity Interests (within the meaning of Section 1.956-2(c)(2) of the U.S. Treasury Regulations) and 100% of the issued and outstanding non-voting Equity Interests of each such Subsidiary or (2) any Equity Interests of any direct or indirect Subsidiary of any CFC directly owned by the Lead Borrower;

(d) except to the extent otherwise provided hereunder or under any Collateral Document, the Obligations and the Guarantees shall have been secured by a perfected security interest (other than in the case of mortgages, to the extent such security interest may be perfected by delivering certificated securities and instruments (in each case, accompanied by an undated stock power or other appropriate instrument of transfer executed in blank), filing personal property financing statements, or making any necessary filings with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, United States Copyright Office, or the World Intellectual Property Organization) in, and liens (including mortgages) on, substantially all tangible and intangible assets of Holdings, each Borrower and each other Guarantor (including, without limitation, accounts receivable, inventory, equipment, investment property, material intellectual property, other general intangibles (including contract rights), owned (but not leased) real property and proceeds of the foregoing), in each case, with the priority required by the Collateral Documents; provided, security interests in real property shall be limited to the Mortgaged Properties; provided further that, assets of any CFC shall not secure the Obligations of the U.S. Borrower under the U.S. Sub-facility;

(e) none of the Collateral shall be subject to any Liens other than Liens permitted by Section 7.01; and

(f) the Collateral Agent shall have received (i) counterparts of a Mortgage with respect to each Material Real Property required to be delivered pursuant to Section 6.10 and/or Section 6.12, as applicable, duly executed and delivered by the record owner of such property, (ii) a title insurance policy for such Mortgaged Property (or marked-up title insurance commitment having the effect of a title insurance policy) (the “Mortgage Policies”) issued by a Title Company insuring the Lien of each such Mortgage as a valid first priority Lien on the property described therein, free of any other Liens except as expressly permitted by Section 7.01 hereof, together with such endorsements, coinsurance and reinsurance as the Collateral Agent may reasonably request and to the extent available in each applicable jurisdiction at commercially reasonable rates, (iii) a Survey with respect to each Mortgaged Property; provided, however, that a Survey shall not be required to the extent that (A) an existing survey together with an “affidavit of no change” satisfactory to the Title Company is delivered to the Collateral Agent and the Title Company and (B) the Title Company removes the standard survey exception and provides reasonable and customary survey-related endorsements and other coverages in the applicable Mortgage Policy to the extent available in each applicable jurisdiction at commercially reasonable rates, (iv) 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 applicable Loan Party relating thereto), (v) if any portion of any improved Mortgaged Property is located in an area identified by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (or any successor agency) as a special flood hazard area with respect to which flood insurance has been made available under the

 

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National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (as now or hereafter in effect or successor act thereto), a copy of, or a certificate as to coverage under, and a declaration page relating to, the flood insurance policies required by Section 6.06 hereof, and in compliance with, the Flood Insurance Laws, each of which (A) shall be endorsed or otherwise amended to name the Collateral Agent as mortgagee and lender’s loss payee, (B) shall (1) identify the addresses of each property located in a special flood hazard area, (2) indicate the applicable flood zone designation, the flood insurance coverage and the deductible relating thereto and (3) provide that the insurer will give the Collateral Agent 45 days written notice of cancellation or non-renewal and (C) shall be otherwise in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, (vi) such existing abstracts, existing appraisals, legal opinions (regarding the due execution and delivery and enforceability of each such Mortgage, the corporate formation, existence and good standing of the applicable mortgagor, and such other customary matters as may be reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent (at the direction of the Required Lenders), and which shall be in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent) and other documents as the Administrative Agent (at the direction of the Required Lenders) may reasonably request with respect to any such Mortgaged Property to the extent necessary to obtain the foregoing deliverables and (vii) evidence of payment of title insurance premiums and expenses and all mortgage recording, transfer, intangibles and stamp taxes, if applicable (provided that to the extent any Mortgaged Property is located in a jurisdiction which imposes mortgage recording taxes, intangibles tax, documentary tax or similar recording fees or taxes, the relevant Mortgage shall not secure an amount in excess of the fair market value of the Mortgaged Property subject thereto or another method is utilized to reduce such tax as permitted or required by applicable law), and fees payable in connection with recording the Mortgage, any amendments thereto and any fixture filings, to the extent necessary to be filed in the applicable jurisdiction, in each case in appropriate county land office(s). The Administrative Agent, Collateral Agent or the Lead Borrower shall give at least 45 days prior written notice to the Lenders prior to pledging any Material Real Property and upon confirmation from all Lenders that flood insurance due diligence and flood insurance compliance have been completed, the applicable Loan Parties may pledge such Material Real Property, with the understanding that in each case, the foregoing requirements set forth in this clause (f) shall be completed prior to the 90-day period within which the applicable Loan Party shall be obligated to provide the real estate deliverables set forth in Section 6.10 and/or Section 6.12 hereof; provided, that if such requirements are not completed during such period due to the relevant Lenders not being able to complete their respective flood insurance due diligence and flood insurance compliance, such 90-day period shall be extended for so long as is required to complete such flood diligence and related compliance.

The foregoing definition shall not require the creation or perfection of pledges of or security interests in, or the obtaining of title insurance or surveys with respect to, particular assets if and for so long as the Lead Borrower and the Administrative Agent agree in writing that the cost or other consequence (including any material adverse tax consequences) of creating or perfecting such pledges or security interests in such assets or obtaining title insurance or surveys in respect of such assets shall be excessive in view of the benefits to be obtained by the Lenders therefrom.

The Administrative Agent may grant extensions of time for the perfection of security interests in or the obtaining of title insurance and surveys with respect to particular assets (including extensions beyond the Closing Date for the perfection of security interests in the assets of the Loan Parties on such date) where it reasonably determines, in consultation with the Lead Borrower, that perfection cannot be accomplished without undue effort or expense by the time or times at which it would otherwise be required by this Agreement or the Collateral Documents.

 

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Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this definition or anything in this Agreement or any other Loan Document to the contrary:

(A) 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 the Collateral Documents and as agreed between the Administrative Agent and Holdings;

(B) the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement shall not apply to any of the following assets: (i) any fee-owned real property that is not a Material Real Property, any leasehold interests in real property (it being understood that no action shall be required with respect to creation or perfection of security interests with respect to such leases, including to obtain landlord waivers, estoppels or collateral access letters), (ii) motor vehicles and other assets subject to certificates of title, (iii) [reserved], (iv) [reserved], (v) any assets for which a pledge thereof or a security interest therein is prohibited by applicable Laws or a contractual obligation or would require obtaining the consent, approval, license or authorization of any Governmental Authority or applicable third party (other than Holdings, a Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary) (but only for so long as such prohibition exists and, in the case of any contractual obligation, only to the extent such prohibition exists on the Closing Date, or in connection with any subsequently acquired Subsidiary which is joined, or required to be joined, as a Guarantor on the date of the acquisition thereof (provided such contractual obligation is not entered into in contemplation thereof)) which consent, approval, license or authorization has not been obtained after giving effect to applicable anti-nonassignment provisions of the UCC or other applicable Law; provided that, notwithstanding the foregoing, the Lead Borrower shall use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain the consent of the of the applicable third parties party to Material Contracts in effect on the Closing Date within those time periods set forth on Schedule 6.12(b), (vi) margin stock, (vii) to the extent requiring the consent of one or more third parties (other than Holdings, a Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary) or prohibited by the terms of any applicable Organization Documents, joint venture agreement or shareholders’ agreement, Equity Interests in any Person other than (x) each of the Borrowers and (y) each of the other Wholly-Owned Material Subsidiaries that are Restricted Subsidiaries (except, in the case of this clause (y) to the extent such consent requirement or prohibition is existing at the time such Wholly-Owned Material Subsidiary becomes a Restricted Subsidiary and was not incurred in contemplation thereof) and provided that such consent requirement or prohibition was in effect on the Closing Date or, if later, at the time of the acquisition of such Equity Interests and not incurred in contemplation thereof after giving effect to applicable anti-nonassignment provisions of the UCC or other applicable Law, (viii) any governmental licenses or state or local franchises, charters and authorizations which are not permitted to be pledged under applicable Laws, after giving effect to the applicable anti-nonassignment provisions of the UCC or other applicable Law, (ix) any equipment or other asset subject to permitted liens securing permitted acquired debt (limited to the acquired assets) or permitted sale and leaseback transactions, in each case to the extent the contract or other agreement providing for such debt or sale and leaseback transaction requires the consent of any person as a condition to the creation of any other security interest on such equipment or asset and, in each case, such indebtedness, liens, transactions and prohibition or requirement is permitted under the Loan Documents, (x) any lease, license or other agreements, or any property subject to a purchase money security interest, or Capitalized Lease Obligation, in each case to the extent permitted under the Loan Documents, to the extent that a pledge thereof or a security interest therein would violate or invalidate such lease, license or agreement, purchase money debt, Capitalized Lease or similar arrangement, or create a right of termination in favor of any other party thereto (other than Holdings, a Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary) (including pursuant to any “change of control” or similar provision), other than the proceeds and receivables thereof the assignment of which is expressly deemed effective under applicable Laws notwithstanding such

 

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prohibition, (xi) any intent-to-use trademark application prior to the filing 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 under applicable federal law, (xii) Excluded Equity, (xiii) those assets as to which the Lead Borrower and the Administrative Agent reasonably determine that the cost or other consequences (including any material adverse tax consequences) of obtaining such a security interest or perfection thereof is excessive in relation to the benefit to the Lenders of the security to be afforded thereby, (xiv) assets excluded pursuant to the application of the Agreed Security Principles, (xv) any accounts or funds held or received on behalf of third parties and (xvi) any assets owned by a Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party (all of the foregoing, collectively, “Excluded Collateral”); provided, however, that “Excluded Collateral” shall not include any proceeds (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any proceeds constituting cash), substitutions or replacements of any Excluded Collateral unless such proceeds, substitutions or replacements would independently constitute Excluded Collateral; provided, further, changes to the definition of “Excluded Collateral” may be set forth in the applicable Security Agreements if agreed by the Lead Borrower and the Collateral Agent; provided, further, no action shall be required by the Loan Parties to perfect Liens on: (i) letter of credit rights and (ii) commercial tort claims reasonably expected to result in a recovery less than $500,000, in each case to the extent not perfected as supporting obligations by the filing of a UCC financing statement or other similar filing under other applicable Law in each case on the Collateral generally; and

(C) no deposit account control agreement, securities account control agreement or other control agreements or control arrangements shall be required with respect to any deposit account, securities account or other asset specifically requiring perfection through control agreements other than control by possession of pledged capital stock and promissory notes with a principal amount in excess of $500,000, on an individual basis; and

(D) control agreements (or perfection by control or similar arrangements) shall not be required with respect to any assets (including deposit or securities accounts); provided, for these purposes, “perfection by control” shall not refer to the possession of share certificates or other certificates or instruments representing or embodying the right to negotiable investment securities); and

(E) the provision of any Guarantee or Guaranty, and the creation, perfection, or maintenance of pledges of or security interests in any assets shall not be required to the extent provided in the Agreed Security Principles; and

(F) no actions in any jurisdiction or that are necessary to comply with Laws of any jurisdiction and no security agreements, pledge agreements, share charge (or mortgage) agreements or other Collateral Documents shall be governed under the Laws of any jurisdiction other than (w) the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia, (x) the jurisdiction of organization of a Loan Party to create or perfect a security interest in assets of such Loan Party, including any intellectual property registered outside such jurisdiction of organization (other than intellectual property registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office or United States Copyright Office), except for the avoidance of doubt, U.S. trademarks that require registration with or filings with the World Intellectual Property Organization, (y) solely in the case of a security interest securing the Equity Interests in any Person, the jurisdiction of organization of any Loan Party and (z) solely in the case of Mortgages, the jurisdiction of each applicable Mortgaged Property; and

 

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(G) no landlord, mortgagee or bailee waivers, including any estoppel, collateral access letters or similar type of waiver shall be required; and

(H) no notices shall be required to be sent to account debtors or other contractual third parties.

With respect to the Collateral Documents:

(i) access to the assets of a Guarantor, the maximum guaranteed or secured amount may be restricted or limited by limitation language agreed to reflect these principles and to the extent consistent with them, customary practice in the relevant jurisdiction to minimize stamp duty, notarization, registration or other applicable fees where the benefit of increasing the guaranteed or secured amount is disproportionate to the level of such fee, Taxes and duties or where registration, notarial or other fees are payable by reference to the stated amount secured in which case, any Collateral granted by that Guarantor shall be limited to the maximum recoverable amount under such limitation language;

(ii) where a class of assets to be secured includes material and immaterial assets, if the cost of granting Collateral over the immaterial assets is disproportionate to the benefit of such security interest, Collateral will be granted over the material assets only;

(iii) representations, covenants and undertakings shall only be included in each Collateral Document to the extent necessary under local law to confirm any registration or perfection of, or ensure the validity of, the Collateral or the creation, perfection or priority of the Lien or security interest created thereby and shall not be repeated;

(iv) the provisions thereof will not be unduly burdensome on the Guarantor or interfere unreasonably with the operation of its business or have an adverse effect on the commercial reputation of the Guarantor and will be limited to those required to create effective a security interest and not impose additional commercial obligations;

(v) any transactions (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the incurrence of Indebtedness, the granting of Liens, the making of Investments, Dispositions, and merger, consolidation, liquidation or winding up) permitted by the Loan Documents shall be permitted in the Collateral Documents;

(vi) information, such as lists of specified assets, will be provided, unless required to be provided more frequently by local law, annually (unless there has been no change in such information since the date of the last list delivered with a certificate regarding same) and if and, only to the extent, required by local law to be provided to perfect or register the Collateral Documents and, that this information can be provided without breaching confidentiality requirements or damaging business relationships or commercial reputation (prior to an Event of Default); and

(vii) subject to clause (iii) above, there will be no repetition or extension of clauses set out in this Agreement (or the other Loan Documents) such as those relating to notices, cost and expenses, indemnities, tax gross-up, distribution of proceeds and release of security interests other than if expressly required by local law to perfect the security interests granted thereby or make it enforceable or to facilitate the admissibility of a Collateral Document in court.

 

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Collateral Documents” means, collectively, the Security Agreements, the Mortgages, each of the mortgages, collateral assignments, Security Agreement Supplements, security agreements, pledge agreements or other similar agreements delivered to the Collateral Agent and the Lenders pursuant to Section 4.01(a), Section 6.10 or Section 6.12, the Guaranty and each of the other agreements, instruments or documents that creates or purports to create a Lien or Guarantee in favor of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties.

Commitment” means an Initial Term B Commitment, a Revolving Credit Commitment, a Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment, an Extended Revolving Credit Commitment, an Incremental Revolving Credit Commitment, a Refinancing Revolving Credit Commitment, an Extended Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment, a Refinancing Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment, a commitment in respect of any Incremental Term Loans, or a commitment in respect of any Extended Term Loans or any combination thereof, as the context may require.

Commitment Letter” means that certain Amended and Restated Commitment Letter dated as of January 8, 2019 by and among GS Lending Partners, the Principal Investors (as defined therein) and the SPAC.

Committed Loan Notice” means a notice of (a) a Term Borrowing, (b) a Revolving Credit Borrowing, (c) a Delayed Draw Term Borrowing, (d) a conversion of Loans from one Type to the other or (e) a continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans pursuant to Section 2.02(a), which, if in writing, shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit A.

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.

Compensation Period” has the meaning specified in Section 2.12(c)(ii).

Compliance Certificate” means a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit D.

Connection Income Taxes” means Other Connection Taxes that are imposed on or measured by net income (however denominated) or that are franchise Taxes or branch profits Taxes.

Consolidated Depreciation and Amortization Expense” means, with respect to any Person for any period, the total amount of depreciation and amortization expense, including the amortization of deferred financing fees or costs, capitalized expenditures, customer acquisition costs and incentive payments, conversion costs and contract acquisition costs, the amortization of original issue discount resulting from the issuance of Indebtedness at less than par and amortization of favorable or unfavorable lease assets or liabilities, of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period on a consolidated basis and otherwise determined in accordance with GAAP.

Consolidated EBITDA” means, with respect to any Person for any period, the Consolidated Net Income of such Person for such period:

(a) increased (without duplication) by the following:

(i) provision for taxes based on income or profits or capital, including, without limitation, state franchise, excise and similar taxes, foreign taxes and withholding taxes of such Person paid or accrued during such period, including any penalties and interest relating to any tax examinations, deducted (and not added back) in computing Consolidated Net Income; plus

 

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(ii) Fixed Charges of such Person for such period (including (x) net losses or any obligations under any Swap Contracts or other derivative instruments entered into for the purpose of hedging interest rate, currency or commodities risk, (y) bank fees and (z) costs of surety bonds in connection with financing activities), to the extent the same were deducted (and not added back) in calculating such Consolidated Net Income; plus

(iii) Consolidated Depreciation and Amortization Expense of such Person for such period to the extent the same were deducted (and not added back) in computing Consolidated Net Income; plus

(iv) the Transaction Expenses; plus

(v) any expenses or charges (other than depreciation or amortization expense) related to any equity offering, Investment, acquisition, disposition or recapitalization permitted hereunder or the incurrence of Indebtedness permitted to be incurred hereunder (including a refinancing thereof) (whether or not successful) (including such expenses or charges reimbursed or actually paid by a Person that is not Holdings or one of its Subsidiaries or covered by indemnification or reimbursement provisions), including (A) such fees, expenses or charges related to the incurrence of the Loans and any other credit facilities or the offering of debt securities and (B) any amendment or other modification of this Agreement and any other credit facilities or the offering of debt securities, in each case, deducted (and not added back) in computing Consolidated Net Income; plus

(vi) expenses, charges and losses in the form of earn-out obligations and contingent consideration obligations (including to the extent accounted for as performance and retention bonuses, compensation or otherwise) and adjustments thereof and purchase price adjustments, in each case paid or likely to be payable in connection with Permitted Acquisitions, other Investments, acquisitions or Capital Expenditures; plus

(vii) the amount of any restructuring charge or provision (whether or not classified as a restructuring charge or provision under GAAP), integration cost or other business optimization expense or cost that is deducted (and not added back) in such period in computing Consolidated Net Income, including any one-time costs incurred in connection with acquisitions or divestitures after the Closing Date, any recruiting expenses and costs related to the closure and/or consolidation of facilities and to exiting lines of business and any reconstruction, recommissioning or reconfiguring of fixed assets for alternative use; plus

(viii) any other non-cash charges, write-downs, expenses, losses or items reducing Consolidated Net Income for such period including any impairment charges or the impact of purchase accounting (provided, in connection with any such non-cash charge, write-down or item required or anticipated to be made, to the extent it represents an accrual or reserve for a cash expenditure for a future period such Person may determine not to addback such non-cash charges, write-downs, expenses, losses or items in the current period and, to the extent such Person does decide to addback such charges, write-downs, expenses, losses or items in respect thereof in such future period such charges, write-downs, expenses, losses or items will not be added back to Consolidated EBITDA to the extent of such adjustment previously added back) or other items classified by Holdings as special items less other non-cash items of income increasing Consolidated Net Income (excluding any such non-cash item of income to the extent it represents a receipt of cash in any future period); plus

 

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(ix) the amount of any minority interest expense consisting of Subsidiary income attributable to minority equity interests of third parties in any non-Wholly-Owned Restricted Subsidiary and the amount of any reductions in arriving at Consolidated Net Income resulting from the application of Account Standards Codification Topic 810; plus

(x) the amount of “run-rate” cost savings and synergies projected by Holdings in good faith to result from actions (x) taken or (y) to be taken; provided, actions are reasonably expected to be taken within twelve (12) months after the end of the Test Period (or with respect to the Transactions, eighteen (18) months) and the aggregate amount added back for actions to be taken will not exceed in any period 20% of Consolidated EBITDA, determined on a Pro Forma Basis; in each case, which cost savings or synergies shall be calculated on a pro forma basis as though such cost savings or synergies had been realized on the first day of such period and net of the amount of actual benefits realized prior to or during such period from such actions; provided, that a Responsible Officer of Holdings shall have certified to the Administrative Agent that such cost savings or synergies are reasonably identifiable, factually supportable and reasonably anticipated to result from such actions; plus

(xi) (A) any costs or expense incurred by such Person (or any direct or indirect parent thereof) or a Restricted Subsidiary 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 and (B) the amount of payments made to option holders of such Person or a parent company thereof in connection with, or as a result of, any distribution being made to shareholders of such Person or parent company thereof, which payments are being made to compensate such option holders as though they were shareholders at the time of, and entitled to share in, such distribution; plus

(xii) 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; plus

(xiii) any net loss included in Consolidated Net Income attributable to non-controlling interests; plus

(xiv) realized foreign exchange losses resulting from the impact of foreign currency changes on the valuation of assets or liabilities on the balance sheet of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries; plus

(xv) net realized losses from Swap Contracts or embedded derivatives that require similar accounting treatment; plus

(xvi) the amount of management, advisory, accounting, consulting, and legal fees, and the amount of refinancing subsequent transaction and exit fees (including termination fees) and related indemnities, costs and expenses paid or accrued in such period to the extent permitted hereunder; plus

 

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(xvii) the amount of loss on sale of receivables, Securitization Assets and related assets to any Securitization Subsidiary in connection with a Qualified Securitization Financing; plus

(xviii) [reserved]; plus

(xix) the pro forma adjustments identified in the quality of earnings report provided by Grant Thornton and dated October 10, 2018; plus

(xx) any costs or expenses incurred relating to environmental remediation, litigation or other disputes in respect of events and exposures that occurred prior to the Closing Date; plus

(xxi) expenses, losses and charges incurred during such period in connection with Casualty Events, to the extent that any such amount is covered by business interruption insurance and actually reimbursed or so long as such Person has made a determination that there exists reasonable evidence that such amount will be reimbursed by the insurer and only to the extent (A) such amount is not denied by the applicable insurance carrier in writing within 180 days and (B) in fact reimbursed within 365 days of the date of such determination (with a deduction for any amount so added back to the extent not so reimbursed within 365 days); plus

(xxii) fees, expenses and indemnities paid or accrued in such period to directors; plus

(xxiii) any charge, loss or expense (including non-cash charges) relating to any Permitted Reorganization, including the amount of incremental amortization or depreciation arising as a result of any adjustments to inventory, equipment and other assets arising as a result of the consummation of, and any other charge, loss or expense arising from other accounting effects of the consummation of, such Permitted Reorganization;

(b) decreased (without duplication) by the following:

(i) non-cash gains increasing Consolidated Net Income of such Person for such period, excluding any non-cash gains to the extent they represent the reversal of an accrual or cash reserve for a potential cash item that reduced Consolidated EBITDA in any prior period and any non-cash gains with respect to cash actually received in a prior period to the extent such cash was not included in Consolidated EBITDA in such prior period; plus

(ii) realized foreign exchange income or gains resulting from the impact of foreign currency changes on the valuation of assets or liabilities on the balance sheet of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries; plus

(iii) any net realized income or gains from any obligations under any Swap Contracts or embedded derivatives that require similar accounting treatment and the application of Accounting Standards Codification Topic 815 and related pronouncements; plus

 

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(iv) any amount included in Consolidated Net Income of such Person for such period attributable to non-controlling interests pursuant to the application of Accounting Standards Codification Topic 810 10 45; plus

(v) the amount of any minority interest income attributable to minority equity interests of third parties in any non-Wholly-Owned Subsidiary; and

(c) increased or decreased (without duplication) by, as applicable, any adjustments resulting from the application of FASB Accounting Standards Codification 815 and IAS 39 Financial Instruments: Recognition and Measurement and related standards.

There shall be included in determining Consolidated EBITDA for any period, without duplication, the Acquired EBITDA of any Acquired Entity or Business (but not the Acquired EBITDA of any related Person, property, business or asset to the extent not acquired during such period) and the Acquired EBITDA of any Converted Restricted Subsidiary, based on the actual Acquired EBITDA of such Acquired Entity or Business or Converted Restricted Subsidiary for such period (including the portion thereof occurring prior to such acquisition or investment). For purposes of determining the Total Leverage Ratio, the Secured Leverage Ratio and the First Lien Senior Secured Leverage Ratio, there shall be excluded in determining Consolidated EBITDA for any period the Disposed EBITDA of any Sold Entity or Business and the Disposed EBITDA of any Converted Unrestricted Subsidiary, based on the actual Disposed EBITDA of such Sold Entity or Business or Converted Unrestricted Subsidiary for such period (including the portion thereof occurring prior to such sale, transfer or disposition). Notwithstanding the foregoing, but subject to any adjustment set forth above with respect to any transactions occurring after the Closing Date, Consolidated EBITDA shall be $13,300,000, $13,900,000 $14,600,000 and $14,500,000 for the fiscal quarters ended December 31, 2017, March 31, 2018, June 30, 2018 and September 30, 2018, respectively.

Consolidated Interest Expense” means, with respect to any Person for any period, without duplication, the sum of:

(1) consolidated interest expense of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, to the extent such expense was deducted (and not added back) in computing Consolidated Net Income (including (a) amortization of original issue discount or premium resulting from the issuance of Indebtedness at less than par, (b) all commissions, discounts, closing and other fees and charges owed with respect to financing activities, (c) non-cash interest payments, (d) the interest component of Capitalized Lease Obligations and (e) net payments, if any, pursuant to interest rate obligations under any Swap Contracts with respect to Indebtedness); plus

(2) consolidated capitalized interest of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, whether paid or accrued; less

(3) interest income for such period.

For purposes of this definition, interest on a Capitalized Lease Obligation shall be deemed to accrue at an interest rate reasonably determined by such Person to be the rate of interest implicit in such Capitalized Lease Obligation in accordance with GAAP.

 

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Consolidated Net Income” means, with respect to any Person for any period, the net income (loss) of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period determined on a consolidated basis on the basis of GAAP; provided, however, that there will not be included in such Consolidated Net Income (without duplication):

(1) any net income (loss) of any Person if such Person is not Holdings or a Restricted Subsidiary, except that Holdings’ equity in the net income of any such Person for such period will be included in such Consolidated Net Income up to the aggregate amount of cash or Cash Equivalents actually distributed (or, so long as such Person is not (x) a joint venture with outstanding third party indebtedness for borrowed money or (y) an Unrestricted Subsidiary, that (as reasonably determined by a Responsible Officer of Holdings) could have been distributed by such Person during such period to Holdings or a Restricted Subsidiary) as a dividend or other distribution or return on investment;

(2) any net gain (or loss) from disposed, abandoned or discontinued operations and any net gain (or loss) on disposal of disposed, discontinued or abandoned operations;

(3) any net gain (or loss) realized upon the sale, abandonment or other disposition of any asset (including pursuant to any sale/leaseback transaction) that is not sold or otherwise disposed of in the ordinary course of business (as determined in good faith by Holdings);

(4) any extraordinary, exceptional, unusual or nonrecurring gain, loss, charge or expense (including the Transaction Expenses), or any charges, expenses or reserves in respect of any restructuring, relocation, redundancy or severance expense, new product introductions or one-time compensation charges;

(5) the cumulative effect of a change in accounting principles and changes as a result of the adoption or modification of accounting policies during such period whether effected through a cumulative adjustment or a retroactive application;

(6) any (i) non-cash compensation charge or expense arising from any grant of stock, stock options or other equity based awards and any non-cash deemed finance charges in respect of any pension liabilities or other provisions and (ii) income (loss) attributable to deferred compensation plans or trusts;

(7) all deferred financing costs written off and premiums paid or other expenses incurred directly in connection with any early extinguishment of Indebtedness and any net gain (loss) from any write-off or forgiveness of Indebtedness;

(8) any unrealized gains or losses in respect of any obligations under any Swap Contracts or any ineffectiveness recognized in earnings related to hedge transactions or the fair value of changes therein recognized in earnings for derivatives that do not qualify as hedge transactions, in each case, in respect of any obligations under any Swap Contracts;

(9) any unrealized foreign currency translation gains or losses in respect of Indebtedness of any Person denominated in a currency other than the functional currency of such Person and any unrealized foreign exchange gains or losses relating to translation of assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies;

(10) any unrealized foreign currency translation or transaction gains or losses in respect of Indebtedness or other obligations of Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary owing to Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary;

 

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(11) any recapitalization accounting effects and purchase accounting effects including, but not limited to, adjustments to inventory, property and equipment, software and other intangible assets and deferred revenue in component amounts required or permitted by GAAP and related authoritative pronouncements (including the effects of such adjustments pushed down to Holdings and the Restricted Subsidiaries);

(12) any non-cash rent expense;

(13) [reserved];

(14) earn-out and contingent consideration obligations (including to the extent accounted for as bonuses or otherwise) and adjustments thereof and purchase price adjustments;

(15) any impairment charge, write-down or write-off, including impairment charges, write-downs or write-offs relating to goodwill, intangible assets, tangible fixed assets, investments in debt and equity securities or as a result of a change in law or regulation;

(16) any after-tax effect of income (loss) from the early extinguishment or cancellation of Indebtedness or any obligations under any Swap Contracts or other derivative instruments;

(17) accruals and provisions that are in connection with the Transactions, any Investment and any acquisition in accordance with GAAP;

(18) any net unrealized gains and losses resulting from Swap Contracts or embedded derivatives that require similar accounting treatment and the application of Accounting Standards Codification Topic 815 and related pronouncements and movement of other financial instruments from the application of Accounting Standards Codification Topic 825; and

(19) 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 item.

In addition, to the extent not already excluded from the Consolidated Net Income of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the foregoing, Consolidated Net Income shall exclude (i) any expenses and charges that are reimbursed by indemnification or other reimbursement provisions in connection with any investment or any sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition of assets permitted hereunder and (ii) to the extent covered by insurance and actually reimbursed, or, so long as Holdings has made a determination that there exists reasonable evidence that such amount will in fact be reimbursed by the insurer and only to the extent that such amount is (A) not denied by the applicable carrier in writing within 180 days and (B) in fact reimbursed within 365 days of the date of such evidence (with a deduction for any amount so added back to the extent not so reimbursed within such 365 days), expenses with respect to liability or casualty events or business interruption.

Consolidated Total Debt” means, as of any date of determination, (a) the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries outstanding on such date, determined 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 any Permitted Acquisition), consisting of Indebtedness for borrowed money, Capitalized Lease Obligations and debt obligations evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes, loan agreements or other similar instruments minus (b) the aggregate amount of unrestricted cash and Cash Equivalents included on the consolidated balance

 

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sheet of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries as of such date which aggregate amount of unrestricted cash and Cash Equivalents shall be determined without giving Pro Forma Effect to the proceeds of Indebtedness incurred on such date; provided, Consolidated Total Debt shall not include (w) Letters of Credit (or other letters of credit and bankers’ acceptances), except to the extent of Unreimbursed Amounts (or unreimbursed amounts) thereunder, (x) obligations under Swap Contracts, (y) Indebtedness in respect of any Qualified Securitization Financing and (z) Non-Recourse Indebtedness.

Consolidated Working Capital” means, at any date, the excess of (a) the sum of (i) all amounts (other than cash and Cash Equivalents) that would, in conformity with GAAP, be set forth opposite the caption “total current assets” (or any like caption) on a consolidated balance sheet of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries at such date and (ii) long-term accounts receivable over (b) the sum of (i) all amounts that would, in conformity with GAAP, be set forth opposite the caption “total current liabilities” (or any like caption) on a consolidated balance sheet of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries on such date and (ii) long-term deferred revenue, but excluding, without duplication, (a) the current portion of any Funded Debt, (b) all Indebtedness consisting of Revolving Credit Loans and L/C Obligations to the extent otherwise included therein, (c) the current portion of interest, (d) the current portion of current and deferred income taxes, (e) the current portion of any Capitalized Lease Obligations, (f) deferred revenue arising from cash receipts that are earmarked for specific projects, (g) the current portion of deferred acquisition costs and any earn-out obligations, purchase price adjustments, deferred purchase money amounts, milestone and/or bonus payments (whether performance or time-based), in each case, characterized as such and, arising expressly out of purchase and sale contracts, and (h) current accrued costs associated with any restructuring or business optimization (including accrued severance and accrued facility closure costs).

Continuing Directors” means the directors, managers or equivalent body of Holdings on the Closing Date, as elected or appointed after giving effect to the Transactions and the other transactions contemplated hereby, and each other director, manager or equivalent body, if, in each case, such other director’s, manager’s or equivalent body’s nomination for election to the board of directors, managers or other governing body of Holdings is recommended or approved by a majority of the then Continuing Directors in his or her election by the stockholders or partners of Holdings.

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” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Affiliate.”

Converted Restricted Subsidiary” means, for any period, any Unrestricted Subsidiary that is converted into a Restricted Subsidiary during such period.

Converted Unrestricted Subsidiary” means, for any period, any Restricted Subsidiary that is converted into an Unrestricted Subsidiary during such period.

Covered Jurisdiction” means the United States, each state thereof and the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of the Bahamas and each country in which (i) Holdings and any Subsidiary of Holdings that is a direct or indirect parent of the Lead Borrower is organized, (ii) the total assets of all Subsidiaries organized under the laws of such jurisdiction at the last day of the most recent Test Period equals or exceeds 5.0% of the total assets of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries at such date or (iii) the gross revenues for the most recent Test Period of all Subsidiaries organized under the laws of such jurisdiction equal or exceed 5.0% of the consolidated gross revenues of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, in each case determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.

 

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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 incurred pursuant to a Refinancing Amendment, 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 part, any Class of existing Term Loans or any Class of existing Revolving Credit Loans (or unused Revolving Credit Commitments), any Class of existing the Delayed Draw Term Loans (or unused Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments) or any then-existing Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness (the “Refinanced Debt”); provided, (i) such Indebtedness has a maturity no earlier, and, with respect to Refinancing Term Loans, a Weighted Average Life to Maturity equal to or greater, than the Refinanced Debt (except that, determining the final maturity of any relevant debt which is a bridge loan by reference to the notes or term loans into which such bridge loan is to be converted to or exchanged for at maturity, and excluding customary offers to repurchase or mandatory prepayments upon a change of control, asset sale or event of loss and customary acceleration rights after an event of default and excluding amortizations in an aggregate annual amount of up to 1.00% of the original principal amount incurred), (ii) except to the extent permitted under the Loan Documents, such Indebtedness shall not have a greater principal amount than the principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) 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 commitments unutilized thereunder, (iii) the covenants and events of default of such Indebtedness are substantially identical to or, taken as a whole, not materially more favorable (as determined by the Lead Borrower in good faith) to the investors providing such Indebtedness than those contained in the documentation governing the Refinanced Debt (except for (x) covenants or other provisions applicable only to periods after the Maturity Date of the applicable Facility existing at the time of incurrence of such Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness and (y) any financial maintenance covenant to the extent such covenant is also added for the benefit of the lenders under the Refinanced Indebtedness) or otherwise reflect market terms and conditions (as determined by the Lead Borrower in good faith) at the time of incurrence of such Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness, (iv) the pricing (including interest, fees and premiums), optional prepayment and redemption terms with respect such Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness shall be determined by the Lead Borrower and the lenders providing such Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness, (v) such 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 or within one Business Day of 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 the Loan Parties, (vii) to the extent secured, such Indebtedness is not secured by property other than the Collateral and, other than Indebtedness incurred under this Agreement, the holders of such Indebtedness or a Debt Representative acting on behalf of the holders of such Indebtedness shall become party to or otherwise become subject to the provisions of (x) in the case of Indebtedness secured by a Lien that ranks pari passu with the Lien securing the Obligations, a First Lien Intercreditor Agreement, (y) in the case of Indebtedness secured by a Lien that ranks junior to the Lien securing the Obligations and pari passu with the Second Lien Term Loans, (i) if the Second Lien Term Loans are still outstanding at the relevant date of determination, the Intercreditor Agreement, or (ii) if the Second Lien Term Loans are no longer outstanding at the relevant date of determination, a Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement and/or (z) with respect to any other indebtedness, an intercreditor agreement the terms of which are consistent with market terms (as determined by the Lead Borrower and the Administrative Agent in good faith) governing arrangements for the sharing and subordination of liens and/or arrangements relating to the distribution of payments, as applicable, at the time the intercreditor agreement is proposed to be established in light of the type of indebtedness subject thereto (such intercreditor agreement, a “Subordination Agreement”) or subordination agreement reasonably satisfactory to the Lead Borrower and the Administrative Agent 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maturity and prepayment premium as the Initial Term B Loans shall share ratably in any mandatory prepayments of the Term Loans and with any other Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness able to share ratably or on a greater or lesser than ratable basis with any other Term Loans in respect of any prepayments unless the applicable Borrower and the lenders in respect of such Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness elect lesser payments. The ranking of such Indebtedness as to right of payment or as to security interests in the Collateral shall be no different than or junior to that of the Refinanced Debt.

Credit Extension” means each of the following: (a) a Borrowing and (b) an L/C Credit Extension.

Cumulative Excess Cash Flow Amount” means, as at any date of determination, an amount determined on a cumulative basis, equal to the positive amount of any Excess Cash Flow for each fiscal year of Holdings commencing with the fiscal year ending December 31, 2019 (provided that for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2019, Cumulative Excess Cash Flow Amount shall be limited to the amount of Excess Cash Flow generated from the Closing Date through December 31, 2019).

Cure Amount” has the meaning specified in Section 8.05(a).

Cure Period” has the meaning specified in Section 8.05(a).

Cure Right” has the meaning specified in Section 8.05(a).

Debt Representative” means, with respect to any Indebtedness that is secured on a pari passu basis with, or on a junior basis to, the Loans, the trustee, administrative agent, collateral agent, security agent or similar agent under the indenture or agreement pursuant to which such Indebtedness is issued, incurred or otherwise obtained, as the case may be, and each of their successors in such capacities.

Debtor Relief Laws” means the Bankruptcy Code of the United States and all other liquidation, conservatorship, bankruptcy, administration, assignment for the benefit of creditors, moratorium, rearrangement, receivership, administrative receivership, insolvency, reorganization, voluntary arrangement, scheme of arrangement, or similar debtor relief Laws of the United States or other applicable jurisdictions from time to time in effect.

Declined Proceeds” has the meaning specified in Section 2.05(b)(vi).

Default” means any event or condition that constitutes an Event of Default or that, with the giving of any notice, the passage of time, or both, would be an Event of Default.

Default Rate” means an interest rate equal to (x) in the case of principal, 2.00% per annum above the interest rate then borne by such Borrowing or (b) (i) in the case of other amounts owing hereunder (including fees and interest) with respect to the Revolving Credit Facility, 2.00% per annum in excess of the rate otherwise applicable to Revolving Credit Loans maintained as Base Rate Loans and (ii) in the case of other amounts owing hereunder (including fees and interest) with respect to the Term Loans or the Delayed Draw Term Facility, 2.00% per annum in excess of the rate otherwise applicable to Term Loans and the Delayed Draw Term Loans (in each case, denominated in Dollars) maintained as Base Rate Loans.

Defaulting Lender” means, subject to Section 2.16, any Lender that (a) has failed to (i) fund all or any portion of its Loans within two (2) Business Days of the date such Loans were required to be funded hereunder unless such Lender notifies the Administrative Agent and the Lead Borrower in writing

 

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that such failure is the result of such Lender’s determination that one or more conditions precedent to funding (each of which conditions precedent, together with any applicable default, shall be specifically identified in such writing) has not been satisfied, or (ii) pay to the Administrative Agent, any L/C Issuer or any other Lender any other amount required to be paid by it hereunder (including in respect of its participation in Letters of Credit) within two (2) Business Days of the date when due, (b) has notified the Lead Borrower, the Administrative Agent or any L/C Issuer in writing that it does not intend to comply with its funding obligations hereunder, or has made a public statement to that effect (unless such writing or public statement relates to such Lender’s obligation to fund a Loan hereunder and states that such position is based on such Lender’s determination that a condition precedent to funding (which condition precedent, together with any applicable default, shall be specifically identified in such writing or public statement) cannot be satisfied), (c) has failed, within three (3) Business Days after written request by the Administrative Agent or the Lead Borrower, to confirm in writing to the Administrative Agent and the Lead Borrower that it will comply with its prospective funding obligations hereunder (provided that such Lender shall cease to be a Defaulting Lender pursuant to this clause (c) upon receipt of such written confirmation by the Administrative Agent and the Lead Borrower), or (d) (i) has become the subject of a proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law, (ii) had appointed for it a receiver, custodian, conservator, trustee, administrator, assignee for the benefit of creditors or similar Person charged with reorganization or liquidation of its business or assets, including the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other state or federal regulatory authority acting in such a capacity or (iii) 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 or as a result of an Undisclosed Administration so long as such ownership interest or appointment (as applicable) does not result in or provide such Lender with immunity from the jurisdiction of courts within the United States or from the enforcement of judgments or writs of attachment on its assets or permit such Lender (or such Governmental Authority) to reject, repudiate, disavow or disaffirm any contracts or agreements made with such Lender. Any determination by the Administrative Agent that a Lender is a Defaulting Lender under any one or more of clauses (a) through (d) above shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error, and such Lender shall be deemed to be a Defaulting Lender (subject to Section 2.16) upon delivery of written notice of such determination to the Lead Borrower, each L/C Issuer and each Lender.

Delayed Draw Funding Date” means the date on which the Delayed Draw Term Loans are made.

Delayed Draw Note” means a promissory note of the Lead Borrower payable to any Delayed Draw Term Lender or its registered assigns, in substantially the form of Exhibit C-3 hereto with appropriate insertions, evidencing the aggregate Indebtedness of the Lead Borrower to such Delayed Draw Term Lender resulting from the Delayed Draw Term Loans made by such Delayed Draw Term Lender.

Delayed Draw Term Borrowing” means a borrowing consisting of the Delayed Draw Term Loans of the same Class, made, converted or continued on the same date and having the same Interest Period made by each of the Delayed Draw Term Lenders pursuant to Section 2.01(c).

Delayed Draw Term Facility” has the meaning specified in the Preliminary Statements to this Agreement.

Delayed Draw Term Lender” means, at any time, any Lender that has a Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment or that holds the Delayed Draw Term Loans at such time.

Delayed Draw Term Loan” has the meaning specified in Section 2.01(c).

 

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Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment” means, as to each Delayed Draw Term Lender, its obligation to make a Delayed Draw Term Loan to the Lead Borrower pursuant to Section 2.01(c), in an aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding not to exceed the amount set forth opposite such Lender’s name in Schedule 2.01 under the caption “Delayed Draw Term Loan 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.

Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment Termination Date” means the earliest to occur of (x) December 31, 2019 and (y) the date on which all or any portion of the Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments are drawn or otherwise reduced to zero or terminated in full pursuant to the terms of this Agreement.

Delayed Draw Term Loan Exit Payment” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Exit Payment”.

Deleveraging Event” means the first date on which (x) the Total Leverage Ratio is less than 1.55:1.00 or (y) the Lead Borrower or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries incurs (i) any indebtedness which is secured by a Lien junior to the Lien securing the Obligations (other than (a) term loans funded on the Closing Date under the Second Lien Credit Agreement (or any Permitted Refinancing thereof) and (b) Indebtedness incurred pursuant to Section 7.03 (other than Permitted Ratio Debt)), or (ii) any unsecured Indebtedness.

Designated Non-Guarantor Subsidiary” means a non-Wholly-Owned Restricted Subsidiary that is not the direct or indirect parent company of any Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor (other than a Subsidiary Guarantor whose Guarantee is concurrently released pursuant to Section 9.11(c)) that has been designated to the Administrative Agent as a “Designated Non-Guarantor Subsidiary” pursuant to Section 9.11(c)(ii); provided, except to the extent of the fair market value of any assets of such Restricted Subsidiary (determined at the time of such designation) that, immediately prior to such designation constituted Investments by a Loan Party in Non-Loan Parties or in Persons that are not a Restricted Subsidiary of Holdings (“Disregarded Assets”), the designation of a Restricted Subsidiary as a Designated Non-Guarantor Subsidiary shall be deemed to be an Investment by a Loan Party in a Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party in an amount equal to the fair market value of Holdings’ equity ownership of such Designated Non-Guarantor Subsidiary as determined in good faith by Holdings at the time of such designation; provided, further, that if such Designated Non-Guarantor Subsidiary subsequently becomes a Subsidiary Guarantor it will deemed to be a return of an Investment to a Loan Party from a Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party to the extent of the fair market value of such Subsidiary Guarantor’s assets at such time as determined in good faith by Holdings except to the extent of the fair market value of any Disregarded Assets of such Subsidiary Guarantor at such time as determined in good faith by Holdings.

Discount Range” has the meaning specified in Section 2.05(d)(ii).

Discounted Prepayment Option Notice” has the meaning specified in Section 2.05(d)(ii).

Discounted Voluntary Prepayment” has the meaning specified in Section 2.05(d)(i).

Discounted Voluntary Prepayment Notice” has the meaning specified in Section 2.05(d)(v).

Disposed EBITDA” means, with respect to any Sold Entity or Business or any Converted Unrestricted Subsidiary for any period, the amount for such period of Consolidated EBITDA of such Sold Entity or Business or such Converted Unrestricted Subsidiary, all as determined on a consolidated basis for such Sold Entity or Business or such Converted Unrestricted Subsidiary.

 

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Disposition” or “Dispose” means the sale, transfer, license, lease or other disposition (including any Sale Leaseback and any sale of Equity Interests) of any property by any Person, including any sale, assignment, transfer or other disposal, with or without recourse, of any notes or accounts receivable or any rights and claims associated therewith; provided, “Disposition” and “Dispose” shall not be deemed to include any issuance by Holdings or any Borrower of any of their Equity Interests to another Person.

Disposition Date” means the first date after the Closing Date on which the GS Investors (in the aggregate) cease to constitute Required Lenders.

Disqualified Equity Interests” means any Equity Interest which, 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), pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise (except as a result of a change of control or asset sale so long as any rights of the holders thereof upon the occurrence of a change of control or asset sale event shall be subject to the prior repayment in full of the Loans and all other Obligations that are accrued and payable and the termination of the Commitments and all outstanding Letters of Credit), (b) is redeemable at the option of the holder thereof (other than solely for Qualified Equity Interests), 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 ninety-one (91) days after the Latest Maturity Date at the time such Equity Interests are issued.

Disqualified Lenders” means, collectively, (i) such banks, financial institutions, other institutional lenders and investors and other entities that have been specified in writing to the GS Initial Investors in writing on or prior to the Closing Date, (ii) any competitors of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries that have been identified in writing (including by email) to the GS Initial Investors prior to November 1, 2018, and (iii) in the case of clauses (i) and (ii), any of their Affiliates that are (A) identified in writing (including by email) to the Administrative Agent from time to time or (B) reasonably identifiable on the basis of such Affiliates’ name; provided, an Affiliate of an entity mentioned in clause (iii)(B) shall not be a Disqualified Lender if it is a bona fide debt fund, except to the extent separately identified in writing (including by email) under clause (i) above that (x) is primarily or regularly engaged in, or advises funds or other investment vehicles that are engaged in, making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans, notes, bonds and similar extensions of credit or securities in the ordinary course of business and (y) none of whose personnel involved with the entities mentioned in clauses (i), (ii) and (iii)(A) above (1) is involved in the investment decisions with respect to the Loans or Commitments or (2) have access to non-public information relating to Holdings or any Person that forms part of Holdings’ business (including its Subsidiaries); provided further, any Person that is a Lender or Participant and subsequently becomes a Disqualified Lender but was not a Disqualified Lender at the time it becomes a Lender or Participant shall not be retroactively deemed a Disqualified Lender with respect to Loans and Commitments or participation interests, as applicable, then held by such Person; provided further, designations of Disqualified Lenders permitted pursuant to a writing as specified above shall not be effective until also made pursuant to a writing (including by email) delivered to the Administrative Agent on or after the Closing Date. The Administrative Agent will provide a copy of the list of Disqualified Lenders specified pursuant to clause (i) and (ii) hereof upon request by a Lender or Participant.

Disregarded Assets” has the meaning set forth in the definition of “Designated Non-Guarantor Subsidiary”.

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Dollar Equivalent” means, at any time, (a) with respect to any amount denominated in Dollars, such amount and (b) with respect to any amount denominated in any other currency, the equivalent amount thereof in Dollars as determined by the Administrative Agent at such time in accordance with Section 1.08.

ECF Determination Date” means the date that is five (5) Business Days after financial statements have been delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(a) and the related Compliance Certificate has been delivered pursuant to Section 6.02(a).

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 clause (a) or (b) of this definition and is subject to consolidated supervision with its parent.

EEA Member Country” means any of the member states of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.

EEA Resolution Authority” means any public administrative authority or any person entrusted with public administrative authority of any EEA Member Country (including any delegee) having responsibility for the resolution of any EEA Financial Institution.

Effective Yield” means as of any date of determination, the sum of (i) the higher of (A) the Eurocurrency Rate, on such date for a deposit in Dollars with a maturity of one month and (B) the Eurocurrency Rate “floor” if any, with respect thereto as of such date, (ii) the interest rate margins as of such date, (with such interest rate margin and interest spreads to be determined by reference to the Eurocurrency Rate) and (iii) the amount of original issue discount, closing payments and upfront fees thereon (converted to yield assuming a four-year average life to maturity without any present value discount).

Eligible Assignee” means, in each case, subject to the proviso at the end of this definition, (a) any Lender, any Affiliate of a Lender and any Approved Fund (any two or more Related Funds being treated as a single Eligible Assignee for purposes hereof), (b) any Person (other than a natural person) in compliance with Section 10.07(b), (c) a Sponsor Affiliated Lender in compliance with Section 10.07(j) or (d) if in the case of any assignment by or to a GS Investor Lender permitted under this Agreement, by or to any GS Investor; provided, in no event will (i) a Disqualified Lender be an Eligible Assignee without the Lead Borrower’s consent and (ii) any Defaulting Lender or any of its Subsidiaries, or any Person who, upon becoming a Lender hereunder, would constitute any of the foregoing Persons in this clause (ii) be an Eligible Assignee.

Environment” means ambient air, indoor air, surface water, groundwater, drinking water, soil, surface and subsurface strata, and natural resources such as wetlands, flora and fauna.

Environmental Laws” means any and all applicable Laws relating to pollution or protection of the Environment or natural resources; to the generation, transport, storage, use, treatment, Release or threat of Release of any Hazardous Materials; or, to the extent relating to exposure to Hazardous Materials, human health.

 

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Environmental Liability” means any liability, contingent or otherwise (including any liability for damages, costs of environmental remediation, fines, penalties or indemnities) resulting from or based upon (a) violation of any Environmental Law, (b) the generation, use, handling, transportation, storage or treatment of any Hazardous Materials, (c) exposure of any Person to any Hazardous Materials, (d) the Release or threatened Release of any Hazardous Materials into the Environment or (e) any contract, agreement or other consensual arrangement to the extent liability is assumed or imposed with respect to any of the foregoing.

Equity Contribution” means the direct or indirect contribution to the Lead Borrower or a direct or indirect parent thereof by the SPAC and certain other investors arranged by and/or designated by the SPAC or its Affiliates (including one or more members of Holdings’ management and one or more direct and indirect equity holders of Holdings prior to the Closing Date) of an aggregate amount of cash common equity (or other equity on terms reasonably acceptable to the GS Initial Investors) (with any such cash contributed to a direct or indirect parent of the Lead Borrower to be subsequently contributed to the Lead Borrower) together with the fair market value of all other capital contributions and existing investments by management and existing equityholders of Holdings rolled over in connection with the Closing Date Acquisition (such contributions or rolled over investments, collectively, the “Cash Equity Contribution”), such that the aggregate amount of the Cash Equity Contribution, the U.S. Target Purchase and the HAC Loan shall be not less than 50% of the sum of (i) the aggregate principal amount of the Initial Term B Loans or Revolving Credit Loans borrowed on the Closing Date (excluding for purposes of this determination, any amounts incurred under the Revolving Credit Facility to replace, backstop or cash collateralize existing and outstanding letters of credit (to the extent undrawn)) and the principal amount of the term loans borrowed under the Second Lien Credit Agreement on the Closing Date and (ii) the amount of such Cash Equity Contribution, the U.S. Target Purchase and the HAC Loan.

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).

ERISA” means the U.S. 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 any Loan Party and is treated as a single employer within the meaning of Section 414(b) or (c) of the Code or, solely for purposes of Section 412 of the Code, under Section 414 (m) or (o) of the Code, or Section 4001(b)(1) of ERISA.

ERISA Event” means (a) a Reportable Event with respect to a Pension Plan; (b) a withdrawal by any Loan Party 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 failure to satisfy the minimum funding standard under Sections 412 or 430 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA with respect to a Pension Plan, whether or not waived, or a failure of a Loan Party or ERISA Affiliate to make any required contribution to a Multiemployer Plan; (d) a complete or partial withdrawal by any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate from a Multiemployer Plan, notification of any Loan Party or ERISA Affiliate concerning the imposition of Withdrawal Liability on it or notification that a Multiemployer Plan is insolvent within the meaning of Title IV of ERISA or in endangered or critical status, within the meaning of Section 432 of the Code or Section 305 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

 

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4042 of ERISA for the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan; (g) the imposition of any liability under Title IV of ERISA, other than for PBGC premiums due but not delinquent under Section 4007 of ERISA, upon any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate; (h) a determination that any Pension Plan is, or is expected to be, in “at-risk” status (within the meaning of Section 303(i)(4)(A) of ERISA or Section 430(i)(4)(A) of the Code); (i) the occurrence of a non-exempt prohibited transaction with respect to any Pension Plan maintained or contributed to by any Loan Party (within the meaning of Section 4975 of the Code or Section 406 of ERISA) which could reasonably be expected to result in liability to any Loan Party; or (j) any event with respect to any Foreign Plan which could reasonably be expected to result in liability to any Loan Party similar to the liability that could arise with respect to an event described in clauses (a) through (i) above.

EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule” means the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule published by the Loan Market Association (or any successor person), as in effect from time to time.

Eurocurrency Rate” means, for any Interest Period with respect to any Eurocurrency Rate Loan:

(a)

(i) The Screen Rate; and

(ii) if the rate referenced in the preceding clause (a)(i) does not appear on such page or service or such page or service shall not be available, the rate per annum equal to the rate determined by the Administrative Agent to be the offered rate on such other page or other service that displays in place of Reuters an average ICE Benchmark Administration Interest Settlement Rate for deposits in the applicable currency (for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period) with a term equivalent to such Interest Period, determined as of approximately 11:00 a.m. (London time) two (2) Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest Period, or, if different, the date on which quotations would customarily be provided by leading banks in the London interbank market for deposits of amounts in the relevant currency for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period; or

(iii) for Interest Periods where no interest rate corresponding to an interest period of the same duration as such Interest Period appears on any such page referenced in the preceding clauses (a)(i) and (a)(ii), such rate shall be the Interpolated Rate.

Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in this Agreement, the applicable Eurocurrency Rate in respect of all Loans shall at no time be less than 0.00%.

Eurocurrency Rate Loan” means a Loan that bears interest at a rate based on clause (a) of the definition of “Eurocurrency Rate.”

Event of Default” has the meaning specified in Section 8.01.

Excess Cash Flow” means, for any period, an amount equal to the excess of:

(a) the sum, without duplication, of:

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(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 period (other than any such decreases arising from acquisitions by Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries completed during such period or the application of purchase accounting);

(iv) an amount equal to the aggregate net non-cash loss on Dispositions by Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries during such period (other than Dispositions in the ordinary course of business) to the extent deducted in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income; and

(v) cash receipts in respect of Swap Contracts during such period to the extent not otherwise included in Consolidated Net Income; over

(b) the sum, without duplication, of:

(i) an amount equal to the amount of all non-cash credits included in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income and cash charges to the extent included in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income;

(ii) without duplication of amounts deducted pursuant to this clause (ii) or clause (xii) below in prior periods and not otherwise added back pursuant to the proviso to such clause, the amount of Capital Expenditures or acquisitions permitted hereunder made in cash during such period or, at the option of Holdings, paid in cash prior to the ECF Determination Date, except to the extent that such Capital Expenditures or acquisitions were financed with the proceeds of an incurrence or issuance of long-term Indebtedness of Holdings or its Restricted Subsidiaries (other than revolving indebtedness);

(iii) the aggregate amount of all principal payments of Indebtedness of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries (including (a) the principal component of Capitalized Lease Obligations and (b) the amount of repayments of Term Loans pursuant to Section 2.07(a) and any mandatory prepayment of Term Loans pursuant to Section 2.05(b) to the extent required due to a Disposition that resulted in an increase to such Consolidated Net Income and not in excess of the amount of such increase but excluding (x) all other prepayments of Term Loans (including the Delayed Draw Term Loans), (y) all prepayments under the Revolving Credit Facility and (z) all prepayments in respect of any other revolving credit facility (except, in the case of clauses (y) and (z), to the extent such prepayment is accompanied by an equivalent permanent reduction in commitments under the applicable revolving credit facility), in each case, made during such period, except to the extent financed with the proceeds of an incurrence or issuance of other long-term Indebtedness of Holdings or its Restricted Subsidiaries (other than revolving indebtedness);

(iv) an amount equal to the aggregate net non-cash gain on Dispositions by Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries during such period (other than Dispositions in the ordinary course of business) to the extent included in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income;

 

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(v) increases in Consolidated Working Capital for such period (other than any such increases arising from acquisitions by Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries completed during such period or the application of purchase accounting);

(vi) cash payments by Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries during such period in respect of long-term liabilities of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries other than Indebtedness (including such Indebtedness specified in clause (b)(iii) above);

(vii) without duplication of amounts deducted pursuant to this clause (vii) or clause (xii) below in prior periods and not otherwise added back pursuant to the proviso to such clause, the amount of Investments and acquisitions permitted hereunder made in cash during such period or at the option of Holdings, made in cash prior to the ECF Determination Date pursuant to Section 7.02 (other than (x) intercompany Investments among Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries that are eliminated in consolidation and (y) Investments in Cash Equivalents) and solely to the extent that such Investments and acquisitions were not financed with the proceeds of an incurrence or issuance of long-term Indebtedness (other than revolving indebtedness) of Holdings or its Restricted Subsidiaries;

(viii) without duplication of amounts deducted pursuant to this clause (viii) in prior periods, the amount of any payments in respect of purchase price adjustments or earn-outs made in cash by Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries after the Closing Date (i) during such period or (ii), at the option of Holdings, to be made prior to the date of the applicable Excess Cash Flow payment is required to be made and solely to the extent that such purchase price adjustments or earn-outs were not financed with the proceeds of an incurrence or issuance of long-term Indebtedness (other than revolving indebtedness) of Holdings or its Restricted Subsidiaries;

(ix) without duplication of amounts deducted pursuant to this clause (ix) in prior periods, the amount of Restricted Payments paid in cash during such period or at the option of Holdings, made in cash prior to the ECF Determination Date pursuant to Section 7.06 (excluding Restricted Payments made to Holdings or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries or Restricted Payments made in reliance on the starter component or clause (a) of the definition of “Available Amount” or with the Net Cash Proceeds from any Permitted Equity Issuance by Holdings) except to the extent that such Restricted Payments were financed with the proceeds of an incurrence or issuance of long-term Indebtedness (other than revolving indebtedness) of Holdings or its Restricted Subsidiaries;

(x) the aggregate amount of any premium, make-whole or penalty payments actually paid in cash by Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries during such period made in connection with any prepayment of Indebtedness except to the extent that such amounts were financed with the proceeds of an incurrence or issuance of long-term Indebtedness (other than revolving indebtedness) of Holdings or its Restricted Subsidiaries;

(xi) the aggregate amount of expenditures actually made by Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries in cash during such period (including expenditures for the payment of financing fees) to the extent that such expenditures are not expensed during such period and were not financed with the proceeds of an incurrence or issuance of long-term Indebtedness (other than revolving indebtedness) of Holdings or its Restricted Subsidiaries;

 

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(xii) without duplication of amounts deducted from Excess Cash Flow in prior periods and not otherwise added back pursuant to the proviso to this clause (xii), at the option of the Lead Borrower, the aggregate consideration committed to be paid in cash by Holdings or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries relating to Permitted Acquisitions and other Investments to be consummated or made on or prior to the ninetieth (90th) day after the applicable ECF Determination Date for such period and for which binding agreements for such Permitted Acquisition or Investment exist on such ECF Determination Date, except to the extent intended to be financed with the proceeds of an incurrence or issuance of other long-term Indebtedness (other than revolving indebtedness) of Holdings or its Restricted Subsidiaries; provided, to the extent the aggregate amount utilized to finance such Permitted Acquisitions or Investments during such period is less than the amount deducted pursuant to this clause (xii) in respect of such transaction, the amount of such shortfall, shall be added to the calculation of Excess Cash Flow for the subsequent Excess Cash Flow period;

(xiii) the amount of cash taxes (including penalties and interest) paid or tax reserves set aside or payable (without duplication) in such period to the extent they exceed the amount of tax expense deducted in determining Consolidated Net Income for such period; and

(xiv) cash expenditures in respect of Swap Contracts during such fiscal year to the extent not deducted in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income.

Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

Excluded Collateral” has the meaning set forth in the definition of “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement”.

Excluded Equity” means (a) Equity Interests of any Unrestricted Subsidiary, any captive insurance company, any not-for profit Subsidiary, any special purpose entities, any Securitization Subsidiary or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Holdings, (b) Equity Interests of any Subsidiary acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition or other Investment permitted hereunder that, at the time of such Permitted Acquisition or other Investment, has assumed secured Indebtedness not incurred in contemplation of such Permitted Acquisition or other Investment and each Equity Interest of each Restricted Subsidiary that is a Subsidiary thereof, in each case, to the extent, and solely for so long as, such secured Indebtedness prohibits the pledge of such Equity Interests, (c) Equity Interests of any Immaterial Subsidiary to the extent not perfected by the filing of a UCC financing statement or other similar filing under other applicable Law in each case on Collateral generally, (d) Equity Interests of any Subsidiary with respect to which the Administrative Agent and Holdings reasonably agree that the cost or other consequences (including material adverse tax consequences) of providing a pledge of such Equity Interests or perfection thereof is excessive in view of the benefits to be obtained by the Lenders therefrom, (e) Equity Interests that may otherwise not be pledged pursuant to the Agreed Security Principles and (f) any Equity Interests of any Subsidiary the pledge of which is prohibited by applicable Laws or would reasonably be expected to result in a violation or breach of, or conflict with, fiduciary duties of such Subsidiary’s officers, directors, or managers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Equity Interests shall be Excluded Equity if such Equity Interests are not “Excluded Equity” for the purposes of any other Indebtedness of the Loan Parties in aggregate principal amount in excess of the Threshold Amount. For the avoidance of doubt, in no event shall any Equity Interests of any direct or indirect Subsidiary of any CFC that is a first-tier Non-U.S. Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower be required to be pledged under any Loan Document, to secure, any Obligations of the U.S. Borrower under the U.S. Sub-facility.

 

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Excluded Subsidiary” means (a) each Subsidiary listed on Schedule 1.01A hereto, (b) any Subsidiary that is prohibited by applicable Law or by any contractual obligation existing on the Closing Date or at the time such Subsidiary is acquired, as applicable, from guaranteeing the Obligations or which would require governmental (including regulatory) consent, approval, license or authorization to provide a Guarantee unless such consent, approval, license or authorization has been received or for which the provision of such guarantee would result in a material adverse tax consequence to Holdings or one of its Subsidiaries (as reasonably determined by the Lead Borrower and the Administrative Agent), (c) any Subsidiary organized under the laws of a jurisdiction that is not a Covered Jurisdiction, (d) any Restricted Subsidiary acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition or other Investment permitted hereunder that, at the time of such Permitted Acquisition or other Investment, has assumed Indebtedness not incurred in contemplation of such Permitted Acquisition or other Investment and each Restricted Subsidiary that is a Subsidiary thereof that guarantees such Indebtedness, in each case, to the extent such Indebtedness prohibits such Subsidiary from becoming a Guarantor (provided, each such Restricted Subsidiary shall cease to be an Excluded Subsidiary under this clause (d) if such secured Indebtedness is repaid, if such Restricted Subsidiary ceases to be an obligor with respect to such Indebtedness or such prohibition no longer exists, as applicable), (e) captive insurance companies, (f) not-for-profit Subsidiaries, (g) special purpose entities, (h) any Securitization Subsidiary, (i) any Unrestricted Subsidiary, (j) any other Subsidiary with respect to which the Administrative Agent and Holdings reasonably agree that the cost or other consequences of providing a Guarantee shall be excessive in view of the benefits to be obtained by the Lenders therefrom, (k) any Subsidiary (other than each Borrower and any direct or indirect parent of such Borrower) for which the provision of a Guarantee would result in material adverse tax consequences, as reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent and Holdings, (l) any Subsidiary excluded from providing a Guarantee or Guaranty pursuant to the Agreed Security Principles, (m) any Immaterial Subsidiary and (n) a Subsidiary for which the providing of a Guarantee would reasonably be expected to result in a violation or breach of, or conflict with, fiduciary duties of such Subsidiary’s officers, directors, or managers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Subsidiary shall be an Excluded Subsidiary if (i) such Subsidiary is a Borrower, (ii) such Subsidiary owns, directly or indirectly, any Equity Interests of a Borrower or (iii) such Subsidiary is not an “Excluded Subsidiary” for the purposes of any other Indebtedness of the Loan Parties in aggregate principal amount in excess of the Threshold Amount on an individual basis.

Excluded Taxes” means, with respect to any Agent, any Lender, any L/C Issuer or any other recipient of any payment to be made by or on account of any obligation of any Loan Party under any Loan Document, (a) Taxes imposed on or measured by net income (however determined), franchise Taxes, and branch profits Taxes, in each case (i) imposed in any jurisdiction as a result of such person being organized under the laws of, or having its principal office or, in the case of any Lender, its applicable lending office located in, the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (or any political subdivision thereof) or (ii) that are Other Connection Taxes, (b) any U.S. federal withholding Tax that is imposed on amounts payable to or for the account of a Lender or L/C Issuer with respect to an applicable interest in a Loan, Commitment or Letter of Credit pursuant to a law in effect at the time such Lender or L/C Issuer acquires such interest in the Loan, Commitment or Letter of Credit (or changes its Applicable Lending Office); provided, this clause (b) shall not apply to the extent that the indemnity payments or additional amounts any Lender or L/C Issuer would be entitled to receive (without regard to this clause (b)) do not exceed the indemnity payment or additional amounts that the Lender or L/C Issuer’s assignor (if any) was entitled to receive immediately prior to such assignment (or such change in Applicable Lending Office), (c) any Tax resulting from a failure of any Agent, Lender, L/C Issuer or any other recipient to comply with Section 3.01(g), (d) any Tax imposed pursuant to FATCA, and (e) any U.S. federal backup withholding imposed pursuant to Section 3406 of the Code.

 

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Exit Payments” means an exit payment in an amount equal to (i) with respect to the Revolving Credit Facility, 5.00% of the Revolving Credit Commitments in effect on the Closing Date (such exit payment, the “Revolving Facility Exit Payment”), which such Revolving Facility Exit Payment shall be payable pursuant to and in accordance with Section 2.09(c)(i), (ii) with respect to the Initial Term B Loans, 2.12% of the aggregate principal amount of Initial Term B Loans incurred on the Closing Date (such exit payment, the “Initial Term B Loan Exit Payment”), which such Initial Term B Loan Exit Payment shall be payable pursuant to and in accordance with Section 2.09(c)(ii) and (iii) with respect to the Delayed Draw Term Loans, 1.50% of the aggregate principal amount of the Delayed Draw Term Loans incurred on the Delayed Draw Funding Date (such exit payment, the “Delayed Draw Term Loan Exit Payment”), which such Delayed Draw Term Loan Exit Payment shall be payable pursuant to and in accordance with Section 2.09(c)(ii).

Extendable Bridge Loans” means Indebtedness 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, subject to customary conditions, to a date that is not earlier than the Latest Maturity Date existing at the time of incurrence of such Indebtedness.

Extended Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(a)(ii).

Extended Revolving Credit Commitment” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(a)(i).

Extended Term Loans” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(a)(iii)(A).

Extending Delayed Draw Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(a)(ii).

Extending Term Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(a)(iii)(A).

Extension” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(a).

Extension Offer” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(a).

Facility” means a Class of Term Loans, the Revolving Credit Facility or the Delayed Draw Term Facility, as the context may require.

FATCA” means:

(a) current Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code (and any amended or successor version that is substantively comparable) or any current or future Treasury regulations with respect thereto or other official administrative interpretations thereof;

(b) any treaty, law, regulation or other official guidance enacted in any other jurisdiction relating to an intergovernmental agreement between the United States and any other jurisdiction, which (in either case) facilitates the implementation of sub-paragraph (a) above; or

(c) any agreement pursuant to the implementation of sub-paragraphs (a) or (b) above with the United States Internal Revenue Service, the United States government or any governmental or taxation authority in any other jurisdiction.

 

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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 of New York on the Business Day next succeeding such day; provided, (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 on such day on such transactions as determined by the Administrative Agent.

Fee and Closing Payment Letter” means that certain Amended and Restated Fee and Closing Payment Letter dated as of January 8, 2019, by and among GS Lending Partners, the GS Initial Investors and the SPAC.

Financial Covenant” means the covenant set forth in Section 7.09.

Financial Plan” has the meaning specified in Section 6.02(h).

First Lien Intercreditor Agreement” means a “pari passu” intercreditor agreement substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit M (as the same may be modified in a manner satisfactory to the Administrative Agent or with the consent of the Required Lenders). Upon the request of the Lead Borrower, the Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent will execute and deliver a First Lien Intercreditor Agreement with the Loan Parties and one or more Debt Representatives for Indebtedness permitted hereunder that is permitted to be secured on a pari passu basis with the Term Loans.

First Lien Senior Secured Leverage Ratio” means, with respect to any Test Period, the ratio of (a) Consolidated Total Debt (other than any portion of Consolidated Total Debt that is unsecured or is secured by a Lien that is expressly junior to the Liens securing the Obligations; provided that for purposes of calculating compliance with the First Lien Senior Secured Leverage Ratio set forth in the definition of “Ratio Amount”, such indebtedness shall be treated as if secured on a pari passu basis with the Liens securing the Obligations, whether or not secured) as of the last day of such Test Period to (b) Consolidated EBITDA of Holdings for such Test Period.

Fixed Amount” means the sum of (a) $50,000,000 plus (b) the amount of any voluntary prepayments of the Initial Term B Loans, Delayed Draw Term Loans and Incremental Term Loans, voluntary permanent reductions of the Revolving Credit Commitments effected after the Closing Date and prior to the date of incurrence of the relevant Incremental Facility, in each case, secured on a pari passu basis and not financed with the proceeds of long-term indebtedness (other than revolving indebtedness); provided that any loan buy-backs of Term Loans shall be credited to the extent of the actual purchase price paid in cash in connection with such loan buy-back minus (c) the aggregate amount of Incremental Facilities previously incurred in reliance on the definition of the “Fixed Amount” minus (d) the aggregate amount of Permitted Alternative Incremental Facilities Debt previously incurred in reliance on this definition minus (e) the aggregate principal amount incurred under the Second Lien Credit Agreement pursuant to clause (a) of the “Fixed Amount” (as defined in the Second Lien Credit Agreement.

Fixed Charges” means, with respect to any Person for any period, the sum of:

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(b) all cash dividend payments (excluding items eliminated in consolidation) on any series of preferred stock of such Person (or any direct or indirect parent thereof) made during such period; plus

(c) all cash dividend payments (excluding items eliminated in consolidation) on any series of Disqualified Equity Interests made during such period.

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, (iv) the Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2004 as now or hereafter in effect or any successor statute thereto and (v) the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012 as now or hereafter in effect or any successor statute thereto.

Foreign Plan” means any employee benefit plan, program, policy, arrangement or agreement maintained or contributed to or by, or entered into with, any Loan Party with respect to employees outside the United States.

Foreign Subsidiary Holdco” means any Subsidiary of the Lead Borrower substantially all of the assets of which consist of the Equity Interests (or Equity Interests and intercompany indebtedness) of one or more CFCs.

FRB” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States.

Fronting Fee” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(h).

Fund” means any Person (other than a natural person) that is (or will be) engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its activities.

Funded Debt” means all Indebtedness of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries for borrowed money that matures more than one year from the date of its creation or matures within one year from such date that is renewable or extendable, at the option of such Person, to a date more than one year from such date or arises under a revolving credit or similar agreement that obligates the lender or lenders to extend credit during a period of more than one year from such date, including Indebtedness in respect of the Loans.

GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States, as in effect from time to time (other than with respect to definitions herein which reference GAAP on the date hereof); provided (A) if Holdings notifies the Administrative Agent that Holdings 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 on the operation of such provision (or if the Administrative Agent notifies Holdings 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, 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, (B) at any time after the Closing Date, Holdings may elect, upon notice to the Administrative Agent, to apply IFRS accounting principles in lieu of GAAP and, upon any such election, references herein to GAAP shall thereafter be construed to mean IFRS (except as otherwise provided herein), including as to the ability of Holdings or the Required Lenders to make an election pursuant to clause (A) of this proviso, (C) any election made pursuant to clause (B) of this proviso, once

 

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made, shall be irrevocable, (D) any calculation or determination in this Agreement that requires the application of GAAP for periods that include fiscal quarters ended prior to Holdings’ election to apply IFRS shall remain as previously calculated or determined in accordance with GAAP and (E) Holdings may only make an election pursuant to clause (B) of this proviso if it also elects to report any subsequent financial reports required to be made by Holdings, including pursuant to Sections 6.01(a) and (b), in IFRS.

Governmental Authority” means any nation or government, any state, provincial, country, territorial 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 (including any supra-national bodies such as the European Union or the European Central Bank).

GS Initial Investors” means each of Broad Street Loan Partners III, L.P., Broad Street Loan Partners III Offshore, L.P., Broad Street Loan Partners III Offshore – Unlevered, L.P., Global Loan Opportunities S.A., Broad Street Danish Credit Partners, L.P., Broad Street Credit Investments LLC, Broad Street Senior Credit Partners II, L.P. and Broad Street Credit Holdings LLC.

GS Investor” (i) the GS Initial Investors or (ii) (a) any affiliated investment entity and/or other affiliate of Goldman, Sachs & Co. LLC, (b) any fund, investor, entity or account that is managed, sponsored or advised by Goldman, Sachs & Co. LLC or its affiliates, or (c) any limited partner or investor in any GS Initial Investor or in any of the foregoing persons or entities described in clause (a) or (b), in each case, which is not a Disqualified Lender, Defaulting Lender or a natural person; provided, that (x) such term shall not include GS Lending Partners or Goldman Sachs Bank USA, as the case may be, in such parties’ capacities as providing Commitments hereunder (if any) and (y) references to the Loans made or to be made by any GS Investor does not include the Loans (if any) made or to be made by GS Lending Partners or Goldman Sachs Bank USA.

GS Investor Lender” means, at any time, a GS Investor that is a Lender at such time.

GS Lending Partners” has the meaning specified in the Preliminary Statements to this Agreement.

GS Restrictions on Letters of Credit” means that the Lead Borrower shall not request from GS Lending Partners, and GS Lending Partners shall have no obligation to issue, extend, or increase, any Letter of Credit that (a) is not a standby Letter of Credit, (b) does not have a stated final expiration date, (c) permits the transfer or assignment thereof (or the right to draw thereunder) without the consent of GS Lending Partners, (d) permits cancellation thereof without the consent of the beneficiary thereof, (e) is subject to any rules or practices other than the ISP, (f) would cause the aggregate number of outstanding Letters of Credit issued by GS Lending Partners under this Agreement at any time to exceed ten (10), (g) has more than one (1) beneficiary, (h) of which the Lead Borrower has given GS Lending Partners less than three (3) Business Day’s prior notice of the Lead Borrower’s request for issuance thereof, (i) permits reduction of the amount thereof other than on an annual, quarterly, or monthly basis, (j) for purposes of a demand for payment thereunder, does not require physical presentation to GS Lending Partners of an original or copy thereof, together with any amendments thereto (whether or not such amendments were accepted by the beneficiary thereof), (k) does not have attached thereto as an exhibit a form of demand for payment thereunder, (l) permits more than three (3) demands for payment thereunder, or (m) in connection with any demand for payment thereunder, requires disbursement of such payment to the beneficiary thereof in less than seventy-two hours after such demand for payment is made, in each case without the prior written consent of GS Lending Partners in its sole discretion.

 

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Guarantee Obligations” means, as to any Person, without duplication, (a) any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of such Person guaranteeing or having the economic effect of guaranteeing any Indebtedness or other monetary obligation payable or performable by another Person (the “primary obligor”) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, and including any obligation of such Person, direct or indirect, (i) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Indebtedness or other monetary obligation, (ii) to purchase or lease property, securities or services for the purpose of assuring the obligee in respect of such Indebtedness or other monetary obligation of the payment or performance of such Indebtedness or other monetary obligation, (iii) to maintain working capital, equity capital or any other financial statement condition or liquidity or level of income or cash flow of the primary obligor so as to enable the primary obligor to pay such Indebtedness or other monetary obligation, or (iv) entered into for the purpose of assuring in any other manner the obligee in respect of such Indebtedness or other monetary obligation of the payment or performance thereof or to protect such obligee against loss in respect thereof (in whole or in part), or (b) any Lien on any assets of such Person securing any Indebtedness or other monetary obligation of any other Person, whether or not such Indebtedness or other monetary obligation is assumed by such Person (or any right, contingent or otherwise, of any holder of such Indebtedness to obtain any such Lien); provided, the term “Guarantee Obligations” shall not include endorsements for collection or deposit, in either case in the ordinary course of business, or customary and reasonable indemnity obligations in effect on the Closing Date or entered into in connection with any acquisition or disposition of assets permitted under this Agreement (other than such obligations with respect to Indebtedness). The amount of any Guarantee Obligation 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 Obligation 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.

Guarantees” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement.”

Guarantors” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement.” For avoidance of doubt, Holdings in its sole discretion may cause any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor to Guarantee the Obligations by causing such Restricted Subsidiary to execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent a Guaranty Supplement (as defined in the Guaranty), and any such Restricted Subsidiary shall thereafter be a Guarantor, Loan Party and Subsidiary Guarantor hereunder for all purposes.

Guaranty” means, collectively, each guaranty agreement, including the First Lien Guaranty dated as of the Closing Date by and among the Loan Parties party thereto as Guarantors, and each guaranty supplement delivered pursuant to Section 6.10.

HAC Loan” has the meaning specified in the Preliminary Statements to this Agreement.

Hazardous Materials” means all hazardous, toxic, explosive or radioactive materials, substances or wastes, and all other chemicals, pollutants, contaminants, materials, substances or wastes of any nature regulated pursuant to any Environmental Law, including petroleum or petroleum distillates, asbestos or asbestos-containing materials, polychlorinated biphenyls, radon gas and toxic mold.

Hedge Bank” means any Person that is a Lender, an Agent or an Affiliate of the foregoing (x) at the time it enters into a Swap Contract or (y) on the Closing Date (with respect to Swap Contracts in existence on the Closing Date), in each case, with a Loan Party or any Restricted Subsidiary.

 

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Holdings” (i) initially, Initial Holdings and (ii) from and after a Successor Holdings Designation, the Successor Holdings in respect of such Successor Holdings Designation. In the event any such other Person is designated as “Holdings” pursuant to and in accordance with the provisions of clause (ii) above, upon the effectiveness of such designation Existing Holdings immediately prior thereto shall cease to be “Holdings” for all purposes of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.

Honor Date” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(c)(i).

IFRS” means International Financial Reporting Standards as adopted in the European Union.

Immaterial Subsidiary” means, at any date of determination, each Restricted Subsidiary of Holdings that has been designated by Holdings in writing to the Administrative Agent as an “Immaterial Subsidiary” for purposes of this Agreement (and not redesignated as a Material Subsidiary as provided below); provided, (a) for purposes of this Agreement, at no time shall (i) the total assets of all Immaterial Subsidiaries (other than Restricted Subsidiaries not organized in a Covered Jurisdiction and Unrestricted Subsidiaries) at the last day of the most recent Test Period equal or exceed 5.0% of the total assets of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries at such date or (ii) the gross revenues for such Test Period of all Immaterial Subsidiaries equal or exceed 5.0% of the consolidated gross revenues of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, in each case determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, (b) Holdings shall not designate any new Immaterial Subsidiary if such designation would not comply with the provisions set forth in clause (a) above, and (c) if the total assets or gross revenues of all Restricted Subsidiaries so designated by Holdings as “Immaterial Subsidiaries” (and not redesignated as “Material Subsidiaries”) shall at any time exceed the limits set forth in clause (a) above, then all such Restricted Subsidiaries shall be deemed to be Material Subsidiaries unless and until Holdings shall redesignate one or more Immaterial Subsidiaries as Material Subsidiaries, in each case in a written notice to the Administrative Agent, and, as a result thereof, the total assets and gross revenues of all Restricted Subsidiaries still designated as “Immaterial Subsidiaries” do not exceed such limits; and provided, further, Holdings may designate and re-designate a Restricted Subsidiary as an Immaterial Subsidiary at any time, subject to the terms set forth in this definition.

Impacted Loans” has the meaning specified in Section 3.03.

Incremental Facilities” has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(a).

Incremental Facility Amendment” has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(d).

Incremental Revolving Credit Commitments” has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(a).

Incremental Revolving Credit Loans” means a Revolving Credit Loan pursuant to Incremental Revolving Credit Commitments.

Incremental Revolving Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(i).

Incremental Term Loans” has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(a).

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;

 

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(b) the maximum amount (after giving effect to any prior drawings or reductions which may have been reimbursed) of all letters of credit (including standby and commercial), banker’s acceptances, bank guaranties, surety bonds, performance bonds and similar instruments 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 or services (other than (i) trade accounts payable in the ordinary course of business and (ii) any earn-out obligation until such obligation becomes a liability on the balance sheet of such Person in accordance with GAAP and if not paid after becoming due and payable);

(e) indebtedness (excluding prepaid interest thereon) secured by a Lien on property owned or being purchased by such Person (including indebtedness arising under conditional sales or other title retention agreements 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; and

(h) all Guarantee Obligations of such Person in respect of any of the foregoing.

For all purposes hereof, the Indebtedness of any Person shall include the Indebtedness of any partnership or joint venture (other than a joint venture that is itself a corporation, company, or limited liability company) in which such Person is a general partner or a joint venturer, 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 Debt.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, and where applicable, for the avoidance of doubt, “Indebtedness” will not include:

(i) all intercompany Indebtedness and any obligations arising from intercompany transfer pricing arrangements having a term not exceeding 364 days (inclusive of any roll-over or extensions of terms) and made in the ordinary course of business;

(ii) the amount of any net obligation under any Swap Contract on any date in excess of the Swap Termination Value thereof as of such date;

(iii) any lease of (or other agreement conveying the right to use) property (or guarantee thereof) which would be considered an operating lease under GAAP as in effect on the Closing Date;

(iv) contingent obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business;

(v) in connection with any Permitted Acquisition or other Investment, any post-closing payment adjustments to which the seller may become entitled to the extent such payment is determined by a final closing balance sheet or such payment depends on the performance of the Person or assets acquired after the closing; provided, however, that to the extent such payment becomes fixed and determined, the amount is paid within six months thereafter;

 

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(vi) deferred compensation payable to directors, officers, employees or consultants and any obligations in respect of workers’ compensation claims, early retirement obligations, pension fund obligations or contributions or social security or wage Taxes;

(vii) deferred or prepaid revenues;

(viii) prepayments or deposits received from clients or customers in the ordinary course of business;

(ix) obligations in respect of letters of credit and bank guarantees provided by Holdings or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business, to the extent such letters of credit or bank guarantees are not drawn upon or, if and to the extent drawn upon, are reimbursed no later than the fifth (5th) Business Day following receipt by such Person of a demand for reimbursement following such drawing;

(x) obligations under any license, permit or other approval (or guarantees given in respect of such obligations) incurred prior to the Closing Date or in the ordinary course of business; and

(xi) obligations in respect of performance, completion, surety, Tax, appeal, judgment, advance payment, customs, guarantees or similar instruments provided by Holdings or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business.

The amount of Indebtedness of any Person for purposes of clause (e) shall be deemed to be equal to the lesser of (i) the aggregate unpaid amount of such Indebtedness and (ii) the fair market value of the property encumbered thereby as determined by such Person in good faith.

Indemnified Liabilities” has the meaning specified in Section 10.05.

Indemnified Taxes” means all Taxes, other than Excluded Taxes, imposed on or in respect of any payment made by or on account of any obligation of any Loan Party under any Loan Document.

Indemnitees” has the meaning specified in Section 10.05.

Information” has the meaning specified in Section 10.08.

Initial Holdings” has the meaning specified in the Preliminary Statements to this Agreement.

Initial Term B Borrowing” means a Borrowing in respect of Initial Term B Loans.

Initial Term B Commitment” means, as to each Initial Term B Lender, its obligation to make the Initial Term B Loan to the Borrowers pursuant to Section 2.01(a)(i), which together shall be in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed the amount set forth opposite such Initial Term B Lender’s name in Part A of Schedule 2.01 under the caption “Initial Term B Commitment” or as set forth on the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Initial Term B Lender becomes a party hereto, in each case, as adjusted by the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Initial Term B Lender becomes a party hereto, as applicable, in each case, as such amount may be adjusted from time to time in accordance with this Agreement.

Initial Term B Lender” means, at any time, any Lender that has an Initial Term B Commitment or an Initial Term B Loan at such time.

 

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Initial Term B Loan” means a Loan made pursuant to Section 2.01(a)(i).

Initial Term B Loan Exit Payment” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Exit Payment”.

Inside Maturity Amount” means, as of any date of determination, an amount equal to (a) $20,000,000 minus (b) the aggregate amount of Incremental Term Loans and Indebtedness previously or substantially simultaneously incurred pursuant to Section 7.03(v), in each case, to the extent such Indebtedness is incurred in reliance on the Inside Maturity Amount and (i) with a final maturity date that was earlier than (x) the Latest Maturity Date then applicable to the then existing Term Loans or (y) in the case of any such Indebtedness that is junior in right of payment or security with the then existing Term Loans, ninety-one (91) days after the Latest Maturity Date then applicable to the Term Loans or (ii) with a shorter Weighted Average Life to Maturity than the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of any then existing Class of the Term Loans.

Intercompany Note” means the master intercompany note substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit N.

Intercreditor Agreement” means the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, among the Second Lien Agent, as agent for the Initial Junior Lien Secured Parties (as defined therein), the Administrative Agent, as agent for the Initial Senior Lien Secured Parties (as defined therein), Holdings, the Borrowers and the Restricted Subsidiaries of the Borrowers from time to time party thereto, as may be amended, modified, supplemented, substituted, replaced, restated or refinanced, in whole or in part, from time to time in accordance with its terms.

Interest Payment Date” means (a) as to any Loan other than a Base Rate Loan, the last day of each Interest Period applicable to such Loan and the Maturity Date of the Facility under which such Loan was made; provided, if any Interest Period for a Eurocurrency Rate Loan exceeds three months, the respective dates that fall every three (3) months after the beginning of such Interest Period shall also be Interest Payment Dates; (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 and (c) to the extent necessary to create a fungible tranche of Term Loans, the date of the incurrence of any Delayed Draw Term Loans and/or Incremental Term Loans.

Interest Period” means, as to each Eurocurrency Rate Loan, the period commencing on the date such Loan is disbursed or converted to or continued as a Eurocurrency Rate Loan, and ending on the date one, two, three or six months thereafter as selected by the Lead Borrower in its Committed Loan Notice, or, with the consent of each applicable Lender, twelve months thereafter or a shorter period, as requested by the Lead Borrower and consented to by all the affected Lenders and the Administrative Agent; provided, in each case, that:

(i) 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;

(ii) any Interest Period that begins on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month at the end of such Interest Period) shall end on the last Business Day of the calendar month at the end of such Interest Period;

 

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(iii) no Interest Period shall extend beyond the Maturity Date of the Facility under which such Loan was made; and

(iv) in relation to any Interest Period in respect of an Incremental Revolving Credit Loan, a Refinancing Revolving Credit Loan, Refinancing Delayed Draw Term Loan, an Incremental Term Loan or a Refinancing Term Loan, a period of such length as enables the applicable Borrower to align such Interest Period with any other Interest Period that applies at such time to another Loan.

Interpolated Rate” means, with respect to any Eurocurrency Rate Borrowing for any Interest Period, a rate per annum which results from interpolating on a linear basis between (a) the applicable Screen Rate for the longest maturity for which a Screen Rate is available that is shorter than such Interest Period and (b) the applicable Screen Rate for the shortest maturity for which a Screen Rate is available that is longer than such Interest Period, in each case as of 11:00 a.m., London time on the day two Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest Period.

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 Obligation with respect to any Obligation 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 (excluding, in the case of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries, intercompany loans and any obligations arising from intercompany transfer pricing arrangements, advances, or 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) or (c) the purchase or other acquisition (in one transaction or a series of 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, in the event that any Investment is made by Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary in any Person through substantially concurrent interim transfers of any amount through Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiaries, 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 shall be the amount actually invested (which, in the case of any Investment constituting the contribution of an asset or property, shall be based on Holdings’ good faith estimate of the fair market value of such asset or property at the time such Investment is made), without adjustment for subsequent increases or decreases in the value of such Investment.

Investment Grade Rating” means a rating equal to or higher than Baa3 (or the equivalent) by Moody’s and BBB- (or the equivalent) by S&P, or an equivalent rating by Fitch, Inc.

IP Rights” has the meaning specified in Section 5.15.

ISP” means with respect to any Letter of Credit, the “International Standby Practices 1998” published by the Institute of International Banking Law & Practice, Inc. (or such later version thereof as may be in effect at the time of issuance).

Judgment Currency” has the meaning specified in Section 10.17.

Junior Financing Debt” means any Indebtedness that is secured on a junior basis to the Liens securing the Obligations or is unsecured, in each case, that is in excess of $3,000,000 on an individual basis.

 

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Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement” means (i) if the Obligations (as defined in the Second Lien Credit Agreement) are outstanding on the relevant date of determination, the Intercreditor Agreement and (ii) otherwise, a “junior lien” intercreditor agreement substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit N (as the same may be modified in a manner satisfactory to the Administrative Agent or with the consent of the Required Lenders). Upon the request of the Lead Borrower, the Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent will execute and deliver a Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement with the Loan Parties and one or more debt representatives for Indebtedness permitted hereunder that is permitted to be secured on a junior basis with the Initial Term B Loans and Delayed Draw Term Facility.

JV Entity” means any joint venture of Holdings that is not a Subsidiary.

L/C Advance” means, with respect to each Revolving Credit Lender, such Lender’s funding of its participation in any L/C Borrowing in accordance with its Applicable Percentage.

L/C Borrowing” means an extension of credit resulting from a drawing under any Letter of Credit which has not been reimbursed on the applicable Honor Date or refinanced as a Revolving Credit Borrowing.

L/C Credit Extension” means, with respect to any Letter of Credit, the issuance thereof or extension of the expiry date thereof, or the renewal or increase of the amount thereof.

L/C Issuer” means (i) GS Lending Partners (and/or a rated Affiliate thereof, to the extent required by the beneficiary of a Letter of Credit) and (ii) any other Lender (or any of its Affiliates) that becomes an L/C Issuer in accordance with Section 2.03(j) or Section 10.07(j); in the case of each of clause (i) or (ii) above, in its capacity as an issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder, or any successor issuer of Letters of Credit hereunder. Each L/C Issuer may, in its discretion (or as contemplated by clause (i) above), arrange for one or more Letters of Credit to be issued by any Affiliate (including a rated Affiliate) of such L/C Issuer, in which case the term “L/C Issuer” shall include any such Affiliate with respect to Letters of Credit issued by such Affiliate.

L/C Obligation” means, as at any date of determination, the aggregate amount available to be drawn under all outstanding Letters of Credit plus the aggregate of all Unreimbursed Amounts, including all L/C Borrowings. For purposes of computing the amount available to be drawn under any Letter of Credit, the amount of such Letter of Credit shall be determined in accordance with Section 1.09.

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 Commitment, Extended Term Loan or Incremental Term Loan, in each case as extended in accordance with this Agreement from time to time.

Laws” means, collectively, all international, foreign, federal, state, provincial and local statutes, treaties, rules, guidelines, regulations, ordinances, codes and administrative or judicial precedents or authorities, including the interpretation or administration thereof by any Governmental Authority charged with the enforcement, interpretation or administration thereof, and all applicable administrative orders, directed duties, requests, licenses, authorizations and permits of, and agreements with, any Governmental Authority.

LCA Election” has the meaning specified in Section 1.10.

LCA Test Date” has the meaning specified in Section 1.10.

 

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Lead Arranger” means the institution listed on the cover page of this Agreement as the Sole Lead Arranger and Sole Bookrunner.

Lead Borrower” has the meaning specified in the Preliminary Statements to this Agreement.

Lender” has the meaning specified in the Preliminary Statements to this Agreement and, as the context requires, includes an L/C Issuer, and their respective successors and assigns as permitted hereunder, each of which is referred to herein as a “Lender.”

Lender Participation Notice” has the meaning specified in Section 2.05(d)(iii).

Letter of Credit” means any letter of credit issued hereunder. A Letter of Credit may only be a standby letter of credit.

Letter of Credit Application” means an application and agreement for the issuance or amendment of a Letter of Credit in the form from time to time in use by the relevant L/C Issuer.

Letter of Credit Expiration Date” means the day that is five (5) Business Days prior to the scheduled Maturity Date then in effect for the Revolving Credit Facility (or, if such day is not a Business Day, the next preceding Business Day).

Letter of Credit Sublimit” means an amount equal to the lesser of (a) $5,000,000 (or such other amount as agreed by the L/C Issuers, the Revolving Credit Lenders and the Lead Borrower) and (b) the aggregate amount of the Revolving Credit Commitments.

LIBOR” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Eurocurrency Rate.”

Lien” means any mortgage, pledge, hypothecation, assignment, deposit arrangement, encumbrance, lien (statutory or other), charge, assignment (by way of security or otherwise), deemed trust, or preference, priority 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 Acquisition” means any acquisition, including by way of merger, by Holdings or one or more of its Restricted Subsidiaries permitted pursuant to this Agreement whose consummation is not conditioned upon the availability of, or on obtaining, third party financing.

Loan” means an extension of credit by a Lender to a Borrower under Article II in the form of a Term Loan, a Revolving Credit Loan or a Delayed Draw Term Loan (including any Incremental Term Loans, any Extended Term Loans, loans made pursuant to Extended Revolving Credit Commitments or Extended Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment).

Loan Documents” means, collectively, (i) this Agreement, (ii) the Notes, (iii) the Collateral Documents, (iv) any First Lien Intercreditor Agreement, (v) the Intercreditor Agreement and any other Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement, (vi) each Letter of Credit Application, (vii) the Fee and Closing Payment Letter and (viii) any other agreement or document designated as a Loan Document by the Lead Borrower and the Administrative Agent, in each case, as amended, supplemented or modified.

Loan Parties” means, collectively, (i) the Borrowers, (ii) Holdings and (iii) each other Guarantor.

 

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Management Stockholders” means the members of management of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries who are investors in Holdings or any direct or indirect parent thereof.

Margin” means the Applicable Rate together with all original issue discount (with original issue discount being equated to interest based on an assumed four-year life to maturity) and upfront or similar fees (but excluding arrangement, commitment, underwriting or structuring fees, ticking or other fees payable in connection therewith that are not shared generally with the lenders providing such facility) payable to all lenders providing such facility.

Master Agreement” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Swap Contract.”

Material Adverse Effect” means a material adverse effect on (a) the business, financial condition or result of operations, in each case, of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries (taken as a whole), (b) the ability of the Borrowers and the Guarantors (taken as a whole) to perform their material payment obligations under any Loan Document or (c) the material rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders (taken as a whole) under the Loan Documents.

Material Contracts” means any contract or other arrangement to which Holdings or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries is a party (other than the Loan Documents) for which breach, nonperformance, cancellation or failure to renew could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. For the avoidance of doubt, the contracts and arrangements listed on Schedule 1.01D shall constitute Material Contracts.

Material Real Property” means any real property located in the United States with a fair market value (as determined by the Lead Borrower in good faith) in excess of $1,000,000 owned by any Loan Party.

Material Subsidiary” means, at any date of determination, each Restricted Subsidiary of Holdings that is not an Immaterial Subsidiary (but including, in any case, any Restricted Subsidiary that has been designated as a Material Subsidiary as provided in, or has been designated as an Immaterial Subsidiary in a manner that does not comply with, the definition of “Immaterial Subsidiary”).

Maturity Date” means:

 

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with respect to the Revolving Credit Facility, the five year anniversary of the Closing Date (and, with respect to any Extended Revolving Credit Commitments, the maturity date applicable to such Extended Revolving Credit Commitments in accordance with the terms hereof);

 

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with respect to any drawn the Delayed Draw Term Loans, the seventh anniversary of the Closing Date (and, with respect to any Extended Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments, the maturity date applicable to such Extended Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments in accordance with the terms hereof);

 

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with respect to Initial Term B Loans, the seventh anniversary of the Closing Date and with respect to any (i) Extended Term Loan, the maturity date applicable to such Extended Term Loan in accordance with the terms hereof or (ii) Incremental Term Loan, the maturity date applicable to such Incremental Term Loan in accordance with the terms hereof);

 

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provided, if any such day is not a Business Day, the Maturity Date shall be the Business Day immediately preceding such day.

Maximum Tender Condition” has the meaning specified in Section 2.17(b).

MFN Qualified Term Loans” means Indebtedness in the form of term loans that is (i) incurred pursuant to clause (a) of the Fixed Amount, (ii) not incurred in connection with a Permitted Acquisition or other permitted Investment and (iii) which has a maturity date no later than one year after the Latest Maturity Date applicable to the then existing Term Loans.

Minimum Extension Condition” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(b).

Minimum Tender Condition” has the meaning specified in Section 2.17(b).

Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. and any successor thereto.

Mortgage” means, collectively, the deeds of trust, trust deeds, deeds of hypothecation, security deeds, and mortgages creating and evidencing a Lien on a Mortgaged Property made by the Loan Parties in favor or for the benefit of the Collateral Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, executed and delivered pursuant to Section 6.10 and/or Section 6.12, as applicable.

Mortgage Policies” has the meaning specified in paragraph (f) of the definition of “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement”.

Mortgaged Property” means each real property owned by any Loan Party, if any, which shall be subject to a Mortgage delivered pursuant to Section 6.10 and/or Section 6.12, as applicable.

Multiemployer Plan” means any employee benefit plan of the type described in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA, to which any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate makes or is obligated to make contributions, or during the immediately preceding six (6) plan years, has made or been obligated to make contributions.

Net Cash Proceeds” means:

(a) with respect to the Disposition of any asset by Holdings or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries or any Casualty Event, the excess, if any, of (i) the sum of cash and Cash Equivalents received in connection with such Disposition or Casualty Event (including any cash or Cash Equivalents received by way of deferred payment pursuant to, or by monetization of, a note receivable or otherwise, but only as and when so received and, with respect to any Casualty Event, any insurance proceeds or condemnation awards in respect of such Casualty Event actually received by or paid to or for the account of Holdings or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries) over (ii) the sum of (A) the principal amount, premium or penalty, if any, interest, fees and other amounts on any Indebtedness that is secured by the asset subject to such Disposition or Casualty Event and that is required to be repaid (and is timely repaid) in connection with such Disposition or Casualty Event (other than Indebtedness under the Loan Documents), (B) the out-of-pocket fees and expenses (including attorneys’ 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) actually incurred by Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary in connection with such Disposition or Casualty Event, (C) taxes paid or reasonably estimated to be actually payable in connection

 

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therewith (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any income, withholding and other taxes payable as a result of the distribution of such proceeds to Holdings) and (D) any reserve for adjustment in respect of (x) the sale price of such asset or assets established in accordance with GAAP and (y) any liabilities associated with such asset or assets and retained by Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary after such sale or other disposition thereof, including pension and other post-employment benefit liabilities and liabilities related to environmental matters or with respect to any indemnification obligations associated with such transaction; it being understood that “Net Cash Proceeds” shall include (i) any cash or Cash Equivalents received upon the Disposition of any non-cash consideration by Holdings or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in any such Disposition and (ii) upon the reversal (without the satisfaction of any applicable liabilities in cash in a corresponding amount) of any reserve described in clause (D) above or if such liabilities have not been satisfied in cash and such reserve is not reversed within 365 days after such Disposition or Casualty Event, the amount of such reserve; provided, no net cash proceeds calculated in accordance with the foregoing realized in a single transaction or series of related transactions shall constitute Net Cash Proceeds under this clause (a) unless such net cash proceeds shall exceed $2,000,000 or in any fiscal year until the aggregate amount of all such net cash proceeds in such fiscal year shall exceed $5,000,000 or 10% of Consolidated EBITDA of Holdings (calculated on a Pro Forma Basis) (and thereafter only net cash proceeds in excess of such amount shall constitute Net Cash Proceeds under this clause (a)); and

(b) (i) with respect to the incurrence or issuance of any Indebtedness by Holdings or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, the excess, if any, of (x) the sum of the cash received in connection with such incurrence or issuance over (y) the investment banking fees, underwriting discounts, commissions, costs, fees, out-of-pocket expenses and other expenses incurred by Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary in connection with such incurrence or issuance and (ii) with respect to any Permitted Equity Issuance by any direct or indirect parent of Holdings, the amount of cash from such Permitted Equity Issuance and actually contributed to the capital of Holdings.

Non-Consenting Lender” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.07(d).

Non-Extension Notice Date” has the meaning set forth in Section 2.03(b)(iii).

Non-Loan Party” means any Restricted Subsidiary of Holdings that is not a Loan Party.

Non-Recourse Indebtedness” means Indebtedness that is non-recourse to Holdings or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries.

Non-U.S. Subsidiary” means any direct or indirect Restricted Subsidiary of Holdings which is not a U.S. Subsidiary.

Note” means a Term Note, a Revolving Credit Note or a Delayed Draw Note as the context may require.

Obligations” means (a) all advances to, and debts, liabilities, obligations, covenants and duties of, any Loan Party or other Subsidiary arising under any Loan Document or otherwise with respect to any Loan or Letter of Credit, whether direct or indirect (including those acquired by assumption), absolute or contingent, due or to become due, now existing or hereafter arising and including interest and fees that accrue after the commencement by or against any Loan Party or any other Subsidiary of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Laws naming such Person as the debtor in such proceeding, regardless of whether such interest and fees are allowed claims in such proceeding, (b) for purposes of the Collateral

 

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Documents and Section 8.04 only, obligations of any Loan Party arising under any Secured Hedge Agreement and (c) for purposes of the Collateral Documents and Section 8.04 only, obligations under Secured Cash Management Agreements; provided that in the case of clauses (b) and (c), only to the extent that, and for so long as, the other Obligations are so secured or guaranteed, and any release of Collateral or Guarantees effected in a manner permitted by this Agreement shall not require the consent of holders of obligations under Secured Hedge Agreements or obligations under Secured Cash Management Agreements. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Obligations of the Loan Parties under the Loan Documents (and of any of their Subsidiaries to the extent they have obligations under the Loan Documents) include (a) the obligation (including guarantee obligations) to pay principal, interest, Letter of Credit commissions, reimbursement obligations, charges, expenses, fees, premiums, Attorney Costs, indemnities and other amounts, in each case, payable by any Loan Party or any other Subsidiary under any Loan Document and (b) the obligation of any Loan Party or any other Subsidiary to reimburse any amount in respect of any of the foregoing that any Lender, in its sole discretion, may elect to pay or advance on behalf of such Loan Party or such Subsidiary. For the avoidance of doubt, the Obligations shall not include any Excluded Swap Obligations (as defined in the Guaranty).

OFAC” has the meaning specified in Section 5.20.

Offered Loans” has the meaning specified in Section 2.05(d)(iii).

Organization Documents” means (a) with respect to any corporation or company, the certificate or articles of incorporation, the memorandum and articles of association, any certificates of change of name and/or the bylaws; (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, declaration, 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)(iii).

Other Connection Taxes” means, with respect to any recipient, Taxes imposed as a result of a present or former connection between such recipient and the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (other than connections arising from such recipient having executed, delivered, become a party to, performed its obligations under, received payments under, received or perfected a security interest under, engaged in any other transaction pursuant to or enforced any Loan Document, or sold or assigned an interest in any Loan or Loan Documents).

Other Taxes” means all present or future stamp, court or documentary Taxes and any other intangible, mortgage recording or similar Taxes which arise from any payment made under any Loan Document or from the execution, delivery, performance, enforcement or registration of, from the receipt or perfection of a security interest under or otherwise with respect to, any Loan Document, excluding, in each case, any such Tax that is an Other Connection Tax resulting from an Assignment and Assumption or transfer or assignment to or designation of a new Applicable Lending Office or other office for receiving payments under any Loan Document other than an assignment (or designation of a new Applicable Lending Office) pursuant to a request by the Lead Borrower under Section 3.01(f) or Section 3.07.

 

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Outstanding Amount” means:

(a) with respect to any Loan on any date, the outstanding principal amount thereof after giving effect to any borrowings and prepayments or repayments thereof (including any refinancing of outstanding Unreimbursed Amounts under Letters of Credit or L/C Borrowings as a Revolving Credit Borrowing) occurring on such date; and

(b) with respect to any Letter of Credit, Unreimbursed Amount, L/C Borrowing or L/C Obligations on any date, the outstanding amount thereof on such date after giving effect to any related L/C Credit Extension occurring on such date and any other changes thereto as of such date, including as a result of any reimbursements of outstanding Unreimbursed Amounts under related Letters of Credit (including any refinancing of outstanding Unreimbursed Amounts under related Letters of Credit or related L/C Credit Extensions as a Revolving Credit Borrowing) or any reductions in the maximum amount available for drawing under related Letters of Credit taking effect on such date.

Participant” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(g)(i).

Participant Register” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(g)(ii).

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 any ERISA Affiliate or to which any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate contributes or has an obligation to contribute, or in the case of a multiple employer or other plan described in Section 4064(a) of ERISA, has made contributions at any time during the immediately preceding six (6) plan years.

Permitted Acquisition” has the meaning specified in Section 7.02(j).

Permitted Alternative Incremental Facilities Debt” has the meaning specified in Section 7.03(v).

Permitted Debt Exchange” has the meaning specified in Section 2.17(a).

Permitted Debt Exchange Notes” has the meaning specified in Section 2.17(a).

Permitted Debt Exchange Offer” has the meaning specified in Section 2.17(a).

Permitted Equity Issuance” means any sale or issuance of any Qualified Equity Interests of Holdings or any direct or indirect parent of Holdings.

Permitted First Priority Refinancing Debt” means any secured Indebtedness incurred by Holdings, any Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor in the form of one or more series of senior secured notes or loans; provided, such Indebtedness constitutes Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness. Permitted First Priority Refinancing Debt will include any Registered Equivalent Notes issued in exchange therefor.

Permitted Holdings Debt” means unsecured Indebtedness of Holdings that:

 

(a)

is not subject to any Guarantee by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary;

 

(b)

does not mature prior to the date that is ninety-one (91) days after the Latest Maturity Date at the time of incurrence thereof;

 

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(c)

no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing immediately after the issuance or incurrence thereof or would result therefrom;

 

(d)

has no scheduled amortization or payments of principal prior to the date that is ninety-one (91) days after the Latest Maturity Date at the time of incurrence thereof (it being understood that such Indebtedness may have mandatory prepayment, repurchase or redemption provisions satisfying the requirements of clause (f) hereof);

 

(e)

does not require any payments in cash of interest or other amounts in respect of the principal thereof prior to the date that is ninety-one (91) days after the Latest Maturity Date at the time of incurrence thereof; and

 

(f)

has mandatory prepayment, repurchase or redemption, covenant, default and remedy provisions customary for senior discount notes of an issuer that is the parent of a borrower under senior secured credit facilities, as determined in good faith by a Responsible Officer of the Lead Borrower;

provided that clauses (d) and (e) will not restrict “catch-up” payments that are necessary to prevent such Indebtedness from being treated as an “applicable high yield discount obligation” within the meaning of Section 163(i)(1) of the Code.

Permitted Junior Priority Refinancing Debt” means secured Indebtedness incurred by Holdings, any Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor in the form of one or more series of second lien (or other junior lien) secured notes or secured loans; provided, (i) such Indebtedness is secured by the Collateral on a junior priority basis to the Liens securing the Obligations and the obligations in respect of any Permitted First Priority Refinancing Debt, (ii) such Indebtedness constitutes Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness and (iii) a senior representative acting on behalf of the holders of such Indebtedness shall have become party to (x) to the extent the Second Lien Term Loans are still outstanding on the relevant date of determination, the Intercreditor Agreement and (y) if the Second Lien Term Loans are no longer outstanding on the relevant date of determination, another Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement or, if applicable, a Subordination Agreement. Permitted Junior Priority Refinancing Debt will include any junior secured or unsecured Registered Equivalent Notes issued in exchange therefor.

Permitted Jurisdiction” means the Commonwealth of the Bahamas and the United States or any state thereof or the District of Columbia and any other jurisdiction reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent; provided, that in the case of a Borrower, only the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia shall be a Permitted Jurisdiction.

Permitted Ratio Debt” means Indebtedness of Holdings or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries; provided,

 

  (a)

if such Indebtedness is secured on a pari passu basis with the Obligations in respect of the Initial Term B Loans and Delayed Draw Term Facility, immediately after giving effect to the issuance, incurrence or assumption of such Indebtedness the First Lien Senior Secured Leverage Ratio is no greater than 5.00:1.00 on a Pro Forma Basis after giving effect to the issuance, incurrence or assumption of such Indebtedness and the use of proceeds thereof and measured as of and for the Test Period immediately preceding the issuance, incurrence or assumption of such Indebtedness for which financial statements have been delivered; provided, if such Indebtedness is in the form of MFN Qualified Term Loans, it shall be subject to Section 2.14(h);

 

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  (b)

if such Indebtedness is secured on a junior basis to the Obligations in respect of the Initial Term B Loans and the Delayed Draw Term Facility, immediately after giving effect to the issuance, incurrence or assumption of such Indebtedness the Senior Secured Leverage Ratio is no greater than 5.25:1.00 on a Pro Forma Basis after giving effect to the issuance, incurrence or assumption of such Indebtedness and the use of proceeds thereof and measured as of and for the Test Period immediately preceding the issuance, incurrence or assumption of such Indebtedness for which financial statements have been delivered;

 

  (c)

if such Indebtedness is unsecured, immediately after giving effect to the issuance, incurrence or assumption of such Indebtedness the Total Leverage Ratio is no greater than 5.50:1.00 on a Pro Forma Basis after giving effect to the issuance, incurrence or assumption of such Indebtedness and the use of proceeds thereof and measured as of and for the Test Period immediately preceding the issuance, incurrence or assumption of such Indebtedness for which financial statements have been delivered;

provided, (i) immediately before and after giving effect thereto and to the use of proceeds thereof no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, (ii) other than any Indebtedness incurred by a Non-Loan Party, such Indebtedness shall comply with the Required Ratio Debt Terms (other than with respect to Indebtedness assumed in connection with a Permitted Acquisition or other permitted Investment which Indebtedness shall only comply with clauses (A) and (B) of the definition of “Required Ratio Debt Terms”), (iii) such Indebtedness may not be secured on a senior basis to the Obligations in respect of the Initial Term B Loans and the Delayed Draw Term Facility and (iv) the maximum aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness that may be incurred or assumed pursuant to clauses (u), (x) and (z) of Section 7.03 by Non-Loan Parties (including any such Indebtedness assumed in connection with, a Permitted Acquisition or other permitted Investment) shall not exceed at any one time outstanding at the time of incurrence thereof, the greater of (x) $2,000,000 and (y) 5.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of Holdings (calculated on a Pro Forma Basis) as of the last day of the most recently ended Test Period at the time of incurrence thereof. If any Permitted Ratio Debt is incurred in the form of revolving indebtedness, the applicable test set forth in clause (a), (b) or (c) of this definition shall be calculated assuming that the entire amount of such revolving indebtedness established at such time is fully drawn; provided that, any revolving indebtedness incurred after the initial establishment of the commitments of such revolving indebtedness in reliance on such commitments shall constitute Permitted Ratio Debt and not be required to comply with any of the requirements set forth in the provisos above.

Permitted Refinancing” means, with respect to any Person, any modification (other than a release of such Person), refinancing, refunding, renewal or extension of any Indebtedness of such Person; provided:

(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, refunded, renewed or extended except by an amount equal to unpaid accrued interest and premium thereon plus other reasonable amounts paid, and fees and expenses reasonably incurred, in connection with such modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal or extension and by an amount equal to any existing commitments unutilized thereunder, and as otherwise permitted under Section 7.03;

(b) other than with respect to a Permitted Refinancing in respect of Indebtedness permitted pursuant to Section 7.03(g), such modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal 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 or extended (subject to exceptions for Extendable Bridge Loans and amortization in an aggregate annual amount of up to 1% of the original principal amount incurred);

 

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(c) if such Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed or extended is Indebtedness permitted pursuant to Section 7.03(d), (i) to the extent such Indebtedness being so modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed or extended is subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations, such modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal or extension is subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations on terms at least as favorable to the Lenders as those contained in the documentation governing the Indebtedness being so modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed or extended, (ii) the covenants and events of default of any such modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed or extended Indebtedness, taken as a whole, are not materially more favorable to the investors providing such Indebtedness than those of the Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed or extended or are on market terms (as determined by the Lead Borrower), and (iii) such modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal or extension is incurred by a Person who is the obligor of the Indebtedness being so modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed or extended or a Loan Party; and

(d) the ranking of such Permitted Refinancing as to right of payment or as to security interests in the Collateral shall be no different or junior to that of the debt being refinanced,

provided, if such Indebtedness is of the type described in the defined term “Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness” it shall satisfy the provisions and requirements set forth in such defined term.

Permitted Reorganization” means any reorganization or corporate restructuring, on a Solvent basis, involving one or more of the then current Holdings or any of Holdings’ Restricted Subsidiaries other than, in each case, any Borrower (any such reorganization or corporate restructuring, a “Reorganization”), whether or not such Reorganization also involves any other Person, including any merger, demerger, consolidation or amalgamation, any sale or other disposition of any assets or properties and any voluntary liquidation or winding up on a Solvent basis, in each case, that is consummated as part of such Reorganization; provided, in the case of any Reorganization and after giving effect to any related designations of a new Holdings as contemplated by the definition of such terms, (a) all the business and assets of the then current Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as in effect prior to such Reorganization) shall remain within Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (b) Holdings and each Borrower shall be organized under the laws of a Permitted Jurisdiction, (c) any Equity Interests or other assets that constitute Collateral and that are subject to any sale or other disposition as part of such Reorganization shall remain Collateral (including as a result of Liens thereon granted by the new owner thereof), subject to Liens thereon securing the Obligations that are valid and enforceable substantially to the same extent as the Liens thereon were prior to such sale or other disposition, in each case, as determined by Holdings in good faith, (d) after giving effect to such Reorganization, any direct parent of a Borrower shall provide a perfected 100% first priority pledge of the Equity Interests of such Borrower and (e) in the event of a sale, assignment, conveyance, transfer, lease or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of, or a consolidation, amalgamation or merger with or into, the then Holdings or any Subsidiary Guarantor, the Surviving Entity thereof (if not Holdings, or a Subsidiary Guarantor) shall (i) assume the obligations of Holdings or such Subsidiary Guarantor, as applicable, under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents in a manner consistent with Section 7.04 and (ii) provide any documentation and other information about such Surviving Entity as shall have been reasonably requested in writing by any Lender through the Administrative Agent that such Lender shall have reasonably determined is required by regulatory authorities under applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including Title III of the USA Patriot Act and the Beneficial Ownership Regulation) (the requirements in the preceding clauses (a) through (e), shall collectively be the “Permitted Reorganization Requirements”). Nothing in this definition shall be deemed to restrict any merger, demerger, consolidation, amalgamation, sale or other disposition, voluntary liquidation, winding up or other transaction, or any release of any Collateral or any Guarantee, in each case, that is permitted pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement other than those provisions expressly relating to a Permitted Reorganization.

 

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Permitted Sale Leaseback” means any Sale Leaseback consummated by Holdings or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries after the Closing Date; provided, any such Sale Leaseback not between (a) a Loan Party and another Loan Party or (b) a Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party and another Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party must be, in each case, consummated for fair value as determined at the time of consummation in good faith by Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary (which such determination may take into account any retained interest or other Investment of Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary in connection with, and any other material economic terms of, such Sale Leaseback).

Permitted Unsecured Refinancing Debt” means unsecured Indebtedness incurred by Holdings, any Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor in the form of one or more series of senior unsecured notes or loans; provided, such Indebtedness constitutes Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness. Permitted Unsecured Refinancing Debt will include any Registered Equivalent Notes issued in exchange therefor.

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) other than a Foreign Plan or Multiemployer Plan, established or maintained by any Loan Party 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 specified in Section 6.02.

Principal Investor Representative” means Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, in its capacity as the representative of the GS Investor Lenders.

Prime Rate” means the prime rate as published by The Wall Street Journal for such day; provided that if The Wall Street Journal ceases to publish for any reason such rate of interest, “Prime Rate” shall mean the prime lending rate as set forth on the Bloomberg page PRIMBB Index (or successor page) for such day (or such other service as determined by the Administrative Agent and, prior to the Disposition Date, the Principal Investor Representative, and acceptable to the Lead Borrower from time to time for purposes of providing quotations of prime lending interest rates). Each change in the Prime Rate shall be effective from and including the date such change is publicly announced as being effective. The prime rate is not necessarily the lowest rate charged by any financial institution to its customers.

Pro Forma Basis” and “Pro Forma Effect” means, with respect to the calculation of the First Lien Senior Secured Leverage Ratio, the Secured Leverage Ratio, the Total Leverage Ratio, Consolidated EBITDA, any basket, or any other pro forma calculation called for by this Agreement to be made on a Pro Forma Basis or with Pro Forma Effect, as of any time, that pro forma effect will be given to the Transactions, acquisitions prior to the Closing Date, any Permitted Acquisition, other Investments or acquisitions, redesignation of an Unrestricted Subsidiary, any other Specified Transaction or any other item for which this Agreement calls for giving pro forma effect (and excluding for the purposes of cash netting the cash proceeds of any Indebtedness incurred in connection therewith), as follows:

 

  (a)

with respect to any incurrence, assumption, guarantee, redemption or permanent repayment of Indebtedness, such ratio will be calculated giving pro forma effect thereto as if such incurrence, assumption, guarantee, redemption or repayment of indebtedness had occurred on the first day of such Test Period (in each case, other than Indebtedness incurred or repaid under any revolving credit facility in the ordinary course of business for working capital purposes);

 

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  (b)

with respect to the Transactions, acquisitions prior to the Closing Date, any Permitted Acquisition, other Investments or acquisitions, redesignation of an Unrestricted Subsidiary, any other Specified Transaction or any other item for which this Agreement calls for giving pro forma effect, such ratio or other calculation will be calculated giving pro forma effect thereto as if such action occurred on the first day of such Test Period in a manner consistent, where applicable, with the pro forma adjustments set forth in the definition of “Consolidated EBITDA” (including for the amount of “run rate” cost savings, operating expense reductions and synergies projected by Holdings), calculated as though such cost savings, operating expense reductions and synergies had been realized on the first day of the Test Period for which Consolidated EBITDA is being determined; and

 

  (c)

with respect to any merger, sale, transfer or other Disposition, and the designation of an “Unrestricted Subsidiary”, such ratio will be calculated giving pro forma effect thereto as if such action had occurred on the first day of such Test Period.

Pro Forma Financial Statements” has the meaning specified in Section 4.01(d).

Proposed Discounted Prepayment Amount” has the meaning specified in Section 2.05(d)(ii).

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 specified in Section 6.02.

Qualified Equity Interests” means any Equity Interests of Holdings that are not Disqualified Equity Interests.

Qualified Securitization Financing” means any Securitization Financing of a Securitization Subsidiary that meets the following conditions: (a) the Lead Borrower shall have determined in good faith that such Qualified Securitization Financing (including financing terms, covenants, termination events and other provisions) is in the aggregate economically fair and reasonable to the Lead Borrower and the Securitization Subsidiary, (b) all sales and/or contributions of Securitization Assets and related assets to the Securitization Subsidiary are made at fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower), (c) the financing terms, covenants, termination events and other provisions thereof shall be market terms (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower) and may include Standard Securitization Undertakings and (d) the aggregate principal amount of Securitization Financings in respect of accounts receivable of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries does not exceed $1,000,000 at any one time outstanding. The grant of a security interest in any Securitization Assets of Holdings or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries (other than a Securitization Subsidiary) to secure Indebtedness under this Agreement prior to engaging in any Securitization Financing shall not be deemed a Qualified Securitization Financing.

Qualifying Lenders” has the meaning specified in Section 2.05(d)(iv).

Qualifying Loans” has the meaning specified in Section 2.05(d)(iv).

Ratio Amount” means an aggregate principal amount that, after the incurrence thereof after giving Pro Forma Effect thereto (assuming that any Incremental Revolving Credit Commitments incurred on the date of calculating the Ratio Amount are drawn in full) would not result in the First Lien Senior Secured Leverage Ratio calculated on a Pro Forma Basis as of the end of the most recent Test Period exceeding 5.00:1.00.

 

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Refinanced Debt” has the meaning set forth in the definition of “Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness.”

Refinancing Amendment” means an amendment to this Agreement executed by each of (a) the Borrowers, (b) the Administrative Agent, (c) each Additional Refinancing Lender and (d) each Lender that agrees to provide any portion of Refinancing Term Loans, Refinancing Term Commitments, Refinancing Revolving Credit Commitments, Refinancing Revolving Credit Loans, Refinancing Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments or Refinancing Delayed Draw Term Loans incurred pursuant thereto, in accordance with Section 2.18.

Refinancing Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments” means one or more Classes of Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments hereunder that result from a Refinancing Amendment.

Refinancing Delayed Draw Term Loans” means one or more Classes of the Delayed Draw Term Loans that result from a Refinancing Amendment.

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 Term Commitments” means one or more term loan commitments hereunder that fund Refinancing Term Loans hereunder pursuant to a Refinancing Amendment.

Refinancing Term Loans” means one or more Classes of Term Loans hereunder that result from a Refinancing Amendment.

Register” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(f)(i).

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 specified in Section 2.05(b)(vi).

Related Parties” means, with respect to any Person, such Person’s Affiliate and the partners, directors, officers, employees, agents, trustees and advisors of such Person and of such Person’s Affiliates.

Release” means any release, spill, emission, discharge, deposit, disposal, leaking, pumping, pouring, dumping, emptying, injection, migration or leaching into the Environment.

Reportable Event” means, with respect to any Pension Plan, any of the events set forth in Section 4043(c) of ERISA or the regulations issued thereunder, other than events for which the thirty (30) day notice period has been waived.

 

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Repricing Event” means with respect to the Initial Term B Loans or the Delayed Draw Term Loans, as applicable, (i) any voluntary prepayment, repayment or refinancing of the Initial Term B Loan or the Delayed Draw Term Loans, as applicable, with the proceeds of, or any conversion of such Term Loans into, any new or replacement tranche of secured term loans or notes bearing a lower Effective Yield than the Effective Yield of the Initial Term B Loans or the Delayed Draw Term Loans, as applicable or (ii) any amendment that reduces the Effective Yield of the Term Loans or the Delayed Draw Term Loans, as applicable, in each case of clause (i) or (ii), other than in connection with a Change of Control or Transformative Acquisition.

Request for Credit Extension” means (a) with respect to a Borrowing, conversion or continuation of Term Loans, Revolving Credit Loans or Delayed Draw Term Loans, a Committed Loan Notice and (b) with respect to an L/C Credit Extension, a Letter of Credit Application.

Required Delayed Draw Lenders” means, as of any date of determination, Lenders having more than 50.0% in the aggregate of the sum of (a) the aggregate unused Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments then outstanding and (b) the Delayed Draw Term Loans then outstanding; provided, (i) the Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment of any Defaulting Lender shall be excluded for all purposes of making a determination of Required Delayed Draw Lenders, (ii) the Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments and the Delayed Draw Term Loans held by Sponsor Affiliated Lenders (other than Affiliated Debt Funds) shall be excluded for all purposes of making a determination of Required Delayed Draw Lenders and (iii) Affiliated Debt Funds may not, in the aggregate, account for more than 49.9% of the amount necessary to establish that the Required Delayed Draw Lenders have consented to an action and any other Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments and the Delayed Draw Term Loans of Affiliated Debt Funds in excess of such amount shall be excluded for all purposes of making a determination of Required Delayed Draw Lenders.

Required Lenders” means, as of any date of determination, Lenders holding more than 50% of the sum of the (a) Total Outstandings (with the aggregate Outstanding Amount of each Lender’s Revolving Credit Exposure being deemed “held” by such Lender for purposes of this definition), (b) aggregate unused Initial Term B Commitments, (c) aggregate unused Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments then outstanding and (d) aggregate unused Revolving Credit Commitments; provided, (i) the unused Initial Term B Commitment, unused Delayed Draw Term Loan 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 all purposes of making a determination of Required Lenders, (ii) the unused Term Commitment, unused Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment and unused Revolving Credit Commitment of, and the portion of the Total Outstandings held or deemed held by any Lenders that are Sponsor Affiliated Lenders (other than Affiliated Debt Funds) shall be excluded for all purposes of making a determination of Required Lenders and (iii) Affiliated Debt Funds may not, in the aggregate, account for more than 49.9% of the amount necessary to establish that the Required Lenders have consented to an action and the unused Term Commitment, unused Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment and unused Revolving Credit Commitment of, and the portion of the Total Outstandings held or deemed held by any Affiliated Debt Funds in excess of such amount shall be excluded for all purposes of making a determination of Required Lenders; provided further that, to the extent the GS Investor Lenders hold, in the aggregate, 40% or more of all outstanding Loans and Commitments, any amendment, waiver or modification of the Loan Documents that requires the consent of the Required Lenders shall also require the consent of the GS Investor Lenders holding at least a majority of all Loans and Commitments held by all GS Investor Lenders at such time.

Required Ratio Debt Terms” has the meaning specified in Section 7.03(v).

 

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Required Revolving Credit Lenders” means, as of any date of determination, Lenders having more than 50.0% in the aggregate of (a) the Revolving Credit Commitments or (b) after the termination of the Revolving Credit Commitments, the Revolving Credit Exposure; provided, (i) the Revolving Credit Commitment and the Revolving Credit Exposure of any Defaulting Lender shall be excluded for all purposes of making a determination of Required Revolving Credit Lenders, (ii) the Revolving Credit Commitments and Revolving Credit Exposure of Lenders that are Sponsor Affiliated Lenders (other than Affiliated Debt Funds) shall be excluded for all purposes of making a determination of Required Revolving Credit Lenders, (iii) Affiliated Debt Funds may not, in the aggregate, account for more than 49.9% of the amount necessary to establish that the Required Revolving Credit Lenders have consented to an action and any other Revolving Credit Commitments and Revolving Credit Exposure of Affiliated Debt Funds in excess of such amount shall be excluded for all purposes of making a determination of Required Revolving Credit Lenders and (iv) to the extent the GS Investor Lenders hold, in the aggregate, 40% or more of the Revolving Credit Commitments, any amendment, waiver or modification of the Loan Documents that requires the consent of the Required Revolving Credit Lenders shall also require the consent of the GS Investor Lenders holding at least a majority of all Revolving Credit Commitments held by all GS Investor Lenders at such time.

Responsible Officer” means the chief executive officer, president, vice president, chief financial officer, treasurer, assistant treasurer, any secretary, assistant secretary, director, manager or other similar officer or authorized signatory 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 Casualty Event” has the meaning specified in Section 2.05(b)(vii).

Restricted Disposition” has the meaning specified in Section 2.05(b)(vii).

Restricted Payment” means any dividend or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property) with respect to any Equity Interest in Holdings 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 holders of Equity Interests of Holdings.

Restricted Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of Holdings (including the Borrowers), other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary.

Retained Declined Proceeds” has the meaning specified in Section 2.05(b)(vi).

Revolving Credit Availability” means, as to each Revolving Credit Lender, its Revolving Credit Commitment less its Revolving Credit Exposure.

Revolving Credit Borrowing” means a borrowing consisting of Revolving Credit Loans of the same Class and Type, made, converted or continued on the same date and having the same Interest Period made by each of the Revolving Credit Lenders pursuant to Section 2.01(b).

Revolving Credit Commitment” means, as to each Revolving Credit Lender its obligation to (i) make Revolving Credit Loans to the Lead Borrower pursuant to Section 2.01(b) or Section 2.03, as applicable and (ii) purchase participations in L/C Obligations in respect of Letters of Credit, in an aggregate principal amount at any one time outstanding not to exceed the amount set forth opposite such Lender’s name in Part A of Schedule 2.01 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.

 

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Revolving Credit Exposure” means, as to each Revolving Credit Lender at any time, the sum of:

(a) the Outstanding Amount of all Revolving Credit Loans held by such Revolving Credit Lender (or its Applicable Lending Office); and

(b) the Applicable Percentage of such Revolving Credit Lender of the L/C Obligations.

Revolving Credit Facility” has the meaning specified in the Preliminary Statements to this Agreement.

Revolving Credit Lender” means, at any time, any Lender that has a Revolving Credit Commitment or that holds Revolving Credit Loans at such time.

Revolving Credit Loan” has the meaning specified in Section 2.01(b).

Revolving Credit Note” means a promissory note of the Lead Borrower payable to any Revolving Credit Lender or its registered assigns, in substantially the form of Exhibit C-2 hereto with appropriate insertions, evidencing the aggregate Indebtedness of the Lead Borrower to such Revolving Credit Lender resulting from the Revolving Credit Loans made by such Revolving Credit Lender.

Revolving Exit Payment Trigger” has the meaning specified in Section 2.09(c)(i).

Revolving Facility Exit Payment” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Exit Payment”.

S&P” means S&P Global Ratings and any successor thereto.

Sale Leaseback” means any transaction or series of related transactions pursuant to which Holdings or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (a) sells, transfers or otherwise disposes of any property, real or personal, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, and (b) as part of such transaction, thereafter rents or leases such property or other property that it intends to use for substantially the same purpose or purposes as the property being sold, transferred or disposed.

Screen Rate” means with respect to the Eurocurrency Rate for any Interest Period for Dollars, the rate per annum equal to the ICE Benchmark Administration Limited LIBOR rate (“LIBOR”) or a comparable or successor rate, which rate is approved by the Administrative Agent, as published on the applicable Bloomberg LP page (or such other commercially available source providing such quotations as may be designated by the Administrative Agent from time to time) at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two (2) Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period, for deposits in the applicable currency (for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period) with a term equivalent to such Interest Period; provided that, in the event such rate does not appear on a page of the Bloomberg or Reuters screen, as applicable, on the appropriate page of such other information service that publishes such rate as shall be selected by the Administrative Agent and, prior to the Disposition Date, the Principal Investor Representative, from time to time in its reasonable discretion). If no Screen Rate shall be available for a particular Interest Period but Screen Rates on the applicable provider’s screen shall be available for maturities both longer and shorter than such Interest Period, then the Screen Rate for such Interest Period shall be the Interpolated Rate.

 

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SEC” means the Securities and Exchange Commission or any Governmental Authority succeeding to any of its principal functions.

Second Lien Agent” means Cortland Capital Market Services LLC, as Administrative Agent under the Second Lien Credit Agreement.

Second Lien Credit Agreement” means the Second Lien Credit Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, among the Lead Borrower, Holdings, the other financial institutions from time to time party thereto as lenders and the Second Lien Agent, as administrative agent and collateral agent, as amended, modified, supplemented, substituted, replaced, restated or refinanced, in whole or in part, from time to time in a manner not in contravention of the Intercreditor Agreement (whether with the original administrative agent, collateral agent and lenders or other agents and lenders or otherwise and whether provided under the original Second Lien Credit Agreement or another credit agreement, note purchase agreement, indenture, instrument, other document or otherwise, unless such credit agreement, note purchase agreement, indenture, instrument or document expressly provides that it is not a Second Lien Credit Agreement).

Second Lien Loan Documents” means the Second Lien Credit Agreement, any promissory notes, collateral documents, the Intercreditor Agreement and any other document or instrument designated by the Lead Borrower and the Second Lien Agent as a “Loan Document” under the Second Lien Credit Agreement, and shall include all appendices, exhibits or schedules thereto, and all amendments, restatements, amendments and restatements, supplements or other modifications thereto in a manner not in contravention of the Intercreditor Agreement.

Second Lien Term Loans” means the term loans made by the lenders party to the Second Lien Credit Agreement.

Secured Cash Management Agreement” means any Cash Management Obligations permitted under Article VII that is entered into by and between any Loan Party and any Cash Management Secured Bank and designated by Holdings and the Cash Management Secured Bank in writing to the Administrative Agent as a “Secured Cash Management Agreement.

Secured Hedge Agreement” means any Swap Contract permitted under Article VII that is entered into by and between any Loan Party and any Hedge Bank and designated by Holdings and the Hedge Bank in writing to the Administrative Agent as a “Secured Hedge Agreement.

Secured Leverage Ratio” means, with respect to any Test Period, the ratio of (a) Consolidated Total Debt (other than any portion of Consolidated Total Debt that is unsecured; provided that, for purposes of calculating compliance with the Secured Leverage Ratio set forth in the definition of “Permitted Ratio Debt” and “Ratio Amount”, such indebtedness shall be treated as if secured on a pari passu basis with the Liens securing the Obligations, whether or not so secured) as of the last day of such Test Period to (b) Consolidated EBITDA of Holdings for such Test Period.

Secured Parties” means, collectively, the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, the Lenders, the L/C Issuer, each Hedge Bank, each Cash Management Secured Bank, the Supplemental Administrative Agent and each co-agent or sub-agent appointed by the Administrative Agent from time to time pursuant to Section 9.02.

Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933.

 

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Securitization Assets” means any accounts receivable and any assets related thereto, including all collateral securing such accounts receivable, all contracts and all guarantees or other obligations in respect of such accounts receivable, proceeds of such accounts receivable, and other assets that are customarily transferred or in respect of which security interests are customarily granted in connection with securitization transactions involving accounts receivable, in each case subject to a Qualified Securitization Financing.

Securitization Fees” means distributions or payments made directly or by means of discounts with respect to any participation interest issued or sold in connection with, and other fees paid to a Person that is not a Securitization Subsidiary in connection with any Qualified Securitization Financing.

Securitization Financing” means any transaction or series of transactions that may be entered into by Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries pursuant to which Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries may sell, convey or otherwise transfer to (a) a Securitization Subsidiary (in the case of a transfer by Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries) or (b) any other Person (in the case of a transfer by a Securitization Subsidiary), or may grant a security interest in, any Securitization Assets of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries.

Securitization Repurchase Obligation” means any obligation of a seller of Securitization Assets in a Qualified Securitization Financing to repurchase Securitization Assets arising as a result of a breach of a representation, warranty or covenant or otherwise, including as a result of a receivable or portion thereof becoming subject to any asserted defense, dispute, off set 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” means any Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Holdings (or another Person formed for the purposes of engaging in a Qualified Securitization Financing in which Holdings or any Subsidiary makes an Investment and to which Holdings or any Subsidiary transfers Securitization Assets) that engages in no activities other than in connection with the financing of Securitization Assets of Holdings or its Subsidiaries, and any business or activities incidental or related to such business, and which is designated by Holdings or such other Person (as provided below) as a Securitization Subsidiary and (a) no portion of the Indebtedness or any other obligations (contingent or otherwise) of which (i) is guaranteed by Holdings or any other Restricted Subsidiary, other than another Securitization Subsidiary (excluding guarantees of obligations (other than the principal of, and interest on, Indebtedness) pursuant to Standard Securitization Undertakings), (ii) is recourse to or obligates Holdings or any other Restricted Subsidiary, other than another Securitization Subsidiary, in any way other than pursuant to Standard Securitization Undertakings or (iii) subjects any property or asset of Holdings or any other Restricted Subsidiary, other than another Securitization Subsidiary, directly or indirectly, contingently or otherwise, to the satisfaction thereof, other than pursuant to Standard Securitization Undertakings, (b) with which none of Holdings or any other Restricted Subsidiary, other than another Securitization Subsidiary, has any material contract, agreement, arrangement or understanding other than on terms which Holdings reasonably believe to be no less favorable to Holdings or such Subsidiary than those that might be obtained at the time from Persons that are not Affiliates of Holdings and (c) to which none of Holdings or any other Restricted Subsidiary, other than another Securitization Subsidiary, has any obligation to maintain or preserve such entity’s financial condition or cause such entity to achieve certain levels of operating results. Any such designation by Holdings or such other Person shall be evidenced to the Administrative Agent by delivery to the Administrative Agent of a certificate executed by a Responsible Officer of Holdings certifying that such designation complied with the foregoing conditions.

Security Agreement Supplement” has the meaning specified in the Security Agreements.

Security Agreements” means collectively (a) (i) the First Lien U.S. Pledge and Security Agreement and each other security document (or equivalent thereof) listed on Schedule 1.01B executed by the Loan Parties party thereto on the Closing Date and (b) each other security agreement and security agreement supplement delivered pursuant to Section 6.10.

 

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Sold Entity or Business” means any Person, property, business or asset (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) sold, transferred or otherwise disposed of, closed or classified as discontinued operations by Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary during such period.

Solvent” and “Solvency” mean, with respect to any Person (together with its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis) on any date of determination, that on such date (i) the fair value of the property of such Person (together with its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis), at a fair valuation, is greater than the total amount of debts and liabilities, direct, contingent, subordinated or otherwise, of such Person (together with its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis), (ii) the present fair saleable value of the assets of such Person (together with its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis) is greater than the amount that will be required to pay the probable liability of such Person (together with its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis) on its debts and other liabilities, direct, contingent, subordinated or otherwise, as such debts become absolute and matured, (iii) such Person (together with its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis) will be able to pay its debts and liabilities, direct, subordinated, contingent or otherwise, as such debts become absolute and matured and (iv) such Person (together with its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis) will not have unreasonably small capital with which to conduct the businesses in which it is engaged as such businesses are conducted on the date of determination and are proposed to be conducted following such date of determination.

SPAC” means Haymaker Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company.

Specified Acquisition Agreement Representations” means such of the representations and warranties made with respect to Holdings and its Subsidiaries by Holdings in the Acquisition Agreement to the extent that (x) a breach of such representations and warranties is material to the interests of the Lenders (in their capacities as such) on the Closing Date, and (y) the SPAC (or any of its Affiliates) has the right (taking into account any applicable cure provisions), to terminate its obligations (or decline to consummate the Acquisition) under the Acquisition Agreement as a result of a breach of such representations and warranties in the Acquisition Agreement.

Specified Representations” means the representations and warranties of each of Holdings, the Borrowers and the other Loan Parties (after giving effect to the Closing Date Acquisition) set forth in the following Sections of this Agreement:

 

  (a)

(x) Section 5.01(a) and (y) Section 5.01(b)(ii) (but solely with respect to its organizational power and authority as to the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents after giving effect to the Closing Date Acquisition);

 

  (b)

Section 5.02(a) (but solely with respect to (x) their respective authorization of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and (y) non-conflict of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents with their respective certificate or article of incorporation or other charter document);

 

  (c)

Section 5.04 (but solely with respect to execution and delivery by it, and enforceability against them, of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents after giving effect to the Closing Date Acquisition);

 

  (d)

Section 5.13;

 

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  (e)

Section 5.16;

 

  (f)

Section 5.17;

 

  (h)

Section 5.18, 5.19 and 5.20, in each case, solely with respect to the use of proceeds of the Loans funded on the Closing Date.

Specified Transaction” means any Investment, Disposition, incurrence or repayment of Indebtedness, Permitted Alternative Incremental Facilities Debt, Incremental Term Loan or Incremental Revolving Credit Commitments, the making of a Subsidiary designation, a Restricted Payment, or other transaction that by the terms of this Agreement requires such test to be calculated on a “Pro Forma Basis” or after giving “Pro Forma Effect”; provided, any Incremental Revolving Credit Commitments, or any Extended Revolving Credit Commitment incurred on the date of calculating the Ratio Amount shall be deemed to be fully drawn; provided, further, any Extended Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment incurred on the date of calculating the Ratio Amount shall be deemed to be fully drawn.

Sponsor Affiliated Lender” means the SPAC and any Affiliate of the SPAC (other than Holdings, and its Subsidiaries).

Sponsor Model” means the SPAC’s financial model previously provided to the GS Initial Investors on October 5, 2018.

Standard Securitization Undertakings” means representations, warranties, covenants and indemnities entered into by Holdings or any Subsidiary of Holdings which Holdings has determined in good faith to be customary, necessary or advisable in a Securitization Financing.

Subordinated Debt” means Indebtedness that is subordinated in right of payment to the prior payment of all Obligations under the Loan Documents.

Subordinated Debt Documents” means any agreement, indenture or instrument pursuant to which any Subordinated Debt is issued, in each case as amended to the extent permitted under the Loan Documents.

Subordination Agreement” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness”.

Subsidiary” of a Person means a corporation, company, partnership, joint venture, limited liability company or other business entity of which a majority of the shares of securities or other interests having ordinary voting power for the election of directors or other governing body (other than securities or interests having such power only by reason of the happening of a contingency) are at the time beneficially owned, or the management of which is otherwise Controlled, directly or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, or both, by such Person. Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to a “Subsidiary” or to “Subsidiaries” shall refer to a Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of Holdings.

Subsidiary Guarantor” means, collectively, the Subsidiaries of Holdings that are Guarantors.

Successor Holdings” means any Person that guarantees (or, substantially concurrently with such designation, will guarantee, including as a result of the assumption of obligations referred to in clause (B) below) the Obligations and is designated, as part of any Permitted Reorganization, by the then current Holdings (“Existing Holdings”) to be “Holdings” by written notice to the Administrative Agent (any such designation, a “Successor Holdings Designation”); provided, (A) the Lead Borrower is a Wholly-Owned direct Subsidiary of such other Person, (B) such Person expressly assumes the obligations of Holdings

 

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under this Agreement (including for the avoidance of doubt, Section 7.12) and the other Loan Documents to which Holdings is a party pursuant to the agreement set forth in Exhibit O or any agreement reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent; in each case, together with its successors and assigns and (C) such Person complies with the Permitted Reorganization Requirements.

Supplemental Administrative Agent” has the meaning specified in Section 9.13(a) and “Supplemental Administrative Agents” shall have the corresponding meaning.

Survey” means a new survey of any Mortgaged Property (and all improvements thereon) which is (i) prepared by a surveyor or engineer licensed to perform surveys in the jurisdiction where such Mortgaged Property is located, (ii) certified by the surveyor (in a manner reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent) to the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and the Title Company, (iii) complying in all material respects with the minimum detail requirements of the American Land Title Association as such requirements are in effect on the date of preparation of such survey, (iv) sufficient for the Title Company to remove all standard survey exceptions from the Mortgage Policy relating to such Mortgaged Property and issue the endorsements of the type required by paragraph (f) of the definition of “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement” and (v) otherwise reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent.

Surviving Entity” has the meaning specified in Section 7.04(d)(i).

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” means, with respect to any Guarantor, any obligation to pay or perform under any agreement, contract or transaction that constitutes a “swap” within the meaning of section 1a(47) of the Commodity Exchange Act.

Swap Termination Value” means, in respect of any one or more Swap Contracts, after taking into account the effect of any legally enforceable netting agreement relating to such Swap Contracts, (a) for any date on or after the date such Swap Contracts have been closed out 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 by the Hedge Bank (or the Lead Borrower, if no Hedge Bank is party to such Swap Contract) in accordance with the terms thereof and in accordance with customary methods for calculating mark-to-market values under similar arrangements by the Hedge Bank (or the Lead Borrower, if no Hedge Bank is party to such Swap Contract).

Target Person” has the meaning specified in Section 7.02.

 

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Taxes” means all present or future taxes, duties, levies, imposts, deductions, assessments, withholdings (including backup withholding), fees or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority, including any additions to tax, penalties and interest with respect thereto, and references to “Tax” shall be construed accordingly.

Term Borrowing” means an Initial Term B Borrowing or a borrowing in respect of Incremental Term Loans and the Delayed Draw Term Loans, as the context requires.

Term Commitment” means an Initial Term B Commitment or a commitment in respect of any Incremental Term Loans and the Delayed Draw Term Loans or any combination thereof, as the context may require.

Term Lenders” means the Initial Term B Lenders, the Delayed Draw Term Lenders, the lenders of any Incremental Term Loans, the lenders under any Refinancing Term Loans and the Extending Term Lenders.

Term Loans” means the Initial Term B Loans, the Delayed Draw Term Loans, the Incremental Term Loans, the Refinancing Term Loans and the Extended Term Loans.

Term Loan Exit Payment Trigger” has the meaning specified in Section 2.09(c)(ii).

Term Note” means (i) a promissory note of the Lead Borrower payable to any Term Lender or its registered assigns, in substantially the form of Exhibit C-1(A) hereto with appropriate insertions, evidencing the aggregate Indebtedness of the Lead Borrower to such Term Lender resulting from the Class of Term Loans made by such Term Lender or (ii) a promissory note of the U.S. Borrower payable to any Term Lender or its registered assigns, in substantially the form of Exhibit C-1(B) hereto with appropriate insertions, evidencing the aggregate Indebtedness of the U.S. Borrower to such Term Lender resulting from the Class of Term Loans made by such Term Lender.

Termination Date” has the meaning given to such term in Section 9.11.

Test Period” means, at any date of determination, the most recently completed four consecutive fiscal quarters of Holdings ending on or prior to such date for which financial statements have been or are required to be delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or 6.01(b); provided that (i) prior to the first date that financial statements have been or are required to be delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or (b), the Test Period in effect shall be the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of Holdings and its Subsidiaries ended September 30, 2018 and (ii) in respect of the first financial statements that have been or are required to be delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(a), the Test Period shall be the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of Holdings and its Subsidiaries ended December 31, 2017.

Threshold Amount” means $10,000,000.

Title Company” shall mean any nationally recognized title insurance company as shall be retained by the Lead Borrower to issue the Mortgage Policies and reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent.

Total Leverage Ratio” means, with respect to any Test Period, the ratio of (a) Consolidated Total Debt as of the last day of such Test Period to (b) Consolidated EBITDA of Holdings for such Test Period.

Total Outstandings” means the aggregate Outstanding Amount of all Loans and all L/C Obligations.

 

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Total Revolver Outstandings” means the aggregate Outstanding Amount of all Loans (other than Term Loans and the Delayed Draw Term Loans) and all L/C Obligations.

Transaction Expenses” means any fees, closing payments, expenses or other amounts incurred or paid by Holdings, any Borrower, or any Restricted Subsidiary in connection with the Transactions, this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby in connection therewith.

Transactions” means, collectively, (a) the funding of the Initial Term B Loans and, if applicable, any Revolving Credit Borrowing on the Closing Date, (b) the funding of the initial term loans under the Second Lien Credit Agreement on the Closing Date, (c) the consummation of the Closing Date Acquisition and payments under the Acquisition Agreement, (d) the consummation of the Closing Date Acquisition Guarantee and Lien Release, (e) the consummation of any other transactions in connection with the foregoing and (f) the payment of Transaction Expenses.

Transformative Acquisition” means any acquisition by Holdings, any Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary, whether by purchase, merger or otherwise, of all or substantially all of the assets of, or any business line, unit or division of, any Person or of a majority of the outstanding Equity Interests of any Person that (i) is not permitted by the terms of the Loan Documents immediately prior to the consummation of such acquisition or (ii) if permitted by the terms of the Loan Documents immediately prior to the consummation of such acquisition, the terms of the Loan Documents would not provide Holdings, the Borrowers and the Restricted Subsidiaries with adequate flexibility for the continuation or expansion of their combined operations following such consummation, as determined by Holdings acting in good faith.

Type” means, with respect to a Loan, its character as a Base Rate Loan or a Eurocurrency Rate Loan.

UCP” means, with respect to any Letter of Credit, the Uniform Customs and Practice for Documentary Credits, International Chamber of Commerce (“ICC”) Publication No. 600 (or such later version thereof as may be in effect at the time of issuance).

Unaudited Financial Statements” means, to the extent received by the SPAC under the Acquisition Agreement, unaudited consolidated balance sheets and related statements of income and stockholders’ equity and cash flows of Holdings and its Subsidiaries (including the notes thereto) for each fiscal quarter ended after the most recent fiscal year covered by the Audited Financial Statements and at least forty-five (45) days before the Closing Date (other than any fiscal fourth quarter), in each case prepared in accordance with GAAP.

Undisclosed Administration” shall mean in relation to a Lender, the appointment of an administrator, provisional liquidator, conservator, receiver, trustee, custodian or other similar official by a supervisory authority or regulator under or based on the law in the country where such Lender is subject to home jurisdiction supervision if applicable law requires that such appointment is not to be publicly disclosed.

Uniform Commercial Code” or “UCC” means the Uniform Commercial Code as the same may from time to time be in effect in the State of New York or 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.

United States” and “U.S.” mean the United States of America.

 

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Unreimbursed Amount” has the meaning specified in Section 2.03(c)(i).

Unrestricted Subsidiary” means (i) any Subsidiary of Holdings designated by Holdings as an Unrestricted Subsidiary pursuant to Section 6.13 subsequent to the date hereof and (ii) any Subsidiary of an Unrestricted Subsidiary; provided Holdings shall not designate any Subsidiary party to a Material Contract as an Unrestricted Subsidiary.

U.S. Borrower” has the meaning specified in the Preliminary Statements to this Agreement.

U.S. Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary that is organized under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia.

U.S. Sub-facility” has the meaning specified in the Preliminary Statements to this Agreement.

U.S. Target Purchase” has the meaning specified in the Preliminary Statements to this Agreement.

USA PATRIOT Act” means The Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (Title III of Pub. L. No. 107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)), as amended or modified from time to time.

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 determining the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of any Term Loans or any Indebtedness that is being modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed, replaced or extended (the “Applicable Indebtedness”), the effects of any prepayments made on such Applicable 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 or other Person to the extent required by applicable Law) are owned by such Person and/or by one or more wholly-owned Subsidiaries of such Person.

Withdrawal Liability” means the liability to a Multiemployer Plan as a result of a complete or partial withdrawal from such Multiemployer Plan, as such terms are defined in Part I of Subtitle E of Title IV of ERISA.

Write-Down and Conversion Powers” means, with respect to any EEA Resolution Authority, the write-down and conversion powers of such EEA Resolution Authority from time to time under the Bail-In Legislation for the applicable EEA Member Country, which write-down and conversion powers are described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule.

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:

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(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 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.

(f) 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.”

(g) Section headings herein and in the other Loan Documents are included for convenience of reference only and shall not affect the interpretation of this Agreement or any other Loan Document.

Section 1.03 Accounting Terms.

(a) All accounting terms not specifically or completely defined herein shall be construed in conformity with, and all financial data (including financial ratios and other financial calculations) required to be submitted pursuant to this Agreement shall be prepared in conformity with, GAAP, applied in a manner consistent with that used in preparing the Audited Financial Statements, except as otherwise specifically prescribed herein.

(b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, for purposes of determining compliance with any test contained in this Agreement with respect to any period during which any Specified Transaction occurs, or for which any Specified Transaction is given Pro Forma Effect, the Total Leverage Ratio, the Secured Leverage Ratio and the First Lien Senior Secured Leverage Ratio and Consolidated EBITDA shall be calculated with respect to such period and such Specified Transaction on a Pro Forma Basis.

(c) Where reference is made to “Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis” or similar language, such consolidation shall not include any Subsidiaries of Holdings other than Restricted Subsidiaries.

(d) In the event that Holdings elects to prepare its financial statements in accordance with IFRS and such election results in a change in the method of calculation of financial covenants, standards or terms (collectively, the “Accounting Changes”) in this Agreement, Holdings and the Administrative Agent agree to enter into good faith negotiations in order to amend such provisions of this Agreement (including the levels applicable herein to any computation of the Total Leverage Ratio, the Secured Leverage Ratio and the First Lien Senior Secured Leverage Ratio) so as to reflect equitably the Accounting Changes with the desired result that the criteria for evaluating Holdings’ financial condition shall be substantially the same after such change as if such change had not been made. Until such time as such an amendment shall have been executed and delivered by Holdings, the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders, all financial covenants, standards and terms in this Agreement shall continue to be calculated or construed in accordance with GAAP (as determined in good faith by a Responsible Officer of Holdings) (it being agreed that the reconciliation between GAAP and IFRS used in such determination shall be made available to Lenders) as if such change had not occurred.

 

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Section 1.04 Rounding. Any financial ratios 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, restatements, extensions, supplements and other modifications thereto, but only to the extent that such amendments, restatements, extensions, supplements and other modifications are permitted by any Loan Document; and (b) references to any Law shall include all statutory and regulatory provisions consolidating, amending, replacing, supplementing or interpreting such Law.

Section 1.06 Times of Day; Rates. Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to times of day with respect to Eurocurrency Rate Loans shall be references to Eastern time in the United States (daylight or standard, as applicable).

The Administrative Agent does not warrant nor accept responsibility, nor shall the Administrative Agent have any liability, with respect to the administration, submission or any other matter related to the rates in the definition of “Eurocurrency Rate” or with respect to any comparable or successor rate thereto.

Section 1.07 Timing of Payment or Performance. 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 1.08 Currency Equivalents Generally.

(a) For purposes of any determination under Article VII, with respect to any amount of Indebtedness, Investment, Disposition or Restricted Payment in a currency other than Dollars, no Default shall be deemed to have occurred solely as a result of changes in rates of exchange occurring after the time such Lien, Indebtedness or Investment is incurred or Disposition or Restricted Payment is made; provided, for the avoidance of doubt, the foregoing provisions of this Section 1.08 shall otherwise apply to such Sections, including with respect to determining whether any Indebtedness or Investment may be incurred at any time under such Sections.

(b) For purposes of determining compliance under Article VII, any amount in a currency other than Dollars will be converted to Dollars in a manner consistent with that used in calculating net income in Holdings’ annual financial statements delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(a); provided, however, that the foregoing shall not be deemed to apply to the determination of any amount of Indebtedness.

Section 1.09 Letter of Credit Amounts. Unless otherwise specified herein, the amount of a Letter of Credit at any time shall be deemed to be the stated amount of such Letter of Credit in effect at such time; provided, however, that with respect to any Letter of Credit that, by its terms or the terms of any Letter of Credit Application related thereto, provides for one or more automatic increases in the stated amount thereof, the amount of such Letter of Credit shall be deemed to be the maximum stated amount of such Letter of Credit after giving effect to all such increases, whether or not such maximum stated amount is in effect at such times.

 

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Section 1.10 Limited Condition Acquisitions. Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement or any Loan Document to the contrary, when calculating any applicable ratio, the use of a basket or determining other compliance with this Agreement (including the determination of compliance with any provision of this Agreement which requires that no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing or would result therefrom or the accuracy of any representations and warranties) in connection with a Specified Transaction undertaken in connection with the consummation of a Limited Condition Acquisition, the date of determination of such ratio or basket and determination of whether any Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing or would result therefrom (other than with respect to a Default or Event of Default under Section 8.01(a), (f) or (g)), the accuracy of representations and warranties in all respects (other than the accuracy of customary “specified representations”) or other applicable covenants shall, in each case at the option of Holdings at the time such definitive agreements are entered into (Holdings’ election to exercise such option in connection with any Limited Condition Acquisition, an “LCA Election”), be deemed to be the date the definitive agreements for such Limited Condition Acquisition are entered into (the “LCA Test Date”). If, after such ratios and other provisions are measured on a Pro Forma Basis after giving effect to such Limited Condition Acquisition and the other transactions to be entered into in connection therewith (including any incurrence of Indebtedness and the use of proceeds thereof) as if they occurred at the beginning of the most recently ended Test Period prior to the LCA Test Date, Holdings could have taken such action on the relevant LCA Test Date in compliance with such ratios and provisions, such provisions shall be deemed to have been complied with. For the avoidance of doubt, (x) if any of such ratios are exceeded as a result of fluctuations in such ratio (including due to fluctuations in Consolidated EBITDA of Holdings and its Subsidiaries) at or prior to the consummation of the relevant Limited Condition Acquisition, such ratios and other provisions will not be deemed to have been exceeded as a result of such fluctuations solely for purposes of determining whether the Limited Condition Acquisition is permitted hereunder and (y) such ratios and other provisions shall not be tested at the time of consummation of such Limited Condition Acquisition or related Specified Transactions. If Holdings has made an LCA Election for any Limited Condition Acquisition, then in connection with any subsequent calculation of any ratio (excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, any ratio contained in Section 7.09) or basket availability with respect to any other Specified Transaction on or following the relevant LCA Test Date and prior to the earlier of the date on which such Limited Condition Acquisition is consummated or the date that the definitive agreement for such Limited Condition Acquisition is terminated or expires without consummation of such Limited Condition Acquisition, any such ratio or basket shall be calculated on a Pro Forma Basis assuming such Limited Condition Acquisition and other transactions in connection therewith (including any incurrence of Indebtedness and the use of proceeds thereof) have been consummated.

Section 1.11 Permitted Reorganizations.

(a) For purposes of determining Consolidated EBITDA, the Total Leverage Ratio, the First Lien Senior Secured Leverage Ratio, the Secured Leverage Ratio, Consolidated Depreciation and Amortization Expense, Consolidated EBITDA, Consolidated Interest Expense, Consolidated Net Income, Consolidated Total Debt, Consolidated Working Capital, consolidated gross revenues, Excess Cash Flow, Net Cash Proceeds or any other financial ratio, basket calculation or financial measurement of any kind whatsoever of Holdings, the Borrowers or the Restricted Subsidiaries in respect of a period commencing prior to the date of completion of any Permitted Reorganization and ending on or after such date, such determination shall be made using the results for the applicable period ending prior to such date of Holdings, the Borrowers, or the Restricted Subsidiaries as in effect during such prior period and the results for the applicable

 

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period on and after such date of Holdings, the Borrowers, or the Restricted Subsidiaries as in effect during such subsequent period. For purposes of each of Sections 6.01(a) and 6.01(b), at any time when the most recent fiscal year or fiscal quarter, as applicable, ended after the date of the completion of any Permitted Reorganization and the comparable prior year period ended prior to such date, the financial statements delivered in respect of such prior period may be those of Holdings or any direct or indirect parent of Holdings as of the last day of such prior fiscal year or fiscal quarter, as applicable.

(b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth herein or in any other Loan Document, Holdings and the Restricted Subsidiaries (other than the Borrowers) may implement a Permitted Reorganization.

Section 1.12 Change of Currency. 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 consent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld) to appropriately reflect a change in currency of any country and any relevant market conventions or practices relating to such change in currency.

Section 1.13 Cashless Rollovers. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement or in any other Loan Document, to the extent that any Lender extends the maturity date of, or replaces, renews or refinances, any of its then-existing Loans with Incremental Facilities, Refinancing Term Loans, Refinancing Delayed Draw Term Loans, Loans in connection with any Refinancing Revolving Credit Commitments, Extended Term Loans, Extended Revolving Credit Commitments or loans incurred under a new credit facility, in each case, to the extent such extension, replacement, renewal or refinancing is effected by means of a “cashless roll” by such Lender, such extension, replacement, renewal or refinancing shall be deemed to comply with any requirement hereunder or any other Loan Document that such payment be made “in Dollars”, “in immediately available funds”, “in Cash” or any other similar requirement.

Section 1.14 [Reserved].

Section 1.15 LIBOR Discontinuation. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein or in the other Loan Documents, if, with respect to any Interest Period, the rate of interest used to calculate the “Eurocurrency Rate” for such Interest Period is not available on the date of determination for such Interest Period for any reason (as determined by the Administrative Agent), then the rate of interest used to calculate the “Eurocurrency Rate” for such Interest Period shall be either a comparable or successor floating rate reasonably acceptable to the Lead Borrower, the Administrative Agent and, prior to the Disposition Date, the Principal Investor Representative, and certified in an officer’s certificate delivered to the Administrative Agent or, if no broadly accepted comparable successor rate exists at such time, a successor index rate as the Lead Borrower may determine with the consent of the Required Lenders (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed) and certified in an officer’s certificate to the Administrative Agent; provided that (i) any such successor rate shall be applied by the Administrative Agent in a manner consistent with market practice, (ii) to the extent such market practice is not administratively feasible for the Administrative Agent, such successor rate shall be applied in a manner as otherwise reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent in consultation with the Lead Borrower and the Required Lenders and (iii) in no event shall such successor floating rate be less than 0% per annum. In the event that after the Administrative Agent has not received an officer’s certificate of the Lead Borrower establishing an administratively feasible successor interest rate by the date which is five (5) Business Days prior to an Interest Payment Date, then Section 3.03 hereof shall apply.

 

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ARTICLE II

The Commitments and Credit Extensions

Section 2.01 The Loans.

(a) The Initial Term B Loan Borrowings. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Initial Term B Lender severally agrees to make on the Closing Date to the applicable Borrower a loan or loans denominated in Dollars (the “Initial Term B Loan”), the aggregate principal amount not to exceed in aggregate such Initial Term B Lender’s Initial Term B Commitment on the Closing Date. Amounts borrowed under this Section 2.01(a) and repaid or prepaid may not be reborrowed. Initial Term B Loans may only be Base Rate Loans or Eurocurrency Rate Loans, as further provided herein.

(b) The Revolving Credit Borrowings. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Revolving Credit Lender severally agrees to make (or cause its Applicable Lending Office to make) loans to the Lead Borrower denominated in Dollars (each such loan, a “Revolving Credit Loan”) from time to time, on any Business Day on or after the Closing Date until the Maturity Date with respect to the Revolving Credit Facility, in an aggregate principal amount which does not exceed at any time outstanding the amount of such Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment; provided, that after giving effect to any such Revolving Credit Borrowing, the sum of (x) the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Revolving Credit Loans of any Lender, plus (y) such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations, 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 Lead Borrower may borrow under this Section 2.01(b), prepay under Section 2.05, and reborrow under this Section 2.01(b). Revolving Credit Loans may be Eurocurrency Rate Loans or Base Rate Loans, as further provided herein.

(c) The Delayed Draw Term Borrowings. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Delayed Draw Term Lender severally agrees to make (or cause its Applicable Lending Office to make) a loan available in one (1) drawing to the Lead Borrower denominated in Dollars (such loan, the “Delayed Draw Term Loan”) at any time after the Closing Date until the Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment Termination Date, in an aggregate principal amount for such Delayed Draw Term Loan not to exceed at the time of such incurrence of the Delayed Draw Term Loans the amount of such Lender’s outstanding Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment. Amounts borrowed under this Section 2.01(c) and repaid or prepaid may not be reborrowed. Delayed Draw Term Loans may only be Eurocurrency Rate Loans or Base Rate Loans, as further provided herein. To the extent permissible, the Lead Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Delayed Draw Term Lenders providing the Delayed Draw Term Loan may effect such amendments to this Agreement as may be reasonably necessary or advisable so that any Delayed Draw Term Loans are fungible with other outstanding Term Loans if such the Delayed Draw Term Loans are intended and permitted to be of the same Class as the relevant existing Term Loans.

Section 2.02 Borrowings, Conversions and Continuations of Loans.

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Administrative Agent not later than (i) 12:00 p.m. (New York City time) (x) three (3) Business Days prior to the requested date of any Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans or any conversion of Base Rate Loans to Eurocurrency Rate Loans (or, in the case of any initial Borrowing of the Initial Term B Loans or the Delayed Draw Term Loans, in accordance with Section 4.01 and 4.02(c)), as applicable, and (y) one (1) Business Day before the requested date of any Borrowing of term loans consisting of Base Rate Loans or (ii) by 11:00 a.m. (New York City time) on the requested date of any Revolving Credit Borrowing consisting of Base Rate Loans. Each Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of a Eurocurrency Rate Loan shall be in a principal amount of the Borrowing Minimum or a whole multiple of the Borrowing Multiple in excess thereof. Except as provided in Section 2.03(c), each Borrowing of or conversion to Base Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of the Borrowing Minimum or a whole multiple of the Borrowing Multiple in excess thereof. Each Committed Loan Notice shall specify (i) whether the applicable Borrower is requesting a Term Borrowing, a Revolving Credit Borrowing, a Delayed Draw Term Borrowing, a conversion of 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 currency and principal amount of Loans to be borrowed, converted or continued, (iv) if applicable, the Type of Loans to be borrowed or to which existing Loans are to be converted and (v) if applicable, the duration of the Interest Period with respect thereto. With respect to the Initial Term B Loan or any other Term Loan denominated in Dollars, if the applicable Borrower fails to specify a Type of Loan in a Committed Loan Notice or fails to give a timely notice requesting a conversion or continuation, then the applicable Loans shall be made or continued as, or converted to, Base Rate Loans. Any such automatic conversion to Base Rate Loans or continuation 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 applicable 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 (1) month. For the avoidance of doubt, the Borrowers and Lenders acknowledge and agree that any conversion or continuation of an existing Loan shall be deemed to be a continuation of that Loan with a converted interest rate methodology and not a new Loan.

(b) Following receipt of a Committed Loan Notice, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Appropriate Lender of the amount of its Applicable Percentage of the applicable Class of Loans, and, with respect to Loans denominated in Dollars, if no timely notice of a conversion or continuation is provided by the applicable Borrower, the Administrative Agent shall notify each Appropriate Lender of the details of any automatic conversion to Base Rate Loans or continuation described in Section 2.02(a). In the case of each Borrowing, each Appropriate Lender shall make (or cause its Applicable Lending Office to make) the amount of its Loan available to the Administrative Agent by wire transfer in immediately available funds at the Administrative Agent’s Office not later than 2:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the Business Day specified in the applicable Committed Loan Notice. Upon satisfaction of the applicable conditions set forth in Section 4.03 (or, in the case of the initial Credit Extension to be made on the Closing Date, Section 4.01 or, in the case of the Delayed Draw Term Borrowing, Section 4.02), the Administrative Agent shall make all funds so received available to the applicable Borrower in like funds as received by the Administrative Agent either by (i) crediting the account of the applicable Borrower maintained with the Administrative Agent with the amount of such funds or (ii) wire transfer of such funds, in each case in accordance with instructions provided to (and reasonably acceptable to) the Administrative Agent by the applicable Borrower; provided, if, on the date the Committed Loan Notice with respect to a Revolving Credit Borrowing is given by the Lead Borrower, there are L/C Borrowings outstanding, then the proceeds of such Revolving Credit Borrowing shall be applied first, to the payment in full of any such L/C Borrowings and second, to the Lead Borrower as provided above.

 

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(c) Except as otherwise provided herein, a Eurocurrency Rate Loan may not be continued or converted except on the last day of the Interest Period for such Eurocurrency Rate Loan, unless the applicable Borrower pays the amount due, if any, under Section 3.05 in connection therewith. During the existence of an Event of Default, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders may require 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.

(e) Anything in clauses (a) to (c) above to the contrary notwithstanding, after giving effect to all Term Borrowings, Revolving Credit Borrowings and the Delayed Draw Term Borrowing (if any), all conversions of Term Loans, Revolving Credit Loans and the Delayed Draw Term Loans from one Type to the other, and all continuations of Term Loans, Revolving Credit Loans and the Delayed Draw Term Loans as the same Type, there shall not be more than fifteen (15) Interest Periods in effect for Term Borrowings, Revolving Credit Borrowings and Delayed Draw Term Borrowing.

Section 2.03 Letters of Credit.

(a) The Letter of Credit Commitments.

(i) Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, (1) each L/C Issuer agrees, in reliance upon the agreements of the other Revolving Credit Lenders set forth in this Section 2.03, (x) from time to time on any Business Day during the period from the Closing Date until the Letter of Credit Expiration Date, to issue Letters of Credit in Dollars for the account of the Lead Borrower (provided, any Letter of Credit may be for the benefit of Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary of Holdings) and to amend or renew Letters of Credit previously issued by it, in accordance with Section 2.03(b), and (y) to honor drafts under the Letters of Credit and (2) the Revolving Credit Lenders severally agree to participate in Letters of Credit issued pursuant to this Section 2.03; provided, no L/C Issuer shall be obligated to make any L/C Credit Extension with respect to any Letter of Credit, and no Lender shall be obligated to participate in any Letter of Credit if immediately after giving effect to such L/C Credit Extension, (x) the Revolving Credit Exposure of any Lender would exceed such Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment, or (y) the Outstanding Amount of the L/C Obligations would exceed the Letter of Credit Sublimit; provided, further, no L/C Issuer shall be obligated to make any L/C Credit Extension with respect to any Letter of Credit if immediately after giving effect to such L/C Credit Extension if there is a Revolving Credit Lender who is a Defaulting Lender and the Lead Borrower has not provided Cash Collateral with respect to such Defaulting Lender’s pro rata participation in such proposed L/C Credit Extension (after giving effect to Section 2.16(c)(i)). Within the foregoing limits, and subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the Lead Borrower’s ability to obtain Letters of Credit shall be fully revolving, and accordingly the Lead Borrower may, during the foregoing period, obtain Letters of Credit to replace Letters of Credit that have expired or that have been drawn upon and reimbursed.

