Exhibit 10.6

Dated May 14, 2025

Albion holdco limited

as Obligors’ Agent

ALBION TOPCO LIMITED

as Topco

The RCF Lenders

The Bonding Facility Lenders

GLAS USA LLC

as Agent

and

GLAS TRUST CORPORATION LIMITED

as Security Agent


AMENDMENT AND RESTATEMENT AGREEMENT

RELATING TO

REVOLVING FACILITY AGREEMENT ORIGINALLY

DATED 31 JULY 2021 (AS AMENDED)



CONTENTS

Clause

Page

1.

Definitions and Interpretation

1

2.

Amendment and Restatement

3

3.

Accession of Additional Borrowers and Guarantors

4

4.

Conditions Precedent

5

5.

Transaction Expenses

5

6.

Representations

5

7.

Guarantee and Security Confirmation

5

8.

Continuity

6

9.

Miscellaneous

6

10.

Governing Law

6

Schedule 1 Amended and Restated Facility Agreement

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THIS AGREEMENT is dated                   2025 and made between:

(1)

Albion holdco limited, a private limited liability company incorporated under the laws of England and Wales with registered number 13227258 (the “Obligors’ Agent”);

(2)

ALBION TOPCO LIMITED, a private limited liability company incorporated under the laws of England and Wales with registered number 13227153 (“Topco”);

(3)

RESOLUTE PARENT, LLC, a limited liability company incorporated under the laws of Delaware with registered number 7289484 (“Resolute”);

(4)

AGGREKO FINANCE LIMITED, a private limited liability company incorporated under the laws of Scotland with registered number SC250631 (“Aggreko Finance”);

(5)

EACH PERSON listed in Part 2 (The Original Lenders) of Schedule 1 (The Original Parties) of the Amended and Restated Facility Agreement (as defined below) as having an RCF Commitment and which is named on the signature pages to this Agreement as an “RCF Lender” (each an “RCF Lender” and together the “RCF Lenders”);

(6)

EACH PERSON listed in Part 2 (The Original Lenders) of Schedule 1 (The Original Parties) of the Amended and Restated Facility Agreement (as defined below) as having a Bonding Facility Commitment and which is named on the signature pages to this Agreement as “Bonding Facility Lender” (each a “Bonding Facility Lender” and together the “Bonding Facility Lenders” and together with the RCF Lenders, the “Revolving Facility Lenders”);

(7)

GLAS USA LLC as agent for the other Finance Parties (the “Agent”); and

(8)

GLAS TRUST CORPORATION LIMITED as security trustee for the Secured Parties (the “Security Agent”).

WHEREAS:

(A)

The Obligors’ Agent and the Agent (amongst others) are party to the Original Facility Agreement (as defined below).

(B)

The parties to this Agreement have agreed, with effect from the Effective Date (as defined below), that the Original Facility Agreement (as defined below) will be amended and restated in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement.

(C)

The Agent is executing and delivering this Agreement on behalf of itself and as agent for the other Finance Parties in accordance with the provisions of clause 41 (Amendments and waivers) of the Original Facility Agreement (as defined below).

IT IS HEREBY AGREED as follows:

1.Definitions and Interpretation

1.1

Definitions

In this Agreement:

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Amended and Restated Facility Agreement” means the Original Facility Agreement as amended and restated pursuant to the terms of this Agreement and as set out in Schedule 1 (Amended and Restated Facility Agreement);

Bonding Facility Commitments” has the meaning given to that term in the Amended and Restated Facility Agreement;

Effective Date” means the date on which the Agent confirms to the Obligors’ Agent that it has received (or waived the requirement to receive) all the documents and other evidence listed in Part 1 (Conditions Precedent to Effective Date) of Schedule 2 (Conditions Precedent) of the Amended and Restated Facility Agreement in all material respects in the relevant form provided previously under the Original Facility Agreement (amended as necessary to reflect the nature of this Agreement) or otherwise in form and substance satisfactory to it (in each case, acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders);

Original Facility Agreement” means the revolving facility agreement originally dated 31 July 2021 (as amended pursuant to an amendment letter dated 8 September 2021, an amendment letter dated 15 October 2021, an amendment agreement dated 30 December 2021 and an amendment letter dated 20 June 2024) between, amongst others, Albion Holdco Limited as parent, Albion Midco Limited as company and original borrower, the lenders referred to therein, GLAS USA LLC as agent and GLAS Trust Corporation Limited as security agent; and

RCF Commitments” has the meaning given to that term in the Amended and Restated Facility Agreement.

Revolving Lender” has the meaning given to that term in the Intercreditor Agreement.

1.2

Incorporation of defined terms

(a)

Unless a contrary indication appears, a term defined in the Amended and Restated Facility Agreement has the same meaning in this Agreement.

(b)

The principles of construction set out in the Amended and Restated Facility Agreement shall have effect as if set out in this Agreement.

1.3

Clauses and Schedules

In this Agreement any reference to a “Clause” or a “Schedule” is, unless the context otherwise requires, a reference to a Clause of or a Schedule to this Agreement.

1.4

Third party rights

The provisions of clause 1.4 (Third Party Rights) of the Amended and Restated Facility Agreement shall apply to this Agreement.

1.5

Designation

In accordance with the Original Facility Agreement, each of the Agent and the Obligors’ Agent designates this Agreement as a Finance Document.

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2.Amendment and Restatement

2.1

Amendment and Restatement

With effect from the Effective Date, the Original Facility Agreement shall be amended and restated so that it shall be read and construed for all purposes as set out in Schedule 1 (Amended and Restated Facility Agreement).

2.2

Revolving Facility Commitments

(a)

On the Effective Date:

(i)

each RCF Lender will assume RCF Commitments under the Amended and Restated Facility Agreement in an amount equal to its RCF Commitments;

(ii)

each Bonding Facility Lender will assume Bonding Facility Commitments under the Amended and Restated Facility agreement in an amount equal to its Bonding Facility Commitments;

(iii)

each Revolving Facility Lender that is not an existing Lender accedes to the Amended and Restated Facility Agreement as an Original Lender;

(iv)

each Revolving Facility Lender that is not an existing Lender under the Original Facility Agreement immediately prior to the Effective Date confirms that it will become party to the Intercreditor Agreement as a Revolving Lender and, in consideration for it being accepted as such, hereby agrees to be bound by the Intercreditor Agreement as a Revolving Lender as if it had been originally party to the Intercreditor Agreement in that capacity and agrees that it shall, and undertakes to, perform all of the obligations expressed in the Intercreditor Agreement to be assumed by a Revolving Lender and agrees that it shall be bound by all the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement, as if it had been an original party to the Intercreditor Agreement;

(v)

each Revolving Facility Lender that is not an existing Lender expressly acknowledges the limitations on the Lenders’ obligations set out in paragraph (c) of clause 29.4 (Limitation of responsibility of Existing Lenders) of the Amended and Restated Facility Agreement;

(vi)

each Revolving Facility Lender that is not an existing Lender confirms that:

(A)

it is not a Defaulting Lender and it is not an Non-Acceptable L/C Lender; and

(B)

it is not a Sponsor Affiliate; and

(vii)

the Agent will update its Register to reflect the Commitments of each Revolving Facility Lender as well as the updated schedule in Part 2 (The Original Lenders) of Schedule 1 (The Original Parties) of the Amended and Restated Facility Agreement (and will provide the Obligors’ Agent with a copy of that updated Register upon request).

2.3

Basket re-set

On and from Effective Date, any utilisation of any basket, permission or ratio set out in Clause 1.1 (Definitions), Schedule 16 (Covenants and Certain Definitions) or any other provision of

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the Original Facility Agreement (including all “annual”, “life of Facilities” and “at any time” baskets) prior to the Effective Date (other than with respect to the Incurrence of any Indebtedness described in paragraphs (a), (c) and (g), and sub-paragraph (d)(i) of Section 1.2 (Limitation of Indebtedness) of Part 1 (Covenants) of Schedule 16 (Covenants and Certain Definitions) of the Amended and Restated Facility Agreement) (each utilisation, a “Basket Utilisation”) shall be ‘grandfathered’ and deemed permitted for all purposes under the Finance Documents without being deemed a Basket Utilisation under the Amended and Restated Facility Agreement.

2.4

Covenant Amendments

Each of the parties to this Agreement acknowledges that if any terms of the Senior Secured Notes Indenture which are equivalent to the terms set out in any of Schedule 16 (Covenants and Certain Definitions), Schedule 17 (Information Undertakings) or Schedule 18 (Events of Default) of the Amended and Restated Facility Agreement are modified on or prior to the Notes Closing Date (the “Covenant Amendments”), then the terms of the Amended and Restated Facility Agreement will be amended as soon as reasonably practicable and in any event within 5 Business Days of the Notes Closing Date to reflect the Covenant Amendments, provided that there shall be no amendments made pursuant to this Clause 2.4 to the following provisions of the Amended and Restated Facility Agreement:

(a)

the definition of “Margin” (including the margin ratchet set out therein);

(b)

the Consolidated Leverage Ratio set out in paragraph (a) of clause 26.2 (Financial condition); and

(c)

the Consolidated Senior Secured Leverage Ratio set out in paragraph (c)(i) of clause 27.10 (Release condition).

3.Accession of Additional Borrowers and Guarantors

(a)

As of the Effective Date, each of Resolute and Aggreko Finance agrees to become an Additional Guarantor and Aggreko Finance agrees to become an Additional Borrower and, in each case, to be bound by the terms of the Amended and Restated Facility Agreement and the other Finance Documents (other than the Intercreditor Agreement) as an Additional Guarantor and/or an Additional Borrower (as applicable) pursuant to clauses 31.2 (Additional Borrowers) and 31.4 (Additional Guarantors and Transaction Security) of the Amended and Restated Facility Agreement.

(b)

The administrative details of Resolute for the purposes of the Amended and Restated Facility Agreement are as follows:

Address:

Lomondgate, Stirling Road, Dumbarton, Scotland, G82 3RG

Email:

[***]

Attention:

[***]

(c)

The administrative details of Aggreko Finance for the purposes of the Amended and Restated Facility Agreement are as follows:

Address:

Lomondgate, Stirling Road, Dumbarton, Scotland, G82 3RG

Email:

[***]

Attention:

[***]

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(d)

By their execution of this Agreement each of the Agent, the Security Agent and the Obligors’ Agent confirm their respective acceptance of Resolute and Aggreko Finance as Additional Borrower and Additional Guarantors (as applicable) with effect from the Effective Date for all purposes under the Amended and Restated Facility Agreement.

(e)

The Obligors’ Agent confirms that as of the Effective Date no Default is continuing or would occur as a result of Aggreko Finance becoming an Additional Borrower.

(f)

This Agreement shall take effect as an “Accession Deed” for the purposes of the Amended and Restated Facility Agreement.

4.Conditions Precedent

The Agent shall notify the Obligors’ Agent in writing promptly upon receipt of any documents and other evidence listed in Part 1 (Conditions Precedent to Effective Date) of Schedule 2 (Conditions Precedent) of the Amended and Restated Facility Agreement in all material respects in the relevant form provided previously under the Original Facility Agreement (amended as necessary to reflect the nature of this Agreement) or otherwise in form and substance satisfactory to it (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders).

5.Transaction Expenses

The Obligors’ Agent shall (or shall procure that one of its Subsidiaries will) reimburse the Agent and the Security Agent for costs and expenses incurred in connection with the amendments contemplated by this Agreement and to the extent required by clause 22.1 (Transaction expenses) of the Original Facility Agreement.

6.Representations

The Repeating Representations are deemed to be made (by reference to the facts and circumstances then existing) on the date of this Agreement and on the Effective Date, and references to “this Agreement” or “Finance Documents” in each of the Repeating Representations should be construed as references to this Agreement and to the Amended and Restated Facility Agreement.

7.Guarantee and Security Confirmation

Topco confirms on behalf of itself and the Obligors’ Agent confirms on behalf of itself and each other Obligor that with effect from the date of this Agreement and on the Effective Date, it intends that:

(a)

the guarantee and indemnity given by such Obligor under clause 23 (Guarantee and Indemnity) of the Original Facility Agreement shall remain in full force and effect and shall extend to all amounts made available under the Amended and Restated Facility Agreement; and

(b)

the Security granted by each Obligor and Topco under each Transaction Security Document to which it is a party at the date of this Agreement and on the Effective Date shall remain in full force and effect and shall continue to secure the obligations under the Finance Documents (including this Agreement and the Amended and Restated Facility Agreement) expressed to be secured under the relevant Transaction Security Document,

in each case, subject to any limitations set out in the Finance Documents from time to time and the Legal Reservations and the Perfection Requirements.

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8.Continuity

(a)

The provisions of the Original Facility Agreement and each other Finance Document shall, save as amended by this Agreement, continue in full force and effect.

(b)

Nothing in this Agreement shall constitute or be construed as a waiver or compromise of any other term or condition of the Finance Documents or any of the Finance Parties’ rights in relation to them which for the avoidance of doubt shall continue to apply in full force and effect.

9.Miscellaneous

9.1

Incorporation of terms

The provisions of clause 37 (Notices), clause 39 (Partial Invalidity), clause 40 (Remedies and waivers), clause 42 (Confidentiality) and clause 47 (Enforcement) of the Amended and Restated Facility Agreement shall be incorporated into this Agreement as if set out in full in this Agreement and as if references in those clauses to the Amended and Restated Facility Agreement are to be construed as references to this Agreement.

9.2

Counterparts

This Agreement may be executed in any number of counterparts, and this has the same effect as if the signatures on the counterparts were on a single copy of this Agreement.

10.Governing Law

This Agreement and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with it are governed by English law.

This Agreement has been signed on behalf of the Obligors’ Agent, Topco, each RCF Lender, each Bonding Facility Lender, the Agent and the Security Agent and executed as a deed by Resolute and Aggreko Finance and is delivered on the date stated at the beginning of this Agreement and all parties hereto intend for this Agreement to take effect as a deed.

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Schedule 1

Amended and Restated Facility Agreement

Conformed Copy effective as of 21 May 2025

Dated 31 July 2021

(as amended pursuant to an amendment letter dated 8 September 2021, an amendment letter dated 15 October 2021, an amendment agreement dated 30 December 2021, an amendment letter dated 20 June 2024 and an amendment and restatement agreement dated 14 May 2025)

PROJECT KESTREL

ALBION HOLDCO LIMITED

arranged by

J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES PLC
DEUTSCHE BANK AG, LONDON BRANCH
BARCLAYS BANK PLC
BANCO SANTANDER, S.A., LONDON BRANCH
HSBC UK BANK PLC
STANDARD CHARTERED BANK
LLOYDS BANK PLC
ROYAL BANK OF CANADA
UBS AG LONDON BRANCH
GOLDMAN SACHS INTERNATIONAL
NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK PLC
MUFG BANK, LTD
SMBC BANK INTERNATIONAL PLC
CITIBANK N.A., LONDON BRANCH
INTESA SANPAOLO S.P.A, LONDON BRANCH
FIRST ABU DHABI BANK PJSC, LONDON BRANCH
MORGAN STANLEY BANK INTERNATIONAL LIMITED
MIZUHO BANK, LTD.
BANK OF AMERICA EUROPE DESIGNATED ACTIVITY COMPANY

as Arrangers

JPMORGAN CHASE BANK N.A., LONDON BRANCH
DEUTSCHE BANK AG, LONDON BRANCH
BARCLAYS BANK PLC
BANCO SANTANDER, S.A., LONDON BRANCH
HSBC UK BANK PLC
STANDARD CHARTERED BANK
LLOYDS BANK PLC
ROYAL BANK OF CANADA
UBS AG LONDON BRANCH
GOLDMAN SACHS INTERNATIONAL
NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK PLC
MUFG BANK, LTD.
SMBC BANK INTERNATIONAL PLC
CITIBANK N.A., LONDON BRANCH
INTESA SANPAOLO S.P.A, LONDON BRANCH
FIRST ABU DHABI BANK PJSC, LONDON BRANCH
MORGAN STANLEY BANK INTERNATIONAL LIMITED


MIZUHO BANK, LTD.

BANK OF AMERICA EUROPE DESIGNATED ACTIVITY COMPANY

as Bookrunners

with

GLAS USA LLC

acting as Agent

and

GLAS TRUST CORPORATION LIMITED

acting as Security Agent

____________________________________________________________

REVOLVING FACILITY AGREEMENT

$1,195,000,000

____________________________________________________________

Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP

London


TABLE OF CONTENTS

Clause

Page

Section 1. Interpretation

1

1

Definitions and Interpretation

1

Section 2. The Facilities

46

2

The Facilities

46

3

Purpose

58

4

Conditions of Utilisation

58

Section 3. Utilisation

62

5

Utilisation – Loans

62

6

Utilisation – Letters of Credit

63

7

Letters of Credit

68

8

Optional Currencies

76

9

Ancillary Facilities

77

Section 4. Repayment, Prepayment and Cancellation

87

10

Repayment

87

11

Illegality, Voluntary Prepayment and Cancellation

88

12

Mandatory Prepayment

90

13

Restrictions

91

Section 5. Costs of Utilisation

93

14

Interest

93

15

Interest Periods

94

16

Changes to the Calculation of Interest

95

17

Fees

97

Section 6. Additional Payment Obligations

100

18

Tax Gross-Up and Indemnities

100

19

Increased Costs

114

20

Other Indemnities

117

21

Mitigation by the Lenders

118

22

Costs and Expenses

118

Section 7. Guarantee

120

23

Guarantee and Indemnity

120

Section 8. Representations, Undertakings and Events of Default

125

24

Representations

125

25

Information Undertakings

130

26

Financial Covenant

132

27

General Undertakings

134

28

Events of Default

138

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Section 9. Changes to Parties

142

29

Changes to the Lenders

142

30

Debt Purchase Transactions

150

31

Changes to the Obligors

154

Section 10. The Finance Parties

159

32

Role of the Agent, The Arrangers, the Issuing Bank and Others

159

33

Conduct of Business by the Finance Parties

170

34

Sharing among the Finance Parties

170

Section 11. Administration

173

35

Payment Mechanics

173

36

Set-Off

176

37

Notices

177

38

Calculations and Certificates

180

39

Partial Invalidity

180

40

Remedies and Waivers

181

41

Amendments and Waivers

181

42

Confidentiality

190

43

Confidentiality of Funding Rates

195

44

Counterparts

196

45

Entire Agreement

196

Section 12. Governing Law and Enforcement

197

46

Governing Law

197

47

Enforcement

197

48

PATRIOT ACT

197

49

Contractual recognition of bail-in

197

Schedule 1 The Original Parties

200

Part 1

The Original Obligors

Part 2

The Original Lenders

Schedule 2 Conditions Precedent

201

Part 1

Conditions Precedent to Effective Date

Part 2

Conditions Precedent required to be delivered by an Additional Obligor

Schedule 3 Requests and Notices

202

Part 1

Utilisation Request Loans

Part 2

Utilisation Request

Schedule 4 Form of Transfer Certificate

203

Schedule 5 Form of Assignment Agreement

204

Schedule 6 Form of Accession Deed

205

Schedule 7 Form of Resignation Letter

206

Schedule 8 Form of Compliance Certificate

207

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Schedule 9 Form of Confidentiality Undertaking

208

Schedule 10 Timetables

209

Part 1

Loans

Part 2

Letters of Credit

Schedule 11 Form of Letter of Credit

210

Schedule 12 Agreed Security Principles

211

Schedule 13 Form of Increase Confirmation

212

Schedule 14 Form of Incremental Facility Accession Notice

213

Schedule 15 Form of Incremental Facility Notice

214

Schedule 16 Covenants and Certain Definitions

215

Part 1

Covenants

Part 2

Certain Definitions

Schedule 17 Information Undertakings

216

Schedule 18 Events of Default

217

Schedule 19 Compounded Rate Terms

218

Part 1

Dollars

Part 2

Sterling

Schedule 20 Daily Non-Cumulative Compounded RFR Rate

219

Schedule 21 Form of Designated Entity Accession Agreement

220

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THIS AGREEMENT is dated 31 July 2021 (as amended pursuant to an amendment letter dated 8 September 2021, an amendment letter dated 15 October 2021, an amendment agreement dated 30 December 2021, an amendment letter dated 20 June 2024 and an amendment and restatement agreement dated 14 May 2025) and made between:

(1)

ALBION HOLDCO LIMITED, a private limited liability company incorporated under the laws of England and Wales with registered number 13227258 (the “Parent”);

(2)

THE PERSONS listed in Part 1 (The Original Obligors) of Schedule 1 (The Original Parties) as original borrowers (the “Original Borrowers”);

(3)

THE PERSONS listed in Part 1 (The Original Obligors) of Schedule 1 (The Original Parties) as original guarantors (the “Original Guarantors”);

(4)

J.P. MORGAN SECURITIES PLC, DEUTSCHE BANK AG, LONDON BRANCH, BARCLAYS BANK PLC, BANCO SANTANDER, S.A., LONDON BRANCH, HSBC UK BANK PLC, STANDARD CHARTERED BANK, LLOYDS BANK PLC, ROYAL BANK OF CANADA, UBS AG LONDON BRANCH, GOLDMAN SACHS INTERNATIONAL, NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK PLC, MUFG BANK, LTD, SMBC BANK INTERNATIONAL PLC, CITIBANK N.A., LONDON BRANCH, INTESA SANPAOLO S.P.A, LONDON BRANCH, FIRST ABU DHABI BANK PJSC, LONDON BRANCH, MORGAN STANLEY BANK INTERNATIONAL LIMITED, MIZUHO BANK, LTD. and BANK OF AMERICA EUROPE DESIGNATED ACTIVITY COMPANY as mandated lead arrangers (the “Arrangers”);

(5)

THE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS listed in Part 2 (The Original Lenders) of Schedule 1 (The Original Parties) as original lenders (the “Original Lenders”);

(6)

JPMORGAN CHASE BANK N.A., LONDON BRANCH, DEUTSCHE BANK AG, LONDON BRANCH, BARCLAYS BANK PLC, BANCO SANTANDER, S.A., LONDON BRANCH, HSBC UK BANK PLC, STANDARD CHARTERED BANK, LLOYDS BANK PLC, ROYAL BANK OF CANADA, UBS AG LONDON BRANCH, GOLDMAN SACHS INTERNATIONAL, NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK PLC, MUFG BANK, LTD., SMBC BANK INTERNATIONAL PLC, CITIBANK N.A., LONDON BRANCH, INTESA SANPAOLO S.P.A, LONDON BRANCH, FIRST ABU DHABI BANK PJSC, LONDON BRANCH, MORGAN STANLEY BANK INTERNATIONAL LIMITED, INC., MIZUHO BANK, LTD. and BANK OF AMERICA EUROPE DESIGNATED ACTIVITY COMPANY as bookrunners (the “Bookrunners”);

(7)

GLAS USA LLC as agent of the other Finance Parties (the “Agent”); and

(8)

GLAS TRUST CORPORATION LIMITED as security trustee for the Secured Parties (the “Security Agent”).

IT IS AGREED as follows:

Section 1.

Interpretation

1

Definitions and Interpretation

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Unless a contrary indication appears, capitalised terms used in this Agreement have the meaning given to them (unless the context requires otherwise) in this Clause 1, Schedule 16 (Covenants and Certain Definitions) and Schedule 18 (Events of Default).

1.1

Definitions

In this Agreement:

Acceleration Event” means following the occurrence of an Event of Default which is continuing:

(a)

the Agent giving notice of acceleration under sub-paragraph (a)(ii) of Clause 28.4 (Acceleration); or

(b)

having placed the Facilities on demand pursuant to sub-paragraph (a)(iii) of Clause 28.4 (Acceleration), the Agent makes a demand for the payment as referred to in that paragraph.

Acceptable Bank” means:

(a)

a bank or financial institution which has a rating for its long-term unsecured and non credit-enhanced debt obligations of at least Baa2 by Moody’s or BBB by S&P; or

(b)

any Finance Party (or Affiliate of a Finance Party).

Accession Deed” means a document substantially in the form set out in Schedule 6 (Form of Accession Deed).

Act” means the United Kingdom Companies Act 2006, as may be amended from time to time.

Additional Borrower” means a company which becomes an Additional Borrower in accordance with Clause 31 (Changes to the Obligors).

Additional Business Day” means any day specified as such in the applicable Compounded Rate Terms.

Additional Guarantor” means a company which becomes an Additional Guarantor in accordance with Clause 31 (Changes to the Obligors).

Additional Obligor” means an Additional Borrower or an Additional Guarantor.

Affiliate” has the meaning given to that term in Schedule 16 (Covenants and Certain Definitions).

Agent’s Spot Rate of Exchange” means the London foreign exchange market spot rate of exchange for the purchase of the relevant currency with the Base Currency at or about 9:00 a.m. (local time) on a particular day.

Agreed Certain Funds Obligor” means the Parent and any other member of the Group and/or any person which is not an Obligor but has provided Transaction Security designated as an “Agreed Certain Funds Obligor” by the Parent and the relevant Lenders who have agreed to provide an Agreed Certain Funds Utilisation in accordance with the provisions of Clause 4.5 (Utilisations of Revolving Facility/Incremental Facility during the Agreed Certain Funds Period).

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Agreed Certain Funds Period” means:

(a)

in respect of a Revolving Facility, if all of the relevant Lenders providing such Revolving Facility have agreed that it shall be provided on a “certain funds basis” in accordance with the provisions of Clause 4.5 (Utilisations of Revolving Facility/Incremental Facility during the Agreed Certain Funds Period), the period specified in a notice delivered by the Parent and the relevant Lenders providing such Revolving Facility to the Agent; and

(b)

in respect of an Incremental Facility, which all of the Incremental Facility Lenders providing such Incremental Facility have agreed shall be provided on a “certain funds basis” in accordance with the provisions of Clause 4.5 (Utilisations of Revolving Facility/Incremental Facility during the Agreed Certain Funds Period), the period specified in the relevant Incremental Facility Notice.

Agreed Certain Funds Utilisation” means:

(a)

in respect of a Revolving Facility, if all of the relevant Lenders providing such Revolving Facility have agreed that it shall be provided on a “certain funds” basis in accordance with the provisions of Clause 4.5 (Utilisations of Revolving Facility/Incremental Facility during the Agreed Certain Funds Period), a Utilisation made or to be made under such Revolving Facility during the Agreed Certain Funds Period solely for any of the purposes agreed with the relevant Lenders providing such Revolving Facility; and

(b)

in respect of an Incremental Facility, which all of the Incremental Facility Lenders providing such Incremental Facility have agreed shall be provided on a “certain funds basis” in accordance with the provisions of Clause 4.5 (Utilisations of Revolving Facility/Incremental Facility during the Agreed Certain Funds Period), a Utilisation made or to be made under such Incremental Facility during the Agreed Certain Funds Period solely for any of the purposes agreed with the relevant Incremental Facility Lenders providing such Incremental Facility.

Agreed Security Principles” means the principles set out in Schedule 12 (Agreed Security Principles).

Amended and Restated Senior Term Facility Agreement” means the credit facility agreement originally dated 31 July 2021 between, among others, the Parent, Finco 3, Albion Financing LLC, the guarantors therein, the lenders therein, GLAS USA LLC as administrative agent and the Security Agent, as amended, restated, modified, renewed, refunded, replaced, restructured, refinanced, repaid, increased or extended in whole or in part from time to time.

Amendment and Restatement Agreement” means an amendment and restatement agreement in respect of this Agreement, dated 14 May 2025 between, amongst others, the Parent and the Agent.

Ancillary Commencement Date” means, in relation to an Ancillary Facility, the date on which that Ancillary Facility is first made available, which date shall be a Business Day within the Availability Period for the relevant Revolving Facility.

Ancillary Commitment” means, in relation to an Ancillary Lender and an Ancillary Facility, the maximum Base Currency Amount which that Ancillary Lender has agreed (whether or not subject to satisfaction of conditions precedent) to make available from time to time under an Ancillary Facility and which has been authorised as such under Clause 9 (Ancillary Facilities), to the extent that amount is not cancelled or reduced by the terms of this Agreement or the Ancillary Documents relating to that Ancillary Facility.

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Ancillary Document” means each document relating to or evidencing the terms of an Ancillary Facility.

Ancillary Facility” means any ancillary facility made available by an Ancillary Lender in accordance with Clause 9 (Ancillary Facilities).

Ancillary Facility Designated Gross Amount” has the meaning given to that term in Clause 9.2 (Availability).

Ancillary Facility Designated Net Amount” has the meaning given to that term in Clause 9.2 (Availability).

Ancillary Lender” means each Lender (or Affiliate of a Lender) which makes available an Ancillary Facility in accordance with Clause 9 (Ancillary Facilities).

Ancillary Outstandings” means, at any time in relation to an Ancillary Lender and an Ancillary Facility then in force the aggregate of the equivalents (as calculated by that Ancillary Lender) in the Base Currency of the following amounts outstanding under that Ancillary Facility:

(a)

the principal amount under each overdraft facility and on-demand short term loan facility (net of any credit balances on any account of any Borrower of an Ancillary Facility with the Ancillary Lender making available that Ancillary Facility to the extent that the credit balances are freely available to be set off by that Ancillary Lender against liabilities owed to it by that Borrower under that Ancillary Facility);

(b)

the face amount of each guarantee, bond and letter of credit under that Ancillary Facility (excluding any amount in respect of interest and similar charges and net of any cash cover); and

(c)

the amount fairly representing the aggregate net principal exposure (excluding interest and similar charges) of that Ancillary Lender under each other type of accommodation provided under that Ancillary Facility; and

in each case as determined by the relevant Ancillary Lender, acting reasonably in accordance with its normal banking practice and in accordance with the relevant Ancillary Document and excluding any intra-day exposure under any BACS or equivalent facility.

Annual Financial Statements” has the meaning given to that term in Clause 25 (Information Undertakings).

Asset Disposition” has the meaning given to that term in Part 2 (Certain Definitions) of Schedule 16 (Covenants and Certain Definitions).

Assignment Agreement” means an agreement substantially in the form set out in Schedule 5 (Form of Assignment Agreement) or any other form agreed between the Agent and the Obligors’ Agent provided that if that other form does not contain the undertaking set out in the form set out in Schedule 5 (Form of Assignment Agreement) it shall not be a Creditor/Agent Accession Undertaking as defined in, and for the purposes of, the Intercreditor Agreement.

Authorisation” means an authorisation, consent, approval, resolution, licence, exemption, filing, notarisation or registration, in each case, required by any applicable law or regulation.

Availability Period” means:

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(a)

in relation to the RCF, the period from and including the Notes Closing Date to and including one (1) Month prior to the Maturity Date applicable to the RCF;

(b)

in relation to the Bonding Facility, the period from and including the Notes Closing Date to and including one (1) Month prior to the Maturity Date applicable to the Bonding Facility; and

(c)

in relation to any Incremental Facility, the date specified in the Incremental Facility Notice relating to that Incremental Facility (or such other date as the Incremental Facility Lenders in respect of that Incremental Facility and the Obligors’ Agent may agree).

Available Commitment” means, in relation to a Facility, a Lender’s Commitment under that Facility minus (subject to Clause 9.9 (Affiliates of Lenders as Ancillary Lenders) and as set out below):

(a)

the Base Currency Amount of its participation in any outstanding Utilisations under that Facility and, in the case of a Revolving Facility only, the Base Currency Amount of the aggregate of its (or its Affiliates) Ancillary Commitments in respect of such Revolving Facility; and

(b)

in relation to any proposed Utilisation, the Base Currency Amount of its participation in any other Utilisations that are due to be made under that Facility on or before the proposed Utilisation Date and, in the case of a Revolving Facility only, the Base Currency Amount of its (or its Affiliates) Ancillary Commitment in relation to any new Ancillary Facility under that Revolving Facility that is due to be made available on or before the proposed Utilisation Date.

For the purposes of calculating a Lender’s Available Commitment in relation to any proposed Utilisation under a Revolving Facility:

(i)

that Lender’s participation in any Revolving Utilisations in respect of that Revolving Facility that are due to be repaid or prepaid on or before the proposed Utilisation Date shall not be deducted from a Lender’s Commitment under that Revolving Facility; and

(ii)

that Lender’s (or its Affiliate’s) Ancillary Commitments in respect of that Revolving Facility to the extent that they are due to be reduced or cancelled on or before the proposed Utilisation Date shall not be deducted from such Lender’s Commitment under that Revolving Facility.

Available Facility” means, in relation to a Facility, the aggregate for the time being of each Lender’s Available Commitment in respect of that Facility.

Bank Levy” means any amount payable by any Finance Party or any of its Affiliates on the basis of, or in relation to, its balance sheet or capital base or any part of that person or its liabilities or minimum regulatory capital or any combination thereof, including, without limitation:

(a)

the UK bank levy as set out in the Finance Act 2011;

(b)

the French taxe pour le financement du fonds de soutien aux collectivités territoriales as set out by Article 235 ter ZE bis of the French Code Général des impôts;

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(c)

the German bank levy as set out in the German Restructuring Fund Act 2010 (Restrukturierungsfondsgesetz) (as amended);

(d)

the Dutch bankenbelasting as set out in the bank levy act (Wet bankenbelasting);

(e)

the Austrian bank levy as set out in the Austrian Stability Duty Act (Stabilitätsgesetz);

(f)

the Swedish bank levy as set out in the Swedish Precautionary Support Act (Sw. lag (2015:1017) om förebyggande statligt stöd till kreditinstitut) (as amended));

(g)

the Spanish bank levy (Impuesto sobre los Depósitos en las Entidades de Crédito) as set out in the Law 16/2012 of 27 December 2012; and

(h)

any other levy or tax in any jurisdiction levied on a similar basis or for a similar purpose or any financial activities taxes (or other taxes) of a kind contemplated in the European Commission consultation paper on financial sector taxation dated 22 February 2011  or the Single Resolution Mechanism established by EU Regulation n 806/2014 of July 15, 2014 which has been enacted or which has been formally announced as proposed as at the date of this Agreement or (if applicable) in respect of any Finance Party which becomes a Finance Party after the date of this Agreement, as at the date that Finance Party accedes as a Finance Party to this Agreement.

Bankruptcy Law” has the meaning given to that term in Schedule 18 (Events of Default).

Base Currency” means Dollars.

Base Currency Amount” means:

(a)

in relation to a Utilisation, the amount specified in the Utilisation Request delivered for that Utilisation (or, if the amount requested is not denominated in the Base Currency, that amount converted into the Base Currency at the Agent’s Spot Rate of Exchange on the date which is three (3) Business Days before the Utilisation Date or, if later, on the date the Agent receives the Utilisation Request in accordance with this Agreement) and, in the case of a Letter of Credit, as adjusted under Clause 6.8 (Revaluation of Letters of Credit); and

(b)

in relation to an Ancillary Commitment, the amount specified as such in the notice delivered to the Agent by the Obligors’ Agent pursuant to Clause 9.2 (Availability) (or, if the amount specified is not denominated in the Base Currency, that amount converted into the Base Currency at the Agent’s Spot Rate of Exchange on the date which is three (3) Business Days before the Ancillary Commencement Date for that Ancillary Facility or, if later, the date the Agent receives the notice of the Ancillary Commitment in accordance with this Agreement),

as adjusted to reflect any repayment, prepayment, consolidation or division of a Utilisation, or (as the case may be) cancellation or reduction of an Ancillary Facility.

Base Rate” means, in relation to any Term Rate Loan (other than any Term Rate Loan denominated in Euro):

(a)

the applicable Screen Rate as of the Specified Time on the Quotation Day for the currency of that Loan and a period equal in length to the Interest Period of that Loan; or

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(b)

as otherwise determined pursuant to Clause 16.1 (Unavailability of Screen Rate),

provided that if that rate is less than zero, the relevant Base Rate shall be deemed to be zero.

Blocking Regulation” means Section 7 of the German Trade Regulation (Außenwirtschaftsverordnung), any provision of Council Regulation (EC) No 2271/1996 of 22 November 1996, as amended, (or any law or regulation implementing such Regulation in any member state of the European Union or the United Kingdom) or any similar blocking or anti-boycott law, regulation or statute in force from time to time.

Bonding Facility” means the bond and guarantee facility made available under this Agreement as described in paragraph (b) of Clause 2.1 (The Facilities).

Bonding Facility Commitment” means:

(a)

in relation to each Original Lender, the amount in the Base Currency set opposite its name under the heading “Bonding Facility Commitment” in Part 2 (The Original Lenders) of Schedule 1 (The Original Parties) and the amount of any other Bonding Facility Commitment transferred to it or assumed by it in accordance with this Agreement (including pursuant to Clause 2.2 (Increase – general), Clause 2.5 (Incremental Facilities) and/or a Facility Change)); and

(b)

in relation to any other Lender, the amount in the Base Currency of any Bonding Facility Commitment transferred to it or assumed by it in accordance with this Agreement,

to the extent not cancelled, reduced or transferred by it under this Agreement.

Bonding Facility Lender” means any Lender that makes available a Bonding Facility Commitment.

Borrower” means an Original Borrower or an Additional Borrower unless it has ceased to be a Borrower in accordance with Clause 31 (Changes to the Obligors) and, in respect of an Ancillary Facility, any Affiliate of a Borrower that becomes a borrower of that Ancillary Facility in accordance with Clause 9.10 (Affiliates of Borrowers).

Break Costs” means:

(a)

in respect of a Term Rate Loan, the amount (if any) by which:

(i)

the interest (excluding the applicable Margin and any floating rate floor) which a Lender should have received for the period from the date of receipt of all or any part of its participation in a Loan or Unpaid Sum to the last day of the current Interest Period in respect of that Loan or Unpaid Sum, had the principal amount or Unpaid Sum received been paid on the last day of that Interest Period;

exceeds:

(ii)

the amount which that Lender would be able to obtain by placing an amount equal to the principal amount or Unpaid Sum received by it on deposit with a leading bank in the Relevant Market for a period starting on the Business Day following receipt or recovery and ending on the last day of the current Interest Period; and

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(b)

in respect of a Compounded Rate Loan, zero.

Business Day” means a day (other than a Saturday or Sunday) on which banks are open for general business in London, New York, Luxembourg and the Channel Islands and:

(a)

(in relation to any date for payment or purchase of a currency other than euro) the principal financial centre of the country of that currency;

(b)

(in relation to any date for payment or purchase of euro) which is a TARGET Day; or

(c)

in relation to:

(i)

any date for payment or purchase of a Compounded Rate Currency;

(ii)

the determination of the first day or the last day of an Interest Period for a Compounded Rate Loan; or

(iii)

the determination of the length of an Interest Period for a Compounded Rate Loan,

an Additional Business Day relating to the relevant currency or Loan.

Capitalized Lease Obligations” has the meaning given to that term in Part 2 (Certain Definitions) of Schedule 16 (Covenants and Certain Definitions).

Central Bank Rate” has the meaning given to that term in the applicable Compounded Rate Terms.

Central Bank Rate Adjustment” has the meaning given to that term in the applicable Compounded Rate Terms.

Central Bank Rate Spread” has the meaning given to that term in the applicable Compounded Rate Terms.

Change of Control” has the meaning given to such term in Part 2 (Certain Definitions) of  Schedule 16 (Covenants and Certain Definitions).

Charged Property” means all of the assets of the Obligors which from time to time are, or are expressed to be, the subject of the Transaction Security.

Closing Date” means 16 August 2021.

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

Commitment” means an RCF Commitment, a Bonding Facility Commitment and/or an Incremental Facility Commitment.

Compliance Certificate” means a certificate substantially in the form set out in Schedule 8 (Form of Compliance Certificate) or otherwise in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent (acting reasonably).

Compounded Rate Currency” means Sterling or USD.

Compounded Rate Loan” means any Loan or, if applicable, Unpaid Sum which is denominated in a Compounded Rate Currency.

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Compounded Rate Supplement” means, in relation to any currency, a document which:

(a)

is designated in writing by the Parent as a Compounded Rate Supplement in respect of that currency;

(b)

specifies for that currency the relevant terms which are expressed in this Agreement to be determined by reference to Compounded Rate Terms;

(c)

has been made available to the Agent and each existing Lender with a Commitment denominated (or which may be utilised) in such currency; and

(d)

has not been rejected (by 5.00 p.m. London time on the date falling five (5) Business Days (or any other period of time expressly notified for this purpose by the Parent, with the prior agreement of the Agent (acting reasonably) if the period for this provision to operate is less than five (5) Business Days) after the date of such document being made available to the Agent) by a Lender or Lenders whose Commitments aggregate 66.66 per cent. or more of the Commitments denominated (or which may be utilised) in such currency at that time (with the provisions of paragraph (s) of Clause 41.2 (Exceptions) not to apply to any such calculation).

Compounded Rate Terms” means in relation to:

(a)

a currency;

(b)

a Loan or an Unpaid Sum in that currency;

(c)

an Interest Period for such a Loan or Unpaid Sum (or other period for the accrual of commission or fees in respect of that currency); or

(d)

any term of this Agreement relating to the determination of a rate of interest in relation to such a Loan or Unpaid Sum,

the terms set out for that currency in Schedule 19 (Compounded Rate Terms) or in any Compounded Rate Supplement.

Compounded Reference Rate” means, in relation to any RFR Banking Day during the Interest Period of a Compounded Rate Loan, the percentage rate per annum which is the aggregate of:

(a)

the Daily Non-Cumulative Compounded RFR Rate for that RFR Banking Day; and

(b)

the applicable Credit Adjustment Spread.

Compounding Methodology Supplement” means, in relation to the Daily Non-Cumulative Compounded RFR Rate for any currency, a document which:

(a)

is designated in writing by the Parent as a Compounding Methodology Supplement in respect of that currency;

(b)

specifies for that currency the relevant terms which are expressed in this Agreement to be determined by reference to Compounded Rate Terms;

(c)

has been made available to the Agent and each existing Lender with a Commitment denominated (or which may be utilised) in such currency; and

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(d)

has not been rejected (by 5.00 p.m. London time on the date falling five (5) Business Days (or any other period of time expressly notified for this purpose by the Parent, with the prior agreement of the Agent (acting reasonably) if the period for this provision to operate is less than five (5) Business Days) after the date of such document being made available to the Agent) by a Lender or Lenders whose Commitments aggregate 66.66 per cent. or more of the Commitments denominated (or which may be utilised) in such currency at that time (with the provisions of paragraph (s) of Clause 41.2 (Exceptions) not to apply to any such calculation).

Confidential Information” means all information relating to the Parent, any Obligor, the Group, the Finance Documents or a Facility of which a Finance Party becomes aware in its capacity as, or for the purpose of becoming, a Finance Party or which is received by a Finance Party in relation to, or for the purpose of becoming a Finance Party under, the Finance Documents or a Facility from either:

(a)

any member of the Group or any of its advisers; or

(b)

another Finance Party, if the information was obtained by that Finance Party directly or indirectly from any member of the Group or any of its advisers,

in whatever form, and includes information given orally and any document, electronic file or any other way of representing or recording information which contains or is derived or copied from such information but excludes

(a)

information that:

(i)

is or becomes public information other than as a direct or indirect result of any breach by that Finance Party of Clause 42 (Confidentiality);

(ii)

is identified in writing at the time of delivery as non-confidential by any member of the Group or any of its advisers; or

(iii)

is known by that Finance Party before the date the information is disclosed to it in accordance with paragraphs (a) or (b) above or is lawfully obtained by that Finance Party after that date, from a source which is, as far as that Finance Party is aware, unconnected with the Group and which, in either case, as far as that Finance Party is aware, has not been obtained in breach of, and is not otherwise subject to, any obligation of confidentiality.

(b)

any Funding Rate.

Confidentiality Undertaking” means a confidentiality undertaking substantially in the form set out in Schedule 9 (Form of Confidentiality Undertaking) or in any other form agreed between the Obligors’ Agent and the relevant Lender.

Consolidated EBITDA” has the meaning given to that term in Part 2 (Certain Definitions) of Schedule 16 (Covenants and Certain Definitions).

Consolidated Net Income” has the meaning given to that term in Part 2 (Certain Definitions) of Schedule 16 (Covenants and Certain Definitions).

Consolidated Senior Secured Leverage Ratio” has the meaning given to that term in Part 2 (Certain Definitions) of Schedule 16 (Covenants and Certain Definitions) provided that:

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(a)

the date of determination shall be the last day of the applicable Test Period and the relevant Quarter Periods shall be the four fiscal quarters of that Test Period;

(b)

in respect of any applicable Test Period, the exchange rates used in relation to Senior Secured Indebtedness shall be the weighted average exchange rates for that Test Period as determined by the Parent (provided that, where applicable, any amount of Indebtedness will be stated so as to take into account the hedging effect of any currency hedging entered into in respect of or by reference to that Indebtedness); and

(c)

when calculating Indebtedness the Parent shall be permitted to exclude any Hedging Obligations (as defined in Part 2 (Certain Definitions) of Schedule 16 (Covenants and Certain Definitions)).

Court” means the Court of Session in Edinburgh, Scotland.

Credit Adjustment Spread” means, in respect of any Compounded Rate Loan, any rate which is either:

(a)

specified as such in the applicable Compounded Rate Terms; or

(b)

determined by the Agent (or any other person which is appointed to determine that rate in place of the Agent from time to time, in each case with the consent of that person and the Obligors’ Agent) in accordance with the methodology specified in the applicable Compounded Rate Terms.

Daily Non-Cumulative Compounded RFR Rate” means, in relation to any RFR Banking Day during an Interest Period for a Compounded Rate Loan, the percentage rate per annum determined by the Agent (or any other person which is appointed to determine that rate in place of the Agent from time to time, in each case with the consent of that person and the Obligors’ Agent) in accordance with the methodology set out in Schedule 20 (Daily Non-Cumulative Compounded RFR Rate) or in any relevant Compounding Methodology Supplement.

Daily Rate” means the rate specified as such in the applicable Compounded Rate Terms.

Debt Purchase Transaction” means, in relation to a person, a transaction where such person:

(a)

purchases by way of assignment or transfer;

(b)

enters into any sub-participation in respect of; or

(c)

enters into any other agreement or arrangement having an economic effect substantially similar to a sub-participation in respect of,

any Commitment or amount outstanding under this Agreement.

Default” means an Event of Default or any event or circumstance which would (with the expiry of a grace period, the giving of notice, the making of any determination under the Finance Documents or any combination of any of the foregoing) be an Event of Default, provided that any such event or circumstance which requires the satisfaction of a condition as to materiality before it becomes an Event of Default shall not be a Default unless that condition is satisfied and, provided further that any Default that results solely from the taking of an action that would have been permitted but for the continuation of a previous Default

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will be deemed to be cured if such previous Default is cured prior to becoming an Event of Default.

Defaulting Lender” means any Lender (other than a Lender which is a Sponsor Affiliate):

(a)

which has failed to make its participation in a Loan available or has notified the Agent that it will not make its participation in a Loan available by the Utilisation Date of that Loan in accordance with Clause 5.4 (Lenders’ participation);

(b)

which has otherwise rescinded or repudiated a Finance Document;

(c)

which is an Issuing Bank which has failed to issue a Letter of Credit (or has notified the Agent that it will not issue a Letter of Credit) in accordance with Clause 6.5 (Issue of Letters of Credit) or which has failed to pay a claim (or has notified the Agent that it will not pay a claim) in accordance with (and as defined in) Clause 7.2 (Claims under a Letter of Credit); or

(d)

which is a Sanctioned Finance Party or with respect to which an Insolvency Event has occurred and is continuing,

unless, in the case of paragraphs (a) or (c) above:

(i)

its failure to pay or issue a Letter of Credit is caused by:

(A)

administrative or technical error; or

(B)

a Disruption Event; and

payment is made within three (3) Business Days of its due date; or

(ii)

the Lender is disputing in good faith whether it is contractually obliged to make the payment in question.

Delegate” means any delegate, agent, attorney or co-trustee appointed by the Security Agent.

Disqualified Lender” means:

(a)

an Industry Competitor;

(b)

a Defaulting Lender; and/or

(c)

a Distressed/Loan to Own Investor,

provided that a Distressed/Loan to Own Investor shall not constitute a Disqualified Lender at any time whilst a Material Event of Default is continuing.

Disruption Event” means either or both of:

(a)

a material disruption to those payment or communications systems or to those financial markets which are, in each case, required to operate in order for payments to be made in connection with the Facilities (or otherwise in order for the transactions contemplated by the Finance Documents to be carried out) which disruption is not caused by, and is beyond the control of, any of the Parties; or

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(b)

the occurrence of any other event which results in a disruption (of a technical or systems-related nature) to the treasury or payments operations of a Party preventing that, or any other Party:

(i)

from performing its payment obligations under the Finance Documents; or

(ii)

from communicating with other Parties in accordance with the Finance Documents,

and which (in either such case) is not caused by, and is beyond the control of, the Party whose operations are disrupted.

Distressed/Loan to Own Investor” means:

(a)

any person whose principal business or material activity is in investment strategies whose primary purpose is the purchase of loans or other debt securities with the intention of (or view to) owning the equity or taking control of a business, or exploiting holdout or blocking positions (in each case, directly or indirectly);

(b)

any person which would, upon becoming a Lender, fall within paragraph (a) above; or

(c)

any person that is an Affiliate or a Related Fund of, or is acting on behalf of, a person falling within paragraph (a) above,

in each case, other than:

(i)

any Affiliate or Related Fund of any person falling within paragraphs (a) and/or (b) above which is a deposit taking financial institution authorised by a financial services regulator to carry out the business of banking which holds a minimum rating equal to or better than BBB or Baa2 (as applicable) according to at least two of Moody’s, S&P or Fitch; and

(ii)

any Affiliate or Related Fund of any person falling within paragraphs (a) and/or (b) above but which, in each case, is managed and controlled independently and where information is not disclosed or made available to the person falling within paragraphs (a) and/or (b) (as applicable) above and whose principal business or material activity does not involve the purchase of loans or other debt securities with the intention of (or view to) owning the equity or taking control of a business (directly or indirectly).

Effective Date” has the meaning given to that term in the Amendment and Restatement Agreement.

Equity Investors” has the meaning given to that term in Part 2 (Certain Definitions) of Schedule 16 (Covenants and Certain Definitions).

EURIBOR” means, in relation to any Term Rate Loan in euro:

(a)

the applicable Screen Rate as of the Specified Time on the Quotation Day for euro and a period equal in length to the Interest Period of that Loan; or

(b)

as otherwise determined pursuant to Clause 16.1 (Unavailability of Screen Rate),

provided that if that rate is less than zero, EURIBOR shall be deemed to be zero.

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Event of Default” means any event or circumstance specified as such in Clause 28 (Events of Default) or Schedule 18 (Events of Defaults).

Existing Ancillary Facility” means any facility or other financial accommodation made available to one or more members of the Group (or any of its subsidiaries) which is notified to the Agent by the Obligors’ Agent in accordance with Clause 9.14 (Existing Ancillary Facilities) as a facility or financial accommodation to be treated as an Ancillary Facility for the purposes of this Agreement.

Existing Debt” means:

(a)

the Existing Revolving Facility Agreement;

(b)

the Amended and Restated Senior Term Facility Agreement;

(c)

the $565,000,000 6.125% senior secured notes due 2026 and the €450,000,000 5.250% senior secured notes due 2026 issued by Finco 1 and Aggreko Holdings Inc. pursuant to an indenture dated 22 October 2021 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time) between, amongst others, Finco 1 and Aggreko Holdings Inc., as issuers and GLAS Trust Company LLC, as trustee, paying agent, registrar and transfer agent and GLAS Trust Corporation Limited as security agent; and

(d)

the $450,000,000 8.750% senior notes due 2027 issued by Finco 2 pursuant to an indenture dated 22 October 2021 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time) between, amongst others, Finco 2, as issuer, GLAS Trust Company LLC, as trustee, paying agent, registrar and transfer agent and GLAS Trust Corporation Limited as security agent.

Existing Revolving Facility Agreement” means the revolving facility agreement dated 31 July 2021 (as amended and/or restated from time to time) between, amongst others, the Parent as parent, Albion Midco Limited and Aggreko Limited, as borrowers, the lenders named therein and Global Loan Agency Services Limited, as agent.

Expiry Date” means, for a Letter of Credit, the last day of its Term.

Facility” means the RCF, the Bonding Facility and/or an Incremental Facility.

Facility Change” has the meaning given to that term in Clause 41.2 (Exceptions).

Facility Office” means:

(a)

in respect of a Lender or an Issuing Bank, the office or offices notified by that Lender or an Issuing Bank to the Agent in writing on or before the date it becomes a Lender or an Issuing Bank (or, following that date, by not less than five (5) Business Days’ written notice) as the office or offices through which it will perform its obligations under this Agreement; or

(b)

in respect of any other Finance Party, the office in the jurisdiction in which it is resident for tax purposes.

Fallback Interest Period” means one (1) week.

FATCA” means:

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(a)

Sections 1471 to 1474 of the Code or any associated regulations or other official guidance;

(b)

any treaty, law or regulation of any other jurisdiction, or relating to an intergovernmental agreement between the US and any other jurisdiction, which (in either case) facilitates the implementation of any law or regulation referred to in paragraph (a) above; or

(c)

any agreement pursuant to the implementation of any treaty, law or regulation referred to in paragraphs (a) or (b) above with the US Internal Revenue Service, the US government or any governmental or taxation authority in any other jurisdiction.

FATCA Application Date” means:

(a)

in relation to a “withholdable payment” described in section 1473(1)(A)(i) of the Code (which relates to payments of interest and certain other payments from sources within the US), 1 July 2014; or

(b)

in relation to a “passthru payment” described in section 1471(d)(7) of the Code not falling within paragraph (a) above, the first date from which such payment may become subject to a deduction or withholding required by FATCA.

FATCA Deduction” means a deduction or withholding from a payment under a Finance Document required by FATCA.

FATCA Exempt Party” means a Party that is entitled to receive payments free from any FATCA Deduction.

Fee Letter” means any letter or letters between a Finance Party and a member of the Group setting out any of the fees payable in relation to any Facility and/or any Incremental Facility, including those referred to in paragraph (e) of Clause 2.2 (Increase - general) and Clause 17 (Fees).

Finance Document” means this Agreement, the Amendment and Restatement Agreement, any Accession Deed, any Ancillary Document, any Compliance Certificate, any Fee Letter, the Intercreditor Agreement, any Resignation Letter, any Transaction Security Document, any Utilisation Request, any Incremental Facility Accession Notice, any Incremental Facility Notice, any Compounded Rate Supplement, any Compounding Methodology Supplement and any other document designated as a “Finance Document” by the Agent and the Obligors’ Agent.

Finance Party” means the Agent, the Arrangers, the Bookrunners, the Security Agent, a Lender, an Issuing Bank and any Ancillary Lender.

Financial Year” means, unless otherwise notified by the Parent to the Agent, the annual accounting period of the Group.

Finco 1” means Albion Financing 1 S.à. r.l., a private limited liability company (société à responsabilité limitée) incorporated under the laws of Luxembourg, having its registered office at 20, rue Eugène Ruppert, L-2453 Luxembourg and registered with the RCS under number B252757.

Finco 2” means Albion Financing 2 S.à r.l., a private limited liability company (société à responsabilité limitée) incorporated under the laws of Luxembourg, having its registered

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office at 20, rue Eugène Ruppert, L-2453 Luxembourg and registered with the RCS under number B252761.

Finco 3” means Albion Financing 3 S.à r.l., a private limited liability company (société à responsabilité limitée) incorporated under the laws of Luxembourg, having its registered office at 20, rue Eugène Ruppert, L-2453 Luxembourg and registered with the RCS under number B252762.

Funding Rate” means any individual rate notified by a Lender to the Agent pursuant to sub-paragraph (a)(ii) of Clause 16.2 (Market disruption).

Group” means the Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries (or, in each case, the IPO Pushdown Entity and its Restricted Subsidiaries from the Pushdown Date).

Group Structure Chart” means the group structure chart showing the structure of the Group as at the Effective Date.

Guarantor” means an Original Guarantor or an Additional Guarantor, unless it has ceased to be a Guarantor in accordance with Clause 31 (Changes to the Obligors).

Guarantor Coverage Threshold” means the requirement that, subject to the Agreed Security Principles, the Guarantors (disregarding the earnings from ordinary activities before interest, taxation, depreciation, amortisation and exceptional items (calculated on the same basis as Consolidated EBITDA, mutatis mutandis) (“Entity EBITDA”) of any Guarantor that generates negative Entity EBITDA) account for at least 80 per cent. of the Consolidated EBITDA of the Group and calculated excluding the Entity EBITDA of any member of the Group that is not required to become a guarantor in accordance with the Agreed Security Principles.

Historic Screen Rate” means, in relation to any Loan, the most recent applicable Screen Rate for the currency of that Loan and for a period equal in length to the Interest Period of that Loan and which is as of a day which is no more than five (5) Business Days before the Quotation Day.

Holding Company” means, in relation to a company or corporation, any other company or corporation in respect of which it is a Subsidiary.

IFRS” has the meaning given to that term in Schedule 16 (Covenants and Certain Definitions).

Impaired Agent” means the Agent at any time when:

(a)

it has failed to make (or has notified a Party that it will not make) a payment required to be made by it under the Finance Documents by the due date for payment;

(b)

the Agent otherwise rescinds or repudiates a Finance Document;

(c)

(if the Agent is also a Lender) it is a Defaulting Lender under paragraphs (a) or (b) of the definition of “Defaulting Lender”; or

(d)

it is a Sanctioned Finance Party, or an Insolvency Event has occurred and is continuing with respect to the Agent,

unless, in the case of paragraph (a) above:

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(i)

its failure to pay is caused by:

(A)

administrative or technical error; or

(B)

a Disruption Event,

and payment is made within three (3) Business Days of its due date; or

(ii)

the Agent is disputing in good faith whether it is contractually obliged to make the payment in question.

Increase Confirmation” means a confirmation substantially in the form set out in Schedule 13 (Form of Increase Confirmation) or in any other form agreed between the Agent and the Obligors’ Agent.

Increase Lender” has the meaning given to that term in sub-paragraph (a)(ii)(A) of Clause 2.2 (Increase – general).

Increased Costs” has the meaning given to that term in Clause 19.1 (Increased Costs).

Incremental Facility” has the meaning given to that term in paragraph (a) of Clause 2.5 (Incremental Facilities).

Incremental Facility Accession Notice” means a notice substantially in the form set out in Schedule 14 (Form of Incremental Facility Accession Notice) or in any other form agreed by the Agent and the Obligors’ Agent.

Incremental Facility Commencement Date” means, in respect of an Incremental Facility, the date specified as the “Commencement Date” in the Incremental Facility Notice relating to that Incremental Facility.

Incremental Facility Commitment” means, in respect of any Incremental Facility Lender and an Incremental Facility, the Base Currency Amount specified as the Incremental Facility Commitment in any Incremental Facility Notice and/or Incremental Facility Document to the extent not cancelled, reduced or transferred by it under this Agreement or an Incremental Facility Document.

Incremental Facility Document” means any document setting out the terms of an Incremental Facility and designated as such by the Incremental Facility Lender and the Obligors’ Agent, a copy of which is delivered to the Agent pursuant to Clause 2.5 (Incremental Facilities).

Incremental Facility Lender” has the meaning given to that term in sub-paragraph (d)(i) of Clause 2.5 (Incremental Facilities).

Incremental Facility Loan” means a loan made or to be made under an Incremental Facility or the principal amount outstanding of that loan.

