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SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED
CREDIT AGREEMENT
among
ASPEN INSURANCE HOLDINGS LIMITED,

The Subsidiary Borrowers
from Time to Time Parties Hereto,

The Several Lenders from Time to Time Parties Hereto,
THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON,
as Collateral Agent,

CITIBANK, N.A.,
as Syndication Agent,

DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC.,
THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON and
LLOYDS SECURITIES INC.,
As Co-Documentation Agents,
and
BARCLAYS BANK PLC,
as Administrative Agent

Dated as of March 27, 2017

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BARCLAYS BANK PLC and CITIGROUP GLOBAL MARKETS INC.,
as Joint Lead Arrangers and Joint Bookrunners

        

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Table of Contents
Page
SECTION 1
DEFINITIONS
2

1.1
Defined Terms
2

1.2
Other Definitional Provisions
21

1.3
Exchange Rates
21

1.4
Changes in GAAP
22

SECTION 2
AMOUNT AND TERMS OF COMMITMENTS
22

2.1
Revolving Commitments
22

2.2
Procedure for Borrowing
23

2.3
Fees
24

2.4
Termination or Reduction of Commitments
24

2.5
Optional and Mandatory Prepayments
24

2.6
Conversion and Continuation Options
25

2.7
Limitations on Eurodollar Tranches
25

2.8
Interest Rates and Payment Dates
26

2.9
Computation of Interest and Fees
26

2.10
Inability to Determine Interest Rate
26

2.11
Pro Rata Treatment and Payments
27

2.12
Requirements of Law; Eurocurrency Liabilities
28

2.13
Taxes
29

2.14
Indemnity
32

2.15
Change of Lending Office
32

2.16
Replacement of Lenders
32

2.17
Defaulting Lenders
33

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SECTION 3
LETTERS OF CREDIT
35

3.1
L/C Commitment
35

3.2
Procedure for Issuance of Letter of Credit
35

3.3
Fees and Other Charges
36

3.4
L/C Participations
36

3.5
Reimbursement Obligation of the Borrowers
37

3.6
Obligations Absolute
38

3.7
Letter of Credit Payments
38

3.8
Several Letters of Credit
38

3.9
Applications
41

3.10
Additional Issuing Lenders
41

3.11
Reporting
41

3.12
Non-NAIC Approved Banks
41

SECTION 4
 REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES
41

4.1
Financial Conditions
41

4.2
No Change
42

4.3
Existence; Compliance with Law
42

4.4
Power; Authorization; Enforceable Obligations
42

4.5
No Legal Bar
43

4.6
Litigation
43

4.7
No Default
43

4.8
Ownership of Property; Liens
43

4.9
Taxes
43

4.10
Federal Regulations
44

4.11
ERISA
44

4.12
Investment Company Act
44

4.13
Subsidiaries
44

4.14
Use of Proceeds
44

4.15
Environmental Matters
44

4.16
Accuracy of Information, etc
45

4.17
PATRIOT Act; OFAC
45

SECTION 5
CONDITIONS PRECEDENT
46

5.1
Conditions to Initial Extensions of Credit
46

5.2
Conditions to Each Extension of Credit
47

5.3
Conditions for Additional Subsidiary Borrowers
48

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SECTION 6
 AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS
48

6.1
Financial Statements
49

6.2
Certificates; Other Information
49

6.3
Payment of Obligations
50

6.4
Maintenance of Existence; Compliance
50

6.5
Maintenance of Property; Insurance
50

6.6
Inspection of Property; Books and Records; Discussions
51

6.7
Notices
51

6.8
Environmental Laws
51

SECTION 7
 NEGATIVE COVENANTS
51

7.1
Financial Condition Covenants
51

7.2
Indebtedness
52

7.3
Disposition of Property
53

7.4
Restricted Payments
54

7.5
Investments
54

7.6
Liens
55

7.7
Clauses Restricting Subsidiary Distributions
56

7.8
Business
57

7.9
Rating
57

7.10
Consolidations, Amalgamations, Mergers and Liquidations
57

7.11
Transactions with Affiliates
57

SECTION 8
EVENTS OF DEFAULT
57

SECTION 9
THE AGENTS
60

9.1
Appointment
60

9.2
Delegation of Duties
60

9.3
Exculpatory Provisions
61

9.4
Reliance
61

9.5
Notice of Default
62

9.6
Non-Reliance on Agents and Other Lenders
62

9.7
Indemnification
62

9.8
Agent in Its Individual Capacity
63

9.9
Successor Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent
63

9.10
Security Document Matters
64

9.11
Other Agents
65

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SECTION 10
GUARANTEE
65

10.1
Guarantee
65

10.2
No Subrogation
65

10.3
Amendments, etc. with respect to the Obligations
66

10.4
Guarantee Absolute and Unconditional
66

10.5
Reinstatement
67

10.6
Payments
67

10.7
Independent Obligations
67

SECTION 11
MISCELLANEOUS
67

11.1
Amendments and Waivers
67

11.2
Notices
68

11.3
No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies
69

11.4
Survival of Representations and Warranties
69

11.5
Payment of Expenses and Taxes
69

11.6
Successors and Assigns; Participations and Assignments
70

11.7
Adjustments
73

11.8
Set-off
74

11.9
Counterparts
74

11.10
Severability
74

11.11
Integration
74

11.12
GOVERNING LAW
74

11.13
Submission To Jurisdiction; Waivers
74

11.14
Process Agent
75

11.15
Currency of Payment
75

11.16
Releases of Liens
76

11.17
Confidentiality
76

11.18
Several Obligations of Borrowers; Company as Agent of Borrowers
77

11.19
[Reserved]
77

11.20
WAIVERS OF JURY TRIAL
77

11.21
No Advisory or Fiduciary Duty
77

11.22
USA Patriot Act
78

11.23
Effect of Restatement
78

SECTION 12
THE BORROWER REPRESENTATIVE
79

12.1
Appointment; Nature of Relationship
79

12.2
Powers
79

12.3
Employment of Agents
79

12.4
Notices
79

12.5
Successor Borrower Representative
79

12.6
Execution of Loan Documents; Borrowing Base Certificate
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ANNEX:
A    Pricing Grid
SCHEDULES:
1.1        Commitments
4.13        Subsidiaries
7.2(b)(iv)    Existing Indebtedness
7.5        Investments
7.6        Existing Liens

EXHIBITS:
A        Form of Compliance Certificate
B-1        Form of Closing Certificate of the Company
B-2        Form of Closing Certificate of each Subsidiary Borrower
C        Form of Assignment and Assumption
D-1        Form of Legal Opinion of Mayer Brown LLP
D-2        Form of Legal Opinion of Appleby (Bermuda) Limited
E-1        Form of Exemption Certificate (Non-Partnerships)
E-2        Form of Exemption Certificate (Partnerships)
F        Form of Company Note
G        Form of Subsidiary Borrower Note
H        Form of Notice of Conversion/Continuation
I        Form of Subsidiary Borrower Agreement
J        Form of Commitment Increase Supplement
K        Form of New Lender Supplement
L        Form of Several Letter of Credit
M        Form of Borrowing Request
N        Form of Prepayment Notice

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SECOND AMENDED AND RESTATED CREDIT AGREEMENT (this “Agreement”), dated as of
March 27, 2017, among ASPEN INSURANCE HOLDINGS LIMITED, a Bermuda exempted
limited liability company (the “Company”), the Subsidiary Borrowers (as defined
below; together with the Company, collectively, the “Borrowers” and
individually, a “Borrower”), the several banks and other financial institutions
or entities from time to time parties to this Agreement (the “Lenders”),
CITIBANK, N.A., as syndication agent (in such capacity, the “Syndication
Agent”), DEUTSCHE BANK SECURITIES INC., THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON and LLOYDS
SECURITIES INC., as co-documentation agents (in such capacities, each a
“Co-Documentation Agent”), THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, as collateral agent, and
BARCLAYS BANK PLC, as administrative agent.

The parties hereto hereby agree as follows:
SECTION 1  DEFINITIONS

1.1    Defined Terms. As used in this Agreement, the terms listed in this
Section 1.1 shall have the respective meanings set forth in this Section 1.1.
“ABR”: for any day, a rate per annum (rounded upwards, if necessary, to the next
1/100 of 1%) equal to the greatest of (a) the Prime Rate in effect on such day,
(b) the Federal Funds Effective Rate in effect on such day plus ½ of 1% and (c)
the one-month Eurodollar Rate plus 1.0%. Any change in the ABR due to a change
in the Prime Rate, the Federal Funds Effective Rate or the Eurodollar Rate shall
be effective as of the opening of business on the effective day of such change
in the applicable rate. If for any reason any rate described in clause (a), (b)
or (c) above is not available, then the ABR shall be determined based upon one
of the other rates set forth above.
“ABR Loans”: Loans that bear interest based upon the ABR.
“Account”: as defined in the Security Agreement.
“Administrative Agent”: Barclays Bank PLC, as the administrative agent for the
Lenders under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, together with any of
its successors.
“Advance Rate”: for any category of cash or obligation or investment specified
below in the column entitled “Cash and Eligible Securities” (other than cash,
the “Eligible Securities”), the percentage set forth opposite such category of
cash or Eligible Securities below in the column entitled “Advance Rate” and, in
each case, subject to the original term to maturity criteria set forth therein:
Cash and Eligible Securities    Advance Rate
Cash Denominated in Dollars        100%
Investments in Permitted Funds (as defined below)        95%
U.S. Government Bills, Notes and U.S. Government Guaranteed or Sponsored Agency
Securities (including FNMA and FHLMC)
Maturity < 2 years    95%
Maturity < 10 years, but > 2 years    90%

        

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Maturity > 10 years    85%
Non-U.S. Government and Supranational Organization Obligations (Rating AA- or
better or Aa3 or better)
Maturity < 5 years    90%
Maturity < 10 years, but > 5 years    85%
Maturity > 10 years    80%
U.S. Corporate Bonds (Rating A1 or better or A+ or better, Non-convertible)
Maturity ≤ 5 years    90%
Maturity ≤ 10 years, but > 5 years    85%
Maturity > 10 years    80%
U.S. Corporate Bonds (Rating A3 or better or A- or better but lower than A1 or
A+, Non-convertible)
Maturity < 10 years    80%

All other securities                                      0%

Notwithstanding the foregoing, (a) the advance rate on securities issued by the
Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation (“FHLMC” also known as “Freddie Mac”) and
the Federal National Mortgage Association (“FNMA” also known as “Fannie Mae”)
shall be decreased by an additional 7.5% to the extent that either FHLMC or FNMA
shall no longer be under the conservatorship of the Federal Housing Finance
Agency and (b) the value of the amount included in the Borrowing Base for the
marketable securities set forth above shall be decreased by an additional 10.0%
to the extent that such marketable securities are held in a currency other than
the currency of the applicable Secured Letter of Credit.
“Affiliate”: as to any Person, any other Person that, directly or indirectly, is
in control of, is controlled by, or is under common control with, such Person.
For purposes of this definition, “control” of a Person means the power, directly
or indirectly, either to (a) vote 20% or more of the securities having ordinary
voting power for the election of directors (or persons performing similar
functions) of such Person or (b) direct or cause the direction of the management
and policies of such Person, whether by contract or otherwise.
“Agents”: the collective reference to the Syndication Agent, the Administrative
Agent, the Co-Documentation Agents and the Collateral Agent.
“Aggregate Exposure”: with respect to any Lender at any time, an amount equal to
the amount of such Lender’s Commitment then in effect or, if the Commitments
have been terminated, the amount of such Lender’s Extensions of Credit then
outstanding.
“Aggregate Exposure Percentage”: with respect to any Lender at any time, the
ratio (expressed as a percentage) of such Lender’s Aggregate Exposure at such
time to the Aggregate Exposure of all Lenders at such time; provided that when a
Defaulting Lender shall exist, any such Defaulting Lender’s Commitment shall be
disregarded in the calculation of Aggregate Exposure Percentage.
“Agreement”: as defined in the preamble hereto.
“Anti-Corruption Laws”: all laws, rules and regulations of any jurisdiction
applicable to the Company or any of its Subsidiaries from time to time
concerning or relating to bribery or corruption, including the United States
Foreign Corruption Practices Act of 1977 and the rules and regulations
thereunder.

        

