Exhibit 10.26

FACILITY AGREEMENT

DATED 14 SEPTEMBER 2012

US$540,000,000

CREDIT FACILITY

FOR

THE COMPANIES LISTED IN SCHEDULE 1 HEREIN

as Borrowers

with

THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION LIMITED

as Facility Agent

and

STANDARD CHARTERED BANK (HONG KONG) LIMITED

as Security Trustee

 

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Allen & Overy

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CONTENTS

 

Clause         Page   1.    Interpretation      1    2.    Facilities      14   
3.    Purpose      15    4.    Conditions precedent      15    5.    Utilisation
— Loans      16    6.    Utilisation — Letters of Credit      17    7.   
Tranche C — Letters of Credit      19    8.    Optional Currencies for Letters
of Credit      24    9.    Repayment      25    10.    Prepayment and
cancellation      25    11.    Interest      28    12.    Interest Periods     
29    13.    Market disruption      30    14.    Taxes      31    15.   
Increased Costs      32    16.    Mitigation      33    17.    Payments      34
   18.    Guarantee and indemnity      36    19.    Representations and
warranties      38    20.    Information covenants      42    21.    Financial
covenants      45    22.    General covenants      48    23.    Default      54
   24.    Security      58    25.    The Administrative Parties      61    26.
   Evidence and calculations      68    27.    Fees      68    28.   
Indemnities and Break Costs      69    29.    Expenses      70    30.   
Amendments and waivers      71    31.    Changes to the Parties      72    32.
   Disclosure of information      76    33.    Set-off      77    34.    Pro
Rata Sharing      77    35.    Severability      78    36.    Counterparts     
78    37.    Notices      78    38.    Language      81    39.    Governing law
     81    40.    Enforcement      82   

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Schedules

 

1.    Original Parties      83    2.    Conditions Precedent Documents      86
   3.    Form of Request      92    4.    Forms of Transfer Certificate      93
   5.    Existing Security Interest, Loans and Guarantees      97    6.    Form
of Compliance Certificate      98    7.    Form of Accession Agreement      100
   8.    Form of Resignation Request      101    9.    Form of Letter of Credit
     102    Signatories         106   

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THIS AGREEMENT is dated             September 2012 and is made BETWEEN:

 

(1) THE COMPANIES listed in Schedule 1 (Original Parties) as borrowers (in this
capacity the Borrowers);

 

(2) THE COMPANIES listed in Schedule 1 (Original Parties) as original guarantors
(in this capacity the Original Guarantors);

 

(3) THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION LIMITED, HANG SENG BANK
LIMITED, STANDARD CHARTERED BANK (HONG KONG) LTD, CITIC BANK INTERNATIONAL
LIMITED, THE ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND PLC, HONG KONG BRANCH, THE BANK OF EAST
ASIA, LIMITED, CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK (ASIA) CORPORATION LIMITED and CHONG HING
BANK LIMITED as arranger (in this capacity the Arranger);

 

(4) THE FINANCIAL INSTITUTIONS listed in Schedule 1 (Original Parties) as
original lenders (the Original Lenders);

 

(5) CITIC BANK INTERNATIONAL LIMITED as issuing bank (in this capacity the
Issuing Bank);

 

(6) THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION LIMITED as facility agent (in
this capacity the Facility Agent); and

 

(7) STANDARD CHARTERED BANK (HONG KONG) LIMITED as security trustee (in this
capacity the Security Trustee).

IT IS AGREED as follows:

 

1. INTERPRETATION

 

1.1 Definitions

In this Agreement:

Accession Agreement means a letter, substantially in the form of Schedule 7
(Form of Accession Agreement), with such amendments as the Facility Agent and
the Borrowers may agree (each acting reasonably).

Additional Guarantor means a member of the Group which becomes a Guarantor after
the date of this Agreement.

Additional Guarantor Security Agreement means a security agreement to be granted
by an Additional Guarantor in respect of all its present and future assets in
favour of the Security Trustee in form and substance satisfactory to the
Security Trustee.

Additional Guarantor Share Mortgage means a share mortgage to be granted by each
shareholder of an Additional Guarantor in favour of the Security Trustee in
respect of its shares in that Additional Guarantor.

Administrative Party means the Arranger or an Agent.

Affiliate means a Subsidiary or a Holding Company of a person or any other
Subsidiary of that Holding Company.

 

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Agent means the Facility Agent, the Security Trustee or the Issuing Bank.

Agent’s Spot Rate of Exchange means the Facility Agent’s spot rate of exchange
for the purchase of the relevant currency in the Hong Kong foreign exchange
market with US Dollars on a particular day.

Availability Period means:

 

  (a) for the Tranche A Facility, the period from and including the date of this
Agreement to and including the date falling three months from the date of this
Agreement;

 

  (b) for the Tranche B Facility, the period from and including the date of this
Agreement to and including the date falling one month prior to its respective
Final Maturity Date; and

 

  (c) for the Tranche C Facility, the period from and including the date of this
Agreement to and including the date falling one Business Day prior to its
respective Final Maturity Date.

Break Costs means the amount (if any) which a Lender is entitled to receive
under Subclause 28.3 (Break Costs).

Business Day means a day (other than a Saturday or a Sunday) on which banks are
open for general banking business in Hong Kong and:

 

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

 

  (b) (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.

Commitment means a Tranche A Commitment, a Tranche B Commitment or a Tranche C
Commitment.

Company means TTM Technologies (Asia Pacific) Limited, a company incorporated
under the laws of Hong Kong.

Compliance Certificate means a certificate substantially in the form of Schedule
6 (Form of Compliance Certificate) setting out, among other things, calculations
of the financial covenants.

Composite Security Agreement means the security agreement (in form and substance
satisfactory to the Security Trustee) to be entered into between the Company,
each Original Obligor (except the Parent) and the Security Trustee in form and
substance satisfactory to the Security Trustee.

Composite Share Mortgage means the composite share mortgage (in form and
substance satisfactory to the Security Trustee) to be entered into between TTM
International, the Company, MTG (PCB) No. 2 (BVI) Limited, MTG Management (BVI)
Limited, MTG PCB (BVI) Limited, TTM Technologies China Limited, Meadville
Aspocomp (BVI) Holdings Limited, MA Investment Holding Limited and the Security
Trustee in respect of the issued share capital of each Original Obligor (except
the Parent).

Credit means a Loan or a Letter of Credit.

Default means:

 

  (a) an Event of Default; or

 

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  (b) an event or circumstance which would be (with the expiry of a grace
period, the giving of notice or the making of any determination under the
Finance Documents or any combination of them) an Event of Default.

Environmental Claim means any claim, proceeding, formal notice or investigation
by any person in respect of any Environmental Law.

Environmental Law means any applicable law or regulation which relates to:

 

  (a) the pollution or protection of the environment;

 

  (b) the harm to or the protection of human health;

 

  (c) the conditions of the workplace; or

 

  (d) any emission or substance capable of causing harm to any living organism
or the environment.

EUR or euro means the single currency of the Participating Member States.

Event of Default means an event or circumstance specified as such in Clause 23
(Default).

Existing Facility means the US$582,500,000 multi-tranche facility under the
credit agreement dated 16 November 2009 as amended and restated on 30 March 2010
and further amended on 3 August 2010 and 22 July 2011 respectively entered into
between among others, TTM Technologies Enterprises (HK) Limited (previously
known as Meadville Enterprises (HK) Limited), The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking
Corporation Limited as facility agent and Hang Seng Bank Limited as security
trustee.

Existing Issuing Bank means CITIC Bank International Limited, previously known
as CITIC Ka Wah Bank Limited.

Existing Letter of Credit has the meaning given to such term in Clause 3.3
(Tranche C Facility – Letters of Credit).

Facility means a credit facility made available under this Agreement.

Facility Office means the office(s) notified by a Lender to the Facility Agent:

 

  (a) on or before the date it becomes a Lender; or

 

  (b) by not less than five Business Days’ notice,

as the office(s) through which it will perform its obligations under this
Agreement.

Fee Letter means any letter entered into by reference to this Agreement between
one or more Administrative Parties and the Borrowers setting out the amount of
certain fees referred to in Clause 27 (Fees).

Final Maturity Date means:

 

  (a) for the Tranche A Facility and the Tranche C Facility, the fourth
anniversary of the date of this Agreement; and

 

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  (b) for the Tranche B Facility, the date falling 42 months after the date of
this Agreement.

Finance Document means:

 

  (a) this Agreement;

 

  (b) a Security Document;

 

  (c) a Fee Letter;

 

  (d) a Transfer Certificate;

 

  (e) an Accession Agreement;

 

  (f) a Resignation Request (if any); or

 

  (g) any other document designated as such by the Facility Agent and the
Borrowers.

Finance Party means:

 

  (a) a Lender or an Administrative Party; or

 

  (b) a derivative transaction counterparty which the Facility Agent (acting on
the instructions of the Majority Lenders) and the relevant Borrower designates
as such for the purpose of paragraph (d) of Clause 22.5 (Negative pledge).

Financial Indebtedness means any indebtedness for or in respect of:

 

  (a) moneys borrowed;

 

  (b) any amount raised by acceptance under any acceptance credit facility;

 

  (c) any bond, note, debenture, loan stock or other similar instrument;

 

  (d) any redeemable preference share;

 

  (e) any agreement treated as a finance or capital lease in accordance with
GAAP;

 

  (f) receivables sold or discounted (other than any receivables to the extent
they are sold on a non-recourse basis);

 

  (g) the acquisition cost of any asset or service to the extent payable before
or after its acquisition or possession by the party liable where the advance or
deferred payment:

 

  (i) is arranged primarily as a method of raising finance or of financing the
acquisition of that asset or service or the construction of that asset or
service; or

 

  (ii) involves a period of more than six months before or after the date of
acquisition or supply;

 

  (h) any derivative transaction protecting against or benefiting from
fluctuations in any rate or price (and, except for non-payment of an amount, the
then mark-to-market value of the derivative transaction will be used to
calculate its amount);

 

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  (i) any other transaction (including any forward sale or purchase agreement)
which has the commercial effect of a borrowing;

 

  (j) any counter-indemnity obligation in respect of any guarantee, indemnity,
bond, letter of credit or any other instrument issued by a bank or financial
institution; or

 

  (k) any guarantee, indemnity or similar assurance against financial loss of
any person in respect of any item referred to in the above paragraphs.

GAAP means, in relation to an Obligor, generally accepted accounting principles
in the jurisdiction where that Obligor is incorporated.

GBP means the lawful currency of the United Kingdom.

Group means the Company and its Subsidiaries.

Guarantor means an Original Guarantor or an Additional Guarantor.

HK Dollars, HKD or HK$ means the lawful currency of Hong Kong.

Holding Company of any other person, means a person in respect of which that
other person is a Subsidiary.

Hong Kong means the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region of the PRC.

Increased Cost means:

 

  (a) an additional or increased cost;

 

  (b) a reduction in the rate of return from a Facility or on a Finance Party’s
(or its Affiliate’s) overall capital; or

 

  (c) a reduction of an amount due and payable under any Finance Document,

which is incurred or suffered by a Finance Party or any of its Affiliates but
only to the extent attributable to that Finance Party having entered into any
Finance Document or having a Commitment or funding or performing its obligations
under any Finance Document.

Interest Period means each period determined under this Agreement:

 

  (a) by reference to which interest on a Loan or an overdue amount is
calculated; or

 

  (b) for which the Issuing Bank may be under a liability under a Letter of
Credit.

JPY or Yen means the lawful currency of Japan.

Lender means:

 

  (a) an Original Lender; or

 

  (b) any person which becomes a Party in accordance with Subclause 31.2
(Assignments and transfers by Lenders).

 

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Letter of Credit means a letter of credit, substantially in the form of Schedule
9 (Form of Letter of Credit) or in any other form agreed by the Issuing Bank,
the Facility Agent and the relevant Borrower making a Request for that letter of
credit.

LIBOR means for an Interest Period of any Loan or overdue amount:

 

  (a) the applicable Screen Rate; or

 

  (b) if no Screen Rate is available for the relevant currency or Interest
Period of that Loan or overdue amount, the arithmetic mean (rounded upward to
four decimal places) of the rates, as supplied to the Facility Agent at its
request, quoted by the Reference Banks to leading banks in the London interbank
market,

as at 11.00 a.m. (London time) on the Rate Fixing Day for the offering of
deposits in the currency of that Loan or overdue amount for a period comparable
to that Interest Period and, if any such rate is below zero, LIBOR will be
deemed to be zero.

Loan means the Tranche A Loan or a Tranche B Loan.

London Business Day means a day (other than a Saturday or a Sunday) on which
banks are open for general banking business in London.

Majority Lenders means, at any time, Lenders:

 

  (a)

whose share in the outstanding Credits then aggregate 662/3 per cent. or more of
the aggregate of all the outstanding Credits;

 

  (b)

if there is no Credit then outstanding, whose undrawn Commitments then aggregate
662/3 per cent. or more of the Total Commitments; or

 

  (c)

if there is no Credit then outstanding and the Total Commitments have been
reduced to zero, whose Commitments aggregated 662/3 per cent. or more of the
Total Commitments immediately before the reduction.

Margin means 2.38 per cent. per annum.

Material Adverse Effect means a material adverse effect on:

 

  (a) the business, operations, property, condition (financial or otherwise) or
prospects of any member of the Group or the Group as a whole;

 

  (b) the ability of any Obligor to perform its obligations under any Finance
Document;

 

  (c) the validity or enforceability of, or the effectiveness or ranking of any
Security Interest granted or purported to be granted pursuant to, any Finance
Document; or

 

  (d) any right or remedy of a Finance Party in respect of a Finance Document.

Material Group means the Company and its Material Subsidiaries.

Material Group Member means the Company or a Material Subsidiary.

 

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Material Subsidiary means, at any time, a Subsidiary of the Company if the gross
assets, pre-tax profits or turnover of that Subsidiary then equal or exceed five
per cent. of the gross assets, pre-tax profits or turnover of the Group.

For this purpose:

 

  (a) subject to paragraph (b) below:

 

  (i) the contribution of a Subsidiary of the Company will be determined from
its financial statements which were consolidated into the latest audited
consolidated financial statements of the Company; and

 

  (ii) the financial condition of the Group will be determined from the latest
audited consolidated financial statements of the Company;

 

  (b) if a Subsidiary of the Company becomes a member of the Group after the
date on which the latest audited consolidated financial statements of the
Company were prepared:

 

  (i) the contribution of the Subsidiary will be determined from its latest
financial statements; and

 

  (ii) the financial condition of the Group will be determined from the latest
audited consolidated financial statements of the Company but adjusted to take
into account any subsequent acquisition or disposal of a business or a company
(including that Subsidiary);

 

  (c) the contribution of a Subsidiary will, if it has Subsidiaries, be
determined from its consolidated financial statements;

 

  (d) if a Material Subsidiary disposes of all or substantially all of its
assets to another member of the Group, it will immediately cease to be a
Material Subsidiary and the other member of the Group (if it is not the Company
or already a Material Subsidiary) will immediately become a Material Subsidiary;

 

  (e) a Subsidiary of the Company (if it is not already a Material Subsidiary)
will become a Material Subsidiary on completion of any other intra-Group
transfer or reorganisation if it would have been a Material Subsidiary had the
intra-Group transfer or reorganisation occurred on the date of the latest
audited consolidated financial statements of the Company; and

 

  (f) except as specifically mentioned in paragraph (d) above, a member of the
Group will remain a Material Subsidiary until the next audited consolidated
financial statements of the Company show otherwise under paragraph (a) above.

If there is a dispute as to whether or not a member of the Group is a Material
Subsidiary, a certificate of the auditors of the Company will be, in the absence
of manifest error, conclusive.

Maturity Date means, for a Tranche B Loan and a Letter of Credit, the last day
of its Interest Period.

Non-Party Parent Subsidiary means TTM International and any direct or indirect
Subsidiary of the Parent that is not an Obligor or a member of the Group.

Obligor means a Borrower or a Guarantor.

 

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Original Financial Statements means:

 

  (a) in relation to the Parent, its consolidated audited financial statements
for its financial year ended 31 December 2011;

 

  (b) in relation to the Company, its consolidated audited financial statements
for its financial year ended 31 December 2011;

 

  (c) in relation to any other Obligor (other than each Obligor incorporated in
the British Virgin Islands), its audited (consolidated, if applicable) financial
statements for its financial year ended 31 December 2011; and

 

  (d) in relation to any other Obligor incorporated in the British Virgin
Islands, its unaudited consolidated financial statements (or, if the relevant
Obligor does not produce consolidated financial statements, its unaudited
financial statements) for its financial year ended 31 December 2011.

Onshore PRC Bank Borrowing means any indebtedness for or in respect of:

 

  (a) any moneys borrowed from; or

 

  (b) any transaction which has the commercial effect of a borrowing entered
into with,

a bank or financial institution in the PRC.

Original Obligor means a Borrower or an Original Guarantor.

Parent means TTM Technologies, Inc., a company incorporated under the laws of
Delaware.

Participating Member State means a member state of the European Communities that
adopts or has adopted the euro as its lawful currency under the legislation of
the European Community for Economic Monetary Union.

Party means a party to this Agreement.

PRC means the People’s Republic of China, but excluding Hong Kong, the Macau
Special Administrative Region and Taiwan for the purposes of the Finance
Documents.

Pro Rata Share means:

 

  (a) for the purpose of determining a Lender’s share in a utilisation of a
Facility, the proportion which its Commitment under that Facility bears to all
the Commitments under that Facility; and

 

  (b) for any other purpose on a particular date:

 

  (i) the proportion which a Lender’s share of the Credits (if any) bears to all
the Credits;

 

  (ii) if there is no Credit outstanding on that date, the proportion which its
Commitment bears to the Total Commitments on that date;

 

  (iii) if the Total Commitments have been cancelled, the proportion which its
Commitments bore to the Total Commitments immediately before being cancelled; or

 

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  (iv) when the term is used in relation to a Facility, the above proportions
but applied only to the Credits and Commitments for that Facility.

For the purpose of sub-paragraph (iv) above, the Facility Agent will determine,
in the case of a dispute, whether the term in any case relates to a particular
Facility.

Rate Fixing Day means the second London Business Day before the first day of an
Interest Period for a Loan or such other day as the Facility Agent determines is
generally treated as the rate fixing day by market practice in London interbank
market.

Reference Banks means the principal London offices of HSBC Bank Plc and Standard
Chartered and any other bank or financial institution appointed as such by the
Facility Agent under this Agreement after consultation with the Company.

Repayment Date means each date for the repayment of a Repayment Instalment of
the Tranche A Loan.

Repayment Instalment means each scheduled instalment for repayment of the
Tranche A Loan.

Repeating Representations means at any time the representations and warranties
which are then made or deemed to be repeated under Subclause 19.20 (Times for
making representations and warranties) or any other Finance Document.

Request means a request for a Credit, substantially in the form of Schedule 3
(Form of Request).

Resignation Request means a letter in the form of Schedule 8 (Form of
Resignation Request), with such amendments as the Facility Agent and the
Borrowers may agree.

Rollover Loan means, unless provided to the contrary in this Agreement, one or
more Loans under the Tranche B Facility:

 

  (a) to be made on the same day that a maturing Loan under the Tranche B
Facility is due to be repaid:

 

  (b) the aggregate amount of which is equal to or less than the maturing Loan
or claim; and

 

  (c) to be made to the same Borrower for the purpose of refinancing a maturing
Loan under the Tranche B Facility.

RMB means the lawful currency for the time being of the PRC.

Screen Rate means the USD interest rate for the relevant Interest Period
displayed on the Reuters screen page “LIBOR01”. If the relevant page is replaced
or the service ceases to be available, the Facility Agent (after consultation
with the Borrowers and the Lenders) may specify another page or service
displaying the appropriate rate.

Security Agreement means:

 

  (a) the Composite Security Agreement; or

 

  (b) each Additional Guarantor Security Agreement (if any).

 

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Security Document means:

 

  (a) each Security Agreement;

 

  (b) each Share Mortgage; or

 

  (c) any other document evidencing or creating security over any asset (present
or future) of an Obligor to secure any obligation of any Obligor to a Finance
Party under the Finance Documents.

Security Interest means any mortgage, pledge, lien, charge, assignment,
hypothecation or security interest or any other agreement or arrangement having
a similar effect.

Security Provider means each party to a Security Document (other than a Finance
Party).

Share Mortgage means:

 

  (a) the Composite Share Mortgage; or

 

  (b) each Additional Guarantor Share Mortgage (if any).

Subsidiary means, in relation to any person, an entity:

 

  (a) which is controlled, directly or indirectly, by that person; or

 

  (b) more than half the issued share capital of which is beneficially owned,
directly or indirectly by that person; or

(c) which is a Subsidiary of another Subsidiary of that person,

and for this purpose, an entity shall be treated as being controlled by another
if that other entity or person is able to direct its affairs, management or
policies and/or to control the composition of its board of directors or
equivalent body, whether through the ownership of voting capital, by contract or
otherwise.

Tang Family means Mr. Tang Hsiang Chien, his estate and his children and the
companies directly or indirectly owned or controlled by him, his estate or his
children.

TARGET means Trans-European Automated Real-time Gross Settlement Express
Transfer payment system.

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

Tax means any tax, levy, impost, duty or other charge or withholding of a
similar nature (including any related penalty or interest in connection with any
failure to pay or any delay in paying any of the same).

Tax Deduction means a deduction or withholding for or on account of Tax from a
payment under a Finance Document.

Tax Payment means a payment made by an Obligor to a Finance Party in any way
relating to a Tax Deduction or under any indemnity given by that Obligor in
respect of Tax under any Finance Document.

Total Commitments means the aggregate of the Commitments of all the Lenders.

 

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Total Tranche A Commitments means the aggregate of the Tranche A Commitments of
all the Lenders, being the total amount specified as such in Schedule 1
(Original Parties) at the date of this Agreement.

Total Tranche B Commitments means the aggregate of the Tranche B Commitments of
all the Lenders, being the total amount specified as such in Schedule 1
(Original Parties) at the date of this Agreement.

Total Tranche C Commitments means the aggregate of the Tranche C Commitments of
all the Lenders, being the total amount specified as such in Schedule 1
(Original Parties) at the date of this Agreement.

Tranche A Commitment means:

 

  (a) for an Original Lender, the amount set opposite its name in Schedule 1
(Original Parties) under the heading Tranche A Commitments and the amount of any
other Tranche A Commitment it acquires; and

 

  (b) for any other Lender, the amount of any other Tranche A Commitment it
acquires,

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

Tranche A Facility means the term loan facility in an aggregate principal amount
of US$370,000,000 referred to in Subclause 2.1 (Tranche A Facility).

Tranche A Loan means a Loan under the Tranche A Facility and identified as such
in its Request.

Tranche B Commitment means:

 

  (a) for an Original Lender, the amount set opposite its name in Schedule 1
(Original Parties) under the heading Tranche B Commitments and the amount of any
other Tranche B Commitment it acquires; and

 

  (b) for any other Lender, the amount of any other Tranche B Commitment it
acquires,

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

Tranche B Facility means the revolving credit facility in an aggregate principal
amount of US$90,000,000 referred to in Subclause 2.2 (Tranche B Facility).

Tranche B Loan means a Loan under the Tranche B Facility and identified as such
in its Request.

Tranche C Commitment means:

 

  (a) for an Original Lender, the amount set opposite its name in Schedule 1
(Original Parties) under the heading Tranche C Commitments and the amount of any
other Tranche C Commitment it acquires; and

 

  (b) for any other Lender, the amount of any other Tranche C Commitment it
acquires,

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

Tranche C Facility means the letter of credit facility in an aggregate principal
amount of US$80,000,000 referred to in Subclause 2.3 (Tranche C Facility).

 

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Tranche C Lender means a Lender under the Tranche C Facility.

Tranche C Majority Lenders means, at any time, Tranche C Lenders:

 

  (a)

whose share in the outstanding Letters of Credit then aggregate 662/3 per cent.
or more of the aggregate of all the outstanding Letters of Credit;

 

  (b)

if there is no Letter of Credit then outstanding, whose undrawn Tranche C
Commitments then aggregate 662/3 per cent. or more of the Total Tranche C
Commitments; or

if there is no Letter of Credit then outstanding and the Total Tranche C
Commitments have been reduced to zero, whose Tranche C Commitments aggregated
662/3 per cent. or more of the Total Tranche C Commitments immediately before
the reduction.

Transfer Certificate means:

 

  (a) for a transfer by assignment, assumption and release, a certificate
substantially in the form of Part 1 of Schedule 4 (Forms of Transfer
Certificate), and

 

  (b) for a transfer by novation, a certificate substantially in the form of
Part 2 of Schedule 4 (Forms of Transfer Certificate);

in each case with such amendments as the Facility Agent may approve or
reasonably require.

TTM International means TTM Technologies International, Inc., a company
incorporated under the laws of Delaware.

US means the United States of America.

US Dollars or US$ means the lawful currency for the time being of the US.

Utilisation Date means each date on which a Facility is utilised.

 

1.2 Construction

 

(a) In this Agreement, unless the contrary intention appears, a reference to:

 

  (i) an amendment includes a supplement, novation, extension (whether of
maturity or otherwise), restatement, re-enactment or replacement (however
fundamental and whether or not more onerous) and amended will be construed
accordingly;

 

  (ii) assets includes properties, revenues and rights of every description;

 

  (iii) an authorisation includes an authorisation, consent, approval,
resolution, permit, licence, exemption, filing, registration or notarisation;

 

  (iv) disposal means a sale, transfer, assignment, grant, lease, licence,
declaration of trust or other disposal, whether voluntary or involuntary, and
dispose will be construed accordingly;

 

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

 

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  (vi) customer due diligence requirements are to the identification checks that
a Finance Party requests in order to meet its obligations under any applicable
law or regulation to identify a person who is (or is to become) its customer;

 

  (vii) a person includes any individual, company, corporation, unincorporated
association or body (including a partnership, trust, fund, joint venture or
consortium), government, state, agency, organisation or other entity whether or
not having separate legal personality;

 

  (viii) 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 of a type with which any person to which it applies is
accustomed to comply) of any governmental, inter-governmental or supranational
body, agency, department or regulatory, self-regulatory or other authority or
organisation;

 

  (ix) a currency is a reference to the lawful currency for the time being of
the relevant country;

 

  (x) a Default being outstanding means that it has not been remedied or waived;

 

  (xi) a provision of law is a reference to that provision as extended, applied,
amended or re-enacted and includes any subordinate legislation;

 

  (xii) a Clause, a Subclause or a Schedule is a reference to a clause or
subclause of, or a schedule to, this Agreement;

 

  (xiii) a Party or any other person includes its successors in title, permitted
assigns and permitted transferees;

 

  (xiv) a Finance Document or other document or security includes (without
prejudice to any prohibition on amendments) any amendment to that Finance
Document or other document or security, including any change in the purpose of,
any extension for or any increase in the amount of a facility or any additional
facility; and

 

  (xv) a time of day is a reference to Hong Kong time.