 

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(ii) An L/C Issuer shall be under no obligation to issue any Letter of Credit if:

(A) any order, judgment or decree of any Governmental Authority or arbitrator shall by its terms purport to enjoin or restrain such L/C Issuer from issuing such Letter of Credit, or any Law applicable to such L/C Issuer or any directive (whether or not having the force of law) from any Governmental Authority with jurisdiction over such L/C Issuer shall prohibit, or direct that such L/C Issuer refrain from, the issuance of letters of credit generally or such Letter of Credit in particular or shall impose upon such L/C Issuer with respect to such Letter of Credit any restriction, reserve or capital requirement (for which such L/C Issuer is not otherwise compensated hereunder) not in effect on the Closing Date, or shall impose upon such L/C Issuer any unreimbursed loss, cost or expense which was not applicable on the Closing Date (for which such L/C Issuer is not otherwise compensated hereunder);

(B) subject to Section 2.03(b)(iii), the expiry date of such requested Letter of Credit would occur more than twelve months after the date of issuance or last renewal, unless the relevant L/C Issuer has approved such expiry date;

(C) the expiry date of such requested Letter of Credit would occur after the Letter of Credit Expiration Date, unless the relevant L/C Issuer has approved such expiry date;

(D) (x) the issuance of such Letter of Credit would violate any Laws binding upon such L/C Issuer or (y) with respect to any Letter of Credit issued by GS Lending Partners, such Letter of Credit would violate one or more GS Restrictions on Letters of Credit;

(E) the Letter of Credit is to be denominated in a currency other than Dollars, unless otherwise agreed by the L/C Issuer and the Administrative Agent; or

(F) the Letter of Credit is in an initial amount less than $250,000 or, to the extent the applicable L/C Issuer and the Administrative Agent have agreed to issue the Letter of Credit in a currency other than Dollars, the Dollar equivalent thereof (as determined by the applicable L/C Issuer) or, in each case, such other amount as reasonably agreed by the L/C Issuer.

(iii) An L/C Issuer shall be under no obligation to amend any Letter of Credit if (A) such L/C Issuer would have no obligation at such time to issue such Letter of Credit in its amended form under the terms hereof or (B) the beneficiary of such Letter of Credit does not accept the proposed amendment to such Letter of Credit.

(b) Procedures for Issuance and Amendment of Letters of Credit; Auto Extension Letters of Credit.

(i) Each Letter of Credit shall be issued or amended, as the case may be, upon the request of the Lead Borrower, hand delivered or facsimiled (or transmitted by electronic communication, if arrangements for doing so have been approved by the L/C Issuer) to the L/C Issuer (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) in the form of a Letter

 

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of Credit Application, appropriately completed and signed by a Responsible Officer of the Lead Borrower. Such Letter of Credit Application must be received by the relevant L/C Issuer and the Administrative Agent not later than 2:00 p.m. (New York City time) at least three (3) Business Days prior to the proposed issuance date or date of amendment, as the case may be; or, in each case, such later date and time as the relevant L/C Issuer may agree in a particular instance in its sole discretion. In the case of a request for an initial issuance of a Letter of Credit, such Letter of Credit Application shall specify in form and detail reasonably satisfactory to the relevant L/C Issuer: (a) the proposed issuance date of the requested Letter of Credit (which shall be a Business Day); (b) the amount and currency thereof; (c) the expiry date thereof; (d) the name and address of the beneficiary thereof; (e) the documents to be presented by such beneficiary in case of any drawing thereunder; (f) the full text of any certificate to be presented by such beneficiary in case of any drawing thereunder; and (g) such other matters as the relevant L/C Issuer may reasonably request. In the case of a request for an amendment of any outstanding Letter of Credit, such Letter of Credit Application shall specify in form and detail reasonably satisfactory to the relevant L/C Issuer (1) the Letter of Credit to be amended; (2) the proposed date of amendment thereof (which shall be a Business Day); (3) the nature of the proposed amendment; and (4) such other matters as the relevant L/C Issuer may reasonably request.

(ii) Promptly after receipt of any Letter of Credit Application, the relevant L/C Issuer will confirm with the Administrative Agent (by telephone or in writing) that the Administrative Agent has received a copy of such Letter of Credit Application from the Lead Borrower and, if not, such L/C Issuer will provide the Administrative Agent with a copy thereof. Upon receipt by the relevant L/C Issuer of confirmation from the Administrative Agent that the requested issuance or amendment is permitted in accordance with the terms hereof, then, subject to the terms and conditions hereof, such L/C Issuer shall, on the requested date, issue a Letter of Credit for the account of the Lead Borrower or enter into the applicable amendment, as the case may be. Immediately upon the issuance of each Letter of Credit, each Revolving Credit Lender shall be deemed to, and hereby irrevocably and unconditionally agrees to, acquire from the relevant L/C Issuer a risk participation in such Letter of Credit in an amount equal to the product of such Revolving Credit Lender’s Applicable Percentage times the amount of such Letter of Credit.

(iii) If the Lead Borrower so requests in any applicable Letter of Credit Application, the relevant L/C Issuer shall agree to issue a Letter of Credit that has automatic renewal provisions (each, an “Auto-Extension Letter of Credit”); provided, any such Auto-Extension Letter of Credit must permit the relevant L/C Issuer to prevent any such renewal at least once in each twelve-month period (commencing with the date of issuance of such Letter of Credit) by giving prior notice to the beneficiary thereof not later than a day (the “Non-Extension Notice Date”) in each such twelve-month period to be agreed upon at the time such Letter of Credit is issued. Unless otherwise directed by the relevant L/C Issuer, the Lead Borrower shall not be required to make a specific request to the relevant L/C Issuer for any such renewal. Once an Auto-Extension Letter of Credit has been issued, the applicable Lenders shall be deemed to have authorized (but may not require) the relevant L/C Issuer to permit the renewal of such Letter of Credit at any time to an expiry date not later than the Letter of Credit Expiration Date; provided, the relevant L/C Issuer shall not permit any such renewal if (A) the relevant L/C Issuer has determined that it would have no obligation at such time to issue such Letter of Credit in its renewed form under the terms hereof (by reason of the provisions of

 

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Section 2.03(a)(ii)), or (B) it has received notice (which may be by telephone, followed promptly in writing, or in writing) on or before the day that is five (5) Business Days before the Non-Extension Notice Date from the Administrative Agent or any Revolving Credit Lender, as applicable, or the Lead Borrower that one or more of the applicable conditions specified in Section 4.03 is not then satisfied.

(iv) Promptly after its delivery of any Letter of Credit or any amendment to a Letter of Credit to an advising bank with respect thereto or to the beneficiary thereof, the relevant L/C Issuer will also deliver to the Lead Borrower and the Administrative Agent a true and complete copy of such Letter of Credit or amendment.

(c) Drawings and Reimbursements; Funding of Participations.

(i) Upon receipt from the beneficiary of any Letter of Credit of any notice of a drawing under such Letter of Credit, the relevant L/C Issuer shall notify promptly the Lead Borrower and the Administrative Agent thereof. On the Business Day immediately following the Business Day on which the Lead Borrower shall have received notice of any payment by an L/C Issuer under a Letter of Credit (or, if the Lead Borrower shall have received such notice later than 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on any Business Day, on the second succeeding Business Day) (such date of payment, an “Honor Date”), the Lead Borrower shall reimburse such L/C Issuer through the Administrative Agent in an amount equal to the amount of such drawing. If the Lead Borrower fails to so reimburse such L/C Issuer on the Honor Date (or if any such reimbursement payment is required to be refunded to the Lead Borrower for any reason), then, in the case of each L/C Borrowing, such L/C Issuer shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent and upon such L/C Issuer’s request, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Appropriate Lender of the Honor Date, the amount of the unreimbursed drawing (the “Unreimbursed Amount”), and the amount of such Appropriate Lender’s Applicable Percentage thereof. In the event that the Lead Borrower does not reimburse the L/C Issuer on the Honor Date the Lead Borrower shall be deemed to have requested a Revolving Credit Borrowing of Base Rate Loans to be disbursed on such date in an amount equal to the Unreimbursed Amount, without regard to the minimum and multiples specified in Section 2.02 for the principal amount of Base Rate Loans but subject to the amount of the unutilized portion of the Revolving Credit Commitments of the Appropriate Lenders, and subject to the conditions set forth in Section 4.03 (other than the delivery of a Committed Loan Notice). Any notice given by an L/C Issuer or the Administrative Agent pursuant to this Section 2.03(c)(i) may be given by telephone if immediately confirmed in writing; provided, the lack of such an immediate confirmation shall not affect the conclusiveness or binding effect of such notice. For the avoidance of doubt, if any drawing occurs under a Letter of Credit and such drawing is not reimbursed on the same day, such drawing shall, without duplication, accrue interest at the rate applicable to Base Rate Loans that are Revolving Credit Loans until the date of reimbursement.

(ii) Each Revolving Credit Lender (including any such Lender acting as an L/C Issuer) shall upon any notice pursuant to Section 2.03(c)(i) make funds available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant L/C Issuer at the Administrative Agent’s Office for payments in an amount equal to its Applicable Percentage of any Unreimbursed Amount in respect of a Letter of Credit not later than 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the Business Day specified in such notice by the Administrative Agent, whereupon each Revolving Credit Lender that so makes funds available shall be deemed to have made a Base Rate Loan to the Lead Borrower in such amount. The Administrative Agent shall remit the funds so received to the relevant L/C Issuer.

 

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(iii) With respect to any Unreimbursed Amount in respect of a Letter of Credit that is not fully refinanced by a Revolving Credit Borrowing of Base Rate Loans because the conditions set forth in Section 4.03 cannot be satisfied or for any other reason, the Lead Borrower shall be deemed to have incurred from the relevant L/C Issuer an L/C Borrowing in the amount of the Unreimbursed Amount that is not so refinanced, which L/C Borrowing shall be due and payable on demand (together with interest) and shall bear interest at the Default Rate. In such event, each Revolving Credit Lender’s payment to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant L/C Issuer pursuant to Section 2.03(c)(ii) shall be deemed payment in respect of its participation in such L/C Borrowing and shall constitute an L/C Advance from such Lender in satisfaction of its participation obligation under this Section 2.03.

(iv) Until each Revolving Credit Lender funds its Revolving Credit Loan or L/C Advance pursuant to this Section 2.03(c) to reimburse the relevant L/C Issuer for any amount drawn under any Letter of Credit, interest in respect of such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of such amount shall be solely for the account of the relevant L/C Issuer.

(v) Each Revolving Credit Lender’s obligation to make Revolving Credit Loans or L/C Advances to reimburse an L/C Issuer for amounts drawn under Letters of Credit, as contemplated by this Section 2.03(c), shall be absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance, including (A) any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other right which such Lender may have against the relevant L/C Issuer, the Leaad Borrower or any other Person for any reason whatsoever; (B) the occurrence or continuance of a Default; or (C) any other occurrence, event or condition, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing; provided, each Revolving Credit Lender’s obligation to make Revolving Credit Loans (but not L/C Advances) pursuant to this Section 2.03(c) is subject to the conditions set forth in Section 4.03 (other than delivery by the Lead Borrower of a Committed Loan Notice). No such making of an L/C Advance shall relieve or otherwise impair the obligation of the Lead Borrower to reimburse the relevant L/C Issuer for the amount of any payment made by such L/C Issuer under any Letter of Credit, together with interest as provided herein.

(vi) If any Revolving Credit Lender fails to make available to the Administrative Agent for the account of the relevant L/C Issuer any amount required to be paid by such Lender pursuant to the foregoing provisions of this Section 2.03(c) by the time specified in Section 2.03(c)(ii), such L/C Issuer shall be entitled to recover from such Lender (acting through the Administrative Agent), on demand, such amount with interest thereon for the period from the date such payment is required to the date on which such payment is immediately available to such L/C Issuer at a rate per annum equal to the greater of the Federal Funds Rate and a rate determined by such L/C Issuer in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by such L/C Issuer in connection with the foregoing. If such Lender pays such amount (with interest and fees as aforesaid), the amount so paid shall constitute such Lender’s Loan included in the relevant Borrowing or L/C Advance in respect of the relevant L/C Borrowing, as the case may be. A certificate of the relevant L/C Issuer submitted to any Revolving Credit Lender (through the Administrative Agent) with respect to any amounts owing under this Section 2.03(c)(vi) shall be conclusive absent demonstrable error.

 

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(vii) If, at any time after an L/C Issuer has made a payment under any Letter of Credit and has received from any Revolving Credit Lender such Lender’s L/C Advance in respect of such payment in accordance with this Section 2.03(c), the Administrative Agent receives for the account of such L/C Issuer any payment in respect of the related Unreimbursed Amount or interest thereon (whether directly from the Lead Borrower or otherwise, including proceeds of Cash Collateral applied thereto by the Administrative Agent), the Administrative Agent will distribute to each Revolving Credit Lender its Applicable Percentage thereof (appropriately adjusted, in the case of interest payments, to reflect the period of time during which such Lender’s L/C Advance was outstanding) in the same funds as those received by the Administrative Agent.

(viii) If any payment received by the Administrative Agent for the account of an L/C Issuer pursuant to Section 2.03(c)(i) is required to be returned under any of the circumstances described in Section 10.06 (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by such L/C Issuer in its discretion), each Revolving Credit Lender shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of such L/C Issuer its Applicable Percentage thereof on demand of the Administrative Agent, plus interest thereon from the date of such demand to the date such amount is returned by such Lender, at a rate per annum equal to the Federal Funds Rate. The obligations of the Revolving Credit Lenders under this clause shall survive the payment in full of the Obligations and the termination of this Agreement.

(d) Obligations Absolute. The obligation of the Lead Borrower to reimburse the relevant L/C Issuer for each drawing under each Letter of Credit issued by it and to repay each L/C Borrowing shall be absolute, unconditional and irrevocable, and shall be paid strictly in accordance with the terms of this Agreement under all circumstances, including the following:

(i) any lack of validity or enforceability of such Letter of Credit, this Agreement, or any other agreement or instrument relating thereto;

(ii) the existence of any claim, counterclaim, setoff, defense or other right that any Loan Party may have at any time against any beneficiary or any transferee of such Letter of Credit (or any Person for whom any such beneficiary or any such transferee may be acting), the relevant L/C Issuer or any other Person, whether in connection with this Agreement, the transactions contemplated hereby or by such Letter of Credit or any agreement or instrument relating thereto, or any unrelated transaction;

(iii) any draft, demand, certificate or other document presented under such Letter of Credit proving to be forged, fraudulent, invalid or insufficient in any respect or any statement therein being untrue or inaccurate in any respect; or any loss or delay in the transmission or otherwise of any document required in order to make a drawing under such Letter of Credit;

(iv) any payment by the relevant L/C Issuer under such Letter of Credit against presentation of a draft or certificate that does not strictly comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit; or any payment made by the relevant L/C Issuer under such Letter of Credit to any Person purporting to be a trustee in bankruptcy, debtor-in-possession, assignee for the benefit of creditors, liquidator, receiver, interim receiver, receiver and manager, trustee, custodian, supervisor, insolvency practitioner, administrator or administrative receiver or other representative of or successor to any beneficiary or any transferee of such Letter of Credit, including any arising in connection with any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law;

 

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(v) any exchange, release or nonperfection of any Collateral, or any release or amendment or waiver of or consent to departure from the Guaranty or any other guarantee, for all or any of the Obligations of any Loan Party in respect of such Letter of Credit; or

(vi) any other circumstance or happening whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing, including any other circumstance that might otherwise constitute a defense available to, or a discharge of, any Loan Party;

provided, the foregoing shall not excuse any L/C Issuer from liability to the Lead Borrower to the extent of any direct damages (as opposed to special, indirect, consequential or punitive damages, claims in respect of which are waived by the Lead Borrower to the extent permitted by applicable Law) suffered by the Lead Borrower that are caused by such L/C Issuer’s gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct when determining whether drafts and other documents presented under a Letter of Credit comply with the terms thereof. The Lead Borrower shall promptly examine a copy of each Letter of Credit and each amendment thereto that is delivered to it and, in the event of any claim of noncompliance with the Lead Borrower’s instructions or other irregularity, the Lead Borrower will promptly notify the applicable L/C Issuer.

(e) Role of L/C Issuers. Each Lender and the Lead Borrower agrees that, in paying any drawing under a Letter of Credit, the relevant L/C Issuer shall not have any responsibility to obtain any document (other than any sight draft, certificates and documents expressly required by the Letter of Credit) or to ascertain or inquire as to the validity or accuracy of any such document or the authority of the Person executing or delivering any such document. None of the L/C Issuers, any Agent-Related Person nor any of the respective correspondents, participants or assignees of any L/C Issuer shall be liable to any Lender for (i) any action taken or omitted in connection herewith at the request or with the approval of the Required Lenders or the Required Revolving Credit Lenders, as applicable; (ii) any action taken or omitted in the absence of gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct (as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final non-appealable decision); or (iii) the due execution, effectiveness, validity or enforceability of any document or instrument related to any Letter of Credit or Letter of Credit Application. The Lead Borrower hereby assumes all risks of the acts or omissions of any beneficiary or transferee with respect to its use of any Letter of Credit; provided, this assumption is not intended to, and shall not, preclude the Lead Borrower’s pursuing such rights and remedies as it may have against the beneficiary or transferee at law or under any other agreement. None of the L/C Issuers, any Agent-Related Person, nor any of the respective correspondents, participants or assignees of any L/C Issuer, shall be liable or responsible for any of the matters described in clauses (i) through (iii) of this Section 2.03(e); provided, anything in such clauses to the contrary notwithstanding, the Lead Borrower may have a claim against an L/C Issuer, and such L/C Issuer may be liable to the Lead Borrower, to the extent, but only to the extent, of any direct, as opposed to consequential or exemplary, damages suffered by the Lead Borrower caused by such L/C Issuer’s willful misconduct, bad faith or gross negligence or such L/C Issuer’s willful or grossly negligent failure to pay under any Letter of Credit after the presentation to it by the beneficiary of a sight draft and certificate(s) strictly complying with the terms and conditions of a Letter of Credit (in each case as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final non-appealable decision). In furtherance and not in limitation of the foregoing, each L/C Issuer may accept documents that appear on their face to be in order, without responsibility for further investigation, regardless of any notice or information to the contrary, and no L/C Issuer shall be responsible for the validity or sufficiency of any instrument transferring or assigning or purporting to transfer or assign a Letter of Credit or the rights or benefits thereunder or proceeds thereof, in whole or in part, which may prove to be invalid or ineffective for any reason.

 

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(f) Cash Collateral. If (i) all of the Revolving Credit Commitments have been terminated prior to the Maturity Date of the Revolving Credit Facility and any Letter of Credit remains outstanding, (ii) any Event of Default occurs and is continuing and the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders, as applicable, require the Lead Borrower to Cash Collateralize the L/C Obligations pursuant to Section 8.02(a)(iv) or (iii) an Event of Default set forth under Section 8.01(f) (with respect to the Lead Borrower) or (g) occurs and is continuing, then the Lead Borrower shall Cash Collateralize the then Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations (in an amount equal to such Outstanding Amount plus any accrued or unpaid fees thereon, determined as of the date of such Event of Default), and shall do so not later than 2:00 p.m. (New York City time) on (x) in the case of the immediately preceding clauses (i) and (ii), (1) the Business Day that the Lead Borrower receives notice thereof, if such notice is received on such day prior to 1:00 p.m. (New York City time), or (2) if clause (1) above does not apply, the Business Day immediately following the day that the Lead Borrower receives such notice and (y) in the case of the immediately preceding clause (iii), the Business Day on which an Event of Default set forth under Section 8.01(f) or (g) occurs or, if such day is not a Business Day, the Business Day immediately succeeding such day, in either case, by 1:00 p.m. (New York City time) on such day. For purposes hereof, “Cash Collateralize” means to pledge and deposit with or deliver to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the relevant L/C Issuer and the Revolving Credit Lenders, as collateral for the L/C Obligations, cash or deposit account balances in an amount equal to the then Outstanding Amount (plus any accrued or unpaid fees thereon) of all L/C Obligations (determined as of the date of such Event of Default) (“Cash Collateral”) pursuant to documentation in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the relevant L/C Issuer (which documents are hereby consented to by the Revolving Credit Lenders) or to provide the Administrative Agent for the benefit of the relevant L/C Issuer and the Revolving Credit Lenders, a Letter of Credit (in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent) which backstops the Outstanding Amount (plus any accrued or unpaid fees thereon) of all L/C Obligations. Derivatives of such term have corresponding meanings. The Lead Borrower hereby grants to the Administrative Agent, for the benefit of the L/C Issuers and the Revolving Credit Lenders, a security interest in all such cash, deposit accounts and all balances therein and all proceeds of the foregoing. The Administrative Agent shall have exclusive dominion and control, including the exclusive right of withdrawal, over such account. Interest or profits, if any, on such investments shall accumulate in such account. Cash Collateral shall be maintained in accounts satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, in the name of the Administrative Agent and for the benefit of the Revolving Credit Lenders and may be invested in readily available Cash Equivalents at its sole discretion. If at any time the Administrative Agent determines that any funds held as Cash Collateral are subject to any right or claim of any Person other than the Administrative Agent (on behalf of the Secured Parties) or that the total amount of such funds is less than the aggregate Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations, the Lead Borrower will, forthwith upon demand by the Administrative Agent, pay to the Administrative Agent, as additional funds to be deposited and held in the deposit accounts specified by the Administrative Agent, an amount equal to the excess of (a) such aggregate Outstanding Amount over (b) the total amount of funds, if any, then held as Cash Collateral that the Administrative Agent reasonably determines to be free and clear of any such right and claim. Upon the drawing of any Letter of Credit for which funds are on deposit as Cash Collateral, such funds shall be applied, to the extent permitted under applicable Law, to reimburse the relevant L/C Issuer. To the extent the amount of any Cash Collateral exceeds the then Outstanding Amount of such L/C Obligations plus costs incidental thereto and so long as no other Event of Default has occurred

 

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and is continuing, the excess shall be refunded to the Lead Borrower. If such Event of Default is cured or waived and no other Event of Default is then occurring and continuing, the amount of any Cash Collateral (including any accrued interest thereon) shall be refunded to the Lead Borrower.

(g) Letter of Credit Fees. The Lead Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Revolving Credit Lender in accordance with its Applicable Percentage a Letter of Credit fee for each Letter of Credit issued pursuant to this Agreement equal to the product of (i) Applicable Rate for Eurocurrency Revolving Credit Loans and (ii) the daily maximum amount then available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit. Such letter of credit fees shall be computed on a quarterly basis in arrears. Such letter of credit fees shall be due and payable on the fifth (5th) Business Day after the end of each March, June, September and December, commencing with the first such date to occur after the issuance of such Letter of Credit, on the Letter of Credit Expiration Date and thereafter on demand. If there is any change in the Applicable Rate during any quarter, the daily maximum amount of each Letter of Credit shall be computed and multiplied by the Applicable Rate separately for each period during such quarter that such Applicable Rate was in effect.

(h) Fronting Fee and Documentary and Processing Charges Payable to L/C Issuers. The Lead Borrower shall pay directly to each L/C Issuer for its own account a fronting fee (a “Fronting Fee”) with respect to each Letter of Credit issued by it equal to 0.125% per annum of the daily maximum amount then available to be drawn under such Letter of Credit. Such Fronting Fee shall be computed on a quarterly basis in arrears. Such Fronting Fees shall be due and payable on the first Business Day after the end of each March, June, September and December, commencing with the first such date to occur after the issuance of such Letter of Credit, on the Letter of Credit Expiration Date, upon the termination of the Revolving Credit Facility and thereafter on demand. In addition, the Lead Borrower shall pay directly to each L/C Issuer for its own account the customary issuance, presentation, amendment and other processing fees, and other standard costs and charges, of such L/C Issuer relating to letters of credit as from time to time in effect. Such customary fees and standard costs and charges are due and payable within ten (10) Business Days of demand and are nonrefundable.

(i) Conflict with Letter of Credit Application. Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary in any Letter of Credit Application, in the event of any conflict between the terms hereof and the terms of any Letter of Credit Application, the terms hereof shall control.

(j) Addition of an L/C Issuer. A Revolving Credit Lender (or any of its Subsidiaries or affiliates) may become an additional L/C Issuer hereunder pursuant to a written agreement among the Lead Borrower, the Administrative Agent and such Revolving Credit Lender. The Administrative Agent shall notify the Revolving Credit Lenders of any such additional L/C Issuer.

(k) Applicability of ISP and UCP. Unless otherwise expressly agreed by an L/C Issuer and the Lead Borrower, when a Letter of Credit is issued, (i) the rules of the ISP shall apply to each standby Letter of Credit and (ii) the UCP, shall apply to each commercial Letter of Credit.

(l) Letters of Credit Issued for Subsidiaries. Notwithstanding that a Letter of Credit issued or outstanding hereunder is in support of any obligations of, or is for the account of, a Restricted Subsidiary, the Lead Borrower shall be obligated to reimburse the applicable L/C Issuer hereunder for any and all drawings under such Letter of Credit. The Lead Borrower

 

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hereby acknowledges that the issuance of Letters of Credit for the account of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries inures to the benefit of the Lead Borrower, and that the Lead Borrower’s business derives substantial benefits from the businesses of Holdings and such Restricted Subsidiaries.

(m) Reporting of Letter of Credit Information. At any time that any Revolving Credit Lender other than the Person serving as the Administrative Agent is an L/C Issuer, then (i) on the last Business Day of each calendar month, (ii) on each date that a Letter of Credit is amended, terminated or otherwise expires, (iii) on each date than an L/C Credit Extension occurs with respect to any Letter of Credit, and (iv) upon the request of the Administrative Agent, each L/C Issuer (or, in the case of clause (ii), (iii) or (iv), the applicable L/C Issuer) shall deliver to the Administrative Agent a report setting forth in form and detail reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent information (including, without limitation, any reimbursement, Cash Collateral or termination in respect of Letters of Credit issued by such L/C Issuer) with respect to each Letter of Credit issued by such L/C Issuer that is outstanding hereunder, including any auto-extension or termination of auto-extension provisions in such Letter of Credit. No failure on the part of any L/C Issuer to provide such information pursuant to this Section 2.03(m) shall limit the obligation of the Lead Borrower or any Revolving Credit Lender hereunder with respect to its reimbursement and participation obligations, respectively, pursuant to this Section 2.03.

(n) Provisions Related to Extended Revolving Credit Commitments. If the Letter of Credit Expiration Date in respect of any tranche of Revolving Credit Commitments occurs prior to the expiry date of any Letter of Credit, then, if consented to by the applicable L/C Issuer, (i) if one or more other tranches of Revolving Credit Commitments in respect of which the Letter of Credit Expiration Date shall not have so occurred are then in effect, such Letters of Credit shall, to the extent such Letters of Credit could have been issued under such other tranches, automatically be deemed to have been issued (including for purposes of the obligations of the Revolving Credit Lenders to purchase participations therein and to make Revolving Credit Loans and payments in respect thereof pursuant to Section 2.03(c)) under (and ratably participated in by Lenders pursuant to) the Revolving Credit Commitments in respect of such non-terminating tranches up to an aggregate amount not to exceed the aggregate principal amount of the unutilized Revolving Credit Commitments thereunder at such time (it being understood that no partial face amount of any Letter of Credit may be so reallocated) and (ii) to the extent not reallocated pursuant to the immediately preceding clause (i), the Lead Borrower shall Cash Collateralize any such Letter of Credit in accordance with Section 2.03(g). Commencing with the maturity date of any tranche of Revolving Credit Commitments, the sublimit for Letters of Credit shall be agreed solely with the L/C Issuer.

Section 2.04 [Reserved].

Section 2.05 Prepayments.

(a) Optional Prepayments.

(i) The applicable Borrower may, upon notice to the Administrative Agent by such Borrower in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit K, at any time or from time to time voluntarily prepay Initial Term B Loans, Revolving Credit Loans and the Delayed Draw Term Loans in whole or in part without premium or penalty (except as required by clause (iii) of this Section 2.05(a) and Section 3.05); provided, (1) such notice must be received by the Administrative Agent at any time (A) at least three (3) Business Days prior to any date of prepayment of Eurocurrency Rate Loans and (B) at

 

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least one Business Day prior to the date of prepayment of Base Rate Loans and (2) any prepayment of Loans shall be in a principal amount of $100,000 or a whole multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof or, in each case, the entire principal amount thereof then outstanding or such other amount as reasonably agreed by the Administrative Agent. Each such notice shall specify the date and amount of such prepayment and the Class(es) and Type(s) of Loans to be prepaid. The Administrative Agent will promptly notify each Appropriate Lender of its receipt of each such notice, and of the amount of such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of such prepayment. If such notice is given by the Lead Borrower or any of its Affiliates, the applicable Borrower shall make such prepayment and the payment amount specified in such notice shall be due and payable on the date specified therein. Any prepayment of a Eurocurrency Rate Loan shall be accompanied by all accrued interest thereon, together with any additional amounts required pursuant to Section 3.05. Each prepayment of Term Loans pursuant to this Section 2.05(a) shall be applied to each Class of Term Loan as directed by the appliable Borrower and applied to the installments of such relevant Class as directed by such Borrower (it being understood and agreed that if such Borrower does not so direct at the time of such prepayment, such prepayment shall be applied against the scheduled repayments of Term Loans of the relevant Class under Section 2.07 in direct order of maturity) and shall be paid to the Appropriate Lenders in accordance with their respective Applicable Percentage.

(ii) [Reserved].

(iii) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, if the applicable Borrower (A) makes any prepayment, refinancing or repayment of Initial Term B Loans or Delayed Draw Term Loans in connection with a Repricing Event or any replacement of any Lender as a result of such Lender being a Non-Consenting Lending (any such payment or replacement, an “Applicable Payment”) or (B) in connection with any Repricing Event, effects any amendment, modification or waiver of, or consent under, this Agreement resulting in a Repricing Event, the applicable Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent, for the ratable account of each of the applicable Term Lenders and Delayed Draw Term Lender, as applicable, if such Applicable Payment or Repricing Event occurs on or prior to the six month anniversary of the Closing Date, (x) a prepayment premium of 1.00% of the principal amount of the Term Loans being prepaid, repaid or replaced and (y) in the case of clause (B) above, an amount equal to 1.00% of the aggregate amount of the applicable Term Loans outstanding immediately prior to such amendment that are subject to an effective pricing reduction pursuant to such Repricing Event.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, the appliacble Borrower may rescind or postpone any notice of prepayment under Section 2.05(a) if such prepayment would have resulted from a refinancing of all or a portion of the Facilities, which refinancing shall not be consummated or shall otherwise be delayed.

(b) Mandatory Prepayments.

(i) If for any reason the aggregate Revolving Credit Exposure of all Lenders under the Revolving Credit Facility at any time exceeds the aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments then in effect (including, for the avoidance of doubt, as a result of the termination of the Revolving Credit Commitments on the Maturity Date with respect thereto), the Lead Borrower shall promptly prepay or cause to be promptly prepaid Revolving Credit Loans and/or Cash Collateralize the L/C

 

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Obligations in an aggregate amount equal to such excess; provided, that the Lead Borrower shall not be required to Cash Collateralize the L/C Obligations pursuant to this Section 2.05(b)(i) unless after the prepayment in full of the Revolving Credit Loans, the aggregate Revolving Credit Exposures exceed the aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments.

(ii) [Reserved].

(iii) Dispositions and Casualty Events. (A) Subject to Section 2.05(b)(iii)(B) and 2.05(b)(vii), if (x) Holdings or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries receives Net Cash Proceeds from Dispositions made pursuant to Sections 7.05(j), 7.05(n), 7.05(p), 7.05(q), 7.05(s) and 7.05(x) in any fiscal year or (y) any Casualty Event occurs, which in the aggregate results in the realization or receipt by Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary of Net Cash Proceeds, the Borrowers shall make a prepayment, in accordance with Section 2.05(b)(iii)(C), of an aggregate principal amount of Term Loans equal to such Net Cash Proceeds; provided, if after giving pro forma effect to such Disposition or Casualty Event and the application of the Net Cash Proceeds thereof (x) the First Lien Senior Secured Leverage Ratio is less than or equal to 4.50:1.00 but greater than 4.00:1.00, the Borrowers shall make a prepayment equal to 50% of such Net Cash Proceeds or (y) the First Lien Senior Secured Leverage Ratio is less than 4.00:1.00, the Borrowers shall make a prepayment equal to 0% of such Net Cash Proceeds; provided, no such prepayment shall be required pursuant to this Section 2.05(b)(iii)(A) with respect to such portion of such Net Cash Proceeds that the Lead Borrower shall have, on or prior to such date, given written notice to the Administrative Agent of its intent to reinvest in accordance with Section 2.05(b)(iii)(B); provided, further, if at the time that any such prepayment would be required, the Borrowers are required to offer to repurchase Permitted First Priority Refinancing Debt, Permitted Alternative Incremental Facilities Debt (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 (to the extent secured by Liens on the Collateral on a pari passu basis with the Obligations), in each case pursuant to the terms of the documentation governing such Indebtedness with the net proceeds of any such Disposition or Casualty Event of, or with respect to, any property or assets constituting Collateral (such Permitted First Priority Refinancing Debt, Permitted Alternative Incremental Facilities Debt (or the Permitted Refinancing of any such Indebtedness) required to be offered to be so repurchased, “Other Applicable Indebtedness”), then the Borrowers may apply (or have Holdings apply, as the case may be) 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, such Indebtedness shall be prepaid no more ratably than amounts applied to prepay Term Loans); provided, 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)(iii) shall be reduced accordingly; provided, further, that to the extent the holders of Other Applicable Indebtedness decline to have such Other Applicable Indebtedness repurchased or prepaid, the declined amount shall promptly (and in any event within ten (10) Business Days after the date of such rejection) be applied to prepay the Term Loans in accordance with the terms hereof.

 

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(B) With respect to any Net Cash Proceeds realized or received with respect to any Disposition or any Casualty Event for which the Borrowers are required to make a prepayment pursuant to Section 2.05(b)(iii)(A), at the option of the Borrowers, the Borrowers (or Holdings as the case may be) may reinvest an amount equal to all or any portion of such Net Cash Proceeds in assets useful for Holdings or its Subsidiaries’ business (other than working capital, except for short-term capital assets) which investment may include the repair, restoration or replacement of the applicable assets within (x) twelve (12) months following receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds or (y) if any Borrower or Holdings or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries enters into a legally binding commitment to reinvest such Net Cash Proceeds within twelve (12) months following receipt thereof, one hundred eighty (180) days after the twelve (12) month period that follows receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds; provided, if any Net Cash Proceeds are not so reinvested by the deadline specified in clause (x) or (y) above, as applicable, or if any such Net Cash Proceeds are no longer intended to be or cannot be so reinvested, an amount equal to such Net Cash Proceeds shall be applied, in accordance with Section 2.05(b)(iii)(C), to the prepayment of the Term Loans as set forth in this Section 2.05.

(C) On each occasion that the Borrowers must make a prepayment of the Term Loans pursuant to this Section 2.05(b)(iii), the Borrowers shall, within five (5) Business Days after the date of realization or receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds in the minimum amount specified above (or, in the case of prepayments required pursuant to Section 2.05(b)(iii)(B), within eight (8) Business Days of the deadline specified in clause (x) or (y) thereof, as applicable, or of the date the Borrowers reasonably determine that such Net Cash Proceeds are no longer intended to be or cannot be so reinvested, as the case may be), make a prepayment, in accordance with Section 2.05(b)(vi) below, of the principal amount of Term Loans in an amount equal to such Net Cash Proceeds realized or received.

(iv) Issuance of Indebtedness. If Holdings or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries incurs or issues any (x) Refinancing Term Loans, (y) Indebtedness in connection with a Permitted Debt Exchange pursuant to Section 2.17 or (z) Indebtedness not expressly permitted to be incurred or issued pursuant to Section 7.03, the Borrowers shall cause to be prepaid an aggregate principal amount of Term Loans equal to 100% of all Net Cash Proceeds received therefrom on or prior to the date that is five (5) Business Days after the receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds; provided that Net Cash Proceeds of amounts described in clause (x) or (y) above, shall be applied to the applicable Class or Classes of Term Loans which are intended to be refinanced with the proceeds of such Indebtedness as directed by the Lead Borrower. If the Borrowers obtain any Refinancing Revolving Credit Commitments, the Borrowers shall, concurrently with the receipt thereof, terminate Revolving Credit Commitments in an equivalent amount pursuant to Section 2.06.

(v) Except as otherwise provided in any Refinancing Amendment, extension amendment or Incremental Facility Amendment or in connection with Indebtedness incurred pursuant to Section 7.03(y) or any Refinancing Term Loans, each prepayment of Term Loans pursuant to this Section 2.05(b) shall be applied to each Class of Term Loan as the Lead Borrower shall direct and with each such Class ratably across the other Classes of Term Loans with the same maturity and prepayment premium as each such

 

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Class, and applied ratably to the remaining installments thereof as directed by the Lead Borrower (or, absent such direction by the Lead Borrower, pro rata in direct order of maturity pursuant to Section 2.07(a) following the applicable prepayment event). Each such prepayment shall be paid to the Lenders in accordance with their respective Applicable Percentage subject to clause (vi) of this Section 2.05.

(vi) The Lead Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent in writing of any mandatory prepayment of Term Loans required to be made pursuant to clauses (ii) and (iii) of this Section 2.05(b) at any time at least five (5) Business Days prior to the date of such prepayment. Each such notice shall specify the date of such prepayment and provide a reasonably detailed calculation of the amount of such prepayment. The Administrative Agent will promptly notify each Appropriate Lender of the contents of the Lead Borrower’s prepayment notice and of such Appropriate Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the prepayment. Each Appropriate Lender may reject all or a portion of its Applicable Percentage of any mandatory prepayment (such declined amounts, the “Declined Proceeds”) of Term Loans required to be made pursuant to clauses (ii) or (iii) of this Section 2.05(b) by providing written notice (each, a “Rejection Notice”) to the Administrative Agent and the Lead Borrower no later than 2:00 p.m. (New York City time) three (3) Business Days after the date of such Lender’s receipt of notice from the Administrative Agent regarding such prepayment. Each Rejection Notice from a given Lender shall specify the principal amount of the mandatory prepayment of Term Loans to be rejected by such Lender. If a Lender fails to deliver a Rejection Notice to the Administrative Agent within the time frame specified above or such Rejection Notice fails to specify the principal amount of the Term Loans to be rejected, any such failure will be deemed an acceptance of the total amount of such mandatory repayment of Term Loans. Any Declined Proceeds shall be first applied to any mandatory prepayments under Section 2.05(b) of the Second Lien Credit Agreement (or equivalent provision under any other document governing the Second Lien Term Loans and any Permitted Refinancing thereof); provided that if the lenders with respect to such Indebtedness elect to reject all or a portion of any such amount in accordance with the terms of the Second Lien Credit Agreement (or any documentation governing the Second Lien Term Loans and any Permitted Refinancing thereof), the remaining amount thereof may be retained by the Lead Borrower (such retained amounts, “Retained Declined Proceeds”).

(vii) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2.05(b), (i) to the extent that any or all of the Net Cash Proceeds of any Disposition by a Restricted Subsidiary otherwise giving rise to a prepayment pursuant to Section 2.05(b)(iii) (a “Restricted Disposition”) or the Net Cash Proceeds of any Casualty Event of a Restricted Subsidiary (a “Restricted Casualty Event”) would be prohibited or delayed by applicable local law from being distributed or otherwise transferred to the Borrowers, the realization of receipt of the portion of such Net Cash Proceeds so affected will not be taken into account in measuring the Borrowers’ obligation to repay Term Loans at the times provided in Section 2.05(b)(ii), or the Borrowers shall not be required to make a prepayment at the time provided in Section 2.05(b)(iii), as the case may be, for so long, but only so long, as the applicable local law will not permit such distribution or other transfer (the Borrowers hereby agreeing to cause the applicable Restricted Subsidiary to promptly take all commercially reasonable actions available under the applicable local law to permit such distribution or transfer), and once such distribution or transfer of any of such affected Net Cash Proceeds is permitted under the applicable local law, an amount equal to such Net Cash Proceeds permitted to be distributed or transferred (net of additional taxes payable or reserved against as a result thereof) will be promptly (and in

 

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any event not later than ten (10) Business Days after such repatriation is permitted) taken into account in measuring the Borrowers’ obligation to repay the Term Loans pursuant to this Section 2.05(b) to the extent provided herein and (ii) to the extent that the Lead Borrower has determined in good faith (as set forth in a written notice delivered to the Administrative Agent) that distribution or transfer of any or all of the Net Cash Proceeds of any Restricted Disposition or any Restricted Casualty Event would have a material adverse tax consequence (taking into account any foreign tax credit or benefit received in connection with such distribution or transfer) with respect to such Net Cash Proceeds, the amount of the Net Cash Proceeds so affected shall not be taken into account in measuring the Borrowers’ obligation to repay Term Loans pursuant to this Section 2.05(b).

(c) Interest, Funding Losses, Prepayment Premiums, Etc. All prepayments under this Section 2.05 shall be accompanied by all accrued interest thereon, together with, in the case of any such prepayment of a Eurocurrency Rate Loan on a date other than the last day of an Interest Period therefor, any amounts owing in respect of such Eurocurrency Rate Loan, as applicable, pursuant to Section 2.05(a)(iii) and Section 3.05.

Notwithstanding any of the other provisions of this Section 2.05, so long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, if any prepayment of Eurocurrency Rate Loans is required to be made under this Section 2.05, prior to the last day of the Interest Period therefor, in lieu of making any payment pursuant to this Section 2.05 in respect of any such Eurocurrency Rate Loan prior to the last day of the Interest Period therefor, the appliacble Borrower may, in its sole discretion, deposit with the Administrative Agent the amount of any such prepayment otherwise required to be made hereunder until the last day of such Interest Period, at which time the Administrative Agent shall be authorized (without any further action by or notice to or from the Lead Borrower or any other Loan Party) to apply such amount to the prepayment of such Loans in accordance with this Section 2.05. Such deposit shall constitute cash collateral for the Eurocurrency Rate Loans to be so prepaid; provided, the Lead Borrower may at any time direct that such deposit be applied to make the applicable payment required pursuant to this Section 2.05.

(d) Discounted Voluntary Prepayments.

(i) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in this Agreement (including Section 2.13) or any other Loan Document, Holdings, the Borrowers and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have the right at any time and from time to time to prepay one or more Classes of Term Loans to the Lenders at a discount to the par value of such Loans and on a non-pro rata basis (each, a “Discounted Voluntary Prepayment”) pursuant to the procedures described in this Section 2.05(d); provided, (A) no proceeds from Revolving Credit Loans shall be used to consummate any such Discounted Voluntary Prepayment, (B) any Discounted Voluntary Prepayment shall be offered to all Lenders of such Class on a pro rata basis, (C) after giving effect to the Discounted Voluntary Prepayment, the aggregate Outstanding Amount of all Term Loans that are held by Sponsor Affiliated Lenders (other than Affiliated Debt Funds) shall not exceed 25% of the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Term Loans then outstanding and (D) the Lead Borrower shall deliver to the Administrative Agent, together with each Discounted Prepayment Option Notice, a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Lead Borrower (1) stating that no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result from the Discounted Voluntary Prepayment, (2) stating that each of the conditions to such Discounted Voluntary Prepayment contained in this Section 2.05(d) has been satisfied and (3) specifying the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans of any Class offered to be prepaid pursuant to such Discounted Voluntary Prepayment.

 

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(ii) To the extent the Borrowers seek to make a Discounted Voluntary Prepayment, the Lead Borrower will provide written notice to the Administrative Agent substantially in the form of Exhibit F hereto (each, a “Discounted Prepayment Option Notice”) that Holdings, a Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary desires to prepay Term Loans of one or more specified Classes in an aggregate principal amount specified therein by the Lead Borrower (each, a “Proposed Discounted Prepayment Amount”), in each case at a discount to the par value of such Loans as specified below. The Proposed Discounted Prepayment Amount of any Loans shall not be less than $1,000,000. The Discounted Prepayment Option Notice shall further specify with respect to the proposed Discounted Voluntary Prepayment (A) the Proposed Discounted Prepayment Amount for Loans to be prepaid, (B) a discount range (which may be a single percentage) selected by the Lead Borrower with respect to such proposed Discounted Voluntary Prepayment equal to a percentage of par of the principal amount of the Loans to be prepaid (the “Discount Range”), and (C) the date by which Lenders are required to indicate their election to participate in such proposed Discounted Voluntary Prepayment, which shall be at least five (5) Business Days from and including the date of the Discounted Prepayment Option Notice (the “Acceptance Date”).

(iii) Upon receipt of a Discounted Prepayment Option Notice, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each applicable Lender thereof. On or prior to the Acceptance Date, each such Lender may specify by written notice substantially in the form of Exhibit G hereto (each, a “Lender Participation Notice”) to the Administrative Agent (A) a maximum discount to par (the “Acceptable Discount”) within the Discount Range (for example, a Lender specifying a discount to par of 20% would accept a purchase price of 80% of the par value of the Loans to be prepaid) and (B) a maximum principal amount (subject to rounding requirements specified by the Administrative Agent) of the Term Loans to be prepaid held by such Lender with respect to which such Lender is willing to permit a Discounted Voluntary Prepayment at the Acceptable Discount (“Offered Loans”). Based on the Acceptable Discounts and principal amounts of the Term Loans to be prepaid specified by the Lenders in the applicable Lender Participation Notice, the Administrative Agent, in consultation with the Lead Borrower, shall determine the applicable discount for such Term Loans to be prepaid (the “Applicable Discount”), which Applicable Discount shall be (A) the percentage specified by the Lead Borrower if the Lead Borrower has selected a single percentage pursuant to Section 2.05(d)(ii)) for the Discounted Voluntary Prepayment or (B) otherwise, the highest Acceptable Discount at which the Borrowers can pay the Proposed Discounted Prepayment Amount in full (determined by adding the Outstanding Amount of Offered Loans commencing with the Offered Loans with the highest Acceptable Discount); provided, however, that in the event that such Proposed Discounted Prepayment Amount cannot be repaid in full at any Acceptable Discount, the Applicable Discount shall be the lowest Acceptable Discount specified by the Lenders that is within the Discount Range. The Applicable Discount shall be applicable for all Lenders who have offered to participate in the Discounted Voluntary Prepayment and have Qualifying Loans. Any Lender with outstanding Term Loans to be prepaid whose Lender Participation Notice is not received by the Administrative Agent by the Acceptance Date shall be deemed to have declined to accept a Discounted Voluntary Prepayment of any of its Loans at any discount to their par value within the Applicable Discount.

 

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(iv) The Borrowers shall make a Discounted Voluntary Prepayment by prepaying those Term Loans to be prepaid (or the respective portions thereof) offered by the Lenders (“Qualifying Lenders”) that specify an Acceptable Discount that is equal to or greater than the Applicable Discount (“Qualifying Loans”) at the Applicable Discount; provided, if the aggregate proceeds required to prepay all Qualifying Loans (disregarding any interest payable at such time) would exceed the amount of aggregate proceeds required to prepay the Proposed Discounted Prepayment Amount, such amounts in each case calculated by applying the Applicable Discount, the Borrowers shall prepay such Qualifying Loans ratably among the Qualifying Lenders based on their respective principal amounts of such Qualifying Loans (subject to rounding requirements specified by the Administrative Agent). If the aggregate proceeds required to prepay all Qualifying Loans (disregarding any interest payable at such time) would be less than the amount of aggregate proceeds required to prepay the Proposed Discounted Prepayment Amount, such amounts in each case calculated by applying the Applicable Discount, the Borrowers shall prepay all Qualifying Loans.

(v) Each Discounted Voluntary Prepayment shall be made within five (5) Business Days of the Acceptance Date (or such later date as the Administrative Agent shall reasonably agree, given the time required to calculate the Applicable Discount and determine the amount and holders of Qualifying Loans), without premium or penalty (but subject to Section 3.05), upon irrevocable notice substantially in the form of Exhibit H hereto (each a “Discounted Voluntary Prepayment Notice”), delivered to the Administrative Agent no later than 2:00 p.m. (New York City time) three (3) Business Days prior to the date of such Discounted Voluntary Prepayment, which notice shall specify the date and amount of the Discounted Voluntary Prepayment and the Applicable Discount determined by the Administrative Agent. Upon receipt of any Discounted Voluntary Prepayment Notice, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each relevant Lender thereof. If any Discounted Voluntary Prepayment Notice is given, the amount specified in such notice shall be due and payable to the applicable Lenders, subject to the Applicable Discount on the applicable Loans, on the date specified therein together with accrued interest (on the par principal amount) to but not including such date on the amount prepaid. The par principal amount of each Discounted Voluntary Prepayment of a Term Loan shall be applied ratably to reduce the remaining installments of such Class of Term Loans.

(vi) To the extent not expressly provided for herein, each Discounted Voluntary Prepayment shall be consummated pursuant to reasonable procedures (including as to timing, rounding, minimum amounts, Type and Interest Periods and calculation of Applicable Discount in accordance with Section 2.05(d)(ii) above) established by the Administrative Agent and the Lead Borrower.

(vii) Prior to the delivery of a Discounted Voluntary Prepayment Notice, (A) upon written notice to the Administrative Agent, the Borrowers may withdraw or modify their offer to make a Discounted Voluntary Prepayment pursuant to any Discounted Prepayment Option Notice and (B) no Lender may withdraw its offer to participate in a Discounted Voluntary Prepayment pursuant to any Lender Participation Notice unless the terms of such proposed Discounted Voluntary Prepayment have been modified by the Borrowers after the date of such Lender Participation Notice.

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(ix) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Administrative Agent shall be under no obligation to act as manager for any Discounted Voluntary Prepayment and, at the Lead Borrower’s request, shall retain an agent or sub-agent to act in such capacity at the Lead Borrower’s expense.

Section 2.06 Termination or Reduction of Commitments.

(a) Optional. The applicable Borrower may, upon written notice to the Administrative Agent, terminate the unused Commitments of any Class, or from time to time permanently reduce the unused Commitments of any Class; provided, (i) any such notice shall be received by the Administrative Agent two (2) Business Days prior to the date of termination or reduction, (ii) any such partial reduction shall be in an aggregate amount of $100,000 or any whole multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof, (iii) the Lead Borrower shall not terminate or reduce the Revolving Credit Commitments if, after giving effect thereto and to any concurrent prepayments hereunder, the Total Revolver Outstandings would exceed the aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments, and (iv) if, after giving effect to any reduction of the Commitments, the Letter of Credit Sublimit exceeds the amount of the Revolving Credit Facility, such sublimit shall be automatically reduced by the amount of such excess. The amount of any such Revolving Credit Commitment reduction shall not be applied to the Letter of Credit Sublimit unless otherwise specified by the applicable Borrower. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the applicable Borrower may rescind or postpone any notice of termination of the Commitments if such termination would have resulted from a refinancing of all or a portion of the Facilities, which refinancing shall not be consummated or otherwise shall be delayed.

(b) Mandatory. The Initial Term B Commitment of each Initial Term B Lender shall be automatically and permanently reduced to $0 upon the making of such Initial Term B Lender’s Initial Term B Loans pursuant to Section 2.01(a). The Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment of each Delayed Draw Term Lender shall be automatically and permanently reduced in full upon the earlier to occur of (i) the Delayed Draw Funding Date and (ii) December 31, 2019. The Revolving Credit Commitments (other than any Extended Revolving Credit Commitments) shall terminate on the applicable Maturity Date. Any Extended Revolving Credit Commitments shall terminate on the respective maturity dates applicable thereto.

(c) Application of Commitment Reductions; Payment of Fees. The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Lenders of any termination or reduction of unused Commitments of any Class under this Section 2.06. Upon any reduction of unused Commitments of any Class, the Commitment of each Lender of such Class shall be reduced by such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the amount by which such Commitments are reduced (other than the termination of the Commitment of any Lender as provided in Section 3.07). All Applicable Revolving Commitment Fees accrued until the effective date of any termination of the Revolving Credit Commitments shall be paid on the effective date of such termination.

Section 2.07 Repayment of Loans.

(a) Term Loans.

(i) Subject to adjustment pursuant to Section 2.05, the Borrowers shall repay their respective poritons of the Initial Term B Loans on the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December (commencing on June 30, 2019) in the principal amount of Initial Term Loans equal to (i) the aggregate outstanding principal amount of such Initial Term Loans immediately after closing on the Closing Date multiplied by (ii)

 

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0.25%. The Borrowers shall repay to the Administrative Agent for the ratable account of the Initial Term B Lenders holding the Initial Term B Loan on the Maturity Date for the Initial Term B Loan, the aggregate principal amount of the Initial Term B Loan outstanding on such date.

(ii) [reserved].

(iii) Subject to adjustments pursuant to Section 2.05, the Lead Borrower shall repay the Delayed Draw Term Loans, if any, on the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December (commencing on the last Business Day of the first full fiscal quarter ended after the Delayed Draw Funding Date) in the principal amount of such Delayed Draw Term Loans equal to an amount determined by the Administrative Agent and the Lead Borrower in order to ensure the Delayed Draw Term Loans will be treated as fungible with the Initial Term Loans. The Lead Borrower shall repay to the Administrative Agent for the ratable account of the Delayed Draw Term Lenders holding the Delayed Draw Term Loan on the Maturity Date for the Delayed Draw Term Loan, the aggregate principal amount of the Delayed Draw Term Loan outstanding on such date.

(iv) [reserved].

(v) In the event any Incremental Term Loans, Refinancing Term Loans or Extended Term Loans are made, such Incremental Term Loans, Refinancing Term Loans or Extended Term Loans, as applicable, shall be repaid by the applicable Borrower in the amounts and on the dates set forth in the definitive documentation with respect thereto and on the applicable Maturity Date thereof.

(b) Revolving Credit Loans. The Lead Borrower shall repay to the Administrative Agent for the ratable account of the Appropriate Lenders on the Maturity Date for the Revolving Credit Facility the aggregate principal amount of all of its Revolving Credit Loans outstanding on such date.

Section 2.08 Interest.

(a) Subject to the provisions of Section 2.08(b), the Initial Term B Loans, the Delayed Draw Term Loans and Revolving Credit Facility shall, at the option of the Lead Borrower, bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof for each Interest Period at a rate per annum equal to (x) the Eurocurrency Rate for such Interest Period plus the Applicable Rate or (y) Base Rate for such Interest Period plus the Applicable Rate.

(b) During the continuance of an Event of Default under Sections 8.01(a) (with respect to any principal, interest or fees), (f) or (g), the applicable Borrower shall pay interest on such past due amounts hereunder at a fluctuating interest rate per annum at all times equal to the Default Rate to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws. Accrued and unpaid interest on such past due amounts (including interest on past due interest) shall be due and payable upon demand to the fullest extent permitted by and subject to applicable Laws, including in relation to any required additional agreements.

(c) Interest on each Loan shall be due and payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date applicable thereto and at such other times as may be specified herein. Interest hereunder shall be due and payable in accordance with the terms hereof before and after judgment, and before and after the commencement of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law.

 

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(d) Interest on each Loan shall be payable in the currency in which each Loan was made.

Section 2.09 Fees, Closing Payments and Exit Payments. In addition to certain fees described in Sections 2.03(g) and (h):

(a) Applicable Revolving Commitment Fee. The Lead Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent for the account of each Revolving Credit Lender in accordance with its Revolving Credit Availability, a per annum commitment fee equal to the Applicable Revolving Commitment Fee on the average daily unused portion of the Revolving Credit Commitments. The Applicable Revolving Commitment Fee shall accrue at all times from the Closing Date until the Maturity Date for the Revolving Credit Facility, including at any time during which one or more of the conditions in Article IV is not met, and shall be due and payable quarterly in arrears on the last Business Day of each March, June, September and December, commencing with the first such date to occur after the Closing Date, and on the Maturity Date for the Revolving Credit Facility. The Applicable Revolving Commitment Fee shall be calculated quarterly in arrears.

(b) Other Fees and Closing Payments. The Lead Borrower shall pay to the Agents such fees or closing payments or other payments as shall have been separately agreed upon in writing in the amounts and at the times so specified. Such fees or (as applicable) closing payments or other payments shall be fully earned when paid and/or (in the case of closing payments) deducted from any funded amount and shall not be refundable for any reason whatsoever (except as expressly agreed between the Lead Borrower and the applicable Agent).

(c) Exit Payments.

(i) Upon the earliest to occur of (i) the Deleveraging Event, (ii) any refinancing, in whole or in part, including pursuant to a Refinancing Amendment or with the proceeds of Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness, of the Revolving Credit Commitments and (iii) the date of an acceleration of, or the occurrence of an event which gives right to the right of the Revolving Lenders to accelerate the Revolving Credit Loans (and termination of the Revolving Commitments) (any of the foregoing, the “Revolving Exit Payment Trigger”), the Lead Borrower shall pay, or cause to be paid, to each Revolving Credit Lender with a Revolving Credit Commitment on the date of the occurrence of the Revolving Exit Payment Trigger, the Revolving Facility Exit Payment. The Revolving Facility Exit Payment shall be payable on a pro rata basis to the Revolving Credit Lenders in accordance with their percentage of the Revolving Credit Commitments as of the date of such payment.

(ii) Upon the earliest to occur of (i) the Deleveraging Event, (ii) a Repricing Event, (iii) any refinancing, in whole or in part, including pursuant to a Refinancing Amendment or with the proceeds of Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness, of the Term Loans or (iv) the date of an acceleration of, or the occurrence of an event which gives rise to the right of the Term Lenders to accelerate the Term Loans (any of the foregoing, the “Term Loan Exit Payment Trigger”), the applicable Borrower shall pay, or cause to be paid, (x) to each Initial Term B Lender with an Initial Term B Loan on the date of the occurrence of a Term Loan Exit Payment Trigger, the Initial Term B Loan Exit Payment and (y) to each Delayed Draw Term Lender with a Delayed Draw Term

 

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Loan on the date of the occurrence of the Term Loan Exit Payment Trigger, the Delayed Draw Term Loan Exit Payment. The Initial Term B Loan Exit Payment and the Delayed Draw Term Loan Exit Payment shall each be payable on a pro rata basis to the Initial Term B Lenders and Delayed Draw Term Lenders, respectively, as of the date of such payment. For the avoidance of doubt, any Initial Term B Loan Exit Payment and Delayed Draw Term Loan Exit Payment payable as a result of a Repricing Event shall be in addition to any prepayment premium set forth in Section 2.05(a)(ii).

Notwithstanding the foregoing, in connection with a request for a consent, waiver or amendment of the type set forth in Section 3.07(d), the applicable Borrower shall pay, or cause to be paid, an amount equal to each Lender entitled to an Exit Payment, including each Non-Consenting Lender, an amount equal to its pro rata portion of the Exit Payments as of the date of such consent, waiver or amendment.

Section 2.10 Computation of Interest, Fees and Closing Payments. All computations of interest for Base Rate Loans at times when the Base Rate is based on the Prime Rate shall be made on the basis of a year of three hundred sixty-five (365) days or three hundred sixty-six (366) days, as the case may be, and actual days elapsed. All other computations of fees and interest shall be made on the basis of a three hundred sixty (360)-day year and actual days elapsed. Interest shall accrue on each Loan for the day on which such Loan is made, and shall not accrue on such Loan, or any portion thereof, for the day on which such Loan or such portion is paid; provided, any such Loan that is repaid on the same day on which it is made shall, subject to Section 2.12(a), bear interest for one (1) day. Each determination by the Administrative Agent of an interest rate or fee hereunder shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.

Section 2.11 Evidence of Indebtedness.

(a) The Credit Extensions made by each Lender shall be evidenced by one or more accounts or records maintained by such Lender and by one or more entries in the Register. The accounts or records maintained by the Administrative Agent and each Lender shall be prima facie evidence absent manifest error of the amount of the Credit Extensions made by the Lenders to the Borrowers and the interest and payments thereon. Any failure to so record or any error in doing so shall not, however, limit or otherwise affect the obligation of the Borrowers hereunder to pay any amount owing with respect to the Obligations. In the event of any conflict between the accounts and records maintained by any Lender and the Register, the Register shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error. Upon the request of any Lender made through the Administrative Agent, the applicable Borrower shall execute and deliver to such Lender (through the Administrative Agent) a Note payable to such Lender or its registered assigns, which shall evidence such Lender’s Loans in addition to such accounts or records. Each Lender may attach schedules to its Note and endorse thereon the date, Type (if applicable), amount and maturity of its Loans and payments with respect thereto.

(b) In addition to the accounts and records referred to in Section 2.11(a), each Lender and the Administrative Agent shall maintain in accordance with its usual practice accounts or records and, in the case of the Administrative Agent, entries in the Register, evidencing the purchases and sales by such Lender of participations in Letters of Credit. In the event of any conflict between the Register and the accounts and records of any Lender in respect of such matters, the Register shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error.

 

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(c) Entries made in good faith by the Administrative Agent in the Register pursuant to Sections 2.11(a) and (b), and by each Lender in its account or accounts pursuant to Sections 2.11(a) and (b), shall be prima facie evidence of the amount of principal and interest due and payable or to become due and payable from the applicable Borrower to, in the case of the Register, each Lender and, in the case of such account or accounts, such Lender, under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, absent manifest error; provided, the failure of the Administrative Agent or such Lender to make an entry, or any finding that an entry is incorrect, in the Register or such account or accounts shall not limit or otherwise affect the obligations of the Borrowers under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.

Section 2.12 Payments Generally.

(a) Subject to Section 3.01, all payments to be made by the Borrowers shall be made free and clear of and without condition or deduction for any counterclaim, defense, recoupment or setoff. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all payments by the Borrowers hereunder shall be made to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the respective Lenders to which such payment is owed, at the applicable Administrative Agent’s Office and in immediately available funds not later than 2:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the date specified herein. The Administrative Agent will promptly distribute to each Lender its Applicable Percentage (or other applicable share as provided herein) of such payment in like funds as received by wire transfer to such Lender’s Applicable Lending Office. All payments received by the Administrative Agent after 2:00 p.m. (New York City time) shall be deemed received on the next succeeding Business Day and any applicable interest or fee shall continue to accrue; provided, that for the avoidance of doubt, any payment which is received by the Administrative Agent later than 2:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the applicable due date shall not constitute an Event of Default hereunder so long as such payment is received by the Administrative Agent prior to 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on such due date.

(b) If any payment to be made by the Borrowers shall come due on a day other than a Business Day, payment shall be made on the next following Business Day, and such extension of time shall be reflected in computing interest or fees, as the case may be; provided, if such extension would cause payment of interest on or principal of Eurocurrency Rate Loans to be made in the next succeeding calendar month, such payment shall be made on the immediately preceding Business Day.

(c) Unless any Borrower or any Lender has notified the Administrative Agent, prior to the date any payment is required to be made by it to the Administrative Agent hereunder, that such Borrower or such Lender, as the case may be, will not make such payment, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Borrower or such Lender, as the case may be, has timely made such payment and may (but shall not be so required to), in reliance thereon, make available a corresponding amount to the Person entitled thereto. If and to the extent that such payment was not in fact made to the Administrative Agent in immediately available funds, then:

(i) if any Borrower failed to make such payment, then the applicable Lender agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand the portion of such assumed payment that was made available to such Lender in immediately available funds, together with interest thereon in respect of each day from and including the date such amount was made available by the Administrative Agent to such Lender to the date such amount is repaid to the Administrative Agent in immediately available funds at the greater of the Federal Funds Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by such Administrative Agent in connection with the foregoing. It being understood that nothing herein shall be deemed to relieve any Lender from its obligation to fulfill its Commitment or to prejudice any rights which the Administrative Agent or any Borrower may have against any Lender as a result of any default by such Lender hereunder; and

 

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(ii) if any Lender failed to make such payment, such Lender shall forthwith on demand pay to the Administrative Agent the amount thereof in immediately available funds, together with interest thereon for the period from the date such amount was made available by the Administrative Agent to the Borrowers to the date such amount is recovered by the Administrative Agent (the “Compensation Period”) at the greater of the Federal Funds Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by such Administrative Agent in connection with the foregoing. When such Lender makes payment to the Administrative Agent (together with all accrued interest thereon), then such payment amount (excluding the amount of any interest which may have accrued and been paid in respect of such late payment) shall constitute such Lender’s Loan included in the applicable Borrowing. If such Lender does not pay such amount forthwith upon the Administrative Agent’s demand therefor, the Administrative Agent may make a demand therefor upon the Borrowers, and the Borrowers shall pay such amount to the Administrative Agent, together with interest thereon for the Compensation Period at the interest rate applicable to such Loan. Nothing herein shall be deemed to relieve any Lender from its obligation to fulfill its Commitment or to prejudice any rights which the Administrative Agent or the Borrowers may have against any Lender as a result of any default by such Lender hereunder.

A notice of the Administrative Agent to any Lender or any Borrower with respect to any amount owing under this Section 2.12(c) shall be conclusive, absent demonstrable error.

(d) If any Lender makes available to the Administrative Agent funds for any Loan to be made by such Lender as provided in the foregoing provisions of this Article II, and such funds are not made available to the Borrowers by the Administrative Agent because the conditions to the applicable Credit Extension set forth in Article IV are not satisfied or waived in accordance with the terms hereof, the Administrative Agent shall return such funds (in like funds as received from such Lender) to such Lender, without interest.

(e) The obligations of the Lenders hereunder to make Loans, to fund participations in Letters of Credit and to make reimbursement payments under Section 9.07 are several and not joint. The failure of any Lender to make any Loan, to fund any such participation or to make reimbursement payments under Section 9.07 on any date required hereunder shall not relieve any other Lender of its corresponding obligation to do so on such date, and no Lender shall be responsible for the failure of any other Lender to so make its Loan or purchase its participation.

(f) Nothing herein shall be deemed to obligate any Lender to obtain the funds for any Loan in any particular place or manner or to constitute a representation by any Lender that it has obtained or will obtain the funds for any Loan in any particular place or manner.

(g) Whenever any payment received by the Administrative Agent under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents is insufficient to pay in full all amounts due and payable to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders under or in respect of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents on any date, such payment shall be distributed by the Administrative Agent and applied by the Administrative Agent and the Lenders in the order of priority set forth

 

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in Section 8.04. If the Administrative Agent receives funds for application to the Obligations of the Loan Parties under or in respect of the Loan Documents under circumstances for which the Loan Documents do not specify the manner in which such funds are to be applied, the Administrative Agent may, but shall not be obligated to, elect to distribute such funds to each of the Lenders in accordance with such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the sum of (a) the Outstanding Amount of all Loans outstanding at such time and (b) the Outstanding Amount of all L/C Obligations outstanding at such time, in repayment or prepayment of such of the outstanding Loans or other Obligations then owing to such Lender.

(h) Each Loan shall be repaid, whether pursuant to Section 2.05 or otherwise, in the currency in which such Loan was made.

Section 2.13 Sharing of Payments.

If, other than as expressly provided elsewhere herein, any Lender shall obtain on account of the Loans made by it, or its participations in L/C Obligations, any payment (whether voluntary, involuntary, through the exercise of any right of setoff, or otherwise) in excess of its ratable share (or other share contemplated hereunder) thereof, such Lender shall immediately (i) notify the Administrative Agent of such fact, and (ii) purchase from the other Lenders such participations in the Loans made by them and/or such subparticipations in the participations in L/C Obligations held by them, as the case may be, as shall be necessary to cause such purchasing Lender to share the excess payment in respect of such Loans or such participations, as the case may be, pro rata with each of them; provided, (x) if all or any portion of such excess payment is thereafter recovered from the purchasing Lender under any of the circumstances described in Section 10.06 (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by the purchasing Lender in its discretion), such purchase shall to that extent be rescinded and each other Lender shall repay to the purchasing Lender the purchase price paid therefor, together with an amount equal to such paying Lender’s ratable share (according to the proportion of (i) the amount of such paying Lender’s required repayment to (ii) the total amount so recovered from the purchasing Lender) of any interest or other amount paid or payable by the purchasing Lender in respect of the total amount so recovered, without further interest thereon and (y) the provisions of this Section 2.13 shall not be construed to apply to any payment made by the Borrowers pursuant to and in accordance with the express terms of this Agreement or any payment obtained by a Lender as consideration for the assignment of or sale of a participation in any of its Loans or participations in L/C Obligations to any assignee or participant or the application of Cash Collateral pursuant to and in accordance with the express terms of this Agreement. The Borrowers agree that any Lender so purchasing a participation from another Lender may, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Law, exercise all its rights of payment (including the right of setoff, but subject to Section 10.09) with respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender were the direct creditor of the Borrowers in the amount of such participation. The Administrative Agent will keep records (which shall be conclusive and binding in the absence of demonstrable error) of participations purchased under this Section 2.13 and will in each case notify the Lenders following any such purchases or repayments. Each Lender that purchases a participation pursuant to this Section 2.13 shall from and after such purchase have the right to give all notices, requests, demands, directions and other communications under this Agreement with respect to the portion of the Obligations purchased to the same extent as though the purchasing Lender were the original owner of the Obligations purchased.

Section 2.14 Incremental Credit Extensions.

(a) Notice. At any time and from time to time, subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Lead Borrower may, by notice to the Administrative Agent (whereupon the Administrative Agent shall promptly deliver a copy to each of the Lenders), (i) increase the amount of Term Loans of any Class or add one or more additional tranches of term loans (any

 

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such Term Loans or additional tranche of term loans, the “Incremental Term Loans”) and/or (ii) add one or more increases in the Revolving Credit Commitments (the “Incremental Revolving Credit Commitments” and, together with the Incremental Term Loans, the “Incremental Facilities”).

(b) Ranking. Each Incremental Facility that is guaranteed may not be guaranteed by any Person that is not a Loan Party and each Incremental Facility that is secured cannot be secured by any assets that do not constitute Collateral that secures the Obligations hereunder. Any Incremental Revolving Credit Commitments shall become part of the Revolving Credit Facility and, accordingly, shall rank pari passu in right of payment and with respect to security with the existing commitments under the Revolving Credit Facility. Any other Incremental Facility may, at the discretion of the Lead Borrower, (i) rank pari passu in right of payment with the Initial Term B Loans and the Delayed Draw Term Loans, (ii) be subordinated in right of payment to the Initial Term B Loans and the Delayed Draw Term Loans, (iii) be secured on a pari passu basis with the Initial Term B Loans and the Delayed Draw Term Loans or (iv) be secured on a junior basis to the Initial Term B Loans and Delayed Draw Term Loans; provided that if subordinated or secured on a junior basis, such Incremental Facility may not be incurred under the Loan Documents and the holders of such Indebtedness or a Debt Representative acting on behalf of the holders of such Indebtedness shall become party to or otherwise become subject to the provisions of (x) to the extent the Second Lien Term Loans are still outstanding at the time of incurrence, the Intercreditor Agreement or (y) if the Second Lien Term Loans are no longer outstanding, another Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement or Subordination Agreement, as applicable.

(c) Size.

(i) Notwithstanding anything to contrary herein, the aggregate principal amount of all Incremental Facilities incurred on any date (other than Refinancing Term Loans and Refinancing Revolving Credit Commitments), shall not exceed the sum of (i) the Fixed Amount plus (ii) the Ratio Amount in each case on such date prior to the incurrence of such Incremental Facilities. Unless the Lead Borrower elects otherwise, each Incremental Facility will be deemed incurred first under clause (b) of the Fixed Amount, to the extent permitted and thereafter under the Ratio Amount to the extent permitted, with the balance incurred under clause (a) of the definition of “Fixed Amount”; provided that the Lead Borrower may not elect to incur an Incremental Facility under the Ratio Amount prior to incurrence of available Incremental Facility capacity under clause (b) of the Fixed Amount.

(ii) The Ratio Amount will be calculated:

(A) without giving effect to any Incremental Facilities incurred under clause (a) of the Fixed Amount that are incurred substantially simultaneously therewith (but including, for the avoidance any Incremental Facilities incurred under clause (b) of the Fixed Amount that are incurred substantially simultaneously therewith); and

(B) to give Pro Forma Effect to any Permitted Acquisition consummated in connection therewith and all other Specified Transactions (but excluding for the purposes of cash netting the cash proceeds of any such Incremental Term Loans or Incremental Revolving Credit Commitments) assuming for such purposes that the entire amount of any such Incremental Revolving Credit Commitments then incurred were fully funded.

 

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(iii) Each Incremental Facility shall be in an integral multiple of $1,000,000 and be in an aggregate principal amount that is not less than $5,000,000 in case of Incremental Term Loans or $5,000,000 in case of Incremental Revolving Credit Commitments or such other amount as reasonably agreed by the Administrative Agent; provided, such amount may be less than the applicable minimum amount if such amount represents all the remaining availability hereunder as set forth above.

(d) Incremental Lenders. Incremental Facilities may be provided by any additional bank, financial institution, existing Lender or other Person (any such bank, financial institution, existing Lender or other Person being called an “Additional Lender”) and, if not already a Lender and if such Incremental Facility is to be documented pursuant to this Agreement, shall become a Lender under this Agreement pursuant to an amendment (an “Incremental Facility Amendment”) to this Agreement and, as appropriate, the other Loan Documents, executed by Holdings, the Lead Borrower, such Additional Lender, the Administrative Agent and, in the case of any Incremental Revolving Credit Commitments, each L/C Issuer; provided that the consent of the Administrative Agent and, in the case of Incremental Revolving Credit Commitments and the L/C Issuer (in each case, not to be unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned) will be required with respect to any such Additional Lender if such consent would be required under Section 10.07 for an assignment to such Additional Lender; provided further that no Incremental Term Loans may be provided by a Sponsor Affiliated Lender unless, after giving effect to such Incremental Term Loans, the aggregate Outstanding Amount of all Term Loans that are held by Sponsor Affiliated Lenders (other than Affiliated Debt Funds) does not exceed 25% of the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Term Loans then outstanding (determined as of the time of such purchase). At the election of the Lead Borrower, commitments in respect of any Incremental Term Loans or Incremental Revolving Credit Commitments may become Commitments under this Agreement. The Lead Borrower agrees to provide the GS Investor Lenders (or other applicable GS Investors on behalf of any GS Investor Lenders) with a bona fide right of first offer to provide a pro rata share of any Incremental Term Loans or Incremental Revolving Credit Commitments in proportion to each GS Investor Lender’s outstanding balance of Term Loans or Revolving Credit Commitments, as applicable (and any GS Investor Lenders’ proportion may be provided by other applicable GS Investors). If the applicable GS Investor Lenders (or other applicable GS Investors) are unwilling to provide such Incremental Term Loans or Incremental Revolving Credit Commitments promptly upon request or if the Lead Borrower is not willing to agree to the terms, conditions and economics proposed by such GS Investor Lenders (or other applicable GS Investors), the Lead Borrower may, in its sole discretion, retain any other Persons to provide such Incremental Facilities on terms, conditions and economics agreed with such other Persons. Any existing Lender offered or approached to provide a portion of the Incremental Facilities may elect or decline, in its sole discretion, to provide a portion thereof.

(e) Incremental Facility Amendments; Use of Proceeds. No Incremental Facility Amendment shall require the consent of any Lenders other than the Additional Lenders with respect to such Incremental Facility Amendment. An Incremental Facility Amendment may, without the consent of any other Lenders, effect such amendments to any Loan Documents as may be necessary or appropriate, in the opinion of the Administrative Agent and the Lead Borrower, to effect the provisions of this Section 2.14. An Incremental Facility Amendment may at the election of the Lead Borrower effect such amendments as may be reasonably necessary or advisable so that such Incremental Term Loans and the applicable existing Term Loans from the

 

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same Class of Term Loans are fungible with other outstanding Term Loans, including by (i) extending or adding “call protection” to any existing tranche of Term Loans, including amendments to Section 2.05(a), and (ii) amending the schedule of amortization payments relating to any existing tranche of Term Loans, including amendments to Section 2.07 (provided, any such amendment will not decrease any amortization payment to any lender that would have otherwise been payable to such Lender immediately prior to the effectiveness of the applicable Incremental Facility Amendment); provided, such amendments are not materially adverse to the existing Term Lenders (as determined in good faith by the Lead Borrower). Unless otherwise specifically provided herein, all references in Loan Documents to Loans shall be deemed, unless the context otherwise requires, to include references to Loans made pursuant to Incremental Facilities, respectively, made pursuant to this Agreement. This Section 2.14 shall supersede any provisions in Section 2.13 or Section 10.01 to the contrary. The proceeds of any Incremental Facilities will be used for general corporate purposes (including Permitted Acquisitions and to refinance outstanding Revolving Credit Loans).

(f) Conditions. The availability of an Incremental Facility under this Agreement will be subject solely to the condition that upon the effectiveness of such Incremental Facility Amendment, (i) in the case of an Incremental Facility that will be used to fund or finance Permitted Acquisition or other permitted Investments, no Event of Default under Sections 8.01(a), (f), and (g) has occurred and is continuing or shall result therefrom and (ii) in the case of Incremental Facility that will be used for any other purpose, no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or shall result therefrom.

(g) Terms. Each Incremental Facility Amendment will set forth the amount and terms of the relevant Incremental Facility. The terms of each tranche of Incremental Term Loans will be as agreed by the Lead Borrower and the Additional Lenders; provided,

(i) the final maturity date (other than Extendable Bridge Loans) will be no earlier than (1) the latest Maturity Date then applicable to the then existing Term Loans or (2) in the case of any Incremental Term Loans that are junior in right to payment or security with the then existing Term Loans, 91 days after the Latest Maturity Date then applicable to the Term Loans (provided that the Lead Borrower may incur Incremental Term Loans with a final Maturity Date earlier than the date specified in clause (1) or (2), as applicable, in an aggregate amount not to exceed the then-available Inside Maturity Amount);

(ii) the Weighted Average Life to Maturity will be no shorter than the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of the Term Loans (subject to exceptions for Extendable Bridge Loans, the then-available Inside Maturity Amount and amortization in an aggregate annual amount of up to 1% of the original principal amount incurred) and any Incremental Term Loans secured on a junior basis to the Term Loans shall not require any amortization payments;

(iii) (a) such Incremental Term Loans may participate on a pro rata basis or a less than pro rata basis (but not greater than pro rata basis) in any voluntary or mandatory repayments or prepayments of the Term Loans and (b) such Incremental Term Loans shall not have any mandatory prepayment, redemption and repurchase provisions other than to the extent substantially the same as the mandatory prepayment provisions governing the Term Loans (or otherwise reasonably satisfactory to the Principal Investor Representative or, if after the Disposition Date, the Required Lenders);

 

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(iv) if any financial maintenance covenant is added for the benefit of any Incremental Term Loans no consent shall be required from the Administrative Agent, the Principal Investor Representative or any Term Lender to the extent that such financial maintenance covenant is (1) also added for the benefit of the existing Term Loans or (2) applicable only after the Latest Maturity Date of the then existing Term Loans;

(v) to the extent such terms and documentation are not consistent with the Term Loans (except to the extent permitted by clauses (f), (h) and this clause (g)), they are reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and Principal Investor Representative or, if after a Disposition Date, the applicable Required Lenders (except for covenants or other provisions (a) that are not materially more restrictive on the Lead Borrower (as reasonably determined by the Lead Borrower), (b) applicable only, in the case of Incremental Term Loans, to the periods after the latest maturity date of the Term Loans or any other Incremental Term Loans existing at the time such Incremental Term Loans are incurred or (c) are offered for inclusion for the benefit of the existing Term Loans).

(h) Pricing. The pricing, interest rate margins, discounts, premiums, rate floors, fees and (subject to Section 2.14(g)) maturity and amortization schedule shall be as determined by the Lead Borrower and the Additional Lenders; provided, with respect to any Incremental Term Loans that constitute MFN Qualified Term Loan, the proceeds of which are incurred after the Closing Date, if the Margin relating to such MFN Qualified Term Loans exceeds the Margin relating to the then outstanding Term Loans immediately prior to the effectiveness of the applicable Incremental Facility Amendment by more than 0.75%, the Margin relating to the then outstanding Term Loans shall be adjusted to be equal to the Margin relating to such MFN Qualified Term Loans minus 0.75%; provided, (x) if the MFN Qualified Term Loans include an interest rate floor greater than the floor applicable to the respective then existing Term Loans, such differential between interest rate floors shall be equated to the Margin for purposes of determining whether an increase to the Margin under the then existing Term Loans shall be required, but only to the extent an increase in the interest rate floor in the then existing Term Loans would cause an increase in the interest rate then in effect thereunder, and in such case the interest rate floor (but not the Applicable Rate) applicable to the then existing Term Loans shall be increased to the extent of such differential between interest rate floors and (y) to the extent that the Eurocurrency Rate, as applicable, for a three month interest period on the closing date of any such MFN Qualified Term Loans (A) is less than the floor applicable to the respective then existing Term Loans, the amount of such difference shall be deemed added to the interest margin for the then existing Term Loans solely for the purpose of determining whether an increase in the interest rate margins for the then existing Term Loans shall be required and (B) is less than the interest rate floor, if any, applicable to any such MFN Qualified Term Loans, the amount of such difference shall be deemed added to the interest rate margins for such MFN Qualified Term Loans.

(i) Adjustments to Revolving Credit Loans. Any Incremental Revolving Credit Commitments shall be (x) on the same terms and pursuant to same documentation applicable to the Revolving Credit Facility or (y) subject to term and pursuant to conditions reasonably satisfactory to the Principal Investor Representative or, if after a Disposition Date, the applicable Required Lenders (in each case, other than covenants, events of default or other terms offered for inclusion in the Loan Documents for all Lenders (which may be included solely with the consent of the applicable Incremental Revolving Lenders)). Upon each increase in the Revolving Credit Commitments pursuant to this Section 2.14, each Revolving Credit Lender immediately prior to such increase will automatically and without further act be deemed to have assigned to each

 

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Lender providing a portion of the Incremental Revolving Credit Commitment (each, an “Incremental Revolving Lender”) in respect of such increase, and each such Incremental Revolving Lender will automatically and without further act be deemed to have assumed, a portion of such Revolving Credit Lender’s participations hereunder in outstanding Letters of Credit such that, after giving effect to each such deemed assignment and assumption of participations, the percentage of the aggregate participations hereunder in Letters of Credit will equal the percentage of the aggregate Revolving Credit Commitments of all Revolving Credit Lenders represented by such Revolving Credit Lender’s Revolving Credit Commitment. Additionally, if any Revolving Credit Loans are outstanding at the time any Incremental Revolving Credit Commitments are established, the Revolving Credit Lenders immediately after effectiveness of such Incremental Revolving Credit Commitments shall purchase and assign at par such amounts of the Revolving Credit Loans outstanding at such time as the Administrative Agent may require such that each Revolving Credit Lender holds its Applicable Percentage of all Revolving Credit Loans outstanding immediately after giving effect to all such assignments. The Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereby agree that the minimum borrowing, pro rata borrowing and pro rata payment requirements contained elsewhere in this Agreement shall not apply to the transactions effected pursuant to the immediately preceding sentence.

Section 2.15 Extensions of Term Loans, Revolving Credit Commitments and Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments.

(a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, pursuant to one or more offers (each, an “Extension Offer”) made from time to time by the applicable Borrower to all Lenders of any Class of Term Loans, any Class of Revolving Credit Commitments, any Class of Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments or any Class of the Delayed Draw Term Loans, in each case on a pro rata basis (based on the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the respective Term Loans, Revolving Credit Commitments, Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments or the Delayed Draw Term Loans of the applicable Class) and on the same terms to each such Lender, such Borrower is hereby permitted to consummate from time to time transactions with individual Lenders that accept the terms contained in such Extension Offers to extend the maturity date of each such Lender’s Term Loans and/or Revolving Credit Commitments and/or Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments and/or the Delayed Draw Term Loans of the applicable Class and otherwise modify the terms of such Term Loans, Revolving Credit Commitments, Delayed Draw Term Loans and/or Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments pursuant to the terms of the relevant Extension Offer (including, without limitation, by increasing the interest rate or fees payable in respect of such Term Loans, Revolving Credit Commitments, Delayed Draw Term Loans and/or Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments (and related outstandings) and/or modifying the amortization schedule in respect of such Lender’s Term Loans or the Delayed Draw Term Loans) (each, an “Extension,” and each group of Term Loans, Revolving Credit Commitments, Delayed Draw Term Loans or Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments, as applicable, in each case as so extended, as well as the original Term Loans, the original Revolving Credit Commitments, the original Delayed Draw Term Loans and the original Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments (in each case not so extended), being a separate Class of Term Loans from the Class of Term Loans from which they were converted, being a separate Class of the Delayed Draw Term Loans from the Class of the Delayed Draw Term Loans from which they were converted, any Extended Revolving Credit Commitments (as defined below) shall constitute a separate Class of Revolving Credit Commitments from the Class of Revolving Credit Commitments from which they were converted, and any Extended Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments (as defined below) shall constitute a separate Class of Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments from the Class of Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments from which they were converted, it being understood that an Extension may be in the form of an increase in the amount of any outstanding Class of Term Loans, Revolving Credit Commitments, Delayed Draw Term Loans or Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments otherwise satisfying the criteria set forth below), so long as the following terms are satisfied:

 

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(i) except as to interest rates, fees and final maturity (which shall be determined by the Lead Borrower and set forth in the relevant Extension Offer), the Revolving Credit Commitment of any Revolving Credit Lender that agrees to an extension with respect to such Revolving Credit Commitment extended pursuant to an Extension (an “Extended Revolving Credit Commitment”), and the related outstandings, shall be a Revolving Credit Commitment (or related outstandings, as the case may be) with the same terms (or terms not materially less favorable to existing Lenders holding Revolving Credit Commitments) as the original Revolving Credit Commitments (and related outstandings) (other than covenants, events of default or other terms offered for inclusion in the Loan Documents for all Lenders (which may be included solely with the consent of the applicable extending Revolving Credit Lenders)); provided, at no time shall there be Revolving Credit Commitments hereunder (including Extended Revolving Credit Commitments and any original Revolving Credit Commitments) which have more than three different maturity dates;

(ii) except as to interest rates, fees and final maturity (which shall be determined by the Lead Borrower and set forth in the relevant Extension Offer), the Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment of any Delayed Draw Term Lender that agrees to an extension with respect to such Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment (an “Extending Delayed Draw Lender”) extended pursuant to an Extension (an “Extended Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment”), and the related outstandings, shall be a Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitment (or related outstandings, as the case may be) with the same terms (or terms not materially less favorable to existing Lenders holding Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments) as the original Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments (and related outstandings) (other than covenants, events of default or other terms offered for inclusion in the Loan Documents for all Lenders (which may be included solely with the consent of the applicable Extending Delayed Draw Lenders)); provided, at no time shall there be Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments hereunder (including Extended Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments and any original Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments) which have more than three different maturity dates;

(iii) except as to interest rates, fees, amortization, final maturity date, premium, required prepayment dates and participation in prepayments (which shall, subject to the immediately succeeding clauses (iv), (v) and (vi), be determined by the Lead Borrower and set forth in the relevant Extension Offer), the Term Loans of any Term Lender that agrees to an extension with respect to such Term Loans (an “Extending Term Lender”) extended pursuant to any Extension (“Extended Term Loans”) shall have the same terms as the Class of Term Loans subject to such Extension Offer (except for covenants or other provisions (a) that are not materially more restrictive on the applicable Borrower (as reasonably determined by such Borrower), (b) contained therein applicable only to periods after the latest Maturity Date applicable to the Term Loans then existing or (c) are offered for inclusion for the benefit of all Lenders);

(iv) the final maturity date of any Extended Term Loans shall be no earlier than the then latest Maturity Date of Term Loans, hereunder (but may be later than such Maturity Date);

 

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(v) the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of any Extended Term Loans shall be no shorter than the remaining Weighted Average Life to Maturity of the Term Loans extended (subject to exceptions for amortization in an aggregate annual amount of up to 1% of the original principal amount extended);

(vi) any Extended Term Loans may participate (a) subject to clause (b) below, on a pro rata basis or a less than pro rata basis (but not greater than pro rata basis) in any voluntary or mandatory repayments or prepayments or (b) on a greater than pro rata basis in the case of any voluntary or mandatory repayments or prepayment of Term Loans, as applicable, that do not have the same maturities and prepayment premium, in each case as specified in the respective Extension Offer;

(vii) if the aggregate principal amount of the Class of Term Loans (calculated on the face amount thereof), Revolving Credit Commitments or Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments, as the case may be, in respect of which Term Lenders or Revolving Credit Lenders or Delayed Draw Term Lenders, as the case may be, shall have accepted the relevant Extension Offer shall exceed the maximum aggregate principal amount of Term Loans, Revolving Credit Commitments or Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments of such Class, as the case may be, offered to be extended by the applicable Borrower pursuant to such Extension Offer, then the Term Loans, Revolving Credit Commitments or Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments of such Class, as the case may be, of such Term Lenders, Revolving Credit Lenders or Delayed Draw Term Lenders, as the case may be, shall be extended ratably up to such maximum amount based on the respective principal amounts (but not to exceed actual holdings of record) with respect to which such Term Lenders, Revolving Credit Lenders or Delayed Draw Term Lenders, as the case may be, have accepted such Extension Offer; and

(viii) any applicable Minimum Extension Condition shall be satisfied unless waived by the applicable Borrower.

(b) With respect to all Extensions consummated by the applicable Borrower pursuant to this Section 2.15, (i) such Extensions shall not constitute voluntary or mandatory payments or prepayments for purposes of Section 2.05 and (ii) no Extension Offer is required to be in any minimum amount or any minimum increment; provided, such Borrower may at its election specify as a condition (a “Minimum Extension Condition”) to consummating any such Extension that a minimum amount (to be determined and specified in the relevant Extension Offer in such Borrower’s sole discretion and may be waived by such Borrower) of Term Loans, Revolving Credit Commitments or Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments (as applicable) of any or all applicable Classes be tendered. The Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereby consent to the transactions contemplated by this Section 2.15 (including, for the avoidance of doubt, payment of any interest, fees or premium in respect of any Extended Term Loans, Extended Revolving Credit Commitments and/or Extended Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments on the such terms as may be set forth in the relevant Extension Offer) and hereby waive the requirements of any provision of this Agreement (including, without limitation, Sections 2.05, 2.12 and 2.13) or any other Loan Document that may otherwise prohibit any such Extension or any other transaction contemplated by this Section 2.15.

(c) No consent of any Lender, the L/C Issuer or the Administrative Agent shall be required to effectuate any Extension, other than (A) the consent of each Lender agreeing to such Extension with respect to one or more of its Term Loans, Revolving Credit Commitments and/or Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments (or a portion thereof) and (B) with respect to any

 

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Extension of the Revolving Credit Commitments, the consent of the L/C Issuer (if the L/C Issuer is being requested to issue letters of credit with respect to the Extended Revolving Credit Commitments). All Extended Term Loans, Extended Revolving Credit Commitments, Extended Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments and all obligations in respect thereof shall be Obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents that have the same guarantees as, and are secured by the Collateral on a pari passu basis with, all other applicable Obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents. The Lenders hereby irrevocably authorize the Administrative Agent to enter into amendments to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents with the applicable Borrower as may be necessary in order to establish new Classes, tranches or sub-tranches in respect of Revolving Credit Commitments, Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments or Term Loans so extended and such technical amendments as may be necessary or appropriate in the reasonable opinion of the Administrative Agent and such Borrower in connection with the establishment of such new Classes, tranches or sub-tranches, in each case on terms consistent with this Section 2.15. Without limiting the foregoing, in connection with any Extensions the respective Loan Parties shall (at their expense) amend (and the Administrative Agent is hereby directed to amend) any Mortgage that has a maturity date prior to the then Latest Maturity Date so that such maturity date is extended to the then Latest Maturity Date (or such later date as may be advised by local counsel to the Administrative Agent). For the avoidance of doubt, no Lender shall be obligated to extend their Commitment, except in their sole discretion.

(d) In connection with any Extension, the applicable Borrower shall provide the Administrative Agent at least ten (10) Business Days’ (or such shorter period as may be agreed by the Administrative Agent) prior written notice thereof, and shall agree to such procedures (including, without limitation, regarding timing, rounding and other adjustments and to ensure reasonable administrative management of the credit facilities hereunder after such Extension), if any, as may be established by, or acceptable to, the Administrative Agent, in each case acting reasonably to accomplish the purposes of this Section 2.15. The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the Lenders of each Extension notice.

(e) This Section 2.15 will supersede any provisions of Sections 2.13, 10.01 and 10.09.

Section 2.16 Defaulting Lenders. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, if any Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, then the following provisions shall apply for so long as such Lender is a Defaulting Lender:

(a) the Applicable Revolving Commitment Fee shall cease to accrue on any of the Revolving Credit Commitments of such Defaulting Lender pursuant to Section 2.09(a);

(b) the Commitment, Outstanding Amount of Term Loans and Revolving Credit Exposure of such Defaulting Lender shall not be included in determining whether all Lenders, the Required Lenders, the Required Revolving Credit Lenders or Required Delayed Draw Lenders have taken or may take any action hereunder (including any consent to any amendment, waiver or other modification pursuant to Section 10.01); provided, any waiver, amendment or modification of a type described in clause (a), (b) or (c) of the first proviso in Section 10.01 that would apply to the Commitments or Obligations owing to such Defaulting Lender shall require the consent of such Defaulting Lender with respect to the effectiveness of such waiver, amendment or modification with respect to the Commitments or Obligations owing to such Defaulting Lender;

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(i) all or any part of the L/C Obligations of such Defaulting Lender shall be reallocated among the non-Defaulting Lenders in accordance with their respective Applicable Percentages but only to the extent the sum of all non-Defaulting Lenders’ Revolving Credit Exposure plus such Defaulting Lender’s L/C Obligations does not exceed the total of all non-Defaulting Lenders’ Commitments;

(ii) if the reallocation described in clause (i) above cannot, or can only partially, be effected, the Lead Borrower shall within three (3) Business Days following notice by the Administrative Agent Cash Collateralize for the benefit of the L/C Issuer only the Lead Borrower’s obligations corresponding to such Defaulting Lender’s L/C Obligations (after giving effect to any partial reallocation pursuant to clause (i) above) in accordance with the procedures set forth in Section 2.03(f) for so long as such L/C Obligations are outstanding;

(iii) if the Lead Borrower Cash Collateralizes any portion of such Defaulting Lender’s L/C Obligations pursuant to clause (ii) above, the Lead Borrower shall not be required to pay any fees to such Defaulting Lender pursuant to Section 2.03(h) with respect to such Defaulting Lender’s L/C Obligations during the period such Defaulting Lender’s L/C Obligation are Cash Collateralized;

(iv) if the L/C Obligations of the non-Defaulting Lenders are increased pursuant to clause (i) above, then the fees payable to the Lenders pursuant to Sections 2.09(a) and 2.03(h) shall be adjusted in accordance with such non-Defaulting Lenders’ Applicable Percentages; and

(v) if all or any portion of such Defaulting Lender’s L/C Obligations are neither reallocated nor Cash Collateralized pursuant to clause (i) or (ii) above, then, without prejudice to any rights or remedies of the L/C Issuer or any other Lender hereunder, all letter of credit fees payable under Section 2.03(h) with respect to such portion of such Defaulting Lender’s L/C Obligations shall be payable to the L/C Issuer until and to the extent that such L/C Obligations are reallocated and/or Cash Collateralized; and

(d) so long as a Revolving Credit Lender is a Defaulting Lender, the L/C Issuer shall not be required to issue, amend or increase any Letter of Credit, unless it has received assurances satisfactory to it that non-Defaulting Lenders will cover the related exposure and/or cash collateral will be provided by the Lead Borrower in accordance with Section 2.16(c), and participating interests in any newly issued or increased Letter of Credit shall be allocated among non-Defaulting Lenders in a manner consistent with Section 2.16(c)(i) (and such Defaulting Lender shall not participate therein).

If the Lead Borrower, the Administrative Agent and L/C Issuer agree in writing that a Lender is no longer a Defaulting Lender, the Administrative Agent will so notify the parties hereto, whereupon as of the effective date specified in such notice and subject to any conditions set forth therein (which may include arrangements with respect to any Cash Collateral), that Lender will, to the extent applicable, purchase at par that portion of outstanding Loans of the other Lenders or take such other actions as the Administrative Agent may determine to be necessary to cause the Loans and funded and unfunded participations in Letters of Credit to be held pro rata by the Lenders in accordance with the Commitments, whereupon, such Lender will cease to be a Defaulting Lender; provided that no adjustments will be made retroactively with respect to fees accrued or payments made by or on behalf of a Borrower while that Lender was a Defaulting Lender; and provided, further, that except to the extent otherwise expressly agreed by the affected parties, no change hereunder from Defaulting Lender to Lender will constitute a waiver or release of any claim of any party hereunder arising from that Lender’s having been a Defaulting Lender.

 

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Section 2.17 Permitted Debt Exchanges.

(a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, pursuant to one or more offers (each, a “Permitted Debt Exchange Offer”) made from time to time by the Borrowers to all Lenders (other than, with respect to any Permitted Debt Exchange Offer that constitutes an offering of securities, any Lender that, if requested by the Borrowers, is unable to certify that it is (i) a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act), (ii) an institutional “accredited investor” (as defined in Rule 501 under the Securities Act) or (iii) not a “U.S. person” (as defined in Rule 902 under the Securities Act)) with outstanding Term Loans of a particular Class, the Borrowers may from time to time consummate one or more exchanges of such Term Loans for Indebtedness (in the form of senior secured, senior unsecured, senior subordinated, or subordinated notes or loans) (such Indebtedness, “Permitted Debt Exchange Notes” and each such exchange, a “Permitted Debt Exchange”), so long as the following conditions are satisfied:

(i) each such Permitted Debt Exchange Offer shall be made on a pro rata basis to the Term Lenders (other than, with respect to any Permitted Debt Exchange Offer that constitutes an offering of securities, any Lender that, if requested by the Lead Borrower, is unable to certify that it is (i) a “qualified institutional buyer” (as defined in Rule 144A under the Securities Act), (ii) an institutional “accredited investor” (as defined in Rule 501 under the Securities Act) or (iii) not a “U.S. person” (as defined in Rule 902 under the Securities Act)) of each applicable Class based on their respective aggregate principal amounts of outstanding Term Loans under each such Class;

(ii) the aggregate principal amount (calculated on the face amount thereof) of such Permitted Debt Exchange Notes shall not exceed the aggregate principal amount (calculated on the face amount thereof) of Term Loans, so refinanced, except by an amount equal to any unpaid accrued interest, fees, expenses, commissions, underwriting discounts and premiums payable in connection with such Permitted Debt Exchange;

(iii) the stated final maturity of such Permitted Debt Exchange Notes is not earlier than the Latest Maturity Date for the Class or Classes of Term Loans being exchanged, and such stated final maturity is not subject to any conditions that could result in such stated final maturity occurring on a date that precedes such latest maturity date (it being understood that acceleration or mandatory repayment, prepayment, redemption or repurchase of such Permitted Debt Exchange Notes upon the occurrence of an event of default, a change in control, an event of loss or an asset disposition shall not be deemed to constitute a change in the stated final maturity thereof);

(iv) such Permitted Debt Exchange Notes are not required to be repaid, prepaid, redeemed, repurchased or defeased, whether on one or more fixed dates, upon the occurrence of one or more events or at the option of any holder thereof (except, in each case, upon the occurrence of an event of default, a change in control, an event of loss or an asset disposition) prior to the Latest Maturity Date for the Class or Classes of Term Loans being exchanged; provided, notwithstanding the foregoing, scheduled amortization payments (however denominated, including scheduled offers to repurchase) of such Permitted Debt Exchange Notes shall be permitted so long as the Weighted

 

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Average Life to Maturity of such Indebtedness shall be longer than the remaining Weighted Average Life to Maturity of the Class or Classes of Term Loans being exchanged (subject to exceptions for amortization in an aggregate annual amount of up to 1% of the original principal amount extended);

(v) no Restricted Subsidiary is a borrower or guarantor with respect to such Indebtedness unless such Restricted Subsidiary is a Subsidiary Guarantor that shall have previously or substantially concurrently Guaranteed the Obligations;

(vi) if such Permitted Debt Exchange Notes are secured (A) such Permitted Debt Exchange Notes are not secured by any assets not securing the Obligations unless such assets substantially concurrently secure the Obligations and (B) the holders of such Indebtedness or a Debt Representative acting on behalf of the holders of such Indebtedness shall become party to or otherwise become subject to the provisions of (x) to the extent the Second Lien Term Loans are outstanding, the Intercreditor Agreement or (y) the extent the Second Lien Term Loans are no longer outstanding, another Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement and/or a Subordination Agreement, as applicable;

(vii) the terms and conditions of such Permitted Debt Exchange Notes (excluding pricing and optional prepayment or redemption terms or covenants or other provisions applicable only to periods after the Maturity Date of the Class or Classes of Term Loans being exchanged) reflect market terms and conditions at the time of incurrence or issuance; provided, if such Permitted Debt Exchange Notes contain any financial maintenance covenants, such covenants shall not be tighter than (or in addition to) those contained in this Agreement (unless such covenants are also added for the benefit of the Lenders under this Agreement, in which case any requirement to so comply shall not require the consent of any Lender or Agent hereunder);

(viii) the aggregate principal amount (calculated on the face amount thereof) of all Term Loans exchanged under each applicable Class by the Borrowers pursuant to any Permitted Debt Exchange shall automatically be cancelled and retired by the Borrowers on date of the settlement thereof (and, if requested by the Administrative Agent, any applicable exchanging Lender shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent an Assignment and Assumption, or such other form as may be reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent, in respect thereof pursuant to which the respective Lender assigns its interest in the Term Loans being exchanged pursuant to the Permitted Debt Exchange to the Borrowers for immediate cancellation), and accrued and unpaid interest on such Term Loans shall be paid to the exchanging Lenders on the date of consummation of such Permitted Debt Exchange, or, if agreed to by the Lead Borrower and the Administrative Agent, the next scheduled Interest Payment Date with respect to such Term Loans (with such interest accruing until the date of consummation of such Permitted Debt Exchange);

(ix) if the aggregate principal amount of all Term Loans (calculated on the face amount thereof) of a given Class tendered by Lenders in respect of the relevant Permitted Debt Exchange Offer (with no Lender being permitted to tender a principal amount of Term Loans which exceeds the principal amount thereof of the applicable Class actually held by it) shall exceed the maximum aggregate principal amount of Term Loans of such Class offered to be exchanged by the Borrowers pursuant to such Permitted Debt Exchange Offer, then the Borrowers shall exchange Term Loans under the relevant Class tendered by such Lenders ratably up to such maximum based on the

 

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respective principal amounts so tendered, or, if such Permitted Debt Exchange Offer shall have been made with respect to multiple Classes without specifying a maximum aggregate principal amount offered to be exchanged for each Class, and the aggregate principal amount of all Term Loans (calculated on the face amount thereof) of all Classes tendered by Lenders in respect of the relevant Permitted Debt Exchange Offer (with no Lender being permitted to tender a principal amount of Term Loans which exceeds the principal amount thereof actually held by it) shall exceed the maximum aggregate principal amount of Term Loans of all relevant Classes offered to be exchanged by any Borrowers pursuant to such Permitted Debt Exchange Offer, then the Borrowers shall exchange Term Loans across all Classes subject to such Permitted Debt Exchange Offer tendered by such Lenders ratably up to such maximum amount based on the respective principal amounts so tendered;

(x) all documentation in respect of such Permitted Debt Exchange shall be consistent with the foregoing, and all written communications generally directed to the Lenders in connection therewith shall be in form and substance consistent with the foregoing and made in consultation with the Lead Borrower and the Administrative Agent; and

(xi) any applicable Minimum Tender Condition or Maximum Tender Condition, as the case may be, shall be satisfied or waived by the Lead Borrower.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, no Lender shall have any obligation to agree to have any of its Loans or Commitments exchanged pursuant to any Permitted Debt Exchange Offer.

(b) The Borrowers may at their election specify (A) as a condition (a “Minimum Tender Condition”) to consummating any such Permitted Debt Exchange that a minimum amount (to be determined and specified in the relevant Permitted Debt Exchange Offer in the Lead Borrower’s discretion) of Term Loans of any or all applicable Classes be tendered and/or (B) as a condition (a “Maximum Tender Condition”) to consummating any such Permitted Debt Exchange that no more than a maximum amount (to be determined and specified in the relevant Permitted Debt Exchange Offer in the Lead Borrower’s discretion) of Term Loans of any or all applicable Classes will be accepted for exchange. The Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereby acknowledge and agree that the provisions of Sections 2.05, 2.06 and 2.13 do not apply to the Permitted Debt Exchange and the other transactions contemplated by this Section 2.17 and hereby agree not to assert any Default or Event of Default in connection with the implementation of any such Permitted Debt Exchange or any other transaction contemplated by this Section 2.17.

(c) In connection with each Permitted Debt Exchange, the Lead Borrower shall provide the Administrative Agent at least five (5) Business Days’ (or such shorter period as may be agreed by the Administrative Agent) prior written notice thereof, and the Lead Borrower and the Administrative Agent, acting reasonably, shall mutually agree to such procedures as may be necessary or advisable to accomplish the purposes of this Section 2.17; provided, the terms of any Permitted Debt Exchange Offer shall provide that the date by which the relevant Lenders are required to indicate their election to participate in such Permitted Debt Exchange shall be not less than five (5) Business Days following the date on which the Permitted Debt Exchange Offer is made. The Lead Borrower shall provide the final results of such Permitted Debt Exchange to the Administrative Agent no later than three (3) Business Days prior to the proposed date of effectiveness for such Permitted Debt Exchange (or such shorter period agreed to by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion) and the Administrative Agent shall be entitled to conclusively rely on such results.

 

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(d) The Borrowers shall be responsible for compliance with, and hereby agree to comply with, all applicable securities and other laws in connection with each Permitted Debt Exchange, it being understood and agreed that (i) neither the Administrative Agent nor any Lender assumes any responsibility in connection with the Borrowers’ compliance with such laws in connection with any Permitted Debt Exchange and (ii) each Lender shall be solely responsible for its compliance with any applicable “insider trading” laws and regulations to which such Lender may be subject under the Exchange Act.

Section 2.18 Refinancing Amendments.

(a) On one or more occasions after the Closing Date, the Borrowers may obtain, from any Lender or any Additional Refinancing Lender (provided, Sponsor Affiliated Lenders may not provide Refinancing Revolving Credit Commitments), Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness in respect of all or any portion of the Term Loans (or unused Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments) or the Revolving Credit Loans (or unused Revolving Credit Commitments) then outstanding under this Agreement (which for purposes of this Section 2.18(a) will be deemed to include any then outstanding Refinancing Term Loans, Incremental Term Loans, Refinancing Revolving Credit Loans and Incremental Revolving Credit Loans), in the form of Refinancing Term Loans, Refinancing Term Commitments, Refinancing Revolving Credit Commitments and Refinancing Revolving Credit Loans pursuant to a Refinancing Amendment; provided, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.18 or otherwise, with respect to Refinancing Revolving Credit Commitments:

(i) the borrowing and repayment (except for (A) payments of interest and fees at different rates on Refinancing Revolving Credit Commitments (and related outstandings), (B) repayments required upon the maturity date of the Refinancing Revolving Credit Commitments and (C) repayment made in connection with a permanent repayment and termination of commitments (subject to clause (iii) of this proviso below)) of Loans with respect to Refinancing Revolving Credit Commitments after the date of obtaining any Refinancing Revolving Credit Commitments shall be made on a pro rata basis with all other Revolving Credit Commitments;

(ii) subject to the provisions of Section 2.03(n) to the extent dealing with Letters of Credit that mature or expire after a maturity date when there exist Extended Revolving Credit Commitments with a longer maturity date, all Letters of Credit shall be participated on a pro rata basis by all Lenders with Commitments in accordance with their percentage of the Revolving Credit Commitments (and except as provided in Section 2.03(n), without giving effect to changes thereto on an earlier maturity date with respect to Letters of Credit theretofore incurred or issued);

(iii) the permanent repayment of Revolving Credit Loans with respect to, and termination of, Refinancing Revolving Credit Commitments after the date of obtaining any Refinancing Revolving Credit Commitments shall be made on a pro rata basis with all other Revolving Credit Commitments, except that the Lead Borrower shall be permitted to permanently repay and terminate commitments of any such Class on a better than a pro rata basis as compared to any other Class with a later maturity date than such Class; and

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(b) No Lender shall be obligated to provide any Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness, unless it so agrees.

(c) The effectiveness of any Refinancing Amendment shall be subject to the satisfaction (or waiver in accordance with the terms of such Refinancing Amendment) on the date thereof of each of the conditions set forth in Section 4.03 and, to the extent reasonably requested by the Persons providing the applicable Refinancing Loans, such other conditions as the parties thereto may agree.

(d) Each of the parties hereto hereby agrees that this Agreement and the other Loan Documents may be amended pursuant to a Refinancing Amendment, without the consent of any other Lenders, to the extent (but only to the extent) necessary to (i) reflect the existence and terms of the Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness incurred pursuant thereto and (ii) make such other changes to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents consistent with the provisions and intent of the third paragraph of Section 10.01 (without the consent of the Required Lenders called for therein) and (iii) effect such other amendments to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as may be necessary or appropriate, in the reasonable opinion of the Administrative Agent and the Lead Borrower, to effect the provisions of this Section 2.18, and the Required Lenders hereby expressly authorize the Administrative Agent to enter into any such Refinancing Amendment.

(e) This Section 2.18 shall supersede any provisions in Section 2.13 or 10.01 to the contrary.

Section 2.19 Borrower Agent. The U.S. Borrower hereby designates the Lead Borrower as its representative and agent for all purposes under the Loan Documents, including requests for Loans, designation of interest rates, delivery or receipt of communications, preparation and delivery of Borrower Materials, receipt and payment of Obligations, requests for waivers, amendments or other accommodations, actions under the Loan Documents (including in respect of compliance with covenants), and all other dealings with the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or any Lender. The Lead Borrower hereby accepts such appointment. The Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and the Lenders shall be entitled to rely upon, and shall be fully protected in relying upon, any notice or communication (including any notices of Borrowings) delivered by the Lead Borrower on behalf of the U.S. Borrower. The Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and the Lenders may give any notice or communication with the U.S. Borrower hereunder to the Lead Borrower on behalf of the U.S. Borrower. Each of the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and each Lender shall have the right, in its reasonable discretion, to deal exclusively with the Lead Borrower for any or all purposes under the Loan Documents. The U.S. Borrower agrees that any notice, election, communication, delivery, representation, agreement, action, omission or undertaking made on its behalf by the Lead Borrower shall be binding upon and enforceable against the U.S. Borrower.

ARTICLE III

Taxes, Increased Costs Protection and Illegality

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(a) Except as provided in this Section 3.01, any and all payments by any Borrower (the term Borrower under this Article III being deemed to include any Subsidiary for whose account a Letter of Credit is issued) or any Guarantor to or for the account of any Agent or any Lender under any Loan Document shall be made without deduction or withholding for any Taxes, except as required by applicable Law. If any applicable withholding agent shall be required by any Laws to deduct or withhold any Taxes from or in respect of any sum payable under any Loan Document to any Agent or any Lender, (i) if such Taxes are Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes, the sum payable by the applicable Borrower or applicable Guarantor shall be increased as necessary so that after all required deductions and withholdings for Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes have been made (including deductions and withholdings applicable to additional sums payable under this Section 3.01), each Lender (or, in the case of a payment made to an Agent for its own account, such Agent) receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such deductions or withholdings been made, (ii) such applicable withholding agent shall make such deductions and withholdings, (iii) such applicable withholding agent shall pay the full amount deducted or withheld to the relevant taxation authority or other authority in accordance with applicable Laws, and (iv) within thirty (30) days after the date of such payment by such applicable withholding agent (or, if receipts or evidence are not available within thirty (30) days, as soon as possible thereafter), such applicable withholding agent shall furnish to the Lead Borrower and such Agent or Lender (as the case may be) the original or a facsimile copy of a receipt evidencing payment thereof to the extent such a receipt is issued therefor, or other written proof of payment thereof that is reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

(b) In addition, without duplication of any amounts payable pursuant to Section 3.01(a), the Borrowers agree to pay all Other Taxes.

(c) Without duplication of any amounts payable pursuant to Section 3.01(a) or Section 3.01(b), the Borrowers agree to indemnify each Agent and each Lender for (i) the full amount of Indemnified Taxes and Other Taxes (including any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes imposed or asserted by any jurisdiction in respect of amounts payable under this Section 3.01) payable by such Agent and such Lender and (ii) any reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, in each case whether or not such Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to the Lead Borrower by a Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), or by an Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of a Lender, shall be conclusive absent manifest error. Payment under this Section 3.01(c) shall be made within ten (10) days after the date such Lender or such Agent makes a demand therefor.

(d) If any Lender or Agent determines, in its sole discretion exercised in good faith, that it has received a refund in respect of any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes as to which indemnification or additional amounts have been paid to it by any Borrower or any Guarantor pursuant to this Section 3.01, it shall promptly remit an amount equal to such refund to the applicable Borrower as soon as practicable after it is determined that such refund pertains to Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made, or additional amounts paid, by any Borrower or any Guarantor under this Section 3.01 with respect to the Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes giving rise to such refund plus, in each case, any interest included in such refund by the relevant taxing authority attributable thereto), net of all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses (including any Taxes) of the Lender or Agent, as the case may be and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant taxing authority with respect to such refund); provided that the applicable Borrower, upon the request of the Lender or Agent, as the case may be, agrees to return an amount equal to such refund (plus any applicable interest,

 

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additions to tax or penalties) to such party in the event such party is required to repay such refund to the relevant taxing authority. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event will a Lender or Agent be required to pay any amount to any Borrower pursuant to this paragraph (d) the payment of which would place such Lender or Agent in a less favorable net after-Tax position than such Lender or Agent would have been in if the Tax subject to indemnification and giving rise to such refund had not been deducted, withheld or otherwise imposed and the indemnification payments or additional amounts with respect to such Tax had never been paid. Nothing herein contained shall interfere with the right of a Lender or Agent to arrange its Tax affairs in whatever manner it thinks fit nor oblige any Lender or Agent to claim any Tax refund or to make available its Tax returns or disclose any information relating to its Tax affairs or any computations in respect thereof or require any Lender or Agent to do anything that would prejudice its ability to benefit from any other refunds, credits, reliefs, remissions or repayments to which it may be entitled.

(e) Each Lender shall severally indemnify the Administrative Agent, within 10 days after demand therefor, for (i) any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes attributable to such Lender (but only to the extent that a Borrower has not already indemnified the Administrative Agent for such Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes and without limiting the obligation of a Borrower to do so), (ii) any Taxes attributable to such Lender’s failure to comply with the provisions of Section 10.07 relating to the maintenance of a Participant Register and (iii) any Excluded Taxes attributable to such Lender, in each case, that are payable or paid by the Administrative Agent in connection with any Loan Document, and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Government Authority. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to any Lender by the Administrative Agent shall be conclusive absent manifest error. Each Lender hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent to set off and apply any and all amounts at any time owing to such Lender under any Loan Document or otherwise payable by the Administrative Agent to the Lender from any other source against any amount due to the Administrative Agent under this paragraph (e). The agreements in this Section 3.01(e) shall survive the resignation and/or replacement of the Administrative Agent, any assignment of rights by, or the replacement of, a Lender, the termination of this Agreement and the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all other obligations.

(f) Each Lender agrees that, upon the occurrence of any event giving rise to the operation of Section 3.01(a) or (c) with respect to such Lender it will, if requested by the Lead Borrower, use commercially reasonable efforts (subject to legal and regulatory restrictions), at the Borrowers’ expense, to designate another Applicable Lending Office for any Loan or Letter of Credit affected by such event; provided, such efforts are made on terms that, in the judgment of such Lender, cause such Lender and its Applicable Lending Office(s) to suffer no material economic, legal or regulatory disadvantage, and provided, further, nothing in this Section 3.01(f) shall affect or postpone any of the Obligations of the Borrowers or the rights of such Lender pursuant to Section 3.01(a) or (c).

(g) Each Lender shall, at such times as are reasonably requested by the Lead Borrower or the Administrative Agent, provide the Lead Borrower and the Administrative Agent with any documentation prescribed by law, or reasonably requested by the Lead Borrower or the Administrative Agent, certifying as to any entitlement of such Lender to an exemption from, or reduction in, any withholding Tax with respect to any payments to be made to such Lender under any Loan Document. In addition, any Lender, if reasonably requested by the Lead Borrower or the Administrative Agent, shall deliver such other documentation prescribed by applicable Law or reasonably requested by the Lead Borrower or the Administrative Agent as will enable the applicable Borrower or the Administrative Agent to determine whether or not such Lender is

 

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subject to backup withholding or information reporting requirements. Each such Lender shall, whenever a lapse in time or change in circumstances renders such documentation (including any documentation specifically referenced below) expired, obsolete or inaccurate in any material respect, deliver promptly to the Lead Borrower and the Administrative Agent updated or other appropriate documentation (including any new documentation reasonably requested by the applicable withholding agent) or promptly notify the Lead Borrower and the Administrative Agent in writing of its legal ineligibility to do so. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the preceding two sentences, the completion, execution and submission of such documentation shall not be required if in the Lender’s reasonable judgment such completion, execution or submission would subject such Lender to any material unreimbursed cost or expense or would materially prejudice the legal or commercial position of such Lender.

Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, in the event that any borrower of the Obligations for U.S. federal income tax purposes is a United States person (as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code),

(i) each Lender that is a “United States person” (as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code) shall deliver to the Lead Borrower and the Administrative Agent on or before the date on which such Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Lead Borrower or the Administrative Agent), copies of executed IRS Form W-9 certifying that such Lender is exempt from U.S. federal backup withholding tax;

(ii) each Lender that is not a “United States person” (as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code) shall, to the extent it is legally entitled to do so, deliver to the Lead Borrower and the Administrative Agent (in such number of copies as shall be requested by the recipient) on or about the date on which such Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Lead Borrower or the Administrative Agent), whichever of the following is applicable:

(A) two copies of properly completed and duly executed IRS Form W-8BEN or Form W-8BEN-E, as applicable (or any successor forms) claiming eligibility for the benefits of an income tax treaty to which the United States is a party;

(B) two copies of properly completed and duly executed IRS Form W-8ECI (or any successor forms);

(C) in the case of a Lender claiming the benefits of the exemption for portfolio interest under Section 881(c) of the Code, (x) a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit I to the effect that such Lender is not a “bank” within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, a “10 percent shareholder” of a Borrower within the meaning of Section 871(h)(3)(B) of the Code, or a “controlled foreign corporation” related to a Borrower as described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code (a “U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate”) and (y) two copies of properly completed and duly executed IRS Form W-8BEN or IRS Form W-8BEN-E, as applicable (or any successor forms); or

 

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(D) to the extent a Lender is not the beneficial owner, two copies of properly completed and duly executed IRS Form W-8IMY, accompanied by IRS Form W-8ECI, IRS Form W-8BEN, IRS Form W-8BEN-E, a U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate, IRS Form W-9, and/or other certification documents from each beneficial owner, as applicable; provided that if the Lender is a partnership and one or more direct or indirect partners of such Lender are claiming the portfolio interest exemption, such Lender may provide a U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate on behalf of each such direct and indirect partner;

(iii) each Lender that is not a “United States person” (as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code) shall, to the extent it is legally entitled to do so, deliver to the Lead Borrower and the Administrative Agent (in such number of copies as shall be requested by the recipient) on or about the date on which such Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Lead Borrower or the Administrative Agent), copies of properly completed and duly executed versions any other form prescribed by applicable Law as a basis for claiming exemption from or a reduction in U.S. federal withholding Tax, together with such supplementary documentation as may be prescribed by applicable Law to permit the applicable Borrower or the Administrative Agent to determine the withholding or deduction required to be made; and

(iv) each Lender or Administrative Agent shall deliver to the applicable Borrower (and the Administrative Agent, in the case of a Lender) at the time or times prescribed by law and at such time or times reasonably requested by the applicable Borrower (or the Administrative Agent, in the case of a Lender) such documentation prescribed by applicable Law (including as prescribed by Section 1471(b)(3)(C)(i) of the Code) and such additional documentation reasonably requested by the applicable Borrower (or the Administrative Agent, in the case of a Lender) as may be necessary for the applicable Borrower (and the Administrative Agent, in the case of a Lender) to comply with their FATCA obligations and to determine the amount, if any, to deduct and withhold from such payment.

Notwithstanding any other provision of this clause (g), a Lender or Administrative Agent shall not be required to deliver any form that such Lender or Administrative Agent is not legally eligible to deliver.

Section 3.02 Illegality.

(a) If any Lender determines that any Law has made it unlawful, or that any Governmental Authority that is a court, statutory board or commission has asserted that it is unlawful, for any Lender or its Applicable Lending Office to make, maintain or fund, or has imposed material restrictions on the authority of such Lender that make it impracticable for such Lender to make, maintain or fund, Eurocurrency Rate Loans or to determine or charge interest rates based upon the Eurocurrency Rate as contemplated by this Agreement, then, on notice thereof by such Lender to the Lead Borrower through the Administrative Agent, in respect of Eurocurrency Rate Loans, as applicable, any obligation of such Lender to make or continue Eurocurrency Rate Loans or to convert Base Rate Loans to Eurocurrency Rate Loans shall be suspended until such Lender notifies the Administrative Agent and the Lead Borrower that the circumstances giving rise to such determination no longer exist. Upon receipt of such notice, (A) the Lead Borrower shall upon demand from such Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) prepay such Eurocurrency Rate Loans that have become unlawful or if applicable and such Loans are denominated in Dollars and are Eurocurrency Rate Loans, convert all of such Lender’s Eurocurrency Rate Loans to Base Rate Loans, either on the last day of the Interest Period therefor, if such Lender may lawfully continue to maintain such Eurocurrency Rate Loans

 

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to such day, or promptly, if such Lender may not lawfully continue to maintain such Eurocurrency Rate Loans and (B) if such notice asserts the illegality of such Lender determining or charging interest rates based upon the Eurocurrency Rate in Dollars, the Administrative Agent shall during the period of such suspension compute the Base Rate applicable to such Lender without reference to the Eurocurrency Rate component thereof until the Administrative Agent is advised in writing by such Lender that it is no longer illegal for such Lender to determine or charge interest rates based upon the Eurocurrency Rate. Upon any such prepayment or conversion, the Lead Borrower shall also pay accrued interest on the amount so prepaid or converted and all amounts due, if any, in connection with such prepayment or conversion under Section 3.05. Each Lender agrees to designate a different Applicable Lending Office if such designation will avoid the need for any such notice and will not, in the good faith judgment of such Lender, otherwise be materially disadvantageous to such Lender.

(b) If any provision of this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents would obligate the Borrowers to make any payment of interest with respect to any of the Revolving Credit Exposure or other amount payable to the Administrative Agent or any Revolving Credit Lender in an amount or calculated at a rate that would be prohibited by any Law then, notwithstanding such provision, such amount or rates shall be deemed to have been adjusted with retroactive effect to the maximum amount or rate of interest, as the case may be, as would not be so prohibited by any applicable law or so result in a receipt by the Administrative Agent or such Revolving Credit Lender of interest with respect to its Revolving Credit Exposure at a criminal rate, such adjustment to be effected, to the extent necessary, as follows:

(i) first, by reducing the amount or rates of interest required to be paid to the Administrative Agent or the affected Revolving Credit Lender under Section 2.08; and

(ii) thereafter, by reducing any fees, commissions, premiums and other amounts required to be paid to the Administrative Agent or the affected Revolving Credit Lender that would constitute interest with respect to the Revolving Credit Exposure for purposes of any applicable law.

Section 3.03 Inability to Determine Rates.

Subject to Section 1.15, if in connection with any request for a Eurocurrency Rate Loan or a conversion to or continuation thereof, (a) the Administrative Agent determines that (i) Dollar deposits are not being offered to banks in the London interbank Eurocurrency market for the applicable amount and Interest Period of such Eurocurrency Rate Loan or (ii) adequate and reasonable means do not exist for determining the Eurocurrency Rate for any requested Interest Period with respect to a proposed Eurocurrency Rate Loan or in connection with an existing or proposed Base Rate Loan (in each case with respect to clause (a) above, “Impacted Loans”), or (b) the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders determine that for any reason the Eurocurrency Rate for any requested Interest Period with respect to a proposed Eurocurrency Rate Loan does not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders of funding such Eurocurrency Rate Loan, the Administrative Agent will promptly so notify the Lead Borrower and each Lender. Thereafter, (x) the obligation of the Lenders to make or maintain Eurocurrency Rate Loans shall be suspended (to the extent of the affected Eurocurrency Rate Loans or Interest Periods, as applicable) and (y) in the event of a determination described in the preceding sentence with respect to the Eurocurrency Rate component of the Base Rate, the utilization of the Eurocurrency Rate component in determining the Base Rate shall be suspended, in each case until the Administrative Agent upon the instruction of the Required Lenders revokes such notice. Upon receipt of such notice, the Borrowers may revoke any pending request for a Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans (to the extent of the affected Eurocurrency Rate Loans or Interest Periods) or,

 

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failing that, will be deemed to have converted such request into a request for a Borrowing of Base Rate Loans in the amount specified therein or (B) if such Loans are not Revolving Credit Loans, converted such request into a request for a Borrowing in an alternative rate mutually acceptable to the Borrowers and the applicable Lenders; provided, that if the Borrowers and the applicable Lenders cannot agree within a reasonable time on an alternative rate for such Loans, the Borrowers may, at their discretion, either (x) prepay such Loans or (y) maintain such Loans outstanding, in which case, the interest rate payable to the applicable Lender on such Loans will be the rate determined by the Administrative Agent (and, prior to the Disposition Date with respect to the Initial Term B Loans and the Delayed Draw Term Loans, as determined by the GS Investor Lenders) as its cost of funds to fund a Borrowing of such Loans with maturities comparable to the Interest Period applicable thereto (which shall not be less than zero) plus the Applicable Rate. In each case of the preceding clauses (A) and (B), such conversion shall be deemed to occur either on the last day of the Interest Period therefor, if such Lender may lawfully continue to maintain such Eurocurrency Rate Loans to such day, or immediately, if such Lender may not lawfully continue to maintain such Eurocurrency Rate Loans.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Administrative Agent has made the determination described in clause (a) of the first sentence of this Section, the Administrative Agent, in consultation with the Lead Borrower and the affected Lenders, may establish an alternative interest rate for the Impacted Loans, in which case, such alternative rate of interest shall apply with respect to the Impacted Loans until (1) the Administrative Agent revokes the notice delivered with respect to the Impacted Loans under clause (a) of the first sentence of this section, (2) the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders notify the Administrative Agent and the Lead Borrower that such alternative interest rate does not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders of funding the Impacted Loans, or (3) any Lender determines that any Law has made it unlawful, or that any Governmental Authority has asserted that it is unlawful, for such Lender or its Applicable Lending Office to make, maintain or fund Loans whose interest is determined by reference to such alternative rate of interest or to determine or charge interest rates based upon such rate or any Governmental Authority has imposed material restrictions on the authority of such Lender to do any of the foregoing and provides the Administrative Agent and the Lead Borrower written notice thereof.

Section 3.04 Increased Cost and Reduced Return; Capital Adequacy; Reserves on Eurocurrency Rate Loans.

(a) If any Lender determines that as a result of any Change in Law, or such Lender’s compliance therewith, there shall be any increase in the cost to such Lender of agreeing to make or making, funding or maintaining any Loan or issuing or participating in Letters of Credit, or a reduction in the amount received or receivable by such Lender in connection with any of the foregoing (excluding for purposes of this Section 3.04(a) any such increased costs or reduction in amount resulting from (i) Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes indemnifiable under Section 3.01, (ii) Excluded Taxes described in clauses (b) through (d) of the definition of “Excluded Taxes”, (iii) Connection Income Taxes or (iv) reserve requirements contemplated by Section 3.04(c)), then from time to time within fifteen (15) days after demand by such Lender setting forth in reasonable detail (provided, such Lender need not be required to disclose any price sensitive or confidential information or to the extent prohibited by law or regulation) such increased costs (with a copy of such demand to the Administrative Agent given in accordance with Section 3.06), the Borrowers shall pay to such Lender such additional amounts as will compensate such Lender for such increased cost or reduction; provided, in the case of any Change in Law only applicable as a result of the proviso set forth in the definition thereof, such Lender will only be compensated for such amounts that would have otherwise been imposed under the applicable increased cost provisions and only to the extent the applicable Lender is imposing such charges on other similarly situated borrowers under comparable syndicated credit facilities.

 

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(b) If any Lender determines that as a result of any Change in Law (regarding capital or liquidity requirements or any change therein or in the interpretation thereof, in each case after the date hereof, or compliance by such Lender (or its Applicable Lending Office) therewith, has the effect of reducing the rate of return on the capital of such Lender or any corporation controlling such Lender as a consequence of such Lender’s obligations hereunder (taking into consideration its policies with respect to capital or liquidity requirements and such Lender’s desired return on capital), then from time to time upon demand of such Lender setting forth in reasonable detail (provided, such Lender need not be required to disclose any price sensitive or confidential information or to the extent prohibited by law or regulation) the charge and the calculation of such reduced rate of return (with a copy of such demand to the Administrative Agent given in accordance with Section 3.06), the Borrowers shall pay to such Lender such additional amounts as will compensate such Lender for such reduction within fifteen (15) Business Days after receipt of such demand.

(c) The Borrowers shall pay to each Lender, (i) as long as such Lender shall be required to maintain reserves with respect to liabilities or assets consisting of or including Eurocurrency funds or deposits, additional interest on the unpaid principal amount of each Eurocurrency Rate Loan equal to the actual costs of such reserves allocated to such Loan by such Lender (as determined by such Lender in good faith, which determination shall be conclusive in the absence of demonstrable error), and (ii) as long as such Lender shall be required to comply with any reserve ratio requirement or analogous requirement of any other central banking or financial regulatory authority imposed in respect of the maintenance of the Commitments or the funding of the Eurocurrency Rate Loans such additional costs (expressed as a percentage per annum and rounded upwards, if necessary, to the nearest five decimal places) equal to the actual costs allocated to such Commitment or Loan by such Lender (as determined by such Lender in good faith, which determination shall be conclusive absent demonstrable error) which in each case shall be due and payable on each date on which interest is payable on such Loan; provided, the Lead Borrower shall have received at least fifteen (15) Business Days’ prior notice (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) of such additional interest or cost from such Lender. If a Lender fails to give notice fifteen (15) Business Days prior to the relevant Interest Payment Date, such additional interest or cost shall be due and payable fifteen (15) days after receipt of such notice.

(d) Subject to Section 3.06(b), failure or delay on the part of any Lender to demand compensation pursuant to this Section 3.04 shall not constitute a waiver of such Lender’s right to demand such compensation.

(e) If any Lender requests compensation under this Section 3.04, then such Lender will, if requested by the Lead Borrower, use commercially reasonable efforts (subject to overall policy considerations of such Lender) to designate another Applicable Lending Office for any Loan or Letter of Credit affected by such event; provided, such efforts are made on terms that, in the reasonable judgment of such Lender, cause such Lender and its Applicable Lending Office(s) to suffer no material economic, legal or regulatory disadvantage; and provided, further, that nothing in this Section 3.04(e) shall affect or postpone any of the Obligations of the Borrowers or the rights of such Lender pursuant to Section 3.04(a), (b), (c) or (d).

Section 3.05 Funding Losses. Upon demand of any Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) from time to time, the Borrowers shall promptly compensate such Lender for and hold such Lender harmless from any loss, cost or expense incurred by it as a result of:

 

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(a) any continuation, conversion, payment or prepayment of any Eurocurrency Rate Loan on a day other than the last day of the Interest Period for such Loan; or

(b) any failure by the Borrowers (for a reason other than the failure of such Lender to make a Loan) to prepay, borrow, continue or convert any Loan (other than a Base Rate Loan) on the date or in the amount notified by the Borrowers;

including any loss or expense (excluding loss of anticipated profits or margin) actually arising from the liquidation or reemployment of funds obtained by it to maintain such Loan or from fees payable to terminate the deposits from which such funds were obtained.

For purposes of calculating amounts payable by the Borrowers to the Lenders under this Section 3.05, each Lender shall be deemed to have funded each Eurocurrency Rate Loan made by it at the Eurocurrency Rate for such Loan by a matching deposit or other borrowing in the London interbank eurodollar market for a comparable amount and for a comparable period, whether or not such Eurocurrency Rate Loan was in fact so funded.

Section 3.06 Matters Applicable to All Requests for Compensation.

(a) Any Agent or any Lender claiming compensation under this Article III shall deliver a certificate to the Lead Borrower setting forth the additional amount or amounts to be paid to it hereunder which shall be conclusive in the absence of demonstrable error. In determining such amount, such Agent or such Lender may use any reasonable averaging and attribution methods.

(b) With respect to any Lender’s claim for compensation under Section 3.02, Section 3.03 or Section 3.04, the Borrowers shall not be required to compensate such Lender for any amount incurred more than one hundred eighty (180) days prior to the date that such Lender notifies the Lead Borrower of the event that gives rise to such claim; provided, if the circumstance giving rise to such claim is retroactive, then such 180-day period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof. If any Lender requests compensation by the Borrowers under Section 3.04, the Borrowers may, by notice to such Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), suspend the obligation of such Lender to make or continue Eurocurrency Rate Loans from one Interest Period to another, or to convert Base Rate Loans into Eurocurrency Rate Loans, until the event or condition giving rise to such request ceases to be in effect (in which case the provisions of Section 3.06(c) shall be applicable); provided, such suspension shall not affect the right of such Lender to receive the compensation so requested.

(c) If the obligation of any Lender to make or continue any Eurocurrency Rate Loan, from one Interest Period to another, or to convert Base Rate Loans into Eurocurrency Rate Loans shall be suspended pursuant to Section 3.06(b) hereof, such Lender’s Eurocurrency Rate Loans shall be automatically converted into Base Rate Loans on the last day(s) of the then current Interest Period(s) for such Eurocurrency Rate Loans (or, in the case of an immediate conversion required by Section 3.02, on such earlier date as required by Law) and, unless and until such Lender gives notice as provided below that the circumstances specified in Section 3.02, Section 3.03 or Section 3.04 hereof that gave rise to such conversion no longer exist:

(i) to the extent that such Lender’s Eurocurrency Rate Loans have been so converted, all payments and prepayments of principal that would otherwise be applied to such Lender’s Eurocurrency Rate Loans shall be applied instead to its Base Rate Loans; and

 

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(ii) all Loans that would otherwise be made or continued from one Interest Period to another by such Lender as Eurocurrency Rate Loans shall be made or continued instead as Base Rate Loans, and all Base Rate Loans of such Lender that would otherwise be converted into Eurocurrency Rate Loans shall remain as Base Rate Loans.

(d) If any Lender gives notice to the Lead Borrower (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) that the circumstances specified in Section 3.02, Section 3.03 or Section 3.04 hereof that gave rise to the conversion of such Lender’s Eurocurrency Rate Loans pursuant to this Section 3.06 no longer exist (which such Lender agrees to do promptly upon such circumstances ceasing to exist) at a time when Eurocurrency Rate Loans made by other Lenders are outstanding, such Lender’s Base Rate Loans shall be automatically converted to Eurocurrency Rate Loans, on the first day(s) of the next succeeding Interest Period(s) for such outstanding Eurocurrency Rate Loans, to the extent necessary so that, after giving effect thereto, all Loans held by the Lenders holding Eurocurrency Rate Loans and by such Lender are held pro rata (as to principal amounts, interest rate basis, and Interest Periods) in accordance with their respective Commitments.

Section 3.07 Replacement of Lenders under Certain Circumstances.

(a) If at any time (i) any Lender receives additional amounts or requests reimbursement for amounts owing pursuant to Section 3.01 or Section 3.04 as a result of any condition described in such Sections or any Lender ceases to make Eurocurrency Rate Loans as a result of any condition described in Section 3.02 or Section 3.04, (ii) any Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender or (iii) any Lender becomes a Non-Consenting Lender, then the Borrowers may, on prior written notice to the Administrative Agent and such Lender, replace such Lender by requiring such Lender to (and such Lender shall be obligated to) assign pursuant to Section 10.07(b) (with the assignment fee to be paid by the Borrowers in such instance) all of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (or, with respect to clause (iii) above, all of its rights and obligations with respect to the Class of Loans or Commitments that is the subject of the related consent, waiver or amendment) to one or more Eligible Assignees; provided, neither the Administrative Agent nor any Lender shall have any obligation to the Borrowers to find a replacement Lender or other such Person; and provided, further, (A) in the case of any such assignment resulting from a claim for compensation under Section 3.04 or payments required to be made pursuant to Section 3.01, such assignment will result in a reduction in such compensation or payments and (B) in the case of any such assignment resulting from a Lender becoming a Non-Consenting Lender, (x) the applicable Eligible Assignees shall have agreed to the applicable departure, waiver or amendment of the Loan Documents and (y) pay such replaced Lender all amounts due pursuant to Section 2.05(a)(i), if applicable.

(b) Any Lender being replaced pursuant to Section 3.07(a) above shall (i) execute and deliver an Assignment and Assumption with respect to such Lender’s Commitment and outstanding Loans and participations in L/C Obligations, as applicable (provided, the failure of any such Lender to execute an Assignment and Assumption shall not render such assignment invalid and such assignment shall be recorded in the Register) and (ii) deliver Notes, if any, evidencing such Loans to the Borrowers or Administrative Agent. Pursuant to such Assignment and Assumption, (A) the assignee Lender shall acquire all or a portion, as the case may be, of the assigning Lender’s Commitments and outstanding Loans and participations in L/C Obligations, as applicable, (B) all obligations of the Loan Parties owing to the assigning Lender relating to the

 

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Loan Documents and participations so assigned shall be paid in full by the assignee Lender or the Loan Parties (as applicable) to such assigning Lender concurrently with such assignment and assumption, any amounts owing to the assigning Lender (other than a Defaulting Lender) under Section 3.05 as a consequence of such assignment shall have been paid by the Borrowers to the assigning Lender and (C) upon such payment and, if so requested by the assignee Lender, the assignor Lender shall deliver to the assignee Lender the appropriate Note or Notes executed by the Borrowers, the assignee Lender shall become a Lender hereunder and the assigning Lender shall cease to constitute a Lender hereunder with respect to such assigned Loans, Commitments and participations, except with respect to indemnification provisions under this Agreement, which shall survive as to such assigning Lender.

(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained above, any Lender that acts as an L/C Issuer may not be replaced hereunder at any time that it has any Letter of Credit outstanding hereunder unless arrangements reasonably satisfactory to such L/C Issuer (including the furnishing of a back-up standby letter of credit in form and substance, and issued by an issuer reasonably satisfactory to such L/C Issuer, or the depositing of cash collateral into a cash collateral account in amounts and pursuant to arrangements reasonably satisfactory to such L/C Issuer) have been made with respect to each such outstanding Letter of Credit and the Lender that acts as the Administrative Agent may not be replaced hereunder except in accordance with the terms of Section 9.09.

(d) In the event that the Lead Borrower or the Administrative Agent have requested that the Lenders (A) consent to an extension of the Maturity Date of any Class of the Loans or Commitments as permitted by Section 2.15, (B) a consent to a refinancing of any Class of Loans or Commitments permitted by Section 2.18, (C) a consent to a Permitted Debt Exchange permitted by Section 2.17, or (D) (i) consent to a departure or waiver of any provisions of the Loan Documents, (ii) such consent, waiver or amendment in question requires the agreement of all affected Lenders (or any other amount in excess of 50.1%) in accordance with the terms of Section 10.01 or all the Lenders with respect to a certain Class of the Loans and (iii) the Required Lenders have agreed to such consent, waiver or amendment, in each case, then any Lender who does not agree to such consent, waiver or amendment shall be deemed a “Non-Consenting Lender.”

Section 3.08 Survival. All of the Borrowers’ obligations under this Article III shall survive termination of the Aggregate Commitments and repayment of all other Obligations hereunder, termination of the Loan Documents and any assignment of rights by or replacement of a Lender or L/C Issuer.

ARTICLE IV

Conditions Precedent to Credit Extensions

Section 4.01 Closing Date. The agreement of each Lender to make Credit Extensions on the Closing Date is subject solely to the satisfaction or waiver by the GS Initial Investors prior to or concurrently with the making of the Credit Extensions on the Closing Date, of the following conditions precedent:

 

  (a)

The Administrative Agent and the GS Initial Investors shall have received this Agreement, the Intercreditor Agreement, the Security Agreements listed on Schedule 1.01B and the Guaranty, in each case, dated as of the Closing Date, duly executed and delivered by a Responsible Officer of each of the Loan Parties party thereto.

 

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  (b)

The Administrative Agent and the GS Initial Investors shall have received a Committed Loan Notice in accordance with Section 2.02 (at least three (3) Business Days prior to the Closing Date or such shorter period as the GS Initial Investors may agree) and a Letter of Credit Application, if applicable; provided that the Lead Borrower shall use commercially reasonable efforts to provide a notice of the anticipated occurrence of the Credit Extension of the Initial Term B Loans at least fifteen (15) Business Days (or such shorter period as the GS Initial Investors holding the Initial Term B Commitments at such time agree) prior to the date of such Credit Extension.

 

  (c)

The Borrowers shall have confirmed pursuant to clause (n) below to the Administrative Agent and the GS Initial Investors that the following transactions have been consummated or will be consummated substantially concurrently with the initial Credit Extensions:

 

  i.

The Closing Date Acquisition (which shall have been consummated (or will be consummated substantially concurrently with the initial Credit Extensions on the Closing Date) in all material respects in accordance with the terms of the Acquisition Agreement, without giving effect to any modifications, amendments, consents or waivers thereto, other than those modifications, amendments, waivers or consents by the Lead Borrower that are not materially adverse to the interest of the Lenders in their capacities as such, unless consented to by the GS Initial Investors in writing (in each case, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned) provided that (a) any reduction or reductions in the total purchase price under the Acquisition Agreement of less than 15% in the aggregate will be deemed not to be materially adverse to the Lenders, (b) any reduction or reductions in the total purchase price under the Acquisition Agreement of equal to or greater than 15% in the aggregate will be deemed not to be materially adverse to the Lenders so long as any such reduction in excess thereof is allocated (i) 50%, to reduce the amount of the Equity Contribution to the extent it exceeds the required amount set forth in the definition thereof and (ii) unless the GS Initial Investors otherwise consent, 50% to reduce the amount of (x) the Initial Term B Loans and (y) the Second Lien Term Loans, on a ratable basis and (c) any amendment, modification or waiver to the definition of “Material Adverse Effect” in the Acquisition Agreement shall be deemed materially adverse to the interests of the Lenders);

 

  ii.

the Equity Contribution; and

 

  iii.

the Closing Date Acquisition Guarantee and Lien Release.

 

  (d)

The Administrative Agent and GS Initial Investors shall have received, (i) the Unaudited Financial Statements, (ii) the Audited Financial Statements and (iii) a pro forma consolidated balance sheet and related pro forma consolidated income statement of Holdings and its Subsidiaries (based on the Audited Financial Statements and the Unaudited Financial Statements) as of and for the twelve-month period ending on the last day of the most recently completed four-fiscal quarter period for which financial statements have been delivered to satisfy the condition set forth in the preceding clause 4.01(d)(i) or (ii), in each case, prepared after giving effect to the Transactions as if the Transactions had occurred as of such date (in the case of such balance sheet) or at the beginning of such period (in the case of such income statement), it being understood that any purchase accounting adjustments may be preliminary in nature and be based only on estimate determined by Holdings (the financial statements described in this clause 4.01(d)(iii), the “Pro Forma Financial Statements”); provided, that no financial statements or Pro Forma Financial Statements required to be delivered pursuant to this Section 4.01(d) will be required to (x) be prepared in compliance with Regulation S-X of the Securities Act or (y) include adjustments for purchase accounting (including adjustments of the type contemplated by Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Codification 805, Business Combinations (formerly SFAS 141R)).

 

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  (e)

The Borrowers shall have paid all closing payments and other amounts (a) required to be paid pursuant to the Fee and Closing Payment Letter and (b) reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses required to be paid on the Closing Date pursuant to the Commitment Letter, to the extent invoiced in reasonable detail at least two (2) Business Days prior to the Closing Date.

 

  (f)

The Administrative Agent and the GS Initial Investors shall have received a solvency certificate from the chief financial officer of Holdings substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit L, or, at the Lead Borrower’s option, a solvency opinion from an independent investment bank or valuation firm of nationally recognized standing, with respect to solvency on the Closing Date on a consolidated basis after giving effect to the Transactions and the other transactions contemplated hereby.

 

  (g)

The Administrative Agent and the GS Initial Investors shall have received a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the applicable Loan Parties dated the Closing Date and certifying:

 

  i.

that attached thereto is (x) a true and complete copy of the charter or other similar organizational document of such Loan Party, and each amendment thereto, certified (as of a date reasonably near the Closing Date) as being a true and correct copy thereof by the Secretary of State or other applicable Governmental Authority of the jurisdiction in which such Loan Party is organized and (y) a true and complete copy of the bylaws, operating agreement, partnership agreement or other similar organizational document of such Loan Party, and each amendment thereto;

 

  ii.

that attached thereto is a true and complete copy of resolutions of such Loan Party authorizing the execution, delivery and performance of the Loan Documents to which it is a party or any other document delivered in connection herewith on the Closing Date and certifying that such resolutions have not been modified, rescinded or amended and are in full force and effect; and

 

  iii.

as to the incumbency and specimen signature of each Responsible Officer executing the Loan Documents specified in Section 4.01(a) (together with a certificate of another officer as to the incumbency and specimen signature of the Responsible Officer executing the certificate pursuant to this Section 4.01(g)).

 

  (h)

The Administrative Agent and the GS Initial Investors shall have received reasonably satisfactory customary legal opinions of (i) DLA Piper LLP (US), New York, California, Delaware and Florida counsel to the Loan Parties and (ii) Higgs & Johnson, Bahamian counsel to the Loan Parties.

 

  (i)

The Collateral Agent shall have received the certificates representing the Equity Interests (if such Equity Interests are certificated) of each Borrower, together with an undated stock power for such certificate executed in blank by a duly authorized officer of the pledgor thereof.

 

  (j)

The Administrative Agent and the GS Initial Investors shall have received a good standing certificate (to the extent such concept is known in the relevant jurisdiction) from the applicable Governmental Authority of the Borrowers’ and the Guarantors’ respective jurisdiction of organization dated a recent date prior to the Closing Date, which such good standing certificate shall be attached to the certificate delivered pursuant to Section 4.01(g).

 

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  (k)

Since the date of Acquisition Agreement, there shall have been no Material Adverse Effect (as defined in the Acquisition Agreement).

 

  (l)

All documentation and other information required by regulatory authorities under (i) applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including without limitation the USA PATRIOT Act and (ii) the Beneficial Owner Regulation shall have been provided not later than the date that is three (3) Business Days prior to the Closing Date in the case of clause (i) and five (5) Business Days prior to the Closing Date in the case of clause (ii), in each case, as has been reasonably requested in writing by the Administrative Agent and the GS Initial Investors at least ten (10) Business Days prior to the Closing Date.

 

  (m)

The Administrative Agent and the GS Initial Investors shall have received:

 

  i.

certificates, if any, representing the Equity Interests, to the extent received by Holdings after the SPAC’s use of commercially reasonable efforts to receive such certificates without undue burden or expense, of each wholly owned U.S. Subsidiary to the extent required to be pledged pursuant to the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement, accompanied by undated stock powers executed in blank (or stock transfer forms, as applicable) and instruments evidencing any pledged debt set out in the Security Agreements (accompanied by allonges or other instrument of transfer, as applicable),

 

  ii.

copies of proper financing statements (or the equivalent thereof), filed or duly prepared for filing under the Uniform Commercial Code (or the equivalent thereof) in all United States jurisdictions or Covered Jurisdictions that the Administrative Agent may deem reasonably necessary in order to perfect and protect the Liens on assets of Holdings, each Borrower and each Subsidiary Guarantor created under the Security Agreements listed on Schedule 1.01B, covering the Collateral described in such Security Agreements, and

 

  iii.

evidence that all other actions, recordings and filings of or with respect to the Security Agreement that the Administrative Agent may deem reasonably necessary or desirable in order to perfect and protect the Liens created thereby (subject to the exceptions set forth in the definition of “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement”) or in the case of an exempted company, as may be required by Law to record the granting of such Liens, shall have been taken, completed or otherwise provided for in a manner reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (including receipt of duly executed payoff letters, customary lien searches, and copies of an exempted company’s register of mortgages and charges).

 

  (n)

The Administrative Agent and the GS Initial Investors shall have received a certificate of a Responsible Officer of each Borrower dated as of the Closing Date and certifying as to the matters set forth in Sections 4.01(c) and (k) above and (o) below.

 

  (o)

The Specified Acquisition Agreement Representations and Specified Representations will be true and correct in all material respects (or, if qualified by materiality, in all respects).

 

  (p)

(i) Prior to, or substantially concurrently with the funding of the Initial Term B Loans and the Revolving Credit Loans borrowed on the Closing Date, the Lead Borrower shall have received the net cash proceeds of the Second Lien Term Loans and (ii) the Lead Borrower shall have delivered to Administrative Agent an executed copy of the Second Lien Loan Documents to be entered into on the Closing Date.

 

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  (q)

On the Closing Date, Holdings and its Subsidiaries shall have (i) repaid in full all existing third party debt (except as otherwise permitted to be incurred or outstanding hereunder and under any other Loan Documents), (ii) terminated any commitments to lend or make other extensions of credit thereunder, (iii) delivered to Administrative Agent customary payoff documentation (including lien releases, UCC-3 termination statements and other customary documentation) necessary to release all Liens securing existing Indebtedness or other obligations of Holdings and its Subsidiaries thereunder being repaid on the Closing Date, and (iv) made arrangements satisfactory to Administrative Agent and Arranger with respect to the cancellation of any letters of credit outstanding thereunder or the issuance of Letters of Credit to support the obligations of Holdings and its Subsidiaries with respect thereto.

There are no conditions, implied or otherwise, to the making of Credit Extensions on the Closing Date other than as set forth in the preceding clauses (a) through (q) and upon satisfaction or waiver by the GS Initial Investors of such conditions the Credit Extensions will be made by the Lenders.

Section 4.02 Conditions to Delayed Draw Term Facility Credit Extension. The obligation of each Lender to make a the Delayed Draw Term Loan is subject solely to the satisfaction (or waiver) by each Delayed Draw Term Lender of the following express conditions precedent:

(a) The representations and warranties of each Borrower and each other Loan Party contained in Article V or any other Loan Document shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as of the date of such Credit Extension; provided, to the extent such representations and warranties specifically refer to an earlier date, they shall be true and correct in all material respects as of such earlier date; provided further that any representation and warranty that is qualified as to “materiality,” “Material Adverse Effect” or similar language shall be true and correct (after giving effect to any qualification therein) in all respects on such respective dates.

(b) No Default or Event of Default shall exist, or would result from such proposed Credit Extension or from the application of the proceeds therefrom.

(c) The Administrative Agent and the Lenders holding Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments shall have received a Committed Loan Notice in accordance with Section 2.02 (at least four (4) Business Days prior to the date of such Credit Extension (or such shorter period as the Delayed Draw Term Lenders holding Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments at such time agree)); provided that the Lead Borrower shall use commercially reasonable efforts to provide a notice of the anticipated occurrence of the Credit Extension under the Delayed Draw Term Facility at least fifteen (15) Business Days (or such shorter period as the Delayed Draw Term Lenders holding Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments at such time agree) prior to the date of such Credit Extension.

(d) The payment by (or on behalf of) the Borrowers of any closing payments and all other amounts, including fees, expenses and any other amounts, then due in connection with such Credit Extension.

Section 4.03 Conditions to Certain Subsequent Credit Extensions. The obligation of each Lender to make a Credit Extension after the Closing Date (other than (i) under an Incremental Facility, (ii) Committed Loan Notices requesting only a conversion of Loans to the other Type, or a continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans or (iii) under the Delayed Draw Term Facility) is subject to the satisfaction of the following conditions precedent except as otherwise agreed between the Lead Borrower and the Administrative Agent:

 

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(a) The representations and warranties of each Borrower and each other Loan Party contained in Article V or any other Loan Document shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as of the date of such Credit Extension; provided, to the extent that such representations and warranties specifically refer to an earlier date, they shall be true and correct in all material respects as of such earlier date; provided, further that any representation and warranty that is qualified as to “materiality,” “Material Adverse Effect” or similar language shall be true and correct (after giving effect to any qualification therein) in all respects on such respective dates;

(b) No Default or Event of Default shall exist, or would result from such proposed Credit Extension or from the application of the proceeds therefrom; and

(c) The Administrative Agent and, if applicable, the relevant L/C Issuer shall have received a Request for Credit Extension in accordance with the requirements hereof.

ARTICLE V

Representations and Warranties

Holdings and the Borrowers represent and warrant to the Agents and the Lenders that:

Section 5.01 Existence, Qualification and Power; Compliance with Laws. Each Loan Party and each other Restricted Subsidiary (a) is a Person duly incorporated, organized or formed, and validly existing and, where applicable, in good standing under the Laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation or organization, (b) has all requisite power and authority to (i) own or lease its assets and carry on its business as currently conducted and (ii) execute, deliver and perform its obligations under the Loan Documents to which it is a party, (c) is duly qualified and, where applicable, in good standing under the Laws of each jurisdiction where its ownership, lease or operation of properties or the conduct of its business requires such qualification, (d) is in compliance with all Laws, orders, writs, injunctions and orders and (e) has all requisite governmental licenses, authorizations, consents and approvals to operate its business as currently conducted; except in each case referred to in clause (b)(i), (c), (d) or (e), to the extent that failure to do so could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

Section 5.02 Authorization; No Contravention. The execution, delivery and performance by each Loan Party of each Loan Document to which such Person is a party, and the consummation of the Transactions are within such Loan Partys corporate or other powers, have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate or other organizational action, and do not and will not (a) contravene the terms of any of such Persons Organization Documents, (b) conflict with or result in any breach or contravention of, or the creation of any Lien under (other than under the Loan Documents), or require any payment to be made under (i) any material Contractual Obligation to which such Person is a party or affecting such Person or the properties of such Person or any of its Subsidiaries or (ii) any material order, injunction, writ or decree of any Governmental Authority or any arbitral award to which such Person or its property is subject; or (c) violate any Law; except with respect to any conflict, breach or contravention or payment (but not creation of Liens) referred to in clause (b)(i) or violation referred to in clause (c), to the extent that such conflict, breach, contravention, payment or violation could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

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Section 5.03 Governmental Authorization; Other Consents. No approval, consent, exemption, authorization, or other action by, or notice to, or filing with, any Governmental Authority or any other Person is necessary or required in connection with (a) the execution, delivery or performance by, or enforcement against, any Loan Party of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or for the consummation of the Transactions, (b) the grant by any Loan Party of the Liens granted by it pursuant to the Collateral Documents, (c) the perfection or maintenance of the Liens created under the Collateral Documents (including the priority thereof) or (d) the exercise by the Administrative Agent or any Lender of its rights under the Loan Documents or the remedies in respect of the Collateral pursuant to the Collateral Documents, except for (i) filings necessary to create and perfect the Liens on the Collateral granted by the Loan Parties in favor of the Secured Parties, (ii) the approvals, consents, exemptions, authorizations, actions, notices and filings which have been duly obtained, taken, given or made and are in full force and effect and (iii) those approvals, consents, exemptions, authorizations or other actions, notices or filings, the failure of which to obtain or make could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

Section 5.04 Binding Effect. This Agreement and each other Loan Document has been duly executed and delivered by each Loan Party that is party thereto. This Agreement and each other Loan Document constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of such Loan Party, enforceable against each Loan Party that is party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by Debtor Relief Laws or other Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity and principles of good faith and fair dealing (regardless of whether enforcement is sought in equity or at law).

Section 5.05 Financial Statements; No Material Adverse Effect.

(a)        (i) The Audited Financial Statements and Unaudited Financial Statements fairly present in all material respects the financial condition of Holdings and its Subsidiaries as of the dates thereof on a consolidated basis, and the results of operations for the period covered thereby in accordance with GAAP consistently applied throughout the periods covered thereby, except as otherwise disclosed to the Administrative Agent and the GS Initial Investors prior to the Closing Date; provided, that no audited financial statements shall be required to (x) be prepared in compliance with Regulation S-X of the Securities Act or (y) include adjustments for purchase accounting (including adjustments of the type contemplated by Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Codification 805, Business Combinations (formerly SFAS 141R)).

 

  (ii)

The Pro Forma Financial Statements, copies of which have heretofore been furnished to the Administrative Agent, have been prepared giving effect (as if such events had occurred on such date or at the beginning of such periods, as the case may be) to the Transactions. The Pro Forma Financial Statements have been prepared in good faith, based on assumptions believed by Holdings to be reasonable as of the date of delivery thereof, and present fairly in all material respects on a pro forma basis the estimated financial position of Holdings and its Subsidiaries as at September 30, 2018 and their estimated results of operations for the periods covered thereby, assuming that the events specified in the preceding sentence had actually occurred at such date or at the beginning of the periods covered thereby.

(b) Since the Closing Date, there has been no event or circumstance, either individually or in the aggregate, that has had or could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

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Each Lender and the Administrative Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that Holdings and its Subsidiaries may be required to restate historical financial statements as the result of changes in GAAP or IFRS, or the respective interpretation thereof, and that such restatements will not result in a Default under the Loan Documents.

Section 5.06 Litigation. Except as set forth on Schedule 5.06 or any amendment thereto, there are no actions, suits, proceedings, claims or disputes pending or, to the knowledge of Holdings, threatened in writing or contemplated, at law, in equity, in arbitration or before any Governmental Authority, by or against Holdings, any Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary or against any of their properties or revenues that either individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected, if adversely determined, to have a Material Adverse Effect.

Section 5.07 Ownership of Property; Liens; Insurance. Each Loan Party and each of its Restricted Subsidiaries has good and insurable title in fee simple to, or valid leasehold interests in, or easements or other limited property interests in, all property necessary in the ordinary conduct of its business, free and clear of all Liens except for minor defects in title that do not materially interfere with its ability to conduct its business or to utilize such assets for their intended purposes, Liens permitted under the Loan Documents and any Liens and privileges arising mandatorily by Law and except where the failure to have such title or other interest could not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect. The properties of Holdings and each of the Restricted Subsidiaries are insured with financially sound and reputable insurance companies, in such amounts, with such deductible and covering such risks as are customarily carried by companies engaged in similar businesses and owning or leasing similar properties in localities where the applicable Person operates.

Section 5.08 Environmental Compliance. Except as could not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect:

(a) there are no pending or, to the knowledge of Holdings, threatened claims, actions, suits, notices of violation, notices of potential responsibility or proceedings by or against Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary with respect to any actual or alleged Environmental Liability or responsibility for violation of, or otherwise relating to, any applicable Environmental Law;

(b) there has been no Release of Hazardous Materials by any of the Loan Parties or any other Restricted Subsidiary at, on, under or from any location in a manner which would reasonably be expected to give rise to any Environmental Liability;

(c) neither Holdings nor any Restricted Subsidiary is undertaking, or has completed, either individually or together with other persons, any investigation or remedial action relating to any actual or threatened Release of Hazardous Materials at any location, either voluntarily or pursuant to the order of any Governmental Authority or the requirements of any applicable Environmental Law;

(d) all Hazardous Materials transported from any property currently or, to the knowledge of either Borrower or their respective Restricted Subsidiaries, formerly owned or operated by any Loan Party or any other Subsidiary for off-site disposal have been disposed of in compliance with Environmental Law;

(e) none of the Loan Parties nor any other Restricted Subsidiary has contractually assumed any Environmental Liability or obligation under or relating to any applicable Environmental Law; and

 

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(f) the Loan Parties and each other Restricted Subsidiary and their respective businesses, operations and properties are, and since January 1, 2016, have been in compliance with all applicable Environmental Laws.

Section 5.09 Taxes. The Loan Parties and each Restricted Subsidiary have timely filed all federal, provincial, state, municipal, foreign and other Tax returns and reports required to be filed, and have timely paid all federal, provincial, state, municipal, foreign and other Taxes or stamp duties levied or imposed upon them or their properties, income or assets otherwise due and payable, except those which are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted and for which adequate reserves have been provided in accordance with GAAP and, except for failures to file or pay as could not, either individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. The Lead Borrower is a disregarded entity of Holdings for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

Section 5.10 Compliance with ERISA.

(a) Except as could not, either individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, each Plan and Foreign Plan is in compliance with the applicable provisions of ERISA, the Code and other federal or state Laws and applicable foreign laws, respectively.

(b) (i) No ERISA Event has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur; (ii) neither any Loan Party nor any ERISA Affiliate has incurred, or reasonably expects to incur, any liability (and no event has occurred which, with the giving of notice under Section 4219 of ERISA, would result in such liability) under Section 4201 et seq. or 4243 of ERISA with respect to a Multiemployer Plan; and (iii) neither any Loan Party nor any ERISA Affiliate has engaged in a transaction that could reasonably be expected to be subject to Section 4069 or 4212(c) of ERISA, except, with respect to each of the foregoing clauses (i) through (iii) of this Section 5.10, as could not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

Section 5.11 Labor Matters. Neither Holdings nor any of its Subsidiaries is engaged in any unfair labor practice that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. There is (a) no unfair labor practice complaint pending against Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries, or to the best knowledge of Holdings and the Borrowers, threatened against any of them before the National Labor Relations Board and no grievance or arbitration proceeding arising out of or under any collective bargaining agreement that is so pending against Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries or to the best knowledge of Holdings and the Borrowers, threatened against any of them, (b) no strike or work stoppage in existence or threatened involving Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries, and (c) to the best knowledge of Holdings and the Borrowers, no union representation question existing with respect to the employees of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries and, to the best knowledge of Holdings and the Borrowers, no union organization activity that is taking place, except (with respect to any matter specified in clause (a), (b) or (c) above, either individually or in the aggregate) such as is not reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.

Section 5.12 Subsidiaries; Equity Interests. As of the Closing Date, neither Holdings nor any other Loan Party has any Subsidiaries other than those specifically disclosed in Schedule 5.12, and all of the outstanding Equity Interests in each Borrower and each of Holdings other Subsidiaries have been validly issued, are fully paid and non-assessable (other than pledged equity consisting of limited liability company interests or partnership interests which, pursuant to the relevant organizational or formation documents, cannot be fully paid and non-assessable) and, on the Closing Date, all Equity Interests owned directly or indirectly by Holdings or any other Loan Party are owned free and clear of all Liens except (i)

 

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those created under the Collateral Documents, (ii) those Liens permitted under Sections 7.01(c), (p), (y) (solely with respect to modifications, replacements, renewals or extensions of Liens permitted by Sections 7.01(c) and (p)) and (ii) and (iii) any nonconsensual Lien that is permitted under Section 7.01. As of the Closing Date, Schedule 5.12 together with any amendment thereto sets forth the name and jurisdiction of organization or incorporation of each Subsidiary, (b) sets forth the ownership interest of Holdings, the Borrowers and any of their Subsidiaries in each of their Subsidiaries, including the percentage of such ownership and (c) identifies each Person the Equity Interests of which are required to be pledged on the Closing Date pursuant to the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement.

Section 5.13 Margin Regulations; Investment Company Act.

(a) No Loan Party is engaged nor will it engage, principally or as one of its important activities, in the business of purchasing or carrying margin stock (within the meaning of Regulation U issued by the FRB), or extending credit for the purpose of purchasing or carrying margin stock, and no proceeds of any Borrowings or drawings under any Letter of Credit will be used to purchase or carry margin stock within the meaning of Regulation U issued by the FRB or for any purpose that violates Regulation U or Regulation X of the FRB.

(b) Neither of the Borrowers nor any Loan Party is or is required to be registered as an “investment company” under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

Section 5.14 Disclosure. No report, financial statement, certificate or other written information furnished by or on behalf of any Loan Party to any Agent or any Lender in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby and the negotiation of this Agreement or delivered hereunder or any other Loan Document (as modified or supplemented by other information so furnished) when taken as a whole contains when furnished any material misstatement of fact or omits to state any material fact necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not materially misleading; provided, with respect to projected financial information, Holdings represents only that such information was prepared in good faith based upon assumptions believed to be reasonable at the time of preparation; it being understood that such projections may vary from actual results and that such variances may be material.

Section 5.15 Intellectual Property; Licenses, Etc. Each of the Loan Parties and the other Restricted Subsidiaries own, license or possess the right to use, all of the trademarks, service marks, trade names, domain names, copyrights, patents, patent rights, trade secrets and other intellectual property rights that are reasonably necessary for the operation of their respective businesses as currently conducted (collectively, “IP Rights”), and, to the knowledge of either Borrower, without infringement or violation of the rights of any Person. No claim or litigation regarding any such IP Rights, is pending or, to the knowledge of either Borrower, threatened against any Loan Party or Subsidiary.

Section 5.16 Solvency. On the Closing Date, after giving effect to the Transactions, Holdings and its Subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis, are Solvent.

Section 5.17 Collateral Documents. The Collateral Documents are effective to create in favor of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties legal, valid and enforceable first priority (to the extent such concept exists under applicable Law) Liens (subject to Liens permitted under the Loan Documents and any Liens and privileges arising mandatorily by Law) on, and security interests in, the Collateral (except as such enforceability may be limited by Debtor Relief Laws or other Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity and principles of good faith and fair dealing (regardless of whether enforcement is sought in equity or at law); and, (i) when all appropriate filings or recordings are made in the appropriate offices as may be required under applicable

 

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Laws (which filings or recordings shall be made to the extent required by any Collateral Document) and (ii) upon the taking of possession or control by the Collateral Agent of such Collateral with respect to which a security interest may be perfected only by possession or control (which possession or control shall be given to the Collateral Agent to the extent required by any Collateral Document), such Collateral Document will constitute fully perfected Liens on, and security interests in, all right, title and interest of the Loan Parties in such Collateral, in each case subject to no Liens other than the applicable Liens permitted under the Loan Documents and any Liens and privileges arising mandatorily by Law.

Section 5.18 Patriot Act; Anti-Money Laundering Laws.

(a) To the extent applicable, each of Holdings and each of its Subsidiaries is in compliance, in all material respects, with the USA Patriot Act.

(b) Each of Holdings, the Borrowers and their Subsidiaries is in compliance, in all material respects, with applicable anti-money laundering laws and regulations, including, but not limited to, the Bank Secrecy Act, as amended by Title III of the USA PATRIOT Act (collectively, the “Anti-Money Laundering Laws”).

(c) The use of proceeds of any Credit Extension will not violate in any material respect Anti-Money Laundering Laws.

Section 5.19 Anti-Corruption Laws. None of Holdings, the Borrowers or any other Subsidiary of Holdings or any of the respective directors, officers, or to the knowledge of Holdings or either Borrower, employees, agents or Affiliates of any of the foregoing has taken, directly or indirectly, any action that would constitute or give rise to a violation of applicable Anti-Corruption Laws. The Borrowers will not use, directly or indirectly, any part of the proceeds of any Credit Extension in furtherance of an offer, payment, promise to pay, or authorization of the payment or giving of money, or anything else of value, to any Person in violation of Anti-Corruption Laws and have instituted and maintained policies and procedures designed to promote and achieve compliance with such Laws.