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“Applicable Issuing Party”: (a) in the case of Fronted Letters of Credit, the
Issuing Lender and (b) in the case of Several Letters of Credit, the L/C
Administrator.
“Applicable Margin”: the rate per annum set forth under the relevant column
heading in Annex A.
“Application”: an application, in such form as the applicable Issuing Lender may
specify from time to time, requesting such Issuing Lender to issue a Letter of
Credit.
“Approved Fund”: as defined in Section 11.6(b).
“Assignee”: as defined in Section 11.6(b).
“Assignment and Assumption”: an Assignment and Assumption, substantially in the
form of Exhibit C.
“Available Commitment”: as to any Lender at any time, an amount equal to the
excess, if any, of (a) such Lender’s Commitment then in effect over (b) such
Lender’s Extensions of Credit then outstanding.
“Bail-In Action”: the exercise of any Write-down and Conversion Powers by the
applicable EEA Resolution Authority in respect of any liability of an EEA
Financial Institution.
“Bail-In Legislation”: with respect to any EEA Member Country implementing
Article 55 of the Directive 2014/59/EU of the European Parliament and of the
Council of the European Union, the implementing law for such EEA Member Country
from time to time which is described in the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule.
“Benefitted Lender”: as defined in Section 11.7.
“Bermuda Companies Law”: The Bermuda Companies Act of 1981, as amended.
“Bermuda Insurance Law”: The Bermuda Insurance Act of 1978, as amended.
“Board”: the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System of the United
States (or any successor).
“Borrower Representative”: the Company, in its capacity as contractual
representative of the Borrowers pursuant to Section 12.
“Borrowers”: as defined in the preamble hereto.
“Borrowing Base”: at any time, and in respect of each Borrower, the aggregate
amount of cash and Eligible Securities held in the Accounts applicable to such
Borrower under the applicable Collateral Account Control Agreement at such time
multiplied in each case by the respective Advance Rates for cash and such
Eligible Securities; provided that no Eligible Securities or cash shall be
included in the calculation of a Borrowing Base unless (i) the Collateral Agent
has a first priority perfected Lien on and security interest in such collateral
pursuant to the Loan Documents and (ii) there shall exist no other Liens on such
Eligible Securities and cash; provided, further that (1) no Eligible Security
shall be included in the calculation of a Borrowing Base unless (A) either
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Depositary Trust & Clearing Corporation or such Eligible Security is listed on a
generally recognized national securities exchange or is freely traded at readily
established prices in over-the-counter transactions and (B) price quotations for
such Eligible Security are available to the Custodian in the ordinary course of
business, (2) other than cash, U.S. Government Bills, Notes, U.S. Government
Guaranteed or Sponsored Agency Securities and investments in Permitted Funds, no
single issue or issuer shall comprise more than 10% of a Borrowing Base for any
Borrower, (3) U.S. Corporate Bonds shall be restricted to bonds with issue size
of $250,000,000 or higher, (4) Non-U.S. Government and Supranational
Organization Obligations shall be excluded from the calculation of a Borrowing
Base unless such marketable securities are from the OECD country member states
of United Kingdom, France, Germany or Japan, (5) no more than $100,000,000 of
investments in Permitted Funds shall be included in the calculation of the
Borrowing Bases for all Borrowers as of any date, (6) all maturities are
calculated from the relevant date of determination of a Borrowing Base and (7)
the total value included in the Borrowing Base of U.S. Corporate Bonds (Rating
A3 or better or A- or better, Non-convertible) with a maturity of 10 years or
shorter shall not exceed 25% of the total Borrowing Base; provided, further,
that (i) the Borrowing Base in respect of any Borrower at any time shall be the
amount thereof as set forth in the Borrowing Base Report (as defined in the
applicable Collateral Account Control Agreement) then most recently delivered by
the Collateral Agent to the Administrative Agent pursuant to Section 2 of
Article III of the applicable Collateral Account Control Agreement and (ii) for
the avoidance of doubt, each Borrower will take all such actions as shall be
necessary to cause such Borrower to be in compliance with Article III of the
applicable Collateral Account Control Agreement.
“Borrowing Date”: any Business Day specified by the Borrower Representative as a
date on which the Borrower Representative requests the relevant Lenders to make
Loans hereunder.
“Business Day”: a day other than a Saturday, Sunday or other day on which
commercial banks in New York City or London or, for purposes of Section 2.5(b)
only, Bermuda, are authorized or required by law to close; provided, that with
respect to notices and determinations in connection with, and payments of
principal and interest on, Eurodollar Loans, such day is also a day for trading
by and between banks in Dollar deposits in the interbank eurodollar market.
“Capital Lease Obligations”: as to any Person, the obligations of such Person to
pay rent or other amounts under any lease of (or other arrangement conveying the
right to use) real or personal property, or a combination thereof, which
obligations are required to be classified and accounted for as capital leases on
a balance sheet of such Person under GAAP and, for the purposes of this
Agreement, the amount of such obligations at any time shall be the capitalized
amount thereof at such time determined in accordance with GAAP.
“Capital Stock”: any and all shares, interests, participations or other
equivalents (however designated) of capital stock (including Hybrid Capital) of
a corporation, any and all equivalent ownership interests in a Person (other
than a corporation) and any and all warrants, rights or options to purchase any
of the foregoing.
“Cash Equivalents”: (a) marketable direct obligations issued by, or
unconditionally guaranteed by, the United States federal government or issued by
any agency thereof and backed by the full faith and credit of the United States,
in each case maturing within one year from the date of acquisition; (b)
certificates of deposit, time deposits, eurodollar time deposits or overnight
bank deposits having maturities of six months or less from the date of
acquisition issued by any Lender or by any commercial bank organized under the
laws of the United States or any state thereof having combined capital and
surplus of not less than $500,000,000; (c) commercial paper of an issuer rated
at least ‘A-1’ by S&P or ‘P-1’ by Moody’s, or carrying an equivalent rating by a
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publishing ratings of commercial paper issuers generally, and maturing within
six months from the date of acquisition; (d) repurchase obligations of any
Lender or of any commercial bank satisfying the requirements of clause (b) of
this definition, having a term of not more than 30 days, with respect to
securities issued or fully guaranteed or insured by the United States federal
government; (e) securities with maturities of one year or less from the date of
acquisition issued or fully guaranteed by any state, commonwealth or territory
of the United States, by any political subdivision or taxing authority of any
such state, commonwealth or territory or by any foreign government, the
securities of which state, commonwealth, territory, political subdivision,
taxing authority or foreign government (as the case may be) are rated at least
‘A’ by S&P or ‘A’ by Moody’s; (f) securities with maturities of six months or
less from the date of acquisition backed by standby letters of credit issued by
any Lender or any commercial bank satisfying the requirements of clause (b) of
this definition; (g) money market mutual or similar funds that invest
exclusively in assets satisfying the requirements of clauses (a) through (f) of
this definition; or (h) money market funds that (i) comply with the criteria set
forth in SEC Rule 2a-7 under the Investment Company Act of 1940, (ii) are rated
‘AAA’ by S&P and ‘Aaa’ by Moody’s and (iii) have portfolio assets of at least
$5,000,000,000.
“Change of Control”: any of the following: (i)  any “person” or “group” (as such
terms are used in Sections 13(d) and 14(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934 (the “Exchange Act”) other than the Company or any Subsidiary), shall
become, or obtain rights (whether by means of warrants, options or otherwise
(other than any such warrants, options or other rights which are not exercisable
prior to the Termination Date)) to become, the “beneficial owner” (as defined in
Rules 13(d)-3 and 13(d)-5 under the Exchange Act), directly or indirectly, of
shares of Capital Stock representing more than 50% of the total voting power of
any Borrower; or (ii) the occupation of a majority of the seats (other than
vacant seats) of the board of directors of the Company by Persons who are
neither (x) the directors of the Company on the Closing Date nor (y) nominated
by the board of directors of the Company nor (z) appointed by directors so
nominated.
“Closing Date”: the date on which the conditions precedent set forth in Section
5.1 shall have been satisfied, which date is March 27, 2017.
“Code”: the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended from time to time.
“Co-Documentation Agents”: as defined in the preamble hereto.
“Collateral”: as defined in the Security Agreement.
“Collateral Account Control Agreement”: each Collateral Account Control
Agreement, among a Borrower, The Bank of New York Mellon, as securities
intermediary, and the Collateral Agent, in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent.
“Collateral Agent”: as defined in the Security Agreement.
“Commitment”: as to any Lender, the obligation of such Lender to make Loans and
issue or participate in Letters of Credit during the Commitment Period in an
aggregate principal and/or face amount not to exceed, at any one time
outstanding, the amount set forth under the heading “Commitment” opposite such
Lender’s name on Schedule 1.1 or in the Assignment and Assumption pursuant to
which such Lender became a party hereto, as the same may be changed from time to
time pursuant to the terms hereof. The original aggregate amount of the
Commitments is $200,000,000.
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“Commitment Fee Rate”: the rate per annum set forth under the relevant column
heading in Annex A.
“Commitment Increase Supplement”: a supplement to this Agreement substantially
in the form of Exhibit J.
“Commitment Percentage”: as to any Lender at any time, the percentage which such
Lender’s Commitment then constitutes of the Total Commitments or, at any time
after the Commitments shall have expired or terminated, the percentage which the
aggregate principal amount of such Lender’s Loans then outstanding constitutes
of the aggregate principal amount of the Loans then outstanding; provided, that
in the event that the Loans are paid in full prior to the reduction to zero of
the Total Extensions of Credit, the Commitment Percentages shall be determined
in a manner designed to ensure that the other outstanding Extensions of Credit
shall be held by the Lenders on a comparable basis.
“Commitment Period”: the period from and including the Closing Date to but
excluding the Termination Date.
“Commitment Share”: as defined in Section 3.8(a).
“Commonly Controlled Entity”: an entity, whether or not incorporated, that is
under common control with the Company or any Subsidiary within the meaning of
Section 4001 of ERISA or is part of a group that includes the Company or any
Subsidiary and that is treated as a single employer under Section 414(b) or (c)
of the Code or, solely for purposes of Sections 302 and 303 of ERISA and
Sections 412 and 4971 of the Code, is treated as a single employer under Section
414(b), (c), (m) or (o) of the Code.
“Company”: as defined in the preamble hereto.
“Compliance Certificate”: a certificate duly executed by a Responsible Officer
of the Company substantially in the form of Exhibit A.
“Confidential Information Memorandum”: the Confidential Information Memorandum
dated February 2017 and furnished to certain Lenders.
“Connection Income Taxes” means Other Connection Taxes that are imposed on or
measured by net income (however denominated) or that are franchise Taxes or
branch profits Taxes.
“Consolidated Leverage Ratio”: as of the last day of any fiscal quarter
(expressed as a percentage), Consolidated Total Debt, divided by the sum of (i)
Consolidated Total Debt and (ii) Consolidated Tangible Net Worth.
“Consolidated Net Income”: for any period, the consolidated net income (or loss)
of the Company and its Subsidiaries, determined on a consolidated basis in
accordance with GAAP.
“Consolidated Tangible Net Worth”: of the Company at any date, the consolidated
stockholders’ equity (including Hybrid Capital) of the Company and its
Subsidiaries less their consolidated intangible assets, all determined on a
consolidated basis as of such date in accordance with GAAP.
“Consolidated Total Debt”: at any date, the aggregate principal amount of all
Indebtedness of the Company and its Subsidiaries at such date, determined on a
consolidated basis in accordance with GAAP; provided that there shall be
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amount of all then outstanding letters of credit issued on behalf of the Company
and/or any of its Subsidiaries (but the aggregate amount of drawings under such
letters of credit that have not then been reimbursed shall not be so excluded).
For the avoidance of doubt, Consolidated Total Debt shall not include Hybrid
Capital.
“Contractual Obligation”: as to any Person, any provision of any security issued
by such Person or of any agreement, instrument or other undertaking to which
such Person is a party or by which it or any of its property is bound.
“Currency of Payment”: as defined in Section 11.15.
“Custodian”: as defined in the Security Agreement.
“Default”: any of the events specified in Section 8, whether or not any
requirement for the giving of notice, the lapse of time, or both, has been
satisfied.
“Defaulting Lender”: any Lender, as reasonably determined by the Administrative
Agent, that has (a) failed to fund any portion of its Loans, Several Letters of
Credit or participations in Fronted Letters of Credit within three Business Days
of the date required to be funded by it hereunder (unless, in the case of any
Loan, such Lender notifies the Administrative Agent and the Borrower in writing
that such failure is the result of such Lender’s determination that one or more
conditions precedent to funding (each of which conditions precedent, together
with any applicable default, shall be specifically identified in such writing)
has not been satisfied), (b) notified the Borrower, the Administrative Agent,
any Issuing Lender or any Lender in writing that it does not intend to comply
with any of its funding obligations under this Agreement or has made a public
statement to the effect that it does not intend to comply with its funding
obligations under this Agreement or under other agreements generally in which it
commits to extend credit (unless such writing or public statement relates to
such Lender’s obligation to fund a Loan hereunder and states that such position
is based on such Lender’s determination that a condition precedent to funding
(which condition precedent, together with any applicable default, shall be
specifically identified in such writing or public statement) cannot be
satisfied), (c) failed, within three Business Days after request by the
Administrative Agent, to confirm that it will comply with the terms of this
Agreement relating to its obligations to fund prospective Loans, Several Letters
of Credit and participations in then outstanding Fronted Letters of Credit, (d)
otherwise failed to pay over to the Administrative Agent or any other Lender any
other amount required to be paid by it hereunder within three Business Days of
the date when due, unless the subject of a reasonable good faith dispute, (e)
(i) become or is insolvent or has a parent company that has become or is
insolvent or (ii) become the subject of a bankruptcy or insolvency proceeding,
or (iii) has had appointed for it a receiver, custodian, conservator, trustee,
administrator, assignee for the benefit of creditors or similar Person charged
with reorganization or liquidation of its business or assets, including the
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation or any other state or federal regulatory
authority acting in such a capacity or (f) become the subject of a Bail-in
Action; provided that a Lender shall not be a Defaulting Lender solely by virtue
of the ownership or acquisition of any equity interest in such Lender or any
direct or indirect parent company thereof by a Governmental Authority so long as
such ownership interest does not result in or provide such Lender with immunity
from the jurisdiction of courts within the United States or from the enforcement
of judgments or writs of attachment on its assets or permit such Lender (or such
Governmental Authority) to reject, repudiate, disavow or disaffirm any contracts
or agreements made with such Lender.
“Disposition”: with respect to any property, any sale, lease, sale and
leaseback, assignment, conveyance, transfer or other disposition thereof. The
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“Dollar Amount”: at any time (a) as to any amount in Dollars, such amount and
(b) as to any amount in Pounds Sterling, the then Dollar Equivalent thereof.
“Dollar Equivalent”: with respect to any amount of Pounds Sterling on any date,
the equivalent amount in Dollars of such amount of Pounds Sterling as determined
by the Administrative Agent in accordance with Section 1.3 using the applicable
Exchange Rate.
“Dollars” and “$”: dollars in lawful currency of the United States.
“Domestic Subsidiary”: any Subsidiary organized under the laws of any
jurisdiction within the United States.
“EEA Financial Institution”: (a) any institution established in any EEA Member
Country which is subject to the supervision of an EEA Resolution Authority, (b)
any entity established in an EEA Member Country which is a parent of an
institution described in clause (a) of this definition, or (c) any institution
established in an EEA Member Country which is a subsidiary of an institution
described in clauses (a) or (b) of this definition and is subject to
consolidated supervision with its parent.
“EEA Member Country”: any of the member states of the United Kingdom, European
Union, Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway.
“EEA Resolution Authority”: any public administrative authority or any Person
entrusted with public administrative authority of any EEA Member Country
(including any delegee) having responsibility for the resolution of any EEA
Financial Institution.
“Eligible Securities”: as provided in the definition of the term Advance Rate.
“Environmental Laws”: any and all applicable foreign, Federal, state, local or
municipal laws, requirements of any Governmental Authority or other Requirements
of Law (including common law) regulating, relating to or imposing liability
relating to (a) pollution or protection of the environment, (b) exposure of any
Person to hazardous emissions or releases of Hazardous Materials, (c) protection
of the public health or welfare from the effects of products; by-products,
emissions or releases of Hazardous Materials and (d) regulation of the
manufacture, use or introduction into commerce of Hazardous Materials.
“ERISA”: the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974.
“Eurodollar Loans”: Loans that bear interest based upon the Eurodollar Rate.
“EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule”: the EU Bail-In Legislation Schedule published
by the Loan Market Association (or any successor Person), as in effect from time
to time.
“Eurodollar Rate”: for any Interest Period as to any Eurodollar Loan, (i) the
rate per annum determined by the Administrative Agent to be the offered rate
which appears on the page of the Reuters Screen which displays the London
interbank offered rate administered by ICE Benchmark Administration Limited
(such page currently being the LIBOR01 page) (the “LIBO Rate”) for deposits (for
delivery on the first day of such Interest Period) with a term equivalent to
such Interest Period in Dollars, determined as of approximately 11:00 a.m.
(London, England time), two Business Days prior to the commencement of such
Interest Period or (ii) in the event the rate referenced in the preceding clause
(i) does not appear on such page or service or if such page or service shall
cease to be available, the rate determined by the Administrative Agent to be the
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deposits (for delivery on the first day of such Interest Period) with a term
equivalent to such Interest Period in Dollars, determined as of approximately
11:00 a.m. (London, England time) two Business Days prior to the commencement of
such Interest Period; provided, that if LIBO Rates are quoted under either of
the preceding clauses (i) or (ii), but there is no such quotation for the
Interest Period elected, the LIBO Rate shall be equal to the Interpolated Rate;
and provided, further, that if any such rate determined pursuant to the
preceding clauses (i) or (ii) is below zero, the Eurodollar Rate shall be deemed
to be zero.
“Eurodollar Tranche”: the collective reference to Eurodollar Loans the then
current Interest Periods with respect to all of which begin on the same date and
end on the same later date (whether or not such Loans shall originally have been
made on the same day).
“Event of Default”: any of the events specified in Section 8; provided that any
requirement for the giving of notice, the lapse of time, or both, has been
satisfied.
“Exchange Rate”: on any day, with respect to Pounds Sterling, the rate at which
such currency may be exchanged into Dollars, as set forth at approximately 11:00
A.M., New York time, on such date on the Reuters World Currency Page for Pounds
Sterling. In the event that such rate does not appear on any Reuters World
Currency Page, the Exchange Rate shall be determined by reference to such other
publicly available service for displaying exchange rates as may be selected by
the Administrative Agent, or, in the event no such service is selected, such
Exchange Rate shall instead be the arithmetic average of the spot rates of
exchange of the Administrative Agent in the market where its foreign currency
exchange operations in respect of Pounds Sterling are then being conducted, at
or about 10:00 A.M., local time, on such date for the purchase of the relevant
currency for delivery two Business Days later; provided that if at the time of
any such determination, for any reason, no such spot rate is being quoted, the
Administrative Agent, after consultation with the Company, may use any
reasonable method it deems appropriate to determine such rate, and such
determination shall be presumed correct absent manifest error.
“Excluded Taxes”: means, with respect to the Administrative Agent, the
Collateral Agent, any Lender or any other recipient (each of the foregoing, a
“Recipient”) of any payment to be made by or on account of any obligation of any
Borrower hereunder (or under any other Loan Documents), (a) franchise Taxes or
Taxes imposed on (or measured by) the net income of such Recipient (i) by the
United States of America, or by the jurisdiction under the laws of which such
Recipient is organized or in which its principal office is located or, in the
case of any Lender, in which its applicable lending office is located or (ii)
that are Other Connection Taxes; (b) any branch profits Taxes (i) imposed on
such Recipient by the United States of America or any other jurisdiction in
which such Recipient is organized or in which its principal office is located
or, in the case of any Lender, in which its applicable lending office is located
or (ii) that are Other Connection Taxes; (c) any U.S. federal withholding Tax
(with respect to payments made by any U.S. Borrower) or United Kingdom
withholding tax (with respect to payments made by any Borrower organized in the
United Kingdom) that is in effect and would apply to amounts payable to (i) a
Lender (other than a Lender on the Closing Date) at the time such Lender becomes
a party to this Agreement or (ii) any Lender at the time such Lender designates
a new lending office, except to the extent, in (i) or (ii), as applicable, such
Lender (or its assignor, if any) was entitled, at the time of designation of a
new lending office (or assignment), to receive additional amounts from any
Borrower with respect to withholding tax pursuant to Section 2.13(a) subject to
the Borrower’s rights under Section 2.15 and Section 2.16); (d) Taxes
attributable to such Recipient’s failure to comply with Section 2.13(e); and (e)
any U.S. federal withholding Tax imposed under FATCA.
“Existing Credit Agreement”: the Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as
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banks and other financial institutions or entities from time to time parties
thereto, The Bank of New York Mellon, as collateral agent, Barclays Bank PLC, as
administrative agent, and the other agents party thereto.
“Extensions of Credit”: as to any Lender at any time, an amount equal to the sum
of (a) the aggregate principal amount of all Loans held by such Lender then
outstanding and (b) such Lender’s Commitment Percentage of the L/C Obligations
then outstanding.
“FATCA”: Sections 1471 through 1474 of the Code, as of the date of this
Agreement (or amended or successor version that is substantially comparable and
not materially more onerous to comply with), any current or future Treasury
regulations promulgated thereunder or official administrative interpretations
thereof and any agreements entered into pursuant to Section 1471(b)(1) of the
Code, any intergovernmental agreement entered into in connection with the
implementation of such Sections of the Code and any fiscal or regulatory
legislation, rules or practices adopted pursuant to such intergovernmental
agreement.
“Federal Funds Effective Rate”: for any day, the rate per annum equal to the
weighted average of the rates on overnight federal funds transactions with
members of the Federal Reserve System arranged by federal funds brokers, as
published on the next succeeding Business Day by the Federal Reserve Bank of
New York, or, if such rate is not so published for any day that is a Business
Day, the average of the quotations for the day of such transactions received by
the Administrative Agent from three federal funds brokers of recognized standing
selected by it.
“Fee Payment Date”: (a) the last Business Day of each March, June, September and
December after the Closing Date and (b) the last day of the Commitment Period.
“Foreign Borrower”: the Company and any Subsidiary Borrower that is not a
Domestic Subsidiary.
“Fronted L/C Commitment”: as to any Issuing Lender, the obligation of such
Issuing Lender to issue Fronted Letters of Credit during the Commitment Period
in an aggregate face amount not to exceed an amount to be separately agreed
between such Issuing Lender and the Company.
“Fronted Letter of Credit”: a Letter of Credit issued by an Issuing Lender in
which the Lenders purchase risk participations pursuant to Section 3.4(a).
“Funding Office”: the office of the Administrative Agent specified in Section
11.2 or such other office as may be specified from time to time by the
Administrative Agent as its funding office by written notice to the Borrower
Representative and the Lenders.
“GAAP”: generally accepted accounting principles in the United States as in
effect from time to time and set forth in any rule, regulation, opinion or
pronouncement of the Accounting Principles Board and the American Institute of
Certified Public Accountants and any rule, regulation, opinion or pronouncement
of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (or agencies with similar functions
of comparable stature and authority within the U.S. accounting profession),
which are applicable to the circumstances as of the date of determination.
“Governmental Authority”: any nation or government, any state or other political
subdivision thereof, any agency, authority, instrumentality, regulatory body,
court, central bank or other entity exercising executive, legislative, judicial,
taxing, regulatory or administrative functions of or pertaining to government
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Bank), any securities exchange, any self-regulatory organization (including the
National Association of Insurance Commissioners, the U.K. Financial Services
Authority and the Bermuda Monetary Authority).
“Group Members”: the collective reference to the Company and its Subsidiaries.
“Guarantee Obligation”: as to any Person (the “guarantor”), means any
obligation, including a reimbursement, counterindemnity or similar obligation,
of the guarantor that guarantees or in effect guarantees, or which is given to
induce the creation of a separate obligation by another Person (including any
bank under any letter of credit) that guarantees or in effect guarantees, any
Indebtedness of any other third Person (the “primary obligor”) in any manner,
whether directly or indirectly, including any obligation of the guarantor,
whether or not contingent, (i) to purchase any such Indebtedness or any property
constituting direct or indirect security therefor, (ii) to advance or supply
funds (1) for the purchase or payment of any such Indebtedness or (2) to
maintain working capital or equity capital of the primary obligor or otherwise
to maintain the net worth or solvency of the primary obligor so as to enable the
primary obligor to pay Indebtedness or other obligation, (iii) to purchase
property, securities or services primarily for the purpose of assuring the owner
of any such Indebtedness of the ability of the primary obligor to make payment
of such Indebtedness or (iv) otherwise to assure or hold harmless the owner of
any such Indebtedness against loss in respect thereof; provided, however, that
the term Guarantee Obligation shall not include (a) endorsements of instruments
for deposit or collection in the ordinary course of business or (b) obligations
of any Insurance Subsidiary under any Primary Policy, Reinsurance Agreement,
Retrocession Agreement or Other Insurance Product that is entered into in the
ordinary course of business. The amount of any Guarantee Obligation of any
guarantor shall be deemed to be the lower of (a) an amount equal to the stated
or determinable amount of the Indebtedness in respect of which such Guarantee
Obligation is made as such amount may be reduced from time to time and (b) the
maximum amount for which such guarantor may be liable pursuant to the terms of
the instrument embodying such Guarantee Obligation, as such amount may be
reduced from time to time unless such Indebtedness and the maximum amount for
which such guarantor may be liable are not stated or determinable, in which case
the amount of such Guarantee Obligation shall be such guarantor’s maximum
reasonably anticipated liability in respect thereof as determined by the Company
in good faith. The term “Guarantee” as a verb has a corresponding meaning.
“Hazardous Materials”: any substance, material or waste that is classified,
regulated or otherwise characterized under any Environmental Law as hazardous,
toxic, a contaminant or a pollutant or by other words of similar meaning or
regulatory effect, including petroleum or petroleum distillates, asbestos or
asbestos containing materials, polychlorinated biphenyls, radioactive
substances, and infectious or medical wastes.
“Hybrid Capital”: at any time, all subordinated securities, instruments or other
obligations issued by the Company to the extent that such securities,
instruments or other obligations (i) are accorded equity treatment by S&P at
issuance and (ii) mature no earlier than the date which is six months after the
Termination Date.
“ILS Entity”” means Silverton Re Ltd. and any other entity formed or sponsored
by a Group Member in connection with the establishment and/or management of
insurance-linked securities.
“Indebtedness”: of any Person at any date, without duplication, (a) all
indebtedness of such Person for borrowed money, (b) all obligations of such
Person for the deferred purchase price of property or services (other than
current trade payables incurred in the ordinary course of such Person’s
business), (c) all obligations of such Person evidenced by notes, bonds,
debentures, loan agreements or other similar debt instruments, (d) all
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with respect to property acquired by such Person (even though the rights and
remedies of the seller or lender under such agreement in the event of default
are limited to repossession or sale of such property), (e) all Capital Lease
Obligations of such Person, (f) all obligations of such Person, contingent or
otherwise, as an account party or applicant under or in respect of acceptances,
letters of credit, surety bonds or similar arrangements, (g) the liquidation
value of all mandatorily redeemable preferred Capital Stock of such Person, (h)
net obligations of such Person under any Swap Contract, (i) any other
instruments or obligations of such Person to the extent that such instruments or
obligations are then classified as indebtedness by S&P, (j) all Guarantee
Obligations of such Person in respect of obligations of the kind referred to in
clauses (a) through (i) above, (k) all obligations of the kind referred to in
clauses (a) through (j) above secured by any Lien on property (including
accounts and contract rights) owned by such Person, whether or not such Person
has assumed or become liable for the payment of such obligation and (l)
Indebtedness of any partnership in which such Person is a general partner to the
extent that applicable law requires that such Person is liable for such
Indebtedness unless the terms of such Indebtedness expressly provide that such
Person is not so liable. The amount of any net obligation under any Swap
Contract on any date shall be deemed to be the Swap Termination Value as of such
date. For the avoidance of doubt, Indebtedness shall not include the obligations
of any Insurance Subsidiary under any Primary Policy, Reinsurance Agreement,
Retrocession Agreement or Other Insurance Product which is entered into in the
ordinary course of business.
“Information”: as defined in Section 11.17.
“Insolvency”: with respect to any Multiemployer Plan, the condition that such
Plan is insolvent within the meaning of Section 4245 of ERISA.
“Insolvent”: pertaining to a condition of Insolvency.
“Insurance Subsidiary”: a Subsidiary of the Company engaged in the insurance
and/or reinsurance underwriting business.
“Interest Payment Date”: (a) as to any ABR Loan, the last Business Day of each
March, June, September and December to occur while such Loan is outstanding and
the Termination Date, (b) as to any Eurodollar Loan having an Interest Period of
three months or less, the last day of such Interest Period, (c) as to any
Eurodollar Loan having an Interest Period longer than three months, each day
that is three months, or a whole multiple thereof, after the first day of such
Interest Period and the last day of such Interest Period and (d) as to any Loan
(other than any Loan that is an ABR Loan), the date of any repayment or
prepayment made in respect thereof.
“Interest Period”: as to any Eurodollar Loan, (a) initially, the period
commencing on the borrowing or conversion date, as the case may be, with respect
to such Eurodollar Loan and ending one, two, three or six months thereafter, as
selected by the Borrower Representative in its notice of borrowing or notice of
conversion, as the case may be, given with respect thereto; and (b) thereafter,
each period commencing on the last day of the next preceding Interest Period
applicable to such Eurodollar Loan and ending one, two, three or six months
thereafter, as selected by the Borrower Representative by irrevocable notice to
the Administrative Agent not later than 11:00 A.M., New York City time, on the
date that is three Business Days prior to the last day of the then current
Interest Period with respect thereto; provided that, all of the foregoing
provisions relating to Interest Periods are subject to the following:
(i)    if any Interest Period would otherwise end on a day that is not a
Business Day, such Interest Period shall be extended to the next succeeding
Business Day unless the result of such extension would be to carry such Interest
Period into another calendar month in which event such Interest Period shall end
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(ii)    the Borrower Representative may not select an Interest Period that would
extend beyond the Termination Date; and
(iii)    any Interest Period that begins on the last Business Day of a calendar
month (or on a day for which there is no numerically corresponding day in the
calendar month at the end of such Interest Period) shall end on the last
Business Day of a calendar month.
“Interpolated Rate”: in relation to the LIBO Rate, the rate which results from
interpolating on a linear basis between:
(i)    the applicable LIBO Rate for the longest period (for which that LIBO Rate
is available) which is less than the Interest Period of that Loan; and
(ii)    the applicable LIBO Rate for the shortest period (for which that LIBO
Rate is available) which exceeds the Interest Period of that Loan,
each as of approximately 11:00 a.m. (London, England time) two Business Days
prior to the commencement of such Interest Period of that Loan.
“Issuing Lender”: any Lender (or any Affiliate thereof) that becomes an Issuing
Lender pursuant to Section 3.10, with respect to Letters of Credit issued by it.
“L/C Administrator”: Barclays Bank PLC, as letter of credit administrator for
the Lenders, together with any replacement L/C Administrator arising under
Section 9.9(c).
“L/C Issuer”: (a) with respect to a Fronted Letter of Credit, the Issuing Lender
and (b) with respect to a Several Letter of Credit, each Lender.
“L/C Obligations”: at any time, an amount equal to the sum of (a) the then
aggregate Secured L/C Obligations of all Borrowers and (b) the then aggregate
Unsecured L/C Obligations of all Borrowers. For purposes of determining the L/C
Obligations held by any Lender, a Lender shall be deemed to hold an amount equal
to the sum of (i) the aggregate amount of such Lender’s direct obligation in all
outstanding Several Letters of Credit and all Reimbursement Obligations owed to
such Lender in respect thereof, (ii) such Lender’s risk participation in all
outstanding Fronted Letters of Credit and in all Reimbursement Obligations with
respect thereto and (iii) such Lender’s risk participation in all outstanding
Several Letters of Credit, if any, with respect to which another Lender has
acted as Limited Fronting Lender on such Lender’s behalf pursuant to a Limited
Fronting Lender Agreement in accordance with Section 3.8(c) and in all
Reimbursement Obligations with respect thereto.
“L/C Participants”: the collective reference to all the Lenders other than the
applicable Issuing Lender.
“Lenders”: as defined in the preamble hereto.
“Letters of Credit”: as defined in Section 3.1(a).
“Lien”: any mortgage, pledge, hypothecation, assignment, encumbrance, lien
(statutory or other), charge or other security interest or any other security
agreement (including the interest of a vendor or lessor in any conditional sale
or other title retention agreement and any capital lease having substantially
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“Limited Fronting Lender”: as provided in Section 3.8(c), any Lender which is a
NAIC Approved Bank that agrees that it shall be an issuer with respect to any
Non-NAIC Approved Bank’s Commitment Percentage of Several Letters of Credit
outstanding and/or issued during the period that such Non-NAIC Approved Bank is
a Non-NAIC Approved Bank, in each case pursuant to a Limited Fronting Lender
Agreement.
“Limited Fronting Lender Agreement”: as defined in Section 3.8(c).
“Loan”: any loan made by any Lender pursuant to this Agreement.
“Loan Documents”: this Agreement, the Security Documents, the Notes, any fee
letter executed or delivered in connection herewith or therewith, any other
document or instrument signed by any Borrower that expressly provides that it is
a Loan Document as defined herein and any amendment, waiver, supplement or other
modification to any of the foregoing.
“Material Adverse Effect”: any event, development or circumstance that has had
or would reasonably be expected to have a material adverse effect on (a) the
business, assets, liabilities, property or condition (financial or otherwise) of
the Company and its Subsidiaries taken as a whole or (b) the validity or
enforceability of this Agreement or any of the other Loan Documents or the
rights or remedies of the Administrative Agent or the Lenders hereunder or
thereunder.
“Material Subsidiary”: at any time, (i) any Subsidiary (x) the total
consolidated assets or total consolidated revenues of which exceed 10% of the
total consolidated assets or total consolidated revenues, respectively, of the
Company and its Subsidiaries on a consolidated basis at the end of or for,
respectively, the then most recently completed fiscal quarter of the Company for
which financial statements shall have been made available to the Lenders as
described in Section 4.1 or pursuant to Section 6.1 and/or (y) the net assets of
which exceed $100,000,000 at the end of the then most recently completed fiscal
quarter of the Company for which financial statements shall have been made
available to the Lenders as described in Section 4.1 or pursuant to Section 6.1,
(ii) Aspen Specialty Insurance Company, (iii) Aspen U.S. Holdings, Inc. and (iv)
Aspen Underwriting Limited.
“Moody’s”: Moody’s Investors Service, Inc. and its successors.
“Multiemployer Plan”: a Plan that is a multiemployer plan as defined in Section
4001(a)(3) of ERISA.
“NAIC”: the National Association of Insurance Commissioners or any successor
thereto, or in the absence of the National Association of Insurance
Commissioners or such successor, any other association, agency or other
organization performing advisory, coordination or other like functions among
insurance departments, insurance commissioners and similar Governmental
Authorities of the various states of the United States toward the promotion of
uniformity in the practices of such Governmental Authorities.
“NAIC Approved Bank”: any Lender that is listed on the most current “Bank List”
of banks approved by the NAIC; provided that if such Lender is a Non-U.S.
Lender, such Lender is acting through the United States branch of such Lender
listed on such “Bank List”.
“Net Cash Proceeds”: in connection with any issuance or sale of Capital Stock by
the Company, the cash proceeds received from such issuance or sale, net of
attorneys’ fees and disbursements, investment banking fees and disbursements,
accountants’ fees and disbursements, underwriting fees, discounts and
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expected to be incurred) and other customary fees and expenses actually incurred
in connection therewith; provided, that Net Cash Proceeds shall not include the
proceeds of any issuance or sale of Capital Stock to the extent such proceeds
are used, within twelve months of such issuance or sale, to redeem shares of
Capital Stock of the Company then outstanding.
“New Lender”: any bank, financial institution or other entity that becomes a
“Lender” hereunder pursuant to Section 2.1(b).
“New Lender Supplement”: a supplement to this Agreement substantially in the
form of Exhibit K.
“Non-Excluded Taxes”: as defined in Section 2.13(a).
“Non-NAIC Approved Bank”: at any time, any Lender that is not a NAIC Approved
Bank.
“Non-U.S. Lender”: as defined in Section 2.13(e).
“Notes”: the collective reference to any promissory note evidencing Loans,
substantially in the form of Exhibit F or Exhibit G, as the case may be.
“Obligations”: the unpaid principal of and interest on (including interest
accruing after the maturity of the Loans and Reimbursement Obligations and
interest accruing after the filing of any petition in bankruptcy, or the
commencement of any insolvency, reorganization or like proceeding, relating to
any Borrower, whether or not a claim for post-filing or post-petition interest
is allowed in such proceeding) the Loans and all other obligations and
liabilities of any Borrower to the Administrative Agent, the Syndication Agent
and the Collateral Agent or to any Lender, whether direct or indirect, absolute
or contingent, due or to become due, or now existing or hereafter incurred,
which may arise under, out of, or in connection with, this Agreement (including
the obligations of the Company pursuant to Section 10), any other Loan Document,
the Letters of Credit or any other document made, delivered or given in
connection herewith or therewith, whether on account of principal, interest,
fees, reimbursement obligations, indemnities, costs, expenses or otherwise
(including all reasonable fees, charges and disbursements of counsel to the
Administrative Agent, the Syndication Agent, the Collateral Agent or to any
Lender that are required to be paid by the Borrowers pursuant hereto).
“OFAC”: as defined in Section 4.17.
“Other Insurance Product”: any specialty insurance or reinsurance product such
as contingency reinsurance and structured risks.
“Other Connection Taxes” means, with respect to any Recipient, Taxes imposed as
a result of a present or former connection between such Recipient and the
jurisdiction imposing such tax (other than connections arising from such
Recipient having executed, delivered, become a party to, performed its
obligations under, received payments under, received or perfected a security
interest under, engaged in any other transaction pursuant to or enforced any
Loan Document, or sold or assigned an interest in any Loan or Loan Document).
“Other Taxes”: any and all present or future stamp or documentary taxes or any
other excise or property taxes, charges or similar levies arising from any
payment made hereunder or from the execution, delivery or enforcement of, or
otherwise with respect to, this Agreement or any other Loan Document, including
any interest, additions to tax or penalties applicable thereto, except any such
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Connection Taxes imposed with respect to an assignment (other than an assignment
made pursuant to Section 2.16).
“Participant”: as defined in Section 11.6.
“Participant Register”: as defined in Section 11.6.
“Patriot Act”: the USA Patriot Act (Title III of Pub. L. 107-56 (signed into law
October 26, 2001)).
“PBGC”: the Pension Benefit Guaranty Corporation established pursuant to
Subtitle A of Title IV of ERISA (or any successor).
“Permitted Fund”: any money market fund that qualifies as an investment company
under the Investment Company Act of 1940 and (i) invests solely in securities
issued or guaranteed as to principal and interest by the U.S. government and
(ii) continues to be rated AAAm by S&P and Aaa-mf by Moody's.
“Person”: an individual, partnership, corporation, limited liability company,
business trust, joint stock company, trust, unincorporated association, joint
venture, Governmental Authority or other entity of whatever nature.
“Plan”: at a particular time, any employee benefit plan that is subject to ERISA
and in respect of which a Borrower, a Subsidiary or (with respect to an employee
benefit plan subject to Title IV of ERISA) a Commonly Controlled Entity is (or,
if such plan were terminated at such time, would under Section 4069 of ERISA be
deemed to be) an “employer” as defined in Section 3(5) of ERISA responsible for
contributing to or under or having any liability.
“Pounds Sterling” or “£”: the lawful money of the United Kingdom.
“Pricing Grid”: the table set forth on Annex A.
“Primary Policy”: any insurance policy issued by an Insurance Subsidiary.
“Prime Rate” : the rate of interest last quoted by The Wall Street Journal as
the “Prime Rate” in the United States or, if The Wall Street Journal ceases to
quote such rate, the highest per annum interest rate published by the Federal
Reserve Board in Federal Reserve Statistical Release H.15 (519) (Selected
Interest Rates) as the “bank prime loan” rate or, if such rate is no longer
quoted therein, any similar rate quoted therein (as determined by the
Administrative Agent) or any similar release by the Federal Reserve Board (as
determined by the Administrative Agent).
“Private Act”: separate legislation enacted in Bermuda with the intention that
such legislation applies specifically to a Borrower or a Subsidiary in whole or
in part.
“Projections”: as defined in Section 4.16.
“Properties”: as defined in Section 4.15(d).
“Process Agent”: as defined in Section 11.14.
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“Regulation U”: Regulation U of the Board as in effect from time to time.
“Reimbursement Obligation”: the obligation of the applicable Borrower to
reimburse the L/C Issuers pursuant to Section 3.5 for amounts drawn under
Letters of Credit.
“Reinsurance Agreement”: any agreement, contract, treaty, certificate or other
arrangement whereby any Insurance Subsidiary agrees to assume from or reinsure
an insurer or reinsurer for all or part of the liability of such insurer or
reinsurer under a policy or policies of insurance issued by such insurer or
reinsurer.
“Reportable Event”: any of the events set forth in Section 4043(c) of ERISA,
other than those events as to which the thirty day notice period is waived under
PBGC Reg. § 4043.
“Required Lenders”: at any time, the holders of more than 50% of the Total
Commitments then in effect or, if the Commitments have been terminated, the
Total Extensions of Credit then outstanding; provided that the Commitment of,
and the Extensions of Credit held or deemed held by, any Defaulting Lender shall
be excluded for purposes of making a determination of Required Lenders.
“Requirement of Law”: as to any Person, the Memorandum of Association or the
Certificate of Incorporation and By‑laws or other organizational or governing
documents of such Person, and any law, treaty, rule or regulation or
determination of an arbitrator or a court or other Governmental Authority, in
each case applicable to or binding upon such Person or any of its property or to
which such Person or any of its property is subject.
“Responsible Officer”: the chief executive officer, chief financial officer,
chief investment officer, chief risk officer, president or treasurer of a
Borrower.
“Restricted Payments”: as defined in Section 7.4.
“Retrocession Agreement”: any agreement, treaty, certificate or other
arrangement whereby any Insurance Subsidiary cedes to another insurer all or
part of such Insurance Subsidiary’s liability under a policy or policies of
insurance reinsured by such Insurance Subsidiary.
“S&P”: Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services and its successors.
“SEC”: the Securities and Exchange Commission, any successor thereto and any
analogous Governmental Authority.
“Secured L/C Obligations”: of any Borrower at any time, an amount equal to the
sum of (a) the then Dollar Amount of the aggregate then undrawn and unexpired
amount of the then outstanding Secured Letters of Credit issued on behalf of
such Borrower and (b) the then Dollar Amount of the aggregate amount of drawings
under Secured Letters of Credit issued on behalf of such Borrower that have not
then been reimbursed pursuant to Section 3.5.
“Secured Letter of Credit”: any Letter of Credit designated as a “Secured Letter
of Credit” by a Borrower in the Application therefor.
“Security Agreement”: the Security Agreement, dated as of October 20, 2010,
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of June 12, 2013, among the Borrowers and the Collateral Agent and the Second
Amendment to Security Agreement dated as of March 27, 2017 among the Borrowers
and the Collateral Agent.
“Security Documents”: (i) the Security Agreement, (ii) each Collateral Account
Control Agreement, and (iii) each other document, agreement, certificate and/or
financing statement, executed, delivered, made or filed pursuant to the terms of
the documents specified in foregoing clauses (i) and (ii).
“Several Letter of Credit”: a Letter of Credit issued severally by or on behalf
of the Lenders pursuant to which the Lenders are severally liable to the
beneficiary which shall be substantially in the form of Exhibit L or in such
other form as may be agreed by the Company and the L/C Administrator.
“Single Employer Plan”: any Plan that is subject to Title IV of ERISA, Section
412 of the Code or Section 302 of ERISA but that is not a Multiemployer Plan.
“Spot Selling Rate”: on any date, as determined by the Administrative Agent, the
spot selling rate posted by Reuters on its website for the sale of the
applicable currency for dollars at approximately 11:00 a.m., New York City time,
two Business Days prior to such date (the “Applicable Quotation Date”); provided
that if, for any reason, no such spot rate is being quoted, the spot selling
rate shall be determined by reference to such publicly available service for
displaying exchange rates as may be reasonably selected by the Administrative
Agent, or, in the event no such service is selected, such spot selling rate
shall instead be the rate determined by the Administrative Agent as the spot
rate of exchange in the market where its foreign currency exchange operations in
respect of the applicable currency are then being conducted, at or about 11.00
a.m., New York City time, on the Applicable Quotation Date for the purchase of
the relevant currency for delivery two Business Days later.
“Subsidiary”: as to any Person, a corporation, partnership, limited liability
company or other entity of which shares of stock or other ownership interests
having ordinary voting power (other than stock or such other ownership interests
having such power only by reason of the happening of a contingency) to elect a
majority of the board of directors or other managers of such corporation,
partnership or other entity are at the time owned by such Person; provided that
for purposes of this Agreement, no ILS Entity shall be considered a Subsidiary
of the Company or any other Group Member. Unless otherwise qualified, all
references to a “Subsidiary” or to “Subsidiaries” in this Agreement shall refer
to a Subsidiary or Subsidiaries of the Company.
“Subsidiary Borrower”: each Material Subsidiary of the Company whose name is set
out in the signature pages hereto and each Material Subsidiary of the Company
that shall become a Borrower under this Agreement upon satisfaction of the
conditions precedent set forth in Section 5.3; provided, however, that if at any
time the Company shall, in accordance with Section 11.1, be released from its
obligations under Section 10 with respect to any Subsidiary which is, prior to
such release, a Subsidiary Borrower, such Subsidiary, after such release, shall
cease to be a Subsidiary Borrower.
“Swap Contract”: (a) any and all rate swap transactions, basis swaps, credit
derivative transactions, forward rate transactions, commodity swaps, commodity
options, forward commodity contracts, equity or equity index swaps or options,
bond or bond price or bond index swaps or options or forward bond or forward
bond price or forward bond index transactions, interest rate options, forward
foreign exchange transactions, cap transactions, floor transactions, collar
transactions, currency swap transactions, cross-currency rate swap transactions,
currency options, spot contracts, or any other similar transactions or any
combination of any of the foregoing (including any options to enter into any of
the foregoing), whether or not any such transaction is governed by or subject to
any master agreement, and (b) any and all transactions of any kind, and the
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any form of master agreement published by the International Swaps and
Derivatives Association, Inc., any International Foreign Exchange Master
Agreement, or any other master agreement (any such master agreement, together
with any related schedules, a “Master Agreement”), including any such
obligations or liabilities under any Master Agreement.
“Swap Termination Value”: in respect of any one or more Swap Contracts, after
taking into account the effect of any legally enforceable netting agreement
relating to such Swap Contracts, (a) for any date on or after the date such Swap
Contracts have been closed out and termination value(s) determined in accordance
therewith, such termination value(s), and (b) for any date prior to the date
referenced in clause (a), the amount(s) determined as the mark-to-market
value(s) for such Swap Contracts, as determined based upon one or more
mid-market or other readily available quotations provided by any recognized
dealer in such Swap Contracts (which may include a Lender or any Affiliate of a
Lender).
“Syndication Agent”: as defined in the preamble hereto.
“Taxes” means all present or future taxes, levies, imposts, duties, deductions,
withholdings (including backup withholding), assessments, fees or other charges
imposed by any Governmental Authority, including any interest, additions to tax
or penalties applicable thereto.
“Termination Date”: March 27, 2022.
“Total Commitments”: at any time, the aggregate amount of the Commitments then
in effect.
“Total Extensions of Credit”: at any time, the aggregate amount of the
Extensions of Credit of the Lenders outstanding at such time.
“Transferee”: any Assignee or Participant.
“Type”: as to any Loan, its nature as an ABR Loan or a Eurodollar Loan.
“United States”: the United States of America.
“Unsecured L/C Obligations”: of any Borrower at any time, an amount equal to the
sum of (a) the then Dollar Amount of the aggregate then undrawn and unexpired
amount of the then outstanding Unsecured Letters of Credit issued on behalf of
such Borrower and (b) the then Dollar Amount of the aggregate amount of drawings
under Unsecured Letters of Credit issued on behalf of such Borrower that have
not then been reimbursed pursuant to Section 3.5.
“Unsecured Letter of Credit”: any Letter of Credit that is not a Secured Letter
of Credit.
“Wholly Owned Subsidiary”: of any Person, any Subsidiary of such Person to the
extent all of the Capital Stock of such Subsidiary, other than directors’ or
nominees’ qualifying shares, is owned directly or indirectly by such Person.
“Withholding Agent”: any Borrower and the Administrative Agent.
“Write-Down and Conversion Powers”: with respect to any EEA Resolution
Authority, the write-down and conversion powers of such EEA Resolution Authority
from time to time under the Bail-In Legislation for the applicable EEA Member
Country, which write-down and conversion powers are described in the EU Bail-In
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1.2    Other Definitional Provisions.
(a)    Unless otherwise specified therein, all terms defined in this Agreement
shall have the defined meanings when used in the other Loan Documents or any
certificate or other document made or delivered pursuant hereto or thereto.
(b)    As used herein and in the other Loan Documents, and any certificate or
other document made or delivered pursuant hereto or thereto, (i) accounting
terms relating to any Group Member not defined in Section 1.1 and accounting
terms partly defined in Section 1.1, to the extent not defined, shall have the
respective meanings given to them under GAAP (provided that all terms of an
accounting or financial nature used herein shall be construed, and all
computations of amounts and ratios referred to herein shall be made, without
giving effect to (A) any election under Accounting Standards Codification
825-10-25 (previously referred to as Statement of Financial Accounting Standards
159) (or any other Accounting Standards Codification or Financial Accounting
Standard having a similar result or effect) to value any Indebtedness or other
liabilities of the Company or any Subsidiary at “fair value”, as defined
therein, (B) any treatment of Indebtedness in respect of convertible debt
instruments under Accounting Standards Codification 470-20 (or any other
Accounting Standards Codification or Financial Accounting Standard having a
similar result or effect) to value any such Indebtedness in a reduced or
bifurcated manner as described therein, and such Indebtedness shall at all times
be valued at the full stated principal amount thereof) and (C) any change to
lease accounting rules from those in effect on the date hereof pursuant to
Accounting Standards Codification 840 and other lease accounting guidance in
effect on the date hereof, (ii) the words “include”, “includes” and “including”
shall be deemed to be followed by the phrase “without limitation”, (iii) the
word “incur” shall be construed to mean incur, create, issue, assume or become
liable in respect of (and the words “incurred” and “incurrence” shall have
correlative meanings), (iv) “consolidated” means, when used with reference to
financial statements or financial statement items of a Person, such statements
or items on a consolidated basis in accordance with applicable principles of
consolidation under GAAP, (v) the words “asset” and “property” shall be
construed to have the same meaning and effect and to refer to any and all
tangible and intangible assets and properties, including cash, Capital Stock,
securities, revenues, accounts, leasehold interests and contract rights, (vi)
references to agreements or other Contractual Obligations shall, unless
otherwise specified, be deemed to refer to such agreements or Contractual
Obligations as amended, supplemented, restated or otherwise modified from time
to time and (vii) references to statutes or regulations shall, unless otherwise
specified, be deemed to include all statutory and regulatory provisions
amending, replacing, supplementing or interpreting such statutes or regulations.
(c)    The words “hereof”, “herein” and “hereunder” and words of similar import,
when used in this Agreement, shall refer to this Agreement as a whole and not to
any particular provision of this Agreement, and Section, Schedule and Exhibit
references are to this Agreement unless otherwise specified.
(d)    The meanings given to terms defined herein shall be equally applicable to
both the singular and plural forms of such terms.
1.3    Exchange Rates. For purposes of calculating (a) the aggregate Dollar
Equivalent of Letters of Credit denominated in Pounds Sterling and of
unreimbursed drawings under Letters of Credit denominated in Pounds Sterling
outstanding at any time during any period and (b) the Dollar Equivalent of any
Letters of Credit denominated in Pounds Sterling at the time of the issuance of
such Letter of Credit pursuant to Section 3.1, the Administrative Agent will on
the first Business Day of each calendar quarter and at such other times as it in
its sole discretion determines to be appropriate to do so (including on or prior
to the date of any borrowing or issuance of a Letter of Credit), determine the
respective rate of exchange into Dollars of Pounds Sterling (which rate of
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the date of such determination). Such rates of exchange so determined on each
such determination date shall, for purposes of the calculations described in the
preceding sentence, be deemed to remain unchanged and in effect until the next
such determination date.
1.4    Changes in GAAP. If at any time any change in GAAP would affect the
computation of any financial ratio or requirement set forth in any Loan
Document, and either the Company or the Required Lenders shall so request, the
Administrative Agent, the Lenders and the Company shall negotiate in good faith
to amend such ratio or requirement to preserve the original intent thereof in
light of such change in GAAP (subject to such approvals required under Section
11.1); provided that, until so amended, (a) such ratio or requirement shall
continue to be computed in accordance with GAAP prior to such change therein and
(b) the Company shall provide to the Administrative Agent and each Lender
financial statements and other documents required under this Agreement or as
reasonably requested hereunder setting forth a reconciliation between
calculations of such ratio or requirement made before and after giving effect to
such change in GAAP.
SECTION 2      AMOUNT AND TERMS OF COMMITMENTS