 

(b) Unless the contrary intention appears, a reference to a month or months is a
reference to a period starting on one day in a calendar month and ending on the
numerically corresponding day in the next calendar month or the calendar month
in which it is to end, except that:

 

  (i) if the numerically corresponding day is not a Business Day, the period
will end on the next Business Day in that month (if there is one) or the
preceding Business Day (if there is not);

 

  (ii) if there is no numerically corresponding day in that month, that period
will end on the last Business Day in that month; and

 

  (iii) notwithstanding subparagraph (i) above, a period which commences on the
last Business Day of a month will end on the last Business Day in the next month
or the calendar month in which it is to end, as appropriate.

 

(c) Unless the contrary intention appears:

 

  (i) a reference to a Party will not include that Party if it has ceased to be
a Party under this Agreement;

 

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  (ii) a word or expression used in any other Finance Document or in any notice
given in connection with any Finance Document has the same meaning in that
Finance Document or notice as in this Agreement; and

 

  (iii) any obligation of an Obligor under the Finance Documents which is not a
payment obligation remains in force for so long as any payment obligation of an
Obligor is, may be or is capable of becoming outstanding under the Finance
Documents.

 

(d) The headings in this Agreement do not affect its interpretation.

 

2. FACILITIES

 

2.1 Tranche A Facility

Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Lenders make available to the
Borrowers a term loan facility in an aggregate amount equal to the Total Tranche
A Commitments.

 

2.2 Tranche B Facility

Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Lenders make available to the
Borrowers a revolving credit facility in an aggregate amount equal to the Total
Tranche B Commitments.

 

2.3 Tranche C Facility

Subject to the terms of this Agreement, the Lenders make available to the
Borrowers a letter of credit facility in an aggregate amount equal to the Total
Tranche C Commitments.

 

2.4 Nature of a Finance Party’s rights and obligations

Unless all the Finance Parties agree otherwise:

 

  (a) the obligations of a Finance Party under the Finance Documents are
several;

 

  (b) failure by a Finance Party to perform its obligations does not affect the
obligations of any other person under the Finance Documents;

 

  (c) no Finance Party is responsible for the obligations of any other Finance
Party under the Finance Documents;

 

  (d) the rights of a Finance Party under the Finance Documents are separate and
independent rights;

 

  (e) a Finance Party may, except as otherwise stated in the Finance Documents,
separately enforce those rights; and

 

  (f) a debt arising under the Finance Documents to a Finance Party is a
separate and independent debt.

 

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3. PURPOSE

 

3.1 Tranche A Loan

The Tranche A Loan may only be used for the purpose of:

 

  (a) funding the refinancing the Existing Facility; and

 

  (b) after the amounts have been applied in full to the purpose referred to in
paragraph (a) above, with the balance in and towards financing the Group’s
working capital requirements.

 

3.2 Tranche B Loans

Each Tranche B Loan may only be used to finance the Group’s working capital for
the purposes of its normal trading, ordinary business and operations and/or
refinancing the Existing Facility.

 

3.3 Tranche C Facility—Letters of Credit

Each Letter of Credit may only be issued:

 

  (a) for the purpose of providing a letter of credit in favour of the Existing
Issuing Bank in respect of each letter of credit issued under the Existing
Facility and which is to remain outstanding after the first Utilisation Date (an
Existing Letter of Credit), provided that:

 

  (i) a single Letter of Credit may be issued in respect of each currency to
which the Existing Letters of Credit relate;

 

  (ii) the Interest Period for a Letter of Credit issued for such purpose shall
not extend beyond the last date of maturity of the corresponding Existing
Letters of Credit of the same currency;

 

  (iii) the amount of a Letter of Credit issued for such purpose shall be equal
to the aggregate amount outstanding under the corresponding Existing Letters of
Credit of the same currency; and

 

  (iv) each such Letter of Credit may only be issued on the first Utilisation
Date; or

 

  (b) to satisfy the Group’s import letters of credit issuance requirements for
the purchase of machinery and raw material.

 

3.4 No obligation to monitor

No Finance Party is bound to monitor or verify the utilisation of a Facility.

 

4. CONDITIONS PRECEDENT

 

4.1 Conditions precedent documents

 

(a) The Lenders will only be obliged to comply with Clause 5.4 (Advance of Loan)
in relation to a Loan if on or before the Utilisation Date for that Loan, the
Facility Agent has received (or waived receipt of) all of the documents and
evidence appearing to comply with Part 1 (To be delivered before the first
Request) of Schedule 2 (Conditions Precedent Documents).

 

(b) The Facility Agent must give this notification to the Borrowers, the Issuing
Bank and the Lenders promptly upon being so satisfied.

 

4.2 Further conditions precedent

The obligations of each Lender to participate in any Credit are subject to the
further conditions precedent that:

 

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  (a) on both the date of the Request and the Utilisation Date for that Credit:

 

  (i) the Repeating Representations are correct in all material respects; and

 

  (ii) no Default or, in the case of a Rollover Loan, no Event of Default is
outstanding or would result from such Credit;

 

  (b) (in respect of Tranche A only) the Facility Agent has notified the
Borrowers, the Issuing Bank and the Lenders on the Utilisation Date of Tranche A
that it has received (or waived receipt of) all the documents and evidence
appearing to comply with Part 2 (To be delivered on the first Utilisation Date)
of Schedule 2 (Conditions Precedent Documents).

 

4.3 Maximum number

Unless the Facility Agent agrees, a Request may not be given if, as a result,
there would be more than 15 Loans outstanding.

 

5. UTILISATION—LOANS

 

5.1 Giving of Requests

 

(a) A Borrower may borrow a Loan by giving to the Facility Agent a duly
completed Request.

 

(b) Unless the Facility Agent otherwise agrees, the latest time for receipt by
the Facility Agent of a duly completed Request is 11.00 a.m. three Business Days
before the Rate Fixing Day for the proposed borrowing.

 

(c) Each Request is irrevocable.

 

5.2 Completion of Requests

 

(a) A Request for a Loan will not be regarded as having been duly completed
unless:

 

  (i) it identifies the Borrower;

 

  (ii) it identifies the Facility under which the Loan is to be made;

 

  (iii) the Utilisation Date is a Business Day falling within the Availability
Period for the Facility under which the Loan is to be made;

 

  (iv) in respect of the Request for the Tranche A Loan, the amount of the Loan
requested is the amount of the Total Tranche A Commitments;

 

  (v) in respect of a Request for a Tranche B Loan, the amount of the Loan
requested is:

 

  (A) a minimum of US$5,000,000 and an integral multiple of US$1,000,000;

 

  (B) the maximum undrawn amount available under the Tranche B Facility on the
proposed Utilisation Date; or

 

  (C) such other amount as the Facility Agent may agree; and

 

  (vi) the proposed Interest Period complies with this Agreement.

 

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(b) Only one Loan may be requested in a Request.

 

(c) A Tranche B Loan may only be utilised on or after the first Utilisation Date
of the Tranche A Loan.

 

5.3 Single Tranche A Loan

The Borrowers may borrow only one Tranche A Loan.

 

5.4 Advance of Loan

 

(a) The Facility Agent must promptly notify each Lender of the details of the
requested Loan and the amount of its share in that Loan.

 

(b) The amount of each Lender’s share of the requested Loan will be its Pro Rata
Share on the proposed Utilisation Date.

 

(c) No Lender is obliged to participate in a Loan if, as a result:

 

  (i) its share in the Credits under a Facility would exceed its Commitment for
that Facility; or

 

  (ii) the Credits under a Facility would exceed the Total Commitments under
that Facility.

 

(d) If the conditions set out in this Agreement have been met, each Lender must
make its share in the requested Loan available to the Facility Agent for the
relevant Borrower through its Facility Office on the Utilisation Date.

 

6. UTILISATION—LETTERS OF CREDIT

 

6.1 Giving of Requests

 

(a) A Borrower may request a Letter of Credit to be issued by giving to the
Issuing Bank (with a copy to the Facility Agent) a duly completed Request and
all relevant supporting documents (including any relevant application forms).

 

(b) Unless the Issuing Bank and the Facility Agent otherwise agree, the latest
time for receipt by the Facility Agent of a duly completed Request is 11.00 a.m.
five Business Days before the proposed Utilisation Date.

 

(c) The Facility Agent must, by close of business in Hong Kong on the day on
which a Request for a Letter of Credit is received by it, notify the Issuing
Bank in writing of the maximum undrawn amount available under the Tranche C
Facility.

 

(d) Each Request is irrevocable.

 

6.2 Completion of Requests

 

(a) A Request for a Letter of Credit will not be regarded as being duly
completed unless:

 

  (i) it identifies the Borrower;

 

  (ii) it specifies that it is for a Letter of Credit and whether it is to be a
standby Letter of Credit or not;

 

  (iii) the Utilisation Date is a Business Day falling within the Availability
Period;

 

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  (iv) the amount of the Letter of Credit requested is:

 

  (A) (in respect of any Letter of Credit to be issued on the first Utilisation
Date for the purpose set out in paragraph (a) of Clause 3.3 (Tranche C Facility
– Letters of Credit)) equal to the amount in the aggregate amount of the
corresponding Existing Letters of Credit of the same currency; or

 

  (B) not exceeding the maximum undrawn amount available under the Tranche C
Facility on the proposed Utilisation Date; or

 

  (C) such other amount as the Issuing Bank may agree;

 

  (v) in the case of a Letter of Credit which is a standby letter of credit:

 

  (A) it is in the form of Letter of Credit (in substantially the form of
Schedule 9 (Form of Letter of Credit)); and

 

  (B) all relevant supporting documents are attached;

 

  (vi) in the case of a Letter of Credit which is not a standby letter of
credit, the relevant application form (in substantially the form of applications
generally accepted by the Issuing Bank for general letter of credit business
from time to time) and all relevant supporting documents are attached;

 

  (vii) in the case of any Letter of Credit to be issued on the first
Utilisation Date for the purpose set out in paragraph (a) of Clause 3.3 (Tranche
C Facility – Letters of Credit) the Letter of Credit is to be issued in favour
of the Existing Issuing Bank;

 

  (viii) the expiry date (including the last day of the issuance period) of the
Letter of Credit falls on or before the Final Maturity Date;

 

  (ix) the expiry date of the Letter of Credit does not exceed:

 

  (A) in respect of a Letter of Credit requested for the purpose of equipment
purchases, 540 days from the Utilisation Date; and

 

  (B) in respect of a Letter of Credit requested for any other general purpose,
150 days from the Utilisation Date; and

 

  (x) the delivery instructions for the Letter of Credit are specified.

 

(b) Other than in the case of any Letters of Credit to be issued in accordance
with paragraph (a) of Clause 3.3 (Tranche C Facility – Letters of Credit), only
one Letter of Credit may be requested in a Request, and only three Requests for
Letters of Credit may be delivered on any day.

 

(c) A Letter of Credit may only be issued on or after the first Utilisation Date
of the Tranche A Loan.

 

6.3 Issue of Letter of Credit

 

(a) The Issuing Bank must promptly notify the Facility Agent of the details of
the requested Letter of Credit.

 

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(b) The Facility Agent must promptly upon receipt of the notification under
paragraph (a) above notify each Lender of the details of the requested Letter of
Credit and the amount of its share of that Letter of Credit.

 

(c) The amount of each Lender’s share in a Letter of Credit will be its Pro Rata
Share on the proposed Utilisation Date.

 

(d) If the conditions set out in Clause 4.1 (Conditions precedent documents) and
this Clause 6 (Utilisation – Letters of Credit) have been met, the Issuing Bank
must issue the Letter of Credit on the Utilisation Date.

 

(e) The Issuing Bank must promptly provide to the Facility Agent a copy of any
Letter of Credit issued under this Clause.

 

6.4 Conditions precedent

 

(a) The Issuing Bank is not obliged to issue any Letter of Credit if as a
result:

 

  (i) a Lender’s share in the Letters of Credit would exceed its Commitment for
the Tranche C Facility; or

 

  (ii) the Letters of Credit would exceed the Total Tranche C Commitments.

 

(b) The Issuing Bank is not obliged to issue any Letter of Credit if either on
the date of the Request or the Utilisation Date:

 

  (i) the Repeating Representations are not correct in all material respects;
and/or

 

  (ii) a Default is outstanding or would result from the issue of that Letter of
Credit.

 

(c) The Issuing Bank has no duty to enquire of any person whether or not any of
the conditions precedent set out in paragraphs (a) and (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 Facility Agent in accordance with
Clause 37 (Notices) by 12.00pm on the proposed Utilisation Date. The Issuing
Bank will have no liability to any person for issuing a Letter of Credit based
on any such assumption.

 

7. TRANCHE C—LETTERS OF CREDIT

 

7.1 General

 

(a) A Letter of Credit is repaid or prepaid to the extent that:

 

  (i) a Borrower provides cash cover for that Letter of Credit;

 

  (ii) the maximum amount payable under the Letter of Credit is reduced or
cancelled in accordance with its terms; or

 

  (iii) the Issuing Bank is satisfied that it has no further liability under
that Letter of Credit.

The amount by which a Letter of Credit is repaid or prepaid under sub-paragraphs
(i) and (ii) above is the amount of the relevant cash cover, reduction or
cancellation.

 

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(b) If a Letter of Credit or any amount outstanding under a Letter of Credit
becomes immediately payable under this Agreement, the Borrower that requested
the issue of that Letter of Credit must repay or prepay that amount immediately.

 

(c) Cash cover is provided for a Letter of Credit if a Borrower pays an amount
in the currency of the Letter of Credit to an interest-bearing account with the
Facility Agent or the Issuing Bank in the name of the Borrower and the following
conditions are met:

 

  (i) until no amount is or may be outstanding under that Letter of Credit,
withdrawals from the account may only be made to pay the Finance Parties for
which the cash cover is provided under this Clause; and

 

  (ii) the Borrower has entered into and delivered a security document over that
account, in form and substance satisfactory to the Facility Agent (acting on the
instructions of the Majority Lenders), creating a first ranking security
interest over that account.

A Lender may, if the Borrower has paid an amount in the currency of the Letter
of Credit to an interest-bearing account with the Facility Agent or the Issuing
Bank as cash cover in accordance with the paragraph above to which all Lenders
are entitled, require the Facility Agent or the Issuing Bank (as applicable) to
pay its portion of the cash cover into its own account. References to cash cover
exclude any interest accrued on that cash cover.

 

(d) The outstanding or principal amount of a Letter of Credit at any time is the
maximum amount (actual or contingent) that is or may be payable by the relevant
Borrower in respect of that Letter of Credit at that time.

 

(e) The amount of cash cover will be ignored in calculating the undrawn
Commitment of each Lender.

 

(f) A reference to a claim being made under a Letter of Credit or a claim being
paid by the Issuing Bank includes a reference to any amount due (actually or
contingently) from the Issuing Bank under that Letter of Credit in any account
taken for the purposes of any mandatory set-off under any applicable law or
regulation in the insolvency proceedings of the beneficiary of that Letter of
Credit or any other person.

 

7.2 Illegality

 

(a) The Issuing Bank must notify the Company promptly if it becomes aware that
it is unlawful in any jurisdiction for the Issuing Bank to perform any of its
obligations under a Finance Document or to have outstanding any Letter of
Credit.

 

(b) After notification under paragraph (a) above:

 

  (i) the Company must use its best endeavours to ensure the release of the
liability of the Issuing Bank under each outstanding Letter of Credit;

 

  (ii) failing this, each Borrower must repay or prepay the share of each Lender
in each Letter of Credit requested by it on the date specified in paragraph
(c) below; and

 

  (iii) no further Letters of Credit will be issued.

 

(c) The date for repayment or prepayment of a Lender’s share in a Letter of
Credit will be the date specified by the Issuing Bank in the notification under
paragraph (a) above and which must not be earlier than the last day of any
applicable grace period allowed by law.

 

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7.3 Fees in respect of Letters of Credit

 

(a) Each Borrower must pay direct to the Issuing Bank a fronting fee computed at
the rate of 0.05 per cent. in respect of each issued Letter of Credit.

 

(b) Each Borrower must pay to the Facility Agent for each Tranche C Lender a
letter of credit opening fee computed at the rate of 0.10 per cent. in respect
of each issued Letter of Credit which is not a standby letter of credit and
payable in USD calculated on the Agent’s Spot Rate of Exchange. This fee will be
distributed by the Facility Agent on the last Business Day of each month
according to each Lender’s Pro Rata Share.

 

(c) Each Borrower must pay to the Facility Agent for each Tranche C Lender a
letter of credit opening fee computed at the rate of 0.50 per cent. per annum
from the Utilisation Date to the Maturity Date in respect of each issued Letter
of Credit which is a standby letter of credit in favour of banks with letters of
credit already issued under the Existing Facility as at the date of the first
Request for a Loan and payable in USD calculated on the Agent’s Spot Rate of
Exchange. This fee will be distributed by the Facility Agent on the last
Business Day of each month according to each Lender’s Pro Rata Share.

 

(d) Each Borrower must pay to the Facility Agent for each Tranche C Lender a
letter of credit acceptance commission computed at the rate of 0.75 per cent.
per annum on the daily balance of accepted Letters of Credit which are not
standby letters of credit, and payable in USD calculated on the basis of the
Agent’s Spot Rate of Exchange five Business Days before the last day of each
month. This fee will be distributed by the Facility Agent on the last Business
Day of each month according to each Lender’s Pro Rata Share.

 

(e) Accrued acceptance commission under paragraph (d) above are payable on the
Maturity Date for the relevant Letter of Credit. Accrued letter of credit fee is
also payable to the Facility Agent on the cancelled amount of any Lender’s
Tranche C Commitment at the time the cancellation is effective if that
Commitment is cancelled in full and its participation in the Letters of Credit
is prepaid or repaid in full.

 

(f) If a Borrower provides cash cover for any part of a Letter of Credit, then:

 

  (i) the fronting fee payable to the Issuing Bank, the letter of credit opening
fee and the letter of credit acceptance commission payable for the account of
each Lender in respect of any part of a Letter of Credit which is the subject of
cash cover will continue to be payable until the Maturity Date of that Letter of
Credit; but

 

  (ii) that Borrower will be entitled to withdraw the interest accrued on the
amount of the cash cover to pay those fees.

 

7.4 Claims under a Letter of Credit

 

(a) Each Borrower irrevocably and unconditionally authorises the Issuing Bank to
pay any claim made or purported to be made under a Letter of Credit requested by
it and which appears on its face to be in order (a claim).

 

(b) The Issuing Bank may at its discretion determine whether a claim is in
order. If the Issuing Bank determines that a claim is not in order, it must
promptly notify the Facility Agent in writing of such determination and provide
to the Facility Agent all relevant details (including any supporting documents)
of the relevant claim. Upon receipt of such notification:

 

  (i) the Facility Agent shall promptly notify the Tranche C Lenders;

 

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  (ii) the Tranche C Lenders shall provide their response to the discrepancies,
and if no reply is received within three Business Days of the request, such
consent shall be deemed given; and

 

  (iii) the Facility Agent may subject to sub-paragraph (ii) above, instruct the
Issuing Bank to accept the relevant claim.

 

(c) Each Borrower that requested the issue of a Letter of Credit must
immediately on demand (to be issued directly by the Issuing Bank) pay to the
Issuing Bank an amount equal to the amount of any claim.

 

(d) The Issuing Bank must promptly notify the Facility Agent:

 

  (i) upon paying any claim made or purported to be made under a Letter of
Credit pursuant to paragraph (a) above;

 

  (ii) upon receipt from the relevant Borrower of all amounts payable by that
Borrower pursuant to paragraph (c) above; and

 

  (iii) if the relevant Borrower fails to pay any amounts due to the Issuing
Bank in accordance with paragraph (c) above.

 

(e) Each Borrower acknowledges that the 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.

 

(f) The obligations of a Borrower under this Clause will not be affected by:

 

  (i) the sufficiency, accuracy or genuineness of any claim or any other
document; or

 

  (ii) any incapacity of, or limitation on the powers of, any person signing a
claim or other document.

 

7.5 Indemnities

 

(a) Each Borrower must immediately on demand indemnify the Issuing Bank against
any loss or liability which the Issuing Bank incurs under or in connection with
any Letter of Credit requested by it, except to the extent that the loss or
liability is directly caused by the gross negligence or wilful misconduct of the
Issuing Bank.

 

(b) Each Tranche C Lender must immediately on demand (to be issued directly by
the Issuing Bank) directly indemnify the Issuing Bank against its share of any
loss or liability which the Issuing Bank incurs under or in connection with any
Letter of Credit and which has not been paid for by an Obligor, except to the
extent that the loss or liability is directly caused by the gross negligence or
wilful misconduct of the Issuing Bank.

 

(c) The Facility Agent must, upon request by the Issuing Bank, provide to the
Issuing Bank any relevant details of each Tranche C Lender for the purposes of
issuing a demand under paragraph (b) above.

 

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(d) A Tranche C Lender’s share of the liability or loss referred to in paragraph
(b) above will be its Pro Rata Share on the Utilisation Date of the relevant
Letter of Credit, adjusted to reflect any subsequent assignment or transfer
under this Agreement.

 

(e) The Issuing Bank must promptly notify the Facility Agent:

 

  (i) upon issuing a demand pursuant to paragraph (b) above; and

 

  (ii) upon receipt from a Tranche C Lender of any amounts referred to under
paragraph (b) above.

 

(f) The relevant Borrower must immediately on demand reimburse any Lender for
any payment it makes to the Issuing Bank under this Subclause.

 

(g) The obligations of each Borrower and each Lender under this Clause are
continuing obligations and will extend to the ultimate balance of all sums
payable by that Borrower or that Lender under or in connection with any Letter
of Credit, regardless of any intermediate payment or discharge in whole or in
part.

 

(h) The obligations of each Borrower and each Lender under this Clause will not
be affected by any act, omission or thing which, but for this provision, would
reduce, release or prejudice any of its obligations under this Clause (whether
or not known to it or any other person). This includes:

 

  (i) any time or waiver granted to, or composition with, any person;

 

  (ii) any release of any person under the terms of any composition or
arrangement;

 

  (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 (present or future) of, any person;

 

  (iv) 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;

 

  (v) any incapacity or lack of power, authority or legal personality of or
dissolution or change in the members or status of any person;

 

  (vi) any amendment of a Finance Document, any Letter of Credit or any other
document or security;

 

  (vii) 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

 

  (viii) any insolvency or similar proceedings.

 

7.6 Rights of contribution

No Borrower 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.

 

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8. OPTIONAL CURRENCIES FOR LETTERS OF CREDIT

 

8.1 General

In this Clause:

USD Amount of a Letter of Credit or part of a Letter of Credit means:

 

  (a) if the Letter of Credit is denominated in USD, its amount; or

 

  (b) if the Letter of Credit is denominated in an Optional Currency, its
equivalent in USD calculated on the basis of the Agent’s Spot Rate of Exchange
on the date of a duly completed Request for that Letter of Credit, as adjusted
below at six monthly intervals.

Optional Currency means any currency (other than USD) in which a Letter of
Credit may be denominated under this Agreement (which shall include those
currencies referred to in Clause 8.3(a) below).

 

8.2 Selection

A Borrower must select the currency of a Letter of Credit in its Request.

 

8.3 Conditions relating to Optional Currencies

 

(a) A Letter of Credit may be denominated in an Optional Currency for an
Interest Period if that Optional Currency is EUR, HKD, JPY, GBP or (subject to
all applicable laws, regulations and internal policy requirements of the
Facility Agent and the Issuing Bank) RMB, or has been previously approved by the
Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of all the relevant Lenders).

 

(b) If the Facility Agent has received a request from the Company for a currency
to be approved as an Optional Currency, the Facility Agent must, within five
Business Days, confirm to the Company whether or not the Lenders have given
their approval.

 

8.4 Optional Currency equivalents

The equivalent in USD of a Letter of Credit or part of a Letter of Credit in an
Optional Currency for the purposes of calculating:

 

  (a) whether any limit under this Agreement has been exceeded;

 

  (b) the amount of a Letter of Credit;

 

  (c) the share of a Lender in a Letter of Credit;

 

  (d) the amount of any repayment or prepayment of a Letter of Credit; or

 

  (e) the undrawn amount of a Lender’s Commitment,

is its USD Amount.

 

8.5 Letters of Credit in Optional Currency

 

(a) If a Letter of Credit is denominated in an Optional Currency, the Facility
Agent must at six monthly intervals after the date of this Agreement,
recalculate the USD Amount of that Letter of Credit by notionally converting the
outstanding amount of that Letter of Credit into USD on the basis of the Agent’s
Spot Rate of Exchange on the date of calculation.

 

(b) Each Borrower must, if requested by the Facility Agent within 10 days of any
calculation under paragraph (a) above, ensure that sufficient Letters of Credit
are repaid or prepaid to prevent the USD Amount of the Letters of Credit
exceeding the Total Tranche C Commitments following any adjustment to a USD
Amount under paragraph (a) above.

 

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8.6 Notification

The Facility Agent must notify the Issuing Bank and the Lenders and the Company
of the relevant USD Amount (and the applicable Agent’s Spot Rate of Exchange)
promptly after they are ascertained.

 

9. REPAYMENT

 

9.1 Repayment of Tranche A Loan

Each Borrower must repay the Tranche A Loan in instalments by repaying on each
Repayment Date the amount equal to the amount set out opposite that Repayment
Date below:

 

Repayment Date

  

Repayment Amount

(number of months from the date of this

Agreement)

  

(as a percentage of the Tranche A Loan

outstanding as at its Utilisation Date)

18 months

   13 per cent.

24 months

   13 per cent.

30 months

   13 per cent.

36 months

   13 per cent.

42 months

   13 per cent.

48 months

   35 per cent.

 

9.2 Repayment of Tranche B Loans

 

(a) Each Borrower must repay each Tranche B Loan made to it in full on its
Maturity Date.

 

(b) Subject to the other terms of this Agreement, any amounts repaid under
paragraph (a) above may be re-borrowed.

 

9.3 Repayment of Letters of Credit

 

(a) Each Borrower must repay each Letter of Credit issued on its behalf in full
on its Maturity Date.