Section 5.20 Sanctioned Persons. None of Holdings, the Borrowers or any other Subsidiaries of Holdings or any of the respective directors, officers, or to the knowledge of Holdings or either Borrower, employees, agents or Affiliates of any of the foregoing is the subject or target of any economic or financial sanctions administered by the United States (including those administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Treasury Department (“OFAC”) or the U.S. Department of State), the European Union and each of its member states, the United Nations Security Council, the United Kingdom (including those administered by the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation of Her Majestys Treasury) or any other relevant national or supra-national governmental authority that administers economic or financial sanctions applicable to Holdings and its Subsidiaries (collectively, “Sanctions”); and the Borrowers will not use, directly or indirectly, any part of the proceeds of any Credit Extension or otherwise make available such proceeds to any Person, for the purpose of financing activities of or with any Person that, at the time of such financing, is the subject or target of any Sanctions in violation of Sanctions, or in any manner that would constitute or give rise to a violation of Sanctions by any party hereto, including any Lender.

Section 5.21 Use of Proceeds. The Borrowers will use the proceeds of any Credit Extension in accordance with Section 6.11.

Section 5.22 Classification as Priority Lien Obligations; etc.. The Obligations constitute “Senior Lien Obligations” under and as defined in the Intercreditor Agreement and the subordination provisions set forth in the Intercreditor Agreement are legally valid and enforceable against the parties

 

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thereto, except as enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws affecting creditor’s rights generally. Except for the Obligations there are no other “Senior Lien Obligations”. Except for the Collateral Agent, there is no, and there shall not at any time be any, other “Initial Senior Lien Collateral Agent” under and as defined in the Intercreditor Agreement. The Collateral Agent is the “Initial Senior Lien Collateral Agent” under the Intercreditor Agreement.

Section 5.23 Material Contracts. Schedule 1.01D contains a true, correct and complete list of all the Material Contracts in effect on the Closing Date, and except as described thereon, all such Material Contracts are in full force and effect and no defaults currently exist thereunder.

ARTICLE VI

Affirmative Covenants

So long as any Lender shall have any Commitment hereunder, any Loan or other Obligation hereunder which is accrued and payable shall remain unpaid or unsatisfied, or any Letter of Credit shall remain outstanding, Holdings and the Borrowers shall, and shall (except in the case of the covenants set forth in Section 6.01, Section 6.02 and Section 6.03) cause each Restricted Subsidiary to:

Section 6.01 Financial Statements. Deliver to the Administrative Agent for prompt further distribution to each Lender:

(a) as soon as available, but in any event within ninety (90) days after the end of each fiscal year of Holdings, a consolidated balance sheet of Holdings and its Subsidiaries as at the end of such fiscal year, and the related consolidated statements of income or operations, stockholders’ equity and cash flows for such fiscal year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the previous fiscal year, all in reasonable detail and prepared in accordance with GAAP, accompanied by customary management discussion and analysis, audited and accompanied by a report and opinion of an independent registered public accounting firm of nationally recognized standing, which report and opinion shall be prepared in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards and shall not be subject to any “going concern” or like qualification or exception (other than solely with respect to, or resulting solely from (i) an upcoming maturity date under any indebtedness occurring within one year from the time such opinion is delivered or (ii) any potential inability to satisfy any financial maintenance covenant on a future date or in a future period) or any qualification or exception as to the scope of such audit;

(b) as soon as available, but in any event, within forty-five (45) days after the end of each of the first three (3) fiscal quarters of each fiscal year of Holdings commencing with the first fiscal quarter ending after the Closing Date, a consolidated balance sheet of Holdings and its Subsidiaries as at the end of such fiscal quarter, and the related (i) consolidated statements of income or operations for such fiscal quarter and for the portion of the fiscal year then ended and (ii) consolidated statements of cash flows for the portion of the fiscal year then ended, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the corresponding fiscal quarter of the previous fiscal year and the corresponding portion of the previous fiscal year, all in reasonable detail and certified by a Responsible Officer of Holdings as fairly presenting in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations, stockholders’ equity and cash flows of Holdings and its Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP, subject only to normal year-end adjustments and the absence of footnotes and accompanied by customary management discussion and analysis; and

 

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(c) simultaneously with the delivery of each set of consolidated financial statements referred to in Section 6.01(a) and (b) above the related consolidating financial statements reflecting the adjustments necessary to eliminate the accounts of Unrestricted Subsidiaries (if any) from such consolidated financial statements.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the obligations in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section 6.01 may be satisfied with respect to financial information of Holdings and its Subsidiaries by furnishing (A) the applicable consolidated financial statements of Holdings, any direct or indirect parent of Holdings that, directly or indirectly, holds all of the Equity Interests of Holdings or (B) Holdings’ (or any direct or indirect parent thereof, as applicable) Form 10-K or 10-Q, as applicable, filed with the SEC or (C) following an election by Holdings pursuant to Section 1.03, the applicable financial statements determined in accordance with IFRS; provided, with respect to each of clauses (A) and (B), (i) to the extent such information relates to a parent of Holdings such information is accompanied by consolidating information that explains in reasonable detail the differences between the information relating to such parent, on the one hand, and the information relating to Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries on a standalone basis, on the other hand and (ii) to the extent such information is in lieu of information required to be provided under Section 6.01(a), such materials are accompanied by a report and opinion an independent registered public accounting firm of nationally recognized standing, which report and opinion shall be prepared in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards.

Section 6.02 Certificates; Other Information. Deliver to the Administrative Agent for prompt further distribution to each Lender:

(a) no later than five (5) days after the delivery of the financial statements referred to in Section 6.01(a) and (b), a duly completed Compliance Certificate signed by a Responsible Officer of Holdings;

(b) promptly after the same are publicly available, copies of all annual, regular, periodic and special reports and registration statements which Holdings files with the SEC or with any Governmental Authority that may be substituted therefor (other than amendments to any registration statement (to the extent such registration statement, in the form it became effective, is delivered), exhibits to any registration statement and, if applicable, any registration statement on Form S-8) and in any case not otherwise required to be delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant hereto;

(c) promptly after the furnishing thereof, copies of any material requests or material notices received by any Loan Party or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (other than in the ordinary course of business) that could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect;

(d) no later than ninety (90) days following the first day of each fiscal year of Holdings (commencing with the first day of the fiscal year of Holdings ending December 31, 2020), an annual budget (on a quarterly basis) for such fiscal year in form customarily prepared by a Borrower or Holdings, as applicable;

(e) promptly after the furnishing thereof, copies of any notices received by any Loan Party (other than in the ordinary course of business) in connection with any Indebtedness with an outstanding principal amount in excess of the Threshold Amount on an individual basis;

(f) promptly, such additional information regarding the business, legal, financial or corporate affairs of any Loan Party or any Material Subsidiary, or compliance with the terms of the Loan Documents, as the Administrative Agent or any Lender through the Administrative Agent may from time to time reasonably request;

 

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(g) promptly after delivery by any Loan Party to the Second Lien Agent or any lender under the Second Lien Credit Agreement, or receipt by any Loan Party from the Second Lien Agent or any lender under the Second Lien Credit Agreement, of any notice, report, or other documentation (including any amendments, supplements, consent letters, waivers, forbearances, restatements or modifications to the terms of or in connection with any Second Lien Loan Document) required to be delivered under the Second Lien Credit Agreement (other than notices or documents required to be delivered under Section 2 of such agreement or any other document which in the good faith determination of Holdings is either administrative or ministerial in nature or not relevant to the Lenders)), a copy of such notice, report or other documentation to the extent such notice, report or documentation has not otherwise been delivered pursuant to this Agreement;

(h) as soon as practicable and in any event no later than ninety (90) days after the beginning of each fiscal year beginning with the fiscal year ending December 31, 2019, a consolidated plan and financial forecast for such fiscal year (a “Financial Plan”), including (i) a forecasted consolidated balance sheet and forecasted consolidated statements of income and cash flows of Holdings and its Subsidiaries for such fiscal year and each quarter of such fiscal year, and an explanation of the assumptions on which such forecasts are based and (ii) forecasted consolidated statements of income and cash flows of Holdings and its Subsidiaries for each quarter of such fiscal year;

(i) simultaneously with the delivery of the Compliance Certificate required to be delivered pursuant to Section 6.02(a), a list of new Material Contracts of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries as of the end of the most recently completed fiscal quarter or fiscal year of Holdings, as applicable, and entered into since the previously delivered Compliance Certificate (or, with respect to the first Compliance Certificate delivered after the Closing Date, since the Closing Date); and

(j) promptly after the same are available, copies of all annual, regular, periodic and special reports and registration statements which Holdings or any parent thereof may file or be required to file, copies of any report, filing or communication with the SEC under Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, or with any Governmental Authority that may be substituted therefor, or with any national securities exchange, and in any case not otherwise required to be delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant hereto.

Documents required to be delivered pursuant to Section 6.01 or 6.02(a) through (d) may be delivered electronically and if so delivered, shall be deemed to have been delivered on the date (i) on which Holdings posts such documents, or provides a link thereto on Holdings’ website on the Internet at the website address listed on Schedule 10.02; or (ii) on which such documents are posted on Holdings’ behalf on IntraLinks/IntraAgency or another relevant website, if any, to which each Lender and the Administrative Agent have access (whether a commercial, third-party website or whether sponsored by the Administrative Agent); provided: (x) upon written request by the Administrative Agent, Holdings shall deliver paper copies of such documents to the Administrative Agent for further distribution to each Lender until a written request to cease delivering paper copies is given by the Administrative Agent and (y) Holdings shall notify (which may be by facsimile or electronic mail) the Administrative Agent of the posting of any such documents and provide to the Administrative Agent by electronic mail electronic versions (i.e., soft copies) of such documents. The Administrative Agent shall have no obligation to request the delivery of or to maintain paper copies of the documents referred to above, and in any event shall have no responsibility to monitor compliance by Holdings with any such request by a Lender for delivery, and each Lender shall be solely responsible for timely accessing posted documents or requesting delivery of paper copies of such documents from the Administrative Agent and maintaining its copies of such documents.

 

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Each of Holdings and the Borrowers hereby acknowledges that (a) the Administrative Agent will make available to the Lenders and the L/C Issuer materials and/or information provided by or on behalf of Holdings or the Borrowers hereunder (collectively, “Borrower Materials”) by posting the Borrower Materials on IntraLinks or another similar electronic system (the “Platform”) and (b) certain of the Lenders (each, a “Public Lender”) may have personnel who do not wish to receive material non-public information with respect to Holdings and its Subsidiaries, or the respective securities of any of the foregoing, if Holdings or its respective Subsidiaries, as applicable, were public reporting companies, and who may be engaged in investment and other market-related activities with respect to such Persons’ securities. Each of Holdings and the Borrowers hereby agrees that they will use commercially reasonable efforts to identify that portion of the Borrower Materials that may be distributed to the Public Lenders and that (w) all such Borrower Materials shall be clearly and conspicuously marked “PUBLIC” which, at a minimum, shall mean that the word “PUBLIC” shall appear prominently on the first page thereof; (x) by marking Borrower Materials “PUBLIC,” Holdings and the Borrowers shall be deemed to have authorized the Administrative Agent, the GS Investors, the L/C Issuer and the Lenders to treat such Borrower Materials as not containing any material non-public information (although it may be sensitive and proprietary) with respect to Holdings and its Subsidiaries or any of their respective securities for purposes of United States federal and state securities laws if Holdings or its respective Subsidiaries, as applicable, were public reporting companies (provided, however, that to the extent such Borrower Materials constitute Information, they shall be treated as set forth in Section 10.08); (y) all Borrower Materials marked “PUBLIC” are permitted to be made available through a portion of the Platform designated “Public Side Information”; and (z) the Administrative Agent shall be entitled to treat any Borrower Materials that are not marked “PUBLIC” as being suitable only for posting on a portion of the Platform not designated “Public Side Information.”

Section 6.03 Notices. Promptly after a Responsible Officer obtains actual knowledge thereof, notify the Administrative Agent:

(a) of the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default, which notice shall specify the nature thereof, the period of existence thereof and what action Holdings propose to take with respect thereto;

(b) any litigation or governmental proceeding (including, without limitation, with respect to any Environmental Liability) pending against Holdings, any Borrower or any of their Restricted Subsidiaries that could reasonably be expected to be determined adversely and, if so determined, to result in a Material Adverse Effect;

(c) of the occurrence of any ERISA Event or that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; and

(d) the occurrence of any Default of Event of Default under any Material Contract to the extent such Default of Event of Default could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

Section 6.04 Maintenance of Existence. (a) Preserve, renew and maintain in full force and effect its legal existence under the Laws of the jurisdiction of its organization or incorporation and (b) take all reasonable action to maintain all rights, privileges (including its good standing), permits, licenses

 

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and franchises necessary or desirable in the normal conduct of its business, except in the case of clauses (a) (other than with respect to the Borrowers) and (b) (i) to the extent that failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or (ii) pursuant to a transaction permitted by Section 7.04 or Section 7.05.

Section 6.05 Maintenance of Properties. Except if the failure to do so could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (a) maintain, preserve and protect all of its material properties and equipment necessary in the operation of its business in good working order, repair and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted and casualty or condemnation excepted, and (b) make all necessary renewals, replacements, modifications, improvements, upgrades, extensions and additions thereof or thereto in accordance with prudent industry practice.

Section 6.06 Maintenance of Insurance. Maintain with financially sound and reputable insurance companies, insurance with respect to its properties and business against loss or damage of the kinds customarily insured against by Persons engaged in the same or similar business, of such types and in such amounts (after giving effect to any self-insurance reasonable and customary for similarly situated Persons engaged in the same or similar businesses as Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries) as are customarily carried under similar circumstances by such other Persons. If any portion of any improved Mortgaged Property is at any time located in an area identified by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (or any successor agency) as a special flood hazard area with respect to which flood insurance has been made available under the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (as now or hereafter in effect or successor act thereto), then, to the extent required by the Flood Insurance Laws, Holdings shall, or shall cause each Loan Party which is a U.S. Subsidiary to, (i) maintain, or cause to be maintained, with a financially sound and reputable insurer, flood insurance in an amount sufficient to comply with all applicable rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to the Flood Insurance Laws and (ii) deliver to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders as requested evidence of such compliance in accordance with the Flood Insurance Laws in such form reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders. Such insurance (excluding business interruption insurance) maintained in the United States or any Covered Jurisdiction shall name the Collateral Agent as additional insured or lenders loss payee, as applicable.

Section 6.07 Compliance with Laws. Comply in all respects with the requirements of all Laws and all orders, writs, injunctions, decrees and judgments applicable to it or to its business or property (including without limitation Environmental Laws and ERISA), except if the failure to comply therewith could not, individually or in the aggregate reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; provided, however, that this Section 6.07 shall not apply to compliance with applicable Anti-Corruption Laws, Anti-Money Laundering Laws and Sanctions, which compliance is addressed in Section 6.17 below.

Section 6.08 Books and Records. Maintain proper books of record and account, in which entries that are full, true and correct in all material respects and are in conformity with GAAP consistently applied shall be made of all material financial transactions and matters involving the assets and business of Holdings, each Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be.

Section 6.09 Inspection Rights. Permit representatives and independent contractors of the Administrative Agent and each Lender to visit and inspect any of its properties and to discuss its affairs, finances and accounts with its directors, managers, officers, and independent public accountants, all at the reasonable expense of the Borrowers and at such reasonable times during normal business hours and as often as may be reasonably desired, upon reasonable advance notice to Holdings; provided, excluding any such visits and inspections during the continuation of an Event of Default, only the Administrative Agent

 

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on behalf of the Lenders, may exercise rights of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders under this Section 6.09 and the Administrative Agent shall not exercise such rights more often than one (1) time during any calendar year absent the existence of an Event of Default and only one (1) such time shall be at the Borrowers’ expense; provided, further, that when an Event of Default exists, the Administrative Agent or any Lender (or any of their respective representatives or independent contractors) may do any of the foregoing at the expense of the Borrowers at any time during normal business hours and upon reasonable advance notice. The Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall give Holdings the opportunity to participate in any discussions with Holdings’ independent public accountants. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 6.09, none of Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary will be required to disclose or permit the inspection or discussion of, any document, information or other matter (i) that constitutes non-financial trade secrets or non-financial proprietary information, (ii) in respect of which disclosure to the Administrative Agent or any Lender (or their respective representatives or contractors) is prohibited by Law or any binding agreement or (iii) that is subject to attorney client or similar privilege or constitutes attorney work product.

Section 6.10 Covenant to Guarantee Obligations and Give Security. At the Borrowers expense, take all action necessary or reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent to ensure that, subject to the time periods set forth below and Section 6.12(b), the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement continues to be satisfied, including, subject to the limitations set forth in the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement:

(a) upon the formation or acquisition of any new direct or indirect Wholly-Owned Subsidiary (in each case, other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary or an Excluded Subsidiary) by any Loan Party, the designation in accordance with Section 6.13 of any existing direct or indirect Wholly-Owned Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary (other than an Excluded Subsidiary) or any Restricted Subsidiary that is an Excluded Subsidiary ceasing to be an Excluded Subsidiary:

(i) within ninety (90) days after such formation, acquisition, designation or occurrence or such longer period as the Administrative Agent may agree in its reasonable discretion:

(A) cause each such Restricted Subsidiary that is required to become a Guarantor pursuant to the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement to furnish to the Administrative Agent a description of the Material Real Properties owned by such Restricted Subsidiary in detail reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent;

(B) cause each such Restricted Subsidiary that is required to become a Guarantor pursuant to the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement to duly execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent (as appropriate) Mortgages, pledges, guarantees, assignments, Security Agreement Supplements, legal opinions and other security agreements and documents or joinders or supplements thereto (including without limitation, with respect to Mortgages, the documents listed in paragraph (f) of the definition of “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement”), as reasonably requested by and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent (consistent with the Mortgages, Security Agreements and other Collateral Documents in effect on the Closing Date), in each case granting Liens required by the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement;

 

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(C) cause each such Restricted Subsidiary that is required to become a Guarantor pursuant to the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement to deliver any and all certificates representing Equity Interests (to the extent certificated and to the extent possession of such certificate by the Collateral Agent is required pursuant to the terms of the Security Agreements) that are required to be pledged pursuant to the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement, accompanied by undated stock powers or other appropriate instruments of transfer executed in blank and (if applicable) instruments evidencing the Indebtedness held by such Restricted Subsidiary and required to be pledged pursuant to the Collateral Documents, indorsed in blank to the Collateral Agent; and

(D) take and cause such Restricted Subsidiary and each direct or indirect parent of such Restricted Subsidiary that is required to become a Guarantor pursuant to the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement to take whatever action (including the recording of Mortgages, the filing of financing statements and delivery of stock and membership interest certificates) may be necessary in the reasonable opinion of the Collateral Agent to the extent required by applicable Law, to vest in the Collateral Agent (or in any representative of the Collateral Agent designated by it) valid and perfected first priority (to the extent such concept exists under applicable law) Liens (subject to Liens permitted under the Loan Documents and any Liens and privileges arising mandatorily by Law) required by the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement, enforceable against all third parties in accordance with their terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by Debtor Relief Laws or other Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity and principles of good faith and fair dealing (regardless of whether enforcement is sought in equity or at law)); and

(ii) as promptly as practicable after the request therefor by the Collateral Agent and to the extent in the possession of Holdings or its Subsidiaries, deliver to the Collateral Agent with respect to each Material Real Property, any existing title reports, title insurance policies and surveys or environmental assessment reports; and

(b) after the Closing Date, promptly after the acquisition or construction of any Material Real Property by any Loan Party, if such Material Real Property shall not already be subject to a perfected first priority (to the extent such concept exists under applicable law) Lien (subject to Liens permitted under the Loan Documents and any Liens and privileges arising mandatorily by Law) under the Collateral Documents pursuant to the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement and is required to be, Holdings shall give notice thereof to the Administrative Agent and within ninety (90) days of such acquisition (or such longer period as the Administrative Agent may agree in its reasonable discretion) shall cause such real property to be subjected to a Lien to the extent required by the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement and will take, or cause the relevant Loan Party to take, such actions as shall be necessary or reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent to grant and perfect or record such Lien, including, as applicable, the actions referred to in paragraph (f) of the definition of “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement”; provided that this clause (b) shall be subject to the last sentence of such paragraph (f).

Section 6.11 Use of Proceeds. The Borrowers will use the proceeds of the Initial Term B Loans, together with the proceeds of any Revolving Credit Loans drawn on the Closing Date (which draws of Revolving Credit Loans shall not exceed (a) an amount sufficient to fund any working capital requirements, (b) an amount not to exceed $5 million sufficient to fund the Transaction Expenses payable

 

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on the Closing Date and (c) an additional amount not to exceed $10 million (which such amount shall be incurred in connection with the payment of payroll expenses and other ordinary course expenses)), to directly or indirectly finance a portion of the Transactions. The proceeds of the Revolving Credit Loans drawn after the Closing Date will be used only for general corporate purposes, and the Letters of Credit will be used only for general corporate purposes, in each case, including capital expenditures, Permitted Acquisitions, Restricted Payments, refinancing of Indebtedness and any other transactions not prohibited by this Agreement. The proceeds of the Delayed Draw Term Loans will be used for general corporate purposes, including capital expenditures, Permitted Acquisitions, Restricted Payments, refinancing of Indebtedness and any other transactions not prohibited by this Agreement.

The Borrowers will not use, directly or indirectly any part of the proceeds of any Credit Extension (i) in furtherance of an offer, payment, promise to pay, or authorization of the payment or giving of money, or anything else of value, to any Person, in violation of applicable Anti-Corruption Laws, (ii) in violation of Anti-Money Laundering Laws or (iii) for the purpose of financing activities of or with any Person that, at the time of such financing, is the subject or target of any Sanctions, or in any manner that would constitute or give rise to a violation of Sanctions by any party hereto, including any Lender.

Section 6.12 Further Assurances and Post-Closing Covenants.

(a) Promptly upon reasonable request by the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent (i) correct any material defect or error that may be discovered in the execution, acknowledgment, filing or recordation of any Collateral Document or other document or instrument relating to any Collateral, and (ii) do, execute, acknowledge, deliver, record, re-record, file, re-file, register and re-register any and all such further acts, deeds, certificates, assurances and other instruments as the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent, may reasonably request from time to time in order to carry out more effectively the purposes of this Agreement and the Collateral Documents.

(b) Each of Holdings and each Borrower hereby agrees to deliver, or cause to be delivered, to Administrative Agent, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Administrative Agent, the items described on Schedule 6.12(b) within the time periods set forth thereon with respect to such items, or such later time as may be agreed to by Administrative Agent in its sole discretion. All conditions precedent, representations and warranties and affirmative and negative covenants contained in this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall be deemed modified to the extent necessary to effect the actions set forth on Schedule 6.12(b) (and to permit the taking of the actions set forth on Schedule 6.12(b) within the time periods required therein, rather than as elsewhere provided in the Loan Documents); provided that (x) to the extent any representation and warranty would not be true or there would be a breach of an affirmative or negative covenant because the actions set forth on Schedule 6.12(b) were not taken on the Closing Date, the respective representation and warranty shall be required to be true and correct in all material respects and affirmative and negative covenants shall be required to be complied with at the time the respective action is taken (or was required to be taken) in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Section 6.12(b) and (y) all representations and warranties and affirmative and negative covenants relating to the Collateral Documents shall be required to be true immediately after the actions required to be taken by this Section 6.12(b) have been taken (or were required to be taken) and the parties hereto acknowledge and agree that the failure to take any of the actions required above, within the relevant time periods set forth on Schedule 6.12(b), shall give rise to an immediate Event of Default pursuant to this Agreement.

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(a) Subject to Section 6.13(b) below, Holdings may at any time designate any Restricted Subsidiary (other than the Borrowers) as an Unrestricted Subsidiary or any Unrestricted Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary, which such re-designation will only be permitted once per each fiscal year of Holdings; provided that no subsidiary may be designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary if it is a “Restricted Subsidiary” for the purpose of the Second Lien Credit Agreement (or any equivalent provision under any documentation governing the Second Lien Credit Agreement and any Permitted Refinancing thereof). The designation of any Restricted Subsidiary as an Unrestricted Subsidiary shall constitute an Investment by Holdings therein at the date of designation in an amount equal to the fair market value of Holdings investment therein. The designation of any Unrestricted Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary shall constitute the incurrence at the time of designation of any Indebtedness or Liens of such Subsidiary existing at such time.

(b) Holdings may not (x) designate any Restricted Subsidiary as an Unrestricted Subsidiary, or (y) designate an Unrestricted Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary, (A) in each case unless (i) no Default or Event of Default exists or would result therefrom and (ii) Holdings shall be in pro forma compliance with the Financial Covenant (whether or not the Financial Covenant is then in effect), and (B) in the case of clause (x) only, the Subsidiary to be so designated does not (directly, or indirectly through its Subsidiaries) own any Equity Interests or Indebtedness of, or own or hold any Lien on any property of, any Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary (unless such Restricted Subsidiaries are concurrently designated as Unrestricted Subsidiaries); provided, in the case of clause (x) above, such Subsidiary shall have been or will promptly be designated an “Unrestricted Subsidiary” for the purposes of any other Indebtedness in aggregate principal amount in excess of the Threshold Amount to the extent any such designation can be made under the documentation governing such Indebtedness.

Section 6.14 Payment of Taxes. The Loan Parties will pay and discharge, and will cause each of the Restricted Subsidiaries to pay and discharge, all Taxes imposed upon it or upon its income or profits, or upon any properties belonging to it, in each case on a timely basis, and all lawful claims which, if unpaid, may reasonably be expected to become a lien or charge upon any properties of the Loan Parties or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries not otherwise permitted under this Agreement; provided, none of the Loan Parties nor any of the Restricted Subsidiaries shall be required to pay any such Tax or claim which is being contested in good faith and by proper proceedings if it has maintained adequate reserves with respect thereto in accordance with GAAP or which would not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to constitute a Material Adverse Effect. The Lead Borrower will remain a disregarded entity of Holdings for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

Section 6.15 [Reserved].

Section 6.16 [Reserved].

Section 6.17 Compliance with Anti-Terrorism Laws and Anti-Corruption Laws. Each of Holdings and the Borrowers will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, comply with: (i) Anti-Money Laundering Laws, (ii) Anti-Corruption Laws and (iii) Sanctions. Holdings will maintain in effect and enforce, and will procure that each of its subsidiaries maintains in effect and enforces, policies, procedures and internal controls designed to promote and achieve compliance by each of Holdings, the Borrowers, their respective Subsidiaries and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents with applicable Anti-Money Laundering Laws, Anti-Corruption Laws and Sanctions.

 

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Section 6.18 Performance of Material Contracts. Perform and observe the material terms and provisions of each Material Contract, maintain each Material Contract in full force and effect, and enforce the material provisions of each Material Contracts; provided that, any Material Contract may be amended, modified, supplemented or replaced so long as (i) any such amendment, modification, supplement or replacement could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect and (ii) the Lead Borrower provides to the Administrative Agent an updated schedule of Material Contracts, if applicable, promptly following any such amendment, modification, supplement or replacement.

Section 6.19 Lender Conference Calls. At the reasonable request of the Administrative Agent or, prior to the Disposition Date, the Principal Investor Representative, after the date of delivery of the financial information required pursuant to Section 6.01(b), Holdings will hold and participate in a quarterly conference call or teleconference at a time selected by Holdings and reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and, prior to the Disposition Date, the Principal Investor Representative, with all of the Lenders that choose to participate, to review the financial results of the previous fiscal quarter of Holdings and its Subsidiaries.

Section 6.20 Credit Enhancements. If the Second Lien Agent or any lender under the Second Lien Credit Agreement receives any additional guaranty, letter of credit, or any other credit enhancement after the Closing Date, Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall grant the same to the Administrative Agent for and the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties or the Lenders, as applicable.

Section 6.21 Access to Information for GS Investor Lenders. In addition to the information, reporting and inspection rights provided to the Lenders in this Article VI, for so long as the GS Investor Lenders hold Loans or commitments under the Facilities, Holdings agrees to (i) deliver to the GS Investor Lenders as soon as available, and in any event within 30 days after the end of each month ending after the Closing Date, commencing with the month in which the Closing Date occurs, the consolidated balance sheet of Holdings and its Subsidiaries as at the end of such month and the related consolidated statements of income, stockholders equity and cash flows of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such month and for the period from the beginning of the then current fiscal year to the end of such month, setting forth in each case in comparative form the corresponding figures for the corresponding periods of the previous fiscal year, and the corresponding figures from the Financial Plan for the current fiscal year, to the extent prepared on a monthly basis, all in reasonable detail, (ii) upon the reasonable request by the GS Investor Lenders, provide the GS Investor Lenders with reasonable opportunity to participate in discussions with management of Holdings, the Borrowers and their respective Restricted Subsidiaries, (iii) as soon as practicable, supply to the GS Investor Lenders copies of any documents, information or other materials in respect of board meetings of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries where decisions relating to the business strategy of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries are made and/or key matters relating to the business of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries are discussed (including, without limitation, monthly operating results, financial performance, potential acquisitions and divestitures) that are provided to the board of directors of Holdings or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (provided, prior to the delivery of such documents, information or other materials, Holdings may redact certain information which it considers (acting reasonably and in good faith) to be (a) a conflict of interest, a breach of attorney-client privilege, a breach of fiduciary duty of any board member or a breach of confidentiality obligations to third parties or (b) of a sensitive or confidential nature (including for the avoidance of doubt, any matters of a propriety nature, such as inventions, trade secrets and know-how any details or discussion regarding any potential or actual refinancing or restructuring plans)) and (iv) provide to Holdings reasonably detailed and internally-prepared calculations of Total Leverage Ratio, the Secured Leverage Ratio and the First Lien Senior Secured Leverage Ratio and Consolidated EBITDA with respect to any four consecutive fiscal quarter period in which Holdings must satisfy a Total Leverage Ratio, Secured Leverage Ratio or First Lien Senior Secured Leverage Ratio or Consolidated EBITDA threshold for purposes of taking an action under this Agreement prior to the consummation of such action.

 

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ARTICLE VII

Negative Covenants

So long as any Lender shall have any Commitment hereunder, any Loan or other Obligation hereunder that is accrued and payable shall remain unpaid or unsatisfied, or any Letter of Credit shall remain outstanding, Holdings and the Borrowers shall not, nor shall the Borrowers permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly:

Section 7.01 Liens. Create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien upon any of its property, assets or revenues, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, other than the following:

(a) (i) Liens pursuant to any Loan Document and (ii) Liens pursuant to the Second Lien Loan Documents;

(b) receipt of progress payments and advances from customers in the ordinary course of business to the extent the same creates a Lien on the related inventory and proceeds thereof;

(c) Liens existing set forth on Schedule 7.01(c) plus replacements, additions, accessions and improvements thereto and any income or profile thereof or proceeds thereof or of the foregoing;

(d) Liens for taxes, assessments or governmental charges (i) which are not overdue for a period of more than thirty (30) days or (ii) that are being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted, if adequate reserves with respect thereto are maintained on the books of the applicable Person to the extent required in accordance with GAAP;

(e) statutory or common law Liens of landlords, carriers, warehousemen, mechanics, lessors, materialmen, repairmen, construction contractors or other like Liens and Liens imposed by operation of law arising in the ordinary course of business (i) which secure amounts not overdue for a period of more than thirty (30) days or if more than thirty (30) days overdue, are unfiled (or if filed have been discharged or stayed) and no other action has been taken to enforce such Lien or (ii) which are being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted, if adequate reserves with respect thereto are maintained on the books of the applicable Person to the extent required in accordance with GAAP;

(f) (i) pledges, deposits or Liens arising in the ordinary course of business in connection with workers’ compensation, payroll taxes, unemployment insurance, social security and other similar laws or regulations and deposits securing liability to insurance carriers under insurance or self-insurance arrangements in respect of such obligations and (ii) pledges and deposits in the ordinary course of business securing liability for reimbursement or indemnification obligations of (including obligations in respect of letters of credit or bank guarantees for the benefit of) insurance carriers providing property, casualty or liability insurance to Holdings, any Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary;

(g) Liens on deposits incurred in the ordinary course of business to secure the performance of bids, trade contracts, governmental contracts and leases (other than Indebtedness for borrowed money), statutory obligations, surety, stay, customs and appeal bonds, performance bonds and other obligations of a like nature (including letters of credit or bankers acceptances in lieu of any such bonds or to support the issuance thereof) (including those to secure health, safety and environmental obligations);

 

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(h) easements, rights-of-way, restrictions, covenants, conditions, encroachments, protrusions and other similar encumbrances and minor title defects affecting real property which, in the aggregate, do not in any case materially interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business of Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary and any exception on the Mortgage Policies issued in connection with the Mortgaged Property;

(i) Liens securing judgments for the payment of money not constituting an Event of Default under Section 8.01(h) and notices of lis pendens and associated rights related to litigation being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and in respect of which Holdings or any affected Restricted Subsidiary has set aside on its books reserves in accordance with GAAP with respect thereto;

(j) Liens securing Indebtedness permitted under Section 7.03(g); provided, (i) such Liens attach concurrently with or within three hundred sixty-five (365) days after the acquisition, construction, repair, replacement or improvement (as applicable) of the property subject to such Liens, (ii) such Liens do not at any time encumber any property other than the property financed by such Indebtedness, replacements thereof and additions and accessions to such property and the proceeds and the products thereof and customary security deposits, and (iii) with respect to Capitalized Leases, such Liens do not at any time extend to or cover any assets (except for additions and accessions to such assets, replacements and products thereof and customary security deposits) other than the assets subject to such Capitalized Leases; provided, further, individual financings of equipment provided by one lender may be cross-collateralized to other financings of equipment provided by such lender;

(k) leases, licenses, subleases or sublicenses and Liens on the property covered thereby, in each case, granted to others in the ordinary course of business that do not (i) interfere in any material respect with the business of Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary, taken as a whole, or (ii) secure any Indebtedness;

(l) Liens in favor of customs and revenue authorities arising as a matter of law to secure payment of customs duties in connection with the importation of goods in the ordinary course of business;

(m) Liens (i) of a collection bank (including those arising under Section 4-210 of the Uniform Commercial Code) on the items in the course of collection and (ii) in favor of a banking or other financial institution encumbering deposits or other funds maintained with a financial institution (including the right of setoff) and which are within the general parameters customary in the banking industry (including margin deposits);

(n) Liens (i) on cash advances in favor of the seller of any property to be acquired in an Investment or acquisition to be applied against the purchase price for such Investment or acquisition, as applicable, and (ii) consisting of an agreement to Dispose of any property in a Disposition permitted under Section 7.05, in each case, solely to the extent such Investment, acquisition or Disposition, as the case may be, would have been permitted on the date of the creation of such Lien;

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(p) Liens existing on property at the time of its acquisition or existing on the property of any Person at the time such Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary (other than by designation as a Restricted Subsidiary pursuant to Section 6.13), in each case after the date hereof; provided, (i) such Lien was not created in contemplation of such acquisition or such Person becoming a Restricted Subsidiary, (ii) such Lien does not extend to or cover any other assets or property (other than the proceeds or products thereof and other than after-acquired property subjected to a Lien securing Indebtedness and other obligations incurred prior to such time and which Indebtedness and other obligations are permitted hereunder that require, pursuant to their terms at such time, a pledge of after-acquired property, it being understood that such requirement shall not be permitted to apply to any property to which such requirement would not have applied but for such acquisition), and (iii) the Indebtedness secured thereby is permitted under Section 7.03(g), (z) or (aa) (to the extent such Indebtedness is assumed);

(q) any interest or title of a lessor or sublessor under leases or subleases of real property entered into by Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business;

(r) Liens arising out of conditional sale, title retention, consignment or similar arrangements for sale of goods entered into by Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business;

(s) Liens that are contractual or common law rights of pledge or rights of setoff (i) relating to the establishment of depository relations with banks or other financial institutions not given in connection with the incurrence of Indebtedness, (ii) relating to pooled deposit, sweep accounts or other bank products of Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary to permit satisfaction of overdraft or similar obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business of Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary or (iii) relating to purchase orders and other agreements entered into with customers of Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business;

(t) any Lien granted by any Loan Party in its capacity as trustee in respect of client monies, securities, or other assets;

(u) Liens arising from precautionary Uniform Commercial Code financing statement filings (or other similar filings in non-U.S. jurisdictions);

(v) Liens on insurance policies and the proceeds thereof securing the financing of the premiums with respect thereto and deposits made or other security provided in the ordinary course of business to secure liability to insurance carriers or under self-insurance arrangements in respect of such obligations;

(w) any zoning or similar law or right reserved to or vested in any Governmental Authority to control or regulate the use of any real property that does not materially interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business of Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary;

(x) Liens on specific items of inventory or other goods and the proceeds thereof securing such Person’s obligations in respect of banker’s acceptance or documentary letters of credit issued for the account of such Person to facilitate the purchase, shipment or storage of such inventory or goods;

(y) the modification, replacement, renewal or extension of any Lien permitted by clauses (c), (j), (p), (cc), (gg) and (hh) of this Section 7.01; provided, (i) the Lien does not extend to any additional property other than (A) after-acquired property that is affixed or incorporated

 

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into the property covered by such Lien or financed by Indebtedness permitted under Section 7.03, (B) property that under the written arrangements under which the original Lien arose, could secure and (C) proceeds and products of the foregoing, (ii) that individual financings provided by a lender may be cross-collateralized to other financings provided by such lender or its affiliates and (iii) the renewal, extension or refinancing of the obligations secured or benefited by such Liens is permitted by Section 7.03;

(z) ground leases in respect of real property on which facilities owned or leased by Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary are located;

(aa) Liens on equity interests or property of a Non-Loan Party or JV Entity securing permitted Indebtedness or other permitted obligations of such Non-Loan Party and Liens on Equity Interests of any JV Entity (together with assets related thereto and the proceeds or products of any of the foregoing) (i) securing obligations of such joint venture or (ii) pursuant to the relevant joint venture agreement or arrangement;

(bb) Liens solely on any cash earnest money deposits made by Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary in connection with any letter of intent or purchase agreement permitted hereunder;

(cc) Liens securing Indebtedness permitted pursuant to Sections 7.03(b) and 7.03(v); provided, such Liens may be either a Lien on the Collateral that is pari passu with the Lien securing the Obligations in respect of the Initial Term B Loans and Delayed Draw Term Facility or a Lien ranking junior to the Lien on the Collateral securing such Obligations (but may not be secured by any assets that are not Collateral) and, in any such case if such Indebtedness is not incurred under any Loan Document, the holders of such Indebtedness or a Debt Representative acting on behalf of the holders of such Indebtedness shall become party to the Intercreditor Agreement or otherwise become subject to the provisions of (i) in the case of a Lien on the Collateral that is pari passu with the Lien securing the Obligations in respect of the Initial Term B Loans and Delayed Draw Term Loans, a First Lien Intercreditor Agreement and the Intercreditor Agreement, or (ii) in the case of a Lien ranking junior to the Lien on the Collateral, (A) if the Second Lien Term Loans are outstanding at the time such Lien is granted, the Intercreditor Agreement and (B) otherwise, another Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement;

(dd) Liens securing Indebtedness permitted pursuant to Section 7.03(n) that rank pari passu or junior to the Liens securing the Obligations in respect of the Initial Term B Loans and Delayed Draw Term Facility;

(ee) other Liens securing Indebtedness or other obligations in an aggregate principal amount at the time of such incurrence, when taken together with the aggregate principal amount of all Indebtedness secured by other Liens in reliance on this Section 7.01(ee) and outstanding at such time, not to exceed the greater of (x) $5,000,000 and (y) 10% of Consolidated EBITDA of Holdings (calculated on a Pro Forma Basis) as of the last day of the most recently ended Test Period;

(ff) any Lien arising as a result of a disposal permitted by Section 7.05;

(gg) Liens securing Indebtedness permitted pursuant to Section 7.03(z) (to the extent such (A) Liens are on Collateral (i) that is pari passu with the Lien securing the Obligations in respect of the Initial Term B Loans and Delayed Draw Term Loans, the holders of such Indebtedness or a Debt Representative acting on behalf of the holders of such Indebtedness shall

 

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become party to a First Lien Intercreditor Agreement and, to the extent the Second Lien Term Loans are outstanding at the time such Lien is granted, the Intercreditor Agreement or (ii) in the case of a Lien ranking junior to the Lien on the Collateral, if the Second Lien Term Loans are outstanding at the time such Lien is granted the holders of such Indebtedness or a Debt Representative acting on behalf of the holders of such Indebtedness shall become party to the Intercreditor Agreement and otherwise, another Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement and (B) Indebtedness is originally incurred to finance a Permitted Acquisition); provided, to the extent such Indebtedness is a term loan facility of the Loan Parties and such Lien is pari passu with the Lien securing the Obligations in respect of the then existing Term Loans, the terms set forth in the proviso in Section 2.14(h) shall have been complied with as if such Indebtedness was considered an Incremental Term Loan which is a MFN Qualified Term Loan;

(hh) Liens securing Indebtedness permitted pursuant to Section 7.03(x); provided, such Liens may be either a Lien on the Collateral that is pari passu with the Lien securing the Obligations in respect of the Initial Term B Loans and Delayed Draw Term Facility or a Lien ranking junior to the Lien on the Collateral securing such Obligations (but may not be secured by any assets that are not Collateral) and, in any such case, the holders of such Indebtedness or a Debt Representative acting on behalf of the holders of such Indebtedness shall become party to or otherwise become subject to the provisions of (i) in the case of a Lien on the Collateral that is pari passu with the Lien securing the Obligations in respect of the Initial Term B Loans and Delayed Draw Term Loans, a First Lien Intercreditor Agreement, and, to the extent the Second Lien Term Loans are outstanding at the time such Lien is granted, the Intercreditor Agreement and (ii) in the case Lien on the Collateral ranking junior to the Lien securing the Obligations in respect of the Initial Term B Loans and Delayed Draw Term Loans, (A) if the Second Lien Term Loans are outstanding at the time such Lien is granted, the Intercreditor Agreement and (B) otherwise, another Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement;

(ii) Liens on cash and Cash Equivalents used to defease or satisfy and discharge Indebtedness; provided, such defeasance or satisfaction of Indebtedness is not prohibited hereunder;

(jj) cash collateralization of letters of credit;

(kk) other Liens and privileges arising mandatorily by Law;

(ll) Liens on Securitization Assets arising in connection with a Qualified Securitization Financing;

(mm) non-exclusive licenses or sublicenses of IP Rights granted to others in the ordinary course of business; and

(nn) any interest or title of a licensor or sublicensor under licenses or sublicenses of IP Rights entered into by Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business.

The expansion of Liens by virtue of accretion or amortization of original issue discount, the accrual or payment of interest, fees and other amounts in the form of Indebtedness, and increases in the amount of Indebtedness outstanding solely as a result of fluctuations in the exchange rate of currencies will not be deemed to be an incurrence of Liens or Indebtedness for purposes of this Section 7.01.

 

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If any Liens securing obligations are incurred to refinance Liens securing obligations initially incurred in reliance on a basket measured by reference to a percentage of Consolidated EBITDA, and such refinancing would cause the percentage of Consolidated EBITDA to be exceeded if such calculation based on Consolidated EBITDA was made on the date of such refinancing, such percentage of Consolidated EBITDA will not be deemed to be exceeded to the extent the principal amount of such obligations secured by such newly incurred Liens does not exceed the sum of (i) the principal amount of such Indebtedness plus (ii) the aggregate amount of accrued but unpaid interest, fees, underwriting discounts, defeasance costs, premiums (including tender premiums) and other costs and expenses (including original issue discount, upfront fees or similar fees) incurred in connection with such refinancing. If any Liens securing obligations are incurred to refinance Liens securing obligations initially incurred in reliance on a basket measured by a fixed dollar amount, such fixed dollar basket will be deemed not to be exceeded to the extent the principal amount of such obligations secured by such newly incurred Liens does not exceed the sum of (i) the principal amount of such Indebtedness plus (ii) the aggregate amount of accrued but unpaid interest, fees, underwriting discounts, defeasance costs, premiums (including tender premiums) and other costs and expenses (including original issue discount, upfront fees or similar fees) incurred in connection with such refinancing.

Section 7.02 Investments. Make any Investments, except:

(a) Investments by Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary in assets that were Cash Equivalents when such Investment was made and bank deposits in the ordinary course of business;

(b) loans or advances to current or former officers, directors, managers, partners, consultants, independent contractors and employees (or any respective existing spouses or future spouses of the foregoing) of Holdings or its Restricted Subsidiaries (i) for reasonable and customary business-related travel, entertainment, relocation and analogous ordinary business purposes, (ii) in connection with such Person’s purchase of Equity Interests of Holdings (or any direct or indirect parent thereof) (provided, the proceeds of any such loans and advances shall be contributed to the Lead Borrower in cash as common equity), (iii) the proceeds of which are used to pay taxes owed in connection with the vest of Equity Interests in Holdings (or any direct or indirect parent thereof) and (iv) for purposes not described in the foregoing clauses (i) and (ii), in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed, in any calendar year, $500,000 (net of any returns or prepayments).

(c) asset purchases (including purchases of inventory, supplies and materials) and the acquisition, licensing or contribution of IP Rights, in each case in the ordinary course of business;

(d) Investments by and among Holdings and the Restricted Subsidiaries; provided, Investments by Loan Parties in Non-Loan Parties under this clause (d) and clause j below shall not exceed, as of the date any such Investment is made (i) an amount equal to (x) the greater of (A) $5,000,000 and (B) 10% of Consolidated EBITDA of Holdings (calculated on a Pro Forma Basis) as of the last day of the most recently ended Test Period as of the date such Investment is made minus (y) the aggregate amount of any Investments previously made in reliance on this clause (d)(i) and outstanding at such time plus (ii) an amount equal to (x) any returns of capital or sale proceeds actually received in cash in respect of any such Investments made pursuant to this clause (d) (which amount shall not exceed the amount of such Investment valued at cost at the time such Investment was made) minus (y) the aggregate amount of any Investments previously made in reliance on this clause (d)(ii) and outstanding at such time; provided, any such amounts under this clause (ii) shall not increase the Available Amount, it being understood that any returns

 

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of capital or sale proceeds actually received in cash in respect of any such Investments in excess of the amount of such Investment valued at cost at the time such Investment was made shall increase the Available Amount (to the extent such excess amount of returns or proceeds would otherwise increase the Available Amount pursuant to the definition thereof);

(e) Investments consisting of extensions of credit in the nature of accounts receivable or notes receivable arising from the grant of trade credit in the ordinary course of business, and Investments received in satisfaction or partial satisfaction thereof from financially troubled account debtors and other credits to suppliers in the ordinary course of business;

(f) Investments consisting of Liens, Indebtedness, fundamental changes, Dispositions and Restricted Payments permitted (other than by reference to Section 7.02) under Section 7.01, Section 7.03, Section 7.04, Section 7.05 and Section 7.06, respectively;

(g) Investments in existence on the Closing Date and any modification, replacement, renewal, reinvestment or extension of such Investment; provided, the amount of any Investment permitted pursuant to this Section 7.02(g) is not increased from the amount of such Investment on the Closing Date except pursuant to the terms of such Investment as of the Closing Date or as otherwise permitted by this Section 7.02;

(h) Investments in Swap Contracts;

(i) promissory notes and other noncash consideration received in connection with Dispositions permitted by Section 7.05;

(j) the purchase or other acquisition of property and assets or businesses of any Person or of assets constituting a business unit, a line of business or division of such Person, or Equity Interests in a Person that, upon the consummation thereof, will be a Restricted Subsidiary of Holdings (including as a result of a merger or consolidation) (each, a “Permitted Acquisition”); provided, (i) immediately before and immediately after giving Pro Forma Effect to any such purchase or other acquisition, no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing immediately prior to the execution of the binding agreement governing such Permitted Acquisition (and, in the case of any Permitted Acquisition prior to the Disposition Date, no Event of Default under Section 8.01(a), 8.01(f) or 8.01(g) shall have occurred and be continuing immediately after consummation of such Permitted Acquisition), (ii) (1) after giving effect to any such purchase or other acquisition, the Total Leverage Ratio calculated on a Pro Forma Basis as of the end of the then most recently ended Test Period does not exceed 4.00:1.00, (2) the acquisition consideration allocated to such Persons that do not become Guarantors or assets that do not become Collateral shall not exceed, when aggregated with Investments by Loan Parties in Non-Loan Parties under clause (d) above, in the aggregate an amount equal to (x) the greater of (A) $5,000,000 and (B) 10% of Consolidated EBITDA of Holdings (calculated on a Pro Forma Basis) as of the last day of the most recently ended Test Period as of the date such Investment is made and (iii) if required by the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement, the property, assets and businesses acquired in such purchase or other acquisition shall become Collateral or such acquired Subsidiary shall become a Guarantor contemporaneously with the consummation of such Permitted Acquisition (or such later date as the Administrative Agent may agree);

(k) the Transactions and any Investments made to effect the Transactions;

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(m) Investments (including debt obligations and Equity Interests) received in connection with the bankruptcy or reorganization of suppliers and customers or in settlement of delinquent obligations of, or other disputes with, customers and suppliers arising in the ordinary course of business or upon the foreclosure with respect to any secured Investment or other transfer of title with respect to any secured Investment;

(n) Investments (as valued at cost at the time each such Investment is made and including all related commitments for future Investments) in an amount for such Investment not exceeding the Available Amount at the time of such Investment; provided no Event of Default under Section 8.01(a), (f) or (g) shall have occurred and be continuing;

(o) capital expenditures in respect Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary in accordance with GAAP (other than any expenditure that involves the acquisition, whether by purchase, merger or otherwise of all or substantially all of the assets of, all of the Equity Interests of, or a business line or unit or division of, any Person);

(p) advances of payroll payments to employees in the ordinary course of business;

(q) loans and advances to Holdings in lieu of, and not in excess of the amount of (after giving effect to any other such loans or advances or Restricted Payments in respect thereof), Restricted Payments to the extent permitted to be made to such direct or indirect parent in accordance with Section 7.06; provided, any such loan or advance shall reduce the amount of such applicable Restricted Payment thereafter permitted under Section 7.06 by a corresponding amount (if such applicable provision of Section 7.06 contains a maximum amount);

(r) Investments held by a Restricted Subsidiary acquired after the Closing Date or of a corporation or company or other Person merged into Holdings or merged or consolidated with a Restricted Subsidiary in accordance with Section 7.04 after the Closing Date to the extent that such Investments were not made in contemplation of or in connection with such acquisition, merger or consolidation and were in existence on the date of such acquisition, merger or consolidation;

(s) Guarantee Obligations of Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary in respect of leases (other than Capitalized Leases) or of other obligations that do not constitute Indebtedness;

(t) Investments made from the net cash proceeds received by Holdings after the Closing Date pursuant to contributions to the common equity capital or issuances of Qualified Equity Interests of Holdings (other than Cure Amounts) that are used by Holdings or a Restricted Subsidiary substantially contemporaneously to make such Investment (and to the extent not otherwise used under this Agreement or applied to the Available Amount) and Investments made in exchange for Qualified Equity Interests of any direct or indirect parent of Holdings (and to the extent not otherwise used under this Agreement or applied to the Available Amount);

(u) other Investments in an aggregate amount, as valued at cost at the time each such Investment is made and including all related commitments for future Investments, not exceeding as of the date any such Investment is made (i) the greater of (x) $5,000,000 and (y) 10% of Consolidated EBITDA of Holdings (calculated on a Pro Forma Basis) as of the last day of the most recently ended Test Period as of the date such Investment is made, plus (ii) an amount equal to any returns of capital or sale proceeds actually received in cash in respect of any such Investments made pursuant to this clause (u) (which amount shall not exceed the amount of such Investment valued at cost at the time such Investment was made); provided, any such amounts

 

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under this clause (ii) shall not increase the Available Amount, it being understood that any returns of capital or sale proceeds actually received in cash in respect of any such Investments in excess of the amount of such Investment valued at cost at the time such Investment was made shall increase the Available Amount (to the extent such excess amount of returns or proceeds would otherwise increase the Available Amount pursuant to the definition thereof);

(v) Investments in JV Entities and Unrestricted Subsidiaries under this clause (v) in an aggregate amount, as valued at cost at the time each such Investment is made not exceeding (i) the greater of (x) $5,000,000 and (y) 10% of Consolidated EBITDA of Holdings (calculated on a Pro Forma Basis) as of the last day of the most recently ended Test Period as of the date such Investment is made, plus (ii) an amount equal to any returns of capital or sale proceeds actually received in cash in respect of any such Investments made pursuant to this clause (v) (which amount shall not exceed the amount of such Investment valued at cost at the time such Investment was made); provided, any such amounts under this clause (ii) shall not increase the Available Amount, it being understood that that any returns of capital or sale proceeds actually received in cash in respect of any such Investments in excess of the amount of such Investment valued at cost at the time such Investment was made shall increase the Available Amount (to the extent such excess amount of returns or proceeds would otherwise increase the Available Amount pursuant to the definition thereof);

(w) (i) Investments in a Securitization Subsidiary or any Investment by a Securitization Subsidiary in any other Person in connection with a Qualified Securitization Financing (provided, however, that any such Investment in a Securitization Subsidiary is in the form of a contribution of additional Securitization Assets or as customary Investments in a Securitization Subsidiary in connection with a Qualified Securitization Financing) and (ii) distributions or payments of Securitization Fees and purchases of Securitization Assets pursuant to a Securitization Repurchase Obligation in connection with a Qualified Securitization Financing;

(x) contributions to a “rabbi” trust for the benefit of employees or other grantor trust subject to claims of creditors in the case of a bankruptcy of Holdings;

(y) Investments by an Unrestricted Subsidiary entered into prior to the day such Unrestricted Subsidiary is redesignated as a Restricted Subsidiary pursuant to the definition of “Unrestricted Subsidiary”; provided, such Investments were not incurred in contemplation of such redesignation; and

(z) additional Investments; provided, after giving Pro Forma Effect thereto the Total Leverage Ratio for the then most recently ended Test Period (calculated on a Pro Forma Basis) does not exceed 4.00:1.00 (which, at the option of Holdings, may be tested at the time of execution of a binding agreement governing such Investment); provided that, immediately before and immediately after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Investment (which, to the extent following the Disposition Date, may be determined at the option of Holdings at the execution of a binding agreement governing such Investment), no Event of Default under Section 8.01(a), (f) or (g) shall have occurred and be continuing;

provided that, notwithstanding anything in this Section 7.02 to the contrary, no Material Contract owned by any Loan Party may be contributed as an Investment by any Loan Party to any non-Loan Party.

 

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To the extent an Investment is permitted to be made by a Loan Party directly in or to any Restricted Subsidiary or any other Person who is not a Loan Party (each such person, a “Target Person”) under any provision of this Section 7.02, such Investment may be made by advance, contribution or distribution by a Loan Party to a Restricted Subsidiary or Holdings, and further substantially contemporaneously advanced or contributed to a Restricted Subsidiary for purposes of making the relevant Investment in the Target Person without constituting an Investment for purposes of Section 7.02 (it being understood that such Investment must satisfy the requirements of, and shall count towards any thresholds in, a provision of this Section 7.02 as if made by the applicable Loan Party directly in or to the Target Person).

For purposes of determining compliance with this Section 7.02, in the event that an Investment meets the criteria of more than one of the categories of Investments described in clauses (a) through (z) above, Holdings shall, in its sole discretion, classify and reclassify or later divide, classify or reclassify such Investment (or any portion thereof) and will only be required to include the amount and type of such Investment in one or more of the above clauses.

For purposes of determining compliance with any dollar denominated restriction on the making of Investments, the Dollar Equivalent of such Investment denominated in a foreign currency will be calculated based on the relevant currency exchange rate in effect on the date such Investment was made.

Section 7.03 Indebtedness. Create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Indebtedness, except:

(a) Indebtedness of Holdings and any of its Subsidiaries under (i) the Loan Documents and (ii) the Second Lien Loan Documents;

(b) Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness and any Permitted Refinancing thereof, in each case, of the Loan Parties;

(c) [reserved];

(d) Indebtedness as listed on Schedule 7.03 and any Permitted Refinancing thereof; provided that all such Indebtedness of any Loan Party owed to a Non-Loan Party shall be subject to the applicable subordination terms set forth in the Intercompany Note or as otherwise reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent;

(e) Guarantee Obligations of Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary in respect of Indebtedness of Holdings or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries otherwise permitted hereunder; provided, if the Indebtedness being guaranteed is subordinated to the Obligations, such Guarantee Obligation shall be subordinated to the Guarantee of the Obligations; provided further that no Guarantee by any Restricted Subsidiary of the Second Lien Term Loans or any Subordinated Debt shall be permitted unless such Restricted Subsidiary shall have also provided a Guarantee of the Loan Document Obligations pursuant to the [Guarantee Agreement].

(f) Indebtedness of Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary owing to Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary; provided that (i) all such Indebtedness of any Loan Party owed to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party shall be subject to the applicable subordination terms set forth in the Intercompany Note or as otherwise reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and (ii) in the case of any Indebtedness of any such Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party owing to Holdings, any Borrower or any other Loan Party, such Indebtedness is permitted pursuant to Section 7.02;

 

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(g) (i) Attributable Indebtedness and other Indebtedness (including Capitalized Leases) financing the acquisition, construction, repair, replacement or improvement of fixed or capital assets (provided, such Indebtedness is incurred concurrently with or within three hundred sixty-five (365) days after the applicable acquisition, construction, repair, replacement or improvement), (ii) Attributable Indebtedness arising out of Permitted Sale Leasebacks, in the case of clauses (i) and (ii), in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed at any one time outstanding at the time of any incurrence thereof the greater of (x) $3,000,000 and (y) 7.5% of Consolidated EBITDA of Holdings (calculated on a Pro Forma Basis) as of the last day of the most recently ended Test Period at the time of incurrence thereof and (iii) any Permitted Refinancing of any Indebtedness set forth in the immediately preceding clauses (i) and (ii);

(h) Indebtedness in respect of Swap Contracts not for speculative purposes;

(i) [reserved];

(j) Indebtedness representing deferred compensation or stock based compensation to employees of Holdings (or any direct or indirect parent of Holdings) and its Restricted Subsidiaries;

(k) Indebtedness to current or former officers, directors, partners, managers, consultants, independent contractors and employees, their respective estates, spouses or former spouses to finance the purchase or redemption of Equity Interests of Holdings (or any direct or indirect parent thereof) permitted by Section 7.06 in an aggregate principal amount outstanding at any time not to exceed $500,000;

(l) Indebtedness incurred by Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary in a Permitted Acquisition, any other Investment expressly permitted hereunder or any Disposition, in each case to the extent constituting indemnification obligations, obligations in respect of purchase price (including earn-outs and adjustments), incentive, non-compete, consulting or other similar obligations or guarantees securing the performance of Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary in connection therewith;

(m) Indebtedness consisting of obligations of Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary under deferred compensation or other similar arrangements incurred by such Person in connection with the Transactions and Permitted Acquisitions or any other Investment permitted hereunder;

(n) Cash Management Obligations and other Indebtedness in respect of netting services, automatic clearinghouse arrangements, overdraft protections and similar arrangements in each case incurred in the ordinary course;

(o) Indebtedness consisting of (i) the financing of insurance premiums or (ii) take or pay obligations contained in supply arrangements, in each case, in the ordinary course of business;

(p) Indebtedness incurred by Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary in respect of letters of credit, bank guarantees, bankers’ acceptances, warehouse receipts or similar instruments issued or created in the ordinary course of business, including in respect of workers compensation claims, health, disability or other employee benefits or property, casualty or liability insurance or self-insurance or other Indebtedness with respect to reimbursement-type obligations regarding workers compensation claims;

 

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(q) obligations in respect of performance, bid, appeal and surety bonds and performance and completion guarantees and similar obligations provided by Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary or obligations in respect of letters of credit, bank guarantees or similar instruments related thereto, or tenant improvement loans, in each case in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice;

(r) guarantees of the obligations of suppliers, customers, franchisees, lessors and licensees of Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary incurred in the ordinary course of business;

(s) Indebtedness supported by a Letter of Credit in a principal amount not to exceed the face amount of such Letter of Credit;

(t) arising in respect of the discounting of receivables, which does not exceed, at any one time outstanding at the time of any such incurrence, the greater of (x) $3,000,000 and (y) 7.5% of Consolidated EBITDA of Holdings (calculated on a Pro Forma Basis) as of the last day of the most recently ended Test Period at the time of such incurrence;

(u) Indebtedness incurred by a Non-Loan Party, and guarantees thereof by Non-Loan Parties, combined with the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness that may be incurred or assumed pursuant to clauses (x) and (z) of this Section 7.03 (including any such Indebtedness assumed in connection with a Permitted Acquisition or other permitted Investment), in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed, at any one time outstanding, at the time of any such incurrence, the greater of (x) $2,000,000 and (y) 5% of Consolidated EBITDA of Holdings (calculated on a Pro Forma Basis) as of the last day of the most recently ended Test Period at the time of such incurrence;

(v) (i) Indebtedness (in the form of senior secured, senior unsecured, senior subordinated, or subordinated notes or loans) of any Borrower and guarantee thereof by any Loan Party that ranks pari passu or junior to the Obligations in respect of the Initial Term B Loans and Delayed Draw Term Facility to the extent that any Borrower shall have been permitted to incur such Indebtedness pursuant to, and such Indebtedness shall be deemed to be incurred in reliance on, Section 2.14 and to the extent such Indebtedness is (I) (x) in the form of MFN Qualified Term Loans and (y) secured on a pari passu basis with the then existing Term Loans, shall be subject to Section 2.14(h) and (II) secured on a pari passu or junior basis with the Lien securing the Second Lien Term Loans, to the extent the Second Lien Term Loans are outstanding as of the date of such incurrence such Indebtedness shall be deemed incurred in reliance on Section 2.14 or Section 7.03(v) of the Second Lien Credit Agreement, as applicable; provided, (A) such Indebtedness shall not mature earlier than (1) the Maturity Date applicable to the Term Loans or (2) in the case of Indebtedness that is junior in right to payment or security to with the then existing Term Loans, 91 days after the Latest Maturity Date then applicable to the Term Loans (provided that a Borrower may incur Indebtedness with a final Maturity Date earlier than the date specified in clauses (1) or (2), as applicable, in the aggregate amount not to exceed the then-available Inside Maturity Date), (B) as of the date of the incurrence of such Indebtedness, the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of such Indebtedness shall not be shorter than that of the Term Loans (subject to exceptions under customary Extendable Bridge Loans or, in the case of Indebtedness secured on a pari passu basis with the Term Loans, to permit amortization in an aggregate annual amount of up to 1% of the original principal amount incurred, (C) no Person is a borrower or guarantor with respect to such Indebtedness unless such Person is a Borrower or a Guarantor which shall have previously or substantially concurrently Guaranteed the Obligations, (D) the affirmative and negative covenants, events of default and mandatory prepayments of such Indebtedness shall not be materially more restrictive to Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries than those set forth in the Loan Documents taken as a whole (as determined by Holdings) (other than with respect to economic terms and prepayment or redemption provisions and customary

 

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change of control and asset disposition offers), except for covenants, events of default or mandatory prepayments applicable only to those periods after the Latest Maturity Date under the Facilities or that are offered for inclusion in the Loan Documents, (E) if such Indebtedness is secured, it shall not be secured by any assets of Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary that does not constitute Collateral and (F) (x) if such Indebtedness comprises junior lien or unsecured notes or loans, may not be prepaid except to the extent that prepayments of such debt are (i) permitted hereunder and (ii) to the extent required hereunder or pursuant to the terms of any such Indebtedness that is secured on a pari passu basis with the Term Loans, first made or offered to the Term Loans and any such Permitted Alternative Incremental Facilities Debt that is secured on a pari passu basis with the Term Loans; and (y) if such Indebtedness is secured on a pari passu basis with the Term Loans (1) if such Indebtedness has the same maturity, mandatory prepayments and prepayment premiums as any Term Loans, then prepayments shall be made on a pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis (but not greater than a pro rata basis) with such Term Loans or (2) if such Indebtedness does not have the same maturity and prepayment premiums as any Term Loans, then prepayments may be made on a greater than pro rata basis with such Term Loans (such Indebtedness incurred pursuant to this clause (v) being referred to as “Permitted Alternative Incremental Facilities Debt”) (in each case, other than pursuant to a refinancing transaction permitted hereunder or with respect to greater than pro rata payments to an earlier maturing tranche); provided, Permitted Alternative Incremental Facilities Debt may be incurred or issued in the form of an Extendable Bridge Loans, in which case, clauses (A) and (B) of the first proviso of this clause (v) shall not prohibit the inclusion of customary terms for “bridge” facilities, including customary mandatory prepayment, repurchase or redemption provisions (clauses (A) through (F) hereof are collectively the “Required Ratio Debt Terms”); and (ii) any Permitted Refinancing thereof;

(w) additional Indebtedness in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed, at any one time outstanding at the time of such incurrence, the greater of (x) $5,000,000 and (y) 10% of Consolidated EBITDA of Holdings (calculated on a Pro Forma Basis) as of the last day of the most recently ended Test Period at the time of such incurrence;

(x) Permitted Ratio Debt and any Permitted Refinancing thereof;

(y) Indebtedness in respect of Permitted Debt Exchange Notes incurred pursuant to a Permitted Debt Exchange in accordance with Section 2.17 and any Permitted Refinancing thereof;

(z) Indebtedness incurred to finance a Permitted Acquisition or assumed in connection with any Permitted Acquisition; provided that, (A) if such Indebtedness is secured on a pari passu basis with the Obligations in respect of the Initial Term B Loans and Delayed Draw Term Loans, the First Lien Senior Secured Leverage Ratio calculated on a Pro Forma Basis as of the end of the most recent Test Period at the time of such incurrence does not exceed 4.00:1.00, (B) if such Indebtedness is secured on a pari passu or junior basis with the Lien securing the Second Lien Term Loans), the Secured Leverage Ratio calculated on a Pro Forma Basis as of the end of the most recent Test Period at the time of such incurrence does not exceed 4.25:1.00, (C) if such Indebtedness is unsecured, the Total Leverage Ratio calculated on a Pro Forma Basis as of the end of the most recent Test Period at the time of such incurrence does not 4.50:1.00, (D) other than any Indebtedness incurred by a Non-Loan Party, such Indebtedness shall comply with the Required Ratio Debt Terms (other than with respect to Indebtedness assumed in connection with a Permitted Acquisition or other permitted Investment which Indebtedness shall only comply with clauses (A) and (B) of the definition of “Required Ratio Debt Terms”) and (E) the maximum aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness that may be incurred pursuant to this clause (z) and

 

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clause (u) and clause (x) above by Non-Loan Parties (including any such Indebtedness assumed in connection with a Permitted Acquisition or other permitted Investment) shall not exceed at any one time outstanding at the time of such incurrence, the greater of (x) $5,000,000 and (y) 10% of Consolidated EBITDA of Holdings (calculated on a Pro Forma Basis) as of the last day of the most recently ended Test Period at the time of such incurrence and (ii) any Permitted Refinancing thereof;

(aa) Indebtedness assumed in connection with any Permitted Acquisition or similar acquisition that is a permitted Investment in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed at any one time outstanding at the time of such assumption thereof the greater of (x) $5,000,000 and (y) 10% of Consolidated EBITDA of Holdings (calculated on a Pro Forma Basis) as of the last day of the most recently ended Test Period at the time of incurrence thereof and so long as such Indebtedness was not incurred in contemplation of such Permitted Acquisition or permitted Investment, as applicable, and such Indebtedness is not guaranteed by Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary (other than by any Person who becomes a Restricted Subsidiary in connection with the foregoing and its subsidiaries) and any Permitted Refinancing thereof;

(bb) Indebtedness incurred by a Securitization Subsidiary in a Qualified Securitization Financing;

(cc) to the extent constituting Indebtedness, Investments permitted pursuant to Section 7.02 (other than Section 7.02 (f) or (y));

(dd) [reserved];

(ee) Indebtedness incurred by Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries as a result of any guarantee or indemnity provided by Holdings, any Borrower or any of their respective Subsidiaries for the obligations of Holdings, any Borrower or any of their respective Subsidiaries in connection with such entity claiming exemption from audit, the preparation and filing of its accounts or other similar exemptions; and

(ff) all premiums (if any), interest (including post-petition interest), fees, expenses, charges and additional or contingent interest on obligations described in clauses (a) through (ee) above;

For purposes of determining compliance with this Section 7.03, in the event that an item of Indebtedness meets the criteria of more than one of the categories of Indebtedness described in clauses (a) through (cc) above (other than with respect to clause (bb)), Holdings shall, in its sole discretion, classify and reclassify or later divide, classify or reclassify such item of Indebtedness (or any portion thereof) and will only be required to include the amount and type of such Indebtedness in one or more of the above clauses; provided, all Indebtedness outstanding under the Loan Documents will be deemed to have been incurred in reliance only on the exception in clause (a) of this Section 7.03.

The accrual of interest, the accretion of accreted value, the accretion or amortization of original issue discount and the payment of interest in the form of additional Indebtedness and increases in the amount of Indebtedness outstanding solely as a result of fluctuations in the exchange rate of currencies, in each case, shall not be deemed to be an incurrence of Indebtedness for purposes of this Section 7.03 or Section 7.01(ee).

 

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For purposes of determining compliance with any dollar denominated restriction on the incurrence of Indebtedness, the Dollar Equivalent principal amount of Indebtedness denominated in a foreign currency will be calculated based on the relevant currency exchange rate in effect on the date such Indebtedness was incurred, in the case of term debt, or first committed or first incurred (whichever yields the lower Dollar Equivalent), in the case of revolving credit debt; provided, if such Indebtedness is issued to refinance other Indebtedness denominated in a foreign currency, and such refinancing would cause the applicable dollar denominated restriction to be exceeded if calculated at the current currency exchange rate in effect on the date of such refinancing, such dollar denominated restriction will be deemed not to have been exceeded so long as the principal amount of such refinancing Indebtedness does not exceed (i) the principal amount of such Indebtedness being refinanced plus (ii) the aggregate amount of accrued but unpaid interest, fees, underwriting discounts, defeasance costs, premiums (including tender premiums) and other costs and expenses (including original issue discount, upfront fees or similar fees) incurred in connection with such refinancing.

The principal amount of any non-interest bearing Indebtedness or other discount security constituting Indebtedness at any date will be the principal amount thereof that would be shown on a balance sheet of Holdings dated such date prepared in accordance with GAAP.

For purposes of determining compliance with this Section 7.03, if any Indebtedness is refinanced in reliance on a basket measured by reference to a percentage of Consolidated EBITDA, and such refinancing would cause the percentage of Consolidated EBITDA to be exceeded if calculated based on the Consolidated EBITDA on the date of such refinancing, such percentage of Consolidated EBITDA will not be deemed to be exceeded to the extent the principal amount of such obligations secured by such newly incurred Indebtedness does not exceed the sum of (i) the principal amount of such Indebtedness plus (ii) the aggregate amount of accrued but unpaid interest, fees, underwriting discounts, defeasance costs, premiums (including tender premiums) and other costs and expenses (including original issue discount, upfront fees or similar fees) incurred in connection with such refinancing.

If any Indebtedness securing obligations are incurred to refinance Indebtedness initially incurred in reliance on a basket measured by a fixed dollar amount, such fixed dollar basket will be deemed not to be exceeded to the extent the principal amount of such newly incurred Indebtedness does not exceed the sum of (i) the principal amount of such Indebtedness plus (ii) the aggregate amount of accrued but unpaid interest, fees, underwriting discounts, defeasance costs, premiums (including tender premiums) and other costs and expenses (including original issue discount, upfront fees or similar fees) incurred in connection with such refinancing.

Section 7.04 Fundamental Changes. Merge, amalgamate, dissolve, liquidate, consolidate with or into another Person, or Dispose of (whether in one transaction or in a series of transactions) all or substantially all of its assets (whether now owned or hereafter acquired) to or in favor of any Person, except that:

(a) Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary (other than the Borrowers) may merge or amalgamate with (i) any Borrower (including a merger or amalgamation the purpose of which is to reorganize such Borrower under the laws of a Permitted Jurisdiction); provided such Borrower shall be the continuing or surviving Person in a Permitted Jurisdiction, as applicable, or (ii) any one or more other Restricted Subsidiaries (other than the Borrowers); provided, when any Restricted Subsidiary that is a Loan Party is merging or amalgamating with another Restricted Subsidiary, a Loan Party shall be the continuing or surviving Person, as applicable, or as otherwise permitted under Section 7.02;

 

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(b) (i) any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party may merge, amalgamate or consolidate with or into any other Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party and (ii) (A) any Restricted Subsidiary (other than the Borrowers) may liquidate, dissolve or wind up, or (B) any Restricted Subsidiary may change its legal form, in each case, if in either case, Holdings determines in good faith that such action is in the best interests of Holdings and its Subsidiaries and is not materially disadvantageous to the Lenders (as determined by Holdings in good faith and in consultation with the Administrative Agent);

(c) any Restricted Subsidiary (other than the Borrowers) may Dispose of all or substantially all of its assets (upon voluntary liquidation or otherwise) to another Restricted Subsidiary; provided, if the transferor in such a transaction is a Loan Party, then either (i) the transferee must be a Loan Party, (ii) to the extent constituting an Investment, such Investment must be a permitted Investment in or Indebtedness of a Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party in accordance with Section 7.02 and Section 7.03, respectively, or (iii) if the transferee is a non-Loan Party, in accordance with Section 7.05;

(d) so long as no Default or Event of Default exists or would result therefrom (and treating any Indebtedness that becomes an obligation of any Surviving Entity or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries as a result of such transaction as having been incurred at the time of such transaction), a Borrower may consolidate with or merge with or into any other Person (whether or not such Borrower is the surviving Person), or sell, assign, convey, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of its properties and assets (or permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to enter into any such transaction or series of transactions) if such transaction or series of transactions, in the aggregate, would result in a sale, assignment, conveyance, transfer, lease or disposition to any other Person or group of Persons of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of such Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; provided:

(i) either (x) such Borrower shall be the continuing or surviving corporation or (y) the Person (if other than a Borrower) formed by such consolidation or into which a Borrower is merged or the Person which acquires by sale, assignment, conveyance, transfer, lease or disposition all or substantially all of the properties and assets of such Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis (for the purposes of this Section 7.04(d), the “Surviving Entity”) shall be a Person duly organized and validly existing under the laws of a Permitted Jurisdiction and such Person expressly assumes all the obligations of such Borrower under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which it is a party pursuant to agreements reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (and the Guarantees or direct borrowing obligations, as applicable, will be confirmed as applying to such Surviving Entity’s obligations);

(ii) such Borrower shall be organized in a Permitted Jurisdiction;

(iii) if requested by the Administrative Agent, the Surviving Entity shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent an officer’s certificate and an opinion of counsel, each stating that such consolidation, merger, amalgamation or transfer and all supplemental Loan Documents comply with this Agreement;

(iv) the Surviving Entity shall provide any documentation and other information about such Surviving Entity as shall have been reasonably requested in writing by any Lender through the Administrative Agent that such Lender shall have reasonably determined is required by regulatory authorities under applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including Title III of the USA PATRIOT Act and Beneficial Ownership Regulation;

 

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(v) to the extent constituting a Disposition to a Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party, such Disposition is for fair market value as reasonably determined by Holdings in good faith; and

(vi) after giving effect to such transaction or series of transactions, Holdings shall be a Guarantor.

(e) so long as no Default exists or would result therefrom, Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary may merge or amalgamate with any other Person in order to effect an Investment permitted pursuant to Section 7.02; provided, when Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary that is a Loan Party is merging or amalgamating with another Person, either Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be the continuing or surviving Person, as applicable, or the continuing or surviving Person shall be in compliance with Section 6.10, if applicable;

(f) [reserved];

(g) a merger, amalgamation, dissolution, winding up, liquidation, consolidation or Disposition, the purpose of which is to effect a Disposition permitted pursuant to Section 7.05, may be effected; provided, in any such transaction involving any Borrower, such Borrower shall be the continuing or surviving Person or shall not have been merged, amalgamated, dissolved, wound up, liquidated, consolidated or Disposed of;

(h) Permitted Acquisitions and other Investments permitted pursuant to Section 7.02; and

(i) dispositions of Investments to JV Entities permitted pursuant to Section 7.05(j).

Section 7.05 Dispositions. Make any Disposition, except:

(a) Dispositions of obsolete, used, worn out or surplus property, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, in the ordinary course of business and Dispositions of property no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary;

(b) Dispositions of inventory, goods and other assets in the ordinary course of business (including allowing any registrations or any applications for registration of any IP Rights that in the reasonable judgment of Holdings are no longer economically practicable to maintain or useful in the conduct of the business of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries, as a whole, to lapse or go abandoned in the ordinary course of business);

(c) Dispositions of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property that is promptly purchased or (ii) the proceeds of such Disposition are applied within three hundred sixty-five (365) days of receipt to the purchase price of such replacement property;

(d) Dispositions of property to Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary; provided, dispositions by a Loan Party to a Non-Loan Party shall, to the extent such transaction constitutes an Investment, be deemed to be an Investment made pursuant to, and subject to the limitations set forth in, Section 7.02;

 

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(e) Dispositions of assets that are made subject to a Capitalized Lease or Attributable Indebtedness within three hundred sixty-five (365) days of the acquisition, constructions, lease or improvement of the asset so financed;

(f) Dispositions permitted (other than by reference to Section 7.05) by Section 7.02, Section 7.04 and Section 7.06 and Liens permitted by Section 7.01;

(g) Dispositions of cash and Cash Equivalents (or Investments that were Cash Equivalents when made);

(h) leases, subleases, licenses or sublicenses, in each case in the ordinary course of business and which do not materially interfere with the business of Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary, taken as a whole;

(i) transfers of property subject to, and Dispositions that constitute, Casualty Events;

(j) Dispositions of Investments in JV Entities or non-Wholly-Owned Restricted Subsidiaries to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between, the parties to such JV Entity or shareholders of such non-Wholly-Owned Restricted Subsidiary set forth in shareholders agreements, joint venture agreements, organizational documents or similar binding agreements relating to such JV Entity or non-Wholly-Owned Restricted Subsidiary;

(k) Dispositions of accounts receivable in the ordinary course of business in connection with the collection or compromise thereof;

(l) Dispositions or discounts of receivables or notes receivable arising in the ordinary course of business;

(m) the unwinding of any Swap Contract pursuant to its terms;

(n) Permitted Sale Leasebacks;

(o) Dispositions or sales of de minimis number of Equity Interests of a Non-U.S. Subsidiary in order to qualify members of the governing body of such Subsidiary pursuant to requirements of law;

(p) Dispositions not otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 7.05; provided, (i) such Disposition shall be for fair market value as reasonably determined by Holdings in good faith, (ii) with respect to any Disposition pursuant to this clause (p) for a purchase price in excess of $2,000,000, Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary shall receive not less than 75.0% of such consideration in the form of cash or Cash Equivalents (provided, however, that for the purposes of this clause (p)(ii), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) the assumption by the transferee of Indebtedness or other liabilities contingent or otherwise of Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary (other than Subordinated Debt) and the valid release of Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary, by all applicable creditors in writing, from all liability on such Indebtedness or other liability in connection with such Disposition, (B) securities, notes or other obligations received by Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary from the transferee that are converted by Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents within 180 days following the closing of such Disposition, (C) Indebtedness (other than Subordinated Debt) of any Restricted Subsidiary that is no longer a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such

 

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Disposition, to the extent that Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary are released from any Guarantee of payment of such Indebtedness in connection with such Disposition and (D) aggregate non-cash consideration received Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary for all Dispositions under this clause (p) having an aggregate fair market value (determined as of the closing of the applicable Disposition for which such non-cash consideration is received) not to exceed, at any time outstanding at the time of such applicable Disposition, the greater of (x) $5,000,000 and (y) 10% of Consolidated EBITDA of Holdings (calculated on a Pro Forma Basis) as of the last day of the most recently ended Test Period at the time of such Disposition (net of any non-cash consideration converted into cash and Cash Equivalents received in respect of any such non-cash consideration) and (iii) Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable, complies with the applicable provisions of Section 2.05;

(q) Dispositions not otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 7.05 in an aggregate amount not to exceed, in any calendar year, the greater of (x) $2,000,000 and (y) 5% of Consolidated EBITDA of Holdings as of the last day of the most recently ended Test Period at the time of such applicable Disposition;

(r) Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary may surrender or waive contractual rights and settle or waive contractual or litigation claims in the ordinary course of business;

(s) Dispositions of non-core or obsolete assets acquired in connection with Permitted Acquisitions;

(t) any swap of assets in exchange for services or other assets in the ordinary course of business of comparable or greater fair market value of usefulness to the business of Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary as a whole, as determined in good faith by Holdings;

(u) [reserved];

(v) [reserved];

(w) any Disposition of Securitization Assets to a Securitization Subsidiary in connection with a Qualified Securitization Financing;

(x) Dispositions of real property and other assets in connection with the relocation of offices or executive officers or employees of Holdings or any Subsidiary;

(y) non-exclusive licenses or sublicenses of IP rights in the ordinary course of business;

(z) [intentionally omitted]; and

(aa) the sale by any Loan Party of any Equity Interests in any Non-Loan Party to any Non-Loan Party.

To the extent any Collateral is Disposed of as expressly permitted by this Section 7.05 to any Person other than Holdings, any Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor, such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Loan Documents and, if requested by Holdings, upon the certification by Holdings that such Disposition is permitted by this Agreement, the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent, as applicable, shall be authorized to take and shall take any actions deemed necessary or appropriate in order to effect the foregoing, including for the avoidance of doubt, delivery of documentation and filing (or authorizing the filing) of financing statement amendments to effect the release of any such Liens.

 

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Section 7.06 Restricted Payments. Make, directly or indirectly, any Restricted Payment, except:

(a) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Restricted Payments to Holdings or other Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Restricted Payment by a non-Wholly-Owned Restricted Subsidiary, to Holdings and any other Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Equity Interests of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests of the relevant class of Equity Interests);

(b) (i) Holdings may (or may make Restricted Payments to permit any direct or indirect parent thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Equity Interests for another class of its (or such parent’s) Equity Interests or rights to acquire its Equity Interests or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new Equity Interests; provided, any terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Equity Interests are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Equity Interests redeemed thereby and (ii) Holdings, its or any of its direct or indirect parent’s may declare and make dividend payments or other distributions payable solely in Qualified Equity Interests;

(c) Restricted Payments made to consummate the Transactions;

(d) to the extent constituting Restricted Payments, Holdings and the Restricted Subsidiaries may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 7.02, Section 7.03(k), Section 7.04 or Sections 7.07(e) and (n), and in each case, transactions in connection therewith;

(e) repurchases of Equity Interests in the ordinary course of business in Holdings (or any direct or indirect parent thereof) or any Restricted Subsidiary deemed to occur upon exercise of stock options, warrants, settlement or vesting if such Equity Interests represent a portion of the exercise price of such options, warrants, settlement or vesting;

(f) Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary may, in good faith, pay (or make Restricted Payments to allow any direct or indirect parent thereof to pay) for the repurchase, retirement or other acquisition or retirement for value of Equity Interests of it or any direct or indirect parent thereof held by any future, present or former employee, director, advisor, manager, officer or consultant (or any Affiliates, spouses, former spouses, other immediate family members, successors, executors, administrators, heirs, legatees or distributees of any of the foregoing) of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries pursuant to any employee, management, director or manager equity plan, employee, management, director or manager stock option plan or any other employee, management, director or manager benefit plan or any agreement (including any stock subscription or shareholder agreement) with any employee, director, manager, officer or consultant of Holdings (or any direct or indirect parent thereof) or any Subsidiary; provided, such payments do not to exceed in any calendar year the sum of (i) the greater of (x) $5,000,000 and (y) 10% of Consolidated EBITDA of Holdings as of the last day of the most recently ended Test Period at the time of such payment (provided, any unused portion of this clause (i) for any calendar year may be carried forward to succeeding calendar years, so long as the aggregate amount of all Restricted Payments made pursuant to this Section 7.06(f)(i) in any calendar year (after giving effect to such carry forward) shall not exceed the greater of (x) $7,500,000 and (y)

 

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15% of Consolidated EBITDA of Holdings as of the last day of the most recently ended Test Period) plus (ii) the cash proceeds of keyman life insurance policies received by Holdings or a Restricted Subsidiary after the Closing Date plus (iii) the amount of net cash proceeds from the sale of Equity Interests in Holdings and contributed to the Lead Borrower for the repurchase, retirement or other acquisition or retirement for value of such Equity Interests held by an employee, director, advisor, manager, officer or consultant to the extent not otherwise used under this Agreement or applied to the Available Amount; provided, cancellation of Indebtedness owing to Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries from members of management of Holdings or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with a repurchase of Equity Interests of Holdings will not be deemed to constitute a Restricted Payment for purposes of this covenant or any other provision of this Agreement;

(g) Holdings and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Restricted Payments to any direct or indirect holder of an Equity Interest in Holdings:

(i) [Reserved].

(ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay such equity holder’s operating costs and expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business, other overhead costs and expenses and fees (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar fees and expenses provided by third parties as well as trustee, directors, managers and general partner fees) that are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business and attributable to the ownership or operations of Holdings and its Subsidiaries (including any reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors, managers or officers of Holdings attributable to the direct or indirect ownership or operations of Holdings and its Subsidiaries) and fees and expenses otherwise due and payable by Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary and permitted to be paid by Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary under this Agreement not to exceed $1,000,000 in any fiscal year;

(iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay franchise and excise taxes, and other fees and expenses, required to maintain its (or any of its direct or indirect parents’) existence;

(iv) to finance any Investment permitted to be made pursuant to Section 7.02; provided, (A) such Restricted Payment shall be made substantially concurrently with the closing of such Investment and (B) Holdings or such parent shall, immediately following the closing thereof, cause (1) all property acquired (whether assets or Equity Interests) to be held by or contributed to a Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary (provided, any such amounts under this clause (iv)(B) shall not increase the Available Amount or otherwise increase any basket under this Agreement that builds by amounts contributed to the Lead Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary) or (2) the merger (to the extent permitted in Section 7.04) of the Person formed or acquired into it or a Restricted Subsidiary in order to consummate such Permitted Acquisition, in each case, in accordance with the requirements of Section 6.10;

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(vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers and employees of Holdings to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of any Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries;

(h) payments in the form of Equity Interests of Holdings (other than Disqualified Equity Interests and to the extent not otherwise used under this Agreement or applied to the Available Amount);

(i) Restricted Payments made to finance expenses properly incurred in connection with the issuance or incurrence of a refinancing of Indebtedness permitted under this Agreement;

(j) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, Restricted Payments made from the net cash proceeds received by Holdings after the Closing Date pursuant to contributions to its common equity capital or issuances of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Equity Interests) of Holdings (other than received as a Cure Amount and to the extent not otherwise used under this Agreement or applied to the Available Amount) that are used substantially contemporaneously to make such Restricted Payment;

(k) Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary may pay any dividend or distribution within sixty (60) days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration such payment would have complied with the provisions of this Agreement;

(l) Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary may (a) pay cash in lieu of fractional Equity Interests in connection with any dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition and (b) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms;

(m) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary may make additional Restricted Payments in an amount not to exceed at the time of such Restricted Payment the greater of (i) (x) $14,000,000 per annum so long as the Total Leverage Ratio, after giving pro forma effect to such Restricted Payment, is less than or equal to 6.50:1.00 but greater than 5.00:1.00 or (y) $21,000,000 per annum so long as the Total Leverage Ratio, after giving pro forma effect to such Restricted Payment, is less than or equal to 5.00:1.00, in each case, minus the aggregate amount of Restricted Payments made prior to such date in reliance on this clause (m), plus (ii) additional Restricted Payments so long as the Total Leverage Ratio, after giving pro forma effect to such Restricted Payment is less than 4.00:1.00; provided that, Holdings shall be required to pay (or cause to be paid) all Exit Payments set forth in Section 2.09(c), whether or not a Revolving Exit Payment Trigger or Term Loan Payment Trigger has occurred, prior to the making of any Restricted Payment pursuant to this clause (m)(ii); and

(n) Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary may make additional Restricted Payments in an individual amount not to exceed the then Available Amount; provided, (i) at the time of any such Restricted Payment, no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom and (ii) at the time of such Restricted Payment utilizing amounts pursuant to clause (a) of the definition of “Available Amount” and after giving effect thereto and to the incurrence of any Indebtedness in connection therewith, the Total Leverage Ratio as of the end of the most recently ended Test Period at the time of such Restricted Payment, on a Pro Forma Basis, would be equal to or less than 4.00:1.00.

 

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Section 7.07 Transactions with Affiliates. Enter into any transaction of any kind with any Affiliate of Holdings, whether or not in the ordinary course of business, other than:

(a) transactions between or among Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary or any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction;

(b) transactions on terms not less favorable to Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary as would be obtainable by Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary at the time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate;

(c) the Transactions and the payment of fees and expenses related to the Transactions (including the issuance of Equity Interests to any officer, director, manager, employee or consultant of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with the Transactions);

(d) (i) any purchase by Holdings of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Equity Interests) of the Lead Borrower or any contribution by Holdings to the equity capital of the Lead Borrower and (ii) any issuance of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Equity Interests) of Holdings and any contribution by any equity holder of Holdings to the equity capital of the Lead Borrower;

(e) [Reserved];

(f) payments or loans (or cancellation of loans) to any officer, director, manager, employee or consultant of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries that are approved by a majority of Holdings’ board of directors, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 7.02;

(g) loans and other transactions by and among the Loan Parties and/or one or more Subsidiaries to the extent otherwise permitted under this Article VII;

(h) employment and severance arrangements between Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary and their respective officers and employees in the ordinary course of business and transactions pursuant to stock option plans and employee benefit plans and arrangements;

(i) to the extent permitted by Sections 7.06(g)(iii), payments by Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries pursuant to any tax sharing agreements among Holdings (and any such direct or indirect parent thereof) and its Restricted Subsidiaries on customary terms to the extent attributable to the ownership or operation of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries;

(j) the payment of customary fees and reasonable out-of-pocket costs to, and indemnities provided on behalf of, directors, managers, officers, employees and consultants of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business to the extent attributable to the ownership or operation of any Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries;

(k) transactions pursuant to agreements set forth on Schedule 7.07 or any amendment thereto in effect as of the Closing Date or the date of delivering such amendment pursuant to Section 6.12 and any amendment to such agreements to the extent such an amendment is not adverse to the Lenders in any material respect (as determined by Holdings in good faith);

 

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(l) Investments permitted pursuant to Section 7.02, Indebtedness permitted pursuant to Section 7.03, transactions permitted pursuant to Section 7.04, Dispositions permitted pursuant to Section 7.05, and Restricted Payments permitted pursuant to Section 7.06 (other than, in each case, by reference to this Section 7.07; provided that Restricted Payments made pursuant Section 7.06(d) shall be permitted);

(m) assignments of Term Loans to Sponsor Affiliated Lenders to the extent permitted pursuant to Section 10.07(j);

(n) [Reserved];

(o) transactions entered into by an Unrestricted Subsidiary with an Affiliate prior to the redesignation of any such Unrestricted Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary; provided that such transactions were not entered into in contemplation of such redesignation;

(p) any Disposition of Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Qualified Securitization Financing and any repurchase of Securitization Assets pursuant to a Securitization Repurchase Obligation;

(q) royalty-free licenses of any of the Loan Parties’ or their Restricted Subsidiaries’ trademarks, trade names and business systems by the Loan Parties to Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties; and

(r) transactions involving aggregate payments or consideration of less than $1,000,000.

Section 7.08 Prepayments, Etc. of Indebtedness.

Prepay, redeem, purchase, defease or otherwise satisfy prior to the scheduled maturity thereof in any manner loans under any Subordinated Debt (other than Indebtedness among any of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries) or Junior Financing Debt (including Indebtedness under the Second Lien Loan Documents) (it being understood that payments of regularly scheduled interest (including capitalization of interest), applicable high yield debt obligation payments and mandatory prepayments under any such Subordinated Debt Documents or any such documentation governing Junior Financing Debt, including the Second Lien Loan Documents, shall not be prohibited by this clause), except for:

(i) the refinancing thereof with the Net Cash Proceeds of any Indebtedness (to the extent such Indebtedness constitutes a Permitted Refinancing);

(ii) the conversion thereof to Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Equity Interests) of Holdings; and

(iii) prepayments, redemptions, purchases, defeasances and other payments thereof prior to their scheduled maturity in an individual amount not to exceed:

(A) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the net cash proceeds received by Holdings after the Closing Date pursuant to contributions to its common equity capital or issuances of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Equity Interests) of Holdings (other than received as a Cure Amount and to the extent not otherwise used under this Agreement or applied to the Available Amount) that are used substantially contemporaneously to make such prepayments, redemptions, purchases, defeasances and other payments; plus

 

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(B) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, together with other amounts made in reliance on this clause (B), the greater of (x) $5,000,000 and (y) 10% of Consolidated EBITDA of Holdings (calculated on a Pro Forma Basis) as of the last day of the most recently ended Test Period at the time of such prepayments, redemptions, purchases, defeasances and other payments; plus

(C) the Available Amount; provided, (i) if any such prepayment, redemption, purchase, defesances or other payment is made utilizing amounts pursuant to clause (a) of the definition of “Available Amount”, after giving Pro Forma Effect thereto, the Total Leverage Ratio (calculated on a Pro Forma Basis) is not greater than 4.00:1.00 as of the last day of the Test Period most recently ended on or prior to the making of such prepayment, redemption, purchase, defeasance and other payment and (ii) no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom; plus

(D) additional prepayments, redemptions, purchases, defeasances and other payments; provided, after giving Pro Forma Effect thereto, (1) the Total Leverage Ratio (calculated on a Pro Forma Basis) is not greater than 3.50:1.00 as of the last day of the Test Period most recently ended on or prior to the making of such prepayment, redemption, purchase, defeasance and other payment and (2) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom.

Section 7.09 Financial Covenant. Except with the written consent of the Required Revolving Credit Lenders, permit the First Lien Senior Secured Leverage Ratio as of the last day of any Test Period (commencing with the first full fiscal quarter ending after the Closing Date) to be greater than 7.50:1.00.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, this Section 7.09 shall be in effect (and shall only be in effect) as of the last day of any Test Period when the aggregate amount of L/C Obligations and Revolving Credit Loans outstanding as of the end of such fiscal quarter (with respect to L/C Obligations, excluding (x) undrawn Letters of Credit in an aggregate principal amount equal to $ 1,000,000 and (y) Letters of Credit then outstanding that have been Cash Collateralized) exceeds 35% of the aggregate amount of all Revolving Credit Commitments (it being understood that in all cases calculation of compliance with this Section 7.09 shall be determined as of the last day of such Test Period).

Section 7.10 [Reserved].

Section 7.11 Nature of Business and Fiscal Year.

(a) Holdings and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall not otherwise engage in any material lines of business other than those conducted by Holdings and the Restricted Subsidiaries on the Closing Date after giving effect to the Transactions or any similar, corollary, related, ancillary, incidental or complementary business or business activities or a reasonable extension, development or expansion thereof or ancillary thereto.

(b) For financial reporting purposes, Holdings and the Restricted Subsidiaries’ fiscal year shall not end on any date other than December 31 (other than any Subsidiary acquired after the Closing Date); provided, however, that Holdings may, upon written notice to the Administrative Agent, change their fiscal year to any other fiscal year reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent, in which case, Holdings and the Administrative Agent will, and are hereby authorized by the Lenders to, make any adjustments to this Agreement that are necessary to reflect such change in fiscal year.

 

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Section 7.12 Holdings Covenant. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, Holdings will not conduct, transact or otherwise engage in any active business or operations other than through the Lead Borrower and its Subsidiaries. The foregoing will not prohibit Holdings from taking actions related to the following (and activities incidental thereto):

(a) its ownership of the Equity Interests of the Lead Borrower (and for the avoidance of doubt, Holdings will not directly hold any Equity Interests other than the Equity Interests of the Lead Borrower);

(b) the maintenance of its legal existence (including the ability to incur fees, costs and expenses relating to such maintenance);

(c) the performance of its obligations with respect to the Facilities, other Indebtedness permitted by this Agreement (but not, for the avoidance of doubt, Indebtedness for borrowed money except to the extent permitted by clauses (f) and (h) below or owed to any Borrower or any Subsidiary), the Acquisition Agreement and the other agreements contemplated by the Acquisition Agreement;

(d) any offering of its common stock or any other issuance of its Equity Interests;

(e) the making of Investments or Restricted Payments; provided that Holdings will not be permitted to make Restricted Payments using the cash from any Borrower or any Subsidiary unless such cash has been dividend or otherwise distributed to Holdings as a permitted Restricted Payment pursuant to the terms of Section 7.06;

(f) the incurrence of Permitted Holdings Debt and the HAC Loan;

(g) making contributions to the capital or acquiring Equity Interests of its Subsidiaries;

(h) guaranteeing the obligations of each Borrower and its Subsidiaries;

(i) participating in tax, accounting and other administrative matters as a member or parent of the consolidated group;

(j) holding any cash or property (including cash and property received in connection with Restricted Payments made by the Borrowers, but excluding the Equity Interests of any Person other than the Lead Borrower);

(k) providing indemnification to officers and directors;

(l) the making of Investments consisting of Cash Equivalents;

(m) the consummation of the Transactions; and

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Section 7.13 Amendments or Waivers of Organizational Documents and Certain Related Agreements. Except as set forth in Section 7.14, no Loan Party shall, nor shall it permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, agree to any material amendment, restatement, supplement or other modification to, or waiver of, any of its Organization Documents or any of its material rights under any related agreement after the Closing Date without in each case obtaining the prior written consent of the Principal Investor Representative, or if after the Disposition Date, Required Lenders, to such amendment, restatement, supplement or other modification or waiver, except, in each case, to the extent such amendment, restatement, supplement or other modification could not reasonably be expected to be adverse in any material respect to any Lenders.

Section 7.14 Amendments or Waivers with respect to Certain Indebtedness. To the extent prohibited by the terms of any Intercreditor Agreement, no Loan Party shall, nor shall it permit any of its Subsidiaries to, amend or otherwise change the terms of any documents governing Indebtedness secured by a Lien junior to the Lien securing the Obligations or any Subordinated Debt Documents or make any payment consistent with an amendment thereof or change thereto, if the effect of such amendment or change is to increase the interest rate on such Indebtedness in excess of 3% per annum, change (to earlier dates) any dates upon which payments of principal or interest are due thereon to the extent such earlier date results in the weighted average life to maturity of such Indebtedness being shorter than the weighted average life to maturity of the Initial Term B Loans, change in a manner materially adverse to the Lenders the redemption, prepayment or defeasance provisions thereof, change the subordination provisions of the documents governing Indebtedness secured by a Lien junior to the Lien securing the Obligations or the Subordinated Debt Documents (or, in each case, of any guaranty thereof) in a manner materially adverse to the interests of the Lenders, or if the effect of such amendment or change, together with all other amendments or changes made simultaneously, is to increase materially the obligations of the obligor thereunder or to confer any additional rights on the holders of such Indebtedness (or a trustee or other representative on their behalf) which would in each case be adverse in any material respect to the ability of the Loan Parties to satisfy their payment obligations under this Agreement.

ARTICLE VIII

Events of Default and Remedies

Section 8.01 Events of Default. Any of the following events referred to in any of clauses (a) through (k) inclusive of this Section 8.01 shall constitute an “Event of Default”:

(a) Non-Payment. Any Loan Party fails to pay (i) when and as required to be paid herein, any amount of principal of any Loan or (ii) within five (5) Business Days after the same becomes due, any interest on any Loan or on any L/C Obligation or any other amount payable hereunder or with respect to any other Loan Document, in each case, unless such failure to pay is caused by an administrative or technical error; or

(b) Specific Covenants. Any Loan Party fails to perform or observe any term, covenant or agreement contained in (i) any of Section 6.03(a), Section 6.04 (solely with respect to each Borrower’s existence) or Section 6.11 or (ii) Article VII; provided, an Event of Default under Section 7.09 is subject to a cure pursuant to Section 8.05; provided, further, an Event of Default under Section 7.09 shall not constitute an Event of Default for purposes of the Loan Documents unless and until the Required Revolving Credit Lenders have actually terminated the Revolving Credit Commitments and declared all Revolving Credit Loans and all related Obligations to be immediately due and payable in accordance with this Agreement and such declaration has not been rescinded on or before the date the Term Lenders declare an Event of Default with respect to Section 7.09; or

 

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(c) Other Defaults. Any Loan Party fails to perform or observe any other covenant or agreement (not specified in Section 8.01(a) or (b) above) contained in any Loan Document on its part to be performed or observed and such failure continues for thirty (30) days after receipt by Holdings of written notice thereof by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders; or

(d) Representations and Warranties. Any representation, warranty, certification or statement of fact made or deemed made by or on behalf of any Loan Party herein, in any other Loan Document, or in any document required to be delivered in connection herewith or therewith shall be incorrect or misleading in any material respect when made or deemed made and such incorrect or misleading representation, warranty, certification or statement of fact, if capable of being cured, remains so incorrect or misleading for forty-five (45) days commencing upon the earlier of (x) receipt by Holdings of written notice thereof by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or (y) the knowledge thereof by a Responsible Officer of Holdings (provided that the forty-five (45)-day grace period shall not apply to Specified Representations or Specified Acquisition Agreement Representations); or

(e) Cross-Default. Any Loan Party or any Restricted Subsidiary (A) fails to make any payment beyond the applicable grace period with respect thereto, if any (whether by scheduled maturity, required prepayment, acceleration, demand, or otherwise) in respect of any Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness hereunder) having an aggregate principal amount of not less than the Threshold Amount or (B) fails to observe or perform any other agreement or condition relating to any such Indebtedness in excess of the Threshold Amount, or any other event occurs (other than (i) with respect to Indebtedness consisting of Swap Contracts, termination events or equivalent events pursuant to the terms of such Swap Contracts and (ii) any event requiring prepayment pursuant to customary asset sale provisions), the effect of which default or other event is to cause, or to permit the holder or holders of such Indebtedness (or a trustee or agent on behalf of such holder or holders or beneficiary or beneficiaries) to cause, with the giving of notice if required, all such Indebtedness to become due or to be repurchased, prepaid, defeased or redeemed (automatically or otherwise), or an offer to repurchase, prepay, defease or redeem all such Indebtedness to be made, prior to its stated maturity; provided, this clause (e)(B) shall not apply to secured Indebtedness that becomes due (or requires an offer to purchase) as a result of the voluntary sale or transfer of the property or assets securing such Indebtedness, if such sale or transfer is permitted hereunder and under the documents providing for such Indebtedness; provided, further, such failure is unremedied and is not waived by the holders of such Indebtedness; or

(f) Insolvency Proceedings, Etc. Any Loan Party or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries institutes or consents to the institution of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law, or makes an assignment for the benefit of creditors; or applies for or consents to the appointment of any receiver, interim receiver, receiver and manager, trustee, custodian, conservator, liquidator, rehabilitator, administrator, administrative receiver or similar officer for it or for all or any material part of its property; or any receiver, interim receiver, receiver and manager, trustee, custodian, conservator, liquidator, rehabilitator, administrator, administrative receiver, debtor-in-possession, insolvency practitioner or similar officer is appointed without the application or consent of such Person and the appointment continues undischarged or unstayed for sixty (60) calendar days; or any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law relating to any such Person or to all or any material part of its property is instituted without the consent of such Person and continues undismissed or unstayed for sixty (60) calendar days; or an order for relief is entered in any such proceeding; or

 

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(g) Inability to Pay Debts; Attachment. (i) Any Loan Party or any Restricted Subsidiary becomes unable or admits in writing its inability or fails generally to pay its debts as they become due or is deemed unable to pay its debts as they fall due for the purposes of any Debtor Relief Law, or (ii) any writ or warrant of attachment or execution or similar process is issued or levied against all or any material part of the property of the Loan Parties, taken as a whole, and is not released, vacated or fully bonded within sixty (60) days after its issue or levy; or

(h) Judgments. There is entered against any Loan Party or any Restricted Subsidiary a final judgment or order for the payment of money in an aggregate amount exceeding the Threshold Amount (to the extent not covered by independent third-party insurance) and such judgment or order shall not have been satisfied, vacated, discharged or stayed or bonded pending an appeal for a period of sixty (60) consecutive days; or

(i) Invalidity of Collateral Documents. Any material provision of any Collateral Document, at any time after its execution and delivery and for any reason other than as expressly permitted hereunder or thereunder (including as a result of a transaction permitted under Section 7.04 or Section 7.05) or as a result of acts or omissions by the Administrative Agent or any Lender, or the satisfaction in full of all the Obligations and termination of the Aggregate Commitments, ceases to be in full force and effect or ceases to create a valid and perfected first priority lien (to the extent such concept exists under applicable Law) Lien (subject to Liens permitted under the Loan Documents and any Liens and privileges arising mandatorily by Law) on a material portion of the Collateral covered thereby; or any Loan Party contests in writing the validity or enforceability of any material provision of any Collateral Document; or any Loan Party denies in writing that it has any or further liability or obligation under any Collateral Document (other than as a result of repayment in full of the Obligations and termination of the Aggregate Commitments), or purports in writing to revoke or rescind any Collateral Document;

(j) Change of Control. There occurs any Change of Control; or

(k) ERISA. An ERISA Event occurs which has resulted or would reasonably be expected to result in liability of a Loan Party in an aggregate amount which could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

Section 8.02 Remedies Upon Event of Default.

(a) If any Event of Default occurs and is continuing (other than an Event of Default under Section 8.01(b)(ii) unless the conditions of the second proviso contained therein have been satisfied), the Administrative Agent may, with the consent of the Required Lenders, and, at the request of the Required Lenders, shall take any or all of the following actions:

(i) declare the commitment of each Lender to make Loans and any obligation of the L/C Issuer to make L/C Credit Extensions to be terminated, whereupon such commitments and obligation shall be terminated;

(ii) declare the unpaid principal amount of all outstanding Loans, all interest accrued and unpaid thereon, and all other amounts owing or payable hereunder or under any other Loan Document to be immediately due and payable, without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived by the Borrowers;

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(iv) require that the Lead Borrower Cash Collateralize the L/C Obligations (in an amount equal to the then Outstanding Amount thereof); and

(v) exercise on behalf of itself and the Lenders all rights and remedies available to it and the Lenders under the Loan Documents or applicable Law;

provided, upon the occurrence of an Event of Default under Section 8.01(f) with respect to any Borrower, all Commitments and the obligation of each Lender to make Loans and any obligation of the L/C Issuer to make L/C Credit Extensions shall automatically terminate, the unpaid principal amount of all outstanding Loans and all interest and other amounts as aforesaid shall automatically become due and payable, and the obligation of the Lead Borrower to Cash Collateralize the L/C Obligations as aforesaid shall automatically become effective, in each case without further act of the Administrative Agent or any Lender.

(b) Subject to the first proviso in Section 8.01(b)(ii), if any Event of Default under Section 8.01(b)(ii) with respect to Section 7.09 occurs and is continuing, the Administrative Agent may and, at the request of the Required Revolving Credit Lenders, shall take any or all of the following actions:

(i) declare the commitment of each Lender to make Revolving Credit Loans and any obligation of the L/C Issuers to make L/C Credit Extensions to be terminated, whereupon such commitments and obligation shall be terminated;

(ii) declare the unpaid principal amount of all outstanding Revolving Credit Loans, all interest accrued and unpaid thereon, and all other amounts owing or payable hereunder or under any other Loan Document under or in respect of the Revolving Credit Facility to be immediately due and payable, without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived by the Borrowers;

(iii) require that the Lead Borrower Cash Collateralize the L/C Obligations (in an amount equal to the then Outstanding Amount thereof); and

(iv) exercise on behalf of itself and the Revolving Credit Lenders all rights and remedies available to it and the Revolving Credit Lenders under the Loan Documents or applicable Laws, in each case under or in respect of the Revolving Credit Facility.

Section 8.03 Exclusion of Immaterial Subsidiaries. Solely for the purpose of determining whether a Default has occurred under clause (f) or (g) of Section 8.01, any reference in any such clause to any Restricted Subsidiary or Loan Party shall be deemed not to include any Subsidiary that is an Immaterial Subsidiary or at such time could, upon designation by Holdings, become an Immaterial Subsidiary affected by any event or circumstances referred to in any such clause unless the Consolidated EBITDA of such Subsidiary together with the Consolidated EBITDA of all other Restricted Subsidiaries affected by such event or circumstance referred to in such clause, shall exceed 5% of the Consolidated EBITDA of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries as of the then most recently ended Test Period.

Section 8.04 Application of Funds. If (x) the circumstances described in Section 2.12(g) have occurred or (y) after the exercise of remedies provided for in Section 8.02 (or after the Loans have automatically become immediately due and payable and the L/C Obligations have automatically been required to be Cash Collateralized as set forth in the proviso to Section 8.02), including in any bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding, any amounts received on account of the Obligations shall be applied by the Administrative Agent in the following order:

 

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First, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting fees, indemnities, expenses and other amounts (other than principal and interest, but including Attorney Costs payable under Section 10.04 and amounts payable under Article III) payable to the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent in its capacity as such;

Second, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting fees, indemnities and other amounts (other than principal and interest) payable to the Lenders and L/C Issuer (including Attorney Costs payable under Section 10.04 and amounts payable under Article III), ratably among them in proportion to the amounts described in this clause Second payable to them;

Third, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting accrued and unpaid interest on the Loans and L/C Borrowings, ratably among the applicable Secured Parties in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause Third payable to them;

Fourth, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting unpaid principal of the Loans, L/C Borrowings (including to Cash Collateralize that portion of L/C Obligations comprised of the aggregate undrawn amount of Letters of Credit) and obligations then owing under the Secured Hedge Agreements and the Secured Cash Management Agreements, ratably among the applicable Secured Parties in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause Fourth held by them;

Fifth, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting fees, indemnities and other amounts (other than principal and interest) payable to any other Secured Parties (including Attorney Costs payable under Section 10.04 and amounts payable under Article III), ratably among them in proportion to the amounts described in this clause Fifth payable to them;

Sixth, to the payment of all other Obligations of the Borrowers that are due and payable to the Administrative Agent and the other Secured Parties on such date, ratably based upon the respective aggregate amounts of all such Obligations owing to the Administrative Agent and the other Secured Parties on such date; and

Last, the balance, if any, after all of the Obligations have been paid in full, to the Borrowers or as otherwise required by Law.

Subject to Section 2.03(c), amounts used to Cash Collateralize the aggregate undrawn amount of Letters of Credit pursuant to clause Fourth above shall be applied to satisfy drawings under such Letters of Credit as they occur. If any amount remains on deposit as Cash Collateral after all Letters of Credit have either been fully drawn or expired, such remaining amount shall be applied to the other Obligations, if any, in the order set forth above and, if no Obligations remain outstanding, to the Borrowers.

Section 8.05 Right to Cure.

(a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in Section 8.01(b), in the event that Holdings fails to comply with the requirement of the Financial Covenant, from the last day of the Test Period until the expiration of the tenth (10th) Business Day after the date on which financial statements with respect to the Test Period in which such covenant is being measured are required to be delivered pursuant to Section 6.01 (the “Cure Period”), Holdings shall have the right to issue common Equity Interests (or other Qualified Equity Interests reasonably acceptable

 

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to the Principal Investor Representative or, if after a Disposition Date, the Administrative Agent) (the “Cure Right”), and contribute the proceeds therefrom in the form of common Equity Interests (or other Qualified Equity Interests reasonably acceptable to the Principal Investor Representative or, if after a Disposition Date, the Administrative Agent) in Holdings and upon the receipt by Holdings of net cash proceeds pursuant to the exercise of the Cure Right (the “Cure Amount”), the Financial Covenant shall be recalculated, giving effect to a pro forma increase to Consolidated EBITDA for such Test Period in an amount equal to such Cure Amount; provided, (x) such pro forma adjustment to Consolidated EBITDA shall be given solely for the purpose of determining the existence of a Default or an Event of Default under the Financial Covenant with respect to any Test Period that includes the fiscal quarter for which such Cure Right was exercised and not for any other purpose under any Loan Document (including for purposes of determining pricing, mandatory prepayments and the availability or amount permitted pursuant to any covenant under Article VII) and (y) there shall be no pro forma reduction in Indebtedness (by netting or otherwise) with any Cure Amounts for determining compliance with the Financial Covenant for the fiscal quarter in which such Cure Right was exercised, except to the extent that such proceeds are actually applied to repay Indebtedness (which, in the case of any revolving facility (including, without limitation, the Revolving Credit Facility) shall be accompanied by a corresponding permanent reduction in the Commitments thereunder).

(b) If, after the exercise of the Cure Right and the recalculations pursuant to clause (a) above, Holdings shall then be in compliance with the requirements of the Financial Covenant during such Test Period (including for purposes of Section 4.03), Holdings shall be deemed to have satisfied the requirements of the Financial Covenant as of the relevant date of determination with the same effect as though there had been no failure to comply therewith at such date, and the applicable Default or Event of Default under Section 8.01 that had occurred shall be deemed cured; provided, (i) the Cure Right may be exercised on no more than five (5) occasions, (ii) in each four fiscal quarter period, there shall be at least two fiscal quarters in respect of which no Cure Right is exercised and (iii) with respect to any exercise of the Cure Right, the Cure Amount shall be no greater than the amount required to cause Holdings to be in compliance with the Financial Covenant.

(c) For the avoidance of doubt, no Revolving Credit Lender or L/C Issuer, as applicable, shall be required to fund any Revolving Credit Loans, or issue (or increase) any Letters of Credit, as applicable, during such Cure Period until the Cure Amount has been provided.

(d) Upon receipt by the Administrative Agent of a written notice, prior to the end of the applicable Cure Period, that Holdings intends to exercise the Cure Right in respect of a fiscal quarter, none of the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, the other Agents or the Lenders shall be permitted to accelerate Loans held by them, to terminate the Commitments or to exercise remedies against the Collateral solely on the basis of a failure to comply with the requirements of the Financial Covenant, unless such failure is not cured pursuant to the exercise of the Cure Right on or prior to the end of the applicable Cure Period.

ARTICLE IX

Administrative Agent and Other Agents

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(a) Each Lender and each L/C Issuer hereby irrevocably appoints, designates and authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such action on its behalf under the provisions of this Agreement and each other Loan Document and to exercise such powers and perform such duties as are delegated to it by the terms of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary contained elsewhere herein or in any other Loan Document, the Administrative Agent shall have no duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein, nor shall the Administrative Agent have or be deemed to have any fiduciary relationship with any Lender or participant, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties, obligations or liabilities shall be read into this Agreement or any other Loan Document or otherwise exist against the Administrative Agent regardless of whether a Default has occurred and is continuing. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing sentence, the use of the term “agent” herein and in the other Loan Documents with reference to any Agent is not intended to connote any fiduciary or other implied (or express) obligations arising under agency doctrine of any applicable Law. Instead, such term is used merely as a matter of market custom, and is intended to create or reflect only an administrative relationship between independent contracting parties. The provisions of this Article (other than the provisions of Section 9.09 and Section 9.11) are solely for the benefit of the Administrative Agent, the Lenders and each L/C Issuer, and neither Holdings nor any other Loan Party shall have rights as a third party beneficiary of any of such provisions (other than the provisions of Section 9.09 and Section 9.11).

(b) Each L/C Issuer shall act on behalf of the Lenders with respect to any Letters of Credit issued by it and the documents associated therewith, and each such L/C Issuer shall have all of the benefits and immunities (i) provided to the Agents in this Article IX with respect to any acts taken or omissions suffered by such L/C Issuer in connection with Letters of Credit issued by it or proposed to be issued by it and the applications and agreements for letters of credit pertaining to such Letters of Credit as fully as if the term “Agent” as used in this Article IX and in the definition of “Agent-Related Person” included such L/C Issuer with respect to such acts or omissions, and (ii) as additionally provided herein with respect to such L/C Issuer.

(c) The Administrative Agent shall also act as the “collateral agent” under the Loan Documents, and each of the Lenders (in its capacities as a Lender and L/C Issuer (if applicable)) and each L/C Issuer hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent to act as the agent of and as security agent for (and to hold any security interest, charge or other Lien created by the Collateral Documents for and on behalf of or on trust for or as agent under a parallel debt structure for the benefit of) such Lender and such L/C Issuer for purposes of acquiring, holding and enforcing any and all Liens on Collateral granted by any of the Loan Parties to secure any of the Obligations, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto. In this connection, the Administrative Agent, as “collateral agent” (and any co-agents, sub-agents and attorneys-in-fact appointed by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 9.02 for purposes of holding or enforcing any Lien on the Collateral (or any portion thereof) granted under the Collateral Documents, or for exercising any rights and remedies thereunder at the direction of the Administrative Agent), shall be entitled to the benefits of all provisions of this Article IX (including Section 9.07, as though such co-agents, sub-agents and attorneys-in-fact were the “collateral agent” under the Loan Documents) and Article X as if set forth in full herein with respect thereto.

Section 9.02 Delegation of Duties. The Administrative Agent may execute any of its duties and exercise its rights and powers under this Agreement or any other Loan Document (including for purposes of holding or enforcing any Lien on the Collateral (or any portion thereof) granted under the Collateral Documents or of exercising any rights and remedies thereunder) by or through Affiliates,

 

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agents, employees or attorneys-in-fact, such sub-agents as shall be deemed necessary by the Administrative Agent, and shall be entitled to advice of counsel, both internal and external, and other consultants or experts concerning all matters pertaining to such duties. The Administrative Agent shall not be responsible for the negligence or misconduct of any Affiliates, agents, employees or attorneys-in-fact, such sub-agents that it selects in the absence of gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct. The exculpatory provisions of this Article shall apply to any such Affiliates, agents, employees or attorneys-in-fact, such sub-agents, and shall apply to their respective activities in connection with the syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein as well as activities as Administrative Agent.

Section 9.03 Liability of Agents. No Agent-Related Person shall (a) be liable to any Lender for any action taken or omitted to be taken by any of them under or in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document or the transactions contemplated hereby, including their respective activities in connection with the syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein as well as activities as Administrative Agent (except for its own gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct, as determined by the final and non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction, in connection with its duties expressly set forth herein), or (b) be responsible in any manner to any Lender or participant for (or shall have any duty to ascertain or inquire into) any recital, statement, representation or warranty made by any Loan Party or any officer thereof, contained herein or in any other Loan Document, or in any certificate, report, statement or other document referred to or provided for in, or received by the Administrative Agent under or in connection with, this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or the validity, effectiveness, genuineness, enforceability or sufficiency of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or the perfection or priority of any Lien or security interest created or purported to be created under the Collateral Documents, the value or the sufficiency of any Collateral or the satisfaction of any condition set forth in Article IV or elsewhere herein or that the Liens granted to the Collateral Agent have been properly or sufficiently created, perfected, protected, enforced or entitled to any particular priority, other than to confirm receipt of items expressly required to be delivered to the Administrative Agent, or for any failure of any Loan Party or any other party to any Loan Document to perform its obligations hereunder or thereunder. No Agent-Related Person shall be under any obligation to any Lender or participant to ascertain or to inquire as to the observance or performance of any of the agreements contained in, or conditions of, this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or to inspect the properties, books or records of any Loan Party or any Affiliate thereof. No Agent shall have any duty to take any discretionary action or exercise any discretionary powers, except discretionary rights and powers expressly contemplated hereby or by the other Loan Documents that such Agent is required to exercise as directed in writing by the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be expressly provided for herein or in the other Loan Documents); provided, such Agent shall not be required to take any action that, in its judgment or the judgment of its counsel, may expose such Agent to liability or that is contrary to any Loan Document or applicable requirements of law. No Agent shall be liable for any action taken or not taken by it with the consent or at the request of the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be expressly provided for herein or in the other Loan Documents), or in the absence of its own gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct.

Section 9.04 Reliance by Agents.

(a) Each Agent shall be entitled to rely, and shall be fully protected in relying, upon any writing, communication, signature, resolution, representation, notice, request, consent, certificate, instrument, affidavit, letter, telegram, facsimile, telex or telephone message, electronic mail message, statement or other document or conversation believed by it to be genuine and correct and to have been signed, sent or made by the proper Person or Persons, and upon advice and statements of legal counsel (including counsel to any Loan Party), independent accountants and other experts selected by such Agent and shall not incur any liability for relying thereon. Each Agent shall be fully justified in failing or refusing to take any action under any Loan

 

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Document unless it shall first receive such advice or concurrence of the Required Lenders as it deems appropriate and, if it so requests, it shall first be indemnified to its satisfaction by the Lenders against any and all liability and expense which may be incurred by it by reason of taking or continuing to take any such action. Each Agent shall in all cases be fully protected in acting, or in refraining from acting, under this Agreement or any other Loan Document in accordance with a request or consent of the Required Lenders (or such greater number of Lenders as may be expressly required hereby in any instance) and such request and any action taken or failure to act pursuant thereto shall be binding upon all the Lenders.

(b) For purposes of determining compliance with the conditions specified in Article IV, each Lender that has signed this Agreement shall be deemed to have consented to, approved or accepted or to be satisfied with, each document or other matter required thereunder to be consented to or approved by or acceptable or satisfactory to a Lender unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from such Lender prior to the proposed Closing Date specifying its objection thereto. In determining compliance with any condition hereunder to the making of a Loan, or the issuance of a Letter of Credit, that by its terms must be fulfilled to the satisfaction of a Lender or an L/C Issuer, the Administrative Agent may presume that such condition is satisfactory to such Lender or such L/C Issuer unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice to the contrary from such Lender or such L/C Issuer prior to the making of such Loan or the issuance of such Letter of Credit.

Section 9.05 Notice of Default. The Administrative Agent shall not be deemed to have knowledge or notice of the occurrence of any Default, except with respect to defaults in the payment of principal, interest and fees required to be paid to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Lenders, unless the Administrative Agent shall have received written notice from a Lender or Holdings referring to this Agreement, describing such Default and stating that such notice is a “notice of default.” The Administrative Agent will notify the Lenders of its receipt of any such notice. Subject to the other provisions of this Article IX, the Administrative Agent shall take such action with respect to any Event of Default as may be directed by the Required Lenders in accordance with Article VIII; provided, unless and until the Administrative Agent has received any such direction, the Administrative Agent may (but shall not be obligated to) take such action, or refrain from taking such action, with respect to such Event of Default as it shall deem advisable or in the best interest of the Lenders.

Section 9.06 Credit Decision; Disclosure of Information by Agents. Each Lender and each L/C Issuer acknowledges that no Agent-Related Person has made any representation or warranty to it, and that no act by any Agent hereafter taken, including any consent to and acceptance of any assignment or review of the affairs of any Loan Party or any Affiliate thereof, shall be deemed to constitute any representation or warranty by any Agent-Related Person to any Lender as to any matter, including whether Agent-Related Persons have disclosed material information in their possession. Each Lender and each L/C Issuer represents to each Agent that it has, independently and without reliance upon any Agent-Related Person and based on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own appraisal of and investigation into the business, prospects, operations, property, financial and other condition and creditworthiness of the Loan Parties and their respective Subsidiaries, and all applicable bank or other regulatory Laws relating to the transactions contemplated hereby, and made its own decision to enter into this Agreement and to extend credit to the Borrowers and the other Loan Parties hereunder. Each Lender and each L/C Issuer also represents that it will, independently and without reliance upon any Agent-Related Person and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit analysis, appraisals and decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and to make such investigations as it deems necessary to inform itself as to the business, prospects, operations, property, financial and other condition and creditworthiness of the Borrowers and the other Loan Parties. Except for notices, reports

 

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and other documents expressly required to be furnished to the Lenders by any Agent herein, such Agent shall not have any duty or responsibility to provide (and shall not be liable for the failure to provide) any Lender with any credit or other information concerning the business, prospects, operations, property, financial and other condition or creditworthiness of any of the Loan Parties or any of their respective Affiliates which may come into the possession of any Agent-Related Person.

Section 9.07 Indemnification of Agents. Whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby are consummated, the Lenders shall indemnify upon demand each Agent-Related Person (to the extent not reimbursed by or on behalf of any Loan Party and without limiting the obligation of any Loan Party to do so), pro rata, and hold harmless each Agent-Related Person from and against any and all Indemnified Liabilities incurred by it in its capacity as an Agent-Related Person; provided, no Lender shall be liable for the payment to any Agent-Related Person of any portion of such Indemnified Liabilities resulting from such Agent-Related Person’s own gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct, as determined by the final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction; provided, no action taken in accordance with the directions of the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be required by the Loan Documents) shall be deemed to constitute gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct for purposes of this Section 9.07. In the case of any investigation, litigation or proceeding giving rise to any Indemnified Liabilities, this Section 9.07 applies whether any such investigation, litigation or proceeding is brought by any Lender or any other Person. Without limitation of the foregoing, each Lender shall reimburse the Administrative Agent upon demand for its ratable share of any reasonable and documented costs or out-of-pocket expenses (including Attorney Costs) incurred by the Administrative Agent in connection with the preparation, execution, delivery, administration, modification, amendment or enforcement (whether through negotiations, legal proceedings or otherwise) of, or legal advice in respect of rights or responsibilities under, this Agreement, any other Loan Document, or any document contemplated by or referred to herein, to the extent that the Administrative Agent is not reimbursed for such expenses by or on behalf of Holdings; provided, such reimbursement by the Lenders shall not affect Holdings’ continuing reimbursement obligations with respect thereto, if any. The undertaking in this Section 9.07 shall survive termination of the Aggregate Commitments, the payment of all other Obligations and the resignation of the Administrative Agent.

Section 9.08 Agents in their Individual Capacities. The Administrative Agent, the Lead Arranger and their respective Affiliates may make loans to, issue letters of credit for the account of, accept deposits from, acquire Equity Interests in and generally engage in any kind of banking, trust, financial advisory, underwriting or other business with each of the Loan Parties and their respective Affiliates as though the Administrative Agent or the Lead Arranger, as applicable, were not the Administrative Agent or the Lead Arranger, as the case may be, hereunder and without notice to or consent, or any duty to accept therefor to, of the Lenders. The Lenders acknowledge that, pursuant to such activities, the Administrative Agent, the Lead Arranger or their respective Affiliates may receive information regarding any Loan Party or any Affiliate of a Loan Party (including information that may be subject to confidentiality obligations in favor of such Loan Party or such Affiliate) and acknowledge that neither the Administrative Agent nor the Lead Arranger shall be under any obligation to provide such information to them. With respect to its Loans, the Administrative Agent and the Lead Arranger shall have the same rights and powers under this Agreement as any other Lender and may exercise such rights and powers as though it were not the Administrative Agent or the Lead Arranger, as applicable, and the terms “Lender” and “Lenders” include GS Lending Partners in its individual capacity to the extent it is a Lender hereunder.

Section 9.09 Successor Agents. The Administrative Agent may resign as the Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent upon thirty (30) days’ notice to the Lenders and Holdings. If the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent is a Defaulting Lender or an Affiliate of a Defaulting Lender, either the Required Lenders or Holdings may, upon ten (10) Business Days’ notice, remove the

 

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Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent, as applicable. If the Administrative Agent resigns under this Agreement or such notice of removal is delivered, the Required Lenders shall appoint from among the Lenders a successor agent for the Lenders, which appointment of a successor agent shall require the consent of Holdings at all times other than during the existence of an Event of Default under Section 8.01(a), (f) or (g) (which consent of Holdings shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed). If no successor agent is appointed prior to the effective date of the resignation of the Administrative Agent or the Administrative Agent receives notice of removal, then (x) in the case of a resignation, the Administrative Agent may appoint, after consulting with the Lenders and Holdings, a successor agent from among the Lenders and (y) in the case of a removal, Holdings may, after consulting with the Required Lenders, appoint a successor Administrative Agent. Upon the acceptance of its appointment as successor agent hereunder, the Person acting as such successor agent shall succeed to all the rights, powers and duties of the retiring or removed Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent and the term “Administrative Agent” shall mean such successor administrative agent and/or supplemental administrative agent, as the case may be (and the term “Collateral Agent” shall mean such successor collateral agent and/or supplemental agent, as described in Section 9.01(c)), and the retiring or removed Administrative Agent’s appointment, powers and duties as the Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent shall be terminated. After the retiring or removed Administrative Agent’s resignation or removal hereunder as the Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent, the provisions of this Article IX and Section 10.04 and Section 10.05 shall inure to its benefit as to any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was the Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent under this Agreement. If no successor agent has accepted appointment as the Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent by the date which is thirty (30) days following the retiring or removed Administrative Agent’s notice of resignation or removal or Holdings notify the Lenders that no qualifying Person has accepted the appointment, the retiring or removed Administrative Agent’s resignation or removal, as applicable, shall nevertheless thereupon become effective and the Lenders shall perform all of the duties of the Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent hereunder until such time, if any, as the Required Lenders appoint a successor agent as provided for above (except that in the case of any collateral security held by the Collateral Agent on behalf of the Lenders or the L/C Issuer under any of the Loan Documents, the retiring or removed Collateral Agent shall continue to hold such collateral security until such time as a successor Collateral Agent is appointed). Upon the acceptance of any appointment as the Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent hereunder by a successor and upon the execution and filing or recording of such financing statements, or amendments thereto, and such amendments or supplements to the Mortgages, and such other instruments or notices, as may be necessary or desirable under applicable Law, or as the Required Lenders may reasonably request, in order to (a) continue the perfection of the Liens granted or purported to be granted by the Collateral Documents or (b) otherwise ensure that the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement is satisfied, the Administrative Agent shall thereupon succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers, discretion, privileges, and duties of the retiring or removed Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent, and the retiring or removed Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent shall, to the extent not previously discharged, be discharged from its duties and obligations under the Loan Documents. The fees payable by Holdings to a successor Administrative Agent shall be the same as those payable to its predecessor unless otherwise agreed between Holdings and such successor. After the retiring or removed Administrative Agent’s resignation or removal hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, the provisions of this Article and Sections 10.04 and 10.05 shall continue in effect for the benefit of such retiring or removed Administrative Agent and its agents and sub-agents in respect of any actions taken or omitted to be taken by any of them while the retiring or removed Administrative Agent was acting as Administrative Agent.

Section 9.10 Administrative Agent May File Proofs of Claim; Credit Bidding. In case of the pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other judicial proceeding relative to any Loan Party, the Administrative Agent (irrespective of whether the principal of any Loan or L/C Obligation shall then be due and payable as herein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Administrative Agent shall have made any demand on Holdings) shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise:

 

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(a) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of the principal and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Loans, L/C Obligations and all other Obligations that are owing and unpaid and to file such other documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Lenders, the L/C Issuer and the Administrative Agent (including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Lenders, the L/C Issuer and the Administrative Agent and their respective agents and counsel and all other amounts due the Lenders, the L/C Issuer and the Administrative Agent under Section 2.09 and Section 10.04) allowed in such judicial proceeding; and

(b) to collect and receive any monies or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same; and

(c) any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator, supervisor, administrator or administrative receiver or other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Lender and the L/C Issuer to make such payments to the Administrative Agent and, in the event that the Administrative Agent shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Lenders or the L/C Issuer, to pay to the Administrative Agent any amount due for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Agents and their respective agents and counsel, and any other amounts due to the Administrative Agent under Section 2.09 and Section 10.04.

Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to authorize the Administrative Agent to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Lender or the L/C Issuer any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Obligations or the rights of any Lender or the L/C Issuer or to authorize the Administrative Agent to vote in respect of the claim of any Lender in any such proceeding.

The Secured Parties hereby irrevocably authorize the Administrative Agent, at the direction of the Required Lenders, to credit bid all or any portion of the Obligations (including accepting some or all of the Collateral in satisfaction of some or all of the Obligations pursuant to a deed in lieu of foreclosure or otherwise) and in such manner purchase (either directly or through one or more acquisition vehicles) all or any portion of the Collateral (a) at any sale thereof conducted under the provisions of the Bankruptcy Code of the United States, including under Section 363, 1123 or 1129 of the Bankruptcy Code of the United States, or any similar Laws in any other jurisdictions to which a Loan Party is subject, (b) at any other sale or foreclosure or acceptance of collateral in lieu of debt conducted by (or with the consent or at the direction of) the Administrative Agent (whether by judicial action or otherwise) in accordance with any applicable Law. In connection with any such credit bid and purchase, the Obligations owed to the Secured Parties shall be entitled to be, and shall be, credit bid on a ratable basis (with Obligations with respect to contingent or unliquidated claims receiving contingent interests in the acquired assets on a ratable basis that would vest upon the liquidation of such claims in an amount proportional to the liquidated portion of the contingent claim amount used in allocating the contingent interests) in the asset or assets so purchased (or in the Equity Interests or debt instruments of the acquisition vehicle or vehicles that are used to consummate such purchase). In connection with any such bid (i) the Administrative Agent shall be authorized to form one or more acquisition vehicles to make a bid, (ii) to adopt documents providing for the governance of the acquisition vehicle or vehicles (provided, any actions by the Administrative Agent with respect to such acquisition vehicle or vehicles, including any disposition of the assets or Equity Interests thereof shall be governed, directly or indirectly, by the vote of the Required

 

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Lenders, irrespective of the termination of this Agreement and without giving effect to the limitations on actions by the Required Lenders contained in clauses (a) through (f) of Section 10.01 of this Agreement, (iii) the Administrative Agent shall be authorized to assign the relevant Obligations to any such acquisition vehicle pro rata by the Lenders, as a result of which each of the Lenders shall be deemed to have received a pro rata portion of any Equity Interests and/or debt instruments issued by such an acquisition vehicle on account of the assignment of the Obligations to be credit bid, all without the need for any Secured Party or acquisition vehicle to take any further action, and (iv) to the extent that Obligations that are assigned to an acquisition vehicle are not used to acquire Collateral for any reason (as a result of another bid being higher or better, because the amount of Obligations assigned to the acquisition vehicle exceeds the amount of debt credit bid by the acquisition vehicle or otherwise), such Obligations shall automatically be reassigned to the Lenders pro rata and the Equity Interests and/or debt instruments issued by any acquisition vehicle on account of the Obligations that had been assigned to the acquisition vehicle shall automatically be cancelled, without the need for any Secured Party or any acquisition vehicle to take any further action.

Section 9.11 Collateral and Guarantee Matters. The Lenders, the Secured Parties and the L/C Issuer irrevocably agree:

(a) any Lien on any property granted to or held by the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent under any Loan Document shall be automatically released (i) upon termination of the Aggregate Commitments and payment in full of all Obligations (other than contingent indemnification obligations not yet accrued and payable), the expiration or termination of all Letters of Credit (or cash collateralization or other arrangement with respect thereto reasonably satisfactory to the applicable L/C Issuer) (the date on which the requirements of this clause (i) are first satisfied, the “Termination Date”), (ii) at the time the property subject to such Lien is transferred or to be transferred as part of or in connection with any transfer permitted hereunder or under any other Loan Document to any Person, (iii) subject to Section 10.01, if the release of such Lien is approved, authorized or ratified in writing by the Required Lenders, (iv) if the property subject to such Lien is owned by a Guarantor, upon release of such Guarantor from its obligations under its Guaranty pursuant to clause (c) or (d) below, (v) if the property subject to such Lien becomes “Excluded Collateral” and (vi) in connection with any ground lease entered into by Holdings or its Subsidiaries, to subordinate the Liens held by the Administrative Agent or Collateral Agent to the rights and interests of the holder of the leasehold estate under such ground lease or to any other Lien thereon that, in each case, is permitted by Section 7.01(z);

(b) the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent, as applicable, are authorized to release or subordinate any Lien on any property granted to or held by the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent under any Loan Document to the holder of any Lien on such property that is permitted by Sections 7.01(j), (k), (p), and (t);

(c) (i) if any Subsidiary Guarantor ceases to be a Restricted Subsidiary, or becomes an Excluded Subsidiary (provided that no release shall occur if such Subsidiary Guarantor becomes an Excluded Subsidiary by virtue of no longer being a Wholly-Owned Restricted Subsidiary of a Loan Party unless it is no longer a Subsidiary of any Loan Party or it is becoming a bona fide joint venture in a transaction otherwise permitted hereunder), in each case as a result of a transaction or designation permitted hereunder or a Change in Law, or (ii) so long as no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing at such time, upon the designation by the Lead Borrower of a Subsidiary Guarantor as a “Designated Non-Guarantor Subsidiary,” in the case of each of clauses (i) and (ii) above (x) such Subsidiary shall be automatically released from its obligations under the Guaranty and (y) any Liens granted by such Subsidiary or Liens on the Equity Interests of such Subsidiary (to the extent such Equity Interests have become Excluded Equity or are being transferred to another Person) shall be automatically released;

 

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(d) upon request by the Administrative Agent at any time, the Required Lenders will confirm in writing the Administrative Agent’s authority to release or subordinate its interest in particular types or items of property, or to release any Guarantor from its obligations under the Guaranty pursuant to this Section 9.11. In each case as specified in this Section 9.11, the Administrative Agent will promptly (and each Lender irrevocably authorizes the Administrative Agent to), at the Borrower’s expense, execute and deliver to the applicable Loan Party such documents as such Loan Party may reasonably request to evidence the release or subordination of such item of Collateral from the assignment and security interest granted under the Collateral Documents, or to evidence the release of such Guarantor from its obligations under the Guaranty, in each case in accordance with the terms of the Loan Documents and this Section 9.11;

(e) at the request of Holdings from time to time, the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent will, and are hereby irrevocably authorized and directed by the Lenders and the other Secured Parties to, in each case on behalf of such Lender or other Secured Party and without any further consent, authorization or other action by such Lender or other Secured Party, execute and deliver one or more amendments, supplements or other modifications to the Collateral Documents to:

(i) cure any ambiguity, omission, defect or inconsistency therein or reflect changes of a minor, technical or administrative nature;

(ii) provide for Liens permitted by Section 7.01;

(iii) add to the Collateral;

(iv) make any changes necessary or desirable, in the good faith determination of Holdings, in order to implement any transaction that is subject to Section 7.04 and is completed in compliance therewith;

(v) make any other change to the Collateral Documents to provide for additional Indebtedness or other obligations that are permitted by the terms of this Agreement to be secured by a Lien on the Collateral on a pari passu or junior basis with the Liens securing the Obligations, including changes to the “Secured Obligations” (or similar term) in the Collateral Documents (or any other term, however described, relating to the obligations of the Loan Parties and the Restricted Subsidiaries that are subject to the security interest granted therein);

(vi) amend or modify any Collateral Document to the extent necessary to (A) conform any restriction or limitation contained therein to any analogous restriction or limitation contained in this Agreement or to eliminate any restriction or limitation therein that is not contained in this Agreement except to the extent such restriction or limitation is necessary to create, perfect, preserve or enforce the security interest in the Collateral purported to be created by such Collateral Document and (B) conform the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement (including any amendment or other modification to exclude from the Liens created or purported to be created by such Collateral Document any assets that, in accordance with the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement, would not be or would no longer be required to be subject to such Liens (it being understood and agreed that such exclusion may provide that its effectiveness is delayed until the satisfaction of any requirement set forth in the Collateral and Guarantee Requirements that must be satisfied in order for such assets to not be required, in accordance with the Collateral and Guarantee Requirements, to be subject to such Liens)); and

 

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(vii) make any other change thereto that does not adversely affect the Lenders or the other Secured Parties in any material respect; and

(viii) to enter into any First Lien Intercreditor Agreement, the Intercreditor Agreement, any Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement and any other intercreditor agreement or subordination agreement expressly contemplated by this Agreement.

Section 9.12 Other Agents; Arrangers and Managers.

(a) None of the Lenders, the Agents or Lead Arranger shall have any right, power, obligation, liability, responsibility or duty under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, except in its capacity, as applicable, as the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or a Lender hereunder and all such Persons shall have the benefit of this Article IX. Without limiting the foregoing, none of the Lenders or other Persons so identified shall have or be deemed to have any agency or fiduciary or trust relationship with any Lender, Holdings, any Borrower or any of their respective Subsidiaries. Each Lender acknowledges that it has not relied, and will not rely, on any of the Lenders or other Persons so identified in deciding to enter into this Agreement or in taking or not taking action hereunder.

(b) Each of the Loan Parties acknowledges and agrees that GS Lending Partners, an affiliate of certain of the GS Investor Lenders, is acting as the Lead Arranger in connection with the establishment of the Revolving Credit Facility and the incurrence of Initial Term B Loans hereunder. Each of the Loan Parties agrees not to assert any claim it might allege based on any actual or potential conflicts of interest that might be asserted to arise or result primarily from GS Lending Partners acting as Lead Arranger hereunder, on the one hand, and the GS Investor Lenders’ relationships with you as described and referred to herein or in the other Loan Documents, on the other hand.

Section 9.13 Appointment of Supplemental Administrative Agents.

(a) It is the purpose of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents that there shall be no violation of any Law of any jurisdiction denying or restricting the right of banking corporations or associations to transact business as agent or trustee in such jurisdiction. It is recognized that in case of litigation under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, and in particular in case of the enforcement of any of the Loan Documents, or in case the Administrative Agent deems that by reason of any present or future Law of any jurisdiction it may not exercise any of the rights, powers or remedies granted herein or in any of the other Loan Documents or take any other action which may be desirable or necessary in connection therewith, the Administrative Agent is hereby authorized to appoint an additional individual or institution selected by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion as a separate trustee, co-trustee, administrative agent, collateral agent, administrative sub-agent or administrative co-agent (any such additional individual or institution being referred to herein individually as a “Supplemental Administrative Agent” and, collectively, as “Supplemental Administrative Agents”).

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exercised by or vested in or conveyed to the Administrative Agent with respect to such Collateral shall be exercisable by and vest in such Supplemental Administrative Agent to the extent, and only to the extent, necessary to enable such Supplemental Administrative Agent to exercise such rights, powers and privileges with respect to such Collateral and to perform such duties with respect to such Collateral, and every covenant and obligation contained in the Loan Documents and necessary to the exercise or performance thereof by such Supplemental Administrative Agent shall run to and be enforceable by either the Administrative Agent or such Supplemental Administrative Agent, and (ii) the provisions of this Article IX and of Section 10.04 and Section 10.05 that refer to the Administrative Agent shall inure to the benefit of such Supplemental Administrative Agent and all references therein to the Administrative Agent shall be deemed to be references to the Administrative Agent and/or such Supplemental Administrative Agent, as the context may require.

(c) Should any instrument in writing from any Loan Party be required by any Supplemental Administrative Agent so appointed by the Administrative Agent for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to him or it such rights, powers, privileges and duties, Holdings shall, or shall cause such Loan Party to, execute, acknowledge and deliver any and all such instruments promptly upon request by the Administrative Agent. In case any Supplemental Administrative Agent, or a successor thereto, shall die, become incapable of acting, resign or be removed, all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of such Supplemental Administrative Agent, to the extent permitted by Law, shall vest in and be exercised by the Administrative Agent until the appointment of a new Supplemental Administrative Agent.

Section 9.14 Withholding Tax. To the extent required by any applicable Law (as determined in good faith by the Administrative Agent), the Administrative Agent may deduct or withhold from any payment to any Lender under any Loan Document an amount equivalent to any applicable withholding Tax. If the Internal Revenue Service or any other Governmental Authority asserts a claim that the Administrative Agent did not properly withhold Tax from amounts paid to or for the account of any Lender for any reason (including because the appropriate form was not delivered or was not properly executed or because such Lender failed to notify the Administrative Agent of a change in circumstance that rendered the exemption from, or reduction of, withholding Tax ineffective), such Lender shall indemnify and hold harmless the Administrative Agent fully for all amounts paid, directly or indirectly, by the Administrative Agent as Tax or otherwise, including any penalties, additions to Tax or interest and together with all expenses (including legal expenses, allocated internal costs and out-of-pocket expenses) incurred, whether or not such Tax was correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to any Lender by the Administrative Agent shall be conclusive absent manifest error. Each Lender hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent to set off and apply any and all amounts at any time owing to such Lender under this Agreement or any other Loan Document against any amount due the Administrative Agent under this Section 9.14. The agreements in this Section 9.14 shall survive the resignation and/or replacement of the Administrative Agent, any assignment of rights by, or the replacement of, a Lender, the termination of this Agreement and the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all other obligations. For the avoidance of doubt, (1) the term “Lender shall, for purposes of this Section 9.14, include any L/C Issuer and (2) this Section 9.14 shall not limit or expand the obligations of Holdings, any Borrower or any Guarantor under Section 3.01 or any other provision of this Agreement.

Section 9.15 GS Investor Provision. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, at any time prior to the Disposition Date (i) all discretionary determinations, waivers and consents that are referred to in this Agreement or the Loan Document as being satisfactory (or reasonably satisfactory) to the Administrative Agent or requiring the Administrative Agent’s discretion, waiver or consent, shall mean for all purposes herein and in the Loan Documents that such discretionary

 

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determinations, waivers and consents must be satisfactory (or reasonably satisfactory) to the Required Lenders and requiring the Required Lenders discretion, waiver and consent (or, in each case, the Administrative Agent at the direction of the Required Lenders), including without limitation any amendments, waivers or consents (including any such amendments, waivers or consents that are minor, technical or administrative in nature), determinations as to whether any applicable documentation (including intercreditor agreements or subordination agreements) or other deliverable hereunder is in form and substance satisfactory (or reasonably satisfactory) to the Administrative Agent (which must be in form and substance satisfactory (or reasonably satisfactory) to the Required Lenders), determinations as to collateral and guaranty matters (including the Collateral and Guarantee Requirements) and extensions of time periods in order to comply with the terms of this agreement and (ii) any notices, certificates and other documents and information that would otherwise be required to be delivered under this Agreement or any other Loan Document to the Administrative Agent only will be required to be delivered to the Administrative Agent and the GS Investor Lenders concurrently (provided that the posting of any such information on IntraLinks, Debt X, SyndTrak Online or by similar electronic means that are accessible by the Administrative Agent and the GS Investor Lenders shall be deemed sufficient delivery for purposes of this clause (ii)). Notwithstanding the foregoing, borrowing and conversion mechanics (including consents to assignments or consents to a new Lender), interest rate determinations, disbursements of funds, distribution of payments and maintenance of a register and other purely administrative or mechanical matters under the Loan Documents and actions under and related to Sections 1.08(c) and (d), 2.14 (other than Section 2.14(g)(v)), 2.15 (provided that notice under Section 2.15(d) shall be provided to the GS Investor Lenders and the Administrative Agent), 2.16, 2.17, 2.18 (other than with respect to clause (iii) the definition of “Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness”) and, solely with respect to making modifications to the Intercreditor Agreement, any First Lien Intercreditor Agreement, any Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement and any other intercreditor agreement or subordination agreement expressly contemplated by this Agreement that may be necessary to reflect the identity of any Debt Representatives acceding to such applicable intercreditor or subordination agreement and completing the information with respect to such Indebtedness otherwise required to complete such forms attached hereto as Exhibit M or N with respect to Indebtedness permitted under this Agreement, 10.24. Any discretionary determinations, waivers or consents effected by a GS Investors may be requested of the GS Investor at the following notice address (or such other contact and notice information as may be specified to Holdings and Administrative Agent by the GS Investor Lenders from time to time in writing): Kirsten Hagen at 200 West Street, New York, NY 10282 (email: kirsten.hagen@gs.com).

Section 9.16 Certain ERISA Matters.

(a) Each Lender (x) represents and warrants, as of the date such Person became a Lender party hereto, to, and (y) covenants, from the date such Person became a Lender party hereto to the date such Person ceases being a Lender party hereto, for the benefit of, the Administrative Agent and its Affiliates, and not, for the avoidance of doubt, to or for the benefit of Holdings or any other Loan Party, that at least one of the following is and will be true:

(i) such Lender is not using “plan assets” (within the meaning of Section 3(42) of ERISA or otherwise) of one or more Benefit Plans in connection with the Loans, Commitments or the Letters of Credit,

(ii) the transaction exemption set forth in one or more PTEs, such as PTE 84-14 (a class exemption for certain transactions determined by independent qualified professional asset managers), PTE 95-60 (a class exemption for certain transactions involving insurance company general accounts), PTE 90-1 (a class exemption for certain transactions involving insurance company pooled separate accounts), PTE 91-38 (a class exemption for certain transactions involving bank collective investment funds) or PTE

 

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96-23 (a class exemption for certain transactions determined by in-house asset managers), is applicable with respect to such Lender’s entrance into, participation in, administration of and performance of the Loans, the Commitments, the Letters of Credit and this Agreement,

(iii) (A) such Lender is an investment fund managed by a “Qualified Professional Asset Manager” (within the meaning of Part VI of PTE 84-14), (B) such Qualified Professional Asset Manager made the investment decision on behalf of such Lender to enter into, participate in, administer and perform the Loans, the Commitments, the Letters of Credit and this Agreement, (C) the entrance into, participation in, administration of and performance of the Loans, the Commitments, the Letters of Credit and this Agreement satisfies the requirements of sub-sections (b) through (g) of Part I of PTE 84-14 and (D) to the best knowledge of such Lender, the requirements of subsection (a) of Part I of PTE 84-14 are satisfied with respect to such Lender’s entrance into, participation in, administration of and performance of the Loans, the Commitments, the Letters of Credit and this Agreement, or

(iv) such other representation, warranty and covenant as may be agreed in writing between the Administrative Agent, in its sole discretion, and such Lender.

(b) In addition, unless either (1) sub-clause (i) in the immediately preceding clause (a) is true with respect to a Lender or (2) a Lender has provided another representation, warranty and covenant in accordance with sub-clause (iv) in the immediately preceding clause (a), such Lender further (x) represents and warrants, as of the date such Person became a Lender party hereto, to, and (y) covenants, from the date such Person became a Lender party hereto to the date such Person ceases being a Lender party hereto, for the benefit of, the Administrative Agent and its Affiliates, and not, for the avoidance of doubt, to or for the benefit of Holdings or any other Loan Party, that none of the Administrative Agent or any of its Affiliates is a fiduciary with respect to the assets of such Lender involved in the Loans, the Commitments, the Letters of Credit and the Agreement (including in connection with the reservation or exercise of any rights by the Administrative Agent under this Agreement, any Loan Document or any documents related to hereto or thereto).

ARTICLE X

Miscellaneous

Section 10.01 Amendments, Etc. Except as otherwise set forth in this Agreement or other Loan Documents, no amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, and no consent to any departure by Holdings or any other Loan Party therefrom, shall be effective unless in writing signed by the Required Lenders, the Administrative Agent (to the extent that such waiver, amendment or modification does not affect the rights, duties, privileges or obligations of the Administrative Agent under this Agreement, the Administrative Agent shall execute such waiver, amendment or other modification to the extent approved by the Required Lenders; provided, to the extent such waiver, amendment or modification was delivered to the Administrative Agent and does not affect the rights, duties, privileges or obligations of the Administrative Agent under this Agreement, the Administrative Agent’s failure to so execute shall not impact the effectiveness of such waiver, amendment or modification) and Holdings or the applicable Loan Party, as the case may be, and each such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which given; provided, no such amendment, waiver or consent shall:

 

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(a) extend or increase the Commitment of any Lender without the written consent of each Lender directly and adversely affected thereby (it being understood that a waiver of any condition precedent set forth in Section 4.03 or the waiver of any Default, Event of Default, mandatory prepayment or mandatory reduction of the Commitments shall not constitute an extension or increase of any Commitment of any Lender);

(b) postpone any date scheduled for, or reduce or forgive the amount of, any payment of principal or interest under Section 2.07 or Section 2.08, fees or other amounts (other than default interest) without the written consent of each Lender directly and adversely affected thereby (it being understood that the waiver of (or amendment to the terms of) any mandatory prepayment of the Term Loans shall not constitute a postponement of any date scheduled for the payment of principal or interest);

(c) reduce the principal of, or (subject to Section 1.15) the rate of interest specified herein on, any Loan or L/C Borrowing, or (subject to clause (iii) of the second proviso to this Section 10.01) any fees or other amounts payable hereunder or under any other Loan Document without the written consent of each Lender directly and adversely affected thereby (it being understood that any change to the definition of “Total Leverage Ratio”, “Secured Leverage Ratio” or “First Lien Senior Secured Leverage Ratio” or in the component definitions thereof shall not constitute a reduction in the rate of interest or fees; provided, only the consent of the Required Lenders shall be necessary to amend the definition of “Default Rate” or to waive any obligation of any Borrower to pay interest at the Default Rate);

(d) (i) (x) change any provision of this Section 10.01 or the definition of “Required Lenders” without the written consent of each Lender, (y) change the definition of “Required Delayed Draw Lenders” without the written consent of each Delayed Draw Term Lender or (z) change the definition of “Required Revolving Credit Lenders” without the written consent of each Revolving Credit Lender or (ii) amend, waive or otherwise modify any term or provision of Section 7.09, 8.01(b) (solely as it relates to Section 7.09), 8.05, or the definition of “First Lien Senior Secured Leverage Ratio” (or any of its component definitions (as used in such Sections but not as used in other Sections of this Agreement)), without the written consent of the Required Revolving Credit Lenders (and only the consent of the Required Revolving Credit Lenders shall be required to amend, waive or otherwise modify any term or provision of Section 7.09, 8.01(b) (solely as it relates to Section 7.09), 8.05, the definition of “First Lien Senior Secured Leverage Ratio” (or any of its component definitions (as used in such Sections but not as used in other Sections of this Agreement)));

(e) release all or substantially all of the Collateral in any transaction or series of related transactions, without the written consent of each Lender; provided, any transaction permitted under Section 7.04 or Section 7.05 shall not be subject to this clause (e) to the extent such transaction does not result in the release of all or substantially all of the Collateral;

(f) change the currency in which any Loan is denominated without the written consent of each Lender holding such Loans;

(g) release all or substantially all of the value of the Guarantees in any transaction or series of related transactions, without the written consent of each Lender; provided, any transaction permitted under Section 7.04 or Section 7.05 shall not be subject to this clause (g) to the extent such transaction does not result in the release of all or substantially all of the Guarantees;

 

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(h) [Intentionally omitted];

(i) waive, amend or modify the provisions of Section 2.13 or the definition of “Applicable Percentage” in a manner that would by its terms alter the pro rata sharing of payments required thereby (except in connection with any transaction otherwise permitted under Sections 2.05(d), 2.14, 2.15, 2.17 or 2.18) without the written consent of each Lender directly and adversely affected thereby; or

(j) waive, amend or modify the provisions of Section 8.04 without the written consent of each Lender directly and adversely affected thereby;

and provided, further, (i) no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by each L/C Issuer in addition to the Lenders required above, affect the rights or duties of an L/C Issuer under this Agreement or any Letter of Credit Application relating to any Letter of Credit issued or to be issued by it; (ii) no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by the Administrative Agent in addition to the Lenders required above, affect the rights or duties of, or any fees or other amounts payable to, the Administrative Agent under this Agreement or any other Loan Document; (iii) (x) [intentionally omitted], (y) Section 4.02, as it pertains to the Delayed Draw Term Facility may not be amended, waived or otherwise modified without the consent of the Required Delayed Draw Lenders (and only the consent of the Delayed Draw Term Lenders shall be required to amend, waive or otherwise modify Section 4.02) and (z) Section 4.03, as it pertains to the Revolving Credit Facility, may not be amended, waived or otherwise modified without the consent of the Required Revolving Lenders (and only the consent of the Required Revolving Lenders shall be required to amend, waive or otherwise modify Section 4.03); and (iv) any amendment or waiver that by its terms affects the rights or duties of Lenders holding Loans or Commitments of a particular Class (but not the Lenders holding Loans or Commitments of any other Class) will require only the requisite percentage in interest of the affected Class of Lenders that would be required to consent thereto if such Class of Lenders were the only Class of Lenders.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, (a) this Agreement may be amended (or amended and restated) with the written consent of the Administrative Agent and Holdings (i) to add one or more additional credit facilities to this Agreement to effect the provisions of Sections 2.14, 2.15 and 2.18 and to permit the extensions of credit from time to time outstanding thereunder and the accrued interest and fees in respect thereof to share ratably in the benefits of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents with the Term Loans and the Revolving Credit Loans and the accrued interest and fees in respect thereof and (ii) to include appropriately the Lenders holding such credit facilities in any determination of the Required Lenders and, if applicable, the Required Revolving Credit Lenders, (b) [reserved], (c) upon notice thereof by Holdings to the Administrative Agent with respect to the inclusion of any previously absent financial maintenance covenant, this Agreement shall be amended by an agreement in writing entered into by Holdings and the Administrative Agent without the need to obtain the consent of any Lender to include such covenant on the date of the incurrence of the applicable Indebtedness to the extent required by the terms of such definition or section and (d) this Agreement and the other Loan Documents may be amended or supplemented by an agreement or agreements in writing by Holdings and the Administrative Agent, without the need to obtain the consent of any Lender, to cure any ambiguity, omission, defect or inconsistency or reflect changes of a minor, technical or administrative nature; provided that the Required Lenders shall have been afforded five (5) Business Days to object to such amendment. Notwithstanding the foregoing, amendments to or waivers of any terms or provisions relating solely to (I) the Revolving Credit Commitments (or, subject to subclause (A) above, Letters of Credit) will require only the written approval of a Required Revolving Credit Lenders with respect to the outstanding Revolving Credit Commitments and Holdings or (II) the Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments will require only the written approval of a Required Delayed Draw Lenders of the outstanding Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments and Holdings.

 

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Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Lender consent is required to effect any amendment, modification or supplement to the Intercreditor Agreement, any First Lien Intercreditor Agreement (or form thereof), any Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement (or form thereof) and/or any other intercreditor or subordination arrangements entered into in connection herewith (i) that is for the purpose of adding the holders of Indebtedness (or any Permitted Refinancing of the foregoing) (or a Debt Representative with respect thereto) as parties thereto, as expressly contemplated by the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement, such First Lien Intercreditor Agreement, such Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement or such other intercreditor or subordination arrangement, as applicable (it being understood that any such amendment, modification or supplement may make such other changes to the applicable intercreditor or subordination agreement as, in the good faith determination of the Administrative Agent, are required to effectuate the foregoing), (ii) that is expressly contemplated by the Intercreditor Agreement, any First Lien Intercreditor Agreement, any Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement and/or any other intercreditor or subordination arrangements entered into in connection herewith or (iii) that effects changes that are not material to the interests of the Lenders; provided that no such agreement shall directly and adversely amend, modify or otherwise affect the rights or duties of the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any other Loan Document without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent, as applicable.

If any amendment or modification to the Second Lien Credit Agreement amends or modifies any covenant or an event of default contained in the Second Lien Credit Agreement (or any related definitions), in each case, in a manner that is more restrictive than the applicable provisions permit as of the Closing Date, or if any amendment or modification to the Second Lien Credit Agreement adds an additional covenant or event of default therein, the Loan Parties acknowledge and agree that this Agreement or the other Loan Documents, as the case may be, shall be automatically amended or modified to affect similar amendments or modifications with respect to this Agreement or such other Loan Documents, without the need for any further action or consent by Holdings, the other Loan Parties, or any other party. In furtherance of the foregoing, the Loan Parties shall permit the Administrative Agent and the Lenders to document each such similar amendment or modification to this Agreement or such other Loan Document or insert a corresponding new covenant or event of default in this Agreement or such other Loan Document (subject to a requirement to reflect a 20.0% cushion for any dollar baskets below the amount agreed under the Second Lien Credit Agreement) without any need for any further action or consent by Holdings or any other Loan Party.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section 10.01, any guarantees, collateral security documents and related documents executed by Subsidiaries in connection with this Agreement may be in a form reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent and may be, together with this Agreement, amended, supplemented and waived with the consent of the Administrative Agent at the request of Holdings without the need to obtain the consent of any Lender if such amendment, supplement or waiver is delivered in order (i) to comply with local Law or advice of local counsel, (ii) to cure ambiguities, omissions, mistakes or defects or (iii) to cause such guarantee, collateral security document or other document to be consistent with this Agreement and the other Loan Documents. Furthermore, with the consent of the Administrative Agent at the request of Holdings (without the need to obtain any consent of any Lender), any Loan Document may be amended to cure ambiguities, omissions, mistakes or defects.

Section 10.02 Notices and Other Communications; Facsimile Copies.

(a) General. Unless otherwise expressly provided herein, all notices and other communications provided for hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall be in writing (including by facsimile or electronic mail transmission). All such written notices shall be mailed, faxed or delivered to the applicable address, facsimile number or electronic mail address, and all notices and other communications expressly permitted hereunder to be given by telephone shall be made to the applicable telephone number, as follows:

 

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(i) if to Holdings, the Administrative Agent, an L/C Issuer, the GS Investor Lenders or Principal Investor Representative, to the address, facsimile number, electronic mail address or telephone number specified for such Person on Schedule 10.02 or to such other address, facsimile number, electronic mail address or telephone number as shall be designated by such party in a notice to the other parties; and

(ii) if to any other Lender, to the address, facsimile number, electronic mail address or telephone number specified in its Administrative Questionnaire or to such other address, facsimile number, electronic mail address or telephone number as shall be designated by such party in a written notice to Holdings, the Administrative Agent and the L/C Issuers.

All such notices and other communications shall be deemed to be given or made upon the earlier to occur of (i) actual receipt by the relevant party hereto and (ii) (A) if delivered by hand or by courier, when signed for by or on behalf of the relevant party hereto; (B) if delivered by mail, four (4) Business Days after deposit in the mails, postage prepaid; (C) if delivered by facsimile, when sent and receipt has been confirmed by telephone; and (D) if delivered by electronic mail (which form of delivery is subject to the provisions of Section 10.02(b)), when delivered; provided, notices and other communications to the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuer pursuant to Article II shall not be effective until actually received by such Person during the person’s normal business hours. In no event shall a voice mail message be effective as a notice, communication or confirmation hereunder.

(b) Electronic Communications. Notices and other communications to the Lenders and the L/C Issuers hereunder may be delivered or furnished by electronic communication (including e-mail and Internet or intranet websites) pursuant to procedures approved by the Administrative Agent; provided, the foregoing shall not apply to notices to any Lender or any L/C Issuer pursuant to Article II if such Lender or such L/C Issuer, as applicable, has notified the Administrative Agent that it is incapable of receiving notices under such Article by electronic communication. The Administrative Agent or Holdings may, in their discretion, agree to accept notices and other communications to it hereunder by electronic communications pursuant to procedures approved by it; provided, approval of such procedures may be limited to particular notices or communications.

Unless the Administrative Agent otherwise prescribes, (i) notices and other communications sent to an e-mail address shall be deemed received upon the sender’s receipt of an acknowledgment from the intended recipient (such as by the “return receipt requested” function, as available, return e-mail or other written acknowledgment); provided, if such notice or other communication is not sent during the normal business hours of the recipient, such notice or communication shall be deemed to have been sent at the opening of business on the next Business Day for the recipient, and (ii) notices or communications posted to an Internet or intranet website shall be deemed received upon the deemed receipt by the intended recipient at its e-mail address as described in the foregoing clause (i) of notification that such notice or communication is available and identifying the website address therefor.

(c) The Platform. THE PLATFORM IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.” THE AGENT PARTIES (AS DEFINED BELOW) DO NOT WARRANT THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE BORROWER MATERIALS OR THE ADEQUACY OF THE PLATFORM, AND EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM LIABILITY FOR ERRORS IN OR OMISSIONS FROM THE BORROWER MATERIALS. NO WARRANTY

 

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OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS OR FREEDOM FROM VIRUSES OR OTHER CODE DEFECTS, IS MADE BY ANY AGENT PARTY IN CONNECTION WITH THE BORROWER MATERIALS OR THE PLATFORM. In no event shall the Administrative Agent or any of its Agent-Related Persons (collectively, the “Agent Parties”) have any liability to the Loan Parties, any Lender, any L/C Issuer or any other Person for losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses of any kind (whether in tort, contract or otherwise) arising out of Holdings’ or the Administrative Agent’s transmission of Borrower Materials through the Internet, except to the extent that such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses are determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by a final and non-appealable judgment to have resulted from the gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct of such Agent Party; provided, however, that in no event shall any Agent Party have any liability to any Loan Party, any Lender, any L/C Issuer or any other Person for indirect, special, incidental, consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to direct or actual damages).

(d) Change of Address, Etc. Each of Holdings, the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent, and any L/C Issuer may change its address, telecopier or telephone number for notices and other communications hereunder by notice to the other parties hereto. Each other Lender may change its address, facsimile or telephone number for notices and other communications hereunder by notice to Holdings, the Administrative Agent and the L/C Issuers. In addition, each Lender agrees to notify the Administrative Agents from time to time to ensure that the Administrative Agent has on record (i) an effective address, contact name, telephone number, telecopier number and electronic mail address to which notices and other communications may be sent and (ii) accurate wire instructions for such Lender. Furthermore, each Public Lender agrees to cause at least one individual at or on behalf of such Public Lender to at all times have selected the “Private Side Information” or similar designation on the content declaration screen of the Platform in order to enable such Public Lender or its delegate, in accordance with such Public Lender’s compliance procedures and applicable Law, including United States federal and state securities Laws, to make reference to Borrower Materials that are not made available through the “Public Side Information” portion of the Platform and that may contain material non-public information with respect to Holdings or a Borrower or their securities for purposes of United States federal or state securities laws.

(e) Reliance by Administrative Agent, L/C Issuers and Lenders. The Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuers and the Lenders shall be entitled to rely and act upon any notices (including telephonic Committed Loan Notices) purportedly given by or on behalf of Holdings even if (i) such notices were not made in a manner specified herein, were incomplete or were not preceded or followed by any other form of notice specified herein, or (ii) the terms thereof, as understood by the recipient, varied from any confirmation thereof. The Borrowers shall indemnify the Administrative Agent, the L/C Issuers, each Lender and the Related Parties of each of them from all losses, costs, expenses and liabilities resulting from the reliance by such Person on each notice purportedly given by or on behalf of Holdings other than those arising as a result of such Person’s gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct (as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final and non-appealable decision). All telephonic notices to and other telephonic communications with the Administrative Agent may be recorded by the Administrative Agent, and each of the parties hereto hereby consents to such recording.

(f) Notice to other Loan Parties. Holdings agrees that notices to be given to any other Loan Party under this Agreement or any other Loan Document may be given to Holdings in accordance with the provisions of this Section 10.02 with the same effect as if given to such other Loan Party in accordance with the terms hereunder or thereunder.

 

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Section 10.03 No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies. No failure by any Lender, any L/C Issuer or the Administrative Agent to exercise, and no delay by any such Person in exercising, any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, remedy, power or privilege. The rights, remedies, powers and privileges herein provided, and provided under each other Loan Document, are cumulative and not exclusive of any rights, remedies, powers and privileges provided by Law.

Section 10.04 Attorney Costs and Expenses. The Borrowers agree (a) if the Closing Date occurs, to pay or reimburse the Administrative Agent and the GS Investor Lenders for all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket costs and expenses (including but not limited to expenses of the Administrative Agents and the GS Investor Lenders diligence investigations, fees of consultants hired with Holdings prior written consent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) and travel expenses) associated with the preparation, negotiation, execution and delivery, administration, amendment, modification, waiver and/or enforcement of this Agreement, the other Loan Documents and any ancillary documents in connection with the foregoing, and any amendment, waiver, consent or other modification of the provisions hereof and thereof (whether or not the transactions contemplated thereby are consummated), limited in the case of Attorney Costs to all Attorney Costs of Milbank LLP (or other counsel retained with Holdings consent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed)) and one local and foreign counsel in each appropriate jurisdiction, which may be a single local or foreign counsel acting in multiple jurisdictions, and in the case of an actual or reasonably perceived conflict of interest where the affected Persons informs Holdings of such conflict, of one such other firm of counsel for the affected Persons and (b) to pay or reimburse the Administrative Agent and each Lender for all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred in connection with the enforcement of any rights or remedies under this Agreement or the other Loan Documents (including all costs and expenses incurred in connection with any workout or restructuring in respect of the Loans, all such costs and expenses incurred during any legal proceeding, including any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law, and including all Attorney Costs of counsel to the one counsel of both the Administrative Agent and the GS Investor Lenders). The foregoing costs and expenses shall include all reasonable search, filing, recording and title insurance charges and fees related thereto, and other reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses incurred by any Agent. The agreements in this Section 10.04 shall survive the termination of the Commitments and repayment of all other Obligations. All amounts due under this Section 10.04 shall be paid promptly, and in no event no later than thirty (30) calendar days, following receipt by Holdings of an invoice relating thereto setting forth such expenses in reasonable detail. If any Loan Party fails to pay when due any costs, expenses or other amounts payable by it hereunder or under any Loan Document, such amount may be paid on behalf of such Loan Party by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion.