2.1    Revolving Commitments. Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, each
Lender severally agrees to make Loans to the Borrowers from time to time during
the Commitment Period in an aggregate principal amount at any one time
outstanding, when added to such Lender’s Commitment Percentage of the L/C
Obligations then outstanding, which does not exceed the amount of such Lender’s
Commitment. During the Commitment Period, the Borrowers may use the Commitments
by borrowing, prepaying the Loans in whole or in part and reborrowing, all in
accordance with the terms and conditions hereof. The Loans may from time to time
be Eurodollar Loans or ABR Loans, as determined by the Borrowers and notified to
the Administrative Agent in accordance with Sections 2.2 and 2.6.
(a)    From time to time during the Commitment Period, upon written notice by
the Borrower Representative to the Administrative Agent, with the prior written
consents of the Administrative Agent (which consent shall be in its sole
discretion and shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed) and the then
Issuing Lenders (which consents shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed),
(i) any one or more existing Lenders may agree that such existing Lender or
Lenders shall increase the amount of their Commitment or Commitments by
executing and delivering to the Borrower Representative and the Administrative
Agent a Commitment Increase Supplement or Commitment Increase Supplements, as
the case may be, and/or (ii) any one or more New Lenders may from time to time
during the Commitment Period agree that such New Lender or New Lenders shall
establish a new Commitment or Commitments by executing and delivering to the
Borrower Representative and the Administrative Agent a New Lender Supplement or
New Lender Supplements, as the case may be, provided that each New Lender shall
(A) be a NAIC Approved Bank or (B) shall have in effect a Limited Fronting
Lender Agreement with a Lender which is a NAIC Approved Bank. From and after the
effective date specified in each New Lender Supplement, the New Lender
thereunder shall become a Lender with a Commitment in the amount set forth in
such New Lender Supplement and shall have the rights and obligations of a Lender
under this Agreement for all purposes and to the same extent as if originally a
party hereto. Each New Lender shall deliver to the Administrative Agent an
administrative questionnaire. Notwithstanding anything contained in this
paragraph to the contrary, without the consent of (x) the Required Lenders, the
aggregate amount of incremental Commitments established or increased after the
Closing Date pursuant to this paragraph shall not exceed $100,000,000 and (y)
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shall be in a minimum aggregate amount of $10,000,000. No existing Lender shall
have any obligation under this Agreement to enter into a Commitment Increase
Supplement.
(b)    Upon its receipt of (i) a duly executed Commitment Increase Supplement or
a New Lender Supplement, (ii) a certificate of each Borrower attaching the
resolutions of the board of directors of such Borrower authorizing the increase
in the Commitments in an amount equal to or greater than the amount of such
increase in the Commitments effected thereby (except to the extent resolutions
authorizing the increased amount have previously been delivered by such
Borrower), and (iii) each written consent thereto required by paragraph (b) of
this Section, the Administrative Agent shall accept such Commitment Increase or
New Lender Supplement, as the case may be, and record the information contained
therein in the Register.
(c)    Unless otherwise agreed to by the Administrative Agent and the Company
(which agreement may include (i) a phase-in of the applicable increase and/or
(ii) if agreed to by each Lender, Interest Periods having terms other than as
set forth herein ), on each date upon which the Total Commitments shall be
increased pursuant to this Section, to the extent necessary to rebalance the
outstanding Loans pro rata among the Lenders (including any New Lenders)
pursuant to their modified Aggregate Exposure Percentages, the Borrowers (i)
shall prepay outstanding Loans, if any, which prepayment shall be accompanied by
payment of all accrued interest on the amount prepaid and any amounts payable
pursuant to Section 2.14 in connection therewith, and (ii) to the extent they
determine to do so, reborrow such Loans from the Lenders (including any New
Lenders) after giving effect to the new and/or increased Commitments becoming
effective on such date, in the case of each of clauses (i) and (ii) above such
that, after giving effect thereto, the Loans (including the Types thereof and
Interest Periods with respect thereto) shall be held by the Lenders (including
for such purposes the New Lenders) pro rata according to their respective
Aggregate Exposure Percentages. Any prepayment and reborrowing pursuant to the
preceding sentence shall be effected, to the maximum extent practicable, through
the netting of amounts payable between the Borrowers and the respective Lenders.
(d)    On the Termination Date, each Borrower shall repay all then outstanding
Loans made by the Lenders to such Borrower.
2.2    Procedure for Borrowing. Any Borrower may borrow during the Commitment
Period on any Business Day, provided that the Borrower Representative shall give
the Administrative Agent irrevocable notice (which notice must be received by
the Administrative Agent prior to 11:00 A.M., New York City time, (a) three
Business Days prior to the requested Borrowing Date, in the case of Eurodollar
Loans, or (b) on the requested Borrowing Date, in the case of ABR Loans)
substantially in the form of Exhibit M, specifying (i) the amount and Type of
Loans to be borrowed, (ii) the requested Borrowing Date, (iii) in the case of
Eurodollar Loans, the respective length of the initial Interest Period therefor
and (iv) the name of the applicable Borrower. Any Loans made on the Closing Date
shall initially be ABR Loans. Each borrowing shall be in an amount equal to (x)
in the case of ABR Loans, $5,000,000 or a whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess
thereof (or, if the then aggregate Available Commitments are less than
$5,000,000, such lesser amount) and (y) in the case of Eurodollar Loans,
$5,000,000 or a whole multiple of $1,000,000 in excess thereof. Upon receipt of
any such notice from the Borrower Representative, the Administrative Agent shall
promptly notify each Lender thereof. Each Lender will make the amount of its pro
rata share of each borrowing available to the Administrative Agent for the
account of the applicable Borrower at the Funding Office prior to 2:00 P.M., New
York City time, on the Borrowing Date requested by the Borrower Representative
in funds immediately available to the Administrative Agent. Such borrowing will
then be made available to the Borrower Representative by the Administrative
Agent crediting the account of the Borrower Representative on the books of such
office with the aggregate of the amounts made available to the Administrative
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Lender may, at its option, make any Loan available to any Foreign Borrower by
causing any foreign or domestic branch or Affiliate of such Lender to make such
Loan; provided that any exercise of such option shall not affect the obligation
of such Foreign Borrower to repay such Loan in accordance with the terms of this
Agreement.
2.3    Fees. The Company agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent for the
account of each Lender which has a then effective Commitment a commitment fee (a
“Commitment Fee”) for the period from and including the date hereof to the last
day upon which such Lender’s Commitment shall have terminated, computed at the
Commitment Fee Rate on the average daily amount of the Available Commitment of
such Lender during the period for which payment is made, payable quarterly in
arrears on each Fee Payment Date, commencing on the first such date to occur
after the date hereof.
(a)    The Company agrees to pay to the Administrative Agent and the Syndication
Agent the fees in the amounts and on the dates as set forth in any fee
agreements with the Administrative Agent and/or the Syndication Agent and to
perform any other obligations contained therein.
(b)    The Company agrees to pay or reimburse the Collateral Agent for such
normal and customary costs and expenses as are incurred or charged by the
Collateral Agent in maintaining and administering the Collateral and otherwise
performing its obligations under the Loan Documents.
2.4    Termination or Reduction of Commitments The Borrower Representative shall
have the right, upon not less than five Business Days’ notice to the
Administrative Agent, to terminate the Commitments or, from time to time, to
reduce the amount of the Commitments; provided that no such termination or
reduction of Commitments shall be permitted if, after giving effect thereto and
to any prepayments of the Loans made on the effective date thereof, the Total
Extensions of Credit would exceed the Total Commitments. Any such reduction
shall be in an amount equal to $5,000,000, or a whole multiple thereof, and
shall reduce permanently the Commitments then in effect (it being understood
that any partial reduction of the Commitments shall not affect the Borrower
Representative’s ability to exercise the unutilized portion of the increase
option set forth in Section 2.1(b)).
2.5    Optional and Mandatory Prepayments. Each Borrower may at any time and
from time to time prepay the Loans made by the Lenders to such Borrower, in
whole or in part, without premium or penalty, upon irrevocable notice
substantially in the form of Exhibit N delivered by the Borrower Representative
to the Administrative Agent no later than 11:00 A.M., New York City time, three
Business Days prior thereto, in the case of Eurodollar Loans, and no later than
11:00 A.M., New York City time, on the requested prepayment date, in the case of
ABR Loans, which notice shall specify the date and amount of prepayment, the
name of the applicable Borrower and whether the prepayment is of Eurodollar
Loans or ABR Loans; provided, that if a Eurodollar Loan is prepaid on any day
other than the last day of the Interest Period applicable thereto, such Borrower
shall also pay any amounts owing pursuant to Section 2.14. Upon receipt of any
such notice the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each relevant Lender
thereof. If any such notice is given, the amount specified in such notice shall
be due and payable on the date specified therein, together with (except in the
case of Loans that are ABR Loans) accrued interest to such date on the amount
prepaid. Partial prepayments of ABR Loans and Eurodollar Loans for all Borrowers
shall be in an aggregate principal amount of $5,000,000 or a whole multiple of
$1,000,000 in excess thereof (or, in the case of ABR Loans, the entire principal
amount thereof).
(a)    If, on any date, the aggregate Secured L/C Obligations of any Borrower
exceed the Borrowing Base of such Borrower on such date, such Borrower (or the
Borrower Representative) shall within five Business Days of such date pay or
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Agreement and the applicable Collateral Account Control Agreement, an amount of
cash and/or Eligible Securities sufficient to cause the Borrowing Base of such
Borrower to be at least equal to the aggregate Secured L/C Obligations of such
Borrower. If such payment or delivery is not made, the applicable Borrower shall
pay the fee applicable to Unsecured Letters of Credit, rather than the fee
applicable to Secured Letters of Credit, pursuant to Section 3.3(a) with respect
to the portion of such Secured L/C Obligations that is more than the Borrowing
Base until such time as the Borrowing Base of such Borrower is at least equal to
the aggregate Secured L/C Obligations of such Borrower; provided that, if a
portion, but not all, of the Secured L/C Obligations with respect to a Secured
Letter of Credit would be subject to the fee applicable to Unsecured Letters of
Credit pursuant to the preceding clause of this sentence, such Secured Letter of
Credit will be subject to the fee applicable to Unsecured Letters of Credit.
(b)    If, on any date, the Total Extensions of Credit outstanding on such date
exceed 102% of the Total Commitments in effect on such date, the Borrowers
shall, upon demand by the Administrative Agent, promptly (but in any event,
within three Business Days of the date of the Company’s receipt of such demand
from the Administrative Agent) prepay any then outstanding Loans and/or cash
collateralize to the satisfaction of the Administrative Agent any then
outstanding Letters of Credit in an aggregate principal and/or face amount such
that, after giving effect thereto and treating such cash collateralized Letters
of Credit as being not then outstanding, the Total Extensions of Credit do not
exceed the Total Commitments. Any prepayment of a Eurodollar Loan pursuant to
this Section 2.5(c) shall be accompanied by interest accrued and unpaid to the
date of such prepayment on the principal so prepaid and, if such prepayment is
made on a day other than the last day of an Interest Period applicable to such
Eurodollar Loan, the applicable Borrower shall also pay any amounts owing
pursuant to Section 2.14.
2.6    Conversion and Continuation Options. The Borrower Representative may
elect from time to time to convert Eurodollar Loans to ABR Loans by giving the
Administrative Agent prior irrevocable notice of such election substantially in
the form of Exhibit H no later than 10:00 A.M., New York City time three
Business Days prior to the proposed conversion date; provided that any such
conversion of Eurodollar Loans may only be made on the last day of an Interest
Period with respect thereto. The Borrower Representative may elect from time to
time to convert ABR Loans to Eurodollar Loans by giving the Administrative Agent
prior irrevocable notice of such election no later than 11:00 A.M., New York
City time, on the third Business Day preceding the proposed conversion date
(which notice shall specify the length of the initial Interest Period therefor);
provided that no ABR Loan may be converted into a Eurodollar Loan when any Event
of Default or Default has occurred and is continuing and the Administrative
Agent or the Required Lenders have determined in its or their sole discretion
not to permit such conversions. Upon receipt of any such notice the
Administrative Agent shall promptly notify each relevant Lender thereof.
(a)    Any Eurodollar Loan may be continued as such upon the expiration of the
then current Interest Period with respect thereto by the Borrower Representative
giving irrevocable notice to the Administrative Agent, substantially in the form
of Exhibit H hereto in accordance with the applicable provisions of the term
“Interest Period” set forth in Section 1.1, of the length of the next Interest
Period to be applicable to such Loan; provided that no Eurodollar Loan may be
continued as such when any Event of Default or Default has occurred and is
continuing and the Administrative Agent has or the Required Lenders have
determined in its or their sole discretion not to permit such continuations, and
provided, further, that if the Borrower Representative shall fail to give any
required notice as described above in this Section 2.6 or if such continuation
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converted to an ABR Loan on the last day of such then expiring Interest Period.
Upon receipt of any such notice, the Administrative Agent shall promptly notify
each relevant Lender thereof.
2.7    Limitations on Eurodollar Tranches. Notwithstanding anything to the
contrary in this Agreement, all borrowings, conversions and continuations of
Eurodollar Loans and all selections of Interest Periods shall be in such amounts
and be made pursuant to such elections so that, (a) after giving effect thereto,
the aggregate principal amount of the Eurodollar Loans comprising each
Eurodollar Tranche shall be equal to $5,000,000 or a whole multiple of
$1,000,000 in excess thereof and (b) no more than twenty Eurodollar Tranches
shall be outstanding at any one time.
2.8    Interest Rates and Payment Dates.      Each Eurodollar Loan shall bear
interest for each day during each Interest Period with respect thereto at a rate
per annum equal to the Eurodollar Rate determined for such day plus the
Applicable Margin.
(a)    Each ABR Loan shall bear interest at a rate per annum equal to the ABR
plus the Applicable Margin.
(b)    (i) If an Event of Default under Section 8(a) or Section 8(f) shall have
occurred and be continuing or upon the request of the Required Lenders if any
other Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing, the principal
amount of all Loans shall bear interest at a rate per annum equal to the rate
that would otherwise be applicable thereto pursuant to the foregoing provisions
of this Section plus 2% and (ii) if all or a portion of any interest payable on
any Loan or any Commitment Fee or other amount payable hereunder shall not be
paid when due (whether at the stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise),
such overdue amount shall bear interest at a rate per annum equal to the rate
then applicable to ABR Loans plus 2%, in each case as described in this clause
(ii), from the date of such non‑payment until such amount is paid in full (as
well after as before judgment).
(c)    Interest shall be payable in arrears on each Interest Payment Date;
provided that interest accruing pursuant to paragraph (c)(ii) of this Section
shall be payable from time to time on demand.
2.9    Computation of Interest and Fees. Interest and fees payable pursuant
hereto shall be calculated on the basis of a 360-day year for the actual days
elapsed, except that, with respect to ABR Loans the rate of interest on which is
calculated on the basis of the Prime Rate, the interest thereon shall be
calculated on the basis of a 365- (or 366, as the case may be) day year for the
actual days elapsed. The Administrative Agent shall as soon as practicable
notify the Company and the relevant Lenders of each determination of a
Eurodollar Rate. Any change in the interest rate on a Loan resulting from a
change in the ABR or the Eurodollar Rate (pursuant to Section 2.12) shall become
effective as of the opening of business on the day on which such change becomes
effective. The Administrative Agent shall as soon as practicable notify the
Company and the relevant Lenders of the effective date and the amount of each
such change in interest rate. Each determination of an interest rate by the
Administrative Agent pursuant to any provision of this Agreement shall be
conclusive and binding on each Borrower and the Lenders in the absence of
manifest error. The Administrative Agent shall deliver to the Company a
statement showing the quotations used by the Administrative Agent in determining
any interest rate pursuant to Section 2.8(a).
2.10    Inability to Determine Interest Rate. If prior to the first day of any
Interest Period:
(a)    the Administrative Agent shall have determined (which determination shall
be conclusive and binding upon each Borrower absent manifest error) that, by
reason of circumstances affecting the relevant market, adequate and reasonable
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(b)    the Administrative Agent shall have received notice from the Required
Lenders that the Eurodollar Rate determined or to be determined for such
Interest Period will not adequately and fairly reflect the cost to such Lenders
(as conclusively certified by such Lenders) of making or maintaining their
affected Loans during such Interest Period,
the Administrative Agent shall give electronic or telephonic notice thereof to
the Company and the relevant Lenders as soon as practicable thereafter. Upon
receipt of such notice, the Borrower Representative may revoke any notice of
borrowing, conversion or continuation then submitted by it. If the Borrower
Representative does not revoke such notice, then (x) any Eurodollar Loans
requested to be made on the first day of such Interest Period shall be made as
ABR Loans, (y) any Loans that were to have been converted on the first day of
such Interest Period to Eurodollar Loans shall be continued as ABR Loans and (z)
any outstanding Eurodollar Loans shall be converted, on the last day of the
then-current Interest Period, to ABR Loans. Until such notice has been withdrawn
by the Administrative Agent, no further Eurodollar Loans shall be made or
continued as such, nor shall the Borrower Representative have the right to
convert ABR Loans to Eurodollar Loans.
2.11    Pro Rata Treatment and Payments.      Each borrowing by any Borrower
from the Lenders hereunder and any reduction of the Commitments of the Lenders
shall be made pro rata according to the Lenders’ respective Commitments, and
each payment by any Borrower on account of any Commitment Fee shall be
distributed by the Administrative Agent pro rata to each Lender according to the
respective amounts thereof owing pursuant to Section 2.3(a).
(a)    Each payment (including each prepayment) by any Borrower on account of
principal of and interest on the Loans made to it shall be made pro rata
according to the respective outstanding principal amounts of such Loans then
held by the Lenders.
(b)    All payments (including prepayments) to be made by any Borrower
hereunder, whether on account of principal, interest, fees or otherwise, shall
be made without setoff or counterclaim and shall be made prior to 12:00 Noon,
New York City time, on the due date thereof to the Administrative Agent, for the
account of the Lenders, at the Funding Office, in the currency required
hereunder and in immediately available funds. The Administrative Agent shall
distribute such payments to the Lenders promptly upon receipt in like funds as
received. If any payment hereunder (other than payments on the Eurodollar Loans)
becomes due and payable on a day other than a Business Day, such payment shall
be extended to the next succeeding Business Day. If any payment on a Eurodollar
Loan becomes due and payable on a day other than a Business Day, the maturity
thereof shall be extended to the next succeeding Business Day unless the result
of such extension would be to extend such payment into another calendar month,
in which event such payment shall be made on the immediately preceding Business
Day. In the case of any extension of any payment of principal pursuant to the
preceding two sentences, interest thereon shall be payable at the then
applicable rate during such extension.
(c)    Unless the Administrative Agent shall have been notified in writing by
any Lender prior to a borrowing that such Lender will not make the amount that
would constitute its share of such borrowing available to the Administrative
Agent, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Lender is making such
amount available to the Administrative Agent, and the Administrative Agent may,
in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the Borrowers a
corresponding amount. If such amount is not made available to the Administrative
Agent by the required time on the Borrowing Date therefor, such Lender shall pay
to the Administrative Agent, on demand, such amount with interest thereon, at a
rate equal to the greater of (i) the Federal Funds Effective Rate and (ii) a
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such amount immediately available to the Administrative Agent. A certificate of
the Administrative Agent submitted to any Lender with respect to any amounts
owing under this paragraph shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error.
If such Lender’s share of such borrowing is not made available to the
Administrative Agent by such Lender within three Business Days after such
Borrowing Date, the Administrative Agent shall also be entitled to recover such
amount with interest thereon at the rate per annum applicable to ABR Loans, on
demand, from the Borrowers.
(d)    Unless the Administrative Agent shall have been notified in writing by
the Borrower Representative prior to the date of any payment due to be made by
any Borrower hereunder that such Borrower will not make such payment to the
Administrative Agent, the Administrative Agent may assume that such Borrower is
making such payment, and the Administrative Agent may, but shall not be required
to, in reliance upon such assumption, make available to the Lenders their
respective pro rata shares of a corresponding amount. If such payment is not
made to the Administrative Agent by such Borrower within three Business Days
after such due date, the Administrative Agent shall be entitled to recover, on
demand, from each Lender to which any amount which was made available pursuant
to the preceding sentence, such amount with interest thereon at the rate per
annum equal to the daily average Federal Funds Effective Rate. Nothing herein
shall be deemed to limit the rights of the Administrative Agent or any Lender
against such Borrower.
2.12    Requirements of Law; Eurocurrency Liabilities. If the adoption of or any
change in any Requirement of Law or in the interpretation or application thereof
or compliance by any Lender with any request or directive (whether or not having
the force of law) from any central bank or other Governmental Authority, in each
case made subsequent to the date hereof:
(i)    shall subject any Lender, any Issuing Lender or the Administrative Agent
to any tax of any kind whatsoever with respect to this Agreement, any Letter of
Credit, any Application or any Eurodollar Loan made by it, or change the basis
of taxation of payments to such Lender or Issuing Lender in respect thereof
(except for (i) taxes described in clauses (c) through (e) of the definition of
Excluded Taxes, (ii) Non-Excluded Taxes and (iii) Connection Income Taxes);
(ii)    shall impose, modify or hold applicable any reserve, special deposit,
compulsory loan or similar requirement against assets held by, deposits or other
liabilities in or for the account of, advances, loans or other extensions of
credit by, or any other acquisition of funds by, any office of such Lender that
is not otherwise included in the determination of the Eurodollar Rate; or
(iii)    shall impose on such Lender or the London interbank market any other
condition affecting this Agreement or such Lender’s Loan;
and the result of any of the foregoing is to increase the cost to such Lender
(or, in the case of clause (i) above, to such Lender, Issuing Lender or the
Administrative Agent), by an amount that such Lender (or, in the case of clause
(i) above, such Lender, Issuing Lender or the Administrative Agent) deems to be
material, of making, converting into, continuing or maintaining Eurodollar Loans
(or of its obligation to make any such Eurodollar Loan or to participate in any
Letter of Credit), or to reduce any amount receivable hereunder in respect
thereof, then, in any such case, the Borrower to which such Loans were made
shall pay such Lender (or, in the case of clause (i) above, such Lender, Issuing
Lender or the Administrative Agent) any additional amounts necessary to
compensate such Lender (or, in the case of clause (i) above, such Lender,
Issuing Lender or the Administrative Agent) for such increased cost or reduced
amount receivable. If any Lender, any Issuing Lender or the Administrative Agent
becomes entitled to claim any additional amounts pursuant to this paragraph, it
shall promptly notify the Company (with a copy to the Administrative Agent) of
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(b)    If any Lender shall have determined that the adoption of or any change in
any Requirement of Law regarding capital adequacy or liquidity requirements or
in the interpretation or application thereof or compliance by such Lender or any
corporation controlling such Lender with any request or directive regarding
capital adequacy or liquidity requirements (whether or not having the force of
law) from any Governmental Authority, in each case made subsequent to the date
hereof shall have the effect of reducing the rate of return on such Lender’s or
such corporation’s capital as a consequence of its obligations hereunder or
under or in respect of any Letter of Credit to a level below that which such
Lender or such corporation could have achieved but for such adoption, change or
compliance (taking into consideration such Lender’s or such corporation’s
policies with respect to capital adequacy or liquidity requirements) by an
amount deemed by such Lender to be material, then from time to time, after
submission by such Lender to the Company (with a copy to the Administrative
Agent) of a written request therefor, the Company shall pay to such Lender such
additional amount or amounts as will compensate such Lender or such corporation
for such reduction.
(c)    Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, (i) all requests, rules,
guidelines, requirements and directives promulgated by the Bank for
International Settlements, the Basel Committee on Banking Supervision (or any
successor or similar authority) or by United States or foreign regulatory
authorities, in each case pursuant to Basel III, and (ii) the Dodd-Frank Wall
Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act and all requests, rules, guidelines,
requirements and directives thereunder or issued in connection therewith or in
implementation thereof, shall in each case be deemed to be a change in law,
regardless of the date enacted, adopted, issued or implemented.
(d)    The Company agrees to pay to each Lender, for any period that such Lender
is required by applicable law, rule or regulation, or any guideline, request or
directive of any Governmental Authority (whether or not having the force of
law), to maintain reserves with respect to liabilities or assets consisting of
or including Eurocurrency funds or deposits (currently known as “Eurocurrency
liabilities”), additional interest on the unpaid principal amount of each
Eurodollar Loan (and, for any period during which ABR is determined by reference
to the Eurodollar Rate, each ABR Loan) equal to the costs of such reserves
allocated to such Loan by such Lender (as determined by such Lender in good
faith, which determination shall be conclusive absent manifest error), which
shall be due and payable on each date on which interest is payable on such Loan.
(e)    A certificate setting forth in reasonable detail a calculation of the
amount of and the basis for any additional amount payable pursuant to this
Section submitted by any Lender to the Company (with a copy to the
Administrative Agent) shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error. The
Borrower shall pay such Lender the amount shown as due on such certificate
within 10 Business Days after receipt by the Borrower. Notwithstanding anything
to the contrary in this Section, the Company shall not be required to compensate
a Lender pursuant to clause (a) or (b) of this Section for any amounts incurred
more than six months prior to the date that such Lender notifies the Company of
such Lender’s intention to claim compensation therefor; provided that, if the
circumstances giving rise to such claim have a retroactive effect, then such
six-month period shall be extended to include the period of such retroactive
effect. The obligations of the Company pursuant to this Section shall survive
the termination of this Agreement and the payment of the Loans and all other
amounts payable hereunder.
2.13    Taxes. All payments made by (or on behalf of) any Borrower under this
Agreement or any other Loan Document shall be made free and clear of, and
without deduction or withholding for or on account of, any present or future
income, stamp or other taxes, levies, imposts, duties, charges, fees, deductions
or withholdings, now or hereafter imposed, levied, collected, withheld or
assessed by any Governmental Authority, excluding Excluded Taxes. If any such
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charges, fees, deductions or withholdings imposed on such payments
(“Non-Excluded Taxes”) or Other Taxes are required to be deducted or withheld
from any amounts payable to the Administrative Agent or any Lender hereunder or
under any other Loan Document, (i) the amounts so payable by the applicable
Borrower to the Administrative Agent or such Lender shall be increased to the
extent necessary to yield to the Administrative Agent or such Lender (after
payment of all Non-Excluded Taxes and Other Taxes) interest or any such other
amounts payable hereunder or under any other Loan Document at the rates or in
the amounts specified in this Agreement or in the applicable Loan Document as if
such withholding or deduction had not been made, (ii) the Borrower or applicable
Withholding Agent shall deduct or withhold such amounts and (iii) the Borrower
or applicable Withholding Agent shall pay the full amount deducted or withheld
to the relevant Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law;
provided, however, that no Borrower shall be required to increase any such
amounts payable to any Lender with respect to any Non-Excluded Taxes that are
attributable to such Lender’s failure to comply with the requirements of
paragraph (e) of this Section.
(a)    In addition, each Borrower shall pay any Other Taxes to the relevant
Governmental Authority in accordance with applicable law or, at the option of
the Administrative Agent, timely reimburse it for the payment of such Other
Taxes.
(b)    Each Borrower shall indemnify the Administrative Agent and each Lender,
within 10 Business Days after written demand therefor, for the full amount of
any Non-Excluded Taxes or Other Taxes paid by the Administrative Agent or such
Lender, as the case may be, on or with respect to any payment by or on account
of any obligation of such Borrower hereunder or under any other Loan Document
(including Non-Excluded Taxes or Other Taxes imposed or asserted on or
attributable to amounts payable under this Section 2.13) and any penalties,
interest and reasonable expenses arising therefrom or with respect thereto,
whether or not such Non-Excluded Taxes or Other Taxes were correctly or legally
imposed or asserted by the relevant Governmental Authority. A certificate as to
the amount of such payment or liability delivered to such Borrower by a Lender
(with a copy to the Administrative Agent) or by the Administrative Agent on its
own behalf or on behalf of a Lender, shall be conclusive absent manifest error.
(c)    Whenever any Non-Excluded Taxes or Other Taxes are payable by a Borrower,
as promptly as possible thereafter such Borrower shall send to the
Administrative Agent for its own account or for the account of the relevant
Lender, as the case may be, a certified copy of an original official receipt
received by such Borrower showing payment thereof.
(d)    A Lender that is entitled to an exemption from or reduction of
withholding tax under the law of the jurisdiction in which a Borrower is
located, or any treaty to which such jurisdiction is a party, with respect to
payments under this Agreement shall deliver to such Borrower (with a copy to the
Administrative Agent), at the time or times prescribed by applicable law or
reasonably requested by such Borrower or the Administrative Agent, such properly
completed and executed documentation prescribed by applicable law as will permit
such payments to be made without withholding or at a reduced rate; provided that
such Lender is legally entitled to complete, execute and deliver such
documentation and in such Lender’s judgment such completion, execution or
submission would not materially prejudice the legal or commercial position of
such Lender. In addition, any Lender, if reasonably requested by a Borrower or
the Administrative Agent, shall deliver such other documentation prescribed by
applicable law or reasonably requested by such Borrower or the Administrative
Agent as will enable such Borrower or the Administrative Agent to determine
whether or not such Lender is subject to backup withholding or information
reporting requirements and to allow such Borrower and the Administrative Agent
to comply with any information reporting requirements to which they are subject;
provided that such Lender is legally entitled to complete, execute and deliver
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materially prejudice the legal or commercial position of such Lender. Each
Lender that is a United States person, as defined in section 7701(a)(30) of the
Code (a “United States Person”), shall deliver to the Company and the
Administrative Agent on or before the date on which it becomes a party to this
Agreement two properly completed and duly signed copies of U.S. Internal Revenue
Service Form W-9 (or any successor form) certifying that such Lender is exempt
from U.S. federal withholding tax. To the extent the Borrower is a United States
Person (a “U.S. Borrower”), each Lender (or Transferee) that is not a United
States Person (a “Non-U.S. Lender”) shall deliver to such U.S. Borrower and the
Administrative Agent (or, in the case of a Participant, to the Lender from which
the related participation shall have been purchased) (i) two copies of U.S.
Internal Revenue Service Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E, Form W-8ECI or Form W-8IMY,
or, (ii) in the case of a Non-U.S. Lender claiming exemption from U.S. federal
withholding tax under Section 871(h) or 881(c) of the Code with respect to
payments of “portfolio interest”, a statement substantially in the form of
Exhibit E-1 (except for Non-U.S. Lenders that are partnerships for U.S. Federal
Income Tax purposes, which shall deliver a statement substantially in the form
of Exhibit E-2) and a Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E or Form W-8IMY, or any subsequent
versions thereof or successor thereto, properly completed and duly executed by
such Non‑U.S. Lender claiming complete exemption from, or a reduced rate of,
U.S. federal withholding tax on all payments under this Agreement and the other
Loan Documents. Such forms shall be delivered by each Non‑U.S. Lender on or
before the date it becomes a Non-U.S. Lender with respect to any U.S. Borrower
under this Agreement (or, in the case of any Participant, on or before the date
such Participant purchases the related participation) or within 10 Business Days
of the request by such U.S. Borrower or the Administrative Agent. Each Non-U.S.
Lender shall promptly notify each U.S. Borrower and the Administrative Agent at
any time it determines that it is no longer in a position to provide any
previously delivered certificate to such U.S. Borrower (or any other form of
certification adopted by the U.S. taxing authorities for such purpose). If any
Non-U.S. Lender provides a Form W-8IMY, such Non-U.S. Lender must also attach
the additional documentation that must be transmitted with the Form W-8IMY,
including the appropriate forms described in this Section 2.13(e).
(e)    Each Lender shall indemnify the Administrative Agent for the full amount
of any taxes, levies, imposts, duties, charges, fees, deductions, withholdings
or similar charges imposed by any Governmental Authority that are attributable
to such Lender and that are payable or paid by the Administrative Agent,
together with all interest, penalties, reasonable costs and expenses arising
therefrom or with respect thereto, as determined by the Administrative Agent in
good faith. A certificate as to the amount of such payment or liability
delivered to any Lender by the Administrative Agent shall be conclusive absent
manifest error.
(f)    If the Administrative Agent or a Lender determines, in its sole
discretion, that it has received a refund of or credit for any Non-Excluded
Taxes or Other Taxes as to which it has been indemnified by a Borrower or with
respect to which a Borrower has paid any additional amount pursuant to this
Section, it shall pay over such refund or the amount of such credit to such
Borrower (but only to the extent of indemnity payments made, or additional
amounts paid, by such Borrower under this Section with respect to the
Non-Excluded Taxes or Other Taxes giving rise to such refund or credit), net of
all reasonable out-of-pocket expenses incurred by the Administrative Agent or
such Lender and without interest (other than any interest paid by the relevant
Governmental Authority with respect to such refund or credit); provided that
such Borrower, upon the request of the Administrative Agent or such Lender,
agrees to repay the amount paid over to such Borrower (plus any penalties,
interest or other charges imposed by the relevant Governmental Authority) to the
Administrative Agent or such Lender if the Administrative Agent or such Lender
is required to repay such refund to such Governmental Authority or loses the
benefit of such credit. Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this
paragraph (g), in no event will the indemnified party be required to pay any
amount to an indemnifying party pursuant to this paragraph (g) the payment of
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the tax subject to indemnification and giving rise to such refund had not been
deducted, withheld or otherwise imposed and the indemnification payments or
additional amounts with respect to such tax had never been paid. This Section
shall not be construed to require the Administrative Agent or any Lender to make
available its tax returns (or any other information relating to its taxes that
it deems confidential) to any Borrower or any other Person.
(g)    Solely for purposes of determining withholding Taxes imposed under FATCA,
from and after the effective date of this Agreement, the Borrower and the
Administrative Agent shall treat (and the Lenders hereby authorize the
Administrative Agent to treat) the Loan as not qualifying as a “grandfathered
obligation” within the meaning of Treasury Regulation Section 1.1471-2(b)(2)(i).
(h)    The agreements in this Section shall survive the termination of this
Agreement and the payment of the Loans and all other amounts payable hereunder.
2.14    Indemnity. Each Borrower (and the Borrower Representative) agrees to
indemnify each Lender for, and to hold each Lender harmless from, any loss or
expense that such Lender may sustain or incur as a consequence of (a) any
failure of such Borrower to make a borrowing of, conversion into or continuation
of Eurodollar Loans after the Borrower Representative has given a notice
requesting the same in accordance with the provisions of this Agreement, (b) any
failure of such Borrower to make any prepayment of Eurodollar Loans after the
Borrower Representative has given a notice thereof in accordance with the
provisions of this Agreement or (c) the making of a prepayment of Eurodollar
Loans on a day that is not the last day of an Interest Period with respect
thereto. Absent any change in circumstances after the date hereof, the amount of
such indemnification is intended to be equal to the excess, if any, of (i) the
amount of interest that would have accrued on the amount so prepaid, or not so
borrowed, converted or continued, for the period from the date of such
prepayment or of such failure to borrow, convert or continue to the last day of
such Interest Period (or, in the case of a failure to borrow, convert or
continue, the Interest Period that would have commenced on the date of such
failure) in each case at the applicable rate of interest for such Loans provided
for herein (excluding, however, the Applicable Margin included therein) over
(ii) the amount of interest (as reasonably determined by such Lender) that would
have accrued to such Lender on such amount by placing such amount on deposit for
a comparable period with leading banks in the interbank eurodollar market. A
certificate as to any amounts payable pursuant to this Section submitted to the
applicable Borrower (or the Borrower Representative) by any Lender shall be
conclusive in the absence of manifest error. This covenant shall survive the
termination of this Agreement and the payment of the Loans and all other amounts
payable hereunder.
2.15    Change of Lending Office. Each Lender agrees that, upon the occurrence
of any event giving rise to the operation of Section 2.12(a), 2.12(b) or 2.13(a)
with respect to such Lender, it will, if requested by the Borrower
Representative, use reasonable efforts (subject to overall policy considerations
of such Lender) to designate another lending office for any Loans affected by
such event or assign its rights and obligations hereunder to an Affiliate with
the object of avoiding the consequences of such event; provided, that such
designation or assignment is made on terms that, in the sole judgment of such
Lender, cause such Lender and its lending office(s) or such Affiliate, as the
case may be, to suffer no economic, legal or regulatory disadvantage, and
provided, further, that nothing in this Section shall affect or postpone any of
the obligations of any Borrower or the rights of any Lender pursuant to Section
2.12 or 2.13(a).
2.16    Replacement of Lenders. The Company shall be permitted to replace any
Lender that (a) requests reimbursement for amounts owing pursuant to Section
2.12(a), 2.12(b) or 2.13(a), (b) refuses to consent to any waiver or amendment
with respect to any Loan Document that requires the approval of each Lender and
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with a replacement financial institution; provided that (i) such replacement
does not conflict with any Requirement of Law, (ii) no Event of Default or
Default shall have occurred and be continuing at the time of such replacement,
(iii) prior to any such replacement, such Lender shall, within 30 days of the
Company’s request have taken no action under Section 2.15 that eliminates the
continued need for payment of amounts owing pursuant to Section 2.12 or 2.13(a),
(iv) the replacement financial institution shall purchase, at par, all Loans and
other amounts (including accrued interest) owing to such replaced Lender on or
prior to the date of replacement, (v) the Borrowers shall be liable to such
replaced Lender under Section 2.14 if any Eurodollar Loan owing to such replaced
Lender shall be purchased other than on the last day of the Interest Period
relating thereto as if it were prepaid on the date of such purchase (provided
that in the case of a replacement pursuant to clause (c) above, the Borrowers
shall only be liable for the positive difference, if any, between (A) any
amounts owing by the Borrowers under Section 2.14 and (B) any obligations owing
by such Defaulting Lender to the Borrowers under the Loan Documents as a result
of such Defaulting Lender becoming a Defaulting Lender), (vi) the replacement
financial institution shall be reasonably satisfactory to each Issuing Lender
and the Administrative Agent, (vii) the replaced Lender shall be obligated to
make such replacement in accordance with the provisions of Section 11.6
(provided that the Company shall be obligated to pay the portion of the
registration and processing fee referred to therein), (viii) until such time as
such replacement shall be consummated, the Borrowers shall pay all additional
amounts (if any) required pursuant to Section 2.12 or 2.13(a), as the case may
be, and (ix) any such replacement shall not be deemed to be a waiver of any
rights that the Borrower, the Administrative Agent or any other Lender shall
have against the replaced Lender.
2.17    Defaulting Lenders. Notwithstanding any provision of this Agreement to
the contrary, if any Lender becomes a Defaulting Lender, then the following
provisions shall apply for so long as such Lender is a Defaulting Lender:
(a)    the Commitment Fee set forth in Section 2.3(a) shall cease to accrue for
such Defaulting Lender.
(b)    the Commitment and Extensions of Credit of such Defaulting Lender shall
not be included in determining whether all Lenders or the Required Lenders have
taken or may take any action hereunder (including any consent to any amendment
or waiver pursuant to Section 11.1), provided that any waiver, amendment or
modification (i) requiring the consent of all Lenders or each affected Lender
which affects such Defaulting Lender disproportionately with respect to the
other affected Lenders or (ii) that would increase or extend the term of the
Commitment of such Defaulting Lender shall require the consent of such
Defaulting Lender.
(c)    if any L/C Obligations exist at the time a Lender becomes a Defaulting
Lender then:
(i)    all or any part of such L/C Obligations shall be reallocated among the
non-Defaulting Lenders in accordance with their respective Commitment
Percentages but only to the extent the sum of all non-Defaulting Lenders’
Extensions of Credit does not exceed the total of all non-Defaulting Lenders’
Commitments;
(ii)    if the reallocation described in clause (i) above cannot, or can only
partially, be effected, the applicable Borrower shall within one Business Day
following notice by the Administrative Agent, (A) in the case of Unsecured
Letters of Credit, cash collateralize such Defaulting Lender’s L/C Obligations
(after giving effect to any partial reallocation pursuant to clause (i) above)
in accordance with the procedures set forth in Section 8 for so long as such L/C
Obligations are outstanding or (B) in the case of Secured Letters of Credit,
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includes an amount of cash equal to or greater than the Defaulting Lender’s L/C
Obligations (after giving effect to any partial reallocation pursuant to clause
(i) above) for so long as such L/C Obligations are outstanding;
(iii)    if the Borrower cash collateralizes any portion of such Defaulting
Lender’s L/C Obligations pursuant to this Section 2.18(c), the Borrower shall
not be required to pay any fees to such Defaulting Lender pursuant to Section
3.3(a) with respect to such Defaulting Lender’s L/C Obligations during the
period such Defaulting Lender’s L/C Obligations are cash collateralized;
(iv)    if the L/C Obligations of the non-Defaulting Lenders are reallocated
pursuant to this Section 2.18(c) then the fees payable to the Lenders pursuant
to Section 2.3(a) and Section 3.3(a) shall be adjusted in accordance with such
non-Defaulting Lenders’ Commitment Percentages; and
(v)    if any Defaulting Lender’s L/C Obligations are neither cash
collateralized nor reallocated pursuant to this Section 2.18(c), then, without
prejudice to any rights or remedies of any Issuing Lender or any Lender
hereunder, all letter of credit fees payable under Section 3.3 with respect to
such Defaulting Lender’s L/C Obligations shall be payable to the applicable
Issuing Lender until such L/C Obligations are cash collateralized and/or
reallocated.
(d)    so long as any Lender is a Defaulting Lender, no Applicable Issuing Party
shall be required to issue, amend or increase any Letter of Credit, unless it is
satisfied that the related exposure will be 100% covered by the Commitments of
the non-Defaulting Lenders and/or cash collateral will be provided by the
Borrower in accordance with Section 2.18(c), and participating interests or
Commitment Shares in any such newly issued or increased Letter of Credit shall
be allocated among non-Defaulting Lenders in a manner consistent with Section
2.18(c)(i) (and Defaulting Lenders shall not participate therein).
(e)    any amount payable to such Defaulting Lender hereunder (whether on
account of principal, interest, fees or otherwise and including any amount that
would otherwise be payable to such Defaulting Lender pursuant to Section 11.7
but excluding Section 2.16) shall, in lieu of being distributed to such
Defaulting Lender, be retained by the Administrative Agent in a segregated
account and, subject to any applicable requirements of law, be applied at such
time or times as may be determined by the Administrative Agent (i) first, to the
payment of any amounts owing by such Defaulting Lender to the Administrative
Agent hereunder, (ii) second, pro rata, to the payment of any amounts owing by
such Defaulting Lender to the Applicable Issuing Parties hereunder, (iii) third,
if so determined by the Administrative Agent or requested by an Applicable
Issuing Party, to be held in such account as cash collateral for future funding
obligations of the Defaulting Lender of any participating interest or Commitment
Share in any Letter of Credit, (iv) fourth, to the funding of any Loan in
respect of which such Defaulting Lender has failed to fund its portion thereof
as required by this Agreement, as determined by the Administrative Agent, (v)
fifth, if so determined by the Administrative Agent and the Borrower, held in
such account as cash collateral for future funding obligations of the Defaulting
Lender of any Loans under this Agreement, (vi) sixth, to the payment of any
amounts owing to the Lenders or an Issuing Lender as a result of any judgment of
a court of competent jurisdiction obtained by any Lender or such Issuing Lender
against such Defaulting Lender as a result of such Defaulting Lender’s breach of
its obligations under this Agreement, (vii) seventh, to the payment of any
amounts owing to the Borrower as a result of any judgment of a court of
competent jurisdiction obtained by the Borrower against such Defaulting Lender
as a result of such Defaulting Lender’s breach of its obligations under this
Agreement, and (viii) eighth, to such Defaulting Lender or as otherwise directed
by a court of competent jurisdiction; provided that if such payment is (x) a
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a Letter of Credit for which a Defaulting Lender has funded its participation
obligations and (y) made at a time when the conditions set forth in Section 5.2
are satisfied, such payment shall be applied solely to prepay the Loans of, and
reimbursement obligations owed to, all non-Defaulting Lenders pro rata prior to
being applied to the prepayment of any Loans, or reimbursement obligations owed
to, any Defaulting Lender.
In the event that the Administrative Agent, the Borrower and each Issuing Lender
agree that a Defaulting Lender has adequately remedied all matters that caused
such Lender to be a Defaulting Lender, then the L/C Obligations of the Lenders
shall be readjusted to reflect the inclusion of such Lender’s Commitment and on
such date such Lender shall purchase at par such of the Loans of the other
Lenders as the Administrative shall determine may be necessary in order for such
Lender to hold such Loans in accordance with its Commitment Percentage.
SECTION 3      LETTERS OF CREDIT