 

(b) Subject to the other terms of this Agreement, any amounts repaid under
paragraph (a) above may be re-utilised.

 

10. PREPAYMENT AND CANCELLATION

 

10.1 Mandatory prepayment – illegality

 

(a) A Lender must promptly notify the Issuing Bank, the Facility Agent and the
Company if it becomes aware that it is unlawful in any applicable jurisdiction
for that Lender to perform any of its obligations under a Finance Document or to
fund or maintain its share in any Credit.

 

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(b) After notification under paragraph (a) above the Facility Agent must notify
the Company promptly that:

 

  (i) each Borrower must repay or prepay the share of that Lender in each Credit
utilised by it on the date specified in paragraph (c) below; and

 

  (ii) the Commitments of that Lender will be immediately cancelled.

 

(c) The date for repayment or prepayment of a Lender’s share in a Credit will
be:

 

  (i) the last day of the current Interest Period of that Credit or, in the case
of a Letter of Credit five days after the date of the notification; or

 

  (ii) if earlier, the date specified by the Lender in the notification under
paragraph (a) above and which must not be earlier than the last day of any
applicable grace period allowed by law.

 

10.2 Voluntary prepayment of Tranche A Loan

 

(a) The Borrowers may, by giving not less than 15 days’ prior notice to the
Facility Agent (or such shorter period as may be agreed between the relevant
Borrower(s) and the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority
Lenders), prepay (or ensure that a Borrower prepays) the Tranche A Loan on the
last day of its current Interest Period in whole or in part.

 

(b) A prepayment of part of the Tranche A Loan must be in a minimum amount of
US$10,000,000 and an integral multiple of US$5,000,000.

 

10.3 Automatic cancellation

The Commitments of each Lender will be automatically cancelled at the close of
business on the last day of the relevant Availability Period or, in respect of
Tranche A Facility, immediately after the first Utilisation Date.

 

10.4 Voluntary cancellation

(a) Each of the Borrowers may, by giving not less than 15 days’ prior notice to
the Facility Agent (or such shorter period as may be agreed between the relevant
Borrower(s) and the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority
Lenders), cancel the unutilised amount of the Total Commitments in whole or in
part.

 

(b) Partial cancellation of the Total Commitments must be, in respect of each of
the Tranche A Facility, the Tranche B Facility and the Tranche C Facility, in a
minimum amount of US$10,000,000 (or, if less, the maximum undrawn amount of the
Total Commitments) and an integral multiple of US$5,000,000.

 

(c) Any cancellation in part will be applied against the relevant Commitment of
each Lender pro rata.

 

10.5 Right of repayment and cancellation of a single Lender

 

(a) If an Obligor is, or will be, required to pay to a Lender:

 

  (A) a Tax Payment; or

 

  (B) an Increased Cost,

the Company may, while the requirement continues, give notice to the Facility
Agent requesting prepayment and cancellation in respect of that Lender.

 

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(b) After notification under paragraph (a) above:

 

  (i) each Borrower must repay or prepay that Lender’s share in each Credit
utilised by it on the date specified in paragraph (c) below; and

 

  (ii) the Commitments of that Lender will be immediately cancelled.

 

(c) The date for repayment or prepayment of a Lender’s share in a Credit will
be:

 

  (i) the last day of the current Interest Period for that Credit, or in the
case of a Letter of Credit, 10 days after the date of the notification; or

 

  (ii) if earlier, the date specified by the Company in its notification.

 

10.6 Partial prepayment of Tranche A Loan

 

(a) Except where this Clause expressly provides otherwise any partial prepayment
of the Tranche A Loan will be applied against the remaining Repayment
Instalments pro rata.

 

(b) Any voluntary prepayment of a Tranche A Loan under Subclause 10.2 (Voluntary
prepayment of Tranche A Loan) will be applied against the remaining Repayment
Instalments in inverse order of maturity.

 

(c) No amount of Tranche A Loan prepaid under this Agreement may subsequently be
re-borrowed.

 

10.7 Miscellaneous provisions

(a) Any notice of prepayment and/or cancellation under this Agreement is
irrevocable and must specify the relevant date(s) and the affected Credits and
Commitments. The Facility Agent must notify the Lenders promptly of receipt of
any such notice.

 

(b) All prepayments under this Agreement must be made with accrued interest on
the amount prepaid. Subject to paragraph (c) below, no premium or penalty is
payable in respect of any prepayment except for Break Costs.

 

(c) A premium of 0.75 per cent. of the amount prepaid or cancelled (together
with any applicable Break Costs) will be payable by the Borrowers in respect of
any voluntary prepayment of the Tranche A Loan under Subclause 10.2 (Voluntary
prepayment of Tranche A Loan) or any voluntary cancellation under Subclause 10.4
(Voluntary cancellation) if such prepayment or cancellation occurs on or before
the first anniversary of the date of this Agreement.

 

(d) The Majority Lenders may agree to a shorter notice period for a voluntary
prepayment or a voluntary cancellation.

 

(e) No prepayment or cancellation is allowed except in accordance with the
express terms of this Agreement.

 

(f) No amount of the Total Commitments cancelled under this Agreement may
subsequently be reinstated.

 

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11. INTEREST

 

11.1 Calculation of interest

The rate of interest on each Loan for each Interest Period is the percentage
rate per annum equal to the aggregate of the applicable:

 

  (a) Margin; and

 

  (b) LIBOR.

 

11.2 Payment of interest

Except where it is provided to the contrary in this Agreement, each Borrower
must pay accrued interest on each Loan made to it on the last day of each
Interest Period and also, if the Interest Period is longer than six months, on
the dates falling at six-monthly intervals after the first day of that Interest
Period.

 

11.3 Interest on overdue amounts

 

(a) If an Obligor fails to pay any amount payable by it under the Finance
Documents, it must immediately on demand by the Facility Agent pay interest on
the overdue amount from its due date up to the date of actual payment, both
before, on and after judgment.

 

(b) Interest on an overdue amount is payable at a rate determined by the
Facility Agent to be two per cent. per annum above 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 this purpose, the
Facility Agent may (acting reasonably):

 

  (i) select successive Interest Periods of any duration of up to three months;
and

 

  (ii) determine the appropriate Rate Fixing Day for that Interest Period.

 

(c) Notwithstanding paragraph (b) above, if the overdue amount is a principal
amount of a Loan and becomes due and payable before the last day of its current
Interest Period, then:

 

  (i) the first Interest Period for that overdue amount will be the unexpired
portion of that Interest Period; and

 

  (ii) the rate of interest on the overdue amount for that first Interest Period
will be two per cent. per annum above the rate then payable on that Loan.

After the expiry of the first Interest Period for that overdue amount, the rate
on the overdue amount will be calculated in accordance with paragraph (b) above.

 

(d) Interest (if unpaid) on an overdue amount will be compounded with that
overdue amount at the end of each of its Interest Periods but will remain
immediately due and payable.

 

11.4 Notification of rates of interest

The Facility Agent must promptly notify each relevant Party of the determination
of a rate of interest under this Agreement.

 

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12. INTEREST PERIODS

 

12.1 Selection—Tranche A Loan

 

(a) The Tranche A Loan has successive Interest Periods.

 

(b) A Borrower must select the first Interest Period for the Tranche A Loan in
the relevant Request and each subsequent Interest Period in an irrevocable
notice received by the Facility Agent not later than 11.00 a.m. one Business Day
before the Rate Fixing Day for that Interest Period. Each Interest Period for
the Tranche A Loan will start on its Utilisation Date or on the expiry of its
preceding Interest Period.

 

(c) If a Borrower fails to select an Interest Period for the outstanding Tranche
A Loan under paragraph (b) above, that Interest Period will, subject to the
other provisions of this Clause, be three months.

 

(d) Subject to the following provisions of this Clause, each Interest Period for
a Tranche A Loan will be one, two, three or (subject to availability) six months
or any other period agreed by the Borrowers and the Facility Agent (acting on
the instructions of the Majority Lenders).

 

12.2 Selection—Tranche B Loans

 

(a) Each Tranche B Loan has one Interest Period only.

 

(b) A Borrower must select the Interest Period for a Tranche B Loan in the
relevant Request.

 

(c) Subject to the following provisions of this Clause, each Interest Period for
a Tranche B Loan will be one, two, three or (subject to availability) six months
or any other period agreed by the Borrowers and the Facility Agent (acting on
the instructions of the Majority Lenders).

 

12.3 Coincidence with Repayment Dates

The Facility Agent may, before the Rate Fixing Day for the relevant Interest
Period shorten any Interest Period for the Tranche A Loan to ensure that the
amount of the Tranche A Loan with an Interest Period ending on a Repayment Date
is not less than the Repayment Instalment due on that Repayment Date.

 

12.4 No overrunning the Final Maturity Date

If an Interest Period would otherwise overrun the Final Maturity Date, it will
be shortened so that it ends on the Final Maturity Date.

 

12.5 Other adjustments

The Facility Agent and the Company may enter into such other arrangements as
they may agree for the adjustment of Interest Periods and the consolidation
and/or splitting of Loans.

 

12.6 Notification

The Facility Agent must notify each relevant Party of the duration of each
Interest Period promptly after ascertaining its duration.

 

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13. MARKET DISRUPTION

 

13.1 Failure of a Reference Bank to supply a rate

If LIBOR is to be calculated by reference to the Reference Banks but a Reference
Bank does not supply a rate at or about 12.00 noon (London time) on a Rate
Fixing Day, the applicable LIBOR will, subject as provided below, be calculated
on the basis of the rates of the remaining Reference Banks.

 

13.2 Market disruption

 

(a) In this Clause, each of the following events is a market disruption event:

 

  (i) LIBOR is to be calculated by reference to the Reference Banks but no, or
(where there is more than one Reference Bank) only one, Reference Bank supplies
a rate by 12.00 noon (London time) on the Rate Fixing Day; or

 

  (ii) the Facility Agent receives by close of business on the Business Day
after the Rate Fixing Day notification from Lenders whose shares in the relevant
Loan exceed 40 per cent. of that Loan that the cost to them of obtaining
matching deposits in the relevant interbank market is in excess of LIBOR for the
relevant Interest Period.

 

(b) The Facility Agent must promptly notify the Company and the Lenders of a
market disruption event.

 

(c) After notification under paragraph (b) above, the rate of interest on each
Lender’s share in the affected Loan for the relevant Interest Period will be the
aggregate of the applicable:

 

  (i) Margin; and

 

  (ii) rate notified to the Facility Agent by that Lender as soon as
practicable, and in any event before 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 share in that Loan from whatever source
it may reasonably select.

 

(d) If the percentage rate per annum notified by a Lender pursuant to paragraph
(c)(ii) above shall be less than LIBOR or if a Lender shall fail to notify the
Facility Agent of any such percentage rate per annum, the cost to that Lender of
funding its participation in the relevant Loan for the relevant Interest Period
shall be deemed, for the purpose of paragraph (c)(ii) above, to be LIBOR.

 

13.3 Alternative basis of interest or funding

 

(a) If a market disruption event occurs and the Facility Agent or the Company so
requires, the Company and the Facility Agent must enter into negotiations for a
period of not more than 30 days with a view to agreeing an alternative basis for
determining the rate of interest and/or funding for the affected Loan.

 

(b) Any alternative basis agreed will be, with the prior consent of all the
Lenders, binding on all the Parties.

 

(c) For the avoidance of doubt, unless an alternative rate is agreed pursuant to
this Subclause, the rate of interest shall continue to be determined in
accordance with Subclause 13.2 (Market disruption).

 

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14. TAXES

 

14.1 General

In this Clause:

Indirect Tax means any goods and services tax, consumption tax, value added tax
or any Tax of a similar nature.

Tax Credit means a credit against any Tax or any relief or remission for Tax (or
its repayment).

 

14.2 Tax gross-up

 

(a) Each Obligor must make all payments to be made by it under the Finance
Documents without any Tax Deduction, unless a Tax Deduction is required by law.

 

(b) If an Obligor or a Lender is aware that an Obligor must make a Tax Deduction
(or that there is a change in the rate or the basis of a Tax Deduction), it must
promptly notify the Facility Agent. The Facility Agent must then promptly notify
the affected Parties.

 

(c) If a Tax Deduction is required by law to be made by an Obligor, the amount
of the payment due from the Obligor will be increased to an amount which (after
making the Tax Deduction) leaves an amount equal to the payment which would have
been due if no Tax Deduction had been required.

 

(d) If an Obligor is required to make a Tax Deduction, that Obligor must make
the minimum Tax Deduction allowed by law and must make any payment required in
connection with that Tax Deduction within the time allowed by law.

 

(e) Within 30 Business Days of making either a Tax Deduction or a payment
required in connection with a Tax Deduction, the Obligor making that Tax
Deduction or payment must deliver to the Facility Agent for the relevant Finance
Party evidence reasonably satisfactory to that Finance Party (acting reasonably)
that the Tax Deduction has been made or (as applicable) the appropriate payment
has been paid to the relevant taxing authority.

 

14.3 Tax indemnity

 

(a) Without prejudice to Subclause 14.2 (Tax gross-up), if any Finance Party is
required to make any payment of or on account of Tax on or in relation to any
sum received or receivable under the Finance Documents (including any sum deemed
for purposes of Tax to be received or receivable by such Finance Party whether
or not actually received or receivable) or if any liability in respect of any
such payment is asserted, imposed, levied or assessed against any Finance Party,
the Borrowers shall, within seven Business Days of demand by the Facility Agent,
indemnify the Finance Party which suffers a loss or liability as a result
against such payment or liability, together with any interest, penalties, costs
and expenses payable or incurred in connection therewith, provided that this
Subclause shall not apply to:-

 

  (i) any Tax imposed on or calculated with reference to profit or net income of
a Finance Party by the jurisdiction in which such Finance Party is incorporated;
or

 

  (ii) any Tax imposed on or calculated with reference to profit or net income
on the Facility Office of a Finance Party by the jurisdiction in which the
Facility Office of such Finance Party is located.

 

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(b) A Finance Party making, or intending to make, a claim under paragraph
(a) above must promptly notify the Company in accordance with Clause 37.4
(Obligors) of the event which will give, or has given, rise to the claim.

 

(c) A Finance Party must, on receiving a payment from an Obligor under this
Clause notify the Facility Agent.

 

14.4 Tax Credit

If an Obligor makes a Tax Payment and the relevant Finance Party (in its
absolute discretion) determines that:

 

  (a) a Tax Credit is attributable either to an increased payment of which that
Tax Payment forms part, or to that Tax Payment; and

 

  (b) it has obtained, used and retained that Tax Credit,

the Finance Party must pay an amount to the Obligor which that Finance Party
determines (in its absolute discretion) will leave it (after that payment) in
the same after-Tax position as it would have been if the Tax Payment had not
been required to be made by the Obligor.

 

14.5 Stamp taxes

The Borrowers must pay and indemnify each Finance Party against any cost, loss
or liability that Finance Party incurs in relation to all stamp duty, stamp duty
land tax, registration or other similar Tax payable in connection with the entry
into, performance or enforcement of any Finance Document, except for any such
Tax payable in connection with the entry into of a Transfer Certificate.

 

14.6 Indirect tax

 

(a) All consideration expressed to be payable under a Finance Document by any
Obligor to a Finance Party shall be deemed to be exclusive of any Indirect Tax.
If any Indirect Tax is chargeable on any supply made by any Finance Party to any
Obligor in connection with a Finance Document, that Obligor shall pay to the
Finance Party (in addition to and at the same time as paying the consideration)
an amount equal to the amount of the Indirect Tax.

 

(b) Where a Finance Document requires any Obligor to reimburse or indemnify a
Finance Party for any costs or expenses, that Obligor shall also at the same
time reimburse and indemnify (as the case may be) the Finance Party against all
Indirect Tax incurred by that Finance Party in respect of such costs or expenses
to the extent that the Finance Party reasonably determines that it is not
entitled to credit or repayment in respect of the Indirect Tax.

 

15. INCREASED COSTS

 

15.1 Increased Costs

Except as provided below in this Clause, the Borrowers must pay to a Finance
Party the amount of any Increased Cost incurred by that Finance Party or any of
its Affiliates as a result of:

 

  (a) the introduction of, or any change in, or any change in the
interpretation, administration or application of, any law or regulation; or

 

  (b) compliance with any law or regulation made after the date of this
Agreement.

 

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15.2 Exceptions

The Borrowers need not make any payment for an Increased Cost to the extent that
the Increased Cost is:

 

  (a) compensated for under another Clause or would have been but for an
exception to that Clause;

 

  (b) attributable to a Finance Party or its Affiliate wilfully failing to
comply with any law or regulation; or

 

  (c) attributable to a Tax Deduction which as at the date of this Agreement is
required by law to be made by an Obligor.

 

15.3 Claims

 

  (a) A Finance Party intending to make a claim for an Increased Cost must
notify the Facility Agent of the circumstances giving rise to and the amount of
the claim, following which the Facility Agent will promptly notify the
Borrowers.

 

  (b) Each Finance Party must, as soon as practicable after a demand by the
Facility Agent, provide a certificate confirming the amount of its Increased
Cost.

 

16. MITIGATION

 

16.1 Mitigation

 

(a) Each Finance Party must, in consultation with the Borrowers, take all
reasonable steps to mitigate any circumstances which arise and which result or
would result in:

 

  (i) any Tax Payment or Increased Cost being payable to that Finance Party; or

 

  (ii) that Finance Party being able to exercise any right of prepayment and/or
cancellation under this Agreement by reason of any illegality,

including transferring its rights and obligations under the Finance Documents to
an Affiliate or changing its Facility Office.

 

(b) Paragraph (a) above does not in any way limit the obligations of any Obligor
under the Finance Documents.

 

(c) The Borrowers must indemnify each Finance Party for all costs and expenses
reasonably incurred by that Finance Party as a result of any step taken by it
under this Subclause.

 

(d) A Finance Party is not obliged to take any step under this Subclause if, in
the opinion of that Finance Party (acting reasonably), to do so might be
prejudicial to it.

 

16.2 Conduct of business by a Finance Party

No term of any Finance Document will:

 

  (a) interfere with the right of any Finance Party to arrange its affairs (Tax
or otherwise) in whatever manner it thinks fit;

 

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  (b) oblige any Finance Party to investigate or claim any credit, relief,
remission or repayment available to it in respect of Tax or the extent, order
and manner of any claim; or

 

  (c) oblige any Finance Party to disclose any information relating to its
affairs (Tax or otherwise) or any computation in respect of Tax.

 

17. PAYMENTS

 

17.1 Place

Unless a Finance Document specifies that payments under it are to be made in
another manner, all payments by a Party (other than the Facility Agent) under
the Finance Documents must be made to the Facility Agent to its account at such
office or bank in the principal financial centre of the country of the relevant
currency as it may notify to that Party for this purpose by not less than five
Business Days’ prior notice.

 

17.2 Funds

Payments under the Finance Documents to the Facility Agent must be made for
value on the due date at such times and in such funds as the Facility Agent may
specify to the Party concerned as being customary at the time for the settlement
of transactions in the relevant currency in the place for payment.

 

17.3 Distribution

 

(a) Each payment received by the Facility Agent under the Finance Documents for
another Party must, except as provided below, be made available by the Facility
Agent to that Party by payment (as soon as practicable after receipt) to its
account with such office or bank in the principal financial centre of the
country of the relevant currency as it may notify to that Party for this purpose
by not less than five Business Days’ prior notice.

 

(b) The Facility Agent may apply any amount received by it for an Obligor in or
towards payment (as soon as practicable after receipt) of any amount due from
that Obligor under the Finance Documents or in or towards the purchase of any
amount of any currency to be so applied.

 

(c) Where a sum is paid to the Facility Agent under this Agreement for another
Party, the Facility Agent is not obliged to pay that sum to that Party until it
has established that it has actually received it. However, the Facility Agent
may assume that the sum has been paid to it, and, in reliance on that
assumption, make available to that Party a corresponding amount. If it
transpires that the sum has not been received by the Facility Agent, that Party
must immediately on demand by the Facility Agent refund any corresponding amount
made available to it together with interest on that amount from the date of
payment to the date of receipt by the Facility Agent at a rate calculated by the
Facility Agent to reflect its cost of funds.

 

17.4 Currency

 

(a) Unless a Finance Document specifies that payments under it are to be made in
a different manner, the currency of each amount payable under the Finance
Documents is determined under this Subclause.

 

(b) Interest is payable in the currency in which the relevant amount in respect
of which it is payable is denominated.

 

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(c) A repayment or prepayment of any principal amount is payable in the currency
in which that principal amount is denominated on its due date.

 

(d) Amounts payable in respect of Taxes, fees, costs and expenses are payable in
the currency in which they are incurred.

 

(e) Each other amount payable under the Finance Documents is payable in USD.

 

17.5 No set-off or counterclaim

All payments made by an Obligor under the Finance Documents must be calculated
and made without (and free and clear of any deduction for) set-off or
counterclaim.

 

17.6 Business Days

 

(a) If a payment under the Finance Documents is due on a day which is not a
Business Day, the due date for that payment will instead be the next Business
Day in the same calendar month (if there is one) or the preceding Business Day
(if there is not) or whatever day the Facility Agent determines is market
practice.

 

(b) During any extension of the due date for payment of any principal under this
Agreement interest is payable on that principal at the rate payable on the
original due date.

 

17.7 Partial payments

 

(a) If the Facility Agent receives a payment insufficient to discharge all the
amounts then due and payable by the Obligors under the Finance Documents, the
Facility Agent must apply that payment towards the obligations of the Obligors
under the Finance Documents in the following order:

 

  (i) first, in or towards payment pro rata of any unpaid fees, costs and
expenses of the Administrative Parties under the Finance Documents;

 

  (ii) secondly, in or towards payment pro rata of any accrued interest or fee
due but unpaid under this Agreement;

 

  (iii) thirdly, in or towards payment pro rata of any principal amount due but
unpaid under this Agreement; and

 

  (iv) fourthly, in or towards payment pro rata of any other sum due but unpaid
under the Finance Documents.

 

(b) The Facility Agent must, if so directed by the Majority Lenders, vary the
order set out in sub-paragraphs (a)(ii) to (iv) above.

 

(c) This Subclause will override any appropriation made by an Obligor.

 

17.8 Timing of payments

If a Finance Document does not provide for when a particular payment is due,
that payment will be due within three Business Days of demand by the relevant
Finance Party.

 

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18. GUARANTEE AND INDEMNITY

 

18.1 Guarantee and indemnity

Each Guarantor jointly and severally and irrevocably and unconditionally:

 

  (a) guarantees to each Finance Party punctual performance by each Borrower of
all its obligations under the Finance Documents;

 

  (b) undertakes with each Finance Party that, whenever a Borrower does not pay
any amount when due under or in connection with any Finance Document, it must
immediately on demand by the Facility Agent pay that amount as if it were the
principal obligor in respect of that amount; and

 

  (c) agrees with each Finance Party that if, for any reason, any amount claimed
by a Finance Party under this Clause is not recoverable from that Guarantor on
the basis of a guarantee then that Guarantor will be liable as a principal
debtor and primary obligor to indemnify that Finance Party in respect of any
loss it incurs as a result of a Borrower failing to pay any amount expressed to
be payable by it under a Finance Document on the date when it ought to have been
paid. The amount payable by a Guarantor under this indemnity will not exceed the
amount it would have had to pay under this Clause had the amount claimed been
recoverable on the basis of a guarantee.

 

18.2 Continuing guarantee

This guarantee is a continuing guarantee and will extend to the ultimate balance
of all sums payable by any Obligor under the Finance Documents, regardless of
any intermediate payment or discharge in whole or in part.

 

18.3 Reinstatement

 

(a) If any discharge (whether in respect of the obligations of any Obligor or
any security for those obligations or otherwise) or arrangement is made in whole
or in part on the faith of any payment, security or other disposition which is
avoided or must be restored on insolvency, liquidation, administration or
otherwise without limitation, the liability of each Guarantor under this Clause
will continue or be reinstated as if the discharge or arrangement had not
occurred.

 

(b) Each Finance Party may concede or compromise any claim that any payment,
security or other disposition is liable to avoidance or restoration.

 

18.4 Waiver of defences

The obligations of each Guarantor under this Clause will not be affected by any
act, omission or thing (whether or not known to it or any Finance Party) which,
but for this provision, would reduce, release or prejudice any of its
obligations under this Clause. This includes:

 

  (a) any time or waiver granted to, or composition with, any person;

 

  (b) any release of any person under the terms of any composition or
arrangement;

 

  (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 (present or future) of, any person;

 

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  (d) 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;

 

  (e) any incapacity or lack of power, authority or legal personality of or
dissolution or change in the members or status of any person;

 

  (f) any amendment of a Finance Document or any other document or security;

 

  (g) any unenforceability, illegality, invalidity or non-provability of any
obligation of any person under any Finance Document or any other document or
security; or

 

  (h) any insolvency or similar proceedings.

 

18.5 Immediate recourse

 

(a) 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 right or security or claim payment from any person before claiming from
that Guarantor under this Clause.

 

(b) This waiver applies irrespective of any law or any provision of a Finance
Document to the contrary.

 

18.6 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, each
Finance Party (or any trustee or agent on its behalf) may without affecting the
liability of any Guarantor under this Clause:

 

  (a)     (i) 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) against those amounts; or

 

  (ii) apply and enforce them in such manner and order as it sees fit (whether
against those amounts or otherwise); and

 

  (b) hold in a suspense account any moneys received from any Guarantor or on
account of that Guarantor’s liability under this Clause.

 

18.7 Non-competition

Unless:

 

  (a) 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

 

  (b) the Facility Agent otherwise directs,

no Guarantor will, after a claim has been made or by virtue of any payment or
performance by it under this Clause:

 

  (i) be subrogated to any rights, security or moneys held, received or
receivable by any Finance Party (or any trustee or agent on its behalf);

 

  (ii) be entitled to any right of contribution or indemnity in respect of any
payment made or moneys received on account of that Guarantor’s liability under
this Clause;

 

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  (iii) claim, rank, prove or vote as a creditor of any Obligor or its estate in
competition with any Finance Party (or any trustee or agent on its behalf); or

 

  (iv) receive, claim or have the benefit of any payment, distribution or
security from or on account of any Obligor, or exercise any right of set-off as
against any Obligor.

Each Guarantor must hold in trust for and immediately pay or transfer to the
Facility Agent for the Finance Parties any payment or distribution or benefit of
security received by it contrary to this Clause or in accordance with any
directions given by the Facility Agent under this Clause.