Incremental Facility Notice” means a notice substantially in the form set out in Schedule 15 (Form of Incremental Facility Notice) or in any other form agreed by the Agent and the Obligors’ Agent.

Indebtedness” has the meaning given to that term in Schedule 16 (Covenants and Certain Definitions).

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Independent Debt Fund” means a trust, fund, entity or other person (including, funds managed or advised by the Sponsor and its Affiliates) established primarily for the purpose of making, purchasing or investing in loans or debt securities and which has not been set up solely to make a Debt Purchase Transaction and which is managed or controlled independently (and where customary information barriers are in place) from trusts, funds, partnerships, entities or other persons managed or controlled by the Sponsor (or for the purposes of Clause 29 (Changes to the Lenders), a private equity sponsor) which have a direct or indirect interest in the Parent or Holding Company of the Parent.

Industry Competitor” means a competitor, supplier or sub-contractor of the Group in any of the material activities of the Group.

Initial Public Offering” has the meaning given to that term in Part 2 (Certain Definitions) of Schedule 16 (Covenants and Certain Definitions).

Insolvency Event” in relation to a Finance Party or other bank or financial institution means that the Finance Party:

(a)

is dissolved (other than pursuant to a consolidation, amalgamation or merger);

(b)

becomes insolvent or is unable to pay its debts or fails or admits in writing its inability generally to pay its debts as they become due;

(c)

makes a general assignment, arrangement, assignation, trust deed or composition with or for the benefit of its creditors;

(d)

institutes or has instituted against it, by a regulator, supervisor or any similar official with primary insolvency, rehabilitative or regulatory jurisdiction over it in the jurisdiction of its incorporation or organisation or the jurisdiction of its head or home office, a proceeding seeking a judgment of insolvency or bankruptcy or any other relief under any bankruptcy or insolvency law or other similar law affecting creditors’ rights, or a petition is presented for its winding-up or liquidation by it or such regulator, supervisor or similar official;

(e)

has instituted against it a proceeding seeking a judgment of insolvency or bankruptcy or any other relief under any bankruptcy or insolvency law or other similar law affecting creditors’ rights, or a petition is presented for its winding-up, examination or liquidation, and, in the case of any such proceeding or petition instituted or presented against it, such proceeding or petition is instituted or presented by a person or entity not described in paragraph (d) above and:

(i)

results in a judgment of insolvency or bankruptcy or the entry of an order for relief or the making of an order for its winding-up or liquidation; or

(ii)

is not dismissed, discharged, stayed or restrained in each case within 30 days of the institution or presentation thereof;

(f)

has a resolution passed for its winding-up, examination, official management or liquidation (other than pursuant to a consolidation, amalgamation or merger);

(g)

seeks or becomes subject to the appointment of an administrator, examiner, provisional liquidator, conservator, receiver, Scottish receiver, trustee, custodian or other similar official for it or for all or substantially all its assets (other than, for so long as it is required by law to be publicly disclosed, any such appointment which is to be made, or is made, by a person or entity described in paragraph (d) above);

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(h)

has a secured party take possession of all or substantially all its assets or has a distress, execution, attachment, sequestration, diligence or other legal process levied, enforced or sued on or against all or substantially all its assets and such secured party maintains possession, or any such process is not dismissed, discharged, stayed or restrained, in each case, within 30 days thereafter;

(i)

causes or is subject to any event with respect to it which, under the applicable laws of any jurisdiction, has an analogous effect to any of the events specified in paragraphs (a) to (h) above; or

(j)

takes any action in furtherance of, or indicating its consent to, approval of, or acquiescence in, any of the foregoing acts.

Intercreditor Agreement” means the intercreditor agreement dated 31 July 2021 (as supplemented, amended and/or restated from time to time) between, amongst others, the Parent, the Agent, the Security Agent, the Original Lenders and the Arrangers.

Interest Period” means, in relation to a Loan, each period determined in accordance with Clause 15 (Interest Periods) and, in relation to an Unpaid Sum, each period determined in accordance with Clause 14.3 (Default interest).

Interpolated Historic Screen Rate” means, in relation to any Term Rate Loan, the rate (rounded to the same number of decimal places as the two relevant Screen Rates) which results from interpolating on a linear basis between:

(a)

the most recent applicable Screen Rate for the longest period (for which that Screen Rate is available) which is less than the Interest Period of that Loan; and

(b)

the most recent applicable Screen Rate for the shortest period (for which that Screen Rate is available) which exceeds the Interest Period of that Loan,

each as of the Specified Time on the Quotation Day for the currency of that Loan.

Interpolated Screen Rate” means, in relation to any Term Rate Loan, the rate (rounded to the same number of decimal places as the two relevant Screen Rates) which results from interpolating on a linear basis between:

(a)

the applicable Screen Rate for the longest period (for which that Screen Rate is available) which is less than the Interest Period of that Loan; and

(b)

the applicable Screen Rate for the shortest period (for which that Screen Rate is available) which exceeds the Interest Period of that Loan,

each as of the Specified Time on the Quotation Day for the currency of that Loan.

IPO Pushdown Entity” has the meaning given to that term in Clause 2.7 (IPO Pushdown).

Issuing Bank” means any Lender which has notified the Agent that it has agreed to the Obligors’ Agent’s request to be an Issuing Bank pursuant to this Agreement (and, if more than one Lender has so agreed, such Lenders shall be referred to, whether acting individually or together, as the “Issuing Bank”), provided that, in respect of a Letter of Credit issued or to be issued pursuant to this Agreement, the “Issuing Bank” shall be the Issuing Bank which has issued or agreed to issue that Letter of Credit.

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L/C Proportion” means, in relation to a Lender in respect of any Letter of Credit, the proportion (expressed as a percentage) borne by that Lender’s Available Commitment to the relevant Available Facility immediately prior to the issue of that Letter of Credit, adjusted to reflect any assignment or transfer under this Agreement to or by that Lender.

Legal Reservations” means:

(a)

the principle that equitable remedies may be granted or refused at the discretion of a court and the limitation of enforcement by laws relating to insolvency, reorganisation and other laws generally affecting the rights of creditors;

(b)

the time barring of claims, the possibility that an undertaking to assume liability for or indemnify a person against non-payment of stamp duty may be void and defences of set-off or counterclaim;

(c)

the principle that additional or default interest payable under any Finance Document may be held to be unenforceable on the grounds that it is a penalty;

(d)

the principle that in certain circumstances Security granted by way of a fixed charge may be recharacterised as a floating charge or that Security purporting to be an assignment may be recharacterised as a charge;

(e)

the principle that a court may not give effect to an indemnity for legal costs incurred by a litigant;

(f)

the principle that the creation or purported creation of Security over any contract or agreement which is subject to a prohibition against transfer, assignment or charging may be void, ineffective or invalid and may give rise to a breach entitling the contracting party to terminate or take any other action in relation to such contract or agreement;

(g)

any applicable public policy law provision and/or rules of mandatory application and any applicable provisions relating to conflict of law rules and recognition and enforcement of foreign judgments, in each case, including pursuant to EC Regulation no. 593/2008, 44/2001 (and, with regard to legal proceedings instituted on or after January 2015, pursuant to Regulation (EU) No. 1215/2012) and 864/2007;

(h)

similar principles, limitations, rights and defences to those in paragraphs (a) to (f) above under the laws of any applicable jurisdiction; and

(i)

any other matters which are set out as qualifications or reservations as to matters of law of general application in any legal opinions delivered to the Agent under or in connection with the Finance Documents.

Lender” means:

(a)

each Original Lender; and

(b)

any bank, financial institution, trust, fund or other entity which has become a Party as a Lender in accordance with Clause 2.2 (Increase – general), Clause 2.5 (Incremental Facilities), Clause 29 (Changes to the Lenders) or any other provision of this Agreement,

which, in each case, has not ceased to be a Lender in accordance with this Agreement.

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Lender Accession Deed” has the meaning given to the term “Creditor/Agent Accession Undertaking” in the Intercreditor Agreement.

Letter of Credit” means a letter of credit, bank guarantee or other similar instrument issued by an Issuing Bank under this Agreement, substantially in the form set out in Schedule 11 (Form of Letter of Credit) or in any other form requested by the Obligors’ Agent and agreed by the Issuing Bank (acting reasonably).

Loan” means a Revolving Loan and/or an Incremental Facility Loan.

Lookback Period” means the number of days specified as such in the applicable Compounded Rate Terms.

Luxembourg” means the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg.

Luxembourg Borrower” means any Borrower whose registered office, head office, place of effective management, domicile, establishment, habitual residence and/ or place of central administration is in Luxembourg and whose centre of main interest (as that term is used in Article 3(1) of the Regulation (EU) No 2015/848 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 May 2015 on insolvency proceedings (recast)) is in Luxembourg.

Luxembourg Guarantor” means any Guarantor whose registered office, head office, place of effective management, domicile, establishment, habitual residence and/ or place of central administration is in Luxembourg and whose centre of main interest (as that term is used in Article 3(1) of the Regulation (EU) No 2015/848 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 20 May 2015 on insolvency proceedings (recast)) is in Luxembourg.

Major Default” means, in each case with respect to an Agreed Certain Funds Obligor only (and ignoring (i) any member of the relevant target group in connection with any Permitted Acquisition, (ii) any procuring obligation on the part of any Agreed Certain Funds Obligor in respect of a person that is not an Agreed Certain Funds Obligor, and (iii) any reference or application to any member of the Group or Unrestricted Subsidiary that is not an Agreed Certain Funds Obligor), and insofar as it relates to this Agreement only, any Event of Default under Clause 28.1 (Misrepresentation) (but only insofar as it relates to a misrepresentation in respect of any Major Representation), sub-paragraphs (a)(i), (a)(iii) or paragraph (b) of Clause 28.2 (Unlawfulness, invalidity, rescission and repudiation) (but read as if (A) the word “material” was added before the words “obligation” and “obligations” where they appear in paragraphs (a)(i) and (a)(iii) thereof and (B) the following words “or purports to rescind”, “or purports to repudiate” and “or evidences in writing an intention to rescind or repudiate a Finance Document” were deleted where they appear in paragraph (b) thereof), paragraphs (a), (b) or (f) of Schedule 18 (Events of Default) or paragraphs (c) or (d) of Schedule 18 (Events of Default) (but only insofar as it relates to a breach of a Major Undertaking).

Major Representation” means, with respect to an Agreed Certain Funds Obligor only (and ignoring (i) any member of the relevant target group in connection with any Permitted Acquisition, (ii) any procuring obligation on the part of any Agreed Certain Funds Obligor in respect of a person that is not an Agreed Certain Funds Obligor, and (iii) any reference or application to any member of the Group or Unrestricted Subsidiary that is not an Agreed Certain Funds Obligor) and insofar as it relates to this Agreement only, a representation or warranty under any of Clause 24.1 (Status) (but read as if the words “save to the extent that failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect” were added to the end of paragraph (b) thereof), paragraph (a) of Clause 24.2 (Binding obligations), paragraphs (a) and (b) of Clause 24.3 (Non-conflict with other obligations), Clause 24.4 (Power and authority) and paragraphs (a) and (b) of Clause 24.5 (Authorisations).

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Major Undertaking” means, in respect to an Agreed Certain Funds Obligor only (and ignoring (i) any member of the relevant target group in connection with any Permitted Acquisition, (ii) any procuring obligation on the part of any Agreed Certain Funds Obligor in respect of a person that is not an Agreed Certain Funds Obligor, and (iii) any reference or application to any member of the Group or Unrestricted Subsidiary that is not an Agreed Certain Funds Obligor), and insofar as it relates to this Agreement only an undertaking under any of Section 1 (Limitation on Indebtedness), Section 2 (Limitation on Restricted Payments), Section 3 (Limitation on Liens) or Section 5 (Limitation on Sales of Assets and Subsidiary Stock) of Part 1 (Covenants) of Schedule 16 (Covenants and Certain Definitions).

Majority Lenders” means, subject to the provisions of this Agreement, a Lender or Lenders whose Commitments aggregate 50.01 per cent. or more of the Total Commitments (or, if the Total Commitments have been reduced to zero, aggregated 50.01 per cent. or more of the Total Commitments immediately prior to that reduction) provided that in the case of any Commitment not denominated in the Base Currency, if applicable, the Base Currency Amount of that Commitment shall be used for the purposes of calculating the relevant percentages in this definition.

Margin” means:

(a)

in relation to any Revolving Loan, 2.75 per cent. per annum;

(b)

in relation to any Incremental Facility, as set out in the Incremental Facility Notice relating to that Incremental Facility,

but if the Consolidated Senior Secured Leverage Ratio at the end of the then most recently completed Test Period is within the range set out below, then the Margin for each Revolving Facility will be the percentage per annum set out in the table below in the column opposite that range:

Consolidated Senior Secured Leverage Ratio

Revolving Facility Margin (% per annum)

Greater than 4.00:1

2.75

Equal to or less than 4.00:1 but greater than 3.50:1

2.50

Equal to or less than 3.50:1

2.25

Following an Initial Public Offering

2.00

provided that:

(A)

any change in any such Margin shall take effect during the period from (and including) the date falling two (2) Business Days after the Agent has received the Compliance Certificate for the relevant Test Period pursuant to Clause 25 (Information Undertakings) or, in the case of receipt of the Compliance Certificate five (5) Business Days or less prior to the end of an Interest Period, during the period from (and including) the date immediately following the end of such Interest Period (the “Readjustment Date”) until the next Readjustment Date;

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(B)

on each Readjustment Date, the Margin shall revert to the percentage per annum set out in relation to the relevant Loan at paragraph (a) above, unless a lower Margin than the original level of Margin shall be applicable in accordance with the table above;

(C)

notwithstanding the foregoing, there shall be no decrease in the Margin if a Material Event of Default is continuing and as from the date of the occurrence of such Material Event of Default the Margin shall revert to the percentage per annum set out in relation to the relevant Loan at paragraph (a) above until such time as no such Material Event of Default is continuing, whereupon the Margin shall be determined in accordance with the provisions set out in this definition on the basis of the most recently delivered Compliance Certificate;

(D)

if any Annual Financial Statements delivered under sub-paragraph (a)(i) of Section 1 (Reports) of Schedule 17 (Information Undertakings) demonstrate that:

(1)

any Margin should not have been reduced in accordance with this definition when it has been, that reduction will be reversed with retrospective effect and any additional payments of interest due from the relevant Borrowers in respect of Interest Periods which have expired shall be made following receipt of the relevant Annual Financial Statements by the Agent in such amount as the Agent shall determine is necessary (after consultation with the Obligors’ Agent) to give effect to the correct variation in that Margin as demonstrated by the Annual Financial Statements; and

(2)

any Margin should have been reduced in accordance with this definition when it has not been, that Margin will be reduced with retrospective effect and any future payments of interest shall be reduced following receipt of the relevant Annual Financial Statements by the Agent in such amount as the Agent shall determine is necessary (after consultation with the Obligors’ Agent) to put the relevant Borrowers in the position they would have been in had the appropriate Margin as demonstrated by the Annual Financial Statements applied during such Interest Periods,

provided that in each case, only Lenders who participated in a Loan during an applicable period and continue to participate at the time of payment shall be paid such higher or lower Margin (as applicable) to the extent of their participation in that Loan during such applicable period; and

(E)

the Agent's determination of the additional amounts payable (or, as the case may be, the reduction in amounts to be paid) under sub-paragraph (D) above shall be prima facie evidence of such additional amounts (or, as the case may be, reduced amounts) and the Agent shall provide the Obligors’ Agent with reasonable details of the calculation thereof.

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Market Disruption Event” has the meaning given to that term in Clause 16.2 (Market disruption).

Material Adverse Effect” means an event or circumstance which in each case after taking into account all mitigating factors or circumstances (including any warranty, indemnity, insurance or other resources available to the Group or right of recourse against any third party with respect to the relevant event or circumstance and any obligation of any person in force to provide any additional equity investment) has a material adverse effect on:

(a)

the consolidated business, assets and financial condition of the Group taken as a whole; or

(b)

the ability of the Obligors taken as a whole (and taking into account resources available to the Group as a whole) to perform their payment obligations under the Finance Documents; or

(c)

subject to Legal Reservations and Perfection Requirements (that are not overdue), the validity or enforceability of the Transaction Security Documents taken as a whole which is materially prejudicial to the interests of the Lenders taken as a whole under the Finance Documents, and

in each case, if capable of remedy, is not remedied within twenty (20) Business Days of the earlier of the Obligors’ Agent becoming aware of the relevant event or circumstance or being given notice of the same by the Agent.

Material Company” means, at any time, any member of the Group incorporated or established in a Security Jurisdiction the earnings from ordinary activities before interest, taxation, depreciation, amortisation and exceptional items (calculated on the same basis as Consolidated EBITDA, mutatis mutandis, and on an unconsolidated basis, and in each case excluding goodwill, intra-group items and investments in members of the Group) of which exceed five per cent. of Consolidated EBITDA of the Group and for these purposes:

(a)

any calculation shall be effected on an annual basis and made by reference to the most recent Annual Financial Statements provided pursuant to the terms of Schedule 17 (Information Undertakings);

(b)

each member of the Group which is not required to (or is unable to) become a guarantor in accordance with the Agreed Security Principles will not be considered a Material Company; and

(c)

a certificate from the Parent as to the identity of the Material Companies shall, in the absence of manifest error, be conclusive and binding on all Parties.

Material Event of Default” has the meaning given to such term in Clause 29.2 (Conditions of assignment or transfer).

Maturity Date” means:

(a)

in relation to the RCF and the Bonding Facility, 28 February 2030 (the “Extended Maturity Date”) provided that if on 30 March 2029 more than $500 million of the principal amount of the existing US Dollar denominated tranche or more than $500 million (or its other currency equivalent) of the principal amount of the existing Euro denominated tranche under the Amended and Restated Senior Term Facility Agreement remains outstanding and such amounts in excess of $500 million (or its other currency equivalent) are not repaid, refinanced (with debt that has a maturity

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date of 91 days after the Extended Maturity Date) or extended (to a maturity date that is at least 91 days after the Extended Maturity Date), then the Maturity Date of the RCF and the Bonding Facility will be 30 June 2029; and

(b)

in relation to any Incremental Facility, the date set out in the Incremental Facility Notice relating to that Incremental Facility (or such other date as the Incremental Facility Lenders in respect of that Incremental Facility and the Obligors’ Agent may agree).

Month” means a period starting on one day in a calendar month and ending on the numerically corresponding day in the next calendar month, except that:

(a)

other than where paragraph (b) below applies:

(i)

(subject to sub-paragraph (iii) below) if the numerically corresponding day is not a Business Day, that period shall end on the next Business Day in that calendar month in which that period is to end if there is one or, if there is not, on the immediately preceding Business Day;

(ii)

if there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month in which that period is to end, that period shall end on the last Business Day in that calendar month; and

(iii)

if an Interest Period begins on the last Business Day of a calendar month, that Interest Period shall end on the last Business Day in the calendar month in which that Interest Period is to end; and

(b)

in relation to an Interest Period for any Loan (or any other period for the accrual of commission or fees) in a Compounded Rate Currency, the provisions set out in paragraph (b) of Clause 15.2 (Non-Business Days) shall apply.

The above rules will only apply to the last Month of any period. “Monthly” shall be construed accordingly.

Moody’s” has the meaning given to that term in Part 2 (Certain Definitions) of Schedule 16 (Covenants and Certain Definitions).

MTA” means the Moveable Transactions (Scotland) Act 2023.

Net Available Cash” has the meaning given to that term in Part 2 (Certain Definitions) of Schedule 16 (Covenants and Certain Definitions).

New Lender” has the meaning given to that term in Clause 29.1 (Assignments and transfers by the Lenders).

Non-Acceptable L/C Lender” means a Lender under a Revolving Facility, other than the Original Lenders (or Affiliates of Original Lenders), which:

(a)

is not an Acceptable Bank within the meaning of paragraphs (a) or (b) of the definition of “Acceptable Bank” (other than a Lender which each relevant Issuing Bank has agreed is acceptable to it notwithstanding that fact); or

(b)

is a Defaulting Lender; or

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(c)

has failed to make (or has notified the Agent that it will not make) a payment to be made by it under Clause 7.3 (Indemnities) or Clause 32.11 (Lenders’ indemnity to the Agent) or any other payment to be made by it under the Finance Documents to or for the account of any other Finance Party in its capacity as Lender by the due date for payment unless the failure to pay falls within the description of any of those items set out in (i) or (ii) of the definition of “Defaulting Lender”.

Notes Closing Date” means the date on which the Senior Secured Notes are issued.

Obligor” means a Borrower or a Guarantor.

Obligors’ Agent” means the Parent, appointed to act on behalf of each Obligor in relation to the Finance Documents pursuant to Clause 2.4 (Obligors’ Agent).

Optional Currency” means a currency (other than the Base Currency) which complies with the conditions set out in Clause 4.4 (Conditions relating to Optional Currencies).

Original Guarantor” means each person listed in Part 1 (The Original Obligors) of Schedule 1 (The Original Parties) as an original guarantor.

Original Obligors” means the Original Borrowers and Original Guarantors.

Pari Passu Indebtedness” has the meaning given to that term in Part 2 (Certain Definitions) of Schedule 16 (Covenants and Certain Definitions).

Participating Member State” means any member state of the European Union that has adopted and retained the euro as its lawful currency in accordance with legislation of the European Union relating to Economic and Monetary Union.

Party” means a party to this Agreement.

Perfection Requirements” means the making or procuring of the registrations, recordings, translations, filings, intimations, endorsements, notarisations, stampings and/or notifications of or in connection with the Transaction Security Documents or the Security created thereunder necessary for the perfection, validity or enforceability thereof.

Permitted Acquisition” means any acquisition or investment not prohibited by (or otherwise approved under) the terms of this Agreement.

Permitted Holders” has the meaning given to that term in Part 2 (Certain Definitions) of Schedule 16 (Covenants and Certain Definitions).

Permitted Refinancing” means, to the extent notified by the Obligors’ Agent to the Agent in writing as indebtedness to be treated as “Permitted Refinancing” for the purposes of this Agreement, any indebtedness incurred by a member of the Group for the purpose of directly or indirectly (including by way of a debt exchange, non-cash rollover or other similar or equivalent transaction), or otherwise in connection with or pursuant to, refinancing or replacing of all or any portion of any of the Facilities, any Incremental Facility, any of the facilities under the Amended and Restated Senior Term Facility Agreement and/or any other Permitted Refinancing (including, without limitation, any revolving or similar facilities, whether drawn or undrawn provided that all or such portion of such revolving or similar facility being refinanced or replaced is repaid and irrevocably cancelled) from time to time, in each case, including any indebtedness incurred for the purpose of the payment of principal, interest, fees, discounts, expenses, commissions, premium or other similar amounts payable under or in connection with the Facilities, any Incremental Facility, any of the facilities under

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the Amended and Restated Senior Term Facility Agreement and/or the Permitted Refinancing, as the case may be, being refinanced or replaced and any fees, costs and expenses incurred in connection therewith, provided that the providers of the refinancing or replacement indebtedness (or where customary for financing of the relevant type, the agent, trustee or other relevant representative in respect of that indebtedness) shall be required to become party to:

(a)

the Intercreditor Agreement; or

(b)

other intercreditor arrangements satisfactory to the Agent (acting reasonably),

in each case subject to the Finance Parties complying with all relevant obligations under Clause 2.6 (Permitted Refinancing) provided that junior debt may only be refinanced with senior debt to the extent that the senior Indebtedness incurred is not prohibited by Section 1 (Limitation on Indebtedness) of Schedule 16 (Covenants and Certain Definitions) and the refinancing of such junior debt is not prohibited by Section 2 (Limitation on Restricted Payments) of Schedule 16 (Covenants and Certain Definitions).

Permitted Refinancing Agreement” means any facility agreement, indenture or other equivalent document by which any Permitted Refinancing is made available or, as the case may be, issued.

Permitted Refinancing Document” means each Permitted Refinancing Agreement, any guarantee entered into under or in connection with a Permitted Refinancing Agreement, any Permitted Refinancing Security Document and any other document designated as such by the Obligors’ Agent and the trustee, agent or equivalent representative under the relevant Permitted Refinancing Agreement.

Permitted Refinancing Security Document” means any document entered into by a member of the Group creating or expressed to create any Security over all or any part of its assets in respect of any obligations of any member of the Group under any of the Permitted Refinancing Documents.

Permitted Reorganisation” means:

(a)

a reorganisation (including, without limitation, pursuant to a solvent winding-up where the assets of the relevant company, after paying its liabilities, are distributed to its shareholders, as well as any amalgamation, demerger, merger, dissolution, consolidation or other corporate reconstruction) involving the business or assets of, or shares of (or other interests in), any member of the Group (other than any merger or consolidation of the Parent if it will not be the surviving entity of that transaction) (each a “Reorganisation”) where:

(i)

if relevant, all of the business, assets and shares of (or other interests in) the relevant member of the Group remain within the Group (and if the relevant member of the Group was an Obligor immediately prior to such reorganisation being implemented, all of the business and assets of that member are retained by one or more other Obligors);

(ii)

if it or its assets or the shares in it were subject to the Transaction Security immediately prior to such Reorganisation, the Security Agent will enjoy substantially the same or equivalent security (ignoring for these purposes hardening periods) over the same assets or, as the case may be, over it or the shares in it (or in each case over the shares of its successor and, if a new holding company is inserted as part of such Reorganisation, security over the

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shares of such holding company) or, where a member of the Group which is not a Material Company or an Obligor is being dissolved or liquidated, its assets (after payment of creditors) are passed up to its holding company; and

(iii)

in the case of an amalgamation, dissolution or merger or similar arrangement, if such member of the Group is an Obligor, the surviving entity is an Obligor to at least the same extent as such first mentioned Obligor immediately prior to the said amalgamation, merger or corporate reconstruction; or

(b)

any incorporation of a Subsidiary, intra-Group transfer or other step taken in connection with a proposed securitisation of the business of the Group (or any part thereof) and/or other refinancing where it is intended that the proceeds thereof be used to prepay the Facilities;

(c)

any Reorganisation or other step (including any preparatory action) taken in connection with any actual or proposed Initial Public Offering (without prejudice to any prepayment obligation arising in relation to an Initial Public Offering) provided that such action would not reasonably be expected to materially and adversely affect the interests of the Finance Parties under the Finance Documents; or

(d)

any other re-organisation or similar arrangement to which the Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) has given prior written consent.

Permitted Transaction” means:

(a)

any payment or disposal required, Indebtedness incurred, guarantee or Security given, or other transaction arising, under the Finance Documents, the finance documents relating to the Amended and Restated Senior Term Facility Agreement and/or any Permitted Refinancing Documents;

(b)

any payments, step or other matter or transaction (including any preparatory action) taken in connection with any actual or proposed Initial Public Offering, Permitted Reorganisation and/or disposal permitted or not prohibited by this Agreement;

(c)

any payments, step or other matter or transaction (other than the granting of Security, the incurrence of Indebtedness, the granting of guarantees, the making of acquisitions or the making of disposals) conducted in the ordinary course of day to day business on arm’s length or better terms (from the perspective of the member of the Group);

(d)

any payments, step or other matter or transaction required to comply with an undertaking contained in the Finance Documents;

(e)

the solvent liquidation or reorganisation of any member of the Group which is not an Obligor so long as any payments or assets distributed as a result of such liquidation or reorganisation are distributed to other members of the Group; or

(f)

any transaction to which the Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) has given prior written consent.

PSC Company” has the meaning given to that term in Clause 27.8 (PSC Register).

PSC Register” means a “PSC Register” within the meaning of section 790C(10) of the Act.

Pushdown Date” has the meaning given to that term in Clause 2.7 (IPO Pushdown).

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Qualifying Lender” has the meaning given to that term in Clause 18.1 (Definitions).

Quarter Date” means the last day of each quarterly accounting period during a Financial Year.

Quarter Period” means each period of approximately three Months ending on a Quarter Date.

Quarterly Financial Statements” has the meaning given to that term in Clause 25 (Information Undertakings).

Quotation Day” means, in relation to any period for which an interest rate is to be determined:

(a)

(if the currency is euro), two (2) TARGET Days before the first day of that period; and

(b)

(if the currency is any currency other than euro), two (2) Business Days before the first day of that period,

(unless market practice differs in the Relevant Market for that currency, in which case the Quotation Day for that currency will be determined by the Agent in accordance with market practice in the Relevant Market (and if quotations would normally be given on more than one day, the Quotation Day will be the last of those days)).

RCF” means the revolving credit facility made available under this Agreement as described in paragraph (a) of Clause 2.1 (The Facilities).

RCF Commitment” means:

(a)

in relation to each Original Lender, the amount in the Base Currency set opposite its name under the heading “RCF Commitment” in Part 2 (The Original Lenders) of Schedule 1 (The Original Parties) and the amount of any other RCF Commitment transferred to it or assumed by it in accordance with this Agreement (including pursuant to Clause 2.2 (Increase – general), Clause 2.5 (Incremental Facilities) and/or a Facility Change)); and

(b)

in relation to any other Lender, the amount in the Base Currency of any RCF Commitment transferred to it or assumed by it in accordance with this Agreement,

to the extent not cancelled, reduced or transferred by it under this Agreement.

RCF Lender” means any Lender that makes available a RCF Commitment.

RCF Loan” means a loan made or to be made under the RCF or the principal amount outstanding for the time being of that loan.

RCS” means the Luxembourg register of commerce and companies (Registre de Commerce et des Sociétés, Luxembourg).

Receiver” means a receiver, Scottish receiver or receiver and manager or administrative receiver of the whole or any part of the Charged Property.

Register of Statutory Pledges” means the public register known as the Register of Statutory Pledges established pursuant to section 81 of the MTA.

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Related Fund” in relation to a fund (the “first fund”), means a fund which is managed or advised by the same investment manager or investment adviser as the first fund or, if it is managed by a different investment manager or investment adviser, a fund whose investment manager or investment adviser is an Affiliate of the investment manager or investment adviser of the first fund.

Relevant Accounting Principles” has the meaning given to that term in Part 2 (Certain Definitions) of Schedule 16 (Covenants and Certain Definitions).

Relevant Bilateral LC Exposure” has the meaning given to that term in Clause 9.6 (Adjustment for RCF Ancillary Facilities upon acceleration).

Relevant Jurisdiction” means, in relation to an Obligor, its jurisdiction of incorporation and the jurisdiction whose laws are expressed to govern any of the Transaction Security Documents entered into by it and any perfection thereof.

Relevant Market” means:

(a)

subject to paragraph (c) below, in relation to euro, the European interbank market;

(b)

subject to paragraph (c) below, in relation to any other currency, the London interbank market; and

(c)

in relation to a Compounded Rate Currency and where applicable, the market specified as such in the applicable Compounded Rate Terms.

Renewal Request” means a written notice delivered to the Agent in accordance with Clause 6.6 (Renewal of a Letter of Credit).

Repeating Representation” means each of the representations set out in Clause 24.1 (Status) to Clause 24.5 (Authorisations) and Clause 24.7 (Governing law and enforcement).

Representative” means any delegate, agent, manager, administrator, nominee, attorney, trustee or custodian.

Resignation Letter” means a letter substantially in the form set out in Schedule 7 (Form of Resignation Letter).

Restricted Group” means the Group.

Restricted Payment” has the meaning given to that term in Section 2 (Limitation on Restricted Payments) of Part 1 (Covenants) of Schedule 16 (Covenants and Certain Definitions).

Restricted Subsidiary” has the meaning given to that term in Part 2 (Certain Definitions) of Schedule 16 (Covenants and Certain Definitions).

Revolving Facility” means the RCF and/or the Bonding Facility.

Revolving Facility Commitment” means a RCF Commitment and/or a Bonding Facility Commitment.

Revolving Loan” means an RCF Loan.

Revolving Utilisation” means a Revolving Loan or a Letter of Credit issued under a Revolving Facility.

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RFR” means the rate specified as such in the applicable Compounded Rate Terms.

RFR Banking Day” means any day specified as such in the applicable Compounded Rate Terms.

Rollover Loan” means one or more Revolving Loans:

(a)

made or to be made on the same day that:

(i)

a maturing Revolving Loan under the same Revolving Facility is due to be repaid;

(ii)

a demand by an Issuing Bank or the Agent pursuant to a drawing in respect of a Letter of Credit is due to be met; or

(iii)

an Ancillary Facility is to be cancelled or terminated in whole or in part and any related Ancillary Outstandings are due to be repaid (other than as a result of an Acceleration Event);

(b)

the aggregate amount of which is equal to or less than the amount of the maturing Revolving Loan or the relevant claim in respect of that Letter of Credit or the relevant Ancillary Outstandings;

(c)

in the same currency as the maturing Revolving Loan (unless it arose as a result of operation of Clause 8.2 (Unavailability of a currency)) or the relevant claim in respect of that Letter of Credit; and

(d)

made or to be made to a Borrower for the purpose of:

(i)

refinancing that maturing Revolving Loan; or

(ii)

satisfying the relevant claim in respect of that Letter of Credit; or

(iii)

repaying the relevant Ancillary Outstandings due and payable under the relevant Ancillary Facility.

S&P” has the meaning given to that term in Part 2 (Certain Definitions) of Schedule 16 (Covenants and Certain Definitions).

Sanctioned Country” means, at any time, a country, region or territory which is itself the subject or target of any Sanctions (which, at the Effective Date, include Crimea (as defined and construed in the applicable Sanctions laws and regulations), the so-called Donetsk People’s Republic, the so-called Luhansk People’s Republic, the Kherson or Zaporizhzhia regions of Ukraine (in each case to the extent that such areas of Kherson or Zaporizhzhia are under control of Russia), Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Sudan and Syria).

Sanctioned Finance Party” means a Finance Party that is, or is directly or indirectly owned or controlled (where relevant as defined by the applicable Sanctions) by, a Sanctioned Person or otherwise directly or indirectly the subject of Sanctions.

Sanctioned Person” means, at any time, (a) any person listed in any Sanctions-related list of designated persons maintained by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the US Department of the Treasury or the US Department of State, or by the United Nations Security Council, the European Union or His Majesty’s Treasury of the United Kingdom or any European Union member state, (b) any person operating, organized or resident in a Sanctioned Country or (c)

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any person owned or controlled (where relevant as defined by the applicable Sanctions) by any such person or persons.

Sanctions” means all economic or financial sanctions or trade embargoes imposed, administered or enforced from time to time by (a) the US government, including those administered by the Office of Foreign Assets Control of the US Department of the Treasury or the US Department of State (each as a whole, and not their individual members) or (b) the United Nations Security Council, the European Union or His Majesty’s Treasury of the United Kingdom (each as a whole and not its individual members or, in the case of the EU, its individual member states).

Screen Rate” means:

(a)

in relation to EURIBOR, the euro interbank offered rate administered by the European Money Markets Institute (or any other person which takes over the administration of that rate) for the relevant period displayed on the relevant page of the Bloomberg screen (or any replacement Bloomberg page which displays that rate); and

(b)

in relation to the Base Rate in any currency, the applicable interbank offered rate administered by the relevant person in the principal financial centre of the country of that currency for the relevant period on the Bloomberg page which displays that rate (or, as the case may be, on the appropriate page of such other information service which publishes that rate from time to time),

or, in each case, on the appropriate page of such other information service which publishes that rate from time to time in place of Bloomberg. If such page or service ceases to be available, the Agent may specify another page or service displaying the relevant rate after consultation with the Obligors’ Agent.

Secured Parties” has the meaning given to such term in the Intercreditor Agreement.

Security” means a mortgage, charge, statutory pledge, pledge, lien, standard security, assignation in security or other security interest securing any obligation of any person, a mandate to create a mortgage or a pledge over business assets or any other agreement or arrangement having a similar effect.

Security Jurisdiction” has the meaning given to that term in Schedule 12 (Agreed Security Principles).

Senior Secured Notes” has the meaning given to that term in Part 2 (Certain Definitions) of Schedule 16 (Covenants and Certain Definitions).

Separate Loans” has the meaning given to that term in paragraph (c) of Clause 10.1 (Repayment of Revolving Loans).

Shareholder Contribution” means:

(a)

any subscription for shares issued by, and any capital contributions to, the Parent provided that any such shares or capital contributions are not redeemable at the option of their holder whilst any amount remains outstanding under the Facilities, in each case unless permitted by this Agreement; and/or

(b)

any loans, notes, bonds or like instruments issued by, or made to, the Parent which are subordinated to the Facilities pursuant to the Intercreditor Agreement (with no

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right to prepayment or acceleration or cash return payable whilst any amount remains outstanding under the Facilities, in each case unless permitted by the Intercreditor Agreement) or are otherwise subordinated to the Facilities on terms satisfactory to the Agent, acting reasonably.

Specified Time” means a time or day determined in accordance with Schedule 10 (Timetables).

Sponsor” means each of:

(a)

TDR Capital LLP;

(b)

I Squared Capital Advisors (US) LLC,

and their respective Sponsor Affiliates (including funds, partnerships or other co-investment vehicles managed, advised or controlled thereby), and any investors in such funds, partnerships or other co-investments vehicles from time to time, but other than, in each case, its Subsidiaries or any portfolio company.

Sponsor Affiliate” means any funds and/or other entities managed, advised, owned or controlled by a Sponsor or any of their respective Affiliates.

Subsidiary” has the meaning given to that term in Part 2 (Certain Definitions) of Schedule 16 (Covenants and Certain Definitions).

Super Majority Lenders” means a Lender or Lenders whose Commitments aggregate more than 80 per cent. of the Total Commitments (or, if the Total Commitments have been reduced to zero, aggregated more than 80 per cent. of the Total Commitments immediately prior to that reduction).

T2” means the real time gross settlement system operated by Eurosystems, or any successor system.

TARGET Day” means any day on which T2 is open for the settlement of payments in euro.

Tax” means any tax, levy, impost, duty or other charge or withholding of a similar nature (including any penalty or interest payable in connection with any failure to pay or any delay in paying any of the same) and “Taxes” and "Taxation” shall be construed accordingly.

Term” means each period determined under this Agreement for which an Issuing Bank is under a liability under a Letter of Credit.

Term Rate Loan” means any Loan or, if applicable, an Unpaid Sum which is not a Compounded Rate Loan.

Term Reference Rate” means:

(a)

the applicable Base Rate; or

(b)

in relation to any Loan in euro, EURIBOR.

Test Period” has the meaning given to that term in Clause 26.1 (Financial definitions).

Topco” means Albion Topco Limited, a private limited liability company incorporated under the laws of England and Wales with registered number 13227153.

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Total Bonding Facility Commitments” means the aggregate of the Bonding Facility Commitments, being $215,000,000 as at the Effective Date.

Total Commitments” means the aggregate of the Total Revolving Facility Commitments and the Total Incremental Facility Commitments (if any).

Total Incremental Facility Commitments” means the aggregate of the Incremental Facility Commitments at any time.

Total RCF Commitments” means the aggregate of the RCF Commitments, being $980,000,000 as at the Effective Date.

Total Revolving Facility Commitments” means the aggregate of the RCF Commitments and the Bonding Facility Commitments.

Transaction Security” means the Security created or expressed to be created in favour of the Security Agent or the Secured Parties pursuant to the Transaction Security Documents.

Transaction Security Documents” means each of the documents entered into by any Obligor creating or expressed to create any Security over all or any part of its assets in respect of the obligations of any of the Obligors under any of the Finance Documents (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any such documents entered into in connection with the Existing Debt).

Transfer Certificate” means a certificate substantially in the form set out in Schedule 4 (Form of Transfer Certificate) or any other form agreed between the Agent and the Obligors’ Agent.

Transfer Date” means, in relation to an assignment or a transfer:

(a)

the proposed Transfer Date specified in the relevant Assignment Agreement or Transfer Certificate; or

(b)

in the event that no Transfer Date is specified in the relevant Assignment Agreement or Transfer Certificate, the date on which the Agent executes the relevant Assignment Agreement or Transfer Certificate.

UK” means the United Kingdom.

Unpaid Sum” means any sum due and payable but unpaid by an Obligor under the Finance Documents.

Unrestricted Subsidiary” has the meaning given to that term in Schedule 16 (Covenants and Certain Definitions).

US” means the United States of America.

US Borrower” means a Borrower incorporated or established in or under the laws of the US, any state or territory thereof, or the District of Columbia.

US Guarantor” means a Guarantor incorporated or established in or under the laws of the US, any state or territory thereof, or the District of Columbia.

US Obligor” means a US Borrower or a US Guarantor.

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US Person” means a “United States Person” as defined in Section 7701(a)(30) of the Code and includes an entity disregarded as being an entity separate from its owner for US federal income tax purposes if such owner is a "United States Person".

US Tax Obligor” means:

(a)

an Obligor which is resident for tax purposes in the US, any state or territory thereof, or the District of Columbia; or

(b)

an Obligor some or all of whose payments under the Finance Documents are from sources within the US for US federal income tax purposes.

USA PATRIOT Act” means the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001, Public Law 107-56 of the United States.

Utilisation” means a Loan or a Letter of Credit (but not a utilisation of an Ancillary Facility).

Utilisation Date” means the date of a Utilisation, being the date on which the relevant Loan is to be made or the relevant Letter of Credit is to be issued.

Utilisation Request” means a notice substantially in the relevant form set out in Schedule 3 (Requests and Notices).

VAT” means:

(a)

any value added tax imposed by the Value Added Tax Act 1994;

(b)

any tax imposed in compliance with the Council Directive of 28 November 2006 on the common system of value added tax (EC Directive 2006/112); and

(c)

any other tax of a similar nature, whether imposed in the United Kingdom or in a member state of the European Union in substitution for, or levied in addition to, such tax referred to in paragraphs (a) or (b) above, or imposed elsewhere.

1.2

Construction

(a)

Unless a contrary indication appears, a reference in this Agreement to:

(i)

the “Agent”, the “Arrangers”, any “Bookrunner”, any “Finance Party”, any “Issuing Bank”, any “Lender”, any “Incremental Facility Lender”, any “Obligor”, any “Party”, any “Secured Party”, the “Security Agent” or any other person shall be construed so as to include its successors in title, permitted assigns, permitted assignees and permitted transferees and, in the case of the Security Agent, any person for the time being appointed as Security Agent or Security Agents in accordance with the Finance Documents;

(ii)

an “amendment” includes any amendment, supplement, variation, novation, modification, replacement or restatement (however fundamental) and “amend” and “amended” shall be construed accordingly;

(iii)

assets” includes present and future properties, revenues and rights of every description;

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(iv)

a “company” includes a company, a corporation or a limited partnership;

(v)

a “Finance Document” or any other agreement or instrument is a reference to that Finance Document or other agreement or instrument as amended, novated, supplemented, extended or restated or replaced from time to time (however fundamentally) and includes any increase in, addition to, extension of or change to any facility made under such agreement or instrument;

(vi)

guarantee” means (other than in Clause 23 (Guarantee and Indemnity)) any guarantee, letter of credit, bond, indemnity or similar assurance against loss, or any obligation, direct or indirect, actual or contingent, to purchase or assume any indebtedness of any person or to make an investment in or loan to any person or to purchase assets of any person where, in each case, such obligation is assumed in order to maintain or assist the ability of such person to meet its indebtedness;

(vii)

including” means including without limitation and “includes” and “included” shall be construed accordingly;

(viii)

indebtedness” includes any obligation (whether incurred as principal or as surety) for the payment or repayment of money, whether present or future, actual or contingent;

(ix)

a Lender’s “participation” in relation to a Letter of Credit shall be construed as a reference to the relevant amount that is or may be payable by a Lender in relation to that Letter of Credit;

(x)

a “person” includes any individual, firm, company, corporation, government, state or agency of a state or any association, trust, joint venture, consortium or partnership (whether or not having separate legal personality);

(xi)

a “regulation” includes any regulation, rule, official directive, request or guideline (whether or not having the force of law but, if not having the force of law, being one which is customarily complied with by the relevant person) of any governmental, inter-governmental or supranational body, agency or department or of any regulatory, self-regulatory or other authority or organisation;

(xii)

shares” includes shares or limited partnership interests and share capital includes partnership capital;

(xiii)

sub-participation” means any sub-participation or sub-contract (whether risk, or funded, written or oral) or any other agreement or arrangement having an economically substantially similar effect; by a Lender of or in relation to any of its rights or obligations under, or its legal, beneficial or economic interest in relation to, any Revolving Facility and/or Finance Documents to a counterparty, and “sub-participate” shall be construed accordingly;

(xiv)

a provision of law is a reference to that provision as amended or re-enacted;

(xv)

a time of day is a reference to London time; and

(xvi)

the singular includes the plural (and vice versa).

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(b)

Section, Clause and Schedule headings are for ease of reference only and are to be ignored in construing this Agreement.

(c)

Unless a contrary indication appears:

(i)

a term used in any other Finance Document or in any notice given under or in connection with any Finance Document has the same meaning in that Finance Document or notice as in this Agreement; and

(ii)

in the event that compliance with any monetary limit specified in this Agreement (other than Clause 26 (Financial Covenant)) shall fall to be determined any conversion from any currency to Dollars necessary for that purpose shall be by reference to the Agent’s Spot Rate of Exchange on the date of determination (or, if such rate is not publicly available at the relevant time, by reference to the prevailing rate of exchange as otherwise determined by the Parent (acting reasonably)) provided that no fluctuation in exchange rates subsequent to the first such determination of compliance will cause breach of that monetary limit.

(d)

A Default or Event of Default is “continuing” if it has not been remedied or waived. In addition, (i) if a Default (including an Event of Default) has occurred but is no longer continuing (a “Remedied Default”), any other Default or Event of Default which would not have arisen but for the Remedied Default, shall be deemed not to be continuing automatically upon, and simultaneous with the remedy, cure or waiver of the Remedied Default; (ii) if a Default (including an Event of Default) occurs for a failure to deliver a required certificate, notice or other document in connection with another default (an "Initial Default") then, at the time such Initial Default is remedied or waived, such Default (including an Event of Default) for a failure to report or deliver a required certificate, notice or other document in connection with the Initial Default will also be cured without any further action, and (iii) any Default for the failure to comply with the time periods prescribed in Clause 25 (Information Undertakings), Schedule 17 (Information Undertakings) or otherwise to deliver any notice, certificate or other document, as applicable, even though such delivery is not within the prescribed period specified in this Agreement or any other Finance Document shall be deemed to be cured upon the delivery of any such report required by such covenant or notice, certificate or other document, as applicable, even though such delivery is not within the prescribed period specified in this Agreement or any other Finance Document.

(e)

An Acceleration Event is “continuing” if the notice of acceleration (or demand) provided by the Agent under Clause 28.4 (Acceleration) in connection therewith has not been revoked, withdrawn or cancelled.

(f)

In the event that any amount or transaction meets the criteria of more than one of the baskets or exceptions set out in this Agreement, the Obligors’ Agent in its sole discretion may classify (and from time to time reclassify) that amount or transaction to a particular basket or exception and will only be required to include that amount or transaction in one of those baskets or exceptions (and, for the avoidance of doubt, an amount or transaction may, at the option of the Obligors’ Agent, be split between different baskets or exceptions).

(g)

If any receivable (or any part thereof) has been sold or discounted on a basis which means it would be treated as off balance sheet or derecognised under IFRS, that receivable shall be considered to have been sold or discounted on a non-recourse basis.

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(h)

No personal liability shall attach to any director, officer, employee or other individual making any representation or statement or signing or delivering accounts, a certificate, notice or other document on behalf of a member of the Group which proves to be incorrect in any way (and no Finance Party shall take any action against any such director, officer or employee or other individual), unless that person acted fraudulently in making that representation or statement or signing or delivering those accounts or that certificate, notice or other document in which case any liability will be determined in accordance with applicable law. Any such director, officer, employee or individual may rely on and enjoy the benefit of this paragraph (h) notwithstanding the provisions of Clause 1.4 (Third party rights).

(i)

A reference to a Loan or a Letter of Credit shall not include a utilisation of an Ancillary Facility other than, in the case of Loans, for the purposes of Schedule 18 (Events of Defaults).

(j)

A Lender funding its participation in a Utilisation includes a Lender participating in a Letter of Credit.

(k)

An outstanding amount under a Letter of Credit at any time is the maximum amount that is or may be payable by the relevant Issuing Bank in respect of that Letter of Credit at that time less any amount which has been repaid or prepaid (including by way of cash cover provided in respect of that Letter of Credit).

(l)

A Letter of Credit or Ancillary Outstandings will cease to be outstanding if that Letter of Credit is, or those Ancillary Outstandings are, repaid or prepaid in full (including by way of cash cover provided in respect of thereof).

(m)

A Borrower providing “cash cover” for a Letter of Credit or an Ancillary Facility means a Borrower paying an amount in the currency of the Letter of Credit (or, as the case may be, Ancillary Facility) to an interest-bearing account in the name of the Borrower and the following conditions being met:

(i)

the account is with an Issuing Bank or Ancillary Lender for which that cash cover is to be provided (or with a bank nominated by such person);

(ii)

subject to paragraph (b) of Clause 7.5 (Cash cover by Borrower), until no amount is or may be outstanding under that Letter of Credit or Ancillary Facility, withdrawals from the account may only be made to pay to a Finance Party amounts due and payable to it under this Agreement in respect of that Letter of Credit or Ancillary Facility (unless the amount standing to the credit of the accounts exceeds the amount outstanding under that Letter of Credit or, as the case may be the aggregate amount of those Ancillary Outstandings, in which case such excess amount may be withdrawn by the Borrower); and

(iii)

if required by an Issuing Bank or the Ancillary Lender, that Borrower has executed Transaction Security (or for the purposes of paragraph (g) of Clause 6.3 (Completion of a Utilisation Request for Letters of Credit), or sub-paragraph (b)(v) of Clause 9.3 (Terms of Ancillary Facilities), Security reasonably satisfactory to the Issuing Bank or an Ancillary Lender as the case may be) over that account which creates first ranking fixed Security over that account (in accordance with the Agreed Security Principles and substantially in the same form as an existing Transaction Security Document provided that the terms are no more onerous than the existing Transaction Security Document).

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Unless an Acceleration Event has occurred and is continuing, any interest accruing on any such account will be paid to the order of the relevant Borrower.

(n)

A Borrower “repaying” or “prepaying” a Letter of Credit or Ancillary Outstandings means:

(i)

that Borrower providing cash cover for that Letter of Credit or in respect of the Ancillary Outstandings;

(ii)

the maximum amount payable under the Letter of Credit or Ancillary Facility being reduced or cancelled in accordance with its terms;

(iii)

an Issuing Bank or Ancillary Lender being satisfied that it has no further liability under that Letter of Credit or Ancillary Facility;

(iv)

in the case of a Letter of Credit, a Borrower has made a payment under paragraph (b) of Clause 7.2 (Claims under a Letter of Credit) or paragraph (a) of Clause 7.3 (Indemnities) in respect of that Letter of Credit;

(v)

in the case of a Letter of Credit, the Letter of Credit expires in accordance with its terms or is otherwise returned by the beneficiary with its written confirmation that it is unconditionally released and cancelled; or

(vi)

a bank or financial institution acceptable to the relevant Issuing Bank or Ancillary Lender (each acting reasonably) has issued, in favour of the relevant Issuing Bank or Ancillary Lender an unconditional and irrevocable guarantee, indemnity, counter-indemnity or similar assurance against financial loss in respect of amounts due under that Letter of Credit or Ancillary Facility,

in each case, unless it is otherwise agreed between the Parent and the relevant Issuing Bank that such Letter of Credit will remain outstanding on a bilateral basis and, in each case, such Letter of Credit will be treated as repaid for the purpose of the Finance Documents and no Lender will be required to provide any counter indemnity in respect thereof.

The amount by which a Letter of Credit is, or Ancillary Outstandings are, repaid or prepaid under sub-paragraphs (i) to (vi) above is the amount of the relevant cash cover, payment, release, cancellation, reduction or assurance.

(o)

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Finance Document:

(i)

nothing in the Finance Documents shall prohibit a non-cash contribution of any asset (including any participation, claim, commitment, rights, benefits and/or obligations in respect of the Facilities, any Permitted Refinancing and/or any other indebtedness borrowed or issued by any member of the Group from time to time) to the Parent (and subsequently any other members of the Group);

(ii)

when establishing whether any action, transaction and/or incurrence of a liability (in each case including any replacement, renewal or extension thereof) is, was and/or remains permitted under the Finance Documents, the Group shall be entitled to rely on the fact that such action, transaction and/or incurrence was permitted at the time that action was originally taken, that

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transaction was originally committed to or that liability was originally incurred (as the case may be).

(p)

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Finance Document, nothing in the Finance Documents shall prohibit any step, action or matter arising in connection with any actual, proposed or future payment of Tax (including as a consequence of any 'group contributions', the surrender of tax relief or similar or equivalent arrangements).

(q)

Any matter or circumstances being “permitted” is to be construed as a reference to any matter or circumstance which is not expressly prohibited.

(r)

For the purposes of the permitted definitions in Clause 1.1 (Definitions), until the date by which such entities are required to accede as Guarantors pursuant to Clause 27.1 (Guarantees and Security), such Material Companies shall be deemed to be Obligors, provided that no Material Company which will not accede to this Agreement as a Guarantor as a result of the Agreed Security Principles shall be deemed to be an Obligor.

(s)

References to any transaction being in the "ordinary course of business" of a member of the Group shall be construed to include any transaction that is consistent with industry practice in the industries in which the Group operates or consistent with past practice of any member of the Group.

(t)

The knowledge, awareness or belief of any member of the Group shall be limited to the actual knowledge, awareness or belief of the Board of Directors (or equivalent body) of such member of the Group at the relevant time.

(u)

In the event that a transaction is committed, incurred or entered into (or, as the case may be, not committed, incurred or entered into) by any member of the Group by reference to the Consolidated Senior Secured Leverage Ratio, Consolidated EBITDA or assets of the Group as at any particular date shall be treated as having been duly and properly incurred, and that transaction shall not constitute, or be deemed to constitute, or result in, a breach of any provision of the Finance Documents or a Default or an Event of Default if there is a subsequent change in the Consolidated Senior Secured Leverage Ratio, Consolidated EBITDA or assets of the Group, as applicable.

(v)

In acting hereunder, the Security Agent does so in accordance with its terms of appointment under the Intercreditor Agreement and is entitled to the protections set out therein. In the event of any conflict or inconsistency between the provisions of this Agreement and those of the Intercreditor Agreement with regard to the rights, powers and/or obligations of the Security Agent, the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement shall prevail.

(w)

A reference in this Agreement to a page or screen of an information service displaying a rate shall include:

(i)

any replacement page of that information service which displays that rate; and

(ii)

the appropriate page of such other information service which displays that rate from time to time in place of that information service,

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and, if such page or service ceases to be available, shall include any other page or service displaying that rate specified by the Agent after consultation with the Obligors’ Agent.

(x)

A reference in this Agreement to a Central Bank Rate shall include any successor rate to, or replacement rate for, that rate.

(y)

Any Compounded Rate Supplement relating to a currency overrides anything relating to that currency in:

(i)

Schedule 19 (Compounded Rate Terms); or

(ii)

any earlier Compounded Rate Supplement.

(z)

A Compounding Methodology Supplement relating to a currency and the Daily Non-Cumulative Compounded RFR Rate overrides anything relating to that currency and rate in:

(i)

Schedule 20 (Daily Non-Cumulative Compounded RFR Rate); or

(ii)

any earlier Compounding Methodology Supplement.

(aa)

Where the Agent or the Security Agent is referred to as acting "reasonably” or "in a reasonable manner” or as coming to an opinion or determination that is "reasonable” (or any similar or analogous wording is used), this shall mean that the Agent and the Security Agent shall be acting or coming to an opinion or determination on the instructions of the Lenders, the Super Majority Lenders or the Majority Lenders (as the case may be) acting reasonably or in a reasonable manner and the Agent and the Security Agent shall be under no obligation to determine the reasonableness of such instructions or whether in giving such instructions the Lenders, the Super Majority Lenders or the Majority Lenders (as the case may be) are acting reasonably or in a reasonable manner.

(bb)

Where acceptability to or satisfaction of the Agent or the Security Agent is referred to in relation to a matter not affecting the personal interests of the Agent or Security Agent (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any satisfaction or determination in relation to conditions precedent) this shall mean the acceptability to or satisfaction of the Lenders, the Super Majority Lenders or the Majority Lenders (as the case may be) as notified by it to the Agent or Security Agent.

(cc)

In respect of paragraphs (aa) and (bb) above, the Agent and the Security Agent shall not be responsible for any liability occasioned or by any delay or failure on the part of the Lenders, the Super Majority Lenders or the Majority Lenders (as the case may be) to give any such instructions or direction or to form any such opinion.

(dd)

Notwithstanding any other term of the Finance Documents, no failure to comply with a Finance Document (including any obligation to pay any amount to a Sanctioned Finance Party) where to comply with that term would result in a breach of any Sanctions (as determined by the Obligors’ Agent acting reasonably and in good faith) shall (or shall be deemed to) constitute a breach of any representation and warranty or undertaking in the Finance Documents or result in the occurrence of a Default or an Event of Default and shall be expressly permitted under the terms of the Finance Documents.

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(ee)

Unless a contrary indication appears, where a consent is required from or a determination is to be made by a member of the Group, when determining whether to grant such consent or when making such determination, that member of the Group may act in its sole discretion (which may be given, withheld, conditioned or delayed in its sole and absolute discretion and shall not, under any circumstances, be deemed given).

(ff)

For the avoidance of doubt, in the case of any reference to calculating a financial ratio, definition or other provision on a pro forma basis, the Parent (or, as the case may be, the relevant member of the Group) shall be permitted to make that calculation (including any adjustment) in accordance with the terms of this Agreement (including, without limitation, by making any adjustment permitted by any term of this Agreement).

(gg)

In determining any Applicable Metric, any determination of the cash and Cash Equivalents of the Group (or similar) may (at the sole discretion of the Parent): (i) be deemed to include the cash and Cash Equivalents of any target or asset to be acquired by or merged, consolidated or otherwise integrated with the Group pursuant to the terms of a legally binding agreement and to the extent such cash or Cash Equivalents are retained by the relevant target or assets at the time of determination; and/or (ii) the Parent may make such determination on any Applicable Test Date or such other date selected by the Parent.

(hh)

For the avoidance of doubt and unless a contrary indication appears, where a member of the Group is permitted to make an election (or similar), that member of the Group may revoke and re-make that election (or similar) at any time and from time to time.

(ii)

For the avoidance of doubt and notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Finance Documents, no member of the Group will be deemed to be bankrupt, insolvent or unable to pay its debts as they fall due (whether under applicable law or otherwise) as a result of any balance sheet deficiency or negative equity.

(jj)

The Parent and its Restricted Subsidiaries may undertake Permitted Transactions and nothing in this Agreement shall prohibit or otherwise restrict (or impose any additional requirements or conditions in relation to) any Permitted Transaction.

1.3

Currency symbols and definitions

(a)

”, “EUR” and “euro” mean the single currency of the Participating Member States.

(b)

£”, “GBP” and “Sterling” mean the lawful currency for the time being of the United Kingdom.

(c)

“$”, “USD” and “Dollars” means the lawful currency of the US.

1.4

Third party rights

(a)

Unless expressly provided to the contrary in a Finance Document, a person who is not a Party has no right under the Contracts (Rights of Third Parties) Act 1999 or the Contract (Third Party Rights) (Scotland) Act 2017 (the “Third Parties Acts”) or the corresponding common law of Scotland to enforce or enjoy the benefit of any term of this Agreement.