3.1    L/C Commitment.      Subject to the terms and conditions hereof, the
Applicable Issuing Party, in reliance on the agreements of the other Lenders set
forth in Sections 3.4(a) and 3.8(b), agrees to issue letters of credit (“Letters
of Credit”) for the account of the Borrowers on any Business Day during the
Commitment Period (i) in the case of Fronted Letters of Credit, in such form as
may be approved from time to time by such Issuing Lender in an aggregate face
amount not to exceed at any one time outstanding such Issuing Lender’s Fronted
L/C Commitment and (ii) in the case of Several Letters of Credit, substantially
in the form of Exhibit L; provided that such Applicable Issuing Party shall have
no obligation to issue any Letter of Credit if, after giving effect to such
issuance, the aggregate amount of the Available Commitments would be less than
zero and, provided, further, that, if any Issuing Lender shall issue any Fronted
Letter of Credit that results in the aggregate amount of the Available
Commitments being less than zero without having received prior written
confirmation from the Administrative Agent that the issuance of such Fronted
Letter of Credit would not result in the aggregate amount of the Available
Commitments being less than zero, the provisions of Section 3.4 shall be
applicable to such Fronted Letter of Credit only to the extent of the portion
thereof (the “Participated Portion”) that, if such Fronted Letter of Credit had
been issued in an amount equal to the Participated Portion, would not have
resulted in the aggregate amount of the Available Commitment being less than
zero and the portion of such Fronted Letter of Credit (and any related
Reimbursement Obligations) that does not constitute the Participated Portion
shall be subject and subordinate in right of payment and as to priority of the
security provided by the Collateral to all other Obligations. Each Letter of
Credit shall (i) be denominated in Dollars or Pounds Sterling and (ii) expire no
later than the earlier of (x) the first anniversary of its date of issuance and
(y) the date that is five Business Days prior to the Termination Date; provided
that any Letter of Credit with a one-year term may provide for the renewal
thereof at the option of the applicable Borrower for additional one-year periods
(which shall in no event extend beyond the date referred to in clause (y)
above), so long as the Issuing Lender of such Letter of Credit has the right to
refuse to extend such Letter of Credit if at the time of such refusal the
applicable Borrower would be unable to satisfy the conditions set forth in
Section 5.2; provided further that any Secured Letter of Credit may have an
expiration date up to 364 days after the Termination Date.
(a)    No Applicable Issuing Party shall at any time issue (i) any Letter of
Credit if such issuance would conflict with, or cause such Applicable Issuing
Party, any L/C Participant or any Lender to exceed any limits imposed by, any
applicable Requirement of Law or (ii) any Secured Letter of Credit on behalf of
any Borrower if (x) the then Borrowing Base of such Borrower would be less than
such Borrower’s aggregate Secured L/C Obligations after giving effect to the
issuance of such Secured Letter of Credit or (y) all cash and Eligible
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Borrower established pursuant to Section 1 of Article II of the applicable
Collateral Account Control Agreement. Prior to issuing any Secured Letter of
Credit, the Applicable Issuing Party shall obtain confirmation from the
Administrative Agent that the requirements imposed by clause (ii) of the
preceding sentence shall be satisfied.
3.2    Procedure for Issuance of Letter of Credit. Any Borrower may from time to
time request that an Applicable Issuing Party issue a Letter of Credit by
delivering to such Applicable Issuing Party at its address for notices specified
herein (with a copy to the Administrative Agent at its address for notices
specified herein) an Application therefor, indicating (i) whether such Letter of
Credit is to be a Secured Letter of Credit or an Unsecured Letter of Credit and
(ii) whether such Letter of Credit is to be a Fronted Letter of Credit or a
Several Letter of Credit and otherwise completed to the satisfaction of such
Applicable Issuing Party, and such other certificates, documents and other
papers and information as such Applicable Issuing Party may request; provided
that in no event shall any Applicable Issuing Party other than Barclays Bank PLC
or Citibank, N.A. and, with the consent of the Administrative Agent, one other
Issuing Lender (and any of their respective Affiliates) issue any Letter of
Credit denominated in Pounds Sterling. Upon receipt of any Application, the
Applicable Issuing Party will process such Application and the certificates,
documents and other papers and information delivered to it in connection
therewith in accordance with its customary procedures and shall promptly issue
the Letter of Credit requested thereby (but in no event shall any Applicable
Issuing Party be required to issue any Letter of Credit earlier than five
Business Days after its receipt of the Application therefor and all such other
certificates, documents and other papers and information relating thereto) by
issuing the original of such Letter of Credit to the beneficiary thereof or as
otherwise may be agreed to by such Applicable Issuing Party and such Borrower.
Such Applicable Issuing Party shall furnish a copy of such Letter of Credit (i)
to such Borrower promptly following the issuance thereof and (ii) in the case of
a Several Letter of Credit, to each Lender. Each Applicable Issuing Party shall
promptly furnish to the Administrative Agent, which shall in turn promptly
furnish to the Lenders, notice of the issuance of each Letter of Credit
(including the amount thereof).
3.3    Fees and Other Charges.      The applicable Borrower will pay to the
Administrative Agent, for the account of the Lenders, a fee on the undrawn and
unexpired face amount (calculated, in the case of any Letter of Credit
denominated in Pounds Sterling, on the basis of the Exchange Rate in effect on
the date payment of such fee is due) of each Letter of Credit issued on its
behalf at a per annum rate equal to (i) in the case of an Unsecured Letter of
Credit, the Applicable Margin then in effect with respect to Eurodollar Loans
and (ii) in the case of a Secured Letter of Credit, 0.40%. Such fees shall be
payable quarterly in arrears on each Fee Payment Date after the issuance date.
The Administrative Agent will promptly pay to the Lenders their pro rata shares
of any amounts received from the Borrowers in respect of any such fees.
(a)    The applicable Borrower shall pay to each Issuing Lender for its own
account a fronting fee at a rate per annum as agreed between such Borrower and
such Issuing Lender on the undrawn and unexpired amount of each Fronted Letter
of Credit issued on its behalf, payable quarterly in arrears on each Fee Payment
Date after the issuance date.
(b)    In addition to the foregoing fees, the applicable Borrower shall pay or
reimburse (i) each Applicable Issuing Party for such normal and customary costs
and expenses as are incurred or charged by such Applicable Issuing Party in
issuing, negotiating, effecting payment under, amending or otherwise
administering any Letter of Credit and (ii) each Lender for such normal and
customary costs and expenses as are incurred or charged by such Lender in
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3.4    L/C Participations.      Each Issuing Lender irrevocably agrees to grant
and hereby grants to each L/C Participant, and, to induce such Issuing Lender to
issue Fronted Letters of Credit, each L/C Participant irrevocably agrees to
accept and purchase and hereby accepts and purchases from such Issuing Lender,
on the terms and conditions set forth below, for such L/C Participant’s own
account and risk an undivided interest equal to such L/C Participant’s
Commitment Percentage in such Issuing Lender’s obligations and rights under and
in respect of each Fronted Letter of Credit and the amount of each draft paid by
such Issuing Lender thereunder. Each L/C Participant agrees with each Issuing
Lender that, if a draft is paid under any Fronted Letter of Credit for which
such Issuing Lender is not reimbursed in full by the applicable Borrower in
accordance with the terms of this Agreement, such L/C Participant shall pay to
such Issuing Lender upon demand at such Issuing Lender’s address for notices
specified herein an amount in Dollars equal to such L/C Participant’s Commitment
Percentage of (i) the amount of such draft, or any part thereof, that is paid in
Dollars and is not so reimbursed or (ii) the Dollar Equivalent, using the
Exchange Rate at the time such draft is paid, of the amount of such draft, or
any part thereof, that is paid in Pounds Sterling and is not so reimbursed. Each
L/C Participant’s obligation to pay such amount shall be absolute and
unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance, including (i) any
setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other right that such L/C
Participant may have against the applicable Issuing Lender, any Borrower or any
other Person for any reason whatsoever, (ii) the occurrence or continuance of a
Default or an Event of Default or the failure to satisfy any of the other
conditions specified in Section 5, (iii) any adverse change in the condition
(financial or otherwise) of any Borrower, (iv) any breach of this Agreement or
any other Loan Document by any Borrower or any other L/C Participant or (v) any
other circumstance, happening or event whatsoever, whether or not similar to any
of the foregoing.
(a)    If any amount required to be paid by any L/C Participant to an Issuing
Lender pursuant to Section 3.4(a) in respect of any unreimbursed portion of any
payment made by such Issuing Lender under any Fronted Letter of Credit is paid
to such Issuing Lender within three Business Days after the date such payment is
due, such L/C Participant shall pay to such Issuing Lender on demand an amount
equal to the product of (i) such amount, times (ii) the daily average Federal
Funds Effective Rate during the period from and including the date such payment
is required to the date on which such payment is immediately available to such
Issuing Lender, times (iii) a fraction the numerator of which is the number of
days that elapse during such period and the denominator of which is 360. If any
such amount required to be paid by any L/C Participant pursuant to Section
3.4(a) is not made available to the applicable Issuing Lender by such L/C
Participant within three Business Days after the date such payment is due, such
Issuing Lender shall be entitled to recover from such L/C Participant, on
demand, such amount with interest thereon calculated from such due date at the
rate per annum applicable to ABR Loans. A certificate of an Issuing Lender
submitted to any L/C Participant with respect to any amounts owing under this
Section shall be conclusive in the absence of manifest error.
(b)    Whenever, at any time after the applicable Issuing Lender has made
payment under any Fronted Letter of Credit and has received from any L/C
Participant its pro rata share of such payment in accordance with Section
3.4(a), such Issuing Lender receives any payment related to such Fronted Letter
of Credit (whether directly from the applicable Borrower or otherwise, including
proceeds of collateral applied thereto by such Issuing Lender), or any payment
of interest on account thereof, such Issuing Lender will distribute to such L/C
Participant its pro rata share thereof; provided, however, that in the event
that any such payment received by such Issuing Lender shall be required to be
returned by such Issuing Lender, such L/C Participant shall return to such
Issuing Lender the portion thereof previously distributed by such Issuing Lender
to it.
(c)    This Section 3.4 shall be subject to the provisions of the second proviso
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3.5    Reimbursement Obligation of the Borrowers. If any draft is paid under any
Letter of Credit, the applicable Borrower shall reimburse the Applicable Issuing
Party for the amount of (a) the draft so paid and (b) any taxes, fees, charges
or other costs or expenses incurred by such Applicable Issuing Party in
connection with such payment, not later than 12:00 Noon, New York City time, on
(i) the Business Day that such Borrower receives notice of such draft, if such
notice is received on such day prior to 10:00 A.M., New York City time, or (ii)
if clause (i) above does not apply, the Business Day immediately following the
day that such Borrower receives such notice. Each such payment under a Letter of
Credit denominated in Dollars shall be made to the Applicable Issuing Party at
its address for notices specified herein (or as otherwise specified) in Dollars
in immediately available funds. Each such payment under a Letter of Credit
denominated in Pounds Sterling shall be made to the Applicable Issuing Party at
its address for notices specified herein (or as otherwise specified) in Pounds
Sterling in immediately available funds. Interest shall be payable on any such
amounts from the date on which the relevant draft is paid until payment in full
at the rate set forth in (x) until the Business Day next succeeding the date of
the relevant notice, Section 2.8(b) and (y) thereafter, Section 2.8(c). In the
case of payments made under this Section 3.5 in respect of Several Letters of
Credit, the L/C Administrator shall distribute such payments to the applicable
Lenders promptly upon receipt in like funds as received.
3.6    Obligations Absolute. The Borrowers’ obligations under this Section 3
shall be absolute and unconditional under any and all circumstances and
irrespective of any setoff, counterclaim or defense to payment that any Borrower
may have or have had against any L/C Issuer, any beneficiary of a Letter of
Credit or any other Person. The Borrowers also agree with each L/C Issuer that
such L/C Issuer shall not be responsible for, and the Borrowers’ Reimbursement
Obligations under Section 3.5 shall not be affected by, among other things, (i)
the validity or genuineness of documents or of any endorsements thereon, even
though such documents shall in fact prove to be invalid, fraudulent or forged,
(ii) any dispute between or among any Borrower and any beneficiary of any Letter
of Credit or any other party to which such Letter of Credit may be transferred
or any claims whatsoever of any Borrower against any beneficiary of such Letter
of Credit or any such transferee, (iii) payment by any L/C Issuer under any
Letter of Credit against presentation of a draft or other document that does not
comply with the terms of such Letter of Credit or (iv) any other event or
circumstances which might constitute a legal or equitable discharge or provide a
right of setoff against the Borrowers’ reimbursement obligation. No L/C Issuer
shall be liable for any error, omission, interruption or delay in transmission,
dispatch or delivery of any message or advice, however transmitted, in
connection with any Letter of Credit, except for errors or omissions found by a
final and nonappealable decision of a court of competent jurisdiction of any
direct damages (as opposed to consequential damages, claims in respect of which
are hereby waived by a Borrower to the extent permitted by applicable law)
suffered by such Borrower to have resulted from the gross negligence or willful
misconduct of such L/C Issuer. The Borrowers agree that any action taken or
omitted by any L/C Issuer under or in connection with any Letter of Credit or
the related drafts or documents, if done in the absence of gross negligence or
willful misconduct, shall be binding on the Borrower and shall not result in any
liability of such L/C Issuer to any Borrower and that with respect to documents
presented which appear on their face to be in substantial compliance with the
terms of a Letter of Credit, the applicable L/C Issuer may, in its sole
discretion, either accept and make payment upon such documents without
responsibility for further investigation, regardless of any notice or
information to the contrary, or refuse to accept and make payment upon such
documents if such documents are not in strict compliance with the terms of such
Letter of Credit.
3.7    Letter of Credit Payments. If any draft shall be presented for payment
under any Letter of Credit, the Applicable Issuing Party shall promptly notify
the applicable Borrower of the date and amount thereof. The responsibility of
the Applicable Issuing Party to the applicable Borrower in connection with any
draft presented for payment under any Letter of Credit shall, in addition to any
payment obligation expressly provided for in such Letter of Credit, be limited
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draft) delivered under such Letter of Credit in connection with such presentment
are substantially in conformity with such Letter of Credit.
3.8    Several Letters of Credit.
(a)    The L/C Administrator is hereby authorized to execute and deliver each
Several Letter of Credit and each amendment to a Several Letter of Credit on
behalf of each Lender provided that, upon request of the Borrower, such Several
Letter of Credit or amendment will be executed by each Lender. The L/C
Administrator shall use the Commitment Percentage of each Lender as its
“Commitment Share” under each Several Letter of Credit; provided that each
Limited Fronting Lender (if any), in its capacity as such, shall, in addition to
its own “Commitment Share” as a Lender, have a “Commitment Share” (or equivalent
term) equal to the Commitment Percentage (or portion thereof, if applicable) of
each Non-NAIC Approved Bank for which such Limited Fronting Lender acts in such
capacity under such Several Letter of Credit. The L/C Administrator shall not
amend any Several Letter of Credit to change the “Commitment Shares” of any
Lender or add or delete a Lender liable thereunder unless such amendment is done
in connection with a Limited Fronting Lender Agreement in accordance with
Section 3.8(c), an assignment in accordance with Section 11.6, a change in the
Lenders and/or the Commitment Percentages as a result of any increase in the
Commitments pursuant to Section 2.1 or any other addition or replacement of a
Lender in accordance with the terms of this Agreement. Each Lender (including,
for the avoidance of doubt, each Limited Fronting Lender) hereby irrevocably
constitutes and appoints the L/C Administrator its true and lawful
attorney-in-fact for and on behalf of such Lender with full power of
substitution and revocation in its own name or in the name of the L/C
Administrator to issue, execute and deliver, as the case may be, each Several
Letter of Credit and each amendment to a Several Letter of Credit and to carry
out the purposes of this Agreement with respect to Several Letters of Credit.
Upon request, each Lender shall execute such powers of attorney or other
documents as any beneficiary of any Several Letter of Credit may reasonably
request to evidence the authority of the L/C Administrator to execute and
deliver such Several Letter of Credit and any amendment or other modification
thereto on behalf of the Lenders. To the extent that the L/C Administrator has
not received funds from a Lender with respect to a Several Letter of Credit, the
L/C Administrator shall only forward the funds actually received to the
beneficiary.
(b)    Each Lender (including, for the avoidance of doubt, each Limited Fronting
Lender) agrees with the L/C Administrator that, if a draft is paid under any
Several Letter of Credit for which such L/C Administrator is not reimbursed in
full by the applicable Borrower in accordance with the terms of this Agreement,
each Lender shall pay to the L/C Administrator upon demand at the L/C
Administrator’s address for notices specified herein an amount in Dollars (in
the case of a Several Letter of Credit denominated in Dollars) or Pounds
Sterling (in the case of a Several Letter of Credit denominated in Pounds
Sterling) equal to such Lender’s Commitment Share (and, in the case of each
Limited Fronting Lender, the Commitment Share (or the portion thereof for which
it has agreed to be a Limited Fronting Lender) of each applicable Non-NAIC
Approved Bank). In the event that a Limited Fronting Lender pays the Commitment
Share of a Non-NAIC Approved Bank, such Non-NAIC Approved Bank shall pay such
Commitment Share (or the relevant portion thereof, if applicable) to such
Limited Fronting Lender in purchase of its participation in such payment. Each
Lender’s (including, for the avoidance of doubt, each Limited Fronting Lender’s
and each Non-NAIC Approved Bank’s) obligation to pay such amount shall be
absolute and unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance,
including (i) any setoff, counterclaim, recoupment, defense or other right that
such Lender may have against the L/C Administrator, any Borrower or any other
Person for any reason whatsoever, (ii) the occurrence or continuance of a
Default or an Event of Default or the failure to satisfy any of the other
conditions specified in Section 5, (iii) any adverse change in the condition
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Borrower or any other Lender or (v) any other circumstance, happening or event
whatsoever, whether or not similar to any of the foregoing.
(c)    In the event that any Lender agrees (in its sole discretion) to act as a
Limited Fronting Lender for any Non-NAIC Approved Bank upon such terms and
conditions as such parties may agree (including fees payable by such Non-NAIC
Approved Bank to such Limited Fronting Lender) (such agreement, a “Limited
Fronting Lender Agreement”), the following provisions shall apply (in addition
to any other provisions hereof relating to Limited Fronting Lenders):
(i)    upon the issuance of any Several Letter of Credit pursuant hereto, with
respect to any Non-NAIC Approved Bank, each applicable Limited Fronting Lender,
in reliance upon the agreements of such Non-NAIC Approved Bank, agrees (A) to
issue through the L/C Administrator, in addition to its own obligations as a
Lender under such Several Letter of Credit, severally, such Several Letter of
Credit in an amount equal to such Non-NAIC Approved Bank’s Commitment Share of
the stated amount of such Several Letter of Credit (or the portion thereof for
which such Limited Fronting Lender has agreed to be a Limited Fronting Lender),
and (B) to amend or extend each Several Letter of Credit previously issued by it
as a Limited Fronting Lender for such Non-NAIC Approved Bank; and
(ii)    with respect to any Several Letter of Credit issued by a Limited
Fronting Lender pursuant to clause (i) above for a Non-NAIC Approved Bank, such
Non-NAIC Approved Bank agrees to purchase participations in the obligations of
such Limited Fronting Lender under such Several Letter of Credit in the amount
attributable to such Non-NAIC Approved Bank. Without any further action on the
part of any party, each Limited Fronting Lender hereby grants to each applicable
Non-NAIC Approved Bank for which it is acting as a Limited Fronting Lender
hereunder, and each such Non-NAIC Approved Bank hereby acquires from such
Limited Fronting Lender, a participation in such Limited Fronting Lender’s
Commitment Share of each Several Letter of Credit for which such Limited
Fronting Lender is acting as a Limited Fronting Lender on behalf of such
Non-NAIC Approved Bank hereunder in the amount attributable to such Non-NAIC
Approved Bank. Each such Non-NAIC Approved Bank purchasing a participation
hereunder acknowledges and agrees that its obligation to acquire such
participations in respect of Several Letters of Credit is absolute and
unconditional and shall not be affected by any circumstance whatsoever,
including any amendment or extension of any Letter of Credit or the occurrence
and continuance of a Default or Event of Default or reduction or termination of
the Commitments. In consideration and in furtherance of the foregoing, each such
Non-NAIC Approved Bank hereby absolutely and unconditionally agrees to pay to
the L/C Administrator, for account of the applicable Limited Fronting Lender, an
amount equal to the amount of each payment made by such Limited Fronting Lender
in respect of the portion of each such Several Letter of Credit in which such
Non-NAIC Approved Bank holds a participation, promptly upon the request of such
Limited Fronting Lender, at any time from the time such payment is made until
such payment is reimbursed by the applicable Borrower or at any time after any
reimbursement payment is required to be refunded to the applicable Borrower for
any reason. Such payment by such Non-NAIC Approved Bank shall be made for the
account of the applicable Limited Fronting Lender without any offset, abatement,
withholding or reduction whatsoever. To the extent that any Non-NAIC Approved
Bank has made payments pursuant to this paragraph to reimburse a Limited
Fronting Lender in respect of any participation interests purchased hereunder in
respect of any Several Letter of Credit, promptly following receipt by the L/C
Administrator of any payment from the applicable Borrower pursuant to Section
3.5 in respect of such Several Letter of Credit, the L/C Administrator shall
distribute such payment to such Limited Fronting Lender and such Non-NAIC
Approved Bank as their interests may appear. Any payment made by a Non-NAIC
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Bank in respect of its participation pursuant to this paragraph to reimburse the
applicable Limited Fronting Lender for any payment made in respect of any
drawing under a Several Letter of Credit shall not relieve the Borrowers of
their obligation to reimburse the amount of such drawing; provided, however,
that the Borrowers’ failure to reimburse the amount of such drawing shall not
affect the obligation of any Non-NAIC Approved Bank to indemnify the Limited
Fronting Letter for such amount pursuant to Section 3.8(b).
Each Lender that agrees to act as a Limited Fronting Lender for any Non-NAIC
Approved Bank shall promptly notify the Administrative Agent (which shall
promptly notify the L/C Administrator) of such agreement and of any termination
or expiration of such agreement.
In the event that, pursuant to this Section 3.8(c), any Lender agrees to act as
a Limited Fronting Lender for any other Lender that becomes a Non-NAIC Approved
Bank, such Lender shall receive such compensation therefor as such Non-NAIC
Approved Bank and such Lender may agree. Notwithstanding anything herein to the
contrary, no Lender shall have any obligation to agree to act hereunder as a
Limited Fronting Lender for any other Lender.
(d)    The obligations of each Lender under and in respect of each Several
Letter of Credit are several, and the failure by any Lender to perform its
obligations hereunder or under any Several Letter of Credit shall not affect the
obligations of the Borrowers toward any other party hereto nor shall any other
such party (other than Limited Fronting Lenders with respect to Several Letters
of Credit they have issued on behalf of Non-NAIC Approved Banks) be liable for
the failure by such Lender to perform its obligations hereunder or under any
Several Letter of Credit.
3.9    Applications. To the extent that any provision of any Application related
to any Letter of Credit is inconsistent with the provisions of this Section 3,
the provisions of this Section 3 shall apply.
3.10    Issuing Lenders. The Borrower may, at any time and from time to time
with the consent of the Administrative Agent (which consent shall not be
unreasonably withheld or delayed) and such Lender, designate one or more Lenders
to act as an issuing lender under the terms of this Agreement; provided that the
total number of Issuing Lenders at any time shall not exceed four. Any Lender
designated as an Issuing Lender pursuant to this Section 3.10 shall be deemed to
be an “Issuing Lender” for the purposes of this Agreement (in addition to being
a Lender) with respect to Letters of Credit issued by such Lender.
3.11    Reporting. Unless the Administrative Agent otherwise agrees, each
Applicable Issuing Party will report in writing to the Administrative Agent (i)
on the first Business Day of each week and on the second Business Day to occur
after the last day of each March, June, September and December, and on such
other dates as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request, the daily
activity during the preceding week, calendar quarter or other period, as the
case may be, with respect to Letters of Credit issued by it, including the
aggregate outstanding L/C Obligations with respect to such Letters of Credit on
each day during such week, quarter or other period, in such form and detail as
shall be satisfactory to the Administrative Agent, (ii) on any Business Day on
which the Borrower fails to pay any Reimbursement Obligation required to be
reimbursed to such Applicable Issuing Party on such day, the date of such
failure and the amount of such Reimbursement Obligation and (iii) such other
information with respect to Letters of Credit issued by such Applicable Issuing
Party as the Administrative Agent may reasonably request.
3.12    Non-NAIC Approved Banks. If, at any time from and after the Closing
Date, any Lender is not or ceases to be a NAIC Approved Bank, such Lender shall
promptly notify the Company and the Administrative Agent thereof. Each Lender
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from and after the Closing Date, (a) to be a NAIC Approved Bank or (b) if such
Lender is not or ceases to be a NAIC Approved Bank, to agree with another Lender
which is a NAIC Approved Bank, as provided in Section 3.8(c), that such NAIC
Approved Bank shall (in its sole discretion) act as the Limited Fronting Lender
for such Non-NAIC Approved Bank with respect to any Several Letters of Credit
which are outstanding at the time such Lender becomes a Non-NAIC Approved Bank
and/or are issued during the period that such Lender is a Non-NAIC Approved
Bank.
SECTION 4      REPRESENTATIONS AND WARRANTIES

To induce the Administrative Agent and the Lenders to enter into this Agreement
and to make the Extensions of Credit, the Company hereby represents and warrants
to the Administrative Agent and each Lender that:
4.1    Financial Conditions. The audited consolidated balance sheet of the
Company and its Subsidiaries as at December 31, 2016, and the related
consolidated statement of comprehensive income and of cash flows for the fiscal
year ended on such date, reported on by and accompanied by an unqualified report
from KPMG Audit Plc, present fairly the consolidated financial condition of the
Company and its Subsidiaries as at such date, and the consolidated results of
its operations and its consolidated cash flows for the fiscal year then ended.
All such financial statements, including the related schedules and notes
thereto, have been prepared in accordance with GAAP applied consistently
throughout the periods involved (except as approved by the aforementioned firm
of accountants and disclosed therein). As of the date of this Agreement, no
Group Member has any material Guarantee Obligations, contingent liabilities and
liabilities for taxes, or any material long‑term leases or material unusual
forward or long‑term commitments, including any Swap Contracts, that are not
reflected in the most recent financial statements referred to in this paragraph.
During the period from December 31, 2016 to and including the date of this
Agreement there has been no Disposition by any Group Member of any material part
of its business or property.
4.2    No Change. Since December 31, 2016, there has been no development or
event that has had or could reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
4.3    Existence; Compliance with Law. Each Group Member (a) is duly organized,
validly existing and in good standing under the laws of the jurisdiction of its
organization, (b) has the power and authority, and the legal right, to own and
operate its property, to lease the property it operates as lessee and to conduct
the business in which it is currently engaged, (c) is duly qualified as a
foreign corporation or other organization and in good standing under the laws of
each jurisdiction where its ownership, lease or operation of property or the
conduct of its business requires such qualification except where the failure to
so qualify or be in good standing would not have a Material Adverse Effect and
(d) is in compliance with all Requirements of Law (including the Bermuda
Companies Law and Bermuda Insurance Law as applicable to the Company and each
Subsidiary organized under the laws of Bermuda) except to the extent that the
failure to comply therewith could not, in the aggregate, reasonably be expected
to have a Material Adverse Effect. Neither the Company nor any Subsidiary is
subject to any Private Act.
4.4    Power; Authorization; Enforceable Obligations. (a) Each Borrower has or
will have the power and authority, and the legal right, to make, deliver and
perform the Loan Documents to which it is a party and to obtain Loans and
Letters of Credit hereunder, and each Borrower has or will have taken all
necessary organizational action to authorize the execution, delivery and
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its behalf, on the terms and conditions of this Agreement. No consent or
authorization of, filing with, notice to or other act by or in respect of, any
Governmental Authority or any other Person is required in connection with the
Loans or Letters of Credit or with the execution, delivery, performance,
validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any other Loan Document, except
(i) consents, authorizations, filings and notices that have been obtained or
made and are in full force and effect and (ii) filings necessary to perfect
Liens in favor of the Collateral Agent. Each Loan Document has been duly
executed and delivered on behalf of each Borrower which is a party thereto. This
Agreement constitutes, and each other Loan Document upon execution will
constitute, a legal, valid and binding obligation of each Borrower which is a
party thereto, enforceable against each Borrower in accordance with its terms,
except as enforceability may be limited by applicable bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization, moratorium or similar laws affecting the enforcement of
creditors’ rights generally and by general equitable principles (whether
enforcement is sought by proceedings in equity or at law).
(a)    Under the laws of the jurisdiction of its incorporation in force at the
date hereof, no Borrower will be required to make any deduction or withholding
from any payment it may make hereunder or under the Notes.
(b)    The claims of the Collateral Agent and the Lenders against each Borrower
under this Agreement and the Notes will rank at least pari passu with the claims
of all its other unsecured creditors under the laws of (i) the jurisdiction of
such Borrower’s incorporation and (ii) New York, except creditors whose claims
are preferred solely by any bankruptcy, insolvency or other similar law of
general application governing the enforcement of creditors’ rights.
(c)    In any proceedings taken in Bermuda in relation to this Agreement, the
choice of New York law as the governing law of this Agreement, and any judgment
obtained in the United States, will be recognized and enforced (other than a
judgment for a sum payable in respect of taxes or other charges of a like nature
in respect of a fine or other penalty, or in respect of multiple damages as
defined in The Protection of Trading Interests Act 1981 of Bermuda), provided
that (i) the court which rendered the judgment was competent to hear the action
in accordance with private international law principles as applied in Bermuda
and (ii) the judgment is not contrary to public policy (and the Company is not
aware of anything contrary to public policy) in Bermuda, has not been obtained
by fraud or in proceedings contrary to natural justice and is not based on an
error in Bermuda law.
(d)    Under the laws of Bermuda it is not necessary that this Agreement, the
Notes or any other Loan Document be filed, recorded or enrolled with any court
or other authority in such jurisdiction or that any stamp, registration or
similar tax be paid on or in relation with this Agreement, the Notes or such
other Loan Document.
4.5    No Legal Bar. The execution, delivery and performance of this Agreement
and the other Loan Documents, the borrowings hereunder and the use of the
proceeds thereof will not violate any Requirement of Law or any Contractual
Obligation of any Group Member and will not result in, or require, the creation
or imposition of any Lien on any of their respective properties or revenues
pursuant to any Requirement of Law or any such Contractual Obligation (other
than the Liens created by the Security Documents and except, in the case of
Contractual Obligations, to the extent that the failure of any of the statements
in this Section 4.5 to be accurate could not reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect).
4.6    Litigation. No litigation, investigation or proceeding of or before any
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Group Member or against any of their respective properties or revenues (a) with
respect to any of the Loan Documents or any of the transactions contemplated
hereby or thereby, or (b) that could reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect.
4.7    No Default. No Group Member is in default under or with respect to any of
its Contractual Obligations in any respect that could reasonably be expected to
have a Material Adverse Effect. No Default or Event of Default has occurred and
is continuing.
4.8    Ownership of Property; Liens. Each of the Company and each Material
Subsidiary has good title to, or a valid leasehold interest in all its real and
personal property material to its business except for minor defects in title
that could not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect, and
none of such property is subject to any Lien not permitted by Section 7.6.
4.9    Taxes. Each Group Member has filed or caused to be filed all Federal,
state and other material tax returns that are required to be filed and has paid
all taxes shown to be due and payable on said returns (other than any taxes the
amount or validity of which are currently being contested in good faith by
appropriate proceedings and with respect to which reserves in conformity with
GAAP have been provided on the books of the relevant Group Member) except to the
extent that failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a Material
Adverse Effect; no material tax Lien has been filed against any Group Member;
and, to the knowledge of any Borrower, no claim is being asserted with respect
to any tax return or for any unpaid taxes that, individually or in the aggregate
for all such claims, would reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
4.10    Federal Regulations. No Borrower is engaged in the business of extending
credit for the purpose of purchasing or carrying margin stock (within the
meaning of Regulation U), and no proceeds of any Loan will be used to purchase
or carry any such margin stock or to extend credit to others for the purpose of
purchasing or carrying any such margin stock in contravention of Regulation T, U
or X of the Board. If requested by any Lender or the Administrative Agent, the
Company will furnish to the Administrative Agent and each Lender a statement to
the foregoing effect in conformity with the requirements of FR Form G-3 or FR
Form U-1, as applicable, referred to in Regulation U.
4.11    ERISA. Except as would not reasonably be expected to result in a
Material Adverse Effect, (i) neither a Reportable Event nor a failure to satisfy
the minimum funding standards (within the meaning of Sections 412 or 430 of the
Code or Section 303 of ERISA), whether or not waived, has occurred during the
five‑year period prior to the date on which this representation is made or
deemed made with respect to any Single Employer Plan, and each Single Employer
Plan has complied in all material respects with the applicable provisions of
ERISA and the Code; (ii) no termination of a Single Employer Plan has occurred
(other than a standard termination within the meaning of Section 4041(b) of
ERISA), and no Lien in favor of the PBGC or a Plan has arisen, during such
five-year period; (iii) there has been no determination that any Single Employer
Plan is, or is expected to be, in “at risk” status (within the meaning of
Section 430 of the Code or Section 303 of ERISA and (iv) none of the Borrowers
or any Commonly Controlled Entity has failed to make by its due date a required
installment under Section 430(j) of the Code with respect to any Single Employer
Plan nor failed to make by its due date a required contribution with respect to
a Multiemployer Plan. Except as would not reasonably be expected to result in a
Material Adverse Effect, none of the Borrowers nor any Commonly Controlled
Entity has had a complete or partial withdrawal from any Multiemployer Plan that
has resulted or could reasonably be expected to result in a material liability
under ERISA, and none of the Borrowers nor any Commonly Controlled Entity would
become subject to any material liability under ERISA if such Borrower or any
such Commonly Controlled Entity were to withdraw completely from all
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on which this representation is made or deemed made. Except as would not
reasonably be expected to result in a Material Adverse Effect, no such
Multiemployer Plan is Insolvent, or in “endangered” or “critical” status (within
the meaning of Section 432 of the Code or Section 305 of ERISA).
4.12    Investment Company Act. No Borrower is an “investment company”, or a
company “controlled” by, or an “affiliated person” of, or “principal
underwriter” for, an “investment company”, within the meaning of the Investment
Company Act of 1940.
4.13    Subsidiaries. Schedule 4.13 sets forth, as of the date of this
Agreement, the name and jurisdiction of incorporation of each Subsidiary and, as
to each such Subsidiary, the percentage of each class of Capital Stock owned by
the Company or any other Subsidiary, and such Schedule indicates each Subsidiary
Borrower as of such date.
4.14    Use of Proceeds. The proceeds of the Extensions of Credit shall be used
(a) to finance the working capital needs of the Company and its Subsidiaries and
(b) for general corporate purposes of the Company and its Subsidiaries.
4.15    Environmental Matters. Except as, in the aggregate, could not reasonably
be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect:
(a)    none of the Group Members has failed to comply with any Environmental Law
or to obtain, maintain or comply with any permit, license or other approval
required under any Environmental Law;
(b)    none of the Group Members has become subject to liability under any
Environmental Law;
(c)    none of the Group Members has received notice of any claim with respect
to any liability under any Environmental Law;
(d)    the facilities and properties owned, leased or operated by any Group
Member (the “Properties”) do not contain any Hazardous Materials in amounts or
concentrations or under circumstances that could reasonably be expected to give
rise to liability under any Environmental Law; and
(e)    Hazardous Materials have not been transported or disposed by any Group
Member in a manner or to a location that could reasonably be expected to give
rise to liability under any Environmental Law.
4.16    Accuracy of Information, etc. To the best of the Company’s knowledge,
the Confidential Information Memorandum, taken as a whole, is correct in all
material respects as of the date thereof and does not, as of the date thereof,
contain any untrue statement of a material fact or omit any material fact
necessary to make the statements therein (taken as a whole) not misleading as of
such date in light of the circumstances under which they were made; provided,
however, that this representation does not extend to (i) any projections and
other forward looking statements contained in the Confidential Information
Memorandum (the “Projections”) and (ii) information in the Confidential
Information Memorandum which is referenced to a specific source or derived from
public or other sources. The Projections contained in the Confidential
Information Memorandum have been prepared in good faith based upon assumptions
reasonably believed by the Company to be reasonable at the time of preparation,
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and contingencies many of which are beyond the control of the Company and there
can be no assurances that such Projections will be realized.
No written statement or information delivered by any Borrower to the
Administrative Agent, the Syndication Agent, the Collateral Agent or the Lenders
contained in this Agreement or any other Loan Document, taken as a whole,
contains any untrue statement of a material fact or omits any material fact
necessary to make the statements therein (taken as a whole) not misleading as of
the date of such statement or information in light of the circumstances under
which they were provided.
4.17    PATRIOT Act; OFAC.
(a)    PATRIOT Act. To the extent applicable, each of the Company and its
Subsidiaries is in compliance in all material respects with (i) the Trading with
the Enemy Act (12 U.S.C. §§ 95a–95b and 50 U.S.C. App. §§ 1–44), and each of the
foreign assets control regulations of the United States Treasury Department (31
CFR, Subtitle B, Chapter V), and any other enabling legislation or executive
order relating thereto; (ii) the PATRIOT Act and (iii) Anti-Corruption Laws.
(b)    Sanctioned Persons. None of the Company, any Subsidiary nor, to the
knowledge of the Company, any director or officer of the Company or any
Subsidiary is subject to any U.S. sanctions administered by the Office of
Foreign Assets Control of the U.S. Treasury Department (“OFAC”), U.S. Department
of State, United Nations Security Council, European Union or Her Majesty’s
Treasury (collectively, “Sanctions”) and any other enabling legislation or
executive order relating thereto, and no Borrower will directly or indirectly
use the proceeds of the Loans, the Letters of Credit or otherwise make available
such proceeds to any Person for the purpose of funding or financing the
activities of or business of any Person, in any country or territory, that at
the time of such funding or financing is restricted under Sanctions or in
violation of any Anti-Corruption Laws.
(c)    Compliance. The Company has implemented and maintains in effect for
itself and its Subsidiaries policies and procedures to ensure compliance by the
Company, its Subsidiaries and their respective officers, employees, directors
and agents with the PATRIOT Act, Anti-Corruption Laws and applicable Sanctions.
SECTION 5      CONDITIONS PRECEDENT

5.1    Conditions to Initial Extensions of Credit. The agreement of each Lender
to make the initial extension of credit requested to be made by it is subject to
the satisfaction, prior to or concurrently with the making of such extension of
credit, of the following conditions precedent:
(a)    Credit Agreement. The Administrative Agent shall have received this
Agreement, executed and delivered by the Administrative Agent, the Syndication
Agent, the Collateral Agent, each Borrower and each Person listed on Schedule
1.1.
(b)    Fees. The Lenders, the Administrative Agent, the Syndication Agent and
the Collateral Agent shall have received all fees required to be paid, and all
expenses for which invoices have been presented (including the reasonable fees
and expenses of legal counsel), on or before the Closing Date.
(c)    Closing Certificate; Certified Certificate of Incorporation; Good
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Date, substantially in the form of Exhibit B-1 and a certificate of each other
Borrower, dated the Closing Date, substantially in the form of Exhibit B-2, in
each case, with appropriate insertions and attachments, including the Memorandum
of Association, Articles of Incorporation or other organizational documents for
each Borrower certified by the appropriate Governmental Authority of Bermuda, in
the case of the Company, and by the appropriate Governmental Authority of the
relevant jurisdiction of organization, in the case of each other Borrower, and
By-laws (or equivalent) for each Borrower and (ii) a certificate of
compliance/good standing for each Borrower from its jurisdiction of
organization.
(d)    Legal Opinions. The Administrative Agent shall have received the
executed:
(i) legal opinion of Mayer Brown LLP, counsel to the Company and its
Subsidiaries, substantially in the form of Exhibit D-1; and
(ii) legal opinion of Appleby (Bermuda) Limited, counsel to the Company,
substantially in the form of Exhibit D-2.
Each such legal opinion shall cover such other matters incident to the
transactions contemplated by this Agreement as the Administrative Agent may
reasonably require.
(e)    Collateral Documentation. The Administrative Agent shall have received
amendments to and reaffirmations of the Security Agreement and the existing
Collateral Account Control Agreements in form and substance reasonably
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent. The Lenders party hereto (constituting
the Required Lenders as defined in the Existing Credit Agreement) hereby
authorize and direct the Collateral Agent to enter into the amendments to the
Security Agreement and the existing Collateral Account Control Agreements
contemplated by the foregoing sentence on the Closing Date.
(f)    Uniform Commercial Code Financing Statements. The Administrative Agent
shall have received satisfactory evidence that Uniform Commercial Code financing
statements covering the securities held under each Collateral Account Control
Agreement and naming the Collateral Agent as secured party are currently on file
and effective, or are in proper form for filing, (i) in New York, (ii) in the
jurisdiction of organization of each Borrower organized under the laws of any
state of the United States, (iii) in the District of Columbia for each Borrower
not organized under the laws of a state of the United States and (iv) in the
state of the United States in which a Borrower not organized under the laws of a
state of the United States maintains its chief executive office.
(g)    Consents, Etc. Each Borrower shall have received, on reasonably
satisfactory terms, all consents and authorizations required pursuant to any
Contractual Obligation with any other Person and shall have obtained all permits
of, and effected all notices to and filings with, any Governmental Authority, in
each case, as may be necessary to allow each Borrower lawfully to execute,
deliver and perform, in all material respects, its obligations hereunder and
under the other Loan Documents to which it is, or shall be, a party and each
other agreement or instrument to be executed and delivered by it pursuant
thereto or in connection therewith.
(h)    Exiting Bank Acknowledgements and Payments. The Administrative Agent
shall have received (i) from each Person that is a “Lender” under and as defined
in the Existing Credit Agreement but not a Lender hereunder (each, an “Exiting
Lender”), an acknowledgement that the Existing Credit Agreement is being amended
and restated hereby and that such Person will not be a party hereto and (ii)
from the Borrowers, for the account of each Exiting Lender, payment of all
amounts then owed to each such Exiting Lender under the Existing Credit
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(i)    Other Information. The Administrative Agent and each Lender shall have
received such information as it shall have reasonably requested to comply with
all applicable “know-your-customer” and anti-money laundering rules and
regulations, including the Patriot Act.
5.2    Conditions to Each Extension of Credit. The agreement of each Lender to
make any Extension of Credit requested to be made by it on any date (including
its initial Extension of Credit) is subject to the satisfaction of the following
conditions precedent:
(a)    Representations and Warranties. Each of the representations and
warranties made by any Borrower in the Loan Documents shall be true and correct
in all material respects on and as of such date as if made on and as of such
date (except where such representation and warranty speaks of a specific date in
which case such representation and warranty shall be true and correct as of such
date and except for Section 4.6), provided with respect to the issuance of any
Secured Letter of Credit, this clause (a) shall not be applicable to the
representation and warranty set forth in Section 4.2.
(b)    No Default. No Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be
continuing on such date or after giving effect to the Extensions of Credit
requested to be made on such date.
(c)    Company Guarantee. The obligations of the Company under Section 10 in
respect of the Obligations of any other Borrower to or on behalf of which such
Extension of Credit is to be made shall remain in full force and effect.
Each borrowing by and issuance of a Letter of Credit on behalf of any Borrower
hereunder shall constitute a representation and warranty by such Borrower as of
the date of such Extension of Credit that the conditions contained in this
Section 5.2 have been satisfied.
5.3    Conditions for Additional Subsidiary Borrowers. Any Material Subsidiary
set forth in a written notification thereof delivered by the Company to the
Administrative Agent shall become a Subsidiary Borrower on the date that the
following conditions precedent shall have been satisfied:
(a)    Counterparts. The Administrative Agent shall have received a Subsidiary
Borrower Agreement duly executed by such Subsidiary Borrower substantially in
the form of Exhibit I.
(b)    Closing Certificate; Certified Certificate of Incorporation; Good
Standing Certificates. The Administrative Agent shall have received (i) a
certificate of such Subsidiary Borrower substantially in the form of Exhibit
B-2, with appropriate insertions and attachments, including the Memorandum of
Association, Articles of Incorporation or other organizational documents for
such Subsidiary Borrower certified by the appropriate Governmental Authority of
such Subsidiary Borrower’s relevant jurisdiction of organization and the By-laws
(or equivalent) for such Subsidiary Borrower and (ii) a certificate of
compliance/good standing for such Subsidiary Borrower from its jurisdiction of
organization.
(c)    Legal Opinions. The Administrative Agent shall have received an executed
legal opinion of counsel to each Subsidiary Borrower in each jurisdiction
reasonably requested by the Administrative Agent. Each such legal opinion shall
cover such other matters incident to the transactions contemplated by this
Agreement as the Administrative Agent may reasonably require.
(d)    USA Patriot Act. For purposes of compliance with the Patriot Act, the
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information with respect to such Material Subsidiary at least five Business Days
prior to its becoming a Subsidiary Borrower, in the case of any Material
Subsidiary that is both a Wholly Owned Subsidiary and a Domestic Subsidiary, and
at least ten Business Days prior to its becoming a Subsidiary Borrower, in the
case of any other Subsidiary: (i) its full legal name; (ii) the address of its
principal place of business; and (iii) if such Material Subsidiary is a Domestic
Subsidiary, its United States tax identification number.
(e)    No Objection. The Administrative Agent shall not have received, within
ten Business Days after providing notice to the Lenders of any such proposed
Subsidiary Borrower, a written objection to the designation of such proposed
Subsidiary Borrower from any Lender on the grounds that (i) lending to such
proposed Subsidiary Borrower would be illegal for such Lender, (ii) such Lender
does not have any applicable license, authority or other governmental approval
to conduct business in the applicable jurisdiction or (iii) lending to such
proposed Subsidiary Borrower would result in material costs to such Lender that
would not otherwise be reimbursed under this Agreement.
(f)    Other Information. The Administrative Agent and each Lender shall have
received such other information as it shall have reasonably requested to comply
with all applicable “know-your-customer” and anti-money laundering rules and
regulations, including the Patriot Act.
SECTION 6      AFFIRMATIVE COVENANTS