 

18.8 Release of Guarantors’ right of contribution

If any Guarantor ceases to be a Guarantor in accordance with the terms of the
Finance Documents for the purposes of any sale or other disposal of that
Guarantor:

 

  (a) that Guarantor will be released by each other Guarantor from any liability
whatsoever 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 will waive 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
right of any Finance Party under any Finance Document or of any other security
taken under, or in connection with, any Finance Document where the rights or
security are granted by or in relation to the assets of the retiring Guarantor.

 

18.9 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.

 

18.10 Limitations

 

(a) This guarantee does not apply to any liability to the extent it would result
in this guarantee constituting unlawful financial assistance within the meaning
of 47A of the Companies Ordinance (Cap.32 of the Laws of Hong Kong).

 

(b) The obligations of any Additional Guarantor are subject to the limitations
(if any) set out in the Accession Agreement executed by that Additional
Guarantor.

 

19. REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

 

19.1 Representations and warranties

The representations and warranties set out in this Clause are made by each
Obligor or (if the relevant provision so states) the Company to each Finance
Party.

 

19.2 Status

 

(a) It is a corporation or limited liability company, duly incorporated or
formed and validly existing under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation
or formation.

 

(b) It and each of its Subsidiaries has the power to own its assets and carry on
its business as it is being conducted.

 

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19.3 Powers and authority

It has the power to enter into and perform, and has taken all necessary action
to authorise the entry into and performance of, the Finance Documents to which
it is or will be a party and the transactions contemplated by those Finance
Documents.

 

19.4 Legal validity

 

(a) Subject to any general principles of law limiting its obligations and
referred to in any legal opinion required under this Agreement, each Finance
Document to which it is a party is its legally binding, valid and enforceable
obligation.

 

(b) Each Finance Document to which it is a party is in the proper form for its
enforcement in the jurisdiction of its incorporation.

 

19.5 Non-conflict

The entry into and performance by it of, and the transactions contemplated by,
the Finance Documents do not conflict with:

 

  (a) any law or regulation applicable to it;

 

  (b) its or any of its Subsidiaries’ constitutional documents; or

 

  (c) any document which is binding upon it or any of its Subsidiaries or any of
its or its Subsidiaries’ assets.

 

19.6 No default

 

(a) No Default is outstanding or will result from the entry into of, or the
performance of any transaction contemplated by, any Finance Document; and

 

(b) no other event or circumstance is outstanding which constitutes a default
under any document which is binding on it or any of its Subsidiaries or any of
its or its Subsidiaries’ assets to an extent or in a manner which has or is
reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

19.7 Authorisations

Except for registration of:

 

  (a) the Composite Share Mortgage and the Composite Security Agreement at the
Hong Kong Companies Registry pursuant to the Companies Ordinance (Cap. 32 of the
Laws of Hong Kong);

 

  (b) the Composite Share Mortgage and the Composite Security Agreement at the
Registry of Corporate Affairs in the British Virgin Islands pursuant to the BVI
Business Companies Act, 2004 (as amended); and

 

  (c) a financing statement on Form UCC1 covering the shares in the Company
subject to the Security Interests constituted under the Composite Share Mortgage
and naming TTM International as debtor and the Security Trustee as secured party
with the Office of the Secretary of State of the State of Delaware, all
authorisations required by it in connection with the entry into, performance,
validity and enforceability of, and the transactions contemplated by, the
Finance Documents have been obtained or effected (as appropriate) and are in
full force and effect.

 

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19.8 Financial statements

Its audited financial statements most recently delivered to the Facility Agent:

 

  (a) have been prepared in accordance with GAAP, consistently applied; and

 

  (b) give a true and fair view of its financial condition (consolidated, if
applicable) as at the date to which they were drawn up,

except, in each case, as disclosed to the contrary in those financial
statements.

 

19.9 No material adverse change

There has been no material adverse change in the consolidated financial
condition of each Obligor since the date to which Original Financial Statements
were drawn up.

 

19.10  Pari passu ranking

Its payment obligations under the Finance Documents rank at least pari passu
with the claims of all of its other unsecured and unsubordinated creditors,
except for obligations mandatorily preferred by law applying to companies
generally.

 

19.11 Environmental laws

 

(a) Each Obligor and each member of the Group is in compliance with Subclause
22.13 (Environmental matters) and no circumstances have occurred which would
prevent such compliance in each case where non-compliance could reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

(b) No Environmental Claim has been commenced or (to the best of its knowledge
and belief (having made due and careful enquiry) is threatened against any
Obligor or any member of the Group where such Environmental Claim is likely to
be determined against the relevant Obligor or member of the Group and, if so
determined, would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

19.12  Litigation

No litigation, arbitration or administrative proceedings against any member of
the Group has been started or, to its knowledge, threatened, which have or, if
adversely determined, are reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

19.13  Taxes on payments

All amounts payable by it under the Finance Documents may be made without any
Tax Deduction.

 

19.14  Stamp duties

Except for registration fees payable at the relevant registries under Subclause
19.7 (Authorisations) (in each case in respect of the Security Documents) no
stamp or registration duty or similar Tax or charge is payable in its
jurisdiction of incorporation in respect of any Finance Document.

 

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19.15  Immunity

 

(a) The entry into by it of each Finance Document constitutes, and the exercise
by it of its rights and performance of its obligations under each Finance
Document will constitute, private and commercial acts performed for private and
commercial purposes; and

 

(b) it will not be entitled to claim immunity from suit, execution, attachment
or other legal process in any proceedings taken in its jurisdiction of
incorporation in relation to any Finance Document.

 

19.16  No adverse consequences

 

(a) It is not necessary under the laws of its jurisdiction of incorporation:

 

  (i) in order to enable any Finance Party to enforce its rights under any
Finance Document; or

 

  (ii) by reason of the entry into of any Finance Document or the performance by
it of its obligations under any Finance Document,

that any Finance Party should be licensed, qualified or otherwise entitled to
carry on business in its jurisdiction of incorporation; and

 

(b) no Finance Party is or will be deemed to be resident, domiciled or carrying
on business in its jurisdiction of incorporation by reason only of the entry
into, performance and/or enforcement of any Finance Document.

 

19.17  Jurisdiction/governing law

 

(a) In this Subclause:

Relevant Jurisdiction means in relation to an Obligor:

 

  (i) its jurisdiction of incorporation;

 

  (ii) any jurisdiction where any asset subject to or intended to be subject to
a Security Document is situated;

 

  (iii) any jurisdiction where it conducts its business; and

 

  (iv) the jurisdiction whose laws govern the perfection of any Security
Document entered into by it.

 

(b) Its:

 

  (i) irrevocable submission under the Finance Documents to the jurisdiction of
the courts of Hong Kong;

 

  (ii) agreement that each Finance Document is governed by Hong Kong law; and

 

  (iii) agreement not to claim any immunity to which it or its assets may be
entitled,

are legal, valid and binding under the laws of its Relevant Jurisdiction; and

 

(c) any judgment obtained in Hong Kong will be recognised and be enforceable by
the courts of its Relevant Jurisdiction.

 

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19.18  No misleading information

All information supplied by any Obligor or any member of the Group is true,
complete and accurate in all material respects as at the date it was given and
is not misleading in any respect.

 

19.19  Authorised signatories

Unless notified in writing by the relevant Obligor to the contrary, each person
listed in the director’s certificates of each Obligor referred to in Part 1 of
Schedule 2 (Conditions Precedent Documents ) and any other person notified
(together with the specimen signature of that person) to the Facility Agent
under Subclause 20.4(c) (Information—miscellaneous) are authorised to sign and
deliver a Request or, as the case may be, any notices on behalf of the relevant
Obligor.

 

19.20  Times for making representations and warranties

 

(a) The representations and warranties set out in this Clause are made by each
Original Obligor on the date of this Agreement.

 

(b) Unless a representation and warranty is expressed to be given at a specific
date, each representation and warranty is deemed to be repeated by:

 

  (i) each Additional Guarantor and the Borrowers on the date on which that
Additional Guarantor becomes a Guarantor; and

 

  (ii) each Obligor on the date of each Request and the first day of each
Interest Period.

 

(c) When a representation and warranty in Subclause 19.6(a) (No default) is
repeated on a Request for a Rollover Loan or the first day of an Interest Period
for the Tranche A Loan (other than the first Interest Period for the Tranche A
Loan), the reference to a Default will be construed as a reference to an Event
of Default.

 

(d) When a representation and warranty is repeated, it is applied to the
circumstances existing at the time of repetition.

 

20. INFORMATION COVENANTS

 

20.1 Financial statements

 

(a) Each Obligor (other than each Obligor incorporated in the British Virgin
Islands) must, and each Obligor will procure that Shanghai Meadville Electronics
Co., Ltd., Dongguan Meadville Circuits Limited and Guangzhou Meadville
Electronics Co., Ltd. will, supply to the Facility Agent in sufficient copies
for all the Lenders:

 

  (i) its audited consolidated financial statements (or, if the relevant Obligor
(other than the Company and the Parent) does not produce consolidated financial
statements, its audited financial statements) for each of its financial years;
and

 

  (ii) its unaudited interim financial statements for the first half-year of
each of its financial years.

 

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(b) Each Obligor incorporated in the British Virgin Islands must supply to the
Facility Agent in sufficient copies for all the Lenders:

 

  (i) its unaudited consolidated financial statements (or, if the relevant
Obligor does not produce consolidated financial statements, its unaudited
financial statements) for each of its financial years; and

 

  (ii) its unaudited interim financial statements for the first-half-year of
each of its financial years.

 

(c) All financial statements must be supplied as soon as they are available and:

 

  (i) in the case of the audited financial statements to be provided under
paragraph (a) above, within 180 days; and

 

  (ii) in the case of the unaudited financial statements to be provided under
paragraph (b) above, within 120 days;

 

  (iii) in the case of the unaudited interim financial statements to be provided
under paragraphs (a) and (b) above, within 90 days,

of the end of the relevant financial period.

 

20.2 Form of financial statements

 

(a) Each Obligor must ensure that each set of financial statements supplied
under this Agreement gives (if audited) a true and fair view of, or (if
unaudited) fairly represents, the financial condition (consolidated or
otherwise) of the relevant person as at the date to which those financial
statements were drawn up.

 

(b) Each Obligor must notify the Facility Agent of any change to the manner in
which its audited consolidated financial statements are prepared.

 

(c) If requested by the Facility Agent, each Obligor must supply to the Facility
Agent:

 

  (i) a full description of any change notified under paragraph (b) above; and

 

  (ii) sufficient information to enable the Finance Parties to make a proper
comparison between the financial position shown by the set of financial
statements prepared on the changed basis and its most recent audited
consolidated financial statements delivered to the Facility Agent under this
Agreement.

 

(d) If requested by the Facility Agent, the Obligors must enter into discussions
for a period of not more than 30 days with a view to agreeing any amendments
required to be made to this Agreement to place the Obligors and the Lenders in
the same position as they would have been if the change had not happened. Any
agreement between the Obligors and the Facility Agent will be, with the prior
consent of the Majority Lenders, binding on all the Parties.

 

(e) If no agreement is reached under paragraph (d) above on the required
amendments to this Agreement, each Obligor must ensure that its auditors certify
those amendments; the certificate of the auditors will be, in the absence of
manifest error, binding on all the Parties.

 

20.3 Compliance Certificate

 

(a) Each of the Parent and the Company must supply to the Facility Agent a
Compliance Certificate with each set of its financial statements sent to the
Facility Agent under this Agreement.

 

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(b) A Compliance Certificate must be signed by two authorised signatories of the
Parent or, as the case may be, two authorised signatories of the Company.

 

20.4 Information—miscellaneous

The Company must supply to the Facility Agent, in sufficient copies for all the
Lenders if the Facility Agent so requests:

 

  (a) copies of all documents despatched by the Parent and/or any member of the
Group to any of their respective creditors to whom the aggregate amount of
Financial Indebtedness owed by all members of the Parent Group (as defined in
Clause 21.1 (Definitions) such that the amount outstanding exceeds,
HK$40,000,000 (or its equivalent in other currencies);

 

  (b) promptly upon becoming aware of them, details of any litigation,
arbitration or administrative proceedings against the Parent or any member of
the Group which are current, threatened or pending and which have or might, if
adversely determined, expose any member of the Group to a financial liability
equal to or greater than HK$40,000,000 (or its equivalent in other currencies);

 

  (c) promptly upon becoming aware of them, details of any change in authorised
signatories of each Obligor (including specimen signatures of any newly
appointed authorised signatories);

 

  (d) promptly on request, a list of the then current Material Subsidiaries; and

 

  (e) subject to any applicable listing rule restrictions, the requirements and
of securities laws and regulations in the United States of America, promptly on
request, such further information regarding the financial condition, business
and operations of any member of the Group as any Finance Party through the
Facility Agent may reasonably request.

 

20.5 Notification of Default

 

(a) Unless each of the Facility Agent, and the Issuing Bank has already been so
notified by another Obligor or Security Provider, each Obligor and each Security
Provider must notify each of the Facility Agent, and the Issuing Bank of any
Default (and the steps, if any, being taken to remedy it) promptly upon becoming
aware of its occurrence.

 

(b) Promptly on request by the Facility Agent, the Parent and the Company must
each supply to the Facility Agent a certificate, signed by two of its authorised
signatories on its behalf, certifying that no Default is outstanding or, if a
Default is outstanding, specifying the Default and the steps, if any, being
taken to remedy it.

 

20.6 Year end

No Obligor may change its financial year end.

 

20.7 Customer due diligence requirements

 

(a) Each Obligor and each Security Provider must promptly on the request of any
Finance Party supply to that Finance Party any documentation or other evidence
which is reasonably requested by that Finance Party (whether for itself, on
behalf of any Finance Party or any prospective new Lender) to enable a Finance
Party or prospective new Lender to carry out and be satisfied with the results
of all applicable customer due diligence requirements.

 

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(b) Each Lender must promptly on the request of the Facility Agent supply to the
Facility Agent any documentation or other evidence which is reasonably required
by the Facility Agent to carry out and be satisfied with the results of all
customer due diligence requirements.

 

21. FINANCIAL COVENANTS

 

21.1 Definitions

In this Clause:

Borrowings means, in respect of any person, any indebtedness for or in respect
of moneys borrowed or raised by such person for the purpose of raising finance
(without double-counting) in respect of:

 

  (a) any debit balances at banks and other financial institutions and any
moneys borrowed or raised but excluding the loans owing to fellow Subsidiaries
of the Relevant Group;

 

  (b) any bond, note, loan stock, debenture, bill of exchange or other security
or debt instruments;

 

  (c) any acceptance or documents against payment or indebtedness of similar
nature;

 

  (d) any lease or hire purchase or installment credit arrangement entered into
primarily as a method of raising finance or of financing the acquisition of the
assets leased;

 

  (e) receivables sold or discounted (otherwise than on a non-recourse basis);
or

 

  (f) any guarantee, indemnity or other assurance against financial loss of any
third party persons in respect of any of paragraphs (a) to (e) set out above.

Consolidated Current Assets means, at any time, the consolidated current assets
of the Relevant Group at that time as determined in accordance with GAAP.

Consolidated Current Liabilities means, at any time, the consolidated current
liabilities (including, for the avoidance of doubt, the current portion of the
long-term borrowings of that time) of the Relevant Group at that time determined
in accordance with GAAP.

Consolidated Current Liabilities (excluding current portion of long-term
borrowings) means, at any time, the consolidated current liabilities (but
excluding the current portion of the long-term borrowings at that time) of the
Relevant Group at that time determined in accordance with GAAP.

Consolidated Net Borrowings means, the aggregate indebtedness of the Relevant
Group in respect of Borrowings less the sum of cash and bank balances (including
time deposits) recorded on the Company’s or, as the case may be, the Parent’s
consolidated balance sheet.

Consolidated Tangible Net Worth means, at any time the aggregate of:-

 

  (a) the amount paid up or credited as paid up on the issued share capital of
the Company or, as the case may be, the Parent; and

 

  (b) the amounts standing to the credit of the consolidated capital and revenue
reserves (including but not limited to share premium account, capital redemption
reserve fund, any credit balance of property revaluation reserves (provided that
such revaluation is supported by a valuation report on the relevant property
prepared by an independent reputable firm of valuer acceptable to the Facility
Agent) and any credit balance on profit and loss account) of the Relevant Group,
but after:

 

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  (i) deducting therefrom (if not otherwise deducted or excluded from the
amounts under paragraphs (a) or (b) above):-

 

  (A) any amounts attributable to goodwill, capitalised research and development
costs, intellectual property (including, but not limited to, patents and trade
marks) and all other intangible assets;

 

  (B) any declared dividend or other distributions to Company’s shareholders or,
as the case may be, the Parent’s shareholders, to the extent that such dividend
or other distribution is not provided for in such consolidated balance sheet
(audited in the event of consolidated balance sheet for a full financial year);

 

  (C) amounts attributable to minority interests in the Company’s Subsidiaries
or, as the case may be, the Parent’s Subsidiaries; and

 

  (D) any debit balance on profit and loss account; and

 

  (ii) making such adjustments as may be appropriate in respect of any variation
in the interests of the Company or, as the case may be, the Parent in members of
the Relevant Group (including, but without limiting the generality of the
foregoing, any acquisition of a new member of the Relevant Group or disposal of
an interest which causes an undertaking to cease to be a member of the Relevant
Group) since the date of the latest consolidated balance sheet (audited in the
event of consolidated balance sheet for a full financial year) of the Company
or, as the case may be, the Parent, such adjustments being certified by the
Relevant Group’s auditors as representing an accurate reflection of the revised
Consolidated Tangible Net Worth,

and so that no amount shall be included or excluded more than once in the same
calculation.

EBITDA means, in respect of any Relevant Period, the total operating profit
(loss) for continuing operations before interest, tax, depreciation of tangible
assets and amortisation of goodwill and other intangible assets of the Relevant
Group as determined on a consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP and
excluding in respect of the Relevant Group unconsolidated companies, any
exceptional profits or losses on the sale of or termination of an operation,
exceptional costs of a reorganisation or restructuring and any extraordinary
losses or expenses such as goodwill write-off, asset and investment impairment
losses and provisions for investments and properties and any exceptional profits
or losses on the disposals of assets and extraordinary items and minority
interests.

Interest Expenses means in relation to any Relevant Period, interest (including
the interest element of any payments made under finance leases or hire purchase
agreements), commission, fees, discounts and other finance, expenses or charges
payable by the Relevant Group during the Relevant Period.

Parent Group means the Parent and its Subsidiaries.

Relevant Period means each period of twelve months ending on the last day of the
Company’s or, as the case may be, the Parent’s financial year and each period of
twelve months ending on the last day of the first half of the Company’s or, as
the case may be, the Parent’s financial year.

Relevant Group means the Group or the Parent Group.

 

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21.2 Interpretation

 

(a) Except as provided to the contrary in this Agreement, an accounting term
used in this Clause is to be construed in accordance with the principles applied
in connection with GAAP.

 

(b) Any amount in a currency other than USD is to be taken into account at its
USD equivalent calculated on the basis of:

 

  (i) the Facility Agent’s spot rate of exchange for the purchase of the
relevant currency in the Hong Kong foreign exchange market with USD at or about
11.00 a.m. on the day the relevant amount falls to be calculated; or

 

  (ii) if the amount is to be calculated on the last day of a financial period
of the Company or the Parent, the relevant rates of exchange used by the Company
or, as the case may be, the Parent in or in connection with its financial
statements for that period.

 

(c) No item must be credited or deducted more than once in any calculation under
this Clause.

 

21.3 Consolidated Tangible Net Worth

 

(a) The Company must ensure that Consolidated Tangible Net Worth of the Group is
at any time not less than HK$2,350,000,000.

 

(b) The Parent must ensure that Consolidated Tangible Net Worth of the Parent
Group is at any time not less than US$450,000,000.

 

21.4 Gearing

 

(a) The Company must ensure that the ratio of Consolidated Net Borrowings of the
Group to Consolidated Tangible Net Worth of the Group at any time does not
exceed 1.0 to 1.

 

(b) The Parent must ensure that the ratio of Consolidated Net Borrowings of the
Parent Group to Consolidated Tangible Net Worth of the Parent Group at any time
does not exceed 0.9 to 1.

 

21.5 Interest cover

 

(a) The Company must ensure that the ratio of EBITDA of the Group to Interest
Expenses of the Group is not, at any time, less than 5.0 to 1.

 

(b) The Parent must ensure that the ratio of EBITDA of the Parent Group to
Interest Expenses of the Parent Group is not, at any time, less than 4.0 to 1.

 

21.6 Leverage

The Parent must ensure that the ratio of Consolidated Net Borrowings of the
Parent Group to EBITDA of the Parent Group

at any time does not exceed 2.5 to 1.

 

21.7 Consolidated current assets

 

(a) The Company must ensure that Consolidated Current Assets of the Group is at
any time not less than 100 per cent. of Consolidated Current Liabilities
(excluding current portion of long-term borrowings) of the Group at that time.

 

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(b) The Company must ensure that, at any time from the date of this Agreement to
(and including):

 

  (i) 31 December 2013, Consolidated Current Assets of the Group is not less
than 90 per cent. of Consolidated Current Liabilities of the Group at that time;

 

  (ii) 31 December 2014, Consolidated Current Assets of the Group is not less
than 85 per cent. of Consolidated Current Liabilities of the Group at that time;
and

 

  (iii) 30 June 2015, Consolidated Current Assets of the Group is not less than
80 per cent. of Consolidated Current Liabilities of the Group at that time.

 

22. GENERAL COVENANTS

 

22.1 General

Each Obligor agrees to be bound by the covenants set out in this Clause relating
to it and, where the covenant is expressed to apply to any other member of the
Group, each Obligor must ensure that its relevant Subsidiaries perform that
covenant.

 

22.2 Authorisations

Each Obligor must and must procure that each Security Provider must promptly:

 

  (a) obtain, maintain and comply with the terms; and

 

  (b) supply certified copies to the Facility Agent,

of any authorisation required under any law or regulation to:

 

  (i) enable it to perform its obligations under the Finance Documents to which
it is a party;

 

  (ii) ensure the legality, validity, enforceability or admissibility in
evidence in its jurisdiction of incorporation of any Finance Document to which
it is a party; and

 

  (iii) carry on its business where failure to do so has or could reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

22.3 Compliance with laws

Each member of the Group must comply in all respects with all laws to which it
is subject where failure to do so has or is reasonably likely to have a Material
Adverse Effect.

 

22.4 Pari passu ranking

Each Obligor and each Security Provider must ensure that its payment obligations
under the Finance Documents at all times rank at least pari passu with all its
other present and future unsecured and unsubordinated payment obligations,
except for obligations mandatorily preferred by law applying to companies
generally.

 

22.5 Negative pledge

 

(a) Except as provided below, no Obligor (other than the Parent) may, and the
Company shall procure that no Material Group Member or Security Provider (other
than TTM International) will, create or allow to exist any Security Interest on
any of its present or future assets.

 

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(b) No Obligor (other than the Parent) may, and the Company shall procure that
no Material Group Member or Security Provider (other than TTM International)
will:

 

  (i) sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its present or future assets
on terms where it is or may be leased to or re-acquired or acquired by a member
of the Material Group or any of its related entities;

 

  (ii) sell, transfer or otherwise dispose of any of its receivables on recourse
terms;

 

  (iii) enter into any arrangement under which money or the benefit of a bank or
other account may be applied, set-off or made subject to a combination of
accounts; or

 

  (iv) enter into any other preferential arrangement having a similar effect,

in circumstances where the transaction is entered into primarily as a method of
raising Financial Indebtedness or of financing the acquisition of an asset
(present or future).

 

(c) Paragraphs (a) and (b) do not apply to:

 

  (i) any Security Interest constituted by the Security Documents;

 

  (ii) any Security Interest comprising a netting or set-off arrangement entered
into by a member of the Group in the ordinary course of its banking arrangements
for the purpose of netting debit and credit balances;

 

  (iii) any lien arising by operation of law and in the ordinary course of
trading;

 

  (iv) any Security Interest given, by an Obligor or member of the Group listed
in Part 1 (Existing Security Interest) of Schedule 5 (Existing Security
Interest, Loans and Guarantees), provided that the principal amount secured is
not increased from the amount stated in that Schedule;

 

  (v) any Security Interest on an asset, or an asset of any person, acquired by
a member of the Group after the date of this Agreement but only to the extent
that the principal amount secured by that Security Interest has not been
incurred or increased in contemplation of, or since, the acquisition;

 

  (vi) any Security Interest on an asset, or an asset of any person, acquired or
to be acquired by a Borrower to secure indebtedness raised for the purpose of
financing or refinancing the acquisition or development of that asset but only
to the extent that the principal amount secured by that Security Interest does
not exceed the cost of the acquisition or development;

 

  (vii) any Security Interest over cash collateral required to be provided under
this Agreement; and

 

  (viii) any Security Interest created by a member of the Material Group to
secure Financial Indebtedness under Onshore PRC Bank Borrowing not exceeding
RMB500,000,000 in aggregate.

 

(d) For the avoidance of doubt, any Security Interest constituted by the
Security Documents may be shared between (i) the Finance Parties and (ii) any
party to a derivative transaction entered into with an Obligor in connection
with this Agreement, protecting against or benefiting from fluctuations in any
rate or price pursuant to the terms of an intercreditor agreement in form and
substance satisfactory to the Security Trustee at such time.

 

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22.6 Disposals

 

(a) Except as provided below, no member of the Group may, and the Company shall
procure that no member of the Group will, either in a single transaction or in a
series of transactions and whether related or not, sell, transfer, or otherwise
dispose of all or any part of its present or future assets.

 

(b) Paragraph (a) does not apply to any sale, transfer or disposal:

 

  (i) made on arm’s length commercial terms and for reasonable consideration and
in the ordinary course of trading of the disposing entity, provided that:

 

  (A) the higher of the market value and consideration receivable for such sale,
transfer or disposal (when aggregated with the higher of the market value and
consideration for any other sale, transfer or disposal allowed under this
Subclause) does not exceed HK$350,000,000 or its equivalent, provided that the
Company shall inform the Facility Agent of any such sale, transfer or disposal
of which the higher of the market value and consideration receivable exceeds
HK$200,000,000 or its equivalent within 30 days of the completion of such sale,
transfer or disposal; and

 

  (B) no Default or Event of Default would occur as a result of such sale,
transfer or disposal;

 

  (ii) of trading stock or cash, machinery, raw materials or other current
assets made by any member of the Group in the ordinary course of trading of the
Group;

 

  (iii) by a member of the Group which is an Obligor to another member of the
Group which is an Obligor;

 

  (iv) by a member of the Group which is an Obligor to any other member of the
Group of any machinery, raw materials and trading stock, for arm’s length
consideration and commercial terms and for the ordinary course of business of
the Group;

 

  (v) of any cash for the purpose of capital injections to be made by any member
of the Group to another member of the Group, which is for the ordinary course of
business of the Group;

 

  (vi) by a member of the Group which is not an Obligor and not incorporated in
the PRC to another member of the Group which is not an Obligor and not
incorporated in the PRC;

 

  (vii) by a member of the Group which is incorporated in the PRC to another
member of the Group which is incorporated in the PRC;

 

  (viii) of used, worn out, obsolete or surplus property by any Obligor in the
ordinary course of business and the abandonment or other disposition of
intellectual property that is, in the reasonable judgment of the Company, no
longer economically practicable to maintain or useful in the conduct of the
business of the Obligors taken as a whole; or

 

  (ix) related to any amalgamation, demerger, merger or corporate reconstruction
in compliance with Subclause 22.9 (Mergers).