Section 10.05 Indemnification by the Borrowers. Whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby are consummated, the Borrowers shall indemnify and hold harmless each Agent-Related Person, each Lender, each L/C Issuer and their respective Affiliates, directors, officers, employees, partners, equity holders, members, controlling persons, counsel, agents, trustees, advisors, and other representatives and the successors and assigns of each of the foregoing (collectively, the “Indemnitees”) from and against any and all losses, liabilities, damages, claims, and reasonable and documented out-of-pocket fees and expenses (including reasonable Attorney Costs of one counsel for all Indemnitees and, if necessary, one firm of local counsel in each appropriate jurisdiction (which may include a single special counsel acting in multiple jurisdictions) for all Indemnitees (and, in the case of an

 

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actual or perceived conflict of interest, where the Indemnitee affected by such conflict informs the Lead Borrower of such conflict and thereafter retains its own counsel, of another firm of counsel for such affected Indemnitee)) of any such Indemnitee arising out of or relating to any claim or any litigation or other proceeding (regardless of whether such Indemnitee is a party thereto and whether or not such proceedings are brought by any Borrower, its equity holders, its Affiliates, creditors or any other third person) that relates to the Transactions, including the financing contemplated hereby) of any kind or nature whatsoever which may at any time be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against any such Indemnitee in any way relating to or arising out of or in connection with (a) the negotiation, execution, delivery, enforcement, performance or administration of any Loan Document or any other agreement, letter or instrument delivered in connection with the transactions contemplated thereby or the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby, (b) any Commitment, Loan or Letter of Credit or the use or proposed use of the proceeds therefrom (including any refusal by an L/C Issuer to honor a demand for payment under a Letter of Credit if the documents presented in connection with such demand do not strictly comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit), (c) any actual or alleged presence or Release or threat of Release of Hazardous Materials on, at, under or from any property currently or formerly owned or operated by Holdings, any Subsidiary or any other Loan Party, or any Environmental Liability related in any way to Holdings, any Subsidiary or any other Loan Party, or (d) any actual or prospective claim, litigation, investigation or proceeding relating to any of the foregoing, whether based on contract, tort or any other theory (including any investigation of, preparation for, or defense of any pending or threatened claim, investigation, litigation or proceeding) (all the foregoing, collectively, the “Indemnified Liabilities”), in all cases, whether or not caused by or arising, in whole or in part, out of the negligence of the Indemnitee; provided, such indemnity shall not, as to any Indemnitee, be available to the extent that such liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, claims, demands, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements resulted from (x) the gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee or of any of its Controlled Affiliates or any of the officers, directors, employees, agents, advisors or members of any of the foregoing, in each case who are involved in or aware of the Transactions (as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final and non-appealable judgment), (y) a material breach of the Loan Documents by such Indemnitee or one of its Affiliates (as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final and non-appealable judgment) or (z) disputes solely between and among such Indemnitees to the extent such disputes do not arise from any act or omission of Holdings, any Borrower or any of their Affiliates (other than with respect to a claim against an Indemnitee acting in its capacity as an Agent or similar role under the Loan Documents unless such claim arose from the gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee (as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final and non-appealable judgment)). Without in any way limiting the indemnification obligations of the Loan Parties under this Section 10.05, no Indemnitee shall be liable for any damages arising from the use by others of any information or other materials obtained through IntraLinks or other similar information transmission systems in connection with this Agreement, nor shall any Indemnitee or any Loan Party have any liability for any special, punitive, indirect or consequential damages relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document or arising out of its activities in connection herewith or therewith (whether before or after the Closing Date) other than any punitive, indirect or consequential damages that otherwise represent Indemnified Liabilities of any Loan Party arising from a claim by a third party unaffiliated with any Indemnitee. In the case of an investigation, litigation or other proceeding to which the indemnity in this Section 10.05 applies, such indemnity shall be effective whether or not such investigation, litigation or proceeding is brought by any Loan Party, its directors, managers, partners, stockholders or creditors or an Indemnitee or any other Person, whether or not any Indemnitee is otherwise a party thereto and whether or not any of the transactions contemplated hereunder or under any of the other Loan Documents is consummated. All amounts due under this Section 10.05 shall be paid promptly, and in no event later than thirty (30) calendar days, after demand therefor; provided, however, that such Indemnitee shall promptly refund such amount to the extent that there is a final judicial or arbitral determination that such Indemnitee was not entitled to indemnification or contribution rights with respect to such payment pursuant to the express

 

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terms of this Section 10.05. The agreements in this Section 10.05 shall survive the resignation of the Administrative Agent, the replacement of any Lender, the termination of the Loan Documents and the termination of the Aggregate Commitments and the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all the other Obligations. For the avoidance of doubt, this Section 10.05 shall not apply to Taxes, other than any Taxes that represent losses, liabilities, damages, claims, etc. arising from any non-Tax claim.

Section 10.06 Payments Set Aside. To the extent that any payment by or on behalf of a Borrower is made to any Agent, the L/C Issuer or any Lender, or any Agent, the L/C Issuer or any Lender exercises its right of setoff, and such payment or the proceeds of such setoff or any part thereof is subsequently invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside or required (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by such Agent, the L/C Issuer or such Lender in its discretion) to be repaid to a trustee, receiver or any other party, in connection with any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law or otherwise, then (a) to the extent of such recovery, the obligation or part thereof originally intended to be satisfied shall be revived and continued in full force and effect as if such payment had not been made or such setoff had not occurred, and (b) each Lender and the L/C Issuer severally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent upon demand its applicable share of any amount so recovered from or repaid by any Agent, plus interest thereon from the date of such demand to the date such payment is made at a rate per annum equal to the Federal Funds Rate. The obligations of the Lenders and the L/C Issuer under clause (b) of the preceding sentence shall survive the payment in full of the Obligations and the termination of this Agreement.

Section 10.07 Successors and Assigns.

(a) General. The provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby. Except as otherwise provided herein, a Borrower may not assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of each Lender. No Lender may assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder except (i) to an Eligible Assignee, (ii) by way of participation in accordance with the provisions of Section 10.07(g), or (iii) by way of pledge or assignment of a security interest subject to the restrictions of Section 10.07(h). Any other attempted assignment or transfer by any party hereto shall be null and void. Nothing in this Agreement, expressed or implied, shall be construed to confer upon any Person (other than the parties hereto, their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby, Participants to the extent provided in Section 10.07(g) and, to the extent expressly contemplated hereby, the Indemnitees) any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or by reason of this Agreement.

(b) Right to Assign. Subject to Section 10.07(j) below with respect to Sponsor Affiliated Lenders, any Lender may sell, assign or transfer all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitment and the Loans (including for purposes of this Section 10.07(b), participations in L/C Obligations) at the time owing to it):

(A) with respect to Term Loans, Term Loan Commitments, and/or Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments:

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(B) to any Person meeting the criteria of clause (b) of the definition of “Eligible Assignee” and consented to by each of (x) Holdings and (y) the Administrative Agent (each consent not to be unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned); and

(C) to any Person meeting the criteria of clause (c) of the definition of “Eligible Assignee” upon giving effect to such assignment pursuant to Section 10.07(j); and

(B) with respect to any assignment of Revolving Credit Commitments, and/or Revolving Credit Loans (in each case, to any Person other than a Person meeting the criteria of clause (a) of the definition of “Eligible Assignee”, but, in such case, with notice to Holdings and the Administrative Agent), with the consent of:

(A) the Administrative Agent;

(B) Holdings; and

(C) each L/C Issuer (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed);

provided, notwithstanding the foregoing clauses (i) and (ii), the consent of Holdings shall not be required if an Event of Default under Section 8.01(a), (f) or (g) has occurred and is continuing; provided, further, (x) Holdings’ refusal to accept an assignment to a Disqualified Lender will be deemed to be reasonable, (y) Holdings’ consent will be required with respect to any assignment to Disqualified Lenders, and (z) to the extent the consent of Holdings is required, Holdings shall be deemed to have consented to such assignment (other than an assignment to a Disqualified Lender) unless they have objected by written notice to the Administrative Agent within ten (10) Business Days of having received written notice thereof.

(c) Mechanics. Assignments shall be subject to the following additional conditions:

(A) except in the case of an assignment to a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund or an assignment of the entire remaining amount of the assigning Lender’s Commitment or Loans of any Class, the amount of the Commitment or Loans of the assigning Lender subject to each such assignment (determined as of the date the Assignment and Assumption with respect to such assignment is delivered to the Administrative Agent) shall not be less than $5,000,000 and integral multiples of $1,000,000 in excess thereof (in the case of the Revolving Credit Facility) or $1,000,000 (in the case of a Term Loan and/or Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments) unless Holdings and the Administrative Agent otherwise consent or such assignment is made by or to a GS Investor (in the case of a Term Loan and/or Delayed Draw Term Loan Commitments) or if the assignor’s entire interest in such facility is being made; provided, (1) no such consent of Holdings shall be required if an Event of Default under Section 8.01(a), (f) or (g) has occurred and is continuing and (2) such amounts shall be aggregated in respect of each Lender and its Affiliates or Approved Funds, if any;

 

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(B) (i) the parties to each assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent an Assignment and Assumption and (ii) the assigning Lender shall provide to Holdings a copy of such requested Assignment and Assumption irrespective of whether or not an Event of Default under Sections 8.01(a), (f) or (g) has occurred and is continuing or whether Holdings otherwise has a consent right;

(C) the performance by the Administrative Agent of all necessary “know your customer” or other similar checks under applicable laws and regulations in relation to each new Lender, the completion of which shall be evidenced by the countersignature of the Administrative Agent to the Assignment and Assumption (which, for the avoidance of doubt, shall not be construed to constitute a requirement for consent of the Administrative Agent);

(D) the Assignee, if it is not currently a Lender, shall deliver to the Administrative Agent an Administrative Questionnaire and any documentation required by Sections 3.01(g);

(E) the Assignee shall not be a Disqualified Lender or a Defaulting Lender; and

(F) receipt by the Administrative Agent from the parties to each assignment of a processing and recordation fee of $3,500 (provided, the Administrative Agent may, in its sole discretion, elect to waive such processing and recordation fee in the case of any other assignment; provided, further that such recordation fee shall not apply to assignments by a GS Investor Lender to another GS Investor Lender or GS Investor);

provided, nothing in this paragraph (c) shall prohibit any Lender from (i) assigning all or a portion of its rights and obligations among separate Facilities on a pro rata basis or (ii) assigning its rights with respect to any Exit Payment. Notwithstanding the foregoing, each Loan Party and the Lenders acknowledge and agree that Administrative Agent shall not (x) be obligated to ascertain, monitor or inquire as to whether any Lender or Participant or prospective Lender or Participant is a Disqualified Lender or (y) have any liability with respect to or arising out of any assignment or participation of loans, or disclosure of confidential information, to, or the restrictions on any exercise of rights or remedies of, any Disqualified Lender;

(d) Representations and Warranties of Assignee. Each Lender, upon execution and delivery hereof or upon succeeding in an interest in the Commitments and Loans, as the case may be, represents and warrants that as of the Closing Date or the effective date of such assignment, as applicable, that (i) (A) it is an Eligible Assignee and (B) it is not a Disqualified Lender, it being acknowledged by Holdings, the Lenders and the other Secured Parties that the Administrative Agent will be entitled to rely on such representations and warranties set forth in this clause (i) without any diligence in respect to the accuracy of such representations and warranties and any breach of such representations and warranties by such Lender will not give rise to any liability on the part of the Administrative Agent and (ii) it has experience and expertise in the making of, or investing in, commitments and loans such as the applicable Commitments and Loans, as the case may be.

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and, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, have the rights and obligations of a Lender under this Agreement, and the assigning Lender thereunder shall, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Assumption covering all of the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto but shall continue to be entitled to the benefits of Sections 3.01, 3.04, 3.05, 10.04 and 10.05 with respect to facts and circumstances occurring prior to the effective date of such assignment). Upon request, and the surrender by the assigning Lender of its Note (if any), Holdings (at its expense) shall execute and deliver a Note to the assignee Lender. Any assignment or transfer by a Lender of rights or obligations under this Agreement that does not comply with clause (c) shall be treated for purposes of this Agreement as a sale by such Lender of a participation in such rights and obligations in accordance with Section 10.07(g). For greater certainty, any assignment by a Lender pursuant to this Section 10.07 shall not in any way constitute or be deemed to constitute a novation, discharge, recession, extinguishment or substitution of the existing Indebtedness and any Indebtedness so assigned shall continue to be the same obligation and not a new obligations.

(f) Register.

(i) The Administrative Agent, acting solely for this purpose as a non-fiduciary agent of the Borrowers, shall maintain at the Administrative Agent’s Office a copy of each Assignment and Assumption delivered to it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders, and the Commitments of, and principal amounts (and related interest amounts) of the Loans, L/C Obligations (specifying the Unreimbursed Amounts) and L/C Borrowings, owing to, each Lender pursuant to the terms hereof from time to time (the “Register”). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive, absent manifest error, and the Borrowers, the Agents and the Lenders shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register pursuant to the terms hereof as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement, notwithstanding notice to the contrary. The Register shall be available for inspection by Holdings, any Borrower, any Agent and any Lender, at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice.

(ii) Notwithstanding clause (f)(i) above, in no event shall the Administrative Agent be obligated to ascertain, monitor or inquire as to whether any Lender is a Sponsor Affiliated Lender nor shall the Administrative Agent be obligated to monitor the aggregate amount of Loans or Commitments held by Sponsor Affiliated Lenders.

(g) Participations.

(i) Any Lender may at any time, without the consent of, or notice to, Holdings or the Administrative Agent, sell participations to any Person (other than a natural person, a Defaulting Lender or to Disqualified Lenders (provided in the case of a sale to a Disqualified Lender, the consent of Holdings shall only be required to the extent the list of Disqualified Lenders has been made available to such Lender)) (each, a “Participant”) in all or a portion of such Lender’s rights and/or obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitment and/or the Loans (including such Lender’s participations in L/C Obligations) owing to it); provided, (i) such Lender’s obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations and (iii) Holdings, the Agents and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly

 

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with such Lender in connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement. Any agreement or instrument pursuant to which a Lender sells such a participation shall provide that such Lender shall retain the sole right to enforce this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and to approve any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents; provided, such agreement or instrument may provide that such Lender will not, without the consent of the Participant, agree to any amendment, waiver or other modification described in Section 10.01(a), (b), (c), (e), or (f) that directly affects such Participant. Subject to Section 10.07(g)(iii), Holdings agrees that each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 3.01, 3.04 and 3.05 (through the applicable Lender), subject to the requirements and limitations of such Sections (including Sections 3.01(e) and (g) and Sections 3.06 and 3.07, and it being understood that the documentation required under Section 3.01(g) shall be delivered solely to the participating Lender), to the same extent as if it were a Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to Section 10.07(b). To the extent permitted by applicable Law, each Participant also shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 10.09 as though it were a Lender; provided, such Participant complies with Section 2.13 as though it were a Lender.

(ii) Any Lender that sells participations shall, acting solely for this purpose as a non-fiduciary agent of the Borrowers, maintain a register on which it enters the name and the address of each Participant and the principal and interest amounts of each Participant’s participation interest in the Commitments and/or Loans (or other rights or obligations) held by it (the “Participant Register”). The entries in the Participant Register shall be conclusive, absent demonstrable error, and the Borrowers and such Lender shall treat each person whose name is recorded in the Participant Register as the owner of such participation interest as the owner thereof for all purposes notwithstanding any notice to the contrary. No Lender shall have any obligation to disclose all or any portion of a Participant Register to any Person (including the identity of any Participant or any information relating to a Participant’s interest in any commitments, loans, or its other obligations under this Agreement) except to the extent that such disclosure is necessary to establish in connection with a Tax audit that such commitment, loan, or other obligation is in registered form under United States Treasury Regulations Section 5f.103-1(c) and Proposed Treasury Regulations Section 1.163-5(b) (or any amended or successor version) or, if different, under Sections 871(h) or 881(c) of the Code.

(iii) A Participant shall not be entitled to receive any greater payment under Section 3.01, 3.04 or 3.05 than the applicable Lender would have been entitled to receive with respect to the participation sold to such Participant (except to the extent such entitlement to receive a greater payment results from a Change in Law that occurs after the Participant acquired the applicable participation).

(h) Certain Assignments.

(i) Any Lender may at any time pledge or assign a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including under its Note, if any) to secure obligations of such Lender, including any pledge or assignment to secure obligations to a Federal Reserve Bank or any central bank; provided, no such pledge or assignment shall release such Lender from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute any such pledgee or assignee for such Lender as a party hereto.

 

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(ii) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, (1) any Lender may in accordance with applicable Law create a security interest in all or any portion of the Loans owing to it and the Note, if any, held by it and (2) any Lender that is a Fund may create a security interest in all or any portion of the Loans owing to it and the Note, if any, held by it to the trustee for holders of obligations owed, or securities issued, by such Fund as security for such obligations or securities; provided, unless and until such trustee actually becomes a Lender in compliance with the other provisions of this Section 10.07, (i) no such pledge shall release the pledging Lender from any of its obligations under the Loan Documents and (ii) such trustee shall not be entitled to exercise any of the rights of a Lender under the Loan Documents even though such trustee may have acquired ownership rights with respect to the pledged interest through foreclosure or otherwise.

(i) Resignation of L/C Issuer. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, any L/C Issuer may, upon thirty (30) days’ notice to Holdings and the Lenders, resign as an L/C Issuer, respectively; provided, on or prior to the expiration of such 30-day period with respect to such resignation, the relevant L/C Issuer shall have identified, in consultation with Holdings, a successor L/C Issuer willing to accept its appointment as successor L/C Issuer, as applicable. In the event of any such resignation of an L/C Issuer, the Borrowers shall be entitled to appoint from among the Revolving Credit Lenders willing to accept such appointment a successor L/C Issuer hereunder; provided, no failure by Holdings to appoint any such successor shall affect the resignation of the relevant L/C Issuer, as the case may be. If an L/C Issuer resigns as an L/C Issuer, it shall retain all the rights and obligations of an L/C Issuer hereunder with respect to all Letters of Credit outstanding as of the effective date of its resignation as an L/C Issuer and all L/C Obligations with respect thereto (including the right to require the Revolving Credit Lenders to make Base Rate Loans or fund risk participations in Unreimbursed Amounts pursuant to Section 2.03(c)). Upon the appointment of a successor L/C Issuer, (a) such successor shall succeed to and become vested with all of the rights, powers, privileges an duties of the retiring L/C Issuer, as the case may be, and (b) the successor L/C Issuer shall issue letters of credit in substitution for the Letters of Credit, if any, outstanding at the time of such succession or make other arrangements satisfactory to such L/C Issuer to effectively assume the obligations of such L/C Issuer with respect to such Letters of Credit.

(j) Assignments to Sponsor Affiliated Lenders.

    (A) Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary contained in this Agreement but subject to the terms of this Section 10.07(j), any Lender may assign all or a portion of its Term Loans to any Sponsor Affiliated Lender (including any Affiliated Debt Fund), without the consent of any Person but subject to prior notice to and acknowledgment by the Administrative Agent and Holdings.

    (B) Limitations on Assignments. After giving effect to any such assignment under this Section 10.07(j) and to all other assignments with all Sponsor Affiliated Lenders, the aggregate principal amount of all Loans and Commitments then held by all Sponsor Affiliated Lenders (other than Affiliated Debt Funds) shall not exceed 25% of the aggregate unpaid principal amount of the Term Loans then outstanding (determined as of the time of such purchase). Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary (if applicable, after giving effect to any proposed assignment to a Sponsor Affiliated Lender), if all Sponsor Affiliated Lenders (excluding Affiliated Debt Funds) own or

 

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would own, in the aggregate, more than 25% of the principal amount of all then outstanding Term Loans (i) in the event that a Sponsor Affiliated Lender (other than an Affiliated Debt Fund) has acquired any Term Loans, the assignment of such Term Loans that would cause the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans owned by Sponsor Affiliated Lenders (other than Affiliated Debt Funds) to be in excess of 25% of the principal amount of all then outstanding Term Loans or (ii) if such threshold is exceeded solely as a result of a Lender becoming a Sponsor Affiliated Lender after it has acquired Term Loans, then, in each case, such Sponsor Affiliated Lender shall use commercially reasonable efforts to assign sufficient Term Loans within thirty (30) days of the date such threshold is exceeded so that Sponsor Affiliated Lenders (excluding Affiliated Debt Funds) in the aggregate own less than 25% of the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans then outstanding; provided, in order to comply with the obligation to use commercially reasonable efforts to assign Term Loans, such Sponsor Affiliated Lender shall offer to assign the relevant Term Loans to the then-current Term Lenders in addition to potential new lenders; provided, further that there shall be no obligation for such Sponsor Affiliated Lender to assign such Term Loans at a price lower than the price such Lender paid when acquiring such Term Loans.

(C) Representations. Any purchases by Sponsor Affiliated Lenders shall require that such Sponsor Affiliated Lender clearly identify itself as a Sponsor Affiliated Lender in any Assignment and Assumption executed in connection with such purchases or sales and each such Assignment and Assumption shall contain customary “big boy” representations but no requirement to make representations as to the absence of any material nonpublic information.

(D) Lender Meetings and Information. Any Sponsor Affiliated Lender will not receive information provided solely to Lenders and will not be permitted to attend or participate in (or receive any notice of) Lender meetings or conference calls and will not be entitled to challenge the Administrative Agent’s and the Lenders’ attorney-client privilege as a result of their status as Sponsor Affiliated Lenders.

(E) Required Lender Votes. Notwithstanding anything in this Section 10.07(j) or the definition of “Required Lenders,” or “Required Revolving Credit Lenders” to the contrary:

    (1) for purposes of determining whether the “Required Lenders,” or “Required Revolving Credit Lenders” have consented (or not consented) to any amendment, modification, waiver, consent or other action with respect to any of the terms of the Loan Documents, or whether the “Required Lenders,” or “Required Revolving Credit Lenders” have directed or required the Administrative Agent or any Lender to undertake any action (or refrain from taking any action) with respect to any Loan Documents, in each case, that does not require the consent of each Lender or each affected Lender, or does not adversely affect such Sponsor Affiliated Lender that is not an Affiliated Debt Fund in any material respect as compared to other Lenders holding similar obligations, Sponsor Affiliated Lenders that are not Affiliated Debt Funds will be deemed to have voted in the same proportion as non-affiliated Lenders voting on such matters; and

    (2) Affiliated Debt Funds may not, in the aggregate, account for more than 49.9% of the amounts set forth in the calculation of “Required Lenders”, or “Required Revolving Credit Lenders” and any amount in excess of 49.9% will be subject to the limitations set forth in clause (1) above.

 

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(F) Bankruptcy Limitations. In the event that any proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code shall be instituted by or against any Borrower or any Guarantor, each Sponsor Affiliated Lender that is not an Affiliated Debt Fund shall acknowledge and agree that they are each “insiders” under Section 101(31) of the Bankruptcy Code and, as such, the claims associated with the Loans and Commitments owned by it shall not be included in determining whether the applicable class of creditors holding such claims has voted to accept a proposed plan for purposes of Section 1129(a)(10) of the Bankruptcy Code. To the extent that the foregoing designation is deemed unenforceable for any reason, each Sponsor Affiliated Lender that is not an Affiliated Debt Fund shall vote in such proceedings in the same proportion as the allocation of voting with respect to such matter by those Lenders who are not Sponsor Affiliated Lenders, except to the extent that any plan of reorganization proposes to treat the Obligations held by such Sponsor Affiliated Lender in a manner that is less favorable in any material respect to such Sponsor Affiliated Lender than the proposed treatment of similar Obligations held by Lenders that are not Sponsor Affiliated Lenders. For the avoidance of doubt, this Section 10.07(j)(F) shall not apply to Affiliated Debt Funds.

(G) Contribution to a Borrower. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, any such Loans acquired by a Sponsor Affiliated Lender may, with the consent of the Lead Borrower, be contributed to a Borrower (whether through Holdings or otherwise) and exchanged for debt or equity securities that are otherwise permitted to be issued at such time.

(H) Each Sponsor Affiliated Lender agrees to notify the Administrative Agent promptly (and in any event within ten (10) Business Days) if it acquires any Person who is also a Lender, and each Lender agrees to notify the Administrative Agent promptly (and in any event within ten (10) Business Days) if it becomes a Sponsor Affiliated Lender. Such notice shall contain the type of information required and be delivered to the same addressee as set forth in Exhibit J.

(I) Administrative Agent Liability. Each Sponsor Affiliated Lender waives any rights to bring any action in connection with such purchased Loans or Commitments against the Administrative Agent in its capacity as such. The Administrative Agent shall not have any responsibility for monitoring any acquisition or disposition of Term Loans by any Sponsor Affiliated Lender or liability for any losses suffered by any Person as a result of any purported assignment to or from a Sponsor Affiliated Lender.

Section 10.08 Confidentiality. Each of the Agents, L/C Issuer and the Lenders agrees to maintain the confidentiality of the Information and to not use or disclose such information, except that Information may be disclosed (a) to its Affiliates and its and its Affiliates officers, directors, employees, attorneys, agents, accountants, advisors, controlling persons and equity holders who are informed of the confidential nature thereof; (b) pursuant to the order of any court or administrative agency in any pending legal, judicial or administrative proceeding or otherwise as required by applicable Law or compulsory legal process; (c) to the extent requested or required by any Governmental Authority and/or regulatory authorities (including any self-regulatory authority); (d) to any other party to this Agreement; (e) to any potential or prospective Lender, any pledgee referred to in Section 10.07(h) (provided, any such disclosure to the Federal Reserve Bank or other central bank in connection with a pledge pursuant to Section 10.07(h)) shall not require such pledgee to enter into any confidentiality, non-disclosure or similar

 

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agreement), counterparty to a Swap Contract or Securitization Financing, Eligible Assignee of or Participant in, or any prospective Eligible Assignee of or Participant in, any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement and to any direct or indirect contractual counterparty to any swap or derivative transaction relating to the applicable GS Investor’s investment in the Facilities or Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries; (f) with the written consent of Holdings; (g) to the extent such Information (w) was already in the possession of any Agent, any Lender, any L/C Issuer or any of their respective Affiliates prior to any duty of confidentiality provided for herein, (x) becomes publicly available other than as a result of a breach of this Section 10.08, (y) is independently developed by any Agent, any Lender, any L/C Issuer or any of their respective Affiliates or (z) is or was received by any Agent, any Lender, any L/C Issuer or any of their respective Affiliates from a third party that is not, to such party’s knowledge, subject to contractual or fiduciary confidentiality obligations owing to Holdings or any of its Affiliates; (h) to any Governmental Authority or examiner regulating any Lender; (i) to any rating agency when required by it (it being understood that, prior to any such disclosure, such rating agency shall undertake to preserve the confidentiality of any Information relating to the Loan Parties received by it from such Lender); (j) in connection with the exercise of any remedies hereunder or under any other Loan Document or any action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document or the enforcement of rights hereunder or thereunder; (k) for purposes of establishing a “due diligence” defense (in which case Lead Borrower shall be notified in advance to the extent reasonably practical and permitted by law); (l) to any actual, potential or prospective GS Investor Lender who agrees to be bound by the terms of this paragraph (or language substantially similar to this paragraph) (with the GS Initial Investors, to the extent within their control, responsible for such person’s compliance with this paragraph); and (m) to any of the GS Investors’ limited partners, lenders, investors, managed accounts, rating agencies and affiliates and to its and their respective limited partners’, lenders’, investors’, managed accounts’, rating agencies’ and affiliates’ respective officers, directors, employees, legal counsel, independent auditors, professionals and other experts or agents in connection with the evaluation, monitoring or administration of any GS Investor’s investment in the Facilities, in each case who need to know such information and who are informed of the confidential nature of such information and who are subject to customary confidentiality obligations of professional practice or who are or have been advised to keep such Information confidential (with the GS Investor Lenders, to the extent within their control, responsible for such person’s compliance with this paragraph). In addition, the Agents and the Lenders may disclose the existence of this Agreement and information about this Agreement to market data collectors, similar service providers to the lending industry, and service providers to the Agents and the Lenders in connection with the administration and management of this Agreement, the other Loan Documents, the Commitments, and the Credit Extensions. For the purposes of this Section 10.08, “Information” means all information received from any Loan Party or its Affiliates or its Affiliates’ respective directors, managers, officers, employees, trustees, investment advisors or agents, relating to Holdings, a Borrower or any of their Subsidiaries or their business, other than any such information that is publicly available to any Agent, L/C Issuer or any Lender prior to disclosure by any Loan Party other than as a result of a breach of this Section 10.08, including, without limitation, information delivered pursuant to Section 6.01, 6.02 or 6.03 hereof.

Section 10.09 Setoff. In addition to any rights and remedies of the Lenders provided by Law, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default, each Lender and its Affiliates and each L/C Issuer and its Affiliates is authorized at any time and from time to time, without prior notice to Holdings or any other Loan Party, any such notice being waived by each Borrower (on its own behalf and on behalf of each Loan Party and its Subsidiaries) to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Law, to set off and apply any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final) at any time held by, and other Indebtedness at any time owing by, such Lender and its Affiliates or such L/C Issuer and its Affiliates, as the case may be, to or for the credit or the account of the respective Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries against any and all Obligations owing to such Lender and its Affiliates or such L/C Issuer and its Affiliates hereunder or under any other Loan Document, now or hereafter existing,

 

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irrespective of whether or not such Agent or such Lender or Affiliate shall have made demand under this Agreement or any other Loan Document and although such Obligations may be contingent or unmatured or denominated in a currency different from that of the applicable deposit or Indebtedness. Each Lender and L/C Issuer agrees promptly to notify Holdings and the Administrative Agent after any such setoff and application made by such Lender or L/C Issuer, as the case may be; provided, the failure to give such notice shall not affect the validity of such setoff and application. The rights of the Administrative Agent, each Lender and each L/C Issuer under this Section 10.09 are in addition to other rights and remedies (including other rights of setoff) that the Administrative Agent, such Lender and such L/C Issuer may have.

Section 10.10 Counterparts. This Agreement and each other Loan Document may be executed in one or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument. Delivery by telecopier of an executed counterpart of a signature page to this Agreement and each other Loan Document shall be effective as delivery of an original executed counterpart of this Agreement and such other Loan Document. The Agents may also require that any such documents and signatures delivered by telecopier be confirmed by a manually signed original thereof; provided, the failure to request or deliver the same shall not limit the effectiveness of any document or signature delivered by telecopier.

Section 10.11 Integration. This Agreement, together with the other Loan Documents and the Fee and Closing Payment Letter, comprises the complete and integrated agreement of the parties on the subject matter hereof and thereof and supersedes all prior agreements, written or oral, on such subject matter. In the event of any conflict between the provisions of this Agreement and those of any other Loan Document, the provisions of this Agreement shall control; provided, the inclusion of supplemental rights or remedies in favor of the Agents or the Lenders in any other Loan Document shall not be deemed a conflict with this Agreement. Each Loan Document was drafted with the joint participation of the respective parties thereto and shall be construed neither against nor in favor of any party, but rather in accordance with the fair meaning thereof.

Section 10.12 Survival of Representations and Warranties. All representations and warranties made hereunder and in any other Loan Document or other document delivered pursuant hereto or thereto or in connection herewith or therewith shall survive the execution and delivery hereof and thereof. Such representations and warranties have been or will be relied upon by each Agent and each Lender, regardless of any investigation made by any Agent or any Lender or on their behalf and notwithstanding that any Agent or any Lender may have had notice or knowledge of any Default at the time of any Credit Extension, and shall continue in full force and effect as long as any Loan or any other Obligation hereunder shall remain unpaid or unsatisfied or any Letter of Credit shall remain outstanding. The provisions of Sections 10.14 and 10.15 shall continue in full force and effect as long as any Loan or any other Obligation hereunder shall remain unpaid or unsatisfied or any Letter of Credit shall remain outstanding.

Section 10.13 Severability. If any provision of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents is held to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable, the legality, validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall not be affected or impaired thereby. The invalidity of a provision in a particular jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.

 

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Section 10.14 GOVERNING LAW, JURISDICTION, SERVICE OF PROCESS.

(a) THIS AGREEMENT AND EACH OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK (EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE EXPRESSLY PROVIDED THEREIN).

(b) EXCEPT AS SET FORTH IN THE FOLLOWING PARAGRAPH, ANY LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING UNDER ANY LOAN DOCUMENT OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH OR RELATED OR INCIDENTAL TO THE DEALINGS OF THE PARTIES HERETO OR ANY OF THEM WITH RESPECT TO ANY LOAN DOCUMENT, OR THE TRANSACTIONS RELATED THERETO, IN EACH CASE WHETHER NOW EXISTING OR HEREAFTER ARISING, SHALL BE BROUGHT IN THE COURTS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK SITTING IN THE BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN IN NEW YORK CITY OR OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF SUCH STATE (PROVIDED, IF NONE OF SUCH COURTS CAN AND WILL EXERCISE SUCH JURISDICTION, SUCH EXCLUSIVITY SHALL NOT APPLY), AND BY EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF THIS AGREEMENT, EACH BORROWER, HOLDINGS, EACH AGENT AND EACH LENDER CONSENTS, FOR ITSELF AND IN RESPECT OF ITS PROPERTY, TO THE EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF THOSE COURTS. EACH BORROWER, HOLDINGS, EACH AGENT AND EACH LENDER IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY OBJECTION, INCLUDING ANY OBJECTION TO THE LAYING OF VENUE OR BASED ON THE GROUNDS OF FORUM NON CONVENIENS, WHICH IT MAY NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE TO THE BRINGING OF ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING IN SUCH JURISDICTION IN RESPECT OF ANY LOAN DOCUMENT OR OTHER DOCUMENT RELATED THERETO.

(c) NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT OR IN ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT SHALL AFFECT ANY RIGHT THAT THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT, THE COLLATERAL AGENT, THE L/C ISSUER OR ANY LENDER MAY OTHERWISE HAVE TO BRING ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT AGAINST ANY LOAN PARTY OR ITS PROPERTIES IN THE COURTS OF ANY JURISDICTION (I) FOR PURPOSES OF ENFORCING A JUDGMENT, (II) IN CONNECTION WITH EXERCISING REMEDIES AGAINST THE COLLATERAL IN A JURISDICTION IN WHICH SUCH COLLATERAL IS LOCATED, (III) IN CONNECTION WITH ANY PENDING BANKRUPTCY, INSOLVENCY OR SIMILAR PROCEEDING IN SUCH JURISDICTION OR (IV) TO THE EXTENT THE COURTS REFERRED TO IN THE PREVIOUS PARAGRAPH DO NOT HAVE JURISDICTION OVER SUCH LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING OR THE PARTIES OR PROPERTY SUBJECT THERETO.

(d) EACH PARTY HERETO IRREVOCABLY CONSENTS TO SERVICE OF PROCESS IN THE MANNER PROVIDED FOR NOTICES IN SECTION 10.02. NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT WILL AFFECT THE RIGHT OF ANY PARTY HERETO TO SERVE PROCESS IN ANY OTHER MANNER PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. WITHOUT LIMITING THE OTHER PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION 10.14 AND IN ADDITION TO THE SERVICE OF PROCESS PROVIDED FOR HEREIN, HOLDINGS HEREBY IRREVOCABLY DESIGNATES, APPOINTS AND EMPOWERS THE LEAD BORROWER (AND THE LEAD BORROWER HEREBY IRREVOCABLY ACCEPTS SUCH APPOINTMENT), AS ITS AUTHORIZED DESIGNEE, APPOINTEE AND AGENT TO RECEIVE, ACCEPT AND ACKNOWLEDGE FOR AND ON ITS BEHALF, AND IN RESPECT OF ITS PROPERTY, SERVICE OF ANY AND ALL LEGAL PROCESS, SUMMONS, NOTICES AND DOCUMENTS WHICH MAY BE SERVED IN ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING. IF FOR ANY REASON THE LEAD BORROWER SHALL CEASE TO BE AVAILABLE TO ACT AS SUCH, HOLDINGS AGREES TO PROMPTLY

 

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DESIGNATE A NEW AUTHORIZED DESIGNEE, APPOINTEE AND AGENT IN NEW YORK CITY ON THE TERMS AND FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS PROVISION REASONABLY SATISFACTORY TO THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT UNDER THIS AGREEMENT.

Section 10.15 WAIVER OF RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY. EACH PARTY TO THIS AGREEMENT HEREBY EXPRESSLY WAIVES TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW ANY RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY OF ANY CLAIM, DEMAND, ACTION OR CAUSE OF ACTION ARISING UNDER ANY LOAN DOCUMENT OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH OR RELATED OR INCIDENTAL TO THE DEALINGS OF THE PARTIES HERETO OR ANY OF THEM WITH RESPECT TO ANY LOAN DOCUMENT, OR THE TRANSACTIONS RELATED THERETO, IN EACH CASE WHETHER NOW EXISTING OR HEREAFTER ARISING, AND WHETHER FOUNDED IN CONTRACT OR TORT OR OTHERWISE; AND EACH PARTY HEREBY AGREES AND CONSENTS THAT ANY SUCH CLAIM, DEMAND, ACTION OR CAUSE OF ACTION SHALL BE DECIDED BY COURT TRIAL WITHOUT A JURY, AND THAT ANY PARTY TO THIS AGREEMENT MAY FILE AN ORIGINAL COUNTERPART OR A COPY OF THIS SECTION 10.15 WITH ANY COURT AS WRITTEN EVIDENCE OF THE CONSENT OF THE SIGNATORIES HERETO TO THE WAIVER OF THEIR RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY.

Section 10.16 Binding Effect. This Agreement shall become effective when it shall have been executed by the Borrowers and Holdings and the Administrative Agent shall have been notified by each Lender and L/C Issuer that each such Lender and L/C Issuer has executed it and thereafter shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of each Borrower, each Agent and each Lender and their respective successors and assigns, except that each Borrower shall not have the right to assign its rights hereunder or any interest herein without the prior written consent of the Lenders except as permitted by Section 7.04.

Section 10.17 Judgment Currency. If, for the purposes of obtaining judgment in any court, it is necessary to convert a sum due hereunder or any other Loan Document in one currency into another currency, the rate of exchange used shall be that at which in accordance with normal banking procedures the Administrative Agent could purchase the first currency with such other currency on the Business Day preceding that on which final judgment is given. The obligation of the Borrowers in respect of any such sum due from them to the Administrative Agent or the Lenders hereunder or under the other Loan Documents shall, notwithstanding any judgment in a currency (the “Judgment Currency”) other than that in which such sum is denominated in accordance with the applicable provisions of this Agreement (the “Agreement Currency”), be discharged only to the extent that on the Business Day following receipt by the Administrative Agent of any sum adjudged to be so due in the Judgment Currency, the Administrative Agent may in accordance with normal banking procedures purchase the Agreement Currency with the Judgment Currency. If the amount of the Agreement Currency so purchased is less than the sum originally due to the Administrative Agent from a Borrower in the Agreement Currency, such Borrower agrees, as a separate obligation and notwithstanding any such judgment, to indemnify the Administrative Agent or the Person to whom such obligation was owing against such loss. If the amount of the Agreement Currency so purchased is greater than the sum originally due to the Administrative Agent in such currency, the Administrative Agent agrees to return the amount of any excess to such Borrower (or to any other Person who may be entitled thereto under applicable Law).

Section 10.18 Lender Action. Each Lender agrees that it shall not take or institute any actions or proceedings, judicial or otherwise, for any right or remedy against any Loan Party or any other obligor under any of the Loan Documents (including the exercise of any right of setoff, rights on account of any banker’s lien or similar claim or other rights of self-help), or institute any actions or proceedings, or otherwise commence any remedial procedures, with respect to any Collateral or any other property of any such Loan Party, without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent. The provisions of this Section 10.18 are for the sole benefit of the Lenders and shall not afford any right to, or constitute a defense available to, any Loan Party.

 

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Section 10.19 USA PATRIOT Act. The Administrative Agent and each Lender hereby notifies each Borrower that, pursuant to the requirements of the USA PATRIOT Act and the requirements of the Beneficial Ownership Regulation, it is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies each Borrower, and the Guarantors, which information includes the name and address of the each Borrower and other information that will allow such Lender to identify such Borrower and the Guarantors in accordance with the USA PATRIOT Act or the Beneficial Ownership Regulation. Each Borrower shall, promptly following a request by the Administrative Agent or any Lender, provide all documentation and other information that the Administrative Agent or such Lender reasonably requests in order to comply with its ongoing obligations under applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including the USA PATRIOT Act or the Beneficial Ownership Regulation.

Section 10.20 Obligations Absolute. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable Law, all obligations of the Loan Parties hereunder shall be absolute and unconditional irrespective of:

 

(a) any bankruptcy, insolvency, administration, administrative receivership, receivership, reorganization, arrangement, readjustment, composition, liquidation or the like of any Loan Party;

(b) any lack of validity or enforceability of any Loan Document or any other agreement or instrument relating thereto against any Loan Party;

(c) any change in the time, manner or place of payment of, or in any other term of, all or any of the Obligations, or any other amendment or waiver of or any consent to any departure from any Loan Document or any other agreement or instrument relating thereto;

(d) any exchange, release or non-perfection of any other Collateral, or any release or amendment or waiver of or consent to any departure from any guarantee, for all or any of the Obligations;

(e) any exercise or non-exercise, or any waiver of any right, remedy, power or privilege under or in respect hereof or any Loan Document; or

(f) any other circumstances which might otherwise constitute a defense available to, or a discharge of, the Loan Parties.

Section 10.21 No Advisory or Fiduciary Responsibility. In connection with all aspects of each transaction contemplated hereby (including in connection with any amendment, waiver or other modification hereof or of any other Loan Document), each of each Borrower and Holdings acknowledge and agrees, and acknowledges its Affiliates’ understanding, that: (i) (A) the services regarding this Agreement provided by the Administrative Agent are arm’s-length commercial transactions between the Borrowers, Holdings and their respective Affiliates, on the one hand, and the Administrative Agent, on the other hand, (B) each of each Borrower and Holdings have consulted its own legal, accounting, regulatory and tax advisors to the extent it has deemed appropriate, and (C) each of each Borrower and Holdings are capable of evaluating, and understands and accepts, the terms, risks and conditions of the transactions contemplated hereby and by the other Loan Documents; (ii) (A) the Administrative Agent, each Lender is and has been acting solely as a principal and, except as expressly agreed in writing by the relevant parties, has not been, is not, and will not be acting as an advisor, agent or fiduciary for any

 

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Borrower, Holdings or any of their respective Affiliates, or any other Person and (B) neither the Administrative Agent, nor any Lender has any obligation to any Borrower, Holdings or any of their respective Affiliates with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby except those obligations expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents; and (iii) the Administrative Agent, each Lender and respective Affiliates may be engaged in a broad range of transactions that involve interests that differ from those of any Borrower, Holdings and their respective Affiliates, and the Administrative Agent has no obligation to disclose any of such interests to any Borrower, Holdings or any of their respective Affiliates. To the fullest extent permitted by law, each of each Borrower and Holdings hereby waives and releases any claims that it may have against the Administrative Agent and each Lender with respect to any breach or alleged breach of agency or fiduciary duty in connection with any aspect of any transaction contemplated hereby. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, no GS Investor is or will be deemed to be an underwriter, arranger, trustee, agent or a similar role or otherwise be deemed to perform any service hereunder.

Section 10.22 Acknowledgment and Consent to Bail-In of EEA Financial Institutions.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Loan Document or in any other agreement, arrangement or understanding among any such parties, each party hereto acknowledges that any liability of any Lender that is an EEA Financial Institution arising under any Loan Document, to the extent such liability is unsecured, may be subject to the write-down and conversion powers of an EEA Resolution Authority and agrees and consents to, and acknowledges and agrees to be bound by:

(a) the application of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by an EEA Resolution Authority to any such liabilities arising hereunder which may be payable to it by any Lender that is an EEA Financial Institution; and

(b) the effects of any Bail-In Action on any such liability, including, if applicable:

    (i) a reduction in full or in part or cancellation of any such liability;

    (ii) a conversion of all, or a portion of, such liability into shares or other instruments of ownership in such EEA Financial Institution, its parent undertaking, or a bridge institution that may be issued to it or otherwise conferred on it, and that such shares or other instruments of ownership will be accepted by it in lieu of any rights with respect to any such liability under this Agreement or any other Loan Document; or

    (iii) the variation of the terms of such liability in connection with the exercise of the write-down and conversion powers of any EEA Resolution Authority.

Section 10.23 Use of Name, Logo, etc.. Holdings grants each Lender permission to use Holdings’ and its Subsidiaries’ names and logos in such Lender’s or its Affiliates’ marketing materials; provided that any such logos or other materials are used solely in a manner that is not intended to or reasonably likely to harm or disparage Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries or the reputation or goodwill of any of them.

Section 10.24 Intercreditor Agreements. Reference is made to the Intercreditor Agreement. Each Lender and L/C Issuer hereunder (a) consents to the subordination of Liens provided for in the Intercreditor Agreement, (b) agrees that it will be bound by and will take no actions contrary to the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement and (c) authorizes and instructs the Administrative Agent to enter into the Intercreditor Agreement as “First Lien Collateral Agent” and on behalf of such Lender or

 

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L/C Issuer. The provisions of this Section 10.24 are not intended to summarize all relevant provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement. Reference must be made to the Intercreditor Agreement itself to understand all terms and conditions thereof. Each Lender and L/C Issuer is responsible for making its own analysis and review of the Intercreditor Agreement and the terms and provisions thereof, and neither the Administrative Agent nor any of its Affiliates makes any representation to any Lender or L/C Issuer as to the sufficiency or advisability of the provisions contained in the Intercreditor Agreement. The foregoing provisions are intended as an inducement to the Lenders under the Second Lien Credit Agreement to extend credit and such Lenders are intended third party beneficiaries of such provisions and the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement. In addition to the foregoing, the parties hereto authorize the Administrative Agent to enter into any First Lien Intercreditor Agreement, any Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement and/or any intercreditor agreement or subordination agreement expressly contemplated hereunder. The Administrative Agent may from time to time enter into a modification of the Intercreditor Agreement, any First Lien Intercreditor Agreement, any Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement and/or any intercreditor agreement or subordination agreement expressly contemplated hereunder, so long as the Administrative Agent reasonably determines that such modification is consistent with the terms of this Agreement.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first above written.

 

DORY INTERMEDIATE LLC,

as Lead Borrower

By:  

/s/ Stephen Lazarus

  Name: Stephen Lazarus
  Title: Chief Financial Officer

DORY ACQUISITION SUB, INC.,

as U.S. Borrower

By:  

/s/ Stephen Lazarus

  Name: Stephen Lazarus
  Title: Chief Financial Officer

ONESPAWORLD HOLDINGS,

as Holdings

By:  

/s/ Stephen Lazarus

  Name: Stephen Lazarus
  Title: Chief Financial Officer

 

GOLDMAN SACHS LENDING PARTNERS LLC

as Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent

By:  

/s/ Joshua Desai

  Name: Joshua Desai
  Title: Authorized Signatory

 

 

BROAD STREET CREDIT HOLDINGS, LLC

As Revolving Credit Lender

By:  

/s/ Kirsten Anthony

  Name: Kirsten Anthony
  Title: Vice President

 

GOLDMAN SACHS LENDING PARTNERS LLC

as L/C Issuer

By:

 

/s/ Joshua Desai

 

Name: Joshua Desai

 

Title: Authorized Signatory

 

BROAD STREET LOAN PARTNERS III, L.P.
As Initial Term B Lender and Delayed Draw Term
  Lender
By:   Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC,
  as Attorney-in-Fact
By:  

/s/ Kirsten Anthony

  Name: Kirsten Anthony
  Title: Managing Director


BROAD STREET LOAN PARTNERS III OFFSHORE,

L.P.

As Initial Term B Lender and Delayed Draw Term
  Lender
By:   Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Duly Authorized
Agent of the General Partner
By:  

/s/ Kirsten Anthony

  Name: Kirsten Anthony
  Title: Managing Director

BROAD STREET LOAN PARTNERS III OFFSHORE

– UNLEVERED, L.P.

As Initial Term B Lender and Delayed Draw Term
  Lender
By:   Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC, Duly Authorized
Agent of the General Partner
By:  

/s/ Kirsten Anthony

  Name: Kirsten Anthony
  Title: Managing Director
GLOBAL LOAN OPPORTUNITIES S.A.
As Initial Term B Lender and Delayed Draw Term
  Lender
By:   Goldman Sachs & Co. LLC,
  as Attorney-in-Fact
By:  

/s/ Kirsten Anthony

  Name: Kirsten Anthony
  Title: Managing Director

 

 

BROAD STREET DANISH CREDIT PARTNERS, L.P.
As Initial Term B Lender and Delayed Draw Term
  Lender
By:   Goldman, Sachs & Co. LLC, Duly Authorized Agent of the General Partner
By:  

/s/ Kirsten Anthony

  Name: Kirsten Anthony
  Title: Managing Director
BROAD STREET CREDIT INVESTMENTS LLC
As Initial Term B Lender and Delayed Draw Term
  Lender
By:  

/s/ Kirsten Anthony

  Name: Kirsten Anthony
  Title: Vice President
BROAD STREET SENIOR CREDIT PARTNERS II,
  L.P.
As Initial Term B Lender and Delayed Draw Term
  Lender
By:  

/s/ Kirsten Anthony

  Name: Kirsten Anthony
  Title: Vice President

EX-10.2

EXHIBIT 10.2

EXECUTION VERSION

 

 

SECOND LIEN CREDIT AGREEMENT

dated as of March 19, 2019

among

OneSpaWorld Holdings Limited,

as Holdings,

Dory Intermediate LLC,

as the Borrower,

The Lenders Party Hereto

and

Cortland Capital Market Services LLC,

as Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent

 

 


TABLE OF CONTENTS

 

         Page  

ARTICLE I DEFINITIONS AND ACCOUNTING TERMS

     2  

Section 1.01

  Defined Terms      2  

Section 1.02

  Other Interpretive Provisions      62  

Section 1.03

  Accounting Terms      63  

Section 1.04

  Rounding      63  

Section 1.05

  References to Agreements, Laws, Etc.      64  

Section 1.06

  Times of Day; Rates      64  

Section 1.07

  Timing of Payment or Performance      64  

Section 1.08

  Currency Equivalents Generally      64  

Section 1.09

  Delaware LLC Divisions      64  

Section 1.10

  Limited Condition Acquisitions      64  

Section 1.11

  Permitted Reorganizations      65  

Section 1.12

  Change of Currency      66  

Section 1.13

  Cashless Rollovers      66  

Section 1.14

  NB Investor Lenders      66  

Section 1.15

  LIBOR Discontinuation      66  

ARTICLE II THE COMMITMENTS AND CREDIT EXTENSIONS

     67  

Section 2.01

  The Loans      67  

Section 2.02

  Borrowings, Conversions and Continuations of Loans      67  

Section 2.03

  [Reserved]      68  

Section 2.04

  [Reserved]      68  

Section 2.05

  Prepayments      68  

Section 2.06

  Termination or Reduction of Commitments      76  

Section 2.07

  Repayment of Loans      76  

Section 2.08

  Interest      76  

Section 2.09

  Fees, Closing Payments and Exit Payment      77  

Section 2.10

  Computation of Interest, Fees and Closing Payments      77  

Section 2.11

  Evidence of Indebtedness      78  

Section 2.12

  Payments Generally      78  

Section 2.13

  Sharing of Payments      80  

Section 2.14

  Incremental Credit Extensions      81  

Section 2.15

  Extensions of Term Loans      84  

Section 2.16

  Defaulting Lenders      86  

Section 2.17

  [Reserved].      87  

Section 2.18

  Refinancing Amendments      87  

ARTICLE III TAXES, INCREASED COSTS PROTECTION AND ILLEGALITY

     88  

Section 3.01

  Taxes      88  

Section 3.02

  Illegality      91  

Section 3.03

  Inability to Determine Rates      92  

Section 3.04

  Increased Cost and Reduced Return; Capital Adequacy; Reserves on Eurocurrency Rate Loans      93  

Section 3.05

  Funding Losses      94  

Section 3.06

  Matters Applicable to All Requests for Compensation      95  

Section 3.07

  Replacement of Lenders under Certain Circumstances      96  

Section 3.08

  Survival      97  

 

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ARTICLE IV CONDITIONS PRECEDENT TO CREDIT EXTENSIONS

     97  

Section 4.01

  Closing Date      97  

ARTICLE V REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

     100  

Section 5.01

  Existence, Qualification and Power; Compliance with Laws      100  

Section 5.02

  Authorization; No Contravention      101  

Section 5.03

  Governmental Authorization; Other Consents      101  

Section 5.04

  Binding Effect      101  

Section 5.05

  Financial Statements; No Material Adverse Effect      102  

Section 5.06

  Litigation      102  

Section 5.07

  Ownership of Property; Liens; Insurance      102  

Section 5.08

  Environmental Compliance      103  

Section 5.09

  Taxes      103  

Section 5.10

  Compliance with ERISA      103  

Section 5.11

  Labor Matters      104  

Section 5.12

  Subsidiaries; Equity Interests      104  

Section 5.13

  Margin Regulations; Investment Company Act      104  

Section 5.14

  Disclosure      104  

Section 5.15

  Intellectual Property; Licenses, Etc.      105  

Section 5.16

  Solvency      105  

Section 5.17

  Collateral Documents      105  

Section 5.18

  Patriot Act; Anti-Money Laundering Laws      105  

Section 5.19

  Anti-Corruption Laws      106  

Section 5.20

  Sanctioned Persons      106  

Section 5.21

  Use of Proceeds      106  

Section 5.22

  Classification as Priority Lien Obligations; etc.      106  

Section 5.23

  Material Contracts      106  

ARTICLE VI AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS

     106  

Section 6.01

  Financial Statements      107  

Section 6.02

  Certificates; Other Information      108  

Section 6.03

  Notices      110  

Section 6.04

  Maintenance of Existence      110  

Section 6.05

  Maintenance of Properties      111  

Section 6.06

  Maintenance of Insurance      111  

Section 6.07

  Compliance with Laws      111  

Section 6.08

  Books and Records      111  

Section 6.09

  Inspection Rights      111  

Section 6.10

  Covenant to Guarantee Obligations and Give Security      112  

Section 6.11

  Use of Proceeds      114  

Section 6.12

  Further Assurances and Post-Closing Covenants      114  

Section 6.13

  Designation of Subsidiaries      114  

Section 6.14

  Payment of Taxes      115  

Section 6.15

  [Reserved]      115  

Section 6.16

  [Reserved]      115  

Section 6.17

  Compliance with Anti-Terrorism Laws and Anti-Corruption Laws      115  

Section 6.18

  Performance of Material Contracts      115  

Section 6.19

  Lender Conference Calls      115  

Section 6.20

  Credit Enhancements      116  

 

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ARTICLE VII NEGATIVE COVENANTS

     116  

Section 7.01

  Liens      116  

Section 7.02

  Investments      121  

Section 7.03

  Indebtedness      125  

Section 7.04

  Fundamental Changes      131  

Section 7.05

  Dispositions      133  

Section 7.06

  Restricted Payments      135  

Section 7.07

  Transactions with Affiliates      138  

Section 7.08

  Prepayments, Etc. of Indebtedness      140  

Section 7.09

  Anti-Layering      141  

Section 7.10

  [Reserved]      141  

Section 7.11

  Nature of Business, Fiscal Year and Accounting      141  

Section 7.12

  Holdings Covenant      142  

Section 7.13

  Amendments or Waivers of Organizational Documents and Certain Related Agreements      143  

Section 7.14

  Amendments or Waivers with respect to Certain Indebtedness      143  

Section 7.15

  Sale and Lease-Back Transactions      143  

Section 7.16

  No Negative Pledges      143  

ARTICLE VIII EVENTS OF DEFAULT AND REMEDIES

     144  

Section 8.01

  Events of Default      144  

Section 8.02

  Remedies Upon Event of Default      146  

Section 8.03

  Exclusion of Immaterial Subsidiaries      146  

Section 8.04

  Application of Funds      146  

ARTICLE IX ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT AND OTHER AGENTS

     147  

Section 9.01

  Appointment and Authorization of Agents      147  

Section 9.02

  Delegation of Duties      148  

Section 9.03

  Liability of Agents      148  

Section 9.04

  Reliance by Agents      149  

Section 9.05

  Notice of Default      149  

Section 9.06

  Credit Decision; Disclosure of Information by Agents      150  

Section 9.07

  Indemnification of Agents      150  

Section 9.08

  Agents in their Individual Capacities      151  

Section 9.09

  Successor Agents      151  

Section 9.10

  Administrative Agent May File Proofs of Claim; Credit Bidding      152  

Section 9.11

  Collateral and Guarantee Matters      153  

Section 9.12

  Other Agents; Arrangers and Managers      155  

Section 9.13

  Appointment of Supplemental Administrative Agents      155  

Section 9.14

  Withholding Tax      156  

Section 9.15

  [Reserved]      156  

Section 9.16

  Certain ERISA Matters      156  

ARTICLE X MISCELLANEOUS

     157  

Section 10.01

  Amendments, Etc.      157  

Section 10.02

  Notices and Other Communications; Facsimile Copies      160  

Section 10.03

  No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies      162  

Section 10.04

  Attorney Costs and Expenses      162  

Section 10.05

  Indemnification by the Borrower      163  

Section 10.06

  Payments Set Aside      164  

Section 10.07

  Successors and Assigns      164  

Section 10.08

  Confidentiality      171  

 

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Section 10.09

  Setoff      172  

Section 10.10

  Counterparts      172  

Section 10.11

  Integration      172  

Section 10.12

  Survival of Representations and Warranties      173  

Section 10.13

  Severability      173  

Section 10.14

  GOVERNING LAW, JURISDICTION, SERVICE OF PROCESS      173  

Section 10.15

  WAIVER OF RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY      174  

Section 10.16

  Binding Effect      174  

Section 10.17

  Judgment Currency      174  

Section 10.18

  Lender Action      175  

Section 10.19

  USA PATRIOT Act      175  

Section 10.20

  Obligations Absolute      175  

Section 10.21

  No Advisory or Fiduciary Responsibility      176  

Section 10.22

  Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-In of EEA Financial Institutions      176  

Section 10.23

  Use of Name, Logo, etc.      177  

Section 10.24

  Intercreditor Agreements      177  

 

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SCHEDULES

 

1.01A

         

Excluded Subsidiaries

1.01B

         

Security Agreements

1.01C

         

Agreed Security Principles

1.01D

         

Material Contracts

1.01E

         

[Reserved]

2.01

         

Commitments

5.06

         

Litigation

5.12

         

Subsidiaries and Other Equity Investments

6.12(b)

         

Post-Closing Deliverables

7.01(c)

         

Existing Liens

7.03

         

Existing Indebtedness

7.07

         

Transactions with Affiliates

10.02

         

Administrative Agent’s Office, Certain Addresses for Notices

EXHIBITS

Form of

 

A

         

Committed Loan Notice

B

         

[Reserved]

C-1

         

Term Note

C-2

         

[Reserved]

C-3

         

[Reserved]

D

         

Compliance Certificate

E

         

Assignment and Assumption

F

         

Discounted Prepayment Option Notice

G

         

Lender Participation Notice

H

         

Discounted Voluntary Prepayment Notice

I

         

[Reserved]

J

         

Sponsor Affiliated Lender Notice

K

         

Prepayment Notice

L

         

Solvency Certificate

M

         

Pari Passu Intercreditor Agreement

N

         

Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement

O

         

Intercompany Note

P

         

Successor Holdings Joinder

 

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SECOND LIEN CREDIT AGREEMENT

This SECOND LIEN CREDIT AGREEMENT is entered into as of March 19, 2019, among Dory Intermediate LLC, a Delaware limited liability company, (the “Borrower”), OneSpaWorld Holdings Limited, a company organized under the laws of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas (“Initial Holdings”), Cortland Capital Market Services LLC (“Cortland”), as Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent, and each lender from time to time party hereto (collectively, the “Lenders” and individually, a “Lender”).

PRELIMINARY STATEMENTS

Pursuant to that certain Business Combination Agreement, dated as of November 1, 2018 (as amended on January 7, 2019 by Amendment No. 1 to Business Combination Agreement and as further amended, supplemented or modified and in effect from time to time in the manner permitted pursuant to Section 4.01(c) of this Agreement, and including all schedules and exhibits thereto, the “Acquisition Agreement”), by and among inter alios, Borrower, Initial Holdings, the SPAC (as defined herein), Steiner UK Limited, Steiner Management Services, LLC, Dory US Merger Sub, LLC, Dory Acquisition Sub, Limited and Steiner Leisure Limited (in its capacity as a Seller (as defined therein) and as the representative for the Seller Parties (as defined therein) party thereto), (x) the SPAC will use funds available in the Trust Account (as defined in the Acquisition Agreement), which holds funds contributed from public investors and held by the SPAC for the purposes of undertaking business combinations (the “SPAC Trust Account”), subject to any redemptions required under applicable law or the governing documents of the SPAC to acquire equity interests in certain subsidiaries of the Sellers by way of a business combination, which shall include, but not be limited to (i) the purchase of equity interests of certain subsidiaries organized in the United States (the transactions described in this clause (i), the “U.S. Target Purchase” and the funds in the SPAC Trust Account remaining after the U.S. Target Purchase, the “SPAC Trust Account Remainder”) and (ii) the merger of Dory U.S. Merger Sub, LLC with and into the SPAC (the “U.S. Merger” and, together with the U.S. Target Purchase, collectively, the “Closing Date Acquisition”) and (y) following the U.S. Merger, the SPAC shall lend the SPAC Trust Account Remainder to Holdings (the “HAC Loan”), in each case, on the terms and subject to the conditions set forth in the Acquisition Agreement.

The Borrower has requested that the Lenders extend credit to the Borrower in the form of Initial Term B Loans in an initial aggregate principal amount of $25,000,000.

The proceeds of the Initial Term B Loans will be used to directly or indirectly to finance a portion of the Transactions.

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:

 

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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 specified in Section 2.05(d)(iii).

Acceptance Date” has the meaning specified in Section 2.05(d)(ii).

Accounting Changes” has the meaning specified in Section 1.03(d).

Acquired EBITDA” means, with respect to any Acquired Entity or Business or any Converted Restricted Subsidiary for any period, the amount for such period of Consolidated EBITDA of such Acquired Entity or Business or Converted Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable, all as determined on a consolidated basis for such Acquired Entity or Business or Converted Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable.

Acquired Entity or Business” means, for any period, any Person, property, business or asset acquired by the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary during such period (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary), to the extent not subsequently sold, transferred or otherwise disposed of by the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary during such period.

Acquisition” means the acquisition of (i) a Controlling equity or other ownership interest in another Person (including upon the exercise of an option, warrant or convertible or similar type security to acquire such a Controlling interest), whether by purchase of such equity or other ownership interest or upon exercise of an option or warrant for, or conversion of securities into, such equity or other ownership interest, or (ii) assets of another Person (whether by purchase, merger or otherwise) which constitute all or substantially all of the assets of such Person or of a line or lines of business conducted by such Person.

Acquisition Agreement” has the meaning specified in the Preliminary Statements to this Agreement.

Administrative Agent” means, subject to Section 9.13, Cortland, in its capacity as administrative agent under the Loan Documents, or any successor administrative agent appointed in accordance with Section 9.09.

Administrative Agent Fee Letter” mean that certain “Fee Letter” dated as of even date herewith by and between the Borrower and Administrative Agent, as may be amended, modified or amended and restated in accordance with the terms and conditions therein.

Administrative Agent’s Account” means the Administrative Agent’s account as notified by Administrative Agent to the Borrower and Lenders from time to time.

Administrative Agent’s Office” means the Administrative Agent’s address as set forth on Schedule 10.02, or such other address as the Administrative Agent may from time to time notify the Borrower and the Lenders.

Administrative Questionnaire” means an Administrative Questionnaire in a form supplied by the Administrative Agent.

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. “Control” means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management or policies of a Person, whether through the ability to exercise voting power, by contract or otherwise. “Controlling” and “Controlled” have meanings correlative thereto.

 

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Affiliated Debt Fund” means a Sponsor Affiliated Lender 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 of business and the investment decisions of which are not Controlled by the private equity business of the SPAC or any Affiliate of the SPAC; provided, however, that an Affiliated Debt Fund shall exercise independent discretion from the private equity business of the SPAC and any Affiliate of the SPAC and its managers shall have fiduciary duties to third party investors that are independent of their duties to the direct or indirect equity holders of Holdings (or any parent entity thereof).

Agent Parties” has the meaning specified in Section 10.02(c).

Agent-Related Persons” means the Agents, together with their respective Affiliates, and the officers, directors, employees, agents, trustees, advisors, other representatives and successors and assigns of such Persons and Affiliates.

Agents” means, collectively, the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, and the Supplemental Administrative Agents (if any).

Aggregate Commitments” means the Commitments of all the Lenders.

Agreed Security Principles” means the principles set out in Schedule 1.01C.

Agreement” means this Credit Agreement.

Agreement Currency” has the meaning specified in Section 10.17.

AHYDO Amount” has the meaning specified in Section 2.05(b)(viii).

Anti-Corruption Laws” means all laws, rules or regulations relating to corruption or bribery, including, but not limited to, the United States Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977, as amended.

Anti-Money Laundering Laws” has the meaning specified in Section 5.18(b).

Applicable Discount” has the meaning specified in Section 2.05(d)(iii).

Applicable Indebtedness” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Weighted Average Life to Maturity.”

Applicable Lending Office” means for any Lender, such Lender’s office, branch or affiliate designated for Eurocurrency Rate Loans or Base Rate Loans, as applicable, as notified to the Administrative Agent, any of which offices may be changed by such Lender.

Applicable Payment” has the meaning specified in Section 2.05(a)(i).

Applicable Percentage” means, at any time (a) with respect to any Lender with a Commitment of any Class, the percentage equal to a fraction the numerator of which is the amount of such Lender’s Commitment of such Class at such time and the denominator of which is the aggregate amount of all Commitments of such Class of all Lenders and (b) with respect to the Loans of any Class, a percentage equal to a fraction the numerator of which is such Lender’s Outstanding Amount of the Loans of such Class and the denominator of which is the aggregate Outstanding Amount of all Loans of such Class.

 

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Applicable Rate” means a percentage per annum equal to with respect to the Initial Term B Loans, (x) in each case, that are Base Rate Loans, 6.50% per annum and (y) in each case, that are Eurocurrency Rate Loans, 7.50% per annum.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Applicable Rate in respect of any Incremental Term Loans, Refinancing Term Loans or Extended Term Loans, shall be the applicable percentages per annum set forth in the relevant Incremental Facility Amendment, Refinancing Amendment or Extension Offer.

Appropriate Lender” means, at any time, with respect to Loans of any Class, the Lenders of such Class.

Approved Foreign Bank” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Cash Equivalents.”

Approved Fund” means (i) any Fund that is administered or managed by (a) a Lender, (b) an Affiliate of a Lender or, (c) an entity or an Affiliate of an entity that administers or manages a Lender or (ii) at any time that any NB Investor is a Lender hereunder, any Fund that is advised by (a) an Affiliate of a NB Investor Lender or (b) an entity or an Affiliate of an entity that advises a NB Investor Lender.

Assignment and Assumption” means an Assignment and Assumption substantially in the form of Exhibit E or any other form (including electronic documentation generated by an approved electronic platform) approved by the Administrative Agent.

Attorney Costs” means and includes all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket fees, expenses and disbursements of any law firm or other external legal counsel.

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 and Indebtedness incurred for the purpose of financing all or any part of the purchase price or cost of acquisition, repair, construction or improvement of fixed or capital assets that are used or useful in the business of such Person.

Auction Agent” means (a) the Administrative Agent or (b) any other financial institution or advisor employed by the Borrower (whether or not an Affiliate of the Administrative Agent) to act as an arranger in connection with any Discounted Voluntary Prepayment pursuant to Section 2.05(d); provided that the 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).

Audited Financial Statements” means the audited consolidated balance sheet and related statements of income, stockholders’ equity and cash flows of Holdings and its subsidiaries on a consolidated basis for the period ended December 31, 2017, December 31, 2016 and December 31, 2015, in each case prepared in accordance with GAAP.

Available Amount” means, at any time (the “Available Amount Reference Time”), a cumulative amount (which shall not be less than zero) equal to the sum of $20,000,000, plus (in each case, without duplication):

(a) the Cumulative Excess Cash Flow Amount at such time; plus

 

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(b) the amount of any capital contributions (including the proceeds and the fair market value (as reasonably determined by the Borrower) of marketable securities or other property received by the Borrower from any person other than a Loan Party (other than Holdings) or a Restricted Subsidiary) or Net Cash Proceeds from any Permitted Equity Issuance (or issuance of debt securities that have been converted into or exchanged for Qualified Equity Interests) (other than any Cure Amount or any other capital contributions or equity or debt issuances to the extent utilized in connection with other transactions permitted pursuant to Section 7.02(t), 7.06(j) or 7.08(iii)(A)) received by or made to the Borrower (or any direct or indirect parent thereof and contributed by such parent to the Borrower) during the period from and including the Business Day immediately following the Closing Date through and including the Available Amount Reference Time; plus

(c) to the extent not otherwise applied to prepay the outstanding First Lien Term Loans in accordance with the terms of the First Lien Credit Agreement, the aggregate amount of Retained Declined Proceeds during the period from the Business Day immediately following the Closing Date through and including the Available Amount Reference Time; plus

(d) to the extent not already reflected as a return of capital or deemed reduction in the amount of such Investment pursuant to clause (e) below or any other provision of Section 7.02, an amount equal to any net after-tax returns in cash and Cash Equivalents (including dividends, interest, distributions, returns of principal, sale proceeds, repayments, income and similar amounts) actually received by any Loan Party or Restricted Subsidiary in respect of any Investments pursuant to Section 7.02(n); minus

(e) the aggregate amount of the fair market value of (i) any Investments made pursuant to Section 7.02(n) (net of any return of capital in respect of such Investment or deemed reduction in the amount of such Investment, including, without limitation, upon the redesignation of any Unrestricted Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary or the sale, transfer, lease or other disposition of any such Investment), (ii) any Restricted Payment made pursuant to Section 7.06(n) and (iii) any payments made pursuant to Section 7.08(iii)(C), in each case, during the period commencing on the Closing Date through and including the Available Amount Reference Time (and, for purposes of this clause (e), without taking account of the intended usage of the Available Amount at such Available Amount Reference Time).

Available Amount Reference Time” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Available Amount”.

Bail-In Action” means the exercise of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by the applicable EEA Resolution Authority in respect of any liability of an EEA Financial Institution.

Bail-In Legislation” means, with respect to any EEA Member Country implementing Article 55 of Directive 2014/59/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of the European Union, the implementing law for such EEA Member Country from time to time which is described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule.

Bankruptcy Code” means Title 11 of the United States Code, as amended, or any similar federal or state law for the relief of debtors.

Base Rate” means a fluctuating rate per annum, for any day, equal to the highest of:

(a) the Prime Rate;

(b) Federal Funds Rate plus 12 of 1.00%; and

 

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(c) the Eurocurrency Rate for an Interest Period for Dollar deposits of one (1) month plus 1.00%.

Base Rate Loan” means a Loan that bears interest at a rate based on the Base Rate.

Beneficial Ownership Regulation” means 31 C.F.R § 1010.230, as amended or modified from time to time.

Benefit Plan” means any of (a) an “employee benefit plan” (as defined in 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”.

Borrower Materials” has the meaning specified in Section 6.02.

Borrower” has the meaning specified in the Preliminary Statements to this Agreement. For the avoidance of doubt, the Borrower shall not be designated as an “Immaterial Subsidiary”, “Securitization Subsidiary” and “Unrestricted Subsidiary” at any time.

Borrowing” means Loans of the same Class, Type and currency, made, converted or continued on the same date and, in the case of Eurocurrency Rate Loans, as to which a single Interest Period is in effect.

Borrowing Minimum” means $1,000,000.

Borrowing Multiple” means $100,000.

Business Day” means any day that is not a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which commercial banks in New York City are authorized or required by law to remain closed, or are in fact closed; provided, when used in connection with a Eurocurrency Rate Loan, the term “Business Day” shall also exclude any day on which banks are not open for dealings in Dollar deposits in the London interbank market.

Callable Date” means the date that is 30 months after the Closing Date.

Capital Expenditures” means, for any period, the aggregate of, without duplication, (a) all expenditures (whether paid in cash or accrued as liabilities and including Capitalized Research and Development Costs and Capitalized Software Expenditures) by the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries during such period that, in conformity with GAAP, are or are required to be included as additions during such period to property, plant or equipment reflected in the consolidated balance sheet of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries and (b) Capitalized Lease Obligations incurred by the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries during such period.

Capitalized Lease Obligation” means, at the time any determination thereof is to be made, the amount of the liability in respect of a Capitalized Lease that would at such time be required to be capitalized and reflected as a liability on a balance sheet (excluding the footnotes thereto) prepared in accordance with GAAP.

 

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Capitalized Leases” means all leases that are required to be, in accordance with GAAP, recorded as capitalized leases; provided, 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, that all obligations of any Person that are or would be characterized as an operating lease as determined in accordance with GAAP as in effect on the date hereof (whether or not such operating lease was in effect on such date) shall continue to be accounted for as an operating lease (and not as a Capitalized Lease or Capitalized Lease Obligation) for purposes of this Agreement regardless of any change in GAAP following the Closing Date that would otherwise require such obligation to be recharacterized as a Capitalized Lease Obligation, to the extent that financial reporting shall not be affected hereby. For purposes of Section 7.01, a Capitalized Lease Obligation shall be deemed to be secured by a Lien on the property being leased and such property shall be deemed to be owned by the lessee.

Capitalized Research and Development Costs” means research and development costs that are required to be, in accordance with GAAP, capitalized.

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 required to be reflected as capitalized costs on the consolidated balance sheet of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries.

Cash Equivalents” means any of the following types of Investments, to the extent owned by Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary:

(1) Dollars and, with respect to any Non-U.S. Subsidiaries, other currencies held by such Non-U.S. Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business;

(2) securities issued or directly and fully and unconditionally guaranteed or insured by the government of the United States, the United Kingdom, any participating member state of the European Union or any agency or instrumentality of the foregoing 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;

(3) certificates of deposit, time deposits and eurodollar time deposits with maturities of one year or less from the date of acquisition, with any domestic or foreign 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 Dollar Equivalent as of the date of determination) in the case of non-U.S. banks;

(4) repurchase obligations for underlying securities of the types described in clauses (2), (3) and (7) of this definition entered into with any financial institution meeting the qualifications specified in clause (3) above;

(5) commercial paper rated at least “P-1” by Moody’s or at least “A-1” by S&P, and in each case maturing within 24 months after the date of creation thereof and Indebtedness or preferred stock issued by Persons with a rating of “A” or higher from S&P or “A-2” or higher from Moody’s, with maturities of 24 months or less from the date of acquisition;

(6) marketable short-term money market and similar securities having a rating of at least “P-2” or “A-2” 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 statistical rating agency selected by the Borrower) and in each case maturing within 24 months after the date of creation or acquisition thereof;

 

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(7) readily marketable direct obligations issued by any state, commonwealth or territory of the United States or any political subdivision or taxing authority thereof having an Investment Grade Rating from Moody’s or S&P with maturities of 24 months or less from the date of acquisition;

(8) readily marketable direct obligations issued by any foreign government or any political subdivision or public instrumentality thereof, in each case having an Investment Grade Rating from Moody’s or S&P with maturities of 24 months or less from the date of acquisition;

(9) Investments with average maturities of 12 months or less from the date of acquisition in money market funds rated within the top three ratings category by S&P or Moody’s;

(10) with respect to any Non-U.S. Subsidiary: (i) obligations of the national government of the country in which such Non-U.S. 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 Non-U.S. 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-1” or the equivalent thereof or from Moody’s is at least “P-1” or the equivalent thereof (any such bank being an “Approved Foreign Bank”), and in each case with maturities of not more than 270 days from the date of acquisition and (iii) the equivalent of demand deposit accounts which are maintained with an Approved Foreign Bank;

(11) Cash Equivalents of the types described in clauses (1) through (10) above denominated in Dollars; and

(12) investment funds investing at least 90% of their assets in Cash Equivalents of the types described in clauses (1) through (11) above.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, Cash Equivalents shall include amounts denominated in currencies other than those set forth in clause (1) above; provided, such amounts are converted into any currency listed in clause (1) above as promptly as practicable and in any event within ten (10) Business Days following the receipt of such amounts.

Cash Management Bank” means (i) each provider of any Cash Management Services to Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary and (ii) each provider of Cash Management Services to Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary, including any Cash Management Secured Bank.

Cash Management Obligations” means obligations owed by Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary to any Cash Management Bank in respect of any Cash Management Services.

Cash Management Secured Bank” means any Person that is an Agent or a Lender or an Affiliate of any of the foregoing at the time it initially provides any Cash Management Services pursuant to a Secured Cash Management Agreement (or, in the case of Secured Cash Management Agreements existing on the Closing Date, on the Closing Date), whether or not such Person subsequently ceases to be an Agent or a Lender or an Affiliate of any of the foregoing.

 

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Cash Management Services” means any agreement or arrangement to provide cash management services, including treasury, depository, overdraft, credit card processing, credit or debit card, purchase card, electronic funds transfer, ACH transactions and other cash management arrangements.

Casualty Event” means any event that gives rise to the receipt by the Borrower or any of its 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.

Change in Law” means the occurrence, after the date of this Agreement, of any of the following: (a) the adoption or taking effect of any law, rule, regulation or treaty, (b) any change in any law, rule, regulation or treaty or in the administration, interpretation, implementation or application thereof by any Governmental Authority or (c) the making or issuance of any request, rule, guideline or directive (whether or not having the force of law) by any Governmental Authority; provided, notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (x) the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, rules, guidelines or directives thereunder or issued in connection therewith and (y) all requests, rules, guidelines or directives promulgated by the Bank for International Settlements, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (or any successor or similar authority) or the United States or foreign regulatory authorities, in each case pursuant to Basel III, shall in each case be deemed to be a “Change in Law,” regardless of the date enacted, adopted or issued.

Change of Control” means the earlier to occur of:

(a) at any time and for any reason whatsoever, (A) any “person” or “group” (as such terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act) shall become the “beneficial owner” (as defined in Rules 13(d)-3 and 13(d)-5 under such Act), directly or indirectly, of more than thirty-five percent (35%) of the then outstanding voting stock of Holdings or its direct or indirect parent company and (B) at any time during any period of twelve (12) consecutive months, the Continuing Directors shall constitute less than a majority of the board of directors, managers or other governing body of Holdings;

(b) the Borrower ceasing to be a direct Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Holdings; or

(c) any “change of control” or similar event under the First Lien Credit Agreement.

Class” (a) when used with respect to Commitments, refers to whether such Commitments are Initial Term B Commitments, Commitments in respect of any Incremental Term Loans, Commitments in respect of any Extended Term Loans or Refinancing Term Commitments and (c) when used with respect to Loans or a Borrowing, refers to whether such Loans, or the Loans comprising such Borrowing, are Initial Term B Loans, Incremental Term Loans, Refinancing Term Loans or Extended Term Loans. Notwithstanding the above, Initial Term B Loans, Refinancing Term Loans and Extended Term Loans that have different terms (including currencies) and conditions (together with the Commitments in respect thereof and any Lenders thereof) shall be construed to be in different Classes; provided that Incremental Term Loans in the form of increases to any then existing Class of Term Loans shall be construed as part of the same Class as such increased Term Loans.

Closing Date” means the date on which all of the applicable conditions precedent in Section 4.01 are satisfied or waived in accordance with Section 10.01 and the Initial Term B Loans are made to the Borrower.

 

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Closing Date Acquisition” has the meaning specified in the Preliminary Statements to this Agreement.

Closing Date Acquisition Guarantee and Lien Release” means the release and termination of the guarantees provided by, and the security interests granted by, certain of the Subsidiaries of the Borrower pursuant to (i) the Credit Agreement, dated as of December 9, 2015 (as amended, restated, amended and restated, extended, renewed, supplemented, modified and otherwise changed from time to time), by and among Steiner Leisure Limited, an international business company incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas (“Steiner Leisure”), and certain of its Subsidiaries as borrowers, Newstar Financial, Inc., as administrative agent and collateral agent, and the other lenders from time to time party thereto, and (ii) the Credit Agreement, dated as of December 9, 2015 (as amended, restated, amended and restated, extended, renewed, supplemented, modified and otherwise changed from time to time), by and among Steiner Leisure and certain of its Subsidiaries as borrowers, PNC Bank, National Association, as the administrative agent and collateral agent, and other lenders from time to time party thereto, in each case, including by way of the discharge and satisfaction of the primary obligations under such facility.

Code” means the U.S. Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended.

Collateral” means all the “Collateral” (or similar term) as defined in the Collateral Documents and all other property of whatever kind and nature pledged or charged as collateral under any Collateral Document, and shall include the Mortgaged Properties.

Collateral Agent” means the Administrative Agent, in its capacity as collateral agent under any of the Loan Documents, or any successor collateral agent appointed in accordance with Section 9.09.

Collateral and Guarantee Requirement” means, at any time, subject to the Agreed Security Principles and the Intercreditor Agreement, the requirement that:

(a) the Collateral Agent shall have received each Collateral Document required to be delivered on the Closing Date pursuant to Section 4.01 or thereafter pursuant to Section 6.10 or Section 6.12 duly executed by each Loan Party that is a party thereto;

(b) all Obligations shall have been unconditionally guaranteed (the “Guarantees”) jointly and severally, by (i) Holdings, (ii) the Borrower (other than with respect to its own Obligations) and (iii) each other Restricted Subsidiary of Holdings that is a Material Subsidiary (other than, in the case of this clause (iii) any Excluded Subsidiary and any non-Wholly-Owned Subsidiary) (collectively, the “Guarantors” and each individually, a “Guarantor”);

(c) the Obligations and the Guarantees shall have been secured pursuant to the Security Agreements by a second-priority security interest in (i) all the Equity Interests of the Borrower and (ii) all other Equity Interests (other than Excluded Equity) held directly by Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor in any Subsidiary;

(d) except to the extent otherwise provided hereunder or under any Collateral Document, the Obligations and the Guarantees shall have been secured by a perfected security interest (other than in the case of mortgages, to the extent such security interest may be perfected by delivering certificated securities and instruments (in each case, accompanied by an undated stock power or other appropriate instrument of transfer executed in blank), filing personal property financing statements, or making any necessary filings with the United States Patent and Trademark Office, United States Copyright Office, or the World Intellectual Property

 

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Organization) in, and liens (including mortgages) on, substantially all tangible and intangible assets of Holdings, the Borrower and each other Guarantor (including, without limitation, accounts receivable, inventory, equipment, investment property, material intellectual property, other general intangibles (including contract rights), owned (but not leased) real property and proceeds of the foregoing), in each case, with the priority required by the Collateral Documents; provided, security interests in real property shall be limited to the Mortgaged Properties;

(e) none of the Collateral shall be subject to any Liens other than Liens permitted by Section 7.01; and

(f) the Collateral Agent shall have received (i) counterparts of a Mortgage with respect to each Material Real Property required to be delivered pursuant to Section 6.10 and/or Section 6.12, as applicable, duly executed and delivered by the record owner of such property, (ii) a title insurance policy for such Mortgaged Property (or marked-up title insurance commitment having the effect of a title insurance policy) (the “Mortgage Policies”) issued by a Title Company insuring the Lien of each such Mortgage as a valid second priority Lien on the property described therein, free of any other Liens except as expressly permitted by Section 7.01 hereof, together with such endorsements, coinsurance and reinsurance as the Collateral Agent may reasonably request and to the extent available in each applicable jurisdiction at commercially reasonable rates, (iii) a Survey with respect to each Mortgaged Property; provided, however, that a Survey shall not be required to the extent that (A) an existing survey together with an “affidavit of no change” satisfactory to the Title Company is delivered to the Collateral Agent and the Title Company and (B) the Title Company removes the standard survey exception and provides reasonable and customary survey-related endorsements and other coverages in the applicable Mortgage Policy to the extent available in each applicable jurisdiction at commercially reasonable rates, (iv) 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 applicable Loan Party relating thereto), (v) if any portion of any improved Mortgaged Property is located in an area identified by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (or any successor agency) as a special flood hazard area with respect to which flood insurance has been made available under the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (as now or hereafter in effect or successor act thereto), a copy of, or a certificate as to coverage under, and a declaration page relating to, the flood insurance policies required by Section 6.06 hereof, and in compliance with, the Flood Insurance Laws, each of which (A) shall be endorsed or otherwise amended to name the Collateral Agent as mortgagee and lender’s loss payee, (B) shall (1) identify the addresses of each property located in a special flood hazard area, (2) indicate the applicable flood zone designation, the flood insurance coverage and the deductible relating thereto and (3) provide that the insurer will give the Collateral Agent 45 days written notice of cancellation or non-renewal and (C) shall be otherwise in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, (vi) such existing abstracts, existing appraisals, legal opinions (regarding the due execution and delivery and enforceability of each such Mortgage, the corporate formation, existence and good standing of the applicable mortgagor, and such other customary matters as may be reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent (at the direction of the Required Lenders), and which shall be in form and substance reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent) and other documents as the Administrative Agent (at the direction of the Required Lenders) may reasonably request with respect to any such Mortgaged Property to the extent necessary to obtain the foregoing deliverables and (vii) evidence of payment of title insurance premiums and expenses and all mortgage recording, transfer, intangibles and stamp taxes, if applicable (provided that to the extent any Mortgaged Property is located in a jurisdiction which imposes mortgage recording taxes, intangibles tax, documentary tax or similar recording fees or taxes, the

 

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relevant Mortgage shall not secure an amount in excess of the fair market value of the Mortgaged Property subject thereto or another method is utilized to reduce such tax as permitted or required by applicable law), and fees payable in connection with recording the Mortgage, any amendments thereto and any fixture filings, to the extent necessary to be filed in the applicable jurisdiction, in each case in appropriate county land office(s). The Administrative Agent, Collateral Agent or Borrower shall give at least 45 days prior written notice to the Lenders prior to pledging any Material Real Property and upon confirmation from all Lenders that flood insurance due diligence and flood insurance compliance have been completed, the applicable Loan Parties may pledge such Material Real Property, with the understanding that in each case, the foregoing requirements set forth in this clause (f) shall be completed prior to the 90-day period within which the applicable Loan Party shall be obligated to provide the real estate deliverables set forth in Section 6.10 and/or Section 6.12 hereof; provided, that if such requirements are not completed during such period due to the relevant Lenders not being able to complete their respective flood insurance due diligence and flood insurance compliance, such 90-day period shall be extended for so long as is required to complete such flood diligence and related compliance.

The foregoing definition shall not require the creation or perfection of pledges of or security interests in, or the obtaining of title insurance or surveys with respect to, particular assets if and for so long as Borrower and the Administrative Agent (at the direction of the Required Lenders) agree in writing that the cost or other consequence (including any material adverse tax consequences) of creating or perfecting such pledges or security interests in such assets or obtaining title insurance or surveys in respect of such assets shall be excessive in view of the benefits to be obtained by the Lenders therefrom.

The Administrative Agent (at the direction of the Required Lenders) may grant extensions of time for the perfection of security interests in or the obtaining of title insurance and surveys with respect to particular assets (including extensions beyond the Closing Date for the perfection of security interests in the assets of the Loan Parties on such date) where it reasonably determines, in consultation with the Borrower, that perfection cannot be accomplished without undue effort or expense by the time or times at which it would otherwise be required by this Agreement or the Collateral Documents.

Notwithstanding the foregoing provisions of this definition or anything in this Agreement or any other Loan Document to the contrary:

(A) 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 the Collateral Documents and as agreed between the Required Lenders and Holdings;

(B) the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement shall not apply to any of the following assets: (i) any fee-owned real property that is not a Material Real Property, any leasehold interests in real property (it being understood that no action shall be required with respect to creation or perfection of security interests with respect to such leases, including to obtain landlord waivers, estoppels or collateral access letters), (ii) motor vehicles and other assets subject to certificates of title, (iii) [reserved], (iv) [reserved], (v) any assets for which a pledge thereof or a security interest therein is prohibited by applicable Laws or a contractual obligation or would require obtaining the consent, approval, license or authorization of any Governmental Authority or applicable third party (other than Holdings, the Borrower or a Subsidiary of Holdings) (but only for so long as such prohibition exists and, in the case of any contractual obligation, only to the extent such prohibition exists on the Closing Date, or in connection with any subsequently acquired Subsidiary which is joined, or required to be joined, as a Guarantor on the date of the acquisition thereof (provided such contractual obligation is not entered into in contemplation thereof)) which consent, approval, license or authorization has not been obtained after giving

 

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effect to applicable anti-nonassignment provisions of the UCC or other applicable Law; provided that, notwithstanding the foregoing, the Borrower shall use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain the consent of the applicable third parties party to Material Contracts in effect on the Closing Date within those time periods set forth on Schedule 6.12(b), (vi) margin stock, (vii) to the extent requiring the consent of one or more third parties (other than Holdings, the Borrower or a Subsidiary of Holdings) or prohibited by the terms of any applicable Organization Documents, joint venture agreement or shareholders’ agreement, Equity Interests in any Person other than (x) the Borrower and (y) each of the other Wholly-Owned Material Subsidiaries that are Restricted Subsidiaries (except, in the case of this clause (y) to the extent such consent requirement or prohibition is existing at the time such Wholly-Owned Material Subsidiary becomes a Restricted Subsidiary and was not incurred in contemplation thereof) and provided that such consent requirement or prohibition was in effect on the Closing Date or, if later, at the time of the acquisition of such Equity Interests and not incurred in contemplation thereof after giving effect to applicable anti-nonassignment provisions of the UCC or other applicable Law, (viii) any governmental licenses or state or local franchises, charters and authorizations which are not permitted to be pledged under applicable Laws, after giving effect to the applicable anti-nonassignment provisions of the UCC or other applicable Law, (ix) any equipment or other asset subject to permitted liens securing permitted acquired debt (limited to the acquired assets) or permitted sale and leaseback transactions, in each case to the extent the contract or other agreement providing for such debt or sale and leaseback transaction requires the consent of any person as a condition to the creation of any other security interest on such equipment or asset and, in each case, such indebtedness, liens, transactions and prohibition or requirement is permitted under the Loan Documents, (x) any lease, license or other agreements, or any property subject to a purchase money security interest, or Capitalized Lease Obligation, in each case to the extent permitted under the Loan Documents, to the extent that a pledge thereof or a security interest therein would violate or invalidate such lease, license or agreement, purchase money debt, Capitalized Lease or similar arrangement, or create a right of termination in favor of any other party thereto (other than Holdings, the Borrower or a Subsidiary of Holdings) (including pursuant to any “change of control” or similar provision), other than the proceeds and receivables thereof the assignment of which is expressly deemed effective under applicable Laws notwithstanding such prohibition; provided that, notwithstanding the foregoing, the Borrower shall use commercially reasonable efforts to obtain the consent of the of the applicable third parties party to such lease, license or agreement, purchase money debt, Capitalized Lease or similar arrangement, (xi) any intent-to-use trademark application prior to the filing 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 under applicable federal law, (xii) Excluded Equity, (xiii) those assets as to which the Borrower and the Required Lenders reasonably determine that the cost or other consequences (including any material adverse tax consequences) of obtaining such a security interest or perfection thereof is excessive in relation to the benefit to the Lenders of the security to be afforded thereby, (xiv) assets excluded pursuant to the application of the Agreed Security Principles, (xv) any accounts or funds held or received on behalf of third parties and (xvi) any assets owned by a Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party (all of the foregoing, collectively, “Excluded Collateral”); provided, however, that “Excluded Collateral” shall not include any proceeds (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any proceeds constituting cash), substitutions or replacements of any Excluded Collateral unless such proceeds, substitutions or replacements would independently constitute Excluded Collateral; provided, further, changes to the definition of “Excluded Collateral” may be set forth in the applicable Security Agreements if agreed by the Borrower and the Collateral Agent; provided, further, no action shall be required by the Loan Parties to perfect Liens on: (i) letter of credit rights and (ii) commercial tort claims reasonably expected to result in a recovery less than $500,000, in each case to the extent not perfected as supporting obligations by the filing of a UCC financing statement or other similar filing under other applicable Law in each case on the Collateral generally; and

 

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(C) no deposit account control agreement, securities account control agreement or other control agreements or control arrangements shall be required with respect to any deposit account, securities account or other asset specifically requiring perfection through control agreements other than control by possession of pledged capital stock and promissory notes with a principal amount in excess of $500,000, on an individual basis; and

(D) control agreements (or perfection by control or similar arrangements) shall not be required with respect to any assets (including deposit or securities accounts); provided, for these purposes, “perfection by control” shall not refer to the possession of share certificates or other certificates or instruments representing or embodying the right to negotiable investment securities); and

(E) the provision of any Guarantee or Guaranty, and the creation, perfection, or maintenance of pledges of or security interests in any assets shall not be required to the extent provided in the Agreed Security Principles; and

(F) no actions in any jurisdiction or that are necessary to comply with Laws of any jurisdiction and no security agreements, pledge agreements, share charge (or mortgage) agreements or other Collateral Documents shall be governed under the Laws of any jurisdiction other than (w) the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia, (x) the jurisdiction of organization of a Loan Party to create or perfect a security interest in assets of such Loan Party, including any intellectual property registered outside such jurisdiction of organization (other than intellectual property registered with the United States Patent and Trademark Office or United States Copyright Office), except for the avoidance of doubt, U.S. trademarks that require registration with or filings with the World Intellectual Property Organization, (y) solely in the case of a security interest securing the Equity Interests in any Person, the jurisdiction of organization of any Loan Party and (z) solely in the case of Mortgages, the jurisdiction of each applicable Mortgaged Property; and

(G) no landlord, mortgagee or bailee waivers, including any estoppel, collateral access letters or similar type of waiver shall be required; and

(H) no notices shall be required to be sent to account debtors or other contractual third parties.

With respect to the Collateral Documents:

(i) access to the assets of a Guarantor, the maximum guaranteed or secured amount may be restricted or limited by limitation language agreed to reflect these principles and to the extent consistent with them, customary practice in the relevant jurisdiction to minimize stamp duty, notarization, registration or other applicable fees where the benefit of increasing the guaranteed or secured amount is disproportionate to the level of such fee, Taxes and duties or where registration, notarial or other fees are payable by reference to the stated amount secured in which case, any Collateral granted by that Guarantor shall be limited to the maximum recoverable amount under such limitation language;

 

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(ii) where a class of assets to be secured includes material and immaterial assets, if the cost of granting Collateral over the immaterial assets is disproportionate to the benefit of such security interest, Collateral will be granted over the material assets only;

(iii) representations, covenants and undertakings shall only be included in each Collateral Document to the extent necessary under local law to confirm any registration or perfection of, or ensure the validity of, the Collateral or the creation, perfection or priority of the Lien or security interest created thereby and shall not be repeated;

(iv) the provisions thereof will not be unduly burdensome on the Guarantor or interfere unreasonably with the operation of its business or have an adverse effect on the commercial reputation of the Guarantor and will be limited to those required to create effective a security interest and not impose additional commercial obligations;

(v) any transactions (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the incurrence of Indebtedness, the granting of Liens, the making of Investments, Dispositions, and merger, consolidation, liquidation or winding up) permitted by the Loan Documents shall be permitted in the Collateral Documents;

(vi) information, such as lists of specified assets, will be provided, unless required to be provided more frequently by local law, annually (unless there has been no change in such information since the date of the last list delivered with a certificate regarding same) and if and, only to the extent, required by local law to be provided to perfect or register the Collateral Documents and, that this information can be provided without breaching confidentiality requirements or damaging business relationships or commercial reputation (prior to an Event of Default); and

(vii) subject to clause (iii) above, there will be no repetition or extension of clauses set out in this Agreement (or the other Loan Documents) such as those relating to notices, cost and expenses, indemnities, tax gross-up, distribution of proceeds and release of security interests other than if expressly required by local law to perfect the security interests granted thereby or make it enforceable or to facilitate the admissibility of a Collateral Document in court.

Collateral Documents” means, collectively, the Security Agreements, the Mortgages, each of the mortgages, collateral assignments, Security Agreement Supplements, security agreements, pledge agreements or other similar agreements delivered to the Collateral Agent and the Lenders pursuant to Section 4.01(a), Section 6.10 or Section 6.12, the Guaranty and each of the other agreements, instruments or documents that creates or purports to create a Lien or Guarantee in favor of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties.

Commitment” means an Initial Term B Commitment, a commitment in respect of any Incremental Term Loans, or a commitment in respect of any Extended Term Loans or any combination thereof, as the context may require.

Commitment Letter” means that certain Amended and Restated Commitment Letter dated as of January 8, 2019 by and among Neuberger Berman Alternative Funds, Neuberger Berman Long Short Fund and the SPAC.

Committed Loan Notice” means a written notice of (a) a Term 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.

 

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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.

Compensation Period” has the meaning specified in Section 2.12(c)(ii).

Compliance Certificate” means a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit D.

Connection Income Taxes” means Other Connection Taxes that are imposed on or measured by net income (however denominated) or that are franchise Taxes or branch profits Taxes.

Consolidated Depreciation and Amortization Expense” means, with respect to any Person for any period, the total amount of depreciation and amortization expense, including the amortization of deferred financing fees or costs, capitalized expenditures, customer acquisition costs and incentive payments, conversion costs and contract acquisition costs, the amortization of original issue discount resulting from the issuance of Indebtedness at less than par and amortization of favorable or unfavorable lease assets or liabilities, of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period on a consolidated basis and otherwise determined in accordance with GAAP.

Consolidated EBITDA” means, with respect to any Person for any period, the Consolidated Net Income of such Person for such period:

(a) increased (without duplication) by the following:

(i) provision for taxes based on income or profits or capital, including, without limitation, state franchise, excise and similar taxes, foreign taxes and withholding taxes of such Person paid or accrued during such period, including any penalties and interest relating to any tax examinations, deducted (and not added back) in computing Consolidated Net Income; plus

(ii) Fixed Charges of such Person for such period (including (x) net losses or any obligations under any Swap Contracts or other derivative instruments entered into for the purpose of hedging interest rate, currency or commodities risk, (y) bank fees and (z) costs of surety bonds in connection with financing activities), to the extent the same were deducted (and not added back) in calculating such Consolidated Net Income; plus

(iii) Consolidated Depreciation and Amortization Expense of such Person for such period to the extent the same were deducted (and not added back) in computing Consolidated Net Income; plus

(iv) the Transaction Expenses; plus

(v) any expenses or charges (other than depreciation or amortization expense) related to any equity offering, Investment, acquisition, disposition or recapitalization permitted hereunder or the incurrence of Indebtedness permitted to be incurred hereunder (including a refinancing thereof) (whether or not successful) (including such expenses or charges reimbursed or actually paid by a Person that is not Holdings or one of its Subsidiaries or covered by indemnification or reimbursement provisions), including (A) such fees, expenses or charges related to the incurrence of the Loans and any other credit facilities or the offering of debt securities and (B) any amendment or other modification of this Agreement and any other credit facilities or the offering of debt securities, in each case, deducted (and not added back) in computing Consolidated Net Income; plus

 

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(vi) expenses, charges and losses in the form of earn-out obligations and contingent consideration obligations (including to the extent accounted for as performance and retention bonuses, compensation or otherwise) and adjustments thereof and purchase price adjustments, in each case paid or likely to be payable in connection with Permitted Acquisitions, other Investments, acquisitions or Capital Expenditures; plus

(vii) the amount of any restructuring charge or provision (whether or not classified as a restructuring charge or provision under GAAP), integration cost or other business optimization expense or cost that is deducted (and not added back) in such period in computing Consolidated Net Income, including any one-time costs incurred in connection with acquisitions or divestitures after the Closing Date, any recruiting expenses and costs related to the closure and/or consolidation of facilities and to exiting lines of business and any reconstruction, recommissioning or reconfiguring of fixed assets for alternative use; plus

(viii) any other non-cash charges, write-downs, expenses, losses or items reducing Consolidated Net Income for such period including any impairment charges or the impact of purchase accounting (provided, in connection with any such non-cash charge, write-down or item required or anticipated to be made, to the extent it represents an accrual or reserve for a cash expenditure for a future period such Person may determine not to addback such non-cash charges, write-downs, expenses, losses or items in the current period and, to the extent such Person does decide to addback such charges, write-downs, expenses, losses or items in respect thereof in such future period such charges, write-downs, expenses, losses or items will not be added back to Consolidated EBITDA to the extent of such adjustment previously added back) or other items classified by Holdings as special items less other non-cash items of income increasing Consolidated Net Income (excluding any such non-cash item of income to the extent it represents a receipt of cash in any future period); plus

(ix) the amount of any minority interest expense consisting of Subsidiary income attributable to minority equity interests of third parties in any non-Wholly-Owned Restricted Subsidiary and the amount of any reductions in arriving at Consolidated Net Income resulting from the application of Account Standards Codification Topic 810; plus

(x) the amount of “run-rate” cost savings and synergies projected by Holdings in good faith to result from actions (x) taken or (y) to be taken; provided, actions are reasonably expected to be taken within twelve (12) months after the end of the Test Period (or with respect to the Transactions, eighteen (18) months) and the aggregate amount added back for actions to be taken will not exceed in any period 20% of Consolidated EBITDA, determined on a Pro Forma Basis; in each case, which cost savings or synergies shall be calculated on a pro forma basis as though such cost savings or synergies had been realized on the first day of such period and net of the amount of actual benefits realized prior to or during such period from such actions; provided, that a Responsible Officer of Holdings shall have certified to the Administrative Agent that such cost savings or synergies are reasonably identifiable, factually supportable and reasonably anticipated to result from such actions; plus

 

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(xi) (A) any costs or expense incurred by such Person (or any direct or indirect parent thereof) or a Restricted Subsidiary 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 and (B) the amount of payments made to option holders of such Person or a parent company thereof in connection with, or as a result of, any distribution being made to shareholders of such Person or parent company thereof, which payments are being made to compensate such option holders as though they were shareholders at the time of, and entitled to share in, such distribution; plus

(xii) 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; plus

(xiii) any net loss included in Consolidated Net Income attributable to non-controlling interests; plus

(xiv) realized foreign exchange losses resulting from the impact of foreign currency changes on the valuation of assets or liabilities on the balance sheet of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries; plus

(xv) net realized losses from Swap Contracts or embedded derivatives that require similar accounting treatment; plus

(xvi) the amount of management, advisory, accounting, consulting, and legal fees, and the amount of refinancing subsequent transaction and exit fees (including termination fees) and related indemnities, costs and expenses paid or accrued in such period to the extent permitted hereunder; plus

(xvii) the amount of loss on sale of receivables, Securitization Assets and related assets to any Securitization Subsidiary in connection with a Qualified Securitization Financing; plus

(xviii) [reserved]; plus

(xix) the pro forma adjustments identified in the quality of earnings report provided by Grant Thornton LLP and dated October 10, 2018; plus

(xx) any costs or expenses incurred relating to environmental remediation, litigation or other disputes in respect of events and exposures that occurred prior to the Closing Date; plus

(xxi) expenses, losses and charges incurred during such period in connection with Casualty Events, to the extent that any such amount is covered by business interruption insurance and actually reimbursed or so long as such Person has made a determination that there exists reasonable evidence that such amount will be reimbursed by the insurer and only to the extent (A) such amount is not denied by the applicable insurance carrier in writing within 180 days and (B) in fact reimbursed within 365 days of the date of such determination (with a deduction for any amount so added back to the extent not so reimbursed within 365 days); plus

 

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(xxii) fees, expenses and indemnities paid or accrued in such period to directors; plus

(xxiii) any charge, loss or expense (including non-cash charges) relating to any Permitted Reorganization, including the amount of incremental amortization or depreciation arising as a result of any adjustments to inventory, equipment and other assets arising as a result of the consummation of, and any other charge, loss or expense arising from other accounting effects of the consummation of, such Permitted Reorganization;

(b) decreased (without duplication) by the following:

(i) non-cash gains increasing Consolidated Net Income of such Person for such period, excluding any non-cash gains to the extent they represent the reversal of an accrual or cash reserve for a potential cash item that reduced Consolidated EBITDA in any prior period and any non-cash gains with respect to cash actually received in a prior period to the extent such cash was not included in Consolidated EBITDA in such prior period; plus

(ii) realized foreign exchange income or gains resulting from the impact of foreign currency changes on the valuation of assets or liabilities on the balance sheet of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries; plus

(iii) any net realized income or gains from any obligations under any Swap Contracts or embedded derivatives that require similar accounting treatment and the application of Accounting Standards Codification Topic 815 and related pronouncements; plus

(iv) any amount included in Consolidated Net Income of such Person for such period attributable to non-controlling interests pursuant to the application of Accounting Standards Codification Topic 810 10 45; plus

(v) the amount of any minority interest income attributable to minority equity interests of third parties in any non-Wholly-Owned Subsidiary; and

(c) increased or decreased (without duplication) by, as applicable, any adjustments resulting from the application of FASB Accounting Standards Codification 815 and IAS 39 Financial Instruments: Recognition and Measurement and related standards.

There shall be included in determining Consolidated EBITDA for any period, without duplication, the Acquired EBITDA of any Acquired Entity or Business (but not the Acquired EBITDA of any related Person, property, business or asset to the extent not acquired during such period) and the Acquired EBITDA of any Converted Restricted Subsidiary, based on the actual Acquired EBITDA of such Acquired Entity or Business or Converted Restricted Subsidiary for such period (including the portion thereof occurring prior to such acquisition or investment). For purposes of determining the Total Leverage Ratio and the Secured Leverage Ratio, there shall be excluded in determining Consolidated EBITDA for any period the Disposed EBITDA of any Sold Entity or Business and the Disposed EBITDA of any Converted Unrestricted Subsidiary, based on the actual Disposed EBITDA of such Sold Entity or

 

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Business or Converted Unrestricted Subsidiary for such period (including the portion thereof occurring prior to such sale, transfer or disposition). Notwithstanding the foregoing, but subject to any adjustment set forth above with respect to any transactions occurring after the Closing Date, Consolidated EBITDA shall be $13,300,000, $13,900,000, $14,600,000 and $14,500,000 for the fiscal quarters ended December 31, 2017, March 31, 2018, June 30, 2018 and September 30, 2018, respectively.

Consolidated Interest Expense” means, with respect to any Person for any period, without duplication, the sum of:

(1) consolidated interest expense of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, to the extent such expense was deducted (and not added back) in computing Consolidated Net Income (including (a) amortization of original issue discount or premium resulting from the issuance of Indebtedness at less than par, (b) all commissions, discounts, closing and other fees and charges owed with respect to financing activities, (c) non-cash interest payments, (d) the interest component of Capitalized Lease Obligations and (e) net payments, if any, pursuant to interest rate obligations under any Swap Contracts with respect to Indebtedness); plus

(2) consolidated capitalized interest of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, whether paid or accrued; less

(3) interest income for such period.

For purposes of this definition, interest on a Capitalized Lease Obligation shall be deemed to accrue at an interest rate reasonably determined by such Person to be the rate of interest implicit in such Capitalized Lease Obligation in accordance with GAAP.

Consolidated Net Income” means, with respect to any Person for any period, the net income (loss) of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period determined on a consolidated basis on the basis of GAAP; provided, however, that there will not be included in such Consolidated Net Income (without duplication):

(4) any net income (loss) of any Person if such Person is not Holdings or a Restricted Subsidiary, except that Holdings’ equity in the net income of any such Person for such period will be included in such Consolidated Net Income up to the aggregate amount of cash or Cash Equivalents actually distributed (or, so long as such Person is not (x) a joint venture with outstanding third party indebtedness for borrowed money or (y) an Unrestricted Subsidiary, that (as reasonably determined by a Responsible Officer of Holdings) could have been distributed by such Person during such period to Holdings or a Restricted Subsidiary) as a dividend or other distribution or return on investment;

(5) any net gain (or loss) from disposed, abandoned or discontinued operations and any net gain (or loss) on disposal of disposed, discontinued or abandoned operations;

(6) any net gain (or loss) realized upon the sale, abandonment or other disposition of any asset (including pursuant to any sale/leaseback transaction) that is not sold or otherwise disposed of in the ordinary course of business (as determined in good faith by Holdings);

(7) any extraordinary, exceptional, unusual or nonrecurring gain, loss, charge or expense (including the Transaction Expenses), or any charges, expenses or reserves in respect of any restructuring, relocation, redundancy or severance expense, new product introductions or one-time compensation charges;

 

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(8) the cumulative effect of a change in accounting principles and changes as a result of the adoption or modification of accounting policies during such period whether effected through a cumulative adjustment or a retroactive application;

(9) any (i) non-cash compensation charge or expense arising from any grant of stock, stock options or other equity based awards and any non-cash deemed finance charges in respect of any pension liabilities or other provisions and (ii) income (loss) attributable to deferred compensation plans or trusts;

(10) all deferred financing costs written off and premiums paid or other expenses incurred directly in connection with any early extinguishment of Indebtedness and any net gain (loss) from any write-off or forgiveness of Indebtedness;

(11) any unrealized gains or losses in respect of any obligations under any Swap Contracts or any ineffectiveness recognized in earnings related to hedge transactions or the fair value of changes therein recognized in earnings for derivatives that do not qualify as hedge transactions, in each case, in respect of any obligations under any Swap Contracts;

(12) any unrealized foreign currency translation gains or losses in respect of Indebtedness of any Person denominated in a currency other than the functional currency of such Person and any unrealized foreign exchange gains or losses relating to translation of assets and liabilities denominated in foreign currencies;

(13) any unrealized foreign currency translation or transaction gains or losses in respect of Indebtedness or other obligations of Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary owing to Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary;

(14) any recapitalization accounting effects and purchase accounting effects including, but not limited to, adjustments to inventory, property and equipment, software and other intangible assets and deferred revenue in component amounts required or permitted by GAAP and related authoritative pronouncements (including the effects of such adjustments pushed down to Holdings and the Restricted Subsidiaries);

(15) any non-cash rent expense;

(16) [reserved];

(17) earn-out and contingent consideration obligations (including to the extent accounted for as bonuses or otherwise) and adjustments thereof and purchase price adjustments;

(18) any impairment charge, write-down or write-off, including impairment charges, write-downs or write-offs relating to goodwill, intangible assets, tangible fixed assets, investments in debt and equity securities or as a result of a change in law or regulation;

(19) any after-tax effect of income (loss) from the early extinguishment or cancellation of Indebtedness or any obligations under any Swap Contracts or other derivative instruments;

 

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(20) accruals and provisions that are in connection with the Transactions, any Investment and any acquisition in accordance with GAAP;

(21) any net unrealized gains and losses resulting from Swap Contracts or embedded derivatives that require similar accounting treatment and the application of Accounting Standards Codification Topic 815 and related pronouncements and movement of other financial instruments from the application of Accounting Standards Codification Topic 825; and

(22) 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 item.

In addition, to the extent not already excluded from the Consolidated Net Income of such Person and its Restricted Subsidiaries, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the foregoing, Consolidated Net Income shall exclude (i) any expenses and charges that are reimbursed by indemnification or other reimbursement provisions in connection with any investment or any sale, conveyance, transfer or other disposition of assets permitted hereunder and (ii) to the extent covered by insurance and actually reimbursed, or, so long as Holdings has made a determination that there exists reasonable evidence that such amount will in fact be reimbursed by the insurer and only to the extent that such amount is (A) not denied by the applicable carrier in writing within 180 days and (B) in fact reimbursed within 365 days of the date of such evidence (with a deduction for any amount so added back to the extent not so reimbursed within such 365 days), expenses with respect to liability or casualty events or business interruption.

Consolidated Total Debt” means, as of any date of determination, (a) the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries outstanding on such date, determined 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 any Permitted Acquisition), consisting of Indebtedness for borrowed money, Capitalized Lease Obligations and debt obligations evidenced by bonds, debentures, notes, loan agreements or other similar instruments minus (b) the aggregate amount of unrestricted cash and Cash Equivalents included on the consolidated balance sheet of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries as of such date which aggregate amount of unrestricted cash and Cash Equivalents shall be determined without giving Pro Forma Effect to the proceeds of Indebtedness incurred on such date; provided, Consolidated Total Debt shall not include (w) Letters of Credit (as defined in and issued pursuant to the First Lien Credit Agreement) (or other letters of credit and bankers’ acceptances), except to the extent of Unreimbursed Amounts (as defined in the First Lien Credit Agreement) (or unreimbursed amounts) thereunder, (x) obligations under Swap Contracts, (y) Indebtedness in respect of any Qualified Securitization Financing and (z) Non-Recourse Indebtedness.

Consolidated Working Capital” means, at any date, the excess of (a) the sum of (i) all amounts (other than cash and Cash Equivalents) that would, in conformity with GAAP, be set forth opposite the caption “total current assets” (or any like caption) on a consolidated balance sheet of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries at such date and (ii) long-term accounts receivable over (b) the sum of (i) all amounts that would, in conformity with GAAP, be set forth opposite the caption “total current liabilities” (or any like caption) on a consolidated balance sheet of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries on such date and (ii) long-term deferred revenue, but excluding, without duplication, (a) the current portion of any Funded Debt, (b) all Indebtedness consisting of Revolving Credit Loans and L/C Obligations (each as defined in and incurred or issued, as applicable, pursuant to the First Lien Credit Agreement) to the extent otherwise included therein, (c) the current portion of interest, (d) the current portion of current and deferred income taxes, (e) the current portion of any Capitalized Lease Obligations, (f) deferred revenue arising from cash receipts that are earmarked for specific projects, (g) the current portion of deferred acquisition costs and any earn-out obligations, purchase price adjustments, deferred purchase money

 

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amounts, milestone and/or bonus payments (whether performance or time-based), in each case, characterized as such and, arising expressly out of purchase and sale contracts, and (h) current accrued costs associated with any restructuring or business optimization (including accrued severance and accrued facility closure costs).

Continuing Directors” means the directors, managers or equivalent body of Holdings on the Closing Date, as elected or appointed after giving effect to the Transactions and the other transactions contemplated hereby, and each other director, manager or equivalent body, if, in each case, such other director’s, manager’s or equivalent body’s nomination for election to the board of directors, managers or other governing body of Holdings is recommended or approved by a majority of the then Continuing Directors in his or her election by the stockholders or partners of Holdings.

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” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Affiliate.”

Converted Restricted Subsidiary” means, for any period, any Unrestricted Subsidiary that is converted into a Restricted Subsidiary during such period.

Converted Unrestricted Subsidiary” means, for any period, any Restricted Subsidiary that is converted into an Unrestricted Subsidiary during such period.

Cortland” has the meaning specified in the Preliminary Statements to this Agreement.

Covered Jurisdiction” means the United States, each state thereof and the District of Columbia, the Commonwealth of The Bahamas and each country in which (i) Holdings and any Subsidiary of Holdings that is a direct or indirect parent of the Borrower is organized, (ii) the total assets of all Subsidiaries organized under the laws of such jurisdiction at the last day of the most recent Test Period equals or exceeds 5.0% of the total assets of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries at such date or (iii) the gross revenues for the most recent Test Period of all Subsidiaries organized under the laws of such jurisdiction equal or exceed 5.0% of the consolidated gross revenues of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, in each case determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP.

Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness” means (a) Permitted Pari Passu Refinancing Debt, (b) Permitted Junior Priority Refinancing Debt, (c) Permitted Unsecured Refinancing Debt or (d) other Indebtedness incurred pursuant to a Refinancing Amendment, 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 part, any Class of existing Term Loans or any then-existing Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness (the “Refinanced Debt”); provided, (i) such Indebtedness has a maturity no earlier, and, with respect to Refinancing Term Loans, a Weighted Average Life to Maturity equal to or greater, than the Refinanced Debt (except that, determining the final maturity of any relevant debt which is a bridge loan by reference to the notes or term loans into which such bridge loan is to be converted to or exchanged for at maturity, and excluding customary offers to repurchase or mandatory prepayments upon a change of control, asset sale or event of loss and customary acceleration rights after an event of default), (ii) except to the extent permitted under the Loan Documents, such Indebtedness shall not have a greater principal amount than the principal amount (or accreted value, if applicable) 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 commitments unutilized thereunder, (iii) the covenants and events of default of such

 

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Indebtedness are substantially identical to or, taken as a whole, not materially more favorable (as determined by the Borrower in good faith) to the investors providing such Indebtedness than those contained in the documentation governing the Refinanced Debt (except for (x) covenants or other provisions applicable only to periods after the Maturity Date of the applicable Facility existing at the time of incurrence of such Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness and (y) any financial maintenance covenant to the extent such covenant is also added for the benefit of the lenders under the Refinanced Indebtedness) or otherwise reflect market terms and conditions (as determined by the Borrower in good faith) at the time of incurrence of such Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness, (iv) the pricing (including interest, fees and premiums), optional prepayment and redemption terms with respect such Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness shall be determined by the Borrower and the lenders providing such Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness, (v) such 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 or within one Business Day of 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 the Loan Parties, (vii) to the extent secured, such Indebtedness is not secured by property other than the Collateral and, other than Indebtedness incurred under this Agreement, the holders of such Indebtedness or a Debt Representative acting on behalf of the holders of such Indebtedness shall become party to or otherwise become subject to the provisions of (x) in the case of Indebtedness secured by a Lien that ranks pari passu with the Lien securing the Obligations, (i) if the First Lien Term Loans are still outstanding at the relevant date of determination, the Intercreditor Agreement, or (ii) if the First Lien Term Loans are no longer outstanding at the relevant date of determination, a Pari Passu Intercreditor Agreement, (y) in the case of Indebtedness secured by a Lien that ranks junior to the Lien securing the Obligations, a Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement and/or (z) with respect to any other indebtedness, an intercreditor agreement the terms of which are consistent with market terms (as determined by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (at the direction of the Required Lenders) in good faith) governing arrangements for the sharing and subordination of liens and/or arrangements relating to the distribution of payments, as applicable, at the time the intercreditor agreement is proposed to be established in light of the type of indebtedness subject thereto (such intercreditor agreement, a “Subordination Agreement”) or subordination agreement reasonably satisfactory to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent and (viii) any Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness that is a Term Loan that is pari passu in right of payment and security with the Term Loans and has the same final maturity and prepayment premium as the Initial Term B Loans shall share ratably in any mandatory prepayments of the Term Loans and with any other Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness able to share ratably or on a greater or lesser than ratable basis with any other Term Loans in respect of any prepayments unless the Borrower and the lenders in respect of such Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness elect lesser payments. The ranking of such Indebtedness as to right of payment or as to security interests in the Collateral shall be no different than or junior to that of the Refinanced Debt.

Credit Extension” means a Borrowing.

Cumulative Excess Cash Flow Amount” means, as at any date of determination, an amount determined on a cumulative basis, equal to the positive amount of any Excess Cash Flow for each fiscal year of Holdings commencing with the fiscal year ending December 31, 2019 (provided that for the fiscal year ending December 31, 2019, Cumulative Excess Cash Flow Amount shall be limited to the amount of Excess Cash Flow generated from the Closing Date through December 31, 2019).

Debt Representative” means, with respect to any Indebtedness that is secured on a pari passu basis with, or on a junior basis to, the Loans, the trustee, administrative agent, collateral agent, security agent or similar agent under the indenture or agreement pursuant to which such Indebtedness is issued, incurred or otherwise obtained, as the case may be, and each of their successors in such capacities.

 

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Debtor Relief Laws” means the Bankruptcy Code of the United States and all other liquidation, conservatorship, bankruptcy, administration, assignment for the benefit of creditors, moratorium, rearrangement, receivership, administrative receivership, insolvency, reorganization, voluntary arrangement, scheme of arrangement, or similar debtor relief Laws of the United States or other applicable jurisdictions from time to time in effect.

Declined Proceeds” has the meaning specified in Section 2.05(b)(vi).

Default” means any event or condition that constitutes an Event of Default or that, with the giving of any notice, the passage of time, or both, would be an Event of Default.

Default Rate” means an interest rate equal to (x) in the case of principal, 2.00% per annum above the interest rate then borne by such Borrowing or (b) in the case of other amounts owing hereunder (including fees and interest) with respect to the Term Loans, 2.00% per annum in excess of the rate otherwise applicable to Term Loans (in each case, denominated in Dollars) maintained as Base Rate Loans.

Defaulting Lender” means, subject to Section 2.16, any Lender that (a) has failed to (i) fund all or any portion of its Loans within two (2) Business Days of the date such Loans were required to be funded hereunder unless such Lender notifies the Administrative Agent and the Borrower in writing that such failure is the result of such Lender’s determination that one or more conditions precedent to funding (each of which conditions precedent, together with any applicable default, shall be specifically identified in such writing) has not been satisfied, or (ii) pay to the Administrative Agent or any other Lender any other amount required to be paid by it hereunder within two (2) Business Days of the date when due, (b) has notified the Borrower or the Administrative Agent in writing that it does not intend to comply with its funding obligations hereunder, or has made a public statement to that effect (unless such writing or public statement relates to such Lender’s obligation to fund a Loan hereunder and states that such position is based on such Lender’s determination that a condition precedent to funding (which condition precedent, together with any applicable default, shall be specifically identified in such writing or public statement) cannot be satisfied), (c) has failed, within three (3) Business Days after written request by the Administrative Agent or the Borrower, to confirm in writing to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower that it will comply with its prospective funding obligations hereunder (provided that such Lender shall cease to be a Defaulting Lender pursuant to this clause (c) upon receipt of such written confirmation by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower), or (d) (i) has become the subject of a proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law, (ii) had appointed for it a receiver, custodian, conservator, trustee, administrator, assignee for the benefit of creditors or similar Person charged with reorganization or liquidation of its business or assets, including the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other state or federal regulatory authority acting in such a capacity or (iii) 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 or as a result of an Undisclosed Administration so long as such ownership interest or appointment (as applicable) does not result in or provide such Lender with immunity from the jurisdiction of courts within the United States or from the enforcement of judgments or writs of attachment on its assets or permit such Lender (or such Governmental Authority) to reject, repudiate, disavow or disaffirm any contracts or agreements made with such Lender. Any determination by the Administrative Agent that a Lender is a Defaulting Lender under any one or more of clauses (a) through (d) above shall be conclusive and binding absent manifest error, and such Lender shall be deemed to be a Defaulting Lender (subject to Section 2.16) upon delivery of written notice of such determination to the Borrower and each Lender.

 

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Delaware Divided LLC” means a Delaware LLC which has been formed upon the consummation of a Delaware LLC Division.

Delaware LLC” means any limited liability company organized or formed under the laws of the State of Delaware.

Delaware LLC Division” means the statutory division of any Delaware LLC into two or more Delaware LLCs pursuant to Section 18-217 of the Delaware Limited Liability Company Act.

Discount Range” has the meaning specified in Section 2.05(d)(ii).

Discounted Prepayment Option Notice” has the meaning specified in Section 2.05(d)(ii).

Discounted Voluntary Prepayment” has the meaning specified in Section 2.05(d)(i).

Discounted Voluntary Prepayment Notice” has the meaning specified in Section 2.05(d)(v).

Disposed EBITDA” means, with respect to any Sold Entity or Business or any Converted Unrestricted Subsidiary for any period, the amount for such period of Consolidated EBITDA of such Sold Entity or Business or such Converted Unrestricted Subsidiary, all as determined on a consolidated basis for such Sold Entity or Business or such Converted Unrestricted Subsidiary.

Disposition” or “Dispose” means the sale, transfer, license, lease or other disposition (including any Sale Leaseback and any sale of Equity Interests) of any property by any Person, including any sale, assignment, transfer or other disposal, with or without recourse, of any notes or accounts receivable or any rights and claims associated therewith; provided, “Disposition” and “Dispose” shall not be deemed to include any issuance (x) by Holdings of any of its Equity Interests to another Person or (y) by Borrower of any of its Equity Interests to Holdings.

Disqualified Equity Interests” means any Equity Interest which, 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), pursuant to a sinking fund obligation or otherwise (except as a result of a change of control or asset sale so long as any rights of the holders thereof upon the occurrence of a change of control or asset sale event shall be subject to the prior repayment in full of the Loans and all other Obligations that are accrued and payable and the termination of the Commitments), (b) is redeemable at the option of the holder thereof (other than solely for Qualified Equity Interests), 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 ninety-one (91) days after the Latest Maturity Date at the time such Equity Interests are issued.

Disqualified Lenders” means, collectively, (i) such banks, financial institutions, other institutional lenders and investors and other entities that have been specified in writing to the Initial Investor on or prior to the Closing Date, (ii) any competitors of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries that have been identified in writing (including by email) to the Initial Investor prior to the Closing Date, and (iii) in the case of clauses (i) and (ii), any of their Affiliates that are (A) identified in writing (including by email) to the Administrative Agent from time to time or (B) reasonably identifiable on the basis of such Affiliates’ name; provided, an Affiliate of an entity mentioned in clause (iii)(B) shall not be a Disqualified Lender if it is a bona fide debt fund, except to the extent separately identified in writing (including by email) under clause (i) above that (x) is primarily or regularly engaged in, or advises funds

 

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or other investment vehicles that are engaged in, making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans, notes, bonds and similar extensions of credit or securities in the ordinary course of business and (y) none of whose personnel involved with the entities mentioned in clauses (i), (ii) and (iii)(A) above (1) is involved in the investment decisions with respect to the Loans or Commitments or (2) have access to non-public information relating to Holdings or any Person that forms part of Holdings’ business (including its Subsidiaries); provided further, any Person that is a Lender or Participant and subsequently becomes a Disqualified Lender but was not a Disqualified Lender at the time it becomes a Lender or Participant shall not be retroactively deemed a Disqualified Lender with respect to Loans and Commitments or participation interests, as applicable, then held by such Person; provided further, designations of Disqualified Lenders permitted pursuant to a writing as specified above shall not be effective until also made pursuant to a writing (including by email) delivered to the Administrative Agent on or after the Closing Date. The Administrative Agent will provide a copy of the list of Disqualified Lenders specified pursuant to clause (i) and (ii) hereof upon request by a Lender or Participant.

Dollar” and “$” mean lawful currency of the United States.

Dollar Equivalent” means, at any time, (a) with respect to any amount denominated in Dollars, such amount and (b) with respect to any amount denominated in any other currency, the equivalent amount thereof in Dollars as determined by the Administrative Agent at such time in accordance with Section 1.08.

ECF Determination Date” means the date that is five (5) Business Days after financial statements have been delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(a) and the related Compliance Certificate has been delivered pursuant to Section 6.02(a).

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 clause (a) or (b) of this definition and is subject to consolidated supervision with its parent.

EEA Member Country” means any of the member states of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway.

EEA Resolution Authority” means any public administrative authority or any person entrusted with public administrative authority of any EEA Member Country (including any delegee) having responsibility for the resolution of any EEA Financial Institution.

Eligible Assignee” means, in each case, subject to the proviso at the end of this definition, (a) any Lender, any Affiliate of a Lender and any Approved Fund (any two or more Related Funds being treated as a single Eligible Assignee for purposes hereof), (b) any Person (other than a natural person) in compliance with Section 10.07(b), (c) a Sponsor Affiliated Lender in compliance with Section 10.07(j) or (d) if in the case of any assignment by or to a NB Investor Lender permitted under this Agreement, by or to any NB Investor; provided, in no event will (i) a Disqualified Lender be an Eligible Assignee without the Borrower’s consent and (ii) any Defaulting Lender or any of its Subsidiaries, or any Person who, upon becoming a Lender hereunder, would constitute any of the foregoing Persons in this clause (ii), be an Eligible Assignee.

Environment” means ambient air, indoor air, surface water, groundwater, drinking water, soil, surface and subsurface strata, and natural resources such as wetlands, flora and fauna.

 

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Environmental Laws” means any and all applicable Laws relating to pollution or protection of the Environment or natural resources; to the generation, transport, storage, use, treatment, Release or threat of Release of any Hazardous Materials; or, to the extent relating to exposure to Hazardous Materials, human health.

Environmental Liability” means any liability, contingent or otherwise (including any liability for damages, costs of environmental remediation, fines, penalties or indemnities) resulting from or based upon (a) violation of any Environmental Law, (b) the generation, use, handling, transportation, storage or treatment of any Hazardous Materials, (c) exposure of any Person to any Hazardous Materials, (d) the Release or threatened Release of any Hazardous Materials into the Environment or (e) any contract, agreement or other consensual arrangement to the extent liability is assumed or imposed with respect to any of the foregoing.

Equity Contribution” means the direct or indirect contribution to the Borrower or a direct or indirect parent thereof by the SPAC and certain other investors arranged by and/or designated by the SPAC or its Affiliates (including one or more members of Holdings’ management and one or more direct and indirect equity holders of Holdings prior to the Closing Date) of an aggregate amount of cash common equity (or other equity on terms reasonably acceptable to the Initial Investor) (with any such cash contributed to a direct or indirect parent of the Borrower to be subsequently contributed to the Borrower) together with the fair market value of all other capital contributions and existing investments by management and existing equity holders of Holdings rolled over in connection with the Closing Date Acquisition (such contributions or rolled over investments, collectively, the “Cash Equity Contribution”), such that the aggregate amount of the Cash Equity Contribution, the U.S. Target Purchase and the HAC Loan shall be not less than 50% of the sum of (i) the aggregate principal amount of the Initial Term B Loans borrowed on the Closing Date and the principal amount of the term loans and revolving loans (excluding for purposes of this determination, any amounts of revolving loans incurred to replace, backstop or cash collateralize existing and outstanding letters of credit on the Closing Date (to the extent undrawn)) borrowed under the First Lien Credit Agreement on the Closing Date and (ii) the amount of such Cash Equity Contribution, the U.S. Target Purchase and the HAC Loan.

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).

ERISA” means the U.S. 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 any Loan Party and is treated as a single employer within the meaning of Section 414(b) or (c) of the Code or, solely for purposes of Section 412 of the Code, under Section 414 (m) or (o) of the Code, or Section 4001(b)(1) of ERISA.

ERISA Event” means (a) a Reportable Event with respect to a Pension Plan; (b) a withdrawal by any Loan Party 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 failure to satisfy the minimum funding standard under Sections 412 or 430 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA with respect to a Pension Plan, whether or not waived, or a failure of a Loan Party or ERISA Affiliate to make any required contribution to a Multiemployer Plan; (d) a complete or partial withdrawal by any

 

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Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate from a Multiemployer Plan, notification of any Loan Party or ERISA Affiliate concerning the imposition of Withdrawal Liability on it or notification that a Multiemployer Plan is insolvent within the meaning of Title IV of ERISA or in endangered or critical status, within the meaning of Section 432 of the Code or Section 305 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 the termination of, or the appointment of a trustee to administer, any Pension Plan or Multiemployer Plan; (g) the imposition of any liability under Title IV of ERISA, other than for PBGC premiums due but not delinquent under Section 4007 of ERISA, upon any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate; (h) a determination that any Pension Plan is, or is expected to be, in “at-risk” status (within the meaning of Section 303(i)(4)(A) of ERISA or Section 430(i)(4)(A) of the Code); (i) the occurrence of a non-exempt prohibited transaction with respect to any Pension Plan maintained or contributed to by any Loan Party (within the meaning of Section 4975 of the Code or Section 406 of ERISA) which could reasonably be expected to result in liability to any Loan Party; or (j) any event with respect to any Foreign Plan which could reasonably be expected to result in liability to any Loan Party similar to the liability that could arise with respect to an event described in clauses (a) through (i) above.

EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule” means the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule published by the Loan Market Association (or any successor person), as in effect from time to time.

Eurocurrency Rate” means, for any Interest Period with respect to any Eurocurrency Rate Loan:

(a)

(i) The Screen Rate; and

(ii) if the rate referenced in the preceding clause (a)(i) does not appear on such page or service or such page or service shall not be available, the rate per annum equal to the rate determined by the Administrative Agent to be the offered rate on such other page or other service that displays in place of Bloomberg an average ICE Benchmark Administration Interest Settlement Rate for deposits in the applicable currency (for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period) with a term equivalent to such Interest Period, determined as of approximately 11:00 a.m. (London time) two (2) Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest Period, or, if different, the date on which quotations would customarily be provided by leading banks in the London interbank market for deposits of amounts in the relevant currency for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period; or

(iii) for Interest Periods where no interest rate corresponding to an interest period of the same duration as such Interest Period appears on any such page referenced in the preceding clauses (a)(i) and (a)(ii), such rate shall be the Interpolated Rate.

(b) Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary in this Agreement, the applicable Eurocurrency Rate in respect of all Loans shall at no time be less than 0.00%.

Eurocurrency Rate Loan” means a Loan that bears interest at a rate based on clause (a) of the definition of “Eurocurrency Rate.”

Event of Default” has the meaning specified in Section 8.01.

 

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Excess Cash Flow” means, for any period, an amount equal to the excess of:

(a) the sum, without duplication, of:

(i) Consolidated Net Income for such 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 period (other than any such decreases arising from acquisitions by Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries completed during such period or the application of purchase accounting);

(iv) an amount equal to the aggregate net non-cash loss on Dispositions by Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries during such period (other than Dispositions in the ordinary course of business) to the extent deducted in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income; and

(v) cash receipts in respect of Swap Contracts during such period to the extent not otherwise included in Consolidated Net Income; over

(b) the sum, without duplication, of:

(i) an amount equal to the amount of all non-cash credits included in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income and cash charges to the extent included in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income;

(ii) without duplication of amounts deducted pursuant to this clause (ii) or clause (xii) below in prior periods and not otherwise added back pursuant to the proviso to such clause, the amount of Capital Expenditures or acquisitions permitted hereunder made in cash during such period or, at the option of Holdings, paid in cash prior to the ECF Determination Date, except to the extent that such Capital Expenditures or acquisitions were financed with the proceeds of an incurrence or issuance of long-term Indebtedness of Holdings or its Restricted Subsidiaries (other than revolving indebtedness);

(iii) the aggregate amount of all principal payments of Indebtedness of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries (including (a) the principal component of Capitalized Lease Obligations and (b) the amount of repayments of Term Loans hereunder and repayments of Term Loans pursuant to Section 2.07(a) of the First Lien Credit Agreement and any mandatory prepayment of Term Loans pursuant to Section 2.05(b) to the extent required due to a Disposition that resulted in an increase to such Consolidated Net Income and not in excess of the amount of such increase but excluding (x) all other prepayments of Term Loans and (y) all prepayments in respect of any other revolving credit facility (except, in the case of clause (y), to the extent such prepayment is accompanied by an equivalent permanent reduction in commitments under the applicable revolving credit facility), in each case, made during such period), except to the extent financed with the proceeds of an incurrence or issuance of other long-term Indebtedness of Holdings or its Restricted Subsidiaries (other than revolving indebtedness);

 

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(iv) an amount equal to the aggregate net non-cash gain on Dispositions by Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries during such 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 period (other than any such increases arising from acquisitions by Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries completed during such period or the application of purchase accounting);

(vi) cash payments by Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries during such period in respect of long-term liabilities of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries other than Indebtedness (including such Indebtedness specified in clause (b)(iii) above);

(vii) without duplication of amounts deducted pursuant to this clause (vii) or clause (xii) below in prior periods and not otherwise added back pursuant to the proviso to such clause, the amount of Investments and acquisitions permitted hereunder made in cash during such period or at the option of Holdings, made in cash prior to the ECF Determination Date pursuant to Section 7.02 (other than (x) intercompany Investments among Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries that are eliminated in consolidation and (y) Investments in Cash Equivalents) and solely to the extent that such Investments and acquisitions were not financed with the proceeds of an incurrence or issuance of long-term Indebtedness (other than revolving indebtedness) of Holdings or its Restricted Subsidiaries;

(viii) without duplication of amounts deducted pursuant to this clause (viii) in prior periods, the amount of any payments in respect of purchase price adjustments or earn-outs made in cash by Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries after the Closing Date (i) during such period or (ii), at the option of Holdings, to be made prior to the date of the applicable Excess Cash Flow payment is required to be made and solely to the extent that such purchase price adjustments or earn-outs were not financed with the proceeds of an incurrence or issuance of long-term Indebtedness (other than revolving indebtedness) of Holdings or its Restricted Subsidiaries;

(ix) without duplication of amounts deducted pursuant to this clause (ix) in prior periods, the amount of Restricted Payments paid in cash during such period or at the option of Holdings, made in cash prior to the ECF Determination Date pursuant to Section 7.06 (excluding Restricted Payments made to Holdings or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries or Restricted Payments made in reliance on the starter component or clause (a) of the definition of “Available Amount” or with the Net Cash Proceeds from any Permitted Equity Issuance by Holdings) except to the extent that such Restricted Payments were financed with the proceeds of an incurrence or issuance of long-term Indebtedness (other than revolving indebtedness) of Holdings or its Restricted Subsidiaries;

(x) the aggregate amount of any premium, make-whole or penalty payments actually paid in cash by Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries during such period made in connection with any prepayment of Indebtedness except to the extent that such amounts were financed with the proceeds of an incurrence or issuance of long-term Indebtedness (other than revolving indebtedness) of Holdings or its Restricted Subsidiaries;

 

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(xi) the aggregate amount of expenditures actually made by Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries in cash during such period (including expenditures for the payment of financing fees) to the extent that such expenditures are not expensed during such period and were not financed with the proceeds of an incurrence or issuance of long-term Indebtedness (other than revolving indebtedness) of Holdings or its Restricted Subsidiaries;

(xii) without duplication of amounts deducted from Excess Cash Flow in prior periods and not otherwise added back pursuant to the proviso to this clause (xii), at the option of the Borrower, the aggregate consideration committed to be paid in cash by Holdings or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries relating to Permitted Acquisitions and other Investments to be consummated or made on or prior to the ninetieth (90th) day after the applicable ECF Determination Date for such period and for which binding agreements for such Permitted Acquisition or Investment exist on such ECF Determination Date, except to the extent intended to be financed with the proceeds of an incurrence or issuance of other long-term Indebtedness (other than revolving indebtedness) of Holdings or its Restricted Subsidiaries; provided, to the extent the aggregate amount utilized to finance such Permitted Acquisitions or Investments during such period is less than the amount deducted pursuant to this clause (xii) in respect of such transaction, the amount of such shortfall, shall be added to the calculation of Excess Cash Flow for the subsequent Excess Cash Flow period;

(xiii) the amount of cash taxes (including penalties and interest) paid or tax reserves set aside or payable (without duplication) in such period to the extent they exceed the amount of tax expense deducted in determining Consolidated Net Income for such period; and

(xiv) cash expenditures in respect of Swap Contracts during such fiscal year to the extent not deducted in arriving at such Consolidated Net Income.

Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934.

Excluded Collateral” has the meaning set forth in the definition of “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement”.

Excluded Equity” means (a) Equity Interests of any Unrestricted Subsidiary, any captive insurance company, any not-for profit Subsidiary, any special purpose entities, any Securitization Subsidiary or any Subsidiary that is not a Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Holdings, (b) Equity Interests of any Subsidiary acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition or other Investment permitted hereunder that, at the time of such Permitted Acquisition or other Investment, has assumed secured Indebtedness not incurred in contemplation of such Permitted Acquisition or other Investment and each Equity Interest of each Restricted Subsidiary that is a Subsidiary thereof, in each case, to the extent, and solely for so long as, such secured Indebtedness prohibits the pledge of such Equity Interest, (c) Equity Interests of any Immaterial Subsidiary to the extent not perfected by the filing of a UCC financing statement or other similar filing under other applicable Law in each case on Collateral generally, (d) Equity Interests of any Subsidiary with respect to which the Required Lenders and Holdings reasonably agree that the cost or other consequences (including material adverse tax consequences) of providing a pledge of such Equity Interests or perfection thereof is excessive in view of the benefits to be obtained by the Lenders therefrom, (e) Equity Interests that may otherwise not be pledged pursuant to the Agreed Security Principles and (f) any Equity Interests of any Subsidiary the pledge of which is prohibited by applicable Laws or would reasonably be expected to result in a violation or breach of, or conflict with, fiduciary

 

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duties of such Subsidiary’s officers, directors, or managers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Equity Interests shall be Excluded Equity if such Equity Interests are not “Excluded Equity” for the purposes of any other Indebtedness of the Loan Parties in aggregate principal amount in excess of the Threshold Amount.

Excluded Subsidiary” means (a) each Subsidiary listed on Schedule 1.01A hereto, (b) any Subsidiary that is prohibited by applicable Law or by any contractual obligation existing on the Closing Date or at the time such Subsidiary is acquired, as applicable, from guaranteeing the Obligations or which would require governmental (including regulatory) consent, approval, license or authorization to provide a Guarantee unless such consent, approval, license or authorization has been received or for which the provision of such guarantee would result in a material adverse tax consequence to Holdings or one of its Subsidiaries (as reasonably determined by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent), (c) any Subsidiary organized under the laws of a jurisdiction that is not a Covered Jurisdiction, (d) any Restricted Subsidiary acquired pursuant to a Permitted Acquisition or other Investment permitted hereunder that, at the time of such Permitted Acquisition or other Investment, has assumed Indebtedness not incurred in contemplation of such Permitted Acquisition or other Investment and each Restricted Subsidiary that is a Subsidiary thereof that guarantees such Indebtedness, in each case, to the extent such Indebtedness prohibits such Subsidiary from becoming a Guarantor (provided, each such Restricted Subsidiary shall cease to be an Excluded Subsidiary under this clause (d) if such secured Indebtedness is repaid, if such Restricted Subsidiary ceases to be an obligor with respect to such Indebtedness or such prohibition no longer exists, as applicable), (e) captive insurance companies, (f) not-for-profit Subsidiaries, (g) special purpose entities, (h) any Securitization Subsidiary, (i) any Unrestricted Subsidiary, (j) any other Subsidiary with respect to which the Required Lenders and Holdings reasonably agree that the cost or other consequences of providing a Guarantee shall be excessive in view of the benefits to be obtained by the Lenders therefrom, (k) any Subsidiary (other than the Borrower and any direct or indirect parent of the Borrower) for which the provision of a Guarantee would result in material adverse tax consequences, as reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent and Holdings, (l) any Subsidiary excluded from providing a Guarantee or Guaranty pursuant to the Agreed Security Principles, (m) any Immaterial Subsidiary and (n) a Subsidiary for which the providing of a Guarantee would reasonably be expected to result in a violation or breach of, or conflict with, fiduciary duties of such Subsidiary’s officers, directors, or managers. Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Subsidiary shall be an Excluded Subsidiary if (i) such Subsidiary is the Borrower, (ii) such Subsidiary owns, directly or indirectly, any Equity Interests of the Borrower or (iii) such Subsidiary is not an “Excluded Subsidiary” for the purposes of any other Indebtedness of the Loan Parties in aggregate principal amount in excess of the Threshold Amount on an individual basis.

Excluded Taxes” means, with respect to any Agent, any Lender or any other recipient of any payment to be made by or on account of any obligation of any Loan Party under any Loan Document, (a) Taxes imposed on or measured by net income (however determined), franchise Taxes, and branch profits Taxes, in each case (i) imposed in any jurisdiction as a result of such person being organized under the laws of, or having its principal office or, in the case of any Lender, its applicable lending office located in, the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (or any political subdivision thereof) or (ii) that are Other Connection Taxes, (b) any U.S. federal withholding Tax that is imposed on amounts payable to or for the account of a Lender with respect to an applicable interest in a Loan or Commitment pursuant to a law in effect at the time such Lender acquires such interest in the Loan or Commitment (or changes its Applicable Lending Office); provided, this clause (b) shall not apply to the extent that the indemnity payments or additional amounts any Lender would be entitled to receive (without regard to this clause (b)) do not exceed the indemnity payment or additional amounts that the Lender’s assignor (if any) was entitled to receive immediately prior to such assignment (or such change in Applicable Lending Office), (c) any Tax resulting from a failure of any Agent, Lender or any other recipient to comply with Section 3.01(g), (d) any Tax imposed pursuant to FATCA, and (e) any U.S. federal backup withholding imposed pursuant to Section 3406 of the Code.

 

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Extendable Bridge Loans” means Indebtedness 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, subject to customary conditions, to a date that is not earlier than the Latest Maturity Date existing at the time of incurrence of such Indebtedness.

Extended Term Loans” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(a)(iii)(A).

Extending Term Lender” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(a)(iii)(A).

Extension” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(a).

Extension Offer” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(a).

Facility” means a Class of Term Loans, as the context may require.

FATCA” means:

(a) current Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code (and any amended or successor version that is substantively comparable) or any current or future Treasury regulations with respect thereto or other official administrative interpretations thereof;

(b) any treaty, law, regulation or other official guidance enacted in any other jurisdiction relating to an intergovernmental agreement between the United States and any other jurisdiction, which (in either case) facilitates the implementation of sub-paragraph (a) above; or

(c) any agreement pursuant to the implementation of sub-paragraphs (a) or (b) above with the United States Internal Revenue Service, the United States government or any governmental or taxation authority in any other jurisdiction.

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 of New York on the Business Day next succeeding such day; provided, (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 of the quotations for such day on such transactions received by the Administrative Agent from three federal funds brokers of recognized standing selected by it.

Fee and Closing Payment Letter” means that certain Amended and Restated Fee and Closing Payment Letter dated as of January 8, 2019, by and between the Initial Investor and the SPAC.

Financial Plan” has the meaning specified in Section 6.02(h).

First Lien Agent” means Goldman Sachs Lending Partners LLC, as Administrative Agent under the First Lien Credit Agreement.

First Lien Collateral Agent” means the “Collateral Agent” as defined in the First Lien Credit Agreement.

 

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First Lien Collateral Documents” means the “Collateral Documents” as defined in the First Lien Credit Agreement.

First Lien Credit Agreement” means the First Lien Credit Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, among the Borrower, Holdings, the other financial institutions from time to time party thereto as lenders and Goldman Sachs Lending Partners LLC, as administrative agent and collateral agent, as amended, modified, supplemented, substituted, replaced, restated or refinanced, in whole or in part, from time to time in a manner not in contravention of the Intercreditor Agreement (whether with the original administrative agent, collateral agent and lenders or other agents and lenders or otherwise and whether provided under the original First Lien Credit Agreement or another credit agreement, note purchase agreement, indenture, instrument, other document or otherwise, unless such credit agreement, note purchase agreement, indenture, instrument or document expressly provides that it is not a First Lien Credit Agreement).

First Lien Loan Documents” means the First Lien Credit Agreement, any promissory notes, collateral documents, the Intercreditor Agreement and any other document or instrument designated by the Borrower and the First Lien Agent as a “Loan Document” under the First Lien Credit Agreement, and shall include all appendices, exhibits or schedules thereto, and all amendments, restatements, amendments and restatements, supplements or other modifications thereto in a manner not in contravention of the Intercreditor Agreement.

First Lien Obligations” means the “Obligations” as defined in the First Lien Credit Agreement, including any Permitted Refinancing thereof.

First Lien Secured Parties” means the “Secured Parties” as defined in the First Lien Credit Agreement.

First Lien Term Loans” means the term loans made by the lenders party to the First Lien Credit Agreement not in violation of this Agreement or the Intercreditor Agreement.

Fixed Amount” means the sum of (a) $50,000,000 plus (b) the amount of any voluntary prepayments of the First Lien Term Loans not financed with the proceeds of long-term indebtedness (other than revolving indebtedness); provided that any loan buy-backs of Term Loans shall be credited to the extent of the actual purchase price paid in cash in connection with such loan buy-back minus (c) the aggregate amount of Incremental Facilities previously incurred in reliance on the definition of the “Fixed Amount” minus (d) the aggregate amount of Permitted Alternative Incremental Facilities Debt previously incurred in reliance on this definition minus (e) the aggregate principal amount incurred under the First Lien Credit Agreement pursuant to clause (a) of the “Fixed Amount” (as defined in the First Lien Credit Agreement.

Fixed Charges” means, with respect to any Person for any period, the sum of:

(a) Consolidated Interest Expense of such Person for such period; plus

(b) all cash dividend payments (excluding items eliminated in consolidation) on any series of preferred stock of such Person (or any direct or indirect parent thereof) made during such period; plus

(c) all cash dividend payments (excluding items eliminated in consolidation) on any series of Disqualified Equity Interests made during such period.

 

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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, (iv) the Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2004 as now or hereafter in effect or any successor statute thereto and (v) the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act of 2012 as now or hereafter in effect or any successor statute thereto.

Foreign Plan” means any employee benefit plan, program, policy, arrangement or agreement maintained or contributed to or by, or entered into with, any Loan Party with respect to employees outside the United States.

FRB” means the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United States.

Fund” means any Person (other than a natural person) that is (or will be) engaged in making, purchasing, holding or otherwise investing in commercial loans and similar extensions of credit in the ordinary course of its activities.

Funded Debt” means all Indebtedness of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries for borrowed money that matures more than one year from the date of its creation or matures within one year from such date that is renewable or extendable, at the option of such Person, to a date more than one year from such date or arises under a revolving credit or similar agreement that obligates the lender or lenders to extend credit during a period of more than one year from such date, including Indebtedness in respect of the Loans.

GAAP” means generally accepted accounting principles in the United States, as in effect from time to time (other than with respect to definitions herein which reference GAAP on the date hereof); provided (A) if Holdings notifies the Administrative Agent that Holdings 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 on the operation of such provision (or if the Administrative Agent notifies Holdings 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, 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, (B) at any time after the Closing Date, Holdings may elect, upon notice to the Administrative Agent, to apply IFRS accounting principles in lieu of GAAP and, upon any such election, references herein to GAAP shall thereafter be construed to mean IFRS (except as otherwise provided herein), including as to the ability of Holdings or the Required Lenders to make an election pursuant to clause (A) of this proviso, (C) any election made pursuant to clause (B) of this proviso, once made, shall be irrevocable, (D) any calculation or determination in this Agreement that requires the application of GAAP for periods that include fiscal quarters ended prior to Holdings’ election to apply IFRS shall remain as previously calculated or determined in accordance with GAAP and (E) Holdings may only make an election pursuant to clause (B) of this proviso if it also elects to report any subsequent financial reports required to be made by Holdings, including pursuant to Sections 6.01(a) and (b), in IFRS.

Governmental Authority” means any nation or government, any state, provincial, country, territorial 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 (including any supra-national bodies such as the European Union or the European Central Bank).

 

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Guarantee Obligations” means, as to any Person, without duplication, (a) any obligation, contingent or otherwise, of such Person guaranteeing or having the economic effect of guaranteeing any Indebtedness or other monetary obligation payable or performable by another Person (the “primary obligor”) in any manner, whether directly or indirectly, and including any obligation of such Person, direct or indirect, (i) to purchase or pay (or advance or supply funds for the purchase or payment of) such Indebtedness or other monetary obligation, (ii) to purchase or lease property, securities or services for the purpose of assuring the obligee in respect of such Indebtedness or other monetary obligation of the payment or performance of such Indebtedness or other monetary obligation, (iii) to maintain working capital, equity capital or any other financial statement condition or liquidity or level of income or cash flow of the primary obligor so as to enable the primary obligor to pay such Indebtedness or other monetary obligation, or (iv) entered into for the purpose of assuring in any other manner the obligee in respect of such Indebtedness or other monetary obligation of the payment or performance thereof or to protect such obligee against loss in respect thereof (in whole or in part), or (b) any Lien on any assets of such Person securing any Indebtedness or other monetary obligation of any other Person, whether or not such Indebtedness or other monetary obligation is assumed by such Person (or any right, contingent or otherwise, of any holder of such Indebtedness to obtain any such Lien); provided, the term “Guarantee Obligations” shall not include endorsements for collection or deposit, in either case in the ordinary course of business, or customary and reasonable indemnity obligations in effect on the Closing Date or entered into in connection with any acquisition or disposition of assets permitted under this Agreement (other than such obligations with respect to Indebtedness). The amount of any Guarantee Obligation 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 Obligation 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.

Guarantees” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement.”

Guarantors” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement.” For avoidance of doubt, Holdings in its sole discretion may cause any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Guarantor to Guarantee the Obligations by causing such Restricted Subsidiary to execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent a Guaranty Supplement (as defined in the Guaranty), and any such Restricted Subsidiary shall thereafter be a Guarantor, Loan Party and Subsidiary Guarantor hereunder for all purposes.

Guaranty” means, collectively, each guaranty agreement, including the Second Lien Guaranty dated as of the Closing Date by and among the Loan Parties party thereto as Guarantors, and each guaranty supplement delivered pursuant to Section 6.10.

HAC Loan” has the meaning specified in the Preliminary Statements to this Agreement.

Hazardous Materials” means all hazardous, toxic, explosive or radioactive materials, substances or wastes, and all other chemicals, pollutants, contaminants, materials, substances or wastes of any nature regulated pursuant to any Environmental Law, including petroleum or petroleum distillates, asbestos or asbestos-containing materials, polychlorinated biphenyls, radon gas and toxic mold.

Hedge Bank” means any Person that is a Lender, an Agent or an Affiliate of the foregoing (x) at the time it enters into a Swap Contract or (y) on the Closing Date (with respect to Swap Contracts in existence on the Closing Date), in each case, with a Loan Party or any Restricted Subsidiary.

 

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Holdings” (i) initially, Initial Holdings and (ii) from and after a Successor Holdings Designation, the Successor Holdings in respect of such Successor Holdings Designation. In the event any such other Person is designated as “Holdings” pursuant to and in accordance with the provisions of clause (ii) above, upon the effectiveness of such designation Existing Holdings immediately prior thereto shall cease to be “Holdings” for all purposes of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.

IFRS” means International Financial Reporting Standards as adopted in the European Union.

Immaterial Subsidiary” means, at any date of determination, each Restricted Subsidiary of Holdings that has been designated by Holdings in writing to the Administrative Agent as an “Immaterial Subsidiary” for purposes of this Agreement (and not redesignated as a Material Subsidiary as provided below); provided, (a) for purposes of this Agreement, at no time shall (i) the total assets of all Immaterial Subsidiaries (other than Restricted Subsidiaries not organized in a Covered Jurisdiction and Unrestricted Subsidiaries) at the last day of the most recent Test Period equal or exceed 5.0% of the total assets of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries at such date or (ii) the gross revenues for such Test Period of all Immaterial Subsidiaries (other than Restricted Subsidiaries not organized in a Covered Jurisdiction and Unrestricted Subsidiaries) equal or exceed 5.0% of the consolidated gross revenues of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries for such period, in each case determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP, (b) Holdings shall not designate any new Immaterial Subsidiary if such designation would not comply with the provisions set forth in clause (a) above, and (c) if the total assets or gross revenues of all Restricted Subsidiaries so designated by Holdings as “Immaterial Subsidiaries” (and not redesignated as “Material Subsidiaries”) shall at any time exceed the limits set forth in clause (a) above, then all such Restricted Subsidiaries shall be deemed to be Material Subsidiaries unless and until Holdings shall redesignate one or more Immaterial Subsidiaries as Material Subsidiaries, in each case in a written notice to the Administrative Agent, and, as a result thereof, the total assets and gross revenues of all Restricted Subsidiaries still designated as “Immaterial Subsidiaries” do not exceed such limits; and provided, further, Holdings may designate and re-designate a Restricted Subsidiary as an Immaterial Subsidiary at any time, subject to the terms set forth in this definition.

Impacted Loans” has the meaning specified in Section 3.03.

Incremental Facilities” has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(a).

Incremental Facility Amendment” has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(d).

Incremental Term Loans” has the meaning specified in Section 2.14(a).

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 letters of credit (including standby and commercial), banker’s acceptances, bank guaranties, surety bonds, performance bonds and similar instruments issued or created by or for the account of such Person;

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(d) all obligations of such Person to pay the deferred purchase price of property or services (other than (i) trade accounts payable in the ordinary course of business and (ii) any earn-out obligation until such obligation becomes a liability on the balance sheet of such Person in accordance with GAAP and if not paid after becoming due and payable);

(e) indebtedness (excluding prepaid interest thereon) secured by a Lien on property owned or being purchased by such Person (including indebtedness arising under conditional sales or other title retention agreements 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; and

(h) all Guarantee Obligations of such Person in respect of any of the foregoing.

For all purposes hereof, the Indebtedness of any Person shall include the Indebtedness of any partnership or joint venture (other than a joint venture that is itself a corporation, company, or limited liability company) in which such Person is a general partner or a joint venturer, 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 Debt.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, and where applicable, for the avoidance of doubt, “Indebtedness” will not include:

(i) all intercompany Indebtedness and any obligations arising from intercompany transfer pricing arrangements having a term not exceeding 364 days (inclusive of any roll-over or extensions of terms) and made in the ordinary course of business;

(ii) the amount of any net obligation under any Swap Contract on any date in excess of the Swap Termination Value thereof as of such date;

(iii) any lease of (or other agreement conveying the right to use) property (or guarantee thereof) which would be considered an operating lease under GAAP as in effect on the Closing Date;

(iv) contingent obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business;

(v) in connection with any Permitted Acquisition or other Investment, any post-closing payment adjustments to which the seller may become entitled to the extent such payment is determined by a final closing balance sheet or such payment depends on the performance of the Person or assets acquired after the closing; provided, however, that to the extent such payment becomes fixed and determined, the amount is paid within six months thereafter;

(vi) deferred compensation payable to directors, officers, employees or consultants and any obligations in respect of workers’ compensation claims, early retirement obligations, pension fund obligations or contributions or social security or wage Taxes;

(vii) deferred or prepaid revenues;

 

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(viii) prepayments or deposits received from clients or customers in the ordinary course of business;

(ix) obligations in respect of letters of credit and bank guarantees provided by Holdings or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business, to the extent such letters of credit or bank guarantees are not drawn upon or, if and to the extent drawn upon, are reimbursed no later than the fifth (5th) Business Day following receipt by such Person of a demand for reimbursement following such drawing;

(x) obligations under any license, permit or other approval (or guarantees given in respect of such obligations) incurred prior to the Closing Date or in the ordinary course of business; and

(xi) obligations in respect of performance, completion, surety, Tax, appeal, judgment, advance payment, customs, guarantees or similar instruments provided by Holdings or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business.

The amount of Indebtedness of any Person for purposes of clause (e) shall be deemed to be equal to the lesser of (i) the aggregate unpaid amount of such Indebtedness and (ii) the fair market value of the property encumbered thereby as determined by such Person in good faith.

Indemnified Liabilities” has the meaning specified in Section 10.05.

Indemnified Taxes” means all Taxes, other than Excluded Taxes, imposed on or in respect of any payment made by or on account of any obligation of any Loan Party under any Loan Document.

Indemnitees” has the meaning specified in Section 10.05.

Information” has the meaning specified in Section 10.08.

Initial Holdings” has the meaning specified in the Preliminary Statements to this Agreement.

Initial Investor” means Neuberger Berman Alternative Funds, Neuberger Berman Long Short Fund.

Initial Term B Borrowing” means a Borrowing in respect of Initial Term B Loans.

Initial Term B Commitment” means, as to each Initial Term B Lender, its obligation to make the Initial Term B Loan to the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.01, which together shall be in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed the amount set forth opposite such Initial Term B Lender’s name in Schedule 2.01 under the caption “Initial Term B Commitment” or as set forth on the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Initial Term B Lender becomes a party hereto, in each case, as adjusted by the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to which such Initial Term B Lender becomes a party hereto, as applicable, in each case, as such amount may be adjusted from time to time in accordance with this Agreement.

Initial Term B Lender” means, at any time, any Lender that has an Initial Term B Commitment or an Initial Term B Loan at such time.

Initial Term B Loan” means a Loan made pursuant to Section 2.01.

 

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Initial Term B Loan Exit Payment” means an exit payment in an amount equal to 1.50% of the aggregate principal amount of Initial Term B Loans incurred on the Closing Date, which such Initial Term B Loan Exit Payment shall be payable pursuant to and in accordance with Section 2.09(b).

Inside Maturity Amount” means, as of any date of determination, an amount equal to (a) $10,000,000 minus (b) the aggregate amount of Incremental Term Loans and Indebtedness previously or substantially simultaneously incurred pursuant to Section 7.03(v), in each case, to the extent such Indebtedness is incurred in reliance on the Inside Maturity Amount and (i) with a final maturity date that was earlier than (x) the Latest Maturity Date then applicable to the then existing Term Loans or (y) in the case of any such Indebtedness that is junior in right of payment or security with the then existing Term Loans, ninety-one (91) days after the Latest Maturity Date then applicable to the Term Loans or (ii) with a shorter Weighted Average Life to Maturity than the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of any then existing Class of the Term Loans.

Intercompany Note” means the master intercompany note substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit N.

Intercreditor Agreement” means the First Lien/Second Lien Intercreditor Agreement, dated as of the Closing Date, among the First Lien Agent, as agent for the Initial Senior Lien Secured Parties (as defined therein), the Administrative Agent, as agent for the Initial Junior Lien Secured Parties (as defined therein), Holdings, the Borrower and the Grantors (as defined therein) from time to time party thereto, as may be amended, modified, supplemented, substituted, replaced, restated or refinanced, in whole or in part, from time to time in accordance with its terms.

Interest Payment Date” means (a) as to any Loan other than a Base Rate Loan, the last day of each Interest Period applicable to such Loan and the Maturity Date of the Facility under which such Loan was made; provided, if any Interest Period for a Eurocurrency Rate Loan exceeds three months, the respective dates that fall every three (3) months after the beginning of such Interest Period shall also be Interest Payment Dates; (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 and (c) to the extent necessary to create a fungible tranche of Term Loans, the date of the incurrence of any Incremental Term Loans.

Interest Period” means, as to each Eurocurrency Rate Loan, the period commencing on the date such Loan is disbursed or converted to or continued as a Eurocurrency Rate Loan, and ending on the date one, two, three or six months thereafter as selected by the Borrower in its Committed Loan Notice, or, with the consent of each applicable Lender, twelve months thereafter or a shorter period, as requested by the Borrower and consented to by all the affected Lenders and the Administrative Agent; provided, in each case, that:

(i) 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;

(ii) any Interest Period that begins on the last Business Day of a calendar month (or on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month at the end of such Interest Period) shall end on the last Business Day of the calendar month at the end of such Interest Period;

 

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(iii) no Interest Period shall extend beyond the Maturity Date of the Facility under which such Loan was made; and

(iv) in relation to any Interest Period in respect of an Incremental Term Loan or a Refinancing Term Loan, a period of such length as enables the Borrower to align such Interest Period with any other Interest Period that applies at such time to another Loan.

Interpolated Rate” means, with respect to any Eurocurrency Rate Borrowing for any Interest Period, a rate per annum which results from interpolating on a linear basis between (a) the applicable Screen Rate for the longest maturity for which a Screen Rate is available that is shorter than such Interest Period and (b) the applicable Screen Rate for the shortest maturity for which a Screen Rate is available that is longer than such Interest Period, in each case as of 11:00 a.m., London time on the day two Business Days prior to the first day of such Interest Period.

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 Obligation with respect to any Obligation 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 (excluding, in the case of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries, intercompany loans and any obligations arising from intercompany transfer pricing arrangements, advances, or 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) or (c) the purchase or other acquisition (in one transaction or a series of 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, in the event that any Investment is made by Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary in any Person through substantially concurrent interim transfers of any amount through Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiaries, 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 shall be the amount actually invested (which, in the case of any Investment constituting the contribution of an asset or property, shall be based on Holdings’ good faith estimate of the fair market value of such asset or property at the time such Investment is made), without adjustment for subsequent increases or decreases in the value of such Investment.

Investment Grade Rating” means a rating equal to or higher than Baa3 (or the equivalent) by Moody’s and BBB- (or the equivalent) by S&P, or an equivalent rating by Fitch, Inc.

IP Rights” has the meaning specified in Section 5.15.

Judgment Currency” has the meaning specified in Section 10.17.

Junior Financing Debt” means any Indebtedness that is secured on a junior basis to the Liens securing the Obligations or is unsecured, in each case, that is in excess of $3,600,000 on an individual basis.

Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement” means a “junior lien” intercreditor agreement substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit N (as the same may be modified in a manner satisfactory to the Administrative Agent or with the consent of the Required Lenders). Upon the request of the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent will execute and deliver a Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement with the Loan Parties and one or more debt representatives for Indebtedness permitted hereunder that is expressly permitted to be secured on a junior basis with the Initial Term B Loans.

 

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JV Entity” means any joint venture of Holdings that is not a Subsidiary.

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 Term Loan or Incremental Term Loan, in each case as extended in accordance with this Agreement from time to time.

Laws” means, collectively, all international, foreign, federal, state, provincial and local statutes, treaties, rules, guidelines, regulations, ordinances, codes and administrative or judicial precedents or authorities, including the interpretation or administration thereof by any Governmental Authority charged with the enforcement, interpretation or administration thereof, and all applicable administrative orders, directed duties, requests, licenses, authorizations and permits of, and agreements with, any Governmental Authority.

LCA Election” has the meaning specified in Section 1.10.

LCA Test Date” has the meaning specified in Section 1.10.

Lender” has the meaning specified in the Preliminary Statements to this Agreement, and their respective successors and assigns as permitted hereunder, each of which is referred to herein as a “Lender.”

Lender Participation Notice” has the meaning specified in Section 2.05(d)(iii).

LIBOR” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Screen Rate.”

Lien” means any mortgage, pledge, hypothecation, assignment, deposit arrangement, encumbrance, lien (statutory or other), charge, assignment (by way of security or otherwise), deemed trust, or preference, priority 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 Acquisition” means any acquisition, including by way of merger, by Holdings or one or more of its Restricted Subsidiaries permitted pursuant to this Agreement whose consummation is not conditioned upon the availability of, or on obtaining, third party financing.

Loan” means an extension of credit by a Lender to the Borrower under Article II in the form of a Term Loan (including any Incremental Term Loans or any Extended Term Loans).

Loan Documents” means, collectively, (i) this Agreement, (ii) the Notes, (iii) the Collateral Documents, (iv) any Pari Passu Intercreditor Agreement, (v) the Intercreditor Agreement and any Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement, (vi) the Fee and Closing Payment Letter, (vii) the Administrative Agent Fee Letter and (viii) any other agreement or document designated as a Loan Document by the Borrower and the Administrative Agent, in each case, as amended, supplemented or modified.

Loan Parties” means, collectively, (i) the Borrower, (ii) Holdings and (iii) each other Guarantor.

Make-Whole Amount” means, with respect to any repayment or prepayment of the Loans, an amount equal to the present value of the interest that would have been paid on such principal amount for the period from and including the date of such repayment or prepayment to but excluding the Callable

 

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Date, discounted quarterly using a discount rate equal to the applicable Treasury Rate plus 50 basis points (in each case, calculated on the basis of the interest rate with respect to the Loans that is in effect on the date of such repayment or prepayment and on the basis of actual days elapsed over a year of three hundred sixty-five (365) days).

Management Stockholders” means the members of management of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries who are investors in Holdings or any direct or indirect parent thereof.

Margin” means the Applicable Rate together with all original issue discount (with original issue discount being equated to interest based on an assumed four-year life to maturity) and upfront or similar fees (but excluding arrangement, commitment, underwriting or structuring fees, ticking or other fees payable in connection therewith that are not shared generally with the lenders providing such facility) payable to all lenders providing such facility.

Master Agreement” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Swap Contract.”

Material Adverse Effect” means a material adverse effect on (a) the business, financial condition or result of operations, in each case, of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries (taken as a whole), (b) the ability of the Borrower and the Guarantors (taken as a whole) to perform their payment obligations under any Loan Document or (c) the material rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders (taken as a whole) under the Loan Documents.

Material Contracts” means any contract or other arrangement to which Holdings or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries is a party (other than the Loan Documents) for which breach, nonperformance, cancellation or failure to renew could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. For the avoidance of doubt, the contracts and arrangements listed on Schedule 1.01D shall constitute Material Contracts.

Material Real Property” means any real property located in the United States with a fair market value (as determined by the Borrower in good faith) in excess of $1,000,000 owned by any Loan Party.

Material Subsidiary” means, at any date of determination, each Restricted Subsidiary of Holdings that is not an Immaterial Subsidiary (but including, in any case, any Restricted Subsidiary that has been designated as a Material Subsidiary as provided in, or has been designated as an Immaterial Subsidiary in a manner that does not comply with, the definition of “Immaterial Subsidiary”).

Maturity Date” means, with respect to Initial Term B Loans, the eighth anniversary of the Closing Date and with respect to any (i) Extended Term Loan, the maturity date applicable to such Extended Term Loan in accordance with the terms hereof or (ii) Incremental Term Loan, the maturity date applicable to such Incremental Term Loan in accordance with the terms hereof); provided, if any such day is not a Business Day, the Maturity Date shall be the Business Day immediately preceding such day.