The Company hereby agrees that, so long as the Commitments remain in effect, any
Letter of Credit remains outstanding or any Loan or other amount is owing to any
Lender or the Administrative Agent hereunder, the Company shall and shall cause
each of its Subsidiaries to:
6.1    Financial Statements. Furnish to the Administrative Agent:
(a)    as soon as available, but in any event within 90 days after the end of
each fiscal year of the Company, a copy of the audited consolidated balance
sheet of the Company and its consolidated Subsidiaries as at the end of such
year and the related audited consolidated statements of comprehensive income and
of cash flows for such year, setting forth in each case in comparative form the
figures for the previous year certified by KPMG Audit Plc or other independent
certified public accountants of nationally recognized standing; and
(b)    as soon as available, but in any event not later than 45 days after the
end of each of the first three quarterly periods of each fiscal year of the
Company, the unaudited consolidated balance sheet of the Company and its
consolidated Subsidiaries as at the end of such quarter and the related
unaudited consolidated statements of comprehensive income and of cash flows for
such quarter and the portion of the fiscal year through the end of such quarter,
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Company as being fairly stated in all material respects (subject to normal
year-end audit adjustments and the absence of footnotes).
All such financial statements shall be complete and correct in all material
respects and shall be prepared in reasonable detail and in accordance with GAAP.
Documents required to be delivered pursuant to Section 6.1(a) or (b) or Section
6.2(c) (to the extent any such documents are included in materials otherwise
filed with the SEC) may be delivered electronically and, if so delivered, shall
be deemed to have been delivered on the date (i) on which the Company posts such
documents, or provides a link thereto on the Company’s website on the Internet;
or (ii) on which such documents are posted on the Company’s behalf on an
Internet or intranet website, if any, to which each Lender and the
Administrative Agent have access (whether a third-party website (such as
http://sec.gov) or whether sponsored by the Administrative Agent); provided that
the Company shall (x) except to the extent that an option to automatically
receive an e-mail alert with respect to any applicable document is available at
http://investor.aspen.co/EmailNotification(or another readily accessible page on
the Company’s website), notify the Administrative Agent and each Lender (by
telecopier or electronic mail) of the posting of any such document and (y) upon
written request, provide to the Administrative Agent by electronic mail
electronic versions (i.e., soft copies) of such documents. Notwithstanding
anything contained herein, in every instance the Company shall be required to
provide paper copies of the Compliance Certificates required by Section 6.2(a)
to the Administrative Agent. Except for such Compliance Certificates, the
Administrative Agent shall have no obligation to request the delivery or to
maintain copies of the documents referred to above, and each Lender shall be
solely responsible for maintaining its copies of such documents.
6.2    Certificates; Other Information. Furnish to the Administrative Agent (or,
in the case of clause (d), to the relevant Lender):
(a)    concurrently with the delivery of any financial statements pursuant to
Section 6.1, a certificate of a Responsible Officer of the Company stating that,
to the best of such Responsible Officer’s knowledge, each Borrower during such
period has observed or performed all of its covenants and other agreements, and
satisfied every condition contained in this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents to which it is a party to be observed, performed or satisfied by it,
and that such Responsible Officer has obtained no knowledge of any Default or
Event of Default except as specified in such certificate and a Compliance
Certificate containing all information and calculations necessary for
determining compliance by the Company with the provisions of Section 7.1 and
Section 7.9 of this Agreement as of the last day of the fiscal quarter or fiscal
year of the Company, as the case may be;
(b)    within 45 days after the end of each of the first three quarterly periods
of each fiscal year of the Company, a narrative discussion and analysis of the
consolidated financial condition and results of operations of the Company and
its Subsidiaries for such fiscal quarter and for the period from the beginning
of the then current fiscal year to the end of such fiscal quarter, as compared
to the portion of the projections covering such periods and to the comparable
periods of the previous year (it being understood that the delivery of the
management’s discussion and analysis of the Form 10-Q containing the financial
statements delivered pursuant to Section 6.1 shall satisfy the requirement of
this Section 6.2(b));
(c)    within five days after the same are sent, copies of all financial
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and, within five days after the same are filed, copies of all financial
statements and reports that the Company files with the SEC;
(d)    promptly, such additional financial and other information regarding the
business, operations and financial conditions of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries as any Lender may from time to time reasonably request; and
(e)    promptly following receipt thereof, copies of any documents described in
Sections 101(f), 101(k) or 101(l) of ERISA that any Borrower or any Commonly
Controlled Entity may request with respect to any Multiemployer Plan; provided,
that if any Borrower or any Commonly Controlled Entity has not requested such
documents or notices from the administrator or sponsor of the applicable
Multiemployer Plan, then, upon reasonable request of the Administrative Agent,
any Borrower and/or any Commonly Controlled Entity shall promptly make a request
for such documents or notices from such administrator or sponsor and the Company
shall provide copies of such documents and notices to the Administrative Agent
(on behalf of each relevant Lender) promptly after receipt thereof.
6.3    Payment of Obligations. Pay, discharge or otherwise satisfy at or before
maturity or before they become delinquent, as the case may be, all its material
obligations (including taxes) of whatever nature, except where the amount or
validity thereof is currently being contested in good faith by appropriate
proceedings and reserves in conformity with GAAP with respect thereto have been
provided on the books of the relevant Group Member or where the failure to pay,
discharge or satisfy would not reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse
Effect.
6.4    Maintenance of Existence; Compliance. (a)(i) Preserve, renew and keep in
full force and effect the organizational existence of the Company, each Material
Subsidiary and each Insurance Subsidiary and (ii) take all reasonable action to
maintain all rights, privileges and franchises necessary or desirable in the
normal conduct of its business, including all required insurance licenses of
each Material Subsidiary, except, in each case, as otherwise permitted by
Section 7.3 and except, in the case of each of clauses (i) and (ii) above, to
the extent that failure to do so could not reasonably be expected to have a
Material Adverse Effect; and (b) comply with all Requirements of Law except to
the extent that failure to comply therewith would not, in the aggregate,
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect.
6.5    Maintenance of Property; Insurance (a)  Keep all property useful and
necessary in the business of the Company, each Material Subsidiary and each
Insurance Subsidiary in good working order and condition, ordinary wear and tear
excepted and (b) maintain with financially sound and reputable insurance
companies insurance on all the property of the Company, each Material Subsidiary
and each Insurance Subsidiary in at least such amounts and against at least such
risks as are usually insured against in the same general area by companies
engaged in the same or a similar business.
6.6    Inspection of Property; Books and Records; Discussions. (a) Keep such
books of records and account as are necessary to permit the Company and its
Subsidiaries to prepare financial statements that are in conformity with GAAP
and that are in compliance with all Requirements of Law relating to the
maintenance of financial records (except, in the case of such Requirements of
Law, to the extent that the failure to comply therewith could not reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect) and (b) permit representatives of
the Administrative Agent to visit and inspect any of its properties and examine
and make abstracts from any of its books and records at any reasonable time and
as often as may reasonably be desired and to discuss the business, operations,
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certified public accountants; provided that the Company shall have an
opportunity to participate in any discussions with any public accountants.
6.7    Notices Promptly give notice to the Administrative Agent and each Lender
of:
(a)    the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default;
(b)    any (i) default or event of default under any Contractual Obligation of
any Group Member or (ii) litigation, investigation or proceeding that may exist
at any time between any Group Member and any Governmental Authority, that in
either case, if not cured or if adversely determined, as the case may be, could
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
(c)    any other development or event that has had or could reasonably be
expected to have a Material Adverse Effect; and
(d)    if a Borrower has knowledge that the aggregate Secured L/C Obligations of
such Borrower exceed the Borrowing Base of such Borrower and the Borrower has
not paid or delivered to the Custodian such cash and/or Eligible Securities
sufficient to cause the Borrowing Base of such Borrower to be at least equal to
the Secured L/C Obligations of such Borrower in accordance with Section 2.5(b).
Each notice pursuant to this Section 6.7 shall be accompanied by a statement of
a Responsible Officer setting forth details of the occurrence referred to
therein and stating what action the relevant Group Member proposes to take with
respect thereto.
6.8    Environmental Laws. Except as would not reasonably be expected to result,
individually or in the aggregate, in a Material Adverse Effect, comply with all
applicable Environmental Laws.
SECTION 7      NEGATIVE COVENANTS

The Company hereby agrees that, so long as the Commitments remain in effect, any
Letter of Credit remains outstanding or any Loan or other amount is owing to any
Lender or the Administrative Agent hereunder, the Company shall not, and shall
not permit any of its Subsidiaries to, directly or indirectly:
7.1    Financial Condition Covenants.
(a)    Consolidated Leverage Ratio. Permit the Consolidated Leverage Ratio as at
the last day of any fiscal quarter of the Company to exceed 35%.
(b)    Consolidated Tangible Net Worth. Permit Consolidated Tangible Net Worth
as at any date to be less than the sum of (i) $2,323,100,000, (ii) 25% of
Consolidated Net Income during the period from January 1, 2017 to and including
such date (if positive) and (iii) 25% of the aggregate Net Cash Proceeds of all
issuances by the Company of shares of its Capital Stock during the period from
January 1, 2017 to and including such date.
7.2    Indebtedness. With respect to the Company, create, incur, assume or
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right of payment with, or subordinated in right of payment to, the Obligations;
provided that, at the time of incurrence of such other Indebtedness, no Default
or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing or would result
therefrom.
(a)    With respect to any Subsidiary of the Company, create, incur, assume or
permit to exist any Indebtedness, except for:
(i)    Indebtedness of any Borrower pursuant to any Loan Document;
(ii)    Indebtedness of any Group Member to any other Group Member;
(iii)    Guarantee Obligations by any Group Member of obligations of any other
Group Member;
(iv)    Indebtedness outstanding on the date hereof and listed on Schedule
7.2(b)(iv) and any refinancings, refundings, renewals or extensions thereof
(without increasing, or shortening the maturity of, the principal amount
thereof, except by an amount equal to any existing commitments or increase
options unutilized thereunder);
(v)    Indebtedness (including Capital Lease Obligations) incurred in the
ordinary course of business and secured by Liens permitted by Section 7.6(h) in
an aggregate principal amount not to exceed $25,000,000 at any one time
outstanding;
(vi)    obligations (contingent or otherwise) existing or arising under any Swap
Contract; provided that such obligations are (or were) entered into by such
Subsidiary for the purpose of directly mitigating risks associated with
liabilities, commitments, investments, assets or property held or reasonably
anticipated by such Subsidiary, or changes in the value of securities issued by
such Subsidiary, and not for purposes of speculation or taking a “market view”;
(vii)    Indebtedness for letters of credit which have been issued on behalf of
any Insurance Subsidiary to or for the benefit of reinsurance cedents or
insurance clients in the ordinary course of business;
(viii)    Indebtedness of any Subsidiary incurred under securities lending
arrangements entered into in the ordinary course of business;
(ix)    Indebtedness incurred in the ordinary course of business in connection
with workers’ compensation claims, self-insurance obligations, unemployment
insurance or other forms of governmental insurance or benefits pursuant to
letters of credit or other security arrangements entered into in connection with
such insurance or benefit;
(x)    Indebtedness with respect to any Lien described in Section 7.6(p);
provided that such Indebtedness existed at the time the relevant Investment was
made and such Indebtedness was not incurred with, as a result of or in
contemplation of such Investment;
(xi)    to the extent constituting Indebtedness, any Indebtedness pursuant to
overdraft facilities in the ordinary course of business and consistent with past
practice; and
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otherwise permitted under this Section 7.2(b) in an aggregate principal amount
(for all Subsidiaries) not to exceed 10% of Consolidated Tangible Net Worth at
the time of creation, incurrence or assumption, as the case may be.
7.3    Disposition of Property. Dispose of any of its property, whether now
owned or hereafter acquired, or, in the case of any Subsidiary, issue or sell
any shares of such Subsidiary’s Capital Stock to any Person, except:
(a)    transactions in the ordinary course of business involving current assets
or other assets classified in the Company’s balance sheet as available for sale
or trading (as defined in FAS 115), including the disposition in the ordinary
course of business of any assets in its investment portfolio;
(b)    the Disposition of obsolete, worn out or surplus property in the ordinary
course of business;
(c)    the sale of inventory in the ordinary course of business;
(d)    the license (as licensor) of intellectual property so long as such
license does not materially interfere with the business of the Company or any of
its Subsidiaries;
(e)    the release, surrender or waiver of contract, tort or other claims of any
kind as a result of the settlement of any litigation or threatened litigation;
(f)    the granting or existence of Liens (and foreclosure thereon) not
prohibited by this Agreement;
(g)    the lease or sublease of real property so long as such lease or sublease
does not materially interfere with the business of the Company or any of its
Subsidiaries;
(h)    dividends not prohibited by Section 7.4;
(i)    any ceding of insurance or reinsurance in the ordinary course of
business;
(j)    Dispositions permitted by Section 7.10(d)(i);
(k)    the sale or issuance of any Subsidiary’s Capital Stock to any Borrower;
(l)    Dispositions of the equity interests in a Subsidiary to a Wholly Owned
Subsidiary of the Company; and
(m)    Dispositions of other property during any fiscal year of the Company
having an aggregate fair market value not to exceed 10% of the consolidated
assets of the Company and its Subsidiaries as of the last day of the prior
fiscal year of the Company;.
7.4    Restricted Payments. Declare or pay any dividend (other than dividends
payable solely in common stock of the Person making such dividend) on, or make
any payment on account of, or set apart assets for a sinking or other analogous
fund for, the purchase, redemption, defeasance, retirement or other acquisition
of, any Capital Stock of any Group Member (excluding (i) the 7.25% Perpetual
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Cumulative Preference Shares issued by the Company in May of 2013 and (iii) any
other Hybrid Capital), whether now or hereafter outstanding, or make any other
distribution in respect thereof, either directly or indirectly, whether in cash
or property or in obligations of any Group Member (collectively, “Restricted
Payments”), except that (a) any Subsidiary may make Restricted Payments to any
Group Member and (b) so long as no Default or Event of Default shall have
occurred and be continuing or would result therefrom, the Company may make
Restricted Payments.
7.5    Investments. Make any advance, loan, extension of credit (by way of
guaranty or otherwise) or capital contribution to, or purchase any Capital
Stock, bonds, notes, debentures or other debt securities of, or any assets
constituting a business unit of, or make any other investment in, any Person
(all of the foregoing, “Investments”), except:
(a)    extensions of trade credit in the ordinary course of business;
(b)    investments in Cash Equivalents;
(c)    investments in securities lending arrangements entered into in the
ordinary course of business;
(d)    Guarantee Obligations permitted by Section 7.2;
(e)    loans and advances to employees of any Group Member in the ordinary
course of business (including for travel, entertainment and relocation expenses)
in an aggregate amount for all Group Members not to exceed $5,000,000 at any one
time outstanding;
(f)    intercompany Investments by any Group Member in any other Group Member;
(g)    acquisitions of all or substantially all of the Capital Stock or assets
of another Person so long as at such time and immediately after giving effect
thereto no Default or Event of Default exists or would result therefrom;
(h)    (i) Investments by Insurance Subsidiaries in the ordinary course of
business and (ii) Investments by the Company and its Subsidiaries that are not
Insurance Subsidiaries in Investments that, if made by an Insurance Subsidiary,
would be permitted by clause (i) immediately preceding;
(i)    Investments of any Person at the time such Person becomes a Subsidiary
and any modification, replacement, renewal or extension thereof; provided such
Investment was not made in connection with or anticipation of such Person
becoming a Subsidiary;
(j)    Investments listed on Schedule 7.5 hereto;
(k)    Investments in any ILS Entity; and
(l)    in addition to Investments otherwise expressly permitted by this Section,
Investments by the Company or any of its Subsidiaries in an aggregate amount
during the term of this Agreement (valued at cost, but giving effect to any
distributions or returns therefrom) not to exceed 20 % of Consolidated Tangible
Net Worth at the time any such Investment is made.
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(a)    Liens for taxes not yet due or that are being contested in good faith by
appropriate proceedings, provided that adequate reserves with respect thereto
are maintained on the books of the Company or its Subsidiaries, as the case may
be, in conformity with GAAP;
(b)    carriers’, warehousemen’s, mechanics’, materialmen’s, repairmen’s or
other like Liens arising in the ordinary course of business that are not overdue
for a period of more than 30 days or that are being contested in good faith by
appropriate proceedings;
(c)    pledges or deposits in connection with workers’ compensation,
unemployment insurance and other social security legislation;
(d)    deposits to secure the performance of bids, trade contracts (other than
for borrowed money), leases, statutory obligations, surety and appeal bonds,
performance bonds and other obligations of a like nature incurred in the
ordinary course of business;
(e)    Liens on assets of any Insurance Subsidiary pledged as collateral for
Indebtedness of such Insurance Subsidiary incurred under Section 7.2(b)(vii);
(f)    Liens on assets of any Insurance Subsidiary created to secure obligations
of such Insurance Subsidiary in connection with insurance and reinsurance
arrangements;
(g)    easements, rights-of-way, restrictions and other similar encumbrances
incurred in the ordinary course of business that, in the aggregate, are not
substantial in amount and that do not in any case materially detract from the
value of the property subject thereto or materially interfere with the ordinary
conduct of the business of the Company or any of its Subsidiaries;
(h)    Liens securing Indebtedness of the Company or any Subsidiary incurred
pursuant to Section 7.2(a) or Section 7.2(b)(v) to finance the acquisition,
construction or improvement of fixed or capital assets, provided that (i) such
Liens shall be created substantially simultaneously with the acquisition,
construction or improvement of such fixed or capital assets, (ii) such Liens do
not at any time encumber any property other than the property financed by such
Indebtedness, and (iii) the aggregate amount of all such Indebtedness of all
Subsidiaries does not exceed the limit set forth in Section 7.2(b)(v);
(i)    Liens created pursuant to the Security Documents;
(j)    any interest or title of a lessor under any lease entered into by the
Company or any other Subsidiary in the ordinary course of its business and
covering only the assets so leased;
(k)    Liens (including Liens in favor of the Custodian with respect to the
Accounts) on cash and securities of any Group Member incurred as part of the
management of its investment portfolio in accordance with customary portfolio
management practice and not in violation of its investment policy as in effect
on the date of this Agreement; provided, however, that, with respect to the
Accounts, such Liens shall be permitted only to the extent that the Custodian
has agreed to subordinate such Liens as provided in the applicable Collateral
Account Control Agreement;
(l)    Liens existing on the date hereof and listed on Schedule 7.6;
(m)    Liens arising in the ordinary course of business on operating accounts
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Indebtedness) arising in the ordinary course of business in favor of the banks
in which such operating accounts are maintained;
(n)    attachments, judgments and similar Liens for sums not exceeding
$50,000,000 in the aggregate (excluding any portion thereof covered by insurance
as to which the relevant insurance company has acknowledged coverage);
(o)    attachments, judgments and similar Liens for sums of $50,000,000 or more
(excluding any portion thereof which is covered by insurance as to which the
relevant insurance company has acknowledged coverage), provided that the
execution or other enforcement of such Liens is stayed and fully bonded pending
appeal;
(p)    any Lien existing on property acquired in connection with an Investment
made in connection with Section 7.5, provided that such Lien shall extend solely
to the item or items of property so acquired and, if required by the terms of
the instrument originally creating such Lien, other property which is an
improvement to or is acquired for specific use in connection with such acquired
property;
(q)    restrictions and similar encumbrances created pursuant to Requirements of
Law upon the sale or transferability of the Capital Stock of any Insurance
Subsidiary and the exercise of any right to control any such Insurance
Subsidiary
(r)    Liens securing Swap Contracts of any Subsidiary of the Company;
(s)    Liens securing obligations of the Borrowers under any secured letter of
credit facility existing on the Closing Date;
(t)    any extension, renewal or replacement of any Lien permitted by the
preceding subparagraphs of this Section 7.6, provided that no additional
property (other than a substitution of like property) shall be encumbered
thereby and no additional Indebtedness shall be secured thereby unless such
additional Indebtedness on such property would have been permitted in connection
with the original creation, incurrence or assumption of such Lien; and
(u)    other Liens securing obligations not at any time exceeding 10% of
Consolidated Tangible Net Worth in the aggregate for the Company and all
Subsidiaries.
For the avoidance of doubt, Liens made pursuant to Section 430(k) of the Code or
Section 303(k) of ERISA shall not be permitted Liens.
7.7    Clauses Restricting Subsidiary Distributions. Enter into or suffer to
exist or become effective any consensual encumbrance or restriction on the
ability of any Subsidiary of the Company to (a) make Restricted Payments in
respect of any Capital Stock of such Subsidiary held by, or pay any Indebtedness
owed to, the Company or any other Subsidiary of the Company, (b) make loans or
advances to, or other Investments in, the Company or any other Subsidiary of the
Company or (c) transfer any of its assets to the Company or any other Subsidiary
of the Company, except for such encumbrances or restrictions existing under or
by reason of (i) any restrictions existing under the Loan Documents and (ii) any
restrictions with respect to a Subsidiary imposed pursuant to an agreement that
has been entered into in connection with the Disposition of all or substantially
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7.8    Business. Enter into any business, either directly or through any
Subsidiary, except for insurance, reinsurance or insurance-related businesses.
7.9    Rating. Permit at any time the rating of any Relevant Subsidiary that is
rated by AM Best to have a rating below AM Best financial strength rating B++.
For purposes herein, a “Relevant Subsidiary” is any Insurance Subsidiary the
total consolidated assets or total consolidated revenues of which exceed 10% of
the total consolidated assets or total consolidated revenues, respectively, of
the Company and its Subsidiaries at the end of or for, respectively, the then
most recently completed fiscal quarter of the Company for which financial
statements shall have been made available to the Lenders as required herein.
7.10    Consolidations, Amalgamations, Mergers and Liquidations. Enter into any
merger, consolidation or amalgamation, or liquidate, wind up or dissolve itself
(or suffer any liquidation or dissolution), or Dispose of all or substantially
all of its property or business, except for (a) the merger or consolidation of
any Subsidiary of the Company with or into the Company (provided that the
Company shall be the continuing or surviving corporation); (b) the merger or
consolidation by any Borrower with or into any other Borrower; (c) the merger or
consolidation of any Subsidiary of the Company which is not a Borrower with or
into any other Subsidiary of the Company which is not a Borrower or with or into
any Borrower (provided that the Borrower is the surviving corporation); (d) the
Disposition by any Subsidiary of the Company of any or all of its assets (i) to
any Borrower (upon voluntary liquidation or otherwise) or (ii) pursuant to a
Disposition permitted by Section 7.3; and (e) the merger or consolidation by any
Person (other than as set forth above) with or into the Company or any other
Borrower (provided that the Company or such Borrower is the continuing or
surviving corporation) so long as at the time of such merger or consolidation
and immediately after giving effect thereto no Default or Event of Default
exists or would result therefrom.
7.11    Transactions with Affiliates. Sell, lease or otherwise transfer any
property or assets to, or purchase, lease or otherwise acquire any property or
assets from, or otherwise engage in any other transactions with, any of its
Affiliates, except (a) transactions that (i) are in the ordinary course of
business and (ii) are at prices and on terms and conditions not less favorable
to the applicable Borrower or such Subsidiary than could be obtained on an
arm’s-length basis from unrelated third parties, (b) transactions between or
among any Borrower and any other Borrower not involving any other Affiliate and
(c) transactions with any ILS Entity.
SECTION 8      EVENTS OF DEFAULT

If any of the following events shall occur and be continuing:
(a)    any Borrower shall fail to pay any principal of any Loan or any
Reimbursement Obligation when due in accordance with the terms hereof; or any
Borrower shall fail to pay any interest on any Loan or any other amount payable
hereunder or under any other Loan Document, within five Business Days after any
such interest or other amount becomes due in accordance with the terms hereof;
or
(b)    any representation or warranty made or deemed made by any Borrower herein
or in any other Loan Document or that is contained in any certificate, document
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Loan Document shall prove to have been inaccurate in any material respect on or
as of the date made or deemed made; or
(c)    any Borrower shall default in the observance or performance of any
agreement contained in Section 6.4(a) (with respect to the Borrowers only),
Section 6.7(a) or Section 7 of this Agreement; or
(d)    any Borrower shall default in the observance or performance of any other
agreement contained in this Agreement or any other Loan Document (other than as
provided in paragraphs (a) through (c) of this Section), and such default shall
continue unremedied for a period of 30 days after notice to the Company from the
Administrative Agent or the Required Lenders; or
(e)    any Group Member shall (i) default in making any payment of any principal
of any Indebtedness (including any Guarantee Obligation, but excluding the
Loans) on the scheduled or original due date with respect thereto; or (ii)
default in making any payment of any interest on any such Indebtedness beyond
the period of grace, if any, provided in the instrument or agreement under which
such Indebtedness was created; or (iii) default in the observance or performance
of any other agreement or condition relating to any such Indebtedness or
contained in any instrument or agreement evidencing, securing or relating
thereto, or any other event shall occur or condition exist, the effect of which
default or other event or condition is to cause, or to permit the holder or
beneficiary of such Indebtedness (or a trustee or agent on behalf of such holder
or beneficiary) to cause, with the giving of notice if required, such
Indebtedness to become due prior to its stated maturity; provided, that a
default, event or condition described in clause (i), (ii) or (iii) of this
paragraph (e) shall not at any time constitute an Event of Default unless, at
such time, one or more defaults, events or conditions of the type described in
clauses (i), (ii) and (iii) of this paragraph (e) shall have occurred and be
continuing with respect to Indebtedness the outstanding principal amount of
which exceeds in the aggregate $50,000,000; or
(f)    (i) the Company or any Material Subsidiary shall commence any case,
proceeding or other action (A) under any existing or future law of any
jurisdiction, domestic or foreign, relating to bankruptcy, insolvency,
reorganization or relief of debtors, seeking to have an order for relief entered
with respect to it, or seeking to adjudicate it a bankrupt or insolvent, or
seeking reorganization, arrangement, adjustment, winding‑up, liquidation,
dissolution, composition or other relief with respect to it or its debts, or (B)
seeking appointment of a receiver, trustee, custodian, conservator or other
similar official for it or for all or any substantial part of its assets, or the
Company or any Material Subsidiary shall make a general assignment for the
benefit of its creditors; or (ii) there shall be commenced against the Company
or any Material Subsidiary any case, proceeding or other action of a nature
referred to in clause (i) above that (A) results in the entry of an order for
relief or any such adjudication or appointment or (B) remains undismissed,
undischarged or unbonded for a period of 60 days; or (iii) there shall be
commenced against the Company or any Material Subsidiary any case, proceeding or
other action seeking issuance of a warrant of attachment, execution, distraint
or similar process against all or any substantial part of its assets that
results in the entry of an order for any such relief that shall not have been
vacated, discharged, or stayed or bonded pending appeal within 60 days from the
entry thereof; or (iv) the Company or any Material Subsidiary shall take any
action in furtherance of, or indicating its consent to, approval of, or
acquiescence in, any of the acts set forth in clause (i), (ii), or (iii) above;
or (v) the Company or any Material Subsidiary shall generally not, or shall be
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(g)    one or more judgments or decrees shall be entered against any Group
Member, and either (x) shall not have been vacated, discharged, stayed or bonded
pending appeal within 60 days from the entry thereof or (y) enforcement
proceedings are commenced by any creditor upon such judgment or decree,
involving in the aggregate a liability (not paid or fully covered by insurance
as to which the relevant insurance company has not denied coverage) of
$50,000,000 or more; or
(h)    any Loan Document shall cease, for any reason, to be in full force and
effect or any Borrower shall so assert; or
(i)    a Change of Control shall occur; or
(j)    (i) any Single Employer Plan shall fail to meet the minimum funding
standards (within the meaning of Sections 412 or 430 of the Code or Section 302
of ERISA), whether or not waived, or any Lien in favor of the PBGC or a Single
Employer Plan shall arise on the assets of any Group Member or any Commonly
Controlled Entity, (ii) a Reportable Event shall occur with respect to, or
proceedings shall commence to have a trustee appointed, or a trustee shall be
appointed, to administer or to terminate, any Single Employer Plan, which
Reportable Event or commencement of proceedings or appointment of a trustee is,
in the reasonable opinion of the Required Lenders, likely to result in the
termination of such Single Employer Plan for purposes of Title IV of ERISA,
(iii) any Single Employer Plan shall terminate for purposes of Title IV of ERISA
(other than a standard termination within the meaning of Section 4041(b) of
ERISA), (iv) there shall be a determination that any Single Employer Plan is, or
is expected to be, in “at risk” status (within the meaning of Section 430 of the
Code or Section 303 of ERISA); (v) any Group Member or any Commonly Controlled
Entity shall, or in the reasonable opinion of the Required Lenders is likely to,
incur any liability in connection with a withdrawal from, or the Insolvency of,
a Multiemployer Plan or a determination that any such Multiemployer Plan is in
“endangered” or “critical” status (within the meaning of Section 432 of the Code
or Section 305 of ERISA), or (vi) any other event or condition shall occur or
exist with respect to a Plan; and in each case in clauses (i) through (vi)
above, such event or condition, together with all other such events or
conditions, if any, could, in the sole judgment of the Required Lenders,
reasonably be expected to have a Material Adverse Effect;
then, and in any such event, (A) if such event is an Event of Default specified
in clause (i) or (ii) of paragraph (f) above with respect to any Borrower,
automatically the Commitments shall immediately terminate and the Loans (with
accrued interest thereon) and all other amounts owing under this Agreement and
the other Loan Documents (including all amounts of L/C Obligations, whether or
not the beneficiaries of the then outstanding Letters of Credit shall have
presented the documents required thereunder) shall immediately become due and
payable, and (B) if such event is any other Event of Default, any or all of the
following actions may be taken: (i) with the consent of the Required Lenders,
the Administrative Agent may, or upon the request of the Required Lenders, the
Administrative Agent shall, by notice to the Company declare the Commitments to
be terminated forthwith, whereupon the Commitments shall immediately terminate;
(ii) with the consent of the Required Lenders, the Administrative Agent may, or
upon the request of the Required Lenders, the Administrative Agent shall, by
notice to the Company, declare the Loans (with accrued interest thereon) and all
other amounts owing under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents (including
all amounts of L/C Obligations, whether or not the beneficiaries of the then
outstanding Letters of Credit shall have presented the documents required
thereunder) to be due and payable forthwith, whereupon the same shall
immediately become due and payable and (iii) with the consent of the Required
Lenders, the Administrative Agent may, or upon the request of the Required
Lenders, the Administrative Agent shall direct the Collateral Agent to exercise
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Documents, subject to the provisions of Section 9.5(b) below. With respect to
each Letter of Credit issued on behalf of any Borrower with respect to which
presentment for honor shall not have occurred at the time of an acceleration
pursuant to this paragraph, such Borrower shall at such time deposit in a cash
collateral account opened by the Administrative Agent an amount in the currency
in which such Letter of Credit is denominated equal to the aggregate then
undrawn and unexpired amount of such Letter of Credit. Amounts held in each such
cash collateral account shall be applied by the Administrative Agent to the
payment of drafts drawn under such Letter of Credit in accordance with the terms
and conditions set forth in Section 3, and the unused portion thereof after all
Letters of Credit issued on behalf of such Borrower shall have expired or been
fully drawn upon, if any, shall be applied to repay other obligations of such
Borrower hereunder and under the other Loan Documents. After all Letters of
Credit of such Borrower shall have expired or been fully drawn upon, all
Reimbursement Obligations shall have been satisfied and all other obligations of
such Borrower hereunder and under the other Loan Documents shall have been paid
in full, the balance, if any, in such cash collateral account shall be returned
to such Borrower (or such other Person as may be lawfully entitled thereto).
Except as expressly provided above in this Section, presentment, demand, protest
and all other notices of any kind are hereby expressly waived by the Borrowers.
SECTION 9      THE AGENTS