 

22.7 Financial Indebtedness

 

(a) Except as provided below, no member of the Group may incur or permit to be
outstanding any Financial Indebtedness.

 

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(b) Paragraph (a) does not apply to:

 

  (i) any Financial Indebtedness incurred under the Finance Documents;

 

  (ii) any Financial Indebtedness incurred pursuant to a transaction permitted
under Subclause 22.11 (Loans and Guarantees);

 

  (iii) any Financial Indebtedness under the Existing Facility (excluding any
Financial Indebtedness incurred in respect of Existing Letters of Credit)
provided that such Financial Indebtedness shall be prepaid and cancelled in full
on the first Utilisation Date of the Tranche A Loan;

 

  (iv) any Onshore PRC Bank Borrowing of a member of the Group not exceeding,
when aggregated with the Onshore PRC Bank Borrowings of all other members of the
Group, RMB500,000,000 or its equivalent at any time, provided that Onshore PRC
Bank Borrowing exceeding RMB500,000,000 in aggregate will be allowed if the
Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) is satisfied
that such borrowing will be used to prepay the Tranche A Facility within five
days of the date of such borrowing;

 

  (v) any derivative transaction protecting against or benefiting from
fluctuations in any rate or price entered into (A) in connection with this
Agreement; or (B) in the ordinary course of business of the relevant member of
the Group but not, in any event, for speculative purposes;

 

  (vi) any Financial Indebtedness incurred under any Existing Letter of Credit
provided that the Existing Letter of Credit is the subject of a Letter of Credit
issued for the purpose set out in paragraph (a) of Clause 3.3 (Tranche C
Facility – Letters of Credit);

 

  (vii) any Financial Indebtedness incurred under any counter-indemnity
obligation in respect of any guarantee granted by a bank or financial
institution in favour of a governmental body or authority or public utilities
company in Hong Kong, provided that the amount of such Financial Indebtedness
shall not at any time exceed the US$ equivalent of HK$10,000,000 calculated on
the basis of the Agent’s Spot Rate of Exchange on the date of calculation by
such member of the Group;

 

  (viii) any Financial Indebtedness incurred in connection with the forward sale
of non-HK Dollar cheques by a member of the Group to a bank or financial
institution, provided that the amount of such Financial Indebtedness shall not
at any time exceed the US$ equivalent of HK$30,000,000 calculated on the basis
of the Agent’s Spot Rate of Exchange on the date of calculation by such member
of the Group; and

 

  (ix) any Financial Indebtedness incurred with the prior written consent of the
Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders).

 

22.8 Change of business

 

(a) The Parent must ensure that no substantial change is made to the nature and
scope of the business of the Parent from that carried on at the date of this
Agreement.

 

(b) The Company and each Borrower must ensure that no substantial change is made
to the general nature of the business of the Company or the Group from that
carried on at the date of this Agreement.

 

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22.9 Mergers

 

(a) No Obligor or Security Provider shall, and the Company shall procure that no
member of the Group will, enter into any amalgamation, demerger, merger or
corporate reconstruction.

 

(b) Paragraph (a) above does not apply to any amalgamation, demerger, merger or
corporate reconstruction:

 

  (i) between Non-Party Parent Subsidiaries;

 

  (ii) between members of the Group which are not Obligors and not incorporated
in the PRC;

 

  (iii) between members of the Group incorporated in the PRC; or

 

  (iv) resulting in one Obligor which is a member of the Group merging into
another Obligor which is a member of the Group, provided that (1) the surviving
entity continues to be bound by the Finance Documents as an Obligor, (2) in the
opinion of the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority
Lenders) the creditworthiness of the relevant Obligor has not been adversely
affected as a result of the merger and (3) the Finance Documents remain in full
force and effect notwithstanding the merger.

 

22.10  Dividends and distributions

 

(a) Each Borrower and the Company shall ensure that there are no restrictions on
each of its Subsidiaries (other than Dongguan Shengyi Electronics Ltd. and
Dongguan Meadville Circuits Limited in respect of the right to any minority
shareholders to approve dividend payments) to declare, make or pay any dividend,
charge, fee or other distribution (or interest on any unpaid dividend, charge,
fee or other distribution), whether in cash or in kind.

 

(b) Unless required by applicable laws or regulations, the Company shall not in
respect of each of its financial years declare, make or pay any dividend,
charge, fee or other distribution (or interest on any unpaid dividend, charge,
fee or other distribution) (whether in cash or in kind) on or in respect of its
share capital (or any class of its share capital) exceeding 20 per cent. of the
Company’s profits available for distribution in that financial year.

 

(c) The Company shall not declare, make or pay any dividend, charge, fee or
other distribution in pursuant to paragraph (b) above if as a result of such
declaration or payment a Default would occur.

 

22.11 Loans and Guarantees

 

(a) No Obligor or Security Provider shall, and the Company shall ensure that no
member of the Group will, make any loans, grant any credit (save in the ordinary
course of trading) or give any guarantee or indemnity (except as required under
any of the Finance Documents or in the ordinary course of trading) to or for the
benefit of any person or otherwise voluntarily assume any liability, whether
actual or contingent, in respect of any obligation of any person.

 

(b) Paragraph (a) above does not apply to:

 

  (i) any loan or credit made or granted, or guarantee or indemnity given by the
Parent, or TTM International (other than any loan made available to a member of
the Group);

 

  (ii) any loan or credit made or granted, or guarantee or indemnity given by an
Obligor, Security Provider or a member of the Group for the ordinary course of
the Group’s trading activities other than a loan, credit, guarantee or indemnity
made, granted or given to or in favour of the Parent, TTM International or any
other subsidiary of the Parent which is not a member of the Group;

 

 

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  (iii) any loan or credit made or granted, or guarantee or indemnity given by
any member of the Group that is an Obligor to or in favour of any other member
of the Group which is also an Obligor;

 

  (iv) any loan or credit made or granted, or guarantee or indemnity given, by
an Obligor or member of the Group which is existing as at the date of the
Agreement and listed in Part 2 (Existing Loans and Guarantees) of Schedule 5
(Existing Security Interest, Loans and Guarantees), except to the extent the
principal amount of such loan, credit, guarantee or indemnity is increased from
the amount outstanding as the date of this Agreement; or

 

  (v) any loan made available to a member of the Group which is subordinated to
the Financial Indebtedness under the Finance Documents in such manner as is
reasonably satisfactory to the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the
Majority Lenders).

 

22.12  Revenue from goods and services

Each Obligor and each Security Provider shall, and the Company shall procure
that each member of the Group will, ensure that:

 

  (a) all revenues generated either directly or indirectly through goods or
services provided by any member of the Group to any person who is not an Obligor
or a member of the Group shall be invoiced to that person directly by a member
of the Group; and

 

  (b) all invoices referred to in paragraph (a) above are settled directly with
the relevant member of the Group.

 

22.13  Environmental matters

 

(a) In this Subclause:

Environmental Approval means any authorisation required under any Environmental
Law for the operation of the business of any Obligor or any member of the Group
conducted on or from properties owned or used by any Obligor or any member of
the Group;

 

(b) Each Obligor, each Security Provider and each member of the Group must:

 

  (i) comply with all Environmental Law;

 

  (ii) obtain, maintain and ensure compliance with all requisite Environmental
Approvals; and

 

  (iii) implement procedures to monitor compliance with and to prevent liability
under any Environmental Law,

where failure to do so has or is reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse
Effect or result in any liability for a Finance Party.

 

(c) Each Obligor and each Security Provider must, promptly upon becoming aware,
notify the Facility Agent of:

 

  (i) any Environmental Claim started, or to its knowledge, threatened; or

 

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  (ii) any circumstances reasonably likely to result in an Environmental Claim,

which has or, if substantiated, is reasonably likely to either have a Material
Adverse Effect or result in any liability for a Finance Party.

 

22.14  Insurance

Each member of the Group must insure its business and assets with insurance
companies to such an extent and against such risks as companies engaged in a
similar business normally insure.

 

22.15  Listing

 

The Parent shall ensure that it will at all times be listed on a national
securities exchange in the United States of America.

 

22.16  Ownership

 

(a) The Parent shall at all times be the direct owner of 100 per cent. of the
entire issued share capital of TTM International.

 

(b) TTM International shall at all times be the direct owner of 100 per cent. of
the entire issued share capital of the Company.

 

(c) The Company shall not reduce its direct or indirect shareholding in any
member of the Group, except as permitted in paragraph (b) of Subclause 22.6
(Disposals) and provided that any transfer or disposal of such shareholding is
made to another member of the Group.

 

23. DEFAULT

 

23.1 Events of Default

 

(a) Each of the events or circumstances set out in this Clause (other than
Subclause 23.16 (Acceleration)) is an Event of Default.

 

(b) In this Clause:

Permitted Transaction means:

 

  (i) an intra-Group re-organisation of a Material Subsidiary on a solvent
basis; or

 

  (ii) any other transaction agreed by the Majority Lenders.

 

23.2 Non-payment

An Obligor does not pay on the due date any amount payable by it under the
Finance Documents in the manner required under the Finance Documents, unless the
non-payment is caused by technical or administrative error and is remedied
within three Business Days of the due date.

 

23.3 Breach of other obligations

 

(a) An Obligor does not comply with any term of Clause 21(Financial covenants);
or

 

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(b) an Obligor or a Security Provider does not comply with any term of the
Finance Documents (other than any term referred to in Subclause 23.2
(Non-payment) or in paragraph (a) above), unless the non-compliance:

 

  (i) is capable of remedy; and

 

  (ii) is remedied within 10 days of the earlier of the Facility Agent giving
notice of the failure to comply to the Company and any Obligor becoming aware of
the non-compliance.

 

23.4 Misrepresentation

A representation or warranty made or deemed to be repeated by an Obligor or a
Security Provider in any Finance Document or in any document delivered by or on
behalf of any Obligor or any Security Provider under any Finance Document is
incorrect or misleading in any material respect when made or deemed to be
repeated.

 

23.5 Cross-default

Any of the following occurs in respect of an Obligor, a Security Provider or a
member of the Group:

 

  (a) any of its Financial Indebtedness is not paid when due (after the expiry
of any originally applicable grace period);

 

  (b) any of its Financial Indebtedness:

 

  (i) becomes prematurely due and payable;

 

  (ii) is placed on demand; or

 

  (iii) is capable of being declared by or on behalf of a creditor to be
prematurely due and payable or of being placed on demand,

in each case, as a result of an event of default or any provision having a
similar effect (howsoever described); or

 

  (c) any commitment for its Financial Indebtedness is cancelled or suspended as
a result of an event of default or any provision having a similar effect
(howsoever described),

unless the aggregate amount of Financial Indebtedness falling within all or any
of paragraphs (a) to (c) above is less than US$12,500,000 or its equivalent.

 

23.6 Insolvency

 

(a) Any of the following occurs in respect of an Obligor, a Security Provider or
a member of the Group:

 

  (i) it is, or is deemed for the purposes of any applicable law to be, unable
to pay its debts as they fall due or insolvent;

 

  (ii) it admits its inability to pay its debts as they fall due;

 

  (iii) it suspends making payments on any of its debts or announces an
intention to do so;

 

  (iv) by reason of actual or anticipated financial difficulties, it begins
negotiations with any creditor for the rescheduling or restructuring of any of
its indebtedness; or

 

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  (v) any of its indebtedness is subject to a moratorium.

 

(b) The value of the Group’s assets (on a consolidated basis) is less than the
Group’s liabilities (on a consolidated basis).

 

23.7 Insolvency proceedings

 

(a) Except as provided below, any of the following occurs in respect of an
Obligor, a Security Provider or a member of the Group:

 

  (i) any step is taken with a view to the suspension of payments, a moratorium
or a composition, compromise, assignment or similar arrangement with any of its
creditors;

 

  (ii) a meeting of its shareholders, directors or other officers is convened
for the purpose of considering any resolution for, to petition for or to file
documents with a court or any registrar for, its winding-up, administration or
dissolution or any such resolution is passed;

 

  (iii) any person presents a petition, or files documents with a court or any
registrar, for its winding-up, administration, dissolution or reorganisation (by
way of voluntary arrangement, scheme of arrangement or otherwise);

 

  (iv) any Security Interest is enforced over any of its present or future
assets;

 

  (v) an order for its winding-up, administration or dissolution is made;

 

  (vi) any liquidator, trustee in bankruptcy, judicial custodian, compulsory
manager, receiver, administrative receiver, administrator or similar officer is
appointed in respect of it or any of its assets;

 

  (vii) its shareholders, directors or other officers request the appointment
of, or give notice of their intention to appoint, a liquidator, trustee in
bankruptcy, judicial custodian, compulsory manager, receiver, administrative
receiver, administrator or similar officer; or

 

  (viii) any other analogous step or procedure is taken in any jurisdiction.

 

(b) Paragraph (a) does not apply to:

 

  (i) any winding-up petition which is frivolous or vexatious and which, in each
case, is discharged, stayed or dismissed within 15 Business Days of
commencement; or

 

  (ii) any step or procedure contemplated by the solvent liquidation or
reorganisation on a solvent basis 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.

 

23.8 Creditors’ process

Any attachment, sequestration, distress, execution or analogous event affects
any asset(s) of an Obligor, a Security Provider or a member of the Group unless
such process is being contested in good faith and is discharged, stayed or
dismissed within 15 Business Days.

 

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23.9 Cessation of business

An Obligor, a Security Provider or a member of the Group ceases, or threatens to
cease, to carry on business except:

 

  (a) as part of a Permitted Transaction; or

 

  (b) as a result of any disposal allowed under this Agreement.

 

23.10 Effectiveness of Finance Documents

 

(a) It is or becomes unlawful for any Obligor or any Security Provider to
perform any of its obligations under the Finance Documents.

 

(b) Any Finance Document is not effective in accordance with its terms or is
alleged by an Obligor or a Security Provider to be ineffective in accordance
with its terms for any reason.

 

(c) A Security Document does not create a Security Interest it purports to
create.

 

(d) An Obligor or a Security Provider repudiates a Finance Document or evidences
an intention to repudiate a Finance Document.

 

23.11 Ownership of the Obligors

 

(a) The Parent ceases to be the beneficial owner of 100 per cent. of the issued
share capital of TTM International.

 

(b) TTM International ceases to be the legal and beneficial owner of 100 per
cent. of the issued share capital of the Company.

 

(c) An Obligor (other than the Parent or the Company) is not or ceases to be a
Subsidiary of the Company.

 

(d) The Tang Family:

 

  (i) takes any action which has or will have the effect of reducing its
shareholding in the Parent such that it ceases to be the beneficial owner of at
least 15 per cent. of the entire issued share capital of the Parent; or

 

  (ii) has not appointed more than 50 per cent. of the number of directors to
the board of directors of the Company; or

 

  (iii) ceases to have the power to appoint more than 50 per cent. of the number
of directors to the board of directors of the Company,

unless such failure to comply with paragraphs (i), (ii) or (iii) above, is
capable of remedy and is remedied within 10 days of the earlier of the Facility
Agent giving notice of such failure to the Company and any Obligor becoming
aware of the non-compliance.

 

23.12  Listing

The Parent ceases to be listed on a national securities exchange in the United
States of America or trading in the shares of the Parent is suspended for 15 or
more consecutive trading days, unless such suspension was caused by an issue
which, in the opinion of the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the
Majority Lenders), was a direct result of a technical issue or technical breach
of the relevant listing rules.

 

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23.13  Environmental Compliance

An Obligor or a Security Provider is involved in any incident and/or situation
which gives or may give rise to any Environmental Claim (including but not
limited to non-compliance with the terms or conditions of all applicable
environmental permits) and such incident and/or situation could reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

23.14  Failure to pay final judgment

An Obligor or a Security Provider fails to comply with or pay any sum in excess
of US$10,000,000 (or its equivalent in any other currency or currencies) due
from it under any final judgment or any final order made or given by any court
of competent jurisdiction within the period specified in the relevant judgment
or if no period is specified within 10 Business Days of such final judgment
being issued.

 

23.15  Material adverse change

Any event or series of events occurs which, in the opinion of the Majority
Lenders, has or is reasonably likely to have a Material Adverse Effect.

 

23.16  Acceleration

If an Event of Default is outstanding, the Facility Agent may, and must if so
instructed by the Majority Lenders, by notice to the Company:

 

  (a) cancel all or any part of the Total Commitments; and/or

 

  (b) declare that all or part of any amounts outstanding under the Finance
Documents are:

 

  (i) immediately due and payable; and/or

 

  (ii) payable on demand by the Facility Agent acting on the instructions of the
Majority Lenders; and/or

 

  (c) declare that full cash cover in respect of each Letter of Credit is
immediately due and payable.

Any notice given under this Subclause will take effect in accordance with its
terms.

 

24. SECURITY

 

24.1 Agent as holder of security

Unless expressly provided to the contrary in any Finance Document the Security
Trustee holds any security created by a Security Document and the proceeds of
that security on trust for the Finance Parties.

 

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24.2 Responsibility

 

(a) The Security Trustee is not liable or responsible to any other Finance Party
for:

 

  (i) any failure in perfecting or protecting the security created by any
Security Document;

 

  (ii) any other action taken or not taken by it in connection with any Security
Document,

unless directly caused by its gross negligence or wilful misconduct.

 

(b) No Administrative Party is responsible for:

 

  (i) the right or title of any person in or to, or the value of, or sufficiency
of any part of the security created by the Security Documents;

 

  (ii) the priority of any security created by the Security Documents; or

 

  (iii) the existence of any other Security Interest affecting any asset secured
under a Security Document.

 

24.3 Title

The Security Trustee may accept, without enquiry, the title (if any) an Obligor
may have to any asset over which security is intended to be created by any
Security Document.

 

24.4 Possession of documents

The Security Trustee is not obliged to hold in its own possession any Security
Document, title deed or other document in connection with any asset over which
security is intended to be created by a Security Document. Without prejudice to
the above, the Security Trustee may allow any bank providing safe custody
services or any professional adviser to the Security Trustee to retain any of
those documents in its possession.

 

24.5 Investments

Except as otherwise provided in any Security Document, all moneys received by
the Security Trustee under a Security Document may be:

 

  (a) invested in the name of, or under the control of, the Security Trustee in
any investment for the time being authorised by Hong Kong law for the investment
by trustees of trust money or in any other investments which may be selected by
the Security Trustee with the consent of the Facility Agent acting on the
instructions of the Majority Lenders; or

 

  (b) placed on deposit in the name of, or under the control of, the Security
Trustee at any bank or institution (including any Finance Party) and on such
terms as the Security Trustee may agree.

 

24.6 Approval

Each Finance Party:

 

  (a) confirms its approval of each Security Document; and

 

  (b) authorises and directs the Security Trustee (by itself or by such
person(s) as it may nominate) to enter into and enforce the Security Documents
as trustee (or agent) or as otherwise provided (and whether or not expressly in
the names of the Finance Parties) on its behalf.

 

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24.7 Conflict with Security Documents

If there is any conflict between this Agreement and any Security Document with
regard to instructions to, or other matters affecting, the Security Trustee,
this Agreement will prevail.

 

24.8 Release of security

 

(a) If:

  (i) a Guarantor ceases to be a Material Subsidiary; or

 

  (ii) a Guarantor is released from all its obligations under the Finance
Documents,

in a manner allowed by this Agreement, any security created by that Guarantor
over its assets under the Security Documents will be released.

 

(b) If a disposal of any asset subject to security created by a Security
Document is made in the following circumstances:

 

  (i) the Majority Lenders agree to the disposal;

 

  (ii) the disposal is allowed by the terms of the Finance Documents and will
not result or could not reasonably be expected to result in any Default;

 

  (iii) the disposal is being made at the request of the Security Trustee in
circumstances where any security created by the Security Documents has become
enforceable; or

 

  (iv) the disposal is being effected by enforcement of a Security Document,

the asset(s) being disposed of (or, in the case of a disposal of shares in an
Obligor which results in it ceasing to be a member of the Group, all of the
assets of that Obligor) will be released from any security over it created by a
Security Document. However, the proceeds of any disposal (or an amount
corresponding to them) must be applied in accordance with the requirements of
the Finance Documents (if any).

 

(c) Any release under this Subclause will not become effective until the date of
the relevant disposal or otherwise in accordance with the consent of the
Majority Lenders.

 

(d) If a disposal is not made, then any release relating to that disposal will
have no effect, and the obligations of the Obligors under the Finance Documents
will continue in full force and effect.

 

(e) If the Security Trustee is satisfied that a release is allowed under this
Subclause, (at the request and expense of the relevant Obligor) each Finance
Party must enter into any document and do all such other things which are
reasonably required to achieve that release. Each other Finance Party
irrevocably authorises the Security Trustee to enter into any such document. Any
release will not affect the obligations of any other Obligor under the Finance
Documents.

 

24.9 Certificate of non-crystallisation

The Security Trustee may, at the cost and request of a Borrower, issue
certificates of non-crystallisation, in a form acceptable to the requesting
Borrower (acting reasonably) and the Security Trustee and as the Facility Agent
(acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders) may direct.

 

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24.10  Co-security Trustee

 

(a) The Security Trustee may appoint a separate security trustee or a
co-security trustee in any jurisdiction outside Hong Kong:

 

  (i) if the Facility Agent (acting on the instructions of the Majority Lenders)
considers that without the appointment the interests of the Lenders under the
Finance Documents might be materially and adversely affected;

 

  (ii) for the purpose of complying with any law, regulation or other condition
in any jurisdiction; or

 

  (iii) for the purpose of obtaining or enforcing a judgment or enforcing any
Finance Document in any jurisdiction.

 

(b) Any appointment under this Subclause will only be effective if the security
trustee or co-security trustee confirms to the Security Trustee and the Company
in form and substance satisfactory to the Security Trustee that it is bound by
the terms of this Agreement as if it were the Security Trustee.

 

(c) The Security Trustee may remove any security trustee or co-security trustee
appointed by it and may appoint a new security trustee or co-security trustee in
its place.

 

(d) The Borrowers must pay to the Security Trustee any reasonable remuneration
paid by the Security Trustee to any security trustee or co-security trustee
appointed by it, together with any related costs and expenses properly incurred
by the security trustee or co-security trustee.

 

24.11  Perpetuity period

The perpetuity period for trusts in this Agreement is 80 years.

 

24.12 Information

Each Finance Party and each Obligor must supply the Facility Agent with any
information that the Facility Agent may reasonably specify as being necessary or
desirable to enable it to perform its functions under this Clause.

 

24.13 Perfection of security

Each Obligor must (at its own cost) take any action and enter into and deliver
any document which is required by the Security Trustee so that a Security
Document provides for effective and perfected security in favour of any
successor Security Trustee.

 

25. THE ADMINISTRATIVE PARTIES

 

25.1 Appointment and duties of the Facility Agent

 

(a) Each Finance Party (other than the Facility Agent) irrevocably appoints the
Facility Agent to act as its agent under and in connection with the Finance
Documents.

 

(b) Each Finance Party (other than the Security Trustee) irrevocably appoints
the Security Trustee to act as its agent under and in connection with the
Finance Documents.

 

(c) Each Finance Party (other than the Issuing Bank) irrevocably appoints the
Issuing Bank to act as its agent under and in connection with the Finance
Documents.

 

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(d) Each Finance Party irrevocably authorises each Agent to:

 

  (i) perform the duties and to exercise the rights, powers and discretions that
are specifically given to it under the Finance Documents, together with any
other incidental rights, powers and discretions; and

 

  (ii) enter into and deliver each Finance Document expressed to be entered into
by that Agent.

 

(e) Each Agent has only those duties which are expressly specified in the
Finance Documents. Those duties are solely of a mechanical and administrative
nature.

 

25.2 Role of the Arranger

Except as specifically provided in the Finance Documents, the Arranger has no
obligations of any kind to any other Party in connection with any Finance
Document.

 

25.3 No fiduciary duties

Except as specifically provided in a Finance Document:

 

  (a) nothing in the Finance Documents makes an Administrative Party a trustee
or fiduciary for any other Party or any other person; and

 

  (b) no Administrative Party need hold in trust any moneys paid to it or
recovered by it for a Party in connection with the Finance Documents or be
liable to account for interest on those moneys.

 

25.4 Individual position of an Administrative Party

 

(a) If it is also a Lender, each Administrative Party has the same rights and
powers under the Finance Documents as any other Lender and may exercise those
rights and powers as though it were not an Administrative Party.

 

(b) Each Administrative Party may:

 

  (i) carry on any business with an Obligor or its related entities (including
acting as an agent or a trustee for any other financing); and

 

  (ii) retain any profits or remuneration it receives under the Finance
Documents or in relation to any other business it carries on with an Obligor or
its related entities.

 

25.5 Reliance

Each Agent may:

 

  (a) rely on any notice or document believed by it to be genuine and correct
and to have been signed by, or with the authority of, the proper person;

 

  (b) rely on any statement made by any person regarding any matters which may
reasonably be assumed to be within his knowledge or within his power to verify;

 

  (c) assume, unless the context otherwise requires, that any communication made
by an Obligor is made on behalf of and with the consent and knowledge of each
Obligor;

 

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  (d) engage, pay for and rely on professional advisers selected by it
(including those representing a Party other than the Facility Agent); and

 

  (e) act under the Finance Documents through its personnel and agents.

 

25.6 Majority Lenders’ instructions

 

(a) An Agent is fully protected if it acts on the instructions of the Majority
Lenders in the exercise of any right, power or discretion or any matter not
expressly provided for in the Finance Documents. Any such instructions given by
the Majority Lenders will be binding on all the Lenders. In the absence of
instructions, each Agent may act as it considers to be in the best interests of
all the Lenders.