MFN Qualified Term Loans” means Indebtedness in the form of term loans that is (i) incurred pursuant to clause (a) of the Fixed Amount, (ii) not incurred in connection with a Permitted Acquisition or other permitted Investment and (iii) which has a maturity date no later than one year after the Latest Maturity Date applicable to the then existing Term Loans.

Minimum Extension Condition” has the meaning specified in Section 2.15(b).

Moody’s” means Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. and any successor thereto.

 

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Mortgage” means, collectively, the deeds of trust, trust deeds, deeds of hypothecation, security deeds, and mortgages creating and evidencing a Lien on a Mortgaged Property made by the Loan Parties in favor or for the benefit of the Collateral Agent on behalf of the Secured Parties in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Collateral Agent, executed and delivered pursuant to Section 6.10 and/or Section 6.12, as applicable.

Mortgage Policies” has the meaning specified in paragraph (f) of the definition of “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement”.

Mortgaged Property” means each real property owned by any Loan Party, if any, which shall be subject to a Mortgage delivered pursuant to Section 6.10 and/or Section 6.12, as applicable.

Multiemployer Plan” means any employee benefit plan of the type described in Section 4001(a)(3) of ERISA, to which any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate makes or is obligated to make contributions, or during the immediately preceding six (6) plan years, has made or been obligated to make contributions.

NB Investor” (i) the Initial Investor or (ii) (a) any affiliated investment entity and/or other affiliate of Neuberger Berman Investment Advisors LLC, (b) any fund, investor, entity or account that is managed, sponsored or advised by Neuberger Berman Investment Advisors LLC or its affiliates, or (c) any limited partner or investor in any Initial Investor or in any of the foregoing persons or entities described in clause (a) or (b), in each case, which is not a Disqualified Lender, Defaulting Lender or a natural person.

NB Investor Lender” means, at any time, a NB Investor that is a Lender at such time.

Net Cash Proceeds” means:

(a) with respect to the Disposition of any asset by Holdings or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries or any Casualty Event, the excess, if any, of (i) the sum of cash and Cash Equivalents received in connection with such Disposition or Casualty Event (including any cash or Cash Equivalents received by way of deferred payment pursuant to, or by monetization of, a note receivable or otherwise, but only as and when so received and, with respect to any Casualty Event, any insurance proceeds or condemnation awards in respect of such Casualty Event actually received by or paid to or for the account of Holdings or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries) over (ii) the sum of (A) the principal amount, premium or penalty, if any, interest, fees and other amounts on any Indebtedness that is secured by the asset subject to such Disposition or Casualty Event and that is required to be repaid (and is timely repaid) in connection with such Disposition or Casualty Event (other than Indebtedness under the Loan Documents), (B) the out-of-pocket fees and expenses (including attorneys’ 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) actually incurred by Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary in connection with such Disposition or Casualty Event, (C) taxes paid or reasonably estimated to be actually payable in connection therewith (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any income, withholding and other taxes payable as a result of the distribution of such proceeds to Holdings) and (D) any reserve for adjustment in respect of (x) the sale price of such asset or assets established in accordance with GAAP and (y) any liabilities associated with such asset or assets and retained by Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary after such sale or other disposition thereof, including pension and other post-employment benefit liabilities and liabilities related to environmental matters or with respect to any indemnification obligations associated with such transaction; it being understood that “Net

 

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Cash Proceeds” shall include (i) any cash or Cash Equivalents received upon the Disposition of any non-cash consideration by Holdings or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in any such Disposition and (ii) upon the reversal (without the satisfaction of any applicable liabilities in cash in a corresponding amount) of any reserve described in clause (D) above or if such liabilities have not been satisfied in cash and such reserve is not reversed within 365 days after such Disposition or Casualty Event, the amount of such reserve; provided, no net cash proceeds calculated in accordance with the foregoing realized in a single transaction or series of related transactions shall constitute Net Cash Proceeds under this clause (a) unless such net cash proceeds shall exceed $2,000,000 or in any fiscal year until the aggregate amount of all such net cash proceeds in such fiscal year shall exceed $5,000,000 or 10% of Consolidated EBITDA of Holdings (calculated on a Pro Forma Basis) (and thereafter only net cash proceeds in excess of such amount shall constitute Net Cash Proceeds under this clause (a)); and

(b) (i) with respect to the incurrence or issuance of any Indebtedness by Holdings or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries, the excess, if any, of (x) the sum of the cash received in connection with such incurrence or issuance over (y) the investment banking fees, underwriting discounts, commissions, costs, fees, out-of-pocket expenses and other expenses incurred by Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary in connection with such incurrence or issuance and (ii) with respect to any Permitted Equity Issuance by any direct or indirect parent of Holdings, the amount of cash from such Permitted Equity Issuance and actually contributed to the capital of Holdings.

Non-Consenting Lender” has the meaning set forth in Section 3.07(d).

Non-Loan Party” means any Restricted Subsidiary of Holdings that is not a Loan Party.

Non-Recourse Indebtedness” means Indebtedness that is non-recourse to Holdings or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries.

Non-U.S. Subsidiary” means any direct or indirect Restricted Subsidiary of Holdings which is not a U.S. Subsidiary.

Note” means a promissory note of the Borrower payable to any Term Lender or its registered assigns, as applicable, in substantially the form of Exhibit C-1 hereto with appropriate insertions, evidencing the aggregate Indebtedness of the Borrower to such Term Lender resulting from the Class of Term Loans made by such Term Lender.

Obligations” means (a) all advances to, and debts, liabilities, obligations, covenants and duties of, any Loan Party or other Subsidiary 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 and fees that accrue after the commencement by or against any Loan Party or any other Subsidiary of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Laws naming such Person as the debtor in such proceeding, regardless of whether such interest and fees are allowed claims in such proceeding, (b) for purposes of the Collateral Documents and Section 8.04 only, obligations of any Loan Party arising under any Secured Hedge Agreement and (c) for purposes of the Collateral Documents and Section 8.04 only, obligations under Secured Cash Management Agreements; provided that in the case of clauses (b) and (c), only to the extent that, and for so long as, the other Obligations are so secured or guaranteed, and any release of Collateral or Guarantees effected in a manner permitted by this Agreement shall not require the consent of holders of obligations under Secured Hedge Agreements or obligations under Secured Cash Management Agreements. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, the Obligations of the Loan Parties under the Loan Documents (and of any of

 

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their Subsidiaries to the extent they have obligations under the Loan Documents) include (a) the obligation (including guarantee obligations) to pay principal, interest, reimbursement obligations, charges, expenses, fees, premiums, Attorney Costs, indemnities and other amounts, in each case, payable by any Loan Party or any other Subsidiary under any Loan Document and (b) the obligation of any Loan Party or any other Subsidiary to reimburse any amount in respect of any of the foregoing that any Lender, in its sole discretion, may elect to pay or advance on behalf of such Loan Party or such Subsidiary. For the avoidance of doubt, the Obligations shall not include any Excluded Swap Obligations (as defined in the Guaranty).

OFAC” has the meaning specified in Section 5.20.

Offered Loans” has the meaning specified in Section 2.05(d)(iii).

Organization Documents” means (a) with respect to any corporation or company, the certificate or articles of incorporation, the memorandum and articles of association, any certificates of change of name and/or the bylaws; (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, declaration, 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)(iii).

Other Connection Taxes” means, with respect to any recipient, Taxes imposed as a result of a present or former connection between such recipient and the jurisdiction imposing such Tax (other than connections arising from such recipient having executed, delivered, become a party to, performed its obligations under, received payments under, received or perfected a security interest under, engaged in any other transaction pursuant to or enforced any Loan Document, or sold or assigned an interest in any Loan or Loan Documents).

Other Taxes” means all present or future stamp, court or documentary Taxes and any other intangible, mortgage recording or similar Taxes which arise from any payment made under any Loan Document or from the execution, delivery, performance, enforcement or registration of, from the receipt or perfection of a security interest under or otherwise with respect to, any Loan Document, excluding, in each case, any such Tax that is an Other Connection Tax resulting from an Assignment and Assumption or transfer or assignment to or designation of a new Applicable Lending Office or other office for receiving payments under any Loan Document other than an assignment (or designation of a new Applicable Lending Office) pursuant to a request by the Borrower under Section 3.01(f) or Section 3.07.

Outstanding Amount” means with respect to any Loan on any date, the outstanding principal amount thereof after giving effect to any borrowings and prepayments or repayments thereof occurring on such date.

Pari Passu Intercreditor Agreement” means a “pari passu” intercreditor agreement substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit M (as the same may be modified in a manner satisfactory to the Required Lenders). Upon the request of the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent will execute and deliver a Pari Passu Intercreditor Agreement with the Loan Parties and one or more Debt Representatives for Indebtedness permitted hereunder that is expressly permitted to be secured on a pari passu basis with the Term Loans.

 

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Participant” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(g)(i).

Participant Register” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(g)(ii).

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 any ERISA Affiliate or to which any Loan Party or any ERISA Affiliate contributes or has an obligation to contribute, or in the case of a multiple employer or other plan described in Section 4064(a) of ERISA, has made contributions at any time during the immediately preceding six (6) plan years.

Permitted Acquisition” has the meaning specified in Section 7.02(j).

Permitted Alternative Incremental Facilities Debt” has the meaning specified in Section 7.03(v).

Permitted Equity Issuance” means any sale or issuance of any Qualified Equity Interests of Holdings or any direct or indirect parent of Holdings.

Permitted Pari Passu Refinancing Debt” means any secured Indebtedness incurred by Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor in the form of one or more series of senior secured notes or loans; provided, such Indebtedness constitutes Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness. Permitted Pari Passu Refinancing Debt will include any Registered Equivalent Notes issued in exchange therefor.

Permitted Holdings Debt” means unsecured Indebtedness of Holdings that:

 

(a)

is not subject to any Guarantee by the Company or any Restricted Subsidiary;

 

(b)

does not mature prior to the date that is ninety-one (91) days after the Latest Maturity Date at the time of incurrence thereof;

 

(c)

no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing immediately after the issuance or incurrence thereof or would result therefrom;

 

(d)

has no scheduled amortization or payments of principal prior to the date that is ninety-one (91) days after the Latest Maturity Date at the time of incurrence thereof (it being understood that such Indebtedness may have mandatory prepayment, repurchase or redemption provisions satisfying the requirements of clause (f) hereof);

 

(e)

does not require any payments in cash of interest or other amounts in respect of the principal thereof prior to the date that is ninety-one (91) days after the Latest Maturity Date at the time of incurrence thereof; and

 

(f)

has mandatory prepayment, repurchase or redemption, covenant, default and remedy provisions customary for senior discount notes of an issuer that is the parent of a borrower under senior secured credit facilities, as determined in good faith by a Responsible Officer of the Borrower;

provided that clauses (d) and (e) will not restrict payments of AHYDO Amounts that are necessary to prevent such Indebtedness from being treated as an “applicable high yield discount obligation” within the meaning of Section 163(i)(1) of the Code.

 

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Permitted Junior Priority Refinancing Debt” means secured Indebtedness incurred by Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor in the form of one or more series of third lien (or other junior lien) secured notes or secured loans; provided, (i) such Indebtedness is secured by the Collateral on a junior priority basis to the Liens securing the Obligations and the obligations in respect of any Permitted Pari Passu Refinancing Debt, (ii) such Indebtedness constitutes Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness and (iii) a senior representative acting on behalf of the holders of such Indebtedness shall have become party to (x) to the extent the First Lien Term Loans are still outstanding on the relevant date of determination, the Intercreditor Agreement, and (y) if the First Lien Term Loans are no longer outstanding on the relevant date of determination, a Pari Passu Intercreditor Agreement or, if applicable, a Subordination Agreement. Permitted Junior Priority Refinancing Debt will include any junior secured or unsecured Registered Equivalent Notes issued in exchange therefor.

Permitted Jurisdiction” means the Commonwealth of The Bahamas and the United States or any state thereof or the District of Columbia and any other jurisdiction reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent; provided, that in the case of the Borrower, only the United States of America, any state thereof or the District of Columbia shall be a Permitted Jurisdiction.

Permitted Ratio Debt” means Indebtedness of Holdings or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries; provided,

 

  (a)

if such Indebtedness is secured on a pari passu basis with the Obligations in respect of the Initial Term B Loans, immediately after giving effect to the issuance, incurrence or assumption of such Indebtedness the Secured Leverage Ratio is no greater than 5.50:1.00 on a Pro Forma Basis after giving effect to the issuance, incurrence or assumption of such Indebtedness and the use of proceeds thereof and measured as of and for the Test Period immediately preceding the issuance, incurrence or assumption of such Indebtedness for which financial statements have been delivered; provided, if such Indebtedness is in the form of MFN Qualified Term Loans, it shall be subject to Section 2.14(h);

 

  (b)

if such Indebtedness is secured on a junior basis to the Obligations in respect of the Initial Term B Loans, immediately after giving effect to the issuance, incurrence or assumption of such Indebtedness the Secured Leverage Ratio is no greater than 5.75:1.00 on a Pro Forma Basis after giving effect to the issuance, incurrence or assumption of such Indebtedness and the use of proceeds thereof and measured as of and for the Test Period immediately preceding the issuance, incurrence or assumption of such Indebtedness for which financial statements have been delivered;

 

  (c)

if such Indebtedness is unsecured, immediately after giving effect to the issuance, incurrence or assumption of such Indebtedness the Total Leverage Ratio is no greater than 6.00:1.00 on a Pro Forma Basis after giving effect to the issuance, incurrence or assumption of such Indebtedness and the use of proceeds thereof and measured as of and for the Test Period immediately preceding the issuance, incurrence or assumption of such Indebtedness for which financial statements have been delivered;

provided, (i) immediately before and after giving effect thereto and to the use of proceeds thereof no Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, (ii) other than any Indebtedness incurred by a Non-Loan Party, such Indebtedness shall comply with the Required Ratio Debt Terms (other than with respect to Indebtedness assumed in connection with a Permitted Acquisition or other permitted Investment which Indebtedness shall only comply with clauses (A) and (B) of the definition of “Required Ratio Debt Terms”), (iii) such Indebtedness may not be secured on a senior basis to the Obligations in respect of the Initial Term B Loans and (iv) the maximum aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness that may be

 

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incurred or assumed pursuant to clauses (u), (x) and (z) of Section 7.03 by Non-Loan Parties (including any such Indebtedness assumed in connection with, a Permitted Acquisition or other permitted Investment) shall not exceed at any one time outstanding at the time of incurrence thereof, the greater of (x) $2,400,000 and (y) 6.0% of Consolidated EBITDA of Holdings (calculated on a Pro Forma Basis) as of the last day of the most recently ended Test Period at the time of incurrence thereof. If any Permitted Ratio Debt is incurred in the form of revolving indebtedness, the applicable test set forth in clause (a), (b) or (c) of this definition shall be calculated assuming that the entire amount of such revolving indebtedness established at such time is fully drawn; provided that, any revolving indebtedness incurred after the initial establishment of the commitments of such revolving indebtedness in reliance on such commitments shall constitute Permitted Ratio Debt and not be required to comply with any of the requirements set forth in the provisos above.

Permitted Refinancing” means, with respect to any Person, any modification (other than a release of such Person), refinancing, refunding, renewal or extension of any Indebtedness of such Person; provided:

(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, refunded, renewed or extended except by an amount equal to unpaid accrued interest and premium thereon plus other reasonable amounts paid, and fees and expenses reasonably incurred, in connection with such modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal or extension and by an amount equal to any existing commitments unutilized thereunder, and as otherwise permitted under Section 7.03;

(b) other than with respect to a Permitted Refinancing in respect of Indebtedness permitted pursuant to Section 7.03(g), such modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal 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 or extended (subject to exceptions for Extendable Bridge Loans and amortization in an aggregate annual amount of up to 1% of the original principal amount incurred);

(c) if such Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed or extended is Indebtedness permitted pursuant to Section 7.03(d), (i) to the extent such Indebtedness being so modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed or extended is subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations, such modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal or extension is subordinated in right of payment to the Obligations on terms at least as favorable to the Lenders as those contained in the documentation governing the Indebtedness being so modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed or extended, (ii) the covenants and events of default of any such modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed or extended Indebtedness, taken as a whole, are not materially more favorable to the investors providing such Indebtedness than those of the Indebtedness being modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed or extended or are on market terms (as determined by the Borrower), and (iii) such modification, refinancing, refunding, renewal or extension is incurred by a Person who is the obligor of the Indebtedness being so modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed or extended or a Loan Party; and

(d) the ranking of such Permitted Refinancing as to right of payment or as to security interests in the Collateral shall be no different or junior to that of the debt being refinanced,

provided, if such Indebtedness is of the type described in the defined term “Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness” it shall satisfy the provisions and requirements set forth in such defined term.

 

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Permitted Reorganization” means any reorganization or corporate restructuring, on a Solvent basis, involving one or more of the then current Holdings or any of Holdings’ Restricted Subsidiaries other than, in each case, the Borrower (any such reorganization or corporate restructuring, a “Reorganization”), whether or not such Reorganization also involves any other Person, including any merger, demerger, consolidation or amalgamation, any sale or other disposition of any assets or properties and any voluntary liquidation or winding up on a Solvent basis, in each case, that is consummated as part of such Reorganization; provided, in the case of any Reorganization and after giving effect to any related designations of a new Holdings as contemplated by the definition of such terms, (a) all the business and assets of the then current Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries (as in effect prior to such Reorganization) shall remain within Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries, (b) Holdings and the Borrower shall be organized under the laws of a Permitted Jurisdiction, (c) any Equity Interests or other assets that constitute Collateral and that are subject to any sale or other disposition as part of such Reorganization shall remain Collateral (including as a result of Liens thereon granted by the new owner thereof), subject to Liens thereon securing the Obligations that are valid and enforceable substantially to the same extent as the Liens thereon were prior to such sale or other disposition, in each case, as determined by Holdings in good faith, (d) after giving effect to such Reorganization, any direct parent of the Borrower shall provide a perfected 100% second priority pledge of the Equity Interests of the Borrower and (e) in the event of a sale, assignment, conveyance, transfer, lease or other disposition of all or substantially all of the assets of, or a consolidation, amalgamation or merger with or into, the then Holdings or any Subsidiary Guarantor, the Surviving Entity thereof (if not Holdings, or a Subsidiary Guarantor) shall (i) assume the obligations of Holdings or such Subsidiary Guarantor, as applicable, under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents in a manner consistent with Section 7.04 and (ii) provide any documentation and other information about such Surviving Entity as shall have been reasonably requested in writing by any Lender through the Administrative Agent that such Lender shall have reasonably determined is required by regulatory authorities under applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including Title III of the USA Patriot Act and the Beneficial Ownership Regulation) (the requirements in the preceding clauses (a) through (e), shall collectively be the “Permitted Reorganization Requirements”). Nothing in this definition shall be deemed to restrict any merger, demerger, consolidation, amalgamation, sale or other disposition, voluntary liquidation, winding up or other transaction, or any release of any Collateral or any Guarantee, in each case, that is permitted pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement other than those provisions expressly relating to a Permitted Reorganization.

Permitted Sale Leaseback” means any Sale Leaseback consummated by Holdings or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries after the Closing Date; provided, any such Sale Leaseback not between (a) a Loan Party and another Loan Party or (b) a Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party and another Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party must be, in each case, consummated for fair value as determined at the time of consummation in good faith by Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary (which such determination may take into account any retained interest or other Investment of Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary in connection with, and any other material economic terms of, such Sale Leaseback).

Permitted Unsecured Refinancing Debt” means unsecured Indebtedness incurred by Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor in the form of one or more series of senior unsecured notes or loans; provided, such Indebtedness constitutes Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness. Permitted Unsecured Refinancing Debt will include any Registered Equivalent Notes issued in exchange therefor.

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) other than a Foreign Plan or Multiemployer Plan, established or maintained by any Loan Party or, with respect to any such plan that is subject to Section 412 of the Code or Title IV of ERISA, any ERISA Affiliate.

 

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Platform” has the meaning specified in Section 6.02.

Prime Rate” means the prime rate as published by The Wall Street Journal for such day; provided that if The Wall Street Journal ceases to publish for any reason such rate of interest, “Prime Rate” shall mean the prime lending rate as set forth on the Bloomberg page PRIMBB Index (or successor page) for such day (or such other service as determined by the Administrative Agent and acceptable to the Borrower from time to time for purposes of providing quotations of prime lending interest rates). Each change in the Prime Rate shall be effective from and including the date such change is publicly announced as being effective. The prime rate is not necessarily the lowest rate charged by any financial institution to its customers.

Pro Forma Basis” and “Pro Forma Effect” means, with respect to the calculation of the Secured Leverage Ratio, the Total Leverage Ratio, Consolidated EBITDA, any basket, or any other pro forma calculation called for by this Agreement to be made on a Pro Forma Basis or with Pro Forma Effect, as of any time, that pro forma effect will be given to the Transactions, acquisitions prior to the Closing Date, any Permitted Acquisition, other Investments or acquisitions, redesignation of an Unrestricted Subsidiary, any other Specified Transaction or any other item for which this Agreement calls for giving pro forma effect (and excluding for the purposes of cash netting the cash proceeds of any Indebtedness incurred in connection therewith), as follows:

 

  (a)

with respect to any incurrence, assumption, guarantee, redemption or permanent repayment of Indebtedness, such ratio will be calculated giving pro forma effect thereto as if such incurrence, assumption, guarantee, redemption or repayment of indebtedness had occurred on the first day of such Test Period (in each case, other than Indebtedness incurred or repaid under any revolving credit facility in the ordinary course of business for working capital purposes);

 

  (b)

with respect to the Transactions, acquisitions prior to the Closing Date, any Permitted Acquisition, other Investments or acquisitions, redesignation of an Unrestricted Subsidiary, any other Specified Transaction or any other item for which this Agreement calls for giving pro forma effect, such ratio or other calculation will be calculated giving pro forma effect thereto as if such action occurred on the first day of such Test Period in a manner consistent, where applicable, with the pro forma adjustments set forth in the definition of “Consolidated EBITDA” (including for the amount of “run rate” cost savings, operating expense reductions and synergies projected by Holdings), calculated as though such cost savings, operating expense reductions and synergies had been realized on the first day of the Test Period for which Consolidated EBITDA is being determined; and

 

  (c)

with respect to any merger, sale, transfer or other Disposition, and the designation or redesignation of an “Unrestricted Subsidiary”, such ratio will be calculated giving pro forma effect thereto as if such action had occurred on the first day of such Test Period.

Pro Forma Financial Statements” has the meaning specified in Section 4.01(d).

Proposed Discounted Prepayment Amount” has the meaning specified in Section 2.05(d)(ii).

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 specified in Section 6.02.

 

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Qualified Equity Interests” means any Equity Interests of Holdings that are not Disqualified Equity Interests.

Qualified Securitization Financing” means any Securitization Financing of a Securitization Subsidiary that meets the following conditions: (a) the Borrower shall have determined in good faith that such Qualified Securitization Financing (including financing terms, covenants, termination events and other provisions) is in the aggregate economically fair and reasonable to the Borrower and the Securitization Subsidiary, (b) all sales and/or contributions of Securitization Assets and related assets to the Securitization Subsidiary are made at fair market value (as determined in good faith by the Borrower), (c) the financing terms, covenants, termination events and other provisions thereof shall be market terms (as determined in good faith by the Borrower) and may include Standard Securitization Undertakings and (d) the aggregate principal amount of Securitization Financings in respect of accounts receivable of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries does not exceed $1,000,000 at any one time outstanding. The grant of a security interest in any Securitization Assets of Holdings or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries (other than a Securitization Subsidiary) to secure Indebtedness under this Agreement prior to engaging in any Securitization Financing shall not be deemed a Qualified Securitization Financing.

Qualifying Lenders” has the meaning specified in Section 2.05(d)(iv).

Qualifying Loans” has the meaning specified in Section 2.05(d)(iv).

Ratio Amount” means an aggregate principal amount that, after the incurrence thereof after giving Pro Forma Effect thereto would not result in the Secured Leverage Ratio calculated on a Pro Forma Basis as of the end of the most recent Test Period exceeding 5.50:1.00.

Refinanced Debt” has the meaning set forth in the definition of “Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness.”

Refinancing Amendment” means an amendment to this Agreement executed by each of (a) the Borrower, (b) the Administrative Agent, (c) each Lender providing such Refinancing Term Loans thereunder and (d) each Lender that agrees to provide any portion of Refinancing Term Loans or Refinancing Term Commitments incurred pursuant thereto, in accordance with Section 2.18.

Refinancing Term Commitments” means one or more term loan commitments hereunder that fund Refinancing Term Loans hereunder pursuant to a Refinancing Amendment.

Refinancing Term Loans” means one or more Classes of Term Loans hereunder that result from a Refinancing Amendment.

Register” has the meaning specified in Section 10.07(f)(i).

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 specified in Section 2.05(b)(vi).

Related Parties” means, with respect to any Person, such Person’s Affiliate and the partners, directors, officers, employees, agents, trustees and advisors of such Person and of such Person’s Affiliates.

 

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Release” means any release, spill, emission, discharge, deposit, disposal, leaking, pumping, pouring, dumping, emptying, injection, migration or leaching into the Environment.

Reportable Event” means, with respect to any Pension Plan, any of the events set forth in Section 4043(c) of ERISA or the regulations issued thereunder, other than events for which the thirty (30) day notice period has been waived.

Request for Credit Extension” means with respect to a Borrowing, conversion or continuation of Term Loans, a Committed Loan Notice.

Required Lenders” means, as of any date of determination, Lenders holding more than 50% of the sum of the (a) Total Outstandings and (b) aggregate unused Initial Term B Commitments; provided, (i) the unused Initial Term B Commitment of, and the portion of the Total Outstandings held or deemed held by, any Defaulting Lender shall be excluded for all purposes of making a determination of Required Lenders, (ii) the unused Term Commitment of, and the portion of the Total Outstandings held or deemed held by any Lenders that are Sponsor Affiliated Lenders (other than Affiliated Debt Funds) shall be excluded for all purposes of making a determination of Required Lenders and (iii) Affiliated Debt Funds may not, in the aggregate, account for more than 49.9% of the amount necessary to establish that the Required Lenders have consented to an action and the unused Term Commitment of, and the portion of the Total Outstandings held or deemed held by, any Affiliated Debt Funds in excess of such amount shall be excluded for all purposes of making a determination of Required Lenders.

Required Ratio Debt Terms” has the meaning specified in Section 7.03(v).

Responsible Officer” means the chief executive officer, president, vice president, chief financial officer, treasurer, assistant treasurer, any secretary, assistant secretary, director, manager or other similar officer or authorized signatory 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 Casualty Event” has the meaning specified in Section 2.05(b)(vii).

Restricted Disposition” has the meaning specified in Section 2.05(b)(vii).

Restricted Payment” means any dividend or other distribution (whether in cash, securities or other property) with respect to any Equity Interest in Holdings 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 holders of Equity Interests of Holdings.

Restricted Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary of Holdings (including the Borrower), other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary.

Retained Declined Proceeds” has the meaning specified in Section 2.05(b)(vi).

S&P” means S&P Global Ratings and any successor thereto.

 

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Sale Leaseback” means any transaction or series of related transactions pursuant to which Holdings or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (a) sells, transfers or otherwise disposes of any property, real or personal, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, and (b) as part of such transaction, thereafter rents or leases such property or other property that it intends to use for substantially the same purpose or purposes as the property being sold, transferred or disposed.

Screen Rate” means with respect to the Eurocurrency Rate for any Interest Period for Dollars, the rate per annum equal to the ICE Benchmark Administration Limited LIBOR rate (“LIBOR”) or a comparable or successor rate, which rate is approved by the Administrative Agent, as published on the applicable Bloomberg LP page (or such other commercially available source providing such quotations as may be designated by the Administrative Agent from time to time) at approximately 11:00 a.m., London time, two (2) Business Days prior to the commencement of such Interest Period, for deposits in the applicable currency (for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period) with a term equivalent to such Interest Period; provided that, in the event such rate does not appear on a page of the Bloomberg screen, on the appropriate page of such other information service that publishes such rate as shall be selected by the Administrative Agent from time to time in its reasonable discretion). If no Screen Rate shall be available for a particular Interest Period but Screen Rates on the applicable provider’s screen shall be available for maturities both longer and shorter than such Interest Period, then the Screen Rate for such Interest Period shall be the Interpolated Rate.

SEC” means the Securities and Exchange Commission or any Governmental Authority succeeding to any of its principal functions.

Secured Cash Management Agreement” means any Cash Management Obligations permitted under Article VII that is entered into by and between any Loan Party and any Cash Management Secured Bank and designated by Holdings and the Cash Management Secured Bank in writing to the Administrative Agent as a “Secured Cash Management Agreement.

Secured Hedge Agreement” means any Swap Contract permitted under Article VII that is entered into by and between any Loan Party and any Hedge Bank and designated by Holdings and the Hedge Bank in writing to the Administrative Agent as a “Secured Hedge Agreement.

Secured Leverage Ratio” means, with respect to any Test Period, the ratio of (a) Consolidated Total Debt (other than any portion of Consolidated Total Debt that is unsecured; provided that, for purposes of calculating compliance with the Secured Leverage Ratio set forth in the definition of “Ratio Amount”, such indebtedness shall be treated as if secured, whether or not so secured) as of the last day of such Test Period to (b) Consolidated EBITDA of Holdings for such Test Period.

Secured Parties” means, collectively, the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent, the Lenders, each Hedge Bank, each Cash Management Secured Bank, the Supplemental Administrative Agent and each co-agent or sub-agent appointed by the Administrative Agent from time to time pursuant to Section 9.02.

Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933.

Securitization Assets” means any accounts receivable and any assets related thereto, including all collateral securing such accounts receivable, all contracts and all guarantees or other obligations in respect of such accounts receivable, proceeds of such accounts receivable, and other assets that are customarily transferred or in respect of which security interests are customarily granted in connection with securitization transactions involving accounts receivable, in each case subject to a Qualified Securitization Financing.

 

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Securitization Fees” means distributions or payments made directly or by means of discounts with respect to any participation interest issued or sold in connection with, and other fees paid to a Person that is not a Securitization Subsidiary in connection with any Qualified Securitization Financing.

Securitization Financing” means any transaction or series of transactions that may be entered into by Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries pursuant to which Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries may sell, convey or otherwise transfer to (a) a Securitization Subsidiary (in the case of a transfer by Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries) or (b) any other Person (in the case of a transfer by a Securitization Subsidiary), or may grant a security interest in, any Securitization Assets of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries.

Securitization Repurchase Obligation” means any obligation of a seller of Securitization Assets in a Qualified Securitization Financing to repurchase Securitization Assets arising as a result of a breach of a representation, warranty or covenant or otherwise, including as a result of a receivable or portion thereof becoming subject to any asserted defense, dispute, off set 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” means any Wholly-Owned Subsidiary of Holdings (or another Person formed for the purposes of engaging in a Qualified Securitization Financing in which Holdings or any Subsidiary makes an Investment and to which Holdings or any Subsidiary transfers Securitization Assets) that engages in no activities other than in connection with the financing of Securitization Assets of Holdings or its Subsidiaries, and any business or activities incidental or related to such business, and which is designated by Holdings or such other Person (as provided below) as a Securitization Subsidiary and (a) no portion of the Indebtedness or any other obligations (contingent or otherwise) of which (i) is guaranteed by Holdings or any other Restricted Subsidiary, other than another Securitization Subsidiary (excluding guarantees of obligations (other than the principal of, and interest on, Indebtedness) pursuant to Standard Securitization Undertakings), (ii) is recourse to or obligates Holdings or any other Restricted Subsidiary, other than another Securitization Subsidiary, in any way other than pursuant to Standard Securitization Undertakings or (iii) subjects any property or asset of Holdings or any other Restricted Subsidiary, other than another Securitization Subsidiary, directly or indirectly, contingently or otherwise, to the satisfaction thereof, other than pursuant to Standard Securitization Undertakings, (b) with which none of Holdings or any other Restricted Subsidiary, other than another Securitization Subsidiary, has any material contract, agreement, arrangement or understanding other than on terms which Holdings reasonably believe to be no less favorable to Holdings or such Subsidiary than those that might be obtained at the time from Persons that are not Affiliates of Holdings and (c) to which none of Holdings or any other Restricted Subsidiary, other than another Securitization Subsidiary, has any obligation to maintain or preserve such entity’s financial condition or cause such entity to achieve certain levels of operating results. Any such designation by Holdings or such other Person shall be evidenced to the Administrative Agent by delivery to the Administrative Agent of a certificate executed by a Responsible Officer of Holdings certifying that such designation complied with the foregoing conditions.

Security Agreement Supplement” has the meaning specified in the Security Agreements.

Security Agreements” means collectively (a) the Second Lien U.S. Pledge and Security Agreement and each other security document (or equivalent thereof) listed on Schedule 1.01B executed by the Loan Parties party thereto on the Closing Date and (b) each other security agreement and security agreement supplement delivered pursuant to Section 6.10.

Sold Entity or Business” means any Person, property, business or asset (other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary) sold, transferred or otherwise disposed of, closed or classified as discontinued operations by Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary during such period.

 

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Solvent” and “Solvency” mean, with respect to any Person (together with its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis) on any date of determination, that on such date (i) the fair value of the property of such Person (together with its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis), at a fair valuation, is greater than the total amount of debts and liabilities, direct, contingent, subordinated or otherwise, of such Person (together with its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis), (ii) the present fair saleable value of the assets of such Person (together with its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis) is greater than the amount that will be required to pay the probable liability of such Person (together with its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis) on its debts and other liabilities, direct, contingent, subordinated or otherwise, as such debts become absolute and matured, (iii) such Person (together with its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis) will be able to pay its debts and liabilities, direct, subordinated, contingent or otherwise, as such debts become absolute and matured and (iv) such Person (together with its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis) will not have unreasonably small capital with which to conduct the businesses in which it is engaged as such businesses are conducted on the date of determination and are proposed to be conducted following such date of determination.

SPAC” means Haymaker Acquisition Corp., a special purpose acquisition company.

Specified Acquisition Agreement Representations” means such of the representations and warranties made with respect to Holdings and its Subsidiaries by Holdings in the Acquisition Agreement to the extent that (x) a breach of such representations and warranties is material to the interests of the Lenders (in their capacities as such) on the Closing Date, and (y) the SPAC (or any of its Affiliates) has the right (taking into account any applicable cure provisions), to terminate its obligations (or decline to consummate the Acquisition) under the Acquisition Agreement as a result of a breach of such representations and warranties in the Acquisition Agreement.

Specified Representations” means the representations and warranties of each of Holdings, the Borrower and the other Loan Parties (after giving effect to the Closing Date Acquisition) set forth in the following Sections of this Agreement:

 

  (a)

(x) Section 5.01(a) and (y) Section 5.01(b)(ii) (but solely with respect to its organizational power and authority as to the execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents after giving effect to the Closing Date Acquisition);

 

  (b)

Section 5.02(a) (but solely with respect to (x) their respective authorization of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and (y) non-conflict of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents with their respective certificate or article of incorporation or other charter document);

 

  (c)

Section 5.04 (but solely with respect to execution and delivery by it, and enforceability against them, of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents after giving effect to the Closing Date Acquisition);

 

  (d)

Section 5.13;

 

  (e)

Section 5.16;

 

  (f)

Section 5.17;

 

  (g)

Section 5.18, 5.19 and 5.20, in each case, solely with respect to the use of proceeds of the Loans funded on the Closing Date.

 

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Specified Transaction” means any Investment, Disposition, incurrence or repayment of Indebtedness, Permitted Alternative Incremental Facilities Debt or Incremental Term Loan, the making of a Subsidiary designation or redesignation, a Restricted Payment, or other transaction 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 Affiliated Lender” means the SPAC and any Affiliate of the SPAC (other than Holdings, and its Subsidiaries).

Sponsor Model” means the SPAC’s financial model previously provided to the Initial Investor on October 5, 2018.

Standard Securitization Undertakings” means representations, warranties, covenants and indemnities entered into by Holdings or any Subsidiary of Holdings which Holdings has determined in good faith to be customary, necessary or advisable in a Securitization Financing.

Subordinated Debt” means Indebtedness that is subordinated in right of payment to the prior payment of all Obligations under the Loan Documents.

Subordinated Debt Documents” means any agreement, indenture or instrument pursuant to which any Subordinated Debt is issued, in each case as amended to the extent permitted under the Loan Documents.

Subordination Agreement” has the meaning specified in the definition of “Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness”.

Subsidiary” of a Person means a corporation, company, partnership, joint venture, limited liability company or other business entity of which a majority of the shares of securities or other interests having ordinary voting power for the election of directors or other governing body (other than securities or interests having such power only by reason of the happening of a contingency) are at the time beneficially owned, or the management of which is otherwise Controlled, directly or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, or both, by such Person. Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to a “Subsidiary” or to “Subsidiaries” shall refer to a Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of Holdings.

Subsidiary Guarantor” means, collectively, the Subsidiaries of Holdings that are Guarantors.

Successor Holdings” means any Person that guarantees (or, substantially concurrently with such designation, will guarantee, including as a result of the assumption of obligations referred to in clause (B) below) the Obligations and is designated, as part of any Permitted Reorganization, by the then current Holdings (“Existing Holdings”) to be “Holdings” by written notice to the Administrative Agent (any such designation, a “Successor Holdings Designation”); provided, (A) the Borrower is a Wholly-Owned direct Subsidiary of such other Person, (B) such Person expressly assumes the obligations of Holdings under this Agreement (including for the avoidance of doubt, Section 7.12) and the other Loan Documents to which Holdings is a party pursuant to the agreement set forth in Exhibit O or any agreement reasonably satisfactory to the Required Lenders; in each case, together with its successors and assigns and (C) such Person complies with the Permitted Reorganization Requirements.

Supplemental Administrative Agent” has the meaning specified in Section 9.13(a) and “Supplemental Administrative Agents” shall have the corresponding meaning.

 

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Survey” means a new survey of any Mortgaged Property (and all improvements thereon) which is (i) prepared by a surveyor or engineer licensed to perform surveys in the jurisdiction where such Mortgaged Property is located, (ii) certified by the surveyor (in a manner reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent) to the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and the Title Company, (iii) complying in all material respects with the minimum detail requirements of the American Land Title Association as such requirements are in effect on the date of preparation of such survey, (iv) sufficient for the Title Company to remove all standard survey exceptions from the Mortgage Policy relating to such Mortgaged Property and issue the endorsements of the type required by paragraph (f) of the definition of “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement” and (v) otherwise reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent.

Surviving Entity” has the meaning specified in Section 7.04(d)(i).

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” means, with respect to any Guarantor, any obligation to pay or perform under any agreement, contract or transaction that constitutes a “swap” within the meaning of section 1a(47) of the Commodity Exchange Act.

Swap Termination Value” means, in respect of any one or more Swap Contracts, after taking into account the effect of any legally enforceable netting agreement relating to such Swap Contracts, (a) for any date on or after the date such Swap Contracts have been closed out 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 by the Hedge Bank (or the Borrower, if no Hedge Bank is party to such Swap Contract) in accordance with the terms thereof and in accordance with customary methods for calculating mark-to-market values under similar arrangements by the Hedge Bank (or the Borrower, if no Hedge Bank is party to such Swap Contract).

Target Person” has the meaning specified in Section 7.02.

Taxes” means all present or future taxes, duties, levies, imposts, deductions, assessments, withholdings (including backup withholding), fees or other charges imposed by any Governmental Authority, including any additions to tax, penalties and interest with respect thereto, and references to “Tax” shall be construed accordingly.

Term Borrowing” means an Initial Term B Borrowing or a borrowing in respect of Incremental Term Loans.

 

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Term Commitment” means an Initial Term B Commitment or a commitment in respect of any Incremental Term Loans.

Term Lenders” means the Initial Term B Lenders, the lenders of any Incremental Term Loans, the lenders under any Refinancing Term Loans and the Extending Term Lenders.

Term Loans” means the Initial Term B Loans, the Incremental Term Loans, the Refinancing Term Loans and the Extended Term Loans.

Term Loan Exit Payment Trigger” has the meaning specified in Section 2.09(b).

Termination Date” has the meaning given to such term in Section 9.11.

Test Period” means, at any date of determination, the most recently completed four consecutive fiscal quarters of Holdings ending on or prior to such date for which financial statements have been or are required to be delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or 6.01(b); provided that prior to the first date that financial statements have been or are required to be delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(a) or (b), the Test Period in effect shall be the period of four consecutive fiscal quarters of Holdings and its Subsidiaries ended September 30, 2018.

Threshold Amount” means $12,000,000.

Title Company” shall mean any nationally recognized title insurance company as shall be retained by the Borrower to issue the Mortgage Policies and reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent.

Total Leverage Ratio” means, with respect to any Test Period, the ratio of (a) Consolidated Total Debt as of the last day of such Test Period to (b) Consolidated EBITDA of Holdings for such Test Period.

Total Outstandings” means the aggregate Outstanding Amount of all Loans.

Transaction Expenses” means any fees, closing payments, expenses or other amounts incurred or paid by Holdings, the Borrower, or any Restricted Subsidiary in connection with the Transactions, this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and the transactions contemplated hereby and thereby in connection therewith.

Transactions” means, collectively, (a) the funding of the Initial Term B Loans on the Closing Date, (b) the funding of the initial term loans and, as applicable, any revolving loans under the First Lien Credit Agreement on the Closing Date, (c) the consummation of the Closing Date Acquisition and payments under the Acquisition Agreement, (d) the consummation of the Closing Date Acquisition Guarantee and Lien Release, (e) the consummation of any other transactions in connection with the foregoing and (f) the payment of Transaction Expenses.

Transformative Acquisition” means any acquisition by Holdings, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary, whether by purchase, merger or otherwise, of all or substantially all of the assets of, or any business line, unit or division of, any Person or of a majority of the outstanding Equity Interests of any Person that (i) is not permitted by the terms of the Loan Documents immediately prior to the consummation of such acquisition or (ii) if permitted by the terms of the Loan Documents immediately prior to the consummation of such acquisition, the terms of the Loan Documents would not provide Holdings, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries with adequate flexibility for the continuation or expansion of their combined operations following such consummation, as determined by Holdings acting in good faith.

 

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Treasury Rate” with respect to the Make-Whole Amount means, as of any date of prepayment or repayment of the Loans, the weekly average rounded to the nearest 1/100th of a percentage point (for the most recently completed week for which such information is available as of the date that is two (2) Business Days prior to the redemption date) of the yield to maturity of United States Treasury securities with a constant maturity (as compiled and published in the Federal Reserve Statistical Release H.15 with respect to each applicable day during such week (or, if such statistical release is not so published or available, any publicly available source of similar market data selected by the Borrower in good faith)) most nearly equal to the period from and including the date of such repayment or prepayment to but excluding the Callable Date; provided that if the period from and including the date of such repayment or prepayment to but excluding the Callable Date is not equal to the constant maturity of a United States Treasury security for which such an average yield is given, the Applicable Treasury Rate shall be obtained by linear interpolation (calculated to the nearest one-twelfth of a year) from the weekly average yields of United States Treasury securities for which such yields are given, except that if the period from the redemption date to such applicable date is less than one year, the weekly average yield on actively traded United States Treasury securities adjusted to a constant maturity of one (1) year shall be used.

Type” means, with respect to a Loan, its character as a Base Rate Loan or a Eurocurrency Rate Loan.

Unaudited Financial Statements” means, to the extent received by the SPAC under the Acquisition Agreement, unaudited consolidated balance sheets and related statements of income and stockholders’ equity and cash flows of Holdings and its Subsidiaries (including the notes thereto) for each fiscal quarter ended after the most recent fiscal year covered by the Audited Financial Statements and at least forty-five (45) days before the Closing Date (other than any fiscal fourth quarter), in each case prepared in accordance with GAAP.

Undisclosed Administration” shall mean in relation to a Lender, the appointment of an administrator, provisional liquidator, conservator, receiver, trustee, custodian or other similar official by a supervisory authority or regulator under or based on the law in the country where such Lender is subject to home jurisdiction supervision if applicable law requires that such appointment is not to be publicly disclosed.

Uniform Commercial Code” or “UCC” means the Uniform Commercial Code as the same may from time to time be in effect in the State of New York or 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.

United States” and “U.S.” mean the United States of America.

Unrestricted Subsidiary” means (i) any Subsidiary of Holdings designated by Holdings as an Unrestricted Subsidiary pursuant to Section 6.13 subsequent to the date hereof and (ii) any Subsidiary of an Unrestricted Subsidiary; provided Holdings shall not designate any Subsidiary party to a Material Contract as an Unrestricted Subsidiary.

U.S. Subsidiary” means any Subsidiary that is organized under the laws of the United States, any state thereof or the District of Columbia.

 

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U.S. Target Purchase” has the meaning specified in the Preliminary Statements to this Agreement.

USA PATRIOT Act” means The Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001 (Title III of Pub. L. No. 107-56 (signed into law October 26, 2001)), as amended or modified from time to time.

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 determining the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of any Term Loans or any Indebtedness that is being modified, refinanced, refunded, renewed, replaced or extended (the “Applicable Indebtedness”), the effects of any prepayments made on such Applicable 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 or other Person to the extent required by applicable Law) are owned by such Person and/or by one or more wholly-owned Subsidiaries of such Person.

Withdrawal Liability” means the liability to a Multiemployer Plan as a result of a complete or partial withdrawal from such Multiemployer Plan, as such terms are defined in Part I of Subtitle E of Title IV of ERISA.

Write-Down and Conversion Powers” means, with respect to any EEA Resolution Authority, the write-down and conversion powers of such EEA Resolution Authority from time to time under the Bail-In Legislation for the applicable EEA Member Country, which write-down and conversion powers are described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule.

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 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.

 

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(f) 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.”

(g) 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.

(h) Each reference to any defined term or section of the First Lien Credit Agreement shall be deemed to include any analogous term or section of any First Lien Loan Documents.

Section 1.03 Accounting Terms.

(a) All accounting terms not specifically or completely defined herein shall be construed in conformity with, and all financial data (including financial ratios and other financial calculations) required to be submitted pursuant to this Agreement shall be prepared in conformity with, GAAP, applied in a manner consistent with that used in preparing the Audited Financial Statements, except as otherwise specifically prescribed herein.

(b) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, for purposes of determining compliance with any test contained in this Agreement with respect to any period during which any Specified Transaction occurs, or for which any Specified Transaction is given Pro Forma Effect, the Total Leverage Ratio, the Secured Leverage Ratio and Consolidated EBITDA shall be calculated with respect to such period and such Specified Transaction on a Pro Forma Basis.

(c) Where reference is made to “Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis” or similar language, such consolidation shall not include any Subsidiaries of Holdings other than Restricted Subsidiaries.

(d) In the event that Holdings elects to prepare its financial statements in accordance with IFRS and such election results in a change in the method of calculation of financial covenants, standards or terms (collectively, the “Accounting Changes”) in this Agreement, Holdings and the Administrative Agent agree to enter into good faith negotiations in order to amend such provisions of this Agreement (including the levels applicable herein to any computation of the Total Leverage Ratio and the Secured Leverage Ratio) so as to reflect equitably the Accounting Changes with the desired result that the criteria for evaluating Holdings’ financial condition shall be substantially the same after such change as if such change had not been made. Until such time as such an amendment shall have been executed and delivered by Holdings, the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders, all financial covenants, standards and terms in this Agreement shall continue to be calculated or construed in accordance with GAAP (as determined in good faith by a Responsible Officer of Holdings) (it being agreed that the reconciliation between GAAP and IFRS used in such determination shall be made available to Lenders) as if such change had not occurred.

Section 1.04 Rounding. Any financial ratios 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).

 

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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, restatements, extensions, supplements and other modifications thereto, but only to the extent that such amendments, restatements, extensions, supplements and other modifications are permitted by any Loan Document; and (b) references to any Law shall include all statutory and regulatory provisions consolidating, amending, replacing, supplementing or interpreting such Law.

Section 1.06 Times of Day; Rates. Unless otherwise specified, all references herein to times of day with respect to Eurocurrency Rate Loans shall be references to Eastern time in the United States (daylight or standard, as applicable).

The Administrative Agent does not warrant nor accept responsibility, nor shall the Administrative Agent have any liability, with respect to the administration, submission or any other matter related to the rates in the definition of “Eurocurrency Rate” or with respect to any comparable or successor rate thereto.

Section 1.07 Timing of Payment or Performance. 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 1.08 Currency Equivalents Generally.

(a) For purposes of any determination under Article VII, with respect to any amount of Indebtedness, Investment, Disposition or Restricted Payment in a currency other than Dollars, no Default shall be deemed to have occurred solely as a result of changes in rates of exchange occurring after the time such Lien, Indebtedness or Investment is incurred or Disposition or Restricted Payment is made; provided, for the avoidance of doubt, the foregoing provisions of this Section 1.08 shall otherwise apply to such Sections, including with respect to determining whether any Indebtedness or Investment may be incurred at any time under such Sections.

(b) For purposes of determining compliance under Article VII, any amount in a currency other than Dollars will be converted to Dollars in a manner consistent with that used in calculating net income in Holdings’ annual financial statements delivered pursuant to Section 6.01(a); provided, however, that the foregoing shall not be deemed to apply to the determination of any amount of Indebtedness.

Section 1.09 Delaware LLC Divisions. For all purposes under the Loan Documents, in connection with any Delaware LLC Division: (a) if any asset, right, obligation or liability of any Person becomes the asset, right, obligation or liability of a Delaware Divided LLC, then it shall be deemed to have been transferred from the original Person to the Delaware Divided LLC, and (b) if a Delaware Divided LLC comes into existence, such Delaware Divided LLC shall be deemed to have been organized on the first date of its existence by the holders of its Equity Interests at such time.

Section 1.10 Limited Condition Acquisitions. Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement or any Loan Document to the contrary, when calculating any applicable ratio, the use of a basket or determining other compliance with this Agreement (including the determination of compliance with any provision of this Agreement which requires that no Default or Event of Default has occurred, is continuing or would result therefrom or the accuracy of any representations and warranties) in connection with a Specified Transaction undertaken in connection with the consummation of a Limited Condition Acquisition, the date of determination of such ratio or basket and determination of whether any Default or

 

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Event of Default has occurred, is continuing or would result therefrom (other than with respect to a Default or Event of Default under Section 8.01(a), (f) or (g)), the accuracy of representations and warranties in all respects (other than the accuracy of customary “specified representations”) or other applicable covenants shall, in each case at the option of Holdings at the time such definitive agreements are entered into (Holdings’ election to exercise such option in connection with any Limited Condition Acquisition, an “LCA Election”), be deemed to be the date the definitive agreements for such Limited Condition Acquisition are entered into (the “LCA Test Date”). If, after such ratios and other provisions are measured on a Pro Forma Basis after giving effect to such Limited Condition Acquisition and the other transactions to be entered into in connection therewith (including any incurrence of Indebtedness and the use of proceeds thereof) as if they occurred at the beginning of the most recently ended Test Period prior to the LCA Test Date, Holdings could have taken such action on the relevant LCA Test Date in compliance with such ratios and provisions, such provisions shall be deemed to have been complied with. For the avoidance of doubt, (x) if any of such ratios are exceeded as a result of fluctuations in such ratio (including due to fluctuations in Consolidated EBITDA of Holdings and its Subsidiaries) at or prior to the consummation of the relevant Limited Condition Acquisition, such ratios and other provisions will not be deemed to have been exceeded as a result of such fluctuations solely for purposes of determining whether the Limited Condition Acquisition is permitted hereunder and (y) such ratios and other provisions shall not be tested at the time of consummation of such Limited Condition Acquisition or related Specified Transactions. If Holdings has made an LCA Election for any Limited Condition Acquisition, then in connection with any subsequent calculation of any ratio or basket availability with respect to any other Specified Transaction on or following the relevant LCA Test Date and prior to the earlier of the date on which such Limited Condition Acquisition is consummated or the date that the definitive agreement for such Limited Condition Acquisition is terminated or expires without consummation of such Limited Condition Acquisition, any such ratio or basket shall be calculated on a Pro Forma Basis assuming such Limited Condition Acquisition and other transactions in connection therewith (including any incurrence of Indebtedness and the use of proceeds thereof) have been consummated.

Section 1.11 Permitted Reorganizations.

(a) For purposes of determining Consolidated EBITDA, the Total Leverage Ratio, the Secured Leverage Ratio, Consolidated Depreciation and Amortization Expense, Consolidated EBITDA, Consolidated Interest Expense, Consolidated Net Income, Consolidated Total Debt, Consolidated Working Capital, consolidated gross revenues, Excess Cash Flow, Net Cash Proceeds or any other financial ratio, basket calculation or financial measurement of any kind whatsoever of Holdings, the Borrower or the Restricted Subsidiaries in respect of a period commencing prior to the date of completion of any Permitted Reorganization and ending on or after such date, such determination shall be made using the results for the applicable period ending prior to such date of Holdings, the Borrower, or the Restricted Subsidiaries as in effect during such prior period and the results for the applicable period on and after such date of Holdings, the Borrower, or the Restricted Subsidiaries as in effect during such subsequent period. For purposes of each of Sections 6.01(a) and 6.01(b), at any time when the most recent fiscal year or fiscal quarter, as applicable, ended after the date of the completion of any Permitted Reorganization and the comparable prior year period ended prior to such date, the financial statements delivered in respect of such prior period may be those of Holdings or any direct or indirect parent of Holdings as of the last day of such prior fiscal year or fiscal quarter, as applicable.

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Section 1.12 Change of Currency. 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 Borrower’s consent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld) to appropriately reflect a change in currency of any country and any relevant market conventions or practices relating to such change in currency.

Section 1.13 Cashless Rollovers. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement or in any other Loan Document, to the extent that any Lender extends the maturity date of, or replaces, renews or refinances, any of its then-existing Loans with Incremental Facilities, Refinancing Term Loans, Extended Term Loans or loans incurred under a new credit facility, in each case, to the extent such extension, replacement, renewal or refinancing is effected by means of a “cashless roll” by such Lender, such extension, replacement, renewal or refinancing shall be deemed to comply with any requirement hereunder or any other Loan Document that such payment be made “in Dollars”, “in immediately available funds”, “in Cash” or any other similar requirement and the amount of such “cashless roll” shall be deemed to be proceeds received by the Borrower.

Section 1.14 NB Investor Lenders Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, so long as the NB Investor Lenders constitute the Required Lenders, (i) all discretionary determinations, waivers and consents that are referred to in this Agreement or any other Loan Document as being satisfactory (or reasonably satisfactory) to the Administrative Agent or requiring the Administrative Agent’s discretion, waiver or consent, shall mean for all purposes herein and in the Loan Documents that such discretionary determinations, waivers and consents must be satisfactory (or reasonably satisfactory) to the NB Investor Lenders and requiring the NB Investor Lenders’ discretion, waiver and consent (or, in each case, the Administrative Agent at the direction of the NB Investor Lenders), including without limitation any amendments, waivers or consents (including any such amendments, waivers or consents that are minor, technical or administrative in nature), determinations as to whether any applicable documentation (including intercreditor or subordination agreements) or other deliverable hereunder is in form and substance satisfactory (or reasonably satisfactory) to the Administrative Agent (which must be in form and substance satisfactory (or reasonably satisfactory) to the NB Investor Lenders), determinations as to collateral and guaranty matters (including the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement) and extensions of time periods in order to comply with the terms of this agreement and (ii) any notices, certificates and other documents and information that would otherwise be required to be delivered under this Agreement or any other Loan Document to the Administrative Agent only will be required to be delivered to the Administrative Agent and the NB Investor Lenders concurrently (provided that the posting of any such information on the Platform or by similar electronic means that are accessible by the Administrative Agent and the NB Investor Lenders shall be deemed sufficient delivery for purposes of this clause (ii)). Notwithstanding the foregoing, borrowing and conversion mechanics (including consents to assignments or consents to a new Lender), interest rate determinations, disbursements of funds, distribution of payments and maintenance of a register and other purely administrative or mechanical matters under the Loan Documents shall not require direction by, consent of or notification to the NB Investor Lenders. Any discretionary determinations, waivers or consents effected by the NB Investor Lenders may be requested of each of the NB Investor Lenders at the notice address specified for the NB Investor Lenders on Schedule 10.02 (or such other contact and notice information as may be specified to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent by the NB Investor Lenders from time to time in writing).

Section 1.15 LIBOR Discontinuation. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein or in the other Loan Documents, if, with respect to any Interest Period, the rate of interest used to calculate the “Eurocurrency Rate” for such Interest Period is not available on the date of determination for such Interest Period for any reason (as determined by the Administrative Agent), then the rate of interest used to calculate the “Eurocurrency Rate” for such Interest Period shall be either a comparable or

 

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successor floating rate reasonably acceptable to the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders and certified in an officer’s certificate delivered to the Administrative Agent or, if no broadly accepted comparable successor rate exists at such time, a successor index rate as the Borrower may determine with the consent of the Required Lenders (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed) and certified in an officer’s certificate to the Administrative Agent; provided that (i) any such successor rate shall be applied by the Administrative Agent in a manner consistent with market practice, (ii) to the extent such market practice is not administratively feasible for the Administrative Agent, such successor rate shall be applied in a manner as otherwise reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent in consultation with the Borrower and the Required Lenders and (iii) in no event shall such successor floating rate be less than 0% per annum. In the event that after the Administrative Agent has not received an officer’s certificate of the Borrower establishing an administratively feasible successor interest rate by the date which is five (5) Business Days prior to an Interest Payment Date, then Section 3.03 hereof shall apply.

ARTICLE II

The Commitments and Credit Extensions

Section 2.01 The Loans.

The Initial Term B Loan Borrowings. Subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, each Initial Term B Lender severally agrees to make on the Closing Date to the Borrower a loan or loans denominated in Dollars (the “Initial Term B Loan”), the aggregate principal amount not to exceed in aggregate such Initial Term B Lender’s Initial Term B Commitment on the Closing Date. Amounts borrowed under this Section 2.01 and repaid or prepaid may not be reborrowed. Initial Term B Loans may only 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 conversion of Loans from one Type to the other, and each continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans shall be made upon the Borrower’s irrevocable written notice to the Administrative Agent. Each such notice must be received by the Administrative Agent not later than 2:00 p.m. (New York City time) (x) three (3) Business Days prior to the requested date of any Borrowing of, conversion of or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans or any conversion of Base Rate Loans to Eurocurrency Rate Loans (or, in the case of any initial Borrowing of the Initial Term B Loans, in accordance with Section 4.01, and (y) one (1) Business Day before the requested date of any Borrowing of term loans consisting of Base Rate Loans. Each Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of a Eurocurrency Rate Loan shall be in a principal amount of the Borrowing Minimum or a whole multiple of the Borrowing Multiple in excess thereof. Each Borrowing of or conversion to Base Rate Loans shall be in a principal amount of the Borrowing Minimum or a whole multiple of the Borrowing Multiple in excess thereof. Each Committed Loan Notice shall specify (i) whether the Borrower is requesting a Term Borrowing, a conversion of 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 currency (which shall be Dollars unless agreed by the Lenders and the Administrative Agent) and principal amount of Loans to be borrowed, converted or continued, (iv) all applicable wire instructions, (v) if applicable, the Type of Loans to be borrowed or to which existing Loans are to be converted and (vi) if applicable, the duration of the Interest Period with respect thereto. With respect to the Initial Term B Loan or any other Term Loan denominated in Dollars, if the Borrower fails to specify a Type of Loan in a Committed Loan Notice or fails to give a timely notice requesting a conversion or continuation,

 

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then the applicable Loans shall be made or continued as, or converted to, Base Rate Loans. Any such automatic conversion to Base Rate Loans or continuation 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 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 (1) month. For the avoidance of doubt, the Borrower and Lenders acknowledge and agree that any conversion or continuation of an existing Loan shall be deemed to be a continuation of that Loan with a converted interest rate methodology and not a new Loan.

(b) Following receipt of a Committed Loan Notice, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each Appropriate Lender of the amount of its Applicable Percentage of the applicable Class of Loans, and, with respect to Loans denominated in Dollars, if no timely notice of a conversion or continuation is provided by the Borrower, the Administrative Agent shall notify each Appropriate Lender of the details of any automatic conversion to Base Rate Loans or continuation described in Section 2.02(a). In the case of each Borrowing, each Appropriate Lender shall make (or cause its Applicable Lending Office to make) the amount of its Loan available to the Administrative Agent by wire transfer in immediately available funds at the Administrative Agent’s Account not later than 2:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the Business Day specified in the applicable Committed Loan Notice. Upon satisfaction of the applicable conditions set forth in Section 4.01, the Administrative Agent shall, upon receipt of all requested funds, make all funds so received available to the Borrower in like funds as received by the Administrative Agent by wire transfer of such funds, in each case in accordance with instructions provided to (and reasonably acceptable to) the Administrative Agent by the Borrower.

(c) Except as otherwise provided herein, a Eurocurrency Rate Loan may not be continued or converted except on the last day of the Interest Period for such Eurocurrency Rate Loan, unless the Borrower pays the amount due, if any, under Section 3.05 in connection therewith. During the existence of an Event of Default, the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders may require that no Loans may be converted to or continued as Eurocurrency Rate Loans.

(d) The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the 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.

(e) Anything in clauses (a) to (c) above to the contrary notwithstanding, after giving effect to all Term Borrowings, all conversions of Term Loans from one Type to the other, and all continuations of Term Loans as the same Type, there shall not be more than five (5) Interest Periods in effect.

Section 2.03 [Reserved].

Section 2.04 [Reserved].

Section 2.05 Prepayments.

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(i) The Borrower may, upon written notice to the Administrative Agent by the Borrower in substantially the form attached hereto as Exhibit K, at any time or from time to time voluntarily prepay Initial Term B Loans in whole or in part without premium or penalty (except as required by clause (iii) of this Section 2.05(a) and Section 3.05); provided, (1) such written notice must be received by the Administrative Agent at not later than 2:00 p.m. (New York City time) (A) at least three (3) Business Days prior to any date of prepayment of Eurocurrency Rate Loans and (B) at least one (1) Business Day prior to the date of prepayment of Base Rate Loans and (2) any prepayment of Loans shall be in a principal amount of $100,000 or a whole multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof or, in each case, the entire principal amount thereof then outstanding or such other amount as reasonably agreed by the Administrative Agent. Each such notice shall specify the date and amount of such prepayment and the Class(es) and Type(s) of Loans to be prepaid. The Administrative Agent will promptly notify each Appropriate Lender of its receipt of each such notice, and of the amount of such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of such prepayment. If such notice is given by the Borrower or any of its Affiliates, the Borrower shall make such prepayment and the payment amount specified in such notice shall be due and payable on the date specified therein. Any prepayment of a Eurocurrency Rate Loan shall be accompanied by all accrued interest thereon, together with any additional amounts required pursuant to Section 3.05. Each prepayment of Term Loans pursuant to this Section 2.05(a) shall be applied to each Class of Term Loan as directed by the Borrower and shall be paid to the Appropriate Lenders in accordance with their respective Applicable Percentage.

(ii) [Reserved].

(iii) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, if the Borrower makes any prepayment, refinancing or repayment of Initial Term B Loans, including with respect to the acceleration thereof, or any replacement of any Lender as a result of such Lender being a Non-Consenting Lending (any such payment or replacement, an “Applicable Payment”), the Borrower shall pay to the Administrative Agent, for the ratable account of each of the applicable Term Lenders an amount in addition to the principal amount, (w) if such Applicable Payment occurs on or prior to the Callable Date, the Make-Whole Amount plus a prepayment premium of 4.00% of the principal amount of the Term Loans subject to such Applicable Payment, (x) if such Applicable Payment occurs after the Callable Date but on or prior to the first anniversary of the Callable Date, a prepayment premium of 4.00% of the principal amount of the Term Loans subject to such Applicable Payment, (y) if such Applicable Payment occurs after the first anniversary of the Callable Date but on or prior to the second anniversary of the Callable Date, a prepayment premium of 2.50% of the principal amount of the Term Loans subject to such Applicable Payment, and (z) if such Applicable Payment occurs after the second anniversary of the Callable Date but on or prior to the third anniversary of the Callable Date, a prepayment premium of 1.50% of the principal amount of the Term Loans subject to such Applicable Payment. Any Applicable Payment made on or after the third anniversary of the Callable Date shall not be subject to any such prepayment premium.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Agreement, the Borrower may rescind or postpone any notice of prepayment under Section 2.05(a) if such prepayment notice stated that such prepayment would have resulted from a refinancing of all or a portion of the Facility, which refinancing shall not be consummated or shall otherwise be delayed.

 

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(b) Mandatory Prepayments.

(i) [Reserved].

(ii) [Reserved].

(iii) Dispositions and Casualty Events. (A) Subject to Section 2.05(b)(iii)(B) and 2.05(b)(vii), if (x) Holdings or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries receives Net Cash Proceeds from Dispositions made pursuant to Sections 7.05(j), 7.05(n), 7.05(p), 7.05(q), 7.05(s) and 7.05(x) in any fiscal year or (y) any Casualty Event occurs, which in the aggregate results in the realization or receipt by Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary of Net Cash Proceeds, the Borrower shall make a prepayment, in accordance with Section 2.05(b)(iii)(C), of an aggregate principal amount of Term Loans equal to such Net Cash Proceeds; provided, if after giving pro forma effect to such Disposition or Casualty Event and the application of the Net Cash Proceeds thereof (x) the Secured Leverage Ratio is less than or equal to 5.00:1.00 but greater than 4.50:1.00, the Borrower shall make a prepayment equal to 50% of such Net Cash Proceeds or (y) the Secured Leverage Ratio is less than 4.50:1.00, the Borrower shall make a prepayment equal to 0% of such Net Cash Proceeds; provided, no such prepayment shall be required pursuant to this Section 2.05(b)(iii)(A) with respect to such portion of such Net Cash Proceeds that the Borrower shall have, on or prior to such date, given written notice to the Administrative Agent of its intent to reinvest in accordance with Section 2.05(b)(iii)(B); provided, further, if at the time that any such prepayment would be required, the Borrower is required to offer to repurchase Permitted Pari Passu Refinancing Debt, Permitted Alternative Incremental Facilities Debt (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 (to the extent secured by Liens on the Collateral on a pari passu basis with the Obligations), in each case pursuant to the terms of the documentation governing such Indebtedness with the net proceeds of any such Disposition or Casualty Event of, or with respect to, any property or assets constituting Collateral (such Permitted Pari Passu Refinancing Debt, Permitted Alternative Incremental Facilities Debt (or the Permitted Refinancing of any such Indebtedness) required to be offered to be so repurchased, “Other Applicable Indebtedness”), then the Borrower may apply (or have Holdings apply, as the case may be) 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, such Indebtedness shall be prepaid no more ratably than amounts applied to prepay Term Loans); provided, 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)(iii) shall be reduced accordingly; provided, further, that to the extent the holders of Other Applicable Indebtedness decline to have such Other Applicable Indebtedness repurchased or prepaid, the declined amount shall promptly (and in any event within ten (10) Business Days after the date of such rejection) be applied to prepay the Term Loans in accordance with the terms hereof.

 

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(B) With respect to any Net Cash Proceeds realized or received with respect to any Disposition or any Casualty Event for which the Borrower is required to make a prepayment pursuant to Section 2.05(b)(iii)(A), at the option of the Borrower, the Borrower (or Holdings as the case may be) may reinvest an amount equal to all or any portion of such Net Cash Proceeds in assets useful for Holdings or its Subsidiaries’ business (other than working capital, except for short-term capital assets) which investment may include the repair, restoration or replacement of the applicable assets within (x) twelve (12) months following receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds or (y) if the Borrower or Holdings or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries enters into a legally binding commitment to reinvest such Net Cash Proceeds within twelve (12) months following receipt thereof, one hundred eighty (180) days after the twelve (12) month period that follows receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds; provided, if any Net Cash Proceeds are not so reinvested by the deadline specified in clause (x) or (y) above, as applicable, or if any such Net Cash Proceeds are no longer intended to be or cannot be so reinvested, an amount equal to such Net Cash Proceeds shall be applied, in accordance with Section 2.05(b)(iii)(C), to the prepayment of the Term Loans as set forth in this Section 2.05.

(C) On each occasion that the Borrower must make a prepayment of the Term Loans pursuant to this Section 2.05(b)(iii), the Borrower shall, within five (5) Business Days after the date of realization or receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds in the minimum amount specified above (or, in the case of prepayments required pursuant to Section 2.05(b)(iii)(B), within eight (8) Business Days of the deadline specified in clause (x) or (y) thereof, as applicable, or of the date the Borrower reasonably determine that such Net Cash Proceeds are no longer intended to be or cannot be so reinvested, as the case may be), make a prepayment, in accordance with Section 2.05(b)(vi) below, of the principal amount of Term Loans in an amount equal to such Net Cash Proceeds realized or received.

(iv) Issuance of Indebtedness. If Holdings or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries incurs or issues any (x) Refinancing Term Loans, (y) [reserved] or (z) Indebtedness not expressly permitted to be incurred or issued pursuant to Section 7.03, the Borrower shall cause to be prepaid an aggregate principal amount of Term Loans equal to 100% of all Net Cash Proceeds received therefrom on or prior to the date that is five (5) Business Days after the receipt of such Net Cash Proceeds; provided that Net Cash Proceeds of amounts described in clause (x) above shall be applied to the applicable Class or Classes of Term Loans which are intended to be refinanced with the proceeds of such Indebtedness as directed by the Borrower; provided further that any prepayment pursuant to this Section 2.05(b)(iv) shall be deemed to be an Applicable Payment and subject to the prepayment premium provisions of Section 2.05(a)(iii).

(v) Except as otherwise provided in any Refinancing Amendment, extension amendment or Incremental Facility Amendment or in connection with Indebtedness incurred pursuant to Section 7.03(y) or any Refinancing Term Loans, each prepayment of Term Loans pursuant to this Section 2.05(b) shall be applied to each Class of Term Loan as the Borrower shall direct and with each such Class ratably across the other Classes of Term Loans with the same maturity and prepayment premium as each such Class, and applied ratably to the remaining installments thereof as directed by the Borrower (or, absent such direction by the Borrower, pro rata in direct order of maturity pursuant to Section 2.07(a) following the applicable prepayment event). Each such prepayment shall be paid to the Lenders in accordance with their respective Applicable Percentage subject to clause (vi) of this Section 2.05.

 

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(vi) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 2.05(b), no prepayment shall be required pursuant to this Section until the Discharge of Senior Lien Obligations (as defined in the Intercreditor Agreement) shall have occurred, except in the case of Refinancing Term Loans, the proceeds of which shall be used to prepay Term Loans, and except, in the event that any such payment or portion thereof constitutes Declined Proceeds (under and as defined in the First Lien Credit Agreement), such payment or portion shall be applied as prepayments hereunder pursuant to this Section 2.05(b). The Borrower shall notify the Administrative Agent in writing of any mandatory prepayment of Term Loans required to be made pursuant to clause (iii) and clause (viii) of this Section 2.05(b) at any time at least five (5) Business Days prior to the date of such prepayment. Each such notice shall specify the date of such prepayment, the subsection of this Section 2.05(b) such prepayment is being made under and provide a reasonably detailed calculation of the amount of such prepayment. The Administrative Agent will promptly notify each Appropriate Lender of the contents of the Borrower’s prepayment notice and of such Appropriate Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the prepayment. Each Appropriate Lender may reject all or a portion of its Applicable Percentage of any mandatory prepayment (such declined amounts, the “Declined Proceeds”) of Term Loans required to be made pursuant to clause (iii) of this Section 2.05(b) by providing written notice (each, a “Rejection Notice”) to the Administrative Agent and the Borrower no later than 2:00 p.m. (New York City time) three (3) Business Days prior to the applicable date of such prepayment. Each Rejection Notice from a given Lender shall specify the principal amount of the mandatory prepayment of Term Loans to be rejected by such Lender. If a Lender fails to deliver a Rejection Notice to the Administrative Agent within the time frame specified above or such Rejection Notice fails to specify the principal amount of the Term Loans to be rejected, any such failure will be deemed an acceptance of the total amount of such mandatory repayment of Term Loans. Any Declined Proceeds may be retained by the Borrower (such retained amounts, “Retained Declined Proceeds”).

(vii) Notwithstanding any other provision of this Section 2.05(b), (i) to the extent that any or all of the Net Cash Proceeds of any Disposition by a Restricted Subsidiary otherwise giving rise to a prepayment pursuant to Section 2.05(b)(iii) (a “Restricted Disposition”) or the Net Cash Proceeds of any Casualty Event of a Restricted Subsidiary (a “Restricted Casualty Event”) would be prohibited or delayed by applicable local law from being distributed or otherwise transferred to the Borrower, the Borrower shall not be required to make a prepayment at the time provided in Section 2.05(b)(iii) for so long, but only so long, as the applicable local law will not permit such distribution or other transfer (the Borrower hereby agreeing to cause the applicable Restricted Subsidiary to promptly take all commercially reasonable actions available under the applicable local law to permit such distribution or transfer), and once such distribution or transfer of any of such affected Net Cash Proceeds is permitted under the applicable local law, an amount equal to such Net Cash Proceeds permitted to be distributed or transferred (net of additional taxes payable or reserved against as a result thereof) will be promptly (and in any event not later than ten (10) Business Days after such repatriation is permitted) taken into account in measuring the Borrower’s obligation to repay the Term Loans pursuant to this Section 2.05(b) to the extent provided herein and (ii) to the extent that the Borrower has determined in good faith (as set forth in a written notice delivered to the Administrative Agent) that distribution or transfer of any or all of the Net Cash Proceeds of any Restricted Disposition or any Restricted Casualty Event would have a material adverse tax consequence (taking into account any foreign tax credit or benefit received in connection with such distribution or transfer) with respect to such Net Cash Proceeds, the amount of the Net Cash Proceeds so affected shall not be taken into account in measuring the Borrower’s obligation to repay Term Loans pursuant to this Section 2.05(b).

 

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(viii) Before each accrual period (as such term is defined in Section 1272(a)(5) of the Code) following the fifth anniversary of the Closing Date, Borrower shall pay to each Lender an amount equal to the AHYDO Amount. For purposes of this Agreement, the “AHYDO Amount” shall mean the amount sufficient, but not in excess of the amount necessary, to ensure that the Loans will not be an “applicable high yield discount obligation” within the meaning of Section 163(i)(1) of the Code.

(c) Interest, Funding Losses, Prepayment Premiums, Etc. All prepayments under this Section 2.05 shall be accompanied by all accrued interest thereon, together with, in the case of any such prepayment of a Eurocurrency Rate Loan on a date other than the last day of an Interest Period therefor, any amounts owing in respect of such Eurocurrency Rate Loan, as applicable, pursuant to Section 2.05(a)(iii) and Section 3.05.

Notwithstanding any of the other provisions of this Section 2.05, so long as no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, if any prepayment of Eurocurrency Rate Loans is required to be made under this Section 2.05, prior to the last day of the Interest Period therefor, in lieu of making any payment pursuant to this Section 2.05 in respect of any such Eurocurrency Rate Loan prior to the last day of the Interest Period therefor, the Borrower may, in their sole discretion, deposit with the Administrative Agent the amount of any such prepayment otherwise required to be made hereunder until the last day of such Interest Period, at which time the Administrative Agent shall be authorized (without any further action by or notice to or from the Borrower or any other Loan Party) to apply such amount to the prepayment of such Loans in accordance with this Section 2.05. Such deposit shall constitute cash collateral for the Eurocurrency Rate Loans to be so prepaid; provided, the Borrower may at any time direct that such deposit be applied to make the applicable payment required pursuant to this Section 2.05.

(d) Discounted Voluntary Prepayments.

(i) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary set forth in this Agreement (including Section 2.13) or any other Loan Document, Holdings, the Borrower and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall have the right at any time and from time to time to prepay one or more Classes of Term Loans to the Lenders at a discount to the par value of such Loans and on a non-pro rata basis (each, a “Discounted Voluntary Prepayment”) pursuant to the procedures described in this Section 2.05(d); provided, (A) any Discounted Voluntary Prepayment shall be offered to all Lenders of such Class on a pro rata basis, (B) after giving effect to the Discounted Voluntary Prepayment, the aggregate Outstanding Amount of all Term Loans that are held by Sponsor Affiliated Lenders (other than Affiliated Debt Funds) shall not exceed 25% of the aggregate Outstanding Amount of the Term Loans then outstanding and (C) the Borrower shall deliver to the Auction Agent, together with each Discounted Prepayment Option Notice, a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower (1) stating that no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would result from the Discounted Voluntary Prepayment, (2) stating that each of the conditions to such Discounted Voluntary Prepayment contained in this Section 2.05(d) has been satisfied and (3) specifying the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans of any Class offered to be prepaid pursuant to such Discounted Voluntary Prepayment.

 

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(ii) To the extent the Borrower seeks to make a Discounted Voluntary Prepayment, the Borrower will provide written notice to the Auction Agent substantially in the form of Exhibit F hereto (each, a “Discounted Prepayment Option Notice”) that Holdings, the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary desires to prepay Term Loans of one or more specified Classes in an aggregate principal amount specified therein by the Borrower (each, a “Proposed Discounted Prepayment Amount”), in each case at a discount to the par value of such Loans as specified below. The Proposed Discounted Prepayment Amount of any Loans shall not be less than $1,000,000. The Discounted Prepayment Option Notice shall further specify with respect to the proposed Discounted Voluntary Prepayment (A) the Proposed Discounted Prepayment Amount for Loans to be prepaid, (B) a discount range (which may be a single percentage) selected by the Borrower with respect to such proposed Discounted Voluntary Prepayment equal to a percentage of par of the principal amount of the Loans to be prepaid (the “Discount Range”), and (C) the date by which Lenders are required to indicate their election to participate in such proposed Discounted Voluntary Prepayment, which shall be at least five (5) Business Days from and including the date of the Discounted Prepayment Option Notice (the “Acceptance Date”).

(iii) Upon receipt of a Discounted Prepayment Option Notice, the Auction Agent shall promptly notify each applicable Lender thereof. On or prior to the Acceptance Date, each such Lender may specify by written notice substantially in the form of Exhibit G hereto (each, a “Lender Participation Notice”) to the Auction Agent (A) a maximum discount to par (the “Acceptable Discount”) within the Discount Range (for example, a Lender specifying a discount to par of 20% would accept a purchase price of 80% of the par value of the Loans to be prepaid) and (B) a maximum principal amount (subject to rounding requirements specified by the Auction Agent) of the Term Loans to be prepaid held by such Lender with respect to which such Lender is willing to permit a Discounted Voluntary Prepayment at the Acceptable Discount (“Offered Loans”). Based on the Acceptable Discounts and principal amounts of the Term Loans to be prepaid specified by the Lenders in the applicable Lender Participation Notice, the Auction Agent, in consultation with the Borrower, shall determine the applicable discount for such Term Loans to be prepaid (the “Applicable Discount”), which Applicable Discount shall be (A) the percentage specified by the Borrower if the Borrower has selected a single percentage pursuant to Section 2.05(d)(ii)) for the Discounted Voluntary Prepayment or (B) otherwise, the highest Acceptable Discount at which the Borrower can pay the Proposed Discounted Prepayment Amount in full (determined by adding the Outstanding Amount of Offered Loans commencing with the Offered Loans with the highest Acceptable Discount); provided, however, that in the event that such Proposed Discounted Prepayment Amount cannot be repaid in full at any Acceptable Discount, the Applicable Discount shall be the lowest Acceptable Discount specified by the Lenders that is within the Discount Range. The Applicable Discount shall be applicable for all Lenders who have offered to participate in the Discounted Voluntary Prepayment and have Qualifying Loans. Any Lender with outstanding Term Loans to be prepaid whose Lender Participation Notice is not received by the Auction Agent by the Acceptance Date shall be deemed to have declined to accept a Discounted Voluntary Prepayment of any of its Loans at any discount to their par value within the Applicable Discount.

(iv) The Borrower shall make a Discounted Voluntary Prepayment by prepaying those Term Loans to be prepaid (or the respective portions thereof) offered by the Lenders (“Qualifying Lenders”) that specify an Acceptable Discount that is equal to or greater than the Applicable Discount (“Qualifying Loans”) at the Applicable Discount;

 

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provided, if the aggregate proceeds required to prepay all Qualifying Loans (disregarding any interest payable at such time) would exceed the amount of aggregate proceeds required to prepay the Proposed Discounted Prepayment Amount, such amounts in each case calculated by applying the Applicable Discount, the Borrower shall prepay such Qualifying Loans ratably among the Qualifying Lenders based on their respective principal amounts of such Qualifying Loans (subject to rounding requirements specified by the Administrative Agent). If the aggregate proceeds required to prepay all Qualifying Loans (disregarding any interest payable at such time) would be less than the amount of aggregate proceeds required to prepay the Proposed Discounted Prepayment Amount, such amounts in each case calculated by applying the Applicable Discount, the Borrower shall prepay all Qualifying Loans.

(v) Each Discounted Voluntary Prepayment shall be made within five (5) Business Days of the Acceptance Date (or such later date as the Auction Agent shall reasonably agree, given the time required to calculate the Applicable Discount and determine the amount and holders of Qualifying Loans), without premium or penalty (but subject to Section 3.05), upon irrevocable notice substantially in the form of Exhibit H hereto (each a “Discounted Voluntary Prepayment Notice”), delivered to the Auction Agent and the Administrative Agent no later than 2:00 p.m. (New York City time) three (3) Business Days prior to the date of such Discounted Voluntary Prepayment, which notice shall specify the date and amount of the Discounted Voluntary Prepayment and the Applicable Discount determined by the Auction Agent. Upon receipt of any Discounted Voluntary Prepayment Notice, the Auction Agent shall promptly notify each relevant Lender thereof. If any Discounted Voluntary Prepayment Notice is given, the amount specified in such notice shall be due and payable to the applicable Lenders, subject to the Applicable Discount on the applicable Loans, on the date specified therein together with accrued interest (on the par principal amount) to but not including such date on the amount prepaid. The par principal amount of each Discounted Voluntary Prepayment of a Term Loan shall be applied ratably to reduce the remaining installments of such Class of Term Loans.

(vi) To the extent not expressly provided for herein, each Discounted Voluntary Prepayment shall be consummated pursuant to reasonable procedures (including as to timing, rounding, minimum amounts, Type and Interest Periods and calculation of Applicable Discount in accordance with Section 2.05(d)(ii) above) established by the Auction Agent and the Borrower.

(vii) Prior to the delivery of a Discounted Voluntary Prepayment Notice, (A) upon written notice to the Auction Agent, the Borrower may withdraw or modify their offer to make a Discounted Voluntary Prepayment pursuant to any Discounted Prepayment Option Notice and (B) no Lender may withdraw its offer to participate in a Discounted Voluntary Prepayment pursuant to any Lender Participation Notice unless the terms of such proposed Discounted Voluntary Prepayment have been modified by the Borrower after the date of such Lender Participation Notice.

(viii) Nothing in this Section 2.05(d) shall require the Borrower to undertake any Discounted Voluntary Prepayment.

(ix) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, the Administrative Agent shall be under no obligation to act as the Auction Agent for any Discounted Voluntary Prepayment and, at the Borrower’s request, shall retain an agent or sub-agent to act in such capacity at the Borrower’s expense.

 

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Section 2.06 Termination or Reduction of Commitments.

(a) Optional. The Borrower may, upon written notice to the Administrative Agent, terminate the unused Commitments of any Class, or from time to time permanently reduce the unused Commitments of any Class; provided, (i) any such notice shall be received by the Administrative Agent two (2) Business Days prior to the date of termination or reduction, and (ii) any such partial reduction shall be in an aggregate amount of $100,000 or any whole multiple of $100,000 in excess thereof. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Borrower may rescind or postpone any notice of termination of the Commitments if such termination would have resulted from a refinancing of all or a portion of the Facility, which refinancing shall not be consummated or otherwise shall be delayed.

(b) Mandatory. The Initial Term B Commitment of each Initial Term B Lender shall be automatically and permanently reduced to $0 upon the making of such Initial Term B Lender’s Initial Term B Loans pursuant to Section 2.01.

(c) Application of Commitment Reductions; Payment of Fees. The Administrative Agent will promptly notify the Lenders of any termination or reduction of unused Commitments of any Class under this Section 2.06. Upon any reduction of unused Commitments of any Class, the Commitment of each Lender of such Class shall be reduced by such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the amount by which such Commitments are reduced (other than the termination of the Commitment of any Lender as provided in Section 3.07).

Section 2.07 Repayment of Loans.

(a) Term Loans.

(i) The Borrower shall repay to the Administrative Agent for the ratable account of the Initial Term B Lenders holding the Initial Term B Loan on the Maturity Date for the Initial Term B Loan, the aggregate principal amount of the Initial Term B Loan outstanding on such date.

(ii) In the event any Incremental Term Loans, Refinancing Term Loans or Extended Term Loans are made, such Incremental Term Loans, Refinancing Term Loans or Extended Term Loans, as applicable, shall be repaid by the Borrower in the amounts and on the dates set forth in the definitive documentation with respect thereto and on the applicable Maturity Date thereof.

Section 2.08 Interest.

(a) Subject to the provisions of Section 2.08(b), the Initial Term B Loans, shall, at the option of the Borrower, bear interest on the outstanding principal amount thereof for each Interest Period at a rate per annum equal to (x) the Eurocurrency Rate for such Interest Period plus the Applicable Rate or (y) Base Rate for such Interest Period plus the Applicable Rate.

 

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(b) During the continuance of an Event of Default under Sections 8.01(a) (with respect to any principal, interest or fees), (f) or (g), the Borrower shall pay interest on such past due amounts hereunder at a fluctuating interest rate per annum at all times equal to the Default Rate to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Laws. Accrued and unpaid interest on such past due amounts (including interest on past due interest) shall be due and payable upon demand to the fullest extent permitted by and subject to applicable Laws, including in relation to any required additional agreements.

(c) Interest on each Loan shall be due and payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date applicable thereto and at such other times as may be specified herein. Interest hereunder shall be due and payable in accordance with the terms hereof before and after judgment, and before and after the commencement of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law.

(d) Interest on each Loan shall be payable in the currency in which each Loan was made.

Section 2.09 Fees, Closing Payments and Exit Payment.

(a) Other Fees and Closing Payments. The Borrower shall pay to the Agents such fees or closing payments or other payments as agreed upon in the Administrative Agent Fee Letter in the amounts and at the times so specified. Such fees or (as applicable) closing payments or other payments shall be fully earned when paid and/or (in the case of closing payments) deducted from any funded amount and shall not be refundable for any reason whatsoever (except as expressly agreed between the Borrower and the applicable Agent).

(b) Exit Payment Upon the earliest to occur of (i) March 31, 2021, (ii) the first date on which the Secured Leverage Ratio is less than or equal to 1.30:1.00, (iii) any refinancing, in whole or in part, including pursuant to a Refinancing Amendment or with the proceeds of Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness, of the Term Loans or (iv) the date of an acceleration of, or the occurrence of an event which gives rise to the right of the Term Lenders to accelerate the Term Loans (any of the foregoing, the “Term Loan Exit Payment Trigger”), the Borrower shall pay, or cause to be paid, to each Initial Term B Lender with an Initial Term B Loan on the date of the occurrence of a Term Loan Exit Payment Trigger, the Initial Term B Loan Exit Payment. The Initial Term B Loan Exit Payment shall be payable on a pro rata basis to the Initial Term B Lenders as of the date of such payment. For the avoidance of doubt, any Initial Term B Loan Exit Payment shall be in addition to any prepayment premium set forth in Section 2.05(a)(iii).

Notwithstanding the foregoing, in connection with a request for a consent, waiver or amendment of the type set forth in Section 3.07(d), the Borrower shall pay, or cause to be paid, an amount equal to each Lender entitled to an Initial Term B Loan Exit Payment, including each Non-Consenting Lender, an amount equal to its pro rata portion of the Initial Term B Loan Exit Payment as of the date of such consent, waiver or amendment.

Section 2.10 Computation of Interest, Fees and Closing Payments. All computations of interest for Base Rate Loans at times when the Base Rate is based on the Prime Rate shall be made on the basis of a year of three hundred sixty-five (365) days or three hundred sixty-six (366) days, as the case may be, and actual days elapsed. All other computations of fees and interest shall be made on the basis of a three hundred sixty (360)-day year and actual days elapsed. Interest shall accrue on each Loan for the day on which such Loan is made, and shall not accrue on such Loan, or any portion thereof, for the day on which such Loan or such portion is paid; provided, any such Loan that is repaid on the same day on which it is made shall, subject to Section 2.12(a), bear interest for one (1) day. Each determination by the Administrative Agent of an interest rate or fee hereunder shall be conclusive and binding for all purposes, absent manifest error.

 

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Section 2.11 Evidence of Indebtedness.

(a) The Credit Extensions made by each Lender shall be evidenced by one or more accounts or records maintained by such Lender and by one or more entries in the Register. The accounts or records maintained by the Administrative Agent and each Lender shall be prima facie evidence absent manifest error of the amount of the Credit Extensions made by the Lenders to the Borrower and the interest and payments thereon. Any failure to so record or any error in doing so shall not, however, limit or otherwise affect the obligation of the Borrower hereunder to pay any amount owing with respect to the Obligations. In the event of any conflict between the accounts and records maintained by any Lender and the Register, the Register shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error. Upon the request of any Lender, the Borrower shall execute and deliver to such Lender a Note payable to such Lender or its registered assigns, which shall evidence such Lender’s Loans in addition to such accounts or records. Each Lender may attach schedules to its Note and endorse thereon the date, Type (if applicable), amount and maturity of its Loans and payments with respect thereto.

(b) [Reserved].

(c) Entries made in good faith by the Administrative Agent in the Register pursuant to Section 2.11(a), and by each Lender in its account or accounts pursuant to Section 2.11(a), shall be prima facie evidence of the amount of principal and interest due and payable or to become due and payable from the Borrower to, in the case of the Register, each Lender and, in the case of such account or accounts, such Lender, under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, absent manifest error; provided, the failure of the Administrative Agent or such Lender to make an entry, or any finding that an entry is incorrect, in the Register or such account or accounts shall not limit or otherwise affect the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.

Section 2.12 Payments Generally.

(a) Subject to Section 3.01, all payments to be made by the Borrower shall be made free and clear of and without condition or deduction for any counterclaim, defense, recoupment or setoff. Except as otherwise expressly provided herein, all payments by the Borrower hereunder shall be made to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the respective Lenders to which such payment is owed, at the applicable Administrative Agent’s Account and in immediately available funds not later than 2:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the date specified herein. The Administrative Agent will promptly distribute to each Lender its Applicable Percentage (or other applicable share as provided herein) of such payment in like funds as received by wire transfer to such Lender’s Applicable Lending Office. All payments received by the Administrative Agent after 2:00 p.m. (New York City time) may, at the Administrative Agent’s sole discretion, be deemed received on either (i) the same Business Day or (ii) the next succeeding Business Day, and any applicable interest or fee shall continue to accrue; provided, that for the avoidance of doubt, any payment which is received by the Administrative Agent later than 2:00 p.m. (New York City time) on the applicable due date shall not constitute an Event of Default hereunder so long as such payment is received by the Administrative Agent prior to 5:00 p.m. (New York City time) on such due date.

(b) If any payment to be made by the Borrower shall come due on a day other than a Business Day, payment shall be made on the next following Business Day, and such extension of time shall be reflected in computing interest or fees, as the case may be; provided, if such extension would cause payment of interest on or principal of Eurocurrency Rate Loans to be made in the next succeeding calendar month, such payment shall be made on the immediately preceding Business Day.

 

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(c) Unless the Borrower or any Lender has notified the Administrative Agent, prior to the date any payment is required to be made by it to the Administrative Agent hereunder, that the Borrower or such Lender, as the case may be, will not make such payment, the Administrative Agent may assume that the Borrower or such Lender, as the case may be, has timely made such payment and may (but shall not be so required to), in reliance thereon, make available a corresponding amount to the Person entitled thereto. If and to the extent that such payment was not in fact made to the Administrative Agent in immediately available funds, then:

(i) if the Borrower failed to make such payment, then the applicable Lender agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent forthwith on demand the portion of such assumed payment that was made available to such Lender in immediately available funds, together with interest thereon in respect of each day from and including the date such amount was made available by the Administrative Agent to such Lender to the date such amount is repaid to the Administrative Agent in immediately available funds at the greater of the Federal Funds Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation, plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by such Administrative Agent in connection with the foregoing. It being understood that nothing herein shall be deemed to relieve any Lender from its obligation to fulfill its Commitment or to prejudice any rights which the Administrative Agent or the Borrower may have against any Lender as a result of any default by such Lender hereunder; and

(ii) if any Lender failed to make such payment, such Lender shall forthwith on demand pay to the Administrative Agent the amount thereof in immediately available funds, together with interest thereon for the period from the date such amount was made available by the Administrative Agent to the Borrower to the date such amount is recovered by the Administrative Agent (the “Compensation Period”) at the greater of the Federal Funds Rate and a rate determined by the Administrative Agent in accordance with banking industry rules on interbank compensation plus any administrative, processing or similar fees customarily charged by such Administrative Agent in connection with the foregoing. When such Lender makes payment to the Administrative Agent (together with all accrued interest thereon), then such payment amount (excluding the amount of any interest which may have accrued and been paid in respect of such late payment) shall constitute such Lender’s Loan included in the applicable Borrowing. If such Lender does not pay such amount forthwith upon the Administrative Agent’s demand therefor, the Administrative Agent may make a demand therefor upon the Borrower, and the Borrower shall pay such amount to the Administrative Agent, together with interest thereon for the Compensation Period at the interest rate applicable to such Loan. Nothing herein shall be deemed to relieve any Lender from its obligation to fulfill its Commitment or to prejudice any rights which the Administrative Agent or the Borrower may have against any Lender as a result of any default by such Lender hereunder.

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(d) If any Lender makes available to the Administrative Agent funds for any Loan to be made by such Lender as provided in the foregoing provisions of this Article II, and such funds are not made available to the Borrower by the Administrative Agent because the conditions to the applicable Credit Extension set forth in Article IV are not satisfied or waived in accordance with the terms hereof, the Administrative Agent shall return such funds (in like funds as received from such Lender) to such Lender, without interest.

(e) The obligations of the Lenders hereunder to make Loans and to make reimbursement payments under Section 9.07 are several and not joint. The failure of any Lender to make any Loan, to fund any such participation or to make reimbursement payments under Section 9.07 on any date required hereunder shall not relieve any other Lender of its corresponding obligation to do so on such date, and no Lender shall be responsible for the failure of any other Lender to so make its Loan or purchase its participation.

(f) Nothing herein shall be deemed to obligate any Lender to obtain the funds for any Loan in any particular place or manner or to constitute a representation by any Lender that it has obtained or will obtain the funds for any Loan in any particular place or manner.

(g) Whenever any payment received by the Administrative Agent under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents is insufficient to pay in full all amounts due and payable to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders under or in respect of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents on any date, such payment shall be distributed by the Administrative Agent and applied by the Administrative Agent and the Lenders in the order of priority set forth in Section 8.04. If the Administrative Agent receives funds for application to the Obligations of the Loan Parties under or in respect of the Loan Documents under circumstances for which the Loan Documents do not specify the manner in which such funds are to be applied, the Administrative Agent may, but shall not be obligated to, elect to distribute such funds to each of the Lenders in accordance with such Lender’s Applicable Percentage of the Outstanding Amount of all Loans outstanding at such time, in repayment or prepayment of such of the outstanding Loans or other Obligations then owing to such Lender.

(h) Each Loan shall be repaid, whether pursuant to Section 2.05 or otherwise, in the currency in which such Loan was made.

Section 2.13 Sharing of Payments.

If, other than as expressly provided elsewhere herein, any Lender shall obtain on account of the Loans made by it any payment (whether voluntary, involuntary, through the exercise of any right of setoff, or otherwise) in excess of its ratable share (or other share contemplated hereunder) thereof, such Lender shall immediately (i) notify the Administrative Agent of such fact, and (ii) purchase from the other Lenders such participations in the Loans made by them, as shall be necessary to cause such purchasing Lender to share the excess payment in respect of such Loans or such participations, as the case may be, pro rata with each of them; provided, (x) if all or any portion of such excess payment is thereafter recovered from the purchasing Lender under any of the circumstances described in Section 10.06 (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by the purchasing Lender in its discretion), such purchase shall to that extent be rescinded and each other Lender shall repay to the purchasing Lender the purchase price paid therefor, together with an amount equal to such paying Lender’s ratable share (according to the proportion of (i) the amount of such paying Lender’s required repayment to (ii) the total amount so recovered from the purchasing Lender) of any interest or other amount paid or payable by the purchasing Lender in respect of the total amount so recovered, without further interest thereon and (y) the provisions of this Section 2.13 shall not be construed to apply to any payment made by the Borrower pursuant to and in accordance with the express terms of this Agreement or any payment obtained by a Lender as consideration for the assignment of or sale of a participation in any of its Loans to any assignee

 

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or participant pursuant to and in accordance with the express terms of this Agreement. The Borrower agrees that any Lender so purchasing a participation from another Lender may, to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Law, exercise all its rights of payment (including the right of setoff, but subject to Section 10.09) with respect to such participation as fully as if such Lender were the direct creditor of the Borrower in the amount of such participation. The Administrative Agent will keep records (which shall be conclusive and binding in the absence of demonstrable error) of participations purchased under this Section 2.13 and will in each case notify the Lenders following any such purchases or repayments. Each Lender that purchases a participation pursuant to this Section 2.13 shall from and after such purchase have the right to give all notices, requests, demands, directions and other communications under this Agreement with respect to the portion of the Obligations purchased to the same extent as though the purchasing Lender were the original owner of the Obligations purchased.

Section 2.14 Incremental Credit Extensions.

(a) Notice. At any time and from time to time, subject to the terms and conditions set forth herein, the Borrower may, by written notice to the Administrative Agent (whereupon the Administrative Agent shall promptly deliver a copy to each of the Lenders), (i) increase the amount of Term Loans of any Class or add one or more additional tranches of term loans (in each case with an existing Lender only) (any such Term Loans or additional tranche of term loans, the “Incremental Term Loans” and the Loans made thereunder, the “Incremental Facilities”).

(b) Ranking. Each Incremental Facility that is guaranteed may not be guaranteed by any Person that is not a Loan Party and each Incremental Facility that is secured cannot be secured by any assets that do not constitute Collateral that secures the Obligations hereunder. Any other Incremental Facility may, at the discretion of the Borrower, (i) rank pari passu in right of payment with the Initial Term B Loans, (ii) be subordinated in right of payment to the Initial Term B Loans, (iii) be secured on a pari passu basis with the Initial Term B Loans or (iv) be secured on a junior basis to the Initial Term B Loans; provided that if subordinated or secured on a junior basis, such Incremental Facility may not be incurred under the Loan Documents and the holders of such Indebtedness or a Debt Representative acting on behalf of the holders of such Indebtedness shall become party to or otherwise become subject to the provisions of (x) to the extent the First Lien Term Loans are still outstanding at the time of incurrence, the Intercreditor Agreement or (y) if the First Lien Term Loans are no longer outstanding, another Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement or Subordination Agreement, as applicable.

(c) Size.

(i) Notwithstanding anything to contrary herein, the aggregate principal amount of all Incremental Facilities incurred on any date (other than Refinancing Term Loans), shall not exceed the sum of (i) the Fixed Amount plus (ii) the Ratio Amount in each case on such date prior to the incurrence of such Incremental Facilities. Unless the Borrower elects otherwise, each Incremental Facility will be deemed incurred first under clause (b) of the Fixed Amount, to the extent permitted and thereafter under the Ratio Amount to the extent permitted, with the balance incurred under clause (a) of the definition of “Fixed Amount”; provided that the Borrower may not elect to incur an Incremental Facility under the Ratio Amount prior to incurrence of available Incremental Facility capacity under clause (b) of the Fixed Amount.

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(A) without giving effect to any Incremental Facilities incurred under clause (a) of the Fixed Amount that are incurred substantially simultaneously therewith (but including, for the avoidance any Incremental Facilities incurred under clause (b) of the Fixed Amount that are incurred substantially simultaneously therewith); and

(B) to give Pro Forma Effect to any Permitted Acquisition consummated in connection therewith and all other Specified Transactions (but excluding for the purposes of cash netting the cash proceeds of any such Incremental Term Loans).

(iii) Each Incremental Facility shall be in an integral multiple of $1,000,000 and be in an aggregate principal amount that is not less than $5,000,000 in case of Incremental Term Loans or such other amount as reasonably agreed by the Administrative Agent; provided, such amount may be less than the applicable minimum amount if such amount represents all the remaining availability hereunder as set forth above.

(d) Incremental Lenders. Incremental Facilities may only be provided by the Lenders party hereto on the Closing Date pursuant to an amendment (an “Incremental Facility Amendment”) to this Agreement and, as appropriate, the other Loan Documents, executed by Holdings, the Borrower, the Administrative Agent and such Lender. At the election of the Borrower, commitments in respect of any Incremental Term Loans may become Commitments under this Agreement.

(e) Incremental Facility Amendments; Use of Proceeds. No Incremental Facility Amendment shall require the consent of any Lenders other than the Lenders with respect to such Incremental Facility Amendment. An Incremental Facility Amendment may, without the consent of any other Lenders, effect such amendments to any Loan Documents as may be necessary or appropriate, in the opinion of the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, to effect the provisions of this Section 2.14. An Incremental Facility Amendment may at the election of the Borrower effect such amendments as may be reasonably necessary or advisable so that such Incremental Term Loans and the applicable existing Term Loans from the same Class of Term Loans are fungible with other outstanding Term Loans, including by (i) extending or adding “call protection” to any existing tranche of Term Loans, including amendments to Section 2.05(a), and (ii) amending the schedule of amortization payments relating to any existing tranche of Term Loans, including amendments to Section 2.07 (provided, any such amendment will not decrease any amortization payment to any lender that would have otherwise been payable to such Lender immediately prior to the effectiveness of the applicable Incremental Facility Amendment); provided, such amendments are not materially adverse to the existing Term Lenders (as determined in good faith by the Borrower). Unless otherwise specifically provided herein, all references in Loan Documents to Loans shall be deemed, unless the context otherwise requires, to include references to Loans made pursuant to Incremental Facilities, respectively, made pursuant to this Agreement. This Section 2.14 shall supersede any provisions in Section 2.13 or Section 10.01 to the contrary. The proceeds of any Incremental Facilities will be used for general corporate purposes (including Permitted Acquisitions).

(f) Conditions. The availability of an Incremental Facility under this Agreement will be subject solely to the condition that upon the effectiveness of such Incremental Facility Amendment, (i) in the case of an Incremental Facility that will be used to fund or finance Permitted Acquisition or other permitted Investments, no Event of Default under Sections 8.01(a), (f), and (g) has occurred and is continuing or shall result therefrom and (ii) in the case of Incremental Facility that will be used for any other purpose, no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or shall result therefrom.

 

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(g) Terms. Each Incremental Facility Amendment will set forth the amount and terms of the relevant Incremental Facility. The terms of each tranche of Incremental Term Loans will be as agreed by the Borrower and the Lenders; provided,

(i) the final maturity date (other than Extendable Bridge Loans) will be no earlier than (1) the latest Maturity Date then applicable to the then existing Term Loans or (2) in the case of any Incremental Term Loans that are junior in right to payment or security with the then existing Term Loans, 91 days after the Latest Maturity Date then applicable to the Term Loans (provided that the Borrower may incur Incremental Term Loans with a final Maturity Date earlier than the date specified in clause (1) or (2), as applicable, in an aggregate amount not to exceed the then-available Inside Maturity Amount);

(ii) the Weighted Average Life to Maturity will be no shorter than the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of the Term Loans (subject to exceptions for Extendable Bridge Loans, the then-available Inside Maturity Amount and amortization in an aggregate annual amount of up to 1% of the original principal amount incurred) and any Incremental Term Loans secured on a junior basis to the Term Loans shall not require any amortization payments;

(iii) (a) such Incremental Term Loans may participate on a pro rata basis or a less than pro rata basis (but not greater than pro rata basis) in any voluntary or mandatory repayments or prepayments of the Term Loans and (b) such Incremental Term Loans shall not have any mandatory prepayment, redemption and repurchase provisions other than to the extent substantially the same as the mandatory prepayment provisions governing the Term Loans (or otherwise reasonably satisfactory to the Required Lenders);

(iv) if any financial maintenance covenant is added for the benefit of any Incremental Term Loans no consent shall be required from the Administrative Agent or any Term Lender to the extent that such financial maintenance covenant is (1) also added for the benefit of the existing Term Loans or (2) applicable only after the Latest Maturity Date of the then existing Term Loans;

(v) to the extent such terms and documentation are not consistent with the Term Loans (except to the extent permitted by clauses (f), (h) and this clause (g)), they are reasonably satisfactory to the Required Lenders (except for covenants or other provisions (a) that are not materially more restrictive on the Borrower (as reasonably determined by the Borrower), (b) applicable only, in the case of Incremental Term Loans, to the periods after the latest maturity date of the Term Loans or any other Incremental Term Loans existing at the time such Incremental Term Loans are incurred or (c) are offered for inclusion for the benefit of the existing Term Loans).

(h) Pricing. The pricing, interest rate margins, discounts, premiums, rate floors, fees and (subject to Section 2.14(g)) maturity and amortization schedule shall be as determined by the Borrower and the Lenders; provided, with respect to any Incremental Term Loans that constitute MFN Qualified Term Loan, the proceeds of which are incurred after the Closing Date, if the

 

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Margin relating to such MFN Qualified Term Loans exceeds the Margin relating to the then outstanding Term Loans immediately prior to the effectiveness of the applicable Incremental Facility Amendment by more than 0.75%, the Margin relating to the then outstanding Term Loans shall be adjusted to be equal to the Margin relating to such MFN Qualified Term Loans minus 0.75%; provided, (x) if the MFN Qualified Term Loans include an interest rate floor greater than the floor applicable to the respective then existing Term Loans, such differential between interest rate floors shall be equated to the Margin for purposes of determining whether an increase to the Margin under the then existing Term Loans shall be required, but only to the extent an increase in the interest rate floor in the then existing Term Loans would cause an increase in the interest rate then in effect thereunder, and in such case the interest rate floor (but not the Applicable Rate) applicable to the then existing Term Loans shall be increased to the extent of such differential between interest rate floors and (y) to the extent that the Eurocurrency Rate, as applicable, for a three month interest period on the closing date of any such MFN Qualified Term Loans (A) is less than the floor applicable to the respective then existing Term Loans, the amount of such difference shall be deemed added to the interest margin for the then existing Term Loans solely for the purpose of determining whether an increase in the interest rate margins for the then existing Term Loans shall be required and (B) is less than the interest rate floor, if any, applicable to any such MFN Qualified Term Loans, the amount of such difference shall be deemed added to the interest rate margins for such MFN Qualified Term Loans.

Section 2.15 Extensions of Term Loans.

(a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, pursuant to one or more offers (each, an “Extension Offer”) made from time to time by the Borrower to all Lenders of any Class of Term Loans on a pro rata basis (based on the aggregate outstanding principal amount of the respective Term Loans of the applicable Class) and on the same terms to each such Lender, the Borrower is hereby permitted to consummate from time to time transactions with individual Lenders that accept the terms contained in such Extension Offers to extend the maturity date of each such Lender’s Term Loans of the applicable Class and otherwise modify the terms of such Term Loans pursuant to the terms of the relevant Extension Offer (including, without limitation, by increasing the interest rate or fees payable in respect of such Term Loans (and related outstandings) and/or modifying the amortization schedule in respect of such Lender’s Term Loans) (each, an “Extension,” and each group of Term Loans, in each case as so extended, as well as the original Term Loans (in each case not so extended), being a separate Class of Term Loans from the Class of Term Loans from which they were converted, it being understood that an Extension may be in the form of an increase in the amount of any outstanding Class of Term Loans otherwise satisfying the criteria set forth below), so long as the following terms are satisfied:

(i) [reserved];

(ii) [reserved];

(iii) except as to interest rates, fees, amortization, final maturity date, premium, required prepayment dates and participation in prepayments (which shall, subject to the immediately succeeding clauses (iv), (v) and (vi), be determined by the Borrower and set forth in the relevant Extension Offer), the Term Loans of any Term Lender that agrees to an extension with respect to such Term Loans (an “Extending Term Lender”) extended pursuant to any Extension (“Extended Term Loans”) shall have the same terms as the Class of Term Loans subject to such Extension Offer (except for covenants or other provisions (a) that are not materially more restrictive on the Borrower (as reasonably determined by the Borrower), (b) contained therein applicable only to periods after the latest Maturity Date applicable to the Term Loans then existing or (c) are offered for inclusion for the benefit of all Lenders);

 

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(iv) the final maturity date of any Extended Term Loans shall be no earlier than the then latest Maturity Date of Term Loans, hereunder (but may be later than such Maturity Date);

(v) the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of any Extended Term Loans shall be no shorter than the remaining Weighted Average Life to Maturity of the Term Loans extended (subject to exceptions for amortization in an aggregate annual amount of up to 1% of the original principal amount extended);

(vi) any Extended Term Loans may participate (a) subject to clause (b) below, on a pro rata basis or a less than pro rata basis (but not greater than pro rata basis) in any voluntary or mandatory repayments or prepayments or (b) on a greater than pro rata basis in the case of any voluntary or mandatory repayments or prepayment of Term Loans, as applicable, that do not have the same maturities and prepayment premium, in each case as specified in the respective Extension Offer;

(vii) if the aggregate principal amount of the Class of Term Loans (calculated on the face amount thereof) in respect of which Term Lenders shall have accepted the relevant Extension Offer shall exceed the maximum aggregate principal amount of Term Loans of such Class offered to be extended by the Borrower pursuant to such Extension Offer, then the Term Loans of such Class of such Term Lenders shall be extended ratably up to such maximum amount based on the respective principal amounts (but not to exceed actual holdings of record) with respect to which such Term Lenders have accepted such Extension Offer; and

(viii) any applicable Minimum Extension Condition shall be satisfied unless waived by the Borrower.

(b) With respect to all Extensions consummated by the Borrower pursuant to this Section 2.15, (i) such Extensions shall not constitute voluntary or mandatory payments or prepayments for purposes of Section 2.05 and (ii) no Extension Offer is required to be in any minimum amount or any minimum increment; provided, the Borrower may at their election specify as a condition (a “Minimum Extension Condition”) to consummating any such Extension that a minimum amount (to be determined and specified in the relevant Extension Offer in the Borrower’s sole discretion and may be waived by the Borrower) of Term Loans of any or all applicable Classes be tendered. The Administrative Agent and the Lenders hereby consent to the transactions contemplated by this Section 2.15 (including, for the avoidance of doubt, payment of any interest, fees or premium in respect of any Extended Term Loans on the such terms as may be set forth in the relevant Extension Offer) and hereby waive the requirements of any provision of this Agreement (including, without limitation, Sections 2.05, 2.12 and 2.13) or any other Loan Document that may otherwise prohibit any such Extension or any other transaction contemplated by this Section 2.15.

(c) No consent of any Lender or the Administrative Agent shall be required to effectuate any Extension, other than the consent of each Lender agreeing to such Extension with respect to one or more of its Term Loans (or a portion thereof). All Extended Term Loans and all obligations in respect thereof shall be Obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan

 

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Documents that have the same guarantees as, and are secured by the Collateral on a pari passu basis with, all other applicable Obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents. The Lenders hereby irrevocably authorize the Administrative Agent to enter into amendments to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents with the Borrower as may be necessary in order to establish new Classes, tranches or sub-tranches in respect of Term Loans so extended and such technical amendments as may be necessary or appropriate in the reasonable opinion of the Administrative Agent and the Borrower in connection with the establishment of such new Classes, tranches or sub-tranches, in each case on terms consistent with this Section 2.15. Without limiting the foregoing, in connection with any Extensions the respective Loan Parties shall (at their expense) amend (and the Administrative Agent is hereby directed to amend) any Mortgage that has a maturity date prior to the then Latest Maturity Date so that such maturity date is extended to the then Latest Maturity Date (or such later date as may be advised by local counsel to the Administrative Agent). For the avoidance of doubt, no Lender shall be obligated to extend their Commitment, except in their sole discretion.

(d) In connection with any Extension, the Borrower shall provide the Administrative Agent at least ten (10) Business Days’ (or such shorter period as may be agreed by the Administrative Agent) prior written notice thereof, and shall agree to such procedures (including, without limitation, regarding timing, rounding and other adjustments and to ensure reasonable administrative management of the credit facilities hereunder after such Extension), if any, as may be established by, or acceptable to, the Administrative Agent, in each case acting reasonably to accomplish the purposes of this Section 2.15. The Administrative Agent shall promptly notify the Lenders of each Extension notice.

(e) This Section 2.15 will supersede any provisions of Sections 2.13, 10.01 and 10.09.

Section 2.16 Defaulting Lenders. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to the contrary, if any Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, then for so long as such Lender is a Defaulting Lender, the Commitment and Outstanding Amount of Term Loans of such Defaulting Lender shall not be included in determining whether all Lenders or the Required Lenders have taken or may take any action hereunder (including any consent to any amendment, waiver or other modification pursuant to Section 10.01); provided, any waiver, amendment or modification of a type described in clause (a), (b) or (c) of the first proviso in Section 10.01 that would apply to the Commitments or Obligations owing to such Defaulting Lender shall require the consent of such Defaulting Lender with respect to the effectiveness of such waiver, amendment or modification with respect to the Commitments or Obligations owing to such Defaulting Lender.

If the Borrower and the Administrative Agent agree in writing that a Lender is no longer a Defaulting Lender, the Administrative Agent will so notify the parties hereto, whereupon as of the effective date specified in such notice and subject to any conditions set forth therein, that Lender will, to the extent applicable, purchase at par that portion of outstanding Loans of the other Lenders or take such other actions as the Administrative Agent may determine to be necessary to cause the Loans to be held pro rata by the Lenders in accordance with the Commitments, whereupon, such Lender will cease to be a Defaulting Lender; provided that no adjustments will be made retroactively with respect to fees accrued or payments made by or on behalf of the Borrower while that Lender was a Defaulting Lender; and provided, further, that except to the extent otherwise expressly agreed by the affected parties, no change hereunder from Defaulting Lender to Lender will constitute a waiver or release of any claim of any party hereunder arising from that Lender’s having been a Defaulting Lender.

 

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Section 2.17 [Reserved].

Section 2.18 Refinancing Amendments.

(a) On one or more occasions after the Closing Date, the Borrower may obtain, from any existing Lender, Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness in respect of all or any portion of the Term Loans then outstanding under this Agreement (which for purposes of this Section 2.18(a) will be deemed to include any then outstanding Refinancing Term Loans and Incremental Term Loans), in the form of Refinancing Term Loans and Refinancing Term Commitments pursuant to a Refinancing Amendment.

(b) No Lender shall be obligated to provide any Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness, unless it so agrees.

(c) The effectiveness of any Refinancing Amendment shall be subject to the satisfaction (or waiver in accordance with the terms of such Refinancing Amendment) on the date thereof of each of the following express conditions precedent and, to the extent reasonably requested by the Persons providing the applicable Refinancing Loans, such other conditions are the parties thereto may agree:

(i) The representations and warranties of the Borrower and each other Loan Party contained in Article V or any other Loan Document shall be true and correct in all material respects on and as of the date of such Credit Extension; provided, to the extent such representations and warranties specifically refer to an earlier date, they shall be true and correct in all material respects as of such earlier date; provided further that any representation and warranty that is qualified as to “materiality,” “Material Adverse Effect” or similar language shall be true and correct (after giving effect to any qualification therein) in all respects on such respective dates.

(ii) No Default or Event of Default shall exist, or would result from such proposed Credit Extension or from the application of the proceeds therefrom.

(d) Each of the parties hereto hereby agrees that this Agreement and the other Loan Documents may be amended pursuant to a Refinancing Amendment, without the consent of any other Lenders, to the extent (but only to the extent) necessary to (i) reflect the existence and terms of the Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness incurred pursuant thereto and (ii) make such other changes to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents consistent with the provisions and intent of the third paragraph of Section 10.01 (without the consent of the Required Lenders called for therein) and (iii) effect such other amendments to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as may be necessary or appropriate, in the reasonable opinion of the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, to effect the provisions of this Section 2.18, and the Required Lenders hereby expressly authorize the Administrative Agent to enter into any such Refinancing Amendment.

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ARTICLE III

Taxes, Increased Costs Protection and Illegality

Section 3.01 Taxes.

(a) Except as provided in this Section 3.01, any and all payments by the Borrower or any Guarantor to or for the account of any Agent or any Lender under any Loan Document shall be made without deduction or withholding for any Taxes, except as required by applicable Law. If any applicable withholding agent shall be required by any Laws to deduct or withhold any Taxes from or in respect of any sum payable under any Loan Document to any Agent or any Lender, (i) if such Taxes are Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes, the sum payable by the Borrower or applicable Guarantor shall be increased as necessary so that after all required deductions and withholdings for Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes have been made (including deductions and withholdings applicable to additional sums payable under this Section 3.01), each Lender (or, in the case of a payment made to an Agent for its own account, such Agent) receives an amount equal to the sum it would have received had no such deductions or withholdings been made, (ii) such applicable withholding agent shall make such deductions and withholdings, (iii) such applicable withholding agent shall pay the full amount deducted or withheld to the relevant taxation authority or other authority in accordance with applicable Laws, and (iv) within thirty (30) days after the date of such payment by such applicable withholding agent (or, if receipts or evidence are not available within thirty (30) days, as soon as possible thereafter), such applicable withholding agent shall furnish to the Borrower and such Agent or Lender (as the case may be) the original or a facsimile copy of a receipt evidencing payment thereof to the extent such a receipt is issued therefor, or other written proof of payment thereof that is reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.

(b) In addition, without duplication of any amounts payable pursuant to Section 3.01(a), the Borrower agrees to pay all Other Taxes.

(c) Without duplication of any amounts payable pursuant to Section 3.01(a) or Section 3.01(b), the Borrower agrees to indemnify each Agent and each Lender for (i) the full amount of Indemnified Taxes and Other Taxes (including any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes imposed or asserted by any jurisdiction in respect of amounts payable under this Section 3.01) payable by such Agent and such Lender and (ii) any reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, in each case whether or not such Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to the Borrower by a Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), or by an Agent on its own behalf or on behalf of a Lender, shall be conclusive absent manifest error. Payment under this Section 3.01(c) shall be made within ten (10) days after the date such Lender or such Agent makes a demand therefor.

(d) If any Lender or Agent determines, in its sole discretion exercised in good faith, that it has received a refund in respect of any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes as to which indemnification or additional amounts have been paid to it by the Borrower or any Guarantor pursuant to this Section 3.01, it shall promptly remit an amount equal to such refund to the Borrower as soon as practicable after it is determined that such refund pertains to Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made, or additional amounts paid, by the Borrower or any Guarantor under this Section 3.01 with respect to the Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes giving rise to such refund plus, in each case, any interest included in such refund by the relevant taxing authority attributable thereto), net of all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses (including any Taxes) of the Lender or Agent, as the case may be and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant taxing authority with respect to such refund); provided that the Borrower, upon the request of the Lender or Agent, as the case may be, agrees to return an amount equal to such refund (plus any applicable interest, additions to tax or penalties) to such party in the event such party is required to repay such refund to the relevant

 

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taxing authority. Notwithstanding the foregoing, in no event will a Lender or Agent be required to pay any amount to the Borrower pursuant to this paragraph (d) the payment of which would place such Lender or Agent in a less favorable net after-Tax position than such Lender or Agent would have been in if the Tax subject to indemnification and giving rise to such refund had not been deducted, withheld or otherwise imposed and the indemnification payments or additional amounts with respect to such Tax had never been paid. Nothing herein contained shall interfere with the right of a Lender or Agent to arrange its Tax affairs in whatever manner it thinks fit nor oblige any Lender or Agent to claim any Tax refund or to make available its Tax returns or disclose any information relating to its Tax affairs or any computations in respect thereof or require any Lender or Agent to do anything that would prejudice its ability to benefit from any other refunds, credits, reliefs, remissions or repayments to which it may be entitled.

(e) Each Lender shall severally indemnify the Administrative Agent, within 10 days after demand therefor, for (i) any Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes attributable to such Lender (but only to the extent that the Borrower has not already indemnified the Administrative Agent for such Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes and without limiting the obligation of the Borrower to do so), (ii) any Taxes attributable to such Lender’s failure to comply with the provisions of Section 10.07 relating to the maintenance of a Participant Register and (iii) any Excluded Taxes attributable to such Lender, in each case, that are payable or paid by the Administrative Agent in connection with any Loan Document, and any reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto, whether or not such Taxes were correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Government Authority. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to any Lender by the Administrative Agent shall be conclusive absent manifest error. Each Lender hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent to set off and apply any and all amounts at any time owing to such Lender under any Loan Document or otherwise payable by the Administrative Agent to the Lender from any other source against any amount due to the Administrative Agent under this paragraph (e). The agreements in this Section 3.01(e) shall survive the resignation and/or replacement of the Administrative Agent, any assignment of rights by, or the replacement of, a Lender, the termination of this Agreement and the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all other obligations.

(f) Each Lender agrees that, upon the occurrence of any event giving rise to the operation of Section 3.01(a) or (c) with respect to such Lender it will, if requested by the Borrower, use commercially reasonable efforts (subject to legal and regulatory restrictions), at the Borrower’s expense, to designate another Applicable Lending Office for any Loan affected by such event; provided, such efforts are made on terms that, in the judgment of such Lender, cause such Lender and its Applicable Lending Office(s) to suffer no material economic, legal or regulatory disadvantage, and provided, further, nothing in this Section 3.01(f) shall affect or postpone any of the Obligations of the Borrower or the rights of such Lender pursuant to Section 3.01(a) or (c).

(g) Each Lender shall, at such times as are reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, provide the Borrower and the Administrative Agent with any documentation prescribed by law, or reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, certifying as to any entitlement of such Lender to an exemption from, or reduction in, any withholding Tax with respect to any payments to be made to such Lender under any Loan Document. In addition, any Lender, if reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent, shall deliver such other documentation prescribed by applicable Law or reasonably requested by the Borrower or the Administrative Agent as will enable the Borrower or the Administrative Agent to determine whether or not such Lender is subject to backup withholding or information reporting requirements. Each such Lender shall, whenever a lapse in

 

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time or change in circumstances renders such documentation (including any documentation specifically referenced below) expired, obsolete or inaccurate in any material respect, deliver promptly to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent updated or other appropriate documentation (including any new documentation reasonably requested by the applicable withholding agent) or promptly notify the Borrower and the Administrative Agent in writing of its legal ineligibility to do so. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the preceding two sentences, the completion, execution and submission of such documentation shall not be required if in the Lender’s reasonable judgment such completion, execution or submission would subject such Lender to any material unreimbursed cost or expense or would materially prejudice the legal or commercial position of such Lender.

Without limiting the generality of the foregoing, in the event that any borrower of the Obligations for U.S. federal income tax purposes is a United States person (as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code),

(i) each Lender that is a “United States person” (as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code) shall deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent on or before the date on which such Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent), copies of executed IRS Form W-9 certifying that such Lender is exempt from U.S. federal backup withholding tax;

(ii) each Lender that is not a “United States person” (as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code) shall, to the extent it is legally entitled to do so, deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (in such number of copies as shall be requested by the recipient) on or about the date on which such Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent), whichever of the following is applicable:

(A) two copies of properly completed and duly executed IRS Form W-8BEN or Form W-8BEN-E, as applicable (or any successor forms) claiming eligibility for the benefits of an income tax treaty to which the United States is a party;

(B) two copies of properly completed and duly executed IRS Form W-8ECI (or any successor forms);

(C) in the case of a Lender claiming the benefits of the exemption for portfolio interest under Section 881(c) of the Code, (x) a certificate substantially in the form of Exhibit I to the effect that such Lender is not a “bank” within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, a “10 percent shareholder” of the Borrower within the meaning of Section 871(h)(3)(B) of the Code, or a “controlled foreign corporation” related to the Borrower as described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code (a “U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate”) and (y) two copies of properly completed and duly executed IRS Form W-8BEN or IRS Form W-8BEN-E, as applicable (or any successor forms); or

(D) to the extent a Lender is not the beneficial owner, two copies of properly completed and duly executed IRS Form W-8IMY, accompanied by IRS Form W-8ECI, IRS Form W-8BEN, IRS Form W-8BEN-E, a U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate, IRS Form W-9, and/or other certification documents

 

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from each beneficial owner, as applicable; provided that if the Lender is a partnership and one or more direct or indirect partners of such Lender are claiming the portfolio interest exemption, such Lender may provide a U.S. Tax Compliance Certificate on behalf of each such direct and indirect partner;

(iii) each Lender that is not a “United States person” (as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code) shall, to the extent it is legally entitled to do so, deliver to the Borrower and the Administrative Agent (in such number of copies as shall be requested by the recipient) on or about the date on which such Lender becomes a Lender under this Agreement (and from time to time thereafter upon the reasonable request of the Borrower or the Administrative Agent), copies of properly completed and duly executed versions of any other form prescribed by applicable Law as a basis for claiming exemption from or a reduction in U.S. federal withholding Tax, together with such supplementary documentation as may be prescribed by applicable Law to permit the Borrower or the Administrative Agent to determine the withholding or deduction required to be made; and

(iv) each Lender or Administrative Agent shall deliver to the Borrower (and the Administrative Agent, in the case of a Lender) at the time or times prescribed by law and at such time or times reasonably requested by the Borrower (or the Administrative Agent, in the case of a Lender) such documentation prescribed by applicable Law (including as prescribed by Section 1471(b)(3)(C)(i) of the Code) and such additional documentation reasonably requested by the Borrower (or the Administrative Agent, in the case of a Lender) as may be necessary for the Borrower (and the Administrative Agent, in the case of a Lender) to comply with their FATCA obligations and to determine the amount, if any, to deduct and withhold from such payment.

Notwithstanding any other provision of this clause (g), a Lender or Administrative Agent shall not be required to deliver any form that such Lender or Administrative Agent is not legally eligible to deliver.

Section 3.02 Illegality.

(a) If any Lender determines that any Law has made it unlawful, or that any Governmental Authority that is a court, statutory board or commission has asserted that it is unlawful, for any Lender or its Applicable Lending Office to make, maintain or fund, or has imposed material restrictions on the authority of such Lender that make it impracticable for such Lender to make, maintain or fund, Eurocurrency Rate Loans or to determine or charge interest rates based upon the Eurocurrency Rate as contemplated by this Agreement, then, on notice thereof by such Lender to the Borrower through the Administrative Agent, in respect of Eurocurrency Rate Loans, as applicable, any obligation of such Lender to make or continue Eurocurrency Rate Loans or to convert Base Rate Loans to Eurocurrency Rate Loans shall be suspended until such Lender notifies the Administrative Agent and the Borrower that the circumstances giving rise to such determination no longer exist. Upon receipt of such notice, (A) the Borrower shall upon demand from such Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) prepay such Eurocurrency Rate Loans that have become unlawful or if applicable and such Loans are denominated in Dollars and are Eurocurrency Rate Loans, convert all of such Lender’s Eurocurrency Rate Loans to Base Rate Loans, either on the last day of the Interest Period therefor, if such Lender may lawfully continue to maintain such Eurocurrency Rate Loans to such day, or promptly, if such Lender may not lawfully continue to maintain such Eurocurrency Rate Loans and (B) if such notice asserts the illegality of such Lender determining or charging interest rates based upon the Eurocurrency Rate in Dollars, the Administrative Agent shall during the

 

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period of such suspension compute the Base Rate applicable to such Lender without reference to the Eurocurrency Rate component thereof until the Administrative Agent is advised in writing by such Lender that it is no longer illegal for such Lender to determine or charge interest rates based upon the Eurocurrency Rate. Upon any such prepayment or conversion, the Borrower shall also pay accrued interest on the amount so prepaid or converted and all amounts due, if any, in connection with such prepayment or conversion under Section 3.05. Each Lender agrees to designate a different Applicable Lending Office if such designation will avoid the need for any such notice and will not, in the good faith judgment of such Lender, otherwise be materially disadvantageous to such Lender.

(b) If any provision of this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents would obligate the Borrower to make any payment of interest with respect to any amount payable to the Administrative Agent in an amount or calculated at a rate that would be prohibited by any Law then, notwithstanding such provision, such amount or rates shall be deemed to have been adjusted with retroactive effect to the maximum amount or rate of interest, as the case may be, as would not be so prohibited by any applicable law or so result in a receipt by the Administrative Agent of any amount at a criminal rate, such adjustment to be effected, to the extent necessary, as follows:

(i) first, by reducing the amount or rates of interest required to be paid to the Administrative Agent under Section 2.08; and

(ii) thereafter, by reducing any fees, commissions, premiums and other amounts required to be paid to the Administrative Agent.

Section 3.03 Inability to Determine Rates.

Subject to Section 1.15, if in connection with any request for a Eurocurrency Rate Loan or a conversion to or continuation thereof, (a) the Administrative Agent determines that (i) Dollar deposits are not being offered to banks in the London interbank Eurocurrency market for the applicable amount and Interest Period of such Eurocurrency Rate Loan or (ii) adequate and reasonable means do not exist for determining the Eurocurrency Rate for any requested Interest Period with respect to a proposed Eurocurrency Rate Loan or in connection with an existing or proposed Base Rate Loan (in each case with respect to clause (a) above, “Impacted Loans”), or (b) the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders determine that for any reason the Eurocurrency Rate for any requested Interest Period with respect to a proposed Eurocurrency Rate Loan does not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders of funding such Eurocurrency Rate Loan, the Administrative Agent will promptly so notify the Borrower and each Lender. Thereafter, (x) the obligation of the Lenders to make or maintain Eurocurrency Rate Loans shall be suspended (to the extent of the affected Eurocurrency Rate Loans or Interest Periods, as applicable) and (y) in the event of a determination described in the preceding sentence with respect to the Eurocurrency Rate component of the Base Rate, the utilization of the Eurocurrency Rate component in determining the Base Rate shall be suspended, in each case until the Administrative Agent upon the instruction of the Required Lenders revokes such notice. Upon receipt of such notice, the Borrower may revoke any pending request for a Borrowing of, conversion to or continuation of Eurocurrency Rate Loans (to the extent of the affected Eurocurrency Rate Loans or Interest Periods) or, failing that, will be deemed to have (A) converted such request into a request for a Borrowing of Base Rate Loans in the amount specified therein or (B) converted such request into a request for a Borrowing in an alternative rate mutually acceptable to the Borrower and the applicable Lenders; provided, that if the Borrower and the applicable Lenders cannot agree within a reasonable time on an alternative rate for such Loans, the Borrower may, at its discretion, either (x) prepay such Loans (subject to any prepayment premium applicable at such time) or (y) maintain such Loans outstanding, in which case, the interest rate payable to the applicable Lender on such Loans will be the rate determined by the Required Lenders as its cost of

 

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funds to fund a Borrowing of such Loans with maturities comparable to the Interest Period applicable thereto (which shall not be less than zero) plus the Applicable Rate, in each case of the preceding clauses (A) and (B), such conversion shall be deemed to occur either on the last day of the Interest Period therefor, if such Lender may lawfully continue to maintain such Eurocurrency Rate Loans to such day, or immediately, if such Lender may not lawfully continue to maintain such Eurocurrency Rate Loans.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, if the Administrative Agent has made the determination described in clause (a) of the first sentence of this Section, the Administrative Agent, in consultation with the Borrower and the affected Lenders, may establish an alternative interest rate for the Impacted Loans, in which case, such alternative rate of interest shall apply with respect to the Impacted Loans until (1) the Administrative Agent revokes the notice delivered with respect to the Impacted Loans under clause (a) of the first sentence of this section, (2) the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders notify the Administrative Agent and the Borrower that such alternative interest rate does not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders of funding the Impacted Loans, or (3) any Lender determines that any Law has made it unlawful, or that any Governmental Authority has asserted that it is unlawful, for such Lender or its Applicable Lending Office to make, maintain or fund Loans whose interest is determined by reference to such alternative rate of interest or to determine or charge interest rates based upon such rate or any Governmental Authority has imposed material restrictions on the authority of such Lender to do any of the foregoing and provides the Administrative Agent and the Borrower written notice thereof.

Section 3.04 Increased Cost and Reduced Return; Capital Adequacy; Reserves on Eurocurrency Rate Loans.

(a) If any Lender determines that as a result of any Change in Law, or such Lender’s compliance therewith, there shall be any increase in the cost to such Lender of agreeing to make or making, funding or maintaining any Loan, or a reduction in the amount received or receivable by such Lender in connection with any of the foregoing (excluding for purposes of this Section 3.04(a) any such increased costs or reduction in amount resulting from (i) Indemnified Taxes or Other Taxes indemnifiable under Section 3.01, (ii) Excluded Taxes described in clauses (b) through (d) of the definition of “Excluded Taxes”, (iii) Connection Income Taxes or (iv) reserve requirements contemplated by Section 3.04(c)), then from time to time within fifteen (15) days after demand by such Lender setting forth in reasonable detail (provided, such Lender need not be required to disclose any price sensitive or confidential information or to the extent prohibited by law or regulation) such increased costs (with a copy of such demand to the Administrative Agent given in accordance with Section 3.06), the Borrower shall pay to such Lender such additional amounts as will compensate such Lender for such increased cost or reduction; provided, in the case of any Change in Law only applicable as a result of the proviso set forth in the definition thereof, such Lender will only be compensated for such amounts that would have otherwise been imposed under the applicable increased cost provisions and only to the extent the applicable Lender is imposing such charges on other similarly situated Borrower under comparable syndicated credit facilities.

(b) If any Lender determines that as a result of any Change in Law (regarding capital or liquidity requirements or any change therein or in the interpretation thereof, in each case after the date hereof, or compliance by such Lender (or its Applicable Lending Office) therewith), has the effect of reducing the rate of return on the capital of such Lender or any corporation controlling such Lender as a consequence of such Lender’s obligations hereunder (taking into consideration its policies with respect to capital or liquidity requirements and such Lender’s desired return on capital), then from time to time upon demand of such Lender setting forth in reasonable detail (provided, such Lender need not be required to disclose any price sensitive or confidential information or to the extent prohibited by law or regulation) the charge and the

 

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calculation of such reduced rate of return (with a copy of such demand to the Administrative Agent given in accordance with Section 3.06), the Borrower shall pay to such Lender such additional amounts as will compensate such Lender for such reduction within fifteen (15) Business Days after receipt of such demand.

(c) The Borrower shall pay to each Lender, (i) as long as such Lender shall be required to maintain reserves with respect to liabilities or assets consisting of or including Eurocurrency funds or deposits, additional interest on the unpaid principal amount of each Eurocurrency Rate Loan equal to the actual costs of such reserves allocated to such Loan by such Lender (as determined by such Lender in good faith, which determination shall be conclusive in the absence of demonstrable error), and (ii) as long as such Lender shall be required to comply with any reserve ratio requirement or analogous requirement of any other central banking or financial regulatory authority imposed in respect of the maintenance of the Commitments or the funding of the Eurocurrency Rate Loans such additional costs (expressed as a percentage per annum and rounded upwards, if necessary, to the nearest five decimal places) equal to the actual costs allocated to such Commitment or Loan by such Lender (as determined by such Lender in good faith, which determination shall be conclusive absent demonstrable error) which in each case shall be due and payable on each date on which interest is payable on such Loan; provided, the Borrower shall have received at least fifteen (15) Business Days’ prior notice (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) of such additional interest or cost from such Lender. If a Lender fails to give notice fifteen (15) Business Days prior to the relevant Interest Payment Date, such additional interest or cost shall be due and payable fifteen (15) days after receipt of such notice.

(d) Subject to Section 3.06(b), failure or delay on the part of any Lender to demand compensation pursuant to this Section 3.04 shall not constitute a waiver of such Lender’s right to demand such compensation.

(e) If any Lender requests compensation under this Section 3.04, then such Lender will, if requested by the Borrower, use commercially reasonable efforts (subject to overall policy considerations of such Lender) to designate another Applicable Lending Office for any Loan affected by such event; provided, such efforts are made on terms that, in the reasonable judgment of such Lender, cause such Lender and its Applicable Lending Office(s) to suffer no material economic, legal or regulatory disadvantage; and provided, further, that nothing in this Section 3.04(e) shall affect or postpone any of the Obligations of the Borrower or the rights of such Lender pursuant to Section 3.04(a), (b), (c) or (d).

Section 3.05 Funding Losses. Upon demand of any Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) from time to time, the Borrower shall promptly compensate such Lender for and hold such Lender harmless from any loss, cost or expense incurred by it as a result of:

(a) any continuation, conversion, payment or prepayment of any Eurocurrency Rate Loan on a day other than the last day of the Interest Period for such Loan; or

(b) any failure by the Borrower (for a reason other than the failure of such Lender to make a Loan) to prepay, borrow, continue or convert any Loan (other than a Base Rate Loan) on the date or in the amount notified by the Borrower;

including any loss or expense (excluding loss of anticipated profits or margin) actually arising from the liquidation or reemployment of funds obtained by it to maintain such Loan or from fees payable to terminate the deposits from which such funds were obtained.

 

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For purposes of calculating amounts payable by the Borrower to the Lenders under this Section 3.05, each Lender shall be deemed to have funded each Eurocurrency Rate Loan made by it at the Eurocurrency Rate for such Loan by a matching deposit or other borrowing in the London interbank eurodollar market for a comparable amount and for a comparable period, whether or not such Eurocurrency Rate Loan was in fact so funded.

Section 3.06 Matters Applicable to All Requests for Compensation.

(a) Any Agent or any Lender claiming compensation under this Article III shall deliver a certificate to the Borrower setting forth the additional amount or amounts to be paid to it hereunder which shall be conclusive in the absence of demonstrable error. In determining such amount, such Agent or such Lender may use any reasonable averaging and attribution methods.

(b) With respect to any Lender’s claim for compensation under Section 3.02, Section 3.03 or Section 3.04, the Borrower shall not be required to compensate such Lender for any amount incurred more than one hundred eighty (180) days prior to the date that such Lender notifies the Borrower of the event that gives rise to such claim; provided, if the circumstance giving rise to such claim is retroactive, then such 180-day period referred to above shall be extended to include the period of retroactive effect thereof. If any Lender requests compensation by the Borrower under Section 3.04, the Borrower may, by notice to such Lender (with a copy to the Administrative Agent), suspend the obligation of such Lender to make or continue Eurocurrency Rate Loans from one Interest Period to another, or to convert Base Rate Loans into Eurocurrency Rate Loans, until the event or condition giving rise to such request ceases to be in effect (in which case the provisions of Section 3.06(c) shall be applicable); provided, such suspension shall not affect the right of such Lender to receive the compensation so requested.

(c) If the obligation of any Lender to make or continue any Eurocurrency Rate Loan, from one Interest Period to another, or to convert Base Rate Loans into Eurocurrency Rate Loans shall be suspended pursuant to Section 3.06(b) hereof, such Lender’s Eurocurrency Rate Loans shall be automatically converted into Base Rate Loans on the last day(s) of the then current Interest Period(s) for such Eurocurrency Rate Loans (or, in the case of an immediate conversion required by Section 3.02, on such earlier date as required by Law) and, unless and until such Lender gives notice as provided below that the circumstances specified in Section 3.02, Section 3.03 or Section 3.04 hereof that gave rise to such conversion no longer exist:

(i) to the extent that such Lender’s Eurocurrency Rate Loans have been so converted, all payments and prepayments of principal that would otherwise be applied to such Lender’s Eurocurrency Rate Loans shall be applied instead to its Base Rate Loans; and

(ii) all Loans that would otherwise be made or continued from one Interest Period to another by such Lender as Eurocurrency Rate Loans shall be made or continued instead as Base Rate Loans, and all Base Rate Loans of such Lender that would otherwise be converted into Eurocurrency Rate Loans shall remain as Base Rate Loans.

(d) If any Lender gives notice to the Borrower (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) that the circumstances specified in Section 3.02, Section 3.03 or Section 3.04 hereof that gave rise to the conversion of such Lender’s Eurocurrency Rate Loans pursuant to this Section 3.06 no longer exist (which such Lender agrees to do promptly upon such circumstances ceasing to exist) at a time when Eurocurrency Rate Loans made by other Lenders are outstanding, such Lender’s Base Rate Loans shall be automatically converted to Eurocurrency Rate Loans, on

 

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the first day(s) of the next succeeding Interest Period(s) for such outstanding Eurocurrency Rate Loans, to the extent necessary so that, after giving effect thereto, all Loans held by the Lenders holding Eurocurrency Rate Loans and by such Lender are held pro rata (as to principal amounts, interest rate basis, and Interest Periods) in accordance with their respective Commitments.

Section 3.07 Replacement of Lenders under Certain Circumstances.

(a) If at any time (i) any Lender receives additional amounts or requests reimbursement for amounts owing pursuant to Section 3.01 or Section 3.04 as a result of any condition described in such Sections or any Lender ceases to make Eurocurrency Rate Loans as a result of any condition described in Section 3.02 or Section 3.04, (ii) any Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender or (iii) any Lender becomes a Non-Consenting Lender, then the Borrower may, on prior written notice to the Administrative Agent and such Lender, replace such Lender by requiring such Lender to (and such Lender shall be obligated to) assign pursuant to Section 10.07(b) (with the assignment fee to be paid by the Borrower in such instance) all of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (or, with respect to clause (iii) above, all of its rights and obligations with respect to the Class of Loans or Commitments that is the subject of the related consent, waiver or amendment) to one or more Eligible Assignees; provided, neither the Administrative Agent nor any Lender shall have any obligation to the Borrower to find a replacement Lender or other such Person; and provided, further, (A) in the case of any such assignment resulting from a claim for compensation under Section 3.04 or payments required to be made pursuant to Section 3.01, such assignment will result in a reduction in such compensation or payments and (B) in the case of any such assignment resulting from a Lender becoming a Non-Consenting Lender, (x) the applicable Eligible Assignees shall have agreed to the applicable departure, waiver or amendment of the Loan Documents, (y) the requisite number of lenders (including for the purposes of this calculation, the Eligible Assignees) required for such departure, waiver or amendment shall have consented and (z) the Borrower shall pay such replaced Lender all amounts due pursuant to Section 2.05(a)(i), if applicable.

(b) Any Lender being replaced pursuant to Section 3.07(a) above shall (i) execute and deliver an Assignment and Assumption with respect to such Lender’s Commitment and outstanding Loans, as applicable (provided, the failure of any such Lender to execute an Assignment and Assumption shall not render such assignment invalid and such assignment shall be recorded in the Register) and (ii) deliver Notes, if any, evidencing such Loans to the Borrower or Administrative Agent. Pursuant to such Assignment and Assumption, (A) the assignee Lender shall acquire all or a portion, as the case may be, of the assigning Lender’s Commitments and outstanding Loans, as applicable, (B) all obligations of the Loan Parties owing to the assigning Lender relating to the Loan Documents and participations so assigned shall be paid in full by the assignee Lender or the Loan Parties (as applicable) to such assigning Lender concurrently with such assignment and assumption, any amounts owing to the assigning Lender (other than a Defaulting Lender) under Section 3.05 as a consequence of such assignment shall have been paid by the Borrower to the assigning Lender and (C) upon such payment and, if so requested by the assignee Lender, the assignor Lender shall deliver to the assignee Lender the appropriate Note or Notes executed by the Borrower, the assignee Lender shall become a Lender hereunder and the assigning Lender shall cease to constitute a Lender hereunder with respect to such assigned Loans, Commitments and participations, except with respect to indemnification provisions under this Agreement, which shall survive as to such assigning Lender.

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(d) In the event that the Borrower or the Administrative Agent have requested that the Lenders (A) consent to an extension of the Maturity Date of any Class of the Loans or Commitments as permitted by Section 2.15, (B) a consent to a refinancing of any Class of Loans or Commitments permitted by Section 2.18, (C) [reserved], or (D) (i) consent to a departure or waiver of any provisions of the Loan Documents, (ii) such consent, waiver or amendment in question requires the agreement of all affected Lenders (or any other amount in excess of 50.1%) in accordance with the terms of Section 10.01 or all the Lenders with respect to a certain Class of the Loans and (iii) the Required Lenders have agreed to such consent, waiver or amendment, in each case, then any Lender who does not agree to such consent, waiver or amendment shall be deemed a “Non-Consenting Lender.”

Section 3.08 Survival. All of the Borrowers obligations under this Article III shall survive termination of the Aggregate Commitments and repayment of all other Obligations hereunder, termination of the Loan Documents and any assignment of rights by or replacement of a Lender.

ARTICLE IV

Conditions Precedent to Credit Extensions

Section 4.01 Closing Date. The agreement of each Lender to make Credit Extensions on the Closing Date is subject solely to the satisfaction or waiver by the Initial Investor prior to or concurrently with the making of the Credit Extensions on the Closing Date, of the following conditions precedent:

 

  (a)

The Administrative Agent and the Initial Investor shall have received this Agreement, the Intercreditor Agreement, the Security Agreements listed on Schedule 1.01B and the Guaranty, in each case, dated as of the Closing Date, duly executed and delivered by a Responsible Officer of each of the Loan Parties party thereto.

 

  (b)

The Administrative Agent and the Initial Investor shall have received a Committed Loan Notice in accordance with Section 2.02 (at least five (5) Business Days prior to the Closing Date or such shorter period as the Initial Investor may agree).

 

  (c)

The Borrower shall have confirmed pursuant to clause (n) below to the Administrative Agent and the Initial Investor that the following transactions have been consummated or will be consummated substantially concurrently with the initial Credit Extensions:

 

  i.

The Closing Date Acquisition (which shall have been consummated (or will be consummated substantially concurrently with the initial Credit Extensions on the Closing Date) in all material respects in accordance with the terms of the Acquisition Agreement, without giving effect to any modifications, amendments, consents or waivers thereto, other than those modifications, amendments, waivers or consents by the Borrower that are not materially adverse to the interest of the Lenders in their capacities as such, unless consented to by the Initial Investor in writing (in each case, such consent not to be unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned) provided that (a) any reduction or reductions in the total purchase price under the Acquisition Agreement of less than 15% in the aggregate will be deemed not to be materially adverse to the Lenders, (b) any reduction or reductions in the total purchase price under the Acquisition Agreement of equal to or greater than 15% in the aggregate will be deemed not to be materially adverse to the Lenders so long as any such reduction in excess thereof is allocated (i) 50%, to reduce the amount of the Equity Contribution to the extent it exceeds the required amount set forth in the definition thereof and (ii) 50% to reduce the amount of the First Lien Term Loans and (c) any amendment, modification or waiver to the definition of “Material Adverse Effect” in the Acquisition Agreement shall be deemed materially adverse to the interests of the Lenders);

 

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the Equity Contribution; and

 

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the Closing Date Acquisition Guarantee and Lien Release.

 

  (d)

The Administrative Agent and Initial Investor shall have received, (i) the Unaudited Financial Statements, (ii) the Audited Financial Statements and (iii) a pro forma consolidated balance sheet and related pro forma consolidated income statement of Holdings and its Subsidiaries (based on the Audited Financial Statements and the Unaudited Financial Statements) as of and for the twelve-month period ending on the last day of the most recently completed four-fiscal quarter period for which financial statements have been delivered to satisfy the condition set forth in the preceding clause 4.01(d)(i) or (ii), in each case, prepared after giving effect to the Transactions as if the Transactions had occurred as of such date (in the case of such balance sheet) or at the beginning of such period (in the case of such income statement), it being understood that any purchase accounting adjustments may be preliminary in nature and be based only on estimate determined by Holdings (the financial statements described in this clause 4.01(d)(iii), the “Pro Forma Financial Statements”); provided, that no financial statements or Pro Forma Financial Statements required to be delivered pursuant to this Section 4.01(d) will be required to (x) be prepared in compliance with Regulation S-X of the Securities Act or (y) include adjustments for purchase accounting (including adjustments of the type contemplated by Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Codification 805, Business Combinations (formerly SFAS 141R)).

 

  (e)

The Borrower shall have paid all closing payments and other amounts (a) required to be paid pursuant to the Fee and Closing Payment Letter, (b) required to be paid on the Closing Date pursuant to the Administrative Agent Fee Letter and (c) reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses required to be paid on the Closing Date pursuant to the Commitment Letter, to the extent invoiced in reasonable detail at least two (2) Business Days prior to the Closing Date.

 

  (f)

The Administrative Agent and the Initial Investor shall have received a solvency certificate from the chief financial officer of Holdings substantially in the form attached hereto as Exhibit L, or, at the Borrower’s option, a solvency opinion from an independent investment bank or valuation firm of nationally recognized standing, with respect to solvency on the Closing Date on a consolidated basis after giving effect to the Transactions and the other transactions contemplated hereby.

 

  (g)

The Administrative Agent and the Initial Investor shall have received a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the applicable Loan Parties dated the Closing Date and certifying:

 

  i.

that attached thereto is (x) a true and complete copy of the charter or other similar organizational document of such Loan Party, and each amendment thereto, certified (as of a date reasonably near the Closing Date) as being a true and correct copy thereof by the Secretary of State or other applicable Governmental Authority of the jurisdiction in which such Loan Party is organized and (y) a true and complete copy of the bylaws, operating agreement, partnership agreement or other similar organizational document of such Loan Party, and each amendment thereto;

 

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  ii.

that attached thereto is a true and complete copy of resolutions of such Loan Party authorizing the execution, delivery and performance of the Loan Documents to which it is a party or any other document delivered in connection herewith on the Closing Date and certifying that such resolutions have not been modified, rescinded or amended and are in full force and effect; and

 

  iii.

as to the incumbency and specimen signature of each Responsible Officer executing the Loan Documents specified in Section 4.01(a) (together with a certificate of another officer as to the incumbency and specimen signature of the Responsible Officer executing the certificate pursuant to this Section 4.01(g)).

 

  (h)

The Administrative Agent and the Initial Investor shall have received reasonably satisfactory customary legal opinions of (i) DLA Piper LLP (US), New York, California, Delaware and Florida counsel to the Loan Parties and (ii) Higgs & Johnson, Bahamian counsel to the Loan Parties.

 

  (i)

The Collateral Agent shall have received the certificates representing the Equity Interests (if such Equity Interests are certificated) of the Borrower, together with an undated stock power for such certificate executed in blank by a duly authorized officer of the pledgor thereof.

 

  (j)

The Administrative Agent and the Initial Investor shall have received a good standing certificate (to the extent such concept is known in the relevant jurisdiction) from the applicable Governmental Authority of the Borrower’s and the Guarantors’ respective jurisdiction of organization dated a recent date prior to the Closing Date, which such good standing certificate shall be attached to the certificate delivered pursuant to Section 4.01(g).

 

  (k)

Since the date of Acquisition Agreement, there shall have been no Material Adverse Effect (as defined in the Acquisition Agreement).

 

  (l)

All documentation and other information required by regulatory authorities under (i) applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including without limitation the USA PATRIOT Act, to include a duly executed IRS Form W-9 or such other applicable IRS Form and (ii) the Beneficial Owner Regulation shall have been provided not later than the date that is three (3) Business Days prior to the Closing Date in the case of clause (i) and five (5) Business Days prior to the Closing Date in the case of clause (ii), in each case, as has been reasonably requested in writing by the Administrative Agent and the Initial Investor at least ten (10) Business Days prior to the Closing Date.

 

  (m)

The Administrative Agent and the Initial Investor shall have received:

 

  i.

certificates, if any, representing the Equity Interests, to the extent received by Holdings after the SPAC’s use of commercially reasonable efforts to receive such certificates without undue burden or expense, of each wholly owned U.S. Subsidiary to the extent required to be pledged pursuant to the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement, accompanied by undated stock powers executed in blank (or stock transfer forms, as applicable) and instruments evidencing any pledged debt set out in the Security Agreements (accompanied by allonges or other instrument of transfer, as applicable),

 

  ii.

copies of proper financing statements (or the equivalent thereof), filed or duly prepared for filing under the Uniform Commercial Code (or the equivalent thereof) in all United States jurisdictions or Covered Jurisdictions that the Administrative Agent may deem reasonably necessary in order to perfect and protect the Liens on assets of Holdings, the Borrower and each Subsidiary Guarantor created under the Security Agreements listed on Schedule 1.01B, covering the Collateral described in such Security Agreements, and

 

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  iii.

evidence that all other actions, recordings and filings of or with respect to the Security Agreement that the Administrative Agent may deem reasonably necessary or desirable in order to perfect and protect the Liens created thereby (subject to the exceptions set forth in the definition of “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement”) or in the case of an exempted company, as may be required by Law to record the granting of such Liens, shall have been taken, completed or otherwise provided for in a manner reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (including receipt of duly executed payoff letters, customary lien searches, and copies of an exempted company’s register of mortgages and charges).

 

  (n)

The Administrative Agent and the Initial Investor shall have received a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Borrower dated as of the Closing Date and certifying as to the matters set forth in Sections 4.01(c) and (k) above and (o) below.

 

  (o)

The Specified Acquisition Agreement Representations and Specified Representations will be true and correct in all material respects (or, if qualified by materiality, in all respects).

 

  (p)

(i) Prior to, or substantially concurrently with the funding of the Initial Term B Loans borrowed on the Closing Date, the Borrower shall have received the net cash proceeds of the First Lien Term Loans and (ii) the Borrower shall have delivered to Administrative Agent an executed copy of the First Lien Loan Documents to be entered into on the Closing Date.

 

  (q)

On the Closing Date, Holdings and its Subsidiaries shall have (i) repaid in full all existing third party debt (except as otherwise permitted to be incurred or outstanding hereunder and under any other Loan Documents), (ii) terminated any commitments to lend or make other extensions of credit thereunder, (iii) delivered to Administrative Agent customary payoff documentation (including lien releases, UCC-3 termination statements and other customary documentation) necessary to release all Liens securing existing Indebtedness or other obligations of Holdings and its Subsidiaries thereunder being repaid on the Closing Date, and (iv) made arrangements satisfactory to Administrative Agent and Arranger with respect to the cancellation of any letters of credit outstanding thereunder or the issuance of Letters of Credit (pursuant to and as defined in the First Lien Credit Agreement) to support the obligations of Holdings and its Subsidiaries with respect thereto.

There are no conditions, implied or otherwise, to the making of Credit Extensions on the Closing Date other than as set forth in the preceding clauses (a) through (q) and upon satisfaction or waiver by the Initial Investor of such conditions the Credit Extensions will be made by the Lenders.

ARTICLE V

Representations and Warranties

Holdings and the Borrower represent and warrant to the Agents and the Lenders that:

Section 5.01 Existence, Qualification and Power; Compliance with Laws. Each Loan Party and each other Restricted Subsidiary (a) is a Person duly incorporated, organized or formed, and validly existing and, where applicable, in good standing under the Laws of the jurisdiction of its

 

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incorporation or organization, (b) has all requisite power and authority to (i) own or lease its assets and carry on its business as currently conducted and (ii) execute, deliver and perform its obligations under the Loan Documents to which it is a party, (c) is duly qualified and, where applicable, in good standing under the Laws of each jurisdiction where its ownership, lease or operation of properties or the conduct of its business requires such qualification, (d) is in compliance with all Laws, orders, writs, injunctions and orders and (e) has all requisite governmental licenses, authorizations, consents and approvals to operate its business as currently conducted; except in each case referred to in clause (b)(i), (c), (d) or (e), to the extent that failure to do so could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

Section 5.02 Authorization; No Contravention. The execution, delivery and performance by each Loan Party of each Loan Document to which such Person is a party, and the consummation of the Transactions are within such Loan Party’s corporate or other powers, have been duly authorized by all necessary corporate or other organizational action, and do not and will not (a) contravene the terms of any of such Person’s Organization Documents, (b) conflict with or result in any breach or contravention of, or the creation of any Lien under (other than under the Loan Documents), or require any payment to be made under (i) any material Contractual Obligation to which such Person is a party or affecting such Person or the properties of such Person or any of its Subsidiaries or (ii) any material order, injunction, writ or decree of any Governmental Authority or any arbitral award to which such Person or its property is subject; or (c) violate any Law; except with respect to any conflict, breach or contravention or payment (but not creation of Liens) referred to in clause (b)(i) or violation referred to in clause (c), to the extent that such conflict, breach, contravention, payment or violation could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

Section 5.03 Governmental Authorization; Other Consents. No approval, consent, exemption, authorization, or other action by, or notice to, or filing with, any Governmental Authority or any other Person is necessary or required in connection with (a) the execution, delivery or performance by, or enforcement against, any Loan Party of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or for the consummation of the Transactions, (b) the grant by any Loan Party of the Liens granted by it pursuant to the Collateral Documents, (c) the perfection or maintenance of the Liens created under the Collateral Documents (including the priority thereof) or (d) the exercise by the Administrative Agent or any Lender of its rights under the Loan Documents or the remedies in respect of the Collateral pursuant to the Collateral Documents, except for (i) filings necessary to create and perfect the Liens on the Collateral granted by the Loan Parties in favor of the Secured Parties, (ii) the approvals, consents, exemptions, authorizations, actions, notices and filings which have been duly obtained, taken, given or made and are in full force and effect and (iii) those approvals, consents, exemptions, authorizations or other actions, notices or filings, the failure of which to obtain or make could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

Section 5.04 Binding Effect. This Agreement and each other Loan Document has been duly executed and delivered by each Loan Party that is party thereto. This Agreement and each other Loan Document constitutes a legal, valid and binding obligation of such Loan Party, enforceable against each Loan Party that is party thereto in accordance with its terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by Debtor Relief Laws or other Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity and principles of good faith and fair dealing (regardless of whether enforcement is sought in equity or at law).

 

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Section 5.05 Financial Statements; No Material Adverse Effect.

(a) (i) The Audited Financial Statements and Unaudited Financial Statements fairly present in all material respects the financial condition of Holdings and its Subsidiaries as of the dates thereof on a consolidated basis, and the results of operations for the period covered thereby in accordance with GAAP consistently applied throughout the periods covered thereby, except as otherwise disclosed to the Administrative Agent and the Initial Investor prior to the Closing Date; provided, that no audited financial statements shall be required to (x) be prepared in compliance with Regulation S-X of the Securities Act or (y) include adjustments for purchase accounting (including adjustments of the type contemplated by Financial Accounting Standards Board Accounting Standards Codification 805, Business Combinations (formerly SFAS 141R)).

(ii) The Pro Forma Financial Statements, copies of which have heretofore been furnished to the Administrative Agent, have been prepared giving effect (as if such events had occurred on such date or at the beginning of such periods, as the case may be) to the Transactions. The Pro Forma Financial Statements have been prepared in good faith, based on assumptions believed by Holdings to be reasonable as of the date of delivery thereof, and present fairly in all material respects on a pro forma basis the estimated financial position of Holdings and its Subsidiaries as at September 30, 2018 and their estimated results of operations for the periods covered thereby, assuming that the events specified in the preceding sentence had actually occurred at such date or at the beginning of the periods covered thereby.

(b) Since the Closing Date, there has been no event or circumstance, either individually or in the aggregate, that has had or could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

Each Lender and the Administrative Agent hereby acknowledges and agrees that Holdings and its Subsidiaries may be required to restate historical financial statements as the result of changes in GAAP or IFRS, or the respective interpretation thereof, and that such restatements will not result in a Default under the Loan Documents.

Section 5.06 Litigation. Except as set forth on Schedule 5.06 or any amendment thereto, there are no actions, suits, proceedings, claims or disputes pending or, to the knowledge of Holdings, threatened in writing or contemplated, at law, in equity, in arbitration or before any Governmental Authority, by or against Holdings, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary or against any of their properties or revenues that either individually or in the aggregate, could reasonably be expected, if adversely determined, to have a Material Adverse Effect.

Section 5.07 Ownership of Property; Liens; Insurance. Each Loan Party and each of its Restricted Subsidiaries has good and insurable title in fee simple to, or valid leasehold interests in, or easements or other limited property interests in, all property necessary in the ordinary conduct of its business, free and clear of all Liens except for minor defects in title that do not materially interfere with its ability to conduct its business or to utilize such assets for their intended purposes, Liens permitted under the Loan Documents and any Liens and privileges arising mandatorily by Law and except where the failure to have such title or other interest could not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect. The properties of Holdings and each of the Restricted Subsidiaries are insured with financially sound and reputable insurance companies, in such amounts, with such deductible and covering such risks as are customarily carried by companies engaged in similar businesses and owning or leasing similar properties in localities where the applicable Person operates.

 

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Section 5.08 Environmental Compliance. Except as could not reasonably be expected to have, individually or in the aggregate, a Material Adverse Effect:

(a) there are no pending or, to the knowledge of Holdings, threatened claims, actions, suits, notices of violation, notices of potential responsibility or proceedings by or against Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary with respect to any actual or alleged Environmental Liability or responsibility for violation of, or otherwise relating to, any applicable Environmental Law;

(b) there has been no Release of Hazardous Materials by any of the Loan Parties or any other Restricted Subsidiary at, on, under or from any location in a manner which would reasonably be expected to give rise to any Environmental Liability;

(c) neither Holdings nor any Restricted Subsidiary is undertaking, or has completed, either individually or together with other persons, any investigation or remedial action relating to any actual or threatened Release of Hazardous Materials at any location, either voluntarily or pursuant to the order of any Governmental Authority or the requirements of any applicable Environmental Law;

(d) all Hazardous Materials transported from any property currently or, to the knowledge of the Borrower or its Restricted Subsidiaries, formerly owned or operated by any Loan Party or any other Subsidiary for off-site disposal have been disposed of in compliance with Environmental Law;

(e) none of the Loan Parties nor any other Restricted Subsidiary has contractually assumed any Environmental Liability or obligation under or relating to any applicable Environmental Law; and

(f) the Loan Parties and each other Restricted Subsidiary and their respective businesses, operations and properties are, and since January 1, 2016, have been in compliance with all applicable Environmental Laws.

Section 5.09 Taxes. The Loan Parties and each Restricted Subsidiary have timely filed all federal, provincial, state, municipal, foreign and other Tax returns and reports required to be filed, and have timely paid all federal, provincial, state, municipal, foreign and other Taxes or stamp duties levied or imposed upon them or their properties, income or assets otherwise due and payable, except those which are being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted and for which adequate reserves have been provided in accordance with GAAP and, except for failures to file or pay as could not, either individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect. The Borrower is a disregarded entity of Holdings for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

Section 5.10 Compliance with ERISA.

(a) Except as could not, either individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, each Plan and Foreign Plan is in compliance with the applicable provisions of ERISA, the Code and other federal or state Laws and applicable foreign laws, respectively.

(b) (i) No ERISA Event has occurred or is reasonably expected to occur; (ii) neither any Loan Party nor any ERISA Affiliate has incurred, or reasonably expects to incur, any liability (and no event has occurred which, with the giving of notice under Section 4219 of ERISA, would result in such liability) under Section 4201 et seq. or 4243 of ERISA with respect to a Multiemployer Plan; and (iii) neither any Loan Party nor any ERISA Affiliate has engaged in a transaction that could reasonably be expected to be subject to Section 4069 or 4212(c) of ERISA, except, with respect to each of the foregoing clauses (i) through (iii) of this Section 5.10, as could not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

 

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Section 5.11 Labor Matters. Neither Holdings nor any of its Subsidiaries is engaged in any unfair labor practice that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect. There is (a) no unfair labor practice complaint pending against Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries, or to the best knowledge of Holdings and Borrower, threatened against any of them before the National Labor Relations Board and no grievance or arbitration proceeding arising out of or under any collective bargaining agreement that is so pending against Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries or to the best knowledge of Holdings and Borrower, threatened against any of them, (b) no strike or work stoppage in existence or threatened involving Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries, and (c) to the best knowledge of Holdings and Borrower, no union representation question existing with respect to the employees of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries and, to the best knowledge of Holdings and Borrower, no union organization activity that is taking place, except (with respect to any matter specified in clause (a), (b) or (c) above, either individually or in the aggregate) such as is not reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.

Section 5.12 Subsidiaries; Equity Interests. As of the Closing Date, neither Holdings nor any other Loan Party has any Subsidiaries other than those specifically disclosed in Schedule 5.12, and all of the outstanding Equity Interests in the Borrower and each of Holdings’ other Subsidiaries have been validly issued, are fully paid and non-assessable (other than pledged equity consisting of limited liability company interests or partnership interests which, pursuant to the relevant organizational or formation documents, cannot be fully paid and non-assessable) and, on the Closing Date, all Equity Interests owned directly or indirectly by Holdings or any other Loan Party are owned free and clear of all Liens except (i) those created under the Collateral Documents, (ii) those Liens permitted under Sections 7.01(c), (p), (y) (solely with respect to modifications, replacements, renewals or extensions of Liens permitted by Sections 7.01(c) and (p)) and (ii) and (iii) any nonconsensual Lien that is permitted under Section 7.01. As of the Closing Date, Schedule 5.12 together with any amendment thereto sets forth the name and jurisdiction of organization or incorporation of each Subsidiary, (b) sets forth the ownership interest of Holdings, the Borrower and any of their Subsidiaries in each of their Subsidiaries, including the percentage of such ownership and (c) identifies each Person the Equity Interests of which are required to be pledged on the Closing Date pursuant to the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement.

Section 5.13 Margin Regulations; Investment Company Act.

(a) No Loan Party is engaged nor will it engage, principally or as one of its important activities, in the business of purchasing or carrying margin stock (within the meaning of Regulation U issued by the FRB), or extending credit for the purpose of purchasing or carrying margin stock, and no proceeds of any Borrowings will be used to purchase or carry margin stock within the meaning of Regulation U issued by the FRB or for any purpose that violates Regulation U or Regulation X of the FRB.

(b) Neither the Borrower nor any Loan Party is or is required to be registered as an “investment company” under the Investment Company Act of 1940, as amended.

Section 5.14 Disclosure. No report, financial statement, certificate or other written information furnished by or on behalf of any Loan Party to any Agent or any Lender in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby and the negotiation of this Agreement or delivered hereunder or any other Loan Document (as modified or supplemented by other information so furnished) when taken as a whole contains when furnished any material misstatement of fact or omits to state any material fact

 

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necessary to make the statements therein, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not materially misleading; provided, with respect to projected financial information, Holdings represents only that such information was prepared in good faith based upon assumptions believed to be reasonable at the time of preparation; it being understood that such projections may vary from actual results and that such variances may be material.

Section 5.15 Intellectual Property; Licenses, Etc. Each of the Loan Parties and the other Restricted Subsidiaries own, license or possess the right to use, all of the trademarks, service marks, trade names, domain names, copyrights, patents, patent rights, trade secrets and other intellectual property rights that are reasonably necessary for the operation of their respective businesses as currently conducted (collectively, IP Rights), and, to the knowledge of the Borrower, without infringement or violation of the rights of any Person. No claim or litigation regarding any such IP Rights, is pending or, to the knowledge of the Borrower, threatened against any Loan Party or Subsidiary.

Section 5.16 Solvency. On the Closing Date, after giving effect to the Transactions, Holdings and its Subsidiaries, on a consolidated basis, are Solvent.

Section 5.17 Collateral Documents. The Collateral Documents are effective to create in favor of the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties legal, valid and enforceable second priority (to the extent such concept exists under applicable Law) Liens (subject to Liens permitted under the Loan Documents and any Liens and privileges arising mandatorily by Law) on, and security interests in, the Collateral (except as such enforceability may be limited by Debtor Relief Laws or other Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity and principles of good faith and fair dealing (regardless of whether enforcement is sought in equity or at law); and, (i) when all appropriate filings or recordings are made in the appropriate offices as may be required under applicable Laws (which filings or recordings shall be made to the extent required by any Collateral Document) and (ii) upon the taking of possession or control by the Collateral Agent of such Collateral with respect to which a security interest may be perfected only by possession or control (which possession or control shall be given to the Collateral Agent to the extent required by any Collateral Document), such Collateral Document will constitute fully perfected Liens on, and security interests in, all right, title and interest of the Loan Parties in such Collateral, in each case subject to no Liens other than the applicable Liens permitted under the Loan Documents and any Liens and privileges arising mandatorily by Law. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, until the Discharge of Senior Lien Obligations (as defined in the Intercreditor Agreement) shall have occurred, any representation or warranty made in this Agreement with respect to delivery to the Administrative Agent of any Collateral, the security interest in which may be perfected only by possession or control, shall be deemed satisfied by the delivery and possession or control of such Collateral to the First Lien Agent as bailee for the Secured Parties.