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(b)

Notwithstanding any term of any Finance Document, the consent of any person who is not a Party is not required to rescind or vary this Agreement at any time, unless to the extent expressly provided to the contrary in any Finance Document.

1.5

Intercreditor Agreement and Finance Documents

Without prejudice to any guarantee limitations under Clause 23 (Guarantee and Indemnity):

(a)

in the event of any conflict between this Agreement and the Intercreditor Agreement, the Intercreditor Agreement will prevail; and

(b)

in the event of any conflict between this Agreement and any other Finance Document (other than the Intercreditor Agreement), this Agreement will prevail.

1.6

Luxembourg terms

In this Agreement and any Finance Document, where it relates to a Luxembourg Borrower or a Luxembourg Guarantor, a reference to:

(a)

a liquidator, trustee in bankruptcy, judicial custodian, compulsory manager, receiver, administrator receiver, administrator, custodian assignee for the benefit of creditors or  similar officer includes any:

(i)

juge-commissaire or insolvency receiver (curateur) appointed under the Luxembourg Commercial Code;

(ii)

liquidateur appointed under Articles 1100-1 to 1100-15 (inclusive) of the Luxembourg law dated 10 August 1915 on commercial companies, as amended;

(iii)

juge-commissaire or liquidateur appointed under Article 1200-1 of the Luxembourg law dated 10 August 1915 on commercial companies, as amended;

(iv)

commissaire appointed under the Grand-Ducal decree of 24 May 1935 on the controlled management regime or under Articles 593 to 614 (inclusive) of the Luxembourg Commercial Code; and

(v)

juge-délégué appointed under the Luxembourg act of 14 April 1886 on the composition with creditors, as amended;

(b)

a winding-up administration, reorganisation or dissolution includes, without limitation, bankruptcy (faillite) , insolvency, suspension of payments (sursis de paiement), or, according to the law of 7 August 2023 on the preservation of companies and modernisation of the bankruptcy law, a reorganisation by amicable agreement (réorganisation par accord amiable), a judicial reorganisation (réorganisation judiciaire) or a court-ordered liquidation (liquidation judiciare), liquidation, moratorium or reprieve from payment (sursis de paiement); general settlement with creditors, an administrative dissolution without liquidation procedure (procédure de dissolution administrative sans liquidation) or a voluntary dissolution or liquidation, reorganization or similar laws affecting the rights of creditors generally;

(c)

a lien or security interest includes any hypothéque, nantissement, gage, privilège, sȗreté réelle, droit de rétention, and any type of security in rem (sȗreté réelle) or

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agreement or arrangement having a similar effect and any transfer of title by way of security;

(d)

a "matured liability" or "matured debt" includes, without limitation, any créance certaine, liquide et exigible;

(e)

a person being unable to pay its debts includes that person being in a state of cessation of payments (cessation des paiements);

(f)

a person being solvent means that it is not in a state of cessation of payments (cessation des paiements) and has not lost its creditworthiness (ébranlement de crédit);

(g)

attachments or similar creditors process means an executory attachment (saisie exécutoire) or conservatory attachment (saisie-arrêt);

(h)

by-laws or constitutional documents include up-to-date (restated) articles of association (statuts);

(i)

a director, officer or manager include a gérant or an administrateur; and

(j)

a "set-off" includes, for purposes of Luxembourg law, legal set-off.

1.7

Scottish terms

In this Agreement and any Finance Document, a reference to:

(a)

assignment includes assignation under Scots law;

(b)

attachment shall include execution and diligence under Scots law;

(c)

execute means in relation to any Scots law governed document that such document is subscribed so that it shall be presumed to have been subscribed by the grantor and/or other parties thereto for the purposes of sections 3 and/or 7 of, and/or Schedule 1 to, the Requirements of Writing (Scotland) Act 1995;

(d)

release, re-assign and/or re-transfer shall, to the extent it relates to assets located in Scotland or otherwise governed by Scots law be construed to also refer to retrocess;

(e)

set-off includes retention, compensation and the balancing of accounts in insolvency; and

(f)

stay or stayed means sist under Scots law.

1.8

Dutch terms

In this Agreement and any Finance Document, where it relates to a Dutch person or entity, a reference to:

(a)

works council” means each works council (ondernemingsraad) or central or group works council (centrale of groeps ondernemingsraad) within the meaning of the Works Councils Act of the Netherlands (Wet op de ondernemingsraden) having jurisdiction over that Dutch Obligor;

(b)

a “necessary action to authorise” includes any action required to comply with the Works Councils Act of the Netherlands (Wet op de ondernemingsraden) and

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obtaining an unconditional positive advice (advies) from the competent works council(s);

(c)

a “liquidator”, “receiver”, “administrative receiver”, “administrator”, “compulsory manager” or “other similar officer” includes a curator, a bewindvoerder, a herstructureringsdeskundige or an observator;

(d)

constitutional documents” means the articles of association (statuten) and deed of incorporation (akte van oprichting) and an up-to-date extract of registration of the Trade Register of the Dutch Chamber of Commerce;

(e)

insolvency” includes a faillissement and surceance van betaling, but excludes a stille bewindvoering;

(f)

reorganisation” or “composition” includes statutory proceedings for the restructuring of debt (akkoordprocedure) under the Dutch Bankruptcy Act (Faillissementswet); and

(g)

a “winding-up”, “administration” or “dissolution” (and any of those terms) includes a Dutch entity being declared bankrupt (failliet verklaard) or dissolved (ontbonden).

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Section 2.

The Facilities

2

The Facilities

2.1

The Facilities

(a)

Subject to this Agreement, the RCF Lenders make available to the Original Borrowers and any Additional Borrowers a multicurrency revolving credit facility in an aggregate amount the Base Currency Amount of which is equal to the Total RCF Commitments.

(b)

Subject to this Agreement, the Bonding Facility Lenders make available to the Original Borrowers and any Additional Borrowers a bond and guarantee facility in an aggregate amount the Base Currency Amount of which is equal to the Total Bonding Facility Commitments.

(c)

Subject to this Agreement and the Ancillary Documents (as the case may be), an Ancillary Lender may make available an Ancillary Facility to any of the Borrowers or any Affiliate of any Borrower as part of all or part of its Commitment under a Revolving Facility.

2.2

Increase – general

(a)

The Obligors’ Agent may, by giving prior notice to the Agent after the effective date of a cancellation of:

(i)

the Available Commitments of a Defaulting Lender in accordance with Clause 11.6 (Right of cancellation in relation to a Defaulting Lender); or

(ii)

the Commitments of a Lender in accordance with Clause 11.1 (Illegality) or paragraph (a) of Clause 11.5 (Right of cancellation and repayment in relation to a single Lender or Issuing Bank),

request that the Commitments relating to any Facility be increased (and the Commitments under that Facility shall be so increased) in an aggregate amount in the Base Currency of up to the amount of the Available Commitments or Commitments relating to that Facility so cancelled as follows:

(A)

the increased Commitments will be assumed by one or more Lenders or other banks, financial institutions, trusts, funds or other entities (including, without limitation, a Sponsor Affiliate) which, in each case, is not a member of the Group (each an “Increase Lender”) selected by the Obligors’ Agent, each of which confirms its willingness to assume and does assume all the obligations of a Lender corresponding to that part of the increased Commitments which it is to assume as if it had been an Original Lender;

(B)

each of the Obligors and any Increase Lender shall assume obligations towards one another and/or acquire rights against one another as the

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Obligors and the Increase Lender would have assumed and/or acquired had the Increase Lender been an Original Lender;

(C)

each Increase Lender shall become a Party as a “Lender” and any Increase Lender and each of the other Finance Parties shall assume obligations towards one another and acquire rights against one another as that Increase Lender and those Finance Parties would have assumed and/or acquired had the Increase Lender been an Original Lender;

(D)

the Commitments of the other Lenders shall continue in full force and effect; and

(E)

any increase in the Total Commitments shall take effect on the date specified by the Obligors’ Agent in the notice referred to above or any later date on which the conditions set out in paragraph (b) below are satisfied.

(b)

An increase in the Commitments relating to a Facility will only be effective on:

(i)

the execution by the Agent of an Increase Confirmation from the relevant Increase Lender;

(ii)

in relation to an Increase Lender which is not a Lender immediately prior to the relevant increase:

(A)

the Increase Lender entering into the documentation required for it to accede as a party to the Intercreditor Agreement; and

(B)

the performance by the Agent and the Security Agent of all necessary “know your customer” or other similar checks under all applicable laws and regulations in relation to the assumption of the increased Commitments by that Increase Lender, the completion of which the Agent and the Security Agent (respectively) shall promptly notify to the Obligors’ Agent, the Increase Lender and the relevant Issuing Bank; and

(iii)

in the case of an increase in the Total Revolving Facility Commitments, any Issuing Banks consenting to that increase.

(c)

Each Increase Lender, by executing the Increase Confirmation, confirms (for the avoidance of doubt) that the Agent has authority to execute on its behalf any amendment or waiver that has been approved by or on behalf of the requisite Lender or Lenders in accordance with this Agreement on or prior to the date on which the increase becomes effective.

(d)

The Obligors’ Agent shall within 10 Business Days of demand reimburse each of the Agent and the Security Agent for the amount of all third party costs and expenses (including legal fees) reasonably incurred by either of them and, in the case of the Security Agent, by any Receiver or Delegate in connection with any increase in Commitments under this Clause 2.2 subject to limits that must be agreed by the Obligors’ Agent prior to the commencement of any material work.

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(e)

The Obligors’ Agent may pay to the Increase Lender a fee in the amount and at the times agreed between the Obligors’ Agent and the Increase Lender in a Fee Letter.

(f)

Clause 29.4 (Limitation of responsibility of Existing Lenders) shall apply mutatis mutandis in this Clause 2.2 in relation to an Increase Lender as if references in that Clause to:

(i)

an “Existing Lender” were references to all the Lenders immediately prior to the relevant increase;

(ii)

the “New Lender” were references to that “Increase Lender”; and

(iii)

a “re-transfer” and “re-assignment” were references to respectively a “transfer” and “assignment”.

(g)

Clause 30.2 (Disenfranchisement on Debt Purchase Transactions entered into by Sponsor Affiliates) shall apply to any Commitments assumed by an Increase Lender which is a Sponsor Affiliate.

2.3

Finance Parties’ rights and obligations

(a)

The obligations of each Finance Party under the Finance Documents are several. Failure by a Finance Party to perform its obligations under the Finance Documents does not affect the obligations of any other Party under the Finance Documents. No Finance Party is responsible for the obligations of any other Finance Party under the Finance Documents.

(b)

The rights of each Finance Party under or in connection with the Finance Documents are separate and independent rights and any debt arising under the Finance Documents to a Finance Party from an Obligor is a separate and independent debt in respect of which a Finance Party shall be entitled to enforce its rights in accordance with paragraph (c) below.  The rights of each Finance Party include any debt owing to that Finance Party under the Finance Documents and, for the avoidance of doubt, any part of a Loan or any other amount owed by an Obligor which relates to a Finance Party’s participation in a Facility or its role under a Finance Document (including any such amount payable to the Agent on its behalf) is a debt owing to that Finance Party by that Obligor.

(c)

A Finance Party may, except as otherwise stated in the Finance Documents, separately enforce its rights under the Finance Documents.

2.4

Obligors’ Agent

(a)

Each Obligor (other than the Parent) by its execution of this Agreement or an Accession Deed irrevocably appoints the Parent to act on its behalf as its agent in relation to the Finance Documents and irrevocably authorises:

(i)

the Parent on its behalf to supply all information concerning itself contemplated by this Agreement to the Finance Parties and to give all notices and instructions (including, in the case of a Borrower, Utilisation Requests), to execute on its behalf any Accession Deed, to make such agreements and to effect the relevant amendments, supplements and variations capable of being given, made or

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effected by any Obligor, notwithstanding that they may affect the Obligor, without further reference to or the consent of that Obligor; and

(ii)

each Finance Party to give any notice, demand or other communication to that Obligor pursuant to the Finance Documents to the Parent,

and in each case the relevant Obligor shall be bound as though the Obligor itself had given the notices and instructions (including, without limitation, any Utilisation Requests) or executed or made the agreements or effected the amendments, supplements or variations, or received the relevant notice, demand or other communication.

(b)

Every act, omission, agreement, undertaking, settlement, waiver, amendment, supplement, variation, notice or other communication given or made by the Obligors’ Agent or given to the Obligors’ Agent under any Finance Document on behalf of another Obligor or in connection with any Finance Document (whether or not known to any other Obligor and whether occurring before or after such other Obligor became an Obligor under any Finance Document) shall be binding for all purposes on that Obligor as if that Obligor had expressly made, given or concurred with it. In the event of any conflict between any notices or other communications of the Obligors’ Agent and any other Obligor, those of the Obligors’ Agent shall prevail.

2.5

Incremental Facilities

(a)

The Obligors’ Agent may at any time notify the Agent by delivery of an Incremental Facility Notice that it wishes to add one or more additional facilities under this Agreement and the other Finance Documents, including as new or existing facility commitment(s) and/or as an additional tranche or class of, or an increase of, or an extension of (including by way of a conversion on cashless rollover basis), the whole or a portion of any existing Facility or a previously incurred Incremental Facility either as a new facility and/or as an additional tranche of any existing facility (each an “Incremental Facility”).

(b)

No consent of any Finance Party is required to establish an Incremental Facility (other than any Lender which is to provide the relevant facility), provided that, unless otherwise agreed by the Majority Lenders:

(i)

no Event of Default is continuing at the time of, or would result from, the establishment of that Incremental Facility (but with the agreement of the providers of the relevant Incremental Facility it may be made available on a certain funds basis);

(ii)

that Incremental Facility must rank pari passu with the Revolving Facilities;

(iii)

if that Incremental Facility is a revolving credit, working capital or similar facility, it may not:

(A)

have a maturity date prior to the Maturity Date in respect of the RCF; or

(B)

exceed, when aggregated with the amount of any other revolving credit, working capital or similar Incremental Facilities, an amount permitted to

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be incurred at that time under paragraph (a) of Section 1.2 (Limitation on Indebtedness) of Schedule 16 (Covenants and Certain Definitions); and

(iv)

any transaction funded or to be funded with or by that Incremental Facility would not otherwise be prohibited under the Finance Documents.

(c)

No Incremental Facility Notice will be regarded as having been duly completed unless it specifies the following matters in respect of the relevant Incremental Facility:

(i)

the proposed Borrower(s);

(ii)

the persons to become Incremental Facility Lenders in respect of that Incremental Facility;

(iii)

the amount being made available and the currency or currencies in which that Incremental Facility is available for utilisation;

(iv)

the conditions to drawdown (if any) of such Incremental Facility (which may be as agreed between the Parent and the Incremental Facility Lenders (each acting reasonably) providing that Incremental Facility), including any Agreed Certain Funds Period and related conditions;

(v)

the rate of interest applicable to that Incremental Facility (including any applicable Margin and Margin ratchet);

(vi)

the Maturity Date for that Incremental Facility;

(vii)

the Availability Period for that Incremental Facility; and

(viii)

the Incremental Facility Commencement Date for that Incremental Facility.

(d)

Subject to the conditions set out in paragraph (b) above being satisfied, following receipt by the Agent of a duly completed Incremental Facility Notice and with effect from the relevant Incremental Facility Commencement Date (or any later date on which the conditions set out in paragraph (e) below are satisfied):

(i)

the Lenders in respect of the relevant Incremental Facility (each an “Incremental Facility Lender”) shall make available that Incremental Facility in the aggregate amount set out in the Incremental Facility Notice;

(ii)

each of the Obligors and each such Incremental Facility Lender shall assume obligations towards one another and/or acquire rights against one another as the Obligors and such Incremental Facility Lenders would have assumed and/or acquired had the Incremental Facility Lenders been Original Lenders;

(iii)

each such Incremental Facility Lender shall become a Party as a “Lender”;

(iv)

each such Incremental Facility Lender and each of the other Finance Parties shall assume obligations towards one another and acquire rights against one another as those Incremental Facility Lenders and those Finance Parties would have

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assumed and/or acquired had the Incremental Facility Lenders been Original Lenders; and

(v)

the Commitments of the other Lenders shall continue in full force and effect.

(e)

The establishment of an Incremental Facility will only be effective on:

(i)

receipt by the Agent of an Incremental Facility Accession Notice executed by each person referred to in the relevant Incremental Facility Notice as an Incremental Facility Lender; and

(ii)

in relation to an Incremental Facility Lender which is not already a Lender:

(A)

that Incremental Facility Lender entering into an accession deed or agreement to the Intercreditor Agreement; and

(B)

the performance by the Agent and the Security Agent of all necessary “know your customer” or other similar identification checks under all applicable laws and regulations in relation to that Incremental Facility Lender making available an Incremental Facility, the completion of which the Agent and the Security Agent (respectively) shall promptly notify to the Obligors’ Agent.

(f)

Each Obligor irrevocably authorises the Obligors’ Agent to sign each Incremental Facility Notice on its behalf and each Finance Party irrevocably authorises and instructs the Agent and the Security Agent to acknowledge, execute and confirm acceptance of each Incremental Facility Notice, Incremental Facility Accession Notice and, if applicable, Lender Accession Deed on its behalf.  The Agent and the Security Agent shall as soon as reasonably practicable send to the Obligors’ Agent a copy of each executed Incremental Facility Notice, Incremental Facility Accession Notice and, if applicable, Lender Accession Deed.

(g)

Except to the extent as provided in paragraph (b) above, the terms applicable to any Incremental Facility will be those agreed by the Incremental Facility Lenders as set out in the applicable Incremental Facility Documents.  If there is any inconsistency between any term of the applicable Incremental Facility Documents and of this Agreement, the term agreed in the applicable Incremental Facility Documents shall prevail with respect to such Incremental Facility (without prejudice to paragraph (b) above). Notwithstanding any provision of a Finance Document to the contrary, there shall be no obligation or requirement to enter into any hedging arrangement or other derivative transaction in relation to any Incremental Facility.  The Obligors’ Agent shall deliver to the Agent a copy of any Incremental Facility Documents as soon as reasonably practicable following execution thereof.

(h)

Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement and the other Finance Documents, the Agent and the Security Agent are irrevocably authorised and instructed by each other Secured Party (without the requirement for any further authorisation or consent from any other Secured Party) to enter into such documentation as is necessary to amend this Agreement and any other Finance Document (including, without limitation, the Transaction Security Documents) to which each is party and/or any additional Transaction Security Documents and/or to enter into any supplemental agreements,

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confirmations and/or any other similar or equivalent documents to reflect the terms of each Incremental Facility (consistent with the requirements of this Clause 2.5). Any action required to be taken under this Clause 2.5 shall be at the cost of the Group in accordance with the provisions of Clause 22.1 (Transaction expenses).

(i)

The Obligors’ Agent together with the Agent and/or the Security Agent, as the case may be, on behalf of the Secured Parties shall enter into any amendment, replacement of or supplement to the Finance Documents and/or take other action (if any) but always subject to the Agreed Security Principles, including:

(i)

in respect of guarantees and indemnities of each Obligor set out in Clause 23 (Guarantee and Indemnity), (including entering into confirmations that the guarantee and indemnity of each Obligor recorded in Clause 23 (Guarantee and Indemnity) (or any applicable Accession Deed or other Finance Document)), subject only to any applicable limitations on such guarantee and indemnity referred to in Clause 23 (Guarantee and Indemnity) or any Accession Deed pursuant to which it became an Obligor or other Finance Document, ensure that such guarantees and indemnities extend to include all Incremental Facility Loans or other utilisations (as the case may be) of any Incremental Facility and any other obligations arising under or in respect of all Incremental Facility commitments (as the case may be), any additional Transaction Security Document (including those referred to in sub-paragraph (ii) below) and/or any supplemental agreements, confirmations and/or any other similar or equivalent documents; and

(ii)

in respect of any Transaction Security, enter into any additional Transaction Security Document and/or any supplemental agreements, confirmations and/or any other similar or equivalent documents and/or take such other action (if any) to ensure that the Transaction Security extends to include all Incremental Facility Loans or other utilisations (as the case may be) of any Incremental Facility and any other obligations arising under or in respect of all Incremental Facility commitments and/or any supplemental agreements, confirmations and/or any other similar or equivalent documents,

in each case, as is necessary as determined by the Obligors’ Agent and the Agent, each acting reasonably, in order to facilitate the establishment of any Incremental Facility permitted by this Agreement (including in relation to any changes to, the taking of, or the release coupled with the retaking of, Transaction Security as may be required in order to ensure that that Incremental Facility shares the benefit of that Transaction Security pari passu with the other Facilities (or as otherwise agreed in respect of such Incremental Facility in accordance with sub-paragraph (b)(ii) and paragraph (g) of this Clause 2.5)), provided that a release coupled with the retaking of Transaction Security shall only be effected where it is not otherwise possible for that Incremental Facility to so share the benefit of the Transaction Security and there is no reasonable alternative structure having regard to the Agreed Security Principles and, further, having commercially substantially the same effect (such as, for example, the existing Transaction Security not being released and re-taken but instead subsequent ranking Transaction Security being granted in respect of that Incremental Facility and the Incremental Facility Lenders relying on the contractual ranking agreed in respect of that Incremental Facility and the Transaction Security in the Intercreditor Agreement and related provisions, such as the Incremental Facility Lenders’ rights to share recoveries under the Intercreditor Agreement pro rata

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and pari passu with the other Lenders, to the extent that such Incremental Facility is intended to be pari passu (or as otherwise agreed in respect of such Incremental Facility in accordance with sub-paragraph (b)(ii) and paragraph (g) of this Clause 2.5)).

(j)

Each Incremental Facility Lender, by executing an Incremental Facility Accession Notice, confirms (for the avoidance of doubt) that the Agent has authority to execute on its behalf any amendment or waiver that has been approved by or on behalf of the requisite Lender or Lenders in accordance with this Agreement on or prior to the date on which the relevant Incremental Facility becomes effective.

(k)

For the avoidance of doubt, no Lender will have any obligation to participate in an Incremental Facility (unless it has executed and delivered an Incremental Facility Accession Notice in respect of that Incremental Facility). By signing an Incremental Facility Notice as an Incremental Facility Lender, each such entity agrees to provide the commitments in respect of the relevant Incremental Facility Commitments set out against its name in that Incremental Facility Notice.

(l)

Clause 29.4 (Limitation of responsibility of Existing Lenders) shall apply mutatis mutandis in this Clause 2.5 in relation to an Incremental Facility Lender as if references in that Clause 29.4 (Limitation of responsibility of Existing Lenders) to:

(i)

an Existing Lender were references to all the Lenders immediately prior to the establishment of the relevant Incremental Facility;

(ii)

the New Lender were references to that Incremental Facility Lender; and

(iii)

a re-transfer and re-assignment were references to respectively a transfer and assignment.

2.6

Permitted Refinancing

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Finance Document:

(a)

The Finance Parties shall be required to enter into any amendment to or replacement of the Finance Documents (including for the purpose of reflecting the terms of any Permitted Refinancing in the Finance Documents) and/or take such other action as is required by the Obligors’ Agent in order to facilitate any Permitted Refinancing, including in relation to any changes to, the taking of, or the release coupled with the retaking of, any guarantee or Security provided that, if an Event of Default is continuing, unless otherwise agreed by the Majority Lenders, neither the Agent nor the Security Agent shall be required to execute a release of assets from any existing Transaction Security or a release of any existing guarantee under Clause 23 (Guarantee and Indemnity) pursuant to this paragraph (a) (but without prejudice to any requirement to execute a release pursuant to any other provision of any Finance Document) unless:

(i)

replacement security will be provided pursuant to which the relevant Lenders (or the Security Agent on their behalf) will continue to have security in respect of the applicable assets or, as the case may be, a replacement guarantee will be provided; and

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(ii)

the Agent (acting reasonably) is satisfied that the release coupled with the retaking of the relevant security or, as the case may be, guarantee will not expose the Finance Parties in whose favour the relevant security or guarantee has been granted to new insolvency hardening periods which are materially prejudicial to the interests of the Lenders taken as a whole under the Finance Documents,

provided further that, for the avoidance of doubt, nothing in this proviso will prohibit or restrict the execution of (or the right to require the execution of) any additional guarantee or Transaction Security Documents and/or any supplemental agreements, confirmations and/or any other similar or equivalent documents.  The Agent and the Security Agent are each irrevocably authorised and instructed by each Finance Party to execute any such amended or replacement Finance Documents and/or take such action on behalf of the Finance Parties (and shall do so on the request of and at the cost of the Obligors’ Agent).

(b)

For the avoidance of doubt, at the option of the Obligors’ Agent:

(i)

a Permitted Refinancing may be made available on a basis which is pari passu with or junior to any Facilities made available from time to time (subject to customary exceptions for fees, costs, expenses and other similar amounts payable to any agent, trustee or other relevant representative in respect of any Permitted Refinancing);

(ii)

a Permitted Refinancing may be made available on a secured or unsecured basis (provided that, subject to the Finance Parties complying with all relevant obligations under paragraph (a) above, the proceeds of any Security granted by a member of the Group in respect of a Permitted Refinancing shall be applied in accordance with the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement (or, if applicable, any alternative intercreditor arrangements entered into in accordance with the definition of “Permitted Refinancing”), subject to exceptions for any Security which is particular to the structure or nature of any Permitted Refinancing or other transaction specific requirements, including any Security granted by a financing vehicle to creditors of that entity);

(iii)

a Permitted Refinancing shall be entitled to benefit from any Transaction Security; and

(iv)

a Permitted Refinancing may be effected in whole or in part by way of a debt exchange, non-cash rollover or other similar or equivalent transaction.

(c)

Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement and the other Finance Documents, the Agent and the Security Agent are irrevocably authorised and instructed by each other Secured Party (without the requirement for any further authorisation or consent from any other Secured Party) to enter into such documentation as is necessary to amend this Agreement and any other Finance Document (including, without limitation, the Transaction Security Documents) to which each is party and/or any additional Transaction Security Documents and/or to enter into any supplemental agreements, confirmations and/or any other similar or equivalent documents to reflect the terms of a Permitted Refinancing (consistent with the requirements of this Clause 2.6). Any action required to be taken under this Clause 2.6 shall be at the cost of the Group in accordance with the provisions of Clause 22.1 (Transaction expenses).

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(d)

Any Permitted Refinancing otherwise prohibited under this Clause 2.6 or the definition of “Permitted Refinancing” shall require the consent of the Majority Lenders.

2.7

IPO Pushdown

(a)

In contemplation of, or following an IPO Event, the Obligors’ Agent shall be entitled to require (by written notice to the Agent (a “Pushdown Notice”)) that the terms of the Finance Documents shall operate (with effect from the date specified in the relevant Pushdown Notice (the “Pushdown Date”)) on the basis that:

(i)

the Group (and all related provisions) shall comprise only the IPO Pushdown Entity and its Restricted Subsidiaries from time to time;

(ii)

all financial ratio calculations shall be made excluding any Holding Company of the IPO Pushdown Entity and all reporting obligations shall be assumed at the level of the IPO Pushdown Entity;

(iii)

each reference in this Agreement to the Parent shall be deemed to be a reference to the IPO Pushdown Entity (to the extent applicable and unless the context requires otherwise, and provided further that nothing in this paragraph (a), including the deeming construct contemplated by this sub-paragraph (iii) and any action taken by the IPO Pushdown Entity prior to it being deemed to be the Parent, shall, or shall be deemed to, directly or indirectly constitute or result in a breach of any representation, warranty, undertaking or other term in the Finance Documents or a Default or an Event of Default);

(iv)

none of the representations, warranties, undertakings or Events of Default in the Finance Documents shall apply to any Holding Company of the IPO Pushdown Entity (whether in its capacity as an Obligor or otherwise);

(v)

no event, matter or circumstance relating to any Holding Company of the IPO Pushdown Entity (whether in its capacity as an Obligor or otherwise) shall, or shall be deemed to, directly or indirectly constitute or result in a breach of any representation, warranty, undertaking or other term in the Finance Documents or a Default or an Event of Default;

(vi)

each Holding Company of the IPO Pushdown Entity shall be irrevocably and unconditionally released from all obligations under the Finance Documents (including any Transaction Security granted by any such Holding Company); and/or

(vii)

unless otherwise notified by the Obligors’ Agent:

(A)

each person which is party to the Intercreditor Agreement as an “Investor” shall be irrevocably and unconditionally released from the Intercreditor Agreement and all obligations and restrictions under the Intercreditor Agreement (and from the date specified by the Obligors’ Agent that person shall cease to be party to the Intercreditor Agreement as an Investor and shall have no further rights or obligations under the Intercreditor Agreement as an Investor); and

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(B)

there shall be no obligation or requirement for any person to become party to the Intercreditor Agreement as an Investor.

In the event that any person is released from or does not become party to the Intercreditor Agreement as an Investor as a consequence of this paragraph (a), any term of any Finance Document which requires or assumes that any person be an Investor or that any liabilities or obligations to such person be subject to the Intercreditor Agreement or otherwise subordinated shall cease to apply.

(b)

The Finance Parties shall be required to enter into any amendment to or replacement of the Finance Documents required by the Obligors’ Agent and/or take such other action as is required by the Obligors’ Agent in order to facilitate or reflect any of the matters contemplated by paragraph (a) above.  The Agent and the Security Agents are each irrevocably authorised and instructed by each Finance Party to execute any such amended or replacement Finance Documents and/or take other such action on behalf of the Finance Parties (and shall do so on the request of and at the cost of the Obligors’ Agent).

(c)

For the purpose of this Clause 2.7, the “IPO Pushdown Entity” shall be any member of the Group notified to the Agent by the Obligors’ Agent in writing as the person to be treated as the IPO Pushdown Entity in relation to the relevant IPO Event, provided that:

(i)

the IPO Pushdown Entity shall be the member of the Group who will issue shares, or whose shares are to be sold, pursuant to that IPO Event (or a Holding Company of such member of the Group); and

(ii)

the Obligors’ Agent may not designate a Subsidiary of a Borrower as the IPO Pushdown Entity unless on or prior to the date on which that Borrower will cease to be a member of the Group as a consequence of the operation of this Clause 2.7 it ceases to be a Borrower under this Agreement.

(d)

If the Obligors’ Agent delivers a Pushdown Notice to the Agent pursuant to paragraph (a) above in relation to a contemplated IPO Event, it shall be entitled to revoke that Pushdown Notice at any time prior to the occurrence of the relevant IPO Event by written notice to the Agent.  In the event that any Pushdown Notice is revoked in accordance with this paragraph (d):

(i)

the provisions of sub-paragraphs (a)(i) to (a)(vii) above shall cease to apply in relation to that Pushdown Notice;

(ii)

if any Transaction Security has been released pursuant to paragraph (a) above in reliance on that Pushdown Notice, if required by the Majority Lenders (acting reasonably) by prior written notice to the Obligors’ Agent and subject to the Agreed Security Principles, the relevant member of the Group shall as soon as reasonably practicable execute a replacement Transaction Security Document in respect of that Transaction Security; and

(iii)

if any person party to the Intercreditor Agreement as an “Investor” has been released from the Intercreditor Agreement pursuant to sub-paragraph (a)(vii) above in reliance on that Pushdown Notice, if required by the Majority Lenders (acting reasonably) by prior written notice to the Obligors’ Agent and that

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person, that person shall as soon as reasonably practicable accede to the Intercreditor Agreement as an Investor by executing a Lender Accession Deed.

For the avoidance of doubt:

(A)

nothing in this paragraph (d) shall prohibit or otherwise restrict the Obligors’ Agent from delivering a further Pushdown Notice in relation to any actual or contemplated IPO Event; and

(B)

revocation of a Pushdown Notice shall not, and shall not be deemed to, directly or indirectly constitute or result in a breach of any representation, warranty, undertaking or other term in the Finance Documents or a Default or an Event of Default (whether by reason of any action or step taken by any person, or any matter or circumstance arising or committed, while that Pushdown Notice was effective or otherwise).

2.8

Designated Entities

(a)

A Lender (the “Related Lender”) may designate an Affiliate or substitute Facility Office (a “Designated Entity”) as its Facility Office for the purpose of participating in a Loan to a Borrower incorporated under the laws of the United States.

(b)

An Affiliate or Facility Office of a Lender may be designated for the purposes of paragraph (a) by acceding as a Designated Entity by signing an accession agreement substantially in the form of Schedule 21 (Form of Designated Entity Accession Agreement).

(c)

A Designated Entity does not have any Commitment and does not have any obligations under this Agreement prior to such Designated Entity participating in a Loan.

(d)

When a Designated Entity participates in a Loan:

(i)

subject to paragraph (e) below, it shall be entitled to all the rights of a Lender and have the corresponding obligations of a Lender, in each case under the Finance Documents relating to its participation in any such Loan; and

(ii)

the other parties to the Finance Documents shall treat the Designated Entity as a Lender for these purposes.

(e)

For the purposes only of voting in connection with any Finance Document, the participation of a Designated Entity in any outstanding Loans shall be deemed to be a participation of the Related Lender.

(f)

Any notice or communication to be made to a Designated Entity shall be served directly on the Designated Entity at the address supplied to the Agent by the Related Lender where the Related Lender or Designated Entity reasonably requests or, if no such request has been made, shall be delivered to the Related Lender in accordance with this Agreement.

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(g)

A Designated Entity may assign or transfer any of its rights and obligations under this Agreement in respect of its participation in any Loan (and the Related Lender may assign or transfer any corresponding Commitment) in accordance with Clause 29.1 (Assignments and transfers by the Lenders).

(h)

No member of the Group will be liable to pay any fees, costs or expenses in connection with any designation under this Clause 2.8 by any Lender, including, without limitation, any filing, notary or registration cost necessary to perfect, protect or preserve any Security arising under any Finance Document

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Purpose

3.1

Purpose

Each Borrower shall apply all amounts borrowed by it under the Revolving Facility, directly or indirectly, in whole or in part, towards financing or refinancing the general corporate purposes and/or working capital requirements of the Group (including, for the avoidance of doubt, towards acquisitions and capital expenditure).

3.2

Monitoring

No Finance Party is bound to monitor or verify the application of any amount borrowed pursuant to this Agreement.

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Conditions of Utilisation

4.1

Initial conditions precedent

The Lenders are only obliged to comply with Clause 5.4 (Lenders’ participation) in relation to any Utilisation if, on or before the Utilisation Date for that Utilisation, the Agent has received (or is satisfied that it will receive or has waived the requirement to receive) all of the documents and other evidence listed in Part 1 (Conditions Precedent to Effective Date) of Schedule 2 (Conditions Precedent) in form and substance satisfactory (save to the extent otherwise expressly specified in Schedule 2 (Conditions precedent)) to the Agent (acting reasonably).  The Agent shall notify the Obligors’ Agent and the Lenders upon being so satisfied.

4.2

Further conditions precedent

Subject to Clauses 4.1 (Initial conditions precedent), 4.5 (Utilisations of Revolving Facility/Incremental Facility during the Agreed Certain Funds Period) and 28.6 (Clean-up period), the Lenders are only obliged to comply with Clause 5.4 (Lenders’ participation) if, on the date of the Utilisation Request and on the proposed Utilisation Date:

(a)

in the case of a Rollover Loan, no Acceleration Event has occurred and is continuing; and

(b)

in the case of any other Loan, the Repeating Representations are true (except where already qualified by materiality) in all material respects and no Event of Default is continuing or would result from the proposed Loan.

4.3

Maximum number of Utilisations

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(a)

A Borrower (or the Obligors’ Agent) may not (unless the Agent otherwise agrees) deliver a Utilisation Request if as a result of the proposed Utilisation:

(i)

more than 15 Revolving Loans would be outstanding under the RCF; or

(ii)

more than 50 Letters of Credit would be outstanding under the RCF.

(b)

Any Separate Loan shall not be taken into account in this Clause 4.3.

4.4

Conditions relating to Optional Currencies

A currency will constitute an Optional Currency in relation to a Revolving Utilisation if it is:

(a)

Euro or Sterling; or

(b)

any other currency approved by all the Lenders under the applicable Revolving Facility which is readily available in the amount required and freely convertible into the Base Currency in the Relevant Market on the Quotation Day and the Utilisation Date for that Utilisation.

4.5

Utilisations of Revolving Facility/Incremental Facility during the Agreed Certain Funds Period

(a)

Subject to Clause 4.1 (Initial conditions precedent), during the relevant Agreed Certain Funds Period, a Lender under the Revolving Facility or an Incremental Facility Lender (as the case may be) will only be obliged to comply with Clause 5.4 (Lenders' participation) in relation to the relevant Agreed Certain Funds Utilisation if:

(i)

the Parent and each of the Lenders under the Revolving Facility or relevant Incremental Facility Lenders (as the case may be) have agreed that the Revolving Facility or relevant Incremental Facility shall be made available on a “certain funds basis” for a specified purpose in connection with a Permitted Acquisition or such other agreed purpose, for such period and on such terms or conditions (if any) as the Parent and those Lenders under the Revolving Facility or relevant Incremental Facility Lenders (as the case may be) shall agree and notify in writing to the Agent at least three (3) Business Days (or such shorter period agreed with the Agent) prior to the date of the relevant Utilisation Request; and

(ii)

on the proposed Utilisation Date:

(A)

no Major Default has occurred and is continuing or would result from the proposed Agreed Certain Funds Utilisation;

(B)

no Change of Control has occurred;

(C)

it is not unlawful for that Lender to participate in any Utilisation or to maintain its Commitment or participation in any Utilisation provided that that Lender has promptly notified the Agent of any illegality in accordance with Clause 11.1 (Illegality), and provided further that such illegality alone will not excuse any other Lender from participating in the

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relevant Agreed Certain Funds Utilisation and will not in any way affect the obligations of any other Lender; and

(D)

the applicable conditions or events (if any) specified in the relevant Incremental Facility Notice or other notice in relation to that Agreed Certain Funds Period and Agreed Certain Funds Utilisation are complied with or satisfied.

(b)

During the Agreed Certain Funds Period (save in respect of a Lender under the Revolving Facility or relevant Incremental Facility Lender (as the case may be) in circumstances where, pursuant to paragraph (a) above, that Lender under the Revolving Facility or Incremental Facility Lender (as the case may be) is not obliged to comply with Clause 5.4 (Lenders' participation) and subject as provided in Clause 11.1 (Illegality)), none of the Lenders under the Revolving Facility or relevant Incremental Facility Lenders (as the case may be) shall be entitled in respect of an Agreed Certain Funds Utilisation (and the corresponding Commitments to which it relates) to:

(i)

cancel any of its Commitments or Incremental Facility Commitments;

(ii)

rescind, terminate or cancel this Agreement or the relevant Facility or exercise any similar right or remedy or make or enforce any claim under the Finance Documents it may have in respect of a Facility to which the provisions of this Clause apply to the extent to do so would directly or indirectly prevent or limit the making of an Agreed Certain Funds Utilisation;

(iii)

refuse to participate in the making of an Agreed Certain Funds Utilisation;

(iv)

exercise any right of set-off or counterclaim or similar right or remedy which it may exercise in respect of an Agreed Certain Funds Utilisation to the extent to do so would prevent or limit the making of an Agreed Certain Funds Utilisation;

(v)

cancel, accelerate or cause repayment or prepayment of any amounts owing under this Agreement or under any other Finance Document or exercise any enforcement rights under any Transaction Security Document in respect of a Facility to which the provisions of this Clause apply to the extent to do so would prevent or limit the making of an Agreed Certain Funds Utilisation;

(vi)

take any other action or make or enforce any claim (in its capacity as a Lender) to the extent that such action, claim or enforcement would directly or indirectly prevent or limit the making of an Agreed Certain Funds Utilisation; or

(vii)

declare that cash cover in relation to a Letter of Credit or an Ancillary Facility is immediately due and payable on demand,

provided that:

(A)

immediately upon the expiry of the relevant Agreed Certain Funds Period (but subject to Clause 28.6 (Clean-up period) all such rights, remedies and entitlements shall be available to the Finance Parties notwithstanding that they may not have been used or been available for use during the applicable Agreed Certain Funds Period; and

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(B)

this Clause 4.5 shall be without prejudice to, and shall not prevent or limit the exercise of, any rights of any of the Finance Parties in respect of any other Facility, Loan, Utilisation or Commitment.

4.6

Utilisation of Bonding Facility

The Bonding Facility is only available for Utilisation by way of one or more Ancillary Facilities in accordance with Clause 9 (Ancillary Facilities).

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Section 3.

Utilisation

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Utilisation - Loans

5.1

Delivery of a Utilisation Request

A Borrower (or the Obligors’ Agent on its behalf) may utilise a Facility by delivery to the Agent of a duly completed Utilisation Request not later than the Specified Time.

5.2

Completion of a Utilisation Request for Loans

(a)

Each Utilisation Request for a Loan is irrevocable and will not be regarded as having been duly completed unless:

(i)

the proposed Utilisation Date is a Business Day within the Availability Period applicable to that Facility;

(ii)

the currency and amount of the Utilisation comply with Clause 5.3 (Currency and amount); and

(iii)

the proposed Interest Period complies with Clause 15 (Interest Periods).

(b)

Multiple Utilisations may be requested in a Utilisation Request where the proposed Utilisation Date is or is in respect of the Notes Closing Date. Only one Utilisation may be requested in each subsequent Utilisation Request.

5.3

Currency and amount

(a)

The currency specified in a Utilisation Request must be the Base Currency or an Optional Currency.

(b)

Unless otherwise agreed by the Agent, the amount of the proposed Utilisation must be:

(A)

if the currency selected is the Base Currency, a minimum of $250,000 or, if less, the Available Facility; or

(B)

if the currency selected is an Optional Currency, a minimum of amount equal to the currency equivalent of $250,000 or, if less, the Available Facility.

5.4

Lenders’ participation

(a)

If the conditions set out in this Agreement have been met, and subject to Clause 10.1 (Repayment of Revolving Loans), each Lender shall make its participation in each Loan available to the Agent for the account of the relevant Borrower by the Utilisation Date through its Facility Office.

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(b)

The amount of each Lender’s participation in each Loan will be equal to the proportion borne by its Available Commitment to the relevant Available Facility immediately prior to making the Loan.

(c)

The Agent shall in relation to a Facility:

(i)

determine the Base Currency Amount of each Loan which is to be made in an Optional Currency; and

(ii)

notify each Lender of the amount, the currency and the Base Currency Amount of each Loan and the amount of its participation in that Loan,

in each case by the Specified Time.

(d)

If a Revolving Utilisation is made to repay Ancillary Outstandings, each Lender’s participation in that Utilisation will be in an amount (as determined by the Agent) which will result as nearly as possible in the aggregate amount of its participation in the Revolving Utilisations then outstanding bearing the same proportion to the aggregate amount of the Revolving Utilisations then outstanding as its applicable Revolving Facility Commitment bears to the Total Revolving Facility Commitments.

5.5

Cancellation of Commitment

The applicable Revolving Facility Commitments which, at that time, are unutilised shall be immediately cancelled at the end of the Availability Period for the applicable Revolving Facility.

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Utilisation – Letters of Credit

6.1

The Revolving Facilities

(a)

The RCF may be utilised by way of Letters of Credit.

(b)

Clause 5 (Utilisation – Loans) does not apply to utilisations by way of Letters of Credit.

6.2

Delivery of a Utilisation Request for Letters of Credit

A Borrower (or the Obligors’ Agent on its behalf) may request a Letter of Credit to be issued by delivery to the Agent of a duly completed Utilisation Request (unless otherwise agreed by the relevant Issuing Bank and the Lenders under the RCF) not later than the Specified Time.

6.3

Completion of a Utilisation Request for Letters of Credit

Each Utilisation Request for a Letter of Credit is irrevocable and will not be regarded as having been duly completed unless:

(a)

it specifies that it is for a Letter of Credit;

(b)

it identifies the Borrower of the Letter of Credit;

(c)

it identifies the Issuing Bank which has agreed to issue the Letter of Credit;

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(d)

the proposed Utilisation Date is a Business Day within the Availability Period applicable to the RCF;

(e)

the currency and amount of the Letter of Credit comply with Clause 5.3(b) (Currency and amount);

(f)

the form of Letter of Credit is attached and is acceptable to the Issuing Bank (acting reasonably);

(g)

the Expiry Date of the Letter of Credit falls on or before the applicable Maturity Date in relation to the RCF, unless the relevant Borrower has agreed at the time of issuance to provide cash cover for such Letter of Credit or cover such Letter of Credit by a letter of credit or guarantee issued by a financial institution acceptable to the Issuing Bank (acting reasonably) at least twenty (20) Business Days prior to the applicable Maturity Date in relation to the RCF;

(h)

the delivery instructions for the Letter of Credit are specified;

(i)

the issuance of the Letter of Credit to the requested beneficiary would not be contrary to any law, regulation, internal regulation (which internal regulation is binding on, and applicable to, the relevant Issuing Bank’s business of issuing guarantees and letters of credit generally), sanction or embargo applicable to the Issuing Bank; and

(j)

the identity and address of the beneficiary of the Letter of Credit and the nature of the underlying obligations are approved by the Issuing Bank and the Lenders under the RCF.

6.4

Currency and amount

(a)

The currency specified in a Utilisation Request must be the Base Currency or an Optional Currency.

(b)

Unless otherwise agreed by the relevant Issuing Bank, the amount of the proposed Letter of Credit must be an amount whose Base Currency Amount is not more than the Available Facility and which is:

(i)

if the currency selected is the Base Currency, a minimum of $250,000 or, if less, the Available Facility; or

(ii)

if the currency selected is an Optional Currency, a minimum of amount equal to the currency equivalent of $250,000 or, if less, the Available Facility.

6.5

Issue of Letters of Credit

(a)

If the conditions set out in this Agreement have been met, the relevant Issuing Bank shall issue the Letter of Credit on the Utilisation Date.

(b)

Subject to Clause 4.1 (Initial conditions precedent) and Clause 28.6 (Clean-up period), the relevant Issuing Bank will only be obliged to comply with paragraph (a) above in relation to a Letter of Credit other than one to which paragraph (c) below applies if, on the date of the Utilisation Request or Renewal Request and on the proposed Utilisation Date:

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(i)

other than in the case of a Letter of Credit to be renewed in accordance with Clause 6.6 (Renewal of a Letter of Credit):

(A)

no Event of Default is continuing or would result from the proposed Utilisation; and

(B)

the Repeating Representations to be made by each Obligor are true in all material respects (where such representation is not already qualified by materiality) or true (where such representation is already qualified by materiality); and

(ii)

in the case of a Letter of Credit to be renewed in accordance with Clause 6.6 (Renewal of a Letter of Credit), no Acceleration Event has occurred.

(c)

Subject to Clause 4.1 (Initial conditions precedent), during any Agreed Certain Funds Period, the Issuing Bank will only be obliged to comply with paragraph (a) above in relation to a Letter of Credit which is an Agreed Certain Funds Utilisation, if on the date of the Utilisation Request and on the proposed Utilisation Date:

(i)

no Major Default has occurred and is continuing or would result from the issue of the proposed Letter of Credit;

(ii)

no Change of Control has occurred;

(iii)

it is not unlawful for the Issuing Bank to perform its obligations or to issue or maintain the proposed Letter of Credit, provided that the Issuing Bank has promptly notified the Parent of the relevant illegality in accordance with Clause 11.1 (Illegality), and provided further that such illegality alone will not excuse any other Issuing Bank from performing its obligations or issuing any Letter of Credit or maintaining the proposed Letter of Credit; and

(iv)

the applicable additional conditions or events (if any) specified in the relevant Incremental Facility Notice or other notice in relation to the Agreed Certain Funds Period and Agreed Certain Fund Utilisation are complied with or satisfied,

in each case, provided that, during the Agreed Certain Funds Period, an extension of a Letter of Credit shall be permitted unless an Acceleration Event had occurred in relation to the Facility.

(d)

During any Agreed Certain Funds Period save in circumstances where, pursuant to paragraph (c) above, the Issuing Bank is not obliged to comply with paragraph (a) above and subject as provided in Clause 11.2 (Illegality in relation to Issuing Bank), the Issuing Bank shall not be entitled to in respect of an Agreed Certain Funds Utilisation (and the corresponding Commitments to which it relates):

(i)

cancel any of its Commitments to the extent to do so would prevent or limit the making of a Letter of Credit which is an Agreed Certain Funds Utilisation;

(ii)

rescind, terminate or cancel this Agreement or the relevant Facility or exercise any similar right or remedy or make or enforce any claim under the Finance Documents it may have to the extent to do so would directly or indirectly prevent

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or limit the making of a Letter of Credit which is an Agreed Certain Funds Utilisation;

(iii)

refuse to participate in the making of a Letter of Credit which is an Agreed Certain Funds Utilisation;

(iv)

exercise any right of set-off or counterclaim or similar right or remedy which it may exercise in respect of a Utilisation to the extent to do so would prevent or limit the making of a Letter of Credit which is an Agreed Certain Funds Utilisation;

(v)

cancel, accelerate or cause repayment or prepayment of any amounts owing under this Agreement or under any other Finance Document or exercise any enforcement rights under any Transaction Security Document to the extent to do so would prevent or limit the issuing of a Letter of Credit which is an Agreed Certain Funds Utilisation;

(vi)

take any other action or make or enforce any claim (in its capacity as Issuing Bank) to the extent that such action, claim or enforcement would directly or indirectly prevent or limit the issuing of a Letter of Credit which is an Agreed Certain Funds Utilisation; or

(vii)

declare that cash cover in relation to a Letter of Credit is immediately due and payable on demand,

provided that:

(A)

immediately upon the expiry of the relevant Agreed Certain Funds Period all such rights, remedies and entitlements shall be available to the Issuing Bank notwithstanding that they may not have been used or been available for use during the relevant Agreed Certain Funds Period; and

(B)

this Clause 6.5 shall be without prejudice to, and shall not prevent or limit the exercise of, any rights of any of the Finance Parties in respect of any other Facility, Loan, Utilisation or Commitment.

(e)

The amount of each Lender’s participation in each Letter of Credit will be equal to the proportion borne by its Available Commitment to the Available Facility (in each case in relation to the RCF) immediately prior to the issue of the Letter of Credit.

(f)

The Agent shall determine the Base Currency Amount of each Letter of Credit which is to be issued in an Optional Currency and shall notify the Issuing Bank and each Lender of the details of the requested Letter of Credit and its participation in that Letter of Credit by the Specified Time.

(g)

The Issuing Bank has no duty to enquire of any person whether or not any of the conditions set out in paragraph (b) above have been met.  The Issuing Bank may assume that those conditions have been met unless it is expressly notified to the contrary by the Agent at least two (2) Business Days prior to issue of the Letter of Credit.  The Issuing Bank will have no liability to any person for issuing a Letter of Credit based on such assumption.

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(h)

The Issuing Bank is solely responsible for the form of the Letter of Credit that it issues.  The Agent has no duty to monitor the form of that document.

(i)

Each of the Issuing Bank and the Agent shall provide the other with any information reasonably requested by the other that relates to a Letter of Credit and its issue.

(j)

The Issuing Bank may issue a Letter of Credit in the form of a SWIFT message or other form of communication customary in the Relevant Market but has no obligation to do so.

6.6

Renewal of a Letter of Credit

(a)

A Borrower (or the Obligors’ Agent on its behalf) may request that any Letter of Credit issued on behalf of that Borrower be renewed by delivery to the Agent of a Renewal Request in substantially similar form to a Utilisation Request for a Letter of Credit by the Specified Time (or by such later time as the Agent may agree).

(b)

The Finance Parties shall treat any Renewal Request in the same way as a Utilisation Request for a Letter of Credit except that the conditions set out in paragraph (f) of Clause 6.3 (Completion of a Utilisation Request for Letters of Credit) shall not apply.

(c)

The terms of each renewed Letter of Credit shall be the same as those of the relevant Letter of Credit immediately prior to its renewal, except that:

(i)

its amount may be less than the amount of the Letter of Credit immediately prior to its renewal; and

(ii)

its Term shall start on the date which was the Expiry Date of the Letter of Credit immediately prior to its renewal (unless this is not a Business Day, in which case it shall start on the next Business Day following the Expiry Date of the Letter of Credit immediately prior to its renewal), and shall end on the proposed Expiry Date specified in the Renewal Request.

(d)

Subject to paragraph (e) below, if the conditions set out in this Agreement have been met, the relevant Issuing Bank shall amend and re-issue any Letter of Credit pursuant to a Renewal Request.

(e)

Where a new Letter of Credit is to be issued to replace by way of renewal an existing Letter of Credit, the Issuing Bank is not required to issue that new Letter of Credit until that existing Letter of Credit has been returned to the Issuing Bank or the Issuing Bank is satisfied that, upon issue of that new Letter of Credit, that existing Letter of Credit will be returned to the Issuing Bank.

6.7

Reduction of a Letter of Credit

(a)

If, on the proposed Utilisation Date of a Letter of Credit, any of the Lenders under the RCF (other than the relevant Issuing Bank in its capacity as a Lender or any Affiliate of it) is a Non-Acceptable L/C Lender and:

(i)

that Lender has failed to provide cash collateral to the relevant Issuing Bank in accordance with Clause 7.4 (Cash collateral by Non-Acceptable L/C Lender); and

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(ii)

the relevant Borrower has failed to provide cash cover to the relevant Issuing Bank when requested to do so in accordance with Clause 7.5 (Cash cover by Borrower),

the relevant Issuing Bank may reduce the amount of that Letter of Credit by an amount equal to the amount of the participation of that Non-Acceptable L/C Lender in respect of that Letter of Credit and that Non-Acceptable L/C Lender shall be deemed not to have any participation (or have an obligation to indemnify the relevant Issuing Bank) in respect of that Letter of Credit for the purposes of the Finance Documents.

(b)

The relevant Issuing Bank shall notify the Agent of each reduction made pursuant to this Clause 6.7.

(c)

This Clause 6.7 shall not affect the participation of each other Lender in that Letter of Credit.

6.8

Revaluation of Letters of Credit

(a)

If any Letters of Credit are denominated in an Optional Currency, the Agent shall at six monthly intervals after the Notes Closing Date recalculate the Base Currency Amount of each Letter of Credit by notionally converting into the Base Currency the outstanding amount of that Letter of Credit on the basis of the Agent’s Spot Rate of Exchange on the date of calculation.

(b)

The Obligors’ Agent shall, if requested by the Agent within ten (10) Business Days of any calculation under paragraph (a) above, ensure that sufficient Revolving Utilisations under the RCF are prepaid to prevent the Base Currency Amount of the Revolving Utilisations under the RCF exceeding the RCF Commitments (after deducting the total Ancillary Commitments applicable to the RCF) following any adjustment to a Base Currency Amount under paragraph (a) above.

6.9

Reduction or expiry of Letter of Credit

If the amount of any Letter of Credit is wholly or partially reduced or it is repaid or prepaid or it expires prior to its Expiry Date, the relevant Issuing Bank and the Borrower that requested (or on behalf of which the Parent requested) the issue of that Letter of Credit shall promptly notify the Agent of the details upon becoming aware of them.

6.10

Appointment of Additional Issuing Banks

Any Lender which has agreed to the Obligors’ Agent’s request to be an Issuing Bank pursuant to this Agreement shall become an Issuing Bank for the purposes of this Agreement upon notifying the Agent and the Obligors’ Agent it has so agreed to be an Issuing Bank and on making that notification that Lender shall become bound by this Agreement as an Issuing Bank.

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Letters of Credit

7.1

Immediately payable

If a Letter of Credit or any amount outstanding under a Letter of Credit becomes immediately payable, the Borrower that requested (or on behalf of which the Obligors’ Agent requested) the

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issue of that Letter of Credit shall repay or prepay that amount within five (5) Business Days of demand.

7.2

Claims under a Letter of Credit

(a)

Each Borrower irrevocably and unconditionally authorises the relevant Issuing Bank to pay any claim made or purported to be made under a Letter of Credit requested by it (or requested by the Obligors’ Agent on its behalf) and which appears on its face to be in order (in this Clause 7, a “claim”).

(b)

Each Borrower shall, within five (5) Business Days of demand, pay to the Agent for the relevant Issuing Bank an amount equal to the amount of any claim paid by such Issuing Bank to the extent it is not otherwise reimbursed under this Agreement.

(c)

On receipt of any demand under Clause 7.1 (Immediately payable) or this Clause 7.2, the relevant Borrower shall (unless the Obligors’ Agent notifies the Agent otherwise) be deemed to have delivered to the Agent a duly completed Utilisation Request requesting an RCF Loan:

(i)

in an amount equal to the amount of the relevant claim or amount demanded (net of any applicable cash cover) and in the same currency;

(ii)

for an Interest Period of three Months or such other period of up to six Months as notified by the relevant Borrower to the relevant Issuing Bank prior to the Utilisation Date; and

(iii)

with a Utilisation Date on the date payment falls due from such Borrower under Clause 7.1 (Immediately payable) or this Clause 7.2. The Available Commitment of each Lender under the RCF shall for the purpose of this Loan be calculated ignoring its participation in the relevant Letter of Credit.

The Lenders with an RCF Commitment shall be required to make such RCF Loan pursuant to this paragraph (c) unless an Acceleration Event has occurred.

The proceeds of any such RCF Loan shall be used to repay the relevant claim or amount demanded.

(d)

Each Borrower acknowledges that an Issuing Bank:

(i)

is not obliged to carry out any investigation or seek any confirmation from any other person before paying a claim; and

(ii)

deals in documents only and will not be concerned with the legality of a claim or any underlying transaction or any available set-off, counterclaim or other defence of any person.

(e)

The obligations of a Borrower under this Clause 7 will not be affected by:

(i)

the sufficiency, accuracy or genuineness of any claim or any other document; or

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(ii)

any incapacity of, or limitation on the powers of, any person signing a claim or other document.

7.3

Indemnities

(a)

Each Borrower shall within five (5) Business Days of demand, indemnify each Issuing Bank against any cost, loss or liability (other than any cost, loss or liability in respect of Tax, as to which Clause 18.3 (Tax Indemnity) applies) incurred by that Issuing Bank (otherwise than by reason of the Issuing Bank’s gross negligence or wilful misconduct or breach of Clause 6 (Utilisation - Letters of Credit) or this Clause 7) in acting as an Issuing Bank under any Letter of Credit requested by (or on behalf of) that Borrower.

(b)

Each Lender shall (according to its L/C Proportion) promptly on demand indemnify each Issuing Bank against any cost, loss or liability (other than any cost, loss or liability in respect of Tax, as to which Clause 18.3 (Tax Indemnity) applies) incurred by that Issuing Bank (including as a result of a failure by a Borrower to indemnify the relevant Issuing Bank pursuant to paragraph (a) above or failure by a Borrower to provide cash cover in respect of a Letter of Credit whose Expiry Date falls after the applicable Maturity Date in relation to the relevant Revolving Facility pursuant to paragraph (g) of Clause 6.3 (Completion of a Utilisation Request for Letters of Credit) but otherwise than by reason of the relevant Issuing Bank’s gross negligence or wilful misconduct or breach of Clause 6 (Utilisation - Letters of Credit) or this Clause 7) in acting as an Issuing Bank under any Letter of Credit (unless the relevant Issuing Bank has been reimbursed by an Obligor pursuant to a Finance Document).

