Exhibit 10.7
ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES AGREEMENT
This ADMINISTRATIVE SERVICES AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”) is dated as of January 16, 2025 and is between Jersey Mike’s HoldCo, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (together with its successors, “HoldCo”), Jersey Mike’s Franchise Systems, LLC, a Delaware limited liability company and a wholly-owned subsidiary of Holdco (together with its successor, the “Company”), Blackstone Management Partners L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company (“Manager 1”), and Blackstone Private Investments Advisors L.L.C., a Delaware limited liability company (“Manager 2” and, together with Manager 1, the “Managers”), each affiliated with Blackstone Inc. (“Blackstone”).
In consideration of the premises and agreements contained herein and of other good and valuable consideration, the sufficiency of which are hereby acknowledged, the parties agree as follows:
AGREEMENT
SECTION 1. Portfolio Operations Support.
(a) Engagement to Provide Support. As of the date of the closing (the “Closing Date”) of the transactions contemplated by that certain Equity Purchase Agreement (the “Transactions”), dated as of November 8, 2024 (as amended, supplemented or modified in accordance with its terms, the “Transaction Agreement”), by and among Submarine Buyer LLC, a Delaware limited liability company (“Purchaser”), the Company (then known as Jersey Mike’s Franchise Systems, Inc.), Jersey Shore Construction LLC, Jersey Mike’s Inc. (the “Principal Seller”), and Peter Cancro, solely for the limited purposes set forth therein (together with the Principal Seller, the “Sellers”) and with retroactive effectiveness from the date of the Transaction Agreement, HoldCo and the Company, jointly and severally, hereby engage each Manager to arrange for Blackstone’s Portfolio Operations group to render to them and their respective subsidiaries Ops Support (as defined below). To that end, each Manager intends to make available to HoldCo, the Company and their respective subsidiaries the services customarily provided by Blackstone’s Portfolio Operations group to Blackstone’s private equity portfolio companies (the “Ops Support”), and each of HoldCo and the Company agrees to accept the amount and type of Ops Support as may be determined by the Portfolio Operations group, in its sole discretion, to be warranted and appropriate. Each Manager may, at any time, choose not to provide any such services. For the avoidance of doubt, no payments should be made to any Manager or their affiliates in connection with the Ops Support other than Out-of-Pocket Expenses (as defined below) in accordance with Section 3.
SECTION 2. Other Services.
(a) Equity Healthcare. Blackstone has also established an “Equity Healthcare” group, which leverages the scale of Blackstone’s combined portfolio companies so as to hold down benefit and claims costs and deliver better quality health care to U.S. employees