Section 5.18 Patriot Act; Anti-Money Laundering Laws.

(a) To the extent applicable, each of Holdings and each of its Subsidiaries is in compliance, in all material respects, with the USA Patriot Act.

(b) Each of Holdings, the Borrower and their Subsidiaries is in compliance, in all material respects, with applicable anti-money laundering laws and regulations, including, but not limited to, the Bank Secrecy Act, as amended by Title III of the USA PATRIOT Act (collectively, the “Anti-Money Laundering Laws”).

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Section 5.19 Anti-Corruption Laws. None of Holdings, the Borrower or any other Subsidiary of Holdings or any of the respective directors, officers, or to the knowledge of Holdings or the Borrower, employees, agents or Affiliates of any of the foregoing has taken, directly or indirectly, any action that would constitute or give rise to a violation of applicable Anti-Corruption Laws. The Borrower will not use, directly or indirectly, any part of the proceeds of any Credit Extension in furtherance of an offer, payment, promise to pay, or authorization of the payment or giving of money, or anything else of value, to any Person in violation of Anti-Corruption Laws and have instituted and maintained policies and procedures designed to promote and achieve compliance with such Laws.

Section 5.20 Sanctioned Persons. None of Holdings, the Borrower or any other Subsidiaries of Holdings or any of the respective directors, officers, or to the knowledge of Holdings or the Borrower, employees, agents or Affiliates of any of the foregoing is the subject or target of any economic or financial sanctions administered by the United States (including those administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Treasury Department (“OFAC”) or the U.S. Department of State), the European Union and each of its member states, the United Nations Security Council, the United Kingdom (including those administered by the Office of Financial Sanctions Implementation of Her Majesty’s Treasury) or any other relevant national or supra-national governmental authority that administers economic or financial sanctions applicable to Holdings and its Subsidiaries (collectively, “Sanctions); and the Borrower will not use, directly or indirectly, any part of the proceeds of any Credit Extension or otherwise make available such proceeds to any Person, for the purpose of financing activities of or with any Person that, at the time of such financing, is the subject or target of any Sanctions in violation of Sanctions, or in any manner that would constitute or give rise to a violation of Sanctions by any party hereto, including any Lender.

Section 5.21 Use of Proceeds. The Borrower will use the proceeds of any Credit Extension in accordance with Section 6.11.

Section 5.22 Classification as Priority Lien Obligations; etc.. The Obligations constitute “Junior Lien Obligations” under and as defined in the Intercreditor Agreement and the subordination provisions set forth in the Intercreditor Agreement are legally valid and enforceable against the parties thereto, except as enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency, reorganization, moratorium or other similar laws affecting creditor’s rights generally. Except for the Obligations there are no other “Junior Lien Obligations”. Except for the Collateral Agent, there is no, and there shall not at any time be any, other “Initial Junior Lien Collateral Agent” under and as defined in the Intercreditor Agreement. The Collateral Agent is the “Initial Junior Lien Collateral Agent” under the Intercreditor Agreement.

Section 5.23 Material Contracts. Schedule 1.01D contains a true, correct and complete list of all the Material Contracts in effect on the Closing Date, and except as described thereon, all such Material Contracts are in full force and effect and no defaults currently exist thereunder.

ARTICLE VI

Affirmative Covenants

So long as any Lender shall have any Commitment hereunder or any Loan or other Obligation hereunder which is accrued and payable shall remain unpaid or unsatisfied, Holdings and the Borrower shall, and shall (except in the case of the covenants set forth in Section 6.01, Section 6.02 and Section 6.03) cause each Restricted Subsidiary to:

 

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Section 6.01 Financial Statements. Deliver to the Administrative Agent for prompt further distribution to each Lender:

(a) as soon as available, but in any event within ninety (90) days after the end of each fiscal year of Holdings, a consolidated balance sheet of Holdings and its Subsidiaries as at the end of such fiscal year, and the related consolidated statements of income or operations, stockholders’ equity and cash flows for such fiscal year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the previous fiscal year, all in reasonable detail and prepared in accordance with GAAP, accompanied by customary management discussion and analysis, audited and accompanied by a report and opinion of an independent registered public accounting firm of nationally recognized standing, which report and opinion shall be prepared in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards and shall not be subject to any “going concern” or like qualification or exception (other than solely with respect to, or resulting solely from (i) an upcoming maturity date under any indebtedness occurring within one year from the time such opinion is delivered or (ii) any potential inability to satisfy any financial maintenance covenant on a future date or in a future period) or any qualification or exception as to the scope of such audit;

(b) as soon as available, but in any event, within forty-five (45) days after the end of each of the first three (3) fiscal quarters of each fiscal year of Holdings commencing with the first fiscal quarter ending after the Closing Date, a consolidated balance sheet of Holdings and its Subsidiaries as at the end of such fiscal quarter, and the related (i) consolidated statements of income or operations for such fiscal quarter and for the portion of the fiscal year then ended and (ii) consolidated statements of cash flows for the portion of the fiscal year then ended, setting forth in each case in comparative form the figures for the corresponding fiscal quarter of the previous fiscal year and the corresponding portion of the previous fiscal year, all in reasonable detail and certified by a Responsible Officer of Holdings as fairly presenting in all material respects the financial condition, results of operations, stockholders’ equity and cash flows of Holdings and its Subsidiaries in accordance with GAAP, subject only to normal year-end adjustments and the absence of footnotes and accompanied by customary management discussion and analysis; and

(c) simultaneously with the delivery of each set of consolidated financial statements referred to in Section 6.01(a) and (b) above the related consolidating financial statements reflecting the adjustments necessary to eliminate the accounts of Unrestricted Subsidiaries (if any) from such consolidated financial statements.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, the obligations in paragraphs (a) and (b) of this Section 6.01 may be satisfied with respect to financial information of Holdings and its Subsidiaries by furnishing (A) the applicable consolidated financial statements of Holdings, any direct or indirect parent of Holdings that, directly or indirectly, holds all of the Equity Interests of Holdings or (B) Holdings’ (or any direct or indirect parent thereof, as applicable) Form 10-K or 10-Q, as applicable, filed with the SEC or (C) following an election by Holdings pursuant to Section 1.03, the applicable financial statements determined in accordance with IFRS; provided, with respect to each of clauses (A) and (B), (i) to the extent such information relates to a parent of Holdings such information is accompanied by consolidating information that explains in reasonable detail the differences between the information relating to such parent, on the one hand, and the information relating to Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries on a standalone basis, on the other hand and (ii) to the extent such information is in lieu of information required to be provided under Section 6.01(a), such materials are accompanied by a report and opinion an independent registered public accounting firm of nationally recognized standing, which report and opinion shall be prepared in accordance with generally accepted auditing standards.

 

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Section 6.02 Certificates; Other Information. Subject in each case to the last paragraph of this Section 6.02, deliver to the Administrative Agent for prompt further distribution to each Lender:

(a) no later than five (5) days after the delivery of the financial statements referred to in Section 6.01(a) and (b), a duly completed Compliance Certificate signed by a Responsible Officer of Holdings;

(b) promptly after the same are publicly available, copies of all annual, regular, periodic and special reports and registration statements which Holdings files with the SEC or with any Governmental Authority that may be substituted therefor (other than amendments to any registration statement (to the extent such registration statement, in the form it became effective, is delivered), exhibits to any registration statement and, if applicable, any registration statement on Form S-8) and in any case not otherwise required to be delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant hereto;

(c) promptly after the furnishing thereof, copies of any material requests or material notices received by any Loan Party or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries (other than in the ordinary course of business) that could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect;

(d) no later than ninety (90) days following the first day of each fiscal year of Holdings (commencing with the first day of the fiscal year of Holdings ending December 31, 2020), an annual budget (on a quarterly basis) for such fiscal year in form customarily prepared by the Borrower or Holdings, as applicable; provided that such annual budget shall not be provided to any NB Investor Lender to the extent such annual budget contains material non-public information;

(e) promptly after the furnishing thereof, copies of any notices received by any Loan Party (other than in the ordinary course of business) in connection with any Indebtedness with an outstanding principal amount in excess of the Threshold Amount on an individual basis;

(f) promptly, such additional information regarding the business, legal, financial or corporate affairs of any Loan Party or any Material Subsidiary, or compliance with the terms of the Loan Documents, as the Administrative Agent or any Lender through the Administrative Agent may from time to time reasonably request;

(g) promptly after delivery by any Loan Party to the First Lien Agent or any lender under the First Lien Credit Agreement, or receipt by any Loan Party from the First Lien Agent or any lender under the First Lien Credit Agreement, of any notice, report, or other documentation (including any amendments, supplements, consent letters, waivers, forbearances, restatements or modifications to the terms of or in connection with any First Lien Loan Document) required to be delivered under the First Lien Credit Agreement (other than notices or documents required to be delivered under Section 2 of such agreement or any other document which in the good faith determination of Holdings is either administrative or ministerial in nature or not relevant to the Lenders)), a copy of such notice, report or other documentation to the extent such notice, report or documentation has not otherwise been delivered pursuant to this Agreement;

(h) as soon as practicable and in any event no later than ninety (90) days after the beginning of each fiscal year beginning with the fiscal year ending December 31, 2019, a consolidated plan and financial forecast for such fiscal year (a “Financial Plan”), including (i) a forecasted consolidated balance sheet and forecasted consolidated statements of income and cash

 

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flows of Holdings and its Subsidiaries for such fiscal year and each quarter of such fiscal year, and an explanation of the assumptions on which such forecasts are based and (ii) forecasted consolidated statements of income and cash flows of Holdings and its Subsidiaries for each quarter of such fiscal year; provided that such Financial Plan shall not be provided to any NB Investor Lender to the extent such Financial Plan contains material non-public information;

(i) simultaneously with the delivery of the Compliance Certificate required to be delivered pursuant to Section 6.02(a), a list of new Material Contracts of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries as of the end of the most recently completed fiscal quarter or fiscal year of Holdings, as applicable, and entered into since the previously delivered Compliance Certificate (or, with respect to the first Compliance Certificate delivered after the Closing Date, since the Closing Date); and

(j) promptly after the same are available, copies of all annual, regular, periodic and special reports and registration statements which Holdings or any parent thereof may file or be required to file, copies of any report, filing or communication with the SEC under Section 13 or 15(d) of the Exchange Act, or with any Governmental Authority that may be substituted therefor, or with any national securities exchange, and in any case not otherwise required to be delivered to the Administrative Agent pursuant hereto.

Documents required to be delivered pursuant to Section 6.01 or 6.02(a) through (d) may be delivered electronically and if so delivered, shall be deemed to have been delivered on the date (i) on which Holdings posts such documents, or provides a link thereto on Holdings’ website on the Internet at the website address listed on Schedule 10.02; or (ii) on which such documents are posted on Holdings’ behalf on IntraLinks/IntraAgency or another relevant website, if any, to which each Lender and the Administrative Agent have access (whether a commercial, third-party website or whether sponsored by the Administrative Agent); provided: (x) upon written request by the Administrative Agent, Holdings shall deliver paper copies of such documents to the Administrative Agent for further distribution to each Lender until a written request to cease delivering paper copies is given by the Administrative Agent and (y) Holdings shall notify (which may be by facsimile or electronic mail) the Administrative Agent of the posting of any such documents and provide to the Administrative Agent by electronic mail electronic versions (i.e., soft copies) of such documents. The Administrative Agent shall have no obligation to request the delivery of or to maintain paper copies of the documents referred to above, and in any event shall have no responsibility to monitor compliance by Holdings with any such request by a Lender for delivery, and each Lender shall be solely responsible for timely accessing posted documents or requesting delivery of paper copies of such documents from the Administrative Agent and maintaining its copies of such documents.

Each of Holdings and the Borrower hereby acknowledges that (a) the Administrative Agent will make available to the Lenders materials and/or information provided by or on behalf of Holdings or the Borrower hereunder (collectively, “Borrower Materials”) by posting the Borrower Materials on IntraLinks or another similar electronic system (the “Platform”) and (b) certain of the Lenders (each, a “Public Lender”) may have personnel who do not wish to receive material non-public information with respect to Holdings and its Subsidiaries, or the respective securities of any of the foregoing, if Holdings or its respective Subsidiaries, as applicable, were public reporting companies, and who may be engaged in investment and other market-related activities with respect to such Persons’ securities. Each of Holdings and the Borrower hereby agrees that they will use commercially reasonable efforts to identify that portion of the Borrower Materials that may be distributed to the Public Lenders and that (w) all such Borrower Materials shall be clearly and conspicuously marked “PUBLIC” which, at a minimum, shall mean that the word “PUBLIC” shall appear prominently on the first page thereof; (x) by marking Borrower Materials “PUBLIC,” Holdings and the Borrower shall be deemed to have authorized the Administrative Agent, the

 

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NB Investors and the Lenders to treat such Borrower Materials as not containing any material non-public information (although it may be sensitive and proprietary) with respect to Holdings and its Subsidiaries or any of their respective securities for purposes of United States federal and state securities laws if Holdings or its respective Subsidiaries, as applicable, were public reporting companies (provided, however, that to the extent such Borrower Materials constitute Information, they shall be treated as set forth in Section 10.08); (y) all Borrower Materials marked “PUBLIC” are permitted to be made available through a portion of the Platform designated “Public Side Information”; and (z) the Administrative Agent shall be entitled to treat any Borrower Materials that are not marked “PUBLIC” as being suitable only for posting on a portion of the Platform not designated “Public Side Information.”

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, each of Holdings and the Borrower hereby acknowledges and agrees (i) that all NB Investor Lenders, including, without limitation, Neuberger Berman Alternative Funds, Neuberger Berman Long Short Fund, are Public Lenders and (ii) that it shall not deliver any notice or other information to any NB Investor that would reasonably be expected to result in such NB Investor acquiring material non-public information within the meaning of Regulation FD promulgated under the Securities Exchange Act of 1934. The parties hereto acknowledge and agree that (x) to the extent that the information required to be provided to the Lenders pursuant to the provisions of this Article VI are not so provided in reliance upon this paragraph, such failure to provide any such information shall not result in a breach of the Loan Parties obligations thereunder and (y) if any material non-public information is provided to any NB Investor, Holdings or the Borrower shall promptly take such action (including making such information publicly available) to cause such NB Investors to no longer be in possession of material non-public information.

Section 6.03 Notices. Promptly after a Responsible Officer obtains actual knowledge thereof, notify the Administrative Agent:

(a) of the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default, which notice shall specify the nature thereof, the period of existence thereof and what action Holdings propose to take with respect thereto;

(b) any litigation or governmental proceeding (including, without limitation, with respect to any Environmental Liability) pending against Holdings, the Borrower or any of their Restricted Subsidiaries that could reasonably be expected to be determined adversely and, if so determined, to result in a Material Adverse Effect;

(c) of the occurrence of any ERISA Event that could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; and

(d) the occurrence of any Default of Event of Default under any Material Contract to the extent such Default of Event of Default could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

Section 6.04 Maintenance of Existence. (a) Preserve, renew and maintain in full force and effect its legal existence under the Laws of the jurisdiction of its organization or incorporation and (b) take all reasonable action to maintain all rights, privileges (including its good standing), permits, licenses and franchises necessary or desirable in the normal conduct of its business, except in the case of clauses (a) (other than with respect to the Borrower) and (b) (i) to the extent that failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect or (ii) pursuant to a transaction permitted by Section 7.04 or Section 7.05.

 

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Section 6.05 Maintenance of Properties. Except if the failure to do so could not, individually or in the aggregate, reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, (a) maintain, preserve and protect all of its material properties and equipment necessary in the operation of its business in good working order, repair and condition, ordinary wear and tear excepted and casualty or condemnation excepted, and (b) make all necessary renewals, replacements, modifications, improvements, upgrades, extensions and additions thereof or thereto in accordance with prudent industry practice.

Section 6.06 Maintenance of Insurance. Maintain with financially sound and reputable insurance companies, insurance with respect to its properties and business against loss or damage of the kinds customarily insured against by Persons engaged in the same or similar business, of such types and in such amounts (after giving effect to any self-insurance reasonable and customary for similarly situated Persons engaged in the same or similar businesses as Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries) as are customarily carried under similar circumstances by such other Persons. If any portion of any improved Mortgaged Property is at any time located in an area identified by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (or any successor agency) as a special flood hazard area with respect to which flood insurance has been made available under the National Flood Insurance Act of 1968 (as now or hereafter in effect or successor act thereto), then, to the extent required by the Flood Insurance Laws, Holdings shall, or shall cause each Loan Party which is a U.S. Subsidiary to, (i) maintain, or cause to be maintained, with a financially sound and reputable insurer, flood insurance in an amount sufficient to comply with all applicable rules and regulations promulgated pursuant to the Flood Insurance Laws and (ii) deliver to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders as requested evidence of such compliance in accordance with the Flood Insurance Laws in such form reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders. Such insurance (excluding business interruption insurance) maintained in the United States or any Covered Jurisdiction shall name the Collateral Agent as additional insured or lender’s loss payee, as applicable.

Section 6.07 Compliance with Laws. Comply in all respects with the requirements of all Laws and all orders, writs, injunctions, decrees and judgments applicable to it or to its business or property (including without limitation Environmental Laws and ERISA), except if the failure to comply therewith could not, individually or in the aggregate reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; provided, however, that this Section 6.07 shall not apply to compliance with applicable Anti-Corruption Laws, Anti-Money Laundering Laws and Sanctions, which compliance is addressed in Section 6.17 below.

Section 6.08 Books and Records. Maintain proper books of record and account, in which entries that are full, true and correct in all material respects and are in conformity with GAAP consistently applied shall be made of all material financial transactions and matters involving the assets and business of Holdings, the Borrower or such Restricted Subsidiary, as the case may be.

Section 6.09 Inspection Rights. Permit representatives and independent contractors of the Administrative Agent and each Lender to visit and inspect any of its properties and to discuss its affairs, finances and accounts with its directors, managers, officers, and independent public accountants, all at the reasonable expense of the Borrower and at such reasonable times during normal business hours and as often as may be reasonably desired, upon reasonable advance notice to Holdings; provided, excluding any such visits and inspections during the continuation of an Event of Default, only the Administrative Agent and/or a designated NB Investor Lender on behalf of the Lenders, may exercise rights of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders under this Section 6.09 and none of the Administrative Agent or Lenders shall exercise such rights more often than one (1) time during any calendar year absent the existence of an Event of Default and only one (1) such time shall be at the Borrower’s expense; provided, further, that when an Event of Default exists, the Administrative Agent or any Lender (or any of their

 

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respective representatives or independent contractors) may do any of the foregoing at the expense of the Borrower at any time during normal business hours and upon reasonable advance notice. The Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall give Holdings the opportunity to participate in any discussions with Holdings’ independent public accountants. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Section 6.09, none of Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary will be required to disclose or permit the inspection or discussion of, any document, information or other matter (i) that constitutes non-financial trade secrets or non-financial proprietary information, (ii) in respect of which disclosure to the Administrative Agent or any Lender (or their respective representatives or contractors) is prohibited by Law or any binding agreement or (iii) that is subject to attorney client or similar privilege or constitutes attorney work product.

Section 6.10 Covenant to Guarantee Obligations and Give Security. At the Borrower’s expense, take all action necessary or reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent or Required Lenders to ensure that, subject to the time periods set forth below and Section 6.12(b), the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement continues to be satisfied, including, subject to the limitations set forth in the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement:

(a) upon the formation or acquisition of any new direct or indirect Wholly-Owned Subsidiary (in each case, other than an Unrestricted Subsidiary or an Excluded Subsidiary) by any Loan Party, the designation in accordance with Section 6.13 of any existing direct or indirect Wholly-Owned Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary (other than an Excluded Subsidiary) or any Restricted Subsidiary that is an Excluded Subsidiary ceasing to be an Excluded Subsidiary:

(i) within ninety (90) days after such formation, acquisition, designation or occurrence or such longer period as the Required Lenders may agree in its reasonable discretion:

(A) cause each such Restricted Subsidiary that is required to become a Guarantor pursuant to the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement to furnish to the Administrative Agent a description of the Material Real Properties owned by such Restricted Subsidiary in detail reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent;

(B) cause each such Restricted Subsidiary that is required to become a Guarantor pursuant to the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement to duly execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent (as appropriate) Mortgages, pledges, guarantees, assignments, Security Agreement Supplements, legal opinions and other security agreements and documents or joinders or supplements thereto (including without limitation, with respect to Mortgages, the documents listed in paragraph (f) of the definition of “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement”), as reasonably requested by and in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent (consistent with the Mortgages, Security Agreements and other Collateral Documents in effect on the Closing Date), in each case granting Liens required by the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement;

(C) cause each such Restricted Subsidiary that is required to become a Guarantor pursuant to the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement to deliver any and all certificates representing Equity Interests (to the extent certificated and to the extent possession of such certificate by the Collateral Agent is required pursuant to the terms of the Security Agreements) that are required to be pledged

 

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pursuant to the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement, accompanied by undated stock powers or other appropriate instruments of transfer executed in blank and (if applicable) instruments evidencing the Indebtedness held by such Restricted Subsidiary and required to be pledged pursuant to the Collateral Documents, indorsed in blank to the Collateral Agent; and

(D) take and cause such Restricted Subsidiary and each direct or indirect parent of such Restricted Subsidiary that is required to become a Guarantor pursuant to the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement to take whatever action (including the recording of Mortgages, the filing of financing statements and delivery of stock and membership interest certificates) may be necessary in the reasonable opinion of the Collateral Agent to the extent required by applicable Law, to vest in the Collateral Agent (or in any representative of the Collateral Agent designated by it) valid and perfected second priority (to the extent such concept exists under applicable law) Liens (subject to Liens permitted under the Loan Documents and any Liens and privileges arising mandatorily by Law) required by the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement, enforceable against all third parties in accordance with their terms, except as such enforceability may be limited by Debtor Relief Laws or other Laws affecting creditors’ rights generally and by general principles of equity and principles of good faith and fair dealing (regardless of whether enforcement is sought in equity or at law)); and

(ii) as promptly as practicable after the request therefor by the Collateral Agent and to the extent in the possession of Holdings or its Subsidiaries, deliver to the Collateral Agent with respect to each Material Real Property, any existing title reports, title insurance policies and surveys or environmental assessment reports; and

(b) after the Closing Date, promptly after the acquisition or construction of any Material Real Property by any Loan Party, if such Material Real Property shall not already be subject to a perfected second priority (to the extent such concept exists under applicable law) Lien (subject to Liens permitted under the Loan Documents and any Liens and privileges arising mandatorily by Law) under the Collateral Documents pursuant to the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement and is required to be, Holdings shall give notice thereof to the Administrative Agent and within ninety (90) days of such acquisition (or such longer period as the Required Lenders may agree in its reasonable discretion) shall cause such real property to be subjected to a Lien to the extent required by the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement and will take, or cause the relevant Loan Party to take, such actions as shall be necessary or reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent or the Required Lenders to grant and perfect or record such Lien, including, as applicable, the actions referred to in paragraph (f) of the definition of “Collateral and Guarantee Requirement”; provided that this clause (b) shall be subject to the last sentence of such paragraph (f).

(c) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, until the Discharge of Senior Lien Obligations (as defined in the Intercreditor Agreement) shall have occurred, any covenant made in this Agreement with respect to delivery to the Administrative Agent of any Collateral, the security interest in which may be perfected only by possession or control, shall be deemed satisfied by the delivery and possession or control of such Collateral to the First Lien Agent as bailee for the Secured Parties.

 

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Section 6.11 Use of Proceeds. The Borrower will use the proceeds of the Initial Term B Loans to directly or indirectly finance a portion of the Transactions. The Borrower will not use, directly or indirectly, any part of the proceeds of any Credit Extension (i) in furtherance of an offer, payment, promise to pay, or authorization of the payment or giving of money, or anything else of value, to any Person, in violation of applicable Anti-Corruption Laws, (ii) in violation of Anti-Money Laundering Laws or (iii) for the purpose of financing activities of or with any Person that, at the time of such financing, is the subject or target of any Sanctions, or in any manner that would constitute or give rise to a violation of Sanctions by any party hereto, including any Lender.

Section 6.12 Further Assurances and Post-Closing Covenants.

(a) Promptly upon reasonable request by the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent or the Required Lenders (i) correct any material defect or error that may be discovered in the execution, acknowledgement, filing or recordation of any Collateral Document or other document or instrument relating to any Collateral, and (ii) do, execute, acknowledge, deliver, record, re-record, file, re-file, register and re-register any and all such further acts, deeds, certificates, assurances and other instruments as the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent or the Required Lenders, may reasonably request from time to time in order to carry out more effectively the purposes of this Agreement and the Collateral Documents.

(b) Each of Holdings and the Borrower hereby agrees to deliver, or cause to be delivered, to Administrative Agent, in form and substance reasonably satisfactory to Required Lenders, the items described on Schedule 6.12(b) within the time periods set forth thereon with respect to such items, or such later time as may be agreed to by Administrative Agent in its sole discretion. All conditions precedent, representations and warranties and affirmative and negative covenants contained in this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall be deemed modified to the extent necessary to effect the actions set forth on Schedule 6.12(b) (and to permit the taking of the actions set forth on Schedule 6.12(b) within the time periods required therein, rather than as elsewhere provided in the Loan Documents); provided that (x) to the extent any representation and warranty would not be true or there would be a breach of an affirmative or negative covenant because the actions set forth on Schedule 6.12(b) were not taken on the Closing Date, the respective representation and warranty shall be required to be true and correct in all material respects and affirmative and negative covenants shall be required to be complied with at the time the respective action is taken (or was required to be taken) in accordance with the foregoing provisions of this Section 6.12(b) and (y) all representations and warranties and affirmative and negative covenants relating to the Collateral Documents shall be required to be true immediately after the actions required to be taken by this Section 6.12(b) have been taken (or were required to be taken) and the parties hereto acknowledge and agree that the failure to take any of the actions required above, within the relevant time periods set forth on Schedule 6.12(b), shall give rise to an immediate Event of Default pursuant to this Agreement.

Section 6.13 Designation of Subsidiaries.

(a) Subject to Section 6.13(b) below, Holdings may at any time designate any Restricted Subsidiary (other than the Borrower) as an Unrestricted Subsidiary or any Unrestricted Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary, which such re-designation will only be permitted once per each fiscal year of Holdings; provided that no subsidiary may be designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary if it is a “Restricted Subsidiary” for the purpose of the First Lien Credit Agreement (or any equivalent provision under any documentation governing the First Lien Credit Agreement and any Permitted Refinancing thereof). The designation of any Restricted Subsidiary as an Unrestricted Subsidiary shall constitute an Investment by Holdings therein at the date of

 

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designation in an amount equal to the fair market value of Holdings investment therein. The designation of any Unrestricted Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary shall constitute the incurrence at the time of designation of any Indebtedness or Liens of such Subsidiary existing at such time.

(b) Holdings may not (x) designate any Restricted Subsidiary as an Unrestricted Subsidiary, or (y) designate an Unrestricted Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary, (A) in each case unless no Default or Event of Default exists or would result therefrom, and (B) in the case of clause (x) only, the Subsidiary to be so designated does not (directly, or indirectly through its Subsidiaries) own any Equity Interests or Indebtedness of, or own or hold any Lien on any property of, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary (unless such Restricted Subsidiaries are concurrently designated as Unrestricted Subsidiaries); provided, in the case of clause (x) above, such Subsidiary shall have been or will promptly be designated an “Unrestricted Subsidiary” for the purposes of any other Indebtedness in aggregate principal amount in excess of the Threshold Amount to the extent any such designation can be made under the documentation governing such Indebtedness.

Section 6.14 Payment of Taxes. The Loan Parties will pay and discharge, and will cause each of the Restricted Subsidiaries to pay and discharge, all Taxes imposed upon it or upon its income or profits, or upon any properties belonging to it, in each case on a timely basis, and all lawful claims which, if unpaid, may reasonably be expected to become a lien or charge upon any properties of the Loan Parties or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries not otherwise permitted under this Agreement; provided, none of the Loan Parties nor any of the Restricted Subsidiaries shall be required to pay any such Tax or claim which is being contested in good faith and by proper proceedings if it has maintained adequate reserves with respect thereto in accordance with GAAP or which would not reasonably be expected, individually or in the aggregate, to constitute a Material Adverse Effect. The Borrower will remain a disregarded entity of Holdings for U.S. federal income tax purposes.

Section 6.15 [Reserved].

Section 6.16 [Reserved].

Section 6.17 Compliance with Anti-Terrorism Laws and Anti-Corruption Laws. Each of Holdings and the Borrower will, and will cause each of its Subsidiaries to, comply with: (i) Anti-Money Laundering Laws, (ii) Anti-Corruption Laws and (iii) Sanctions. Holdings will maintain in effect and enforce, and will procure that each of its subsidiaries maintains in effect and enforces, policies, procedures and internal controls designed to promote and achieve compliance by each of Holdings, the Borrower, their respective Subsidiaries and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents with applicable Anti-Money Laundering Laws, Anti-Corruption Laws and Sanctions.

Section 6.18 Performance of Material Contracts. Perform and observe the material terms and provisions of each Material Contract, maintain each Material Contract in full force and effect, and enforce the material provisions of each Material Contracts; provided that, any Material Contract may be amended, modified, supplemented or replaced so long as (i) any such amendment, modification, supplement or replacement could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect and (ii) the Borrower provides to the Administrative Agent an updated schedule of Material Contracts, if applicable, promptly following any such amendment, modification, supplement or replacement.

Section 6.19 Lender Conference Calls. At the reasonable request of the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders after the date of delivery of the financial information required pursuant to Section 6.01(b), Holdings will hold and participate in a quarterly conference call or teleconference at a time selected by Holdings and reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and the Required Lenders with all of the Lenders that choose to participate, to review the financial results of the previous fiscal quarter of Holdings and its Subsidiaries.

 

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Section 6.20 Credit Enhancements. If the First Lien Agent or any lender under the First Lien Credit Agreement receives any additional guaranty, letter of credit, or any other credit enhancement after the Closing Date, Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries shall grant the same to the Administrative Agent for and the Collateral Agent for the benefit of the Secured Parties or the Lenders, as applicable.

ARTICLE VII

Negative Covenants

So long as any Lender shall have any Commitment hereunder or any Loan or other Obligation hereunder that is accrued and payable shall remain unpaid or unsatisfied, Holdings and the Borrower shall not, nor shall the Borrower permit any Restricted Subsidiary to, directly or indirectly:

Section 7.01 Liens. Create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Lien upon any of its property, assets or revenues, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, other than the following:

(a) (i) Liens pursuant to any Loan Document and (ii) Liens pursuant to the First Lien Loan Documents;

(b) receipt of progress payments and advances from customers in the ordinary course of business to the extent the same creates a Lien on the related inventory and proceeds thereof;

(c) Liens existing set forth on Schedule 7.01(c) plus replacements, additions, accessions and improvements thereto and any income or profile thereof or proceeds thereof or of the foregoing;

(d) Liens for taxes, assessments or governmental charges (i) which are not overdue for a period of more than thirty (30) days or (ii) that are being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted, if adequate reserves with respect thereto are maintained on the books of the applicable Person to the extent required in accordance with GAAP;

(e) statutory or common law Liens of landlords, carriers, warehousemen, mechanics, lessors, materialmen, repairmen, construction contractors or other like Liens and Liens imposed by operation of law arising in the ordinary course of business (i) which secure amounts not overdue for a period of more than thirty (30) days or if more than thirty (30) days overdue, are unfiled (or if filed have been discharged or stayed) and no other action has been taken to enforce such Lien or (ii) which are being contested in good faith and by appropriate proceedings diligently conducted, if adequate reserves with respect thereto are maintained on the books of the applicable Person to the extent required in accordance with GAAP;

(f) (i) pledges, deposits or Liens arising in the ordinary course of business in connection with workers’ compensation, payroll taxes, unemployment insurance, social security and other similar laws or regulations and deposits securing liability to insurance carriers under insurance or self-insurance arrangements in respect of such obligations and (ii) pledges and deposits in the ordinary course of business securing liability for reimbursement or indemnification obligations of (including obligations in respect of letters of credit or bank guarantees for the benefit of) insurance carriers providing property, casualty or liability insurance to Holdings, the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary;

 

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(g) Liens on deposits incurred in the ordinary course of business to secure the performance of bids, trade contracts, governmental contracts and leases (other than Indebtedness for borrowed money), statutory obligations, surety, stay, customs and appeal bonds, performance bonds and other obligations of a like nature (including letters of credit or bankers acceptances in lieu of any such bonds or to support the issuance thereof) (including those to secure health, safety and environmental obligations);

(h) easements, rights-of-way, restrictions, covenants, conditions, encroachments, protrusions and other similar encumbrances and minor title defects affecting real property which, in the aggregate, do not in any case materially interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business of Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary and any exception on the Mortgage Policies issued in connection with the Mortgaged Property;

(i) Liens securing judgments for the payment of money not constituting an Event of Default under Section 8.01(h) and notices of lis pendens and associated rights related to litigation being contested in good faith by appropriate proceedings and in respect of which Holdings or any affected Restricted Subsidiary has set aside on its books reserves in accordance with GAAP with respect thereto;

(j) Liens securing Indebtedness permitted under Section 7.03(g); provided, (i) such Liens attach concurrently with or within three hundred sixty-five (365) days after the acquisition, construction, repair, replacement or improvement (as applicable) of the property subject to such Liens, (ii) such Liens do not at any time encumber any property other than the property financed by such Indebtedness, replacements thereof and additions and accessions to such property and the proceeds and the products thereof and customary security deposits, and (iii) with respect to Capitalized Leases, such Liens do not at any time extend to or cover any assets (except for additions and accessions to such assets, replacements and products thereof and customary security deposits) other than the assets subject to such Capitalized Leases; provided, further, individual financings of equipment provided by one lender may be cross-collateralized to other financings of equipment provided by such lender;

(k) leases, licenses, subleases or sublicenses and Liens on the property covered thereby, in each case, granted to others in the ordinary course of business that do not (i) interfere in any material respect with the business of Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary, taken as a whole, or (ii) secure any Indebtedness;

(l) Liens in favor of customs and revenue authorities arising as a matter of law to secure payment of customs duties in connection with the importation of goods in the ordinary course of business;

(m) Liens (i) of a collection bank (including those arising under Section 4-210 of the Uniform Commercial Code) on the items in the course of collection and (ii) in favor of a banking or other financial institution encumbering deposits or other funds maintained with a financial institution (including the right of setoff) and which are within the general parameters customary in the banking industry (including margin deposits);

 

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(n) Liens (i) on cash advances in favor of the seller of any property to be acquired in an Investment or acquisition to be applied against the purchase price for such Investment or acquisition, as applicable, and (ii) consisting of an agreement to Dispose of any property in a Disposition permitted under Section 7.05, in each case, solely to the extent such Investment, acquisition or Disposition, as the case may be, would have been permitted on the date of the creation of such Lien;

(o) Liens in favor of Holdings or a Restricted Subsidiary;

(p) Liens existing on property at the time of its acquisition or existing on the property of any Person at the time such Person becomes a Restricted Subsidiary (other than by designation as a Restricted Subsidiary pursuant to Section 6.13), in each case after the date hereof; provided, (i) such Lien was not created in contemplation of such acquisition or such Person becoming a Restricted Subsidiary, (ii) such Lien does not extend to or cover any other assets or property (other than the proceeds or products thereof and other than after-acquired property subjected to a Lien securing Indebtedness and other obligations incurred prior to such time and which Indebtedness and other obligations are permitted hereunder that require, pursuant to their terms at such time, a pledge of after-acquired property, it being understood that such requirement shall not be permitted to apply to any property to which such requirement would not have applied but for such acquisition), and (iii) the Indebtedness secured thereby is permitted under Section 7.03(g), (z) or (aa) (to the extent such Indebtedness is assumed);

(q) any interest or title of a lessor or sublessor under leases or subleases of real property entered into by Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business;

(r) Liens arising out of conditional sale, title retention, consignment or similar arrangements for sale of goods entered into by Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business;

(s) Liens that are contractual or common law rights of pledge or rights of setoff (i) relating to the establishment of depository relations with banks or other financial institutions not given in connection with the incurrence of Indebtedness, (ii) relating to pooled deposit, sweep accounts or other bank products of Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary to permit satisfaction of overdraft or similar obligations incurred in the ordinary course of business of Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary or (iii) relating to purchase orders and other agreements entered into with customers of Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business;

(t) any Lien granted by any Loan Party in its capacity as trustee in respect of client monies, securities, or other assets;

(u) Liens arising from precautionary Uniform Commercial Code financing statement filings (or other similar filings in non-U.S. jurisdictions);

(v) Liens on insurance policies and the proceeds thereof securing the financing of the premiums with respect thereto and deposits made or other security provided in the ordinary course of business to secure liability to insurance carriers or under self-insurance arrangements in respect of such obligations;

(w) any zoning or similar law or right reserved to or vested in any Governmental Authority to control or regulate the use of any real property that does not materially interfere with the ordinary conduct of the business of Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary;

 

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(x) Liens on specific items of inventory or other goods and the proceeds thereof securing such Person’s obligations in respect of banker’s acceptance or documentary letters of credit issued for the account of such Person to facilitate the purchase, shipment or storage of such inventory or goods;

(y) the modification, replacement, renewal or extension of any Lien permitted by clauses (c), (j), (p), (cc), (gg) and (hh) of this Section 7.01; provided, (i) the Lien does not extend to any additional property other than (A) after-acquired property that is affixed or incorporated into the property covered by such Lien or financed by Indebtedness permitted under Section 7.03, (B) property that under the written arrangements under which the original Lien arose, could secure and (C) proceeds and products of the foregoing, (ii) that individual financings provided by a lender may be cross-collateralized to other financings provided by such lender or its affiliates and (iii) the renewal, extension or refinancing of the obligations secured or benefited by such Liens is permitted by Section 7.03;

(z) ground leases in respect of real property on which facilities owned or leased by Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary are located;

(aa) Liens on equity interests or property of a Non-Loan Party or JV Entity securing permitted Indebtedness or other permitted obligations of such Non-Loan Party and Liens on Equity Interests of any JV Entity (together with assets related thereto and the proceeds or products of any of the foregoing) (i) securing obligations of such joint venture or (ii) pursuant to the relevant joint venture agreement or arrangement;

(bb) Liens solely on any cash earnest money deposits made by Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary in connection with any letter of intent or purchase agreement permitted hereunder;

(cc) Liens securing Indebtedness permitted pursuant to Sections 7.03(b) and 7.03(v); provided, such Liens may be either a Lien on the Collateral that is pari passu (to the extent incurred in reliance on the applicable ratio) with the Lien securing the Obligations in respect of the Initial Term B Loans or a Lien ranking junior (to the extent incurred in reliance on the applicable ratio) to the Lien on the Collateral securing such Obligations (but may not be secured by any assets that are not Collateral) and, in any such case if such Indebtedness is not incurred under any Loan Document, the holders of such Indebtedness or a Debt Representative acting on behalf of the holders of such Indebtedness shall become party to the Intercreditor Agreement or otherwise become subject to the provisions of (i) in the case of a Lien on the Collateral that is pari passu with the Lien securing the Obligations in respect of the Initial Term B Loans, (A) if the First Lien Term Loans are outstanding at the time such Lien is granted, the Intercreditor Agreement and (B) otherwise, a Pari Passu Intercreditor Agreement, or (ii) in the case of a Lien ranking junior to the Lien on the Collateral, a Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement;

(dd) Liens securing Indebtedness permitted pursuant to Section 7.03(n) that rank pari passu or junior to the Liens securing the Obligations in respect of the Initial Term B Loans;

(ee) other Liens securing Indebtedness or other obligations in an aggregate principal amount at the time of such incurrence, when taken together with the aggregate principal amount of all Indebtedness secured by other Liens in reliance on this Section 7.01(ee) and outstanding at such time, not to exceed the greater of (x) $6,000,000 and (y) 12% of Consolidated EBITDA of Holdings (calculated on a Pro Forma Basis) as of the last day of the most recently ended Test Period;

 

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(ff) any Lien arising as a result of a disposal permitted by Section 7.05;

(gg) Liens securing Indebtedness permitted pursuant to Section 7.03(z) (to the extent such (A) Liens are on Collateral (i) that is pari passu with the Lien securing the Obligations in respect of the Initial Term B Loans, the holders of such Indebtedness or a Debt Representative acting on behalf of the holders of such Indebtedness shall become party to (x) if the First Lien Term Loans are outstanding at the time such Lien is granted, the Intercreditor Agreement and (y) otherwise, a Pari Passu Intercreditor Agreement, or (ii) in the case of a Lien ranking junior to the Lien on the Collateral, the holders of such Indebtedness or a Debt Representative acting on behalf of the holders of such Indebtedness shall become party to (x) if the First Lien Term Loans are outstanding at the time such Lien is granted, the Intercreditor Agreement and (y) otherwise, a Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement and (B) Indebtedness is originally incurred to finance a Permitted Acquisition); provided, to the extent such Indebtedness is a term loan facility of the Loan Parties and such Lien is pari passu with the Lien securing the Obligations in respect of the then existing Term Loans, the terms set forth in the proviso in Section 2.14(h) shall have been complied with as if such Indebtedness was considered an Incremental Term Loan which is a MFN Qualified Term Loan;

(hh) Liens securing Indebtedness permitted pursuant to Section 7.03(x); provided, such Liens may be either a Lien on the Collateral that is pari passu (to the extent incurred in reliance on the applicable ratio) with the Lien securing the Obligations in respect of the Initial Term B Loans or a Lien ranking junior (to the extent incurred in reliance on the applicable ratio) to the Lien on the Collateral securing such Obligations (but may not be secured by any assets that are not Collateral) and, in any such case, the holders of such Indebtedness or a Debt Representative acting on behalf of the holders of such Indebtedness shall become party to or otherwise become subject to the provisions of (i) in the case of a Lien on the Collateral that is pari passu with the Lien securing the Obligations in respect of the Initial Term B Loans, (x) if the First Lien Term Loans are outstanding at the time such Lien is granted, the Intercreditor Agreement and (y) otherwise, a Pari Passu Intercreditor Agreement, and (ii) in the case of a Lien on the Collateral ranking junior to the Lien securing the Obligations in respect of the Initial Term B Loans, (x) if the First Lien Term Loans are outstanding at the time such Lien is granted, the Intercreditor Agreement and (y) otherwise, a Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement;

(ii) Liens on cash and Cash Equivalents used to defease or satisfy and discharge Indebtedness; provided, such defeasance or satisfaction of Indebtedness is not prohibited hereunder;

(jj) cash collateralization of letters of credit;

(kk) other Liens and privileges arising mandatorily by Law;

(ll) Liens on Securitization Assets arising in connection with a Qualified Securitization Financing;

(mm) non-exclusive licenses or sublicenses of IP Rights granted to others in the ordinary course of business; and

(nn) any interest or title of a licensor or sublicensor under licenses or sublicenses of IP Rights entered into by Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary in the ordinary course of business.

 

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The expansion of Liens by virtue of accretion or amortization of original issue discount, the accrual or payment of interest, fees and other amounts in the form of Indebtedness, and increases in the amount of Indebtedness outstanding solely as a result of fluctuations in the exchange rate of currencies will not be deemed to be an incurrence of Liens or Indebtedness for purposes of this Section 7.01.

If any Liens securing obligations are incurred to refinance Liens securing obligations initially incurred in reliance on a basket measured by reference to a percentage of Consolidated EBITDA, and such refinancing would cause the percentage of Consolidated EBITDA to be exceeded if such calculation based on Consolidated EBITDA was made on the date of such refinancing, such percentage of Consolidated EBITDA will not be deemed to be exceeded to the extent the principal amount of such obligations secured by such newly incurred Liens does not exceed the sum of (i) the principal amount of such Indebtedness plus (ii) the aggregate amount of accrued but unpaid interest, fees, underwriting discounts, defeasance costs, premiums (including tender premiums) and other costs and expenses (including original issue discount, upfront fees or similar fees) incurred in connection with such refinancing. If any Liens securing obligations are incurred to refinance Liens securing obligations initially incurred in reliance on a basket measured by a fixed dollar amount, such fixed dollar basket will be deemed not to be exceeded to the extent the principal amount of such obligations secured by such newly incurred Liens does not exceed the sum of (i) the principal amount of such Indebtedness plus (ii) the aggregate amount of accrued but unpaid interest, fees, underwriting discounts, defeasance costs, premiums (including tender premiums) and other costs and expenses (including original issue discount, upfront fees or similar fees) incurred in connection with such refinancing.

Section 7.02 Investments. Make any Investments, except:

(a) Investments by Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary in assets that were Cash Equivalents when such Investment was made and bank deposits in the ordinary course of business;

(b) loans or advances to current or former officers, directors, managers, partners, consultants, independent contractors and employees (or any respective existing spouses or future spouses of the foregoing) of Holdings or its Restricted Subsidiaries (i) for reasonable and customary business-related travel, entertainment, relocation and analogous ordinary business purposes, (ii) in connection with such Person’s purchase of Equity Interests of Holdings (or any direct or indirect parent thereof) (provided, the proceeds of any such loans and advances shall be contributed to the Borrower in cash as common equity), (iii) the proceeds of which are used to pay taxes owed in connection with the vest of Equity Interests in Holdings (or any direct or indirect parent thereof) and (iv) for purposes not described in the foregoing clauses (i) and (ii), in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed, in any calendar year, $500,000 (net of any returns or prepayments).

(c) asset purchases (including purchases of inventory, supplies and materials) and the acquisition, licensing or contribution of IP Rights, in each case in the ordinary course of business;

(d) Investments by and among Holdings and the Restricted Subsidiaries; provided, Investments by Loan Parties in Non-Loan Parties under this clause (d) and clause j below shall not exceed, as of the date any such Investment is made (i) an amount equal to (x) the greater of (A) $6,000,000 and (B) 12% of Consolidated EBITDA of Holdings (calculated on a Pro Forma Basis) as of the last day of the most recently ended Test Period as of the date such Investment is made minus (y) the aggregate amount of any Investments previously made in reliance on this

 

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clause (d)(i) and outstanding at such time plus (ii) an amount equal to (x) any returns of capital or sale proceeds actually received in cash in respect of any such Investments made pursuant to this clause (d) (which amount shall not exceed the amount of such Investment valued at cost at the time such Investment was made) minus (y) the aggregate amount of any Investments previously made in reliance on this clause (d)(ii) and outstanding at such time; provided, any such amounts under this clause (ii) shall not increase the Available Amount, it being understood that any returns of capital or sale proceeds actually received in cash in respect of any such Investments in excess of the amount of such Investment valued at cost at the time such Investment was made shall increase the Available Amount (to the extent such excess amount of returns or proceeds would otherwise increase the Available Amount pursuant to the definition thereof);

(e) Investments consisting of extensions of credit in the nature of accounts receivable or notes receivable arising from the grant of trade credit in the ordinary course of business, and Investments received in satisfaction or partial satisfaction thereof from financially troubled account debtors and other credits to suppliers in the ordinary course of business;

(f) Investments consisting of Liens, Indebtedness, fundamental changes, Dispositions and Restricted Payments permitted (other than by reference to Section 7.02) under Section 7.01, Section 7.03, Section 7.04, Section 7.05 and Section 7.06, respectively;

(g) Investments in existence on the Closing Date and any modification, replacement, renewal, reinvestment or extension of such Investment; provided, the amount of any Investment permitted pursuant to this Section 7.02(g) is not increased from the amount of such Investment on the Closing Date except pursuant to the terms of such Investment as of the Closing Date or as otherwise permitted by this Section 7.02;

(h) Investments in Swap Contracts;

(i) promissory notes and other noncash consideration received in connection with Dispositions permitted by Section 7.05;

(j) the purchase or other acquisition of property and assets or businesses of any Person or of assets constituting a business unit, a line of business or division of such Person, or Equity Interests in a Person that, upon the consummation thereof, will be a Restricted Subsidiary of Holdings (including as a result of a merger or consolidation) (each, a “Permitted Acquisition”); provided, (i) immediately before and immediately after giving Pro Forma Effect to any such purchase or other acquisition, no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing immediately prior to the execution of the binding agreement governing such Permitted Acquisition (and, in the case of any Permitted Acquisition prior to the Disposition Date (under and as defined in the First Lien Credit Agreement) no event of Default under Section 8.01(a), 8.01(f) or 8.01(g) shall have occurred and be continuing immediately after consummation of such Permitted Acquisition), (ii) (1) after giving effect to any such purchase or other acquisition, the Total Leverage Ratio calculated on a Pro Forma Basis as of the end of the then most recently ended Test Period does not exceed 4.80:1.00, (2) the acquisition consideration allocated to such Persons that do not become Guarantors or assets that do not become Collateral shall not exceed, when aggregated with Investments by Loan Parties in Non-Loan Parties under clause (d) above, in the aggregate an amount equal to (x) the greater of (A) $6,000,000 and (B) 12% of Consolidated EBITDA of Holdings (calculated on a Pro Forma Basis) as of the last day of the most recently ended Test Period as of the date such Investment is made and (iii) if required by the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement, the property, assets and businesses acquired in such purchase or other acquisition shall become Collateral or such acquired Subsidiary shall become a Guarantor contemporaneously with the consummation of such Permitted Acquisition (or such later date as the Administrative Agent may agree);

 

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(k) the Transactions and any Investments made to effect the Transactions;

(l) Investments in the ordinary course of business consisting of endorsements for collection or deposit, prepayment and customary trade arrangements with customers;

(m) Investments (including debt obligations and Equity Interests) received in connection with the bankruptcy or reorganization of suppliers and customers or in settlement of delinquent obligations of, or other disputes with, customers and suppliers arising in the ordinary course of business or upon the foreclosure with respect to any secured Investment or other transfer of title with respect to any secured Investment;

(n) Investments (as valued at cost at the time each such Investment is made and including all related commitments for future Investments) in an amount for such Investment not exceeding the Available Amount at the time of such Investment; provided no Event of Default under Section 8.01(a), (f) or (g) shall have occurred and be continuing;

(o) capital expenditures in respect Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary in accordance with GAAP (other than any expenditure that involves the acquisition, whether by purchase, merger or otherwise of all or substantially all of the assets of, all of the Equity Interests of, or a business line or unit or division of, any Person);

(p) advances of payroll payments to employees in the ordinary course of business;

(q) loans and advances to Holdings in lieu of, and not in excess of the amount of (after giving effect to any other such loans or advances or Restricted Payments in respect thereof), Restricted Payments to the extent permitted to be made to such direct or indirect parent in accordance with Section 7.06; provided, any such loan or advance shall reduce the amount of such applicable Restricted Payment thereafter permitted under Section 7.06 by a corresponding amount (if such applicable provision of Section 7.06 contains a maximum amount);

(r) Investments held by a Restricted Subsidiary acquired after the Closing Date or of a corporation or company or other Person merged into Holdings or merged or consolidated with a Restricted Subsidiary in accordance with Section 7.04 after the Closing Date to the extent that such Investments were not made in contemplation of or in connection with such acquisition, merger or consolidation and were in existence on the date of such acquisition, merger or consolidation;

(s) Guarantee Obligations of Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary in respect of leases (other than Capitalized Leases) or of other obligations that do not constitute Indebtedness;

(t) Investments made from the net cash proceeds received by Holdings after the Closing Date pursuant to contributions to the common equity capital or issuances of Qualified Equity Interests of Holdings (other than Cure Amounts) that are used by Holdings or a Restricted Subsidiary substantially contemporaneously to make such Investment (and to the extent not otherwise used under this Agreement or applied to the Available Amount) and Investments made in exchange for Qualified Equity Interests of any direct or indirect parent of Holdings (and to the extent not otherwise used under this Agreement or applied to the Available Amount);

 

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(u) other Investments in an aggregate amount, as valued at cost at the time each such Investment is made and including all related commitments for future Investments, not exceeding as of the date any such Investment is made (i) the greater of (x) $6,000,000 and (y) 12% of Consolidated EBITDA of Holdings (calculated on a Pro Forma Basis) as of the last day of the most recently ended Test Period as of the date such Investment is made, plus (ii) an amount equal to any returns of capital or sale proceeds actually received in cash in respect of any such Investments made pursuant to this clause (u) (which amount shall not exceed the amount of such Investment valued at cost at the time such Investment was made); provided, any such amounts under this clause (ii) shall not increase the Available Amount, it being understood that any returns of capital or sale proceeds actually received in cash in respect of any such Investments in excess of the amount of such Investment valued at cost at the time such Investment was made shall increase the Available Amount (to the extent such excess amount of returns or proceeds would otherwise increase the Available Amount pursuant to the definition thereof);

(v) Investments in JV Entities and Unrestricted Subsidiaries under this clause (v) in an aggregate amount, as valued at cost at the time each such Investment is made not exceeding (i) the greater of (x) $6,000,000 and (y) 12% of Consolidated EBITDA of Holdings (calculated on a Pro Forma Basis) as of the last day of the most recently ended Test Period as of the date such Investment is made, plus (ii) an amount equal to any returns of capital or sale proceeds actually received in cash in respect of any such Investments made pursuant to this clause (v) (which amount shall not exceed the amount of such Investment valued at cost at the time such Investment was made); provided, any such amounts under this clause (ii) shall not increase the Available Amount, it being understood that that any returns of capital or sale proceeds actually received in cash in respect of any such Investments in excess of the amount of such Investment valued at cost at the time such Investment was made shall increase the Available Amount (to the extent such excess amount of returns or proceeds would otherwise increase the Available Amount pursuant to the definition thereof);

(w) (i) Investments in a Securitization Subsidiary or any Investment by a Securitization Subsidiary in any other Person in connection with a Qualified Securitization Financing (provided, however, that any such Investment in a Securitization Subsidiary is in the form of a contribution of additional Securitization Assets or as customary Investments in a Securitization Subsidiary in connection with a Qualified Securitization Financing) and (ii) distributions or payments of Securitization Fees and purchases of Securitization Assets pursuant to a Securitization Repurchase Obligation in connection with a Qualified Securitization Financing;

(x) contributions to a “rabbi” trust for the benefit of employees or other grantor trust subject to claims of creditors in the case of a bankruptcy of Holdings;

(y) Investments by an Unrestricted Subsidiary entered into prior to the day such Unrestricted Subsidiary is redesignated as a Restricted Subsidiary pursuant to the definition of “Unrestricted Subsidiary”; provided, such Investments were not incurred in contemplation of such redesignation; and

(z) additional Investments; provided, after giving Pro Forma Effect thereto the Total Leverage Ratio for the then most recently ended Test Period (calculated on a Pro Forma Basis) does not exceed 4.80:1.00 (which, at the option of Holdings, may be tested at the time of execution of a binding agreement governing such Investment); provided that, immediately before and immediately after giving Pro Forma Effect to such Investment (which may be determined at the option of Holdings at the execution of a binding agreement governing such Investment), no Event of Default under Section 8.01(a), (f) or (g) shall have occurred and be continuing;

 

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provided that, notwithstanding anything in this Section 7.02 to the contrary, no Material Contracts owned by any Loan Party may be contributed as an Investment by any Loan Party to any non-Loan Party.

To the extent an Investment is permitted to be made by a Loan Party directly in or to any Restricted Subsidiary or any other Person who is not a Loan Party (each such person, a “Target Person”) under any provision of this Section 7.02, such Investment may be made by advance, contribution or distribution by a Loan Party to a Restricted Subsidiary or Holdings, and further substantially contemporaneously advanced or contributed to a Restricted Subsidiary for purposes of making the relevant Investment in the Target Person without constituting an Investment for purposes of Section 7.02 (it being understood that such Investment must satisfy the requirements of, and shall count towards any thresholds in, a provision of this Section 7.02 as if made by the applicable Loan Party directly in or to the Target Person).

For purposes of determining compliance with this Section 7.02, in the event that an Investment meets the criteria of more than one of the categories of Investments described in clauses (a) through (z) above, Holdings shall, in its sole discretion, classify and reclassify or later divide, classify or reclassify such Investment (or any portion thereof) and will only be required to include the amount and type of such Investment in one or more of the above clauses.

For purposes of determining compliance with any dollar denominated restriction on the making of Investments, the Dollar Equivalent of such Investment denominated in a foreign currency will be calculated based on the relevant currency exchange rate in effect on the date such Investment was made.

Section 7.03 Indebtedness. Create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Indebtedness, except:

(a) Indebtedness of Holdings and any of its Subsidiaries under (i) the Loan Documents and (ii) the First Lien Loan Documents as in effect on the date hereof (including any incremental debt permitted under the terms thereof as in effect on the date hereof);

(b) Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness and any Permitted Refinancing thereof, in each case, of the Loan Parties;

(c) [reserved];

(d) Indebtedness as listed on Schedule 7.03 and any Permitted Refinancing thereof; provided that all such Indebtedness of any Loan Party owed to a Non-Loan Party shall be subject to the applicable subordination terms set forth in the Intercompany Note or as otherwise reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent;

(e) Guarantee Obligations of Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary in respect of Indebtedness of Holdings or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries otherwise permitted hereunder; provided, if the Indebtedness being guaranteed is subordinated to the Obligations, such Guarantee Obligation shall be subordinated to the Guarantee of the Obligations; provided further that no Guarantee by any Restricted Subsidiary of the First Lien Term Loans or any Subordinated Debt shall be permitted unless such Restricted Subsidiary shall have also provided a Guarantee of the Loan Document Obligations pursuant to the Second Lien Guaranty.

 

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(f) Indebtedness of Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary owing to Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary; provided that (i) all such Indebtedness of any Loan Party owed to any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party shall be subject to the applicable subordination terms set forth in the Intercompany Note or as otherwise reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent and (ii) in the case of any Indebtedness of any such Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party owing to Holdings, the Borrower or any other Loan Party, such Indebtedness is permitted pursuant to Section 7.02;

(g) (i) Attributable Indebtedness and other Indebtedness (including Capitalized Leases) financing the acquisition, construction, repair, replacement or improvement of fixed or capital assets (provided, such Indebtedness is incurred concurrently with or within three hundred sixty-five (365) days after the applicable acquisition, construction, repair, replacement or improvement), (ii) Attributable Indebtedness arising out of Permitted Sale Leasebacks, in the case of clauses (i) and (ii), in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed at any one time outstanding at the time of any incurrence thereof the greater of (x) $3,600,000 and (y) 9% of Consolidated EBITDA of Holdings (calculated on a Pro Forma Basis) as of the last day of the most recently ended Test Period at the time of incurrence thereof and (iii) any Permitted Refinancing of any Indebtedness set forth in the immediately preceding clauses (i) and (ii);

(h) Indebtedness in respect of Swap Contracts not for speculative purposes;

(i) [reserved];

(j) Indebtedness representing deferred compensation or stock based compensation to employees of Holdings (or any direct or indirect parent of Holdings) and its Restricted Subsidiaries;

(k) Indebtedness to current or former officers, directors, partners, managers, consultants, independent contractors and employees, their respective estates, spouses or former spouses to finance the purchase or redemption of Equity Interests of Holdings (or any direct or indirect parent thereof) permitted by Section 7.06 in an aggregate principal amount outstanding at any time not to exceed $500,000;

(l) Indebtedness incurred by Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary in a Permitted Acquisition, any other Investment expressly permitted hereunder or any Disposition, in each case to the extent constituting indemnification obligations, obligations in respect of purchase price (including earn-outs and adjustments), incentive, non-compete, consulting or other similar obligations or guarantees securing the performance of Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary in connection therewith;

(m) Indebtedness consisting of obligations of Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary under deferred compensation or other similar arrangements incurred by such Person in connection with the Transactions and Permitted Acquisitions or any other Investment permitted hereunder;

(n) Cash Management Obligations and other Indebtedness in respect of netting services, automatic clearinghouse arrangements, overdraft protections and similar arrangements in each case incurred in the ordinary course;

(o) Indebtedness consisting of (i) the financing of insurance premiums or (ii) take or pay obligations contained in supply arrangements, in each case, in the ordinary course of business;

 

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(p) Indebtedness incurred by Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary in respect of letters of credit, bank guarantees, bankers’ acceptances, warehouse receipts or similar instruments issued or created in the ordinary course of business, including in respect of workers compensation claims, health, disability or other employee benefits or property, casualty or liability insurance or self-insurance or other Indebtedness with respect to reimbursement-type obligations regarding workers compensation claims;

(q) obligations in respect of performance, bid, appeal and surety bonds and performance and completion guarantees and similar obligations provided by Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary or obligations in respect of letters of credit, bank guarantees or similar instruments related thereto, or tenant improvement loans, in each case in the ordinary course of business or consistent with past practice;

(r) guarantees of the obligations of suppliers, customers, franchisees, lessors and licensees of Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary incurred in the ordinary course of business;

(s) [reserved];

(t) arising in respect of the discounting of receivables, which does not exceed, at any one time outstanding at the time of any such incurrence, the greater of (x) $3,600,000 and (y) 9% of Consolidated EBITDA of Holdings (calculated on a Pro Forma Basis) as of the last day of the most recently ended Test Period at the time of such incurrence;

(u) Indebtedness incurred by a Non-Loan Party, and guarantees thereof by Non-Loan Parties, combined with the aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness that may be incurred or assumed pursuant to clauses (x) and (z) of this Section 7.03 (including any such Indebtedness assumed in connection with a Permitted Acquisition or other permitted Investment), in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed, at any one time outstanding, at the time of any such incurrence, the greater of (x) $2,400,000 and (y) 6% of Consolidated EBITDA of Holdings (calculated on a Pro Forma Basis) as of the last day of the most recently ended Test Period at the time of such incurrence;

(v) (i) Indebtedness (in the form of senior secured, senior unsecured, senior subordinated, or subordinated notes or loans) of the Borrower and guarantee thereof by any Loan Party that ranks pari passu or junior to the Obligations in respect of the Initial Term B Loans to the extent that the Borrower shall have been permitted to incur such Indebtedness pursuant to, and such Indebtedness shall be deemed to be incurred in reliance on, Section 2.14 and to the extent such Indebtedness is (I) (x) in the form of MFN Qualified Term Loans and (y) secured on a pari passu basis with the then existing Term Loans, shall be subject to Section 2.14(h) and (II) secured on a pari passu basis with the Lien securing the First Lien Term Loans, to the extent the First Lien Term Loans are outstanding as of the date of such incurrence such Indebtedness shall be deemed incurred in reliance on Section 2.14 or Section 7.03(v) of the First Lien Credit Agreement, as applicable; provided, (A) such Indebtedness shall not mature earlier than (1) the Maturity Date applicable to the Term Loans or (2) in the case of Indebtedness that is junior in right to payment or security to with the then existing Term Loans, 91 days after the Latest Maturity Date then applicable to the Term Loans (provided that the Borrower may incur Indebtedness with a final Maturity Date earlier than the date specified in clauses (1) or (2), as applicable, in the aggregate amount not to exceed the then-available Inside Maturity Date), (B) as of the date of the incurrence of such Indebtedness, the Weighted Average Life to Maturity of such Indebtedness shall not be shorter than that of the Term Loans (subject to exceptions under customary Extendable Bridge Loans or, in the case of Indebtedness secured on a pari passu basis with the

 

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Term Loans, to permit amortization in an aggregate annual amount of up to 1% of the original principal amount incurred, (C) no Person is a borrower or guarantor with respect to such Indebtedness unless such Person is the Borrower or a Guarantor which shall have previously or substantially concurrently Guaranteed the Obligations, (D) the affirmative and negative covenants, events of default and mandatory prepayments of such Indebtedness shall not be materially more restrictive to Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries than those set forth in the Loan Documents taken as a whole (as determined by Holdings) (other than with respect to economic terms and prepayment or redemption provisions and customary change of control and asset disposition offers), except for covenants, events of default or mandatory prepayments applicable only to those periods after the Latest Maturity Date under the Facility or that are offered for inclusion in the Loan Documents, (E) if such Indebtedness is secured, it shall not be secured by any assets of Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary that does not constitute Collateral and (F) (x) if such Indebtedness comprises junior lien or unsecured notes or loans, may not be prepaid except to the extent that prepayments of such debt are (i) permitted hereunder and (ii) to the extent required hereunder or pursuant to the terms of any such Indebtedness that is secured on a pari passu basis with the Term Loans, first made or offered to the Term Loans and any such Permitted Alternative Incremental Facilities Debt that is secured on a pari passu basis with the Term Loans; and (y) if such Indebtedness is secured on a pari passu basis with the Term Loans (1) if such Indebtedness has the same maturity, mandatory prepayments and prepayment premiums as any Term Loans, then prepayments shall be made on a pro rata basis or less than pro rata basis (but not greater than a pro rata basis) with such Term Loans or (2) if such Indebtedness does not have the same maturity and prepayment premiums as any Term Loans, then prepayments may be made on a greater than pro rata basis with such Term Loans (such Indebtedness incurred pursuant to this clause (v) being referred to as “Permitted Alternative Incremental Facilities Debt”) (in each case, other than pursuant to a refinancing transaction permitted hereunder or with respect to greater than pro rata payments to an earlier maturing tranche); provided, Permitted Alternative Incremental Facilities Debt may be incurred or issued in the form of an Extendable Bridge Loans, in which case, clauses (A) and (B) of the first proviso of this clause (v) shall not prohibit the inclusion of customary terms for “bridge” facilities, including customary mandatory prepayment, repurchase or redemption provisions (clauses (A) through (F) hereof are collectively the “Required Ratio Debt Terms”); and (ii) any Permitted Refinancing thereof; provided that, the Borrower agrees to provide the NB Investor Lenders (or other applicable NB Investors on behalf of any NB Investor Lenders) with a bona fide right of first offer to provide the full amount of any Indebtedness incurred pursuant to this Section 7.03(v) (and any NB Investor Lenders’ proportion may be provided by other applicable NB Investors). If the applicable NB Investor Lenders (or other applicable NB Investors) are unwilling to provide such Indebtedness promptly upon request or if the Borrower is not willing to agree to the terms, conditions and economics proposed by such NB Investor Lenders (or other applicable NB Investors), the Borrower may, in its sole discretion, retain any other Persons to provide such Indebtedness on terms, conditions and economics agreed with such other Persons. Any existing Lender offered or approached to provide any portion of such Indebtedness may elect or decline, in its sole discretion, to provide a portion thereof.

(w) additional Indebtedness in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed, at any one time outstanding at the time of such incurrence, the greater of (x) $6,000,000 and (y) 12% of Consolidated EBITDA of Holdings (calculated on a Pro Forma Basis) as of the last day of the most recently ended Test Period at the time of such incurrence;

 

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(x) Permitted Ratio Debt and any Permitted Refinancing thereof; provided that, the Borrower agrees to provide the NB Investor Lenders (or other applicable NB Investors on behalf of any NB Investor Lenders) with a bona fide right of first offer to provide the full amount of any Permitted Ratio Debt (and any NB Investor Lenders’ proportion may be provided by other applicable NB Investors). If the applicable NB Investor Lenders (or other applicable NB Investors) are unwilling to provide such Permitted Ratio Debt promptly upon request or if the Borrower is not willing to agree to the terms, conditions and economics proposed by such NB Investor Lenders (or other applicable NB Investors), the Borrower may, in its sole discretion, retain any other Persons to provide such Permitted Ratio Debt on terms, conditions and economics agreed with such other Persons. Any existing Lender offered or approached to provide any portion of such Permitted Ratio Debt may elect or decline, in its sole discretion, to provide a portion thereof;

(y) Indebtedness in respect of Permitted Debt Exchange Notes (as defined in the First Lien Credit Agreement on the date hereof) incurred pursuant to a Permitted Debt Exchange (as defined in the First Lien Credit Agreement on the date hereof) in accordance with Section 2.17 of the First Lien Credit Agreement in effect on the date hereof and any Permitted Refinancing thereof;

(z) Indebtedness incurred to finance a Permitted Acquisition or assumed in connection with any Permitted Acquisition; provided that, (A) if such Indebtedness is secured on a pari passu basis with the Obligations in respect of the First Lien Term Loans, the Secured Leverage Ratio calculated on a Pro Forma Basis as of the end of the most recent Test Period at the time of such incurrence does not exceed 4.80:1.00, (B) if such Indebtedness is secured on a pari passu or junior basis with the Lien securing the Initial Term B Loans, the Secured Leverage Ratio calculated on a Pro Forma Basis as of the end of the most recent Test Period at the time of such incurrence does not exceed 5.10:1.00, (C) if such Indebtedness is unsecured, the Total Leverage Ratio calculated on a Pro Forma Basis as of the end of the most recent Test Period at the time of such incurrence does not 5.40:1.00, (D) other than any Indebtedness incurred by a Non-Loan Party, such Indebtedness shall comply with the Required Ratio Debt Terms (other than with respect to Indebtedness assumed in connection with a Permitted Acquisition or other permitted Investment which Indebtedness shall only comply with clauses (A) and (B) of the definition of “Required Ratio Debt Terms”) and (E) the maximum aggregate principal amount of Indebtedness that may be incurred pursuant to this clause (z) and clause (u) and clause (x) above by Non-Loan Parties (including any such Indebtedness assumed in connection with a Permitted Acquisition or other permitted Investment) shall not exceed at any one time outstanding at the time of such incurrence, the greater of (x) $6,000,000 and (y) 12% of Consolidated EBITDA of Holdings (calculated on a Pro Forma Basis) as of the last day of the most recently ended Test Period at the time of such incurrence and (ii) any Permitted Refinancing thereof;

(aa) Indebtedness assumed in connection with any Permitted Acquisition or similar acquisition that is a permitted Investment in an aggregate principal amount not to exceed at any one time outstanding at the time of such assumption thereof the greater of (x) $6,000,000 and (y) 12% of Consolidated EBITDA of Holdings (calculated on a Pro Forma Basis) as of the last day of the most recently ended Test Period at the time of incurrence thereof and so long as such Indebtedness was not incurred in contemplation of such Permitted Acquisition or permitted Investment, as applicable, and such Indebtedness is not guaranteed by Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary (other than by any Person who becomes a Restricted Subsidiary in connection with the foregoing and its subsidiaries) and any Permitted Refinancing thereof;

(bb) Indebtedness incurred by a Securitization Subsidiary in a Qualified Securitization Financing;

 

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(cc) to the extent constituting Indebtedness, Investments permitted pursuant to Section 7.02 (other than Section 7.02 (f) or (y));

(dd) [reserved];

(ee) Indebtedness incurred by Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries as a result of any guarantee or indemnity provided by Holdings, the Borrower or any of their Subsidiaries for the obligations of Holdings, the Borrower or any of their Subsidiaries in connection with such entity claiming exemption from audit, the preparation and filing of its accounts or other similar exemptions; and

(ff) all premiums (if any), interest (including post-petition interest), fees, expenses, charges and additional or contingent interest on obligations described in clauses (a) through (ee) above;

For purposes of determining compliance with this Section 7.03, in the event that an item of Indebtedness meets the criteria of more than one of the categories of Indebtedness described in clauses (a) through (cc) above (other than with respect to clause (bb)), Holdings shall, in its sole discretion, classify and reclassify or later divide, classify or reclassify such item of Indebtedness (or any portion thereof) and will only be required to include the amount and type of such Indebtedness in one or more of the above clauses; provided, all Indebtedness outstanding under the Loan Documents and the First Lien Loan Documents will be deemed to have been incurred in reliance only on the exception in clause (a) of this Section 7.03.

The accrual of interest, the accretion of accreted value, the accretion or amortization of original issue discount and the payment of interest in the form of additional Indebtedness and increases in the amount of Indebtedness outstanding solely as a result of fluctuations in the exchange rate of currencies, in each case, shall not be deemed to be an incurrence of Indebtedness for purposes of this Section 7.03 or Section 7.01(ee).

For purposes of determining compliance with any dollar denominated restriction on the incurrence of Indebtedness, the Dollar Equivalent principal amount of Indebtedness denominated in a foreign currency will be calculated based on the relevant currency exchange rate in effect on the date such Indebtedness was incurred, in the case of term debt, or first committed or first incurred (whichever yields the lower Dollar Equivalent), in the case of revolving credit debt; provided, if such Indebtedness is issued to refinance other Indebtedness denominated in a foreign currency, and such refinancing would cause the applicable dollar denominated restriction to be exceeded if calculated at the current currency exchange rate in effect on the date of such refinancing, such dollar denominated restriction will be deemed not to have been exceeded so long as the principal amount of such refinancing Indebtedness does not exceed (i) the principal amount of such Indebtedness being refinanced plus (ii) the aggregate amount of accrued but unpaid interest, fees, underwriting discounts, defeasance costs, premiums (including tender premiums) and other costs and expenses (including original issue discount, upfront fees or similar fees) incurred in connection with such refinancing.

The principal amount of any non-interest bearing Indebtedness or other discount security constituting Indebtedness at any date will be the principal amount thereof that would be shown on a balance sheet of Holdings dated such date prepared in accordance with GAAP.

 

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For purposes of determining compliance with this Section 7.03, if any Indebtedness is refinanced in reliance on a basket measured by reference to a percentage of Consolidated EBITDA, and such refinancing would cause the percentage of Consolidated EBITDA to be exceeded if calculated based on the Consolidated EBITDA on the date of such refinancing, such percentage of Consolidated EBITDA will not be deemed to be exceeded to the extent the principal amount of such obligations secured by such newly incurred Indebtedness does not exceed the sum of (i) the principal amount of such Indebtedness plus (ii) the aggregate amount of accrued but unpaid interest, fees, underwriting discounts, defeasance costs, premiums (including tender premiums) and other costs and expenses (including original issue discount, upfront fees or similar fees) incurred in connection with such refinancing.

If any Indebtedness securing obligations are incurred to refinance Indebtedness initially incurred in reliance on a basket measured by a fixed dollar amount, such fixed dollar basket will be deemed not to be exceeded to the extent the principal amount of such newly incurred Indebtedness does not exceed the sum of (i) the principal amount of such Indebtedness plus (ii) the aggregate amount of accrued but unpaid interest, fees, underwriting discounts, defeasance costs, premiums (including tender premiums) and other costs and expenses (including original issue discount, upfront fees or similar fees) incurred in connection with such refinancing.

Section 7.04 Fundamental Changes. Merge, amalgamate, dissolve, liquidate, consolidate with or into another Person, or Dispose of (whether in one transaction or in a series of transactions) all or substantially all of its assets (whether now owned or hereafter acquired) to or in favor of any Person, except that:

(a) Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary (other than the Borrower) may merge or amalgamate with (i) the Borrower (including a merger or amalgamation the purpose of which is to reorganize the Borrower under the laws of a Permitted Jurisdiction); provided the Borrower shall be the continuing or surviving Person in a Permitted Jurisdiction, as applicable, or (ii) any one or more other Restricted Subsidiaries (other than the Borrower); provided, when any Restricted Subsidiary that is a Loan Party is merging or amalgamating with another Restricted Subsidiary, a Loan Party shall be the continuing or surviving Person, as applicable, or as otherwise permitted under Section 7.02;

(b) (i) any Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party may merge, amalgamate or consolidate with or into any other Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party and (ii) (A) any Restricted Subsidiary (other than the Borrower) may liquidate, dissolve or wind up, or (B) any Restricted Subsidiary may change its legal form, in each case, if in either case, Holdings determines in good faith that such action is in the best interests of Holdings and its Subsidiaries and is not materially disadvantageous to the Lenders (as determined by Holdings in good faith and in consultation with the Administrative Agent);

(c) any Restricted Subsidiary (other than the Borrower) may Dispose of all or substantially all of its assets (upon voluntary liquidation or otherwise) to another Restricted Subsidiary; provided, if the transferor in such a transaction is a Loan Party, then either (i) the transferee must be a Loan Party, (ii) to the extent constituting an Investment, such Investment must be a permitted Investment in or Indebtedness of a Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party in accordance with Section 7.02 and Section 7.03, respectively, or (iii) if the transferee is a non-Loan Party, in accordance with Section 7.05;

(d) so long as no Default or Event of Default exists or would result therefrom (and treating any Indebtedness that becomes an obligation of any Surviving Entity or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries as a result of such transaction as having been incurred at the time of such transaction), the Borrower may consolidate with or merge with or into any other Person (whether or not the Borrower is the surviving Person), or sell, assign, convey, transfer, lease or otherwise dispose of its properties and assets (or permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to enter into any

 

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such transaction or series of transactions) if such transaction or series of transactions, in the aggregate, would result in a sale, assignment, conveyance, transfer, lease or disposition to any other Person or group of Persons of all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries; provided:

(i) either (x) the Borrower shall be the continuing or surviving corporation or (y) the Person (if other than the Borrower) formed by such consolidation or into which the Borrower is merged or the Person which acquires by sale, assignment, conveyance, transfer, lease or disposition all or substantially all of the properties and assets of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis (for the purposes of this Section 7.04(d), the “Surviving Entity”) shall be a Person duly organized and validly existing under the laws of a Permitted Jurisdiction and such Person expressly assumes all the obligations of the Borrower under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which it is a party pursuant to agreements reasonably satisfactory to the Administrative Agent (and the Guarantees or direct borrowing obligations, as applicable, will be confirmed as applying to such Surviving Entity’s obligations);

(ii) the Borrower shall be organized in a Permitted Jurisdiction;

(iii) if requested by the Administrative Agent, the Surviving Entity shall have delivered to the Administrative Agent an officer’s certificate and an opinion of counsel, each stating that such consolidation, merger, amalgamation or transfer and all supplemental Loan Documents comply with this Agreement;

(iv) the Surviving Entity shall provide any documentation and other information about such Surviving Entity as shall have been reasonably requested in writing by any Lender through the Administrative Agent that such Lender shall have reasonably determined is required by regulatory authorities under applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including Title III of the USA PATRIOT Act and Beneficial Ownership Regulation;

(v) to the extent constituting a Disposition to a Restricted Subsidiary that is not a Loan Party, such Disposition is for fair market value as reasonably determined by Holdings in good faith and is permitted by Section 7.02 and Section 7.05; and

(vi) after giving effect to such transaction or series of transactions, Holdings shall be a Guarantor.

(e) so long as no Default exists or would result therefrom, Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary may merge or amalgamate with any other Person in order to effect an Investment permitted pursuant to Section 7.02; provided, when Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary that is a Loan Party is merging or amalgamating with another Person, either Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary shall be the continuing or surviving Person, as applicable, or the continuing or surviving Person shall be in compliance with Section 6.10, if applicable;

(f) [reserved];

(g) a merger, amalgamation, dissolution, winding up, liquidation, consolidation or Disposition, the purpose of which is to effect a Disposition permitted pursuant to Section 7.05, may be effected; provided, in any such transaction involving the Borrower, the Borrower shall be the continuing or surviving Person or shall not have been merged, amalgamated, dissolved, wound up, liquidated, consolidated or Disposed of;

 

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(h) Permitted Acquisitions and other Investments permitted pursuant to Section 7.02; and

(i) dispositions of Investments to JV Entities permitted pursuant to Section 7.05(j).

Section 7.05 Dispositions. Make any Disposition, except:

(a) Dispositions of obsolete, used, worn out or surplus property, whether now owned or hereafter acquired, in the ordinary course of business and Dispositions of property no longer used or useful in the conduct of the business of Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary;

(b) Dispositions of inventory, goods and other assets in the ordinary course of business (including allowing any registrations or any applications for registration of any IP Rights that in the reasonable judgment of Holdings are no longer economically practicable to maintain or useful in the conduct of the business of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries, as a whole, to lapse or go abandoned in the ordinary course of business);

(c) Dispositions of property to the extent that (i) such property is exchanged for credit against the purchase price of similar replacement property that is promptly purchased or (ii) the proceeds of such Disposition are applied within three hundred sixty-five (365) days of receipt to the purchase price of such replacement property;

(d) Dispositions of property to Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary; provided, dispositions by a Loan Party to a Non-Loan Party shall, to the extent such transaction constitutes an Investment, be deemed to be an Investment made pursuant to, and subject to the limitations set forth in, Section 7.02;

(e) Dispositions of assets that are made subject to a Capitalized Lease or Attributable Indebtedness within three hundred sixty-five (365) days of the acquisition, constructions, lease or improvement of the asset so financed;

(f) Dispositions permitted (other than by reference to Section 7.05) by Section 7.02, Section 7.04 and Section 7.06 and Liens permitted by Section 7.01;

(g) Dispositions of cash and Cash Equivalents (or Investments that were Cash Equivalents when made);

(h) leases, subleases, licenses or sublicenses, in each case in the ordinary course of business and which do not materially interfere with the business of Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary, taken as a whole;

(i) transfers of property subject to, and Dispositions that constitute, Casualty Events;

(j) Dispositions of Investments in JV Entities or non-Wholly-Owned Restricted Subsidiaries to the extent required by, or made pursuant to customary buy/sell arrangements between, the parties to such JV Entity or shareholders of such non-Wholly-Owned Restricted Subsidiary set forth in shareholders agreements, joint venture agreements, organizational documents or similar binding agreements relating to such JV Entity or non-Wholly-Owned Restricted Subsidiary;

 

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(k) Dispositions of accounts receivable in the ordinary course of business in connection with the collection or compromise thereof;

(l) Dispositions or discounts of receivables or notes receivable arising in the ordinary course of business;

(m) the unwinding of any Swap Contract pursuant to its terms;

(n) Permitted Sale Leasebacks;

(o) Dispositions or sales of de minimis number of Equity Interests of a Non-U.S. Subsidiary in order to qualify members of the governing body of such Subsidiary pursuant to requirements of law;

(p) Dispositions not otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 7.05; provided, (i) such Disposition shall be for fair market value as reasonably determined by Holdings in good faith, (ii) with respect to any Disposition pursuant to this clause (p) for a purchase price in excess of $2,400,000, Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary shall receive not less than 75.0% of such consideration in the form of cash or Cash Equivalents (provided, however, that for the purposes of this clause (p)(ii), the following shall be deemed to be cash: (A) the assumption by the transferee of Indebtedness or other liabilities contingent or otherwise of Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary (other than Subordinated Debt) and the valid release of Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary, by all applicable creditors in writing, from all liability on such Indebtedness or other liability in connection with such Disposition, (B) securities, notes or other obligations received by Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary from the transferee that are converted by Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary into cash or Cash Equivalents within 180 days following the closing of such Disposition, (C) Indebtedness (other than Subordinated Debt) of any Restricted Subsidiary that is no longer a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such Disposition, to the extent that Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary are released from any Guarantee of payment of such Indebtedness in connection with such Disposition and (D) aggregate non-cash consideration received Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary for all Dispositions under this clause (p) having an aggregate fair market value (determined as of the closing of the applicable Disposition for which such non-cash consideration is received) not to exceed, at any time outstanding at the time of such applicable Disposition, the greater of (x) $6,000,000 and (y) 12% of Consolidated EBITDA of Holdings (calculated on a Pro Forma Basis) as of the last day of the most recently ended Test Period at the time of such Disposition (net of any non-cash consideration converted into cash and Cash Equivalents received in respect of any such non-cash consideration) and (iii) Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary, as applicable, complies with the applicable provisions of Section 2.05;

(q) Dispositions not otherwise permitted pursuant to this Section 7.05 in an aggregate amount not to exceed, in any calendar year, the greater of (x) $2,400,000 and (y) 6% of Consolidated EBITDA of Holdings as of the last day of the most recently ended Test Period at the time of such applicable Disposition;

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(s) Dispositions of non-core or obsolete assets acquired in connection with Permitted Acquisitions;

(t) any swap of assets in exchange for services or other assets in the ordinary course of business of comparable or greater fair market value of usefulness to the business of Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary as a whole, as determined in good faith by Holdings;

(u) [reserved];

(v) [reserved];

(w) any Disposition of Securitization Assets to a Securitization Subsidiary in connection with a Qualified Securitization Financing;

(x) Dispositions of real property and other assets in connection with the relocation of offices or executive officers or employees of Holdings or any Subsidiary;

(y) non-exclusive licenses or sublicenses of IP rights in the ordinary course of business;

(z) [reserved]; and

(aa) the sale by any Loan Party of any Equity Interests in any Non-Loan Party to any Non-Loan Party.

To the extent any Collateral is Disposed of as expressly permitted by this Section 7.05 to any Person other than Holdings, the Borrower or any Subsidiary Guarantor, such Collateral shall be sold free and clear of the Liens created by the Loan Documents and, if requested by Holdings, upon the certification by Holdings that such Disposition is permitted by this Agreement, the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent, as applicable, shall be authorized to take and shall take any actions deemed necessary or appropriate in order to effect the foregoing, including for the avoidance of doubt, delivery of documentation and filing (or authorizing the filing) of financing statement amendments to effect the release of any such Liens.

Section 7.06 Restricted Payments. Make, directly or indirectly, any Restricted Payment, except:

(a) each Restricted Subsidiary may make Restricted Payments to Holdings or other Restricted Subsidiaries (and, in the case of a Restricted Payment by a non-Wholly-Owned Restricted Subsidiary, to Holdings and any other Restricted Subsidiary and to each other owner of Equity Interests of such Restricted Subsidiary based on their relative ownership interests of the relevant class of Equity Interests);

(b) (i) Holdings may (or may make Restricted Payments to permit any direct or indirect parent thereof to) redeem in whole or in part any of its Equity Interests for another class of its (or such parent’s) Equity Interests or rights to acquire its Equity Interests or with proceeds from substantially concurrent equity contributions or issuances of new Equity Interests; provided, any terms and provisions material to the interests of the Lenders, when taken as a whole, contained in such other class of Equity Interests are at least as advantageous to the Lenders as those contained in the Equity Interests redeemed thereby and (ii) Holdings, its or any of its direct or indirect parent’s may declare and make dividend payments or other distributions payable solely in Qualified Equity Interests;

 

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(c) Restricted Payments made to consummate the Transactions;

(d) to the extent constituting Restricted Payments, Holdings and the Restricted Subsidiaries may enter into and consummate transactions expressly permitted by any provision of Section 7.02, Section 7.03(k), Section 7.04 or Sections 7.07(e) and (n), and in each case, transactions in connection therewith;

(e) repurchases of Equity Interests in the ordinary course of business in Holdings (or any direct or indirect parent thereof) or any Restricted Subsidiary deemed to occur upon exercise of stock options, warrants, settlement or vesting if such Equity Interests represent a portion of the exercise price of such options, warrants, settlement or vesting;

(f) Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary may, in good faith, pay (or make Restricted Payments to allow any direct or indirect parent thereof to pay) for the repurchase, retirement or other acquisition or retirement for value of Equity Interests of it or any direct or indirect parent thereof held by any future, present or former employee, director, advisor, manager, officer or consultant (or any Affiliates, spouses, former spouses, other immediate family members, successors, executors, administrators, heirs, legatees or distributees of any of the foregoing) of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries pursuant to any employee, management, director or manager equity plan, employee, management, director or manager stock option plan or any other employee, management, director or manager benefit plan or any agreement (including any stock subscription or shareholder agreement) with any employee, director, manager, officer or consultant of Holdings (or any direct or indirect parent thereof) or any Subsidiary; provided, such payments do not to exceed in any calendar year the sum of (i) the greater of (x) $6,000,000 and (y) 12% of Consolidated EBITDA of Holdings as of the last day of the most recently ended Test Period at the time of such payment (provided, any unused portion of this clause (i) for any calendar year may be carried forward to succeeding calendar years, so long as the aggregate amount of all Restricted Payments made pursuant to this Section 7.06(f)(i) in any calendar year (after giving effect to such carry forward) shall not exceed the greater of (x) $9,000,000 and (y) 18% of Consolidated EBITDA of Holdings as of the last day of the most recently ended Test Period) plus (ii) the cash proceeds of keyman life insurance policies received by Holdings or a Restricted Subsidiary after the Closing Date plus (iii) the amount of net cash proceeds from the sale of Equity Interests in Holdings and contributed to the Borrower for the repurchase, retirement or other acquisition or retirement for value of such Equity Interests held by an employee, director, advisor, manager, officer or consultant to the extent not otherwise used under this Agreement or applied to the Available Amount; provided, cancellation of Indebtedness owing to Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries from members of management of Holdings or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries in connection with a repurchase of Equity Interests of Holdings will not be deemed to constitute a Restricted Payment for purposes of this covenant or any other provision of this Agreement;

(g) Holdings and any Restricted Subsidiary may make Restricted Payments to any direct or indirect holder of an Equity Interest in Holdings:

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(ii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay such equity holder’s operating costs and expenses incurred in the ordinary course of business, other overhead costs and expenses and fees (including administrative, legal, accounting and similar fees and expenses provided by third parties as well as trustee, directors, managers and general partner fees) that are reasonable and customary and incurred in the ordinary course of business and attributable to the ownership or operations of Holdings and its Subsidiaries (including any reasonable and customary indemnification claims made by directors, managers or officers of Holdings attributable to the direct or indirect ownership or operations of Holdings and its Subsidiaries) and fees and expenses otherwise due and payable by Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary and permitted to be paid by Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary under this Agreement not to exceed $1,200,000 in any fiscal year;

(iii) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay franchise and excise taxes, and other fees and expenses, required to maintain its (or any of its direct or indirect parents’) existence;

(iv) to finance any Investment permitted to be made pursuant to Section 7.02; provided, (A) such Restricted Payment shall be made substantially concurrently with the closing of such Investment and (B) Holdings or such parent shall, immediately following the closing thereof, cause (1) all property acquired (whether assets or Equity Interests) to be held by or contributed to the Borrower or a Restricted Subsidiary (provided, any such amounts under this clause (iv)(B) shall not increase the Available Amount or otherwise increase any basket under this Agreement that builds by amounts contributed to the Borrower or any Restricted Subsidiary) or (2) the merger (to the extent permitted in Section 7.04) of the Person formed or acquired into it or a Restricted Subsidiary in order to consummate such Permitted Acquisition, in each case, in accordance with the requirements of Section 6.10;

(v) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary costs, fees and expenses (other than to Affiliates) related to any unsuccessful equity or debt offering permitted by this Agreement; and

(vi) the proceeds of which shall be used to pay customary salary, bonus and other benefits payable to officers and employees of Holdings to the extent such salaries, bonuses and other benefits are attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries;

(h) payments in the form of Equity Interests of Holdings (other than Disqualified Equity Interests and to the extent not otherwise used under this Agreement or applied to the Available Amount);

(i) Restricted Payments made to finance expenses properly incurred in connection with the issuance or incurrence of a refinancing of Indebtedness permitted under this Agreement;

(j) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, Restricted Payments made from the net cash proceeds received by Holdings after the Closing Date pursuant to contributions to its common equity capital or issuances of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Equity Interests) of Holdings (other than received as a Cure Amount and to the extent not otherwise used under this Agreement or applied to the Available Amount) that are used substantially contemporaneously to make such Restricted Payment;

 

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(k) Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary may pay any dividend or distribution within sixty (60) days after the date of declaration thereof, if at the date of declaration such payment would have complied with the provisions of this Agreement;

(l) Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary may (a) pay cash in lieu of fractional Equity Interests in connection with any dividend, split or combination thereof or any Permitted Acquisition and (b) honor any conversion request by a holder of convertible Indebtedness and make cash payments in lieu of fractional shares in connection with any such conversion and may make payments on convertible Indebtedness in accordance with its terms;

(m) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary may make additional Restricted Payments in an amount not to exceed at the time of such Restricted Payment the greater of (i) (x) $14,000,000 per annum so long as the Total Leverage Ratio, after giving pro forma effect to such Restricted Payment, is less than or equal to 6.50:1.00 but greater than 5.00:1.00 or (y) $21,000,000 per annum so long as the Total Leverage Ratio, after giving pro forma effect to such Restricted Payment, is less than or equal to 5.00:1.00, in each case, minus the aggregate amount of Restricted Payments made prior to such date in reliance on this clause (m), plus (ii) additional Restricted Payments so long as the Total Leverage Ratio, after giving pro forma effect to such Restricted Payment is less than 4.00:1.00; and

(n) Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary may make additional Restricted Payments in an individual amount not to exceed the then Available Amount; provided, (i) at the time of any such Restricted Payment, no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom and (ii) at the time of such Restricted Payment utilizing amounts pursuant to clause (a) of the definition of “Available Amount” and after giving effect thereto and to the incurrence of any Indebtedness in connection therewith, the Total Leverage Ratio as of the end of the most recently ended Test Period at the time of such Restricted Payment, on a Pro Forma Basis, would be equal to or less than 4.00:1.00.

Section 7.07 Transactions with Affiliates. Enter into any transaction of any kind with any Affiliate of Holdings, whether or not in the ordinary course of business, other than:

(a) transactions between or among Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary or any entity that becomes a Restricted Subsidiary as a result of such transaction;

(b) transactions on terms not less favorable to Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary as would be obtainable by Holdings or such Restricted Subsidiary at the time in a comparable arm’s-length transaction with a Person other than an Affiliate;

(c) the Transactions and the payment of fees and expenses related to the Transactions (including the issuance of Equity Interests to any officer, director, manager, employee or consultant of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries in connection with the Transactions);

(d) (i) any purchase by Holdings of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Equity Interests) of the Borrower or any contribution by Holdings to the equity capital of the Borrower and (ii) any issuance of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Equity Interests) of Holdings and any contribution by any equity holder of Holdings to the equity capital of the Borrower;

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(f) payments or loans (or cancellation of loans) to any officer, director, manager, employee or consultant of Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries that are approved by a majority of Holdings’ board of directors, subject to the limitations set forth in Section 7.02;

(g) loans and other transactions by and among the Loan Parties and/or one or more Subsidiaries to the extent otherwise permitted under this Article VII;

(h) employment and severance arrangements between Holdings or any Restricted Subsidiary and their respective officers and employees in the ordinary course of business and transactions pursuant to stock option plans and employee benefit plans and arrangements;

(i) to the extent permitted by Sections 7.06(g)(iii), payments by Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries pursuant to any tax sharing agreements among Holdings (and any such direct or indirect parent thereof) and its Restricted Subsidiaries on customary terms to the extent attributable to the ownership or operation of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries;

(j) the payment of customary fees and reasonable out-of-pocket costs to, and indemnities provided on behalf of, directors, managers, officers, employees and consultants of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of business to the extent attributable to the ownership or operation of the Borrower and its Restricted Subsidiaries;

(k) transactions pursuant to agreements set forth on Schedule 7.07 or any amendment thereto in effect as of the Closing Date or the date of delivering such amendment pursuant to Section 6.12 and any amendment to such agreements to the extent such an amendment is not adverse to the Lenders in any material respect (as determined by Holdings in good faith);

(l) Investments permitted pursuant to Section 7.02, Indebtedness permitted pursuant to Section 7.03, transactions permitted pursuant to Section 7.04, Dispositions permitted pursuant to Section 7.05, and Restricted Payments permitted pursuant to Section 7.06 (other than, in each case, by reference to this Section 7.07; provided that Restricted Payments made pursuant Section 7.06(d) shall be permitted);

(m) assignments of Term Loans to Sponsor Affiliated Lenders to the extent permitted pursuant to Section 10.07(j);

(n) [reserved];

(o) transactions entered into by an Unrestricted Subsidiary with an Affiliate prior to the redesignation of any such Unrestricted Subsidiary as a Restricted Subsidiary; provided that such transactions were not entered into in contemplation of such redesignation;

(p) any Disposition of Securitization Assets or related assets in connection with any Qualified Securitization Financing and any repurchase of Securitization Assets pursuant to a Securitization Repurchase Obligation;

(q) royalty-free licenses of any of the Loan Parties’ or their Restricted Subsidiaries’ trademarks, trade names and business systems by the Loan Parties to Restricted Subsidiaries that are not Loan Parties; and

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Section 7.08 Prepayments, Etc. of Indebtedness.

Prepay, redeem, purchase, defease or otherwise satisfy prior to the scheduled maturity thereof in any manner loans under any Subordinated Debt (other than Indebtedness among any of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries) or Junior Financing Debt (it being understood that payments of regularly scheduled interest (including capitalization of interest), applicable high yield debt obligation payments and mandatory prepayments under any such Subordinated Debt Documents or any such documentation governing Junior Financing Debt shall not be prohibited by this clause), except for:

(i) the refinancing thereof with the Net Cash Proceeds of any Indebtedness (to the extent such Indebtedness constitutes a Permitted Refinancing);

(ii) the conversion thereof to Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Equity Interests) of Holdings; and

(iii) prepayments, redemptions, purchases, defeasances and other payments thereof prior to their scheduled maturity in an individual amount not to exceed:

(A) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, the net cash proceeds received by Holdings after the Closing Date pursuant to contributions to its common equity capital or issuances of Equity Interests (other than Disqualified Equity Interests) of Holdings (other than received as a Cure Amount and to the extent not otherwise used under this Agreement or applied to the Available Amount) that are used substantially contemporaneously to make such prepayments, redemptions, purchases, defeasances and other payments; plus

(B) so long as no Event of Default is continuing or would result therefrom, together with other amounts made in reliance on this clause (B), the greater of (x) $6,000,000 and (y) 12% of Consolidated EBITDA of Holdings (calculated on a Pro Forma Basis) as of the last day of the most recently ended Test Period at the time of such prepayments, redemptions, purchases, defeasances and other payments; plus

(C) the Available Amount; provided, (i) if any such prepayment, redemption, purchase, defesances or other payment is made utilizing amounts pursuant to clause (a) of the definition of “Available Amount”, after giving Pro Forma Effect thereto, the Total Leverage Ratio (calculated on a Pro Forma Basis) is not greater than 4.80:1.00 as of the last day of the Test Period most recently ended on or prior to the making of such prepayment, redemption, purchase, defeasance and other payment and (ii) no Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom; plus

(D) additional prepayments, redemptions, purchases, defeasances and other payments; provided, after giving Pro Forma Effect thereto, (1) the Total Leverage Ratio (calculated on a Pro Forma Basis) is not greater than 4.20:1.00 as of the last day of the Test Period most recently ended on or prior to the making of such prepayment, redemption, purchase, defeasance and other payment and (2) no Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom.

 

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Section 7.09 Anti-Layering. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in the First Lien Loan Documents, no Loan Party shall, and no Loan Party shall permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, permit, create, incur, assume or suffer to exist any Indebtedness (whether pursuant to a refinancing or otherwise) that (a) is Subordinate or Junior (as defined below) to the First Lien Obligations unless such Indebtedness is Subordinate or Junior to the First Lien Obligations to at least the same extent, and on the same terms, as the Obligations are Subordinate or Junior to the First Lien Obligations, and (b) is secured by a Lien that is Subordinate or Junior to the Lien securing the First Lien Obligations on the Closing Date unless such Lien is Subordinate or Junior to the Lien securing the First Lien Obligations to at least the same extent, and on the same terms, as the Lien securing the Obligations is Subordinate or Junior to the Lien securing the First Lien Obligations. For the avoidance of doubt, no Loan Party shall, and no Loan Party shall permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, grant (or permit a secured party to grant) a new security interest in the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, agree to (or permit a secured party to agree to) the creation or imposition of a new security interest in the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, or allocate any security interest in the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations, in each case, that is Subordinate or Junior to the Liens on the Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations (including Net Cash Proceeds thereof and payments with respect thereto) in favor of the First Lien Collateral Agent pursuant to the First Lien Collateral Documents (i.e., by creating new junior or separate junior security interests in such Collateral securing the First Lien Obligations), unless such security interest is Subordinate or Junior to the First Lien Obligations to at least the same extent, and on the same terms, as the Lien securing the Obligations is Subordinate or Junior to the Lien securing the First Lien Obligations. None of the foregoing provisions of this Section 7.09 shall prohibit the incurrence of Indebtedness pursuant to any Additional Senior Obligations (as defined in the Intercreditor Agreement) in accordance with the terms of the First Lien Credit Agreement as in effect on the date hereof (without any waivers or amendments of the amount, terms and conditions related to such Additional Senior Lien Obligations] (as defined in the Intercreditor Agreement)). For purposes hereof “Junior” or “Subordinate” means subordinate or junior as to: (i) right of payment; or (ii) other rights or remedies or otherwise, in each case, of, or with respect to, any Collateral or Net Cash Proceeds (but not with respect to the application or distribution of payments pursuant to Section 8.04 of the First Lien Credit Agreement as in effect on the date hereof, without any waivers or amendments). Notwithstanding the forgoing or any provision in any Loan Document to the contrary, the First Lien Collateral Agent and the other First Lien Secured Parties may amend any waterfall of payments provisions or application of Net Cash Proceeds (as defined in the First Lien Credit Agreement) provisions contained in the First Lien Loan Documents and to create first-out or last-out tranches, in each case, even if such actions may result in the creation of one or more classes of claims in respect of the First Lien Obligations pursuant to the applicable provisions of Bankruptcy Law.

Section 7.10 [Reserved].

Section 7.11 Nature of Business, Fiscal Year and Accounting.

(a) Holdings and the Restricted Subsidiaries shall not otherwise engage in any material lines of business other than those conducted by Holdings and the Restricted Subsidiaries on the Closing Date after giving effect to the Transactions or any similar, corollary, related, ancillary, incidental or complementary business or business activities or a reasonable extension, development or expansion thereof or ancillary thereto.

(b) For financial reporting purposes, Holdings and the Restricted Subsidiaries’ fiscal year shall not end on any date other than December 31 (other than any Subsidiary acquired after the Closing Date); provided, however, that Holdings may, upon written notice to the Administrative Agent, change their fiscal year to any other fiscal year reasonably acceptable to the Administrative Agent, in which case, Holdings and the Administrative Agent will, and are hereby authorized by the Lenders to, make any adjustments to this Agreement that are necessary to reflect such change in fiscal year.

 

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(c) No Loan Party shall, nor shall it permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to make any change in accounting policies or reporting practices in any manner that is materially adverse to the Lenders, except as required or permitted by GAAP.

Section 7.12 Holdings Covenant. Notwithstanding anything contained herein to the contrary, Holdings will not conduct, transact or otherwise engage in any active business or operations other than through the Borrower and its Subsidiaries. The foregoing will not prohibit Holdings from taking actions related to the following (and activities incidental thereto):

(a) its ownership of the Equity Interests of the Borrower (and for the avoidance of doubt, Holdings will not directly hold any Equity Interests other than the Equity Interests of the Company);

(b) the maintenance of its legal existence (including the ability to incur fees, costs and expenses relating to such maintenance);

(c) the performance of its obligations with respect to the Facility, other Indebtedness permitted by this Agreement (but not, for the avoidance of doubt, Indebtedness for borrowed money except to the extent permitted by clauses (f) and (h) below or owed to the Borrower or any Subsidiary), the Acquisition Agreement and the other agreements contemplated by the Acquisition Agreement;

(d) any offering of its common stock or any other issuance of its Equity Interests;

(e) the making of Investments or Restricted Payments; provided that Holdings will not be permitted to make Restricted Payments using the cash from the Borrower or any Subsidiary unless such cash has been dividend or otherwise distributed to Holdings as a permitted Restricted Payment pursuant to the terms of Section 7.06;

(f) the incurrence of Permitted Holdings Debt and the HAC Loan;

(g) making contributions to the capital or acquiring Equity Interests of its Subsidiaries;

(h) guaranteeing the obligations of the Borrower and its Subsidiaries;

(i) participating in tax, accounting and other administrative matters as a member or parent of the consolidated group;

(j) holding any cash or property (including cash and property received in connection with Restricted Payments made by the Borrower, but excluding the Equity Interests of any Person other than the Borrower);

(k) providing indemnification to officers and directors;

(l) the making of Investments consisting of Cash Equivalents;

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(n) activities incidental to the businesses or activities described above.

Section 7.13 Amendments or Waivers of Organizational Documents and Certain Related Agreements. Except as set forth in Section 7.14, no Loan Party shall, nor shall it permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, agree to any material amendment, restatement, supplement or other modification to, or waiver of, any of its Organization Documents or any of its material rights under any related agreement after the Closing Date without in each case obtaining the prior written consent of the Required Lenders, to such amendment, restatement, supplement or other modification or waiver, except, in each case, to the extent such amendment, restatement, supplement or other modification could not reasonably be expected to be adverse in any material respect to any Lenders.

Section 7.14 Amendments or Waivers with respect to Certain Indebtedness. No Loan Party shall, nor shall it permit any of its Subsidiaries to, amend or otherwise change the terms of any documents governing Indebtedness secured by a Lien junior to the Lien securing the Obligations or any Subordinated Debt Documents or make any payment consistent with an amendment thereof or change thereto, if the effect of such amendment or change is to increase the interest rate on such Indebtedness, change (to earlier dates) any dates upon which payments of principal or interest are due thereon, change any event of default or condition to an event of default with respect thereto (other than to eliminate any such event of default or increase any grace period related thereto), change the redemption, prepayment or defeasance provisions thereof, change the subordination provisions of the documents governing Indebtedness secured by a Lien junior to the Lien securing the Obligations or the Subordinated Debt Documents (or, in each case, of any guaranty thereof), or if the effect of such amendment or change, together with all other amendments or changes made, is to increase materially the obligations of the obligor thereunder or to confer any additional rights on the holders of such Indebtedness (or a trustee or other representative on their behalf) which would be adverse in any material respect to any Loan Party or Lenders.

Section 7.15 Sale and Lease-Back Transactions. No Loan Party shall, nor shall it permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, enter into any Sale Leaseback that is not a Permitted Sale Leaseback and otherwise permitted under Section 7.01 and Section 7.03 of this Agreement.

Section 7.16 No Negative Pledges. No Loan Party shall, and no Loan Party shall permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, create or otherwise cause or suffer to exist or become effective any consensual restriction or encumbrance of any kind on the ability of any Loan Party or Restricted Subsidiary to pay dividends or make any other distribution on any of such Loan Party’s or Restricted Subsidiary’s Equity Interests or to pay fees, including management fees, or make other payments and distributions to the Borrower or any other Restricted Subsidiary except pursuant to Credit Agreement Refinancing Indebtedness or any Permitted Refinancing consistent with the terms hereof, those contained in the First Lien Loan Documents or in the documents evidencing other Indebtedness permitted hereunder but only to the extent not more restrictive than the restrictions contained in the First Lien Loan Documents. No Loan Party shall, and no Loan Party shall permit any of its Restricted Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly, enter into, assume or become subject to any Contractual Obligation prohibiting or otherwise restricting the existence of any Lien upon any of its assets pledged to the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Secured Parties, as security for the Obligations, whether now owned or hereafter acquired except (i) in connection with any document or instrument governing Liens permitted pursuant to Section 7.01(j), provided, that any such restriction contained therein relates only to the asset or assets subject to such Permitted Liens and (ii) any prohibition or limitation that (A) exists pursuant to applicable requirements of law, (B) consists of customary restrictions and conditions contained in any agreement relating to the sale or other disposition of any property permitted under Section 7.05 pending the consummation of such sale or disposition, but only with

 

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respect to the property subject to such sale or disposition or (C) restricts licensing or sublicensing or assignment of a contract (provided nothing therein limits the ability of a party thereto to assign its interests in and to all proceeds derived from or in connection with such contract), of any Loan Party or Restricted Subsidiary thereof permitted hereunder.

ARTICLE VIII

Events of Default and Remedies

Section 8.01 Events of Default. Any of the following events referred to in any of clauses (a) through (k) inclusive of this Section 8.01 shall constitute an “Event of Default”:

(a) Non-Payment. Any Loan Party fails to pay (i) when and as required to be paid herein, any amount of principal of any Loan or (ii) within five (5) Business Days after the same becomes due, any interest on any Loan or any other amount payable hereunder or with respect to any other Loan Document, in each case, unless such failure to pay is caused by an administrative or technical error; or

(b) Specific Covenants. Any Loan Party fails to perform or observe any term, covenant or agreement contained in (i) any of Section 6.03(a), Section 6.04 (solely with respect to the Borrower’s existence) or Section 6.11 or (ii) Article VII; or

(c) Other Defaults. Any Loan Party fails to perform or observe any other covenant or agreement (not specified in Section 8.01(a) or (b) above) contained in any Loan Document on its part to be performed or observed and such failure continues for thirty (30) days after receipt by Holdings of written notice thereof by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders; or

(d) Representations and Warranties. Any representation, warranty, certification or statement of fact made or deemed made by or on behalf of any Loan Party herein, in any other Loan Document, or in any document required to be delivered in connection herewith or therewith shall be incorrect or misleading in any material respect when made or deemed made and such incorrect or misleading representation, warranty, certification or statement of fact, if capable of being cured, remains so incorrect or misleading for forty-five (45) days commencing upon the earlier of (x) receipt by Holdings of written notice thereof by the Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders or (y) the knowledge thereof by a Responsible Officer of Holdings (provided that the forty-five (45)-day grace period shall not apply to Specified Representations or Specified Acquisition Agreement Representations); or

(e) Cross-Default. Any Loan Party or any Restricted Subsidiary (A) fails to make any payment beyond the applicable grace period with respect thereto, if any (whether by scheduled maturity, required prepayment, acceleration, demand, or otherwise) in respect of any Indebtedness (other than Indebtedness hereunder) having an aggregate principal amount of not less than the Threshold Amount or (B) fails to observe or perform any other agreement or condition relating to any such Indebtedness in excess of the Threshold Amount, or any other event occurs (other than (i) with respect to Indebtedness consisting of Swap Contracts, termination events or equivalent events pursuant to the terms of such Swap Contracts and (ii) any event requiring prepayment pursuant to customary asset sale provisions), the effect of which default or other event is to cause, or to permit the holder or holders of such Indebtedness (or a trustee or agent on behalf of such holder or holders or beneficiary or beneficiaries) to cause, with the giving of notice if required, all such Indebtedness to become due or to be repurchased, prepaid, defeased or redeemed (automatically or otherwise), or an offer to repurchase, prepay,

 

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defease or redeem all such Indebtedness to be made, prior to its stated maturity; provided, this clause (e)(B) shall not apply to secured Indebtedness that becomes due (or requires an offer to purchase) as a result of the voluntary sale or transfer of the property or assets securing such Indebtedness, if such sale or transfer is permitted hereunder and under the documents providing for such Indebtedness; provided, further, such failure is unremedied and is not waived by the holders of such Indebtedness; or

(f) Insolvency Proceedings, Etc. Any Loan Party or any of the Restricted Subsidiaries institutes or consents to the institution of any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law, or makes an assignment for the benefit of creditors; or applies for or consents to the appointment of any receiver, interim receiver, receiver and manager, trustee, custodian, conservator, liquidator, rehabilitator, administrator, administrative receiver or similar officer for it or for all or any material part of its property; or any receiver, interim receiver, receiver and manager, trustee, custodian, conservator, liquidator, rehabilitator, administrator, administrative receiver, debtor-in-possession, insolvency practitioner or similar officer is appointed without the application or consent of such Person and the appointment continues undischarged or unstayed for sixty (60) calendar days; or any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law relating to any such Person or to all or any material part of its property is instituted without the consent of such Person and continues undismissed or unstayed for sixty (60) calendar days; or an order for relief is entered in any such proceeding; or

(g) Inability to Pay Debts; Attachment. (i) Any Loan Party or any Restricted Subsidiary becomes unable or admits in writing its inability or fails generally to pay its debts as they become due or is deemed unable to pay its debts as they fall due for the purposes of any Debtor Relief Law, or (ii) any writ or warrant of attachment or execution or similar process is issued or levied against all or any material part of the property of the Loan Parties, taken as a whole, and is not released, vacated or fully bonded within sixty (60) days after its issue or levy; or

(h) Judgments. There is entered against any Loan Party or any Restricted Subsidiary a final judgment or order for the payment of money in an aggregate amount exceeding the Threshold Amount (to the extent not covered by independent third-party insurance) and such judgment or order shall not have been satisfied, vacated, discharged or stayed or bonded pending an appeal for a period of sixty (60) consecutive days; or

(i) Invalidity of Collateral Documents. Any material provision of any Collateral Document, at any time after its execution and delivery and for any reason other than as expressly permitted hereunder or thereunder (including as a result of a transaction permitted under Section 7.04 or Section 7.05) or as a result of acts or omissions by the Administrative Agent or any Lender, or the satisfaction in full of all the Obligations and termination of the Aggregate Commitments, ceases to be in full force and effect or ceases to create a valid and perfected second priority lien (to the extent such concept exists under applicable Law) Lien (subject to Liens permitted under the Loan Documents and any Liens and privileges arising mandatorily by Law) on a material portion of the Collateral covered thereby; or any Loan Party contests in writing the validity or enforceability of any material provision of any Collateral Document; or any Loan Party denies in writing that it has any or further liability or obligation under any Collateral Document (other than as a result of repayment in full of the Obligations and termination of the Aggregate Commitments), or purports in writing to revoke or rescind any Collateral Document;

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(k) ERISA. An ERISA Event occurs which has resulted or would reasonably be expected to result in liability of a Loan Party in an aggregate amount which could reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect.

Section 8.02 Remedies Upon Event of Default.

(a) If any Event of Default occurs and is continuing (other than an Event of Default under Section 8.01(b)(ii) unless the conditions of the second proviso contained therein have been satisfied), the Administrative Agent may, with the consent of the Required Lenders, and, at the request of the Required Lenders, shall take any or all of the following actions:

(i) declare the commitment of each Lender to make Loans to be terminated, whereupon such commitments and obligation shall be terminated;

(ii) declare the unpaid principal amount of all outstanding Loans, all interest accrued and unpaid thereon, and all other amounts owing or payable hereunder or under any other Loan Document to be immediately due and payable, without presentment, demand, protest or other notice of any kind, all of which are hereby expressly waived by the Borrower;

(iii) [reserved];

(iv) [reserved]; and

(v) exercise on behalf of itself and the Lenders all rights and remedies available to it and the Lenders under the Loan Documents or applicable Law;

provided, upon the occurrence of an Event of Default under Section 8.01(f) with respect to the Borrower, all Commitments and the obligation of each Lender to make Loans shall automatically terminate, the unpaid principal amount of all outstanding Loans and all interest and other amounts as aforesaid shall automatically become due and payable, in each case without further act of the Administrative Agent or any Lender.

Section 8.03 Exclusion of Immaterial Subsidiaries. Solely for the purpose of determining whether a Default has occurred under clause (f) or (g) of Section 8.01, any reference in any such clause to any Restricted Subsidiary or Loan Party shall be deemed not to include any Subsidiary that is an Immaterial Subsidiary or at such time could, upon designation by Holdings, become an Immaterial Subsidiary affected by any event or circumstances referred to in any such clause unless the Consolidated EBITDA of such Subsidiary together with the Consolidated EBITDA of all other Restricted Subsidiaries affected by such event or circumstance referred to in such clause, shall exceed 5% of the Consolidated EBITDA of Holdings and its Restricted Subsidiaries as of the then most recently ended Test Period.

Section 8.04 Application of Funds. If (x) the circumstances described in Section 2.12(g) have occurred or (y) after the exercise of remedies provided for in Section 8.02 (or after the Loans have automatically become immediately due and payable as set forth in the proviso to Section 8.02), including in any bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding, any amounts received on account of the Obligations shall be applied by the Administrative Agent in the following order:

 

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First, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting fees, indemnities, expenses and other amounts (other than principal and interest, but including Attorney Costs payable under Section 10.04 and amounts payable under Article III) payable to the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent in its capacity as such;

Second, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting fees, indemnities and other amounts (other than principal and interest) payable to the Lenders (including Attorney Costs payable under Section 10.04 and amounts payable under Article III), ratably among them in proportion to the amounts described in this clause Second payable to them;

Third, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting accrued and unpaid interest on the Loans, ratably among the applicable Secured Parties in proportion to the respective amounts described in this clause Third payable to them;

Fourth, to payment of that portion of the Obligations constituting fees, indemnities and other amounts (other than principal and interest) payable to any other Secured Parties (including Attorney Costs payable under Section 10.04 and amounts payable under Article III), ratably among them in proportion to the amounts described in this clause Fifth payable to them;

Fifth, to the payment of all other Obligations of the Borrower that are due and payable to the Administrative Agent and the other Secured Parties on such date, ratably based upon the respective aggregate amounts of all such Obligations owing to the Administrative Agent and the other Secured Parties on such date; and

Last, the balance, if any, after all of the Obligations have been paid in full, to the Borrower or as otherwise required by Law.

ARTICLE IX

Administrative Agent and Other Agents

Section 9.01 Appointment and Authorization of Agents.

(a) Each Lender hereby irrevocably appoints, designates and authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such action on its behalf under the provisions of this Agreement and each other Loan Document and to exercise such powers and perform such duties as are delegated to it by the terms of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, together with such powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. Notwithstanding any provision to the contrary contained elsewhere herein or in any other Loan Document, the Administrative Agent shall have no duties or responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein, nor shall the Administrative Agent have or be deemed to have any fiduciary relationship with any Lender or participant, and no implied covenants, functions, responsibilities, duties, obligations or liabilities shall be read into this Agreement or any other Loan Document or otherwise exist against the Administrative Agent regardless of whether a Default has occurred and is continuing. Without limiting the generality of the foregoing sentence, the use of the term “agent” herein and in the other Loan Documents with reference to any Agent is not intended to connote any fiduciary or other implied (or express) obligations arising under agency doctrine of any applicable Law. Instead, such term is used merely as a matter of market custom, and is intended to create or reflect only an administrative relationship between independent contracting parties. The provisions of this Article (other than the provisions of Section 9.09 and Section 9.11) are solely for the benefit of the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, and neither Holdings nor any other Loan Party shall have rights as a third party beneficiary of any of such provisions (other than the provisions of Section 9.09 and Section 9.11).

 

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(b) The Administrative Agent shall also act as the “collateral agent” under the Loan Documents, and each of the Lenders (in its capacities as a Lender) hereby irrevocably appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent to act as the agent of and as security agent for (and to hold any security interest, charge or other Lien created by the Collateral Documents for and on behalf of or on trust for or as agent under a parallel debt structure for the benefit of) such Lender for purposes of acquiring, holding and enforcing any and all Liens on Collateral granted by any of the Loan Parties to secure any of the Obligations, together with such powers and discretion as are reasonably incidental thereto. In this connection, the Administrative Agent, as “collateral agent” (and any co-agents, sub-agents and attorneys-in-fact appointed by the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 9.02 for purposes of holding or enforcing any Lien on the Collateral (or any portion thereof) granted under the Collateral Documents, or for exercising any rights and remedies thereunder at the direction of the Administrative Agent), shall be entitled to the benefits of all provisions of this Article IX (including Section 9.07, as though such co-agents, sub-agents and attorneys-in-fact were the “collateral agent” under the Loan Documents) and Article X as if set forth in full herein with respect thereto.

Section 9.02 Delegation of Duties. The Administrative Agent may execute any of its duties and exercise its rights and powers under this Agreement or any other Loan Document (including for purposes of holding or enforcing any Lien on the Collateral (or any portion thereof) granted under the Collateral Documents or of exercising any rights and remedies thereunder) by or through Affiliates, agents, employees or attorneys-in-fact, such sub-agents as shall be deemed necessary by the Administrative Agent, and shall be entitled to advice of counsel, both internal and external, and other consultants or experts concerning all matters pertaining to such duties. The Administrative Agent shall not be responsible for the negligence or misconduct of any Affiliates, agents, employees or attorneys-in-fact, such sub-agents that it selects in the absence of gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct. The exculpatory provisions of this Article shall apply to any such Affiliates, agents, employees or attorneys-in-fact, such sub-agents, and shall apply to their respective activities in connection with the syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein as well as activities as Administrative Agent.

Section 9.03 Liability of Agents. No Agent-Related Person shall (a) be liable for any action taken or omitted to be taken by any of them under or in connection with this Agreement or any other Loan Document or the transactions contemplated hereby, including their respective activities in connection with the syndication of the credit facilities provided for herein as well as activities as Administrative Agent (except for its own gross negligence or willful misconduct, as determined by the final and non-appealable judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction, in connection with its duties expressly set forth herein), or (b) be responsible in any manner to any Lender or participant for (or shall have any duty to ascertain or inquire into) any recital, statement, representation or warranty made by any Loan Party or any officer thereof, contained herein or in any other Loan Document, or in any certificate, report, statement or other document referred to or provided for in, or received by the Administrative Agent under or in connection with, this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or the validity, effectiveness, genuineness, enforceability or sufficiency of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or the perfection or priority of any Lien or security interest created or purported to be created under the Collateral Documents, the value or the sufficiency of any Collateral or the satisfaction of any condition set forth in Article IV or elsewhere herein or that the Liens granted to the Collateral Agent have been properly or sufficiently created, perfected, protected, enforced or entitled to any particular priority, other than to confirm receipt of items expressly required to be delivered to the Administrative Agent, or for any failure of any Loan Party or any other party to any Loan Document to perform its obligations hereunder or thereunder. No Agent-Related Person shall be under any obligation to any Lender or participant to ascertain or to inquire

 

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as to the observance or performance of any of the agreements contained in, or conditions of, this Agreement or any other Loan Document, or to inspect the properties, books or records of any Loan Party or any Affiliate thereof. No Agent shall have any duty to take any discretionary action or exercise any discretionary powers, except discretionary rights and powers expressly contemplated hereby or by the other Loan Documents that such Agent is required to exercise as directed in writing by the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be expressly provided for herein or in the other Loan Documents); provided, such Agent shall not be required to take any action that, in its judgment or the judgment of its counsel, may expose such Agent to liability or that is contrary to any Loan Document or applicable requirements of law. No Agent shall be liable for any action taken or not taken by it with the consent or at the request of the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be expressly provided for herein or in the other Loan Documents).

Section 9.04 Reliance by Agents.

(a) Each Agent shall be entitled to rely, and shall be fully protected in relying, upon any writing, communication, signature, resolution, representation, notice, request, consent, certificate, instrument, affidavit, letter, telegram, facsimile, telex or telephone message, electronic mail message, statement or other document or conversation believed by it to be genuine and correct and to have been signed, sent or made by the proper Person or Persons, and upon advice and statements of legal counsel (including counsel to any Loan Party), independent accountants and other experts selected by such Agent and shall not incur any liability for relying thereon. Each Agent shall be fully justified in failing or refusing to take any action under any Loan Document unless it shall first receive such advice or concurrence of the Required Lenders as it deems appropriate and, if it so requests, it shall first be indemnified to its satisfaction by the Lenders against any and all liability and expense which may be incurred by it by reason of taking or continuing to take any such action. Each Agent shall in all cases be fully protected in acting, or in refraining from acting, under this Agreement or any other Loan Document in accordance with a request or consent of the Required Lenders (or such greater number of Lenders as may be expressly required hereby in any instance) and such request and any action taken or failure to act pursuant thereto shall be binding upon all the Lenders.

(b) For purposes of determining compliance with the conditions specified in Article IV, each Lender that has signed this Agreement shall be deemed to have consented to, approved or accepted or to be satisfied with, each document or other matter required thereunder to be consented to or approved by or acceptable or satisfactory to a Lender unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from such Lender prior to the proposed Closing Date specifying its objection thereto. In determining compliance with any condition hereunder to the making of a Loan that by its terms must be fulfilled to the satisfaction of a Lender, the Administrative Agent may presume that such condition is satisfactory to such Lender unless the Administrative Agent shall have received notice to the contrary from such Lender prior to the making of such Loan.

Section 9.05 Notice of Default. The Administrative Agent shall not be deemed to have knowledge or notice of the occurrence of any Default, except with respect to defaults in the payment of principal, interest and fees required to be paid to the Administrative Agent for the account of the Lenders, unless the Administrative Agent shall have received written notice from a Lender or Holdings referring to this Agreement, describing such Default and stating that such notice is a “notice of default.” The Administrative Agent will notify the Lenders of its receipt of any such notice. Subject to the other provisions of this Article IX, the Administrative Agent shall take such action with respect to any Event of Default as may be directed by the Required Lenders in accordance with Article VIII; provided, unless and until the Administrative Agent has received any such direction, the Administrative Agent may (but shall not be obligated to) take such action, or refrain from taking such action, with respect to such Event of Default as it shall deem advisable or in the best interest of the Lenders.

 

 

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Section 9.06 Credit Decision; Disclosure of Information by Agents. Each Lender acknowledges that no Agent-Related Person has made any representation or warranty to it, and that no act by any Agent hereafter taken, including any consent to and acceptance of any assignment or review of the affairs of any Loan Party or any Affiliate thereof, shall be deemed to constitute any representation or warranty by any Agent-Related Person to any Lender as to any matter, including whether Agent-Related Persons have disclosed material information in their possession. Each Lender represents to each Agent that it has, independently and without reliance upon any Agent-Related Person and based on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own appraisal of and investigation into the business, prospects, operations, property, financial and other condition and creditworthiness of the Loan Parties and their respective Subsidiaries, and all applicable bank or other regulatory Laws relating to the transactions contemplated hereby, and made its own decision to enter into this Agreement and to extend credit to the Borrower and the other Loan Parties hereunder. Each Lender also represents that it will, independently and without reliance upon any Agent-Related Person and based on such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit analysis, appraisals and decisions in taking or not taking action under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and to make such investigations as it deems necessary to inform itself as to the business, prospects, operations, property, financial and other condition and creditworthiness of the Borrower and the other Loan Parties. Except for notices, reports and other documents expressly required to be furnished to the Lenders by any Agent herein, such Agent shall not have any duty or responsibility to provide (and shall not be liable for the failure to provide) any Lender with any credit or other information concerning the business, prospects, operations, property, financial and other condition or creditworthiness of any of the Loan Parties or any of their respective Affiliates which may come into the possession of any Agent-Related Person.

Section 9.07 Indemnification of Agents. Whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby are consummated, the Lenders shall indemnify upon demand each Agent-Related Person (to the extent not reimbursed by or on behalf of any Loan Party and without limiting the obligation of any Loan Party to do so), pro rata, and hold harmless each Agent-Related Person from and against any and all Indemnified Liabilities incurred by it in its capacity as an Agent-Related Person; provided, no Lender shall be liable for the payment to any Agent-Related Person of any portion of such Indemnified Liabilities resulting from such Agent-Related Person’s own gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct, as determined by the final judgment of a court of competent jurisdiction; provided, no action taken in accordance with the directions of the Required Lenders (or such other number or percentage of the Lenders as shall be required by the Loan Documents) shall be deemed to constitute gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct for purposes of this Section 9.07. In the case of any investigation, litigation or proceeding giving rise to any Indemnified Liabilities, this Section 9.07 applies whether any such investigation, litigation or proceeding is brought by any Lender or any other Person. Without limitation of the foregoing, each Lender shall reimburse the Administrative Agent upon demand for its ratable share of any reasonable and documented costs or out-of-pocket expenses (including Attorney Costs) incurred by the Administrative Agent in connection with the preparation, execution, delivery, administration, modification, amendment or enforcement (whether through negotiations, legal proceedings or otherwise) of, or legal advice in respect of rights or responsibilities under, this Agreement, any other Loan Document, or any document contemplated by or referred to herein, to the extent that the Administrative Agent is not reimbursed for such expenses by or on behalf of Holdings; provided, such reimbursement by the Lenders shall not affect Holdings’ continuing reimbursement obligations with respect thereto, if any. The undertaking in this Section 9.07 shall survive termination of the Aggregate Commitments, the payment of all other Obligations and the resignation of the Administrative Agent.

 

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Section 9.08 Agents in their Individual Capacities. The Administrative Agent and its Affiliates may make loans to, issue letters of credit for the account of, accept deposits from, acquire Equity Interests in and generally engage in any kind of banking, trust, financial advisory, underwriting or other business with each of the Loan Parties and their respective Affiliates as though the Administrative Agent were not the Administrative Agent hereunder and without notice to or consent, or any duty to accept therefor to, of the Lenders. The Lenders acknowledge that, pursuant to such activities, the Administrative Agent or its Affiliates may receive information regarding any Loan Party or any Affiliate of a Loan Party (including information that may be subject to confidentiality obligations in favor of such Loan Party or such Affiliate) and acknowledge that the Administrative Agent shall be under no obligation to provide such information to them.

Section 9.09 Successor Agents. The Administrative Agent may resign as the Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent upon thirty (30) days’ notice to the Lenders and Holdings. If the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent is a Defaulting Lender or an Affiliate of a Defaulting Lender, either the Required Lenders or Holdings may, upon ten (10) Business Days’ notice, remove the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent, as applicable. If the Administrative Agent resigns under this Agreement or such notice of removal is delivered, the Required Lenders shall appoint from among the Lenders a successor agent for the Lenders, which appointment of a successor agent shall require the consent of Holdings at all times other than during the existence of an Event of Default under Section 8.01(a), (f) or (g) (which consent of Holdings shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed). If no successor agent is appointed prior to the effective date of the resignation of the Administrative Agent or the Administrative Agent receives notice of removal, then (x) in the case of a resignation, the Administrative Agent may appoint, after consulting with the Lenders and Holdings, a successor agent from among the Lenders and (y) in the case of a removal, Holdings may, after consulting with the Required Lenders, appoint a successor Administrative Agent. Upon the acceptance of its appointment as successor agent hereunder, the Person acting as such successor agent shall succeed to all the rights, powers and duties of the retiring or removed Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent and the term “Administrative Agent” shall mean such successor administrative agent and/or supplemental administrative agent, as the case may be (and the term “Collateral Agent” shall mean such successor collateral agent and/or supplemental agent, as described in Section 9.01(b)), and the retiring or removed Administrative Agent’s appointment, powers and duties as the Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent shall be terminated. After the retiring or removed Administrative Agent’s resignation or removal hereunder as the Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent, the provisions of this Article IX and Section 10.04 and Section 10.05 shall inure to its benefit as to any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was the Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent under this Agreement. If no successor agent has accepted appointment as the Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent by the date which is thirty (30) days following the retiring or removed Administrative Agent’s notice of resignation or removal or Holdings notify the Lenders that no qualifying Person has accepted the appointment, the retiring or removed Administrative Agent’s resignation or removal, as applicable, shall nevertheless thereupon become effective and the Lenders shall perform all of the duties of the Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent hereunder until such time, if any, as the Required Lenders appoint a successor agent as provided for above (except that in the case of any collateral security held by the Collateral Agent on behalf of the Lenders under any of the Loan Documents, the retiring or removed Collateral Agent shall continue to hold such collateral security until such time as a successor Collateral Agent is appointed). Upon the acceptance of any appointment as the Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent hereunder by a successor and upon the execution and filing or recording of such financing statements, or amendments thereto, and such amendments or supplements to the Mortgages, and such other instruments or notices, as may be necessary or desirable under applicable Law, or as the Required Lenders may reasonably request, in order to (a) continue the perfection of the Liens granted or purported to be granted by the Collateral Documents or (b) otherwise ensure that the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement is satisfied, the Administrative Agent shall thereupon succeed to and become vested with all the rights, powers,

 

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discretion, privileges, and duties of the retiring or removed Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent, and the retiring or removed Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent shall, to the extent not previously discharged, be discharged from its duties and obligations under the Loan Documents. The fees payable by Holdings to a successor Administrative Agent shall be the same as those payable to its predecessor unless otherwise agreed between Holdings and such successor. After the retiring or removed Administrative Agent’s resignation or removal hereunder and under the other Loan Documents, the provisions of this Article and Sections 10.04 and 10.05 shall continue in effect for the benefit of such retiring or removed Administrative Agent and its agents and sub-agents in respect of any actions taken or omitted to be taken by any of them while the retiring or removed Administrative Agent was acting as Administrative Agent.

Section 9.10 Administrative Agent May File Proofs of Claim; Credit Bidding. In case of the pendency of any receivership, insolvency, liquidation, bankruptcy, reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, composition or other judicial proceeding relative to any Loan Party, the Administrative Agent (irrespective of whether the principal of any Loan shall then be due and payable as herein expressed or by declaration or otherwise and irrespective of whether the Administrative Agent shall have made any demand on Holdings) shall be entitled and empowered, by intervention in such proceeding or otherwise:

(a) to file and prove a claim for the whole amount of the principal and interest owing and unpaid in respect of the Loans and all other Obligations that are owing and unpaid and to file such other documents as may be necessary or advisable in order to have the claims of the Lenders and the Administrative Agent (including any claim for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Lenders and the Administrative Agent and their respective agents and counsel and all other amounts due the Lenders and the Administrative Agent under Section 2.09 and Section 10.04) allowed in such judicial proceeding; and

(b) to collect and receive any monies or other property payable or deliverable on any such claims and to distribute the same; and

(c) any custodian, receiver, assignee, trustee, liquidator, sequestrator, supervisor, administrator or administrative receiver or other similar official in any such judicial proceeding is hereby authorized by each Lender to make such payments to the Administrative Agent and, in the event that the Administrative Agent shall consent to the making of such payments directly to the Lenders, to pay to the Administrative Agent any amount due for the reasonable compensation, expenses, disbursements and advances of the Agents and their respective agents and counsel, and any other amounts due to the Administrative Agent under Section 2.09 and Section 10.04.

Nothing contained herein shall be deemed to authorize the Administrative Agent to authorize or consent to or accept or adopt on behalf of any Lender any plan of reorganization, arrangement, adjustment or composition affecting the Obligations or the rights of any Lender or to authorize the Administrative Agent to vote in respect of the claim of any Lender in any such proceeding.

The Secured Parties hereby irrevocably authorize the Administrative Agent, at the direction of the Required Lenders, to credit bid all or any portion of the Obligations (including accepting some or all of the Collateral in satisfaction of some or all of the Obligations pursuant to a deed in lieu of foreclosure or otherwise) and in such manner purchase (either directly or through one or more acquisition vehicles) all or any portion of the Collateral (a) at any sale thereof conducted under the provisions of the Bankruptcy Code of the United States, including under Section 363, 1123 or 1129 of the Bankruptcy Code of the United States, or any similar Laws in any other jurisdictions to which a Loan Party is subject, (b) at any other sale or foreclosure or acceptance of collateral in lieu of debt conducted by (or with the consent or at the direction of) the Administrative Agent (whether by judicial action or otherwise) in accordance with

 

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any applicable Law. In connection with any such credit bid and purchase, the Obligations owed to the Secured Parties shall be entitled to be, and shall be, credit bid on a ratable basis (with Obligations with respect to contingent or unliquidated claims receiving contingent interests in the acquired assets on a ratable basis that would vest upon the liquidation of such claims in an amount proportional to the liquidated portion of the contingent claim amount used in allocating the contingent interests) in the asset or assets so purchased (or in the Equity Interests or debt instruments of the acquisition vehicle or vehicles that are used to consummate such purchase). In connection with any such bid (i) the Administrative Agent shall be authorized to form one or more acquisition vehicles to make a bid, (ii) to adopt documents providing for the governance of the acquisition vehicle or vehicles (provided, any actions by the Administrative Agent with respect to such acquisition vehicle or vehicles, including any disposition of the assets or Equity Interests thereof shall be governed, directly or indirectly, by the vote of the Required Lenders, irrespective of the termination of this Agreement and without giving effect to the limitations on actions by the Required Lenders contained in clauses (a) through (f) of Section 10.01 of this Agreement, (iii) the Administrative Agent shall be authorized to assign the relevant Obligations to any such acquisition vehicle pro rata by the Lenders, as a result of which each of the Lenders shall be deemed to have received a pro rata portion of any Equity Interests and/or debt instruments issued by such an acquisition vehicle on account of the assignment of the Obligations to be credit bid, all without the need for any Secured Party or acquisition vehicle to take any further action, and (iv) to the extent that Obligations that are assigned to an acquisition vehicle are not used to acquire Collateral for any reason (as a result of another bid being higher or better, because the amount of Obligations assigned to the acquisition vehicle exceeds the amount of debt credit bid by the acquisition vehicle or otherwise), such Obligations shall automatically be reassigned to the Lenders pro rata and the Equity Interests and/or debt instruments issued by any acquisition vehicle on account of the Obligations that had been assigned to the acquisition vehicle shall automatically be cancelled, without the need for any Secured Party or any acquisition vehicle to take any further action.

Section 9.11 Collateral and Guarantee Matters. The Lenders and the Secured Parties irrevocably agree:

(a) any Lien on any property granted to or held by the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent under any Loan Document shall be automatically released (i) upon termination of the Aggregate Commitments and payment in full of all Obligations (other than contingent indemnification obligations not yet accrued and payable) (the date on which the requirements of this clause (i) are first satisfied, the “Termination Date”), (ii) at the time the property subject to such Lien is transferred or to be transferred as part of or in connection with any transfer permitted hereunder or under any other Loan Document to any Person, (iii) subject to Section 10.01, if the release of such Lien is approved, authorized or ratified in writing by the Required Lenders, (iv) if the property subject to such Lien is owned by a Guarantor, upon release of such Guarantor from its obligations under its Guaranty pursuant to clause (c) or (d) below, (v) if the property subject to such Lien becomes “Excluded Collateral” and (vi) in connection with any ground lease entered into by Holdings or its Subsidiaries, to subordinate the Liens held by the Administrative Agent or Collateral Agent to the rights and interests of the holder of the leasehold estate under such ground lease or to any other Lien thereon that, in each case, is permitted by Section 7.01(z);

(b) the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent, as applicable, are authorized to release or subordinate any Lien on any property granted to or held by the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent under any Loan Document to the holder of any Lien on such property that is permitted by Sections 7.01(j), (k), (p), and (t);

 

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(c) if any Subsidiary Guarantor ceases to be a Restricted Subsidiary, or becomes an Excluded Subsidiary (provided that no release shall occur if such Subsidiary Guarantor becomes an Excluded Subsidiary by virtue of no longer being a Wholly-Owned Restricted Subsidiary of a Loan Party unless it is no longer a Subsidiary of any Loan Party or it is becoming a bona fide joint venture in a transaction otherwise permitted hereunder), in each case as a result of a transaction or designation permitted hereunder or a Change in Law, (x) such Subsidiary shall be automatically released from its obligations under the Guaranty and (y) any Liens granted by such Subsidiary or Liens on the Equity Interests of such Subsidiary (to the extent such Equity Interests have become Excluded Equity or are being transferred to another Person) shall be automatically released;

(d) upon request by the Administrative Agent at any time, the Required Lenders will confirm in writing the Administrative Agent’s authority to release or subordinate its interest in particular types or items of property, or to release any Guarantor from its obligations under the Guaranty pursuant to this Section 9.11. In each case as specified in this Section 9.11, the Administrative Agent will promptly (and each Lender irrevocably authorizes the Administrative Agent to), at the Borrower’s expense, execute and deliver to the applicable Loan Party such documents as such Loan Party may reasonably request to evidence the release or subordination of such item of Collateral from the assignment and security interest granted under the Collateral Documents, or to evidence the release of such Guarantor from its obligations under the Guaranty, in each case in accordance with the terms of the Loan Documents and this Section 9.11;

(e) at the request of Holdings from time to time, the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent will, and are hereby irrevocably authorized and directed by the Lenders and the other Secured Parties to, in each case on behalf of such Lender or other Secured Party and without any further consent, authorization or other action by such Lender or other Secured Party, execute and deliver one or more amendments, supplements or other modifications to the Collateral Documents to:

(i) cure any ambiguity, omission, defect or inconsistency therein or reflect changes of a minor, technical or administrative nature;

(ii) provide for Liens permitted by Section 7.01;

(iii) add to the Collateral;

(iv) make any changes necessary or desirable, in the good faith determination of Holdings, in order to implement any transaction that is subject to Section 7.04 and is completed in compliance therewith;

(v) make any other change to the Collateral Documents to provide for additional Indebtedness or other obligations that are permitted by the terms of this Agreement to be secured by a Lien on the Collateral on a pari passu or junior basis with the Liens securing the Obligations, including changes to the “Secured Obligations” (or similar term) in the Collateral Documents (or any other term, however described, relating to the obligations of the Loan Parties and the Restricted Subsidiaries that are subject to the security interest granted therein);

(vi) amend or modify any Collateral Document to the extent necessary to (A) conform any restriction or limitation contained therein to any analogous restriction or limitation contained in this Agreement or to eliminate any restriction or limitation therein that is not contained in this Agreement except to the extent such restriction or limitation is necessary to create, perfect, preserve or enforce the security interest in the Collateral

 

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purported to be created by such Collateral Document and (B) conform the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement (including any amendment or other modification to exclude from the Liens created or purported to be created by such Collateral Document any assets that, in accordance with the Collateral and Guarantee Requirement, would not be or would no longer be required to be subject to such Liens (it being understood and agreed that such exclusion may provide that its effectiveness is delayed until the satisfaction of any requirement set forth in the Collateral and Guarantee Requirements that must be satisfied in order for such assets to not be required, in accordance with the Collateral and Guarantee Requirements, to be subject to such Liens)); and

(vii) make any other change thereto that does not adversely affect the Lenders or the other Secured Parties in any material respect; and

(viii) to enter into any Pari Passu Intercreditor Agreement, the Intercreditor Agreement, any Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement and any other intercreditor agreement or subordination agreement expressly contemplated by this Agreement.

Section 9.12 Other Agents; Arrangers and Managers. None of the Lenders or the Agents shall have any right, power, obligation, liability, responsibility or duty under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, except in its capacity, as applicable, as the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or a Lender hereunder and all such Persons shall have the benefit of this Article IX. Without limiting the foregoing, none of the Lenders or other Persons so identified shall have or be deemed to have any agency or fiduciary or trust relationship with any Lender, Holdings, the Borrower or any of their respective Subsidiaries. Each Lender acknowledges that it has not relied, and will not rely, on any of the Lenders or other Persons so identified in deciding to enter into this Agreement or in taking or not taking action hereunder.

Section 9.13 Appointment of Supplemental Administrative Agents.

(a) It is the purpose of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents that there shall be no violation of any Law of any jurisdiction denying or restricting the right of banking corporations or associations to transact business as agent or trustee in such jurisdiction. It is recognized that in case of litigation under this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents, and in particular in case of the enforcement of any of the Loan Documents, or in case the Administrative Agent deems that by reason of any present or future Law of any jurisdiction it may not exercise any of the rights, powers or remedies granted herein or in any of the other Loan Documents or take any other action which may be desirable or necessary in connection therewith, the Administrative Agent is hereby authorized to appoint an additional individual or institution selected by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion as a separate trustee, co-trustee, administrative agent, collateral agent, administrative sub-agent or administrative co-agent (any such additional individual or institution being referred to herein individually as a “Supplemental Administrative Agent” and, collectively, as “Supplemental Administrative Agents”).

(b) In the event that the Administrative Agent appoints a Supplemental Administrative Agent with respect to any Collateral, (i) each and every right, power, privilege or duty expressed or intended by this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents to be exercised by or vested in or conveyed to the Administrative Agent with respect to such Collateral shall be exercisable by and vest in such Supplemental Administrative Agent to the extent, and only to the extent, necessary to enable such Supplemental Administrative Agent to exercise such rights, powers and privileges with respect to such Collateral and to perform such duties with respect to such Collateral, and every covenant and obligation contained in the Loan Documents

 

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and necessary to the exercise or performance thereof by such Supplemental Administrative Agent shall run to and be enforceable by either the Administrative Agent or such Supplemental Administrative Agent, and (ii) the provisions of this Article IX and of Section 10.04 and Section 10.05 that refer to the Administrative Agent shall inure to the benefit of such Supplemental Administrative Agent and all references therein to the Administrative Agent shall be deemed to be references to the Administrative Agent and/or such Supplemental Administrative Agent, as the context may require.

(c) Should any instrument in writing from any Loan Party be required by any Supplemental Administrative Agent so appointed by the Administrative Agent for more fully and certainly vesting in and confirming to him or it such rights, powers, privileges and duties, Holdings shall, or shall cause such Loan Party to, execute, acknowledge and deliver any and all such instruments promptly upon request by the Administrative Agent. In case any Supplemental Administrative Agent, or a successor thereto, shall die, become incapable of acting, resign or be removed, all the rights, powers, privileges and duties of such Supplemental Administrative Agent, to the extent permitted by Law, shall vest in and be exercised by the Administrative Agent until the appointment of a new Supplemental Administrative Agent.

Section 9.14 Withholding Tax. To the extent required by any applicable Law (as determined in good faith by the Administrative Agent), the Administrative Agent may deduct or withhold from any payment to any Lender under any Loan Document an amount equivalent to any applicable withholding Tax. If the Internal Revenue Service or any other Governmental Authority asserts a claim that the Administrative Agent did not properly withhold Tax from amounts paid to or for the account of any Lender for any reason (including because the appropriate form was not delivered or was not properly executed or because such Lender failed to notify the Administrative Agent of a change in circumstance that rendered the exemption from, or reduction of, withholding Tax ineffective), such Lender shall indemnify and hold harmless the Administrative Agent fully for all amounts paid, directly or indirectly, by the Administrative Agent as Tax or otherwise, including any penalties, additions to Tax or interest and together with all expenses (including legal expenses, allocated internal costs and out-of-pocket expenses) incurred, whether or not such Tax was correctly or legally imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability delivered to any Lender by the Administrative Agent shall be conclusive absent manifest error. Each Lender hereby authorizes the Administrative Agent to set off and apply any and all amounts at any time owing to such Lender under this Agreement or any other Loan Document against any amount due the Administrative Agent under this Section 9.14. The agreements in this Section 9.14 shall survive the resignation and/or replacement of the Administrative Agent, any assignment of rights by, or the replacement of, a Lender, the termination of this Agreement and the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all other obligations. For the avoidance of doubt, this Section 9.14 shall not limit or expand the obligations of Holdings, the Borrower or any Guarantor under Section 3.01 or any other provision of this Agreement.

Section 9.15 [Reserved].

Section 9.16 Certain ERISA Matters.

(a) Each Lender (x) represents and warrants, as of the date such Person became a Lender party hereto, to, and (y) covenants, from the date such Person became a Lender party hereto to the date such Person ceases being a Lender party hereto, for the benefit of, the Administrative Agent and its Affiliates, and not, for the avoidance of doubt, to or for the benefit of Holdings or any other Loan Party, that at least one of the following is and will be true:

 

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(i) such Lender is not using “plan assets” (within the meaning of Section 3(42) of ERISA or otherwise) of one or more Benefit Plans in connection with the Loans or Commitments,

(ii) the transaction exemption set forth in one or more PTEs, such as PTE 84-14 (a class exemption for certain transactions determined by independent qualified professional asset managers), PTE 95-60 (a class exemption for certain transactions involving insurance company general accounts), PTE 90-1 (a class exemption for certain transactions involving insurance company pooled separate accounts), PTE 91-38 (a class exemption for certain transactions involving bank collective investment funds) or PTE 96-23 (a class exemption for certain transactions determined by in-house asset managers), is applicable with respect to such Lender’s entrance into, participation in, administration of and performance of the Loans, the Commitments and this Agreement,

(iii) (A) such Lender is an investment fund managed by a “Qualified Professional Asset Manager” (within the meaning of Part VI of PTE 84-14), (B) such Qualified Professional Asset Manager made the investment decision on behalf of such Lender to enter into, participate in, administer and perform the Loans, the Commitments and this Agreement, (C) the entrance into, participation in, administration of and performance of the Loans, the Commitments and this Agreement satisfies the requirements of sub-sections (b) through (g) of Part I of PTE 84-14 and (D) to the best knowledge of such Lender, the requirements of subsection (a) of Part I of PTE 84-14 are satisfied with respect to such Lender’s entrance into, participation in, administration of and performance of the Loans, the Commitments and this Agreement, or

(iv) such other representation, warranty and covenant as may be agreed in writing between the Administrative Agent, in its sole discretion, and such Lender.

(b) In addition, unless either (1) sub-clause (i) in the immediately preceding clause (a) is true with respect to a Lender or (2) a Lender has provided another representation, warranty and covenant in accordance with sub-clause (iv) in the immediately preceding clause (a), such Lender further (x) represents and warrants, as of the date such Person became a Lender party hereto, to, and (y) covenants, from the date such Person became a Lender party hereto to the date such Person ceases being a Lender party hereto, for the benefit of, the Administrative Agent and its Affiliates, and not, for the avoidance of doubt, to or for the benefit of Holdings or any other Loan Party, that none of the Administrative Agent or any of its Affiliates is a fiduciary with respect to the assets of such Lender involved in the Loans, the Commitments and the Agreement (including in connection with the reservation or exercise of any rights by the Administrative Agent under this Agreement, any Loan Document or any documents related to hereto or thereto).

ARTICLE X

Miscellaneous

Section 10.01 Amendments, Etc. Except as otherwise set forth in this Agreement or other Loan Documents, no amendment or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, and no consent to any departure by Holdings or any other Loan Party therefrom, shall be effective unless in writing signed by the Required Lenders, the Administrative Agent (to the extent that such waiver, amendment or modification does not affect the rights, duties, privileges or obligations of the Administrative Agent under this Agreement, the Administrative Agent shall execute such waiver, amendment or other modification to the extent approved by the Required Lenders; provided, to the extent

 

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such waiver, amendment or modification was delivered to the Administrative Agent and does not affect the rights, duties, privileges or obligations of the Administrative Agent under this Agreement, the Administrative Agent’s failure to so execute shall not impact the effectiveness of such waiver, amendment or modification) and Holdings or the applicable Loan Party, as the case may be, and each such waiver or consent shall be effective only in the specific instance and for the specific purpose for which given; provided, no such amendment, waiver or consent shall:

(a) extend or increase the Commitment of any Lender without the written consent of each Lender directly and adversely affected thereby;

(b) postpone any date scheduled for, or reduce or forgive the amount of, any payment of principal or interest under Section 2.08, fees or other amounts (other than default interest) without the written consent of each Lender directly and adversely affected thereby (it being understood that the waiver of (or amendment to the terms of) any mandatory prepayment of the Term Loans shall not constitute a postponement of any date scheduled for the payment of principal or interest);

(c) reduce the principal of, or (subject to Section 1.15) the rate of interest specified herein on, any Loan, or (subject to clause (iii) of the second proviso to this Section 10.01) any fees or other amounts payable hereunder or under any other Loan Document without the written consent of each Lender directly and adversely affected thereby (it being understood that any change to the definition of “Total Leverage Ratio” or “Secured Leverage Ratio” or in the component definitions thereof shall not constitute a reduction in the rate of interest or fees; provided, only the consent of the Required Lenders shall be necessary to amend the definition of “Default Rate” or to waive any obligation of the Borrower to pay interest at the Default Rate);

(d) (i) change any provision of this Section 10.01 or the definition of “Required Lenders” without the written consent of each Lender;

(e) release all or substantially all of the Collateral in any transaction or series of related transactions, without the written consent of each Lender; provided, any transaction permitted under Section 7.04 or Section 7.05 shall not be subject to this clause (e) to the extent such transaction does not result in the release of all or substantially all of the Collateral;

(f) change the currency in which any Loan is denominated without the written consent of each Lender holding such Loans;

(g) release all or substantially all of the value of the Guarantees in any transaction or series of related transactions, without the written consent of each Lender; provided, any transaction permitted under Section 7.04 or Section 7.05 shall not be subject to this clause (g) to the extent such transaction does not result in the release of all or substantially all of the Guarantees;

(h) [reserved];

(i) waive, amend or modify the provisions of Section 2.13 or the definition of “Applicable Percentage” in a manner that would by its terms alter the pro rata sharing of payments required thereby (except in connection with any transaction otherwise permitted under Sections 2.05(d), 2.14, 2.15 or 2.18) without the written consent of each Lender directly and adversely affected thereby; or

 

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(j) waive, amend or modify the provisions of Section 8.04 without the written consent of each Lender directly and adversely affected thereby;

and provided, further, (i) no amendment, waiver or consent shall, unless in writing and signed by the Administrative Agent in addition to the Lenders required above, affect the rights or duties of, or any fees or other amounts payable to, the Administrative Agent under this Agreement or any other Loan Document; and (ii) any amendment or waiver that by its terms affects the rights or duties of Lenders holding Loans or Commitments of a particular Class (but not the Lenders holding Loans or Commitments of any other Class) will require only the requisite percentage in interest of the affected Class of Lenders that would be required to consent thereto if such Class of Lenders were the only Class of Lenders.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, (a) this Agreement may be amended (or amended and restated) with the written consent of the Administrative Agent and Holdings (i) to add one or more additional credit facilities to this Agreement to effect the provisions of Sections 2.14, 2.15 and 2.18 and to permit the extensions of credit from time to time outstanding thereunder and the accrued interest and fees in respect thereof to share ratably in the benefits of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents with the Term Loans and the accrued interest and fees in respect thereof and (ii) to include appropriately the Lenders holding such credit facilities in any determination of the Required Lenders, (b) [reserved], (c) upon notice thereof by Holdings to the Administrative Agent with respect to the inclusion of any previously absent financial maintenance covenant, this Agreement shall be amended by an agreement in writing entered into by Holdings and the Administrative Agent without the need to obtain the consent of any Lender to include such covenant on the date of the incurrence of the applicable Indebtedness to the extent required by the terms of such definition or section and (d) this Agreement and the other Loan Documents may be amended or supplemented by an agreement or agreements in writing by Holdings and the Administrative Agent, without the need to obtain the consent of any Lender, to cure any ambiguity, omission, defect or inconsistency or reflect changes of a minor, technical or administrative nature; provided that the Required Lenders shall have been afforded five (5) Business Days to object to such amendment.

Notwithstanding the foregoing, no Lender consent is required to effect any amendment, modification or supplement to the Intercreditor Agreement, any Pari Passu Intercreditor Agreement (or form thereof), any Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement (or form thereof) and/or any other intercreditor or subordination arrangements entered into in connection herewith (i) that is for the purpose of adding the holders of Indebtedness (or any Permitted Refinancing of the foregoing) (or a Debt Representative with respect thereto) as parties thereto, as expressly contemplated by the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement, such Pari Passu Intercreditor Agreement, such Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement or such other intercreditor or subordination arrangement, as applicable (it being understood that any such amendment, modification or supplement may make such other changes to the applicable intercreditor or subordination agreement as, in the good faith determination of the Administrative Agent, are required to effectuate the foregoing), (ii) that is expressly contemplated by the Intercreditor Agreement, any Pari Passu Intercreditor Agreement, any Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement and/or any other intercreditor or subordination arrangements entered into in connection herewith or (iii) that effects changes that are not material to the interests of the Lenders; provided that no such agreement shall directly and adversely amend, modify or otherwise affect the rights or duties of the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent hereunder or under any other Loan Document without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent, as applicable.

If any amendment or modification to the First Lien Credit Agreement amends or modifies any covenant or an event of default contained in the First Lien Credit Agreement (or any related definitions), in each case, in a manner that is more restrictive than the applicable provisions permit as of the Closing Date, or if any amendment or modification to the First Lien Credit Agreement adds an additional covenant or event of default therein, the Loan Parties acknowledge and agree that this Agreement or the

 

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other Loan Documents, as the case may be, shall be automatically amended or modified to affect similar amendments or modifications with respect to this Agreement or such other Loan Documents, without the need for any further action or consent by Holdings, the other Loan Parties, or any other party. In furtherance of the foregoing, the Loan Parties shall permit the Administrative Agent and the Lenders to document each such similar amendment or modification to this Agreement or such other Loan Document or insert a corresponding new covenant or event of default in this Agreement or such other Loan Document (subject to a requirement to reflect a 20% cushion for any dollar baskets above the amount agreed under the First Lien Credit Agreement) without any need for any further action or consent by Holdings or any other Loan Party.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained in this Section 10.01, any guarantees, collateral security documents and related documents executed by Subsidiaries in connection with this Agreement may be in a form reasonably determined by the Administrative Agent and may be, together with this Agreement, amended, supplemented and waived with the consent of the Administrative Agent at the request of Holdings without the need to obtain the consent of any Lender if such amendment, supplement or waiver is delivered in order (i) to comply with local Law or advice of local counsel, (ii) to cure ambiguities, omissions, mistakes or defects or (iii) to cause such guarantee, collateral security document or other document to be consistent with this Agreement and the other Loan Documents. Furthermore, with the consent of the Administrative Agent at the request of Holdings (without the need to obtain any consent of any Lender), any Loan Document may be amended to cure ambiguities, omissions, mistakes or defects.

Section 10.02 Notices and Other Communications; Facsimile Copies.

(a) General. Unless otherwise expressly provided herein, all notices and other communications provided for hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall be in writing (including by facsimile or electronic mail transmission). All such written notices shall be mailed, faxed or delivered to the applicable address, facsimile number or electronic mail address, and all notices and other communications expressly permitted hereunder to be given by telephone shall be made to the applicable telephone number, as follows:

(i) if to Holdings, the Administrative Agent or the NB Investor Lenders, to the address, facsimile number, electronic mail address or telephone number specified for such Person on Schedule 10.02 or to such other address, facsimile number, electronic mail address or telephone number as shall be designated by such party in a notice to the other parties; and

(ii) if to any other Lender, to the address, facsimile number, electronic mail address or telephone number specified in its Administrative Questionnaire or to such other address, facsimile number, electronic mail address or telephone number as shall be designated by such party in a written notice to Holdings and the Administrative Agent.

All such notices and other communications shall be deemed to be given or made upon the earlier to occur of (i) actual receipt by the relevant party hereto and (ii) (A) if delivered by hand or by courier, when signed for by or on behalf of the relevant party hereto; (B) if delivered by mail, four (4) Business Days after deposit in the mails, postage prepaid; (C) if delivered by facsimile, when sent and receipt has been confirmed by telephone; and (D) if delivered by electronic mail (which form of delivery is subject to the provisions of Section 10.02(b)), when delivered; provided, notices and other communications to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Article II shall not be effective until actually received by such Person during the person’s normal business hours. In no event shall a voice mail message be effective as a notice, communication or confirmation hereunder.

 

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(b) Electronic Communications. Notices and other communications to the Lenders hereunder may be delivered or furnished by electronic communication (including e-mail and Internet or intranet websites) pursuant to procedures approved by the Administrative Agent; provided, the foregoing shall not apply to notices to any Lender pursuant to Article II if such Lender has notified the Administrative Agent that it is incapable of receiving notices under such Article by electronic communication. The Administrative Agent or Holdings may, in their discretion, agree to accept notices and other communications to it hereunder by electronic communications pursuant to procedures approved by it; provided, approval of such procedures may be limited to particular notices or communications.

Unless the Administrative Agent otherwise prescribes, (i) notices and other communications sent to an e-mail address shall be deemed received upon the sender’s receipt of an acknowledgement from the intended recipient (such as by the “return receipt requested” function, as available, return e-mail or other written acknowledgement); provided, if such notice or other communication is not sent during the normal business hours of the recipient, such notice or communication shall be deemed to have been sent at the opening of business on the next Business Day for the recipient, and (ii) notices or communications posted to an Internet or intranet website shall be deemed received upon the deemed receipt by the intended recipient at its e-mail address as described in the foregoing clause (i) of notification that such notice or communication is available and identifying the website address therefor.

(c) The Platform. THE PLATFORM IS PROVIDED “AS IS” AND “AS AVAILABLE.” THE AGENT PARTIES (AS DEFINED BELOW) DO NOT WARRANT THE ACCURACY OR COMPLETENESS OF THE BORROWER MATERIALS OR THE ADEQUACY OF THE PLATFORM, AND EXPRESSLY DISCLAIM LIABILITY FOR ERRORS IN OR OMISSIONS FROM THE BORROWER MATERIALS. NO WARRANTY OF ANY KIND, EXPRESS, IMPLIED OR STATUTORY, INCLUDING ANY WARRANTY OF MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE, NON-INFRINGEMENT OF THIRD PARTY RIGHTS OR FREEDOM FROM VIRUSES OR OTHER CODE DEFECTS, IS MADE BY ANY AGENT PARTY IN CONNECTION WITH THE BORROWER MATERIALS OR THE PLATFORM. In no event shall the Administrative Agent or any of its Agent-Related Persons (collectively, the “Agent Parties”) have any liability to the Loan Parties, any Lender or any other Person for losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses of any kind (whether in tort, contract or otherwise) arising out of Holdings’ or the Administrative Agent’s transmission of Borrower Materials through the Internet, except to the extent that such losses, claims, damages, liabilities or expenses are determined by a court of competent jurisdiction by a final and non-appealable judgment to have resulted from the gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct of such Agent Party; provided, however, that in no event shall any Agent Party have any liability to any Loan Party, any Lender or any other Person for indirect, special, incidental, consequential or punitive damages (as opposed to direct or actual damages).

(d) Change of Address, Etc. Each of Holdings, the Borrower and the Administrative Agent may change its address, telecopier or telephone number for notices and other communications hereunder by notice to the other parties hereto. Each other Lender may change its address, facsimile or telephone number for notices and other communications hereunder by notice to Holdings and the Administrative Agent. In addition, each Lender agrees to notify the Administrative Agents from time to time to ensure that the Administrative Agent has on record (i) an effective address, contact name, telephone number, telecopier number and electronic mail address to which notices and other communications may be sent and (ii) accurate wire instructions for such Lender. Furthermore, each Public Lender agrees to cause at least one individual at or on behalf of such Public Lender to at all times have selected the “Private Side Information” or similar designation on the content declaration screen of the Platform in order to

 

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enable such Public Lender or its delegate, in accordance with such Public Lender’s compliance procedures and applicable Law, including United States federal and state securities Laws, to make reference to Borrower Materials that are not made available through the “Public Side Information” portion of the Platform and that may contain material non-public information with respect to Holdings or the Borrower or their securities for purposes of United States federal or state securities laws.

(e) Reliance by Administrative Agent and Lenders. The Administrative Agent and the Lenders shall be entitled to rely and act upon any notices (including telephonic Committed Loan Notices) purportedly given by or on behalf of Holdings even if (i) such notices were not made in a manner specified herein, were incomplete or were not preceded or followed by any other form of notice specified herein, or (ii) the terms thereof, as understood by the recipient, varied from any confirmation thereof. The Borrower shall indemnify the Administrative Agent, each Lender and the Related Parties of each of them from all losses, costs, expenses and liabilities resulting from the reliance by such Person on each notice purportedly given by or on behalf of Holdings other than those arising as a result of such Person’s gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct (as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final and non-appealable decision). All telephonic notices to and other telephonic communications with the Administrative Agent may be recorded by the Administrative Agent, and each of the parties hereto hereby consents to such recording.

(f) Notice to other Loan Parties. Holdings agrees that notices to be given to any other Loan Party under this Agreement or any other Loan Document may be given to Holdings in accordance with the provisions of this Section 10.02 with the same effect as if given to such other Loan Party in accordance with the terms hereunder or thereunder.

Section 10.03 No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies. No failure by any Lender or the Administrative Agent to exercise, and no delay by any such Person in exercising, any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder or under any other Loan Document shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder preclude any other or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, remedy, power or privilege. The rights, remedies, powers and privileges herein provided, and provided under each other Loan Document, are cumulative and not exclusive of any rights, remedies, powers and privileges provided by Law.

Section 10.04 Attorney Costs and Expenses. The Borrower agrees (a) if the Closing Date occurs, to pay or reimburse the Administrative Agent and the NB Investor Lenders for all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket costs and expenses (including but not limited to expenses of the Administrative Agent’s and the NB Investor Lenders’ diligence investigations, fees of consultants hired with Holdings’ prior written consent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) and travel expenses) associated with the preparation, negotiation, execution and delivery, administration, amendment, modification, waiver and/or enforcement of this Agreement, the other Loan Documents and any ancillary documents in connection with the foregoing, and any amendment, waiver, consent or other modification of the provisions hereof and thereof (whether or not the transactions contemplated thereby are consummated), limited in the case of Attorney Costs to all Attorney Costs of Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP and to all Attorney Costs of Holland & Knight LLP (or other counsel retained by the Administrative Agent or NB Investor Lenders with Holdings’ consent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed)) and one local and foreign counsel in each appropriate jurisdiction, which may be a single local or foreign counsel acting in multiple jurisdictions, and in the case of an actual or reasonably perceived conflict of interest where the affected Persons informs Holdings of such conflict, of one such other firm of counsel for the affected Persons and (b) to pay or reimburse the Administrative Agent and each Lender for all reasonable and documented out-of-pocket costs and expenses incurred in

 

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connection with the enforcement of any rights or remedies under this Agreement or the other Loan Documents (including all costs and expenses incurred in connection with any workout or restructuring in respect of the Loans, all such costs and expenses incurred during any legal proceeding, including any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law, and including all Attorney Costs of one counsel to the Administrative Agent and one counsel to the NB Investor Lenders taken as a whole (and, in the case of an actual or perceived conflict of interest where an NB Investor Lender(s) affected by such conflict informs the Borrower of such conflict and thereafter retains its/their own counsel, of another firm of counsel for such affected Person)). The foregoing costs and expenses shall include all reasonable search, filing, recording and title insurance charges and fees related thereto, and other reasonable and documented out-of-pocket expenses incurred by any Agent. The agreements in this Section 10.04 shall survive the termination of the Commitments and repayment of all other Obligations. All amounts due under this Section 10.04 shall be paid promptly, and in no event no later than thirty (30) calendar days, following receipt by Holdings of an invoice relating thereto setting forth such expenses in reasonable detail. If any Loan Party fails to pay when due any costs, expenses or other amounts payable by it hereunder or under any Loan Document, such amount may be paid on behalf of such Loan Party by the Administrative Agent in its sole discretion.

Section 10.05 Indemnification by the Borrower. Whether or not the transactions contemplated hereby are consummated, the Borrower shall indemnify and hold harmless each Agent-Related Person, each Lender and their respective Affiliates, directors, officers, employees, partners, equity holders, members, controlling persons, counsel, agents, trustees, advisors, and other representatives and the successors and assigns of each of the foregoing (collectively, the “Indemnitees”) from and against any and all losses, liabilities, damages, claims, and reasonable and documented out-of-pocket fees and expenses (including reasonable Attorney Costs of (i) one counsel for the Agent-Related Persons and their related Indemnitees (the “Agent Indemnitees”), (ii) one counsel for the NB Investor Lenders and their related Indemnitees) and (iii) one counsel for all other Indemnitees (and, in the case of an actual or perceived conflict of interest where the Indemnitee affected by such conflict informs the Borrower of such conflict and thereafter retains its own counsel, of another firm of counsel for such affected Indemnitee or group of similarly affected Indemnitees) and, if necessary, one firm of local counsel in each appropriate jurisdiction (which may include a single special counsel acting in multiple jurisdictions) for all Indemnitees (and, in the case of an actual or perceived conflict of interest, where the Indemnitee affected by such conflict informs the Borrower of such conflict and thereafter retains its own counsel, of another firm of counsel for such affected Indemnitee)) of any such Indemnitee arising out of or relating to any claim or any litigation or other proceeding (regardless of whether such Indemnitee is a party thereto and whether or not such proceedings are brought by the Borrower, its equity holders, its Affiliates, creditors or any other third person) that relates to the Transactions, including the financing contemplated hereby) of any kind or nature whatsoever which may at any time be imposed on, incurred by or asserted against any such Indemnitee in any way relating to or arising out of or in connection with (a) the negotiation, execution, delivery, enforcement, performance or administration of any Loan Document or any other agreement, letter or instrument delivered in connection with the transactions contemplated thereby or the consummation of the transactions contemplated thereby, (b) any Commitment, Loan or the use or proposed use of the proceeds therefrom, (c) any actual or alleged presence or Release or threat of Release of Hazardous Materials on, at, under or from any property currently or formerly owned or operated by Holdings, any Subsidiary or any other Loan Party, or any Environmental Liability related in any way to Holdings, any Subsidiary or any other Loan Party, or (d) any actual or prospective claim, litigation, investigation or proceeding relating to any of the foregoing, whether based on contract, tort or any other theory (including any investigation of, preparation for, or defense of any pending or threatened claim, investigation, litigation or proceeding) (all the foregoing, collectively, the “Indemnified Liabilities”), in all cases, whether or not caused by or arising, in whole or in part, out of the negligence of the Indemnitee; provided, such indemnity shall not, as to any Indemnitee, be available to the extent that such liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, claims, demands,

 

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actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements resulted from (x) the gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee (as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final and non-appealable judgment), (y) except for the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent, a material breach of the Loan Documents by such Indemnitee or one of its Affiliates (as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final and non-appealable judgment) or (z) disputes solely between and among such Indemnitees to the extent such disputes do not arise from any act or omission of Holdings, the Borrower or any of their Affiliates (other than with respect to a claim against an Indemnitee acting in its capacity as an Agent or similar role under the Loan Documents unless such claim arose from the gross negligence, bad faith or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee (as determined by a court of competent jurisdiction in a final and non-appealable judgment)). Without in any way limiting the indemnification obligations of the Loan Parties under this Section 10.05, no Indemnitee shall be liable for any damages arising from the use by others of any information or other materials obtained through IntraLinks or other similar information transmission systems in connection with this Agreement, nor shall any Indemnitee or any Loan Party have any liability for any special, punitive, indirect or consequential damages relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document or arising out of its activities in connection herewith or therewith (whether before or after the Closing Date) other than any punitive, indirect or consequential damages that otherwise represent Indemnified Liabilities of any Loan Party arising from a claim by a third party unaffiliated with any Indemnitee. In the case of an investigation, litigation or other proceeding to which the indemnity in this Section 10.05 applies, such indemnity shall be effective whether or not such investigation, litigation or proceeding is brought by any Loan Party, its directors, managers, partners, stockholders or creditors or an Indemnitee or any other Person, whether or not any Indemnitee is otherwise a party thereto and whether or not any of the transactions contemplated hereunder or under any of the other Loan Documents is consummated. All amounts due under this Section 10.05 shall be paid promptly, and in no event later than thirty (30) calendar days, after demand therefor; provided, however, that such Indemnitee shall promptly refund such amount to the extent that there is a final judicial or arbitral determination that such Indemnitee was not entitled to indemnification or contribution rights with respect to such payment pursuant to the express terms of this Section 10.05. The agreements in this Section 10.05 shall survive the resignation of the Administrative Agent, the replacement of any Lender, the termination of the Loan Documents and the termination of the Aggregate Commitments and the repayment, satisfaction or discharge of all the other Obligations. For the avoidance of doubt, this Section 10.05 shall not apply to Taxes, other than any Taxes that represent losses, liabilities, damages, claims, etc. arising from any non-Tax claim.