(c)

If any Lender is not permitted (by its constitutional documents or any applicable law) to comply with paragraph (b) above, then that Lender will not be obliged to comply with paragraph (b) above and shall instead be deemed to have taken, on the date the Letter of Credit is issued (or, if later, on the date the Lender’s participation in the Letter of Credit is transferred or assigned to the Lender in accordance with this Agreement), an undivided interest and participation in the Letter of Credit in an amount equal to its L/C Proportion of that Letter of Credit. On receipt of demand from the Agent, that Lender shall, within five (5) Business Days of demand, pay to the Agent (for the account of the relevant Issuing Bank) an amount equal to its L/C Proportion of the amount demanded.

(d)

The Borrower which requested (or on behalf of which the Obligors’ Agent requested) a Letter of Credit shall, within five (5) Business Days of demand, reimburse any Lender for any payment it makes to the relevant Issuing Bank under this Clause 7.3 in respect of that Letter of Credit.

(e)

The obligations of each Lender or Borrower under this Clause 7.3 are continuing obligations and will extend to the ultimate balance of sums payable by that Lender or Borrower in respect of any Letter of Credit, regardless of any intermediate payment or discharge in whole or in part.

(f)

If a Borrower has provided cash cover in respect of a Lender’s participation in a Letter of Credit, the Issuing Bank shall seek reimbursement from that cash cover before making a demand of that Lender under paragraph (b) above. Any recovery made by an Issuing Bank pursuant to that cash cover will reduce that Lender’s liability under paragraph (b) above.

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(g)

The obligations of any Lender or Borrower under this Clause 7.3 will not be affected by any act, omission, matter or thing which, but for this Clause 7.3, would reduce, release or prejudice any of its obligations under this Clause 7.3 (without limitation and whether or not known to it or any other person), including:

(i)

any time, waiver or consent granted to, or composition with, any Obligor, any beneficiary under a Letter of Credit or any other person;

(ii)

the release of any other Obligor or any other person under the terms of any composition or arrangement with any creditor or any member of the Group;

(iii)

the taking, variation, compromise, exchange, renewal or release of, or refusal or neglect to perfect, take up or enforce, any rights against, or security over assets of, any Obligor, any beneficiary under a Letter of Credit or other person or any non-presentation or non-observance of any formality or other requirement in respect of any instrument or any failure to realise the full value of any security;

(iv)

any incapacity or lack of power, authority or legal personality of or dissolution or change in the members or status of an Obligor, any beneficiary under a Letter of Credit or any other person;

(v)

any amendment (however fundamental) or replacement of a Finance Document, any Letter of Credit or any other document or security;

(vi)

any unenforceability, illegality or invalidity of any obligation of any person under any Finance Document, any Letter of Credit or any other document or security; or

(vii)

any insolvency or similar proceedings.

7.4

Cash collateral by Non-Acceptable L/C Lender

(a)

If, at any time, a Lender under the RCF is a Non-Acceptable L/C Lender, an Issuing Bank may, by notice to that Lender, request that Lender to pay and that Lender shall pay, on or prior to the date falling three (3) Business Days after the request by an Issuing Bank, an amount equal to that Lender’s L/C Proportion of the outstanding amount of a Letter of Credit or in the case of a proposed Letter of Credit, the amount of that proposed Letter of Credit and in the currency of that Letter of Credit to an interest-bearing account held in the name of that Lender with the relevant Issuing Bank.

(b)

The Non-Acceptable L/C Lender to whom a request has been made in accordance with paragraph (a) above shall enter into a security document or other form of collateral arrangement over the account, in form and substance satisfactory to the relevant Issuing Bank, as collateral for any amounts due and payable under the Finance Documents by that Lender to the relevant Issuing Bank in respect of that Letter of Credit.

(c)

Subject to paragraph (f) below, until no amount is or may be outstanding under that Letter of Credit, withdrawals from the account may only be made to pay to the relevant Issuing Bank amounts due and payable to the relevant Issuing Bank by the Non-Acceptable L/C Lender under the Finance Documents in respect of that Letter of Credit.

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(d)

Each Lender under the RCF shall notify the Agent and the Obligors’ Agent:

(i)

on the date of this Agreement or on any later date on which it becomes such a Lender in accordance with Clause 2.2 (Increase – general) or Clause 29 (Changes to the Lenders) that it is not a Non-Acceptable L/C Lender; and

(ii)

as soon as practicable upon becoming aware of the same, that it has become a Non-Acceptable L/C Lender,

and an indication in Schedule 1 (The Original Parties), in a Transfer Certificate, in an Assignment Agreement or in an Increase Confirmation to that effect will constitute a notice under sub-paragraph (d)(i) above to the Agent and, upon delivery in accordance with Clause 29.8 (Copy of Transfer Certificate, Assignment Agreement or Increase Confirmation to Obligors’ Agent), to the Obligors’ Agent.

(e)

Any notice received by the Agent pursuant to paragraph (d) above shall constitute notice to the relevant Issuing Bank of that Lender’s status and the Agent shall, upon receiving each such notice, promptly notify the relevant Issuing Bank of that Lender’s status as specified in that notice.

(f)

Notwithstanding paragraph (c) above, a Lender which has provided cash collateral in accordance with this Clause 7.4 may, by notice to each Issuing Bank, request that an amount equal to the amount of the cash provided by it as collateral in respect of the relevant Letter of Credit (together with any accrued interest) standing to the credit of the relevant account held with the relevant Issuing Bank be returned to it:

(i)

to the extent that such cash collateral has not been applied in satisfaction of any amount due and payable under this Agreement by that Lender to the Issuing Bank in respect of the relevant Letter of Credit;

(ii)

if:

(A)

it ceases to be a Non-Acceptable L/C Lender;

(B)

its obligations in respect of the relevant Letter of Credit are transferred to a New Lender in accordance with this Agreement; or

(C)

an Increase Lender has agreed to undertake that Lender's obligations in respect of the relevant Letter of Credit in accordance with this Agreement; and

(iii)

if no amount is due and payable by that Lender in respect of a Letter of Credit,

and that Issuing Bank shall pay that amount to that Lender within five (5) Business Days after the request from that Lender (and shall cooperate with that Lender in order to procure that the relevant security or collateral arrangement is released and discharged).

7.5

Cash cover by Borrower

(a)

If a Lender which is a Non-Acceptable L/C Lender fails to provide cash collateral (or notifies the relevant Issuing Bank that it will not provide cash collateral) in accordance

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with Clause 7.4 (Cash collateral by Non-Acceptable L/C Lender) and the relevant Issuing Bank notifies the Obligors’ Agent (with a copy to the Agent) that it requires the Borrower of the relevant Letter of Credit or proposed Letter of Credit to provide cash cover to an account with the relevant Issuing Bank in an amount equal to that Lender’s L/C Proportion of the outstanding amount of that Letter of Credit and in the currency of that Letter of Credit, then that Borrower shall do so prior to the proposed Utilisation Date of that Letter of Credit and in any event within five (5) Business Days after the notice is given. The Available Commitment of the Non-Acceptable L/C Lender under the RCF shall be calculated ignoring its participation in respect of any such relevant Letter of Credit.

(b)

Notwithstanding paragraph (m) of Clause 1.2 (Construction), the relevant Issuing Bank will agree to the withdrawal of amounts up to the level of that cash cover from the account (together with any accrued interest in respect of such withdrawal amount) if:

(i)

it is satisfied (acting reasonably) that the relevant Lender is no longer a Non-Acceptable L/C Lender; or

(ii)

the relevant Lender’s obligations in respect of the relevant Letter of Credit are transferred to a New Lender in accordance with this Agreement; or

(iii)

an Increase Lender has agreed to undertake the obligations in respect of the relevant Lender’s L/C Proportion of the Letter of Credit.

(c)

To the extent that a Borrower has complied with its obligations to provide cash cover in accordance with this Clause 7.5, the relevant Lender’s L/C Proportion in respect of that Letter of Credit will remain (but that Lender’s obligations in relation to that Letter of Credit may be satisfied in accordance with paragraph (m) of Clause 1.2 (Construction)). However, the relevant Borrower’s obligation to pay any Letter of Credit fee in relation to the relevant Letter of Credit to the Agent (for the account of that Lender) in accordance with paragraph (b) of Clause 17.4 (Fees payable in respect of Letters of Credit) will be reduced proportionately as from the date on which it complies with that obligation to provide cash cover (and for so long as the relevant amount of cash cover continues to stand as collateral).

(d)

The relevant Issuing Bank shall promptly notify the Agent of the extent to which a Borrower provides cash cover pursuant to this Clause 7.5 and of any change in the amount of cash cover so provided.

(e)

Each Borrower shall provide cash cover in respect of any Letter of Credit requested by that Borrower which remains outstanding on termination of the Facilities for any reason.

7.6

Rights of contribution

No Obligor will be entitled to any right of contribution or indemnity from any Finance Party in respect of any payment it may make under this Clause 7.

7.7

Existing Letters of Credit

A Borrower (or the Obligors' Agent on its behalf) may by notice in writing to the Agent (such notice to contain the details specified at Clause 6.3 (Completion of a Utilisation Request for

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Letters of Credit) in form reasonably satisfactory to the Agent) request that any letter of credit, guarantee, bond, indemnity, documentary or like credit or any other instrument of suretyship or payment, issued, undertaken or made by any person which is a Lender under the Revolving Facility (or an Affiliate of such a Lender) on behalf or at the request of any member of the Group be deemed to be issued under this Agreement and with effect from the later of the date specified in such notice (being a date not less than one (1) Business Day (or such shorter period as the Agent may agree) after the date such notice is delivered to the Agent) and the Notes Closing Date:

(a)

such instrument (the "Relevant Instrument") shall be a Letter of Credit for all purposes under this Agreement; and

(b)

the Lender concerned (or, as the case may be, the Affiliate of the Lender concerned) will become an Issuing Bank with respect to each Relevant Instrument issued, undertaken or made by it,

in each case subject to the Agent having received notification in writing from the Lender concerned (or, as the case may be, the Affiliate of the Lender concerned) that it agrees to the Relevant Instrument being a Letter of Credit for all purposes under this Agreement.

7.8

Bilateral arrangements

In addition to the right of the Group to require the issue of Letters of Credit, a Lender may (but shall not be required) at the request of a Borrower (or the Obligors’ Agent on its behalf) agree to provide a letter of credit, guarantee, bond, indemnity, documentary or like credit or any other instrument of suretyship or payment on a bilateral basis in respect of all or any part of its RCF Commitment. For this purpose a Borrower (or the Obligors’ Agent on its behalf) may by notice in writing to the Agent (such notice to contain the details specified at Clause 6.3 (Completion of a Utilisation Request for Letters of Credit) in relation to the relevant instrument in form reasonably satisfactory to the Agent) request that any letter of credit, guarantee, bond, indemnity, documentary or like credit or any other instrument of suretyship or payment, issued, undertaken or made (or to be issued, undertaken or made) by any person which is a Lender under the RCF (or an Affiliate of such a Lender) (the “Bilateral Issuing Bank”) on behalf or at the request of any member of the Group be deemed to be issued under this Agreement and with effect from the date specified in such notice (being a date not less than one (1) Business Day (or such shorter period as the Agent may agree) after the date such notice is delivered to the Agent):

(a)

such instrument (the “Relevant Bilateral Instrument”) shall be deemed issued by the relevant Bilateral Issuing Bank on a bilateral basis under the RCF; and

(b)

the Relevant Bilateral Instrument will be deemed to have been made available as if it were a Letter of Credit with the relevant Bilateral Issuing Bank being the Issuing Bank in respect of that Letter of Credit, provided that:

(i)

no other Finance Party shall have any participation in the Relevant Bilateral Instrument;

(ii)

any amounts payable in relation to the Relevant Bilateral Instrument will be paid solely for the account of the relevant Bilateral Issuing Bank;

(iii)

any requirements under the Finance Documents in relation to issue of the Relevant Bilateral Instrument shall be deemed to have been satisfied; and

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(iv)

the Available Commitment of the Lender concerned shall be calculated on the basis that the Relevant Bilateral Instrument is a Utilisation outstanding under the RCF,

in each case subject to the Agent having received notification in writing from the Bilateral Issuing Bank concerned that it agrees to the Relevant Bilateral Instrument being issued on a bilateral basis under such RCF for all purposes under this Agreement. Notwithstanding the foregoing or anything to the contrary in the Finance Documents, the Obligors’ Agent and a Lender under the  RCF may agree any additional and/or alternative arrangements in relation to the provision of a letter of credit, guarantee, bond, indemnity, documentary or like credit or any other instrument of suretyship or payment on a bilateral basis in respect of all or any part of that Lender’s RCF Commitment (including as regards a commitment to provide one or more such instrument from time to time). If there is a conflict between the terms of any Finance Documents and any such additional or alternative arrangements, the terms of those additional or alternative arrangements will prevail.

7.9

Adjustment for Bilateral Guarantee Arrangements upon acceleration

(a)

This Clause 7.9 is a collateral agreement that is in addition to, and is not replaced or varied by, clause 15 (Equalisation) of the Intercreditor Agreement.

(b)

In this Clause 7.9, the terms “RCF Outstandings” and “Total RCF Outstandings” have the meanings given to those terms in Clause 9.6 (Adjustments for RCF Ancillary Facilities upon acceleration).

(c)

If an Acceleration Event occurs (other than declaring Utilisations to be due on demand), each Lender and each Relevant Bilateral Issuing Bank shall (subject to paragraph (h) below) promptly adjust (by making or receiving (as the case may be) corresponding transfers of rights and obligations under the Finance Documents relating to RCF Outstandings) their claims in the amounts instructed by the Agent pursuant to paragraph (g) in respect of amounts outstanding to them under the RCF (including any Relevant Bilateral LC Exposure) to the extent necessary to ensure that after such transfers the RCF Outstandings of each Lender bear the same proportion to the Total RCF Outstandings as such Lender's RCF Commitment bears to the Total RCF Commitments, each as at the date the notice of such Acceleration Event is served under Clause 28.4 (Acceleration).

(d)

If an amount outstanding under a Relevant Bilateral Instrument is a contingent liability and that contingent liability becomes an actual liability or is reduced to zero after the original adjustment is made under paragraph (c) above, then each Lender and Relevant Bilateral Issuing Bank will make a further adjustment (by making or receiving (as the case may be) corresponding transfers of rights and obligations under the Finance Documents relating to RCF Outstandings to the extent necessary) to put themselves in the position they would have been in had the original adjustment been determined by reference to the actual liability or, as the case may be, zero liability and not the contingent liability.

(e)

Any transfer of rights and obligations relating to RCF Outstandings made pursuant to this Clause 7.9 shall be made for a purchase price in cash (without any discount), payable at the time of transfer, in an amount equal to those RCF Outstandings (less any accrued interest, fees and commission to which the transferor will remain entitled to receive notwithstanding that transfer, pursuant to Clause 29.11 (Pro rata interest settlement)).

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(f)

The transfers required by this Clause 7.9 shall apply notwithstanding any restriction in Clause 29.2 (Conditions of assignment or transfer) and without payment of any fee under Clause 29.3 (Assignment or transfer fee), each of which shall be deemed not to apply for the purpose of this Clause 7.9. For the avoidance of doubt, such transfers shall not impact the underlying issuance of the Relevant Bilateral Instrument, which shall remain issued by the Relevant Bilateral Issuing Bank.

(g)

All calculations to be made pursuant to this Clause 7.9 shall be made by the Agent based upon information provided to it by the Lenders and the Relevant Bilateral Issuing Bank(s) and the Agent's Spot Rate of Exchange.

(h)

This Clause 7.9 shall not oblige any Lender to accept the transfer of a claim relating to an amount outstanding under a Relevant Bilateral Instrument which is not denominated in the Base Currency, an Optional Currency or in another currency which is acceptable to that Lender.

7.10

Adjustments required in relation to Letters of Credit

(a)

The Agent may with the consent of the Parent (and shall at the request of the Parent), by notice in writing to the relevant Lenders under the RCF, reallocate drawn and undrawn RCF Commitments at the end of an Interest Period among relevant Lenders under the Revolving Facility as may be necessary to ensure that any relevant Lender under the RCF that intends to issue a Letter of Credit or Relevant Bilateral Instrument has an undrawn Commitment under the RCF sufficient to allow it to issue such Letter of Credit or, as the case may be, Relevant Bilateral Instrument, provided that, for the avoidance of doubt (i) such reallocation shall be implemented among the other relevant Lenders under the RCF on a pro rata basis and (ii) no such reallocation may increase the RCF Commitment of any Lender.

(b)

In order to facilitate the issue of a Letter of Credit or Relevant Bilateral Instrument, notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement (and including for the purposes of paragraph (b) of Clause 5.4 (Lenders' participation) and paragraph (a) of Clause 6.5 (Issue of Letters of Credit)), if requested by the Parent, from the date that the Agent is notified of the proposed issue of the relevant Letter of Credit or, as the case may be, Relevant Bilateral Instrument in accordance with Clause 6 (Utilisation – Letters of Credit) until the date of issue of such Letter of Credit or Relevant Bilateral Instrument, the Available Commitment of the Lender concerned under the RCF shall be deemed to be reduced by the amount of the relevant Letter of Credit or, as the case may be, Relevant Bilateral Instrument being issued (or, if no such amount has been notified, deemed to be reduced to zero) such that the Lender concerned shall not (and shall not be required to) participate in any relevant Revolving Utilisation to be made on or prior to such date of issue (or any subsequent Rollover Loan in respect thereof) to the extent of such reduction.

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Optional Currencies

8.1

Selection of currency

A Borrower (or the Obligors’ Agent on its behalf) shall select the currency of a Revolving Utilisation in a Utilisation Request.

8.2

Unavailability of a currency

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If before the Specified Time on any Quotation Day:

(a)

a Lender notifies the Agent that the Optional Currency requested is not readily available to it in the amount required; or

(b)

a Lender notifies the Agent that compliance with its obligation to participate in a Loan in the proposed Optional Currency would contravene a law or regulation applicable to it,

the Agent will give notice to the relevant Borrower or the Obligors’ Agent to that effect by the Specified Time on that day.  In this event, any Lender that gives notice pursuant to this Clause 8.2 will be required to participate in the Loan in the Base Currency (in an amount equal to that Lender's proportion of the Base Currency Amount, or in respect of a Rollover Loan, an amount equal to that Lender's proportion of the Base Currency Amount of the Rollover Loan that is due to be made) and its participation will be treated as a separate Loan denominated in the Base Currency during that Interest Period.

8.3

Agent's calculations

Each Lender's participation in a Loan will be determined in accordance with paragraph (c) of Clause 5.4 (Lenders’ participation).

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Ancillary Facilities

9.1

Type of Facility

An Ancillary Facility may be by way of:

(a)

an overdraft or other current account facility;

(b)

a guarantee, bonding, documentary or stand-by letter of credit facility;

(c)

a short-term loan facility;

(d)

a derivatives facility;

(e)

a foreign exchange facility; or

(f)

any other facility or accommodation required in connection with the business of the Group and which is agreed by the Obligors’ Agent with an Ancillary Lender.

9.2

Availability

(a)

If a Borrower (or the Obligors’ Agent on its behalf) and a Lender agree and except as otherwise provided in this Agreement, that Lender may provide all or part of its RCF Commitment or Bonding Facility Commitment (as applicable) as an Ancillary Facility on a bilateral basis.

(b)

An Ancillary Facility shall not be made available unless not later than three (3) Business Days prior to the Ancillary Commencement Date for an Ancillary Facility, the Agent has received from the Obligors’ Agent:

(i)

a notice in writing of the establishment of an Ancillary Facility specifying:

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(A)

the proposed Borrower(s) (or Affiliates of a Borrower) which may use the Ancillary Facility;

(B)

the proposed Ancillary Commencement Date and expiry date of the Ancillary Facility;

(C)

the proposed type of Ancillary Facility to be provided;

(D)

the proposed Ancillary Lender;

(E)

the proposed currency of the Ancillary Facility (if not denominated in the Base Currency); and

(F)

the proposed applicable Ancillary Commitment and the maximum amount of the Ancillary Facility and, if the Ancillary Facility is an overdraft facility comprising more than one account its maximum gross amount (that amount being the “Ancillary Facility Designated Gross Amount”) and its maximum net amount (that amount being the “Ancillary Facility Designated Net Amount”); and

(ii)

any other information which the Agent may reasonably request in connection with the Ancillary Facility.

(c)

The Agent shall promptly notify the Ancillary Lender and the other Lenders of the establishment of an Ancillary Facility.

(d)

Subject to compliance with paragraph (b) of Clause 9.3 (Terms of Ancillary Facilities), no amendment or waiver of a term of any Ancillary Facility shall require the consent of any Finance Party other than the relevant Ancillary Lender unless such amendment or waiver itself relates to or gives rise to a matter which would require an amendment of or waiver under this Agreement (including, for the avoidance of doubt, under this Clause). In such a case, the provisions of this Agreement with regard to amendments and waivers will apply.

(e)

Subject to compliance with paragraph (b) above and the proposed Ancillary Lender having notified the Agent prior to the date referred to in sub-paragraph (b)(i)(B) above that they agree to make available that Ancillary Facility:

(i)

the Lender concerned will become an Ancillary Lender; and

(ii)

the Ancillary Facility will be available,

with effect from the date referred to in sub-paragraph (b)(i)(B) above or such later date agreed by a Borrower (or the Obligors’ Agent on its behalf) and the Ancillary Lender.

(f)

The Ancillary Commitment applicable to any of the Ancillary Facilities shall be the amount specified in or notified under this Clause but shall not exceed the Available Commitment of that Lender under the relevant Revolving Facility.

9.3

Terms of Ancillary Facilities

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(a)

Except as provided below, the terms of any Ancillary Facility will be those agreed by the Ancillary Lender and the Obligors’ Agent.

(b)

However, those terms:

(i)

must be based upon normal commercial terms at that time (except as varied by this Agreement);

(ii)

may allow only Borrowers (or Affiliates of Borrowers nominated pursuant to Clause 9.10 (Affiliates of Borrowers)) to use the Ancillary Facility;

(iii)

may not allow the Ancillary Outstandings to exceed the relevant Ancillary Commitment;

(iv)

may not allow the Ancillary Commitment of a Lender to exceed the Available Commitment with respect to the relevant Revolving Facility of that Lender (ignoring for this purpose any reduction in the Available Commitment arising out of such Lender providing that Ancillary Commitment as referred to in paragraph (a) of the definition of “Available Commitment”); and

(v)

unless otherwise agreed with the relevant Ancillary Lender in writing, must provide that the Ancillary Commitment is reduced to nil, and that all Ancillary Outstandings are repaid (or cash cover provided in respect of all the Ancillary Outstandings) not later than the applicable Maturity Date for the relevant Revolving Facility (or such earlier date as the RCF Commitment or Bonding Facility Commitment (as applicable) of the relevant Ancillary Lender (or its Affiliate) is reduced to zero).

(c)

If there is any inconsistency between any term of an Ancillary Facility and this Agreement, this Agreement shall prevail except for (i) Clause 38.3 (Day count convention) which shall not prevail for the purposes of calculating fees, interest or commission relating to an Ancillary Facility (ii) an Ancillary Facility comprising more than one account where the terms of the Ancillary Documents shall prevail to the extent required to permit the netting of balances on those accounts and (iii) where the relevant term of this Agreement would be contrary to, or inconsistent with, the law governing the relevant Ancillary Document, in which case that term of this Agreement shall not prevail.

(d)

Interest, commission and fees on Ancillary Facilities are dealt with in Clause 17.5 (Interest, commission and fees on Ancillary Facilities).

(e)

Subject to compliance with paragraph (b) above, no amendment or waiver in respect of any Ancillary Facility shall require the consent of any Finance Party other than the relevant Ancillary Lender.

9.4

Repayment of Ancillary Facility

(a)

An Ancillary Facility shall (unless otherwise agreed in accordance with sub-paragraph (b)(v) of Clause 9.3 (Terms of Ancillary Facilities)) cease to be available on the applicable Maturity Date in relation to the relevant Revolving Facility or such earlier date on which its maturity date occurs or on which it is cancelled in each case in

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accordance with this Agreement and the relevant Borrower shall repay or pay on the due date any amount payable under an Ancillary Facility.

(b)

If an Ancillary Facility expires or is finally and irrevocably repaid in full in accordance with its terms, the Ancillary Commitment of the Ancillary Lender shall be reduced to zero.

(c)

No Ancillary Lender may demand repayment or prepayment of any amounts or demand cash cover for any liabilities made available or incurred by it under its Ancillary Facility (except where the Ancillary Facility is provided on a net limit basis to the extent required to bring any gross outstandings down to the net limit) or otherwise take any action (without the consent of the Obligors’ Agent) to terminate, prior to its maturity date, any Ancillary Facility unless:

(i)

the Total RCF Commitments or Total Bonding Facility Commitments (as applicable) have been cancelled in full, or all outstanding Utilisations under the relevant Revolving Facility have become due and payable in accordance with this Agreement, or the Agent has declared all outstanding Utilisations under the relevant Revolving Facility immediately due and payable; or

(ii)

the originally scheduled expiry date or maturity date of the Ancillary Facility (as the same may be amended from time to time in accordance with the relevant Ancillary Facility) occurs; or

(iii)

it becomes unlawful in any applicable jurisdiction for the Ancillary Lender to fund, issue or maintain its participation in its Ancillary Facility; or

(iv)

the Ancillary Outstandings (if any) under that Ancillary Facility can be repaid by a Revolving Utilisation and not less than five (5) Business Days’ notice is given to the relevant Borrower before payment is due.

(d)

For the purposes of determining whether or not the Ancillary Outstandings under an Ancillary Facility mentioned in sub-paragraph (c)(iv) above can be refinanced by a Utilisation of the relevant Revolving Facility:

(i)

the Available Commitment of the Ancillary Lender in respect of the relevant Revolving Facility will be increased by the amount of its Ancillary Commitment; and

(ii)

the Utilisation may (so long as sub-paragraph (c)(i) above does not apply) be made irrespective of whether a Default or Event of Default is outstanding or any other applicable condition precedent is not satisfied (but only to the extent that the proceeds are applied in refinancing those Ancillary Outstandings) and irrespective of whether Clause 4.3 (Maximum number of Utilisations) or sub-paragraph (a)(ii) of Clause 5.2 (Completion of a Utilisation Request for Loans) applies.

(e)

On the making of a Utilisation of the relevant Revolving Facility to refinance Ancillary Outstandings:

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(i)

each Lender will participate in that Utilisation in an amount (as determined by the Agent) which will result as nearly as possible in the aggregate amount of its participation in the Revolving Utilisations then outstanding bearing the same proportion to the aggregate amount of the Revolving Utilisations then outstanding as its RCF Commitment or Bonding Facility Commitment bears to the Total RCF Commitments or Total Bonding Facility Commitments, as applicable; and

(ii)

the relevant Ancillary Facility shall be cancelled.

(f)

In relation to an Ancillary Facility which comprises an overdraft facility where an Ancillary Facility Designated Gross Amount or Ancillary Facility Designated Net Amount (as the case may be) has been established, the Ancillary Lender providing that Ancillary Facility shall only be obliged to take into account for the purposes of calculating compliance with the Ancillary Facility Designated Gross Amount or Ancillary Facility Designated Net Amount (as the case may be) those credit balances which it is permitted to take into account by the then current law and regulations in relation to its reporting of exposures to applicable regulatory authorities as netted for capital adequacy purposes.

9.5

Ancillary Outstandings

Each Borrower and each Ancillary Lender agrees with and for the benefit of each Lender that:

(a)

the Ancillary Outstandings under any Ancillary Facility provided by that Ancillary Lender shall not exceed the Ancillary Commitment applicable to that Ancillary Facility and where the Ancillary Facility is an overdraft facility comprising more than one account, Ancillary Outstandings under that Ancillary Facility shall not exceed the Ancillary Facility Designated Net Amount in respect of that Ancillary Facility; and

(b)

where all or part of the Ancillary Facility is an overdraft facility comprising more than one account, the Ancillary Outstandings (calculated on the basis that the words in brackets in paragraph (a) of the definition of that term were deleted) shall not exceed the Ancillary Facility Designated Gross Amount applicable to that Ancillary Facility.

9.6

Adjustment for RCF Ancillary Facilities upon acceleration

(a)

In this Clause 9.6:

(i)

RCF Outstandings” means, in relation to a Lender, the aggregate of the equivalent in the Base Currency of:

(A)

its participation in each Revolving Utilisation under the RCF then outstanding (together with the aggregate amount of all accrued interest, fees and commission owed to it as a Lender under the RCF); and

(B)

if the Lender is also an Ancillary Lender in relation to the RCF, the Ancillary Outstandings in respect of Ancillary Facilities provided by that Ancillary Lender (or by its Affiliate) in relation to the RCF (together with the aggregate amount of all accrued interest, fees and commission

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owed to it (or to its Affiliate) as an Ancillary Lender in respect of the Ancillary Facility);

(C)

if such Lender is also a Bilateral Issuing Bank that has issued a Relevant Bilateral Instrument pursuant to Clause 7.8 (Bilateral arrangements) (the “Relevant Bilateral Issuing Bank”), the maximum liability at such time under each Relevant Bilateral Instrument (net of any cash cover and otherwise as reduced in accordance with its terms and by demands thereunder which have been reimbursed) issued by that Relevant Bilateral Issuing Bank under the RCF (together with the aggregate amount of all accrued interest, fees and commission owed to it as a Relevant Bilateral Issuing Bank in respect of such Relevant Bilateral Instrument(s)) (the “Relevant Bilateral LC Exposure”); and

(ii)

Total RCF Outstandings” means the aggregate of all RCF Outstandings.

(b)

If an Acceleration Event occurs, each Lender and each Ancillary Lender in relation to the RCF shall promptly adjust by corresponding transfers (to the extent necessary) their claims in respect of amounts outstanding to them under the RCF and each Ancillary Facility in relation to the RCF to the extent necessary to ensure that, after such transfers, the RCF Outstandings of each Lender bear the same proportion to the Total RCF Outstandings as such Lender’s RCF Commitment bears to the Total RCF Commitments, each as at the date the notice of such Acceleration Event is served under Clause 28.4 (Acceleration).

(c)

If an amount outstanding under an Ancillary Facility in relation to the RCF is a contingent liability and that contingent liability becomes an actual liability or is reduced to zero after the original adjustment is made under paragraph (b) above, then each Lender and Ancillary Lender in relation to the RCF will make a further adjustment by corresponding transfers (to the extent necessary) to put themselves in the position they would have been in had the original adjustment been determined by reference to the actual liability or, as the case may be, zero liability and not the contingent liability.

(d)

Any transfer relating to RCF Outstandings made pursuant to this Clause 9.6 shall be made for a purchase price in cash, payable at the time of transfer, in an amount equal to those RCF Outstandings (less any accrued interest, fees and commission to which the transferor will remain entitled to receive notwithstanding that transfer, pursuant to Clause 29.11 (Pro rata interest settlement)).

(e)

Prior to the application of the provisions of Clause 9.5 (Ancillary Outstandings) above, an Ancillary Lender in relation to the RCF that has provided an overdraft comprising more than one account under an Ancillary Facility in relation to the RCF shall set off any liabilities owing to it under such overdraft facility against credit balances on any account comprised in such overdraft facility.

(f)

All calculations to be made pursuant to this Clause 9.6 shall be made by the Agent based upon information provided to it by the Lenders and Ancillary Lenders and the Agent’s Spot Rate of Exchange.

9.7

Adjustment for Bonding Facility Ancillary Facilities upon acceleration

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(a)

In this Clause 9.7:

(i)

Bonding Facility Outstandings” means, in relation to an Ancillary Lender in relation to the Bonding Facility, the Ancillary Outstandings in respect of Ancillary Facilities provided by that Ancillary Lender (or by its Affiliate) in relation to the Bonding Facility (together with the aggregate amount of all accrued interest, fees and commission owed to it (or to its Affiliate) as an Ancillary Lender in respect of the Ancillary Facility); and

(ii)

Total Bonding Facility Outstandings” means the aggregate of all Bonding Facility Outstandings.

(b)

If an Acceleration Event occurs and subject to paragraph (c) below, each Lender and each Ancillary Lender in relation to the Bonding Facility shall promptly adjust by corresponding transfers (to the extent necessary) their claims in respect of amounts outstanding to them under the Bonding Facility and each Ancillary Facility in relation to the Bonding Facility to the extent necessary to ensure that, after such transfers, the Bonding Facility Outstandings of each Lender bear the same proportion to the Total Bonding Facility Outstandings as such Lender’s Bonding Facility Commitment bears to the Total Bonding Facility Commitments, each as at the date the notice of such Acceleration Event is served under Clause 28.4 (Acceleration).

(c)

If an amount outstanding under an Ancillary Facility under the Bonding Facility is a contingent liability, for so long as that amount remains a contingent liability no adjustments shall be made pursuant paragraph (b) above. If an amount outstanding is a contingent liability under an Ancillary Facility and that contingent liability becomes an actual liability after the original adjustment is made under paragraph (b) above, then the relevant Ancillary Lender under the relevant Ancillary Facility shall notify the Agent, who shall on a monthly basis (or at such other times as may be agreed between the Ancillary Lenders under the Bonding Facility) notify the Ancillary Lenders of the revised Bonding Facility Outstandings and Total Bonding Facility Outstandings in relation to the Bonding Facility. Promptly after receiving any such notice, each Ancillary Lender under the Bonding Facility will make a further adjustment by corresponding transfers (to the extent necessary) to put themselves in the position they would have been in had the original adjustment been determined by reference to the actual liability and not the contingent liability.

(d)

Any transfer relating to Bonding Facility Outstandings made pursuant to this Clause 9.7 shall be made for a purchase price in cash, payable at the time of transfer, in an amount equal to those Bonding Facility Outstandings (less any accrued interest, fees and commission to which the transferor will remain entitled to receive notwithstanding that transfer, pursuant to Clause 29.11 (Pro rata interest settlement)).

(e)

Prior to the application of the provisions of Clause 9.5 (Ancillary Outstandings) above, an Ancillary Lender in relation to the Bonding Facility that has provided an overdraft comprising more than one account under an Ancillary Facility in relation to the Bonding Facility shall set off any liabilities owing to it under such overdraft facility against credit balances on any account comprised in such overdraft facility.

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(f)

All calculations to be made pursuant to this Clause 9.7 shall be made by the Agent based upon information provided to it by the Lenders and Ancillary Lenders and the Agent’s Spot Rate of Exchange.

9.8

Information

Each Borrower and each Ancillary Lender shall, promptly upon request by the Agent, supply the Agent with any information relating to the operation of an Ancillary Facility to which it is party (including the Ancillary Outstandings) as the Agent may reasonably request from time to time. Each Borrower consents to all such information being released to the Agent and the other Finance Parties.

9.9

Affiliates of Lenders as Ancillary Lenders

(a)

Subject to this Agreement, an Affiliate of a Lender may become an Ancillary Lender. In such case, that Lender and its Affiliate shall (other than for the purposes of Clause 18 (Tax Gross-Up and Indemnities)) be treated as a single Lender whose RCF Commitment or Bonding Facility Commitment (as applicable) is the amount set out opposite the relevant Lender’s name in Part 2 (The Original Lenders) of Schedule 1 (The Original Parties) and/or the amount of any RCF Commitment or Bonding Facility Commitment (as applicable) transferred to or assumed by that Lender under this Agreement, to the extent (in each case) not cancelled, reduced or transferred by it under this Agreement.

(b)

The Obligors’ Agent shall specify any relevant Affiliate of a Lender in any notice delivered by the Obligors’ Agent to the Agent pursuant to sub-paragraph (b)(i) of Clause 9.2 (Availability).

(c)

An Affiliate of a Lender which becomes an Ancillary Lender shall accede to the Intercreditor Agreement in accordance with the provisions thereof as an Ancillary Lender and any person which so accedes to the Intercreditor Agreement shall, at the same time, become a party to this Agreement as an Ancillary Lender.

(d)

If a Lender assigns all of its rights and benefits or transfers all of its rights and obligations to a New Lender (as defined in Clause 29 (Changes to the Lenders)), its Affiliate shall cease to have any obligations under this Agreement or any Ancillary Document, provided that a Lender may not assign or transfer its obligations to the extent that to do so would terminate any Ancillary Facility except as would be permitted by paragraph (c) of Clause 9.4 (Repayment of Ancillary Facility).

(e)

Where this Agreement or any other Finance Document imposes an obligation on an Ancillary Lender and the relevant Ancillary Lender is an Affiliate of a Lender which is not a party to that document, the relevant Lender shall ensure that the obligation is performed by its Affiliate.

9.10

Affiliates of Borrowers

(a)

Subject to this Agreement, an Affiliate of a Borrower may, with the approval of the relevant Ancillary Lender, become a borrower with respect to an Ancillary Facility.

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(b)

The Obligors’ Agent shall specify any relevant Affiliate of a Borrower in any notice delivered by the Obligors’ Agent to the Agent pursuant to sub-paragraph (b)(i) of Clause 9.2 (Availability).

(c)

An Affiliate of a Borrower which becomes a borrower with respect to an Ancillary Facility shall accede to the Intercreditor Agreement as a Debtor in accordance with the provisions thereof.

(d)

If a Borrower ceases to be a Borrower under this Agreement in accordance with Clause 31.3 (Resignation of an Obligor), its Affiliate shall cease to have any rights under this Agreement or any Ancillary Document.

(e)

Where this Agreement or any other Finance Document imposes an obligation on a Borrower under an Ancillary Facility and the relevant Borrower is an Affiliate of a Borrower which is not a party to that document, the relevant Borrower shall ensure that the obligation is performed by its Affiliate.

(f)

Any reference in this Agreement or any other Finance Document to a Borrower being under no obligations (whether actual or contingent) as a Borrower under such Finance Document shall be construed to include a reference to any Affiliate of a Borrower which has become a borrower with respect to an Ancillary Facility being under no obligations under any Finance Document or Ancillary Document.

9.11

Rights of contribution/subrogation

No Obligor will be entitled to any right of subrogation, contribution or indemnity from any Finance Party for so long as any sum remains payable or capable of becoming payable under the Finance Documents or in respect of any payment it may make under this Clause 9.

9.12

Continuation of Ancillary Facilities

(a)

A Borrower and an Ancillary Lender may, as between themselves only, agree to continue to provide the same banking facilities following the applicable Maturity Date applicable to the relevant Revolving Facility or, as the case may be, the RCF Commitments or Bonding Facility Commitments (as applicable) being cancelled under this Agreement.

(b)

If any arrangement contemplated in paragraph (a) above is to occur, each relevant Borrower and the Ancillary Lender shall confirm that to be the case in writing to the Agent. Upon such applicable Maturity Date or, as the case may be, date of cancellation, any such facility shall continue as between the said entities on a bilateral basis and not as part of, or under, the Finance Documents. Save for any rights and obligations against any Finance Party under the Finance Documents arising prior to such applicable Maturity Date or, as the case may be, date of cancellation, no such rights or obligations in respect of such Ancillary Facility shall, as between the Finance Parties, continue and the Transaction Security shall not support any such facility in respect of any matters that arise after such applicable Maturity Date or, as the case may be, date of cancellation.

9.13

Revolving Facility Commitment amounts

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Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement, each Lender shall ensure that at all times its RCF Commitment or Bonding Facility Commitment (as applicable) is not less than the aggregate of:

(a)

its Ancillary Commitment (if any) under the relevant Revolving Facility; and

(b)

the Ancillary Commitment of its Affiliates (if any) in respect of the relevant Revolving Facility.

9.14

Existing Ancillary Facilities

(a)

The Obligors’ Agent may by notice in writing to the Agent request that any Existing Ancillary Facility be deemed to be an Ancillary Facility established under the relevant Revolving Facility.

(b)

With effect from the date specified in a notice delivered under paragraph (a), the relevant Existing Ancillary Facility shall be an Ancillary Facility for all purposes under the Finance Documents, subject to the Agent having received notification in writing from the Lender concerned (or, as the case may be, the Affiliate of the Lender concerned) that it agrees to that Existing Ancillary Facility being an Ancillary Facility for all purposes under the Finance Documents.

9.15

Letters of credit under Bonding Facility Ancillary Facilities

Where a Borrower has failed to reimburse any claim paid by an Ancillary Lender under a letter of credit issued under an Ancillary Facility under the Bonding Facility within the timeframe specified under that Ancillary Facility and the Ancillary Lender has given the Agent notice of such failure to reimburse, the relevant Borrower shall be deemed to have delivered to the Agent a duly completed Utilisation Request requesting an RCF Loan pursuant to paragraph (c) of Clause 7.2 (Claims under a Letter of Credit) and the provisions of paragraphs (c) and (e) of Clause 7.2 (Claims under a Letter of Credit) shall apply.

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Section 4.

Repayment, Prepayment and Cancellation

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Repayment

10.1

Repayment of Revolving Loans

(a)

Subject to paragraph (c) below:

(i)

each Borrower which has drawn a Revolving Loan shall repay that Loan on the last day of its Interest Period;

(ii)

all Revolving Loans under the RCF that are outstanding on the Maturity Date applicable to the RCF shall be repaid in full on that date; and

(iii)

all letters of credit, guarantees or other instruments issued under the Ancillary Facilities established under the Bonding Facility that are outstanding on the Maturity Date applicable to the Bonding Facility shall be repaid in full on that date.

(b)

Without prejudice to each Borrower’s obligation under sub-paragraph (a)(i) above, if one or more Revolving Loans are to be made available to a Borrower:

(i)

on the same day that a maturing Revolving Loan is due to be repaid by that Borrower under the same Revolving Facility; and

(ii)

in the same currency,

the aggregate amount of the new Revolving Loans shall, unless the Borrower or the Parent notifies the Agent to the contrary, be treated as if applied in or towards repayment of the maturing Revolving Loan under the relevant Revolving Facility so that:

(A)

if the amount of the maturing Revolving Loan exceeds the aggregate amount of the new Revolving Loans under the relevant Revolving Facility:

(1)

the relevant Borrower will only be required to pay an amount in cash in the relevant currency equal to that excess; and

(2)

each Lender’s participation (if any) in the new Revolving Loans shall be treated as having been made available and applied by the Borrower in or towards repayment of that Lender’s participation (if any) in the maturing Revolving Loan and that Lender will not be required to make its participation in the new Revolving Loans available in cash; and

(B)

if the amount of the maturing Revolving Loan is equal to or less than the aggregate amount of the new Revolving Loans under the relevant Revolving Facility:

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(1)

the relevant Borrower will not be required to make any payment in cash; and

(2)

each Lender will be required to make its participation in the new Revolving Loans available in cash only to the extent that its participation (if any) in the new Revolving Loans exceeds that Lender’s participation (if any) in the maturing Revolving Loan and the remainder of that Lender’s participation in the new Revolving Loans shall be treated as having been made available and applied by the Borrower in or towards repayment of that Lender’s participation in the maturing Revolving Loan.

(c)

At any time when a Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, the maturity date of each of the participations of that Lender in the Revolving Loans then outstanding will be automatically extended to the applicable Maturity Date in relation to the relevant Revolving Facility and will be treated as separate Revolving Loans (the “Separate Loans”) denominated in the currency in which the relevant participations are outstanding.

(d)

A Borrower to whom a Separate Loan is outstanding may prepay that Loan by giving three (3) Business Days’ prior notice to the Agent. The Agent will forward a copy of a prepayment notice received in accordance with this paragraph (d) to the Defaulting Lender concerned as soon as practicable on receipt.

(e)

Interest in respect of a Separate Loan will accrue for successive Interest Periods selected by the Borrower by the time and date specified by the Agent (acting reasonably) and will be payable by that Borrower to the Defaulting Lender on the last day of each Interest Period of that Loan.

(f)

The provisions of this Agreement relating to Revolving Loans generally shall continue to apply to Separate Loans other than to the extent inconsistent with paragraphs (c) to (e) above, in which case those paragraphs shall prevail in respect of any Separate Loan.

(g)

Subject to paragraph (a) of Clause 4.2 (Further conditions precedent), if any Revolving Loan is not repaid on the last day of its Interest Period (the “Maturing Revolving Loan”) and, unless the applicable Borrower (or the Parent) has notified the Agent no later than three (3) Business Days prior to the last day of the relevant Interest Period (or such later time as the Agent may agree) that it intends to repay the Maturing Revolving Loan on the last day of its Interest Period, a Rollover Loan (with an Interest Period corresponding to the Maturing Revolving Loan) shall be deemed to have been drawn on the last day of the Interest Period for, and applied in repayment of, the Maturing Revolving Loan provided that for the avoidance of doubt no such Rollover Loan shall be deemed to arise (or remain outstanding) after the Maturity Date applicable to the RCF.

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Illegality, Voluntary Prepayment and Cancellation

11.1

Illegality

If, after the date it became a Party, it becomes unlawful (under the laws applicable to the relevant Lender or to an Affiliate of the relevant Lender) in any applicable jurisdiction for a Lender to

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perform any of its obligations as contemplated by this Agreement or to fund, issue or maintain its participation in any Utilisation:

(a)

that Lender shall promptly notify the Agent upon becoming aware of that event;

(b)

upon the Agent notifying the Obligors’ Agent, the Commitment of that Lender will be immediately cancelled to the extent of that unlawfulness; and

(c)

each Borrower shall repay to the extent of that unlawfulness that Lender’s participation in the Utilisations made to that Borrower on the last day of the Interest Period for each Utilisation occurring not less than one (1) Month after the Agent has notified the Obligors’ Agent or, if earlier, the date specified by that Lender in the notice delivered to the Agent (being no earlier than the last day of any applicable grace period permitted by law) or, if required by the Obligors’ Agent, the Obligors’ Agent may replace that Lender pursuant to the procedure set out in Clause 41.3 (Replacement of Lender) no later than the date on which the relevant Lender would have been repaid under this Clause 11.1 had the Obligors’ Agent not made that election to replace that Lender.

11.2

Illegality in relation to an Issuing Bank

If, after the date it became an Issuing Bank, it becomes unlawful (under the laws applicable to the relevant Issuing Bank or to an Affiliate of the relevant Issuing Bank) for an Issuing Bank to issue or leave outstanding any Letter of Credit, then:

(a)

that Issuing Bank shall promptly notify the Agent upon becoming aware of that event;

(b)

upon the Agent notifying the Obligors’ Agent, that Issuing Bank shall not be obliged to issue any Letter of Credit;

(c)

to the extent of the unlawfulness, the Obligors’ Agent shall procure that the relevant Borrower shall use all reasonable endeavours (without being obliged to make any payment) to procure the release of, or otherwise repay, each Letter of Credit issued by that Issuing Bank and outstanding at such time; and

(d)

unless any other Lender has agreed to be an Issuing Bank pursuant to this Agreement, the Revolving Facilities shall cease to be available for the issue of Letters of Credit by that Issuing Bank to the extent such issue would be unlawful.

11.3

Voluntary cancellation

The Obligors’ Agent may, if it gives the Agent not less than three (3) Business Days’ (or such shorter period as the Majority Lenders may agree) prior notice, cancel the whole or any part (being a minimum amount of $500,000) of an Available Facility. Any cancellation under this Clause 11.3 shall reduce the Commitments of the Lenders rateably under that Facility.

11.4

Voluntary prepayment of Revolving Utilisations

A Borrower to which a Revolving Utilisation has been made may, if it or the Obligors’ Agent gives the Agent not less than three (3) Business Days’ (or such shorter period as the Majority Lenders may agree) prior notice, prepay the whole or any part of a Revolving Utilisation (but, if

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in part, being an amount that reduces the Base Currency Amount of that Revolving Utilisation by a minimum amount of $500,000).

11.5

Right of cancellation and repayment in relation to a single Lender or Issuing Bank

(a)

If:

(i)

any sum payable to any Lender or Ancillary Lender by an Obligor is required to be increased under paragraph (c) of Clause 18.2 (Tax Gross-Up);

(ii)

any Lender or Issuing Bank claims indemnification from the Parent or another Obligor under Clause 18.3 (Tax Indemnity) or Clause 19.1 (Increased Costs); or

(iii)

any Lender invokes Clause 16.2 (Market disruption),

the Obligors’ Agent may, whilst the circumstance giving rise to the requirement for that increase or indemnification continues, give the Agent notice:

(A)

(if such circumstances relate to a Lender) of cancellation of the Commitment of that Lender and its intention to procure the repayment of that Lender’s participation in the Utilisations; or

(B)

(if such circumstances relate to an Issuing Bank) of repayment of any outstanding Letter of Credit issued by it and cancellation of its appointment as an Issuing Bank under this Agreement in relation to any Letters of Credit to be issued in the future.

(b)

On receipt of a notice referred to in paragraph (a) above in relation to a Lender, the Commitment of that Lender shall immediately be reduced to zero.

(c)

On the last day of each Interest Period which ends after the Obligors’ Agent has given notice under paragraph (a) above in relation to a Lender (or, if earlier, the date specified by the Obligors’ Agent in that notice), each Borrower to which a Utilisation is outstanding shall repay that Lender’s participation in that Utilisation together with all interest and other amounts accrued under the Finance Documents due to that Lender.

11.6

Right of cancellation in relation to a Defaulting Lender

(a)

If any Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, the Obligors’ Agent may, at any time whilst that Lender continues to be a Defaulting Lender, give the Agent three (3) Business Days’ notice of cancellation of each Available Commitment of that Lender.

(b)

On the notice referred to in paragraph (a) above becoming effective, each Available Commitment of the Defaulting Lender shall immediately be reduced to zero.

(c)

The Agent shall, as soon as practicable after receipt of a notice referred to in paragraph (a) above, notify all the Lenders.

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Mandatory Prepayment

Upon the occurrence of a Change of Control, the Parent shall promptly notify the Agent and each Lender shall be entitled to require, by written notice to the Parent received not later than the date

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30 days after the date on which a Lender was notified that such event has occurred (a “Lender Notice”), that:

(a)

all amounts payable under the Finance Documents by the Obligors to that Lender will be due and payable on the date falling 30 days after the date of such Lender Notice and the Borrowers will prepay or procure the prepayment of all Utilisations provided by that Lender by such date; and

(b)

the undrawn Commitments of that Lender will be cancelled and such Lender shall have no obligation to participate in further Utilisations requested under this Agreement,

in each case save to the extent that any Ancillary Lender, or, as the case may be, Issuing Bank may, as between itself and the relevant member of the Group, agree to continue to provide such Ancillary Facility or, as the case may be, Letter(s) of Credit, in which case, after notification thereof to the Agent such arrangements shall continue on a bilateral basis and not as part of, or under, the Finance Documents.

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Restrictions

13.1

Notices of Cancellation or Prepayment

Any notice of cancellation, prepayment, authorisation or other election given by any Party under this Agreement shall be irrevocable and, unless a contrary indication appears in this Agreement, shall specify the date or dates upon which the relevant cancellation or prepayment is to be made and the amount of that cancellation or prepayment, provided that the Obligors’ Agent may give a conditional notice of cancellation or prepayment under Clause 11 (Illegality, voluntary prepayment and cancellation), and (if that prepayment relates to a Term Rate Loan), if the relevant condition is not satisfied, the Obligors’ Agent must pay all Break Costs and other reasonable costs incurred by any Finance Party as a result of any amount not being prepaid on the proposed payment date.

13.2

Interest and other amounts

Any prepayment under this Agreement shall be made together with accrued interest on the amount prepaid and, subject to any Break Costs, without premium or penalty.

13.3

Reborrowing of Revolving Facility

Unless a contrary indication appears in this Agreement, any part of a Revolving Facility which is prepaid or repaid may be reborrowed in accordance with this Agreement.

13.4

Prepayment in accordance with Agreement

No Borrower shall repay or prepay all or any part of the Utilisations or cancel all or any part of the Commitments except at the times and in the manner expressly provided for in this Agreement.

13.5

No reinstatement of Commitments

Subject to Clause 2.2 (Increase – general), no amount of the Total Commitments cancelled under this Agreement may be subsequently reinstated.

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13.6

Effect of Repayment and Prepayment on Commitments

If all or part of a Utilisation under a Facility is repaid or prepaid and is not available for redrawing (other than by operation of Clause 4.2 (Further conditions precedent)), an amount of the Commitments in respect of that Facility will be deemed to be cancelled on the date of repayment or prepayment. Any cancellation under this Clause 13.6 shall reduce the Commitments of the Lenders rateably under that Facility.

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Section 5.

Costs of Utilisation

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Interest

14.1

Calculation of interest

(a)

The rate of interest on each Term Rate Loan for each Interest Period is the percentage rate per annum which is the aggregate of the applicable:

(i)

Margin; and

(ii)

Term Reference Rate.

(b)

The rate of interest on each Compounded Rate Loan for any day during a particular Interest Period is the percentage rate per annum which is the aggregate of the applicable:

(i)

Margin; and

(ii)

Compounded Reference Rate for that day.

14.2

Payment of interest

The Borrower to which a Loan has been made shall pay accrued interest on that Loan on the last day of each Interest Period and, if the Interest Period is longer than six Months, on the dates falling at six Monthly intervals after the first day of the Interest Period (or, in each case in relation to a Compounded Rate Loan, if later than the last day of the relevant Interest Period or other period, the date falling three (3) Business Days from the date on which the Agent notifies the Parent in writing of the amount of the relevant interest to be paid).

14.3

Default interest

(a)

If an Obligor fails to pay any amount payable by it under a Finance Document on its due date, interest shall accrue on the overdue amount from the due date up to the date of actual payment (both before and after judgment) at a rate which, subject to paragraph (b) below, is 1 per cent. per annum higher than the rate which would have been payable if the overdue amount had, during the period of non-payment, constituted a Loan in the currency of the overdue amount for successive Interest Periods, each of a duration selected by the Agent (acting reasonably). Any interest accruing under this Clause 14.3 shall be immediately payable by the Obligor on demand by the Agent.

(b)

If any overdue amount consists of all or part of a Term Rate Loan which became due on a day which was not the last day of an Interest Period relating to that Loan:

(i)

the first Interest Period for that overdue amount shall have a duration equal to the unexpired portion of the current Interest Period relating to that Loan; and

(ii)

the rate of interest applying to the overdue amount during that first Interest Period shall be one per cent. per annum higher than the rate which would have applied if the overdue amount had not become due.

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(c)

Default interest (if unpaid) arising on an overdue amount will be compounded with the overdue amount at the end of each Interest Period applicable to that overdue amount but will remain immediately due and payable.

14.4

Notification of rates of interest

(a)

The Agent shall promptly notify the Lenders and the relevant Borrower (or the Obligors’ Agent) of the determination of a rate of interest relating to a Term Rate Loan under this Agreement.

(b)

The Agent shall promptly upon such total amount of interest being determinable, notify the relevant Lenders and the Parent of:

(i)

the determination of the total amount of accrued interest that:

(A)

relates to a Compounded Rate Loan (or, in the case of a Lender, relates to its participation in that Compounded Rate Loan); and

(B)

is, or is scheduled to become, payable under any Finance Document; and

(ii)

the applicable rate of interest for each day relating to that determination.

(c)

This Clause 14.4 shall not require the Agent to make any notification to any Party on a day which is not a Business Day.

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Interest Periods

15.1

Selection of Interest Periods and Terms

(a)

A Borrower (or the Obligors’ Agent on behalf of a Borrower) may select an Interest Period for a Loan in the Utilisation Request for that Loan.

(b)

Subject to this Clause 15, a Borrower (or the Obligors’ Agent on behalf of a Borrower) may select an Interest Period of one, (other than in respect of a Loan in euros) two, three or six Months or any other period agreed between the Obligors’ Agent and the Agent (acting on the instructions of all the Lenders participating in the relevant Loan). In addition, a Borrower (or the Obligors’ Agent on behalf of a Borrower) may select an Interest Period of any duration necessary to match any relevant payment date under the Facilities and/or any hedging agreement.

(c)

An Interest Period for a Loan shall not extend beyond the applicable Maturity Date.

(d)

A Revolving Loan has one Interest Period only.

15.2

Non-Business Days

(a)

Subject to paragraph (b) below, if an Interest Period would otherwise end on a day which is not a Business Day, that Interest Period will instead end on the next Business Day in that calendar Month (if there is one) or the preceding Business Day (if there is not).

(b)

In relation to a Compounded Rate Loan, unless otherwise set out in any applicable Compounded Rate Terms:

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(i)

if any period is expressed to accrue by reference to a Month or any number of Months then, in respect of the last Month of that period:

(A)

subject to sub-paragraph (C) below, if the numerically corresponding day is not a Business Day, that period shall end on the next Business Day in that calendar month in which that period is to end if there is one, or if there is not, on the immediately preceding Business Day;

(B)

if there is no numerically corresponding day in the calendar month in which that period is to end, that period shall end on the last Business Day in that calendar month; and

(C)

if an Interest Period begins on the last Business Day of a calendar month, that Interest Period shall end on the last Business Day in the calendar month in which that Interest Period is to end; and

(ii)

if an Interest Period would otherwise end on a day which is not a Business Day, that Interest Period will instead end on the next Business Day in that calendar month (if there is one) or the preceding Business Day (if there is not).

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Changes to the Calculation of Interest

16.1

Unavailability of Screen Rate

(a)

Interpolated Screen Rate:  If no Screen Rate or Replacement Benchmark is available for EURIBOR or any Base Rate as applicable for the Interest Period of a Term Rate Loan, the applicable EURIBOR or Base Rate shall be the Interpolated Screen Rate for a period equal in length to the Interest Period of that Loan.

(b)

Shortened Interest Period:  If no Screen Rate or Replacement Benchmark is available for EURIBOR or any Base Rate as applicable for:

(i)

the currency of a Term Rate Loan; or

(ii)

the Interest Period of a Term Rate Loan and it is not possible to calculate the Interpolated Screen Rate,

the Interest Period of that Loan shall (if it is longer than the applicable Fallback Interest Period) be shortened to the applicable Fallback Interest Period and EURIBOR or the Base Rate as applicable for that shortened Interest Period shall be determined pursuant to the definition of “EURIBOR” or “Base Rate” as applicable.

(c)

Shortened Interest Period and Historic Screen Rate: If the Interest Period of a Term Rate Loan is, after giving effect to paragraph (b) above, either the applicable Fallback Interest Period or shorter than the applicable Fallback Interest Period and, in either case, no Screen Rate is available for EURIBOR or any Base Rate for:

(i)

the currency of that Loan; or

(ii)

the Interest Period of that Loan and it is not possible to calculate the Interpolated Screen Rate,

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the applicable EURIBOR or Base Rate shall be the Historic Screen Rate for that Loan.

(d)

Shortened Interest Period and Interpolated Historic Screen Rate: If paragraph (c) above applies but no Historic Screen Rate is available for the Interest Period of the Term Rate Loan, the applicable EURIBOR or Base Rate shall be the Interpolated Historic Screen Rate for a period equal in length to the Interest Period of that Loan.

(e)

Cost of funds: If paragraph (d) above applies but it is not possible to calculate the Interpolated Historic Screen Rate, there shall be no applicable EURIBOR or Base Rate for that Loan and Clause 16.3 (Cost of funds) shall apply to that Loan for that Interest Period.

16.2

Market disruption

(a)

If a Market Disruption Event occurs in relation to a Term Rate Loan for any Interest Period, then the rate of interest on each Lender’s share of that Loan for the Interest Period shall be the rate per annum which is the sum of:

(i)

the Margin; and

(ii)

the rate notified to the Agent by that Lender as soon as practicable and in any event by close of business on the date falling five (5) Business Days after the Quotation Day (or, if earlier, on the date falling five (5) Business Days prior to the date on which interest is due to be paid in respect of that Interest Period) to be that which expresses as a percentage rate per annum the cost to that Lender of funding its participation in that Loan from whatever source it may reasonably select.

(b)

If a Lender has not notified the Agent of a rate per annum pursuant to sub-paragraph (a)(ii) above, the cost to that Lender of funding its participation in that Loan for that Interest Period shall be deemed, for the purposes of paragraph (a) above, to be the applicable EURIBOR or Base Rate (as the case may be).

(c)

In this Agreement, “Market Disruption Event” means, in relation to a Term Rate Loan, before close of business in London on the Quotation Day for the relevant Interest Period, the Agent receives notifications from a Lender or Lenders (whose participations in a Loan exceed 35 per cent. of that Loan) that the cost to it of funding its participation in that Loan from whatever source it may reasonably select would be in excess of the applicable EURIBOR or Base Rate (as the case may be).

16.3

Cost of funds

(a)

If this Clause 16.3 applies, the rate of interest on the relevant Loan for the relevant Interest Period shall be the percentage rate per annum which is the sum of:

(i)

the Margin; and

(ii)

the weighted average of the rates notified to the Agent by each Lender as soon as practicable and in any event by close of business on the date falling three (3) Business Days after the Quotation Day (or, if earlier, on the date falling two (2) Business Days before the date on which interest is due to be paid in respect of

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that Interest Period), to be that which expresses as a percentage rate per annum the cost to the relevant Lender of funding its participation in that Loan from whatever source it may reasonably select.

(b)

If this Clause 16.3 applies and the Agent or the Obligors’ Agent so requires, the Agent and the Obligors’ Agent shall enter into negotiations (for a period of not more than thirty days) with a view to agreeing a substitute basis for determining the rate of interest.

(c)

Any alternative basis agreed pursuant to paragraph (b) above shall, with the prior consent of all the Lenders and the Obligors’ Agent, be binding on all Parties.

(d)

If this Clause 16.3 applies, and

(i)

a Lender's Funding Rate is less than EURIBOR or the relevant Base Rate as applicable; or

(ii)

a Lender does not supply a quotation by the time specified in sub-paragraph (a)(ii) above,

the cost to that Lender of funding its participation in that Loan for that Interest Period shall be deemed, for the purposes of paragraph (a) above, to be EURIBOR or the relevant Base Rate as applicable.

(e)

If this Clause 16.3 applies pursuant to Clause 16.1(e) (Unavailability of Screen Rate) but any Lender does not supply a quotation by the time specified in sub-paragraph (a)(ii) above the rate of interest shall be calculated on the basis of the quotations of the remaining Lenders.

16.4

Notification to the Obligors’ Agent

If Clause 16.3 (Cost of funds) applies the Agent shall, as soon as practicable, notify the Obligors’ Agent.

16.5

Break Costs

(a)

Each Borrower shall, within five (5) Business Days of demand by a Finance Party, pay to that Finance Party its Break Costs attributable to all or any part of a Term Rate Loan being paid by that Borrower on a day other than the last day of an Interest Period for that Term Rate Loan.

(b)

Each Lender shall, as soon as reasonably practicable after a demand by the Agent (at the request of the Obligors’ Agent), provide to the Agent and the Obligors’ Agent a certificate confirming (in reasonable detail) the amount of its Break Costs for any Interest Period in which they accrue.

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Fees

17.1

Commitment fee

(a)

The Obligors’ Agent shall pay or procure that there is paid to the Agent (for the account of each RCF Lender) a commitment fee in the Base Currency computed at the rate of 35

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per cent. of the applicable Margin per annum on that Lender’s Available Commitment under the RCF for the period commencing on the Notes Closing Date and ending on the last day of the Availability Period applicable to the RCF.

(b)

The accrued commitment fee is payable quarterly in arrear during the relevant Availability Period, on the last day of the relevant Availability Period and on the cancelled amount of the relevant Lender’s Commitment at the time the cancellation is effective.

(c)

No commitment fee is payable to the Agent (for the account of a Lender) on any Available Commitment of that Lender for any day on which that Lender is a Defaulting Lender.

17.2

Upfront fee

The Parent shall pay or procure there is paid to the Finance Parties (for their own account) an arrangement fee in the amount and at the times agreed in a Fee Letter.

17.3

Agency fees

The Parent shall pay or procure there is paid to each of the Agent and the Security Agent (for its own account) an agency fee and a security agency fee (respectively) in the amount and at the times agreed in a Fee Letter.

17.4

Fees payable in respect of Letters of Credit

(a)

A Borrower shall pay to an Issuing Bank a fronting fee in the amount and at the times agreed with the relevant Issuing Bank.

(b)

A Borrower shall pay to the Agent (for the account of each Lender) a Letter of Credit fee in respect of the relevant outstanding amount under the relevant Letter of Credit computed at the rate equal to the Margin applicable to the RCF on the outstanding amount (net of any amount which has been repaid or prepaid) of each Letter of Credit requested by it for the period from the issue of that Letter of Credit until its Expiry Date. This fee shall be distributed according to each Lender’s L/C Proportion of that Letter of Credit.

(c)

All accrued Letter of Credit fees on Letter of Credits (if any) shall be payable on the last day of each successive period of three Months or part thereof (or such shorter period as shall end on the Expiry Date for that Letter of Credit) starting on the Notes Closing Date. The accrued Letter of Credit fee is also payable to the Agent on the cancelled amount of any Lender’s RCF Commitment at the time the cancellation is effective if that applicable Commitment is cancelled in full and the Letter of Credit is prepaid or repaid in full.

17.5

Interest, commission and fees on Ancillary Facilities

The rate and time of payment of interest, commission, fees and any other remuneration in respect of each Ancillary Facility shall be determined by agreement between the relevant Ancillary Lender and the Borrower of that Ancillary Facility based upon normal market rates and terms. The payment of interest, commission, fees and any other remuneration in respect of each

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Ancillary Facility shall be paid directly to the Ancillary Lender or as otherwise agreed under the relevant Ancillary Document.

17.6

Notes Closing Date

No fees, costs, expenses or other amounts shall be due from or payable by any member of the Group under any of the Finance Documents unless the Notes Closing Date occurs, other than legal costs and expenses incurred by the Finance Parties in negotiating the Finance Documents to the extent agreed separately in writing between the Arrangers, the Bookrunners and the Obligors’ Agent.

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Section 6.

Additional Payment Obligations

18

Tax Gross-Up and Indemnities

18.1

Definitions

In this Agreement:

Borrower DTTP Filing” means an HM Revenue & Customs’ Form DTTP2 duly completed and filed with HMRC by the relevant Borrower, which:

(a)

where it relates to a UK Treaty Lender that is an Original Lender, contains the scheme reference number and jurisdiction of tax residence stated opposite that Original Lender’s name in Schedule 1 (The Original Parties); or

(b)

where it relates to a UK Treaty Lender that is a New Lender or an Increase Lender, contains the scheme reference number and jurisdiction of tax residence stated in respect of that Lender in the relevant Transfer Certificate, Assignment Agreement or Increase Confirmation.

Change of Law” means any change which occurs after the date of this Agreement or, if later, after the date on which the relevant Lender became a Lender pursuant to this Agreement (as applicable) in any law, regulation or treaty (or in the published interpretation, administration or application of any law, regulation or treaty) or any published practice or published concession of any relevant tax authority other than (i) any change that occurs pursuant to, or in connection with the adoption, ratification, approval or acceptance of, the MLI in or by any jurisdiction and (ii) any change to the list of jurisdictions set forth in the Dutch regulation on low-taxing states and non-cooperative jurisdictions for tax purposes (Regeling laagbelastende staten en niet-coöperatieve rechtsgebieden voor belastingdoeleinden).

CTA” means the Corporation Tax Act 2009.

Dutch Qualifying Lender” means a Lender which is beneficially entitled to interest payable to that Lender in respect of an advance under a Finance Document and is:

(a)

entitled to receive payments of interest without any Tax Deduction imposed by the Netherlands; or

(b)

a Dutch Treaty Lender.

Dutch Treaty Lender” means a Lender which:

(a)

is treated as a resident of a Dutch Treaty State for the purposes of the relevant Dutch Treaty;

(b)

does not carry on a business in the Netherlands through a permanent establishment with which that Lender's participation in the Loan is effectively connected; and

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(c)

fulfils any other conditions which must be fulfilled under the relevant Dutch Treaty in order to benefit from a full exemption from Tax imposed by the Netherlands on interest payable to that Lender in respect of an advance under a Finance Document including the completion of any necessary procedural formalities.

"Dutch Treaty State" means a jurisdiction having a double taxation agreement (a “Dutch Treaty”) with the Netherlands which makes provision for full exemption from Tax imposed by the Netherlands on interest.

HMRC” means the United Kingdom HM Revenue & Customs.

ITA” means the Income Tax Act 2007.

Luxembourg Qualifying Lender” means, in respect of a payment by or due from a Luxembourg Tax Borrower, a Lender that is beneficially entitled to interest payable to that Lender in respect of an advance under a Finance Document and is (i) a Luxembourg Treaty Lender or (ii) a Lender to which any payment of interest under a Facility can be made without a Tax Deduction on account of Tax imposed by Luxembourg being imposed by law.

Luxembourg Tax Borrower” means a Borrower incorporated or established in Luxembourg.

Luxembourg Treaty Lender” means a Lender which:

(a)

is treated as a resident (for the purposes of the appropriate double Taxation agreement) in a jurisdiction having a double Taxation agreement with Luxembourg which makes provision for full exemption from Tax imposed by Luxembourg on any payment under a Finance Document (a “Luxembourg Treaty”) and is entitled to the benefit of such Luxembourg Treaty and thus from such full exemption;

(b)

fulfils any other conditions which must be fulfilled under the relevant Luxembourg Treaty and under Luxembourg domestic law in order to benefit from full exemption from Tax imposed by Luxembourg on interest payable to that Lender in respect of an advance under a Finance Document, including the completion of any necessary procedural formalities and clearances); and

(c)

which does not carry on business in Luxembourg through a permanent establishment with which that Lender’s participation in that Utilisation is effectively connected.

MLI” means the Multilateral Convention to Implement Tax Treaty Related Measures to Prevent Base Erosion and Profit Shifting of 24 November 2016.

Protected Party” means a Finance Party which is or will be subject to any liability or required to make any payment for or on account of Tax in relation to a sum received or receivable (or any sum deemed for the purposes of Tax to be received or receivable) under a Finance Document.

Qualifying Lender” means a Dutch Qualifying Lender, a Luxembourg Qualifying Lender or a UK Qualifying Lender.

Tax Confirmation” means a confirmation by a Lender that the person beneficially entitled to interest payable to that Lender in respect of an advance under a Finance Document is either:

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(a)

a company resident in the United Kingdom for United Kingdom tax purposes; or

(b)

a partnership each member of which is:

(i)

a company so resident in the United Kingdom; or

(ii)

a company not so resident in the United Kingdom which carries on a trade in the United Kingdom through a permanent establishment and which brings into account in computing its chargeable profits (within the meaning of section 19 of the CTA) the whole of any share of interest payable in respect of that advance that falls to it by reason of Part 17 of the CTA; or

(c)

a company not so resident in the United Kingdom which carries on a trade in the United Kingdom through a permanent establishment and which brings into account interest payable in respect of that advance in computing the chargeable profits (within the meaning of section 19 of the CTA) of that company.

Tax Credit” means a credit against, relief or remission for, or repayment of, any Tax.

Tax Deduction” means a deduction or withholding for or on account of Tax from a payment under a Finance Document, other than a FATCA Deduction.

Tax Payment” means either the increase in a payment made by an Obligor to a Finance Party under Clause 18.2 (Tax gross up) or a payment under Clause 18.3 (Tax indemnity).

Treaty” means either a Dutch Treaty, a Luxembourg Treaty or a UK Treaty.

UK Non-Bank Lender” means:

(a)

where a Lender becomes a Party on the day on which this Agreement is entered into, a Lender listed as such in Schedule 1 (The Original Parties); and

(b)

where a Lender becomes a Party after the day on which this Agreement is entered into, a Lender which gives a Tax Confirmation in the documentation which it executes on becoming a Party as a Lender.

UK Qualifying Lender” means:

(a)

a Lender that is beneficially entitled to interest payable to that Lender in respect of an advance under a Finance Document and is:

(i)

a Lender:

(A)

which is a bank (as defined for the purpose of section 879 of the ITA) making an advance under a Finance Document and is within the charge to United Kingdom corporation tax as respects any payments of interest made in respect of that advance or would be within such charge as respects such payments apart from section 18A of the CTA; or

(B)

in respect of an advance made under a Finance Document by a person that was a bank (as defined for the purpose of section 879 of the ITA) at the time that that advance was made and is within the charge to United

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Kingdom corporation tax as respects any payments of interest made in respect of that advance; or

(ii)

a Lender which is:

(A)

a company resident in the United Kingdom for United Kingdom tax purposes;

(B)

a partnership, each member of which is:

(1)

a company so resident in the United Kingdom; or

(2)

a company not so resident in the United Kingdom which carries on a trade in the United Kingdom through a permanent establishment and which brings into account in computing its chargeable profits (within the meaning of section 19 of the CTA) the whole of any share of interest payable in respect of that advance that falls to it by reason of Part 17 of the CTA; or

(C)

a company not so resident in the United Kingdom which carries on a trade in the United Kingdom through a permanent establishment and which brings into account interest payable in respect of that advance in computing the chargeable profits (within the meaning of Section 19 of the CTA) of that company; or

(iii)

a UK Treaty Lender; or

(b)

a Lender which is a building society (as defined for the purposes of section 880 of the ITA) making an advance under a Finance Document.

UK Treaty Lender” means a Lender in respect of a Utilisation which:

(a)

is treated as a resident (for the purposes of the relevant UK Treaty) of a UK Treaty State and is entitled to the benefit of such UK Treaty;

(b)

does not carry on a business in the UK through a permanent establishment with which that Lender’s participation in that Utilisation is effectively connected; and

(c)

meets all other relevant conditions (including conditions imposed by domestic law) to obtain full exemption under the UK Treaty from withholding tax on interest imposed by the UK, including the completion of any necessary procedural formalities.

UK Treaty State” means a jurisdiction having a double taxation agreement (a “UK Treaty”) with the United Kingdom which makes provision for full exemption from tax imposed by the United Kingdom on interest.

Unless a contrary indication appears, in this Clause 18 a reference to “determines” or “determined” means a determination made in the discretion of the person making the determination, acting reasonably and in good faith.

References in this Clause 18 to Finance Documents shall not include any Ancillary Facility.

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18.2

Tax Gross-Up

(a)

Each Obligor shall make all payments to be made by it without any Tax Deduction, unless a Tax Deduction is required by law.

(b)

The Obligors’ Agent shall promptly upon becoming aware that an Obligor must make a Tax Deduction (or that there is any change in the rate or the basis of a Tax Deduction) notify the Agent accordingly.  Similarly, a Lender shall promptly notify the Agent on becoming so aware in respect of a payment payable to that Lender.  In addition, that Lender shall promptly notify the Agent upon becoming aware that it has ceased to be a Luxembourg Qualifying Lender, a UK Qualifying Lender or a Dutch Qualifying Lender (as applicable).  If the Agent receives any of the above notifications from a Lender it shall promptly notify the Obligors’ Agent and any relevant Obligor.

(c)

If a Tax Deduction is required by law to be made by an Obligor, the amount of the payment due from that Obligor shall be increased to an amount which (after making any Tax Deduction) leaves an amount equal to the payment which would have been due if no Tax Deduction had been required.

(d)

A payment shall not be increased under paragraph (c) above by reason of a Tax Deduction on account of Tax imposed by the United Kingdom, if on the date on which the payment falls due:

(i)

the payment could have been made to the relevant Lender without a Tax Deduction on account of Tax imposed by the United Kingdom, if that Lender had been a UK Qualifying Lender but on that date the relevant Lender is not or has ceased to be a UK Qualifying Lender other than as a result of a Change of Law; or

(ii)

the relevant Lender is a UK Qualifying Lender solely by virtue of sub-paragraph (a)(ii) of the definition of “UK Qualifying Lender” and:

(A)

an officer of HMRC has given (and not revoked) a direction (a “Direction”) under section 931 of the ITA which relates to the payment and that Lender has received from the Obligor making the payment or from the Parent a certified copy of that Direction; and

(B)

the payment could have been made to that Lender without any Tax Deduction if that Direction had not been made; or

(iii)

the relevant Lender is a UK Qualifying Lender solely by virtue of sub-paragraph (a)(ii) of the definition of “UK Qualifying Lender” and:

(A)

it has not given a Tax Confirmation to the Parent; and

(B)

the payment could have been made to that Lender without any Tax Deduction if that Lender had given a Tax Confirmation to the Parent, on the basis that the Tax Confirmation would have enabled the Parent to have formed a reasonable belief that the payment was an “excepted payment” for the purpose of section 930 of the ITA; or

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(iv)

the relevant Lender is a UK Treaty Lender and the Obligor making the payment is able to demonstrate that the payment could have been made to that Lender without the Tax Deduction had that Lender complied with its obligations under paragraphs (j) or (k) below (as applicable).

(e)

A payment shall not be increased under paragraph (c) above by reason of a Tax Deduction on account of Tax imposed by Luxembourg, if on the date on which the payment falls due:

(i)

the payment could have been made to the relevant Lender without a Tax Deduction on account of Tax imposed by Luxembourg, if that Lender had been a Luxembourg Qualifying Lender but on that date the relevant Lender is not or has ceased to be a Luxembourg Qualifying Lender other than as a result of a Change of Law; or

(ii)

the relevant Lender is a Luxembourg Treaty Lender and the Obligor making the payment is able to demonstrate that the payment could have been made to that Lender without the Tax Deduction had that Lender complied with its obligations under paragraph (j) below; or

(iii)

any Tax is imposed by the Grand-Duchy of Luxembourg on payment made to or for the benefit of Luxembourg resident individuals based on the Luxembourg law of 23 December 2005.

(f)

A payment shall not be increased under paragraph (c) above by reason of a Tax Deduction on account of Tax imposed by the Netherlands, if on the date on which the payment falls due:

(i)

the payment could have been made to the relevant Lender without a Tax Deduction on account of Tax imposed by the Netherlands, if that Lender had been a Dutch Qualifying Lender but on that date the relevant Lender is not or has ceased to be a Dutch Qualifying Lender other than as a result of a Change of Law; or

(ii)

the relevant Lender is a Dutch Treaty Lender and the Obligor making the payment is able to demonstrate that the payment could have been made to that Lender without the Tax Deduction had that Lender complied with its obligations under paragraph (j) below.

(g)

A payment shall not be increased under paragraph (c) above by reason of a Tax Deduction on account of U.S. federal withholding Tax imposed by a taxing authority within the United States:

(i)

if such Tax is imposed on amounts payable to or for the account of a Lender with respect to an applicable Commitment pursuant to a law in effect on the date on which (i) such Lender acquires such Commitment (other than pursuant to an assignment request by the Obligors’ Agent under Clause 41.3 (Replacement of Lender)) or (ii) such Lender changes its Facility Office, except in each case to the extent that, pursuant to Clause 41.3 (Replacement of Lender), amounts with respect to such Taxes in respect of such Commitment were payable either to such Lender's assignor immediately before such Lender acquired such Commitment or

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to such Lender immediately before it changed its Facility Office in respect of such Commitment; and

(ii)

to the extent that on the date on which the payment falls due, the payment could have been made to the relevant Lender without a Tax Deduction on account of such Tax (or such Tax Deduction could have been made at a reduced rate) but for such Lender’s failure to provide the Agent and the relevant Obligor with (i) a properly completed and duly executed U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-8 or W-9, as applicable (or any successor form thereto), including any required documents and attachments thereto, (ii) in the case of a Lender claiming the benefits of the exemption for portfolio interest under Section 881(c) of the Code both (x) a complete and executed U.S. Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E, as applicable (or any successor form thereto) and (y) a certificate to the effect that such Lender is not (a) a “bank” within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Code, (b) a “10 percent shareholder” of any Obligor within the meaning of Section 871(h)(3)(B) of the Code, (c) a “controlled foreign corporation” related to any Obligor as described in Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code or (d) conducting a trade or business in the United States with which the relevant interest payments are effectively connected or (iii) any other form prescribed by law as a basis for claiming exemption from, or a reduction of, U.S. federal withholding tax together with such supplementary documentation necessary to enable any Obligor to determine the amount of tax (if any) required by law to be withheld (each form or certificate described in (i) to (iii), a “U.S. Tax Form”); provided that each Lender shall deliver to the Agent and the relevant Obligor a U.S. Tax Form within ten Business Days of receiving notice pursuant to paragraph (b) of Clause 31.2 (Additional Borrowers) of this Agreement that an entity incorporated or organised under the laws of the United States has become a Borrower.

(h)

If an Obligor is required to make a Tax Deduction, that Obligor shall make that Tax Deduction and any payment required in connection with that Tax Deduction within the time allowed and in the minimum amount required by law.

(i)

Within thirty days of making either a Tax Deduction or any payment required in connection with that Tax Deduction, the Obligor making that Tax Deduction shall deliver to the Agent for the Finance Party entitled to the payment a statement under section 975 of the ITA or other evidence reasonably satisfactory to that Finance Party that the Tax Deduction has been made or (as applicable) any appropriate payment paid to the relevant taxing authority.

(j)

(i)

Subject to sub-paragraph (ii) below, a Lender and each Obligor which makes a payment to which that Lender is entitled shall co-operate in promptly completing any procedural formalities necessary for that Obligor to obtain authorisation to make that payment without a Tax Deduction (or with a Tax Deduction but at a reduced rate). In particular that Lender shall, if necessary, promptly (unless it is unable to do so as a result of any change after the date it becomes a Party in (or in the interpretation, administration or application of) any law or treaty, or any published practice or concession of any relevant taxing authority), file with the appropriate taxing authority a duly completed application form for relief from

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double taxation and provide the relevant Obligor with reasonably satisfactory evidence that such form has been filed.  In the event that such authorisation is granted subject to an expiry date and, to the extent such expiry date permits at a date prior to such expiry date or to the extent that such authorisation is given subject to an expiry date of less than three months at a date prior to such expiry date, and that Lender remains a UK Treaty Lender, that Lender shall promptly make a further filing for the previously granted authorisation to be extended.  This sub-paragraph (i) shall also apply where a Lender increases its Commitment under a Finance Document where any existing authorisation does not extend to such increased Commitment.

(ii)

(A)

A UK Treaty Lender which becomes a Party on the day on which this Agreement is entered into that holds a passport under the HMRC DT Treaty Passport scheme, and which wishes that scheme to apply to this Agreement, shall confirm its scheme reference number and its jurisdiction of tax residence opposite its name in Part 2 (The Original Lenders) of Schedule 1 (The Original Parties); and

(B)

a New Lender or an Increase Lender that is a UK Treaty Lender that holds a passport under the HMRC DT Treaty Passport scheme, and which wishes that scheme to apply to this Agreement, shall confirm its scheme reference number and its jurisdiction of tax residence in the documentation which it executes on becoming a Party as a Lender,

and, having done so, that Lender shall be under no obligation pursuant to sub-paragraph (j)(i) above in respect of obtaining authorisation to make that payment without a Tax Deduction on account of Tax imposed by the United Kingdom.

(iii)

To the extent a Lender or New Lender provides the confirmations described in sub-paragraphs (j)(ii)(A) or (j)(ii)(B) above thereby notifying each Borrower that the HMRC DT Treaty Passport scheme is to apply in respect of the Commitment of that Lender or its participation in any Loan to that Borrower, that Borrower must promptly file a Borrower DTTP Filing.

(k)

If a Lender, New Lender or Increase Lender has confirmed its scheme reference number and its jurisdiction of tax residence in accordance with sub-paragraph (j)(ii) above and:

(i)

a Borrower making a payment to that Lender has not made a Borrower DTTP Filing in respect of that Lender (or, where that Lender has increased its Commitment under a Finance Document, a Borrower making a payment to that Lender has not made a Borrower DTTP Filing in respect of that Lender following such increase in Commitment); or

(ii)

a Borrower making a payment to that Lender has made a Borrower DTTP Filing in respect of that Lender but:

(A)

that Borrower DTTP Filing has been rejected by HM Revenue & Customs;

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(B)

HM Revenue & Customs has not given the Borrower authority to make payments to that Lender without a Tax Deduction within 60 days of the date of the Borrower DTTP Filing; or

(C)

HM Revenue & Customs gave but subsequently withdrew authority for the Borrower to make payments to that Lender without a Tax Deduction,

and in each case, that Borrower has notified that Lender in writing, that Lender and the Parent shall co-operate in completing any additional procedural formalities necessary for that Borrower to obtain authorisation to make that payment without a Tax Deduction.

(l)

If a Lender has not confirmed its scheme reference number and jurisdiction of tax residence in accordance with paragraph (j) above, no Obligor shall make a Borrower DTTP Filing or file any other form relating to the HMRC DT Treaty Passport scheme in respect of that Lender’s Commitment or its participation in any Loan unless that Lender otherwise agrees.

(m)

The Borrower shall, promptly on making a Borrower DTTP Filing, deliver a copy of that Borrower DTTP Filing to the relevant Lender.

(n)

A UK Non-Bank Lender which becomes a Party on the day on which this Agreement is entered into gives a Tax Confirmation to the Parent by entering into this Agreement.

(o)

A UK Non-Bank Lender, shall promptly notify the Parent if there is any change in the position from that set out in the Tax Confirmation.

(p)

If:

(i)

a Tax Deduction should have been made in respect of a payment made by an Obligor under a Finance Document;

(ii)

either:

(A)

the relevant Obligor was unaware, and could not reasonably be expected to have been aware, that such Tax Deduction was required and as a result did not make the Tax Deduction or made a Tax Deduction at a reduced rate;

(B)

in reliance on the notifications and confirmation provided pursuant to Clause 18.5 (Lender Status Confirmation), the relevant Obligor did not make such Tax Deduction or made a Tax Deduction at a reduced rate; or

(C)

any Finance Party has not complied with its obligation under paragraphs (b) or (j) above and as a result the relevant Obligor did not make the Tax Deduction or made a Tax Deduction at a reduced rate; and

(iii)

the applicable Obligor would not have been required to make a Tax Payment with respect to such Tax Deduction because, based on circumstances existing at the time such Tax Deduction was required to be made, one of the exclusions in this Clause 18.2 would have applied,

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then the Lender that received the payment in respect of which the Tax Deduction should have been made or made at a higher rate undertakes to promptly reimburse that Obligor for the amount of the Tax Deduction that should have been made (but, for the avoidance of doubt, not any penalty or interest payable in connection with any failure to pay or any delay in paying any of the same).

(q)

Any Lender which enters into any sub-participation or other risk sharing arrangement shall only be entitled to receive payments under this Clause 18.2 with reference to any interest paid on the sub-participated commitment: (i) to the same extent as such Lender would have been if it had not entered into such sub-participation; or (ii) for an amount equivalent to the payment which would have been due to the sub-participant under this Clause 18.2 had the sub-participant been a Lender, if lower.

(r)

A Guarantor will not be obliged to make a payment or increased payment pursuant to this Clause 18.2 with respect to a payment by it of a liability due for payment by a Borrower to the extent that, had the payment been made by that Borrower, that Borrower would not have been obliged to make a payment or increased payment pursuant to this Clause 18.2 because the exclusion under paragraphs (d) or (e) applied.

18.3

Tax indemnity

(a)

The Obligors’ Agent shall (or shall procure that an Obligor will) (within five (5) Business Days of demand by the Agent) pay to a Protected Party an amount equal to the loss, liability or cost which that Protected Party determines, acting reasonably and in good faith, has been (directly or indirectly) suffered for or on account of Tax by that Protected Party in respect of a Finance Document.

(b)

Paragraph (a) above shall not apply:

(i)

with respect to any Tax assessed on a Finance Party:

(A)

under the law of the jurisdiction in which that Finance Party is incorporated or, if different, the jurisdiction (or jurisdictions) in which that Finance Party is treated as resident for Tax purposes; or

(B)

under the laws of the jurisdiction in which that Finance Party’s Facility Office (or other permanent establishment) is located in respect of amounts received or receivable (or attributable to a permanent establishment) in that jurisdiction,

if that Tax is imposed on or calculated by reference to the net income, profits or gains received or receivable (but not any sum deemed to be received or receivable) by that Finance Party; or

(ii)

to the extent a loss, liability or cost:

(A)

is compensated for by an increased payment under Clause 18.2 (Tax Gross-Up); or

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(B)

would have been compensated for by an increased payment under Clause 18.2 (Tax Gross-Up) but was not so compensated solely because one of the exclusions in Clause 18.2 (Tax Gross-Up) applied; or

(C)

arises in respect of any stamp duty, registration or similar Taxes payable in respect of an assignment, transfer or sub-participation by a Finance Party of any of its rights under a Finance Document (which shall instead be dealt with pursuant to Clause 18.6 (Stamp Taxes)); or

(D)

relates to a FATCA Deduction required to be made by a Party; or

(E)

is in respect of or relates to any Bank Levy; or

(F)

is suffered or incurred in respect of any amount arising under or pursuant to the Dutch Corporate Income Tax Act 1969 (Wet op de vennootschapsbelasting 1969) as a result of a Lender having a substantial interest in the relevant Obligor within the meaning of the Dutch Income Tax Act 2001 (Wet inkomstenbelasting 2001); or

(G)

is suffered or incurred by a Lender as a result of an additional tax assessment (naheffingsaanslag) imposed on such Lender pursuant to the Dutch Withholding Tax Act 2021 (Wet bronbelasting 2021) and would not have been suffered or incurred if the Lender had been a Dutch Qualifying Lender, but on that date that Lender is not or has ceased to be a Dutch Qualifying Lender other than as a result of any Change of Law; or

(H)

is attributable to VAT (which shall instead be dealt with pursuant to Clause 18.7 (Value Added Tax)).

(c)

A Protected Party making or intending to make a claim under paragraph (a) above, shall promptly notify the Agent of the event which will give, or has given, rise to the claim, following which the Agent shall notify the Obligors’ Agent.

(d)

A Protected Party shall, on receiving a payment from an Obligor under this Clause 18.3, notify the Agent.

18.4

Tax Credit

If an Obligor makes a Tax Payment and the relevant Finance Party determines that:

(a)

a Tax Credit or similar Tax benefit is attributable to an increased payment of which that Tax Payment forms part, to that Tax Payment or to a Tax Deduction in consequence of which that Tax Payment was required; and

(b)

that Finance Party or the tax consolidated group to which the Finance Party belongs has obtained and utilised that Tax Credit or similar Tax benefit either on a standalone, an affiliated or a tax consolidated group basis,

that Finance Party shall promptly pay an amount to the Obligor which that Finance Party determines (acting reasonably and in good faith) will leave it or the tax consolidated group to

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which such Finance Party belongs (after that payment) in the same after-Tax position as it or the tax consolidated group would have been in had the Tax Payment not been required to be made by the Obligor.

18.5

Lender Status Confirmation

(a)

Each Original Lender shall indicate, opposite its name in Part 2 (The Original Lenders) of Schedule 1 (The Original Parties) which of the following categories it falls in:

(i)

in respect of tax imposed by the United Kingdom:

(A)

not a UK Qualifying Lender;

(B)

a Qualifying Lender (other than a UK Treaty Lender); or

(C)

a UK Treaty Lender;

(ii)

in respect of tax imposed by Luxembourg:

(A)

not a Luxembourg Qualifying Lender;

(B)

a Luxembourg Qualifying Lender (other than a Luxembourg Treaty Lender); or

(C)

a Luxembourg Treaty Lender; or

(iii)

in respect of tax imposed by the Netherlands:

(A)

not a Dutch Qualifying Lender;

(B)

a Dutch Qualifying Lender (other than a Dutch Treaty Lender); or

(C)

a Dutch Treaty Lender.

(b)

Each Lender which becomes a Party to this Agreement after the date of this Agreement shall indicate, for the benefit of the Agent, in the documentation which a Lender executes on becoming a Party as a Lender, which of the following categories it falls in:

(i)

in respect of tax imposed by the United Kingdom :

(A)

not a UK Qualifying Lender;

(B)

a Qualifying Lender (other than a UK Treaty Lender); or

(C)

a UK Treaty Lender;

(ii)

in respect of tax imposed by Luxembourg :

(A)

not a Luxembourg Qualifying Lender;

(B)

a Luxembourg Qualifying Lender (other than a Luxembourg Treaty Lender); or

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(C)

a Luxembourg Treaty Lender; or

(iii)

in respect of tax imposed by the Netherlands:

(A)

not a Dutch Qualifying Lender;

(B)

a Dutch Qualifying Lender (other than a Dutch Treaty Lender); or

(C)

a Dutch Treaty Lender.

(c)

If a New Lender or Increase Lender fails to indicate its status in accordance with paragraph (a) above, then it shall be treated for the purposes of this Agreement (including by each Obligor) as if it is not a UK Qualifying Lender or a Luxembourg Qualifying Lender or a Dutch Qualifying Lender (as applicable) until such time as it notifies the Agent (copying the Obligors’ Agent) which category applies.

(d)

For the avoidance of doubt, the documentation which a Lender executes on becoming a Party as a Lender shall not be invalidated by any failure of a Lender to comply with this Clause 18.5.

18.6

Stamp Taxes

The Parent shall (or shall procure that an Obligor will) pay and, within seven (7) Business Days of demand, indemnify each Finance Party against any cost, loss or liability that such Finance Party incurs in relation to all stamp duty, documentary, property, transfer, registration and other similar Taxes (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any Luxembourg registration duties) payable in respect of any Finance Documents, provided that this Clause 18.6 shall not apply; (a) in respect of any stamp duty, registration or similar Taxes payable in respect of a voluntary assignment, or transfer, sub-participation or other disposal by a Lender of any of its rights or obligations under a Finance Document; (b) other than Luxembourg registration duties, to the extent that such stamp duty, registration or other similar Tax becomes payable upon a voluntary registration made by any Finance Party that is not required to maintain, preserve, establish or enforce its rights under a Finance Document; or (c) for Luxembourg registration duties, to the extent that such stamp duty, registration or other similar Tax becomes payable upon a voluntary or a contractual registration made by any Finance Party if such registration is not required by applicable law or not necessary to enforce its rights under a Finance Document.

18.7

Value Added Tax

(a)

All amounts expressed to be payable under a Finance Document by any Party to a Finance Party which (in whole or in part) constitute the consideration for any supply for VAT purposes are deemed to be exclusive of any VAT which is chargeable on that supply, and accordingly, subject to paragraph (b) below, if VAT is or becomes chargeable on any supply made by any Finance Party to any Party under a Finance Document and such Finance Party is required to account to the relevant tax authority for the VAT, that Party must pay to such Finance Party (in addition to and at the same time as paying any other consideration for such supply) an amount equal to the amount of the VAT (and such Finance Party must promptly provide an appropriate VAT invoice to that Party).

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(b)

If VAT is or becomes chargeable on any supply made by any Finance Party (the “Supplier”) to any other Finance Party (the “Recipient”) under a Finance Document, and any Party other than the Recipient (the “Relevant Party”) is required by any Finance Document to pay an amount equal to the consideration for that supply to the Supplier (rather than being required to reimburse or indemnify the Recipient in respect of that consideration):

(i)

(where the Supplier is the person required to account to the relevant tax authority for the VAT) the Relevant Party must also pay to the Supplier (at the same time as paying that amount) an additional amount equal to the amount of the VAT.  The Recipient must (where this sub-paragraph (i) applies) promptly pay to the Relevant Party an amount equal to any credit or repayment the Recipient receives from the relevant tax authority which the Recipient reasonably determines relates to the VAT chargeable on that supply; and

(ii)

(where the Recipient is the person required to account to the relevant tax authority for the VAT) the Relevant Party must promptly, following demand from the Recipient, pay to the Recipient an amount equal to the VAT chargeable on that supply but only to the extent that the Recipient reasonably determines that it is not entitled to credit or repayment from the relevant tax authority in respect of that VAT.

(c)

Where a Finance Document requires any Party to reimburse or indemnify a Finance Party for any cost or expense, that Party shall reimburse or indemnify (as the case may be) such Finance Party for the full amount of such cost or expense, including such part thereof as represents VAT, save to the extent that such Finance Party reasonably determines that it is entitled to credit or repayment in respect of such VAT from the relevant tax authority.

(d)

Any reference in this Clause 18.7 to any Party shall, at any time when such Party is treated as a member of a group or unity (or fiscal unity) for VAT purposes, include (where appropriate and unless the context otherwise requires) a reference to the person who is treated at that time as making the supply, or (as appropriate) receiving the supply, under the grouping rules (provided for in Article 11 of Council Directive 2006/112/EC (or as implemented by the relevant member state of the European Union) or any other similar provision in any jurisdiction which is not a member state of the European Union) so that a reference to a Party shall be construed as a reference to that Party or the relevant group or unity (or fiscal unity) of which that Party is a member for VAT purposes at the relevant time or the relevant representative member (or head) of that group or unity (or fiscal unity) at the relevant time (as the case may be).

(e)

In relation to any supply made by a Finance Party to any Party under a Finance Document, if reasonably requested by such Finance Party, that Party shall promptly provide such Finance Party with details of that Party’s VAT registration and such other information as is reasonably requested in connection with such Finance Party’s VAT reporting requirements in relation to such supply.

18.8

FATCA Information

(a)

Subject to paragraph (c) below, each Party shall, within ten (10) Business Days of a reasonable request by another Party:

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(i)

confirm to that other Party whether it is:

(A)

a FATCA Exempt Party; or

(B)

not a FATCA Exempt Party; and

(ii)

supply to that other Party such forms, documentation and other information relating to its status under FATCA as that other Party reasonably requests for the purposes of that other Party’s compliance with FATCA; and

(iii)

supply to that other Party such forms, documentation and other information relating to its status as that other Party reasonably requests for the purposes of that other Party’s compliance with any other law, regulation or exchange of information regime.

(b)

If a Party confirms to another Party pursuant to sub-paragraph (a)(i) above that it is a FATCA Exempt Party and it subsequently becomes aware that it is not, or has ceased to be a FATCA Exempt Party, that Party shall notify that other Party reasonably promptly.

(c)

Paragraph (a) above shall not oblige any Finance Party to do anything, and sub-paragraph (a)(iii) above shall not oblige any other Party to do anything, which would or might in its reasonable opinion constitute a breach of:

(i)

any law or regulation;

(ii)

any fiduciary duty; or

(iii)

any duty of confidentiality.

(d)

If a Party fails to confirm whether or not it is a FATCA Exempt Party or to supply forms, documentation or other information requested in accordance with sub-paragraphs (a)(i) or (ii) above (including, for the avoidance of doubt, where paragraph (c) above applies), then such Party shall be treated for the purposes of the Finance Documents (and payments under them) as if it is not a FATCA Exempt Party until (in each case) such time as the Party in question provides the requested confirmation, forms, documentation or other information.

18.9

FATCA Deduction

(a)

Each Party may make any FATCA Deduction it is required to make by FATCA, and any payment required in connection with that FATCA Deduction, and no Party shall be required to increase any payment in respect of which it makes such a FATCA Deduction or otherwise compensate the recipient of the payment for that FATCA Deduction.

(b)

Each Party shall promptly, upon becoming aware that it must make a FATCA Deduction (or that there is any change in the rate or the basis of such FATCA Deduction), notify the Party to whom it is making the payment and, in addition, shall notify the Obligors’ Agent and the Agent, and the Agent shall notify the other Finance Parties.

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Increased Costs

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19.1

Increased Costs

(a)

Subject to Clause 19.3 (Exceptions), the Obligors’ Agent shall (or shall procure that another Obligor will), within five (5) Business Days of a demand by the Agent, pay for the account of a Finance Party the amount of any Increased Costs incurred by that Finance Party or any of its Affiliates as a result of (i) the introduction of or any change in (or in the interpretation, administration or application of) any law or regulation or (ii) compliance with any law or regulation, in any such case made after the date of this Agreement (or, if later, the date it became a Party to this Agreement), or (iii) the implementation or application of, or compliance with, Basel III or CRD IV.

(b)

In this Agreement,

(i)

Increased Costs” means:

(A)

a reduction in the rate of return from a Facility or on a Finance Party’s (or its Affiliate’s) overall capital;

(B)

an additional or increased cost; or

(C)

a reduction of any amount due and payable under any Finance Document,

which is incurred or suffered by a Finance Party or any of its Affiliates to the extent that it is attributable to that Finance Party having entered into its Commitment or an Ancillary Commitment or funding or performing its obligations under any Finance Document or Letter of Credit.

(ii)

Basel III” means:

(A)

the agreements on capital requirements, a leverage ratio and liquidity standards contained in “Basel III: A global regulatory framework for more resilient banks and banking systems”, “Basel III: International framework for liquidity risk measurement, standards and monitoring” and “Guidance for national authorities operating the countercyclical capital buffer” published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in December 2010, each as amended, supplemented or restated; and

(B)

the rules for global systemically important banks contained in “Global systemically important banks: assessment methodology and the additional loss absorbency requirement - Rules text” published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in November 2011 as amended, supplemented or restated; and

(C)

any further guidance or standards published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision relating to “Basel III”.

(iii)

CRD IV” means:

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(A)

Regulation (EU) No 575/2013 of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 on prudential requirements for credit institutions and investment firms; and

(B)

Directive 2013/36/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 26 June 2013 on access to the activity of credit institutions and the prudential supervision of credit institutions and investment firms, amending Directive 2002/87/EC and repealing Directives 2006/48/EC and 2006/49/EC.

19.2

Increased Cost claims

(a)

A Finance Party intending to make a claim pursuant to Clause 19.1 (Increased Costs) shall promptly notify the Agent of the event giving rise to the claim, following which the Agent shall promptly notify the Obligors’ Agent.

(b)

Each Finance Party shall, as soon as practicable after a demand by the Agent (on the request of the Obligors’ Agent), provide a certificate (giving reasonable detail of the circumstances and calculation of the Increased Costs) to the Agent and the Obligors’ Agent confirming the amount of its Increased Costs.

19.3

Exceptions

(a)

Clause 19.1 (Increased Costs) does not apply to the extent any Increased Cost is:

(i)

attributable to a Tax Deduction required by law to be made by an Obligor;

(ii)

compensated for under Clause 18 (Tax Gross-Up and Indemnities) or which would have been so compensated for but for the operation of paragraphs (d) or (e) of Clause 18.2 (Tax Gross-Up) or paragraph (b) of Clause 18.3 (Tax Indemnity);

(iii)

attributable to the wilful breach by a Finance Party or its Affiliates of any law or regulation or the terms of any Finance Document;

(iv)

attributable to the implementation or application of or compliance with the “International Convergence of Capital Measurement and Capital Standards, a Revised Framework” published by the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision in June 2004 in the form existing on the date of this Agreement (“Basel II”) or any other law or regulation which implements Basel II (whether such implementation, application or compliance is by a government, regulator, the Lender or any of its Affiliates) but excluding any Increased Cost attributable to the implementation or application of or compliance with Basel III or any other law or regulation which implements or applies Basel III (in each case unless the Lender was or reasonably should have been aware of that Increased Cost on the date on which it became the Lender under this Agreement);

(v)

attributable to any Bank Levy (or any payment attributable to, or liability arising as a consequence of, a Bank Levy);

(vi)

attributable to a FATCA Deduction required to be made by a Party;

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(vii)

compensated for by Clause 18.6 (Stamp taxes) or Clause 18.7 (Value Added Tax) (or would have been so compensated for under that Clause but was not so compensated solely because any of the exceptions set out therein applied); or

(viii)

attributable to any breach of any provision of Clause 29 (Changes to the Lenders) by a Lender.

(b)

In this Clause 19.3 “Tax Deduction” has the same meaning given to that term in Clause 18.1 (Definitions).

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Other Indemnities

20.1

Currency indemnity

(a)

If any sum due from an Obligor under the Finance Documents (a “Sum”), or any order, judgment or award given or made in relation to a Sum, has to be converted from the currency (the “First Currency”) in which that Sum is payable into another currency (the “Second Currency”) for the purpose of:

(i)

making or filing a claim or proof against that Obligor; or

(ii)

obtaining or enforcing an order, judgment or award in relation to any litigation or arbitration proceedings,

that Obligor shall as an independent obligation, within five (5) Business Days of demand, indemnify each Secured Party to whom that Sum is due against any cost, loss or liability arising out of or as a result of the conversion including any discrepancy between (A) the rate of exchange used to convert that Sum from the First Currency into the Second Currency and (B) the rate or rates of exchange available to that person at the time of its receipt of that Sum provided that, if the amount produced or payable as a result of the conversion exceeds the relevant Sum due, the relevant Secured Party will, unless an Acceleration Event has occurred and is continuing, refund any such excess amount to the relevant Obligor.

(b)

Each Obligor waives any right it may have in any jurisdiction to pay any amount under the Finance Documents in a currency or currency unit other than that in which it is expressed to be payable.

20.2

Other indemnities

The Obligors’ Agent shall (or shall procure that an Obligor will), within five (5) Business Days of demand, indemnify each Finance Party against any cost, loss or liability incurred by it as a result of:

(a)

the occurrence of any Event of Default;

(b)

a failure by an Obligor to pay any amount due under a Finance Document on its due date, including, without limitation, any cost, loss or liability arising as a result of Clause 34 (Sharing among the Finance Parties);

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(c)

funding, or making arrangements to fund, its participation in a Utilisation requested by a Borrower in a Utilisation Request but not made by reason of the operation of any one or more of the provisions of this Agreement (other than by reason of default or negligence by that Finance Party alone);

(d)

issuing or making arrangements to issue a Letter of Credit requested by the Obligors’ Agent or a Borrower in a Utilisation Request but not issued by reason of the operation of any one or more of the provisions of this Agreement (other than by reason of default or negligence by that Finance Party alone); or

(e)

a Utilisation (or part of a Utilisation) not being prepaid in accordance with a notice of prepayment given by a Borrower or the Obligors’ Agent.

20.3

Indemnity to the Agent

The Obligors’ Agent shall (or shall procure that an Obligor will), within five (5) Business Days of demand (accompanied by reasonable details of the amount claimed), indemnify the Agent against any third party cost, loss or liability incurred by the Agent (acting reasonably) as a result of:

(a)

investigating any event which it reasonably believes is a Default; or

(b)

acting or relying on any notice, request or instruction from an Obligor which it reasonably believes to be genuine, correct and appropriately authorised.

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Mitigation by the Lenders

21.1

Mitigation

(a)

Each Finance Party shall, in consultation with the Obligors’ Agent, take all reasonable steps to mitigate any circumstances which arise and which would result in any amount becoming payable under or pursuant to, or cancelled pursuant to, any of Clause 11.1 (Illegality) (or, in respect of an Issuing Bank, Clause 11.2 (Illegality in relation to an Issuing Bank)), Clause 18 (Tax Gross-Up and Indemnities) or Clause 19 (Increased Costs) including (but not limited to) transferring its rights and obligations under the Finance Documents to another Affiliate or Facility Office.

(b)

Paragraph (a) above does not in any way limit the obligations of any Obligor under the Finance Documents.

21.2

Limitation of liability

(a)

The Obligors’ Agent shall (or shall procure that an Obligor will), within five (5) Business Days of demand (accompanied by reasonable details of the amount claimed), indemnify each Finance Party for all costs and expenses reasonably incurred by that Finance Party as a result of steps taken by it under Clause 21.1 (Mitigation).

(b)

A Finance Party is not obliged to take any steps under Clause 21.1 (Mitigation) if, in the opinion of that Finance Party (acting reasonably), to do so might be prejudicial to it in any material respect.

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Costs and Expenses

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22.1

Transaction expenses

The Obligors’ Agent shall (or shall procure that an Obligor will) within fifteen (15) Business Days of demand pay the Agent, the Arrangers, the Bookrunners and the Security Agent (in the case of the Security Agent, including any Receiver or Delegate) the amount of all reasonable fees, costs and expenses (including legal fees subject to any agreed caps) incurred by any of them in connection with the negotiation, preparation, execution and perfection of:

(a)

this Agreement and any other documents referred to in this Agreement (other than any Assignment Agreement or Transfer Certificate) and the Transaction Security; and

(b)

any other Finance Documents executed after the date of this Agreement (other than any Assignment Agreement or Transfer Certificate),

in each case subject to any limits agreed in accordance with a Fee Letter, provided that no such costs and expenses (other than legal fees (and applicable VAT thereon) to the extent agreed) shall be payable by the Obligors’ Agent or any other Obligor if the Notes Closing Date does not occur.

22.2

Amendment costs

If (a) an Obligor requests an amendment, waiver or consent or (b) an amendment is required pursuant to Clause 35.10 (Change of currency), the Obligors’ Agent shall (or will procure that another member of the Group will), within 30 days of demand, reimburse each of the Agent, and the Security Agent (in the case of the Security Agent, including any Receiver or Delegate) for the amount of all third party costs and expenses (including legal fees) reasonably incurred by the Agent and the Security Agent (and/or any Receiver or Delegate, where applicable) in responding to, evaluating, negotiating or complying with that request or requirement subject to limits that must be agreed by the Obligors’ Agent prior to commencement of any material work.

22.3

Enforcement and preservation costs

The Obligors’ Agent shall (or will procure that another member of the Group will), within five (5) Business Days of demand, pay to the Agent and each other Secured Party the amount of all costs and expenses (including legal fees) incurred by it in connection with the enforcement of or the preservation of any rights under any Finance Document and the Transaction Security.

22.4

Payment of fees and expenses

The agreed fees from the Obligors’ Agent payable on the Notes Closing Date pursuant to Clause 17 (Fees) will be paid by a deduction from the proceeds of the first Loan (or as otherwise agreed between the Finance Parties and the Obligors’ Agent). The Agent shall, if requested by the Obligors’ Agent, provide reasonable details of any costs and expenses required to be paid by any member of the Group under the Finance Documents.

22.5

Transfer costs and expenses

Notwithstanding any other provision of the Finance Documents, if a Lender assigns or transfers any of its rights, benefits or obligations under the Finance Documents, no member of the Group shall be required to pay any fees, costs, expenses or other amounts relating to or arising in connection with that assignment or transfer (including, without limitation, any Taxes, Increased Costs and/or any amounts relating to the perfection or amendment of the Transaction Security).

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Section 7.

Guarantee

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Guarantee and Indemnity

23.1

Guarantee and indemnity

Each Guarantor irrevocably and unconditionally, jointly and severally:

(a)

guarantees to each Finance Party punctual performance by each other Obligor of all that Obligor’s payment obligations under the Finance Documents;

(b)

undertakes with each Finance Party that whenever another Obligor does not pay any amount when due under or in connection with any Finance Document, that Guarantor shall immediately on demand pay that amount as if it were the principal obligor; and

(c)

agrees with each Finance Party that if any obligation guaranteed by it is or becomes unenforceable, invalid or illegal, it will, as an independent and primary obligation, indemnify that Finance Party immediately on demand against any cost, loss or liability it incurs as a result of an Obligor not paying any amount which would, but for such unenforceability, invalidity or illegality, have been payable by it under any Finance Document on the date when it would have been due. The amount payable by a Guarantor under this indemnity will not exceed the amount it would have had to pay under this Clause 23 if the amount claimed had been recoverable on the basis of a guarantee,

subject to the limitations referred to in this Clause 23 or in any Accession Deed by which it became a Guarantor.

23.2

Continuing guarantee

This guarantee is a continuing guarantee and will extend to the ultimate balance of sums payable by any Obligor under the Finance Documents, regardless of any intermediate payment or discharge in whole or in part.

23.3

Reinstatement

If any discharge, release or arrangement (whether in respect of the obligations of any Obligor or any security for those obligations or otherwise) is made by a Finance Party in whole or in part on the basis of any payment, security or other disposition which is avoided or must be restored in insolvency, liquidation, administration or otherwise, without limitation, then the liability of each Guarantor under this Clause 23 will continue or be reinstated as if the discharge, release or arrangement had not occurred.

23.4

Waiver of defences

The obligations of each Guarantor under this Clause 23 will not be affected by an act, omission, matter or thing which, but for this Clause 23, would reduce, release or prejudice any of its obligations under this Clause 23 (without limitation and whether or not known to it or any Finance Party), including:

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(a)

any time, waiver or consent granted to, or composition with, any Obligor or other person;

(b)

the release of any other Obligor or any other person under the terms of any composition or arrangement with any creditor of any member of the Group;

(c)

the taking, variation, compromise, exchange, renewal or release of, or refusal or neglect to perfect, take up or enforce, any rights against, or security over assets of, any Obligor or other person or any non-presentation or non-observance of any formality or other requirement in respect of any instrument or any failure to realise the full value of any security;

(d)

any incapacity or lack of power, authority or legal personality of or dissolution or change in the members or status of an Obligor or any other person;

(e)

any amendment, novation, supplement, extension, restatement (however fundamental and whether or not more onerous) or replacement of a Finance Document or any other document or security, to the extent permitted by applicable law, including, without limitation, any change in the purpose of, any extension of or increase in any facility or the addition of any new facility under any Finance Document or other document or security;

(f)

any unenforceability, illegality or invalidity of any obligation of any person under any Finance Document or any other document or security; or

(g)

any insolvency or similar proceedings.

23.5

Guarantor Intent

Without prejudice to the generality of Clause 23.4 (Waiver of defences), each Guarantor expressly confirms that it intends that this guarantee shall, subject to any limitations referred to in this Clause 23 or any Accession Deed by which it became a Guarantor, extend from time to time, to the extent permitted by applicable law, to any (however fundamental and of whatever nature and whether or not more onerous) variation, increase, extension or addition of or to any of the Finance Documents and/or any facility or amount made available under any of the Finance Documents for the purposes of or in connection with any of the following: business acquisitions of any nature; increasing working capital; enabling investor distributions to be made; carrying out restructurings; refinancing existing facilities; refinancing any other indebtedness; making facilities available to new borrowers; any other variation or extension of the purposes for which any such facility or amount might be made available from time to time; and any fees, costs and/or expenses associated with any of the foregoing.

23.6

Immediate recourse

Each Guarantor waives any right it may have of first requiring any Finance Party (or any trustee or agent on its behalf) to proceed against or enforce any other rights or security or claim payment from any person before claiming from that Guarantor under this Clause 23. This waiver applies irrespective of any law or any provision of a Finance Document to the contrary.

23.7

Appropriations

Until all amounts which may be or become payable by the Obligors under or in connection with the Finance Documents have been irrevocably paid in full (or a Finance Party (or any trustee or

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agent on its behalf) has received a sufficient amount to pay all amounts then due to such Finance Party), each Finance Party (or any trustee or agent on its behalf) may:

(a)

refrain from applying or enforcing any other moneys, security or rights held or received by that Finance Party (or any trustee or agent on its behalf) in respect of those amounts, or apply and enforce the same in such manner and order as it sees fit (whether against those amounts or otherwise) and no Guarantor shall be entitled to the benefit of the same; and

(b)

hold in an interest-bearing suspense account any moneys received from any Guarantor or on account of any Guarantor’s liability under this Clause 23.

23.8

Deferral of Guarantors’ rights

(a)

Until all amounts which may be or become payable by the Obligors under or in connection with the Finance Documents have been irrevocably paid in full and unless the Agent otherwise directs or as permitted by the Intercreditor Agreement, no Guarantor will exercise any rights which it may have by reason of performance by it of its obligations under the Finance Documents or by reason of any amount being payable, or liability arising, under this Clause 23:

(i)

to be indemnified by an Obligor;

(ii)

to claim any contribution from any other guarantor of any Obligor’s obligations under the Finance Documents;

(iii)

to take the benefit (in whole or in part and whether by way of subrogation or otherwise) of any rights of the Finance Parties under the Finance Documents or of any other guarantee or security taken pursuant to, or in connection with, the Finance Documents by any Finance Party;

(iv)

to bring legal or other proceedings for an order requiring any Obligor to make any payment, or perform any obligation, in respect of which any Guarantor has given a guarantee, undertaking or indemnity under Clause 23.1 (Guarantee and indemnity);

(v)

to exercise any right of set-off against any Obligor; and/or

(vi)

to claim or prove as a creditor of any Obligor in competition with any Finance Party.

(b)

If a Guarantor receives any benefit, payment or distribution in relation to such rights, it shall hold that benefit, payment or distribution to the extent necessary to enable all amounts which may be or become payable to the Finance Parties by the Obligors under or in connection with the Finance Documents to be repaid in full on trust (to the extent it is able to do so in accordance with any law applicable to it) for the Finance Parties and shall promptly pay or transfer the same to the Agent or as the Agent may direct for application in accordance with Clause 35 (Payment mechanics).

23.9

Release of Guarantors’ right of contribution

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If any Guarantor (a “Retiring Guarantor”) ceases to be a Guarantor in accordance with the provisions of the Finance Documents for the purpose of any sale or other disposal of that Retiring Guarantor or any Holding Company of it, or as required in order to implement a Permitted Reorganisation or Permitted Transaction then on the date such Retiring Guarantor ceases to be a Guarantor:

(a)

that Retiring Guarantor is released by each other Guarantor from any liability (whether past, present or future and whether actual or contingent) to make a contribution to any other Guarantor arising by reason of the performance by any other Guarantor of its obligations under the Finance Documents; and

(b)

each other Guarantor waives any rights it may have by reason of the performance of its obligations under the Finance Documents to take the benefit (in whole or in part and whether by way of subrogation or otherwise) of any rights of the Finance Parties under any Finance Document or of any other security taken pursuant to, or in connection with, any Finance Document where such rights or security are granted by or in relation to the assets of the Retiring Guarantor.

23.10

Additional security

This guarantee is in addition to and is not in any way prejudiced by any other guarantee or security now or subsequently held by any Finance Party.

23.11

Guarantee limitations - General

This guarantee does not apply to any liability to the extent that would result in this guarantee constituting unlawful financial assistance within the meaning of Section 677 of the Act or any equivalent provision of any applicable law.

23.12

Guarantee limitations – Luxembourg Guarantors

(a)

Notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement or any Finance Documents, the aggregate obligations and liabilities of any Luxembourg Guarantor under this Clause 23, for the obligations of any other Obligor which is not a direct or indirect Subsidiary of such Luxembourg Guarantor, shall be limited at any time to a maximum amount not exceeding the higher of::

(i)

ninety-five per cent. (95%) of the sum of such Luxembourg Guarantor's “capitaux propres” (as referred to in Annex I to the Grand-Ducal Regulation dated 18 December 2015 setting out the form and content of the presentation of the balance sheet and profit and loss account, enforcing the Law of 19 December 2002 on the register of commerce and companies and the accounting and annual accounts of undertakings, as amended) (the “Net Assets”) and its debts towards any other member of the Group which are subordinated in right of payment (whether generally or specifically) to any claim of any Lender under any of the Finance Documents and that have not been financed (directly or indirectly) by a borrowing under this Agreement, (the “Subordinated Debts”), as reflected in the financial information of such Luxembourg Guarantor available to the Agent at the date of this Agreement, including, without limitation, its most recently and duly approved financial statements (comptes annuels) and any (unaudited) interim financial statements; and

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(ii)

ninety-five per cent. (95%) of such Luxembourg Guarantor’s Net Assets and its Subordinated Debts, as reflected in the financial information of such Luxembourg Guarantor available to the Agent at the date the guarantee is called, including, without limitation, its most recently and duly approved financial statements (comptes annuels) and any (unaudited) interim financial statements.