9.1    Appointment. Each Lender hereby irrevocably designates and appoints the
Administrative Agent as the agent of such Lender under this Agreement and the
other Loan Documents and the Collateral Agent as the agent of such Lender and
the Administrative Agent under the Security Agreement, and each such Lender
irrevocably authorizes the Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent, as the
case may be, in such capacities, to take such action on its behalf under the
provisions of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, as applicable, and to
exercise such powers and perform such duties as are expressly delegated to the
Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent, as the case may be, by the terms
of this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, as applicable, together with
such other powers as are reasonably incidental thereto. Notwithstanding any
provision to the contrary elsewhere in this Agreement, neither the
Administrative Agent nor the Collateral Agent shall have any duties or
responsibilities, except those expressly set forth herein, or any fiduciary
relationship with any Lender, and no implied covenants, functions,
responsibilities, duties, obligations or liabilities shall be read into this
Agreement or any other Loan Document or otherwise exist against the
Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent.
The Administrative Agent and each Lender understand and agree that all Liens
created by the Security Agreement on the Collateral have been created in favor
of the Collateral Agent, for the benefit of the Administrative Agent and the
Lenders, that all rights to take remedial action with respect to the Collateral
under the Security Agreement have been granted to the Collateral Agent and that
neither the Administrative Agent nor any Lender has the right to take any such
remedial action with respect to the Collateral other than through the Collateral
Agent.
9.2    Delegation of Duties. The Administrative Agent and the Collateral Agent
may each execute any of its duties under this Agreement and the other Loan
Documents by or through agents or attorneys‑in‑fact and shall be entitled to
advice of counsel concerning all matters pertaining to such duties. Neither the
Administrative Agent nor the Collateral Agent shall be responsible for the
negligence or misconduct of any agents or attorneys-in‑fact selected by it with
reasonable care.
9.3    Exculpatory Provisions. Neither any Agent nor any of their respective
officers, directors, employees, agents, attorneys‑in‑fact or affiliates shall be
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or omitted to be taken by it or such Person under or in connection with this
Agreement or any other Loan Document (except to the extent the action or
omission was performed with gross negligence or willful misconduct as determined
by a final and nonappealable decision of a court of competent jurisdiction) or
(ii) responsible in any manner to any of the Lenders for any recitals,
statements, representations or warranties made by any Borrower or any officer
thereof contained in this Agreement or any other Loan Document or in any
certificate, report, statement or other document referred to or provided for in,
or received by the Agents under or in connection with, this Agreement or any
other Loan Document or for the value, validity, effectiveness, genuineness,
enforceability or sufficiency of this Agreement or any other Loan Document or
for any failure of any Borrower party thereto to perform its obligations
hereunder or thereunder. The Collateral Agent shall not be liable for any action
taken or omitted (i) at the express direction of the Administrative Agent or
(ii) with the consent of the Required Lenders, in each case, except to the
extent the action or omission directed or consented to was performed with gross
negligence or willful misconduct as determined by a final and nonappealable
decision of a court of competent jurisdiction. The Agents shall not be under any
obligation to any Lender to ascertain or to inquire as to the observance or
performance of any of the agreements contained in, or conditions of, this
Agreement or any other Loan Document, or to inspect the properties, books or
records of any Borrower.
9.4    Reliance.      The Administrative Agent shall be entitled to rely, and
shall be fully protected in relying, upon any instrument, writing, resolution,
notice, consent, certificate, affidavit, letter, telecopy, telex or teletype
message, statement, order or other document or conversation believed by it to be
genuine and correct and to have been signed, sent or made by the proper Person
or Persons and upon advice and statements of legal counsel (including counsel to
the Borrowers), independent accountants and other experts selected by the
Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent may deem and treat the payee of
any Note as the owner thereof for all purposes unless a written notice of
assignment, negotiation or transfer thereof shall have been filed with the
Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent shall be fully justified in
failing or refusing to take any action under this Agreement or any other Loan
Document unless it shall first receive such advice or concurrence of the
Required Lenders (or, if so specified by this Agreement, all Lenders) as it
deems appropriate or it shall first be indemnified to its satisfaction by the
Lenders against any and all liability and expense that may be incurred by it by
reason of taking or continuing to take any such action. The Administrative Agent
shall in all cases be fully protected in acting, or in refraining from acting
under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents in accordance with a request
of the Required Lenders (or, if so specified by this Agreement, all Lenders) and
such request and any action taken or failure to act pursuant thereto shall be
binding upon all the Lenders and all future holders of the Loans.
(a)    The Collateral Agent shall be entitled to rely, and shall be fully
protected in relying, upon any instrument, writing, resolution, notice, consent,
certificate, affidavit, letter, telecopy, telex or teletype message, statement,
order or other document or conversation believed by it to be genuine and correct
and to have been signed, sent or made by the proper Person or Persons and upon
advice and statements of legal counsel (including counsel to the Borrowers),
independent accountants and other experts selected by the Collateral Agent. The
Collateral Agent may deem and treat the payee of any Note as the owner thereof
for all purposes unless a written notice of assignment, negotiation or transfer
thereof shall have been filed with the Administrative Agent. The Collateral
Agent shall be fully justified in failing or refusing to take any action under
any Security Document unless it shall first receive the direction of the
Administrative Agent under Section 8 or such advice or concurrence of the
Required Lenders (or, if so specified by this Agreement, all Lenders) as it
deems appropriate or it shall first be indemnified to its satisfaction by the
Lenders against any and all liability and expense that may be incurred by it by
reason of taking or continuing to take any such action. The Collateral Agent
shall in all cases be fully protected in acting, or in refraining from acting,
under the Security Agreement at the direction of the Administrative Agent under
Section 8 or in accordance with a request of the Required Lenders (or, if so
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and any action taken or failure to act pursuant thereto shall be binding upon
all the Lenders and all future holders of the Loans.
9.5    Notice of Default.      The Administrative Agent shall not be deemed to
have knowledge or notice of the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default
unless it has received notice from a Lender or the Company referring to this
Agreement, describing such Default or Event of Default and stating that such
notice is a “notice of default”. In the event that the Administrative Agent
receives such a notice, the Administrative Agent shall give notice thereof to
the Lenders. The Administrative Agent shall take action with respect to such
Default or Event of Default as shall be directed by the Required Lenders (or, if
so specified by this Agreement, all Lenders); provided that unless and until the
Administrative Agent shall have received such directions, the Administrative
Agent may (but shall not be obligated to) take such action, or refrain from
taking such action, with respect to such Default or Event of Default as it shall
deem advisable in the best interests of the Lenders.
(a)    The Collateral Agent shall not be deemed to have knowledge or notice of
the occurrence of any Default or Event of Default unless it has received notice
from the Administrative Agent, a Lender or the Company referring to this
Agreement, describing such Default or Event of Default and stating that such
notice is a “notice of default”. The Collateral Agent shall take action with
respect to such Default or Event of Default as shall be directed by the
Administrative Agent under Section 8, or by the Required Lenders (or, if so
specified by this Agreement, all Lenders); provided that unless and until the
Collateral Agent shall have received such directions, the Collateral Agent may
(but shall not be obligated to) take such action, or refrain from taking such
action, with respect to such Default or Event of Default as it shall deem
advisable in the best interests of the Lenders.
9.6    Non-Reliance on Agents and Other Lenders. Each Lender expressly
acknowledges that neither the Agents nor any of their respective officers,
directors, employees, agents, attorneys‑in‑fact or affiliates have made any
representations or warranties to it and that no act by any Agent hereafter
taken, including any review of the affairs of a Borrower or any affiliate of a
Borrower, shall be deemed to constitute any representation or warranty by any
Agent to any Lender. Each Lender represents to the Agents that it has,
independently and without reliance upon any Agent or any other Lender, and based
on such documents and information as it has deemed appropriate, made its own
appraisal of and investigation into the business, operations, property,
financial and other condition and creditworthiness of the Borrowers and their
affiliates and made its own decision to make its Loans hereunder and enter into
this Agreement. Each Lender also represents that it will, independently and
without reliance upon any Agent or any other Lender, and based on such documents
and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time, continue to make its
own credit analysis, appraisals and decisions in taking or not taking action
under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, and to make such
investigation as it deems necessary to inform itself as to the business,
operations, property, financial and other condition and creditworthiness of the
Borrowers and their affiliates. Except for notices, reports and other documents
expressly required to be furnished to the Lenders by the Administrative Agent
hereunder, neither the Administrative Agent nor the Collateral Agent shall have
any duty or responsibility to provide any Lender with any credit or other
information concerning the business, operations, property, condition (financial
or otherwise), prospects or creditworthiness of any Borrower or any affiliate of
a Borrower that may come into the possession of the Administrative Agent or the
Collateral Agent or any of its respective officers, directors, employees,
agents, attorneys‑in‑fact or affiliates.
9.7    Indemnification.      The Lenders agree to indemnify each Agent (other
than the Collateral Agent) in its capacity as such (to the extent not reimbursed
by the Borrowers and without limiting the obligation of each Borrower to do so),
ratably according to their respective Aggregate Exposure Percentages in effect
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is sought after the date upon which the Commitments shall have terminated and
the Loans shall have been paid in full, ratably in accordance with such
Aggregate Exposure Percentages immediately prior to such date), from and against
any and all liabilities, obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions,
judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any kind whatsoever that
may at any time (whether before or after the payment of the Loans) be imposed
on, incurred by or asserted against such Agent in any way relating to or arising
out of, the Commitments, this Agreement, any of the other Loan Documents or any
documents contemplated by or referred to herein or therein or the transactions
contemplated hereby or thereby or any action taken or omitted by such Agent
under or in connection with any of the foregoing; provided that no Lender shall
be liable for the payment of any portion of such liabilities, obligations,
losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or
disbursements that are found by a final and nonappealable decision of a court of
competent jurisdiction to have resulted from such Agent’s gross negligence or
willful misconduct. The agreements in this Section shall survive the payment of
the Loans and all other amounts payable hereunder.
(a)    The Lenders agree to indemnify the Collateral Agent in its capacity as
such (to the extent not reimbursed by the Borrowers and without limiting the
obligation of each Borrower to do so), ratably according to the respective
percentages which (i) the Aggregate Exposure of each Lender constitutes of (ii)
the Aggregate Exposure of all Lenders in effect on the date on which
indemnification is sought under this Section (or, if indemnification is sought
after the date upon which the Commitments shall have terminated and the Loans
shall have been paid in full, ratably in accordance with such percentages
immediately prior to such date), from and against any and all liabilities,
obligations, losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs,
expenses or disbursements of any kind whatsoever that may at any time (whether
before or after the payment of the Loans) be imposed on, incurred by or asserted
against the Collateral Agent in any way relating to or arising out of, the
Commitments, this Agreement, any of the other Loan Documents or any documents
contemplated by or referred to herein or therein or the transactions
contemplated hereby or thereby or any action taken or omitted by the Collateral
Agent under or in connection with any of the foregoing; provided that no Lender
shall be liable for the payment of any portion of such liabilities, obligations,
losses, damages, penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or
disbursements that are found by a final and nonappealable decision of a court of
competent jurisdiction to have resulted from the Collateral Agent’s gross
negligence or willful misconduct. The agreements in this Section shall survive
the payment of the Loans and all other amounts payable hereunder.
9.8    Agent in Its Individual Capacity. Each Agent and its affiliates may make
loans to, accept deposits from and generally engage in any kind of business with
any Borrower as though such Agent were not an Agent. With respect to its Loans
made or renewed by it and with respect to any Letter of Credit issued or
participated in by it, each Agent shall have the same rights and powers under
this Agreement and the other Loan Documents as any Lender and may exercise the
same as though it were not an Agent, and the terms “Lender” and “Lenders” shall
include each Agent in its individual capacity.
9.9    Successor Administrative Agent and Collateral Agent.
(a)    The Administrative Agent may resign as Administrative Agent upon 30 days’
notice to the Lenders and the Company. If the Administrative Agent shall resign
as Administrative Agent under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents, then
the Required Lenders shall appoint from among the Lenders a successor agent for
the Lenders, which successor agent shall (unless an Event of Default under
Section 8(a) or Section 8(f) with respect to any Borrower shall have occurred
and be continuing) be subject to approval by the Company (which approval shall
not be unreasonably withheld or delayed), whereupon such successor agent shall
succeed to the rights, powers and duties of the Administrative Agent and the
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the former Administrative Agent’s rights, powers and duties as Administrative
Agent shall be terminated, without any other or further act or deed on the part
of such former Administrative Agent or any of the parties to this Agreement or
any holders of the Loans. If no successor agent has accepted appointment as
Administrative Agent by the date that is 30 days following a retiring
Administrative Agent’s notice of resignation, the retiring Administrative
Agent’s resignation shall nevertheless thereupon become effective, and the
Lenders shall assume and perform all of the duties of the Administrative Agent
hereunder until such time, if any, as the Required Lenders under this Agreement
appoint a successor agent as provided for above. After any retiring
Administrative Agent’s resignation as Administrative Agent, the provisions of
this Section 9 shall inure to its benefit as to any actions taken or omitted to
be taken by it while it was Administrative Agent under this Agreement and the
other Loan Documents.
(b)    The Collateral Agent may resign as Collateral Agent upon 30 days’ notice
to the Lenders and the Company. In addition, the Company shall have the right
(unless a Default or Event of Default shall have occurred and be continuing) to
remove the Collateral Agent upon 30 days’ prior written notice to the
Administrative Agent. If the Collateral Agent shall resign or be removed as
Collateral Agent under this Agreement, then the Required Lenders shall appoint
from among the Lenders a successor collateral agent, which successor collateral
agent shall (unless an Event of Default under Section 8(a) or Section 8(f) with
respect to any Borrower shall have occurred and be continuing) be subject to
approval by the Company (which approval shall not be unreasonably withheld or
delayed), whereupon such successor collateral agent shall succeed to the rights,
powers and duties of the Collateral Agent and the term “Collateral Agent” shall
mean such successor collateral agent effective upon such appointment and
approval, and the former Collateral Agent’s rights, powers and duties as
Collateral Agent shall be terminated, without any other or further act or deed
on the part of such former Collateral Agent or any of the parties to this
Agreement or any holders of the Loans. If no successor collateral agent has
accepted appointment as Collateral Agent by the date that is 30 days following a
retiring Collateral Agent’s notice of resignation or the Administrative Agent’s
receipt of a notice of removal, the retiring Collateral Agent (after
consultation with the Company) may appoint a financial institution rated at
least ‘A’ by S&P or ‘A’ by Moody’s, as a successor collateral agent, whereupon
such successor collateral agent shall succeed to the rights, powers and duties
of the Collateral Agent and the term “Collateral Agent” shall mean such
successor collateral agent effective upon such appointment, and the former
Collateral Agent’s rights, powers and duties as Collateral Agent shall be
terminated, without any other or further act or deed on the part of such former
Collateral Agent or any of the parties to this Agreement or any holders of the
Loans. After any retiring Collateral Agent’s resignation or removal as
Collateral Agent, the provisions of this Section 9 shall inure to its benefit as
to any actions taken or omitted to be taken by it while it was Collateral Agent
under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents.
(c)    Any resignation by Barclays Bank PLC as Administrative Agent pursuant to
this Section 9.9 shall also constitute its resignation as the L/C Administrator.
Upon the acceptance of a successor’s appointment as Administrative Agent
hereunder, (a) such successor shall succeed to and become vested with all of the
rights, powers, privileges and duties of the L/C Administrator, (b) the retiring
L/C Administrator shall be discharged from all of its duties and obligations
hereunder or under the other Loan Documents, and (c) the successor L/C
Administrator shall issue letters of credit in substitution for the Several
Letters of Credit, if any, outstanding at the time of such succession or make
other arrangements satisfactory to the retiring L/C Administrator to effectively
assume the obligations of the retiring L/C Administrator with respect to such
Several Letters of Credit.
9.10    Security Document Matters. The Agents, the Lenders, the Issuing Lenders
and the Custodian expressly acknowledge and agree that the Security Documents
may be enforced only by the action of the Collateral Agent acting upon the
instructions of the Required Lenders or the Administrative Agent and that no
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Documents or to realize upon the security to be granted thereby, it being
understood and agreed that such rights and remedies may be exercised by the
Collateral Agent for the benefit of such Persons upon the terms of the Security
Documents.
9.11    Other Agents. The Syndication Agent and the Co-Documentation Agents
shall not have any duties or responsibilities hereunder in such capacity.
SECTION 10      GUARANTEE

10.1    Guarantee.      To induce the Lenders to execute and deliver this
Agreement and to make the Loans and issue or participate in the Letters of
Credit, and in consideration thereof, the Company hereby unconditionally and
irrevocably guarantees to the Administrative Agent, for the ratable benefit of
the Lenders and their respective successors, indorsees and assigns, the prompt
and complete payment and performance when due (whether at the stated maturity,
by acceleration or otherwise) of the Obligations of the Subsidiary Borrowers,
and the Company further agrees to pay the expenses which may be paid or incurred
by the Administrative Agent or the Lenders in collecting any or all of the
Obligations and/or enforcing any rights under this Section 10.1 or under the
Obligations in accordance with this Section 10.1. The guarantee contained in
this Section 10.1 shall remain in full force and effect and be binding in
accordance with and to the extent of its terms upon the Company and the
successors and assigns thereof, and shall inure to the benefit of the Lenders
and their successors and permitted assigns, until the Obligations shall have
been satisfied in full and the Loans shall be terminated.
(a)    Anything herein to the contrary notwithstanding, the maximum liability of
the Company hereunder shall in no event exceed the amount which can be
guaranteed by the Company under applicable federal and state laws relating to
the insolvency of debtors.
(b)    The Company agrees to the extent permitted by applicable law that the
Obligations may at any time and from time to time exceed the amount of the
liability of the Company hereunder without impairing the guarantee contained in
this Section 10 or affecting the rights and remedies of the Administrative Agent
or any Lender hereunder.
(c)    The guarantee contained in this Section 10 shall remain in full force and
effect until all the Obligations and the obligations of the Company under the
guarantee contained in this Section 10 shall have been satisfied by payment in
full, all Letters of Credit shall have expired or been terminated and the
Commitments shall be terminated, notwithstanding that from time to time during
the term of this Agreement the Borrowers may be free from any Obligations.
(d)    No payment made by any Borrower, the Company or any other Person or
received or collected by the Administrative Agent or any Lender from any
Borrower, the Company or any other Person by virtue of any action or proceeding
or any set-off or appropriation or application at any time or from time to time
in reduction of or in payment of the Obligations shall be deemed to modify,
reduce, release or otherwise affect the liability of the Company hereunder which
shall, notwithstanding any such payment (other than any payment made by the
Company in respect of the Obligations or any payment received or collected from
the Company in respect of the Obligations), remain liable for the Obligations
until the Obligations are paid in full and the Commitments are terminated.
10.2    No Subrogation. Notwithstanding any payment made by the Company
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shall not be entitled to be subrogated to any of the rights of the
Administrative Agent or any Lender against any Borrower or any collateral
security or guarantee or right of offset held by the Administrative Agent or any
Lender for the payment of the Obligations, nor shall the Company seek or be
entitled to seek any contribution or reimbursement from any Borrower in respect
of payments made by the Company hereunder, until all amounts owing to the
Administrative Agent and the Lenders by any Borrower on account of the
Obligations are paid in full, and Letters of Credit shall have expired or been
terminated and the Commitments are terminated. If any amount shall be paid to
the Company on account of such subrogation rights at any time when all of the
Obligations shall not have been paid in full, such amount shall be held by the
Company in trust for the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, segregated from
other funds of the Company, and shall, forthwith upon receipt by the Company, be
turned over to the Administrative Agent in the exact form received by the
Company (duly indorsed by the Company to the Administrative Agent, if required),
to be applied against the Obligations, whether matured or unmatured, in such
order as the Administrative Agent may determine.
10.3    Amendments, etc. with respect to the Obligations. The Company shall
remain obligated hereunder notwithstanding that, without any reservation of
rights against the Company and without notice to or further assent by the
Company, any demand for payment of any of the Obligations made by the
Administrative Agent or any Lender may be rescinded by the Administrative Agent
or such Lender and any of the Obligations continued, and the Obligations, or the
liability of any other Person upon or for any part thereof, or any collateral
security or guarantee therefor or right of offset with respect thereto, may,
from time to time, in whole or in part, be renewed, extended, amended, modified,
accelerated, compromised, waived, surrendered or released by the Administrative
Agent or any Lender, and this Agreement and the Notes and any other documents
executed and delivered in connection therewith may be amended, modified,
supplemented or terminated, in whole or in part, as the Administrative Agent (or
the Required Lenders or all Lenders, as the case may be) may deem advisable from
time to time, and any collateral security, guarantee or right of offset at any
time held by the Administrative Agent or any Lender for the payment of the
Obligations may be sold, exchanged, waived, surrendered or released. Neither the
Administrative Agent nor any Lender shall have any obligation to protect,
secure, perfect or insure any Lien at any time held by it as security for the
Obligations or for the guarantee contained in this Section 10 or any property
subject thereto.
10.4    Guarantee Absolute and Unconditional. The Company waives any and all
notice of the creation, renewal, extension or accrual of any of the Obligations
and notice of or proof of reliance by the Administrative Agent or any Lender
upon the guarantee contained in this Section 10 or acceptance of the guarantee
contained in this Section 10; the Obligations, and any of them, shall
conclusively be deemed to have been created, contracted or incurred, or renewed,
extended, amended or waived, in reliance upon the guarantee contained in this
Section 10; and all dealings between the Borrowers and the Company, on the one
hand, and the Administrative Agent and the Lenders, on the other hand, likewise
shall be conclusively presumed to have been had or consummated in reliance upon
the guarantee contained in this Section 10. The Company waives diligence,
presentment, protest, demand for payment and notice of default or nonpayment to
or upon any Borrower or the Company with respect to the Obligations. The Company
understands and agrees that the guarantee contained in this Section 10 shall be
construed as a continuing, absolute and unconditional guarantee of payment
without regard to (a) the validity or enforceability of this Agreement or any
Note, any of the Obligations or any other collateral security therefor or
guarantee or right of offset with respect thereto at any time or from time to
time held by the Administrative Agent or any Lender, (b) any defense, set-off or
counterclaim (other than a defense of payment or performance) which may at any
time be available to or be asserted by any Borrower or any other Person against
the Administrative Agent or any Lender, or (c) any other circumstance whatsoever
(with or without notice to or knowledge of the Borrowers or the Company) which
constitutes, or might be construed to constitute, an equitable or legal
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Section 10, in bankruptcy or in any other instance. When making any demand
hereunder or otherwise pursuing its rights and remedies hereunder against the
Company, the Administrative Agent or any Lender may, but shall be under no
obligation to, make a similar demand on or otherwise pursue such rights and
remedies as it may have against any Borrower, or any other Person or against any
collateral security or guarantee for the Obligations or any right of offset with
respect thereto, and any failure by the Administrative Agent or any Lender to
make any such demand, to pursue such other rights or remedies or to collect any
payments from the Borrowers, or any other Person or to realize upon any such
collateral security or guarantee or to exercise any such right of offset, or any
release of any Borrower, or any other Person or any such collateral security,
guarantee or right of offset, shall not relieve the Company of any obligation or
liability hereunder, and shall not impair or affect the rights and remedies,
whether express, implied or available as a matter of law, of the Administrative
Agent or any Lender against the Company. For the purposes hereof “demand” shall
include the commencement and continuance of any legal proceedings.
10.5    Reinstatement. The guarantee contained in this Section 10 shall continue
to be effective, or be reinstated, as the case may be, if at any time payment,
or any part thereof, of any of the Obligations is rescinded or must otherwise be
restored or returned by the Administrative Agent or any Lender upon the
insolvency, bankruptcy, dissolution, liquidation or reorganization of any
Borrower or the Company, or upon or as a result of the appointment of a
receiver, intervenor or conservator of, or trustee or similar officer for, any
Borrower or the Company or any substantial part of its property, or otherwise,
all as though such payments had not been made.
10.6    Payments. The Company hereby guarantees that payments hereunder will be
paid to the Administrative Agent without set-off or counterclaim in the
applicable currency at the Funding Office.
10.7    Independent Obligations. The obligations of the Company under the
guarantee contained in this Section 10 are independent of the obligations of the
Borrowers, and a separate action or actions may be brought and prosecuted
against the Company whether or not any Borrower is joined in any such action or
actions. The Company waives, to the fullest extent permitted by law, the benefit
of any statute of limitations affecting its liability hereunder or the
enforcement thereof.
SECTION 11     MISCELLANEOUS

11.1    Amendments and Waivers. None of this Agreement, any other Loan Document,
or any terms hereof or thereof may be amended, supplemented or modified except
in accordance with the provisions of this Section 11.1. The Required Lenders and
each Borrower which is a party to the relevant Loan Document may, or, with the
written consent of the Required Lenders, the Administrative Agent or, as the
case may be, the Collateral Agent, and each Borrower which is a party to the
relevant Loan Document may, from time to time, (a) enter into written
amendments, supplements or modifications hereto and to the other Loan Documents
for the purpose of adding any provisions to this Agreement or the other Loan
Documents or changing in any manner the rights of the Lenders or the Agents or
of the Borrowers hereunder or thereunder or (b) waive, on such terms and
conditions as the Required Lenders or the Administrative Agent or the Collateral
Agent, as the case may be, may specify in such instrument, any of the
requirements of this Agreement or the other Loan Documents or any Default or
Event of Default and its consequences; provided, however, that no such waiver
and no such amendment, supplement or modification shall (i) forgive the
principal amount or extend the final scheduled date of maturity of any Loan,
reduce the stated rate of any interest or fee payable hereunder (except (x) in
connection with the waiver of applicability of any post-default increase in
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financial covenants in this Agreement shall not constitute a reduction in the
rate of interest or fees for purposes of this clause (i)) or extend the
scheduled date of any payment thereof, or increase the amount or extend the
expiration date of any Lender’s Commitment, in each case without the written
consent of each Lender directly affected thereby; (ii) eliminate or reduce the
voting rights of any Lender under this Section 11.1 without the written consent
of such Lender; (iii) reduce any percentage specified in the definition of
Required Lenders, consent to the assignment or transfer by the Company of any of
its rights and obligations under this Agreement and the other Loan Documents,
release the Company from any of its obligations under Section 10 with respect to
any Borrower which has any then outstanding Obligations, amend, modify or waive
any provision of Section 5.2(c), or release all or substantially all of the
Collateral (other than when permitted under the Loan Documents) or release all
or substantially all of the Borrowers from their obligations under the Security
Documents, in each case without the written consent of all Lenders; (iv) amend,
modify or waive any provision of Section 11.7 without the written consent of all
Lenders; (v) amend, modify or waive any provision of Section 2.11(a) or (b)
without the written consent of all Lenders; (vi) amend, modify or waive any
provision of Section 9 without the written consent of the Administrative Agent
and the Collateral Agent; (vii) amend, modify or waive any provision of Section
3 in any manner that is adverse to the interests of any Issuing Lender or the
L/C Administrator without the written consent of such Issuing Lender and/or LC
Administrator; (viii) amend, modify or waive any provision of Section 2.17,
without the consent of each of the Administrative Agent, each Issuing Lender and
the L/C Administrator; or (ix) amend or modify (1) the definition of “Borrowing
Base” or any defined terms used in such definition or (2) the provisions of any
Loan Document with respect to minimum Collateral requirements, in each case,
without the written consent of all Lenders. Any such waiver and any such
amendment, supplement or modification shall apply equally to each of the Lenders
and shall be binding upon the Loan Parties, the Lenders, the Administrative
Agent, the Collateral Agent and all future holders of the Loans. In the case of
any waiver, the Loan Parties, the Lenders, the Administrative Agent and the
Collateral Agent shall be restored to their former position and rights hereunder
and under the other Loan Documents, and any Default or Event of Default waived
shall be deemed to be cured and not continuing; but no such waiver shall extend
to any subsequent or other Default or Event of Default, or impair any right
consequent thereon. Notwithstanding anything herein to the contrary, the
Collateral Agent (solely in such capacity) shall agree to any amendments,
supplements, modifications or waivers as expressly directed by the
Administrative Agent, provided that the Collateral Agent need not agree to any
such amendment, supplement, modification or waiver that shall affect its rights
or duties.
11.2    Notices. All notices, requests and demands to or upon the respective
parties hereto to be effective shall be in writing (including by telecopy), and,
unless otherwise expressly provided herein, shall be deemed to have been duly
given or made when delivered, or three Business Days after being deposited in
the mail, postage prepaid, or, in the case of telecopy notice, when received,
addressed as follows in the case of the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent and
the Collateral Agent, and as set forth in an administrative questionnaire
delivered to the Administrative Agent in the case of the Issuing Lenders and the
Lenders, or to such other address as may be hereafter notified by the respective
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The Company, the Borrower Representative or any Borrower:
Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited 
141 Front Street
Hamilton HM 19 Bermuda

 
Attention: Mark Pickering
 
Telecopy: 441.297.9235
 
Telephone:441.295.8201
 
 
Administrative Agent:
Christopher M. Aitkin
745 Seventh Avenue, 25th Floor
 
New York, NY 10019
 
Telecopy: 212.526.5115
 
Telephone: 212.320.6564
 
 
with a copy to:
Christina Hill
 
700 Prides Crossing, 2nd Floor
 
Newark, DE 19713
Telephone: 302.286.1984
WSO Address: 12145455230@TLS.LDSPROD.com
 
 
Collateral Agent:
The Bank of New York Mellon
101 Barclay Street, 8W
New York, New York 10286