Section 10.06 Payments Set Aside. To the extent that any payment by or on behalf of the Borrower is made to any Agent or any Lender, or any Agent or any Lender exercises its right of setoff, and such payment or the proceeds of such setoff or any part thereof is subsequently invalidated, declared to be fraudulent or preferential, set aside or required (including pursuant to any settlement entered into by such Agent or such Lender in its discretion) to be repaid to a trustee, receiver or any other party, in connection with any proceeding under any Debtor Relief Law or otherwise, then (a) to the extent of such recovery, the obligation or part thereof originally intended to be satisfied shall be revived and continued in full force and effect as if such payment had not been made or such setoff had not occurred, and (b) each Lender severally agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent upon demand its applicable share of any amount so recovered from or repaid by any Agent, plus interest thereon from the date of such demand to the date such payment is made at a rate per annum equal to the Federal Funds Rate. The obligations of the Lenders under clause (b) of the preceding sentence shall survive the payment in full of the Obligations and the termination of this Agreement.

Section 10.07 Successors and Assigns.

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Except as otherwise provided herein, the Borrower may not assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of each Lender. No Lender may assign or otherwise transfer any of its rights or obligations hereunder except (i) to an Eligible Assignee, (ii) by way of participation in accordance with the provisions of Section 10.07(g), or (iii) by way of pledge or assignment of a security interest subject to the restrictions of Section 10.07(h). Any other attempted assignment or transfer by any party hereto shall be null and void. Nothing in this Agreement, expressed or implied, shall be construed to confer upon any Person (other than the parties hereto, their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby, Participants to the extent provided in Section 10.07(g) and, to the extent expressly contemplated hereby, the Indemnitees) any legal or equitable right, remedy or claim under or by reason of this Agreement.

(b) Right to Assign. Subject to Section 10.07(j) below with respect to Sponsor Affiliated Lenders, any Lender may sell, assign or transfer all or a portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitment and the Loans at the time owing to it) with respect to Term Loans and/or Term Loan Commitments:

(A) to any Person meeting the criteria of clause (a) or (d) of the definition of “Eligible Assignee” upon the giving of notice to Holdings and the Administrative Agent;

(B) to any Person meeting the criteria of clause (b) of the definition of “Eligible Assignee” and consented to by each of (x) Holdings and (y) the Administrative Agent (each consent not to be unreasonably withheld, delayed or conditioned); and

(C) to any Person meeting the criteria of clause (c) of the definition of “Eligible Assignee” upon giving effect to such assignment pursuant to Section 10.07(j); and

provided, notwithstanding the foregoing clauses (i) and (ii), the consent of Holdings shall not be required if an Event of Default under Section 8.01(a), (f) or (g) has occurred and is continuing; provided, further, (x) Holdings’ refusal to accept an assignment to a Disqualified Lender will be deemed to be reasonable, (y) Holdings’ consent will be required with respect to any assignment to Disqualified Lenders, and (z) to the extent the consent of Holdings is required, Holdings shall be deemed to have consented to such assignment (other than an assignment to a Disqualified Lender) unless they have objected by written notice to the Administrative Agent within ten (10) Business Days of having received written notice thereof.

(c) Mechanics. Assignments shall be subject to the following additional conditions:

(A) except in the case of an assignment to a Lender or an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund or an assignment of the entire remaining amount of the assigning Lender’s Commitment or Loans of any Class, the amount of the Commitment or Loans of the assigning Lender subject to each such assignment (determined as of the date the Assignment and Assumption with respect to such assignment is delivered to the Administrative Agent) shall be integral multiples of $1,000,000 unless Holdings and the Administrative Agent otherwise consent or such assignment is made by or to a NB Investor or if the assignor’s entire interest in such facility is being made; provided, (1) no such consent of Holdings shall be required if an Event of Default under Section 8.01(a), (f) or (g) has occurred and is continuing and (2) such amounts shall be aggregated in respect of each Lender and its Affiliates or Approved Funds, if any;

 

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(B) (i) the parties to each assignment shall execute and deliver to the Administrative Agent an Assignment and Assumption, (ii) pay to the Administrative Agent, for the account of the Administrative Agent, a processing and recordation fee of $3,500 (which fee may be waived in the Administrative Agent’s sole discretion) and (iii) the assigning Lender shall provide to Holdings a copy of such requested Assignment and Assumption irrespective of whether or not an Event of Default under Sections 8.01(a), (f) or (g) has occurred and is continuing or whether Holdings otherwise has a consent right;

(C) the performance by the Administrative Agent of all necessary “know your customer” or other similar checks under applicable laws and regulations in relation to each new Lender, the completion of which shall be evidenced by the countersignature of the Administrative Agent to the Assignment and Assumption (which, for the avoidance of doubt, shall not be construed to constitute a requirement for consent of the Administrative Agent);

(D) the Assignee, if it is not currently a Lender, shall deliver to the Administrative Agent an Administrative Questionnaire, a duly executed IRS Form W-9 or such other applicable IRS Form and any documentation required by Sections 3.01(g); and

(E) the Assignee shall not be a Disqualified Lender or a Defaulting Lender.

provided, nothing in this paragraph (c) shall prohibit any Lender from (i) assigning all or a portion of its rights and obligations among separate Facilities on a pro rata basis or (ii) assigning its rights with respect to an Initial Term B Loan Exit Payment. Notwithstanding the foregoing, each Loan Party and the Lenders acknowledge and agree that Administrative Agent shall not (x) be obligated to ascertain, monitor or inquire as to whether any Lender or Participant or prospective Lender or Participant is a Disqualified Lender or (y) have any liability with respect to or arising out of any assignment or participation of loans, or disclosure of confidential information, to, or the restrictions on any exercise of rights or remedies of, any Disqualified Lender;

(d) Representations and Warranties of Assignee. Each Lender, upon execution and delivery hereof or upon succeeding in an interest in the Commitments and Loans, as the case may be, represents and warrants that as of the Closing Date or the effective date of such assignment, as applicable, that (i) (A) it is an Eligible Assignee and (B) it is not a Disqualified Lender, it being acknowledged by Holdings, the Lenders and the other Secured Parties that the Administrative Agent will be entitled to rely on such representations and warranties set forth in this clause (i) without any diligence in respect to the accuracy of such representations and warranties and any breach of such representations and warranties by such Lender will not give rise to any liability on the part of the Administrative Agent and (ii) it has experience and expertise in the making of, or investing in, commitments and loans such as the applicable Commitments and Loans, as the case may be.

(e) Effect of Assignment. Upon recordation of an Assignment and Assumption by the Administrative Agent in the Register, the Eligible Assignee thereunder shall be a party to this Agreement and, to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, have the rights and obligations of a Lender under this Agreement, and the assigning Lender thereunder shall, to the

 

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extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, be released from its obligations under this Agreement (and, in the case of an Assignment and Assumption covering all of the assigning Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to be a party hereto but shall continue to be entitled to the benefits of Sections 3.01, 3.04, 3.05, 10.04 and 10.05 with respect to facts and circumstances occurring prior to the effective date of such assignment). Upon request, and the surrender by the assigning Lender of its Note (if any), Holdings (at its expense) shall execute and deliver a Note to the assignee Lender. Any assignment or transfer by a Lender of rights or obligations under this Agreement that does not comply with clause (c) shall be treated for purposes of this Agreement as a sale by such Lender of a participation in such rights and obligations in accordance with Section 10.07(g). For greater certainty, any assignment by a Lender pursuant to this Section 10.07 shall not in any way constitute or be deemed to constitute a novation, discharge, recession, extinguishment or substitution of the existing Indebtedness and any Indebtedness so assigned shall continue to be the same obligation and not a new obligations.

(f) Register.

(i) The Administrative Agent, acting solely for this purpose as a non-fiduciary agent of the Borrower, shall maintain at the Administrative Agent’s Office a copy of each Assignment and Assumption delivered to it and a register for the recordation of the names and addresses of the Lenders, and the Commitments of, and principal amounts (and related interest amounts) of the Loans owing to, each Lender pursuant to the terms hereof from time to time (the “Register”). The entries in the Register shall be conclusive, absent manifest error, and the Borrower, the Agents and the Lenders shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register pursuant to the terms hereof as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this Agreement, notwithstanding notice to the contrary. The Register shall be available for inspection by Holdings, the Borrower, any Agent and any Lender, at any reasonable time and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice.

(ii) Notwithstanding clause (f)(i) above, in no event shall the Administrative Agent be obligated to ascertain, monitor or inquire as to whether any Lender is a Sponsor Affiliated Lender nor shall the Administrative Agent be obligated to monitor the aggregate amount of Loans or Commitments held by Sponsor Affiliated Lenders.

(g) Participations.

(i) Any Lender may at any time, without the consent of, or notice to, Holdings or the Administrative Agent, sell participations to any Person (other than a natural person, a Defaulting Lender or to Disqualified Lenders (provided in the case of a sale to a Disqualified Lender, the consent of Holdings shall only be required to the extent the list of Disqualified Lenders has been made available to such Lender)) (each, a “Participant”) in all or a portion of such Lender’s rights and/or obligations under this Agreement (including all or a portion of its Commitment and/or the Loans owing to it); provided, (i) such Lender’s obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged, (ii) such Lender shall remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of such obligations and (iii) Holdings, the Agents and the other Lenders shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement. Any agreement or instrument pursuant to which a Lender sells such a participation shall provide that such Lender shall retain the sole right to enforce this Agreement and the other Loan Documents and to approve any amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of this Agreement or

 

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the other Loan Documents; provided, such agreement or instrument may provide that such Lender will not, without the consent of the Participant, agree to any amendment, waiver or other modification described in Section 10.01(a), (b), (c), (e), or (f) that directly affects such Participant. Subject to Section 10.07(g)(iii), Holdings agrees that each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of Sections 3.01, 3.04 and 3.05 (through the applicable Lender), subject to the requirements and limitations of such Sections (including Sections 3.01(e) and (g) and Sections 3.06 and 3.07, and it being understood that the documentation required under Section 3.01(g) shall be delivered solely to the participating Lender), to the same extent as if it were a Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to Section 10.07(b). To the extent permitted by applicable Law, each Participant also shall be entitled to the benefits of Section 10.09 as though it were a Lender; provided, such Participant complies with Section 2.13 as though it were a Lender.

(ii) Any Lender that sells participations shall, acting solely for this purpose as a non-fiduciary agent of the Borrower, maintain a register on which it enters the name and the address of each Participant and the principal and interest amounts of each Participant’s participation interest in the Commitments and/or Loans (or other rights or obligations) held by it (the “Participant Register”). The entries in the Participant Register shall be conclusive, absent demonstrable error, and the Borrower and such Lender shall treat each person whose name is recorded in the Participant Register as the owner of such participation interest as the owner thereof for all purposes notwithstanding any notice to the contrary. No Lender shall have any obligation to disclose all or any portion of a Participant Register to any Person (including the identity of any Participant or any information relating to a Participant’s interest in any commitments, loans, or its other obligations under this Agreement) except to the extent that such disclosure is necessary to establish in connection with a Tax audit that such commitment, loan, or other obligation is in registered form under United States Treasury Regulations Section 5f.103-1(c) and Proposed Treasury Regulations Section 1.163-5(b) (or any amended or successor version) or, if different, under Sections 871(h) or 881(c) of the Code.

(iii) A Participant shall not be entitled to receive any greater payment under Section 3.01, 3.04 or 3.05 than the applicable Lender would have been entitled to receive with respect to the participation sold to such Participant (except to the extent such entitlement to receive a greater payment results from a Change in Law that occurs after the Participant acquired the applicable participation).

(h) Certain Assignments.

(i) Any Lender may at any time pledge or assign a security interest in all or any portion of its rights under this Agreement (including under its Note, if any) to secure obligations of such Lender, including any pledge or assignment to secure obligations to a Federal Reserve Bank or any central bank; provided, no such pledge or assignment shall release such Lender from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute any such pledgee or assignee for such Lender as a party hereto.

(ii) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, (1) any Lender may in accordance with applicable Law create a security interest in all or any portion of the Loans owing to it and the Note, if any, held by it and (2) any Lender that is a Fund may create a security interest in all or any portion of the Loans owing to it and the Note, if any, held by it to the trustee for holders of obligations owed, or securities issued,

 

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by such Fund as security for such obligations or securities; provided, unless and until such trustee actually becomes a Lender in compliance with the other provisions of this Section 10.07, (i) no such pledge shall release the pledging Lender from any of its obligations under the Loan Documents and (ii) such trustee shall not be entitled to exercise any of the rights of a Lender under the Loan Documents even though such trustee may have acquired ownership rights with respect to the pledged interest through foreclosure or otherwise.

(i) [Reserved].

(j) Assignments to Sponsor Affiliated Lenders.

(A) Notwithstanding anything else to the contrary contained in this Agreement but subject to the terms of this Section 10.07(j), any Lender may assign all or a portion of its Term Loans to any Sponsor Affiliated Lender (including any Affiliated Debt Fund), without the consent of any Person but subject to prior notice to and acknowledgement by the Administrative Agent and Holdings.

(B) Limitations on Assignments. After giving effect to any such assignment under this Section 10.07(j) and to all other assignments with all Sponsor Affiliated Lenders, the aggregate principal amount of all Loans and Commitments then held by all Sponsor Affiliated Lenders (other than Affiliated Debt Funds) shall not exceed 25% of the aggregate unpaid principal amount of the Term Loans then outstanding (determined as of the time of such purchase). Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary (if applicable, after giving effect to any proposed assignment to a Sponsor Affiliated Lender), if all Sponsor Affiliated Lenders (excluding Affiliated Debt Funds) own or would own, in the aggregate, more than 25% of the principal amount of all then outstanding Term Loans (i) in the event that a Sponsor Affiliated Lender (other than an Affiliated Debt Fund) has acquired any Term Loans, the assignment of such Term Loans that would cause the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans owned by Sponsor Affiliated Lenders (other than Affiliated Debt Funds) to be in excess of 25% of the principal amount of all then outstanding Term Loans or (ii) if such threshold is exceeded solely as a result of a Lender becoming a Sponsor Affiliated Lender after it has acquired Term Loans, then, in each case, such Sponsor Affiliated Lender shall use commercially reasonable efforts to assign sufficient Term Loans within thirty (30) days of the date such threshold is exceeded so that Sponsor Affiliated Lenders (excluding Affiliated Debt Funds) in the aggregate own less than 25% of the aggregate principal amount of Term Loans then outstanding; provided, in order to comply with the obligation to use commercially reasonable efforts to assign Term Loans, such Sponsor Affiliated Lender shall offer to assign the relevant Term Loans to the then-current Term Lenders in addition to potential new lenders; provided, further that there shall be no obligation for such Sponsor Affiliated Lender to assign such Term Loans at a price lower than the price such Lender paid when acquiring such Term Loans.

(C) Representations. Any purchases by Sponsor Affiliated Lenders shall require that such Sponsor Affiliated Lender clearly identify itself as a Sponsor Affiliated Lender in any Assignment and Assumption executed in connection with such purchases or sales and each such Assignment and Assumption shall contain customary “big boy” representations but no requirement to make representations as to the absence of any material nonpublic information.

 

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(D) Lender Meetings and Information. Any Sponsor Affiliated Lender will not receive information provided solely to Lenders and will not be permitted to attend or participate in (or receive any notice of) Lender meetings or conference calls and will not be entitled to challenge the Administrative Agent’s and the Lenders’ attorney-client privilege as a result of their status as Sponsor Affiliated Lenders.

(E) Required Lender Votes. Notwithstanding anything in this Section 10.07(j) or the definition of “Required Lenders” to the contrary:

(1) for purposes of determining whether the “Required Lenders,” have consented (or not consented) to any amendment, modification, waiver, consent or other action with respect to any of the terms of the Loan Documents, or whether the “Required Lenders” have directed or required the Administrative Agent or any Lender to undertake any action (or refrain from taking any action) with respect to any Loan Documents, in each case, that does not require the consent of each Lender or each affected Lender, or does not adversely affect such Sponsor Affiliated Lender that is not an Affiliated Debt Fund in any material respect as compared to other Lenders holding similar obligations, Sponsor Affiliated Lenders that are not Affiliated Debt Funds will be deemed to have voted in the same proportion as non-affiliated Lenders voting on such matters; and

(2) Affiliated Debt Funds may not, in the aggregate, account for more than 49.9% of the amounts set forth in the calculation of “Required Lenders” and any amount in excess of 49.9% will be subject to the limitations set forth in clause (1) above.

(F) Bankruptcy Limitations. In the event that any proceeding under the Bankruptcy Code shall be instituted by or against the Borrower or any Guarantor, each Sponsor Affiliated Lender that is not an Affiliated Debt Fund shall acknowledge and agree that they are each “insiders” under Section 101(31) of the Bankruptcy Code and, as such, the claims associated with the Loans and Commitments owned by it shall not be included in determining whether the applicable class of creditors holding such claims has voted to accept a proposed plan for purposes of Section 1129(a)(10) of the Bankruptcy Code. To the extent that the foregoing designation is deemed unenforceable for any reason, each Sponsor Affiliated Lender that is not an Affiliated Debt Fund shall vote in such proceedings in the same proportion as the allocation of voting with respect to such matter by those Lenders who are not Sponsor Affiliated Lenders, except to the extent that any plan of reorganization proposes to treat the Obligations held by such Sponsor Affiliated Lender in a manner that is less favorable in any material respect to such Sponsor Affiliated Lender than the proposed treatment of similar Obligations held by Lenders that are not Sponsor Affiliated Lenders. For the avoidance of doubt, this Section 10.07(j)(F) shall not apply to Affiliated Debt Funds.

(G) Contribution to the Borrower. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, any such Loans acquired by a Sponsor Affiliated Lender may, with the consent of the Borrower, be contributed to the Borrower (whether through Holdings or otherwise) and exchanged for debt or equity securities that are otherwise permitted to be issued at such time.

 

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(H) Each Sponsor Affiliated Lender agrees to notify the Administrative Agent promptly (and in any event within ten (10) Business Days) if it acquires any Person who is also a Lender, and each Lender agrees to notify the Administrative Agent promptly (and in any event within ten (10) Business Days) if it becomes a Sponsor Affiliated Lender. Such notice shall contain the type of information required and be delivered to the same addressee as set forth in Exhibit J.

(I) Administrative Agent Liability. Each Sponsor Affiliated Lender waives any rights to bring any action in connection with such purchased Loans or Commitments against the Administrative Agent in its capacity as such. The Administrative Agent shall not have any responsibility for monitoring any acquisition or disposition of Term Loans by any Sponsor Affiliated Lender or liability for any losses suffered by any Person as a result of any purported assignment to or from a Sponsor Affiliated Lender.

Section 10.08 Confidentiality. Each of the Agents and the Lenders agrees to maintain the confidentiality of the Information and to not use or disclose such information, except that Information may be disclosed (a) to its Affiliates and its and its Affiliates’ officers, directors, employees, attorneys, agents, accountants, advisors, controlling persons and equity holders who are informed of the confidential nature thereof; (b) pursuant to the order of any court or administrative agency in any pending legal, judicial or administrative proceeding or otherwise as required by applicable Law or compulsory legal process; (c) to the extent requested or required by any Governmental Authority and/or regulatory authorities (including any self-regulatory authority); (d) to any other party to this Agreement; (e) to any potential or prospective Lender, any pledgee referred to in Section 10.07(h) (provided, any such disclosure to the Federal Reserve Bank or other central bank in connection with a pledge pursuant to Section 10.07(h)) shall not require such pledgee to enter into any confidentiality, non-disclosure or similar agreement), counterparty to a Swap Contract or Securitization Financing, Eligible Assignee of or Participant in, or any prospective Eligible Assignee of or Participant in, any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement and to any direct or indirect contractual counterparty to any swap or derivative transaction relating to the applicable NB Investor’s investment in the Facility or Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries; (f) with the written consent of Holdings; (g) to the extent such Information (w) was already in the possession of any Agent, any Lender or any of their respective Affiliates prior to any duty of confidentiality provided for herein, (x) becomes publicly available other than as a result of a breach of this Section 10.08, (y) is independently developed by any Agent, any Lender or any of their respective Affiliates or (z) is or was received by any Agent, any Lender or any of their respective Affiliates from a third party that is not, to such party’s knowledge, subject to contractual or fiduciary confidentiality obligations owing to Holdings or any of its Affiliates; (h) to any Governmental Authority or examiner regulating any Lender; (i) to any rating agency when required by it (it being understood that, prior to any such disclosure, such rating agency shall undertake to preserve the confidentiality of any Information relating to the Loan Parties received by it from such Lender); (j) in connection with the exercise of any remedies hereunder or under any other Loan Document or any action or proceeding relating to this Agreement or any other Loan Document or the enforcement of rights hereunder or thereunder; (k) for purposes of establishing a “due diligence” defense (in which case Borrower shall be notified in advance to the extent reasonably practical and permitted by law); (l) to any actual, potential or prospective NB Investor Lender who agrees to be bound by the terms of this paragraph (or language substantially similar to this paragraph) (with the Initial Investor, to the extent within its control, responsible for such person’s compliance with this paragraph); and (m) to any of the NB Investors’ limited partners, lenders, investors, managed accounts, rating agencies and affiliates and to its and their respective limited partners’, lenders’, investors’, managed accounts’, rating agencies’ and affiliates’ respective officers, directors, employees, legal counsel, independent auditors, professionals and other experts or agents in connection with the evaluation, monitoring or administration of any NB Investor’s investment in the Facility, in each case who need to know such information and who are informed of the confidential nature of such information

 

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and who are subject to customary confidentiality obligations of professional practice or who are or have been advised to keep such Information confidential (with the NB Investor Lenders, to the extent within their control, responsible for such person’s compliance with this paragraph). In addition, the Agents and the Lenders may disclose the existence of this Agreement and information about this Agreement to market data collectors, similar service providers to the lending industry, and service providers to the Agents and the Lenders in connection with the administration and management of this Agreement, the other Loan Documents, the Commitments, and the Credit Extensions. For the purposes of this Section 10.08, “Information” means all information received from any Loan Party or its Affiliates or its Affiliates’ respective directors, managers, officers, employees, trustees, investment advisors or agents, relating to Holdings, the Borrower or any of their Subsidiaries or their business, other than any such information that is publicly available to any Agent or any Lender prior to disclosure by any Loan Party other than as a result of a breach of this Section 10.08, including, without limitation, information delivered pursuant to Section 6.01, 6.02 or 6.03 hereof.

Section 10.09 Setoff. In addition to any rights and remedies of the Lenders provided by Law, upon the occurrence and during the continuance of any Event of Default, each Lender and its Affiliates and its Affiliates is authorized at any time and from time to time, without prior notice to Holdings or any other Loan Party, any such notice being waived by the Borrower (on its own behalf and on behalf of each Loan Party and its Subsidiaries) to the fullest extent permitted by applicable Law, to set off and apply any and all deposits (general or special, time or demand, provisional or final) at any time held by, and other Indebtedness at any time owing by, such Lender and its Affiliates, as the case may be, to or for the credit or the account of the respective Loan Parties and their Subsidiaries against any and all Obligations owing to such Lender and its Affiliates hereunder or under any other Loan Document, now or hereafter existing, irrespective of whether or not such Agent or such Lender or Affiliate shall have made demand under this Agreement or any other Loan Document and although such Obligations may be contingent or unmatured or denominated in a currency different from that of the applicable deposit or Indebtedness. Each Lender agrees promptly to notify Holdings and the Administrative Agent after any such setoff and application made by such Lender; provided, the failure to give such notice shall not affect the validity of such setoff and application. The rights of the Administrative Agent and each Lender under this Section 10.09 are in addition to other rights and remedies (including other rights of setoff) that the Administrative Agent and such Lender may have.

Section 10.10 Counterparts. This Agreement and each other Loan Document may be executed in one or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument. Delivery by telecopier of an executed counterpart of a signature page to this Agreement and each other Loan Document shall be effective as delivery of an original executed counterpart of this Agreement and such other Loan Document. The Agents may also require that any such documents and signatures delivered by telecopier be confirmed by a manually signed original thereof; provided, the failure to request or deliver the same shall not limit the effectiveness of any document or signature delivered by telecopier.

Section 10.11 Integration. This Agreement, together with the other Loan Documents and the Fee and Closing Payment Letter, comprises the complete and integrated agreement of the parties on the subject matter hereof and thereof and supersedes all prior agreements, written or oral, on such subject matter. In the event of any conflict between the provisions of this Agreement and those of any other Loan Document, the provisions of this Agreement shall control; provided, the inclusion of supplemental rights or remedies in favor of the Agents or the Lenders in any other Loan Document shall not be deemed a conflict with this Agreement. Each Loan Document was drafted with the joint participation of the respective parties thereto and shall be construed neither against nor in favor of any party, but rather in accordance with the fair meaning thereof.

 

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Section 10.12 Survival of Representations and Warranties. All representations and warranties made hereunder and in any other Loan Document or other document delivered pursuant hereto or thereto or in connection herewith or therewith shall survive the execution and delivery hereof and thereof. Such representations and warranties have been or will be relied upon by each Agent and each Lender, regardless of any investigation made by any Agent or any Lender or on their behalf and notwithstanding that any Agent or any Lender may have had notice or knowledge of any Default at the time of any Credit Extension, and shall continue in full force and effect as long as any Loan or any other Obligation hereunder shall remain unpaid or unsatisfied. The provisions of Sections 10.14 and 10.15 shall continue in full force and effect as long as any Loan or any other Obligation hereunder shall remain unpaid or unsatisfied.

Section 10.13 Severability. If any provision of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents is held to be illegal, invalid or unenforceable, the legality, validity and enforceability of the remaining provisions of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents shall not be affected or impaired thereby. The invalidity of a provision in a particular jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in any other jurisdiction.

Section 10.14 GOVERNING LAW, JURISDICTION, SERVICE OF PROCESS.

(a) THIS AGREEMENT AND EACH OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK (EXCEPT AS OTHERWISE EXPRESSLY PROVIDED THEREIN).

(b) EXCEPT AS SET FORTH IN THE FOLLOWING PARAGRAPH, ANY LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING ARISING UNDER ANY LOAN DOCUMENT OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH OR RELATED OR INCIDENTAL TO THE DEALINGS OF THE PARTIES HERETO OR ANY OF THEM WITH RESPECT TO ANY LOAN DOCUMENT, OR THE TRANSACTIONS RELATED THERETO, IN EACH CASE WHETHER NOW EXISTING OR HEREAFTER ARISING, SHALL BE BROUGHT IN THE COURTS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK SITTING IN THE BOROUGH OF MANHATTAN IN NEW YORK CITY OR OF THE UNITED STATES FOR THE SOUTHERN DISTRICT OF SUCH STATE (PROVIDED, IF NONE OF SUCH COURTS CAN AND WILL EXERCISE SUCH JURISDICTION, SUCH EXCLUSIVITY SHALL NOT APPLY), AND BY EXECUTION AND DELIVERY OF THIS AGREEMENT, THE BORROWER, HOLDINGS, EACH AGENT AND EACH LENDER CONSENTS, FOR ITSELF AND IN RESPECT OF ITS PROPERTY, TO THE EXCLUSIVE JURISDICTION OF THOSE COURTS. THE BORROWER, HOLDINGS, EACH AGENT AND EACH LENDER IRREVOCABLY WAIVES ANY OBJECTION, INCLUDING ANY OBJECTION TO THE LAYING OF VENUE OR BASED ON THE GROUNDS OF FORUM NON CONVENIENS, WHICH IT MAY NOW OR HEREAFTER HAVE TO THE BRINGING OF ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING IN SUCH JURISDICTION IN RESPECT OF ANY LOAN DOCUMENT OR OTHER DOCUMENT RELATED THERETO.

(c) NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT OR IN ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT SHALL AFFECT ANY RIGHT THAT THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT, THE COLLATERAL AGENT OR ANY LENDER MAY OTHERWISE HAVE TO BRING ANY ACTION OR PROCEEDING RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT AGAINST ANY LOAN PARTY OR ITS PROPERTIES IN THE COURTS OF ANY JURISDICTION (I) FOR PURPOSES OF ENFORCING A JUDGMENT, (II) IN CONNECTION WITH EXERCISING REMEDIES AGAINST THE COLLATERAL IN A JURISDICTION IN WHICH SUCH COLLATERAL IS LOCATED, (III) IN CONNECTION

 

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WITH ANY PENDING BANKRUPTCY, INSOLVENCY OR SIMILAR PROCEEDING IN SUCH JURISDICTION OR (IV) TO THE EXTENT THE COURTS REFERRED TO IN THE PREVIOUS PARAGRAPH DO NOT HAVE JURISDICTION OVER SUCH LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING OR THE PARTIES OR PROPERTY SUBJECT THERETO.

(d) EACH PARTY HERETO IRREVOCABLY CONSENTS TO SERVICE OF PROCESS IN THE MANNER PROVIDED FOR NOTICES IN SECTION 10.02. NOTHING IN THIS AGREEMENT WILL AFFECT THE RIGHT OF ANY PARTY HERETO TO SERVE PROCESS IN ANY OTHER MANNER PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW. WITHOUT LIMITING THE OTHER PROVISIONS OF THIS SECTION 10.14 AND IN ADDITION TO THE SERVICE OF PROCESS PROVIDED FOR HEREIN, HOLDINGS HEREBY IRREVOCABLY DESIGNATES, APPOINTS AND EMPOWERS THE BORROWER (AND THE BORROWER HEREBY IRREVOCABLY ACCEPTS SUCH APPOINTMENT), AS ITS AUTHORIZED DESIGNEE, APPOINTEE AND AGENT TO RECEIVE, ACCEPT AND ACKNOWLEDGE FOR AND ON ITS BEHALF, AND IN RESPECT OF ITS PROPERTY, SERVICE OF ANY AND ALL LEGAL PROCESS, SUMMONS, NOTICES AND DOCUMENTS WHICH MAY BE SERVED IN ANY SUCH ACTION OR PROCEEDING. IF FOR ANY REASON BORROWER SHALL CEASE TO BE AVAILABLE TO ACT AS SUCH, HOLDINGS AGREES TO PROMPTLY DESIGNATE A NEW AUTHORIZED DESIGNEE, APPOINTEE AND AGENT IN NEW YORK CITY ON THE TERMS AND FOR THE PURPOSES OF THIS PROVISION REASONABLY SATISFACTORY TO THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT UNDER THIS AGREEMENT.

Section 10.15 WAIVER OF RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY. EACH PARTY TO THIS AGREEMENT HEREBY EXPRESSLY WAIVES TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW ANY RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY OF ANY CLAIM, DEMAND, ACTION OR CAUSE OF ACTION ARISING UNDER ANY LOAN DOCUMENT OR IN ANY WAY CONNECTED WITH OR RELATED OR INCIDENTAL TO THE DEALINGS OF THE PARTIES HERETO OR ANY OF THEM WITH RESPECT TO ANY LOAN DOCUMENT, OR THE TRANSACTIONS RELATED THERETO, IN EACH CASE WHETHER NOW EXISTING OR HEREAFTER ARISING, AND WHETHER FOUNDED IN CONTRACT OR TORT OR OTHERWISE; AND EACH PARTY HEREBY AGREES AND CONSENTS THAT ANY SUCH CLAIM, DEMAND, ACTION OR CAUSE OF ACTION SHALL BE DECIDED BY COURT TRIAL WITHOUT A JURY, AND THAT ANY PARTY TO THIS AGREEMENT MAY FILE AN ORIGINAL COUNTERPART OR A COPY OF THIS SECTION 10.15 WITH ANY COURT AS WRITTEN EVIDENCE OF THE CONSENT OF THE SIGNATORIES HERETO TO THE WAIVER OF THEIR RIGHT TO TRIAL BY JURY.

Section 10.16 Binding Effect. This Agreement shall become effective when it shall have been executed by the Borrower and Holdings and the Administrative Agent shall have been notified by each Lender that each such Lender has executed it and thereafter shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the Borrower, each Agent and each Lender and their respective successors and assigns, except that the Borrower shall not have the right to assign its rights hereunder or any interest herein without the prior written consent of the Lenders except as permitted by Section 7.04.

Section 10.17 Judgment Currency. If, for the purposes of obtaining judgment in any court, it is necessary to convert a sum due hereunder or any other Loan Document in one currency into another currency, the rate of exchange used shall be that at which in accordance with normal banking procedures the Administrative Agent could purchase the first currency with such other currency on the Business Day preceding that on which final judgment is given. The obligation of the Borrower in respect of any such sum due from them to the Administrative Agent or the Lenders hereunder or under the other Loan Documents shall, notwithstanding any judgment in a currency (the “Judgment Currency”) other than that

 

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in which such sum is denominated in accordance with the applicable provisions of this Agreement (the “Agreement Currency”), be discharged only to the extent that on the Business Day following receipt by the Administrative Agent of any sum adjudged to be so due in the Judgment Currency, the Administrative Agent may in accordance with normal banking procedures purchase the Agreement Currency with the Judgment Currency. If the amount of the Agreement Currency so purchased is less than the sum originally due to the Administrative Agent from the Borrower in the Agreement Currency, the Borrower agrees, as a separate obligation and notwithstanding any such judgment, to indemnify the Administrative Agent or the Person to whom such obligation was owing against such loss. If the amount of the Agreement Currency so purchased is greater than the sum originally due to the Administrative Agent in such currency, the Administrative Agent agrees to return the amount of any excess to the Borrower (or to any other Person who may be entitled thereto under applicable Law).

Section 10.18 Lender Action. Each Lender agrees that it shall not take or institute any actions or proceedings, judicial or otherwise, for any right or remedy against any Loan Party or any other obligor under any of the Loan Documents (including the exercise of any right of setoff, rights on account of any banker’s lien or similar claim or other rights of self-help), or institute any actions or proceedings, or otherwise commence any remedial procedures, with respect to any Collateral or any other property of any such Loan Party, without the prior written consent of the Administrative Agent. The provisions of this Section 10.18 are for the sole benefit of the Lenders and shall not afford any right to, or constitute a defense available to, any Loan Party.

Section 10.19 USA PATRIOT Act. The Administrative Agent and each Lender hereby notifies the Borrower that, pursuant to the requirements of the USA PATRIOT Act and the requirements of the Beneficial Ownership Regulation, it is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies the Borrower, and the Guarantors, which information includes the name and address of the Borrower and other information that will allow such Lender to identify the Borrower and the Guarantors in accordance with the USA PATRIOT Act or the Beneficial Ownership Regulation. The Borrower shall, promptly following a request by the Administrative Agent or any Lender, provide all documentation and other information that the Administrative Agent or such Lender reasonably requests in order to comply with its ongoing obligations under applicable “know your customer” and anti-money laundering rules and regulations, including the USA PATRIOT Act or the Beneficial Ownership Regulation.

Section 10.20 Obligations Absolute. To the fullest extent permitted by applicable Law, all obligations of the Loan Parties hereunder shall be absolute and unconditional irrespective of:

(a) any bankruptcy, insolvency, administration, administrative receivership, receivership, reorganization, arrangement, readjustment, composition, liquidation or the like of any Loan Party;

(b) any lack of validity or enforceability of any Loan Document or any other agreement or instrument relating thereto against any Loan Party;

(c) any change in the time, manner or place of payment of, or in any other term of, all or any of the Obligations, or any other amendment or waiver of or any consent to any departure from any Loan Document or any other agreement or instrument relating thereto;

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(e) any exercise or non-exercise, or any waiver of any right, remedy, power or privilege under or in respect hereof or any Loan Document; or

(f) any other circumstances which might otherwise constitute a defense available to, or a discharge of, the Loan Parties.

Section 10.21 No Advisory or Fiduciary Responsibility. In connection with all aspects of each transaction contemplated hereby (including in connection with any amendment, waiver or other modification hereof or of any other Loan Document), each of the Borrower and Holdings acknowledge and agrees, and acknowledges its Affiliates’ understanding, that: (i) (A) the services regarding this Agreement provided by the Administrative Agent are arm’s-length commercial transactions between the Borrower, Holdings and their respective Affiliates, on the one hand, and the Administrative Agent, on the other hand, (B) each of the Borrower and Holdings have consulted its own legal, accounting, regulatory and tax advisors to the extent it has deemed appropriate, and (C) each of the Borrower and Holdings are capable of evaluating, and understands and accepts, the terms, risks and conditions of the transactions contemplated hereby and by the other Loan Documents; (ii) (A) the Administrative Agent and each Lender is and has been acting solely as a principal and, except as expressly agreed in writing by the relevant parties, has not been, is not, and will not be acting as an advisor, agent or fiduciary for the Borrower, Holdings or any of their respective Affiliates, or any other Person and (B) neither the Administrative Agent, nor any Lender has any obligation to the Borrower, Holdings or any of their respective Affiliates with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby except those obligations expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents; and (iii) the Administrative Agent, each Lender and their respective Affiliates may be engaged in a broad range of transactions that involve interests that differ from those of the Borrower, Holdings and their respective Affiliates, and the Administrative Agent has no obligation to disclose any of such interests to the Borrower, Holdings or any of their respective Affiliates. To the fullest extent permitted by law, each of the Borrower and Holdings hereby waive and release any claims that it may have against the Administrative Agent and each Lender with respect to any breach or alleged breach of agency or fiduciary duty in connection with any aspect of any transaction contemplated hereby. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary herein, no NB Investor is or will be deemed to be an underwriter, arranger, trustee, agent or a similar role or otherwise be deemed to perform any service hereunder.

Section 10.22 Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-In of EEA Financial Institutions.

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Loan Document or in any other agreement, arrangement or understanding among any such parties, each party hereto acknowledges that any liability of any Lender that is an EEA Financial Institution arising under any Loan Document, to the extent such liability is unsecured, may be subject to the write-down and conversion powers of an EEA Resolution Authority and agrees and consents to, and acknowledges and agrees to be bound by:

(a) the application of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by an EEA Resolution Authority to any such liabilities arising hereunder which may be payable to it by any Lender that is an EEA Financial Institution; and

(b) the effects of any Bail-In Action on any such liability, including, if applicable:

(i) a reduction in full or in part or cancellation of any such liability;

(ii) a conversion of all, or a portion of, such liability into shares or other instruments of ownership in such EEA Financial Institution, its parent undertaking, or a bridge institution that may be issued to it or otherwise conferred on it, and that such shares or other instruments of ownership will be accepted by it in lieu of any rights with respect to any such liability under this Agreement or any other Loan Document; or

 

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(iii) the variation of the terms of such liability in connection with the exercise of the write-down and conversion powers of any EEA Resolution Authority.

Section 10.23 Use of Name, Logo, etc.. Holdings grants each Lender permission to use Holdings’ and its Subsidiaries’ names and logos in such Lenders or its Affiliates’ marketing materials; provided that any such logos or other materials are used solely in a manner that is not intended to or reasonably likely to harm or disparage Holdings or any of its Subsidiaries or the reputation or goodwill of any of them.

Section 10.24 Intercreditor Agreements. Reference is made to the Intercreditor Agreement. Each Lender hereunder (a) consents to the subordination of Liens provided for in the Intercreditor Agreement, (b) agrees that it will be bound by and will take no actions contrary to the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement and (c) authorizes and instructs the Administrative Agent to enter into the Intercreditor Agreement as “Second Lien Collateral Agent” and on behalf of such Lender. The provisions of this Section 10.24 are not intended to summarize all relevant provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement. Reference must be made to the Intercreditor Agreement itself to understand all terms and conditions thereof. Each Lender is responsible for making its own analysis and review of the Intercreditor Agreement and the terms and provisions thereof, and neither the Administrative Agent nor any of its Affiliates makes any representation to any Lender as to the sufficiency or advisability of the provisions contained in the Intercreditor Agreement. The foregoing provisions are intended as an inducement to the Lenders under the First Lien Credit Agreement to extend credit and such Lenders are intended third party beneficiaries of such provisions and the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement. In addition to the foregoing, the parties hereto authorize the Administrative Agent to enter into the Intercreditor Agreement, any Pari Passu Intercreditor Agreement, any Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement and/or any intercreditor agreement or subordination agreement expressly contemplated hereunder. The Administrative Agent may from time to time enter into a modification of the Intercreditor Agreement, any Pari Passu Intercreditor Agreement, any Junior Lien Intercreditor Agreement and/or any intercreditor agreement or subordination agreement expressly contemplated hereunder, so long as the Administrative Agent reasonably determines that such modification is consistent with the terms of this Agreement.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first above written.

 

ONESPAWORLD HOLDINGS LIMITED,

as Holdings

By:  

/s/ Stephen Lazarus

  Name: Stephen Lazarus
  Title: Chief Financial Officer

DORY INTERMEDIATE LLC,

as the Borrower

By:  

/s/ Stephen Lazarus

  Name: Stephen Lazarus
  Title: Chief Financial Officer

 

CORTLAND CAPITAL MARKET SERVICES LLC,

as Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent

By:  

/s/ Jon Kirschmeier

  Name: Jon Kirschmeier
  Title: Associate Counsel

 

NEUBERGER BERMAN ALTERNATIVE FUNDS,
NEUBERGER BERMAN LONG SHORT FUND, as
Initial Term B Lender
By:  

/s/ Corey Issing

  Name:   Corey Issing
  Title:   Authorized Signatory

EX-10.3

Exhibit 10.3

AMENDED AND RESTATED REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT

THIS AMENDED AND RESTATED REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”), dated as of March 19, 2019, is made and entered into by and among OneSpaWorld Holdings Limited, an international business company incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas (the “Company”), Haymaker Sponsor, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (including any of its successor or assigns, the “Sponsor”), Steiner Leisure Limited, an international business company incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas and, solely for purposes of Section 5.10 of this Agreement, Haymaker Acquisition Corp., a Delaware corporation (“Haymaker”).

RECITALS

WHEREAS, Haymaker and the Sponsor entered into that certain Registration Rights Agreement, dated as of October 24, 2017 (the “Original RRA”);

WHEREAS, Haymaker, the Company and certain other parties have entered into that certain Business Combination Agreement, dated as of November 1, 2018 (as it may be amended or supplemented from time to time, the “BCA”);

WHEREAS, immediately after giving effect to the transactions occurring at the Closing (as defined in the BCA), Steiner Leisure Limited and the Sponsor will hold common shares, par value $0.0001 per share (the “Common Shares”), of the Company;

WHEREAS, the Company and the Holders desire to enter into this Agreement, pursuant to which the Company shall grant the Holders, including the Sponsor and the Steiner Leisure Shareholders (as defined below), certain registration rights with respect to certain securities of the Company, as set forth in this Agreement; and

WHEREAS, in connection with the execution of this Agreement, Haymaker and the Sponsor desire to terminate the Original RRA.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the representations, covenants and agreements contained herein, and certain other good and valuable consideration, the receipt and sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties hereto, intending to be legally bound, hereby agree as follows:

ARTICLE I

DEFINITIONS

1.1 Definitions. The terms defined in this Article I shall, for all purposes of this Agreement, have the respective meanings set forth below:

Adverse Disclosure” shall mean any public disclosure of material non-public information, which disclosure, in the good faith judgment of the chief executive officer or principal financial officer of the Company, after consultation with counsel to the Company, (i) would be required to be made in any Registration Statement or Prospectus in order for the applicable Registration Statement or Prospectus not to contain any untrue statement of a material


fact or omit to state a material fact necessary to make the statements contained therein (in the case of any prospectus and any preliminary prospectus, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made) not misleading, (ii) would not be required to be made at such time if the Registration Statement were not being filed, and (iii) the Company has a bona fide business purpose for not making such information public.

Affiliate” means, with respect to any person, any other person who directly or indirectly, through one or more intermediaries, controls, is controlled by, or is under common control with, such person. The term “control” means the possession, directly or indirectly, of the power to direct or cause the direction of the management and policies of a person, whether through the ownership of voting securities, by contract or otherwise, and the terms “controlled” and “controlling” have meanings correlative thereto.

Agreement” shall have the meaning given in the Preamble.

Automatic Shelf Registration Statement” shall have the meaning set forth in Rule 405 promulgated by the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act.

BCA” shall have the meaning given in the Recitals hereto.

Closing Date” shall mean March 19, 2019.

Commission” shall mean the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Common Shares” shall have the meaning given in the Recitals hereto.

Company” shall have the meaning given in the Preamble.

Demanding Holder” shall have the meaning given in subsection 2.1.3.

Excess Scenario” shall mean any time that the Steiner Leisure Shareholders and their transferee Holders hold an aggregate of more than 4.5 million Registrable Securities.

Excess Securities” shall mean the number of Registrable Securities held by the Steiner Leisure Shareholders and their transferee Holders in excess of 4.5 million Registrable Securities.

Exchange Act” shall mean the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as it may be amended from time to time.

Form S-1 Shelf” shall have the meaning given in subsection 2.1.1.

Form S-3 Shelf” shall have the meaning given in subsection 2.1.1.

Holders” shall mean the Sponsor, the Steiner Leisure Shareholders and any person or entity who hereafter becomes a party to this Agreement pursuant to Section 5.2 of this Agreement.

“Holder Information” shall have the meaning given in subsection 4.1.2.

 

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Maximum Number of Securities” shall have the meaning given in subsection 2.1.4.

Lock-up Period” shall mean the date that is six months after the Closing Date.

Minimum Takedown Threshold” shall have the meaning given in subsection 2.1.3.

Misstatement” shall mean an untrue statement of a material fact or an omission to state a material fact required to be stated in a Registration Statement or Prospectus, or necessary to make the statements in a Registration Statement or Prospectus, in the light of the circumstances under which they were made, not misleading.

Original RRA” shall have the meaning given in the Recitals hereto.

Piggyback Registration” shall have the meaning given in subsection 2.2.1.

Permitted Transferee” shall mean, in the case of any Holder, a person to whom, or entity to which, Registrable Securities are transferred by such Holder; provided, that (i) such transfer does not violate the Company’s governing documents, (ii) any agreements between such Holder and the Company or any of the Company’s subsidiaries and (iii) such transferee shall only be a Permitted Transferee if and to the extent the transferor designates the transferee as a Permitted Transferee entitled to rights hereunder pursuant to subsection 5.2.3.

Prospectus” shall mean the prospectus included in any Registration Statement, (including, without limitation, a prospectus that includes any information previously omitted from a prospectus filed as part of an effective Registration Statement in reliance on Rules 430A or 430B under the Securities Act or any successor rule thereto), as supplemented by any and all prospectus supplements and as amended by any and all post-effective amendments and including all material incorporated by reference in such prospectus.

Registrable Security” shall mean at any time any outstanding Common Shares (including Common Shares issuable under the BCA) or any other equity security (including warrants to purchase Common Shares and Common Shares issued or issuable upon the exercise of any other equity security) of the Company held by a Holder other than any security received pursuant to an incentive plan adopted by the Company on or after the Closing Date; provided, however, that, as to any particular Registrable Security, such securities shall cease to constitute Registrable Securities upon the earliest to occur of: (y) the date on which such securities have been sold, transferred, disposed of or exchanged pursuant to an effective registration statement under the Securities Act; and (z) the date on which such securities cease to be outstanding.

Registration” shall mean a registration, including any related Shelf Takedown, effected by preparing and filing a registration statement, prospectus or similar document in compliance with the requirements of the Securities Act, and the applicable rules and regulations promulgated thereunder, and such registration statement becoming effective.

Registration Expenses” shall mean the out-of-pocket expenses of a Registration, including, without limitation, the following:

 

  (A)

all registration and filing fees (including fees with respect to filings required to be made with the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority, Inc.) and any securities exchange on which the Common Shares are then listed;

 

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  (B)

fees and expenses of compliance with securities or blue sky laws (including reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel for the Underwriters in connection with blue sky qualifications of Registrable Securities);

 

  (C)

printing, messenger, telephone and delivery expenses;

 

  (D)

reasonable fees and disbursements of counsel for the Company;

 

  (E)

reasonable fees and disbursements of all independent registered public accountants of the Company incurred specifically in connection with such Registration; and

 

  (F)

reasonable fees and expenses of one (1) legal counsel selected by the majority-in-interest of the Demanding Holders in an Underwritten Offering.

Registration Statement” shall mean any registration statement that covers the Registrable Securities pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement, including the Prospectus included in such registration statement, amendments (including post-effective amendments) and supplements to such registration statement, and all exhibits to and all material incorporated by reference in such registration statement.

Requesting Holder” shall mean any Holder requesting piggyback rights pursuant to this Agreement with respect to an Underwritten Shelf Takedown.

Securities Act” shall mean the Securities Act of 1933, as amended from time to time.

Shelf” shall have the meaning given in subsection 2.1.1.

Shelf Registration” shall mean a registration of securities pursuant to a registration statement filed with the Commission in accordance with and pursuant to Rule 415 promulgated under the Securities Act (or any successor rule then in effect).

Shelf Takedown” shall mean an Underwritten Shelf Takedown or any proposed transfer or sale using a Registration Statement, including a Piggyback Registration.

Sponsor” shall have the meaning given in the Recitals hereto.

“Steiner Leisure Requesting Shareholders” shall mean Steiner Leisure Limited and each of their respective Affiliates.

Steiner Leisure Shareholders shall mean Steiner Leisure Limited and each of its Affiliates and direct and indirect equity holders.

Subsequent Shelf Registration” shall have the meaning given in subsection 2.1.2.

Underwriter” shall mean any investment banker(s) and manager(s) appointed to administer the offering of any Registerable Securities as principal in an Underwriting Offering.

 

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Underwritten Offering” shall mean a Registration in which securities of the Company are sold to an Underwriter for distribution to the public.

Underwritten Shelf Takedown” shall have the meaning given in subsection 2.1.3.

Well-Known Seasoned Issuer” shall have the meaning set forth in Rule 405 promulgated by the Commission pursuant to the Securities Act.

Withdrawal Notice” shall have the meaning given in subsection 2.1.5.

ARTICLE II

REGISTRATIONS

2.1 Shelf Registration.

2.1.1 Filing. The Company shall file, within 45 days of the Closing Date, a Registration Statement for a Shelf Registration on Form S-3 (the “Form S-3 Shelf”) or if the Company is ineligible to use a Form S-3 Shelf, a Registration Statement for a Shelf Registration on Form S-1 (the “Form S-1 Shelf,” and together with the Form S-3 Shelf (and any Subsequent Shelf Registration), the “Shelf”), in each case, covering the resale of all the Registrable Securities (determined as of two business days prior to such filing) on a delayed or continuous basis. The Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the Shelf to become effective as soon as practicable after such filing. The Shelf shall provide for the resale of the Registrable Securities included therein pursuant to any method or combination of methods legally available to, and requested by, any Holder. The Company shall maintain the Shelf in accordance with the terms hereof, and shall prepare and file with the SEC such amendments, including post-effective amendments, and supplements as may be necessary to keep such Shelf continuously effective, available for use and in compliance with the provisions of the Securities Act until such time as there are no longer any Registrable Securities. In the event the Company files a Form S-1 Shelf, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to convert the Form S-1 Shelf (and any Subsequent Shelf Registration) to a Form S-3 Shelf as soon as practicable after the Company is eligible to use Form S-3.

2.1.2 Subsequent Shelf Registration. If any Shelf ceases to be effective under the Securities Act for any reason at any time while Registrable Securities are still outstanding, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to as promptly as is reasonably practicable cause such Shelf to again become effective under the Securities Act (including obtaining the prompt withdrawal of any order suspending the effectiveness of such Shelf), and shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to as promptly as is reasonably practicable amend such Shelf in a manner reasonably expected to result in the withdrawal of any order suspending the effectiveness of such Shelf or file an additional registration statement as a Shelf Registration (a “Subsequent Shelf Registration”) registering the resale of all Registrable Securities from time to time, and pursuant to any method or combination of methods legally available to, and requested by, any Holder. If a Subsequent Shelf Registration is filed, the Company shall use its commercially reasonable efforts to (i) cause such Subsequent Shelf Registration to become effective under the Securities Act as promptly as is reasonably practicable after the filing thereof

 

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(it being agreed that the Subsequent Shelf Registration shall be an Automatic Shelf Registration Statement if the Company is a Well-Known Seasoned Issuer) and (ii) keep such Subsequent Shelf Registration continuously effective, available for use and in compliance with the provisions of the Securities Act until such time as there are no longer any Registrable Securities. Any such Subsequent Shelf Registration shall be on Form S-3 to the extent that the Company is eligible to use such form. Otherwise, such Subsequent Shelf Registration shall be on another appropriate form. In the event that any Holder holds Registrable Securities that are not registered for resale on a delayed or continuous basis, the Company, upon request of a Holder shall promptly use its commercially reasonable efforts to cause the resale of such Registrable Securities to be covered by either, at the Company’s option, the Shelf (including by means of a post-effective amendment) or a Subsequent Shelf Registration and cause the same to become effective as soon as practicable after such filing and such Shelf or Subsequent Shelf Registration shall be subject to the terms hereof; provided, however, the Company shall only be required to cause such Registrable Securities to be so covered once annually after inquiry of the Holders unless the Registrable Securities are delivered pursuant to the BCA in which case the Company shall register such shares as soon as reasonably possible.

2.1.3 Requests for Underwritten Shelf Takedowns. At any time and from time to time after the Shelf has been declared effective by the Commission, the Sponsor or any Steiner Leisure Requesting Shareholders may request to sell all or any portion of its Registrable Securities in an underwritten offering that is registered pursuant to the Shelf (each, an “Underwritten Shelf Takedown”); provided that the Company shall only be obligated to effect an Underwritten Shelf Takedown if such offering shall include securities with a total offering price (including piggyback securities and before deduction of underwriting discounts) reasonably expected to exceed, in the aggregate, $10.0 million (the “Minimum Takedown Threshold”). All requests for Underwritten Shelf Takedowns shall be made by giving written notice to the Company, which shall specify the approximate number of Registrable Securities proposed to be sold in the Underwritten Shelf Takedown and the expected price range (net of underwriting discounts and commissions) of such Underwritten Shelf Takedown. During an Excess Scenario, (i) Sponsor or any of its assignees must provide five (5) business days’ written notice to the Steiner Leisure Shareholders and their transferee Holders prior to any Underwritten Shelf Takedown requested by Sponsor or any of its assignees and (ii) if at any time during such five (5) business day period, the Steiner Leisure Shareholders or their transferee Holders demand an Underwritten Shelf Takedown, then such Steiner Leisure Shareholders’ Underwritten Shelf Takedown demand shall take effect (and constitute one demand for purposes of this Section 2.1.3) and the Company shall add such the number of Registrable Securities that the Steiner Leisure Shareholders and their transferee Holders desire to sell to such Underwritten Shelf Takedown. If an Underwritten Shelf Takedown is effected in the manner described in the foregoing sentence, the Steiner Leisure Shareholders and their transferee Holders participating in such Underwritten Shelf Takedown shall be deemed to be Demanding Holders, and the Sponsor and its transferee Holders participating in such Underwritten Shelf Takedown shall be deemed to be Requesting Holders. The Holders that requested such Underwritten Shelf Takedown (the “Demanding Holders”) shall have the right to select the Underwriters for such offering (which shall consist of one or more reputable nationally recognized investment banks), subject to the Company’s prior approval which shall not be unreasonably withheld, conditioned or delayed. The Sponsor may demand three Underwritten Shelf Takedowns each fiscal year and the Steiner Leisure Requesting Shareholders (on a collective basis) may demand three Underwritten Shelf Takedowns in total.

 

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2.1.4 Reduction of Underwritten Offering. If the managing Underwriter or Underwriters in an Underwritten Shelf Takedown, in good faith, advise the Company, the Demanding Holders and the Requesting Holders (if any) in writing that the dollar amount or number of Registrable Securities that the Demanding Holders and the Requesting Holders (if any) desire to sell, taken together with all other shares of Common Shares or other equity securities that the Company desires to sell and all other Common Shares or other equity securities, if any, that have been requested to be sold in such Underwritten Offering pursuant to separate written contractual piggyback registration rights held by any other shareholders, exceeds the maximum dollar amount or maximum number of equity securities that can be sold in the Underwritten Offering without adversely affecting the proposed offering price, the timing, the distribution method, or the probability of success of such offering (such maximum dollar amount or maximum number of such securities, as applicable, the “Maximum Number of Securities”), then the Company shall include in such Underwritten Offering, as follows:

(a) At all times other than during an Excess Scenario (i) first, the Registrable Securities of the Demanding Holders and the Requesting Holders (if any) (pro rata based on the respective number of Registrable Securities that each Demanding Holder and Requesting Holder (if any) has requested be included in such Underwritten Shelf Takedown) that can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities; (ii) second, to the extent that the Maximum Number of Securities has not been reached under the foregoing clause (i), the Common Shares or other equity securities that the Company desires to sell, which can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities; and (iii) third, to the extent that the Maximum Number of Securities has not been reached under the foregoing clauses (i) and (ii), the Common Shares or other equity securities of other persons or entities that the Company is obligated to include in such Underwritten Offering pursuant to separate written contractual arrangements with such persons and that can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities; or

(b) During an Excess Scenario (i) first, the number of Excess Securities that the Demanding Holders desire to sell, which can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities; (ii) second, to the extent that the Maximum Number of Securities has not been reached under the foregoing clause (i), the Registrable Securities that the Demanding Holders (excluding the number of Excess Securities set forth in clause (i)) and the Requesting Holders (if any) desire to sell (pro rata based on the respective number of Registrable Securities that each Demanding Holder and Requesting Holder (if any) has requested be included in such Underwritten Shelf Takedown), that can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities; provided, that such pro rata calculation shall exclude the Excess Securities from the number of Registrable Securities held by the Steiner Leisure Shareholders or their transferee Holders; (iii) third, to the extent that the Maximum Number of Securities has not been reached under the foregoing clause (ii), the Common Shares or other equity securities that the Company desires to sell, which can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities; and (iv) fourth, to the extent that the Maximum Number of Securities has not been reached under the foregoing clauses (i), (ii) and (iii), the Common Shares or other equity securities of other persons or entities that the Company is obligated to include in such Underwritten Offering pursuant to separate written contractual arrangements with such persons and that can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities.

 

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2.1.5 Withdrawal. A majority-in-interest of the Demanding Holders initiating a Shelf Takedown shall have the right to withdraw from a Shelf Takedown for any or no reason whatsoever upon written notification (a “Withdrawal Notice”) to the Company and the Underwriter or Underwriters (if any) of their intention to withdraw from such Shelf Takedown; provided that the Sponsor or any Steiner Leisure Requesting Shareholders may elect to have the Company continue an Underwritten Shelf Takedown if the Minimum Takedown Threshold would still be satisfied. If withdrawn, a demand for an Underwritten Shelf Takedown shall constitute a demand for an Underwritten Shelf Takedown for purposes of subsection 2.1.3, unless either (i) such withdrawal occurs during a period the Company has deferred taking action pursuant to Section 3.4 hereof or (ii) the Holder reimburses the Company for all Registration Expenses with respect to such Underwritten Shelf Takedown; provided, that if a Holder elects to continue an Underwritten Shelf Takedown pursuant to the proviso in the immediately preceding sentence, such Underwritten Shelf Takedown shall count as an Underwritten Shelf Takedown demanded by such Holder for purposes of subsection 2.1.3. Following the receipt of any Withdrawal Notice, the Company shall promptly forward such Withdrawal Notice to any other Holders that had elected to participate in such Shelf Takedown. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the Company shall be responsible for the Registration Expenses incurred in connection with a Shelf Takedown prior to its withdrawal under this subsection 2.1.5, other than if a Demanding Holder elects to pay such Registration Expenses pursuant to the second sentence of this subsection 2.1.5.

2.2 Piggyback Registration.

2.2.1 Piggyback Rights. If the Company or any Holder proposes to conduct a registered offering of, or if the Company proposes to file a Registration Statement under the Securities Act with respect to an offering of equity securities of the Company, or securities or other obligations exercisable or exchangeable for, or convertible into equity securities of the Company, for its own account or for the account of shareholders of the Company (or by the Company and by the shareholders of the Company including, without limitation, an Underwritten Shelf Takedown pursuant to Section 2.1 hereof), other than a Registration Statement (or any registered offering with respect thereto) (i) filed in connection with any employee stock option or other benefit plan, (ii) for an exchange offer or offering of securities solely to the Company’s existing shareholders, (iii) for an offering of debt that is convertible into equity securities of the Company or (iv) for a dividend reinvestment plan, then the Company shall give written notice of such proposed offering to all of the Holders of Registrable Securities as soon as practicable but not less than 10 days before the anticipated filing date of such Registration Statement or, in the case of an underwritten offering pursuant to a Shelf Registration, the launch date of such offering, which notice shall (A) describe the amount and type of securities to be included in such offering, the intended method(s) of distribution, and the name of the proposed managing Underwriter or Underwriters, if any, in such offering, and (B) offer to all of the Holders of Registrable Securities the opportunity to include in such registered offering such number of Registrable Securities as such Holders may request in writing within five days after receipt of such written notice (such registered offering, a “Piggyback Registration”). The Company shall, in good faith, cause such Registrable Securities to be

 

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included in such Piggyback Registration and shall use its best efforts to cause the managing Underwriter or Underwriters of a proposed Underwritten Offering to permit the Registrable Securities requested by the Holders pursuant to this subsection 2.2.1 to be included in a Piggyback Registration on the same terms and conditions as any similar securities of the Company included in such registered offering and to permit the sale or other disposition of such Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended method(s) of distribution thereof. The inclusion of any Holder’s Registrable Securities in a Piggyback Registration shall be subject to such Holder’s agreement to enter into an underwriting agreement in customary form with the Underwriter(s) selected for such Underwritten Offering.

2.2.2 Reduction of Piggyback Registration. If the managing Underwriter or Underwriters in an Underwritten Offering that is to be a Piggyback Registration, in good faith, advises the Company and the Holders of Registrable Securities participating in the Piggyback Registration in writing that the dollar amount or number of the Common Shares or other equity securities that the Company desires to sell, taken together with (i) the Common Shares or other equity securities, if any, as to which Registration or a registered offering has been demanded pursuant to separate written contractual arrangements with persons or entities other than the Holders of Registrable Securities hereunder (ii) the Common Shares or other equity securities, if any, as to which registration has been requested pursuant to Section 2.2 hereof, and (iii) the Common Shares or other equity securities, if any, as to which Registration has been requested pursuant to separate written contractual piggyback registration rights of other shareholders of the Company, exceeds the Maximum Number of Securities, then:

(a) If the Registration or registered offering is undertaken for the Company’s account, the Company shall include in any such Registration or registered offering (A) first, the Common Shares or other equity securities that the Company desires to sell, which can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities; (B) second, to the extent that the Maximum Number of Securities has not been reached under the foregoing clause (A), the Registrable Securities of Holders exercising their rights to register their Registrable Securities pursuant to subsection 2.2.1 hereof, pro rata, which can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities; and (C) third, to the extent that the Maximum Number of Securities has not been reached under the foregoing clauses (A) and (B), the Common Shares or other equity securities, if any, as to which Registration has been requested pursuant to written contractual piggyback registration rights of other shareholders of the Company, which can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities;

(b) If the Registration or registered offering is pursuant to a request by persons or entities other than the Holders of Registrable Securities, then the Company shall include in any such Registration or registered offering (A) first, the Common Shares or other equity securities, if any, of such requesting persons or entities, other than the Holders of Registrable Securities, which can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities; (B) second, to the extent that the Maximum Number of Securities has not been reached under the foregoing clause (A), the Registrable Securities of Holders exercising their rights to register their Registrable Securities pursuant to subsection 2.2.1, pro rata based on the number of Registrable Securities that each Holder has requested be included in such Underwritten Offering, which can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities; (C) third, to the extent that the Maximum Number of Securities has not been reached under the foregoing clauses (A) and (B),

 

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the Common Shares or other equity securities that the Company desires to sell, which can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities; and (D) fourth, to the extent that the Maximum Number of Securities has not been reached under the foregoing clauses (A), (B) and (C), the Common Shares or other equity securities for the account of other persons or entities that the Company is obligated to register pursuant to separate written contractual arrangements with such persons or entities, which can be sold without exceeding the Maximum Number of Securities.

2.2.3 Piggyback Registration Withdrawal. Any Holder of Registrable Securities shall have the right to withdraw from a Piggyback Registration for any or no reason whatsoever upon written notification to the Company and the Underwriter or Underwriters (if any) of his, her or its intention to withdraw from such Piggyback Registration prior to the effectiveness of the Registration Statement filed with the Commission with respect to such Piggyback Registration or, in the case of a Piggyback Registration pursuant to a Shelf Registration, the filing of the applicable “red herring” prospectus or prospectus supplement with respect to such Piggyback Registration used for marketing such transaction. The Company (whether on its own good faith determination or as the result of a request for withdrawal by persons pursuant to separate written contractual obligations) may withdraw a Registration Statement filed with the Commission in connection with a Piggyback Registration (which, in no circumstance, shall include the Shelf) at any time prior to the effectiveness of such Registration Statement. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement, the Company shall be responsible for the Registration Expenses incurred in connection with the Piggyback Registration prior to its withdrawal under this subsection 2.2.3.

2.2.4 Unlimited Piggyback Registration Rights. For purposes of clarity, subject to subsection 2.1.5, any Piggyback Registration effected pursuant to Section 2.2 hereof shall not be counted as a demand for an Underwritten Shelf Takedown under subsection 2.1.3 hereof.

2.3 Restrictions on Transfer. In connection with any Underwritten Offering of equity securities of the Company, each Holder agrees that it shall not transfer any Common Shares (other than those included in such offering pursuant to this Agreement), without the prior written consent of the Company, during the seven days prior to and the 90-day period beginning on the date of pricing of such offering, except in the event the Underwriter managing the offering otherwise agrees by written consent. Each Holder agrees to execute a customary lock-up agreement in favor of the Underwriters to such effect (in each case on substantially the same terms and conditions as all such Holders). Notwithstanding the foregoing, with respect to an Underwritten Offering, a Holder shall not be subject to this Section 2.3 with respect to an Underwritten Offering unless each shareholder of the Company that (together with their Affiliates) hold at least 5% of the issued and outstanding Common Shares and each of the Company’s directors and officers have executed a lock-up on terms at least as restrictive with respect to such Underwritten Offering as requested of the Holders. A Holder’s obligations under the second sentence of this Section 2.3 shall only apply for so long as such Holder (together with its Affiliates) holds at least five percent of the issued and outstanding Common Shares.

 

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ARTICLE III

COMPANY PROCEDURES

3.1 General Procedures. In connection with effecting any Shelf Registration and/or Shelf Takedown, the Company shall use its best efforts to effect such Registration to permit the sale of such Registrable Securities in accordance with the intended plan of distribution thereof, and pursuant thereto the Company shall, as expeditiously as possible:

3.1.1 prepare and file with the Commission as soon as practicable a Registration Statement with respect to such Registrable Securities and use its reasonable best efforts to cause such Registration Statement to become effective and remain effective until all Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement have been sold;

3.1.2 prepare and file with the Commission such amendments and post-effective amendments to the Registration Statement, and such supplements to the Prospectus, as may be requested by any Holder that holds at least five percent of the Registrable Securities or as may be required by the rules, regulations or instructions applicable to the registration form used by the Company or by the Securities Act or rules and regulations thereunder to keep the Registration Statement effective until all Registrable Securities covered by such Registration Statement are sold in accordance with the intended plan of distribution set forth in such Registration Statement or supplement to the Prospectus;

3.1.3 prior to filing a Registration Statement or prospectus, or any amendment or supplement thereto, furnish without charge to the Underwriters, if any, and the Holders of Registrable Securities included in such Registration, and such Holders’ legal counsel, copies of such Registration Statement as proposed to be filed, each amendment and supplement to such Registration Statement (in each case including all exhibits thereto and documents incorporated by reference therein), the Prospectus included in such Registration Statement (including each preliminary Prospectus), and such other documents as the Underwriters and the Holders of Registrable Securities included in such Registration or the legal counsel for any such Holders may request in order to facilitate the disposition of the Registrable Securities owned by such Holders;

3.1.4 prior to any public offering of Registrable Securities, use its best efforts to (i) register or qualify the Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement under such securities or “blue sky” laws of such jurisdictions in the United States as the Holders of Registrable Securities included in such Registration Statement (in light of their intended plan of distribution) may request (or provide evidence satisfactory to such Holders that the Registrable Securities are exempt from such registration or qualification) and (ii) take such action necessary to cause such Registrable Securities covered by the Registration Statement to be registered with or approved by such other governmental authorities as may be necessary by virtue of the business and operations of the Company and do any and all other acts and things that may be necessary or advisable to enable the Holders of Registrable Securities included in such Registration Statement to consummate the disposition of such Registrable Securities in such jurisdictions; provided, however, that the Company shall not be required to qualify generally to do business in any jurisdiction where it would not otherwise be required to qualify or take any action to which it would be subject to general service of process or taxation in any such jurisdiction where it is not then otherwise so subject;

 

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3.1.5 cause all such Registrable Securities to be listed on each securities exchange or automated quotation system on which similar securities issued by the Company are then listed;

3.1.6 provide a transfer agent or warrant agent, as applicable, and registrar for all such Registrable Securities no later than the effective date of such Registration Statement;

3.1.7 advise each seller of such Registrable Securities, promptly after it shall receive notice or obtain knowledge thereof, of the issuance of any stop order by the Commission suspending the effectiveness of such Registration Statement or the initiation or threatening of any proceeding for such purpose and promptly use its reasonable best efforts to prevent the issuance of any stop order or to obtain its withdrawal if such stop order should be issued;

3.1.8 at least five days prior to the filing of any Registration Statement or Prospectus or any amendment or supplement to such Registration Statement or Prospectus or any document that is to be incorporated by reference into such Registration Statement or Prospectus furnish a draft thereof to each seller of such Registrable Securities or its counsel (excluding any exhibits thereto and any filing made under the Exchange Act that is to be incorporated by reference therein);

3.1.9 notify the Holders at any time when a Prospectus relating to such Registration Statement is required to be delivered under the Securities Act, of the happening of any event as a result of which the Prospectus included in such Registration Statement, as then in effect, includes a Misstatement, and then to correct such Misstatement as set forth in Section 3.4 hereof;

3.1.10 permit a representative of the Holders (such representative to be selected by a majority of the participating Holders), the Underwriters, if any, and any attorney or accountant retained by such Holders or Underwriter to participate, at each such person’s own expense, in the preparation of the Registration Statement, and cause the Company’s officers, directors and employees to supply all information reasonably requested by any such representative, Underwriter, attorney or accountant in connection with the Registration; provided, however, that such representatives or Underwriters agree to confidentiality arrangements reasonably satisfactory to the Company, prior to the release or disclosure of any such information;

3.1.11 obtain a “cold comfort” letter from the Company’s independent registered public accountants in the event of an Underwritten Offering which the participating Holders may rely on, in customary form and covering such matters of the type customarily covered by “cold comfort” letters as the managing Underwriter may reasonably request, and reasonably satisfactory to a majority-in-interest of the participating Holders;

 

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3.1.12 on the date the Registrable Securities are delivered for sale pursuant to such Registration, obtain an opinion, dated such date, of counsel representing the Company for the purposes of such Registration, addressed to the Holders, the placement agent or sales agent, if any, and the Underwriters, if any, covering such legal matters with respect to the Registration in respect of which such opinion is being given as the Holders, placement agent, sales agent, or Underwriter may reasonably request and as are customarily included in such opinions and negative assurance letters, and reasonably satisfactory to a majority in interest of the participating Holders;

3.1.13 in the event of any Underwritten Offering, enter into and perform its obligations under an underwriting agreement, in usual and customary form, with the managing Underwriter of such offering;

3.1.14 make available to its security holders, as soon as reasonably practicable, an earnings statement covering the period of at least 12 months beginning with the first day of the Company’s first full calendar quarter after the effective date of the Registration Statement which satisfies the provisions of Section 11(a) of the Securities Act and Rule 158 thereunder (or any successor rule promulgated thereafter by the Commission);

3.1.15 if an Underwritten Offering involves Registrable Securities with a total offering price (including piggyback securities and before deduction of underwriting discounts) reasonably expected to exceed, in the aggregate, $35.0 million, use its reasonable efforts to make available senior executives of the Company to participate in customary “road show” presentations that may be reasonably requested by the Underwriter in such Underwritten Offering; and

3.1.16 otherwise, in good faith, cooperate reasonably with, and take such customary actions as may reasonably be requested by the Holders, in connection with such Registration.

3.2 Registration Expenses. The Registration Expenses of all Registrations shall be borne by the Company. It is acknowledged by the Holders that the Holders shall bear all incremental selling expenses relating to the sale of Registrable Securities, such as Underwriters’ commissions and discounts, brokerage fees, Underwriter marketing costs and, other than as set forth in the definition of “Registration Expenses,” all reasonable fees and expenses of any legal counsel representing the Holders.

3.3 Requirements for Participation in Underwritten Offerings. Notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, if any Holder does not provide the Company with its requested Holder Information, the Company may exclude such Holder’s Registrable Securities from the applicable Registration Statement or Prospectus if the Company determines, based on the advice of counsel, that such information is necessary to effect the registration and such Holder continues thereafter to withhold such information. No person may participate in any Underwritten Offering for equity securities of the Company pursuant to a Registration initiated by the Company hereunder unless such person (i) agrees to sell such person’s securities on the basis provided in any underwriting arrangements approved by the Company and (ii) completes and executes all customary questionnaires, powers of attorney, indemnities, lock-up agreements, underwriting agreements and other customary documents as may be reasonably required under the terms of such underwriting arrangements. Subject to the minimum thresholds set forth in Section 2.1.3 and 3.1.15 of this Agreement, the exclusion of a Holder’s Registrable Securities as a result of this Section 3.3 shall not affect the registration of the other Registrable Securities to be included in such Registration.

 

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3.4 Suspension of Sales; Adverse Disclosure. Upon receipt of written notice from the Company that a Registration Statement or Prospectus contains a Misstatement, each of the Holders shall forthwith discontinue disposition of Registrable Securities until it has received copies of a supplemented or amended Prospectus correcting the Misstatement (it being understood that the Company hereby covenants to prepare and file such supplement or amendment as soon as practicable after the time of such notice), or until it is advised in writing by the Company that the use of the Prospectus may be resumed. If the filing, initial effectiveness or continued use of a Registration Statement in respect of any Registration at any time would require the Company to make an Adverse Disclosure or would require the inclusion in such Registration Statement of financial statements that are unavailable to the Company for reasons beyond the Company’s control, the Company may, upon giving prompt written notice of such action to the Holders, delay the filing or initial effectiveness of, or suspend use of, such Registration Statement for the shortest period of time, but in no event more than 45 days, determined in good faith by the Company to be necessary for such purpose; provided that such right to delay or suspend shall be exercised by the Company not more than two times, which may be consecutive, in any 12-month period. In the event the Company exercises its rights under the preceding sentence, the Holders agree to suspend, immediately upon their receipt of the notice referred to above, their use of the Prospectus relating to any Registration in connection with any sale or offer to sell Registrable Securities. The Company shall immediately notify the Holders of the expiration of any period during which it exercised its rights under this Section 3.4.

3.5 Reporting Obligations. As long as any Holder shall own Registrable Securities, the Company, at all times while it shall be a reporting company under the Exchange Act, covenants to file timely (or obtain extensions in respect thereof and file within the applicable grace period) all reports required to be filed by the Company after the date hereof pursuant to Sections 13(a) or 15(d) of the Exchange Act and to promptly furnish the Holders with true and complete copies of all such filings; provided that any documents publicly filed or furnished with the Commission pursuant to the Electronic Data Gathering, Analysis and Retrieval System shall be deemed to have been furnished or delivered to the Holders pursuant to this Section 3.5. The Company further covenants that it shall take such further action as any Holder may reasonably request, all to the extent required from time to time to enable such Holder to sell shares of the Common Shares held by such Holder without registration under the Securities Act within the limitation of the exemptions provided by Rule 144 promulgated under the Securities Act (or any successor rule promulgated thereafter by the Commission), including providing any legal opinions. Upon the request of any Holder, the Company shall deliver to such Holder a written certification of a duly authorized officer as to whether it has complied with such requirements.

3.6 Other Obligations. In connection with a sale or transfer of Registrable Securities exempt from Section 5 of the Securities Act or through any broker-dealer transactions described in the plan of distribution set forth within the Prospectus and pursuant to the Registration Statement of which such Prospectus forms a part, the Company shall, subject to the receipt of the any customary documentation required from the applicable Holders in connection therewith, (i) promptly instruct its transfer agent to remove any restrictive legends applicable to the

 

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Registrable Securities being sold or transferred and (ii) cause its legal counsel to deliver the necessary legal opinions, if any, to the transfer agent in connection with the instruction under subclause (i). In addition, the Company shall cooperate reasonably with, and take such customary actions as may reasonably be requested by the Holders, in connection with the aforementioned sales or transfers; provided, however, that the Company shall have no obligation to participate in any “road shows” or assist with the preparation of any offering memoranda or related documentation with respect to any sale or transfer of Registrable Securities in any transaction that does not constitute an Underwritten Offering.

ARTICLE IV

INDEMNIFICATION AND CONTRIBUTION

4.1 Indemnification.

4.1.1 The Company agrees to indemnify, to the extent permitted by law, each Holder of Registrable Securities, its officers and directors and each person who controls such Holder (within the meaning of the Securities Act) against all losses, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses (including attorneys’ fees) caused by any untrue or alleged untrue statement of material fact contained in any Registration Statement, Prospectus or preliminary Prospectus or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto or any omission or alleged omission of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, except insofar as the same are caused by or contained in any information furnished in writing to the Company by such Holder expressly for use therein. The Company shall indemnify the Underwriters, their officers and directors and each person who controls such Underwriters (within the meaning of the Securities Act) to the same extent as provided in the foregoing with respect to the indemnification of the Holder.

4.1.2 In connection with any Registration Statement in which a Holder of Registrable Securities is participating, such Holder shall furnish to the Company in writing such information and affidavits as the Company reasonably requests for use in connection with any such Registration Statement or Prospectus (the “Holder Information”) and, to the extent permitted by law, shall indemnify the Company, its directors and officers and agents and each person who controls the Company (within the meaning of the Securities Act) against any losses, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses (including without limitation reasonable attorneys’ fees) resulting from any untrue statement of material fact contained in the Registration Statement, Prospectus or preliminary Prospectus or any amendment thereof or supplement thereto or any omission of a material fact required to be stated therein or necessary to make the statements therein not misleading, but only to the extent that such untrue statement or omission is contained in any information or affidavit so furnished in writing by such Holder expressly for use therein; provided, however, that the obligation to indemnify shall be several, not joint and several, among such Holders of Registrable Securities, and the liability of each such Holder of Registrable Securities shall be in proportion to and limited to the net proceeds received by such Holder from the sale of Registrable Securities pursuant to such Registration Statement. The Holders of Registrable Securities shall indemnify the Underwriters, their officers, directors and each person who controls such Underwriters (within the meaning of the Securities Act) to the same extent as provided in the foregoing with respect to indemnification of the Company.

 

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4.1.3 Any person entitled to indemnification herein shall (i) give prompt written notice to the indemnifying party of any claim with respect to which it seeks indemnification (provided that the failure to give prompt notice shall not impair any person’s right to indemnification hereunder to the extent such failure has not materially prejudiced the indemnifying party) and (ii) unless in such indemnified party’s reasonable judgment a conflict of interest between such indemnified and indemnifying parties may exist with respect to such claim, permit such indemnifying party to assume the defense of such claim with counsel reasonably satisfactory to the indemnified party. If such defense is assumed, the indemnifying party shall not be subject to any liability for any settlement made by the indemnified party without its consent (but such consent shall not be unreasonably withheld). An indemnifying party who is not entitled to, or elects not to, assume the defense of a claim shall not be obligated to pay the fees and expenses of more than one counsel for all parties indemnified by such indemnifying party with respect to such claim, unless in the reasonable judgment of any indemnified party a conflict of interest may exist between such indemnified party and any other of such indemnified parties with respect to such claim. No indemnifying party shall, without the consent of the indemnified party, consent to the entry of any judgment or enter into any settlement which cannot be settled in all respects by the payment of money (and such money is so paid by the indemnifying party pursuant to the terms of such settlement) or which settlement does not include as an unconditional term thereof the giving by the claimant or plaintiff to such indemnified party of a release from all liability in respect to such claim or litigation.

4.1.4 The indemnification provided for under this Agreement shall remain in full force and effect regardless of any investigation made by or on behalf of the indemnified party or any officer, director or controlling person of such indemnified party and shall survive the transfer of securities. The Company and each Holder of Registrable Securities participating in an offering also agrees to make such provisions as are reasonably requested by any indemnified party for contribution to such party in the event the Company’s or such Holder’s indemnification is unavailable for any reason.

4.1.5 If the indemnification provided under Section 4.1 hereof from the indemnifying party is unavailable or insufficient to hold harmless an indemnified party in respect of any losses, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses referred to herein, then the indemnifying party, in lieu of indemnifying the indemnified party, shall contribute to the amount paid or payable by the indemnified party as a result of such losses, claims, damages, liabilities and expenses in such proportion as is appropriate to reflect the relative fault of the indemnifying party and the indemnified party, as well as any other relevant equitable considerations. The relative fault of the indemnifying party and indemnified party shall be determined by reference to, among other things, whether any action in question, including any untrue or alleged untrue statement of a material fact or omission or alleged omission to state a material fact, was made by, or relates to information supplied by, such indemnifying party or indemnified party, and the indemnifying party’s and indemnified party’s relative intent, knowledge, access to information and opportunity to correct or prevent such action; provided, however, that the liability of any Holder under this subsection 4.1.5 shall be limited to the amount of the net proceeds received by such Holder in such offering giving rise to such liability. The amount paid or payable by a party as a result of the losses or other liabilities referred to above shall be deemed to include, subject to the limitations set forth in subsections 4.1.1, 4.1.2 and 4.1.3 above, any legal or other fees, charges or expenses reasonably incurred by such party in connection with any investigation or

 

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proceeding. The parties hereto agree that it would not be just and equitable if contribution pursuant to this subsection 4.1.5 were determined by pro rata allocation or by any other method of allocation, which does not take account of the equitable considerations referred to in this subsection 4.1.5. No person guilty of fraudulent misrepresentation (within the meaning of Section 11(f) of the Securities Act) shall be entitled to contribution pursuant to this subsection 4.1.5 from any person who was not guilty of such fraudulent misrepresentation.

ARTICLE V

MISCELLANEOUS

5.1 Notices. Any notice or communication under this Agreement must be in writing and given by (i) deposit in the United States mail, addressed to the party to be notified, postage prepaid and registered or certified with return receipt requested, (ii) delivery in person or by courier service providing evidence of delivery, or (iii) transmission by hand delivery, electronic mail, telecopy, telegram or facsimile. Each notice or communication that is mailed, delivered, or transmitted in the manner described above shall be deemed sufficiently given, served, sent, and received, in the case of mailed notices, on the third business day following the date on which it is mailed and, in the case of notices delivered by courier service, hand delivery, electronic mail, telecopy, telegram or facsimile, at such time as it is delivered to the addressee (with the delivery receipt or the affidavit of messenger) or at such time as delivery is refused by the addressee upon presentation. Any notice or communication under this Agreement must be addressed, if to the Company, to: 650 Fifth Avenue, Floor 31, New York, NY 10019 or by email to cbradley@mistralequity.com, and, if to any Holder, at such Holder’s address or facsimile number as set forth in the Company’s books and records. Any party may change its address for notice at any time and from time to time by written notice to the other parties hereto, and such change of address shall become effective 30 days after delivery of such notice as provided in this Section 5.1.

5.2 Assignment; No Third Party Beneficiaries.

5.2.1 This Agreement and the rights, duties and obligations of the Company hereunder may not be assigned or delegated by the Company in whole or in part.

5.2.2 Prior to the expiration of the Lock-up Period to the extent applicable to such Holder, no Holder may assign or delegate such Holder’s rights, duties or obligations under this Agreement, in whole or in part, except to (a) an Affiliate of such Holder, (b) direct and/or indirect equity holders of the Sponsor pursuant to a distribution as described in Section 5.11 of this Agreement or to direct or indirect equity holders of any Steiner Leisure Shareholder or (c) any person with the prior written consent of the Company. A sale or transfer that qualifies pursuant to an exemption from the Securities Act shall not be deemed to have been made pursuant to a registration statement.

5.2.3 After the expiration of the Lock-up Period to the extent applicable to such Holder, a Holder may assign or delegate such Holder’s rights, duties or obligations under this Agreement, in whole or in part, to (a) up to five Permitted Transferees, provided, however, that each such Permitted Transferee holds, after giving effect to such assignment or delegation, at least five percent of the then-outstanding Common Shares, (b) an Affiliate of such Holder, (c) direct and/or indirect equity holders of the Sponsor pursuant to a distribution as described in Section 5.11 of this Agreement or to direct or indirect equity holders of any Steiner Leisure Shareholder or (d) any person with the prior written consent of the Company.

 

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5.2.4 This Agreement and the provisions hereof shall be binding upon and shall inure to the benefit of each of the parties and its successors and the permitted assigns of the Holders.

5.2.5 This Agreement shall not confer any rights or benefits on any persons that are not parties hereto, other than as expressly set forth in this Agreement and Section 5.2 hereof.

5.2.6 No assignment by any party hereto of such party’s rights, duties and obligations hereunder shall be binding upon or obligate the Company unless and until the Company shall have received (i) written notice of such assignment as provided in Section 5.1 hereof and (ii) the written agreement of the assignee, in a form reasonably satisfactory to the Company, to be bound by the terms and provisions of this Agreement (which may be accomplished by an addendum or certificate of joinder to this Agreement). Any transfer or assignment made other than as provided in this Section 5.2 shall be null and void.

5.3 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in multiple counterparts (including facsimile or PDF counterparts), each of which shall be deemed an original, and all of which together shall constitute the same instrument, but only one of which need be produced.

5.4 Governing Law; Venue. NOTWITHSTANDING THE PLACE WHERE THIS AGREEMENT MAY BE EXECUTED BY ANY OF THE PARTIES HERETO, THE PARTIES EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT (I) THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK AS APPLIED TO AGREEMENTS AMONG NEW YORK RESIDENTS ENTERED INTO AND TO BE PERFORMED ENTIRELY WITHIN NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO THE CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS OF SUCH JURISDICTION AND (II) THE VENUE FOR ANY ACTION TAKEN WITH RESPECT TO THE AGREEMENT SHALL BE ANY STATE OR FEDERAL COURT IN NEW YORK COUNTY IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

5.5 TRIAL BY JURY. EACH PARTY HERETO ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT ANY CONTROVERSY WHICH MAY ARISE UNDER THIS AGREEMENT IS LIKELY TO INVOLVE COMPLICATED AND DIFFICULT ISSUES, AND, THEREFORE, EACH SUCH PARTY HEREBY IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVES TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT SUCH PARTY MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN RESPECT TO ANY ACTION DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF, UNDER OR IN CONNECTION WITH OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED BY THIS AGREEMENT.

5.6 Amendments and Modifications. Upon the written consent of the Company and the Holders of at least a majority in interest of the Registrable Securities at the time in question as determined in good faith by the Company, compliance with any of the provisions, covenants and conditions set forth in this Agreement may be waived, or any of such provisions, covenants

 

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or conditions may be amended or modified; provided, however, that notwithstanding the foregoing, any amendment hereto or waiver hereof that adversely affects one Holder, solely in its capacity as a holder of the shares of capital stock of the Company, in a manner that is materially different from the other Holders (in such capacity) shall require the consent of the Holder so affected. No course of dealing between any Holder or the Company and any other party hereto or any failure or delay on the part of a Holder or the Company in exercising any rights or remedies under this Agreement shall operate as a waiver of any rights or remedies of any Holder or the Company. No single or partial exercise of any rights or remedies under this Agreement by a party shall operate as a waiver or preclude the exercise of any other rights or remedies hereunder or thereunder by such party.

5.7 Other Registration Rights. Other than the registration rights conferred in certain subscription agreements with respect to equity securities of the Company to be issued on the Closing Date, the Company represents and warrants that no person, other than a Holder of Registrable Securities, has any right to require the Company to register any securities of the Company for sale or to include such securities of the Company in any Registration Statement filed by the Company for the sale of securities for its own account or for the account of any other person. Further, the Company represents and warrants that this Agreement supersedes any other registration rights agreement or agreement with similar terms and conditions and in the event of a conflict between any such agreement or agreements and this Agreement, the terms of this Agreement shall prevail.

5.8 Term. This Agreement shall terminate with respect to any Holder on the date that such Holder no longer holds any Registrable Securities; provided, however, that if after such termination, a Holder is issued Deferred Shares (as defined in the BCA) in accordance with the terms of the BCA, such Deferred Shares shall be treated as Registrable Securities under this Agreement and such Holder shall be entitled to all of the rights under this Agreement with respect to such Deferred Shares. The provisions of Section 3.5 and Article IV shall survive any termination.

5.9 Holder Information. Each Holder agrees, if requested in writing, to represent to the Company the total number of Registrable Securities held by such Holder in order for the Company to make determinations hereunder, including, without limitation, for purposes of Section 5.8 hereof.

5.10 Restatement. Upon the closing of the transactions contemplated by the BCA, the Original RRA is no longer of any force or effect.

5.11 Distributions.

5.11.1 In the event that the Sponsor distributes, or has distributed, all of its Registrable Securities to its direct and/or indirect equity holders, such distributees shall be treated as the Sponsor hereunder; provided that only the holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities held by all such distributees, as determined in good faith by the Company, shall be entitled to take any action under this Agreement that the Sponsor is entitled to take, provided, further, that such distributees, taken as a whole, shall not be entitled to rights in excess of those conferred to the Sponsor, as if it remained a single entity party to this Agreement.

 

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5.11.2 In the event that the Steiner Leisure Shareholders distribute, or have distributed, all of their Registrable Securities to their direct and/or indirect equity holders, such distributees shall be treated as the Steiner Leisure Shareholders hereunder; provided that only the holders of a majority of the Registrable Securities held by all such distributees, as determined in good faith by the Company, shall be entitled to take any action under this Agreement that the Steiner Leisure Shareholders are entitled to take, provided, further, that such distributees, taken as a whole, shall not be entitled to rights in excess of those conferred to the Steiner Leisure Shareholders, as if they remained a single party to this Agreement.

5.12 Adjustments. If, and as often as, there are any changes in the Common Shares by way of stock split, stock dividend, combination or reclassification, or through merger, consolidation, reorganization, recapitalization or sale, or by any other means, appropriate adjustment shall be made in the provisions of this Agreement, as may be required, so that the rights, privileges, duties and obligations hereunder shall continue with respect to the Common Shares as so changed.

[SIGNATURE PAGES FOLLOW]

 

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COMPANY:
ONESPAWORLD HOLDINGS LIMITED,

an international business company

incorporated under the laws of the

Commonwealth of The Bahamas

By:  

/s/ Stephen Lazarus

  Name: Stephen Lazarus
  Title:   Chief Financial Officer
STEINER LEISURE LIMITED,

an international business company

incorporated under the laws of the

Commonwealth of The Bahamas

By:  

/s/ Stephen Lazarus

  Name: Stephen Lazarus
  Title:   Chief Financial Officer
HAYMAKER SPONSOR, LLC,
a Delaware corporation
By:  

/s/ Andrew R. Heyer

  Name: Andrew R. Heyer
  Title:   Managing Director
HAYMAKER ACQUISITION CORP.,
a Delaware corporation
By:  

/s/ Christopher Bradley

  Name: Christopher Bradley
  Title:   Chief Financial Officer

EX-10.4

Exhibit 10.4

LOCK-UP AGREEMENT

THIS LOCK-UP AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) is made and entered into as of March 19, 2019 by and between (i) OneSpaWorld Holdings Limited, an international business company incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas (including any successor entity thereto, the “Company”), (ii) the undersigned directors and officers of the Company (collectively, the “OSW D&Os”), (iii) Haymaker Sponsor, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (including any of its successor or assigns, the “Sponsor”), (iv) Steiner Leisure Limited, an international business company incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas (“Steiner Leisure”), (v) the undersigned directors and officers (collectively, the “Haymaker D&Os” and together with the OSW D&Os, the “D&Os”) of Haymaker Acquisition Corp. (“Haymaker”) and (vi) solely for purposes of Section 2 of the Agreement, Haymaker. Each of the Sponsor, Steiner Leisure, the D&Os and any person or entity who hereafter becomes a party to this Agreement pursuant to Section 1 are referred to herein, individually, as a “Holder” and, collectively, as the “Holders.” Capitalized terms used but not otherwise defined in this Agreement will have the meaning ascribed to such term in the Business Combination Agreement, dated as of the date hereof, by and among the Company, Steiner Leisure, Haymaker and certain other parties thereto (as it may be amended or supplemented from time to time, the “BCA”).

WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 7 of the letter agreement, dated October 24, 2017 (the “Original Letter Agreement”), by and among Haymaker, the Sponsor, and the officers and directors of Haymaker, certain restrictions on the transfer of securities apply after the completion of Haymaker’s initial business combination.

WHEREAS, pursuant to the BCA, and in view of the valuable consideration to be received by the Holders thereunder, the parties desire to enter into this Agreement, pursuant to which (i) their Dory Parent Common Shares (other than (x) any securities convertible or exercisable into Dory Parent Common Shares and (y) any Dory Parent Common Shares issuable upon the conversion or exercise of the securities described in clause (x)) (the “Restricted Securities”) shall become subject to limitations on disposition as set forth herein and (ii) the restrictions set forth herein shall be in addition to Section 7(a) of the Original Letter Agreement (as amended hereby).

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the premises set forth above, which are incorporated in this Agreement as if fully set forth below, and intending to be legally bound hereby, the parties hereby agree as follows:

1. Lock-Up Provisions.

(a) Each Holder hereby agrees not to, during the period commencing from the Closing and through the earlier of (x) the one hundred and eightieth (180) day anniversary of the date of the Closing and (y) the date after the Closing on which the Company consummates a liquidation, merger, share exchange or other similar transaction with an unaffiliated third party that results in all of the Company’s shareholders having the right to exchange their equity holdings in the Company for cash, securities or other property (“Change in Control Transaction”) (the “Lock-Up Period”): (i) lend, offer, pledge, hypothecate, encumber, donate, assign, sell, contract to sell, sell any option or contract to purchase, purchase any option or contract to sell, grant any option, right or warrant to purchase, or otherwise transfer or dispose of any Restricted Securities, (ii) enter into any swap or other arrangement that transfers to another, in whole or in part, any of the economic consequences of ownership of the Restricted Securities, or (iii) publicly disclose the intention to do any of the foregoing (other than the filing of a registration statement with the Securities and Exchange Commission which contemplates such a transaction), whether any such transaction described in clauses (i), (ii) or (iii) above is to be settled by delivery of Restricted Securities or other securities, in cash or otherwise (any of the foregoing described in clauses (i), (ii) or (iii), a “Prohibited Transfer”). The foregoing sentence shall not apply:

 

  (A)

to the transfer of any or all of the Restricted Securities owned by a Holder by a bona fide gift or charitable contribution;

 

  (B)

to the transfer of any or all of the Restricted Securities owned by a Holder by will or intestate succession upon the death of such Holder;

 

  (C)

to the transfer of any or all of the Restricted Securities owned by a Holder to any Permitted Transferee;

 

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  (D)

to the transfer of any or all of the Restricted Securities owned by a Holder pursuant to a court order or settlement agreement related to the distribution of assets in connection with the dissolution of marriage or civil union;

 

  (E)

to the transfer of any or all of the Restricted Securities owned by a Holder to the Company in connection with the repurchase by the Company from the undersigned of any Restricted Securities pursuant to a repurchase right arising upon the termination of the undersigned’s employment or service with the Company or the Company; provided, that such repurchase right is pursuant to contractual agreements with the Company or Haymaker;

 

  (F)

to the establishment of a trading plan pursuant to Rule 10b5-1 under the Exchange Act for the transfer of Dory Parent Common Shares; provided, that such plan does not provide for the transfer of Dory Parent Common Shares during the Lock-Up Period;

 

  (G)

with respect to voting rights pursuant to the execution and delivery of a support, voting or similar agreement in connection with a Change in Control Transaction that is approved by the Company’s board of directors;

 

  (H)

to the resale of securities by Steiner Leisure pursuant to the Secondary Purchase Agreements with the Secondary Investors; or

 

  (I)

to sales of Restricted Securities by the Sponsor or its Permitted Transferees to generate proceeds to satisfy tax obligations incurred as a result of the closing of the transactions contemplated under the BCA.

provided, however, that in any of cases (A), (B), (C) or (D), it shall be a condition to such transfer that the transferee executes and delivers to the Company an agreement stating that the transferee is receiving and holding the Restricted Securities subject to the provisions of this Agreement applicable to such Holder, and there shall be no further transfer of such Restricted Securities except in accordance with this Agreement; and provided further, that in any of the of cases (A), (B) or (C) such transfer or distribution shall not involve a disposition for value.

As used in this Agreement, the term “Permitted Transferee” shall mean:

 

  (i)

the members of a Holder’s immediate family (for purposes of this Agreement, “immediate family” shall mean with respect to any natural person, any of the following: such person’s spouse, the siblings of such person and his or her spouse, and the direct descendants and ascendants (including adopted and step children and parents) of such person and his or her spouses and siblings);

 

  (ii)

any trust for the direct or indirect benefit of a Holder or the immediate family of a Holder;

 

  (iii)

if a Holder is a trust, to the trustor or beneficiary of such trust or to the estate of a beneficiary of such trust;

 

  (iv)

as a distribution to the direct or indirect: general partners, limited partners, shareholders, members of, or owners of similar equity interests in a Holder; or

 

  (v)

to any affiliate of a Holder.

Each Holder further agrees to execute such agreements as may be reasonably requested by the Company that are consistent with the foregoing or that are necessary to give further effect thereto.

(b) If any Prohibited Transfer is made or attempted contrary to the provisions of this Agreement, such purported Prohibited Transfer shall be null and void ab initio, and the Company shall refuse to recognize any such purported transferee of the Restricted Securities as one of its equity holders for any purpose. In order to enforce this Section 1, the Company may impose stop-transfer instructions with respect to the Restricted Securities of a Holder (and permitted transferees and assigns thereof) until the end of the Lock-Up Period.

(c) During the Lock-Up Period, each certificate or book-entry position evidencing any Restricted Securities shall be marked with a legend in substantially the following form, in addition to any other applicable legends:

 

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“THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED HEREBY ARE SUBJECT TO RESTRICTIONS ON TRANSFER SET FORTH IN A LOCK-UP AGREEMENT, DATED AS OF MARCH 19, 2019, BY AND AMONG THE ISSUER OF SUCH SECURITIES AND THE REGISTERED HOLDER OF THE SHARES (OR THE PREDECESSOR IN INTEREST TO THE SHARES). A COPY OF SUCH LOCK-UP AGREEMENT WILL BE FURNISHED WITHOUT CHARGE BY THE ISSUER TO THE HOLDER HEREOF UPON WRITTEN REQUEST.”

(d) For the avoidance of doubt, each Holder shall retain all of its rights as a shareholder of the Company with respect to the Restricted Securities during the Lock-Up Period, including the right to vote any Restricted Securities that are entitled to vote. The Company agrees to (i) instruct its transfer agent to remove the legends in clause (c) immediately above upon the expiration of the Lock-Up Period and (ii) cause its legal counsel to deliver the necessary legal opinions, if any, to the transfer agent in connection with the instruction under subclause (i).

2. Original Letter Agreement. In light of the foregoing and pursuant to Section 12 of the Original Letter Agreement, Haymaker, the Sponsor and the D&Os agree that Section 7 of the Original Letter Agreement is hereby amended and restated in its entirety as follows:

7. (a) The Sponsor and each Insider agrees that it, he or she shall not Transfer any Private Placement Warrants (or shares of Common Stock issued or issuable upon the conversion of the Private Placement Warrants), until 30 days after the completion of a Business Combination (the “Lock-up Period”).

(b) Notwithstanding the provisions set forth in paragraph 7(a), Transfers of the Private Placement Warrants and shares of Common Stock issued or issuable upon the exercise or conversion of the Private Placement Warrants that are held by the Sponsor, any Insider or any of their permitted transferees (that have complied with this paragraph 7(b)), are permitted (a) to the Company’s officers or directors, any affiliates or family members of any of the Company’s officers or directors, any members of the Sponsor, or any affiliates of the Sponsor; (b) in the case of an individual, transfers by gift to a member of the individual’s immediate family, to a trust, the beneficiary of which is a member of the individual’s immediate family or an affiliate of such person, or to a charitable organization; (c) in the case of an individual, transfers by virtue of laws of descent and distribution upon death of the individual; (d) in the case of an individual, transfers pursuant to a qualified domestic relations order; (e) transfers by private sales or transfers made in connection with the consummation of a Business Combination at prices no greater than the price at which the securities were originally purchased; (f) transfers in the event of the Company’s liquidation prior to the completion of an initial Business Combination; (g) transfers by virtue of the laws of the State of Delaware or the Sponsor’s limited liability company agreement upon dissolution of the Sponsor; (h) in the event of the Company’s liquidation, merger, capital stock exchange, reorganization or other similar transaction which results in all of the Company’s stockholders having the right to exchange their shares of Common Stock for cash, securities or other property subsequent to the completion of the Company’s initial Business Combination; and (i) transfers in connection with the Company’s initial Business Combination with the Company’s consent to any third party; provided, however, that in the case of clauses (a) through (e), (h) and (i), these permitted transferees must enter into a written agreement agreeing to be bound by the restrictions herein.

3. Miscellaneous.

(a) Termination of BCA. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary contained herein, in the event that the BCA is terminated in accordance with its terms prior to the Closing, this Agreement and all rights and obligations of the parties hereunder shall automatically terminate and be of no further force or effect.

(b) Binding Effect; Assignment. This Agreement and all of the provisions hereof shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of the parties hereto and their respective permitted successors and assigns. This Agreement and all obligations of the Holders are personal to the Holders and may not be transferred or delegated by any of the Holders at any time.

 

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(c) Third Parties. Nothing contained in this Agreement or in any instrument or document executed by any party in connection with the transactions contemplated hereby shall create any rights in, or be deemed to have been executed for the benefit of, any person or entity that is not a party hereto or thereto or a successor or permitted assign of such a party.

(d) Governing Law; Venue. NOTWITHSTANDING THE PLACE WHERE THIS AGREEMENT MAY BE EXECUTED BY ANY OF THE PARTIES HERETO, THE PARTIES EXPRESSLY AGREE THAT (I) THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY AND CONSTRUED UNDER THE LAWS OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK AS APPLIED TO AGREEMENTS AMONG NEW YORK RESIDENTS ENTERED INTO AND TO BE PERFORMED ENTIRELY WITHIN NEW YORK, WITHOUT REGARD TO THE CONFLICT OF LAW PROVISIONS OF SUCH JURISDICTION AND (II) THE VENUE FOR ANY ACTION TAKEN WITH RESPECT TO THE AGREEMENT SHALL BE ANY STATE OR FEDERAL COURT IN NEW YORK COUNTY IN THE STATE OF NEW YORK.

(e) WAIVER OF JURY TRIAL. EACH PARTY HERETO ACKNOWLEDGES AND AGREES THAT ANY CONTROVERSY WHICH MAY ARISE UNDER THIS AGREEMENT IS LIKELY TO INVOLVE COMPLICATED AND DIFFICULT ISSUES, AND, THEREFORE, EACH SUCH PARTY HEREBY IRREVOCABLY AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVES TO THE FULLEST EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW, ANY RIGHT SUCH PARTY MAY HAVE TO A TRIAL BY JURY IN RESPECT TO ANY ACTION DIRECTLY OR INDIRECTLY ARISING OUT OF, UNDER OR IN CONNECTION WITH OR RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR THE TRANSACTIONS CONTEMPLATED BY THIS AGREEMENT.

(f) Interpretation. The titles and subtitles used in this Agreement are for convenience only and are not to be considered in construing or interpreting this Agreement. In this Agreement, unless the context otherwise requires: (i) any pronoun used in this Agreement shall include the corresponding masculine, feminine or neuter forms, and the singular form of nouns, pronouns and verbs shall include the plural and vice versa; (ii) “including” (and with correlative meaning “include”) means including without limiting the generality of any description preceding or succeeding such term and shall be deemed in each case to be followed by the words “without limitation”; (iii) the words “herein,” “hereto,” and “hereby” and other words of similar import in this Agreement shall be deemed in each case to refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to any particular section or other subdivision of this Agreement; and (iv) the term “or” means “and/or”. The parties have participated jointly in the negotiation and drafting of this Agreement. Consequently, in the event an ambiguity or question of intent or interpretation arises, this Agreement shall be construed as if drafted jointly by the parties hereto, and no presumption or burden of proof shall arise favoring or disfavoring any party by virtue of the authorship of any provision of this Agreement.

(g) Notices. All notices, consents, waivers and other communications hereunder shall be in writing and shall be deemed to have been duly given when delivered (i) in person, (ii) by facsimile or other electronic means, with affirmative confirmation of receipt, (iii) one Business Day after being sent, if sent by reputable, nationally recognized overnight courier service or (iv) three (3) Business Days after being mailed, if sent by registered or certified mail, pre-paid and return receipt requested, in each case to the applicable party at the following addresses (or at such other address for a party as shall be specified by like notice):

If to the Company, Haymaker, the Sponsor or any of the D&Os:

 

c/o Haymaker Acquisition Corp.

650 Fifth Avenue, Floor 10

New York, NY 10019

Attention: Christopher Bradley

E-mail: cbradley@mistralequity.com

with a copy (which shall not constitute notice) to:

DLA Piper LLP (US)

1251 Avenue of the Americas, 27th Floor

 

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New York, NY 10020

  

Attention:             Sidney Burke

                                Stephen Alicanti
   Facsimile: 212.335.4501
  

E-mail:     sidney.burke@dlapiper.com

                    stephen.alicanti@dlapiper.com

If to Steiner Leisure to:

  
  

c/o Catterton Management Company L.L.C.

599 West Putnam Avenue

   Greenwich, CT 06830
   Attention:    J. Michael Chu
                       Marc Magliacano
                       David McPherson
   Facsimile:   (203) 629-4903
  

E-mail:         Michael.Chu@lcatterton.com

                       Marc.Magliacano@lcatterton.com
                       DaveM@catterton.com
   with a copy (which shall not constitute notice) to:
  

Kirkland & Ellis LLP

601 Lexington Avenue

  

New York, NY 10022

  

Attention:             Joshua Kogan, P.C.

                                Ryan Brissette
   Facsimile: (212) 446-6460
  

E-mail:     joshua.kogan@kirkland.com

                    ryan.brissette@kirkland.com

(h) Amendments and Waivers. Only upon the written consent of the Company, Steiner Leisure, and the Holders of at least a majority in interest of the Restricted Securities at the time in question as determined in good faith by the Company, compliance with any of the provisions, covenants and conditions set forth in this Agreement may be waived, or any of such provisions, covenants or conditions may be amended or modified; provided, however, that notwithstanding the foregoing, any amendment hereto or waiver hereof that adversely affects one Holder, solely in its capacity as a holder of Restricted Securities, in a manner that is materially different from the other Holders (in such capacity) shall require the consent of the Holder so affected. No course of dealing between any Holder or the Company and any other party hereto or any failure or delay on the part of a Holder or the Company in exercising any rights or remedies under this Agreement shall operate as a waiver of any rights or remedies of any Holder or the Company. No single or partial exercise of any rights or remedies under this Agreement by a party shall operate as a waiver or preclude the exercise of any other rights or remedies hereunder or thereunder by such party.

(i) Severability. In case any provision in this Agreement shall be held invalid, illegal or unenforceable in a jurisdiction, such provision shall be modified or deleted, as to the jurisdiction involved, only to the extent necessary to render the same valid, legal and enforceable, and the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions hereof shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby nor shall the validity, legality or enforceability of such provision be affected thereby in any other jurisdiction. Upon such determination that any term or other provision is invalid, illegal or incapable of being enforced, the parties will substitute for any invalid, illegal or unenforceable provision a suitable and equitable provision that carries out, so far as may be valid, legal and enforceable, the intent and purpose of such invalid, illegal or unenforceable provision.

(j) Specific Performance. Each Holder acknowledges that its obligations under this Agreement are unique, recognizes and affirms that in the event of a breach of this Agreement by such Holder, money damages will be inadequate and the Company will have no adequate remedy at law, and agrees that irreparable damage would occur in the event that any of the provisions of this Agreement were not performed by such Holder in accordance with

 

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their specific terms or were otherwise breached. Accordingly, the Company shall be entitled to an injunction or restraining order to prevent breaches of this Agreement by a Holder and to enforce specifically the terms and provisions hereof, without the requirement to post any bond or other security or to prove that money damages would be inadequate, this being in addition to any other right or remedy to which such party may be entitled under this Agreement, at law or in equity.

(k) Entire Agreement. This Agreement constitutes the full and entire understanding and agreement among the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof, and any other written or oral agreement relating to the subject matter hereof existing between the parties is expressly canceled; provided, that, for the avoidance of doubt, the foregoing shall not affect the rights and obligations of the parties under the BCA or any Ancillary Documents. Notwithstanding the foregoing, nothing in this Agreement shall limit any of the rights or remedies of the Company or any of the obligations of any of the Holders under any other agreement between any of the Holders and the Company or any certificate or instrument executed by any of the Holders in favor of the Company, and nothing in any other agreement, certificate or instrument shall limit any of the rights or remedies of the Company or any of the obligations of any of the Holders under this Agreement.

(l) Further Assurances. From time to time, at another party’s request and without further consideration (but at the requesting party’s reasonable cost and expense), each party shall execute and deliver such additional documents and take all such further action as may be reasonably necessary to consummate the transactions contemplated by this Agreement.

(m) Counterparts; Facsimile. This Agreement may also be executed and delivered by facsimile signature or by other electronic means in two or more counterparts, each of which shall be deemed an original, but all of which together shall constitute one and the same instrument.

[Remainder of Page Intentionally Left Blank; Signature Pages Follow]

 

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties have executed this Lock-Up Agreement as of the date first written above.

 

ONESPAWORLD HOLDINGS LIMITED
By:  

/s/ Stephen Lazarus

Name:   Stephen Lazarus
Title:   Chief Financial Officer

/s/ Steven J. Heyer

Name: Steven J. Heyer

/s/ Glenn J. Fusfield

Name: Glenn J. Fusfield

/s/ Marc Magliacano

Name: Marc Magliacano

/s/ Andrew R. Heyer

Name: Andrew R. Heyer

/s/ Walter F. McLallen

Name: Walter F. McLallen

/s/ Jeffrey E. Stiefler

Name: Jeffrey E. Stiefler

/s/ Michael J. Dolan

Name: Michael J. Dolan

/s/ Stephen W. Powell

Name: Stephen W. Powell

/s/ Leonard Fluxman

Name: Leonard Fluxman
HAYMAKER SPONSOR, LLC
By:  

/s/ Andrew R. Heyer

Name:   Andrew R. Heyer
Title:   Managing Member
STEINER LEISURE LIMITED
By:  

/s/ Stephen Lazarus

Name:   Stephen Lazarus
Title:   Chief Financial Officer
HAYMAKER ACQUISITION CORP.
By:  

/s/ Christopher Bradley

Name:   Christopher Bradley
Title:   Chief Financial Officer

EX-10.5

EXHIBIT 10.5

AMENDED AND RESTATED WARRANT AGREEMENT

between

ONESPAWORLD HOLDINGS LIMITED

and

CONTINENTAL STOCK TRANSFER & TRUST COMPANY

THIS AMENDED AND RESTATED WARRANT AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”), dated as of March 19, 2019, is by and between (i) OneSpaWorld Holdings Limited, an international business company incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas (the “Company”) and the successor-in-interest to Haymaker Acquisition Corp., a Delaware corporation (“Haymaker”), and (ii) Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, a New York corporation, as warrant agent (the “Warrant Agent”).

WHEREAS, on October 19, 2017, Haymaker entered into that certain Warrants Purchase Agreement (the “Warrants Purchase Agreement”) with Haymaker Sponsor, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (the “Sponsor”), pursuant to which the Sponsor purchased an aggregate of 8,000,000 warrants in connection with, and simultaneously upon, the closing of the Offering (as defined below) and bearing the legend set forth in Exhibit A hereto (the “Sponsor Warrants”) at a purchase price of $1.00 per Sponsor Warrant;

WHEREAS, in order to finance Haymaker’s transaction costs in connection with its initial merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization or similar business combination, involving Haymaker and one or more businesses (each, a “Business Combination”), the Sponsor or an affiliate of the Sponsor or certain of Haymaker’s executive officers and directors may loan to Haymaker funds as Haymaker may require, of which up to $1,500,000 of such loans may be convertible into up to an additional 1,500,000 Sponsor Warrants at a price of $1.00 per warrant;

WHEREAS, Haymaker and the Warrant Agent entered into that certain Warrant Agreement, dated as of October 24, 2017 (the “Original Warrant Agreement”), which provides for the form and provisions of the Warrants (as defined below), the terms upon which they shall be issued and exercised, and the respective rights, limitations of rights, and immunities of the Company (as successor-in-interest to Haymaker), the Warrant Agent, and the holders of the Warrants;

WHEREAS, on October 24, 2017, Haymaker completed its initial public offering (the “Offering”) of units of Haymaker’s equity securities, each such unit comprised of one share of Common Stock (as defined below) and one-half of one Public Warrant (as defined below) (the “Units”) and, in connection therewith, issued and delivered 16,500,000 warrants (including 1,500,000 warrants pursuant to the partial exercise of the underwriters’ over-allotment option on November 1, 2017) to public investors in the Offering (the “Public Warrants” and, together with the Sponsor Warrants, the “Initial Warrants”). Each whole Initial Warrant entitled the holder thereof to purchase one share of Class A common stock of Haymaker, par value $0.0001 per share (“Common Stock”), for $11.50 per share, subject to adjustment as described herein;

WHEREAS, Haymaker filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the “Commission”) a registration statement on Form S-1, File No. 333-220733 (the “Registration Statement”) and prospectus (the “Prospectus”), for the registration, under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “Securities Act”), of the Units, the Public Warrants and the Common Stock included in the Units;

WHEREAS, on November 1, 2018, the Company entered into that certain Business Combination Agreement, dated as November 1, 2018 (as it may be amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Transaction Agreement”), pursuant to which, among other things, the Company acquired Haymaker and the “One Spa World” business of Steiner Leisure Limited (the “Transaction”);

WHEREAS, as a consequence of the closing of the Transaction and in accordance with the terms of the Original Warrant Agreement and the Transaction Agreement, each outstanding Warrant of Haymaker will represent the right to purchase one common share, par value $0.0001 per share (each, a “Common Share”), of the Company in lieu of one share of Common Stock;

WHEREAS, immediately after the closing of the Closing Merger (as defined in the Transaction Agreement) and in accordance with the terms of the Original Warrant Agreement, Sponsor will transfer 3,105,294 Sponsor Warrants (which, as described above, will represent the right to purchase Common Shares) to the Company, and the Company will transfer such Sponsor Warrants (the “PIPE and SLL Warrants” and, together with the Sponsor Warrants, the “Private Placement Warrants”) to (i) certain investors who entered into subscription agreements with the Company on November 1, 2018 (the “PIPE Investors”) and (ii) Steiner Leisure Limited (“SLL”) in accordance with the terms of the Transaction Agreement. In order to reflect the closing of the Transaction and the fact that the PIPE Investors shall be entitled to registration rights under a subscription agreement rather than a separate registration rights agreement, the PIPE and SLL Warrants shall bear the legend set forth on Exhibit B hereto instead of the legend previously affixed to the Sponsor Warrants. The Private Placement Warrants and the Public Warrants are collectively referred to herein as the “Warrants”;


WHEREAS, the Company desires that the Warrant Agent act on behalf of the Company, and the Warrant Agent is willing to act, in connection with the issuance, registration, transfer, exchange, redemption and exercise, as applicable, of the Warrants;

WHEREAS, in connection with the Transaction, the Company and the Warrant Agent desire to amend and restate the Original Warrant Agreement in its entirety, in accordance with Section 9.8 of the Original Warrant Agreement, such that this Agreement will take effect immediately following the Closing Merger; and

WHEREAS, all acts and things have been done and performed which are necessary to make the Warrants, when executed on behalf of the Company and countersigned by or on behalf of the Warrant Agent, as provided herein, the valid, binding and legal obligations of the Company, and to authorize the execution and delivery of this Agreement.

NOW, THEREFORE, in consideration of the mutual agreements herein contained, the parties hereto agree as follows:

1. Appointment of Warrant Agent. The Company hereby appoints the Warrant Agent to act as agent for the Company for the Warrants, and the Warrant Agent hereby accepts such appointment and agrees to perform the same in accordance with the terms and conditions set forth in this Agreement.

2. Warrants.

2.1 Form of Warrant. Each Warrant shall be issued in registered form only.

2.2 Effect of Countersignature. If a physical certificate is issued, unless and until countersigned by the Warrant Agent pursuant to this Agreement, a Warrant shall be invalid and of no effect and may not be exercised by the holder thereof.

2.3 Registration.

2.3.1 Warrant Register. The Warrant Agent shall maintain books (the “Warrant Register”), for the registration of original issuance and the registration of transfer of the Warrants. Upon the initial issuance of the Warrants, the Warrant Agent shall issue and register the Warrants in the names of the respective holders thereof in such denominations and otherwise in accordance with instructions delivered to the Warrant Agent by the Company. Ownership of beneficial interests in the Public Warrants shall be shown on, and the transfer of such ownership shall be effected through, records maintained by institutions that have accounts with the Depository Trust Company (the “Depositary”) (such institution, with respect to a Warrant in its account, a “Participant”).

If the Depositary subsequently ceases to make its book-entry settlement system available for the Public Warrants, the Company may instruct the Warrant Agent regarding making other arrangements for book-entry settlement. In the event that the Public Warrants are not eligible for, or it is no longer necessary to have the Public Warrants available in, book-entry form, the Warrant Agent shall provide written instructions to the Depositary to deliver to the Warrant Agent for cancellation each book-entry Public Warrant, and the Company shall instruct the Warrant Agent to deliver to the Depositary definitive certificates in physical form evidencing such Warrants which shall be in the form annexed hereto as Exhibit C.

Physical certificates, if issued, shall be signed by, or bear the facsimile signature of, the Chairman of the Board, Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Secretary or other principal officer of the Company. In the event the person whose facsimile signature has been placed upon any Warrant shall have ceased to serve in the capacity in which such person signed the Warrant before such Warrant is issued, it may be issued with the same effect as if he or she had not ceased to be such at the date of issuance.

2.3.2 Registered Holder. Prior to due presentment for registration of transfer of any Warrant, the Company and the Warrant Agent may deem and treat the person in whose name such Warrant is registered in the Warrant Register (the “Registered Holder”) as the absolute owner of such Warrant and of each Warrant represented thereby (notwithstanding any notation of ownership or other writing on any physical certificate made by anyone other than the Company or the Warrant Agent), for the purpose of any exercise thereof, and for all other purposes, and neither the Company nor the Warrant Agent shall be affected by any notice to the contrary.

 

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2.4 Detachability of Warrants. The Common Shares and Public Warrants comprising the Units shall trade separately.

2.5 No Fractional Warrants Other Than as Part of Units. The Company shall not issue fractional Warrants other than as part of Units, each of which was comprised of one Common Share and one-half of one Public Warrant. If, upon the detachment of Public Warrants from Units or otherwise, a holder of Warrants would have been entitled to receive a fractional Warrant, the Company shall have rounded down to the nearest whole number the number of Warrants to be issued to such holder.

2.6 Private Placement Warrants. The Private Placement Warrants shall be identical to the Public Warrants, except that so long as they are held by the Sponsor, the PIPE Investors, SLL or any of their respective Permitted Transferees (as defined below), the Private Placement Warrants: (i) may be exercised for cash or on a cashless basis, pursuant to subsection 3.3.1(c) hereof, (ii) may not be transferred, assigned or sold until thirty (30) days after the completion of the Transaction, and (iii) shall not be redeemable by the Company; provided, however, that in the case of (ii), the Private Placement Warrants and any Common Shares held by the Sponsor, the PIPE Investors, SLL or any of their respective Permitted Transferees and issued upon exercise of the Private Placement Warrants may be transferred by the holders thereof:

(a) in the case of an individual, as gift to such person’s immediate family or to a trust, the beneficiary of which is a member of such person’s immediate family, an affiliate of such person or to a charitable organization;

(b) to the Company’s officers or directors, any affiliate or family member of any of the Company’s officers or directors, any affiliate of the Sponsor, to any member(s) of the Sponsor or any of their affiliates;

(c) in the case of an individual, by virtue of the laws of descent and distribution upon death of such person;

(d) in the case of an individual, pursuant to a qualified domestic relations order;

(e) by virtue of the laws of the state of Delaware or the Sponsor’s limited liability company agreement upon dissolution of the Sponsor;

(f) through private sales or transfers made in connection with the consummation of the Transaction at prices no greater than the price at which the Warrants were originally purchased; or

(g) in the event that the Company consummates a merger, capital stock exchange, reorganization or other similar transaction that results in all of the holders of Haymaker’s former equity securities that were issued in the Offering (which have been subsequently exchanged for the Company’s equity securities in connection with the Transaction) having the right to exchange their Common Shares for cash, securities or other property;

provided, however, that, in the case of clauses (a) through (d) and (f), these transferees (the “Permitted Transferees”) enter into a written agreement with the Company agreeing to be bound by the transfer restrictions in this Agreement.

3. Terms and Exercise of Warrants.

3.1 Warrant Price. Each Warrant shall, when countersigned by the Warrant Agent, entitle the Registered Holder thereof, subject to the provisions of such Warrant and of this Agreement, to purchase from the Company the number of Common Shares stated therein, at the price of $11.50 per share, subject to the adjustments provided in Section 4 hereof and in the last sentence of this Section 3.1. The term “Warrant Price” as used in this Agreement shall mean the price per share at which Common Shares may be purchased at the time a Warrant is exercised. The Company in its sole discretion may lower the Warrant Price at any time prior to the Expiration Date (as defined below) for a period of not less than twenty (20) Business Days, provided, that the Company shall provide at least twenty (20) days prior written notice of such reduction to Registered Holders of the Warrants and, provided further that any such reduction shall be identical among all of the Warrants. The term “Business Day” as used in this Agreement shall mean any day, other than a Saturday, Sunday or federal holiday, on which banks in New York City are generally open for normal business.

3.2 Duration of Warrants. A Warrant may be exercised only during the period (the “Exercise Period”) commencing on the later of the date that is: (i) thirty (30) days after the first date on which Haymaker completed the Transaction, or (ii) twelve (12) months from the date of the closing of the Offering, and terminating at 5:00 p.m., New York City time on the earlier to occur of: (y) the date that is five (5) years after the date on which Haymaker completed the Transaction, or (z) other than with respect to the Private Placement Warrants then held by the Sponsor, the PIPE Investors, SLL or their respective Permitted Transferees, the

 

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Redemption Date (as defined below) as provided in Section 6.2 hereof (the “Expiration Date”); provided, however, that the exercise of any Warrant shall be subject to the satisfaction of any applicable conditions, as set forth in subsection 3.3.2 below with respect to an effective registration statement. Except with respect to the right to receive the Redemption Price (as defined below) (other than with respect to a Private Placement Warrant then held by the Sponsor, the PIPE Investors, SLL or their respective Permitted Transferees) in the event of a redemption (as set forth in Section 6 hereof), each outstanding Warrant (other than a Private Placement Warrant held by the Sponsor, the PIPE Investors, SLL or their respective Permitted Transferees in the event of a redemption) not exercised on or before the Expiration Date shall become void, and all rights thereunder and all rights in respect thereof under this Agreement shall cease at 5:00 p.m. New York City time on the Expiration Date. The Company in its sole discretion may extend the duration of the Warrants by delaying the Expiration Date; provided, that the Company shall provide at least twenty (20) days prior written notice of any such extension to Registered Holders of the Warrants and, provided further that any such extension shall be identical in duration among all the Warrants.

3.3 Exercise of Warrants.

3.3.1 Payment. Subject to the provisions of the Warrant and this Agreement, a Warrant, when countersigned by the Warrant Agent, may be exercised by the Registered Holder thereof by surrendering it, at the office of the Warrant Agent, or at the office of its successor as Warrant Agent, in the Borough of Manhattan, City and State of New York, with the subscription form, as set forth in the Warrant, duly executed, and by paying in full the Warrant Price for each full Common Share as to which the Warrant is exercised and any and all applicable taxes due in connection with the exercise of the Warrant, the exchange of the Warrant for the Common Shares and the issuance of such Common Shares, as follows:

(a) in lawful money of the United States, in good certified check or good bank draft payable to the Warrant Agent;

(b) in the event of a redemption pursuant to Section 6 hereof in which the Company’s board of directors (the “Board”) has elected to require all holders of the Warrants to exercise such Warrants on a “cashless basis,” by surrendering the Warrants for that number of Common Shares equal to the quotient obtained by dividing (x) the product of the number of Common Shares underlying the Warrants, multiplied by the difference between the Warrant Price and the Fair Market Value (as defined in this subsection 3.3.1(b)) by (y) the Fair Market Value. Solely for purposes of this subsection 3.3.1(b) and Section 6.3, the “Fair Market Value” shall mean the average last sale price of the Common Shares for the ten (10) trading days ending on the third trading day prior to the date on which the notice of redemption is sent to the holders of the Warrants, pursuant to Section 6 hereof;

(c) with respect to any Private Placement Warrant, so long as such Private Placement Warrant is held by the Sponsor, the PIPE Investors, SLL or one of their respective Permitted Transferees, by surrendering the Warrants for that number of Common Shares equal to the quotient obtained by dividing (x) the product of the number of Common Shares underlying the Warrants, multiplied by the difference between the Warrant Price and the Fair Market Value (as defined in this subsection 3.3.1(c)) by (y) the Fair Market Value. Solely for purposes of this subsection 3.3.1(c), the “Fair Market Value” shall mean the average last sale price of the Common Shares for the ten (10) trading days ending on the third trading day prior to the date on which notice of exercise of the Warrant is sent to the Warrant Agent; or

(d) as provided in Section 7.4 hereof.

3.3.2 Issuance of Common Shares on Exercise. As soon as practicable after the exercise of any Warrant and the clearance of the funds in payment of the Warrant Price (if payment is pursuant to subsection 3.3.1(a)), the Company shall issue to the Registered Holder of such Warrant a book-entry position or certificate, as applicable, for the number of full Common Shares to which he, she or it is entitled, registered in such name or names as may be directed by him, her or it, and if such Warrant shall not have been exercised in full, a new book-entry position or countersigned Warrant, as applicable, for the number of Common Shares as to which such Warrant shall not have been exercised. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company shall not be obligated to deliver any Common Shares pursuant to the exercise of a Warrant and shall have no obligation to settle such Warrant exercise unless a registration statement under the Securities Act with respect to the Common Shares underlying the Public Warrants is then effective and a prospectus relating thereto is current, subject to the Company’s satisfying its obligations under Section 7.4. No Warrant shall be exercisable and the Company shall not be obligated to issue Common Shares upon exercise of a Warrant unless the Common Shares issuable upon such Warrant exercise has been registered, qualified or deemed to be exempt from registration or qualification under the securities laws of the state of residence of the Registered Holder of the Warrants. In the event that the conditions in the two immediately preceding sentences are not satisfied with respect to a Warrant, the holder of such Warrant shall not be entitled to exercise such Warrant and such Warrant may have no value and expire worthless, in which case the purchaser of a Unit containing such Public Warrants shall have paid the full purchase price for the Unit solely for the Common Shares underlying such Unit. In no event will the Company be required to net cash settle the Warrant exercise. The Company may require holders of Public Warrants to settle the Warrant on a “cashless basis” pursuant to Section 7.4. If, by reason of any exercise of warrants on a “cashless basis”, the holder of any Warrant would be entitled, upon the exercise of such Warrant, to receive a fractional interest in a Common Share, the Company shall round down to the nearest whole number, the number of Common Shares to be issued to such holder.

 

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3.3.3 Valid Issuance. All Common Shares issued upon the proper exercise of a Warrant in conformity with this Agreement shall be validly issued, fully paid and non-assessable.

3.3.4 Date of Issuance. Each person in whose name any book-entry position or certificate, as applicable, for Common Shares is issued shall for all purposes be deemed to have become the holder of record of such Common Shares on the date on which the Warrant, or book-entry position representing such Warrant, was surrendered and payment of the Warrant Price was made, irrespective of the date of delivery of such certificate in the case of a certificated Warrant, except that, if the date of such surrender and payment is a date when the share transfer books of the Company or book-entry system of the Warrant Agent are closed, such person shall be deemed to have become the holder of such Common Shares at the close of business on the next succeeding date on which the share transfer books or book-entry system are open.

3.3.5 Maximum Percentage. A holder of a Warrant may notify the Company in writing in the event it elects to be subject to the provisions contained in this subsection 3.3.5; however, no holder of a Warrant shall be subject to this subsection 3.3.5 unless he, she or it makes such election. If the election is made by a holder, the Warrant Agent shall not effect the exercise of the holder’s Warrant, and such holder shall not have the right to exercise such Warrant, to the extent that after giving effect to such exercise, such person (together with such person’s affiliates), to the Warrant Agent’s actual knowledge, would beneficially own in excess of 4.9% or 9.8% (as specified by the holder) (the “Maximum Percentage”) of the Common Shares outstanding immediately after giving effect to such exercise. For purposes of the foregoing sentence, the aggregate number of Common Shares beneficially owned by such person and its affiliates shall include the number of Common Shares issuable upon exercise of the Warrant with respect to which the determination of such sentence is being made, but shall exclude Common Shares that would be issuable upon (x) exercise of the remaining, unexercised portion of the Warrant beneficially owned by such person and its affiliates and (y) exercise or conversion of the unexercised or unconverted portion of any other securities of the Company beneficially owned by such person and its affiliates (including, without limitation, any convertible notes or convertible preferred stock or warrants) subject to a limitation on conversion or exercise analogous to the limitation contained herein. Except as set forth in the preceding sentence, for purposes of this paragraph, beneficial ownership shall be calculated in accordance with Section 13(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the “Exchange Act”). For purposes of the Warrant, in determining the number of outstanding Common Shares, the holder may rely on the number of outstanding Common Shares as reflected in (1) the Company’s most recent annual report on Form 10-K, quarterly report on Form 10-Q, current report on Form 8-K or other public filing with the Commission as the case may be, (2) a more recent public announcement by the Company or (3) any other notice by the Company or the transfer agent of the Company setting forth the number of Common Shares outstanding. For any reason at any time, upon the written request of the holder of the Warrant, the Company shall, within two (2) Business Days, confirm orally and in writing to such holder the number of Common Shares then outstanding. In any case, the number of outstanding Common Shares shall be determined after giving effect to the conversion or exercise of equity securities of the Company by the holder and its affiliates since the date as of which such number of outstanding Common Shares was reported. By written notice to the Company, the holder of a Warrant may from time to time increase or decrease the Maximum Percentage applicable to such holder to any other percentage specified in such notice; provided, however, that any such increase shall not be effective until the sixty-first (61st) day after such notice is delivered to the Company.

4. Adjustments.

4.1 Stock Dividends.

4.1.1 Split-Ups. If after the date of the Original Warrant Agreement, and subject to the provisions of Section 4.6 below, the number of outstanding Common Shares is increased by a stock dividend payable in Common Shares, or by a split-up of Common Shares or other similar event, then, on the effective date of such stock dividend, split-up or similar event, the number of Common Shares issuable on exercise of each Warrant shall be increased in proportion to such increase in the outstanding Common Shares. A rights offering to holders of the Common Shares entitling holders to purchase Common Shares at a price less than the Fair Market Value (as defined below) shall be deemed a stock dividend of a number of Common Shares equal to the product of (i) the number of Common Shares actually sold in such rights offering (or issuable under any other equity securities sold in such rights offering that are convertible into or exercisable for the Common Shares) and (ii) one (1) minus the quotient of (x) the price per Common Share paid in such rights offering divided by (y) the Fair Market Value. For purposes of this subsection 4.1.1, (i) if the rights offering is for securities convertible into or exercisable for Common Shares, in determining the price payable for Common Shares, there shall be taken into account any consideration received for such rights, as well as any additional amount payable upon exercise or conversion and (ii) “Fair Market Value” means the volume weighted average price of the Common Shares as reported during the ten (10) trading day period ending on the trading day prior to the first date on which the Common Shares trade on the applicable exchange or in the applicable market, regular way, without the right to receive such rights.

 

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4.1.2 Extraordinary Dividends. If the Company, at any time while the Warrants are outstanding and unexpired, shall pay a dividend or make a distribution in cash, securities or other assets to the holders of the Common Shares on account of such Common Shares (or other shares of the Company’s capital stock into which the Warrants are convertible), other than (a) as described in subsection 4.1.1 above, or (b) Ordinary Cash Dividends (as defined below) (any such non-excluded event being referred to herein as an “Extraordinary Dividend”), then the Warrant Price shall be decreased, effective immediately after the effective date of such Extraordinary Dividend, by the amount of cash and/or the fair market value (as determined by the Board, in good faith) of any securities or other assets paid on each Common Share in respect of such Extraordinary Dividend. For purposes of this subsection 4.1.2, “Ordinary Cash Dividends” means any cash dividend or cash distribution which, when combined on a per share basis, with the per share amounts of all other cash dividends and cash distributions paid on the Common Shares during the 365-day period ending on the date of declaration of such dividend or distribution (as adjusted to appropriately reflect any of the events referred to in other subsections of this Section 4 and excluding cash dividends or cash distributions that resulted in an adjustment to the Warrant Price or to the number of Common Shares issuable on exercise of each Warrant) does not exceed $0.50 (being 5% of the offering price of the Units in the Offering).

4.2 Aggregation of Shares. If after the date of the Original Warrant Agreement, and subject to the provisions of Section 4.6 hereof, the number of outstanding Common Shares is decreased by a consolidation, combination, reverse stock split or reclassification of Common Shares or other similar event, then, on the effective date of such consolidation, combination, reverse stock split, reclassification or similar event, the number of Common Shares issuable on exercise of each Warrant shall be decreased in proportion to such decrease in outstanding Common Shares.

4.3 Adjustments in Exercise Price. Whenever the number of Common Shares purchasable upon the exercise of the Warrants is adjusted, as provided in subsection 4.1.1 or Section 4.2 above, the Warrant Price shall be adjusted (to the nearest cent) by multiplying such Warrant Price immediately prior to such adjustment by a fraction (x) the numerator of which shall be the number of Common Shares purchasable upon the exercise of the Warrants immediately prior to such adjustment, and (y) the denominator of which shall be the number of Common Shares so purchasable immediately thereafter.

4.4 Replacement of Securities upon Reorganization, etc. In case of any reclassification or reorganization of the outstanding Common Shares (other than a change under subsections 4.1.1 or 4.1.2 or Section 4.2 hereof or that solely affects the par value of such Common Shares), or in the case of any merger or consolidation of the Company with or into another entity or conversion of the Company as another entity (other than a consolidation or merger in which the Company is the continuing corporation and that does not result in any reclassification or reorganization of the outstanding Common Shares), or in the case of any sale or conveyance to another entity of the assets or other property of the Company as an entirety or substantially as an entirety in connection with which the Company is dissolved, the holders of the Warrants shall thereafter have the right to purchase and receive, upon the basis and upon the terms and conditions specified in the Warrants and in lieu of the Common Shares of the Company immediately theretofore purchasable and receivable upon the exercise of the rights represented thereby, the kind and amount of shares of stock or other securities or property (including cash) receivable upon such reclassification, reorganization, merger or consolidation, or upon a dissolution following any such sale or transfer, that the holder of the Warrants would have received if such holder had exercised his, her or its Warrant(s) immediately prior to such event (the “Alternative Issuance” ) and the Company shall not enter into any such consolidation, merger, sale or conveyance unless the successor or purchasing entity, as the case may be, shall execute an amendment hereto with the Warrant Agent providing for delivery of such Alternative Issuance; provided, however, that (i) if the holders of the Common Shares were entitled to exercise a right of election as to the kind or amount of securities, cash or other assets receivable upon such consolidation or merger, then the kind and amount of securities, cash or other assets constituting the Alternative Issuance for which each Warrant shall become exercisable shall be deemed to be the weighted average of the kind and amount received per share by the holders of the Common Shares in such consolidation or merger that affirmatively make such election, and (ii) if a tender, exchange or redemption offer shall have been made to and accepted by the holders of the Common Shares under circumstances in which, upon completion of such tender or exchange offer, the maker thereof, together with members of any group (within the meaning of Rule 13d-5(b)(1) under the Exchange Act (or any successor rule)) of which such maker is a part, and together with any affiliate or associate of such maker (within the meaning of Rule 12b-2 under the Exchange Act (or any successor rule)) and any members of any such group of which any such affiliate or associate is a part, own beneficially (within the meaning of Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act (or any successor rule)) more than 50% of the outstanding Common Shares, the holder of a Warrant shall be entitled to receive as the Alternative Issuance, the highest amount of cash, securities or other property to which such holder would actually have been entitled as a shareholder if such Warrant holder had exercised the Warrant prior to the expiration of such tender or exchange offer, accepted such offer and all of the Common Shares held by such holder had been purchased pursuant to such tender or exchange offer, subject to adjustments (from and after the consummation of such tender or exchange offer) as nearly equivalent as possible to the adjustments provided for in this Section 4; provided, further, that if less than 70% of the consideration receivable by the

 

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holders of the Common Shares in the applicable event is payable in the form of common stock in the successor entity that is listed for trading on a national securities exchange or is quoted in an established over-the-counter market, or is to be so listed for trading or quoted immediately following such event, and if the Registered Holder properly exercises the Warrant within thirty (30) days following the public disclosure of the consummation of such applicable event by the Company pursuant to a Current Report on Form 8-K filed with the Commission, the Warrant Price shall be reduced by an amount (in dollars) equal to the difference of (but in no event less than zero) (i) the Warrant Price in effect prior to such reduction minus (ii) (A) the Per Share Consideration (as defined below) minus (B) the Black-Scholes Warrant Value (as defined below). The “Black-Scholes Warrant Value” means the value of a Warrant immediately prior to the consummation of the applicable event based on the Black-Scholes Warrant Model for a Capped American Call on Bloomberg Financial Markets (“Bloomberg”). For purposes of calculating such amount, (1) Section 6 of this Agreement shall be taken into account, (2) the price of each Common Share shall be the volume weighted average price of the Common Shares as reported during the ten (10) trading day period ending on the trading day prior to the effective date of the applicable event, (3) the assumed volatility shall be the 90 day volatility obtained from the HVT function on Bloomberg determined as of the trading day immediately prior to the day of the announcement of the applicable event, and (4) the assumed risk-free interest rate shall correspond to the U.S. Treasury rate for a period equal to the remaining term of the Warrant. “Per Share Consideration” means (i) if the consideration paid to holders of the Common Shares consists exclusively of cash, the amount of such cash per Common Share, and (ii) in all other cases, the amount of cash per Common Share, if any, plus the volume weighted average price of the Common Shares as reported during the ten (10) trading day period ending on the trading day prior to the effective date of the applicable event. If any reclassification or reorganization also results in a change in Common Shares covered by subsection 4.1.1, then such adjustment shall be made pursuant to subsection 4.1.1 or Sections 4.2, 4.3 and this Section 4.4. The provisions of this Section 4.4 shall similarly apply to successive reclassifications, reorganizations, mergers or consolidations, sales or other transfers. In no event will the Warrant Price be reduced to less than the par value per share issuable upon exercise of the Warrant.

4.5 Notices of Changes in Warrant. Upon every adjustment of the Warrant Price or the number of Common Shares issuable upon exercise of a Warrant, the Company shall give written notice thereof to the Warrant Agent, which notice shall state the Warrant Price resulting from such adjustment and the increase or decrease, if any, in the number of Common Shares purchasable at such price upon the exercise of a Warrant, setting forth in reasonable detail the method of calculation and the facts upon which such calculation is based. Upon the occurrence of any event specified in Sections 4.1, 4.2, 4.3 or 4.4, the Company shall give written notice of the occurrence of such event to each holder of a Warrant, at the last address set forth for such holder in the Warrant Register, of the record date or the effective date of the event. Failure to give such notice, or any defect therein, shall not affect the legality or validity of such event.

4.6 No Fractional Shares. Notwithstanding any provision contained in this Agreement to the contrary, the Company shall not issue fractional Common Shares upon the exercise of Warrants. If, by reason of any adjustment made pursuant to this Section 4, the holder of any Warrant would be entitled, upon the exercise of such Warrant, to receive a fractional interest in a share, the Company shall, upon such exercise, round down to the nearest whole number the number of Common Shares to be issued to such holder.

4.7 Form of Warrant. The form of Warrant need not be changed because of any adjustment pursuant to this Section 4, and Warrants issued after such adjustment may state the same Warrant Price and the same number of Common Shares as is stated in the Warrants initially issued pursuant to this Agreement; provided, however, that the Company may at any time in its sole discretion make any change in the form of Warrant that the Company may deem appropriate and that does not affect the substance thereof, and any Warrant thereafter issued or countersigned, whether in exchange or substitution for an outstanding Warrant or otherwise, may be in the form as so changed.

4.8 Other Events. In case any event shall occur affecting the Company as to which none of the provisions of preceding subsections of this Section 4 are strictly applicable, but which would require an adjustment to the terms of the Warrants in order to (i) avoid an adverse impact on the Warrants and (ii) effectuate the intent and purpose of this Section 4, then, in each such case, the Company shall appoint a firm of independent public accountants, investment banking or other appraisal firm of recognized national standing, which shall give its opinion as to whether or not any adjustment to the rights represented by the Warrants is necessary to effectuate the intent and purpose of this Section 4 and, if they determine that an adjustment is necessary, the terms of such adjustment; provided, however, that under no circumstances shall the Warrants be adjusted pursuant to this Section 4.8 as a result of any issuance of securities in connection with a Business Combination. The Company shall adjust the terms of the Warrants in a manner that is consistent with any adjustment recommended in such opinion.

 

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5. Transfer and Exchange of Warrants.

5.1 Registration of Transfer. The Warrant Agent shall register the transfer, from time to time, of any outstanding Warrant upon the Warrant Register, upon surrender of such Warrant for transfer, in the case of certificated warrants, properly endorsed with signatures properly guaranteed and accompanied by appropriate instructions for transfer. Upon any such transfer, a new Warrant representing an equal aggregate number of Warrants shall be issued and the old Warrant shall be cancelled by the Warrant Agent. In the case of certificated warrants, the Warrants so cancelled shall be delivered by the Warrant Agent to the Company from time to time upon request.

5.2 Procedure for Surrender of Warrants. Warrants may be surrendered to the Warrant Agent, together with a written request for exchange or transfer, and thereupon the Warrant Agent shall issue in exchange therefor one or more new Warrants as requested by the Registered Holder of the Warrants so surrendered, representing an equal aggregate number of Warrants; provided, however, that in the event that a Warrant surrendered for transfer bears a restrictive legend (as in the case of the Private Placement Warrants), the Warrant Agent shall not cancel such Warrant and issue new Warrants in exchange thereof until the Warrant Agent has received an opinion of counsel for the Company stating that such transfer may be made and indicating whether the new Warrants must also bear a restrictive legend.

5.3 Fractional Warrants. The Warrant Agent shall not be required to effect any registration of transfer or exchange which shall result in the issuance of a warrant certificate or book-entry position for a fraction of a warrant, except as part of the Units.

5.4 Service Charges. No service charge shall be made for any exchange or registration of transfer of Warrants.

5.5 Warrant Execution and Countersignature. The Warrant Agent is hereby authorized to countersign and to deliver, in accordance with the terms of this Agreement, the Warrants required to be issued pursuant to the provisions of this Section 5, and the Company, whenever required by the Warrant Agent, shall supply the Warrant Agent with Warrants duly executed on behalf of the Company for such purpose.

6. Redemption.

6.1 Redemption. Subject to Section 6.4 hereof, not less than all of the outstanding Warrants may be redeemed, at the option of the Company, at any time while they are exercisable and prior to their expiration, at the office of the Warrant Agent, upon notice to the Registered Holders of the Warrants, as described in Section 6.2 below, at the price of $0.01 per Warrant (theRedemption Price), provided that the last sales price of the Common Shares reported has been at least $18.00 per share (subject to adjustment in compliance with Section 4 hereof), on each of twenty (20) trading days within the thirty (30) trading-day period ending on the third Business Day prior to the date on which notice of the redemption is given and provided that there is an effective registration statement covering the Common Shares issuable upon exercise of the Warrants, and a current prospectus relating thereto, available throughout the 30-day Redemption Period (as defined in Section 6.2 below) or the Company has elected to require the exercise of the Warrants on a “cashless basis” pursuant to subsection 3.3.1.

6.2 Date Fixed for, and Notice of, Redemption. In the event that the Company elects to redeem all of the Warrants, the Company shall fix a date for the redemption (the “Redemption Date”). Notice of redemption shall be mailed by first class mail, postage prepaid, by the Company not less than thirty (30) days prior to the Redemption Date (the “30-day Redemption Period”) to the Registered Holders of the Warrants to be redeemed at their last addresses as they shall appear on the registration books. Any notice mailed in the manner herein provided shall be conclusively presumed to have been duly given whether or not the Registered Holder received such notice.

6.3 Exercise After Notice of Redemption. The Warrants may be exercised, for cash (or on a “cashless basis” in accordance with subsection 3.3.1(b) of this Agreement) at any time after notice of redemption shall have been given by the Company pursuant to Section 6.2 hereof and prior to the Redemption Date. In the event that the Company determines to require all holders of Warrants to exercise their Warrants on a “cashless basis” pursuant to subsection 3.3.1, the notice of redemption shall contain the information necessary to calculate the number of Common Shares to be received upon exercise of the Warrants, including the Fair Market Value (as such term is defined in subsection 3.3.1(b) hereof) in such case. On and after the Redemption Date, the record holder of the Warrants shall have no further rights except to receive, upon surrender of the Warrants, the Redemption Price.

6.4 Exclusion of Private Placement Warrants. The Company agrees that the redemption rights provided in this Section 6 shall not apply to the Private Placement Warrants if at the time of the redemption such Private Placement Warrants continue to be held by the Sponsor, the PIPE Investors, SLL or their respective Permitted Transferees. However, once such Private Placement Warrants are transferred (other than to Permitted Transferees under Section 2.5), the Company may redeem the Private Placement Warrants, provided that the criteria for redemption are met, including the opportunity of the holder of such Private Placement Warrants to exercise the Private Placement Warrants prior to redemption pursuant to Section 6.3. Private Placement Warrants that are transferred to persons other than Permitted Transferees shall upon such transfer cease to be Private Placement Warrants and shall become Public Warrants under this Agreement.

 

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7. Other Provisions Relating to Rights of Holders of Warrants.

7.1 No Rights as Shareholder. A Warrant does not entitle the Registered Holder thereof to any of the rights of a shareholder of the Company, including, without limitation, the right to receive dividends, or other distributions, exercise any preemptive rights to vote or to consent or to receive notice as shareholders in respect of the meetings of shareholders or the election of directors of the Company or any other matter.

7.2 Lost, Stolen, Mutilated, or Destroyed Warrants. If any Warrant is lost, stolen, mutilated, or destroyed, the Company and the Warrant Agent may on such terms as to indemnity or otherwise as they may in their discretion impose (which shall, in the case of a mutilated Warrant, include the surrender thereof), issue a new Warrant of like denomination, tenor, and date as the Warrant so lost, stolen, mutilated, or destroyed. Any such new Warrant shall constitute a substitute contractual obligation of the Company, whether or not the allegedly lost, stolen, mutilated, or destroyed Warrant shall be at any time enforceable by anyone.

7.3 Reservation of Common Shares. The Company shall at all times reserve and keep available a number of its authorized but unissued Common Shares that shall be sufficient to permit the exercise in full of all outstanding Warrants issued pursuant to this Agreement.

7.4 Registration of Common Shares; Cashless Exercise at Company’s Option.

7.4.1 Registration of the Common Shares. The Company agrees that as soon as practicable, but in no event later than fifteen (15) Business Days after the closing of the Transaction, it shall use its best efforts to file with the Commission a registration statement for the registration, under the Securities Act, of the Common Shares issuable upon exercise of the Warrants. The Company shall use its best efforts to cause the same to become effective and to maintain the effectiveness of such registration statement, and a current prospectus relating thereto, until the expiration of the Warrants in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement. If any such registration statement has not been declared effective by the 60th Business Day following the closing of the Transaction, holders of the Warrants shall have the right, during the period beginning on the 61st Business Day after the closing of the Transaction and ending upon such registration statement being declared effective by the Commission, and during any other period when the Company shall fail to have maintained an effective registration statement covering the Common Shares issuable upon exercise of the Warrants, to exercise such Warrants on a “cashless basis,” by exchanging the Warrants (in accordance with Section 3(a)(9) of the Securities Act (or any successor rule) or another exemption) for that number of Common Shares equal to the quotient obtained by dividing (x) the product of the number of Common Shares underlying the Warrants, multiplied by the difference between the Warrant Price and the Fair Market Value (as defined below) by (y) the Fair Market Value. Solely for purposes of this subsection 7.4.1, “Fair Market Value” shall mean the volume weighted average price of the Common Shares as reported during the ten (10) trading day period ending on the trading day prior to the date that notice of exercise is received by the Warrant Agent from the holder of such Warrants or its securities broker or intermediary. The date that notice of cashless exercise is received by the Warrant Agent shall be conclusively determined by the Warrant Agent. In connection with the “cashless exercise” of a Public Warrant, the Company shall, upon request, provide the Warrant Agent with an opinion of counsel for the Company (which shall be an outside law firm with securities law experience) stating that (i) the exercise of the Warrants on a cashless basis in accordance with this subsection 7.4.1 is not required to be registered under the Securities Act and (ii) the Common Shares issued upon such exercise shall be freely tradable under United States federal securities laws by anyone who is not an affiliate (as such term is defined in Rule 144 under the Securities Act (or any successor rule)) of the Company and, accordingly, shall not be required to bear a restrictive legend. Except as provided in subsection 7.4.2, for the avoidance of any doubt, unless and until all of the Warrants have been exercised, the Company shall continue to be obligated to comply with its registration obligations under the first three sentences of this subsection 7.4.1.

7.4.2 Cashless Exercise at Company’s Option. If the Common Shares are at the time of any exercise of a Warrant not listed on a national securities exchange such that it satisfies the definition of a “covered security” under Section 18(b)(1) of the Securities Act (or any successor rule), the Company may, at its option, (i) require holders of Public Warrants who exercise Public Warrants to exercise such Public Warrants on a “cashless basis” in accordance with Section 3(a)(9) of the Securities Act (or any successor rule) as described in subsection 7.4.1 and (ii) in the event the Company so elects, the Company shall (x) not be required to file or maintain in effect a registration statement for the registration, under the Securities Act, of the Common Shares issuable upon exercise of the Warrants, notwithstanding anything in this Agreement to the contrary, and (y) use its best efforts to register or qualify for sale the Common Shares issuable upon exercise of the Public Warrant under the blue sky laws of the state of residence of the exercising Public Warrant holder to the extent an exemption is not available.

 

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8. Concerning the Warrant Agent and Other Matters.

8.1 Payment of Taxes. The Company shall from time to time promptly pay all taxes and charges that may be imposed upon the Company or the Warrant Agent in respect of the issuance or delivery of Common Shares upon the exercise of the Warrants, but the Company shall not be obligated to pay any transfer taxes in respect of the Warrants or such Common Shares.

8.2 Resignation, Consolidation, or Merger of Warrant Agent.

8.2.1 Appointment of Successor Warrant Agent. The Warrant Agent, or any successor to it hereafter appointed, may resign its duties and be discharged from all further duties and liabilities hereunder after giving sixty (60) days’ notice in writing to the Company. If the office of the Warrant Agent becomes vacant by resignation or incapacity to act or otherwise, the Company shall appoint in writing a successor Warrant Agent in place of the Warrant Agent. If the Company shall fail to make such appointment within a period of thirty (30) days after it has been notified in writing of such resignation or incapacity by the Warrant Agent or by the holder of a Warrant (who shall, with such notice, submit his Warrant for inspection by the Company), then the holder of any Warrant may apply to the Supreme Court of the State of New York for the County of New York for the appointment of a successor Warrant Agent at the Company’s cost. Any successor Warrant Agent, whether appointed by the Company or by such court, shall be a corporation organized and existing under the laws of the State of New York, in good standing and having its principal office in the Borough of Manhattan, City and State of New York, and authorized under such laws to exercise corporate trust powers and subject to supervision or examination by federal or state authority. After appointment, any successor Warrant Agent shall be vested with all the authority, powers, rights, immunities, duties, and obligations of its predecessor Warrant Agent with like effect as if originally named as Warrant Agent hereunder, without any further act or deed; but if for any reason it becomes necessary or appropriate, the predecessor Warrant Agent shall execute and deliver, at the expense of the Company, an instrument transferring to such successor Warrant Agent all the authority, powers, and rights of such predecessor Warrant Agent hereunder; and upon request of any successor Warrant Agent the Company shall make, execute, acknowledge, and deliver any and all instruments in writing for more fully and effectually vesting in and confirming to such successor Warrant Agent all such authority, powers, rights, immunities, duties, and obligations.

8.2.2 Notice of Successor Warrant Agent. In the event a successor Warrant Agent shall be appointed, the Company shall give notice thereof to the predecessor Warrant Agent not later than the effective date of any such appointment.

8.2.3 Merger or Consolidation of Warrant Agent. Any corporation into which the Warrant Agent may be merged or with which it may be consolidated or any corporation resulting from any merger or consolidation to which the Warrant Agent shall be a party shall be the successor Warrant Agent under this Agreement without any further act.

8.3 Fees and Expenses of Warrant Agent.

8.3.1 Remuneration. The Company agrees to pay the Warrant Agent reasonable remuneration for its services as such Warrant Agent hereunder and shall, pursuant to its obligations under this Agreement, reimburse the Warrant Agent upon demand for all expenditures that the Warrant Agent may reasonably incur in the execution of its duties hereunder.

8.3.2 Further Assurances. The Company agrees to perform, execute, acknowledge, and deliver or cause to be performed, executed, acknowledged, and delivered all such further and other acts, instruments, and assurances as may reasonably be required by the Warrant Agent for the carrying out or performing of the provisions of this Agreement.

8.4 Liability of Warrant Agent.

8.4.1 Reliance on Company Statement. Whenever in the performance of its duties under this Agreement, the Warrant Agent shall deem it necessary or desirable that any fact or matter be proved or established by the Company prior to taking or suffering any action hereunder, such fact or matter (unless other evidence in respect thereof be herein specifically prescribed) may be deemed to be conclusively proved and established by a statement signed by the Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer, Secretary or Chairman of the Board of the Company and delivered to the Warrant Agent. The Warrant Agent may rely upon such statement for any action taken or suffered in good faith by it pursuant to the provisions of this Agreement.

8.4.2 Indemnity. The Warrant Agent shall be liable hereunder only for its own gross negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith. The Company agrees to indemnify the Warrant Agent and save it harmless against any and all liabilities, including judgments, costs and reasonable counsel fees, for anything done or omitted by the Warrant Agent in the execution of this Agreement, except as a result of the Warrant Agent’s gross negligence, willful misconduct or bad faith.

 

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8.4.3 Exclusions. The Warrant Agent shall have no responsibility with respect to the validity of this Agreement or with respect to the validity or execution of any Warrant (except its countersignature thereof). The Warrant Agent shall not be responsible for any breach by the Company of any covenant or condition contained in this Agreement or in any Warrant. The Warrant Agent shall not be responsible to make any adjustments required under the provisions of Section 4 hereof or responsible for the manner, method, or amount of any such adjustment or the ascertaining of the existence of facts that would require any such adjustment; nor shall it by any act hereunder be deemed to make any representation or warranty as to the authorization or reservation of any Common Shares to be issued pursuant to this Agreement or any Warrant or as to whether any Common Shares shall, when issued, be valid and fully paid and non-assessable.

8.5 Acceptance of Agency. The Warrant Agent hereby accepts the agency established by this Agreement and agrees to perform the same upon the terms and conditions herein set forth and among other things, shall account promptly to the Company with respect to Warrants exercised and concurrently account for, and pay to the Company, all monies received by the Warrant Agent for the purchase of Common Shares through the exercise of the Warrants.

8.6 Waiver. The Warrant Agent has no right of set-off or any other right, title, interest or claim of any kind (“Claim”) in, or to any distribution of, the Trust Account (as defined in that certain Investment Management Trust Agreement, dated as of the date of the Original Warrant Agreement, by and between Haymaker and the Warrant Agent as trustee thereunder) and hereby agrees not to seek recourse, reimbursement, payment or satisfaction for any Claim against the Trust Account for any reason whatsoever. The Warrant Agent hereby waives any and all Claims against the Trust Account and any and all rights to seek access to the Trust Account.

9. Miscellaneous Provisions.

9.1 Successors. All the covenants and provisions of this Agreement by or for the benefit of the Company or the Warrant Agent shall bind and inure to the benefit of their respective successors and assigns.

9.2 Notices. Any notice, statement or demand authorized by this Agreement to be given or made by the Warrant Agent or by the holder of any Warrant to or on the Company shall be sufficiently given when so delivered if by hand or overnight delivery or if sent by certified mail or private courier service within five (5) days after deposit of such notice, postage prepaid, addressed (until another address is filed in writing by the Company with the Warrant Agent), as follows:

OneSpaWorld Holdings Limited

c/o Haymaker Acquisition Corp.

650 Fifth Avenue, Floor 10

New York, NY 10019

Attention: Christopher Bradley

Email: cbradley@mistralequity.com

Any notice, statement or demand authorized by this Agreement to be given or made by the holder of any Warrant or by the Company to or on the Warrant Agent shall be sufficiently given when so delivered if by hand or overnight delivery or if sent by certified mail or private courier service within five (5) days after deposit of such notice, postage prepaid, addressed (until another address is filed in writing by the Warrant Agent with the Company), as follows:

Continental Stock Transfer &Trust Company

1 State Street, 30th Floor

New York, NY 10004-1561

Attn: Compliance Department

9.3 Applicable Law. The validity, interpretation, and performance of this Agreement and of the Warrants shall be governed in all respects by the laws of the State of New York, without giving effect to conflicts of law principles that would result in the application of the substantive laws of another jurisdiction. The Company hereby agrees that any action, proceeding or claim against it arising out of or relating in any way to this Agreement shall be brought and enforced in the courts of the State of New York or the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York, and irrevocably submits to such jurisdiction, which jurisdiction shall be exclusive. The Company hereby waives any objection to such exclusive jurisdiction and that such courts represent an inconvenient forum.

9.4 Persons Having Rights under this Agreement. Nothing in this Agreement shall be construed to confer upon, or give to, any person or corporation other than the parties hereto and the Registered Holders of the Warrants and, for purposes of Sections 7.4, 9.4 and 9.8, Cantor Fitzgerald & Co. (“Cantor”), any right, remedy, or claim under or by reason of this Agreement or of any covenant, condition, stipulation, promise, or agreement hereof. All covenants, conditions, stipulations, promises, and agreements contained in this Agreement shall be for the sole and exclusive benefit of the parties hereto and, for purposes of Sections 7.4, 9.4 and 9.8, Cantor, and their successors and assigns and of the Registered Holders of the Warrants.

 

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9.5 Examination of the Warrant Agreement. A copy of this Agreement shall be available at all reasonable times at the office of the Warrant Agent in the Borough of Manhattan, City and State of New York, for inspection by the Registered Holder of any Warrant. The Warrant Agent may require any such holder to submit his Warrant for inspection by it.

9.6 Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed in any number of original or facsimile counterparts and each of such counterparts shall for all purposes be deemed to be an original, and all such counterparts shall together constitute but one and the same instrument.

9.7 Effect of Headings. The section headings herein are for convenience only and are not part of this Agreement and shall not affect the interpretation thereof.

9.8 Amendments. This Agreement may be amended by the parties hereto without the consent of any Registered Holder (i) for the purpose of curing any ambiguity, or curing, correcting or supplementing any defective provision contained herein or adding or changing any other provisions with respect to matters or questions arising under this Agreement as the parties may deem necessary or desirable and that the parties deem shall not adversely affect the interest of the Registered Holders, and (ii) to provide for the delivery of Alternative Issuance pursuant to Section 4.4. All other modifications or amendments, including any amendment to increase the Warrant Price or shorten the Exercise Period and any amendment to the terms of only the Private Placement Warrants, shall require the vote or written consent of the Registered Holders of 50% of the then outstanding Public Warrants. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Company may lower the Warrant Price or extend the duration of the Exercise Period pursuant to Sections 3.1 and 3.2, respectively, without the consent of the Registered Holders.

9.9 Severability. This Agreement shall be deemed severable, and the invalidity or unenforceability of any term or provision hereof shall not affect the validity or enforceability of this Agreement or of any other term or provision hereof. Furthermore, in lieu of any such invalid or unenforceable term or provision, the parties hereto intend that there shall be added as a part of this Agreement a provision as similar in terms to such invalid or unenforceable provision as may be possible and be valid and enforceable.

9.10 Complete Agreement. This Agreement constitutes the entire agreement and supersedes all prior agreements and understandings, both written and oral, between the parties with respect to the subject matter hereof (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the Original Warrant Agreement).

Exhibit A – Legend (Sponsor Warrants)

Exhibit B – Legend (PIPE and SLL Warrants)

Exhibit C – Form of Warrant Certificate

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly executed as of the date first above written.

 

ONESPAWORLD HOLDINGS LIMITED
By:  

/s/ Stephen Lazarus

Name:   Stephen Lazarus
Title:   Vice President

 

CONTINENTAL STOCK TRANSFER & TRUST COMPANY, as Warrant Agent
By:  

/s/ Erika Young

Name:   Erika Young
Title:   Vice President

 

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EXHIBIT A

LEGEND (SPONSOR WARRANTS)

“THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS, AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD, TRANSFERRED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF UNLESS REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, AND ANY APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS OR AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION IS AVAILABLE. IN ADDITION, SUBJECT TO ANY ADDITIONAL LIMITATIONS ON TRANSFER DESCRIBED IN THE LETTER AGREEMENT BY AND AMONG HAYMAKER ACQUISITION CORP. (THE “COMPANY”), HAYMAKER SPONSOR, LLC AND THE OTHER PARTIES THERETO, THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE MAY NOT BE SOLD OR TRANSFERRED PRIOR TO THE DATE THAT IS THIRTY (30) DAYS AFTER THE DATE UPON WHICH THE COMPANY COMPLETES ITS INITIAL BUSINESS COMBINATION (AS DEFINED IN SECTION 3 OF THE WARRANT AGREEMENT REFERRED TO HEREIN) EXCEPT TO A PERMITTED TRANSFEREE (AS DEFINED IN SECTION 2 OF THE WARRANT AGREEMENT) WHO AGREES IN WRITING WITH THE COMPANY TO BE SUBJECT TO SUCH TRANSFER PROVISIONS.

SECURITIES EVIDENCED BY THIS CERTIFICATE AND SHARES OF CLASS A COMMON STOCK OF THE COMPANY ISSUED UPON EXERCISE OF SUCH SECURITIES SHALL BE ENTITLED TO REGISTRATION RIGHTS UNDER A REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT TO BE EXECUTED BY THE COMPANY.”

 

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EXHIBIT B

LEGEND (PIPE AND SLL WARRANTS)

“THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE HAVE NOT BEEN REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, OR ANY STATE SECURITIES LAWS, AND MAY NOT BE OFFERED, SOLD, TRANSFERRED OR OTHERWISE DISPOSED OF UNLESS REGISTERED UNDER THE SECURITIES ACT OF 1933, AS AMENDED, AND ANY APPLICABLE STATE SECURITIES LAWS OR AN EXEMPTION FROM REGISTRATION IS AVAILABLE. IN ADDITION, SUBJECT TO ANY ADDITIONAL LIMITATIONS ON TRANSFER DESCRIBED IN THE LETTER AGREEMENT BY AND AMONG HAYMAKER ACQUISITION CORP. (THE “COMPANY”), HAYMAKER SPONSOR, LLC AND THE OTHER PARTIES THERETO, THE SECURITIES REPRESENTED BY THIS CERTIFICATE MAY NOT BE SOLD OR TRANSFERRED PRIOR TO THE DATE THAT IS THIRTY (30) DAYS AFTER THE DATE UPON WHICH ONESPAWORLD HOLDINGS LIMITED COMPLETES THE TRANSACTION (AS DEFINED IN THE WARRANT AGREEMENT REFERRED TO HEREIN) EXCEPT TO A PERMITTED TRANSFEREE (AS DEFINED IN SECTION 2 OF THE WARRANT AGREEMENT) WHO AGREES IN WRITING WITH THE COMPANY TO BE SUBJECT TO SUCH TRANSFER PROVISIONS.

SECURITIES EVIDENCED BY THIS CERTIFICATE AND COMMON SHARES OF ONESPAWORLD HOLDINGS LIMITED ISSUED UPON EXERCISE OF SUCH SECURITIES SHALL BE ENTITLED TO REGISTRATION RIGHTS UNDER THE APPLICABLE SUBSCRIPTION AGREEMENT OR REGISTRATION RIGHTS AGREEMENT EXECUTED BY ONESPAWORLD HOLDINGS LIMITED.”

 

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EXHIBIT C

[Form of Warrant Certificate]

[FACE]

Number

Warrants

THIS WARRANT SHALL BE VOID IF NOT EXERCISED PRIOR TO

THE EXPIRATION OF THE EXERCISE PERIOD PROVIDED FOR

IN THE WARRANT AGREEMENT DESCRIBED BELOW

ONESPAWORLD HOLDINGS LIMITED

Incorporated Under the Laws of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas

CUSIP [        ]

Warrant Certificate

This Warrant Certificate certifies that [        ], or registered assigns, is the registered holder of warrant(s) evidenced hereby (the “Warrants” and each, a “Warrant”) to purchase common shares, $0.0001 par value (“Common Shares”), of OneSpaWorld Holdings Limited, an international business company incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas (the “Company”). Each whole Warrant entitles the holder, upon exercise during the period set forth in the Warrant Agreement referred to below, to receive from the Company that number of fully paid and non-assessable Common Shares as set forth below, at the exercise price (the “Exercise Price”) as determined pursuant to the Warrant Agreement, payable in lawful money (or through “cashless exercise” as provided for in the Warrant Agreement) of the United States of America upon surrender of this Warrant Certificate and payment of the Exercise Price at the office or agency of the Warrant Agent referred to below, subject to the conditions set forth herein and in the Warrant Agreement. Defined terms used in this Warrant Certificate but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Warrant Agreement.

Each whole Warrant is initially exercisable for one fully paid and non-assessable Common Share. No fractional shares will be issued upon exercise of any Warrant. If, upon the exercise of Warrants, a holder would be entitled to receive a fractional interest in a Common Share, the Company will, upon exercise, round down to the nearest whole number the number of Common Shares to be issued to the Warrant holder. The number of Common Shares issuable upon exercise of the Warrants is subject to adjustment upon the occurrence of certain events set forth in the Warrant Agreement.