(b)

Should the financial information referred to in sub-paragraphs (a)(i) and (a)(ii) above not be available on the date of this Agreement or on the date the guarantee is called (as the case may be), the relevant Guarantor shall, promptly, establish unaudited interim accounts (as of the date of the end of the then most recent financial quarter) or annual accounts (as applicable) duly established in accordance with applicable accounting rules, pursuant to which the relevant Luxembourg Guarantor’s Net Assets and Subordinated Debt will be determined. If the relevant Luxembourg Guarantor fails to provide such unaudited interim accounts or annual accounts (as applicable) within 30 Business Days as from the request of the Agent, such financial information will be determined by the Agent or any other person designated by the Agent, acting reasonably, in accordance with any other information made available to the Agent, and at the cost of the relevant Luxembourg Guarantor.

(c)

The limitation in paragraph (a) above shall not apply to any amounts borrowed by the Luxembourg Guarantor or by any of its direct or indirect Subsidiaries under this Agreement or any amounts borrowed under this Agreement and on lent to the Luxembourg Guarantor or to any of its direct or indirect Subsidiaries.

23.13

Guarantee limitations - US Guarantors

The obligations of each US Guarantor under this Guarantee shall be limited to the maximum amount as would  not cause (i) the Guarantee by such US Guarantor to constitute a fraudulent conveyance, fraudulent transfer voidable preference, a transaction under value or unlawful financial assistance under the laws applicable to such US Guarantor or its Guarantee (including the applicable Bankruptcy Law and laws relating to corporate benefit, capital preservation, financial assistance, fraudulent conveyances and transfers, voidable preferences or transactions under value), or under similar laws affecting the rights of creditors generally, (ii) such US Guarantor to be insolvent under applicable law (including the applicable Bankruptcy Law and laws relating to fraudulent conveyances and transfers), (iii) the Guarantee by such US Guarantor to be void, unenforceable or ultra vires or (iv) the directors of such US Guarantor to be held in breach of applicable corporate, limited liability company or commercial law applicable to such US Guarantor or its Guarantee limitations.

23.14

Guarantee limitations – Cypriot Guarantors

The obligations of each Guarantor incorporated under the laws of Cyprus under this Guarantee shall not apply to any liability or obligation to the extent that it would result in this Guarantee constituting unlawful financial assistance within the meaning of the Cyprus Companies Law Cap. 113.

23.15

Further guarantee limitations - other jurisdictions

This guarantee and indemnity, with respect to any Additional Guarantor, is subject to any limitations set out in the Accession Deed applicable to such Additional Guarantor.

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Section 8.

Representations, Undertakings and Events of Default

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Representations

(a)

The Parent and (unless otherwise stated) each other Obligor makes the following representations and warranties to the Lenders at the times specified in Clause 24.23 (Times on which representations are made).

(b)

The representations and warranties set out in Clauses 24.1 (Status) to 24.5 (Authorisations) and Clause 24.8 (Insolvency) are made by the Parent also in respect of Topco.

(c)

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement or any other Finance Document, the representations and warranties in Clause 24.16 (Sanctions) and Clause 24.17 (Anti-Corruption Laws) (i) are not being made by or in respect of, and shall not apply to, any person if and to the extent that the making of such representations and warranties by or in respect of such person would constitute or give rise to a violation by such person of (or conflict with and thereby expose such person to any liability under) the Blocking Regulations and (ii) shall only apply for the benefit of any Lender to the extent such representations and warranties would not result in a violation of (or conflict with and thereby expose such Lender to any liability under) the Blocking Regulations.

24.1

Status

(a)

It is duly incorporated, organised or established and validly existing under the law of its jurisdiction of incorporation, organisation or establishment.

(b)

It and each of its Restricted Subsidiaries which is a Material Company has the power to own its assets and carry on its business in all material respects as it is being conducted.

24.2

Binding obligations

Subject to the Legal Reservations and the Perfection Requirements:

(a)

the obligations expressed to be assumed by it in each Finance Document to which it is a party are legal, valid, binding and enforceable obligations; and

(b)

(without limiting the generality of paragraph (a) above), each Transaction Security Document to which it is a party creates the security interests which that Transaction Security Document purports to create.

24.3

Non-conflict with other obligations

The entry into and delivery by it of, and the performance by it of its obligations under, the Finance Documents to which it is a party do not:

(a)

conflict with any law or regulation applicable to it to an extent which has, or would reasonably be expected to have, a Material Adverse Effect;

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(b)

conflict in any material respect with its constitutional documents; or

(c)

breach any agreement or instrument binding upon it or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries which is a Material Company or any of its assets, in each case to an extent which has, or would reasonably be expected to have, a Material Adverse Effect.

24.4

Power and authority

It has the power to enter into, perform and deliver, and has taken all necessary action to authorise its entry into, performance and delivery of, the Finance Documents to which it is a party.

24.5

Authorisations

(a)

Subject to the Legal Reservations and Perfection Requirements, all material Authorisations required to enable it lawfully to enter into and comply with its material obligations under the Finance Documents to which it is a party have been (or will by the required date be) obtained or effected and are (or will by the required date be) in full force and effect.

(b)

Subject to the Legal Reservations and Perfection Requirements, all material Authorisations required to make the Finance Documents to which it is a party admissible in evidence in its Relevant Jurisdictions, have been (or will at the required date be) obtained or effected and are (or will be) in full force and effect.

(c)

All Authorisations necessary for the conduct of the business of the Group in the ordinary course have been obtained or effected and are in full force and effect, in each case to the extent that failure to do so has, or would reasonably be expected to have, a Material Adverse Effect.

24.6

No default

No Event of Default has occurred and is continuing or would reasonably be expected to result from the making of any Loan or the entry into or performance of any Finance Document.

24.7

Governing law and enforcement

(a)

Subject to the Legal Reservations, the choice of governing law of the Finance Documents to which it is a party will be recognised and enforced in its Relevant Jurisdictions.

(b)

Subject to the Legal Reservations, any judgment obtained in relation to a Finance Document to which it is a party in the jurisdiction of the governing law of that Finance Document will be recognised and enforced in its Relevant Jurisdictions and in the jurisdictions of its governing law subject (in each case) to compliance with any applicable procedural requirements.

24.8

Insolvency

None of the circumstances described in paragraph (f) of Schedule 18 (Events of Defaults) has occurred and is continuing in respect of a Material Company.

24.9

No filing or stamp taxes

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Under the laws of its Relevant Jurisdiction (and, in relation to Transaction Security Documents, subject to the Perfection Requirements and save for notarial, registration or court fees charged in connection with the granting of any Transaction Security (if any)) it is not necessary that the Finance Documents be filed, recorded or enrolled with any court or other authority in that jurisdiction or that any stamp, registration, documentary, transfer, notarial or similar Taxes or fees be paid on or in relation to the Finance Documents except:

(a)

any filing, registration, recording or enrolling or any tax or fee payable referred to in any legal opinion delivered to the Agent pursuant to Clause 4.1 (Initial conditions precedent) or delivered in connection with the accession of an Additional Borrower or an Additional Guarantor;

(b)

following the registration of any Finance Documents (and any document in connection therewith) with the Administration de l'enregistrement, des domaines et de la TVA in Luxembourg which will be required where the Finance Documents (and/or any documents in connection therewith) are (i) under de laws of Luxembourg where the Finance Documents are referred to in a notarial deed, deed of a bailiff, any other public deed or used before a Luxembourg court, to the extent that the Finance Documents are subject to mandatory registration within a fixed deadline (délai de rigueur) physically attached (annexé(s)) to a public deed or to any other document subject to mandatory registration (acte obligatoirement enregistrable) within a fixed deadline  or (b) deposited with the official records of a notary (déposé au rang des minutesd’un notaire), in which case either a nominal registration duty or an ad valorem duty (of, for instance, 0.24% (zero point twenty four per cent.) of the amount of the payment obligation mentioned in the document so registered) will be payable depending on the nature of the document to be registered and these registration duties will equally be payable in the case of voluntary registration of the Finance Documents (and/or any documents in connection therewith); or

(c)

in connection with any Transaction Security Documents,

and payment of associated fees, which registrations, filings and fees will be made and paid after the date of the relevant Finance Document within any applicable time period to do so.  For the avoidance of doubt, this Clause 24.9 shall not apply in respect of any stamp duty, registration or similar tax payable in respect of an assignment or transfer by a Lender of any of its rights or obligations under a Finance Document.

24.10

Financial statements

Its most recent financial statements delivered after the Notes Closing Date pursuant to Schedule 17 (Information Undertakings):

(a)

subject to Section 1 of Schedule 17 (Information Undertakings), have been prepared in a manner consistent with the applicable Relevant Accounting Principles; and

(b)

give a true and fair view of (in the case of Annual Financial Statements for any financial year) or fairly present in all material respects (if unaudited) its financial condition and operations as at the date which, and for the period in relation to which, those financial statements were drawn up.

24.11

No breach of laws

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It has not (and none of its Restricted Subsidiaries has) breached any law or regulation which breach has or is reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.

24.12

Taxation

(a)

It is not (and none of its Restricted Subsidiaries are) materially overdue (taking into account any extension or grace period) in the filing of any Tax returns and it is not (and none of its Restricted Subsidiaries are) overdue (taking into account any extension or grace period) in the payment of any material amount in respect of Taxes save, in each case, to an extent which would not have a Material Adverse Effect.

(b)

No material claims are being, or are to the knowledge of the Parent reasonably likely to be, made or conducted against it (or against any of its Restricted Subsidiaries) with respect to Taxes which are reasonably likely to be determined adversely to it (or to such Restricted Subsidiary) and which, if so adversely determined, and after taking into account any indemnity or claim against any third party with respect to such claim, would have a Material Adverse Effect.

24.13

Ranking

Subject to the Legal Reservations and Perfection Requirements, the Transaction Security has or will have the ranking in priority which it is expressed to have in the Transaction Security Documents and it is not subject to any prior ranking or pari passu ranking Security except as set forth in the Transaction Security Documents or otherwise not prohibited by this Agreement.

24.14

Good title to assets

It and each of its Restricted Subsidiaries has a good title to or valid leases or licences of or is otherwise entitled to use all material assets necessary to conduct the business of the Group taken as a whole to the extent that failure to do so has or is reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.

24.15

Shares

(a)

The shares of any member of the Group which are subject to the Transaction Security are fully paid and not subject to any option to purchase or similar rights.

(b)

The constitutional documents of companies whose shares are subject to the Transaction Security do not and could not restrict or inhibit any transfer of those shares on creation or enforcement of the Transaction Security.

(c)

There are no agreements in force or corporate resolutions passed which provide for the issue or allotment of, or grant any person the right (whether conditional or otherwise) to call for the issue or allotment of, any share or loan capital of any member of the Group (including any option or right of pre-emption or conversion).

24.16

Sanctions

None of the Parent or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries:

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(a)

is a person that is, or is owned or controlled by persons that are, the subject of any Sanctions; or

(b)

is located, organised or ordinarily resident in a Sanctioned Country,

in each case in a manner or to an extent that would result in breach of applicable law or regulation.

24.17

Anti-Corruption Laws

(a)

None of the Parent, nor to the best of the Parent's knowledge (after making due and careful enquiry), any director, officer, agent, employee or affiliate acting on behalf of the Parent nor any of its Restricted Subsidiaries has taken any action that would result in a violation by such persons of any applicable anti-bribery law, including but not limited to, the United Kingdom Bribery Act 2010 (the “UK Bribery Act”) and the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act of 1977 (the “FCPA”).

(b)

The Parent and, to the best of the Parent's knowledge (after making due and careful enquiry), its affiliates or any of its Restricted Subsidiaries have conducted their businesses in compliance with the UK Bribery Act, the FCPA and any other equivalent applicable laws, rules or regulations and have instituted and maintain policies and procedures designed to ensure, and which are reasonably expected to continue to ensure, continued compliance therewith.

24.18

PSC Register

No “warning notice” or “restrictions notice” (in each case as defined in paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 1B of the Act) has been issued to it in respect of any shares which are the subject of the Transaction Security.

24.19

No misleading information

Save as disclosed to the Agent prior to the Effective Date, all material factual information (taken as a whole) relating to the Group provided in writing to a Finance Party by or on behalf of the Parent on or before the Effective Date is to the best of the Parent’s knowledge and belief, accurate and not misleading in any material respect.

24.20

Disputes

No litigation, arbitration or other proceedings or investigations of, or before, any court, arbitral body or agency are outstanding, pending or so far as it is aware threatened against any member of the Group which are reasonably likely to be determined adversely to it and which, if so adversely determined, would have or would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

24.21

Group Structure Chart

As at the Effective Date, the Group Structure Chart delivered to the Agent pursuant to Part 1 (Conditions Precedent to initial Utilisation) of Schedule 2 (Conditions Precedent) is true, complete and accurate in all material respects.

24.22

Legal and beneficial ownership

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It is the sole legal and beneficial owner or, in the case of an Obligor incorporated in Luxembourg, the owner, of the respective material assets over which it purports to grant Security.

24.23

Times on which representations are made

(a)

All the representations and warranties in this Clause 24 (other than the representation and warranty in Clause 24.10 (Financial statements)) are made by each Obligor and/or the Parent (as applicable) on the Effective Date and on the Notes Closing Date.

(b)

The representation and warranty in Clause 24.10 (Financial statements) shall only be made on the date of delivery of the relevant financial statements.

(c)

The Repeating Representations are deemed to be made by each Obligor to the Lenders on the date of each Utilisation Request, on each Utilisation Date and on the first day of each Interest Period.

(d)

The representations and warranties in this Clause 24 are deemed to be made by each Additional Obligor to the Lenders on the day on which it becomes an Additional Obligor.

(e)

Each representation or warranty deemed to be made after the Effective Date shall be made by reference to the facts and circumstances existing at the date the representation or warranty is made or is deemed to be made.

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Information Undertakings

The Obligors shall comply with the undertakings in this Clause 25 and the undertakings in Schedule 17 (Information Undertakings) from the date of this Agreement for so long as any amount is outstanding under the Finance Documents or any Commitment is in force.

In this Clause 25:

Annual Financial Statements” means the annual reports delivered in accordance with sub-paragraph 1(a)(i) (Reports) of Schedule 17 (Information Undertakings); and

Quarterly Financial Statements” means the quarterly reports delivered in accordance with sub-paragraph 1(a)(ii) (Reports) of Schedule 17 (Information Undertakings).

25.1

Provision and contents of Compliance Certificate

(a)

The Parent shall deliver to the Agent a Compliance Certificate with each set of Annual Financial Statements and Quarterly Financial Statements.

(b)

Each Compliance Certificate shall be signed by an authorised signatory of the Parent.

(c)

In the case of a Compliance Certificate delivered with the Annual Financial Statements, it shall:

(i)

set out (in reasonable detail and where applicable) computations as to:

(A)

compliance with the financial covenant in Clause 26.2 (Financial condition) to the extent that such financial covenant is required to be satisfied; and

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(B)

the applicable Margin;

(ii)

confirm those members of the Group that are Material Companies based upon the relevant Annual Financial Statements; and

(iii)

confirm that, as at the end of the relevant fiscal year, either:

(A)

the Guarantor Coverage Threshold is satisfied; or

(B)

if the Guarantor Coverage Threshold is not satisfied, when the Guarantor Coverage Threshold will be satisfied.

(d)

In the case of a Compliance Certificate delivered with the Quarterly Financial Statements, it shall set out (in reasonable detail and where applicable) computations as to:

(i)

compliance with the financial covenant in Clause 26.2 (Financial condition) to the extent that such financial covenant is required to be satisfied; and

(ii)

the applicable Margin.

25.2

Notification of default

(a)

Each Obligor shall notify the Agent of any Event of Default (and the steps, if any, being taken, to remedy it) promptly upon becoming aware of its occurrence (unless that obligor is aware that a notification has already been provided by another Obligor).

(b)

If the Agent has reasonable grounds for believing that an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing, it may request, and promptly upon such request by the Agent, the Parent shall supply to the Agent, a certificate signed by two of its directors or senior officers on its behalf certifying, to the best of the knowledge and belief of the directors and/or senior officers, that no Event of Default is continuing (or if an Event of Default is continuing, specifying the Event of Default and the steps, if any, being taken to remedy it).

25.3

Information miscellaneous

The Parent shall supply to the Agent (in sufficient copies for all the Lenders, if the Agent so requests) as soon as reasonably practicable after they are dispatched, copies of all documents and other information required by law to be dispatched by the Parent or any Obligor to its creditors generally (or any class of them).

25.4

“Know your customer” checks

(a)

If:

(i)

the introduction of or any change in (or in the interpretation, administration or application of) any law or regulation made after the date of this Agreement;

(ii)

any change in the status of an Obligor or the composition of the shareholders of an Obligor after the date of this Agreement; or

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(iii)

a proposed assignment or transfer by a Lender of any of its rights and/or obligations under this Agreement to a party that is not a Lender prior to such assignment or transfer,

obliges the Agent or any Lender (or, in the case of sub-paragraph (a)(iii) above, any prospective new Lender) to comply with know your customer or similar identification procedures in circumstances where the necessary information is not already available to it, each Obligor shall promptly upon the request of the Agent or any Lender supply, or procure the supply of, such documentation and other evidence as is reasonably requested by the Agent (for itself or on behalf of any Lender) or any Lender (for itself or, in the case of the event described in sub-paragraph (a)(iii) above, on behalf of any prospective new Lender) in order for the Agent, such Lender or, in the case of the event described in sub-paragraph (a)(iii) above, any prospective new Lender to carry out and be satisfied it has complied with all necessary know your customer or other similar checks under all applicable laws and regulations, including the USA PATRIOT Act, pursuant to the transactions contemplated in the Finance Documents.

(b)

Each Lender shall promptly upon the request of the Agent supply, or procure the supply of, such documentation and other evidence as is reasonably requested by the Agent (for itself) in order for the Agent to carry out and be satisfied it has complied with all necessary know your customer or other similar checks under all applicable laws and regulations pursuant to the transactions contemplated in the Finance Documents.

(c)

The Parent shall, by not less than five (5) Business Days’ prior written notice to the Agent, notify the Agent (which shall promptly notify the Lenders) of its intention to request that one of its Restricted Subsidiaries becomes an Additional Guarantor pursuant to Clause 31 (Changes to the Obligors).

(d)

Following the giving of any notice pursuant to paragraph (c) above, if the accession of such Additional Guarantor obliges the Agent or any Lender to comply with know your customer or similar identification procedures in circumstances where the necessary information is not already available to it, the Parent shall promptly upon the request of the Agent or any Lender supply, or procure the supply of, such documentation and other evidence as is reasonably requested by the Agent (for itself or on behalf of any Lender) or any Lender (for itself or on behalf of any prospective new Lender) in order for the Agent or such Lender or any prospective new Lender to carry out and be satisfied it has complied with all necessary know your customer or other similar checks under all applicable laws and regulations pursuant to the accession of such Restricted Subsidiary to this Agreement as an Additional Guarantor.

25.5

Restrictions on Disclosure

Notwithstanding any other term of the Finance Documents (including this Clause 25), the obligation to deliver financial statements and any requirements as to their content shall be subject to legal and regulatory restrictions on disclosure including stock exchange or listing rules, legal privilege and confidentiality obligations.

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Financial Covenant

26.1

Financial definitions

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Test Period” means each period of twelve months ending on any Quarter Date.

26.2

Financial condition

(a)

Subject to paragraph (b) below, the Parent shall ensure that the Consolidated Leverage Ratio (as shown in the relevant Compliance Certificate) in respect of each Test Period shall not be greater than 7.50:1.

(b)

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Finance Documents, the financial covenant set out in paragraph (a) above shall only be required to be satisfied if at 5 p.m. London time on the last day of a Test Period the aggregate Base Currency Amount of all outstanding RCF Loans is greater than 40 per cent. of the Total RCF Commitments, and for the avoidance of doubt, failure to satisfy the financial covenant set out in paragraph (a) above at a time when the aggregate Base Currency Amount of all outstanding RCF Loans is equal to or less than 40 per cent. of the Total RCF Commitments shall not constitute or be deemed to constitute, or result in, a breach of any representation, warranty, undertaking or other term in the Finance Documents or a Default or Event of Default.

26.3

Equity cure right

(a)

If the requirement of Clause 26.2 (Financial condition) is not met, or would, but for this Clause 26.3, not be met in respect of a Test Period, all or part of the proceeds (the “Cure Amount”) received by the Parent pursuant to a Shareholder Contribution or Subordinated Shareholder Funding prior to the end of the period of twenty (20) Business Days following the date on which the Compliance Certificate in respect of that Test Period is required to be delivered (and ignoring any grace period on such delivery for those purposes) shall, at the option of the Parent, be included in the calculation or, as the case may be, a recalculation of the financial covenant set out in Clause 26.2 (Financial condition), with such financial covenant to be tested or, as applicable, retested giving effect to the following adjustments (without double counting), in each case, at the option of the Parent:

(i)

Consolidated EBITDA for the Test Period shall be increased by an amount equal to the Cure Amount (an “EBITDA Cure”); or

(ii)

Consolidated Leverage will be notionally reduced by an amount equal to the Cure Amount (a “Net Debt Cure”),

and in relation to any EBITDA Cure, any Cure Amount so provided in respect of any Test Period shall be deemed to have been provided immediately prior to the last date of such Test Period and shall be included in all relevant covenant calculations until such date falls outside the Test Period.

(b)

If, after giving effect to the adjustments referred to in paragraph (a) above, the requirement of Clause 26.2 (Financial condition) is met, then (subject to the other provisions of this Clause 26.3) the requirement of Clause 26.2 (Financial condition) shall be deemed to have been satisfied as at the relevant original date of determination.

(c)

The ability of the Parent to prevent or cure breaches of the financial covenant in Clause 26.2 (Financial condition) by making adjustments to Consolidated EBITDA

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and/or Consolidated Leverage pursuant to an EBITDA Cure or Net Debt Cure is subject to the following:

(i)

not more than four different Cure Amounts may be taken into account pursuant to this Clause 26.3 prior to the Maturity Date;

(ii)

different Cure Amounts may not be taken into account for the purpose of this Clause 26.3 in consecutive Quarter Periods;

(iii)

any Cure Amount elected to be applied by the Parent as an EBITDA Cure and/or a Net Debt Cure shall not count towards any other permission or usage under or in respect of the Finance Documents; and

(iv)

to the extent such Cure Amount is provided following the date of delivery of the relevant Compliance Certificate for the Test Period, the Parent shall, promptly following such provision, provide a revised Compliance Certificate to the Agent setting out the revised financial covenant calculations for the Test Period by giving effect to the adjustments in paragraph (a) above.

(d)

In the case of an EBITDA Cure, the amount of any Cure Amount shall not exceed the minimum amount required to prevent or, as the case may be, cure any breach of the financial covenant set out in Clause 26.2 (Financial condition).

(e)

There shall be no requirement to apply any Cure Amount in prepayment of any Facility.

(f)

During the twenty (20) Business Day period during which a Cure Amount may be contributed, no Default shall be deemed to have occurred as a result of the financial covenant set out in Clause 26.2 (Financial condition) not being complied with, provided that the Parent is entitled to procure an EBITDA Cure and/or a Net Debt Cure pursuant to this Clause 26.3 in respect of the Test Period.

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General Undertakings

(a)

The undertakings in this Clause 27 remain in force from the Effective Date for so long as any amount is outstanding under the Finance Documents or any Commitment is in force.

(b)

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement or any other Finance Document, the undertakings and covenants in Clause 27.5 (Sanctions), Clause 27.6 (Anti-Corruption Laws) and Clause 27.7 (Foreign Assets Control Regulations and Anti-Money Laundering) (i) shall not be required to be complied with by or in respect of, and shall not apply to, any person if and to the extent the same would constitute or result in a violation by such person of (or conflict with and thereby expose the relevant person to any liability under) any Blocking Regulations; (ii) shall only apply for the benefit of any Lender to the extent such undertakings and covenants would not result in a violation by such Lender of (or conflict with and thereby expose such Lender to any liability under) any Blocking Regulations; and (iii) are made only for the benefit of a Lender domiciled in Germany (Inländer) within the meaning of Section 2 paragraph 15 of the German Foreign Trade Act (Außenwirtschaftsgesetz) to the extent that this would not result in a violation by such Lender of (or conflict with and thereby expose the relevant Lender to any liability under) the German Foreign Trade Act.

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27.2

Guarantees and Security

(a)

The Parent shall ensure that, subject to paragraph (b) below and the Agreed Security Principles, the Guarantor Coverage Threshold is satisfied when tested by reference to the Annual Financial Statements.

(b)

The Parent shall ensure that, subject to the Agreed Security Principles, if as at the date of delivery of the Annual Financial Statements for a Financial Year, the Guarantor Coverage Threshold is not satisfied, within 60 days of the required date for delivery of those Annual Financial Statements each Material Company that is not already a Guarantor (together with such other members of the Group within a Security Jurisdiction as is necessary) shall accede as Additional Guarantors to ensure that the Guarantor Coverage Threshold is satisfied (calculated as if such Additional Guarantors had been Guarantors on the relevant test date and provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, if the Guarantor Coverage Threshold is satisfied within such time period, no Default or other breach of this Agreement shall arise in respect thereof) and each such acceding Material Company and member of the Group shall grant Security in favour of the Security Agent:

(i)

in the case of a member of the Group incorporated or established in the UK, over its material assets in substantially the same form as that granted by the Obligors in connection with the Existing Debt or this Agreement;

(ii)

in the case of a member of the Group incorporated or established in the US, customary New York law security agreement but, for the avoidance of doubt, excluding real estate and there will be no requirement to enter into “control” arrangements with third parties; and

(iii)

in the case of a member of the Group incorporated in any other Security Jurisdiction, over its material bank accounts, intra-Group receivables and shares owned by it in other Obligors,

in each case subject to and on terms consistent with the Agreed Security Principles.

27.3

Further assurance

(a)

Subject to the Agreed Security Principles and the terms of the Transaction Security Documents, each Obligor shall (and the Parent shall procure that each other member of the Group and Topco shall) promptly do all such acts or execute all such documents (including assignments, transfers, mortgages, charges, notices, registrations and instructions) as the Security Agent may reasonably specify (and in such form as the Security Agent may reasonably require in favour of the Security Agent or its nominee(s)):

(i)

to perfect the Security created or intended to be created under or evidenced by the Transaction Security Documents (which may include the execution of a mortgage, charge, assignment or other Security over all or any of the assets which are, or are intended to be, the subject of the Transaction Security) or for the exercise of any rights, powers and remedies of the Agent provided by or pursuant to the Finance Documents or by law; and/or

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(ii)

to facilitate the realisation of the assets which are, or are intended to be, the subject of the Transaction Security.

(b)

Subject to the Agreed Security Principles and the terms of the relevant Transaction Security Documents, each Obligor shall, and the Parent shall procure that each member of the Group and Topco will, take all such action as is reasonably requested of it by the Security Agent (including making all filings and registrations) as may be necessary for the purpose of the creation, perfection, protection or maintenance of any Transaction Security conferred or intended to be conferred by or pursuant to the Finance Documents.

(c)

In relation to any provision of this Agreement which requires the Obligors or any member of the Group to deliver any document for the purposes of granting any guarantee or Security for the benefit of the Lenders, the Lenders agree to execute as soon as reasonably practicable any such document which is presented to it for execution.

27.4

Additional Undertakings

The Parent and each Obligor shall comply with the covenants set out in Schedule 16 (Covenants and Certain Definitions).

27.5

Sanctions

A Borrower will not use the proceeds of the Loans, or lend, contribute or otherwise make available such proceeds to any person:

(a)

to fund, in violation of Sanctions by that Borrower or that person, any activities or business of or with any person, or in any country or territory, that, at the time of such funding, is, or whose government is, the subject of Sanctions; or

(b)

in any other manner that would result in a violation of Sanctions by any person participating in the Loans, whether as underwriter, advisor, investor or otherwise), in each case to the best of its knowledge (having made due and careful enquiry) at the time of funding.

27.6

Anti-Corruption Laws

(a)

No part of the proceeds of any Loan will be used by any Borrower, to the best of its knowledge (having made due and careful enquiry), for any payments that would constitute a violation of any applicable anti-corruption laws.

(b)

Each Obligor shall (and the Parent shall ensure that each other member of the Group and Topco will) conduct its businesses in compliance with the UK Bribery Act and applicable anti-corruption laws.

27.7

Foreign Assets Control Regulation and Anti-Money Laundering

No Obligor shall (and the Parent shall ensure that no other member of the Group and Topco will) become a Sanctioned Person or become owned or controlled (directly or indirectly) by a Sanctioned Person.

27.8

PSC Register

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(a)

Each Obligor shall (and the Parent shall ensure that each other member of the Group and Topco will):

(i)

within the relevant timeframe, comply with any notice it receives pursuant to Part 21A of the Act from any member of the Group incorporated in the United Kingdom whose shares are the subject of the Transaction Security and which is required to comply with Part 21A of the Act (a “PSC Company”); and

(ii)

promptly provide the Security Agent with a copy of that notice.

(b)

No PSC Company shall (and the Parent shall procure that no PSC Company will) issue a “warning notice” or “restrictions notice” (in each case as defined in paragraph 1(2) of Schedule 1B of Part 21A of the Act) in respect of its shares unless it is required by law to do so.

27.9

Compliance with laws

Each Obligor shall (and the Parent shall ensure that each member of the Group and Topco will) comply with all laws to which it may be subject where failure to do so has or is reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.

27.10

Release condition

(a)

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement or any other Finance Document, during the period (if any) that a Release Condition is satisfied:

(i)

the obligations and the restrictions set out in Section 1 (Limitation on Indebtedness), Section 2 (Limitation on Restricted Payments), Section 4 (Limitation on Restrictions on Distributions from Restricted Subsidiaries), Section 5 (Limitation on Sales of Assets and Subsidiary Stock), Section 6 (Limitation on Affiliate Transactions) and Section 7 (Merger and Consolidation) of Schedule 16 (Covenants and Certain Definitions) and any related default provision shall be suspended and not apply provided that no Transaction Security already granted will be required to be released;

(ii)

the definition of “Test Period” for the purposes of testing the financial covenant contained in paragraph (a) of Clause 26.2 (Financial condition) shall be construed to mean each period of twelve months ending on each half-yearly accounting period during a Financial Year;

(iii)

the amount of each basket set out in Clause 1.1 (Definitions), Schedule 16 (Covenants and Certain Definitions) (other than any basket in relation to the covenants referred to in sub-paragraph (i) above, which shall be suspended and shall not apply) and in any other provision of this Agreement (including all “annual”, “life of Facilities” and “at any time” baskets) shall be increased by 25 per cent; and

(iv)

during the period (if any) that the Investment Grade Condition is satisfied, the undertakings in Clause 27.2 (Guarantees and Security),  27.3 (Further assurance) and any obligation to grant any Transaction Security and any obligation of any member of the Group under any Transaction Security

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Document shall be suspended and, at the request and cost of  the Obligors’ Agent any Transaction Security shall be released provided that, subject to the Agreed Security Principles, any Transaction Security which is released pursuant to this paragraph (iv) shall be re-granted in substantially the same form within 60 days of the Parent becoming aware that the Investment Grade Condition is no longer satisfied.

(b)

A certificate from the Obligors’ Agent confirming that a Release Condition is satisfied shall be prima facie evidence thereof.  If at any time after a Release Condition has been satisfied a Release Condition subsequently ceases to be satisfied, any breach of this Agreement or of any other Finance Documents that arises as a result of the obligations or restrictions referred to in paragraph (a) above ceasing to be suspended or amended shall not (provided that it did not constitute an Event of Default at the time the relevant event or occurrence took place) constitute, or be deemed to constitute, or result in, a breach of any provision of this Agreement or of any other Finance Documents, a Default or an Event of Default.

(c)

For the purposes of this Agreement, “Release Condition” means, on or after the occurrence of an Initial Public Offering, satisfaction of the following conditions:

(i)

the Consolidated Senior Secured Leverage Ratio (for the Test Period ending on the most recent Quarter Date for which a Compliance Certificate has been delivered to the Agent) is equal to or less than 3.50:1; or

(ii)

the long-term corporate credit rating of the Parent (or, as the case may be, any Holding Company of the Parent) is equal to or better than BBB- or Baa3 (as applicable) according to at least two of Moody’s, S&P and Fitch (the “Investment Grade Condition”).

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Events of Default

Each of the events or circumstances set out in this Clause 28 is an Event of Default (save for Clause 28.4 (Acceleration) and Clause 28.6 (Clean-up period)).

28.1

Misrepresentation

Any representation or statement made or deemed to be made by an Obligor or Topco in the Finance Documents or in any other document delivered by or on behalf of any Obligor or Topco under or in connection with any Finance Document is or proves to have been incorrect or misleading in any material respect when made or deemed to be made, in each case:

(a)

to an extent which is materially prejudicial to the interests of the Lenders taken as a whole under the Finance Documents; and

(b)

if the circumstances giving rise to that misrepresentation are capable of remedy, to the extent that they are not remedied within thirty (30) Business Days of the Parent receiving written notice from the Agent of the failure to comply and that it constitutes a default.

28.2

Unlawfulness, invalidity, rescission and repudiation

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(a)

Subject to paragraph (c) below and in each case save where the relevant circumstances are caused by a Finance Party becoming a Sanctioned Finance Party, following the date of execution of the relevant Finance Document:

(i)

subject to the Legal Reservations, it is or becomes unlawful for a Material Company or Topco to perform any of its obligations under the Finance Documents;

(ii)

any Transaction Security created or expressed to be created or evidenced by the Transaction Security Documents ceases to be effective or any subordination created under the Intercreditor Agreement is or becomes unlawful; or

(iii)

subject to the Legal Reservations and Perfection Requirements, any obligation or obligations of any Material Company or Topco under any Finance Documents are not or cease to be legal, valid, binding or enforceable,

in each case:

(A)

as a result of an event occurring after the date of execution of the relevant Finance Document (excluding any action, step or matter taken, procured or approved in writing by the Agent); and

(B)

to an extent which is materially prejudicial to the interests of the Lenders taken as a whole under the Finance Documents.

(b)

Subject to paragraph (c) below, a Material Company or Topco rescinds or purports to rescind or repudiates or purports to repudiate a Finance Document or any of the Transaction Security or evidences in writing an intention to rescind or repudiate a Finance Document.

(c)

No Event of Default will occur under this Clause 28.2 if the relevant event or circumstance is capable of remedy and is remedied within thirty (30) Business Days of the Parent receiving written notice from the Agent of the failure to comply and that it constitutes a default.

28.3

Financial covenant

The Parent fails to comply with its obligations under paragraph (a) of Clause 26.2 (Financial condition) and such non-compliance is not remedied pursuant to Clause 26.3 (Equity cure right).

28.4

Acceleration

(a)

Subject to Clause 4.5 (Utilisations of Revolving Facility/Incremental Facility during the Agreed Certain Funds Period) and Clause 28.6 (Clean-up period), on and at any time after the occurrence of an Event of Default which is continuing, the Agent shall if so directed by the Majority Lenders, by notice to the Parent:

(i)

cancel the Commitments and/or the Ancillary Commitments whereupon they shall immediately be cancelled and any fees payable under the Finance Documents in connection with those Commitments or Ancillary Commitments, (as the case may be) shall be immediately due and payable;

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(ii)

declare that all or part of the Loans, together with accrued interest, and all other amounts accrued or outstanding under the Finance Documents be immediately due and payable, whereupon they shall become immediately due and payable;

(iii)

declare that all or part of the Loans and any other amounts accrued under the Finance Documents be payable on demand, whereupon they shall immediately become payable on demand by the Agent acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders;

(iv)

declare all or any part of the Ancillary Outstandings (or cash cover in relation thereto) to be immediately due and payable whereupon they shall become immediately due and payable;

(v)

declare that all or any part of the amounts outstanding under the Ancillary Facilities (or cash cover in relation thereto) be payable on demand, whereupon they shall immediately become payable on demand by the Agent acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders; and/or

(vi)

exercise or direct the Security Agent to exercise any or all of its rights, remedies, powers or discretions under the Finance Documents.

(b)

No Ancillary Lender may cancel the whole or any part of its Ancillary Commitment, declare that all or part of the utilisations under an Ancillary Facility provided by a Lender be immediately due and payable or require the payment of cash cover in respect of all or any part of any contingent liabilities of the Lender under an Ancillary Facility (other than to the extent permitted by Clause 11.1 (Illegality)) unless the Agent has delivered a notice to the Parent pursuant to paragraph (a) of this Clause 28.4.

(c)

Subject to Clause 4.5 (Utilisations of Revolving Facility/Incremental Facility during the Agreed Certain Funds Period) and Clause 28.6 (Clean-up period) and unless otherwise agreed by the Majority Lenders, if an Event of Default occurs and is continuing under paragraph (f) of Schedule 18 (Events of Default) in relation to a US Obligor in a court of competent jurisdiction in the United States (including, for the avoidance of doubt, upon the occurrence of an actual or deemed entry of an order for relief under the United States Bankruptcy Code of 1978, as amended), all of the Revolving Loans made to that US Obligor, together with accrued interest, cash cover in respect of each Letter of Credit issued for the account of such US Obligor and all other amounts accrued and then payable by that US Obligor under the Finance Documents, shall be immediately due and payable automatically and without any direction, notice, declaration or other act.

28.5

Excluded matters

Notwithstanding any other term of the Finance Documents:

(a)

no breach of any representation, warranty, undertaking or other term of (or default or event of default under) any document relating to the Existing Debt or any other existing financing arrangements of any member of the Group arising as a direct or indirect result of any person entering into and/or performing its obligations under any Finance Document (or carrying out the transactions contemplated by the Finance Documents); and

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(b)

other than in the case of any payment default under an Ancillary Document constituting an Event of Default under paragraphs (a) and/or (b) of Schedule 18 (Events of Default), no breach of any representation, warranty, undertaking or other term of (or default or event of default under) a Hedging Agreement or an Ancillary Document,

shall be deemed to constitute, or result in, a breach of any representation, warranty, undertaking or other term in the Finance Documents or a Default or an Event of Default.

28.6

Clean-up period

(a)

Notwithstanding any other provision of any Finance Document, for the period from (and including) the date of completion of any Permitted Acquisition to (and including) the date falling 120 days after the date of completion of such Permitted Acquisition (the “Clean-Up Period”), any matter or circumstance that exists in respect of the entity or business or undertaking which is the direct or indirect subject of the relevant Permitted Acquisition which would constitute a breach of a representation, undertaking or any other term or condition of a Finance Document or a Default or an Event of Default, will be deemed not to be a breach of representation or warranty, a breach of covenant or undertaking, a Default or an Event of Default (as the case may be); provided that such breach of representation or warranty, a breach of covenant or undertaking, a Default or an Event of Default (as the case may be):

(i)

could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;

(ii)

was not procured or approved by the Parent; and

(iii)

is capable of remedy and is remedied during the Clean-Up Period.

(b)

If the relevant circumstances are continuing after the expiry of the Clean-Up Period, there shall be a breach of representation or warranty, breach of covenant or undertaking, a Default or Event of Default, as the case may be, notwithstanding the above (and without prejudice to the rights and remedies of the Finance Parties).

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Section 9.

Changes to Parties

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Changes to the Lenders

29.1

Assignments and transfers by the Lenders

Subject to this Clause 29, a Lender (the “Existing Lender”) may:

(a)

assign any of its rights;

(b)

transfer by novation any of its rights and obligations; or

(c)

sub-participate any of its Commitments and participations in Utilisations,

under any Finance Document to another bank or financial institution or to a trust, fund or other entity which is regularly engaged in or established for the purpose of making, purchasing or investing in loans, securities or other financial assets (or any other type of person approved by the Obligors’ Agent) (the “New Lender”).

29.2

Conditions of assignment or transfer

(a)

Subject to paragraph (b) below, an assignment or transfer in respect of a Revolving Facility may only be made by any Existing Lender with the prior written consent of the Obligors’ Agent (in its sole and absolute discretion) provided that no consent shall be required if the  assignment or transfer is:

(i)

to another Original Lender, an Affiliate of an Original Lender or a Related Fund of an Original Lender; or

(ii)

made at a time when an Event of Default under any of paragraphs (a), (b) or (f) of Schedule 18 (Events of Default) (a “Material Event of Default”) is continuing,

provided that, in all cases, (A) the Existing Lender informs the Obligors’ Agent in writing at least ten (10) Business Days prior to the date of the relevant assignment or transfer and (B) the New Lender is a deposit-taking financial institution authorised by a financial services regulator and (other than at a time when a Material Event of Default is continuing) holds a minimum credit rating equal to BBB- or Baa3 according to at least two of S&P, Moody’s and Fitch.

(b)

No assignment, transfer or sub-participation may be made at any time to or with a Disqualified Lender or private equity sponsor (but excluding any Independent Debt Fund), in each case without the prior consent of the Obligors’ Agent (in its sole and absolute discretion) (and any statement by any New Lender or Existing Lender that is the assignee or transferee in any Transfer Certificate or Assignment Agreement that it is not a Disqualified Lender shall be prima facie evidence of this fact for the purposes of this

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paragraph (b)) but without prejudice to the other provisions of this Agreement relating to Disqualified Lenders).

(c)

If the consent of the Obligors’ Agent is required for any assignment or transfer, for all purposes under this Agreement and the other Finance Documents that assignment  or transfer shall only become effective if the prior written consent of the Obligors’ Agent has been granted or (if applicable) such consent is deemed to be given in accordance with the provisions of this Clause 29.

(d)

If any assignment or transfer is carried out in breach of this Clause 29, such assignment or transfer shall be void and deemed to have not occurred. Any Lender purporting to assign or transfer in breach of this Clause 29 shall be automatically excluded from participating in any vote and such Lender's participation, Commitments and vote (as the case may be) shall not be included (or as applicable, required) in calculations of the Total Commitments or otherwise when ascertaining whether the approval of the Majority Lenders, Super Majority Lenders, all Lenders or any other class of Lenders (as applicable) has been obtained with respect to a request for a consent or agreement.

(e)

An assignment or transfer of part of a Lender’s participation in a Revolving Facility must be in a minimum amount of $2,000,000 (when aggregated with its Affiliates’ and Related Funds’ participation that are also being assigned or transferred at that time) or, if less, the whole of its participation and in an amount such that the amount of that Lender’s remaining participation (when aggregated with its Affiliates’ and Related Funds’ participation) in respect of Commitments or Utilisations made under that Revolving Facility is in a minimum amount of $2,000,000 or zero.

(f)

Subject to satisfaction of the conditions set out in this Clause 29, an assignment will only be effective on:

(i)

receipt by the Agent (whether in the Assignment Agreement or otherwise) of written confirmation from the New Lender (in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent) that the New Lender will assume the same obligations to the other Finance Parties and the other Secured Parties as it would have been under if it was an Original Lender;

(ii)

the New Lender entering into the documentation required for it to accede as a party to the Intercreditor Agreement; and

(iii)

the performance by the Agent and the Security Agent of all necessary “know your customer” or other similar checks under all applicable laws and regulations in relation to such assignment to a New Lender, the completion of which the Agent and the Security Agent (as applicable) shall promptly notify to the Existing Lender and the New Lender.

(g)

Subject to satisfaction of the conditions set out in this Clause 29, a transfer will only be effective if the New Lender enters into the documentation required for it to accede as a party to the Intercreditor Agreement and if the procedure set out in Clause 29.5 (Procedure for transfer) is complied with.

(h)

If:

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(i)

a Lender assigns, transfers or sub-participates any of its rights or obligations under the Finance Documents or changes its Facility Office; and

(ii)

as a result of circumstances existing at the date the assignment, transfer, sub-participation, designation or change occurs an Obligor would be obliged to make a payment to the New Lender or Lender acting through its new Facility Office under Clause 18 (Tax Gross-up and Indemnities) or Clause 19 (Increased Costs),

then the New Lender or Lender acting through its new Facility Office is only entitled to receive payment under those Clauses to the same extent as the Existing Lender or Lender acting through its previous Facility Office would have been if the assignment, transfer, sub-participation, designation or change had not occurred.

(i)

Each New Lender, by executing the relevant Transfer Certificate or Assignment Agreement, confirms, for the avoidance of doubt, that the Agent has authority to execute on its behalf any amendment or waiver that has been approved by or on behalf of the requisite Lender or Lenders in accordance with this Agreement on or prior to the date on which the transfer or assignment becomes effective in accordance with this Agreement and that it is bound by that decision to the same extent as the Existing Lender would have been had it remained a Lender.

(j)

Any assignment or transfer by an Existing Lender to a New Lender shall only be effective if it transfers or assigns the Existing Lender’s share of the relevant Facility pro rata against the Existing Lender’s Available Commitment and its participation in Utilisations under that Facility.

(k)

No Obligor will be liable to pay any fees, costs or expenses in connection with any assignment or transfer by any Lender, including, without limitation, any filing, notary or registration cost necessary to perfect, protect or preserve any Security arising under any Finance Document.

(l)

In the event a replacement of an Existing Lender occurs or is deemed to occur by way of novation, the Obligors explicitly agree that all securities and guarantees created under any Finance Documents shall be preserved for the benefit of the New Lender and the other Finance Parties in accordance with the provisions of article 1278 of the Luxembourg Civil Code.

29.3

Assignment or transfer fee

Unless the Agent otherwise agrees and excluding (i) an assignment or transfer to an Affiliate of a Lender or a Related Fund of a Lender, (ii) any assignment or transfer made in connection with primary syndication of a Facility, the New Lender shall, on the date upon which an assignment or transfer takes effect, pay to the Agent (for its own account) a fee of $3,500 (provided that where more than one assignment or transfer is effected by the same Lender or to the same New Lender on the same day, such fee shall only be paid in respect of one such assignment and/or transfer).

29.4

Limitation of responsibility of Existing Lenders

(a)

Unless expressly agreed to the contrary, an Existing Lender makes no representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility to a New Lender for:

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(i)

the legality, validity, effectiveness, adequacy or enforceability of the Finance Documents, the Transaction Security or any other documents;

(ii)

the financial condition of any Obligor;

(iii)

the performance and observance by any Obligor or any other member of the Group of its obligations under the Finance Documents or any other documents; or

(iv)

the accuracy of any statements (whether written or oral) made in or in connection with any Finance Document or any other document,

and any representations or warranties implied by law are excluded.

(b)

Each New Lender confirms to the Existing Lender, the other Finance Parties and the Secured Parties that it:

(i)

has made (and shall continue to make) its own independent investigation and assessment of the financial condition and affairs of each Obligor and its related entities in connection with its participation in this Agreement and has not relied exclusively on any information provided to it by the Existing Lender or any other Finance Party in connection with any Finance Document; and

(ii)

will continue to make its own independent appraisal of the creditworthiness of each Obligor and its related entities whilst any amount is or may be outstanding under the Finance Documents or any Commitment is in force.

(c)

Nothing in any Finance Document obliges an Existing Lender to:

(i)

accept a re-transfer or re-assignment from a New Lender of any of the rights and obligations assigned or transferred under this Clause 29; or

(ii)

support any losses directly or indirectly incurred by the New Lender by reason of the non-performance by any Obligor of its obligations under the Finance Documents or otherwise.

29.5

Procedure for transfer

(a)

Subject to the conditions set out in Clause 29.2 (Conditions of assignment or transfer), a transfer is effected in accordance with paragraph (c) below when the Agent executes an otherwise duly completed Transfer Certificate delivered to it by the Existing Lender and the New Lender. The Agent shall, subject to paragraph (b) below, as soon as reasonably practicable after receipt by it of a duly completed Transfer Certificate appearing on its face to comply with this Agreement and delivered in accordance with this Agreement, execute that Transfer Certificate.

(b)

The Agent shall only be obliged to execute a Transfer Certificate delivered to it by the Existing Lender and the New Lender once it is satisfied it has complied with all necessary “know your customer” or similar checks under all applicable laws and regulations in relation to the transfer to such New Lender.

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(c)

Subject to Clause 29.11 (Pro rata interest settlement), on the Transfer Date:

(i)

to the extent that, in the Transfer Certificate, the Existing Lender seeks to transfer by novation its rights and obligations under the Finance Documents and in respect of the Transaction Security each of the Obligors and the Existing Lender shall be released from further obligations towards one another under the Finance Documents and in respect of the Transaction Security and their respective rights against one another under the Finance Documents and in respect of the Transaction Security shall be cancelled (being the “Discharged Rights and Obligations”);

(ii)

each of the Obligors and the New Lender shall assume obligations towards one another and/or acquire rights against one another which differ from the Discharged Rights and Obligations only insofar as that Obligor or other member of the Group and the New Lender have assumed and/or acquired the same in place of that Obligor and the Existing Lender;

(iii)

the Agent, the Arrangers, the Bookrunners, the Security Agent, the New Lender, the other Lenders, each Issuing Bank and any relevant Ancillary Lender shall acquire the same rights and assume the same obligations between themselves and in respect of the Transaction Security as they would have acquired and assumed had the New Lender been an Original Lender with the rights, and/or obligations acquired or assumed by it as a result of the transfer and to that extent the Agent, the Arrangers, the Bookrunners, the Security Agent, each Issuing Bank and any relevant Ancillary Lender and the Existing Lender shall each be released from further obligations to each other under the Finance Documents;

(iv)

the benefit of each Transaction Security Document shall be maintained in favour of the New Lender; and

(v)

the New Lender shall become a Party as a “Lender”.

29.6

Procedure for assignment

(a)

Subject to the conditions set out in Clause 29.2 (Conditions of assignment or transfer), an assignment may be effected in accordance with paragraph (c) below when the Agent executes an otherwise duly completed Assignment Agreement delivered to it by the Existing Lender and the New Lender. The Agent shall, subject to paragraph (b) below, as soon as reasonably practicable after receipt by it of a duly completed Assignment Agreement appearing on its face to comply with this Agreement and delivered in accordance with this Agreement, execute that Assignment Agreement.

(b)

The Agent shall only be obliged to execute an Assignment Agreement delivered to it by the Existing Lender and the New Lender once it is satisfied it has complied with all necessary “know your customer” or similar checks under all applicable laws and regulations in relation to the assignment to such New Lender.

(c)

On the Transfer Date:

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(i)

the Existing Lender will assign absolutely to the New Lender its rights under the Finance Documents and in respect of the Transaction Security expressed to be the subject of the assignment in the Assignment Agreement;

(ii)

the Existing Lender will be released from the obligations (the “Relevant Obligations”) expressed to be the subject of the release in the Assignment Agreement (and any corresponding obligations by which it is bound in respect of the Transaction Security); and

(iii)

the New Lender shall become a Party as a “Lender” and will be bound by obligations equivalent to the Relevant Obligations.

(d)

Lenders may utilise procedures other than those set out in this Clause 29.6 to assign their rights under the Finance Documents (but not, without the consent of the relevant Obligor or unless in accordance with Clause 29.5 (Procedure for transfer), to obtain a release by that Obligor from the obligations owed to that Obligor by the Lenders nor the assumption of equivalent obligations by a New Lender), provided that they comply with the conditions set out in Clause 29.2 (Conditions of assignment or transfer).

29.7

Sub-participations

(a)

The prior written consent of the Obligors’ Agent (not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) is required for any Lender to enter into any:

(i)

credit default or total return swap or derivative (whether disclosed, undisclosed, risk or funded) or financial guarantee transaction, credit-linked note referencing a hypothetical financial guarantee or any other form of credit hedge transaction (each a “Specified Derivative Transaction”); or

(ii)

sub-participation,

in relation to its rights or obligations under the Finance Documents, unless:

(A)

written notice is given to the Obligors’ Agent by the applicable Lender at least ten (10) Business Days prior to entering into any such transaction, including the identity of the proposed person(s) with whom it is contracting and nature of the transaction;

(B)

such Lender remains the Lender of record under this Agreement with all such rights and obligations pertaining thereto and remains liable under the Finance Documents for any such obligation;

(C)

the Group will not bear any increased cost or tax gross-up for withholding or deduction liability arising because of, and no Obligor shall be obliged to make any payment under Clause 18 (Tax gross-up and indemnities) or Clause 19 (Increased Costs) in relation to or as a result of, such transaction;

(D)

such Lender retains exclusive and unrestricted right to exercise all voting, consent and similar rights in respect of its Commitments and participations (the “Voting Rights”) and unfettered control over its

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discretions exercisable by it under this Agreement, free of any obligation to act on the instructions of or consult with any other person; and

(E)

no such transaction shall be entered into with a Disqualified Lender or a private equity sponsor (but excluding any Independent Debt Fund) without the prior consent of the Obligors’ Agent (in its sole and absolute discretion).

(b)

Each Lender shall, if requested by the Obligors’ Agent, provide to the Obligors’ Agent information in reasonable detail concerning the identity and participation of any person with whom it has entered into any sub-participation or Specified Derivative Transaction in relation to any of the Facilities.

(c)

If any sub-participation or Specified Derivative Transaction is carried out in breach of this Clause 29.7, such sub-participation or Specified Derivative Transaction shall be void and deemed to have not occurred. Any Lender purporting to enter into a sub-participation or Specified Derivative Transaction in breach of this Clause 29.7 shall be automatically excluded from participating in any vote and such Lender's participation, Commitments and vote (as the case may be) shall not be included (or as applicable, required) in calculations of the Total Commitments or otherwise when ascertaining whether the approval of the Majority Lenders, Super Majority Lenders, all Lenders or any other class of Lenders (as applicable) has been obtained with respect to a request for a consent or agreement.

(d)

An Existing Lender may not enter into any sub-participation or Specified Derivative Transaction if as a result of such sub-participation or Specified Derivative Transaction, an Obligor would be obliged to repay all or part of the Existing Lender’s participation in any Facility in accordance with Clause 11.1 (Illegality).

(e)

Except where the Obligors’ Agent (in its sole and absolute discretion) has provided its express prior written consent, no sub-participation or Specified Derivative Transaction made pursuant to this Clause 29.7 shall confer Voting Rights on any sub-participant or counterparty to such sub-participation or Specified Derivative Transaction and any term purporting to grant such rights shall be void and unenforceable.

29.8

Copy of Transfer Certificate, Assignment Agreement or Increase Confirmation to Obligors’ Agent

The Agent shall, as soon as reasonably practicable after it has executed a Transfer Certificate, an Assignment Agreement or an Increase Confirmation, send to the Obligors’ Agent a copy of that Transfer Certificate, Assignment Agreement or Increase Confirmation.

29.9

Maintenance of Register

(a)

The Obligors’ Agent designates the Agent to act as the Obligors’ Agent’s agent to maintain (solely for the purposes of this Clause 29.9) a register (the “Register”) on which it will record the Commitments of and the outstanding amount of the Utilisations owing to each Lender. The Register is intended to be construed so that the Commitments or other obligations hereunder are at all times maintained in “registered form” within the meaning of U.S. Treasury Regulations Section 5f.103-1(c) (or any other successor

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provision of such regulations) and this Clause 29.9 shall be controlling and construed in accordance with that intent.

(b)

Any failure to make or update the Register, or any error in the Register, will not affect any Obligor’s obligations in respect of the Utilisations.

(c)

The Agent will promptly update the Register on the relevant Transfer Date.

(d)

The Agent will provide a copy of the Register (including each Lender’s contact details (as known to the Agent)) to the Obligors’ Agent on request provided that no more than one request may be made in any calendar Month.

29.10

Security over Lenders’ rights

In addition to the other rights provided to Lenders under this Clause 29, each Lender may without consulting with or obtaining consent from any Obligor, at any time charge, assign or otherwise create Security in or over (whether by way of collateral or otherwise) all or any of its rights under any Finance Document to secure obligations of that Lender, including, without limitation:

(a)

any charge, assignment or other Security to secure obligations to a federal reserve or central bank; and

(b)

in the case of any Lender which is a fund, any charge, assignment or other Security granted to any holders (or trustee or representatives of holders) of obligations owed, or securities issued, by that Lender as security for those obligations or securities,

except that no such charge, assignment or Security shall:

(i)

release a Lender from any of its obligations under the Finance Documents or substitute the beneficiary of the relevant charge, assignment or other Security for that Lender as a party to any of the Finance Documents; or

(ii)

require any payments to be made by an Obligor or grant to any person any more extensive rights other than those required to be made or granted to the relevant Lender under the Finance Documents.

29.11

Pro rata interest settlement

(a)

If the Agent has notified the Lenders that it is able to distribute interest payments on a “pro rata basis” to Existing Lenders and New Lenders then (in respect of any transfer pursuant to Clause 29.5 (Procedure for transfer) or any assignment pursuant to Clause 29.6 (Procedure for assignment) the Transfer Date of which, in each case, is after the date of such notification and is not on the last day of an Interest Period):

(i)

any interest or fees in respect of the relevant participation which are expressed to accrue by reference to the lapse of time shall continue to accrue in favour of the Existing Lender up to but excluding the Transfer Date (“Accrued Amounts”) and shall become due and payable to the Existing Lender (without further interest accruing on them) on the last day of the current Interest Period (or, if the Interest Period is longer than six months, on the next of the dates which falls at six Monthly intervals after the first day of that Interest Period); and

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(ii)

the rights assigned or transferred by the Existing Lender will not include the right to the Accrued Amounts so that, for the avoidance of doubt:

(A)

when the Accrued Amounts become payable, those Accrued Amounts will be payable for the account of the Existing Lender; and

(B)

the amount payable to the New Lender on that date will be the amount which would, but for the application of this Clause 29.11, have been payable to it on that date, but after deduction of the Accrued Amounts.

(b)

In this Clause 29.11, references to “Interest Period” shall be construed to include a reference to any other period for accrual of fees.

29.12

Sanctioned Finance Party notification

(a)

Each Finance Party shall notify the Agent and the Obligors’ Agent promptly upon becoming aware that it is a Sanctioned Finance Party.

(b)

Each Finance Party that has become or been a Sanctioned Finance Party shall notify the Agent and the Obligors’ Agent promptly upon becoming aware that it is no longer a Sanctioned Finance Party.

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Debt Purchase Transactions

30.1

Permitted Debt Purchase Transactions

(a)

The Parent shall not, and shall procure that no member of the Group will (i) enter into any Debt Purchase Transaction or (ii) beneficially own all or any part of the share capital of a company that is a Lender or a party to a Debt Purchase Transaction of the type referred to in paragraphs (b) or (c) of the definition of “Debt Purchase Transaction”, other than, in any such case, in accordance with the other provisions of this Clause 30.

(b)

A member of the Group may purchase, pursuant to Clause 29 (Changes to the Lenders), a participation in any Revolving Loan and any related Commitment where:

(i)

such purchase is made for a consideration of less than par;

(ii)

such purchase is made using one of the processes set out at paragraphs (c) and (d) below;

(iii)

the consideration for such purchase is funded from a Shareholder Contribution but not the proceeds of any Revolving Loan; and

(iv)

no Default is continuing or would occur as a result of such purchase.