 

(b) Each Agent may assume that unless it has received notice to the contrary,
any right, power, authority or discretion vested in any Party or the Majority
Lenders has not been exercised.

 

(c) Each Agent may refrain from acting in accordance with the instructions of
the Majority Lenders (or, if appropriate, the Lenders) until it has received
security satisfactory to it, whether by way of payment in advance or otherwise,
against any liability or loss which it may incur in complying with the
instructions.

 

(d) No Agent is authorised to act on behalf of a Lender (without first obtaining
that Lender’s consent) in any legal or arbitration proceedings in connection
with any Finance Document, unless the legal or arbitration proceedings relate
to:

 

  (i) the perfection, preservation or protection of rights under the Security
Documents; or

 

  (ii) the enforcement of any Security Document.

 

25.7 Responsibility

 

(a) No Administrative Party is responsible for the adequacy, accuracy or
completeness of any statement or information (whether written or oral) made in
or supplied in connection with any Finance Document.

 

(b) No Administrative Party is responsible for the legality, validity,
effectiveness, adequacy, completeness or enforceability of any Finance Document
or any other document.

 

(c) Without affecting the responsibility of any Obligor for information supplied
by it or on its behalf in connection with any Finance Document, each Lender
confirms that it:

 

  (i) has made, and will continue to make, its own independent appraisal of all
risks arising under or in connection with the Finance Documents (including the
financial condition and affairs of each Obligor and its related entities and the
nature and extent of any recourse against any Party or its assets); and

 

  (ii) has not relied exclusively on any information provided to it by any
Administrative Party in connection with any Finance Document or agreement
entered into in anticipation of or in connection with any Finance Document.

 

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25.8 Exclusion of liability

 

(a) No Administrative Party is liable or responsible to any other Finance Party
for any action taken or not taken by it in connection with any Finance Document,
unless directly caused by its gross negligence or wilful misconduct.

 

(b) No Party (other than the relevant Administrative Party) may take any
proceedings against any officers, employees or agents of an Administrative Party
in respect of any claim it might have against that Administrative Party or in
respect of any act or omission of any kind by that officer, employee or agent in
connection with any Finance Document.

 

(c) No Agent is liable for any delay (or any related consequences) in crediting
an account with an amount required under the Finance Documents to be paid by it
if it 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 it for that purpose.

 

(d)    (i)     Nothing in this Agreement will oblige any Administrative Party to
satisfy any customer due diligence requirement in relation to the identity of
any person on behalf of any Finance Party.

 

  (ii) Each Finance Party confirms to each Administrative Party that it is
solely responsible for any customer due diligence requirements it is required to
carry out and that it may not rely on any statement in relation to those
requirements made by any other person.

 

25.9 Default

 

(a) No Agent is obliged to monitor or enquire whether a Default has occurred. No
Agent is deemed to have knowledge of the occurrence of a Default.

 

(b) If an Agent:

 

  (i) receives notice from a Party referring to this Agreement, describing a
Default and stating that the event is a Default; or

 

  (ii) is aware of the non-payment of any principal, interest or fee payable to
a Finance Party (other than an Agent or the Arranger) under this Agreement,

it must promptly notify the other Finance Parties.

 

25.10  Information

 

(a) Each Agent must promptly forward to the person concerned the original or a
copy of any document which is delivered to it by a Party for that person.

 

(b) Except where a Finance Document specifically provides otherwise, no Agent is
obliged to review or check the adequacy, accuracy or completeness of any
document it forwards to another Party.

 

(c) Except as provided above, no Agent has any duty:

 

  (i) either initially or on a continuing basis to provide any Lender with any
credit or other information concerning the risks arising under or in connection
with the Finance Documents (including any information relating to the financial
condition or affairs of any Obligor or its related entities or the nature or
extent of recourse against any Party or its assets) whether coming into its
possession before, on or after the date of this Agreement; or

 

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  (ii) unless specifically requested to do so by a Lender in accordance with a
Finance Document, to request any certificate or other document from any Obligor.

 

(d) In acting as an Agent, that Agent will be regarded as acting through its
agency division which will be treated as a separate entity from its other
divisions and departments. Any information acquired by an Agent which, in its
opinion, is acquired by another division or department or otherwise than in its
capacity as an Agent may be treated as confidential by it and will not be
treated as information possessed it in its capacity as such.

 

(e) No Agent is obliged to disclose to any person any confidential information
supplied to it by or on behalf of an Obligor or a member of the Group solely for
the purpose of evaluating whether any waiver or amendment is required in respect
of any term of the Finance Documents.

 

(f) Each Obligor irrevocably authorises each Agent to disclose to the other
Finance Parties any information which, in its opinion, is received by it in its
capacity as an Agent.

 

25.11  Indemnities

 

(a) Without limiting the liability of any Obligor under the Finance Documents,
each Lender must indemnify each Agent for that Lender’s Pro Rata Share of any
loss or liability incurred by that Agent in acting as the relevant Agent (unless
the relevant Agent has been reimbursed by an Obligor under a Finance Document),
except to the extent that the loss or liability is caused by that Agent’s gross
negligence or wilful misconduct.

 

(b) If a Party owes an amount to an Agent under the Finance Documents, that
Agent may, after giving notice to that Party:

 

  (i) deduct from any amount received by it for that Party any amount due to it
from that Party under a Finance Document but unpaid; and

 

  (ii) apply that amount in or towards satisfaction of the owed amount.

That Party will be regarded as having received the amount so deducted.

 

25.12  Compliance

Each Administrative Party may refrain from doing anything (including disclosing
any information) which might, in its opinion, constitute a breach of any law or
regulation or be otherwise actionable at the suit of any person, and may do
anything which, in its opinion, is necessary or desirable to comply with any law
or regulation.

 

25.13  Resignation of an Agent

 

(a) An Agent may resign and appoint any of its Affiliates as successor Agent by
giving notice to the other Finance Parties and the Company.

 

(b) Alternatively, an Agent may resign by giving notice to the Finance Parties
and the Borrowers, in which case the Majority Lenders may appoint a successor
Agent.

 

(c) If no successor Agent has been appointed under paragraph (b) above within 30
days after notice of resignation was given, the relevant Agent may appoint a
successor Agent.

 

(d) The person(s) appointing a successor Agent must, if practicable, consult
with the Borrowers prior to the appointment.

 

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(e) The resignation of an Agent and the appointment of any successor Agent will
both become effective only when the following conditions have been satisfied:

 

  (i) the successor Agent notifies all the Parties that it accepts its
appointment;

 

  (ii) the successor Agent confirms that the rights under the Finance Documents
(and any related documentation) have been transferred or assigned to it; and

 

  (iii) no Finance Party (other than that Agent) has notified the Facility Agent
that it is not satisfied with the credit worthiness of the proposed successor
Agent within seven days of the Agent’s notification under paragraph (a) above.

On satisfaction of the above conditions the successor Agent will succeed to the
position of an Agent and the term Facility Agent, Security Trustee or Issuing
Bank will mean the successor Facility Agent, Security Trustee or, as the case
may be, Issuing Bank.

 

(f) The retiring Agent must, at its own cost:

 

  (i) make available to the successor Agent those documents and records and
provide any assistance as the successor Agent may reasonably request for the
purposes of performing its functions as an Agent under the Finance Documents;
and

 

  (ii) enter into and deliver to the successor Agent those documents and effect
any registrations as may be required for the transfer or assignment of all of
its rights and benefits under the Finance Documents to the successor Agent.

 

(g) An Obligor must, at its own cost take any action and enter into and deliver
any document which is required by the relevant Agent (acting on the instructions
of the Majority Lenders) to ensure that a Security Document provides for
effective and perfected Security Interests in favour of any relevant successor
Agent.

 

(h) Upon its resignation becoming effective, this Clause will continue to
benefit the retiring Agent in respect of any action taken or not taken by it in
connection with the Finance Documents while it was an Agent, and, subject to
paragraph (f) above, it will have no further obligations under any Finance
Document.

 

(i) The Majority Lenders may, by notice to an Agent, require it to resign under
paragraph (b) above.

 

25.14  Relationship with Lenders

 

(a) Each Agent may treat each Lender as a Lender, entitled to payments under
this Agreement and as acting through its Facility Office(s) until it has
received not less than five Business Days’ prior notice from that Lender to the
contrary.

 

(b) The Facility Agent may at any time, and must if requested to do so by the
Majority Lenders, arrange a meeting of the Lenders, at the Lenders’ cost.

 

(c)    (i)     The Facility Agent must keep a record of all the Parties and,
subject to paragraph (ii) below, supply any other Party with a copy of the
record on request. The record will include each Lender’s Facility Office(s) and
contact details for the purposes of this Agreement.

 

  (ii) The Facility Agent shall not be required to provide any Lender with any
record disclosing any other Lender or any other Lender’s contact details.

 

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25.15  Agent’s management time

If an Agent requires, any amount payable to that Agent by any Party under any
indemnity or in respect of any costs or expenses incurred by the Agent under the
Finance Documents after the date of this Agreement may include the cost of using
its management time or other resources and will be calculated on the basis of
such reasonable daily or hourly rates as the Agent may notify to the relevant
Party. This is in addition to any amount in respect of fees or expenses paid or
payable to the Agent under any other term of the Finance Documents.

 

25.16  Notice period

Where this Agreement specifies a minimum period of notice to be given to an
Agent, that Agent may, at its discretion, accept a shorter notice period.

 

25.17  Anti-money laundering and investigations

For so long as The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited or any of
its Affiliates is the Agent, the Agent may take and instruct any delegate to
take any action which it in its sole discretion considers appropriate so as to
comply with any applicable law, regulation, request of a public or regulatory
authority or any HSBC Group policy which relates to the prevention of fraud,
money laundering, terrorism or other criminal activities or the provision of
financial and other services to sanctioned persons or entities. Such action may
include but is not limited to the interception and investigation of transactions
on accounts (particularly those involving the international transfer of funds)
including the source of the intended recipient of fund paid into or out of
accounts. In certain circumstances, such action may delay or prevent the
processing of instructions, the settlement of transactions over the accounts of
the Agent’s performance of its obligations under the Finance Documents. Where
possible, the Agent will use reasonable endeavours to notify the relevant
parties of the existence of such circumstances. Neither the Agent nor any
delegate of the Agent will be liable for any loss (whether direct or
consequential and including, without limitation, loss of profit or interest)
caused in whole or in part by any actions which are taken by the Agent or any
delegate of the Agent pursuant to this clause. For the purposes of this
Subclause, the HSBC Group means HSBC Holdings plc its subsidiaries and
associated companies.

 

25.18  Force Majeure

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this Agreement or in any other
transaction document, no Agent shall in any event be liable for any failure or
delay in the performance of its obligations hereunder if it is prevented from so
performing its obligations by any existing or future law or regulation, any
existing or future act of governmental authority, act of god, flood, war whether
declared or undeclared, terrorism, riot, rebellion, civil commotion, strike,
lockout, other industrial action, general failure of electricity or other
supply, aircraft collision, technical failure, accidental or mechanical or
electrical breakdown, computer failure or failure of any money transmission
system or any reason which is beyond the control of that Agent.

 

25.19  Waiver of consequential damages

Notwithstanding any other term or provision of this Agreement to the contrary,
no Agent shall be liable under any circumstances for special, punitive, indirect
or consequential loss or damage of any kind whatsoever including but not limited
to loss of profits, whether or not foreseeable, even if an Agent is actually
aware of or has been advised of the likelihood of such loss or damage and
regardless of whether the claim for such loss or damage is made in negligence,
for breach of contract, breach of trust, breach of fiduciary obligation or
otherwise. The provisions of this Subclause shall survive the termination or
expiry of this Agreement or the resignation or removal of an Agent.

 

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26. EVIDENCE AND CALCULATIONS

 

26.1 Accounts

Accounts maintained by a Finance Party in connection with this Agreement are
prima facie evidence of the matters to which they relate for the purpose of any
litigation or arbitration proceedings.

 

26.2 Certificates and determinations

Any certification or determination by a Finance Party of a rate or amount under
the Finance Documents will be, in the absence of manifest error, conclusive
evidence of the matters to which it relates.

 

26.3 Calculations

Any interest or fee accruing under this Agreement accrues from day to day and is
calculated on the basis of the actual number of days elapsed and a year of 360
days (or in the case of an issued Letter of Credit denominated in Hong Kong
Dollars, 365 days) or otherwise, depending on what the Facility Agent determines
is market practice.

 

27. FEES

 

27.1 Facility Agent’s fee

The Borrowers must pay to the Facility Agent for its own account an agency fee
in the amount and manner agreed in the Fee Letter between the Facility Agent and
the Borrowers.

 

27.2 Front-end fee

 

(a) The Borrowers must pay to Facility Agent for the account of the Original
Lenders a front-end fee in respect of the Tranche A Facility in the amount and
manner agreed in the Fee Letter between Arranger and the Borrowers.

 

(b) The Borrowers must pay to Facility Agent for the account of the Original
Lenders a front-end fee in respect of the Tranche B Facility in the amount and
manner agreed in the Fee Letter between the Arranger and the Borrowers.

 

(c) The Borrowers must pay to Facility Agent for the account of the Original
Lenders a front-end fee in respect of the Tranche C Facility in the amount and
manner agreed in the Fee Letter between the Arranger and the Borrowers.

 

27.3 Commitment fee

 

(a) The Borrowers must pay to the Facility Agent for each Lender a commitment
fee computed at the rate of 0.50 per cent. per annum on the undrawn, uncancelled
amount of each Lender’s Commitment.

 

(b) The commitment fee accrues from the date of this Agreement to and including
the last day of the Availability Period and is payable quarterly in arrears and
on the last day of the Availability Period. Accrued commitment fee is also
payable to the Facility Agent for a Lender on the date its Commitment is
cancelled in full.

 

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27.4 Security Trustee’s fee

The Borrowers must pay to the Security Trustee for its own account a security
trustee fee in the amount and manner agreed in the Fee Letter between the
Security Trustee and the Borrowers.

 

28. INDEMNITIES AND BREAK COSTS

 

28.1 Currency indemnity

 

(a) Each Borrower must, as an independent obligation, indemnify each Finance
Party against any loss or liability which that Finance Party incurs as a
consequence of:

  (i) that Finance Party receiving an amount in respect of an Obligor’s
liability under the Finance Documents; or

 

  (ii) that liability being converted into a claim, proof, judgment or order,

in a currency other than the currency in which the amount is expressed to be
payable under the relevant Finance Document.

 

(b) Unless otherwise required by law, each Obligor waives any right it may have
in any jurisdiction to pay any amount under the Finance Documents in a currency
other than that in which it is expressed to be payable.

 

28.2 Other indemnities

 

(a) Each Borrower must indemnify each Finance Party against any loss or
liability which that Finance Party incurs as a consequence of:

 

  (i) the occurrence of any Event of Default;

 

  (ii) the information produced or approved by an Obligor being or being alleged
to be misleading and/or deceptive in any respect

 

  (iii) any enquiry, investigation, subpoena (or similar order) or litigation
with respect to any Obligor or with respect to the transactions contemplated or
financed under the Finance Documents;

 

  (iv) any failure by an Obligor to pay any amount due under a Finance Document
on its due date, including any resulting from any distribution or redistribution
of any amount among the Lenders under this Agreement;

 

  (v) (other than by reason of negligence or default by that Finance Party
alone) a Credit not being made after a Request has been delivered for that
Credit;

 

  (vi) a Credit (or part of a Credit) not being prepaid in accordance with this
Agreement; or

 

  (vii) any reasonable action taken by each Finance Party in connection with the
fulfilment of any anti-money laundering laws and regulations, counter-terrorist
financing laws and regulations or other similar laws and regulations due to the
contravention of such laws and regulations by any of the Borrowers in relation
to the monies under this Agreement.

Each Borrower’s liability in each case includes any loss or expense on account
of funds borrowed, contracted for or utilised to fund any amount payable under
any Finance Document or any Credit.

 

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(b) Each Borrower must indemnify the Facility Agent against any loss or
liability incurred by the Facility Agent as a result of:

 

  (i) investigating any event which the Facility Agent reasonably believes to be
a Default; or

 

  (ii) acting or relying on any notice which the Facility Agent reasonably
believes to be genuine, correct and appropriately authorised.

 

28.3 Break Costs

 

(a) Each Borrower must pay to each Lender its Break Costs if a Loan or an
overdue amount is repaid or prepaid otherwise than on the last day of any
Interest Period applicable to it.

 

(b) Break Costs are the amount (if any) determined by the relevant Lender by
which:

 

  (i) the interest which that Lender would have received for the period from the
date of receipt of any part of its share in a Loan or an overdue amount to the
last day of the applicable Interest Period for that Loan or overdue amount if
the principal or overdue amount received had 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 amount received by it on deposit with a leading bank in the
appropriate interbank market for a period starting on the Business Day following
receipt and ending on the last day of the applicable Interest Period.

 

(c) Each Lender must supply to the Facility Agent for the relevant Borrower
details of the amount of any Break Costs claimed by it under this Subclause.

 

29. EXPENSES

 

29.1 Initial costs

Each Borrower must pay to each Administrative Party the amount of all costs and
expenses (including legal fees) reasonably incurred by it in connection with the
negotiation, preparation, printing, entry into and syndication of the Finance
Documents.

 

29.2 Subsequent costs

Each Borrower must pay to each Agent the amount of all costs and expenses
(including legal fees) reasonably incurred by it in connection with:

 

  (a) the negotiation, preparation, printing and entry into of any Finance
Document (other than a Transfer Certificate) entered into after the date of this
Agreement;

 

  (b) any amendment, waiver or consent requested by or on behalf of an Obligor
or specifically allowed by a Finance Document;

 

  (c) its resignation pursuant to paragraph (i) of Subclause 25.13 (Resignation
of an Agent); and

 

  (d) the administration of the Facilities.

 

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29.3 Enforcement costs

Each Borrower must pay to each Finance Party the amount of all costs and
expenses (including legal fees) incurred by it in connection with:

 

  (a) the enforcement of, or the preservation of any rights under, any Finance
Documents; or

 

  (b) any proceedings instituted by or against that Finance Party as a
consequence of it entering into a Finance Document.

 

30. AMENDMENTS AND WAIVERS

 

30.1 Procedure

 

(a) Except as provided in this Clause, any term of the Finance Documents may be
amended or waived with the agreement of the Company and the Majority Lenders.
The Facility Agent may effect, on behalf of any Finance Party, an amendment or
waiver allowed under this Clause.

 

(b) The Facility Agent must promptly notify the other Parties of any amendment
or waiver effected by it under paragraph (a) above. Any such amendment or waiver
is binding on all the Parties.

 

(c) Each Obligor agrees to any amendment or waiver allowed by this Clause which
is agreed to by the Company. This includes any amendment or waiver which would,
but for this paragraph, require the consent of each Guarantor if the guarantee
under the Finance Documents is to remain in full force and effect.

 

30.2 Exceptions

 

(a) An amendment or waiver which relates to:

 

  (i) the definition of Majority Lenders in Subclause 1.1(Definitions);

 

  (ii) an extension of the date of payment of any amount to a Lender under the
Finance Documents;

 

  (iii) a reduction in the Margin or a reduction in the amount of any payment or
change in currency of principal, interest, fee or other amount payable to a
Lender under the Finance Documents;

 

  (iv) an increase in, or an extension of, a Commitment or the Total
Commitments;

 

  (v) a release of an Obligor other than in accordance with the terms of this
Agreement;

 

  (vi) a release of any Security Document other than in accordance with the
terms of the Finance Documents;

 

  (vii) a term of a Finance Document which expressly requires the consent of
each Lender;

 

  (viii) the right of a Lender to assign or transfer its rights or obligations
under the Finance Documents; or

 

  (ix) this Clause,

may only be made with the consent of all the Lenders.

 

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(b) An amendment or waiver which relates to the rights or obligations of an
Administrative Party may only be made with the consent of that Administrative
Party.

 

(c) A Fee Letter may be amended or waived with the agreement of the
Administrative Party that is a party to that Fee Letter and the Company.

 

30.3 Change of currency

If a change in any currency of a country occurs (including where there is more
than one currency or currency unit recognised at the same time as the lawful
currency of a country), the Finance Documents will be amended to the extent the
Facility Agent (acting reasonably and after consultation with the Company)
determines is necessary to reflect the change.

 

30.4 Waivers and remedies cumulative

The rights of each Finance Party under the Finance Documents:

 

  (a) may be exercised as often as necessary;

 

  (b) are cumulative and not exclusive of its rights under the general law; and

 

  (c) may be waived only in writing and specifically.

Delay in exercising or non-exercise of any right is not a waiver of that right.

 

31. CHANGES TO THE PARTIES

 

31.1 Assignments and transfers by Obligors

No Obligor may assign or transfer any of its rights and obligations under the
Finance Documents without the prior consent of all the Lenders.

 

31.2 Assignments and transfers by Lenders

 

(a) Subject to the following provisions of this Clause, a Lender (the Existing
Lender) may at any time:

 

  (i) assign any of its rights; or

 

  (ii) transfer either by way of novation or by way of assignment, assumption
and release any of its rights or obligations under this Agreement,

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 (the New
Lender) without the consent of any Obligor.

 

31.3 Conditions to assignment or transfer

 

(a) The Facility Agent is not obliged to enter into a Transfer Certificate or
otherwise give effect to an assignment or transfer until it has completed all
customer due diligence requirements to its satisfaction.

 

(b) Unless the Facility Agent otherwise agrees, the New Lender must pay to the
Facility Agent for its own account, on or before the date any assignment or
transfer occurs, a fee of US$2,000.

 

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(c) Any reference in this Agreement to a Lender includes a New Lender but
excludes a Lender if no amount is or may be owed to or by it under this
Agreement.

 

31.4 Procedure for assignment of rights

An assignment of rights will only be effective on receipt by the Facility Agent
of written confirmation from the New Lender (in form and substance satisfactory
to the Facility Agent) that the New Lender will, in relation to the assigned
rights, assume obligations to the other Finance Parties equivalent to those it
would have been under if it had been an Original Lender.

 

31.5 Procedure for transfer using a Transfer Certificate

 

(a) In this Subclause:

Transfer Date means, in relation to a transfer, the later of:

 

  (i) the proposed Transfer Date specified in that Transfer Certificate; and

 

  (ii) the date on which the Facility Agent enters into that Transfer
Certificate.

 

(b) A transfer of rights or obligations using a Transfer Certificate will be
effective if:

 

  (i) the Existing Lender and the New Lender deliver to the Facility Agent a
duly completed Transfer Certificate at least 5 Business Days prior to the
proposed Transfer Date; and

 

  (ii) the Facility Agent enters into it.

 

(c) Where a transfer is to be effected by an assignment, assumption and release,
on the Transfer Date:

 

  (i) the Existing Lender will assign absolutely to the New Lender the Existing
Lender’s rights expressed to be the subject of the assignment in the Transfer
Certificate;

 

  (ii) the New Lender will assume obligations equivalent to those obligations of
the Existing Lender expressed to be the subject of the assumption in the
Transfer Certificate;

 

  (iii) to the extent the obligations referred to in subparagraph (ii) above are
effectively assumed by the New Lender, the Existing Lender will be released from
its obligations referred to in the Transfer Certificate; and

 

  (iv) the New Lender will become a Lender under this Agreement and will be
bound by the terms of this Agreement as a Lender.

 

(d) Where a transfer is to be effected using a novation on the Transfer Date:

 

  (i) the New Lender will assume the rights and obligations of the Existing
Lender expressed to be the subject of the novation in the Transfer Certificate
in substitution for the Existing Lender;

 

  (ii) the Existing Lender will be released from those obligations and cease to
have those rights; and

 

  (iii) the New Lender will become a Lender under this Agreement and be bound by
the terms of this Agreement.

 

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(e) The Facility Agent must enter into a Transfer Certificate delivered to it
and which appears on its face to be in order as soon as reasonably practicable
and, as soon as reasonably practicable after it has entered into a Transfer
Certificate, send a copy of that Transfer Certificate to the Company.

 

(f) Each Party (other than the Existing Lender and the New Lender) irrevocably
authorises the Facility Agent to enter into and deliver any duly completed
Transfer Certificate on its behalf.

 

31.6 Limitation of responsibility of Existing Lender

 

(a) Unless expressly agreed to the contrary, an Existing Lender makes no
representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility to a New Lender for:

 

  (i) the financial condition of an Obligor; or

 

  (ii) the legality, validity, effectiveness, enforceability, adequacy,
accuracy, completeness or performance of:

 

  (A) any Finance Document or any other document;

 

  (B) any statement or information (whether written or oral) made in or supplied
in connection with any Finance Document; or

 

  (C) any observance by an Obligor of its obligations under 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 and the other Finance
Parties that it:

 

  (i) has made, and will continue to make, its own independent appraisal of all
risks arising under or in connection with the Finance Documents (including the
financial condition and affairs of each Obligor and its related entities and the
nature and extent of any recourse against any Party or its assets) in connection
with its participation in this Agreement; and

 

  (ii) has not relied exclusively on any information supplied to it by the
Existing Lender in connection with any Finance Document.

 

(c) Nothing in any Finance Document requires an Existing Lender to:

 

  (i) accept a re-transfer from a New Lender of any of the rights and
obligations assigned or transferred under this Clause; or

 

  (ii) support any losses incurred by the New Lender by reason of the
non-performance by any Obligor of its obligations under any Finance Document or
otherwise.

 

31.7 Costs resulting from change of Lender or Facility Office

If:

 

  (a) a Lender assigns or transfers any of its rights and obligations under the
Finance Documents or changes its Facility Office; and

 

  (b) as a result of circumstances existing at the date the assignment, transfer
or change occurs, an Obligor would be obliged to pay a Tax Payment or an
Increased Cost, then unless the assignment or transfer is made as a result of
Clause 16 (Mitigation), the Obligor need only pay that Tax Payment or Increased
Cost to the same extent that it would have been obliged to if no assignment,
transfer or change had occurred.

 

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31.8 Additional Guarantors

 

(a) The Company shall procure that each of its Material Subsidiaries
incorporated outside the PRC becomes a Guarantor within 14 days of it becoming a
Material Subsidiary.

 

(b) If the Company:

 

  (i) requests that one of its Subsidiaries becomes an Additional Guarantor; or

 

  (ii) is required to make one of its Subsidiaries an Additional Guarantor,

it must give not less than 10 Business Days prior notice to the Facility Agent
(and the Facility Agent must promptly notify the Lenders).

 

(c) If the accession of an Additional Guarantor requires any Finance Party to
carry out customer due diligence requirements in circumstances where the
necessary information is not already available to it, the Company must promptly
on request by any Finance Party supply to that Finance Party any documentation
or other evidence which is reasonably requested by that Finance Party (whether
for itself, on behalf of any Finance Party or any prospective new Lender) to
enable a Finance Party or prospective new Lender to carry out and be satisfied
with the results of all applicable customer due diligence requirements.

 

(d) If one of the Subsidiaries of the Company is to become an Additional
Guarantor, then the Company must (following consultation with the Facility
Agent) deliver to the Facility Agent the relevant documents and evidence listed
in Part 3 of Schedule 2 (Conditions Precedent Documents).

 

(e) The relevant Subsidiary will become an Additional Guarantor when the
Facility Agent notifies the other Finance Parties and the Company that it has
received all of the documents and evidence referred to in paragraph (d) above in
form and substance satisfactory to it (acting on the instructions of the
Majority Lenders). The Facility Agent must give this notification as soon as
reasonably practicable.

 

(f) Delivery of an Accession Agreement, entered into by the relevant Subsidiary
and the Company, to the Facility Agent constitutes confirmation by that
Subsidiary and the Company that the Repeating Representations are correct as at
the date of delivery.

 

31.9 Resignation of an Obligor (other than the Company)

 

(a) The Company may request that an Obligor (other than the Company) ceases to
be an Obligor by giving to the Facility Agent a duly completed Resignation
Request.

 

(b) The Facility Agent must accept a Resignation Request and notify the Company
and the Lenders of its acceptance if:

 

  (i) in the case of a Guarantor, all Lenders have consented to the Resignation
Request;

 

  (ii) it is not aware that a Default is outstanding or would result from the
acceptance of the Resignation Request; and

 

  (iii) no amount owed by that Obligor under this Agreement is still
outstanding.

 

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(c) The Obligor will cease to be a Borrower and/or a Guarantor, as appropriate,
when the Facility Agent gives the notification referred to in paragraph
(b) above.

 

(d) An Obligor (other than the Company) may also cease to be an Obligor in any
other manner approved by the Majority Lenders.

 

31.10 Changes to the Reference Banks

If a Reference Bank (or, if a Reference Bank is not a Lender, the Lender of
which it is an Affiliate) ceases to be a Lender, the Facility Agent must (in
consultation with the Company) appoint another Lender or an Affiliate of a
Lender to replace that Reference Bank.

 

32. DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION

 

(a) Each Finance Party must keep confidential any information supplied to it by
or on behalf of any Obligor in connection with the Finance Documents. However, a
Finance Party is entitled to disclose information:

 

  (i) which is publicly available, other than as a result of a breach by that
Finance Party of this Clause;

 

  (ii) in connection with any legal or arbitration proceedings;

 

  (iii) if required to do so under any law or regulation;

 

  (iv) to its head office, any of its Subsidiaries or Subsidiaries of its
Holding Company, Affiliates, representatives and branch offices in any
jurisdiction (together with it, the Permitted Parties);

 

  (v) to a court, a tribunal, a governmental or quasi-governmental, banking,
taxation or other supervisory or regulatory authority with jurisdiction over the
Permitted Parties;

 

  (vi) to its professional advisers and service providers of the Permitted
Parties;

 

  (vii) to any rating agency, insurer, insurance or insurance broker of, or
direct or indirect provider of credit protection to any Permitted Party;

 

  (viii) to any actual or potential assignee, novatee, transferee, participant,
sub-participant, provider of hedging arrangement (including any agent or
professional adviser of any of the foregoing) in relation to that Finance
Party’s rights and/or obligations under any Finance Documents or any other
transaction under which payments are to be made by reference to this Agreement
or any Obligor;

 

  (ix) relating to the size and term of the Facility and the name of each
Obligor or Security Provider to any investor or potential investor in a
securitization (or similar transaction of broadly equivalent economic effect) of
that Lender’s rights or obligations under the Finance Documents;

 

  (x) to another Obligor or any other member of the Group; or

 

  (xi) with the agreement of the relevant Obligor.

 

(b) This Clause supersedes any previous confidentiality undertaking given by a
Finance Party in connection with this Agreement prior to it becoming a Party.

 

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33. SET-OFF

A Finance Party may set off any matured obligation owed to it by an Obligor
under the Finance Documents (to the extent beneficially owned by that Finance
Party) against any obligation (whether or not matured) owed by that Finance
Party to an 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.

 

34. PRO RATA SHARING

 

34.1 Redistribution

If a Finance Party (the recovering Finance Party) receives or recovers any
amount from an Obligor other than in accordance with this Agreement (a recovery)
and applies that amount to a payment due under a Finance Document, then:

 

  (a) the recovering Finance Party must, within three Business Days, supply
details of the recovery to the Facility Agent;

 

  (b) the Facility Agent must calculate whether the recovery is in excess of the
amount which the recovering Finance Party would have received if the recovery
had been received and distributed by the Facility Agent in accordance with this
Agreement without taking account of any Tax which would be imposed on the
Facility Agent in relation to a recovery or distribution; and

 

  (c) the recovering Finance Party must pay to the Facility Agent an amount
equal to the excess (the redistribution).

 

34.2 Effect of redistribution

 

(a) The Facility Agent must treat a redistribution as if it were a payment by
the relevant Obligor under this Agreement and distribute it among the Finance
Parties, other than the recovering Finance Party, accordingly.

 

(b) When the Facility Agent makes a distribution under paragraph (a) above, the
recovering Finance Party will be subrogated to the rights of the Finance Parties
which have shared in that redistribution.

 

(c) If and to the extent that the recovering Finance Party is not able to rely
on any rights of subrogation under paragraph (b) above, the relevant Obligor
will owe the recovering Finance Party a debt which is equal to the
redistribution, immediately payable and of the type originally discharged.

 

(d) If:

 

  (i) a recovering Finance Party must subsequently return a recovery, or an
amount measured by reference to a recovery, to an Obligor; and

 

  (ii) the recovering Finance Party has paid a redistribution in relation to
that recovery,

each Finance Party, on the request of the Facility Agent, must reimburse the
recovering Finance Party all or the appropriate portion of the redistribution
paid to that Finance Party, together with interest for the period while it held
the redistribution. In this event, the subrogation in paragraph (b) above will
operate in reverse to the extent of the reimbursement.

 

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34.3 Exceptions

Notwithstanding any other term of this Clause, a recovering Finance Party need
not pay a redistribution to the extent that:

 

  (a) it would not, after the payment, have a valid claim against the relevant
Obligor in the amount of the redistribution; or

 

  (b) it would be sharing with another Finance Party any amount which the
recovering Finance Party has received or recovered as a result of legal or
arbitration proceedings, where:

 

  (i) the recovering Finance Party notified the Facility Agent of those
proceedings; and

 

  (ii) the other Finance Party had an opportunity to participate in those
proceedings but did not do so or did not take separate legal or arbitration
proceedings as soon as reasonably practicable after receiving notice of them.

 

35. SEVERABILITY

If a term of a Finance Document is or becomes illegal, invalid or unenforceable
in any respect under any jurisdiction, that will not affect:

 

  (a) the legality, validity or enforceability in that jurisdiction of any other
term of the Finance Documents; or

 

  (b) the legality, validity or enforceability in other jurisdictions of that or
any other term of the Finance Documents.

 

36. COUNTERPARTS

Each Finance Document may be executed in any number of counterparts. This has
the same effect as if the signatures on the counterparts were on a single copy
of the Finance Document.

 

37. NOTICES

 

37.1 In writing

 

(a) Any communication in connection with a Finance Document must be in writing
and, unless otherwise stated, may be given:

 

  (i) in person, by post or fax; or

 

  (ii) to the extent agreed by the Parties making and receiving communication,
by e-mail or other electronic communication.

 

(b) For the purpose of the Finance Documents, an electronic communication will
be treated as being in writing.

 

(c) Unless it is agreed to the contrary, any consent or agreement required under
a Finance Document must be given in writing.

 

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37.2 Contact details

 

(a) Except as provided below, the contact details of each Party for all
communications in connection with the Finance Documents are those notified by
that Party for this purpose to the Facility Agent on or before the date it
becomes a Party.

 

(b) The contact details of the Company for this purpose are:

 

  Address: No. 4, Dai Shun Street, Tai Po Industrial Estate,

       Tai Po, New Territories

       Hong Kong

  Fax number: +852 2660 1938 / +852 2660 4948 / +852 2660 4916

  E-mail: canice.chung@ttmtech.com.hk / shirley.lam@ttmtech.com.hk /

       patrick.lam@ttmtech.com.hk

  Attention: Executive Vice President and President of Asia Pacific – Mr Canice
Chung / Vice

       President—Finance, Asia Pacific Region – Ms. Shirley Lam / Manager –
Finance,

       Asia Pacific Region – Mr. Patrick Lam

 

(c) The contact details of the Parent for this purpose are:

 

  Address: 2630 S.Harbor Boulevard, Santa Ana, CA92704, United States of America

  Fax number: +1 (714) 241 1460

  E-mail: tony.sanchez@ttmtech.com

  Attention: Tony Sanchez

 

(d) The contact details of the Facility Agent for this purpose are:

 

  Address: Corporate Trust and Loan Agency

       Level 30, 1 Queen’s Road Central

       Hong Kong

  Fax number: + 852 2523 4641

 

(e) The contact details of the Security Trustee for this purpose are:

 

  Address: 11/F, Standard Chartered Tower

       388 Kwun Tong Road

       Kwun Tong, Hong Kong

  Fax number: +852 2810 0180

  E-mail: rebecca.sf.yung@sc.com

  Attention: Rebecca Yung, Loans and Agency

 

(f) The contact details of the Issuing Bank for this purpose are:

 

  Address: 18/F., Somerset House, Taikoo Place, 979 King’s Road, Quarry Bay,
Hong Kong

  Fax number: +852 3603 4503 / 3603 4504

  E-mail: tony_wong@citicbankintl.com / ts_fung@citicbankintl.com/

       connieYKYeung@citicbankintl.com/ ktong@citicbankintl.com /

       ElkyPY_Fung@citicbankintl.com / RebeccaYC_Ng@citicbankintl.com /

       cllam@citicbankintl.com

  Attention: Mr. Tony Wong, Mr. T S Fung, Ms. Connie Yeung, Ms. Liberty Tong,
Ms. Elky

       Fung, Ms. Rebecca Ng and Mr. Eric Lam

 

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(g) Any Party may change its contact details by giving five Business Days’
notice to the Facility Agent or (in the case of the Facility Agent) to the other
Parties.

 

(h) Where a Party nominates a particular department or officer to receive a
communication, a communication will not be effective if it fails to specify that
department or officer.

 

37.3 Effectiveness

 

(a) Except as provided below, any communication in connection with a Finance
Document will be deemed to be given as follows:

 

  (i) if delivered in person, at the time of delivery;

 

  (ii) if posted, five Business Days after being deposited in the post, postage
prepaid, in a correctly addressed envelope;

 

  (iii) if by fax, when received in legible form; and

 

  (iv) if by e-mail or any other electronic communication, when received in
legible form.

 

(b) A communication given under paragraph (a) above but received on a
non-working day or after business hours in the place of receipt will only be
deemed to be given on the next working day in that place.

 

(c) A communication to the Facility Agent will only be effective on actual
receipt by it.

 

37.4 Obligors

 

(a) All communications under the Finance Documents to or from an Obligor must be
sent through the Facility Agent.

 

(b) All communications under the Finance Documents to or from an Obligor (other
than the Company) must be sent through the Company.

 

(c) Each Obligor (other than the Company) irrevocably appoints the Company to
act as its agent:

 

  (i) to give and receive all communications under the Finance Documents;

 

  (ii) to supply all information concerning itself to any Finance Party; and

 

  (iii) to sign all documents under or in connection with the Finance Documents.

 

(d) Any communication given to the Company in connection with a Finance Document
will be deemed to have been given also to the other Obligors.

 

(e) Each Finance Party may assume that any communication made by the Company is
made with the consent of each other Obligor (other than the Parent).

 

(f) Each Finance Party may assume that any communication made by the Parent is
made with the consent of TTM International.

 

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37.5 Use of websites

 

(a) Except as provided below, the Company may deliver any information under this
Agreement to a Lender by posting it on to an electronic website if:

 

  (i) the Facility Agent and the Lender agree;

 

  (ii) the Company and the Facility Agent designate an electronic website for
this purpose;

 

  (iii) the Company notifies the Facility Agent of the address of and password
for the website; and

 

  (iv) the information posted is in a format agreed between the Company and the
Facility Agent.

The Facility Agent must supply each relevant Lender with the address of and
password for the website.

 

(b) Notwithstanding the above, the Company must supply to the Facility Agent in
paper form a copy of any information posted on the website together with
sufficient copies for:

 

  (i) any Lender not agreeing to receive information via the website; and

 

  (ii) within 10 Business Days of request any other Lender, if that Lender so
requests.

 

(c) The Company must, promptly upon becoming aware of its occurrence, notify the
Facility Agent if:

 

  (i) the website cannot be accessed;

 

  (ii) the website or any information on the website is infected by any
electronic virus or similar software;

 

  (iii) the password for the website is changed; or

 

  (iv) any information to be supplied under this Agreement is posted on the
website or amended after being posted.

If the circumstances in sub-paragraphs (i) or (ii) above occur, the Company must
supply any information required under this Agreement in paper form until the
Facility Agent is satisfied that the circumstances giving rise to the
notification are no longer continuing.

 

38. LANGUAGE

 

(a) Any notice given in connection with a Finance Document must be in English.

 

(b) Any other document provided in connection with a Finance Document must be:

 

  (i) in English; or

 

  (ii) (unless the Facility Agent otherwise agrees) accompanied by a certified
English translation. In this case, the English translation prevails unless the
document is a statutory or other official document.

 

39. GOVERNING LAW

This Agreement is governed by Hong Kong law.

 

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40. ENFORCEMENT

 

40.1 Jurisdiction

 

  (a) The Hong Kong courts have non-exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute
arising out of or in connection with any Finance Document.

 

  (b) The Hong Kong courts are the most appropriate and convenient courts to
settle any such dispute in connection with any Finance Document. Each Obligor
agrees not to argue to the contrary and waives objection to those courts on the
grounds of inconvenient forum or otherwise in relation to proceedings in
connection with any Finance Document.

 

  (c) References in this Clause to a dispute in connection with a Finance
Document includes any dispute as to the existence, validity or termination of
that Finance Document.

 

40.2 Service of process

 

  (a) Each Obligor not incorporated in Hong Kong irrevocably appoints TTM
Technologies Enterprises (HK) Limited as its agent under the Finance Documents
for service of process in any proceedings before the Hong Kong courts in
connection with any Finance Document.

 

  (b) If any person appointed as process agent under this Clause is unable for
any reason to so act, the Company (on behalf of all the Obligors) must
immediately (and in any event within seven days of the event taking place)
appoint another agent on terms acceptable to the Facility Agent. Failing this,
the Facility Agent may appoint another process agent for this purpose.

 

  (c) Each Obligor agrees that failure by a process agent to notify it of any
process will not invalidate the relevant proceedings.

 

  (d) This Clause does not affect any other method of service allowed by law.

 

40.3 Waiver of immunity

Each Obligor irrevocably and unconditionally:

 

  (a) agrees not to claim any immunity from proceedings brought by a Finance
Party against it in relation to a Finance Document and to ensure that no such
claim is made on its behalf;

 

  (b) consents generally to the giving of any relief or the issue of any process
in connection with those proceedings; and

 

  (c) waives all rights of immunity in respect of it or its present or future
assets.

 

40.4 Waiver of trial by jury

EACH PARTY WAIVES ANY RIGHT IT MAY HAVE TO A JURY TRIAL OF ANY CLAIM OR CAUSE OF
ACTION IN CONNECTION WITH ANY FINANCE DOCUMENT OR ANY TRANSACTION CONTEMPLATED
BY ANY FINANCE DOCUMENT. THIS AGREEMENT MAY BE FILED AS A WRITTEN CONSENT TO
TRIAL BY COURT.

This Agreement has been entered into on the date stated at the beginning of this
Agreement.

 

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SCHEDULE 1

ORIGINAL PARTIES

 

Name of Borrower    Jurisdiction of Incorporation   

Registration number

(or equivalent, if any)

TTM Technologies Enterprises (HK) Limited

   Hong Kong    1067950

TTM Technologies China Limited

   Hong Kong    160381

Oriental Printed Circuits Limited

   Hong Kong    111984

OPC Manufacturing Limited

   Hong Kong    165090 Name of Original Guarantor   
Jurisdiction of Incorporation   

Registration number

(or equivalent, if any)

TTM Technologies, Inc.

   Delaware    3972972

TTM Technologies (Asia Pacific) Limited

   Hong Kong    1384579

TTM Technologies Enterprises (HK) Limited

   Hong Kong    1067950

TTM Technologies China Limited

   Hong Kong    160381

Oriental Printed Circuits Limited

   Hong Kong    111984

MA Investment Holding Limited

   Hong Kong    1179974

MTG (PCB) No. 2 (BVI) Limited

   British Virgin Islands    1443420

OPC Manufacturing Limited

   Hong Kong    165090

MTG Management (BVI) Limited

   British Virgin Islands    1046851

MTG PCB (BVI) Limited

   British Virgin Islands    1046852

Meadville Aspocomp (BVI) Holdings Limited

   British Virgin Islands    1438426

Aspocomp Chin-Poon Holdings Limited

   British Virgin Islands    284500

 

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Name of Original Lender    Tranche A Commitments (USD)  

The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited

     148,000,000   

Hang Seng Bank Limited

     74,000,000   

Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Ltd

     62,900,000   

CITIC Bank International Limited

     48,840,000   

The Bank of East Asia, Limited

     14,800,000   

China Construction Bank (Asia) Corporation Limited

     14,060,000   

Chong Hing Bank Limited

     7,400,000      

 

 

 

Total Tranche A Commitments

     370,000,000      

 

 

 

 

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Name of Original Lender   Tranche B Commitments (USD)  

The Royal Bank of Scotland plc, Hong Kong Branch

    40,000,000   

The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited

    20,000,000   

Hang Seng Bank Limited

    10,000,000   

Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Ltd

    8,500,000   

CITIC Bank International Limited

    6,600,000   

The Bank of East Asia, Limited

    2,000,000   

China Construction Bank (Asia) Corporation Limited

    1,900,000   

Chong Hing Bank Limited

    1,000,000     

 

 

 

Total Tranche B Commitments

    90,000,000     

 

 

  Name of Original Lender   Tranche C Commitments (USD)  

The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited

    32,000,000   

Hang Seng Bank Limited

    16,000,000   

Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Ltd

    13,600,000   

CITIC Bank International Limited

    10,560,000   

The Bank of East Asia, Limited

    3,200,000   

China Construction Bank (Asia) Corporation Limited

    3,040,000   

Chong Hing Bank Limited

    1,600,000     

 

 

 

Total Tranche C Commitments

    80,000,000     

 

 

 

 

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SCHEDULE 2

CONDITIONS PRECEDENT DOCUMENTS

PART 1

TO BE DELIVERED BEFORE THE FIRST REQUEST

Corporate documentation

 

1. A certified copy of the constitutional documents of each Obligor and each
Security Provider (which is not also an Obligor).

 

2. A certified copy of a resolution of the board of directors of each Obligor
and each such Security Provider approving the terms of, and the transactions
contemplated by, this Agreement.

 

3. A certified copy of a resolution of the members of each Obligor (other than
the Parent) and each Security Provider (other than TTM International) approving
the terms of, and the transactions contemplated by, this Agreement.

 

4. A Director’s Certificate for each Obligor and each Security Provider
substantially in the form of Part 4 of this Schedule.

 

5. The original certificate of incumbency or registered agent’s certificate
issued by the registered agent of each Obligor (other than Aspocomp Chin-Poon
Holdings Limited) registered in the British Virgin Islands, dated not earlier
than one month from the date of this Agreement.

 

6. A copy of the Original Financial Statements.

 

7. Evidence that the agent of each Obligor and each Security Provider not
incorporated in Hong Kong under the Finance Documents for service of process in
Hong Kong has accepted its appointment.

Finance Documents

 

1. Copies of this Agreement duly entered into by the parties to it.

 

2. Copies of each Fee Letter duly entered into by the parties to it.

 

3. The following Security Documents each duly entered into by the parties to it
and undated, held in escrow by Allen & Overy:

 

  (a) the Composite Security Agreement; and

 

  (b) the Composite Share Mortgage.

Legal opinions

 

1. A legal opinion of Harney Westwood & Riegels, legal advisers in the British
Virgin Islands to the Facility Agent, addressed to the Finance Parties.

 

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2. A legal opinion of Morris James LLP, legal advisers in Delaware to the
Facility Agent, addressed to the Finance Parties.

 

3. A legal opinion of Allen & Overy, legal advisers in Hong Kong to the Facility
Agent, addressed to the Finance Parties.

Other documents and evidence

 

1. A certified true copy of the shareholders agreement entered into among the
Parent, Meadville Holdings Limited, Su Sih (BVI) Limited, Tang Hsiang Chien,
Tang Chung Yen, Tom and Tang Ying Ming, Mai in respect of the Parent, evidencing
that nominees of the Tang Family cannot be removed from the board of directors
of the Company as long as the Tang Family holds (directly or indirectly) not
less than 15 per cent. of the issued share capital of the Parent.

 

2. Evidence that all fees and expenses then due and payable from the Borrowers
under this Agreement have been or will be paid by the first Utilisation Date.

 

3. An irrevocable prepayment notice signed by the borrower(s) under the Existing
Facility evidencing that the Existing Facility will be prepaid and cancelled in
full on the Utilisation Date of the Tranche A Facility.

 

4. Confirmation from:

 

  (a) the agent under the Existing Facility (acting on the instructions the
existing finance parties under the Existing Facility) as to the total
outstanding amount payable in order to discharge the indebtedness under the
Existing Facility in full on the first Utilisation Date and confirmation that
upon receipt of such amount on the first Utilisation Date, the Existing Facility
shall be irrevocably discharged in full; and

 

  (b) the Existing Issuing Bank that the Existing Letters of Credit will be
backed by the issuance of a single standby Letter of Credit in respect of each
currency to which the Existing Letters of Credit relate, to be issued on the
first Utilisation Date, together with confirmation of the means by which the
Existing Issuing Bank will be able to confirm to the existing facility agent
under the Existing Facility that such Letter of Credits have been issued as that
date,

in each case, so that the deeds of release referred to in paragraph 5 below, may
become effective on the first Utilisation Date.

 

5. Deeds of release or other equivalent release documentation, each duly entered
into by the relevant parties to them (but undated), in respect of the release of
all Security Interests created pursuant to the Existing Facility, held in escrow
by Allen & Overy.

 

6. Evidence that the Request in relation to each Letter of Credit to be issued
in accordance with paragraph (a) of Clause 3.3 (Tranche C Facility—Letters of
Credit) required to back each of the Existing Letters of Credit will be issued
on or before the first Utilisation Date.

 

7. A copy of any other authorisation or other document, opinion or assurance
which the Facility Agent has notified the Borrowers is necessary or desirable in
connection with the entry into and performance of, and the transactions
contemplated by, any Finance Document or for the validity and enforceability of
any Finance Document.

 

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PART 2

TO BE DELIVERED ON THE FIRST UTILISATION DATE

 

1. Evidence that all Security Interests created pursuant to the Existing
Facility will be released in full, including the dating of the deeds of release
referred to in paragraph 5 of “Other Documents and Evidence” of Part 1 (To be
delivered before the first Request) of Schedule 2 (Conditions Precedent
Documents), immediately after the utilisation of Tranche A Facility.

 

2. The following Security Documents each duly entered into by the parties to it
and dated the Utilisation Date of Tranche A Facility or evidence that
arrangement has been made by the relevant parties such that the following
Security Documents will be entered into by the parties to it and dated upon or
immediately after the utilisation of Tranche A Facility:

 

  (a) Composite Security Agreement; and

 

  (b) Composite Share Mortgage.

 

3. A copy of any notices, documents or evidence required to be sent under the
Security Documents.

The following documents be delivered to the Facility Agent by no later than
19 September 2012:

 

4. A legal opinion of Harney Westwood & Riegels, legal advisers in the British
Virgin Islands to the Facility Agent, addressed to the Finance Parties (in
respect of Aspocomp Chin-Poon Holdings Limited and in form and substance
satisfactory to the Finance Parties).

 

5. The original certificate of incumbency or registered agent’s certificate (in
form and substance satisfactory to the Finance Parties) issued by the registered
agent of Aspocomp Chin-Poon Holdings Limited registered in the British Virgin
Islands, dated not earlier than one month from the date of this Agreement.

 

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PART 3

FOR AN ADDITIONAL GUARANTOR

Corporate documentation

 

1. An Accession Agreement, duly entered into by the Borrowers and the Additional
Guarantor.

 

2. A copy of the constitutional documents of the Additional Guarantor.

 

3. A copy of a resolution of the board of directors and, if applicable, all the
shareholders of the Additional Guarantor approving the terms of, and the
transactions contemplated by, the Accession Agreement.

 

4. A Director’s Certificate for each Additional Guarantor substantially in the
form of Part 4 of this Schedule.

 

5. If available, a copy of the latest audited accounts of the Additional
Guarantor.

 

6. If the Additional Guarantor is not incorporated in Hong Kong, evidence that
the agent of the Additional Guarantor under the Finance Documents for service of
process in Hong Kong has accepted its appointment.

Security Document(s)

 

1. An Additional Guarantor Security Agreement, duly entered into by each party
to it.

 

2. An Additional Guarantor Share Mortgage, duly entered into by each party to
it.

 

3. A copy of any notices, documents or evidence required to be sent under the
Security Documents.

Legal opinions

 

1. If the Additional Guarantor is incorporated in a jurisdiction other than Hong
Kong, a legal opinion from legal advisers in that jurisdiction, addressed to the
Finance Parties.

 

2. A legal opinion of legal advisers in Hong Kong to the Facility Agent,
addressed to the Finance Parties.

Other documents and evidence

 

1. Evidence that all expenses due and payable from the Borrowers under this
Agreement in respect of the Finance Documents entered into in respect of the
accession of the Additional Guarantor have been paid.

 

2. A copy of any other authorisation or other document, opinion or assurance
which the Facility Agent (as advised by legal counsel) has notified the
Borrowers is necessary or desirable in connection with the entry into and
performance of, and the transactions contemplated by, the Finance Documents
entered into in respect of the accession of the Additional Guarantor or for the
validity and enforceability of any such Finance Document.