The initial Exercise Price per Common Share for any Warrant is equal to $11.50 per share. The Exercise Price is subject to adjustment upon the occurrence of certain events set forth in the Warrant Agreement.

Subject to the conditions set forth in the Warrant Agreement, the Warrants may be exercised only during the Exercise Period and to the extent not exercised by the end of such Exercise Period, such Warrants shall become void.

Reference is hereby made to the further provisions of this Warrant Certificate set forth on the reverse hereof and such further provisions shall for all purposes have the same effect as though fully set forth at this place.

This Warrant Certificate shall not be valid unless countersigned by the Warrant Agent, as such term is used in the Warrant Agreement.

 

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This Warrant Certificate shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the internal laws of the State of New York, without regard to conflicts of laws principles thereof.

 

ONESPAWORLD HOLDINGS LIMITED
By:  

 

Name:  
Title:  
CONTINENTAL STOCK TRANSFER & TRUST COMPANY, as Warrant Agent
By:  

 

Name:  
Title:  

 

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[Form of Warrant Certificate]

[Reverse]

The Warrants evidenced by this Warrant Certificate are part of a duly authorized issue of Warrants entitling the holder on exercise to receive Common Shares and are issued or to be issued pursuant to a Warrant Agreement dated as of [        ] (the “Warrant Agreement”), duly executed and delivered by the Company to Continental Stock Transfer & Trust Company, a New York corporation, as warrant agent (the “Warrant Agent”), which Warrant Agreement is hereby incorporated by reference in and made a part of this instrument and is hereby referred to for a description of the rights, limitation of rights, obligations, duties and immunities thereunder of the Warrant Agent, the Company and the holders (the words “holders” or “holder” meaning the Registered Holders or Registered Holder) of the Warrants. A copy of the Warrant Agreement may be obtained by the holder hereof upon written request to the Company. Defined terms used in this Warrant Certificate but not defined herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Warrant Agreement.

Warrants may be exercised at any time during the Exercise Period set forth in the Warrant Agreement. The holder of Warrants evidenced by this Warrant Certificate may exercise them by surrendering this Warrant Certificate, with the form of election to purchase set forth hereon properly completed and executed, together with payment of the Exercise Price as specified in the Warrant Agreement (or through “cashless exercise” as provided for in the Warrant Agreement) at the principal corporate trust office of the Warrant Agent. In the event that upon any exercise of Warrants evidenced hereby the number of Warrants exercised shall be less than the total number of Warrants evidenced hereby, there shall be issued to the holder hereof or his, her or its assignee, a new Warrant Certificate evidencing the number of Warrants not exercised.

Notwithstanding anything else in this Warrant Certificate or the Warrant Agreement, no Warrant may be exercised unless at the time of exercise (i) a registration statement covering the Common Shares to be issued upon exercise is effective under the Securities Act and (ii) a prospectus thereunder relating to the Common Shares is current, except through “cashless exercise” as provided for in the Warrant Agreement.

The Warrant Agreement provides that upon the occurrence of certain events the number of Common Shares issuable upon exercise of the Warrants set forth on the face hereof may, subject to certain conditions, be adjusted. If, upon exercise of a Warrant, the holder thereof would be entitled to receive a fractional interest in a Common Share, the Company shall, upon exercise, round down to the nearest whole number of Common Shares to be issued to the holder of the Warrant.

Warrant Certificates, when surrendered at the principal corporate trust office of the Warrant Agent by the Registered Holder thereof in person or by legal representative or attorney duly authorized in writing, may be exchanged, in the manner and subject to the limitations provided in the Warrant Agreement, but without payment of any service charge, for another Warrant Certificate or Warrant Certificates of like tenor evidencing in the aggregate a like number of Warrants.

Upon due presentation for registration of transfer of this Warrant Certificate at the office of the Warrant Agent a new Warrant Certificate or Warrant Certificates of like tenor and evidencing in the aggregate a like number of Warrants shall be issued to the transferee(s) in exchange for this Warrant Certificate, subject to the limitations provided in the Warrant Agreement, without charge except for any tax or other governmental charge imposed in connection therewith.

The Company and the Warrant Agent may deem and treat the Registered Holder(s) hereof as the absolute owner(s) of this Warrant Certificate (notwithstanding any notation of ownership or other writing hereon made by anyone), for the purpose of any exercise hereof, of any distribution to the holder(s) hereof, and for all other purposes, and neither the Company nor the Warrant Agent shall be affected by any notice to the contrary. Neither the Warrants nor this Warrant Certificate entitles any holder hereof to any rights of a shareholder of the Company.

 

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Election to Purchase

(To Be Executed Upon Exercise of Warrant)

The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise the right, represented by this Warrant Certificate, to receive Common Shares and herewith tenders payment for such Common Shares to the order of OneSpaWorld Holdings Limited (the Company”) in the amount of $[        ] in accordance with the terms hereof. The undersigned requests that a certificate for such Common Shares be registered in the name of [        ], whose address is [        ] and that such Common Shares be delivered to [        ] whose address is [        ]. If said number of Common Shares is less than all of the Common Shares purchasable hereunder, the undersigned requests that a new Warrant Certificate representing the remaining balance of such Common Shares be registered in the name of [        ], whose address is [        ] and that such Warrant Certificate be delivered to [        ], whose address is [        ].

In the event that the Warrant has been called for redemption by the Company pursuant to Section 6 of the Warrant Agreement and the Company has required cashless exercise pursuant to Section 6.3 of the Warrant Agreement, the number of Common Shares that this Warrant is exercisable for shall be determined in accordance with subsection 3.3.1(b) and Section 6.3 of the Warrant Agreement.

In the event that the Warrant is a Private Placement Warrant that is to be exercised on a “cashless” basis pursuant to subsection 3.3.1(c) of the Warrant Agreement, the number of Common Shares that this Warrant is exercisable for shall be determined in accordance with subsection 3.3.1(c) of the Warrant Agreement.

In the event that the Warrant is to be exercised on a “cashless” basis pursuant to Section 7.4 of the Warrant Agreement, the number of Common Shares that this Warrant is exercisable for shall be determined in accordance with Section 7.4 of the Warrant Agreement.

In the event that the Warrant may be exercised, to the extent allowed by the Warrant Agreement, through cashless exercise (i) the number of Common Shares that this Warrant is exercisable for would be determined in accordance with the relevant section of the Warrant Agreement which allows for such cashless exercise and (ii) the holder hereof shall complete the following: The undersigned hereby irrevocably elects to exercise the right, represented by this Warrant Certificate, through the cashless exercise provisions of the Warrant Agreement, to receive [        ] Common Shares. If said number of shares is less than all of the Common Shares purchasable hereunder (after giving effect to the cashless exercise), the undersigned requests that a new Warrant Certificate representing the remaining balance of such Common Shares be registered in the name of [        ], whose address is [        ], and that such Warrant Certificate be delivered to [        ], whose address is [        ].

[Signature Page Follows]

 

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Date:                 , 20                   

 

      (Signature)
     

 

     

 

     

 

          (Address)
     

 

Signature Guaranteed:           (Tax Identification Number)

 

     

THE SIGNATURE(S) SHOULD BE GUARANTEED BY AN ELIGIBLE GUARANTOR INSTITUTION (BANKS, STOCKBROKERS, SAVINGS AND LOAN ASSOCIATIONS AND CREDIT UNIONS WITH MEMBERSHIP IN AN APPROVED SIGNATURE GUARANTEE MEDALLION PROGRAM, PURSUANT TO S.E.C. RULE 17Ad-15 (OR ANY SUCCESSOR RULE)).

 

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EX-10.6

EXHIBIT 10.6

OneSpaWorld Holdings Limited

2019 Equity Incentive Plan

1. ESTABLISHMENT, PURPOSE AND TERM OF PLAN.

1.1 Establishment. The OneSpaWorld Holdings Limited 2019 Equity Incentive Plan (the “Plan”) is hereby established effective as of March 18, 2019, the date of its approval by the stockholders of the Company (the“Effective Date”).

1.2 Purpose. The purpose of the Plan is to advance the interests of the Participating Company Group and its stockholders by providing an incentive to attract, retain and reward persons performing services for the Participating Company Group and by motivating such persons to contribute to the growth and profitability of the Participating Company Group. The Plan seeks to achieve this purpose by providing for Awards in the form of Options, Stock Appreciation Rights, Restricted Stock Awards, Restricted Stock Units, Performance Shares, Performance Units, Cash-Based Awards and Other Stock-Based Awards.

1.3 Term of Plan. The Plan shall continue in effect until its termination by the Committee; provided, however, that all Awards shall be granted, if at all, within ten (10) years from the Effective Date.

2. DEFINITIONS AND CONSTRUCTION.

2.1 Definitions. Whenever used herein, the following terms shall have their respective meanings set forth below:

(a) “Affiliate” means (i) a parent entity, other than a Parent Corporation, that directly, or indirectly through one or more intermediary entities, controls the Company or (ii) a subsidiary entity, other than a Subsidiary Corporation, that is controlled by the Company directly or indirectly through one or more intermediary entities. For this purpose, the terms “parent,” “subsidiary,” “control” and “controlled by” shall have the meanings assigned such terms for the purposes of registration of securities on Form S-8 under the Securities Act.

(b) “Award” means any Option, Stock Appreciation Right, Restricted Stock Purchase Right, Restricted Stock Bonus, Restricted Stock Unit, Performance Share, Performance Unit, Cash-Based Award or Other Stock-Based Award granted under the Plan.

(c) “Award Agreement” means a written or electronic agreement between the Company and a Participant setting forth the terms, conditions and restrictions applicable to an Award.

(d) “Board” means the Board of Directors of the Company.

(e) “Cash-Based Award” means an Award denominated in cash and granted pursuant to Section 11.


(f) “Cashless Exercise” means a Cashless Exercise as defined in Section 6.3(b)(i).

(g) Cause means, unless such term or an equivalent term is otherwise defined by the applicable Award Agreement or other written agreement between a Participant and a Participating Company applicable to an Award, any of the following: (i) the Participant’s theft, dishonesty, willful misconduct, breach of fiduciary duty for personal profit, or falsification of any Participating Company documents or records; (ii) the Participant’s material failure to abide by a Participating Company’s code of conduct or other policies (including, without limitation, policies relating to confidentiality and reasonable workplace conduct); (iii) the Participant’s unauthorized use, misappropriation, destruction or diversion of any tangible or intangible asset or corporate opportunity of a Participating Company (including, without limitation, the Participant’s improper use or disclosure of a Participating Company’s confidential or proprietary information); (iv) any intentional act by the Participant which has a material detrimental effect on a Participating Company’s reputation or business; (v) the Participant’s repeated failure or inability to perform any reasonable assigned duties after written notice from a Participating Company of, and a reasonable opportunity to cure, such failure or inability; (vi) any material breach by the Participant of any employment, service, non-disclosure, non-competition, non-solicitation or other similar agreement between the Participant and a Participating Company, which breach is not cured pursuant to the terms of such agreement; or (vii) the Participant’s conviction (including any plea of guilty or nolo contendere) of any criminal act involving fraud, dishonesty, misappropriation or moral turpitude, or which impairs the Participant’s ability to perform his or her duties with a Participating Company.

(h) “Change in Control” means the occurrence of any one or a combination of the following:

(i) any “person” (as such term is used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Exchange Act) becomes the “beneficial owner” (as such term is defined in Rule 13d-3 under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of securities of the Company representing more than fifty percent (50%) of the total Fair Market Value or total combined voting power of the Company’s then-outstanding securities entitled to vote generally in the election of Directors; provided, however, that a Change in Control shall not be deemed to have occurred if such degree of beneficial ownership results from any of the following: (A) an acquisition by any person who on the Effective Date is the beneficial owner of more than fifty percent (50%) of such voting power, (B) any acquisition directly from the Company, including, without limitation, pursuant to or in connection with a public offering of securities, (C) any acquisition by the Company, (D) any acquisition by a trustee or other fiduciary under an employee benefit plan of a Participating Company or (E) any acquisition by an entity owned directly or indirectly by the stockholders of the Company in substantially the same proportions as their ownership of the voting securities of the Company; or

(ii) an Ownership Change Event or series of related Ownership Change Events (collectively, a “Transaction”) in which the stockholders of the Company immediately before the Transaction do not retain immediately after the Transaction direct or indirect beneficial ownership of more than fifty percent (50%) of the total combined voting power of the outstanding securities entitled to vote generally in the election of Directors or, in the case of an Ownership Change Event described in Section 2.1(dd)(iii), the entity to which the assets of the Company were transferred (the “Transferee”), as the case may be; or


(iii) a date specified by the Committee following approval by the stockholders of a plan of complete liquidation or dissolution of the Company;

provided, however, that a Change in Control shall be deemed not to include a transaction described in subsections (i) or (ii) of this Section 2.1(h) in which a majority of the members of the board of directors of the continuing, surviving or successor entity, or parent thereof, immediately after such transaction is comprised of Incumbent Directors.

For purposes of the preceding sentence, indirect beneficial ownership shall include, without limitation, an interest resulting from ownership of the voting securities of one or more corporations or other business entities which own the Company or the Transferee, as the case may be, either directly or through one or more subsidiary corporations or other business entities. The Committee shall determine whether multiple events described in subsections (i), (ii) and (iii) of this Section 2.1(h) are related and to be treated in the aggregate as a single Change in Control, and its determination shall be final, binding and conclusive.

(i) “Code” means the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended, and any applicable regulations and administrative guidelines promulgated thereunder.

(j) “Committee” means the Compensation Committee and such other committee or subcommittee of the Board, if any, duly appointed to administer the Plan and having such powers in each instance as shall be specified by the Board. If, at any time, there is no committee of the Board then authorized or properly constituted to administer the Plan, the Board shall exercise all of the powers of the Committee granted herein, and, in any event, the Board may in its discretion exercise any or all of such powers.

(k) “Company” means OneSpaWorld Holdings Limited, an international business company incorporated under the laws of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, and any successor corporation thereto.

(l) Consultant means a person engaged to provide consulting or advisory services (other than as an Employee or a Director) to a Participating Company, provided that the identity of such person, the nature of such services or the entity to which such services are provided would not preclude the Company from offering or selling securities to such person pursuant to the Plan in reliance on registration on Form S-8 under the Securities Act.

(m) “Director” means a member of the Board.

(n) “Disability” means, unless such term or an equivalent term is otherwise defined by the applicable Award Agreement or other written agreement between the Participant and a Participating Company applicable to an Award, the permanent and total disability of the Participant, within the meaning of Section 22(e)(3) of the Code.

(o) “Dividend Equivalent Right” means the right of a Participant, granted at the discretion of the Committee or as otherwise provided by the Plan, to receive a credit for the account of such Participant in an amount equal to the cash dividends paid on one share of Stock for each share of Stock represented by an Award held by such Participant.


(p) “Employee” means any person treated as an employee (including an Officer or a Director who is also treated as an employee) in the records of a Participating Company and, with respect to any Incentive Stock Option granted to such person, who is an employee for purposes of Section 422 of the Code; provided, however, that neither service as a Director nor payment of a Director’s fee shall be sufficient to constitute employment for purposes of the Plan. The Company shall determine in good faith and in the exercise of its discretion whether an individual has become or has ceased to be an Employee and the effective date of such individual’s employment or termination of employment, as the case may be. For purposes of an individual’s rights, if any, under the terms of the Plan as of the time of the Company’s determination of whether or not the individual is an Employee, all such determinations by the Company shall be final, binding and conclusive as to such rights, if any, notwithstanding that the Company or any court of law or governmental agency subsequently makes a contrary determination as to such individual’s status as an Employee.

(q) “Exchange Act” means the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended.

(r) “Fair Market Value” means, as of any date, the value of a share of Stock or other property as determined by the Committee, in its discretion, or by the Company, in its discretion, if such determination is expressly allocated to the Company herein, subject to the following:

(i) Except as otherwise determined by the Committee, if, on such date, the Stock is listed or quoted on a national or regional securities exchange or quotation system, the Fair Market Value of a share of Stock shall be the closing price of a share of Stock as quoted on the national or regional securities exchange or quotation system constituting the primary market for the Stock, as reported in The Wall Street Journal or such other source as the Company deems reliable. If the relevant date does not fall on a day on which the Stock has traded on such securities exchange or quotation system, the date on which the Fair Market Value shall be established shall be the last day on which the Stock was so traded or quoted prior to the relevant date, or such other appropriate day as shall be determined by the Committee, in its discretion.

(ii) Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Committee may, in its discretion, determine the Fair Market Value of a share of Stock on the basis of the opening, closing, or average of the high and low sale prices of a share of Stock on such date or the preceding trading day, the actual sale price of a share of Stock received by a Participant, any other reasonable basis using actual transactions in the Stock as reported on a national or regional securities exchange or quotation system, or on any other basis consistent with the requirements of Section 409A. The Committee may vary its method of determination of the Fair Market Value as provided in this Section for different purposes under the Plan to the extent consistent with the requirements of Section 409A.


(iii) If, on such date, the Stock is not listed or quoted on a national or regional securities exchange or quotation system, the Fair Market Value of a share of Stock shall be as determined by the Committee in good faith without regard to any restriction other than a restriction which, by its terms, will never lapse, and in a manner consistent with the requirements of Section 409A.

(s) Full Value Award” means any Award settled in Stock, other than (i) an Option, (ii) a Stock Appreciation Right, or (iii) a Restricted Stock Purchase Right or an Other Stock-Based Award under which the Company will receive monetary consideration equal to the Fair Market Value (determined on the effective date of grant) of the shares subject to such Award.

(t) Incentive Stock Option” means an Option intended to be (as set forth in the Award Agreement) and which qualifies as an incentive stock option within the meaning of Section 422(b) of the Code.

(u) Incumbent Director” means a director who either (i) is a member of the Board as of the Effective Date or (ii) is elected, or nominated for election, to the Board with the affirmative votes of at least a majority of the Incumbent Directors at the time of such election or nomination (but excluding a director who was elected or nominated in connection with an actual or threatened proxy contest relating to the election of directors of the Company).

(v) Insider means an Officer, a Director or other person whose transactions in Stock are subject to Section 16 of the Exchange Act.

(w) Net Exercise” means a Net Exercise as defined in Section 6.3(b)(iii).

(x) Nonemployee Director” means a Director who is not an Employee.

(y) Nonemployee Director Award” means any Award granted to a Nonemployee Director.

(z) Nonstatutory Stock Option” means an Option not intended to be (as set forth in the Award Agreement) or which does not qualify as an incentive stock option within the meaning of Section 422(b) of the Code.

(aa) Officer means any person designated by the Board as an officer of the Company.

(bb) Option means an Incentive Stock Option or a Nonstatutory Stock Option granted pursuant to the Plan.

(cc) Other Stock-Based Award” means an Award denominated in shares of Stock and granted pursuant to Section 11.


(dd) Ownership Change Event” means the occurrence of any of the following with respect to the Company: (i) the direct or indirect sale or exchange in a single or series of related transactions by the stockholders of the Company of securities of the Company representing more than fifty percent (50%) of the total combined voting power of the Company’s then outstanding securities entitled to vote generally in the election of Directors; (ii) a merger or consolidation in which the Company is a party; or (iii) the sale, exchange, or transfer of all or substantially all of the assets of the Company (other than a sale, exchange or transfer to one or more subsidiaries of the Company).

(ee) Parent Corporation means any present or future “parent corporation” of the Company, as defined in Section 424(e) of the Code.

(ff) Participant means any eligible person who has been granted one or more Awards.

(gg) Participating Company means the Company or any Parent Corporation, Subsidiary Corporation or Affiliate.

(hh) Participating Company Group” means, at any point in time, the Company and all other entities collectively which are then Participating Companies.

(ii) Performance Award” means an Award of Performance Shares or Performance Units.

(jj) Performance Award Formula” means, for any Performance Award, a formula or table established by the Committee pursuant to Section 10.3 which provides the basis for computing the value of a Performance Award at one or more levels of attainment of the applicable Performance Goal(s) measured as of the end of the applicable Performance Period.

(kk) Performance Goal” means a performance goal established by the Committee pursuant to Section 10.3.

(ll) Performance Period” means a period established by the Committee pursuant to Section 10.3 at the end of which one or more Performance Goals are to be measured.

(mm) Performance Share” means a right granted to a Participant pursuant to Section 10 to receive a payment equal to the value of a Performance Share, as determined by the Committee, based upon attainment of applicable Performance Goal(s).

(nn) Performance Unit” means a right granted to a Participant pursuant to Section 10 to receive a payment equal to the value of a Performance Unit, as determined by the Committee, based upon attainment of applicable Performance Goal(s).

(oo) Restricted Stock Award” means an Award of a Restricted Stock Bonus or a Restricted Stock Purchase Right.


(pp) Restricted Stock Bonus” means Stock granted to a Participant pursuant to Section 8.

(qq) Restricted Stock Purchase Right” means a right to purchase Stock granted to a Participant pursuant to Section 8.

(rr) Restricted Stock Unit means a right granted to a Participant pursuant to Section 9 to receive on a future date or occurrence of a future event a share of Stock or cash in lieu thereof, as determined by the Committee.

(ss) Rule 16b-3” means Rule 16b-3 under the Exchange Act, as amended from time to time, or any successor rule or regulation.

(tt) SAR or Stock Appreciation Right” means a right granted to a Participant pursuant to Section 7 to receive payment, for each share of Stock subject to such Award, of an amount equal to the excess, if any, of the Fair Market Value of a share of Stock on the date of exercise of the Award over the exercise price thereof.

(uu) Section 409A” means Section 409A of the Code.

(vv) Section 409A Deferred Compensation” means compensation provided pursuant to an Award that constitutes nonqualified deferred compensation within the meaning of Section 409A.

(ww) Securities Act” means the Securities Act of 1933, as amended.

(xx) Service means a Participant’s employment or service with the Participating Company Group, whether as an Employee, a Director or a Consultant. Unless otherwise provided by the Committee, a Participant’s Service shall not be deemed to have terminated merely because of a change in the capacity in which the Participant renders Service or a change in the Participating Company for which the Participant renders Service, provided that there is no interruption or termination of the Participant’s Service. Furthermore, a Participant’s Service shall not be deemed to have been interrupted or terminated if the Participant takes any military leave, sick leave, or other bona fide leave of absence approved by the Company. However, unless otherwise provided by the Committee, if any such leave taken by a Participant exceeds ninety (90) days, then on the ninety-first (91st) day following the commencement of such leave the Participant’s Service shall be deemed to have terminated, unless the Participant’s right to return to Service is guaranteed by statute or contract. Notwithstanding the foregoing, unless otherwise designated by the Company or required by law, an unpaid leave of absence shall not be treated as Service for purposes of determining vesting under the Participant’s Award Agreement. A Participant’s Service shall be deemed to have terminated either upon an actual termination of Service or upon the business entity for which the Participant performs Service ceasing to be a Participating Company. Subject to the foregoing, the Company, in its discretion, shall determine whether the Participant’s Service has terminated and the effective date of and reason for such termination.

(yy) Stock means the common shares of the Company, as adjusted from time to time in accordance with Section 4.


(zz) Stock Tender Exercise” means a Stock Tender Exercise as defined in Section 6.3(b)(ii).

(aaa) Subsidiary Corporation” means any present or future “subsidiary corporation” of the Company, as defined in Section 424(f) of the Code.

(bbb) Ten Percent Owner” means a Participant who, at the time an Option is granted to the Participant, owns stock possessing more than ten percent (10%) of the total combined voting power of all classes of stock of a Participating Company (other than an Affiliate) within the meaning of Section 422(b)(6) of the Code.

(ccc) Trading Compliance Policy” means the written policy of the Company pertaining to the purchase, sale, transfer or other disposition of the Company’s equity securities by Directors, Officers, Employees or other service providers who may possess material, nonpublic information regarding the Company or its securities.

(ddd) Vesting Conditions” mean those conditions established in accordance with the Plan prior to the satisfaction of which an Award or shares subject to an Award remain subject to forfeiture or a repurchase option in favor of the Company exercisable for the Participant’s monetary purchase price, if any, for such shares upon the Participant’s termination of Service or failure of a performance condition to be satisfied.

2.2 Construction. Captions and titles contained herein are for convenience only and shall not affect the meaning or interpretation of any provision of the Plan. Except when otherwise indicated by the context, the singular shall include the plural and the plural shall include the singular. Use of the term “or” is not intended to be exclusive, unless the context clearly requires otherwise.

3. ADMINISTRATION.

3.1 Administration by the Committee. The Plan shall be administered by the Committee. All questions of interpretation of the Plan, of any Award Agreement or of any other form of agreement or other document employed by the Company in the administration of the Plan or of any Award shall be determined by the Committee, and such determinations shall be final, binding and conclusive upon all persons having an interest in the Plan or such Award, unless fraudulent or made in bad faith. Any and all actions, decisions and determinations taken or made by the Committee in the exercise of its discretion pursuant to the Plan or Award Agreement or other agreement thereunder (other than determining questions of interpretation pursuant to the preceding sentence) shall be final, binding and conclusive upon all persons having an interest therein. All expenses incurred in connection with the administration of the Plan shall be paid by the Company.

The Committee’s determinations under the Plan (including, without limitation, determinations of the persons to receive Awards, the form, amount and timing of such Awards, the terms and provisions of such Awards, and the treatment of Awards in a Change in Control) need not be uniform and may be made by the Committee selectively among Awards or persons who receive, or are eligible to receive, Awards under the Plan, whether or not such persons are similarly situated.


3.2 Authority of Officers. Any Officer shall have the authority to act on behalf of the Company with respect to any matter, right, obligation, determination or election that is the responsibility of or that is allocated to the Company herein, provided that the Officer has apparent authority with respect to such matter, right, obligation, determination or election. To the extent permitted by applicable law, the Committee may, in its discretion, delegate to a committee comprised of one or more Officers the authority to grant one or more Awards, without further approval of the Committee, to any Employee, other than a person who, at the time of such grant, is an Insider, and to exercise such other powers under the Plan as the Committee may determine; provided, however, that (a) the Committee shall fix the maximum number of shares subject to Awards that may be granted by such Officers, (b) each such Award shall be subject to the terms and conditions of the appropriate standard form of Award Agreement approved by the Board or the Committee and shall conform to the provisions of the Plan, and (c) each such Award shall conform to such other limits and guidelines as may be established from time to time by the Committee.

3.3 Administration with Respect to Insiders. With respect to participation by Insiders in the Plan, at any time that any class of equity security of the Company is registered pursuant to Section 12 of the Exchange Act, the Plan shall be administered in compliance with the requirements, if any, of Rule 16b-3.

3.4 Powers of the Committee. In addition to any other powers set forth in the Plan and subject to the provisions of the Plan, the Committee shall have the full and final power and authority, in its discretion:

(a) to determine the persons to whom, and the time or times at which, Awards shall be granted and the number of shares of Stock, units or monetary value to be subject to each Award;

(b) to determine the type of Award granted;

(c) to determine the Fair Market Value of shares of Stock or other property;

(d) to determine the terms, conditions and restrictions applicable to each Award (which need not be identical) and any shares acquired pursuant thereto, including, without limitation, (i) the exercise or purchase price of shares pursuant to any Award, (ii) the method of payment for shares purchased pursuant to any Award, (iii) the method for satisfaction of any tax withholding obligation arising in connection with any Award, including by the withholding or delivery of shares of Stock, (iv) the timing, terms and conditions of the exercisability or vesting of any Award or any shares acquired pursuant thereto, (v) the Performance Measures, Performance Period, Performance Award Formula and Performance Goals applicable to any Award and the extent to which such Performance Goals have been attained, (vi) the time of expiration of any Award, (vii) the effect of any Participant’s termination of Service on any of the foregoing, and (viii) all other terms, conditions and restrictions applicable to any Award or shares acquired pursuant thereto not inconsistent with the terms of the Plan;


(e) to determine whether an Award will be settled in shares of Stock, cash, other property or in any combination thereof;

(f) to approve one or more forms of Award Agreement;

(g) to amend, modify, extend, cancel or renew any Award or to waive any restrictions or conditions applicable to any Award or any shares acquired pursuant thereto;

(h) to accelerate, continue, extend or defer the exercisability or vesting of any Award or any shares acquired pursuant thereto, including with respect to the period following a Participant’s termination of Service;

(i) to prescribe, amend or rescind rules, guidelines and policies relating to the Plan, or to adopt sub-plans or supplements to, or alternative versions of, the Plan, including, without limitation, as the Committee deems necessary or desirable to comply with the laws of, or to accommodate the tax policy, accounting principles or custom of, foreign jurisdictions whose residents may be granted Awards; and

(j) to correct any defect, supply any omission or reconcile any inconsistency in the Plan or any Award Agreement and to make all other determinations and take such other actions with respect to the Plan or any Award as the Committee may deem advisable to the extent not inconsistent with the provisions of the Plan or applicable law.

3.5 Option or SAR Repricing. Without the affirmative vote of holders of a majority of the shares of Stock cast in person or by proxy at a meeting of the stockholders of the Company at which a quorum representing a majority of all outstanding shares of Stock is present or represented by proxy, the Committee shall not approve a program providing for either (a) the cancellation of outstanding Options or SARs having exercise prices per share greater than the then Fair Market Value of a share of Stock (“Underwater Awards”) and the grant in substitution therefor of new Options or SARs having a lower exercise price, Full Value Awards or payments in cash, or (b) the amendment of outstanding Underwater Awards to reduce the exercise price thereof. This Section shall not be construed to apply to (i) “issuing or assuming a stock option in a transaction to which Section 424(a) applies,” within the meaning of Section 424 of the Code, (ii) adjustments pursuant to the assumption of or substitution for an Option or SAR in a manner that would comply with Section 409A, or (iii) an adjustment pursuant to Section 4.3.

3.6 Indemnification. In addition to such other rights of indemnification as they may have as members of the Board or the Committee or as officers or employees of the Participating Company Group, to the extent permitted by applicable law, members of the Board or the Committee and any officers or employees of the Participating Company Group to whom authority to act for the Board, the Committee or the Company is delegated shall be indemnified by the Company against all reasonable expenses, including attorneys’ fees, actually and necessarily incurred in connection with the defense of any action, suit or proceeding, or in connection with any appeal therein, to which they or any of them may be a party by reason of any action taken or failure to act under or in connection with the Plan, or any right granted hereunder, and against all amounts paid by them in settlement thereof (provided such settlement is approved by independent legal counsel selected by the Company) or paid by them in


satisfaction of a judgment in any such action, suit or proceeding, except in relation to matters as to which it shall be adjudged in such action, suit or proceeding that such person is liable for gross negligence, bad faith or intentional misconduct in duties; provided, however, that within sixty (60) days after the institution of such action, suit or proceeding, such person shall offer to the Company, in writing, the opportunity at its own expense to handle and defend the same.

4. SHARES SUBJECT TO PLAN.

4.1 Maximum Number of Shares Issuable. Subject to adjustment as provided in this Section 4, the maximum aggregate number of shares of Stock that may be issued under the Plan shall be equal to 7,000,000 shares, and such shares shall consist of authorized but unissued or reacquired shares of Stock or any combination thereof.

4.2 Share Counting. If an outstanding Award for any reason expires or is terminated or canceled without having been exercised or settled in full, or if shares of Stock acquired pursuant to an Award subject to forfeiture or repurchase are forfeited or repurchased by the Company for an amount not greater than the Participant’s purchase price, the shares of Stock allocable to the terminated portion of such Award or such forfeited or repurchased shares of Stock shall again be available for issuance under the Plan. Shares of Stock shall not be deemed to have been issued pursuant to the Plan with respect to any portion of an Award that is settled in cash. Upon payment in shares of Stock pursuant to the exercise of an SAR, the number of shares available for issuance under the Plan shall be reduced by the gross number of shares for which the SAR is exercised. If the exercise price of an Option is paid by tender to the Company, or attestation to the ownership, of shares of Stock owned by the Participant, or by means of a Net Exercise, the number of shares available for issuance under the Plan shall be reduced by the gross number of shares for which the Option is exercised. Shares purchased in the open market with proceeds from the exercise of Options shall not be added to the limit set forth in Section 4.1. Shares withheld or reacquired by the Company in satisfaction of tax withholding obligations pursuant to the exercise or settlement of Options or SARs pursuant to Section 16.2 shall not again be available for issuance under the Plan. Shares withheld or reacquired by the Company in satisfaction of tax withholding obligations pursuant to the vesting or settlement of Full Value Awards pursuant to Section 16.2 shall again become available for issuance under the Plan.

4.3 Adjustments for Changes in Capital Structure. Subject to any required action by the stockholders of the Company and the requirements of Sections 409A and 424 of the Code to the extent applicable, in the event of any change in the Stock effected without receipt of consideration by the Company, whether through merger, consolidation, reorganization, reincorporation, recapitalization, reclassification, stock dividend, stock split, reverse stock split, split-up, split-off, spin-off, combination of shares, exchange of shares, or similar change in the capital structure of the Company, or in the event of payment of a dividend or distribution to the stockholders of the Company in a form other than Stock (excepting regular, periodic cash dividends) that has a material effect on the Fair Market Value of shares of Stock, appropriate and proportionate adjustments shall be made in the number and kind of shares subject to the Plan and to any outstanding Awards, the Annual Increase, the Award limits set forth in Section 5.3 and Section 5.4, and in the exercise or purchase price per share under any outstanding Award in order to prevent dilution or enlargement of Participants’ rights under the Plan. For purposes of the foregoing, conversion of any convertible securities of the Company shall not be treated as


“effected without receipt of consideration by the Company.” If a majority of the shares which are of the same class as the shares that are subject to outstanding Awards are exchanged for, converted into, or otherwise become (whether or not pursuant to an Ownership Change Event) shares of another corporation (the “New Shares”), the Committee may unilaterally amend the outstanding Awards to provide that such Awards are for New Shares. In the event of any such amendment, the number of shares subject to, and the exercise or purchase price per share of, the outstanding Awards shall be adjusted in a fair and equitable manner as determined by the Committee, in its discretion. Any fractional share resulting from an adjustment pursuant to this Section shall be rounded down to the nearest whole number and the exercise or purchase price per share shall be rounded up to the nearest whole cent. In no event may the exercise or purchase price, if any, under any Award be decreased to an amount less than the par value, if any, of the stock subject to such Award. The Committee in its discretion, may also make such adjustments in the terms of any Award to reflect, or related to, such changes in the capital structure of the Company or distributions as it deems appropriate, including modification of Performance Goals, Performance Award Formulas and Performance Periods. The adjustments determined by the Committee pursuant to this Section shall be final, binding and conclusive.

4.4 Assumption or Substitution of Awards. The Committee may, without affecting the number of shares of Stock reserved or available hereunder, authorize the issuance or assumption of benefits under this Plan in connection with any merger, consolidation, acquisition of property or stock, or reorganization upon such terms and conditions as it may deem appropriate, subject to compliance with Section 409A and any other applicable provisions of the Code. In addition, subject to compliance with applicable laws, and listing requirements, shares available for grant under a stockholder approved plan of an acquired company (as appropriately adjusted to reflect the transaction) may be used for awards under the Plan to individuals who were not Employees or Directors of the Participating Company Group prior to the transaction and shall not reduce the number of shares otherwise available for issuance under the Plan.

5. ELIGIBILITY, PARTICIPATION AND AWARD LIMITATIONS.

5.1 Persons Eligible for Awards. Awards may be granted only to Employees, Consultants and Directors.

5.2 Participation in the Plan. Awards are granted solely at the discretion of the Committee. Eligible persons may be granted more than one Award. However, eligibility in accordance with this Section shall not entitle any person to be granted an Award, or, having been granted an Award, to be granted an additional Award.

5.3 Incentive Stock Option Limitations.

(a) Maximum Number of Shares Issuable Pursuant to Incentive Stock Options. Subject to adjustment as provided in Section 4.3, the maximum aggregate number of shares of Stock that may be issued under the Plan pursuant to the exercise of Incentive Stock Options shall not exceed 7,000,000 shares. The maximum aggregate number of shares of Stock that may be issued under the Plan pursuant to all Awards other than Incentive Stock Options shall be the number of shares determined in accordance with Section 4.1, subject to adjustment as provided in Section 4.


(b) Persons Eligible. An Incentive Stock Option may be granted only to a person who, on the effective date of grant, is an Employee of the Company, a Parent Corporation or a Subsidiary Corporation (each being an “ISO-Qualifying Corporation”). Any person who is not an Employee of an ISO-Qualifying Corporation on the effective date of the grant of an Option to such person may be granted only a Nonstatutory Stock Option.

(c) Fair Market Value Limitation. To the extent that options designated as Incentive Stock Options (granted under all stock plans of the Participating Company Group, including the Plan) become exercisable by a Participant for the first time during any calendar year for stock having a Fair Market Value greater than One Hundred Thousand Dollars ($100,000), the portion of such options which exceeds such amount shall be treated as Nonstatutory Stock Options. For purposes of this Section, options designated as Incentive Stock Options shall be taken into account in the order in which they were granted, and the Fair Market Value of stock shall be determined as of the time the option with respect to such stock is granted. If the Code is amended to provide for a limitation different from that set forth in this Section, such different limitation shall be deemed incorporated herein effective as of the date and with respect to such Options as required or permitted by such amendment to the Code. If an Option is treated as an Incentive Stock Option in part and as a Nonstatutory Stock Option in part by reason of the limitation set forth in this Section, the Participant may designate which portion of such Option the Participant is exercising. In the absence of such designation, the Participant shall be deemed to have exercised the Incentive Stock Option portion of the Option first. Upon exercise of the Option, shares issued pursuant to each such portion shall be separately identified.

5.4 Nonemployee Director Award Limit. No Nonemployee Director shall be granted within any fiscal year of the Company one or more Nonemployee Director Awards pursuant to the Plan which in the aggregate are for more than a number of shares of Stock determined by dividing $500,000 by the Fair Market Value of a share of Stock determined on the last trading day immediately preceding the date on which the applicable Nonemployee Director Award is granted.

6. STOCK OPTIONS.

Options shall be evidenced by Award Agreements specifying the number of shares of Stock covered thereby, in such form as the Committee shall establish. Such Award Agreements may incorporate all or any of the terms of the Plan by reference and shall comply with and be subject to the following terms and conditions:

6.1 Exercise Price. The exercise price for each Option shall be established in the discretion of the Committee; provided, however, that (a) the exercise price per share shall be not less than the Fair Market Value of a share of Stock on the effective date of grant of the Option and (b) no Incentive Stock Option granted to a Ten Percent Owner shall have an exercise price per share less than one hundred ten percent (110%) of the Fair Market Value of a share of Stock on the effective date of grant of the Option. Notwithstanding the foregoing, an Option (whether an Incentive Stock Option or a Nonstatutory Stock Option) may be granted with an exercise price less than the minimum exercise price set forth above if such Option is granted pursuant to an assumption or substitution for another option in a manner that would qualify under the provisions of Section 409A or Section 424(a) of the Code.


6.2 Exercisability and Term of Options. Options shall be exercisable at such time or times, or upon such event or events, and subject to such terms, conditions, performance criteria and restrictions as shall be determined by the Committee and set forth in the Award Agreement evidencing such Option; provided, however, that (a) no Option shall be exercisable after the expiration of ten (10) years after the effective date of grant of such Option, (b) no Incentive Stock Option granted to a Ten Percent Owner shall be exercisable after the expiration of five (5) years after the effective date of grant of such Option and (c) no Option granted to an Employee who is a non-exempt employee for purposes of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended, shall be first exercisable until at least six (6) months following the date of grant of such Option (except in the event of such Employee’s death, disability or retirement, upon a Change in Control, or as otherwise permitted by the Worker Economic Opportunity Act). Subject to the foregoing, unless otherwise specified by the Committee in the grant of an Option, each Option shall terminate ten (10) years after the effective date of grant of the Option, unless earlier terminated in accordance with its provisions.

6.3 Payment of Exercise Price.

(a) Forms of Consideration Authorized. Except as otherwise provided below, payment of the exercise price for the number of shares of Stock being purchased pursuant to any Option shall be made (i) in cash, by check or in cash equivalent; (ii) if permitted by the Committee and subject to the limitations contained in Section 6.3(b), by means of (1) a Cashless Exercise, (2) a Stock Tender Exercise or (3) a Net Exercise; (iii) by such other consideration as may be approved by the Committee from time to time to the extent permitted by applicable law, or (iv) by any combination thereof. The Committee may at any time or from time to time grant Options which do not permit all of the foregoing forms of consideration to be used in payment of the exercise price or which otherwise restrict one or more forms of consideration.

(b) Limitations on Forms of Consideration.

(i) Cashless Exercise. A Cashless Exercise” means the delivery of a properly executed notice of exercise together with irrevocable instructions to a broker providing for the assignment to the Company of the proceeds of a sale or loan with respect to some or all of the shares being acquired upon the exercise of the Option (including, without limitation, through an exercise complying with the provisions of Regulation T as promulgated from time to time by the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System). The Company reserves, at any and all times, the right, in the Company’s sole and absolute discretion, to establish, decline to approve or terminate any program or procedures for the exercise of Options by means of a Cashless Exercise, including with respect to one or more Participants specified by the Company notwithstanding that such program or procedures may be available to other Participants.


(ii) Stock Tender Exercise. A “Stock Tender Exercise” means the delivery of a properly executed exercise notice accompanied by a Participant’s tender to the Company, or attestation to the ownership, in a form acceptable to the Company of whole shares of Stock owned by the Participant having a Fair Market Value that does not exceed the aggregate exercise price for the shares with respect to which the Option is exercised. A Stock Tender Exercise shall not be permitted if it would constitute a violation of the provisions of any law, regulation or agreement restricting the redemption of the Company’s stock. If required by the Company, an Option may not be exercised by tender to the Company, or attestation to the ownership, of shares of Stock unless such shares either have been owned by the Participant for a period of time required by the Company (and not used for another option exercise by attestation during such period) or were not acquired, directly or indirectly, from the Company.

(iii) Net Exercise. A “Net Exercise” means the delivery of a properly executed exercise notice followed by a procedure pursuant to which (1) the Company will reduce the number of shares otherwise issuable to a Participant upon the exercise of an Option by the largest whole number of shares having a Fair Market Value that does not exceed the aggregate exercise price for the shares with respect to which the Option is exercised, and (2) the Participant shall pay to the Company in cash the remaining balance of such aggregate exercise price not satisfied by such reduction in the number of whole shares to be issued.

6.4 Effect of Termination of Service.

(a) Option Exercisability. Subject to earlier termination of the Option as otherwise provided by this Plan and unless otherwise provided by the Committee, an Option shall terminate immediately upon the Participant’s termination of Service to the extent that it is then unvested and shall be exercisable after the Participant’s termination of Service to the extent it is then vested only during the applicable time period determined in accordance with this Section and thereafter shall terminate.

(i) Disability. If the Participant’s Service terminates because of the Disability of the Participant, the Option, to the extent unexercised and exercisable for vested shares on the date on which the Participant’s Service terminated, may be exercised by the Participant (or the Participant’s guardian or legal representative) at any time prior to the expiration of twelve (12) months (or such longer or shorter period provided by the Award Agreement) after the date on which the Participant’s Service terminated, but in any event no later than the date of expiration of the Option’s term as set forth in the Award Agreement evidencing such Option (the Option Expiration Date”).

(ii) Death. If the Participant’s Service terminates because of the death of the Participant, the Option, to the extent unexercised and exercisable for vested shares on the date on which the Participant’s Service terminated, may be exercised by the Participant’s legal representative or other person who acquired the right to exercise the Option by reason of the Participant’s death at any time prior to the expiration of twelve (12) months (or such longer or shorter period provided by the Award Agreement) after the date on which the Participant’s Service terminated, but in any event no later than the Option Expiration Date. The Participant’s Service shall be deemed to have terminated on account of death if the Participant dies within three (3) months (or such longer or shorter period provided by the Award Agreement) after the Participant’s termination of Service.


(iii) Termination for Cause. Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan to the contrary, if the Participant’s Service is terminated for Cause or if, following the Participant’s termination of Service and during any period in which the Option otherwise would remain exercisable, the Participant engages in any act that would constitute Cause, the Option shall terminate in its entirety and cease to be exercisable immediately upon such termination of Service or act.

(iv) Other Termination of Service. If the Participant’s Service terminates for any reason, except Disability, death or Cause, the Option, to the extent unexercised and exercisable for vested shares on the date on which the Participant’s Service terminated, may be exercised by the Participant at any time prior to the expiration of three (3) months (or such longer or shorter period provided by the Award Agreement) after the date on which the Participant’s Service terminated, but in any event no later than the Option Expiration Date.

(b) Extension if Exercise Prevented by Law. Notwithstanding the foregoing, other than termination of Service for Cause, if the exercise of an Option within the applicable time periods set forth in Section 6.4(a) is prevented by the provisions of Section 14 below, the Option shall remain exercisable until the later of (i) thirty (30) days after the date such exercise first would no longer be prevented by such provisions or (ii) the end of the applicable time period under Section 6.4(a), but in any event no later than the Option Expiration Date.

6.5 Transferability of Options. During the lifetime of the Participant, an Option shall be exercisable only by the Participant or the Participant’s guardian or legal representative. An Option shall not be subject in any manner to anticipation, alienation, sale, exchange, transfer, assignment, pledge, encumbrance, or garnishment by creditors of the Participant or the Participant’s beneficiary, except transfer by will or by the laws of descent and distribution. Notwithstanding the foregoing, to the extent permitted by the Committee, in its discretion, and set forth in the Award Agreement evidencing such Option, an Option shall be assignable or transferable subject to the applicable limitations, if any, described in the General Instructions to Form S-8 under the Securities Act or, in the case of an Incentive Stock Option, only as permitted by applicable regulations under Section 421 of the Code in a manner that does not disqualify such Option as an Incentive Stock Option.

7. STOCK APPRECIATION RIGHTS.

Stock Appreciation Rights shall be evidenced by Award Agreements specifying the number of shares of Stock subject to the Award, in such form as the Committee shall establish. Such Award Agreements may incorporate all or any of the terms of the Plan by reference and shall comply with and be subject to the following terms and conditions:

7.1 Types of SARs Authorized. SARs may be granted in tandem with all or any portion of a related Option (a “Tandem SAR”) or may be granted independently of any Option (a “Freestanding SAR”). A Tandem SAR may only be granted concurrently with the grant of the related Option.


7.2 Exercise Price. The exercise price for each SAR shall be established in the discretion of the Committee; provided, however, that (a) the exercise price per share subject to a Tandem SAR shall be the exercise price per share under the related Option and (b) the exercise price per share subject to a Freestanding SAR shall be not less than the Fair Market Value of a share of Stock on the effective date of grant of the SAR. Notwithstanding the foregoing, an SAR may be granted with an exercise price lower than the minimum exercise price set forth above if such SAR is granted pursuant to an assumption or substitution for another stock appreciation right in a manner that would qualify under the provisions of Section 409A of the Code.

7.3 Exercisability and Term of SARs.

(a) Tandem SARs. Tandem SARs shall be exercisable only at the time and to the extent, and only to the extent, that the related Option is exercisable, subject to such provisions as the Committee may specify where the Tandem SAR is granted with respect to less than the full number of shares of Stock subject to the related Option. The Committee may, in its discretion, provide in any Award Agreement evidencing a Tandem SAR that such SAR may not be exercised without the advance approval of the Company and, if such approval is not given, then the Option shall nevertheless remain exercisable in accordance with its terms. A Tandem SAR shall terminate and cease to be exercisable no later than the date on which the related Option expires or is terminated or canceled. Upon the exercise of a Tandem SAR with respect to some or all of the shares subject to such SAR, the related Option shall be canceled automatically as to the number of shares with respect to which the Tandem SAR was exercised. Upon the exercise of an Option related to a Tandem SAR as to some or all of the shares subject to such Option, the related Tandem SAR shall be canceled automatically as to the number of shares with respect to which the related Option was exercised.

(b) Freestanding SARs. Freestanding SARs shall be exercisable at such time or times, or upon such event or events, and subject to such terms, conditions, performance criteria and restrictions as shall be determined by the Committee and set forth in the Award Agreement evidencing such SAR; provided, however, that (i) no Freestanding SAR shall be exercisable after the expiration of ten (10) years after the effective date of grant of such SAR and (ii) no Freestanding SAR granted to an Employee who is a non-exempt employee for purposes of the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938, as amended, shall be first exercisable until at least six (6) months following the date of grant of such SAR (except in the event of such Employee’s death, disability or retirement, upon a Change in Control, or as otherwise permitted by the Worker Economic Opportunity Act). Subject to the foregoing, unless otherwise specified by the Committee in the grant of a Freestanding SAR, each Freestanding SAR shall terminate ten (10) years after the effective date of grant of the SAR, unless earlier terminated in accordance with its provisions.


7.4 Exercise of SARs. Upon the exercise (or deemed exercise pursuant to Section 7.5) of an SAR, the Participant (or the Participant’s legal representative or other person who acquired the right to exercise the SAR by reason of the Participant’s death) shall be entitled to receive payment of an amount for each share with respect to which the SAR is exercised equal to the excess, if any, of the Fair Market Value of a share of Stock on the date of exercise of the SAR over the exercise price. Payment of such amount shall be made (a) in the case of a Tandem SAR, solely in shares of Stock in a lump sum upon the date of exercise of the SAR and (b) in the case of a Freestanding SAR, in cash, shares of Stock, or any combination thereof as determined by the Committee, in a lump sum upon the date of exercise of the SAR. When payment is to be made in shares of Stock, the number of shares to be issued shall be determined on the basis of the Fair Market Value of a share of Stock on the date of exercise of the SAR. For purposes of Section 7, an SAR shall be deemed exercised on the date on which the Company receives notice of exercise from the Participant or as otherwise provided in Section 7.5.

7.5 Deemed Exercise of SARs. If, on the date on which an SAR would otherwise terminate or expire, the SAR by its terms remains exercisable immediately prior to such termination or expiration and, if so exercised, would result in a payment to the holder of such SAR, then any portion of such SAR which has not previously been exercised shall automatically be deemed to be exercised as of such date with respect to such portion.

7.6 Effect of Termination of Service. Subject to earlier termination of the SAR as otherwise provided herein and unless otherwise provided by the Committee, an SAR shall be exercisable after a Participant’s termination of Service only to the extent and during the applicable time period determined in accordance with Section 6.4 (treating the SAR as if it were an Option) and thereafter shall terminate.

7.7 Transferability of SARs. During the lifetime of the Participant, an SAR shall be exercisable only by the Participant or the Participant’s guardian or legal representative. An SAR shall not be subject in any manner to anticipation, alienation, sale, exchange, transfer, assignment, pledge, encumbrance, or garnishment by creditors of the Participant or the Participant’s beneficiary, except transfer by will or by the laws of descent and distribution. Notwithstanding the foregoing, to the extent permitted by the Committee, in its discretion, and set forth in the Award Agreement evidencing such Award, a Tandem SAR related to a Nonstatutory Stock Option or a Freestanding SAR shall be assignable or transferable subject to the applicable limitations, if any, described in the General Instructions to Form S-8 under the Securities Act.

8. RESTRICTED STOCK AWARDS.

Restricted Stock Awards shall be evidenced by Award Agreements specifying whether the Award is a Restricted Stock Bonus or a Restricted Stock Purchase Right and the number of shares of Stock subject to the Award, in such form as the Committee shall establish. Such Award Agreements may incorporate all or any of the terms of the Plan by reference and shall comply with and be subject to the following terms and conditions:

8.1 Types of Restricted Stock Awards Authorized. Restricted Stock Awards may be granted in the form of either a Restricted Stock Bonus or a Restricted Stock Purchase Right. Restricted Stock Awards may be granted upon such conditions as the Committee shall determine, including, without limitation, upon the attainment of one or more Performance Goals described in Section 10.4. If either the grant of or satisfaction of Vesting Conditions applicable to a Restricted Stock Award is to be contingent upon the attainment of one or more Performance Goals, the Committee shall follow procedures substantially equivalent to those set forth in Sections 10.3 through 10.5(a).


8.2 Purchase Price. The purchase price for shares of Stock issuable under each Restricted Stock Purchase Right shall be established by the Committee in its discretion. No monetary payment (other than applicable tax withholding) shall be required as a condition of receiving shares of Stock pursuant to a Restricted Stock Bonus, the consideration for which shall be services actually rendered to a Participating Company or for its benefit. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if required by applicable state corporate law, the Participant shall furnish consideration in the form of cash or past services rendered to a Participating Company or for its benefit having a value not less than the par value of the shares of Stock subject to a Restricted Stock Award.

8.3 Purchase Period. A Restricted Stock Purchase Right shall be exercisable within a period established by the Committee, which shall in no event exceed thirty (30) days from the effective date of the grant of the Restricted Stock Purchase Right.

8.4 Payment of Purchase Price. Except as otherwise provided below, payment of the purchase price for the number of shares of Stock being purchased pursuant to any Restricted Stock Purchase Right shall be made (a) in cash, by check or in cash equivalent, (b) by such other consideration as may be approved by the Committee from time to time to the extent permitted by applicable law, or (c) by any combination thereof.

8.5 Vesting and Restrictions on Transfer. Shares issued pursuant to any Restricted Stock Award may (but need not) be made subject to Vesting Conditions based upon the satisfaction of such Service requirements, conditions, restrictions or performance criteria, including, without limitation, Performance Goals as described in Section 10.4, as shall be established by the Committee and set forth in the Award Agreement evidencing such Award. During any period in which shares acquired pursuant to a Restricted Stock Award remain subject to Vesting Conditions, such shares may not be sold, exchanged, transferred, pledged, assigned or otherwise disposed of other than pursuant to an Ownership Change Event or as provided in Section 8.8. The Committee, in its discretion, may provide in any Award Agreement evidencing a Restricted Stock Award that, if the satisfaction of Vesting Conditions with respect to any shares subject to such Restricted Stock Award would otherwise occur on a day on which the sale of such shares would violate the provisions of the Trading Compliance Policy, then satisfaction of the Vesting Conditions automatically shall be determined on the next trading day on which the sale of such shares would not violate the Trading Compliance Policy. Upon request by the Company, each Participant shall execute any agreement evidencing such transfer restrictions prior to the receipt of shares of Stock hereunder and shall promptly present to the Company any and all certificates representing shares of Stock acquired hereunder for the placement on such certificates of appropriate legends evidencing any such transfer restrictions.


8.6 Voting Rights; Dividends and Distributions. Except as provided in this Section, Section 8.5 and any Award Agreement, during any period in which shares acquired pursuant to a Restricted Stock Award remain subject to Vesting Conditions, the Participant shall have all of the rights of a stockholder of the Company holding shares of Stock, including the right to vote such shares and to receive all dividends and other distributions paid with respect to such shares; provided, however, that such dividends and distributions shall be subject to the same Vesting Conditions as the shares subject to the Restricted Stock Award with respect to which such dividends or distributions were paid. In the event of a dividend or distribution paid in shares of Stock or other property or any other adjustment made upon a change in the capital structure of the Company as described in Section 4.3, any and all new, substituted or additional securities or other property (other than regular, periodic cash dividends) to which the Participant is entitled by reason of the Participant’s Restricted Stock Award shall be immediately subject to the same Vesting Conditions as the shares subject to the Restricted Stock Award with respect to which such dividends or distributions were paid or adjustments were made.

8.7 Effect of Termination of Service. Unless otherwise provided by the Committee in the Award Agreement evidencing a Restricted Stock Award, if a Participant’s Service terminates for any reason, whether voluntary or involuntary (including the Participant’s death or disability), then (a) the Company shall have the option to repurchase for the purchase price paid by the Participant any shares acquired by the Participant pursuant to a Restricted Stock Purchase Right which remain subject to Vesting Conditions as of the date of the Participant’s termination of Service and (b) the Participant shall forfeit to the Company any shares acquired by the Participant pursuant to a Restricted Stock Bonus which remain subject to Vesting Conditions as of the date of the Participant’s termination of Service. The Company shall have the right to assign at any time any repurchase right it may have, whether or not such right is then exercisable, to one or more persons as may be selected by the Company.

8.8 Nontransferability of Restricted Stock Award Rights. Rights to acquire shares of Stock pursuant to a Restricted Stock Award shall not be subject in any manner to anticipation, alienation, sale, exchange, transfer, assignment, pledge, encumbrance or garnishment by creditors of the Participant or the Participant’s beneficiary, except transfer by will or the laws of descent and distribution. All rights with respect to a Restricted Stock Award granted to a Participant hereunder shall be exercisable during his or her lifetime only by such Participant or the Participant’s guardian or legal representative.

9. RESTRICTED STOCK UNITS.

Restricted Stock Unit Awards shall be evidenced by Award Agreements specifying the number of Restricted Stock Units subject to the Award, in such form as the Committee shall establish. Such Award Agreements may incorporate all or any of the terms of the Plan by reference and shall comply with and be subject to the following terms and conditions:

9.1 Grant of Restricted Stock Unit Awards. Restricted Stock Unit Awards may be granted upon such conditions as the Committee shall determine, including, without limitation, upon the attainment of one or more Performance Goals described in Section 10.4. If either the grant of a Restricted Stock Unit Award or the Vesting Conditions with respect to such Award is to be contingent upon the attainment of one or more Performance Goals, the Committee shall follow procedures substantially equivalent to those set forth in Sections 10.3 through 10.5(a).


9.2 Purchase Price. No monetary payment (other than applicable tax withholding, if any) shall be required as a condition of receiving a Restricted Stock Unit Award, the consideration for which shall be services actually rendered to a Participating Company or for its benefit. Notwithstanding the foregoing, if required by applicable state corporate law, the Participant shall furnish consideration in the form of cash or past services rendered to a Participating Company or for its benefit having a value not less than the par value of the shares of Stock issued upon settlement of the Restricted Stock Unit Award.

9.3 Vesting. Restricted Stock Unit Awards may (but need not) be made subject to Vesting Conditions based upon the satisfaction of such Service requirements, conditions, restrictions or performance criteria, including, without limitation, Performance Goals as described in Section 10.4, as shall be established by the Committee and set forth in the Award Agreement evidencing such Award.

9.4 Voting Rights, Dividend Equivalent Rights and Distributions. Participants shall have no voting rights with respect to shares of Stock represented by Restricted Stock Units until the date of the issuance of such shares (as evidenced by the appropriate entry on the books of the Company or of a duly authorized transfer agent of the Company). However, the Committee, in its discretion, may provide in the Award Agreement evidencing any Restricted Stock Unit Award that the Participant shall be entitled to Dividend Equivalent Rights with respect to the payment of cash dividends on Stock during the period beginning on the date such Award is granted and ending, with respect to each share subject to the Award, on the earlier of the date the Award is settled or the date on which it is terminated. Dividend Equivalent Rights, if any, shall be paid by crediting the Participant with a cash amount or with additional whole Restricted Stock Units as of the date of payment of such cash dividends on Stock, as determined by the Committee. The number of additional Restricted Stock Units (rounded to the nearest whole number), if any, to be credited shall be determined by dividing (a) the amount of cash dividends paid on the dividend payment date with respect to the number of shares of Stock represented by the Restricted Stock Units previously credited to the Participant by (b) the Fair Market Value per share of Stock on such date. Such cash amount or additional Restricted Stock Units shall be subject to the same terms and conditions and shall be settled in the same manner and at the same time as the Restricted Stock Units originally subject to the Restricted Stock Unit Award. In the event of a dividend or distribution paid in shares of Stock or other property or any other adjustment made upon a change in the capital structure of the Company as described in Section 4.3, appropriate adjustments shall be made in the Participant’s Restricted Stock Unit Award so that it represents the right to receive upon settlement any and all new, substituted or additional securities or other property (other than regular, periodic cash dividends) to which the Participant would be entitled by reason of the shares of Stock issuable upon settlement of the Award, and all such new, substituted or additional securities or other property shall be immediately subject to the same Vesting Conditions as are applicable to the Award.

9.5 Effect of Termination of Service. Unless otherwise provided by the Committee and set forth in the Award Agreement evidencing a Restricted Stock Unit Award, if a Participant’s Service terminates for any reason, whether voluntary or involuntary (including the Participant’s death or disability), then the Participant shall forfeit to the Company any Restricted Stock Units pursuant to the Award which remain subject to Vesting Conditions as of the date of the Participant’s termination of Service.


9.6 Settlement of Restricted Stock Unit Awards. The Company shall issue to a Participant on the date on which Restricted Stock Units subject to the Participant’s Restricted Stock Unit Award vest or on such other date determined by the Committee in compliance with Section 409A, if applicable, and set forth in the Award Agreement one (1) share of Stock (and/or any other new, substituted or additional securities or other property pursuant to an adjustment described in Section 9.4) for each Restricted Stock Unit then becoming vested or otherwise to be settled on such date, subject to the withholding of applicable taxes, if any. The Committee, in its discretion, may provide in any Award Agreement evidencing a Restricted Stock Unit Award that if the settlement date with respect to any shares issuable upon vesting of Restricted Stock Units would otherwise occur on a day on which the sale of such shares would violate the provisions of the Trading Compliance Policy, then the settlement date shall be deferred until the next trading day on which the sale of such shares would not violate the Trading Compliance Policy but in any event no later than the 15th day of the third calendar month following the year in which such Restricted Stock Units vest. If permitted by the Committee, the Participant may elect, consistent with the requirements of Section 409A, to defer receipt of all or any portion of the shares of Stock or other property otherwise issuable to the Participant pursuant to this Section, and such deferred issuance date(s) and amount(s) elected by the Participant shall be set forth in the Award Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing, the Committee, in its discretion, may provide for settlement of any Restricted Stock Unit Award by payment to the Participant in cash of an amount equal to the Fair Market Value on the payment date of the shares of Stock or other property otherwise issuable to the Participant pursuant to this Section.

9.7 Nontransferability of Restricted Stock Unit Awards. The right to receive shares pursuant to a Restricted Stock Unit Award shall not be subject in any manner to anticipation, alienation, sale, exchange, transfer, assignment, pledge, encumbrance, or garnishment by creditors of the Participant or the Participant’s beneficiary, except transfer by will or by the laws of descent and distribution. All rights with respect to a Restricted Stock Unit Award granted to a Participant hereunder shall be exercisable during his or her lifetime only by such Participant or the Participant’s guardian or legal representative.

10. PERFORMANCE AWARDS.

Performance Awards shall be evidenced by Award Agreements in such form as the Committee shall establish. Such Award Agreements may incorporate all or any of the terms of the Plan by reference and shall comply with and be subject to the following terms and conditions:

10.1 Types of Performance Awards Authorized. Performance Awards may be granted in the form of either Performance Shares or Performance Units. Each Award Agreement evidencing a Performance Award shall specify the number of Performance Shares or Performance Units subject thereto, the Performance Award Formula, the Performance Goal(s) and Performance Period applicable to the Award, and the other terms, conditions and restrictions of the Award.


10.2 Initial Value of Performance Shares and Performance Units. Unless otherwise provided by the Committee in granting a Performance Award, each Performance Share shall have an initial monetary value equal to the Fair Market Value of one (1) share of Stock, subject to adjustment as provided in Section 4.3, on the effective date of grant of the Performance Share, and each Performance Unit shall have an initial monetary value established by the Committee at the time of grant. The final value payable to the Participant in settlement of a Performance Award determined on the basis of the applicable Performance Award Formula will depend on the extent to which Performance Goals established by the Committee are attained within the applicable Performance Period established by the Committee.

10.3 Establishment of Performance Period, Performance Goals and Performance Award Formula. In granting each Performance Award, the Committee shall establish in writing the applicable Performance Period, Performance Award Formula and one or more Performance Goals which, when measured at the end of the Performance Period, shall determine on the basis of the Performance Award Formula the final value of the Performance Award to be paid to the Participant. The Company shall notify each Participant granted a Performance Award of the terms of such Award, including the Performance Period, Performance Goal(s) and Performance Award Formula.

10.4 Measurement of Performance Goals. Performance Goals shall be established by the Committee on the basis of targets to be attained (“Performance Targets”) with respect to one or more measures of business or financial performance or other criteria established by the Committee (each, a “Performance Measure”), subject to the following:

(a) Performance Measures. Performance Measures based on objective criteria shall be calculated in accordance with the Company’s financial statements, or, if such measures are not reported in the Company’s financial statements, they shall be calculated in accordance with generally accepted accounting principles, a method used generally in the Company’s industry, or in accordance with a methodology established by the Committee prior to the grant of the Performance Award. Performance Measures based on subjective criteria shall be determined on the basis established by the Committee in granting the Award. As specified by the Committee, Performance Measures may be calculated with respect to the Company and each Subsidiary Corporation consolidated therewith for financial reporting purposes, one or more Subsidiary Corporations or such division or other business unit of any of them selected by the Committee. Unless otherwise determined by the Committee prior to the grant of the Performance Award, the Performance Measures applicable to the Performance Award shall be calculated prior to the accrual of expense for any Performance Award for the same Performance Period and excluding the effect (whether positive or negative) on the Performance Measures of any change in accounting standards or any unusual or infrequently occurring event or transaction, as determined by the Committee, occurring after the establishment of the Performance Goals applicable to the Performance Award. Each such adjustment, if any, shall be made solely for the purpose of providing a consistent basis from period to period for the calculation of Performance Measures in order to prevent the dilution or enlargement of the Participant’s rights with respect to a Performance Award. Performance Measures may be based on such measures as the Committee may determine, including, without limitation:


(i) revenue;

(ii) sales;

(iii) expenses;

(iv) operating income;

(v) gross margin;

(vi) operating margin;

(vii) earnings before any one or more of: stock-based compensation expense, interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization;

(viii) pre-tax profit;

(ix) net operating income;

(x) net income;

(xi) economic value added;

(xii) free cash flow;

(xiii) operating cash flow;

(xiv) balance of cash, cash equivalents and marketable securities;

(xv) stock price;

(xvi) earnings per share;

(xvii) return on stockholder equity;

(xviii) return on capital;

(xix) return on assets;

(xx) return on investment;

(xxi) total stockholder return;

(xxii) employee satisfaction;

(xxiii) employee retention;

(xxiv) market share;

(xxv) customer satisfaction;

(xxvi) product development;

(xxvii) research and development expenses;


(xxviii) completion of an identified special project;

(xxix) completion of a joint venture or other corporate transaction; and

(xxx) personal performance objectives established for an individual Participant or group of Participants.

(b) Performance Targets. Performance Targets may include a minimum, maximum, target level and intermediate levels of performance, with the final value of a Performance Award determined under the applicable Performance Award Formula by the Performance Target level attained during the applicable Performance Period. A Performance Target may be stated as an absolute value, an increase or decrease in a value, or as a value determined relative to an index, budget or other standard selected by the Committee.

10.5 Settlement of Performance Awards.

(a) Determination of Final Value. As soon as practicable following the completion of the Performance Period applicable to a Performance Award, the Committee shall determine the extent to which the applicable Performance Goals have been attained and the resulting final value of the Award earned by the Participant and to be paid upon its settlement in accordance with the applicable Performance Award Formula.

(b) Discretionary Adjustment of Award Formula. In its discretion, the Committee may, either at the time it grants a Performance Award or at any time thereafter, provide for the positive or negative adjustment of the Performance Award Formula applicable to a Performance Award to reflect such Participant’s individual performance in his or her position with the Company or such other factors as the Committee may determine.

(c) Effect of Leaves of Absence. Unless otherwise required by law or a Participant’s Award Agreement, payment of the final value, if any, of a Performance Award held by a Participant who has taken in excess of thirty (30) days in unpaid leaves of absence during a Performance Period shall be prorated on the basis of the number of days of the Participant’s Service during the Performance Period during which the Participant was not on an unpaid leave of absence.

(d) Notice to Participants. As soon as practicable following the Committee’s determination in accordance with Sections 10.5(a) and (b), the Company shall notify each Participant of the determination of the Committee.

(e) Payment in Settlement of Performance Awards. As soon as practicable following the Committee’s determination in accordance with Sections 10.5(a) and (b), but in any event within the Short-Term Deferral Period described in Section 15.1 (except as otherwise provided below or consistent with the requirements of Section 409A), payment shall be made to each eligible Participant (or such Participant’s legal representative or other person who acquired the right to receive such payment by reason of the Participant’s death) of the final value of the Participant’s Performance Award. Payment of such amount shall be made in cash, shares of Stock, or a combination thereof as determined by the Committee. Unless otherwise


provided in the Award Agreement evidencing a Performance Award, payment shall be made in a lump sum. If permitted by the Committee, the Participant may elect, consistent with the requirements of Section 409A, to defer receipt of all or any portion of the payment to be made to the Participant pursuant to this Section, and such deferred payment date(s) elected by the Participant shall be set forth in the Award Agreement. If any payment is to be made on a deferred basis, the Committee may, but shall not be obligated to, provide for the payment during the deferral period of Dividend Equivalent Rights or interest.

(f) Provisions Applicable to Payment in Shares. If payment is to be made in shares of Stock, the number of such shares shall be determined by dividing the final value of the Performance Award by the Fair Market Value of a share of Stock determined by the method specified in the Award Agreement. Shares of Stock issued in payment of any Performance Award may be fully vested and freely transferable shares or may be shares of Stock subject to Vesting Conditions as provided in Section 8.5. Any shares subject to Vesting Conditions shall be evidenced by an appropriate Award Agreement and shall be subject to the provisions of Sections 8.5 through 8.8 above.

10.6 Voting Rights; Dividend Equivalent Rights and Distributions. Participants shall have no voting rights with respect to shares of Stock represented by Performance Share Awards until the date of the issuance of such shares, if any (as evidenced by the appropriate entry on the books of the Company or of a duly authorized transfer agent of the Company). However, the Committee, in its discretion, may provide in the Award Agreement evidencing any Performance Share Award that the Participant shall be entitled to Dividend Equivalent Rights with respect to the payment of cash dividends on Stock during the period beginning on the date the Award is granted and ending, with respect to each share subject to the Award, on the earlier of the date on which the Performance Shares are settled or the date on which they are forfeited. Such Dividend Equivalent Rights, if any, shall be credited to the Participant either in cash or in the form of additional whole Performance Shares as of the date of payment of such cash dividends on Stock, as determined by the Committee. The number of additional Performance Shares (rounded to the nearest whole number), if any, to be so credited shall be determined by dividing (a) the amount of cash dividends paid on the dividend payment date with respect to the number of shares of Stock represented by the Performance Shares previously credited to the Participant by (b) the Fair Market Value per share of Stock on such date. Dividend Equivalent Rights, if any, shall be accumulated and paid to the extent that the related Performance Shares become nonforfeitable. Settlement of Dividend Equivalent Rights may be made in cash, shares of Stock, or a combination thereof as determined by the Committee, and may be paid on the same basis as settlement of the related Performance Share as provided in Section 10.5. Dividend Equivalent Rights shall not be paid with respect to Performance Units. In the event of a dividend or distribution paid in shares of Stock or other property or any other adjustment made upon a change in the capital structure of the Company as described in Section 4.3, appropriate adjustments shall be made in the Participant’s Performance Share Award so that it represents the right to receive upon settlement any and all new, substituted or additional securities or other property (other than regular, periodic cash dividends) to which the Participant would be entitled by reason of the shares of Stock issuable upon settlement of the Performance Share Award, and all such new, substituted or additional securities or other property shall be immediately subject to the same Performance Goals as are applicable to the Award.


10.7 Effect of Termination of Service. Unless otherwise provided by the Committee and set forth in the Award Agreement evidencing a Performance Award, the effect of a Participant’s termination of Service on the Performance Award shall be as follows:

(a) Death or Disability. If the Participant’s Service terminates because of the death or Disability of the Participant before the completion of the Performance Period applicable to the Performance Award, the final value of the Participant’s Performance Award shall be determined by the extent to which the applicable Performance Goals have been attained with respect to the entire Performance Period and shall be prorated based on the number of months of the Participant’s Service during the Performance Period. Payment shall be made following the end of the Performance Period in any manner permitted by Section 10.5.

(b) Other Termination of Service. If the Participant’s Service terminates for any reason except death or Disability before the completion of the Performance Period applicable to the Performance Award, such Award shall be forfeited in its entirety, except as otherwise provided by the Committee.

10.8 Nontransferability of Performance Awards. Prior to settlement in accordance with the provisions of the Plan, no Performance Award shall be subject in any manner to anticipation, alienation, sale, exchange, transfer, assignment, pledge, encumbrance, or garnishment by creditors of the Participant or the Participant’s beneficiary, except transfer by will or by the laws of descent and distribution. All rights with respect to a Performance Award granted to a Participant hereunder shall be exercisable during his or her lifetime only by such Participant or the Participant’s guardian or legal representative.

11. CASH-BASED AWARDS AND OTHER STOCK-BASED AWARDS.

Cash-Based Awards and Other Stock-Based Awards shall be evidenced by Award Agreements in such form as the Committee shall establish. Such Award Agreements may incorporate all or any of the terms of the Plan by reference and shall comply with and be subject to the following terms and conditions:

11.1 Grant of Cash-Based Awards. Subject to the provisions of the Plan, the Committee, at any time and from time to time, may grant Cash-Based Awards to Participants in such amounts and upon such terms and conditions, including the achievement of performance criteria, as the Committee may determine.

11.2 Grant of Other Stock-Based Awards. The Committee may grant other types of equity-based or equity-related Awards not otherwise described by the terms of this Plan (including the grant or offer for sale of unrestricted securities, stock-equivalent units, stock appreciation units, securities or debentures convertible into common stock or other forms determined by the Committee) in such amounts and subject to such terms and conditions as the Committee shall determine. Other Stock-Based Awards may be made available as a form of payment in the settlement of other Awards or as payment in lieu of compensation to which a Participant is otherwise entitled. Other Stock-Based Awards may involve the transfer of actual shares of Stock to Participants, or payment in cash or otherwise of amounts based on the value of Stock and may include, without limitation, Awards designed to comply with or take advantage of the applicable local laws of jurisdictions other than the United States.


11.3 Value of Cash-Based and Other Stock-Based Awards. Each Cash-Based Award shall specify a monetary payment amount or payment range as determined by the Committee. Each Other Stock-Based Award shall be expressed in terms of shares of Stock or units based on such shares of Stock, as determined by the Committee. The Committee may require the satisfaction of such Service requirements, conditions, restrictions or performance criteria, including, without limitation, Performance Goals as described in Section 10.4, as shall be established by the Committee and set forth in the Award Agreement evidencing such Award. If the Committee exercises its discretion to establish performance criteria, the final value of Cash-Based Awards or Other Stock-Based Awards that will be paid to the Participant will depend on the extent to which the performance criteria are met.

11.4 Payment or Settlement of Cash-Based Awards and Other Stock-Based Awards. Payment or settlement, if any, with respect to a Cash-Based Award or an Other Stock-Based Award shall be made in accordance with the terms of the Award, in cash, shares of Stock or other securities or any combination thereof as the Committee determines. To the extent applicable, payment or settlement with respect to each Cash-Based Award and Other Stock-Based Award shall be made in compliance with the requirements of Section 409A.

11.5 Voting Rights; Dividend Equivalent Rights and Distributions. Participants shall have no voting rights with respect to shares of Stock represented by Other Stock-Based Awards until the date of the issuance of such shares of Stock (as evidenced by the appropriate entry on the books of the Company or of a duly authorized transfer agent of the Company), if any, in settlement of such Award. However, the Committee, in its discretion, may provide in the Award Agreement evidencing any Other Stock-Based Award that the Participant shall be entitled to Dividend Equivalent Rights with respect to the payment of cash dividends on Stock during the period beginning on the date such Award is granted and ending, with respect to each share subject to the Award, on the earlier of the date the Award is settled or the date on which it is terminated. Such Dividend Equivalent Rights, if any, shall be paid in accordance with the provisions set forth in Section 9.4. Dividend Equivalent Rights shall not be granted with respect to Cash-Based Awards. In the event of a dividend or distribution paid in shares of Stock or other property or any other adjustment made upon a change in the capital structure of the Company as described in Section 4.3, appropriate adjustments shall be made in the Participant’s Other Stock-Based Award so that it represents the right to receive upon settlement any and all new, substituted or additional securities or other property (other than regular, periodic cash dividends) to which the Participant would be entitled by reason of the shares of Stock issuable upon settlement of such Award, and all such new, substituted or additional securities or other property shall be immediately subject to the same Vesting Conditions and performance criteria, if any, as are applicable to the Award.

11.6 Effect of Termination of Service. Each Award Agreement evidencing a Cash-Based Award or Other Stock-Based Award shall set forth the extent to which the Participant shall have the right to retain such Award following termination of the Participant’s Service. Such provisions shall be determined in the discretion of the Committee, need not be uniform among all Cash-Based Awards or Other Stock-Based Awards, and may reflect distinctions based on the reasons for termination, subject to the requirements of Section 409A, if applicable.


11.7 Nontransferability of Cash-Based Awards and Other Stock-Based Awards. Prior to the payment or settlement of a Cash-Based Award or Other Stock-Based Award, the Award shall not be subject in any manner to anticipation, alienation, sale, exchange, transfer, assignment, pledge, encumbrance, or garnishment by creditors of the Participant or the Participant’s beneficiary, except transfer by will or by the laws of descent and distribution. The Committee may impose such additional restrictions on any shares of Stock issued in settlement of Cash-Based Awards and Other Stock-Based Awards as it may deem advisable, including, without limitation, minimum holding period requirements, restrictions under applicable federal securities laws, under the requirements of any stock exchange or market upon which such shares of Stock are then listed and/or traded, or under any state securities laws or foreign law applicable to such shares of Stock.

12. STANDARD FORMS OF AWARD AGREEMENT.

12.1 Award Agreements. Each Award shall comply with and be subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the appropriate form of Award Agreement approved by the Committee and as amended from time to time. No Award or purported Award shall be a valid and binding obligation of the Company unless evidenced by a fully executed Award Agreement, which execution may be evidenced by electronic means.

12.2 Authority to Vary Terms. The Committee shall have the authority from time to time to vary the terms of any standard form of Award Agreement either in connection with the grant or amendment of an individual Award or in connection with the authorization of a new standard form or forms; provided, however, that the terms and conditions of any such new, revised or amended standard form or forms of Award Agreement are not inconsistent with the terms of the Plan.

13. CHANGE IN CONTROL.

13.1 Effect of Change in Control on Awards. In the event of a Change in Control, outstanding Awards shall be subject to the definitive agreement entered into by the Company in connection with the Change in Control. Subject to the requirements and limitations of Section 409A, if applicable, the Committee may provide for any treatment of outstanding Awards, including, without limitation, any one or more of the following:

(a) Accelerated Vesting. In its discretion, the Committee may provide in the grant of any Award or at any other time may take such action as it deems appropriate to provide for acceleration of the exercisability, vesting and/or settlement in connection with a Change in Control of each or any outstanding Award or portion thereof and shares acquired pursuant thereto upon such conditions, including termination of the Participant’s Service prior to, upon, or following the Change in Control, and to such extent as the Committee determines.


(b) Assumption, Continuation or Substitution. In the event of a Change in Control, the surviving, continuing, successor, or purchasing corporation or other business entity or parent thereof, as the case may be (the “Acquiror”), may, without the consent of any Participant, assume or continue the Company’s rights and obligations under each or any Award or portion thereof outstanding immediately prior to the Change in Control or substitute for each or any such outstanding Award or portion thereof a substantially equivalent award with respect to the Acquiror’s stock, as applicable. For purposes of this Section, if so determined by the Committee in its discretion, an Award denominated in shares of Stock shall be deemed assumed if, following the Change in Control, the Award confers the right to receive, subject to the terms and conditions of the Plan and the applicable Award Agreement, for each share of Stock subject to the Award immediately prior to the Change in Control, the consideration (whether stock, cash, other securities or property or a combination thereof) to which a holder of a share of Stock on the effective date of the Change in Control was entitled (and if holders were offered a choice of consideration, the type of consideration chosen by the holders of a majority of the outstanding shares of Stock); provided, however, that if such consideration is not solely common stock of the Acquiror, the Committee may, with the consent of the Acquiror, provide for the consideration to be received upon the exercise or settlement of the Award, for each share of Stock subject to the Award, to consist solely of common stock of the Acquiror equal in Fair Market Value to the per share consideration received by holders of Stock pursuant to the Change in Control. Any Award or portion thereof which is neither assumed or continued by the Acquiror in connection with the Change in Control nor exercised or settled as of the time of consummation of the Change in Control shall terminate and cease to be outstanding effective as of the time of consummation of the Change in Control.

(c) Cash-Out of Outstanding Stock-Based Awards. The Committee may, in its discretion and without the consent of any Participant, determine that, upon the occurrence of a Change in Control, each or any Award denominated in shares of Stock or portion thereof outstanding immediately prior to the Change in Control and not previously exercised or settled shall be canceled in exchange for a payment with respect to each vested share (and each unvested share, if so determined by the Committee) of Stock subject to such canceled Award in (i) cash, (ii) stock of the Company or of a corporation or other business entity a party to the Change in Control, or (iii) other property which, in any such case, shall be in an amount having a Fair Market Value equal to the Fair Market Value of the consideration to be paid per share of Stock in the Change in Control, reduced (but not below zero) by the exercise or purchase price per share, if any, under such Award. In the event such determination is made by the Committee, an Award having an exercise or purchase price per share equal to or greater than the Fair Market Value of the consideration to be paid per share of Stock in the Change in Control may be canceled without payment of consideration to the holder thereof. Payment pursuant to this Section (reduced by applicable withholding taxes, if any) shall be made to Participants in respect of the vested portions of their canceled Awards as soon as practicable following the date of the Change in Control and in respect of the unvested portions of their canceled Awards in accordance with the vesting schedules applicable to such Awards; provided, however, that any escrow, holdback, earnout or similar provisions in the definitive documents relating to any such Change in Control may, in the sole discretion of the Committee, apply to any payment to the holders of Awards to the same extent and in the same manner as such provisions apply to the holders of Stock.

13.2 Effect of Change in Control on Nonemployee Director Awards. Subject to the requirements and limitations of Section 409A, if applicable, including as provided by Section 15.4(f), in the event of a Change in Control, each outstanding Nonemployee Director Award shall become immediately exercisable and vested in full and, except to the extent assumed, continued or substituted for pursuant to Section 13.1(b), shall be settled effective immediately prior to the time of consummation of the Change in Control.


13.3 Federal Excise Tax Under Section 4999 of the Code.

(a) Excess Parachute Payment. If any acceleration of vesting pursuant to an Award and any other payment or benefit received or to be received by a Participant would subject the Participant to any excise tax pursuant to Section 4999 of the Code due to the characterization of such acceleration of vesting, payment or benefit as an “excess parachute payment” under Section 280G of the Code, then, provided such election would not subject the Participant to taxation under Section 409A, the Participant may elect to reduce the amount of any acceleration of vesting called for under the Award in order to avoid such characterization.

(b) Determination by Tax Firm. To aid the Participant in making any election called for under Section 13.3(a), no later than the date of the occurrence of any event that might reasonably be anticipated to result in an “excess parachute payment” to the Participant as described in Section 13.3(a), the Company shall request a determination in writing by the professional firm engaged by the Company for general tax purposes, or, if the tax firm so engaged by the Company is serving as accountant or auditor for the Acquiror, the Company will appoint a nationally recognized tax firm to make the determinations required by this Section (the “Tax Firm”). As soon as practicable thereafter, the Tax Firm shall determine and report to the Company and the Participant the amount of such acceleration of vesting, payments and benefits which would produce the greatest after-tax benefit to the Participant. For the purposes of such determination, the Tax Firm may rely on reasonable, good faith interpretations concerning the application of Sections 280G and 4999 of the Code. The Company and the Participant shall furnish to the Tax Firm such information and documents as the Tax Firm may reasonably request in order to make its required determination. The Company shall bear all fees and expenses the Tax Firm charges in connection with its services contemplated by this Section.

14. COMPLIANCE WITH SECURITIES LAW.

The grant of Awards and the issuance of shares of Stock pursuant to any Award shall be subject to compliance with all applicable requirements of federal, state and foreign law with respect to such securities and the requirements of any stock exchange or market system upon which the Stock may then be listed. In addition, no Award may be exercised or shares issued pursuant to an Award unless (a) a registration statement under the Securities Act shall at the time of such exercise or issuance be in effect with respect to the shares issuable pursuant to the Award, or (b) in the opinion of legal counsel to the Company, the shares issuable pursuant to the Award may be issued in accordance with the terms of an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the Securities Act. The inability of the Company to obtain from any regulatory body having jurisdiction the authority, if any, deemed by the Company’s legal counsel to be necessary to the lawful issuance and sale of any shares under the Plan shall relieve the Company of any liability in respect of the failure to issue or sell such shares as to which such requisite authority shall not have been obtained. As a condition to issuance of any Stock, the Company may require the Participant to satisfy any qualifications that may be necessary or appropriate, to evidence compliance with any applicable law or regulation and to make any representation or warranty with respect thereto as may be requested by the Company.


15. COMPLIANCE WITH SECTION 409A.

15.1 Awards Subject to Section 409A. The Company intends that Awards granted pursuant to the Plan shall either be exempt from or comply with Section 409A, and the Plan shall be so construed. The provisions of this Section 15 shall apply to any Award or portion thereof that constitutes or provides for payment of Section 409A Deferred Compensation. Such Awards may include, without limitation:

(a) A Nonstatutory Stock Option or SAR that includes any feature for the deferral of compensation other than the deferral of recognition of income until the later of (i) the exercise or disposition of the Award or (ii) the time the stock acquired pursuant to the exercise of the Award first becomes substantially vested.

(b) Any Restricted Stock Unit Award, Performance Award, Cash-Based Award or Other Stock-Based Award that either (i) provides by its terms for settlement of all or any portion of the Award at a time or upon an event that will or may occur later than the end of the Short-Term Deferral Period (as defined below) or (ii) permits the Participant granted the Award to elect one or more dates or events upon which the Award will be settled after the end of the Short-Term Deferral Period.

Subject to the provisions of Section 409A, the term “Short-Term Deferral Period means the 212 month period ending on the later of (i) the 15th day of the third month following the end of the Participant’s taxable year in which the right to payment under the applicable portion of the Award is no longer subject to a substantial risk of forfeiture or (ii) the 15th day of the third month following the end of the Company’s taxable year in which the right to payment under the applicable portion of the Award is no longer subject to a substantial risk of forfeiture. For this purpose, the term “substantial risk of forfeiture” shall have the meaning provided by Section 409A.

15.2 Deferral and/or Distribution Elections. Except as otherwise permitted or required by Section 409A, the following rules shall apply to any compensation deferral and/or payment elections (each, an “Election”) that may be permitted or required by the Committee pursuant to an Award providing Section 409A Deferred Compensation:

(a) Elections must be in writing and specify the amount of the payment in settlement of an Award being deferred, as well as the time and form of payment as permitted by this Plan.

(b) Elections shall be made by the end of the Participant’s taxable year prior to the year in which services commence for which an Award may be granted to the Participant.

(c) Elections shall continue in effect until a written revocation or change in Election is received by the Company, except that a written revocation or change in Election must be received by the Company prior to the last day for making the Election determined in accordance with paragraph (b) above or as permitted by Section 15.3.


15.3 Subsequent Elections. Except as otherwise permitted or required by Section 409A, any Award providing Section 409A Deferred Compensation which permits a subsequent Election to delay the payment or change the form of payment in settlement of such Award shall comply with the following requirements:

(a) No subsequent Election may take effect until at least twelve (12) months after the date on which the subsequent Election is made.

(b) Each subsequent Election related to a payment in settlement of an Award not described in Section 15.4(a)(ii), 15.4(a)(iii) or 15.4(a)(vi) must result in a delay of the payment for a period of not less than five (5) years from the date on which such payment would otherwise have been made.

(c) No subsequent Election related to a payment pursuant to Section 15.4(a)(iv) shall be made less than twelve (12) months before the date on which such payment would otherwise have been made.

(d) Subsequent Elections shall continue in effect until a written revocation or change in the subsequent Election is received by the Company, except that a written revocation or change in a subsequent Election must be received by the Company prior to the last day for making the subsequent Election determined in accordance the preceding paragraphs of this Section 15.3.

15.4 Payment of Section 409A Deferred Compensation.

(a) Permissible Payments. Except as otherwise permitted or required by Section 409A, an Award providing Section 409A Deferred Compensation must provide for payment in settlement of the Award only upon one or more of the following:

(i) The Participant’s “separation from service” (as defined by Section 409A);

(ii) The Participant’s becoming “disabled” (as defined by Section 409A);

(iii) The Participant’s death;

(iv) A time or fixed schedule that is either (i) specified by the Committee upon the grant of an Award and set forth in the Award Agreement evidencing such Award or (ii) specified by the Participant in an Election complying with the requirements of Section 15.2 or 15.3, as applicable;

(v) A change in the ownership or effective control or the Company or in the ownership of a substantial portion of the assets of the Company determined in accordance with Section 409A; or

(vi) The occurrence of an “unforeseeable emergency” (as defined by Section 409A).


(b) Installment Payments. It is the intent of this Plan that any right of a Participant to receive installment payments (within the meaning of Section 409A) shall, for all purposes of Section 409A, be treated as a right to a series of separate payments.

(c) Required Delay in Payment to Specified Employee Pursuant to Separation from Service. Notwithstanding any provision of the Plan or an Award Agreement to the contrary, except as otherwise permitted by Section 409A, no payment pursuant to Section 15.4(a)(i) in settlement of an Award providing for Section 409A Deferred Compensation may be made to a Participant who is a “specified employee” (as defined by Section 409A) as of the date of the Participant’s separation from service before the date (the “Delayed Payment Date”) that is six (6) months after the date of such Participant’s separation from service, or, if earlier, the date of the Participant’s death. All such amounts that would, but for this paragraph, become payable prior to the Delayed Payment Date shall be accumulated and paid on the Delayed Payment Date.

(d) Payment Upon Disability. All distributions of Section 409A Deferred Compensation payable pursuant to Section 15.4(a)(ii) by reason of a Participant becoming disabled shall be paid in a lump sum or in periodic installments as established by the Participant’s Election. If the Participant has made no Election with respect to distributions of Section 409A Deferred Compensation upon becoming disabled, all such distributions shall be paid in a lump sum upon the determination that the Participant has become disabled.

(e) Payment Upon Death. If a Participant dies before complete distribution of amounts payable upon settlement of an Award subject to Section 409A, such undistributed amounts shall be distributed to his or her beneficiary under the distribution method for death established by the Participant’s Election upon receipt by the Committee of satisfactory notice and confirmation of the Participant’s death. If the Participant has made no Election with respect to distributions of Section 409A Deferred Compensation upon death, all such distributions shall be paid in a lump sum upon receipt by the Committee of satisfactory notice and confirmation of the Participant’s death.

(f) Payment Upon Change in Control. Notwithstanding any provision of the Plan or an Award Agreement to the contrary, to the extent that any amount constituting Section 409A Deferred Compensation would become payable under this Plan by reason of a Change in Control, such amount shall become payable only if the event constituting a Change in Control would also constitute a change in ownership or effective control of the Company or a change in the ownership of a substantial portion of the assets of the Company within the meaning of Section 409A. Any Award which constitutes Section 409A Deferred Compensation and which would vest and otherwise become payable upon a Change in Control as a result of the failure of the Acquiror to assume, continue or substitute for such Award in accordance with Section 13.1(b) shall vest to the extent provided by such Award but shall be converted automatically at the effective time of such Change in Control into a right to receive, in cash on the date or dates such award would have been settled in accordance with its then existing settlement schedule (or as required by Section 15.4(c)), an amount or amounts equal in the aggregate to the intrinsic value of the Award at the time of the Change in Control.


(g) Payment Upon Unforeseeable Emergency. The Committee shall have the authority to provide in the Award Agreement evidencing any Award providing for Section 409A Deferred Compensation for payment pursuant to Section 15.4(a)(vi) in settlement of all or a portion of such Award in the event that a Participant establishes, to the satisfaction of the Committee, the occurrence of an unforeseeable emergency. In such event, the amount(s) distributed with respect to such unforeseeable emergency cannot exceed the amounts reasonably necessary to satisfy the emergency need plus amounts necessary to pay taxes reasonably anticipated as a result of such distribution(s), after taking into account the extent to which such emergency need is or may be relieved through reimbursement or compensation by insurance or otherwise, by liquidation of the Participant’s assets (to the extent the liquidation of such assets would not itself cause severe financial hardship) or by cessation of deferrals under the Award. All distributions with respect to an unforeseeable emergency shall be made in a lump sum upon the Committee’s determination that an unforeseeable emergency has occurred. The Committee’s decision with respect to whether an unforeseeable emergency has occurred and the manner in which, if at all, the payment in settlement of an Award shall be altered or modified, shall be final, conclusive, and not subject to approval or appeal.

(h) Prohibition of Acceleration of Payments. Notwithstanding any provision of the Plan or an Award Agreement to the contrary, this Plan does not permit the acceleration of the time or schedule of any payment under an Award providing Section 409A Deferred Compensation, except as permitted by Section 409A.

(i) No Representation Regarding Section 409A Compliance. Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan, the Company makes no representation that Awards shall be exempt from or comply with Section 409A. No Participating Company shall be liable for any tax, penalty or interest imposed on a Participant by Section 409A.

16. TAX WITHHOLDING.

16.1 Tax Withholding in General. The Company shall have the right to deduct from any and all payments made under the Plan, or to require the Participant, through payroll withholding, cash payment or otherwise, to make adequate provision for, the federal, state, local and foreign taxes (including social insurance), if any, required by law to be withheld by any Participating Company with respect to an Award or the shares acquired pursuant thereto. The Company shall have no obligation to deliver shares of Stock, to release shares of Stock from an escrow established pursuant to an Award Agreement, or to make any payment in cash under the Plan until the Participating Company Group’s tax withholding obligations have been satisfied by the Participant.

16.2 Withholding in or Directed Sale of Shares. The Company shall have the right, but not the obligation, to deduct from the shares of Stock issuable to a Participant upon the exercise or settlement of an Award, or to accept from the Participant the tender of, a number of whole shares of Stock having a Fair Market Value, as determined by the Company, equal to all or any part of the tax withholding obligations of any Participating Company. The Fair Market


Value of any shares of Stock withheld or tendered to satisfy any such tax withholding obligations shall not exceed the amount determined by the applicable minimum statutory withholding rates (or the maximum individual statutory withholding rates for the applicable jurisdiction if use of such rates would not result in adverse accounting consequences or cost). The Company may require a Participant to direct a broker, upon the vesting, exercise or settlement of an Award, to sell a portion of the shares subject to the Award determined by the Company in its discretion to be sufficient to cover the tax withholding obligations of any Participating Company and to remit an amount equal to such tax withholding obligations to such Participating Company in cash.

17. AMENDMENT, SUSPENSION OR TERMINATION OF PLAN.

The Committee may amend, suspend or terminate the Plan at any time. However, without the approval of the Company’s stockholders, there shall be (a) no increase in the maximum aggregate number of shares of Stock that may be issued under the Plan (except by operation of the provisions of Section 4), (b) no change in the class of persons eligible to receive Incentive Stock Options, and (c) no other amendment of the Plan that would require approval of the Company’s stockholders under any applicable law, regulation or rule, including the rules of any stock exchange or quotation system upon which the Stock may then be listed or quoted. No amendment, suspension or termination of the Plan shall affect any then outstanding Award unless expressly provided by the Committee. Except as provided by the next sentence, no amendment, suspension or termination of the Plan may have a materially adverse effect on any then outstanding Award without the consent of the Participant. Notwithstanding any other provision of the Plan or any Award Agreement to the contrary, the Committee may, in its sole and absolute discretion and without the consent of any Participant, amend the Plan or any Award Agreement, to take effect retroactively or otherwise, as it deems necessary or advisable for the purpose of conforming the Plan or such Award Agreement to any present or future law, regulation or rule applicable to the Plan, including, but not limited to, Section 409A.

18. MISCELLANEOUS PROVISIONS.

18.1 Repurchase Rights. Shares issued under the Plan may be subject to one or more repurchase options, or other conditions and restrictions as determined by the Committee in its discretion at the time the Award is granted. The Company shall have the right to assign at any time any repurchase right it may have, whether or not such right is then exercisable, to one or more persons as may be selected by the Company. Upon request by the Company, each Participant shall execute any agreement evidencing such transfer restrictions prior to the receipt of shares of Stock hereunder and shall promptly present to the Company any and all certificates representing shares of Stock acquired hereunder for the placement on such certificates of appropriate legends evidencing any such transfer restrictions.

18.2 Forfeiture Events.

(a) The Committee may specify in an Award Agreement that the Participant’s rights, payments, and benefits with respect to an Award shall be subject to reduction, cancellation, forfeiture, or recoupment upon the occurrence of specified events, in addition to any otherwise applicable vesting or performance conditions of an Award. Such events may include, but shall not be limited to, termination of Service for Cause or any act by a


Participant, whether before or after termination of Service, that would constitute Cause for termination of Service, or any accounting restatement due to material noncompliance of the Company with any financial reporting requirements of securities laws as a result of which, and to the extent that, such reduction, cancellation, forfeiture, or recoupment is required by applicable securities laws. In addition, to the extent that claw-back or similar provisions applicable to Awards are required by applicable law, listing standards and/or policies adopted by the Company, Awards granted under the Plan shall be subject to such provisions.

(b) If the Company is required to prepare an accounting restatement due to the material noncompliance of the Company, as a result of misconduct, with any financial reporting requirement under the securities laws, any Participant who knowingly or through gross negligence engaged in the misconduct, or who knowingly or through gross negligence failed to prevent the misconduct, and any Participant who is one of the individuals subject to automatic forfeiture under Section 304 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, shall reimburse the Company for (i) the amount of any payment in settlement of an Award received by such Participant during the twelve- (12-) month period following the first public issuance or filing with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission (whichever first occurred) of the financial document embodying such financial reporting requirement, and (ii) any profits realized by such Participant from the sale of securities of the Company during such twelve- (12-) month period.

18.3 Provision of Information. Each Participant shall be given access to information concerning the Company equivalent to that information generally made available to the Company’s common stockholders.

18.4 Rights as Employee, Consultant or Director. No person, even though eligible pursuant to Section 5, shall have a right to be selected as a Participant, or, having been so selected, to be selected again as a Participant. Nothing in the Plan or any Award granted under the Plan shall confer on any Participant a right to remain an Employee, Consultant or Director or interfere with or limit in any way any right of a Participating Company to terminate the Participant’s Service at any time. To the extent that an Employee of a Participating Company other than the Company receives an Award under the Plan, that Award shall in no event be understood or interpreted to mean that the Company is the Employee’s employer or that the Employee has an employment relationship with the Company.

18.5 Rights as a Stockholder. A Participant shall have no rights as a stockholder with respect to any shares covered by an Award until the date of the issuance of such shares (as evidenced by the appropriate entry on the books of the Company or of a duly authorized transfer agent of the Company). No adjustment shall be made for dividends, distributions or other rights for which the record date is prior to the date such shares are issued, except as provided in Section 4.3 or another provision of the Plan.

18.6 Delivery of Title to Shares. Subject to any governing rules or regulations, the Company shall issue or cause to be issued the shares of Stock acquired pursuant to an Award and shall deliver such shares to or for the benefit of the Participant by means of one or more of the following: (a) by delivering to the Participant evidence of book entry shares of Stock credited to the account of the Participant, (b) by depositing such shares of Stock for the benefit of the Participant with any broker with which the Participant has an account relationship, or (c) by delivering such shares of Stock to the Participant in certificate form.


18.7 Fractional Shares. The Company shall not be required to issue fractional shares upon the exercise or settlement of any Award.

18.8 Retirement and Welfare Plans. Neither Awards made under this Plan nor shares of Stock or cash paid pursuant to such Awards may be included as “compensation” for purposes of computing the benefits payable to any Participant under any Participating Company’s retirement plans (both qualified and non-qualified) or welfare benefit plans unless such other plan expressly provides that such compensation shall be taken into account in computing a Participant’s benefit. In addition, unless a written employment agreement or other service agreement specifically references Awards, a general reference to “benefits” or a similar term in such agreement shall not be deemed to refer to Awards granted hereunder.

18.9 Beneficiary Designation. Subject to local laws and procedures, each Participant may file with the Company a written designation of a beneficiary who is to receive any benefit under the Plan to which the Participant is entitled in the event of such Participant’s death before he or she receives any or all of such benefit. Each designation will revoke all prior designations by the same Participant, shall be in a form prescribed by the Company, and will be effective only when filed by the Participant in writing with the Company during the Participant’s lifetime. If a married Participant designates a beneficiary other than the Participant’s spouse, the effectiveness of such designation may be subject to the consent of the Participant’s spouse. If a Participant dies without an effective designation of a beneficiary who is living at the time of the Participant’s death, the Company will pay any remaining unpaid benefits to the Participant’s legal representative.

18.10 Severability. If any one or more of the provisions (or any part thereof) of this Plan shall be held invalid, illegal or unenforceable in any respect, such provision shall be modified so as to make it valid, legal and enforceable, and the validity, legality and enforceability of the remaining provisions (or any part thereof) of the Plan shall not in any way be affected or impaired thereby.

18.11 No Constraint on Corporate Action. Nothing in this Plan shall be construed to: (a) limit, impair, or otherwise affect the Company’s or another Participating Company’s right or power to make adjustments, reclassifications, reorganizations, or changes of its capital or business structure, or to merge or consolidate, or dissolve, liquidate, sell, or transfer all or any part of its business or assets; or (b) limit the right or power of the Company or another Participating Company to take any action which such entity deems to be necessary or appropriate.

18.12 Unfunded Obligation. Participants shall have the status of general unsecured creditors of the Company. Any amounts payable to Participants pursuant to the Plan shall be considered unfunded and unsecured obligations for all purposes, including, without limitation, Title I of the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974. No Participating Company shall be required to segregate any monies from its general funds, or to create any trusts, or establish any special accounts with respect to such obligations. The Company shall


retain at all times beneficial ownership of any investments, including trust investments, which the Company may make to fulfill its payment obligations hereunder. Any investments or the creation or maintenance of any trust or any Participant account shall not create or constitute a trust or fiduciary relationship between the Committee or any Participating Company and a Participant, or otherwise create any vested or beneficial interest in any Participant or the Participant’s creditors in any assets of any Participating Company. The Participants shall have no claim against any Participating Company for any changes in the value of any assets which may be invested or reinvested by the Company with respect to the Plan.

18.13 Choice of Law. Except to the extent governed by applicable federal law, the validity, interpretation, construction and performance of the Plan and each Award Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the Commonwealth of The Bahamas, without regard to its conflict of law rules.

IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned Secretary of the Company certifies that the foregoing sets forth the OneSpaWorld Holdings Limited 2019 Equity Incentive Plan as duly adopted by the Board on March 18, 2019.

 

/s/
, Secretary

EX-99.1

Exhibit 99.1

Haymaker Acquisition Corp. Completes Business Combination with OneSpaWorld

Combine Under New Holding Company, OneSpaWorld Holdings Limited

Combined Company will trade on the Nasdaq Stock Market under “OSW”

NEW YORK, NY—(March 19, 2019)—Haymaker Acquisition Corp. (NASDAQ: HYAC) (“Haymaker”), a publicly traded special purpose acquisition company, and OneSpaWorld (“OSW”), the pre-eminent global provider of health and wellness products and services onboard cruise ships and in destination resorts around the world, announced today that having satisfied all closing requirements, they completed their previously announced business combination. Under the terms of the agreement, Haymaker and OneSpaWorld combined under the new holding company, OneSpaWorld Holdings Limited (“OSW Holdings” or the “Company”), in a business combination involving $850.7 million in total consideration. The business combination was approved by Haymaker’s stockholders on March 6, 2019 with more than 96% of the voted shares voting in favor of the business combination. OneSpaWorld was sold by Steiner Leisure Limited (“Steiner”), a portfolio company of L Catterton, the largest and most global consumer-focused private equity firm in the world.

Consistent with the terms of the business combination, Haymaker and OSW combined under the new holding company, OSW Holdings, whose common shares are expected to be listed on the Nasdaq Stock Market under the symbol “OSW.” The warrants to purchase OSW Holdings common shares were not approved for listing by Nasdaq, but such warrants will continue to be exercisable subject to the terms and conditions set forth in the warrant agreement governing such warrants. Pursuant to the terms of the warrant agreement, OSW expects to file a resale registration statement in relation to the offer and sale of the common shares issuable upon exercise of the public warrants.

OneSpaWorld’s senior management will continue to serve in their current roles. Steven Heyer, CEO and Chairman of Haymaker, will assume the role of Vice Chairman of OSW Holdings. Andrew Heyer, President of Haymaker, and Marc Magliacano, a current member of Steiner’s Board of Directors and Managing Partner of L Catterton’s Flagship Buyout Fund, will serve as Board members of the Company.

Leonard Fluxman, Executive Chairman of OSW Holdings, commented: “Today is an exciting day for OneSpaWorld, as we re-enter the public markets as a pure play global leader in health and wellness at sea and on land with a proven track record of performance and a clear path to create meaningful value for our shareholders. I look forward to our next chapter and fully expect this combination to position OneSpaWorld to deliver an ever greater level of growth and profitability well into the future.”


Glenn Fusfield, CEO of OSW Holdings, commented: “We are pleased to complete our business combination with Haymaker. We move forward with added resources from which to elevate our significant market leadership position in the operation of wellness centers globally. This transaction enables us to continue to execute our global expansion plan, increase the strength and depth of relationships with our existing cruise partners, many of whom we have partnered with for over 20 years, as well as increase our resort footprint with hospitality partners.”

Steven Heyer and Andrew Heyer commented: “We are thrilled to finalize the combination with OneSpaWorld – a clear leader in an attractive industry with very compelling financial performance, and a significant pipeline of opportunities for growth. We are eager to begin Haymaker’s next chapter as OneSpaWorld. We expect to see more robust opportunities for global growth as we combine Haymaker’s expertise in the hospitality and consumer sectors with the strong talents of the OneSpaWorld team.”

Marc Magliacano commented: “We are proud of all of the accomplishments OneSpaWorld has achieved since we acquired its parent, Steiner Leisure, in late 2015. It gives me great pleasure to see OSW reenter the public markets as a pure-play health and wellness services operator with more capabilities and more differentiation than ever before. We are confident in the teams’ ability to build upon its unique platform to drive greater growth for years to come and we look forward to participating in the Company’s future success as a significant investor.”

The acquisition was funded through a combination of cash in Haymaker’s trust account, borrowings, and proceeds from a common stock private placement led by premier institutional investors. L Catterton will retain a significant equity stake in the Company through its investment in Steiner, which will retain equity in OSW.

Nomura and Stifel are serving as capital markets advisors to OSW.

Goldman Sachs and Lazard served as financial advisors, Cantor Fitzgerald served as capital markets advisor, Goldman Sachs served as private placement agent and DLA Piper LLP (US) and Ellenoff Grossman & Schole LLP served as legal advisors to Haymaker on the business combination. Nomura and BofA Merrill Lynch served as financial advisors and capital markets advisors and Kirkland & Ellis LLP acted as legal advisor to Steiner Leisure on the business combination.

About OneSpaWorld:

Headquartered in Nassau, Bahamas, OSW is one of the largest health and wellness services companies in the world. OSW’s distinguished centers offer guests a comprehensive suite of premium health, fitness, beauty and wellness services, treatments, and products aboard 164 cruise ships and at 67 destination


resorts around the world. OSW holds the leading market position within the fast-growing international leisure market and has been built upon its exceptional service standards, expansive global recruitment, training and logistics platforms, and a history of service and product innovation that has enhanced its guests’ health, fitness, beauty, and wellness while vacationing for over 50 years. For additional information on OneSpaWorld please visit the Company’s investor relations site at: www.onespaworld.com

About Haymaker:

Haymaker is a $330 million blank check company led by Steven Heyer. Haymaker was formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, recapitalization, reorganization, or similar business combination with one or more target businesses. The executives of Haymaker are experienced at recognizing and quantifying the value of brands and creating strategies to reposition those brands to reach their full market potential. For more information about Haymaker, please visit www.haymakeracquisition.com.

About L Catterton:

With over $15 billion of equity capital across six fund strategies in 17 offices globally, L Catterton is the largest consumer-focused private equity firm in the world. L Catterton’s team of more than 150 investment and operating professionals partners with management teams around the world to implement strategic plans to foster growth, leveraging deep category insight, operational excellence, and a broad thought partnership network. Since 1989, the firm has made over 200 investments in leading consumer brands. L Catterton was formed through the partnership of Catterton, LVMH, and Groupe Arnault. For more information about L Catterton, please visit www.lcatterton.com.

Forward-Looking Statements:

This press release includes “forward-looking statements” within the meaning of the “safe harbor” provisions of the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. The expectations, estimates, and projections of the businesses of Haymaker, Steiner Leisure and OSW Holdings may differ from their actual results and consequently, you should not rely on these forward looking statements as predictions of future events. Words such as “expect,” “estimate,” “project,” “budget,” “forecast,” “anticipate,” “intend,” “plan,” “may,” “will,” “could,” “should,” “believes,” “predicts,” “potential,” “continue,” and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements include, without limitation, expectations with respect to future performance including projected financial information (which is not audited or reviewed by auditors) and anticipated financial impacts of the proposed transaction, the satisfaction of the closing conditions to the proposed transaction, and the timing


of the completion of the proposed transaction. These forward-looking statements involve significant risks and uncertainties that could cause the actual results to differ materially from the expected results. Most of these factors are outside of the control of Haymaker, Steiner Leisure and OSW Holdings and are difficult to predict. Factors that may cause such differences include, but are not limited to: (1) the outcome of any legal proceedings that may be instituted against the parties following the announcement of the Business Combination Agreement and the transactions contemplated therein; (2) the inability to obtain or maintain the listing of OSW’s securities on Nasdaq following the Business Combination; (3) the risk that the Business Combination disrupts current plans and operations as a result of the announcement and consummation of the Business Combination; (4) the ability to recognize the anticipated benefits of the Business Combination, which may be affected by, among other things, competition, the ability of OSW to grow and manage growth profitably and retain its key employees; (5) costs related to the Business Combination; (6) changes in applicable laws or regulations; (7) the demand for OSW’s services together with the possibility that OSW may be adversely affected by other economic, business, and/or competitive factors; and (8) other risks and uncertainties included in (x) the “Risk Factors” sections of the most recent Annual Report on Form 10-K filed with the SEC by Haymaker and the registration statement on Form S-4 of OSW Holdings and (y) other documents filed or to be filed with the SEC by Haymaker and OSW Holdings. Haymaker and OSW Holdings caution that the foregoing list of factors is not exclusive. You should not place undue reliance upon any forward-looking statements, which speak only as of the date made. Haymaker, Steiner Leisure and OSW Holdings do not undertake or accept any obligation or undertaking to release publicly any updates or revisions to any forward-looking statements to reflect any change in their expectations or any change in events, conditions, or circumstances on which any such statement is based.

Contacts:

ICR for Haymaker and OneSpaWorld

Investors:

Allison Malkin, 203-682-8225

allison.malkin@icrinc.com

Jennifer Davis, 646-677-1813

jennifer.davis@icrinc.com

Media:

Jim Furrer, 646-677-1808

jim.furrer@icrinc.com

For L Catterton

Andi Rose / Andrew Squire

Joele Frank, Wilkinson Brimmer Katcher

212-355-4449


EX-99.2

EXHIBIT 99.2

COMBINED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

OSW Predecessor

As of December 31, 2018 and 2017 and for the years ended

December 31, 2018, 2017 and 2016

With Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

 


OSW Predecessor

Combined Financial Statements

Index to Combined Financial Statements

 

Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

     3  

Combined Financial Statements

  

Combined Balance Sheets

     4  

Combined Statements of Income

     5  

Combined Statements of Comprehensive Income

     6  

Combined Statements of Equity (Deficit)

     7  

Combined Statements of Cash Flows

     8  

Notes to Combined Financial Statements

     10  

 

2


Report of Independent Registered Public Accounting Firm

To the Board of Directors of Nemo Investor Aggregator, Limited

Opinion on the Financial Statements

We have audited the accompanying combined balance sheets of OSW Predecessor, which comprises the combined net assets and operations of certain subsidiaries of Nemo Investor Aggregator, Limited, as described in Note 1, (the Company) as of December 31, 2018 and 2017, the related combined statements of income, comprehensive income, equity (deficit) and cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2018, and the related notes (collectively referred to as the “combined financial statements”). In our opinion, the combined financial statements present fairly, in all material respects, the financial position of the Company at December 31, 2018 and 2017, and the results of its operations and its cash flows for each of the three years in the period ended December 31, 2018, in conformity with U.S. generally accepted accounting principles.

Basis for Opinion

These financial statements are the responsibility of the Company’s management. Our responsibility is to express an opinion on the Company’s financial statements based on our audits. We are a public accounting firm registered with the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (United States) (PCAOB) and are required to be independent with respect to the Company in accordance with the U.S. federal securities laws and the applicable rules and regulations of the Securities and Exchange Commission and the PCAOB.

We conducted our audits in accordance with the standards of the PCAOB and in accordance with auditing standards generally accepted in the United States of America. Those standards require that we plan and perform the audit to obtain reasonable assurance about whether the financial statements are free of material misstatement, whether due to error or fraud. Our audits included performing procedures to assess the risks of material misstatement of the financial statements, whether due to error or fraud, and performing procedures that respond to those risks. Such procedures included examining, on a test basis, evidence regarding the amounts and disclosures in the financial statements. Our audits also included evaluating the accounting principles used and significant estimates made by management, as well as evaluating the overall presentation of the financial statements. We believe that our audits provide a reasonable basis for our opinion.

/s/ Ernst & Young LLP

We have served as the Company’s auditor since 2018.

Miami, Florida

March 25, 2019

 

3


OSW Predecessor

Combined Balance Sheets

(in thousands)

 

     December 31,  

ASSETS

   2018     2017  

CURRENT ASSETS:

    

Cash and cash equivalents

   $ 15,302     $ 8,671  

Accounts receivable, net

     25,352       23,263  

Inventories

     32,265       25,299  

Prepaid expenses

     6,617       4,818  

Other current assets

     1,424       1,037  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total current assets

     80,960       63,088  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Property and equipment, net

     16,239       17,372  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Goodwill

     33,864       33,864  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

OTHER ASSETS:

    

Note receivable due from affiliate of Parent

     —         6,733  

Intangible assets, net

     131,517       135,038  

Deferred tax assets

     4,265       4,461  

Other non-current assets

     5,814       6,516  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total other assets

     141,596       152,748  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total assets

   $ 272,659     $ 267,072  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

LIABILITIES AND EQUITY (DEFICIT)

            

LIABILITIES:

    

Accounts payable

   $ 7,595     $ 5,864  

Accounts payable – related parties

     6,553       10,203  

Accrued expenses

     27,211       19,513  

Income taxes payable

     670       1,179  

Other current liabilities

     1,210       406  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total current liabilities

     43,239       37,165  

Deferred rent

     645       443  

Deferred tax liabilities

     —         197  

Income tax contingency

     3,918       3,986  

Long-term debt

     352,440       —    
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total liabilities

     400,242       41,791  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

EQUITY (DEFICIT):

    

Net Parent investment

     (130,520     221,041  

Accumulated other comprehensive loss

     (649     (356
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total Parent (deficit) equity

     (131,169     220,685  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Noncontrolling interest

     3,586       4,596  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total (deficit) equity

     (127,583     225,281  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total liabilities and (deficit) equity

   $ 272,659     $ 267,072  
  

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

4


OSW Predecessor

Combined Statements of Income

(in thousands)

 

     Year Ended December 31,  
     2018     2017     2016  

REVENUES:

      

Service revenues

   $ 410,927     $ 383,686     $ 362,698  

Product revenues

     129,851       122,999       113,586  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total revenues

     540,778       506,685       476,284  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

COST OF REVENUES AND OPERATING EXPENSES:

      

Cost of services

     352,382       332,360       318,001  

Cost of products

     110,793       107,990       106,259  

Administrative

     9,937       9,222       10,432  

Salary and payroll taxes

     15,624       15,294       14,454  

Amortization of intangible assets

     3,521       3,521       3,521  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total cost of revenues and operating expenses

     492,257       468,387       452,667  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Income from operations

     48,521       38,298       23,617  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

OTHER INCOME (EXPENSE), NET:

      

Interest expense

     (34,099     —         —    

Interest income

     238       408       340  

Other income (expense)

     171       (217     (178
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Total other income (expense), net

     (33,690     191       162  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Income before provision for income taxes

     14,831       38,489       23,779  

PROVISION FOR INCOME TAXES

     1,088       5,263       5,615  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net income

     13,743       33,226       18,164  

Net income attributable to noncontrolling interest

     3,857       2,109       3,261  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net income attributable to Parent

   $ 9,886     $ 31,117     $ 14,903  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

 

5


OSW Predecessor

Combined Statements of Comprehensive Income

(in thousands)

 

     Year Ended December 31,  
     2018     2017      2016  

Net income

   $ 13,743     $ 33,226      $ 18,164  

Other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax:

       

Foreign currency translation adjustments

     (293     369        (655
  

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total other comprehensive income (loss), net of tax

     (293     369        (655
  

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

Comprehensive income

     13,450       33,595        17,509  

Comprehensive income attributable to noncontrolling interest

     3,857       2,109        3,261  
  

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

Comprehensive income attributable to Parent

   $ 9,593     $ 31,486      $ 14,248  
  

 

 

   

 

 

    

 

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the combined financial statements.

 

6


OSW Predecessor

Combined Statements of Equity (Deficit)

(in thousands)

 

     Parent Equity (Deficit)              
     Net Parent
Investment
    Accumulated
Other
Comprehensive
Loss
    Total
Parent
Equity
(Deficit)
    Non-
Controlling
Interest
    Total
Equity
(Deficit)
 

BALANCE, December 31, 2015

   $ 247,426     $ (70   $ 247,356     $ 4,991     $ 252,347  

Net income

     14,903       —         14,903       3,261       18,164  

Distributions to noncontrolling interest

     —         —         —         (1,159     (1,159

Net distributions to Parent and its affiliates

     (23,833     —         (23,833     —         (23,833

Foreign currency translation adjustment

     —         (655     (655     —         (655
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

BALANCE, December 31, 2016

     238,496       (725     237,771       7,093       244,864  

Net income

     31,117       —         31,117       2,109       33,226  

Distributions to noncontrolling interest

     —         —         —         (4,606     (4,606

Net distributions to Parent and its affiliates

     (48,572     —         (48,572     —         (48,572

Foreign currency translation adjustment

     —         369       369       —         369  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

BALANCE, December 31, 2017

     221,041       (356     220,685       4,596       225,281  

Net income

     9,886       —         9,886       3,857       13,743  

Distributions to noncontrolling interest

     —         —               (4,867     (4,867

Net distributions to Parent and its affiliates

     (361,447     —         (361,447     —         (361,447

Foreign currency translation adjustment

     —         (293     (293     —         (293
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

BALANCE, December 31, 2018

   $ (130,520   $ (649   $ (131,169   $ 3,586     $ (127,583
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the combined financial statements.

 

7


OSW Predecessor

Combined Statements of Cash Flows

(in thousands)

 

     Year Ended December 31,  
     2018     2017     2016  

CASH FLOWS FROM OPERATING ACTIVITIES:

      

Net income

   $ 13,743     $ 33,226     $ 18,164  

Adjustments to reconcile net income to net cash provided by operating activities:

      

Depreciation and amortization

     10,055       9,829       12,884  

Amortization of deferred financing costs

     1,243       —         —    

Provision for doubtful accounts

     18       18       18  

Allocation of Parent corporate overhead

     11,731       11,666       11,250  

Deferred income taxes

     (1     3,350       (472

Changes in:

      

Accounts receivable

     (2,107     (2,446     (1,178

Inventories

     (6,966     8,163       (2,969

Prepaid expenses

     (1,798     (160     (364

Other current assets

     (340     100       (57

Note receivable due from affiliate of Parent

     (238     (408     (340

Other non-current assets

     652       (5,354     (936

Accounts payable

     1,730       2,435       (639

Accounts payable – related parties

     (3,650     9,260       33,059  

Accrued expenses

     7,698       (718     2,138  

Other current liabilities

     499       (135     (68

Income taxes payable

     (84     1,063       2,449  

Income tax contingency

     —         —         3,500  

Deferred rent

     202       229       212  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net cash provided by operating activities

     32,387       70,118       76,651  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

CASH FLOWS FROM INVESTING ACTIVITIES:

      

Capital expenditures

     (4,983     (2,683     (3,081

Note receivable due from affiliate of Parent

     —         —         (5,446
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net cash used in investing activities

     (4,983     (2,683     (8,527
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

CASH FLOWS FROM FINANCING ACTIVITIES:

      

Net distributions to Parent and its affiliates

     (15,690     (60,893     (70,348

Distributions to noncontrolling interest

     (4,867     (4,606     (1,159
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net cash used in financing activities

     (20,557     (65,499     (71,507
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Effect of exchange rate changes on cash

     (216     124       (480
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Net increase (decrease) in cash and cash equivalents

     6,631       2,060       (3,863

Cash and cash equivalents, Beginning of period

     8,671       6,611       10,474  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

Cash and cash equivalents, End of period

   $ 15,302     $ 8,671     $ 6,611  
  

 

 

   

 

 

   

 

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the combined financial statements.

 

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OSW Predecessor

Combined Statements of Cash Flows

(in thousands)

 

     Year Ended December 31,  
     2018      2017      2016  

SUPPLEMENTAL DISCLOSURES OF CASH FLOW INFORMATION:

        

Cash paid during the period for:

        

Income taxes

   $ 1,038      $ 364      $ 139  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Interest

   $ 30,344      $ —        $ —    
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Non-cash transactions:

        

Vendor-financed purchase of fixed assets

   $ 306      $ —        $ —    
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Fixed assets transferred from Parent

   $ 125      $ —        $ —    
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Allocation of Parent corporate overhead

   $ 11,731      $ 11,666      $ 11,250  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Assignment and assumption of Parent long-term debt

   $ 351,197      $ —        $ —    
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Note receivable from affiliate of Parent forgiven by Parent

   $ 6,841      $ —        $ —    
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Write-off of income tax payable for separate return method

   $ 1,174      $ 1,033      $ 1,943  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Accounts payable – related parties forgiven by Parent

   $ —        $ —        $ 32,987  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

The accompanying notes are an integral part of the combined financial statements.

 

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OSW PREDECESSOR

NOTES TO COMBINED FINANCIAL STATEMENTS

DECEMBER 31, 2018

 

1.

Organization

OSW Predecessor (the “Company”) is comprised of the net assets and operations of (i) the following wholly-owned subsidiaries of Steiner Leisure Limited (“Steiner Leisure” or “Parent”): OneSpaWorld LLC, Steiner Spa Asia Limited, Steiner Spa Limited, and Steiner Marks Limited, (ii) the following respective indirect subsidiaries of Steiner Leisure: Mandara PSLV, LLC, Mandara Spa (Hawaii), LLC, Florida Luxury Spa Group, LLC, Steiner Transocean U.S., Inc., Steiner Spa Resorts (Nevada), Inc., Steiner Spa Resorts (Connecticut), Inc., Steiner Resort Spas (California), Inc., Steiner Resort Spas (North Carolina), Inc., OSW SoHo LLC, OSW Distribution LLC, Steiner Training Limited, STO Italy S.r.l., One Spa World LLC, Mandara Spa Services LLC, OneSpaWorld Limited, OneSpaWorld (Bahamas) Limited (formerly known as Steiner Transocean Limited), OneSpaWorld Medispa LLC, OneSpaWorld Medispa Limited, OneSpaWorld Medispa (Bahamas) Limited, Mandara Spa (Cruise I), LLC, Mandara Spa (Cruise II), LLC, Steiner Transocean (II) Limited, The Onboard Spa by Steiner (Shanghai) Co., Ltd., Mandara Spa LLC, Mandara Spa Puerto Rico, Inc., Mandara Spa (Guam), L.L.C., Mandara Spa (Bahamas) Limited, Mandara Spa Aruba N.V., Mandara Spa Polynesia Sarl, Mandara Spa (Saipan), Inc., Mandara Spa Asia Limited, PT Mandara Spa Indonesia, Spa Services Asia Limited, Mandara Spa Palau, Mandara Spa (Malaysia) Sdn. Bhd., Mandara Spa Ventures International Sdn. Bhd., Spa Partners (South Asia) Limited, Mandara Spa (Maldives) PVT LTD, and Mandara Spa (Fiji) Limited, (iii) Medispa Limited, a majority-owned subsidiary of Steiner Leisure, and (iv) the timetospa website owned by Elemis USA, Inc. (formerly known as Steiner Beauty Products, Inc.).

The Company is a global provider and innovator in the fields of beauty and wellness. In facilities on cruise ships and in land-based spas, the Company strives to create a relaxing and therapeutic environment where guests can receive beauty and body treatments of the highest quality. The Company’s services include traditional and alternative massage, body and skin treatment options, fitness, acupuncture, and medi-spa treatments. The Company also sells premium quality beauty products at its facilities and through its timetospa.com website. The predominant business, based on revenues, is sales of products and services on cruise ships and at land-based spas, followed by sales of products through the timetospa.com website.

On March 19, 2019, OneSpaWorld Holdings Limited (“OSWHL”) consummated the business combination (the “Business Combination”) pursuant to that certain Business Combination Agreement, dated as of November 1, 2018 (as amended on January 7, 2019, by Amendment No. 1 to Business Combination Agreement), by and among Steiner Leisure, Steiner U.S. Holdings, Inc., Nemo (UK) Holdco, Ltd., Steiner UK Limited, Steiner Management Services LLC, Haymaker Acquisition Corp (“Haymaker”), OSWHL, Dory US Merger Sub, LLC, Dory Acquisition Sub, Limited, Dory Intermediate LLC, and Dory Acquisition Sub, Inc.. Prior to the consummation of the Business Combination OSWHL was a wholly-owned subsidiary of Steiner Leisure. At the closing of the Business Combination, OSWHL became the ultimate parent company of Haymaker and the Company.

 

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2.

Summary of Significant Accounting Policies

 

  a)

Principles of Combination and Basis of Presentation

The Company’s combined financial statements include the accounts of the wholly-owned and indirect subsidiaries of the Parent listed in Note 1 and include the accounts of a company partially owned by OneSpaWorld Medispa (Bahamas) Limited, in which OneSpaWorld (Bahamas) Limited (100% owner of OneSpaWorld Medispa (Bahamas) Limited) has a controlling interest. Refer to Note 6 for more information on the noncontrolling interest. The combined financial statements also include the accounts and results of operations associated with the timetospa.com website owned by Elemis USA, Inc. The Company’s combined financial statements do not represent the financial position and results of operations of a legal entity but rather a combination of entities under common control of the Parent that have been “carved out” of the Parent’s consolidated financial statements and reflect significant assumptions and allocations. All significant intercompany transactions and balances have been eliminated in combination.

The accompanying combined financial statements and the notes to the combined financial statements may not be indicative of what they would have been had the Company actually been a separate stand-alone entity, nor are they necessarily indicative of the Company’s future results of operations, financial position and cash flows.

The accompanying combined financial statements include the assets, liabilities, revenues and expenses specifically related to the Company’s operations. The Company receives services and support from various functions performed by the Parent and costs associated with these functions have been allocated to the Company. These allocations are necessary to reflect all of the costs of doing business and include costs related to certain Parent corporate functions, including, but not limited to, senior management, legal, human resources, finance, IT and other shared services that have been allocated to the Company based on direct usage or benefit where identifiable, with the remainder allocated on a pro rata basis determined by an estimate of the percentage of time Parent employees devoted to the Company, as compared to total time available or by the headcount of employees at the Parent’s corporate headquarters that are fully dedicated to the Company’s entities in relation to the total employee headcount. These allocated costs are reflected in salary and payroll taxes and administrative expenses in the combined statements of income. Management considers these allocations to be a reasonable reflection of the utilization of services by or benefit provided to the Company. However, the allocations may not be indicative of the actual expenses that would have been incurred had the Company operated as an independent, stand-alone entity.

Parent equity (deficit) represents the Parent controlling interest in the recorded net assets of the Company, specifically, the cumulative net investment by the Parent in the Company and cumulative operating results through the date presented. The net effect of the settlement of transactions between the Company, the Parent, and other affiliates of the Parent are reflected in the combined statements of equity (deficit) as net distributions to Parent and its affiliates, in the combined statements of cash flows as a financing activity, and in the combined balance sheets as net Parent investment.

Cash is managed centrally through bank accounts controlled and maintained by the Parent and its affiliates.

 

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Transfers of cash to and from the Parent’s and its affiliates are reflected in net Parent investment in the combined balance sheets. Cash balances legally owned by the Company are included in the combined balance sheets. The Company has historically funded its operations with cash flow from operations, except with respect to certain expenses and operating costs that had been paid by the Parent on behalf of the Company, and, when needed, with borrowings under its credit facility. The Parent has paid on behalf of the Company expenses associated with the allocation of Parent corporate overhead and costs associated with the purchase of products from related parties and forgiven by Parent. Historical operating cash flows exclude the Company’s expenses and operating costs paid by the Parent on behalf of the Company. Consequently, the Company’s combined historical cash flows may not be indicative of cash flows had the Company actually been a separate stand-alone entity or future cash flows of the Company.

For the year ended December 31, 2018, the Company was assigned and assumed long-term debt of the Parent. Refer to Note 5 for more information on long-term debt.

Management believes the assumptions and allocations underlying the accompanying combined financial statements and notes to the combined financial statements are reasonable, appropriate and consistently applied for the periods presented. Management believes the accompanying combined financial statements reflect all costs of doing business.

The accompanying combined financial statements have been prepared in conformity with accounting principles generally accepted in the United States (“GAAP”).

 

  b)

Cash and Cash Equivalents

The Company considers all highly liquid investments purchased with an original maturity of three months or less at the date of purchase to be cash equivalents. The Company maintains its cash and cash equivalents with reputable major financial institutions. Deposits with these banks exceed the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation insurance limits or similar limits in foreign jurisdictions. While the Company monitors daily the cash balances in its operating accounts and adjusts the balances as appropriate, these balances could be impacted if one or more of the financial institutions with which the Company deposits funds fails or is subject to other adverse conditions in the financial or credit markets. To date, the Company has experienced no loss or lack of access to invested cash or cash equivalents; however, it can provide no assurance that access to invested cash and cash equivalents will not be impacted by adverse conditions in the financial and credit markets.

 

  c)

Revenue Recognition

The Company recognizes revenues earned as services are provided and as products are sold. All taxable revenue transactions are presented on a net-of-tax basis. Revenue from gift certificate sales is recognized upon gift certificate redemption and upon recognition of “breakage” (non-redemption of a gift certificate after a specified period of time). The Company does not charge administrative fees on unused gift cards, and the Company’s gift cards do not have an expiration date. Based on historical redemption rates, a relatively stable percentage of gift certificates will never be redeemed. The Company uses the redemption recognition method for recognizing breakage related to certain gift certificates for which it has sufficient historical information. Under the redemption recognition method, revenue is recorded in proportion to, and over the time period gift cards are actually redeemed. Breakage is recognized only if the Company determines that it does not have a legal obligation to remit

 

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the value of unredeemed gift certificates to government agencies under the unclaimed property laws in the relevant jurisdictions. The Company determines the gift certificate breakage rate based upon historical redemption patterns. At least three years of historical data, which is updated annually, is used to estimate redemption patterns.

 

  d)

Cost of Revenues

Cost of services consists primarily of the cost of product consumed in the rendering of a service, an allocable portion of wages paid to shipboard employees, an allocable portion of payments to cruise lines (which are derived as a percentage of service revenues or a minimum annual rent or a combination of both), an allocable portion of staff-related shipboard expenses, costs related to recruitment and training of shipboard employees, wages paid directly to destination resort employees, payments to destination resort venue owners, and health and wellness facility depreciation.

Cost of products consists primarily of the cost of products sold through the Company’s various methods of distribution, an allocable portion of wages paid to shipboard employees, an allocable portion of payments to cruise lines (which are derived as a percentage of product revenues or a minimum annual rent or a combination of both), and an allocable portion of staff-related shipboard expenses.

 

  e)

Inventories

Inventories, consisting principally of beauty products, are stated at the lower of cost, as determined on a first-in, first-out basis, or market. All inventory balances are comprised of finished goods used in beauty and health and wellness services or held for resale. The majority of inventory is purchased from related parties. Refer to Note 10 for more information on transactions with related parties.

 

  f)

Property and Equipment

Property and equipment are stated at cost, less accumulated depreciation and amortization. Expenditures for maintenance and repairs, which do not add to the value of the related assets or materially extend their original lives, are expensed as incurred. Depreciation of property and equipment is computed using the straight-line method over the estimated useful lives of the assets. Leasehold improvements are amortized in a straight-line basis over the shorter of the terms of the respective leases and the estimated useful lives of the respective assets.

 

  g)

Long-Lived Assets

The Company reviews long-lived assets for impairment whenever events or changes in circumstances indicate, based on estimated future cash flows, that the carrying amount of these assets may not be fully recoverable. Recoverability of assets to be held and used is measured by a comparison of the carrying amount of an asset (asset group) to future undiscounted cash flows expected to be generated by the asset (asset group). An asset group is the lowest level of assets and liabilities for which identifiable cash flows are largely independent of the cash flows of other assets and liabilities. When estimating future cash flows, the Company considers:

 

   

only the future cash flows that are directly associated with and that are expected to arise as a direct result of the use and eventual disposition of the asset group;

 

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potential events and changes in circumstance affecting key estimates and assumptions; and

 

   

the existing service potential of the asset (asset group) at the date tested.

If an asset (asset group) is considered to be impaired, the impairment to be recognized is measured by the amount by which the carrying amount of the asset (asset group) exceeds its fair value. When determining the fair value of the asset (asset group), the Company considers the highest and best use of the assets from a market-participant perspective. The fair value measurement is generally determined through the use of independent third-party appraisals or an expected present value technique, both of which may include a discounted cash flow approach, which reflects assumptions of what market participants would utilize to price the asset (asset group).

Assets to be disposed of are reported at the lower of the carrying amount or fair value less costs to sell. Assets to be abandoned, or from which no further benefit is expected, are written down to zero at the time that the determination is made, and the assets are removed entirely from service.

 

  h)

Shipping and Handling

Shipping and handling costs associated with inbound freight are capitalized to inventories and relieved through cost of sales as inventories are sold. Shipping and handling costs associated with the delivery of products are included in administrative expenses. The shipping and handling costs included in administrative expenses in the accompanying combined statements of income for the years ended December 31, 2018, 2017 and 2016 were $0.4 million, $0.5 million and $0.8 million, respectively.

 

  i)

Advertising

Substantially, all of the Company’s advertising costs are charged to expense as incurred, except costs that result in tangible assets, such as brochures, which are recorded as prepaid expenses and charged to expense as consumed. Advertising expenses included in cost of revenues and operating expenses in the accompanying combined statements of income for the years ended December 31, 2018, 2017 and 2016 were $3.7 million, $2.9 million and $2.6 million, respectively. Advertising costs included in prepaid expenses in the accompanying combined balance sheets as of December 31, 2018 and 2017 were $0.8 million and $0.6 million, respectively.

 

  j)

Income Taxes

The Company’s United States (“U.S.”) entities, other than those that are domiciled in U.S. territories, file their U.S. tax return as part of a consolidated tax filing group, while the Company’s entities that are domiciled in U.S. territories file specific returns. In addition, the Company’s foreign entities file income tax returns in their respective countries of incorporation, where required. For the purposes of these financial statements, the Company is accounting for income taxes under the separate return method of accounting. This method requires the allocation of current and deferred taxes to the Company as if it were a separate taxpayer. Under this method, the resulting portion of current income taxes payable that is not actually owed to the tax authorities is written-off through equity. Accordingly, income taxes payable in the combined balance sheets, as of December 31, 2018 and 2017 reflects current income tax amounts actually owed to the tax authorities, as of those dates, as well as the accrual for uncertain tax positions. The write-off of current income taxes payable not actually owed to the tax authorities is

 

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included in net Parent investment in the accompanying combined balance sheets as of December 31, 2018 and 2017. Deferred income taxes are recognized based upon the tax consequences of “temporary differences” by applying enacted statutory rates applicable to future years to differences between the financial statement carrying amounts and the tax bases of existing assets and liabilities. Deferred income tax provisions and benefits are based on the changes to the asset or liability from period to period. A valuation allowance is provided on deferred tax assets if it is determined that it is more likely than not that the deferred tax assets will not be realized. The majority of the Company’s income is generated outside of the U.S.

The Company believes a large percentage of its shipboard service’s income is foreign-source income, not effectively connected to a business it conducts in the U.S. and, therefore, not subject to U.S. income taxation.

The Company recognizes interest and penalties within the provision for income taxes in the combined statements of income. To the extent interest and penalties are not assessed with respect to uncertain tax positions, amounts accrued, therefore, will be reduced and reflected as a reduction of the overall income tax provision.

The Company recognizes liabilities for uncertain tax positions based on a two-step process. The first step is to evaluate the tax position for recognition by determining if the weight of available evidence indicates it is more likely than not that the position will be sustained on audit, including resolution of related appeals or litigation processes, if any. The second step is to measure the tax benefit as the largest amount of benefit, determined on a cumulative probability basis, which is more than 50% likely of being realized upon ultimate settlement.

 

  k)

Foreign Currency Transactions

For currency exchange rate purposes, assets and liabilities of the Company’s foreign subsidiaries are translated at the rate of exchange in effect at the balance sheet date. Equity and other items are translated at historical rates, and income and expenses are translated at the average rates of exchange prevailing during the year. The related translation adjustments are reflected in the accumulated other comprehensive loss caption of the Company’s combined balance sheets. Foreign currency gains and losses resulting from transactions, including intercompany transactions, are included in results of operations. The transaction gains (losses) included in the administrative expenses caption of the combined statements of income for the years ended December 31, 2018, 2017 and 2016 were ($0.4) million, $0.7 million and ($0.2) million, respectively.

 

  l)

Fair Value Measurements

Fair value is the exchange price that would be received for an asset or paid to transfer a liability (an exit price) in the principal or most advantageous market for the asset or liability in an orderly transaction between market participants at the measurement date. Additionally, the inputs used to measure fair value are prioritized based on a three-level hierarchy.

 

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The three levels of inputs used to measure fair value are as follows:

 

   

Level 1 - Value is based on quoted prices in active markets for identical assets and liabilities.

 

   

Level 2 - Value is based on observable inputs other than quoted prices included in Level 1. This includes dealer and broker quotations, bid prices, quoted prices for similar assets and liabilities in active markets, or other inputs that are observable or can be corroborated by observable market data.

 

   

Level 3 - Value is based on unobservable inputs that are supported by little or no market activity and that are significant to the fair value of the assets or liabilities. This includes discounted cash flow methodologies and similar techniques that use significant unobservable inputs.

The Company has no assets or liabilities that are recorded at fair value on a recurring basis. The Company did not have any assets or liabilities measured at fair value on a nonrecurring basis during the years ended December 31, 2018, 2017 and 2016.

Cash and cash equivalents are reflected in the accompanying combined balances at cost, which approximated fair value, estimated using Level 1 inputs, as they are maintained with various high-quality financial institutions and having original maturities of three months or less. The carrying value of the note receivable due from affiliate of the Parent (see Note 10) approximates fair value through inputs inherent to the originating value of the loan, such as interest rate and ongoing credit risk (estimated using Level 3 inputs).

The fair value of outstanding long-term debt is estimated at $372.2 million at December 31, 2018 using a discounted cash flow analysis based on current market interest rates for debt issuances with similar remaining years-to-maturity and adjusted for credit risk, which represents a Level 3 measurement.

 

  m)

Subsequent Events

The Company has evaluated all subsequent events for potential recognition and disclosure through March 25, 2019, the date the combined financial statements were available to be issued.

On March 1, 2019, the outstanding balance of the Company’s long-term debt was repaid by the Parent on behalf of the Company without the Parent making any cash contribution to the Company. The forgiveness of debt was accounted for by the Company as a financing transaction and a non-cash capital contribution and a non-cash reduction of debt.

 

  n)

Goodwill

Goodwill represents the excess of cost over the fair value of identifiable net assets acquired. The impairment is the amount, if any, by which the implied fair value of goodwill and other indefinite-lived tangible assets are less than the carrying or book value. Annually, each October 1, the Company performs the required annual impairment test for each reporting unit.

The Company has two operating segments: (1) Maritime and (2) Destination Resorts. The Maritime and Destination Resorts operating segments each have associated goodwill, and each has been determined to be a reporting unit.

 

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There was no impairment for the years ended December 31, 2018, 2017 and 2016.

 

  o)

Intangible Assets

Intangible assets include the cost of a trade name, contracts with cruise lines and leases with hotels and resorts.

The Company amortizes intangible assets with definite lives on a straight-line basis over their estimated useful lives. Amortization expense related to intangible assets for each of the years ended December 31, 2018, 2017 and 2016 was $3.5 million. Amortization expense is estimated to be $3.5 million in each of the next five years beginning in 2019.

Contracts with cruise lines are generally renewed every five years. The Company has the intent and ability to renew such contracts over the estimated useful lives of the assets. Costs incurred to renew contracts are capitalized and amortized to cost of revenues and operating expenses over the term of the contract.

Lease agreements with hotels and resorts in which the Company operates are generally renewed every ten years. The Company had the intent and ability to renew such contracts.

At October 1, 2018 and 2017, the Company performed the required annual impairment test for the intangible asset with an indefinite life and determined that there was no impairment.

The balance of other intangible assets is as follows (in thousands):

 

     December 31,  
     2018      2017  

Intangible assets with indefinite lives (trade-name)

   $ 5,000      $ 5,000  

Intangible assets with definite lives, net

     126,517        130,038  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total intangibles assets, net

   $ 131,517      $ 135,038  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

At December 31, 2018, the cost, accumulated amortization, and net balance of the definite-lived intangible assets were as follows (in thousands):

 

     Cost      Accumulated
Amortization
     Net
Balance
     Weighted
Average
Remaining
Useful Life
(Yrs.)
 

Contracts

   $ 130,000      $ (10,210    $ 119,790        36  

Lease agreements

     7,300        (573      6,727        36  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    
   $ 137,300      $ (10,783    $ 126,517     
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

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At December 31, 2017, the cost, accumulated amortization, and net balance of the definite-lived intangible assets were as follows (in thousands):

 

     Cost      Accumulated
Amortization
     Net      Weighted
Average
Remaining
Useful
Life (Yrs.)
 

Contracts

   $ 130,000      $ (6,877    $ 123,123        37  

Lease agreements

     7,300        (385      6,915        37  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    
   $ 137,300      $ (7,262    $ 130,038     
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

  p)

Use of Estimates

The preparation of financial statements in conformity with GAAP requires management to make estimates and assumptions that affect the reported amounts of assets and liabilities and disclosure of contingent assets and liabilities at the date of the financial statements and the reported amounts of revenues and expenses during the reporting period.

Actual results could differ from those estimates. Significant estimates include the assessment of the recovery of long-lived assets, goodwill, and other intangible assets; the determination of deferred income taxes, including valuation allowances; the useful lives of definite-lived intangible assets and property and equipment; and allocations of Parent costs.

 

  q)

Concentrations of Credit Risk

Financial instruments that potentially subject the Company to significant concentrations of credit risk consist principally of cash and cash equivalents and accounts receivable. The Company maintains cash and cash equivalents with high quality financial institutions. As of December 31, 2018, and 2017, the Company had three cruise companies that represented greater than 10% of accounts receivable. The Company does not normally require collateral or other security to support normal credit sales. The Company controls credit risk through credit approvals, credit limits, and monitoring procedures.

Accounts receivable are stated at amounts due from customers, net of an allowance for doubtful accounts. The Company records an allowance for doubtful accounts with respect to accounts receivable using historical collection experience, and generally, an account receivable balance is written off once it is determined to be uncollectible. The Company reviews the historical collection experience and considers other facts and circumstances and adjusts the calculation to record an allowance for doubtful accounts as appropriate. If the Company’s current collection trends were to differ significantly from historic collection experience, the Company would make a corresponding adjustment to the allowance. The allowance for doubtful accounts was $0.5 million as of December 31, 2018 and 2017. Bad debt expense is included within administrative operating expenses in the accompanying combined statements of income and is not significant for the years ended December 31, 2018, 2017 and 2016.

 

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  r)

Recent Accounting Pronouncements

With the exception of those discussed below, there have been no recent accounting pronouncements or changes in accounting pronouncements during the year ended December 31, 2018 that are of significance, or potential significance, to the Company based on its current operations. The following summary of recent accounting pronouncements is not intended to be an exhaustive description of the respective pronouncement.

In May 2014, the FASB issued ASU 2014-09. The core principle of the guidance in ASU 2014-09 is that an entity should recognize revenue to depict the transfer of promised goods or services to customers in an amount that reflects the consideration to which the entity expects to be entitled in exchange for those goods or services. The guidance in this ASU supersedes the revenue recognition requirements in Topic 605, Revenue Recognition, and most industry specific guidance throughout the Industry Topics of the ASC. Additionally, ASU 2014-09 supersedes some cost guidance included in Subtopic 605-35, Revenue Recognition—Construction-Type and Production-Type Contracts.

In periods subsequent to the initial issuance of this ASU, the FASB has issued additional ASU’s

clarifying items within Topic 606, as follows:

 

   

In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-08, “Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606): Principal versus Agent Considerations” (“ASU 2016-08”). The amendments in ASU 2016-08 serve to clarify the implementation guidance on principal versus agent considerations.

 

   

In April 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-10, “Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606): Identifying Performance Obligations and Licensing” (“ASU 2016-10”). The purpose of ASU 2016-10 is to clarify two aspects of Topic 606: identifying performance obligations and the licensing implementation guidance (while retaining the related principles for those areas).

 

   

In May 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-12, “Revenue from Contracts with Customers (Topic 606)” (“ASU 2016-12”). The purpose of ASU 2016-12 is to address certain issues identified to improve Topic 606 by enhancing guidance on assessing collectability, presentation of sales taxes and other similar taxes collected from customers, non-cash consideration and completed contracts and contract modifications at transition.

The FASB issued updates ASU 2016-08, ASU 2016-10 and ASU 2016-12 to provide guidance to improve the operability and understandability of the implementation guidance included in ASU 2014-09. ASU 2016-08, ASU 2016-10 and ASU 2016-12 have the same effective date and transition requirements of ASU 2015-14, which defers the effective date and transition of ASU 2014-09 annual reporting periods beginning after December 15, 2018, and interim periods within annual periods beginning after December 15, 2019, with early adoption permitted. The Company plans to adopt this standard, other related revenue standard clarifications and technical guidance effective for the annual period ending December 31, 2019 and quarterly periods beginning January 1, 2020. The Company has elected the modified retrospective transition approach. Under this method, the standard will be applied only to the most current period presented and the cumulative effect of applying the standard will be recognized at the date of initial application. The Company is progressing through its implementation plan and is continuing to evaluate the impact of the standard on its processes, accounting systems, controls and financial disclosures. The Company is not able to determine at this time if the adoption of this guidance will have a material impact on the Company’s combined financial statements.

 

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In February 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-02, “Leases (Topic 842)” (“ASU 2016-02”) to increase transparency and comparability among organizations by recognizing rights and obligations resulting from leases as lease assets and lease liabilities on the balance sheet and disclosing key information about leasing arrangements. The update requires lessees to recognize for all leases with a term of 12 months or more at the commencement date: (a) a lease liability or a lessee’s obligation to make lease payments arising from a lease, measured on a discounted basis; and (b) a right-of-use asset or a lessee’s right to use or control the use of a specified asset for the lease term. Under the update, lessor accounting remains largely unchanged. The update requires a modified retrospective transition approach for leases existing at or entered into after the beginning of the earliest comparative period presented in the financial statements and do not require any transition accounting for leases that expire before the earliest comparative period presented. The update is effective retrospectively for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2019, and interim periods beginning after December 15, 2020, with early adoption permitted. The Company is not able to determine at this time if the adoption of this guidance will have a material impact on the Company’s combined financial statements.

In March 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-04, “Recognition of Breakage for Certain Prepaid Stored-Value Products (a consensus of the FASB Emerging Issues Task Force).” ASU 2016-04 requires entities that sell certain prepaid stored-value products redeemable for goods, services or cash at third-party merchants to derecognize liabilities related to those products for breakage (i.e., the value that is ultimately not redeemed by the consumer). This guidance is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2018. Early adoption is permitted. Entities can use either a full retrospective approach, meaning they would apply the guidance to all periods presented, or a modified retrospective approach, meaning they would apply it only to the most current period presented with a cumulative-effect adjustment to retained earnings as of the beginning of the period of adoption. The Company is currently evaluating the methods and impact of adopting this new guidance on its combined financial statements.

In June 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-13, “Financial Instruments – Credit Losses (Topic 326).” This ASU amends the Board’s guidance on the impairment of financial instruments. The ASU adds to GAAP an impairment model (known as the current expected credit losses model) that is based on an expected losses model rather than an incurred losses model. Under the new guidance, an entity recognizes as an allowance its estimate of expected credit losses. The ASU is also intended to reduce the complexity of GAAP by decreasing the number of impairment models that entities use to account for debt instruments. The update is effective for fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2020. The Company is currently assessing the future impact the adoption of this guidance will have on its combined financial statements.

In August 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-15, “Statement of Cash Flows (Topic 230): Classification of Certain Cash Receipts and Cash Payments.” This ASU addresses eight specific cash flow issues with the objective of reducing the existing diversity in practice in how certain cash receipts and cash payments are presented and classified in the statement of cash flows under existing guidance. The update is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2018. The amendments should be applied using a retrospective transition method to each period presented. The Company does not anticipate the adoption of this guidance will have a material impact on its combined financial statements.

 

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In October 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-16, “Income Taxes (Topic 740): Intra-Entity Transfers of Assets Other Than Inventory:” (“ASU 2016-16”) This ASU was issued as part of the Board’s initiative to reduce complexity in accounting standards. This ASU eliminates an exception in ASC 740, which prohibits the immediate recognition of income tax consequences of intra-entity asset transfers other than inventory. Under ASU 2016-16, entities will be required to recognize the immediate current and deferred income tax effects of intra-entity asset transfers, which often involve a subsidiary of a company transferring intellectual property to another subsidiary. The new guidance will be effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2018. This ASU’s amendments should be applied on a modified retrospective basis, recognizing the effects in retained earnings as of the beginning of the year of adoption. The Company does not anticipate the adoption of this guidance will have a material impact on its combined financial statements.

In November 2016, the FASB issued ASU 2016-18, “Statement of Cash Flows (Topic 230): Restricted Cash.” This ASU requires that a statement of cash flows explains the change during the period in the total of cash, cash equivalents, and amounts generally described as restricted cash or restricted cash equivalents. Therefore, amounts generally described as restricted cash and restricted cash equivalents should be included with cash and cash equivalents when reconciling the beginning-of-period and end-of-period total amounts shown on the statement of cash flows. The update is effective for annual periods beginning after December 15, 2018. The Company does not anticipate the adoption of this guidance will have a material impact on its combined financial statements.

In January 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-01, “Business Combinations (Topic 805): Clarifying the Definition of a Business.” This ASU assists entities with evaluating whether transactions should be accounted for as acquisitions (or disposals) of assets or businesses by clarifying the definition of a business. The definition of a business affects many areas of accounting including acquisition, disposals, goodwill and consolidation. The update is effective for annual periods beginning after December 31, 2018. The amendments in this update should be applied prospectively on or after the effective date. The Company does not anticipate the adoption of this guidance will have a material impact on the Company’s combined financial statements.

In January 2017, the FASB issued ASU 2017-04, “Intangibles – Goodwill and Other (Topic 350): Simplifying the Test for Goodwill Impairment” (“ASU 2017-04”). This ASU simplifies the subsequent measurement of goodwill by eliminating Step 2 from the goodwill impairment test. Previously, in computing the implied fair value of goodwill under Step 2, an entity had to perform procedures to determine the fair value at the impairment testing date of its assets and liabilities following the procedure that would be required in determining the fair value of assets acquired and liabilities assumed in a business combination. Instead, under ASU 2017-04, an entity should perform its annual, or interim, goodwill impairment test by comparing the fair value of a reporting unit with its carrying amount. An entity should recognize an impairment charge for the amount by which the carrying amount exceeds the reporting unit’s fair value; however, the loss recognized should not exceed the total amount of goodwill allocated to the reporting unit. The new guidance is effective for an entity’s annual or any interim goodwill impairment tests in fiscal years beginning after December 15, 2019 and early adoption is permitted for interim or annual goodwill impairment tests performed on testing dates after January 1, 2017. The Company is currently assessing the future impact the adoption of this guidance will have on its combined financial statements.

 

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3.

Property and Equipment, Net

Property and equipment, net consisted of the following (in thousands):

 

     Useful Life      December 31,  
     In Years      2018      2017  

Furniture and fixtures

     5 – 7      $ 4,735      $ 3,991  

Computers and equipment

     3 – 8        7,127        5,404  

Leasehold improvements

     Term of lease        24,665        21,890  
     

 

 

    

 

 

 
        36,527        31,285  

Less: Accumulated depreciation and amortization

        (20,288      (13,913
     

 

 

    

 

 

 
            $16,239      $17,372  
     

 

 

    

 

 

 

Depreciation and amortization expense for the years ended December 31, 2018, 2017 and 2016 were $6.5 million, $6.3 million and $7.5 million, respectively.

 

4.

Accrued Expenses

Accrued expenses consisted of the following (in thousands):

 

     December 31,  
     2018      2017  

Operative commissions

   $ 4,663      $ 4,607  

Minimum cruise line commissions

     5,648        4,230  

Payroll and bonuses

     5,037        2,768  

Interest

     2,513        —    

Other

     9,350        7,908  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 
   $ 27,211      $ 19,513  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

5.

Long-term Debt

On January 11, 2018, the Company entered into an assignment and assumption of third-party debt (the “Term Credit Agreement”) of $356.2 million from the Parent with a maturity date on December 9, 2021. Long-term debt is presented net of related unamortized deferred financing costs of $3.7 million on the combined balance sheet as of December 31, 2018. The Company amortizes debt issuance costs as interest expense over the term of the related debt using the effective interest method in the accompanying combined statements of income. Interest costs incurred were $34.1 million, inclusive of amortization of deferred financing costs of $1.3 million, for the year ended December 31, 2018. In connection with the Term Credit Agreement, the Company entered into pledge and security agreements with the applicable lenders as collateral agent, pledging substantially all of its assets as collateral.

The Company can elect to apply a base rate or LIBOR rate of interest on the Term Credit Agreement. Interest shall be paid, with respect to any base rate loan, the first day of each month and with respect to any LIBOR rate loan, on the last day of each interest period with respect thereto and for any LIBOR rate loan with an interest period of three months, at the end of each three-month period during such interest period.

 

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The Term Credit Agreement contains customary affirmative, negative and financial covenants, including limitations on dividends and funded debt. The Company is in compliance with these covenants.

As of December 31, 2018, the interest rate on the Term Credit Agreement was based on (at the Parent’s election) either LIBOR plus a predetermined margin that ranged from 7.00% to 7.50%, or the base rate as defined in the Term Credit Agreement plus a predetermined margin that ranged from 6.00% to 6.50%, in each case based on the Parent’s consolidated total leverage ratio. As of December 31, 2018, the Parent elected the LIBOR rate and the applicable margin was 7.25% per annum.

 

6.

Noncontrolling Interest

The Company has a 60% controlling interest and a third party has a 40% noncontrolling interest of Medispa Limited, a Bahamian entity that is a subsidiary of the Company. The operations of MediSpa Limited relate to the delivery of non-invasive aesthetic services, provision of related services, and the sale of related products onboard passenger cruise ships and at hotel and resort spas outside the tax jurisdiction of the U.S. As of December 31, 2018 and 2017, the noncontrolling interest was $3.6 million and $4.6 million, respectively.

 

7.

Income Taxes

Income before provision for income taxes consists of (in thousands):

 

     Year Ended December 31,  
     2018      2017      2016  

U.S.

   $ 2,871      $ 3,047      $ 2,967  

Foreign

     11,960        35,442        20,812  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 
   $ 14,831      $ 38,489      $ 23,779  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

The provision for income taxes consist of the following (in thousands):

 

     Year Ended December 31,  
     2018      2017      2016  

U.S. Federal

   $ 461      $ 3,919      $ 1,161  

U.S. State

     159        267        309  

Foreign

     468        1,077        4,145  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 
   $ 1,088      $ 5,263      $ 5,615  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Current

   $ 1,089      $ 1,913      $ 6,087  

Deferred

     (1      3,350        (472
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 
   $ 1,088      $ 5,263      $ 5,615  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

A reconciliation of the difference between the expected (benefit) provision for income taxes using the U.S. federal tax rate and our actual provision is as follows (in thousands):

 

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     Year Ended December 31,  
     2018      2017      2016  

Provision using statutory

        

U.S. federal tax rate

   $ 3,114      $ 13,471      $ 8,323  

Foreign rate differential

     (1,730      (11,222      (6,449

Rate change on deferred

     —          2,652        —    

State taxes

     126        277        286  

Non-taxable income

     (439      (396      (220

Permanent differences

     141        71        178  

Uncertain tax position

     (68      487        3,500  

Other

     (56      (77      (3
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

   $ 1,088      $ 5,263      $ 5,615  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

The difference between the expected provision for income taxes using the 21% U.S. federal income tax rate for 2018 and a 35% U.S. federal income tax rate for 2017 and 2016, and the Company’s actual provision is primarily attributable to foreign rate differential including income earned in jurisdictions not subject to income taxes, and, for the year ended December 31, 2017, the effect of the change in the U.S. corporate income tax rate on the Company’s net U.S. deferred tax assets.

A reconciliation of the beginning and ending amounts of uncertain tax positions, excluding interest and penalties, is as follows (in thousands):

 

     December 31,  
     2018      2017      2016  

Beginning balance

   $ 1,781      $ 1,559      $ —    

Gross (decreases) increases – prior period tax position

     (84      222        1,559  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Ending balance

   $ 1,697      $ 1,781      $ 1,559  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

As of December 31, 2018, 2017 and 2016, the Company accrued $3.9 million, $4.0 million and $3.5 million, respectively, for uncertain tax positions, including interest and penalties that, if recognized, would affect the effective income tax rate.

The Company classifies interest and penalties on uncertain tax positions as a component of provision for income taxes in the combined statements of income. Accrued interest and penalties related to uncertain tax positions are $2.2 million as of December 31, 2018 and 2017 and are included in income tax contingency in the accompanying combined balance sheets. Deferred income taxes consist of the following (in thousands):

 

     December 31,  
     2018      2017  

Deferred income tax assets:

     

Unicap and inventory reserves

   $ 41      $ 26  

Allowance for doubtful accounts

     8        8  

Depreciation and amortization

     3,731        4,095  

Other reserves and accruals

     277        224  

Gift certificates

     208        108  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total deferred income tax assets

     4,265        4,461  

Deferred income tax liabilities:

     

Unrealized foreign exchange

     —          (197
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Net deferred income tax assets

   $ 4,265      $ 4,264  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

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Certain U.S. entities of the Company have available net U.S. federal operating loss carry forwards (“NOLs”) as a result of the fact that the Parent’s U.S. consolidated tax filing group, which includes the Company’s U.S. entities, has historically generated taxable losses. However, no deferred tax assets were recorded related to NOLs based on the separate return method of accounting. Approximately $17.5 million of the estimated $18.2 million of total NOLs is subject to Section 382 limitation. Under U.S. tax law, NOLs generated during tax years ending on or before December 31, 2017 can be carried back for two taxable years and carried forward for 20 taxable years, while NOLs generated during tax years after December 31, 2017 cannot be carried back and can be carried forward indefinitely. The Company’s NOLs will begin to expire in 2022 and subsequent years.

As the Company accounts for income taxes under the separate return method, the combined statements of equity for the years ended December 31, 2018, 2017 and 2016 include $1.2 million, $1.0 million and $1.9 million, respectively, of current income taxes payable that were included in net Parent investment, as such income taxes are not actually owed to the tax authorities. The Company is subject to routine audits by U.S. federal, state, local, and foreign tax authorities. These audits include questioning the timing and the amount of deductions and the allocation of income among various tax jurisdictions. The tax years 2014-2018 remain subject to examination by taxing authorities throughout the world in major jurisdictions, such as the U.S. and Italy.

In November 2016, the Company was notified by a foreign tax authority of a disagreement over how the withholding tax exemption was applied on dividend distributions. On February 17, 2017, the Company received a formal assessment related to this matter. The Company is disputing the assessment and believes that adequate accrual has been established for this matter. The Company has included $(0.1) million and $0.5 million of unrecognized tax benefit in the provision for income taxes for the years ended December 31, 2018 and 2017, respectively, which comprises the impact of foreign exchange movements on the income tax contingency accrual. 

U.S. Tax Reform

On December 22, 2017, the U.S. enacted significant changes to tax law following the passage and signing of The Tax Cuts and Jobs Act (“TCJA”). The Company has completed the analysis of the tax accounting implications of the TCJA during the year ended December 31, 2018 in accordance with the terms of SEC Staff Bulletin 118. The Company did not record any adjustments in the year ended December 31, 2018 to provisional amounts that were material to its combined financial statements.

 

8.

Commitment and Contingencies

Cruise Line Agreements

A large portion of the Company’s revenues are generated on cruise ships. The Company has entered into agreements of varying terms with the cruise lines under which services and products are paid for by cruise passengers. These agreements provide for the Company to pay the cruise line commissions for use of their shipboard facilities, as well as fees for staff shipboard meals and accommodations. These commissions are based on a percentage of revenue, a minimum annual amount, or a combination of both. Some of the minimum commissions are calculated as a flat dollar amount while others are based upon

 

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minimum passenger per diems for passengers actually embarked on each cruise of the respective vessel. Staff shipboard meals and accommodations are charged by the cruise lines on a per staff per day basis. The Company recognizes all expenses related to cruise line commissions, minimum guarantees, and staff shipboard meals and accommodations, generally, as they are incurred and includes such expenses in cost of revenues and operating expenses in the accompanying combined statements of income. For cruises in process at period end, an accrual is made to record such expenses in a manner that approximates a pro-rata basis. In addition, staff-related expenses such as shipboard employee commissions are recognized in the same manner.

Pursuant to agreements that provide for minimum commissions, the Company guaranteed the following amounts as of December 31, 2018 (in thousands):

 

  Year  

        Amount  

2019

      $ 122,677  

2020

        8,000  

2021

        —    
     

 

 

 
      $     130,677  
     

 

 

 

Revenues from passengers of each of the following cruise line companies accounted for more than ten percent of the Company’s total revenues in 2018, 2017, and 2016, respectively: Carnival (including Carnival, Carnival Australia, Costa, Cunard, Holland America, P&O, Princess and Seabourn cruise lines): 48.5%, 48.6% and 48.1%, and Royal Caribbean (including Royal Caribbean, Pullmantur, Celebrity and Azamara cruise lines): 21.0%, 20.8% and 20.2%, and Norwegian Cruise Line 13.8%, 13.0% and 13.2%.

Operating Leases

The Company leases office and warehouse space, as well as office equipment and automobiles, under operating leases. The Company also makes certain payments to the owners of the venues where destination resort health and wellness centers are located. Destination resort health and wellness centers generally require rent based on a percentage of revenues. In addition, as part of the rental arrangements for some of the destination resort health and wellness centers, the Company is required to pay a minimum annual rental regardless of whether such amount would be required to be paid under the percentage rent arrangement. Substantially all of these arrangements include renewal options ranging from three to five years. Rental expense incurred under operating leases for the years ended December 31, 2018, 2017 and 2016 were $9.5 million, $8.8 million and $9.5 million, respectively. Minimum annual commitments under operating leases at December 31, 2018 are as follows (in thousands):

 

      Year      

       Amount  

2019

     $ 3,443  

2020

       2,772  

2021

       2,569  

2022

       2,365  

2023

       2,032  

Thereafter

       10,263  
    

 

 

 
     $     23,444  
    

 

 

 

 

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9.

Pledge and Security Agreements

In December 2015, in connection with credit facilities of the Parent, which provide for $650 million in borrowings and mature in 2020 and 2021, of which $356.2 million was assigned and assumed on January 11, 2018, as discussed in Note 5, the Company, along with other affiliates of the Parent, entered into pledge and security agreements with the applicable lender as collateral agent pledging substantially all of their assets as collateral.

 

10.

Transactions with Related Parties

The Company purchases beauty products from wholly-owned subsidiaries of the Parent for resale to its customers. In 2017, the Company entered into a supply agreement with a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Parent company, which established the prices at which beauty products will be purchased by the Company from the supplier for a term of ten years. This supply agreement was subsequently amended and restated in 2018. Purchases of beauty products from related parties and cost of revenues are as follows (in thousands):

 

     Year Ended December 31,  
     2018      2017      2016  

Purchases

   $ 25,491      $ 20,943      $ 35,390  

Cost of revenues

   $ 22,995      $ 28,903      $ 36,114  

Inventories on hand related to these purchases and accounts payable owed to the supplier entities related to the purchases is as follows (in thousands):

 

     December 31,  
     2018      2017  

Inventory

   $ 17,268      $ 14,772  

Accounts payable – related parties

   $ 6,553      $ 10,203  

For the year ended December 31, 2016, $33.0 million of the then outstanding accounts payable to supplier entities related to these purchases were forgiven by the Parent. Such accounts payable – related parties forgiven by the Parent were considered contributions of capital from the Parent in the combined financial statements of the Company.

The Company entered into a loan agreement with a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Parent (the “Borrower”), for €5.0 million on February 25, 2016. The note receivable is due in full by January 3, 2021 and bears an annual interest rate of 7.50%. The note receivable is accounted for on an amortized cost basis, and interest is recognized using the effective interest rate method. On July 27, 2018, the Parent settled the outstanding principal amount and all accrued interest under this loan agreement. This note receivable from affiliate of Parent and related unpaid accrued interest forgiven by Parent totaling approximately $6.8 million were considered contributions of capital from the Parent in the combined financial statements of the Company. As of December 31, 2017, the outstanding balance of the note receivable from an affiliate of the Parent was €5.0 million, or $6.0 million. Interest income earned on the loan was $0.2 million, $0.3 million and $0.3 million for the years ended December 31, 2018, 2017 and 2016, respectively, which is included in the combined statements of income.

 

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The Company receives services and support from various functions performed by the Parent. These expenses relate to allocations of Parent corporate overhead. Included in Salary and Payroll taxes in the combined statements of income for the years ended December 31, 2018, 2017 and 2016 were $9.1 million, $9.2 million and $8.5 million, respectively. Included in Administrative expenses in the combined statements of income the years ended December 31, 2018, 2017 and 2016 were $2.6 million, $2.5 million and $2.8 million, respectively.

 

11.

Profit Sharing Plans

Eligible employees participate in the Company’s profit sharing retirement plan and a profit sharing plan of the Parent, which are qualified under Section 401(k) of the Internal Revenue Code. With respect to the Parent’s profit sharing retirement plan, the Company’s Parent makes discretionary annual matching contributions in cash based on a percentage of eligible employee compensation deferrals. The contribution to the plans, included in Salary and Payroll taxes in the combined statements of income, for each of the the years ended December 31, 2018, 2017 and 2016 was $0.3 million.

 

12.

Segment and Geographic Information

The Company operates facilities on cruise ships and in destination resort health and wellness centers, which provide health and wellness services and sell beauty products onboard cruise ships and destination resort health and wellness centers. The Company’s Maritime and Destination Resorts operating segments are aggregated into a single reportable segment based upon similar economic characteristics, products, services, customers and delivery methods. Additionally, the Company’s operating segments represent components of the Company for which separate financial information is available that is utilized on a regular basis by the chief executive officer, who is the Company’s chief operating decision maker (CODM), in determining how to allocate the Company’s resources and evaluate performance.

The basis for determining the geographic information below is based on the countries in which the Company operates. The Company is not able to identify the country of origin for the customers to which revenues from cruise ship operations relate. Geographic information is as follows (in thousands):

 

     Year Ended December 31,  
     2018      2017      2016  

Revenues:

        

U.S.

   $ 27,166      $ 30,851      $ 33,278  

Not connected to a country

     491,244        455,782        421,489  

Other

     22,368        20,052        21,517  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

   $ 540,778      $ 506,685      $ 476,284  
  

 

 

    

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

     December 31,  
     2018      2017  

Property and equipment, net:

     

U.S.

   $ 6,838      $ 4,896  

Not connected to a country

     2,188        2,558  

Other

     7,213        9,918  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

Total

   $ 16,239      $ 17,372  
  

 

 

    

 

 

 

 

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