(c)

A Debt Purchase Transaction referred to in paragraph (b) above may be entered into pursuant to a solicitation process (a “Solicitation Process”) which is carried out as follows:

(i)

Prior to 12.00 pm on a given Business Day (the “Solicitation Day”) the Parent or a financial institution or entity acting on its behalf (the “Purchase Agent”) will approach at the same time each Lender which participates in the relevant

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Revolving Facility to enable them to offer to sell to the relevant Borrower(s) an amount of their participation in that Revolving Facility. Any Lender wishing to make such an offer shall, by 11.00 am on the second Business Day following such Solicitation Day, communicate to the Purchase Agent details of the amount of its participation it is offering to sell and the price at which it is offering to sell such participation. Any such offer shall be irrevocable until 5.00 pm on the fifth Business Day following such Solicitation Day and shall be capable of acceptance by the Parent on behalf of the relevant Borrower(s) on or before such time by communicating its acceptance in writing to the Purchase Agent or, if it is the Purchase Agent, the relevant Lenders. The Purchase Agent (if someone other than the Parent) will communicate to the relevant Lenders which offers have been accepted by 5.00 pm on the fifth Business Day following such Solicitation Day. In any event by 5.00 pm on the sixth Business Day following such Solicitation Day, the Parent shall notify the Agent of the amounts of the participations purchased through the relevant Solicitation Process and the average price paid for the purchase of participations. The Agent shall promptly disclose such information to the Lenders.

(ii)

Any purchase of participations in a Revolving Facility pursuant to a Solicitation Process shall be completed and settled on or before the tenth Business Day after the relevant Solicitation Day.

(iii)

In accepting any offers made pursuant to a Solicitation Process the Parent shall be free to select which offers and in which amounts it accepts but on the basis that it accepts offers in inverse order of the price offered (with the offer or offers at the lowest price being accepted first) and that if it receives two or more offers at the same price it shall only accept such offers on a pro rata basis.

(d)

A Debt Purchase Transaction referred to in paragraph (b) above may also be entered into pursuant to an open order process (an “Open Order Process”) which is carried out as follows:

(i)

The Parent (on behalf of the relevant Borrower(s)) may by itself or through another Purchase Agent place an open order (an “Open Order”) to purchase participations in the relevant Revolving Facility up to a set aggregate amount at a set price by notifying at substantially the same time all the Lenders participating in the relevant Revolving Facility. Any Lender wishing to sell pursuant to an Open Order will, by 11.00 am on any Business Day following the date on which the Open Order is placed but no earlier than the first Business Day, and no later than the tenth Business Day, following the date on which the Open Order is placed, communicate to the Purchase Agent details of the amount of its participations it is offering to sell. Any such offer to sell shall be irrevocable until 11.00 am on the fifth Business Day following the date of such offer from that Lender and shall be capable of acceptance by the Parent on behalf of the relevant Borrower(s) on or before such time by it communicating such acceptance in writing to the relevant Lender.

(ii)

Any purchase of participations in the relevant Revolving Facility pursuant to an Open Order Process shall be completed and settled by the relevant Borrower(s) on or before the tenth Business Day after the date of the relevant offer by a Lender to sell under the relevant Open Order.

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(iii)

If the Purchase Agent receives on the same Business Day two or more offers at the set price such that the maximum amount of the relevant Revolving Facility would be exceeded, the Parent shall only accept such offers on a pro rata basis.

(iv)

The Parent shall, by 5.00 pm on the Business Day following the date on which it has purchased any participations in the relevant Revolving Facility pursuant to the Open Order process is placed, notify the Agent of the amounts of the participations purchased through such Open Order Process. The Agent shall promptly disclose such information to the Lenders.

(e)

For the avoidance of doubt, there is no limit on the number of occasions a Solicitation Process or an Open Order Process may be implemented.

(f)

In relation to any Debt Purchase Transaction entered into pursuant to this Clause 30 notwithstanding any other provision of this Agreement or the other Finance Documents:

(i)

on completion of the relevant assignment or transfer pursuant to Clause 29 (Changes to the Lenders), the portions of the relevant Revolving Loans to which it relates shall, unless it would give rise to any adverse tax consequences or where the purchaser is not the relevant Borrower, irrevocably be cancelled and extinguished, provided that where such the relevant Revolving Loans are not cancelled and extinguished, the provisions of Clause 30.2 (Disenfranchisement on Debt Purchase Transactions entered into by Sponsor Affiliates) shall apply to that member of the Group (but not otherwise);

(ii)

such Debt Purchase Transaction and any related cancellation or extinguishment referred to in sub-paragraph (i) above shall not constitute a prepayment of the Facilities;

(iii)

any member of the Group which is the assignee or transferee shall be deemed to be an entity which fulfils the requirements of Clause 29.1 (Assignments and transfers by the Lenders) to be a New Lender (as defined in such Clause);

(iv)

no member of the Group shall be deemed to be in breach of any provision of Clause 27 (General Undertakings) solely by reason of such Debt Purchase Transaction;

(v)

following the occurrence of an Event of Default and at all times whilst that Event of Default is continuing, any amount received by an Obligor or a member of the Group as a result of a Debt Purchase Transaction (including, but not limited to, the proceeds of any enforcement) shall be held on trust  (to the extent it is able to do so in accordance with any law applicable to it) for distribution to the other Finance Parties (and, to the extent that member of the Group is not party to this Agreement, the Parent shall ensure that that member of the Group enters into an agreement with the Security Agent within 10 Business Days of the occurrence of such event recording that trust) and such Obligor or that member of the Group shall (and the Parent shall ensure that the relevant member of the Group will) promptly (and in any event within 10 Business Days) pay an amount equal to that amount to the Security Agent for application in accordance with Clause 14 (Application of Proceeds) of the Intercreditor Agreement;

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(vi)

if an Event of Default has occurred and at all times whilst that Event of Default is continuing, any amount that is due to an Obligor or member of the Group (in whatsoever capacity) that enters into a Debt Purchase Transaction and which is received by the Agent in the circumstances described in Clause 35.6 (Partial payments) shall be applied in accordance with that Clause but as if the amount due to that Obligor or member of the Group were due under sub-paragraph (a)(iv) of Clause 35.6 (Partial payments) (and, for the avoidance of doubt, there shall be no obligation on any other Finance Party (and that Obligor or member of the Group shall have no corresponding right) to reimburse, compensate that Obligor or member of the Group in respect thereof or share with that Obligor or member of the Group any payment received under Clause 35.6 (Partial payments) whether or not that Event of Default ceases to be continuing);

(vii)

for the avoidance of doubt, any extinguishment of any part of a Revolving Facility shall not affect any amendment or waiver which prior to such extinguishment had been approved by or on behalf of the requisite Lender or Lenders in accordance with this Agreement;

(viii)

for the purpose of testing compliance with the financial covenant in Clause 26 (Financial covenant), any impact of any Debt Purchase Transaction on Consolidated EBITDA shall be ignored; and

(ix)

Clause 34 (Sharing among the Finance Parties) shall not be applicable to the consideration paid under such Debt Purchase Transaction.

(g)

To the extent such participation is not cancelled and extinguished pursuant to this Clause 30.1, no member of the Group that is a Lender in relation to a participation in a Revolving Loan may assign, transfer or enter into a sub-participation agreement in respect of that participation or enter into any other agreement or arrangement having a substantially similar economic effect with any person other than to another member of the Group.

30.2

Disenfranchisement on Debt Purchase Transactions entered into by Sponsor Affiliates

(a)

For so long as a Sponsor Affiliate (i) beneficially owns a Commitment (whether as a result of a Debt Purchase Transaction or otherwise) or (ii) has entered into a sub-participation agreement relating to a Commitment or other agreement or arrangement having a substantially similar economic effect and such agreement or arrangement has not been terminated:

(i)

in ascertaining the Majority Lenders or Super Majority Lenders or whether any given percentage (including, for the avoidance of doubt, unanimity) of the Total Commitments has been obtained to approve any request for a consent, waiver, amendment or other vote (a “Consent Request”) under the Finance Documents such Commitment shall be deemed to be zero; and

(ii)

for the purposes of Clause 41.3 (Replacement of Lender), such Sponsor Affiliate or the person with whom it has entered into such sub-participation, other agreement or arrangement shall be deemed not to be a Lender (unless, in the case of a person not being a Sponsor Affiliate, it is a Lender by virtue otherwise than by beneficially owning the relevant Commitment),

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provided that such Sponsor Affiliate or Lender with which it has entered into a sub-participation only, as the case may be, shall be included as a Lender (and its Commitment shall be included) and entitled to exercise any voting rights to the extent that the Consent Request results or is likely to result in any participation or Commitment in which such Sponsor Affiliate or Lender has an interest being treated differently from the treatment of any participation or commitment of other Lender in the same Facility.

(b)

Each Sponsor Affiliate that is a Lender agrees that:

(i)

in relation to any meeting or conference call to which all the Lenders are invited to attend or participate, it shall not attend or participate in the same (in its capacity as a Lender) or be entitled to receive the agenda or any minutes of the same; and

(ii)

in its capacity as Lender, unless the Agent otherwise agrees, it shall not be entitled to receive any report or other document or information prepared at the behest of, or on the instructions of, the Agent or one or more of the Lenders excluding, for the avoidance of doubt, interest rate notifications and other communications or documents of an administrative nature.

(c)

Nothing in this Clause 30 shall apply to an Independent Debt Fund.

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Changes to the Obligors

31.1

Assignment and transfers by Obligors

Other than pursuant to a Permitted Reorganisation or another transaction permitted by Schedule 16 (Covenants and Certain Definitions), no Obligor may assign any of its rights or transfer any of its rights or obligations under the Finance Documents.

31.2

Additional Borrowers

(a)

Subject to compliance with the provisions of paragraphs (b) and (c) of Clause 25.4 (“Know your customer” checks) and paragraph (c) below, any member of the Group may become a Borrower if:

(i)

it is:

(A)

incorporated in the same jurisdiction as an existing Borrower or (other than Cyprus) in another Security Jurisdiction;

(B)

in the case of a member of the Group which will borrow under an Ancillary Facility only, approved by the relevant Ancillary Lender;

(C)

in the case of a member of the Group which will borrow under an Incremental Facility only, approved by the relevant Incremental Facility Lenders; or

(D)

otherwise approved by all of the Lenders (for the avoidance of doubt, other than any Defaulting Lender) with a Commitment under the Facilities in respect of which it will become a Borrower;

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(ii)

the Obligors’ Agent delivers to the Agent:

(A)

a duly completed and executed Accession Deed; and

(B)

a duly completed accession agreement or deed to the Intercreditor Agreement;

(iii)

the Obligors’ Agent confirms that no Default is continuing or would occur as a result of that member of the Group becoming an Additional Borrower; and

(iv)

the Agent has received all of the documents and other evidence listed in Part 2 (Conditions Precedent required to be delivered by an Additional Obligor) of Schedule 2 (Conditions Precedent) in relation to that Additional Borrower, each in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent (acting reasonably).

(b)

The Agent shall notify the Obligors’ Agent and the Lenders promptly upon being satisfied that it has received (in form and substance satisfactory to it acting reasonably) all the documents and other evidence specified in sub-paragraph (a)(i) above.

(c)

Subject to paragraph (d) below, the Agent shall, as soon as reasonably practicable after receipt by it of a duly completed Accession Deed appearing on its face to comply with this Agreement, execute that Accession Deed.  Each Party (other than the Additional Borrower and the Obligors’ Agent) irrevocably authorises the Agent to execute any duly completed Accession Deed.

(d)

If the accession of an Additional Borrower obliges the Agent, the Security Agent or any Lender under the relevant Facility to comply with “know your customer” or similar identification procedures in circumstances where the necessary information is not already available to the Agent, the Security Agent or that Lender, the Agent shall only be obliged to execute an Accession Deed in respect of such Additional Borrower upon receipt of such documentation and other evidence as is reasonably requested by the Agent and/or the Security Agent (as applicable) for it to comply with "know your customer" requirements under applicable laws (provided that, absent any change in applicable laws, the information requested pursuant to this paragraph (d) shall be no more extensive than the information provided to satisfy the condition precedent relating to “know your customer” set out in Part 1 (Conditions Precedent to Effective Date) of Schedule 2 (Conditions Precedent).

31.3

Resignation of an Obligor

(a)

The Obligors’ Agent may request that an Obligor ceases to be a Borrower by delivering to the Agent a Resignation Letter.

(b)

The Obligors’ Agent may request that an Obligor ceases to be a Guarantor by delivering to the Agent a Resignation Letter if:

(i)

that Obligor is the subject of a transaction permitted by this Agreement pursuant to which it will cease to be a member of the Group (including by reason of that Obligor, or a Holding Company of that Obligor, being designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary);

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(ii)

required in order to implement or facilitate a Permitted Refinancing, a Permitted Reorganisation or a Facility Change or to establish or facilitate the establishment of an Incremental Facility; or

(iii)

the Super Majority Lenders have consented to that Obligor ceasing to be a Guarantor.

(c)

The Agent shall accept a Resignation Letter and promptly notify the Obligors’ Agent and the Lenders of its acceptance if:

(i)

in the case of an Obligor resigning as a Borrower, it is not (or will not be at the time it ceases to be a Borrower) under any actual or contingent obligations as a Borrower under any Finance Documents; or

(ii)

in the case of an Obligor resigning as a Guarantor, no demand has been made on that Guarantor in respect of which a payment is due under Clause 23.1 (Guarantee and indemnity).

(d)

Upon notification by the Agent to the Obligors’ Agent of its acceptance of the resignation of a Borrower and/or a Guarantor, that member of the Group shall cease to be a Borrower and/or a Guarantor (as the case may be) and shall have no further rights or obligations under the Finance Documents as a Borrower or a Guarantor (as applicable).  For the avoidance of doubt, if an Obligor ceases to be a member of the Group pursuant to a transaction permitted by this Agreement (including by reason of that Obligor, or a Holding Company of that Obligor, being designated as an Unrestricted Subsidiary), that Obligor shall automatically cease to be an Obligor and shall have no further rights or obligations under the Finance Documents as an Obligor.

31.4

Additional Guarantors and Transaction Security

(a)

The Obligors’ Agent may request that any member of the Group become an Additional Guarantor.

(b)

A member of the Group shall become an Additional Guarantor if:

(i)

the Obligors’ Agent has delivered to the Agent:

(A)

a duly completed Accession Deed; and

(B)

a duly completed accession agreement or deed to the Intercreditor Agreement; and

(ii)

the Agent has received (or waived the requirement to receive) all of the documents and other evidence listed Part 2 (Conditions Precedent required to be delivered by an Additional Obligor) of Schedule 2 (Conditions Precedent) (in relation to that Additional Guarantor, each in form and substance satisfactory to the Agent (acting reasonably).

(c)

The Agent shall notify the Obligors’ Agent and the Lenders promptly upon being satisfied that it has received (in form and substance satisfactory to it, acting reasonably) all the documents and other evidence referred to in sub-paragraph (b)(ii) above.

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(d)

The Agent shall agree a limit on the amount of the liability of the potential Additional Guarantor or other changes to the Finance Documents which in the opinion of the Agent, based on the advice of legal counsel, are necessary, customary or desirable to comply with the Agreed Security Principles.

(e)

Subject to paragraph (f) below, the Agent shall, as soon as reasonably practicable after receipt by it of a duly completed Accession Deed appearing on its face to comply with this Agreement, execute that Accession Deed. Each Party (other than the Additional Guarantor and the Obligors’ Agent) irrevocably authorises the Agent to execute a duly completed Accession Deed.

(f)

If the accession of an Additional Guarantor obliges the Agent, the Security Agent or any Lender under the relevant Facility to comply with “know your customer” or similar identification procedures in circumstances where the necessary information is not already available to the Agent, the Security Agent or that Lender, the Agent shall only be obliged to execute an Accession Deed in respect of such Additional Guarantor upon receipt of such documentation and other evidence as is reasonably requested by the Agent and/or the Security Agent (as applicable) for it to comply with "know your customer" requirements under applicable laws (provided that, absent any change in applicable laws, the information requested pursuant to this paragraph (f) shall be no more extensive than the information provided to satisfy the condition precedent relating to “know your customer” set out in Part 1 (Conditions Precedent to initial Utilisation) of Schedule 2 (Conditions Precedent)).

31.5

Repetition of Representations

Delivery of an Accession Deed constitutes confirmation by the relevant member of the Group that the representations and warranties referred to in paragraph (c) of Clause 24.23 (Times on which representations are made) are true and correct in relation to it as at the date of delivery as if made by reference to the facts and circumstances then existing.

31.6

Release of Security

(a)

If requested by the Obligors’ Agent in connection with any disposal permitted by the provisions of this Agreement, the Security Agent shall, at the cost of the Obligors’ Agent and without recourse, representation or warranty, release any undertaking or assets directly or indirectly the subject of that disposal from the Transaction Security and, if applicable, issue certificates of non-crystallisation.

(b)

If requested by the Obligors’ Agent in connection with the resignation of an Obligor in accordance with this Clause 31, a Permitted Reorganisation, a Permitted Refinancing, a Facility Change or when establishing an Incremental Facility, the Security Agent shall, at the cost of the Obligors’ Agent and without recourse, representation or warranty, release such assets from the Transaction Security and guarantees granted by members of the Group as the Obligors’ Agent may require in order to complete or facilitate that resignation, Permitted Reorganisation, that Permitted Refinancing or, as the case may be, that Facility Change or the establishment of that Incremental Facility.

(c)

Following any repayment, transfer, push down or other discharge in full of all Utilisations made available to the Borrowers (and, in the case of any merger involving a Borrower, the surviving entity of that merger), if requested by and at the cost of the

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Obligors’ Agent, the Security Agent shall (without recourse, representation or warranty) release all Security and guarantees granted by members of the Group.

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Section 10.

The Finance Parties

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Role of the Agent, The Arrangers, the Issuing Bank and Others

32.1

Appointment of the Agent

(a)

Each of the Arrangers, the Bookrunners, the Lenders and each Issuing Bank appoints the Agent to act as its agent under and in connection with the Finance Documents.

(b)

Each of the Arrangers, the Bookrunners, the Lenders and each Issuing Bank authorises the Agent to perform the duties, obligations and responsibilities and to exercise the rights, powers, authorities and discretions specifically given to the Agent under or in connection with the Finance Documents together with any other incidental rights, powers, authorities and discretions.

32.2

Instructions

(a)

The Agent shall:

(i)

unless a contrary indication appears in a Finance Document, exercise or refrain from exercising any right, power, authority or discretion vested in it as Agent in accordance with any instructions given to it by:

(A)

all Lenders if the relevant Finance Document stipulates the matter is an all Lender decision;

(B)

the Super Majority Lenders if the relevant Finance Document stipulates the matter is a Super Majority Lender decision; and

(C)

in all other cases, the Majority Lenders; and

(ii)

not be liable for any act (or omission) if it acts (or refrains from acting) in accordance with sub-paragraph (i) above.

(b)

The Agent shall be entitled to request instructions, or clarification of any instruction, from the Majority Lenders (or, if the relevant Finance Document stipulates the matter is a decision for any other Lender or group of Lenders, from that Lender or group of Lenders) as to whether, and in what manner, it should exercise or refrain from exercising any right, power, authority or discretion and the Agent may refrain from acting unless and until it receives any such instructions or clarification that it has requested.

(c)

Save in the case of decisions stipulated to be a matter for any other Lender or group of Lenders under the relevant Finance Document and unless a contrary indication appears in a Finance Document, any instructions given to the Agent by the Majority Lenders shall override any conflicting instructions given by any other Parties and will be binding on all Finance Parties save for the Security Agent.

(d)

The Agent may refrain from acting in accordance with any instructions of any Lender or group of Lenders until it has received any indemnification and/or security that it may in

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its discretion require (which may be greater in extent than that contained in the Finance Documents and which may include payment in advance) for any cost, loss or liability which it may incur in complying with those instructions.

(e)

In the absence of instructions, the Agent may act (or refrain from acting) as it considers to be in the best interest of the Lenders.

(f)

The Agent is not authorised to act on behalf of a Lender (without first obtaining that Lender’s consent) in any legal or arbitration proceedings relating to any Finance Document.  This paragraph (f) shall not apply to any legal or arbitration proceeding relating to the perfection, preservation or protection of rights under the Transaction Security Documents or enforcement of the Transaction Security or Transaction Security Documents.

32.3

Duties of the Agent

(a)

The Agent’s duties under the Finance Documents are solely mechanical and administrative in nature.

(b)

Subject to paragraph (c) below, the Agent shall promptly forward to a Party the original or a copy of any document which is delivered to the Agent for that Party by any other Party.

(c)

Without prejudice to Clause 29.8 (Copy of Transfer Certificate, Assignment Agreement or Increase Confirmation to Obligors’ Agent) and paragraph (e) of Clause 7.4 (Cash Collateral by Non-Acceptable L/C Lender), paragraph (b) above shall not apply to any Transfer Certificate, any Assignment Agreement or any Increase Confirmation.

(d)

Except where a Finance Document specifically provides otherwise, the Agent is not obliged to review or check the adequacy, accuracy or completeness of any document it forwards to another Party.

(e)

If the Agent receives notice from a Party referring to this Agreement, describing a Default and stating that the circumstance described is a Default, it shall promptly notify the other Finance Parties.

(f)

If the Agent is aware of the non-payment of any principal, interest, commitment fee or other fee payable to a Finance Party (other than the Agent, the Arrangers, the Bookrunners or the Security Agent) under this Agreement, it shall promptly notify the other Finance Parties.

(g)

The Agent shall have only those duties, obligations and responsibilities expressly specified in the Finance Documents to which it is expressed to be a party (and no others shall be implied).

32.4

Role of the Arrangers and the Bookrunners

Except as specifically provided in the Finance Documents, neither the Arrangers nor the Bookrunners have any obligations of any kind to any other Party under or in connection with any Finance Document and, except as specified in paragraph (b) of Clause 41.2 (Exceptions), the

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consent of the Arrangers and the Bookrunners is not required for any amendment or waiver to any Finance Document.

32.5

No fiduciary duties

(a)

Nothing in any Finance Document constitutes the Agent, the Arrangers, the Bookrunners and/or an Issuing Bank as a trustee or fiduciary of any other person.

(b)

None of the Agent, the Arrangers, the Bookrunners, the Issuing Banks or any Ancillary Lender, shall be bound to account to any Lender for any sum or the profit element of any sum received by it for its own account.

32.6

Business with the Group

The Agent, the Arrangers, the Bookrunners, each Issuing Bank and each Ancillary Lender may accept deposits from, lend money to and generally engage in any kind of banking or other business with any member of the Group.

32.7

Rights and discretions

(a)

The Agent and the Issuing Banks may:

(i)

rely on any representation, communication, notice or document (including, without limitation, any notice given by a Lender pursuant to paragraph (b) of Clause 30.2 (Disenfranchisement on Debt Purchase Transactions entered into by Sponsor Affiliates)) believed by it to be genuine, correct and appropriately authorised;

(ii)

assume that:

(A)

any instructions received by it from the Majority Lenders, any Lenders or any group of Lenders are duly given in accordance with the provisions of the Finance Documents; and

(B)

unless it has received notice of revocation, that those instructions have not been revoked; and

(iii)

rely on a certificate from any person:

(A)

as to any matter of fact or circumstance which might reasonably be expected to be within the knowledge of that person; or

(B)

to the effect that such person approves of any particular dealing, transaction, step, action or thing,

as sufficient evidence that that is the case and, in the case of sub-paragraph (A) above, may assume the truth and accuracy of that certificate.

(b)

The Agent may assume (unless it has received notice to the contrary in its capacity as agent for the Lenders) that:

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(i)

no Default has occurred (unless it has actual knowledge of a Default arising under paragraph (b) of Schedule 18 (Events of Default));

(ii)

any right, power, authority or discretion vested in any Party or any group of Lenders has not been exercised;

(iii)

any notice or request made by the Obligors’ Agent (other than a Utilisation Request) is made on behalf of and with the consent and knowledge of all the Obligors; and

(iv)

no notifiable Debt Purchase Transaction:

(A)

has been entered into;

(B)

has been terminated; or

(C)

has ceased to be with a Sponsor Affiliate.

(c)

The Agent may engage and pay for the advice or services of any lawyers, accountants, tax advisers, surveyors or other professional advisers or experts but shall not be liable for any damages, costs or losses to any person, any diminution in value or any liability whatsoever arising as a result of so relying.

(d)

Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (c) above or paragraph (e) below, the Agent may at any time engage and pay for the services of any lawyers to act as independent counsel to the Agent (and so separate from any lawyers instructed by the Lenders) if the Agent in its reasonable opinion deems this to be desirable.

(e)

The Agent may rely on the advice or services of any lawyers, accountants, tax advisers, surveyors or other professional advisers or experts (whether obtained by the Agent or by any other Party) and shall not be liable for any damages, costs or losses to any person, any diminution in value or any liability whatsoever arising as a result of its so relying.

(f)

The Agent may act in relation to the Finance Documents through its officers, employees and agents and the Agent shall not:

(i)

be liable for any error of judgment made by any such person; or

(ii)

be bound to supervise, or be in any way responsible for, any loss incurred by reason of misconduct, omission or default on the part of any such person,

unless such error or such loss was directly caused by the Agent’s gross negligence or wilful misconduct.

(g)

Unless a Finance Document expressly provides otherwise the Agent may disclose to any other Party any information it reasonably believes it has received as agent under this Agreement.

(h)

Without prejudice to the generality of paragraph (g) above, the Agent:

(i)

may disclose; and

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(ii)

on the written request of the Obligors’ Agent or the Majority Lenders shall, as soon as reasonably practicable, disclose,

the identity of a Defaulting Lender to the Obligors’ Agent and to the other Finance Parties.

(i)

Notwithstanding any other provision of any Finance Document to the contrary, none of the Agent, the Arrangers, the Bookrunners or the Issuing Bank is obliged to do or omit to do anything if it would, or might in its reasonable opinion, constitute a breach of any law or regulation or a breach of a fiduciary duty or duty of confidentiality.

(j)

Notwithstanding any provision of any Finance Document to the contrary, the Agent is not obliged to expend or risk its own funds or otherwise incur any financial liability in the performance of its duties, obligations or responsibilities or the exercise of any right, power, authority or discretion if it has grounds for believing the repayment of such funds or adequate indemnity against, or security for, such risk or liability is not reasonably assured to it.

32.8

Responsibility for documentation

None of the Agent, the Arrangers, the Bookrunners, the Issuing Banks or any Ancillary Lender is responsible or liable for:

(a)

the adequacy, accuracy or completeness of any information (whether oral or written) supplied by the Agent, the Arrangers, the Bookrunners, the Issuing Bank, an Ancillary Lender, an Obligor or any other person in or in connection with any Finance Document or the transactions contemplated in the Finance Documents or any other agreement, arrangement or document entered into, made or executed in anticipation of, under or in connection with any Finance Document; or

(b)

the legality, validity, effectiveness, adequacy or enforceability of any Finance Document or the Transaction Security or any other agreement, arrangement or document entered into, made or executed in anticipation of, under or in connection with any Finance Document or the Transaction Security; or

(c)

any determination as to whether any information provided or to be provided to any Finance Party is non-public information the use of which may be regulated or prohibited by applicable law or regulation relating to insider dealing or otherwise.

32.9

No duty to monitor

The Agent shall not be bound to enquire:

(a)

whether or not any Default has occurred;

(b)

as to the performance, default or any breach by any Party of its obligations under any Finance Document; or

(c)

whether any other event specified in any Finance Document has occurred.

32.10

Exclusion of liability

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(a)

Without limiting paragraph (b) below (and without prejudice to any other provision of any Finance Document excluding or limiting the liability of the Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Ancillary Lender), none of the Agent, the Issuing Bank nor any Ancillary Lender will be liable for:

(i)

any damages, costs or losses to any person, any diminution in value, or any liability whatsoever arising as a result of taking or not taking any action under or in connection with any Finance Document or the Transaction Security unless directly caused by its gross negligence or wilful misconduct;

(ii)

exercising, or not exercising, any right, power, authority or discretion given to it by, or in connection with, any Finance Document, the Transaction Security or any other agreement, arrangement or document entered into, made or executed in anticipation of, under or in connection with, any Finance Document or the Transaction Security unless directly caused by its gross negligence or wilful misconduct; or

(iii)

without prejudice to the generality of sub-paragraphs (i) and (ii) above, any damages, costs or losses to any person, any diminution in value or any liability whatsoever arising as a result of:

(A)

any act, event or circumstance not reasonably within its control; or

(B)

the general risks of investment in, or the holding of assets in, any jurisdiction,

including (in each case and without limitation) such damages, costs, losses, diminution in value or liability arising as a result of: nationalisation, expropriation or other governmental actions; any regulation, currency restriction, devaluation or fluctuation; market conditions affecting the execution or settlement of transactions or the value of assets (including any Disruption Event); breakdown, failure or malfunction of any third party transport, telecommunications, computer services or systems; natural disasters or acts of God; war, terrorism, insurrection or revolution; or strikes or industrial action.

(b)

No Party (other than the Agent, the Issuing Bank or an Ancillary Lender (as applicable)) may take any proceedings against any officer, employee or agent of the Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Ancillary Lender, in respect of any claim it might have against the Agent, the Issuing Bank or an Ancillary Lender or in respect of any act or omission of any kind by that officer, employee or agent in relation to any Finance Document or any Finance Document and any officer, employee or agent of the Agent, the Issuing Bank or any Ancillary Lender may rely on this Clause subject to Clause 1.4 (Third party rights) and the provisions of the Third Parties Acts.

(c)

The Agent will not be liable for any delay (or any related consequences) in crediting an account with an amount required under the Finance Documents to be paid by the Agent if the Agent has taken all necessary steps as soon as reasonably practicable to comply with the regulations or operating procedures of any recognised clearing or settlement system used by the Agent for that purpose.

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(d)

Nothing in this Agreement shall oblige the Agent, a Bookrunner or an Arranger to carry out:

(i)

any “know your customer” or other checks in relation to any person; or

(ii)

any check on the extent to which any transaction contemplated by this Agreement might be unlawful for any Lender,

on behalf of any Lender and each Lender confirms to the Agent, the Bookrunners and the Arrangers that it is solely responsible for any such checks it is required to carry out and that it may not rely on any statement in relation to such checks made by the Agent, a Bookrunner or an Arranger.

(e)

Without prejudice to any provision of any Finance Document excluding or limiting the Agent’s liability, any liability of the Agent arising under or in connection with any Finance Document or the Transaction Security shall be limited to the amount of actual loss which has been finally judicially determined to have been suffered (as determined by reference to the date of default of the Agent or, if later, the date on which the loss arises as a result of such default) but without reference to any special conditions or circumstances known to the Agent at any time which increase the amount of that loss.  In no event shall the Agent be liable for any loss of profits, goodwill, reputation, business opportunity or anticipated saving, or for special, punitive, indirect or consequential damages, whether or not the Agent has been advised of the possibility of such loss or damages.

32.11

Lenders’ indemnity to the Agent

(a)

Each Lender shall (in proportion to its share of the Total Commitments or, if the Total Commitments are then zero, to its share of the Total Commitments immediately prior to their reduction to zero) indemnify the Agent, within three (3) Business Days of demand, against any cost, loss or liability (including, without limitation, for negligence or any other category of liability whatsoever) incurred by the Agent (otherwise than by reason of the Agent’s gross negligence or wilful misconduct) (or, in the case of any cost, loss or liability pursuant to Clause 35.11 (Disruption to payment systems etc.), notwithstanding the Agent’s negligence, gross negligence or any other category of liability whatsoever but not including any claim based on the fraud of the Agent) in acting as Agent under the Finance Documents (unless the Agent has been reimbursed by an Obligor pursuant to a Finance Document).

(b)

Subject to paragraph (c) below, the Obligors’ Agent shall within three (3) Business Days of demand reimburse (or procure the reimbursement of) any Lender for any payment that Lender makes to the Agent pursuant to paragraph (a) above.

(c)

Paragraph (b) above shall not apply to the extent that the indemnity payment in respect of which a Lender claims reimbursement relates to a liability of the Agent to an Obligor.

32.12

Resignation of the Agent

(a)

The Agent may resign and appoint one of its Affiliates acting through an office in the United Kingdom as successor by giving not less than five (5) Business Days’ notice to the Lenders and the Obligors’ Agent.

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(b)

Alternatively the Agent may resign by giving 30 days’ notice to the Lenders and the Obligors’ Agent, in which case the Majority Lenders (after consultation with the Obligors’ Agent) may appoint a successor Agent.

(c)

If the relevant Lenders have not appointed a successor Agent in accordance with paragraph (b) above within 20 days after notice of resignation was given, the retiring Agent (after consultation with the Obligors’ Agent) may appoint a successor Agent (acting through an office in the United Kingdom).

(d)

If the Agent wishes to resign because (acting reasonably) it has concluded that it is no longer appropriate for it to remain as agent and the Agent is entitled to appoint a successor Agent under paragraph (c) above, the Agent may, after consultation with the Obligors’ Agent and the Lenders, (if it concludes (acting reasonably) that it is necessary to do so in order to persuade the proposed successor Agent to become a party to this Agreement as Agent) agree with the proposed successor Agent amendments to this Clause 32 and any other provision of this Agreement dealing with the rights or obligations of the Agent consistent with then current market practice for the appointment and protection of corporate trustees (provided such changes are not adverse to the interests of the other Finance Parties) and those amendments will bind the Parties, provided that no such amendments shall require any additional payment by any member of the Group or otherwise increase the liability of any Obligor in any material respect without the prior consent of the Obligors’ Agent.

(e)

The retiring Agent shall, at its own cost, make available to the successor Agent such documents and records and provide such assistance as the successor Agent may reasonably request for the purposes of performing its functions as Agent under the Finance Documents.

(f)

The Agent’s resignation notice shall only take effect upon the appointment of a successor.

(g)

Upon the appointment of a successor, the retiring Agent shall be discharged from any further obligation in respect of the Finance Documents (except in respect of the distribution of any money held by it in its capacity as Agent) but shall remain entitled to the benefit of this Clause 32. Any successor and each of the other Parties shall have the same rights and obligations amongst themselves as they would have had if such successor had been an original Party.

(h)

The Agent shall resign in accordance with paragraph (b) above (and, to the extent applicable, shall use reasonable endeavours to appoint a successor Agent pursuant to paragraph (c) above) if on or after the date which is three Months after the earliest FATCA Application Date relating to any payment to the Agent under the Finance Documents, either:

(i)

the Agent fails to respond to a request under Clause 18.8 (FATCA Information) and the Obligors’ Agent or a Lender reasonably believes that the Agent will not be (or will have ceased to be) a FATCA Exempt Party on or after that FATCA Application Date;

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(ii)

the information supplied by the Agent pursuant to Clause 18.8 (FATCA Information) indicates that the Agent will not be (or will have ceased to be) a FATCA Exempt Party on or after that FATCA Application Date; or

(iii)

the Agent notifies the Obligors’ Agent and the Lenders that the Agent will not be (or will have ceased to be) a FATCA Exempt Party on or after that FATCA Application Date,

and (in each case) the Obligors’ Agent or a Lender reasonably believes that a Party will be required to make a FATCA Deduction that would not be required if the Agent were a FATCA Exempt Party, and the Obligors’ Agent or that Lender, by notice to the Agent, requires it to resign.

32.13

Replacement of the Agent

(a)

After consultation with the Obligors’ Agent, the Majority Lenders may, by giving 30 days’ notice to the Agent (or, at any time the Agent is an Impaired Agent, by giving any shorter notice determined by the Majority Lenders) replace the Agent by appointing a successor Agent (acting through an office in the United Kingdom).

(b)

The retiring Agent shall (at its own cost if it is an Impaired Agent and otherwise at the expense of the Lenders) make available to the successor Agent such documents and records and provide such assistance as the successor Agent may reasonably request for the purposes of performing its functions as Agent under the Finance Documents.

(c)

The appointment of the successor Agent shall take effect on the date specified in the notice from the Majority Lenders to the retiring Agent. As from this date, the retiring Agent shall be discharged from any further obligation in respect of the Finance Documents (other than its obligations under paragraph (b) above) but shall remain entitled to the benefit of this Clause 32 (and any agency fees for the account of the retiring Agent shall cease to accrue from (and shall be payable on) that date).

(d)

Any successor Agent and each of the other Parties shall have the same rights and obligations amongst themselves as they would have had if such successor had been an original Party.

32.14

Confidentiality

(a)

In acting as agent for the Finance Parties, the Agent shall be regarded as acting through its agency division which shall be treated as a separate entity from any other of its divisions or departments.

(b)

If information is received by another division or department of the Agent, it may be treated as confidential to that division or department and the Agent shall not be deemed to have notice of it.

32.15

Relationship with the Lenders

(a)

Subject to Clause 29.11 (Pro rata interest settlement), the Agent may treat the person shown in its records as Lender at the opening of business (in the place of the Agent’s

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principal office as notified to the Finance Parties from time to time) as the Lender acting through its Facility Office:

(i)

entitled to or liable for any payment due under any Finance Document on that day; and

(ii)

entitled to receive and act upon any notice, request, document or communication or make any decision or determination under any Finance Document made or delivered on that day,

unless it has received not less than five (5) Business Days’ prior notice from that Lender to the contrary in accordance with this Agreement.

(b)

Any Lender may, by notice to the Agent, appoint a person to receive on its behalf all notices, communications, information and documents to be made or dispatched to that Lender under the Finance Documents. Such notice shall contain the address, fax number and (where communication by electronic mail or other electronic means is permitted under Clause 37.6 (Electronic communication)) electronic mail address and/or any other information required to enable the transmission of information by that means (and, in each case, the department or officer, if any, for whose attention communication is to be made) and be treated as a notification of a substitute address, fax number, electronic mail address (or such other information), department and officer by that Lender for the purposes of Clause 37.2 (Addresses) and sub-paragraph (a)(iii) of Clause 37.6 (Electronic communication) and the Agent shall be entitled to treat such person as the person entitled to receive all such notices, communications, information and documents as though that person were that Lender.

32.16

Credit appraisal by the Lenders, Issuing Banks and Ancillary Lenders

Without affecting the responsibility of any Obligor for information supplied by it or on its behalf in connection with any Finance Document, each Lender, Issuing Bank and Ancillary Lender confirms to the Agent, the Arrangers, the Bookrunners, the Issuing Banks and each Ancillary Lender that it has been, and will continue to be, solely responsible for making its own independent appraisal and investigation of all risks arising under or in connection with any Finance Document, including, but not limited to:

(a)

the financial condition, status and nature of each member of the Group;

(b)

the legality, validity, effectiveness, adequacy or enforceability of any Finance Document and the Transaction Security and any other agreement, arrangement or document entered into, made or executed in anticipation of, under or in connection with any Finance Document or the Transaction Security;

(c)

whether that Lender, Issuing Bank or Ancillary Lender has recourse, and the nature and extent of that recourse, against any Party or any of its respective assets under or in connection with any Finance Document, the Transaction Security, the transactions contemplated by the Finance Documents or any other agreement, arrangement or document entered into, made or executed in anticipation of, under or in connection with any Finance Document or the Transaction Security;

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(d)

the adequacy, accuracy and/or completeness of any information provided by the Agent, any Party or by any other person under or in connection with any Finance Document, the transactions contemplated by any Finance Document or any other agreement, arrangement or document entered into, made or executed in anticipation of, under or in connection with any Finance Document; and

(e)

the right or title of any person in or to, or the value or sufficiency of any part of the Charged Property, the priority of any of the Transaction Security or the existence of any Security affecting the Charged Property.

32.17

Deduction from amounts payable by the Agent

If any Party owes an amount to the Agent under the Finance Documents, the Agent may, after giving notice to that Party, deduct an amount not exceeding that amount from any payment to that Party which the Agent would otherwise be obliged to make under the Finance Documents and apply the amount deducted in or towards satisfaction of the amount owed. For the purposes of the Finance Documents, that Party shall be regarded as having received any amount so deducted.

32.18

Reliance and engagement letters

(a)

Each Finance Party and Secured Party confirms that each of the Arrangers, the Bookrunners and the Agent has authority to accept on its behalf (and ratifies the acceptance on its behalf of any letters or reports already accepted by the Bookrunners, the Arrangers or Agent) the terms of any reliance letter or engagement letters relating to any reports or letters provided in connection with the Finance Documents or the transactions contemplated in the Finance Documents and to bind it in respect of those reports or letters and to sign such letters on its behalf, and further confirms that it accepts the terms and qualifications set out in such letters.

(b)

Each Lender shall (in proportion to its share of the Total Commitments or, if the Total Commitments are then zero, to its share of the Total Commitments immediately prior to their reduction to zero) indemnify and hold harmless any Bookrunner and Arranger, within three (3) Business Days of demand, against any cost, loss or liability (including, without limitation, for negligence or any other category of liability whatsoever) incurred by that Bookrunner or Arranger (otherwise than by reason of its gross negligence or wilful misconduct) in connection with that Arranger’s or that Bookrunner’s acceptance of the terms of any engagement or reliance letter pursuant to paragraph (a) above but, for the avoidance of doubt, not including any claim based on the fraud of a Bookrunner or an Arranger in acting in such capacity.

32.19

Role of the Security Agent

(a)

The Security Agent shall, at all times, act in accordance with the terms set forth in the Intercreditor Agreement.

(b)

The declaration of trust pursuant to which the Security Agent declares itself trustee of the Transaction Security (to the extent permitted by the applicable law), for which it will hold on trust for the Secured Parties, is contained in the Intercreditor Agreement.

(c)

In acting or otherwise exercising its rights or performing its duties under any of the Finance Documents, the Security Agent shall act in accordance with the provisions of this

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Agreement and the Intercreditor Agreement and shall seek any necessary instruction or direction from the Agent.  In so acting, the Security Agent shall have the rights, benefits, protections, indemnities and immunities set out in this Agreement and the Intercreditor Agreement and shall not incur any liability to any Party.

(d)

In the event there is an inconsistency or conflict between the rights, duties, benefits, obligations, protections, immunities or indemnities of the Security Agent (the “Security Agent Provisions”) as contained in this Agreement and/or the Intercreditor Agreement, on the one hand, and in any of the other Finance Documents, on the other hand, the Security Agent Provisions contained in this Agreement and/or the Intercreditor Agreement shall prevail and apply.  Where there is an inconsistency or conflict between the Security Agent Provisions as contained in this Agreement and in the Intercreditor Agreement the Intercreditor Agreement shall prevail and apply.

(e)

The Security Agent Provisions contained in this Agreement and the Intercreditor Agreement are for the benefit of the Security Agent and shall survive the discharge or termination of this Agreement and the Intercreditor Agreement and the resignation of the Security Agent.

(f)

The Security Agent is hereby authorised by the Secured Parties to sign or countersign any Transfer Certificate, Assignment Agreement, Accession Deed, Increase Confirmation or similar document in connection with or related to any of the foregoing without investigation or inquiry, if, on its face, it appears to conform to the form contemplated in this Agreement or, if applicable, the same is signed by the Agent.

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Conduct of Business by the Finance Parties

No provision of this Agreement will:

(a)

interfere with the right of any Finance Party to arrange its affairs (tax or otherwise) in whatever manner it thinks fit;

(b)

other than as required by Clause 18.4 (Tax Credit), oblige any Finance Party to investigate or claim any credit, relief, remission or repayment available to it or the extent, order and manner of any claim; or

(c)

except as otherwise expressly provided for in this Agreement, oblige any Finance Party to disclose any information relating to its affairs (tax or otherwise) or any computations in respect of Tax.

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Sharing among the Finance Parties

34.1

Payments to Finance Parties

(a)

Subject to paragraph (b) below, if a Finance Party (a “Recovering Finance Party”) receives or recovers any amount from an Obligor, other than in accordance with Clause 35 (Payment mechanics) (a “Recovered Amount”), and applies that amount to a payment due under the Finance Documents, then:

(i)

the Recovering Finance Party shall, within three (3) Business Days, notify details of the receipt or recovery, to the Agent;

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(ii)

the Agent shall determine whether the receipt or recovery is in excess of the amount the Recovering Finance Party would have been paid had the receipt or recovery been received or made by the Agent and distributed in accordance with Clause 35 (Payment mechanics), without taking account of any Tax which would be imposed on the Agent in relation to the receipt, recovery or distribution; and

(iii)

the Recovering Finance Party shall, within three (3) Business Days of demand by the Agent, pay to the Agent an amount (the “Sharing Payment”) equal to such receipt or recovery less any amount which the Agent determines may be retained by the Recovering Finance Party as its share of any payment to be made, in accordance with Clause 35.6 (Partial payments).

(b)

Paragraph (a) above shall not apply to any amount received or recovered by an Issuing Bank or an Ancillary Lender in respect of any cash cover provided for the benefit of that Issuing Bank or that Ancillary Lender.

34.2

Redistribution of payments

The Agent shall treat the Sharing Payment as if it had been paid by the relevant Obligor and distribute it between the Finance Parties (other than the Recovering Finance Party) (the “Sharing Finance Parties”) in accordance with Clause 35.6 (Partial payments) towards the obligations of that Obligor to the Sharing Finance Parties.

34.3

Recovering Finance Party’s rights

On a distribution by the Agent under Clause 34.2 (Redistribution of payments) of a payment received by a Recovering Finance Party from an Obligor, as between the relevant Obligor and the Recovering Finance Party, an amount of the Recovered Amount equal to the Sharing Payment will be treated as not having been paid by that Obligor.

34.4

Reversal of redistribution

If any part of the Sharing Payment received or recovered by a Recovering Finance Party becomes repayable and is repaid by that Recovering Finance Party, then:

(a)

each Sharing Finance Party shall, upon request of the Agent, pay to the Agent for the account of that Recovering Finance Party an amount equal to the appropriate part of its share of the Sharing Payment (together with an amount as is necessary to reimburse that Recovering Finance Party for its proportion of any interest on the Sharing Payment which that Recovering Finance Party is required to pay) (the “Redistributed Amount”); and

(b)

as between the relevant Obligor and each relevant Sharing Finance Party, an amount equal to the relevant Redistributed Amount will be treated as not having been paid by that Obligor.

34.5

Exceptions

(a)

This Clause 34 shall not apply to the extent that the Recovering Finance Party would not, after making any payment pursuant to this Clause 34, have a valid and enforceable claim against the relevant Obligor.

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(b)

A Recovering Finance Party is not obliged to share with any other Finance Party any amount which the Recovering Finance Party has received or recovered as a result of taking legal or arbitration proceedings, if:

(i)

it notified the other Finance Party of the legal or arbitration proceedings; and

(ii)

the other Finance Party had an opportunity to participate in those legal or arbitration proceedings but did not do so as soon as reasonably practicable having received notice and did not take separate legal or arbitration proceedings.

34.6

Ancillary Lenders

(a)

This Clause 34 shall not apply to any receipt or recovery by a Lender in its capacity as an Ancillary Lender at any time prior to service of notice under Clause 28.4 (Acceleration).

(b)

Following service of notice under Clause 28.4 (Acceleration), this Clause 34 shall apply to all receipts or recoveries by Ancillary Lenders, except to the extent that the receipt or recovery represents a reduction from the Ancillary Facility Designated Gross Amount for an Ancillary Facility to its Ancillary Facility Designated Net Amount.

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Section 11.

Administration

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Payment Mechanics

35.1

Payments to the Agent

(a)

On each date on which an Obligor or a Lender is required to make a payment under a Finance Document (excluding a payment under an Ancillary Document), that Obligor or Lender shall make the same available to the Agent (unless a contrary indication appears in a Finance Document) for value on the due date at the time and in such funds specified by the Agent as being customary at the time for settlement of transactions in the relevant currency in the place of payment.

(b)

Payment shall be made to such account in the principal financial centre of the country of that currency (or, in relation to euro, in a principal financial centre in such Participating Member State or London, as specified by the Agent) with such bank as the Agent specifies.

35.2

Distributions by the Agent

Each payment received by the Agent under the Finance Documents for another Party shall, subject to Clause 35.3 (Distributions to an Obligor) and Clause 35.4 (Clawback) be made available by the Agent as soon as practicable after receipt to the Party entitled to receive payment in accordance with this Agreement (in the case of a Lender, for the account of its Facility Office), to such account as that Party may notify to the Agent by not less than five (5) Business Days’ notice with a bank in the principal financial centre of the country of that currency.

35.3

Distributions to an Obligor

The Agent may (with the consent of the Obligor or in accordance with Clause 36 (Set-off)) apply any amount received by it for that Obligor in or towards payment (on the date and in the currency and funds of receipt) of any amount due from that Obligor under the Finance Documents or in or towards purchase of any amount of any currency to be so applied.

35.4

Clawback

(a)

Where a sum is to be paid to the Agent under the Finance Documents for another Party, the Agent is not obliged to pay that sum to that other Party (or to enter into or perform any related exchange contract) until it has been able to establish to its satisfaction that it has actually received that sum. However, it may do so if it wishes.

(b)

If the Agent pays an amount to another Party and it proves to be the case that the Agent had not received that amount, then the Party who should have made that amount (or the proceeds of any related exchange contract) available to the Agent or, if that Party fails to do so, the Party to whom that amount (or the proceeds of any related exchange contract) has been made available by the Agent, shall on demand, pay such amount to the Agent together with interest on that amount from the date of payment to the date of receipt by the Agent, calculated by the Agent to reflect its cost of funds.

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35.5

Impaired Agent

(a)

If, at any time, the Agent becomes an Impaired Agent, an Obligor or a Lender which is required to make a payment under the Finance Documents to the Agent in accordance with Clause 35.1 (Payments to the Agent) may instead either:

(i)

pay that amount direct to the required recipient(s); or

(ii)

if in its absolute discretion it considers that it is not reasonably practicable to pay that amount direct to the required recipient(s), pay that amount or the relevant part of that amount to an interest-bearing account held with an Acceptable Bank within the meaning of paragraph (a) of the definition of “Acceptable Bank” and in relation to which no Insolvency Event has occurred and is continuing, in the name of the Obligor or the Lender making the payment (the “Paying Party”) and designated as a trust account for the benefit of the Party or Parties beneficially entitled to that payment under the Finance Documents (the “Recipient Party” or “Recipient Parties”).

In each case, such payments must be made on the due date for payment under the Finance Documents.

(b)

All interest accrued on the amount standing to the credit of the trust account shall be for the benefit of the Recipient Party or the Recipient Parties pro rata to their respective entitlements.

(c)

A Party which has made a payment in accordance with this Clause 35.5 shall be discharged of the relevant payment obligation under the Finance Documents and shall not take any credit risk with respect to the amounts standing to the credit of the trust account.

(d)

Promptly upon the appointment of a successor Agent in accordance with Clause 32.13 (Replacement of the Agent), each Paying Party which has made a payment to a trust account in accordance with this Clause 35.5 shall give all requisite instructions to the bank with whom the trust account is held to transfer the amount (together with any accrued interest) to the successor Agent for distribution in accordance with Clause 35.2 (Distributions by the Agent).

35.6

Partial payments

(a)

If the Agent receives a payment for application against amounts due in respect of any Finance Documents that is insufficient to discharge all the amounts then due and payable by an Obligor under those Finance Documents, the Agent shall apply that payment towards the obligations of that Obligor under those Finance Documents in the following order:

(i)

first, in or towards payment pro rata of any unpaid fees, costs and expenses of the Agent, the Issuing Banks and the Security Agent under those Finance Documents;

(ii)

secondly, in or towards payment pro rata of any accrued interest, fee or commission due but unpaid under those Finance Documents;

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(iii)

thirdly, in or towards payment pro rata of any principal due but unpaid under those Finance Documents and any amount due but unpaid under Clause 7.2 (Claims under a Letter of Credit) and Clause 7.3 (Indemnities); and

(iv)

fourthly, in or towards payment pro rata of any other sum due but unpaid under the Finance Documents.

(b)

Paragraph (a) above will override any appropriation made by an Obligor.

35.7

Set-off by Obligors

All payments to be made by an Obligor under the Finance Documents shall be calculated and be made without (and free and clear of any deduction for) set-off or counterclaim.

35.8

Business Days

(a)

Any payment which is due to be made on a day that is not a Business Day shall be made on the next Business Day in the same calendar Month (if there is one) or the preceding Business Day (if there is not).

(b)

During any extension of the due date for payment of any principal or Unpaid Sum under this Agreement, interest is payable on the principal or Unpaid Sum at the rate payable on the original due date.

35.9

Currency of account

(a)

Subject to paragraphs (b) to (e) below, the Base Currency is the currency of account and payment for any sum due from an Obligor under any Finance Document.

(b)

A repayment of a Utilisation or Unpaid Sum or a part of a Utilisation or Unpaid Sum shall be made in the currency in which that Utilisation or Unpaid Sum is denominated on its due date.

(c)

Each payment of interest shall be made in the currency in which the sum in respect of which the interest is payable was denominated when that interest accrued.

(d)

Each payment in respect of costs, expenses or Taxes shall be made in the currency in which the costs, expenses or Taxes are incurred.

(e)

Any amount expressed to be payable in a currency other than the Base Currency shall be paid in that other currency.

35.10

Change of currency

(a)

Unless otherwise prohibited by law, if more than one currency or currency unit are at the same time recognised by the central bank of any country as the lawful currency of that country, then:

(i)

any reference in the Finance Documents to, and any obligations arising under the Finance Documents in, the currency of that country shall be translated into, or paid in, the currency or currency unit of that country designated by the Agent (after consultation with the Obligors’ Agent); and

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(ii)

any translation from one currency or currency unit to another shall be at the official rate of exchange recognised by the central bank for the conversion of that currency or currency unit into the other, rounded up or down by the Agent (acting reasonably).

(b)

If a change in any currency of a country occurs, this Agreement will, to the extent the Agent (acting reasonably and after consultation with the Obligors’ Agent) specifies to be necessary, be amended to comply with any generally accepted conventions and market practice in the Relevant Market and otherwise to reflect the change in currency.

35.11

Disruption to payment systems etc.

If either the Agent determines (in its discretion acting reasonably) that a Disruption Event has occurred or the Agent is notified by the Obligors’ Agent that a Disruption Event has occurred:

(a)

the Agent may, and shall if requested to do so by the Obligors’ Agent, consult with the Obligors’ Agent with a view to agreeing with the Obligors’ Agent such changes to the operation or administration of the Facilities as the Agent, acting reasonably, may deem necessary in the circumstances;

(b)

the Agent shall not be obliged to consult with the Obligors’ Agent in relation to any changes mentioned in paragraph (a) above if, in its opinion acting reasonably, it is not practicable to do so in the circumstances and, in any event, shall have no obligation to agree to such changes;

(c)

the Agent may consult with the Finance Parties in relation to any changes mentioned in paragraph (a) above but shall not be obliged to do so if, in its opinion, it is not practicable to do so in the circumstances;

(d)

any such changes agreed upon by the Agent and the Obligors’ Agent shall (whether or not it is finally determined that a Disruption Event has occurred) be binding upon the Parties as an amendment to (or, as the case may be, waiver of) the provisions of the Finance Documents, notwithstanding the provisions of Clause 41 (Amendments and Waivers);

(e)

the Agent shall not be liable for any damages, costs or losses whatsoever (including, without limitation, for negligence, gross negligence or any other category of liability whatsoever, but not including any claim based on the fraud of the Agent) arising as a result of its taking, or failing to take, any actions pursuant to or in connection with this Clause 35.11; and

(f)

the Agent shall notify the Finance Parties of all changes agreed pursuant to paragraph (d) above.

35.12

Sanctioned Finance Party

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Finance Documents, no Party shall be required to (and no Finance Party will) make any payment under or in connection with any Finance Document to a Sanctioned Finance Party or in breach of any Sanctions.

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Set-Off

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(a)

Subject to Clause 4.5 (Utilisations of Revolving Facility/Incremental Facility during the Agreed Certain Funds Period), a Finance Party may, at any time after an Acceleration Event has occurred and for so long as it is continuing, set off any matured obligation due from an Obligor under the Finance Documents (to the extent beneficially owned by that Finance Party) against any matured obligation owed by that Finance Party to that Obligor, regardless of the place of payment, booking branch or currency of either obligation. If the obligations are in different currencies, the Finance Party may convert either obligation at a market rate of exchange in its usual course of business for the purpose of the set-off.

(b)

Any credit balances taken into account by an Ancillary Lender when operating a net limit in respect of any overdraft under an Ancillary Facility shall, on enforcement of the Finance Documents, be applied first in reduction of the overdraft provided under that Ancillary Facility in accordance with its terms.

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Notices

37.1

Communications in writing

Any communication to be made under or in connection with the Finance Documents shall be made in writing and, unless otherwise stated, may be made by fax or letter.

37.2

Addresses

The address and fax number (and the department or officer, if any, for whose attention the communication is to be made) of each Party for any communication or document to be made or delivered under or in connection with the Finance Documents is:

(a)

in the case of the Parent, that identified with its name below;

(b)

in the case of each Lender, each Issuing Bank, each Ancillary Lender or any other Obligor, that identified with its name below or notified in writing to the Agent on or prior to the date on which it becomes a Party; and

(c)

in the case of the Agent or the Security Agent, that identified with its name below,

or any substitute address, fax number or department or officer as the Party may notify to the Agent (or the Agent may notify to the other Parties, if a change is made by the Agent) by not less than five (5) Business Days’ notice.

37.3

Delivery

(a)

Any communication or document made or delivered by one person to another under or in connection with the Finance Documents will only be effective:

(i)

if by way of fax, when received in legible form; or

(ii)

if by way of letter, when it has been left at the relevant address or five (5) Business Days after being deposited in the post, postage prepaid, in an envelope addressed to it at that address,

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and, if a particular department or officer is specified as part of its address details provided under Clause 37.2 (Addresses), if addressed to that department or officer.

(b)

Any communication or document to be made or delivered to the Agent or the Security Agent will be effective only when actually received by the Agent or Security Agent and then only if it is expressly marked for the attention of the department or officer identified with the Agent’s or Security Agent’s signature below (or any substitute department or officer as the Agent or Security Agent shall specify for this purpose).

(c)

All notices from or to an Obligor shall be sent through the Agent.

(d)

Any communication or document made or delivered to the Obligors’ Agent in accordance with this Clause 37.3 will be deemed to have been made or delivered to each of the Obligors.

(e)

Any communication or document which becomes effective, in accordance with paragraphs (a) to (d) above, after 5 p.m. (London time) in the place of receipt shall be deemed only to become effective on the following day

37.4

Notification of address and fax number

Promptly upon changing its own address or fax number, the Agent shall notify the other Parties.

37.5

Communication when Agent is Impaired Agent

If the Agent is an Impaired Agent, the Parties may, instead of communicating with each other through the Agent, communicate with each other directly and (while the Agent is an Impaired Agent) all the provisions of the Finance Documents which require communications to be made or notices to be given to or by the Agent shall be varied so that communications may be made and notices given to or by the relevant Parties directly. This provision shall not operate after a replacement Agent has been appointed.

37.6

Electronic communication

(a)

Any communication to be made between any two Parties under or in connection with the Finance Documents may be made by electronic mail or other electronic means (including, without limitation, by way of posting to a secure website) if those two Parties:

(i)

agree that, unless and until notified to the contrary, this is to be an accepted form of communication;

(ii)

notify each other in writing of their electronic mail address and/or any other information required to enable the sending and receipt of information by that means; and

(iii)

notify each other of any change to their address or any other such information supplied by them.

(b)

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communication made by a Lender to the Agent or the Security Agent only if it is addressed in such a manner as the Agent or Security Agent shall specify for this purpose.