 

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PART 4

 

To: [FACILITY AGENT] as Facility Agent

and to each Finance Party

[DATE]

US$540,000,000 Facility Agreement dated [•] 2012 (the Agreement)

I refer to the Agreement. Terms defined in the Agreement have, unless defined in
this certificate, the same meaning when used in this certificate.

I am a director of [            ] (the Company). I am authorised to give this
certificate and certify as follows:

 

1.

Each [original] and copy document delivered or to be delivered by the Company to
the Facility Agent under Part 1 (To be delivered before the first Utilisation
Request) and Part 2 (To be delivered on the first Utilisation Date)]1 of
Schedule 2 (Conditions Precedent Documents) to the Agreement [(including the
documents listed below and attached to this certificate)] is true, complete and
in full force and effect on the date of this certificate:

 

  (a) the Memorandum and Articles of Association of the Company;

 

  (b) the Certificate of Incorporation of the Company;

 

  (c) the business registration certificate of the Company;

 

  (d) the [minutes of a meeting/resolutions] of the Board of Directors of the
Company [held/passed[ on [•];

 

  (e) the [minutes of a meeting] of the members of the Company [held/passed] on
[•].

 

2. Neither the entry into of the Finance Documents by the Company, nor the
exercise by it of its rights or performance of its obligations under the Finance
Documents will cause any borrowing, guaranteeing or other similar limit binding
on the Company to be exceeded.

 

3. Each resolution adopted at the meeting referred to above is in full force and
effect without modification.

 

4. The resolutions constitute all corporate action necessary on the part of the
Company to:

 

  (a) approve the terms of and transactions contemplated by the Finance
Documents; and

 

  (b) authorise the signing of, any communications and/or other action under or
in connection with, the Finance Documents.

 

5. The following is a complete list of all persons who are directors of the
Company as at the date of this Certificate and who were Directors on the date of
the meeting referred to above.

[            ]

 

1 

Delete as applicable.

 

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6. Each person listed below:

 

  (a) occupies the position stated against his name (and occupied that position
on the date each Finance Document was signed by him);

 

  (b) is the person duly authorised in the minutes to sign the Finance Documents
(and any other document in connection with the Finance Documents) on behalf of
the Company; and

 

  (c) has his true signature appearing opposite his name.

 

Name    Position    Specimen Signature

 

7. Unless disclosed to the Facility Agent in writing, the Company has not
created any Security Interests (other than those created pursuant to the
Existing Facility) which are subsisting at the date of this Certificate.

 

8. Unless we notify you to the contrary in writing, you may assume that this
Certificate remains true and correct up until the date of the first Utilisation
by the Company under the Agreement.

 

9. At the date of this certificate, the Company is solvent.

For

[            ]

 

      Director

 

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SCHEDULE 3

FORM OF REQUEST

To: [[AGENT] as Facility Agent/[ISSUING BANK] as Issuing Bank]

From: [            ]

Date: [            ]

US$540,000,000 Facility Agreement dated [•] 2012 (the Agreement)

 

1. We refer to the Agreement. This is a Request.

 

2.

We wish to [borrow a Tranche A Loan/Tranche B Loan/arrange for a Letter of
Credit/[a standby letter of credit]2 to be issued]3 on the following terms:

 

  (a) Borrower: [            ];

 

  (b) Utilisation Date: [            ];

 

  (c) Amount/currency: [            ];

 

  (d)

Interest Period: [            ]4[;

 

  (e)

Maturity Date: [ ].]5

 

3.

Our [payment/delivery]6 instructions are: [            ].

 

4. We confirm that each condition specified in Clause 4.2 (Further conditions
precedent) of the Agreement is satisfied on the date of this Request.

 

5. We confirm that:

 

  (a)

the proposed Letter of Credit is for [the purpose of equipment purchase/general
purposes]7; [and]

 

  (b)

the expiry date of the proposed Letter of Credit does not exceed [540 days/150
days]8 from the Utilisation Date[; and]

 

  (c)

[the proposed Letter of Credit is to be issued in favour of the bank issuing the
letters of credit which were already issued as at the date of the first Request
for a Loan]9.

 

6. This Request is irrevocable.

 

7.

[We attach a copy of the proposed Letter of Credit.]10

By:

[            ]

 

 

2 

Include or delete as applicable.

3 

Delete as applicable.

4 

Not applicable for a Request for a Letter of Credit.

5 

Only applicable for a Request for a Letter of Credit.

6 

Delete as applicable.

7 

Delete as applicable.

8 

Delete as applicable.

9 

Only applicable for Letters of Credit which are standby letters of credit

10 

Delete as applicable.

 

 

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SCHEDULE 4

FORMS OF TRANSFER CERTIFICATE

PART 1

TRANSFERS BY ASSIGNMENT, ASSUMPTION AND RELEASE

To: [FACILITY AGENT] as Facility Agent

 

From: [EXISTING LENDER] (the Existing Lender) and [NEW LENDER] (the New Lender)

 

Date: [            ]

US$540,000,000 Facility Agreement [•] 2012 (the Agreement)

We refer to the Agreement. This is a Transfer Certificate.

 

1. In accordance with the terms of the Agreement:

 

  (a) the Existing Lender assigns absolutely to the New Lender all the rights of
the Existing Lender specified in the Schedule;

 

  (b) the New Lender assumes obligations equivalent to those obligations of the
Existing Lender under the Agreement specified in the Schedule;

 

  (c) to the extent the obligations referred to in paragraph (b) above are
effectively assumed by the New Lender, the Existing Lender is released from its
obligations under the Agreement specified in the Schedule; and

 

  (d) the New Lender becomes a Lender under the Agreement and is bound by the
terms of the Agreement as a Lender.

 

2. The proposed Transfer Date is [            ].

 

3. The administrative details of the New Lender for the purposes of the
Agreement are set out in the Schedule.

 

4. The New Lender expressly acknowledges the limitations on the Existing
Lender’s obligations in respect of this Transfer Certificate contained in the
Agreement.

 

5. This Transfer Certificate 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 Transfer Certificate.

 

6. This Transfer Certificate is governed by Hong Kong law.

 

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THE SCHEDULE

Rights and obligations to be transferred by assignment, assumption and release

[insert relevant details, including applicable Commitment (or part)]

Administrative details of the New Lender

[insert details of Facility Office, address for notices and payment details
etc.]

 

[EXISTING LENDER]    [NEW LENDER]

By:

   By:

The Transfer Date is confirmed by the Facility Agent as [            ].

[AGENT]

As Facility Agent, for and on behalf of

each of the parties to the Agreement

(other than the Existing Lender and

the New Lender)

Note: The New Lender must decide which form of Transfer Certificate to use. It
is likely to be better to use the Transfer Certificate in Part 1 of this
Schedule because that may make it easier for the New Lender to obtain the
benefit of security granted by an Obligor incorporated in or subject to the laws
of a civil law jurisdiction. The New Lender is alone responsible for checking
whether any further formalities should be complied with. An assignment may give
rise to a stamp duty or transfer tax issues.

 

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PART 2

TRANSFER BY NOVATION

To: [AGENT] as Facility Agent

 

From: [EXISTING LENDER] (the Existing Lender) and [NEW LENDER] (the New Lender)

 

Date: [            ]

US$540,000,000 Facility Agreement dated [•] 2012 (the Agreement)

We refer to the Agreement. This is a Transfer Certificate.

 

1. The Existing Lender transfers by novation to the New Lender the Existing
Lender’s rights and obligations referred to in the Schedule below in accordance
with the terms of the Agreement.

 

2. The proposed Transfer Date is [            ].

 

3. The administrative details of the New Lender for the purposes of the
Agreement are set out in the Schedule.

 

4. The New Lender expressly acknowledges the limitations on the Existing
Lender’s obligations in respect of this Transfer Certificate contained in the
Agreement.

 

5. This Transfer Certificate 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 Transfer Certificate.

 

6. This Transfer Certificate is governed by Hong Kong law.

 

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THE SCHEDULE

Rights and obligations to be transferred by novation

[insert relevant details, including applicable Commitment (or part)]

Administrative details of the New Lender

[insert details of Facility Office, address for notices and payment details
etc.]

 

[EXISTING LENDER]    [NEW LENDER] By:    By:

The Transfer Date is confirmed by the Facility Agent as [            ].

[AGENT]

By:

Note: The New Lender must decide which form of Transfer Certificate to use. It
is likely to be better to use the Transfer Certificate in Part 1 of this
Schedule because that may make it easier for the New Lender to obtain the
benefit of security granted by an Obligor incorporated in or subject to the laws
of a civil law jurisdiction. The New Lender is alone responsible for checking
whether any further formalities should be complied with. An assignment may give
rise to a stamp duty or transfer tax issues.

 

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SCHEDULE 5

EXISTING SECURITY INTEREST, LOANS AND GUARANTEES

PART 1

EXISTING SECURITY INTEREST

 

Borrower

 

Lender(s)

 

Facility amount as at

the date of this

Agreement

   Period TTM Technologies Enterprises (HK) Limited, TTM Technologies China
Limited, Oriental Printed Circuits Limited, OPC Manufacturing Limited, and MTG
(PCB) No. 2 (BVI) Limited   The Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation
Limited, Standard Chartered Bank (Hong Kong) Limited, CITIC Bank International
Limited (formerly known as CITIC Ka Wah Bank Limited), DBS Bank (Hong Kong)
Limited, Hang Seng Bank Limited, The Bank of East Asia, Limited, and Chong Hing
Bank Limited   US$582,500,000    2009 – 2013

PART 2

EXISTING LOANS AND GUARANTEES

 

Borrower

 

Lender(s)

 

Facility amount as at

the date of this

Agreement

   Period   TTM Technologies Enterprises (HK) Limited, TTM Technologies China
Limited, Oriental Printed Circuits Limited, and OPC Manufacturing Limited   The
Hongkong and Shanghai Banking Corporation Limited   HK$1,500,000,000 (This
banking facility was granted in 2006 and has been repeatedly renewed and
extended)      2011 – 2012    TTM Technologies Enterprises (HK) Limited   TTM
Technologies, Inc.   US$50,000,000      2011 – 2015   

 

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SCHEDULE 6

FORM OF COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE

To: [FACILITY AGENT] as Facility Agent

 

From: [PARENT/COMPANY]

 

Date: [            ]

US$540,000,000 Facility Agreement dated [•] 2012 (the Agreement)

 

1. We refer to the Agreement. This is a Compliance Certificate.

 

2. We confirm that as at [relevant testing date]:

 

  (a) Consolidated Tangible Net Worth of the [Group/Parent Group] is
[            ];

 

  (b) Consolidated Net Borrowings of the [Group/Parent Group] are
[            ]; [therefore, the ratio of Consolidated Net Borrowings of the
[Group/Parent Group] to Consolidated Tangible Net Worth of the [Group/Parent
Group] was [            ] to 1;

 

  (c) EBITDA of the [Group/Parent Group] was [            ] and Interest
Expenses of the [Group/Parent Group] were [            ]; therefore, the ratio
of EBITDA of the [Group/Parent Group]to Interest Expenses of the [Group/Parent
Group] was [            ] to 1;

 

  (d)

[Consolidated Current Assets of the Group was [            ] and Consolidated
Current Liabilities (excluding current portion of long-term borrowings) of the
Group was [            ]; therefore Consolidated Current Assets of the Group was
[            ] per cent. of Consolidated Current Liabilities (excluding current
portion of long-term borrowings) of the Group; and]11

 

  (e)

[Consolidated Current Assets of the Group was [            ] and Consolidated
Current Liabilities of the Group was [            ]; therefore Consolidated
Current Assets of the Group was [            ] per cent. of Consolidated Current
Liabilities of the Group; and]10&12

 

  (f)

[the ratio of Consolidated Net Borrowings of the Parent Group to EBITDA of the
Parent Group was [            ] to 1;]13

 

3. We set out below calculations establishing the figures in paragraph 2 above:

[            ].

 

4. We confirm that the following companies were Material Subsidiaries at
[relevant testing date]:

[            ].

 

11 

Only applicable for Compliance Certificate of Company.

12 

Only applicable until 30 June 2015.

13 

Only applicable for Compliance Certificate of Parent.

 

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5. [We confirm that as at [relevant testing date] [no Default is
outstanding]/[the following Default[s] [is/are] outstanding and the following
steps are being taken to remedy [it/them]:

[            ].]

[PARENT/COMPANY]

By:

 

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SCHEDULE 7

FORM OF ACCESSION AGREEMENT

To: [FACILITY AGENT] as Facility Agent

 

From:

[Borrowers] and [Proposed Guarantor]14 

Date: [            ]

US$540,000,000 Facility Agreement dated [•] 2012 (the Agreement)

We refer to the Agreement. This is an Accession Agreement.

[Name of company] of [address/registered office] agrees to become an Additional
Guarantor and to be bound by the terms of the Agreement as an Additional
Guarantor.

[This Accession Agreement is intended to take effect as a deed.]15

This Accession Agreement is governed by Hong Kong law.

[COMPANY/BORROWERS]

By:

[PROPOSED GUARANTOR]

By:

OR

 

EXECUTED as a deed by    )       [PROPOSED GUARANTOR]    )       Acting by [NAME
OF DIRECTOR]    )   

 

   in the presence of:    )    Director   

 

Witness’s signature     Name:  

 

Address:  

 

 

14 

Delete as applicable.

15 

If there is a concern whether there is any consideration for giving a guarantee,
this Accession Agreement should be executed as a deed by the new Guarantor.

 

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FORM OF RESIGNATION REQUEST

To: [FACILITY AGENT] as Facility Agent

 

From: [COMPANY] and [relevant Obligor]

Date: [            ]

[COMPANY]—US$540,000,000 Facility Agreement dated [•] 2012 (the Agreement)

 

1. We refer to the Agreement. This is a Resignation Request.

 

2.

We request that [resigning Obligor] be released from its obligations as [a/an]16
[Obligor/Borrower/Guarantor]17 under the Agreement.

 

3. We confirm that no Default is outstanding or would result from the acceptance
of this Resignation Request.

 

4. We confirm that as at the date of this Resignation Request no amount owed by
[resigning Obligor] under the Agreement is outstanding.

 

5. This Resignation Request is governed by Hong Kong law.

 

[COMPANY]    [Relevant Obligor] By:    By:

The Facility Agent confirms that this resignation takes effect on
[            ].

[AGENT]

By:

 

16 

Delete as applicable.

17 

Delete as applicable.

 

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SCHEDULE 9

FORM OF LETTER OF CREDIT

 

To: [Beneficiary]

(the Beneficiary)

[DATE]

Dear Sir,

Irrevocable Standby Letter of Credit no. [            ]

At the request of [            ], [ISSUING BANK] (the Issuing Bank) issues this
irrevocable standby letter of credit (Letter of Credit) for [the purpose of
equipment purchases/general purposes other than equipment purchase] in your
favour on the following terms:

 

1. Definitions

In this Letter of Credit:

Business Day means a day (other than a Saturday or a Sunday) on which banks are
open for letter of credit business in Hong Kong and:

 

  (a) (in relation to any date for payment or purchase of US Dollars), New York
City;

 

  (b) (in relation to any date for payment or purchase of euro), any TARGET Day;
or

 

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

Demand means a demand for a payment under this Letter of Credit in the form of
the schedule to this Letter of Credit.

Expiry Date means [            ].

TARGET means Trans-European Automated Real-time Gross Settlement Express
Transfer payment system.

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

Total L/C Amount means [            ].

 

2. Issuing Bank’s agreement

 

(a) The Beneficiary may request a drawing [or drawings] under this Letter of
Credit by giving to the Issuing Bank a duly completed Demand. A Demand may not
be given after the Expiry Date.

 

(b) Subject to the terms of this Letter of Credit, the Issuing Bank
unconditionally and irrevocably undertakes to the Beneficiary that, within [10]
Business Days of receipt by it of a Demand validly presented under this Letter
of Credit, it must pay to the Beneficiary the amount which is demanded for
payment in that Demand.

 

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(c) The Issuing Bank will not be obliged to make a payment under this Letter of
Credit if as a result the aggregate of all payments made by it under this Letter
of Credit would exceed the Total L/C Amount.

 

3. Expiry

 

(a) On [5.00] p.m. ([Hong Kong] time) on the Expiry Date the obligations of the
Issuing Bank under this Letter of Credit will cease with no further liability on
the part of the Issuing Bank (irrespective of whether this Letter of Credit is
returned to the Issuing Bank) except for any Demand validly presented under the
Letter of Credit that remains unpaid.

 

(b) The Issuing Bank will be released from its obligations under this Letter of
Credit on the date prior to the Expiry Date (if any) notified by the Beneficiary
to the Issuing Bank as the date upon which the obligations of the Issuing Bank
under this Letter of Credit are released.

 

(c) When the Issuing Bank is no longer under any obligation under this Letter of
Credit, the Beneficiary must return the original of this Letter of Credit to the
Issuing Bank.

 

4. Payments

All payments under this Letter of Credit must be made as requested and for value
on the due date to the account of the Beneficiary specified in the Demand.

 

5. Delivery of Demand

Each Demand must be in writing, in English, and may be given in person or by
authenticated teletransmission and must be received by the Issuing Bank at its
address as follows:

[specify department/officer]

For the purpose of this Letter of Credit, communication by authenticated
teletransmission will be treated as being in writing.

 

6. Assignment

The Beneficiary’s rights under this Letter of Credit may not be assigned or
transferred.

 

7. UCP

Except to the extent it is inconsistent with the express terms of this Letter of
Credit, this Letter of Credit is subject to the ICC Uniform Customs and Practice
for Documentary Credits (UCP 600).

 

8. Governing Law

This Letter of Credit is governed by Hong Kong law.

 

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9. Jurisdiction

The Hong Kong courts have exclusive jurisdiction to settle any dispute arising
out of or in connection with this Letter of Credit.

Yours faithfully,

[ISSUING BANK]

By:

 

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SCHEDULE

FORM OF DEMAND

 

To: [ISSUING BANK]

[DATE]

Dear Sirs

Irrevocable Standby Letter of Credit no. [            ] issued in favour of
[BENEFICIARY] (the Letter of Credit)

We refer to the Letter of Credit. Terms defined in the Letter of Credit have the
same meaning when used in this Demand.

 

1. We certify that the sum of [            ] is due [and has remained unpaid for
at least [            ] Business Days under [set out underlying contract or
agreement]]. We therefore demand payment of the sum of [            ].

 

2. Payment should be made to the following account:

Name:

Account Number:

Bank:

 

3. The date of this Demand is not later than the Expiry Date.

Yours faithfully

(Authorised Signatory)                        (Authorised Signatory)

For

[BENEFICIARY]

 

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SIGNATORIES

Borrowers

For and on behalf of

TTM TECHNOLOGIES ENTERPRISES (HK) LIMITED

 

/s/ Tang Chung Yen, Tom

     

/s/ Chung Tai Keung

Name: Tang Chung Yen, Tom

      Name: Chung Tai Keung

Title: Director

      Title: Director

For and on behalf of

TTM TECHNOLOGIES CHINA LIMITED

 

/s/ Tang Chung Yen, Tom

     

/s/ Chung Tai Keung

Name: Tang Chung Yen, Tom

      Name: Chung Tai Keung

Title: Director

      Title: Director

For and on behalf of

ORIENTAL PRINTED CIRCUITS LIMITED

 

/s/ Tang Chung Yen, Tom

     

/s/ Chung Tai Keung

Name: Tang Chung Yen, Tom

      Name: Chung Tai Keung

Title: Director

      Title: Director

For and on behalf of

OPC MANUFACTURING LIMITED

 

/s/ Tang Chung Yen, Tom

     

/s/ Chung Tai Keung

Name: Tang Chung Yen, Tom

      Name: Chung Tai Keung

Title: Director

      Title: Director

 

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Original Guarantors

For and on behalf of

TTM TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

 

/s/ Kenton K. Alder

     

 

Name: Kenton K. Alder       Name: Title: Chief Executive Officer       Title:

For and on behalf of

TTM TECHNOLOGIES (ASIA PACIFIC) LIMITED

 

/s/ Tang Chung Yen, Tom

     

/s/ Chung Tai Keung

Name: Tang Chung Yen, Tom       Name: Chung Tai Keung Title: Director      
Title: Director

For and on behalf of

TTM TECHNOLOGIES ENTERPRISES (HK) LIMITED

 

/s/ Tang Chung Yen, Tom

     

/s/ Chung Tai Keung

Name: Tang Chung Yen, Tom       Name: Chung Tai Keung Title: Director      
Title: Director

For and on behalf of

TTM TECHNOLOGIES CHINA LIMITED

 

/s/ Tang Chung Yen, Tom

     

/s/ Chung Tai Keung

Name: Tang Chung Yen, Tom       Name: Chung Tai Keung Title: Director      
Title: Director

 

FACILITY AGREEMENT

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For and on behalf of

ORIENTAL PRINTED CIRCUITS LIMITED

 

/s/ Tang Chung Yen, Tom

     

/s/ Chung Tai Keung

Name: Tang Chung Yen, Tom

      Name: Chung Tai Keung

Title: Director

      Title: Director

For and on behalf of

OPC MANUFACTURING LIMITED

 

/s/ Tang Chung Yen, Tom

     

/s/ Chung Tai Keung

Name: Tang Chung Yen, Tom

      Name: Chung Tai Keung

Title: Director

      Title: Director

For and on behalf of

MTG MANAGEMENT (BVI) LIMITED

 

/s/ Tang Chung Yen, Tom

     

/s/ Chung Tai Keung

Name: Tang Chung Yen, Tom

      Name: Chung Tai Keung

Title: Director

      Title: Director

For and on behalf of

MTG PCB (BVI) LIMITED

 

/s/ Tang Chung Yen, Tom

     

/s/ Chung Tai Keung

Name: Tang Chung Yen, Tom

      Name: Chung Tai Keung

Title: Director

      Title: Director

 

FACILITY AGREEMENT

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For and on behalf of

MTG (PCB) NO. 2 (BVI) LIMITED

 

/s/ Tang Chung Yen, Tom

     

/s/ Chung Tai Keung

Name: Tang Chung Yen, Tom

      Name: Chung Tai Keung

Title: Director

      Title: Director

For and on behalf of

MEADVILLE ASPOCOMP (BVI) HOLDINGS LIMITED

 

/s/ Tang Chung Yen, Tom

     

/s/ Chung Tai Keung

Name: Tang Chung Yen, Tom

      Name: Chung Tai Keung

Title: Director

      Title: Director

For and on behalf of

MA INVESTMENT HOLDING LIMITED

 

/s/ Tang Chung Yen, Tom

     

/s/ Chung Tai Keung

Name: Tang Chung Yen, Tom

      Name: Chung Tai Keung

Title: Director

      Title: Director

For and on behalf of

ASPOCOMP CHIN-POON HOLDINGS LIMITED

 

/s/ Tang Chung Yen, Tom

     

/s/ Chung Tai Keung

Name: Tang Chung Yen, Tom

      Name: Chung Tai Keung

Title: Director

      Title: Director

 

FACILITY AGREEMENT

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Arranger and Original Lender

THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION LIMITED

 

By:   /s/ Tony Ng Name:   Tony Ng Title:   Senior Vice President

 

FACILITY AGREEMENT

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Arranger and Original Lender

HANG SENG BANK LIMITED

 

By:   /s/ Daphne Wat Name:   Daphne Wat Title:   Senior Executive Vice
President, Deputy Head of Commercial Banking

 

By:   /s/ Mimi Cheng Name:   Mimi Cheng Title:   Executive Vice President, Head
of Structured Loan & Commercial Real Estate

 

 

FACILITY AGREEMENT

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Arranger and Original Lender

STANDARD CHARTERED BANK (HONG KONG) LTD.

 

By:   /s/ Andy M. K. Ho Name:   Andy M. K. Ho Title:   Director, Unit Head,
Local Corporates – Origination & Client Coverage

 

By:   /s/ Eric Chan Name:   Eric Chan Title:   Managing Director and Regional
Head of Syndications – N.E. Asia

 

 

FACILITY AGREEMENT

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Arranger and Original Lender

CITIC BANK INTERNATIONAL LIMITED

 

By:   /s/ Alex Sham Name:   Alex Sham Title:  

FVP & Unit Head

Corporate Banking, Hong Kong

 

By:   /s/ Fanny Lui Name:   Fanny Lui Title:   Senior General Manager  
Multinational &Cross-border Banking

 

 

FACILITY AGREEMENT

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Arranger and Original Lender

THE ROYAL BANK OF SCOTLAND PLC, HONG KONG BRANCH

 

By:   /s/ Kevin James Begg Name:   Kevin James Begg Title:   Managing Director

 

 

FACILITY AGREEMENT

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Arranger and Original Lender

THE BANK OF EAST ASIA, LIMITED

 

By:   /s/ CHEUNG Yin-ching Name:   CHEUNG Yin-ching Title:  

Deputy Head of Corporate Lending

& Syndication Department

 

By:   /s/ WONG Wai-man, Christine Name:   WONG Wai-man, Christine Title:   Head
of Corporate Lending   & Syndication Department

 

 

FACILITY AGREEMENT

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Arranger and Original Lender

CHINA CONSTRUCTION BANK (ASIA) CORPORATION LIMITED

 

By:  

/s/ Jason Tsang

Name:   Jason Tsang Title:   Vice President By:  

/s/ David Kam

Name:   David Kam Title:   Senior Vice President

 

FACILITY AGREEMENT

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Arranger and Original Lender

CHONG HING BANK LIMITED

 

By:  

/s/ Chan Man Kuen Priscilla

Name:   Chan Man Kuen Priscilla Title:   Manager By:  

/s/ Kuok Wai Man

Name:   Kuok Wai Man Title:   Assistant Manager

 

FACILITY AGREEMENT

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Issuing Bank

CITIC BANK INTERNATIONAL LIMITED

 

By:   /s/ Alex Sham Name:   Alex Sham Title:  

FVP & Unit Head

Corporate Banking, Hong Kong

 

By:   /s/ Fanny Lui Name:   Fanny Lui Title:  

Senior General Manager

Multinational & Cross-border Banking

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Facility Agent

THE HONGKONG AND SHANGHAI BANKING CORPORATION LIMITED

 

By:   /s/ Debbie H Y Leung Name:   Debbie H Y Leung Title:  

 

By:   /s/ Tony Ng Name:   Tony Ng Title:  

Senior Vice President

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Security Trustee

STANDARD CHARTERED BANK (HONG KONG) LIMITED

 

By:   /s/ Eric Chan

Name:

  Eric Chan

Title:

  Managing Director and Regional Head of Syndications – N.E. Asia