 
Attention: Nichole Leo
 
Telecopy: 732.667.9536
 
Telephone:  412.234.2475

provided that any notice, request or demand to or upon the Company, the
Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or the Lenders shall not be effective
until received.
Notices and other communications to the Lenders hereunder may be delivered or
furnished by electronic communications pursuant to procedures approved by the
Administrative Agent; provided that the foregoing shall not apply to notices
pursuant to Section 2 unless otherwise agreed by the Administrative Agent and
the applicable Lender. The Administrative Agent or any Borrower may, in its
discretion, agree to accept notices and other communications to it hereunder by
electronic communications pursuant to procedures approved by it; provided that
approval of such procedures may be limited to particular notices or
communications.
11.3    No Waiver; Cumulative Remedies. No failure to exercise and no delay in
exercising, on the part of the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or any
Lender, any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder or under the other Loan
Documents shall operate as a waiver thereof; nor shall any single or partial
exercise of any right, remedy, power or privilege hereunder preclude any other
or further exercise thereof or the exercise of any other right, remedy, power or
privilege. The rights, remedies, powers and privileges herein provided are
cumulative and not exclusive of any rights, remedies, powers and privileges
provided by law.
11.4    Survival of Representations and Warranties. All representations and
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pursuant hereto or in connection herewith shall survive the execution and
delivery of this Agreement and the making of the Loans and other extensions of
credit hereunder.
11.5    Payment of Expenses and Taxes. The Company agrees (a) to pay or
reimburse the Administrative Agent, the Syndication Agent and the Collateral
Agent for all its reasonable and documented or invoiced out‑of‑pocket costs and
expenses incurred in connection with the development, preparation and execution
of, and any amendment, supplement or modification to, this Agreement and the
other Loan Documents and any other documents prepared in connection herewith or
therewith, and the consummation and administration of the transactions
contemplated hereby and thereby, including the reasonable and documented or
invoiced fees and disbursements of a single counsel to each of (i) the
Administrative Agent and the Syndication Agent and (ii) the Collateral Agent,
and such other special or local counsel as the Administrative Agent may deem
reasonably necessary (and any additional counsel in the case of a conflict) and
filing and recording fees and expenses, with statements with respect to the
foregoing to be submitted to the Company prior to the Closing Date (in the case
of amounts to be paid on the Closing Date) and from time to time thereafter on a
quarterly basis or such other periodic basis as the Administrative Agent, the
Syndication Agent and the Collateral Agent shall deem appropriate, (b) to pay or
reimburse each Lender, the Administrative Agent, the Syndication Agent and the
Collateral Agent for all its reasonable and documented or invoiced costs and
expenses incurred in connection with the enforcement or preservation of any
rights under this Agreement, the other Loan Documents and any such other
documents, including the fees and disbursements of a single counsel to each of
(i) the Administrative Agent and the Lenders and (ii) the Collateral Agent, and
such other special or local counsel as the Administrative Agent may deem
reasonably necessary (and any additional counsel in the case of a conflict), (c)
to pay, indemnify, and hold each Lender, the Administrative Agent and the
Collateral Agent harmless from, any and all recording and filing fees and any
and all liabilities with respect to, or resulting from any delay in paying
stamp, excise and other taxes, if any, that may be payable or determined to be
payable in connection with the execution and delivery of, or consummation or
administration of any of the transactions contemplated by, or any amendment,
supplement or modification of, or any waiver or consent under or in respect of,
this Agreement, the other Loan Documents and any such other documents, and (d)
to pay, indemnify, and hold each Lender, any L/C Issuer, the Administrative
Agent and the Collateral Agent and their respective officers, directors,
employees, advisors, affiliates and agents (each, an “Indemnitee”) harmless from
and against any and all other liabilities, obligations, losses, damages,
penalties, actions, judgments, suits, costs, expenses or disbursements of any
kind or nature whatsoever (whether brought by a Borrower or any other Person)
with respect to the execution, delivery, enforcement, performance and
administration of this Agreement, the other Loan Documents or Letters of Credit
and any such other documents, including any of the foregoing relating to the use
of proceeds of the Loans or Letters of Credit (including any refusal by any
Issuing Bank to honor a demand for payment under a Letter of Credit if the
documents presented in connection with such demand do not strictly comply with
the terms of such Letter of Credit) or the violation of, noncompliance with or
liability under, any Environmental Law applicable to the operations of any Group
Member or any of the Properties (provided that such liability was incurred
during such time as a Group Member controlled such Properties) and the
reasonable documented or invoiced fees and expenses of legal counsel in
connection with claims, actions or proceedings by any Indemnitee against any
Borrower under any Loan Document or Letter of Credit or any actual or
prospective claim, litigation, investigation or proceeding relating to any of
the foregoing, whether based on contract, tort or any other theory, whether
brought by a third party or by the Company, and regardless of whether any
Indemnitee is a party thereto (all the foregoing in this clause (d),
collectively, the “Indemnified Liabilities”), provided, that the Company shall
have no obligation hereunder to any Indemnitee with respect to Indemnified
Liabilities to the extent such Indemnified Liabilities are found by a final and
nonappealable decision of a court of competent jurisdiction to have resulted
from the gross negligence or willful misconduct of such Indemnitee or its
affiliates. Without limiting the foregoing, and to the extent permitted by
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to assert, and hereby waives and agrees to cause its Subsidiaries to waive, all
rights for contribution from any Indemnitee or any other rights of recovery from
any Indemnitee with respect to all claims, demands, penalties, fines,
liabilities, settlements, damages, costs and expenses of whatever kind or
nature, under or related to Environmental Laws, that any of them might have by
statute or otherwise against any Indemnitee. All amounts due under this Section
11.5 shall be payable not later than 10 Business Days after written demand
therefor and shall be accompanied by a statement setting forth in reasonable
detail the source of such Indemnified Liability and the amount claimed
thereunder. Statements payable by the Company pursuant to this Section 11.5
shall be submitted to the Company, at the address of the Company set forth in
Section 11.2, or to such other Person or address as may be hereafter designated
by the Company in a written notice to the Administrative Agent. The agreements
in this Section 11.5 shall survive repayment of the Loans and all other amounts
payable hereunder.
11.6    Successors and Assigns; Participations and Assignments. (a) The
provisions of this Agreement shall be binding upon and inure to the benefit of
the parties hereto and their respective successors and assigns permitted hereby
(including any affiliate of any Issuing Lender that issues any Letter of
Credit), except that (i) no Borrower may assign or otherwise transfer any of its
rights or obligations hereunder without the prior written consent of each Lender
(and any attempted assignment or transfer by any Borrower without such consent
shall be null and void) and (ii) no Lender may assign or otherwise transfer its
rights or obligations hereunder except in accordance with this Section.
(b)    (i) Subject to the conditions set forth in paragraph (b)(ii) below, any
Lender may assign to one or more assignees (each, an “Assignee”) all or a
portion of its rights and obligations under this Agreement (including all or a
portion of its Commitments and the Loans at the time owing to it) with the prior
written consent (such consent not to be unreasonably withheld or delayed) of:
(A)    the Company, provided that no consent of the Company shall be required
for an assignment (1) to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender or an Approved Fund
(as defined below) or (2) if an Event of Default has occurred and is continuing;
(B)    the Administrative Agent; and
(C)    the Issuing Lenders.
(ii)    Assignments shall be subject to the following additional conditions:
(A)    except in the case of an assignment to a Lender, an Affiliate of a Lender
or an Approved Fund or an assignment of the entire remaining amount of the
assigning Lender’s Commitments or Loans, the amount of the Commitments or Loans
of the assigning Lender subject to each such assignment (determined as of the
date the Assignment and Assumption with respect to such assignment is delivered
to the Administrative Agent) shall not be less than $5,000,000 unless each of
the Company and the Administrative Agent otherwise consent, provided that such
amounts shall be aggregated in respect of each Lender and its Affiliates or
Approved Funds, if any;
(B)    the parties to each assignment shall execute and deliver to the
Administrative Agent an Assignment and Assumption, together with a processing
and recordation fee of $3,500;
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(D)    no such assignment shall be made to (I) a Borrower or an Affiliate or
Subsidiary of a Borrower, (II) any Defaulting Lender or any of its Subsidiaries,
or any Person who, upon becoming a Lender hereunder, would constitute any of the
foregoing Persons described in this subclause (II), (III) a natural person or
(IV) any Person which is a Non-NAIC Approved Bank (unless such Non-NAIC Approved
Bank shall have in effect a Limited Fronting Lender Agreement with a Lender
which is a NAIC Approved Bank).
For the purposes of this Section 11.6, the term “Approved Fund” has the
following meaning:
“Approved Fund” means any Person (other than a natural person) that is engaged
in making, purchasing, holding or investing in bank loans and similar extensions
of credit in the ordinary course of its business and that is administered or
managed by (a) a Lender, (b) an Affiliate of a Lender or (c) an entity or an
Affiliate of an entity that administers or manages a Lender.
(iii)    Subject to acceptance and recording thereof pursuant to
paragraph (b)(iv) below, from and after the effective date specified in each
Assignment and Assumption the Assignee thereunder shall be a party hereto and,
to the extent of the interest assigned by such Assignment and Assumption, have
the rights and obligations of a Lender under this Agreement, and the assigning
Lender thereunder shall, to the extent of the interest assigned by such
Assignment and Assumption, be released from its obligations under this Agreement
(and, in the case of an Assignment and Assumption covering all of the assigning
Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement, such Lender shall cease to
be a party hereto but shall continue to be entitled to the benefits of
Sections 2.12, 2.13, 2.14 and 11.5). Any assignment or transfer by a Lender of
rights or obligations under this Agreement that does not comply with this
Section 11.6 shall be treated for purposes of this Agreement as a sale by such
Lender of a participation in such rights and obligations in accordance with
paragraph (c) of this Section.
(iv)    The Administrative Agent, acting for this purpose as an agent of the
Borrowers, shall maintain at one of its offices a copy of each Assignment and
Assumption delivered to it and a register for the recordation of the names and
addresses of the Lenders, and the Commitments of, and principal amount (and
stated interest) of the Loans and L/C Obligations owing to, each Lender pursuant
to the terms hereof from time to time (the “Register”). The entries in the
Register shall be conclusive, and the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent and
the Lenders shall treat each Person whose name is recorded in the Register
pursuant to the terms hereof as a Lender hereunder for all purposes of this
Agreement, notwithstanding notice to the contrary. The Register shall be
available for inspection by the Borrowers and any Lender, at any reasonable time
and from time to time upon reasonable prior notice.
(v)    Upon its receipt of a duly completed Assignment and Assumption executed
by an assigning Lender and an Assignee, the Assignee’s completed administrative
questionnaire (unless the Assignee shall already be a Lender hereunder), the
processing and recordation fee referred to in paragraph (b) of this Section and
each written consent to such assignment required by paragraph (b) of this
Section, the Administrative Agent shall accept such Assignment and Assumption
and record the information contained therein in the Register. No assignment
shall be effective for purposes of this Agreement unless it has been recorded in
the Register as provided in this paragraph.
(c)    (i) Any Lender may, without the consent of any Borrower, the Company, any
Issuing Lender or the Administrative Agent, sell participations to one or more
banks or other entities (a “Participant”) in all or a portion of such Lender’s
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of its Commitments and the Loans owing to it); provided that (A) such Lender’s
obligations under this Agreement shall remain unchanged, (B) such Lender shall
remain solely responsible to the other parties hereto for the performance of
such obligations and (C) the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent and the Lenders
shall continue to deal solely and directly with such Lender in connection with
such Lender’s rights and obligations under this Agreement. Any agreement
pursuant to which a Lender sells such a participation shall provide that such
Lender shall retain the sole right to enforce this Agreement and to approve any
amendment, modification or waiver of any provision of this Agreement; provided
that such agreement may provide that such Lender will not, without the consent
of the Participant, agree to any amendment, modification or waiver that (1)
requires the consent of each Lender directly affected thereby pursuant to the
proviso to the second sentence of Section 11.1 and (2) directly affects such
Participant. Subject to paragraph (c)(ii) of this Section, each Borrower agrees
that each Participant shall be entitled to the benefits of, and subject to the
limitations of, Sections 2.12, 2.13, 2.14 to the same extent as if it were a
Lender and had acquired its interest by assignment pursuant to paragraph (b) of
this Section. To the extent permitted by law, each Participant also shall be
entitled to the benefits of Section 11.8 as though it were a Lender, provided
such Participant shall be subject to Section 11.7 as though it were a Lender.
(i)    A Participant shall not be entitled to receive any greater payment under
Section 2.12 or 2.13 than the applicable Lender would have been entitled to
receive with respect to the participation sold to such Participant, unless the
sale of the participation to such Participant is made with the Company’s prior
written consent. Any Participant that is a Non-U.S. Lender shall not be entitled
to the benefits of Section 2.13 unless such Participant complies with Section
2.13(e).
(ii)    Each Lender that sells a participation, acting solely for this purpose
as a non-fiduciary agent (solely for tax purposes) of the Borrowers, shall
maintain a register on which it enters the name and address of each Participant
and the principal amounts (and stated interest) of each Participant’s interest
in the Loans and other obligations under this Agreement (the “Participant
Register”). The entries in the Participant Register shall be conclusive, and
such Lender, each Borrower and the Administrative Agent shall treat each person
whose name is recorded in the Participant Register pursuant to the terms hereof
as the owner of such participation for all purposes of this Agreement,
notwithstanding notice to the contrary.
Notwithstanding anything else provided herein or otherwise, no Lender shall have
any obligation to disclose all or any portion of the Participant Register to any
Borrower or any other Person (including the identity of any Participant or any
information relating to a Participant's interest in the Loans or other
obligations under this Agreement or any other Loan Document) except to the
extent such disclosure is necessary to establish that the Loans or such other
obligations are in registered form under Section 5f.103-1(c) of the United
States Treasury Regulations, provided that any Participant shall only be
entitled to the benefits of this Section 11.6(c) if the identity of such
Participant has been disclosed to the Company.
(d)    Any Lender may at any time pledge or grant a security interest in all or
any portion of its rights under this Agreement to secure obligations of such
Lender, including any pledge or grant to secure obligations to a Federal Reserve
Bank, and this Section shall not apply to any such pledge or grant of a security
interest; provided that no such pledge or grant of a security interest shall
release such Lender from any of its obligations hereunder or substitute any such
pledgee or grantee for such Lender as a party hereto and, provided, further,
that nothing in this paragraph (d) shall be deemed to limit in any way the
application of Section 11.6(b) to any assignment of the rights or obligations of
such Lender under this Agreement resulting from a foreclosure of any such pledge
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(e)    Each Borrower, upon receipt of written notice from the relevant Lender,
agrees to issue Notes to any Lender requiring Notes to facilitate transactions
of the type described in paragraph (d) above.
11.7    Adjustments. Except to the extent that this Agreement expressly provides
for payments to be allocated to a particular Lender or to the Lenders, if any
Lender (a “Benefitted Lender”) shall receive any payment of all or part of the
Obligations owing to it (whether directly from the Borrower, indirectly as a
result of payment under the guarantee provided for in Section 10 or from the
proceeds of the exercise of any remedies with respect to the Collateral pursuant
to the Security Documents or otherwise), or receive any collateral in respect
thereof (whether voluntarily or involuntarily, by set‑off, pursuant to events or
proceedings of the nature referred to in Section 8(f), or otherwise), in a
greater proportion than any such payment to or collateral received by any other
Lender, if any, in respect of the Obligations owing to such other Lender, such
Benefitted Lender shall purchase for cash from the other Lenders a participating
interest in such portion of the Obligations owing to each such other Lender, or
shall provide such other Lenders with the benefits of any such collateral, as
shall be necessary to cause such Benefitted Lender to share the excess payment
or benefits of such collateral ratably with each of the Lenders; provided,
however, that if all or any portion of such excess payment or benefits is
thereafter recovered from such Benefitted Lender, such purchase shall be
rescinded, and the purchase price and benefits returned, to the extent of such
recovery, but without interest.
11.8    Set-off. Upon the occurrence and continuation of an Event of Default, in
addition to any rights and remedies of the Lenders provided by law, each Lender
shall have the right, without prior notice to any Borrower, any such notice
being expressly waived by each Borrower to the extent permitted by applicable
law, upon any amount becoming due and payable by any Borrower hereunder (whether
at the stated maturity, by acceleration or otherwise), to set off and
appropriate and apply against such amount any and all deposits (general or
special, time or demand, provisional or final), in any currency, and any other
credits, indebtedness or claims, in any currency, in each case whether direct or
indirect, absolute or contingent, matured or unmatured, at any time held or
owing by such Lender or any branch or agency thereof to or for the credit or the
account of such Borrower, as the case may be, or of the Company. Each Lender
agrees promptly to notify the Company and the Administrative Agent after any
such setoff and application made by such Lender, provided that the failure to
give such notice shall not affect the validity of such setoff and application.
11.9    Counterparts. This Agreement may be executed by one or more of the
parties to this Agreement on any number of separate counterparts, and all of
said counterparts taken together shall be deemed to constitute one and the same
instrument. Delivery of an executed signature page of this Agreement by
facsimile or other electronic transmission shall be effective as delivery of a
manually executed counterpart hereof. A set of the copies of this Agreement
signed by all the parties shall be lodged with the Company and the
Administrative Agent.
11.10    Severability. Any provision of this Agreement that is prohibited or
unenforceable in any jurisdiction shall, as to such jurisdiction, be ineffective
to the extent of such prohibition or unenforceability without invalidating the
remaining provisions hereof, and any such prohibition or unenforceability in any
jurisdiction shall not invalidate or render unenforceable such provision in any
other jurisdiction.
11.11    Integration. This Agreement and the other Loan Documents represent the
entire agreement of the Borrowers, the Administrative Agent, the Collateral
Agent and the Lenders with respect to the subject matter hereof and thereof, and
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by the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or any Lender relative to the
subject matter hereof not expressly set forth or referred to herein or in the
other Loan Documents.
11.12    GOVERNING LAW. THIS AGREEMENT AND THE RIGHTS AND OBLIGATIONS OF THE
PARTIES UNDER THIS AGREEMENT SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED AND INTERPRETED
IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK. THE CHOICE OF GOVERNING
LAW HAS BEEN MADE PURSUANT TO SECTION 5-1401 OF THE NEW YORK GENERAL OBLIGATIONS
LAW.
11.13    Submission To Jurisdiction; Waivers. The Company, each other Borrower,
the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and each Lender hereby
irrevocably and unconditionally:
(a)    submits for itself and its property in any legal action or proceeding
relating to this Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which it is a party,
or for recognition and enforcement of any judgment in respect thereof, to the
exclusive general jurisdiction of the courts of the State of New York sitting in
New York County, the courts of the United States for the Southern District of
New York, and appellate courts from any thereof; provided that nothing in this
Agreement shall affect any right that the Administrative Agent, any Lender or
any L/C Issuer may otherwise have to bring any action or proceeding relating to
this Agreement or any other Loan Document against the Borrowers or their
properties in the courts of any jurisdiction;
(b)    consents that any such action or proceeding may be brought in such courts
and waives any objection that it may now or hereafter have to the venue of any
such action or proceeding in any such court or that such action or proceeding
was brought in an inconvenient court and agrees not to plead or claim the same;
(c)    agrees that service of process in any such action or proceeding may be
effected by mailing a copy thereof by registered or certified mail (or any
substantially similar form of mail), postage prepaid, to the Borrowers, as the
case may be at its address set forth in Section 11.2 or at such other address of
which the Administrative Agent shall have been notified pursuant thereto;
(d)    agrees that nothing herein shall affect the right to effect service of
process in any other manner permitted by law or shall limit the right to sue in
any other jurisdiction; and
(e)    waives, to the maximum extent not prohibited by law, any right it may
have to claim or recover in any legal action or proceeding referred to in this
Section any special, exemplary, punitive or consequential damages; provided,
however, that nothing contained in this Section 11.13(e) shall limit the
Company’s, the other Borrowers’ or the Lenders’ indemnity and reimbursement
obligations to the extent set forth in any Loan Document in respect of any
third-party claims alleging such special, exemplary, punitive or consequential
damages.
11.14    Process Agent. The Company and each other Borrower hereby irrevocably
designates, appoints, authorizes and empowers Aspen American Insurance Company,
with offices currently located at 590 Madison Avenue, 7th Floor, New York, NY
10022 (the “Process Agent”), as its agent to receive on behalf of itself and its
property, service of copies of the summons and complaint and any other process
which may be served in any suit, action or proceeding brought in the United
States District Court for the Southern District of New York or the New York
Supreme Court, New York County, and any appellate court thereof. Such service
may be made by delivering a copy of such process to the Company and the other
relevant Borrowers in care of the Process Agent at its address specified above,
with a copy delivered to the Company and the other relevant Borrowers in
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other Borrower hereby authorizes and directs the Process Agent to accept such
service on its behalf. The appointment of the Process Agent shall be irrevocable
until the appointment of a successor Process Agent. The Company and each other
Borrower further agrees to promptly appoint a successor Process Agent in New
York City (which shall accept such appointment in form and substance
satisfactory to the Administrative Agent) prior to the termination for any
reason of the appointment of the initial Process Agent.
11.15    Currency of Payment. Each payment owing by the Company or any other
Borrower hereunder shall be made in the relevant currency specified herein or,
if not specified herein, specified in any other Loan Document executed by the
Administrative Agent or the Collateral Agent (the “Currency of Payment”) at the
place specified herein (such requirements are of the essence of this Agreement).
If, for the purpose of obtaining judgment in any court, it is necessary to
convert a sum due hereunder in a Currency of Payment into another currency, the
parties hereto agree that the rate of exchange used shall be that at which in
accordance with normal banking procedures the Administrative Agent could
purchase such Currency of Payment with such other currency at the Spot Selling
Rate on the Business Day preceding that on which final judgment is given. The
obligations in respect of any sum due hereunder to any Lender or any L/C Issuer
shall, notwithstanding any adjudication expressed in a currency other than the
Currency of Payment, be discharged only to the extent that, on the Business Day
following receipt by such Lender or L/C Issuer of any sum adjudged to be so due
in such other currency, such Lender or L/C Issuer may, in accordance with normal
banking procedures, purchase the Currency of Payment with such other currency.
The parties hereto agree that (a) if the amount of the Currency of Payment so
purchased is less than the sum originally due to such Lender or L/C Issuer in
the Currency of Payment, as a separate obligation and notwithstanding the result
of any such adjudication, the Company or such other Borrower, as applicable,
shall immediately pay the shortfall (in the Currency of Payment) to such Lender
or L/C Issuer and (b) if the amount of the Currency of Payment so purchased
exceeds the sum originally due to such Lender or L/C Issuer, such Lender or L/C
Issuer shall promptly pay the excess over to the Company or such other Borrower,
as applicable, in the currency and to the extent actually received.
11.16    Releases of Liens. (a) Notwithstanding anything to the contrary
contained herein or in any other Loan Document, the Collateral Agent is hereby
irrevocably authorized by each Lender (without requirement of notice to or
consent of any Lender except as expressly required by Section 11.1) to take any
action requested by the Company having the effect of releasing any Collateral
(i) to the extent permitted by the Security Agreement and the applicable
Collateral Account Control Agreement or that has been consented to in accordance
with Section 11.1 or (ii) under the circumstances described in paragraph (b)
below.
(b)    At such time as all Letters of Credit shall have expired, been terminated
or been fully cash collateralized pursuant to Section 8 and the Commitments have
been terminated and no Default or Event of Default has occurred and is
continuing, the Collateral (other than any such cash collateral) shall cease to
secure the Obligations, the Collateral (other than any such cash collateral)
shall be released from the Liens created by the Security Agreement, and the
Security Agreement and each Collateral Account Control Agreement and all
obligations (other than those expressly stated to survive such termination) of
the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent and each Borrower under the
Security Agreement and each Collateral Account Control Agreement shall
terminate, all without delivery of any instrument or performance of any act by
any Person.
11.17    Confidentiality. Each of the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent
and each Lender agrees to keep confidential all non-public information provided
to it by any Group Member, the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or any
Lender pursuant to or in connection with this Agreement (the “Information”);
provided that nothing herein shall prevent the Administrative Agent, the
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Agent, any other Lender or any affiliate thereof, (b) subject to an agreement to
comply with the provisions of this Section, to any actual or prospective
Transferee or any actual or prospective counterparty (or its related parties) to
any swap, derivative or other transaction under which payments are to be made by
reference to any Borrower and its obligations, this Agreement or payments
hereunder, (c) to its employees, directors, agents, attorneys, accountants,
auditors and other professional advisors or those of any of its affiliates,
provided that such parties agree to comply with the provisions of this Section,
(d) upon the request or demand of any Governmental Authority (including any
stock exchange or other similar organization or self-regulatory body), provided
that the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or any Lender, as the case
may be, requests confidential treatment of such Information to the extent
permitted by law, (e) in response to any order of any court or other
Governmental Authority or as may otherwise be required pursuant to any
Requirement of Law, provided that the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent
or any Lender, as the case may be, requests confidential treatment of such
Information to the extent permitted by law, (f) if requested or required to do
so in connection with any litigation or similar proceeding, provided that (1)
the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or any Lender, as the case may
be, provides the Company with notice of such event promptly upon obtaining
knowledge thereof (provided that the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent
or any Lender, as the case may be, is not legally prohibited by law from giving
such notice) so that the Company may seek a protective order or other
appropriate remedy and (2) in the event that such protective order or other
remedy is not obtained, the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or any
Lender, as the case may be, shall furnish only that portion of the Information
that is legally required and shall disclose the Information in a manner
reasonably designed to preserve its confidential nature, (g) that has been
publicly disclosed other than as a result of (1) disclosure by the
Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or any Lender in violation of this
Agreement or (2) becoming available from a third party which to the knowledge of
the Administrative Agent, the Collateral Agent or any Lender, as the case may
be, is prohibited from disclosing such information pursuant to a contractual,
legal or fiduciary obligation to the Company or a third party, (h) to the
National Association of Insurance Commissioners or any similar organization or
any nationally recognized rating agency that requires access to information
about a Lender’s investment portfolio in connection with ratings issued with
respect to such Lender, or (i) in connection with the exercise of any remedy
hereunder or under any other Loan Document.
11.18    Several Obligations of Borrowers; Company as Agent of Borrowers. (a)
The Obligations of each Borrower shall be several in nature.
(b) Each Borrower irrevocably appoints the Company as its agent for all purposes
relevant to this Agreement and each of the other Loan Documents, including (i)
the giving and receipt of notices and (ii) the execution and delivery of all
documents, instruments and certificates contemplated herein and all
modifications hereto. Any acknowledgement, consent, direction, certification or
other action which might otherwise be valid or effective only if given or taken
by all Borrowers, or by each Borrower acting singly, shall be valid and
effective if given or taken only by the Company, whether or not any such other
Borrower joins therein. Any notice, demand, consent, acknowledgement, direction,
certification or other communication delivered to the Company in accordance with
the terms of this Agreement shall be deemed to have been delivered to each other
Borrower.
11.19    [Reserved.].
11.20    WAIVERS OF JURY TRIAL. THE COMPANY, EACH OTHER BORROWER, THE
ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT, THE COLLATERAL AGENT AND THE LENDERS HEREBY IRREVOCABLY
AND UNCONDITIONALLY WAIVE TRIAL BY JURY IN ANY LEGAL ACTION OR PROCEEDING
RELATING TO THIS AGREEMENT OR ANY OTHER LOAN DOCUMENT AND FOR ANY COUNTERCLAIM
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11.21    No Advisory or Fiduciary Duty. In connection with all aspects of each
transaction contemplated hereby (including in connection with any amendment,
waiver or other modification hereof or of any other Loan Document), the
Borrowers acknowledge and agree, and acknowledge their Affiliates’
understanding, that: (a) (i) no fiduciary, advisory or agency relationship
between the Borrowers and their respective Subsidiaries and any Agent, any L/C
Issuer or any Lender is intended to be or has been created in respect of the
transactions contemplated hereby or by the other Loan Documents, irrespective of
whether any Agent, any L/C Issuer or any Lender has advised or is advising the
Borrower or any Subsidiary on other matters, (ii) the arranging and other
services regarding this Agreement provided by the Agents, the L/C Issuers and
the Lenders are arm’s-length commercial transactions between the Borrowers and
their Affiliates, on the one hand, and the Agents, the L/C Issuers and the
Lenders, on the other hand, (iii) the Borrowers have consulted their own legal,
accounting, regulatory and tax advisors to the extent that they have deemed
appropriate and (iv) the Borrowers are capable of evaluating, and understand and
accept, the terms, risks and conditions of the transactions contemplated hereby
and by the other Loan Documents; and (b) (i) the Agents, the L/C Issuers and the
Lenders each is and has been acting solely as a principal and, except as
expressly agreed in writing by the relevant parties, has not been, is not, and
will not be acting as an advisor, agent or fiduciary for the Borrowers or any of
their Affiliates, or any other Person; (ii) none of the Agents, the L/C Issuers
and the Lenders has any obligation to the Borrowers or any of their Affiliates
with respect to the transactions contemplated hereby except those obligations
expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents; and (iii) the
Agents, the L/C Issuers and the Lenders and their respective Affiliates may be
engaged, for their own accounts or the accounts of customers, in a broad range
of transactions that involve interests that differ from those of the Borrowers
and their Affiliates, and none of the Agents, the L/C Issuers and the Lenders
has any obligation to disclose any of such interests to the Borrowers or their
Affiliates.  To the fullest extent permitted by law, each Borrower hereby waives
and releases any claims that it may have against the Agents, the L/C Issuers and
the Lenders with respect to any breach or alleged breach of agency or fiduciary
duty in connection with any aspect of any transaction contemplated hereby.
11.22    USA Patriot Act. Each Lender hereby notifies each Borrower that
pursuant to the requirements of the Patriot Act, it is required to obtain,
verify and record information that identifies each Borrower, which information
includes the name and address of each such Borrower and other information that
will allow such Lender to identify each such Borrower in accordance with the
Patriot Act.
11.23    Effect of Restatement. This Agreement amends and restates and
supersedes and replaces the Existing Credit Agreement. The parties hereto
acknowledge and agree that (a) this Agreement and the other Loan Documents
executed and delivered in connection herewith do not constitute a novation,
payment and reborrowing, or termination of the obligations under the Existing
Credit Agreement as in effect prior to the date hereof; (b) such obligations are
in all respects continuing (as amended and restated and superseded and replaced
hereby) with only the terms being modified as provided in this Agreement and in
the Loan Documents; (c) the Security Agreement and each Collateral Account
Control Agreement, as amended as of the date hereof, remain in full force and
effect and are hereby ratified and confirmed; (d) all Liens arising under any
Loan Document are continuing and in full force and effect and secure the payment
of the Secured Letters of Credit; and (e) upon the effectiveness of this
Agreement, all letters of credit outstanding under the Existing Credit Agreement
will be deemed to be Letters of Credit hereunder and subject to the terms
hereof. The Lenders party hereto (constituting the Required Lenders as defined
in the Existing Credit Agreement) hereby authorize and direct the Collateral
Agent to enter into this Agreement.
11.24    Acknowledgement and Consent to Bail-In of EEA Financial Institutions.
Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in any Loan Document or in any other
agreement, arrangement or understanding among any such parties, each party
hereto acknowledges that any liability of any EEA Financial Institution arising
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Write-Down and Conversion Powers of the EEA Resolution Authority and agrees and
consents to, and acknowledges and agrees to be bound by:
(a)    the application of any Write-Down and Conversion Powers by an EEA
Resolution Authority to any such liabilities arising hereunder which may be
payable to it by any party hereto that is an EEA Financial Institution; and
(b)    the effects of any Bail-In Action or any such liability, including, if
applicable:
(i)    a reduction in full or in part or cancellation of any such liability;
(ii)    a conversion of all, or a portion of, such liability into shares or
other instruments of ownership in such EEA Financial Institution, its parent
entity, or a bridge institution that may be issued to it or otherwise conferred
on it, and that such shares or other instruments of ownership will be accepted
by it in lieu of any rights with respect to any such liability under this
Agreement or any other Loan Document; or
(iii)    the variation of the terms of such liability in connection with the
exercise of the Write-Down and Conversion Powers of any EEA Resolution
Authority.
SECTION 12      
THE BORROWER REPRESENTATIVE

12.1    Appointment; Nature of Relationship. The Company is hereby appointed by
each of the Borrowers as its contractual representative (herein referred to as
the “Borrower Representative”) hereunder and under each other Loan Document, and
each of the Borrowers irrevocably authorizes the Borrower Representative to act
as the contractual representative of such Borrower with the rights and duties
expressly set forth herein and in the other Loan Documents. The Borrower
Representative agrees to act as such contractual representative upon the express
conditions contained in this Section 12. Additionally, each Borrower hereby
appoints, to the extent the Borrower Representative requests any Loan on behalf
of such Borrower, the Borrower Representative as its agent to receive all of the
proceeds of such Loan, at which time the Borrower Representative shall promptly
disburse such Loan to such Borrower. Neither the Agents, the Lenders or the
Applicable Issuing Parties and their respective officers, directors, agents or
employees, shall be liable to the Borrower Representative or any Borrower for
any action taken or omitted to be taken by the Borrower Representative or the
Borrowers pursuant to this Section 12.1.
12.2    Powers. The Borrower Representative shall have and may exercise such
powers under the Loan Documents as are specifically delegated to the Borrower
Representative by the terms of each thereof, together with such powers as are
reasonably incidental thereto. The Borrower Representative shall have no implied
duties to the Borrowers, or any obligation to the Lenders to take any action
thereunder except any action specifically provided by the Loan Documents to be
taken by the Borrower Representative.
12.3    Employment of Agents. The Borrower Representative may execute any of its
duties as the Borrower Representative hereunder and under any other Loan
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12.4    Notices. Any notice provided to the Borrower Representative hereunder
shall constitute notice to each Borrower on the date received by the Borrower
Representative.
12.5    Successor Borrower Representative. Upon the prior written consent of the
Administrative Agent, the Borrower Representative may resign at any time, such
resignation to be effective upon the appointment of a successor Borrower
Representative acceptable to the Administrative Agent. The Administrative Agent
shall give notice of such resignation to the Lenders.
12.6    Execution of Loan Documents; Borrowing Base Certificate. The Borrowers
hereby empower and authorize the Borrower Representative, on behalf of the
Borrowers, to execute and deliver to the Agents, the Applicable Issuing Parties
and the Lenders the Loan Documents and all related agreements, certificates,
documents, or instruments as shall be necessary or appropriate to effect the
purposes of the Loan Documents. Each Borrower agrees that any action taken by
the Borrower Representative or the Borrowers in accordance with the terms of
this Agreement or the other Loan Documents, and the exercise by the Borrower
Representative of its powers set forth therein or herein, together with such
other powers that are reasonably incidental thereto, shall be binding upon all
of the Borrowers.

        

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Agreement to be duly
executed and delivered by their proper and duly authorized officers as of the
day and year first above written.

 
ASPEN INSURANCE HOLDINGS LIMITED, 
as a Borrower

By: /s/ Christopher O’Kane 
Name: Christopher O’Kane 
Title: Chief Executive Officer

By: /s/ Scott Kirk 
Name: Scott Kirk
Title: Chief Financial Officer
 

ASPEN BERMUDA LIMITED, 
as a Borrower

By: /s/ Michael Cain 
Name: Michael Cain
Title: Chief Executive Officer

 
 
 
ASPEN INSURANCE UK LIMITED, 
as a Borrower

By: /s/ Karen Green 
Name: Karen Green
Title: Director

 
ASPEN (UK) HOLDINGS LIMITED, 
as a Borrower

By: /s/ Scott Kirk 
Name: Scott Kirk
Title: Director

    

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ASPEN SPECIALTY INSURANCE COMPANY, 
as a Borrower

By: /s/ Kenneth Cadematori 
Name: Kenneth Cadematori
Title: CFO

 
 
 
ASPEN U.S. HOLDINGS, INC., 
as a Borrower

By: /s/ Kenneth Cadematori 
Name: Kenneth Cadematori
Title: CFO

 
 
 
ASPEN UNDERWRITING LIMITED, 
as a Borrower

By: /s/ Karen Green 
Name: Karen Green
Title: Director

 
 
 
ASPEN AMERICAN INSURANCE COMPANY, 
as a Borrower

By: /s/ Kenneth Cadematori 
Name: Kenneth Cadematori
Title: CFO

    

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BARCLAYS BANK PLC, 
as Administrative Agent and a Lender

By: /s/ Karla K. Maloof 
Name: Karla K. Maloof
Title: Head of Insurance, FIG Corporate Banking-NA

Executed in New York
 
 
 

    

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CITIBANK, N.A., 
as Syndication Agent and a Lender

By: /s/ John M. Mcdin 
Name: John M. Mcdin
Title: Managing Director

    

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THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON, 
as Collateral Agent

By: /s/ Jose Alcantara 
Name: Jose Alcantara
Title: Vice President

    

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DEUTSCHE BANK AG NEW YORK BRANCH, 
as a Lender

By: /s/ Ming K. Chu 
Name: Ming K. Chu
Title: Director

DEUTSCHE BANK AG NEW YORK BRANCH, 
as a Lender

By: /s/ John S. McGill 
Name: John S. McGill
Title: Director

    

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THE BANK OF NEW YORK MELLON,
as a Lender

By: /s/ Michael Pensari
Name: Michael Pensari
Title: Managing Director

    

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LLOYDS BANK PLC,
as a Lender

By: /s/ Daven Popat
Name: Daven Popat – P003
Title: Senior Vice President

By: /s/ Erin Walsh
Name: Erin Walsh – W004
Title: Assistant Vice President

    

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U.S. BANK NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as a Lender

By: /s/ Tenzin Subhar
Name: Tenzin Subhar
Title: Vice President

    

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HSBC BANK USA, NATIONAL ASSOCIATION,
as a Lender

By: /s/ Richard Herder
Name: Richard Herder
Title: Managing Director, Head of North America Insurance Coverage

    

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ANNEX A

PRICING GRID

Debt Rating
Commitment Fee Rate (bps)
Eurodollar Loan Applicable Margin (bps)
ABR Loan Applicable Margin (bps)
≥A/A2
10.0
112.5
12.5
=A-/A3
12.5
125.0
25.0
=BBB+/Baa1
17.5
137.5
37.5
=BBB/Baa2
22.5
150.0
50.0
Any less favorable rating or no rating
27.5
175.0
75.0

For purposes of the Pricing Grid, “Debt Rating” means, as of any date of
determination, the long term unsecured senior, non-credit enhanced debt rating
of the Company as determined by S&P or Moody’s, as the case may be, provided
that if a Debt Rating is issued by each of S&P and Moody’s, then the higher of
such Debt Ratings shall apply, unless there is a split in Debt Ratings of more
than one level, in which case the level that is one level lower than the higher
Debt Rating shall apply. The Debt Ratings shall be determined from the most
recent public announcement of any changes in the Debt Ratings.
For the purposes of the Pricing Grid, changes in the Applicable Margin resulting
from changes in the Debt Rating shall become effective on the date that is three
Business Days after the date on which new ratings are issued by S&P or Moody’s
and shall remain in effect until the next change to be effected pursuant to this
paragraph.

    

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Schedule 1.1
COMMITMENTS
Lender
Commitment
Barclays Bank PLC
$37,500,000
Citibank, N.A.
$37,500,000
Deutsche Bank AG New York Branch
$27,000,000
The Bank of New York Mellon
$27,000,000
Lloyds Bank plc
$27,000,000
U.S. Bank National Association
$22,000,000
HSBC Bank USA, National Association
$22,000,000
Total
$200,000,000

    

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Schedule 4.13
SUBSIDIARIES
Name
Jurisdiction of Incorporation
Percentage of Capital Stock Owned by any Borrower
Acorn Limited
Bermuda
100% owned by Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited
Blue Waters Insurers, Corp.
Puerto Rico
100% owned by Acorn Limited
Aspen Bermuda Limited*
Bermuda
100% owned by Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited
Aspen Capital Management, Ltd
Bermuda
100% owned by Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited
Peregrine Reinsurance Ltd
Bermuda
100% owned by Aspen Capital Management, Ltd
Aspen Cat Fund Limited
Bermuda
100% owned by Aspen Capital Management Limited
Aspen (UK) Holdings Limited*
England and Wales
100% owned by Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited
Aspen (US) Holdings Limited
England and Wales
100% owned by Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited
Aspen Capital Advisors Inc.
U.S. – Delaware
100% owned by Aspen (US) Holdings Limited
Aspen Managing Agency Limited
England and Wales
100% owned by Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited
Aspen Singapore Pte. Ltd.
Singapore
100% owned by Aspen Managing Agency Limited
Aspen Underwriting Limited*
England and Wales
100% owned by Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited
Aspen European Holdings Limited
England and Wales
100% owned by Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited
Aspen Insurance UK Limited*
England and Wales
100% owned by Aspen European Holdings Limited
Silverton Re Limited
Bermuda
100% owned by Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited

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Name
Jurisdiction of Incorporation
Percentage of Capital Stock Owned by any Borrower
Aspen Insurance UK Services Limited
England and Wales
100% owned by Aspen (UK) Holdings Limited
AIUK Trustees Limited
England and Wales
100% owned by Aspen Insurance UK Services Limited
APJ Continuation Limited
England and Wales
100% owned by Aspen (UK) Holdings Limited
Aspen UK Syndicate Services Limited
England and Wales
100% owned by APJ Continuation Limited
APJ Asset Protection Jersey Limited
Jersey
100% owned by APJ Continuation Limited
Aspen Risk Management Limited
England and Wales
80% owned by Aspen (UK) Holdings Limited
20% owned by employees of Aspen Risk Management Limited
Aspen Recoveries Limited
England and Wales
100% owned by Aspen (UK) Holdings Limited
Aspen U.S. Holdings, Inc.*
U.S. – Delaware
100% owned by Aspen (UK) Holdings Limited
Aspen Insurance U.S. Services Inc.
U.S. – Delaware
100% owned by Aspen U.S. Holdings, Inc.
Aspen Specialty Insurance Company*
U.S. – North Dakota
100% owned by Aspen American Insurance Company
Aspen Re America, Inc.
U.S. – Delaware
100% owned by Aspen U.S. Holdings, Inc.
Aspen Specialty Insurance Solutions, LLC
U.S. – California
100% owned by Aspen U.S. Holdings, Inc.
Aspen Specialty Insurance Management, Inc.
U.S. – Massachusetts
100% owned by Aspen U.S. Holdings, Inc.
Aspen American Insurance Company*
U.S. – Texas
100% owned by Aspen U.S. Holdings, Inc.
AG Logic Holdings, LLC
U.S. – Texas
100% owned by Aspen U.S. Holdings, Inc.
AgriLogic Insurance Services, LLC
U.S. – Texas
100% owned by AG Logic Holdings, LLC

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Name
Jurisdiction of Incorporation
Percentage of Capital Stock Owned by any Borrower
AgriLogic Consulting, LLC
U.S. – Texas
100% owned by AG Logic Holdings, LLC
AG Logic Acquisition, LLC
U.S. – North Carolina
100% owned by AG Logic Holdings, LLC
Golden State Crop and Insurance Services, Inc.
U.S. – California
100% AG Logic Acquisition, LLC
Crop Insurance Services, Inc.
U.S. – Oregon
100% AG Logic Acquisition, LLC
 
 
 

* Subsidiary Borrower

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Schedule 7.2(b)(iv)
EXISTING INDEBTEDNESS

None.

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Schedule 7.5
INVESTMENTS

None.

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Schedule 7.6
EXISTING LIENS

None.

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EXHIBIT A
FORM OF COMPLIANCE CERTIFICATE
This Compliance Certificate is delivered pursuant to Section 6.2(a) of the
Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of March 27, 2017 (as
amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit
Agreement”), among Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited, a Bermuda exempted limited
liability company (the “Company”), the Subsidiary Borrowers (as defined therein)
(together with the Company, collectively, the “Borrowers” and individually, a
“Borrower”), the Lenders parties thereto, The Bank of New York Mellon, as
Collateral Agent, Citibank, N.A. as Syndication Agent, and Barclays Bank PLC, as
Administrative Agent. Unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the
Credit Agreement and used herein shall have the meanings given to them in the
Credit Agreement.
The undersigned hereby certifies to the Administrative Agent and the Lenders as
follows:
1.I am the duly elected, qualified and acting [_______________]1 of the Company.
2.    I have reviewed and am familiar with the contents of this Certificate.
3.    I have reviewed the terms of the Credit Agreement and the Loan Documents
and have made, or caused to be made under my supervision, a review in reasonable
detail of the transactions and condition of the Company during the accounting
period covered by the financial statements attached hereto as Attachment 1 (the
“Financial Statements”).
4.    Attached hereto as Attachment 2 are the computations showing compliance
with the covenants set forth in Sections 7.1 and 7.9 of the Credit Agreement.
5.    To the best of my knowledge, during the accounting period covered by the
Financial Statements attached hereto, each Borrower has observed or performed
all of its covenants and other agreements, and satisfied every condition
contained in the Credit Agreement and the other Loan Documents to which it is a
party to be observed, performed or satisfied by it[, except as set forth below].
6.    I have no knowledge of the existence, as of the date of this Certificate,
of any condition or event which constitutes a Default or Event of Default[,
except as set forth below].

1Insert title of Responsible Officer of the Company signing the certificate.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Compliance Certificate as
of the date set forth below.

By: ____________________________________
Name:
Title:
 
 
Date:          , 20__

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Attachment 1
to Exhibit A
[Attach Financial Statements]

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Attachment 2
to Exhibit A
The information described herein is as of ______, 20__,
and pertains to the period from _________, 20__ to ________________ __, 20__.

[Set forth Covenant Calculations]

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EXHIBIT B-1
FORM OF CLOSING CERTIFICATE
This Closing Certificate is delivered pursuant to Section 5.1(c)(i) of the
Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of March 27, 2017 (the
“Credit Agreement”), among Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited, a Bermuda exempted
limited liability company (the “Company”), the Subsidiary Borrowers (as defined
therein), Barclays Bank PLC, as Administrative Agent, various other agents and
various lenders. Unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the Credit
Agreement shall have the meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement.
The undersigned [insert title]1 of the Company hereby certifies to the
Administrative Agent and the Lenders as follows:
1.    The representations and warranties of the Company set forth in each of the
Loan Documents to which it is a party or which are contained in any certificate
furnished by or on behalf of the Company pursuant to any of the Loan Documents
are true and correct in all material respects (or, in the case of any
representation and warranty qualified by materiality, in all respects) on and as
of the date hereof.
2.    No Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing as of the
date hereof or after giving effect to the Loans or other extensions of credit to
be made on the date hereof and the use of proceeds thereof.
3.    The conditions precedent set forth in Section 5.1(g) of the Credit
Agreement were satisfied as of the Closing Date.
4.    There are no liquidation or dissolution proceedings pending or to my
knowledge threatened against the Company as of the date hereof, nor has any
other event occurred adversely affecting or threatening the continued existence
of the Company.
[Signature follows]

1To be signed by a Responsible Officer.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this Closing Certificate as of
the date first written above.
 
By: __________________________________
 
Name:
 
Title:

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EXHIBIT B-2
FORM OF CLOSING CERTIFICATE
This Closing Certificate is delivered pursuant to Section 5.1(c)(i) of the
Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of March 27, 2017 (the
“Credit Agreement”), among Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited, a Bermuda exempted
limited liability company, the Subsidiary Borrowers (as defined therein),
Barclays Bank PLC, as Administrative Agent, various other agents and various
lenders. Unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the Credit Agreement
shall have the meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement.
The undersigned Corporate Secretary of [Borrower] (the “Company”) certifies as
follows:
1.    Attached hereto as Annex 1 is a true, correct and complete copy of certain
resolutions duly adopted by the Board of Directors of the Company on
____________, 2017 authorizing the execution, delivery and performance of the
Loan Documents to which the Company is a party and the transactions contemplated
thereby; such resolutions have not in any way been amended, modified, revoked or
rescinded, have been in full force and effect since their adoption to and
including the date hereof and are now in full force and effect and are the only
corporate proceedings of the Company now in force relating to or affecting the
matters referred to therein.
2.    Attached hereto as Annex 2 is a true, correct and complete copy of the
[Memorandum of Association] [Articles of Incorporation] of the Company as in
effect on the date hereof.
3.    Attached hereto as Annex 3 is a true and complete copy of the By-Laws of
the Company as in effect on the date hereof.
4.    The persons whose names, titles and signatures appear on the Incumbency
Schedule attached hereto as Annex 4 are authorized representatives of the
Company, holding the positions indicated next to their respective names, and the
signatures appearing opposite their respective names are the true and genuine
signatures of such persons, and each such person is duly authorized to execute
and deliver on behalf of the Company each Loan Document to which the Company is
a party and any certificate or other document to be delivered by the Company
pursuant thereto.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed the Closing Certificate as of
the date first written above.

Name:    
Title:    Corporate Secretary

I, _____________________, the duly elected ___________________ of the Company,
hereby certify as of the date first written above that _________________ is the
duly elected Corporate Secretary of the Company and, as such, is authorized to
execute this Certificate on behalf of the Company and that the signature
appearing above is such person’s true and genuine signature.

______________________________
Name:
Title:                        

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ANNEX 1
Resolutions

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ANNEX 2
[Memorandum of Association] [Articles of Incorporation]

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ANNEX 3
By-Laws

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ANNEX 4

Incumbency Schedule

Name
Office
Signature
_______________________
_____________________
_______________________
_______________________
_____________________
_______________________
_______________________
_____________________
_______________________
_______________________
_____________________
_______________________

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EXHIBIT C
FORM OF ASSIGNMENT AND ASSUMPTION
Reference is made to the Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as
of March 27, 2017 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to
time, the “Credit Agreement”), among Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited, a Bermuda
exempted limited liability company (the “Company”), the Subsidiary Borrowers (as
defined therein) (together with the Company, collectively, the “Borrowers” and
individually, a “Borrower”), the Lenders parties thereto, The Bank of New York
Mellon, as Collateral Agent, Citibank, N.A., as Syndication Agent, and Barclays
Bank PLC, as Administrative Agent. Unless otherwise defined herein, terms
defined in the Credit Agreement and used herein shall have the meanings given to
them in the Credit Agreement.
The Assignor identified on Schedule l hereto (the “Assignor”) and the Assignee
identified on Schedule l hereto (the “Assignee”) agree as follows:
1.    The Assignor hereby irrevocably sells and assigns to the Assignee without
recourse to the Assignor, and the Assignee hereby irrevocably purchases and
assumes from the Assignor without recourse to the Assignor, as of the Effective
Date (as defined below), the interest described in Schedule 1 hereto (the
“Assigned Interest”) in and to the Assignor's rights and obligations under the
Credit Agreement.
2.    The Assignor (a) makes no representation or warranty and assumes no
responsibility with respect to any statements, warranties or representations
made in or in connection with the Credit Agreement or with respect to the
execution, legality, validity, enforceability, genuineness, sufficiency or value
of the Credit Agreement, any other Loan Document or any other instrument or
document furnished pursuant thereto, other than that the Assignor has not
created any adverse claim upon the interest being assigned by it hereunder and
that such interest is free and clear of any such adverse claim; (b) makes no
representation or warranty and assumes no responsibility with respect to the
financial condition of the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any other obligor
or the performance or observance by the Company, any of its Subsidiaries or any
other obligor of any of their respective obligations under the Credit Agreement
or any other Loan Document or any other instrument or document furnished
pursuant hereto or thereto; and (c) attaches any Notes held by it evidencing the
Assigned Interest and (i) requests that the Administrative Agent, upon request
by the Assignee, exchange the attached Notes for a new Note or Notes payable to
the Assignee and (ii) if the Assignor has retained any interest in the Credit
Agreement, requests that the Administrative Agent exchange the attached Notes
for a new Note or Notes payable to the Assignor, in each case in amounts which
reflect the assignment being made hereby (and after giving effect to any other
assignments which have become effective on the Effective Date).
3.    The Assignee (a) represents and warrants that it is legally authorized to
enter into this Assignment and Assumption; (b) confirms that it has received a
copy of the Credit Agreement, together with copies of the financial statements
delivered pursuant to Section 6.1 thereof and such other documents and
information as it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and
decision to enter into this Assignment and Assumption; (c) agrees that it will,
independently and without reliance upon the Assignor, the Administrative Agent
or any other Lender and based on such documents and information as it shall deem
appropriate at the time, continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or
not taking action under the Credit Agreement, the other Loan Documents or any
other instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto or thereto; (d) appoints
and authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such action as agent on its
behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under the Credit Agreement,
the other Loan Documents or any other instrument or document furnished pursuant
hereto or thereto as are delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms
thereof, together with such powers as are incidental thereto; and (e) agrees
that it will

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be bound by the provisions of the Credit Agreement and will perform in
accordance with its terms all the obligations which by the terms of the Credit
Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender including its
obligation pursuant to Section 2.13(e) of the Credit Agreement.
4.    The effective date of this Assignment and Assumption shall be the
Effective Date of Assignment described in Schedule 1 hereto (the “Effective
Date”). Following the execution of this Assignment and Assumption, it will be
delivered to the Administrative Agent for acceptance by it and recording by the
Administrative Agent pursuant to the Credit Agreement, effective as of the
Effective Date (which shall not, unless otherwise agreed to by the
Administrative Agent, be earlier than five Business Days after the date of such
acceptance and recording by the Administrative Agent).
5.    Upon such acceptance and recording, from and after the Effective Date, the
Administrative Agent shall make all payments in respect of the Assigned Interest
(including payments of principal, interest, fees and other amounts) [to the
Assignor for amounts which have accrued prior to the Effective Date and to the
Assignee for amounts which accrue subsequent to the Effective Date] [to the
Assignee whether such amounts have accrued prior to the Effective Date or accrue
subsequent to the Effective Date. The Assignor and the Assignee shall make all
appropriate adjustments in payments by the Agent for periods prior to the
Effective Date or with respect to the making of this assignment directly between
themselves.]
6.    From and after the Effective Date, (a) the Assignee shall be a party to
the Credit Agreement and, to the extent provided in this Assignment and
Assumption, have the rights and obligations of a Lender thereunder and under the
other Loan Documents and shall be bound by the provisions thereof and (b) the
Assignor shall, to the extent provided in this Assignment and Assumption,
relinquish its rights and be released from its obligations under the Credit
Agreement.
7.    This Assignment and Assumption shall be governed by and construed in
accordance with the laws of the State of New York.
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the parties hereto have caused this Assignment and
Assumption to be executed as of the date first above written by their respective
duly authorized officers on Schedule 1 hereto.