37.7

Use of websites

(a)

The Obligors’ Agent and any Obligor may satisfy its obligation under this Agreement to deliver any information in relation to those Lenders (the “Website Lenders”) who accept this method of communication by posting that information (or having the Agent post that information) onto an electronic website designated by the Obligors’ Agent and/or the Parent and the Agent (the “Designated Website”) if:

(i)

the Agent expressly agrees (after consultation with each of the Lenders) that it will accept communication of the information by this method;

(ii)

the Obligors’ Agent and the Agent are aware of the address of and any relevant password specifications for the Designated Website; and

(iii)

the information is in a format previously agreed between the Obligors’ Agent and the Agent.

If any Lender (a “Paper Form Lender”) does not agree to the delivery of information electronically, then the Agent shall notify the Obligors’ Agent accordingly and the Obligors’ Agent shall at its own cost supply the information to the Agent (in sufficient copies for each Paper Form Lender) in paper form. In any event, the Obligors’ Agent shall, if requested by the Agent, at its own cost supply the Agent with at least one copy in paper form of any information required to be provided by it.

(b)

The Agent shall supply each Website Lender with the address of and any relevant password specifications for the Designated Website following designation of that website by the Obligors’ Agent and the Agent.

(c)

The Obligors’ Agent shall promptly upon becoming aware of its occurrence notify the Agent if:

(i)

the Designated Website cannot be accessed due to technical failure;

(ii)

the password specifications for the Designated Website change;

(iii)

any new information which is required to be provided under this Agreement is posted onto the Designated Website;

(iv)

any existing information which has been provided under this Agreement and posted onto the Designated Website is amended; or

(v)

the Obligors’ Agent becomes aware that the Designated Website or any information posted onto the Designated Website is or has been infected by any electronic virus or similar software.

If the Obligors’ Agent notifies the Agent under sub-paragraphs (c)(i) or (c)(v) above, all information to be provided by the Obligors’ Agent under this Agreement after the date of

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that notice shall be supplied in paper form unless and until the Agent is satisfied that the circumstances giving rise to the notification are no longer continuing.

(d)

Any Website Lender may request, through the Agent, one paper copy of any information required to be provided under this Agreement which is posted onto the Designated Website. The Obligors’ Agent shall, at its own cost, comply with any such request within ten (10) Business Days.

37.8

English language

(a)

Any notice given under or in connection with any Finance Document must be in English.

(b)

All other documents (other than the constitutional documents of any Obligor) provided under or in connection with any Finance Document must be:

(i)

in English; or

(ii)

if not in English, and if so required by the Agent, accompanied by a certified English translation and, in this case, the English translation will prevail unless the document is a constitutional, statutory or other official document.

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Calculations and Certificates

38.1

Accounts

In any litigation or arbitration proceedings arising out of or in connection with a Finance Document, the entries made in the accounts maintained by a Finance Party are prima facie evidence of the matters to which they relate.

38.2

Certificates and determinations

Any certification or determination by a Finance Party of a rate or amount under any Finance Document is, in the absence of manifest error, prima facie evidence of the matters to which it relates.

38.3

Day count convention

(a)

Any interest, commission or fee accruing under a Finance Document will accrue from day to day and is calculated on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed and a year of 365 days or, in any case, where the market practice in the Relevant Market differs, in accordance with that market practice.

(b)

If any day during an Interest Period for a Compounded Rate Loan is not an RFR Banking Day, the rate of interest on that Compounded Rate Loan for that day will be the rate applicable to the immediately preceding RFR Banking Day.

(c)

The total amount of interest, commission or fee which accrues in respect of a Compounded Rate Loan (or of any amount equal to that interest, commission or fee) shall be rounded to 2 decimal places.

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Partial Invalidity

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If, at any time, any provision of the Finance Documents is or becomes illegal, invalid or unenforceable in any respect under any law of any jurisdiction, neither the legality, validity or enforceability of the remaining provisions nor the legality, validity or enforceability of such provision under the law of any other jurisdiction will in any way be affected or impaired.

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Remedies and Waivers

No failure to exercise, nor any delay in exercising, on the part of any Finance Party or Secured Party, any right or remedy under the Finance Documents shall operate as a waiver, nor shall any single or partial exercise of any right or remedy prevent any further or other exercise or the exercise of any other right or remedy. The rights and remedies provided in this Agreement are cumulative and not exclusive of any rights or remedies provided by law.

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Amendments and Waivers

This Clause 41 is subject to the terms of the Intercreditor Agreement.

41.1

Required consents

(a)

Subject to Clause 41.2 (Exceptions), any provision of the Finance Documents may be amended or waived only with the consent of the Majority Lenders and the Obligors’ Agent and any such amendment or waiver will be binding on all Parties.

(b)

The Agent (or in relation to a Transaction Security Document, the Security Agent) may effect, on behalf of any Finance Party, any amendment or waiver permitted by this Clause 41.

(c)

Each Obligor agrees to any such amendment or waiver permitted by this Clause 41 which is agreed to by the Obligors’ Agent. This includes any amendment or waiver which would, but for this paragraph (c), require the consent of all of the Guarantors.

41.2

Exceptions

(a)

An amendment or waiver of the following:

(i)

the definition of “Majority Lenders” or “Super Majority Lenders” in Clause 1.1 (Definitions) or “Facility Change” in this Clause 41;

(ii)

the definition of “Change of Control” in Clause 1.1 (Definitions);

(iii)

any provision which expressly requires the consent of all the Lenders;

(iv)

Clause 2.3 (Finance Parties’ rights and obligations) subject to paragraph (g) below, Clause 29 (Changes to the Lenders), Clause 34 (Sharing among the Finance Parties), this Clause 41, Clause 46 (Governing Law) or Clause 47.1 (Jurisdiction of English Courts); or

(v)

any material provision of Clause 2 (Ranking and Priority), Clause 9 (Effect of Insolvency Event) or Clause 14.1 (Order of Application) of the Intercreditor Agreement (in each case to the extent relating to the rights and/or obligations of the Lenders (in such capacity) under any such clause),

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(except in any such case amendments or waivers consequential on, incidental to or required to implement or reflect a Facility Change, an Incremental Facility or a Permitted Refinancing where, in each such case, no Lender consent shall be required) shall not be made without the prior consent of all the Lenders.

(b)

A change to the Borrowers or Guarantors other than in accordance with Clause 31 (Changes to the Obligors) shall require the consent of each Lender under each Facility in respect of which such entity is a Borrower or Guarantor.

(c)

An amendment or waiver which relates to the rights or obligations of the Agent, the Arrangers, the Bookrunners, the Issuing Banks, the Security Agent or any Ancillary Lender (each in their capacity as such) may not be effected without the consent of the Agent, the Arrangers, the Bookrunners, the Issuing Banks, the Security Agent or, as the case may be, that Ancillary Lender.  No amendment or waiver of a provision of any Fee Letter or any other side letter relating to the Finance Documents shall require the consent of any Finance Party other than a Finance Party which is a party to such Fee Letter or any other side letter relating to the Finance Documents.

(d)

Each Party hereby irrevocably authorises the Agent to execute on its behalf any amendment required to be made to the Agreement by a Lender who has agreed to become an additional Issuing Bank pursuant to Clause 6.10 (Appointment of additional Issuing Banks) provided that such amendment does not prejudice the rights of any other Party under this Agreement.

(e)

An amendment or waiver that has the effect of changing the definition of “Change of Control” in Clause 1.1 (Definitions) shall not be made without the prior consent of all Lenders.

(f)

Other than:

(i)

pursuant to Clause 31.6 (Release of Security);

(ii)

on repayment and cancellation in full of the Facilities;

(iii)

in connection with incurring Indebtedness to refinance the Facilities or to implement a Facility Change or an Incremental Facility;

(iv)

in the case of a disposal not prohibited under this Agreement or Permitted Transaction; or

(v)

where otherwise expressly provided for in the Finance Documents,

where, in each case, approval will be automatic and the Finance Parties shall (on the request and at the cost of the Obligors’ Agent) execute any required release documents, any release of any guarantee and indemnity granted under Clause 23 (Guarantee and Indemnity) or of any Transaction Security created by any of the Transaction Security Documents, any release of all or substantially all of the Transaction Security and/or the release of any Guarantor shall not be made without the prior consent of the Super Majority Lenders. Any amendment, change or waiver of this paragraph (f) shall also require the prior consent of the Super Majority Lenders.

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(g)

Any amendment or waiver which relates to the rights or obligations applicable to a particular Utilisation, Facility or class of Lenders and which does not materially and adversely affect the rights or interests of Lenders in respect of other Utilisations, Facilities or another class of Lender shall only require the consent of the Majority Lenders or the Lenders (as applicable) as if references in this paragraph (g) to “Majority Lenders” or “Lenders” were only to Lenders participating in that Utilisation, Facility or forming part of that affected class.

(h)

For the avoidance of doubt, subject to paragraph (i) below, any amendment (including a waiver of a right of prepayment) under Clause 12 (Mandatory Prepayment) may be approved with the consent of the Majority Lenders.

(i)

A Facility Change shall be approved with the consent of each Lender that is participating in that Facility Change and shall not require the consent of any other Lender unless such Facility Change is to (i) increase the Total Commitments or to add an additional tranche or facility which in each case is not otherwise Indebtedness permitted under the terms of this Agreement, or (ii) reduce the tenor of a Facility, in which case such Facility Change shall also require the consent of the Majority Lenders (for which purpose the existing Commitments of each such Lender  participating in the relevant Facility Change will be taken into account).

(j)

For the purposes of this Agreement “Facility Change” means an amendment, waiver or variation of the provisions of some or all of the Finance Documents that results or is intended to result in:

(i)

the introduction of an additional loan, commitment or facility into the Finance Documents (provided that any such additional loan, commitment or facility does not rank on an enforcement or in an insolvency situation ahead of other utilisations by virtue of this Agreement, in each case subject to customary exceptions for fees, costs, expenses and other similar amounts, including as contemplated by the provisions of the Intercreditor Agreement);

(ii)

an increase in or addition of a Commitment;

(iii)

any extension of the Availability Period in respect of any Commitment of any Lender;

(iv)

any redenomination into another currency of any Commitment;

(v)

a reduction in any Margin or a reduction in any payment of principal, interest, fees, commission or other amount payable under the Finance Documents;

(vi)

an extension to the date of payment of any principal, interest, fees, commission or other amount payable under the Finance Documents (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any amendment to the entitlement to require repayment and cancellation upon the occurrence of a Change of Control pursuant to Clause 12 (Mandatory Prepayment));

(vii)

a change in currency of payment of any principal, interest, fees, commission or other amount payable under the Finance Documents; and

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(viii)

any change (including changes to, the taking of or the release coupled with the retaking of Security and/or guarantees and changes to and/or additional intercreditor arrangements), waiver or amendment to the Finance Documents consequential on or required to implement or reflect anything described above in sub-paragraphs (i) to (vii).

(k)

Subject to compliance with paragraph (b) of Clause 9.3 (Terms of Ancillary Facilities), no amendment or waiver of a provision of any Ancillary Document shall require the consent of any Finance Party other than the relevant Ancillary Lender.

(l)

Any Default, Event of Default, Acceleration Event or notice, demand, declaration or other step or action taken under or pursuant to Clause 28.4 (Acceleration) (including any event constituting an Acceleration Event) may be revoked or, as the case may be, waived with the consent of the Majority Lenders.

(m)

Any amendment or waiver of Clause 26.2 (Financial condition) or Clause 26.3 (Equity cure right) may be approved with only the consent of the Majority Lenders. Any amendment of this paragraph (m) shall also require the prior consent of the Majority Lenders.

(n)

Without prejudice to Clause 31.6 (Release of Security) and subject to paragraph (o) below, unless the provisions of any Finance Document expressly provide otherwise, the Security Agent may, if authorised by the Majority Lenders, amend the provisions of, waive any of the requirements of, or grant consents under, any of the Transaction Security Documents (and any such amendment, waiver or consent shall be binding on all Finance Parties).

(o)

Any provision of the Finance Documents (other than any Ancillary Document) may be amended or waived by the Obligors’ Agent and the Agent (or, if applicable, the Security Agent) without the consent of any other Party if that amendment or waiver is:

(i)

to cure defects or omissions, resolve ambiguities or inconsistencies or reflect changes of a minor, technical or administrative nature; or

(ii)

otherwise for the benefit of all or (to the extent not materially prejudicial to the interests of any other Lender under the Finance Documents) any of the Lenders.

(p)

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Finance Documents, any re-designation or transfer of all or any part of a Commitment and/or a participation in any Utilisation to a new tranche or facility established as an Incremental Facility or pursuant to a Facility Change or any other provision of any of the Finance Documents (or any other similar or equivalent transaction) may be approved with the consent of the Lender holding that Commitment and/or, as the case may be, participation (or part thereof) and the Obligors’ Agent (without any requirement for any consent or approval from any other person).

(q)

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in the Finance Documents:

(i)

a Finance Party may unilaterally waive, relinquish or otherwise irrevocably surrender or give up all or any of its rights under any Finance Document (including any right to any payment) with the consent of the Obligors’ Agent; and

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(ii)

any amendment or waiver of a Finance Document made or effected in accordance with any paragraph of this Clause 41.2, Clause 2.2 (Increase - general), Clause 2.5 (Incremental Facilities) or any other provision of any of the Finance Documents shall be binding on all Parties.

(r)

Each Finance Party irrevocably and unconditionally authorises and instructs the Agent (for the benefit of the Agent and the Obligors’ Agent) to execute any documentation relating to a proposed amendment or waiver as soon as the requisite Lender consent is received (or on such later date as may be agreed by the Agent and the Obligors’ Agent).

(s)

If a Lender does not accept or reject a request from any member of the Group (or the Obligors’ Agent or the Agent on behalf of any member of the Group) for any consent, amendment, release or waiver under the Finance Documents, and/or a request from the Agent for any instructions or directions under or in connection with the Finance Documents, in each case before 5.00 p.m. (London time) on the date falling ten (10) Business Days from the date of such request being made (or such longer period of time specified by the relevant member of the Group in that request), that Lender’s participations and Commitment shall not be included when considering whether the approval of the Majority Lenders, the Super Majority Lenders, all Lenders or any class of Lenders (as applicable) has been obtained in respect of the relevant request.

41.3

Replacement of Lender

(a)

If, at any time:

(i)

any Lender becomes a Non-Consenting Lender (as defined in paragraph (c) below);

(ii)

an Obligor becomes obliged to repay any amount in accordance with Clause 11.1 (Illegality) or to pay additional amounts pursuant to Clause 19.1 (Increased Costs) or Clause 18.2 (Tax Gross-up) or Clause 18.3 (Tax Indemnity) to any Lender;

(iii)

any Lender fails to promptly enter into any document (including an amendment to this Agreement or any other Finance Document to which that Lender is a Party) after being requested to do so by the Obligors’ Agent, Agent or the Security Agent in connection with a Permitted Refinancing;

(iv)

any Lender is a Defaulting Lender,

then the Obligors’ Agent may, on not less than three (3) Business Days’ prior written notice to the Agent and such Lender,

(A)

replace such Lender by requiring such Lender to (and such Lender shall) transfer, in accordance with Clause 29 (Changes to the Lenders), all (and not part only) of its rights and obligations under this Agreement to a Lender or other bank, financial institution, trust, fund or other entity (a “Replacement Lender”) selected by the Obligors’ Agent (not being a member of the Group or Sponsor Affiliate), and which, in the case of any transfer of a Revolving Facility Commitment, is acceptable to the Issuing Banks (unless the transferred liability in respect of a Letter of Credit has

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been cash collateralised or otherwise repaid or the transfer is to a bank, fund or financial institution with a long term credit rating of at least A-/A3), which confirms its willingness to assume and does assume all the obligations of the transferring Lender (including the assumption of the transferring Lender’s participations on the same basis as the transferring Lender), and/or

(B)

prepay that Lender (provided it is not a member of the Group or Sponsor Affiliate); and/or

(C)

cancel all Commitments of that Lender,

for a purchase price in cash payable at the time of transfer equal to the outstanding principal amount of such Lender’s participation in the outstanding Utilisations and all accrued interest and/or Letter of Credit fees, Break Costs and other amounts payable in relation thereto under the Finance Documents. If a Lender does not execute and return to the Agent any Transfer Certificate required to effect any such replacement within three (3) Business Days of being requested to do so the Obligors’ Agent shall execute (and is irrevocably authorised by each party to this Agreement to execute) any required Transfer Certificate on behalf of that Lender.

(b)

The replacement of a Lender pursuant to this Clause 41.3 shall be subject to the following conditions:

(i)

the Obligors’ Agent shall have no right to replace the Agent or Security Agent (in each case in such capacity);

(ii)

neither the Agent nor the Lender shall have any obligation to the Obligors’ Agent to find a Replacement Lender;

(iii)

in the event of a replacement of a Non-Consenting Lender, such replacement must take place no later than 60 days after the date the Non-Consenting Lender notifies the Obligors’ Agent and the Agent of its failure or refusal to give a consent in relation to, or agree to any waiver or amendment to the Finance Documents requested by the Obligors’ Agent; and

(iv)

in no event shall the Lender replaced under this Clause 41.3 be required to pay or surrender to such Replacement Lender any of the fees received by such Lender pursuant to the Finance Documents.

(c)

In the event that:

(i)

the Obligors’ Agent or the Agent (at the request of the Obligors’ Agent) has requested the Lenders to give a consent in relation to, or to agree to a waiver or amendment of, any provisions of the Finance Documents;

(ii)

the consent, waiver or amendment in question requires the approval of more than the Majority Lenders; and

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(iii)

the Majority Lenders (or the Majority Lenders under the relevant Facility as the case may be) have consented or agreed to such waiver or amendment,

then any Lender who does not and continues not to consent or agree to such waiver or amendment shall be deemed a “Non-Consenting Lender”.

41.4

Disenfranchisement of Defaulting Lenders

(a)

Unless otherwise agreed by the Obligors’ Agent, for so long as a Lender is a Defaulting Lender that Lender’s participations and Commitments shall not be included when considering whether the approval of the Majority Lenders, the Super Majority Lenders, all Lenders or any class of Lenders (as applicable) has been obtained in respect of any request from any member of the Group (or the Obligors’ Agent or the Agent on behalf of any member of the Group) for any consent, amendment, release or waiver under the Finance Documents.

(b)

For the purposes of this Clause 41.4, the Agent may assume that the following Lenders are Defaulting Lenders:

(i)

any Lender which has notified the Agent that it has become a Defaulting Lender; and

(ii)

any Lender in relation to which it is aware that any of the events or circumstances referred to in the definition of “Defaulting Lender” has occurred,

unless it has received notice to the contrary from the Lender concerned (together with any supporting evidence reasonably requested by the Agent) or the Agent is otherwise aware that the Lender has ceased to be a Defaulting Lender.

41.5

Replacement of Reference Rate

(a)

If:

(i)

a Published Rate Replacement Event has occurred in relation to any Published Rate for a currency which can be selected for a Loan; or

(ii)

the Parent otherwise requests any amendment or waiver to provide for an additional or alternative benchmark rate, base rate or reference rate to apply in respect of any Facility (or any related, similar or equivalent matter), including, without limitation, any amendment or waiver in relation to (1) the definition of a “Published Rate”, (2) an alternative or additional page, service or method for the determination of a Published Rate, (3) aligning any term of a Finance Document to the use of an alternative or additional benchmark rate, base rate or reference rate, (4) adjustments in connection with the basis, duration, time and periodicity for determination of an alternative or additional benchmark rate, base rate or reference rate for any period and (5) any other consequential, related and/or incidental changes,

any amendment or waiver which relates to:

(A)

providing for the use of a Replacement Benchmark;

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(B)

aligning any provision of any Finance Document to the use of a Replacement Benchmark;

(C)

enabling a Replacement Benchmark to be used for the calculation of interest under this Agreement (including, without limitation, any consequential changes required to enable that Replacement Benchmark to be used for the purposes of this Agreement);

(D)

implementing market conventions applicable to a Replacement Benchmark;

(E)

providing for appropriate fallback (and market disruption) provisions for a Replacement Benchmark;

(F)

adjusting the pricing to reduce or eliminate, to the extent reasonably practicable, any transfer of economic value from one Party to another as a result of the application of a Replacement Benchmark (and if any adjustment or method for calculating any adjustment has been formally designated, nominated or recommended by the Relevant Nominating Body, the adjustment shall (if the Parent so elects in its sole discretion) be determined on the basis of that designation, nomination or recommendation);

(G)

aligning the means of calculation of interest on a Compounded Rate Loan in any currency under this Agreement to any recommendation of a Relevant Nominating Body which:

(1)

relates to the use of an RFR on a compounded basis in the international or any relevant domestic syndicated loan markets; and

(2)

is issued on or after the date of this Agreement; or

(H)

any other matter requested by the Parent pursuant to sub-paragraph (ii) above (including, for the avoidance of doubt, any changes that the Parent proposes as necessary or desirable in connection with and/or to facilitate the implementation and use of any Replacement Benchmark),

may be made with the consent of the Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders or, where applicable, in accordance with paragraph (b) below) and the Parent.

(b)

In the case of any amendment or waiver requested by the Parent pursuant to paragraph (a) above, the Agent shall provide its consent to that amendment or waiver if:

(i)

the Agent determines (acting reasonably) that the relevant Replacement Benchmark the subject of that amendment or waiver is generally accepted as a then-prevailing market convention for determining a rate of interest for syndicated loans of the type provided for under this Agreement in the European, London or any other relevant domestic market in the relevant currency (provided that, for the avoidance of doubt, the relevant Replacement Benchmark shall automatically be considered a then-prevailing market convention if it is

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consistent in all material respects with the benchmark rate, base rate or reference rate used in any other substantially equivalent financing successfully syndicated in the European, London or any other relevant domestic loan market or in any Loan Market Association form of facilities agreement; or

(ii)

the Majority Lenders (acting reasonably) have consented to that amendment or waiver.

(c)

In this Clause 41.5:

Published Rate” means:

(i)

an RFR; or

(ii)

a Screen Rate.

Published Rate Replacement Event” means, in relation to a Published Rate:

(i)

the methodology, formula or other means of determining that Published Rate has, in the opinion of the Agent and the Parent, materially changed;

(A)

the administrator of that Published Rate or its supervisor publicly announces that such administrator is insolvent or information is published in any order, decree, notice, petition or filing, however described, of or filed with a court, tribunal, exchange, regulatory authority or similar administrative, regulatory or judicial body which reasonably confirms that the administrator of that Published Rate is insolvent, provided that, in each case, at that time, there is no successor administrator to continue to provide that Published Rate;

(B)

the administrator of that Published Rate publicly announces that it has ceased or will cease to provide that Published Rate permanently or indefinitely and, at that time, there is no successor administrator to continue to provide that Published Rate;

(C)

the supervisor of the administrator of that Published Rate publicly announces that such Published Rate has been or will be permanently or indefinitely discontinued; or

(D)

the administrator of that Published Rate or its supervisor announces that that Published Rate may no longer be used; or

(ii)

in the opinion of the Agent and the Parent, that Published Rate is otherwise no longer appropriate for the purposes of calculating interest under this Agreement.

Relevant Nominating Body” means any applicable central bank, regulator or other supervisory authority or a group of them, or any working group or committee sponsored or chaired by, or constituted at the request of, any of them or the Financial Stability Board.

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Replacement Benchmark” means a benchmark rate, base rate or reference rate which is:

(i)

formally designated, nominated or recommended as the replacement for a Published Rate by:

(A)

the administrator of that Published Rate (provided that the market or economic reality that such benchmark rate measures is the same as that measured by that Published Rate); or

(B)

any Relevant Nominating Body,

and if replacements have, at the relevant time, been formally designated, nominated or recommended under both paragraphs, the “Replacement Benchmark” will be the replacement under sub-paragraph (B) above;

(ii)

in the opinion of the Agent and the Parent, generally accepted in the international or any relevant domestic syndicated loan markets as the appropriate successor to a Published Rate;

(iii)

in the opinion of the Agent and the Parent, an appropriate successor to a Published Rate; or

(iv)

proposed by the Parent and either:

(A)

used in any other substantially equivalent financing successfully syndicated in the European, London or any other relevant domestic loan market, any Loan Market Association form of facilities agreement, any facilities agreement of a portfolio company of the Sponsor or any facilities agreement under which the Agent is a facility or administrative agent (howsoever described); or

(B)

otherwise practicable for the Agent to administer (as reasonably determined by the Agent).

(d)

The Finance Parties shall be required to enter into any amendment to or replacement of the Finance Documents required by the Parent in order to facilitate or reflect any of the matters contemplated by this Clause 41.5.  The Agent is irrevocably authorised and instructed by each Finance Party to execute any such amended or replacement Finance Documents (and shall do so on the request of the Parent).  The Parent shall, or shall procure that another member of the Group will, within twenty (20) Business Days of demand, reimburse the Agent for all reasonable fees and disbursements of legal counsel (as appointed with the prior approval of the Parent) properly incurred by the Agent in connection with any amendment or wavier requested by the Parent pursuant to this Clause 41.5 (in each case subject always to limits as agreed from time to time). No member of the Group shall be required to pay any other fees, costs, expenses or other amounts relating to or arising in connection with any of the matters contemplated by this Clause 41.5.

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Confidentiality

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42.1

Confidential Information

Each Finance Party agrees to keep all Confidential Information confidential and not to disclose it to anyone, save to the extent permitted by Clause 42.2 (Disclosure of Confidential Information) and Clause 42.3 (Disclosure to numbering service providers), and to ensure that all Confidential Information is protected with security measures and a degree of care that would apply to its own confidential information.

42.2

Disclosure of Confidential Information

Any Finance Party may disclose:

(a)

(on a need to know basis) to any of its Affiliates and Related Funds and any of its or their officers, directors, employees, professional advisers, auditors, partners and Representatives who are involved in managing or advising it in respect of its participation in the Finance Documents or have oversight over it or otherwise require access to such information in performance of their employment or, as the case may be, professional duties, such Confidential Information as that Finance Party shall consider appropriate if any person to whom the Confidential Information is to be given pursuant to this paragraph (a) is informed in writing of its confidential nature and that some or all of such Confidential Information may be price-sensitive information and agrees to keep that information confidential in accordance with this Clause 42, except that there shall be no such requirement to so inform or obtain such agreement if the recipient is subject to professional obligations to maintain the confidentiality of the information or is otherwise bound by requirements of confidentiality in relation to the Confidential Information;

(b)

to any person:

(i)

to (or through) whom it assigns or transfers (or may potentially assign or transfer) all or any of its rights and/or obligations under one or more Finance Documents or which succeeds (or which potentially succeeds) it as Agent or Security Agent and to any of that person’s Affiliates, Related Funds, Representatives and professional advisers;

(ii)

with (or through) whom it enters into (or may potentially enter into), whether directly or indirectly, any sub-participation in relation to, or any other transaction under which payments are to be made or may be made by reference to, one or more Finance Documents and/or one or more Obligors and to any of that person’s Affiliates, Related Funds, Representatives and professional advisers;

(iii)

appointed by any Finance Party or by a person to whom sub-paragraphs (b)(i) or (ii) above applies to receive communications, notices, information or documents delivered pursuant to the Finance Documents on its behalf (including, without limitation, any person appointed under paragraph (b) of Clause 32.15 (Relationship with the Lenders));

(iv)

who invests in or otherwise finances (or may potentially invest in or otherwise finance), directly or indirectly, any transaction referred to in sub-paragraphs (b)(i) or (b)(ii) above,

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(v)

to whom information is required or requested to be disclosed by any court of competent jurisdiction or any governmental, banking, taxation or other regulatory authority or similar body, the rules of any relevant stock exchange or pursuant to any applicable law or regulation;

(vi)

to whom or for whose benefit that Finance Party charges, assigns or otherwise creates Security (or may do so) pursuant to Clause 29.10 (Security over Lenders’ rights);

(vii)

to whom information is required to be disclosed in connection with, and for the purposes of, any litigation, arbitration, administrative or other investigations, proceedings or disputes;

(viii)

who is a Party;

(ix)

(in the case of the Security Agent) who is a Receiver; or

(x)

with the consent of the Obligors’ Agent,

in each case, such Confidential Information as that Finance Party (acting reasonably) shall consider appropriate if:

(A)

in relation to sub-paragraphs (b)(i), (b)(ii) and (b)(iii) above, the person to whom the Confidential Information is to be given has entered into a Confidentiality Undertaking except that there shall be no requirement for a Confidentiality Undertaking if the recipient is a professional adviser and is subject to professional obligations to maintain the confidentiality of the Confidential Information;

(B)

in relation to sub-paragraph (b)(iv) above, the person to whom the Confidential Information is to be given has entered into a Confidentiality Undertaking or is otherwise bound by requirements of confidentiality in relation to the Confidential Information they receive and is informed that some or all of such Confidential Information may be price-sensitive information; or

(C)

in relation to sub-paragraphs (b)(v), (b)(vi) and (b)(vii) above, the person to whom the Confidential Information is to be given is informed of its confidential nature and that some or all of such Confidential Information may be price-sensitive information except that there shall be no requirement to so inform if, in the opinion of that Finance Party (acting reasonably), it is not practicable so to do in the circumstances;

(c)

to any person appointed by that Finance Party or by a person to whom sub-paragraphs (b)(i) or (b)(ii) above applies to provide administration or settlement services in respect of one or more of the Finance Documents, including, without limitation, in relation to the trading of participations in respect of the Finance Documents, such Confidential Information as may be required to be disclosed to enable such service provider to provide any of the services referred to in this paragraph (c) if the service provider to whom the Confidential Information is to be given has entered into a confidentiality agreement

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substantially in the form agreed between the Obligors’ Agent and the relevant Finance Party; and

(d)

to any rating agency (including its professional advisers) such Confidential Information as may be required to be disclosed to enable such rating agency to carry out its normal rating activities in relation to the Finance Documents and/or the Obligors if the rating agency to whom the Confidential Information is to be given is informed of its confidential nature and that some or all of such Confidential Information may be price sensitive information.

42.3

Disclosure to numbering service providers

(a)

Any Finance Party may disclose to any national or international numbering service provider appointed by that Finance Party to provide identification numbering services in respect of this Agreement, the Facilities and/or one or more Obligors the following information:

(i)

names of Obligors;

(ii)

country of domicile of Obligors;

(iii)

place of incorporation of Obligors;

(iv)

date of this Agreement;

(v)

Clause 46 (Governing law);

(vi)

the names of the Agent and the Arrangers;

(vii)

date of each amendment and restatement of this Agreement;

(viii)

amounts and names of the Facilities (and tranches);

(ix)

amount of Total Commitments;

(x)

currencies of the Facilities;

(xi)

type of Facilities;

(xii)

ranking of Facilities;

(xiii)

the applicable Maturity Date for Facilities;

(xiv)

changes to any of the information previously supplied pursuant to sub-paragraphs (i) to (xiii) above; and

(xv)

such other information agreed between such Finance Party and the Obligors’ Agent,

to enable such numbering service provider to provide its usual syndicated loan numbering identification services.

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(b)

The Parties acknowledge and agree that each identification number assigned to this Agreement, the Facilities and/or one or more Obligors by a numbering service provider and the information associated with each such number may be disclosed to users of its services in accordance with the standard terms and conditions of that numbering service provider.

(c)

The Agent shall notify the Obligors’ Agent and the other Finance Parties of:

(i)

the name of any numbering service provider appointed by the Agent in respect of this Agreement, the Facilities and/or one or more Obligors; and

(ii)

the number or, as the case may be, numbers assigned to this Agreement, the Facilities and/or one or more Obligors by such numbering service provider.

42.4

Entire agreement

This Clause 42 constitutes the entire agreement between the Parties in relation to the obligations of the Finance Parties under the Finance Documents regarding Confidential Information and supersedes any previous agreement, whether express or implied, regarding Confidential Information.

42.5

Inside information

Each of the Finance Parties acknowledges that some or all of the Confidential Information is or may be price-sensitive information and that the use of such information may be regulated or prohibited by applicable legislation, including securities law relating to insider dealing and market abuse and each of the Finance Parties undertakes not to use any Confidential Information for any unlawful purpose.

42.6

Notification of disclosure and copies of Confidentiality Undertakings

(a)

Each of the Finance Parties agrees (to the extent permitted by law and regulation) to inform the Obligors’ Agent:

(i)

of the circumstances of any disclosure of Confidential Information made pursuant to sub-paragraph (b)(v) of Clause 42.2 (Disclosure of Confidential Information) except where such disclosure is made to any of the persons referred to in that paragraph during the ordinary course of its supervisory or regulatory function; and

(ii)

upon becoming aware that Confidential Information has been disclosed in breach of this Clause 42.

(b)

Each Finance Party that has entered into a Confidentiality Undertaking with a recipient of Confidential Information pursuant to sub-paragraph (b)(x)(A) of Clause 42.2 (Disclosure of Confidential Information), shall promptly provide the Obligors’ Agent with a copy of such Confidentiality Undertaking.

42.7

Continuing obligations

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The obligations in this Clause 42 are continuing and, in particular, shall survive and remain binding on each Finance Party for a period of 12 Months from the earlier of:

(a)

the date on which all amounts payable by the Obligors under or in connection with the Finance Documents have been paid in full and all Commitments have been cancelled or otherwise cease to be available; and

(b)

the date on which such Finance Party otherwise ceases to be a Finance Party.

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Confidentiality of Funding Rates

43.1

Confidentiality and disclosure

(a)

The Agent and each Obligor agree to keep each Funding Rate confidential and not to disclose it to anyone, save to the extent permitted by paragraphs (b) and (c) below.

(b)

The Agent may disclose:

(i)

any Funding Rate to the relevant Borrower pursuant to Clause 14.4 (Notification of rates of interest); and

(ii)

any Funding Rate to any person appointed by it to provide administration services in respect of one or more of the Finance Documents to the extent necessary to enable such service provider to provide those services if the service provider to whom that information is to be given has entered into a confidentiality agreement substantially in the form of the LMA Master Confidentiality Undertaking for use with Administration/Settlement Service Providers or such other form of confidentiality undertaking agreed between the Agent and the relevant Lender.

(c)

The Agent may disclose any Funding Rate, and each Obligor may disclose any Funding Rate, to:

(i)

any of its Affiliates and any of its or their officers, directors, employees, professional advisers, auditors, partners and Representatives if any person to whom that Funding Rate is to be given pursuant to this sub-paragraph (i) is informed in writing of its confidential nature and that it may be price-sensitive information except that there shall be no such requirement to so inform if the recipient is subject to professional obligations to maintain the confidentiality of that Funding Rate or is otherwise bound by requirements of confidentiality in relation to it;

(ii)

any person to whom information is required or requested to be disclosed by any court of competent jurisdiction or any governmental, banking, taxation or other regulatory authority or similar body, the rules of any relevant stock exchange or pursuant to any applicable law regulation if the person to whom that Funding Rate is to be given is informed in writing of its confidential nature that it may be price-sensitive information except that there shall be no requirement to so inform if, in the opinion of the Agent or the relevant Obligor, as the case may be, it is not practicable to do so in the circumstances;

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(iii)

any person to whom information is required to be disclosed in connection with, and for the purposes of, any litigation, arbitration, administrative or other investigations, proceedings or disputes if the person to whom that Funding Rate is to be given is informed in writing of its confidential nature and that it may be price-sensitive information except that there shall be no requirement to so inform if, in the opinion of the Agent or the relevant Obligor, as the case may be, it is not practicable to do so in the circumstances; and

(iv)

any person with the consent of the relevant Lender.

43.2

Related obligations

(a)

The Agent and each Obligor acknowledge that each Funding Rate is or may be price-sensitive information and that its use may be regulated or prohibited by applicable legislation including securities law relating to insider dealing and market abuse and the Agent and each Obligor undertake not to use any Funding Rate for any unlawful purpose.

(b)

The Agent and each Obligor agree (to the extent permitted by law and regulation) to inform the relevant Lender:

(i)

of the circumstances of any disclosure made pursuant to sub-paragraph (c)(i) of Clause 43.1 (Confidentiality and disclosure) except where such disclosure is made to any of the persons referred to in that paragraph during the ordinary course of its supervisory or regulatory function; and

(ii)

upon becoming aware that any information has been disclosed in breach of this Clause 43.

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Counterparts

Each Finance Document may be executed in any number of counterparts, and this has the same effect as if the signatures on the counterparts were on a single copy of the Finance Document.

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Entire Agreement

This Agreement and the other Finance Documents supersede all previous agreements in relation to the Facilities between the Parties.

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Section 12.

Governing Law and Enforcement

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Governing Law

(a)

Subject to paragraph (b) below, this Agreement and any non-contractual obligations arising out of or in connection with it are governed by English law.

(b)

Notwithstanding paragraph (a) above, Schedule 16 (Covenants and Certain Definitions), Schedule 17 (Information Undertakings) and Schedule 18 (Events of Default) shall be interpreted in accordance with New York law.

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Enforcement

47.1

Jurisdiction of English courts

(a)

The courts of England have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute arising out of or in connection with this Agreement (including a dispute relating to the existence, validity or termination of this Agreement or any non-contractual obligation arising out of or in connection with this Agreement) (a “Dispute”).

(b)

The Parties agree that the courts of England are the most appropriate and convenient courts to settle Disputes and, accordingly, no Party will argue to the contrary.

47.2

Service of process

Without prejudice to any other mode of service allowed under any relevant law each Obligor (other than an Obligor incorporated in England and Wales):

(a)

irrevocably appoints the Parent as its agent for service of process in relation to any proceedings before the English courts in connection with any Finance Document; and

(b)

agrees that failure by a process agent to notify the relevant Obligor of the process will not invalidate the proceedings concerned.

An Obligor may irrevocably appoint another person as its agent for service of process in relation to any proceedings before the English courts in connection with any Finance Document, subject to notifying the Agent accordingly. In the case of any replacement of an existing agent for service of process, following the new process agent's appointment and notification to the Agent of such new appointment, the existing process agent may resign.

48

PATRIOT ACT

Each Lender that is subject to the requirements of the USA PATRIOT Act hereby notifies each Obligor that, pursuant to the requirements of the USA PATRIOT Act, such Lender is required to obtain, verify and record information that identifies such Obligor, which information includes the name and address of such Obligor and other information that will allow such Lender to identify such Obligor in accordance with the USA PATRIOT Act.

49

Contractual recognition of bail-in

197


Notwithstanding any other term of any Finance Document or any other agreement, arrangement or understanding between the Parties,  each Party acknowledges and accepts that any liability of any Party to any other Party under or in connection with the Finance Documents may be subject to Bail-In Action by the relevant Resolution Authority and acknowledges and accepts to be bound by the effect of:

(a)

any Bail-In Action in relation to any such liability, including (without limitation):

(i)

a reduction, in full or in part, in the principal amount, or outstanding amount due (including any accrued but unpaid interest) in respect of any such liability;

(ii)

a conversion of all, or part of, any such liability into shares or other instruments of ownership that may be issued to, or conferred on, it; and

(iii)

a cancellation of any such liability; and

(b)

a variation of any term of any Finance Document to the extent necessary to give effect to any Bail-In Action in relation to any such liability.

For the purposes of this Clause 49:

"Article 55 BRRD" means Article 55 of Directive 2014/59/EU establishing a framework for the recovery and resolution of credit institutions and investment firms;

"Bail-In Action" means the exercise of any Write-down and Conversion Powers;

"Bail-In Legislation" means:

(a)

in relation to an EEA Member Country which has implemented, or which at any time implements, Article 55 BRRD, the relevant implementing law or regulation  as described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule from time to time; and

(b)

in relation to the United Kingdom, the UK Bail-In Legislation;

"EEA Member Country" means any member state of the European Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway;

"EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule" means the document described as such and published by the Loan Market Association (or any successor person) from time to time;

"Resolution Authority" means any body which has authority to exercise any Write-down and Conversion Powers;

"UK Bail-In Legislation" means Part I of the United Kingdom Banking Act 2009 and any other law or regulation applicable in the United Kingdom relating to the resolution of unsound or failing banks, investment firms or other financial institutions or their affiliates (otherwise than through liquidation, administration or other insolvency proceedings); and

"Write-down and Conversion Powers" means:

198


(a)

in relation to any Bail-In Legislation described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule from time to time, the powers described as such in relation to that Bail-In Legislation in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule; and

(b)

in relation to the UK Bail-In Legislation, any powers under that UK Bail-In Legislation to cancel, transfer or dilute shares issued by a person that is a bank or investment firm or other financial institution or affiliate of a bank, investment firm or other financial institution, to cancel, reduce, modify or change the form of a liability of such a person or any contract or instrument under which that liability arises, to convert all or part of that liability into shares, securities or obligations of that person or any other person, to provide that any such contract or instrument is to have effect as if a right had been exercised under it or to suspend any obligation in respect of that liability or any of the powers under that UK Bail-In Legislation that are related to or ancillary to any of those powers.

THIS AGREEMENT has been entered into on the date stated at the beginning of this Agreement.

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Schedule 1

The Original Parties

[INTENTIONALLY OMITTED]

200


Schedule 2

Conditions Precedent

[INTENTIONALLY OMITTED]

201


Schedule 3

Requests and Notices

[INTENTIONALLY OMITTED]

202


Schedule 4

Form of Transfer Certificate

[INTENTIONALLY OMITTED]

203


Schedule 5

Form of Assignment Agreement

[INTENTIONALLY OMITTED]

204


Schedule 6

Form of Accession Deed

[INTENTIONALLY OMITTED]

205


Schedule 7

Form of Resignation Letter

[INTENTIONALLY OMITTED]

206


Schedule 8

Form of Compliance Certificate

[INTENTIONALLY OMITTED]

207


Schedule 9

Form of Confidentiality Undertaking

[INTENTIONALLY OMITTED]

208


Schedule 10

Timetables

[INTENTIONALLY OMITTED]

209


Schedule 11

Form of Letter of Credit

[INTENTIONALLY OMITTED]

210


Schedule 12

Agreed Security Principles

[INTENTIONALLY OMITTED]

211


Schedule 13

Form of Increase Confirmation

[INTENTIONALLY OMITTED]

212


Schedule 14

Form of Incremental Facility Accession Notice

[INTENTIONALLY OMITTED]

213


Schedule 15

Form of Incremental Facility Notice

[INTENTIONALLY OMITTED]

214


Schedule 16

Covenants and Certain Definitions

[INTENTIONALLY OMITTED]

215


Schedule 17

Information Undertakings

[INTENTIONALLY OMITTED]

216


Schedule 18

Events of Default

[INTENTIONALLY OMITTED]

217


Schedule 19

Compounded Rate Terms

[INTENTIONALLY OMITTED]

218


Schedule 20

Daily Non-Cumulative Compounded RFR Rate

[INTENTIONALLY OMITTED]

219


Schedule 21

Form of Designated Entity Accession Agreement

[INTENTIONALLY OMITTED]

220


SIGNATURES

[Not restated]

PARENT

ALBION HOLDCO LIMITED

By:

Address:

1 Bartholomew Lane
London

EC2N 2AX

Email:

[***]

Attention:

[***] with copy to [***]

Address:

1 Bartholomew Lane
London

EC2N 2AX


THE COMPANY

ALBION MIDCO LIMITED

By:

Address:

1 Bartholomew Lane
London

EC2N 2AX

Email:

[***]

Attention:

[***] with copy to [***]


THE ORIGINAL BORROWER

Albion Midco Limited

By:

Address:

1 Bartholomew Lane
London

EC2N 2AX

Email:

[***]

Attention:

[***] with copy to [***]


THE ORIGINAL GUARANTORS

ALBION HOLDCO LIMITED

By:

Address:

1 Bartholomew Lane
London

EC2N 2AX

Email:

[***]

Attention:

[***] with copy to [***]

Albion – Revolving Facility Agreement – Signature Page


ALBION FINANCING 1 S.À R.L.

By:

Title:

Address:

20, rue Eugène Ruppert

L-2453 Luxembourg

Email:

[***]

Attention:

[***]


ALBION FINANCING 2 S.À R.L

By:

Title:

Address:

20, rue Eugène Ruppert

L-2453 Luxembourg

Email:

[***]

Attention:

[***]


ALBION FINANCING 3 S.À R.L

By:

Title:

Address:

20, rue Eugène Ruppert

L-2453 Luxembourg

Email:

[***]

Attention:

[***]


ALBION MIDCO LIMITED

By:

Address:

1 Bartholomew Lane
London

EC2N 2AX

Email:

[***]

Attention:

[***] with copy to [***]


ALBION ACQUISITIONS LIMITED

By:

Address:

1 Bartholomew Lane
London

EC2N 2AX

Email:

[***]

Attention:

[***] with copy to [***]


THE ARRANGERS

BANK OF AMERICA EUROPE DESIGNATED ACTIVITY COMPANY

By:

Address:

Two Park Place, Hatch Street, Dublin 2, Ireland

Tel No:

[***]

Email:

[***]

Attention:

[***]


BARCLAYS BANK PLC

By:

Address:

1 Churchill Place, Canary Wharf, London E14 5HP

Tel No:

[***]

Email:

[***]

Attention:

[***]


DEUTSCHE BANK AG, LONDON BRANCH

By:

Address:

Winchester House, 1 Great

Winchester Street, London

EC2N 2DB

Tel No:

[***]

Email:

[***]

Attention:

[***]


GOLDMAN SACHS INTERNATIONAL

By:

Address:

Plumtree Court, 25 Shoe Lane, London EC4A 4AU

Tel No:

[***]/[***]

Email:

[***]

Attention:

[***]/[***]


BANCO SANTANDER, S.A., LONDON BRANCH

By:

Address:

2 Triton Square

Regent’s Place

London

NW1 3AN

Tel No:

[***]/[***]

Email:

[***]

[***]

[***]

Attention:

[***]/[***]


LLOYDS BANK PLC

By:

Address:

10 Gresham Street,

EC2V 7AE

London

Tel No:

[***]

Email:

[***]

Attention:

[***]


SMBC BANK INTERNATIONAL PLC

By:

Address:

99 Queen Victoria St

London

EC4V 4EH

Tel No:

[***]

Email:

[***]/[***]

Attention:

[***]


THE BOOKRUNNERS

BANK OF AMERICA EUROPE DESIGNATED ACTIVITY COMPANY

By:

Address:

Two Park Place, Hatch Street, Dublin 2, Ireland

Tel No:

[***]

Email:

[***]

Attention:

[***]


BARCLAYS BANK PLC

By:

Address:

1 Churchill Place, Canary Wharf, London E14 5HP

Tel No:

[***]

Email:

[***]

Attention:

[***]


DEUTSCHE BANK AG, LONDON BRANCH

By:

Address:

Winchester House, 1 Great

Winchester Street, London

EC2N 2DB

Tel No:

[***]

Email:

[***]

Attention:

[***]


GOLDMAN SACHS INTERNATIONAL

By:

Address:

Plumtree Court, 25 Shoe Lane, London EC4A 4AU

Tel No:

[***]/[***]

Email:

[***]

Attention:

[***]


BANCO SANTANDER, S.A., LONDON BRANCH

By:

Address:

2 Triton Square

Regent’s Place

London

NW1 3AN

Tel No:

[***]/[***]

Email:

[***]

[***]

[***]

Attention:

[***]/[***]


LLOYDS BANK PLC

By:

Address:

10 Gresham Street,

EC2V 7AE

London

Tel No:

[***]

Email:

[***]

Attention:

[***]


SMBC BANK INTERNATIONAL PLC

By:

Address:

99 Queen Victoria St

London

EC4V 4EH

Tel No:

[***]

Email:

[***]/[***]

Attention:

[***]


THE AGENT

GLAS USA LLC

By:

Address:

3 Second Street, Suite 206, Jersey City, New Jersey 07311

with a copy to:

55 Ludgate Hill, Level 1, West, London EC4M 7JW

Tel No.:

[***]

Email:

[***]

Attention:

[***]


THE SECURITY AGENT

GLAS TRUST CORPORATION LIMITED

By:

Address:

55 Ludgate Hill, Level 1, West, London EC4M 7JW

Tel No.:

[***]

Email:

[***]

Attention:

[***]


THE ORIGINAL LENDERS

BARCLAYS BANK PLC

By:

Address:

1 Churchill Place, Canary Wharf, London E14 5HP

Tel No:

[***]

Email:

[***]

Attention:

[***]


BANK OF AMERICA EUROPE DESIGNATED ACTIVITY COMPANY

By:

Address:

Two Park Place, Hatch Street, Dublin 2, Ireland

Tel No:

[***]

Email:

[***]

Attention:

[***]


DEUTSCHE BANK AG, LONDON BRANCH

By:

Address:

Winchester House, 1 Great

Winchester Street, London

EC2N 2DB

Tel No:

[***]

Email:

[***]

Attention:

[***]


GOLDMAN SACHS LENDING PARTNERS LLC

By:

Address:

200 West Street, New York, NY 10282-2198

Fax:

[***]

Tel No:

[***]/[***]

Email:

[***]

Attention:

[***]/[***]


BANCO SANTANDER, S.A., LONDON BRANCH

By:

Address:

2 Triton Square

Regent’s Place

London

NW1 3AN

Tel No:

[***]/[***]

Email:

[***]

[***]

[***]

Attention:

[***]/[***]


LLOYDS BANK PLC

By:

Address:

10 Gresham Street,

EC2V 7AE

London

Tel No:

[***]

Email:

[***]

Attention:

[***]


SMBC BANK INTERNATIONAL PLC

By:

Address:

99 Queen Victoria St

London

EC4V 4EH

Tel No:

[***]

Email:

[***]

Attention:

[***]


SIGNATURES

The Obligors’ Agent

ALBION HOLDCO LIMITED

By:

Kestrel – RCF Amendment and Restatement Agreement – Signature Page


Topco

ALBION TOPCO LIMITED

By:

Kestrel – RCF Amendment and Restatement Agreement – Signature Page


Acceding Borrower

AGGREKO FINANCE LIMITED

EXECUTED as a DEED

By:

Signature of Director

Name of Director

in the presence of

Signature of witness

Name of witness

Address of witness

Occupation of witness

Kestrel – RCF Amendment and Restatement Agreement – Signature Page


Acceding Guarantor

AGGREKO FINANCE LIMITED

EXECUTED as a DEED

By:

Signature of Director

Name of Director

in the presence of

Signature of witness

Name of witness

Address of witness

Occupation of witness

Kestrel – RCF Amendment and Restatement Agreement – Signature Page


Acceding Guarantor

RESOLUTE PARENT, LLC

EXECUTED as a DEED

By:

Kestrel – RCF Amendment and Restatement Agreement – Signature Page


JPMORGAN CHASE BANK, N.A., LONDON BRANCH
as RCF Lender

By:

Name:

Title:

Address:

25 Bank Street, Canary Wharf, London E14 5JP

Email:

[***]

Attention:

[***]

Kestrel – RCF Amendment and Restatement Agreement – Signature Page


DEUTSCHE BANK AG, LONDON BRANCH
as RCF Lender

By:

Name:

Title:

By:

Name:

Title:

Address:

21 Moorfields, London, EC2Y 9DB

Email:

[***]

Attention:

[***]

Kestrel – RCF Amendment and Restatement Agreement – Signature Page


BARCLAYS BANK PLC
as RCF Lender

By:

Name:

Title:

Address:

1 Churchill Place, Canary Wharf, London E14 5HP

Email:

[***]

Attention:

[***]

Kestrel – RCF Amendment and Restatement Agreement – Signature Page


BANCO SANTANDER, S.A., LONDON BRANCH
as RCF Lender

By:

Name:

Title:

By:

Name:

Title:

Address:

2 Triton Square, Regent’s Place, London, NW1 3AN

Email:

[***]
[***]

Attention:

[***]/[***]

Kestrel – RCF Amendment and Restatement Agreement – Signature Page


HSBC UK BANK PLC
as RCF Lender

By:

Name:

Title:

Address:

Scotland Corporate Banking Centre, 1 West Regent Street, Glasgow, G2 1RW

Email:

[***]

Attention:

[***]

Kestrel – RCF Amendment and Restatement Agreement – Signature Page


STANDARD CHARTERED BANK
as RCF Lender

By:

Name:

Title:

Address:

1 Basinghall Avenue, London, EC2V 5DD, United Kingdom

Email:

[***]
[***]
[***]
[***]

Attention:

[***]

Kestrel – RCF Amendment and Restatement Agreement – Signature Page


LLOYDS BANK PLC
as RCF Lender

By:

Name:

Title:

Address:

33 Old Broad Street, London, EC2N 1HZ

Email:

[***]
[***]

Attention:

[***]/[***]

Kestrel – RCF Amendment and Restatement Agreement – Signature Page


ROYAL BANK OF CANADA
as RCF Lender

By:

Name:

Title:

Address:

100 Bishopsgate, London, EC2N 4AA

Email:

[***]
[***]
[***]

Attention:

[***]/[***]/[***]

Kestrel – RCF Amendment and Restatement Agreement – Signature Page


UBS AG LONDON BRANCH
as RCF Lender

By:

Name:

Title:

By:

Name:

Title:

Address:

5 Broadgate, London, EC2M 2QS

Email:

[***]

Attention:

[***]/[***]/[***]

Kestrel – RCF Amendment and Restatement Agreement – Signature Page


GOLDMAN SACHS LENDING PARTNERS LLC
as RCF Lender

By:

Name:

Title:

Address:

200 West Street, New York, NY 10282-2198

Email:

[***]

Attention:

[***]

Kestrel – RCF Amendment and Restatement Agreement – Signature Page


NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK PLC
as RCF Lender

By:

Name:

Title:

Address:

250 Bishopsgate, London, EC2M 4AA

Email:

[***]

Attention:

[***]

Kestrel – RCF Amendment and Restatement Agreement – Signature Page


MUFG BANK, LTD.
as RCF Lender

By:

Name:

Title:

Address:

Ropemaker Place, 25 Ropemaker St, London EC2Y 9LY

Email:

[***]

Attention:

[***]

Kestrel – RCF Amendment and Restatement Agreement – Signature Page


SMBC BANK INTERNATIONAL PLC
as RCF Lender

By:

Name:

Title:

By:

Name:

Title:

Address:

100 Liverpool Street, London, EC2M 2AT

Email:

[***]
[***]
[***]
[***]

Attention:

[***]

Kestrel – RCF Amendment and Restatement Agreement – Signature Page


CITIBANK N.A., LONDON BRANCH
as RCF Lender

By:

Name:

Title:

Address:

Citigroup Centre, 33 Canada Square, London E14 5LB, United Kingdom

Email:

[***]
[***]
[***]
[***]

Attention:

[***]/[***]/[***]/[***]

Kestrel – RCF Amendment and Restatement Agreement – Signature Page


INTESA SANPAOLO S.P.A., LONDON BRANCH
as RCF Lender

By:

Name:

Title:

By:

Name:

Title:

Address:

90 Queen Street, London EC4N 1SA

Email:

[***]
[***]

Attention:

[***]/[***]

Kestrel – RCF Amendment and Restatement Agreement – Signature Page


FIRST ABU DHABI BANK PJSC, LONDON BRANCH
as RCF Lender

By:

Name:

Title:

By:

Name:

Title:

Address:

20 Berkeley Square, 2nd Floor, Mayfair, London, W1J 6EQ

Email:

[***]
[***]
[***]

Attention:

[***]
[***]
[***]

Kestrel – RCF Amendment and Restatement Agreement – Signature Page


MORGAN STANLEY SENIOR FUNDING, INC.
as RCF Lender

By:

Name:

Title:

Address:

122 Waterloo Street, Glasgow G2 7DP, United Kingdom

Email:

Servicing:

[***]

Settlement:

[***]

Escalation:

[***]

Legal documentation, amendments & waivers:

[***]

Attention:

Operations (inquiries only):

[***]/[***]

Legal documentation, amendments and waivers:

[***]

Kestrel – RCF Amendment and Restatement Agreement – Signature Page


MIZUHO BANK, LTD
as RCF Lender

By:

Name:

Title:

Address:

30 Old Bailey, City of London, London EC4M 7AU

Email:

[***]

Attention:

[***]

Kestrel – RCF Amendment and Restatement Agreement – Signature Page


BANK OF AMERICA EUROPE DESIGNATED ACTIVITY COMPANY
as RCF Lender

By:

Name:

Title:

Address:

Two Park Place, Hatch Street, Dublin 2, Ireland

Email:

[***]

Attention:

[***]/[***]/[***]

Kestrel – RCF Amendment and Restatement Agreement – Signature Page


BARCLAYS BANK PLC
as Bonding Facility Lender

By:

Name:

Title:

Kestrel – RCF Amendment and Restatement Agreement – Signature Page


BANCO SANTANDER, S.A., LONDON BRANCH
as Bonding Facility Lender

By:

Name:

Title:

By:

Name:

Title:

Address:

2 Triton Square, Regent’s Place, London, NW1 3AN

Email:

[***]

Attention:

[***]/[***]

Kestrel – RCF Amendment and Restatement Agreement – Signature Page


HSBC UK BANK PLC
as Bonding Facility Lender

By:

Name:

Title:

Address:

Scotland Corporate Banking Centre, 1 West Regent Street, Glasgow, G2 1RW

Email:

[***]

Attention:

[***]

Kestrel – RCF Amendment and Restatement Agreement – Signature Page


STANDARD CHARTERED BANK
as Bonding Facility Lender

By:

Name:

Title:

Address:

1 Basinghall Avenue, London, EC2V 5DD, United Kingdom

Email:

[***]
[***]
[***]
[***]

Attention:

[***]

Kestrel – RCF Amendment and Restatement Agreement – Signature Page


LLOYDS BANK PLC
as Bonding Facility Lender

By:

Name:

Title:

Address:

33 Old Broad Street, London, EC2N 1HZ

Email:

[***]
[***]

Attention:

[***]/[***]

Kestrel – RCF Amendment and Restatement Agreement – Signature Page


NATIONAL WESTMINSTER BANK PLC
as Bonding Facility Lender

By:

Name:

Title:

Address:

250 Bishopsgate, London, EC2M 4AA

Email:

[***]

Attention:

[***]

Kestrel – RCF Amendment and Restatement Agreement – Signature Page


MUFG BANK, LTD.
as Bonding Facility Lender

By:

Name:

Title:

Address:

Ropemaker Place, 25 Ropemaker St, London EC2Y 9LY

Email:

[***]

Attention:

[***]

Kestrel – RCF Amendment and Restatement Agreement – Signature Page


SMBC BANK INTERNATIONAL PLC
as Bonding Facility Lender

By:

Name:

Title:

By:

Name:

Title:

Address:

100 Liverpool Street, London, EC2M 2AT

Email:

[***]
[***]
[***]
[***]

Attention:

[***]

Kestrel – RCF Amendment and Restatement Agreement – Signature Page


FIRST ABU DHABI BANK PJSC, LONDON BRANCH
as Bonding Facility Lender

By:

Name:

Title:

By:

Name:

Title:

Address:

20 Berkeley Square, 2nd Floor, Mayfair, London, W1J 6EQ

Email:

[***]
[***]
[***]

Attention:

[***]
[***]
[***]

Kestrel – RCF Amendment and Restatement Agreement – Signature Page


THE AGENT

GLAS USA LLC

By:

Name:

Title:

Authorised Signatory

Kestrel – RCF Amendment and Restatement Agreement – Signature Page


THE SECURITY AGENT

GLAS TRUST CORPORATION LIMITED

By:

Name:

Title:

Authorised Signatory

Kestrel – RCF Amendment and Restatement Agreement – Signature Page