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Schedule 1
to Assignment and Assumption

Name of Assignor: _______________________
Name of Assignee: _______________________
Effective Date of Assignment: _________________
Commitment Amount Assigned:        $____________
Loans Assigned: $____________
L/C Obligations Assigned: $____________
[Name of Assignee]
[Name of Assignor]
By:                   
By:                   
   Title:
   Title:
Accepted:
Consented To:*
 
 
BARCLAYS BANK PLC, as
Administrative Agent
ASPEN HOLDINGS INSURANCE LIMITED
By:                   
By:                   
   Title: 
Executed in New York
   Title:
 
BARCLAYS BANK PLC, as
Administrative Agent
 
By:                   
 
   Title: 
Executed in New York
 
 
 
[NAME OF ISSUING LENDER], as
Issuing Lender
 
 
By:                   
Title:
 

* Please refer to Section 11.6(b) of the Credit Agreement to determine if
Borrower’s, Administrative Agent’s and/or the Issuing Lenders’ consent is
required.

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EXHIBIT D-1
FORM OF LEGAL OPINION OF MAYER BROWN LLP
[Intentionally Omitted]

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EXHIBIT D-2
FORM OF LEGAL OPINION OF APPLEBY (BERMUDA) LIMITED
[Intentionally Omitted]

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EXHIBIT E-1

FORM OF EXEMPTION CERTIFICATE
(For Non-U.S. Lenders That Are Not Partnerships for U.S. Federal Income Tax
Purposes)
Reference is made to the Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as
of March 27, 2017 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to
time, the “Credit Agreement”), among Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited, a Bermuda
exempted limited liability company (the “Company”), the Subsidiary Borrowers (as
defined therein) (together with the Company, collectively, the “Borrowers” and
individually, a “Borrower”), the Lenders parties thereto, The Bank of New York
Mellon, as Collateral Agent, Citibank, N.A., as Syndication Agent, and Barclays
Bank PLC, as Administrative Agent. Unless otherwise defined herein, terms
defined in the Credit Agreement and used herein shall have the meanings given to
them in the Credit Agreement.
______________________ (the “Non-U.S. Lender”) is providing this certificate
pursuant to Section 2.13(e) of the Credit Agreement. The Non-U.S. Lender hereby
represents and warrants that:
1.    The Non-U.S. Lender is the sole record and beneficial owner of the Loans
or the obligations evidenced by Note(s) in respect of which it is providing this
certificate.
2.    The Non-U.S. Lender is not a “bank” for purposes of Section 881(c)(3)(A)
of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as amended (the “Code”). In this regard,
the Non-U.S. Lender further represents and warrants that:
(a)    the Non-U.S. Lender is not subject to regulatory or other legal
requirements as a bank in any jurisdiction; and
(b)    the Non-U.S. Lender has not been treated as a bank for purposes of any
tax, securities law or other filing or submission made to any Governmental
Authority, any application made to a rating agency or qualification for any
exemption from tax, securities law or other legal requirements;
3.    The Non-U.S. Lender is not a 10-percent shareholder of the Borrower within
the meaning of Section 871(h)(3)(B) of the Code;
4.    The Non-U.S. Lender is not a controlled foreign corporation receiving
interest from a related person within the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the
Code; and
5.     The income from the Loans held by the Non-U.S. Lender is not effectively
connected with the conduct of a trade or business within the United States.
The Non-U.S. Lender has furnished the Administrative Agent and the Borrower with
a certificate of its non-U.S. person status on Internal Revenue Service Form
W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E, as applicable. By executing this certificate, the Non-U.S.
Lender agrees that (1) if the information provided on this certificate changes,
the Non-U.S. Lender shall promptly so inform the Borrower and the Administrative
Agent and (2) the Non-U.S. Lender shall have at all times furnished the Borrower
and the Administrative Agent with a properly completed and currently effective
certificate in either the calendar year in which each payment is to be made to
the Non-U.S. Lender, or in either of the two calendar years preceding such
payments.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this certificate as of the date
set forth below.
[NAME OF NON-U.S. LENDER]
By:                             
Name:    
Title:    

Date: ____________________

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EXHIBIT E-2
FORM OF EXEMPTION CERTIFICATE
(For Non-U.S. Lenders That Are Partnerships for U.S. Federal Income Tax
Purposes)
Reference is made to the Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as
of March 27, 2017 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to
time, the “Credit Agreement”), among Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited, a Bermuda
exempted limited liability company (the “Company”), the Subsidiary Borrowers (as
defined therein) (together with the Company, collectively, the “Borrowers” and
individually, a “Borrower”), the Lenders parties thereto, The Bank of New York
Mellon, as Collateral Agent, Citibank, N.A., as Syndication Agent, and Barclays
Bank PLC, as Administrative Agent. Unless otherwise defined herein, terms
defined in the Credit Agreement and used herein shall have the meanings given to
them in the Credit Agreement.
______________________ (the “Non-U.S. Lender”) is providing this certificate
pursuant to Section 2.13(e) of the Credit Agreement. The Non-U.S. Lender hereby
represents and warrants that:
1.    The Non-U.S. Lender is the sole record owner of the Loans or the
obligations evidenced by Note(s) in respect of which it is providing this
certificate and its partners/members are the sole beneficial owners of such
Loans or the obligations evidenced by Note(s).
2.    Neither the Non-U.S. Lender nor any of its partners/members is a “bank”
for purposes of Section 881(c)(3)(A) of the Internal Revenue Code of 1986, as
amended (the “Code”). In this regard, the Non-U.S. Lender further represents and
warrants that:
(a)    neither the Non-U.S. Lender nor its partners/members is subject to
regulatory or other legal requirements as a bank in any jurisdiction; and
(b)    neither the Non-U.S. Lender nor its partners/members has been treated as
a bank for purposes of any tax, securities law or other filing or submission
made to any Governmental Authority, any application made to a rating agency or
qualification for any exemption from tax, securities law or other legal
requirements;
3.    Neither the Non-U.S. Lender nor any of its partners/members is a
10-percent shareholder of the Borrower within the meaning of Section
871(h)(3)(B) of the Code;
4.    Neither the Non-U.S. Lender nor any of its partners/members is a
controlled foreign corporation receiving interest from a related person within
the meaning of Section 881(c)(3)(C) of the Code; and
5.    The income from the Loans held by the Non-U.S. Lender is not effectively
connected with the conduct of a trade or business within the United States by
the Non-U.S. Lender or its partners/members.
The Non-U.S. Lender has furnished the Administrative Agent and the Borrower with
Internal Revenue Service Form W-8IMY accompanied by an Internal Revenue Service
Form W-8BEN or W-8BEN-E, as applicable, from each of its partners/members
claiming the portfolio interest exemption. By executing this certificate, the
Non-U.S. Lender agrees that (1) if the information provided on this certificate
changes, the Non-U.S. Lender shall promptly so inform the Borrower and the
Administrative Agent and (2) the Non-U.S. Lender shall have at all times
furnished the Borrower and the Administrative Agent with a properly completed
and currently effective certificate in either the calendar year in which each
payment is to be made to the Non-U.S. Lender, or in either of the two calendar
years preceding such payments.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has executed this certificate as of the date
set forth below.
[NAME OF NON-U.S. LENDER]
By:                             
Name:    
Title:    

Date: ____________________

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EXHIBIT F
FORM OF COMPANY NOTE
THIS NOTE AND THE OBLIGATIONS REPRESENTED HEREBY MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT
IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE TERMS AND PROVISIONS OF THE CREDIT AGREEMENT REFERRED TO
BELOW. TRANSFERS OF THIS NOTE AND THE OBLIGATIONS REPRESENTED HEREBY MUST BE
RECORDED IN THE REGISTER MAINTAINED BY THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT PURSUANT TO THE
TERMS OF SUCH CREDIT AGREEMENT.
$____________    New York, New York
________ __, 20___

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned, ASPEN INSURANCE HOLDINGS LIMITED, a Bermuda
exempted limited liability company (the “Company”), hereby unconditionally
promises to pay to the order of ____________________ (the “Lender”) or its
registered assigns at the Funding Office specified in the Credit Agreement (as
hereinafter defined) in lawful money of the United States and in immediately
available funds, on the Termination Date as to the Loans evidenced hereby, the
principal amount of (a) ________ DOLLARS ($_____), or, if less, (b) the
aggregate unpaid principal amount of all Loans made by the Lender to the Company
pursuant to Section 2.1 of the Credit Agreement. The Company further agrees to
pay interest in like money at such Funding Office on the unpaid principal amount
hereof from time to time outstanding at the rates and on the dates specified in
Section 2.8 of the Credit Agreement.
The holder of this Note is authorized to indorse on the schedules annexed hereto
and made a part hereof or on a continuation thereof which shall be attached
hereto and made a part hereof the date, Type, and amount of the Loan and the
date and amount of each payment or prepayment of principal with respect thereto,
each conversion of all or a portion thereof to another Type, each continuation
of all or a portion thereof as the same Type and, in the case of Eurodollar
Loans, the length of each Interest Period with respect thereto. The failure to
make any such indorsement or any error in any such indorsement shall not affect
the obligations of the Company in respect of the Loan.
This Note (a) is one of the Notes referred to in the Second Amended and Restated
Credit Agreement, dated as of March 27, 2017 (as amended, supplemented or
otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”), among the
Company, the Subsidiary Borrowers (as defined in the Credit Agreement), the
Lenders parties thereto, The Bank of New York Mellon, as Collateral Agent,
Citibank, N.A., as Syndication Agent, and Barclays Bank PLC, as Administrative
Agent, (b) is subject to the provisions of the Credit Agreement and (c) is
subject to optional prepayment in whole or in part as provided in the Credit
Agreement.
Upon the occurrence of any one or more Events of Default, all principal and all
accrued interest then remaining unpaid on this Note may be declared to be or may
otherwise become, immediately due and payable, all as provided in the Credit
Agreement.
All parties now and hereafter liable with respect to this Note, whether maker,
principal, surety, guarantor, indorser or otherwise, hereby waive presentment,
demand, protest and all other notices of any kind.
Unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the Credit Agreement and used
herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement.

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NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN OR IN THE CREDIT
AGREEMENT, THIS NOTE MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AND IN ACCORDANCE
WITH THE REGISTRATION AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF SECTION 11.6 OF THE CREDIT
AGREEMENT.
THIS NOTE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED AND INTERPRETED IN ACCORDANCE
WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
ASPEN INSURANCE HOLDINGS LIMITED
By:                             
Name:    
Title:    

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Schedule A
to Company Note
LOANS, CONVERSIONS AND REPAYMENTS OF ABR LOANS
Date
Amount of ABR Loans
Amount
Converted to
ABR Loans
Amount of Principal of
ABR Loans Repaid
Amount of ABR
Loans Converted to
Eurodollar Loans
Unpaid Principal Balance
of ABR Loans
Notation Made By
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Schedule B
to Company Note
LOANS, CONTINUATIONS, CONVERSIONS AND REPAYMENTS OF EURODOLLAR LOANS
Date
Amount of Eurodollar
Loans
Amount Converted to
Eurodollar Loans
Interest Period and
Eurodollar Rate with
Respect Thereto
Amount of Principal of
Eurodollar Loans Repaid
Amount of Eurodollar
Loans Converted to
ABR Loans
Unpaid Principal
Balance of Eurodollar
Loans
Notation
Made By
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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EXHIBIT G
FORM OF SUBSIDIARY BORROWER NOTE
THIS NOTE AND THE OBLIGATIONS REPRESENTED HEREBY MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT
IN COMPLIANCE WITH THE TERMS AND PROVISIONS OF THE CREDIT AGREEMENT REFERRED TO
BELOW. TRANSFERS OF THIS NOTE AND THE OBLIGATIONS REPRESENTED HEREBY MUST BE
RECORDED IN THE REGISTER MAINTAINED BY THE ADMINISTRATIVE AGENT PURSUANT TO THE
TERMS OF SUCH CREDIT AGREEMENT.
$____________    New York, New York
________ __, 20___

FOR VALUE RECEIVED, the undersigned, [NAME OF SUBSIDIARY BORROWER], a __________
[corporation] [limited liability company] [limited partnership] [exempt limited
liability corporation] (the “Borrower”), hereby unconditionally promises to pay
to the order of ____________________ (the “Lender”) or its registered assigns at
the Funding Office specified in the Credit Agreement (as hereinafter defined) in
lawful money of the United States and in immediately available funds, on the
Termination Date as to the Loans evidenced hereby, the principal amount of (a)
________ DOLLARS ($_____), or, if less, (b) the aggregate unpaid principal
amount of all Loans made by the Lender to the Borrower pursuant to Section 2.1
of the Credit Agreement. The Borrower further agrees to pay interest in like
money at such Funding Office on the unpaid principal amount hereof from time to
time outstanding at the rates and on the dates specified in Section 2.8 of the
Credit Agreement.
The holder of this Note is authorized to indorse on the schedules annexed hereto
and made a part hereof or on a continuation thereof which shall be attached
hereto and made a part hereof the date, Type, and amount of the Loan and the
date and amount of each payment or prepayment of principal with respect thereto,
each conversion of all or a portion thereof to another Type, each continuation
of all or a portion thereof as the same Type and, in the case of Eurodollar
Loans, the length of each Interest Period with respect thereto. The failure to
make any such indorsement or any error in any such indorsement shall not affect
the obligations of the Borrower in respect of the Loan.
This Note (a) is one of the Notes referred to in the Second Amended and Restated
Credit Agreement, dated as of March 27, 2017 (as amended, supplemented or
otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”), among the
Company, the Subsidiary Borrowers (as defined in the Credit Agreement), the
Lenders parties thereto, The Bank of New York Mellon, as Collateral Agent,
Citibank, N.A., as Syndication Agent, and Barclays Bank PLC, as Administrative
Agent, (b) is subject to the provisions of the Credit Agreement and (c) is
subject to optional prepayment in whole or in part as provided in the Credit
Agreement. This Note is guaranteed as provided in the Loan Documents. Reference
is hereby made to the Loan Documents for the nature and extent of the
guarantees, the terms and conditions upon which each guarantee was granted and
the rights of the holder of this Note in respect thereof.
Upon the occurrence of any one or more Events of Default, all principal and all
accrued interest then remaining unpaid on this Note may be declared to be or may
otherwise become, immediately due and payable, all as provided in the Credit
Agreement.
All parties now and hereafter liable with respect to this Note, whether maker,
principal, surety, guarantor, indorser or otherwise, hereby waive presentment,
demand, protest and all other notices of any kind.

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Unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the Credit Agreement and used
herein shall have the meanings given to them in the Credit Agreement.
NOTWITHSTANDING ANYTHING TO THE CONTRARY CONTAINED HEREIN OR IN THE CREDIT
AGREEMENT, THIS NOTE MAY NOT BE TRANSFERRED EXCEPT PURSUANT TO AND IN ACCORDANCE
WITH THE REGISTRATION AND OTHER PROVISIONS OF SECTION 11.6 OF THE CREDIT
AGREEMENT.
THIS NOTE SHALL BE GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED AND INTERPRETED IN ACCORDANCE
WITH, THE LAW OF THE STATE OF NEW YORK.
[NAME OF SUBSIDIARY BORROWER]
By:                             
Name:    
Title:    

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Schedule A
to Subsidiary Borrower Note
LOANS, CONVERSIONS AND REPAYMENTS OF ABR LOANS
Date
Amount of ABR Loans
Amount
Converted to
ABR Loans
Amount of Principal of
ABR Loans Repaid
Amount of ABR
Loans Converted to
Eurodollar Loans
Unpaid Principal Balance
of ABR Loans
Notation Made By
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Schedule B
to Subsidiary Borrower Note
LOANS, CONTINUATIONS, CONVERSIONS AND REPAYMENTS OF EURODOLLAR LOANS
Date
Amount of Eurodollar
Loans
Amount Converted to
Eurodollar Loans
Interest Period and
Eurodollar Rate with
Respect Thereto
Amount of Principal of
Eurodollar Loans Repaid
Amount of Eurodollar
Loans Converted to
ABR Loans
Unpaid Principal
Balance of Eurodollar
Loans
Notation
Made By
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

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EXHIBIT H

FORM OF NOTICE OF CONVERSION/CONTINUATION
Date:
To:
Barclays Bank PLC, as Administrative Agent for the Lenders parties to the Second
Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of March 27, 2017 (as amended,
supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit Agreement”),
among Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited, a Bermuda exempted limited liability
company (the “Company”), the Subsidiary Borrowers (as defined therein) (together
with the Company, collectively, the “Borrowers” and individually, a “Borrower”),
the Lenders parties thereto, The Bank of New York Mellon, as Collateral Agent,
Citibank, N.A., as Syndication Agent, and Barclays Bank PLC, as Administrative
Agent.

Ladies and Gentlemen:
The undersigned, Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited, refers to the Credit
Agreement, the terms defined therein being used herein as therein defined, and
hereby gives you notice irrevocably, pursuant to Section 2.6 of the Credit
Agreement, of the [conversion] [continuation] of the Loans specified herein,
that:
1.     The conversion/continuation date is , 20__ (the “Conversion/Continuation
Date”).
2.     The aggregate amount of the Loans to be [converted] [continued] is
$              .
3.     The Loans are to be [converted into] [continued as] [Eurodollar] [ABR]
Loans.
4.     [If applicable:] The duration of the Interest Period for the Loans
included in the [conversion] [continuation] shall be [     days] [     months].
[The undersigned hereby certifies that the following statement is true on the
date hereof, and will be true on the proposed Conversion/Continuation Date: no
Default or Event of Default has occurred and is continuing.1]

ASPEN INSURANCE HOLDINGS LIMITED

By:___________________________
Name:
Title:

1To be included for conversions of ABR Loans into Eurodollar Loans.

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EXHIBIT I
FORM OF SUBSIDIARY BORROWER AGREEMENT
SUBSIDIARY BORROWER AGREEMENT, dated as of ____________, __ 20__, made by
______________________________, a ______________ [corporation] [limited
liability company] [limited partnership] [exempt limited liability corporation]
(the “Additional Subsidiary Borrower”), in favor of Barclays Bank PLC, as
administrative agent (in such capacity, the “Administrative Agent”) for the
Lenders (the “Lenders”) parties to the Second Amended and Restated Credit
Agreement referred to below. Unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined in
the Credit Agreement and used herein shall have the meanings given to them in
the Credit Agreement.
W I T N E S S E T H :
WHEREAS, Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited (the “Company”), the Subsidiary
Borrowers, the Lenders, The Bank of New York Mellon, as Collateral Agent,
Citibank, N.A., as Syndication Agent, and Barclays Bank PLC, as Administrative
Agent, have entered into a Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated
as of March 27, 2017 (as amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time
to time, the “Credit Agreement”);
WHEREAS, the Credit Agreement permits the Additional Subsidiary Borrower to
become a Subsidiary Borrower pursuant to the terms and conditions of the Credit
Agreement; and
WHEREAS, the Additional Subsidiary Borrower has agreed to execute and deliver
this Subsidiary Borrower Agreement in order to become a Subsidiary Borrower
under the Credit Agreement;
NOW, THEREFORE, IT IS AGREED:
SECTION 13      Credit Agreement. Subject to the satisfaction of each of the
conditions set forth in subsection 5.3 of the Credit Agreement, by executing and
delivering this Subsidiary Borrower Agreement, the Additional Subsidiary
Borrower hereby becomes a Subsidiary Borrower under the Credit Agreement with
the same force and effect as if originally named therein as a Subsidiary
Borrower and, without limiting the generality of the foregoing, hereby expressly
assumes all obligations and liabilities of a Subsidiary Borrower thereunder.
SECTION 14      Representations and Warranties. The Company hereby represents
and warrants that each of the representations and warranties contained in
Section 4 of the Credit Agreement is true and correct on and as of the date
hereof (after giving effect to this Subsidiary Borrower Agreement) as if made on
and as of such date (except where such representation and warranty speaks of a
specific date in which case such representation and warranty shall be true and
correct as of such date).
SECTION 15      Governing Law. THIS SUBSIDIARY BORROWER AGREEMENT SHALL BE
GOVERNED BY, AND CONSTRUED AND INTERPRETED IN ACCORDANCE WITH, THE LAW OF THE
STATE OF NEW YORK.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned have caused this Subsidiary Borrower
Agreement to be duly executed and delivered as of the date first above written.
[ADDITIONAL SUBSIDIARY BORROWER]
By:___________________________
    Name:
    Title:

ASPEN INSURANCE HOLDINGS LIMITED
By:___________________________
    Name:
    Title:

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EXHIBIT J

FORM OF
COMMITMENT INCREASE SUPPLEMENT
COMMITMENT INCREASE SUPPLEMENT, dated _________________ (this “Supplement”), to
the Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement dated as of March 27, 2017 (as
amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time, the “Credit
Agreement”), among Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited, a Bermuda exempted limited
liability company (the “Company”), the Subsidiary Borrowers (as defined therein)
(together with the Company, collectively, the “Borrowers” and individually, a
“Borrower”), the Lenders parties thereto, The Bank of New York Mellon, as
Collateral Agent, Citibank, N.A., as Syndication Agent, and Barclays Bank PLC,
as Administrative Agent. Unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the
Credit Agreement and used herein shall have the meanings given to them in the
Credit Agreement.
W I T N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 2.1(b) of the Credit Agreement, the Borrowers have
the right, subject to the terms and conditions thereof, to effectuate from time
to time an increase in the aggregate Commitments under the Credit Agreement by
requesting one or more Lenders to increase the amount of its Commitment;
WHEREAS, the Borrowers have given notice to the Administrative Agent and the
Issuing Lenders of their intention to increase the Total Commitments pursuant to
Sections 2.1(b) and (c) of the Credit Agreement; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to Sections 2.1(b) and (c) of the Credit Agreement, the
undersigned Lender now desires to increase the amount of its Commitment under
the Credit Agreement by executing and delivering to the Borrowers, the
Administrative Agent and the Issuing Lenders a supplement to the Credit
Agreement in substantially the form of this Supplement;
NOW THEREFORE, each of the parties hereto hereby agrees as follows:
1.The undersigned Lender agrees, subject to the terms and conditions of the
Credit Agreement, that on the date of this Supplement it shall have its
Commitment increased by $________, thereby making the aggregate amount of its
Commitment equal to $_______________.
2.    This Supplement shall be governed by, and construed in accordance with,
the laws of the State of New York.
3.    This Supplement may be executed in any number of counterparts and by
different parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so
executed shall be deemed to be an original and all of which taken together shall
constitute one and the same document.

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, each of the undersigned has caused this Supplement to be
executed and delivered by a duly authorized officer on the date first above
written.
[INSERT NAME OF INCREASING LENDER]

By:
________________________________
Name:
Title:

Accepted and agreed to, for the Borrowers, as of the date first written above:
ASPEN INSURANCE HOLDINGS LIMITED
By:____________________________
Name:
Title:

Acknowledged and agreed to as of the date first written above:
BARCLAYS BANK PLC, as
Administrative Agent
By:____________________________
Name:
Title:
Executed in New York

Acknowledged and agreed to as of the date first written above:
[INSERT NAMES OF ISSUING LENDERS]
By:____________________________
Name:
Title:

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EXHIBIT K
FORM OF
NEW LENDER SUPPLEMENT
NEW LENDER SUPPLEMENT, dated as of _______ ___, _____ (this “Supplement”), to
the Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement, dated as of March 27, 2017, as
amended, supplemented or otherwise modified from time to time (the “Credit
Agreement”), among Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited, a Bermuda exempted limited
liability company (the “Company”), the Subsidiary Borrowers (as defined therein)
(together with the Company, collectively, the “Borrowers” and individually, a
“Borrower”), the Lenders parties thereto, The Bank of New York Mellon, as
Collateral Agent, Citibank, N.A., as Syndication Agent, and Barclays Bank PLC,
as Administrative Agent. Unless otherwise defined herein, terms defined in the
Credit Agreement and used herein shall have the meanings given to them in the
Credit Agreement.
W I T N E S S E T H:
WHEREAS, the Credit Agreement provides in Section 2.1(b) thereof that with the
consent of the Administrative Agent and the Issuing Lenders (which consents
shall not be unreasonably withheld or delayed), the Borrowers and any New Lender
may agree that such New Lender shall establish a new Commitment and become a
party to the Credit Agreement by executing and delivering to the Borrowers, the
Administrative Agent and the Issuing Lenders a supplement to the Credit
Agreement in substantially the form attached as Exhibit K thereto; and
WHEREAS, the undersigned desires to establish a new Commitment in the amount set
forth herein and become a party to the Credit Agreement upon the terms and
conditions set forth therein and herein;
NOW, THEREFORE, each of the parties hereto hereby agrees as follows:
1.    From and after the Effective Date (as defined in paragraph 3 below) the
undersigned shall be a party to and be bound by the provisions of the Credit
Agreement as a Lender thereunder with an incremental Commitment of $_________,
and shall perform in accordance with its terms all the obligations which by the
terms of the Credit Agreement are required to be performed by it as a Lender
(including, without limitation, its obligations pursuant to Section 2.13(e) of
the Credit Agreement) to the same extent as if originally a party thereto.
2.    The undersigned (a) represents and warrants that it is legally authorized
to enter into this Supplement; (b) confirms that it has received a copy of the
Credit Agreement, together with copies of the most recent financial statements
referred to in Section 6.1 thereof and such other documents and information as
it has deemed appropriate to make its own credit analysis and decision to enter
into this Supplement; (c) agrees that it has made and will, independently and
without reliance upon the Administrative Agent or any other Lender and based on
such documents and information as it shall deem appropriate at the time,
continue to make its own credit decisions in taking or not taking action under
the Credit Agreement or any instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto or
thereto; and (d) appoints and authorizes the Administrative Agent to take such
action as agent on its behalf and to exercise such powers and discretion under
the Credit Agreement or any instrument or document furnished pursuant hereto or
thereto as are delegated to the Administrative Agent by the terms thereof,
together with such powers as are incidental thereto.

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3.    This Supplement shall be effective as of ____________ __, ____ (the
“Effective Date”).
4.    The undersigned has delivered to the Administrative Agent an
administrative questionnaire.
5.    This Supplement shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the
laws of the State of New York.
6.    This Supplement may be executed in any number of counterparts and by
different parties hereto in separate counterparts, each of which when so
executed shall be deemed to be an original and all of which taken together shall
constitute one and the same document.
[Remainder of page left blank intentionally.]

    

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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, the undersigned has caused this Supplement to be executed
and delivered by a duly authorized officer on the date first above written.

[INSERT NAME OF NEW LENDER]

By:                            
Name:
Title:

Accepted and agreed to, for the Borrowers, as of the first date written above:

ASPEN INSURANCE HOLDINGS LIMITED
By:    ____________________________
    Name:
Title:

Acknowledged and agreed to as of the first date written above:

BARCLAYS BANK PLC, as Administrative Agent

By:    ____________________________
Name:
Title:
Executed in New York

Acknowledged and agreed to as of the date first written above:
[INSERT NAMES OF ISSUING LENDERS]
By:____________________________
Name:
Title:

 

    

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EXHIBIT L

[FORM OF] SEVERAL LETTER OF CREDIT
    
FOR INTERNAL IDENTIFICATION PURPOSES ONLY
(Does not affect terms of Letter of Credit or Bank’s obligations thereunder)
Issue Date: __________, 20__
Expiry Date: __________, 20__
L/C No. [________]
Amount: $______________ (_____________________________________________)4
Accountholder/Applicant: [________________]    5
         [________________]    
         [________________]    
Date:_______________
    

IRREVOCABLE CLEAN                 ISSUE DATE _________________
LETTER OF CREDIT NO. _________
To:    [BENEFICIARY]6
    [_____________]    
    [_____________]    
    [_____________]    
We, the issuing banks listed below (hereinafter referred to individually as a
“Letter of Credit Bank,” and collectively, the “Letter of Credit Banks”), hereby
establish this clean, irrevocable and unconditional Letter of Credit in your
favor as Beneficiary for drawing up to an aggregate amount of $__________ ( the
“Letter of Credit Commitment”) effective immediately. This Letter of Credit
shall expire with the close of business of the L/C Administrator (defined below)
on ___________. Except when the Letter of Credit Commitment is increased or
amended to reflect a change in Commitment Share or Letter of Credit Bank as set
forth in the last paragraph hereof, this Letter of Credit cannot be modified or
revoked without the consent of the Beneficiary.
[The term “Beneficiary” includes any successor by operation of law of the named
Beneficiary including, without limitation, any such liquidator, rehabilitator,
receiver or conservator. Drawings by any liquidator, rehabilitator, receiver or
conservator shall be for the benefit of all the Beneficiary's policyholders.]7 

4 Insert initial amount of the Letter of Credit
5 Insert name of party for whom Letter of Credit will be issued.
6 Insert full name and address of the Beneficiary.
7 Insert if Letter of Credit is being issued to back a reinsurance policy and
such language is required by the applicable insurance regulator. Additional
changes to the letter of credit to reflect regulatory requirements will be
inserted if necessary.

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The maximum liability of each Letter of Credit Bank with respect to any demand
for payment made hereunder shall be its Commitment Share of the amount of such
demand for payment, as follows:
LETTER OF CREDIT BANK
COMMITMENT SHARE
MAXIMUM SHARE OF LETTER OF CREDIT COMMITMENT
[Lender]
____________%
$
[Lender]
____________%
$
[Lender]
____________%
$

TOTAL              100%             $
The obligations of the Letter of Credit Banks hereunder are several and not
joint, and no Letter of Credit Bank shall be responsible or otherwise liable for
the failure of any other Letter of Credit Bank to perform its obligations
hereunder, nor shall the failure of any Letter of Credit Bank to perform its
obligations under this Letter of Credit relieve any other Letter of Credit Bank
of its obligations hereunder.
Subject to the further provisions of this Letter of Credit, demands for payment
may be made by the Beneficiary by presentation to Barclays Bank PLC, as agent
(in such capacity, the “L/C Administrator”) of a sight draft drawn on the L/C
Administrator indicating the Letter of Credit No. ______, for all or any part of
this Letter of Credit at the L/C Administrator's office located at Barclays Bank
PLC, New York Branch, 745 Seventh Avenue, New York, NY 10019, Attn: Letters of
Credit Dept / Dawn Townsend, xraletterofcredit@barclays.com, on or before the
expiration date hereof [or any automatically extended expiry date]8.
We the Letter of Credit Banks listed herein hereby undertake to promptly honor
all of a Beneficiary’s demands for payment hereunder upon delivery of the sight
draft as specified to the L/C Administrator’s aforesaid office.
Except as expressly stated herein, this undertaking is not subject to any
agreement, requirement or qualification. The obligations of each Letter of
Credit Bank under this Letter of Credit is the individual obligation of such
Letter of Credit Bank and is in no way contingent upon reimbursement with
respect thereto, or upon its ability to perfect any lien, security interest or
any other reimbursement.
Upon payment to you by the Letter of Credit Bank of its Commitment Share of the
drawing amount specified in a demand presented hereunder, a Letter of Credit
Bank shall be fully discharged of its obligation under this Letter of Credit to
the extent of its Commitment Share of such demand and such Letter of Credit Bank
shall not thereafter be obligated to make any further payments under this Letter
of Credit in respect of such demand.
[This Letter of Credit shall be deemed automatically extended without amendment
for
8 Delete if not inserting automatic extension provision.

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one year from the expiration date hereof or any future expiration date unless at
least [__] days prior to such expiration date, the L/C Administrator notifies
you by Registered Mail or overnight courier service that this Letter of Credit
will not be extended for any such additional period.]9 
[This Letter of Credit is subject to and governed by the Laws of the State of
New York and the [1993] [2007] revision of the Uniform Customs and Practice for
Documentary Credits of the International Chamber of Commerce (Publication
[500][600]), and in the event of any conflict, the Laws of the State of New York
will control. If this Letter of Credit expires during an interruption of
business as described in [Article 17 of said Publication 500][Article 36 of said
Publication 600], the bank hereby specifically agrees to effect payment if this
Letter of Credit is drawn against within 30 days after the resumption of
business.] [This Letter of Credit is subject to and governed by the law(s) of
the State of New York, and the International Standby Practices 98 (ISP98)
(International Chamber of Commerce Publication No. 590). In the event of any
conflict, the laws of the State of New York will control.]10 
This Letter of Credit may be amended to delete a Letter of Credit Bank or add a
Letter of Credit Bank, or change Commitment Shares, provided that such amendment
does not decrease the Letter of Credit Commitment, and need only be signed by
the L/C Administrator (and, for the avoidance of doubt, without the consent of
the Beneficiary) so long as any Letter of Credit Bank added shall be approved by
the Securities Valuation Office of the National Association of Insurance
Commissioners and shall have a rating of “A3” or better from Moody’s and/or “A”
or better from Standard and Poor's.
Very truly yours,

[BARCLAYS BANK PLC], as L/C Administrator

By:___________________________________    
Name:    
Title:
Executed in New York

9 Insert if auto-extension is applicable
10 Insert UCP 500 or UCP 600 if required by an insurance regulator, otherwise
ISP 98 should be used.

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EXHIBIT M
FORM OF REVOLVING LOAN BORROWING REQUEST

Date: ________, ____
To: Barclays Bank PLC,
as Administrative Agent
745 Seventh Avenue, 25th Floor
New York, NY 10019
Attention: Christopher M. Aitkin
Telephone: 212.320.6564

Ladies and Gentlemen:

Reference is made to that certain Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement
dated as of March 27, 2017 (as may be amended, restated, amended and restated,
extended, supplemented or otherwise modified in writing from time to time in
accordance with its terms, the “Agreement”; the terms defined therein being used
herein as therein defined), among Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited, a Bermuda
exempted limited liability company (the “Company”), the Subsidiary Borrowers (as
defined therein) (together with the Company, collectively, the “Borrowers” and
individually, a “Borrower”), the Lenders parties thereto, Barclays Bank PLC, as
Administrative Agent, and the other parties thereto.
The undersigned Borrower hereby requests a borrowing of Loans, as follows:
1.    In the aggregate amount of $________.
2.    On ________, 20__ (a Business Day).
3.    Comprised of [ABR] [Eurodollar] Loans.

[4.     With an Interest Period of ___ months.]1 
[4][5].    The Borrower’s account to which funds are to be disbursed is:
Account Number: __________
        Location:_________________
This Borrowing Request and the borrowing requested herein comply with the (x)
first three sentences of Section 2.2 and (y) Section 5.2 of the Agreement.
[NAME OF BORROWER]
By: ___________________________
Name:
Title:

1Insert if a Eurodollar Rate Borrowing.

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EXHIBIT N

FORM OF PREPAYMENT NOTICE

Date: _______, ____
To: Barclays Bank PLC,
as Administrative Agent
745 Seventh Avenue, 25th Floor
New York, NY 10019
Attention: Christopher M. Aitkin
Telephone: 212.320.6564

Ladies and Gentlemen:
Reference is made to that certain Second Amended and Restated Credit Agreement
dated as of March 27, 2017 (as may be amended, restated, amended and restated,
extended, supplemented or otherwise modified in writing from time to time in
accordance with its terms, the “Agreement”; the terms defined therein being used
herein as therein defined), among Aspen Insurance Holdings Limited, a Bermuda
exempted limited liability company (the “Company”), the Subsidiary Borrowers (as
defined therein) (together with the Company, collectively, the “Borrowers” and
individually, a “Borrower”), the Lenders parties thereto, Barclays Bank PLC, as
Administrative Agent, and the other parties thereto.
This Prepayment Notice is delivered to you pursuant to Section 2.5 of the
Agreement. The undersigned Borrower hereby gives notice of a prepayment of Loans
as follows:
1.    (select Type(s) of Loans)
ABR Loans in the aggregate principal amount of $________.
Eurodollar Loans with an Interest Period ending ______, 20__ in the aggregate
principal amount of $________.
2.    On __________, 20__ (a Business Day).
This Prepayment Notice complies with the first and fourth sentences of Section
2.5(a) of the Agreement.
[NAME OF BORROWER]
By: ___________________
Name:
Title: